Smart Reader September 23, 2021

September 23, 2021
Volume 19 - #19

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We can’t change the weather, but
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After a life of growing up in Kenosha, Jake Hoey went west and important was to fill the gap in weather information here in Kenosha.
graduated from the University of Oklahoma where he said that, We obviously sit between two large cities that each have many
“The School of Meteorology there is widely seen as one of the best sources of weather information that include us, but they do tend to
in the country and it houses the National Weather Center on focus more on their own weather.”
campus.”
Now, you can find Jake’s 7-day forecast every Thursday on his
During his time in Oklahoma, Jake and his colleagues chased after Facebook page, as well as updating posts whenever it looks like a
dozens of storms in the area. But he hung up his storm-chasing days storm or other weather event is on the horizon.
when he returned to Kenosha after graduation in 2013, but not his
love for looking at the skies and predicting what will come. In the past eight years since launching his page, freelance
meteorologist Jake Hoey, aka Jake the Weather Guy, has been building
In October 2013 Jake started his Facebook weather page titled, a strong following with his insightful weather forecasts - specific to
Jake’s Kenosha Area Weather Page. “I had several goals in mind,” he our area, and we were lucky to have him join us for this exclusive
said in a previous interview with The Smart Reader. “The most Q&A.

Q. After reading the new since weather records began, compared to lower likelihood of stratospheric
climate study published in how far back do they go? latitudes.  So it does stand to
the Journal Science should reason that our warming polar vortex breakdown. 
we have serious concerns?  A.  Yes, the July average climate is leading to
global surface temperature decreased polar vortex This is due to a decrease in
A. Climate change broke the previous monthly stability, however "across the
continues to be one of the record by 0.1°C.  The board" warming is less of the temperature gradient
most pressing issues that previous record was a three culprit than faster arctic
humanity is facing in the 21st way tie between 2016,2019, warming.  So the global between arctic and sub-
century.  This study and 2020.  Since July is annual average surface
describes some specific Earth's hottest month, this temperature can't really tell arctic regions because of
consequences for the makes July 2021 the hottest us if that factor specifically is
European continent, namely month on record, globally.  happening more so this year faster warming in the arctic. 
worsening drought.  This is a The record dates back to than in years past. 
great concern given the 1880 which is 142 years of So we can't say that there
impact drought has on data. Q. We hear of these 100
society and the economy.  year storms or events that will be more events like the
So, yes, this is a concerning Q. In your opinion could now seem to happen with
study for us and another this go down as the warmest regularity, just what is the one in Texas, but the
example of the wide- year ever? definition of a 100 year
reaching effects of climate storm?  opportunity for them seems
change. A.  The global surface
temperature anomaly for A.  The phrase "100 year to be increasing.  Yes, the
Q. What about the 2021 is expected to end up storm" is an attempt to
drought we are experiencing in the top 10 hottest year on contextualize the probability Texas cold event was a result
in our country in the west record.  Unless there is a of a weather event.  It means
and southwest, is that very hot 2021 finale for the there is a 1% (or 1 in 100) of a stretched polar vortex. 
showing any signs of abating? planet, this will probably not chance of that event
end up contending for the happening in a given year.  So The vortex is often poorly
A. Over the past month hottest year on record given it is possible that two "100
there has been some limited the relatively cooler (though year storms" can happen in understood outside of
improvement in some still above normal) winter the same year or even the
locations.  Utah, the Las months that began the year. same week.  It is just a very academia and it doesn't so
Vegas area, and the Four unlikely occurrence. 
Corners have seen a slight Q.   If the year 2021 much move and "come down Whether it’s sunshine or snowstorms, Jake ‘The
decrease in drought finishes as one of the 10 Q.  Do you think the cold Weather Guy’ Hoey is ready to take on the day
classification, but still remain hottest years on record and spell that happened in Texas here" so to speak.  Really
in a quite major drought.  based on this climate study was an aberration or
Most of California, Oregon, issued earlier this month in possibly the beginning of a what happens is the
and Washington have seen the journal Science, should trend? In your opinion, is this
little change.  Parts of Idaho that give us even further recent climate study boundary becomes more
and Montana have exhibited concern for an increased risk published in the journal
some worsening of the for extreme winter weather Science correct in their wavy and those waves are
drought so the overall and prolonged cold spells in assumptions that a warming
west/southwest region has the Midwest? Arctic and a stretched better able to stretch farther events such as tornados here Niño-Southern Oscillation
very similar drought vortex was responsible for in the months and years to (ENSO).  The current ENSO
conditions compared to a A. As the study shows, the prolonged deadly Texas south and cause intrusions of come? phase is neutral (neither El
month ago.  The longer term there is a link between cold spell?  Niño nor La Niña). 
trend, since early summer, temperature gradient in the arctic air in mid latitudes.  A. Air of a higher However the Climate
has been for improvement in arctic and the stability of the A. The winter storm and temperature is able to hold Prediction Center currently
the south (Arizona and New polar vortex.  This means record cold temperatures of Events like this have been more moisture.  Moisture is predicts a 70 to 80% chance
Mexico) and worsening in that the rate of arctic last February in Texas was a key component for severe of La Niña forming for this
the north (Oregon, warming compared to the certainly an extreme and happening for centuries but, weather formation so, coming winter.  As such, their
Washington, Idaho, and rate of sub-arctic warming is unusual weather event.  By broadly speaking, hotter outlook favors the
Montana). very important for our the very nature of extreme as the study shows, they temperatures are more opportunity for above
winter weather here.  Both weather, these events are not conducive for severe normal precipitation in this
Q.We have been told that locations are warming, this anticipated with high could be increasing in weather formation.  This is region.  The signal for
July 2021 has been recorded we know, but the most frequency, however the study particularly impactful when temperature is less strong
as the hottest month ever, troubling aspect is the faster does highlight the increased frequency due to climate the hotter air is in the lower and currently they are
rate of warming in the arctic atmosphere (troposphere) showing slightly above
change. and near the surface.  We normal temperatures here. 
can't just say that there will So there is evidence that this
Q. Could Texas be in store be more tornadoes here could be a snowy winter for
for more extreme weather because of climate change, the Kenosha area, but
events such as the prolonged but hotter surface air warmer temperatures could
cols spell? temperatures could aid in be a factor as well.
longer storm seasons and
A. Given the current more opportunity for By Frank Carmichael
observed rate of climate tornado formation among For more weather-related
change and the limited global many other consequences.  
response in decreasing stories, see page 4
carbon emissions, it appears
likely that the consequences Q. This winter, what does Jake Hoey joins
of climate change will the long range forecast look Happenings Q&A on
continue to be felt for like for our area here in
decades to come.  It's Southeastern Wisconsin? Mon. Oct. 4th at
impossible to say that that 12:30 on AM1050 WLIP.
exact weather phenomenon, A.A common tool used to
the extreme cold in Texas produce seasonal outlooks,
last winter, will repeat itself.  especially for winters in
However, extreme weather North America, is the  El
of its ilk could very well
recur and we will be left to
deal with the repercussions.  

Q.   Closer to home, here
in Southeastern Wisconsin
could we possibly see an
uptick in severe weather

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Vaccine mandates: How sincere is a
‘sincerely held belief’?

Over the past year, a

significant number of

American workers on both

the right and left have

expressed political

objections to getting a

vaccine.

Many have appealed to
ideas of individual freedom,
personal choice, and the
integrity of their bodies, or
concerns over the safety of
the COVID-19 vaccines that
were developed and tested
in a relatively short amount
of time.

But as new state and People rally at a demonstration against COVID-19 vaccination
federal mandates begin to mandates on August 25, 2021 in New York
require vaccination as a
necessary condition for created a surge in caseload religious and ethical ethical or moral objections, instead for a “carrot” cases began to surge.
workplace safety, many U.S. this summer, overwhelming a objection and a political and approach, encouraging their
employers have been number of hospitals in states policy objection will get but not to policy or political employees to get inoculated In an August poll of nearly
receiving a growing number with lower rates of really fuzzy really quickly, and by offering in some cases up 1,000 U.S. businesses
of requests from employees vaccination, many employers that’s going to put employers objections,” Professor to $500 in bonuses or extra employing some 10 million
seeking exemptions based have felt caught between in a very difficult position,” hours of pay. workers, the consultant
on their religious objections. two legally fraught says Jamie Prenkert, Prenkert says. “But Willis Towers Watson found
obligations: providing a safe professor of business law at But even before President that over half of those
Such requests have a long workplace while at the same Indiana University’s Kelley depending on how people Joe Biden announced his surveyed said they would
and sometimes contentious time evaluating employees’ School of Business in controversial plan to put in place some sort of
history in American requests to opt out of Bloomington. voice those objections, that institute a sweeping vaccine vaccine mandate over the
workplaces.Yet the country’s getting a vaccine for religious mandate affecting some 100 next few months – more
robust civil rights traditions reasons. “The courts have been becomes a very difficult line million American workers, than doubling the 21% of
have generally given workers pretty clear that the many employers began to businesses that were already
with “sincerely held religious “This is an area where the religious exemption process to draw.” take a harder line, putting in mandating vaccines.
beliefs” a lot of leeway, so distinction between a can apply to non-theistic place their own mandates as
long as the accommodations For most of this year, most see VACCINE on page 8
they seek to exercise their businesses have hesitated to
faith freely do not cost mandate vaccines. Facing
employers more than a worker shortages and a
minimal expense. maelstrom of political
controversies during the
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Study links polar vortex disruption with
extreme winter weather

contribute to more severe Northern Europe and the
winter weather with those Ural Mountains and low
arguing for and against," pressure air masses atop
lead study author Judah East Asia becomes
Cohen said in a press amplified.
release.
When atmospheric waves
"However, studies fueled by this contrast
bounce off the polar vortex,
supporting or refuting the they get absorbed by the
atmosphere above eastern
physical connection North America, increasing
the odds of extreme winter
between climate change and weather.

the Texas cold wave and

other recent US severe

winter weather events don't

exist, until now. The study "The synthesis of both

also provides cautionary observational analysis and

evidence that a warming computer model

planet will not necessarily experiments is a particular

protect us from the strength of this study and

devastating impacts of greatly increases our

severe winter weather," said confidence in the results,"

