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Flag Etiquette: Standards of Respect |
 Celebrate Flag Day, June 14
The Flag Code, which formalizes and unifies traditional ways in which we give respect to the flag, also contains specific instructions on how the flag is not to be used. They are:
• The flag should never be dipped to any person or thing. It is flown upside down only as a distress signal.
• The flag should not be used as a drapery, or for covering a speakers desk, draping a platform, or for any decoration in general. Bunting of blue, white and red stripes is available for these purposes. The blue stripe of the bunting should be on the top. |
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 What could be more enjoyable and refreshing on a hot summer day than a large scoop of your favorite flavor ice-cream? Following this luscious taste and cooling sensation, however, you may experience a most unpleasant pain known as brain freeze or ice-cream headache. It even has a 30-letter formal name: sphenopalatine ganglioneuralgia. (Try pronouncing that one!)
Brain freeze is a sudden pain in your forehead that fortunately lasts only 30 to 60 seconds. This sudden pain is a result of the cold temperature of the ice-cream hitting the palate of your mouth. The quick drop |
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 The first Father’s Day was observed in 1910. It was the inspiration of Sonora Smart Dodd, who came up with the idea while listening to a Mother’s Day sermon the previous year. Her own mother had died in childbirth when Sonora was 16. She helped her father, William Smart — a Civil War veteran who had moved his family to a farm in Washington State — to raise the newborn, along with her four other brothers.
Sonora had long held her father in high esteem, but it was not until she was an adult with her own family that she realized the hardships and sacrifices he had made as a single parent. Sonora approached the Spokane Ministerial Alliance with the idea of creating a day to honor fathers. She suggested the observance take place on June 5th, her father’s birthday, but the alliance chose to make it the third Sunday in June. |
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From Child’s Play to National Pastime |
 Nothing says “summertime” quite like a great baseball game– played by the pros at a stadium, by amateurs on a local field, or even by children in the backyard.
Did you know that the first recorded baseball reference appeared in print as early as the mid-1700s? It was British children’s author John Newbery who made that entry in his 1744 book, “A Little Pretty Pocket Book.” Newbery wrote the book to teach children the alphabet and assigned a poem and illustration to each letter.
The short poem titled “Base-ball” described the game in rhyme and the illustration showed a field similar to the well-known diamond.
In Newbery’s illustration, athletes used a triangle shaped field with posts in place of bases, but the poem described a game quite similar to American baseball. English lawyer William Bray recorded a game of baseball on Easter Monday 1755 in Guildford, England. A museum curator in Surrey County, England, where Bray’s original diary is kept, said in an Associated Press article that the game was not very popular at the time, but the young lawyer wrote about the game he played before having tea with some of his companions. |
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 Imagine receiving a beautifully arranged bouquet of lettuce from your sweetheart! Well, in the Victorian Era, that was entirely possible. During the mid to late 1800s, the art of floriography, or sending secret messages using carefully chosen flowers and greenery, was in full bloom.
Our contemporary love of the red rose stems from Victorian times when it embodied the most powerful expression of affection. Lilies conveyed “pure beauty,” a daisy meant “innocence,” and something as simple as a pansy offered confirmation that a suitor was “thinking of you.”
Unfortunately, not all floral arrangements were designed to be complimentary. If a young woman rebuffed her suitor, he might send a bouquet of sunflowers to communicate that she was “self absorbed.” Flowers that were not fresh or slightly withered indicated that affections were also on the decline.
All young women of high standing were encouraged to be thoroughly educated on the art of interpreting flowers and kept a flower reference book on hand in the event of a confusing bouquet. Young men were aware of the effect that their flower choices could have and put considerable thought and consideration into how to present their case. |
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The Hot Dog: An All-American Tradition |
 Hot dogs are a big part of summer, especially in our area. According to a survey by the National Hot Dog and Sausage Council, more than 720 million packages of hot dogs were sold at retail stores last year. Our very own Scranton, Pennsylvania, is among the top 10 hot dog consuming cities in the country! See what other cities are in the running: |
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Delivery area: Edwardsville, Larksville, Kingston, Forty Fort, Swoyersville, Wilkes-Barre, Hanover.
Delivery times: Monday-Friday 11a.m.-8p.m., Saturday 4:00 p.m.-8:00p.m.
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