MY SUN DAY NEWS
While most modern-day youngsters are grooving to pop stars and rap artists on their iPhones and laptops, all that Daniel Souvigny needs for his music is a “handful of keys.”
For many citizens, summertime activities, such as fireworks and barbeques, are the time to be carefree. However, for members of the Huntley Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association, summer social gatherings are the time to serve.
Why are rocks often so fascinating? After all, they are just silent, inanimate objects—mysterious pieces of nature. They don’t sing songs, produce anything, or make politically incorrect statements. They simply aren’t interesting. Well, maybe some of them are.
If you swim in the Prairie Lodge indoor pool, you probably have seen members of the Sting Rays Swim Club doing laps or quietly working on their strokes.
Q. I need to hire a caregiver for my father. I’ve been asking around for a good agency and have learned there are definite differences between agencies. I thought price would be my driving decision influencer, but now I’m not so sure. Can you explain the differences?
Several times a year I get a phone call in which the caller is speaking in hushed tones. At some point in the conversation, the reason for the call becomes apparent. “I want to block my neighbors,” the caller whispers.
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.
