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February 24, 2010
A New Market Press Publication
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Students have fundraiser for women’s shelter.
This season, consider building a home greenhouse for your vegetable gardens.
Cheerleading squads from around the region competed for top honors.
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Restaurants to help raise funds for injured woman By Lou Varricchio newmarketpress@denpubs.com Rutland Town resident Paula McNeill was involved in a serious accident in January. She is currently at Spaulding Rehab Facility in Boston. Despite her paralysis, McNeill has a positive attitude, strong will, and a fierce determination to continue to be independent. To help make her transition to a more active lifestyle easier, friends of McNeill are sponsoring a fundraising event Friday, Feb. 26, at five area restaurants. Tickets of $25 apiece will provide dinner deals at Sushi Yoshi, Peppinos, Three Tomatoes Trattoria, Lookout Tavern and Baja Burrito. All proceeds will go to the Paula McNeill Adaptive Equipment Fund. To purchase tickets, make checks payable to “Paula McNeill Fund” and mail to: Killington Chamber of Commerce, P.O. Box 114, Killington 05751. Tickets may also be purchased on the internet by visiting www.paulamcneill.com. Donations to the fund can be mailed to the Killington Chamber of Commerce or on the website. For more information, contact Lynn Boynton at skiice2@hotmail.com.
Brandon economist remembered BRANDON — Frank A. Farnsworth, age 90, died Jan. 30 at the home of his son in Brandon. He was born June 4, 1919, in Manchester, N.H. He was the son of Frank A. and Claudine (Miller) Farnsworth. A graduate of Manchester High School, he continued his education at Colgate University and Harvard University. Dr. Farnsworth taught economics at Colgate from 1941 until he retired in 1987. While at Colgate, he also served as chair of the departFrank A. Farnsworth ment of economics and directed one of the first economics study groups to London in the 1960s. He was also a Fulbright Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics in Bergen. Throughout his career, research took him to many interesting and unusual places such as: two trips to Soviet Russia to visit Collective Farms and other industries; coal mines in Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia; various mining sites at Cobalt, Ontario; commercial fishing boats in Norway and logging camps and paper mills in northern New England. Since his retirement, he devoted much of his time to research on silver and other mining activities near Brandon. His students were the most important part of his career and he worked tirelessly to find new ways to help them apply their classroom learning to real world situations. Alumni who had been successful in business and industry came into his classes. and often provided internship opportunities at their companies. The family-owned Poolville Country Store served as a learning
DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE — A free “Cardiovascular Survival Guide: Managing Exercise, Diet and Drugs when living with Heart Disease” public event was held last week in the courtyard of the Diamond Run Mall in Rutland Town. Dr. J. Christian Higgins of the Rutland Regional Medical Center greeted attendees who learned ways to reduce their chances of getting cardiovascular disease. Dr. Higgins also suggested post-heart attack strategies to stay active and remain in good health. Photo by Angela DeBlasio
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