Orange County Breeze closed on February 20 2023

On By shelley-henderson

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The office of Orange County Breeze will be closed in observance of Washinton’s Birthday (or President’s Day, if you prefer) on February 20, 2023.

We will post a flag and read Washington’s Farewell Address, which ends with these two paragraphs:

Though in reviewing the incidents of my Administration, I am unconscious of intentional error — I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope that my Country will never cease to view them with indulgence; and that after forty five years of my life dedicated to its Service, with an upright zeal, the faults of incompetent abilities will be consigned to oblivion, as myself must soon be to the mansions of rest.

Relying on its kindness in this as in other things, and actuated by that fervent love towards it, which is so natural to a man, who views in it the native soil of himself and his progenitors for several Generations; I anticipate with pleasing expectation that retreat, in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow Citizens, the benign influence of good Laws under a free Government — the ever favourite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labours and dangers.