The Society Page: March 29, 2015

This Week:  Ward Conference

Next Week:  General Conference

Relief Society Sisters& Young Women
Come join us for the
Relief Society Birthday Party at the
 RELIEF SOCIETY MALL
Tuesday, March 31st @ 6:30 PM
The night will be filled with:
Dinning at the Food Court,
Visiting the Shops
 and a Movie in the Cinema
 Don't miss this "Sale-a-Bration"!

Ward Choir: We meet at 10 AM every Sunday except Fast Sunday, in the Bingham Seminary Building. We'd love for you to join us!
April 5 - General Conference/Easter - NO PRACTICE
April 12 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
April 19 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
April 26 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
     Singing in Sacrament Meeting

 Lunch Bunch: Join the ladies in the ward as we get together to socialize over lunch.
 The meal is your expense.
The Habit Burger Grill
@ The District
11428 S. Parkway Plaza
Tuesday, April 14th @ 11:30 AM
SEE YOU THERE!

 R.S. Temple Day: April 2nd, meet in the lobby by 9:10 AM.

 Ward Temple Night and Dinner: April 23rd; Dinner is at 6:30 PM followed by session.

*~ Easter Egg Hunting began in America when German immigrants brought their Osterhase tradition to Pennsylvania in the 1700s. The festivity soon spread across the nation, and baskets replaced nests. Eventually, the game evolved into a treasure hunt, and the prizes expanded from just hard-boiled eggs to include chocolate, candy, toys and coins.

*~ President Rutherford B. Hayes and First Lady Lucy Hayes hosted the first White House Egg Roll in 1878 after Congress passed a law in 1877 banning an Easter Egg Roll at the Capitol. Eggs have the highest nutritional quality protein of all food sources.  You will also benefit from antioxidants that fight cancer and reduce the effects of aging as well.Most eggs are laid between 7-11 AM

*~ It is suggested that eating eggs may help treat acne, as they lower the glycaemic load of the diet.

*~ Eggs have the highest nutritional quality protein of all food sources.  You will also benefit from antioxidants that fight cancer and reduce the effects of aging as well.*~ Most eggs are laid between 7-11 AM.

*~ The average American eats 250 eggs per year, which translates to a total annual consumption of 76.5 billion eggs in the U.S.

*~ Forty per cent of the world’s eggs are consumed in China.

The Society Page - March 22, 2015

This Week:  Teachings For Our Times - "Sharing Your Light" by Sister Neill F. Marriott (from Oct. 2014 General Conference; November 2014 Ensign)
Next Week:  Ward Conference

Relief Society Sisters & Young Women

Come join us for the Relief Society Birthday Party at the

RELIEF SOCIETY MALL

Tuesday, March 31st @ 6:30 PM

The night will be filled with:
Dinning at the Food Court
Visiting the Shops
and a Movie at the Cinema
Don't miss this "Sale-A-Bration"!

Women's Conference Broadcast
March 28th @ 6:00 PM at the Stake Center.
 Ages 8+ are encouraged to attend.

R.S. Temple Day:  April 2nd, meet in the lobby by 9:10 AM

Ward Temple Day: March 19th, at 7:00 PM

Ward Choir:  We meet at 10 AM every Sunday except Fast Sunday, in the Bingham Seminary Building.  We'd love for you to join us!

Lunch Bunch:  Join the ladies in the ward as we get together to socialize over lunch. The meal is your expense.

The Habit Burger Grill

@ The District

11428 S. Parkway Plaza

Tuesday, March 10th @ 11:30 AM

SEE YOU THERE!

There are really only two plays: Romeo and Juliet and
put the darn ball in the basket. ~ Abe Lemmons

Did You Know...Basketball

*~ For the first two years after Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in 1891, soccer balls were used as the balls. In 1894, the first basketball was manufactured and made of laced leather. The molded version of a basketball was invented in 1948 and for about 50 years almost all basketballs were made of genuine leather. In the early 1990s, the first balls made of high-tech composite leathers began to appear. The NBA switched to a composite leather design in 2006, but the changes lasted only three months because of a barrage of complaints from players.

*~ The first men's college basketball game was played on January 18, 1896 between the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago. The final score was a mind blowing 15-12.

