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January 2014
Welcome new members! Hope you enjoy spading and meeting new friends. Sit back, relax, and spade to your hearts content! In December Stargazers league closed and merged all their members with ForeverSpades. Several were already members of both leagues. We would like to welcome all Stargazers members to ForeverspadeSpades. It may be helpful to add staff and members to yahoo messenger to get them blue and easier to find when the lobby is busy. We are all ForeverSpades Spading Family and growing!  Happy New Years to every member of ForeverSpades. We hope you have fun spading in 2014.  Did you know? We have some very special links on the Main league page! ForeverSpades Cookbook Submit your recipes Lets fill it up so we can use it! Keep submitting your recipes! From most simple to complex share all you would like to share! Trivia Make sure to use your ForeverSpades id as it's for members only! So many love trivia and play it daily! Birthday Calendar Just click and add your id to your birth date! Please check out the main league page; Jan works very hard to make it nice and informative; Lots and lots of links  Want to do more for ForeverSpades? If you're an active member and have time to run one or more tourneys per week; how about being a Tournament Director? Just click here for the application!  Let's take a moment to thank those tds that truly brought Christmas to ForeverSpades!! So many tds devoting their time! Special thanks to Char for her stocking, bulb and Christmas tourneys! Lots of happiness spread throughout ForeverSpades! Another special thanks to Carla for her Naughty or Nice Tourney! (I'm a lil naughty) The special trivia tourney Maggy with Santas around the world! I'm sure with the fun many learned some things! Some things to look forward to this month! TOURNAMANIA 24 HOURS OF QUICKIE TOURNEYS Jan 11th 6 pm - Jan 12th 5 pm Tourneys every hour for 24 hours We are looking for donations for prizes Contact Ann if you're interested in donating Prizes for most won; most played etc... Watch for more announcements to come! Mega Bux Tours Every month on the 7th, 17th, and 27th!! Entry fee 200 bux which makes greater payouts!! We also have our regularly scheduled Specials listed on the tournament tab of the league page.
We also have interleague qualifiers and participation; which can be found on the Community Tab. FYI~ INTERLEAGUE PLAY!
Boss, Suicide, Reflections and Whizmajik
New Year's Traditions The practice of making resolutions for the New Year is thought to have first caught on among the ancient Babylonians, who made promises in order to earn the favor of the Gods and start the year off on the right foot. (They would reportedly vow to pay off debts and return borrowed farm equipment.) New Year celebrations begin on the evening of December 31—New Years Eve—and continue into the early hours of January 1. Many enjoy meals and snacks thought to bestow good luck for the coming year. In Spain and several other Spanish-speaking countries, people eat a dozen grapes-symbolizing their hopes for the months ahead-right before midnight. In many parts of the world, traditional New Year's dishes feature legumes, which are thought to resemble coins bestowing future financial success; examples include lentils in Italy and black-eyed peas in the southern US. Pigs represent progress and prosperity in some cultures, so pork appears on the New Year's Eve table in Cuba, Austria, Hungary, Portugal and other countries. Ring-shaped cakes and pastries, a sign that the year has come full circle, round out the feast in the Netherlands, Mexico, Greece. In Sweden and Norway, rice pudding with an almond hidden inside is served on New Year's Eve; it is said that whoever finds the nut can expect 12 months of good fortune. Other customs that are common worldwide include watching fireworks and singing songs to welcome the New Year, including the ever-popular "Auld Lang Syne" in many English-speaking countries. In Canada celebrations vary regionally. New Year's Eve (is also called New Years Eve Day or Veille du Jour de l'An in French ). In cities, such as Toronto, Niagara Falls, Ontario, there are large celebrations, concerts, late-night partying, sporting events, and fireworks, with free public transit service during peak party times in most major cities. In rural Quebec, people ice fish and drink alcohol with their friends until the early hours of January 1. In the United States, New Years tradition is the dropping of a giant ball in New York City Times Square at the stroke of midnight. Millions of people around the world watch the event, which has taken place almost every year since 1907. Over time, the ball itself has ballooned from a 700-pound iron-and-wood orb to a brightly patterned sphere 12 feet in diameter and weighing in at nearly 12,000 pounds. Various towns and cities across America have developed their own versions of the Times Square ritual, organizing public drops of items ranging from pickles (Dillsburg, Pennsylvania) to possums (Tallapoosa, Georgia) at midnight on New Year's Eve. However you spend your New Year ForeverSpades members, know from my heart I wish you the Best Year ahead! I am looking forward to spending 2014 with you in the Beetle Spot sharing laughter, fun and great times! Do you have a New Years Tradition, Favorite food or Custom that you would like to share? How about your New Year's Resolution? Did you achieve last Year’s Resolution?
THE NEWS TEAM HERE AT FOREVERSPADES SURE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW!
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