St. Johns Vocational Programs
A Look Back Again – N. Clinton Ave. during the Christmas Holidays
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St. Johns Vocational Programs
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Girls on the Run looking to expand
Girls on the Run of Mid Michigan is currently looking for new sites to host programming. Girls on the Run is a physical activity-based, positive youth development program that teaches key life skills to girls in 3rd through 8th grade through dynamic discussions and fun games that creatively integrate running.
Girls on the Run of Mid Michigan is currently accepting new sites to host teams for the spring season and provide program opportunities to more girls. Current sites include local schools, community centers, churches and hospitals. Each site must have a volunteer site liaison, a safe space for physical activity and be able to provide both outdoor and indoor meeting locations.
At each site volunteer coaches lead teams of 8-15 girls through research-based curricula that include lessons on confidence, treating others with care and contributing to the community. During the ten-week program, girls complete a community service project and become physically and emotionally prepared to participate in a celebratory 5k event.
To learn more about starting a new Girls on the Run site, visit gotrmidmichigan.org/Start-Site or contact Stephanie McClintock at stephanie.mcclintock@girlsontherun.org.
A Look Back Again – N. Clinton Ave. during the Christmas Holidays
by Barry Bauer
The light poles were wrapped in Christmas garland and Christmas trees lined N. Clinton Ave. in downtown St. Johns during the mid to late 1930s Christmas season.
There are three drug stores visible in this photo that are within a block of each other. There’s a fourth one further down the street. Today there are none.
From the Archives
20 years ago
by Rhonda
New Year greetings – and thoughts on ’99
Happy 2000!
So far, the best thing about the New Year is the absence of two words that were used far too often in 1999 – Millennium and Y2K. Thank goodness that’s behind us.
Jeanne Temple had the wonderful idea of ringing in 2000 – literally. Jeanne had submitted an article here at the close of ’99 where she suggested that people could welcome the New Year by ringing church and school bells as folks had done for special events in previous decades.
We know of several people who took Jeanne’s message to heart. Mary Hiler and Helen Wakefield rang the bell at Greenbush United Methodist Church, and the Kam Washburn family rang in the New Year at the old Duplain Church in Rochester Colony.
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15 years ago
Reader gives us the straight scoop on the cannons
from Jon Ricker
Yes, there were actually three.
The FM tool room built one for my dad. (I have the exact twin to Bill’s in my study), one for Bill Robertson, and one for Kermit Hart.
The three of them had a ball on the fourth of July and actually coordinated who would fire which one and when. Since all three lived in different parts of town, they would deliberately stagger the shots so anyone (anyone as in St John’s finest law enforcement) trying to “track down the culprit” would be run on a little wild goose chase.
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10 years ago
The New Year stepped off to a good start for the St. Johns Senior Center when the Kiwanis Club presented the group with a check for $500.00.
Connie Burgess of the Kiwanis Community Services Committee is shown recently passing the gift to Brenda Terpening who accepted the donation on behalf of the Center. At left are Joyce Crosby, Community Services co-chair and Ken Perrin, Kiwanis President.
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5 years ago
Santa at the Briggs: Miss Marie and Santa found themselves under the mistletoe during last weekend’s festivities.