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January 14, 2021
Volume 19 - #1

Getting to
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Getting to know Koerri Elijah

We recently sat down and got to know relationship so who knows what's in store Have any thoughts about running for Favorite local place to see a band?
Kenosha’s own viral sensation Koerri Elijah. for the future. political office? Hattrix
Koerri is a naturally inclined journalist who Who is your favorite all-around band or
captured much of the action happening in What does 2021 have in store for you? Everyone's dreamt of being the president musician?
Kenosha last year and inadvertently created haven't they? Bloc Party
Kenosha’s own reality show as thousands of A lot of work, the grind never stops. Favorite Kenosha event?
people tuned in to his Facebook page night What is Play Legit? Taste of Wisconsin
after night to see what was really happening How many skateboards do you own? If you could be a superhero, which one
in the streets. It's a gaming website that I write and produce would you be and why?
7? I just got a shipment from Penny content for. It's all about gaming and real talk. The Flash, I could go into detail but we don't
Although he is most well known for his Skateboards so I think that's right. We cover all types of gaming and nerd have enough time for that, ha.
livestreams, Koerri is a digital content culture topics. Who do you look up to professionally?
creator who is providing a wide array of Has fame changed the way you think? Elon Musk
material on his Facebook page, from Favorite park in Kenosha? What is your favorite TV show?
interviews with local politicians on his Yes and no, I try to keep the language clean Currently, New Girl. I was late to the party
podcast Oh Word, to his thoughts on the due to all of the people who let their kids BASIK and as a single person in their 30s it
latest Playstation on his Play Legit podcast. watch my content but at the end of the day I resonates with me.
Let’s get to know Koerri in this exclusive am an adult lol Favorite museum in Kenosha? What is your favorite movie?
Q&A with Donny Stancato. The 1990 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. It's a
Were you surprised by how peaceful CLEARLY the dinosaur museum. I happen to cinematic masterpiece and the greatest
Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Kenosha has been since the decision on be a lifetime member. comic book adapted into a film.
not to press charges on the office who Favorite junk food?
Several new ventures in and maybe on TV or shot Jacob Blake? Would you rather have endless money or Cheesecake
something. endless love? What was your first job? And what was
No your worst job?
What other services are you going to Endless money, neither guarantees happiness My first job was at Popeyes, my worst job
provide for the city of Kenosha going Most views on one of your lives? lol was probably Huhot.
forward? What is your favorite thing about your
542K For a day trip, you going to Milwaukee or career?
I look forward to working with Kenosha Chicago? I control my own destiny
Community Media and other businesses and What was your most memorable What's your go to karaoke song?
organizations to help them grow. moment in 2020? If sports aren't involved, Chicago It would be Regulate, but you will never catch
me doing karaoke
How do you mentally prepare before one A positive one? Being a keynote speaker If you could star in a movie, what movie Big star or the spot?
of your live videos? would it be? Big Star
How do you maintain such a positive Favorite ninja turtle?
I don't - I just do it. attitude while seeing some of the worst Black Panther 2 Donatello
people have to offer?
Are you getting away with the guy on the Favorite video game? By Donny Stancato
street & doing more editing There's always light in the darkness so I focus
videos/podcasts type media? on that. The Skate series

I'm looking to continue to create and expand Do you consider yourself a role model? What advice would you give someone
into all types of media, not just limited to live wanting to pursue a career similar to
streams and podcasts. Now I suppose I do even though that was yours?
never really my intention.
Do you see yourself working with other Start, that's the hardest part.
media companies? Can you tell us about some of your
merchandise? Favorite pizza place in Kenosha?
If it's the right fit I'm open to collaborate
with anyone. As for now I have a Koerri Elijah merch store I don't have a favorite but I'm digging Kaiser's
with shirts and hats n stuff. I try to pickle pizza at the moment
Is it true you're a Jockey model now? collaborate with artists to keep it fresh. In
the future I'll be rolling out a line that's a lot Ranch with pizza?
Haha no but we are working on building our less "Koerri" oriented.
Only if it's from a KUSD cafeteria
What's next for Koerri?
What is your favorite streaming service,
Just going to keep working on expanding and or favorite way to watch TV?
creating content I'm passionate about.
I use my Apple TV to stream everything

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In US-Mexico border towns, pandemic hits
businesses especially hard

The deafening silence very sad.” Shoppers wander through a massive clothing, household items, and trinket shop left largely empty by ongoing U.S.-Mexico
seems to wash over Isabel border closures in Nogales, Arizona, on Dec. 19, 2020.
Navarro as she watches the The U.S., Mexico, and
empty aisles of the clothing Canada imposed restrictions and the United States are sets, strollers, bows, and what they were in April eight months, and local
and trinket store she’s on land border crossings in facing.” plastic toys lie dormant. 2019, data from the Bureau governments have lost
owned for the past 11 years. March to stop the spread of Once, she explains, the place of Transportation Statistics around $242.6 million in
the virus. Eight months later, Small-business owners like was so full she wouldn’t have shows. sales tax revenue alone,
It’s among dozens of land ports on the Mexico Ms. Navarro were left been able to walk. Now according to the report.
businesses selling low-priced border are open for essential reeling. they’re fortunate if 10 people The impact has been felt
clothing, shoes, toys, activities like work and a day come through. up and down the border in Dr. Coronado grew up on
perfumes, and a vast array of medical appointments, and to Ms. Navarro, born on the other sister cities like El the Arizona side of Nogales
products that make up the U.S. citizens and green card Mexican side of Nogales, “I had four shops, I had to Paso, Texas, and Ciudad and says she remembers
once-bustling downtown of holders. once crossed with her family close two already. And if Juárez in the Mexican state watching her mother write a
Nogales, Arizona. to do holiday shopping in things don’t get better, I will of Chihuahua; and San Diego, shopping list for Nogales,
But regular foot traffic stores like the one she have to close another,” she California, and Tijuana in the Arizona, and Nogales in the
Ms. Navarro’s shop, Mis from Mexican shoppers vital currently runs. Now a explains.“I feel sad, really sad. Mexican state of Baja Mexican state of Sonora
Divinas, sits just a block away to businesses on the U.S. permanent resident in the Because it was a lot of work California. every week.
from a pedestrian crossing side of the border has come U.S., she opened Mis Divinas to build it ... then everything
connecting the small 20,000- to a near standstill. As those in downtown Nogales in began to collapse.” One report by the Baker “A good binational
population border town to restrictions run until at least 2009 and slowly built her Institute for Public Policy shopper knows, ‘I can buy
its sprawling 200,000- Jan. 21, economies across the business up to four Before the pandemic, an concluded that counties this in the U.S., I can buy that
population sister city of 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico locations. estimated 350 million people along the Texas-Mexico in Mexico, and I live better by
Nogales, Mexico. border have crumbled. would cross through ports border had lost nearly $4.9 using both economies,’” she
In the pandemic, she says along the U.S.-Mexico billion in economic activity says.
Every year, business “Border economies are she lost at least 90% of her border by foot or vehicle between March and
owners like Ms. Navarro wait interdependent,” explains customers. Other business every year. November 2020 due to Both sides of the border
in anticipation for crowds of Irasema Coronado, director owners and employees say COVID-19 border closures. survive off one another, she
Mexican families and of the School of Transborder the number is closer to 99%. In April 2020, the first full says, and when they’re cut
workers touting their Studies at Arizona State month of closures, crossings The retail sector in those off, both sides wither. She
aguinaldos, end-of-year University. “There are many Aisles of sparkle-studded by foot, car, and bus in regions has lost worries that such economies
bonuses, to flood over the businesses on the U.S. side of jackets, hair baubles, bed Nogales fell to just a fifth of approximately $2 billion in
border and through their the border that rely and see BORDER on page 4
doors. thrive on Mexican shoppers.
... Likewise, there are
But as border closures businesses in Mexico that
from the beginning of the rely on U.S. shoppers to
pandemic stretch on, the U.S. come and buy.”
side feels more like a ghost
town. The challenge persists Christopher Wilson,
into the new year, even while deputy director of the
the harshest effects were felt Wilson Center’s Mexico
in the just-finished holiday Institute, describes the
season. extended closures as an
“early stay-at-home order
“This is when we make all that never went away.”
of our money,” Ms. Navarro
says in the days leading up to “It’s partially the closure of
Christmas. “But this year, the border, but also a result
their aguinaldo isn’t going to of the COVID recession
be spent here. It’s going to everyone is facing,” Mr.
stay in Mexico.” Wilson says. “These
communities are getting a
Peering out to an empty double dose of what
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How 60,000 discarded flip-flops ended up
on a remote island

In different parts of the foot of the world’s
coastlines. And in December,
world, environmental the marine conservation
organization Oceans Asia
catastrophes happen in reported that an estimated
1.56 billion face masks likely
different ways. In Australia ended up in the oceans in
2020.
and California last year, it
The good news is that
was a series of ferocious immediate action could stem
that flow by 80%, according
wildfires. In Venezuela and to the Pew study. Many
countries – with the notable
Mauritius, there were exception of the United
States – say they are
massive oil spills. In the Horn prepared to do just that.At a
virtual meeting in
of Africa, locusts. November, two-thirds of
United Nations member
And at the remote states declared that they are
Aldabra atoll in Seychelles, open to a global treaty aimed
disaster is unfolding in the at reducing plastic waste. As
form of abandoned fishing with all environmental
gear and 60,000 discarded initiatives, the first step
flip-flops. requires measuring the
extent of the problem, which
That footwear composed means more local projects Loggerhead turtles like this one often get entangled in fishing gear on the Aldabra coast and die. Most of the plastic litter on
about a quarter of the nearly like the ACUP. Aldabra is a result of Seychelles’ tuna-fishing industry, an important source of foreign income for the island nation.
28 tons of plastic debris
collected over five weeks in “Regional solutions that Despite being uninhabited which are already affected by million – a price that should continue to strongly
2019 by the Aldabra Clean provide economies of scale, several other threats,” she Seychelles simply can’t advocate for concrete and
Up Project (ACUP), a team supported by international and strictly protected by the says. afford. measurable action against
of 12 volunteers from expertise and financing, will the major polluters.”
Seychelles and Oxford be the only way our natural Seychelles Islands A price tag “beyond our
University. The project’s aim heritage and landfills will not capacity” As there is no cost data
was to put a number to the receive waste from other Foundation, the islands of Another major challenge from any other island
atoll’s marine plastic countries,” says Jeremy Most of the plastic litter faced by such nations is the cleanups, the calculations
pollution problem and to Raguain, communications the remote Aldabra atoll are on Aldabra is a result of lack of specialized recycling from the ACUP are also
calculate the cost of cleaning and outreach coordinator at Seychelles’ tuna-fishing technology. In Seychelles, meant to help Seychelles and
it up. In a paper published in the Seychelles Islands said to have more plastic industry, an important only PET plastic, glass, paper, other SIDS in planning their
Scientific Reports in Foundation and one of the source of foreign income for and aluminum can be marine litter cleanups, which
September 2020, the team authors of the Scientific trash per square foot than the island nation. Of the commercially recycled, says in turn would help them in
estimated that they had Reports paper. more than 550 tons of litter Mr. Raguain. requesting funding and
collected about 5% of the any other island on Earth. that the team estimated assistance from the
total amount of litter that An uninhabited oasis for remains on the atoll, 83% is international community.
had washed up on the atoll. turtles … and trash The debris, carried by ocean discarded fishing gear, such
as buoys, nets, and rope, says While the extent of plastic
The Aldabra atoll, a currents, has not only Ms. Burt. pollution on Aldabra is
UNESCO World Heritage alarming, Brendan Godley,
Thanks to a convergence Site, lies more than 700 miles harmed wildlife – preventing “The tuna industry is professor of conservation
of ocean currents, some of from Seychelles’ main island polluting with impunity the science at the University of
the most remote islands on of Mahé. The nearest human turtles from nesting, choking very ecosystems it needs to “The variety of pollution Exeter, remains hopeful.
Earth – small island settlement is 400 miles away, sustain and at huge cost to ending up on Aldabra’s “Plastic pollution is an
countries like Seychelles and on the African coast. This birds who have ingested the the regional communities shores, as well as its state of avoidable problem, and there
Maldives in the Indian Ocean coral atoll, one of the world’s who rely on these degradation, is beyond our is a tangible link between our
as well as islands in the largest, is home to the only plastic, entangling marine ecosystems,” she says. “The capacity to manage,” he says. actions and their
Atlantic, Pacific, and wild population of the industry is not paying for the consequences,” he says. “We
Caribbean – are bearing the Aldabra giant tortoise, and is creatures – but also damage they have done.” can all be part of the
brunt of the world’s marine a crucial nesting site for the solution.”
plastic pollution. vulnerable green turtle. damaged entire ecosystems. The ACUP team
calculated that clearing By Anne Pinto-Rodriguez
“We do not yet know the Aldabra of 95% of the litter “In the long term, the cost
full impact of plastic remaining on the atoll would
accumulation on Aldabra,” require a staggering $4.68 of removing plastic from
says April Burt, a Ph.D.
student at Oxford’s protected areas like Aldabra
Department of Plant
Sciences and the Scientific will fall upon already-
Reports paper’s lead author.
The problem is getting She notes that corals are strained conservation
worse: A study published in more likely to become
July 2020 by the Pew stressed when plastic is resources and SIDS [small
Charitable Trusts found that, present in the water.
if current trends continue, island developing states]
plastic flows into the ocean
are expected to nearly triple taxpayers,” says Rolph Payet,
by 2040, reaching 32 million
tons – the equivalent of former Seychelles minister
about 35 pounds for every
for environment, currently

serving as the executive

“This could have an even secretary for the secretariat
more devastating impact on
coral reefs in the region, of the Basel, Rotterdam, and

Stockholm conventions.

