November, 2002, Archives
November 29, 2002. The 9-mile Run for the Diamonds in Berwick is a Thanksgiving holiday tradition and yesterday a record field of 1,041 runners turned out for the 93rd running in temperatures in the high teens. West Hazleton's David Bronfenbrenner, 24, conquered the snow-covered hills and came in first in 46 minuets and 10 seconds. We enjoyed seeing the pictures of the race brother Dayne sent to us. The winner was 12 seconds in front of the second-place finisher and 30 seconds in front of the third-place finisher.
You can increase your fuel economy with the following tips from the Environmental
Protection Agency...
• As you drive faster, both drag and resistance increase. It takes 15%
more fuel to drive at 65 mph than at 55 mph.
• Nearly 50% of the energy needed in city driving goes toward acceleration
as opposed to sustained cruising.
• Turn off the engine when you otherwise would be idling for a few minutes,
including waiting for your change or your hash browns at the drive-up window
of a bank or fast-food restaurant.
• Warming up today¹s computer-controlled engines for more than 30
seconds isn¹t necessary. Driving slowly will warm up an engine faster than
idling. Open car windows can substantially increase drag (wind resistance) and
can consume more fuel than running the air conditioning.
• Underinflated tires consume more energy by increasing rolling resistance.
A tire that¹s 20% underinflated (roughly 4 to 5 pounds per square inch)
can increase fuel consumption by about 10% and reduce tread life by 15%. Inflate
tires to the auto manufacturer¹s recommendations printed on the door label
not to the maximum limit stamped on the tire.
• When buying new tires, use the same size tires that came with the vehicle.
Improper wheel alignment can reduce fuel economy by as much as 5 mpg. Both front
and rear wheels should be checked for alignment. Tune-ups ensure that the engine
operates at peak efficiency.
• Buy gasoline on a cool morning rather than a hot afternoon to get a bit
more for your money. Keep your tank relatively full; nearly empty tanks are
more prone to ³bad gas² problems.
Southern Columbia (11-2) will play District 11 Class A champion Schuylkill Haven (12-1), Saturday afternoon at Susquehanna University.
If your computer is running too slowly, it may be that you have too many programs running. Go to here to figure out what programs are "needed" versus "wanted" at startup.
Follow these directions to stop items from automatically starting when you
start Windows.
* Click on "Start" and "Run."
* In the "Run" window, type "msconfig" (without the quotes)
and click "OK."
* In the "System Configuration Utility" window, click on the "Start
Up"
tab.
* Look at the list of programs that are automatically starting each time your
computer starts, and remove the check mark from the ones that you don't want
to start.
* Click "OK" and restart your computer.
Quote of the Day:
"There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror
that reflects it."
--Edith Wharton
For an Educational Technology course this semester, Jennifer Malhoyt Hatcher created an uplifting web site devoted entirely to positive news. The site can be found at http://www.geocities.com/beststepmom78/goodnews.html . Jennifer is the daughter of Phil and Jackie Malhoyt, North Street, Benton.
From the "No One Really Gives A Hoot" Department comes...
The quiet of the California ranch country was shattered yesterday afternoon
as a helicopter returned super curiosity Michael Jackson, 44, to his lavish
ranch, Neverland, here in Santa Ynez. At Neverland, he is surrounded by toys,
amusement park rides and pet tigers, bears and gorillas and by his three children--one
girl (Paris) and two boys (named Prince Michael I and Prince Michael II).
We recently enjoyed Kevin Kline, 55, in "The Emperor's Club,"
about a prep-school teacher's relationship with a troublesome teen.
'Tis the season for men to race off to hunt and women to head for the malls. The hunting season for antlered and antlerless deer starts Monday and ends December 14. Last year, hunters killed 486,014 deer, including 203,247 buck and 282,767 doe. It's unlikely Pennsylvania whitetails are affected by Chronic Wasting Disease, according to the Pennsylvania Game Commission, but they do recommend wearing rubber gloves when field dressing deer. CWD is a neurological disease that can affect deer, elk and moose. It is always fatal to the animal. No cases have been documented or are suspected in Pennsylvania.
November 24, 2002. There are 27 days until the official start of winter and only a matter of a few days until Thanksgiving. Hanukkah begins the day after Thanksgiving and that day is also the heaviest shopping day of the year. The following Monday is buck season, which offers a holiday from something for some. You'll have 26 days to do your shopping after loading up on Black Friday, six days fewer than last year. Then comes holiday parties. Then comes New Year's Eve and later the bowl games, while laboring under the extra weight that we have added. In short, we are going to need a holiday from holidays! Bah humbug, indeed!
In football...
• Penn State's Larry Johnson advanced closer toward the Heisman Trophy
Saturday afternoon in a game against Michigan State. Johnson ran for 279 yards
and four touchdowns on 19 carries in just one half of play to lead #15 Penn
State to a lopsided 61-7 victory. Johnson is the ninth player in NCAA history
to break 2,000 rushing yards in the regular season.
• Ohio State clinched a 13-0 regular season with a 14-9 win over Michigan
on Saturday and will go on to the Fiesta Bowl.
The Benton Community Resource Center grant of $40,000 from the latest round of grants from the Berwick Health and Wellness Foundation is a new multi-year grant. The foundation has promised the center $35,000 next year. The center is scheduled to include a senior center, a kitchen, a gym, an exercise room, and a library that would double as a meeting room. The senior center in Benton Township plans to relocate to the Borough. The foundation has also put aside $250,000 for a new organizational endowment program. The foundation will take over any non-profit group's endowment and then match it and all of the interest earned would go back to the non-profit group. The Berwick Health and Wellness Foundation was formed with $25 million from proceeds from the Berwick Hospital Center's 1999 sale. The money is used to improve the health and welfare of the area once served by the non-profit hospital.
The Citizens Voice reports a worsening of the malpractice crisis with a possibility that Mercy Hospital in Wilkes-Barre may close as well as the only trauma center in Northeastern Pennsylvania, the Community Medical Center. Mercy Hospital has been in operation for 104 years.
Computer manufacturers are worried about holiday sales. The primary uses for
home computers are word processing, surfing the Web and writing email, none
of which require much in the way of hardware--bad news for computer makers.
