Petersburg Park gets ready for “Light Up Newburg”

 

Louisville – With the holiday season now upon Metro Louisville, Petersburg Park will soon join many other locations to throw the festive switch for “Light Up Newburg” on Saturday, December 5^th.

            “I want to take the opportunity to invite everyone in the Newburg and Norfolk Community to come out and help us bring in the holiday season,” says Councilwoman Barbara Shanklin (D-2) who is sponsoring this year’s event.

            “Light Up Newburg” will get underway from 6:00pm to 8:00pm at Petersburg Park located at the corner of Indian Trail and Petersburg Road.

            Refreshments will be provided for the event. Before the night is over, Santa & Mrs. Claus will be on hand to listen to a child holiday list for Christmas. 

            Once again this year, 10 bicycles will be given away along with other prizes. Children must be present to win.

“This is the time of year when we not only want to spread some holiday cheer, but take care of children in the area because this season is very special for them,” says Shanklin. “We also plan to have some music and fun as well as enjoy the beauty of the season.”

            For more information about “Light Up Newburg, call Councilwoman Shanklin’s office at 574-1102.

Just a Great Email

  Once in a while, we get things that just is an interesting bit. This one is an email that really does not take place in Louisville, but the “victim” mentality that is the motivation behind it occurs within the heart of many, if not all people, from time to time. If not, it is just another great email:

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Stella Awards

It’s time again for the annual ‘Stella Awards’! For those  unfamiliar with these awards, they are named after 81-year-old Stella Liebeck who spilled hot coffee on herself and successfully sued the McDonald’s in New Mexico , where she purchased coffee. You remember, she took the lid off the coffee and put it between her knees while she was driving. Who would ever think one could get  burned doing that, right? That’ s right; these are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S. You know, the kinds of cases that make you scratch your head. So keep your head scratcher handy.

 

 

 

Here are the Stellas for the past year:

 

 

 

*SEVENTH PLACE* 

Kathleen Robertson of Austin, Texas was awarded $80,000 by a jury of her peers after breaking her ankle tripping over a toddler who was running inside a furniture store. The store owners were understandably surprised by the verdict, considering the running toddler was her own son. 

Start scratching! 

* SIXTH PLACE * 

Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles , California won $74,000 plus medical expenses when his neighbour ran over his hand with a Honda Accord. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel of the car when he was trying to steal his neighbour’s hubcaps. 

Scratch some more… 

* FIFTH PLACE * 

Terrence Dickson, of Bristol , Pennsylvania , who was leaving a house he had just burglarized by way of the garage. Unfortunately for Dickson, the automatic garage door opener malfunctioned and he could not get the garage door to open. Worse, he couldn’t re-enter the house because the door connecting the garage to the house locked when Dickson pulled it shut. Forced to sit for eight, count ‘em, EIGHT days and survive on a case of Pepsi and a large bag of dry dog food, he sued the homeowner’s insurance company claiming undue mental Anguish. Amazingly, the jury said the insurance company must pay Dickson $500,000 for his anguish. We should all have this kind of anguish. Keep scratching. There are more…… 

Double hand scratching after this one… 

*FOURTH PLACE* 

Jerry Williams, of Little Rock, Arkansas, garnered 4th Place in the Stella’s when he was awarded $14,500 plus medical expenses after being bitten on the butt by his next door neighbour’s beagle – even though the beagle was on a chain in its owner’s fenced yard. Williams did not get as much as he asked for because the jury believed the beagle might have been provoked at the time of the butt bite because Williams had climbed over the fence into the yard and repeatedly shot the dog with a pellet gun. 

Pick a new spot to scratch, you’re getting a bald spot.. 

* THIRD PLACE * 

Amber Carson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania because a jury ordered a Philadelphia restaurant to pay her $113,500 after she slipped on a spilled soft drink and broke her tailbone. The reason the soft drink was on the floor: Ms. Carson had thrown it at her boyfriend 30 seconds earlier during an argument. What ever happened to people being responsible for their own actions? 

Only two more so ease up o n the scratching…. 

*SECOND PLACE* 

Kara Walton, of Claymont , Delaware sued the owner of a night club in a nearby city because she fell from the bathroom window to the floor, knocking out her two front teeth. Even though Ms. Walton was trying to sneak through the ladies room window to avoid paying the $3.50 cover charge, the jury said the night club had to pay her $12,000….oh, yeah, plus dental expenses. Go figure. 

 

Ok. Here we go!!

