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Norwich City Historian Dale Plummer has connected the dots meticulously to make a solid connection between National Doughnut Day Saturday and the effort to resume fundraising to restore the city’s World War I howitzer and create a lasting memorial to local soldiers of that war.
Plummer, chairman of the WWI Memorial Committee, recalled seeing a restored WWI field stove in operation at a re-enactment event and thought it might be interesting to bring that to Norwich. He learned that National Doughnut Day is June 5 and that it’s origins are rooted in the work by organizations to boost morale of U.S. troops fighting in France from 1917-18.
NORWICH The Rev. Stacey Kohl, priest-in-charge of Christ Episcopal Church in Norwich, says she is planning to rest and see where God will guide her, after Christ Church holds its final service.
“(The process of) closing a church is not fun,” Kohl said. “It’s filled with grief and sadness, but one also filled with hope.”
On May 21, Christ Episcopal Church announced its final service will be held on Sunday at 4 p.m. On the website, the church states that 35 parishioners had an All-Parish meeting on April 25 and voted unanimously to close the 1849 church building and disband the parish formed 274 years ago.