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September 10, 2020
Volume 18 - #17

After days of unrest,
Kenosha begins the
healing process

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On August 25th, law enforcement officers stand guard outside the Kenosha Courthouse during a protest following the police shooting of Jacob Blake.

America the fearful:
What follows this summer of unrest?

Today fear confronts fear in America’s isn’t improving. in the southeast corner of a critical swing as necessary to preserve law and order
cities. state. Most were peaceful but not all; some
On the other are police afraid of the job’s businesses were burned and at least four “when no one else would.”) A
On one side are Black people afraid of dangers, business owners afraid for their looted.
police, protesters afraid of tear gas, citizens stores, city and suburban residents worried “The law enforcement responses to these t
afraid the nation’s long struggle with racism about the spread of unrest. Armed civilians, some from out of state,
appeared on the streets as self-proclaimed two people is the problem ... the overly
About the cover: Fear can sharpen attention. It motivates auxiliaries to law enforcement. Late that violent and excessive response to Blake and t
action. It’s an emotion that can drive change. Tuesday night a group of the vigilantes
“These last couple of days, especially, clashed with protesters in a wild melee in the very measured and almost
everybody’s really felt like, maybe we’re headed But that action isn’t always good. Fear which two protesters died from gunfire and compassionate response to the 17-year-old J
drives irrational response and creates another was wounded. with a gun,” says Theodore R. Johnson, a A
in the right direction. So, in the beginning, it division, widening perceived gaps between
was a feeling of defeat, but now I think we’re “us” and “them.” It can create a whirlwind of The next day, police arrested and charged senior fellow at the Brennan Center for
stronger than we have been in a couple of bad decisions and worse consequences, a white Illinois teenager – Kyle Rittenhouse –
particularly if one side has the power with first-degree intentional homicide in Justice in New York.
decades,” says Nathan Upham, creative advantage of firearms – as tragic recent connection with the shootings.
director at New World Order, a creative space events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, too plainly Meanwhile, at the Republican National
in Kenosha, as he stands next to a mural of a show. Reactions to these events have, if anything, Convention this week President Donald
boarded-up storefront. Upham hosted a supply highlighted the split between the opposing Trump signaled that he would run for
“We are in a real bad state,” says Cephus sides of a fearful America. reelection as a crusader for “law and order”
drop-off providing food and clothes for the Johnson, uncle of Oscar Grant, who was shot – a phrase he sometimes tweets in all caps.
community. He has also raised thousands in a dead by BART police at the Fruitvale station In an extraordinary move, many The St. Louis couple charged with one felony
GoFundMe campaign to rebuild and revitalize in Oakland, California, in 2009. professional athletes stayed off courts and each for brandishing guns at Black Lives
the Uptown area that was damaged during fields in rippling boycotts on the days Matter demonstrators marching past their
On one hand, says Mr. Johnson, the social following the unrest.The effort began in pro mansion were featured convention speakers
the unrest following the shooting of Jacob upheaval over police killings of Black people basketball, which has a high percentage of the first night.
Blake and an unrelated fire the week prior. via protests and daily discourse has raised Black athletes and a relatively liberal fan base,
“I’m gonna see how much money we can pull the national consciousness of white then ricocheted through tennis and soccer President Trump has not been subtle on
together and I’m gonna see if we can try to supremacy, white privilege, and the fact that and even into Major League Baseball. this subject. His target is white suburban w
Black people can be unjustly targeted by law voters turned off by the urban looting and
create more consistent and sustainable enforcement, says Mr. Johnson, who founded “We are scared as Black people in arson they see on their screens.
situations in Uptown.You know, I have an the Love Not Blood Campaign in his America,” said Los Angeles Lakers star
overwhelming amount of people hitting me up nephew’s memory. LeBron James. w
“If you want a vision of your life under a w
to volunteer and donate,” he says. But on the other hand, the cycle of The athletes and other protesters Biden presidency, think of the smoldering
Photo by Ann Hermes violence and protest continues to explode. appeared particularly incensed over what ruins in Minneapolis, the violent anarchy of
they saw as the revealing differences in the Portland, the bloodstained sidewalks of t
“It becomes so obvious that [this cycle] way police treated Mr. Blake and Mr. Chicago, and imagine the mayhem coming to
creates not just a lot of pain and anger, but Rittenhouse. Mr. Blake was shot during an your town, and every single town in w
fear on both sides,” he says. arrest. Mr. Rittenhouse – illegally carrying a America,” Mr. Trump said in a Pennsylvania
semi-automatic rifle into a protest – was speech earlier this month.
Kenosha as flashpoint given a water bottle by a police patrol prior
to his alleged deadly encounter with That might seem a bad electoral play in an
In 2020 this phenomenon has centered on demonstrators. He was taken into custody America where protests have drawn large,
Minneapolis; Portland, Oregon; and now the next day at his Illinois home without racially diverse crowds. It’s not 1968, when
Kenosha, after a white police officer shot a incident. (On Fox News, host Tucker Carlson there also was widespread civil unrest in
Black man, Jacob Blake, in the back seven defended Mr. Rittenhouse’s alleged shootings American cities. But the Trump campaign
times. His family has said he is now paralyzed. appears to believe that resorting to barely
cloaked language in attacks on his rival could
Protests quickly erupted in the small city win back the sliver of voters it needs to pull
within the polling margin of error in key Rust

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Amid anger and destruction,
Kenoshans seek reconciliation

Andre Ross is leaning Midwestern city into the

against the hood of his white national spotlight. President

Pontiac, drinking McDonald’s Donald Trump surveyed the

coffee in front of what used damage and met with law

to be Uptown Restaurant. enforcement officials on a

He’s staring at the boarded visit today, during which

up and burned out strip of supporters and protesters

businesses along 22nd engaged in shouting matches

Avenue, which served mainly along the presidential

Black patrons. motorcade’s route. As

“I used to get my phone pundits and officials across
there. ... And then those the political spectrum turn
tacos over there I used to Kenosha into a rallying cry
get,” he says, gesturing up for racial justice or law and
and down the now-quiet order – or both – residents
street. “And that lady over offer a more nuanced view.

there at the end, she used to Many tearfully describe a

sell mattresses and city striving to come

sometimes people would be together in the wake of

short with the money, and devastation. Some

she’d just let them have it.” characterize this moment as

Mr. Ross lives a couple of a wake-up call for those who
miles away by the police
station, where all the new have failed to see or address
fencing around a National
Guard outpost – visible from persistent racial
his backyard – makes him
feel as if he’s living in discrimination – and as an
Afghanistan. Some 1,000
troops have been sent in opportunity for healing.
over the past week to curtail
the violence that ensued While a broad cross section Jacklyn Vazquez (l.) and Elisa Rocha work on a mural in Kenosha's Uptown neighborhood on Aug.30, 2020.
after a police officer shot “We will get through this and we will come out stronger,” says Ms. Rocha. (Photo: Ann Hermes) ˇ
Jacob Blake in the back on of residents see their city as Tune in to Happenings Q&A. AM1050 WLIP, on Friday, September 18th at 12:30 pm
Aug. 23. when Elisa joins the conversation.
a microcosm of the current
“I had to come down here
and eat my breakfast and see tumult across America, many
it all,” he says. “I see this
happen on TV in different are hopeful that Kenosha will buildings and the homes, but healing on the plywood that found that those disparities says Lawrence Kirby, pastor
cities. But my little city of they’re not going to destroy covers shop fronts across have persisted: In 2019, of Acts Church.
100,000 people?” ultimately be remembered the spirit that this city has.” the city, others express Milwaukee was rated the
discouragement about the most racially segregated “Our city is still incredibly
“I understand that Black not for the violence that A legacy of racial racial divisions that persist metro area in the United divided in a lot of ways,” says
Lives Matter, I understand all divisions here – a legacy of States. While some Pastor Kirby, likening
of that. But what I don’t occurred here but as a Wisconsin’s history. neighborhoods in Kenosha residents to relatives that
understand is this,” says Mr. An older white couple are integrated, segregation only get together for
Ross, looking at the charred model of resilience and eating hot dogs piled high Although the state never still persists in areas where funerals. “In the protests and
hulks of brick, twisted rods, with condiments watch as legalized slavery and was an mortgage lenders used outrage, you see people
and melted glass left in the reconciliation. others wait in line for food important stop on the redlining to restrict where
wake of the violence. “If you and some dance to the music Underground Railroad for Black homebuyers could live, See RECONCILIATION on
don’t know a way to be “I would really like the coming over the slaves seeking freedom in page 4 for more
heard, you need to find a country to know us for this loudspeakers. They say they Canada, Wisconsin chose to
way. Because this is not the tightknit community you want to think of their city as omit Black suffrage in its TAX
way.” see,” says Elisa Rocha, coming together. But they 1848 state constitution. A PROBLEMS?
finishing up a mural across point out that the crowd century later, the state’s
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Reconciliation

continued from page 3

come together, but we’ve got Piecing together what

to get to the point where happened

we’re doing life together in a Kenosha police officers
regular way more and more.” have come under fire after a

