Santa visits Ottawa Area Center students with special needs
Holland Junior Welfare League volunteers joined Santa on December 3 at Ottawa Area Center to deliver personalized gifts, crafts, games, and holiday cheer for students ages 3 to 26 with cognitive impairments. OAISD’s OAISD OAC director highlighted yearly activities and 20 years of league support.
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Holland Junior Welfare League
HJWL
Santa
Ottawa Area Center
OAC
JoAnne Thorsen
Thorsen
Ottawa Area
Ottawa Area Intermediate School District
OAISD
Oaisd.org
Fennville Rebekah Lodge active in community service
The Radient Rebekah Lodge No 307 in Fennville Michigan had a productive year serving Southwest Michigan. Mary Lou Bailey was named 2019 Rebekah of the Year for Michigan. Members donated pies to Holland Rescue Mission for Thanksgiving and volunteered at the Blue Star Mothers Holiday Packaging event in Paw Paw. They supported a family via Sylvia's Place Allegan and contributed to postal costs. The lodge aided the Odd Fellow and Rebekah Camp in Baldwin and promoted Swiss steak fundraisers resuming in spring.
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Rebekah Lodge
Fennville
Michigan
Mary Lou Bailey
State of
Rebekah
Holland Rescue Mission
Blue Star
Paw Paw Veteran’s Club
Lodge No. 307
Sylvia
Allegan
Baldwin
Rebekah Lodge No. 307
Kay Brush
Jane Nally
Marlynn Starling
Janet Stappenbeck
Katie Phelps
Edie Cochran
Connie Dibble Noble
Lisa Mearing
Donna Earl
Sue Herron
Julie Jeffrey
Joyce Sherrell
Audrey Foss
Jan Woods
Amanda Nelson
Dortha Earl
Robin Phelps
Today in history highlights span centuries and events
A compact recap notes milestones from 1620 Mayflower landings to 2019 hospital births. It lists anniversaries including Patton’s death in 1945 and Lockerbie bombing in 1988, plus Pope Francis 2018 remarks and celebrity ages Phil Donahue 84 Jane Fonda 82 Chris Evert 65.
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Commonwealth of Independent States
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
Pam Am
Lockerbie
Scotland
Bethlehem
Obama
Pope Francis
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Sentinel Staff
Sixth Reformed Church
Gerrit de Weerd
Marie Hieftje
Plymouth
Massachusetts
Abraham Lincoln
William T. Sherman
Savannah
Georgia
James Naismith
International Ymca Training School
Springfield
Cape Town
South Africa
Anne Bancroft
Dustin Hoffman
Embassy Pictures
Vince Lombardi
Washington Redskins
Dallas Cowboys
Phil Donahue
Jane Fonda
Chris Evert
Kiefer Sutherland
Zeeland Hospital
Spectrum Health
Eliana Joy
Joshua and
Rachel Pipe
Zeeland
Luca Calvin
Todd
Sarah Boetsma
Ozias Luis Marroquin- Mendozsa
Haley Marroquin-Mendoza
Holland
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!