Announcement: Announcement: Good Luck Gifts
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” A Best Friend is Like a Four Leaf Clover,
Hard to Find, Lucky To have”
– Sarah Jessica Parker, Sex in the City.
We wish each other good luck almost on a daily basis for every occasion and all the important events of our life. Whenever someone goes for some important mission or work, we wish them the ‘best of luck’.
Everyone of us wants to be “lucky” in every event of life. To become “lucky”, you need to work hard. At the same, it is very important that your luck also favors you. Having luck on your side is almost as necessary as making the right effort. Everyone wishes to have a happy life and good luck gifts are always favorable gift to receive. If one of your close friends or family members needs some luck in his/her life, giving a good luck gift is a great idea. It may be their most treasured gift.
Here are ten inexpensive luck charms that will work for any gift giving occasions.
- Four Leaf Clovers – the 4 leaf clover is the most well recognized lucky icon around the world. It is considered to be lucky because clover is very common, but a four leaf one is hard to find. It is considered to be very lucky to find one.
- Horseshoe – It is believed luck is contained in the shoe and can be pour out through the ends. The orientation is argumentative, but no matter which way you hang the horseshoe, good fortune will come.
- Rabbit’s foot – rabbit is often viewed as a trickster in folklore, it is also a symbol of fertility, so it’s considered to be very lucky.
- Chinese Luck Jade – the inscription and the shape of the jade makes it lucky.
- Lucky Crystal – crystal is known to emit certain elemental vibes and energy, and often contains healing properties.
- Japanese Maneki Neko Cat – Maneki Neko is Japanese for “beckoning cat”. It’s a sign of welcome.
- Lucky Elephant – the Hindu God Ganesha is considered to be a dispenser of good luck. The elephants had to have their trunks up to be lucky.
- Acorn – it is symbol of youth, used for wealth and attraction of opposite sex.
- Lucky Bamboo- It symbolizes wood, which brings energy, vitality and strength.
- Laughing Buddha – It’s a symbol of happiness, happiness = good luck.
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Local 4-H team brings home awards at Summit County Fair
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Emma Vargo and her horse Hunter pose with their trophies and ribbons after taking Best of Show at the Summit County Fair.
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Josh Conger takes a moment to relax with two of his award winning pigs.
by Tim Troglen
Reporter
Hudson — The six rebels who appeared at the Summit County Fair last week were not there to wreak havoc among the crowd or consternation with fair-goers.
But the members of Rebels With a Cause were definitely there to horse around.
Rebels With A Cause, a Hudson-based 4-H Club, competed at the Summit County Fair, July 28 to Aug. 2 in Tallmadge to show their horses, ride in competitions and participate in pen filled pork judging.
“Our group did well at the fair this year,” said Debbie Plate-Vargo, who heads up the team, which includes her daughter, Emma Vargo, Josh and Ashley Conger, Brynne and Aurora Burgy and Athena Tarulli.
“Josh and Ashley took their horse, Doc, and competed with him,” Plate-Vargo said. “Ashley did well, and Josh had fun with the ribbon race and other games played, and both did very well with their pigs — both in showmanship and at the auction Saturday night.”
Emma, who fractured her pelvis when a horse fell on her in January, was not allowed to ride for four months following her surgery in February. But she was back in the saddle for the fair.
“She won grand champion of her division on her horse, Hunter, which was very special as everyone knew what she had gone through and how hard it all was — it was very emotional for all of us,” Plate-Vargo said. “She also entered a sewing project that made not only a blue ribbon first place but also Best of Show.”
Plate-Vargo said Emma’s sewing project was a purse with a fish theme she made for her mother.
And, according to her mom, Emma’s fair project presentation on teen leadership was chosen to represent Summit County at the Ohio State Fair, where she was to present it to a judge Aug. 2.
And it wasn’t only horses and sewing that brought home ribbons.
