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Volume 12, Number 11
WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Local women discuss their careers and inspirations By Joy VanderLek The Cheshire Citizen
March is Women’s History Month, a time to recognize the contributions of all women, past and present. Today, The Citizen celebrates four local women, in diverse careers, who illustrate some of the many ways women enrich community life. A proclamation to create a national observance grew from a celebratory week-long event honoring the achievements of women. That was in 1982 and coincided with the United Nations’ See Women, A12
Rachel Harrington, 19, works as a service technician for Executive Kia in Wallingford.
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Memorial Day Parade plans are underway The Cheshire Memorial Day Parade is a revered town tradition to honor military veterans who sacrificed all. In 2020, the parade was cancelled due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This year, while still needing to adhere to crowd control, the Cheshire Memorial Day Parade Committee has announced there will be a special motor vehicle parade through town on Sunday, May 30, starting at 1:30 p.m. There will be no marching units or organizations involved, in order to keep the procession manageable. However, this year’s motor vehicle parade will be extra special as each will be occupied with local
Cheshire Adult Education See Parade, A2 Enrichment classes are forming now! Upcoming Online Classes:
Libraries use social media to connect with patrons With the COVID-19 pandemic disrupting the usual way of doing busi-
ness for many services, area libraries having a cooking program, we might Financial Retirement, Cheshire Strategies Public Libraryfor Successful have found new ways to connect with Louise LeClaire, library social media do a blog post about cookbooks or About Avoiding Probate, VA Benefits, Golf the community, including through All coordinator, said the Cheshire library something like that and then tie it insocial media. to the library program,” she said. is active on Facebook, Insta-
Cheshire Education Cheshire Adult Adult Education Enrichment areforming forming now! Enrichmentclasses classes are now! Upcoming Classes: Upcoming Online Online Classes:
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for Men and Women, Home Buying and Selling gram, YouTube and blogs. “If we’re See Libraries, A4 Seminars, and AAA Driver Safety Classes COME AND LEARN SOMETHING NEW! For more information, call (203) 250-2450 or visit
www.cheshire.k12.ct.us/district-departments/adult-education.
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By Jessica Simms Special to the Record-Journal