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One of my readers who has Merillat cabinets was able to diagnose a manufacturing problem that caused his cabinet doors to not close properly. He was able to recreate a defective hinge detent by punching it with a pin punch and get his cabinet doors to close.
Letters for the week of January 30
The sound of excited barks and meows echoed all throughout the innovative Young at Heart pet adoption center in Woodstock as Sun City resident and long-time volunteer, Allen Podraza, demonstrated the home like environment created to limit stress for the senior cats and dogs residing at the center.
As usual, one of my goals for 2019 was to read 24 books. I would be lying if I said I came anywhere close to that goal. Some years, you just have to face the facts and admit defeat. (2020 will totally be my year, right?) Below is a little review of the books I did read over the course of 2019.
The greatest gift of any holiday may be to remind us how far we have traveled down the road since the last time that holiday rolled around â or even over the past half-century or so of holidays. Last Christmas was the first Christmas I spent without my wife in almost a half-century. She had passed away from a Valentineâs Day stroke in 2018, and I spent last Christmas day in Florida, paddling alone in my kayak, feeling the tides change. But this Christmas, almost two years after Gailâs passing, I had other thoughts on my mind.
The greatest gift of any holiday may be to remind us how far we have traveled down the road since the last time that holiday rolled around â or even over the past half-century or so of holidays.
Last Christmas was the first Christmas I spent without my wife in almost a half-century. She had passed away from a Valentineâs Day stroke in 2018, and I spent last Christmas day in Florida, paddling alone in my kayak, feeling the tides change.
But this Christmas, almost two years after Gailâs passing, I had other thoughts on my mind.
SUN CITY – Dennis OâLeary thinks that thirty people attending Sun City board of directors meetings is a very good sign.
Sun City resident Janette Dennis resurrected âThe Golden Age of Radioâ with the show Vintage Voices on Huntley Community Radio, but her time as director is coming to a close. âVintage Voices was established under the leadership of then-President Myron Shellist and assisted by Bob Gienko, a board member. Allen Pollack was executive director of the station and first recording engineer for Vintage Voices shows. Jim Eggers has succeeded him.â
Sun City resident Janette Dennis resurrected âThe Golden Age of Radioâ with the show Vintage Voices on Huntley Community Radio, but her time as director is coming to a close.
âVintage Voices was established under the leadership of then-President Myron Shellist and assisted by Bob Gienko, a board member. Allen Pollack was executive director of the station and first recording engineer for Vintage Voices shows. Jim Eggers has succeeded him.â
Walking around with a set of specialized sunglasses over your eyes and fluffy gloves with rubber bands around your fingers looks strange, but serves a purpose. This is the method in which you can personally experience what life is like for someone with dementia. Dr. Jennifer Stelter gives lectures on what itâs like âIn Their Shoes,â as she did recently at Alden of Huntley where Stelter serves as operations director of clinical programs.
Walking around with a set of specialized sunglasses over your eyes and fluffy gloves with rubber bands around your fingers looks strange, but serves a purpose. This is the method in which you can personally experience what life is like for someone with dementia.
Dr. Jennifer Stelter gives lectures on what itâs like âIn Their Shoes,â as she did recently at Alden of Huntley where Stelter serves as operations director of clinical programs.
Let’s try a resolution for 2020, to combat the constant stream of bad news involving politics, world military combativeness, economics, and health. Sun City: Let’s go on a Low-Bad or Positive Diet of Thinking!
One year after Jim retired, we finally closed on the selling of our industrial building. This required us to deal with several banks. Somehow things like this never go easy for the Dining Duo. You can write a check on a paper airplane, fly it through the bank lobby, and they will snatch it up and take your money. Asking for a withdrawal is another story.
I am a senior living alone. My adult children and I are close relationally, however, two of them live far away. My one daughter that lives nearby is an accountant and is very busy this time of year. My closest friend spends the winter months with her daughter in Florida. December always keeps me busy as I prepare for the holidays and have opportunities to spend quality time with my children and grandchildren. January leaves me feeling empty and isolated, even though I just had a wonderful holiday season. Do you have any suggestions for those struggling with the post-holiday blues?
This column is now in its tenth year, and one item that is in the top five asked about is the 911 flasher switch that came with each Sun City house. Houses built before 2004 have a switch built by Leviton. They no longer make that switch. Houses built after 2004 have Pass and Seymour switches. If you need a replacement these switches are still available.
One of the biggest complaints about Hollywood is the lack of originality. The endless parade of recycled intellectual property and soulless sequels have always been par for the course. As the adage goes, âThere is nothing new under the sun.â But many filmmakers have taken concepts and tropes used in the past to great effect. Directors like Quentin Tarantino have made a career of this kind of cinema pastiche. The trick is to arrange them with care and style to make them feel spontaneous, allowing for an air of mystery about these elements. And mystery is what we get here from Rian Johnsonâs Knives Out.
Letters for the week of January 16.
Quick now, Sun Citians, how long does it take to decorate Sun Cityâs Prairie and Meadow View Lodges for the holiday season? The job includes about twenty-five trees of different sizes throughout the buildingâs interior, plus decorations on fireplace mantles in Fountain View Lodge and the social lounge, hallways and galleries, Drendel Ballroom, fitness center, etc. The answer? The Sun City Garden Club can do it in two hours with 200 of its members.
