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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1971
Page
6
Postmaster Joseph C. Haines says the Apple Blossom Festival will affect postal hours and deliveries. The schedule adjustment aims to handle increased mail and visitor traffic during the event period.
Mr. Pleasant visits Mrs Lamp and family while Mrs. Hudson and a Purcellville friend call. Winchester visitors, illness updates, and a West Frederick Home Demonstration Club meeting set for May 11. Post Office hours and mail delivery adjustments announced for Friday and Saturday with measures to protect parcels and collections.
Reader letters offer advice on preserving homemade Mother’s Day art by framing and displaying with pride. Tips cover sewing sleeves, bathroom rack repair with glue and cotton, hollowing fruit for stuffed treats, pouring drinks over ice, and camping mats to reduce dirt.
About 200 men in Blue and Grey uniforms will reenact the 1864 Battle of New Market in New Market Virginia on Sunday May 9. It marks the fourth annual reenactment since the park opened in 1967. The event features a cadet mounting a captured Union cannon in last year’s replay.
More than 3,000 spectators are expected for the Fourth Annual Battle of New Market reenactment at New Market Battlefield Park next Sunday at 2 p.m. About 200 participants from at least 10 states, both Union and Confederate units, will reenact the 1864 battle in which 247 VMI cadets marched 80 miles in four days under fire. The park, opened four years ago with funds from George R. Collins, houses the Hall of Valor museum run by VMI.
The Tuberculosis and Respiratory Disease Association of Northern Virginia reported 1970 71 Christmas Seal donations totaling $47 130 35 an increase of $2 810 35 from the prior year. Florence Morrison said inflation and competing charities spurred giving while noting rising afflictions from tuberculosis emphysema air pollution and cigarette smoking. Frederick County gifts rose to $10 853 89 and Clarke County contributions were $2 743 17 a decline of $24 73.
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