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Monday, March 30, 2026
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Sunday, March 29, 2026
Holy Week
Good Friday is one of several holy days that take place in the week leading to Easter Sunday. Holy Week begins with Palm Sunday, when Christ made his triumphal entry into Jerusalem as the crowds waved palm branches.
Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday all mark events in the last days of Christ, including his cleansing of the temple and Judas Iscariot’s betrayal.
Maundy Thursday, the day before Good Friday, was when Christ and his Apostles sat together for the Last Supper before his arrest. The day after the crucifixion, Holy Saturday, commemorates Christ’s burial.
Saturday, March 28, 2026
America 250-cVirginia (Wkipedia)
Several European expeditions, including a group of Spanish Jesuits, explored the Chesapeake Bay during the 16th century.[13] To help counter Spain's colonies in the Caribbean, Queen Elizabeth I of England supported Walter Raleigh's 1584 expedition to the Atlantic coast of North America.[14][15] The name "Virginia" was used by Captain Arthur Barlowe in the expedition's report, and may have been suggested by Raleigh or Elizabeth (perhaps noting her status as the "Virgin Queen" or that they viewed the land as being untouched) or related to an Algonquin phrase, Wingandacoa or Windgancon, or leader's name, Wingina, as heard by the expedition.[16][17] The name initially applied to the entire coastal region from South Carolina in the south to Maine in the north, along with the island of Bermuda.[18] Raleigh's colony failed, but the potential financial and strategic gains still captivated many English policymakers. In 1606, King James I issued a charter for a new colony to the Virginia Company of London. The group financed an expedition under Christopher Newport that established a settlement named Jamestown in 1607.[19]
Though more settlers soon joined, many were ill-prepared for the dangers of the new settlement. As the colony's president, John Smith secured food for the colonists from nearby tribes, but after he left in 1609, this trade stopped and a series of ambush-style killings between colonists and natives under Chief Powhatan and his brother began, resulting in mass starvation in the colony that winter.[20] By the end of the colony's first fourteen years, over eighty percent of the roughly eight thousand settlers transported there had died.[21] Demand for exported tobacco, however, fueled the need for more workers.[22] Starting in 1618, the headright system tried to solve this by granting colonists farmland for their help attracting indentured servants.[23] Enslaved Africans were first sold in Virginia in 1619. Though other Africans arrived as indentured servants and could be freed after four to seven years, the basis for lifelong slavery was developed in legal cases like those of John Punch in 1640 and John Casor in 1655.[24] Laws passed in Jamestown defined slavery as race-based in 1661, as inherited maternally in 1662, and as enforceable by death in 1669.[25]
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From the colony's start, residents agitated for greater local control, and in 1619, certain male colonists began electing representatives to an assembly, later called the House of Burgesses, that negotiated issues with the governing council appointed by the London Company.[27] Unhappy with this arrangement, the monarchy revoked the company's charter and began directly naming governors and Council members in 1624. In 1635, colonists arrested a governor who ignored the assembly and sent him back to England against his will.[28] William Berkeley was named governor in 1642, just as the turmoil of the English Civil War and Interregnum permitted the colony greater autonomy.[29] As a supporter of the king, Berkeley welcomed other Cavaliers who fled to Virginia. He surrendered to Parliamentarians in 1652, but after the 1660 Restoration made him governor again, he blocked assembly elections and exacerbated the class divide by disenfranchising and restricting the movement of indentured servants, who made up around eighty percent of the workforce.[30] On the colony's frontier, tribes like the Tutelo and Doeg were being squeezed by Seneca raiders from the north, leading to more confrontations with colonists. In 1676, several hundred working-class followers of Nathaniel Bacon, upset by Berkeley's refusal to retaliate against the tribes, burned Jamestown.[31]
Bacon's Rebellion forced the signing of Bacon's Laws, which restored some of the colony's rights and sanctioned both attacks on native tribes and the enslavement of their people.[32][33] The Treaty of 1677 further reduced the independence of the tribes that signed it, and aided the colony's assimilation of their land in the years that followed.[34][35] Colonists in the 1700s were pushing westward into the area held by the Seneca and their larger Iroquois Nation, and in 1748, a group of wealthy speculators, backed by the British monarchy, formed the Ohio Company to start English settlement and trade in the Ohio Country west of the Appalachian Mountains.[36] France, which claimed this area as part of New France, viewed this as a threat, and in 1754 the French and Indian War engulfed England, France, the Iroquois, and other allied tribes on both sides. A militia from several British colonies, called the Virginia Regiment, was led by Major George Washington, himself one of the investors in the Ohio Company.[37]
Statehood
In the decade following the French and Indian War, the British Parliament passed new taxes which were deeply unpopular in the colonies. In the House of Burgesses, opposition to taxation without representation was led by Patrick Henry and Richard Henry Lee, among others.[38] Virginians began to coordinate their actions with other colonies in 1773 and sent delegates to the Continental Congress the following year.[39] After the House of Burgesses was dissolved in 1774 by the royal governor, Virginia's revolutionary leaders continued to govern via the Virginia Conventions. On May 15, 1776, the Convention declared Virginia's independence and adopted George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights, which was then included in a new constitution that designated Virginia as a commonwealth.[40] Another Virginian, Thomas Jefferson, drew upon Mason's work in drafting the national Declaration of Independence.[41]
After the American Revolutionary War began, George Washington was selected by the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia to head the Continental Army, and many Virginians joined the army and revolutionary militias. Virginia was the first colony to ratify the Articles of Confederation in December 1777.[42] In April 1780, the capital was moved to Richmond at the urging of Governor Thomas Jefferson, who feared that Williamsburg's coastal location would make it vulnerable to British attack.[43
Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Obituary-James McLaughlin
James McLaughlin passed away suddenly on March 10. He was born on February 14, 1951, in Hobbs, New Mexico.