*~ NBA or professional balls and NCAA or college balls have similarities and differences. NBA balls are made of genuine leather and college balls are made of a composite material. NBA balls are made by Spalding and must be orange, 29-1/2 inches around, and they must weigh 22 oz. The official basketball of the NCAA tournament is the composite leather Wilson Solution. The NCAA requires balls to be between 29-1/2 and 30 inches around, to weigh between 20 and 22 oz.

*~ The first “hoops” were actually just peach baskets and the first backboards were made of wire. Back when peach baskets were used as the hoop, every time someone scored, a referee had to fetch the ball by climbing a ladder.  In 1913, the bottom of the basketball net is left open for the first time - meaning it was no longer necessary to retrieve the ball from the net, once a basket was scored.

*~ The most points scored by one team in college basketball was 258 scored by Troy University during a 258-141 thrashing of Devry on January 12, 1992.

*~ In 1986, the three-point field goal is introduced with the three-point line set at 19 feet, 9 inches from the center of the basket.

*~ Bevo Francis set a record in 1954 by scoring 113 points in a single game for the University of Rio Grande.

*~ Pistol Pete Maravich is college basketball's all-time leading scorer. He scored 3,667 points during his three seasons at LSU, where he averaged more than 44 points per game from 1968 to 1970!

*~ The most points scored by one team in college basketball was 258 scored by Troy University during a 258-141 thrashing of Devry on January 12, 1992.

*~ The first women's college basketball game was played on April 4, 1896 in San Francisco between Stanford and Cal. Stanford won the game 2-1, which was played with much different rules from modern basketball. There were nine players on each side and players could only play in certain areas of the court. Women weren't allowed to steal the ball from each other because it was considered "unladylike" and they had to wear clothes that covered every part of their body except their hands and face!

Ward Choir Needs You!!

This is a personal invitation for you!

You are invited to join the South Jordan 3rd Ward Choir

Sunday Mornings

10:00 AM

Bingham Seminary Building on 10400 South

We will be singing for our Ward Conference on March 29th

THANK YOU!

Marlynae Thueson

Choir Director
801-455-2664

March 22 - Practice @ 10:00 AM Seminary Building
March 29 - Ward Conference
          Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
          Singing in Sacrament Meeting

April 5 - General Conference/Easter - NO PRACTICE

April 12 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building

April 19 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
April 26 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
          Singing in Sacrament Meeting

May 3 - Fast Sunday - NO PRACTICE
May 10 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building

May 24 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building

          Singing in Sacrament Meeting
May 31 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building

June 7 - Fast Sunday - NO PRACTICE
June 14 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
June 21 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
June 28 - Practice 10:00 AM Seminary Building
          Singing in Sacrament Meeting

NO CHOIR JULY 1 ~ AUGUST 23

A Friendly Reminder...

The Society Page - March 15, 2015

This Week:  Lesson #6 - Jesus Christ, Our Savior and Redeemer

Next Week:  Teachings For Our Times - "Sharing Your Light" by Sister Neill F. Marriott (from Oct. 2014 General Conference; November 2014 Ensign)

Relief Society Sisters& Young Women

Come join us for the Relief Society Birthday Party at the

RELIEF SOCIETY MALL

Tuesday, March 31st @ 6:30 PM

The night will be filled with:
Dinning at the Food Court
Visiting the Shops
and a Movie at the Cinema
Don't miss this "Sale-A-Bration"!

Ward Choir:  We meet at 10 AM every Sunday except Fast Sunday, in the Bingham Seminary Building.  We'd love for you to join us!

Lunch Bunch:  Join the ladies in the ward as we get together to socialize over lunch.
The meal is your expense.

The Habit Burger Grill

@ The District

11428 S. Parkway Plaza

Tuesday, March 10th @ 11:30 AM

SEE YOU THERE!

R.S. Temple Day:  April 2nd, meet in the lobby by 9:10 AM

Ward Temple Day: March 19th, at 7:00 PM

Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy
endings are possible. ~ Charles Haughey

Did You Know...The Emerald Isle aka Ireland

*~ 73% of Americans are unable to locate Ireland on a map bereft of country names.

*~ The song “When Irish Eyes are Smiling,” synonymous with Ireland and all things Irish, was written by two Americans, Graff and Olcott, in 1912. There are no records to show that they ever even visited Ireland.

