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Show Thursday, February 28. 2008 SPRINGVILLE HERALD 9 ow to celeb rate Leap Day 1 ! s f Wendy Mass We all grew up learning the rhyme about 'the calendar: cal-endar: Thirty days hath September, April, June and November. All the rest have thirty-one, except ex-cept February, which has twenty-eight. Or DOES IT? Turns out the earth j f - m iljiljiJi 3 Come fee the SAME RELIABLE SERVICE! O CX CMMX Spanish Fork' UT ChiHC 7QfMV777 CARPET & FURNITURE Fax 798-0460 (film 'oodwinward Caywood Dr. Rick Winward. . j I !i wm 1 ft . Hi fi ' Llml&c j Tin 3 CiiCi! Quality Condos with All the EXTRAS - Even a Garage. f.Liul: frcrn East Day, Shopping Golf, Frssvay, BYU d UVUi WGIVH! Starting in tha $UQ's. C0 South 2250 Wast Springvilla C3US$2-4430 7fnS revolves around the sun every 365 Ps4 days, so if we didn't add on an extra ex-tra day every four years, we'd eventually celebrate Christmas in July! So what does Leap Day mean for most of us? Well, not a lot. (Except for those born on this new store! -q 4 77 E. Industrial Dr. ( H . r 4 He loiPnumoniG For QOnntDs day, then it means a BIG TIME PARTY to make up for the past three years when the world decided to skip their birthday.) But you don't have to be born on Leap Day to celebrate cel-ebrate the holiday. Here are some suggestions on how to make the most of this "extra" day in our lives: 1. It's an old Irish tradition tra-dition for women to ask men to marry them on Leap Day. In Scotland, if a man refused a Lady's proposal, he had to either give her a kiss, a pair of gloves, or a silk dress. So get out there and ask a guy out. And guys, if you turn her down, you better pick up that pair of leather gloves she's been eyeing. 2. Use the Internet to find the current address of an old friend who you haven't spoken to in over four years. 3. Write the old friend a post card, then bring it to the post office and ask them to hand-stamp it with the date. Since you're going to the post office, bring your old cell phones and eyeglasses. Many have bins where the phones will get sent to soldiers overseas 'and the eyeglasses to those in need. 4. Clean out all the email that's been piling up, both at work and at home. Un-enlist Un-enlist from newsgroups and listserves that you no longer bother to open mail from. Write down the user names and passwords pass-words you've chosen for all the sites you visit. Keep this in a safe place. 5. Make a Leap Day healthy treat: 1 scoop of vanilla ice cream or plain yogurt 1 banana 1 tablespoon of peanut butter 1 cup of ice Blend till frothy. Skip the garnish! 6. Use this special day to do something special for someone else in your community. Business suits you've outgrown or no longer wear? Consider Con-sider organizing a corporate cor-porate suit drive at your office. Contact www.ca-reergear.org www.ca-reergear.org for information. informa-tion. Women can donate their business clothes to the Dress for Success program that assists low-income low-income women looking for jobs. Findtyour local branch at www.dressfor-success.org. www.dressfor-success.org. Old prom dresses taking up room in your closet? Bridesmaids dresses that you know you'll never wear again no matter how much the bride insists you can? Donate them all to the Glass Supper Project. Because of them, thousands thou-sands of financially challenged chal-lenged girls each year get to have their prom dreams come true. Go to -O i ) i f 'J i 1 1 www.glassslipperproject. org to find an affiliated organization near you. 7. Leap back in time and play a favorite game from your childhood. Teach it to a new generation. 8. Take ten minutes and just stretch. It loosens the ligaments and clears the pathways to the brain. You'll be more limber AND smarter! 9. De-clutter one room. Then join your local freecycle group and give away things you no longer lon-ger use. You never know when someone might be offering exactly what YOU need, too. To find your local group, go to www.freecycle.org. 10. Check out the Internet's In-ternet's largest Leap Day resource, www.leapy-earday.com. www.leapy-earday.com. You'll learn all about the origins of the holiday, where the best parties are around the world, and fun facts about the history of the calendar. Perhaps the most interesting is that Pope Gregory XIII the founder of the Gregorian Calendar we all use today to-day decided to cancel the ten days between October Oc-tober 5, 1582 and October 14, 1582 in order to make up for too many extra Leap Years. Ten whole days, whoosh! Gone.) Now go out there and enjoy Leap Day 2008. And if you can't do everything BEST . ' COPYSIIOP 574 N State St Orem, 84QS7 . T HOURS ... i 8 AM -6:00 PM PRGVQ 355 E. 900 S. 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