Computers with 200MHz processors were cutting-edge in 1996 and are not being
upgraded during this winter buying season even though several games now on the
market require 500 MHz to play. Dell is marketing handheld organizers, Gateway
is pushing plasma television sets and Apple is selling lots of iPod MP3 players.
Gadgets like digital cameras and music players have increasing sales, not the
computers they connect to. But if you want to start editing content, a new PC
begins to become important. To do any digital video editing, you need a fast
and probably a new processor, a huge hard drive and a FireWire port to bring
your footage in from a digital camcorder. You're not going to be able to connect
a DVD-recording drive to your PC unless it has either FireWire or a USB 2.0
port. It used to be that a computer was obsolete the day you walked out of the
store with it. Today YOU determine when it becomes obsolete.
--based on a Washington Post article
Quote of the Day:
"By learning you will teach, by teaching you will learn."
--Latin Proverb
We heard some skidding on dry pavement last night as a telemarketer foolishly called just about the time we were filling the gravy boat. Something about me telling the caller that the name of any telemarketer who fails to comply with the 'Do Not Call' law in this house will be forwarded to Attorney General Mike Fisher's office for prosecution caused the line to go dead...
The Philadelphia Flyers took it on the chin last night, as the Maple Leafs humiliated them 6-0.
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November 23, 2002. There are 38 days left in the year and only a few
days more than three weeks to Christmas. Don't you wish that you had taken out
a Christmas Club! On this date in 1945, most U.S. wartime rationing of foods
ended, including meat and butter. In 1963, President Lyndon Johnson proclaimed
November 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President
Kennedy. Some white stuff fell overnight, and temperatures are heading from
"cold" now to "very cold" next week.
We were looking at some old pictures of a Duesenberg car driving through the streets of Benton with Harry Magee in tow, and we remember recently seeing the car in Los Vegas at the Imperial Palace, along with another one once owned by Mr. Magee. We'll put the picture of the car in Benton on the Benton News website later. You can get a preview of the many fine cars on display now at the Imperial Palace by going to http://www.imperialpalace.com/auto.html. Make sure that you do the "360 degree spin." Well, this Duesie of a story leads us to another doozie of a story...
The vehicles that were commonly called "Duesies" in the 1920s and 1930s introduced an interesting name into our vocabulary, although evidence exists that the word "Duzzie" (or doozy as some dictionaries spell it) had been around before the 1920s.
Two "people" who had doozies for names come to mind. The first was "BRFXXCCXXMNPCKCCCC111Mmnprxv1mnckssqlbb11116" (whose Swedish parents got fined $753 for naming their son that silly, unpronounceable name). The second doozie of a name was Sik Kohl.
John Herbert Laubach recalls that there are some references to Ezekiel Cole, the first man to build a prosperous grist mill on Fishingcreek, in the "Day Book" of John Christian Laubach. Christian (the early Germans tended to "throw away" the first name) Laubach moved into the northern end of Columbia Country about 1794 or 1795. John Herbert writes,
"I would not consider the Day Book spelling as authoritative. John Christian
tended to write things according to German phonetics. However, since so many
of John Christian's associates were German immigrants, they probably did use
the German spelling in their early days.
In any case, John Christian referred to Ezekiel Cole as "Sik Kohl." In German, an "s" that begins a word is pronounced as a "z." Hence, the German "Sik" would be pronounced "Zeke."
On December 24, 1794, John Christian recorded that "Sik Kohl" had borrowed a substantial sum (22 Pounds) from Johannes Gotthart," known elsewhere as "John Godhard." Godhard was the grandfather of John Christian's wife. He came to live with John Christian late in his life. Several local persons borrowed money from him.
There were additional references to "Sik Kohl" in August, 1795, when John Christian worked for Zeke Cole in connection with corn, perhaps the milling of corn. The "Day Book" of John Christian Laubach was lent me by Ethel Laubach, the widow of John Paul Laubach. It was written in German and tracked much of the day labor of John Christian from the time of his youth near Bethlehem, Pa. The time period was from 1782 until 1795. John Christian settled near the crest of what is now Kearcuff Road, near Camp Lavigne."
Term of the Day: "Crocodile Tears."
To weep crocodile tears is to pretend a sorrow that one doesn't in fact feel.
The ancient belief that crocodiles weep while luring or devouring their prey
dates back to about 1400 from a book literally translated as "The Voyage
and Travail of Sir John Mandeville." The book says "in many places
of Inde are many crocodiles - that is, a manner of long serpent. These serpents
slay men and they eat them weeping." Well, actually to be picky about it,
crocodiles can't cry, because they have no tear ducts. Rudyard Kipling picked
up on the idea in the story of how the elephant got his trunk in the "Just
So Stories:" "Come hither, Little One," said the Crocodile, "for
I am the Crocodile, and he wept crocodile-tears to show it was quite true."
Quote of the Day:
"There are two ways of speaking an audience will always like; one is to
tell them what they don't understand; and the other is to tell them what they're
used to."
--George Eliot
Dorothy E. (White) Zeveney, 92, (1910-2002) died Friday, November 22, 2002, at the Orangeville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. She was a daughter of the late Frank and Sarah (Eicholtz) White and was born in Hanover Township. Her husband, Alphonso Zeveney died in 1996, following 68 years of marriage. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Zeveney was preceded in death by a son, Eugene K. Zeveney; a sister, Georgia Ambrose, and a brother, Frank White. Surviving are a son, Gerald A. Zeveney, 250 Mendenhall Lane, Benton; four grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held at the Town Hill United Methodist Church at 1 PM Saturday, November 30 under the direction of The Rev. Karen Atanasoff. Interment will be in the Scott Cemetery, Huntington Township, Luzerne County. The McMichael Funeral Home, Benton, is assisting the Zeveney Family.
Much to the chagrin of Marcia Kay and to the delight of Southern Columbia County residents, the Southern Tigers (11-2) beat Camp Hill 42-14 (10-3) in the PIAA eastern semifinal game at Susquehanna Township High School last night. The Tigers advance to the Eastern final to play the winner of today's Schuylkill Haven/Lackawanna Trail game. Brandon Traugh, the Tigers' junior halfback, rushed for 103 yards and topped the 1,000-yard mark for the season. The win made it nine straight for Southern Columbia, as they won their ninth consecutive PIAA Class A quarterfinal over the District 3 winner.