A few blocks away from video went viral showing

the Danish Brotherhood Officer Rusten Sheskey

ruins, Ionia Ireland and her shooting Jacob Blake seven

10-year-old daughter Aya are times in the back as he tried

standing on upside-down to enter an SUV where his

buckets, painting the three sons were sitting in the

plywood on the boarded-up backseat. According to a

business below their statement from the Kenosha

apartment. Ms. Ireland, a Professional Police

retired Marine, expresses Association, officers were

grim bemusement that her responding to a complaint

Uptown neighborhood lately that Mr. Blake, who had an

has seen a steady stream of open warrant for felony

white people driving by, sexual assault (third degree),

holding cellphones out the was attempting to steal the

window as they film the caller’s keys and car. The

destruction. caller referred to Mr. Blake

“There’s a lot of people as her boyfriend, and his A car dealership was burned during the unrest that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 23, 2020, in Kenosha,Wisconsin.
who are coming here and attorney said the pending Photo: Ann Hermes
spray-painting a couple of charges for sexual assault
things, passing out a couple and domestic abuse involved sex offender who had been main boulevard to Civic standing guard outside his Kimberly Loepp offered to
of chips, taking a few pictures the same address where his Center Park, chanting “No business with friends and
to be on Facebook and client was shot, according to justice, no peace,” and relatives during the nights of
Instagram like they’re this the local CBS affiliate. carrying signs that read “We rioting, his place would have
bleed the same blood,” been burned down too.
hero – and then they leave,” The police union sentenced by Arizona in “Guns are for Cowards,” and paint the boarded-up
“Jacob Blake is a Human.” “I said, ‘Back off, these are
she says. “I’m not saying all statement asserts that the 2002 for sexual conduct with Legal observers in Black-owned businesses,’ and storefront of Paul Rizzo’s
fluorescent vests patrolled they took off,” he recounts,
are like that, some of them officers gave Mr. Blake, whom a minor and had racked up a on bikes while National admitting that he and others Scandinavian Designs
Guard troops watched from flashed guns at the rioters.
genuinely do care.” they say was carrying a knife, long list of violations during behind fences near the “But yeah, they definitely furniture store, which has
courthouse. tried.”
“I think it’s safer from multiple opportunities to his imprisonment from 2003 been here since 1974. They
where we used to live in comply with verbal and Veyah Witt, a young Black He thinks the news media
Milwaukee,” her daughter physical cues – including a to 2013, including assaulting woman in the crowd who is creating an overly hope such efforts will not
Aya adds. “But my candy taser – before they fired was born and raised in simplistic narrative to
shop almost burned down!” their first shot. Another staff. The other, Anthony Kenosha, says she’s not explain the events in only help business owners
Her mom notes that bystander video appears to surprised by the events of Kenosha. “The media is
Uptown was already on the show Mr. Blake scuffling on Huber, had been in and out the past week. pushing it into a Black and like Mr. Rizzo – whom they
verge of being a food desert, the ground with officers white thing, but it’s not. It’s a
and ticks off the last few before any shots were fired. of Wisconsin prisons over “I won’t say I’m happy that right and wrong thing.” had never met until this
places they had left to shop Dispatch audio reveals that this is happening. But I am
for food, all of which have less than three minutes the past four years, including happy that people here in For example, he says he’s weekend – feel supported,
been destroyed. Aya chimes elapsed from when the first this town are finally seeing seen reports about armed
in: “And Family Dollar! Just officer arrived to when Mr. for repeated domestic abuse the things that we always white residents protecting but also show America a
went poof!” Blake was shot. Mr. Blake’s see,” says Ms. Witt, a first- their neighborhoods, “but
attorney said in a statement and a 2012 felony charge of year college student in Black people do that too! different side of Kenosha
In Family Dollar’s parking his client “did nothing to Milwaukee. “Until now, it’s There’s nothing wrong with
lot, dozens of people are provoke police” and that strangulation and always just been pushed that.They gotta do what they than the nighttime images
rifling through donated T- “witnesses confirm that he under the rug.” gotta do.They’ve got kids.”
shirts, diapers, canned goods, was not in possession of a suffocation, to which he that are circulating on TV.
and bottled water. knife.” Jacob Blake Sr. is among As Mr. Johnson works on a
Milwaukee-based rapper pleaded guilty. Witnesses say the speakers who took the young man’s fade with gold “I want them to see the
WebsterX, who co- Mr. Blake, whose family has stage as Ms.Witt and the rest clippers, “Big Mike,” as he’s
organized the relief effort, said he is paralyzed from the Mr. Huber beat Mr. of the crowd look on.“There known, describes his hopes community coming
expresses frustration that waist down, was initially is one justice system for the that Uptown will come back
outlets like Fox News shackled to his hospital bed Rittenhouse with his white boy who walked down better. together,” says Ms. Sorenson.
focused on the fires but until his warrant was vacated the street shooting, and
aren’t here to report on the several days later. The skateboard prior to being there is another one for “Most people look at it “Hopefully people who
recovery. Wisconsin Department of mine,” says Mr. Blake. But he and say, ‘Oh this is
Justice is investigating the shot, and at least one adds that destruction is not destruction, this is disaster,’ didn’t know each other
“What I want people to shooting and is expected to the appropriate response. but we look at it like
pay attention to in Kenosha present its findings in a bystander said Mr. “Good people of this city opportunity,” he says. “We before can get to know each
is the positivity that’s also month. Within hours of the understand. If we tear it up, need to get together as a
happening,” he says, with shooting, protests began. A Rosenbaum tried to grab Mr. we have nothing.” community and start to other. Who knows, maybe
music reverberating in the car dealership was torched rebuild.”
background. But he also says that night, along with a state Rittenhouse’s gun before the A barber’s nighttime that could bring down some
that there has been “racist parole and corrections vigil At one of the many
stuff happening here for building, with widespread teenager shot him. spontaneous mural painting barriers.”
forever, and in these arson continuing on Monday Mike Johnson, a barber in sites around the city this
communities and cities it’s and Tuesday nights. On Critics fault police and the Uptown neighborhood weekend, Brenda Sorenson “I wish every city could
just extremely unbalanced – Tuesday, Aug. 25, 17-year-old National Guard troops for that saw some of the puts the finishing touches on be like this”
economically, socially.” Kyle Rittenhouse of Illinois failing to arrest Mr. greatest devastation, says a Scandinavian-inspired floral
Rittenhouse, whom they that if he hadn’t been design, with handprints for Before Jacob Blake’s name
passed with his hands raised flowers. She and her friend echoed across America and
after the shooting. The Kenosha was set ablaze,
teenager, whose Facebook Pastor Kirby of Acts Church
posts supported Blue Lives and a couple of white church
Matter and who said in a leaders had set a date to
video early Tuesday night that relaunch together as an
he had come to protect intentionally multiethnic
businesses and help church, called One Voice. It
administer first aid to those happened to fall exactly one
who needed it, had been week after Mr. Blake’s
charged with speeding and shooting, when so many in
driving without a valid the city were feeling weighed
license the previous week. down by pain, anger, fear, and
He turned himself in the division.
morning following the fatal
“I want people to come to fatally shot two protesters shooting after spending the After their first service in
night at home. The State of a new building, Mr. Kirby,
Kenosha and understand and injured a third, Gaige Wisconsin has charged him together with Matt Myers
with five felonies, including and David Johnson, describe
why Kenosha,” he says. Paul Grosskreutz, who was first-degree intentional this moment as an
homicide. opportunity to help their
“People are in unrest, they holding a handgun. city bridge those deeper

are angry, because Black One of the protesters On Saturday, hundreds of See RECONCILIATION on
people are being killed and who was killed, Joseph protesters marched down a page 7 for more
it’s as simple as that.” Rosenbaum, was a registered

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Jace Zierke was looking for a creative way to support the people who have turned out to clean up his Will Langston, a professional boxer from Kenosha, has a family history of working for civil rights. He
community when the idea came to make and distribute handmade flowers and hearts to volunteers. “I recently organized a peaceful march through the Uptown neighborhood of Kenosha.When thinking about
got a whole pack of pipe cleaners and some gems and on the package of the pipe cleaners - it had ways to change and boost his community, Mr. Langston thought of his grandfather, who was a dedicated
flowers and hearts on it,” say Jace about where he got the idea. After seeing volunteers painting murals civil rights activist. “That gave me a greater understanding of what we should do when it comes to things
like this.When we want answers.We can demand answers but it’s not always about what you do, but how
throughout Kenosha, Jace wanted to get involved, and use his new hot glue gun. “He wanted to help
with some way an the came up with the idea,” says his mother, Jennifer Zierke. “We started out with you do it. I feel like we have to conduct ourselves in the most peaceful manner. Remaining calm in the
six and then ended up making 67.We worked on them together as a family.” Photo: Ann Hermes moments of confusion so we don’t create division, I feel is very important.We as a community need to

come together, all races,” he says. Photo: Ann Hermes

Nicholas Dennis has never been involved in politics, but after seeing his city become a flashpoint for racial tension he was inspired to run for SMART READER September 10, 2020 5
local office as a Kenosha alderman. “I got to get the message out and I feel like it’s in me just to get the message out. And why not run for
something that you can talk about it,” says Mr. Dennis. After conversations with protesters on both ends of the political spectrum, Mr. Dennis

is hoping to be a voice to reach both sides. “My hope is that everybody can get along first. Right? Don’t be scared to come to my
neighborhood.Talk to me.When I ride down the street, when I see my neighbors outside, I want to say, “Hey’ to them. Even if I stay across

town.” Photo: Ann Hermes

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Mike Johnson cuts a client's hair at his barber shop, Fade City, 2324 63rd Street, on Aug. 30, 2020.
Mr. Johnson stood guard outside his business with family and friends during nights of rioting, which he says prevented his shop from being burned. Photo: Ann Hermes

Ionia Ireland paints a mural on the boarded-up business below her apartment on Aug. 30, 2020, in Kenosha.
Ms. Ireland's home is in one of the neighborhoods most affected by the destruction that followed the police shooting of Jacob Blake on Aug. 23. Photo: Ann Hermes

Volunteers hand out donated supplies to the community outside the Family Dollar on Aug. 30, 2020 in Kenosha. Photo: Ann Hermes

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Unrest you get the fear,” Dr. Dixon Civility is a companion Reconciliation
says. of justice
continued from page 2 continued from page 4
Jessica Burke sees things Division is the nature of
Belt swing states such as hope.And I’m hoping people differently. A clinical politics. It’s how we process divides. an African American
Wisconsin. Indeed, prior to don’t lose hope.” psychologist and wife of a those divisions that matter, documenting the mural
the incidents in Kenosha, the police officer, she says police says Olusoji A. Akomolafe, “My worry is that we’re painting and other scenes on
public opinion effect of the An equal opportunity cannot take off their skin, executive director of the going to be so focused on his cellphone.
protests on white voters emotion but neither can they really Center for African American rebuilding burnt buildings
had begun to recede, take off their profession. Public Policy at Norfolk that we’re going to miss the “This positive energy –
according to data compiled Fear may be an equal They can shed their uniform State University, a divide that needs to be we want to bring it to
by FiveThirtyEight. White but not their historically Black college. healed,” says Mr. Johnson, Baltimore,” says Liri Fusha,
support for Black Lives opportunity emotion, responsibilities, she says. expressing appreciation for their intrepid driver, who
Matter dropped 16 You can see that in the the murals around town but knows firsthand the impact
percentage points from June affecting both sides of a “They’re expected to political framing of the also emphasizing the need of defunding the police and
through early August, for intervene ... even when protests, he says. One side to make good on all those government, which she
instance. conflict. But does it affect they’re off-duty. Being a says the response must be expressions of peace and experienced in her native
police officer is drilled into “law and order.” The other love. Albania. She hopes her
both sides in equal measure? them,” she says. insists it is a matter of “racial adopted country won’t go
justice.” down that route, but will
Previous racial justice Many Black Americans are Dr. Burke teaches anti- John Lalgee of One take more seriously
taught from a young age to stress and anti-anxiety Both have a point, but Church Ministries, an complaints of official
movements in America be wary of law enforcement classes to police families. they have to acknowledge umbrella organization that corruption and misconduct.
officers. Their parents give Turning generalized anxiety each other, says Dr. will include the new church,
inevitably produced them versions of a basic talk: into rational action is at the Akomolafe. The protesters suggests a divine purpose at “This country is the best
Don’t run, be respectful, core of what she calls her should embrace a future of work amid seemingly dark country on Earth. I am so
backlashes, and the U.S. is keep your hands in view, and “tactical thinking” program. civility. Republicans should times, including in the lucky to be in the U.S.,” says
don’t make abrupt moves. embrace that civility is the coming together of more Ms. Fusha, who still bears
now in the midst of the If an officer comes home companion of justice. than a dozen church leaders the scars of being thrown
with, say, a black eye from an and about 500 participants down on shattered glass
backlash to Black Lives People of color are born on-duty fight with a suspect, But in general, it is the at an outdoor prayer during the lawlessness that
into their race and can’t take their spouse, rather than protests that have clearly meeting last Thursday. swept Albania in the 1990s.
Matter and 2020 protests, off their skin color, says freaking out and asking them succeeded, he says. If you “But I’m hoping the U.S. is
Travis Dixon, a professor of not to return, needs to take compare them to the going to come together.”
says Jody Allen, a professor communications at the rational steps to understand protests of the 1960s-era
University of Illinois at what happened.They can ask civil rights movement, you Back in Uptown, leaning
of history at the College of Urbana-Champaign and questions and design cannot miss what he calls against his car with rap
author of “Teaching You to strategies to help them see the “silver lining”: the music blaring, Mr. Ross says
William & Mary. Love Fear: Television News the officer is in an organized diversity of the protesters empathy is key to addressing
and Racial Stereotypes in a group designed to protect themselves, with more racial oppression in the city
Backlashes to change, Punishing Democracy.” them and knows what young people and more “We will not be famous in he loves.
especially when it comes to they’re doing. white Americans. the years to come for a
racism, are caused by fear of For these and other tragic incident,” the biracial “Martin Luther King
change, says Dr. Allen. In reasons he rejects the “There’s always that They’re not going away leader told worshippers at marched so that I could be
Kenosha, she adds, this is notion of a duality of fear [feeling in] general, ‘He’s anytime soon, he says. one of his congregations, here talking to you right
visible in this probable between Black Americans leaving for work, he might Living Light Christian now in the street. And yeah,
throughline: The police and American police. not come back, something “The fact that the people Church in Kenosha, on sure, we can drink from the
officer who shot Mr. Blake bad might happen,’ given that who are on the streets now Sunday morning.“We will be same water fountain now,
was likely afraid. Militia “That officers get shot is there’s a higher likelihood of are not just Black and famous in the years to come but there’s still this
groups went to the city tragic, but it’s tragic in the something bad happening to brown, but Black, brown, and for the outpouring of the underlying stuff,” says Mr.
because they were afraid. way that a soldier gets shot: our spouses than if we were white – that is hope for the spirit of God and the unique Ross, who was born in jail to
Protesters were afraid of Both sign up to put their married to stockbrokers,” future of this country,” says coming together of the a father who had killed
the militia, and attacked lives at risk,” says Dr. Dixon. says Dr. Burke.“Every one of Dr. Akomolafe. people of God.” someone and a mother who
them. Mr. Rittenhouse pulled these shootings and protests was implicated in the crime,
the trigger because he was ramps the anxiety up even By Peter Grier, Patrik Already, Kenosha and who fell into bad ways
afraid. higher.” Jonsson, himself until his own son’s
death caused him to change
Responding to such fear Dr. Dixon says he has had & Noah Robertson residents’ efforts have course.
requires resilience, she says: an officer point a gun at him,
“We have to keep talking been wrongfully arrested, attracted attention and “I was raised up around
and keep working at this. and pulled over repeatedly. oppression,” says Mr. Ross.
There were definitely Virtually every Black man praise from outsiders.Three “But I go to church.You can’t
moments of hopefulness this has similar stories, he says. deal with violence with
summer. Now I think there protesters from Baltimore, violence.That’s what you call
is a possibility of losing a war. Ain’t nobody going to
who drove virtually nonstop win.”

