with Gloria Holiday
Hello to my family and friends. For this is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it! This is a new month and a new week, another week for new beginnings, new thoughts and a chance to do things better. Well, spring is coming…we hope…and so is daylight savings time. Daylight Savings Time begins on Sunday, March 12, so on Saturday, March 11, turn your clocks an hour ahead before you go to sleep. This is just to get us ready for the change!
March 2 is Dr. Seuss’ birthday/Read across America Day. The National Education Association sponsors this event to inspire reading in children throughout our schools and communities. So many children enjoy the stories, such as “Green Eggs and Ham” and other books from Dr. Seuss. By reading these books, our children have learned the meaning of sharing, caring, colors and counting, and in some cases, he taught us that life will not always be fair.
The children at Head Start will experience eating green eggs and ham after reading the book by Dr. Seuss, “Green Eggs and Ham.” I wonder how many of the children will like Sam I Am’s green eggs and ham. The Head Start staff would like to thank all of the readers and volunteers that are coming into the center and reading to the children.
It is almost time for the 2023 wresting match benefit for the Chester Co. Carl Perkins Center for the Prevention of Child Abuse. This great event will be at the Chester County High School on March 10 with a 7 p.m. bell time. Doors open at 6 p.m., and the cost is $15 at the door. Children 12 and under get in FREE with a paid adult. All proceeds will go to the Carl Perkins Center of Chester County. Hope to see you there.
The month of March brings in everything I listed above, but it also brings Women’s History Month, National Nutrition Month, American Red Cross Month and Fire Prevention Month. Do you know the roots of National Women’s History Month? It goes back to March 8, 1857 when women from various New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. The first Women’s Day Celebration in the United States was also in New York City in 1909, but Congress did not establish National Women’s History Week until 1981 to be commemorated annually the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month. Every year since, Congress has passed a resolution for Women’s History Month, and the president has issued a proclamation.
During the mid-19th century, women in many countries started to organize movements to fight for their rights to vote and run for office. They became known as suffragists or suffragettes. In 1904, the International Women’s Suffrage Alliance was formed by Millicent Fawcett and Carrie Chapman Catt, along with other leading women’s rights activists. In the United States, the suffrage movement was led by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who organized the first women’s rights convention, known as the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848. Frederick Douglass, a former slave and abolitionist, attended the convention. Susan B. Anthony also met the two at the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in England in 1850. Today, at least 17% of U.S. Congressional and Senate seats are occupied by women. In the field of sports, women were only allowed to join the Winter Olympic Games in 1924 for the figure skating event. By 1966, Roberta Gibb became the first woman to finish the Boston Marathon. American novelist Edith Wharton became the first woman recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1921. In years before accomplished authors, including Jane Austen, the Brontë sisters, Mary Ann Evans and Louisa May Alcott, all used male pen names to avoid discrimination. The public philosopher and suffragist Jane Addams was the first woman laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize. ducksters.com/history/marchinhistory.php. I just wanted to share that information with you because I thank the Lord for all of our successful women we have here in Chester County! Be proud to be a WOMAN!
This week we have lots of birthdays. Let’s start with our Chester County Trustee Lance Beshires, March 6. Matilda Massengill is one of the best community helpers in Lucyville, and her birthday is March 7. Chastity Reeves celebrates on March 8, and Dennis Brown, my baby brother, has his birthday March 2. To all of you who work so hard here in our City of Henderson, we would like to wish you a Happy Birthday, and may the Lord bless you with many more. Just to let you know, since your birthday is in March, your Birthstone is aquamarine and bloodstone. The March flower is the daffodil.
Remember to pray for our community, children, teachers, families, the men and women in blue and our U.S. soldiers! If you live in the City of Henderson and have news about your family, birthday, anniversary, announcements and things happening in the City, I need to hear from you; text or call me at 608-6132. HAVE A GREAT WEEK!
