Program: Troy Hershberger
Avon Park Air Force Bombing Range

Service Project: Annual Pancake Breakfast
Time: 7am to 12pm
Location: St. Matthew Catholic Church
Annual Pancake Breakfast

Announcement: Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day is believed to have had its beginnings in a Roman festival called the Lupercalia. The early Roman men often wore the names of the girls who were to be their partners during the Lupercalia pinned to their sleeves. And thus came the saying "wearing your heart on your sleeve".


The story goes that when the Roman empire wars broke out married men did not want to leave their families, younger men did not want to leave their sweethearts. As a result of the low enrollment of men to fight the wars, Claudius the Cruel ordered that no more marriages or engagements should be celebrated. A priest, named Valentine, defied the order and married young couples in secrecy. When Claudius found out he had Valentine dragged off and imprisoned, where he died. What he did for young lovers was remembered and is still celebrated on St. Valentine's Day.


The 17th century hopeful maiden ate a hard-boiled egg and pinned five bay leaves to her pillow before going to sleep on Valentine's eve. It was believed this would make her dream of her future husband.


The Duke of Orleans is believed to have made the first valentine card. Imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1415, he wrote love poems, or "valentines," to his wife in France.


Elaborate cards trimmed with satin ribbons, mother-of-pearl ornaments, and spun glass were sold during the Civil War.


The celebration, the tradition goes on or with flowers, with heart-shaped candies, with lacy valentines whose frills and furbelows hiding the initials of the sender, we honor the good priest who disobeyed Claudius the Cruel.



Program: Lt Colonel Buck McGloughman
Avon Park Base Commander

Program: Deborah Meade

Announcement: Happy Birthday Kathy Leggett

Announcement: Happy Birthday Bob Branson

Announcement: Happy Birthday Ed Ethington

Announcement: Jerry - SunnyRidge

Announcement: Happy Birthday Serena Kurtz

Announcement: Zone Conference
Time: 7:30am to 11:30am
Location: Bradenton

Announcement: Happy Birthday Bill Grimsley

Announcement: Kim Bowden - Innovative Senior Care