“Seychelles and other SIDS

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from Ms. Navarro, wonders the But Mr. Han has long stopped stretch down the street, and a few
same. peering toward the entrance. stray shoppers wander between
Instead, he rather lazily watches the handful of stores that still
Perched behind his register, he Korean singing shows from an old remain open.
leans back in his chair with a TV set tucked in the corner. The
checkered fedora on his head. muffled songs are the only sound “No one has come in. Yesterday,
coming from the shop. only three people came in.
He’s owned the store for 30 Yesterday, I only earned $10,” Mr.
years, but says he left his shop Outside, handwritten signs dot Han says, laughing. “Today, it’s
closed throughout the pandemic. empty display windows of nearby nothing.”
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Bucking predictions, some couples are
bonding not breaking during pandemic

The first time Sandra Elections and Democracy at in the living room with his
Nikolajevs fell in love with Brigham Young University, roommates, she retreated to
her husband was two suggests that overall divorce a bedroom to scroll through
decades ago. rates won’t rise significantly posts on Reddit “for the
as a consequence of the 20th time.”
The second time was pandemic. The 2019 survey
during the spring lockdowns of 3,000 individuals  found “I remember talking to a
of 2020, when the husband that  40% of respondents couple of my friends and
and wife started taking early- reported that their marriage they asked, ‘How’s married
morning walks together. was in trouble. In 2020, that life?’” says Ms. O’Connell, a
figure fell to 29%. self-described extrovert.
“When you first get to “And I was like, ‘I moved
know someone, you spend a Similarly, data from the UK here. And there’s COVID
lot of time talking … and Household Longitudinal and there’s refrigerated
then, after being married Survey Coronavirus Study of morgue trucks. And I really
over 20 years, you take that 2,559 parents revealed that resent my husband. I hate
for granted,” says Ms. “twice as many marriages him. And they were all like,
Nikolajevs, the principal improved during lockdown ‘Oh, my gosh, girl. You know,
bassoonist for the Savannah compared to those that we’re supportive of you if
Philharmonic. “Having this worsened.” The proportion you want a divorce.’”
time where there is 45 of couples considering
minutes or an hour and divorce was two-thirds less Their talk of divorce Nicholas O'Connell and Karina Zannat O'Connell (center) celebrate during their wedding
nothing to do but talk about than it had been between shook Ms. O’Connell. It was ceremony in Bangladesh, where the bride is from.The pair started their married life in New
things, it’s really interesting 2017 to 2019. time to address the situation
because it’s not important with her husband. York City, where he was raised. After living for a time during quarantine with the groom's
stuff. It’s just ideas and things That was despite the fact longtime roommates, they found their own apartment.
that you toss around in your that both surveys discovered Mr. O’Connell listened to
head and you’re able to get that stress in marriages his wife. More than that, he adds, jokingly, “I’m just afraid of respondents who’d Dealing with
feedback and have a real increased during the responded by finding a new if we get a dishwasher, then experienced financial decline
connection that way.” pandemic. Indeed, the apartment for the couple what will happen? I’ll get during the pandemic unemployment and trying to
company LegalTemplates even though he was replaced.” reported increased marital
She adds, “It actually reported a 34% rise of sales reluctant to move. His stress. make a living during the
reminded me of the first of its divorce agreement willingness to adjust “We’re in such a good
days of our courtship when form between March and reminded his wife to place now that we’ve actually “We have grown up in a economic downturn has
we met at Oberlin College.” April of last year compared intentionally focus on her decided that we want to world in which we treat
to the same period in 2019. husband’s good qualities – have a baby in the next six marriage as all about finding poked at the nonromantic
When the lockdowns Blame concerns over the such as taking on the cat months,” adds Ms. your soulmate – which it is
began last year, there was virus, financial instability, and litter and dish-washing – O’Connell. “We’ve renewed and can be – but it’s still, at aspects of marriage, says Mr.
widespread speculation that the effect of being together rather than nitpicking about our commitment to each the end of the day, a
the divorce rate would soon around the clock, often with the bad things. other.” partnership with an Horwitz, the author of
spike. Traditional marriage children, with less personal economic component to it,”
vows uttered during the bliss space. “It changes the whole Partners in romance and says Steve Horwitz, an “Hayek’s Modern Family.”
of a wedding day suddenly atmosphere of the house finance economics professor at Ball
took on a gravity that may “I have seen good when your wife is happy,” State University in Muncie, Those burdens have fallen
not have been fully apparent relationships get stronger says Mr. O’Connell, who According to the Indiana.
before. Indeed, for a great but the past year has been American Family Survey, 45% disproportionately on
many couples, the pandemic sort of a ‘stress test’ for
made it evident that relationships and has women, many of whom have
continuing their relationship exposed the flaws or
was untenable. But for many weaknesses among many left the labor force to care
husbands and wives, the couples,” says Aimee
greatest reset of the Hartstein, a New York-based for schoolchildren at home.
pandemic was that it actually licensed clinical social
drew them closer. They worker, via email. Yet tough economic
became more grateful for
each other. Relationship For Karina Zannat circumstances often
experts say that the ways in O’Connell and Nicholas
which couples navigated the O’Connell, the close encourage couples to lean
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Couples in
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continued from page 5

into each other for support. “It took a little bit of Ana-Shea Fann and Stewart Edwards celebrate their socially distanced wedding in October 2020 in New Orleans.The couple
That was true of the convincing,” laughs Mr. says what's sustained their relationship amid pandemic challenges are small acts of service and remembering to give each
recession of 2007 to 2009, Edwards, an industrial
when divorces declined by electrical estimator. other regular hugs.
7%. In the 2020 American
Family Survey, 65% of those The couple revamped says Mr. Edwards. Date nights busyness of day-to-day at some point. good things God had given
whose financial situation their wedding by setting it in now consist of finding new them. Mr. Prather, an analyst
worsened said they felt a their backyard for 15 socially and inventive recipes to scheduling masked As the co-founder with for the federal government,
greater appreciation for distanced guests. They also cook. Arguments have been him of The Living Water started by expressing
their marital partner and broadcast the ceremony via few and far between. underlying foundational School, a private school in appreciation for his wife, as
60% reported a deeper Zoom. It was a “gorgeous” Fort Washington, Maryland, Dr. Prather recalls. “He said,
commitment to the event, says Ms. Fann. “We made it so well issues. Dr. Prather’s pre-pandemic ‘This is the first time in all of
marriage. because we have each life had been nonstop. For the 13 years that I’ve known
Days after the wedding, other,” says Ms. Fann. “And “Some of these couples instance, two weeks after you that I haven’t seen you
Ana-Shea Fann and Mr. Edwards returned to his that’s actually something were on two parallel train giving birth to the youngest running out to meet some
Stewart Edwards can attest employer’s office for the first that’s kind of rare and not tracks and they could see of their three children, she’d deadlines…’ And he said,
to that. When the pandemic time since the lockdown. By the story everyone else has. I each other and maybe even gone back to work instead of ‘That means you have been
hit, the New Orleans-based 10 o’clock the same morning know a lot of people who’ve headed in the same general taking the entire maternity working extremely hard the
couple had been planning a he was back home. He’d gotten divorced.” direction, but they were not leave. In those days, she and entire time we’ve been
wedding for 300 people. been laid off. on the same train,” says Mr. her husband weren’t married.’”
Then she lost her job as an Slowing down, catching up Shippey, a master trainer at bonding the way they should
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my turn

Racists welcomed Readers can reach Mary
Trump; admitting Sanchez at
it can help us heal
from the shame [email protected]
and follow her on Twitter
with Mary Sanchez @msanchezcolumn.

Racism is central to the He is not now, nor was he Mary Sanchez joins
terror that overtook the ever fit for the presidency. Happenings Q&A on
U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. And Mon. January 25th at
addressing racism will be The primary reason that 1:30 on AM1050 WLIP. Capitol mob were reply. who wanted to pay their
crucial to repairing the buttressing for a second college tuition at in-state
damage caused not just by so many people were blind have run as a surrogate of American Revolution. But Even the threads of rates. He then moved on to
this mob trampling on the that party. He knew what this time, it won’t be the bloviated and outright lies stirring notions about
Capitol, but the entire to that fact, that they levers to pull. And he knew British they oppose, but about nonexistent voter widespread voter fraud,
Trump presidency. where to find its most rather a nation where they fraud were conjured by top which he was never able to
coddled and cajoled him at willing advocates in GOP do not like the racial Republicans years before prove existed. Not in
There is no other viable leadership and among the makeup; with too many Trump descended the Kansas. And not when he
way forward. every turn has everything party faithful who were African Americans, Latinos escalator to announce his was elevated by GOP
already nurturing their and Asians in seats of presidential candidacy. He leadership into the national
It will not be enough to to do with how Trump constituents’ anxiety about power, with LGBTQ as an just picked up the playbook spotlight.
oust a few colluding the changing demographics acronym of respect. and deviously set to work.
senators, to unravel the played to the nation’s most of the nation. In recent months
failures of Capitol police or They gathered in D.C. to Much of it happened in Republican leadership has
even to remove Donald racist underpinnings. The most flagrant in the the siren call of “Save my own beloved portion of shifted away from the likes
Trump from office. America.” From whom do the country, the Midwest. of Kobach and his favorite
Trump’s easiest mark was we need saving? That’s the Kris Kobach of Kansas cut
Trump merely lit the fuse. question that demands a his political teeth on see SANCHEZ on page 8 for more
the GOP which was already attacking migrant children

adept at employing racism

to retain political power.

