Announcements
Open House: The Center for the Homeless will have an open house Thursday, December 18, from 2-7 p.m. to celebrate its 20th anniversary.
We will be welcoming community members to visit with our residents, staff and volunteers and tour through our facility with a Center guest.
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.
All these events mirrored the life of William Randolph 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 9:30 am to 11:30 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 January 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 19 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: Pink Zone--ND women’s basketball program among 15 involved in Pink Zone Challenge which raises money to fight breast cancer and for breast cancer awareness; Basketball, Men--Luke Harangody on weekly Big East honor roll; Basketball, Women--Irish lose second key player for season, sophomore Brittany Mallory; they had already lost Devereaux Peters.
NFL Notes: Pro Bowl--both Manning brothers, Brett Favre make Pro Bowl roster; first set of QB brothers to make Pro Bowl; Colts--Colts hope to have Joseph Addai and Bob Sanders back for Thursday night game at Jacksonville; Vikings--DT Pat Williams out 2-6 weeks with fractured shoulder.
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); Florida--Urban Meyer says Notre Dame “still my dream job.”
NBA Scores: Bobcats 110, Bulls 101 (OT); Hornets 91, Grizzlies 84; Clippers 98, Thunder 88; Rockets 108, Nuggets 96; Trailblazers 109, Kings 77; Lakers 116, Knicks 114.
NBA Notes: Trailblazers--Trailblazers retire Terry Porters number 30; Pistons--G Allen Iverson fined $25,000 for making inappropriate comments to a fan.
NHL Scores: Blackhawks 9, Oilers 2; Flyers 5, Avalanche 2; Maple Leafs 3, Devils 2 (SO); Hurricanes 3, Canadiens 2; Capitals 5, Islanders 4 (OT); Thrashers 4, Senators 1; Flames 6, Blues 3; Stars 2, Coyotes 1 (OT); Rangers 3, Ducks 1.
College Basketball Scores: Men--(25) Clemson 76, North Florida 36; (5) Texas 88, Texas Southern 72; (16) Tennessee 80, (24) Marquette 68; Women--IUSB 71, Trinity Christian (IL) 51; (16) Pittsburgh 98, Wagner 41; (8) Duke 56, (3) Stanford 52; (22) Oklahoma 58, Oral Roberts 48; (7) Baylor 73, Texas Pan Am. 27.
MLB: Cubs--Cubs sign Royals’ OF Joey Gathright; primarily CF, Gathright has career BA of .263 in five seasons and stole 21 bases in 25 chances last season; Gathright also gives Cubs another left-handed hitter; Phillies--Phillies sign OF Raul Ibanez to 3-year deal; Ibanez will replace OF Pat Burrell who is free agent; Orioles--Orioles sign Cardinals’ SS Cesar Izturis to 2-year deal.
Sports Notes: IHSAA--SB Washington girls basketball star Jasmine Watson’s fate in hands of judge; IHSAA claims she transferred from Elkhart Memorial to Washington just to play basketball and banned her from playing.
Local
Local Headlines: Hummer--AMG denies deal for Hummer brand; Missing--family says Evelyn Williams, 16, missing since Tuesday.
Nation/World
Nation/World Headlines: Transition--President--elect nominates Chicago school chief Arne Duncan to be Education Secretary and ex-Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-IA) to be Agriculture Secretary; Adam Walsh--murder case of John Walsh’s murdered son Adam declared closed after 27 years; police say Ottis Toole was the killer; Toole died in prison in 1996; Iraq--journalist who threw shoes at President Bush faces court trial; Somalia--China prepared to deploy its navy along with U.S., India, and other countries to fight Somali pirates in Gulf of Aden after Chinese ship is attacked; Britain--British set timetable for pulling troops out of Iraq; PM Gordon Brown says British mission there will end no later than May 31, 2009; Entertainment--Madonna denies report of $76-million divorce settlement.
Weather
Today High 25 Low 18 Mostly Cloudy
Thu High 29 Low 27 Ice Pellets
Fri High 36 Low 22 Ice Pellets
Sat High 31 Low 20 Partly Cloudy
Sun High 27 Low 11 Chance Snow
TV Listings: 16--8 p.m., A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa; 9 p.m., Life; 22--8 p.m., New Adventures of Old Christine; 8:30 p.m., Gary Unmarried; 9 p.m., Criminal Minds; 25--8 p.m., The Victoria‘s Secret Fashion Show; 9 p.m., Stylista; 28---8 p.m., Secret Millionaire; 9 p.m., Bones; 46--8-10 p.m., Harvest Show Two-Hour Special; 57--8 p.m., Pushing Daisies; 9 p.m., Private Practice; 69--8 p.m., Fresh Prince of Bel-Air; 8:30 p.m., Clippers at Bulls.
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