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Mother's Day
Sunday, May 8 2005 to Sunday, May 9 2010 from 12:00am to 11:59pm Each year
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Mother's Day Mother's Day is always the second Sunday in May. Mother's Day is set aside to acknowledge, show appreciation for and honor your "mom" (and other moms in your life). Anna Jarvis, born in 1864 in Webster, West Virginia, is credited as the force behind the official Mother's Day observance. When Jarvis was 41, her mother died. On the second anniversary of her mother's death (the second Sunday in May 1908), Jarvis made public her plans to establish a day to honor mothers. The observance became official in 1914. The aspiration of Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis and her daughter, Anna Jarvis, was to establish a national memorial day dedicated to all mothers, both alive and deceased. After her mother's death in 1905, Anna Jarvis was relentless in achieving this goal. Jarvis was successful in getting West Virginia Governor Glassock to proclaim a statewide Mother's Day in 1910. Four years later, President Woodrow Wilson signed into law a U.S. House of Representatives resolution, introduced at Jarvis' request, making the second Sunday in May the national Mother's Day. Mother's Day has since become an international holiday, celebrated in over 100 countries. Anna Marie Reeves Jarvis and her family lived in Taylor County in the mid-1800s. Stories about her many good deeds and leadership qualities had become part of the local folklore by the time of her death. She and her brother, a doctor, had formed the Mothers Day Friendship Clubs to work with women to prevent the deaths of children by teaching sanitation methods. They explained to mothers the importance of boiling water, how to keep food from spoiling, and other antiseptic methods. Jarvis and the women who joined these Mothers Day Friendship Clubs refused to take sides during the Civil War. Instead they provided nursing services and taught sanitation methods which helped save thousands of soldiers' lives on both sides, North and South. After the war, Jarvis was tireless in promoting peace and good will among neighbors who may have differed politically. She conceived a family day picnic honoring mothers, called Mothers Friendship Day; its real goal, however, was to reunite alienated neighbors. Following a prayer, the band began to play "Should Auld Acquaintances Be Forgot." By the time they reached the word "forgot," neighbors were weeping and shaking hands. Anna Jarvis held a memorial service for her mother in 1907, and all mothers the next year. Services were held at Andrews Methodist Episcopal Church in Grafton, which is now the International Mothers Day Shrine. Anna Jarvis' birthplace, where the Jarvis family lived from 1854 to 1864, is now a museum.

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--Friday, Sept. 5, Brat Fry - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Pick 'n Save, 55 W. Pioneer Road. Sponsored by Covenant United Methodist Church. --Friday, Sept. 5, Brat Fry - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Pick 'n Save, 760 W. Johnson St. Benefits Laudolff Cancer Fund. --Saturday, Sept. 6, Brat Fry - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Ma and Pa's Grocery Express, 506 S. Main St. Benefits the Fond du Lac Synergy Cooperative. --Saturday, Sept. 6, Brat Fry - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Pick 'n Save, 55 W. Pioneer Road. Sponsored by Covenant United Methodist Church. --Saturday, Sept. 6, Brat Fry - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Pick 'n Save, 760 W. Johnson St. Benefits Laudolff Cancer Fund. --Sunday, Sept. 7, Brat Fry - 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Pick 'n Save, 55 W. Pioneer Road. Sponsored by Covenant United Methodist Church. --Thursday, Sept. 11, Italian Dinner - 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., Holiday Inn, 625 W. Rolling Meadows Drive. Benefits Habitat for Humanity. Includes dinner, raffles, auctions and music by Joe Scheibinger and Janice Marie. Tickets are $40 and can be purchased by calling Kathy at (920) 921-6623. --Saturday, Sept. 13, Ride for Diabetes Cure - 10:30 a.m. at Harley Davidson Dealership, 427 W. Sumner St., Hartford. Participants will ride 120 miles through the Kettle Moraine area. Includes four stops. Two- three- and four-wheeled motor vehicles welcome. Event features door prizes and food. A CC Sabathia signed baseball and other items will be available at a live auction. Registration for ride starts at 8:30 a.m. The event is $20. --Saturday, Sept. 13, Heather's Fight Fundraiser - 11 a.m. to midnight, Fairwater Civic Center, Highway 44 and County Trunk E. Benefits the Heather Shanahan Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Fund. Heather needs a life-saving stem cell transplant. Fundraising efforts include a wiffle ball tournament, a volleyball tournament, petting zoo, face painting, bounce castle, raffles, auctions and live music by Road Trip band at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $5. To register for wiffle ball, call Shane at (920) 346-5834. To register for volleyball, call Jenny at (920) 517-7788. To volunteer or donate, call Terri at (920) 748-2668. --Saturday, Sept. 20, Walk to Cure Diabetes - 2 p.m., River Park in Sheboygan Falls. Benefits the Fond du Lac County Chapter of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International. Register for 1- or 2-mile walks at www.jdrf.org or (888) 533-WALK. Walkers who raise $100 or more will qualify to win commemorative t-shirts and prizes. Sponsoring a fundraising event in the Fond du Lac area? Get the word out with The Reporter's Fondy Fundraisers, a free weekly column. To send information, contact April Showers at ashowers@fdlreporter.com or (920) 922-4606 ext. 227. Submissions must include the event coordinator's name and phone number. Only events for charitable causes will be accepted.

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