Snow storms, hoot-owls, a new park
By Tim Colliver - tcolliver@aimmediamidwest.com
Editor’s note We’re continuing our tradition of taking a look back each Saturday at some of the important, interesting or even odd events as they were reported during the same week throughout the years, along with interesting advertising features from years gone by.
This week in 1903, the Hillsboro News-Herald reported that the Rev. E.J. Moore and William Wheeler, representatives of the Ohio Anti-Saloon League, would be spending next Sunday in Hillsboro and would preach at the Methodist Church that morning.
Ladies, are you weary and worn out all the time, suffering from a weak back with headaches, nervousness and restlessness? If so, the paper advocated buying a little tin of Doan’s Kidney Pills for immediate relief.
“Strange Fruit” by jazz singer Billie Holiday with a voice and phrasing like no other conveys the horror and tragedy of racial lynching.
On Friday it was sung by Pastor Armon Lowery of Newberry’s Mount Zura Full Gospel Baptist Church under a live oak from which people were lynched, and the imagery of the song became real in a way like no other.
It was one of many wrenching moments in a soil collection ceremony in honor of the Newberry Six a group of African Americans lynched here more than a century ago as part of a city and countywide truth and reconciliation effort to come to terms with an ugly history.
Newberry honors lynching victims in soil collection ceremony
Alachua County organizations worked with the Equal Justice Initiation to pay tribute and apologize to the Newberry Six February 8, 2021 | 6:30am EST Gail K. Watson (left) and Brenda Whitfield (right) scoop dirt into glass jars at the soil ceremony for the Newberry Six on Friday, Feb. 5, 2021. Whitfield spoke during the ceremony before the crowd began adding earth to the containers. Photo by Chasity Maynard | The Independent Florida Alligator
On the cold, cloudy Friday morning, more than 50 people gathered to pay tribute to the Newberry Six victims of a 1916 lynching in a soil collection ceremony held beneath an old tree’s twisting branches a
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Gift of nutrition: Senior meal program relies on donations
This year more than ever, donations are the key to making sure meals are available to area seniors. Written By: Lorie R. Skarpness | 1:01 pm, Dec. 31, 2020 ×
Lisa Moore works at the Nevis Senior Center. She helped get 72 meals ready in insulated totes to bring to seniors Wednesday. The Nevis site has seen an increase in the demand for meals since the COVID-19 pandemic began. Submitted photo.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic started, the need for senior meals through the Lutheran Social Services senior nutrition program has increased.
However, traditional fundraising activities like selling brats at Hugo’s during the summer and the Taste of Christmas dinner held at the American Legion in Park Rapids couldn’t take place. The pandemic also created some additional challenges for the older population.