Several studies have cold-spells in North satellite imaging, the shape allowed frigid air to stall Cohen, director of seasonal said study co-author
revealed a link between America. of the stratospheric polar atop Texas, leading to a
global warming and vortex has become less deadly cold-spell. forecasting at Atmospheric Mathew Barlow.
extreme weather, but it's stable over the last 40
not just hurricanes, Typically, the years. While Texas was and Environmental "The dynamical pathway
heatwaves and droughts registering record lows, the explored here -- from
that are growing in strength stratospheric polar vortex With its structure Arctic winter was warmer Research. surface climate change in
and severity. destabilized by the northern than any previous winter on the Arctic up to the polar
holds a tight circular hemisphere's diminished record. Additionally, Arctic Previous studies have stratosphere and then back
According to a new study, temperature gradient, the sea ice extent hit a record mostly blamed extreme down to the surface in the
published in the journal pattern, keeping cold air vortex has become more low. Many parts of Europe winter weather on a waiver US -- highlights one
Science, rising temperatures easily disrupted and and Asia also experienced in the jet stream, but the example of the wide range
in the Arctic and subsequent trapped above the Arctic. stretched, allowing cold air record cold temperatures. latest research suggests a of impacts that climate
disruptions to the polar move southward across the stretched polar vortex is change can have," said
vortex have increased the The vortex's structure is eastern North America. "Last winter the severe more closely linked with Barlow, a professor of
risk of extreme winter cold wave across Texas extreme weather. atmospheric sciences at the
weather and prolonged stabilized by the Last winter, a warming heated up the debate as to University of Massachusetts,
Arctic and stretched vortex whether climate change can Lowell.
temperature difference

between polar air and the

more temperate air to the

south. When the polar vortex
becomes stretched, the
The Arctic is warming contrast between high
faster than the rest of the pressure air above
planet, and according to

Climate change expected to intensify
summertime droughts across Europe

The planet is getting Because they can have so
hotter, that's for certain, but
studies suggest large many different impacts --
portions of the planet are
also getting variably wetter economic, social and
and drier.
environmental -- there are

various definitions of

drought. However, all

Over the last few droughts, whether
decades, intense droughts
have stressed water hydrological, agricultural or
resources across the planet.
Now, new findings -- socio-economic, begin as
published Tuesday in the
journal Frontiers in Water - meteorological droughts.
- suggest Europe is likely to
experience longer more The latest climate models
frequent droughts in the suggest precipitation levels
decades ahead. across Europe are likely to
decrease during the
summer and increase during
the winter through the end
of the century.

"Summer droughts are a Throughout Europe's

highly relevant topic in middle latitudes,

Europe," study co-first summertime drought

author Magdalena conditions are predicted to

Mittermeier said in a press increase by 25 percent. In

release. France, the frequency of

"We find a clear trend extreme droughts is

towards more, longer and expected to increase by 60

more intense summer percent by 2100.

droughts, in terms of a In places that are already For the study, scientists under a high-emission change ... will drastically mitigation. This is why
dry, such as the Iberian used historical averages to carbon scenario. consistent mitigation of
precipitation deficit, Peninsula, small decreases in calculate the normal range increase the frequency, climate change as agreed on
summertime precipitation of precipitation for different The analysis revealed the under the Paris Agreement
towards the end of the could have oversized parts of Europe. Then, using largest differences in duration and intensity of is highly relevant in terms of
consequences, leading to the most up-to-date climate France, the Alps, the droughts in Europe,"
century under a high- extreme drought conditions model, scientists simulated Mediterranean and the summer droughts in many Mittermeier said.
across large portions of the future precipitation totals Iberian Peninsula.'
emission carbon scenario," Mediterranean. European regions,"
"Unmitigated climate
said Mittermeier, climate Mittermeier said.

scientist at Ludwig- "Such extreme effects can
be avoided by climate
Maximilians-University

Munich in Germany.

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18th-century suicides highlight struggles of
growing old in Georgian England

Growing old has never
been easy, but new research
suggests that for many the
prospects of old age in
Georgian England were
especially grim.

Suicides in 18th century

England are mostly

characterized as

"medicalized" in the

historiography -- acts driven

by lunacy.

However, a new survey of
suicidal deaths among the
elderly suggests those dying
by suicide considered the act
a rational response to the
hardships of growing old.

For the study, published historian at the University of or the inability to maintain working." Hendley feared was driven to depression by confusion and behavior
this month in the journal Cambridge. employment. Well into the infirmities would leave him a series of debilitating changes are now well-known
Social History of Medicine, 19th century, the vast unable to perform his duties illnesses. Upon his death, he signs of dementia, there was
scientists examined 106 Many of the challenges majority of men performed as a shoemaker. left his apothecary 1,000 far less understanding and
coroners' inquests into the facing the elderly in jobs that required strength pounds -- worth just under support available in the
suicides of older people, the Georgian England remain and dexterity. Though most of the $1,400 in 2021 -- for their 1700s," Sbaraini said.
records of which were issues for older people subjects of the surveyed efforts to relief his suffering.
recently uncovered archives today. For example, one man in coroners' inquiries were
from London, Kent, his 60s, Isaac Hendley, a laborers of moderate means,
Cumbria, Essex, Suffolk and shoemaker who died by researchers found examples
Bath. suicide in Shoreditch in of suicide among members
1797, expressed "his of the aristocracy.
Though coroners' juries apprehension that he should "For independent,
issued a formal verdict of come to want" and "that he One gentleman, Thomas
non compos mentis, or "The tragic experiences of should be incapable of Norman, who died by Another well-to-do respected people to lose
insanity, in 97 percent of many older people in the suicide in London in 1771,
suicides, a closer look at the 1700s emphasize the gentleman, John Braithwaite, their grip on the behaviors
depositions from each importance of health and
inquiry -- which often social care today, but also who died by suicide in expected by their
included extensive details the power of community,"
about each victim, provided Sbaraini said. Cumbria in 1803, became community, including
by close acquaintances --
showed those dying by frustrated by memory-loss politeness and self-control,
suicide rarely thought of
themselves as mentally ill. and confusion. must have been extremely

"While memory loss, distressing," Sbaraini said.

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financial problems," study make sure older people feel
author Ella Sbaraini said in a a strong sense of purpose
press release. and a valued part of society,"
Sbaraini said.

"Many showed great Of the 106 suicides
determination to seek out investigated by researchers,
help but they lived at a time three-quarters were carried
when the kind of support out by men.
now available just wasn't
there," said Sbaraini, a Many of coroners'

inquiries referenced

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looks increasingly like hate honoring them by wearing individuals who are renewed library books, or herself (and pick your and the nation.
is winning. the colors of the American members of a union that
flag be “racially insensitive”? must be preserved. We live they expire. The rights of preferred gender Increasingly in public
The latest among many in fear of offending anyone schools and many
examples is what happened Just when you think the and being tarred with Man, endowed by a pronoun), even when they universities, students are
at Eastlake High School in country has reached the indelible stains of various - taught about America’s past
Washington State. Students limits of insanity comes isms and -phobias.Who can Creator from Whom are contradictory. Personal faults, as if this is the prism
had planned a tribute to more evidence that we safely describe what through which all of us
victims of the 9/11 have gone bonkers. America means? Can comes the law, personal peace and happiness are must see a country we
terrorist attacks on anyone agree to a were once taught to love.
America. They intended to In a recent column, definition, or would they responsibility, and now the highest goals, not
wear red, white and blue to Victor David Hanson fear being attacked by Read the lyrics to Frank
a football game. When a asked, “Does America Still others who have different accountability, were self- the general welfare. Sinatra’s patriotic song,
single unnamed staffer Work?” ideas? “The House I Live In.” He
complained, saying the evident to the Founders. sings about “What America
“For nearly two years,” If you were asked what means to me.” What does
he writes, “Americans have America means to you While there were There are consequences America mean to us today?
to embracing such beliefs
energetic debates about and we are seeing them You’ve got to be taught
played out today. to love America, or we risk
how to preserve them for Government grows in size losing it.
and cost. Taxpayers who
themselves and bequeath earn money are going to be
told by Democrats to pay
such values to their even more to subsidize
ineffective government
posterity, there was no programs and the
unproductive. Prosperity is
doubt they existed for to be penalized when it

them and for all time.

Today’s cancel culture and

political correctness argue

against the existence of

objective truth. The

individual now gets to set

America is more united

against COVID than

you’re being told; the

tide is turning

with Mary Sanchez

Most Americans are fundraising email.
turning toward the vaccine,
not away from it. Meanwhile, others

cheered that Biden had

President Joe Biden has finally shown a flicker of
the wind of facts at his back.
spunk in pushing back

This, despite boastful against naysayers with a the life-affirming news portion of the population. More people are
voices claiming otherwise. released by the US Centers choosing to be vaccinated.
flippant, “have at it” for Disease Control and And those conservative They’re doing so, some
Prevention came two days politicians who are counting willingly and eager, others
“To the gates of hell,” was following his mandate of the after Biden announced his on an anti-science stance to less so.
the fire-breathing promise mandate plans. carry them through a
of Gov. Henry McMaster of vaccine for some work primary challenge, they’re
South Carolina. His More than 53% of the increasingly out-of-step
scolding, the proposed sectors; federal employees, Readers can reach Mary U.S. population is fully with a majority of the
scorching, was to declare Sanchez at vaccinated. At least 26 population.
how far he’d wage battle health care workers and states have already reached
against Democrats and [email protected] that status too; having more One more point: Those
President Joe Biden rather those who are employed by and follow her on Twitter than half of their population figures — 53.7% of This speaks to norms and
than see the government @msanchezcolumn. vaccinated. Americans and 73.7 percent
press for workers to get companies of more than — are even higher as you the social science around
vaccinated against COVID- Mary Sanchez joins And here’s the really are reading this. The
19 and its variants. 100. Biden’s plan could Happenings Q&A on telling statistic, the one that numbers were as of Sept. human behavior. People can
Mon. Oct. 4th at 1:30 should be blasted in 11.
affect 100 million workers newscasts — 73.7% have be influenced by what
on AM1050 WLIP. received at least one dose Let’s step back from
and relies on emergency of the vaccine. hyperpartisan attention, others are doing, especially
least one shot of the from pitting Democrat
provisions in the vaccine. The tide is turning. Anti- against Republican and the if they are being given
vaxxers are firmly in the vaccinated against those
Occupational Safety and And most had already minority. The hesitant, the who are not, and needless accurate and positive
gotten the shot before questioning, those who crass commentary about
Health Act of 1970, the Biden threw down a wanted to wait until the those who needed the information about what’s
gauntlet. vaccine received full reassurance of the FDA
threat of withholding approval by FDA, they too, approval. occurring. Higher
These facts are largely are increasingly a smaller
federal funds and lost amid the tit-for-tat, and vaccination rates will
frankly, how some media
Another screed that requirements for federal frame vaccine hesitancy. But translate to fewer deaths,
found plenty of media time,
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, workers and contractors. fewer hospitalizations and
proponent of an anti-mask
order. He wrote, “Joe Biden Beyond simply being our schools and businesses
has declared war on generally more gracious
constitutional government, than his critics, it’s possible remaining open and
the rule of law, and the jobs that Biden is also banking
and livelihoods of millions on data. functioning, for the benefit
of Americans.”
of all.

