Happy Valentine's Day, Oilers! Still looking for gift ideas for that special someone? Not sure if dinner or a movie is the way to go? Take a look at these helpful columns from the Pulse, maybe Oilers from the past can help you out! Click on the images for a link to our Findlay Memory digital archive that has transcripts of the articles!

Thrifty Valentine's

Here we have some helpful advice from 1998 on how to have a fun yet frugal day with your sweetheart, including getting a small bag of candy from Dietsch Brothers or write a poem and eat cheese. If you are anti-Valentine's day, our author Cut-Rate-Cupid here has some movie recommendations or says to bake yourself some cookies!

 

Digital Holidays

Flashforward to the year 2000, having survived Y2K, we have some recommendations on using AOL or Blue Mountain to send a digital Valentine's day card, they're colorful and animated and oh so modern, making this Librarian feel oh so old that I remember the sites listed in this article.

This Valentine's Dav, forget paper and trv e-love By Leah Suttner HiUte Online - Carmel High School Getting your sweetheart a Valentine's Day card doesn't necessarily have to mean a run to the store. The Internet is flowing with - -- . · lots of electronic o tions. '.

Pay it forward

Skipping ahead to 2002, maybe you and your boo can instead participate in a charity event, like this Valentine's day food drive and card making party, so sweet!

The Pulse/ February 14, 2002, Page 4 Students make valentines, help local charities J? C By Emily Mumaugh card he made for his wife. Staff Reporter About a half dozen people A Valentine's Day party and were standing and kneeling food drive sponsored by Cam- around the two tables of sup- . pus Compact was held in the plies set up. There were many AMU Friday, Feb. 8_. Enthusi- smiles as participants shared astic students were cutting, col- scissors and glue sticks and oring and gluing valentines for showed each other their ere-that special someone. ations. Tyfanie Barth, Amy Valko, Wayne Sneath, Director of Amy Shoub and Amber Campus Compact, said he was Sherlock made one valentine for happy with the turnout for the their math teacher Mr. Schmidt. · event. Sneath said that the idea All four are sophomore early for the Valentine party came up childhood education majors .. at a board meeting about a· The girls used construction pa- month ago. Local shelters had per, gel pens, and heart stickers been running low on supplies in bright holiday colors of red, because of the holidays. The purple and various shades of food collected from the Valen­pink for their valentine. tine party will go to Open Arms, Everyone had a good laugh City Mission and Hope House, when Pastor Will Miller over- all local charities. heard that the girls were mak­ing the valentine for their teacher; he accused thein of but­tering up their teacher instead of doing their homework. Miller continued with more jokes and wise words as he folded a gold tissue paper envelope for the Matthew Wilkin, a student member on the Campus Com­pact committee, is a freshman majoring in computer science and tech management. Wilkin says he really enjoys volunteer­ing. This is his second semester with Campus Compact and he's . From left: Sharinda Welton, Kylene Shifley, Brianna Martin, Bridget Campbell, Megan Winkeljohn and Ellen Fish all work on valentine projects at the Campus Compact Valentine's Day party/food .drlve. also helped with Memorial As- Campus Compact is a na- wide, with 35 chapters in Ohio, sistance Ministries in Houston, tional organization in 700 col- and has been a part of The Uni- Texas. leges and universities nation- versity of Findlay since 1998.