A House Full Of Heroes Survived By TERRY BERKSON • Special to www.AllOTSEGO.com RICHFIELD SPRINGS – At a Vets’ Club dinner several years ago, Jim Andrecheck, who lives in South Columbia just outside of Richfield Springs, began to tell stories about his combat experiences during World War II. What was amazing to hear was that he had four more brothers who had comparable harrowing experiences – and they all lived to tell about them. • ► THOMAS, AIRPLANE MECHANIC IN…
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ONEONTA VETERANS DAY Legion Leader Beth Akulin: ‘Vets Come In All Genders’ Veterans’ organizations still have a way to go in accepting women in their ranks, Beth Akulin, commander of VFW Post 1206 in Oneonta, inset at right, said during her address at Veterans Day ceremonies at the top of Neahwa Park’s Memorial Parkway at 11-11-11 this morning. While there are 1.3 million female veterans today, she said, “I have been yelled at for parking in a veterans parking place,…
OCCB Salute To Veterans Prompts Poem Recital The Oneonta Community Concert Band, above, held its 18th annual Salute To Veterans Concert in the halls of the Foxcare Center this evening. One audience member, 90-year-old Leslie Collins, right, was so moved by their performance of “The Armed Forces Salute” by Bob Lowden, he approached director Andrew Pease to ask if he could recite the poem, “For The Fallen,” by Lawrence Binyon. Pease obliged. The poem, written in 1914, is often recited…
Corning Honors Its Veterans, Listing All Who Served On Plaque…
Oneonta Veterans Gather On Memorial Walkway With 100 years since the end of World War I, and 99 since President Woodrow Wilson commemorated the event with Armistice Day, veterans gathered today at Veterans Memorial Walkway in Neahwa Park in observance of Veterans’ Day. Above, Wayne Gregory, Oneonta, plays ‘Taps” as a worn American Flag is ceremoniously retired and burned during the ceremony. Inset at right, Oneonta Legion Commander Gary Ballard and Tom McMillen, front, lead the rifle detail, Jim Williams, Conesville,…
Veterans Enjoy OCCB’s Salute Veterans, families and friends gathered to enjoy selections of historical patriotic music performed this afternoon by the Oneonta Community Concert Band at it’s 17th annual Salute To Veterans Concert at the Foxcare Center. Above, local veterans Tony Drago, Army, and John Brooks, Air Corps, applaud as the band finishes “Hail To The Spirit of Liberty” by John Philip Sousa. At right, Gretchen Becker, Walton, on tuba, and percussionists Ben Wendrow, Oneonta, and Dave Geasey, Oneonta, perform “The Official…
HAPPENIN’ OTSEGO for SATURDAY, NOV. 11 Catskill Symphony Orchestra Veterans Day Performance VETERANS DAY! CONCERT – 7:30 p.m. the Catskill Symphony Orchestra presents their Veterans day concert featuring Angelo Xian Yu performing Beethoven, Timothy Perry performing Mozart, Victor Sungarian performing Strauss. Tickets, Free to Veterans, $30 all others. Hunt Union Ballroom, SUNY Oneonta. Call 607-436-2670 or visit catskillsymphony.net VETERANS & COMMUNITIES – Noon-5 p.m. Enjoy free lunch buffet followed by workshops, readings, & discussion of war, peace, country. Free, open to the…
MARKING 98TH ARMISTICE DAY In Soft Rain, Coop Veterans Remember Fallen Colleagues CHECK FOR SLIDE SHOW OF CEREMONY…
County Marks Veterans Day In Cooperstown, Oneonta, More Veterans Day commemorations are planned today in Oneonta, Cooperstown and around Otsego County at 11-11-11, when the Armistice ending World War I was signed at 11 a.m. on the 11th day of November in 1918. In Oneonta, the commemoration will be at the monuments at the top of Veterans Memorial Walkway in Neawha Park. In Cooperstown, at the Doughboy Monument at the foot of Pine Boulevard across from The Otesaga.…
Collin Raye Rocks Foothills With Salute To Veterans…
