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The Rockford Fire Department received a $1,500 fire prevention grant recently from FM Global, a leading property insurer of the world’s largest businesses based in Johnston, R.I. FM Global representatives presented the award to assist with fire prevention activities in the community to help educate the community and reduce the number of fires. Among the fire [...]
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Rockford resident PFC Evan Halstedt shows a copy of The Rockford Squire at Camp Normandy, Iraq. PFC Halstedt is stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington, and is currently in his second tour of duty in Iraq. He is the son of Richard and Karen Halstedt of Rockford.
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Happy New Year! Observance of the New Year is the granddaddy of all holidays. The people in ancient Babylon celebrated it 4,000 years ago. The Babylonian New Year began with the first new moon (actually the first visible crescent) after the vernal equinox (first day of spring). The Babylonian New Year holiday lasted for 11 [...]
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January 2nd Vivian Anderson, Neil Blakeslee, Jane Bogart. Tyler Didion January 3rd Roger Mawby Jr., Amy Williams January 5th Greg Eckert, Aaron Sagraves January 6th Karen Jean Alkema, Zach Palmer January 7th Marge Noordyke January 8th Midge Eckert, Jan Havemeier, Pamela Newman
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Fight for your freedom, rights A good friend of mine, Al Kraker, recently gave me a book authored by John W. Whitehead, executive director of the Rutherford Institute, entitled “Stand and Fight.” Whitehead, a constitutional attorney, founded the Rutherford Institute in 1982 with the mission of specializing in cases that involve the curtailment of [...]
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