Smart Reader June 18th, 2020

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June 18, 2020
Volume 18 - #12

Jake Hoey Jim Kreuser Jennifer Douma
Steve Fifer BlBoTughnegcehrpages 2-4 Leslie Olano
CARDIOLOGY
INTERNAL MEDICINE
FAMILY PRACTICE
PEDIATRICS
URGENT CARE

Louie Arecco Gretchen Covelli Meridith Jumisko

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Our Earth

with Gretchen Covelli

To compost or not? 

Composting at home. f ollowed over the years.  First

When I first began thing to remember is don't

researching  and implementing over think it and remember

this into my home 13 years compost takes time because Hi there, I’m Gretchen.
I own Gypsies Baskets, a
ago, I became overwhelmed.   the decomposition process small Fair Trade basket
business. Most Saturdays you
Instruction begins pretty takes time, but it is possible to will find me in my booth at
the all new Kenosha Public
simple;  this can go in, but not have results in a matter of a Market. My family and I love
adventuring through nature
that.  Then as you research few weeks in the right preserves, shopping at
downtown businesses and
more you read conditions. restaurants, exploring the
museums and the art district,
contradictions:  Newspaper is The four basic ingredients Corn cobs/stalks Tree leaves & twigs Meat or fish scraps
ok,  it's biodegradable,  but the are: nitrogen, carbon, water & or strolling along our Food/ Vegetable  scraps Weeds without seed heads
ink is toxic.  Composting is air.   For best results you want gorgeous lakefront. Grass clippings Livestock manure Invasive weeds
simple, just toss in your an even ratio of green (wet)  Hedge trimmings
scrapes.....but keep an even material, which is high in moisture.   From here you will Newspapers Here's what to AVOID: Weeds with seed heads
ratio or it won't work.     Make nitrogen &  brown (dry), which start to see microorganisms, Old potting soil Bread & grains
sure to add items into your is high in carbon.  Barnyard animal life & small forms of Plants stalks Cooking oil Thank you for taking the
compost in layers,  but also manure will help balance out plant life, breaking down the Sawdust/ wood chips/ brush Dairy products time to read and share this
don't forget to turn it!?!?    Still the ratio.   Rain will naturally organic material.   This where Seaweed Dead animals space with me.  I wish you
not getting any compost?   Try add the moisture needed; the worms and many others Shredded paper Diseased plant materials many blessings full of peace,
adding some manure & however, in dry seasons you complete the process Straw Dog or cat manure love and happiness. 
watering it, but don't over may need to water the pile or naturally.  Tea bags Grease/ oily foods Remember to give yourself
water.     When in doubt.....add cover it in extremely wet grace,  hold those you love the
worms..     seasons.  Compost should Here's what to add: most close to you and be
present in your everyday.   -
Truth is;  it really is simple resemble a sponge, squeeze it Cardboard Gretchen-

once you get your system and just a few drops of Coffee grounds

down.  And, all of those points moisture should release.   Air- 

above are in fact what is punch holes in your pile for

needed for a successful proper aeration, allow for

compost.    So here is my cut many passages as the air is

and dry version that I have used up faster than the

Never give up an effective empanada customers come back for practice, practice!
business. more.
with Leslie Olano One baby step at a time,
It wasn’t easy at first, and The perfect combination little goals and
In 2013, our business plan products. On our first day, I could tell that my husband of savory and sweet, the achievements have been
we met with the kitchen was trying to keep his cool unique combinations of celebrated in and out of the
was written and Olano’s manager and another in order to teach me the fillings that Alex would kitchen. If things didn’t
business owner who used proper ways of working in a create complimented the work out exactly like we
Empanadas was born. A the facility. Our time had to kitchen. He was a sous chef dough. Some people ask, planned, we always bounced
be scheduled in advance in his previous restaurant, “Do you buy your dough, back stronger than ever.We
crucial step in our planning because it was a “shared and he had management or make it from scratch?” are always pushing
kitchen”.We were happy to experience. He told me, “If Making the dough from ourselves to do better.
was finding a commercial have a place where we you have a question, don’t scratch was the only Never giving up is key, even
could start our business be afraid to ask. There are option. The hard work when the road is hard.
kitchen to rent in the area, from the ground up. Leslie Olano is a small no stupid questions!” I bet would be worth it and Alex
business owner and he regretted telling me this told me, “Never take We are so thankful to
so we could start producing The next step was to Kenosha native, who’s because I had a million shortcuts when it comes to have been a part of HALO’s
schedule our licensing and mission is to share her questions. the quality of the food.” “Recipe for Success”
our empanadas and selling kitchen inspection. My love of food with the program. Without having
husband had 20 years of community. Olano’s Alex’s grandma was the I had my dough recipe access to their kitchen, we
them. We discovered kitchen experience and has Empanadas is her family inspiration for our ready and I was ready to do not know where we
worked in pretty much business, specializing in empanadas, so we wanted start measuring. Little did I would have started.
HALO’s “Recipe for every position in a freshly baked empanadas, to do justice and make a know, that sometimes the Someday we hope we can
restaurant. I looked to him or “South American dough that would be flaky, recipe had to be adjusted open our own community
Success” program in for leadership because I had Pastries”.Their product and hold its shape during due to variations in kitchen in order to repay
little kitchen experience, can be found at local the baking process. It temperature and humidity. the favor and give back to
Racine, which was geared except for at home cooking farmer’s markets, food couldn’t be too soft, Alex would tell me, “You businesses. Support from
with my family. I was eager truck events, or through otherwise the empanadas have to feel the dough, to others was given to us
toward start up businesses. to learn the in’s and out’s of deliveries and catering. would go flat. It had to be make sure it feels right.” when we needed it most
the kitchen and how to run Social media and website sweet, but just enough How would I know how it’s and we will forever be
“Yes! This was exactly what olanosempanadas.com are sweetness to make our supposed to feel? Practice, grateful.
updated weekly, so follow
we were looking for.” them to stay up-to date
with their journey!
HALO, stands for

Homeless Assistance

Leadership Organization

and it has two commercial

kitchens. The program was

just what we needed and

we couldn’t wait to start.

The men’s kitchen was
the one that the businesses
would use to produce their

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The state of people of color. As Adelene Seeking the truth
Greene, the county’s
Kenosha County retired director of with Steve Fifer
Workforce Development,
is… amazing so succinctly put it in a First hundreds and now
recent newspaper editorial,
by Jim Kreuser we must face the Pandemic thousands of people are
of Racism in our county,
our country and our world. protesting. They are

But, at the same time, in need. Just think of all the protesting for the way our
there is work we can and masks that people have
should be doing to battle sewed, often without As such, I am calling on law enforcement does
systemic racism in our knowing who will use them the County Board to adopt
society. but with full awareness that Jim Kreuser has been a resolution recognizing business, along with change,
the need is there. Thank Kenosha County executive racism as a public health
That was my message this you. since 2008. He blogs here crisis, which will commit us equality, and other good
past Tuesday night, when I to take actions toward
delivered my annual State of This pandemic has tested regularly about county addressing and remediating causes.Yet there is no spike
the County Address to the the mettle of our government issues and the health impacts of
County Board, and I’d like community, but as I noted events.You can contact systemic racism in our in statistics in Wisconsin for
to take this brief in my speech, Kenosha him at 262-653-2600 community.
opportunity to share it with County is also resilient and coronavirus (Covid-19).  Steve Fifer has a passion
you. strong. I know there has or at for helping people, so he
been fear, frustration and County.Executive@kenosh Thousands of people can started a new independent
When I talked about sadness during the recent insurance agency at the
“amazing,” I was referring months, but I have no doubt acounty.org. come from all over the age of 66. He thinks of his
specifically to the nurses, we will emerge from this
doctors, protective services strong, just as we always do place where we help and country for the clients like family. By
workers, jailers — all of the in times of crisis. Kenosha support our neighbors. But offering auto, recreational,
frontline professionals who County is resilient. we must face the truth that D E M O C R AT I C commercial, home, renters,
are giving their all to help us we need to do better,
through the COVID-19 But, as I mentioned because not everyone in The Wisconsin CONVENTION in landlord, boat, and life
pandemic. before, there is work to do. our community feels Population Health Institute insurance, Steve will make
supported, welcome, or began this initiative about a Milwaukee, but we the sure you are taken care
There are also the many As I said to the County safe. year ago, and the Kenosha
amazing people in our Board, Kenosha County is a County Division of Health people of Wisconsin have to of, and your family is
community who have great place to live, work, The murder of George and I personally have signed taken care of as well.
offered their time and play and raise a family — in Floyd in Minneapolis on as supporters. I urge you cancel county and state
compassion to help those large part because it is a understandably ignited to do the same. common sense to know
protests as a result of fairs, summer fest, church what is right, what is wrong,
frustration and anger, how to be safe, and to make
because so little has festivals, weddings, birthday the best decisions on behalf
changed for so long for of our wellbeing. We
parties, and funerals. It's understand who is at the
Meridith Jumisko is biggest risk and they should
Public Relations Director hard for me to understand be careful. We do not need
our "big brother" (the
at the Kenosha Area I pledge personally and I why several mayors in our government) telling us what
Convention & Visitors call on the County Board to do or how to act while
Bureau. Contact her at and the community at large state are just now opening dealing with this new virus,
[email protected] or to join me in a commitment Covid-19. The government
to listen, empathize, ask their cities when the health professionals are
drop her a tweet questions, understand, and recommending everyone
@MJ_Kenosha take action to address the supreme court of wears masks, yet people
Pandemic of Racism in our need to lift them up
bar at The Stella Hotel & community and world. Wisconsin rules that our occasionally to breath. Do
Ballroom or The Lakeside you think the Masks are
Deck at Wyndham Garden state is open for business as really helping? Have you
– Kenosha Harborside yet? ever heard if you wipe your
Also in Downtown of May 15th.      The people groceries off before you put
Kenosha is a new them away you will not get
restaurant at 707 56th paying the price are the the flu? Have you ever
Street; The Down Town'R heard of any sickness that
Saloon features Southwest small business owners.They adheres to your clothing or
cuisine and craft cocktails. anything you touch? Or is
Activities this This is just a small have invested everything something more going on?
Something to look Now is the most critical
summer in Kenosha forward to later this sampling of activities, as they have to do business, time to make sure you and
summer is PUBLIC Craft your family are taken care
by Meridith Jumisko Brewing Co. moving to a businesses continue to yet because of our elected of.
new, expanded location
inside the former Barden's adjust their operations. officals, lack of funds, and
Department Store at 628
58th Street. August is the ConsultVisitKenosha.com – delay of opening businesses,
tentative time frame for
that. Meanwhile, Apis Hotel and sign up for our Visit some may never open their
& Restaurant will be
Yes, many events are not sunrise over Lake Michigan. opening soon at 614 56th Kenosha Monthly doors again. We watch the
taking place in Kenosha and Learn to sail with the Street. The Isermann
beyond this summer due to Kenosha Community Sailing Brothers opened Kenosha's big box stores make record
the global pandemic. Center at the Kenosha first true department store
However, I am choosing to Yacht Club. Also this at this location in 1895. Newsletter – to stay on top profits.  The small business
focus on the many fun summer, the sailing center
activities that are still will be launching kayak and of attraction, dining, owners are able to open
happening in Kenosha. This stand up paddleboard
summer is a great rentals. shopping, and event again, but their clients are
opportunity to Be A Tourist
In Your Own Town! As the summer updates.View our FUN 101 few and the owners are
progresses, the museums
Boundless Adventures, are expected to re-open. list – the COVID-19 running out of money. Our
Wilmot Raceway, Brighton Until then, check out the
Dale Links, Petrifying engaging content on their version at news media can't talk 5
Springs Golf Course, the Facebook pages and
Kenosha Charter Boat websites. The Kenosha VisitKenosha.com/FUN101. minutes without talking
Association, Wilmot Flea Public Museum has summer
Market, Alpaca Art Pottery camp boxes available for Included are 101 at-home about Covid-19 and
Painting, and the family- you to order right now.The
friendly Petrifying Spring Public Museum's website experiences, to-go items, terrifying the general public.
Biergarten await you. also has a Kids Activity Page
Kenosha HarborMarket will that covers a variety of and outdoor activities. Also My question is what is the
open its season on June 27. topics pertinent to the
Also on June 27, the new missions of the Kenosha follow Visit Kenosha on real truth? Where are our
Kenosha Public Market will Public Museum, Civil War
make its debut at Veterans Museum, and Dinosaur Facebook, Twitter, freedoms, constitutional
Memorial Park, 625 52nd Discovery Museum. The
Street. Kenosha History Center Instagram, and YouTube for rights, and common sense
and Southport Light Station
The Tall Ship Red Witch is Museum also have great the latest scoop! that we fought for in 1776
expected to start sailing in content online.
July. Art galleries are re- Do you have friends or that created the
opening. You can walk at a Also be sure to dine and family visiting this summer,
park or nature sanctuary, shop local. Our small but you aren't so sure you constitution? The people of
such as Hawthorn Hollow. businesses need us now want them staying with
Play disc golf at one of the more than ever! And this is you? Keep social distancing our nation have always had
dedicated disc golf courses. the season to enjoy in mind by booking them a
Bring your pooch to a dog outdoor dining! Speaking of stay at one of Kenosha's
park. Enjoy a bike trail or a outdoors ... have you visited hotels
water trail. Sit and enjoy a The Crow's Nest rooftop (VisitKenosha.com/Stay)!
Or maybe you're the one
traveling? Let our staff at
the I-94 Visitor Information
Center assist you with your
Wisconsin vacation plans!