If the same statement
could be proven true of
Democrats in recent years,
and it can’t, Trump would

Free speech is

being tested

again

with Cal Thomas

Twitter and Facebook would not exist for long. I Readers may email Cal Protesters enter the Senate Chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.Two men photographed carrying zip-ties in
have permanently banned predicted this would Thomas at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday were charged Sunday in a federal court in the District of Columbia.
President Trump from their happen. We have been
social platforms. Former negotiating with various [email protected]. speech encourages radicals that social media outlets Trump supporters believe
National Security Adviser other sites, and will have a Look for Cal Thomas’ new in their extremism. We no the election was rigged.
Michael Flynn and attorney big announcement soon, book “America’s Expiration longer talk to each other. Trump voters deserve to
Sidney Powell have also while we also look at the Date:The Fall of Empires and Too many read and listen have their concerns
been permanently banned possibilities of building out Superpowers and the Future only to what supports their addressed, or the cynicism
as Twitter announced a our own platform in the point of view and demeans and division will only get
purge of “accounts near future.” of the United States” people who believe worse, as will the potential
dedicated to sharing differently. This is unhealthy for more violence.The best
content related to the far- Twitter removed the expressed “concern” over for a free society. way to lower the
right QAnon conspiracy tweet from Trump’s the action by the social temperature would be to
theory.” @POTUS account within media giants. In a Facebook and Twitter create a forum that would
minutes of when it popped statement, Kate Ruane, the made their decision after fairly and accurately
Trump has hinted he may up, and then shut down the ACLU’s senior legislative the president incited his censor conservative examine all claims of voter
account “due to the risk of counsel, said: “We followers to storm the U.S. fraud and ballot
announce an alternative further incitement of understand the desire to Capitol last Wednesday to opinion.With Democrats in manipulation.
violence.” When Trump permanently suspend him stop lawmakers from
social media platform, posted the same message now, but it should concern formalizing Joe Biden’s control of the Senate As for attempts to ban
to his campaign Twitter everyone when companies election victory. Perhaps speech some people don’t
possibly one created by account, “the company like Facebook and Twitter they believe they have additional hearings are like, I give you the lyrics
permanently suspended wield the unchecked power nothing to fear from a from that 1960s musical,
him. In a statement tweeted that account too.” Trump to remove people from Democrat-majority unlikely to be forthcoming. “Hair”: “Let the Sun shine
has now also been banned platforms that have become Congress. Republicans in in.” Indeed, let it in, because
Friday on his presidential from Instagram, Snapchat indispensable for the the Senate had been In another display of the sunshine – and free speech
and Twitch, and Parler, “the speech of billions — holding hearings into double standard, the two – can lead to “the mind’s
Twitter account, Trump alternative social media especially when political charges by conservatives social media giants still true liberation.”
platform favored by realities make those allow the Iranian leadership
wrote: “As I have been conservatives, now finds decisions easier.” and people associated with
itself virtually homeless on the Chinese Communist
saying for a long time, the internet as Amazon The late writer Nat Party to maintain their
(AMZN),Apple (AAPL) and Hentoff, in addition to accounts.
Twitter has gone further Google (GOOGL) have all being an authority on the
booted it from their history of jazz, was also a
and further in banning free platforms in a span of a fierce defender of the right
little more than 24 hours.” to free speech. He once
speech, and tonight, Twitter told me the answer to
The American Civil speech you don’t like is not
employees have Liberties Union has less speech, but more
speech. Banning offensive
coordinated with the

Democrats and the Radical Distrust by many
conservatives of virtually all
Left in removing my media has given rise to
fringe platforms that seek
account from their to tear us further apart and
undermine democracy,
platform, to silence me — while claiming to protect it.
These divisions have
and YOU, the 75,000,000 deepened since the
November election as
great patriots who voted

for me. Twitter may be a

private company, but

without the government’s

gift of Section 230 they

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my turn

Incompetence

runs amok in the Dr Harlan Ullman is UPI's
Arnaud deBorchgrave
U.S. government Distinguished Columnist.  His
next book due out in 2021 is
with Harlan Ullman The Fifth Horseman and the
New MAD:The Tragic History
Is the U.S. government the aim should have been of How Massive Attacks of
capable of exercising any Disruption Are Endangering,
degree of competence? Or to inoculate about 300 Infecting, Engulfing and
has incompetence become Disuniting a 51% Nation.
the new standard? In terms million Americans by
of going to war, the last war Harlan Ullman joins
America decisively won was delivering shots into arms. Happenings Q&A on
World War II. Vietnam, Thu., January 28th at
Afghanistan and the second Yet, production and 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
Iraq War were varying
degrees of disaster. The distribution and not The more important
incompetence in those question, however, is "what
wars was not asking the inoculation took next" for Trump? The 25th
what next question. Amendment will not be
precedence. That was an invoked; Trump will most
likely not be censured. And
extraordinary failure. he surely will not resign.
The House will impeach
The Jan. 6 riots and the and wisely should defer
sending charges to the
takeover of the nation's Senate, making the threat of
a trial into a Damoclean
Capitol seemed sword hanging over Trump's
head as leverage.
inconceivable. After the
Then, what must be done
attacks of Sept. 11, after Jan. 20, when Trump
leaves office? Current polls
In Vietnam, the body protection of the nation show Trump still has an
count and killing our way to approval rating of about
victory became the de facto became a top priority on 43%, a figure that has been
strategy embodied by more or less constant over
"search and destroy." The which hundreds of billions the past four years. Beyond
Afghan assault was to bring that, about 75% of
Osama bin Laden to justice of dollars were spent. And Republicans have declared
and mutated into nation greater loyalty to Trump
building. Similarly, after the still, with all the advance than to the party. Large fencing is installed around the U.S. Capitol ahead of the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration in Washington, D.C.
Iraqi Army was smashed in
2003, the George W. Bush warning about protesters Gen. Colin Powell general is correct. sufficient punishment.While Trump cannot create his
administration never asked believes that once Trump is However, ironically, it would own Internet platform or
or answered what next. and insurrectionists incited gone, his relevance will not be surprising to see a mainstream Senate acquire a media company
decline. One hopes that the boost in support of Trump from which he can rally his
by Donald Trump, that the by his base as the House Republicans are furious base, send his message and
moves to impeach. falsely claim a landslide
Capitol was undefended with Trump's conduct, no electoral victory of which
Make no mistake: The he was cheated.
and unprepared is a Constitution is at grave clear consensus has
risk.A system of checks and Third, the vulnerability of
colossal and singular act of balances with a highly developed on what actions government to physical
divided government and disruption must be
incompetence. public can only work if are appropriate and which addressed. A new MAD --
civility and compromise are Massive Attacks of
This failure has spread Is the United States any in evidence. Both are not. are not. Disruption -- must become
better prepared for Jan. 20 And both parties seem central to our national
well beyond the use of and the inauguration of intractably divided. First, preventing Trump security strategy to
President-elect Joe Biden contain, prevent and deter
military force. In the fight to than for Jan. 6, when calls The GOP is the TOP -- from holding any future it. Jan. 6 could not have
for a "million man MAGA Trump's Own Party. more strongly made this
contain the COVID-19 march" are circulating on Democrats are split with a federal office is an case.
the Internet and social hard left-wing progressive
pandemic, the private media? We will see. One element and others imperative. But a trial in the But will competence and
guess is that while the demanding to bring Trump common sense win out? If
sector was brilliant in National Mall and Capitol to justice in which Senate now would prevent history is prologue, the
Hill may be well guarded, impeachment may not be a nation is in trouble.
producing vaccines with what if rioters choose a other business such as
location such as the White
breathtaking speed. But the House, Treasury, FBI or COVID-19 relief and
other government building
federal government and to assault? Is the United critical legislation from
States prepared?
Operation Warp Speed being considered. As

based its strategy on suggested, using

manufacturing and impeachment as a lever

distributing hundreds of might be a better outcome.

millions of vaccine doses. Second, what Trump plans
once he leaves office cannot
Its incompetence was be dismissed. Banned from
failing to understand that Twitter does not mean

Sanchez Too many people,
including elected officials
playmate at the U.S.- continued from page 7 and some journalists,
Mexico border, Steve dismissed or underplayed
Bannon. They’ve become out how race ran through Trump’s deeply embedded
caustic to their own kind, some of the claims. Lies racism, his disregard for the
embroiled in sleazy money were plentiful about voting outcome of the election, his
grabs while trying to build a irregularities in cities with flagrant stoking of
privately funded wall at the large populations of Black conspiracy theories and his
border of U.S. and Mexico. and Latino people. mental unraveling.

And now, the GOP is Few wanted to discuss it. Capitol Hill police salute the passing of the funeral hearse on Sunday for slain Officer Brian Sicknick, who died in the He was never fit to be
busy twisting and turning, Instead, “What about rioting at the U.S. Capitol our president. The leading
distancing and deflecting BLM/antifa” became a quick argument to that point was
from its previous support refrain as the Capitol was stop the results of a fair up as this generation’s when race must be his unrelenting use of
of Trump. under siege, with some racism as a method of
people going so far as to election, one that has been reaction to centuries of considered. drawing followers into his
Missouri’s Sen. Josh claim it was those wake.
Hawley is the new mark, for ideologies behind the upheld by the courts, had deaths and discrimination. Bear this in mind too;
his role as an instigator and marauders scaling walls, been recounted under thousands who didn’t Soon enough, the White
his unrelenting false claims breaking windows and state-governed procedures The fact that so many gather in D.C., went to House will be rid of the
of election fraud. pushing their way past and the electoral votes their statehouses to voice man. But everything he
security. It was nonsense. were in the process of Trump supporters their support of Trump. churned, will still be with
Honesty would require being certified by Congress. That type of ardent fan us.
going deeper and ferreting seemingly can’t or won’t

distinguish between the

Trump supporters two illustrates the mental

stormed the U.S. Capitol to Black Lives Matter rose gymnastics so common base won’t easily disperse.

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social security
and you

Turning full If you have a Social
retirement age in Security question,Tom
2021? Consider filing Margenau has the answer.
for benefits this
month Contact him at
thomas.margenau@comcast.
with Tom Margenau net.To find out more about
Tom Margenau and to read
I write a column discussed in this column.
past columns and see
similar to this one every But if you are not features from other Creators
interested in that
January. But I don't mind strategy, and plan to start Syndicate writers and
your benefits at FRA in cartoonists, visit the Creators
plagiarizing myself, 2021, then, as I said, you
may want to consider Syndicate website at
because it contains a filing for benefits in www.creators.com.
January.
very important message due for every $2 you
earn over $18,960 in
for people planning to 2021.

retire in 2021. However, the rules say penalty rules no longer age is $2,500 per month, would still get $25,640 in
that once you reach your apply, and he can get his let's look at his options. benefits for the year.
January is a critical full retirement age, you Social Security. And prior That's still way better
are due full Social to that, he's making way than the $15,000 he
month for the hundreds The reason for this Security benefits even if more than the $18,960 Ed's first option is to would be due by waiting
you are still working and income threshold. wait until July to start his until July to file for his
of thousands of potential early filing timeframe has no matter how much Social Security benefits. Social Security.
money you are making. He'll get $2,500 per
Social Security to do with some quirky month for six months or
Let's follow an $15,000 for the year
beneficiaries who are and complicated features example. Let's say Ed was 2021.
born in May 1955, which
reaching 66 and 2 of Social Security's means he'll reach his full But here is why Ed
retirement age of 66 and
months, their so-called earnings penalty 2 months in July 2021. should check into Please note that this
And let's further say Ed strategy generally only
full retirement age, in provisions. Those generally makes about applying for Social works for those whose
$80,000 per year, and he earnings are at least
2021. The important provisions generally keep plans to continue Security in January. Ed's second option is close to the $50,520 g
working indefinitely. to file for Social Security limit and who turn full
message: All of them seniors who are still Based on the earnings Congress set up a more in January. Starting his retirement age in early-
penalty rules I briefly benefits slightly early, his to mid- 2021. In other t
should at least consider working off of Social outlined above, Ed figures lenient earnings monthly rate is reduced words, if you will make a
he must wait until July to about $2,400. That lot more than $50,520
the possibility of filing for Security's rolls until they (his full retirement age) threshold for the year comes out to $28,800 in this year, or of you reach
to begin collecting his total benefits for the year your full retirement age w
their benefits this month, reach that magic full Social Security benefits. you reach your full 2021. The downside to later in the year, you t
As I said, at that magical option two is his ongoing should probably just wait
even though they may retirement age. point, the earnings retirement age. monthly benefit rate will until your FRA to file for w
be $100 less than what your Social Security
not be reaching their The law essentially says Specifically, it says you he would have been benefits.
getting in option one. But
retirement age until later if you are over 62 but can earn up to $50,520 because he'd be getting
about $13,800 less in
in the year. under your full between January and the 2021 benefits in option
one, it would take Ed a
Please note that if you retirement age and are month you reach your long time to make up
want to delay filing for that loss with his extra
your Social Security still working full time, you full retirement age and $100 per month in
benefits until 70 to get ongoing benefits.
the "delayed retirement are not eligible for Social still get Social Security
credit" of almost 32%
added to your monthly Security. Specifically, the benefits. And even if you
benefits, then you should
forgo the procedure rules require that the earn more than $50,520,

