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OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Total chrome front face micro receiver with flexible metal cord that at its end has a square plate. Eigth transistor chassis powered by two mercury batteries type RM-640, now obsolete, wich leak corrosive liquids once exhausted, causing serious damage to the circuit and contacts, so it is very difficult to find in working order.
It came with gift box, soft leather cover, earphone with pouch, clam shell case, service card and instructive.
As countries across Latin America work to improve transparency and accountability, public contracts—everything from infrastructure to public procurement—are a perpetual weakness. Open Contracting is a set of disclosure tools that use timely, publicly-accessible open data about contracts to increase competition, inform smarter decision-making, and foster public integrity. Paraguay has been a regional leader in embracing and implementing open contracting principles. How is its experience instructive for other countries? How can open contracting and other transparency tools help make Latin American governments more accountable and responsive? What are the economic benefits of open contracting? What are the obstacles to implementation and what other steps are needed to effectively identify, prosecute, and prevent corruption?
The Inter-American Dialogue and the Open Contracting Partnership are pleased to host an open discussion on the merits and challenges of open contracting and other public transparency initiatives, focusing on the Paraguayan example in regional context.
Thursday morning, and all I had to do was get back to Kent. Hopefully before five so I could hand the hire car back, but getting back safe and sound would do, really.
I woke at six so I could be dressed for breakfast at half six when it started, and as usual when in a hotel, I had fruit followed by sausage and bacon sarnies. And lots of coffee.
Outside it had snowed. OK, it might only be an inch of the stuff, but that's more than an inch needed to cause chaos on the roads.
Back to the room to pack, one last look round and back to reception to check out, then out into the dawn to find that about a quarter of the cars were having snow and ice cleared off them before being able to be driven.
I joined them, scraping the soft snow then the ice. Bracing stuff at seven in the morning.
Now able to see out, I inched out of the car park and out to the exit and onto the untreated roads.
It was a picturesque scene, but not one I wanted to stop to snap. My first road south had only been gritted on one side, thankfully the side I was travelling down, but was still just compacted snow.
After negotiating two roundabouts, I was on the on ramp to the M6, and a 60 mile or so drive south. The motorway was clear of snow, but huge amounts of spray was thrown up, and the traffic was only doing 45mph, or the inside lane was, and that was quite fast and safe enough for me.
More snow fell as I neared Stoke, just to add to the danger of the journey, and then the rising sun glinted off the road, something which I had most of the drive home.
I went down the toll road, it costs eight quid, but is quick and easy. And safe too with so little traffic on it. I think for the first time, I didn't stop at the services, as it was only about half nine, and only three hours since breakfast.
And by the time I was on the old M6, there was just about no snow on the ground, and the road was beginning to dry out.
My phone played the tunes from my apple music store. Loudly. So the miles slipped by.
After posting some shots from Fotheringhay online, a friend, Simon, suggested others nearby that were worth a visit, and I also realised that I hadn't taken wide angle shots looking east and west, so I could drop in there, then go to the others suggested.
And stopping here was about the half way point in the journey so was a good break in the drive, and by then the clouds had thinned and a weak sin shone down.
Fotheringhay is as wonderful as always, it really is a fine church, easy to stop there first, where I had it to myself, and this time even climbed into the richly decorated pulpit to snap the details.
A short drive away was Apethorpe, where there was no monkey business. The village was built of all the same buttery yellow sandstone, looking fine in the weak sunshine.
Churches in this part of Northamptonshire are always open, Simon said.
Not at Apethorpe. So I made do with snapping the church and the village stocks and whipping post opposite.
A short drive up the hill was King's Cliffe. Another buttery yellow village and a fine church, which I guessed would be open.
Though it took some finding, as driving up the narrow high street I failed to find the church. I checked the sat nav and I had driven right past it, but being down a short lane it was partially hidden behind a row of houses.
The church was open, and was surrounded by hundreds of fine stone gravestones, some of designs I have not seen before, but it was the huge numbers of them that was impressive.
Inside the church was fine, if cold. I record what I could, but my compact camera's batter had died the day before, and I had no charger, so just with the nifty fifty and the wide angle, still did a good job of recording it.
There was time for one more church. Just.
For those of us who remember the seventies, Warmington means Dad's Army, or rather Warmington on Sea did. THat there is a real Warmington was a surprise to me, and it lay just a couple of miles the other side of Fotheringhay.
The church is large, mostly Victorian after it fell out of use and became derelict, if the leaflet I read inside was accurate. But the renovation was excellent, none more so than the wooden vaulted roof with bosses dating to either the 15th or 16th centuries.
Another stunning item was the pulpit, which looks as though it is decorated with panels taken from the Rood Screen. Very effective.
Back to the car, I program the sat nav for home, and set off back to Fotheringhay and the A14 beyond.
No messing around now, just press on trying to make good time so to be home before dark, and time to go home, drop my bags, feed the cats before returning the car.
No real pleasure, but I made good time, despite encountering several bad drivers, who were clearly out only to ruin my mood.
Even the M25 was clear, I raced to the bridge, over the river and into Kent.
Nearly home.
I drive back down the A2, stopping at Medway services for a sandwich and a huge coffee on the company's credit card.
And that was that, just a blast down to Faversham, round onto the A2 and past Canterbury and to home, getting back at just after three, time to fill up the bird feeders, feed the cats, unpack and have a brew before going out at just gone four to return the car.
Jools would rescue me from the White Horse on her way home, so after being told the car was fine, walked to the pub and ordered two pints of Harvey's Best.
There was a guy from Essex and his American girlfriend, who were asking about all sorts of questions about Dover's history, and I was the right person to answer them.
I was told by a guide from the Castle I did a good job.
Yay me.
Jools arrived, so I went out and she took me home. Where the cats insisted they had not been fed.
Lies, all lies.
Dinner was teriyaki coated salmon, roasted sprouts and back, defrosted from before Christmas, and noodles.
Yummy.
Not much else to tell, just lighting the fire, so Scully and I would be toast warm watch the exciting Citeh v Spurs game, where Spurs were very Spursy indeed.
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From Woodnewton I cycled north accompanied by drifting red kites to one of the real goals of my journey, the church at Apethorpe. One of the pleasures of this part of the world is that, like much of south Cambridgeshire, east Norfolk and pretty much all of Suffolk, you are never more than a couple of miles from the next village, and I soon reached my first proper spire of the day, the church sitting beside the manor house, a war memorial forming a village cross in the street, and entered the church of St Leonard, Apethorpe.
This is an excellent church, full of interest, tightly set in its stone-walled churchyard which accentuates the height of the spire, the inner door wedged open. Best known for the Mildmay monument, which I'll come to in a moment, the most striking thing on entry, for me at least, are two tremendous windows in the south aisle, both by Christopher Whall. Each depicts three saints and commemorates two brothers of the Brassey family killed in the First World War. There is one Christopher Whall window in the whole of Suffolk. There are two here at Apethorpe.
Turning east, a faded doom painting surmounts the chancel arch, but beyond you step across the Reformation divide, for everything here was richly provided in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The chancel aisle is wider than the nave aisle, and here is the early 17th Century Mildmay memorial, one of the biggest monuments I've ever seen in an English country church. It towers some twenty feet into the air, the Mildmays asleep in bed in the middle and life-size sculptures of women representing virtues at each corner of the bed. Extraordinary. Nearby is a 15th Century memorial to a knight with a near-unvandalised Annunciation the Blessed Virgin above his head, and a sweet 19th Century memorial to a child showing him asleep in bed. But the most remarkable thing about this place is the early 17th Century English glass in the aisle east window. A most unusual date, of course, and a spectacular response to Caroline and Laudian piety, depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Day of Judgement. It must be one of the finest of its kind outside of an Oxford or Cambridge college chapel.
The east window of the chancel is also unusual, an 18th Century English representation of the Last Supper, and this period must have provided most of the money for refurnishing this place. Unfortunately, the Victorians put in big ugly pews in the nave, but the lady doing the flowers told me they are raising money to have them removed and replaced by simple wooden chairs as at Yarwell. All in all a wonderful church. Quite how Simon Jenkins only gave it one star is beyond me.
Simon Knott, 2016.
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Apethorpe is one of those churches that are pleasant but unexceptional architecturally but which have furnishings and sculptures that make your visit very rewarding.
The present church was built as late (for a mediaeval English parish church) as 1485: the year that Henry VII overthrew Richard III at Bosworth Field. There is a twelfth century voussoir on display that is the single indicator of a Norman church that preceded the present one.
The floor plan is exactly what one would expect of a church of this period: clerestoried nave, chancel, west tower and two aisles. There are dozens of such churches in Northamptonshire and literally thousands in England. The difference at Apethorpe, however, is that the church was built that way from the start whereas most developed that way piecemeal.
Apethorpe also, however, has a south chapel adjacent to the chancel. It was built in 1621 to house the monument to Sir Anthony (d.1617) and Lady Grace Mildmay (d.1620). Really, they should have built a bigger chapel because the monument is absurdly large for a local parish church. I guarantee you that when you arrive it will be the first thing you notice. It is held to be possibly the finest of its period and possibly made by Maximilien Colt. More about it anon.Sir Anthony’s father had a very interesting history - see the footnote below.
There was also a crypt underneath the Mildmay tomb that housed the tombs of Fane family, the Earls of Westmorland. A bizarre thing for a fifteenth century parish church to have, you might think. It was sealed in 1900.
I am neither expert nor aficionado of stained glass – most of which is dreadful mass-produced stuff of Victorian vintage. Apethorpe, however, has exceptional examples of this art form. The south chapel has an exceptionally rare example of glass from 1621. It is instructive to compare it with the majority of stained glass in churches on this website. The east window is almost exactly a hundred year more recent, signed and dated by John Rowell of High Wycombe in 1732. The glass is a painted scene of the Last Supper. As the Church Guide explains, the stained glass industry was at a low ebb at the time. The artists of the time had not mastered the art of fixing the colours – those of you who are familiar with traditional film photography will understand this well – and so the colours faded badly. Many panes here were removed altogether while others had to be restored in 1994 “at huge expense”.
When we visited we met the octogenarian villager Mike Lee who was at work regulating the church clock. He told us that Apethorpe’s is the oldest working church clock in England.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Photo of our TV of a scene when the dwarves were about to enter the mountain of the dragon Smaug and its gold and treasure. Some might liken carvings above the key to look somewhat like Masonic Square and Compasses.
Masonic Square and Compasses.
The Square and Compasses (or, more correctly, a square and a set of compasses joined together) is the single most identifiable symbol of Freemasonry. Both the square and compasses are architect's tools and are used in Masonic ritual as emblems to teach symbolic lessons. Some Lodges and rituals explain these symbols as lessons in conduct: for example, Duncan's Masonic Monitor of 1866 explains them as: "The square, to square our actions; The compasses, to circumscribe and keep us within bounds with all mankind".
