MY SUN DAY NEWS
Everyone has a story to tell, and April Jeffers of Stories, Inc. is in business to help you document yours.
As the 2010-2011 flu season approaches, it’s once again time to think about getting a flu vaccination. Because the Center for Disease Control recommends that just about everyone over age 6 months gets the flu vaccine this year, it lends to people asking some of the following questions:
Jim Roberts, born March 12, 1941, passed peacefully at home on September 29, 2010, in Huntley, IL. Husband 47 years to Pamela; father to Suzanne (Steve) Cox and Kathleen Anne Roberts; Brother to William (Debbie) Roberts and Thomas (Jeannette) Roberts; Grandfather to Arthur, Brandon and Robin Cox; and Brother-in-law to James (Kay) Pung.
A Sunday school teacher asked his class, “If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into heaven?”
When you are going to be away for a week or more, you should prepare your home so there will be no surprises upon your return. The main water valve should be turned to the off position, and faucets and showers should be opened for a few minutes and then closed to allow pressurized water to drain from the lines. The main water valve will be found near the water meter.
My buddy Bill and I are fraternity brothers of sorts, as we both marched in the Cavaliers Drum and Bugle Corps as drummers. Bill likes to play golf and sent me this “moment” about himself:
Once each month, the neighbors on our street get together to celebrate the birthdays for that month. At a recent gathering, a number of us started talking about our utility bills, comparing how much we were paying for electricity and gas services.
Sun City’s Pickleball Club completed its 2010 outdoor season in September with a three-part tournament involving doubles teams. A double-elimination playoff was held in three categories: men’s, women’s, and mixed doubles.
As has been the case at other participating libraries, the Huntley Area Public Library has seen brisk use of its free Museum Adventure Passes.
In two days, Sun City will go to the dogs, literally. Pampered pooches and coddled kitties will be dressed up in their best, or maybe funniest, costumes, depending on the creative talents of their owners. They will be the center of attention at an expo, and they will be ogled, petted, admired, and not yelled at for four hours.
With the approaching production of Rogers and Hammerstein’s Carousel, it’s business as usual for the Theatre Company of Sun City. And when each show’s production consists of thousands of man hours and managing fiscal responsibilities, the Theatre Company of Sun City operates very much like a business, a not so small one at that.
Little more than a year ago, I became a thief when I unwittingly stole approximately $25 of goods from a grocery store.
Alternative fitness programs are more popular and are becoming more a regular part of a balanced health and wellness regiment these days. One of the longest running and most popular of these alternative programs is the practice of Yoga. The word Yoga comes from the Sanskrit word yuj, meaning to yoke or bind, and is often interpreted as “union” or a method of discipline.
If you grew up on the northwest side of Chicago in the forties, and street names such as Deming, George, Altgelt, Montana, Palmer and Diversey, Belmont, Belden or Cicero Avenues bring back memories, this is the book you will surely relate to.
Every sport has its heroes – Babe Ruth for baseball, Joe Montana in football, Michael Jordan in basketball, Joe Louis and Sugar Ray Robinson in boxing, Wayne Gretzky and Bobby Hull in hockey.
Let’s start this week’s column off with this anonymous one about an 83-year-old woman who was stopped for speeding. When asked by the patrol officer, “Did you know you were speeding?” she talked herself out of a ticket by stating: “Yes, Officer … I was trying to get there before I forgot where I was going!” Makes perfect sense to me.
Prior to July 29th 2009, our Grandaughter, Hope Fuller, was a normal, beautiful, active, 12-year-old little girl. This was the day she was diagnosed with Difuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma (DIPG), a tumor located in the brainstem and inoperable.
You might think that being lashed to a ship’s mast during a raging hurricane wouldn’t be the most productive work environment, but it was just such a moment that provided the inspiration for “Amazing Grace,” one of the most recognizable songs in the English-speaking world.
All Sun City homes are equipped with smoke alarms. They are connected to the house’s electrical power, and they contain a nine volt battery so that they will work during a power outage.
Q: Would SunCPAC be willing to represent me in an appeal?
Lights, camera, action! When six Sun City Stingrays arrived at their second summer swim meet held in Homewood, Il on Tuesday, August 24, they were greeted by a WGN television reporter, microphone held in his hand, and by his accompanying WGN camera lady.
The last few years have seen a number of changes in the Federal tax laws. It has become more of a challenge to anticipate the deductibility of expenses or availability of tax credits from one year to the next.
John was out bicycling one day with his eight-year-old granddaughter, Carolyn. He got a little wistful. “In ten years,” he said. “you’ll want to be out with your friends and you won’t go walking, biking, and swimming with me like you do now.”
Whoever said art needs to hang on walls? Why not in a garden? This is just what you’ll find 3 to 8 p.m. Saturday, September 18, at the Art Show in My Secret Garden, where the Sun City Pencil & Pallet Club will display their original fine art at the Gardens of Woodstock.
The library is a favorite place for me and my wife to visit. Both constant readers, writers, newspaper owners, editors, and with me a literary publicist and she a copyeditor for a publishing company, one might expect as much. And I’m also a firm believer that you can always learn new things at the library … like, fellas, maybe your wife is more “man” than you are.
A man was sitting quietly reading his paper when his wife walked up behind him and whacked him on the head with a magazine. “What’s that for?” he asked.
The year 2006 held two milestones for Joyce Zemba, N.3. One, she was diagnosed with breast cancer and two, her first grandchild was born. Many women in her age group had grandchildren in high school or even college and with her diagnosis, Joyce wanted to record her life story for her grandchildren so they would know their grandmother had been a nun.
In 2007, after nearly a 30-year hiatus from his tenor sax, Frank Ardito of N. 30 picked up his instrument to get back into the swing of things. He bought a new case and had his sax reconditioned and started performing again and loved every minute of it. Then doctors diagnosed Ardito with an aggressive form of stomach cancer, and once again, he had to put down his music.
Henry Fransen got a strange phone call a couple of weeks ago, and the person that called was about to give him an opportunity that he would remember forever. Henry and his friend, Fritz Mazuer, both WWII Marianne Corp. Veterans, and members of the Sun City Marine Corp. Group, wrote over a year ago to a company called The Honor Flight Chicago Group, letting them know that they would be interested in finding out more information about what the group was about. They never got any response until a few weeks ago.
With Library Card Month well under way, your grocery-store savings cards aren’t the only cards in your wallet that offer great deals.
