Easter

Soon it will be two days, 11 years, three months and 24 short periods of time since the Son of God arose from the dead. Because he lives, many people of many nations shall live again also. He has promised all of those who love him (just like the thief on the cross) that they will be resurrected from the grave to live with him in the kingdom of God forever, and forever. This promise lives in the hearts of Christians worldwide, and we pray, “Come quickly Lord Jesus.” Remember Easter Sunday and the risen savior on April 24. M. Wendell Anderson Danville

Fannie Bush Elementary School fourth-grade students, from left, Brian Hisle, Branson Rice and Tynaisha Taylor look at baby chicks that hatched just a few hours earlier Thursday morning. The students in Misty Lynch's science class have been studying life cycles in conjunction with the 4-H Chick Incubation Project.

President Barack Obama might have some fancy digs at which to host the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn, but Tasha Key puts on a pretty egg-cellent Easter shindig herself. About 75 kids descended on the backyard of Key's Greenview Drive home Saturday afternoon, where some 4,500 eggs lay in wait. Eggs that Keys and her family had been filling since February - 4,100 with candy and 400 with cash - all of them scooped up within minutes. “The whole yard was covered.

Easter is right around the corner and do you know what you are serving? Ham is a traditional Easter food that dates back centuries. Before refrigeration fresh pork was butchered in the fall and whatever meat could not be eaten before Lentwas then cured. This curing process lasted several weeks making it ready just in time for Easter. Today, there are many different varieties of ham which differ depending on the cut of meat and the curing process. Hams are sold as whole ham, butt end, shank end, and as center cut ham steaks.

Easter morning as a child meant hurrying and getting ready for church. It was the one time of the year I always had a new outfit and new shoes to wear to church. The Family Shoe Store in Mount Sterling was the only place I can ever remember getting a pair of shoes from. I even thought that the shoe store was where everyone bought their shoes when I was really young. It wasn't until some day later in J.C. Penney that I discovered they sold shoes too.  The purpose of telling you this is to give context to a story about me trying to get ready for church on Easter Sunday.

This is my second column this weekend. I had another one all written out. My first column was all about my family's Easter plans. We have come up with some fun ways to celebrate Jesus with our kids. For starters, my husband has put together an Easter play and the kids have been working all day on putting together their costumes ... but that's not what I want to tell you about this week. This morning, during worship time at my church we were singing one of my favorite songs. The words in one part say, "I'll never know how much it cost, to see my sins upon that cross.

Eggs were decorated, blessed, exchanged and eaten as part of the rites of spring long before Christian times. Early civilizations held springtime festivals to welcome the sun's rising from its long winter sleep. The Germans began the tradition of emptying egg shells, painting them and decorating with bits of lace, cloth or ribbon so they could be hung on small trees. Decorating eggs can be fun for all ages and makes a great family project. If you hide the decorated eggs, put them where they won't come into contact with pets, other animals, birds or lawn chemicals.

April 8, 1987 Jamie Powell performs a ballet dance to the song “The Other Side of the World” during dress rehearsal of the annual Lions Club show Wednesday evening. The Easter Bunny, Care Bears, Eggetha, a giant Easter egg, cartoon characters sponsored by Piggly-Wiggly, Billy Bob from Showbiz Pizza, Ronald McDonald and Wendy characters will participate in the second Easter parade scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday in downtown Winchester. Slides of Kenya were featured at Wednesday's luncheon meeting of the Winchester Kiwanis Club.

Well goodness gracious Carol Burns. Doesn't she know that Halloween is the devil's night to prowl the graveyards and alleyways, and to let lose all the little demons to trick or treat all the good people of the world? Well, don't you know that Christmas is no longer a celebration of the Christ child in America today? It's happy holidays, cedar trees and gifts for everyone, mistletoe, jingle bells and Santa Claus with Dancer and the little elves singing carols and playing in the snow.

Another Easter has passed and it ended up being an enjoyable one for me. I have to tell you how my day began. As I mentioned to you before, I never remembered receiving an Easter basket as I grew up. My husband has made up for it ever since I told him many years back. This year was no different. I awakened to my Easter basket sitting on the kitchen table along with a beautiful Easter lily. It was what was in my Easter basket that made me laugh. You see, on Friday I was feeling pretty horrible from my cancer treatment and the person who got the brunt of my misery was my husband.