However, as Freemasonry is non-dogmatic, there is no general interpretation for these symbols (or any Masonic symbol) that is used by Freemasonry as a whole.
Square and Compasses:
Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
These two symbols have been so long and so universally combined — to teach us, as says an early instruction, "to square our actions and to keep them within due bounds," they are so seldom seen apart, but are so kept together, either as two Great Lights, or as a jewel worn once by the Master of the Lodge, now by the Past Master—that they have come at last to be recognized as the proper badge of a Master Mason, just as the Triple Tau is of a Royal Arch Mason or the Passion Cross of a Knight Templar.
So universally has this symbol been recognized, even by the profane world, as the peculiar characteristic of Freemasonry, that it has recently been made in the United States the subject of a legal decision. A manufacturer of flour having made, in 1873, an application to the Patent Office for permission to adopt the Square and Compasses as a trade-mark, the Commissioner of Patents, .J. M. Thatcher, refused the permission as the mark was a Masonic symbol.
If this emblem were something other than precisely what it is—either less known", less significant, or fully and universally understood—all this might readily be admitted. But, Considering its peculiar character and relation to the public, an anomalous question is presented. There can be no doubt that this device, so commonly worn and employed by Masons, has an established mystic significance, universally recognized as existing; whether comprehended by all or not, is not material to this issue. In view of the magnitude and extent of the Masonic organization, it is impossible to divest its symbols, or at least this particular symbol—perhaps the best known of all—of its ordinary signification, wherever displaced, either as an arbitrary character or otherwise.
It will be universally understood, or misunderstood, as having a Masonic significance; and, therefore, as a trade-mark, must constantly work deception. Nothing could be more mischievous than to create as a monopoly, and uphold by the poser of lacy anything so calculated. as applied to purposes of trade. to be misinterpreted, to mislead all classes, and to constantly foster suggestions of mystery in affairs of business (see Infringing upon Freemasonry, also Imitative Societies, and Clandestine).
In a religious work by John Davies, entitled Summa Totalis, or All in All and the Same Forever, printed in 1607, we find an allusion to the Square and Compasses by a profane in a really Masonic sense. The author, who proposes to describe mystically the form of the Deity, says in his dedication:
Yet I this forme of formelesse Deity,
Drewe by the Squire and Compasse of our Creed.
In Masonic symbolism the Square and Compasses refer to the Freemason's duty to the Craft and to himself; hence it is properly a symbol of brotherhood, and there significantly adopted as the badge or token of the Fraternity.
Berage, in his work on the higher Degrees, Les plus secrets Mystéres des Hauts Grades, or The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Grades, gives a new interpretation to the symbol. He says: "The Square and the Compasses represent the union of the Old and New Testaments. None of the high Degrees recognize this interpretation, although their symbolism of the two implements differs somewhat from that of Symbolic Freemasonry.
The Square is with them peculiarly appropriated to the lower Degrees, as founded on the Operative Art; while the Compasses, as an implement of higher character and uses, is attributed to the Decrees, which claim to have a more elevated and philosophical foundation. Thus they speak of the initiate, when he passes from the Blue Lodge to the Lodge of Perfection, as 'passing from the Square to the Compasses,' to indicate a progressive elevation in his studies. Yet even in the high Degrees, the square and compasses combined retain their primitive signification as a symbol of brotherhood and as a badge of the Order."
Square and Compass:
Source: The Builder October 1916
By Bro. B. C. Ward, Iowa
Worshipful Master and Brethren: Let us behold the glorious beauty that lies hidden beneath the symbolism of the Square and Compass; and first as to the Square. Geometry, the first and noblest of the sciences, is the basis on which the superstructure of Masonry has been erected. As you know, the word "Geometry" is derived from two Greek words which mean "to measure the earth," so that Geometry originated in measurement; and in those early days, when land first began to be measured, the Square, being a right angle, was the instrument used, so that in time the Square began to symbolize the Earth. And later it began to symbolize, Masonically, the earthly-in man, that is man's lower nature, and still later it began to symbolize man's duty in his earthly relations, or his moral obligations to his Fellowmen. The symbolism of the Square is as ancient as the Pyramids. The Egyptians used it in building the Pyramids. The base of every pyramid is a perfect square, and to the Egyptians the Square was their highest and most sacred emblem. Even the Chinese many, many centuries ago used the Square to represent Good, and Confucius in his writings speaks of the Square to represent a Just man.
As Masons we have adopted the 47th Problem of Euclid as the rule by which to determine or prove a perfect Square. Many of us remember with what interest we solved that problem in our school days. The Square has become our most significant Emblem. It rests upon the open Bible on this altar; it is one of the three great Lights; and it is the chief ornament of the Worshipful Master. There is a good reason why this distinction has been conferred upon the Square. There can be nothing truer than a perfect Square--a right angle. Hence the Square has become an emblem of Perfection.
Now a few words as to the Compass: Astronomy was the second great science promulgated among men. In the process of Man's evolution there came a time when he began to look up to the stars and wonder at the vaulted Heavens above him. When he began to study the stars, he found that the Square was not adapted to the measurement of the Heavens. He must have circular measure; he needed to draw a circle from a central point, and so the Compass was employed. By the use of the Compass man began to study the starry Heavens, and as the Square primarily symbolized the Earth, the Compass began to symbolize the Heavens, the celestial canopy, the study of which has led men to think of God, and adore Him as the Supreme Architect of the Universe. In later times the Compass began to symbolize the spiritual or higher nature of man, and it is a significant fact that the circumference of a circle, which is a line without end, has become an emblem of Eternity and symbolizes Divinity; so the Compass, and the circle drawn by the Compass, both point men Heavenward and Godward.
The Masonic teaching concerning the two points of the Compass is very interesting and instructive. The novitiate in Masonry, as he kneels at this altar, and asks for Light sees the Square, which symbolizes his lower nature, he may well note the position of the Compass. As he takes another step, and asks for more Light, the position of the Compass is changed somewhat, symbolizing that his spiritual nature can, in some measure, overcome his evil tendencies. As he takes another step in Masonry, and asks for further Light, and hears the significant words, "and God said let there be Light, and there was Light," he sees the Compass in new light; and for the first time he sees the meaning, thus unmistakably alluding to the sacred and eternal truth that as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so the spiritual is higher than the material, and the spiritual in man must have its proper place, and should be above his lower nature, and dominate all his thoughts and actions. That eminent Philosopher, Edmund Burke, once said, "It is ordained that men of intemperate passions cannot be free. Their passions forge the chains which bind them, and make them slaves." Burke was right. Masonry, through the beautiful symbolism of the Compass, tells us how we can be free men, by permitting the spiritual within us to overcome our evil tendencies, and dominate all our thoughts and actions. Brethren, sometimes in the silent quiet hour, as we think of this conflict between our lower and higher natures, we sometimes say in the words of another, "Show me the way and let me bravely climb to where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease. Show me that way. Show me the way up to a higher plane where my body shall be servant of my Soul. Show me that way."
Brethren, if that prayer expresses desire of our hearts, let us take heed to the beautiful teachings of the Compass, which silently and persistently tells each one of us,
"You should not in the valley stay
While the great horizons stretch away
The very cliffs that wall you round
Are ladders up to higher ground.
And Heaven draws near as you ascend,
The Breeze invites, the Stars befriend.
All things are beckoning to the Best,
Then climb toward God and find sweet Rest.”
The secrets of Freemasonry are concerned with its traditional modes of recognition. It is not a secret society, since all members are free to acknowledge their membership and will do so in response to enquiries for respectable reasons. Its constitutions and rules are available to the public. There is no secret about any of its aims and principles. Like many other societies, it regards some of its internal affairs as private matters for its members. In history there have been times and places where promoting equality, freedom of thought or liberty of conscience was dangerous. Most importantly though is a question of perspective. Each aspect of the craft has a meaning. Freemasonry has been described as a system of morality, veiled in allegory and illustrated by symbols. Such characteristics as virtue, honour and mercy, such virtues as temperance, fortitude, prudence and justice are empty clichés and hollow words unless presented within an ordered and closed framework. The lessons are not secret but the presentation is kept private to promote a clearer understanding in good time. It is also possible to view Masonic secrecy not as secrecy in and of itself, but rather as a symbol of privacy and discretion. By not revealing Masonic secrets, or acknowledging the many published exposures, freemasons demonstrate that they are men of discretion, worthy of confidences, and that they place a high value on their word and bond.
Masonic Square and Compasses.
The Square and Compasses (or, more correctly, a square and a set of compasses joined together) is the single most identifiable symbol of Freemasonry. Both the square and compasses are architect's tools and are used in Masonic ritual as emblems to teach symbolic lessons. Some Lodges and rituals explain these symbols as lessons in conduct: for example, Duncan's Masonic Monitor of 1866 explains them as: "The square, to square our actions; The compasses, to circumscribe and keep us within bounds with all mankind".
However, as Freemasonry is non-dogmatic, there is no general interpretation for these symbols (or any Masonic symbol) that is used by Freemasonry as a whole.
Square and Compasses:
Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
These two symbols have been so long and so universally combined — to teach us, as says an early instruction, "to square our actions and to keep them within due bounds," they are so seldom seen apart, but are so kept together, either as two Great Lights, or as a jewel worn once by the Master of the Lodge, now by the Past Master—that they have come at last to be recognized as the proper badge of a Master Mason, just as the Triple Tau is of a Royal Arch Mason or the Passion Cross of a Knight Templar.
So universally has this symbol been recognized, even by the profane world, as the peculiar characteristic of Freemasonry, that it has recently been made in the United States the subject of a legal decision. A manufacturer of flour having made, in 1873, an application to the Patent Office for permission to adopt the Square and Compasses as a trade-mark, the Commissioner of Patents, .J. M. Thatcher, refused the permission as the mark was a Masonic symbol.
If this emblem were something other than precisely what it is—either less known", less significant, or fully and universally understood—all this might readily be admitted. But, Considering its peculiar character and relation to the public, an anomalous question is presented. There can be no doubt that this device, so commonly worn and employed by Masons, has an established mystic significance, universally recognized as existing; whether comprehended by all or not, is not material to this issue. In view of the magnitude and extent of the Masonic organization, it is impossible to divest its symbols, or at least this particular symbol—perhaps the best known of all—of its ordinary signification, wherever displaced, either as an arbitrary character or otherwise.
It will be universally understood, or misunderstood, as having a Masonic significance; and, therefore, as a trade-mark, must constantly work deception. Nothing could be more mischievous than to create as a monopoly, and uphold by the poser of lacy anything so calculated. as applied to purposes of trade. to be misinterpreted, to mislead all classes, and to constantly foster suggestions of mystery in affairs of business (see Infringing upon Freemasonry, also Imitative Societies, and Clandestine).
In a religious work by John Davies, entitled Summa Totalis, or All in All and the Same Forever, printed in 1607, we find an allusion to the Square and Compasses by a profane in a really Masonic sense. The author, who proposes to describe mystically the form of the Deity, says in his dedication:
Yet I this forme of formelesse Deity,
Drewe by the Squire and Compasse of our Creed.
