Smart Reader August 12, 2021

August 12, 2021
Volume 19 - #16

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KENOSHA COUNTY FAIR
AUGUST 18TH - 22ND

As Americans fly the coop, T
county fairs spring back to life p

Perhaps one hasn’t truly summer passage are back. Next thing, he’s flipping
reentered post-pandemic The flag-draped parades, the switches, tapping his
life – unmasked, annual festivals (from arts to headset mic to check
undistanced, unconcerned – music to zucchini), the ritual sound, readying for the 1
until one has seen a pig fly. family gatherings. And, yes, p.m. show – of which Swifty
the endless cycle of state and her flying act will be a
We’re in Del Mar, and county fairs. Here in San part. First, friends, there will
California, a couple of beach Diego you can sense in be racing. 
towns north of San Diego. people their relief and
It’s early in our national hunger and joy – their Have you seen a pig race? Piglets race around a sawdust-covered track at Swifty
Summer of Reentry. Just eagerness to convene again (You don’t say.) In the next Swine Racing, a popular event at the San Diego County
recently, California became in traditional ways.To have a nine minutes, Mr. Johnson Fair. The winner gets Oreos.
one of the last states to lift collective adventure, maybe. will introduce you. On this
all COVID-19 protocols, day, despite the afternoon reward of an Oreo, and tells Mr. Johnson the opportunity today. In any case, the racers A
though some cities, such as And maybe to see some having scarcely begun and us our pigs’ names – which to intone, “Sorry section here aren’t the stars. The 2
Los Angeles, have things you don’t see every the fair crowd still arriving, he’s repeated so often that three, I think your pig” – star, who now emerges w
reimposed them. And now day – even see some things the grandstands are already he knows to the decibel here it comes – “pulled a from the trailer cradled re
here we are in the coastal that, let’s be honest, you filling up. At their foot is a how his listeners will hamstring.”) against Mr. Johnson’s chest
sunshine and sea breezes at didn’t think you ever small, short-fenced track, respond. Meet “Kevin in a single giant hand, is little
the San Diego County Fair, would.  cushy with wood chips. Bacon,” “Britney Spare-ribs,” Shortly there’ll be a Swifty herself. Awwww.
one of the first mega-fairs Suddenly over the “Brad Pig,” and “Kim second race, with slightly
on the 2021 U.S. calendar.To The pig in question  is loudspeaker comes music Kardashing-ham.” And more adolescent pigs, this
be sure, it’s not as “mega” as named Swifty – so called by and horn blasts you might they’re off. time named after politicians.
usual. But it’s “mega” Zach Johnson, proprietor hear at Churchill Downs. It’s (Hello, “Nancy  Piglosi.” Hi,
enough for games and rides and ringmaster of Swifty time. “Should we bring ’em They’re fast, which is not “Donald Trumproast.”) It’s
and magicians. For a Ferris Swine Productions. For 23 out?” Mr. Johnson asks. the point. They’re heart- worth noting that some
wheel rising high over the years, Mr. Johnson and his Indeed we should, says the meltingly cute, which is. animal rights activists don’t
endless Pacific. For carnival extravaganza have done the crowd. (Well, most of them are fast. like pig races, believing the
barkers and food stalls and “circuit”: county fairs, state One is still contentedly animals are being exploited
wild-animal whisperers. For fairs, rodeos, car races. “All At which point Mr. rounding the quarter pole for human entertainment,
astonishments. For crowds. 50 states except Alaska and after the other three racers but there’s certainly none of
Hawaii,” he says proudly. Johnson knows he’s got you are in the barn. This gives that sentiment in the stands But let’s leave Swifty for an
And maybe most Then last year he went
important, it’s big enough nowhere. in the palm of his hand, the moment; there’s a
for those crowds to feel
communal again – for each Now, standing outside the because four tiny piglets whole fair to see.
of us to rub shoulders enormous  apple-red trailer
heedlessly under a warm that houses pigs and people, come juddering down a ab
sky and rejoin life en he grins in that Southern
masse.  California light that makes ramp from the trailer and Back at the midway, p
every hour golden hour, and
Finally, after a 2020 gone says,“I do love to race pigs.” the entire audience among drifts of people co
dark, the rites of American
involuntarily goes, surrounded by billboard- th

“Awwww.” Mr. Johnson topped food stands pitching an

divides the watchers into delicacies rarely seen in life,

four sections to back each you’re struck both by the co
gloriously pre-pandemic feel di
pig, explains that the racers

will run the track for the see COUNTY FAIR on page 4 ar

in

100 ways to enjoy corn-on-the-cob. We’ve Beef Cattle. Check out the Clothing, Knitting, and V
strolled through the animal Barrel Room – the place website:
the Kenosha barns – saying Hello to the for craft beer and wine.
cows we know from the Crocheting. Wednesday is VisitKenosha.com/blog. The
County Fair  Kenosha County Dairy Enjoy a variety of food
Breakfast that rotates vendors. Cotton candy, the Open Class judging for fairgrounds are located at
with Meridith Jumisko among local dairy farms anyone? Many local service
each year. One year, we organizations also have Home Furnishings, 30820 111th Street
even rode on the Ferris food booths. Support a
Wheel from the Never good cause while you dine! Photography, and Arts and (Highway W). General
Been Kissed rom-com Don’t miss the corn-on-
movie that was making a the-cob at the Knights of Crafts, as well. parking is always free at the
special appearance at the Columbus booth! Enjoy the
fair. Yes, I was starstruck by Antique Farm Machinery See Kenosha County fair. Admission is $10 for
a Ferris Wheel! Exhibit.
Sheriff ’s Department ages 12 and over; $5 for
I’ve done my research on Pigs, Goats, and Rabbits.
One of the events I look what can be expected at Oh my! NEW: enjoy the vehicles, equipment, and ages 7-11. Children 6 and
forward to most every this year’s Kenosha County Milwaukee Flyers: an
summer is back: the Fair and written a blog on acrobatic, tumbling group demonstrations during under are free. Senior
Kenosha County Fair! It 100 ways to enjoy the fair. made up of inner-city kids.
takes place August 18-22, Here are the first 20 items: See the Horses and Ponies select hours of the fair. citizens ages 65+ pay $7, as
2021 in Wilmot. The 2021 that local 4-H kids are
Centennial Celebration of Be amazed by the raising. Enjoy bobbing for Flowers, Vegetables, and do active or retired military
the Kenosha County Fair Fireworks at 9 p.m. on apples, competing in
will include new contests, Friday. Enjoy all the rides in wheelbarrow races, and Plants are also judged on (must show ID).There is an
fireworks, special exhibits, the Carnival Midway. You more fun activities during
and the return of the Fair may want to purchase the the Ag Olympics on Wednesday in the Open extra grandstand fee for
Parade on Sunday. Wristband Special if you Wednesday. Wednesday
Postponed from 2020, the plan to go on many! Moo!!! morning, Open Class Class Building. Kids can the races at the on-site
Centennial Celebration Visit the Dairy Cattle and judging happens for
commemorates the 100th touch the farm animals in Wilmot Raceway on Friday
anniversary of the first fair,
which was held in 1920. the Petting Zoo at the and Saturday nights.

I’ve been attending this Meridith Jumisko is Discovery Barnyard. See Learn more about local
fair with family members Public Relations Director events, attractions, shops,
and/or friends since I was a the Open Class Swine and restaurants at
kid; I have so many fun at Visit Kenosha. VisitKenosha.com. An
Contact her at Show and the Junior Fair extensive Event Calendar,
[email protected] our FUN 101 list: 101
Swine Show on Wednesday. Things to See & Do for $10
memories! We’ve seen & Under (Many are FREE!),
country stars such as Wednesday also features and an informative blog can
Sawyer Brown, Joe Diffie, be found on our website.
and Mark Chesnutt on the Open Class Sheep Visit Kenosha has been
stage. I’ve eaten lots of Kenosha’s official travel
cotton candy and lots of Show and the Junior Sheep resource since 1986.

Show. Witness the

Centennial Plaza

Dedication on Wednesday.

Read the remaining 80
items on the Visit Kenosha

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The trouble with transparency: How
pandemic is challenging the CDC

is, at times, in a no-win pandemic advice that masks
situation. By announcing the weren’t necessary, as
new mask guidance without Anthony Fauci, director of
simultaneously releasing the the National Institute of
data, the agency came across Allergy and Infectious
as less than transparent. But Diseases, had said – can be
if it had waited to issue new reversed the next.
mask guidance until it was
ready to release the data, it The key, say
could have been accused of communication experts, is
delaying important public to qualify statements with
health advice. phrases such as “to the best
of our knowledge” and “as of
“Paradox of expertise” now.” That signals to the
public that the guidance
This conundrum could change, as new
demonstrates a “paradox of information is assessed.
expertise”: Public health
officials need to speak with If caveats and
authority, so people will pay
attention and feel reassured. qualifications are left out, “it
But in an emergency, officials
are learning new information makes the public health
in real time and thus can’t
claim to have all the answers. message susceptible to

