Mothers Tea at Clinton Arts Gallery
by Maralyn Fink
This event was held on Saturday April 30 from 10 am – 2 pm.
Debi Daoust, owner of Fruits of the Spirit
Debi had furnished different flavors of Herbal Tea to try as well as finger sandwiches and dessert items.
What is Herbal Tea? The tea looks like tea and is brewed in the same way, but not actual a tea at all. Herbal Teas are actually infusions, and are properly called tisanes. Tisanes are made from mixtures of dried leaves, seeds, grasses, nuts, barks, fruit, flowers, or other botanical elements that give them their taste and provide the benefits of herbal teas.
Debi carries 9 different teas, each one for a different medicinal use, such as indigestion, upset stomach, anxiety and so on. Love increases metabolism and warms the heart. Joy, Kindness, Peace, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self Control. The teas are also caffeine free.
To order any of her teas you can call Debi at 989-493-5824 or message on Facebook.com
Her products are also sold at Andy T’s, Art Gallery, Postal Connections as well in Almont, MI, Clare, Mi and in Farwell, MI.
Thanks, Debi, for sharing your teas and how they are used.
3rd Annual Superhero 5k Run, Walk, Or Fly – an album
by Barry Bauer
This week’s Mystery Photo
Where is this?
Can you tell us where this is located? Drop us a line at mail@sjindy.com.
This week Jonathan Pulling writes, “This house is 306 East Walker Street. This house and 304 E. Walker were on my LSJ delivery route.”
Barry adds that the current owners are Vincent and Carolyn Geller. In 1950 Earl Payne lived there.
A Look Back – International Lions Club Award
by Barry Bauer
Ralph Lynam, of St. Johns, a director of the International Lions Club organization from 1978-1979, displays an award presented to him from the group for Meritorious Service. He was recently elected to the director post during an international convention last month.
Now and Then – The saga of Jack and Jill and the Brave New World of the Internet
by Jean Martin
Their names aren’t really Jack and Jill. If you know the person we are calling Jack, you have probably heard the story many times already. Like many of us, Jack has a problem; and he’s pretty sure that rewriting history will solve that problem.
About a month ago Jack wrote:
I would like to respectfully ask if you could remove my name from a post on your website dated [date redacted]. The entry refers to a marriage that did not end well, and ongoing health issues resulting from her continued infidelity during the short marriage. I am attempting to remove any connection between myself and my ex-wife.
I feel like my reputation and that of my family suffers as a result. If you could please remove this entry below, I would be most appreciative.
We replied to Jack and tried to explain why we were not able to delete the offending public notice that we had received from the County Clerk’s office. Since that time, Jack’s message has been followed up by several more missives, each one more insistent than the one before it.
We’re guessing that Jack would probably like to have the public record posting of the divorce removed too.
Well, Jack, we’ve all been there. We’ve all done things we wish we hadn’t. We’ve all wished we could set the clock or calendar back and start again. Lesson learned, we hope.
We have actually done that once or twice in the past. Someone neglects to tell the County Clerk that they don’t want their marriage license published, and we make their item of public record public. A panicky plea from the new bridegroom or blushing bride arrives, and we quietly delete the entry. This usually happens within the week, and many readers never even see the entry.
The problem with Jack and Jill is that they made their matter of public record public long before the great SJ Indy crash of last fall. We recovered from that near-disaster, barely. The database record is now corrupted, and we no longer have access to it. We can read it, as can anyone, Here. Alas, we cannot write new records or delete old ones. It has become an archive.
If we wanted to remove the misadventures of Jack and Jill from the archive, we would have to take away years worth of St. Johns history. We’re not prepared to do that.
We’re also not able to remove Jill’s name as Jack’s wife from the legacy.com obituary for Jack’s father from the website of the Morning Sun in Mt. Pleasant. Need we go on?
As a matter of fact, if we were to remove the public records of Jack and Jill from the St. Johns Independent, they would continue to live on somewhere on the Internet. Somewhere out there in Cyberspace, the unfortunate story of Jack and Jill – and yes, some of the unwise things we have all said and done – will live on, cached forever on hundreds or thousands of computers throughout the world.
Public really is public in the age of the Internet, and we’re all just going to have to learn to live as though the things we do have consequences. They always have. This is just one more little reminder.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
– Omar Khayyám