Social Security you lose only $1 from

Administration deduct your benefits for every I know these rules are

$1 from any retirement $3 you exceed that complicated and the

benefits you might be threshold. math in the examples

Ed is going to make above might be difficult
$40,000 between January
Spring Primary Election and June (i.e., before he to follow. But my overall t
reaches the magic age of message is easy to w
is February 16 66 and 2 months). And follow: If you're reaching
that's under the $50,520
threshold for 2021, Even if Ed was going to age 66 and 2 months in
which means Ed is due
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Driver and passenger safety register and request an absentee
throughout the COVID-19 pandemic ballot. But there is a bit of a come out ahead by filing Many readers in the past
remains a top priority. Necessary
precautions to limit exposure For those unable to access the catch. By starting his in January. told me that when they
between driver and rider are taken. MyVote website, ADRC staff can
Rides will be provided by the provide direct assistance.To learn benefits in January, Ed will Here is a quick tried to file in January,w
following services: more call the ADRC at 262-605- example using that
6646. be accepting a slightly scenario. Let's say Ed will Social Security
make $60,000 between
reduced amount. January and June. That's Administration
$9,480 over the $50,520
(Benefits are reduced limit. And one-third of representatives told
that excess, or $3,160,
roughly one-half of 1% must be deducted from them they could not do
his 2021 benefits. But he
for each month they are so. Sadly, far too many

taken before full SSA agents are unfamiliar

retirement age.) with how these rules

If Ed's Social Security work. If you run into the
benefit at full retirement
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Brother writes You can email
unsettling funeral Amy Dickinson at
home dispatches [email protected]
or send a letter to
Dear Amy: I have an who has paid the funeral Ask Amy, P.O. Box 194,
home for this important Freeville, NY 13068.
older brother who is service. The deceased You can also follow her on
and their family members Twitter @askingamy
currently fighting should be respected,
both in the moment of or Facebook.
lymphoma and stage 4 preparing for burial, and
afterward.
liver cancer. It is too late
Your twin brother
for surgery, so they are desperately requires
sensitivity training.
treating him as an
When your husband
outpatient. The outlook advises you to "stay out sees the children all the
of it," what is he saying? time.
is not great. These emails are
addressed to you and so
My twin brother I'd say that you are Lately, via Zoom, my in Britain. beyond angry. course for the rest of
recently was hired to already in it. daughter has been your life.
work at a funeral home. referring to me as a I am struggling with
These notifications mash-up of both dealing with grief and For now, table your
He sends emails to me upset you, and so you grandmother names. To Your daughter is asking anger at the same time. decision about disclosing
and our older brother have the right (and her children, she refers them to call you this to your children.
almost daily regarding his responsibility) to tell to me as "Nanny-Gee." "Grandmother Gee," It's Should I tell my adult Remember that they are
funeral home duties. your brother the truth But that's not my name. an honorific. Given that children about their grieving, too. I believe
about how they affect you mainly know these father, or take this secret that you will eventually
These emails are you. very young children so with me to the grave? -- want to tell them about
far via video, I can see Angry Widow this, but if you do this
extremely detailed I suggest that you send If this was an issue with why your daughter later, you will be much
him an email: "I can tell by prompts them in this Dear Angry: You are more intentional, calmer,
accounts of prepping your detailed any of my other children, way. She is making sure experiencing the earlier and more emotionally
descriptions that your they realize that you are cycles of grief, available to help your
bodies ("they don't work is engrossing. I am I'd address it calmly and their grandmother, just compounded by your children through their
truly happy for you that like the grandmother understandable anger own reactions.
complain"), transporting you seem to love your directly. This particular they see regularly in real regarding your husband's
job. However, being life. affair. I urge you to seek grief
bodies, preparing for totally honest, I find the daughter, though, is counseling. Although
detailed discussions of You see this as an hospice organizations
funerals, placing the what happens behind the provocative, argues either/or:Tell, or take this offer grief groups,
scenes at the funeral secret to the grave. because your grief is
heavy casket over the home very unsettling - in unnecessarily, and complicated by betrayal,
no small part because However, when you you should seek
grave on slings and our older brother is institutes estrangement have just experienced a individual counseling. You
currently fighting for his huge loss, the wisest would definitely benefit
straps, and then waiting own life. I don't know fairly frequently. I'm thing to do is to ... wait. If from disclosing this to a
how he feels about these at all possible, you should professional, and sorting
for the family to leave so descriptions, but in my unwilling to rock her wait several months to through your own
sisterly opinion, I do wish make any huge decisions. feelings of both loss and
they can lower the casket you would be more boat without good It is clear that you have What you choose to do anger.
sensitive. a problematic history during these earlier days
down ("sometimes it reason. with this particular will help to set the
Dear Amy: I have a daughter, but my advice is
seems like forever"). dozen grandchildren. I'm working very hard that you should not
Since the first was born to maintain a long- create or inflate a
Amy, I am struggling 14 years ago, all my distance relationship problem where there
with these emails, grandkids have used a with these kids. I'd like to shouldn't be one. Must all
thinking that if I were the particular grandmother be called by MY name. of your grandchildren
one fighting for my life, I title, "Gee," for me. I Can you help me figure address you identically,
would not want to read chose it because it's easy, this out? -- What's In A and only by the name you
or hear about this. and because it doesn't Name? choose? I hope not.
confuse me with other
These details upset me, grandparents and great- Dear What's: Your Dear Amy: After my
but I am more concerned grandparents, many of name is not "Gee." That's
about my older brother whom are still alive. the assigned endearment husband's recent
and how this affects him. your American
One of my daughters grandchildren use. Your
However, I don't want lives overseas. She has European grandchildren unexpected death, I
to open up a kettle of two children (ages 2 and are being prompted to
worms. 4) Their European refer to you by that learned about his
grandmother is local and name, with the prefix of
"Nanny." Nanny, like longtime affair with a co-
"Nana," translates to
My husband says to "grandmother," especially worker (conducted while
stay out of it, and not get
involved. I am not sure they traveled for work).
what to do.
I found emails, letters,
Do you have any and enough proof to
thoughts or suggestions want to make any spouse
about what I might say? -
- Grieving

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off, making fun of the

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officials Tuesday expanded COVID-19 vaccine be assisting states in opening new vaccination
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no time to waste," HHS secretary Alex Azar said sufficient doses will be available. in their initial vaccine distribution phase.
during a press briefing Tuesday.
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situation we face," he said. protection. The government had been holding back parts of the country.
half of the available doses in an effort to make sure
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recommendations issued by the U.S. Centers for shot in phase 1A -- healthcare workers, those over
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older, particularly those residing in nursing homes, end of February and March, respectively, officials over long-term side effects.
to be given priority. said.
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million vaccine doses distributed nationally had reported anaphylaxis after receiving the vaccine.
been administered to these groups, based on agency
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administration will release all available doses of the
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books ‘Better Luck Next Time’ calls
to mind screwball comedies
of the 1930s

Q&A with William G. As a young bride, one of my
Thomas III, author of ‘A
Question of Freedom’ stranger initiations into my

husband’s family involved hearing

stories about his step-

Many Americans may be grandmother’s disappointing first
surprised to learn that enslaved
people in the United States marriage and her six-week stay on
used the court system to fight
for their freedom. University of a Western dude ranch in the 1930s
Nebraska historian William G.
Thomas III highlights such – which enabled her to establish
lawsuits against Jesuits in
Maryland in A Question of Nevada residency and
Freedom: The Families Who
Challenged Slavery From the subsequently procure a quick Reno
Nation’s Founding to the
Civil War. He discussed the divorce. Her first husband, she told
book with Randy Dotinga.
me, had grown older but had never

grown up.

Q: You write that Maryland, the destruction of their families Her course of action was not other immediately, and co-opt reminds Emily, “You don’t stop
which remained in the Union that the slave trade and slavery unique; in fact, an entire business young Ward (who is said to look mattering once you give birth, you
during the Civil War, was a itself posed on a daily basis. had developed around the needs of like Cary Grant in cowboy boots) know,” and urges her to be less
major slave state. What should women in her situation. Julia to squire them around. cautious and more thrill-seeking.
we know about its history? Q: Does this cast a different Claiborne Johnson’s fun second Emily tries, with mixed results.
light on the efforts made by novel Better Luck Next Time Emily Sommer, petite, dark-
Maryland had the third enslaved people? takes readers to one so-called haired, with “the plummy accent of Johnson spins a madcap plot with
largest enslaved population in divorce ranch in 1938. The book women who cycled through the more twists than a Tiffany braided
the nation – more than 100,000 Yes. Enslaved families were channels Frank Capra’s screwball Seven Sisters colleges back East,” gold choker. There are confidential
– in 1790. Only Virginia and the driving force in their quest comedies, and more specifically, drives herself from San Francisco, conversations overheard by the
South Carolina had more for freedom. The lawsuits were George Cukor’s hilarious 1939 quaking with distress the whole wrong people, and trysts not quite
enslaved people. Slavery defined brought by people like Charles movie version of Clare Boothe way, in the cashmere-upholstered hidden by “the earth’s nocturnal
every aspect of Maryland’s Mahoney, a fifth-generation Luce’s play “The Women” – in Pierce-Arrow she’d bought for her gaffer, the moon.” Johnson carefully
society in the 17th, 18th, and descendant of a free Black which much of the all-female, all- philandering husband Archer. sets up her punchlines, often with
19th centuries. It was deeply woman. He did the legwork to star cast (Norma Shearer, Rosalind (Archer chose the car because of physical comedy, including
established on the state’s bring his freedom petition Russell, Joan Crawford, and its self-referential hood ornament ridiculous masquerade costumes
Western Shore, where tobacco before the courts: He found Paulette Goddard) also land on a – a little man with a bow and and mistaken identities. At a
was the cash crop. witnesses and sat in on every Reno divorce ranch. arrow.) particularly inopportune moment,
deposition that was taken in his Emily’s underwear is found
Q: How did the Jesuits, a case. He was freed by a jury Johnson frames her story Tall, blond, adventurous, bitingly scandalously clipped to the Pierce-
Roman Catholic religious order, trial, but that [decision] was through memory, in the spirit of witty Nina O’Malley, a repeat Arrow’s hood ornament.
become involved in slavery? reversed. Ultimately, he the coming-of-age film “Summer of customer, flies herself in from St.
negotiated for his freedom with '42.” Her male narrator, Howard Louis in her double-cockpit biplane This is a novel fueled by secrets.
They began to buy, sell, and the Jesuits after the final trial Stovall Bennett III, a retired for her third divorce. (Her first was
hold slaves in South America. and then went to Washington southern doctor better known as from her flight instructor, whom Ward’s decision not to reveal his
When they came to Maryland to work and build up enough Ward, wistfully recalls the summer she married at 17.) This is a
to start missions in the 17th wealth to purchase his of ’38. This was his last season character who “believes that background leads to painfully
century, they quickly became daughter’s freedom. working at the amusingly named anything worth doing is worth
slaveholders. Other churches Flying Leap ranch as a pseudo- overdoing.” She channels Carole condescending treatment,
came to be slaveholders too, This is a man whose quest cowboy and gofer. His main job Lombard with a touch of Katharine
but the Jesuits were among the extended well over 20 years. was to squire – or wrangle – the Hepburn, and gets all the novel’s especially by Emily, who marvels at
largest slaveholders in Maryland More than any other wealthy women that the ranch best lines. Asked why she became
during this period. Marylander of his day, he catered to. an aviatrix, she quips, “I took up his good manners considering his
brought before the public the flying airplanes because I enjoy
Like many others, the Jesuits question of freedom and the Ward’s recollections are spurred looking down on people.” lowly status, and calls him a
were unable to reckon with the moral problem of slavery. 50 years later by an unnamed
moral problem of slavery. They visitor at his nursing home in Johnson sets the tone for the diamond in the rough. In keeping
fought these lawsuits bitterly Q: Why is it important to Whistler, Tennessee. The visitor novel’s spiky take on marriage with
and to the end. understand the stories of these tells the retired doctor that he is epigraphs from Zsa Zsa Gabor and with the times, Nina won’t name
families and their lawsuits? writing a book about divorce Groucho Marx, which are
Q: How difficult was it for ranches and asks to record their complemented by the zingers the reason why her third marriage
enslaved people to challenge This story shows us that interviews. Ward reports having heard at the
their owners in court? freedom was contended for. It ranch, including, “He was taller to a man she clearly still loves can’t
wasn’t inexorable. It wasn’t Prompted by a group when he was sitting on his wallet.”
It was an extraordinary act of inevitable. It was achieved. photograph of the guests and staff work.
courage, faith, and principle.This of the Flying Leap from that pivotal Emily is torn about her divorce –
legal struggle for freedom Q: What do their summer, Ward happily dives back and she’s not the only one. Her “Better Luck Next Time” takes
shows us that slavery was descendants say? into the past. Hobbled by a split is complicated by desperation its title from what the Reno judge
fought and contested as a wartime back injury, and with no to appease her scornful teenaged purportedly said “every time he
matter of law from the nation’s They are the living testimony wife or children (“not that I know daughter, whom Archer sends out gaveled a woman from wife to
founding, and even before the to the significance of the story. of, anyway, ha ha”), he’s glad to have for a visit as a last-ditch effort to divorcee.” Without giving away too
nation’s founding. There’s no question that they a rapt listener. Despite the decades hold onto his rich wife. Nina much, I can say that, in an ironic
want greater honesty in that have passed, he recalls the twist, there is no next time for
The common experience of American society, from all of us, hijinks and heartaches from that most of these characters. But there
these slaves was family: They about the history of American year in sharp detail. With less is a delightful sense of closure in
had established, loved, nurtured, slavery. relish, he recalls how he landed at the way Johnson wraps up this
and built families across several the ranch after his parents lost shiny package, which arrives just
generations in the 18th century By Randy Dotinga their stately home and comfortable after New Year’s like a late holiday
despite enslavement – and livelihood during the Depression, gift.
within enslavement. They were forcing him to withdraw from Yale.
determined to keep their By Heller McAlpin
families together, stay rooted in Ward’s voice is homey and –
this part of Maryland, and resist presumably deliberately – cliché-
ridden. His tale centers on two
striking, well-to-do women in their
30s; both arrive at the ranch on
their own steam, take to each

