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You are in for a special treat and fascination at the January meeting. Mark Prue had the opportunity to meet Donna Morrison, Psychic, at one of his other club meetings. He was amazed by what he experienced and felt she would be a good program for our club.
           
I talked to her to reaffirm her schedule, for making our meeting, and what she should plan on presenting. She advised there is several things she can present but usually for those curious enough if they would put their question on a slip of paper with their name she could provide answers that you have been looking for. Any questions of a sensitive matter she could talk later during the brake or as needed make an appointment. She asks for your name because it is important to enhance the reading!
           
Whether it be for the fun of it or the need to know, let's bring slips in with those questions and have a good and different program.

Swedish woman who lost her wedding ring 16 years ago was flabbergasted when she found it again, around a carrot growing in her garden, media reported Saturday.
           
Lena Paahlsson had taken off the white gold ring before a Christmas baking session with her daughters in 1995, but it had disappeared from the kitchen counter where she placed it.
           
After looking everywhere, and even pulling up floorboards in the search, Paahlsson and her family, who live on a farm in northern Sweden, had given up on seeing the ring again, she told the Dagens Nyheter daily.
           



That was until October this year, when she was picking the last carrots in her
garden and suddenly found one with her ring glimmering around it.
           
The family thinks the ring must have fallen into the sink back in 1995 and been mixed with potato peels that were composted or fed to the sheep, since all the soil in the garden comes from composted vegetables and sheep dung.
           
The ring no longer fits Paahlsson, but she told Dagens Nyheter she plans to have it enlarged.
"I had given up hope. Now that I have found the ring again ... I want to be able to use it," she said.

A penny earned is a penny saved A once-cent copper coin from the earliest days of the U.S. Mint in 1793 has sold for a record $1.38 million at a Orlando, Florida auction.

James Halperin of Texas-based Heritage Auctions told The Associated Press on Saturday that the sale was "the most a United States copper coin has ever sold for at auction." The coin was made at the Mint in Philadelphia in 1793, the first year that the U.S. made its own coins.
           
Heritage officials said in a news release that the name of the buyer was not revealed but that he was "a major collector." One of the coin's earliest owners was a well-known Baltimore banker, Louis E. Eliasberg, Sr.
           
"Mr. Eliasberg was nicknamed, `the king of coins' because before his death in 1976 he assembled a collection that consisted of at least one example of every coin ever made at the United States Mint, a feat never duplicated," Halperin said in the news release.
           
The final bid for the coin last week was one of the largest sales at the Florida United Numismatists coin show and annual convention, which runs through Sunday. Halperin said a five-dollar gold piece from 1829 also was sold.
           
Halperin said there remain a few hundred 1793 coins in different condition, but that the one auctioned off Wednesday night is rare because it wasn't in circulation.
           
Officials say it shows no wear on its lettering, its Lady Liberty face or the chain of linking rings on its back.
           
The news release said the coin is known as a "Chain Cent" because its chain of linking rings was supposed to represent the solidarity of the states. The design was changed to a wreath after some critics claimed it was symbolic of slavery.