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my turn that is what this president his handling of the killing staff. The perverted
says. The record speaks coronavirus. That will be a message: Murder was
Presidential otherwise. central message. In justified to prevent the
campaign response, the president will murder of the unborn. A
becoming During the 1918-20 pursue a law-and-order similar form of insanity, as
America's most Spanish flu pandemic, platform claiming that the the pandemic is infecting
uncivil war President Woodrow Wilson violence and rioting is being the nation, could too easily
refused even to promoted by Democrats contaminate the political
Over the past two acknowledge its existence who support Antifa and campaign.
weeks, the Democratic and and the federal government other left wing radical
Republican presidential did virtually nothing to limit groups. Indeed, his senior In this poisonous
nominating conventions its spread. Trump is in adviser Kellyanne Conway environment, law, order and
became Fort Sumters, with partial denial of COVID-19 explicitly confirmed that public safety are explosive
both parties firing and certainly was very slow greater violence helped the issues that, if not contained,
broadsides at the other, in taking effective action. president as the most can provoke vigilantes of
opening what could be affected cities were headed left and right to take up
America's most uncivil The president was late in by Democratic mayors who arms against the other.That
political war in history. recognizing the seriousness would bear the blame. suggests a civil war. The
of the pandemic, ignoring difference is that, if war
science and the advice of Will there be any bottom erupts in this information
his expert medical team. age, it will be uncivil.
He was late in advising (and to these campaigns? Here
never mandating) the If violence or the
wearing of masks and social are two signs of a possible pandemic surge, the
distancing. His rallies and consequences will make
his nominating acceptance bottom. Republicans will the future dystopian view
speech in the Rose Garden presented by both parties
ignored those basic label Black Lives Matter a at their nominating
measures, making these conventions reality.
events "super-spreaders." terrorist organization,
And the president has Hope is never a strategy.
returned to campaigning in happened. inciting the far right to But that may be the only
front of large rallies, way to avert uncivil war.
Harlan Ullman disregarding basic health The president put in contain that threat with
safety precautions. place Operation Warp By Harlan Ullman
this is the first presidential Speed to develop vaccines violence. Democrats will As well as being a recurring
campaign in which the most The president has and therapeutics. Across guest on Happenings Q&A,
Democrats called dangerous president ever prioritized reopening the the globe, many tens of urge the president to hold Harlan Ullman is UPI's Arnaud
faces a rival co-opted by economy over restricting it thousands of researchers de Borchgrave Distinguished
Donald Trump the most extremists to embrace an until the pandemic and scientists are working even more rallies, so that Columnist, a senior adviser at
anti-American agenda subsides. While the overtime to find cures. the Atlantic Council and author
dangerous president in bankrupting the country administration used the Conceivably, one or more large numbers of his of the upcoming book, "The Fifth
and ruining its economy. Defense Production Act to cures may be created
modern times, unfit for That is a quite a choice.The manufacture ventilators before the election. More supporters contract Horseman:To Be Feared,
only certain prediction is and protective equipment, likely, the pandemic will Friended or Fought in a MAD-
holding office and incapable that the campaign will testing has become determine the timetable. COVID-19, in essence
become more vicious, politicized. Virtually all And large rallies along with Driven Age."
of knowing or telling the angry and polarizing. medical science agrees that school openings could fuel voter suppression by
massive testing is crucial to its spread. These Harlan Ullman joins
truth. Looming over the allow for enough contact uncertainties will cause the pandemic. Happenings Q&A on
election in what may be the tracing to limit the spread respective campaigns to September 24th at 1:30
Republicans, meaning the ultimate determinant of of COVID-19. That has not take even more extreme Impossible? Because
president, played the fear who wins is the positions. partisan politics have never on AM1050 WLIP.
card, asserting that coronavirus pandemic. been more polarized and
Americans would be unsafe Nearly 200,000 Americans The Biden team argues angry, probably since the
under a Joe Biden have died of COVID-19. that the president was Civil War, anything is
presidency -- that the Perhaps no president could negligent if not derelict in possible. Rage and emotion
candidate was a Trojan have done better, or at least are not compatible with a
horse for radical socialism civilized debate and
that will destroy jobs, peaceful election.
defund police, escalate
violence, lead to In the battle over a
nationwide anarchy and woman's right to choose
end America's democracy. and when or where
abortion should be legal,
Listening to both parties, anti-abortionists and right-
to-lifers bombed clinics,

Another day It isn’t that we don’t have marketwatch.com website When Democrats used possibl(e) the incurring of
older and sufficient warnings and summarizes Kennedy’s to care about debt, they any new debt.”
deeper in debt examples from the policies on taxation and said we were mortgaging
Founders to contemporary spending. the future of our children George Washington said:
The nonpartisan political leaders about the and grandchildren.With the “Avoid occasions of
Congressional Budget dangers of debt. It is that To prove that debt has rapid increase in spending expense … and avoid
Office reports the the politicians and those been a nonpartisan issue in and promises by the Biden- likewise the accumulation
American government will who elect and benefit from the recent past, consider Harris ticket to spend of debt not only by
soon reach a debt level their largesse refuse to this succinct quote from trillions more on unproved shunning occasions of
equaling its entire gross heed those warnings. Ronald Reagan: “We don’t “climate change” and the expense but by vigorous
domestic product. It will be have a trillion-dollar debt rest of the Bernie Sanders exertions to discharge the
the largest since 1945, the President John F. Kennedy because we haven’t taxed socialist agenda, we might debts, not throwing upon
year World War II ended. enough; we have a trillion- be mortgaging our present. posterity the burden which
believed economic growth dollar debt because we we ourselves ought to
spend too much.” Who can bear.”
occurred when taxes were credibly argue with that? It’s
true in our personal lives, Then there’s James
cut and spending reduced. but unlike the government In a July 2019 column, I Madison: “I go on the
individuals can’t borrow principle that a public debt
Cal Thomas Kennedy couldn’t get money without end to prop quoted several of our wise is a public curse, and in a
up their lifestyles. Republican Government a
The pandemic is partially election and spending is nominated by today’s Founders whose greater curse than any
their ticket to electoral Again, Reagan cut to the other.”
responsible, but it is too success. Democratic Party. Vice heart of the spending and monuments have recently
debt problem when he Can anyone credibly
easy an excuse to blame a How many times have we President Joe Biden wants observed: “No government been under assault by the challenge these warnings? If
seen what happens to ever voluntarily reduces not, why aren’t we obeying
virus for politicians of both elected officials who to raise taxes, including itself in size. Government ignorant mob. They are them?
attempt to reduce the rate programs, once launched,
parties to stop spending of increased spending, not those on capital gains. never disappear. Actually, a worth repeating. Cal Thomas is a syndicated
cut spending itself? They are government bureau is the columnist and author.
and reduce debt. The demonized by the Kennedy believed high taxes nearest thing to eternal life Thomas Jefferson said:
opposition as being we’ll ever see on this “We must not let our rulers Readers may email him at:
federal government uncaring toward the poor, slowed capital formation earth!” load us with perpetual [email protected].
children, the elderly, etc. No debt.”
continues to take in record wonder they are afraid to and reduced risk-taking.
do anything. They put their
amounts of revenue, but it careers ahead of the Kennedy also believed
welfare of the nation.
goes out the Treasury’s lower taxes produce more Alexander Hamilton
warned: “Nothing can more
door as fast as it comes in, revenue for the Treasury, affect national prosperity
than a constant and
riding the crest of a wave of something that has been systematic attention to
extinguish the present debt
borrowed money because proven time and time again. and to avoid as much as

very few in Washington Biden seems to believe the

ever speak of the harm debt opposite, which has been

causes. The sole interest of disproved time and time

too many politicians is re- again. The

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September 10, 2020 health
lifestyle
Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Center community

news

Common meds linked
to faster mental
decline in seniors

A group of widely used medications suggests it's better to avoid these more than doubled their risk of Snyder said the results "illustrate that we
might speed up older adults' mental decline medications in older adults," said Reiss, impairment. A similar pattern was seen need better treatments -- not only for
-- especially if they are at increased risk of who is also an advisory board member at among study participants with Alzheimer's- Alzheimer's and other dementias, but for
dementia, a new study hints. the Alzheimer's Foundation of America. linked proteins in their spinal fluid. other common conditions associated with
aging."
The medications in question are called That's especially true, she added, when That, Reiss said, suggests the medications
anticholinergics, and they are used to treat alternatives exist. might have "accelerated a process that was By Amy Horton, Health Day News
a diverse range of conditions -- from already in place."
allergies, motion sickness and overactive Many medications sold for allergies, colds
bladder to high blood pressure, depression and coughs have anticholinergic properties
and Parkinson's disease. -- and are available over-the-counter. So it's
important, Reiss said, that older adults be
The drugs are known to have short-term aware that non-prescription drugs are not
side effects such as confusion and fuzzy automatically "safe."
memory.
"You don't want to add any medications
But studies in recent years have turned that aren't necessary," said Reiss, who had
up a more troubling connection: a no role in the study.
heightened risk of dementia among long-
term users. Meanwhile, certain prescription drugs
for depression, high blood pressure,
The new findings, published Sept. 2 in Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia have
Neurology, add another layer: Healthy anticholinergic properties, as do
older adults on these medications had an medications for overactive bladder and
increased risk of developing mild cognitive urinary incontinence.
impairment. That refers to subtler
problems with memory and thinking that Reiss said that people with questions
may progress to dementia. about their prescriptions should talk to
their doctor.
And the link, researchers found, was
strongest among two groups of people For the new study, researchers led by
already at heightened risk of Alzheimer's Lisa Delano-Wood, from the University of
disease: those who carry a gene variant California, San Diego, followed 688 older
that raises the odds of the disease, and adults who initially had no problems with
people with certain biological "markers" of memory or thinking skills. One-third said
the disease in their spinal fluid. they'd been regularly taking anticholinergic
drugs for more than six months -- usually
The results do not prove anticholinergic far more than one.
drugs are to blame, cautioned Heather
Snyder, vice president of medical and In fact, they were taking an average of
scientific relations at the Alzheimer's almost five medications per person.
Association.
Over the next 10 years, people on
"This study shows an association in a anticholinergics were more likely to
very specific population, but it does not develop mild cognitive impairment, which
prove causation," said Snyder, who was not was gauged through yearly tests. Over half
involved in the research. -- 51% -- developed the condition, versus
42% of older adults not taking
However, it is biologically plausible that anticholinergics.
the drugs could increase dementia risk, said
Dr. Allison Reiss, an associate professor at The researchers did consider other
NYU Long Island School of Medicine. factors that affect dementia risk -- such as
people's education levels and history of
The medications, she said, block a heart disease or stroke.And after adjusting
chemical called acetylcholine, which for those factors, older adults on
transmits messages among nerve cells. anticholinergics were still 47% more likely
Acetylcholine is involved in memory and to develop mild impairment.
learning, and is typically low in people with
Alzheimer's. The link was even stronger among
people who carried a gene variant that
"The preponderance of evidence raises Alzheimer's risk: Anticholinergic use

