Ward Halloween Carnival

Come one, come all to the 5th Ward Family Halloween Carnival!

Wednesday October 29th

6pm - 7:30pm

Costumes welcome (no masks)

Light supper & snacks will be served.  There will be games and a photo booth.

Happy Halloween!

Christmas Evening Preview

Coming up:  Special Christmas Evening for the sisters

Thursday Nov. 20th. 

Classes will start at 4:00. 

Dinner will be at 6:00 with a program to follow and then more classes. 

These are the first crafts to be displayed because we need to order supplies ahead of time. The display will be in the foyer at church on Sunday. Prices will be shown.

Sis. Schaffer will have more details coming.  It's going to be Merry!

 

Italian Indexing Project

"The Italian Project"

You've heard of it, now come see and feel for yourself "The Italian Project".  Through ancient records visit the vibrant cities and people of Italy.

Florence (Firenze) 

- the leather capital of the world-

Florence is famous for its history: a centre of medieval European trade and finance and one of the wealthiest cities of the time, it is considered the birthplace of the Renaissance, and has been called "the Athens of the Middle Ages".  A turbulent political history includes periods of rule by the powerful Medici family, and numerous religious and republican revolutions. Florence is the burial place of some of the most illustrious Italians, such as Michelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Foscolo, Gentile, Rossini, and Marconi, thus it is known also as the Temple of the Italian Glories.

Duomo di Firenze

Pisa

The leaning tower (in the background) and in the foreground the round "baptistery" containing a beautiful font, carved and inlaid in 1246 by the Gothic sculptor Guido Bigarelli da Como, where baptisms for immersion were once performed.

Siena

- home of the "Palio de Siena"- 

(The Medieval Horse Race)  

This 700 year old tradition is more than a simple horse race. It is the culmination of ongoing rivalry and competition between the contrade (city districts). Each contrada navigates a strategy of horsemanship, alliances, and animosities. There are the final clandestine meetings among the heads of the contrade and then between them and the jockeys. There is the two-hour pageant of the Corteo Storico, and then all this is crowned by the race, which takes only about 75 seconds to complete. Although there is great public spectacle, the passions displayed are still very real.  The Palio, in fact, is won by the horse who represents his contrada, and not by the jockeys. The winner is the first horse to cross the finish line—a horse can win without its rider.  The winner is awarded a banner of painted silk, or palio, which is hand-painted by a different artist for each race.  Bragging rights are the main winnings and celebrations go on for months.

San Gimignano

According to legend, in 63 BC, brothers Muzio and Silvio, two young patricians escaping from Rome, sheltered in Valdelsa and built two castles:  the Castle of Mucchio and the Castle of Silvia, which would develop into the future San Gimignano.  This city, founded in the first century BC, still has buildings standing from before the time of Christ.

According to legend, in 63 B.C. two brothers, Muzio and Silvio, two young patricians escaping from Rome after their implication in the conspiracy of Catiline, sheltered in Valdelsa and built two castles: the Castle of Mucchio and the Castle of Silvia, which would develop in the future San Gimignano. - See more at: http://www.sangimignano.com/en/art-and-culture/town-history.asp#sthash.ar02eD5D.dpuf

Cathedral at San Gimignano

Thursday Oct 16, 7:00 PM    

Temple Street Chapel for the presentation

Multipurpose room for computer training. 

Bring your laptops.

Bring your friends and neighbors. 

Everyone is invited.

Elder and Sister Perkins from Mission Headquarters in Salt Lake, are coming to Cardston to do a presentation and some training on the Italian Indexing Project. They would like to invite all of you to attend this firside, and bring your laptop computer if you think you might be interested in learning how to help with this important project. For those of you who are already doing Italian, they would like to train you to do the death records as well as the birth records. 

New volunteers will be trained on the birth records. You do not need to know Italian to help with this project. 

(I love the beautiful handwriting!)

Come and enjoy the flare, the vibrance, and the love of the Italian people through these recently released records!

From the Family Search Blog:

       Make yourself a pizza and get geared up for Thursday :)

Fruit Drying Instructions and Recipes

Here are all the notes from the fruit drying class! The small typing you see is just a "preview", you will click on the blue link and it will open up into a file you can read, print, or download.  Enjoy!!!

To the right is a snapshot of the first page of part 1
Click here for full package: Part 1

Left is a snapshot of the first page of two recipes: Click here for full package:  Part 2

Right is a snapshot the first page of the preparation package:  click here for full package:  Part 3