From Staff Reports
NEW CASTLE The 14th annual Lawrence County Women’s Conference will be held on Aug. 21 at The Villa Banquet Hall, 2500 New Butler Road. The event will be from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Registration and shopping will start at 8 a.m.
The Lawrence County’s Women’s Conference was started by Georgia Berner, former CEO of Berner International, to enlighten women on important issues such as politics, business, and self-preservation. United Way has continued to spearhead this event with the help of local women in leadership.
The keynote speaker for the event is Maggie Feinstein, director of the 10:27 Healing Partnership in Pittsburgh. Feinstein is a master’s level therapist who has distinguished herself in the field of integrated mental health, or working within the medical community to provide brief interventions within the context of medical visits since 2009. She primarily worked in communities with high levels of trauma and poor access to mental health suppor
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NEW CASTLE Arts & Education at the Hoyt is celebrating the season of love with an exhibition of vintage Valentines at The Confluence, 214 E. Washington St., starting this week.
Vintage Valentines are not only beautiful but offer valuable insight into the values and fashions of bygone eras. While the Hoyt’s collection of printed love notes spans the late teens through the 1930s, the history of Valentine cards dates back to the Middle Ages. In fact, the first known Valentine was written by Charles Duke of Orleans to his wife while imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1415.
Several more centuries passed before the practice of exchanging cards on Feb. 14 reached America sometime after 1723. Small booklets of verses known as writers were imported from England to be hand-copied onto decorated sheets of paper. One popular writer contained not only the typical “Be My Valentine” type verses, but acceptances that a lady could return to her admirer. These early cards were ofte