Section: Events

Events, General Info

Thank Your Mailman (Person)

Postal CarrierDon’t blame your mailperson (today’s PC version of, “mailman”) that you’re paying 49 cents for a stamp, or that the U.S. Postal Service wants to eliminate Saturday deliveries of letters. Mail is still in your mailbox six day days a week and still arrives one day of the weekend.

Today is nationally recognized as Thank A Mailman Day, so let’s take a moment to thank the mail carrier who is responsible for getting us our bills and junk mail without trampling through the flower bed too often. Continue reading →

Events

The Day The Music Died Day

BuddysGraveThe Day the Music Died, so dubbed by a lyric in the Don McLean song “American Pie,” is a reference to the deaths of rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and J. P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, on February 3, 1959. Pilot Roger Peterson was also killed. Continue reading →

Events

It’s Groundhog Day… Again

bill-murray-groundhog-day
An audio clip from the movie, “Groundhog Day.”

This is the about the 1000th time I’ve written this article.

I’ve seen the same Super Bowl XLVIII so many times that the excitement of seeing that amazing play no longer exists.

Still, I’m obligated to go through the motions of recognizing a rodent that has created a one day tourist industry for some small town in western Pennsylvania that would otherwise have been forgotten.

The way things have been going this winter I’m all for turning that overgrown rat into a hat, or mittens… Continue reading →

Events

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

The “I Have A Dream” speech given from the steps of The Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963 brought more attention to the plight of the black American than its original plan of ensuring a voting rights bill would pass in Congress. The Federal bill was to be a guarantee of the right to vote in southern states. States like Alabama, where blacks were often unable to vote due to restrictive requirements imposed upon them. Continue reading →

Events

Hazardous Waste Drop-Off Event

Hazardous WasteOne of the most difficult things to get rid of is hazardous waste. Whether it’s gasoline that has gone bad, aerosol cans that still contain liquid but have lost their pressure, or even batteries that read, “Do not dispose of in trash.” Now you can get rid of all that hazardous waste for free and not have to worry about chemicals leeching into the ground, water, or air. Continue reading →