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ask amy
seniors edition

Life-long father/son
hurt resurfaces

Dear Amy: My Amy Dickinson
husband's biological father
left him and his mom when communicate with my either acknowledge or Reconciliation is its own this connection, and we can Should I mention to his
he was 2 years old. They apologize for leaving him in reward. Reconciliation in see how it goes? I’ll be the wife how uncomfortable
haven't seen each other in husband. My husband says childhood are low. The this context would be your buffer, and stay beside you this display made us feel? —
decades. We live on the whole topic is simply too husband’s realization that the whole way.” Red-faced Friends
other side of the country. he's numb and doesn't like big for a late-life reveal. he will not likely receive
what he wants from a man Dear Amy: Dear Amy: A Dear Red-faced: I agree
My husband just learned talking about it, but I A suggested friend on who has never been able to dear friend is turning 80 with you that your friend
that his dad has stage 4 Facebook is simply give it. Reconciliation is not next year. should have opened his “no
cancer. wonder how he will feel someone whose “friend” stuffing down your feelings, gifts” gifts (and expressed
network crosses paths with but letting them surface The invitations for his big his gratitude) privately, but
My husband says he feels when any chance to get an yours. In this case, the FB and being willing to feel 75th birthday celebration it’s his party.
ready for his father to die algorithm did its work. them, in order to accept requested no gifts, saying
so he can be done apology or what is. His father is flawed, "Your presence will be your You should respect his
wondering if he'll ever But your husband isn’t cowardly, and perhaps also present." But at the event, “no gifts” wishes this year,
reach out to apologize. acknowledgement of his “the child” in this situation. “numb.” he showily opened gifts anticipate the possibility
He is a man, numbed by that had been brought that he will give a repeat
His dad's name recently hurt is totally gone. disappointment. If he Your husband might want anyway, pointing out and performance, and just roll
popped up as a suggested doesn’t connect with his to “lurk” a little bit on his thanking the gift-givers — with it. Pour yourself a cup
friend on his Facebook My husband says he father, the father’s death father’s social media in much to the of coffee, enjoy an extra
page and my husband would want his bio dad to will not bring relief or order to see photos and embarrassment of those piece of cake, and nod
wondered if maybe his reach out on his own comfort from all of this view these common ties. who respected the "no politely.
father will try to reach out terms. Would I be hurting pent-up hostility. If they do You should NOT connect gifts" request.
that way. My husband him and breaking our trust manage to connect, the with his family members You can contact Amy
doesn't want to be the one if I do this on my own? hurt and sadness will also without asking first. Ask: What do we do if the Dickinson via email:
to reach out, which I fully surface. “Honey, why don’t I make situation repeats itself for
understand. It's not his job I want to honor his his next party? ASKAMY@
to do that — he's the child feelings, but I also believe in amydickinson.com
in this situation. the humanity of other
people and the chance to
I feel pulled to introduce heal. Should I leave this
myself online to his father alone? — Let it Be?
or maybe his aunt to see if
there's a willingness to Dear Let it Be: The
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social security overall federal budget common misperception.
and you ledgers. This made the
budget deficits appear much The Social Security tax rate
smaller. But it is important
to note this was just a is 6.2%. The other 1.45% is
bookkeeping gimmick. He
simply combined the used to fund the completely
accounts (SET ITAL)on
paper.(END ITAL) He did separate Medicare
not take one nickel out of
the Social Security trust program.
funds to spend for other
Internet lies about purposes. By the way, the last time
Social Security the Social Security tax rate
never go away The author then goes on was increased was in 1983,
to say, "Franklin Roosevelt, a during the administration of
There are so many Social Democrat, promised that Ronald Reagan, definitely
Security-bashing screeds participation in the not a Democrat!
floating around on the program would be
internet. Some are full of a Tom Margenau completely voluntary." And speaking of Reagan, decided to start giving 65 or disabled. SSI is a
few half-truths, but most That's not true. In order to he gets a pass on something federal welfare program
are outright lies. I could to misuse the Social make Social Security more that the internet diatribe that is funded out of
spend every one of my Security account.They used palatable to Republicans in blames on President Bill general tax revenues, not
weekly columns just trying Social Security funds to Congress, the original law Clinton. Specifically, the Social Security taxes. The
to set the record straight. start the Peace Corps." excluded groups of angry old goat wrote this: SSI program came about
traditional Republican "Which political party when Richard Nixon was
These things get passed This is pure nonsense. It's voters such as doctors, started taxing Social annuity payments to president. And he definitely
around via emails from one one of those situations lawyers and other self- Security? Answer: Clinton was not a Democrat!
gullible and naive nitwit to where I don't know how employed people. But they and the Democratic Party, immigrants?" And he
the next.Today, I'm going to you disprove a negative. It were all eventually brought with Al Gore casting the tie Here's the deal: People
address one that has been simply did not happen. I into the fold. And just so breaking vote." answers it this way: "That's should stop trying to blame
polluting inboxes for almost don't know what else to you know, mandatory social their perceived Social
a quarter-century now. In say. insurance is not unique to In truth, Social Security right. Jimmy Carter and the Security transgressions on
fact, I wrote my first column the United States.There are benefits were first made one political party or
about it in 1997! It's still In fact, later in his screed, 165 Social Security taxable during Reagan's Democratic Party. another. Almost all Social
around, and it's still the author of this garbage programs around the administration in 1984. But I Security legislation over the
spreading falsehoods. rebuts himself by trotting world. And all of them are should point out here that Immigrants moved into this years has been the result of
out the time-worn mandatory. That is the only the idea to tax Social bipartisan efforts to make
argument that President way a nationwide social Security benefits was one of country, and at age 65, the program better for all
Lyndon Baines Johnson was insurance system can work. the proposals of the 1982 of us.
the first chief executive to National Commission on began to receive Social
misuse Social Security funds This half-baked harangue Social Security Reform.This If you have a Social
and spend them on other next alleges that FDR was a bipartisan Security payments. The Security question,Tom
purposes. I have explained promised that "participants commission headed by Alan Margenau has the answer.
what LBJ did about 100 would only have to pay 1 Greenspan that was Democratic Party gave
times in this column. So, percent of the first $1,400 charged with coming up Contact him at
here comes explanation of their annual incomes into with solutions to Social these payments to them, thomas.margenau
No. 101! the program." Security's pending financial
(By the way, I can give you woes. In addition to taxing even though they never @comcast.net.
Because of the massive Once again, that's just an benefits, some of their
a little clue about how to spending needed to fund outright lie. The Social other proposals included paid a dime into it." Tom Margenau joins
the Vietnam War, Johnson's Security bill that FDR increasing payroll taxes and Happenings Q&A on
tell these diatribes are half- administration was racking signed in 1935 taxed raising the retirement age Once again, that is just
up huge deficits in the income up to $3,000. And from 65 to 67. absolutely false. In truth, September 17th at
baked and splattered with 1960s. But LBJ came up that same law called for an actuarial studies have 2:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
with a clever way to hide incremental adjustment to shown that workers living
lies. They are full of some of those deficits from the tax rate, climbing from here illegally who manage
the American people. He 1% in 1936 to 3% by 1949. to obtain false documents,
misspellings, run-on noticed that the Roosevelt and all legislators including fake Social
government kept a knew that, as the program Security numbers, and who
sentences, far too many completely separate set of grew in the future, its work "above the table,"
books for the Social funding would also have to pump about $2 billion per
capital letters and lots of Security trust funds, which grow. year into the Social Security
were running big surpluses system and never collect a
exclamation points.You just at the time. So, he decided The wacky writer then dime in benefits.
to combine the Social falsely says, "the Social
know they are written by Security accounts with the Security tax rate is now
7.65 percent." That's a
some angry old goat sitting

at the computer in his

basement and letting the

government-hating venom

ooze from his fingertips

onto the keyboard!) And just so you know, Perhaps the author is
talking about the fact that
As I said, there are many those proposals and immigrants (SET ITAL)who
of these, but the one I'll have come to this country
address today is headlined resulting legislation worked. legally(END ITAL) are able
"WHO TOOK MY to obtain Supplemental
MONEY?" It goes on for The program has been Security Income benefits if
several pages trying to they are poor and over age
convince you that the running strong for almost
Democrats are to blame for
all kinds of supposed four decades since those
transgressions with the
Social Security program. changes were made. But it

is about time we set up

another bipartisan

commission to keep the

program solvent for future

generations.

It starts out with a But that's a topic for
whopper. It says, another column. Back to
"Democratic President this ridiculous rant. The
Kennedy and Sargent author asks this question:
Shriver were the first ones "Which political party

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books ‘Brontë’s Mistress’ may speculate,
but it does so delightfully

8 books being Finola Austin writes in her author's straightforward Hollywood story of music washed over us in wave after
adapted for film & TV note, “Brontë’s Mistress is a work of spontaneous, mutual love. Handsome cleansing wave. I knew – hoped – that
fiction,” and she adds,“I don’t pretend young Branwell, his hair mussed and Branwell heard in the music what I
I'm Thinking of Ending Things,The Devil All the Time,You that it records what happened his shirt falling open, arrives in the heard, that his soul was vibrating at
Should Have Known, Deep Water and other books are between Lydia and Branwell, but given cold and loveless world of Thorp the same frequency as mine,” we’re
being adapted for film and television this fall. New the facts at our disposal, it imagines Green, and in short order he and told at one such point.
adaptations will open in theaters and debut on streaming what could have happened.” Mrs. Robinson are forging emotional
services in September, October and November. Some big- connections. “It was ridiculous,” But the bulk of the novel’s
name stars are attached to other movies and TV series The Lydia she mentions is Lydia narrates Lydia.“Me, with wet hair, in a momentum builds a convincingly
based on books. Here's a rundown: Robinson, wife of Rev. Edmund gown too frivolous for a housekeeper multifaceted picture of Lydia, a smart,
Robinson, who in 1843 hired a to see me in ... and the unkempt tutor passionate woman who is caught
'I'm Thinking of Ending Things' dashing young tutor for her children playing the eccentric poet. I laughed, between her own thwarted desires
at Thorp Green Hall, a few miles and, while Mr. Brontë looked puzzled, and the gears of society’s
The 2016 book is writer Iain Reid's debut novel. The northwest of York. The young tutor, I felt a new fragile bond forming conventions.Austin grounds her book
story is a psychological thriller narrated by a young woman Branwell, came highly recommended between us.” in research, but it’s the entirely
who accompanies her boyfriend, Jake, to meet his parents by the children’s previous governess: fictional letters she intersperses
for the first time. The couple take a detour that turns Branwell’s sister Anne. The bond causes trouble. Inevitably, throughout the book that truly bring
terrifying. Netflix is adapting the book as a new film Anne discovers it (“But it isn’t as you Lydia and many of her other
directed by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of the Lydia is also the mistress of the think,” Lydia protests to her), and the characters to life.
Spotless Mind). Jessie Buckley stars as the young woman, novel’s title, the narrator who tells rest of Thorp Green isn’t far behind –
with Jesse Plemons as Jake and Toni Collette and David the story of her affectionate but including Reverend Robinson, a And the mystery? Well, unless some
Thewlis as Jake's parents. Netflix released a trailer for the passionless marriage, her adorable powerful man whose strange new batch of records comes to light,
movie in August that hints at "something profoundly but demanding children, and the combination of stillness and rage it will no doubt continue to be a bone
wrong." The film premieres Sept. 4. sudden longings she feels when makes him the novel’s most of contention for Brontë scholars –
presented with this new young man in interesting character. and a fruitful ground for novelists.
'The Devil All the Time' her life. “After all, Edmund had Austin has written a stirring defense
refused to make love to me,” she Austin can sometimes lapse - or of the maligned Mrs. Robinson, and
The 2011 book is author Donald Ray Pollock's first thinks at one point. “And I had not allow Lydia to lapse - into the kind of who can say if it isn’t also the truth?
novel.The story follows Arvin Russell, a young man whose been ready to live only on memories.” breathless prose more endemic to
father served in World War II, and other characters from old-fashioned romance novels. “The By Candace McDuffie
the end of WWII into the 1960s. Netflix is adapting the It’s a charged plot for a novel. In July
novel as a "Midwestern gothic" film directed by Antonio of 1845, the historical Branwell really
Campos (Christine).Tom Holland plays Arvin, with Robert was abruptly dismissed from his post
Pattinson as Preston Teagardin, Eliza Scanlen as Lenora by Reverend Robinson, and energetic
Laferty, Riley Keough and Jason Clarke as Sandy and Carl rumors immediately abounded. Did
Henderson, and Sebastian Stan as Lee Bodecker. Netflix Branwell’s drinking, already a
shared a trailer for the film in August that teases the problem, prompt the dismissal? Or
connections between the characters.The movie premieres his boastful nature? Did he, as some
Sept. 16. of the darkest speculation has
tendered, attempt abuse of some kind
with the Robinson’s young son? Or, as
the bulk of the speculation ran, was
he dismissed because he had an affair
with Lydia?