Please remember to
maintain social distancing
when in public; be
respectful of the safety
restrictions that individual
places are setting; be
patient as everyone is
adjusting to new
operations. Enjoy!

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Get fit Inspire a friend or family don’t quit this time. It is It’s good to
members to join you. easier to maintain than
with Louie Arecco Remember socialization is a restart. Just keep moving be back!
must and everyone is going forward. Not throwing the
This is the second through the same towel means you have not by Jennifer Douma
addition of a four part experience. If you don’t failed.
series titled "Living by the Louie Arecco has been have someone willing to It’s been a rough few
pull of the seasons", which in the industry of Health join you, join a gym. It is The above oversimplified months for everyone, but
means embracing the and Fitness for 14 years very important that you steps seem like a mountain we are so grateful to have
season we are in. Finding should pick your health club for those just starting, but physically opened our
all the goodness that with a passion and wisely. There is a gym for without them you put doors at Outpour
Springtime has to offer and challenge of helping his everyone, but picking the yourself at the mercy and Fairtrade Boutique on May
enjoying it to the fullest. clients maintain a fitness wrong gym will set you fear of sickness. Knowing 29th! As owners, we took
lifestyle at Anytime Fitness back. If you take your meat- that you are healthy and the time off to really focus
It is the social aspect of in Downtown Kenosha. eater friend to the best strong will allow you to be on what we want as a
vegan restaurant, you will mentally stronger. Staying business. How can we get
humans that allows us to only in a beautiful city, but not have a happy friend. (3) social with healthy people to know our customers
also in one that was not hit Make progress every day. will give you a support and offer the best
grow and develop. As social as hard during this There are four components group that will encourage customer service we Hi, I'm Jenn. owner of
pandemic. So, let’s take the to be fit and healthy: Sleep, you to remain strong. After possibly can. How can we Outpour Fairtrade
animals we come together opportunity to strengthen nutrition, strength and all, we are social animals. educate everyone that Boutique, and founder of
our health to insure a cardio training. Whether Take away the social walks through our door the nonprofit Operation:
to solve our common greater chance to face any big or small, every day try component and we are just about the importance of Outpour. I'm a wife, mom,
challenge. to take an improvement animals. fairtrade, and the many lives foster mom, outspoken
problems. Health and step in one of the four it impacts. We took the introvert and self
Okay my fellow mentioned areas. Most That first day! We all time off to research other proclaimed hot mess just
Fitness is no different. The Kenoshans, these are the importantly keep the know what I am talking countries to partner with, trying to make a
steps to get you either back improvements moving about. That first day that and fill our boutique with
need to be around people on track, or get you started. forward. (4) Ask for help. If we can open the windows NEW products! We are so difference.
(1) Make the decision that you join a health club, you and allow the fresh Spring excited about having an
for inspiration, motivation, you will reclaim your have joined a team. You air to rush in. That first day inventory that empowers
health. This is the most should get guidance from when we can wander out of women (and men) and
education, and socialization difficult part of the process. your club. This does not doors in just a sweater and provides dignified jobs to
Without a true decision, mean that they necessarily begin to see signs of new countless artisans around
is a vital component of the rest of the steps will be will work out with you, but life; trees budding, plants the globe! Under a
short-lived. Your well-being it does mean that they emerging. That first day fairtrade system, developing
keeping the desire of staying is important enough to should get you started and when the sun is shining so countries get an
make yourself a priority. (2) show you how you can get brightly you want to do opportunity to export
in shape. As we all have more knowledge. (5) Don’t nothing but sit there and goods such as tea,
quit! If you hate failure, soak in all it's warmth. That chocolate, gold, sugar,
been in lockdown and are handicrafts, and flowers to focuses on the fairtrade
Jake “The Weather Guy” story continues on page 22 developed countries thus
now starting to test the Hoey is a freelance promoting international system by bringing
meteorologist who had over 3" of rain during trade. Even when
waters and attempting to graduated from the the same time period.  commodity prices fall, education to children in
University of Oklahoma. As Perhaps the most significant farmers and artisans are
restart our lives, removing well as a interested in the impact here was the strong still paid the guaranteed need, providing jobs, and
weather, Jake is an avid winds, with gusts over 40 minimum price for their
socialization creates a traveler, having visited 49 of mph in this area on the 9th products, so they have a teaching sustainable
our 50 states. Jake is also a and a gust of 51mph basic safety net against
dangerous state of recurring guest on reported in Fond du Lac.   poverty. This system agriculture techniques to
Happenings Q&A M-F addresses the injustices of
irrational behaviors. noon till 3pm. For more up What weather do we have conventional trade, which the children at the school,
to date forecasts please to look forward to as we too often leaves the
Regardless of the visit Jake's Kenosha Area approach the end of June?  poorest and weakest as well as their families and
Weather Page on Facebook We are seeing another surge producers earning less than
intentions, a mandated of hotter temperatures late it cost them to grow their those in the community.
and follow this week, and rain/storms crops.
order that facilitated us to @KenoshaWeather on are on tap for the weekend.  Providing jobs and
This rain will help moderate Our nonprofit partner,
become couch-potatoes Instagram.) highs a bit after a hot day Operation Outpour, also education in a rural part of
Friday (away from the Lake),
will impact our logic and comes in late summer or so look for more seasonable Haiti has blessed so many.
early autumn.  Here in temperatures in time for the
hopefully not our wisdom. Kenosha, we only saw around summer solstice on They focus on giving a hand
a half inch or so of rainfall Saturday.  I expect mild to
We are lucky to live not between June 9th and 10th, slightly-below-normal up, not a hand out. (To learn
but other parts of the state conditions for the final full
reported much more.  Many week of June, but we could more about Operation
sites in western Wisconsin see more unsettled weather
with periodic rain/storm Outpour please visit their
chances.  Early indications
Looking to the skies are that the last few days of website at
June might bring another
with Jake Hoey surge of hot weather with www.operationoutpour.org
heat carrying over into early
July as well.  We shall see if or find them on Facebook.)
that will come to pass, but
regardless, I hope everyone A percentage of every
enjoys the summer weather!
Summer is here for the shrinking the record- purchase at our Boutique
Kenosha area! June is off to a breaking levels of our lake.
goes right back into the

warm start with a high of mission of Operation
93°F having been recorded
back on the 2nd.  The biggest weather Outpour.
Temperatures are averaging
around 3-4°F above normal, highlight of June has been the We look forward to
despite the stretch of chilly seeing new faces as well as
weather between the 12th arrival of Tropical Depression familiar faces in the coming
and the 15th.  The scarcity of days, weeks and months!
rainfall so far this month is a Cristobal.  This was We are open Wednesday
problem for some of us but through Friday 12pm-8pm
welcome for others.  exceptional.While Wisconsin and Saturdays 9am-4pm.
Between 0.5 and 1" have See you soon!
been reported, whereas has had former tropical
normal would be around 2.5"
at this point.  Those with systems cross our borders in
gardens and growing crops
are probably eager to have years past (the Galveston
an uptick in rainfall going into
the final stretch of June.  Hurricane in 1900, an
However, our very wet
spring led to swollen rivers unnamed storm in 1949, and
and increased concern about
the level on Lake Michigan, as Hurricane Gilbert in 1988),
well as erosion, so a lull in
rain helps in that regard.  these had all weakened to
Obviously, a brief rainfall
deficit in our little corner of such an extent that they
the Lake Michigan-Huron
drainage basin is just a drop were no longer considered
in the bucket, but every little
bit counts when it comes to "tropical" before they

reached us.  Cristobal

remained tropical

throughout its entire

traversal of the state, which

also makes it the farthest

northwest track ever taken

by a tropical system in the

Atlantic basin.  Also unusual

was the time of year this

impacted us.  Hurricane

season just started on June

1st, and all other previous

tropical systems to impact

Kenosha arrived nearer to

the peak of the season, which

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As lockdown lingers, a rural reckoning with
domestic violence

Before he perpetrated the the Texas Panhandle long A photograph of Kristen Beaton, who was expecting her third child when she was killed along Plains Road during a mass shooting in April, is
worst mass shooting in after the last restrictions are seen at a makeshift memorial in Delbert, Nova Scotia.The shooter had multiple accusations of domestic violence in his past. Photo:Tim
Canada’s history, the gunman lifted. “Three months ago no Krochak/Reuters
had allegedly inflicted one thought about doing
something lamentably more telehealth approaches, or enough job as a wife.’” University of Guelph, in high in rural settings as in flee to the station. It was
mundane: violence against giving support to survivors urban ones – and where only after her husband’s
his partner. through virtual platforming,” Many factors increase Ontario, and director of the women are more likely to be arrest that she realized how
Ms.Terry says. “Out of sheer risks of violence against killed by an intimate partner, many people already knew,
And if Nova Scotia was necessity we have equipped women; in Canada, Canadian Femicide especially with a gun.A study or suspected, and had done
shocked by the 13-hour ourselves with new tools indigenous and Black women in the U.S. showed similar nothing. “It felt like I was
rampage through its rural that can be effective.” experience higher rates of Observatory for Justice and results. sitting in the middle of a
hinterland that resulted in 23 domestic violence, for room screaming my head off,
deaths, including the “In a room full of people, example. So do rural Accountability, says that In Ms. Rhodes’s case, she in a room full of people, and
gunman’s, in the middle of a and they all turned away” residents. In tight-knit, didn’t seek help for years they all turned away.”
global pandemic, it was less traditional places, where the beliefs such as those until the stakes were
startled when a former In Canada, the need to act nearest police station might increasingly life-or-death. In In the context of the
neighbor of the gunman in now has been thrown into be a half an hour away, and dictating more rigid gender 2010, when they moved to a pandemic, advocates are
Portapique told the media particularly sharp relief – the closest women’s shelter bigger town with a police worried that they aren’t
he had a history of domestic both due to the aftermath of even farther, escaping roles and norms around the detachment down the hearing from the most
abuse. the Nova Scotia shooting abusive relationships can be street, she found an isolated women. In Texas, for
and the realization that the importance of guns, as well
That included one incident pandemic has locked
that she says she reported to victimized women and girls as on-the-ground realities
police in 2013, in which he is worldwide into homes with
alleged to have beaten and their abusers. including lack of public
strangled his female partner
before three male witnesses. For Janet Rhodes, that has transportation, affordable
It was not the first incident meant moving her
to be “whispered about” yet organization, Domestic housing, or support services,
not confronted. Abuse Survivor Help, which
connects survivors with increase the associated risks.
“I think sometimes in rural mentors who have also
Nova Scotia, there is this experienced violence, online. Statistics Canada data
culture of not speaking out,
of minding your own With the possibility of in- particularly difficult. Myrna shows rates of domestic opportunity to load her story continues on page 7
business, not rocking the person meetings in her Dawson, a professor at the violence are nearly twice as infant son in his stroller and
boat,” says Johannah Black, home province of
the bystander intervention Saskatchewan off the table, Anita M. Faraone, Broker Kenosha Funeral
program coordinator with and with the scarcity of Services and
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Vast number of Americans support EMS with CPR. During the
COVID-19 precautions, CDC says active period of COVID-19
in the study -- Feb. 26-April
The vast majority of Americans still support social distancing and 15 -- EMS responded to 537
other measures aimed at containing COVID-19 across the country, out-of-hospital cardiac
even as states begin relaxing the restrictions, U.S. Centers for arrests, of which 230, or 48
Disease Control and Prevention officials said. A survey conducted percent, received CPR from
by the agency in May, when the outbreak of the new coronavirus, EMS.
SARS-CoV-2, was at its peak in New York, New Jersey and
elsewhere in the Northeast, found that 80 percent of Americans As of April 15, Seattle had
agreed with "stay-at-home" orders and the closure of "non- 15 deaths per 100,000
essential" business.The agency also found that 82 percent felt that population from COVID-
gatherings of 10 or more people should not be allowed, while 88 19, higher than 42 other
percent agreed that people should stay six feet apart. states at that time. COVID-
19 was diagnosed in less
The findings are a sign of Americans' willingness to be "selfless in than 10 percent of out-of-
protecting those most vulnerable during the outbreak," CDC hospital cardiac arrests.
director Dr. Robert Redfield said during a conference call with Assuming the risk of
reporters coronavirus transmission to bystanders performing hands-only
CPR without personal protective equipment is 10 percent, treating
"The pandemic has not ended," he said. "While we're making real 100 patients could result in one bystander infection -- 10 percent
progress, we have a lot of work ahead as we reopen America." The with COVID-19 multiplied by 10 percent transmission rate --
survey findings were published in the CDC's Morbidity and according to the researchers.
Mortality Weekly Report. More than 4,000 U.S. adults were
surveyed, including a large segment from New York City, which has Given a 1 percent death rate for COVID-19, about one rescuer
been the epicenter of the pandemic in the United States. The might die in 10,000 cases of bystander CPR. By comparison,
report also offers guidance for Americans as restaurants, theaters bystander CPR saves more than 300 additional lives among 10,000
and other businesses reopen and large gatherings and events patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The findings were
resume in some parts of the country. While New York City has outlined in a research letter published June 4 in the journal
reported declines in new cases of and deaths from COVID-19, Circulation.
several states have reported increases in new infections.
COVID-19 test can detect virus in
CDC officials on the call avoided being drawn into the debate saliva, blood, urine in 45 minutes
about whether restrictions were being relaxed too soon. Different
communities are experiencing "different levels of [virus] A new test is capable of confirming COVID-19 using urine, blood,
transmission," Dr. Jay C. Butler, the agency's deputy director of saliva or mouth-swab samples in 30 to 45 minutes, according to a
infectious diseases and COVID-19 response incident manager, said study published by the journal PLOS ONE.The new platform relies
during the call. on reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification, or
RT-LAMP, technology, which has been used in the diagnosis of
"That decision needs to be made locally, based on disease infectious diseases for years, the authors said. It's also relatively
transmission," Butler said. "If cases go up again [in some areas], inexpensive -- both in terms of price and costs associated with use
strict measures may be needed again [in those areas." The goal of -- they said.
recommendations in the report -- which include maintaining social
distancing at large gatherings, wearing face coverings when outside "We need more testing options if we are going to be able to stage
and washing hands frequently -- "is to keep curve [of new cases] as a successful public health response to coronavirus," study co-
flattened as possible" and safeguard against the healthcare system author Laura Lamb, a research scientist at Beaumont Hospital in
being overwhelmed with the new cases, Butler said. The full list of Michigan, told UPI.
recommendations is available on a special CDC web page.
"This is a rapid test that does not require expensive machinery to
"The purpose of these suggestions is helping people make run and the materials for it are relatively inexpensive," Lamb said.
decisions about how to resume activities and prepare for [large] "The more options we have for testing, the better." Currently, the
gatherings," Butler said. most accurate test for the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, is RT-
PCR. However, it can take a day or more on most RT-PCR platforms
"A general rule of thumb is, the more closely you interact with to obtain results, and the technology may be too expensive for
others, the longer interaction lasts and the more people involved in some hospitals and clinics. Dozens of COVID-19 testing platforms
that interaction, the higher risk for COVID-19 spread," he said. have received U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval, but
Americans should expect these recommendations to remain in accuracy varies.
effect until a vaccine for COVID-19 is available, because even states
that have seen a drop in cases could see a resurgence in new RT-LAMP is a "one-step" technology, according to Lamb and her
infections in the fall or winter, Butler said. colleagues.The reagents used in the test are inexpensive and can be
stored at room temperature, and it works with a range of sample
"We must be over-prepared for what we could face later in the types, they said. It is also highly accurate and fast for other
year," he said. infectious diseases, they said. In addition, because it's an existing
test, it could be ready for widespread use within a month or so,
COVID-19 infection risk low for provided manufacturers would be willing to increase production,
people while performing CPR Lamb told UPI.

