Wow - August is flying by!  I guess time flies when you are having fun, right?   We’ve got a full day today.  Two wonderful volunteers will be joining us today.  Carol will be leading devotions this morning and Mary will come in this afternoon to play the piano.

Here are some interesting tid-bits from ActivityConnection.com - The Daily Chronicles.

Happy Birthday to Hal Smith.  He was best known as the town drunk on The Andy Griffith Show.  He also was the voice of the Looney Tunes cartoon character Elmer Fudd and the Disney character Goofy.

 On this date in 1879 - The volcano Mt. Vesuvius erupted for the first recorded time, destroying southern Italy’s cities of Pompeii, Stabiae, and Herculaneum.  Vesuvius exploded without warning around noon that day, covering Pompeii in a layer of ash nearly 13 feet deep!   The other two cities were buried under mud and volcanic debris.  Archaeologists have uncovered what life was like in Roman times from the volcanic ash-preserved remains of the cities.  Vesuvius is still active.  

“Why didn’t I think of that!”  Mr. Bernard Sadow invented wheels on luggage in 1972, and this day he still receives licensing fees.  At first the idea was ridiculed by store purchasing agents.  They said, “No one’s going to pull a suitcase on the end of a strap.”

You learn all sorts of things at Just Friends!  Oh, one more thing….as Elmer Fudd, aka Hal Smith, would say, “Shhhhhhhh, be vewy vewy quiet; I’m hunting wabbits, ehehehehehehe”  

Chris Forbes, Marketing Coordinator