Quick now, Sun Citians, how long does it take to decorate Sun Cityâs Prairie and Meadow View Lodges for the holiday season?
The job includes about twenty-five trees of different sizes throughout the buildingâs interior, plus decorations on fireplace mantles in Fountain View Lodge and the social lounge, hallways and galleries, Drendel Ballroom, fitness center, etc.
The answer? The Sun City Garden Club can do it in two hours with 200 of its members.
2020 is right around the corner and that just blows my mind, especially since I learned recently that some teenagers today refer to the 1980s and 1990s as âthe late 1900s.â As if we were all riding around in horse-drawn buggies. I grew up referring to the 1880s and 1890s as âthe late 1800sâ but I was born very nearly a hundred years after those decades. So I donât know what gives with these kids.
Never trust everything a fisherman tells you. His story may start believable enough, but always hold on to the tag-end of suspicion, just in case his tale plummets past plausibility, pulling you into the gulch of gullibility. Thatâs why, as I stood in Southwestern Michigan in October, listening to the guy casting into the Black River as it flowed into Lake Michigan, I kept listing for the moment his tales started to stretch beyond believability.
Never trust everything a fisherman tells you. His story may start believable enough, but always hold on to the tag-end of suspicion, just in case his tale plummets past plausibility, pulling you into the gulch of gullibility.
Thatâs why, as I stood in Southwestern Michigan in October, listening to the guy casting into the Black River as it flowed into Lake Michigan, I kept listing for the moment his tales started to stretch beyond believability.
It may be easy to put you in the holiday spirit by watching the classic movie Miracle On 34th Street or driving around neighborhoods on the lookout for lots of holiday decorations and lights. But pressure from the holiday season between Thanksgiving and Christmas over such things as financial stress and demands on your time can bring on the holiday blues.
In Huntley these days, letters of interest apparently work better than requests for proposals when it comes to business development.
Gerry and Jan Smith, Sun City Veteran residents of 20 years, orchestrated a Sun City trip to the Museum of Science and Industry. How long have they been facilitating trips for Sun City Residents? Jan said, âWeâve been doing this from the beginning. We moved here before the Lodge was built.â
Gerry and Jan Smith, Sun City Veteran residents of 20 years, orchestrated a Sun City trip to the Museum of Science and Industry.
How long have they been facilitating trips for Sun City Residents?
Jan said, âWeâve been doing this from the beginning. We moved here before the Lodge was built.â
The most common disorder of sleep difficulties is referred to as insomnia. It should be noted that the following famous individuals share this serious problem: Abraham Lincoln, Vincent van Gogh, Jennifer Aniston, and Amy Poehler, to name only a few. This malady may occur with difficulties of falling or staying asleep, waking too early, being unable to return to sleep, or having a poor quality of restorative sleep.
How do we remove the black mildew that is building up on the caulking in our shower? The shower has marble slabs on the three sides opposite the door that are caulked at the bottom and sides.
Photos from around Sun City.
Huntley Community Radio is a not for profit, 501 (c) 3, charitable organization. Everyone involved is a volunteer who is passionate about local community radio. HCR serves the community with entertaining and informative programming along with broadcasting live various community events.
âShould old acquaintance be forgot and never brought to mind.â Here in Del Webb, as we all get older, that seems to be getting easier and easier to do. We are no exception. We keep a binder with all of our articles, and every year, we take out last year’s reviews, spread them all over the floor in the family room of the Dining Duo’s palatial estate, and attempt to come up with ten of our best restaurants for 2019.
I have seen virtually every Clint Eastwood movie that he has acted in or directed. I watch them for several reasons, first they are always terrific films and I can rest assured that despite the rating there will be little or no profanity, nudity or useless sex scenes. Richard Jewell is an exception.
My family and I recently relocated to my husbandâs hometown and are grateful to live within minutes of his grandparents. While itâs nice to be able to pop in with our little boys and visit them at the drop of a hat, seeing them slowly decline in health is bittersweet. Recently, weâve noticed that they seem to have less and less energy and arenât up for large crowds or long visits.
The holidays are right around the corner, meaning itâs that time of year for joy and festivities. For many, it also brings the daunting task of gift shopping – an activity that tends to hit the hardest for the nearly 39.7 million Americans that live in poverty and simply donât have the means to provide presents to their children this holiday season. However, Sun Cityâs very own Woodchucks charter group has come up with a solution to combat this problem on the local level.
If you are long-time readers of the Sun Day, it might come as a surprise to none of you that I attended opening day of the worldâs largest Starbucks. The four-story (five stories, if you count the rooftop patio) Starbucks Reserve Roastery was unveiled on November 15 of this year at the corner of Michigan and Eerie. To be fair, I didnât plan on doing this.
If you are long-time readers of the Sun Day, it might come as a surprise to none of you that I attended opening day of the worldâs largest Starbucks. The four-story (five stories, if you count the rooftop patio) Starbucks Reserve Roastery was unveiled on November 15 of this year at the corner of Michigan and Eerie.
To be fair, I didnât plan on doing this.
Todd Kane gathered his flock on Saturday, November 23 and readied for the inaugural Sun City 5k Turkey Trot. Kane, along with Debi Calvin, started a walking group this spring.
Todd Kane gathered his flock on Saturday, November 23 and readied for the inaugural Sun City 5k Turkey Trot.
Kane, along with Debi Calvin, started a walking group this spring.