The brother and sister team of Josh and Ashley, who not only ride horses but raise pigs, fared well with second through fourth place finishers.
“They have learned so much,” Plate-Vargo said of the siblings.
She said the prize winning pigs were auctioned off, with the money going toward college funds.
“The kids have to learn about feed and weight and the anatomy of the pig so they understand where the different cuts of meat come from,” Plate-Vargo said. “They even had barn duty where they slept in the barn to guard the pigs.”
Plate-Vargo said all members of the group “struggle with the rule that if you raise and enter a pig in the fair, it must go to auction.”
Plate-Vargo said the team members got involved for myriad reasons.
“Emma got involved as she loved horses and wanted to be in a club that went to horse shows and understood the passion for having a horse,” she said. “I know that Ashley and Josh got involved as their mom was in 4-H as a child.”
And while not every member owns their own horse, “they have a passion for horses.”
“The kids in the club easily attend 10 to 20 horse shows a year, and as part of our club responsibility, we must work at least one of the shows as well, running the entry booth and manning the gates,” Plate-Vargo said.
Members of the club, which meets on a monthly basis, must make an oral presentation before being allowed to participate at the fair, she said.
Educational trips and volunteering to help others also are part of the 4-H activities.
“We went to The Ohio State University Veterinary School and toured the facility,” Plate-Vargo said. “The kids got to see the CT scanner for horses, a treadmill for horses and a surgery suite.”
Members have also raised money for horse rescue and donated time at the homeless shelter in Akron.
Plate-Vargo said 4-H has 6 million members across the United States, Puerto Rico and 80 countries around the world.
“4-Hers participate in fun, hands on learning activities, supported by the latest research of land-grant universities,” she said. “The 4-H pledge tells what 4-H is all about and has as its goal the four-fold development of youth: head, heart, hands and health, and thus the 4 leaf clover with the H’s.”
E-mail: ttroglen@recordpub.com
Phone: 330-688-0088 ext. 3146
Poll: One-third believe in ghosts
WASHINGTON (AP) – It was bad enough when the TV and lights inexplicably flicked on at night, Misty Conrad says. When her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbors said children had been murdered in the house, it was time to move.
Put Conrad, a homemaker from Hampton, Va., firmly in the camp of the 34 percent of people who say they believe in ghosts, according to a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos. That’s the same proportion who believe in unidentified flying objects – exceeding the 19 percent who accept the existence of spells or witchcraft.
Forty-eight percent believe in extrasensory perception, or ESP. But nearly half of you knew we were about to tell you that, right?
Conrad, now 40, lived in Syracuse, Ind., when her family was scared from the house they rented.
“It kind of creeped you out,” she recalled this week. “I needed to get us out.”
To put the roughly one-third who believe in ghosts and UFOs in perspective, it’s about the same as, in recent AP-Ipsos polls, the 36 percent who said they are baseball fans; the 37 percent who said the U.S. made the right decision to invade Iraq; and the 31 percent who approve of the job President Bush is doing.
A smaller but still substantial 23 percent say they have actually seen a ghost or believe they have been in one’s presence, with the most likely candidates for such visits including single people, Catholics and those who never attend religious services. By 31 percent to 18 percent, more liberals than conservatives report seeing a specter.
Those who dismissed the existence of ghosts include Morris Swadener, 66, a Navy retiree from Kingston, Wash.
He says he shot one with his rifle when he was a child.
“I woke up in the middle of the night and saw a white ghost in my closet,” he said. “I discovered I’d put a hole in my brand new white shirt. My mother and father were not amused.”
Three in 10 have awakened sensing a strange presence in the room. For whatever it says about matrimony, singles are more likely than married people to say so.
Fourteen percent – mostly men and lower-income people – say they have seen a UFO. Among them is Danny Eskanos, 44, an attorney in Palm Harbor, Fla., who says as a Colorado teenager he watched a bright light dart across the sky, making abrupt stops and turns.
