August 2005

Goodyear Blimp Enterprise N1A Type GZ-20A

Goodyear Blimp “Enterprise” in Flight Over Washtenaw County in 1985

August 12, 2005 Dell Deaton

In mid-August of 1985, the Goodyear Blimp Enterprise, N1A routinely flew over various parts of Saline while moored at the Ann Arbor Airport. It’s shown here over the Washtenaw Farm Council fairgrounds in Lodi Township, ….

Mother's Day— via Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (September 16, 1953): "Sermons – Billy Graham on the Need for Godly Mothers," 13:27-minute audio recording, free online. 'If we had more Christian mothers, we would have less delinquency, less immorality, less ungodliness and fewer broken homes.' Listen to Billy Graham’s Mother’s Day…

– May 9, 2022
via Jesus Calling (2004), by Sarah Young— "I am with you, watching over you constantly ...." Matthew 1:23 "Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call His name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us" [King James Version] Psalm 34:5…

– May 29, 2022
National Day of Prayer— "How to Pray for America," via National Day of Prayer: Why pray for America? God is sovereign and nothing comes as a surprise to Him. Whether we face fluctuating economics, threats from abroad, unrest at home, or other troubling circumstances, our Heavenly Father is not caught…

– May 5, 2022
via Southern Baptist Convention (February 26, 2019)— "Who's Your One?" Day 10: Romans 10:1-3, "Brothers, my heart's desire and prayer to God for them is that they may be saved. For I bear them witness that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. For, being ignorant of…

– July 24, 2022
via Samaritan's Purse (March 28, 2022)— "Franklin Graham Meets with Samaritan's Purse Team in Ukraine": Work continues as fighting rages in eastern Europe. Franklin Graham, president of Samaritan’s Purse, traveled to Ukraine this past weekend to meet with our teams who have been at work there since the early stages…

– April 3, 2022
via Baptist Beacon (February 2, 2022)— "The difference in knowing and loving," by Mike Durbin, State Evangelism Director for the Baptist State Convention of Michigan, re Famed jeweler Harry Winston: A customer entered Winston’s store in New York City to buy a special diamond. One of his salesmen, his most knowledgeable…

– February 13, 2022
Resurrection Sunday— In anticipation of this day, Reverend Brett Younger of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn New York recently wrote, "... people in the United States will wish Easter felt like it did three years ago. They will put on new shoes and wonder if .... On Easter Sunday, people in…

– April 17, 2022
via Lifeway Research (February 15, 2022)— "Most Pastors See Racial Diversity in the Church as a Goal but Not Reality," by Marissa Postell: Most Protestant pastors say every church should strive to achieve racial diversity, but few are achieving it .... There are also differences between what African American pastors are…

– February 20, 2022
via Baptist Beacon (April 1, 2022)— "Inwardly strong, outwardly focused," by Mike Durbin, State Evangelism Director for the Baptist State Convention of Michigan: Legendary football coach, Vince Lombardi, started the first day of the Green Bay Packers training camp in 1961 with a football in his right hand and these words:…

– April 10, 2022

Checking dress for work on 1920s White electric sewing machine

Make Sure Your Dress Is Right Before Stepping Onto The Saline’s Summerfest Trolley For Tour Guide Duty This Year

August 2, 2018

What comes to mind when you think of Saline’s Summerfest? Or its car show? Or, in this case, its trolley? [1] Sometimes it’s nice to pull back the curtain and show a bit of the process that goes into the seeming effortlessness of delivering wonderful substance. Sometimes it’s the littlest things — things you might never notice, unless they weren’t there. Other times, they’re bigger. Last month, for example, we told one such story as ....

Huei Peng, University of Michigan Mcity Director, at Autonomous Car Detroit

What Cities Need to Know about Consumer Acceptance of Autonomous Vehicles

March 30, 2018

Last month, Wired magazine published its “Guide to Self-Driving Cars.” If that article doesn’t make this subject just that simple and straightforward, it must go a long way to reinforcing the idea that autonomous vehicles are mainstream and inevitable. This is important subject matter for Saline. As a municipality, the bifurcation of downtown by US-12 makes us a likely prospect for this tech. As home to NAVYA and the greater Mcity infrastructure, Saline is part ....

Some twenty months and a pandemic later, the Pure Michigan Conference on Tourism returned as a more measured 2021 event

November 5, 2021

Pure Michigan Governor’s Conference on Tourism returned to its annual in-person rotation among venues this week — which in 2021 meant the City of Detroit and our own Motor City Casino Hotel. [1-4] As a reflection of official state position on visitor attraction, organizer requirements regarding COVID-19 protocols were noteworthy. Proof of vaccination or “negative COVID test 72 hours before the conference” was required for attendance. Additionally, masks were “required, regardless of vaccination status in all indoor ....

Not a trick question: Look closely at this local Scouts BSA troop photograph; see if you can spot anything different about it

February 11, 2019

The Boy Scouts of America has a well established process for starting new “Units.” Most familiar are Cub Scout “Packs” for youth in kindergarten through fifth grade crossover, and Scout “Troops” based on age, starting at ten or eleven, until the participant’s eighteenth birthday. [1-7] Two weeks ago, Troop 439 held its first meeting as another among the more recent additions to this 109-year legacy. That Monday, February 4, largely passed without fanfare or note. ....

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Month: August 2005

Goodyear Blimp “Enterprise” in Flight Over Washtenaw County in 1985