Bronte’s Mistress
by Finola Austin

Sarah Paulson in “Ratched” The last of those scenarios was
enthusiastically put forward by
'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' Branwell himself, who boasted to
correspondents that his employer's
The 1962 novel by Ken Kesey takes place at an Oregon wife was rather too fond of him, that
psychiatric hospital. The story is narrated by Chief he kept a lock of her hair, and so on.
Bromden, a patient who depicts life at the institution, And a variation of this picture was
including the antics of fellow patient Randle Patrick immortalized by Elizabeth Gaskell in
McMurphy and the authoritative rule of Nurse Ratched. her 1857 biography “The Life of
Netflix is developing a new psychological horror series, Charlotte Brontë,” in which she
Ratched, that centers on Ratched.The show is a prequel to risked a libel action when she all but
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest that provides a accused Lydia Robinson by name of
backstory for the villainous Ratched. One Flew Over the seducing Branwell and leading him
Cuckoo's Nest was previously adapted as a 1975 film into “the deep disgrace of deadly
featuring Louise Fletcher as Ratched. Sarah Paulson plays crime.”
Ratched in the new series, which co-stars Jon Jon Briones,
Finn Wittrock, Charlie Carver, Judy Davis, Cynthia Nixon, Debate over what happened at
Corey Stoll and Sharon Stone. The show is executive Thorp Green has raged ever since, in
produced by Ryan Murphy (American Horror Story). scholarship and in fiction, in novels
Netflix released a trailer for Ratched in August that shows like Douglas A. Martin’s 2005
Ratched (Paulson) attempting to "show mercy" to the “Branwell” and in impassioned
patients.The series premieres Sept. 18. nonfiction like Daphne du Maurier’s
1960 “The Infernal World of Branwell
'Enola Holmes Mysteries' Brontë.” Did Branwell initiate the
relationship? Or, as Gaskell
The young adult detective series by Nancy Springer insinuated, was he seduced, at age 28,
consists of six books, beginning with The Case of the by a 43-year-old woman? What was
Missing Marquess (2006). The series centers on Enola the nature of the incident that
Holmes, the teenage sister of Mycroft and Sherlock enraged Reverend Robinson so much
Holmes and a gifted sleuth in her own right. Netflix is that rumor had it he threatened to
adapting The Case of the Missing Marquess as the new film shoot Branwell if he ever returned to
Thorp Green?
see ADAPTATIONS on page 15 for more
For her fiction debut, Finola Austin
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A warm goodbye to summer with
four great audiobooks

In this audiobook roundup, catch it becomes increasingly difficult to motives are fully explored.“The Guest Adaptations
one last beach read for the year, and suspend disbelief: One cannot help List” is a quick-paced mystery.
then venture into autumnal territory but wonder how the author can recall Grade: B+ continued from page 14
with a touching memoir, a classic the vivid details she describes, since
whodunit, and a thoughtful novel the story is set when she is a very “28 Summers” by Elin Hilderbrand Enola Holmes, directed by Harry Bradbeer (Fleabag, Killing
about race and perception. Listeners young child. Grade: B+ Eve). Millie Bobby Brown stars as Enola, with Sam Claflin as
may wish to know that all titles this Read by Erin Bennett; Hachette Mycroft, Henry Cavill as Sherlock and Helena Bonham
month have adult themes. “The Guest List” by Lucy Foley Audio; 15 hours and 20 minutes Carter as the siblings' mom, Eudoria. Netflix shared a
teaser trailer for Enola Holmes in August that introduces
“The Vanishing Half ” by Brit Read by Jot Davies, Chloe Massey, A retelling (of sorts) of the 1978 Brown as Enola. The movie follows Enola as she searches
Bennett Olivia Dowd, Aoife McMahon, Sarah film “Same Time, Next Year,” Elin for her mother, who has gone missing, premieres Sept. 23.
Ovens, and Rich Keeble; HarperAudio; Hilderbrand’s two main characters
Read by Shayna Small; Penguin 10 hours and 20 minutes meet on Nantucket Island in Robert De Niro in “The War with Grandpa”
Audio; 11 hours and 30 minutes Massachusetts every summer for an
As guests assemble on a small Irish affair that brings joy and heartache in 'The War with Grandpa'
In 1950s America, the identical island for a wedding feast, a storm hits turn. The plot goes a bit off-kilter The 1984 children's novel by Robert Kimmel Smith is
Vignes twins flee the Black township and (gasp!) someone is found when a forced detour into politics narrated by Peter, a young boy whose grandfather takes his
in Louisiana where their father had murdered in this whodunit with a emerges, but the story’s emotional room when he comes to live with the family. Peter declares
been lynched years earlier.They are so twisty plot. A full cast of narrators ups and downs are expertly conveyed. war on his grandpa and devises a series of outrageous
light-skinned they can pass as white – brings the spooky setting to life by Grade: B pranks.The book is being adapted as a new film directed by
and one chooses to do so, marrying a offering alternating views of what Tim Hill (Muppets from Space). Oakes Fegley stars as Peter,
white man and concealing her past, happened. The guests, their By Rochelle M. O’Gorman with Robert De Niro as Peter's grandfather Ed, Uma
while the other marries a Black man. backgrounds, and their possible Thurman and Rob Riggle as Peter's parents and
Each sister chases a different life, until Christopher Walken and Cheech Marin as Ed's friends. 101
their stories eventually circle back to Studios released a trailer for The War with Grandpa in
Louisiana and family in this compelling August that shows Ed (De Niro) taking on Peter (Fegley)
and thought-provoking novel. and his friends in a dodgeball fight. In theaters Oct. 9.
Narrator Shayna Small is in top form,
delivering believable male voices, 'The Forbidden'
regional accents, and different tones The 1985 short story by Clive Barker appears in
for each female character, all while Barker's horror fiction collection In the Flesh, or Books of
perfectly capturing the mood through Blood Volume Five. The story follows Helen, a college
her pacing and timbre. Grade: A student who discovers the urban legend of the Candyman,
a supernatural figure with a hook for one hand. "The
“The Distance Between Us” by Forbidden" was previously adapted as the 1992 film
Reyna Grande Candyman, which presented the Candyman as the ghost of
a Black artist who was murdered over his relationship with
Read by Yareli Arizmendi; Simon & a White woman. Universal Pictures is developing a
Schuster Audio; 11 hours and 30 contemporary sequel co-written and produced by Jordan
minutes Peele (Get Out). The new Candyman stars Yahya Abdul-
Mateen II,Teyonah Parris and Tony Todd. Universal Pictures
This beautifully-written and shared a trailer for the film in February that introduces
gracefully voiced memoir details the Abdul-Mateen as Anthony, a visual artist.The movie opens
difficulties of immigration from the in theaters Oct. 16.
perspective of those left behind in
Mexico. Reyna Grande’s prose is not 'Rebecca'
exactly lyrical, but it is evocative and The 1938 novel by Daphne du Maurier centers on a
emotional, and the pacing is very young woman who marries a wealthy widower, Maxim de
much like a novel. The story is Winter. After moving to his estate, the woman is haunted
narrated with much feeling by Yareli by the memory of her husband's late wife, Rebecca.
Arizmendi, whose Spanish accents are Rebecca was previously adapted as a 1940 film directed by
believable.The ending, however, leaves Alfred Hitchcock. Netflix is developing a new adaptation
some strings untied, especially after starring Lily James as Mrs. de Winter, Armie Hammer as
Grande enters the United States. And Maxim de Winter and Kristin Scott Thomas as Mrs.
Danvers. Netflix released first-look photos for the film in
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS August, including a picture of a passionate moment
between Mrs. de Winter (James) and Maxim (Hammer).
PRINT & E-BOOKS NONFICTION PRINT & E-BOOKS FICTION The movie premieres Oct. 21.

1. His Truth is Marching On (Meacham) 1. Thick As Thieves (Brown) 'You Should Have Known'
2. Hoax (Stelter) 2. Squeeze Me (Hiaasen) The 2014 novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz is a psychological
3. Caste (Wilkerson) 3. The Vanishing Half (Bennett) thriller that follows a successful therapist, Grace, on the
4. Untamed (Doyle) 4. Where the Crawdads Sing (Owens) verge of publishing her first book. The character's
5. Live Free of Die (Hannity) 5. Emerald Blaze (Andrews) seemingly- perfect life is upended after a violent death.
6. Too Much and Never Enough (Trump) 6. The Guest List (Foley) HBO is adapting the book as the new miniseries The
7. White Fragility (DiAngelo) 7. Someone to Romance (Balogh) Undoing, written and executive produced by David E.
8. How to be an Antiracist (Kendi) 8. Royal (Steel) Kelley (Big Little Lies). Nicole Kidman stars as Grace, with
9. Between the World and Me (Coates) 9. American Dirt (Cummins) Hugh Grant as her husband, Jonathan, Noah Jupe as their
10. Educated (Westover) 10. Then She Was Gone (Jewell) son, Henry, Edgar Ramirez as Det. Joe Mendoza and Lily
Rabe as Sylvia Steineitz.The series premieres Oct. 25.

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Pet World

with Cathy Rosenthal

You can train a dog not to put
things in his mouth

Dear Cathy, I have a seven- second or two of him "leaving themselves via evaporation
month-old "Shihpoo" who eats it," say his reward word and from the tongue. What do
everything he smells. I have give him a treat from your domestic cats do to cool
tried a spray water bottle to hand.Then pick up the treat off themselves? I have not noticed
get him to drop the garbage, the floor. Repeat this process any particular behavior. -Steve,
but it does not work. He eats several times each training Atlantic Beach, New York
leaves, bugs, dead frogs, worms, session, and train him a few
paper; you get the idea. He times a day, extending the time Dear Steve, Dogs and cats
eats things so fast; I don't have he can sit without touching the
the time to stop him. He also treat on the floor. Never let have a few sweat glands
loves to roll in any kind of him eat the treat (or other (mostly in their paws), but they
animal poop. How do stop this food) off the floor. If he learns
behavior? He is driving me he can only take treats from Amazing animalare not as efficient as human
crazy. Thanks for any guidance your hand, he will begin to rescuessweat glands, so both animals
you can offer. leave food and other items on
the ground alone. pant when overheated or
-Lori, Parkland, Florida anxious. It helps them cool off
When you feel he
Dear Lori, Your little understands this concept, you or relax. Dog vs the sea Koala vs tree
"Shihpoo" is still a puppy and can say "leave it" when he goes
puppies love to put things in to eat anything else you don't For the most part, cats are Water rescue teams rescued a dog in Wildlife rescuers and firefighters
their mouth.The good news is, want him to eat. Always mostly inside and not running a Welsh town that chased some sea responded to a suburban house in
you can use positive training to reward this good behavior around in their yards or taking gulls into the water and started Australia when a young boy spotted a
teach him to "leave it" and, with a treat during these early walks in the neighborhoods, swimming out to sea. The Rhyl koala up a tree outside his home.
over time, he should become stages of training. Of course, which is why you probably Coastguard Rescue Team and the Royal Queensland Fire and Emergency
less interested in eating you will need to catch him in haven't seen one panting National Lifeboat Institution's Rhyl Services and personnel from
everything in sight. the act for this advanced before. But it's important for station responded when a dog owner Toowoomba Koala and Wildlife Rescue
training. Dogs are smart, pet owners to know that both in Rhyl called the 999 emergency responded to the home in Toowoomba
To begin, get some treats though. Once he understands dogs and cats can overheat, number to report his dog had chased after a young resident, Elijah Cullen,
and ask your puppy to sit. If what "leave it" means, he will pant, and die from heatstroke. some sea gulls into the water and was spotted the young marsupial in a tree.
you hold the treat a few inches eventually leave things alone swimming out to sea in pursuit of the Firefighters said RSPCA officials were
above his nose and then move even when you are not If you ever observe a cat birds. concerned about the koala's safety in a
the treat slowly over his head, around. residential area with high traffic and a
he will tilt his head up and his panting, wheezing, or having "No amount of encouragement lot of dogs.The rescue marked the first
body back into a sit position to As for rolling around in could entice this naughty pooch to outing for the fire department's new
see the treat. Viola! You just poop, the best remedy is to trouble breathing, even if it is return to the safety of the beach," the $1.3 million rescue truck, which
taught him to "sit." pick up the poop in his yard so Rhyl Coastguard Rescue Team said in a includes a lift that took rescuers up the
it's not accessible to him. Keep stress or heat-related, call a Facebook post. The rescuers located tree to capture the wayward koala.The
When he sits, say his reward him leashed when anywhere the dog in the water and safely brought Toowoomba Koala and Wildlife Rescue
word, like "bingo" (for else to prevent him from veterinarian immediately to the canine aboard a lifeboat and back said the koala, dubbed Rose, is being
example), and give him a treat. rolling around in another to shore. cared for by volunteers.
As he progresses, he should animal's poop. When he finally determine if it is a medical
look at you after the "sit" understands "leave it," you "There was initial worry the owner Bird vs rope
command, which is what you should be able to say "leave it" emergency. Because panting is would attempt to rescue the dog, but
need him to do to get him to when you see him sniffing on the coastguard's advice, remained Animal rescuers in British Columbia
the next level of training. poop, and he should walk away rarer in cats, it also may signal on the beach, keeping the dog in sight," came to the assistance of a turkey
When you feel he understands from it. said Martin Jones, coxswain for Rhyl's vulture spotted hanging upside-down
his reward word (he did a health problem, like asthma, RNLI Lifeboat. "We are so happy the from a rope suspended from a tree
something you asked, like sit, Training, combined with animal and its owner are reunited." branch.
and he receives a treat), begin growing maturity, will help him respiratory infection,
the "leave it" training. learn that not everything
needs to go into his mouth heartworm, or heart
For "leave it," drop a treat
to the floor and tell him to Dear Cathy, I always see problems.
"leave it." He should look at dogs panting to cool
you - and not the treat.After a So, for the most part, not
seeing a cat panting is a good
thing. But cats do pant to cool
themselves off when needed,
just like dogs, and for many
other serious health problems.