If you go to http://www.firstgov.gov/Citizen/Find_Services.shtml you'll find government offices and services Back Home in Benton, PA, or at the state level--and not just for Pennsylvania. You can find farmers markets, social security offices, post offices, police departments, substance abuse treatment centers, veterans facilities, and state and local agencies by topic and much more.
Mathematically, we can't lower his pay, but we are rethinking the effectiveness of our Benton News wordsmith who usually sharpens his pencil AFTER we spell something wrong or when we use the word "glad" for the word "happy." An alert reader pointed out that we used "country" for "county" yesterday. We always sluff these things off and just tell readers to listen to what we mean and not what we say...
We hear "Oscar nominations" for "The Quiet American," based on Graham Greene's 1955 novel. The movie deals with terrorism, international strife, and the uses and abuses of American power. The film was headed for theaters on September 11 last year, making distributors wary of potentially sensitive material. Miramax delayed its release and reportedly decided to mute its publicity campaign hoping word of mouth filled the theatres. Michael Caine, we understand, plays a British journalist covering the early stages of the Vietnam War as French forces struggled to preserve the longtime colony from Communist rule. Brendan Fraser plays an American claiming to be on a charity mission but is really scheming as only an American can do. Throw in the American declaring love for the Englishman's mistress and you'll round off the plot. Did I just talk myself out of seeing the movie?
And speaking of movies, James Bond is having a birthday, his 40th. His latest
movie staring Pierce Brosnan also stars Halle Berry as Jinx, his female counterpart,
and includes old reliable Judi Dench and John Cleese. Rosamund Pike is an icy
adversary named Miranda Frost. The show is at the Bloomsburg Cinema this weekend.
Need a Christmas wreath? Wreath's by Susan Cole, 2.5 miles from Riverside Market,
north on route 239. 570 925-6907. All Christmas trees are $10. Fresh greens
of Douglas Fur, Fraser Fur, Blue Spruce and White Pine.
Farmer's Almanac Advice for Today:
"A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning."
Quickies...
• Jurors in Pennsylvania would be allowed to take notes during trials under
a bill awaiting action in the current legislative session.
• Personal injury lawyer Samuel Hirsch filed a class action suit in Manhattan
Wednesday claiming that McDonald's is the direct cause of a nation of obese
children. And knowing the law, he just might win...
• Good luck if you are hunting bear next week, November 25-27.
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November 22, 2002. There are 39 days left in the year. On this date in 1963, President Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally, in the same limousine as Kennedy, was seriously wounded. Lee Harvey Oswald, suspected of assassinating the president, was arrested. What were you doing when you heard that President Kennedy died? Does the date 11/22/32 ring a bell with anyone? Well, it should for Clair Harvey. Happy birthday, Clair! And, by golly, Sharon Remphrey, celebrates a birthday today. You two share your birth date with French president Charles de Gaulle (1890). It isn't a pretty day outside, and the "mist" is falling harder all the time.
The Benton Area School Board awarded contracts for general construction, heating
and air conditioning, plumbing and electrical work last night, as follows:
• Zartman Construction, Northumberland, general contractor, at a cost of
$5,928,051.
• Bognet, Inc., Hazleton, HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning)
contractor, $1,557,051.
• Bognet, plumbing contractor, $524,011.
• Howard Organization, Bloomsburg, electrical contractor, $1,126,254.
If the planned schedule can be maintained, construction will start in January
and complete by the start of the school year in 2003. We'll bring you a wrap-up
of the construction plans as the project progresses. The 26,000-square-foot
project will replace and expand the middle section of the school, adding classrooms,
a new library and a larger auditorium. Both wings of the school will also undergo
renovations.
Jeff Henrie, 47, a Danville high school biology teacher was arraigned Thursday morning on more than two dozen counts of corruption of minors and indecent assault. Henrie is a teacher with 25 years service before he was suspended with pay in October. Henrie, who lives in Orangeville, faces 27 counts of indecent assault and corruption of minors.
Two brothers purchased the former Selinsgrove train station Thursday night for $48,000. The more than 130-year-old train station was purchased from Norfolk Southern for $35,000 last year.
If you ever need a Federal toll-free number you can link to it from right here on "How To." You can get toll-free telephone numbers put out by the U.S. General Services Administration and usually the agency's URL. It provides public contact information for federal agencies ranging from the Agriculture Department to the Veteran Affairs Department. You can find military personnel worldwide, check on the latest product recalls, or look for a job at the Federal level.
Quote of the Day:
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about."
--Oscar Wilde
What is new on the Benton News web site?
• The Benton Women's Club has added information about their organization
under Organizations.
• Recent deaths in the Benton area are noted under Features, Death Notices.
We take our information from the National Obituary Archive, which is responsible
for the accuracy of the data contained here. The list is in date sequence. Burials
are in the Benton Cemetery, unless otherwise noted.
• The history of the West Creek Mill, which we usually refer to as the
Norton Cole Mill, will be posted this afternoon.
Nokia is introducing a new cell phone model with buttons laid out like an old-style rotary phone. But this one has a built-in color camera that can take still pictures and record streaming video. It is among the new gadgets on the wish list at the Comdex high-tech trade show in Las Vegas. Fossil is showing off a watch that has a built in Palm Pilot computer with a stamp-sized screen. Prices are expected to start at about $200.
It appears to some that humans roamed what we now call Pennsylvania more than 16,000 years ago according to a new book, "Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth," edited by Randall M. Miller and William Pencak. Evidence of our anthropodial ancestors is found at Meadowcroft Rockshelter in Washington County. Well-preserved artifacts of prehistoric times seem to indicate that all of North America was inhabited much earlier than previously thought.
Daniel J. Opdenhoff, 24, the son of former Danville Area School District Superintendent William Opdenhoff, 56, and his wife, Georgeann, 54, accused of stealing $700 from his parents' bank accounts shortly after they were killed is back in Centre County for arraignment. Opdenhoff is a diagnosed paranoid schizophrenic and was shackled at the waist, wrists and ankles during the arrangement. He is charged with multiple counts of unlawful use of a computer, identity theft, receiving stolen property and related charges.
