Politics & Government

Bethel Daily Briefing: Thursday, February 23, 2012

Wilson Phillips, old Oscar winning films, meetings, gardening, and a little bit of history

 

TODAY IS THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2012

 

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WEATHER from National Weather Service

Thursday: A slight chance of showers before 9am. Cloudy through mid morning, then gradual clearing, with a high near 54. West wind between 8 and 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20 percent.

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Thursday Night: Rain, mainly after 4am. Low around 34. North wind between 3 and 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80 percent. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.

 

DEEP THOUGHTS from Brainy Quotes 

"Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent." Dalai Lama

 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Unverified Hot Tip:  The Sycamore Drive In of 282 Greenwood Ave is expecting the group Wilson Philips to stop by for curb service in their tour bus this Saturday February 25 at 2 pm to have lunch. They are filming a documentry for there up coming tour. 

NOTE TO READERS:  Take photos and submit them to Patch!  This reporter will not be available to cover the event.  Everyone who would like to take photos and write about the event for Bethel Patch is encouraged to do so. Submit them to Christine Rose, RosepetL5@aol.com and we will be sure to give you credit.  Thanks!!!

Open Mike at Molten Java, tonight, 7:30 pm


Discover Bethel Restaurant Week Feb 27-March 4 To see participating restaurants, visit the Bethel Chamber of Commerce website.

Central PTO will be sponsoring Family Fun Hockey Night with the Danbury Whalers On February 24, 2012 at 7: 05 pm at the Danbury Ice Arena. All proceeds go to benefit scholarships.  See attached flier for details. We hope to see everyone there. Bethel Central PTO Celaine Brillon, President, Stacey Connors, Secretary & Lilia Silva, Treasurer.

Calling ALL youth Photographers to an Amateur Gallery Art Show.  Bethel Photoworks is having a youth art show March 10, 2012 at 6:00 p.m.  This will be a Juried Art show.   Framed art needs to be handed in by March 3 to be judged.  Bring it in by February 24 if you need the photograph to be framed. There will be special pricing for 8 X 12 photos as well as 10 X 14 photos.

Themes for the show-almost anything.  Judging will be broken up by approximate school ages…  Rockwell & Berry-5-8 years, Johnson-9-11, middle-12-14 years, BHS- 15-18years.  Note-many photo art shows require white matting and black frames….this will NOT be a requirement but just something to keep in mind when framing your photograph.  CONTACT Ray Flanigan at 203.748.1999 or bethelphotoworks.com Bethel Photoworks Gallery---14 Depot Place    

New Business? Planning an event? Proud of someone? Send in your announcements and we will let the world know!

 

MUNICIPAL MEETINGS:

Board of Education, Meeting Room E, 7:00 pm

 

GARDENING HINTS from Old Farmer's Almanac

Begin pruning fruit trees, grapes, and blueberries. A barrel or other covering placed over rhubarb plants will hasten the spring crop.

 

TODAY IN HISTORY from Those Were The Days

 

1821 - The Philadelphia College of Apothecaries was established. It was the first pharmacy college in the U.S.

1886 - Charles M. Hall completed his invention of aluminum. He produced it using electricity.

1905 - The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, IL by Attorney Paul Harris. A national association of the very popular civic club was formed in 1910.

1927 - U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signed a bill into law that created the Federal Radio Commission, “to bring order out of this terrible chaos.” The president was speaking, of course, of the nation’s then unregulated radio stations. The commission assigned frequencies, hours of operation and power allocations for radio broadcasters across the U.S. The name was changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on July 1, 1934.

1934 - Casey Stengel became manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team, as he signed his first major-league contracts.

1939 - The 11th Academy Awards were celebrated at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles (for the flicks of 1938). Oscars were doled out for You Can’t Take It with You for Best Picture and Best Director (Frank Capra). Capra, who took home his third Best-Director prize, had won for 1934’s It Happened One Night and 1936’s Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.

The Best Actor award was claimed for the second year in a row (Captains Courageous) by Spencer Tracy for Boys Town.

Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards were presented to Bette Davis and Fay Bainter, respectively, for their performances in Jezebel; while Walter Brennan took home the prized statuette for Best Supporting Actor in Kentucky.

These were Davis’ and Brennan’s second Academy Awards; the first for Davis was awarded three years earlier for Dangerous, and Brennan received his first Oscar two years before for Come and Get It.

Walt Disney won an honorary Oscar for the film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Mr. Disney actually received one Oscar statuette and seven miniature ones for his work “ ... which has charmed millions and pioneered a great new entertainment field,” according to press accounts that day.

1960 - Wrecking crews began to demolish the venerable home of the Brooklyn Dodgers: Ebbets Field in New York City. The wrecking ball came in a little high and outside...

1963 - The Chiffons recording of He’s So Fine was released. It later rose to the #1 position (March 30th) for a four-week stay. The song later became the center of one of the most publicized lawsuits in music history. The estate of songwriter Ronnie Marks won the suit against former Beatle George Harrison, saying that the song My Sweet Lord, was a note-for-note copy of He’s So Fine. The Chiffons also scored big with One Fine Day, Sweet Talkin’ Guy and others.

1968 - Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia 76ers wowed the home crowd at the old Philadelphia Arena by becoming the first pro basketball player to score more than 25,000 career points.

1974 - The Symbionese Liberation Army demanded $4 million more for the release of Patty Hearst. Hearst had been kidnapped on February 4th and her father, publisher Randolph Hearst, had already coughed up $2 million hoping for her freedom.

1996 - These films opened in U.S. theatres: Before and After, with Meryl Streep, Liam Neeson and Edward Furlong; and Rumble in the Bronx, with Jackie Chan and Anita Mui.

1997 - Kept secret until this day, the story broke that Dolly, a seven-month old sheep, was the first clone of an adult mammal. Since July 1996, the institute had cloned “seven sheep, including three breeds from different cell types.” And they said the technology was “equally applicable to pigs, goats, rabbits and indeed, any mammal.”

 

 

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