As well as being a recuring guest Donkey vs chair "This poor bird had a length of rope

on Happenings Q&A, Cathy M. A group of United Arab Emirates wrapped around its leg that had gotten
Rosenthal is a longtime animal residents came to the rescue of a caught on a branch forcing the bird to
advocate, author, columnist and pet donkey spotted wandering loose with a hang upside down for several hours,"
expert who has more than 25 years plastic chair stuck around its head and The British Columbia SPCA Wild
in the animal welfare field. Send neck. Salem Al Kaabi, 43, said he was Animal Rehabilitation Center, or Wild
your pet questions, stories and tips ARC, said in a Facebook post. Wild
ARC personnel arrived alongside a
to [email protected]. driving to his farm in Masfut, Ajman, Langford Fire Rescue crew, and the
rescuers called Tip Top Tree Service to
when he spotted the donkey bring in a bucket truck when they
determined the entangled bird was in a
wandering with a plastic chair stuck difficult spot to reach with a ladder or
other means.
around its face and neck.
"After an exam at Wild ARC, it was
"Our town is close to Hatta and determined that injuries were minimal
many visitors come to the area during and we're happy to say that the Turkey
the weekend so I guess the chair was Vulture was successfully released after
left behind by them," Al Kaabi told The a few days of supportive care," the post
National. "Municipality workers work said.
hard to keep the area clean and people
should avoid leaving rubbish behind." Deer vs drainpipe

Al Kaabi summoned some friends
and family members to the scene to
help remove the chair. A video of the
rescue shows him using a handsaw to

cut through the chair while his helpers Firefighters in Massachusetts came to
hold the animal still. He said once the the rescue of a baby deer found
chair was removed, he discovered it trapped in a drainage pipe.The Ashland
had dug into the animal's skin, leaving Fire Department said the fawn had
wounds. been spotted wandering in the area for

"I am familiar in dealing with animals a few days before being spotted

as I raise livestock at my farm, so I trapped in the drain pipe Monday
asked one of the men to go to the morning. Firefighters used a 6-foot

veterinary clinic and grab a disinfectant hook to gently pull the deer out of the

wound spray for animals," Al Kaabi pipe. The animal was not injured, but

said. He said the donkey's wounds was taken to an Animal Control facility

were disinfected before he set the to receive a veterinary assessment.

animal free.

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teenage son gets canker sometimes can be painful. As such as celiac disease, son has any other medical to come back, treatment may When he has canker
sores in the back of his in your son's situation, Crohn's disease, ulcerative conditions or frequent sores, your son might find it
throat that really bother him canker sores often go away colitis, Behcet's disease and illnesses. be used to ease symptoms useful to avoid spicy and
and last for about a week. Is on their own in a week or certain immune system acidic foods, as they may lead
there something that he can two. Unlike cold sores, disorders. After an initial evaluation, and prevent future to further pain and irritation
do to prevent them? Will this canker sores are not his provider may of the sores. Putting ice chips
continue throughout his life? contagious. When your son goes in for recommend laboratory outbreaks. Topical products in his mouth and allowing
a medical assessment, his tests, such as bloodwork, if them to slowly dissolve over
ANSWER: Canker sores It's unclear exactly what care provider likely will ask he or she suspects that an applied directly to canker the sores in the back of his
rarely pose a serious health triggers canker sores. They questions to narrow down underlying health problem throat may help too.
concern. But as your son has may develop after a minor the potential causes of the could be contributing to the sores can speed healing and
found out, they can be mouth injury, such as those canker sores in his case. He development of canker Working with his health
annoying. Given that his that result from an accidental or she will need to know sores. reduce the discomfort.These care provider, it's likely that
canker sores keep coming cheek bite or dental work. how long your son has been your son can find a way to
back, it would be a good idea They also may be a reaction experiencing recurrent Treatment for canker medications generally reduce the discomfort and
to make an appointment for to food sensitivities, canker sores, if the sores sores usually isn't necessary. frequency of his canker
your son to see his primary particularly acidic or spicy include active ingredients sores. It is unlikely that the
care provider and have his foods. Nuts, eggs, cheese, outbreaks will continue to
condition evaluated to see if strawberries, chocolate and such as benzocaine, be a lifelong problem. -
treatment might be coffee also seem to trigger Richard Engle, M.D., Family
appropriate. canker sores in some people. hydrogen peroxide or Medicine, Mayo Clinic,
Toothpastes and mouth Glendale, Ariz.
Canker sores, also called rinses that contain the fluocinonide. Because topical
aphthous ulcers, are small, ingredient sodium lauryl Mayo Clinic Q & A is an
shallow sores that develop sulfate may lead to canker products can be difficult to educational resource and
inside the cheeks, at the base sores too. doesn't replace regular medical
of the gums, under the apply to sores in the back of care. E-mail a question to
tongue or in the back of the Sometimes canker sores MayoClinicQ&[email protected].
throat. Typically, they appear can form as a result of a viral the throat, a mouth rinse
red around the edges and infection, hormonal changes For more information, visit
gray in the center. Although or stress. Canker sores also containing lidocaine or the www.mayoclinic.org

Green time vs needs to be done in this hours per day watching or However, no links were
screen time in found between the use of
kids field to help us understand uses devices with screens, video games and academic
performance, the analysis
why this is the case, it is and may be exposed to showed.

important that violence and misleading or Preliminary evidence
suggests that green time
More time spent [technology] doesn't inaccurate information, potentially could limit the
outdoors -- and less in front effects of high screen time,
of a screen -- leads to become the only thing among other potentially meaning nature may be an
improved mental health in under-utilized public health
children and adolescents, young people do in their problematic content, resource to promote youth
according to an analysis of psychological well-being in a
existing research published leisure time," said Oswald, a according to the American high-tech era, according to
Friday by the journal PLOS Oswald and her colleagues.
ONE. doctoral student in public Academy of Child and
"Monitoring screen time
health at the University of Adolescent Psychiatry. can be difficult for parents -
- especially at the moment
Adelaide in Australia. A separate study of 1,239 when many children have
8- to 9-year-olds in transitioned to online
The prevalence of mental Melbourne, Australia, learning due to COVID-19
published earlier this week lockdowns," Oswald said.
health illness among by PLOS ONE, found that
watching two or more "Trying to encourage a
Based on data from 186 children and adolescents is hours of television per day balance of activities is good
at that age was associated -- so if a child spends an
previously published increasing globally, with lower reading hour on a video game,
performance compared to encourage them to get
studies, researchers according to Oswald and peers two years later. outside for an hour."

determined that young her colleagues.

people who spent more In the United States,
roughly 7%, or 4.5 million,
time on handheld games were more likely to have "Overall, the studies of children ages 3 to 17
learning or social showed that high levels of have been diagnosed with a
and devices, television and difficulties. screen time were behavioral problem, the
associated with poorer Centers for Disease
computers were more Conversely, children who psychological well-being, Control and Prevention
spent more time outdoors while more green time was estimates.
likely to have behavior and and who had increased associated with better In addition, using a
access to "green" spaces for psychological well-being," computer for more than
emotional problems and play and learning were less co-author Tassia Oswald one hour per day was
likely to have these told UPI. linked to a similar reduction
display symptoms of undesirable traits. in their ability to
"While a lot more work understand and work with
aggression and attention numbers.

deficit-hyperactivity On average, American
children and adolescents
disorder. spent between four and six

The young people also

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The mental struggles of living in a pandemic

