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Beard-Off Raises $1,000 For Isabel McGuire Scholarship

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by Bea Peterson

Last year it began as a whim for HFCS teachers Damien Bundrick, Bill Clairmont and  Rob Viera. They and other teachers and students grew beards for No-Shave November to promote cancer awareness. From there it grew into the Beard Off when the three kept their beards through March. For two lunchtimes they sold $1 tickets for a drawing when a student could shave off their beards in any fashion. They raised $400 and they decided to donate it to the scholarship fund for their friend and mentor Isabel McGuire who passed away that month. Perhaps a hundred students watched the after school event. And the three courageous teachers sported their odd looking shaves the following day at school.

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David H. Silvernail

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David H. Silvernail, 84, of Vancouver, WA, died peacefully on Thursday March 26, 2015.

He is survived by his daughter Faith Anne Listebarger and her husband Kevin of Vancouver, WA; two sisters, Jane McCumber and her husband Daniel of Petersburgh, NY, and Anne Stubbs of Coeur d’Alene, ID.

Interment will be at a later date in the Garfield Cemetary, Stephentown, NY.

Alfred N. Odierno

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New Lebanon – Alfred N. Odierno, 100, died Wednesday, March 18, 2015 at home at Melbourne Place in Pittsfield, MA.  Born in Little Italy in New York City on June 10, 1914, he was the son of the late Silvio and Mary Yander Odierno.  His family moved to Rockaway, NJ where he graduated from Rockaway High School.  He later graduated in 1934 from the Casey Jones School of Aviation.   [Read more…] about Alfred N. Odierno