November 9th Friday evening 5:30 PM to 11:00 PM | The Keep Seminole Beautiful
Social Evening and Fund Raiser
at Eberweins’ Arthouse Coffeegallery
417 Sanford Ave in Historic Downtown SanfordSpend a fun evening in one of Historic Downtown Sanford’s greatest coffee shops and art gallery, Eberweins. There will be door prizes donated by some of our corporate members; original art work and other valuable items available in an awesome raffle. Meet and enjoy other members of Keep Seminole Beautiful.
Live entertainment provided by singer and songwriter, Magda Marie in five languages, English, French, Spanish, German and Swiss. She’ll be performing some original works and old favorites.
Please bring a guest, NO cover charge. |
November 10th Saturday 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM | Invasive Plant Removal Flagler Trail in Geneva Osceola Fish Camp Rd. Trail Head
Come join us for an hour or two or all morning to help on this fun, easy and much needed project.
You can join us at 8:00 AM, we’ll have coffee & rolls for you, and then we’ll attack invasive weeds all along this one mile section of the trail.
You can also join us later as we’ll be there till 1:00 PM. We’ll serve sandwiches, fruit, snacks and soft drinks for a light lunch around noon. All food, water and soft drinks are provided by our Corporate Partner, Albertsons
Our goal is to clear this one mile section of the trail of invasive plants and litter. You may well see deer, wild turkeys, foxes, eagles, hawks, etc.
This is an easy walk, no vehicle traffic to contend with – a great morning activity for the whole family. We’ll have lunch by the St Johns River.
Please bring sun screen, insect repellant and gloves. We’ll provide trash bags, water and snacks.
From I-4, or 417 exit at Highway 46A (aka H. E. Thomas Jr. Parkway) it becomes Highway 46 (aka 25th Street).
Bear Left at W. Osceola Rd (a little more than 8 miles from I-4 …about 6 ½ miles from 417).
Stay on West Osceola Rd for 3 ½ miles +/- that becomes East Osceola Rd for about another 4 miles.
Go straight on the dirt road, Osceola Fish Camp Rd, till you arrive at a gate, a few hundred yards, the parking is to the left.
Mike Barr, Executive Director
407-234-7283 |
November 22nd All Day | Thanksgiving Day 
The first official Thanksgiving Proclamation made by the American colonies who rebelled against the Crown of England was issued by the Continental Congress in 1777. Six national Proclamations of Thanksgiving were issued in the first thirty years after the founding of the United States of America as an independent federation of States. President George Washington issued two, President John Adams issued two, President Thomas Jefferson made none and President James Madison issued two. In 1789 Washington, designated a national thanksgiving holiday for the newly ratified Constitution, specifically so that that the people may thank God for "affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness" and for having "been enabled to establish constitutions of government for our safety and happiness, and particularly the national One now lately instituted, for the civil and religious liberty with which we are blessed..."
After 1815 there were no more Thanksgiving Proclamations until the Presidency of Lincoln, who made two during the Civil War. He declared Thanksgiving a Federal holiday as a "prayerful day of Thanksgiving" on the last Thursday in November. Since then every U.S. President has always made an official Thanksgiving Proclamation on behalf of the nation. President Franklin D. Roosevelt set the date for Thanksgiving to the fourth Thursday of November in 1939 (approved by Congress in 1941). |