January 4, 2005 Guest Speakers
Attorney Jay Cleary, Haverhill Community Television (HCTV) Producer,
(center-left) and Haverhill City Engineer John Pettis, III (center-right)
with Past President and Life Member Fran Perry (left) and 2004-2005
Haverhill Lions President/PDG John Pettis, Jr. (right).
- Haverhill
City Engineer John Pettis, III
spoke about the Haverhill County Bridge (Comeau Bridge) reconstruction
project being undertaken by Mass Highway. The bridge crosses
the Merrimack River and connects the western end of downtown
with the Bradford section of the city. The project started in
June 2002 after state safety officials deemed it was too weak
to support vehicles. City Engineer Pettis informed the club members
about the status for completion (end of 2006), traffic and detours,
construction technique being used and environmental concerns.
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The County Bridge 2002
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courtesy of Mass Highway Report May 2002.
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- Haverhill City Engineer Pettis
was invited to speak at our Club by Haverhill Melvin Jones Fellow,
Life Member PDG John Pettis, Jr.
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- Attorney
Jay Cleary, a Producer
at Haverhill Community Television, spoke about his television
series called "When I'm Sixty-Four". Attorney Cleary
described how he takes the viewers down memory lane through the
streets and neighborhoods of "Lost Haverhill".
- Attorney Cleary was invited
to speak at our Club by Haverhill Melvin Jones Fellow and Life
Member Fran Perry.
The graphic above shows
some of the history of Haverhill including the Shoe Industry,
Cattle Industry, Archie Comics and his creator Bob Montana, the
Telephone and Alexander Graham Bell, President George Washington
and his visit to Haverhill, the original Haverhill Deed signed
by Haverhill's settlers and Pentucket tribe members Passaquo
and SaggaHew, Hannah Duston, Macy's Department Store, movie mogul
Louis B. Mayer and John Greenleaf Whittier.
- For more Haverhill history,
please click here.
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