SPY’s Community Newsletter
(7/6/24)
NOTICE #1
Our illustrious “Captain Highway” a.k.a. Derek Desgranges, fearless leader of the SPY’s Adopt-A-Highway project, wants to remind everyone about Saturday July 13th. will be the second highway trash pick-up of the season. The SPY's pick-up trash along M-43 from Round Lake Road on the west side of town to Shaytown Road on the east side of town, three times a year in conjunction with the Michigan Department of Transportation program.
Again, if for any reason you can’t make it for the July 23rd. pick-up day, but would still like to help out by doing some picking up on a different day of that week, just give Derek a call at 269-838-7686 and get some bags and he will give you a small section to take care of. What do you say, let’s have a great turnout and spiff up the roadsides leading into our community.
NOTICE #2
Also on Saturday, July 13th there will be a Scrap Metal Fundraiser in the parking lot of the Sunfield UB Church. All proceeds will go towards a new roof at Camp Living Waters. The Scrap Drive will go from 9 AM til Noon. There will be volunteers on site to help unload. If you have any questions, please call Jessi at 269-838-7400. Donations are needed!
NOTICE #3
Back by popular demand-----Deb’s Homemade Pasties
NOTICE #4
Once again members of Congressman John Moolenaar’s team will be hosting meeting times here in Sunfield this coming Tuesday, July 9th. So, if you need assistance with a federal agency you can sit down with them to discuss the issue. If you cannot attend, please do not hesitate to call his office at 616-528-7100. Here are the details:
10:30 - 11:30 AM
Sunfield Township Hall
145 Main Street
Sunfield, MI 48890
SPECIAL SUMMER KIDS CLUB NEWS
(Please check-out the flyer attached below)
Parting Comments
· Deep Thought of the Week: I’ve learned that you can sit and worry until you are physically ill, but worrying doesn’t change things---action does.
· Notable Quote: “Ladies, if a man says he will fix it, he will. There is no need to remind him every 6 months about it.”
· That’s Puny Department: The other day I was sitting at the counter at Swede’s Grill eating lunch and minding my own business. A few stools down from me was Elmer, a local old-timer that was spouting his tale of woe to Chef Robbo. “You don’t want to do any business with that Dayroon,” Elmer told the Chef. “He’s slicker than a leaky oil pan. Heck, he could steal the buttons off the long johns you’re wearin’ and sell ‘em back to you as rare coins.” “Why, just last week, I was over at Dayroon’s place, spittin’ nails and giving him a piece of my mind. I hollered, ‘Dayroon, you no good snake in the grass, that mule you sold me is half-near blind!’” “And Dayroon says to me, ‘I told you before you bought him, he was a fine mule, but didn’t look good.’”
· Did You Know Section: It wasn’t until after the life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616) that the modern English alphabet welcomed “J” as its 26th and final letter. In fact, first-edition copies of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet from 1597 were titled Romeo and Iuliet, as the letter “I” was often used as a written substitute for words with a “J” sound in English. In order to fully understand the letter’s origins, however, we need to go all the way back to ancient Roman times.
In Roman numerals, a swash was sometimes used to denote the end of sequences — for instance, the number 13 often visually appeared in handwritten text as “XIIJ” instead of “XIII.” In classical Latin and in various European languages through the medieval era, the letter “I” was used as both a vowel and as a consonant, and the constant version of “I” morphed over the years and eventually began appearing as a “J” shape. In the late 15th century and early 16th century, a few scholars wrote treatises on grammar in which they suggested using “J” as the constant version of “I.” In English, this change took hold in the early 17th century. A good illustration of this is the King James Bible, one of the first modern English texts to print “J” as a unique letter. The 1611 edition uses the consonant “I” in words such as “Iesus” and “Ioseph,” while the 1629 edition uses the letter “J,” paving the way for the eventual widespread inclusion of “J” in the English alphabet.
Notices
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