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Surf, swim, sing: Finding joy in Q&A with Danielle
lifelong learning in ‘Beginners’ Evans, author of ‘The
Office of Historical
In the new year, people surfing. “These were people Corrections’
resolve to improve themselves: who’d temporarily abandoned
Quit being so snarky, eat more the safe harbors of adulthood In the novel The Office of Historical Corrections,
kale, learn the trombone! – their bankable competency Danielle Evans tackles topics that permeate the national
at work, the familiar conversation in the United States, such as racial identity,
But travel writer Tom rationalizations of what was cancel culture, and grief. In this collection of six short
Vanderbilt didn’t wait for a age appropriate, that fallback stories and a novella, she delivers pieces that are as timely
new year to shake up his move of relinquishing the idea as social media posts but with searing insights that are
world. After watching his of growth to their children – conveyed in exquisite prose.
daughter learn to play chess, he to take part in a challenging,
decided to join her. risky, and maybe even futile Q:What do you think is the role of fiction in addressing
Emboldened by the endeavor.” topical issues such as race, or is that asking too much of
experience, Vanderbilt started literature?
on his own adult-ed study, He finds out the key to
learning to sing, surf, swim, learning new things is shifting I don’t approach fiction with the idea that the right story
juggle, draw, and create jewelry. the focus off yourself. With can lead to some specific real-life outcome or immediate
surfing, he learns to look at the transformation, but I do think the goal of all literature is to
In Beginners: The Joy and shore, not his feet or board. ask questions about how it feels to be alive and what it
When he takes up juggling, he means to be a person, and a lot of what that means might
Transformative Power of learns that jugglers don’t look also feel topical, especially if you’re reading about a
at the balls, they watch the character who is used to asking questions or taking steps
Lifelong Learning, he apex of where things are that you don’t have to. If you are a Black person and
thrown. As he adds balls, he someone you love is sick, and you know your family’s lived
describes frankly (and learns that time slows down, experience, medical racism isn’t topical, it’s your life. ... So
especially if you stop thinking. a story about grief and illness engages [race] along with
humorously) the everything else.
When he starts taking
embarrassment that comes drawing classes, that state of In my stories, I explore that space between what we
“not thinking” comes into play think and what we say out loud, between what we actually
with repeated failures as well as well. Claude Monet want and how we behave. Those tensions and
counseled,“try to forget what objects contradictions create complex characters and the capacity
as quiet triumphs. His aim is to you have before you, a tree, a house, a for surprise. Everyone has reasons to conceal things;
field, or whatever. Merely think, here everyone has pressure to pretend or perform, but an
understand what it means for a is a little square of blue, here an awareness of misogyny, or racism, or classism, or other
oblong of pink, here a streak of kinds of inequality and privilege is part of how people
middle-aged man to learn new yellow, and paint it just as it looks to decide when and how to conceal their honest reactions or
you.” desires and perform a role. I can’t imagine writing
skills, and, deeper still, how characters complex enough to be literary without an
Over the course of his learning awareness of that structural reality.
learning happens. “It’s about crusade,Vanderbilt works through his
own perfectionism and judgment, Q:You are a master of the short story.What do you find
small acts of reinvention, at any acknowledges mistakes and keeps so compelling about the genre?
trying.
age, that can make life seem magical,” number of needs in my life.There was I like the intensity of compression, the way it asks us to
the simple getting out of the house, He didn’t win any prizes or break look at moments or events that have a long reverberation
he writes. being among people, working on new ground – nor was that the in a person’s life. I think the passage of time often works
something that wasn’t work.” intention. He gained “modest differently in a story than in a novel because of that
Vanderbilt isn’t looking for a bucket competency.” “But doing these compression, and so my favorite short stories frequently
list or something to crow about on Then Vanderbilt takes up surfing in things,” he writes, “brought me an ask the reader to look at the past, present, and future at
social media; he wants skills he can the cold waters of the Rockaways in immense and almost forgotten kind almost the same time. I love a story collection because I
relax into and slowly develop over a New York. From the “pop up” from of pleasure.” think it allows a writer to consider the same question from
lifetime. He hires teachers, joins prone position to upright on the different perspectives, or allows the reader to ask the
groups, and interviews experts. board, he learns how to read the signs Perhaps he will encourage you to same questions but wrestle with different answers.
of the ocean and catch waves. He spend 2021 finding delight in honing
To learn how to sing, he engages a takes his family to Costa Rica, where new or forgotten skills. “It takes the Q:Your book takes a stark but honest look at America’s
voice teacher, who assuages his fears he attends a surfing camp and whole of life,” he quotes Seneca, “to past and present. Do you see ways that readers can find in
about his ability: Yes, she says, your discovers that it’s a serious pursuit.To learn how to live.” these stories a sense of hope for our future?
voice may have certain parameters, get better quicker, he is told he needs
but it’s still trainable.“You should walk to “treat surfing as a sport, with all By Catherine Foster A few years ago, I was talking to a friend who has written
into this completely open and think of the tools that entails: a rigorous, fiction and nonfiction about the environmental crisis. She
it as a joyful experience,” she tells thoughtful skills development plan; said she would often give a talk or reading, and be asked
him. Good advice for learning video feedback and analysis; and afterward if she could provide any hopeful information, and
anything new. drills.” she often wanted to ask, “But what have you done to
deserve hope?”
He next joins a local group, the After many missed waves and
Britpop Choir. The joy is wipeouts, his first big Costa Rican And I think if there is any hope on this other looming
transcendent. The ensemble turns wave, “was just sheer, stupid bliss,” he question for our country, that’s the question to ask – what
from a mismatched collection of recalls. have we done, whether it’s looking honestly at the
singers to one unified voice. And he historical record, or standing up for truth or accountability,
finds more than just a good vocal He notices that the 40-somethings even if it costs something, even if it means giving something
workout. “Before I knew it, the in the camp are learning more than up, even if it means sometimes holding ourselves
Britpop Choir was fulfilling any accountable?

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Training your large breed
dog to use a ramp

Dear Cathy, My ten-year- Third, work on ramp As well as being a recuring
old, 160-pound Malamute will training. Put the ramp flat on guest on Happenings Q&A,
not get in the car anymore. I your living room floor. Get a
bought a ramp and put her clicker (or use a reward word Cathy M. Rosenthal is a
favorite treat the top of it, but like "bingo") and click and treat longtime animal advocate,
she won't go up it. She's on every time your dog walks author, columnist and pet
Gabapentin for hip pain. around, looks at, sniffs, or expert who has more than
touches the ramp with nose or
My vet has come here for paw. Next, lure her onto the 25 years in the animal
home visits, but she always ramp by holding a treat at the welfare field. Send your pet
needs me to help hold her beginning of it. Click and treat questions, stories and tips to
down and I can't do that for "one paw" on the ramp,
anymore due to my health. then "two paws," and so on. [email protected].
She's intimidating because of What you want is for her to be
her size. One vet that came to comfortable stepping on and Cathy Rosenthal joins Kayaker rescues British actor finds
see her was afraid of her, so I walking across the ramp. Happenings Q&A on swimming goat python in the loo
didn't have her back again. I Tue. January 26th at
wish I could find a vet that Once your dog is 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP. A British soap opera star called
wasn't afraid of her and could comfortable with the flat animal rescuers for help when he
come to the house. Any ramp, move the ramp to her A Maine kayaker ventured into the found a 4-foot snake slithering across
suggestions? -Rita, Philadelphia dog bed so there is a slight lift, his toilet seat. Harry Visinoni, who plays
and repeat the training ocean to rescue a goat that escaped Seb Franklin on popular ITV soap
Dear Rita, I have several process. Once she is Coronation Street, said he went into
suggestions, but first I want to comfortable with that, move it today. They are all fixed. The from the parking lot of a veterinary the bathroom and discovered
address your veterinarian's to a couch or low bed, and something surprising on the toilet. "I
reactions to your big dog. Size repeat the training process. mama cat has become very hospital and swam into the water. The was just brushing my teeth and saw
shouldn't matter.Vets treat big what looked like a snake head pop
dogs all the time. If your dog is Eventually, take the ramp obese and I am not sure how goat ended up being chased by police from behind the wall at the back of the
growling or making them feel out to the car. The back of an toilet," Visinoni recalled. "I didn't take it
unsafe, then they would simply SUV is too high and can cause to deal with it because the officers on the beach, where Jerri in at first and then looked again and
muzzle her during the exam. the ramp to be too steep for realized what I had actually seen so I
So, I am assuming the difficulty most dogs to feel steady on. other four, are normal weight. I Holmes spotted the scene from her left the bathroom quickly and closed
may be that these vets are Instead, place the ramp at floor the door." Visinoni sealed up the room
coming to your home without level with one of the backseat know I should probably home. Holmes, a year-round kayaker, and the next day RSPCA animal
an assistant, and since you can't doors. It's lower and will give rescuer Sonia Hulme was summoned
hold the dog anymore, they're her a more secure, and less remove the dry food but the rushed into action when she saw the to the scene. Hulme found the snake,
unable to treat the dog sloped way to step into the which she identified as a royal python,
without this help. backseat of the vehicle. Repeat four babies nibble at it on a goat swim out into the ocean. "This behind the radiator in the bathroom.
the training process. Click and "She was quite feisty and really didn't
So, my first suggestion is to treat for any and all contact regular basis. Even the mama goat was in the water swimming over want to come away from the radiator -
call veterinarians who make with the ramp. At some point, - so I managed to unscrew the top part
house calls and make sure they she will be comfortable cat doesn't gorge on it. Any to Islesboro," Holmes told WMTW-TV. and as it dropped forward," Hulme
bring a vet tech with them. My enough to walk up the ramp. said. Hulme said the snake is believed
second suggestion is to train You also can try collapsible suggestions? -Frank, "There's no way this goat was turning to have belonged to the previous
your dog to tolerate a basket stairs if you think she would occupant of the apartment, who died
muzzle. Put the muzzle on her like that better. This can take Catasauqua, Pennsylvania around." Holmes said she was unable several months earlier. She said the
and use a clicker or reward time though, so be patient. snake was likely hiding inside the
word like "bingo" to Until then, find a house call Dear Frank, When there to wrangle the goat with a rope, apartment for all of that time.
acknowledge her tolerance, veterinarian who can arrive are multiple cats in the home, because it kept slipping its head out of
then give her a treat. Start at with a helper. free feeding can often result in the lasso, but she was able to block the Baby elephant struck
just one minute of training a one cat getting more than the animal's path and get it to swim back to by motorcycle
few times a day and then build Dear Cathy, Last summer, a lion's share of food. One shore, where its owner was able to revived with CPR
up to 15 minutes, once or mama cat and four babies took solution is a microchip feeder lure it with bananas. The goat was
twice a day until you are sure up residence in my backyard. bowl for each cat. The bowl is warmed with blankets and eventually An off-duty emergency worker in
she is comfortable with it. They eventually came into my paired with your cat's continued on to its original destination, Thailand came to the rescue of a baby
house and I still have them microchip (or a radio- the veterinary hospital. "He's doing elephant that was struck by a
frequency tag) and only opens well after his fun adventure," a hospital motorcycle, performing CPR on the
when the cat assigned to that staff member said.. animal until it revived. Rescue worker
Mana Srivate said he was off-duty when
bowl is sitting in front of it.This Cat spends 11 days in he came across the scene of the crash
at the side of a road. Emergency
can get a little pricey for five airport ceiling medical responders were treating the
cats, but it does guarantee motorcycle driver, who sustained only
every cat gets their allocated A cat that escaped from her owner minor injuries, and Srivate attended to
food. It's also great if you need at a security checkpoint in New York's the baby elephant struck by the
to feed the momma cat a LaGuardia Airport was returned to the vehicle. Srivate said he made a guess
lower-calorie food. If that's not distraught traveler after spending 11 about the location of the animal's heart
affordable, then you will need days hiding in the hub's ceiling. Taylor based on human physiology and an
to stop free-feeding and just Le said she booked a Christmas Eve online video, and he started chest
feed them twice a day. flight for herself and her 6-year-old cat, compressions. The rescue worker said
Muji. Le said TSA agents had her he  nearly started crying  when the
elephant started moving again. He said
remove Muji from her carrier at the the animal was able to stand after
about 10 minutes and eventually was
security checkpoint, despite her reunited with its herd.

protestations that the feline was likely

to flee. Le said Muji panicked, as she

had predicted, and led her owner and

airport staff on a chase that ended

when the cat climbed a series of

platforms to a ceiling enclosure and

disappeared inside. The pet-flying

advocacy group Where Is Jack? Inc.

became involved and helped Le arrange

for a tracking dog to visit the airport.

