Grafton News

Staff Report LAHORE: Dwellers of the provincial capital observed Mother's Day by paying tribute, expressing profound love and spiritual devotion to mothers, by giving cards, flowers and other items.

To understand all the talk, advertising and celebrations about Mother's Day, we must understand that it is more than the second Sunday of May in each calendar year.

Her mother, Deborah Turner from Princess Anne, made wedding cakes professionally and would sometimes pipe icing roses on each of her daughter's fingers.

Mother's Day became a national holiday mainly due to the efforts of Anna Jarvis of Grafton, West Virginia.

Impress mom with these facts about Mother's Day from the U.S. Census Bureau: The driving force behind Mother's Day was Anna Jarvis, who organized observances in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908.

At first glance, Mother's Day appears a quaint and conservative holiday, a sort of greeting card moment, honoring 1950s values, a historical throw back to old-fashioned notions of hearth and home.

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Atlanta's retailers are looking forward to profitable Mother's Day sales. Advertisers are pushing a variety of gift ideas to encourage shoppers to feel obligated to buy the perfect gift to honor mothers.

The tradition of honoring our mothers is as old as the Scriptures. But it was only a little over a century ago that America began observing Mother's Day.

The driving force behind Mother's Day was Anna Jarvis, who organized observances in Grafton, W.Va., and Philadelphia on May 10, 1908.

IN THE summer of 2004, the munificent Rotary Club of Makati Central gave me the chance to be a Rotary International Group Study Exchange scholar.

GRAFTON, W.Va. The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources announces that swimming from the shoreline of Tygart Lake on the Pleasant Creek Wildlife Management Area is prohibited by regulations governing public use of Wildlife Management Areas .

According to historians, the custom of honoring mothers began thousands of years ago.