*~ The guillotine was used by the Irish 500 years before the French adopted it.

*~ At the Olympics, boxing is Ireland's most successful sport.

*~ Ireland has had its own Olympics since the Bronze Age, called the Tailteann Games.

*~ Ireland is the only country in the world which has a musical instrument, the harp, as their national symbol. The oldest known harp in existence is housed in Trinity College, Dublin. It dates back from at least 1300.

*~ The original Guinness Brewery in Dublin has a 9,000 year lease on it's property, at a perpetual rate of 45 Irish pounds per year.

*~ Drisheen is a type of pudding made from cows, pigs or sheep blood. White pudding is a mixture of pork, cereal, bread, fat and suet. Periwinkles are sea snails boiled in salted water.

*~ The longest place name in Ireland is Muckanaghederdauhaulia.

*~ The average height of an Irish man is 5' 8"; women is 5'5".

*~ Only 9% of the Irish population are natural redheads.

*~ The Irish flag was designed to reflect the country’s political situation.  The orange stripe represents Irish Protestants, green is for Irish Catholics and white is for the hope that peace might eventually be reached between them. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day!!

Ladies Lunch Bunch for March 2015 Reminder

A Friendly Reminder....

Society Page - March 8, 2015

This Week:  Lesson #5 - Principles of True Repentance
Next Week:  Lesson #6 - Jesus Christ, Our Savior and Redeemer


Relief Society Sisters & Young Women
Come join us for the Relief Society Birthday Party at the
RELIEF SOCIETY MALL
Tuesday, March 31st @ 6:30 PM
The night will be filled with:
Dinning at the Food Court,
Visiting the Shops
and a Movie in the Cinema 
Don't miss this 

"Sale-a-Bration"!

Ward Choir

We meet at 10 AM every Sunday except Fast Sunday, in the Bingham Seminary Building.
We'd love for you to join us!

Lunch Bunch
Join the ladies in the ward as we get together to socialize over lunch.
The meal is your expense.
Cracker Barrel
2283 West City Center Court
Tuesday, March 10th @ 11:30 AM
SEE YOU THERE!

R.S. Temple Day
April 2nd, meet in the lobby by 9:10 AM.

Ward Temple Day
March 19th, at 7:00 PM

Ward Conference
March 29th at our regularly scheduled block.

General Conference
April 4th and 5th.  We will not meet at the church during these days.

Did You Know...About Violins
*~ If you are worried that violin practice takes up so much of your time that you are too busy to exercise, don’t worry! Recent studies have shown that playing a violin burns approximately 175 calories an hour. That is around 2/3 of a Snickers bar!

*~ The most expensive violin in the world was made by Giuseppe Guarneri in 1741. This extravagant violin was appraised with a value of $18 million.

*~ Violin bows typically contain 150 to 200 hairs. Violin strings were first made of sheep gut. Other materials violin strings have been made out of include:  nylon, horse hair, solid steel, stranded steel, or various synthetic materials, wound with various metals, and sometimes plated with silver.

*~ Over 70 different pieces of wood are put together to form the modern violin.

*~ The modern violin, believed to derive from the Medieval Latin word vitula, which means ‘stringed instrument’, was created in the 1500s by Andrea Amati in Cremona, Italy. Andrea was an Italian luthier and was asked to build the violin as a lighter alternative to the lyre.

*~ Violin’s are known to come in a variety of different sizes to suit every player’s height and size. Did you know that the smallest size violin available is 1/64! This is perfect for children aged 2-3, therefore, they can start learning the violin around the same time as they learn to talk.

*~ The world’s largest playable violin was constructed by 15 dedicated violin makers from Germany. It is 4.27 meters tall and 5.22 meters wide and sounds 3 times lower than a conventional violin.

*~ The world record as the fastest violinist is still held by Ben Lee. Ben record "Flight of the Bumblebee" in an amazing 58.515 seconds an average of 15 notes per second.

*~ The Italians call the Violin a “kit”. There is no reason for this – just a fact.

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Did You Know...

from the January 5, 2014  Society Page

*~ The first recorded New Year's celebration dates back 4,000 years to Babylon, when the first moon after the spring equinox marked a new year. In 46 B.C., Julius Caesar created a calendar with Jan. 1 as the first day of the year, partly to honor Janus, the month's namesake and god of beginnings. 

