100 Years Ago: 1921
Mrs. Beatrice Gotham, a domestic science expert, will be at B.Peck Company all next week starting Monday. She points out that the use of grease is not the best in the cooking of meat and griddle cakes. Miss Gotham will demonstrate the cooking and incidentally, this method does away with the smoke and odor of cooking. Miss Gotham will make special dishes each day showing how the use of Wearever Aluminum Utensils saves time, labor fuel and food expenses. This takes place in the Busy Basement.
50 Years Ago: 1971
Retiring Auburn Fire Chief Vincent R. Giberti was honored Tuesday night at a retirement party at Central Station. The chief, who retires Sept. 3, will be on vacation for a couple of weeks prior to that date, was presented with a gift. Lt. Leon Norris made the presentation on behalf of the men. Giberti also received a scroll containing names of all men of the Auburn Fire Department from the deputy chiefs down to the newest private and also the members of the Danville volunteer crew. John W. Jordan, Auburn Civil Defense director and former police sergeant, also presented Giberti with a scroll for his work in Civil Defense. The chief spoke briefly in expressing his thanks to the firemen and officers of the department for their years of cooperation with him. Speaking on behalf of the department of the department and the city were City Manager Bernard Murphy Jr., and Deputy Chiefs Allen Howard, Frank A. Talpey and Ralph Adams, and Capt. Rosario Poto, who is an acting deputy during vacation period. Poto had to leave the retirement party early to return to the Sopers Mills Road fire scene. The Lewiston Fire Department was represented by its acting chief, Reginald Doucette Jr. and by Roland G Dumais, the now retired chief. The chief was presented with a large decorated cake commemorating the occasion. Arrangements for the affair had been handled by a committee of firemen headed by Lt. Norris.
25 Years Ago: 1996
In an impromptu prelude to this weekend’s Great Falls Balloon Festival, balloonist Ron Poulin led dozens in a kind of Great Balloon Chase through rural Auburn. As screaming emergency vehicles sped to the scene, kids on bikes, evening walkers and curious cruisers had their eyes on the pink and purple ball in the sky, reportedly in trouble after a run-in with some electrical wires in Great Falls Plaza. But the chase ended happily in a roughly two acre meadow off Garfield Road , where Poulin touched down softly — his balloon slightly torn by a street light, but otherwise intact. “You’d think we were driving a white Bronco by the way people were following us around,” said Mike McClure, Poulin’s passenger and family friend. “It looked worse than what it really was,” said Poulin, of Lisbon, doused in perspiration and holding the customary post-flight drink of champagne. A second-year pilot with 22 hours of flight time, Poulin was out for a leisurely flight Monday evening, but had to cut it short after snagging his balloon on a street lamp on the way out of Great Falls Plaza. The collision resulted in a roughly six-foot gash near the bottom of the balloon, which necessitated a sooner-than-anticipated landing, but never jeopardized Poulin’s control of the hot air globe, the pilot said.
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