Island Vibes January 2025

27 IslandVibesIOP.com FUN & GAMES ISLE OF PALMS CROSSWORD PUZZLE Kids' Corner What are your New Year’s resolutions? By Suzette Head COUNTDOWN FIREWORKS RESOLUTION CHAMPAGNE MIDNIGHT CELEBRATION ZODIAC CALENDAR CONFETTI PARTY TOAST CHEERS BALL SPARKLE FESTIVE RENEWAL YEAR HOPE TRADITION DANCE Happy New Year New Year’s resolutions date back to the ancient Babylonians 4,000 years ago, who promised the gods that they would pay back debts and return borrowed items. Carrying on this long-standing tradition, I asked some Isle of Palms residents about their resolutions for 2025. John Moye, business owner “I don’t make resolutions because I’m not good at keeping them, so I do something different. I think of a word to be a theme of improvement for the year to come. The word for this year is ‘presence.’ I find myself sometimes scrolling on my phone, which isn’t valuable from the standpoint of relationships with my friends and family. I plan to be more intentional about putting away my phone and giving my undivided attention.” Delaney Sullivan, SIES fourth grader “I’m on a new dance team and I want to become a better dancer. I want to read 20 minutes every day to become a stronger reader. I’ve accomplished a lot of (resolutions) so I think I could do this too.” Cal McCombs, real estate agent “A guy like me, who is as old as I am, I have everything I want. What I vow to do this coming year is to realize how fortunate I am to live in this community. I thank God every day that I’m here. I need to be better at being grateful — for living where I live and having my neighbors.” ACROSS 1. Express indifference 6. Set down firmly 10. Pine 14. Nuts 15. Company symbol 16. Crispy squares cereal 17. Take 18. Capital of Norway 19. Mailed 20. Allot (with “out”) 21. Me 23. Stray 24. Experts 26. Portugal’s peninsula 28. One behind another 31. Section 32. Epoch 33. Leaky 36. Bird’s home 40. Low-cal 42. Relief 43. Location 44. Country in SE Asia 45. Worker’s organizations 48. Ailing 49. Weak 51. Painter Georgia ___ 53. Forest gods 56. Irritation 57. Pounds per square inch 58. Detect 61. New __ (city) 65. Inflammatory disease 67. __ Major (Big Dipper) 68. Forcefully 69. Fredrick’s nickname 70. Invalidated 71. Popular game 72. Soaring plaything 73. Feat 74. Set in DOWN 1. Ghetto 2. Tights 3. Root 4. Like a new book 5. Swindle 6. Clever plans 7. Failure 8. Look 9. Chipping in 10. American Cancer Society (abbr.) 11. Applaud 12. ___ Matisse, painter 13. Small movie part 21. Business note 22. National police 25. Executive 27. Bunsen burner 28. Say 29. Opera solo 30. Treaty organization 31. Unclip 34. Clownish 35. Caesar’s three 37. Canal 38. Your person 39. Yarn 41. See 45. Fallacious 46. Not any 47. Slide on snow 50. Pot 52. Earlier form of a word 53. Arc 54. Computer code for characters 55. Tinge 56. Hot liquid burn 59. Factual 60. Island 62. What horses eat 63. Religious ceremony 64. What you put in rope 66. Stretch to make do 68. Boxer Muhammad DECEMBER 2024 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 www.CrosswordWeaver.com ACROSS 1 Express indifference 6 Set down firmly 10 Pine 14 Nuts 15 Company symbol 16 Crispy squares cereal 17 Take 18 Capital of Norway 19 Mailed 20 Allot (with "out") 21 Me 23 Stray 24 Experts 26 Portugal's peninsula 28 One behind another 31 Section 32 Epoch 33 Leaky 36 Bird's home 40 Low-cal 42 Relief 43 Location 44 Country in SE Asia 45 Worker's organizations 48 Ailing 49 Weak 51 Painter Georgia ___ 53 Forest gods 56 Irritation 57 Pounds per square inch 58 Detect 61 New __ (city) 65 Inflammatory disease 67 __ Major (Big Dipper) 68 Forcefully 69 Fredrick's nickname 70 Invalidated 71 Popular game 72 Soaring plaything 73 Feat 74 Set in DOWN 1 Ghetto 2 Tights 3 Root 4 Like a new book 5 Swindle 6 Clever plans 7 Failure 8 Look 9 Chipping in 10 American Cancer Society (abbr.) 11 Applaud 12 ___ Matisse, painter 13 Small movie part 21 Business note 22 National police 25 Executive 27 Bunsen burner 28 Say 29 Opera solo 30 Treaty organization 31 Unclip 34 Clownish 35 Caesar's three 37 Canal 38 Your person 39 Yarn 41 See 45 Fallacious 46 Not any 47 Slide on snow 50 Pot 52 Earlier form of a word 53 Arc 54 Computer code for characters 55 Tinge 56 Hot liquid burn 59 Factual 60 Island 62 What horses eat 63 Religious ceremony 64 What you put in rope 66 Stretch to make do 68 Boxer Muhammad DECEMBER 2024

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