The dog, a golden retriever named

Abby, indicated Muji was still in the

ceiling, and Le caught a flight back to

New York. She attempted to lure the

cat out of the ceiling, but Muji didn't

emerge. Finally, 11 days after the cat

had fled from security, she had

emerged  and been safely caught in a

trap. Le said Muji are scheduled to fly

to California.

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Holy whiskers Batman, around your workouts,

the world is inside out, but your meals, and your rest.

we don’t have to be. .  Yes, bad habits like smoking

Crraack! Pow! must be addressed here

2021 is here and too.

hopefully you have a New The second obstacle is to

Year Resolution that set realistic goals.   Goals

involves some self- will provide milestones for

improvement.   So, if your journey.   They will

becoming healthier is your help guide you and let you

resolution, this is the article know that you are heading Louie Arecco has been
in the industry of Health
for you.   Let’s give you in the “right” direction. and Fitness for 14 years

some tips on how to map The third obstacle is with a passion and is the minimum amount of learning how to integrate inspired.   Goals will
out the journey and getting the knowhow. Many challenge of helping his time for your brain to start your new lifestyle with your motivate you, but
provide you better chances people believe that their clients maintain a fitness accepting the changes.   It family and friends.   If you inspiration will help you
of reaching your goal. knowledge from high lifestyle at Anytime Fitness doesn’t mean you can’t have have friends and a family keep going.   Inspiration is
in Downtown Kenosha. an emergency and skip a that do not have a fit from within.  You must keep
The most difficult school’s PE from 10 years workout; it just means that lifestyle, they will fight back searching within you and
 Luckily, you can find virtual you must have a true for the “old” you to return. appreciating that you are
obstacle to overcome to ago is going to be enough. trainers and coaches.  But if reason, not an excuse to  So, if your friends are true worth all the effort that
you can, find a gym.   The skip it.   No cheating here friends, then you should goes into taking care of
become healthy is to “Make OUCH! Nope, you need energy of other people because while you are not have the guts to elevate yourself.  Loving yourself is
around you will motivate yet there, your brain will their own expectations and a decision.  A decision that
The Decision”.   That is fresh information.  Personal you. find excuses and reasons of begin their own fitness defines the value you give
why you should stop.   We journey.  If they don’t want yourself and how much you
right, it is the first step to Trainers must constantly The fifth obstacle is are creatures of habits and you to be healthy… are willing to do for you.
creating the habit.   It takes not-exercising is a habit .perhaps they were not
any life changing decisions; educate themselves to at least 21-days to make a that needs to be replaced your friends. Good luck in your
habit.   So, this means you with a new one. journey and feel free to
you must make the decision remain certified.   Exercise must endure 21 days of The seventh and final contact me with your
your fitness plan without The sixth obstacle is obstacle is to remain questions.
to go to the next level.  No science is always evolving breaking the pattern.   This

decision, no pudding, baby.   and we must keep learning

This step is not a light one. what works and unlearning

  It isn’t just saying you will bad habits or erroneous

do it; it is committing to do knowledge.

it.  To make sure you will do The fourth obstacle is
whatever it is required to finding a place where to
do. That means that exercise. For many, home is
everything must be planned the only alternative.

Mayo Clinic dissection or rupture. 60% of people with thoracic Most commonly, the People at highest risk -
aortic aneurysms. condition starts to occur in
Most aortic aneurysms are Unfortunately, both people in their 50s and 60s, those with a family history
Typically, an aneurysm although it may not be
small, develop slowly dissections and ruptures are grows slowly, although it can detected until decades later, plus one or more other risk
grow faster, particularly in if at all.
often fatal. people with a family history factors - should ask their
of aortic aneurysms or with
Most aortic aneurysms a genetic condition related health care provider about
are small and develop slowly. to the body's connective
DEAR MAYO CLINIC: aneurysm). However, They are discovered when tissues. If an aneurysm is having an echocardiogram to
What causes a thoracic imaging is performed on the larger or is found to be
aortic aneurysm? Does it aneurysms also may develop chest or abdominal area for growing too quickly, elective A family history of aortic look for a thoracic
always grow slowly, or do another reason. surgery to repair the aneurysm puts you at
some develop more quickly? closer to the heart in the aneurysm may be increased risk. Genetic aneurysm, even in the
considered. This usually connective tissue disorders -
chest area (thoracic aortic involves open-chest surgery Marfan, Ehlers-Danlos and absence of signs or
to remove the damaged Loeys-Dietz syndromes -
aneurysm). section of the aorta and dramatically increase your symptoms. Surgery is
replace it with a synthetic risk. Those born with just
ANSWER: A thoracic The main concern with A smaller aneurysm has a tube, or graft. In select cases, two, rather than three, generally recommended for
aortic aneurysm occurs low risk of rupture - about repair with endovascular leaflets (cusps) of the aortic
when one or more areas aortic aneurysms is a tear, or 1% or less per year. For that surgery using small incisions valve - a condition called thoracic aortic aneurysms
along the wall of the aorta - reason, as long as it's not and surgical instruments bicuspid aortic valve - are at
the body's largest blood dissection, or, more growing quickly, most health inserted through catheters increased risk. with a diameter of 5.5
vessel - becomes weak or care providers will may be necessary.
damaged. The aorta carries seriously, a rupture that recommend a watch-and- centimeters or larger, and at
oxygen-filled blood from the wait approach. This means Men are much more likely
heart to the body, including allows blood to leak into the using imaging tests, such as than women to develop a smaller diameters depending
the brain. With time, the ultrasound, at regular thoracic aortic aneurysm.
pressure of blood flowing aorta's lining or into the intervals to monitor the on the underlying cause of
through the weakened area aneurysm's size and rate of
can cause it to enlarge or body. With a dissection or growth. Health care the aneurysm. - Jay Shah,
bulge - typically without providers also may prescribe
signs or symptoms. rupture, it's important to medications such as beta M.D., Cardiovascular
blockers. These are used to
quickly recognize these treat high blood pressure, Disease, Mayo Clinic,
which is present in about
symptoms: sharp, severe or Other factors that Phoenix

sudden chest or upper back increase the risk of a Mayo Clinic Q & A is an
educational resource and
pain that radiates downward, thoracic aortic aneurysm
doesn't replace regular
or includes the jaw, neck or include high blood pressure, medical care. E-mail a
question to MayoClinicQ&A(AT
arms; difficulty breathing or smoking, undesirable SIGN)mayo.edu. For more

swallowing; and clamminess. cholesterol levels, and information, visit
www.mayoclinic.org
Most commonly, bulges Immediate emergency care, development of blood vessel

occur in the abdomen including open-chest hardening and clogging, or

(abdominal aortic surgery, is necessary for a atherosclerosis.

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Nutrition News plant-forward diet. Q and A
with Charlyn Fargo
-- Encouragement to Q: Is corn a healthy choice, Strawberry
Making every bite count consume less red and or should it be avoided Avacado Farro
processed meat. because it's a starchy
The new 2020 to 2025 vegetable? Salad
Dietary Guidelines for -- Acknowledgement that an
Americans are out, updated egg a day is OK. A: Starchy vegetables, such as Servings: 4 (2 cups each)
every five years. The new
edition urges us to make every -- Clear-cut advice that less corn, peas, potatoes and 1 cup uncooked farro
bite count -- to think about sugar consumption is 2 1/2 cups water or vegetable stock
how everything we eat and recommended for you and 1/2 pound California strawberries, hulled and sliced
drink makes a difference. your baby. For adults, added
sugars should make up no 1 ripe avocado, diced
There are five important more than 10% of daily winter squash, are packed with 1/2 cup fresh basil leaves
recommendations, which calories (about 200 calories a 2 ounces goat cheese, crumbled
probably sound familiar: day for a 2,000-calorie diet, or health-promoting fiber, 2 tablespoon blush or red wine vinegar
about 12 teaspoons of sugar 2 tablespoon olive oil
-- Follow a healthy eating Charlyn Fargo is a for the day). And for the first vitamins, minerals and 1 1/2 teaspoon honey
pattern. A healthy eating registered dietitian with SIU time, the guidelines
pattern and an appropriate Med School in Springfield, recommend no added sugar phytochemicals. They have Pinch sea salt
calorie level will help you get for children younger than age Pinch freshly cracked black pepper
the nutrition you need, achieve Ill. For comments or 2. taken a bad rap because they
and maintain a healthy weight, questions, contact her at • In a medium saucepan, bring water or stock to a boil.Add
and reduce your risk of -- Advice on what babies are carbohydrates that many farro, and simmer, covered, 25-30 minutes.
chronic diseases. [email protected] from birth to age 2 should be
or follow her on Twitter eating for the first time since think spike blood glucose • Remove from heat, and drain any remaining liquid. Let
1985 -- what to eat by life farro cool completely.
@NutritionRd. stages. levels. However, corn, like
• Add cooled farro to a large bowl with sliced California
-- Encouragement of physical other whole grains, is rich in strawberries, diced avocado, basil leaves and crumbled goat
activity, plus healthy eating, for
adults ages 19-59. (Aim for fiber, and fiber slows digestion, cheese
150-300 minutes of moderate • In a small bowl, whisk together remaining ingredients
physical activity weekly, plus improves regularity and (vinegar through pepper). Pour over farro salad. Gently toss
activity that builds muscle.)
actually decreases the risk of to coat.
-- Acknowledgment that • Serve or refrigerate until ready to serve.
-- Focus on variety, nutrient Charlyn Fargo joins adults 60 and older have lower blood sugar spikes. Whole- • Per serving: 326 calories; 10 grams protein; 40 grams
density and amount. To meet Happenings Q&A on caloric needs but similar or carbohydrates; 16 grams fat (4 grams saturated); 18
your nutrient needs and stay Fri. January 22nd at higher nutrient needs, hence grain corn provides a good milligrams cholesterol (5 grams sugar); 7 grams fiber; 245
within your calorie limit, 12:30 on AM1050 WLIP. the emphasis on "every bite
choose a variety of nutrient- counts." source of fiber, magnesium, milligrams sodium.
dense foods across all food choices.
groups. Nutrient-dense foods -- Support healthy eating phosphorus, manganese, Gravlax
include vegetables, fruits,
whole grains and fat-free or patterns for all. Everyone has a selenium and thiamine. Yellow Serves 6
low-fat dairy products. responsibility for supporting
healthy eating in all settings, corn contains more than 10 1/3 cup packed light brown sugar
-- Limit calories from added such as at home, work, school 1/4 cup kosher salt
sugars and saturated fats, and or wherever food is available. times the amount of vitamin A
cut back on sodium. 1 (1-pound) skin-on salmon fillet
So, what's different about of other grains, along with 3 tablespoons brandy
-- Shift to healthier food and the new guidelines?
beverage choices. Choose antioxidants and carotenoids, 1 cup coarsely chopped fresh dill
nutrient-dense foods and -- Emphasis on adopting a
beverages across all food which are associated with eye • Combine sugar and salt in a bowl. Place salmon, skin side
groups in place of less healthy down, in a 13-by-9-inch glass baking dish. Drizzle with
health. The bottom line is that brandy, making sure to cover the entire surface. Rub
salmon evenly with the sugar-salt mixture, pressing firmly
corn can fit into a healthy diet to adhere. Cover with dill, pressing firmly to adhere.

in the right amounts. It's the • Cover salmon loosely with plastic wrap, top with a
square baking dish or pie plate, and weight with several
processed corn products (like large, heavy cans. Refrigerate until salmon feels firm, about
3 days, basting salmon with liquid released into dish once a
corn chips and corn syrup)
day.
that are not such good
• Scrape dill off the salmon. Remove salmon from the dish
choices. and pat dry with paper towels before slicing. Gravlax can
be wrapped tightly in plastic and refrigerated for up to
America’s Test Kitchen one week; it should be left whole and sliced just before

Your first food project of 2021: homemade gravlax serving.