DeSantis’ false We’re getting far closer The American public has
to having at least 75% of the already demonstrated
contention was part of a eligible North American broad support for the
public having received at vaccine. Let’s celebrate that
fact.And keep those vaccine
doses coming.

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Vaccine

continued from page 3

“These new federal previous emergency orders,

requirements will now give observers say officials were

employers some cover,” says becoming concerned over

Sharona Hoffman, a the significant rise in the

professor of law and number of health care

bioethics at Case Western employees submitting

Reserve University in Ohio. applications to opt out of

“They won’t have to come the state’s vaccine mandates

up with some independent for religious reasons.

policy that they have to A federal judge blocked
figure out and then struggle New York’s mandate this
to put in place.”
month, however, after a

Religious exemption number of doctors, nurses,

requests on rise and other health care

At the same time, workers, each of whom New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at an event in Harlem on Aug. 26, 2021.
however, many employers, wished to remain Governor Hochul vowed to fight a lawsuit launched by a group of Christian
both private and public, have anonymous, sued the state health care practitioners who argue that New York's vaccine mandate is
struggled with the number of for violating state and federal unconstitutional because it lacks a religious exemption.
religious exemptions they protections against religious
are starting to receive as discrimination.

more employees begin to The plaintiffs are

explore how to apply. “imminently at risk of questions, and there might publisher of the Monitor, please explain that belief to products that also used fetal
professional destruction, loss said: “For more than a me and sign it.’” cells in their development,
“This topic is challenging of livelihood and reduction be an issue if an employer century, our denomination including products such as
to second-class citizenship has counseled respect for Some employers had ibuprofen, Tylenol, Pepto-
for the individuals charged because they cannot in does have a specific reason public health authorities and begun to take a harder line Bismol, and Tums.
conscience, given their conscientious obedience to with their employees, even
with sorting through and sincere religious beliefs, to question whether a the laws of the land, including before the Biden
consent to be injected with those requiring vaccination. administration’s mandate.
approving or denying the vaccines that were tested, particular employee’s ...We see this as a matter of
developed or produced with basic Golden Rule ethics and Earlier this month, United
religious exemption cell lines” from fetuses, objection is based on a New Testament love.” Airlines told employees that “I truthfully acknowledge
wrote The Thomas More those receiving religious and affirm that my sincerely
requests,” says Richard Society, which helped the sincere religious belief or a Beliefs of an individual, not exemptions from the held religious belief is
plaintiffs bring their case, in a a denomination company’s mandate would consistent and true and I do
Tarpey, assistant professor of memorandum to the court. political belief.” be placed on unpaid not use or will use any of the
But America’s civil rights personal leave starting on medications listed …” the
management at Middle Officially, most religious traditions specifically focus Oct. 2. Those employees attestation form states.
groups have supported on the religious beliefs of an would be allowed to come
Tennessee State University’s vaccines, and a number of individual. Although some back to work, the company
prominent Evangelicals and leaders have been offering to said, after it figured out how
Jones College of Business.“It outspoken opponents of supply employees with a to put into place appropriate
abortion have urged their religious version of a testing and safety measures.
seems apparent that some followers to get the vaccine. “doctor’s note,” these are
“I will take it not only for not necessary, Ms.Todd says. Employers are starting to
workers who have not held a what I hope will be the good consider health coverage “We thought it was
of my own health, but for Indeed, the U.S. Equal surcharges for those prudent just to try to get
religious belief against a others as well,” wrote Al Employment Opportunity employees who refuse to be some clarification with staff,
Mohler, president of the Commission makes that vaccinated, even if for so the staff understood what
vaccine in the past now may Southern Baptist Theological clear. “An employee’s belief religious reasons, a tactic they were committing to,”
Seminary, on his website. or practice can be ‘religious’ more firms are starting to Conway’s CEO Matt Troup
claim to hold one.” Religious opponents to ... even if the employee is review as one alternative to told KATV in Little Rock.
affiliated with a religious a mandate, writes Wade “This isn’t an attempt to try
A number of evangelical vaccine mandates have group that does not espouse Symons, an employment to shame people in any way.
pastors and Republican or recognize that individual’s benefits attorney with the It is to make sure that they
lawmakers have urged their begun to coalesce around belief or practice, or if few – human resources firm understand just how
followers to claim a religious or no – other people adhere Mercer. ubiquitous these fetal cell
exemption in response to the politically contentious to it, explains the EEOC. lines are.”
vaccine mandates in the Last month, Delta Airlines
workplace, some offering to issue of abortion when But employers may still was among the first to
write letters to employers ask employees to explain announce it would be adding
to support their religious explaining their reasons for their religious beliefs in a $200-a-month health
claims. Conservative legal writing, says Bob Nichols, co- insurance surcharge for
groups have already filed seeking exemptions, head of the labor & employees who refused to
legal challenges to those
denying such requests. observers say. Pope Francis has called
getting a vaccine “a simple
For businesses, but profound way of While such tactics might
questioning the sincerity of promoting the common
an employee’s religious belief good and caring for each exacerbate workplace
is both legally and practically other, especially the most
fraught, employment experts vulnerable,” and the U.S. tensions, Professor Tarpey at
say. Conference of Catholic
Bishops has proclaimed that Middle Tennessee State
Last month, when New “Generally speaking, when getting vaccinated “ought to
York health officials it comes to religious be understood as an act of University says “employees
approved a sweeping new accommodations, employers charity toward the other
vaccine mandate covering do need to take employees members of our who have a sincere religious
most of the state’s health at their word,” says Erika community.”
care workers, it also decided Todd, an employment belief against a vaccine
to eliminate religious attorney at Sullivan &
exemptions. Even though Worcester in Boston.“There should be able to articulate
such exemptions had been can be some amount of
included in the state’s room to ask some follow up the belief and how getting

the vaccine will specifically

violate the belief offered.”

In a public statement on “Ultimately, these issues
the issue, The First Church will most likely end up in the
of Christ, Scientist, the courts, considering the
polarized nature of the
employment practice in the get a vaccine. various state laws that exist
... and the forthcoming
Ullman absurdum lengths. The tragedy is that Houston office of Bracewell Some companies, too, have [Biden administration]
there does not appear any way out of this LLC. been aggressive in testing the vaccine requirement,” he
continued from page 6 vicious spiral of discontent and sincerity of their employees’ says.“Employers will need to
disagreement. “You could ask them to religious beliefs. Conway balance the many needs of
wear a mask trumps the public good? write you an attestation or Regional Health System, a the organization, especially
Perhaps age brings certain an explanation that they have during tight labor market
times. Customer and co-
Ttest this logic a bit further. On that reservations. But the actions of the Texas this sincerely held religious health care provider in worker protection will need
to be balanced against having
basis, should anyone pay income tax if Legislature in passing the new anti- belief – and that’s what our Arkansas, asked employees enough staff to run the
organization should vaccine
they believe it is the right to protest abortion law; Congress attempting to clients can and routinely do, seeking an exemption to sign resistance on a religious
basis become widespread at
incompetent government by withholding raise corporate taxes to levels that could and I think it’s appropriate,” a “Religious Exemption a company.”

funding. Can individuals not do that with kill competitiveness while ignoring the says Mr. Nichols, who has Attestation for COVID-19

recalcitrant employees not honoring their revenues companies remit to been advising Fortune 500 Vaccine.”

contract? Or why should one register for government; refusal to accept the 2020 companies throughout the Since the majority of By Harry Bruinius
Selective Service? election; and the botched Afghanistan pandemic. “They can say, Conway’s requests cited
withdrawal and what that implies about ‘OK, write me a statement religious opposition to the
If a war comes, is it not my right to American incompetence and bad attesting to that belief or use of fetal cell lines, the
protest it by not joining in a conflict with leadership are deafening alarms. But who practice you say you have, form listed dozens of
which I disagree? And of course this logic is listening? and to the best you can, common pharmaceutical
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news

