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January
4, 2005
(Tuesday) 6:30 pm:
Regular Meeting at Maria's Family Restaurant, 81-83 Essex Street,
Haverhill, MA. Guest speakers Attorney Jay Cleary, Haverhill
Community Television (HCTV) Producer, and Haverhill City Engineer
John Pettis, III.
- Graphic showing the Haverhill
Community Television Logo.
- Graphic showing The Haverhill
Engineering Logo - Surveyor's Tripod with a map of the outline
of Haverhill.
- Please
click here for map and directions to Maria's Family Restaurant.
- January 4, 2005 Meeting Highlights:
- Haverhill Lions Club Photo -
Picture of 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).
- Guest Speaker 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".
- Graphic showing the Haverhill
Community Television Logo.
- Graphic showing 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.
- Attorney Cleary was invited
to speak at our Club by Haverhill Melvin Jones Fellow and Life
Member Fran Perry.
- Guest Speaker 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.
- Graphic showing The Haverhill
Engineering Logo - Surveyor's Tripod with a map of the outline
of Haverhill.
- The County Bridge 2002 - Picture
courtesy of Mass Highway Report May 2002.
- Haverhill City Engineer Pettis
was invited to speak at our Club by Haverhill Melvin Jones Fellow,
Life Member PDG John Pettis, Jr.
- Haverhill Lions President/PDG
John Pettis, Jr. provided information about the upcoming District
33N Mid Winter Conference information.
- Lions Eric Powell and Ken Parker,
Jr. have volunteered be Co-Chairs for the Super Bowl Raffle to
be held in the Tewksbury Lions Club's hospitality room. Lions
Morris Piccolo, John Pettis and Gary Albanese have volunteered
to assist.
- IPP Jane Sweeney gave a update
on the comedy night that will be in the Spring 2005. Date will
be either April 1, 8 or 16, 2005.
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