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Of Greeley & West Weld County ColoradoThe Neatest Little Paper Ever Read ® Issue 807
To Advertise Call 970.475.4829Week of December 28, 2011
4875 W. 10th Street - Greeley - 970.378.7807 - Open Mon - Sat
Bring in your old vacuum& trade it for a NEW
RICCARand receive an extra
$50 to $100$50 to $100Additional trade on
selected models!
Perry’s Vacuum Center
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Made in the USA - Unbelievable Suction PowerTandem Air System - Sealed HEPA Filtration
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By Kathy Wolfe
The music industry has suffered many sad losses over the years. This week, Tidbits brings a sam-pling of those talented legends whose prema-ture deaths resulted in promising careers cut short.
• Baby boomers will recall Ricky Nelson as one of the biggest teen idols of the 1950s and 1960s. Starting out on his family’s television show “Ozzie & Harriet,” Nelson began his re-cording career in 1961 with the million-selling “Travelin’ Man,” followed by another chart top-per “Hello, Mary Lou.” He was still recording in the 1980s with his Stone Canyon Band when he composed the hit “Garden Party.” As Nelson, his fiancée and band members were jetting to a New Year’s Eve 1985 performance, a fire caused by a malfunctioning heater broke out in their DC-3, and the plane crashed, killing the 45-year-old singer and several others.
• Soul singer Otis Redding recorded just one mil-lion-seller and No. 1 hit. Just three days after recording “Sittin’ on the Dock of the Bay” in
1967, the 26-year-old Redding and his band boarded a plane in Wis-consin, encountered a storm, and crashed into Lake Monona. Four months later, the song hit the top spot on the charts.
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One crash took the lives of three rising stars in 1959. Considered a pioneer of rock and roll, 22-year-old Buddy Holly, only a year and a half into his career, had already scored hits “That’ll Be the Day” and “Peggy Sue.” He was on the “Win-ter Dance Party” tour in February of 1959 with 17-year-old newcom-er Ritchie Valens, a teen idol who had just released “La Bamba,” and 29-year-old “Big Bopper” Rich-ardson. The Bopper had recently scored a big hit with “Chantilly Lace.” The winter weather was bit-ter cold as the tour got underway, with the situation aggravated by a malfunction of the heater on their bus. After completing their gig in Clear Lake, Iowa, the group was due to play in Fargo, North Dakota, the following night. The Big Bop-per had the flu, and Holly made the decision to charter a plane to Fargo. With limited seating on the Beechcraft Bonanza, they flipped a coin for seats. Valens won the toss. Bass player Waylon Jennings gave up his winning seat to the Bopper. Within minutes after takeoff, the craft crashed, killing all aboard. It was “the day the music died,” ac-cording to the 1971 Don McLean musical tribute “American Pie.”
• The career of 30-year-old Jim Croce was flourishing in 1973. He had topped the charts with three hits, “You Don’t Mess Around with Jim,” “Time in a Bottle” and “Bad, Bad Leroy Brown.” But life on the road was taking its toll on the
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young singer, and he became homesick for his wife and infant son. Two months after “Leroy” hit No. 1, Croce chartered a plane home for a break. Shortly after takeoff from a Louisiana airport, the Beechcraft E18S hit a tree, killing Croce and four others.
• Considered one of the greatest singers of all time, the velvet-voiced crooner Karen Carpenter, along with brother Richard, racked up 17 Top 20 hits and sales of more than 100 million records in the 1970s, including “Close to You” and “We’ve Only Just Begun.” Yet this beautiful girl with the wholesome image struggled with anorexia for years, and desperate to look slim on stage, dropped as low as 79 pounds. The eating disorder took its toll on her heart and eventu-ally claimed her life in 1983 when she was just 32.
• Even young people have heard the music of Big Band trombonist Glenn Miller, although his music career was only three and a half years long. Such hits as “In the Mood” and “Chattanooga Choo Choo” have endured for decades, and even the re-issues of his hits 40 years after his death have achieved gold status. Miller and his swing band scored 31 Top Ten hits in 1940 and another 11 in 1941, making him the top recording artist for both years. In 1942, the 38-year-old Miller left behind his $20,000-per-week income and joined the Army, organ-izing a 45-member military band that performed for troops and war-bond ral-lies. In 1944, on a flight to Paris, his plane disappeared over the English Chan-nel. It wasn’t determined whether the craft had been shot down or had crashed due to bad weather. The plane was never recovered.
