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Did You Know

  • All babies are color blind when they are born.

  • A person infected with the SARS virus has a 95% - 98% chance of recovery.

  • Albert Einstein was offered the presidency of Israel in 1952, but he declined.

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  • Canada is an Indian word meaning Big Village.

  • Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar were both epileptic.

  • A dime has 118 ridges around the edge, a quarter has 119.

Quips

The Senior Choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning, to join the Choir.

Filed Under: Church Notices


The Minister unveiled the Church's new donations campaign on Sunday: "I upped my Pledge - Up Yours".

Filed Under: Church Notices


For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

Filed Under: Church Notices


Fun Book Titles

  • School Meals
    - by R. E. Volting

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

  • Peek-a-Boo!
    - by I. C. Hugh

  • Apologizing Made Simple
    - by Thayer Thorry

  • My Years in a Lunatic Asylum
    - by I. M. Nutty

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Good Question

  • If buttered toast always lands buttered side down and a cat always lands on its feet, what would happen if you tied a piece of buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped them both?

  • Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

Filed Under: Good Question

World Firsts

  • The 1st appearance of cholera happens in Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Monday February 6, 1832

  • Filed Under: → Medicine


  • New Jersey issues its 1st U.S. railroad charter. The proprietors included the famous inventor John Stevens.

    Monday February 6, 1815

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


  • The Beatles land at New York's JFK airport, for their 1st United States tour.

    Friday February 7, 1964

  • Filed Under: → Entertainment


Events

  • Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.

    They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".

    Thursday February 23, 2017

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.

    According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.

    Monday September 4, 2006

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.

    Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.

    Saturday February 18, 2017

  • Filed Under: → Deaths


  • If you refuse to be made straight when you are wet, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
    - African Proverb

  • When the mouth stumbles, it is worse than the foot.
    - African Proverb

  • When elephants fight, it is the grass who suffers.
    - African Proverb

World Firsts

  • Aurora Ski Club of Red Wing, Minnesota became the 1st United States Ski Club.

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • The United States swears in its 1st female Secretary of Transportation, namely Elizabeth Dole.

    Monday February 7, 1983

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


  • John Ames Sherman of Massachusetts, United States, patents the 1st envelope folding and gumming machine.

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


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Wise Words

  • Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.
    - American Indian Proverb

  • Where there is no shame, there is no honor.
    - African Proverb

  • It takes a village to raise a child.
    - African Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • How long will a floating point operation float?

  • If love is blind, why is Lingerie so popular?

  • Why are cigarettes sold at gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?

Filed Under: → Good Question