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Hang Your Hat: October 6, 2016

Letters for the week of October 6.

Discover your very own wellness center and walk-in clinic

Recently, our Sun City community rejoiced with the opening of the new state-of-the art 128-bed Centegra Hospital located on Haligus Road. Did you know that the same Centegra Health System supporting this large major medical facility is available in Prairie Lodge as a walk-in clinic treating lesser health issues amongst our residents?

Check These Out: October 6, 2016

You may want to skim this book while considering it as a gift for someone you know who is constantly focused on their cell phone, unable to string together two sentences together without saying “um, like…awesome.”

‘Tis the season for a different kind of ornament

Lately, the lyrics from “Turn, Turn, Turn,” the 1960s song by The Byrds, have been floating around in my head. ‘To everything-turn, turn, turn. There is a season – turn, turn, turn. And a time to every purpose under heaven.”

I believe the term is “earworm,” and now I am passing it along.  “A time to be born, a time to die. A time to plant, a time to reap. A time to kill, a time to heal. A time to laugh, a time to weep.”

Mice, and gophers, and bees, oh my!

We have mice nesting in our bathroom vent pipe, and the attic insulation is riddled with tunnels, so I assume we may have mice in other ducts as well. The exterminator says to kill them, but we don’t want our house to stink of dead mice. Is there a way to drive them out other than by calling in the Pied Piper?

Queen of Katwe – checkmate

At the risk of being redundant, which I am, I repeat for the umpteenth time: true stories make the best movies.

Ask an Angel: October 6, 2016

I landed in the hospital after a fall in my home. I had to go to rehab, and I don’t want it to happen again! I consider myself in good shape and a youthful senior, yet this fall took me by surprise. What can I do?

To the L-E-T-T-E-R

The fun and friendly competition of Del Webb Sun City’s Spelling Bee concluded with three spellers reigning victorious at the end of the night: Bill Clanton took first place, Linda Rogers took second, and Fred Kimmel came in third.

Coffee talk

Being a writer, I’m always on the hunt for creative inspiration. Being a latte-loving writer, I’m always at a coffee shop listening to what I hear going on around me, whether I want to or not.

Pokémon Go comes to Sun City

The Pokemon have come to Sun City.

Finding relief from Fibromyalgia

My husband’s and my older son, Jim, has been suffering from Fibromyalgia for at least 12 of his nearly 45 years of life. Any newly-injured part of his body seems to trigger more of the disease’s extreme discomfort.

New developments on the rise for seniors

The love affair between Huntley and the retirement, senior living, and hospital industries seems to have no end.

The appliance with something insistent to say

My clothes dryer has become pretty opinionated lately.

Ask an Angel: September 22, 2016

My dad has been released from the hospital to a rehab facility. I have been informed by the staff there that he has is a very difficult patient.

Refrigerator Preventative Maintenance

There are several areas of a refrigerator that need to be maintained to keep it operating properly.

Check These Out: September 22, 2016

This is a book I went looking for since I heard the author interviewed on NPR. The main character is diabetic, which has nothing do to with the plot; he simply thought it would be interesting to give her this attribute.

Don’t just stand there, plant something, Part II

There are documented health benefits from gardening. Can you give us a few examples?

Happy When I’m Dancing

The Hoofers, Hunks, and the newly added “Hunkettes” group are getting ready for their annual show.

Sully – run, don’t walk

Director Clint Eastwood had me stymied for a bit as this movie began. The story starts out a little slow; not what I expected. But the man is a genius, give him his due, and just at the right moment, BAM, he launches the sequence of 208 seconds that will live forever in the annals of twenty first century heroics.

ALI – ALI – ANO’S

One Saturday night, Jim and I realized that we had a couple of restaurant reviews in que. This allowed us a rare opportunity to have a leisurely date night at one of our favorite Italian restaurants and be “off the clock” for a change.

Political Place: September 22, 2016

Note: The views expressed in these political submissions do not reflect those of the Sun Day, its staff, or those associated to the Sun Day.

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Grant Fritz (20), a long-distance triathlete of St. Charles, son of Gary Fritz, Sun City resident neighborhood 35, competed in Ironman Coeur d’Alene in Idaho on August 21.

Sincerely yours

As a young woman, Marion Matthews left home and began working at her first job, about 30 miles from her hometown. It was just far away enough to feel homesick.

“It was before you could call long distance,” she remembers. “I had to write my parents a letter during the week! We did a lot of letter-writing back then.”

Quotes from a first-time pregnant woman, Part II

The following are quotes from my wife, who is pregnant for the first time. The quotes are not labeled by week, but they do run in chronological order from just days after we found out she was pregnant to present day at 27 weeks along.

In remembrance of Sargent Marak

Sgt. Leonard (LJ) Marak was Sun City’s special cop.

2016 Sun City 9/11 American Flag Memorial

This year marks the 15th anniversary of the 2001 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, and Sun City will honor each of the 2,976 victims with the placement of one American flag as part of its 9/11 Memorial. Following is the program agenda.

Retire from work, not life

“Retire from work, not life,” was the mantra at Sun City when the community was filling up with residents.

Many Sun Citians left jobs and careers behind, and embraced social activities, recreation, and volunteerism. But that wasn’t true of all of us.