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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
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)
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 Milibanipedes are re-united. The recriminations begin.
"We founded a political dynasty to bring hope to the oppressed..." says Dave.
"I did, yes..." says Ted.
"We would have made it all better..." says Dave.
"I would have, certainly." says Ted.
"But you went and extincterated it..." says Dave.
"No, you done it ! Eeeegh !"
"It was your stupid nose and disgusting eating habits, you eat like a camel, you do..."
"Eeeegh !"
Well, that was instructive. But we give thanks for JC.
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
Opened 19 Oct 1890, still in use 1942, in ruins by 1986. First chapel opened 1 Dec 1861.
“A Primitive Methodist Chapel was opened at Giles' Flat on Sunday last. The Rev. Mr. Cole preached in the morning and Mr. Close in the afternoon and evening. . . The above building has long been needed in this small but isolated neighborhood, and the result is highly creditable to those concerned in its erection, which cost about £26, and is seated with bush stools. Mr. Wm. Kirkham kindly gave the necessary land.” [Advertiser 6 Dec 1861]
“The usually quiet part of the country known as Giles Flat - was the scene of great excitement and interest . . . the occasion being the celebration of the 27th anniversary of the Primitive Methodist Church. On the Sunday two open air services were conducted by the pastor Rev. W. Jarrett, the congregations at each service being very large. On the following day at an early hour traps filled with occupants bent on an a enjoyable outing began to arrive from all parts of the country, and very soon the scene was an animated one. The tea was provided in the chapel . . . it being estimated that over 200 people partook of the good things provided. After all had been supplied, the public meeting was commenced in the open air, an improvised platform having been provided in the shape of two buggies in which the speakers were comfortably seated. . . The tendering of thanks devolved upon the pastor and included the ladies, the friends who provided conveyances from Strathalbyn and McHarg's Creek, the Chairman, and particularly Mr. and Mrs. Sissons who worked hard and enthusiastically to make the effort what it undoubtedly was an unqualified success. During the afternoon a picture of the chapel and visitors was taken by Mr. Sinclair, Mr. Elliott having kindly lent his camera for the occasion, both of these gentlemen received hearty thanks for their kindness. The singing throughout was led by several friends from Bull's Creek and was hearty and appropriate. A largely attended supper concluded what will be known as one of the most successful and pleasant anniversaries ever held. It should also be mentioned that the chapel was handsomely decorated for the anniversary.” [Southern Argus 24 Oct 1889]
“The opening services in connection with the new Primitive Methodist church, Giles Flat, were held on October 19 and 20. There were crowded congregations and two instructive sermons were preached. On Monday tea was provided of which upwards of 250 took part. . . Votes of thanks were proposed and seconded to all friends assisting and especially Mr. and Mrs. Sissons to whose untiring efforts the success of the services are mainly due.” [Christian Colonist 7 Nov 1890]
“Regarding the Giles' Flat Church, 'Peace in Churches' writes: — 'It is believed that a movement is on foot at the present time with the object of closing the above little Church. In behalf of those who love the Church and its past associations, I wish to protest most strongly against its being closed, unless it must be done for some good reason. The only apparent reason now seems to be that the Ashbourne folks wish to have a morning service . . . the Church of Giles' Flat was established before the Ashbourne Church. . . No thought appears to be given to those who have been its mainstay in the past days, whose money and help were always so freely given to aid the circuit funds, and who still feel, an interest in the little Church and those connected with it. . . The Church is but a plain edifice, lacking the style and finish of the modern buildings. But what of it? - style and grandeur are not religion, though it seems to form a large portion of some folks godliness I have heard some grand thrilling sermons preached in this wayside temple and hope to hear more . . . so let a service be held at Ashbourne and Giles’ Flat on alternate Sundays in the morning.” [Southern Argus 7 Jul 1904]
“On Sunday and Monday, October 8th and 9th. the Gile's [sic] Flat Methodist Church celebrated their anniversary services. The Rev. D. E. Dickson conducted two inspiring services on Sunday with Mrs. H. Meyer and Mr. H. Pitt presiding at the organ.” [Southern Argus 19 Oct 1933]
MAHAVATAR BABAJI CAVE
Mahāvatār Bābājī (literally; Great Avatar Dear Father) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples,[2] who reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first-hand report of Yogananda's own meeting with the yogi.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.[4] According to Sri M's autobiography (Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master) Babaji, was Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji changing his form to that of Shiva. All of these accounts, along with additional reported meetings, are described in various biographies.[5][6][7]According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of disciples and others.[3][8] The death less Master is more than 2000 years old. He belongs to a very powerful lineage of Siddha Boganthar and Rishi Agastya as his Gurus. He acquired this deathless, non perishable body through tough yogik kriyas.
Again, according to his autobiography, shortly before Yogananda left for America in 1920, Babaji came to his home in Calcutta, where the young monk sat deeply praying for divine assurance regarding the mission he was about to undertake. Babaji said to him: "Follow the behest of your guru and go to America. Fear not; you shall be protected. You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West
There are very few accounts of Babaji's childhood. One source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshal Govindan.[9]According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. [8] V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organization, "Kriya Babaji Sangah," dedicated to the teaching of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he was born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.[10] Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organizations claim his place and date of birth.[10] He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan.[9][10]
In Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, many references are made to Mahavatar Babaji, including from Lahirī and Sri Yukteshwar.[3] In his book The Second Coming of Christ, Yogananda states that Jesus Christ went to India and conferred with Mahavatar Babaji.[8] This would make Babaji at least 2000 years old.[11] According to Govindan's book, Babaji Nagaraj's father was the priest of the village's temple. Babaji revealed only those details which he believed to be formative as well as potentially instructive to his disciples. Govindan mentioned one incident like this: "One time Nagaraj's mother had got one rare jackfruit for a family feast and put it aside. Babaji was only 4 years old at that time. He found the jackfruit when his mother was not around and ate it all. When his mother came to know about it, she flew in blind rage and stuffed a cloth inside Babaji's mouth, nearly suffocating him, but he survived. Later on he thanked God for showing him that she was to be loved without attachment or illusion. His Love for his mother became unconditional and detached."[9]
When Nagaraj was about 5 years old, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His new owner however was a kind man and he freed Nagaraj shortly thereafter. Nagaraj then joined a small group of wandering sannyāsin due to their radiant faces and love for God. During the next few years, he wandered from place to place, studying holy scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita.
