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4451 Restoration
Edward Tredup Memory
Equipment Roster
AEFRE_304
AEFRE_5
Photography Policy
Updates, Information and photos provided by Joseph Hazinski
November 16, 2020 10:07 AM | Anonymous member (Administrator)
"It has been a busy time the last several weeks and now I finally have a chance to catch up on the news at the museum." Joseph Hazinski
This was the sight that greeted members and guests on Saturday October 10th, 2020. The Stars and Stripes hanging from CTA S-314 was courtesy of Jeff Bennett. CA&E 20 made its only operating appearance this season while our recently donated Fairmount MT-14 motorcar with its all-weather cab was also on display.
Fred Lonnes assisted in the attendance of Ken Ward (seated) and his wife Carolyn seen here with President Ed Konecki and James Tarbet for the reveal of AE&FR #5. Ken was a substitute operator of #5 when Bob DeYoung, the owner of the AE&FR, was away. In later years Fred Lonnes also served in that capacity.
After Track 2 was cleared, #5 with Fred Alford at the controls came up from the car barn to reveal its new paint job. Mr. Alford, who is the grandson-in-law of Bob DeYoung, and son-in-law to Mr. DeYoung's oldest daughter Jane DeYoung/Anderson, donated the funds to paint the engine, has fond memories of seeing #5 coming down LaFox Street with empty hoppers in tow for the IC interchange.
Jeff Bennett addressing the members and DeYoung family guests, relating the past and most recent history of #5 with great appreciation of Mr. Alford's kind donation.
One of the features of the repainting and our current restoration is the installation of the whistle, which was a standard, as delivered, GE feature, and two sets of two bell horns as installed shortly after the locomotive arrived back in 1946. The locomotive bell has also been restored.
With the 4000's out on display and 304 in service on Members Day the car barn looked a bit empty but it certainly is not spacious for the work that has been done inside in close quarters. There was a lot of effort to clean up this area with the cars outside for the day.
CTA 4451 is looking good in its new paint. Current emphasis is on rehabilitation all the brass framed windows. The plan is to finish the car in 2021.
CTA 4288 shows off some of the degree of work being done to repair the frame and sides. It seems that this may be the only saved 4000 that demonstrates the modernization program that the rapid transit division started by replacing the old-style brass sah windows with aluminum framed units.
A little more than a week later on October 18th #5 rests outside the barn awaiting the restoration of final details and other adjustments.
New member Austin Harvey is behind the step ladder while sanding down 4288 in preparation for priming. Just another example of the many unseen tasks that need to be done to bring a car back to operating condition.
Here is one of 4451's brass sashes waiting to be taken apart. All the glass has been saved while the frames await professional blasting, priming and painting so they can be reassembled and installed in the car.
Also on October 18th, Mike Gilles helps Ralph Taylor install the engine into the Fairmount North Shore Line motorcar in the Maintenance-Of-Way shed.
Up on Track 3 Fred Lonnes changes the headlight bulb on the back end of CTA MS-65 while Jeff Bennett was inside changing a bulb on the instrument counsel.
A week later on October 24th, Thee's father finishes up welding the bell onto MS-65.
At the end of the day three quarters of the museum's locomotive fleet is lined up on the car barn leads. CTA L-202, AE&FR #5 and CTA MS-65, which replaced L-202 are at rest. Warren & Saline River 73 is resting at the north end of Track 3.
As of November 1st, the air brake components inside CTA 4451 were being installed with the goal of getting the brake system to function.
Fred Biederman has put all four door engines in place and connected them to the air system, a necessary step in testing the air system. The arms have to be attached to the doors, sensitive edges installed on each sliding door and then the electrical wiring installed so door testing and adjustment can begin.
Here Thee is heating up the barrel nuts on a window frame for 4451 so it can be taken apart for repair, blasting, priming and painting. I think all disassembly has been finished.
CTA 4288's frame and bolster repairs at the #2 end were completed by November 1st.
On November 8th Thee and his father are welding a seam on the siding that covers the area where the frame repairs are made. The next step is to start opening up the side sheets in the area of the #1 end doors and bolster area to determine what repairs need to be done there.
Ralph Taylor and Mike Gilles made adjustments to the hub where the starting crank goes on the North Shore Line motorcar and also hooked up the drive belt tensioner. In this picture you can see the crank in its storage position. The next task is making up and installing the ignition points so the one lug Fairmount engine can operate with its characteristic hit and miss "putt-putt" sound.
Art Lempke of the track crew trims back brush along Track 1 West in an effort to beautify the area. Roadmaster Chris Nelson is considering what types of cover to plant to stabilize the embankment.
The last motorcar trip of the day is almost ready to leave to disburse the cut brush into natural areas along the right-of-way where it can decompose and return to nature.
The Way and Structures Department also finished repairs to the 54 cattle pass bridge by sealing the repair to the cracks in the concrete deck and installing a drain tile system for water to run off into the natural creek bed underneath.
© 2020 Fox River Trolley Association
info@foxtrolley.org


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Category Archives: Classical
'You Us We All,' well … I am very disappointed
I wanted to love "You Us We All," the celebrity-citing, pop culture-driven modern opera in Baroque form — in its music, theatrical arc, staging, and costuming — that had its first performance Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater. (You can judge for yourself. Performances continue through Saturday. Buy tickets here.)
After all, I think Shara Worden, a classically trained singer who performs in the pop world as My Brightest Diamond and works the New Music circuit under her given name, wrote the music and is one of the singers.
I didn't know anything much about Andrew Ondrejcak, who wrote the text, directed, and designed the production or about B.O.X. (Baroque Orchestration X), which commissioned the piece and provides the first-rate instrumental ensemble, but had high hopes.
I've frequently enjoyed Worden's work in pop and New Music. And I've been itching for a new work to come along that as exciting and challenging as, say, Thomas Adès' "Powder Her Face." But this piece isn't up to that task.
In fact, "You Us We All" ultimately left me wondering whether I had wasted my evening.
It isn't without merit. The music is lovely, some of the singing is delicious, the chamber orchestra is splendid, and the text is wickedly funny at times. But all those positives created more of a pastiche than a written-through show.
I chalked up my discontent at first to being tired. I found the piece very difficult to follow, and the poorly projected supertitles almost impossible to read from my upper orchestra seat. (You might think supertitles wouldn't be crucial for an English-language production, but you'd be wrong.)
But then I saw members of the opening night audience slipping out early. It's not unheard of at BAM, but audiences there are generally more tolerant and attuned to avant garde work than audiences at, say, the Metropolitan Opera.