Someone collapses with a cardiac arrest nearby -- in the COVID- Lamb and her colleagues developed an RT-LAMP diagnostic test
19 era, do you dare to assist? Here's some reassuring -- and for SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, and measured its efficacy
potentially lifesaving -- news: You're at low risk for coronavirus using blood, urine, saliva and mouth swab samples spiked with
infection if you perform CPR on someone in cardiac arrest, new different amounts SARS-CoV-2 genetic material. The test was also
research shows. CPR can save the lives of people who suffer cardiac used on clinical samples from COVID-19 patients. The RT-LAMP
arrest in a public place. But concerns have been raised during the test successfully detected SARS-CoV-2 in all human samples within
current pandemic that chest compressions used in CPR could 30 to 45 minutes, with an estimated limit of detection of as few as
release respiratory droplets containing the coronavirus that causes 304 viral copies in a sample, the researchers said. In addition, the
COVID-19. test did not detect virus in samples spiked with RNA from other
coronaviruses, which suggests "specificity" for SARS-CoV-2, they
"We believe the current findings support telecommunicators and said. RT-LAMP was positive for 19 of 20 of mouth swab samples
bystanders maintaining the most efficient approach that prioritizes from COVID-19 patients deemed positive by RT-PCR and negative
rapid identification of cardiac arrest and immediately proceeds to for 18 or 20 ruled negative by RT-PCR, according to the
chest compressions and use of a defibrillator," wrote study authors researchers. The discrepancies between methods could represent
led by Dr. Michael Sayre, a professor of emergency medicine at the either false positives by the RT-LAMP, contamination or increased
University of Washington in Seattle. sensitivity of RT-LAMP compared to RT-PCR, they said.

"Delaying bystander CPR to [put on personal protective "This [test] could be used for screening wherever the risk may be
equipment] should only be considered when the prevalence of -- nursing homes, cruise ships, naval ships or even at local
COVID-19 infection is substantially increased," the researchers pharmacies and stores," Lamb said. "We are optimistic that with the
concluded. right resources, this could be ready for widespread use within a
month or so."
To assess the risk, researchers analyzed Seattle EMS and hospital
data from Jan. 1 to mid-April. During that time, EMS responded to
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my turn It’s stunning how many Domestic violence
white people cling to a
version of the civil rights continued from page 5 contexts,” Professor violence.
movement and current Dawson says.
struggles as being all about example, Ms. Terry says that A decade ago, Ms. Ryan
The earnest black/white integration. It’s a while many metropolitan “You can come and live was living in a rural part of
reeducation of stand that manages to domestic abuse hotlines with us, now” British Columbia with a
white America is center around them. have lit up, in some rural partner, who was also one
areas they have fallen silent. Cary Ryan supports the of two police officers in
underway Get this part straight:The feminist inquiry. As a town.
legal victories that Groups are mobilizing to survivor of intimate partner
Is the aftermath of desegregated America were reach victims who might feel violence herself, she knows Ms. Ryan was socially
George Floyd’s killing the mere steps, necessary shifts that there is no help for the fundamental role that isolated – they’d moved
beginning of a lasting tide or on the path toward the them as some shelters have society at large plays. She there for his job – and the
a mere moment in time? broader dream of economic had to reduce capacity to has been working with a relationship was abusive.
equality. The goal in Martin adhere to social distancing. research project with Nancy When she finally decided
Hordes of white people Luther King Jr.’s day and Heather Bellino, CEO of the Ross, a professor in the she needed to leave, she
suddenly want to learn all now was/is equity, not to Texas Advocacy Project School of Social Work at reached out to the only
they can about black simply be “with” white (TAP), which provides free Dalhousie University in person in town she knew.
America. They seek a way people. Missing that point legal services for domestic Halifax, on the effects of “They said, ‘You can come
past the turbulent weeks has encouraged all sorts of abuse victims, says they are “pro-arrest” policies in and live with us, now.’ These
since the death of George failed remedies — including disseminating information Canada. were complete strangers.”
Floyd at the hands of a muddled grasp of what is about alternatives to help
Minneapolis police. Four Mary Sanchez meant by racism as opposed where they can, from urgent Under pro-arrest policies, The fact that the
men, the officer who put his to bias. care centers to food banks. police arrest suspected community rallied around
knee on Floyd’s neck as he produce an inherent perpetrators of domestic her – and rejected her
asphyxiated and those who superiority of a particular Finally, here is another “We’re working really violence, even if victims former partner – helped her
stood by as Floyd pleaded race.” piece to reflect on: Where hard to get the message to don’t want to proceed with heal. “I was able to hold my
for his life, have been have you been, white people in the rural charges. The intention of head high after all I’d been
charged. Their mea culpa of America? Why did it take communities that even if the such an approach is to show through in that small
verbiage came about the widely disseminated number of beds is lowered, zero tolerance for domestic community.”
Now, white America is through the advocacy of video of a black man dying it doesn’t mean you should violence.
seeking absolution. Many, no Kennedy Mitchum, a 22- over the allegation that he’d not reach out to your In Ms. Ryan’s case, the
doubt, wish to rid year-old graduate of Drake passed a fake $20 bill to shelter, because many have But Professor Ross and dynamics that can increase
themselves of any sense of University in Iowa. Mitchum, bring you to the table? now struck deals with Ms. Ryan’s work is showing the risks of domestic
white guilt, of being viewed of Missouri, challenged the hoteliers,” she says,“because that pro-arrest policies can violence in rural
as complicit in the horrors definition because it failed If people honestly answer we know the number of have negative consequences communities – the isolation
of racism. Others desire the to note the deep that query, and strive to do survivors or people that are for marginalized groups, and the smallness – may
designation of being an ally ramifications of systemic better, they’ll find some of being hurt has not including indigenous and have saved her, as people
to people of color, or better racism. the solace they seek. decreased.” non-white individuals, and came forward offering help
yet, to be an anti-racist. can backfire in rural and belonging. “I know that
M e r r i a m - We b s t e r ’s But no doubt, many of the In Nova Scotia, Ms. Black contexts. Research on that wouldn’t have
If you don’t know what keepers agreed with her. people furiously speed has focused on creating similar policies in U.S. states happened in an urban area,”
that means, don’t fret.There reading or absorbing written resources to help has demonstrated she says. “People came and
are a growing number of People of all races have a podcasts about race want bystanders intervene during comparable consequences. stood with me and believed
resources available. Handy tendency to conflate bias, just enough cred to sidestep the pandemic, with They say it is communities me.”
“to-do” lists, books to read, prejudice and racism; as if any verbal mishaps, any measures such as agreeing themselves that need to
guidelines to follow, search the terms mean the same gaffes where they might find on a safe word that friends stop tolerating domestic By Moria Donovan
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my turn redress China's unfair trade he is Gaga. Trump will
practices and theft of certainly make that
Making America intellectual property. Yet he diagnosis part of his
Gaga: Trump, withdrew from the best campaign.
Congress have tool he had to restrain
lost their minds Beijing, The Trans-Pacific But the greater threat of
Partnership.That is Gaga. Gaga is to the
Donald Trump's marquis Does defund mean millions of Americans. Constitution's checks and
four-letter slogan that got With the onset of getting rid of the FBI and balances. The appointed
him to the White House coronavirus, how is it the national law The failure to understand leadership of the executive
and now is central to his re- possible a pandemic could enforcement agencies? these genuine differences is branch appears more loyal
election campaign is become politicized? That is Does it mean eliminating Gaga. to Trump than to the
MAGA: Make America Gaga. state and county police? Constitution. Fifty-one of
Great Again. Despite the Harlan Ullman Are city police redundant Now that the nation is 53 Republican senators will
rhetoric flourish, the term The president refuses to because of violence against not challenge the president.
is and was oxymoronic. the Persian Gulf to little wear a protective mask, minorities? "reopening," too many The House has become
effect.Why? That is Gaga. take prophylactic drugs the emotionally obstructive.
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Gaga is a non-technical better relations with potentially dangerous and offices are closed. Please the pandemic is over. A appointed federal judges,
term referring not to the Russia.Yet he abrogated the dismisses scientific and call tomorrow." Traffic how will they administer
entertainer but to a Intermediate Nuclear medical advice. That is breaks down. A mass majority seem not to be the law? Electing a
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Surprisingly, this is a in perpetuity. Yet he kneeling during the national so far, Gaga has no cure.
bipartisan, Republican and abrogated the Joint As the Democratic Party anthem reflected protests That the president is
Democratic malaise made Comprehensive Plan of lurched far left, it embraced against the injustices and holding a huge rally in Tulsa, By Harlan Ullman
worse as, to many outside Action that would have the Green New Deal, violence committed against Okla., on Saturday. That is As well as being a recurring
observers, the two parties achieved that aim while moving to zero carbon African Americans by police Gaga. guest on Happenings Q&A,
have collectively lost both imposing a campaign of emissions at the cost of and vigilantes and not Harlan Ullman is UPI's Arnaud
souls and minds. maximum pressure on many trillions of dollars -- disrespect toward the flag. Regarding the November de Borchgrave Distinguished
Tehran to force either financially unaffordable and Flag burning is free speech. election, Trump will be columnist and serves as a senior
The president has some regime change or politically unachievable. But the other side does not lucky to get 40 to 42 adviser at the Atlantic Council.
good instincts. The United negotiations. Neither is That is Gaga. accept the importance and percent of the vote. Yet in He was a professor of military
States needed to extricate likely.That is Gaga. symbolism of the flag to this intractably polarized strategy at the National War
itself from two losing wars. After the murder of political environment, College and the Naval War
So while drawing down The president wanted to George Floyd in Trump could win. That is
from Afghanistan, forces Minneapolis at the knee of a Gaga. College. His latest book is
were greatly increased in policeman, a number of "Anatomy of Failure:Why
Democrats demanded it The presumptive America Has Lost Every War It
was time "to defund
police." While the meaning Democratic nominee Joe Starts."
of defund is unclear, some
Democrats take that to an Biden suffers from foot in Harlan Ullman joins
extreme. In Seattle, Black Happenings Q&A on
Lives Matter seized part of Thursday, June 25th at
the city, declaring a "no- 12:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
police, autonomous zone."
mouth disease with his

