Laurie Shaw returns from Paraguay Peace Corps service
Hoosick Falls resident Laurie Shaw, 23, of 30 River St, spent 15 months in Itacurubi del Rosario Paraguay with the Peace Corps. She taught food and nutrition to girls ages 12 to 23, described local life including housing and meals, and noted cultural norms and family emphasis while learning Spanish and Guarani. The column also lists Readers' help and veterans’ grave headstone needs.
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Hoosick Falls
Laurie Shaw
River St
Paraguay
South America
Peace Corps
Itacurubi ‘del Rosario
Hoosick Falls Central School
Laurie
Stevens College
State College
Oneonta
Itacurubi
Social Security retirement rules for service and employment years
The writer asks how to compute retirement income with 16 of 19 years counted and whether prewar or blank years matter. The SSA says the highest paid 14 of 19 years count. The piece also mentions a customer dispute over guitar string replacement and labor charges, urging store correction.
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F.I.C.A
Residue of a failed guitar repair and local flood memories
A consumer notes a miscommunication over a guitar restring and a $9.50 minimum repair charge, while old strings were not saved. The piece then recalls Abe Freedman correcting Troy flood dates, the 1913 flood impact, and memories from M L M and H L Bonesteel about 174 Congress Street and local landmarks, with reflections on Paraguayan life and Peace Corps experiences.
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M.L.M
Troy
Congress
Abe Freedman
One-car crash injures man on Mechanic Street
A Mechanic Street accident at 2 10 a m left Harry Hebbard III with head lacerations after Michael E Bates allegedly drove a uninsured vehicle into a parked car owned by Josh Leonard and into the porch of Anna Weir. Bates was arrested for suspended operation and related offenses.
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Hoosick Falls
Mechanic Street
Michael E. Bates
Josh Leonard
Mechanic St
Bates
Anna Weir
Harry Hebbard, Ili
Cambridge Visitors and DeMolay Installation Report
Two Essex England teachers Daphne Bridges and Vivian Barnes visited Cambridge Central School with host families the Woelfersheims and Bowlers. Newly elected Walter A Leonard DeMolay officers were installed at the Masonic Temple with area chapter aid. Lansingburgh educators Harriet French Anita DéSarbo and Mary Livingstone toured Cambridge Elementary to study its Early Childhood Preventive Program and summer preschool processing.
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Essex
England
Daphne Bridges
Vivian Barnes
Cambridge Central School
Walter A. Leonard
Order of DeMolay
Masonic Temple
Lansingburgh
Harriet French
Anita DéSarbo
Mary Livingstone
Cambridge
Hoosick Falls Taxpayers Association Meeting Topic
An open meeting to organize a taxpayers association will be held today at 7 30 p m at the Hoosick Grange Hall. Gerald Harley will conduct the session explaining how the group can represent residents to town and village boards.
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Hoosick Falls
Hoosick Grange Hall
Gerald Harley
Lions Club ships glasses for reuse in Schuylerville
The Schuylerville Lions Club reports five hundred pairs of used glasses were shipped last week to a processing center for reuse by those in need. Glasses were collected over about two years and residents are urged to drop off discarded glasses at R. W. Patnaude's Jewelers on Broad Street.
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Schuylerville
Schuylerville Lions Club
R. W. Patnaude
Broad Street
New Farm Worker Safety Rules Set By OSHA
Federal OSHA will implement new safety standards for farm workers covering power take off shafts guards nip point protection and equipment disconnects effective June 7 and later dates. The rules include training requirements and future coverage of motors switches and cotton guns with warnings and protective devices.
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Occupational Safety and Health Administration
Iosha
Labor Department
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America
Itacurubi del Rosario
Times Record
N.Y
Thomas A. Baker
O'Brien-Baker Veterans Post
Troy Recreation
William Carley
Veterans Administration
Tom Baker
Honolulu
Carley
Washington
Averill Park
I A
Cohoes
Frank Sherry
Division Street
River Street
Hudson River
Ferry Street
Sacandaga
Indian Lake
Adirondacks
H.L. Bonesteel
Waterford
Cullen
Congress St
Troy Academy
State Street
Seventh Avenue
Kennedy
Kennedy and Murphy
Tray High School
Schoo 6
Frederick and
Oscar Riche
Dan Klock
Alling Rubber Co
Marine Midland Bank
Alling Rubber
White
Wall and
Mechanic Streets
Charlotte Gottry
Miss Bridges
Donald Woelfersheim
Barnes
Charles W. Bowler
Woelfersheim
Bowler
Taxpayers Association
Hoosick
Lions Club
OSHA
Agriculture Department
Party For Women
Grafton
Methodist Women Group
Stanleyston
Chur Hall
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