Jim was the son of Richard Lawton McLaughlin and Margarita Antoinette (Toni “Amy”) McLaughlin.
Jim was the oldest of five. His brother, Marty, passed away on December 14, 2013. He is survived by his younger sister, Susan McLaughlin; his brothers, Michael McLaughlin and Greg (Pancho) McLaughlin; six nephews; his wife, Cindy McLaughlin; and his three beloved fur babies, Georgie, Angus, and Buster.
Jim was raised in Treasure Island Florida, Jim was always a prankster and a rebel; he did things his way. Jim’s parents dropped him off at a military school in northern Florida, and by the time they arrived back home, Jim had already beaten them there.
He went to high school in Arkansas with his cousins, where he learned to BBQ turkeys and pork and to run moonshine.
Jim loved running the intracoastal waterways around Treasure Island in his boat, fishing, driving fast cars, and riding motorcycles. He knew which bridges he could get under that the TI boat police could not. Running his boat, outrunning storms on the Gulf being Jimmy Mac.
Jim helped establish the family business, K-Way, and later opened a local beach restaurant on Treasure Island called Bosco’s with Cindy, named, of course, after his English chocolate lab at the time.
“Big Jim” met his sweetheart, Cindy (CR), at Harry’s Beach Bar on St. Pete Beach at the Sirata Beach Resort, Harrys was managed by Cindy and owned by Jim’s family friends, the Nicklaus’s, around 1984.
Jim and Cindy eloped in 1992. Together, they decided to make Bear Lake their home and moved there in 1993. They first settled in Meadowville, then built the home they live in now- a piece of pride and joy, and a place Jim truly loved.
Jim was known to drive around town and, shall we say, offer a bit of commentary to his friends. You never knew what he might say, but it was always what was on his mind, plain and honest.
After moving to Utah, Jim tried all of Cindy’s hobbies. He was a great sport, even taking up horseback riding- bumpy rides that created many cherished memories. He also attempted to keep up with Cindy on the ski slopes but soon decided that cooking in the parking lot at The Beav was much more his style.
Jim loved camping with his fur babies at Alpine, Mesquite, and Lava, and last summer at The Shanty.
Cooking was how Jim showed his love. Those who knew him will forever miss his lemon bars, nut bars, and- of course- his unforgettable tiramisu.
Jim worked for E.A. Miller as a truck driver for 20 years. Jim and Cindy later opened another restaurant in Garden City, Utah- BoDean’s Bear Lake BBQ & More- a feat that was no easy task. They eventually sold the location to Café Sabor. Jim continued catering, helped Cindy wherever he could, and spent meaningful time with Cindy’s family and their great friends.
He also loved traveling with Cindy and her family, visiting the German cousins, being convinced to go on the Queen Mary, and enjoying several other cruises together.
For the past 25 years, one vacation was always marked on the calendar: Cabo San Lucas at the end of February. Jim loved sitting in his chair, feeling the ocean breeze, watching the waves, and spotting whales in the distance.
December always meant the NFR in Las Vegas for Jim and Cindy. They loved attending every year with friends. Traveling together, spending one‑on‑one time with his wife, family, and his dogs, these things meant everything to Jim.
Big Jim, James, Luther, and Jim Bob- we will miss seeing your big, grumpy face, always knowing there was a smile behind it. Thank you for the wonderful memories and for all the incredible food you shared with us over the years. Jim, you are forever in our hearts.
A heartfelt thank you to the first responders who came to help. They are our friends, neighbors, and true professionals who care deeply about and support our community. To know the voice on the other end of the 911 call was so supporting to Cindy. The numerous messages and calls of support from friends- my pack, as Cindy calls them, would have meant so much to Jim.
As requested by Jim, there will be no funeral or viewing. Please send your personal memories, photos, or cards to PO Box 241, Laketown, Utah 84038. They will be placed with his ashes in a location Jim held dear: The Shanty.
There will be a memorial for Jim at Crepes and Coffee (235 Bear Lake Blvd) on April 17 from 4:00-7:00PM. Friends and family are welcome to stop by, share memories, and celebrate Jim's life.
In lieu of flowers, Jimmy would have wanted to help care for more fur babies. Please consider donating to ANH Bear Lake at https://anhbearlake.org or by calling (208) 339‑0130 in his memory.
Memories and condolences may be shared and expressed at www.allenmortuaries.com
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