Magazine

submitted by Stan Foster, photos by Debbie Foster

One of the great pleasures of living in Dunstable is sharing our yard with a wide variety of creatures that live with us permanently or regularly visit. One of our regular visitors this winter has been a family of turkeys. It has not been a great winter for them, so our bird feeders have been a welcome oasis in this desert of snow. It has been interesting to observe how their appearance and behavior has changed just in the last week as spring approaches.

On Tuesday evening, the Water Commissioners hosted a "retirement" party for Gerry Simmons, who, at the age of 83, has recently resigned his position as Water Superintendent.

Fourth grader Liam Hawk and his mother, local artist Jacqui Hawk, recently painted a montage of Dunstable landmarks (Our Town - Dunstable, MA) as a parting gift for Swallow Union School in appreciation for the years of excellent, caring education the school has provided.

Speech delivered by former Selectman Ted Gaudette at George Bacon's retirement party on July 13, 2007

37 years of service as Fire Chief, 43 total with Dunstable Fire Department.

I started writing this speech a couple of days ago, and as in all of these types of talks it comes out as mixture of cliches and accolades and basically you don't any more about the man at the end of the speech than when the speaker started. So what I would like to do is share with you what I know about Chief George Bacon.

by Bill Mahoney

I returned to New Orleans with a group of 9 volunteers. Eight of us were part of a Saint Michael's College Alumni group of thirteen who had gone in May of last year. Last year we felt that the trip was very rewarding and had made a commitment to return if we could.

Gloria GossI was born in Burnett, Vermont on June 2^nd 1937. I was the 9^th child of Peter and Viola Flynn.

By Anna Walsh

Sealing the capsuleThe children at the Congregational Church in Dunstable have recently been exploring, "How the Bible came to be".  One of the stories in the Old Testament is about a king called Josiah.  In his day the early books of the Old Testament had been lost and forgotten about but miraculously, when King Josiah's subjects had been given the task of renovating the temple, they were rediscovered after many years of being lost.