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Brass Tacks<br />
Health & Wellness:<br />
<strong>February</strong>: Heart Month... 12/13<br />
Education:<br />
Cannabis Corner....................8<br />
Seed Starting...................10/11<br />
Ginkgo Biloba Club :)<br />
Seniors’ Associations............. 2<br />
Classifieds/Personals............ 6<br />
A Little Laugh......................... 7<br />
Leap Year.............................. 9<br />
Wendy LaCroix............... 14/15<br />
Home Services...... .........16/17<br />
Puzzles.................. .........18/19<br />
Puzzle Solutions.................. 21<br />
<strong>February</strong> Astrology.......... 22/23<br />
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!<br />
A BRIEF SUMMARY<br />
The day gets its name from a famous<br />
saint, but there are several stories<br />
of who he was. The popular belief<br />
about St. Valentine is that he was a<br />
priest from Rome in the third century<br />
AD. Emperor Claudius II had banned<br />
marriage because he thought married<br />
men were bad soldiers.<br />
Valentine felt this was unfair, so he<br />
broke the rules and arranged marriages<br />
in secret. When Claudius found<br />
out, Valentine was thrown in jail and<br />
sentenced to death.<br />
There, he fell in love with the jailer’s<br />
daughter and when he was taken<br />
to be killed on the 14th of <strong>February</strong>,<br />
he sent her a love letter signed “from<br />
your Valentine”.<br />
The first Valentine’s Day was in the year<br />
496!<br />
It is thought to have originated from<br />
the Roman festival called Lupercalia<br />
in the middle of <strong>February</strong> - officially<br />
the start of their springtime. I won’t<br />
get into any of the sacrificial customs,<br />
but according to some, as part of the<br />
celebrations, boys drew names of<br />
girls from a box. They’d be boyfriend<br />
and girlfriend during the festival and<br />
sometimes they’d get married. Like a<br />
love lotto!<br />
Later on, the church wanted to turn<br />
this festival into a Christian celebration<br />
and decided to use it to remember<br />
St. Valentine as well.<br />
Scratch the Surface<br />
Love Your Life<br />
George & Irene................... 4-5<br />
On The Cover:<br />
George and Irene Brinkman<br />
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