frequently confused

statements. Some believe

Next time, criminals and fighting crime everyone seems to be the police – something that who protested at that year’s
call a ‘pig’ more than handcuffing and “armed” with cellphones is now being considered by
putting new restraints on all capable of making videos Democratic mayors in Democratic National
police officers, who put that might be edited and several other cities – invites
their lives at risk every day? used to intimidate officers more crime. Convention in Chicago.
The overwhelming number also doesn’t help.
The Minneapolis City of police officers perform David McNichol is a They had a small pig as
Council has passed a their duties with distinction. Perhaps Bender should longtime friend and retired their presidential candidate
measure to dismantle the Clearly some reforms are spend time in Chicago, police officer. He served 20 and when police attacked
city’s police department and necessary, but the one where last weekend 18 years with the Fairfax them with clubs and tear
replace it with what council voted by the Minneapolis people were gunned down County, Virginia, police gas they called them pigs.
President Lisa Bender calls City Council and other in 24 hours, or Brooklyn, department and 12 years
“a transformative new Cal Thomas radical proposals go too far. where seven people were with the Prince William This prompted a reaction
model of public safety.” shot within 10 minutes in County Sheriff’s office in from supporters of law
neighbors … and I know How would such a three separate incidents. Manassas, Virginia. In a enforcement: “The next
This is supposed to that that comes from a “model” work? Will these phone conversation, he says time you’re in trouble call a
better protect people in the place of privilege. Because new personnel have the Living in a mostly white he worries that the crime pig.”
aftermath of the murder of for those of us for whom power to arrest suspects? city within a mostly white rate could increase if police
George Floyd by a now- the system is working, I Will they be allowed to state appears to have are defunded or disbanded, Politicians and protesters
former Minneapolis police think we need to step back shoot back if fired upon? blinded her to the people and incidents of vigilantism
officer. and imagine what it would (African Americans) who could also rise. demanding police
feel like to already live in If suspects flee, can they are most victimized by
CNN anchor Alisyn that reality where calling be chased and tackled? crime. The TV images of street departments be de-funded,
Camerota asked Bender, the police may mean more Suppose they resist arrest? violence, he believes, are
“Do you understand that harm is done.” Will this new authority According to FBI crime fueling public fears. or even eliminated, might
the word dismantle, or permit force to subdue statistics, in 2018, 2,925
police-free, also makes Come again? Does them? African Americans were In 1968, during wish to ask themselves who
some people nervous? ... Bender seriously believe murdered in the U.S., 2,600 demonstrations and riots in
What if in the middle of doing away with the police How many people will of the murderers were major cities, some young they will call when
(the) night my home is and replacing them with her want to join such a force? It African American. people began calling police
broken into? Who do I “model” will deter is difficult enough to recruit officers “pigs.” threatened by criminals.
call?” criminals, especially violent police officers given the Given these figures, it
ones? Shouldn’t the increasing number of would appear that the The insult appeared to It won’t be
Bender equivocated: “I emphasis be on controlling restraints on them. That problem goes deeper than have been created by what “Ghostbusters.”
mean, I hear that loud and racism and that dismantling were then called Yippies,
clear from a lot of my Readers may email Cal
Thomas at

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50th anniversary of LGBTQ pride traditions

It’s difficult to believe others, will continue to prohibiting
it’s been 50 years ago celebrate this historic discrimination based
since the LGBTQ month. on sexual orientation
community came and gender identity.
together in New York Landmark decisions This unexpected, 6-to-
for the first Pride 3 ruling, was met with
parade. The parade positively impacting jubilation throughout
covered 51 blocks, the LGBTQ
ending in Central Park the LGBTQ community and its
and commemorated supporters.Those who
the 1969 Stonewall community have lived during the time of
Uprising in Manhattan, the Stonewall Uprising,
which was the turning continued through the
point for Gay
Liberation Movement. years in the month of

Since then, the June, including the
celebrations have
grown throughout the momentous June 26,
United States, with
Kenosha celebrating 2015, U.S. Supreme
each year in July.
Celebrations will look Court decision It is estimated that
a bit different this year,
due to the current regarding the there are
health pandemic,
however you can be Fourteenth approximately 3
sure the LGBTQ
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60 or over, the
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2020, another historic Center
U.S. Supreme Court have children who the SAGE, a national
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During Governor Evers’ Safer at Home order, • Thursday: Redeemer Parkside Church, 2620 pickup at Village
Kenosha County residents age 60+ may reserve 14th Place, Kenosha Pub
a weekly box of 5 frozen meals for pick up at one
of three   sites listed below. The meals are Meals on Wheels Meals are offered for a suggested donation of
provided through the Senior Dining program at $4 PER MEAL ($8 PER DAY PER PERSON).
Kenosha Area Family & Aging Services, KAFASI. For seniors unable to pick-up food or leave Open to anyone age 60+ and a spouse
their home, Meals on Wheels may provide hot regardless of age. Reservations must be made
To register and reserve a box, call KAFASI at meals delivered Monday – Friday. Call KAFASI at by 10 a.m. on Tuesday morning for Wednesday
262-658-3508, by 10 a.m., at least one day in 262-658-3508 to request service. Medically- lunch and 10 a.m. on Thursday for Friday lunch.
advance of the site schedule. Each pick-up will ordered food restrictions may be Call the office at 262-658-3508 to make your
include 5 frozen meals with beverages and accommodated. reservation. Please pick up between 11:30 a.m.
crackers.There is no fee but a donation of $3 per – 1:30 p.m.
meal is requested. Hot and Cold Meal Curbside Pick-up
Wednesday, June 24 All participants receive
*Limit is one box per week per person. Meals 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. the 2 meals listed
can be picked up on behalf of someone else if
arrangements are made in advance. At time of pick-up seniors will receive one Meat Loaf, Mashed Potatoes with Gravy, Peas
meal that is hot and ready to eat and a second & Carrots, Roll with Butter, Fruit
Pick-up is from 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. at the meal to put in the refrigerator to eat later.There
following locations: is no fee for food but a donation of Scalloped Potato with Ham, Caesar Salad,
Garlic Bread, Fruit
SENIOR DINING FROZEN MEAL PICK-UP $4 per meal ($8 total) is requested.
SCHEDULE Friday, June 26 All participants receive the
Wednesday and Friday- Village Pub, 307 N two meals below
• Tuesday: KAFASI, 7730 Sheridan Rd., Kenosha Cogswell Dr. Silver Lake
Beer Battered Pollock, French Fries,
• Wednesday: Westosha Senior Center, 19200 Thursday- Kenosha Achievement Center, 1218 Coleslaw, Rye Bread with Butter
93rd St., Bristol 79th St. Kenosha

Call 262-658-3508 to get the menu and
schedule a curbside pick-up.

Senior dining pick-up info Grilled Chicken Breast with Lettuce, Tomato
and Mayo, Potato Chips, Coleslaw , Fruit

The Kenosha Achievement Center is providing Hot Meal: Salisbury Steak, Mashed Potatoes Wednesday, July 1 All participants receive
meals for curbside pickup every Thursday, pick up with Gravy, Seasoned Prince Charles Veggie. the two meals below
on Sheridan Road (east side) and 79th Street in Roll/Butter, Fruit Cup, Milk
Kenosha. Small Italian Beef Sandwich with Provolone,
Cold Meal: Fruited Chicken Pasta salad, French Fries, Fruit, Peanut Butter Cookie
Meals are offered for a suggested donation of Marinated Veggie Salad, Fruit Cup & Fresh Fruit,
$4 PER MEAL ($8 PER DAY PER PERSON). Juice Broasted Pork Cutlet with Lettuce & Tomato,
Open to anyone age 60+ and a spouse regardless Season Potato Wedges, Coleslaw, Fruit
of age. Reservations must be made by 10 a.m. on Thursday, July 2 – all participants receive the
Wednesday morning for Thursday lunch. Call the two meals below Friday, July 3 All participants receive the
office at 262-658-3508 to make your two meals below
reservation. Please pick up between 11:30 a.m. – Hot Meal: Glazed Maple Bacon Chicken,
1:30 p.m. Risotto, Herbed California Blend, Roll/Butter, Prime Rib Sandwich with Provolone, French
Fresh Fruit, Milk Fries, Coleslaw, Fruit
Thursday, June 25 – all participants receive
the two meals below Cold Meal: Turkey & Cheese Sub, Cottage Spaghetti with Meatball, Side Salad, Peas &
Cheese, Peaches, Fresh Fruit, Juice Carrots, Fruit

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social security significant impact on the
and you program or the benefits
paid. Instead, here is a short
The Social Security list of the major
'Goody Bag' amendments to the Social
Security Act and what those
changes brought.

At least once a day, I get 1935 -- the original Social
one or more emails that Security Act: provided
start out with some form of benefits for retirees at age
this phrase: "I'll tell you 65 and nothing else.
what's wrong with Social
Security!" And then they go 1939 Social Security
on from there to trot out
time-worn arguments that amendments: added
have been bandied about
for years and are usually benefits for dependent
groundless.
wives age 65 and older and
One of the more
common gripes goes like for the minor children of
this: "I'll tell you what's
wrong with Social Security. retirees.Also added benefits
They've added too many
perks to the program over Tom Margenau to widows age 65 and older
the years. If they would just
get rid of the goody bag and and to surviving minor
take the system back to
what it was when it started, There also would be no children. Included benefits
we wouldn't have any benefits for spouses,
problems today!" Or, as widows or widowers.And if for widows at any age if
another reader recently a young worker dies and
told me: "Today's Social leaves small children, tough caring for a minor child.
Security program includes luck. No government
too many freebies for benefits for them. All these 1950 Social Security
freeloaders! We need to get spousal and survivor
back to basics -- to the law's benefits are in the "goody amendments: added
original intent!" bag."
benefits for dependent dreamstime
Well let's think about that
for a minute. The original husbands age 65 and older, get widows benefits to 60. amendments. There have Security question,Tom
Social Security Act, passed Added benefits for surviving also been many technical Margenau has the answer.
in 1935, included and widowers age 65 and children between ages 18 amendments. In fact, one set
retirement benefits for and 21. Added benefits for of those in the 1990s led to Contact him at
people 65 and older who older. divorced women if they the infamous maximizing thomas.margenau@comcast.
were totally retired. That's were married for 20 years. loophole that really was
it. Period. Nothing else! And there would be no 1956 Social Security Also added the Medicare something for the "goody net.To find out more about
disability benefits. So, if you amendments: lowered the program. bag." It allowed many Tom Margenau and to read
So, if these "back to have a heart attack at age age at which a woman can middle- and upper-class
basics" naysayers had their 60, that's just too bad. You get retirement benefits to 1968 Social Security seniors to file for past columns and see
way, that means we would would just have to wait until 62. Also lowered the age at amendments: lowered the "dependent" benefits on a features from other Creators
have no early retirement you are 65 to collect your which a husband or wife age at which a woman could spouse's Social Security
benefits at age 62. Those Social Security, assuming can get spousal or widows collect widows benefits to record while saving their Syndicate writers and
millions of people getting you live that long. benefits to 62. Added 50 if she was disabled. own retirement benefits cartoonists, visit the Creators
early retirement benefit disability benefits to until age 70. That loophole
could kiss their checks I could go on and on. disabled workers between 1977 Social Security was shut down. Or, to be Syndicate website at
goodbye because they are ages 50 and 64. amendments: lowered the more precise, you had to be www.creators.com.
in the "goody bag." There are tens of millions duration of marriage age 66 before Jan. 2, 2020,
requirement for divorced to use the loophole. Tom Margenau joins
It also would mean we of people getting Social 1960 Social Security spouses from 20 years to Happenings Q&A on
would not pay benefits to amendments: expanded 10 years. If you have a Social Tuesday, June 30th at
anyone 65 and older if they Security benefits today who disability benefits to a 12:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
were still working. The disabled worker of any age 1983 Social Security
original Social Security law would not qualify for as long as he or she was amendments: raised the
required that you must be "insured." retirement age to 67 over a
completely retired to anything under the original 50-year period. Children's
collect benefits. So, tough benefits eliminated for
luck for all the working Social Security law. Are all those ages 18-21. Added
seniors out there. Your benefits for fathers caring
benefits are also in the those people getting for minor children.
"goody bag."
superfluous and 1961 Social Security This is just a summary of
Oh, and there would be amendments: lowered the the major Social Security
no extra bonus for people unnecessary benefits out of age at which a man can get
who delay taking benefits retirement benefits to 62.
until a later age. Millions of a governmental giveaway Also lowered the
seniors currently plan to widower's age to 62.
work until 70 in order to "goody bag"? Or has the
get a 32% bonus added to
their checks. Emptying the Social Security program
"goody bag" would mean
turning off that incentive to evolved over the years to
delay retirement.
meet the changing needs of While too many Americans struggle to
make ends meet, the big drug companies
our society? 1965 Social Security continue to rake in billions. It’s no wonder,
amendments: lowered the considering that they make us pay the high-
I think that's an age at which a woman can est prescription drug prices in the world. If
important point that needs they can afford to spand nearly $175 million
to be made. Social Security for lobbying, and more than $6 billion for
did not expand over the advertising, then surely they can find some
years because Congress way to lower prices and stop gouging Americans. People shouldn’t
was looking for ways to have to choose between buying medication and buying food for our
hand out "freebies to families. Congress, it’s time to act. Stop the greed. Cut drug prices now.
freeloaders." The program
changed because there 011719
were legitimate needs that 061120
people had and that a
caring, compassionate
society needed to provide.
That's why, today, we have
Social Security benefits for
working seniors, spouses,
widows, orphaned children,
divorced women and
disabled workers.