For some seniors, pandemic
trials have brought renewal

Purple, robin’s-egg blue, white. resilience. They say trials in says, it’s “an attitude of actually
Sandra Bierman pours layers of lockdown unlocked a new finding light where there’s
paint onto a canvas, then tilts it chapter of personal growth. darkness, finding hope where
so the colors run. there is despair.”
“It’s always been the case that
“This art room is a lifesaver,” most older adults are very Then he realized something
she says at the sink, rinsing resilient, and that’s true with important: “I said, ‘I can’t preach
fingers of acrylics. this pandemic as well,” says that until I live it.’”
Peter Lichtenberg, director of
Following a career in the Wayne State University His health began to improve,
Institute of Gerontology. and he decided to be
telecommunications, Ms. transparent about the
For a Maryland pastor, his uncertainty he felt. This became
Bierman launched another act rebound meant more than fodder for one of his first
surviving the virus. sermons back.
as a professional artist known
Would he ever swing a tennis When he returned to Asbury
for figurative works. She racket again? the Rev. Dr. several weeks later, Dr. Frazier Sandra Bierman paints in an art studio at Frasier, a life
Malcolm Frazier wondered. found that his experience of plan community in Boulder, Colorado. During the
stopped painting in the early After a COVID-19 diagnosis in sickness helped him connect
summer 2020, he lay in the with residents through a greater pandemic, the professional artist was inspired to return
2000s, however, to devote more hospital unsure. sense of empathy, as many are to her craft after a nearly two-decade hiatus.
battling illness and isolation
time to her husband before he “I thought it was a death themselves. Now, the pastor
sentence,” he says. speaks from the heart when he
died. says he understands. among some 2,000 respondents appeared to decrease with age.
Since leaving a lucrative ages 50 to 80, four out of five
Now in her 80s, Ms. Bierman corporate career in his 40s, Dr. He hasn’t considered retiring reported their mental health to Food insecurity, job loss, and
has spent the pandemic at a Frazier has ministered through from work because he’s be as good as, or better than, 20 low income, however, suggested
retirement community in the United Methodist Church. “enjoying it too much.” He’s years ago. an association with high rates of
Boulder, Colorado, where she He currently serves as director also back on the tennis court mental health challenges.
grew depressed under the of pastoral care and counseling twice a week – and winning. These adults are sometimes
lockdown that began March at Asbury Methodist Village, a able to “put things in context of “Basic needs really are drivers
2020. Roughly a year passed, she continuing care retirement In many ways, older adults an entire life history” and draw of mental health problems. Not
says, before she conquered community in Gaithersburg, have defied pandemic on past resilience, says Lauren the only drivers, obviously, but
enough fear to leave her Maryland. assumptions. In March 2020, Gerlach, geriatric psychiatrist quite significant,” he says.
hallway. “boomer remover” trended on and assistant professor at the
Dr. Frazier had always social media as a nickname for University of Michigan, who Beyond maintaining regular
Yet isolation also opened a considered himself a rock, the coronavirus. Yet that same contributed to the report. sleep and healthy lifestyles,
new level of introspection. She spiritually and mentally. But month, scores of retired pursuing activities that are
says as months wore on she during his COVID-19 challenge, medical professionals returned “That resilience and wisdom personally meaningful – like
reflected on her goodness – her he says he went through to work at overwhelmed that comes with aging, of having volunteering – can help support
lifelong impulse to serve others. “spiritual chaos.” hospitals. gone through tough times in the and improve older adults’
Volunteering to teach peers art past and being able to get mental health.
classes via closed-circuit “I was seriously depleted,” he Some federal officials who’ve through it … I think can help
television last spring was proof. says. “My faith was shallow and led the national pandemic put people in a better position For Ms. Bierman, one such
That September, she built up the weak.” response are long past in the face of stressors,” says Dr. highlight has been biweekly
courage to submit some past traditional retirement age – Gerlach. Since the survey was a virtual chats with family she
work to an anti-ageist birthday But Dr. Frazier also considers including the current and snapshot in time from earlier misses in California and England.
card campaign. She was himself stubborn. “I can’t go out former president. Anthony this year, she stresses the She took the initiative to set up
accepted. like this,” he recalls telling Fauci, the top infectious disease importance of continued the Zoom link.
himself. expert, entered his 80s last year. monitoring.
Inspired, she resumed painting Full days at Frasier, her life
after nearly two decades. That In addition to his medical Research conducted during A currently unpublished study plan community, also keep her
confirmed “the creativity in treatment, he dug down into his the pandemic points to pockets co-written by Dr. Lichtenberg at spirits up. Beyond hours spent
there wasn’t dead,” she says. “I reservoir of spiritual strength, of older-adult resilience. A Wayne State University suggests on personal art projects, she
still had that, and that was a taking inspiration from his January National Poll on a similar bright spot. It analyzed leads twice-weekly sessions in
jewel.” understanding as a Christian of Healthy Aging reveals that Census Bureau Household the art room and participates in
the term “resurrection.” Beyond Pulse Survey data from nearly a monthly, local poetry meet-up.
As older adults have faced a physical transformation, he the full first year of the She’s seeking more ways to
increased social isolation, health pandemic for over 100,000 volunteer, too.
officials have defined this age older adults of color.Across the
group as living in pandemic Hispanic, Black, and Asian “I just wish I were five
precarity. Yet many like Ms. respondents ages 50 and up, people,” says the artist, white
Bierman have overcome labels rates of anxiety or depression apron smudged with color.
of frailty and demonstrated “There are so many things to
do.”

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Your Kenosha ADRC update

Aging & Disability Resource Insurance Program (SHIP) National Technical costume as we talk about Halloween fun you’ve had
Center in affiliation with the Assistance Center service. The Medicare Rights and learn about Women in Motion-Kenosha, the
Alzheimer’s Association Center is a national, non-profit consumer service costumed dance group that raises money for local
Presents In-Depth Training organization. They are one of the SHIP National charities.
for Family Caregivers Technical Assistance Center partners.
Feeling Stressed as a
Six Week Course Offers Education on Caring For reservations call the ADRC 262-605-6646 or Caregiver? Powerful Tools can
for an Older Adult with Dementia 1-800-472-8008. A Zoom link will be provided. Help

The Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource KAFASI Offers Virtual Are you feeling stressed, overwhelmed? Is it
Center in affiliation with Alzheimer’s Association will Connect for Seniors difficult to communicate in challenging caregiving
offer a six-week program designed to provide clinical situations? Are you struggling with tough caregiving
level education and training for family caregivers. Kenosha Area Family & Aging Services (KAFASI) decisions? The ADRC offers an online, free, 6-week
“The Savvy Caregiver” will be held on six offers a free program called Virtual Connect for educational series, Powerful Tools for Caregivers,
consecutive Mondays beginning October 4, 10 seniors who are interested in connecting with others designed by Stanford University to give you tools to
a.m. – Noon. The series will conclude on safely and from the comfort of their own homes. take care of yourself while caring for a loved one.
November 8. The program will be held virtually.This Virtual Connect is an on-line group meeting in which
workshop is open to family members who are participants can join via Zoom or by phone. The goals of the program are to help caregivers
providing care for a loved one with Alzheimer’s develop a wealth of self-care tools which have a
disease or a related dementia. Virtual Connect is held up to 3 times per month positive impact on caregiver health.
on a variety of topics. Subjects range from local
The Savvy Caregiver training program is a unique community issues and speakers, to technical support Mutual support and success build the participants’
approach to family caregiver education. The central for social media and other technologies, to “Your confidence in their ability to provide caregiving while
concept is the notion of strategy. Throughout the Story” when participants can share fun personal maintaining their own positive health.
program caregivers are urged to learn, develop and stories with a retired professional counselor leading
modify strategies to accomplish the goal for their the discussion. Once registered participants receive Caregiver goals addressed workshop:
particular caregiving situation. Participants will a Zoom link or phone number to join the meeting of
“graduate” with increased personal knowledge, skills their choice. Zoom links are sent via email. • reduce personal stress
to assess abilities of a loved one with dementia,
confidence to set and alter caregiving goals, TO PARTICIPATE: Call or email Janice Erickson • change negative self-talk
strategies to manage activities of daily living, and at [email protected] or 262-287-7469.You will be
perspective on the course of Alzheimer's and other emailed an access link prior to the program • communicate needs to family members and
related dementias. healthcare or service providers
OCTOBER SCHEDULE
Advance registration is required. Contact Kenosha • communicate more effectively in challenging
County Aging & Disability Resource Center, Susan Wednesday, October 6, 11 a.m. – noon “Life is situations
Johnson, Dementia Care Specialist, at 262-605-6602. Motion, Motion is Life” Learn about the Swingmove
This program is free to Kenosha County residents. Wellness program with 80-year-old Russell Cleveland • recognize the messages in their emotions
The fee for out-of-county residents is $30. who developed this program to help seniors get
Scholarships are available. moving. • deal with difficult feelings

Are YOU a family caregiver? Monday, October 11, 11 a.m. – noon “Your • make tough caregiving decisions
ADRC offers two Family Story” with Mike Radke. An opportunity to share
Support Groups they best place you have explored or experienced, Wednesdays, October 13 – November 17, 2021
how it impacted your life and why you would want to
Caregiver Coffee Club and Lunch Bunch go back 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.

Kenosha County Aging & Disability Resource Monday, October 18, 2 – 3 p.m., “Tech Powerful Tools is offered at no-cost, but donations
Center, together with Walworth County, is offering Assistance with Troy” This month’s subject will be are always appreciated to cover the cost of the book.
two virtual support groups to help family caregivers Spreadsheets 101. Registration is required by Monday, October 11. For
stay connected and informed. Join others engaged in more information or to register, contact the Aging &
helping their loved ones manage day to day living, to Monday, October 25, 11 a.m. – noon A Disability Resource Center: 262-605-6646 or 1-800-
relax, chat and learn helpful tips and strategies. Halloween Dress-up Zoom! Dress in your favorite 472-8008. Or register online at
adrc.kenoshacounty.org; look for the red registration
To accommodate employed caregivers, as well as button. Connection information will be provided
those at home, the Family Caregiver Lunch Bunch once registered.
meets the first Thursday of every month. The next
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noon – 1 p.m. The Caregiver Coffee Club meets
the first Wednesday of each month from 10-11 a.m.
The next meeting will be held on Wednesday,
October 6.

Available by video conferencing or phone. To
register contact the ADRC in your county: Kenosha
County ADRC: call 262-605-6646 or Walworth
County ADRC: call 262-741-3273.

Medicare Minutes:
Supplemental Plans
(Medigap)

Medicare Minute presentations are being offered
monthly by the Kenosha County Aging & Disability
Resource Center. These programs provide
information on a wide range of Medicare topics.
October’s Medicare Minutes will be Supplemental
Plans (Medigap).The program will be offered virtually
on Thursday, October 14, 2021, from 10 – 11 a.m.

SHIP-branded Medicare Minutes are developed by
the Medicare Rights Center as a State Health

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books ‘Graceland, At Last’ unfolds
a Southerner’s wise and
hopeful essays

The novels have it: Since 2017, from her home in
September sparkles Nashville,Tennessee, Margaret Renkl
with literary gems has written a column for The New
York Times that covers, as the paper
With the arrival of fall, publishers are rolling out their puts it, “flora, fauna, politics and
highly anticipated titles, creating a bonanza for book lovers. culture in the American South.” She
Prestigious authors such as Colson Whitehead, Anthony made a splash in 2019 with Late
Doerr, and Richard Powers are among the headliners. Migrations: A Natural History of
Love and Loss, a fragmentary
memoir that repurposed some of the
material from her column. It was a
good book that invited Renkl’s fans to
wonder when a more conventional
collection of her columns might be
published. In “Graceland, At Last:
Notes on Hope and Heartache From
the American South,” they have a
welcome answer.

