Announcements
Art: Try out your creativity, Sundays, any time from 2-4:30 p.m. in the Arts and Crafts Room.
Citizens Take Note: “Citizen Kane” mirrored events in the life of newsman mogul William Randolph Hearst. He sued the producers and director Orson Welles who also played the title role.
In the movie Charles Foster Kane inherits the mother lode from his mother (how appropriate). Among his father’s investments is a newspaper. He decides it would be “fun to run a newspaper” with his best bud--played by Joseph Cotton. The one newspaper becomes a chain of newspapers.
He marries a nice lady played by Agnes Moorehead who was Endora on “Bewitched.”. We see them at dinner sitting on opposite ends of a long banquet table.
To spice up his life he has an affair with a young starlet of limited talents (if they were making the movie today Paris Hilton would get the part). He fires his former best bud for writing a truthful review saying that her concert performance stunk (he was being kind). When the affair is discovered it destroys Kane’s political career before it starts.
As I said, all these events mirrored the life of Hearst--only the names were changed--so for extra credit does anyone know the name of the real Rosebud.
Oh yes, the film will be shown Friday, December 19, at 2 p.m. in the Community Room.
Qi-Gong: Mondays, 1-2 p.m., in the Community Room. All are welcome.
Meditation: Wednesdays, 7:45 a.m., in the STAR classroom. Open to staff and guests.
I Hear the Sound of Distant Drums: If anyone is interested in forming a drum corps please see Juanetta.
Crochet and Knit Class: Saturdays from 10:00 am to 12:30 pm in the arts and crafts room.
It will be open to anyone who wants to learn, brush-up on their skills or just wants to work on an already existing project.
ABE
▪Learn Spanish: Sundays from 6-8 p.m. in the Adult Basic Education Room.
Four students from Notre Dame will be coming to the ABE room to help students learn Spanish.
Spanish class will be in recess after the December 14 session.
▪Academic Fun Fair: December 8-14. Different projects and hands-on activities will be available on a variety of topics including: optical illusions, science experiments, psychology, politics, poetry, Christmas crafts, etc. Students will be given an opportunity to earn a prize upon completion of a passport card showing that they visited all of the displays.
▪Positive Life Skills: PLS will be in session Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve.
▪Public Speaking Class: Wednesdays, 7-8:30 p.m., starting December 14.
▪Power In the Workplace: Wednesdays, 6-7:30 p.m. December 3—“Legal Issues: What Are Your Rights?,” December 10—”The Story of American Workers,” December 17--”Globalization and the Future of Work.” The December 17 session is the last one.
▪ABE Incentives: Students will be given a card to be initialed during each walk-in class attended. Once a student has attended 10 walk-in programs, cards can be redeemed for prizes.
▪GED: A new GED class started up October 10 in ABE. All GED-bound students are welcome to attend. The class meets from 1-3 p.m. Fridays and includes group discussions and time to work on testing, individual assignments and the computer. Please see ABE for details.
▪Poetry Jam: Poetry Jam will be in recess after the December 12 meeting from 3-4 p.m., in the ABE Room. The ABE staff hopes to see it resume in late January.
▪Writing: Thursdays, 6-7 p.m., ABE. Improve your basic writing skills under the guidance of a trained instructor.
Writing will be in recess on Christmas and New Year’s days.
▪Creative Writing: Creative writing will resume January 15.
▪Book Clubs: Inspirational Reading Squad—Monday, 7-8 p.m.
December 15 will be the last meeting of Inspirational Reading Squad until January.
Herald Sports
ND Scores: Magazine ranks ND 14th for academic and athletic excellence; Irish football graduation rate number two among bowl teams.
NFL Scores: Bears 27, Saints 24 (OT).
NCAA Football Notes, Bowls This Weekend: Saturday--Eagle Bank Bowl (Washington, D.C.), Wake Forest (7-5) vs. Navy (8-4); New Mexico Bowl (Albuquerque), Colorado St. (6-6) vs. Fresno St. (7-5); St. Petersburg Bowl, Memphis (6-6) vs. South Florida (7-5); Las Vegas Bowl, (17) BYU (10-2) vs. Arizona (7-5); Sunday--New Orleans Bowl, Southern Miss (6-6) vs. Troy (8-4); Auburn--Tommy Tuberville gets full $5.8-million buyout even though he quit rather than be fired.
NBA Scores: Celtics 122, Wizards 88 (Celtics improve to franchise-best 21-2); Mavericks 95, Bobcats 90; Jazz 97, Trailblazers 88.
NHL Scores: Lightning 3, Canadiens 1; Blue Jackets 2, Predators 1 (SO); Flyers 6, Hurricanes 5 (SO); Penguins 9, Islanders 2; Panthers 2, Oilers 0; Coyotes 3, Wild 1; Kings 6, Blues 2; Sharks 2, Ducks 0.
College Basketball Scores: Men-- (15) Villanova 59, St. Joseph’ 56; Women--(7) Tennessee 81, Middle Tennessee St. 52.(14) Rutgers 58, Prairie View A&M 56.
MLB: Cubs--deal for Jake Peavy falls through.
Local
Local Headlines: Tax Hike--South Bend Common Council votes to raise local option income tax by ¾ of a percent.
Nation/World
Nation/World Headlines: Transition--Vice President-elect Joe Biden and family get German shepherd puppy (male); Biden granddaughters will select name; Obama family still vetting first-pup candidates; President-elect selects Nobel Physics Laureate Stephen Chu as Energy Secretary; Bailout--auto company bailout fails in Senate because of proposed union wage cuts; GM, Chrysler survival options narrow; Belgium--Belgium arrests and charges six al-Qaeda suspects; Africa--senior South African bishop calls Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe a “21st Century Hitler;” Japan--Japan unveils new economic stimulus measures.
Weather
Today High 25 Low 16 Snow Showers
Sat High 36 Low 32 Partly Cloudy
Sun High 47 Low 33 Chance Rain
Mon High 35 Low 18 Snow
Tue High 29 Low 18 Mostly Cloudy
TV Listings: 16--8 p.m., Billy Graham Special; 9 p.m., Lipstick Jungle; 10 p.m., Dateline NBC; 22--8 p.m., Frosty the Snowman; 8:30 p.m., Frosty Returns 9 p.m., The Flight Before Christmas;10 p.m., Numb3rs; 25--8-10 p.m., Everybody Hates Chris (two episodes); 9 p.m., The Family Entertainment Awards; 10-11 p.m., Seinfeld (two episodes); 28---8 p.m., Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?; 9 p.m., Don‘t Forget the Lyrics!; 10 p.m., Fox 28 News; 46--8 p.m., Lester Sumrall Teaching; 8:30 p.m., LESEA In Action; 9 p.m., Harvest; 10 p.m., Making Healthy Choices Classics; 10:30 p.m., Joyce Meyer; 57--8 p.m., Wife Swap; 9 p.m., Supernanny; 10 p.m., 20/20; 69--8-10 p.m., Friday Night Smackdown; 10 p.m., Punk‘d with Halle Berry; 10:30 p.m., MTV Cribs.
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