I realized I wasn't just being cranky about this when I read Zachary Woolfe's review in The New York Times review, which declares the piece "earnest and eventually tiresome."
Posted in Classical, Concerts, Contemporary, Music, Opera, Review
Tagged Andrew Ondrejcak, B.O.X., BAM, Baroque, Brooklyn Academy of Music, My Brightest Diamond, Shara Worden, You Us We All
Bang on a Can cello star performs at at GARNER Arts Center Friday
Posted on November 8, 2015 | 1 comment
(Ashley Bathgate/Facebook)
If you have an itch to hear one of the best New Music cellists around but hate the thought of traveling to Manhattan or Brooklyn to do it, Nov. 13 is your lucky day — even though it's a Friday the 13th!
Ashley Bathgate, a member of the groundbreaking Bang on a Can All-Stars, brings her talents to the county's own repurposed historic factory complex, the GARNER Arts Center at the Garnerville Arts & Industrial Center. for a one-night-only performance.
Ashley Bathgate performs at GARNER Arts Center on Friday, Nov. 13.
If I weren't committed to working late that evening, I'd be the first in line to get a good seat for what is sure to be an exciting performance by one of my favorite string players.
This won't be her first time playing in an industrial space like GARNER. Bang on a Can members are quite used to such a setting. They run a summer music camp every year at MASS MoCA, the modern art museum that occupies an old factory complex in North Adams, Massachusetts. GARNER has a similar vibe.
Ashley will play amid light and sound installations, including projections by downtown Manhattan art icon M. Henry Jones during the performance.
Check out these videos of Ashley in action. (Scroll past videos for venue and ticket information.)
WHAT: Ashley Bathgate, cellist
WHEN: 6:30 p.m., Friday, Nov. 13, 2015. Opening at 6:30, performance at 7:30. Click here for more information.
WHERE: GARNER Arts Center, 55 W. Railroad Ave., Garnerville.
TICKETS: $15. $13 for seniors, students, military. Buy online by clicking here.
Posted in Art, Classical, Concerts, Contemporary, Music
Tagged Ashley Bathgate, Bang on a Can, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, cello, MASS MoCA
Classical pianist Vladimir Feltsman: Still looking for the sweet spot
Pianist Vladimir Feltsman
Pianist Vladimir Feltsman arrived in the United States a quarter century ago after spending eight years as essentially a nonperson in the Soviet Union, his homeland. After finally being permitted to emigrate to the West, the former refusenik has tried hard to stop talking about those dark days.
After years of playing many concerts every year, he's settled into a schedule of a smaller number of carefully selected appearances, always performing superbly, but always on the hunt for the sweet spot. As he tells me in a conversation for lohud.com/The Journal News: "On some good days — it's not always happening — but when it's happening, it feels great. There's like an exchange of energy, which is very much real and tangible, between public and artist. So when that happens it feels really good."
I spoke with Feltsman in advance of his concert Wednesday evening at Bedford Chamber Concerts (St. Matthews Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall, 382 Cantitoe St., Bedford, NY; 914-522-5150).
Please tap or click here to check out the conversation.
Posted in Classical, Concerts, Interview, Music
Tagged Bedford Chamber Concerts, lohud.com, Russia, The Americans, The Journal News, Vladimir Feltsman
Bangin' it up at the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival
It's a disservice to call Mark Stewart a guitarist. He leads a group at MASS MoCA in making some noise with some of his homemade tubes during the 2010 Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival. (Photo © 2010, Steven P. Marsh)
18 days of fantastic summer music in the Berkshires
Today's subject: MASS MoCA.
I've written a lot lately about the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, especially in the last month or two because of Wilco's splendid Solid Sound Festival, held on the museum campus in North Adams, Mass., in late June.
When Wilco announced the inaugural Solid Sound back in 2010, I pretty much knew it would be great because I had already seen MASS MoCA host many, many editions of the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival — colloquially known at Banglewood.
If you've been a regular reader of Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone?, you already know something about the Bang on a Can program. This summer's program is the 12th annual festival on the beautiful industrial MASS MoCA grounds.
But maybe you're not a musician, or at least not one who wants to participate in the festival. How does this matter to you?
Rain on the MASS MoCA campus. (Photo © 2011, Steven P. Marsh)
That's easy. Festival participants do their learning in public, putting on recitals six days a week and participating in a public Marathon concert on the final day. There's also a performance of Bang on a Can co-founder Julia Wolfe's Steel Hammer, a full-length piece that weaves together the many variations of the John Henry folk legend.
So there's plenty of professional-quality entertainment for people who are just interested in listening and looking at some modern art. (Click through to the jump for schedule and ticketing information.)
Posted in Art, Classical, Concerts, Contemporary, Contemporary Classical, Folk, Jazz, News, Pop and Rock, Recordings, World Music
Tagged Amadou Lamine Touré, Ashley Bathgate, Bang on a Can, Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival, Banglewood, bass, cello, clarinet, Co-Artistic Director, composer, David Cossin, David Lang, electric guitar, G. Schirmer Inc., Gregg August, John Henry, Julia Wolfe, Ken Thomson, Mark Stewart, Michael Gordon, Nicholas Photinos, percussion, piano, Polygraph Lounge, saxophone, Senegalese drumming, Steel Hammer, Todd Reynolds, Vicki Ray, Vicky Chow, violin
Make time for Lincoln Center Out Of Doors | ALL SHOWS FREE
Singer-songwriter Erin McKeown was one of many performers at the 2012 Lincoln Center Out Of Doors festival. (Photo © 2012, Steven P. Marsh)
Stellar summer lineup of free concerts
The flyer for Lincoln Center Out Of Doors arrived in my mailbox the other day. It reminded me that I hadn't posted a single word about this free outdoor concert series yet.
So here goes. It's a super linuep, as always, meticulously planned by Bill Bragin, director of public programming, and his amazing team.
For now, just let me mention a few names: Kronos Quartet, Asphalt Orchestra, Allen Toussaint, Sahr Ngaujah, Dan Deacon, Jherek Bischoff, Jacob Garchik, Dan Zanes and Ozomatli. (Along with Nick Lowe, My Brightest Diamond, Trixie Whitley, James Burton and Desert Blues. And Rubén Blades, Jason Isbell, Sleepy LaBeef and Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra.)
Does that whet your appetite? If not, you're probably reading the wrong blog.
The free outdoor shows start July 24 and run through Aug. 11 at various locations around the Lincoln Center campus on Manhattan's Upper West Side.
Check out the whole lineup by clicking or tapping here (http://bit.ly/15MOo6P).