As the number of cases of COVID-19 better than it is, is that we technically have a Kenosha. Preliminary discussions with Lake Walkabout Rewards: Initially started with a
ncreases, so does the associated anxiety. For handful of prescribers working for Advocate Behavioral Hospital in Waukegan have gone women’s support group at Bridges
the general public, the mental health effects of Aurora.  Those prescribers, as good as they nowhere with Froedtert South. County Community Center going for a walk to the
COVID-19 are as essential to address as are may be, are exclusive to Advocate Aurora and Board Supervisor Andy Berg and I are trying library circa 2010. It has grown to a walking
the physical health effects.And for the one in require an internal referral.  They do not take to sit down with Rogers Behavioral Hospital group with 30 required/documented walking
ive who already have mental health CSP or CCS and are largely capped at for the possibility of a local site. We have met sessions. Once completed a certificate is
conditions – or the one in two who are at Medicaid and Medicare.   with them previously and the BIG ASK from provided. The certificates are presented at
risk of developing them – we need to take the stakeholders has been a inpatient facility Rogan’s Shoes and the manager Chuck
personal, professional, and policy measures The Logical Gap: If one is so disabled that for Kenosha. They currently have in patient Gustafson fits each recipient with a new pair
now to address them.  they obtain a determination of disability by facilities in Oconomowoc, Brown Deer, and of shoes. NAMI Kenosha pays for the shoes.
Social Security, they are then put on Medicaid West Allis. The negative impact of no locked Over 100 pairs of shoes have been awarded.
Jack Rose is the President of NAMI for 24 months followed by a lifetime of facility in Kenosha on our law enforcement
(National Alliance of Mental Illness) of Medicare.  Thus, we need providers who agencies on the required transport to the NAMI/YMCA Wellness program: A
Kenosha County which is the nation’s largest work for programs focused on those likes of Winnebago is huge and growing. So collaborative effort with Community
grassroots mental health organization insurances for the most severe and persistent far this year we have had 142 such transports. Support Program (CSP), Comprehensive
dedicated to building etter lives for the mental illness.   The recent CDR John Hannon Law working Community Service (CCS), and the Kenosha
millions of Americans affected by mental its way through Congress and is attempting YMCA in 2016. There are 435 folks currently
llness. We sat down and asked Rose about To some extent this shortfall is being to help Veterans experiencing high rates of participating in our NAMI/YMCA Wellness
how people can get help in our community. compensated by advanced practice nurse suicide. The COVER Commission has also program. We have expanded this program to
practitioners and telemedicine. WE have identified some ways that may help soldiers include members of Bridges Community
Since March have you seen any increase examples of both in our community. We have with depression and/or PTSD contemplating Center and participants in the Kenosha
n the need for mental health services? also started a process of “growing our own”. suicide. These recommendations can also County Treatment Court. NAMI Kenosha has
Jason Free is currently working toward a carry over to the civilian community. currently purchased two annual group
DEFINIITELY. Our call volume (262-652- degree in Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner. memberships @ $900 to facilitate this
3606) has increased. Currently we are at 180 Currently working for KHDS, Jason intends To improve the numbers what needs to program. There have been no incidents since
or the year. We have instituted a new to stay in Kenosha upon receiving his degree happen to our country? starting this program. It Works! The YMCA
program where one of our volunteers will May 2021. He was one of the first Martha has recently reopened under COVID
ollow up on the calls and make house calls. Hollowell Scholarship winners. In short we WE have to give more emphasis to mental precautions.
We’ll see how this works. Communication are “growing our own”. The process Is slow, health and mental health awareness. Let’s
and outreach are so critical in this stressful but it works. COVID has also helped to look locally and start in the schools. NAMI Ride About Rewards: In 2018 we also
environment. There has been increased accelerate telemedicine in other medical Kenosha County is also been trying to give started our Ride About Rewards where we
activity at the Kenosha Human Development fields as the “in office” visit has been our adolescents a better toolkit to help provide bicycles to folks living with a mental
Services (KHDS) which has recently moved curtailed. themselves and their fellow students with our illness. This has been quite effective and we
to a new location at 3536 52nd Street. “Ending the Silence” program; however, have provided 30 bicycles, helmets, locks, and
Bridges Community Center (BCC) reopened It’s been said that the demise of the well KUSD has decided to go in a different lights. Bridges Community Center staff
ast Wednesday September 2. BCC was paid, blue collar job and the emergence of direction. To date we had trained over 3,000 assists in the drawing for an opportunity to
nitially shutdown for COVID and more the gig economy have proven to be students and staff for KUSD. Mental health win a bicycle. The awardees select the
recently for the downtown riots. BCC, a psychological stressors, can you give us a awareness and education are key. I believe bicycle. This year we distributed 10 bicycles
program under KHDS, is a valuable resource few other factors? our younger population has a better at a cost of $1,000.
or folks living with a mental illness. Kenosha appreciation for mental illness. We also
County Treatment Court also utilizes the Mental illness does not differentiate continue to fight the stigma associated with Complementary and Integrative Health
various support groups provided by BCC. In between size of paycheck, age, gender, race, mental illness. We also need to need to (CIH) aka Whole Health came to the
2016 we opened the Kenosha Prevention religion, etc. It is a mental disease that can be improve the access to treatment forefront in the recent study/publication of
Center on 60th Street which has been a initiated by our environmental factors. Yes the Creating Options for Veterans’ Expedited
Godsend to the community, but that has been stress can make the situation worse. Clinical With 20 years of experience in mental Recovery (COVER Commission) Final
closed since the recent riots due to damage. depression is one of the biggest causes of lost health as a volunteer in different roles, I firmly Report published on January 24, 2020. One
work in the world. It is extremely dangerous believe that treatment consist of 3 parts: of the main recommendations is a delivery
Why is there a shortage of psychiatrists if it goes untreated and could ultimately result medication in some cases, talk therapy (group system that is person-centered, relationship-
and do you feel the problem is getting in suicide; however, if properly treated the and individual), and overall wellness due to based, and focused on the veterans’ whole
better or worse in the near future? person can live a normal life and many folks the comorbidity, reaction to medication, etc. health.
are doing just that. We are all different and One size does not fit all. People affected with
THE SHORTAGE OF PSYCHIATRISTS act differently in similar situations. Exercise serious and persistent mental illness have a Jack Rose joins Happenings Q&A
AND LACK OF AN INPATIENT MENTAL can provide a most valuable antidote to life span that is 25 years shorter. Better on September 25th at 12:30 on
HEALTH FACILITY HAS BEEN WITH US depression, sometimes as effective as an anti overall wellness and fitness can help. As Dr.
SINCE 2006. The retiring professionals are depressant. One size does not fit all. Many David Mays says “What’s good for the heart is AM1050 WLIP.
not being replaced. The shortage of articles have been written on the impact of good for the brain”.
psychiatrists will continue into the future. It social media on bullying and the resulting
s not a very lucrative medical profession and increase in suicide in our youth. Many times For example on the local level our NAMI
t is extremely demanding. People are in students that are away to college are prime programs consist of:
psychiatry for the passion and not the $$. FYI candidates where mental illness could rear its
Kenosha Community Health Center HPSA ugly head. Today it is reported that nearly 1/3
Score for Mental Health = 16 (out of a score of young folks are going off to college with
range of 1-23 with anything over 13 being some type of anxiety and depression. Why?
severe) - based on Health Professions Separation from family, (some good, some
Shortage Database (HPSA)...despite the need bad), new environment, pressure to succeed,
within the city and them being the only now COVID, the world we live in, and the
Federally Qualified Health Center, they have like. Good friends, many recent
not gotten psychiatric prescribers.  No other acquaintances, can be extremely helpful in
entity has that level of loan repayment to give preventing suicides in this environment. We
ncentive to get prescribers for severe and all need to be aware.
persistent mental illness.
Would you say in the past 10 years the
Additionally, according to WI DHS, availability of mental health services
Kenosha County is among the highest ‘need increased or diminished at the Federal,
category’ of need for psychiatric prescribers State, and Local level?
to remove the HPSA shortage designation
needing between 2-10 per 10,000.  In fact, we WE have been trying to improve mental
would need 8 psychiatrists at a county health services but we are not doing enough.
population of 167,886 at the last shortage For example the Feds passed the Parity bill
calculation in September 2019.  What is most some time ago to ensure that mental illness
mportant is for those prescribers to be able gets the same emphasis as other medical
to take  MEDICAID and MEDICARE  and issues as covered by insurance. The State
connect into the CCS program.    passed Parity Legislation but it only applied to
businesses with less than 50 employees. We
What skews our data leaving it looking still do not have an inpatient facility in

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food of baking powder and mixed it minimally.With less stirring, EASY PANCAKES
the lumpy batter was noticeably thicker than a batter
America’s Test mixed until smooth because lumps obstructed the flow of Serves 6 to 8
Kitchen free water. The lumpy batter was also better able to hold
on to the air bubbles formed during cooking, producing 2 cups (10 ounces) all-purpose flour
Put down the box mix and make taller, more leavened pancakes.And the flour pockets didn't 3 tablespoons sugar
tall, fluffy pancakes in minutes taste like flour; letting the batter rest briefly allowed them 4 teaspoons baking powder
to hydrate slightly before cooking. 1/2 teaspoon baking soda
Everyone loves sitting down to a plate of fluffy, golden, 1 teaspoon salt
flavorful pancakes, but making them is another matter. For the pancakes' flavor, we used sugar, vanilla and baking 2 large eggs
Nobody wants to run out for buttermilk or sour cream soda, which provided sweetness, depth and saline tang, 1/4 cup plus 1 teaspoon vegetable oil
before the first meal of the day, never mind haul out (and respectively. Baking soda plays a more important role in the 1 1/2 cups milk
then clean) their stand mixer to whip egg whites. That's flavor of baked goods than you might think: Many pancakes, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
where box mixes come in, but their convenience is hardly biscuits and quick breads rely on its saline tang and are
worth the results they deliver. Besides, most prefab noticeably flat-tasting without it. A mere 1/2 teaspoon did 1.Whisk flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt together in
products still require you to add milk and eggs to the dry the trick here; it also helped the pancakes brown more a large bowl.Whisk eggs and 1/4 cup oil in a second medium bowl
mix, so at that point, why not throw together a batter of deeply (baking soda increases the pH of the batter, which until well combined.Whisk milk and vanilla into the egg mixture.
your own? speeds browning reactions) and rise higher. Add the egg mixture to the flour mixture and stir gently until just
combined (batter should remain lumpy with a few streaks of flour).
That's exactly what we set out to do. We limited By the end of our recipe development, tasters were Let the batter sit for 10 minutes before cooking.
ourselves to basic ingredients -- no buttermilk or sour unable to distinguish these pancakes from a more 2. Heat 1/2 teaspoon of oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-
cream. traditional buttermilk type.That means you can now make low heat until shimmering. Using paper towels, carefully wipe out
and enjoy a great pancake breakfast even before your oil, leaving a thin film on bottom and sides of skillet. Drop 1
To make the pancakes tall and fluffy, we prepared a thick morning coffee wakes you up.. tablespoon batter in the center of the skillet. If the pancake is pale
batter by using a relatively small amount of liquid and lots golden brown after 1 minute, the skillet is ready. If it is too light or
For 25 years, confident cooks in the know have relied on too dark, adjust heat accordingly.
America's Test Kitchen for rigorously tested recipes developed 3. Using a 1/4-cup dry measuring cup, portion the batter into the
skillet in three places, leaving 2 inches between portions. If
by professional test cooks and vetted by 60,000 at-home necessary, gently spread the batter into a 4-inch round. Cook until
recipe testers. See more online at www.americas the edges are set, the first sides are golden brown and bubbles on
testkitchen.com/TCA. the surface are just beginning to break, 2 to 3 minutes. Using a thin,
wide spatula, flip the pancakes and continue to cook until the
second sides are golden brown, 1 to 2 minutes longer. Serve. Repeat
with remaining batter, using remaining 1/2 teaspoon oil as necessary.
Recipe notes:The pancakes can be cooked on an electric griddle set
to 350 F.They can be held in a preheated 200-degree oven on a
wire rack set in a rimmed baking sheet.

SLOW COOKER POT
ROAST

Nutrition News with store and let them pick out a new fruit or vegetable they'd 1 pound baby blonde potatoes (size B potatoes), halved
Charlyn Fargo never tried before. They took ownership of that item, 1 (12-ounce) bag baby carrots
helping prepare it and sharing it with the rest of the family. 1 medium white onion, cut into wedges
Sodium Math All her kids have developed into adventuresome cooks 1 (2 1/2- to 3-pound) boneless beef chuck arm pot roast
because of it. 1/2 teaspoon salt
Most of us have a lot on our plates in 1/4 teaspoon pepper
September -- literally. It's back to school Celebrating family meals may be one of the best 1 1/2 tablespoons canola oil
(whatever that looks like this year), back to investments you make in your family. 2 teaspoons minced garlic
schedules and back to meals at home. Wait, haven't we 1 1/2 cups reduced-sodium beef broth, divided
been doing that in this shelter-at-home, don't-go-out-to-eat Q and A 2 tablespoons tomato paste
time? 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
Q: I'm trying to reduce sugar in my diet. Can you give me 2 teaspoon herbes de Provence or 1 teaspoon dried thyme
We have. But September is National Family Meals Month, some ideas? 8-ounce package frozen whole green beans
and if you're like me, there's always room to improve on 1/2 cup cold water
rediscovering the important role of the family dinner table A:Try eating whole fruit rather than drinking fruit juices. 1/4 cup flour
and cooking at home. It's a great time to remind ourselves Whole fruit contains natural sugar, vitamins, minerals and Fresh thyme, for garnish
that sit-down family meals are worth taking the time to fiber and is digested by our bodies differently than added
plan. That's because eating food prepared at home usually sugars. Replace soda with plain or carbonated water.A 12- Place potatoes, carrots and onion in a 5- to 6-quart slow cooker. Pat
has less salt and more fruits, vegetables and whole grains. ounce can of soda contains about 32 grams of added sugar. roast dry; sprinkle with salt and pepper.
But, perhaps equally important, sitting down around the It's important to read labels. Many foods have added sugars, Heat oil over medium-high heat in nonstick skillet.Add roast, and
table means conversation with our families. Family meals even those you wouldn't suspect such as salad dressing, sear 2 to 4 minutes on each side. Place on top of vegetables in slow
are linked to better eating habits, according to the Journal spaghetti sauce and ketchup. If you like sugar in your coffee, cooker.Add garlic to skillet. Cook over medium heat for 5 seconds.
of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. Regular family cereal or oatmeal, try using less than you usually do. Over Add 1/2 cup broth. Bring to a boil, scraping brown bits in skillet. Boil
meals are associated with decreased risks for substance time, you'll get used to using less. until it reduces by half.Whisk in remaining 1 cup broth, tomato
abuse and violence, according to the Journal of paste,Worcestershire sauce and herbes de Provence.
Adolescence. Charlyn Fargo is a registered dietitian with SIU Med School Return to boil, and then add to slow cooker. Cover and cook on
in Springfield, Ill. For comments or questions, contact her at low for 6 to 7 hours, or until beef reaches 205 degrees F.
Mealtime can mean experimenting with new foods and Place frozen green beans on top of roast, and continue cooking in
flavors, learning mealtime etiquette, and developing social [email protected] slow cooker 30 minutes more.
and communication skills in children. Did you know that or follow her on Twitter @NutritionRd. Meanwhile, make gravy by straining 1 1/2 cups juice from slow
dinnertime conversation can actually improve kids' cooker into a saucepan.Whisk together water and flour; add to
vocabularies? saucepan. Cook and stir until bubbly. Cook 1 minute more.
Serve with roast and vegetables. Garnish with fresh thyme, if desired.
The best meals are those you cook with your kids. Make Serves 6.
it fun and your kids will love to cook when they get older.