The many stories that we "almost" have finished will have to wait
a bit longer. We appreciate all the bits of family history you have sent in,
the stories you have shared, the memories that you have conjured up. Our available
time is gone for the next week. With 24 coming for an early Thanksgiving dinner
tomorrow and with 3/4 of them spending the night and with us leaving for California
Sunday, we had best leave the News From Back Home in Benton, PA. We will continue
bringing you the email version of the daily news, but we will NOT be uplinking
the web version until we return. If you want the daily news for the next week
and are not an email subscriber, subscribe using the email link found on the
opening screen of www.bentonnews.net.
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November 21, 2002. There are 40 days left in the year. On this date in 1973, President Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, continued the bomb-shell dropping by admitting the existence of an 18-and-a-half-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate. The Oh-Dark-Thirty temperature in Benton this morning was 28 degrees. And, by the way, we don't need any more of our Arizona readers bragging that the record high of 85 set in 1897 was broken yesterday with a high of 88! Today marks the American Cancer Society's 26th annual "Great American Smokeout," a day smokers are encouraged to quit. Remember that the Benton Area School System will be dismissed at 1 PM today in order for faculty and students to attend Rick Martin's funeral in Numidia at 3 PM.
It is a sad day in Benton, as they lay to rest our music man, Richard Martin, 1952-2002. Services will be at 3 PM from St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Numidia. The Kriner Funeral Home, Two and a Half Streets, became familiar ground last night to scores of students and their families. The people who came to honor Rick filed slowly past pictures of the man and his family and his life, past the miniature train display that Rick built when he became too sick to work, past the collection of musical instruments that he loved, past a large scrapbook containing every card and every letter that had been lovingly written to him about his illness--all filled with carefully chosen words of encouragement and hope and concern. Cecile Martin and son Alex received everyone gracefully and most by name. The strength of Mrs. Martin during the past two weeks is now legend in Benton. The memory of Rick Martin will always be cherished!
Quote of the Day
"He was an inspiration to us all. We can fill his position, but filling
his shoes, that's a whole other ballgame."
--Benton Area School Board President Geraldine Newhart, talking about Rick Martin.
New inspection stickers were printed up by the state as an emergency replacement sticker. When the primary printing vendor reneged on the contract, it was necessary to use a new printing vendor. The old stickers were issued in pads and they were easy to pull off. They were color-coded to differentiate between annual stickers used on automobiles or motorcycles and semi-annual stickers used for tractor trailers and school buses. The polyester stickers are now issued in flat sheets and all the new stickers are silver and black. Instead of the large, easily readable numbers that are familiar to motorists, there are small month and year markings that need holes punched into them.
A domestic turkey, from birth to freezer, can count on about 26 weeks of life. During this time, it will eat about 75 pounds of feed that only a turkey would get excited about. In the wild, the average life span of a turkey is three to four years and feeds on seeds, nuts, insects, and berries.
Quote of the Day:
"My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil."
--Paul Getty
We have posted an excellent article by George Turner, entitled "Civil War Dissent in Columbia Country, PA." When combined with the articles on the Fishing Creek Confederacy, also on www.bentonnews.net, you'll get a much better idea of what our area was like "back then." And don't forget to look at the Photo of the Week, on the side panel. This week, you can see a classic picture donated by Dayne Hartman of A. J. Hartman and O. B. Savage, both now deceased. The guest book feature is now up and running.
The 53-year-old man from Lebanon, PA, who drove his vehicle through security at the Susquehanna Steam Electric Station nuclear power plant in Salem Township November 13 was found guilty of criminal trespass and criminal mischief yesterday. District Justice John E. Hasay, Shickshinny fined Clifford C. Zearfoss $500 and ordered him to pay $950 for damages to a barrier.
An AP article claims one in 10 young Americans could not locate his own country on a blank map of the world and only 13% could find Iraq.
From the "Phrases of the Day" Department comes...
• "Middle of the road." Most early roads were narrow and poorly
maintained. Carriage and wagons wheels tended to rut the edges. Travelers walking
along the roads stayed away from the sides and held to the center, becoming
"middle of the roaders" for their cautiousness. We use the term today
for anyone who adopts a moderate stand.
• "Mill about." One of civilized man's first major achievements
was the invention of a mechanical way to crush grain--the mill. We list a number
of Benton-area mills in www.bentonnews.net.
"To be put through the mill" means to be tested--and usually it's
a grinding test. An expression now rarely heard is "to draw water to your
own mill," or taking unfair advantage of a situation or person. The circular
motion of the mill wheel inspired "to mill about," meaning to move
about in a circle in a confused and aimless way, around and around and around--well
you get the idea!
• "Shake a leg!" meant "Jump out of bed and be quick about
it!" Ship crews on 19th-century sailing vessels had to show a leg over
the side of their hammocks to acknowledge the mate's call.
• Apple-pie order," meaning neat and orderly, was used in New England
by cooks who carefully arranged their sliced apples in rows in a pie crust,
but was first used in England in the early 17th century as a corruption of the
French phrase nappes-pliés, or "folded linen." Back
then, dinner napkins were neatly folded after a meal, placed tidily away in
a drawer and arranged in a precise pattern just like, well, apple slices on
a pie.
--The Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology,' by Robert Barnhart; 'The Encyclopedia
of Word and Phrase Origins,' by Robert Hendrickson; 'Morris Dictionary of Word
and Phrase Origins,' by W. and M. Morris; 'Why You Say It,' by Webb Garrison;
'Have a Nice Day!' by Christine Ammer, 'Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,'
by Ivor Evans; 'A Browser's Dictionary,' by John Ciardi
A former Bentonian, now living in Virginia, sent along some expressions used
by people from Pennsylvania, i.e.,
• Your turkey has "filling," not "stuffing," and most
certainly, NOT "dressing."
• When someone says 1972, you think "Agnes," and when someone
says 1979, you think "Three Mile Island."
• Words like "sub," "crick," "buckwheat cakes,"
and "Kozy" actually mean something to you.
• You can go 2 weeks in winter without sunshine and not realize that you
are depressed.
• You see people wearing hunting clothes at social events.
