Politics & Government

Bethel Daily Briefing: Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Friendship, Female Fire Fighters, Free Bread Samples at Caraluzzi's, and a little bit of history.

 

 

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TODAY IS TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2012

WEATHER from The National Weather Service 

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Wednesday: Sunny, with a high near 65. Northwest wind between 5 and 11 mph. 

Wednesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 36. Northwest wind around 6 mph becoming calm. 

 

 

QUOTE OF THE DAY from Brainy Quotes 


Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali


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ANNOUNCEMENTS


Pro Access Teen Center News, 7th & 8th Grade St. Patty’s Day Party on Friday March 16 from 7-8:45. RSVP necessary


The Flaxette, an award winning artisan bread, is now available locally at Caraluzzi’s market. “Our goal is to provide natural, great-tasting, healthy and energizing bread to the community” said Fairfield Bread Company (FBC) president and head baker Michael Mordecai.  The Flaxette is available at Caraluzzi’s in Wilton, Newtown and Bethel. Mordecai will be at Caraluzzi’s Bethel Food Market in Bethel on Saturday, March 17 from 11:00 to 1:00 to offer samples of The Flaxette.

 


The Pen & Paper Creatives Collective, Wednesday, March 28th

7pm to 9pm An inaugural gathering of creatives...writers, artists, photographers, bloggers, craftspeople...everyone!

Looking for likeminded souls for an evening of sharing?  Need feedback on a project? Searching for a new idea? Trying to overcome writers block? 

Join us for a special evening of creative exploration and expression. 

The Pen & Paper Creatives Collective will be led by Michele Lee Amundsen: NE Liberal, MN expat. Martini drinking writer, non-fiction editor, passionate equestrian.  Danbury Museum and Historical Society

 

MAR. 14 WELLNESS WEDNESDAY: As part of the ongoing Wellness Wednesday program on campus, “Where Do We Hold Stress and How Can We Release It?” will be at noon in Room 202 of the Student Center on the WCSU Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. WCSU alumna Sue Carbone, owner of Cohesive Healing, will lead this session sponsored by the HPX department and the Institute for Holistic Health Studies. It will be free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 837-3903.

 

MAR. 14 LECTURE: Ridgefield Fire Chief Heather Burford, one of only four female fire chiefs in Connecticut, will talk about her experiences at noon in the Warner Hall Lyceum on the university’s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. This Women’s History Month event will be free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 837-8482 or visit www.wcsu.edu/newsevents/2012WomensHistoryMonth.asp.

 

MAR. 14 CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT: The WCSU Chamber Ensembles will perform at 8 p.m. in Ives Concert Hall in White Hall on the university’s Midtown campus, 181 White St. in Danbury. The concert will be free and the public is invited. Donations to support the department of music will be accepted. For more information, call (203) 837-8350 or visit www.wcsu.edu/music/concerts.asp.

 

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MUNICIPAL MEETINGS:

Housing Authority, Public Site and Building Commission, 7:30 pm, Meeting Room B, Municipal Center

GARDENING HINTS from Old Farmers Almanac.com

Start seedlings of annuals in flats -- aster, larkspur, alyssum, snapdragons, and petunias should be started now (or 6 to 8 weeks before the last frost date in your area). If summer season is short, zinnias should be started now. They will need to be potted up in individual pots after 4 to 5 weeks.

 

 

TODAY IN HISTORY from On This Day


1629 - A Royal charter was granted to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 

1743 - First American town meeting was held at Boston's Faneuil Hall. 

1794 - Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin. 

1891 - The submarine Monarch laid telephone cable along the bottom of the English Channel to prepare for the first telephone links across the Channel. 

1900 - U.S. currency went on the gold standard with the ratification of the Gold Standard Act. 

1901 - Utah Governor Heber M. Wells vetoed a bill that would have relaxed restrictions on polygamy. 

1904 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the governments claim that the Northern Securities Company was an illegal merger between the Great Northern and Northern Pacific Railway companies. 

1905 - French bankers refused to lend money to Russia until after their war. 


1914 - Henry Ford announced the new continuous motion method to assemble cars. The process decreased the time to make a car from 12½ hours to 93 minutes. 

1923 - President Harding became the first U.S. President to file an income tax report. 

1932 - George Eastman, the founder of the Kodak company, committed suicide. 

1936 - Adolf Hitler told a crowd of 300,000 that Germany's only judge is God and itself. 

1938 - Germany invaded Austria. A union of Austria and Germany was proclaimed by Adolf Hitler. 

1943 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office. 

1947 - The U.S. signed a 99-year lease on naval bases in the Philippines. 

1947 - Moscow announced that 890,532 German POWs were held in the U.S.S.R. 

1951 - U.N. forces recaptured Seoul for the second time during the Korean War. 

1964 - A Dallas jury found Jack Ruby guilty of the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald. 

1967 - John F. Kennedy's body was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent one. 

1979 - The Census Bureau reported that 95% of all Americans were married or would get married. 


1983 - OPEC agreed to cut its oil prices by 15% for the first time in its 23-year history. 

1989 - Imported assault guns were banned in the U.S. under President George H.W. Bush. 

1991 - The "Birmingham Six," imprisoned for 16 years for their alleged part in an IRA pub bombing, were set free after a court agreed that the police fabricated evidence. 

1995 - American astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket. 

1996 - U.S. President Bill Clinton committed $100 million for an anti-terrorism pact with Israel to track down and root out Islamic militants. 

1998 - An earthquake left 10,000 homeless in southeastern Iran. 

2002 - A Scottish appeals court upheld the conviction of a Libyan intelligence agent for the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. A five-judge court ruled unanimously that Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was guilty of bringing down the plane over Lockerbie, Scotland. 

2003 - Robert Blake was released from jail on $1.5 million bail. Blake had been jailed for the murder of his wife Bonny Lee Bakley.

 

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