MY SUN DAY NEWS
How can you prevent ticks from getting on your dog? The truth is that you can’t, but there are ways to minimize the risk.
Q. I miss doing some of the gardening I used to do when I lived in my own home. I can’t move like I used to, but I’d don’t want to give up working in the garden. Any suggestions?
AH! ROMANCE! It has to start somewhere. With me, it all started with Tyrone Power. The movie was “Love Is News,” the year was 1937 and I was eight years old. It was the first Tyrone Power movie I ever saw.
Is necessity the mother of invention? Robert Anderson might say so. Throughout the past 30 years, Anderson has channeled his creativity into crafting numerous useful inventions, ranging from household items to athletic devices, each of which serves a practical purpose.
Here is something a lot of people don’t know about me. In fact, except for my wife, I really don’t think anyone knows this about me at all. I love tattoos. I even remember when the fascination started. I was a kid, very young, and was washing my hands at a restroom sink when an older man started washing his hands in the basin next to mine.
In perhaps the ultimate act of walking the walk, Sandra Switzer has taken on a success coach of her own.
Imagine the most beautiful sunny day you could ever behold. A brilliant blue sky is overhead. The sun softly warms your skin while a light breeze plays with your hair. You close your eyes and let yourself melt into a sublime sense of peace.
One only needs to hear the 5/4 strains of “Take Five” to immediately recognizes it as this group’s signature tune from their most famous album by the same name. For those non-musicians, the time signature of 5/4 simply indicates that there are five beats to every measure instead of the most commonly used 4/4 time.
When you live in Sun City and can’t always get back to your high school reunion, among the numerous activities that are already offered in the community, you can attend a “Blast from the Past Reunion.”
This is the start of the eleventh year the Woodchucks have been working in the Millgrove Woodshop. We are very happy with our facility, and as a way to give back to the community, we open the shop twice each year and invite residents to bring broken wooden furniture and other objects to the shop that need to be repaired. Thirty to forty of our most experienced woodworkers volunteer a day to repair these objects.
In 2006, the recently deceased veteran television reporter and commentator, Mike Wallace, then 88 years of age, spoke publicly on “60 Minutes” about his attempt to commit suicide. He highlighted a mental illness that many of our senior population have difficulty admitting to: clinical depression. Although twice as many women suffer from this depression, men with the affliction end their lives more often.
I’ve loved Stanley Cup hockey. Until now. After you read this, you’ll either say “Yessssss” or call me naive or a wimp.
Make a copy of your current credit and debit cards and note the phone number to report loss or theft. Keep this in a safe place, separate from your credit and debit cards. Update as new cards are issued.
Q. My children want me and my husband to consider putting a power of attorney in place. What is that, and what do I need to do?
What started out as a simple love for the game created one of the more interesting clubs in Edgewater.
Joan Anthony is a special lady. I first met Joan through her husband Nelson, who is one of the members of my tennis play group. We had dinner at the Nelsons one evening, and that’s when I discovered that Joan is a wonderful cook. I kept bugging her to share one of her heirloom recipes.
A solid foundation is the key to strong marriages, well built houses, and well adjusted children. As T. F. Hodge stated, “You cannot build a dream on a foundation of sand. To weather the test of storms, it must be cemented in the heart with uncompromising conviction.”
“I assume you’re here because you feel like something isn’t going quite right,” Chad Kent, the featured guest at an April 26 meeting of the Huntley Tea Party at the Huntley REC Center, told the crowd.
This mouse is your friend and nothing to be afraid of. It sits there alongside your keyboard to help you do things easier and faster than with some key commands and does a whole lot of other things you could never even do before. Let’s get better acquainted with your mouse and learn how it can work for you.
This week, it’s all about lunch. I will focus on a few of the options in the area, some new, and some old standbys. Rather than rate them, I will limit my comments to the menus. Let’s start with one of the best and a no-brainer.
I recently received an email from a fellow Sun City resident indicating that every year they get a letter from Nicor asking them to enroll in a fixed bill gas program. They asked me what I thought of the fixed bill plans. This is an interesting question. Gas, like electricity and telephones, is a regulated utility service.
A young man saw an elderly couple sitting down to lunch at McDonald’s. He noticed that they had ordered one meal and an extra drink cup.
This is a yarn about chess. You know, that game that’s played by retirees on card tables and tree stumps in city parks, the game where American Bobby Fischer beat Russian Boris Spassky on an international stage in 1972, with a host of world media watching, mesmerized.
By and large, some of the worst email writers out there are professional writers. One of my author friends is being hailed as the leading crime novelist in the country, and when we communicate by email, she abandons all spelling and punctuation rules and practically runs her sentences together like the earliest forms of the written English language. She would have fit right in on the Lewis & Clark expedition.
Forget the glass slipper, pumpkin carriage, and fairy godmother: the biggest standout of the Sun City Theater Company’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella” may be below all the action. That’s because the stage of this musical boldly goes where no Sun City production has before: in 360 degrees.
Jill Morgenthaler, the featured guest at the April 12 meeting of Huntley Seniors for Progressive Action, opened her presentation with a war story.
When Del Webb resident Jim Rice set out to uncover his family’s medical history, he did not anticipate the surprises in store.
The Woodchucks are at it again. Community Projects leader Al La Pelusa in tandem with Wal-Mart truck driver Pete Palczynski are crafting smiles and hope into people’s lives through the Wal-Mart Heart program. The program has been around for about fifteen years, and the Woodchucks have been involved for about the past three years.
First, a few words of explanation about this new column. Each edition will feature musicians from various generations and genres with a variety of styles, each talented and unique in their time. My primary objective is to introduce or re-introduce readers to some of the great musicians of our time. Secondly, I hope that I am able to assist readers who are unaccustomed to using the Internet to find and listen to music. I will also be calling your attention to local performances of jazz, rock, classical, and other musical styles at nearby venues.
Good dental health habits showcase a beautiful mouth of teeth and a resulting “movie-star” smile. Because dental needs change as we age, seniors have to be especially mindful to take care of their oral health. Below are facts pertaining to seniors and the health of their mouth/teeth.