Why wish for time travel, Renkl is a lovely writer, and to read New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl looks forward
when books can take you places? her work is to be reminded that as a to the day when the South “will finally live up to the
younger woman, she once aspired to promise of its own good heart.”
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead be a poet. In one sense, she’s realized
that dream; her lyrical sentences sing analog of sorts for America’s current typically reserve only for politics and
Colson Whitehead switches gears from his two previous from the page. In an August essay from national mood. In the wake of a entertainment.
novels, "The Underground Railroad" and "The Nickel last year, when pandemic lockdowns pandemic and racial and political
Boys," to write a crime caper novel with moral were in full swing and more trouble strife, the broader culture also seems Renkl’s essays invite comparison
undertones. In 1950s Harlem, a Black furniture-store was on the national horizon, Renkl ill at ease. It’s why Renkl’s essays, with those of Brooks Atkinson and
owner and family man, who’s seeking upward mobility, mused on a mole in her backyard: “In though written by a child of the Joseph Wood Krutch, two journalists
agrees to fence stolen goods for his cousin. The these days that grow ever darker as South, resonate with particular of an earlier generation who also
atmosphere, characters, and especially New York itself are fears gather and autumn comes on, I urgency. traversed easily between columns on
richly evoked. But underneath lurk questions of self- remember again and again how much nature, culture, and the work of the
determination and culpability. we all share with this soft, solitary Her eloquent essays about the government. Atkinson was a Times
creature trundling through invisible environment, often based on her theater critic who wrote perceptively
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr tunnels in the dark, hungry and blind backyard observations, are especially about woods, water, and sky. Krutch,
but working so hard to move forward apt metaphors for these national also a theater critic, was an equally
A Greek myth about a utopian city in the clouds all the same.” injuries. “During my childhood in deft chronicler of nature, particularly
connects five sharp-cut characters – two in 15th-century Alabama,” she recalls, “every highway in the Southwest.
Constantinople, another pair in modern-day Idaho, and a Passages like that one underscore and back road was alight with
pioneer to a planet years in the future. Riveting storytelling Renkl’s sublime style. But it’s no butterfly weed, which belongs to the Renkl’s noteworthy predecessors,
and insistent compassion define this ode to libraries and discredit to her to consider the fact family of milkweeds. In summer it largely forgotten today, understood
librarians. that without her regional roots, Renkl formed a bright corridor of orange that the work of literature and art,
might not have been chosen to write flowers so covered with orange governance and the great outdoors
The Magician by Colm Tóibín a regular column for the Times. Her monarch butterflies that from a are inextricably linked – part of the
role, both a privilege and an abiding distance it looked as though the great chain of being that defines the
Colm Tóibín’s historical novel about Thomas Mann complication, is apparently to be a flowers themselves were taking flight human condition.
brilliantly weaves together the German Nobel laureate’s Great Explainer of All Things and floating on the breeze.” But Renkl
personal life with the creation of his major works – Southern to the rest of the country. notes that many factors, including the American readers have erred in
including “Death in Venice” and “The Magic Mountain” – widespread use of herbicides that kill letting the likes of Atkinson and
set against the rise of Nazism, which propelled Mann’s Renkl seems deeply aware of how food supplies for monarchs, have sped Krutch lapse into obscurity.
family into exile. This stirring novel is a paean to great thorny – and potentially limiting – that their decline. “Graceland, At Last” is a timely
literature and music and a sobering reminder of what job can be. “I’m not the voice of the reminder of what they’ve been
happens when a nation embraces fascism. South,” she offers as a disclaimer,“and It’s heartening to see a columnist missing. Renkl’s columns deserve to
no one else is, either, because in truth for a major American newspaper be read again, and for years to come.
Bewilderment by Richard Powers there’s no such thing as ‘the South.’” writing regularly about nature with a
passion the media’s chattering classes By Danny Heitman
Astrobiologist Theo Byrne is raising his troubled 9-year- In “What Is a Southern Writer,
old son after the death of his wife.While the genre-defying Anyway?,” one of the book’s wisest
novel explores such issues as the expanding cosmos and essays, Renkl echoes many other
our endangered planet, at the center of this heartbreaking commentators as she suggests that in
but beautifully written story is the bond between a father a globalized economy, old regional
and son. (Readers may wish to know about a disturbing distinctions aren’t as sharp.“Far more
plot twist.) urban, far more ethnically and
culturally and politically diverse, the
The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman South today is no longer a place
defined by sweet tea and slamming
Richard Osman’s action-packed second outing with the screen doors, and its literature is
Thursday Murder Club overflows with wit, friendship, and changing, too,” she writes.
derring-do, as the eccentric quartet of British crime
solvers joins forces from a countryside retirement village. But Renkl doesn’t entirely discount
They tussle with the mafia, investigate murders, and, of a special role for writers in her part
course, enjoy teatime. of the world.“Maybe being a Southern
writer is only a matter of loving a
Read Until You Understand by Farah Jasmine Griffin damaged and damaging place, of loving
its flawed and beautiful people, so
Farah Jasmine Griffin, one of the leading scholars of much that you have to stay there,
African American literature, uses works penned by Black observing and recording and
authors to address race, sexuality, and gender. Part memoir, believing, against all odds, that one day
part tender exploration of Black genius, the book gives us it will finally live up to the promise of
a new way of using our own lives as catalysts for change. its own good heart.”

story continues on page 15 This wounded condition, a legacy of
the South’s fraught history, seems an

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The story of a civil rights leader
that you have never heard of

Fannie Lou Hamer had been letting her light September gems
shine ever since her father put her on the
table to sing the gospel song “This Little Light continued from page 14
of Mine” as a child, but as a Black woman in
Mississippi during Jim Crow, much of the Poet Warrior by Joy Harjo
world didn’t see her value.
In this poignant memoir, Joy Harjo, United States poet
Kate Clifford Larson’s book Walk With laureate, reflects on the power of memory and stories to
Me: A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer shape one’s understanding of life and vision for the
brings her story and eventual emergence as a future. Using poems and prose, Harjo pays homage to her
civil rights leader into view, providing a fresh Muscogee (Creek) Nation family and confronts historic
look at the oft-repeated stories of the civil and personal abuse.The result is compelling and healing.
rights movement.
App Kid by Michael Sayman
Fannie Lou Hamer is not Martin Luther King
Jr., and perhaps that is the point. Without the Fannie Lou Hamer, a Michael Sayman has written more than a pull-yourself-
pedigree and polish of King, Hamer, who Mississippi farmworker, up-by-the-bootstraps success story. It’s a memoir about a
picked 200 to 300 pounds of cotton a week as emerged as an eloquent boy growing up with negligent parents, loneliness, and an
a teenager, also emerged as a leader. How she unsupportive school, and how his coping mechanism –
came to the national spotlight is equally as leader in the fight for mentally escaping into coding – became the key to a new
compelling as the power of her voice. voting rights and for and better life.
integrating the
Most of the country viewed Mississippi in Democratic Party. Travels With George by Nathaniel Philbrick
the early 1960s as an undesirable place mired
in a racial morass. The state had 50 lynchings This delightful book retraces the journey of George
of African Americans just decades earlier. The Washington across the former colonies shortly after his
late Bob Moses looked at the state’s poor, inauguration. It’s a meditation on our first president’s
Black farmers and saw potential. continued relevance to the American identity.

Believing by Anita Hill

The title of Larson’s biography is apt, “Walk With Southern officials threatening to pull their support Anita Hill’s testimony during the confirmation hearings
With Me.” The Harvard-educated Moses did for President Lyndon Johnson’s nomination if the integrated of U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas sparked
just that after leaving his job as a math teacher party was seated, the president held an impromptu press a national conversation about sexual harassment. In her
in New York in his 20s to work in the South conference to interrupt Hamer during her testimony. powerful new book she challenges the economic,
registering voters. It was the locals like Hamer Afterward, however, the networks aired her speech, in political, and social forces that perpetuate gender-based
who had to walk the walk. which she described shootings, imprisonment, and beatings. violence.

After attempting to register to vote in 1962, Hamer lost Larsen provides insights into Hamer’s life, but also into
her job and home. She left town, only to return after the White House politicking that occurred before the party
realizing that organizers like Moses represented the was offered two seats at the convention instead of the full
beginning of a “New Kingdom right here on earth.” The 68.
young people, according to Hamer, gave “the hope that we
prayed for so many years.” The compromise was rejected. “We didn’t come all this
way for no two seats,” Hamer told a reporter. The
In the summer of 1961, few civil rights workers went into biography tells her story, underscores her stand for
Mississippi where Moses went, but by tapping into wells of principle, and clarifies what “all this way” for her really
wisdom like Hamer and Amzie Moore, who knew local meant. In doing so, the book also illuminates Moses and his
concerns, Moses helped bring the nation’s focus to the vision of leadership, which involved cultivating that quality in
struggle in Mississippi. others.

“Freedom Summer,” the organizing effort of Moses, While the party, including Hamer, was seated at the 'Frankenstein' first
Hamer, and others, brought hundreds of college students to convention four years later, her question, “Is this America?” edition sells for
Mississippi from across the country to register voters in stands out decades later. Larson’s biography provides $1.17M at auction
1964. The resulting integrated Mississippi Freedom needed context for understanding that moment.The book’s
Democratic Party went to that summer’s Democratic emergence now also shows that sometimes it takes time
National Convention with the hopes of being recognized as for the value of something to come to light.
the state’s legitimate Democratic Party.
By Dwight Weingarten
Hamer testified on behalf of the newly formed party at
the convention in front of a live national television audience.
In three years, the former schoolteacher Moses and the
former sharecropper Hamer went from the fields of
Mississippi to the cusp of national politics and power.