In Masonic symbolism the Square and Compasses refer to the Freemason's duty to the Craft and to himself; hence it is properly a symbol of brotherhood, and there significantly adopted as the badge or token of the Fraternity.
Berage, in his work on the higher Degrees, Les plus secrets Mystéres des Hauts Grades, or The Most Secret Mysteries of the High Grades, gives a new interpretation to the symbol. He says: "The Square and the Compasses represent the union of the Old and New Testaments. None of the high Degrees recognize this interpretation, although their symbolism of the two implements differs somewhat from that of Symbolic Freemasonry.
The Square is with them peculiarly appropriated to the lower Degrees, as founded on the Operative Art; while the Compasses, as an implement of higher character and uses, is attributed to the Decrees, which claim to have a more elevated and philosophical foundation. Thus they speak of the initiate, when he passes from the Blue Lodge to the Lodge of Perfection, as 'passing from the Square to the Compasses,' to indicate a progressive elevation in his studies. Yet even in the high Degrees, the square and compasses combined retain their primitive signification as a symbol of brotherhood and as a badge of the Order."
Square and Compass:
Source: The Builder October 1916
By Bro. B. C. Ward, Iowa
Worshipful Master and Brethren: Let us behold the glorious beauty that lies hidden beneath the symbolism of the Square and Compass; and first as to the Square. Geometry, the first and noblest of the sciences, is the basis on which the superstructure of Masonry has been erected. As you know, the word "Geometry" is derived from two Greek words which mean "to measure the earth," so that Geometry originated in measurement; and in those early days, when land first began to be measured, the Square, being a right angle, was the instrument used, so that in time the Square began to symbolize the Earth. And later it began to symbolize, Masonically, the earthly-in man, that is man's lower nature, and still later it began to symbolize man's duty in his earthly relations, or his moral obligations to his Fellowmen. The symbolism of the Square is as ancient as the Pyramids. The Egyptians used it in building the Pyramids. The base of every pyramid is a perfect square, and to the Egyptians the Square was their highest and most sacred emblem. Even the Chinese many, many centuries ago used the Square to represent Good, and Confucius in his writings speaks of the Square to represent a Just man.
As Masons we have adopted the 47th Problem of Euclid as the rule by which to determine or prove a perfect Square. Many of us remember with what interest we solved that problem in our school days. The Square has become our most significant Emblem. It rests upon the open Bible on this altar; it is one of the three great Lights; and it is the chief ornament of the Worshipful Master. There is a good reason why this distinction has been conferred upon the Square. There can be nothing truer than a perfect Square--a right angle. Hence the Square has become an emblem of Perfection.
Now a few words as to the Compass: Astronomy was the second great science promulgated among men. In the process of Man's evolution there came a time when he began to look up to the stars and wonder at the vaulted Heavens above him. When he began to study the stars, he found that the Square was not adapted to the measurement of the Heavens. He must have circular measure; he needed to draw a circle from a central point, and so the Compass was employed. By the use of the Compass man began to study the starry Heavens, and as the Square primarily symbolized the Earth, the Compass began to symbolize the Heavens, the celestial canopy, the study of which has led men to think of God, and adore Him as the Supreme Architect of the Universe. In later times the Compass began to symbolize the spiritual or higher nature of man, and it is a significant fact that the circumference of a circle, which is a line without end, has become an emblem of Eternity and symbolizes Divinity; so the Compass, and the circle drawn by the Compass, both point men Heavenward and Godward.
The Masonic teaching concerning the two points of the Compass is very interesting and instructive. The novitiate in Masonry, as he kneels at this altar, and asks for Light sees the Square, which symbolizes his lower nature, he may well note the position of the Compass. As he takes another step, and asks for more Light, the position of the Compass is changed somewhat, symbolizing that his spiritual nature can, in some measure, overcome his evil tendencies. As he takes another step in Masonry, and asks for further Light, and hears the significant words, "and God said let there be Light, and there was Light," he sees the Compass in new light; and for the first time he sees the meaning, thus unmistakably alluding to the sacred and eternal truth that as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, so the spiritual is higher than the material, and the spiritual in man must have its proper place, and should be above his lower nature, and dominate all his thoughts and actions. That eminent Philosopher, Edmund Burke, once said, "It is ordained that men of intemperate passions cannot be free. Their passions forge the chains which bind them, and make them slaves." Burke was right. Masonry, through the beautiful symbolism of the Compass, tells us how we can be free men, by permitting the spiritual within us to overcome our evil tendencies, and dominate all our thoughts and actions. Brethren, sometimes in the silent quiet hour, as we think of this conflict between our lower and higher natures, we sometimes say in the words of another, "Show me the way and let me bravely climb to where all conflicts with the flesh shall cease. Show me that way. Show me the way up to a higher plane where my body shall be servant of my Soul. Show me that way."
Brethren, if that prayer expresses desire of our hearts, let us take heed to the beautiful teachings of the Compass, which silently and persistently tells each one of us,
"You should not in the valley stay
While the great horizons stretch away
The very cliffs that wall you round
Are ladders up to higher ground.
And Heaven draws near as you ascend,
The Breeze invites, the Stars befriend.
All things are beckoning to the Best,
Then climb toward God and find sweet Rest."
The documentary Ryan Sullivan's Island is an instructive class on the world's most notorious gay porn phenomenon: Treasure Island Media.
Is this an institution of higher learning or a teenage brothel?
The Muirtown "staircase" which carries the canal up to the same level as Loch Ness - it is fascinating and instructive to watch vessels transcend this ingenious passage. Nowadays the lock gates are electically operated - I am old enough to rmember when they were manually operated and many's the tanner I got for lending my meagre strength to the capstan!
Taken from Muirtown Swing Bridge which carries the road to Beauly (formerly the A9) - the bridge is now electrically operated.
The last Sunday in November and while southwards in Central Scotland is in gridlock due to massive snow falls, Inverness is simply cold and frosty as the earlier snow settles down.
Dusk is falling as I ambled up to the Canal Basin (to avoid the joys of supermarket shopping)
Muirtown Basin is the holding area for vessels waiting to negotiate the last segment of the Canal (to the Beauly/Moray Firth) and is now busy as a marina and vessel parking area. On the other side of the Muirtown Swing Bridge, the series of locks ("staircase") carries the canal up to the level of Loch Ness, although there's quite a distance before the Loch is actually reached.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
The building was designed by the architect Johann Daniel Felsko. Its foundation stone was laid in 1864 and, according to the chronicle, the Small Guild House was opened in 1888. The Riga Small Guild or St John's Guild (Die Kleine Gilde zu Riga, Sankt-Johannis-Gilde) was a brotherhood of Riga craftsmen that existed from 1352 until 1936, when the Chamber of Crafts was founded. The interior of the Small Guild is remarkable and rich: the floors of the hallway, vestibule and staircase are lined with terrazzo mosaics, all the windows of the house are decorated with artistic stained-glass windows, specially made and shipped from Hanover, the pointed wood edges of the door and window frames are decorated with painted instructive aphorisms and expressions in Gothic script.
The Šárka Valley denominates the part of the Litovice (here already Šárka) Brook between the Džbán swimming pool and the Vltava, deeply and sharply cut into solid Proterozoic rocks. The Šárka region includes also the open valley of the tributary from the airport, the valley of the Nebušice creek and the brook coming from Housle near Lysolaje. The area is characterized by relatively great differences of elevation from 180 m at the brook inlet into the Vltava to 364 m above sea level on the top of the Kozák Rock and the Žabák which soar above the surrounding plateau as knobs. The whole area is included in the Šárka natural monument and its most valuable parts have been declared small protected areas.
Šárka Valley
The Šárka Valley is the best preserved natural region northwest of Prague, which is due to its diversely articulated ground relief on resistant rocks appearing in numerous outcrops. Thanks to this also relatively large forest areas have been preserved, recently extended by tree planting, as well as xerothermal rocks and slopes. Also extensive wet meadows in the fluvial plain are significant. The area includes also the sites of important primeval settlements and pilgrimage places of later date, such as St. Mathew’s. Its popularity increased also by the Smetana’s symphonic poem of the same name forming part of the symphonic cycle My Country, as well as the former National Theatre stage below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump).
In the framework of Prague Šárka provides a magnificent section of the Kralupy-Zbraslav group of the Barrandian Proterozoic characterized here by extraordinary representation of silicites - lydites cropping out in the form of wildly cleft rock masses and forming the unique gorge of Džbán, the entrance gate to the Šárka Valley. Also Proterozoic shales and greywackes crop out in many places being overlain by almost horizontally bedden Cretaceous formations along the upper edge - Cenomanian sandstones covered by sandy marlites, best uncovered in the broader environs of Nebušice. Also the lower Ordovician formations crop out near the Džbán swimming pool and in the right-hand valley slope near Jenerálka. The Quaternary is represented by thick loess drifts, once exploited for brick manufacture, and boulder screes below lydite rocks. Near the Čertův Mlýn (Devil’s Mill) the right-hand slope is covered with open boulder scree, the only one in Prague territory. Also the fluvial plain sediments are well developed, interspersed locally with limestone incrustations. Remarkable is also the Housle clough cut in loesses, sandy marlites and sandstones underlain by proterozoic shaks affected by tropical weathering.
The area, situated in the margin of a the chernozem region, is characterized by the prevalence of brown soils of different nutrition value and rankers on rock outcrops and sheer slopes. On loesses there are typical brown earths in the valley and chernozems along the northern margin in the lower part.
The whole Šárka area forms part of the ancient settlement region where man has influenced vegetation development for seven thousand years. That is why the whole area has been covered with a mosaic of forests, bushes and open areas of different kind since time immemorial. With the exception of rocky steppes on inaccessible sites all surfaces have been influenced by the activities of man - herdsman, user of wood and farmer.
Initial woods were of xerothermal character and comprized oak and hornbeam woods, acid, partly dwarfed oak woods with relatively small areas of scree woods and fluvial plains. On sheer slopes facing the north also beeches could be found. Only very little has been preserved from these original woods, the biggest remainder being the Nebušice Grove. Untill last century the area had a prevalence of pastures and extensive orchards with varying quota of xerothermal elements. Important part was played by rocky steppes and thermophilous heaths on top of lydites. An entirely specific formation consists in the rocky steppes of the Džbán gorge the diversity of species and structure of which is due to its enrichment by primeval hillforts erected on these rocks.
At present the forest cover of the area is relatively large thanks to the trees planted at the end of last century with the prevalence of alien wood species, such as false acacia, austrian pine, red oak as well as spruce - an entirely unsuitable species for this dry area. In the course of the past decade the area is becoming spontaneously overgrown with trees and bushes, at present forming a continuous cover of surfaces entirely bare as late as the Second World War. Also some invasion elements have penetrated here such as touch-me-not (Impatiens glandulifera) in the Džbán. This development has resulted in considerable empoverishment of the initial floral wealth of the Šárka Valley.
