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Not Just Any Yard Or Garage Sale: Michigan’s Largest Garage Sale Is Coming Through Saline Again This Month

August 3, 2018 Dell Deaton

Each year, Rentschler Farm Museum represents the City of Saline with vendor booths and items for sale during Michigan’s Longest Garage Sale — spanning the breadth of the Great Lakes State, for over two hundred ….

Democratic Presidential nominee Walter Mondale at 1984 University of Michigan
Competitive

In Politics And Journalism, “History” Begins Where The Presenting Party Says It Does (If Audiences Allow That)

July 27, 2018 Dell Deaton

It seems that Michigan was an important state for the presidential campaign of 1984. Or at least it was for the Democratic Party, whose nominee Walter Mondale made an appearance on the University of Michigan ….

DeLorean DMC-12 from 1981
Automotive Heritage

Popular Summer Car Shows Are Defined By Local Communities Of Which They Are Part; Saline Is No Exception

July 26, 2018 Dell Deaton

The bar is set high for car shows here in southest Michigan. To the average Jane or John Doe that may mean the North American International Auto Show. But real car guys — correction: Car ….

Cartoon featuring Detroit People Mover and GM Renaissance Center
Serendipity

Comic Book Collecting Is Passion For Some, Business For Others – And For Many A Signature Event Headed To Detroit

July 25, 2018 Dell Deaton

In the 1970s, the corner drug store was seeing the last of 15¢ DC Action Comics with cover stories including “The Punishment of Superman’s Son!” Marvel Comics Group seemed a bit more premium, at 20¢ ….

Ford F-150 at Saline 2018 "Drive 4 UR School" event
Competitive

Marketplace For New Automobile Sales Has Changed With The Internet, But Keys To Dealer Success Remain The Same

July 24, 2018 Dell Deaton

Thirty years ago, new car models were unveiled at a set-certain time of year. Consumer research was done by reading buyer’s guides and special issues of monthly magazines with content gleaned from a select few ….

Tabby cat, OJ
Well-Being

“Have You Ever Tried Giving Pills To A Cat?” That’s Not The Hook For A Joke: It May Be A Matter Of Life Or Death

July 23, 2018 Dell Deaton

You don’t have to be “a cat person” to get the importance of making sure that medications are taken as prescribed. Simple human decency if not compassion will do. Neither do you have to imagine ….

Greta Niethammer presenting "Living History Program" at Rentschler Farm Museum
Serendipity

Imagine Seeing Rentschler Farm Museum Through The Eyes Of A Child During Your Next Visit, Part 3

July 20, 2018 Dell Deaton

Two months ago, Saline Journal suggested that visitors approach the 2018 season opening of Rentschler Farm Museum with a different perspective. Follow in the footsteps of local grade school students on a field trip, with ….

Star filled sky over Mill Pond in the night, City of Saline, Michigan
Well-Being

We May Have Near-Term Problem With Recyclables Collection Rates, But That’s Not The Real Problem Here

July 19, 2018 Dell Deaton

Headline news out of Saline City Council earlier this week was that Waste Management reported something close to a 1500% increase in its cost for recycling. [1,2] Big numbers not only skew stories, they can ….

Yoda, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back (1979)
Serendipity

Theme Announced For Seventh Annual Saline Scarecrow Contest (Competitive Entrants Will Want To Start Planning Early)

July 18, 2018 Dell Deaton

In its most ambitious challenge to date, Borer Family Chiropractic has announced the theme for its 2018 Scarecrow Contest: “Star Wars.” [1,2] As always, entrants are free to follow their most creative impulses wherever those ….

Mill Pond Park in the City of Saline Michigan
Washtenaw County

The Most Important Work On 2018 City Of Saline Saline Celtic Festival Took Place Today At Mill Pond Park

July 16, 2018 Dell Deaton

At fifty-four acres in size, Mill Pond Park is the property of its sort in the City of Saline. Parks and Recreation calls it “an ever popular destination.” More importantly, it is owned by the ….