It all starts with making a plan. Take a Sunday afternoon,
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His hope, our tends a small garden that difference between life or
brings in $5-$8 dollars a death. Education has the
anchor week to provide for his ability to break the cycle of
family.) THAT WAS NOT A poverty. I simply can not
by Jennifer Douma TYPO. Five – Eight dollars put enough emphasis on
per week. that.
A tragic series of events
in our town has Several mothers said As we begin to put our
temporarily closed the (almost word for word) the
doors to our little exact same things. They store back together again,
boutique. Being a brand also said their children have
new business who has been to another “school” our hearts are more
already been forced to but never even learned how
close due to COVID, and to read or write in the determined then ever
was JUST starting to years they were there.
rebuild from that, now sits Within ONE year at our before to continue on,
empty and boarded up due school, she was reading
to the unrest our city Hi, I'm Jenn. owner of AND writing! When I work hard and spread the
endured. Our hearts are Outpour Fairtrade asked 8 year old Paulina
heavy, yet filled with so Boutique, and founder of what her favorite part of word far and wide that
much hope, that He who the nonprofit Operation: going to our school was….
began a good work is Outpour. I'm a wife, mom, “being able to write my these children and families
faithful to complete it. foster mom, outspoken name, and my dads’ name.”
introvert and self absolutely DO exist. These
proclaimed hot mess just The importance of
trying to make a be our second year in spoke of the HOPE this has education in any country is families are counting on the
brought. One parent vital, however the
difference. operation since we opened referred to the school as a importance of education to sales made at our boutique,
beacon of light in the an impoverished county like
outpour.org ) our doors September 9, community. One father Haiti can truly be the to help further the vision of
welled up with tears
As I write, I’m currently 2019. The excitement and explaining the blessing this Operation Outpour.
back in Haiti. We are is for his son. He said
preparing to open for a anticipation is so evident in because of this school, his Whether you have
new school year on son will have a very
September 7, 2020.This will the community. We had the different life than he had. purchased our fair trade
(The father had no formal
privilege to sit down with education, and currently coffee, chocolate, artwork,

Our store opened it’s multiple family’s to ask jewelry, baskets or

doors ten months ago to them what this school pottery… we thank you for

bring financial support to (Sorbonne Christian your support in our

our 501©3 non profit Academy) has done mission and look forward

partner Operation personally for their to serving you again VERY

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Last man standing: How Pence’s
loyalty helped him survive

When Donald Trump member of the Trump tweets, he notes. “And there publicly apologized.
tapped Mike Pence to be his administration,” says Kurt are some times when you
running mate in 2016, it Luidhardt, an Indiana-based don’t want to be in the His role on the
seemed an unlikely pairing. Republican strategist who room.” coronavirus task force
One was a thrice-married has worked in the same underscores the ways in
former reality TV star; the political circles as the former On the few occasions which Mr. Pence could wind
other a devout Evangelical Indiana governor. “I think when Mr. Pence has even up taking on much of the
who made it a policy never Pence will have earned the slightly diverged from the baggage of Trump
to be alone in a room with a right, whether Trump wins or president, he’s done it in the administration failures –
woman who was not his loses, to be a top candidate mildest of ways.Ahead of the especially if the U.S.
wife. The brash New York for president in 2024.” 2018 midterms, when Mr. continues to struggle to get
real estate mogul was Trump endorsed Alabama the virus under control and
making his first run for public An odd couple for the Senate candidate Roy Mr. Trump loses his bid for
office; the governor of ages Moore, despite allegations of reelection.
Indiana had spent a dozen sexual misconduct, Mr. Pence
years as a congressman, and Despite their differences, chose to stay silent on the “Because [Mr. Pence] has
was known for a placid the Trump-Pence partnership issue. The vice president embraced this role as
demeanor that even allies made sense for both men in attended the funeral of Trump’s champion so
admitted could come across 2016. Georgia Rep. John Lewis enthusiastically, it’s hard to
as dull. while Mr. Trump, who had see him as having a separate
Mr. Pence was in the feuded with the civil rights identity,” says Mr. Goldstein.
Yet in Mr. Pence, Mr.Trump middle of a tough reelection icon, skipped the event. Most “In 2024, a lot of people in
may have spotted a quality race that some pundits recently, Mr. Pence called the Republican Party who
that he is frequently said to suspected he would lose. A QAnon a “conspiracy are going to run for
prize above all others: loyalty. place on the presidential theory,” while Mr. Trump has president are going to attack
ticket gave him the seemed to court QAnon Pence and say,‘Why didn’t he
Four years later, the vice opportunity to boost his believers. do this or that with COVID-
president is one of the few national profile while evading 19?’”
original Team Trump a loss that could end his President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence appear Still, Mr. Pence waited to
members who’s still around, political career. together at the Republican National Convention in Charlotte, North comment on the death of In contrast to other
in an administration marked Mr. Lewis, whom he recent vice presidents,
by record turnover – even Mr.Trump, for his part, had Carolina, on August 24, 2020. considered “a colleague and Gallup found that just as
longtime aide Kellyanne a relatively small pool of a friend,” until after the many Americans have an
Conway will step down at candidates to choose from, relationship was tested partner. Much of the credit White House had issued its unfavorable view of Mr.
the end of the month – and as many GOP officials had almost immediately in the for the relationship, own statement. And last Pence as those with a
endless drama. He’s survived publicly criticized him. In Mr. 2016 campaign, after an observers suggest, goes to week, he claimed he “didn’t favorable view, perhaps
despite persistent rumors Pence he found not only a audiotape from “Access the vice president – his hear anything” about the reflecting how much his
that the president might willing partner, but someone Hollywood” was leaked to willingness to toe the line, president embracing QAnon. identity is linked to Mr.
replace him with a more who could help shore up the press in which Mr.Trump and cede the spotlight Trump’s.
exciting candidate, such as white Evangelicals, a critical could be heard boasting in entirely to his boss. Perhaps the most high-
former United Nations Republican voting bloc. crude terms about his ability stakes example of Mr. Pence’s Still, a recent poll by
Ambassador Nikki Haley or to force himself on women. “I’ve always found [Mr. deft balancing act has been Echelon Insights found that
South Dakota Gov. Kristi “Trump selected an Mr. Pence reportedly Pence], personally, to be a his leadership of the White while a plurality of
Noem. evangelical vice president on considered leaving the ticket, really humble guy,” says Mr. House coronavirus task Republican voters – almost
purpose,” says Frances as a parade of Republican Luidhardt. “Some people force, a politically risky role 30% – are unsure as to
Through it all, Mr. Pence FitzGerald, author of “The officials denounced their can’t handle being second in that his staff was reportedly whom they will support in
has presented a picture of Evangelicals: The Struggle to party’s nominee, who was command, but I don’t think hesitant for him to accept. four years, Mr. Pence was the
steadfast support – always Shape America.” “He wanted down in the polls just weeks that’s ever been his Early on, the president took top choice for 26% of them
on message, never to reassure them that even if before the election.Yet in the problem.” charge of the task force’s (Donald Trump Jr. came in
contradicting his boss. Not he wasn’t going to church, his end, Mr. Pence made the public briefings – which led third, with 12%).
only has he never attempted vice president was.” pivotal decision to stick by Loyalty taken to a new to some politically damaging
to carve out a distinct Mr. Trump. level moments, such as when Mr. The vice president has
political identity apart from Mr. Pence’s solid Trump suggested that an traveled quite a bit on behalf
Mr. Trump, he seems to have conservative credentials may Four years later, the John Nance Garner, “injection inside” the body of of the Trump administration,
made the decision not to also have sent a message of president seems less in need Franklin D. Roosevelt’s disinfectants could be even in the pandemic era.
allow even a crack of daylight reassurance to Republican of Mr. Pence’s political help running mate on the 1932 explored as a possible Following the conclusion of
between the two. voters unsure about Mr. with the base – having Democratic ticket, described treatment for COVID-19. the Republican National
Trump’s ideological leanings. satisfied many conservatives the vice presidency as “the Convention, he plans to
But as the vice president The vice president – who with his record on spare tire on the automobile After the president said travel to three Midwestern
famously introduced himself everything from tax cuts to of government,” and, more battleground states, visiting
formally accepts his party’s at the 2016 Republican deregulation. For white famously, as “not worth a that he was taking the Michigan and Minnesota on
National Convention as “a Evangelicals, the president bucket of warm spit.” Friday before delivering a
nomination again in a speech Christian, a conservative, and has “done everything he’s malaria drug commencement speech in
a Republican, in that order” – promised them, from Most vice presidents are Wisconsin on Saturday.
at Fort McHenry in had one of the most Jerusalem to the Supreme loyal and supportive, says law hydroxychloroquine to
conservative voting records Court,” notes Ms. professor Joel Goldstein. And while he may be
Baltimore on Wednesday, during his six terms in the FitzGerald, referring to Mr. “But Vice President Pence,” prevent COVID-19, Mr. campaigning in a Trump-
U.S. House of Trump’s decision to move he says,“seems to have taken Pence 2020 bus, the
some say he’s playing the Representatives. the U.S. Embassy in Israel to it to a new level.” Pence told reporters he undercurrents of his own
Jerusalem, a long-held political ambitions are just
long game. His political Former Mississippi Rep. conservative dream. She Mr. Pence has maintained would not follow suit, as his beneath the surface. Mr.
Gregg Harper, who served adds: “And you would not this steadfast posture in an Pence may have said it best
future was always going to be alongside Mr. Pence in the think this is true, but a lot of administration marked by an own physician had not himself, during his first RNC
House, says he considered them like his style. ... They unusual level of turmoil.Vice speech back in 2016.
tied to the administration’s Mr. Pence his “bell cow” – a like the idea of turning the presidents often want to be recommended it for him.
term for the lead cow of a world upside down.” “in the room where it “Now, if you know
record, for better or worse. herd that shows the others happens, to borrow the line Still, he added:“I would never anything about Hoosiers ...
where to go. Yet while the president from ‘Hamilton,’” says Mr. we play to win,” said Mr.
But among the many may not need Mr. Pence as Goldstein, author of the begrudge any American Pence to a cheering crowd in
“If I wanted to be sure I much from a political book “The White House Vice Cleveland. “That’s why I
candidates angling to pick up voted right, I’d look up at his standpoint, allies say he Presidency: The Path to taking the advice of their joined this campaign in a
vote,” says Mr. Harper. “I had would be hard-pressed to Significance, Mondale to heartbeat.”
the Trump mantle in 2024, that level of trust with him.” find a more faithful governing Biden.” But that’s much more physician.”
difficult when policies are By Story Hinckley
Mr. Pence could wind up The Trump-Pence being made in late-night The vice president is
frequently seen wearing a
better positioned than most mask when out in public,
while Mr. Trump initially
– having established himself refused to wear one and still
rarely does. During a visit to
as the staunchest of allies, the Mayo Clinic in May, Mr.
Pence drew criticism for not
while maintaining a private wearing a face covering – a
move for which he later
persona distinct from the

president’s more

controversial one.

“Mike Pence has probably
been the most consistent

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