In fact, let's take a brief 262-652-4400 • hospicealliance.org
look at the legislative
history of Social Security. It
will be an abbreviated look
because Congress passes
amendments to the Social
Security law almost every
year. But most of those are
relatively minor or technical
changes that have no

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she had purchased a ticket multiple times in disbelief. history. She said she plans
for the May 1 Lotto Max to use her winnings to help
drawing at the Reddi Mart "I just kept looking at the her family.
convenience store in ticket, and looking back at
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Tutcho said she was
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Metal detector hobbiest finds
97-year-old class ring in park

For a look at what to expect this summer An Illinois man walking The ring, a 1923 class ring California, where he later
closer to home, tune in to Happenings with his metal detector in a from Western Military died. He said he was able
Q&A/AM1050 WLIP on Tuesday, June 30th public park found a class Academy in Alton, was to contact a distant family
at 2:30 p.m. when Jake Hoey, aka Jake the ring dating back 97 years engraved with the name of member who said Volle
underneath the soil. its owner, Mervin E.Volle. had a child before he died.
Weather Guy, joins the show.
Steve Aimone of Godfrey Aimone said his research The metal detector
said he was using his metal indicated Volle served in hobbiest said he is now
detector at Rock Springs World War II and moved to hoping to identify and
Park in Alton when he contact Volle's child so he
found the 10-karat gold can give them their
ring at the top of a steep father's ring.
hill.
"I think the family would
He said he does not think be grateful to have the ring
the ring was intentionally back," Aimone said.
buried.
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books Humans are a (mostly) kind species.
A Dutch historian offers proof.
Anti-racism reading
list: 10 books to get During the coronavirus tending a fire they managed
started pandemic, millions of to keep lit for more than a
people are staying home in year.
As a Black woman, my email and social media have been part to protect the most
flooded recently with expressions of deep and sincere vulnerable members of Imagine if this were the
concern over race. I was horrified but not surprised by the their communities from story generations of young
killing of a Black man, George Floyd, by a white police COVID-19. When they do students were taught in
officer in Minneapolis. There have been too many of these venture out, many don school, Bregman muses. In
deaths for me to be shocked. I say to everyone who asks, masks, which do less to a similar, more modern
“Saddle up and stay awhile, because there is no quick fix.” protect them than to shield example, he compares
any strangers with whom successful reality TV shows
But it is time for some context, which can be found by they might inadvertently (with producers who must
reading a good book. come into contact. Perhaps constantly stir up drama to
the time is ripe to consider create ratings-worthy
The gap in American history, which this tragedy exposes, the provocative thesis of conflict) to series that have
can only be filled with knowledge. Read, watch, learn, and Dutch historian Rutger failed (after producers
then talk a lot. As I write this, I have at least 30 books on Bregman’s new book, throw groups of strangers
the floor of my office, and I’m pondering which ones would “Humankind: A Hopeful
provide the right first experiences. I don’t want to throw History.” His “radical idea”? Humankind:
people into the deep end of the social justice pool right That “most people, deep A Hopeful History
away. It’s hard – the truths of being Black in America. I have down, are pretty decent.” by Rutger Bregman
narrowed it down to 10 that can serve as a way of sticking
your toes in the water.Ten is a hard list. For far too long, together only to find that
everyone gets along just
I called Gayatri Patnaik, associate director and editorial Bregman argues, the fine).The problem with the
director at Beacon Press, which has a long and storied pessimistic Hobbesian
history of publishing books that speak to racial discourse opposite has been assumed view, the author insists, is
and social justice. Ms. Patnaik suggested “White Fragility: that it becomes a self-
Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism,” to be true: “There is a fulfilling prophecy. “If we
by Robin DiAngelo, a white woman, which Ms. Patnaik says believe most people can’t
is “useful for white people to read so they can grapple with persistent myth that by be trusted, that’s how we’ll
their privilege.” She also recommended “Gather at the treat each other, to
Table: The Healing Journey of a Daughter of Slavery and a their very nature humans everyone’s detriment,” he
Son of the Slave Trade” by Thomas Norman DeWolf and writes.
Sharon Leslie Morgan. He is a white descendant of a family are selfish, aggressive and
that profited from the slave trade and she is a Black woman Bregman is not naive; he
who is descended from slaves. quick to panic.” Many of grounds his arguments in
reassessments of historical
I curate my beginners’ list carefully because guilt and our institutions reflect the events and in studies from
shame are not the goal. I need you to understand why I feel the sciences and social
an undercurrent of rage at white people who weaponize view of humanity sciences, observing that the
their institutionalized privilege. When a white person like preponderance of evidence
Amy Cooper can call the police on a Black man who is articulated by 17th-century demonstrates that people
merely bird watching in Central Park, we see evidence of are much more inclined
privilege with too few consequences. English philosopher toward good than toward
evil. He debunks a number
I also put on my list the Thomas Hobbes, who of long-held beliefs, such as
very powerful “Breathe: A the claim – a pillar of
Letter to My Sons,” by believed that without a decades of Psychology 101
Imani Perry, because it is classes – that dozens of
written to her Black sons strong ruler, human beings bystanders witnessed the
about growing up in 1964 murder of Queens
America.As the mother of a would revert to “a resident Kitty Genovese
Black son and the without calling the police
grandmother of two little condition of war of all or coming to her aid.
Black boys, I found that she
spoke to my fears and against all.” For his part, Bregman presents his
prayers. Ms. Perry’s book findings in a chatty, engaging
holds up next to the award- Bregman is more aligned style that evokes Malcolm
winning “Between the World Gladwell. As in Gladwell’s
and Me,” by Ta-Nehisi with the work of work, there is a cherry-
Coates, written for his son. picked quality to the
Enlightenment thinker information he presents.
Ms. Patnaik also recommended Crystal Fleming’s “How There is also a fair amount
to be Less Stupid About Race: On Racism, White Jean-Jacques Rousseau, of generalization and
Supremacy, and the Racial Divide.” “Don’t let the light- oversimplification. For
sounding title fool you,” she says,“it’s very smart and sharp.” who regarded civilization instance, the author
She’s right. It is a good primer on how race gets covered in acknowledges a human
the media and plays out in politics, culture, and in the itself as the corrupting predisposition for tribalism
classroom. and xenophobia, but argues
force, introducing war, that most Nazis fought – inspired millions of in Norway that have more
I went back to one of my white friends to ask her what because they didn’t want to ordinary men to
she had read on the lives of Black folks before now. She crime, and other horrors let down their comrades, perpetrate the worst in common with Club Med
replied, “The Help” and “The Secret Life of Bees.” I didn’t not because they massacre in history” feels
have the heart to tell her that they weren’t about the Black that didn’t exist when subscribed to Nazi woefully inadequate. than with any American
experience, but they were books with Black folks in them. ideology. His summary of
Homo sapiens lived in a World War II as a “heroic penitentiary. He notes a
If you want to know what Black people are thinking and struggle in which
feeling, you have to go to the books with their voices and “state of nature.” friendship, loyalty, solidarity recidivism rate of 20
their lived experiences. And I can’t help but think about – humanity’s best qualities
William Golding’s classic Additionally, Bregman percent, compared with 60
see ANTI-RACISM READING on page 15 for more 1954 novel “Lord of the
Flies” dramatized the tosses off some claims that percent for American
14 SMART READER June 18, 2020 Hobbesian view, depicting
British schoolboys who seem unfounded, like prisons; furthermore,
devolve into savagery after
being stranded on an landscape architect Carl because the majority of the
island. But in an impressive
feat of research, Bregman Theodor Sørensen’s ex-convicts find
unearthed a long-forgotten
real-life version of “Lord of assertion (in a section employment and stay out
the Flies” with an entirely
different outcome. In 1965, extolling the benefits of of prison, they end up
six boys from the South
Pacific archipelago kingdom unregulated, raw play costing the system far less
Tonga were shipwrecked
on a remote, deserted spaces) that the money.
island for 15 months.
Unlike Ralph, Jack, Piggy, “sandboxes, slides, [and] Bregman aims to prove
and their schoolmates in
Golding's novel, the swings” of today’s that most people are not
children from Tonga
worked together to playgrounds are “a driven by self-interest. In
survive until they were
rescued. In their isolation, bureaucrat’s dream and a perhaps a measure of how
they created systems for
growing food, collecting child’s nightmare.” That entrenched that view
rainwater, and exercising,
and they took turns would have been news to remains, my first thought

my kids. upon reading of the cost

Despite its flaws, savings in Norway was this:

“Humankind” is an If there’s any hope for the

enjoyable and thought- institutional change

provoking read, one whose Bregman advocates – from

bold argument has reforming overly punitive

potentially far-reaching penal systems to granting

implications for how we workers and students

run our governments, more autonomy – fiscal

workplaces, schools, and arguments like that one

correctional facilities. will likely carry the most

Bregman admiringly weight.

profiles two cushy prisons By Barbara Spindel

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‘The Hour of Fate’ untangles com-
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In the reductionist view anthracite coal strike of Anti-racism reading
of Wall Street history, 1902, in which the coal
President William McKinley miners’ union demanded continued from page 14
was “pro-business,” and higher pay and safer
from the instant he took working conditions. All how it was against the law during slavery for Blacks to
office in 1897, business sides dug in, and soon read or write. My true confession is that I hadn’t really
enough the country was read Black voices until I was in my early 30s.The first book
The Hour of Fate: facing the prospect of a I read was Maya Angelou’s memoir, “I Know Why the
Theodore Roosevelt, winter without heating for Caged Bird Sings.” It blew my head back and changed my
J.P. Morgan and the homes and businesses (and life as a writer. On its 50th anniversary, it still tugs at the
Battle to Transform Morgan was imagining his truths of being Black in America. Then I read James
railroads with no fuel for Baldwin’s “The Fire Next Time,” a book that may have felt
American the trains). The federal militant when it was published more than 40 years ago, but
Capitalism government stepped in as a now it reads like it was ripped from the headlines.
by Susan Bloomsbury neutral arbiter and Morgan,
who certainly wanted the And as I shaped my little
leaders rejoiced. This was explanations necessary,” responded, “He’s afraid of strike to end, had to list, others were shaping
an era dominated by Berfield writes. Roosevelt me because he does know compromise. theirs. For the first time in
rapacious barons of finance, respected the role of what I’ll do.” the history of bestseller
perhaps none more business in American life, It’s a complicated and lists, the recent Top 20
towering than J.P. Morgan, but he “also believed it had terrific story, and Berfield books all dealt with race,
the glowering, to be accountable to the tells it with an extremely privilege, and inequity. One
temperamental “Jupiter” of public, and Roosevelt skillful blend of wide-canvas book on almost
Wall Street. In President considered himself to be exposition and small-scale everybody’s list is scholar
McKinley, Morgan and his the public.” “The Hour of personal drama. Her Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to
business rivals and partners Fate” is genuinely eye- characters, particularly Be an Antiracist.”
felt they had a man with opening in pointing out how Roosevelt and Morgan,
whom they could do much each of these men What Roosevelt did was come alive in all their And if the only victim
business. had in common, but multifaceted natures. And you can name right now is
perhaps their most trust-busting. “Trusts didn’t naturally it’s virtually George Floyd, dig into
important shared trait, the impossible to read this Wesley Lowery’s “They
one that arranged the confine their business to a clash between big Can’t Kill Us All: Ferguson,
drama that would ensue government and big Baltimore, and a New Era in America’s Racial Justice
All that ended on Sept. 6, between them, was that single state,” Berfield notes. business without thinking Movement,” which is a deep dive into the quest for justice
each “expected deference about our own century, in the deaths due to police violence of Michael Brown,
1901 in Buffalo, New York, from the other.” “They operated across when American wealth Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray.
inequality is greater than it
when a man named Leon Roosevelt, as Berfield boundaries, and often they was even in Morgan’s day.
puts it, wanted to “assert
Czolgosz shot McKinley in the primacy of government didn’t operate at all in the That such questions were
over business.” This ran on the electorate’s mind in
the abdomen at point-blank directly counter to the state where they were 1903 is reflected in one of
dreams of Morgan and his Roosevelt’s most-used
range. McKinley lingered for fellow financiers, who were chartered. Washington had speeches. “This is not and
busily buying up companies never shall be a government
a few days, but died on Sept. and constructing railroad to step in.” This is exactly either of a plutocracy or of My favorite book on the list was written for children,
and steel monopolies. a mob,” he said. “It is, it has but it speaks to the little Black girl who still lives in me.
14 – and suddenly, Morgan expected a federal what Roosevelt did; he been, a government of the “The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963” written by
government that was his people; including alike the Christopher Paul Curtis. I lived through this time that
something that had been quiet and mild-mannered instructed his people of great wealth and Curtis frames. I read it once a year and it touches my soul
silent partner; Roosevelt of moderate wealth, the each time.
dreaded by political insiders abhorred bullies and was a administration to pursue people who employ others,
very skillful bully himself. the people who are
for four years became Morgan commented, “I am legal action against employed, the wage-
afraid of Mr. Roosevelt worker, the lawyer, the
reality: Vice President because I don’t know what Morgan’s massive railroad mechanic, the banker, the
he’ll do.” Roosevelt farmer.” “The Hour of Fate”
Theodore Roosevelt trust Northern Securities. dramatizes the moment a
century ago when these
became president. This was These two indomitable wills issues were fought in But I caution anybody that reading about race, even if it
courts, in the streets, and in is seen through the eyes of a child, is not a beach read.
the “hour of fate” were now set in ironclad the coal mines of None of these books is going to be made into a Hallmark
Pennsylvania. movie. Each of them will get under your skin and linger a
referenced in the title of opposition. while, as they should.Any reader would want to look away
By Steve Donoghue or at least put it down for a minute.
Susan Berfield’s riveting “If we have done anything
wrong,” Morgan told
new book “The Hour of Roosevelt when the two
had a tense and testy
Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, meeting, “send your man to
my man and they can fix it
J.P. Morgan, and the Battle up.” The quote, so confident To understand how we
in its complacency, so
to Transform American brazen in its back-room got here, I also suggest
corruption, could stand as
Capitalism.” epigraph for the whole “The New Jim Crow: Mass
confrontation. Roosevelt
Berfield tells the story of didn’t want to “fix things Incarceration in the Age of
an irresistible force meeting up” – he wanted to break
an immovable object. Long things up. Colorblindness,” by
before McKinley’s death,
Morgan had been a Michelle Alexander. One
plutocrat’s plutocrat, a
master of monopolies. “He needs to understand the
had an aristocrat’s disdain
for public sentiment and legal context behind the
the conviction that his
actions were to the inequity in our
country’s advantage, no
incarceration system. I

recently reread it.

