Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 2002 Page: 8 of 22
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PAGE IA - POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 14,2002,
Valentine's Day serves as a reminder to protect hearts
' Dear Asa Landers: February
14, 2002, Valentine's Day, has
been declared "Congenital Heart
Defect Awareness Day" in cities
and sutes across the U S It was
Imperati of North
Conn., to promote funding
and educational ser-
Haven, Cob
for aupfxir
vice^ acMiBtifk research, and early
deadMM^iind screening for the
most common birth defects. Some-
time* the condition is not detected
until adolescence or adulthood.
The Congenital Heart Informa-
tion Network is a non-profit or-
ganization for adult patients, health
professionals and parents like me
whose children's complex heart
anatomy requires extensive medical
procedures and high-risk, open-
heart surgeries. Our families will be
organizing events, blood drives,
educational programs, screening
efforts and survival celebrations
this February We hope your read-
ers will join us. For more informa-
tion, they can contact us at
www.tchin.org. - Mona Barmash,
Children’s Health Information
Network.
Dear Mona Bannash: I am
happy to help such a worthy cause.
It is important on Valentine's Day
to remember that our children's
hearts need to be protected
Dear Ann Landers: I realize
you don't specialize in cultural
history, but I thought you might
like to know more about the origins
of Valentine’s Day
St Valentine's Day began with
a pagan fertility festival, Lupercal,
held on Feb. 15. In the year 496,
Pop Gelasius created a feast day in
memory of St Valentine, a mar-
tyred third-century priest, and
placed it on Feb. 14, hoping early
Christians would celebrate their
romantic traditions a day early and
dedicate them to the saint instead of
the Roman love goddess Juno. The
feast day stuck, but the romantic
holiday didn’t.
The romantic holiday finally
took hold in medieval England
Georffrey Chaucer, famous for
writing ‘The Canterbury Tales,"
got together with his fellow poets
and invented a new holiday to lift
the people’s spirits. In a poem enti-
tled "The Parliament of Fowls,”
Chaucer claimed that all the birds
in the world choose their mates on
St. Valentine's Day. Shakespeare
refrts to Chaucer's poem in his
play "A Midsummer Night’s
Dream,” and gives the name "Val-
entine" to characters in two other
romantic comedies. Ophelia, in
"Hamlet," sings that she wants to
"be your Valentine.”
It all started with the two great-
est love poets in the English lan-
guage - Steven Anderson, Ad-
junct Professor, Dept of English,
Gettysburg College, Pa.
Dear Steven Anderson: Thank
you for providing my readers with
a fascinating history lesson Here’s
one more:
Dear Ann: The feast of Saint
Valentine has been associated with
romance for nearly 1,000 years.
King Henry VIII made Valentine's
Day a national holiday. Love to-
kens were frequently given on the
feast, almost always anonymously.
By the 1800s, the so-called
Ann Landers
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Syndicated Columnist
Onalaska citizens raise questions
“comic" valentines appeared Sent
anonymously, they were a form of
social criucism, cruelly pointing
out people’s faults.
My information came from
Nancy Rosin, the vice president of
the National Valentine Collector’s
Association. I hope you will find it
worth printing - Tony Hyman,
CBS’s “The Saturday Early
Show,” Author of “Trash or
Treasure Guide of Buyers”
Dear Tony Hyman: I do in-
deed. Please thank Nancy Rosin for
her valuable contribution to my
column.
P S. Happy Valentine's Day to
our veterans in VA hospitals across
the country and to our servicemen
and women overseas. Bless you all.
Do you have questions about
sex, but no one to talk to? Ann
Landers' booklet, “Sex and the
Teenager," is frank and to the
point Send a self-addressed, long,
business-size envelope and a check
or money order for $3.75 (this in-
cludes postage and handling) to:
Teens, c/o Ann Landers, P.O. Box
11562, Chicago, ILL. 60611-0562.
(In Canada, send $4.55.0 To find
out more about Ann Landers and
read her past columns, visit the
Creators Syndicate web page at
www.crcators.com.
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lake rescue, three automobile acci-
dents, three mutual aid calls and six
miscellaneous calls.
