November 17, 2024

Utilization of “virtual” courtrooms via Zoom: “The Michigan Supreme Court announced July 15 that courts across the state have logged more than 500,000 hours of online hearings since proceedings were moved online in late March” due to COVID-19. Reported in current edition of Washtenaw County Legal News (Thursday, July 23, 2020), page 2.

via Baptist Beacon (February 2, 2022)— "Words without wisdom," by Coye L Bouyer, founding pastor of Kingdom Life Church, in Lansing, Michigan: A life-giving tongue creates a positive environment, and even brings joy to a community. However, too often many of us choose conversation that is callous and criticizes as opposed…

– February 27, 2022
via Samaritan's Purse— "Samaritan's Purse is operating multiple medical facilities in various parts of Ukraine and providing food and non-food relief items through church partners in both Ukraine and Moldova": Samaritan's Purse continues to provide medical relief to displaced Ukrainians, serving them at our Emergency Field Hospital on the outskirts…

– March 13, 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
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 Samaritan's Purse (March 23, 2022)— "Ukraine Updates: Ukraine Updates: Fifth Airlift Departs with Ukraine Relief; Medical Care at Four Locations; Food and Other Distributions Underway": A fifth Samaritan’s Purse airlift departed today carrying more than 19 tons of relief, including medical supplies for area hospitals as we work to…

– March 27, 2022
via Lifeway Research (February 22, 2022)— "Most Open to Spiritual Conversations, Few Christians Speaking," by Aaron Earls: Americans are curious about the religious devotion of others and are willing to discuss the topic, but most say they rarely have conversations about faith with their Christian friends .... Half of Americans (51%)…

– March 20, 2022
Juneteenth— via Center for Faith & Culture (June 14, 2021) by Sherelle Ducksworth, sociology instructor at Louisburg College in Louisburg North Carolina: "We celebrate Juneteenth because of what this holiday reveals to us about the inherent dignity and humanity of Black people. Juneteenth reminds us that freedom is essential to…

– June 19, 2022
Independence Day— via Billy Graham (1970): "I find that there is a certain fear and expected cosmic judgment that hangs over our country at this hour, as the Devine timepiece ticks away. Thomas Jefferson felt this deeply when he said, 'I tremble for my country, when I reflect that God…

– July 4, 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

Oakwood Cemetery in Saline Michigan on Memorial Day 2016

Most Important Part of Memorial Day Was Missed During 2016 Parade

May 31, 2016

Saline had its annual Memorial Day parade yesterday. But unlike so many past years, it did not come to Oakwood Cemetery. [1,2,3,4,5] Ironically, the present deep-dig Michigan Avenue reconstruction is serving to increase cemetery visibility. Mature trees with formidable trunks and expansively shading canopes of leaves were significantly cut back along its north border abutting the thoroughfare. Eastbound traffic coming into the City of Saline on US-12 is shunted off onto Monroe Street, creating an ....

Douglas A-4C Skyhawk subsonic carrier-capable attack aircraft

Extend Your Memorial Day Commemorations with Visit to Yankee Air Museum

June 2, 2017

The Memorial Day Parade in Saline returned to Oakwood Cemetery this year. Appropriately so. [1] Better still, hopefully your interest in the underlying substance of service and sacrifice has been piqued by that event. Where were key military conflicts played out? Why? Who were some of the people who made these great sacrifices in service to American freedom? Yankee Air Museum provides many answers to those important questions. [2] Located seventeen miles east-northeast of Saline, ....

Too-Real “Living History” Almost Reached Over To Knock Me On My Behind At Oak Wood Cemetery Yesterday Afternoon

October 1, 2018

From the Editor— Our various local historical organizations do a marvelous job in helping places and objects here connect with visitors in ways far more meaningful than that of simply setting out preserved artifacts. Think of lessons taught on special occasions at Weber-Blaess. An already immersive one-room environment is thoughtfully reinforced by commitment to period-appropriate teaching style. So, too with the historical trolley tours offered during Saline’s Summerfest: Guides in-costume, in-character helped bridge the gap ....

Washtenaw Economic Club hosted Paul Glantz to discuss “Growth & Resilience” – and debrief, ad hoc, on government relations

May 13, 2022

For the past two years now, COVID-19 has tested the pliancy of almost every competitive enterprise. [1-4] With movie theaters easily cited as poster-child for impact of fears that motivated patrons to persue online alternatives and emergency powers leveraged by government to lock their doors, Washtenaw Economic Club invited Paul Glantz to speak before its May 2022 Luncheon. [5-8] As co-founder and chairman of Michigan-based Emagine Entertainment, Mr Glantz spoke yesterday on “Key Success Factors ....