Looking Back on Feb. 28: ‘Maine Milling and Mfg. to build plant in Auburn’

Lewiston Night Journal for Feb. 28, 1963

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100 Years In the past: 1923

The lighthouse tenders at Seaport, Zizania and Hibiscus in the present day accomplished breaking a channel by way of the ice to the coal wharf right here. The steamer, Ripogenus, with cargo, was inside two miles of the dock, and steadily working her means in. The tenders then began for Stonington to interrupt out the ice there and dock the coal barge which briefly disabled the cutter, Ossipee whereas towing her by way of the ice fields. The Hibiscus, whereas making a visit to Moosabec Mild, broke out at Moosabec Attain between Jonesport and Beal’s Island.

50 Years In the past: 1973

(from a Journal photograph) Building of a bridge which is able to briefly take the place in Lewiston, of the ailing Locust Avenue Bridge, was properly underway in the present day. The construction on mortgage to town from the State Division of Transportation, was being put in by Lewiston Public Works personnel. A number of weeks in the past, it was decided that Locust Avenue bridge, which allows entry to the Androscoggin Mill from Canal Avenue was unsafe for journey, and it was closed for reconstruction. The short-term facility. being constructed throughout the canal a ways from the previous bridge, throughout from Maple Avenue, will join Canal Avenue with Cloutier Area. A right-of-way throughout Cloutier subject will allow automobiles to get onto Cedar Avenue.

25 Years In the past: 1998

Nothing says thank-you like a batch of do-it-yourself cookies.

That’s the idea behind an effort to mail cookies as “an enormous thank-you notice” to electrical line employees who restored energy after January’s ice storm.

The Operation: Energy ME challenge was initiated by Anna Lyon of Wayne. She stated this week she was overwhelmed by the response. “I’m type of touched by what number of have known as. A latest widow talked about how remoted she was through the storm. She couldn’t wait to bake cookies for the lineworkers,” Lyon stated.

“One other girl stated that when she noticed energy vans lined up at an Irving’s Huge Cease within the morning she wished that she had a pocketful of $20s so she might purchase all of them breakfast. I couldn’t afford to try this, however I may be part of the cookie plan,” Lori Eire stated in an e mail to Lyon.

After asserting within the Solar Journal early February that she was searching for volunteers to bake cookies for out-of-state line employees, Lyon was flooded with cellphone messages and digital messages. “I might get residence and there can be 20 cellphone messages, and my e-mail would go ceaselessly,” she stated.

She had hoped to enlist 200 volunteers, however already despatched 240 handle labels to volunteers from Brunswick to Oquossoc and was nonetheless getting calls.

As soon as the entire employees at 64 out-of-state utility firms had acquired cookies, she started sending them to CMP employees. She’s nonetheless giving out labels and would really like to have the ability to proceed to ship cookies to the Maine lineworkers.

“We’re not even midway by way of the CMP guys. I determine I’ll want about 60 extra batches,” she stated. The CMP employees who’ve already acquired cookies have been “very, very touched,” CMP spokesman Mark Ishkanian stated this week. “There’s some shock that persons are doing this now, a month after the storm. It’s a pleasing shock and a affirmation that our prospects are the most effective prospects on the planet.”

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