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Happy Birthday to Darlene, the staff and participants hope you have a wonderful birthday.
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Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Feb.26th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories.
It's National: National Pistachio Day National Skip the Straw Day Today in History: 1914- New York Museum of Science & Industry incorporated 1914- HMHS Britannic, sister to the Titanic, is launched at Harland & Wolff, Belfast 1917- 1st Annual fair at Utrecht Harbor (Netherlands) 1919- Acadia National Park forms (as Lafayette N P), Maine 1919- Congress forms Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona 1930- 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC) 1933- Golden Gate Bridge groundbreaking ceremony held at Crissy Field 1938- 1st passenger ship equipped with radar 1938- US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer 1938- US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee 1973- Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m Celebrities Birthdays: Victor Hugo, French author William "Buffalo Bill" Cody, Wild West hunter and showman John Harvey Kellogg Helen Clark, New Zealand Prime Minister Antione "Fats" Domino, American rhythm & blues star of the early rock ’n’ roll era Johnny Cash, American country singer Jonathan Cain, American rock guitarist & keyboardist Catena Jobs Plus & Personal Touch Embroidery would like to wish everyone a safe and happy weekend. Today is National Chilli Day - Chilli is said to have originated from Texas. The people in Texas in the early 1800’s used to cook up a meal like what we today call stew with the main ingredients being beef and peppers. As the years went on different variations of this meal were created and Chilli became a meal known by all North America. It is a great comfort meal for those cold winter days to help warm you up. How do you like your chilli mild or hot with lots of spices? What is your favorite chilli recipe? This week the activity packages contain birthday themed activity sheets such as reading comprehension, word search, crosswords, math, colouring and much more.  We wear pink today to show awareness and show support against bullying. #pinkshirtday  Happy Birthday to Joanie and Vanessa, the staff and participants hope you have a wonderful birthday.  It's a messy morning out there, be careful if you are out walking. The streets are still a little slushy but temperatures are supposed to rise this afternoon. Don't forget to wear pink tomorrow to show your support for anti-bullying.   Something to think about.
Today is the 22nd day of the month. Ever wonder how many times the 22nd falls on a Monday. Well this year it will happen 3 times, (in February, in March and in November), but last year it only happened once. The 22nd was on a Monday back in June and next year there will only be one and that will be in August. Here is an interesting fact about today - It is Pluto Day - Pluto was discovered in 1930, it would take 9.5 years to travel to Pluto. It takes our planet Earth 1 year to travel around the Sun. It takes Pluto 248 years to travel around the Sun. It would be very cold on Pluto as it is the farthest planet from the Sun. Pluto is so small that it is now considered to be a dwarf planet. The theme to this week’s activity package that will be going out tomorrow is mail. Some of the activities in this package are to help you learn how to address and envelope and how mail gets from one place to another.  Happy belated Birthday to Debbie, the staff and participants hope you had a wonderful birthday. The Employment participants are making masks, one glued, one hand sewn.    Let us have a little bit of fun today and post about what happened on Feb.12th through history, who celebrates a birthday with you, and couple other categories.
It's National: Chinese New Year Today in History: 1949- Team Canada beats Denmark 47-0 in hockey 1970- Anthony Shaffer's "Sleuth" premieres in NYC 1994- "The Scream" by Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1893 pastel version) is stolen in Oslo 2001- NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft touchdown in the "saddle" region of 433 Eros becoming the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid. 2006- A powerful winter storm blankets the Northeastern United States dumping 1 to 2 feet of snow from Washington, D.C. up to Boston, Massachusetts. The storm dumped a record 26.9 inches of snow in New York City. 2019- Nasa data shows the world has got greener - 5% more leafier since early 2000s, mostly due to tree planting in China, intensive farming in India 2019- Rare Black panthers spotted for the first time in nearly 100 years in Laikipia County, Kenya Celebrities Birthdays: Lorne Greene [Lyon Chaim Green], Canadian actor Michael Ironside, Canadian actor Tara Strong, Canadian-American voice actress Natasha St-Pier, Canadian pop singer Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President Charles Darwin, English naturalist Movies Released on this day: 1914- The Squaw Man Catena Jobs Plus & Personal Touch Embroidery would like to wish everyone a safe and happy weekend. The theme of this weeks package that is going out to the individuals is Valentines Day and it is filled with lots of fun things to do such as word searches, coloring sheets, fun math pages, and even a special treat and craft.  Happy upcoming Valentine’s day, here is a different smile from a few people from the Employment Program.  Tuesday February 9th, 2021 is the 39th day of the year. That means that there are just 32 more days until our clocks jump ahead 1 hour and just 38 more days until the 1st day of spring. It is great to have some things to look forward to.  Happy Belated Birthday to Tracy, the staff and participants hope you had a wonderful birthday. Today at the Center, we are baking Molasses cookies for break time. 
The ladies in the senior room finished a 500 piece puzzle today.  Each Friday we send out a themed activity package to our participants in the Saint John city limits who wish to receive them. The package theme for this week is Chinese New Year.  Yesterday was Groundhog Day, Punxsutawney Phil seen his shadow and indicates we may have 6 more weeks of winter. Today at the center, the valentine cookies decorative kits are being made.  Betty-Anne and Jen are working on sorting and laundering clothing donations in Preparation for our clothing Boutique we hope to open in the near future. keep up the great work ladies.  It is Get Up Day. It’s a day to give hope to others by sharing your stories about how you failed at something but did not give up. Tell others how you kept trying to do better. We can apply this in our daily lives especially now during these strange times with Covid 19. If we as a community keep doing better our lives will get closer and closer to the normal, we all used to know. Let’s keep the hope together and keep getting up when we fall down. |
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