• You leave your outside security lights on when you go out, but leave
the doors unlocked.
• You have friends who keep the electric candles in their windows on all
year.
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November 20, 2002. In 31 days, Winter will officially be here. Robert F. Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on this date in 1925 and on this date in 1947, Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in a ceremony broadcast worldwide from Westminster Abbey. There is a full moon tonight, not that we ever seem to have a night where we could see a full moon! We have been having weather that even a duck couldn't love!
A public memorial service for Capitola "Cappie" Pennington Reece, of 95 Birch Street, Orangeville, will be 2 PM Sunday at the Friends (Quaker) Meeting House, Millville. Mrs. Reece, 94, died Nov. 9, 2002, at the Orangeville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.
The Press Enterprise features Paul Reichart, retiring from the reins of the Columbia County Farmer's National Back January 1. Reichart started with the bank only four years after the Farmers National Bank of Orangeville merged with the Columbia County National Bank of Benton and became an officer of the bank 20 years later.
Cigarette packs in Japan carry the pussyfoot warning, "Please remember to follow good smoking manners. As smoking might injure your health, please be careful not to overdo it."
Ever wonder what happened to Ron Powlus? The former Notre Dame quarterback retired from football and now resides in Berwick where he works for the Pfizer Pharmaceutical Company. He and his wife Sara are enjoying their eight-month-old son. Powlus spent parts of four seasons with the Tennessee Oilers, St. Louis Rams, Detroit Lions and Philadelphia Eagles. Most recently, Powlus backed up the Eagles All-Pro Donovan McNabb and Koy Detmer.
Numidia or Numedia? The Benton News official wordsmith has nailed us again, this time over the continued misspelling of the word "Numidia." He tells us "It's one of those words that's pronounced differently from the way it's spelled. Face it, it should be pronounced Noo-mid-e-uh, the way it's spelled but as we all know it's pronounced Noo-meed-e-uh which should be spelled as you spelled it. But it ain't. It's one of those confounded conundrums that plague humanity." That being said, if you head on out on the world wide web and look for "Numedia," you'll find it exists. I'll quote you their opening passage from their web page: "Firma Numedia s.r.o. je mlada progresivni firma, ktera se zabyva vyrobou informacnich systemu, www prezentaci, multimedialnich prezentaci a pocitavych her. Touto cinnosti se zabyvame od roku 1997." We're changing our spelling in the future to Numidia...
The Benton Area School Board recognized the following students:
• Caleb and Joshua Fritz for their cross country season that ended at the
state championship
• Tara Goode for her field hockey season that included being named Press
Enterprise Athlete of the Week
• Matthew Good for his soccer season that included being named to the Mid-Penn
Soccer League second-team all-stars
• Tyler Brewington for a golf season that included Benton's first district
golf title and placing fourth at the state competition
• T.C. Musser for his football season that included being named Press Enterprise
Athlete of the Week
• Austin Kelsey for a soccer season that included being named MVP of the
Mid-Penn Soccer League and a state finalist for the High School Heisman award.
--from the Press Enterprise
Quickies...
• The Rick Martin Memorial Auditorium, when completed, will seat 525 people,
225 more than the current auditorium.
• If you think you know Benton School's class sizes, take a wild guess
at the class size of this year's sixth grade. Answer tomorrow.
• If your phone number begins with 864 (Huntington Mills), you can can
call toll free only to Huntington Mills, Benton, Muhlenburg and Shickshinny.
Residents there lost their first-round battle to make free calls to Wilkes-Barre,
Nanticoke, Berwick, Nuangola and Wapwallopen.
• Breyer's, which sold more than $520 million worth of ice cream in 2001,
is owned by Unilever, who also owns Ben & Jerry's.
• Legislation to lower Pennsylvania's blood-alcohol concentration limit
from 0.10 percent to 0.08 percent must pass by the end of 2003 to meet a federal
deadline.
• The Eagles will deal with the 49ers this weekend, without McNabb, now
in Houston for surgery.
• Penn State's Larry Johnson could be headed to the Yale Club in New York
in December as a finalist for the Heisman Trophy. A possible bowl scenario:
Penn State vs. Florida in Capitol One. Well, heck, while we think about it,
here is Penn State's record this year. They won 8, lost 3, so far.
Aug 31 - W vs. U-C-F, 27-24
Sep 14 - W vs. Nebraska, 40-7
Sep 21 - W vs. Louisiana Tech, 49-17
Sep 28 - L vs. Iowa, 35-42
Oct 5 - W at Wisconsin, 34-31
Oct 12 - L at Michigan, 24-27
Oct 19 - W vs. Northwestern, 49-0
Oct 26 - L at Ohio State, 7-13
Nov 2 - W vs. Illinois, 18-7
Nov 9 - W vs. Virginia, 35-14
Nov 16 - W at Indiana, 58-25
Nov 23 - vs. Michigan St, 3:30 PM
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November 19, 2002.
The Benton Area School Board voted last night to name the new auditorium in the high school the Rick Martin Memorial Auditorium. School will be dismissed at 1:00 PM Thursday, November 21, for the 3 PM memorial service for Rick Martin. The family will receive friends Wednesday night at the Dean Kriner Funeral Home, Two and a Half Street, Benton, from 6-8 PM. There will be a private interment in St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Numedia, following the 3 PM memorial service at St. Paul's Church. If half of the people who have been influenced by Mr. Martin show up, there will be a hummer of a traffic jam.
A oil tanker with 20 million gallons of fuel oil broke in two today and sank in the Atlantic Ocean off Spain's northwestern coast, raising fears of an ecological disaster larger than the Exxon Valdez spill of 1989.
The Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation has announced the launch of a $6.3 million research center at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. A group of 20 researchers will study diabetic retinopathy, a degenerative eye disease and use this information to help develop drugs to treat the disease.
Pack your bags. United Airlines has reduced last-minute, walk-up business fares from Harrisburg International Airport to 10 western destinations. United also has introduced new, seven-day-purchase airfares to Austin, Texas; Denver; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Nashville, TN; Norfolk, Va.; Orange County, Calif.; Portland; Sacramento; and San Jose. A walk-up fare has no advance purchase requirements and no stay-over restrictions and is frequently the most expensive ticket sold for a given flight. United operates four daily flights to O'Hare International Airport and four daily flights to Dulles International Airport.