* FIRST PLACE * 

This year’s runaway First Place Stella Award winner was:  Mrs. Merv Grazinski, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who purchased new 32-foot Winnebago motor home. On her first trip home, from an OU football game, having driven on to the freeway, she set the cruise control at 70 mph and calmly left the driver’s seat to go to the back of the Winnebago to make herself a sandwich. Not surprisingly, the motor home left the freeway, crashed and overturned. Also not surprisingly, Mrs. Grazinski sued Winnebago for not putting in the owner’s manual that she couldn’t actually leave the driver’s seat while the cruise control was set. The Oklahoma jury awarded her, are you sitting down? 
$1,750,000 PLUS a new motor home. Winnebago actually changed their manuals as a result of this suit, just in case Mrs. Grazinski has any relatives who might also buy a motor home.

 

 

 

Are we, as a society, getting more stupid….

 

or are more members of Congress serving on juries these days?

 

Council Meetings Cancelled

  The Louisville Metro Council will not be having meetings tomorrow, as it has been set aside for Thanksgiving.

Thanksgiving Proclamation- The One That We Need To Hear Again…

  During the course of his presidency, the Rough Rider, Teddy Roosevelt, presented this nation with many proclamations. Though the nation knew him as one who fought in the war, and one who was tough, yet a man of the people, few if any knew him to be a man who expressed his belief and faith in God. Here, in this proclamation, President Roosevelt stresses the importance of man holding on to the moral compass which is found only within obedience to God. President Roosevelt also mentions that prosperity, health, and security comes not from government, but from God.

  The Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1907 presented by Theodore Roosevelt:

  “THANKSGIVING DAY – 1907
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA – A PROCLAMATION
Once again the season of the year has come when, in accordance with the custom of our forefathers for generations past, the president appoints a day as the special occasion for all our people to give praise and thanksgiving to God.
During the past year we have been free from famine, from pestilence, from war. We are at peace with all the rest of mankind. Our natural resources are at least as great as those of any other nation. We believe that in ability to develop and take advantage of these resources the average man of this nation stands at least as high as the average man of any other. Nowhere else in the world is there such an opportunity for a free people to develop to the fullest extent all its powers of body, of mind, and of that which stands above both body and mind – character.
Much has been given us from on high, and much will rightly be expected of us in return. Into our care the ten talents have been entrusted; and we are to be pardoned neither if we squander and waste them, nor yet if we hide them in a napkin; for they must be fruitful in our hands. Ever throughout the ages, at all times and among all peoples, prosperity has been fraught with danger, and it behooves us to beseech the Giver of all things that we may not fall into lose of ease and luxury; that we may not lose our sense of moral responsibility; that we may not forget our duty to God, and to our neighbor.
A great democracy like ours, a democracy based upon the principles of orderly liberty, can be perpetuated only if in the heart of ordinary citizens there dwells a keen sense of righteousness, and justice. We should earnestly pray that this spirit of righteousness and justice may grow in the hearts of all of us, and that our souls may be inclined ever more both toward the virtues that tell for gentleness and tenderness, for loving kindness and forbearance, one toward another, and toward those no less necessary virtues that make for manliness and rugged hardihood; for without these qualities neither nation nor individual can rise to the level of greatness.
Now, therefore, I, Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States, do set apart Thursday, the 28^th day of November, as a day for general Thanksgiving and Prayer, and on that day I recommend that the people shall cease from their daily work, and in their homes or in their churches, meet devoutly to thank the Almighty for the many and great blessings they have received in the past, and to pray that they may be given the strength so to order their lives as to deserve a continuation of these blessings in the future.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed.
Done at the city of Washington, this the 26th day of October in the year of our Lord, 1907, and of the Independence of the United States, the 132^nd.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Upcoming posts…

Posts that are coming up next week include a look at the various issues regarding the department of IPL and what exactly is taking so long to clean up the neighborhoods, the truth regarding CPS investigations, and an analyzation/comparison of a book that may get you thinking.

Tomorrow we will ask the question, is the “first Thanksgiving” really the first Thanksgiving, or was there another. We will also take a look at another Thanksgiving Proclamation that will really get the blood flowing, a question regarding the turkeys in office, and addressing various questions received regarding an opinion posted here at therealville.
Stay tuned…

New records for site set…

Earlier we announced that their were new records set for the site overnite… a brief update on those stats shows that we had an increase of 972% overnite. Though the weekly average is expected to go down considerably, it rides on the continuation of three weeks of increasing average.
This month has already been the third highest visitation since we began.
Therealville went through two major slumps since it began in April. The first was in July when a slump of roughly 40% was noticed. Shortly thereafter changes were made to accomodate the interest of the readers. The second slump occurred after a lenghthy hospitalization of the founder of the realville occurred in September. Last month saw the visitation rate increase almost 97% from September, and the increase this month is already over 40% higher than that.
We here at therealville want to thank you, our readers for stopping by and helping us with the success that we are experiencing.