According to Marshall Govindan's book, at the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey on foot and by boat with a group of ascetics to Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for a long time with him. Bhogarnathar inspired Nagaraj to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya. Babaji became a disciple of Siddha Agastya. Nagaraj was initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama or "Vasi Yogam". Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and spent eighteen months practising yogic kriyataught to him by Siddha Agastya and Bhogarnathar. Babaji attained self-realization shortly thereafter.[9]
It is claimed that these revelations were made by Babaji himself to S.A.A. Ramaiah, a young graduate student in geology at the University of Madras and V.T. Neelakantan, a famous journalist, and close student of Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society and mentor of Krishnamurti. Babaji was said to have appeared to each of them independently and then brought them together to work for his Mission in 1942
By Kailash Mansarovar Foundation Swami Bikash Giri www.sumeruparvat.com , www.naturalitem.com
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
MAHAVATAR BABAJI CAVE
Mahāvatār Bābājī (literally; Great Avatar Dear Father) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples,[2] who reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first-hand report of Yogananda's own meeting with the yogi.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.[4] According to Sri M's autobiography (Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master) Babaji, was Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji changing his form to that of Shiva. All of these accounts, along with additional reported meetings, are described in various biographies.[5][6][7]According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of disciples and others.[3][8] The death less Master is more than 2000 years old. He belongs to a very powerful lineage of Siddha Boganthar and Rishi Agastya as his Gurus. He acquired this deathless, non perishable body through tough yogik kriyas.
Again, according to his autobiography, shortly before Yogananda left for America in 1920, Babaji came to his home in Calcutta, where the young monk sat deeply praying for divine assurance regarding the mission he was about to undertake. Babaji said to him: "Follow the behest of your guru and go to America. Fear not; you shall be protected. You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West
There are very few accounts of Babaji's childhood. One source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshal Govindan.[9]According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. [8] V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organization, "Kriya Babaji Sangah," dedicated to the teaching of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he was born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.[10] Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organizations claim his place and date of birth.[10] He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan.[9][10]
In Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, many references are made to Mahavatar Babaji, including from Lahirī and Sri Yukteshwar.[3] In his book The Second Coming of Christ, Yogananda states that Jesus Christ went to India and conferred with Mahavatar Babaji.[8] This would make Babaji at least 2000 years old.[11] According to Govindan's book, Babaji Nagaraj's father was the priest of the village's temple. Babaji revealed only those details which he believed to be formative as well as potentially instructive to his disciples. Govindan mentioned one incident like this: "One time Nagaraj's mother had got one rare jackfruit for a family feast and put it aside. Babaji was only 4 years old at that time. He found the jackfruit when his mother was not around and ate it all. When his mother came to know about it, she flew in blind rage and stuffed a cloth inside Babaji's mouth, nearly suffocating him, but he survived. Later on he thanked God for showing him that she was to be loved without attachment or illusion. His Love for his mother became unconditional and detached."[9]
When Nagaraj was about 5 years old, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His new owner however was a kind man and he freed Nagaraj shortly thereafter. Nagaraj then joined a small group of wandering sannyāsin due to their radiant faces and love for God. During the next few years, he wandered from place to place, studying holy scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita.
According to Marshall Govindan's book, at the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey on foot and by boat with a group of ascetics to Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for a long time with him. Bhogarnathar inspired Nagaraj to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya. Babaji became a disciple of Siddha Agastya. Nagaraj was initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama or "Vasi Yogam". Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and spent eighteen months practising yogic kriyataught to him by Siddha Agastya and Bhogarnathar. Babaji attained self-realization shortly thereafter.[9]
It is claimed that these revelations were made by Babaji himself to S.A.A. Ramaiah, a young graduate student in geology at the University of Madras and V.T. Neelakantan, a famous journalist, and close student of Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society and mentor of Krishnamurti. Babaji was said to have appeared to each of them independently and then brought them together to work for his Mission in 1942
By Kailash Mansarovar Foundation Swami Bikash Giri www.sumeruparvat.com , www.naturalitem.com
You can find photos of another one of these old Masonic stoves on this Flickr album.
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This box stove is one of only four known to have been made for area Lodges by the Patterson Iron Works on what is now Major Mackenzie Drive, west of Richmond Hill. This one is dated 1866 and cast in relief is the name 'Vaughan Lodge No. 54 and various Masonic symbols. Two other stoves can be found in Brooklin, Ontario and Richmond Hill, Ontario.
From 'The Liberal' Communit - Tuesday Jan. 4, 2005
A short history of the foundry that made the stove. 'Village founder enterprising' by Andrew Hind - Blast From The Past:
Driving along Major Mackenzie Drive between Bathurst and Dufferin streets, I had chance to view the land and remaining buildings that once comprised the industrial village of Patterson. It occurred to me while the history of this little factory town is fairly well known, the story of its founder is not.
That is odd, to say the least, for surely there would have been no Patterson if there there had been no Peter Patterson to create it.
Mr. Patterson was born in New Hampshire in 1825. A crucial turning point came in 1840, when a still teenaged Mr. Patterson invented a fanning mill, a machine designed to screen grain.
The timing could not have been better. The mid-19th. century was a time when innovative and practical ways to improve the grain milling process were sorely needed to meet the unrelenting demand of a growing world population.
Grist mills required new ways to speed up operations and Mr. Patterson offered just that.
He and brothers Alfred and Robert came to Canada to market the product. First they operated out of Waterloo, then Dundas. Finally, they arrived in Richmond Hill.
Here, Mr. Patterson purchased an old hotel at the corner of Yonge and Richmond streets and began a profitable business. But he wasn't just dealing with fanning mills any longer. He was also manufacturing farming implements. Lots and lots of farming implements.
In fact, the business was so profitable within a few years it had outgrown its original facilities. So, in 1855, Mr. Patterson bought the east half of Lot 21, Concession 2 (much of the land along Major Mackenzie between Bathurst and Dufferin) from John Arnold and decided to build a larger factory there.
To support it, he had to build a town from scratch. In short order, the community boasted a church, store, school, mills, a huge foundry and factory, lumber yards, warehouses and company offices, workers, homes and a two-mile plank walkway linking the village to Richmond Hill.
Naturally, the community was named after its founder.