Joe and Gail McHenry's trip through the Panama Canal is over and they have returned to sunny Arizona.
"One Man's trash is another Man's treasure." Deciding to downsize your Christmas Decorations this year? Before you throw anything out, consider this. A small local church would gladly give a vintage nativity set not only a new home, but some tender loving care, if necessary, Any size, any type will be appreciated.
The guest book feature of the www.bentonnews.net is up and running, on an experimental basis for a couple of days. You'll find it on the left side of the opening page, after you scroll down. In order to use it, you need to leave your name and email address and you can leave comments and if you have a question or query simply type it in. If you wish to communicate directly with someone who has left a message in the guest book, click on the person's email address and you can send a private email to the person.
Bids opened at 3:30 PM today for the alterations and additions to the Benton Area Junior/Senior High School for general construction; heating, ventilation and air conditioning construction; plumbing construction; and electrical construction. Bids appeared to be on target and there was certainly plenty of competition. Contracts should be awarded Thursday as scheduled.
The Pennsylvania Game Commission estimates that nearly a million hunters are gearing up for the two-week deer season that begins December 2. In this area, hunters are limited to shooting bucks that have at least three points on one antler. Pennsylvania hunters are expected to donate upwards of 100,000 pounds of venison and other wild game to local food banks and soup kitchens this year through the Hunters Sharing the Harvest (HSH) Program.
Up in Scranton, police officers stormed a downtown strip club and shot an armed murder suspect who had barricaded himself inside for more than seven hours. Wonder how he'll explain that to his wife!
Prayers are needed tonight for David Benjamin and Martin Laubach, both critically injured in a Jerseytown-area accident two days ago. No date has been set for Betty Ruckle's return home from rehabilitation. She remains in Health South, Danville.
The $25-billion Alabama public employees pension fund will own about 38% of US Airways after no other bidders spoke up in bankruptcy court. The Retirement Systems of Alabama offered $240-million for the stake in the company which lost more than $2-billion last year. Could this mean that the Pittsburgh hub moves south to the Gulf coast?
Lance O. Diehl will become the new chief executive officer of Columbia County Farmers National Bank January 1 replacing Paul Reichart who will take over as chairman of the board replacing William Hess, Benton, current chairman of the board.
Quote of the Day:
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases
to be serious when people laugh."
-George Bernard Shaw
Sally Hartman, selling wreaths for the Benton United Methodist Church, had her telephone number incorrectly listed yesterday in this column. The correct number for Sally is 570 925-2513. Now call her and order one while you are thinking of it.
Better not plan to head toward Scranton for surgery. The Scranton Times reports that 41 Scranton-area physicians have restricted practices. OB-GYN Consultants of Scranton no longer accept new patients effective yesterday and will no longer perform surgery after December 15.
Arcadia Word of the Day:
SHASTA (phrase).
Usage: "Jeet? Mom sez shasta work late tonight, so we mizewell git some
pizza in for dinner."
--Thanks to Richard Sutliff for today's Arcadia word
Pennsylvania's unemployment rate for October was 5.3%, the 15th consecutive month it's been at or under the national rate.
Last week Comcast Corporation said the newly merged company would be known as AT&T Comcast. This week they say it will be Comcast Corporation.
Christmas shopping? Have you seen the "Razor Scream Machine?" It is a kid-tough metal remake of the 1970s plastic Big Wheel, with a low center of gravity and a powerful hand brake. Pretty neat for about $99 retail.
Is your computer running too slowly? It might be that your computer is loaded down with start-up operations. An excellent definition of the start-up operations that might be on your computer is found at http://www.pacs-portal.co.uk/startup_index.htm.
Katie Temple Shade was the guest speaker on the topic of "Queen Aliquippa," a first-person presentation, at yesterday's North Mountain Historical Society meeting. The minutes of that meeting will be available later today under Features on www.bentonnews.net.
Our best wishes are extended to the newly and happily married couple, William and Dorthea Mather, Jamison City.
Concerns...
• Whittier Letteer today and Joyce Letteer Thursday for hospital tests.
• Betty Ruckle, in rehabilitation at Health South
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November 18, 2002. We missed a close one this morning in the Borough, speaking of the weather. North of town, up to three inches of the white stuff fell. The before-daylight temperature was 34 degrees with a light rain falling. On this date in 1957, the "Medical Times" reported that a survey of general practioners indicates that 31% of doctors surveyed have reduced or given up smoking, while another 3% have switched to cigars or pipes. On this date in 1959, New York state received anywhere from 6 to 16 inches of snow. On this date in 1960, the Chrysler Corporation announced the discontinuation of its DeSoto line of cars, in production for 32 years.
Tests are always fun, and here is one making its rounds. You only need four
correct answers to pass. Answers at end.
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last?
2) Which country makes Panama hats?
3) From which animal do we get catgut?
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution?
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of?
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal?
7) What was King George VI's first name?
8) What color is a purple finch?
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from?
Rev. Mark Marsh of the Benton Christian Church submitted his letter of resignation to the elders of the Church and to the Moderator yesterday. The letter of resignation was accepted and was effective yesterday. We wish Rev. Marsh the best in his future endeavors.
Q: What is the name of King Arthur's knight that created the round table?
A: Sir Circumference.
From the "Lost Dog Found" Department...
A beagle was found on Kelsey Edson Road in the vicinity of West Creek, Benton,
Sunday night. It had no collar or tags. If you can help identify the dog's owner,
email lostdog at bentonnews.net.
Hurry! Brady and Allison Hess found the dog and are starting to like him!
An Arab-Israeli man armed with a small knife rushed the cockpit of an El Al flight yesterday. Two undercover air marshals overpowered the man.
This one is too complicated to reduce to a few words, so take a look at today's article about personal property taxes in the Press Enterprise if you are a Columbia County resident who held stocks, bonds or mutual funds in the state between 1993 and 1995. You may be able to avoid a tax bill.
In football...
• the Redskins slipped to a 19-17 loss to the New York Giants.
• Quarterback Donovan McNabb threw four touchdown passes as the Philadelphia
Eagles posted a 38-14 victory over the Arizona Cardinals, but suffered a fractured
right fibula and could be out for the rest of the year.
