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November Family Newsletter ~

At the Old Home Place
for Thanksgiving

This is Our Day

Thanks Valerie

It's time for a makeover.
Changing your environment
can change your outlook.
Try your best to get your people
to open up today --
you need them on your side for sure!
New ideas are coming your way,
and it's up to you
to make sure
that everyone is ready for them.

Look who shares YOUR day.

Baseball Hall-of-Famer Stan Musial is 89.
Actor Joseph Campanella is 82.
Country singer Jean Shepard is 76.
Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 75.
Actress Marlo Thomas is 72.
Actor Rick Lenz is 70.
Singer Dr. John is 69.
Actress Juliet Mills is 68.
Tennessee Gov. Phil Bredesen is 66.
Basketball Hall of Famer Earl Monroe is 65.
Comedian-director Harold Ramis is 65.
Television producer Marcy Carsey is 65.
Actress Goldie Hawn is 64.
Movie director Andrew Davis is 63.
Rock musician Lonnie Jordan (War) is 61.
Singer Livingston Taylor is 59.
Actress-singer Lorna Luft is 57.
Actress Cherry Jones is 53.
Rock musician Brian Ritchie (The Violent Femmes) is 49.
Gospel singer Steven Curtis Chapman is 47.
Actress Nicollette Sheridan is 46.
Singer-actress Bjork is 44.
Pro and College Football Hall of Famer Troy Aikman is 43.
Rhythm-and-blues singer Chauncey Hannibal (BLACKstreet) is 41.
Rock musician Alex James (Blur) is 41.
MLB All-Star player Ken Griffey, Jr. is 40.
Rapper Pretty Lou (Lost Boyz) is 38.
Actor/former football player Michael Strahan is 38.
Country singer Kelsi Osborn (SHeDAISY) is 35.
Singer-actress Lindsey Haun is 25.
Actress Jena Malone is 25.

One year ago

Wall Street staged a comeback, with the major indexes jumping more than 5 percent and the Dow Jones industrials surging nearly 500 points.
Somali pirates released a hijacked Greek-owned tanker, MV Genius, with all 19 crew members safe and the oil cargo intact after payment of a ransom. (The ship had been seized almost two months earlier.)
Madonna and Guy Ritchie were granted a preliminary decree of divorce by a London court.

Five years ago

President George W. Bush, trying to mend relations with Latin America, pledged during an economic summit in Chile to make a fresh push for stalled immigration reforms.
Iraqi authorities set Jan. 30, 2005, as the date for the nation's first election since the collapse of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.
Six Wisconsin hunters were shot to death by Chai Soua Vang, an ethnic Hmong immigrant who was later sentenced to life in prison.
The NBA suspended Indiana's Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl that broke out at the end of a game against the Detroit Pistons; eight other players received shorter bans.

Ten years ago

President Bill Clinton, speaking at a conference in Florence, Italy, called on prosperous nations to spread global wealth by helping poor countries with Internet hookups, cell phones, debt relief and small loans.
China completed its first unmanned test of a spacecraft meant to carry astronauts.
Quentin Crisp, the eccentric writer, performer and raconteur best-known for his autobiography "The Naked Civil Servant," died in Manchester, England, at age 90.

Consider this . . .
We are always doing, says he,
something for posterity,
but I would fain
see posterity
do something for us.

Joseph Addison,
English essayist and poet
(1672-1719).