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Kids in marching bands under growing
threat from heat-related illness

It's not just athletes on heavy instruments, and About half were treated Because there usually aren't Grundstein said. "It's not like Grundstein suggested.
the field who suffer when they're moving around a lot. on site, but 44% were medics at band events, nine it's Atlanta where you
outdoor temperatures get There are a lot of risk treated in the hospital and ambulances were needed to probably have a pretty big They include giving
too high. Members of college factors that come into play released the same day. The tend to all the ill students. base of those health care students more breaks,
and high school marching for marching band members others suffered from heat resources. And you had to encouraging them to drink
bands are at increased risk that people generally don't stroke and needed more Certain factors can make call in nine different water to stay hydrated and
of heat-related illness, too, really think about," than one day in the hospital. the situation very ambulances." letting them wear lighter-
researchers warn. Grundstein said. dangerous. They include weight clothing for practices.
Most of the 34 events that starting an event in the Because the study was
"They go out there, and For the study, caused the heat illnesses middle of the day when the drawn from news reports, Gradually increasing the
they often wear these really Grundstein's team reviewed occurred during high school sun is highest, wearing full the number of cases is likely time students practice
heavy wool uniforms," said news reports of band band rehearsals, parades and uniforms and standing on an underestimate, outdoors would let their
lead author Andrew members suffering heat- competitions, including one artificial turf, which can get Grundstein noted. bodies slowly adjust to being
Grundstein of the University related illnesses between event that resulted in 35 very hot. in the heat. Schools should
of Georgia. 1990 and 2020. heat-caused illnesses, the "This is a bare minimum of also consider training on
study found. At one competition, the cases, but it still shows a real how to recognize and treat
"They practice many times The researchers found weather was hot and humid, problem," he said. "In sports, heat-related illnesses, he
for hours and hours outside. that nearly 400 became ill Fifteen of those students starting at around 87 you have an athletic trainer added.
Some of them are carrying due to heat exposure. were taken to hospitals. degrees and rising to above or coaches who receive
90 degrees, according to the some training in heat safety. "Heat is going to become
study. They're keeping an eye on a bigger issue over time.
the athletes to make sure We're already seeing these
Skies were clear, so there they're doing OK, and massive heat waves that hit
was no cloud cover to they're trained to spot the western U.S. this year,"
provide relief. Students were problems. But the music Grundstein said. "I think it's
in the sun for more than an director of a marching band always been a hazard for
hour before officials finally probably hasn't had that marching band members, but
moved the competition training." it's going to be more of a
indoors. hazard for all of us."
To protect students,
"Think about the strain schools and organizations The findings were
that puts on your medical can use guidelines like those published this month in The
resources, especially if you're used in the sports world, International Journal of
around small towns," Biometeorology.

U.S. must prepare now to replace
International Space Station, experts urge

Policymakers warned that needs "with eyes wide activity in orbit.
Congress must move quickly open."
to extend the life of the If not, the U.S. space
International Space Station NASA has solicited program would risk a gap
to 2030 and develop new proposals and received more like the nine-year delay
space stations or risk a than 10 from U.S. companies between the space shuttle's
costly gap in space that want to build and launch retirement in 2011 and
exploration. new orbiting habitats, said SpaceX's astronaut launch to
Robyn Gatens, NASA's the space station in 2020,
Abandoning the space director of the space station. said Jeffrey Manber, CEO of
station, which is to be Houston-based space firm
decommissioned in 2028, NASA alone spends $3 Nanoracks. Astronaut Thomas Pesquet took this photo of
without replacements would billion to $4 billion per year Hurricane Ida from the International Space Station
only serve the interests of on the International Space "The challenge to ensure a on August 29. Photo courtesy of NASA
China, which has a new Station, and expects to save seamless transition is more
space station in orbit, U.S. up to $1 billion per year if it urgent today than with the
Rep. Brian Babin, R-Texas, can rely on private space shuttle, as our reliance on
said during a congressional stations instead, Gatens said. space assets is far greater
hearing held virtually Tuesday today," Manber said.
morning. "Extending the operation
of the ISS could give us "I don't fear cooperation
"If they [China] are the private industry time to and competition with China,
develop the capabilities and but we cannot allow even
only game in town, other experience to operate in the perception that we will
[low-Earth orbit] and to cede 20-plus years of
nations will seek to partner deploy the platforms that humans working [in orbit] to Russian counterparts," science still has much to a Russian Progress
will meet the needs of others." Shepherd said, adding that learn about how humans spacecraft, modified so it
with them to gain access to NASA and other users more discussion with Russia deal with long-term space could direct the space
there," Gatens said. Cooperation with Russia's "would have been very exposure -- including the station into a fiery re-entry
space. This would erode space program will be vital common 20 years ago." effects of radiation and through the atmosphere
to keep the International weightlessness. over the Pacific Ocean.
America's strategic Space Station operating, Russia is a major partner
especially given recent in the international coalition NASA intends to turn NASA told UPI recently
leadership," Babin said. problems like air leaks and of nations that operate and over research and human that the disposal plan is
the growing threat of space use the space station, having occupation in low-Earth subject to ongoing
NASA and space industry "NASA envisions a debris, former astronaut launched the first section in orbit of space to private international negotiations.
experts delivered the William Shepherd testified. 1998. Other partners are companies after 2030, but Beyer said at the close of
testimony to the House transition period of roughly Europe, Japan and Canada. the agency also must finalize Tuesday's hearing that he
Space and Science "I think the answer to this plans to bring down the intends to seek more
Subcommittee, chaired by two years, during which both is to reestablish a much Astronaut Kate Rubins space station after it is information about NASA's
U.S. Rep. Don Beyer, D-Va. more intimate working said research aboard the retired. disposal plan in a future
ISS and commercial ... relationship with our space station is crucial to any hearing.
deep space missions NASA The agency's proposal for
destinations are intends to tackle because such disposal envisions using

operational."

The committee made no But space industry
formal budget or policy
recommendations, but Beyer representatives said
said it was important to
approach the space station's Congress must adequately
role and upcoming funding
fund NASA to stimulate the

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Opioid addiction kills as many people in U.S.
as heart attack, study says

Hospitalized opioid OHSU in Portland. within a year of leaving the 8% is similar to that from
hospital. conditions like a heart
addicts die at a rate similar "That means trauma- attack.
informed systems that The other deaths were
to people who have a heart destigmatize addiction to from diseases of the Englander pointed out
make health care systems circulatory, respiratory and that, "for heart attacks,
attack after leaving the more trustworthy and more endocrine systems, the hospital systems across the
effective for our patients," researchers found. U.S. have universally
hospital. Englander explained in a accepted standards, metrics,
university news release. According to study co- and quality reporting that
Nearly 8% of patients author Caroline King of drives performance. The
addicted to opioids died The study looked at data OHSU's department of same should be true for
within 12 months of hospital on more than 6,600 biomedical engineering, "A opioid use disorder, where
discharge, according to Medicaid patients treated in lot of the research has death rates are similar."
researchers from Oregon Oregon hospitals between focused on overdose deaths.
Health & Science University. April 2015 and December King said health systems
2017. We found that overdoses need to do a better job of
"We need systems that are really just the tip of the integrating and removing the "It should be easier to access treatment."
can address comprehensive Drug-related causes, iceberg for these patients, stigma from the medical care methadone than heroin.
needs of people with representing 13% of deaths these patients need. Right now, that is not the The findings were
substance use disorder and including overdoses, in the year after discharge." case -- systems are such that published online recently in
serious medical illness," said And, Englander stressed, people have to work so hard the Journal of Addiction
study co-author Dr. Honora accounted for 58% of the A one-year death rate of just to get life-saving Medicine.
Englander. She is an associate
professor of medicine at 522 deaths that occurred

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food &
recipes

Nutrition News
with Charlyn Fargo

Fueling Fall Sports

School has started and

that means fall sports are

underway -- soccer, football

and basketball. Fueling a with whole grains. drink, a banana, Greek
yogurt or a handful of trail
teen's body for those mix. Strawberry Fall
Harvest Salad
sports is extra important No. 4: For dinner, don't Q and A
be afraid of carbs -- Servings: 4
considering the prevalence carbohydrates are the most Q: I know that greens are
important fuel for an supposed to be good for 1 1/2 cups butternut squash
of COVID-19 and other athlete. Carbs are stored as me, but I don't know which 1 tablespoon olive oil
fuel inside muscles -- the ones I should eat. Where Salt and pepper to taste
viruses. It all boils down to only fuel the body can use should I start? 8 cups baby kale
for power moves. For 2 cups cooked farro
meals full of plenty of dinner, think whole-wheat A: Greens are otherwise
spaghetti with a meat known as leafy vegetables. 1 cup strawberries, sliced
nutrients. Here are some Charlyn Fargo is a sauce, salad, whole grain And while "greens" is the 1 apple, sliced or chopped
tips to help you make it registered dietitian with SIU Italian bread and plenty of generic heading, there are 1/4 cup pumpkin seeds
happen. Med School in Springfield, milk to drink. It's a great different types of these
recovery meal after a hard healthy vegetables, each 1/2 cup feta cheese
No. 1: Cut back on added Ill. For comments or practice or a great before- with its own flavor. Collards
sugars and choose calories questions, contact her at game meal to load some are some of the most VINAIGRETTE:
that provide good fuel over carbohydrates. popular, perhaps because of 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
empty calories. It's like gas [email protected] their dense flavor and the
in your car -- the better the or follow her on Twitter fact that they get better and 3 tablespoons olive oil
fuel, the better it will run. sweeter after the first frost 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar
@NutritionRd. hits them. Mustard greens
are a bit tangier and have an 1 teaspoon honey
Young athletes are still get all the calories they No. 5: For snacks, think a almost mustard-like zing to
growing, so calorie needs need, according to the them. It's also fun to mix • Preheat the oven to 375 F. Peel the butternut squash, seed it and cut into cubes.
vary depending on age, sex, Academy of Nutrition and hard-boiled egg, fresh fruit, greens -- collard, mustard Toss in a bowl with olive oil, salt and pepper. Spread cubes on a baking sheet and
type and amount of activity. Dietetics. Choose whole- and even turnip tops. Kale bake for 25 to 30 minutes. Remove from oven; let cool.Toss all salad ingredients
How much a teen eats grain cereals with low-fat veggies with hummus, string is also a green.Try greens in
needs to match their milk and fruit, whole-grain a salad or cooked. Both (except the squash) together in a large bowl. In a small mixing bowl, whisk
activity level and waffles with peanut butter cheese and whole-grain ways are full of flavor and together the dressing ingredients.Add the butternut squash to the salad and
simultaneously support or Greek yogurt with fruit. rich in nutrients. drizzle the dressing on top.Toss, serve and enjoy! Serves 4 (2 cups each).
growth and development. crackers, Greek yogurt or
On average, active teenage • Per serving: 465 calories; 53 grams carbohydrates; 16 grams protein; 24 grams
boys need 3,000 to 4,000 seasoned air-popped fat (6 grams saturated); 17 milligrams cholesterol; 7 grams fiber; 12 grams sugar;
calories a day, according to
the Dietary Guidelines for No. 3: If your teen prefers popcorn and almonds. Have 399 milligrams sodium.
Americans. Like any other
healthy diet, calories should to pack a lunch for school, your athlete drink plenty of Berry Scones
come from fruits,
vegetables, whole-grain try bean and beef burritos water and eat a light snack Makes 8 scones
breads and cereals, low-fat
dairy, lean protein foods topped with salsa; grilled before practice, such as half 1 cup (5 ounces) frozen mixed berries
and heart-healthy fats. 1 tablespoon confectioners' (powdered) sugar
chicken sandwiches with a turkey sandwich or an 1 1/2 cups (7 1/2 ounces) all-purpose flour, plus extra for counter
No. 2: Breakfast is 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into 1/2 inch pieces and chilled
important to help athletes coleslaw; and orange and a handful of
2 tablespoons sugar
Mediterranean veggie nuts. After practice or a 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder

wraps spread with hummus game, refuel with chocolate 1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup (4 ounces) whole milk
and filled with veggies, feta milk, a low-sugar sports
1 large egg yolk
or other cheese, chicken or America’s Test Kitchen
• Adjust the oven rack to the upper middle position and heat oven to 425 degrees. Line
turkey and a light Buttery, flaky scones a rimmed baking sheet with parchment paper.

