100 Years Ago: 1918

Miss Gertrude Daggett, general secretary of the Lewiston Y. W. C. A., who has been spending the month of August with her parents in Elmira, N. Y., has returned to take up her duties at the association. In her absence, Miss Daggett attended the National Y. W C. A. conference in New York City.

50 Years Ago: 1968

Lewiston citizens will get a chance to express their views on fluoridation this fall when they go to the polls, according to a vote taken last night at the Lewiston Board of Mayor and Aldermen. The question, “Do You Favor Fluoridation of Lewiston’s Public Water Supply” will be a referendum question on the Nov. 5 state ballot. The vole to add the question to the ballot was 5-2 with Alderman Emile Jacques and Alderman George F. Call voting in opposition. Dr. Anita Viollette, chairman of the Lewiston Health Committee, spoke in favor.

25 Years Ago: 1993

The forests are alive with the sound of music this week at Agassiz Village, a West Poland camp on Thompson Lake, where youngsters in the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra are rehearsing for a concert Saturday in the camp dining hall. About 200 youthful musicians, high schoolers or younger, will present a free 11 am. concert of classical music by Copeland, Beethoven, Vivaldi and Bizet. Three groups will perform the seniors, up to senior year in high school, the repertory group and the Junior repertory. The musicians are from the Boston area, mostly boys and girls interested in playing instruments since pre-school days. At camp, they rehearse in groups and as an ensemble for more than seven hours daily, from 9 a.m. to noon, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. and 7:15 to 9:30 p.m. Between sessions, they practice individually in their cabins or in the woods, finding time also to enjoy themselves, like their non-musical camping counterparts, by swimming, hiking and playing baseball, tennis and other sports.

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