s A student at the Post Road Elementary School in White Plains, New York, Oct. 1, “Transparency has to be conspiracy theories or to
e 2020. The CDC this week announced that fully vaccinated people should resume balanced by things that build
s wearing masks indoors if they live in areas where the virus is surging, and confidence,” says Marsha the assumption of
d recommended that teachers and students everywhere wear masks in schools. Vanderford, a former
t communications official at incompetence,” says
the World Health
e Organization and the CDC. Kathleen Hall Jamieson, a
“So if you say, ‘I don’t know,’
people think you’re professor of communication
transparent, but they might
also think that you don’t and director of the
know what you’re doing. It’s
Credibility, transparency, health communication at the of optimism and even all teachers, staff, and a two-edged sword.” Annenberg Public Policy
Harvard T.H. Chan School of normality to, once again, students wear masks,
r and trust. Public Health. rising caseloads, mask regardless of vaccination In an emergency, changes Center in Philadelphia.
mandates, and confusion. status – setting off to public guidance are
a Ask public health experts But it’s precisely the politicized debates across inevitable. Expert advice one “That’s not fair to the
toughest of circumstances – A big jolt came last week, the country. day – such as the early scientists or to public health
about their field’s guiding such as an unpredictable when the Centers for experts. But the messaging
virus – that can make it most Disease Control and But the data supporting failure is that they haven’t
y, principles for difficult to uphold the ideals Prevention urged fully the new mask guidelines – clearly marked their
of effective communication. vaccinated Americans to based on an outbreak in messages as provisional,
e communication, and those And there’s little doubt that resume wearing masks Massachusetts involving subject to updating, and
recent days and weeks have indoors in regions with high mostly vaccinated people – what we know now, which
- three words come up over tested those principles, as a viral spread. The CDC also wasn’t released for three could change.”
COVID-19-weary nation has toughened its guidance for days.
g and over. gone from a growing sense schools, recommending that
Experts say that the CDC
, “Especially when you are As for the safety of the
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County fairs A
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of the experience and by the The bleachers for the d
surprise of the event having fi
been pulled together at all. “Extreme Dogs” event are s
When the pandemic shut T
down much of America in packed. I squeeze in next to s
2020, the organization h
behind San Diego’s fair lost a Rob Suarez, a house w
reported two-thirds of its p
employees. Then, to get the inspector from nearby B
2021 fair up and running, it
had to reckon with its annual Escondido, who has a o
June opening – far earlier in s
the season than the other multigeneration gang of B
big fairs in places like ta
Minnesota, Texas, Iowa, and family in tow. “Been looking o
Massachusetts, some of O
which run as late as forward to this,” he tells me o
October. The June date B
meant plans had to be made while we wait, peering up at G
during the throes of N
COVID-19, long before it the Ferris wheel in the d
was possible to know what T
early summer might bring. distance and the giant slide s
The countless partners r
providing food, services, and that rises to the south. “We s
entertainment had to be lo
persuaded to make come every year. I mean, fr
commitments amid the
uncertainty. “They were just except last year.” I ask him if Not far away, a man is kill me if we missed the fair. a wide pedestrian street yards away, where a w
rolling the dice,” says one milking a cow. Her name is through this area; run booths smorgasbord of RVs are Jo
partner about the risks the he’s comfortable amid the Alena, she weighs 1,500 along the [alleys].” So it is at wedged cheek by jowl. One m
fair’s planners took. “Bravo pounds, and every day she the fair. So it was in San of them is hers, and inside p
to them.” jammed-in crowd after what gives 14 gallons of milk. Also, “It’s a tradition,” he says. Diego on the midway – are her 10 dogs. Ten? s
like all cows, she can smell people finally free to reveal “They’re our pets, too,” she
we’ve all gone through. He things  6 miles away. The Then he adds, shaking his their madness, however says. a
things you learn. head, “But how am I gonna civilized. Wander the “wide Jo
looks at me slightly askance. not get a pig?”  pedestrian street” here and t
you might see anything. You o
“Sure. I mean, I worked might see a man on a 7-foot M
unicycle juggling machetes. u
straight through. Lots of A tradition, fairs definitely You might see a rescue dog s
become a superhero. c
people did. All these stories are – though that tradition a
h
about people has proved remarkably As we part with her, the o
sky has begun shading p
‘uncomfortable’ coming back Eventually, we’re at Swifty plastic, morphing over the toward evening. Streaks of
Swine again. We catch Mr. lilac in cornflower blue. t
out of hiding?” Johnson and ask how he got centuries as fast as
into this ... profession. He Over
It makes him mad, he says. says,“Twenty-three years ago civilization and technology We aim for the exit, but
“It’s like reporters don’t in Texas I saw these guys” – A
realize that most people he means a nascent version forced it to. The Romans the river of people has other
didn’t get to hide. of the current show – “and •
thought it was so cool. held fairs. Medieval villages ideas. Somehow we’re •
Talked to the owner and it •
turned out he was ready to staged fairs so that potential You might see a flying pig. sweeping again toward the •
sell. So I asked my wife, •
“But hey, I missed this!” he Shannon, who was in customers would be present So, wanna meet Swifty? Of pigs. The 8 p.m. show is •
says, meaning the whole corporate marketing at the course you do. Just like the •
carnival around us. “And time, ‘Hey, you wanna race when merchants 43 people who are lined up about to begin, and even
these dogs? They’re crazy.” pigs?’” right now, only minutes after W
It’s worked, mostly.Though congregated. Renaissance the 4:30 show. For $10, Mr. from far away you can see
the organizers are hesitant Johnson has promised, you •
to be specific, several fairs (“faires”?) were can hold Swifty and get a the grandstands are now •
vendors estimate the 2021 picture to commemorate •
fair to be only “a quarter its The dogs, when they apparently so much fun that the moment (he calls it a overflowing. There are baby
normal size.” Even late- perform, are crazy. They “pig-ture”). Full color, 5-by-7, F
season  fairs like Minnesota’s catch any flying disc today a whole industry yours in 30 seconds, thank strollers, wheelchairs,
have announced, “Recovery launched, all while spinning, you.
from the past year will take flipping, springing over their exists to reenact them. The children on their parents’
some time for many of our handlers, or jumping 30 feet
partners, so this year’s fair into a pool.The crowd loves very first modern state or shoulders. As we walk, we’re
may look a little different them. “And they love the
from what we’re used to. I crowd!” handler Andrea county fair was held in 1841 passed by a little girl tugging
guarantee, though,” stated Rigler says later. “They get
general manager Jerry hyped!” “‘Sure,’ she said.” in Syracuse, New York. her mother in the direction
Hammer, “that we will do
our very best to give you the (Among its attractions: a of the tiny arena. “Mommy,
full-on Minnesota State Fair
experience.” OK, then. plowing contest. Who needs are they going to race? Is

Now it’s showtime again. TikTok?) From it grew the that where they’re going to
The pigs race. (This time
it’s  Kardashing-ham, by a tradition of the community To judge by who’s lined up, race?”
snout.) And then out comes Swifty appeals to all ages.
Swifty, ready to fly into her agricultural fair, often timed “You can play on your phone
stainless steel water trough. all day,” Mr. Johnson
Ms. Rigler seems pretty In truth, Swifty is more of a to celebrate the harvest and observes,“but how often can Oh, they’re going to race,
hyped herself, especially swimmer than a flyer. Still, you hold a pig?” Swifty by all right. By the time we’re
when performing with her there’s a moment – your provide those working the now has been toweled off nearby, they  are  racing. And
rescue dog Leap, with whom heart jumps at it – when she and swaddled, and appears we don’t intend to watch
she’s won the open freestyle leaps from her platform and fields some respite and social to accept her devotees with them again. Really, we don’t.
disc world championship has nothing below her but affectionate grace. 
three times. It’s easy to see sky. Then she splashes into pleasure. Agricultural fairs
why. the trough and paddles
across it at speed.  were a tacit recognition of

communal interdependence. Except that this time the
buzz is even louder than
And a chance to boast.“Nice before, the gravity of its
energy pulling people from
A lot of things this 800-pound squash you’ve the sideshows, the arcade,
the picnic tables. Around us
summer may not quite got there, Eldrick. How do “She’s not bristly!” says the lamps are coming on, the
Delaynee Martinez, age 11, carnival air is electric, and
provide the “full-on” pre- Later we ask Ms. Rigler if you like my 1,000-pounder?” after holding Swifty for a we’re all together, at last, all
the fair this year seems any photo alongside her finding the groove of those
pandemic experience – but different from all the fairs In time, the “ag” element cousins.  timeless summer rhythms.
and exhibitions in pre- And then from inside I start
that won’t keep them from pandemic days.“Oh, yes,” she shrank, the pleasure element to hear it: “Go Swifty, go!”
says. “People are less angry.” Louder now, feeding on
feeling pretty sweet. Or salty, Less angry? “Nobody’s grew. With electricity came itself. “Go Swifty, go! Go
worried about anything,” she Swifty, go!” And I’m thinking,
as tastes could lean here on says. “At last. And that’s it, Watching beside me, Woz nighttime entertainment. What will it be like this time?
right? What we’ve wanted? Jackson carries his daughter How astonishing? How
the San Diego midway.We’re Quit worrying.You can feel it Kamelia on his shoulders. With engines came rides. The line grows longer. preposterous?
in the crowd.” She claps, points, shrieks, and
headed for the “Extreme sighs the whole show – and With amplification came We head back across the
says as soon as it’s over,
Dogs” performance “Daddy, can we get a pig?” noise. park to find the charismatic
Mr. Jackson just looks at me,
(showtime 2 p.m.), but are laughs, and says to his “A city needs its dreams,” Ms. Rigler on break before
daughter those words that
having a hard time getting every parent has wielded in wrote the great design the last “Extreme Dogs”
crisis,“We’ll see, honey.We’ll
past the snack stands. You see.” anthropologist Christopher performance of the day. This

know what I’m talking about. Alexander in “A Pattern is her first event since the

I’m talking about giant grilled After the dogs, we Language,” his team’s seminal pandemic’s onset in March
traverse the fairgrounds
sausages, charbroiled corn, again. Musicians are playing, handbook on how to 2020, and she tells us about
corn is being piled on grills,
Texas funnel cakes, smoked people are hawking flags. In construct towns and houses her year of “getting by” –
the multiacre shopping
barbecue sandwiches, cheese arcade people are plugging based on centuries of human doing online dog training and
bamboo pillows, products by
bread, kettle corn, “award- Lakeside Scissor Sales, and a experience. One driving rescue dogs from So forgive me, but I have
machine promising “total to leave you now, because
winning giant turkey legs,” body vibration, sitting or I tell him I’m surprised prescription for how to one part of America to Swifty’s about to fly again.
standing.” (It’s next to the
“battered” potatoes, ice House of Pistachios.) kids still go for such analog conjure those dreams? “Set another. Now,“I’m just happy

cream, lemonade, pizza events as this. Does he have aside some part of the town to be back out. It’s a breath And, sure, you can blame it
on my  too-long-cooped-up
covered in fruit, and bacon- any guesses why high-tech as a carnival – mad of relief.” Things are heart, but I need to see how
far.
wrapped hot dogs.We won’t entertainment hasn’t sideshows, tournaments, normalizing; her

even mention the fried rendered this sort of thing acts, competitions, dancing, performance and

dough, fried artichokes, fried passé? music, street theater, clowns competition schedule is By Michael S. Hopkins

avocados, and fried bananas. He shrugs. “Don’t know. ... which allow people to filling up. She glances toward
All I know is my kids would
(“If you can eat it, we can fry reveal their madness; weave the parking lot a hundred

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A community-made oasis brings hope
to a Tulsa food desert

In March 2021, when numbers of food-insecure

Aaron “AJ” Johnson was households, and local

designing the interior of the organizations saw a steep

first full-produce grocery increase in hunger during

store to open in North the pandemic. But

Tulsa in years, he made a supporters of Oasis Fresh

special request of the local Market see it assisting

historical society. He residents with needs

wanted to find a beyond food, as well as

photograph of a historic, providing an outlet for

Black-owned grocery store. middle and upper income

Now an enlarged picture residents to spend their
of a group of Black grocers money in their local
standing outside the Mann community.

a Brothers Grocery Store, The market, a $7 million

e taken in 1930, spans a wall project funded with public

e of the airy cafe at the new and private capital, launched

e Oasis Fresh Market, which jointly with a nonprofit arm Aqueelah Jihad helps customers at the recently opened Oasis Fresh
? opened in May. The Mann that holds community Market on July 14, 2021, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
e Brothers’ store was in the events designed to link

Greenwood district of residents with services and

e North Tulsa that was information on topics like

g destroyed during the 1921 healthy living and
of Tulsa Race Massacre. Their homeownership. The effort percentage of the city’s deserts, something that options. She also partnered executive director of the

store, which the grocers shows how community Black population lives in could be duplicated?” Ms. with the Tulsa Economic Tulsa Dream Center, a

t rebuilt and continued to members are taking the North Tulsa, which is Hall-Harper says. Development Corporation, nearby nonprofit that
r successfully operate, was lead on finding solutions to separated from other parts provides food, education,
e located less than a mile long-standing disparities, of the city by a major Albertsons, the last owners of the land where and health programming for
e from Oasis. ranging from access to highway.The unemployment major grocer to serve families.
fresh food to lower life rate in North Tulsa is more North Tulsa, ended its Oasis market is located, to
expectancy rates than in than double the rate of the operations in the state in
neighboring sections of rest of the city, and life 2007. Since then, smaller secure grants from the city
Tulsa. expectancy is six years grocery chains have opened
s “Without them, I shorter. and closed. The last grocer and the U.S. Department of He knows there’s some
“Our motto is, ‘More stocking fresh produce skepticism about whether a
n wouldn’t be here,” says Mr. than just groceries, Vanessa Hall-Harper, closed in 2017, leaving Housing and Urban grocery store can survive in
equipping you for life,’” says chair of the Tulsa City some North Tulsa residents the area, but he emphasizes
e Johnson, pointing to the Mr. Johnson. “As a business, Council and representative with long bus rides to get Development and raise the role he hopes
you have to stay profitable, for the district where Oasis to a grocery store. community members will
w mural. “We’re honoring the but the metrics that matter Fresh Market is located, has funds through private play in supporting the store
most to me are, what is the worked on getting a Before Oasis Fresh and keeping it in business.
y past and standing on their community saying about grocery store in the area Market opened, Ms. Hall- philanthropy and
the store? How many lives since taking office in 2016. Harper pushed the city
s, shoulders.” are we changing with our She first approached local council to pass restrictions investment.
nonprofit and grocery?” grocers and then asked on new dollar stores in her
s’ Features like the mural national chains, but no one district.The proliferation of On a recent afternoon,
A yearslong focus on was interested. dollar stores, with cashiers at Oasis greeted
e are important to Mr. fresh food inexpensive customers enthusiastically.
Friendly customer service
g Johnson, a Tulsa native and and a clean, welcoming “The community
atmosphere are important
n the majority owner and to Mr. Johnson, the former understands we’ve got to

y, operator of Oasis Fresh shop here,” says Mr.

s Market. It points to the see TULSA on page 8

o unique role he hopes the

store will play in the

e, community, long considered

e a food desert because of its

d high poverty rates and lack
h of stores selling fresh Tulsa is a “highly “After those requests nonperishables, created
. produce. segregated city,” according went unheard, I said how competition for full-service
can we build a store to grocers and offered
e Oklahoma has some of to a 2019 Human Rights address the issue of food residents less healthy
n the country’s highest Watch report. A large