The vertebrate fauna comprises the species occurring in the whole Prague area, although some animals which had not lived here for a long time, such as the wild boar, seem to be returning here. Woods and bushes provide ample nesting opportunity for a number of birds. Important are also minor insects and other invertebrates on rocky slopes and rocks as well as in moist valley meadows to bogs. Until recently some species, known in the environs of Prague only from this area, have been living here, such as the minor spring snail (Bythinella austriaca) on Jenerálka and in the Nebušice Creek.
The original woods, managed mostly as sprout woods were affected significantly by various interference, such as pasturing and litter raking, as a result of which they have lost the major part of their herb layer. At present newly planted woods prevail the composition of which differs considerably from original woods. They are managed as special-purpose suburban woods and are desolate in the parts of difficult access. The herb layer often is of ruderal character.
The Šárka area has been settled continuously since primeval times. Middle Paleolithic men dwelt along the Vltava and a younger Paleolithic settlement was ascertained e.g. in the brickworks on the Jenerálka. Since the Neolithic settlements of farming and pasturing types were continous. Important buildings dating from that time are the hillforts on the Šesták and Kozák Rocks as well as the Slavonic hillfort in the Šárka Valley of a later date, which covered a considerable area. In the lower part of the valley, the so-called Upper and Lower Šárka, as well as Lysolaje, the buildings form a continuous chain at present. Higher up in the valley there is a chain of flour mills (e.g. Devil’s Mill) and farms, such as Želivka or Vizerka. Below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump) a small swimming pool was built, above the valley entrance the Džbán dam with a reservoir and recreation facilities. Continuous urban construction has approached the valley from the south. There are no major industrial enterprises in the Šárka Valley or its adjacent valleys. Minor brickworks (Jenerálka, Dubový Mlýn) exploited loess drifts. Otherwise the area was influenced by adjacent communities.
In the past fruit orchards flourished here and the meadows were mown regularly. At present these activities have stopped mostly. The wide Šárka Brook is polluted considerably, as in its upstream part it flows through extensive neighbourhood units and intensively exploited agricultural areas. The pollution is contributed to also by the nearby airport. Šárka has become an important suburban recreation area in which some activities, particularly mountaineering, exceed the limits of its capacity. At present it is covered by a network of small protected areas in Šárka protecting the most valuable areas, primarily the rocky steppes and xerothermal slopes. Of no smaller value is its geomorphology including the instructive exposures of Proterozoic rocks. Although its living nature has suffered considerable losses, Šárka still is a rich and remarkable area requiring special nature protection.
The Šárka Valley denominates the part of the Litovice (here already Šárka) Brook between the Džbán swimming pool and the Vltava, deeply and sharply cut into solid Proterozoic rocks. The Šárka region includes also the open valley of the tributary from the airport, the valley of the Nebušice creek and the brook coming from Housle near Lysolaje. The area is characterized by relatively great differences of elevation from 180 m at the brook inlet into the Vltava to 364 m above sea level on the top of the Kozák Rock and the Žabák which soar above the surrounding plateau as knobs. The whole area is included in the Šárka natural monument and its most valuable parts have been declared small protected areas.
Šárka Valley
The Šárka Valley is the best preserved natural region northwest of Prague, which is due to its diversely articulated ground relief on resistant rocks appearing in numerous outcrops. Thanks to this also relatively large forest areas have been preserved, recently extended by tree planting, as well as xerothermal rocks and slopes. Also extensive wet meadows in the fluvial plain are significant. The area includes also the sites of important primeval settlements and pilgrimage places of later date, such as St. Mathew’s. Its popularity increased also by the Smetana’s symphonic poem of the same name forming part of the symphonic cycle My Country, as well as the former National Theatre stage below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump).
In the framework of Prague Šárka provides a magnificent section of the Kralupy-Zbraslav group of the Barrandian Proterozoic characterized here by extraordinary representation of silicites - lydites cropping out in the form of wildly cleft rock masses and forming the unique gorge of Džbán, the entrance gate to the Šárka Valley. Also Proterozoic shales and greywackes crop out in many places being overlain by almost horizontally bedden Cretaceous formations along the upper edge - Cenomanian sandstones covered by sandy marlites, best uncovered in the broader environs of Nebušice. Also the lower Ordovician formations crop out near the Džbán swimming pool and in the right-hand valley slope near Jenerálka. The Quaternary is represented by thick loess drifts, once exploited for brick manufacture, and boulder screes below lydite rocks. Near the Čertův Mlýn (Devil’s Mill) the right-hand slope is covered with open boulder scree, the only one in Prague territory. Also the fluvial plain sediments are well developed, interspersed locally with limestone incrustations. Remarkable is also the Housle clough cut in loesses, sandy marlites and sandstones underlain by proterozoic shaks affected by tropical weathering.
The area, situated in the margin of a the chernozem region, is characterized by the prevalence of brown soils of different nutrition value and rankers on rock outcrops and sheer slopes. On loesses there are typical brown earths in the valley and chernozems along the northern margin in the lower part.
The whole Šárka area forms part of the ancient settlement region where man has influenced vegetation development for seven thousand years. That is why the whole area has been covered with a mosaic of forests, bushes and open areas of different kind since time immemorial. With the exception of rocky steppes on inaccessible sites all surfaces have been influenced by the activities of man - herdsman, user of wood and farmer.
Initial woods were of xerothermal character and comprized oak and hornbeam woods, acid, partly dwarfed oak woods with relatively small areas of scree woods and fluvial plains. On sheer slopes facing the north also beeches could be found. Only very little has been preserved from these original woods, the biggest remainder being the Nebušice Grove. Untill last century the area had a prevalence of pastures and extensive orchards with varying quota of xerothermal elements. Important part was played by rocky steppes and thermophilous heaths on top of lydites. An entirely specific formation consists in the rocky steppes of the Džbán gorge the diversity of species and structure of which is due to its enrichment by primeval hillforts erected on these rocks.
At present the forest cover of the area is relatively large thanks to the trees planted at the end of last century with the prevalence of alien wood species, such as false acacia, austrian pine, red oak as well as spruce - an entirely unsuitable species for this dry area. In the course of the past decade the area is becoming spontaneously overgrown with trees and bushes, at present forming a continuous cover of surfaces entirely bare as late as the Second World War. Also some invasion elements have penetrated here such as touch-me-not (Impatiens glandulifera) in the Džbán. This development has resulted in considerable empoverishment of the initial floral wealth of the Šárka Valley.
The vertebrate fauna comprises the species occurring in the whole Prague area, although some animals which had not lived here for a long time, such as the wild boar, seem to be returning here. Woods and bushes provide ample nesting opportunity for a number of birds. Important are also minor insects and other invertebrates on rocky slopes and rocks as well as in moist valley meadows to bogs. Until recently some species, known in the environs of Prague only from this area, have been living here, such as the minor spring snail (Bythinella austriaca) on Jenerálka and in the Nebušice Creek.
The original woods, managed mostly as sprout woods were affected significantly by various interference, such as pasturing and litter raking, as a result of which they have lost the major part of their herb layer. At present newly planted woods prevail the composition of which differs considerably from original woods. They are managed as special-purpose suburban woods and are desolate in the parts of difficult access. The herb layer often is of ruderal character.
The Šárka area has been settled continuously since primeval times. Middle Paleolithic men dwelt along the Vltava and a younger Paleolithic settlement was ascertained e.g. in the brickworks on the Jenerálka. Since the Neolithic settlements of farming and pasturing types were continous. Important buildings dating from that time are the hillforts on the Šesták and Kozák Rocks as well as the Slavonic hillfort in the Šárka Valley of a later date, which covered a considerable area. In the lower part of the valley, the so-called Upper and Lower Šárka, as well as Lysolaje, the buildings form a continuous chain at present. Higher up in the valley there is a chain of flour mills (e.g. Devil’s Mill) and farms, such as Želivka or Vizerka. Below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump) a small swimming pool was built, above the valley entrance the Džbán dam with a reservoir and recreation facilities. Continuous urban construction has approached the valley from the south. There are no major industrial enterprises in the Šárka Valley or its adjacent valleys. Minor brickworks (Jenerálka, Dubový Mlýn) exploited loess drifts. Otherwise the area was influenced by adjacent communities.
In the past fruit orchards flourished here and the meadows were mown regularly. At present these activities have stopped mostly. The wide Šárka Brook is polluted considerably, as in its upstream part it flows through extensive neighbourhood units and intensively exploited agricultural areas. The pollution is contributed to also by the nearby airport. Šárka has become an important suburban recreation area in which some activities, particularly mountaineering, exceed the limits of its capacity. At present it is covered by a network of small protected areas in Šárka protecting the most valuable areas, primarily the rocky steppes and xerothermal slopes. Of no smaller value is its geomorphology including the instructive exposures of Proterozoic rocks. Although its living nature has suffered considerable losses, Šárka still is a rich and remarkable area requiring special nature protection.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Since 1988, the collection grew. These are the most instructive examples. I've designed and made all except No. 22. Unknown to me, the Chinese had been there before me.
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
This is a kelly bushing, a piece of hardware used on a drilling rig. It and other components of a "kelly" drilling rig are described in this instructive video from North American Drilling Corporation. The thing sits in Salt Wash in Arches National Park, but why is a mystery.
The bamboo hiking stick is six feet (1.8 m) long and has black marks 12 inches (30 cm) apart.
Some comments are responses to my asking for information about the thing when I posted this photo in mid-2012. Background information appears in the description of this album.
DENT, JOHN CHARLES, lawyer, journalist, author, and historian; b. 8 Nov. 1841 at Kendal, England, son of John Dent and Catherine Mawson; m. 17 Oct. 1866 Elsie McIntosh, and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 27 Sept. 1888 in Toronto, Ont.
John Charles Dent immigrated with his family to Canada West as a small child. He studied law in the Brantford office of Edmund Burke Wood, later treasurer of Ontario and chief justice of Manitoba. Dent was called to the bar in 1865 but, disliking the practice of law, he returned to England to embark on a new career in journalism.
Dent learned his trade working for the Daily Telegraph in London. At this time the extension of the franchise, the advance of literacy, and technological innovations were transforming part of the British press into media of mass communications, creating a new and larger reading public, and altering reportorial style. The Telegraph, founded in 1855 and taking its name from the invention which had recently accelerated the transmission of news, was priced at 1d. when competitors were selling at 4d. In search of a mass public, it was pioneering the field of “sensational journalism.” Dent is also reported to have contributed “a series of articles on interesting topics” to Once a Week, an intellectually undemanding periodical catering to the interests of the lower middle class. Dent’s contributions cannot be identified, but his later fiction is of the sort favoured by this magazine. In 1867 he moved to the United States. He is said to have been employed on the Boston Globe, founded in 1872 as a “commercial and business journal of the first class,” but driven to sensationalism when it neared bankruptcy in the competitive Boston market.
