MY SUN DAY NEWS
Treatment and research of melanoma alone has cost the United States 2.36 billion dollars! Let’s try to shrink that budget by heeding critical warnings. According to the American Academy of Dermatology, “The UV Index provides information to help plan outdoor activities and avoid overexposure to the sun.”
Americans spend up to 90% of their food budgets on processed foods, the root cause of most health problems. While table sugar raises the blood glucose level then crashes it below the fasting baseline within 25 minutes of ingestion, high fructose corn syrup, within an hour of eating, is converted to body fat, especially in the belly area.
As Sarah, my daughter, Christopher, my son and I were walking into the Galena Farmer’s Market last Sunday, Christopher noticed two men in their 20s, sitting on a bench intently studying something on their smart phone screen. While Sarah was looking at the beautiful white flowers on the hydrangeas and I was thinking how much I love Farmer’s Markets, Christopher quickly began summing up the back story of the two people sitting on the bench. He, rightly or wrongly, assumed they were international tourists.
“I wish they would just bring back—gesundheit,” my daughter Jenny sniffled. We were in the heart of allergy season, and since both she and I are allergy sufferers, the “Bless yous” were flying thicker and faster than the “Like, you knows” at her daughter’s sleepovers.
On April 1, 2014 Oakland University, located in Rochester, Mi., announced a new Bachelor’s Degree in “Post-Apocalyptic Survival Studies,” no doubt driven by the number of major motion pictures depicting that scenario. Fortunately, it was an April fool’s joke, but it wouldn’t surprise me if someday soon, they go forward with it.
Q. I just moved to Illinois and am not used to the weather changes. How can I prepare for an emergency situation?
Letters to the editor.
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.
This week in history.
If you are like most Sun City residents, you like your pizzas delivered warm to your front door. It’s time then that you meet someone who lives in Neighborhood 36, a recent seven month resident, Ingrid Kosar.
In my entire adult life (my entire life, really), I’ve never had a job that respected weekends or holidays—federal, religious, or otherwise. If I wasn’t working in newspapers, I was working in restaurants, and neither field acknowledges that standard, time-honored American tradition of not working weekends. My days off have usually been a Monday here, Tuesday there, Friday there, or on very rare occasion, a whopping Tuesday AND Wednesday.
With a mix of humor and heart, the Theater Company of Sun City’s upcoming production of Michael McKeever’s “37 Postcards” asks a startling question: can you truly return to home as you know it?
Business expansion around Sun City continues at a fast pace, especially in the Regency Square commercial center area at Princeton Drive. New construction projects and renovation of existing spaces are the latest examples of the steady commercial and office expansion that is coming right to Sun City’s doorstep.
On a warm, sunny Saturday or Sunday afternoon, when families are streaming into Prairie Lodge’s “grandchildren’s outdoor swimming pool,” let’s hope that the senior residents are setting a good example for their younger kin. Because skin damage begins in one’s early years and continues throughout a lifetime, it is important for grandparents to teach good sunscreen protection habits to younger family members.
Under the supervision of Stingray Swim Club’s past president, Terry Hora, the US Masters’ Adult Learn To Swim Month of April became a reality here in Huntley. For five of the month’s Wednesdays, Terry and his entourage of club instructors guided six residents who expressed a desire to learn the basics of swimming.
What better way to celebrate the Fourth of July than at a restaurant named “1776” in Crystal Lake. Okay, maybe a Paul Revere and the Raiders concert would be better, but this column is suppose to be about food.
There are literally dozens of pop musical groups who have made an indelible mark in the world of entertainment and earned their place not only in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, but their fans hearts forever. Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons are one of them. They burst onto the scene in 1962 with the infamous hit “Sherry,” which to this day is still one of the hallmark songs of the 1960’s rock-‘n-roll era.
It’s not every Tuesday morning in Sun City where residents can wake up to the sounds of extremely loud hissing noises of a hot air balloon. It’s not an ordinary morning here when the same neighbors can view the balloon’s descent over surrounding trees and eventual landing in practically their front or back yards.
Just as the winter brought coyotes to our back yards, the summer brings predators from the sky. This hawk decided to stop by and park itself on the railing of my porch.
The complex English language is ever evolving to include new words or phrases. Google, DIYer, and hashtag are words that weren’t part of our everyday language until recently (and for some, they still are not). It seems that the term ‘gardening’ is ever evolving as well.
Linda Carney’s painting of a 1920 image of Huntley’s first school bus was the People’s Choice winner in a recent Huntley history art contest. Carney, of Sun City Huntley, won $100 for having created the most popular artwork.
I seem to remember a past article that talked about a Broan bathroom fan kit that would greatly reduce the noise of the fan.
When I was a kid, we had three clocks in the house. An alarm clock sat on the nightstand next to Mom and Dad’s bed, of course, though I don’t think I ever heard it ring. Dad set it every night to ensure that he wouldn’t oversleep and be late for work at the Thompson Wire steel mill, but he always awoke in the dark and turned it off before it jangled the house awake.
Q. I have noticed that my father’s house really needs attention. I know he isn’t cleaning even though he says he is. I want to hire a cleaning service, but he won’t agree. He has mild dementia and lives alone.
For the past 6 sessions we have been studying the dangers of sugar. Sugar, as we often think about it, is sucrose and is refined from cane sugar. In 1966, sucrose accounted for 86% of the sweeteners on the market. Prior to 1971, high fructose corn syrup did not even exist as a food additive.
Letters for the week of July 3, 2014.
A Jewish Rabbi and a Catholic Priest met at an annual 4th of July picnic. Old friends, they began their usual banter.
It was nighttime, and the young boy was home alone, his parents working at their delicatessen. What else was there to do but get into a little trouble? Out of the closet came his BB gun, and from the safety of his second-story bedroom, he drew a bead on the streetlight outside the Chicago bungalow where he lived. A carefully placed shot … a satisfying “ping” as the glass shattered … and out it went!
It’s amazing how quickly a situation can make a complete 180. We had just finished planning a bachelor party for a good friend from college. We were going to head to the city, go on a brewery tour, and then catch the Sox game.