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lowest vaccination rate among the vaccinated as th
among states, but in recent they blame vaccine
days has seen vaccinations hesitance for the So
rise to their highest rate backsliding.
since April, according to
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Control and Prevention city-run pop-up vaccine clinic on July 21, 2021 in Brownsville, Texas.
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from the same family. Take the way I see it,” says Ms. about 13% of the U.S. adult up; governments are using the nation’s collective re
Flores. population. some new programs we
Experts say it’s possible San Antonio resident haven’t seen before.” concern. a
that a new pro-vaccination Meanwhile, her daughter,
push by some GOP leaders Dakota Flores, who is who gave birth during the But there is also a group Politicization “slowly But Mr. Holzmeier’s K
changed some minds in the pandemic, says she does not of Americans who admit fading” opinion on the pandemic is S
least vaccinated portions of vaccinated, and her adult think she is going to get they’ve entertained the idea
the country, which tend to vaccinated. they might do it. That “wait Attitudes toward the
be conservative. Rep. Steve daughter Patience Flores- and see” group is about vaccines have been that it didn’t turn out to be
Scalise of Louisiana, No. 2 in “I just believe that there’s 12% of U.S. adults, and the fundamentally political since
the House Republican Lopez, also of San Antonio, no way they could find a group most likely to listen they first became available. as dangerous as advertised is
leadership, publicly got his cure in such a short amount to the Biden To some extent they
first vaccine shot earlier who is not. of time,” she says. administration's pleas. remain so: A recent “While it was bad, and it n
this month, for instance. Members of this group tend Morning Consult poll was way worse in some in
Ms. Flores got her first She says that she has a to be less Republican, more showed 28% of Republicans areas, I don’t think it turned su
But it’s more likely that shot as soon as she could, friend who was vaccinated diverse, lower-income, and remain unwilling to be out to be what it could have th
on April 15. She says she and still caught the virus. younger than the “definitely vaccinated, with another been,” Mr. Holzmeier says. in
the increases are due to a acted because she and not” cohort. 12% uncertain.
some other family members “What’s the point of the in
have conditions that could vaccine if it’s supposed to Some loud voices in the “The day [Texas Gov. ab
make them particularly keep us safe [but it’s not]?” GOP remain anti-vaccine, Greg Abbott] shut the state by
vulnerable. says Ms. Flores-Lopez, who but a number of prominent down – and I agreed with sh
also worries about a rare Republican leaders in that short term – I wrote a su
variety of factors, including “I was hoping we were side effect with the Johnson recent days have stepped up check that morning for five th
going to get back to & Johnson virus that led to public endorsements of the figures to buy my wife her
worry about the normal,” she says.“And then a handful of deaths this “The most promising shots, notably Senate
the new [delta] strain spring. thing by far is to help Majority Leader Mitch
deteriorating health started coming out, and people act” on their own McConnell, who is running own business. It was
something just told me this She says she and her intentions, says Noel ads in Kentucky urging
situation in states with a isn’t over.” mother haven’t really talked Brewer, a professor in the people to get vaccinated. lockdown at 1 o’clock. It th
about why she’s been department of health Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis
high rate of unvaccinated hesitant, but her mom behavior at the University said on July 13 that “these hurt me in the su
knows they don’t see eye to of North Carolina’s Gillings vaccines are saving lives.”
people, and the urging of eye. Still – and perhaps School of Global Public pocketbook,” he adds. ag
importantly – she does not Health. Politicization of the
family, friends, and medical completely close the door vaccine is “slowly fading,” d
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providers. Vacation encounter might change her mind. pointing to the fact that Texas, resident Carol fi
more than 50% of
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pediatrician at a community taking the resurgence maybe getting the vaccine. at least one shot. was speeding back up after p
health center in Killeen, seriously, she says. Recently But I don’t think if they ever she was vaccinated. Ms.
Texas, that focuses on she and her two younger came up with a way for Research shows that But there are still many
Medicaid families. He says children took a vacation children to get it, I don’t interventions aimed at who remain adamant about Greenwade has a medical
that in the past few months, and flew to the East Coast. think I’d let my daughter get changing people’s thoughts opting out, such as Brian condition that could make d
as COVID-19 cases have On the plane they wore it,” she says. and feelings are unlikely to Holzmeier, who lives her susceptible to the virus, h
surged in the region, he’s masks and did not take work. outside Fort Worth,Texas. and takes care of her w
seen an increase in people them off, even to drink Changing behavior, not n
saying they’re going to get water or eat snacks. minds It’s not as though he’s a elderly mother.
the coronavirus vaccine. “pandemic denier,” Mr. th
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get those who are adamant about a dozen people who
about refusing vaccines to different, though. Offering a have been diagnosed, and ago, she became a o
change their minds, say some who died. Last March,
They visited a family who experts. According to a day off work or he was just as anxious as breakthrough COVID-19
was not vaccinated. After Kaiser Family Foundation the next person, as a steady
He estimates that 85% of they returned, they poll from May, this transportation to drip of reports described patient.
discovered that members of “definitely not” group is fa
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positive for the virus. Dealing with the virus so G
been or will soon be payments – as President far has been difficult, she is
says. to
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parents and children over often enough to motivate

age 12. some people. But it has convinced

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getting the vaccine,” he know how careful we are! work as well. The to change their minds.
says. ... And they’re like, ‘I didn’t administration’s order for 1
do it on purpose!’” she new vaccine rules for
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vaccinated, or face regular
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means the U.S. remains just
short of the goal President The unvaccinated peeve they’re going to get it now,” S
Joe Biden wanted to reach her, she says. They don’t
by July 4: 70% of the adult understand what’s going on Ms. Greenwade says.
population vaccinated. until COVID-19 hits home.
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Like puzzles? Try searching for ‘kangaroo words.’

A reader recently introduced me female kangaroos raise their joeys They can also be puzzles, hard to have two or even three joeys. contains purge followed by pure.
to kangaroo words. You may in their pouches. find even when you know they are Routine has rote and rut, while
already know what they are, but if there. I managed to stare at the feasted has triplets: eat, ate, and fed. Terms that carry their own
not, it’s kind of fun to try to figure There are a few more facets to word MAscuLinE for quite a while (Some sticklers would argue that opposites instead of smaller
it out from the name and some the definition – otherwise it would before finally wondering, “What on eat doesn’t count, since it’s not in versions of themselves are called
examples: chicken, masculine, be too easy to find these marsupial earth is a scuin?” even though the past tense like the others.) anti-kangaroo words. Some
container. words. The letters of the joey MALE was screaming in all-caps. examples: Fabrication holds fact,
cannot be contiguous, which rules That’s the game, though. Some kangaroo words contain a and courteous, curt.
Any guesses? Kangaroo words out roots + affixes, such as reader joey within a joey, and these are
are ones that contain their own, and unacceptable. Chicken is a These words came to called grand kangaroos. I prefer to See if you can find the kangaroo,
shorter synonyms or near- kangaroo word, but chick doesn’t prominence in the 1950s when Ben think of these words as turduckens, grand kangaroo, and anti-kangaroo
synonyms. Chicken includes hen; count as a joey, though biologically O’Dell defined the term and stuffed within each other just like words in the following: animosity,
masculine has two: male and man; and etymologically chicken is the challenged readers to find the joeys the holiday dish that consists of a transgression, vainglorious, alone,
and container holds can and tin. progenitor of chick. The fact that in words such as indolent and chicken inside a duck inside a amicability, slithered, resigned,
These shorter words are called there is no compelling linguistic rampage (idle and rage). turkey. But whether they are grand observe, plagiarist, exacerbate,
joeys, since they are smaller reason for joeys is the point – kangaroo or turducken words, honorable, exists, respite,
versions of the longer word and kangaroo words are plain fun. Female kangaroos rarely have frangible has fragile, which itself remorsefulness, community.
are “carried” within it, just as twins, but marsupial words can includes frail, while expurgate
By Melissa Mohr

Pandemic infections among the vaccinated unless they Tremains high. Other polling shows
are hospitalized or die.
continued from page 3 challenges in public trust, in part a
“The question is, is it worth the time and
accurate to describe them as very safe. But expense of setting up a system to track Rreflection of distrust in government
that doesn’t mean health authorities breakthrough cases when they don’t result
shouldn’t acknowledge and discuss the in hospitalization?” says Professor Jamieson. in general.
possibility of rare side effects – and in fact, “There are those who argue persuasively
doing so is helpful in maintaining trust, since that it is.” vProfessor Viswanath of the
those side effects can make headlines and
often dominate on social media. Coursing Ms. Vanderford, the former CDC Harvard Chan School favorably
through the conversation, since vaccines communications official, expresses sympathy
became available, is an effort by public for public health officials in the COVID-19 contrasts the Biden administration
officials to avoid sowing fear of the vaccines era.
and to persuade the hesitant to get with its predecessor, in what he calls A
vaccinated. “They’ve never dealt with anything that the current team’s “significant efforts R
has so defied expectations over such a long in letting science make most of the
The “breakthrough” challenge period of time,” she says. “All agencies in decisions, and not undercutting to
times of uncertainty draw lessons from the scientists and public health experts.” o
Another point of contention now centers past. But in this case, there aren’t a lot of
on the use of the word “rare” when plays in the playbook to draw from.” c
describing “breakthrough infections” – that But he identifies multiple a
is, COVID-19 diagnoses in people who have Then there are the self-inflicted wounds, challenges that contribute to the
been fully vaccinated – even as news reports such as misstatements by top officials – burden on today’s health v
and anecdotal evidence increasingly suggest including the person with the biggest
they may be more common than that. megaphone, President Joe Biden – that can communicators. First, he says, “the “
knock the government off-message. pathogen has surprised us at every s
At a virtual briefing with reporters CDC turn.” Then there’s the challenge of m
Director Rochelle Walensky sought to In a July 22 CNN town hall, President
correct a commonly cited statistic from her Biden stated incorrectly that since the processing all the pandemic-related P
agency – that nearly all hospitalizations and vaccines “cover” the delta variant of the
deaths from COVID-19 are among the virus, “you’re not going to get COVID if you information, including empirical, data- o
unvaccinated. The data, she noted, was from have these vaccinations.” The White House
January to June, and did not reflect more up- later clarified his statement, noting that “97% based studies too numerous to S
to-date data that includes the rise of the of hospitalizations are people who were
delta variant. unvaccinated.” count. tw

Some are criticizing the CDC for halting On July 30, the CDC’s Dr.Walensky stated “That is like drinking from a fire v
the tracking, as of May 1, of breakthrough in a Fox News interview that the federal
government was “looking into” a federal clarification: “There will be no nationwide hose; people are just overwhelmed a
Tulsa vaccine mandate. She soon issued a mandate.”
with information,” Professor Viswanath says. o
continued from page 5 community events on the first Saturday of Last Tuesday, the director of the National
every month. Partners such as local health Institutes of Health, Francis Collins, Add to that the rise of social media, which p
Johnson.“I tell people all the time,‘It’s your services, banks, and mortgage companies recommended on CNN that parents of
store.’ That’s why it says ‘Welcome to your come to the store to provide classes and unvaccinated children wear masks at home, can be a source of misinformation, p
market.’ If you see someone stealing, are information. Other events include a then quickly backtracked.
you going to say something? If you see monthly sweepstake where a family in need disinformation, and conspiracy theories – as r
trash outside, are you going to pick it up?” is awarded $1,000 and 40 minutes to shop Overwhelmed with information
the store by themselves. well as a source of accurate information – T
The store employs 43 people, almost all A recent survey by the Annenberg Public
of whom are residents of North Tulsa. The store serves as many as 600 Policy Center shows that trust in public and the politicization of just about t
Aqueelah Jihad started working as a cashier customers a day, and produce is a hot health authorities – including the CDC, Food
in July. She likes the store’s friendly seller. About 37% of the store’s revenue and Drug Administration, and Dr. Fauci – everything. h
atmosphere and the likelihood of running comes from produce, an anomaly in the
into people she knows, like her third-grade grocery business, where most revenue funding to sustain the initiative “Never,” he says, “have our lives been g
teacher who recently came in to shop. comes from the inner aisles.
Chris Bernard, executive director of upended the way this has happened in the m
“Hope. Convenience. Gratefulness,” Ms. Hunger Free Oklahoma, a Tulsa based Hunger Free Oklahoma, says he’s excited
Jihad rattles off when asked what the store organization, is working with Oasis Fresh by the fact that Oasis Fresh Market is led last 17 months.”
means to community residents. “I’ve heard Market to try to implement their Double by North Tulsa residents but has also
a lot of comments of ‘we’re blessed,’” she Up Oklahoma program, which augments drawn support from individuals and By Linda Feldman p
says. the money spent on Supplemental organizations across the city.
Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) p
“A community-driven process” purchases with DUO Bucks to be used for “What you see with Councilwoman Hall-
fresh produce. Hunger Free Oklahoma Harper and other community members is free farmers’ markets for families in need. r
The market’s nonprofit arm runs expects the program to cost $200,000 to [that] they want to bring the solutions –
$250,000 annually and is lobbying for state and then have resources help them Ms. Hall-Harper, the city councilor, is p
implement those solutions. That’s what working on bringing a second grocery lo
Oasis is. It was a community-driven
process.” store to North Tulsa and hopes to inspire