vinaigrette. Try to combine studded with berries make • In a medium bowl, combine berries and confectioners' sugar. Use a rubber spatula to
stir to coat the berries. Place the bowl in the freezer until needed.
protein with vegetables breakfast special
• Place flour, chilled butter, sugar, baking powder and salt in food processor. Pulse until
One key to flaky, tender scones is the ingredients you use, butter forms pea-size pieces, six to eight 1-second pulses.
but another is the temperature of those ingredients. Using
chilled butter -- and mixing everything together quickly, • Transfer flour mixture to a large bowl. Use a rubber spatula to stir in frozen berries
before it warms up -- helps create those perfect flaky layers. until they are well coated. In a second medium bowl, whisk milk and egg yolk until well
combined.Add the milk mixture to the flour mixture and use a rubber spatula to stir
Using frozen berries helps keep the dough's temperature
low. It also prevents the bright berry color from bleeding until just combined into a shaggy dough. Do not overmix.
out of the berries and into the dough. • Sprinkle the clean counter lightly with extra flour and coat your hands with flour.
Transfer the dough to the floured counter and gather and press the mixture until a
If you don't like mixed berries, you can use 1 cup (5 dough forms and holds together, 5 to 10 seconds. Pat the dough into an 8-inch circle,
ounces) of frozen raspberries, blueberries or blackberries about 3/4-inch thick. Cut the circle into 8 wedges.Transfer scones to the parchment-lined
instead of the mixed berries.
baking sheet.
GRAPHIC DESIGNER NEEDED 091621 • Bake until scones are golden brown on top, about 14 minutes. Place the baking sheet
on a cooling rack and let the scones cool on the baking sheet for 15 minutes.Transfer
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jill on money

The odd couple of
retirement

with Jill Schlesinger

Retirement can make ZERO. Maybe the GRA was the brunt of a system that government contributions. would have to deduct a base
strange bedfellows. That’s too ambitious, too drastic, While the plan has not been level of 6% from each
what I thought when I too much of a change for relies on employers to scored by CBO, the authors worker’s pay and would have
prepared to interview left- lawmakers to wrap their believe that even though to increase the amount by
leaning labor economist heads around. That’s why provide retirement benefits Uncle Sam would have to 1% annually until reaching
Teresa Ghilarducci and Kevin when Ghilarducci came take a short-term hit to the 10% of pay. Companies that
Hassett, the Chairman of across Hassett’s idea of using and in turn, the lack of deficit, over the long-term, fail to comply would be fined
White House’s Council of the Federal government’s the plan could be $10 per employee per day
Economic Advisers during Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) as a savings “significantly implemented “at relatively for up to three months.
the Trump Administration. model for retirement for all little cost to the federal
Perhaps the only topic that Americans who do not have disadvantages future government.” While this may provide
could bring together this access to a plan currently, access to more than 60
odd couple is the woeful she jumped aboard and the generations, leaving low- million Americans, there is a
state of retirement security two started working on a noticeable flaw: workers
in the United States. Jill Schlesinger, CFP, is a CBS paper to detail their plan. income children responsible could opt out if they chose
News business analyst. A to do so. And of course, the
I first met Ghilarducci former options trader and CIO The pair start with a for the financial security of Ghilarducci/Hassett plan
after she had cowritten of an investment advisory firm, dismal fact: “The median removes the onus of the
(with Blackstone Group’s she welcomes comments and retirement savings balance their parents and stunting employer to establish the
Tony James) Rescuing for the bottom 50 % of plan and their plan proposes
Retirement: A Plan to questions at American families is $0.” The their ability to save for their that the government would
Guarantee Retirement [email protected]. Check reason is that roughly one- provide financial support —
Security for All Americans. In half of workers do not have long-term needs. This cycle It’s notable that tucked a match from Uncle Sam.
2018, the authors declared her website at access to or do not Given the success of the TSP,
“The U.S. experiment with www.jillonmoney.com participate in an employer- only solidifies the into the Democratic $3.5 it seems a lot more likely
401(k)s and IRAs, launched sponsored retirement plan. that the odd couple’s plan
in the early 1980s, has failed Account” (“GRA”), which As you might expect, low- intergenerational nature of trillion Build Back Better has a better chance of
miserably to deliver on its would mandate retirement income workers are bearing success.
promises.” Their prescribed savings for everyone, the wealth gap.” Act, is a section that
fix was to create a including those who work
“Guaranteed Retirement part-time or are self- To meet the need and to attempts to expand
employed.
address the gap, Ghilarducci retirement account
Fast forward a few years,
through a pandemic, and you and Hassett propose availability to more
can guess how much
progress that has been made providing low-and Americans. If passed, starting
on restructuring retirement:
moderate-income in 2023, companies with

Americans access to a more than five employees,

program modeled after the who do not already offer

TSP, which features retirement plans, would be

automatic enrollment for required to automatically

eligible workers, simple asset enroll workers in Individual

allocation options, low Retirement Accounts (IRAs).

expense ratios, and matching In that first year, companies

Here's how to handle
short supplies driving
up prices

with Jill Schlesinger

This Q&A is devoted to facilities, focused their time
questions about inflation. If and energy on consumer
you need more in-depth electronics. Some car
information about your manufacturers canceled their
situation, send an email to: orders for chips because
a s k j i l l @ j i l l o n m o n e y. c o m . they had limited production
Here it goes. capabilities and they didn’t
expect demand for cars and
Question: I understand trucks to surge, which caught
that there was a period early them off-guard.
in COVID when supplies for
paper towels, toilet paper Finally, in the pre- to lock in prices. appliances, you should get a gifts you want, be prepared vehicles has cause prices to
and disinfectant were hard to pandemic era, companies Unfortunately, that would be jump on orders ASAP, for 5% to 10% increases. jump. According to Kelley
find, but what’s going on loved the idea that they like trying to time the stock because those shortages are Ditch the last-minute holiday Blue Book, the average
now? Why are some could maintain skinny market, which we know does likely to last at least through shopping frenzy and start transaction price for a new
products still hard to come inventories, which allowed not work. the end of the year. To get monitoring prices and car in June was over $42,000
by? them to be more profitable. stuff faster, try to be flexible looking for deals now. and used car prices are also
The COVID era has caused a Here’s how the idea of on finishes and features. sky-high, averaging over
Answer: Amid the major rethink of that “getting ahead” could sting. Question: My car is $25,000 — and that’s with an
practice because many firms As recently as May, cash Question: I read that coming off lease shortly, but average of 68,000 miles on
pandemic, shipping simply can’t deliver enough lumber prices climbed to a product shortages will when I went to the the vehicle, according to Cox
product to meet high record $1,515, a more than impact holiday season. Do I dealership, there were no Automotive.
containers have been demand. 300% increase from April really need to get my act cars available. What should I
2020. Since then, prices have together now — even before do? If you have a lease that’s
stranded in places where plummeted by almost 7 % — Halloween??? coming up, you may want to
to under $400. You sure Answer: The shortage in consider buying it out. Most
there is not enough product would be bummed out if you Answer: Supply chain semiconductor chips has contracts detail a
locked in high prices, only to pressure will make it tougher stalled car and truck precalculated price, which in
to fill them; and alternatively, see them tumble. to find the holiday stuff you production. As a result, the scarcity era of cars, might
want, especially for dealers have about a third of be a better deal than
empty containers are not in Question: We’re planning However, my GC/builder electronics, toys, seasonal the inventory available to sell anything else you could find,
a big springtime renovation friend Kevin said that if you clothing and home that they carried before the if you can even find one.
the ports where supply can and I’m worried that the know that you will need furnishings.And if you do find pandemic hit. The dearth of
prices of everything will be
be refreshed and loaded.The higher. Should we order
materials now?
shortage has caused prices

to triple the cost to ship

product.

In addition, decisions that Answer: Building
suppliers made early in the
pandemic are still playing materials have increased by
out. For example, chipmakers
that had limited production over 19.4% (through July)

over the past 12 months so I

understand the desire to try

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Pet World animals

with Cathy Rosenthal in the news

Redirect dog who is Kitten rescued from
obsessively attached engine compartment
to a toy of vehicle

