Good Friday marks most holy day for many
Summary- This week for many is known as Holy Week. It is comprised of several important days beginning with Palm Sunday and ending with Good Friday. Good Friday marks a deep meaning for many. Story- Historically, Holy Week is marked by the six days immediately before Easter. It begins with the celebration of Palm Sunday when Christ rode into Jerusalem on a donkey and the crowds waved palms...
A blonde's baby drama
I feel like I haven't written about anything funny lately. So I'm turning to the one topic that absolutely sends me over the edge, in hopes of sparking some interest from my readers, and possibly a few laughs.That topic is pregnancy.It all started when my younger sister called me last week, and called me, and called me. Naturally, I was screening her calls. It wasn't until I received a frantic...
Misc. Monday 04-18-11 - No sports, mom?
As much as we talked about what a great time it is for sports in last week's installment of Misc. Monday, this week it's not about sports at all. This completely defeats the purpose of having a sports blog, when you don't write about sports. But hey, aren't we supposed to always listen to our mothers?While our other bloggers have wrote about their addictions to shopping and The Beatles, why not...
Caution: Construction Areas Ahead
Summary: Its that time of year. Not just a time for shorts, sandals, and swimming, but also for that familiar rite of summer: area roadway construction projects. The weather is warming, and as a result, the fluorescent orange cones marking construction projects are sprouting up like mushrooms along Ohio roadways. In the eastern portion of the state, Ohio Department of Transportation District...
Volunteers give a Saturday morning to prep Schoenbrunn Village for 2011 season
Summary: Volunteers throughout Tuscarawas County make it possible for many organizations to fulfill their mission. One local historical site had plenty of help for a recent spring workday. Volunteers make a difference. Take Schoenbrunn Village, for instance. The Village was buzzing with activity during a recent workday as it welcomed dozens of volunteers to help prepare the popular historical...
Fueling the fire for the classics
Summary: The All-Mopar Swap Meet and Car Corral took place on April 16 and 17 at the Buckeye Event Center in Dalton. Organized by the Mid-Ohio Mopars of Wooster, the event featured car parts and vehicles for fans of Chrysler products to browse. It was one of two that they host; the second is in July to celebrate their twentieth anniversary as a club. Exactly twenty years ago, a group of...What makes Easter so special
SUMMARY: Easter is a time of mystery, faith and contemplation and Mike Dewey finds himself wondering about its essence, its rhythms and, finally, its enormous and wondrous meaning. Easter's weird. It floats and flutters around the spring calendar, like a butterfly or a ruby-throated hummingbird, never sure when it might decide to land. Like you, I have a vague recollection of what's...Pine Valley: My sort-of home sweet home
Good-bye, Pine Valley. Farewell, Llanview. ABC Daytime announced two weeks ago that it was canceling two-thirds of its line-up of daytime dramas. To the unschooled, that means the network is divesting itself of most of what we know as soap operas, which have little to with either soap or opera. And it makes me sad. Where else in the world can you go from birth through adolescence and...Avant Gardener: A rose by any other name would smell as sweet...to a Japanese beetle
Summary: Now is the time to prune roses, amend the soil and take measures to reduce Japanese beetle populations before they become a problem in June. Take care now so in June you have glorious roses that will continue to bloom until autumn. Last spring I cut my knock-out roses back a little too far and they never seemed to thrive. They bloomed and looked beautiful but they were smaller than usual...