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Newsletter@holidayvillages.com
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Looking for a place to celebrate your special occasion?
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Look no further than your Holiday Villages Clubhouse!
Birthday
Wedding
Anniversary
Graduation
Sweet 16
Baby/Wedding Shower
Or whatever you feel like celebrating!
Call your Clubhouse Manager for Dates & Rates
Lake Fork
Information 903-878-7263
Clubhouse 903-878-7051
Lake Livingston
Information 936-377-3233
Clubhouse 936-377-5500
Lake Medina
Information 830-796-3463
Clubhouse 830-796-8141
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 In 2010, fall begins on September 22nd for countries in the Northern Hemisphere. (United States, Canada and most of Europe).
Flower of the month is Aster
One of the legends associated with the aster flowers says, that when the Greek goddess Asterea looked at earth and could not find any stars, she cried. The aster flowers grew out of the soil, wherever her tears fell. Most of the legends associated with the aster flowers somehow tries to explain their shape, which exactly resembles the blinking and twinkling of stars. It is said that the aster flowers are named so as to remind us of the star Astron, which is referred in the Greek mythology.
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We are pleased to announce we are extending the Very Important Property Owner Referral Program.
Simply bring your friends, family and co-workers out to visit with your Holiday Villages Representative.
$150.00 for the first Purchasing Referral
$200.00 for the second
$250.00 for the third ** PLUS, your Dream Vacation**
 
Don’t hesitate, call your Holiday Villages Representative today…
Lake Fork: 903-878-7263
Lake Livingston: 936-377-3233
Lake Medina: 800-460-3463
Offer valid 1-1-10 thru 12-31-10
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The form that the observance and celebration of Labor Day should take were outlined in the first proposal of the holiday a street parade to exhibit to the public "The strength and esprit de corps of the trade and labor organizations" of the community, followed by a festival for the recreation and amusement of the workers and their families. This became the pattern for the celebrations of Labor Day. Speeches by prominent men and women were introduced later, as more emphasis was placed upon the economic and civic significance of the holiday. Still later, by a resolution of the American Federation of Labor convention of 1909, the Sunday preceding Labor Day was adopted as Labor Sunday and dedicated to the spiritual and educational aspects of the labor movement. The character of the Labor Day celebration has undergone a change in recent years, especially in large industrial centers where mass displays and huge parades have proved a problem. This change, however, is more a shift in emphasis and medium of expression. Labor Day addresses by leading union officials, industrialists, educators, clerics and government officials are given wide coverage in newspapers, radio, and television. The vital force of labor added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known and has brought us closer to the realization of our traditional ideals of economic and political democracy. It is appropriate, therefore, that the nation pay tribute on Labor Day to the creator of so much of the nation's strength, freedom, and leadership - the American worker.
AMY ADAMS Returns to Lake Fork
 AMY ADAMS
returns to Holiday Villages of
Lake Fork Saturday September
4th, 7:00pm At the Clubhouse.
Bring your family and friends
to the clubhouse for a
wonderful evening as Amy
shares her beautiful
music with us.
National Grandparents Day
 The impetus for a National Grandparents Day originated with Marian McQuade, a housewife in Fayette County, West Virginia. Her primary motivation was to champion the cause of lonely elderly in nursing homes. She also hoped to persuade grandchildren to tap the wisdom and heritage their grandparents could provide. President Jimmy Carter, in 1978, proclaimed that National Grandparents Day would be celebrated every year on the first Sunday after Labor Day. When is Grandparents Day? In 2010, Grandparents Day falls on Sept. 12th, 2010. Make plans now to enjoy a day with your Grandparent or that Special loved one. A cozy chat and lunch at your clubhouse is always nice.
Happy Grandparents Day
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 In the United States, Patriot Day, occurs on September 11 of each year in memory of the 2,993 killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks. Most Americans refer to the day as "Nine-Eleven (9/11)," "September Eleventh," or some variation thereof. On this day, the President directs that the American flag be flown at half-staff at individual American homes, at the White House, and on all U.S. government buildings and establishments, home and abroad. The President also asks Americans to observe a moment of silence beginning at 8:46 A.M. (Eastern Daylight Time), the time of the first plane crash on September 11, 2001.
Sept. 17, 1787: CONSTITUTION DAY
 “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
- United States Constitution, Preamble
Sept. 26, 1774: Johnny "Appleseed's" Birthday
Who Was He? Who was Johnny Appleseed? His real name was Jonathan Chapman, and he was born in Boston, in 1775. He had followed the Revolutionary veterans over the Alleghenies, and conceiving his life mission to be the planting of apple trees, as theirs was the wielding of the ax or the guiding of the plow, he served a great and useful purpose in making men and women contented in their new homes on the frontier. No one knows just where his body is buried, but no one doubts that it is somewhere in the woods he loved, where the birds sing and the squirrels play, and where the breezes of spring waft the sweet odors of blossoming branches. There is an old poem that some children still learn, one verse of which runs:
And if they inquire whence came such trees, Where not a bough once swayed in the breeze,
The reply still comes as they travel on, "Those trees were planted by Appleseed John."
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