The thrilling dramatic I am a Black woman who
turn at the heart of “The has loved books, and the
Hour of Fate” is the great secrets they hold, all my
life. I am a descendant of
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLERS slaves and of Jim Crow. My
book bag is heavy. But I persist.Yet in the end, when I need
PRINT & E-BOOKS NONFICTION PRINT & E-BOOKS FICTION to be anchored, I go back to the writings of Martin Luther
King Jr., who speaks with a sense of urgency that holds up
1. White Fragility (DiAngelo) 1. The Vanishing Half (Bennett) in 2020 as much as it did in the 1960s.
2. So You Want to Talk About Race (Oluo) 2. The Guest List (Foley)
3. How to be an Antiracist (Kendi) 3. Where the Crawdads Sing (Owens) What should happen when white and Black people read
4. Me and White Supremacy (Saad) 4. The Lies That Bind (Giffin) the voices of Black men and women who are telling you
5. The New Jim Crow (Alexander) 5. Hideaway (Roberts) about the America they know? I don’t look for it to heal
6. The Color of Law (Rothstein) 6. Camino Winds (Grisham) us or wipe away the hurt and the pain. But it is a start. It
7. Between the World and Me (Coates) 7. Fair Warning (Connelly) is one piece of the puzzle.
8. Untamed (Doyle) 8. Little Fires Everywhere (Ng)
9. Stamped from the Beginning (Kendi) 9. Big Summer (Weiner) This is not by any means a comprehensive list. It isn’t
10. Just Mercy (Stevenson) 10. If It Bleeds (King) even my complete list. There is so much enlightening
reading out there. Mine is a list that will get you started
and hopefully make you want to read more.

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Pet World animals

with Cathy Rosenthal in the news

How to safely get scared
cat in carrier

Dear Cathy, We have a them into small carriers is a inside, and leave the door
shelter cat named Chechee, nightmare for both the pet and open. During the night, she will
now 7, who is very skittish and owner. This is the moment go into the trap to eat and the
frightened every moment of when most people are bitten door will close on her. Keep
the day. It is impossible to and scratched. Buy a medium- the towel on the trap and
cuddle with her and we can sized carrier and put a blanket drive her to the vet first thing
barely pet her because she or towel inside to make it in the morning. The vet can
runs away and hides.We would cozy. (Top-open carriers are medicate her through the trap
like to have her examined by a sometimes easier for cats that and then examine her and
veterinarian, but we can't pick can be held, but don't want to vaccinate her while she is
her up, let alone put her in a go into a side-entry box.) sedated.
carrier.
Second, leave the carrier in Dear Cathy, In regard to dreamstime
All of her needs (food, clean the house so the cat can go in
litter box) are met. We are at and out as she pleases. Most Judi from Oakland Park, Cows take over beer Wild animals enjoying
our wit's end. She has bitten people put the carrier in the the pools
my wife once when we garage and bring it out only Florida, who has dogs that garden at closed
attempted to pick her up. She when it's time to go to the vet. sometimes pee in the house, I restaurant and hotel A California homeowner snapped a
is not angry just skittish, and Cats are smart; they know the photo of a bear spotted beating the
we can't figure out how to carrier means a trip to the vet. once had a lab named Belle heat with a dip in the home's backyard
solve this issue. Please help. - Give the carrier new meaning who would always go on the A British hotel and restaurant pool. The Claremont resident snapped
Herb,Wellington, Florida by feeding her in it, leaving grass, but if I couldn't clean it temporarily closed due to the COVID- a photo showing the bear lounging in
treats in it and spraying some up immediately, she would 19 pandemic shared video of the beer the pool behind the house on Montana
Dear Herb, While cats pheromones in it. walk the perimeter of the yard garden being overrun by some unusual Lane.Witnesses also captured video of
outnumber dogs in the U.S., almost on tiptoes to avoid any premature customers -- a herd of the bear climbing a wall to walk on the
cats often don't visit the I know Chechee won't let soiled areas. When the areas cows. The Motat House in Acton ledge and rooting through some trash
veterinarian as often as canines you pick her up, but the next were totally clean, there was Trussell, near Stafford, England, said in the neighborhood.
do. It's not because cat owners bit of advice would be to wrap never a problem. - Pat,Wading workers preparing for the business'
don't care, but because even her in a towel before putting planned reopening looked outside and Bears have been known to wander
the sweetest and mildest cat her in the carrier. Cats feel River, New York from the nearby San Gabriel Mountains
can become a bit difficult when safer like this, and it's much spotted a dozen cows wandering into populated areas. A bear made
it comes time to go to the better for you if her claws and Dear Pat, Certainly, if through the outside seating area. headlines in June 2019 when it climbed
vet's office. paws are under wraps. people don't clean up their a wall outside a Claremont home to sit
dog's waste in the yard, their "We had spaced out the tables and on the ledge and eat a package of
To reduce Chechee's overall If these things don't work, dog may look elsewhere to chairs to try our meter or two-meter Twizzlers candy.
skittishness and build her talk to your veterinarian about relieve themselves. Your Belle social distancing, but they showed no
confidence in the home (it's medicating her. You won't be sounds like a very particular respect for that. We wondered if they On the other side of the country, a
never too late), put feline able to give her anything orally, dog, and I am glad you were thought they had herd immunity," Florida family captured video of an
pheromone plug-ins around but maybe the veterinarian can astute enough to manage her Chris Lewis, managing partner of Moat alligator trespassing on their property
the house and give her lots of prescribe some medicine that fastidious behavior. In most House owner Lewis Partnership, told and taking a dip in their backyard
places to hide, like boxes or can be crushed and put into cases, though, when a the Express & Star newspaper. Lewis swimming pool. Carlos Rivera said he
baskets, or a place to climb, her food. housetrained dog starts going said the herd wandered over from a had to convince his family he wasn't
like a tall cat tree. in the house, it's because they nearby farm. pranking them when he alerted them
Finally, if all else fails, to the gator swimming in the pool
As for getting Chechee (or consider renting or buying a need to be retrained and "They had a look at all our outside behind their Hillsborough County
any challenging cat) to the humane animal trap often used home.
veterinarian, here are a few for feral cats. (They are fairly incentivized to go outside. But wedding facilities and at one stage they
things you can try: inexpensive to buy online.) "I noticed there was a gator in there.
Skip feeding her the night it's always wise to keep the looked like guests at a wedding," he I told everybody, but everybody
First, get a bigger carrier. before the vet visit so she's thought I was just joking," Rivera told
Cats have a way of making hungry. Drape the top of the yard free of waste. said. Staff contacted the cows owner, WFTS-TV. Rivera and his daughter,
themselves bigger when they trap with a towel, put the food Veronica, called for backup from
are scared and trying to push As well as being a recuring guest who led them away from the business. Veronica's boyfriend and decided to
handle the trespasser without calling
on Happenings Q&A, Cathy M. "Even the cows can't wait for us to wildlife authorities for help.
Rosenthal is a longtime animal
advocate, author, columnist and pet reopen," The Moat House quipped in a "We saw him walking around for a
expert who has more than 25 years Facebook post.The Moat House, which while and we were wondering who we
should call like my dad said and then
in the animal welfare field. Send closed in March. plans to reopen in we decided it's probably best because
your pet questions, stories and tips early July. it was a baby alligator so we thought
we could handle it," Veronica Rivera
to [email protected]. Missing wallaby said. The group scooped the gator up
in a garbage bin and released it in a
resurfaces weeks nearby pond where alligators are
known to reside.
later in Colorado city
"My boyfriend is from Missouri so he
A wallaby that escaped from a doesn't get much of this, he has like
Colorado sanctuary has apparently bears and stuff. He always thought the
resurfaced about two weeks later in a Florida stuff was a joke, but now he
city about 40 miles away. The Zoology knows it's for real," Veronica Rivera
Foundation said Surprise, a 10-year-old said.
male red-necked wallaby, escaped June
1 from his enclosure at the
organization's animal sanctuary in
Larkspur. The foundation said it
received reports of two "kangaroo"
sightings Tuesday morning in Aurora
that officials believed to be the fugitive
wallaby. Aurora is about 40 miles from
Larkspur, but Maggie Lantzy, program
director at the Zoology Foundation,
said wallabies are known to wander
and can travel at speeds of up to 30
mph. The foundation said a crew
searched for Surprise in Aurora but
was unable to locate the missing
marsupial. Officials asked anyone who
spots the animal to contact the
foundation and not attempt to capture
Surprise themselves. They said
wallabies are easily startled and can die
as a result of fear.

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Basic interventions reduce risk for repeat suicide
attempts by 30%, study says

Minimal suicide suicide prevention Suicide is the 10th leading suggests that the staff at
cause of death in the United many emergency rooms
prevention programs for interventions that enrolled States, according to the across the country might
Centers for Disease Control only successfully identify one
survivors of suicide attempts more than 4,200 patients. and Prevention. In 2018, than in four patients at risk for
1.4 million suicide attempts suicide. Estimates suggest
after they were admitted to "Suicide prevention occured across the country, that three of four patients at
the agency estimates. risk for suicide are
a hospital or taken to an interventions delivered in discharged from ERs without
plans for follow-up care.
emergency room can reduce general emergency

the risk for repeat tries, an departments and hospitals

analysis published are effective at preventing

Wednesday by JAMA repeat suicide attempts and In addition, the suicide
rate has increased by
Psychiatry found. at helping people at risk of roughly 30 percent over the
past decade, CDC figures
Patients who received suicide connect with mental show. "For loved ones of people
"brief interventions" --
including phone calls and health services," Dr. at risk of suicide, several
text messages to check on
their well-being after Stephanie Doupnik, co- dreamstime steps can help prevent
discharge -- and coordinated
care, including referrals to director of the inpatient develop coping strategies to they said. Best practices for suicide suicide attempts," Doupnik
mental health professionals, limit suicidal thoughts and
were 30 percent less likely Medical Behavioral Unit at urges, according to Doupnik These and other basic prevention recommend that said. "Two important ones
to attempt suicide again, the and her colleagues. interventions led to a three-
researchers said. the Children's Hospital of fold increase in the individuals identified as being include maintaining
Clinicians also engage likelihood that ER patients
Philadelphia, told UPI. family and friends, who can admitted after a suicide at risk for suicide receive communication with a loved
help provide support to attempt would pursue
In typical suicide safety survivors of suicide attempts mental health care after treatment specifically one at risk of suicide and
planning interventions, and ensure that they receive discharge, Doupnik and her
mental health professionals appropriate care services, colleagues found. directed to reduce their risk reducing access to lethal
and other clinicians work to
identify warning signs for and services to ensure they means -- or anything that
suicide and help patients
remain engaged in mental could be used in a suicide

The analysis included health care. attempt, such as firearms,
results from 14 studies of
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Jill on Money U.S. soldier's family reunited with
button found in Australia
The beauty of cash

A spring survey released event of a An Australian couple who the couple sent to her.
by the National Endowment failure. The found a U.S. Army soldier's
for Financial Education agency proudly tag and button on the site of Van Sheeuwen and Neal
(NEFE) found that 88% of boasts: "Since the FDIC a former base in Queensland mailed the items to
Americans said the pandemic began operations in 1934, no were able to reunite them Goodman, who presented
is causing stress on their depositor has ever lost a with the family of the man them to her mother, Sue
personal finances. Chief penny of FDIC-insured who lost them 80 years Goodman, Henderson's
among those stressors was deposits." earlier. daughter.
not having enough saved for
emergencies. That's not For more on how FDIC Jasmine Neal and Jason a tag bearing a serial A little more research "She was surprised and
surprising, considering that coverage is applied to Van Sleeuwen said they were number. online led them to the she cried," Goodman said of
before COVID-19, an individual, joint, retirement, using their metal detector at Facebook profile of her mother. "We all cried.
alarming number of people and business accounts, go to the former site of a U.S. The pair searched the Wisconsin resident Melissa Everyone's cried."
lived perilously close to the fdic.gov and to determine if Army base when they found serial number on an Army Goodman, Henderson's
financial edge. A Federal your bank is FDIC-insured, two small objects that database and discovered it granddaughter. Goodman said her family
Reserve report found that 4 use the FDIC's BankFind initially appeared to be belonged to Harold was grateful to the couple
in 10 adults would have tool, which provides detailed coins. Henderson, an Army Goodman said she initially for giving them back a piece
difficulty covering a $400 information about all FDIC- sharpshooter who was thought the message was of her grandfather's life.
unexpected expense. insured institutions, including "I grabbed it off of Jasmine stationed in Queensland spam, but realized it wasn't
branch locations, the bank's and I started pulling all the during World War II. when she saw the photos "Even though he can't see
The sudden onslaught of official website address, the dirt off of it and I realized that we have the tag I just
the pandemic and its ripple current operating status of what it was," Van Sleeuwen feel like he's with us,"
effect throughout the your bank, and the regulator told WKOW-TV. Goodman said. "It's just
economy has underscored to contact for additional another piece of him that's
fragilities in our financial information and assistance. The items were a button back home."
lives. Chief among those is One important note: The from a soldier's uniform and
the inability for many FDIC does not cover By Ben Hooper
Americans to adequately investments or life insurance
fund an emergency reserve products, even if they are
account. While some live sold through an arm of an
paycheck to paycheck, others FDIC insured bank.
have the wherewithal to
save, but for some reason, Credit unions provide
the boring old rainy day fund
never gets the love that it similar FDIC-like coverage
deserves. Considering that
the saving rate surged to 33% through the National Credit
in April, the highest on
record, perhaps now is an Union Share Insurance Fund,
ideal time to start, augment,
or replenish that fund. but a different entity backs

