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Friday News – Juneteenth 2026
June 19, 2026
Today is Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery. It celebrates the day in 1865 when the enforcement of the Emancipation Proclamation in Texas began. Mind you, this was 900 days after Abraham Lincoln delivered the final Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, and 71 days after Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union. Slavery had officially ended, but the enslaved peoples did not know they were free. As early as 1866 there were “Jubilee Day” celebrations in Texas but Juneteenth only just became a Federal Holiday in 2021! Today, Black, Indegenous and People of Color still have to fight – for ...Read Full Article
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You know when you get a song stuck in your head and it decides to take up residence and move in? Well, there’s one song that I have willingly and ...Read Full ArticleFriday News – April 14, 2023
April 16, 2023
Happy Friday! As always, we are incredibly busy here at First UU. And with that busyness comes a looooooong Friday News. We’ve heard from several of you that the length of ...Read Full ArticleFriday News
April 7, 2023
Chag Pesach samech, Ramadan Kareem, and a blessed Good Friday, It’s so wonderful to wake up to birds chirping again! Even though it’s a little chilly, I refuse to close my ...Read Full ArticleFriday News – March 31, 2023
April 2, 2023
Congratulations, all – on a wildly successful church Rummage Sale! Karen Thimmes writes, “I don’t know if we made a lot of money with our sale, or if the ratio of ...Read Full ArticleFriday News – March 24, 2023
March 24, 2023
Ahem……mic check……can you hear me?……..”LET’S GET READY TO RUMMAGE!!!!!!” Happy Friday First UUers! Who’s ready to get your rummage on? All week we’ve had amazing volunteers sorting and preparing all of ...Read Full ArticleFriday News – March 17, 2023
March 17, 2023
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! It is such a busy time for First UU! With the coming spring and hints of warmer weather, the grounds around the building are starting to show ...Read Full ArticleFriday News – March 10, 2023
March 10, 2023
Happy Friday! Last weekend, I got the opportunity to preach in the morning and to be a part of my friend Rev. Walter Clark’s Installation up in Wooster, later that afternoon. ...Read Full Article