Reporting for the library, Coun-
cil member Patsy Goins said the
library board has met once since
the last council meeting, has re-
viewed the policies and will meet
this week to finalize and approve
the policies. Goins also reported
that the Friends of the Library will
be hosting a beautiful baby pageant
on March 16. She added that Jenny
Quentin and Althea Elliott have
been busy sorting and cataloging
the books.
Reporting for the Friends of the
Library, Kathy Fothergill said the
committee is working on finalizing
a brochure to solicit memberships.
She said the 50l(c)3 is still pend-
ing, but will probably be completed
this week. She said the friends will
be participating in the Easter pa-
rade on March 23 and will hold a
used book sale that day. j^itici^
ally, she reported that the commit-
tee is working on setting ufl^fund-
raisers for the remainder of the
year.
David Johnson presented a
building report, reviewing costs of
renovations of the new city hall
building. He reported that $75,000
had been budgeted and the total
amount spent was $75,484, result-
ing in an expense of $484 over
budget.
Several people addressed coun-
cil during the public forum.
Shirley Gilmore and Yvette
Crudgington of Oak Ridge subdivi-
sion said their subdivision is in the
city limits and that they feel like
they’ve "gotten a raw deal.” They
talked about the poor state of their
roads and how they'd really like
some help from the city.
Additionally, Crudgington said
she thinks the city has become “a
dump and a joke" and that she’s
embarrassed to bring anyone to
Onalaska.
Byrd said the city’s plans at this
time are to look at paving that area,
that they’ve recently been evaluat-
ing certain areas and that's the one
that’s come up.
« 'Lynn Badgerow inquired about
the city’s plans for cleaning up
vacant houses and lots. She said
she’s been pursuing the matter for
nine months and can’t seem to get
anywhere with the city.
Byrd said the city has a clean-
up day slated for March 16 and that
the city’s code enforcement officer
is still working on the matter.
Heather Cal beck addressed the
mayor and council regarding an
incident in which she alleges that
the mayor’s son knocked her out.
She commented that she feels she’s
been treated unfairly because of his
family’s name.
Byrd said she could not address
the matter because the case is pend-
ing.
Other business included ap-
proval of the minutes, voucher list
and financial reports.
Tax collections up
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principals’ contracts by one year,
taking them through 2004.
Superintendent Darrell Myers
reported that current tax collections
are approximately 80 percent,
which is about 3 percent higher
than this time last year. Regarding
maintenance and operations, Myers
reported that the baseball fields are
coming along and should be com-
plete by March 1 and that the soft-
ball fields are ready now. Regal-
ing transportation, Myers reported
that rock has recently been hauled
in for the area where the buses are
The older we get, the less time
we take to express our love.
When we are young, it seems
so easy to say, “I Love You.”
Think Valentines Day, tell not only
your sweetheart of your love
but tell others - your mother,
father, sister or brother, maybe
even a friend or a neighbor.
Make a cake, drop a note or send a card.
Too often we wait until it is too late.
Then we can only wish we had said
“I Love You” more often.
PACE
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For information leading to the arrest and conviction
of the individual or individuals who trespassed in the
new home of Don and Mary Burks at 127 Harbor
Drive the night of January 10th and caused the fire
which destroyed the home.
Please contact Don Burks at 800-267-5237 (or 800-500-
9307) or the Polk County Fire Marshal’s Arson Investi-
gator, Jay Barbee, at 936-646-3929 or 936-327-6810.
parked.
During the principal’s reports,
Elementary Principal Kenneth Gra-
ham reported on preparations for
TAAS and recent field trips and
Secondary Principal Murry Polk
reported on recent athletic events.
Casey Dent, a student represen-
tative, reported on a project the
student body has undertaken in
which they are collecting soccer
balls to send to Afghani children
because soccer is the national sport
of Afghanistan.
Other business included ap-
proval of the expenditures for
January and the minutes of the pre-
vious meeting.
Check the Social Security Statement you receive in the mail
carefully. It contains estimates of the benefits that you may be eligible for
and it can be useful in planning your financial future.
For more information, visit your local Social Security office.
Or call us, toll-free, 1-800-537-7005; TTY 1-800-325-0778.
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White, Barbara. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 120, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 14, 2002, newspaper, February 14, 2002; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth789235/m1/8/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.