Other organizations that work to more Black entrepreneurs. She sees a role S
prevent hunger in Tulsa are also considering
how to listen to community members in her community for both for-profit stores
about their needs and generate ideas for
solutions. Jeff Marlow, chief culinary officer like Oasis and nonprofits that work to
at the Tulsa-based Community Food Bank
of Eastern Oklahoma says his organization prevent hunger. N
thinks often about how they can provide
food “with dignity” by offering options like “I think there will always be that need for
nonprofits to help people who need food,
who may run short at the end of the
month,” she says. “At the same time, there
are plenty of people in our community who
don’t need free food, but need a place to
purchase food.”

Irene Beavers is among those who

appreciate the convenience. Visiting Oasis R
for the first time recently, she picked up b
some meat, bread, and produce.“This store a

is closer and easier to get to,” she says. li

“That’s the reason I’m here.” ‘S

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of Racine and Walworth understanding about the
challenges facing those the death of their mother
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counties, is pleased to as their families and to try and help decide a
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to September 28, 2021 at Project artists have grandchildren, at other

two separate times.Virtual created a virtual format” times he is lucid, funny, and

re viewings, both individual The Remember Project wise. Long ingrained
is a special program that is familial tensions come to
ed and community, will be designed to help family the surface when Peter,
members, care partners, Karen, and Jamie struggle
s. offered at 1-3 p.m. and 6-8 local businesses, and the to treasure their father as
broader community be in they also come to terms
ch p.m. and are free to the conversation around with his limitations. Each
dementia and the most of Arthur’s children has a
on, public, though well-known form of very different view about
memory loss, Alzheimer’s what is best, yet one thing
as reservations are required. disease. All community is clear: their love for
members are encouraged their father will guide the
– Tickets are available to attend this program. way.

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Garden,” was written by is taking place with
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published in The across America every day
is person virtual showing MemoryCare Plays, a as adult children try their
ry locations are: book of three one-act very best to chart a
plays compiled and edited course for loved ones
re Health and Human by Dr. Margaret A. Noel. who are experiencing Jim Pounds and Megan Hanks perform the roles of Arthur Monsetin and his daughter, Karen.
le Services “This play is dedicated to dementia,” said facilitator
my father Harry Widman, Danette McCarthy. “It can The ultimate goal of the part of The Remember 472-8008. To register and
es a wonderful artist, teacher feel extremely isolating to for additional information
and parent,” said the face decisions about care Remember Project is to Project’s start in 2015 visit krw-
to 1910 County Road playwright. “Although the and to navigate the garden2021.eventbrite.co
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fictional, my father’s making as a family. ‘In the
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ho 3626 Highway 31 of the world around him.” pressures placed on care and to become aware of conversations have taken Resource Centers of
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sis Remember Project has
up been touring in Wisconsin dementia or Alzheimer’s This very unique families, guardians and
re and Minnesota with their
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‘Steering into the Skid,’ takes a unique approach and conversation to learn provide objective, reliable

ey and ‘In the Garden,’” said to building awareness, and make decisions about information on a wide
Susan Johnson, Dementia
sharing information, and the future. variety of services,

inviting authentic If you have questions, resources and benefits. 
please call the Kenosha
community conversations. County ADRC at 1-800-

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needed guide that offers proven strategies for different resources to help with Medicare costs such
managing ongoing stress and grief. Dr. Pauline Boss as premiums, deductibles, co-insurance, and co-pays. If you have gently used or new items you wish to
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and you

People who don't If you have a Social
want Social Security Security question,Tom
Margenau has the answer.
with Tom Margenau
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50,000 people who told net.To find out more about m
about Social Security me they believe they are Tom Margenau and to read
being cheated out of
benefits, almost everyone Social Security benefits past columns and see
or that they are just not features from other Creators
wants more, not less.You getting enough money w
each month. Nobody has Syndicate writers and c
can probably find 10,000 ever told me they think cartoonists, visit the Creators n
they are getting too
articles on the Internet if much or that their Social Syndicate website at
Security benefits are too www.creators.com.
you search "maximizing high. Social Security check. I the money. (You worked his life. If he has some
from people who aren't would like to give my and earned it, after all.)
your Social Security." But Until now, that is. I've exactly saying they get Social Security to my ex- And your Social Security serious physical or d
saved up some emails too much money, but wife. Can you tell me checks can be sent to
I'll give you a thousand who, for a variety of how I go about doing your bank account in mental issues that began m
reasons, don't want their that? France.
dollars if you can find one Social Security checks. before he was 22 years w
When you file for
story headlined Q: I was born and benefits, your ex-wife can old, he might qualify for h
raised in France, and I am file for spousal benefits
"minimizing your Social a French citizen. But I on your record. (This is what are known as t
have lived and worked in assuming she has not
Security." the United States for the A: That's not how it remarried, is not working "disabled adult child"
past 25 years. I am about works. You can't give and is not due higher
Or consider this. Over to turn 62 and retire, and away your Social Security, benefits on her own benefits on your Social a
the past 50 years, I think I plan to move back to although in a roundabout Social Security record.) Security account.To learn d
the south of France way, you can do
where I have a villa near something similar. And At the beginning of this more, read the chapter a
Nice. I was married to an your wife may be eligible answer, I said you can't about disabled children
American citizen. We for spousal benefits on give your Social Security
have been divorced for a your account. Let me to your ex-wife. And by in my little Social Security ’4
few years, but we are still explain. that, I meant you can't guidebook. (Ordering r
very good friends. She is assign the benefits to be instructions are at the s
also 62. Because my paid in her name. But end of the column.) p
family is wealthy, I really once you start getting
don't need my American your monthly benefits, With the little space I n
the money is yours to do have left, let me switch t
Because you have with as you please. So if courses a bit and discuss (
you want to send her
worked and paid into the money each month in a tangential issue. Several s
the amount of your
U.S. Social Security Social Security check, go times in this column, I s
ahead and do it. And by
system for a quarter the way, your ex is one used the phrase -- "It's b
lucky woman!
century, you are due your money, and you can
Q: My wife and I are
Social Security both 66. We have done do what you want with
well financially. We really
retirement benefits as don't need our Social it" -- when referring to a
Security. Can we assign
early as age 62. Even if our benefits to our son, someone's Social a
who has struggled Security benefits. r
you move back to mentally, physically and
financially all his life?
France, you are still due b
A: As explained earlier
in this column, you can't Well, every once in a h
give away or "assign" while, I will get emails a
your Social Security from readers who want
benefits to anyone else.
But it is your money. So to report what they
you can do whatever you think is fraudulent is
want with it. And if you because n
want to turn the activity
proceeds of your
monthly Social Security someone they know is
benefits over to your
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books The general who let W
Robert E. Lee get away a

n the summer of 1863, decision has raged among Command, 1863-

Gen. George Gordon armchair tacticians ever 1865” – but that g

Q&A with local author Meade faced a task that since. (Among Meade’s command, at its 1
Joe Campolo
would have daunted Julius detractors was one of the moment of crisis, is th
Local author Joe Campolo Jr. – has just published his
fourth book On War, Fishing and Philosophy. Joe is an Caesar: He and his army greatest armchair tacticians still intensely up for in
award winning author poet, public speaker, blogger and a
Vietnam war veteran. We recently sat down with Joe to stood as the line of defense of them all, President debate. h
learn more about him & his books.
against Gen. Robert E. Lee’s Abraham Lincoln, who was Meade has been a
Q. Can you tell us a little about yourself? invading Army of Northern bitterly disappointed in e
Virginia at Gettysburg in Meade for allowing Lee’s criticized for well C
A. I’m a senior citizen, retired, spending my time with my Pennsylvania. maimed and demoralized h
family, writing, Fishing and traveling. I’m a USAF Vietnam army to escape back over over a century m
War veteran. After getting an education through the gi bill, In Meade at the Potomac River into L
I had a career in engineering and procurement.Through my Gettysburg: A Study in Confederate territory.) because he V
career, I traveled the world on many interesting projects. I Command, Civil War b
am married with 2 children and 2 grandchildren. historian Kent Masterson Brown leaves no doubt appeared perfectly sa
Brown focuses not on the where he stands on the p
Q. What inspired you to write your newest book “On sweep of Meade’s military subject: firmly in Meade’s equipped and
War, Fishing and Philosophy”? record, but just on a corner. “Lee’s defenses th
handful of days – a were so thoroughly positioned to co
A. My website blog has been very popular, so we thought mercilessly concentrated prepared, and so
it would be a good idea to capture some of the stories on annihilate Lee’s
paper. 
army. But Brown’s continent and the first
Q. How many published books do you have out? victory of the Army of the
deep research has led him Potomac since the war
A. It is my 4th published book. began.”
to the opposite conclusion.
Q. How long did it take to write your newest book?
It’s the same one Meade
A. It took about 6 months to put it all together. 
himself reached on the
Q. Can you tell us what the Kansas NCO Trilogy is?
juncture that arguably formidable, and Meade’s battlefield: that a mid-July “If we had made the g
A.The Kansas NCO trilogy is a set of 3 books, the origin
of which is a black market operation which took place defined his entire career. army was so depleted and attack on Lee would likely attack, there is no doubt e
during the Vietnam War. Although it is fiction, many of the
events took place, and the characters are based mostly on Meade was the victor at at such a tactical have resulted in a that we should have lost b
individuals involved in the operation.  the Battle of Gettysburg, catastrophic defeat that ri
although the loser is far disadvantage,” Brown would have left Washington very severely,” pronounced fo
Q. How do you deal with writers block? more famous.At the climax itself open to a Southern h
of the conflict, Lee hurled writes at the start of his counter-attack. Meade’s chief of staff at h
A. I don’t have many issues with writers block. When I 12,500 men against heavily ...
do, I will walk away from the work for a couple of days. fortified high ground held book, “that Meade’s corps “Sadly,” Brown writes, Gettysburg, Andrew w
Return when I feel inspired by Meade’s Union forces. “the blow to Meade’s n
The attack was shattered commanders advised reputation leveled by Atkinson Humphreys. To n
Q. How do you come up with the art work for your by cannon and artillery, and President Lincoln, [Meade’s to
covers? a diminished Lee began a against any attack.” (Not all superior officer General which Brown simply adds, ag
long, slow retreat from Henry] Halleck, and others a
A. My covers are a synopsis of my general feeling on the Pennsylvania. of his corps commanders is how history has “That is where the H
book.  remembered him, even so
And, infamously, Meade agreed, it should be noted, after out-generaling Robert argument should end.” This
see page 15 for more let him go. That will always E. Lee to claim a decisive
be his defining moment. and the decision was victory in the largest land loses sight of the fact that
engagement ever fought on
Argument over his ultimately Meade’s.) the North American Gen. Halleck had cabled

Brown’s book is the most Meade on July 13 with
thorough and authoritative
study of Meade’s equal simplicity:“Do not let
generalship to appear in a
generation, edging out even the enemy escape.” Maybe
John Gregory Selby’s
excellent 2018 book that’s where the argument
“Meade: The Price of
should end.