• Tommy Maddox was hospitalized after being hit by linebacker Keith Bulluck
as the Titans rolled to a 31-23 victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers.
The Benton United Methodist Church is having a Christmas wreath fund raiser. Wreaths and swags are made locally from freshly harvested greens made from Douglas fir, Fraiser fir, white pine and other assorted greens, and decorated with a red bow, red berries and pinecones. The wreaths are available in two sizes: 24" outside diameter for $18 and 29" outside diameter for $23. Swags are made from Douglas fir, white pine, and red berries and decorated with a red bow and pine cones. They are approximately 15" long and sell for $7. Orders must be placed by Friday, November 29. Wreaths and swags can be picked up at the Church between 3 and 6 PM on Tuesday, December 3. To order, call Sally Hartman, 570 925-2513 or Sue Thursby, 570 925-6903.
I have pulled in my waistline to the best of my ability, squared my droopy shoulders, found a few hairs to brush on top of my head and concluded that as hard as it is to change me there is almost no chance to change others.
Rick Martin, the man who knew that he had cancer but believed that cancer didn't have him, received a lovely tribute yesterday in the form of a letter of appreciation directed to Mike Milarnek's web site, www.innovatabrass.com/ . In fairness to Mike, the letter has not yet been posted and because we hope to inaugurate a "guest book" feature on www.bentonnews.net tomorrow, we'll post it on our web site, too. Because we are rapidly approaching our "seek sunshine" period, the guest book will permit readers to keep up with things on a more personal note.
Little Deanna Fenstermaker received a God and Country award at the Benton Christian Church yesterday. How do kids that small get awards so large?
Reader Robert Maynes contributed an extensive article about Greystone, which appears today under Features on www.bentonnews.net. When you have the time, read about the mill which dated from 1795 and the house (Greystone) built by Ezekiel Cole in the period from 1806 to 1810.
The answers to the pop quiz at the top are:
1) How long did the Hundred Years War last? 116 years
2) Which country makes Panama hats? Ecuador
3) From which animal do we get cat gut? Sheep and Horses
4) In which month do Russians celebrate the October Revolution? November
5) What is a camel's hair brush made of? Squirrel fur
6) The Canary Islands in the Pacific are named after what animal? Dogs
7) What was King George VI's first name? Albert
8) What color is a purple finch? Crimson
9) Where are Chinese gooseberries from? New Zealand
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November 17, 2002. OK, it is fine with us if you want to start panicking over everything that you have to do between now and the end of the year. The U.S. Congress met for the first time in Washington, D.C., on this date in 1800. Make sure you remember the North Mountain Historical Society Monday morning. American Indians are the subject, specifically Queen Aliquippa of the Seneca Indians. Katie Shade is the guest speaker. All meetings are held on the third Monday of each month at the Brass Pelican Restaurant, Elk Grove, PA. Come for breakfast at 8:30 and stay for the speaker at 9:15. Except for the price of breakfast, there is no cost and the entire event is open to the public.
Today's Press Enterprise has an excellent article written in tribute to Richard E. "Rick" Martin, 50, of 230 Third Street, who died at 8:57 PM Friday, November 15, 2002. If you are not a subscriber to the newspaper, you can still access the article from www.bentonnews.net by clicking on the newspaper's hyperlink. Martin, 50, 230 Third Street, had fought cancer for 16 months very optimistically until the very end. Two Sundays ago, Mr. Martin led the choir at the Benton Christian Church so enthusiastically that almost no one realized that his sickness was so bad. His wife, Cecile, later recalled that he went home from Church and lay on the couch in sheer exhaustion practically full time until Thursday of that week. He directed not only the Benton Christian Church Choir but the Catawissa Military Band and the Sacred Chorale as well. Mr. Martin and his wife, the former Cecile C. Stiner, would have celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary December 26. Also surviving is a son, Cyril Alexander Martin. Friends of Mr. Martin may pay their respects at the Dean Kriner Funeral Home, Two and a Half Streets, Benton, Wednesday, November 20, from 6 until 8 PM. Memorial services will be held at 3 PM Thursday in St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Numedia, with the Rev. Gordon E. Smith, interim pastor, officiating. Private interment will be in St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery.
A. Dean Crawford, 75, of Benton R.R.2, formerly of Lightstreet, died Saturday
morning, November 16, 2002, at Orangeville Nursing and Rehabilitation Center,
Orangeville, where he had been a resident since September. Crawford was born
in Mount Pleasant Township, March 13, 1927, a son of the late Thomas and Helen
(Kline) Crawford.
--from the Press Enterprise
The Wilkes-Barre City Council, R/C Theaters Management Corporation, and the Greater Wilkes-Barre Chamber of Business and Industry have reached a conceptual agreement on building the downtown theater complex site on land owned by the city's redevelopment authority. R/C Theaters will privately develop a 14-screen, 2,665 seat multiplex on the former Percy Brown's and Zimmerman's lots on South Main and East Northampton streets. No city taxpayer dollars will be spent on the theater complex.
From Yahooligans [http://www.yahooligans.com/],
Yahoo's web guide for kids, comes the top ten requests by the kiddies of toys
they'd most like to receive for Christmas this year...
• GAME BOY ADVANCE
• BRATZ FUNKY FASHION MAKEOVER
• PASSWORD JOURNAL 2
• YU-GI-OH TRADING CARDS
• SINGING STARZ VIDEO KARAOKE
• BARBIE "VIDEO MAGIC" WIRELESS CAMCORDER
• SPY GEAR: SPY TRACKER SYSTEM
• FUR REAL FRIENDS: MARMELADE
• LEGO: HARRY POTTER - HOGWARTS EXPRESS
• NINTENDO E-READER
Larry Johnson had a game of his lifetime, as he ran for 327 yards, a career-high four touchdowns and shattered a 31-year-old school rushing record as he led the 16th-ranked Nittany Lions to a 58-25 victory at Indiana.
From "the Other Perspective" Department...