Posted in Classical, Concerts, Contemporary Classical, Country, Folk, Free, Jazz, Music, News, Pop and Rock, World Music
Tagged Allen Toussaint, Amanda Palmer & Grand Theft Orchestra, Asphalt Orchestra, Bill Bragin, Dan Deacon, Dan Zanes, Desert Blues, Erin McKeown, Jacob Garchik, James Burton, Jason Isbell, Jherek Bischoff, Kronos Quartet, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Manhattan, My Brightest Diamond, Nick Lowe, Ozomatli, Rubén Blades, Sahr Ngaujah, Sleepy LaBeef, Trixie Whitley, Upper West Side
New York Times classical music critic Anthony Tommasini marries
Congratulations to Tony Tommasini and Ben McCommon
Music writer and USC prof Tim Page broke the news on his Facebook page earlier today: New York Times critic Anthony Tommasini married Ben McCommon in Manhattan on Friday.
The couple, who have been together for 21 years, tied the knot at New York City Hall, Page reports, complete with a photo of the happy couple displaying their wedding bands.
McCommon is a 1998 graduate of Columbia University's medical school, is assistant clinical professor of psychiatry at Columbia and attending psychiatrist at NewYork Presbyterian Hospital according to his hospital profile.
Tommasini, a Brooklyn native born in 1948, has been at the Times since 1996. He became chief classical music critic for the paper in 2000. He also is a pianist and the author of two books, Virgil Thomson: Composer on the Aisle, and Opera: A Critic's Guide to the 100 Most Important Works and the Best Recordings.
Posted in Classical, Music, News
Tagged Anthony Tommasini, Ben McCommon, Benjamin McCommon, classical music, gay marriage, marriage equality, music criticism, newspaper, same-sex marriage, The New York Times, Tim Page, Tony Tommasini, TonyTom, Virgil Thomson
Tom Chapin headlines rocking Sandy fundraiser for Piermont TONIGHT!
Veteran singer-songwriter helping to raise money for his own Superstorm Sandy-devastated village
When the doors open at 7 o'clock tonight at The Turning Point, the venerable music club in Piermont, there will be a greater sense of urgency and community than ever inside.
Tom Chapin
A slew of local favorites, including Tom Chapin, a longtime Piermont resident, will rock out starting at 7:30 p.m. to raise money to help get the village back on its feet in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The Old No. 7 Band, Joe Grunfeld from the Riley Etheridge Band, Becky Deloatch and Billy Procida are also on the schedule. And other guests and favorites are sure to show up and join in.
Tickets are just $25, and available here and at the door. Bring extra cash for a 50/50 raffle, too.
The Turning Point is at 468 Piermont Ave. in the heart of Piermont. Call (845) 359-1089 or click here for more information.
It'll be a lot of fun and will help a really worthwhile cause.
Posted in Benefit, Classical, Country, Folk, Jazz, Music, News, Pop and Rock
Tagged 50/50, benefit, Piermont, The Turning Point, Tom Chapin

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The Terry Davidson Story
On April 13th, I was informed that Almont Community Historical Society life-time member, Terry Davidson had passed away.
In the summer of 2017, Terry stopped into the museum. He had come from Colorado Springs, Colorado to attend a relative's 90th birthday celebration (Geraldine Fiebelkorn) at the Almont Community Park. His mother was Barb Dunbar, Class of 1962. His grandparents were Mildred (Min) and William (Bill) Dunbar. Min was the loan officer of the Almont Savings Bank (now PNC Bank). She gave my parents the loan to build our home on Bordman Road.
Bill Dunbar's father, Allen, had come to Almont at the time of World War I. He stayed for a number of months at the Gould Hotel (Harrington/National Hotel), which was located where the Speedway station is located today. Each week the hotel furnished its quest with a copy of the local paper – the Almont Herald. The Almont Herald was a one sheet – four page paper. The hotel's management would put the name of its guests on the upper-right-hand corner of the paper and slip the paper under the guests' door each week.
The Almont Herald was founded in 1875. It merged with the Almont Times (started in 1938) on November 25, 1944 to become the Almont Times-Herald. The archives of the Herald and Times both were destroyed in a fire in 1941. The Times-Herald was renamed the Tri-City Times in 1977.
Terry stopped at the museum because he was a history buff. He told me he occasionally would look on e-Bay for artifacts and memorabilia from Almont. On one of these searches, an Almont Herald from the time of World War I was available. In the upper-right-hand corner there appeared to be a name written in pencil. The name was difficult to read but appeared to be his great-grandfather's. He contacted the seller to determine the name. The seller confirmed that it was his great-grandfather's name but he had sold the paper.
In the spring of 2017, to help Rick Liblong with a story for the Tri-City Times and the creation of a plaque for the Almont men and women who served in World War I, I had reviewed the museum's collection of Almont Heralds. The collection covers from about 1900 to the mid-1930s. Most of these papers were ones saved by the management of the Gould Hotel. They had names penciled in the upper-right-hand corner. These newspapers maybe the only copies of the Almont Heralds in existence for the time prior to the fire in 1941.
As Terry was telling me the story about his e-Bay search, I began to have goose-bumps. I knew I had seen his great-grandfather's name on some of the paper I had reviewed. I asked Terry to follow me into the back office where I still had newspaper waiting to be refiled. I took a newspaper from the desk and handed it to Terry. It was a newspaper from 1917 and had his great-grandfather's name in the upper-right-hand corner. Terry took the newspaper and had goose bumps about the size of golf balls. He was holding a newspaper that his great-grandfather had held almost one hundred years ago.
Almont Herald with Allen Dunbar's name
Before going back to the park to the party, Terry signed up to be a life-time member of the Almont Community Historical Society.
The Society extends its condolences to his widow, Lori.
"Braidwood Farm Named a Centennial Farm" – April 25, 1967
Ferguson Cemetery started – May 20, 1848


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Reuqest your own autumn/winter catalogue today!
Our Indian summer has been replaced with the kind of weather we associate more commonly with autumn (today: rain!) and, if we're lucky enough to be wrapped up warm inside, we can see the natural autumnal flush manifesting itself as deciduous trees prepare to shed their leaves.
The cooler temperatures set off a chain reaction which changes the chemical balance in green leaves - the chlorophyll breaks down leaving natural chemical pigments, like carotene (also responsible for the orange colour in carrots) to give us that classic fall imagery.
Autumn will give the wildlife garden a natural breathing space between long summer nights and crisp winter mornings and it's a wonderful opportunity, too, for garden birders to replace worn out feeders and introduce high-energy bird foods.
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Who Wants Tickets to a UA Basketball Game?
