100 Years Ago: 1922
Tourists over the road at Danville Junction from the Power House to the Upper Gloucester Road is much improved as several carloads of gravel have been used on it.
50 Years Ago: 1972
The Department of Veterans Services has been authorized to hire seven Vietnam veterans, according to Robert R. Washburn, Augusta Commissioner of the state Veterans agency. The veterans who are college students will be employed during their college vacations. A counselor aide for the Maine area is Tom Deraspe. He has been assigned to work with Frederick W. Derocher, veteran counselor whose office is located at 4 Park Street, Lewiston.
Deraspe is a native of Mexico and is presently residing in Farmington with his wife. He is a Vietnam veteran of the US Air Force and has been attending the University of Maine at Augusta for the past two years. After successfully completing the first two years at UMA, he is transferring to the University of Maine at Farmington for his remaining two years.
During the past two weeks he has received extensive training for this position at the Department of Veterans headquarters at Augusta and the Federal Veterans Administration at Togus.
25 Years Ago: 1997
The former snow dump behind Lewiston High School has been provided with some 58 trees and shrubs through a Kidsnet project spearheaded by Lewiston High School biology teacher Mike McGraw and his biology classes. The environmental venture was labeled the Snow Dump Reclamation Project.
Several years ago the city of Lewiston stopped dumping snow in the area and it has seen a slow recovery. The LHS students’ efforts to bring the area back to a more pristine situation has been enhanced by such plants as the purple sand cherry, bayberries, crabapples and the Austrian pine to name only a few.
These trees and shrubs were selected for their attractiveness to birds and other animals as well as their aesthetic quality. The students were assigned plants to research, taught transplanting methods and techniques by Mike Cormier, the city arborist and Mark Gendron, one of Cormier’s staff.
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