Last year was all about mixture of sugar and salt to Recipe note: Dill is our flavoring of choice here, but you
baking bread. Let's make this extract liquid and cure the could experiment with other flavors such as coriander or
year all about making our own flesh. Depending on the cook,
cured foods, starting with herbs, spices or even booze juniper.
gravlax. are added to enhance flavor
and preservation.
Gravlax is an ancient salmon
For our recipe, you simply
preparation. Fishing coat a large piece of skin-on
salmon evenly with a mixture
communities in northern of salt, brown sugar (we liked
the deep flavor it gave the fish),
Europe and Russia, surrounded dill and brandy. Using skin-on
salmon makes slicing the cured
by an abundance of salmon, fish easier and the brandy adds
flavor, helps the cure adhere,
acquired most of their catch and assists in the preserving
process.
during the time of year when
Pressing the salmon under
the fish swim upstream to the weight of a few cans helps
it release moisture and gives
spawn.To preserve the fish for the fillet a firmer, more
sliceable texture.We baste the
the rest of the year, they'd salt salmon with the released liquid
once a day to help speed up
and bury it; this curing process the curing process and to keep For 25 years, confident cooks
it from drying out. in the know have relied on
gave them easy access to America's Test Kitchen for
After the three-day cure, rigorously tested recipes
protein during the lean winter just remove the fish from the
salt mixture and rinse off the developed by professional test
months. excess salt. All that's left to do cooks and vetted by 60,000 at-
is slice it thin on the bias and
Today the process relies on enjoy; and decide on your next home recipe testers. See more
refrigeration rather than food project. online at www.americas
shovels. Instead of being buried testkitchen.com/TCA.
in the earth, modern gravlax is
made by "burying" salmon in a

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jill on money Extension of eviction absent from the bill. Aid for there could still be millions
states and local governments of Americans who are
moratorium until January and liability protection for struggling. According to the
businesses. Without more Census Bureau's Household
31st. Home loan forbearance money, state and local Pulse Survey covering
governments will have to November 25 through
for federally backed absorb the double whammy December 7, three data
of big spending amid the loss points underscore the dire
mortgages is available for up in sales and other taxes. need for federal assistance:
Analysis from the Brookings
D.C. Grinches may to 180 days (after that, Institute found that state and People experiencing food
have hearts local revenues, excluding fees scarcity (either sometimes
homeowners can ask for an to public hospitals and or often not enough to eat in
with Jill Schlesinger institution of higher the past seven days): 27.4
additional 180 days). For education, will drop by $467 million or 12.7%
billion over three years.
Fannie and Freddie loans, Because most state and local People experiencing
governments have to balance housing insecurity (behind
there is no end date -- the their operating budgets each on rent or mortgage
year, the lack of funds may payments, or who don't think
Nearly nine months after output gap between now and agencies will determine create a second order effect household can make next
the $2.2 trillion CARES Act the time when widespread of more job cuts, which month's rent or mortgage
became law, the lame duck vaccination is available. Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS when to end their plans. could dampen the overall payment on time): 12.8
Congress passed an News business analyst. A economic recovery. million or 9.1%.
additional $900 billion relief Here's what made it former options trader and CIO Homeowners with FHA
bill just before Christmas. of an investment advisory firm, Why this stimulus matters People who have difficulty
The fate of the legislation Another round of she welcomes comments and loans must contact their paying for usual household
hung in the balance for a nontaxable, direct payments The new stimulus is an expenses: 85.4 million or
week, after the President of $600 for individuals with questions at servicer and request an important development, but 35.6%.
threatened not to sign it. But income (wages, Social [email protected]. Check
with benefits expiring and Security, and/or pension) initial COVID-19
millions of Americans facing earning under $75,000 her website at
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inked the deal on December will be $600 per child (up
27. from the $500 in the first an additional 11 weeks. Assistance for
round) under the age of 17.
Like the ornery Grinch in The amount will phase out Aid to small businesses, Transportation:Airlines $15B
the animated Christmas for those with incomes up to including the continuation of
classic, the President and $99K ($198K MFJ). the Paycheck Protection in assistance to encourage a
lawmakers' small hearts Program ($325 billion).
seem to have grown three Extension of supplemental return of furloughed
sizes in just the nick of time. federal unemployment Aid for vaccine
The bill will provide relief to benefits of $300 per week distribution and schools ($82 workers to payrolls; Amtrak
individuals, small businesses (on top of state billion).
and the economy as a whole. unemployment programs) ($1B); Public Transit systems
Though not as large as the for an additional 11 weeks, at
previous legislation, which least through March 14. (The ($14B); State highways
according to a CBO analysis CARES Act had extended
likely boosted GDP by 4.7% state benefits by 13 weeks, ($10B).
in 2020 and 3.1% in 2021, so total will now be 24
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help prevent some of the
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heartfelt thank you  and Public Relations Director to continue, certain All  hands Christine Marilyn Bykowski & Timothy Robert
tribute  to the small business standards to live up to, a on deck. We all need to visit Bykowski
owners of our community. May at the Kenosha Area family to honor.  your store or make an online Maria Chapman & Harry R Chapman
it inspire you, the readers,  to Convention & Visitors purchase. We need to dine Sarah Cole & Stephen Cole
continue to support these Bureau. Contact her at in, do take out, order Mario Alberto Contreras Villarruel & Adriana
local  shops, restaurants, and [email protected] or delivery, or take advantage Contreras
entertainment spots.  And for of  the  curbside Kelly Elizabeth Cox & Joshua Adam Cox
that support, you have my drop her a tweet pickup service you've started Kathryn LeeAnn Davis & Steven James Snell
gratitude as well.  @MJ_Kenosha offering. We need to spread Sherry A. DeRose & Larry DeRose
the word and tell our Timothy P Dulaney & Christina E Dulaney
Dear Small Business to make a living and put food We thank you all. For friends, family members, Robert Lee Humphrey & Kelly Louise Humphrey
Owner,  neighbors, and co-workers Lisa Ann Hurst & Peter Edward Hurst
on your table. Attempting to continuing to work through about you.  We need to do Rachel L Iacucci & Joshua J Iacucci
You started with  a our part to keep the local Jason Ianson & Jessica Rae Ianson
dream  to open your own keep  our friends and family the challenges that 2020 small businesses going.  Justin Michael Johnson & Mariah Blythe Johnson
business. As  the dream Clarence James Jones & Kasondra Francine Jones
became closer to being employed.Wanting to make a brought us, and the Please hang on! We're Nancy Lynn Kukla & James Patrick Kukla
achieved,  there was bound rooting for you!  Charles Lahti & Christal Lahti
to be  some hesitation or difference in the community challenges that  continue Pamela Lawson & Brandon Lawson
trepidation on your part. Did Sincerely,  Cassi J. Maclin & Jemel L. Maclin
you have you live in. Running numbers here in 2021.  Whether you Your friends, customers, Jill Elizabeth Mattner & Timothy James Mattner
the  right  opportunity  to Julie Ann McCartney & Larry Joe McCartney
make your dream come again in hopes of being able add to our food choices, fans, and followers  Richard C. Medlicott & Holly R. Medlicott
true? Enough passion and Shop Local, Dine Local, and Danely Munoz Santiago & Victor Manuel Casiano-
courage? An ideal location? to give to the  local entertainment options, or Play Local! Please remember Colon
The financial means? your mask and maintain social Curt Fredrick Nelson & Sharon Denise Nelson
The  emotional support you fundraisers and non-profit shopping selections, we are distancing when in public; be Gia Marie Nero & Nicola John Nero
would need?  You may have respectful of the safety Daniel Jeffrey Nordhaus & Kristen T Nordhaus
had spreadsheets, checklists, organizations you've grateful. We thank you, restrictions that individual Kandy Perez & Kevin J. Perez
goals, objectives, plans, places are setting; be Paul D. Reget & Catherine M. Reget
and  consultants to assist supported for years. too,  for adapting patient.  Learn more about Angela Moira Remeeus & Winckie Remeeus
you  with your decision the  places to frequent  in- Thomas J. Richio Jr. & Gabrielle Richio
making. and incorporating safety and person or online on our website Hilda NMI Sauceda & Ramon Matthew John Sauceda
VisitKenosha.com.   Meghan Frances Schurr & Matthew Ronald Schurr
However, if  you opened If you opened  your COVID-conscious Justin Alan Silverstein & Yashica Marie Silverstein
your business prior to 2020, business  in 2020, kudos to Carolyn Serpe is a Jessica M Thompson & Michael Thompson
there are some things you you!  You likely  started  your decisions  into your Kenosha native whose Samantha Lynn Tietz & Glenn Allen Tietz Jr.
just couldn't  have been planning well before the family owns The Lettering Kayla Jo Ann Tomon & James Kyle Tomon
expected to plan for.  When pandemic hit us – and it may daily plans.  Machine in Downtown Tracy Lee Vassos & Prokopios Gus Vassos
you signed your lease have been too late to apply Kenosha. She has been Jennifer Jean Youngs Kleban & Bradford Jay Kleban
or took on a mortgage, you the  brakes  or you simply We know that  Kenosha is manager at the shop since
didn't sign on to endure a chose to  bravely move still the fun, friendly, her parents purchased it OWIs
global health pandemic and forward. You have given affordable, and welcoming from the previous owners Ahmad, Elea I. Kenosha. OWI (2nd)
all its repercussions. You us somewhere new to eat, a place that it has always back in 2002. Carolyn is a Carpenter, Danial J. Lake Geneva. OWI (1st)
couldn't predict the civil new place  to shop at,  or been.  We know that you – mom to 3 beautiful girls Decker, Joseph M. Pleasant Prairie. OWI (2nd)
unrest that would happen.  something new to do!  our shop keepers and and a wife for 10 years to Escobedo, Azariel O. Kenosha. OWI (2nd)
restaurant staff – are ready her handsome husband Florez, Israel. Kenosha. OWI (2nd)
And yet, here you are. A Perhaps you  are part of a and waiting.  None of us Chris. Carolyn welcomes Ford,Victor I. Zion, IL. OWI (1st)
person with a dream. Trying family-owned business that's want the businesses that we all to her crazy journey in Fuqua, Carol Elizabeth. Kansasville. OWI (1st)
been around for decades.You care about to go away. We life and about how she Gomez, Janet. Kenosha. OWI (1st)
have the added  pressure  of want to continue to support tries to balance it all. Guerra, Michael R. Lake Villa, IL. OWI (3rd)
not wanting  the business to you. The food, products, and Keane, Jake R. Kenosha. OWI (2nd)
end with your services  you  offer are So sit down with a glass of Melchor-Catalan, Miguel. Kenosha. OWI (1st)
amazing  and help make wine and lets see what 2021 Miracle, Dylan. Pleasant Prairie. OWI (2nd)
Kenosha unique.  brings us! Mitchell, Raven S. Mt. Pleasant. OWI (1st)
Molinaro, Michael A. Kenosha. OWI (3rd)
Excited to join the team! Nitch, Randy A. Round Lake Heights, IL. OWI (1st)
Patel, Samir S. Kenosha. OWI (2nd)
with Carolyn Serpe Perini, Michael A.Winthrop Harbor, IL. OWI (2nd)
Price, Kevin M. Elkorn,WI. OWI (1st)
Happy New Year to College and worked. and continues to grow with Rivas, Alejandro. Antioch, IL. OWI (1st)
Kenosha!! I am super Once I re-met Chris (that is each year. It amazes us how Rodriguez, Jorge. Kenosha. OWI (2nd)
excited to be joining this a super cute story for the shop can bring people Tomczak, Samantha J. Kenosha. OWI (1st)
great group of bloggers for another post), I moved back together and help in so Tully, Christopher S. Kenosha. OWI (3rd)
the year. Hope you find to my roots and fell in love many ways. We have met a
some entertainment, and with my hometown. variety of different people,
maybe comfort, in the some of which have become
randomness that you will Here in Kenosha, I work our closest friends. Kenosha
find here as I am literally all for The Lettering Machine. is such a place of belonging,
over the place  My parents, Dave & Tina family, community and love.
Chatmon, have owned the
Where do I even begin… shop since 2002, and I Throughout my blog
started full time with them posts, expect to be thrown
I am Carolyn (Chatmon) back in 2007. My time with all over the place. I am
Serpe. mother to Clara (9), the shop has put me interested in such a plethora
Callie (7), Charlie (3) and through all types of of things and I can’t wait to
our puppy, Chase (1). I have responsibilities and roles. spew thoughts and stories
a wonderful husband, Chris, Right now as manager, I get and photos! From sports, to
and we have been married to be a part of everything. camping, to family time and
for 10 years, this year! Even though I love being work, oh yea…don’t forget
involved, working with my fitting that friend time in
I have always loved Mom and Dad is by far the there. My family supports
Kenosha, but like many of us, best part of my job. local and loves local, so
didn’t realize it till I went some of our favorite places
away for a while. After high Our shop has grown so in town will pop up as well.
school, I moved to much over the past 19 years
Milwaukee for 6 years, went

