Article: Life Mag: Buddhism booming; Thai New Year.

Article: Life Mag: Buddhism booming ; Thai New Year
Evening Mail;  April 10, 2001 ;     535 words ... ... and the Buddhist shaven head, Phra Mahalaow is taking care not to rock the ... last thought before death, says Phra Mahalaow, and the subsequent teaching ... their temple to celebrate their New Year. On Sunday, the monks are breaking ...

Article: Life Mag: Thai tales ; Thai New Year
Evening Mail;  April 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... of a close friend,' says Phra Mahalaow who, as a 12-year-old ... celebration to mark the Thai New Year, which falls on Easter Sunday ... festival of Songkran, or New Year, actually marks the passing ... strangers by Thais marking their New Year, evenget little loops of ...

Article: Life Mag: Thai tales; Thai New Year.
Birmingham Evening Mail (England);  April 10, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... of a close friend,' says Phra Mahalaow who, as a 12-year-old ... celebration to mark the Thai New Year, which falls on Easter Sunday ... festival of Songkran, or New Year, actually marks the passing ... strangers by Thais marking their New Year, even get little loops of ...

Article: New Year services.
La Crosse Tribune (La Crosse, WI);  January 3, 2007 ;     616 words ...Jan. 3--Special services New Year's Eve and New Year's Day: Bangor St. Mary's Catholic Church: 6 p.m. New Year's Eve Coon Valley St. Mary's Catholic Church: 8 a.m. New Year's Day Genoa St. Charles Borromeo Catholic Church ...

Article: New Year's Eve
News Sun, The (Waukegan, IL);  December 25, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... All ages are invited to celebrate the new year at high noon on Dec. 31 at Waukegan Public ... 623-2041. Chicago Kids Countdown! on New Year's Eve will be held from 11 a.m. to ... spectacular fireworks displays bring in the new year at Navy Pier, 600 E. Grand Ave., beginning ...

Article: New Year welcomed tonight; Nations air wish for ...
Manila Bulletin;  December 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... tonight to announce the arrival of the New Year 2008 -- with a collective wish by the ... champagne to welcome the blessings that the New Year is expected to bring. Champagne corks ... endearing Filipino holiday tradition. New Year's Day is listed a holy day of obligation ...

Article: New Year's Eve, My Way
Doings, The (Oak Brook - Oakbrook Terrace, IL);  January 8, 2009 ;     648 words ...Celebrating the New Year is a time of reflection, thinking and ... and me. Also, we think about those New Year's resolutions and goals that we made ... family and I plan on welcoming in the New Year by doing some reflection on how we felt ...