Dear Cathy, About six can't see it.To get the toy back, Police in New York conducted an
months ago, we adopted a ask him to "drop it" while
purebred, four-year-old red, offering a high value treat, like As well as being a recuring unusual rescue when a resident called
floppy-eared male Doberman a piece of hot dog. He should guest on Happenings Q&A, to report a kitten was trapped in the
pinscher. He normally is a big drop the toy in order to take
goofball, but we bought him the "better" option. Be sure to Cathy M. Rosenthal is a engine compartment of their vehicle. High schoolers help
some stuffed dog toys to play toss the hot dog away from longtime animal advocate, The Ramapo Police Department said police round up
with and it somehow totally the toy so he has to go after it author, columnist and pet two officers and the city's dog control escaped goat herd
changed his behavior. He and doesn't see you taking the expert who has more than officer responded to a report of a
always keeps the toy with him, toy. Then redirect him by kitten in distress. The department Police in Colorado said some helpful
carrying it wherever he goes. having your wife play a game 30 years in the animal posted a video to Facebook showing high schoolers came to the assistance
He won't eat, drink, or go with him, walk him or train welfare field. Send your pet the officers working from both the top of an animal protection officer when a
outside without it, and is him. The increased mental and questions, stories and tips to herd of goats got loose from a city
totally distant to us. He will physical activity can help park. The Boulder Police Department
not come to us for a pat on rework his brain as well as [email protected]. said in a Facebook post that the goats
the head or let us get near the improve their relationship. were being used to get rid of weeds at
toy. He actually growls and and bottom of the engine Harlow Platts Park, but they got loose
sometimes snaps if he If there's no improvement from their pen when someone
perceives we are trying to get with the toy problem after a you want. Just don't use your compartment to try to retrieve the tampered with the electric fence
it from him. On the few few weeks, consult a keeping them contained. Animal
occasions where we have behaviorist who can observe hands. trapped feline. "After a lengthy struggle, Protection Officer Stacey Ward
tricked him and gotten it back, and make further responded to the scene with a park
he immediately reverts to his recommendations. Dear Cathy, I have a two- the officers were able to safely remove ranger and attempted to round up the
old, affectionate and goofy self. year-old Biewer terrier. I live in the kitten from the car," the post said. wandering goats. The police
Is there a reason for this Dear Cathy, We adopted a department said a nearby group of high
behavior? one-year-old old male a high rise. Whenever I take Snake knocks out schoolers came to the duo's assistance
neutered rescue cat. He is and helped corral and leash the
Also, we adopted him for active, friendly, and a fun cat to her for walks, she drools power for entire animals. "After they were back in the
companionship and protection have in our house. He will excessively. The vet feels it is North Carolina town pen, they realized three goats were
for my wife, but he has become often roll onto his back anxiety-related. I would like to missing! Thankfully, they were found at
a "daddy's boy" and does not exposing his belly when he take her out more to be more Utility officials in North Carolina said nearby Southern Hills Middle School
show her the level of affection wants to be petted. However, social, but I end up covered in a snake was responsible for a where a teacher was holding the 'baaa-
we had hoped for. She is the he will nip at our fingers. We drool as she shakes her head substation fire that left an entire town d' goats," the post said.
one who feeds him and gives know this is a part of how to get rid of it. Can you make and the surrounding area without
him treats in an effort to kittens play, but what else can any suggestions to help with power. Duke Energy said more than Scottish charity
increase his attention to her, we do to stop this biting this? - Bobbi, Fort Lauderdale, 1,400 customers in Denton and the asking for public's
but he still focuses most of his behavior. Currently, we surrounding area were without help with squirrel
loyalty to me. Any way to disengage as soon as he starts Florida survey
redirect his attention to her? - that. - Gary, Plainview, New electricity after a snake came into
Gary, Las Vegas, Nevada York Dear Bobbi, A Scottish conservation charity is
contact with equipment at a calling on residents to act as volunteer
Dear Gary, Dear Gary, Disengaging Shaking one's head, yawning, substation, sparking a fire. The Denton "squirrel spotters" for its annual Great
from him is a good start. The drooling, and licking Fire Department said the fire did major Scottish Squirrel Survey. Charity group
It's not uncommon for a other is to never play with a excessively are signs of stress damage to the substation. Saving Scotland's Red Squirrels
dog to get attached to a toy. kitten or cat with your bare for a dog. Talk to your announced it is marking National Red
Sometimes, it's because they hands. Even if your cat wants Squirrel Week Sept. 20-26 by
have a lot of pent up energy; to be petted, petting the belly veterinarian about giving her attempting to take a census of the
sometimes, they are possessive always results in the cat country's squirrel population with help
and obsessive of their things, grabbing a hand with their an anti-anxiety medication or from members of the public. "We are
and sometimes, we just don't claws or their mouth. Instead, asking everyone to go out and enjoy
know. Since he is getting use a toy, like a stuffed sock, to explore the over-the-counter the outdoors, look out for both red
aggressive about it, it needs to play with him so that he can and gray squirrels and add your
be addressed. exhibit normal cat behaviors natural calming chews and sightings to our online map at
by grabbing and biting the scottishsquirrels.org.uk," Gill Hatcher,
Give him a toy for a limited sock. You can use the sock, a anti-anxiety products available communications and engagement
time only, and then get the toy back scratcher or long handled officer for SSRS, told the Northern
back and put it away where he comb or brush to pet him, if for dogs. Get a canine Scot newspaper. "Without the spring
survey data, we need the help of
pheromone collar, and maybe squirrel spotters more than ever
before. If the public can help us collect
an Anxiety Wrap(R) or as many squirrel sightings as last year,
the Great Scottish Squirrel Survey will
Thundershirt(R) that she can give us another way to compare
distribution data with the same period
wear during her walks. Start Woman's lost dog as in previous years," project manager
with one thing and add new Mel Tonkin said.
strategies until you find the turns up on Facebook
solution or the right nearly a year later

combination of solutions that A 15-year-old dog that went missing

works for her. from his owner's Florida home was

During her walks or other reunited with the woman nearly a year

stressful situations, ask her later when she spotted his photo on an

periodically to "sit" or "down." animal rescue's social media page. Lisa

Familiar obedience commands Raulerson said in October 2020 her

can help refocus her attention. 15-year-old dog, Sparky, escaped

If you can tackle the anxiety, through a gate that mistakenly had

the drooling should stop. been left open. She said the family

began to fear after a couple weeks that

Sparky no longer was alive. "We pretty

much figured he passed away,"

Raulerson said. "It was sad because he

was part of us and we talked about him

every day." Raulerson said there was

no sign of her longtime pet until she

recently spotted a familiar canine on

Sunshine State Westie Rescue's

Facebook page.The rescue said Sparky

had been brought to a shelter as a stray

and the rescue had stepped in to

prevent the dog from being euthanized.

Officials said Sparky had a microchip,

but the chip was not registered, so they

couldn't get information about his

owner. Raulerson and Sparky were

reunited 331 days after the dog's

escape. "I feel like a void in my heart

was filled. I really do. I never thought I'd

see him again, but here he is. I wish he

could talk," Raulerson said.

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October 29.  Dinos In The
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these events.

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Joseph R Casares & Aloendra D Casares museum in Kenosha? We happenings: a Ghost be respectful of the safety
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Sunshine L Levy & Kevin P Owens Light Station Museum is Contact her at
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the far back, hiding for

decades.

Meanwhile, it was 20 Also, the museum has a
years ago this month that
the Kenosha Public redesigned Resource
Museum opened its new,
larger location in Center with free family
HarborPark. The free
museum has recently activities.There is a kid size
unveiled a new look in its
Field Station, which is cabin made out of giant
designed to give kids an
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Who’s naming along! “Tattlers” and birds aren’t offensive at all,
“Yellowlegs” are some
these birds? other names I wouldn’t in fact some are quite
particularly care for either.
by Joe Campolo, Jr. flattering. “Kingbird”
If you see a “Common
Chiffchaff ” please don’t wouldn’t be a bad thing to
make fun of their name as
they might be sensitive. be called. And if you’re a
There are several types of
“Towhees”. Not exactly flycatcher I guess “Great
sure what a “hee” is and
My last article, “The how a bird would tow it. Crested Flycatcher”
Pigeon Guru” got quite a (Or why) There are many
response, so I thought I’d types of “Flycatchers”, and wouldn’t be too bad either.
put together another no doubt they dine on
article on our feathered flying insects. If birds were Many birds have the term
friends while I’m on a roll. to name humans, maybe
This next article will deal they’d call us “Hamburger “lesser” as a first name.
with an issue that’s been Catchers”, or “Sauerkraut
vexing me for quite some Catchers” perhaps. They “Lesser Gold Finch” for
time; that is just who is in could use the opportunity
charge of naming these to turn the tables on us. example. Personally, I’d
dang birds?
Some names applied to prefer to be the “Morer
We’ve had a three-
season vacation trailer in Goldfinch”, but I don’t
Central Wisconsin for
many years. The area we Joe Campolo Jr. is an believe they’ve named one
currently have the trailer in award winning author,
is immersed in nature. And poet and public speaker. just yet.
there are any number of He is known for his three
wild critters we see during award winning books The photo submitted by Joe Campolo So going forward, I hope
our time up there. Kansas NCO, Back to the our ornithologists are
World, and his most Mexico. “Grassquits” is more sensitive regarding
One of the things I enjoy recent publication Three another moniker applied to the names they apply to
the most, is watching the Wars. A United States Air a bird from the Caribbean our feathered friends.
many different species of area. Grassquits…what the
birds we see during our Force Vietnam War “Grossbeak” for example. heck does that even mean? And whatever you do,
spring, summer and fall. veteran, Joe belongs to the “Hey, there’s a Grassquits”. don’t call me “Dickcissel”!
Many species of VFW,The American Legion, A beautiful bird that we see “Uh, uh…. a what??” And
woodpeckers, song birds, the Kenosha Area Vietnam the “Bananaquit” is another
water fowl and birds of Vets (KAVV), and Vietnam quite often in the spring Caribbean bird, no doubt
prey occupy the area we related to the Grassquits.
inhabit, along with turkeys, Vets of America (VVA). and early summer, the When, exactly, do these
cranes and other types of birds quit, before they eat
birds. I have a couple of For more from Joe, visit Grossbeak does have a the product, or when they
books on bird his website are full?
identification, and of rather prominent
course, an app for my namwarstory.com Now I wouldn’t wish to
phone which identifies our beak...but I see no reason be named a “Swamphen”,
feathered friends.And I use both frequently to ID birds nor a “Moorhen” either.
I am unfamiliar with or to exaggerate or insult it. And please don’t apply
unsure of. “Limpkin” to my
The “Jackdaw” is another description. And if you’re photo submitted by Joe Campolo
And this is where my name I would not care to going to call me a “Boobie”,
problem comes in. Now be referred to as.There are we might just not get
I’m not familiar with several different types of
protocol when it comes to Jackdaws and they’re
naming our feathered probably in hiding so
friends, but I’m quite sure nobody shouts their name
no birds were ever out somewhere. “Hey,
consulted about the there’s a Jackdaw”! And,
process. Consider the believe it or not, some sick
ornithologist slapped the
label “Anis” on one poor
bird, found mostly in
southern Texas and

Corner of Main and Park Streets

aka Sixth Avenue and 57th Street

This view of a part of downtown Kenosha is looking northwest from a window of the Truesdell Studio. The date is sometime in the late 1860s. The buildings in the distance
near Lake Michigan with the smoking chimney and the penthouse are the Simmons Company before the bed spring industry developed.

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