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~SOLD~ LORD LOVAT
Lord Lovat
In the whole of the six long years of the Second World War, Lord Lovat served hardly more than six days in action. And yet he became universally known and accepted as a great war hero.
How, one wonders, could that possibly be? Perhaps quite simply: his was an inspirational personality. Under him, men did more than they could possibly imagine they could do, were braver than they knew themselves to be. Lovat seemed to impersonate a 20th-century Robin Hood, or perhaps more realistically a Rob Roy. With him there lay danger, but also high adventure. He led No 4 Commando group on the raid on Dieppe in 1942, and No 1 Commando Brigade in the D-Day landings in June 1944.
My first close encounter with Lovat was when I was posted to 1st Commando Brigade HQ, stationed at Cowdray Park, Midhurst, in 1943. I was to be his staff captain.
Lovat was standing with his back to the fire, in the big lounge which acted as our officers' mess, chatting to a group. But as soon as I entered he spotted me and called out - "Hey you, you're my staff captain, but I can tell you this, if you're no bloody good you'll be out on your arse before you even know you've started."
Lovat did not have to shout at anyone, his normal speaking voice could have carried across a crowded ballroom. The voice and his stunning good looks were the first thing that struck one.
He had joined the commandos, some time in 1940, after a disagreement with his CO in the Lovat Scouts. When he left he took some of his best men with him. And some of them ended up with him in No 4 Commando. By 1942 he had command of his unit, which, with No 3 Commando, was chosen for the Dieppe landing.
Lovat was no conventional regular soldier. Indeed he was quite the reverse. But he knew how to pull a unit together and enthuse the men with his unique form of leadership. He was demanding. He trained his men intensely. He was completely intolerant of inefficiency. And ruthless when he had to be. He had me, so to speak, on my toes from the word go. It was like that with everyone. But, withal there was a debonair, almost romantic air about him, which intrigued and brought the best out of one.
In the Dieppe raid, his plan for the capture of the Varengeville battery was masterly. And proved brilliantly successful. Yet he had to fight the orthodox planning from above tenaciously to get his His was the choice of the landing beaches. And the successful scaling of the formidable cliffs and the fierce bloody attack and hand-to-hand fighting to take the battery were a model of what a commando raid from the sea could be. Every gun was silenced. And although the main attack on the harbour was a disaster, it could have been much worse if the guns had not been so successfully silenced.
When the brigade began its preparation for the D-Day landings he devoted himself almost entirely to training. And when eventually No 1 Commando Brigade landed on Sword Red Beach it was probably as perfect a fighting force as could be found anywhere. By "D" plus Six, after more than four days' continuous fighting, Lovat was desperately wounded. He calmly handed over, gave orders that not a step back should be taken, then called for a priest and was evacuated. Those who saw him then could not believe he could possibly survive.
At Sword Beach he had landed his small Tac HQ with one unit at "H" plus 30 (30 minutes after zero hour), while the rest of the brigade followed on some 40 minutes later. Nearly half his band were casualties before we even landed. He took an appalling risk, but no one queried it. Scrambling up the battle- littered beach to join him, we crouched beneath the 80lb Bergen rucksacks and, we hoped, beneath of the flak the enemy were hurling at us. When we reached the sand-dunes at the top of the beach I looked up and saw Lovat standing, completely at ease, taking in the scene around him. Instinctively I stood up straight and reported all ready and correct. With a nod he turned on his heel and led Brigade HQ inland towards Pegasus Bridge and, as it happened, slap through a wired- off area, clearly marked minefields. We followed literally in his footsteps.
Under fire, he seemed to be completely at ease; almost contemptuous of the enemy's worst efforts. Of course he was not really so. He was highly intelligent and knew full well what danger he might be in. In charge alone by "D" plus Four, after seemingly endless shelling and attack, with nearly one-third of the brigade casualties, he knew better than any one of us how near we were to annihilation.
Gay, debonair, inspirational, and yes, lovable - arrogant, ruthless, at times terrifying, his personality is too complex to explain. Perhaps we should not try to, and simply remember that he was a Lovat.
Max Harper Gow
Shimi Lovat's military background ran back through generations of Frasers, including Simon Fraser, known as the Patriot, hung drawn and quartered at Tower Hill at Edward I's orders, and Simon Lovat, beheaded after the 1745 rebellion, writes Louis Jebb.
His father, Simon Fraser, 16th Lord Lovat, was himself a distinguished soldier, raising the Lovat Scouts in the South African War, and commanding the Highland Mounted Brigade during the First World War. In the same war the infant Shimi lost three uncles killed at the front as well as his godfather, Julian Grenfell, author of the celebrated war poem "Into Battle".
The Master of Lovat, as he was styled in his father's lifetime, was educated by Benedictine monks at Ampleforth College, in Yorkshire, and at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he studied history. His father died in 1933 at a point-to-point meeting near Oxford, where Shimi had won a race earlier in the day, leaving him to inherit the title, the chiefdom of the Clan Fraser of Lovat, and an estate in Inverness-shire amounting to nearly 200,000 acres. He was 22.
His parents had made Beaufort Castle, overlooking the river Beauly, not just the seat at the heart of this great Scottish estate, but a second home for diverting visitors including Fr Ronald Knox, a brilliant scholar and for many years the Roman Catholic chaplain at Oxford University who came to Beaufort for his leave, and the novelist Maurice Baring, like Knox a convert to Roman Catholicism who spent much of the summer at Beaufort writing in the Twenties and Thirties.
Shimi and his siblings delighted in their company (the ebullient Baring encouraged them, in fact bribed them, to behave as badly as possible at meal-times). The two elder of Shimi's sisters, Magdalen and Veronica, were known as Catholic beauties of their day; Magdalen married to the Earl of Eldon and Veronica first to Alan Phipps, killed in action in 1943, and then to the writer Sir Fitzroy Maclean, and herself a journalist, cookery writer and editor. His younger brother Hugh, no less glamorous a figure than Shimi and with just as commanding a voice, made his name in politics, as Conservative MP for Stone and a government minister. And then there was their sister Rose, who died at the age of 14 and whose extraordinary character and spirituality is caught in a passage from Shimi Lovat's autobiography, March Past (1978), and in the poem "Rose" dedicated to her by her godfather Hilaire Belloc.
As they travelled as children on the train to the highlands, their mother, Laura, would read to them Scottish tales and legends and teach them the names of the places they passed. The atmosphere at Beaufort at the time is well caught in her own book Maurice Baring: a Postscript (1947), which takes the story up to the Second World War when Baring moved to Eilean Aigas, a house on an island in the river Beauly, where Laura Lovat nursed Baring to his death in 1945, and where he acted as a wise comfort to the family's grief after Rose's death and that of Alan Phipps and, as Lovat puts it in his autobiography, "an inspiration to the younger generation in uniform".
