The Brewster Grange No. 1018 held its monthly potluck and meeting on Sept. 13. Our fair booth for the Grange received a blue ribbon plus a special award for faithfulness by putting in a booth each year. A big thank you to the helpers and the items and produce providers.
We discussed trying to get resolutions ready to turn in to the State Grange, and heard a report on the loss of one of our longtime Grangers.
The next meeting is Oct. 11 at 6 p.m. See you then.
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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and the Herald would like to celebrate the brave women in the Quad Cities who have survived the disease, whether it be recently or long ago. Check out the form at the bottom of this page for more information.
This day in history - Sept. 20
1519: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
1565: The first European battle on American soil, Spanish forces under Pedro Menéndez de Avilés captured the French Huguenot settlement of Fort Caroline, near present-day Jacksonville, Fla.
1777: During the Revolutionary War, nearly 200 American troops were killed or wounded in their sleep by the Redcoats in the Paoli Massacre.
1881: Chester A. Arthur became the 21st president of the U.S. President James A. Garfield had died the day before.
1963: U.S. President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint U.S.-Soviet expedition to the moon in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
1977: The first of the "boat people" arrived in San Francisco from Southeast Asia under a new U.S. resettlement program.
1982: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the U.S., France, and Italy were going to send peacekeeping troops back to Beirut.
1991: U.N. weapons inspectors left for Iraq in a renewed search for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.
1995: The U.S. House of Representatives voted to drop the national speed limit. This allowed the states to decide their own speed limits.
2000: Independent Counsel Robert Ray announced the end of the Whitewater investigation, saying there was insufficient evidence to charge President Clinton and his wife, Hillary.
2001: President George W. Bush addressed the nation and a joint session of Congress about terrorism. He also named Tom Ridge as head of the new Office of Homeland Security.
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