YESTERDAY …

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(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

10 years ago – Feb. 23, 1996

BANGOR – Steve Davis is on vacation.

Instead of packing up the family and heading for a warmer, stress-free environment, however, Davis has decided to work part time at the Bangor Auditorium, surrounded by thousands of fanatic parents, friends and fans of teams competing in this year’s Eastern Maine high school basketball tournament.

Dressed in the powder-blue polo shirt that has become the unofficial uniform of the Bass Park complex security force, David said he couldn’t think of a better way to spend vacation.

While hired as security guards, Davis and the other members of Bass Park’s 20-member work force actually wear many hats. They are ushers, aides for the disabled, traffic flow managers and human information booths.

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BREWER – Louis Janicki told a packed city hall that he was ready to go forward with plans to construct an ice arena in Brewer. And his plans call for not just one sheet of ice, but two.

Janicki is the owner of the Kickit Soccer Shop in Brewer, coach of the Nokomis High School boys soccer team in Newport, and president of the U.S. Soccer Federation in Maine.

He said if all goes as planned, groundwork will be done in April and construction will begin in May with a mid-September opening scheduled.

25 years ago – Feb. 23, 1981

BANGOR – Two Vietnamese brothers, separated from their family for more than two years, have been reunited in Bangor with their family.

Tang, An Gin, and Tang, Phouc Gin, arrived at Bangor on Jan. 28 after spending nine months at a resettlement camp in Thailand waiting for their sister, Tang, Mue, to make arrangements for their United States passage.

This was finally achieved through help from the Bangor Jewish Community Center, in cooperation with HIAS and the Red Cross. The center assisted in finding clothing and other necessities.

50 years ago – Feb. 23, 1956

BANGOR – Bangor police, with the aid of neighborhood small fry, saved a 2-year-old doe on Pearl Street after a pack of dogs chased the animal into the East Side.

The deer apparently had been chased for a considerable distance and was exhausted when it came racing down Mount Hope Avenue and turned into Pearl Street with a pack of dogs on its heels.

Neighborhood boys took over, and with patrolman John Agnew, chased off the dogs and herded the frightened and tired animal into the garage of Mrs. Mae Jellison. Once inside, the fatigued animal gave no trouble.

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BANGOR – The Bangor Civic Theatre has chosen for its next production the controversial play, “The Grass Harp” by Truman Capote. It is a story of people in search of love, who defy the narrow conventions of a small town in order to find their own brand of freedom, enjoy momentary heady release, and make their individual compromises with reality.

Directed by Frances Reynolds Stanley, the cast includes Mrs. Jackie Leavitt, Allen Chesterton, Mrs. Tom Thompson, Lee Nelson, Mrs. Doris Foster, Hal Shaw, Mrs. Berniece Strandberg, Ralph Hunt, Mrs. Myra Beaulieu, Robert Coffey, Ken Buckley, Gordon King, Dorothy Barrett, Mrs. Ellis Coffey, Mrs. Edna Welch, Foster Marley and Dave Downing.

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BANGOR – Shiny new 1956-model automobiles held the spotlight as hundreds of visitors flocked to showrooms throughout the city for the annual open house program sponsored by the Bangor Automobile Dealers Association.

The beginning of the four-day program drew an estimated 5,000 visitors. Dealers taking part in the promotion are Jim Adams Inc., Atwood Motor Co., Beacon Motor Co., Bean and Conquest, Crosby Buick, Kelley Pontiac Inc., R.B. Harriman Co., Knight Auto Sales, Norris Brothers Inc., Rapaport Auto Co. and Sullivan Ford Sales.

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CARMEL – The school committee of Carmel announced the appointment of Mr. Dana P. Stevenson as high school principal. A native of Dixmont, he attended Eastern State Normal School, Farmington State Teachers College and Gorham State Teachers College and received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maine.

He has been an educator since 1943 and brings to his new post wide experience in teaching and administration. Stevenson taught in Carmel. He is married and has two children.

Stevenson is teaching at Morse High School in Brooks.

100 years ago – Feb. 23, 1906

HERMON – Levi D. Snow, an old and highly respected citizen of Hermon and Civil War veteran, died at his home at Snow’s Corner at the age of 69. He leaves a wife and two daughters, Mrs. Frank Robinson of Hampden and Mrs. Edward Snow of Hermon, and an aged mother, three brothers and three sisters. He was born, married, lived his life and died at the homestead at Snow’s Corner.

He enlisted in the 14th Maine Regiment and was a member of the Daniel Chaplin post, GAR, in Hermon, during its existence.

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CARMEL – The thaw coming again so soon is a serious setback to the lumbermen. Bradford & Son have 10,000 of yarded logs on skids which looks now as though they will remain in the woods, as all their teams have gone home. This is true of the many others who have pulpwood, cord wood, hay and bark to haul.

E.F. Harvey & Sons are at work in their greenhouse, getting their early vegetables and flowers planted for spring transplanting and sale.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin