21 December 2022 | KETTERING, OHIO – Liza Da Cunha’s third-grade class at Spring Valley Academy (SVA) decided that this year’s service project would involve doing something nice for the Ukrainian students at Kettering College who couldn’t go home for the holidays. They recruited the fourth-grade class to help them and, together, created gift bags […]
Richard W. Coffen | 10 December 2018 | 11:45 a.m. Thursday, November 15—Long lines jutted from checkouts. I pulled in behind lane 9. Ahead stood a well-dressed, well-coifed lady. Well below the median age of 72.2[1] for us retirees in Green Valley! Ms. Anonymous placed a few items onto the conveyor belt—two boxed toys, Christmas […]
By Monte Sahlin, November 20, 2017: In the United States we have this tradition of celebrating a Thanksgiving holiday on the last Thursday in November each year. Other nations have similar celebrations, most of them at other times of the year. The worst thing about this tradition is the idea that we only need […]
From ANN, December 24, 2015: More than 900 people attended a Seventh-day Adventist Christmas production, which was organized by the Adventist denomination in the Arabian Gulf region of the Middle East and North Africa Union (MENA). The play, “Journey to Bethlehem,” took place December 18 and 19 at the denomination’s headquarters in Ras Al […]