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  • via Southern Baptist Convention (February 26, 2019)— "Who's Your One?" Day 13: Genesis 12:1-3, "Now the Lord said to Abram, 'Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will…

    – July 31, 2022

  • via Lifeway Research (April 5, 2021)— "Americans Most Want to Avoid Fear and Anxiety, Gain Freedom and Safety," by Aaron Earls: After what was a scary year for many, more Americans say they want to avoid fear. According to a study from Lifeway Research, when asked which feeling they seek to…

    – January 2, 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 Lifeway Research (April 6, 2021)— "Americans' Views of Life's Meaning and Purpose Are Changing," by Aaron Earls: As Americans attempt to move past the life-altering effects of 2020, their perspective is shifting on some of the most significant questions facing humanity. [Compared] to a decade ago, U.S. adults today are…

    – January 9, 2022

  • Good Friday— "By no means is Good Friday an isolated event, said Winn Collier, the pastor of All Souls Charlottesville, a partner church with the Baptist General Association of Virginia. "Following the church calendar is a congregation’s way of following the footsteps of Christ throughout the year. And for both…

    – April 15, 2022

  • via Baptist Beacon (April 1, 2022)— "Called: Living the life God created you to live," by Karen Blanchard, women's life group leader with Lakepointe Church in Shelby Township, Michigan: The words “called” and “purpose” are buzzwords in our culture today. People are constantly searching to find their calling and purpose…

    – May 1, 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

  • National Day of Prayer for Law Enforcement Officers— via National Police Association (June 23, 2021), by Stephen Owsinski, retired law enforcement officer with experience in Field Training Officer (FTO) unit and the Community Traffic Safety Team (CTST): "Like anyone else, our nation’s cops harbor every desire to return home each day…

    – June 17, 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

Past Spotlights

Motor Muster in Greenfield Village

“Motor Muster” in Greenfield Village will return this weekend for “gearheads, die-hard car lovers, and auto aficionados”

June 16, 2021

Bygone Features

Ambulance

Today is “International Functional Neurological Disorder Awareness Day” and here’s what you need to know about it

April 13, 2020
It is definitely not a seizure nor a stroke. But symptoms often look like those related to the dissociative presentations of a seizure. Or the functional weakness of a stroke. Or both. [1] The difficulty in understanding this affliction is second only to the challenge in finding a clear definition for “functional neurological disorders” (FND) — “what some people call conversion disorder — (featuring) nervous system (neurological) symptoms that can’t be explained by neurological disease ....
Puppeteer Vít Hořejš on stage at Detroit Institute of Arts

Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre demonstrated just how hard it can be to appear effortless

December 30, 2019
This afternoon, the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) hosted the second of two stagings for A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa in its Marvin & Betty Danto auditorium. An estimated 275 people were in attendance, mostly families with elementary-school-aged children and younger. [1,2] As contrasted with approaches by the Meredith Marionettes Touring Company and works of Dreamland Theater as covered previously in Saline Journal, members of the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theatre troupe appeared along side their string-puppets ....

Batman first appeared eighty years ago in the comics and Emagine Theatre is celebrating his movie 1989 reboot

April 5, 2019
To the more than casually engaged moviegoer, Ben Affleck is Batman — at least until someone else officially takes that cape to big screen at some point in the future. [1-3] Even setting aside animated and Lego contributions, he did not invent the role, of course. It hasn’t been that many years ago that Christian Bale was credited for his transformative and effective contributions through the Christopher Nolan “Dark Knight” trilogy. Too dark! you say? ....

Ohio Pen Show 2021, Part 1: The show before that show that most people never get to experience – catering to collectors

November 15, 2021
When the doors first opened to the public for special interest shows in the 1980s, the fish stories were already being told behind the vendor tables. [1] Least impressive among these were incredible deals made on price, although there were certainly those as well). Rather, these were fantastic tales of grail findings, illusive pristine examples that had been made available for the briefest of intervals, as well as technical and mechanical unicorns. [2-5] For camera shows during ....

Saline Singularity robotics team met today, and week 3 focused on its “business” as much as anything else

January 26, 2019
As the clock approached nine this morning, several members of FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) Team 5066 had already started arriving. In several instances, coffee mugs in hand. Someone had thoughtfully brought two boxes of fresh donut holes. [1,2] Other than having meeting space in one of the Saline High School CTE program classrooms, populated here by students, sub-team leads, and mentors, this Saline Singularity gathering could have passed for any other mainstream business meeting. It’s ....
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