May 26, 2012

The Congleton Newspaper                           May 26,2012




Weather

Today- High of 91° Low of 67° Chance of rain:10%

Tomorrow- High of 90° Low of 70° Chance of rain:10%

Monday- High of 90° Low of 72° Chance of rain:10%

Tuesday- High of 86° Low of 70° Chance of rain:30%

Wednesday- High of 87° Low of 70° Chance of rain:10%

Thursday- High of 79° Low of 61° Chance of rain:10%

Friday- High of 77° Low of 64° Chance of rain:40%


IAM Photography
By Anna

If you are looking for someone to take pictures of you or just want to do a photoshoot check out IAM Photography! Her blog is http://irismartinphoto.blogspot.com/. I’m sure she’d love to take your pictures. Iris is a really great photographer and a really awesome friend too! She has a Canon though... haha But hey she still gets absolutely gorgeous pictures! :) Also you can find her on Facebook, just look up IAMphotography and she’ll come up.




New York City
By Audrey

This coming week, the Congleton family is going to New York City! Along with our cousins from Arizona and Grandma Kline. We are VERY excited. We plan on staying in a hotel in New Jersey. We most likely will take the subway to and from New York City. We plan on staying for three days and two nights. We will be gone from Tuesday to Thursday. We can NOT wait to see our cousins from Arizona that we haven’t seen for quite a while.

Today in History
From http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history

On this day in 1977, Memorial Day weekend opens with an intergalactic bang as the first of George Lucas' blockbuster Star Wars movies hits American theaters.
The incredible success of Star Wars--it received seven Oscars, and earned $461 million in U.S. ticket sales and a gross of close to $800 million worldwide--began with an extensive, coordinated marketing push by Lucas and his studio, 20th Century Fox, months before the movie's release date. "It wasn't like a movie opening," actress Carrie Fisher, who played rebel leader Princess Leia, later told Time magazine. "It was like an earthquake." Beginning with--in Fisher's words--"a new order of geeks, enthusiastic young people with sleeping bags," the anticipation of a revolutionary movie-watching experience spread like wildfire, causing long lines in front of movie theaters across the country and around the world.
With its groundbreaking special effects, Star Wars leaped off screens and immersed audiences in "a galaxy far, far away." By now everyone knows the story, which followed the baby-faced Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) as he enlisted a team of allies--including hunky Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and the robots C3PO and R2D2--on his mission to rescue the kidnapped Princess Leia from an Evil Empire governed by Darth Vader. The film made all three of its lead actors overnight stars, turning Fisher into an object of adoration for millions of young male fans and launching Ford's now-legendary career as an action-hero heartthrob.
Star Wars was soon a bona-fide pop culture phenomenon. Over the years it has spawned five more feature films, five TV series and an entire industry's worth of comic books, toys, video games and other products. Two big-screen sequels, The Empire Strikes Back (1980) and The Return of the Jedi (1983), featured much of the original cast and enjoyed the same success--both critical and commercial--as the first film. In 1999, Lucas stretched back in time for the fourth installment, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, chronologically a prequel to the original movie. Two other prequels, Attack of the Clones (2002) and Revenge of the Sith (2005) followed.
The latter Star Wars movies featured a new cast--including Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman and Hayden Christensen--and have generally failed to earn the same amount of critical praise as the first three films. They continue to score at the box office, however, with Revenge of the Sith becoming the top-grossing film of 2005 in the United States and the second worldwide.

Beach Day Trips
By Audrey

Last year we went on a day trip to the beach one day in each month of the summer. We invited some friends and they were LOTS of fun. :D We are planning on doing the same this year. Normally how we do it is, we wake up around 5:00 or 5:30 AM and meet somewhere, like McDonalds, at 6:00 and leave to go to the beach. We go to Delaware Seashore State Park so it takes about three or four hours to get there. Once we get there we stay at the beach for as long as everybody wants. And sometimes we go to the boardwalk. We normally pack a lunch, and eat out for dinner. Then after dinner, we drive back home and normally we get home at around 11:00 or 12:00 PM. This year we’re going on the dates, June 9th, July 14th and August 18th. If you have a ride, you are more than welcome to come with us on one of these days!

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