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Edgar Allan Poe exposed scientific re
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hoaxes, and invented his own re
m

Readers of Edgar Allan matrix of entertainment st
Poe’s most famous prose and science, doubt and Tresch makes clear, fallen tr
and poetry might be certainty. Those who into obscurity. Poe boasted h
unaware of how often he successfully denounced the to a friend that “Eureka” ke
wrote about science. As tricks of charlatans were was destined to zo
John Tresch explains in precisely those with the “revolutionize the world of la
The Reason for the skills to make themselves Physical & Metaphysical h
Darkness of the Night: believed.” Science,” but the result was o
Edgar Allan Poe and the something more confusing o
Forging of American Speculation and than revolutionary. The
Science, in the late 1840s,
near the end of his life, Poe controversy were rife in biographer labels it “a
had established for himself serious mess, a glorious w
“a unique position as fiction the press.“In the 1830s and o
writer, poet, critic, and mess, but a mess.”
expert on scientific matters 1840s, the lines between
– crossing paths with and
learning from those who legitimate science, political In the end, the telltale
were producing the
‘apparent miracles’ of provocation, and crowd- heart of “The Reason for
modern science.”
pleasing quackery were the Darkness of the Night”
Poe exposed
pseudoscientific hoaxes – himself proclaimed “the exceedingly difficult to is this: “Poe’s fantastic tales,
and then, to get his own greatest poem that ever
writing noticed, created was written”). define,” he writes. His detective stories, and
them himself. He finally
received critical acclaim for descriptions of the way the nonfiction writings
his now-classic short
stories, among them “The Tresch has painted a full popular press blended dramatized the act of
Tell-Tale Heart” (which
Tresch describes as “an act landscape of the journalism news, entertainment, and inquiry and the struggles,
of violent irrationality
[detailed] in the language of of the time, describing the hype will remind readers of fears, hopes, and delusions
scientific method”) and
“The Raven” (which Poe conflicts between writers the media landscape of of the human being

who made serious scientific present-day America, undertaking it. His ... search

observations and those though Tresch himself for hidden causes places

eager to sensationalize or refrains from explicit him at the center of the

misrepresent new comparisons. maelstrom of American

discoveries. “Poe saw his Poe was also deeply science in the first half of
interested in formulating
age’s many humbugs and its theories about the origins the nineteenth century.”
of the universe and the
‘men of science’ pushing for nature of God. Near the Tresch has produced a
end of his life, he wrote a
foolproof forms of scientific philosophical-scientific steady, clever, engaging
treatise called “Eureka,”
authority as secret which has, for reasons that literary biography that

partners,” writes Tresch. provides an excellent

“Together they were survey of an overlooked

establishing the modern aspect of Poe’s writing.

By Bob Blaisdell

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Wry humor points out the
absurdity of Vietnam War

Like many young men involves replacing returning soldiers is not

growing up in the late artillery tubes on fire happiness, but “relief at

1960s, Jeff Danziger bases – exceptionally having survived where

thought about what the war dangerous work often others didn’t” and

in Vietnam would mean for conducted under fire. apprehension about

him. Decades later, and after The book reads like “what return would
a distinguished career as an mean.”
editorial cartoonist for The a cross between
Christian Science Monitor,
he recounts the story of his Joseph Heller’s Like many other
military experiences in veterans, Danziger left the
Lieutenant Dangerous: A “Catch-22” and the military and moved on
Vietnam War Memoir, a with his life. He wrote this
book that is by turns funny, television show book after conversations
sad, horrifying, and thought- with young people made
t provoking. “M.A.S.H.” Parts of him realize that those
e Danziger initially avoids who didn’t grow up
r the military draft as a the story reflect his during the war needed
college student. But once he context to understand it.
e graduates, his deferment own innocence, such
t ends and military service
t becomes inescapable. As he as his decision to
d rides the bus to Fort Dix
at for basic training, he finds write a letter to his
w himself weeping. “I realized,”
o he writes, “that I was going senator protesting his
s, ... to fight in a questionable
e war in a country that I knew assignment as an
s nothing about and cared
at nothing about, to be trained ordnance officer when Campolo Q&AHe concludes by asking
d to shoot and kill people
h against whom I had he was a trained the reader to ponder:
t absolutely no complaint.”
e He is, in short, a reluctant language specialist. But Would you leave the life continued from page 14
t soldier.
it works. He gets the man is about to depart you were living “because
for military service, a B-52 you trusted people in
transferred and uses his dropping a stack of bombs, power?” or, “Would you be Q. So I’m going to make you pick, what book of yours
the M113 armored is your favorite?
language skills, but he is still personnel carrier, and an
eerily smiling Richard Nixon
in the middle of the fighting, on a television set. Danziger like me? Planning a secret A. My favorite, hmmm, very difficult. Of late it’s been 3
even sketches a helicopter
often on missions that are equipped with giant internal defense against all Wars..but that will change, the new book is getting a lot
speakers – used (not too
poorly thought out and, successfully) in an effort to the doubt and discomfort of of buzz, so…
scare the enemy into
sometimes, appear suicidal. surrendering.These lack the protest and wanting simply Q.Who are some of your favorite authors of all time?
drama and punch of a full-
In one case, all the South size editorial cartoon, but not to stand out.” A. My favorite authors:, Gorky, Hemingway, McMurtry,
they give us further insights
Vietnamese military officers into the emotions and It’s a good question, but Shakespeare, Doestoevsky, … short list 
experiences that he details
working with him desert in the text. not entirely fair. It’s
unreasonable to ask readers
rather than enter the The author makes a to make a decision when Q. First of all thank you for your service, Can you tell
convincing case that he was us about your time in Vietnam? 
combat zone. an indifferent and ineffective
soldier. But one suspects
All the horror and that there is more to the they know how the story A. My time in Vietnam was the most stimulating period
stupidity associated with the story. While in Vietnam he ends.The American loss and of my life. It was also the most traumatic and stressful. I
Vietnam War are on full received a Bronze Star, given all that has happened since can talk about many things that happened overthere,
He searches for a way to display: the inflated body for heroic achievement or then inevitably change one’s some things I will never be able to talk about.  My writing
counts, the waste of service in a war zone, and
e keep out of the actual resources, the lack of an Air Medal, denoting perspective. And besides, in has been therapy for me. 
strategic thinking, the heroic or meritorious
fighting. He decides that indifference to civilian achievement in flight. But he post-World War II America, Q. For you what is more fun for you to write, a blog or
casualties, the effort to is neither happy nor
“intelligence” sounds transfer responsibility to the satisfied when his tour of most young people were a book?
South Vietnamese and their duty ends. On the flight
promising because it reluctance to accept it, home, he discovers that the predisposed to do what was A. Blogs can be alot of fun, adding pictures, etc. And, of
officers more concerned prevailing mood among the
requires “listening to the about their careers than expected. Or as Danziger course, the subject matter can be all over the map. But
about their men, and the
radio all day and making days and weeks of wasted notes, “We had no choice.” when you are writing a book and get into the
time and effort.
reports about enemy Like most of his fellow zone..there’s nothing like it. 

movements and secret soldiers, he was hard-wired

stuff.” This requires language to follow orders. Q. Over your years as a writer, in your eyes how has
en training, which will extend
ed his enlistment but will also “Lieutenant Dangerous” the publishing industry changed?
a” keep him out of the war
o zone for a year. When the is also a cautionary tale. A.The publishing industry has shrunk and is much less
of language training concludes, Wars are never simple and author friendly than it used to be.
al he decides to become an
as officer and thus postpone His memoir includes a rarely turn out as expected. Q. How much energy does it take to sit down and
ng overseas duty even longer. number of line drawings
he that help illustrate the story. Military campaigns look write a book?
“a But the Army, in its We see a hostile-looking
us wisdom, makes him an draft board poised to straightforward to those A. It takes persistence and determination to write a
decide a young man’s future, who plan them. But the book. Energy follows. 
ordnance officer, a job that a couple looking pensive as reality is so often different. Q. When did you first realize you wanted to be a

By Terry W. Hartle writer?

A. I realized I wanted to be a writer at a young age, I

le NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS just started writing and never really stopped. 
or Q. Do you have any writing quirks?

t” A.The only writing quirk I have that I’m aware of is my

es, habit of working out plot and substance during my daily

d walks. 

gs Q. Any plans on making any of your books in a
of Hollywood movie?
es,

ns A. The Kansas NCO has been scoped by several film

ng makers, a screen play has been written.We are hopeful it

ch will hit the big screen someday. 

es PRINT & E-BOOKS NONFICTION PRINT & E-BOOKS FICTION Q. Can you tell us about some of your upcoming book
he signing events?
1. The Last Thing He Told Me (Dave)
an 1. American Marxism (Levin) 2. People We Meet on Vacation (Henry) A. I have a book signing at the Hero’s Cafe in Festival
of 2. I Alone Can Fix It (Leonnig/Rucker) 3. The Paper Palace (Heller) Foods (3207 80th Street) August 20th, and at the Pollard
y.” 3. The Authoritarian Moment (Shapiro) 4. The Cellist (Silva) Gallery (514 56th Street) September 11th and November
a 4. How I Saved the World (Watters) 5. It Ends With Us (Hoover) 11th. 
ng 5. The Body Keeps the Score (van der Kolk) 6. Not a Happy Family (Lapena)
at 6. The Warmth of Other Suns (Wilkerson) 7. Devil in Disguise (Kleypas) Q.What’s next for you Joe?
nt 7. Landslide (Wolff) 8. Claimed (Ward)
ed 8. Greenlights (McConaughey) 9. Malibu Rising (Reid) A. I have another book in mind, haven’t started
pounding the keys just yet. 
9. Untamed (Doyle)
Q&A and photos by Donny Stancato
ell 10. Frankly, We Did Win This Election (Bender) 10. Black Ice (Thor)

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Pet World animals

with Cathy Rosenthal in the news

When introductions Public works
between cats aren't employee captures
going well alligator in pond

