MY SUN DAY NEWS
The hot spell we just went through brought back memories of my teen years when I worked at my uncle’s ice cream store. I can remember the long lines of customers waiting in the heat for their ice cream cones, sundaes, and shakes.
About 18 years ago, after back surgery, Nick Koplos of Sun City was advised to quit running to preserve his body. He took the advice for a while but eventually started distance running again in 2007, when his son started running. Family interaction won out over a doctor’s advice.
With an aging population expected to double by 2030, researchers are alarmed at a senior family health caregiver crisis in the making. In other words, all who give care to their families need to take care of themselves.
A function of the liver is to make cholesterol according to the set point of the body. It has a genetically determined level of cholesterol it prefers, and it will try to maintain this level.
Reactions to August 2 column on food in politics.
It seems to me an awful lot of this whole aging process is overblown.
There’s no way I can write a column about jazz and leave out the undisputed ambassador of this idiom, the man known as Satchmo: Louis Armstrong.
Where can you find everlasting orchids, permanent rose petals, and tiny trees that never age? Teresa Gresher can find this very phenomenon in her own home, where flowers are forever.
Remember when Oreo cookies were an escape? How dunking them in a tall glass of milk washed away all the stress of a busy day? How twisting one open revealed a bright center sandwiched between two chocolate cookies? It was a reminder that even in the middle of darkness, we could still find the light.
From the moment we wake up every morning, each one of us starts a non-stop circuit of decision-making – what to eat for breakfast, whether to go workout or not, should we shower before or after working out? Francis Kostel followed a similar path: why did he decide to write “A Baby Boomer’s Decision Making?” As he says, “I made a decision.”
If there’s someone to go to for Huntley artifacts, it’s Jake Marino. “[He is] a guy that’s really becoming one of Huntley’s leading historians,” Huntley Historical Society President Barb Conley said while presenting Marino to an audience at the July 28 annual meeting and election for the Huntley Historical Society.
As a family caregiver watching a loved one in constant pain and distress, debilitating physical and emotional stress occurs. Whether the cared-for person is a spouse, parent, or a child of the caregiver, it is an overwhelming burden assumed by the person giving the care. The caregiver’s multitude of daily patient tasks generally includes providing transportation, administering medicine, aiding toilet use and bathing, dressing and feeding their patient relative, not to speak of the myriad household duties and family responsibilities to be performed.
If you’re sitting down as you read this and haven’t exercised today, Joan Davis has a message for you: “Move it.” She is being friendly but firm when it comes to people’s health, physical and mental.
Had enough of the sizzling heat, parched lawns, dead flowers, and heat index records? The end may not be near; in fact, drought conditions may continue in the Midwest and Chicago area into October.
On July 24, the Illinois Health Facilities Services and Review Board approved Centegra Health System’s proposed hospital in Huntley.
“Malware,” a term used to describe malicious software, is most frequently used to refer to a variety of forms of hostile, intrusive, or annoying software. Viruses, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, key loggers, and worm programs are all examples of malware. Malware is used or created by hackers to disrupt computer operation, gather sensitive information, or gain access to private computer systems.
If it seems to take a lot longer to dry clothes than it used to, it may be because you have neglected some important maintenance.
I can say without reservation that one of the most exciting events in any over-55 community occurs when a single man moves in. The men on the block look at this happening as just another guy to borrow a ladder from, but the women view this as a challenge, and a major one at that.
I was sound asleep the other night, enjoying a nice dream, until my four-legged alarm clock began barking at the top of her lungs. As with most dogs, my dog also feels it’s her job to alert me of any squirrel that may be running through my yard. When I tell her I am aware, she typically goes back to sleep, but this night was different.
June Ann Cooney shivered in the cold Chicago winter night and pulled her hat down tighter on her head. Facing 20-degree temperatures and a snow-covered landscape in February of 2002, she stood with dozens of other Chicagoans eagerly awaiting their chance to experience Olympic glory.
I think most people at some points in their lives have experienced reoccurring nightmares or at least reoccurring dreams. And whether they’re nightmares or dreams, they’re usually not pleasant. When I was 16, for three nights in a row I dreamt I walked into an old, Victorian style room that was located somewhere in Europe and sometime in the 1770s. It had a real Dickens feel to it, and like Marely’s ghost, a floating head would appear and chase me around the room.
While Michael Phelps and more than 500 of his fellow American Olympians prepare to “go for the gold” at the 2012 London Olympic Games, Sun City has been busy building success at the Six-County Chicago area Senior Olympics competition.
The Bags Charter Club finds itself in limbo after receiving a letter from the Sun City Community Association Board saying they could no longer play in the Fountain View Center.
The July 17 town hall-style public forum, the first ever in Sun City, was certainly a success in drawing a crowd.
On July 17, the Village of Huntley completed a decades-long process to open some doors to its future. It took the longest ribbon in the community’s ribbon-cutting history to get it done.
Do you find yourself biting your fingernails? Does your skin break out into an occasional rash for no known reason? You might be suffering from a few symptoms of daily stress. Wouldn’t it be great if your immune system could be stress-free and thus resist almost any illnesses, especially those mentioned in Part 3 of this series? In Part 4, I will discuss stress-busting techniques to help fight the debilitating mental and physical problems related to stress.
In 1955, Illinois passed the Use tax Act. A use tax (more commonly referred to as a sales tax) is imposed on the privilege of using, in this state, any kind of general merchandise, food, drugs, or medical appliances that are purchased anywhere at retail from a retailer.
In a previous column, I wrote about the man most responsible for the big band era, Benny Goodman. This week, it’s all about the man I consider the BG successor, bringing big band into the 21st century: Gordon Goodwin and his Big Phat Band.
I love Sun City. I get to play with kids my own age. I still like to see an occasional man without earrings, one who limps like me in the morning and has a keg not a six pack stomach. However, living among our own generation has its drawbacks. You have to stay hip and cool or your grandkids won’t understand you and you won’t understand them. So, here are a few tips for living in Sun City without becoming a dinosaur.
“We have to do something about this!” my son demanded as we got out of the car. “Do something about what?” I asked. “The grass,” he responded. “Look at this.” I looked down past his size 8 feet and noticed what he was looking at. His obscenely large Osiris shoes were walking on ugly brown grass as we approached our front door. “We will not do something about that” I exclaimed. “When it rains, it will come back!”
