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Friday, November 6, 2015
Volume 11 • Issue No. 45
A Sign of the Times BERWICK As you travel the roads this season, you’ll see signs that fall has arrived and if you are extremely observant, you’ll notice that timed with the arrival of fall, is a new sign! Lord’s Cemetery in Berwick, is sporting a brand new sign designating a section of the cemetery, which was established in 1765 as a family cemetery, as a Veteran’s Memorial Park. This new sign is the brainchild of Andy Buckman, a US Navy veteran and active member of Charles S. Hatch Post #79, The American Legion, who conceived the idea earlier this spring. With strong support and approval from the members of Post #79 and the town of Berwick, Andy turned his design over to Steve McDuffy, owner of Duff’s Signs and Custom Painting in nearby Farmington, New Hampshire. Steve built and painted the sign, which was installed Labor Day weekend with the assistance of Berwick Highway Department personnel who dug the postholes. While this project was the initiative of one man, it was truly
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a team effort from start to finish, starting with Andy Buckman and Steve McDuffy, to Jimmy Guy, who donated loam for the project and Paul Lapierre, who helped Andy to spread the loam and seed the area, with the wa-
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KENNEBUNK Nine-year-old Tatum Milley, a 4th grader at the Sea Road School in Kennebunk, recently returned home from competing with her horse, Minion Starlette, at the Morgan Grand National and World Championship Horse Show in Oklahoma City. Tatum was crowned Grand National Champion for
her age division and finished fourth in the World Championship. Tatum has been riding for as long as she can walk and competing from a very young age. With wins at regional horse competitions, she qualified to compete for the prestigious titles at the Grand National and World Championship for her first time.
on June 4, 1926, requesting that President Calvin Coolidge issue another proclamation to observe November 11 with appropriate ceremonies. A Congressional Act made the 11th of November in each year a legal holiday: "a day to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'." In 1945, World War II veteran Raymond Weeks from Birmingham, Alabama, had the idea to expand Armistice Day to celebrate all veterans, not just those who died in World War I. Weeks led a delegation to Gen. Dwight Eisenhower, who supported the idea of National Veterans Day. Weeks led the first national celebration in 1947 in Alabama and annually until his death in 1985. President Reagan honored Weeks at the White House with the Presidential Citizenship Medal in 1982 as the driving force for the national holiday. Elizabeth Dole, who prepared the
briefing for President Reagan, determined Weeks as the "Father of Veterans Day." U.S. Representative Ed Rees from Emporia, Kansas, presented a bill establishing the holiday through Congress. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, also from Kansas, signed the bill into law on May 26, 1954. It had been eight and a half years since Weeks held his first Armistice Day celebration for all veterans. Congress amended the bill on June 1, 1954, replacing "Armistice" with "Veterans," and it has been known as Veterans Day since. The National Veterans Award was also created in 1954. Congressman Rees of Kansas received the first National Veterans Award in Birmingham, Alabama for his support offering legislation to make Veterans Day a federal holiday. Although originally scheduled for celebration on November
tering handled by the Berwick Fire Department. Hats off and many thanks to all involved! A formal dedication will be held on site at Lord’s Cemetery on Veteran’s Day, Wednesday, November 11, at 11 a.m.
Honoring Veterans on November 11 Veterans Day is an official United States federal holiday that is observed annually on November 11, honoring people who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces, also known as veterans. It coincides with other holidays including Armistice Day and Remembrance Day, which are celebrated in other parts of the world and also mark the anniversary of the end of World War I. The United States also originally observed Armistice Day; it then evolved into the current Veterans Day holiday in 1954. Veterans Day is not to be confused with Memorial Day; Veterans Day celebrates the service of all U.S. military veterans, while Memorial Day is a day of remembering the men and women who gave their lives and those who perished while in service. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson first proclaimed Armistice Day for November 11, 1919. In proclaiming the holiday, he
said "To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations." The United States Congress passed a concurrent resolution
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Milley Wins Grand National Championship
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