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Volume 97 Number 47
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S P J S T Benevolence
H E R A L D
Humanity ISSN —07458800
Brotherhood
December 2, 2009
You are Cordially Invited! SPJST Home Office Christmas Open House Monday, December 7 at 7:30 p.m. 520 North Main Street in Temple
SPJST Floats will travel across Texas this Christmas season. One float is themed “Christmas Calories Don’t Count!” and features a giant cake, oversized ice cream cones, doughnuts, and candies, and a five-foot tall stocking filled with Christmas calories. The other float is themed “Bambi’s Magical Christmas” and includes Bambi, Thumper, Flower, and Friend Owl in a beautiful, winter forest setting. “All props were recycled from previous decorations,” Float Designer David Nauert says. “Penguins from the
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot like Christmas
SPJST Home Office staff decorated for Christmas on November 25. Pictured are, left to right, Cynthia Hutka from the Insurance Department, Linda Johnson from the Accounting Department, Margaret Santana from the Investment Department, Douglas Galler from the Fraternal Department, and Katherine Morris from the Vestnik Department.
Family Fun Dates ................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 Readers Write ......................................3 Lodge Section......................................7 Memoriams.........................................15 Youth Section.....................................17
past were created into Bambi’s friends; Snoopy’s dog house is now made of gingerbread; and props from the 50s-themed float are now a giant cake!” More than 200 volunteer hours went into preparing the two SPJST Floats for parades across Texas this Christmas season. See the floats at the Temple Christmas parade on Monday, December 7 beginning at 6:30 p.m. followed by the SPJST Home Office Christmas Open House. The parade travels west on Adams Avenue between Fourth and 23rd Streets.
Cooper Farm Cabin Construction
Cabins are popping up around SPJST Education and Nature Center at Cooper Farm. The photo was taken from inside the first cabin looking outside to Cabin No. 2 that was constructed last week. ENC will have a total of five cabins that will house 32 people in each cabin. The cabins are divided in half, and each half has eight bunk beds, three showers, three sinks, and three toilets.
Inside This Week’s Vestnik
Camp Tee-Shirt Entry Form..............18 Vestnik Project...................................19 Czech Culture ....................................20 Czech Calendar .................................20 Advertisements .................................21 Lodge Calendar .................................22
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Past State Duke/Lodge 88, Houston member weds
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Lodge 246 Morganʼs Point: fun at Czech Feszt
The Way We Were
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