Lovat's career in uniform dated back to 1932, when he joined the Scots Guards immediately after university. He left the army in 1937, and took Beaufort over from his mother the following year, after his marriage to Rosamond Delves Broughton. Tragically, much of the treasures of Beaufort were destroyed at this time in a catastrophic fire that gutted the picture gallery and the library.
With the outbreak of war, he joined the Lovat Scouts, the regiment his father had founded, before transferring to the groups which were formed into the commandos. In 1941, the year before the raid on Dieppe, Lovat led his commandos on the raid on theLofoten Islands, off Norway, sinking 12 ships, destroying factories and setting fire to petrol and oil depots. He was awarded the Military Cross for his part in a reconnaissance raid on Boulogne and the DSO after the raid on Dieppe, and promoted lieutenant- colonel in 1942 and Brigadier in 1943.
Lovat was appointed Joint Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs in the caretaker government in 1945, but forsook politics at the end of that year to devote himself to forestry and breeding shorthorn cattle at Beaufort. He travelled widely on clan business and for big-game hunting, and spoke on Highland affairs in the House of Lords. In the 1960s he made over Beaufort Castle and most of his estates to his eldest son, Simon, Master of Lovat, as a hedge against inheritance tax or the chance of his repeating his father's early demise.
One of the heroes of Shimi Lovat's autobiography is his maternal grandfather, Tommy Lister, fourth Lord Ribblesdale, Master of the Queen's Buck Hounds, who was the subject of a famous portrait by John Singer Sargent: a tall, slim figure in full hunting fig and top hat set at a raffish angle. "In his patrician looks," Lovat writes, "lay the essence of nobility". And there is a striking similarity in the figures cut by grandfather and grandson. Lovat also touches on his mother's inheriting from her father his European tastes, his classic looks, slim figure and long tapering hands.
In the last 12 months of his life he needed to match his mother's staunch resignation in the face of tragedy - she lost two brothers in the First World War, a husband young, as well as a son-in-law and beloved daughter during the Second. A year ago Lovat's youngest son, Andrew Fraser, was killed by a charging buffalo while on safari in Africa, while his eldest son, Simon, died of a heart attack a fortnight later. After the latter's death it was revealed that he had suffered serious business losses and left large debts on the Beaufort estates that have been for so long associated with the name of Lovat.
Simon Christopher Joseph Fraser, soldier, landowner: born 9 July 1911; styled 1911-33 Master of Lovat; succeeded 1933 as 17th Lord Lovat and 24th Chief of Clan Fraser of Lovat; DSO 1942; MC 1942; DL 1942; JP 1944; married 1938 Rosamond Delves Broughton (two sons, two daughters, and two sons deceased); died Beauly, Inverness-shire 16 March 1995.
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Lord Lovat: he was a giant among giants on D-Day
The Fraser clan were proud to erect a new memorial to Lord 'Shimi' Lovat, who led the Commandos ashore on Sword Beach
There were 200 of us at Ouistreham on Sword Beach – Fraser family and clan, French and British dignitaries, a Scots Guards piper, standard bearers and a few veteran French commandos. We were gathered in Normandy to unveil a bronze statue in memory of my father-in-law, Brigadier Lord Lovat, Commander 1st Commando Brigade, and all those who served under him, including 200 Free French.
Shimi's leadership qualities were tested to the limit on D-Day. The mission of 1st Commando Brigade – or 1st Special Service Brigade, as it was known in June 1944 – was to break through German defences on the eastern side of Sword Beach. At lightning speed, they were to fight their way four miles inland to Pegasus Bridge over the Caen Canal, and bring reinforcements to the 6th Airborne Division, relieving the glider-borne troops who had taken the bridge at dead of night.
Shimi and his commandos arrived just after the appointed hour of midday, to the swirl of pipes. He famously apologised for being two minutes late. The bridges were crucial; at the push of a detonator, the Germans could have destroyed them. With the Allied supply lines cut, the invasion could have foundered.
Plunging into further battles, Shimi was nearly killed four days later by Allied shrapnel and was given the last rites by Father René de Naurois. His last words as he handed over his brigade were: "Take over the Brigade and not a step back; not a step back!"
Members of the de Naurois family joined us at the unveiling ceremony. Afterwards, Arlette Gondrée, whose family owns the café beside Pegasus Bridge, hosted a lunch for us all. Her parents helped those who resisted the German occupation and, as a young child, she lived with an acrid smell of skin, cordite and blood as the wounded were carried in secret on to the kitchen table.
She remembers D-Day vividly; playing in the garden beside the canal, hearing Millin's bagpipes as they came ever closer. The French had been so traumatised by the Occupation but it dawned on her, even at the tender age of five, that this was an extraordinary moment. Perhaps the end of hunger was in sight.
Her father started digging up the champagne that he had hidden from the Germans – 1,000 bottles in all. As Shimi arrived, during a lull in the crossfire, he was offered a glass. He thanked his host profusely but declined, explaining he was at work.
Arlette's cafe has become her personal shrine to D-Day. She is the keeper of her own archives, photos and memorabilia; her walls are covered with photos of the heroes she admires so much. Hers is a sacred mission: to explain to young visitors what sacrifice a whole generation made for the freedoms we enjoy today, and to keep their memories alive. And it is thanks to her, and the community of Ouistreham, that the statue of Shimi is standing so proudly today in the memorial garden on Sword Beach. But it was one small boy in Los Angeles who ignited the project.
I was in California with my eight-year-old grandson, Roscoe, and we were watching The Longest Day, the Hollywood classic that tells the story of D-Day (Peter Lawford plays Shimi). Roscoe expressed a wish to see where his great-grandfather had landed.
In May 2013, we trooped off to Normandy and remet Arlette Gondrée. She immediately told me that Leon Gautier, president of the 4th Commando Association, a Free French fighter who landed with Shimi, wanted the Fraser family to raise money for a statue of Shimi in time for the 70th anniversary celebrations. So, too, she added, did the people of Ouistreham.
Time was very short. We had only eight months before the sculpture had to be in the foundry. With the help of family, friends and clan members, we managed to raise the five-figure sum required for the commission. Over five, or was it six, trips by ferry to France, I first persuaded the local mayor to give his blessing, then chose the spot for the plinth, and made other arrangements, including making sure that Leon Gautier could be there at the unveiling.
