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Plant It Pink Amherst Presents Contribution to American Cancer Society, November 25th.

AMHERST – Co-chairs of the Plant It Pink Amherst project met re-cently with Erinn Drouin, The Amer-ican Cancer Society’s New England Division Community Events Spe-cialist, to review the project’s mile-stones so far which included raising awareness of breast cancer and it’s impacts on the community at large, completion of a project summary to aid other communities in staging their own project and presentation of a check for $2,510.00 representing funds raised from proceeds realized from selling pink spring flowering bulbs. This year’s Amherst event was sponsored by The Amherst Garden Club. The club was pleased to pro-vide educational materials about tu-lip and narcissus culture, volunteers, and coordination and facilitation of planting events at local civic gar-dens, schools and garden club meet-ings during the month of October, Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pink tulips and narcissus are plant-ed all around town and waiting to bloom this spring. The Plant It Pink Team thanks the people of Amherst for their support. Announcements regarding bloom locations and pic-tures will be on tap for spring 2014.

The Plant it Pink Team: (L to R): Sally Hooper, Julie Livingston, Erinn Drouin, Trese Gilligan, Paula Schmida, and Marti Warren.

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An Intimate Portrait Of Amherst Civil War Soldier, Charles H. PhelpsAMHERST – As the fourth pro-

gram in the Amherst Town Li-brary’s January adult series Remem-bering…the American Civil War in Focus, Bob Korkuc, author, histo-rian and resident of Amherst will present, “An Intimate Portrait of Amherst Civil War Soldier, Charles H. Phelps” on Thursday, January 16th at 7 p.m.

Charles Phelps, who lived on 18 Foundry Street in Amherst, was wounded on July 2nd 1863 during fighting at the famous Wheat-field in Gettysburg, Pennsylva-nia. Phelps was brought to a Field Hospital but succumbed to his wounds and died on the Fourth of

July. Horace Phelps, Charles’ father, hired a man to bring his son’s body home from Gettysburg and less than three weeks later, a funeral was held at the Amherst Congregational Church. The newspaper at the time, the Farmer’s Cabinet, stated that “the exercises throughout were of the most impressive character and [Phelps’] remains were followed to the grave by a larger number of true mourners then we have ever wit-nessed at a burial here--an honor that all felt was due to the deceased for his devoted patriotism, and as a representative of those devoted and worthy young men who have fallen in their country’s service.” Charles

Phelps is buried in the Meadowview Cemetery in Amherst.

In the hour-long narrated slide presentation, Bob Korkuc will bring Charles Phelps to life once again. Through letters written home to his sister, Sophia Phelps, over the peri-od of October 1861 through April of 1863, Charles will reveal his war-time experiences as he served for the Fifth New Hampshire Volunteer Regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War. Addition-ally, others from the ‘Fighting Fifth’ will help us to understand what Phelps experienced at the bloody battles of Antietam and Fredericks-burg. Finally, near a Wheatfield in Gettysburg, fellow soldiers from the Fifth New Hampshire--George Gove, Charles Hale, and Amherst resident and Colonel of the 5th NH, Charles Hapgood--will provide in-sights on Charles Phelps’ last noble act in battle. Also, Mr. Korkuc will reveal how Amherst mourned this fallen hero.

Mr. Korkuc, is the author of the book, Finding a Fallen Hero: the Death of a ball Turret Gunner, pub-lished in 2008 by the University of Oklahoma Press and is available for

check out at the Amherst Town Li-brary. The book reveals the story of Bob’s uncle, Tony Korkuc, who was killed in action during a World War II Flying Fortress Bomber mission over Germany on February 25, 1944. Noted PBS Documentary Filmmak-er Ken Burns called Korkuc’s book “a riveting story.” Korkuc, who en-joys American History especially the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, and the Battle of Gettys-burg, is currently focusing his re-search skills on Charles Phelps with hopes of publishing the soldier’s story in the future.

The series continues on Tuesday, January 21st at 7 p.m. with “The Caning: The Assault that Drove America to Civil War”; and, Tues-day, January 28th at 7 p.m. with “Civil War Quilts”.

All presentations are free and open to the public. However, regis-tration is REQUIRED for each pro-gram due to space limitations. You can register by calling 673-2288, emailing library@amherstlibrary.org or by visiting www.amherstli-brary.org and selecting the “Com-munity Services” tab, then click on drop down “Sign-Up for Programs.”

Goodwill Retires from Clark and Leighton, PC

(L to R): Beverly Ansaldo, Carolyn Goodwill (retiree) and Marcia Kayser.

AMHERST – Carolyn Good-will, RDH recently celebrated her 40 year dental hygiene career with the office of Clark & Leighton, P.C. (formerly Kayser, Clark & Leighton, P.C.). A retirement reception was held at the Bedford Village Inn on November 9th. Together with Car-olyn’s family, friends and hundreds of her close patients, the entire dental team commemorated Caro-lyn’s long career at our office. Car-olyn joined Dr. C. Douglas Kayser in 1973 and uniquely “Job Shared” the hygiene position with Dr. Kay-ser’s wife, Marcia. Each family had young children at the time, and they provided childcare to each other’s children when not working. Dr. Ste-phen J. Clark joined Dr. Kayser in 1978 and Dr. Matthew C. Leighton joined the office of Kayser & Clark in 1998. Carolyn and Marcia clear-

ly had the “tenure” at the reception and shared great memories of times both in and out of the office. Dental hygiene is really “the front line” of a patient’s defense against gum dis-ease and cavity prevention. Consid-ering her forty years of service, one can only imagine the impact Caro-lyn has had in the health and well-ness of our patients. Carolyn was well known to our team as the unof-ficial “Social Ambassador,” sharing articles of patients from the local newspapers that consisted of pro-motions, academic achievement, sports involvement and community service. Carolyn’s unique gift to re-call hundreds of her patient’s names and place them with their relatives will be greatly missed. Carolyn now looks forward to enjoying more time with her family, especially her four beautiful grandchildren.

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