In 1876 Dent’s experience as a popular writer was of interest to Goldwin Smith* who, with John Ross Robertson* as proprietor, was about to found the Toronto Evening Telegram, an organ intended to support Edward Blake* and the Liberal party. This was Smith’s only venture with a journal catering to popular taste, and he himself did not intend to direct editorial policy. He did, however, reserve the right of appointing the first editor, who was Dent. The Telegram soon departed from the liberal convictions of Smith to pursue the imperialist and conservative enthusiasms of Robertson; within a year Dent resigned his position to become editor of the reform-minded Weekly Globe. Whether these facts were related is unknown but Dent’s later political views certainly coincided with those of the Globe and its owner George Brown* rather than with the Telegram’s. Dent remained with the Globe until shortly after Brown’s death in 1880, when he became a freelance writer of popular history.
Within a year he began two major undertakings. The first was The Canadian portrait gallery in four volumes containing biographical sketches of 204 leading figures in Canadian history. Some had already been written for the Weekly Globe and a few were written by other contributors; Dent’s own work amounted to 185 biographies or some 888 pages. Also in 1881, he began publishing The last forty years: Canada since the union of 1841, which, like the Portrait gallery, was issued serially. Consisting of 735 pages of text in two volumes, it long remained the leading account of the period in English.
In achieving so much so quickly, Dent owed a great deal to Sir Francis Hincks who, as he acknowledged, possessed an invaluable knowledge of the past, being the last leading politician of the 1840s still alive. Hincks, moreover, had a keen interest in history, particularly with regard to the role he and other “Baldwinite” Reformers had played in it. In 1877 he had published a short Political history of Canada between 1840 and 1855 and he was then at work on his more lengthy Reminiscences of his public life which appeared in 1884. Both books were highly tendentious, aimed at correcting errors of fact and interpretation being made by historians, at assailing what were taken to be mistaken views of old political opponents, and at establishing Hincks’s own view of the past. At one time he had hoped to assist Louis-Philippe Turcotte* in bringing out a “corrected” edition of Le Canada sous l’Union, 1841–1867 (1871–72) which he himself had intended to translate into English. Turcotte, however, died before this project could be accomplished. Dent’s undertakings therefore provided the old man with just the sort of opportunity for which he had long been waiting. He now advised Dent closely as to factual detail, and even contributed an article on an old enemy, Sir Dominick Daly*, to The Canadian Portrait gallery. His most important contribution, however, probably lay in providing the basic conceptual framework of The last forty years.
Donald Swainson, a close student of the latter book, has remarked that while the chapters on the 1840s seem carefully researched and well organized, Dent’s treatment of the period from 1850 to the 1870s resembles “a hasty and annalistic ‘history of his own times.’” It appears more than coincidental that the good work corresponds with a period in which Dent’s mentor was active in politics and, more especially, with the period covered in Hincks’s Political history. Up until the 1880s, moreover, most historians believed that “responsible government” had been achieved not in 1848 (the date now generally, if misleadingly, accepted) but in 1840, a conviction which corresponds with that of old opponents of Hincks such as Egerton Ryerson; Hincks was still seeking to undermine that belief. In this regard, Dent employed Hincks’s “Baldwinite” concept, and it governed his understanding of early Canadian politics to a truly remarkable extent. As Swainson observes, he “was obsessed with the issue of responsible government and in The Last Forty Years devoted considerable space and great passion to it. It is the book’s major preoccupation.” Yet the “struggle for responsible government” was more than a preoccupation; it is the book’s single unifying theme, in the absence of which the later chapters fall into conceptual disarray.
Dent returned to this theme, to project it into a more distant past, in his last major work, The story of the Upper Canadian rebellion, published in two volumes in 1885. The second volume, which deals with the immediate causes and events of the rising, is of some enduring value in that it contains information which does not survive elsewhere, and because its author displayed a more reasonable regard for evidence here than elsewhere in his text. The first volume, which in treating long term causes deals with almost the whole of the colony’s political history, is a mixture of fact and fantasy amounting to historical myth.
Partly inspired by models derived from English “Whig” history, this volume contains the story of a “struggle for liberty” which partakes of melodrama. Its heroes are moderate Reformers standing in the evolutionary tradition of “responsible government”; its villains are British officials and local Tories opposed to this tradition and radicals who departed from it by embracing republicanism and taking up arms in 1837. Dent’s many critics early took note of his simplistic, black and white presentation of the politics of the period and, more especially, of his savage characterizations of those he saw as villains. John King*, son-in-law of William Lyon Mackenzie*, in his rancorous rebuttal of Dent, The other side of the “Story”, observed: “In one chapter we find the late Chief Justice [Sir John Beverley Robinson*], and the late Bishop [John Strachan*], compared to ‘half famished tigers of the jungle.’ In another [Robert Fleming Gourlay*’s] description of the Bishop as ‘a lying little fool of a renegade Presbyterian’ is approvingly quoted. Here, there and everywhere the most offensive epithets are applied to William Lyon Mackenzie, while [John Rolph*] is little short of an angel of light.” Dent’s critics, and Dent himself, however, seem not to have realized that they were dealing less with a product of historical research than with symbols, or dramatis personae, which emerged from, and reinforced, a preconceived thesis treated as a plot.
It is therefore instructive to compare Dent’s historical writing with some of his purely imaginative work which was published posthumously in 1888 in The Gerrard Street mystery and other weird tales. As with The story of the Upper Canadian rebellion, these tales contain symbols which, within the context of particular plots, give expression to a noteworthy historical point of view. In the 1880s Dent was caught up in the emotively charged debate as to “the political destiny of Canada”: whether it would become federated with the British empire, be annexed to the United States, or develop into an independent nation. He did not pretend to know what the outcome would be, but he had a marked preference for independence. This bias, which was related to his pervasive concern for “responsible government,” is also apparent in his fiction, most notably with respect to his use of English, Canadian, and American symbols.
“The haunted house on Duchess Street” is a tale of Gothic horror in which the Horsfalls, a terrorized family of Americans, including a George Washington Horsfall, are driven from an ancient Canadian house, associated with old compact Tories, by the ghost of the autocratic Captain Bywater, an Englishman as the name was intended to suggest, who had perished there of his own immoral excesses. The symbolic implications of the plot and the curiously evocative names Dent tended to assign to his characters are even more apparent in “Sovereen’s disappearance.” Callously abandoned by a dissolute English husband called Sovereen, a Canadian heroine is befriended by an upright American, Thomas Jefferson Haskins. When the husband, broken and ruined, returns, he is tenderly nursed on his deathbed by Mrs Sovereen who resolves to live out the rest of her life in virtuous widowhood. And of the same order is “Gagtooth’s image,” wherein a central image, representing disappointed hopes for the future in the United States, is transferred from an American to a Canadian context, there to be cherished by the narrator.
The symbolic content of these stories is similar to that of Dent’s histories. They are also suggestive of how literature functioned in relation to history in the mind of their author. As a popularizer Dent sought to make dry-as-dust history interesting by means of literary techniques. In the introduction to his posthumously published short stories we are told that, like Macaulay, he believed “the incidents of real life, whether political or domestic, admit of being so arranged, without detriment to accuracy, to command all the interest of an artificial series of facts; that the chain of circumstances which constitute history may be as finely and as gracefully woven as any tale of fancy.” Yet Dent’s powers of fancy, even unfettered by historical fact, were governed by borrowed stereotypes. In his short stories, however, he did manage to manipulate his own symbols, whereas in his imaginative projections upon the screen of history he appears rather to have been manipulated by them, to have become, in effect, symbol-bound.
In 1884 Dent edited and introduced the collected speeches of Alexander Morris in Nova Britannia; or, our new Canadian dominion foreshadowed, which, as the title suggests, reflected a nationalist point of view he fully shared. That same year he published some largely rehashed material in Toronto, past and present, which he wrote in collaboration with Henry Scadding*. In 1887 he founded and edited Arcturus: a Canadian Journal of Literature and Life where he published some of his fiction and gave expression to the dim view he had come to take of national politics. Addressed to “a wide circle of readers . . . [to] deal with questions of general interest in a readable and popular manner,” this weekly collapsed within half a year of its founding.
Dent was honoured for his contributions to Canadian letters by election to the Royal Society of Canada in 1887. This election was bitterly resented by certain Conservatives who remembered him as having written in 1883 “foul libels on [Sir Charles Tupper*] and on Goldwin Smith in the Toronto News”; nor can it have been any more to the taste of Liberals who yet regarded themselves as standing in the tradition of William Lyon Mackenzie; nor to French Canadian historians such as Henri-Raymond Casgrain* who, reacting against Dent’s Anglo-Protestant biases, had delivered a stinging critique of The last forty years before the Royal Society in 1884. Oddly enough, he seems to have owed his election to the support of Colonel George Taylor Denison* III, a prominent imperialist. While sharing some of Dent’s nationalist fervour Denison must have been completely out of sympathy with his hankerings after independence. It was perhaps in the hope of wooing Dent from these that he acted as sponsor. In any event nothing came of it for Dent died of a heart attack in the following year.
In his time Dent was assailed by critics of all political stripes who were far from accepting his interpretation of Canadian history and whose criticisms, on the whole, were quite well taken. Dent, however, published several stout volumes, as they did not, and over the years his views tended to win out. Thus as a popularizer of a point of view, his achievement was a great one.
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Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
A visit to the National Botanic Garden of Wales. Near Llanarthne in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
This garden aims to raise understanding and interest in plant breeding and genetics. The curving pathways in the Wallace Garden reflect the shape of the DNA double helix, and break the oval enclosure into a series of attractive themed beds. Planting blends the curious, the ornamental and the instructive. Here you’ll find examples of natural plant mutations, and every year there are fresh displays of food crops and garden plants that have been selectively bred by humans, like sweet peas and dahlias.
Along the south wall, plants refelct a geological timeline, from the first emergence of mosses and liverworts through horsetails to the tree ferns and conifers that dominate just before the evolution of flowering plants.
In the future we are hoping to use secure funding for this garden in order to demonstrate some of the scientific research the Garden is carrying out, particularly into the DNA of native Welsh plants.
This garden is named in honour of the Usk-born naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913), whose own work on the theory of evolution by means of natural selection prompted Charles Darwin to publish his ‘On the Origin of Species by Natural Selection’. In 2008, we celebrated Wallace’s life with a specially commissioned play written by Gaynor Styles of Theatre Nanog and performed by Ioan Hefin (seen left) inside the Wallace Garden for both school groups and general visitors.
Grade II listed building.
Service Yard and Gateway of Middleton Hall, Llanarthney
Location
100m north of the Great Glass House of the National Botanic Gardens. Attached to the surviving service wing of Middleton Hall.
