Today is Thursday, March 14th, 2019. I’m Kevin Boyle, with today’s W-V-B-I Community Calendar. |
Now, here’s what’s happening on your Emerald Isle…
After an ice day yesterday, school is operating today with a two hour delay. Roads are still really slick, so be careful getting in.
Pickle Ball today from 9:30 to 11:30 here at the BIC Center Games Galore from 1 to 4. Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program from 10 to 11 also here at the BIC Center. Euchre at Stoney at 7 Thursday evening.
Meetings tomorrow: Peaine Board of Review meets Friday morning at 9. They’ll be there all day if you have an issue to raise on your assessment. And, the Wildlife Club is on the township calendar for a meeting Friday at 7 at Peaine Township hall.
Tomorrow, St. Patrick’s Day activities on the island get underway. Students and staff at BICS will celebrate the “Great Day” by dressing in the traditional Irish colors of green, orange and white!
Also this weekend, Lego Club at the Library on Saturday at 1. Movies at the BIC Center: at 4 it’s the next installment of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald—rated PG-13. And the feature at 7 is Instant Family also PG-13. Both films have great reviews.
Sunday, worship services at Holy Cross, the Christian Church and the Lighthouse Fellowship. Times and details are on the calendar.
Coming up next week, a few things to get on your calendar now. Monday there’ll be a meeting on the creation of a new Peaine Township Recreation Plan. That’s at 9 Monday morning at the township hall. Monday evening the Historical Society Oral History Project continues. That’s out at the St. James Township hall at 7. And, Mr. Richards classes have the next of their speeches and oral presentations ready to go—and they’d like to have you in the audience to ask questions next Monday and Tuesday evenings from 7 to 8:30 at the Peaine Township Hall. |
You can find more information on all of these events and everything else we know about that’s happening on the island at calendar dot w-v-b-I dot net. |
Weather, here there and everywhere – presented every day with the support of the good folks down at McDonough’s Market:
Today Rain likely, mainly after 5pm. Patchy fog. Otherwise, cloudy, with a high near 47. South wind 10 to 15 mph. Tonight Rain. Patchy fog. Low around 32. Breezy, with a southeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming southwest 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. New precipitation amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible. Friday Rain and freezing drizzle likely, possibly mixed with snow before 11am, then a slight chance of snow and freezing drizzle between 11am and 1pm, then a chance of snow after 1pm. Patchy fog before 8am. Otherwise, cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 30 by 11am. Breezy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Little or no ice accumulation expected. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Friday Night A chance of snow before 9pm, then a chance of snow showers after 9pm. Cloudy, with a low around 19. Northwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Saturday Snow showers before 3pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 26. Northwest wind around 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 14. Sunday A 40 percent chance of snow showers after 9am. Partly sunny, with a high near 31. Sunday Night A chance of snow showers before 3am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 15.
TRAFFIC: Occasional Zamboni crossings well, pretty much everywhere. It is slick out there. Expect delays everywhere. You’ll get there slower than usual because you slow down, or still later when you slide off the road because you don’t. So, let’s be careful out there. Especially in the school zone. |
Time now for a look at Phyllis’s Facebook posts…
ON THIS DATE in March 14, 1879, Albert Einstein is born, the son of a Jewish electrical engineer in Ulm, Germany. Einstein’s theories of special and general relativity drastically altered man’s view of the universe, and his work in particle and energy theory helped make possible quantum mechanics and, ultimately, the atomic bomb. |
WORD OF THE DAY: animadversion (noun) [an-uh-mad-VER-zhun], which means a critical and usually censorious remark — often used with on – an adverse criticism. Animadversion comes ultimately from the Latin phrase animum advertere, meaning “to turn the mind to.” The first part, anima, comes from the Latin word for “mind” or “soul” and gives us animal and animate. It is easy to see how we also get adverse and adversary from advertere, especially when we remember that “to turn to” easily becomes “to turn against.” Other English words descended from advertere include advert, meaning “to turn the attention (to)” or “to make reference (to),” and advertise. |
Don’t forget about the Ice Classic going on now. Make the best prediction of when the buoy goes through the ice and you’ll take home half the entry fees—other half goes to support your community radio station and your community Center. You can buy your entry here at the BIC Center. Details and rules are available at bic center dot org. Just click the Ice Classic menu at the top. |
Now, to wrap up for this Beaver Island Wednesday…
Here’s a thought for the day from Albert Einstein: “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.”
On a lighter note… When you think about the Theory of Relativity? It all depends on how you look at it. |
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That’s the W-V-B-I Community Calendar for Wednesday, March 13th, 2019.
I’m Kevin Boyle at the pest free Hogarth Pest Control Studios of the Voice of Beaver Island wishing you a great day and asking you: why not make it the best day ever? And, thanks for listening. ### |