Ash Wednesday is the first day of Lent and occurs 46 days before Easter. It is a moveable fast, falling on a different date each year because it is dependent on the date of Easter. It can occur as early as February 4 or as late as March 10.
According to the canonical gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke, Jesus spent 40 days fasting in the desert before the beginning of his public ministry, during which he endured temptation by Satan.
Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of this 40-day liturgical period of prayer and fasting.
Peter Suter of Shannon Theatre announced that "Big Miracle" (PG) and "One For The Money" (PG-13) are showing at the theatre from February 24 - March 1.
Show times follow:
Big Miracle (PG)
Each evening at 7:00 with Saturday and Sunday matinees at 1:30 and 4:00 PM.
One of Bluffton's most important decisions of the decade will be decided on March 6. Bluffton voters will decide the fate of a proposed one-quarter percent income tax.
The Icon supports this issue and urges voters who need more information to attend one of two public meetings planned for the next two Thursdays to learn more about this issue.
The meetings are both at 7:30 p.m., with one on Thursday, Feb. 23, and the second on Thursday, March 1, in the third floor of the town hall, according to Jamie Mehaffie, village administrator.
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan - Airman 1st Class Tabetha Clark, a .50-caliber machine gun gunner and driver with the 455th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron, recently deployed from the 4th SFS, Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C.
Clark, a 2007 Bluffton High School graduate, deployed to work with an elite group of security forces airmen with the 455th ESFS, a quick reaction team known as the "Reapers."
