Happy Birthday
Sept. 9: Jason Maupin, patrol commander, Crown Point Police Department
Happy Anniversary
150 years: St. Mary Catholic Church, Crown Point. The celebration continued with an outdoor Mass on Aug 29. A birdie told me they were expecting 500 to 750 people.
125 years: University of St. Francis
Odds and Ends
Get out and support your local teams. I am a football fan. My friend forever loves soccer. Some like to watch cross country, boy’s tennis, volleyball and girl’s golf. Others are band boosters or supporters of the dance teams or cheerleaders. Some sports lend themselves to spectating than others, but the kids still need to know you care. Some teams and schools will have winning years, some not so much. If you can’t get there, send them a card saying, “We support you.”
Tonight is preseason Browns at Chicago – Go Bears. And Indianapolis is at Buffalo – Go Colts. For our friends who are supporters of other teams, including Detroit, Green Bay or Minnesota, cheer on. Regular season NFL starts on Thursday, Sept 10, with Pittsburg at New England on NBC then on to Sunday, Sept 13, for the rest of the teams. If you scream and yell at your TV screen it is better than screaming and yelling at your family or while driving or at work. Just take a deep breath and let it go when the game is done.
Labor Day is Sept 7. That means you are in Lowell. Lowell knows how to party, all weekend long.
Sunday, Sept. 6, is the 62nd Annual Kiddie Parade starting at 1 p.m. Fireworks are at dusk behind Oak Hill Elementary School, 425 Nichols
Monday, Sept. 7, is the grandaddy of them all, the longest continuous Labor Day parade in Indiana. The 96th Annual Labor Day Parade is from 10 a.m. to noon, or a little longer sometimes. It is a great parade that starts at the Dairy Queen on Indiana 2 and ends at Harding Drive. Get there early.
A bit of history to think about: Sept. 6, 1965, was the Great Grape Strike in support of the workers in the California grape fields. Across the country housewives spoke against the child labor and 50 cents an hour wages paid to the migrant workers and refused to buy table grapes. My mother stopped buying grapes. Would you? Or would that be inconvenient? Cesar Chavez won that fight as the grape growers were hit in the pocket book. This AFL/CIO-supported strike won fairer wages and working conditions for people no one cared about. This is what Labor Day is about.
A Charity Dinner, Dance and Raffle is at 6 p.m. Sept. 25 at Avalon Manor in Merrillville. Tickets are $80 per person and will help St. Anthony Home and Hospice of the Franciscan Communities sponsored by the Franciscan Sisters of Chicago.
East Clark Street will be closed to all vehicle and pedestrian traffic Sept. 26 as Cerulean Filmworks films a police vs. bad guy shoot out between 6 and 11 p.m. Barricades will be set up and fans of movie making can stand and watch. In fact you will be welcomed. You might even be in a crowd scene. It is set in modern day so no one has to get a costume. No, you don’t get paid. If you do not want your face on the big screen don’t put it where you could get on camera. The name of the murder mystery movie is “The Things We’ve Seen.” The background music is being done by the Lake County Symphony. The film could be released after the first of the year. The screen writer and director is Crown Point’s own Tre Manchester.
FYI: A counterfeit $20 bill was passed at the Crown Point at Lowell football game. Check your money even when you get it from a bank. Counterfeiting, whether you are producing that bill or just passing it along, is a federal crime. The Treasury Department does not take kindly to counterfeiting.
