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Did You Know

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

  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

  • An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

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  • Each year there are more than 40,000 toilet related injuries in the United States.

  • Before toilet paper was invented, French royalty wiped their bottoms with fine linen.

  • An earthquake on December 16, 1811 caused parts of the Mississippi River to flow backwards.

Quips

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

Filed Under: Church Notices


Don't let worry kill you. Let the Church help.

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

  • Neck Exercises
    - by G. Rarff

  • Falling from a Window
    - by Eileen Dowt

  • All Aboard!
    - by Abel Seamann

  • How to Feed Elephants
    - by P. Nutts

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Good Question

  • If fire fighters fight fire and crime fighters fight crime, what do freedom fighters fight?

  • If CON is the opposite of PRO, is congress the opposite of progress?

  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

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World Firsts

  • The first storm warnings for ships was issued by English Admiral, Robert Ritzroy.

    Wednesday February 6, 1861

  • 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


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

    Tuesday February 8, 1898

  • Filed Under: → Business & Industry


Events

  • 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


  • 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


  • When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.
    - Albanian Proverb

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

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

World Firsts

  • Bruce McCandless of the United States, makes the 1st untethered space walk.

    Tuesday February 7, 1984

  • Filed Under: → Travel Section


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

    Tuesday February 8, 1887

  • Filed Under: → Sports


  • The 1st successful United States educational magazine "Academician", starts publishing in New York City.

    Saturday February 7, 1818

  • Filed Under: → Education


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Wise Words

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

  • When there is no enemy within, the enemies outside cannot hurt you.
    - African Proverb

  • Not to know is bad, not to wish to know is worse.
    - African Proverb

Filed Under: Wise Words

Good Question

  • Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?

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

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

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