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Did you see the GetMommed.com by Kleenex advertisement in the Sunday coupon books? It’s part of the Kleenex marketing campaign during cold and flu season.
This is a fun site! Go check it out.
I got matched with Lisa as my “mom.” She’s the crafty mom.
– Paula Wethington
USA Today has this report: 70 percent say brides should take husband’s name.
A snippet:
About 70% of Americans agree, either somewhat or strongly, that it’s beneficial for women to take her husband’s last name when they marry, while 29% say it’s better for women to keep their own names, finds a study being presented today at the American Sociological Association’s annual meeting in San Francisco.
The percentage of women in Monroe County, Mich., who take their husband’s names is much higher, based on a married name story I did in 2004. While the local marriage licenses don’t list which name a woman is using after marriage; the divorce records do indicate which name she used during marriage – and which name she is using afterward.
And here’s what I found: Statistics from the 712 divorces and annulments reported by Monroe County Circuit Court in 2003 showed 96 percent of the women had used their husband’s last name during the marriage. About 2 percent kept their maiden name throughout the marriage, and about 2 percent hyphenated both names.
From some anecodotal stories I’ve heard over the years in Monroe, the husband is often the one expecting the woman to change her last name or add his name to hers.
Now as an interesting follow-up: 30 percent of local women who took their husband’s name returned to their maiden name at divorce in 2003. A handful made other name changes, such as hyphenating both names.
More recent court records indicate that about two-thirds of local women are now taking a previous name back upon a divorce.
– Paula Wethington
Some of the BlogsMonroe bloggers have been talking about the Nevaeh Buchanan case.
Here are their posts:
– Paula Wethington
The monroenews.com online archives have been updated so you can find all the The Monroe Evening News reports on the Nevaeh Buchanan case.
Those who are interested in print copies can purchase them on a first-come, first-served basis at our downtown Monroe office, 20 W. First St., Monroe, Mich.; become a subscriber to our e-edition where you can read and download the newspaper in pdf format; or if all you want are the front page pdfs you can download them for free here.
– Paula Wethington
The Monroe Evening News now has a special section on the Nevaeh Buchanan case at monroenews.com.
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/section?CATEGORY=NEVAEH
– Paula Wethington
Monroe County Sheriff Tilman L. Crutchfield has announced the next press conference on the Nevaeh Buchanan case will be at 10:30 a.m. today May 25 at the Monroe Moose Family Center 884, 1320 Macomb St.
This press conference “is to update the public on the status of the ongoing investigation,” according to the announcement.
– Paula Wethington
Are you wondering how much to let your young children know about the news coverage of a missing girl in Monroe?
My suggestion: tell them only what is necessary for them to know, but limit what they see and hear.
My daughter was in fifth grade when the Columbine High School shootings took place in 1999. My husband and I deliberately did NOT turn on the TV news that night, breaking our usual routine.
We gave the daughter very limited details about the school shooting situation. I do remember telling her that if there was ever a problem at her school to listen to her teachers – they were trained in what to do.
Now the school shooting situation was a really difficult situation for my husband and I to deal with. We were in Ohio at the time. I worked at a newspaper, he worked at a radio station. During the next two weeks, several high schools and some grade schools in the community where we lived had false alarms and security alerts based on people saying things they shouldn’t be saying. My husband and I were directly involved with keeping the public informed about what was going on in the local schools.
But while we needed to stay on top of the situation, the fifth-grade daughter did not need all that information. All she needed to know was what to do if that happened to her school.
If I had a young child at home right now, I would keep up with the details about Monroe’s missing girl on my own time while limiting what my child sees and hears.
Yes, I know this is the hot topic right now in Monroe. I even heard the Kroger employees talking about the case as they were going about their work duties last night. It’s not realistic to protect your children from all the chatter in town.
It’s also an appropriate response to remember the missing girl during your family prayer time.
You can, however, limit the constant repetition of the topic by looking up the headlines and talking with other adults about your concerns when the children are not in earshot.
As far as YOUR children are concerned … they need their own routines to be as normal as possible.
– Paula Wethington
As a follow up to the Amber Alert situation involving a missing girl in the city of Monroe, here are two child safety events that were previously scheduled and will be taking place in the Monroe County area in the next few days:
Keep Your Family Safe Day at Mercy Memorial Hospital May 30
http://www.monroetalks.com/events/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123627
Child Safety Day in New Boston June 6
http://www.monroetalks.com/events/events/index.php?com=detail&eID=123640
– Paula Wethington
This article is on page 1A of today’s print and e-editions of The Monroe Evening News, but it didn’t make the list for the monroenews.com headlines. Here is the article for the benefit of out-of-town seminar attendees who wanted to look it up. I also have a previous blog post about the event. — Paula Wethington
Genealogist: document your work researching family tree
A speaker at the county genealogical society’s spring seminar reminded attendees not to be lax when compiling citations to trace their roots.
By Paula Wethington
paula@monroenews.com
The inspiration to delve into genealogy often starts with an interesting story that has been told and retold within your family.
But unless you take the time to properly document what you learn as you track down the details of what really happened to that ancestor, that favorite story will be of little use to other family historians.
Documentation and source citations were some of the main take-home points during the Genealogical Society of Monroe County’s 32nd annual spring seminar Saturday at Monroe County Community College.