History
Middleton Hall was completed in 1795 for Sir William Paxton to the designs of S P Cockerell. To the north-west of the house was a service wing (now modernised and named Trawscoed) with this attached oval yard and gateway. With these exceptions the Hall was demolished in 1951.
Interior
Exterior
The yard, its gateway and the stable block are planned on one axis. The yard is an oval enclosure in roughly coursed stonework, about 2 metres in height, without its original coping. The yard gateway is an imposing design in the form of a round-headed gateway with a semicircular ashlar arch, with projecting keystone, large square impost moulding and string course and projecting plinth, all set within a section of wall raised to almost double height in coursed masonry with square coping.
Reason for Listing
Listed as a structure planned integrally with the listed Stables, and a surviving unaltered fragment of the work of S P Cockerell.
References
H Colvin, Biographical Dictionary of British Architects 1600-1840 (1995), p.264;
N D Ludlow, Middleton Hall Assessment (DAT Project Record No. 31018, 1995), p.17
This text is a legacy record and has not been updated since the building was originally listed. Details of the building may have changed in the intervening time. You should not rely on this listing as an accurate description of the building.
Notes:
100m north of the Great Glass House of the National Botanic Gardens. Attached to the surviving service wing of Middleton Hall.
Source: Cadw
Listed building text is © Crown Copyright. Reproduced under licence.
The Hyades star cluster with the red-eye of an enraged bull dominates the constellation Taurus. So much so that another Open Cluster, NGC 1647, rarely catches one’s attention, even though it is just two-degrees northeast of the Hyades and the eye-of-the-bull, Aldebaran. NGC 1647 is just at the visibility of the naked eye from a dark location. But in binoculars from any location its collection of stars covering an area about the size of the full moon, stands out. In the telescope, it must be viewed at low power, or otherwise its widely spaced stars will escape notice. Through a widefield, low-power telescope or binoculars it is a marvelous distinct gathering of 200 stars. Since the Hyades and NGC 1647 are next to each other a comparison is instructive. NGC 1647 is about 400 million years younger and 11-times more distant than the Hyades. Although the Hyades spans a larger section of our night sky than NGC 1647, it is NGC 1647 that is actual larger (20 light years across compared to the Hyades 14.5 light years across). Both Open Clusters fit within the field-of-view of binoculars and their contrasting appearances are worth studying.
Additional astronomical drawings can be seen at www.orrastrodrawing.com
New England Aquarium on Central Wharf in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
Boston previously had three other aquariums over the period of 150 years: the Boston Aquarial Gardens (1859), the Boston Aquarial Gardens and Zoological Gardens (1861), and the South Boston Aquarium (1912).
The demise of the South Boston Aquarium left a void in Boston. Through the South Boston Aquarium, generations of Bostonians had learned to appreciate the wonders of marine life. The seed had been sown for something larger and more ambitious.
The failures of both the Boston Aquarial Gardens and the South Boston Aquarium were instructive. The first was a purely mercantile venture that measured its success by its profits. The second was a civic institution with very limited goals, severe budget restrictions, and political pressures. Even prior to the closing of the South Boston Aquarium, a replacement was envisaged as a private, non-profit organization that would incorporate the best elements of the previous aquariums, while avoiding their pitfalls.
At first, a small, modern aquarium was projected as part of the Museum of Science and preliminary studies were undertaken in this direction. In 1957, however, a group of local businesspeople formed what the New England Aquarium Corporation with the intent of founding an aquarium that would be independent. The directors of the new organization chose the then-rundown Boston waterfront as the site for their project.
Planning for the aquarium began in 1962, with the principal designer being Peter Chermayeff of Cambridge Seven Associates. The building was opened to the public in 1969. The Giant Ocean Tank opened in 1970, and at the time was the largest circular ocean tank in the world.
It is one of the world’s first modern aquariums. Visitors can explore the oceans and visit thousands of marine animals in four levels of world-class exhibits.
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OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
Thursday morning, and all I had to do was get back to Kent. Hopefully before five so I could hand the hire car back, but getting back safe and sound would do, really.
I woke at six so I could be dressed for breakfast at half six when it started, and as usual when in a hotel, I had fruit followed by sausage and bacon sarnies. And lots of coffee.
Outside it had snowed. OK, it might only be an inch of the stuff, but that's more than an inch needed to cause chaos on the roads.
Back to the room to pack, one last look round and back to reception to check out, then out into the dawn to find that about a quarter of the cars were having snow and ice cleared off them before being able to be driven.
I joined them, scraping the soft snow then the ice. Bracing stuff at seven in the morning.
Now able to see out, I inched out of the car park and out to the exit and onto the untreated roads.
It was a picturesque scene, but not one I wanted to stop to snap. My first road south had only been gritted on one side, thankfully the side I was travelling down, but was still just compacted snow.
After negotiating two roundabouts, I was on the on ramp to the M6, and a 60 mile or so drive south. The motorway was clear of snow, but huge amounts of spray was thrown up, and the traffic was only doing 45mph, or the inside lane was, and that was quite fast and safe enough for me.
More snow fell as I neared Stoke, just to add to the danger of the journey, and then the rising sun glinted off the road, something which I had most of the drive home.
I went down the toll road, it costs eight quid, but is quick and easy. And safe too with so little traffic on it. I think for the first time, I didn't stop at the services, as it was only about half nine, and only three hours since breakfast.
And by the time I was on the old M6, there was just about no snow on the ground, and the road was beginning to dry out.
My phone played the tunes from my apple music store. Loudly. So the miles slipped by.
After posting some shots from Fotheringhay online, a friend, Simon, suggested others nearby that were worth a visit, and I also realised that I hadn't taken wide angle shots looking east and west, so I could drop in there, then go to the others suggested.
And stopping here was about the half way point in the journey so was a good break in the drive, and by then the clouds had thinned and a weak sin shone down.
Fotheringhay is as wonderful as always, it really is a fine church, easy to stop there first, where I had it to myself, and this time even climbed into the richly decorated pulpit to snap the details.
A short drive away was Apethorpe, where there was no monkey business. The village was built of all the same buttery yellow sandstone, looking fine in the weak sunshine.
Churches in this part of Northamptonshire are always open, Simon said.
Not at Apethorpe. So I made do with snapping the church and the village stocks and whipping post opposite.
A short drive up the hill was King's Cliffe. Another buttery yellow village and a fine church, which I guessed would be open.
Though it took some finding, as driving up the narrow high street I failed to find the church. I checked the sat nav and I had driven right past it, but being down a short lane it was partially hidden behind a row of houses.
The church was open, and was surrounded by hundreds of fine stone gravestones, some of designs I have not seen before, but it was the huge numbers of them that was impressive.
Inside the church was fine, if cold. I record what I could, but my compact camera's batter had died the day before, and I had no charger, so just with the nifty fifty and the wide angle, still did a good job of recording it.
There was time for one more church. Just.
For those of us who remember the seventies, Warmington means Dad's Army, or rather Warmington on Sea did. THat there is a real Warmington was a surprise to me, and it lay just a couple of miles the other side of Fotheringhay.
The church is large, mostly Victorian after it fell out of use and became derelict, if the leaflet I read inside was accurate. But the renovation was excellent, none more so than the wooden vaulted roof with bosses dating to either the 15th or 16th centuries.
Another stunning item was the pulpit, which looks as though it is decorated with panels taken from the Rood Screen. Very effective.
Back to the car, I program the sat nav for home, and set off back to Fotheringhay and the A14 beyond.
No messing around now, just press on trying to make good time so to be home before dark, and time to go home, drop my bags, feed the cats before returning the car.
No real pleasure, but I made good time, despite encountering several bad drivers, who were clearly out only to ruin my mood.
Even the M25 was clear, I raced to the bridge, over the river and into Kent.
Nearly home.
I drive back down the A2, stopping at Medway services for a sandwich and a huge coffee on the company's credit card.
And that was that, just a blast down to Faversham, round onto the A2 and past Canterbury and to home, getting back at just after three, time to fill up the bird feeders, feed the cats, unpack and have a brew before going out at just gone four to return the car.
Jools would rescue me from the White Horse on her way home, so after being told the car was fine, walked to the pub and ordered two pints of Harvey's Best.
There was a guy from Essex and his American girlfriend, who were asking about all sorts of questions about Dover's history, and I was the right person to answer them.
I was told by a guide from the Castle I did a good job.
Yay me.
Jools arrived, so I went out and she took me home. Where the cats insisted they had not been fed.
Lies, all lies.
Dinner was teriyaki coated salmon, roasted sprouts and back, defrosted from before Christmas, and noodles.
Yummy.
Not much else to tell, just lighting the fire, so Scully and I would be toast warm watch the exciting Citeh v Spurs game, where Spurs were very Spursy indeed.
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From Woodnewton I cycled north accompanied by drifting red kites to one of the real goals of my journey, the church at Apethorpe. One of the pleasures of this part of the world is that, like much of south Cambridgeshire, east Norfolk and pretty much all of Suffolk, you are never more than a couple of miles from the next village, and I soon reached my first proper spire of the day, the church sitting beside the manor house, a war memorial forming a village cross in the street, and entered the church of St Leonard, Apethorpe.
This is an excellent church, full of interest, tightly set in its stone-walled churchyard which accentuates the height of the spire, the inner door wedged open. Best known for the Mildmay monument, which I'll come to in a moment, the most striking thing on entry, for me at least, are two tremendous windows in the south aisle, both by Christopher Whall. Each depicts three saints and commemorates two brothers of the Brassey family killed in the First World War. There is one Christopher Whall window in the whole of Suffolk. There are two here at Apethorpe.
Turning east, a faded doom painting surmounts the chancel arch, but beyond you step across the Reformation divide, for everything here was richly provided in the 17th and 18th Centuries. The chancel aisle is wider than the nave aisle, and here is the early 17th Century Mildmay memorial, one of the biggest monuments I've ever seen in an English country church. It towers some twenty feet into the air, the Mildmays asleep in bed in the middle and life-size sculptures of women representing virtues at each corner of the bed. Extraordinary. Nearby is a 15th Century memorial to a knight with a near-unvandalised Annunciation the Blessed Virgin above his head, and a sweet 19th Century memorial to a child showing him asleep in bed. But the most remarkable thing about this place is the early 17th Century English glass in the aisle east window. A most unusual date, of course, and a spectacular response to Caroline and Laudian piety, depicting Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, the Crucifixion, the Resurrection and the Day of Judgement. It must be one of the finest of its kind outside of an Oxford or Cambridge college chapel.
The east window of the chancel is also unusual, an 18th Century English representation of the Last Supper, and this period must have provided most of the money for refurnishing this place. Unfortunately, the Victorians put in big ugly pews in the nave, but the lady doing the flowers told me they are raising money to have them removed and replaced by simple wooden chairs as at Yarwell. All in all a wonderful church. Quite how Simon Jenkins only gave it one star is beyond me.
Simon Knott, 2016.
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Apethorpe is one of those churches that are pleasant but unexceptional architecturally but which have furnishings and sculptures that make your visit very rewarding.
