Like most of us, I am looking forward to this Labor Day weekend. Who could not use an additional day off? But as it often happens while we all enjoy a long weekend we often forget the meaning and origin of the particular holiday.

From 1945 until about 1991, the term “Iron Curtain” was well known and in the news a great deal of the time. The term referred to a political barrier separating the former Soviet bloc countries from the West.

You may have heard the phrase age of anxiety to describe our times. Only a few scholars and literary critics know that it refers to W. H. Auden’s Pulitzer Prize (1948) winning poem “The Age of Anxiety.”

The Auglaize Free United Baptist Church, 11890 Ohio 309, Maysville, will be hosting “Homecoming” at 11 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 19. Guest speaker will be Pastor Dave Mowery and there will be a performance by gospel singer Steve Mosely.

Gospel singing will take place at 6 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 18 at Well of Grace Fellowship, 525 N. Ida St., Kenton. The featured group will be Testify from Oakwood. Church overseers are Ronnie Dean and Diana Scott.

The Gibbons Family will be performing at Kenton Full Gospel Church, 129 N. Wayne St., at 6 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 19.

MOUNT VICTORY — There will be a Victory Gospel summer concert from 6 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 21 at the Community Building, 234 N. Washington St., Mount Victory. Doors open at 4 p.m. Appearing will be Dave and Sharon Liles with Barb McCarre, One Voice, The Victory Gospel Singers and Musicians Band and Janet Moore.

During this time of political turmoil we frequently hear the words “citizen” and “taxpayer”. As an American, do you think of yourself primarily as a taxpayer or as a citizen?

The Latter Rain Southern Gospel Quartet will be performing at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 12 at Kenton Full Gospel Church, 129 N. Wayne St., Kenton.

Kenton Full Gospel Church is holding an auction and picnic open to the public at 10 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 11 at the Hardin County Fairgrounds shelterhouse. Choose from lots of household items, furniture, night stands, chairs, glassware, exercise equipment and more.