Friday, November 11, 2022
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Volume 28, Number 45
Never forgotten
Board positions filled in Durham
Beloved dog’s spirit lives on through owner’s good deeds By Nicole Zappone Town Times
The Town of Durham took care of various pieces of business at its annual town meeting, held in October.
To honor the memory of her beloved dog, Bailey, Middlefield resident Nancy WinshipPoole donated brain training games, and a book, “The Idiot’s Guide to Fun and Tricks with your Dog,” to the Levi E. Coe Library.
Items which were addressed: The annual budget meeting will be held on May 8, 2023; running unopposed, Antonio Almodovar was elected to the compensation review/ personnel policy board with a term expiring in 2027; running unopposed, Kristen Kleeman was reelected as a town representative on the Durham Volunteer Fire Company, Inc. Board of Trustees with a term expiring in 2025; running unopposed, Robert Booz, Lynn Johnson and Eric Infeld were elected to the Board of Library Directors with terms expiring in 2025.
Also, Poole immortalized Bailey by purchasing an engraved brick for her which has been placed on the library pathway. A certified reading dog, many locals will recall meeting Bailey at the library, or at one of the many schools she visited. Bailey was recognized with a “Friends of Education” award from the RSD13 Board of Education for her work with young readers, and local students always enjoyed when the Australian Shepherd/Border Collie mix paid a visit.
Middlefield resident Nancy Winship-Poole is pictured with games she donated to Levi E. Coe Library in memory of her beloved dog Bailey.
See Bailey, A5
Also, Teresa Opalacz, Jennifer Benson and Jason Stone ran for spots on the Board of Education Finance Committee. With 34 and 27 votes, respectively, Opalacz and Benson won seats on the committee. Their terms expire in 2024.
Nicole Zappone, Town Times
— Nicole Zappone
EDITORIAL: Honoring veterans each November The following was published Empire, the Ottoman Empire in the Record-Journal on Nov. and Bulgaria). In 1926, the United States Congress called 11, 2013: upon the nation to mark, At the eleventh hour of the each Nov. 11, "the cessation eleventh day of the eleventh of the most destructive, sanmonth of 1918, an armistice guinary, and far reaching war went into effect, ending The in human annals and the reGreat War between the Allied sumption by the people of Powers (predominantly Great the United States of peaceful Britain, France, Russia, Italy relations with other nations, and the United States) and which we hope may never the Central Powers (Geragain be severed ..." In other many, the Austro-Hungarian
words, Armistice Day was created mainly as a day to celebrate the peace and hope that it would last. It didn't. "The war to end all wars" would turn out to be just a prelude to World War II – the biggest, most destructive war in human history – and to the many regional wars that have followed it. In 1954, in the wake of World War II and Korea, Armistice
Day became Veterans Day, in honor of American veterans of all wars. In 1968, the observance was moved to a Monday, but a few states refused to follow suit, causing confusion. In 1978, it was moved back to Nov. 11, where it remains to this day. Back in 1918, President Woodrow Wilson had proposed his idealistic Fourteen Points, including the creation of a
League of Nations to oversee the resolution of the disputes that had led to the war, and to build a lasting peace. Sadly, Wilson's allies instead demanded draconian punishments and war reparations from Germany – conditions that would contribute greatly to the rise of the Nazis – and his own country rejected the League. See Veterans, A2