Vol. 36, No. 46 3 WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2018
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Celebrating our veterans
Montgomery remembers the sacrifice
Senior
Center
vandalized
Defacement of piano and other acts
of vandalism horrify members of New
Horizons Senior Club
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Veterans stand at attention during the “Star Spangled Banner,” Monday, during the Town of Montgomery’s annual Veterans Day Ceremony.
By LAURA FITZGERALD
[email protected]
Drums crashed while veterans, boy
scouts and the Valley Central Junior
Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC)
marched past in the Montgomery
Veterans Day parade and ceremony last
Monday. Flags waved in the wind while
boots thumped against the pavement.
The ceremony began with a short
parade including veterans, the
Maybrook Veterans of Foreign Wars
(VFW) Post 2064, Boy Scout Troop 31,
the Valley Central JROTC, Boy Scout
Troop 386, Post 521, the Maybrook VFW
Post 2064 rifle team and the Boy Scout
band.
Montgomery Town Supervisor and
Air Force veteran Rodney Winchell
spoke at the ceremony. He said veterans
protect our freedoms and our country.
As of 2017, there are approximately 18.2
million U.S. veterans, according to the
U.S. Census Bureau.
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Seniors at New Horizons Senior Club
in Montgomery were discouraged after
the center’s Baldwin grand piano was
damaged after someone poured alcohol
over the top.
The top of the piano was discovered
to be damaged in September after the
cover was removed and someone poured
or spilled, deliberately or accidentally,
alcohol on the top of the instrument.
Virginia Moore, spokesperson for New
Horizons Senior Club, said the center
has experienced other acts of vandalism
recently. The wheels on the portable book
cart, a gift from the Fox Hill Bruderhof
Community, were torn off; the Silverado
Steppers’ decorative costume accessories
were stolen; closets have been broken into
and their content scattered or stolen.
“We have a beautiful senior center and
it’s starting to show wear and tear from
weekend rentals,” Moore said.
Moore said she personally knows two
people who have gained entry to the
building when no one was there because
the building was not properly locked.
Moore presented the Village of
Montgomery Board of Trustees with a
petition with 45 signatures that requests a
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