The present church was built as late (for a mediaeval English parish church) as 1485: the year that Henry VII overthrew Richard III at Bosworth Field. There is a twelfth century voussoir on display that is the single indicator of a Norman church that preceded the present one.
The floor plan is exactly what one would expect of a church of this period: clerestoried nave, chancel, west tower and two aisles. There are dozens of such churches in Northamptonshire and literally thousands in England. The difference at Apethorpe, however, is that the church was built that way from the start whereas most developed that way piecemeal.
Apethorpe also, however, has a south chapel adjacent to the chancel. It was built in 1621 to house the monument to Sir Anthony (d.1617) and Lady Grace Mildmay (d.1620). Really, they should have built a bigger chapel because the monument is absurdly large for a local parish church. I guarantee you that when you arrive it will be the first thing you notice. It is held to be possibly the finest of its period and possibly made by Maximilien Colt. More about it anon.Sir Anthony’s father had a very interesting history - see the footnote below.
There was also a crypt underneath the Mildmay tomb that housed the tombs of Fane family, the Earls of Westmorland. A bizarre thing for a fifteenth century parish church to have, you might think. It was sealed in 1900.
I am neither expert nor aficionado of stained glass – most of which is dreadful mass-produced stuff of Victorian vintage. Apethorpe, however, has exceptional examples of this art form. The south chapel has an exceptionally rare example of glass from 1621. It is instructive to compare it with the majority of stained glass in churches on this website. The east window is almost exactly a hundred year more recent, signed and dated by John Rowell of High Wycombe in 1732. The glass is a painted scene of the Last Supper. As the Church Guide explains, the stained glass industry was at a low ebb at the time. The artists of the time had not mastered the art of fixing the colours – those of you who are familiar with traditional film photography will understand this well – and so the colours faded badly. Many panes here were removed altogether while others had to be restored in 1994 “at huge expense”.
When we visited we met the octogenarian villager Mike Lee who was at work regulating the church clock. He told us that Apethorpe’s is the oldest working church clock in England.
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OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
OPENING CALENDAR
Presentation of the Colors
Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. Leadership Academy JROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
Zynida Lamar, 8th grade student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Star Spangled Banner by Francis Scott Key
Students: Medjine Desire, Aliya Filipowicz and Widline Exalus
Sandra Evaristo, Vice Principal
September Daniels, Music Teacher
Jada Golden, Classroom Assistant
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
The Haitian National Anthem – “La Dessalinienne” by Justin Lhérisson
Performed by Students of: John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
Cuban National Anthem – “La Bayamesa” by Perucho Figueredo
Performed by:
Marlenes L. Teixeira, Music Teacher - Terence C Reilly School No. 7
Sylvia Jacobson, Assistant - Albert Einstein Academy School No. 29
Portuguese National Anthem – “A Portuguesa” by Henrique Lopes de Mendonça
Performed by Students: Gustavo Agostinho, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Crystal Urrutia, Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
Pledge of Ethics
Xochil Aguirre, 8th Grade Student
Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Core Beliefs - Video
PERFORMANCES
In Recognition of Cuban Heritage
Mi Tierra by Gloria Estefan
Dance Performance
Students from Mabel G. Holmes School No. 5
In honor of Haitian Heritage
Contemporary Haitian Dance - Pi WO (Higher) Wyclef Jean
Students from John E. Dwyer Technology Academy
In Honor of Portuguese Heritage
“Os Lusiadas” by Luis Camões
Pome recited by:
Aline Pereira and Andrew Seabra, 8th grade students
Madison Monroe School No. 16
“Mar Portuguese” by Fernando Pessoa
Poem recited by:
Krystal Maldonado
Camila Rodriguez
Gloria Cavalheiro
Angelica Bautista Rojas
Portuguese Language students at Thomas Jefferson Arts Academy
PRESENTATIONS
Student Excellence
New Jersey USA Wrestling Championship Winner
Jasiah Queen, 5th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Outstanding Ratings in Solo Vocalist Category - 2016 Union County Teen Arts Competition
Qyaisha Peeples, 7th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Medjine Desire, 6th grade student, Toussaint L’Ouverture-Marquis de Lafayette School No. 6
Stars of Excellence
Dedication to the students of the Elizabeth Public Schools for the past 36 years.
Amelia Turner, Guidance Counselor
Act of Heroism performing Heimlich Maneuver and saving our student from chocking
Anthony Mendes –Physical Education Teacher, Christopher Columbus School No. 15
Elizabeth Public Schools selected by State of New Jersey Department of Education as a Bilingual Model Program
Dr. Lisette Calvo, Director of Bilingual/ESL Education
Veronica Alvero, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Sandra Nunes, Bilingual/ESL and World Language Supervisor
Community Excellence
Resolution Honoring Cuban Community
Miguel Jimenez, President
Resolution Honoring Haitian Community
Aksyon Kominote Entenasyonal Pou Developman Pisto Haiti “AKEDP”
Feret Fenelis, Executive Director
Resolution Honoring Portuguese Community
Elizabeth Portugal Day – Carla Rodrigues, President
Elizabeth Portuguese Lions/Leos – Idalina Lopes, President
Portuguese Instructive Social Club – Jose Brito, President
The Šárka Valley denominates the part of the Litovice (here already Šárka) Brook between the Džbán swimming pool and the Vltava, deeply and sharply cut into solid Proterozoic rocks. The Šárka region includes also the open valley of the tributary from the airport, the valley of the Nebušice creek and the brook coming from Housle near Lysolaje. The area is characterized by relatively great differences of elevation from 180 m at the brook inlet into the Vltava to 364 m above sea level on the top of the Kozák Rock and the Žabák which soar above the surrounding plateau as knobs. The whole area is included in the Šárka natural monument and its most valuable parts have been declared small protected areas.
Šárka Valley
The Šárka Valley is the best preserved natural region northwest of Prague, which is due to its diversely articulated ground relief on resistant rocks appearing in numerous outcrops. Thanks to this also relatively large forest areas have been preserved, recently extended by tree planting, as well as xerothermal rocks and slopes. Also extensive wet meadows in the fluvial plain are significant. The area includes also the sites of important primeval settlements and pilgrimage places of later date, such as St. Mathew’s. Its popularity increased also by the Smetana’s symphonic poem of the same name forming part of the symphonic cycle My Country, as well as the former National Theatre stage below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump).
In the framework of Prague Šárka provides a magnificent section of the Kralupy-Zbraslav group of the Barrandian Proterozoic characterized here by extraordinary representation of silicites - lydites cropping out in the form of wildly cleft rock masses and forming the unique gorge of Džbán, the entrance gate to the Šárka Valley. Also Proterozoic shales and greywackes crop out in many places being overlain by almost horizontally bedden Cretaceous formations along the upper edge - Cenomanian sandstones covered by sandy marlites, best uncovered in the broader environs of Nebušice. Also the lower Ordovician formations crop out near the Džbán swimming pool and in the right-hand valley slope near Jenerálka. The Quaternary is represented by thick loess drifts, once exploited for brick manufacture, and boulder screes below lydite rocks. Near the Čertův Mlýn (Devil’s Mill) the right-hand slope is covered with open boulder scree, the only one in Prague territory. Also the fluvial plain sediments are well developed, interspersed locally with limestone incrustations. Remarkable is also the Housle clough cut in loesses, sandy marlites and sandstones underlain by proterozoic shaks affected by tropical weathering.
The area, situated in the margin of a the chernozem region, is characterized by the prevalence of brown soils of different nutrition value and rankers on rock outcrops and sheer slopes. On loesses there are typical brown earths in the valley and chernozems along the northern margin in the lower part.
The whole Šárka area forms part of the ancient settlement region where man has influenced vegetation development for seven thousand years. That is why the whole area has been covered with a mosaic of forests, bushes and open areas of different kind since time immemorial. With the exception of rocky steppes on inaccessible sites all surfaces have been influenced by the activities of man - herdsman, user of wood and farmer.
Initial woods were of xerothermal character and comprized oak and hornbeam woods, acid, partly dwarfed oak woods with relatively small areas of scree woods and fluvial plains. On sheer slopes facing the north also beeches could be found. Only very little has been preserved from these original woods, the biggest remainder being the Nebušice Grove. Untill last century the area had a prevalence of pastures and extensive orchards with varying quota of xerothermal elements. Important part was played by rocky steppes and thermophilous heaths on top of lydites. An entirely specific formation consists in the rocky steppes of the Džbán gorge the diversity of species and structure of which is due to its enrichment by primeval hillforts erected on these rocks.
At present the forest cover of the area is relatively large thanks to the trees planted at the end of last century with the prevalence of alien wood species, such as false acacia, austrian pine, red oak as well as spruce - an entirely unsuitable species for this dry area. In the course of the past decade the area is becoming spontaneously overgrown with trees and bushes, at present forming a continuous cover of surfaces entirely bare as late as the Second World War. Also some invasion elements have penetrated here such as touch-me-not (Impatiens glandulifera) in the Džbán. This development has resulted in considerable empoverishment of the initial floral wealth of the Šárka Valley.
The vertebrate fauna comprises the species occurring in the whole Prague area, although some animals which had not lived here for a long time, such as the wild boar, seem to be returning here. Woods and bushes provide ample nesting opportunity for a number of birds. Important are also minor insects and other invertebrates on rocky slopes and rocks as well as in moist valley meadows to bogs. Until recently some species, known in the environs of Prague only from this area, have been living here, such as the minor spring snail (Bythinella austriaca) on Jenerálka and in the Nebušice Creek.
The original woods, managed mostly as sprout woods were affected significantly by various interference, such as pasturing and litter raking, as a result of which they have lost the major part of their herb layer. At present newly planted woods prevail the composition of which differs considerably from original woods. They are managed as special-purpose suburban woods and are desolate in the parts of difficult access. The herb layer often is of ruderal character.
The Šárka area has been settled continuously since primeval times. Middle Paleolithic men dwelt along the Vltava and a younger Paleolithic settlement was ascertained e.g. in the brickworks on the Jenerálka. Since the Neolithic settlements of farming and pasturing types were continous. Important buildings dating from that time are the hillforts on the Šesták and Kozák Rocks as well as the Slavonic hillfort in the Šárka Valley of a later date, which covered a considerable area. In the lower part of the valley, the so-called Upper and Lower Šárka, as well as Lysolaje, the buildings form a continuous chain at present. Higher up in the valley there is a chain of flour mills (e.g. Devil’s Mill) and farms, such as Želivka or Vizerka. Below the Dívčí Skok (Girl’s Jump) a small swimming pool was built, above the valley entrance the Džbán dam with a reservoir and recreation facilities. Continuous urban construction has approached the valley from the south. There are no major industrial enterprises in the Šárka Valley or its adjacent valleys. Minor brickworks (Jenerálka, Dubový Mlýn) exploited loess drifts. Otherwise the area was influenced by adjacent communities.
