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BH Auxiliary fundraiser

Baxter Health Auxiliary will hold a 2-day fundraiser. There will be blankets, quilts, comforters, hooded and sherpa throws, 7-piece comforter sets in all sizes and colors. Bamboo memory foam, ultimate cooling and side sleeper pillows will also be available.

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The Crooked Life

Philippians 2:14-15 Do all things without murmuring and disputing: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.

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Lincoln and Grant in Lights

A lucky few National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers (NHDVS) branches were intended to display elegant stained-glass windows of Civil War heroes, artifacts from temporary commemorative arches built for the Grand Army of the Republic’s (GAR) 21st Annual Encampment in September 1887 in St Louis, Missouri. The oversized windows - called “cathedral glass” or “transparencies,” and incorporated into state-of- the-art “illuminations” at the gathering – are as fascinating as components of a technology-driven display as they are for their artistic beauty. After sunset, electric lights would bring the images of President Abraham Lincoln and General Ulysses S. Grant to life for onlookers in the streets below, in the way that neon and Jumbotrons would have first awed twentieth-century audiences.

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