Alvin Martin and Donna Jean Ludwig will be the guests of honor at a celebration of their 70th Anniversary of marriage. The celebration will take place at North Hills Baptist Church, 108 Stonecrest Drive, Marietta, Ohio, on Saturday from 1-4 p.m.. There will be a meal served and opportunities ...
Today marks the 250th anniversary of the Boston Tea Party, an iconic moment in American history. Not surprisingly, Marietta has connections to it. American colonists’ incessant complaints of “taxation without representation” against their British rulers came to a boiling point on Dec 16, 1773. Three years earlier, British parliament had repealed most of the despised Townshend Act taxes, but those imposed on their favorite beverage, tea, remained. Seeing no additional resolution, Americans resorted to a boycott that caused the East India Company warehouses in London to overflow with ...
There are four levels of comprehension or understanding: literal (stated facts), interpretive (implied facts), critical (making judgments), and creative (evoking an emotional response or forming new ideas). Now we are going to explore the area of interpretation (often referred to as “inference”) because your child deals with this level of understanding very often in school. Let me repeat; applying inference skills involves the interpretive level of comprehension. Often a textbook author does not literally state information. Thus, it is up to the students to infer such implied ...
If you had told me years ago that it is better to give than to receive I would not agree with you. When you are a child you want all the toys in the stores and remember taking my children into stores and how they wanted so many different things they saw. They would always find things they wanted “right then” and many times I had to say no to them just to teach them that we can’t always buy something when we go into a store. Kids are clever however and they would run to their grandparents and of course they would purchase what they were wanting. I am sure you all remember the ...
The Ohio River today is more of a series of connected lakes than it is a free-flowing river. The presence of more than 20 locks and dams ensures you will have enough water to use the river regardless of whether you are the captain of your kayak or a 1,200-foot-long string of barges. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers maintains the locks and dam and they make sure the main channel of the river is at least 9 feet deep. The reality is that the water is much deeper at many locations. Between Marietta and Williamstown for instance the river averages around 17 feet. In the curve between ...
God has not left us in the dark to wonder and guess about the question, “What is the meaning of life?” “It is in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for,” Ephesians 1:11 (the Message). “Long before we first heard of Christ and got our hopes up, He had His eye on us, had designs on us for glorious living, part of the overall purpose He is working out in everything and everyone.” Three insights into this verse and how God gives each of us a purpose for living comes from Dr. Rick Warren in his “Purpose Driven Life.” FIRST: We discover our ...
