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U.S. PRESIDENT IS 80 YEARS OLD TODAY

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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. is the 46th and current president
of the United States
. A member of the Democratic Party, he
previously served as the 47th
vice president from 2009 to
2017 under President
Barack Obama, and represented
Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009.

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REMEMBER SHELLY LONG FROM ‘’CHEERS’’ ?

Thanks to her part on “Cheers,” Shelley Long became a household name, thanks to her vivacious looks and energetic acting. She made
the jump to movies in classic films such as “Night Shift”(1982) and
“The Money Pit”(1986).

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from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993.

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CHRISTMAS STORY HOUSE IS UP FOR SALE

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(FOX NEWS) – The house from the film "A Christmas Story"(2007)
has officially been put up for sale in Cleveland, Ohio.

The sale in its entirety makes up 1.3 acres of property, according
to a listing posted Monday on achristmasstoryhouse.com.

Chad Whitmer, the listing agent from the Northeast Ohio-based commercial real estate company Hoff and Leigh, said the listing
includes the house, the Bumpus house, the gift shop, museum
and a number of vacant lots that have been acquired by the
home’s current owner over the years.

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THE GREAHAM AREA’S FIRST SUPERMARKET


223rd and S.E. Stark in Gresham.  (1954)

    


1963

       

Carl and Ada Zimmerman leased a one-room country store
(above) from Edward and Minnie Aylsworth in 1938 and purchased it in 1943, remodeling and expanding it into the
area’s first supermarket.
 

The store closed in 2001 and the building was demolished
in 2005 when Weston Buick Pontiac GMC and Kia built a
new showroom and dealership in its place (below).

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CAPITOL CORNERSTONE LAID ON THIS DAY

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On September 18, 1793, George Washington laid the cornerstone
to the United States Capitol building, the home of the legislative
branch of American government. The building would take nearly
a century to complete, as architects came and went, the British
set fire to it and it was called into use during the
Civil War.

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The U.S. Capitol under construction, 1860

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