The Patterson farm Implements Co. continued its meteoric rise. Soon it was using 400 tons of steel a year, employed four teams of horses to haul implements to a rail station at Maple and was considered among the largest implement manufacturers in Canada.
Unlike most successful industrialists of the era, however, no one questioned Mr. Patterson's integrity.
He was always considered honest and ethical, 'a gracious and hospitable man' according to documents from that time.
Nevertheless, he was a tireless worker and demanded excellence from employees. The workers were rewarded in ways few were in that period. They received fair wages and worked in a safe, clean, efficient, well-lit and well-ventilated environment.
In light of his importance and wealth, it should come as no surprise Mr. Patterson was soon propelled into politics. He served as reeve of Vaughan Township for four years (1868-1871), warden of York County in 1871, and represented West York in 1871 to 1883. He also served as president of the Richmond Hill Agricultural Society in 1884.
Business problems were on the horizon, however.
No railway deemed it worthwhile to run through Patterson, nor would any agree to distant markets, the Patterson Farm Implement Co. was at a disadvantage in relation to its competitors and would likely be doomed.
Reluctantly, Mr. Patterson accepted an invitation to move the business to Woodstock in 1886, where ready rail access was available.
Nevertheless, competition was fierce and in 1891, tired and aging, Mr. Patterson decided to sell to rivals Massey-Harris. He retired to his farm in Patterson and died there in 1904.
History buff Andrew Hind welcomes comments at maelstrom@sympatico.ca.
Masonic Key
"The Key," says Doctor Oliver (Landmarks I, page 180), "is one of the most important symbols of Freemasonry. It bears the appearance of a common metal instrument, confined to the performance of one simple act. But the well-instructed brother beholds in it the symbol which teaches him to keep a tongue of good report, and to abstain from the debasing vices of slander and defamation." Among the ancients the key was a symbol of silence and circumspection; and thus Sophocles alludes to it in the Oedipus Coloneus (line 105), where he makes the chorus speak of "the golden key which had come upon the tongue of the ministering Hierophant in the mysteries of Eleusis-Callimachus says that the Priestess of Ceres bore a key as the ensign of her mystic office. The key was in the Mysteries of Isis a hieroglyphic of the opening or disclosing of the heart and conscience, in the kingdom of death, for trial and Judgment.
In the old instructions of Freemasonry the key was an important symbol, and Doctor Oliver regrets that it has been abandoned in the modern system. In the ceremonies of the First Degree, in the eighteenth century allusion is made to a key by whose help the secrets of Freemasonry are to be obtained, which key "is said to hang and not to lie, because it is always to hang in a brother's defense and not to lie to his prejudge." It was said, too, to hang "by the thread of life at the entrance, " and was closely connected with the heart, because the tongue "ought to utter nothing but what the heart dictates." And, finally, this key is described as being "composed of no metal, but a tongue of good report." In the ceremonies of the Masters Degree in the Adonhiramite Rite, we find this catechism (in the Recueil Précieu:, page 87):
What do you conceal?
All the secrets which have been intrusted to me.
Where do you conceal them?
In the heart.
Have you a key to gain entrance there?
Yes, Right Worshipful.
Where do you keep it?
In a box of coral which opens and shuts only with ivory teeth.
Of what metal is it composed?
Of none. It is a tongue obedient to reason, which knows only how to speak well of those of whom it speaks in their absence as in their presence.
All of this shows that the key as a symbol was formerly equivalent to the modern symbol of the "instructive tongue," which, however, with almost the same interpretation, has now been transferred to the Second or Fellow-Craft's Degree. The key, however, is still preserved as a symbol of secrecy in the Royal Arch Degree; and it is also presented to us in the same sense in the ivory key of the Secret Master, or Fourth Degree of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite. In many of the German Lodges an ivory key is made a part of the Masonic clothing of each Brother, to remind him that he should lock up or conceal the secrets of Freemasonry in his heart. But among the ancients the key was also a symbol of power; and thus among the Greeks the title of Kxeiaouxos or key-bearer, was bestowed upon one holding high office; and with the Romans, the keys are given to the bride on the day of marriage, as a token that the authority of the house was bestowed upon her; and if afterward divorced, they were taken from her, as a symbol of the deprivation of her office, Among the Hebrews the key was used in the same sense. "As the robe and the baldric," says Lowth (Israel, part ii, section 4), "were the ensigns of power and authority, so likewise was the key the mark of office, either sacred or civil." Thus in Isaiah (xxii, 22), it is said: "The key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulders; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open" Our Savior expressed a similar idea when he said to Saint Peter, "I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven." It is in reference to this interpretation of the symbol, and not that of secrecy, that the key has been adopted as the official jewel of the Treasurer of a Lodge, because he has the purse, the source of power, under his command.
Source: Mackey's Encyclopedia of Freemasonry
Seminars for congregational leaders, secondary teachers, students, and women are vitally needed to nurture entire Tanzanian communities. Singing is a "natural" Tanzanian way of communication; here, secondary school teachers sing at the Mwangaza Center at the beginning of another day of instructive seminars.
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
Cadishead and Irlam Guardian, September 29, 1978
Sybil's recipe for success in the kitchen.
TELEVISION personality Mrs Sybil Norcott has helped edit the second volume of "Farmhouse Kitchen" which is a collection of recipes taken from the Yorkshire TV cookery programme of the same name.
The book coincides with the new television series "Farmhouse Kitchen" which can be seen on Granada Television on Monday afternoons, in which Mrs Norcott appears as guest cook for the week. But a lot of her work goes behind the scenes, when with eight other people she patiently tests all the 350 recipes which have been published in the new cook book.
The new edition costs £1.85 and offers more than 350 different recipes which have been sent in by television viewers, and have all been tested by Mrs Norcott and her friends before being compiled into a book.
"We usually test the recipes at home and then send our reports to the programme's resident cook Dorothy Sleighholme. Some of the recipes did not get into the book, but we get a wide selection of recipes sent in by people all over the country," said Mrs Norcott, of Mossland Farm, Astley Moss, Irlam.
Favourite
The programme's first book was published in 1975 and was compiled from leaflets of favourite old fashioned recipes.
"We do not have complicated recipes. Our image is to suggest ideas for good sound basic cookery without any frills or gimmicks. It is an instructive and straight forward programme, which shows the viewer how to make things from her own stock food cupboard. She does not have to rush out and buy lots of ingredients."