“It’s how we go about evaluating evidence,” said John Humphrey, a genealogical researcher and author from Washington, D.C. (more…)
By Paula Wethington
I began my genealogy project in 1990.
I started with the wonderful blessing of written family histories and genealogical lists from three branches of the family line that detailed several generations of ancestry and left off with my great-grandparents.
Since that time, several of my relatives have been researching one family line or another as time is available or they become interested in a particular story from the past (my mother did a report on one of her ancestors for a women’s history class.) And we do share information and research back and forth.
So while I haven’t done serious genealogy research in about 10 years, I do have a huge database of names in my computer and a box of photocopies and records. I still add to my collection if I run across something of interest, with the intention that I’ll jump back into the hobby at some point.
Today, my assignments for The Monroe Evening News included visiting the Genealogical Society of Monroe County’s annual Spring Seminar at Monroe County Community College. I will have a report in Sunday’s paper about the event.
I’ve been trying to talk my mother into coming to this event for the past couple of years, but either she or I have had schedule conflicts. Now that I’ve seen the event first-hand, I am very much interested in attending future GMC seminars.
You don’t have to have family in Monroe County to find this event useful, although, of course, many of the local history books were available for purchase. The vendor tables had history books and census charts available from several states. The other vendor wares included T-shirts, tote bags, clip art featuring images from several ethnic traditions, cross-stitch patterns, magnifying glasses, family heritage posters, and cookbooks featuring various historical eras.
And the topics of the day featured German ancestry, which a lot of Americans have somewhere in their family tree branches.
If you are interested in genealogy, the registration area had information about two events later this year.
By Charles Slat
An article in today’s Monroe Evening News profiles Model T enthusiasts Vern and Doris Campbell of Milan Township. Mr. Campbell bought the 1918 car from an uncle for $40 in 1950 and restored it. When the car was new in 1918, it sold for about $425.
Today, the car could be sold for around $20,000, according to Mr. Campbell.
That’s called residual value.
By Paula Wethington / paula@monroenews.com
Monroe has a sister city relationship with Hofu, Japan. My co-workers Charles Slat blogged here about his experience covering the program, and I’ve been involved as a member of the Monroe International Friendship Association since 2001.
Today’s front page of the print and e-editions of The Monroe Evening News shows Hofu Mayor Masato Matsuura greeting Monroe Mayor Mark Worrell during a reception that was held Sunday at Pagelli’s Cucina. Charles covered the event as a reporter, I was at the event as a MIFA member. When that camera flashed for that picture, I was in the back of the room. You really can’t pick me out because, in this shot, I’m behind someone else.
Anyway, as a MIFA member, I also attended the tree planting ceremony at Cappuccilli Park this afternoon. Where is Cappuccilli Park? It’s a little pocket park off the River Raisin, across from the Mason Run subdivision.
And I gave Mayor Matsuura a copy of today’s newspaper. He had not yet seen it.
By Charles Slat
I had a panic attack Sunday on my way to a reception at Pagelli’s Cuchina for the mayor of Hofu and other visitors from the Japanese city.
I forgot to bring along some business cards.
Here I was, trying to remember the few Japanese words I picked up on a visit to Hofu and Tokyo in 1986, and I forgot to remember some of the most important protocol when meeting Japanese professionals — the obligatory exchange of business cards.
I dug deep in my wallet and, happily, discovered two cards squirreled away. Upon meeting Mayor Masato Matsuura, he quickly pulled a card from his pocket. I responded with my own at the ready in my shirt pocket.
My visit to Hofu was to have a look-see at the Mazda plant there, which was the model for what now is the AutoAlliance International plant in Flat Rock. I recall Hofu as an industrial town. Today, it has about six times the population of Monroe.
Once of the big attractions in the city is a Tenmangu Shrine, dedicated to worshiping the god of literature and scholarship, Tenjin.
Oh yeah, Monroe might be one of the oldest settlements in Michigan, but Hofu is older. In fact the Tenmangu Shrine was built in 904.
By the way, a photo of the shrine adorns the business cards of the Hofu group.
By Charles Slat
An article in The Monroe Sunday News recounts the death of Newport resident Chris Morin and his family’s decision to allow his organs to be harvested to help save the lives of others.
It was a coincidence that I was assigned to cover the Gift of Life memorial golf tournament that Chris’ friends and families organized as a memorial to him.
Organ donation, if not discussed beforehand, can be an anguishing decision for any family, particularly in the case of unexpected death.
It hit home for me two weeks ago when my mother-in-law, Yvonne Schlagheck of Temperance, died of a heart attack at 74. Within hours of her death, organ donor representatives were on the phone to relatives asking about the possibility of organ donation.
Understandably, there was some anguished indecision, but ultimately, Yvonne’s immediate family members decided that bone and tissue could be harvested to make a better life for others.
It’s a decision everyone should consider and one they should make beforehand. Anyone can sign up at any age. Visit www.giftoflifemichigan.org or call 1-800-482-4881.
Operation of Hi-Lite Supermarket in Monroe Township has been sort of a Petkovich family tradition through the years.
The employment of Rose Parron as a cashier at the store has been a tradition, too, that’s spanned 50 years, as documented by an article in Wednesday’s Evening News.
Employing her relatives also has been a bit of a tradition. Other members of Mrs. Parron’s family that have worked at the supermarket, include two sons, a daughter, and two grandsons.
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