There is an “after Easter” play on words that is  as the “Rising Son” and the “rising sun.”  That which rises in the east and sets in the west cannot be compared to He who rose once and never sets, but there is a comparison of the Son and his created sun.   We know Mary, after the devastating crucifixion of Jesus, came to the garden where His body had been interred. It was early and little light shone anywhere. She quite naturally expected the great stone that covered the entry to this tomb to be in place, but she had come, perhaps, with a need that had been instigated by His gracious forgiveness of her. She loved him, no doubt, as much as anyone could love Him as the result of His sensitive awareness that she was, in previous years, lacking in moral standards and conduct.

President Barack Obama might have some fancy digs at which to host the annual Easter egg roll on the White House lawn, but Tasha Key puts on a pretty egg-cellent Easter shindig herself. About 75 kids descended on the backyard of Key's Greenview Drive home Saturday afternoon, where some 4,500 eggs lay in wait. Eggs that Keys and her family had been filling since February - 4,100 with candy and 400 with cash - all of them scooped up within minutes. “The whole yard was covered.

Easter is right around the corner, and while it's one of my favorite holidays, it's also jam-packed with environmentally unfriendly traditions. Plastic is everywhere during Easter, from candy “egg” containers to fun-size candy packaging, to fake grass to all the different, cheap little Easter toys that get passed out. What bothers me is when no one even stops to think about the impact our holiday behaviors have on the environment. It's like because it's Easter, we just do what we've always done and we think our actions don't have consequences.

Easter morning as a child meant hurrying and getting ready for church. It was the one time of the year I always had a new outfit and new shoes to wear to church. The Family Shoe Store in Mount Sterling was the only place I can ever remember getting a pair of shoes from. I even thought that the shoe store was where everyone bought their shoes when I was really young. It wasn't until some day later in J.C. Penney that I discovered they sold shoes too.  The purpose of telling you this is to give context to a story about me trying to get ready for church on Easter Sunday.

There could not have been a more beautiful day for Wilmore's annual Easter-egg hunt at Centennial Park on Saturday, parks and recreation director Amy Fitch said. Dozens of children, from infants to 10-year-olds, convened at the park located behind the Ichthus grounds to meet the Easter Bunny and search for hidden treasure in the grass. “I'm just out here with my granddaughter,” Wilmore Mayor Harold Rainwater said. “I try to come out here every year; it really is a nice event, beautiful day, and Amy just does an amazing job.“ With only a few white puffy clouds in the sky, Fitch and Rainwater both agreed conditions could not be better but that there were fewer children than in year's past.

April 8, 1987 Jamie Powell performs a ballet dance to the song “The Other Side of the World” during dress rehearsal of the annual Lions Club show Wednesday evening. The Easter Bunny, Care Bears, Eggetha, a giant Easter egg, cartoon characters sponsored by Piggly-Wiggly, Billy Bob from Showbiz Pizza, Ronald McDonald and Wendy characters will participate in the second Easter parade scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday in downtown Winchester. Slides of Kenya were featured at Wednesday's luncheon meeting of the Winchester Kiwanis Club.

Easter is right around the corner and do you know what you are serving? Ham is a traditional Easter food that dates back centuries. Before refrigeration fresh pork was butchered in the fall and whatever meat could not be eaten before Lentwas then cured. This curing process lasted several weeks making it ready just in time for Easter. Today, there are many different varieties of ham which differ depending on the cut of meat and the curing process. Hams are sold as whole ham, butt end, shank end, and as center cut ham steaks.

Well goodness gracious Carol Burns. Doesn't she know that Halloween is the devil's night to prowl the graveyards and alleyways, and to let lose all the little demons to trick or treat all the good people of the world? Well, don't you know that Christmas is no longer a celebration of the Christ child in America today? It's happy holidays, cedar trees and gifts for everyone, mistletoe, jingle bells and Santa Claus with Dancer and the little elves singing carols and playing in the snow.

Easter egg hunt set at Millennium Danville-Boyle County Parks and Recreation will have an Easter egg hunt beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Millennium Park baseball complex. The egg hunt is for children 12 and younger. Kids should bring a basket to collect eggs in. Fallen Stanford police officer to be honored A ceremony honoring a Stanford police officer killed in the line of duty will be held the afternoon of April 28 on U.S. 150 at the Lincoln-Rockcastle county line.