Mrs Norcott became involved with the television programme when as a member of the Cheshire Federation of Women's Institutes, she was asked to submit traditional recipes to Yorkshire Television who invited Mrs Norcott to demonstrate the Cheshire recipes on their programme.
"I find the work a great challenge because we do not have any scripts for our programmes and usually have to know what to do. In the early days, our producer was not even a cook although it is different now," said Mrs Norcott.
As a member of the Cheshire Federation of Women's Institutes Mrs Norcott was invited to edit the institute's own "Cheshire Cook Book" which took 12 months to compile, and includes a variety of new recipes and old favourites which have been tried and tested.
Her favourite recipes in the new book were the preserve ones especially the apple and sage preserve which went well with pork and sausages, and the rosemary jelly which went well with lamb.
Mrs Norcott recommends the following recipes to our readers.
The cfirst recipe is delicious with syrup and the latter is a bonus for salads, says Mrs Norcott.
OLD HANNAH'S POTATO CAKES
Ingredients: eight ounces self raising flour, half a teaspoon of salt, two ounces of butter/margarine, eight ounces of creamed or mashed potatoes, one beaten egg and a little milk if required.
Method: Place flour and salt in a bowl with the fat. Rub fat into flour. Rub or fork in the potatoes. Make a well in centre of bowl and drop in the beaten egg. Fork egg into mixture using a little milk if necessary to give a soft pliable dough. Finish by kneading until the dough is smooth. Place dough on floured board and roll out to half-an-inch thickness.
Cut into rounds about two to three inches in diameter. Space out on baking sheet and bake for 30 minutes at gas mark five or 375 degree F. Take out of oven and wrap in clean soft towel to keep them soft and warm. Split and butter or fill with jam or syrup. Eat while hot.
Royal Slaw
Ingrdients: one quarter cup French dressing, half-a-cup of sliced apple, one banana, half cup diced celery, half-a-cup diced onion, two cups shredded red cabbage.
Method: Combine dressing with apple slices. Slice bananas and add. Combine with finely shredded red cabbage, celery and onion. Will keep several days in refrigerator.
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.
13. Middle Man
by Cecily Tattersall
Cecily Tattersall is a British artist based in London. Her work was exhibited in Richard Demarco's collection at the launch of ‘Summerhall’, Edinburgh International Festival 2012, alongside an artist-in-resident position at the Leith School of Art. Cecily has now resumed her practice in the final year of an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Her research concerns the human form, using its capabilities and limits in the making process as well as depictions of it. Working through instructive situations of dance, occasion and sport she explores spaces known and unknown.
Lindt is proud to join
THE BIG EGG HUNT 2013
in support for Action For Children
Our fun family event starts in London, Covent Garden on Shrove Tuesday and promises to delight all; from the exciting egg-hunts and giant chocolate bunnies to the uniquely designed eggs by leading artists and celebrities, for all to awe at – and hopefully buy!
Most importantly it is a unique opportunity for us all to raise significant money to support vulnerable and neglected children in the UK.
Established in 1869, Action for Children is committed to helping the most vulnerable and neglected children in the UK. Working directly with more than 250,000 children, young people and their carers each year, we run over 600 services which tackle abuse, neglect, help young carers and provide fostering and adoption services.
Lindt believes in the magic of families, which is why the Lindt Gold Bunny is proud to join Action for Children in The Big Egg Hunt and support the great work they do to improve the lives of children & families in the UK.
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 portion of a large, important relief sculpture from Nineveh (modern Iraq) depicts the siege of Lachish (a Judean fortress) by Sennacherib, king of Assyria, in 701 BC. The event is described in the Bible in I Kings 18-19, I Chronicles 32, and Isaiah 36. This is the only known war memorial Sennacherib commissioned from Israel/Judah, showing the importance he attached to the victory, even though he was unable to conquer Jerusalem, the capital, because, though surrounded in Jerusalem, King Hezekiah prayed and was rewarded by miraculous protection (Isaiah 36-37). Sennacherib's comment on that event is instructive; he said he trapped Hezekiah "like a bird in a cage." If he had succeeded in conquering Jerusalem and its Temple, he certainly would have boasted of a victory against the Judean capital, its king and its God. Instead, defeated by the angel of the Lord, he could only boast of a temporary siege of his desired prize.
Covering four walls, the huge sculpture depicts archers, charioteers, and soldiers on siege ramps attacking Lachish, impaling some captives on poles, and leading prisoners captive to pay homage to the king. It must have been a fearful battle to the death by the overpowered Judeans manning the remote outpost. The relief was discovered in Nineveh in 1845 by Henry Layard and transported to the British Museum, where it can be seen today. Apparently Sennacherib hung this monument in an antechamber of those wishing to visit his palace, to intimidate them by displaying his power over anyone attempting to oppose him. The background pattern represents stacks of helmets as a measure of the strength of his army. Interestingly, Nineveh, long covered in dust, was only known from the Bible until its rediscovery 2,500 years later, but Jerusalem (despite many and severe conquests) has remained inhabited all that time and is today a bustling city (see photo) – still one of the most contentious spots on earth. The Assyrians are long gone, but Israel is back in its Biblical homeland, thriving though surrounded (again) by bitter enemies.
I had to increase the contrast significantly to show some of the figures. Look for horses, chariots, prisoners, servants paying homage, priests and sacrificial animals as they march to the Assyrian king. The photo only shows a small portion of the 80-foot wide panel. A whole room at the British Museum is dedicated to this impressive relic from three millennia ago.
2 white cheek goose species
Canada Goose CANG* (Branta canadensis)
&
Cackling Goose CACG* (Branta hutchinsii)
Martindale Flats
Saanich, British Columbia, Canada
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No I didn't take these pix out of focus on purpose however the effect is useful & instructive to emphasize General Structural Differences
Field Mark Cues ^i^
CACG
Shorter necks and head size not much different than thickness of neck
Wings longer proportionally than CANG (front or back view is best for this)...
Wing tips appear appear more pointed
try to cue in more & more on
cacg vs cang structural xref
Besides the (most times obvious) size difference
Cue into the
Proportions
of
body size/neck length/head size vs neck thickness
Small Silent flocks of one species or subspecies can be surprisingly challenging at times
The difference between CACG minima and our regular geese is easiest
The difference between CACG Taverner's and
Canada Goose CANG* (Branta Canadensis occidentalis)
"Dusky" race
can be quite subtle especially in flight and when backlit or poor light
This tamarack came down as part of a road project at my camp last year. This month I milled it into boards. My lot is dominated by hardwoods so I don't like to waste any softwood that can be transformed into building material.
