The Hancock-Henderson Quill, Inc.

Celebrate The Birthdays!

by Dessa Rodeffer, Publisher/Owner

21 August 2002

The Raritan Opera House is going to be 100 years old this year, and the community is having several functions, including a big birthday Party Saturday, August 24th at 7:00 p.m. They are celebrating this birthday, like you should, with a lot of fun and some food planned.

The advertisement said "music, a movie, and birthday cake" would be provided.

After celebrating many family birthdays, the 100th birthday of my town of Stronghurst in 1987, and our nation's Bicentennial in 1976, I feel I've been slowly walking up a teeter totter and finally crossed over the middle, but now it has tilted down, and I'm racing down the other side.

It sometimes seems older people make light of birthdays, as if they are unimportant, but I feel just the opposite. I think we better keep celebrating even more as we come to realize the precious people and things we have in our midst.

The Opera House in Raritan is one of the things I feel is worth celebrating. It has brought a lot of pleasure and fun to people.

It has also been a place where residents could vote, or collect blood for the bloodmobile, or where clubs could hold meetings.

It has served as a lot of people's headquarters for anniversaries, get-togethers, graduations, and birthday parties and its nice to be celebrating the Opera House and its committee who keep on enhancing this wonderful place in our county.

It seems it is time to get out the purple hat and be ready to go wherever there's a celebration. If 9-11 has told us anything, it is to look around and remember all the reasons we have to celebrate. See you in Raritan.

The Raritan Opera House is going to be 100 years old this year, and the community is having several functions, including a big birthday Party Saturday, August 24th at 7:00 p.m. They are celebrating this birthday, like you should, with a lot of fun and some food planned.

The advertisement said "music, a movie, and birthday cake" would be provided.

After celebrating many family birthdays, the 100th birthday of my town of Stronghurst in 1987, and our nation's Bicentennial in 1976, I feel I've been slowly walking up a teeter totter and finally crossed over the middle, but now it has tilted down, and I'm racing down the other side.

It sometimes seems older people make light of birthdays, as if they are unimportant, but I feel just the opposite. I think we better keep celebrating even more as we come to realize the precious people and things we have in our midst.

The Opera House in Raritan is one of the things I feel is worth celebrating. It has brought a lot of pleasure and fun to people.

It has also been a place where residents could vote, or collect blood for the bloodmobile, or where clubs could hold meetings.

It has served as a lot of people's headquarters for anniversaries, get-togethers, graduations, and birthday parties and its nice to be celebrating the Opera House and its committee who keep on enhancing this wonderful place in our county.

It seems it is time to get out the purple hat and be ready to go wherever there's a celebration. If 9-11 has told us anything, it is to look around and remember all the reasons we have to celebrate. See you in Raritan.