I have heard from many of up money in a brokerage
you, wondering if my advice
has changed regarding the account: the Securities
emergency reserve funds -
the answer is, it has not. I Investor Protection
recommend that workers
keep six to 12 months of Corporation (SIPC) provides
living expenses (1-2 years if
you are already retired), in a limited coverage in the event
liquid, accessible cash-
equivalent account, like a that the firm goes broke.
savings, checking, money
market or a short-term (less SIPC covers up to $500,000,
than a year) certificate of
deposit. I do not consider including up to $250,000 for
access to a home equity line
of credit or loan as an cash equivalents. However,
emergency fund, nor do I
believe that a taxable SIPC does not cover
brokerage account that is
fully invested in stocks, bonds unregistered investment
or other financial assets, can
serve this purpose. I am contracts, unregistered
talking about plain vanilla,
folks! limited partnerships, fixed

Early in the crisis, many of annuity contracts, currency,
you wrote in to ask whether
emergency reserve funds at and interests in gold, silver,
various financial institutions
were safe. Now that your or other commodity futures
rational brain is ready, here's
a primer/reminder about the contracts or commodity
Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation ("FDIC"), every options.
saver's favorite backstop.The
FDIC is an independent I love my emergency
agency of the government, reserve fund and want you
which protects assets, to love yours too, even when
including savings, checking, the economy is seemingly
money market deposit strong and it feels like a
accounts and CDs, up to "waste" to have the money
$250,000 per depositor, per earning rotten interest.
insured bank, in the unlikely When the next crisis comes,
either systemic or personal,
you will be happy to
reacquaint yourself with the
beauty of cash.

Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS
News business analyst. A former

options trader and CIO of an
investment advisory firm, she

welcomes comments and
questions at askjill@

jillonmoney.com. Check her
website at www.jillonmoney.com

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History in the making’? Seattle protest zone
prompts rethink on policing.

As a police chopper circles misnomer, and stresses that John, a protester and unemployed theater worker who withheld his last name for privacy, stands watch at the perimeter of Seattle's Capitol
overhead, a protester named police can return to the Hill Occupy Protest. Photo: Ann Scott Tyson/ Christian Science Monitor
John, wearing a Black power station “whenever they
pin, stands watch at a want.” City officials, including largely peaceful since police illegal. More broadly, the United which they say is primarily to
barricade at the entrance to police, Fire Chief Harold States needs to expand keep drivers from harming
Seattle’s spontaneous new Scoggins, and Mayor Jenny left, although tensions have The zone “is not a lawless investment in low-income crowds, as happened last
hub of activism – a six-block Durkan, have freely entered wasteland of anarchist housing and mental health Sunday when a gunman
area that demonstrators the “zone” in recent days, flared with insurrection – it is a peaceful and addiction services, which drove toward protesters,
initially dubbed the Capitol along with flocks of visitors. expression of our have been underfunded for shooting one in the arm who
Hill Autonomous Zone counterdemonstrators. community’s collective grief decades, says Katherine tried to stop him. They have
(CHAZ). “There is no reason and their desire to build a Beckett, a professor of law, also formed a night watch
peaceful protest can’t People speak at open mics, better world,” she tweeted. societies, and justice at the from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. “I help
Orange barricades left coexist with police University of Washington. out where I can with the
behind by police, who presence,” John says of the cook, paint protest art, light Last week, Seattle Police watch,” says Ada, who
abruptly vacated the Seattle CHAZ, which over the Chief Carmen Best told declined to give her last
Police Department’s East weekend was renamed the candles at a memorial to officers their departure from name.
Precinct building last week CHOP. What that stands for, the precinct in Capitol Hill
amid rallies against racism however, depends on whom those killed by police, was “not my decision,” saying
and police brutality, are now you ask – a reflection of the she was concerned about
plastered with posters calling movement’s evolving goals garden, watch arson, but the city “relented
to “Defund SPD” – a key and leadership. An entry sign to severe public pressure.”
demand of activists here calls it the Capitol Hill But both she and Mayor
who seek to shift half the Occupied Protest; some say Durkan have initiated
police budget into the O now stands for policing reforms in
community services. “Organized.” John and consultation with the
others say they sought community.
But views are mixed on freedom to protest, but
the police role and future of never asked police to leave. “This is a pivotal moment
the station. Many signs and in history,” Chief Best, the
graffiti are hostile to cops.Yet Ensconced in Capitol Hill, first black woman to hold
John, an unemployed theater a nightlife and entertainment SPD’s top post, said Sunday
worker who lives a block district long a center of the in an appearance on Face the
away and withheld his last city’s LGBTQ and Nation. “We are going to
name for privacy, says counterculture communities, move in a different direction
“autonomous zone” is a the protest zone has been and policing will never be the
same,” she said, after
documentaries and dance in participating in a Black Lives
Matter march of 60,000
the streets. people in Seattle on Saturday “The U.S. now spends
that she said brought her an twice as much on social
The main purpose of “epiphany.” control as on social welfare,”
says Dr. Beckett.
CHOP, activists here say, is to Seattle has moved rapidly
to meet some protester
occupy the space in order to demands – temporarily Over the weekend,
banning the use of tear gas
imagine, debate, and except in life-threatening On the leafy streets of occupiers grouped in circles
situations, requiring police to Capitol Hill, the multiracial
experiment with a radically display name tags and wear community of protesters at the CHOP main
body cameras at protests, ranges from professionals
different relationship and withdrawing the with remote day jobs to laid- intersection discussed goals,
National Guard. off workers and homeless
between police and people. Activists have set up and then formed teams to
Experts in criminal justice tents for shelter and started
community. reform say that too often, a community garden in Cal handle different duties
police are called because Anderson Park. Donated
“It’s showing the world social workers or other food and medical supplies, ranging from security to
that having police breathing professionals are not including gloves, masks, and
down your neck all the time available, which Mayor hand-sanitizer to fend off the technology and
is not necessary,” says Black Durkan says must change. coronavirus, are distributed
Lives Matter organizer Mark from sidewalk stalls. communications. “Our long-
Henry Jr., standing in front of Everyone pitches in to pick
the boarded-up precinct up trash. term goal is to … make a
building, its sign altered with
gold spray paint to read: community center so we
Seattle People’s Department.
“This place will be a have a place we feel safe to
monument to social justice,
and a beacon of hope to the come to,” says Anthony Barr,
world that police reform is
not only possible, it is a laid-off Applebee’s server
necessary.”
and front-line protester.

“It seems to be a good At the same time,
protester representatives
place to live. I’m not going to are making headway in
regular talks with Seattle
be bothered by the cops,” officials led by Fire Chief
Scoggins, who they say has
says Ada, an out-of-work won their trust. This week,
they reached initial
Seattle’s protest zone has computer programmer who consensus on an option to
grabbed the national and ease access for residents,
international spotlight, with moved here from Dallas businesses, and emergency
sharp attacks from vehicles, while preserving
conservative critics including several weeks ago and has space for demonstrations
President Trump. On Sunday, and improving safety.
Mr. Trump depicted it as a been living out of her car.“It’s
“takeover of Seattle” by “far-
left militant groups.” On history in the making. It’s
Monday, he repeated threats
to crack down on the zone if cool,” she says, cooking a pan
Mayor Durkan and
Washington State Gov. Jay of beans and rice over a
Inslee do not.
camping stove set up in a red Sam Zimbabwe, director
of the Seattle Department of
wagon, “but also Transportation, told citizen
journalist Omari Salisbury
complicated.” the alterations are designed
so “the neighborhood can
Ms. Durkan, a former U.S. One complication, get back to co-existing with
attorney, has called the protesters say, involves the protests… this is Seattle
president’s description threats from white extremist values….we are all really
untruthful and his threats groups, such as Proud Boys; trying to find space
several men wearing “Proud
Boys” shirts showed up story continues on page 22
Monday. Protesters have kept
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elevated grilled chicken zests. To make the sauce the marinade penetrated came off the grill, we with mojo marinade. Seal bag, turn to
tastes like, order mojo more balanced and less deeper and more quickly. doused it with more mojo. 1/3 cup extra-virgin olive oil coat chicken, and refrigerate for at least
chicken from a Cuban bracing, we added pineapple We then started the an hour or up to 24 hours.
rotisserie. The simple but juice. The tropical chicken over low heat so When we took that first 6 garlic cloves, minced
lively combination of tart combination the fat rendered and the bites of the finished dish, we • For a charcoal grill: Open the bottom
citrus and sweet garlic is complemented the other chicken gently cooked knew we finally had this 1/3 cup pineapple juice vent completely. Light a large chimney
grilled perfection. flavors beautifully. through, and then we mojo working -- and that it starter filled with charcoal briquettes (6
moved it over a hot fire for would be a staple on our 1 tablespoon yellow mustard quarts).When the top coals are partially
However, try to replicate With the mojo on point, just a few minutes to crisp summertime cookout covered with ash, pour two-thirds of the
those flavors at home and we turned to the grill. First, the skin. For an extra hit of menus. 2 teaspoons grated orange zest plus 1/3 coals evenly over half of grill, then pour
you will realize that not we slashed the raw chicken cup juice remaining coals over the other half of
every mojo chicken recipe grill. Set the cooking grate in place, cover
is created equal. Mojo is 2 teaspoons lime zest plus 1/3 cup juice the grill, and open the lid vent
basically a supercharged (3 limes) completely. Heat the grill until hot, about
citrus vinaigrette. We set 5 minutes.
out to make one with 1 1/4 teaspoons ground cumin
balanced but bold citrus, • For a gas grill:Turn all burners to high,
garlic and herb flavors. 3/4 teaspoon dried oregano cover, and heat the grill until hot, about
15 minutes.Turn the primary burner to
One of the key Salt medium and turn other burner(s) to low.
ingredients -- sour oranges (Adjust the primary burner as needed to
-- are not readily available Pepper maintain a grill temperature between 400
outside of Florida, so we and 425 F.)
had to find a substitution. 2 tablespoons coarsely chopped fresh
We found it in a cilantro • Clean and oil the cooking grate. Divide
combination of fresh- reserved mojo sauce equally between
squeezed regular orange 1 tablespoon minced jalapeno chile two bowls. Remove chicken from zipper-
juice and lime juice, plus lock bag and place on the cooler side of
6 (10-ounce) chicken leg quarters, the grill, skin side up; discard marinade.
Nutrition News with Charlyn Fargo trimmed Cover and cook until the underside of
the chicken is lightly browned, about 15
High-Quality Carbohydrates • Heat oil and garlic in a small saucepan minutes. Using the first bowl of mojo,
over low heat, stirring often, until tiny baste chicken, then flip chicken and baste
Diabetes runs in many of proven lifestyle changes, (endosperm). called phytonutrients and bubbles appear and the garlic is fragrant the second side (use all of first bowl).
our families, mine included. such as losing weight if fiber. Fiber helps to slow and straw-colored, 3 to 5 minutes. Let Cover and continue to cook until leg-
That factor alone raises the you're overweight, eating Carbohydrates have long the digestion of sugars and cool for at least 5 minutes. thigh joint registers 165 F, about 15
risk for developing Type 2 healthier and getting been thought to be the starches, thus preventing minutes longer.
diabetes. regular physical activity. enemy of Type 2 diabetes. large spikes in blood sugar • Whisk pineapple juice, mustard, orange
But the study found the and insulin associated with zest and juice, lime zest and juice, cumin, • Slide chicken to the hotter side of the
(SET ITAL)type(END ITAL) diabetes, heart disease and oregano and 3/4 teaspoon pepper grill, keeping the skin side down, and
of carbohydrate matters. weight gain. together in medium bowl. Slowly whisk cook (covered if using gas) until skin is
in cooled garlic oil until emulsified. well browned, 3 to 5 minutes. Flip
The bottom line? Choose chicken and continue to cook until the
whole grains such as brown • Transfer half of the mojo mixture to a leg-thigh joint registers 175 F, about 3
rice, quinoa, whole wheat small bowl and stir in cilantro, jalapeno, 1 minutes longer.Transfer chicken to a
and whole-grain pasta over teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper; platter and spoon remaining mojo sauce
white bread, white rice, set aside mojo sauce. from the second bowl over top.Tent
pastries and sweetened with aluminum foil and let rest for 5
juices and beverages. • Whisk 1 tablespoon salt into the minutes. Serve.
remaining mojo mixture until dissolved.
Charlyn Fargo is a Transfer mojo marinade to a 1-gallon
registered dietitian with SIU zipper-lock bag.
Med School in Springfield, Ill.
For comments or questions, • Place chicken, skin side up, on a cutting
board and pat dry with paper towels.
contact her at Leaving drumsticks and thighs attached,
[email protected] or follow make four parallel diagonal slashes in
each piece of chicken: one across the
her on Twitter @Nutrition drumstick, one across the leg-thigh joint
Rd.To find out more about and two across the thigh (slashes should
reach bone). Flip chicken and make one
Charlyn Fargo and read more diagonal slash across back of each
features by other Creators
Other risk factors A simple switch to more Crunchy Farro Salad w/ Grilled
Syndicate writers and Chicken
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with a higher risk of type 2
older or have an immediate 200,000 people found that diabetes," wrote research 1 cup farro minutes.Add water, and bring to a boil
team leader Kim Braun 1 1/2 cups water over high heat. Reduce heat to maintain
relative with Type 2 eating high-quality from Erasmus University 1 1/4 pounds boneless, skinless chicken a simmer. Cover and cook until tender,
Medical Center and breast 15 to 17 minutes. Drain and rinse under
diabetes. If you are carbohydrates, such as Harvard T.H. Chan School 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon extra-virgin cold water until cool. Meanwhile, cut
of Public Health in his olive oil, divided chicken in half or thirds horizontally so
physically active less than whole grains, is associated abstract. "We looked at 1 1/4 teaspoon kosher salt, divided the pieces are no more than 1/2-inch
whether this effect is 5 tablespoons white wine vinegar thick. Brush with 1 tablespoon oil, and
three times a week, have with a lower risk for Type 2 different for high-quality 1 teaspoon crushed red pepper season with 1/4 teaspoon salt. Grill the
carbohydrates and low- 1/2 teaspoon ground pepper chicken, flipping once, until 165 degrees,
ever had gestational diabetes. The findings were quality carbohydrates, 1 large red bell pepper, coarsely chopped about 7 minutes total.Transfer the
which include refined 2 stalks celery, sliced, plus 1/2 cup chicken to a clean cutting board, and let
diabetes (diabetes during presented at the Nutrition grains, sugary foods and packed celery or parsley leaves, coarsely cool 5 minutes. Slice chicken.Whisk
potatoes." chopped vinegar, crushed red pepper and ground
pregnancy) or have given 2020 Live Online, a virtual 1/3 cup thinly sliced red onion pepper, and the remaining 1/4 cup oil
1/2 cup sliced almonds, toasted and 1 teaspoon salt in a large bowl.Add
birth to a baby who conference hosted by the • Preheat grill to medium-high.Toast bell pepper, celery, celery leaves, onion,
farro in a medium saucepan over farro and chicken; stir to combine. Just
weighed more than 9 American Society for medium-high heat, shaking the pan before serving, sprinkle with almonds.
occasionally, until very fragrant, 3 to 4 Serves 6 (1 cup each).
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Hispanic/Latino American, Whole grains contain three
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Get fit I always turn to nature in seeing how quickly they History
began to tower over us.
Continued from page 4 the spring and for me I Gardens can be a magical
place for children, allowing
first day when you still have always choose gardening. them to help in the planting
to reason with your kids and care teaches respect
that it's not quite t-shirt Gardening is a wonderful for nature and our Continued from page 20
and shorts weather and no, surroundings. They will
we are not filling up the Sometimes that Spring activity that can actually also be much more open to
pool! That first day when energy can send us into a eating the vegetables they
you feel Spring has finally surge of too much change bring so much into your life. grew and cared for. I highly together.” asked not to give his last
arrived and a new season all at one time, ultimately recommend involving your name, is moved by the crowd
has begun! setting us up for failure. Not only is it physically children in your garden Ron Amundson, a local and sidewalks spray painted
Find your balance. Ponder from a very young age and a property owner, said some with Black and white fists
Spring naturally brings a on what changes you would exerting, it can challenge book of inspiration is businesses are afraid to side by side. “You have
sense of "new". New life like to see at this time and "Roots, Shoots, Buckets and open, and voiced concern people of all races coming in
sprouting in plants and focus on one or two of the you mentally as well. Boots" By: Sharon Lovejoy. about fire and safety, as did and helping,” he says, as he
animals alike. New energy, most important areas in Magical moon gardens and some residents who no hands out donated Clif Bars.
new ideas, new plans and a your life that are seeking Placement of your bed, sunflower houses are just a longer sleep in the zone at “Some people don’t have
new sense of hope of what growth. Maybe it's new few of the suggestions that night. He urged the group to much money … maybe they
could be. Again, this is a attention to your nutrition, when to begin seeds, which my children have loved over decide quickly on a way only have two water bottles,
natural instinct all living, our diets should be lighter the years. forward. “We can all work they just want to give
breathing beings experience at this time, more salads seeds do you plant together here and turn this something, anything to the
and if we listen and act on and fresh greens, fruits and As I come to a close I ask into something good,” he cause. It’s a beautiful thing.”
this we continue to grow. nuts and a few grains. together, water distribution, you to remember to let go said. Police Chief Best has
We all need growth in our Lessening those heavier of the old habits that are said that while response Back on the barricade,
life, however, the areas in comfort foods that we how to tackle weeds, you are seeking change in. times are increased, officers John recalls his feeling the
which we need to grow is crave in the winter months. There is no room for the would respond to important night the police left, after
not the same for each of us Maybe it's new attention to keeping out critters....the new and old to coexist. emergency calls in the zone. more than a week of tension.
or even for the same time exercise and finding a new Most of all I encourage you “They hopped on their bikes
throughout our lives. way of staying active both list goes on and on. to take time for yourself, Some businesses are and rode up the street and
How many times have you mentally and physically. give yourself grace, hold thriving as people crowd the disappeared,” he says. “I
tried to start something Begin a new exercise However, with all of that those you love the most area. “Honestly I do feel never thought the police
new and it just would not routine, take a daily walk, close to you and be present safer” since the police left, would do that.” The next
work out for whatever start a garden! Maybe it's comes much mental clarity in your every day. Thank says Kohl Travis, host at night, “we finally had the
reason. As discouraging as new attention to self- you for taking the time to Momiji, a Japanese restaurant square and set up the PA, and
this is, it simply could be awareness or self- as well. Being among plant read and share this space across the street from the lots of people who had had
that the timing in your life expression. Finding ways to with me. I wish you many abandoned precinct building. their voices silenced for
was just not right for that express your creativity, life and playing in the dirt blessings in this New Year “It’s definitely a less hostile generations had a chance to
change to progress. whether that be through full of peace, love and environment.” get up in front of the crowd.
art, music, baking, writing, actually improves your happiness. It was the people’s mic,” he
singing, crafting, etc. Surveying the scene from says. “It was a remarkable
Whatever speaks true to mood and releases the “No Cop Co-op” on East turn of events.That felt like a
you. Pine Street – where “Black victory to me.”
endorphins. Many people Lives Matter” is written in
huge, colorful letters – Brian, By Ann Scott Tyson
refer to their gardens as a health care worker who

