Quips

The Minister unveiled the Church's new donations campaign on Sunday: "I upped my Pledge - Up Yours".

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For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs.

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The Senior Choir invites any member of the congregation who enjoys sinning, to join the Choir.

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Good Question

• Why isn't phonetic spelled the way it sounds?

• If there are 52 weeks in a year, how many weeks are there in a light year?

• Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks?

World Firsts

• "Stars & Stripes Weekly", the United States Armed Forces newspaper is first published.
  

  Friday February 8, 1918

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• The 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off piloted by Bert Hinkler.
  

  Tuesday February 7, 1928

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• Autherine Lucy, the 1st black student admitted to University of Alabama, is expelled.
  

  Tuesday February 7, 1956

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Events

• A father and son in Alabama were killed when they crashed into each other in a head-on collision. Jeffrey Morris Brasher and his son Austin Blaine Brasher of Bankston, Alabama, died early Saturday morning.
  
  Jeffrey Brasher was driving a 2006 Ford pickup and his son was driving a 2004 Chevrolet truck when they collided on a highway head-on, said Alabama State Trooper Jonathon Appling.
  

  Saturday February 18, 2017

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• The man known as the 'Crocodile Hunter' died after his chest was punctured by a stingray barb while diving off Australia's northeast coast. The 44 year-old colourful personality was filming a documentary about the Great Barrier Reef when tragedy struck.
  
  According to friend and colleague, John Stainton, Steve Irwin swam too close to the ray while he was diving off his boat "Croc One" near Batt Reef, northeast of Port Douglas.
  

  Monday September 4, 2006

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• Relatives of a 91-year-old Ohio woman who died this week are giving her the last word with a sassy, occasionally profane obituary that starts with the basics, "I was born. I lived. I died.", and instructs people to "Wait the appropriate amount of time" before trying to claim her stuff.
  
  They wrote it in Jean Oddi's perspective, recapping the people important to her, adventures she had and her favorite activities, including playing cards and teaching her granddaughter "dirty songs".
  

  Thursday February 23, 2017

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New Used News

• 25,000 Workers Died Building The Panama Canal

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• The Most Expensive Domain Name

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• Microsoft Windows 98

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• Backward Flowing River

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