“I knew a little about airplanes and helicopters, and it was not that,” he said. “It’s one of those things that sticks in your mind.”
Spells and witchcraft are more readily believed by urban dwellers, minorities and lower-earning people. Those who find credibility in ESP are more likely to be better educated and white – 51 percent of college graduates compared to 37 percent with a high school diploma or less, about the same proportion by which white believers outnumber minorities.
Overall, the 48 percent who accept ESP is less than the 66 percent who gave that answer to a similar 1996 Newsweek question.
One in five say they are at least somewhat superstitious, with young men, minorities, and the less educated more likely to go out of their way to seek luck. Twenty-six percent of urban residents – twice the rate of those from rural areas – said they are superstitious, while single men were more superstitious than unmarried women, 31 percent to 17 percent.
The most admitted-to superstition, by 17 percent, was finding a four-leaf clover. Thirteen percent dread walking under a ladder or the groom seeing his bride before their wedding, while slightly smaller numbers named black cats, breaking mirrors, opening umbrellas indoors, Friday the 13th or the number 13.
Generally, women were more superstitious than men about four-leaf clovers, breaking mirrors or grooms prematurely seeing brides. Democrats were more superstitious than Republicans over opening umbrellas indoors, while liberals were more superstitious than conservatives over four-leaf clovers, grooms seeing brides and umbrellas.
Then there’s Jack Van Geldern, a computer programmer from Riverside, Conn. Now 51, Van Geldern is among the five percent who say they have seen a monster in the closet – or in his case, a monster’s face he spotted on the wall of his room as a child.
“It was so terrifying I couldn’t move,” he said. “Needless to say I survived the event and never saw it again.”
The poll, conducted Oct. 16-18, involved telephone interviews with 1,013 adults and had a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 3.1 percentage points.
4H Rodeo will feature 300 participants
Thursday, June 18, 2009
George Anderson
Rodeo events include Barrel Racing, Calf Riding, Team Roping, Pole Bending, Goat Tying, Calf Roping, Steer Riding, Team Penning, Chute Dogging, and Bull Riding.
Members of the Dunklin County 4H competing in the contest include Tripp Scales in Steer Riding, Break Away Roping, Poles, and Barrel; Dalton Jackson in Calf Riding, Barrels and Poles, and Goat Tying; Cheyenne Long in Break Away Roping, Poles, Barrels, and Goat Tying; Tatum Lowry in Goat Tying, Pole Bending, and Barrel Racing; Joe Mobley in Pole Bending and Barrel Racing; Max Mobley in Team Penning, Goat Tying, Barrel Racing, and Pole Bending; Rachel Leslie Pole Bending and Barrel Racing; Britlyn Pikey in Goat Tying, Pole Bending, and Barrel Racing; Pierce Watkins in Bull Riding; James Michael Goodwin in Bull Riding; Scott Jackson in Bull Riding; and Sam McHaney in Pole Bending and Barrel Racing.
According to Adult Volunteer Leader, Will Mobley, this is the fourth year Dunklin County has had a club, and this is the second year they have hosted a rodeo.
“The thing that is a little bit interesting is seeing the kids grow up and then grow in their horsemanship,” Mobley said.
“You see the kids growing up and learning about the horses. They start out with a plug and then they graduate to something better and then they get interested in being competitive and trying to win.
“The mothers in the program do most of the leadership,” Mobley continued. “They are pretty strict about the kids being good to their horses and being empathetic. The mothers also all work together. If one kid is doing something inappropriate, its like he has six moms out here.”
Mobley said that any child wishing to be involved with the program can sign up at any time, however, they will not be allowed to compete until the insurance enrollment, which is held in February of each year.
Admission to the event is $6 for adults and $4 for youth between the ages of seven and 12, children six and under may attend free of charge. Concession stands will be available throughout the event.
The SEMO 4H Rodeo is sponsored this year by the Kennett Area United Way and University of Missouri Extension.
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