100 years ago (and earlier) virgin stands of towering white pines were the target of logging, since then northern hardwood species have been sought after. Relatively speaking, the tamaracks are considered runty-junky trees that get passed over when logging has been done.
This tree was on a semi-wet patch of ground and grew very slowly to it's 16" diameter. I wasn't surprised by the tight growth rings but I was to see them to go back approximately 135 years! There are places where the rings are so close they can be tough to distinguish. I marked every ten rings as I counted. It's even more instructive to start off with the year the tree was cut and label the years going backward. This tree goes back to around the time the UP was first logged (when associated wildfires also became common). It grew very slowly those first decades. Its fastest growth happened in the 50s, 60s, and 70s but even that growth is paltry compared to what is expected of a commercial forest managed for growth and a regular cycle of harvest.
This tree's undesirability to commercial loggers meant it has been passed over and left to provide an insightful index to the history of my lot. It would seem the heaviest logging of the second growth forest was likely done in the 1950s. The hardwoods are relatively mature now and likely the third growth of this forest. There's a lot to learned from a single "stick".
July 6, 2018.
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
Mexican navy sailing ship docks at VivoCity amid much fanfare
By Gaya Chandramohan
19 Jul 2017 05:47PM (Updated: 21 Jul 2017 08:31AM)
SINGAPORE: While the waters around Singapore see all sorts of ships coming and going, it is rare to see a sailing vessel like the Mexican Navy's Cuauhtémoc, which arrived at VivoCity’s port on Wednesday morning (Jul 19).
Booming Mexican music greeted the ship as it made its way to its docking point, with nearly 100 navy cadets standing on the yards of its three masts, putting on a spectacular display for those who had come to greet the Cuauhtémoc.
Commanded by Captain Rafael Antonio Lagunes Arteaga, the Armada Republic Mexicana (ARM) Cuauhtémoc – which began its journey from its home port, Acapulco Guerrero on Feb 6 – is on a nine-month long goodwill voyage around the region.
“Singapore is a very important port for us. It is also a big challenge as a sailor to travel in these waters because we come from a faraway country and don’t get a lot of opportunities to relieve such experiences. It has been very instructive for us,” said Capt Lagunes.
The ship, that doubles as a training vessel for the Mexican Navy, is also on a Centenary of the Constitution journey around the world to commemorate the 100 years since the United States of Mexico’s political constitution was put into effect.
While on the sail training trip, cadets from the Heroic Naval Military School are instructed in the art of sailing, where they master practical exercises such as climbing up the ship’s masts and yards. The cadets also learn the calls of the boatswain's whistle - an old-fashioned instrument used for giving orders to the crew and honouring senior officers and distinguished visitors.
Since her commissioning 35 years ago, the steel-hulled barque has been on three other circumnavigation trips, travelling more than 705,012 nautical miles and forging 34 generations of cadets for Mexico’s Heroic Navy Military School. On this trip, the vessel is set to call at 15 other ports in 12 different countries, including the Philippines, China, South Korea, Japan and India.
At each stop, the crew of nine senior officers, 44 officers, 43 cadets, 122 enlisted men and women, as well as invited officers from foreign navies will participate in cultural exchanges with local people.
Although styled as a goodwill voyage with no planned exercises with the Singapore Navy, Capt Lagunes said that the Mexican Navy is keen on strengthening the bonds of friendship between both navies as well as civilian authorities here.
“Between our governments, Mexico is very focused on the Pacific Ocean area and Singapore is one of the iconic members – so it is very important for us to be here,” he added.
The relatively young 234-strong Cuauhtémoc crew, who have an average age of 24, will also be playing host to cadets and crew members from the Singapore Navy for cocktails and meals, and will later visit a naval base and navy vessel here.
The ARM Cuauhtémoc will be open to the public from Jul 20 to 23, between 10am and 6pm at the Vivocity Promenade, before it leaves for Manila on Jul 24.
Source: www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/mexican-navy-saili...
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.
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
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.
bust of Alfred Russel Wallace.
He was a Naturalist, biologist geographer, anthropologist and explorer.
Bust created by Anthony Smith with generous financial support of John Ellis and the Waterloo Foundation.
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
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.
HCLS Chapters-of-Our-Lives Time Capsule installed in a beautiful circular bench in the lobby at HCLS Central Branch in Columbia, Maryland. A plaque displayed on the site that reads:
Within this bench rests a Time Capsule that captures the essence of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in 2015, our 75th Anniversary.
Its contents reflect our unwavering heritage as a 20th and 21st century educational institution with a mission to deliver equal opportunity in education for everyone through a curriculum that comprises Three Pillars: Self-Directed Education, Research Assistance & Instruction, and Instructive & Enlightening Experiences.
Symbolic of our timeless mission, this Time Capsule is a collection of three containers, all part of a 75-year plan:
To connect our past, present, and future, HCLS appointed 136 Howard County middle students to serve as Guardians. On October 24, 2015, they pledged to champion the HCLS legacy, keeping it safe for the next 25 years.
October 27, 2040 – The Class of 2015 will reconvene to pass on the role of Guardian to the next generation (Class of 2040). Together, the two generations will open and reseal the 2015 container, then fill the 2040 container.
October 24, 2065 – The Class of 2040 will gather to pass on the role of Guardian to the Class of 2065. Together, they will open and re-seal the 2015 and 2040 containers, then fill the 2065 container.
October 21, 2090 – The Class of 2065 will gather on the occasion of Howard County Library System’s sesquicentennial (150th) anniversary to open the Time Capsule.
Dedicated this 24th day of October, 2015 to the always forward-looking citizens of Howard County, MD.
