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Auburn Moose marking 100 years BY KATHRYN BASSETT kbassett@kpcmedia.com
AUBURN — One hundred years ago, the Auburn Lodge 566 Loyal Order of Moose was born. A year later, the lodge celebrated its first birthday with a party at its first home on the southwest corner of Cedar and 10th streets. Local news reports at the time said the celebration included “with speeches, singing, banqueting and rejoicing” over the many good things the lodge experienced its first year.
On Dec. 17, the lodge will host another celebration in honor of its century of service with an open house at the Auburn Moose Family Center, 402 S. Main St. Community members are invited to visit the lodge between 3 and 10 p.m. An informal program will take place at 7 p.m. Auburn Moose Lodge administrator Mack Short joined the Moose in 1972. “Many Moose members grew up in the Moose because their parents were Moose members,”
Short said. “It’s a family-oriented group. Kids have always been welcome. I grew up in the Moose.” Short’s father was a Moose member for more that 50 years. His mother was a Women of the Moose member for more than 60 years, he added. “It’s a good organization,”
Short said. “We do a lot of things for the community. … It’s a safe place.” The family center also is a place to socialize, with social quarters, a bar, kitchen, meeting area and space for hosting dances and other events. Currently the Auburn lodge has 360 men as members and 230 Women of the Moose members. Short hopes the community will visit the lodge’s family center during the celebration open house SEE MOOSE, PAGE A6
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Statistics rate as best in five years WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. job market is proving surprisingly resilient. Solid job growth in November cut the U.S. unemployment rate to 7 percent, a five-year low. The robust gain suggested that the economy may have begun to accelerate. As more employers step up hiring, more people have money to spend to drive the economy. Employers added 203,000 jobs OCTAVIA LEHMAN last month after adding 200,000 in October, the Labor Department said Friday. November’s job gain helped lower the Santa asks Logan Lewis what he wants for Center of Auburn. Children and their families unemployment rate from 7.3 Christmas while holding Logan’s older brother, enjoyed Christmas face-painting, crafts and music. percent in October. The economy Blake Lewis, in his lap. The Lewis brothers met The event was sponsored by WAWK 95.5 The has added a four-month average Santa and Mrs. Claus during the Night With Santa Hawk, Lightningnet and the Dean V. Kruse Foundaevent Thursday at the National Military History tion. of 204,000 jobs from August through November, up sharply from 159,000 a month from April through July. “It’s hinting very, very strongly that the economy is starting to ramp up, that growth is getting better, that businesses are hiring,” said Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economic Advisors. The job growth has also fueled speculation that the Federal Reserve will scale back its economic stimulus when it meets later this month. JOHANNESBURG (AP) — It “gives the Fed all the South Africans erupted in song, evidence it needs to begin tapering dance and tears on Friday in its asset purchases at the next … public and emotional celebrations meeting,” said Paul Ashworth, an of the life of Nelson Mandela, the economist at Capital Economics. anti-apartheid leader who bridged Stock investors were heartened this country’s black-white divide by the news. The Dow Jones and helped avert a race war. industrial average surged nearly People of all colors hugged 178 points in early afternoon and shared emotional moments as trading. anti-apartheid leaders like retired The unemployment rate has archbishop Desmond Tutu called fallen nearly a full percentage for the 51 million South Africans point since the Fed began buying to adhere to the values of unity bonds in September 2012 and has and democracy that Mandela reached 7 percent earlier than most embodied. The tributes to Mandela analysts had expected. that came from people across In June, Chairman Ben the spectrum showed that he had Bernanke had suggested that the affected people deeply. Fed would end its $85 billion in “What I liked most about monthly bond purchases after AP the unemployment rate reached 7 Mandela was his forgiveness, his A woman places a floral tribute to former president Nelson passion, his diversity, the impact percent. The Fed’s bond purchases Mandela in Mandela Square at Sandton City, in Johannesburg of what he did,” said Ariel Sobel, have been intended to keep Friday. Mandela died Thursday at his Johannesburg home after a a white man who was born in borrowing rates low. long illness. He was 95. 1993, a year before Mandela Bernanke later backed away was elected president. “I am not from the 7 percent target. He national anthem, God Bless Africa through the street, celebrating worried about what will happen cautioned that the Fed would next. We will continue as a nation. — the anthem of the anti-apartheid Mandela’s life. Dozens of kids weigh numerous economic factors held oversized pictures of the We knew this was coming. We are struggle — and Christian hymns. in any decision it makes about its Many wore traditional garb of anti-apartheid icon. prepared.” bond purchases. Many economists Zulu, Xhosa and South Africa’s “I’m sorry, I’m too emotional. Sobel was with a crowd of still think the Fed won’t begin to The tears come too easily,” people who had gathered at other ethnic groups. One carried cut back until January or later. Themba Radebe, a 60-yeara sign saying: “He will rule the Mandela’s home in the leafy While the Fed weighs its old who was filming the street universe with God.” Johannesburg neighborhood of options, U.S. employers may celebration with his phone, told a In Soweto, the rough and Houghton where Mandela spent finally be gaining enough reporter. He later decided to share tumble black township where his last sickly months. A dozen confidence in the economy, 4½ his thoughts. Mandela used to live, pockets doves were released into the skies years after the recession officially of dancers and singers shuffled and people sang tribal songs, the SEE MANDELA, PAGE A6 ended, to ramp up hiring.
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