 *~ Though you may not know the exact words to "Auld Lang Syne," you've probably at least hummed the tune at past New Year's parties. Touched by the lyrics he allegedly received from "an old man," poet Robert Burns sent "Auld Lang Syne" to Scottish Musical Museum in 1778. Translated as "Times Gone By," the song's message is that, despite the pain in doing so, we must remember and toast to those we've loved and lost in order to keep them close to our hearts. 

 *~ Celebrants in Spain eat 12 grapes at midnight to ensure a fruitful year ahead, a tradition that began as a solution to a grape surplus in 1909. Each grape corresponds with a single month in the upcoming year: a sour second grape, for example, might foretell a bumpy February. The goal for most grape eaters is to swallow all 12 before the stroke of midnight. 

 *~ The first New Year’s Eve ball was dropped in Times Square in 1907. In response to a ban on fireworks implemented that year, an electrician built the ball as an alternative way to celebrate New Year’s Eve. He constructed a wood and iron ball that weighed 700 pounds and featured 100 light bulbs. The luminous orb was dropped from a flagpole at midnight on New Year’s Eve. 

 *~ The first spot to celebrate the start of 2014 will be Kiritimati on Christmas Island, ringing in the New Year at 5AM EST on Dec. 31. When Pago Pago in American Samoa welcomes the New Year at 6AM EST on Jan. 1, the entire world will have officially entered 2014.

*~ Cabbage, collards, kale and chard are eaten on New Year's Eve in much of the American South. Since green leaves look like money, the tradition holds that the more greens a person eats, the more economic success he or she will experience in the year to come.

Did You Know...

from December 22, 2013 Society Page

*~ Every year since 1984, a group of economists at PNC Wealth Management have figured out how much it would cost to actually buy all the things on the “Twelve Days of Christmas” list. The so-called Christmas Price Index indicates inflation and the increasing costs of certain goods. This year, for instance, if you were really going to buy everything on that list—which includes hiring drummers and dancers (per performance) and milking maids (per hour), and, presumably, a group of men who are willing to leap for pay—it would run you $114,651.17. Compare that to 1990, when you could get away with the whole shooting match for a cool $15,231.70. At today’s prices, a performance of twelve drummers drumming would set you back an average of $2,854.50, while seven swans will run you a whopping $7,000.

*~ Unless you become a Grinch and deny yourself of a day of Christmas excess, you can expect to consume around 7000 calories. Considering the recommended daily calorie intake is 2000 for women and 2500 for men, this is a big leap. Egg nog, nuts, chocolates, smoked salmon and a turkey dinner all add up to make December 25 one big binge-fest. Don't worry - you can always make joining a gym one of your New Year's resolutions.

*~ Myrrh - one of the three gifts said to be given to the baby Jesus - comes from a small bushy tree, cultivated in ancient times in the Arabian peninsula. The resin used raw or crushed and mixed with oil to make a perfume.

Did You Know...

from the December 15, 2013 Society Page

*~ How magical is Santa?  There are 2.1 billion children under age 18 in the world. If there are on average 2.5 children per household. Santa would have to make 842 million stops on Christmas Eve, traveling 221 million miles. To reach all 842 million stops, Santa would need to travel between houses in 2/10,000 second, which means he would need to accelerate 12.19 million miles per second on each stop. The force of this acceleration would reduce Santa to “chunky salsa.”

*~ In 1962, the first Christmas postage stamp was issued in the United States.

*~ The Viking god Odin is one precursor to the modern Santa Claus. According to myth, Odin rode his flying horse, Sleipnir (a precursor to Santa’s reindeer), who had eight legs. In the winter, Odin gave out both gifts and punishments, and children would fill their boots or stockings with treats for Sleipnir.

*~ Mistletoe is from the Anglo-Saxon word misteltan, which means “little dung twig” because the plant spreads though bird droppings.

*~ In Poland, spiders or spider webs are common Christmas trees decorations because according to legend, a spider wove a blanket for Baby Jesus. In fact, Polish people consider spiders to be symbols of goodness and prosperity at Christmas.

*~ Norwegian scientists have hypothesized that Rudolph’s red nose is probably the result of a parasitic infection of his respiratory system.