One cold winter's day, members of the Glenn Miller Orchestra were on their way
to a gig when their bus broke down. The musicians grab their instruments and
start walking. Before long, they came to a cozy little house where inside the
family is sitting around the dinner table, talking, laughing and having a great
time. The band members are damp and shivering as they gaze at this scene right
out of Norman Rockwell. Finally, one of the musicians turns to another and asks,
"How do people live like that?"
--told by Jerry Seinfeld
We will be adding a series of articles written by Bob Maynes about Greystone Monday in www.bentonnews.net. Greystone was built by Ezekiel Cole from 1806 to 1810 in the Coles Creek area north of Benton. Greystone was adjacent to his mill which dated from 1795. During the Fishing Creek Confederacy, young Ezekiel Cole refused to tell Union troops where his father had gone to escape them. He apparently was strung up with a noose around his neck until his feet left the barn floor. His mother and an aunt flailed at the soldisers until the boy was released. Greystone housed Federal troops during the Fishingcreek Confederacy.
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November 16, 2002. There are 45 days left in the year.
Rick Martin, Third Street, Benton, died from cancer Thursday, November 15, 2002, at home. Mr. Martin was a graduate of Southern Columbia High School, and graduated from Temple University, Philadelphia, in 1974. He became interim conductor of the Catawissa Military Band and sabbatical replacement for his former music teacher, Ralph Wolfgang, in 1974. When Mr. Wolfgang resigned in 1975, Mr. Martin was named director of the Catawissa Military Band, a position he has held for more than 28 years. Rick took the Catawissa Military Bank from a traditional community band into a successful concert organization. The Military Band has performed at Bloomsburg University and in benefit concerts for the Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble. Joint concerts have also been performed with the Bloomsburg University Concert Band, the Luzerne County Community College Band, and the Repasz Band of Williamsport. Under Mr. Martin's leadership, the Military Band played a wide-ranging repertory that included traditional 19th century band pieces, contemporary symphonic works and popular music of all eras.
Mr. Martin accepted a position at the Benton Area Schools as music teacher and band director in 1975, and has held this position for 28 years. While holding down a full-time teaching assignment in the Benton Area School System, Mr. Martin completed his Masters Degree from Ithaca College studying horn with John Covert and conducting with both Frank Batisti and Pamela Gearheart. He was a well-respected teacher and has influenced the lives of many students.
Mr. Martin held professional associations with the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity of America and the Pennsylvania Music Educators Association, served on the District VIII Board for ten years and served on the State Executive Committee for three years. He was the principal hornist with the Bloomsburg University/Community Orchestra, a member of the Sacred Chorale of Bloomsburg, and has been the Music Director of the Benton Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) since 1977 including positions as choir director for both the District and Regional Assemblies.
The Columbia County Band Directors' Association has commissioned a special band work honoring Richard Martin for all he has done for instrumental music and the community, It is being written by Samuel Hazo and will be performed at the Columbia County Band Concert on February 23, 2003, 7:30 PM in the Millville High School Auditorium.
Mr. Martin lived in Benton with his wife Cecile and son Alex, a promising violin student. He enjoyed gardening, winemaking and building model ships and during summer months he worked at the Knoebel's Amusement Resort pool in Elysburg. Funeral arrangements will be announced later today.
Friends of Richard E. Martin may pay their respects at the Dean Kriner Funeral Home, Two and a Half Streets, Benton, Wednesday, November 20, from 6 until 8 PM. There will be an additional opportunity to visit with the family at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Numedia, from 2 to 3 PM Thursday, November 21, 2002. A memorial service will be held for Mr. Martin at 3 PM Thursday, November 21, at St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Numidia, PA, 570 799-5661. Burial will be in the Numedia St. Paul's Lutheran Cemetery, Ringtown Mountain Road, Numedia. The cemetery is 28 miles from Benton via routes 487 through Catawissa and route 42 into Numedia.
The email was busy today as people fondly remembered Rick Martin. There were many stories of the extra things that Rick did for students that no one other than Rick and the student knew about, like the time Rick drove a student to Ithaca College so that she could audition prior to her admission as a music student. You should take the time to read the section about Mr. Martin on http://www.innovatabrass.com/ in order to better understand the many nice things being said about the man.
Upcoming on TV:
Sunday 11/17 Wonderful World of Disney: Mr. St. Nick (ABC, 7-9 PM):
Kelsey Grammer of "Frasier" stars in this goofy comedy about the son
of Santa Claus who refuses to take over the family business, since he's doing
so well on his own. His dad and mother are distressed, as they want to see a
wedding and some grandchildren.
Tuesday 11/19. Nova: The Sinking City of Venice (PBS): The sea water wears away the bricks of great buildings. New solutions include a mobile gate system that may save the city. But the gates have not yet been built. Dramatic storytelling.
Thought of the day:
"Deer pose problems because they are both loved and loathed." Bambi
to children and Godzilla to gardeners.
A 20-year-old student died early Friday after he was found unconscious in his dormitory room. Charles M. Henry III, 20, a Bloomsburg University sophomore from Phoenixville, was pronounced dead early Friday morning at Bloomsburg Hospital, according to Bloomsburg University police. University police responded at 2:32 AM, after he was found unconscious and immediately began medical procedures.
The Saying of the Day: "Measure Twice Cut Once."
John Florio (c. 1553–1625), British author, writing in Second Frutes.
"Alwaies measure manie, before you cut anie."
Quote of the Day:
"Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible
to be silent."
--Victor Hugo
Up in Scranton, it looks a lot like a tax increase after projected revenues and expenditures for 2003 revealed a $6.3 million gap in the school system budget.
We continue to receive email from readers who use a program called Incredimail. The incoming emails cannot be copied or replied to in part, and are generally a pain in the petukus to work with. And the users of this email program never seem to bother reading the privacy policy that comes with the program, which in part says: "IncrediMail may gather information related generally to Users' use of the Software, Service, and Site including without limitation: The number of Messages that a User sends; The number of Messages that are read; What elements of the Service are most often used; User log-in dates and time; and Message size data." The concept of SpyWare is not an acceptable use of the Internet, and readers are advised to always read Privacy Policies as they cover terms and conditions of use!
It is never too soon to think of Spring! Here are four green-thumb steps to
better growing from a lady in Manitoba:
• plant four rows of peas--Presence, Promptness, Preparation