In the past fruit orchards flourished here and the meadows were mown regularly. At present these activities have stopped mostly. The wide Šárka Brook is polluted considerably, as in its upstream part it flows through extensive neighbourhood units and intensively exploited agricultural areas. The pollution is contributed to also by the nearby airport. Šárka has become an important suburban recreation area in which some activities, particularly mountaineering, exceed the limits of its capacity. At present it is covered by a network of small protected areas in Šárka protecting the most valuable areas, primarily the rocky steppes and xerothermal slopes. Of no smaller value is its geomorphology including the instructive exposures of Proterozoic rocks. Although its living nature has suffered considerable losses, Šárka still is a rich and remarkable area requiring special nature protection.
Waterloo District War Memorial Hall foundation stone was laid by W H Turner on 15 November 1957.
On 8 May 1865 a stone was laid by Waterloo CWA in honour of all who served.
Prior to the erection of their hall, community events were held at the hotel, council chambers and private homes.
Originally the settlement’s hotel was the “Wellington” – later changing to the “Waterloo” where there was a very large room referred to as the “Hall”.
Henry Kruse operated a blacksmith and farrier shop in the town from 1904 to 1980, located next to the hotel.
There is still a family-owned Kruse Earthmoving company in the town. The earthmoving company was established by Tom Kruse MBE, known for his feats of endurance while he was the mailman to the outback for 25 years. His usual run was the Birdsville track and the return journey took 6 days, except for times when there were floods and vehicle breakdown, when sometimes the trip could take two weeks.
*Waterloo – Ploughing Match
This event took place on Thursday 28th August, in Mr Eckerman's Paddock, near the township. There was a large attendance of spectators, Mrs Williams had a booth on the ground and supplied refreshments to the exhausted. The Kapunda Band was in attendance and played some pleasant airs during the day.
The dinner took place in the evening, when about 40 or 50 sat down to a very excellent spread prepared by Hostess Williams: Mr E Ward MP, in the chair. [Ref: South Australian Chronicle and Weekly Mail 6-9-1873]
*Twenty-five miles from the Burra, and an equal distance from Kapunda, is Waterloo. The township is small, but of late years has made great progression in the matter of business. This is partly due, no doubt, to the advantageous use of fertilisers, and to the adoption of sowing wheats on fallow, which has had the effect of increasing production in the district. A sign of the progress is the commodious stone establishment erected recently by Mr Kruse, the blacksmith and machinist. [Kapunda Herald 3-6-1904]
*Waterloo Council June 10
No. 54, O Blucher £10 15/ lump sum: supplying pegs for cemetery, H Kruse, £4 10/ lump sum.
Resolved that Overseer and Clerk peg out cemetery.
Mrs Watts granted renewal of slaughtering licences. [Ref: Kapunda Herald 16-6-1911]
*A largely attended and most successful social in connection with the Liberal Union was held at the Wellington Hall, Waterloo on November 3. The hall was artistically decorated with pine, willows, and roses. Mr H J Dunn, who occupied the chair, remarked that this branch had made decidedly encouraging progress in the course of the past year.
The speakers dwelt chiefly on preference to unionists, arbitration, and immigration. They strongly urged members to extend the cause of the Liberal Union and to do all in their power to get the young men to join. The speakers were attentively followed by an appreciative audience.
Refreshments were provided by the ladies. [Ref: Register 11-11-1911]
*Council meeting. Present-All. Tenders accepted-No 56. J Shanahan: No 57. F Kruse.
Deputy Postmaster General wrote giving different routes of mail service open for tender. Decided that this council strongly object to alteration, and strongly advocate the present route, as being most suitable for the district. [Ref: Kapunda Herald 18-7-1913]
*A meeting of the Waterloo branch [Liberal Union] was held in Mr Bruhn's Hall on March 10. Mr E F Denton presided. Members were urged to "get ready for business." Messrs H J Dunn and C Wiech were chosen to represent this branch at the forthcoming district committee conference at Petersburg. The sum of £11 5/ was devoted as a contribution to the district funds. The annual Social will be held in September or October. [Ref: Register 14-3-1914]
*The annual meeting of this branch of the Liberal Union was held in the Waterloo Hall on July 3. Mr H J Dunn presided over a large and enthusiastic attendance of members, correspondence from the central executive in reference to the Federal campaign was dealt with.
The financial position of the branch was discussed.
An honorarium of £5 was voted to the Secretary. [Register 9-7-1914]
*On Australia Day the Waterloo and neighbouring schoolchildren assembled and marched to the grounds, headed by Mr Owen dressed as a general, and Mr D Slattery, as Commissioner of Police. Others in fancy dress followed. A broken-down buckboard, drawn by a big, lean horse and a very small pony, in charge of Messrs Arbon and Bruhn, was conspicuous, and did service on the grounds in carrying off the injured players.
The children were addressed on the grounds by Pastor Homann, and the Chairman of the Board of Advice. A mock Court was in session during the afternoon, and many prominent men were charged with serious offences, and fined.
A Dutch auction was held, and numerous gifts were sold. This was in the hands of Messrs Shanahan, Schmidt, Milde, & Parkin [sic].
The total amount received was more than the most sanguine expected—£214. A dance was held at Mr Moller's in the evening. [Ref: Observer 7-8-1915]
*A Kruse waited on Council and complained of water in the spring at Giersch’s reserve: Cr Slattery to have spring emptied and water tests. [Ref: Kapunda Herald 16-5-1919]
*Clerk instructed to forward to W Kruse 15/- owing for work done at sheep dip, Waterloo. [Ref: Kapunda Herald 2-7-1920]
*The half-yearly business meeting of this branch [Liberal Union] was held in Bruhn’s Assembly Rooms on September 6. There was a good attendance. [Ref: Register 11-9-1920]
*The Waterloo and Steelton Red Cross Circle was formed on September 28th 1939 at the request of Mr H J Dunn Chairman of the Saddleworth District Council.
Monthly meetings are held in the Waterloo Hall, with Mrs W Slattery president, Mr, Harmes, vice-president, Mrs C Webb, secretary, Mesdames Simpson and A Blucher, joint treasurers.
At present there is a membership of 62 ladies, from Waterloo, Steelton, Tothills Belt and Black Springs district, and all are working with great enthusiasm and a very patriotic spirit, to do their part in the great war.
Afternoon tea and trading table at each meeting, strawberry fetes, garden parties, at Mr C Webb and Pastor Harmes’ residence, together with dances arranged by the Amusement Committee, serve to augment the funds for working purposes.
Money raised by the Circle amounts to £180/14/3.
A committee meeting is also held during the month to cut out garments etc, and a parcel of sewing and knitted goods is forwarded regularly to Headquarters.
Also parcel of knitted goods, knitted by the Red Cross ladies and presented to the following at their Farewell social:— Pte K Phillips, Cpl Ross Harvey, Pte Eric Phillips and Pte K R Cooper, Platoon Com D C Chambers.
Great credit is due to the Amusement Committee (who work in conjunction with the Red Cross) for funds, which they have handed to the circle, as well as other charitable organisations.
The sum of £163/12/0 was recently handed to the Saddleworth District Council for the King Competition in aid of Mobile Surgical Unit.
On Friday evening, November 29 at the Waterloo Hall, a social was tendered to Platoon Com D C Chambers and Pte K R Cooper.
Messrs Dunn, Grinter and Turner expressed their deep appreciation for the brave and gallant action and wished both in the future a speedy return to South Australia.
Items were rendered by the Waterloo School Children, Mrs H Turner, Miss Margaret Slattery, together with community singing. Miss Francis Slattery was pianist.
Supper and dance followed. [Ref: Burra Record 10-12-1940]
*To assist the Red Cross Prisoner of War Fund, a successful evening arranged by the Waterloo and Steelton VSD was held at Waterloo on Wednesday, July 16.
Mr H J Dunn (Chairman) then introduced Dr Finey, who gave a very instructive address on VSD work and stressed the value of this activity in Australia.
A demonstration in First Aid was then given by the members of the above detachment and all very ably attended to their casualties and were congratulated by many on the manner in which they carried out their duties.
Supper and dance followed. The proceeds amounted to £6/5/0. [Ref: Burra Record 22-7-1941]
*The Waterloo and Steelton VSD members and friends spent an enjoyable social afternoon at Waterloo on Thursday. December 18th.
A 'Quizz' conducted by Miss Viola Eckermann created great interest, and another competition was won by Miss Jean Fraser.
Members of the detachment expressed their appreciation by presenting gifts to Dr Finey and Mrs Hersey (lecturers in First Aid and Home Nursing) and Mr Wilks (drill instructor).
'Christmas Cheer' gifts were handed in and forwarded to sick and invalided men spending Christmas in Keswick Repatriation Hospital. [Ref: Burra Record 5-1-1942]
Mitai village. An evening with Maori, very impressive, instructive and fun, as you discover their culture, their traditional... and modern way of life.
Big AM portable radio with dial rule reverse painted, thick plastic grill speaker, two tones lleatherette coated wooden cabinet with vynil carring strap. At the top is the power-on slide switchIn and on the right side has antenna/ ground connectors. The chassis has six transistors: 3x AC 117 and 3x OC 74; powered by six flashlight batteries.
It still has the price tag attached, reduced from $ 655.00 to $ 595.00 Mexican pesos, equivalent to $ 48.00 USD back then. Also, it comes with its cardboard box for shipment, a little battered, and the instructive.
South door.
. Unbuttressed, late w tower with pyramid roof. But the nave is Norman and has in its s doorway and chancel arch two of the very best and most characteristic pieces of the Herefordshire school of carvers. Both pieces are clearly the work of one man. His obsession was birds, especially cocks. Cocks are e.g. on the capitals of the one order of shafts of the S doorway. The abacus has intertwined trails. In the arch a thick roll moulding and a band of rosettes. But the tympanum is what really matters, a tympanum that helps much to reconstruct the all but lost one of Shobdon, of which Rowlstone is to all intents and purposes a copy. It represents Christ in Glory. The legs are placed in the typically Romanesque way, with knees wide apart and feet together. The folds have the tense, stringy parallel curves of the Herefordshire school. The figure is in a halo, not almond-shaped as usual, but with top and bottom rounded. Four angels hold the halo, and all four are represented flying head downwards. This allows the carver again to display his curved parallels. The composition is highly accomplished. What is against nature is in accordance with stylistic principles. In the capitals of the chancel arch there are again birds. The capitals it are of one piece with the outer adjoining panel of two small figures on each side. On the 1. (N) they are an angel and a bishop, on the r. it is not so easy to recognize them, as they stand upside down. That does not seem quite so accomplished, and the most baffling fact is that the whole stone was not rejected. Such indulgence is attractive; it is instructive too. Many birds once more in the abaci. In the doorway arch a thick roll and an outer band of saltire crosses. Norman windows in nave and chancel.
(Pevsner: The Buildings of England, Herefordshire)