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
MAHAVATAR BABAJI CAVE
Mahāvatār Bābājī (literally; Great Avatar Dear Father) is the name given to an Indian saint and yogi by Lahiri Mahasaya and several of his disciples,[2] who reported meeting him between 1861 and 1935. Some of these meetings were described by Paramahansa Yogananda in his book Autobiography of a Yogi, including a first-hand report of Yogananda's own meeting with the yogi.[3]Another first hand account was given by Yukteswar Giri in his book The Holy Science.[4] According to Sri M's autobiography (Apprenticed to a Himalayan Master) Babaji, was Shiva. In the second last chapter of his book, he mentions Babaji changing his form to that of Shiva. All of these accounts, along with additional reported meetings, are described in various biographies.[5][6][7]According to Yogananda's autobiography, Babaji has resided for at least hundreds of years in the remote Himalayan regions of India, seen in person by only a small number of disciples and others.[3][8] The death less Master is more than 2000 years old. He belongs to a very powerful lineage of Siddha Boganthar and Rishi Agastya as his Gurus. He acquired this deathless, non perishable body through tough yogik kriyas.
Again, according to his autobiography, shortly before Yogananda left for America in 1920, Babaji came to his home in Calcutta, where the young monk sat deeply praying for divine assurance regarding the mission he was about to undertake. Babaji said to him: "Follow the behest of your guru and go to America. Fear not; you shall be protected. You are the one I have chosen to spread the message of Kriya Yoga in the West
There are very few accounts of Babaji's childhood. One source of information is the book Babaji and the 18 Siddha Kriya Yoga tradition by Marshal Govindan.[9]According to Govindan, Babaji was named Nagarajan (king of serpents) by his parents. [8] V.T. Neelakantan and S.A.A. Ramaiah founded on 17 October 1952, (they claim – at the request of Babaji) a new organization, "Kriya Babaji Sangah," dedicated to the teaching of Babaji's Kriya Yoga. They claim that in 1953 Mahavatar Babaji told them that he was born on 30 November 203 CE in a small coastal village now known as Parangipettai, Cuddalore district of Tamil Nadu, India.[10] Babaji's Kriya Yoga Order of Acharyas Trust (Kriya Babaji Sangah) and their branch organizations claim his place and date of birth.[10] He was a disciple of Bogar and his birth name is Nagarajan.[9][10]
In Paramahansa Yogananda's Autobiography of a Yogi, many references are made to Mahavatar Babaji, including from Lahirī and Sri Yukteshwar.[3] In his book The Second Coming of Christ, Yogananda states that Jesus Christ went to India and conferred with Mahavatar Babaji.[8] This would make Babaji at least 2000 years old.[11] According to Govindan's book, Babaji Nagaraj's father was the priest of the village's temple. Babaji revealed only those details which he believed to be formative as well as potentially instructive to his disciples. Govindan mentioned one incident like this: "One time Nagaraj's mother had got one rare jackfruit for a family feast and put it aside. Babaji was only 4 years old at that time. He found the jackfruit when his mother was not around and ate it all. When his mother came to know about it, she flew in blind rage and stuffed a cloth inside Babaji's mouth, nearly suffocating him, but he survived. Later on he thanked God for showing him that she was to be loved without attachment or illusion. His Love for his mother became unconditional and detached."[9]
When Nagaraj was about 5 years old, someone kidnapped him and sold him as a slave in Calcutta (now Kolkata). His new owner however was a kind man and he freed Nagaraj shortly thereafter. Nagaraj then joined a small group of wandering sannyāsin due to their radiant faces and love for God. During the next few years, he wandered from place to place, studying holy scriptures like the Vedas, Upanishad, Mahabharata, Ramayana, Bhagavad Gita.
According to Marshall Govindan's book, at the age of eleven, he made a difficult journey on foot and by boat with a group of ascetics to Kataragama, Sri Lanka. Nagaraj met Siddha Bhogarnathar and became his disciple. Nagaraj performed intensive yogic sadhana for a long time with him. Bhogarnathar inspired Nagaraj to seek his initiation into Kriya Kundalini Pranayam from Siddha Agastya. Babaji became a disciple of Siddha Agastya. Nagaraj was initiated into the secrets of Kriya Kundalini Pranayama or "Vasi Yogam". Babaji made a long pilgrimage to Badrinath and spent eighteen months practising yogic kriyataught to him by Siddha Agastya and Bhogarnathar. Babaji attained self-realization shortly thereafter.[9]
It is claimed that these revelations were made by Babaji himself to S.A.A. Ramaiah, a young graduate student in geology at the University of Madras and V.T. Neelakantan, a famous journalist, and close student of Annie Besant, President of the Theosophical Society and mentor of Krishnamurti. Babaji was said to have appeared to each of them independently and then brought them together to work for his Mission in 1942
By Kailash Mansarovar Foundation Swami Bikash Giri www.sumeruparvat.com , www.naturalitem.com
13. Middle Man
by Cecily Tattersall
Cecily Tattersall is a British artist based in London. Her work was exhibited in Richard Demarco's collection at the launch of ‘Summerhall’, Edinburgh International Festival 2012, alongside an artist-in-resident position at the Leith School of Art. Cecily has now resumed her practice in the final year of an MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art.
Her research concerns the human form, using its capabilities and limits in the making process as well as depictions of it. Working through instructive situations of dance, occasion and sport she explores spaces known and unknown.
Lindt is proud to join
THE BIG EGG HUNT 2013
in support for Action For Children
Our fun family event starts in London, Covent Garden on Shrove Tuesday and promises to delight all; from the exciting egg-hunts and giant chocolate bunnies to the uniquely designed eggs by leading artists and celebrities, for all to awe at – and hopefully buy!
Most importantly it is a unique opportunity for us all to raise significant money to support vulnerable and neglected children in the UK.
Established in 1869, Action for Children is committed to helping the most vulnerable and neglected children in the UK. Working directly with more than 250,000 children, young people and their carers each year, we run over 600 services which tackle abuse, neglect, help young carers and provide fostering and adoption services.
Lindt believes in the magic of families, which is why the Lindt Gold Bunny is proud to join Action for Children in The Big Egg Hunt and support the great work they do to improve the lives of children & families in the UK.
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
There was never any doubt I would go to Rob's funeral. Rob was born just two weeks before me, and in our many meetings, we found we had so much in common.
A drive to Ipswich should be something like only two and a half hours, but with the Dartford Crossing that could balloon to four or more.
My choice was to leave early, soon after Jools left for work, or wait to near nine once rush hour was over. If I was up early, I'd leave early, I said.
Which is what happened.
So, after coffee and Jools leaving, I loaded my camera stuff in the car, not bothering to program in a destination, as I knew the route to Suffolk so well.
