She was hard at work making name tags, however, these were not your ordinary name tags. These were little medieval hats with all the members and guests names printed on the front. When she completed that task, the next one involved making crowns for all the lords and ladies who might not come dressed in the "proper" attire. 
      As the sun rose on beautiful Pine Island the next day's work began as the cooks prepared the beast, a 300-pound boar placed over the "pit". It took 7 hours to cook the large not-so medieval beast as it rotated over the hot pit. The attendants Phil, Frank and Jamie (photo below) provided by the Double Nickel Restaurant, in St. James, who watched the preparation of the "beast" very closely. 

  As the hours passed, the aroma of the beast could be smelled throughout the property. The doors were opened at 5:30 PM and a valet gave a number and lead all guests into the wonderful Medieval Hall of the Valcarcel family. 
   While minstrel music filled the hall, "Lady" Paul Schuetz (at left, photo below) of Islands Insurance and new acting president of  the St. James City Kiwanis Club, greeted all members and guests and crowned those who did not come in medieval attire. The beasts' head was placed in the center of the main table and as the hall filled, everyone was served ale or soda. Many guests were overheard making tortured attempts to speak in a medieval vernacular. After about an hour of social time all were asked to take their positions at the tables and dinner 
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    In order to remind us of our pitifully boring lives (of which we are thankful, by the way), Michael Steers, an executive jet pilot sends us a picture standing in front of his latest "ride" and taken while he had a stopover in Valdiz, Alaska .  The jet is a Gulfstream and known as the "Super 
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while planting trees. Please send notice home with children on 1/11/02.
         The program should take about 90 minutes or so in the afternoon and will be a fun event.

Phillip A. Russo
Fire Safety Inspector

     The first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872 in Nebraska.  It was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist and politician originally from  Michigan.  Throughout his long and productive career, Morton worked to improve agricultural techniques in his adopted state and throughout the United States when he served as President Grover Cleveland's Secretary of Agriculture.  But his most important legacy is Arbor Day.