Four weeks before the planned date there was a huge lurch to the Right in the local elections and the mayor was ousted. In fear for our carefully laid plans, my sister-in-law and I rushed over once more to meet the new incumbent, Monsieur Bail, just 28. All was well, he reassured us, but he was distracted. Ouistreham was planning something far bigger – the 70th anniversary commemorative visit of so many world leaders.
Today, Shimi will be standing guard alongside them, facing three-quarters towards France and a quarter back to Britain. I couldn't have had him turning his back on us. Nor us on him, and the many like him who on D-Day dedicated their lives so we could have ours.
Lord Lovat (1911-1995) died at Beauly, Inverness-shire
It is a magnificent spot – the garden well-tended, the sands golden – and, on the day we gathered there, the sea glimmered. As the veil was gently drawn from the statue, a Fraser cousin read those famous lines from the Commando prayer: "Teach us to give and not to count the cost/ To fight and not to heed the wounds/ To toil and not to seek for rest ... We will remember them." There wasn't a dry eye among us.
I had been very keen that the young be included in this gathering of the clan. And so 35 scampering Fraser children, dressed in tartan trews and kilts, along with the family terrier, a tartan ribbon in his collar, all stood still at that moment.
I pictured Shimi, on the eve of D-Day, then 32, addressing his troops after prayers. The service was over, and the men had been kneeling on sodden turf in driving rain in a Hampshire field. "I wish you all the best of luck in what lies ahead," he had told them. "This will be the greatest military venture of all time; the Commando Brigade has an important role to play and 100 years from now your children's children will say, 'They must have been giants in those days'."
Our thoughts also turned to a generation of tough, brave young men, only a little older than our scampering children. They had leaped into those icy seas on D-Day, sometimes out of their depth and unable to swim, bowed down by their mountainous backpacks. They had fought their way up the beaches, seeing friends being blown to smithereens around them. Operation Overlord had begun. These indomitable young men had come to liberate Europe.
As 24th Chieftain of Clan Fraser, Shimi – MacShimidh to give him his Gaelic title – was born into leadership. It was in his genes (David Stirling, his cousin, founded the SAS). Resilient, tough, charismatic, he believed in public service and in serving his country, but he also had a literary, almost poetic bent. Commanding and dashing, he exuded confidence that instilled courage in those around him.
"The handsomest man to cut a throat" was how Winston Churchill once described him. He had the best posture of anyone I have met. Ian Rank-Broadley's sculpture captures it brilliantly. We chose Ian for the commission because he is first and foremost a military sculptor, with real knowledge and understanding of fighting men and women. His work at the Armed Forces Memorial in Staffordshire is remarkable.
The statue is in a small memorial garden, no bigger than the German bunker that stood on the spot 70 years ago. There, at 6.50am on June 6 1944, "Shimi" Lovat led his men into battle on D-Day, all of them buoyed by his personal piper, Bill Millin, playing Highland Laddie and Scotland The Brave.
The unveiling took place last month. In an ideal world, it would have happened on the precise anniversary, but the garden is small and today will play host to the Queen, President Obama, Chancellor Merkel, Prime Minister Cameron and President Putin as they pay tribute not just to Shimi and his men, but to all of those who gave their lives.
By Virginia Fraser
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Two of my Favorite Things!
Everyone knows Valentine's Day is in February. For some, it slips up on them, but for the most part, they can still run out and pick up a beautiful heart shaped box of delectable chocolates, find a romantic card, if they are really running late you might even get an exquisite piece of jewelry. It seems the closer to the day (or hour) the more guilt there is and the better the gift!
Enjoy the annual Chocolate Walk in Athens.
Here is a way you can escape the 'honey I've been so busy' or 'it just comes to close after to Christmas for me to remember everything' excuses. Athens Main Street will be having their Chocolate Walk on February 11th Downtown Athens where you can go as a couple for a wonderful night. You do purchase a $5 ticket to participate, however the enjoyment of going to each merchant to receive a scrumptious chocolate delight until you fill your box, will… well, be a new experience then and possibly later!
Make sure you go to our new Lucius or LuVici's for a romantic dinner or to Village Pizza to see what they have on the menu to temp your palate and show off your collection of tasty bonbons while you are out!
But did you know February is also our Black History Month?
Black History Month is an annual observance in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom for remembrance of important people and events in the history of the African diaspora. It is celebrated annually in the United States and Canada in February and in the United Kingdom in October.
The precursor to Black History Month was created in 1926 in the United States, when historian Carter G. Woodson and the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History announced the second week of February to be "Negro History Week." This week was chosen because it coincided with the birthday of Abraham Lincoln on February 12 and of Frederick Douglass on February 14, both of which dates Black communities had celebrated together since the late 19th century.
Trinity School, circa 1930
In Limestone County we have relevance of our Black History. In 2015 Trinity School was revitalized and opened as the Pincham-Lincoln Community Center. The center is part of Trinity School; Limestone County's only all-black high school until the Limestone County School System was ordered by a federal judge to integrate in 1970 or face $3,000 a day fine for each day the system remained segregated.
The site served as a Union Civil War fort called Fort Henderson (built in 1863) and was situated on Coleman Hill. It was a five-sided earthen fort with some frame buildings and underground bomb-proofs. Abatis lined the 15-foot deep perimeter ditch, a small portion of which is still visible today. It was here that runaway slaves fought and were captured by Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest.
After the war, missionary Mary Fletcher Wells established Trinity to educate former slaves. The school educated black students from 1930 through the 1970s and was the first school in the northern half of the state to provide kindergarten instruction for blacks. Among its most prominent students was world renowned singer Patti Malone. The school served the community until integration and then fell into disrepair.
Trinity High School class of 1935
The Athens-Limestone Community Association started an effort to save the remaining part of the fort and some of the school. The City of Athens obtained a $290,000 Community Development Block Grant from ADECA to build the Pincham-Lincoln Community Center to serve the community with educational, cultural and other programs.
ALCA raised the match money and secured $25,000 from Athens-Limestone County Tourism to save the old band room from being destroyed. It will eventually become a museum and archives facility for the site.
The project received support from other various facets of the community from Trinity staff and students, City of Athens, Limestone County Commission, the Limestone County Legislative Delegation, Athens Rotary, NAACP, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Resource Conservation and Development Council, and many others.
Poke Sallet Follies
Hallmark of Spring "Poke Sallet Follies" Returns for 25th Year
Past Post Sallet performance. Don't miss this years!
A hallmark of Spring in the Athens-Limestone community takes music, quirky skits and a variety of local elected officials and community stewards and puts them on stage in "Poke Sallet Follies". This annual benefit fundraiser for The Athens Foundation on Aging enables many programs and services offered to community seniors including Meals On Wheels and the insurance information assistance program.
