of the community
Tiny Fox Chase and rural borough of Rockledge held a massive joint celebration on Nov. 11, 1921.
That date marked the second anniversary of the inaugural Armistice Day tribute to World War I veterans. But in the quaint communities of Fox Chase and Rockledge, the 1921 observance of the holiday later renamed Veterans Day represented the real occasion of firsts.
The festivities began with a parade of vets up Oxford Avenue to the present-day site of St. Timothy’s Lutheran Church. Once at the Fox Chase-Rockledge border, leaders of both communities dedicated two stone monuments to the area’s three war fatalities, as well as some 60 local men and women who served in and survived WWI.
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EDITORIAL
Four more for O’Neill
Voters in the 10th Councilmanic District have an OK choice and a very good choice when they go to the polls on Nov. 6.
Democrat Sean McAleer, a charter school administrator making his first run for public office, is an affable guy whose campaign consists mainly of criticizing the incumbent, Republican Brian O’Neill, without offering any truly bold ideas of his own that would translate into a clear reason for change.
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Nutter’s hot on the
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Oxford Circle Civic
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