Bethel Daily Briefing: Monday, January 16, 2012

Today Is Monday, January 16, 2012, the 16th day of the year.

Announcements:

 Three seminars for parents offered by HVCASA. Click for more information.

Jan 18th CONNECTIVE PARENTING: “When Kids Push Your Buttons”

Feb 15th TECH SAVVY SAFE FAMILIES:Internet Safety Tips & Social Media Guidelines 4 All Ages

Mar 14th TEENS ON THE ROAD: CT Graduated Licensing Laws & Safe Driving 4 Life

“The 2012 Up, Up and Away Gala…Reaching Beyond the Horizon” will be held on Saturday April 28th at 6:30 p.m. at the Amber Room Colonnade in Danbury.

of Food Service-Learning Project & Nutrition Education Program on Martin Luther King Day with a Challenge to TeensYVCWC is kicking-off a very exciting project on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: The Healthy Wall of Food Service-Learning Project and Nutrition Education Program. This is a three-month, youth-focused nutrition awareness program that will culminate with the building of (literally) a Healthy Wall of Food at the Danbury Fair Mall on April 21 with Global Youth Service Day, the world’s largest and longest-running youth-led service campaign.

Bethel Democratic Caucus,  January 16, 7:30 pm

Clifford J. Hurgin Municipal Center, 1 School St, Bethel, CT, FREE

 Bethel Democrats will hold a caucus on Monday January 16th in the Clifford J. Hurgin Municipal Center, Conference Room A at 7:30 pm.  More info? Click . http://bethel.patch.com/events/bethel-democratic-caucus

Garden Hints for January from the Old Farmer's Almanac

Prune fruit trees now. The prunes can be gathered up into bundles to be used for kindling after they've dried. Neatly trim any shrubs and hedges. Finish all pruning of trees before the sap starts.

Municipal Meetings

Public Utilities Commission Meeting, 4 pm in Meeting Room A, Municipal Center

 Today's Weather: Still Cold! from CTWeather.com

Monday: Increasing cloudiness with a high of 31 and a low of 8.

http://danbury.patch.com/listings/connecticut-weather-center

Today in History http://on-this-day.com

1896 - The first five-player college basketball game was played at Iowa City, IA.

1919 - The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibited the sale or transportation of alcoholic beverages, was ratified. It was later repealed by the 21st Amendment.

1920 - Prohibition went into effect in the U.S.

1920 - The motion picture "The Kid" opened.

1925 - Leon Trotsky was dismissed as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of the USSR.

1939 - The "I Love a Mystery" debuted on NBC’s West-Coast outlets.

1944 - General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of the Allied invasion force in London.

1961 - Mickey Mantle signed a contract that made him the highest paid baseball player in the American League at $75,000 for the 1961 season.

1964 - "Hello Dolly!" opened at the St. James Theatre in New York City.

1970 - Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi became virtual president of Libya.

1970 - Buckminster Fuller, the designer of the geodesic dome, was awarded the Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects.

1979 - The Shah of Iran and his family fled Iran for Egypt.

1982 - Britain and the Vatican resumed full diplomatic relations after a break of over 400 years.

1998 - Researchers announce that an altered gene helped to defend against HIV.

1991 - The White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm. The operation was designed to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

1997 - Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, 27, was shot to death while changing a flat tire on a dark road in Los Angeles, CA.

1998 - The first woman enrolled at Virginia Military Institute withdrew from the school.

1998 - NASA officially announced that John Glenn would fly aboard the space shuttle Discovery in October.

1998 - It was announced that Texas would receive $15.3 billion in a tobacco industry settlement. The payouts were planned to take place over 25 years.

2000 - A truck loaded with evaporated milk was rammed into California's state capitol building in Sacramento, CA. The driver was killed in the incident.

2002 - In Grundy, VA, student killed three and wounding three others at the Appalachian School of Law.

2002 - U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft announced that John Walker Lindh would be brought to the United States to face trial. He was charged in U.S. District Court in Alexandria, VA, with conspiracy to kill U.S. citizens, providing support to terrorist organizations, and engaging in prohibited transactions with the Taliban of Afghanistan.

2002 - The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted sanctions against Osama bin Laden, his terror network and the remnants of the Taliban. The sanctions required that all nations impose arms embargoes and freeze their finances.

2009 - The iTunes Music Store reached 500 million applications downloaded.

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