The Waldo Phoenix LLL FREE - TAKE ONE! Published by Waldo Historical Society, Inc. Volume Three - Issue Two, April, 2012 www.WaldoHistoricalSociety.YolaSite.com WHS News to spend our hard-earned money Penny Dodd in Waldo whenever we can. We our Waldo should make it a priority to tell Phoenix them “Thank You” for making this Yhas just paper possible. completed its Not to be forgotten are our second year of publication. It’s dedicated writers - those who are time for us to thank all of the just as busy as we are, who wonderful people who make this somehow find the time each paper possible. month to contribute what they First and most important, know about what’s going on in we need to say “thank you” to our Waldo to keep the rest of us Annual Easter Egg Hunt very generous advertisers. If you informed. How else would we don’t look at their advertisements know what’s going on at the What: Annual Easter Egg Hunt at the back of each issue, you school? At the Community Center? 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Good, send your name and address along Thursday, April 26 reliable businesses tend to survive with a check or money order for Waldo Community Center 7 pm - even in tough times. Businesses $12.00 to: Refreshments always available that offer good services for a fair Waldo Historical Society More than just coffee. Good food price tend to stay in business. It P.O. Box 459 to enjoy during the meeting. just makes good economical sense Waldo, FL 32694 A Box Filled With of those things of which we never what you need to hear at that Promises tired, and never outgrew. moment. Then read it aloud. Let Mary Sue Holton Drawing promises was a the words penetrate your spirit and multi-functional tradition which soul. Let them rain upon the desert often wonder how many served many purposes. If one of of fear or sadness or worry where people are still around who us were sick, Mama would gather you find yourself being held would know what I am I the others around to draw hostage. talking about if I mentioned a “box promises and pray. Your burdens will soon feel of promises.” I can’t imagine not If someone was afraid, we lighter. Your smile will return. Your having had them when we were would draw promises and find heart will be filled with peace. You growing up. Such a very simple courage and strength from the will know that you are not alone. thing and yet it was so familiar to words written there. And you will return to the box us we rarely gave thought to what When someone was in the again and again. I promise!! a blessing they were. hospital or needed surgery, if Promise Boxes are a friends or neighbors were in compilation of Bible verses, "Ethnic Diversity" trouble or needed help, when typewritten individually on small By Jayne Davis someone passed away, when one isten about these two words of us was feeling guilty for that are often referred to by something we’d done or said, or Lmany scholars. These two sometimes “just because.” words are also referred to as We found great comfort in multiculturalism. Furthermore, pulling a promise from the box, some culturally diversified clutching it in our hand until it was individuals call Ethnic Diversity the our turn to read aloud, and spice of life which means variety. claiming that promise as “ours.” To continue, It is what makes us all Just the right words at just the so unique. Yet, Ethnic Diversity is right time. also what makes us all have a I can’t remember ever in multi colored cards about an inch common ground in which to grow my life - a time when I didn’t own long and perhaps 3 inches wide. on as well as a foundation for our a box of promises. Nor can I They are often held in a “Bread Of diverse way of life. remember ever pulling one, Life” box which looks like a small ur websites quotes, and reading the words, and not finding loaf of bread. Some are a bit according to the The United some sense of calm and peace. fancier with crystal containers, OStates Commission on Civil Perhaps it’s just a “myth” carved wooden boxes, or various Rights that, "Ethnic Diversity and there is no real power in the other artsy creations. But the promotes cross racial typed words of those little cards. promises themselves are the understanding, breaks down That may well be the case. But as same, regardless of the structure stereotypes, and enables students for me, I know with absolute in which they are housed. to understand persons from certainty there is power in the It was our great pleasure to different races". faith one stands on in believing the gather every day, often after a ery much so, "I personally truth of those promises. meal, around mama’s rocking chair believe, that we as a body of I would challenge any of to draw promises. Each of us Vpeople should learn to you to try it for yourself. The next children and mama would draw celebrate the cultural differences time you are anxious, or worried, one and individually we would read that we learn about one another". or frightened or sad. Pick up that it aloud. Afterwards, mama led a ver so sure, this will help to box of promises and pull one. Just prayer. I can’t define what it was bring about a more culturally one. that made this such a very special Eenriching life for our children Clutch it in your hand moment in our day, but it was one of today, and for the many believing that what is written there generations to come. will speak to you with exactly 2 A Little Bird Told Me coming June 23, 2012. Call Vera Upcoming WHS Events by Lucy Roe Cook Mauldin at 352-468-1554. Annual Quilt Show The Ladies of the Hand are ur Third Annual Quilt Show f t e r still playing Canasta on Monday will be held at the spacious skirting evening at the home of Mary Ann Oand air conditioned Waldo Aacross Rich’s uncle. Mary Ann Rich and Community Center (13550 NE rooftops and her Hand and Foot Canasta 148th Ave.) on Saturday, June 23. messing up my partner, Marie Ankney, were the If you have been quilting knees, I have big winners Monday last. Fun was and want to show off your two new had by all. masterpiece, please consider knees. No more rooftops for this Christine Mays baked entering it in our quilt show. Waldo little bird. It is good to be back in cornbread cake and they threw has some very talented quilters, as the Spring when the Azaleas are in crumbs to this little bird and her we’ve seen in years past. We will bloom in so many shades of pink friends. Thank you ladies. have ribbons for best Advanced, and the white ones also. If you have love in your Intermediate and Amateur. Linda The loss of a friend, Ardell heart, you will always have Lawson, our Quilt Judge, will Davidson is a loss to many in something to give. Thank you all choose “Best of Show,” “1 st Runner- Waldo. When a loss comes to a for your good wishes during my up” and “3 rd Runner-up in each community, it effects the knee surgery.