Dear Cathy, I have a sweet, Dear Sheila, Cats are very A public works employee in a
10-year-old cat named Sunny. I territorial and have spats in
thought it might be a good idea order to establish their As well as being a recuring Michigan town was making his regular
if she had a companion. I found territories. Sunny is losing guest on Happenings Q&A,
a beautiful male Siamese at the some of her space, while Lucky rounds when he ended up performing
Humane Society who is 7 is trying to establish his place Cathy M. Rosenthal is a
years old. It was love at first in the home. longtime animal advocate, an irregular duty -- capturing an
sight for me, so I adopted author, columnist and pet
Lucky and brought him home. I am heartened by the fact expert who has more than alligator. Andy Bills said he was DT2021-1
that you said things are
Lucky is terrifically shy. I improving. It can take many 30 years in the animal observing sewage ponds in the
gave him free roam of the months for cats to establish welfare field. Send your pet
house at night, keeping Sunny their boundaries with each questions, stories and tips to southern part of the city when he saw
in my room behind closed other. Once they do, things
doors so he could explore and should settle down. But there [email protected]. a turtle walk into one -- closely
get used to things. During the are a few ways you can do to
day, the food dish gets emptied help move things along. Cathy Rosenthal joins Orangutan dons zoo Rfollowed by an alligator. "It took me a
and the litter tray has deposits, Happenings Q&A on visitor's dropped
but we can't coax him out for First, keep two to three Mon. Aug. 30th at sunglasses good minute or so to gather my
anything. Sunny growls and litterboxes in the home. Cats 12:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
hisses whenever she sees him. have been known to block A visitor to a zoo in Indonesia thoughts and try to figure out if I really t
their housemates from getting going forward. It does, often, captured video when her sunglasses fell just saw what I thought I saw," Bills told g
Sunny and Lucky have had to the litterbox when there is take a few months for new into an enclosure where they were WXMI-TV. Bills alerted his boss and
some confrontations, although only one litterbox in the roommates to get along. soon donned by a fashion-forward coworkers to the non-native reptile's
they are lessening now. She home. orangutan. Lolita Testu said her
hides in her cat condo for Dear Cathy, I have an 8- sunglasses fell into the orangutan presence and retrieved his fishing rod
hours. I think she is depressed Second, while I appreciate year-old female yellow enclosure, where they came to the
because at night, when she and you reassuring Sunny with love Labrador retriever who is a attention of a mother primate. A video to attempt an amateur capture. "Once m
I retire behind closed doors, and attention behind closed great dog. Lately though, Testu posted to TikTok shows the
she wants lots of love and play doors, you are reinforcing that walking her has become more orangutan putting the sunglasses on I saw that he was there, there was no t
time, none of which she gets good things happen when of a prowl for food. She pulls her face and keeping theshades out of way I was gonna let somebody else C
during the day. He, on the Lucky is out of sight. Instead, hard to get to food on the reach of the curious baby who tries to catch it. I wanted to be the person that w
other hand, watches her like a brush, love and play with Sunny street or to where there is a grab them.Testu said the orangutan had got to catch it," he said. Bills was able s
hawk and knows exactly when Lucky is around so she scent of food. Sometimes, I her sunglasses for about 20 minutes to hook the gator and bring it back to "
where she is every minute. If learns that every time she sees have to really yank her hard to before zookeepers were able to shore, where he snagged it in a fishing a
she scurries into the dining Lucky, something good get her away from something encourage the animal to throw them net. He said the fight did not end there. p
room, he positions himself happens to her. The same for not good for her. I also worry back. She said the throw unfortunately "It got out at one point, out of the net, C
somewhere in the living room Lucky.When you see him laser- I'm hurting her when doing so. went awry and the shades were
to keep his eye on her. If she focused on Sunny or ready to Any advice on how to get her broken. and it kind of charged us a couple times
goes into my bedroom, he is chase her, distract him instead to stop pulling? - Barbara,
right there too. with playtime. It's important he Oceanside, New York Brazen bear opens with its mouth open," Bills said. Bills r
learn that good things happen car door in parking
I don't know what to do. I when Sunny is in the room as Dear Barbara, Invest in a lot eventually wrangled the gator into a i
really like him, but she is my well. Gentle Leader or Haltie head
first cat. I hate to think about collar to immediately stop the A California sheriff's office shared cooler, and a Michigan Department of m
taking him back to the shelter, Finally, buy a feline pulling. Then, work on training security camera footage of the
but I don't want her to be pheromone collar for each of her to heel. It's easy. Say her moment a black bear opened the door Natural Resources officer took t
terrorized for the rest of her them to wear and consider name, followed by the word of an employee's vehicle while it was
life. Do you have any ideas putting pheromone plug-ins "heel." Tap your thigh and step parked in a courthouse parking lot.The custody of the reptile and transported
about how to get them to be around the house. These off so she follows you. Use a Sierra County Sheriff's Office said in a
more compatible? I'm 83 and synthetic pheromones mimic a reward word like "bingo" when Facebook post that an office it to the Wilderness Trails Zoo, near t
have a difficult time running to mother cat's scent, which can she does, always followed by a communications-correction officer Birch Run.
the other side of the house to calm stressed felines and treat. If she pulls even a little, found a back door of her car was not e
break up a fight. - Sheila, improve their relationship. reverse directions and repeat fully latched when she was preparing to
Tucson, Arizona the process. The goal is to get go home from the Sierra County w
Hopefully, these things will her to always pay attention to Courthouse in Downville in the early
help them get along better you and where you are going. morning. "Knowing the door had not v
been ajar when she went to work the
previous evening, she took a look h
through the security footage and
discovered the culprit," the post said. h
The video shows a bear opening the
door and peering inside the car in an s
apparent search for food. "Thankfully,
this bear found nothing of interest," w
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Police in Colombia climbed to the A cat provided some eighth-inning a
roof of a building to rescue an
opossum spotted tangled in cables at entertainment during the Yankees- p
the top of a utility pole. The National
Police of Colombia said officers were Orioles game in New York when it ran s
called to a utility pole in Narino on a out onto the field and evaded capture h
report of a tangled opossum dangling by the grounds crew. The crowd at i
from the telephone cables at the top of Yankee Stadium erupted into cheers t
the pole. Police climbed to the roof of during the eighth inning when the cat w
an adjacent building, where they were darted out onto the warning track with h
able to reach the marsupial and crew members in hot pursuit. The cat t
disentangle it from the cables. "Once it led the workers on a chase through the a
was confirmed to be out of danger, it outfield, at one point jumping onto the t
was released in its natural habitat," outfield wall to escape its pursuers. t
police wrote in a Facebook post.
Orioles outfielder Cedric Mullins said

the cat had been spotted earlier in the i

visiting team's dugout. The chase came s

to a close when the cat ran through an c

open gate into the stands. The t

Baltimore Orioles' official Twitter s

account joked the team was interested s

in signing the feline. "Someone put us in i

touch with the cat's agent ... we have r

things to discuss," the team tweeted. i

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to "mildly affected" by it, was relatively benign ... the million teens in the age
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re. published by JAMA remain unknown," study co- one dose of the two-shot journal Pediatrics found. patients age 12 to 18 who myocarditis in young people
et, Cardiology. were hospitalized for following vaccination "is
author Dr. Audrey Dionne vaccine, with just over 4% Children with coronavirus myocarditis following receipt currently still very limited,"
related MIS-C may take of the Pfizer-BioNTech Dionne said.
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the data from the Pediatrics As a result, whether the
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of muscle that affects its ability infection [and its] course can Disease Control and At least initially, children diagnosis was confirmed by need to be reassessed as we
ok to pump blood to the body. be more severe acutely," said Prevention. were thought to be at low magnetic resonance imaging learn more about this
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ar teens age 12 to 18, all Boston Children's Hospital. Still, fewer than 1% of earlier in the pandemic. participants.
teens age 12 to 17 required For more heart healthy
However, nearly 94,000 Eleven of the patients had tips, tune in to
experienced chest pain For this reason, "the medical care in the week new child infections were fully recovered from their
within six days of COVID-19 benefits of vaccination after receiving either vaccine reported last week, with myocarditis within two Happenings Q&A on
vaccination, while two-thirds outweigh the risks," even in dose, the agency said. many cases requiring weeks of hospital discharge, Mon., Aug. 30th at 2:30
had a fever and more than teens, she said. hospitalization, according to according to the when noted cardiologist
half had muscle pain, the data Meanwhile, about one- a report released Monday by researchers. Dr. Raaid Museitif joins
showed. The Food and Drug third of young people who the American Academy of
Administration issued an develop severe COVID-19 Pediatrics and the Children's Overall, researchers wrote the conversation on
All 15 patients in the study emergency use authorization will experience multi-system Hospital Association. in the study that "in short- AM1050 WLIP.
were hospitalized due to the for the Pfizer-BioNTech inflammatory syndrome, or term follow-up, patients
heart complication, but all COVID-19 vaccine for use in MIS-C, a disorder in which For the JAMA Cardiology were mildly affected."
were discharged after an teens ages 12 to 15 years in multiple organs, including the study, Dionne and her
average of two days without May. heart, show signs of colleagues followed 15 Data on the risk for
the need for intensive care, inflammation, a study
and only one had lingering The Moderna vaccine, published in July by the

Mayo Clinic deltoid muscle. This pain For patients with
generally worsens when you complete tears of the
Rotator cuff injuries try to lift your arm overhead tendon, the situation is a
or lift objects away from little bit more complex. If the
and surgery your body. tear is small or the patient is
relatively low risk, some
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I For those with distinct When I diagnose a patient patients with complete tears
with a rotator cuff injury, the may still be able to avoid
ng am 48, and I have been injuries, these usually occur most common question I get surgery. The treatment plan
when trying to lift heavy is whether surgery is for them would be the same
s- playing tennis for years. I also objects overhead or lifting necessary. If you have been options listed for tendinitis
things away from the body. diagnosed with a rotator cuff above. Although physical
an swim regularly. Recently, I You also can injure your injury, treatment may vary therapy won't heal the small
re have been experiencing pain rotator cuff during traumatic depending on the severity. tears, it can help optimize
at in my right shoulder every falls or accidents. the other muscles around
rs time I hit the court and For most patients with the shoulder that are still
at when I try to lift objects at Generally speaking, tendinitis, which is intact, which allows them to
th home. How do I know if I inflammation of the rotator compensate for the tendon
at tore my rotator cuff? What rotator cuff problems tend cuff tendon without a that has the small tear in it. or arthroscopic, approach. recovery time following
he are the options for complete tear, as well as pain Using these small incisions rotator cuff repair is
he treatment, and can I get back to produce three main and other symptoms, they For active patients with a can reduce pain and improve approximately six months.
rs. to playing? generally improve without complete tear of the tendon, recovery long term. Once everything is healed,
symptoms: shoulder pain, surgical intervention. The surgery may be optimal we generally allow patients
most common forms of because it offers the most After undergoing rotator to get back to all activities as
decreased shoulder motion treatments for this are anti- predictable and successful cuff repair, the arm is kept in tolerated. -- Christopher
inflammatory medications; way of restoring function. a sling for approximately six Camp, M.D., Orthopedic
id ANSWER: People can and weakness. Although icing the shoulder regularly; weeks after surgery to allow Surgery, Mayo Clinic,
modifying your activities, Rotator cuff repair things to heal. After this Rochester, Minnesota
he injure their rotator cuff in most patients will have some including avoiding heavy surgery typically is done as time, the sling is slowly
lifting and overhead lifting; an outpatient procedure discontinued, and formal E-mail a question to
me several ways. Accordingly, it level of each of these and physical therapy. through a minimally invasive, physical therapy is initiated. MayoClinicQ&[email protected].

an can be hard to know if that is symptoms, not everyone While there is significant For more information, visit
variability, the average overall www.mayoclinic.org
he the primary source of your with a rotator cuff tear will

er shoulder problems. For have all three symptoms.

ed some people, a distinct In terms of the pain, if you
in injury or accident results in a have a rotator cuff injury, you
ve rotator cuff tear. For others, typically have pain over the

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increase in pain over time. the shoulder, around the

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(good) cholesterol and 2 tablespoons plus 2 teaspoons olive oil th
lower LDL (bad) Ill. For comments or polyunsaturated fats (olive, barley and rye. In people 1 teaspoon grated lemon zest plus 1 1/2 tablespoons lemon juice T
cholesterol can decrease questions, contact her at ju
the risk for cardiovascular peanut and canola, corn, with the autoimmune 1 teaspoon honey 2
disease. Those changes [email protected] Kosher salt and pepper m
include swapping refined or follow her on Twitter chia, flax) is actually good condition celiac disease, 1/4 cup roasted almonds, chopped re
carbohydrates for healthier 12 ounces fresh mozzarella a
fats. @NutritionRd. for heart health. gluten damages the lining of 1/4 cup fresh basil, torn, plus small leaves for serving m
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Remember fats have the intestines, leading to • Heat grill to medium-high. Brush peaches with 2 teaspoons oil and grill until “t
more calories than grill marks appear, about 1 minute per side.Transfer to a plate and let cool co
carbohydrates so you don't malabsorption and slightly. In a small bowl, whisk together lemon juice, honey and 1/4 teaspoon h
want to overdo it, but each salt and pepper.Whisk until honey dissolves.Whisk in remaining 2 n
The analysis study, which replacing saturated fats potentially serious health tablespoons oil; stir in lemon zest and almonds. Slice mozzarella, arrange on
(meat, butter) with healthy platter and top with peaches. Fold basil into almond mixture and spoon over A
combined information from -- Replacing carbs with fats and choosing a few less consequences. People who R
total fat or refined carbohydrates can peaches. Sprinkle with cracked pepper and small basil leaves, if desired. d
eight observational studies monounsaturated fatty be heart healthy. have adverse reactions
acids was associated with •Per serving: 325 calories; 14 grams protein; 9 grams carbohydrate; 28 grams w
in various European higher HDL (good) (stomach pain, diarrhea, fat; 2 grams fiber; 135 milligrams sodium.
cholesterol numbers and pu
countries, estimated the no change in LDL (bad) headache, brain fog) when As the temperature rises outdoors, our grill gets a workout. Here's a recipe th
cholesterol. from Good Housekeeping magazine that takes advantage of the grill and ba
result of replacing 5% of they consume gluten but summer's bountiful peach crop. Here in Illinois, we count the days until co
-- Replacing carbs with an
calories from polyunsaturated fatty acids test negative for celiac peaches from our own Calhoun County are ripe.This grilled peach caprese is tr
was associated with lower a twist on the traditional tomato caprese. Ex
carbohydrates with the LDL and no changed in That doesn't mean disease may have what's (E
HDL. choosing an Atkins or keto op
same number of calories diet where carbohydrates identified as non-celiac tra
-- Replacing carbs with are nearly eliminated. This
from fats.The analysis found saturated fats was means replacing refined gluten sensitivity. For the
associated with higher LDL carbohydrates in your diet
that replacing and no change in HDL. with healthier fats.That's an rest of us, there is no
approach that will benefit
carbohydrates with mono- What's it all mean? your heart. reason to avoid gluten.
Including more of the good
or polyunsaturated fats had fats -- omega-3 fatty acids Whole-grain products with

favorable effects on blood gluten (whole wheat bread,

cholesterol. If those same whole grain crackers)

carbohydrates were contain fiber and other

replaced with saturated vitamins and minerals that

Q and A are needed for a healthy

fats, favorable effects were Q: Will everyone benefit diet.
from reducing or avoiding
not seen. gluten?

