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LANSING, MI — Spring is coming and Easter is almost here. In keeping with a longstanding community tradition, the Lansing Jaycees are gearing up for their annual Easter Egg Hunt on the Capitol Lawn on Saturday, March 22, 2008!
The sign in front of a shopping cart that only holds an “Ugly Quilt” made from scraps states: Sometimes quilts and quiltmaking are the cornerstones of projects designed to raise awareness and to directly address human rights issues. Some are single quilts made by single makers. Others are the results of projects engaging thousands in activism. For instance, the NAMES Project raises awareness of AIDS and the Ugly Quilt Project addresses of AIDS and the Ugly Quilt Project addresses the needs of the homeless in a tangible way.
“It came as a surprise to me there was no forewarning,” said Johnson in a telephone interview.
Money is getting tighter. Food, gasoline, housing and just about everything else is going up in pricing but our paychecks aren’t growing along with it. It’s getting harder to hold on. The job market is down, right along with the stock market. Thousands of people are losing their homes to foreclosure.
Studio: Columbia Pictures
Plot: Eight strangers with eight different points of view try to unlock the one truth behind an assassination attempt on the president of the United States.
Cast: DennisQuaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, William Hurt, Edgar Ramirez, Zoe Saldana
Rating: PG-13
Bottom Line: *1/2
Give God The Glory
By Kevin Wayne Johnson
ISBN: 0-9752572-9-3
Publisher: Tate Publishing LLC
Available: Bookstores everywhere and www.tatepublishing.com
“Talking out both sides of your mouth”. A teacher explained this phrase to me. It means to be a hypocrite, to say one thing and then say another. Politicians are often accused of such behavior. But this was wasn’t a politician they were referring to; it was the Superintendent of the Lansing School District, T.C. Wallace.