As "Poke Sallet Follies" marks its 25th Anniversary this year, audiences continue to enjoy the "poking" that many of the local officials and community members endure or deliver. Whether it be gents dressed in hula skirts performing - or attempting to perform - a perilous dance of the Pacific; an "utterly" ridiculous superhero or satirical take on a Top 40 hit -- dinner guest have walked away happy and often with sore sides.
This year's "Poke Sallet Follies" will occur March 2nd, 3rd and 4th but don't hesitate to get tickets to this annually sold out event. Ticket sales begin February 4th at 10:00AM at the Athens Senior Center at 912 West Pryor Street in Athens. Tickets are $35.00 each and include dinner with the show that will run from 6:00PM-8:00PM. Out-of-town guest wishing to attend and are unable to pickup tickets in person may call 256-232-0323. Any remaining tickets from the February 4th ticket sale day will be available from 8:30AM-4:30PM Monday-Friday at the Athens Senior Center beginning February 6th.
2017 Chili Challenge
On February 18th, 2017, Hospice of Limestone County will be hosting their 29th annual Chili Challenge and Silent Auction at Athens High School from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. This event is solely a fundraising event for Hospice of Limestone County but brings the community together for a time of fun and great food! Hospice of Limestone County is a non-profit organization which is located in Athens, Alabama. This community based organization is dedicated to provide for the families of the terminally ill through both care and support.
The Chili Challenge will consist of over 30 individual groups and their most famous recipes. And guess what? You get to try them all! So be sure to come hungry. This event will also consist of a Silent Auction that will be accepting donations of goods or services. Hospice is looking for sponsors that will only have to make a simple monetary donation to this event before the Silent Auction takes place. Tickets are $10 per person and children under the age of 10 are FREE.
The variety and bold tastes in each pot of chili is sure to make your taste buds go crazy! There will be musical entertainment along with children's activities throughout the event for you to enjoy while sampling chili and bidding at the silent auction. Hospice has strived to help the families in the Athens community and hopes to have your support in this event. Even if you are only able to make it to the event but not donate or compete in the chili challenge, everyone is invited for a time of fun, food, and support for Hospice of Limestone County!
All donations from this event will go towards meeting financial needs that will help serve families of Limestone County who require care by Hospice and assistance. Monies will also go towards the services needed to help children in their time of grieving. Be sure to bring the entire family to enjoy this event and give back to an organization that strives to help those in need.
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(Children 10 and under are FREE)
Arise and Build
Press release written by:
Kristina L. Hendrix, APR - ALCA Public Relations
256-777-9414 - kristinalhendrix@yahoo.com
The compelling story of Trinity School, founded in 1865 by white northern missionaries for the education of freed slaves, takes the stage on Feb. 3rd in a dramatic musical production that is informative, uplifting, entertaining and inspiring. Arise and build returns by popular demand after last February's four performances were sold out, leaving many unable to obtain tickets.
Directed by newly elected Athens City Councilman Frank Travis and produced by Carolyn Williams, Arise and Build is framed by the fictional Fletcher family (played by Denver Betts, Cynthia Hines, Rebecca Brooks, and Jaylon Hammonds) planning a trip back to Athens to attend a function at patriarch James Fletcher's alma mater. Mr. Fletcher's reminiscences take his children (and the audience) on a voyage from 1865 and the founding of Trinity by Mary Fletcher Wells (played by Judy Harvey and Terri DaCruz); to 1879 and the foundation of the Trinity School Society for the purpose of making brick for a new school; to the meeting of three early Trinity graduates (Fisk Jubilee Singer Patti Malone, played by Angela Hughes; Lavinia Harris Williams, Trinity's first African-American teacher, played by Tanya Townsend; and career educator Alice Vasser LaCour, played by Keona Shoulders) to eulogize their principal's death in 1892.
As the Fletchers continue their time-travel, we meet legendary principal Louise Allyn (played by Jackie Jackson) and teacher Mary Perkins (played by Kay Burlingame), Trinity's two longest-tenured educators, and hear their accounts of school burnings, trips into the countryside to visit students' homes, and the effects of World War I upon life at Trinity.
One scene, warmly received by last year's audiences, depicts 1940 graduate Robert Penn, who walked 60 miles a week to and from school, staying after-hours to earn his tuition. Penn (played by James Lane) describes movingly how principal Allyn "commissioned" her students to go out and improve the lot of their own people. Under her influence, Penn became a probate judge.
The highlight of the production comes as the cast gathers on a Depression-era Sunday at Trinity Congregational Church (founded by Miss Wells in 1871) where the visiting Sister Lucy Dimwitty (played by Mary Freeman) blows them away first with her humor, and then with her singing voice. A special feature of that scene is the song, Somethin' 'Bout Sunday Morning, written by Jerome Malone, brother of Bryant Malone who is Arise and Build's musical director, leading the approximately 30-member chorus in stirring spirituals like Oh, Mary Don't You Weep and Motherless Child that hearken back to Trinity's early days.
This year's two new cast members, Tiffany Malone and her daughter Janaya, are also a part of the Malone musical legacy known nationwide for gospel a cappella singing.
Performances are set for 7 p.m. on Friday, Feb. 3; 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4; and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 5, at Friendship Church, 16479 Lucas Ferry Road. Tickets are $25 each, available in Athens at The Sweetest Things Tea Room, 216 W Market St., and Square Clock Coffee, 121 S Marion St.; in Tanner from Head 2 Toe Salon, 19785 Huntsville-Browns Ferry Rd.; and in Huntsville from Verge Beauty Salon, 6140 University Drive, Suite F.
Proceeds benefit the Trinity/Fort Hampton Complex. For additional information, contact Carolyn Williams, Production Manager: 256-777-9727
Athens Parks and Recreation
A Message from Ben Wiley, Director
The city parks systems are alive and well. In 2016, it appeared that we had record participation in our parks. Parks are an obvious quality of life issue and a vital part of the community. In 2016, we took a step in a positive direction in renovating the parks. We added shade structures to Jimmy Gill Park, new picnic tables to Wellness Park, and upgraded All Kids Park, formerly Kids Dugout. We added a sidewalk on the North side of Big Spring Park along with park benches.
All of these improvements were done in an effort to maintain and increase quality of life and encourage free recreational interaction within our community. Fortunately, we have received very positive feedback for our efforts in our park system.
Along with the help of our city planner we will create a comprehensive master plan for our park system that includes landscape upgrades and discussion for opportunity of additional parks. Also,opportunities to add additional amenities to the parks such as: splash pads, a featured dog park, and a pickle ball court just to name a few.
