Area businesses, friends, groups and families are invited to join the Highlands Lions Club in celebration of their Centennial anniversary this year by participating in a commemorative ad journal.
The Club, under the presidency of Karen Grezner, is offering the commemorative journal in advance of the gala celebration set for Sunday, November 8 at Bahrs Restaurant, Highlands.
With the outside and inside front covers already sponsored, the Club is offering booster opportunities and ads for the inside back cover at $400, full pages at $250, half pages at $125 and one line Boosters of a single name at $25.
Deadline for submitting ads is October 12. Checks should be made out to Highlands Lions Club. For further information, call Grezner at 908-715-9975, or e-mail Lions07732@email.com. Checks can be mailed to Highlands Lions Club, POBox 93, Highlands, NJ 07732
“This special journal is truly commemorative,” Grezner said, “in that it will honor all the Lions, both past and present over the century it has been an active and vital part of the local community. It will highlight the many ways the club has supported the community for the past 100 years, not only in fellowship but also in service and commitment. The journal will also commemorate the Celebration luncheon at Bahrs where some of the speakers at the gala will represent not only long-time membership in the Highlands Lions, but also generous support of its many causes.”
Support of the Journal also will enable the Lions Club to carry on its tradition of service; a message or booster in the journal is one way to recognize the historic occasion while at the same time assisting in continuing the mission of community service for another century.
Tickets are also available for the Nov. 8 luncheon a $75 per person by e-amail to Lions07732.@gmail.com or contacting Grezner.
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Moby Dick famously begins with the narratorial invocation “Call me Ishmael.” The narrator, like his biblical counterpart, is an outcast. Ishmael, who turns to the sea for meaning, relays to the audience the final voyage of the Pequod, a whaling vessel. Amid a story of tribulation, beauty, and madness, the reader is introduced to a number of characters, many of whom have names with religious resonance. The ship’s captain is Ahab, who Ishmael and his friend Queequeg soon learn is losing his mind. Starbuck, Ahab’s first-mate, recognizes this problem too, and is the only one throughout the novel to voice his disapproval of Ahab’s increasingly obsessive behavior. This nature of Ahab’s obsession is first revealed to Ishmael and Queequeg after the Pequod’s owners, Peleg and Bildad, explain to them that Ahab is still recovering from an encounter with a large whale that resulted in the loss of his leg. That whale’s name is Moby Dick. The Pequod sets sail, and the crew is soon informed that this journey will be unlike their other whaling missions: this time, despite the reluctance of Starbuck, Ahab intends to hunt and kill the beastly Moby Dick no matter the cost.Ahab and the crew continue their eventful journey and encounter a number of obstacles along the way. Queequeg falls ill, which prompts a coffin to be built in anticipation of the worst. After he recovers, the coffin becomes a replacement lifeboat that eventually saves Ishmael’s life. Ahab receives a prophecy from a crew member informing him of his future death, which he ignores. Moby Dick is spotted and, over the course of three days, engages violently with Ahab and the Pequod until the whale destroys the ship, killing everyone except Ishmael. Ishmael survives by floating on Queequeg’s coffin until he is picked up by another ship, the Rachel. The novel consists of 135 chapters, in which narrative and essayistic portions intermingle, as well as an epilogue and front matter.