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the good news kenosha history

“There is meaning - thanks to the artist that painted it.  HOPE, Hotel Jacobs, R.S. Newell, c. 1920.
LOVE, PEACE.  What is happening in the world today needs uplifting This photograph of the Hotel Jacobs was taken by R. S. Newell in about 1920.The hotel was
messages of hope.  It was taken in front of Rustic Brewery.  I do not located on the corner of 56th Street (Market Street) and 7th Avenue (Church Street). Peter
know the artist.The shirt also has Koerri on it.  I had gotten many Jacobs was the son of German immigrants, born in 1854 in Somers. His parents went through
periods of success and privation, but managed to secure a parochial education for their children.
comments on how uplifting the pic was during these times.” As a young adult, Peter trained in engineering as a sailor and was licensed as an engineer on ships.
Submitted by Barbara Kubas He tended to stay on land, though, and opened a match factory, and then a feed mill on the
northwest corner of 7th Avenue and 57th Street. His business interests expanded into grocery,
Do you have a GOOD NEWS story? Drop us a line at [email protected], building supplies, and ice harvesting. In 1907, he opened Hotel Jacobs on 7th Avenue north of his
please use the subject line “GOOD NEWS" feed mill, directly on Market Square. As the City of Kenosha implemented its City Plan, the
widening of 7th Avenue south of 56th Street was called for. And the hotel was torn down in 1928.
Peter Jacobs himself retired in 1943 and died in 1946, at the age of 92. The “Sleepy Water” sign is
an advertisement for water bottled from radioactive springs at Hot Springs,Arkansas. At the time,

it was believed that water contaminated with dissolved radon gas (from the
decay of radium) would provide therapeutic relief for any number of aliments.

Photo copyright of the Kenosha County Historical Society. Want to learn more
about old Kenosha? Visit www.kenoshahistorycenter.org and plan your next visit
to the Kenosha History Center at 220 51st St. (on beautiful Simmons Island). Call

262-654-5770 for details.

What’s the Word? absolutely will add up. The strive for progress. If you’re
straw that broke the not progressing towards a
with Justin Sawyer camel’s back isn’t always goal, you’ve become
something large. So take stagnant. You should set
Mental Health suffering from mental at times I still struggle to time to stop, close short term, but attainable
illness wasn’t real, that you open up and discuss your  eyes, drop your goals, that will ultimately
I know, you’re thinking shouldn’t talk about it, and triggers & traumas. This Justin Sawyer is a shoulders, and just take a become part of one large
the same thing I was “That’s that IF you did seek & doesn’t mean it’s always Kenosha resident, with breath. Sometimes that’s all goal.Take it day by day, one
two words, pal.” Let’s face accept help, it was a BOLD, something “Over the Top” 15+ years in the food and it takes, 15 seconds of calm step at time. They say
it, 2020 was a roller coaster flashing sign of weakness. such as the loss of a job beverage industry, as well breathing and clarity. Rome wasn’t built in a day,
version of a year long mid you held down for 5 years. as a former Tour Manager so why are you picking out
20’s hangover that kept Going into 2021 we need It could be something as for national touring artists 2020 has also shown me the color of the drapes
hanging around. You’re to continue to break that simple as “ I woke up late, for 7 years. His interests another pill that is at times, when you haven’t even laid
confused, queasy, tired, stigma, especially amongst but I’m still in a good and pieces will cover a difficult to digest. “When the first brick of
hungry, and afraid to open men. Growing up we heard mood. I then spill coffee all wide variety of topics People Grow, People Go”. foundation?
the blinds to see what things like “ Boy’s don’t over myself when I slip on ranging from music & art, Now at first glance, that
havoc may be lingering cry” & “Walk it off, be a the sidewalk, and I instantly food & fashion, to mental seems to have a somber, As we take steps into the
from last night’s man, be tough”. This just want to crawl back in health and self awareness. yet negative connotation to new year, I implore you to
shenanigans. doctrine is, at its core, bed.” With an avid background it.That I believe to be in the continue looking at what
wrought with false and wealth of knowledge eye of the beholder.As with you have, and being
The biggest question we teachings that ultimately It’s moments like those, spanning several avenues, every challenge, we appreciative of it, and
need to ask ourselves as lead too many young boys that can completely throw be sure to keep tabs on ultimately have a larger say striving for one common
the year 2020 ends is this, to grow up and become our entire day right down in not only how we react, goal; to find comfort in
plain and simple, “How is closed off, brick walls of the drain. This isn’t his pieces! but what that outcome yourself. Be safe, be self
my mental health, and men. uncommon, in fact most may be. aware, and remember, if
what’s my plan for it going people would have the cope with them. you’re not at your best,
into 2021?” 2020 has shown me exact same reaction. The Growth is important, we what service are you to
personally that not only do problem is, we don’t These little things, slowly as individuals, groups and a those around you?
Society programmed us I not always know how to discuss these times, or even or rapidly, can and society at large, need to
handle every situation, but begin to figure out how to continue to crave and
decades ago with the

understanding that

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What’s new at Lemon Street?

with Lynn Johnston

Joseph Vigniri live draws on Tuesdays 6- of our Featured Artists in
the Brick gallery later this
(www.DrawJoseph.com) 8:30pm via Zoom. Go to year (September 17-
October 24), so you can
and Shelby Nesmith have DrawJoseph.com to see her recent body of
works too.
set up the Draw Joseph register.
Julie Schilf and her
show and it is just a The Draw Joseph show is aussies, KodaBear and
open from now through GingerBerry came in at the
wonderful body of works.  February 14th. end of the day to check Lynn A. Johnston is the
schedules. Julie is one of Gallery Associate and
This show features Lemon Street closed our ceramic artists and Member artist at Lemon
works by Kenosha artists does such whimsical, yet Street Art Gallery, 4601
that have drawn Joseph another successful functional pieces. From
over the years. One of sculptures to clocks, Sheridan Road
these local artists that has Artistree show in the Brick rattles, bells, bowls, cups (lemonstreetgallery.org)
his works featured is John and platters. Julie will be a
Terhardt. John’s two pieces Gallery. Artistree is our Featured Artist too this works in my next blog. But
are titled “Anaconda” and year – April 2 through May if you can’t wait till then,
“Ridem Joseph”. John told annual giftable art show 9, so mark your calendars. stop in Fridays and
me his inspiration for You can visit her page on Saturdays 11-5pm or
“Anaconda” was that it that runs from Facebook at CrackPot Sundays 11-4pm to see the
was one of his first drawing Studios – Julie Schilf. A bit works in person.
sessions with Joseph. That Thanksgiving to Christmas of exciting news is Julie’s
evening Joseph came into son, Michael Schilf, won I hope you enjoyed this
the draw after modeling at Eve. A few of our Best Crime Film at the week's glimpse into Lemon Ceramic art pieces by Melody Bigalke (above) and Julie
5-6 other venues 2020 Los Angeles Film Street and the people that Schilf (below), featured artists of the Lemon Street Art
throughout the state and wonderful artists stopped Awards. The film is called make it so much fun to be
the day. Joseph seemed “The Fixer” #TheFixer. It a part of!  Please stop in Gallery, 4601 Sheridan Road
exhausted, in John’s words. in before we opened to is a very proud moment and visit me, or our
John was thinking Joseph for Julie and Michael. I Director, Beth Dary and
was all consumed by all the pick up pieces. Becky, Lisa can’t wait to see it! the other Artists,
travel, thus consumed by Associates and all the
the snake. There is so and their buddy, Molly The Gallery has recently wonderful art at Lemon
much local talent in this accepted some new very Street Gallery located at
show, so please do not Bigalke stopped in. Their talented artists in the past 4601 Sheridan. Or check us
miss it! Because of month. I will share their out at
COVID-19, Joseph is not Mom, Melody Bigalke, is a lemonstreetgallery.org, and
conducting in-person find us on Facebook and
draws. But he is not going long-time Artist member. Instagram! 
to stop him, so he is doing
Melody does fantastic Stay Safe, Stay Busy, Stay
Healthy 
gourd pieces, that look like

ceramic bowls in their

intricacy. Becky and Lisa

are very talented in their

own right as print makers.

Becky and Lisa own

Rudbeckia.Press

(https://facebook.com/Rud

beckia.press ) so check

them out and Like/Follow

these two sisters and

Melody’s work at the

gallery. Melody will be one

The Paper Route harassed me on my route
for a couple of months one
by Joe Campolo, Jr. year. I complained to the
owners and the news
Growing up in Kenosha Customers for those Joe Campolo Jr. is an agency but nothing helped.
back in the fifties and papers were much fewer award winning author, My mother didn’t like dogs,
sixties, many of us boys and farther between, so the poet and public speaker. so we never had one. But
(and a few girls) had a routes were large and He is known for his three now and then I’d bring
paper route by the time we spread out. Each of these award winning books The home a stray and she’d let
were twelve years old. Our papers was larger than the Kansas NCO, Back to the me keep it for a short
allowances pretty much Kenosha News and World, and his most while.
expired by that age, and required folding the various recent publication Three
our fathers let us know it sections together before Wars. A United States Air In the winter, when the only problem we One of the strays I
was time to start earning delivery. Because of the weather was bad, we had encountered during our adopted solved the
our own spending money. large spread and size of the Force Vietnam War three choices; talk “Dad” paper route days. In the problem of the constant
(And they weren’t too routes, it typically took at veteran, Joe belongs to the into driving us, walk the days when we still had to harassment I had been
subtle about it either) least two hours to VFW,The American Legion, route with newspaper bags, collect from the getting from the dog on my
complete the route, the Kenosha Area Vietnam or use the sled with a customers, there were route. This particular stray
The premier paper route sometimes three. The Vets (KAVV), and Vietnam special box for carrying always customers who we was a large Boxer. I started
job in Kenosha was that of highly valued Kenosha loads. You can guess how had to call on several times taking it on my route, with
a Kenosha News carrier. News routes were handed Vets of America (VVA). much luck we had before we could collect the the leash attached to the
The Kenosha News routes down from family member convincing Dad to take us. money owed. Occasionally handle bars on my bicycle.
were thought to be gravy to family member, so we saved time, but also cut us Walking our routes with the news agency would tire Sure enough, one day the
jobs, because most of the ended up with a Henoch out on many of the weekly the bag or the sled added of their stalling and cancel dog that had been
people in Kenosha got that route. tips we may have gotten. at least two hours to our their subscription. harassing me came tearing
paper and as a result, the (At Christmas time, using delivery time, but you do out after us. I let the boxer
route sizes were small, but My brother John and I cheap calendars as bait, we what you have to do. In the Newspaper carriers and off the leash and he taught
concentrated. You could started out with a Sunday lobbied for tips) spring, summer and fall, mail carriers both had to that dog a well-deserved
walk those routes easily in route, and kept that going rainy days presented deal with a common enemy lesson. I had to give up the
an hour or so. If you had a for a couple of years. Later, Spring, summer and fall problems as well. The on occasion…dogs. Loose boxer after a couple of
Kenosha News route, you we got a daily route which weren’t too bad as far as newspapers were dropped dogs would sometimes weeks, but was never
were high on the pecking paid more. When we first delivering papers in off in bulk in front of our threaten us and even chase harassed by the other dog
order as a kid. started out, we had to Kenosha. But winter… house in the early morning. us off our routes. We got again!
collect the money from the winter added a whole new If it was raining, we’d end pretty adept at whacking
The other type of paper customers, and that would set of problems to the task. up with a bundle of soggy them with a rolled-up Despite a few
take another two to three My brother and I both had newspapers. newspaper while pedaling
route to be had in Kenosha hours each week. Henoch bicycles with side baskets away as fast as we could. inconveniences’ and
News eventually came up which would hold many Bad weather wasn’t the
was a Henoch News with a collection system papers. Two or three trips One dog of note, problems on our various
that eliminated the need to refill and we’d be done.
agency route. These routes for the carrier to collect paper routes, I mostly
from the customer. That
delivered the Chicago enjoyed them and picked

Tribune, Chicago Sun up enough money to carry

Times, Chicago American, me along for three or four

Milwaukee Journal and years.

Milwaukee Sentinel.

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