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America’s Test Kitchen

Homemade granola bars will power the kids through class,
after-school activities and more

As the kids head back to school, these chewy granola bars are great to have on your baking menu. It's a perfect make-ahead snack and travels
well. A quick note: Don't use quick, instant, or extra-thick rolled oats in this recipe. Rolled oats (also called old-fashioned or regular oats) are
whole oats that have been steamed and then rolled. If these same oats are rolled very thinly, they are called quick oats because they cook, well,
more quickly. Instant oats are cooked and then dehydrated, so they don't need any more cooking, just hot water.

Chewy Granola Bars with Cranberries and Walnuts up
as
Makes 12 bars • Adjust oven rack to the middle position and • Place baking sheet on a cooling rack and let • Transfer apricot paste to a large bowl.Add • Transfer baking pan to a cooling rack and let br
3/4 cup walnuts heat oven to 350 degrees. Make an aluminum cool for 10 minutes.While oat mixture is the cooled oat mixture and stir until oats are the granola bars cool completely in the pan, ba
1 1/4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats foil sling for an 8-inch square metal baking pan. cooling, reduce oven temperature to 300 well coated with apricot paste.Add cereal and about 2 hours. Use foil to lift bars out of the inv
1/2 cup raw sunflower seeds degrees. baking pan and transfer to a cutting board. Cut Sc
1/4 cup vegetable oil Spray foil with vegetable oil spray. cranberries and gently stir until evenly ba
2 tablespoons water • Combine oil and water in a liquid measuring combined. into bars and serve. in
1/2 cup dried apricots • In a food processor, pulse walnuts until finely cup.Add apricots, brown sugar and salt to the am
1/2 cup packed brown sugar chopped, about 10 1-second pulses.Transfer food processor and process until apricots are • Scrape mixture into the foil-lined baking pan pa
1/4 teaspoon salt walnuts to a rimmed baking sheet.Add oats very finely ground, about 15 seconds.With the and spread into an even layer. Use the bottom wo
3/4 cup Rice Krispies cereal and sunflower seeds to the baking sheet and processor running, pour oil mixture through of a dry measuring cup to press down VERY ye
1/2 cup dried cranberries spread into an even layer. Bake until oats are the feed tube and process until a paste forms, firmly (especially at edges and corners) until int
smooth and flat. Bake until granola is brown at fe
lightly browned, about 12 minutes. about 1 minute. low
edges, about 25 minutes.
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jill on money

Short COVID
recession casts long
shadow

with Jill Schlesinger

Just over a year ago, the

National Bureau of

Economic Research’s

(NBER) Business Cycle

Dating Committee

announced that the United

States economy officially

entered a recession in Feb.

2020. The pandemic put an shallower, but it’s still there. coronavirus pandemic.” As eviction moratorium are set nail salons and barber shops.
After contracting by 3.5% in of June, nonfarm payroll to expire in the next 90
end to the longest expansion 2020, the economy is on employment is up 15.6 days. The hope is that the Potential business failure
track to expand by more million since April 2020 but economic progress that has has not stopped
in US history (128 months) than 6% this year, which is down by 6.8 million, or occurred will now be self- entrepreneurs from getting
means the total size of the 4.4%, from its pre-pandemic sustaining and strong enough their own gigs off the
dating back to 1854. The Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS economy is back to where it level in Feb. 2020. to get millions of Americans ground. Far from the image
News business analyst. A was before the pandemic. back to work. of those who were couch-
recession call was easy in former options trader and CIO The same is not true for the One reason that the surfing and streaming for
of an investment advisory firm, labor market. recession was short is that U n f o r t u n a t e l y, days on end, many sidelined
this case because economic she welcomes comments and the government acted government efforts were workers used their time off
The overall quickly. Congress and the not enough to stop small to think about how to
activity essentially stopped in questions at unemployment rate stands Federal Reserve learned the businesses from going under. launch their own businesses.
[email protected]. Check at 5.9% with 9.5 million lesson of the Great A Federal Reserve study With excess savings and in
March 2020, as workers people out of work. Those Recession of 2008-09 and found that there were about some cases, stimulus checks
her website at numbers are a vast stepped-up financial support 200,000 more business in hand, Americans have
were sent home and in- www.jillonmoney.com improvement from the for individuals and closures during the 12 started a record-breaking
worst days of the pandemic businesses, allowing most months of March 2020 numbers of new businesses
person commerce ceased. underscored that while the in April 2020, but COVID Americans to remain solvent through Feb. 2021 than in the 16 months since
worst of the recession continues to cast a long and safe during the darkest during pre-pandemic times, a COVID reared its ugly head.
Thirteen months after ended last spring “economic shadow over the economy days. However, many of the rate that “is about one- That kind of optimism may
stating the start date for the activity is typically below and the job market. The federal pandemic-relief quarter to one-third above be the brightest spot amid
decline, NBER is out with normal in the early stages of Labor Department said measures, like enhanced normal.” Of those, about the long shadow of COVID’s
the bookend declaration: an expansion, and it employment indicators unemployment payments, 130,000 were small financial fallout.Must I help a
The COVID recession lasted sometimes remains so well “remain well above their forbearance on student businesses, and the majority friend if doing so tells her
just two months, from Feb. into the expansion.” levels prior to the loans, and the national (about 100,000) occurred in too much about me.
2020 to April 2020, which
makes it the shortest US When NBER made the
recession on record. The recession call in June 2020, I
announcement does not wrote that COVID had
mean that everything was caused a “giant economic
honky dory in May 2020 — hole” in the economy. Since
“the committee did not then, the hole is far
conclude that the economy
has returned to operating at
normal capacity.” NBER

A closer look at profits, Robinhood makes
Robinhood's public money in a less obvious but
debut lucrative way. Robinhood
sends customer orders to
with Jill Schlesinger high-frequency traders in
exchange for cash. This legal
Robinhood’s recent initial commission-free trading practice is called “Payment
public offering (IPO) has put (more on that later). Other for Order Flow” (PFOF).
the online trading platform big online brokers, including
back in the limelight. The Schwab, E-Trade, and TD If you use Robinhood, you
company, launched in 2013, is Ameritrade, quickly followed
an app that allows users to suit, but it was Robinhood won’t see a line item for
trade individual stocks, that broke through to
Exchange Traded Funds become the favorite trading PFOF, but you will likely
(ETFs), crypto assets, or app among young investors.
options without paying a The strange circumstances receive a slightly worse price
transaction fee. of the COVID pandemic,
where millions of Americans (we’re talking a few pennies)
For years, investors paid were at home and many
up when they bought or sold were flush with excess for your transactions than
a stock.The first company to savings, helped Robinhood
break down the trading flourish. With more than 22 another potential broker
barriers for ordinary million customers, up from
investors was Chares just 500,000 in 2015, the might get for you.Although a
Schwab, the San Francisco company turned a profit of
based firm that believed that $7.3 million in 2020 and its few pennies might not seem
individuals with small IPO valued the company at
amounts of money should around $29 billion. too bad, they add up for the
participate in the investment
world too. Over the past 40 That’s a rich value for a company, when volume
years since Schwab company that doesn’t charge
t introduced low-cost trading, transaction fees, so how soars. The SEC fined margin trading, which is a people like me, who want to you’re down, which
fees have been trending does Robinhood do it? Like way to borrow money from encourage people to invest, encourages a lot of trading.
lower. online behemoths Facebook, Robinhood $65 million for the firm to trade. Margin has have been concerned about
t Enter Robinhood, the first Amazon, and Google, who been around for a long time Robinhood. Trading with a Adding to the concern is
company to offer customers sell your personal data to not being clear with – it is essentially a way to few taps is great but luring Robinhood’s practice of
advertisers to generate supersize your investment inexperienced users with marketing trading tactics, like
investors about how it returns, but it can also video game and online margin and options, without
supersize losses. Finally, like betting gimmicks can be providing enough investor
makes its money. Separately, big investment companies problematic. This type of education. If you want to
and banks, Robinhood also “gamification” was seen in learn more about trading
the Financial Industry makes money off cash you Robinhood’s early practice of with borrowed money and
keep in your account and rewarding investors’ winning about options, I encourage
Regulatory Authority charges $75 to move the trades with confetti you to head to the FINRA
account to another animation (now removed and SEC websites. And of
(FINRA), announced a $70 brokerage firm. from the platform) and course, like any risky
digital nudges, like making investment, limit your
million slap to resolve If this all sounds just fine, the screen turn green when exposure to 5% of your total
you might wonder why you’re up and red when investment portfolio.
various alleged customer

care and suitability

violations.

Robinhood also makes a
lot of money from their
“Robinhood Gold” account,
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ps Semantics are important the bill and insists the book “America’s Expiration
nd for how we communicate migrants are being kept in Date:The Fall of Empires and
ile and define issues. One who isolation, though many Superpowers and the Future
er controls words controls report seeing them
the narrative. wandering outside of the of the United States”

