HERO - Father's Day 2007

Sunday, June 17, 2007 - HERO Award goes out to Fathers everywhere.

From Wikipedia.org:

"In the United States, the first modern Father's Day celebration was held on July 5, 1908, in Fairmont, West Virginia. ^[1][2] It was first celebrated as a church service at Williams Memorial Methodist Episcopal Church South, now known as Central United Methodist Church. Grace Golden Clayton, who is believed to have suggested the service to the pastor, is believed to have been inspired to celebrate fathers after the deadly mine explosion in nearby Monongah the prior December. This explosion killed 361 men, many of them fathers and recent immigrants to the United States from Italy. Another possible inspiration for the service was Mother's Day, which had recently been celebrated for the first time in Grafton, West Virginia, a town about 15 miles away.