January (in Latin, Ianuarius)

Husband & Wife Anniversaries For January 
Terry & Georgia Barker will be married 2 years Jan 15, 2013 - Congratulations
Jim & Ann Davis will be married 44 years Jan 20, 2013 - Way To Go !! Happy Anniversary 

Membership Anniversaries
Joe Mazzu   8 years    Jan 01, 2005
Joseph Siminic 6 years Jan 06, 2007

Holidays in January

January, painting by Leandro Bassano

• New Year's Day – January 1
• Independence Day in Haiti – January 1
• Handsel Monday in Scotland and northern England – First Monday
• Three Wise Men Day, or Epiphany, in Latin America, Spain, Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic, and is, although not celebrated as widely or in the same way as in countries with a Spanish history, an official holiday in many European countries, for example Austria, Italy, Sweden, Finland, Liechtenstein, Slovakia and Croatia, as well as in parts of Germany and Switzerland.  – January 6
• Russian and Ukrainian Christmas Eve, also known as Svyat Vechir – January 6
• Coptic and Russian Orthodox Church Christmas – January 7
• Plough Sunday in Scotland and northern England – Sunday after January 6
• Coming of Age Day (成人の日 Seijin no hi^?) in Japan – Second Monday
• National Human Trafficking Awareness Day in the United States – January 11
• Feast of the Santo Niño in the Philippines – *Martin Luther King, Jr. Day in the United States – Third Monday
• Third Sunday is Pongal in India.
• Republic Day in India – January 26
• Australia Day in Australia - January 26
• Makara Sankranthi (Festival of Harvest) in India – January 14
• Auckland Anniversary in Auckland, New Zealand – Monday closest to January 29
• Burns night in Scotland – January 25
• The uniting of Moldavia and Wallachia under the same ruler in 1859, Romania – January 24
• National Thank You month

January symbols

Snow in January

• January's birthstone is the garnet which represents constancy.
• Its birth flower is the cottage pink Dianthus caryophyllus or galanthus.^[2]
• The Chinese floral emblem of January is the Prunus mume.
• The Japanese floral emblem of January is the camellia (Camellia sinensis).
• In Finland, the month of Tammikuu means the heart of the winter and because the name also means Oak, it can be inferred that the oak tree is the heart of grand forest with many valuable trees as opposed to the typical Arctic forests which are typically pine and spruce. The photograph of a large tree covered with ice against a blue sky is a familiar scene during Finland's winter.
• The Zodiac signs for the month of January are Capricorn (until January 19) and Aquarius (January 20 onwards).