nt So, take the words motel. Many migrants are no end? A woman carrying a small child waits in line with other migrant families to be
a migrant and invader. Is even getting bus tickets to tested for COVID-19 at a tent facility set up across the bus station in McAllen,
ay there a difference? It’s all in fan out across the country. What about the rights of Texas, on March 28, 2021. These families were then transported to the nearby
at how they are perceived by How many of them are American citizens and their respite center operated by Catholic Charities. (Lynda M. González/The Dallas
ns some, and the effect their carrying the virus? property along the border? Morning News/TNS)
me illegal border crossings Texas rancher Brent Smith,
to have on the U.S. Instead of securing the who is also an attorney for link fence to be erected appears to want to flood If he were a Republican,
border, the Biden Kinney County, told Fox along some of the most America with people from
administration’s Justice News he sustained porous sections of the other countries – Central especially if Donald Trump
Department sued Texas thousands of dollars in border, but experience America, Mexico, even
nd One definition of and its governor, Greg damages to his property shows those can be easily Africa. Isn’t Vice President was still in office,
Abbott, “seeking to block from trespassing migrants. traversed. Harris supposed to be in
he invasion should focus our an executive order that The administration has charge of resolving the Democrats would likely be
restricts the transport of money to help the problem? Where is she?
gn attention:“The entrance or migrants through the state migrants. Who will help clamoring for
and authorizes state Smith and other property How much more – how
se advent of anything troopers to pull over owners who suffer many more – can we take? impeachment. With Biden,
vehicles suspected of doing damages? All presidents swear an
nd troublesome or harmful…” so.” On Tuesday, a federal The problem as well as oath to uphold the Democrats barely give lip
judge temporarily blocked Gov. Abbott has ordered the solution begins at the Constitution and the laws
.S. Does anyone want to Abbott’s order. Is the state police to arrest top with the Biden of our country. President service to the invasion and
administration trying to migrants as trespassers, but administration. Despite Biden is not enforcing
argue that the tsunami of encourage more migrants they are likely to have only Biden’s claims that entire immigration laws passed by then change the subject,
to come? And coming they minimal success due to the families who seek to cross previous congresses and
se humanity coming across are by the tens of overwhelming numbers. He the border illegally are signed by former speak talking points, or lie.
uld our southern border thousands. Is there to be also has ordered a chain- being turned back, most are presidents of both parties.
th overwhelming border not. A rose by any other
or patrol is not troublesome name is still a rose. And an
th or harmful? Two motels in It’s no accident. By now it invasion by any other name
at La Joya, Texas, are housing is still an invasion. We
f-- migrants who have tested can only be called cannot sustain a country
he positive for COVID-19. with what amounts to an
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to
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nt Julius Bennett Glaze,“J.B.” spread of the Delta variant and risk his death midair, or
and cases are rising rapidly. keep him in Carrollton,
ve to the community, lived the Do we buckle down in the Missouri and be with him as
spirit of public health and he passed.
es,kind of life that embodied cooperate as mask
mandates are reinstated? “I didn’t want my daddy
so refrains like “salt of the Or do we pretend that this to die alone,” Curry said.
will pass, forgo the vaccine
re earth.” if we’ve avoided it to this When J.B. fell ill with a Readers can reach Mary
point, and hope that fever and leg cramps, only a Sanchez at
onnerdntyr. fabanyrHdmepfearrtohwfaeeanrssdsbioyoanfd,hetovahroestehioulatnsnr.badad;nedar COVID doesn’t kill a loved few days prior, there were J.B. Glaze died of COVID-19, most likely after
de His daughter, Jana Curry, one? no beds available in Kansas [email protected] contracting the Delta variant from an unvaccinated
to is my sorority sister. City, the largest city in the and follow her on Twitter
area. That’s because so @msanchezcolumn. person. (Courtesy of Jana Curry)
many ICU spots were being
taken by other COVID that J.B. would eventually And hearkening back to that a few roping friends
patients, some who had her career, in her mind, she have been convinced of the
been transferred from die of cancer. He’d fought walks through lesson plans validity of vaccination
similar small towns like J.B.’s for how she’d “dumb down” because of her father’s
es She’s a “roper,” a cowgirl Norborne, Missouri. leukemia for 11 years. He the science behind the death and will receive the
vaccine for those who are vaccine. In a sharper
he who is adept and J.B. Glaze died of COVID- The smaller hospital did also had heart issues and still resistant. moment, she posted on
its best, putting J.B. on a social media that people
ial comfortable with horses 19, most likely after ventilator, and resuscitating diabetes. He was Both mother and who do so now can, “Tell
him multiple times. It was daughter know people, them my daddy referred
primarily because of contracting the Delta soon apparent that he participating in an family even, who are you to them.”
wouldn’t recover. hesitant to receive the shot.
n? everything that her beloved variant from an autoimmune therapy Some offer rounds of She works as a dietitian
us father, who she refers to as My friend held one of her excuses, like fearing that at a NW Missouri health
is “Daddy,” taught her about unvaccinated person. Glaze father’s hands, his wife of 61 treatment and a trial for they’ll get sick from it and department and is uplifted,
es? life. years grasped the other as won’t be able to enjoy the at least for short periods,
was vaccinated, having the machine was removed. oral chemotherapy. All of upcoming Soybean Festival. that her father,“didn’t die in
They watched his heart Others push back with vain.”
jumped his northern rate decrease, his oxygen which caused a few people misperceptions that can be
levels plummet. Mother and answered by science. Some Even the four-legged
Missouri county line to daughter felt helpless and to cruelly claim that those are almost belligerent. creatures that J.B. loved,
heartbroken all at once. struggle in their own ways.
val It’s an insult that the last receive it as soon as it was comorbidities were the real “You do not have the Pup-O continues to run to
The family long assumed right to kill somebody else,” the front door at the sound
ns few days of her daddy’s 80- available. He used hand cause of his death. J.B.’s widow counters to of anyone approaching and
those folks. sits atop a quilt-covered
if year life will be the primary sanitizer religiously. And “No,” his wife says to bed, waiting for a master
them. “An anti-vaxxer killed His daughter is grateful who’s not coming home.
ne,focus here. But it’s wore face masks in public. him.”

no necessary, even before the His daughter is still finding

en family has held the funeral. the masks in his vehicles,

So The Glaze family wants hanging on the turn signal A former high school
ss the details of his death told. teacher, Judy Glaze worked
ad America needs to hear the column or near the seat at least part-time in the
classroom until she was 71.
often taken up by Pup-O, his She’s been surprised that a
stage of grief she once
story of his, and so many canine sidekick. taught to health classes, the
anger part,“came out with a
ne similar, avoidable deaths. On J.B.’s final day, July 23, vengeance.”
his daughter, his son and
ns. As a nation, we are at a wife were given a choice.
ss fork-in-the-road.
The
will coronavirus pandemic is
Either attempt to
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Marriage… June 2021

ten years later Court Report

by Carolyn Serpe Divorces

Tara M Anderson & Salvador Ibanez

That’s right, 10 years! beautiful. It was a courthouse Kim A Augustine & Matthew G Augustine
August 12th, 2021, Chris and I wedding with our immediate
celebrate 10 years of wedded family present. They mean Malisa N Balke & Craig L Balke
bliss. LOL! Well, it is not the world to us and we
quite bliss every day. But we couldn’t imagine the day Julie A Bathery & Robert J Bathery Jr
wouldn’t have it any other without them. The actual
way! ceremony was supposed to Kathryn Baumann-Mader & David Mader
be inside, but to my surprise,
This entry Chris is joining Chris called the courthouse Christopher L Benson & Dorique R Benson
me to discuss how the heck and arranged for us to get
we have made it this long, so married in Civic Center Park James J Brinkman & Sandra L Brinkman
we should start from the just outside. That just made
beginning.  In my third entry, the day perfect! After our Maria LCelaya Olmos & Javier Colin
we talked about how Chris intimate wedding, we went
and I originally met and re- around downtown with my Josie J D Clash & Brian K Howell
met and how our relationship sister, Samantha Vaughn (Bird
evolved.  The road to of Paradox Studios) to take Angela J Coker & Jason M Coker
marriage was fun, exciting and photos while our family went
challenging.  We started to my parents to prepare the Carolyn Serpe is a Kenosha native whose family owns The Lettering Delano M Craig & Shemonda M Craig
working on our reception dinner. We went to
communication early, by WineKnot, the harbor and Machine in Downtown Kenosha. Carolyn is a mom to 3 beautiful Kathleen DeFord & Kevin DeFord
reading relationship books the museums for some great
and attending seminars photo ops. girls and a wife for 10 years to her handsome husband Chris. Reed A Dulaney & Brittany K Dulaney
focused on all aspects of a
successful life.  We were in Upon walking around the Carolyn welcomes all to her crazy journey in life and about how she Paulson Elekuru & Adebimpe Elekuru
love and knew that we corner of my parent’s
wanted to spend the rest of driveway, we were shocked to tries to balance it all. Shannon A Estrada & Jose A Estrada
our lives together and were see that they had decorated
trying to make sure that was the backyard into a beautiful dance and danced with our is one thing that I feel we are Kari M Ezelle & Justin C Ezelle
going to happen.  It did work wedding reception backyard
and we ended up walking barbeque for us! Not only parents. The actual day was very good at as well.  As long Ted E Finger & Trinaka An Jamison
down that aisle and did they make sure that we
committed to spending the had a custom cake to cut, perfect and we would never as we are open and hash Elizabeth Garcia & Brian J Leffleman
rest of our lives together. courtesy of Chris’s sister
Jenni, but we also got our first change a thing. things out we can only grow Maria T Gonzalez & Jesus A Gonzalez
The day of our wedding was
from there. We try to pick Rachelle A Gorecki & Elijah C Gorecki
and choose our battles also,
Now fast forward 10 years. which is WAY easier said than Susan M Gust & Andrew M Gust
4 pregnancies. 3 beautiful done.
healthy girls. 1 dog. Our own Casey Haun & Amy Haun J
home. Full time jobs.  A Dennis Hoffman III & Kayla M Hoffman

Hannah L Hunter & Gregory A Hunter

worldwide pandemic. Stress We have so many goals and Jeri Johnson & Melissa Johnson

and joy. aspirations for the rest of our Ashley K Jolly & Kyle C Jolly

lives together and can’t wait Meredith L Jones & Joseph A Jones
to continue dreaming and
“Never quit on the same planning and doing this thing Lynn Kancian & Douglas Kancian
day” says Chris. This as well called life together.
as “Keep the bigger picture in Stasha Kenner & Corey Kenner
mind” are 2 things that he
Pamela L Lowery & William J Lowrey Sr

Nicole M Mathey & Matthew M Mathey

says have kept us trucking Have you found that forever Darren C Mattox & Denise D Mattox

along this long. Yes we argue someone? We would love to Verne’t S Montgomery & David C Montgomery

and banter, but if we keep hear your story and what Amber Neff & Michael Neff

these things in mind we can advice you have for a strong, Tyler Northern & Kristin S Northern

make it through those hard forever lasting relationship. Esperanza Pena-Lopez & Juan J Lopez-Tapia

Laura L Rabenhorst & Karl A Rabenhorst

times.  “Communicate, ([email protected]) Alexandria M Robinson & Jacob T Robinson

communicate, communicate” Thanks for reading!  Kim Roegner & Kenneth R Floyd

Yajaira S Lopez & Ricardo C Ruiz

Past, future, and music’s past.   Reportedly, in trying to think of it like Angelo M Salvado Sr & Aiza F Salvador
1957, the Barbershop Society Christmas in July).   The
the moment had been searching for a new concept of pride, whether it Edna Sanderson & Michael Sanderson
building in the Chicago area be for LGBTQ or
with Meryl Strichartz (not sure if I think Kenosha is identification with other Christine A Scott & Richard Scott
really part of the Chicago groups and causes has been
area, but we will save that for central to my social Ashley E Secker & Jason S Secker
another blog) for it’s consciousness.   It is future
headquarters.  The settled on oriented and that is where the Christopher A Smith & Laura A Smith
an 18,000 square-foot Alford focus should be.
Mansion at 6315 Third Ave. Dayna A Stephens & William W Stephens III
Built at a cost of a half million
dollars in 1933, to add stature Joseph T Stewart & Josie L Stewart
and prestige to their Society
Ahoy! Maybe you heard (it was offered to the Society Steven M Stupec & Sarah J Stupec
him or maybe you saw a social in 1957for the bargain price of
media post where Giannis $75,000.)   They called it Marsha A Sunday & Eric R Sunday
Antetokounmpo talks about Harmony Hall and they used it
the difference between as their headquarters until John Swanson & DeAnna Swanson
focusing on the past, the 1977 when they relocated to
future or the moment. It was Nashville.   This weekend, the Annie R Tarr & John E Borowski
pretty insightful and very Kenosha History Center is
thought provoking.   He went doing one of their Historical Lastly, there is the present Gary B Venutra & Michele I Ventura
on to explain that for him, to Walks around Library Square
focus on the past is about ego; Park.   It doesn’t include the and humility.   Giannis is right Mathea Wahl & Daniel Wahl
the future is  about pride; and Hall, which is on 3rd  Avenue,
that focusing on the moment, but they have brochures and Diana Welker & Claude Welker
in the present,is about you can split off and do your
humility. own private walk. All this to in that being mindful and Andrew A Woods & Amanda Vargas
say, I really love history.
I thought it was really cool present in the moment is the Albert W Yarbrough & Raelene A Yarbrough
that he said it but I haven’t Then there is the future and
been able to fully get my head pride.   Pride could practically best place to be.  But for me, Monica Zavala & Joseph B Zavala
around it.  I love the past.  My be my middle name.   I am
own and everyone else’s.  For proud to be an American, the past and the future are Emily Zolman & Christopher Zolman RE
me, history is so much around proud to live in Kenosha,
and in us.   So, because I’m Meryl Strichartz is a proud to be associated with inextricably tied to the MI
always getting into things… Kenosha resident and the Kenosha Community
I’ve been helping the Kenosha active board member of Sailing Center, proud of my present.  I write these blogs to DUIs ISS
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discover that they were from on August 16th, the last adult
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