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Father’s Day Facts
Father's Day: June 19, 2016
The idea of Father's Day was conceived slightly more than a century ago by Sonora Dodd of Spokane, Wash., while she listened to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart, a widowed Civil War veteran who was left to raise his six children on a farm. A day in June was chosen for the first Father's Day celebration, June 17, 1910, proclaimed by Spokane's mayor because it was the month of Smart's birth. The first preside...
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Juneteenth Celebration a local legacy
Do you know what Juneteenth is?
It is the name for a holiday celebrating June 19, 1865, the day when Union soldiers arrived in Texas and spread the word that President Lincoln had delivered his Emancipation Procalamation. News traveled so slowly in those days that Texas did not hear of Lincoln's Proclamation, which he gave on January 1, 1863, until more than two years after it was issued!
The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and hencefo...
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Northeast YMCA is a community asset
It's a building that's almost impossible to find, nestled literally on the offshoot of a long and winding road, but somehow the Northeast Family YMCA has become an indispensable part of the North Forest community.
"The YMCA plays a big role [in these people's lives]," day camp director Jared Hale said. "We cater to the children, but we have senior citizens who love the program. We have teens that love the program. We have people who are involved in the program and don't even know... Whether t...
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