King and M.A.S. reports drawing attention

According to the recent status pages, searchers are reading and researching the posts that we have made regarding Jim King and the various issues around Metro Animal Services.
Searches for “Jim King”, “Wayne Zalinsky”, “Metro Animal Services”, and the infamous “Gilles Meloche” have appeared at the top of search links that have presented readers to this site.

Statement About Thanksgiving From A Pilgrim…

Edward Winslow, a Pilgrim that documented the first Thanksgiving made this statement:

  “Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent four men on fowling [bird hunting] so that we might, after a special manner, rejoice together after we had gathered the fruit of our labors. They four in one day killed as much fowl as… served the company almost a week… Many of the Indians [came] amongst us and… their greatest King, Massasoit, with some ninety men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted; and they went out and killed five deer, which they brought… And although it be not always so plentiful as it was at this time with us, yet BY THE GOODNESS OF GOD WE ARE… FAR FROM WANT.”

 

A Moment In History: Thanksgiving Proclamation 1863

  Abraham Lincoln, a name well known in Kentucky lore, bore one of the greatest Thanksgiving Proclamations of the 1800’s.

  Within the proclamation, Lincoln admits man’s humanity and it’s ability to “forget the source” which has provided for us and our nation throughout the years. Lincoln further goes on to provide us the identity of that source.

  There is a bit of history behind this proclamation, however. That history reveals the magnificence of not only President Abraham Lincoln, but of those whom he surrounded himself with. If it can be honestly stated that a man is as good as the company he keeps, then President Lincoln was indeed as he has been remembered- great.

  Following is the legend behind the Thanksgiving Proclamation of 1863, followed by the proclamation itself.

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Proclamation of Thanksgiving

Washington, D.C.
October 3, 1863

This is the proclamation which set the precedent for America’s national day of Thanksgiving. During his administration, President Lincoln issued many orders like this. For example, on November 28, 1861, he ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.

Sarah Josepha Hale, a prominent magazine editor, wrote a letter to Lincoln on 28, 1863, urging him to have the “day of our annual Thanksgiving made a National and fixed Union Festival.” She wrote, “You may have observed that, for some years past, there has been an increasing interest felt in our land to have the Thanksgiving held on the same day, in all the States; it now needs National recognition and authoritive fixation, only, to become permanently, an American custom and institution.” The document below sets apart the last Thursday of November “as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise.”

According to an April 1, 1864, letter from John Nicolay, one of President Lincoln’s secretaries, this document was written by Secretary of State William Seward, and the original was in his handwriting. On October 3, 1863, fellow Cabinet member Gideon Welles recorded in his diary that he complimented Seward on his work. A year later the manuscript was sold to benefit Union troops.

By the President of the United States of America.

A Proclamation.

The year that is drawing towards its close, has been filled with the blessings of fruitful fields and healthful skies. To these bounties, which are so constantly enjoyed that we are prone to forget the source from which they come, others have been added, which are of so extraordinary a nature, that they cannot fail to penetrate and soften even the heart which is habitually insensible to the ever watchful providence of Almighty God. In the midst of a civil war of unequaled magnitude and severity, which has sometimes seemed to foreign States to invite and to provoke their aggression, peace has been preserved with all nations, order has been maintained, the laws have been respected and obeyed, and harmony has prevailed everywhere except in the theatre of military conflict; while that theatre has been greatly contracted by the advancing armies and navies of the Union. Needful diversions of wealth and of strength from the fields of peaceful industry to the national defence, have not arrested the plough, the shuttle or the ship; the axe has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even more abundantly than heretofore. Population has steadily increased, notwithstanding the waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the battle-field; and the country, rejoicing in the consiousness of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with large increase of freedom. No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and one voice by the whole American People. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens. And I recommend to them that while offering up the ascriptions justly due to Him for such singular deliverances and blessings, they do also, with humble penitence for our national perverseness and disobedience, commend to His tender care all those who have become widows, orphans, mourners or sufferers in the lamentable civil strife in which we are unavoidably engaged, and fervently implore the interposition of the Almighty Hand to heal the wounds of the nation and to restore it as soon as may be consistent with the Divine purposes to the full enjoyment of peace, harmony, tranquillity and Union.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Seal of the United States to be affixed.

Done at the City of Washington, this Third day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and of the Independence of the Unites States the Eighty-eighth.

By the President: Abraham Lincoln

William H. Seward,
Secretary of State

 

“A Moment In History” breaks site record

Last night the posting of the Thanksgiving Proclamation by George Washington broke a site record as viewers tripled the previous high and more individuals particularly linked to that post.
Thank you readers for showing us, with your links, that you are STILL wanting to know the truth of our history, and culture here in America.
Be prepared, as another great proclamation will be released later today from another historical figure…