100 years ago, 1918

Rep. George E. Kinney, of Auburn, is a busy man these days trying to organize the girls’ canning clubs. He is on a committee with Mrs. William H. Newell and Mrs. James A. Pulsifer, and the idea this year is to confine the clubs to the schools. Back of it all is the Androscoggin Horticultural Society and back of that is the University of Maine. There will be one club in each of the high schools and one in each of the grammar schools, thus making six in all in the two cities. All school children from ten years up to eighteen inclusive will be eligible for membership. And it is hoped that all will join.

50 years ago, 1968

An Auburn youngster swept four out of five trophy positions this morning during a track and field meet for seventh and eighth grade boys held at Walton Field in New Auburn. David Polley, a seventh grader, failed to finish in the “money” in the broad jumps, but it was the only event in which he didn’t take first place in competition sponsored by the parks and Recreation Department.

25 years ago, 1993

The expenditure of a $1 million federal grant to revitalize Franklin Pasture behind Lewiston High School is on hold after the School Committee voted Monday night not to raise an additional $250,000 for the project. With Ward 3 representative Dr. Louis Talarlco absent from the meeting, the board was unable to gain a consensus Monday, voting 4-4 on the proposal to raise $250,000 for the relocation of tennis courts at Lewiston High School. The board’s action effectively kills any School Department involvement in the Franklin Pasture project and delays, for now, the expenditure of a $1 million grant awarded to the city last fall by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

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