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Snapshot From Our Shared Past

5 months ago By News Staff

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THIS PHOTO was taken in 1978 and portrays the Color Guard leading a parade down Plainville’s Main Street. If anyone knows the names of these veterans, please contact the Sentinel-Times.

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STOCKTON GRADE SCHOOL PRINCIPAL FRANCIS MAHONEY, (middle) presented teachers Don LaRue and Donna Griebel with their bell and plaques recognizing them for their 25 years of teaching at Stockton Grade School at the end of the 1994 school year.

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THE SUNFLOWER CLUB was organized on February 23rd, 1897 and on April 15th, 1897, the name was changed to the 20th Century Club. Their motto “While we live, let us continue to learn,” helped them in establishing the public library. The organization was active in many community activities. The individuals and the date of this picture are unknown, so if any of our readers have any information about this photo, please let us know!

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AFTER THE LAND WAS PURCHASED FOR WEBSTER LAKE, the Webster Store, owned by the Richardsons was the first building on the site of new Webster.They moved to new Webster on April19th, 1953. Albert and Frona Richardson ran the store until 1981 when they sold it to Harold and Wilma Getz. The name was changed to Getz’s Kuntry Store. For hunters, fishermen and locals, the store was a great place to buy bait, warm gloves, a cold soda or a sandwich.

Snapshot From Our Shared Past

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THIS PICTURE shows some of Plainville's businesses circa 1910. The A. H. Posegate Store is on the left, and the one on the right is the Meistrell Grocery Store, with John Meistrell standing out front. The small building to the far right is Foster's Land Office.

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6 months ago By News Staff

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Snapshot From Our Shared Past

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PAT MEYERS was highlighted in the Plainville Rural Hospital section of the Stockton Sentinel in May of 1994. Pat was in her 25th year of employment as an LPN, serving since 1979. Her other duties included Operating Room Nurse, C.S. Supervisor, Outpatient Nurse, and Director of Purchasing.

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THE 1956 4W (WEBSTER’S WILLING, WINNING WORKERS) 4-H SQUARE DANCERS were (from left): Joan Roy, Wayne Grover, Ila Mae Roy, Larry Kern, Nadine Lindsey, Jack Blauer, Joyce Lindsey, and Earl Kellogg.

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THE 1953 PLAINVILLE RURAL HIGH SCHOOL TWIRLERS were (from left): Anita Fox, Eva Stalnaker, Carolyn Gilliland, Lynn Amos, and Joan Marlow. The director of the PRHS band was Paul Darnell.

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WINNING A ROD AND REEL OR A TACKLE BOX from the Stockton VFW Fishing Contest held in the spring sometime in the late 1950s or early 1960s were (from left) Donald Buckland, Quentin VanEaton, Doug Gibson, Steve Baxter, and Leslie Conn.The picture was taken from the 2011 Stockton National Bank calendar, which Kathy (McComb) Rees of Canon City, Colorado, sent to the Sentinel-Times to use for our Yesteryear page.

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