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10 years ago – Aug. 10, 1996 (As reported in the Bangor Daily News) BANGOR – It is not quite 1:30 p.m., the official opening time, and already more than 100 youngsters are assembled in a wriggling mass outside the midtown oasis…
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10 years ago – Aug. 10, 1996

(As reported in the Bangor Daily News)

BANGOR – It is not quite 1:30 p.m., the official opening time, and already more than 100 youngsters are assembled in a wriggling mass outside the midtown oasis called the Union Street Pool.

The temperature is fast approaching 90 degrees for the third day in a row, which is about as close as the population of Bangor has been to an official heat wave all summer.

The fidgety crowd wants in – pronto. Having stood for 20 minutes or so in the sweltering glare of the sun, dreaming all the while of the cool, L-shaped haven just beyond the chain-link fence, the group is finding its meager reserves of patience beginning to evaporate up and down the line.

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GLENBURN – A Glenburn man has been chosen to serve as senior enlisted adviser to the director of the Army National Guard in Washington.

Command Sgt. Major John J. Leonard Jr. of the Maine Army National Guard is to assume the post early next year.

The 49-year-old Leonard enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1965 and joined the Maine Army National Guard in 1972.

In his new post, Leonard will monitor the training and welfare of enlisted personnel worldwide.

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BANGOR – As Izumi Kawaguchi sat in the Husson College dining commons and munched one of her first meals in Maine, the foreign-exchange student was eager to give Americans a taste of Japanese culture.

“Chopsticks,” the 17-year-old stressed, are among the first things she will teach her host family about.

Kawaguchi is among 59 students in the American Field Service program who will be enrolled in 35 high schools across Maine this school year. Most of the AFS students from 24 countries arrived in Bangor for an orientation program at Husson College.

“I want to make friends,” Kawaguchi said.

“I want to experience how the real American life is,” added 17-year-old Rikke Naess of Oslo, Norway.

25 years ago – Aug. 10, 1981

BANGOR – A new team approach to maternity care – the physician and the certified nurse midwife – is evolving as an increasing number of women seek more information and personalized care during and after pregnancy.

Such will be the role of Debbie Hill Hunter, a certified nurse midwife who recently went to work for Dr. Parker Harris of Bangor. She believes in family-centered maternity care where all members of the family prepare for the arrival of a baby.

On the job a month, Ms. Hunter hopes to be working with women through every phase of pregnancy – from the time pregnancy is determined through labor and delivery, and afterward with postpartum care.

According to Harris, Ms. Hunter is the only practicing certified midwife in Bangor. A certified nurse midwife who worked with him a few years ago, Nancy Duncan, is now affiliated with an Ellsworth doctor. There are only a half-dozen certified nurse midwives in Maine.

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BANGOR – With an eye for caricature and a sense of the topically absurd, Bangor native George Danby is making national inroads as an editorial cartoonist.

A former part-time cartoonist with the NEWS, Danby has been the fulltime cartoonist for a daily Connecticut newspaper, the New Haven Register, since 1979. He recently agreed to terms with the McNaught Syndicate, a company that supplies filler material to newspapers nationwide.

According to McNaught’s Charles “Tim” McAdam III, Danby’s cartoons have been accepted and published in the Philadelphia Inquirer and the New York Daily News.

Danby and the Arizona Republic’s Steve Benson are figured to be the up-and-coming talent.

50 years ago – Aug. 10, 1956

HOLDEN – At the official drawings for the first round heats in Akron, Ohio, Maine Soap Box Derby champion Dick Crawford of Holden drew lane No. 1 in heat four.

The Maine champ’s car will bear the number 11, just one lower than his brother, Leroy, had last year.

Young Crawford arrived in Akron in style to the tune of the “Maine Stein Song” played by the Welcome Champions Band. His days will be full of entertainment, for Derby official announced that Roy Rogers, Joe E. Brown, Snooky Lamson and Art Baker will be on hand for the festivities.

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BANGOR – “Rattlesnake!” barked Officer Malcolm Tapley to night police Capt. Carl R. Lobley in the communications room of the Bangor Police Station.

“Rattlesnake?” Captain Lobley queried. “There aren’t any rattlesnakes in Maine.”

“Well, I have a man on the phone here, Francis J. Cefalo, 559 Essex St., who says he has just killed a rattlesnake.”

“We don’t have rattlesnakes in here in Maine,” the captain barked back, “but tell the NEWS reporter about it. Maybe he can tell what kind of a snake the man has killed.”

The poor police officer had to go out and take a look at the snake. It was between 21/2 and 3 feet long. On its back, or top side, it was brown and liver colored with black bands of no particular shape, and its belly was black and white.

The snake broke up a barbecue Cefalo was having when he spotted the snake near a youngster. Whether or not it was a rattler will be decided when the snake is taken to University of Maine for classification.

100 years ago – Aug. 10, 1906

BANGOR – Few people realize the amount of charitable work that emanates from the office of the city missionary in City Hall.

The office of the city missionary is maintained not by the city, but by two funds.

The George Stetson estate furnishes annually $600 income from a fund of $12,000. Hiram H. Fogg has provided a fund of $1,000 and from this annually is obtained $50. The total for the year’s work thus is $650.

The sum of $450 is the salary of the city missionary, while the remainder, $200, is distributed at different times during the year. Furthermore, merchants and charitable persons help in the good work and supply eatables and clothing.

Mrs. Jennie H. Johnson, the present occupant of the office, is filling the position to the entire satisfaction of all concerned and is making an excellent record, and in a discerning manner attending to the wants of the city’s poor.

Mrs. Johnson does not believe in the public Christmas tree for the poor children. She is of the opinion that the presents would be more appreciated if sent to the various homes, and instead of candy and playthings, something more substantial should be given.

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CASTINE – Mrs. Mehitabel Murch is 83 years young but a few days ago, walked down to Broadway and made a visit on Mrs. Mary J. Straw, 89. Mrs. Straw did some sewing this summer for which she was paid. She expressed to the correspondent of the Bangor Daily News that she would be glad to take in some more sewing – pretty good for 89.

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CASTINE – Another automobile incident: While T.E. Hale Jr. was driving one of his spirited horses on Perkins Street, Dr. Gray’s chauffeur was attending to some repairs on the machine.

Mr. Hale drove up to the machine and the horse took fright, badly breaking the carriage. It is not thought Mr. Hale will recover the damage as the auto was standing on one side of the road.

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BUCKSPORT – F. Irving Wheeler, assistant engineer in the employ of the United States engineering department, with headquarters in Portland, is making survey on the work necessary to be done at once to preserve old Fort Knox.

Repairs will begin and be pushed as rapidly as possible so as to have the work done before cold weather sets in. The most extensive piece of work to be done is putting a concrete roof on the west scarp wall.

This will give employment to a crew of some 15 men for four to six weeks. Mr. Wheeler has his crew all engaged and they are Bucksport men, which means that the work will be well-done. The work will be a great help to the men as this is the dull season of the year now that haying is about over.

Compiled by Ardeana Hamlin


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