Checking the internet I found the M2 was closed, so that meant taking the M20, which I like as it runs beside HS2, although over the years, vegetation growth now hides most of it, and with Eurostar cutting services due to Brexit, you're lucky to see a train on the line now.
I had a phone loaded with podcasts, so time flew by, even if travelling through the endless roadworks at 50mph seemed to take forever.
Dartford was jammed. But we inched forward, until as the bridge came in sight, traffic moved smoothly, and I followed the traffic down into the east bore of the tunnel.
Another glorious morning for travel, the sun shone from a clear blue sky, even if traffic was heavy, but I had time, so not pressing on like I usually do, making the drive a pleasant one.
Up through Essex, where most other traffic turned off at Stanstead, then up to the A11 junction, with it being not yet nine, I had several hours to fill before the ceremony.
I stopped at Cambridge services for breakfast, then programmed the first church in: Gazeley, which is just in Suffolk on the border with Cambridgeshire.
I took the next junction off, took two further turnings brought be to the village, which is divided by one of the widest village streets I have ever seen.
It was five past nine: would the church be open?
I parked on the opposite side of the road, grabbed my bag and camera, limped over, passing a warden putting new notices in the parish notice board. We exchange good mornings, and I walk to the porch.
The inner door was unlocked, and the heavy door swung after turning the metal ring handle.
I had made a list of four churches from Simon's list of the top 60 Suffolk churches, picking those on or near my route to Ipswich and which piqued my interest.
Here, it was the reset mediaeval glass.
Needless to say, I had the church to myself, the centuries hanging heavy inside as sunlight flooded in filling the Chancel with warm golden light.
Windows had several devotional dials carved in the surrounding stone, and a huge and "stunningly beautiful piscina, and beside it are sedilia that end in an arm rest carved in the shape of a beast" which caught my eye.
A display in the Chancel was of the decoration of the wooden roof above where panels contained carved beats, some actual and some mythical.
I photographed them all.
I programmed in the next church, a 45 minute drive away just on the outskirts of Ipswich, or so I thought.
The A14 was plagued by roadworks, then most trunk roads and motorways are this time of year, but it was a fine summer morning, I was eating a chocolate bar as I drove, and I wasn't in a hurry.
I turned off at Claydon, and soon lost in a maze of narrow lanes, which brought be to a dog leg in the road, with St Mary nestling in a clearing.
I pulled up, got out and found the air full of birdsong, and was greeted by a friendly spaniel being taken for a walk from the hamlet which the church serves.
There was never any doubt that this would be open, so I went through the fine brick porch, pushed another heavy wooden door and entered the coolness of the church.
I decided to come here for the font, which as you can read below has quite the story: wounded by enemy action no less!
There seems to be a hagioscope (squint) in a window of the south wall, makes one think or an anchorite, but of this there is little evidence.
Samuel and Thomasina Sayer now reside high on the north wall of the Chancel, a stone skull between them, moved here too because of bomb damage in the last war.
I drove a few miles to the next church: Flowton.
Not so much a village as a house on a crossroads. And the church.
Nothing so grand as a formal board outside, just a handwritten sign say "welcome to Flowton church". Again, I had little doubt it would be open.
And it was.
The lychgate still stands, but a fence around the churchyard is good, so serves little practical purpose, other than to be there and hold the signs for the church and forthcoming services.
Inside it is simple: octagonal font with the floor being of brick, so as rustic as can be.
I did read Simon's account (below) when back outside, so went back in to record the tomb of Captain William Boggas and his family, even if part of the stone is hidden by pews now.
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The landscape to the west of Ipswich rises to hills above the gentle valley of what will become the Belstead Brook before it empties itself into the River Orwell. The large villages of Somersham and Offton nestle below, but in the lonely lanes above are small, isolated settlements, and Flowton is one of them. I often cycle out this way from Ipswich through busy Bramford and then leave the modern world behind at Little Blakenham, up towards Nettlestead on a narrow and steep lane, down into Somersham and back up the other side to Flowton. It is unusual to pass a vehicle, or even see another human being, except in the valley bottom. In summer the only sound is of birdsong, the hedgerows alive in the deep heat. In winter the fields are dead, the crows in possession.
A hundred years ago these lanes were full of people, for in those days the villagers were enslaved to the land. But a farm that might support fifty workers then needs barely two now, and the countryside has emptied, villages reduced to half their size. Most of rural Suffolk is quieter now than at any time since before the Saxons arrived, and nature is returning to it.
In the early spring of 1644, a solemn procession came this way. The body of Captain William Boggas was brought back from the Midlands, where he had been killed in some skirmish or other, possibly in connection with the siege of Newark. The cart stumbled over the ruts and mud hollows, and it is easy to imagine the watching farmworkers pausing in a solemn gesture, standing upright for a brief moment, perhaps removing a hat, as it passed them by. But no sign of the cross, for this was Puritan Suffolk. Even the Church of England had been suppressed, and the local Priest replaced by a Minister chosen by, and possibly from within, the congregation.
William Boggas was laid to rest in the nave of the church, beside the body of his infant daughter who had died a year earlier. His heavily pregnant widow would have stood by on the cold brick floor, and the little church would have been full, for he was a landowner, and a Captain too.
The antiquarian David Davy came this way in a bad mood in May 1829, with his friend John Darby on their way to record the memorials and inscriptions of the church: ...we ascended a rather steep hill, on which we travelled thro' very indifferent roads to Flowton; here the kind of country I had anticipated for the whole of the present day's excursion was completely realised. A more flat, wet, unpleasant soil and country I have not often passed over, & we found some difficulty in getting along with safety & comfort.
But today it would be hard to arrive in Flowton in spring today and not be pleased to be there. By May, the trees in the hedgerows gather, and the early leaves send shadows dappling across the lane, for of course the roads have changed here since Darby and Davy came this way, but perhaps Flowton church hasn't much. James Bettley, revising the Buildings of England volumes for Suffolk, observed that it is a church with individuality in various details, which is about right. Much of what we see is of the early 14th Century, but there was money being spent here right on the eve of the Reformation. Peter Northeast and Simon Cotton transcribed a bequest of 1510 which pleasingly tells us the medieval dedication of the church, for Alice Plome asked that my body to be buried in the churchyard of the nativitie of our lady in fflowton. The same year, John Rever left a noble to painting the candlebeam, which is to say the beam which ran across the top of the rood loft and screen on which candles were placed. This is interesting because, as James Bettley points out, the large early 16th Century window on the south side of the nave was clearly intended to light the rood, and so was probably part of the same campaign. The candlebeam has not survived, and nor has any part of the rood screen. In 1526 John Rever (perhaps the son of the earlier man of the same name) left two nobles toward the making of a new rouff in the said church of ffloweton. The idiosyncratic tower top came in the 18th Century, and the weather vane with its elephants is of the early 21st Century, remembering a travelling circus that used to overwinter in the fields nearby.