their happy place, or place

of Zen, and I couldn't agree

more. My garden begins

new each year. It's a new

form of self expression as

my focus changes. Last

year I grew Mammoth

Sunflowers...everywhere!

They brightened my day

and added a natural barrier

wall to an area that was

under construction in my

neighborhood that was a

bit of an eye sore at the

time. My kids loved

watching them grow and

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Uber and under:
Why gig workers are struggling in pandemic

Until about 10 years ago, alone, is a sign of how It’s an arrangement that
Cat Thomson owned a precarious these jobs are.Yet has attracted many
flower shop in Boston’s to some observers, the Americans, and not always
perennially up-and-coming upheaval also represents an out of financial desperation.
Jamaica Plain neighborhood, opportunity to carve a path In 2018, according to Gallup,
before it succumbed to the toward a more humane gig 36% percent of U.S. workers
economic distress of the economy. had some kind of
Great Recession. arrangement in the gig
“This is one of those economy. Separate surveys Arnashia McCain uses her phone to copy phone numbers posted on the locked doors of a Georgia
Today, Ms. Thomson is still moments where we have this have found that about 10% Department of Labor office last month. Ms. McCain, who says she drives for Lyft and has had her hours
her own boss, in a sense. She very dramatic fork in the to 13% of workers, like Ms. cut in her job in retail, had been unable to check on the status of her unemployment claim. Photo: John
drives a Lyft, or at least she road,” says Bama Athreya, an Thomson, rely on gig work
did until the pandemic economic inequality fellow for their primary income. Bazemore/AP
struck. with Open Society
Foundations and the host of “To me, it’s been well
Now, even as the economy “The Gig,” a new podcast worth what I’m doing for the
begins a spasmodic about gig workers.“We need pay that I’ve been getting,”
reopening from coronavirus to redefine work in a way says Ms. Thomson, who also
restrictions, Ms. Thomson that gives people decent paints and DJs. “It’s fun for
worries that her livelihood lives.And the money is there me. I actually weirdly enjoy
will be undercut again, as to do that.” driving in Boston.”
hard times produce a
shortage of riders and a glut While unique in its Some describe it as “a tale Penna. But the positives, he flexibility and autonomy that its limits, because Lyft’s
of drivers. particulars, the arc of Ms. of two gig economies.” says, are manifold. For one gig work has long offered. pricing changes according to
Thomson’s working life so Gallup polling has revealed a thing, he picked up a 10- No longer physically supply and demand. “You’d
“People will be financially far – from an English degree sharp divide between episode virtual performance tethered to their be foolish not to drive at
strapped in general and will at Macalester College in “independent” gig workers with the city of Novato, workplaces, workers are certain times of day or
be taking fewer Lyfts,” she Minnesota to small-business who experience high levels California. getting a taste of the “be certain days of the week,
says.“Wages will probably go owner to salaried employee of autonomy and job your own boss” mentality because [if you didn't] you’d
down because when there to gig worker – mirrors the satisfaction and “contingent” “I now have a YouTube that first dazzled observers be paid only half as much. But
are more drivers, there is trajectory of much of the workers, the temps and on- channel,” he says. “I now when apps like Uber that’s no different than any
more competition for the American labor experience call workers who are forced know how to use iMovie.” emerged following the 2008 other business.”
work.” since 2008. During the Great into unpredictable hours, crash.
Recession and the fitful receive little feedback, and More important, like many These algorithms have the
Stuck at home since recovery that followed, some are afforded scant Americans afforded with the But much of this flexibility effect of squeezing drivers, as
March, Ms. Thomson is workers prospered while opportunities for creative ability to stay home during is illusory, says Dr. Athreya, tech platforms compete for
surviving on unemployment others saw only slow gains in expression. the pandemic, Mr. Della and it represents part of a riders. For instance, a
plus an extra weekly $600 pay and others found little Penna has used the time to larger historical trend in the JPMorgan Chase Institute
offered by the CARES Act, job security at all. By 2016, Mike Della Penna, a San deepen his skills. United States. “This is not study found that, as the
the federal government’s the Federal Reserve Board Francisco-area children’s new,” she says. “There have supply of Uber and Lyft
largest response so far to reported that nearly half of entertainer who performs as “It’s made me come up been a variety of drivers has expanded, their
the coronavirus. Those Americans said they had less Mike the Magician, falls with new routines and new technologies over the past average monthly earnings
payments are set to stop on than $400 on hand for an decidedly into the former material,” he says. “It’s made few decades to fragment dropped from $1,469 in
July 25, after which, she says, emergency. category. A full-time me go into my closet and work and make it ever more 2013 to just $783 in 2017.
“all bets are off.” elementary school teacher, read my magic books. I feel short-term.”
If the recovery from the Mr. Della Penna relies on like I’m going to come out “They don’t have control
It’s a challenge faced by past economic crash is any magic shows, which he the other side of this Dr. Athreya agrees that over when they drive, over
throngs of U.S. workers, and sign, it’s likely that many of performs in preschools, knowing my craft.” flexible labor has its role in who they drive, and how
one hitting especially hard in the jobs, when they return, libraries, and other venues, the economy. “There’s much they get for that
the arena of gig or will at least initially be more for about a quarter of his Ms.Thomson, for her part, nothing wrong with drive,” says Dr. Athreya.
“contingent” work, which precarious than the ones family’s income. has been spending more nonstandard employment,”
lacks the steady paychecks they replace. time painting, which she now she says.“The problem is not
and benefits of traditional This translates into a says she can do without that everyone needs to be a
full-time jobs. Gig work, of course, is significant financial hit from feeling guilty that she’s not full-time, formal employee. Now, for Ms.Thomson and
the pandemic for Mr. Della out driving. The problem is with
Thanks to the CARES Act, nothing new. Capitalist Penna, his wife, and their 10- precarious work.” many other gig workers, the
for the first time year-old son. He says that he Those experiences reflect
unemployment assistance is economies have long fielded was able to convert only a wider trend. For many Ms. Thomson understands bigger question is whether
available for the self- about a fifth of his magic white-collar workers, the that Lyft’s oft-touted
employed and gig workers a reserve army of laborers, shows into virtual ones. pandemic has offered a flexibility for its drivers has job opportunities will revive
like Ms. Thomson. As of May, glimpse of the kind of
a stunning 11 million from performing artists to “That’s the negative, losing before unemployment
workers were receiving or all that work,” says Mr. Della
awaiting these special office temps to benefits run out.
Pandemic Unemployment
Assistance benefits. housecleaners to adjunct By Eoin O’Carroll

On Friday, the Labor professors, who can come
Department reported that
the official U.S. and go as demand waxes and
unemployment rate declined
in May, as steps toward wanes. Moreover, the
economic reopening allowed
many businesses to rehire. flexibility of nonstandard
But the jobless rate remains
at a level not seen since the hours has always held an $28 Eye
Great Depression: 13.3%, or Exam
actually 16.4% if people attraction for some workers.
“employed but not working”
are properly counted among What is relatively new,
those unemployed.
however, is the smartphone,
The magnitude of the
problem, for gig workers and the companies that

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