The Mustard Seed
March 2011
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The latest round of winter came during the week of Jan 26. It started with "thundersnow" in the DC area and Baltimore. There actually was thunder and lightning during the snowstorm that dropped over a foot of snow. The Friedrichs lost power off and on for 3 days. Candlelight dinners are romantic, but they would have preferred them to be optional. They spent one night at daughter Beth's home in Virginia. Luckily, there were no real emergencies during those days.
Congratulations to Sharon Svenningsen -- Her office coworkers honor her in February with her retirement party.
Congratulations to Jeff Padon and Andy Petajan for Green Bay's victory in the Superbowl. Ye editor rooted for the Steelers, but admits the Packers played better.
The Helping Hands Guild has decided to have a special fund for Galina, a deaf girl from Belarus. The school for the deaf where she attends found that she barely has clothes and her family apparently does not have strong relationship with her. She is really in need of help. She has visited Washington the past two summers. We would like to raise money for a special fund. Please write checks payable to Christ Lutheran Church of the Deaf with the memo note: Galina. Diane Munoz has volunteered to collect the checks. At least five dollars up per person would be greatly appreciated. The collection will be done at the end of March.
Please hold Wade and Lisa Pugh in prayer. As of Feb 2, Wade has been in an ICU. The situation is complicated. It appears that his problems relate to his heart and to diabetes, but tests show he has spinal meningitis. At this writing, he remains in a semi-coma and is very sick. Please hold Wade and Lisa Pugh in prayer as Wade recovers.
From our Library Friends of Christ/Deaf
via Sharon Svenningsen
National Women's History Month
via Sharon Svenningsen
National Women's History Month
National Women's History Month began in the second week of March 1978. March 8, 1911, was first celebrated in Europe as International Women's Day. Do you know of deaf women who have become successful in their field of expertise? Your library and the Internet have such names.
In celebration of this Month, the DC Public Library will sponsor a program, "Deaf Women's Herstory: From 1829 to the Present," with Vicki T. Hurwitz on Monday, March 14, 2011 at 6 p.m. at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, 901 G Street NW, Washington, DC. For more information, please contact Janice Rosen, via email Janice.rosen@dc.gov.
A Journal of Our Israel Tour
by Diane Munoz
Part 1
by Diane Munoz
Part 1
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2010 tour of Israel and Jordan was in the charge of Ephrat Dvir, a deaf
lady who was born in Israel and raised there, but had lots of travels
with her parents around the world. There were 24 people of all
ages from all over the USA. Sharon Svenningsen, Tony and I arrived on October 24 at Tel Aviv (T.A.), (financial capital of Israel) late at night after hopping from JFK to Amman and then to T.A. We had a late dinner (lots of varied foods). We stayed two nights at the Maria Hotel in the front of the yachts docked and beached at Mediterranean Sea. ~ ~ ~ October 25-26, Monday - Tuesday We
were sightseeing around the city. The new district in the
northern east part of Tel Aviv is full with lot of condos for those who
are well off. The buildings look like "Lego" or cubic style -- in
the same color: off white. The district of T.A. in the west part
by the sea is much older.We stopped by the Yitzhak Rabin Memorial near the City Hall. Ephrat explained dramatically the history of what happened to the prime minister after the rally in November 1995. He was assassinated right on the street from the stairs in the city because of his unpopular deal with PLO. In the late afternoon while visiting around in Jaffa, old suburb of T.A., we passed a very old synagogue that was built in 1706. Ephrat surprised us by getting us into the house of her parents' good friends who were willing to have us up on the deck. We were thrilled to view all over the city and could see the spot of Jerusalem out in the east from the upper deck (on the roof) and also watched the sunset out in the west over Mediterranean Sea. That was one of highlights of the tour. The next day, we walked on the rectangle park on Rothschild Blvd. They are older houses/apts in the simplicity style of Bauhus and Israeli architecture, emphases with the balconies facing toward the streets before 1948 (when Israel was founded). The street was named after the Rothschild family who helped with financing. At the beginning of the street there is a Founders Square with the monument of names of 66 families of Tel Aviv in memory of their help in founding Israel in 1948. |   |
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