The west face of the tower still has its niches, which once contained the images of the saints who watched over the travellers passing by. Another thing curious about the tower is that it has no west doorway. Instead, the doorway is set into the south side of the tower. There must be a reason for this, for it exists nowhere else in Suffolk. Perhaps there was once another building to the west of the tower. Several churches in this area have towers to the south of their naves, and the entrance through a south doorway into a porch formed beneath the tower, but it is hard to see how that could have been the intention here.
The Victorians were kind to Flowton church. It has a delicious atmosphere, that of an archetypal English country church. The narrow green sleeve of the graveyard enfolds it, leading eastwards to a moat-like ditch. The south porch is simple, and you step through it into a sweetly ancient space. The brick floor is uneven but lovely, lending an organic quality to the font, a Purbeck marble survival of the late 13th Century which seems to grow out of it. The bricks spread eastwards, past Munro Cautley's pulpit of the 1920s, and up beyond the chancel arch into the chancel itself. On the south side of the sanctuary the piscina that formerly served the altar here still retains its original wooden credence shelf. On the opposite wall is a corbel of what is perhaps a green man, or merely a madly grinning devil.
But to reach all these you must step across the ledger stone of Captain William Boggas, a pool of dark slate in the soft sea of bricks. It reads Here lyes waiting for the second coming of Jesus Christ the body of William Boggas gent, deere to his Countrey, by whoes free choyce he was called to be Captayne of their vountaries raysed for their defence: pious towards God, meeke & juste towards men & being about 40 yeeres of age departed this life March 18: 1643. To the north of it lie two smaller ledgers, the easterly one to his young daughter, which records the date of her birth and her death in the next ensuing month. To the west of that is one to William, his son, who was born on April 11th 1644.
At first sight it might seem odd that his son could have been born in April 1644 if William senior had died in March 1643, but in those days of course the New Year was counted not from January 1st, but from March 25th, a quarter day usually referred to as Lady Day, in an echoing memory of the pre-Reformation Feast of the Annunciation. So William Boggas died one month before his son was born, not thirteen. It would be nice to think that William Junior would have led a similarly exciting and possibly even longer life than his father. But this was not to be, for he died at the age of just two years old in 1645. As he was given his father's name, we may assume that he was his father's first and only son.
A further point of interest is that both Williams' stones have space ready for further names. But there are none. There would be no more children for him, for how could there be? But William's wife does not appear to be buried or even remembered here. Did she move away? Did she marry again, and does she lie in some other similarly remote English graveyard? Actually, it is possible that she doesn't. Boggas's wife was probably Flowton girl Mary Branston, and she had been married before, to Robert Woodward of Dedham in Essex. Between the time of William Boggas's death in 1644 and the 1647 accounting of the Colony, Mary's daughter and nephews by her first marriage had been transported to the Virginia Colony in the modern United States. Is it possible that Mary went to join them?
And finally, one last visitor. Four months after the birth of the younger William, when the cement on his father's ledger stone was barely dry, the Puritan iconoclast William Dowsing visited this remote place. It was 22 August 1644. The day had been a busy one for Dowsing, for Flowton was one of seven churches he visited that day, and he would likely have already known them well, because he had a house at nearby Baylham. There was little for him to take issue with apart from the piscina in the chancel which was probably filled in and then restored by the Victorians two hundred years later.
Dowsing had arrived here in the late afternoon on what was probably a fine summer's day, since the travelling was so easy. I imagined the graveyard that day, full of dense greenery. He came on horseback, and he was not alone.With him came, as an assistant, a man called Jacob Caley. Caley, a Portman of Ipswich, was well-known to the people of Flowton. He was the government's official collector of taxes for this part of Suffolk. Probably, he was not a popular man. What the villagers couldn't know was that Caley was actually hiding away a goodly proportion of the money he collected. In 1662, two years after the Commonwealth ended, he was found guilty of the theft of three thousand pounds, about a million pounds in today's money. He had collected one hundred and eighteen pounds of this from the people of Flowton alone, and the late John Blatchly writing in Trevor Cooper's edition of the Dowsing Journals thought that the amount he was found guilty of stealing was probably understated, although of course we will never know.
I revisit this church every few months, and it always feels welcoming and well cared for, with fresh flowers on display, tidy ranks of books for sale, and a feeling that there is always someone popping in, every day. The signs by the lychgate say Welcome to Flowton Church, and on my most recent visit in November 2021 a car stopped behind me while I was taking a photograph of the elephants at the top of the tower. "Do go inside, the church is open", the driver urged cheerily, "we've even got a toilet!" As with Nettlestead across the valley, the church tried to stay open throughout the Church of England's Covid panic of 2020 and 2021, whatever much of the rest of the Church might have been doing. And there was no absurd cordoning off of areas or imposition of the one-way systems beloved by busybodies in many other English churches. Instead, a simple reminder to ask you to be careful, and when I came this way in the late summer of 2020 there were, at the back of the church, tall vases of rosemary, myrtle, thyme and other fragrant herbs. Beside them was a notice, which read Covid-19 causes anosmia (losing sense of smell). Here are some herbs to smell! which I thought was not only useful and instructive, but rather lovely.
Simon Knott, November 2021
"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."
---Anne Lamott
A few years ago, I was invited to a reading at Fr. Tom's Jesuit retreat house in Oakland to hear one of my favorite writers, Anne Lamott. I remember wishing that she had written "Operating Instructions: A Journal Through My Son's First Year" when my daughter had been that age. Oh well, it was funny and instructive at any age. And I loved "Bird by Bird" a must for any writer at any level, imho.
It was a thrill to meet her in such an intimate and relaxed setting. And I count Fr Tom as a special friend, a true mensch in every sense of the word.
This was the best shot of a wonderful day.
PS: Her recent piece on Salon, "My Son the Stranger", has a nice interaction with Fr. Tom at the end, btw...