Recreation is at an all-time high for the City of Athens. Our local league recreational program numbers are at a record high. Our weekend travel recreational programs are also at a record high. My thoughts are to continue that trend adding 4 new multi-use ball fields long with batting cages, concessions, press box, and shade structures.
With the help of the mayor and city council, I plan to move forward in building a new recreational center. These new features will increase participation in our local leagues during the week and also give us an opportunity to host more weekend travel recreation. The goal is to increase quality of life and have a positive economic
impact on our community.
Athens Parks & Recreation is excited to announce the addition of four new multi-use ball fields at the Sportsplex. The new ball fields will have dirt infields, allowing them to be used for baseball or softball.
The new facility will also include a concession / press box along with a hospitality room, restrooms, batting cages, and shade structures. They will primarily be used by our local league teams throughout the week. A variety of travel tournaments will be hosted on the weekends. The fields will be located just east of the South Pod fields and are expected to be ready for play by Spring 2018.
This $2.6 million project not only means growth for recreation but also growth for Athens. The extra facilities will allow Athens to host larger tournaments with more teams coming from outside Alabama.
In 2018, we are looking to host tournaments with as many as 50 teams; currently, our tournaments are averaging 20 teams with as many as half local. More visitors mean more revenue for Athens, and not just in recreation. Lodging and restaurants will get the biggest boost, but shopping centers and gas stations are sure to feel the impact as well.
Ben Wiley
Director—Cemetery, Parks & Recreation
Jan 16th - MLK Jr. Essay Contest Challenges Students to Find Ways to Promote Freedom and Justice
Students can share their ideas for promoting freedom and justice as part of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Essay Contest.
The contest is held in conjunction with the Limestone County NAACP, City of Athens and Limestone County Commission and is for students in Athens and Limestone County. There are cash prizes for first, second and third place in three age categories. Winners will read their essays at the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Holiday Program on Jan. 16 at 9:30 a.m. at the Limestone County Event Center.
The age groups and their themes are as follows:
● Ages 6 - 12
Martin Luther King, Jr. gave a historic speech titled "I have a Dream." What was his dream for freedom and justice? What progress has been made toward the dream? What can you do to promote freedom and justice in your home, school and community?
● Ages 13 - 15
Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." Why is it important for each individual to promote justice in order to advance the dream?
Martin Luther King, Jr. wrote a letter titled "Letter from a Birmingham Jail." In this letter he said, "It is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. It is just as wrong...to use moral means to preserve immoral ends." How does this quote relate to advancing the dream of freedom and justice in America?
Here are the requirements for essay submissions:
● Must be a student attending a school in Athens or Limestone County.
● No more than one page in length and typed or written legibly.
● The student must write the essay. Counselors and parents may assist but the essay should be the words and thoughts of the student.
● Include the student's name, age and a phone number on the upper right corner of the essay.
● The essay will be judged on clarity, content, grammar and how well the theme is developed based on age
of the writer.
● The winners in each category will read their essays during the MLK program on Jan. 16, 2017, 9:30 a.m.
at the Limestone County Event Center.
● The first, second and third place winners in each age group will receive a cash award.
If you have any questions contact Benard Simelton at 256-426-6406 or 256-444-1300.
Deadline for submissions is Jan. 9. Please email essays to MLK Essay Contest, P.O. Box 1071, Athens, AL 35612 or hand deliver to Vicky Dowd at City Hall in the Mayor's Office.
Calhoun College MLK Celebration
Calhoun Community College will pay tribute to slain civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. during the college's annual celebration program scheduled for Thursday, January 19, 2017. This year's program, hosted by the college's Black Student Alliance (BSA), will begin at 11 a.m. on Calhoun's Decatur campus in the Aerospace Training Center (ATC). The program is free and open to the public.
Featured speaker for this year's program is civil rights activist, educator, and minister Dr. Frederick Douglas Reese. A native of Selma, Alabama, Reese is known as a member of Selma's "Courageous Eight," and was president of the Dallas County Voters League (DCVL) when that organization invited the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Dr. King to Selma to amplify the city's local voting rights campaign. Reese was portrayed by E. Roger Mitchell in Ava DuVernay's 2014 film, Selma.
This campaign eventually gave birth to the Selma to Montgomery marches, which later led to the passage of the Voting Rights Act. Reese was also president of the Selma Teachers Association, and in January 1965, he mobilized Selma's teachers to march as a group for their right to vote. Reese retired from teaching in 2001, and in December 2015, he has retired from the pastorate of Selma's Ebenezer Missionary Baptist Church, where he served faithfully for 50 years.
Reese graduated from Alabama State University, where he majored in math and science. He received a Master's degree in education from Livingston University and two degrees from Selma University: a Doctorate of Divinity and an educational specialist's degree.
In 1960, Reese moved back home to Selma, started teaching science and math at R. B. Russell High School, and joined the Dallas County Voters League, the major civil rights organization in Selma since the state of Alabama started actively suppressing the NAACP in 1956. Two years after joining the DCVL, he was elected as its president.
Reese has been married to the former Alline Prossing, for 63 years. They are the proud parents of 5 children and now reside in their beloved city of Selma, Alabama.
For more information on Calhoun's MLK program, contact the college's Dean of Student Affairs office at 256/306-2614 or the Public Affairs, Community Relations and Institutional Advancement office at 256/306-2560.
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Q: How to find duplicated data in the same table using script i need to fine duplicated users in my USERS table and insert to different table the user_id and the duplicated user_id.
I build this script and i don't know what's wrong in it.
BEGIN
FOR  v_user IN (
                  SELECT u.*
                  FROM users u
                  )
loop
       FOR v_dupUser IN (
                           SELECT u.*
                           FROM users u
                           WHERE u.email = v_user.email
                                 OR u.mobile_phone = v_user.mobile_phone
                                 OR u.land_line_phone = v_user.mobile_phone
                           )
       loop
           INSERT INTO DUPLICATES_USERS(id, user_id, dup_user_id,time_created)
           VALUE (SEQ_DUPLICATED_USERS, v_user.id, v_DupUser,SYSDATE);
       end loop;
end loop;
END;

Thanks for your help.

A: I would be more including to go down a path like this;
insert into duplicated_users
 (select a.user_id user_id,
 b.user_id dup_user_id
 from users a
  , users b
 where (a.email = b_user.email
   OR a.mobile_phone = b_user.mobile_phone
   OR a.land_line_phone = b_user.mobile_phone)
  and a.user_id != b.user_id);

A: i think you have to use following query.
insert into duplicated_user
(
    select * from [USER] where
       user_id in (select user_id
                     from [USER]
                     group by user_id having count(user_id) > 1)
)

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