Feb. 14 offers lots of reasons to celebrate!
List of observances is long and interesting today
Happy Thursday, Yuma! The forecast might be calling for rain, but we’ve got a lot of love in our hearts today, and boy, do we have a lot to celebrate!
If you haven’t noticed the onslaught of all things pink, red and heart-shaped at just about every store in Yuma, it’s Valentine’s Day! If you are reading this first thing in the morning, you still have time to pick up a little gift for your beloved, or to make that special someone a sweet card proclaiming your love!
It’s also Arizona Statehood Day, a day that is near and dear to our hearts. On this date in 1912, Arizona achieved statehood. President William Howard Taft signed Arizona into statehood, and at the time, there were only 200,000 residents living in the state. Today, Yuma County alone has just over 207,000 residents, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, while Arizona has roughly 7 million. Happy Statehood Day, Arizona!
One would think that celebrating Valentine’s Day and Arizona Statehood Day would be enough on Feb. 14, but wait — there’s more fun to be had!
It’s also League of Women Voters Day, Library Lovers Day, International Book Giving Day, National Crème-filled Chocolates Day (Yum!), National Ferris Wheel Day, National Have a Heart Day, National Women’s Heart Day, National Pet Theft Awareness Day, Frederick Douglass Day, Race Relations Day, Singles Awareness Day, World Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Day and World Sound Healing Day, according to www.Holidays-and-Observances.com.
Also today, in 1859, Oregon was admitted as the 33rd state. Happy birthday, Oregon! Whew. That is quite the list! But there’s at least one more celebration on this list. At the Yuma County Chamber of Commerce’s Good Morning Yuma breakfast today, the Yuma Sun is celebrating the winners of the annual Yuma’s Best contest! To each of the winners and the runners-up, congratulations to you! What a terrific way to start the day.
On Feb. 14, Valentine’s Day usually gets all the attention. But there are lots of other observances out there today worth celebrating or honoring, too. Whichever you choose – or maybe all of them – we hope you have an amazing Thursday.
DO YOU AGREE WITH THIS OR NOT?
One strike then you’re out? I’d rather see “Non Sequitur” than the vapid “Breaking Cat News.” I didn’t even notice the profanity and I read almost all the comics (not cat news) daily and Sunday.
I say accept his apology and leave his comic alone.
I am writing to lend support to your decision to terminate this comic strip for the unforgivable vulgarity displayed on Feb. 10 of this year. I went online, to see for myself, before writing this letter so I would be better apprised of exactly what was printed by cartoonist Miller. It was indeed vulgar and aimed directly at the POTUS. His lame excuse of doodling gone bad is pathetic.
I look forward to your comic section every day and, like the rest of us, I have my faves. It is a page to forget the current events in the world and smile for a little while. Thank you for making the decision to keep that little slice of levity intact by doing the right thing here.
“Shoe” by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeff MacNelly would be a fine replacement strip if you are looking. or even reruns of “Calvin and Hobbes.” And by all means, if you can land all three, feel free to get rid of the two comics mentioned above. I would suggest a few others but cannot recall the names of them. Please look into the comics pages run by the Las Vegas Review-Journal and the San Diego Union-Tribune for other possibilities.
Since a large majority of your subscribers are seniors and we all need all the help we can get, may I suggest that you make the daily Sudoku puzzle larger. It sometimes is necessary to put “candidate” numbers inside the little boxes and a little more room would help a lot, and make the game more pleasant. Also, on Sunday, the Sudoku Triples are almost useless and used by very few readers. It is too complex, small and time-consuming for most busy weekends. May I suggest for a change that you insert a Sudoku that is an Extreme Sudoku and has the shaded diagonals and make it of maybe only two or three stars? It could be done in a reasonable time and allow more time with family and friends. If not that change, then just insert a regular Sudoku of larger size. Thank you in advance.
Kudos to the Yuma Sun for not tolerating vulgarity in your comics. I would love to see “Calvin and Hobbes” if it’s still available.
Editor’s Note:
Readers, thank you for the feedback! We appreciate it.