Re: [LM_NET] GEN: WA State only - T&GC Day ??!!

[John Lindner <jglindner@YAHOO.COM>]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 6:05 PM, LM_NET automatic digest system <
LISTSERV@listserv.syr.edu> wrote:

>  2. GEN: WA State only - T&GC Day ??!!
>
> Date:    Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:54:04 -0800
> From:    Chuck Finnigan <cfinnigan@SWSD.K12.WA.US>
> Subject: GEN: WA State only - T&GC Day ??!!
>
> Our staff received a message about an assembly next Friday that began
> with:
> Subject: Temperance and Good Citizenship Assembly
>

I'm unsure why the author of the memo referred to it as somehow replacing
MLK, Jr. Day.

January 16 (or the Friday before it, if Jan. 16 falls on a weekend) is
referred to in Washington statutes as Temperance and Good Citizenship Day.
This appears to be a long-standing WA statute, dating, it appears, back to
the days of Prohibition:
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/RCW/default.aspx?cite=28A.230.150.

Prohibition went into effect nationwide on January 16, 1920, one year after
the ratification of the Eighteenth Amendment.

Take care,

John Lindner, Third Grade Teacher
Santa Teresa Elementary School
San Jose, California
jglindner@yahoo.com

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