• Patsy Cline was already a Grand Ole Opry star at 26 and the nation’s number one female artist at age 29. Her recording of “I Fall to Pieces” was the Song of the Year for 1962. She survived a nearly fatal head-on collision in 1961 but could only cheat death for one more year. In 1962, after a short five-and-a-half-year career, Cline was killed in a plane crash at age 30 in a swampy woodland in Tennessee. She’s number 46 on Rolling Stone’s list of “100 Greatest Singers of All Times.”
• Back in the late 1960s, Ronnie Van Zant and a couple of his high school bud-dies formed a Southern blues-rock band, calling it My Backyard. In a sarcastic tribute to their P.E. teacher Leonard Skinner, who was famous for rebuking long-haired students, they changed their name to Lynyrd Skynyrd. The group was at the peak of their career in the mid-1970s with sell-out concerts and increasing record sales, thanks to mega-hits “Free Bird” and “Sweet Home Ala-bama.” In 1977, just three days after the release of their sixth album, the band’s private charter plane crashed on its way to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing Van Zant and five others. Although four members of the band survived the crash, they disbanded shortly afterward. Ten years later they reunited, with Ronnie’s younger brother Johnny as the new lead singer. The band, with several member changes, continues to tour today.
• For decades, Salvatore “Sonny” Bono was a recording artist, composer, record producer and actor. Alongside wife Cher, he decked himself out in fur vests, boots, bell-bottoms, beads and long hair, a classic “hippy.” His duet with Cher “I Got You, Babe” rocked the charts, and their television variety show scored high in the ratings. When his music career began to fizzle, he ventured down a
completely differ-ent path, that of politician. He was elected mayor of Palm Springs in 1988 and a U.S. Congressman in 1994. (He is the only member of Congress to have scored a Billboard No. 1 pop single.) In 1998, while skiing near Lake Tahoe, he struck a tree and perished from his injuries.
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OVERCOMING THE ODDS:
FAMOUS DISABILITIESSeveral well-known people have been afflicted
with serious disabilities but have risen above their circumstances to succeed. Let’s check out these individuals who have refused to allow their situations to overwhelm them.
• When the flow of speech is disrupted by rep-etitions or hesitations, the speaker has the dis-order known as stuttering or stammering. As chronicled in the 2010 Academy Award-win-ning film “The King’s Speech,” Great Britain’s King George VI suffered from the disorder and struggled until nearly age 40 when an Austral-ian speech therapist enabled him to overcome it. Prime Minister Winston Churchill also stut-tered due to a defect in his palate, yet went on to become one of history’s greatest orators. You’d never know from watching the “Die Hard” se-ries of action films that Bruce Willis once had a stuttering problem. He signed up for high school drama as a means to overcome it. Actor Samuel L. Jackson’s speech therapist urged him to take up acting as well to overcome his stam-mering. Movie icons Jimmy Stewart and Julia Roberts also were afflicted with the disability.
• Born six weeks prematurely, Stevie Wonder was blind as a result of the incomplete growth of his eyes’ blood vessels. Yet blindness didn’t stop him from signing his first record contract at age 12 and scoring a major hit at age 13. He has achieved more than 30 Top Ten hits and won 22 Grammy Awards, more than any other solo artist. Wonder also took home the Oscar in 1984 for the Best Original Song “I Just Called to Say I Love You.” Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the “Top 100 Greatest Singers of All Time” has Wonder as number 9.
• The learning disability dyslexia impairs a per-son’s reading comprehension. However, it’s cer-tainly not a reflection of lesser intelligence, since Albert Einstein was a famous dyslexic, as were inventors Thomas Edison and Al-exander Graham Bell and authors Lewis Carroll and Agatha Christie. In the entertain-ment industry, Tom Cruise, Or-lando Bloom, Cher, Jay Leno, Danny Glover and Patrick Dempsey have all wrestled with dyslexia. Dempsey counts on memorization to help him with his disability. Henry “The Fonz” Winkler didn’t discover his dyslexia until he was 31 years old, ironically, while making a documen-tary about it.
• Danny Glover has had to deal with not only dyslexia, but epilepsy as well, a condition he developed at age 15. The “Lethal Weapon” star has been a keynote speaker at the National Epi-lepsy Foundation’s conferences. It was the same double disability for Agatha Christie. This neu-rological seizure disorder also afflicted Charles Dickens and Alfred Nobel. Singer and guitarist Neil Young faced the obstacle of epilepsy, along with diabetes and polio. It didn’t seem to stop him from recording more than 50 albums.
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PASTA PARTICULARSSince pasta is one of the world’s favorite foods, it’s
worth a look into some of its history, ingredi-ents and statistics.
• If you’ve eaten pasta this week, you’re part of the 77 percent of Americans who eat it at least once a week. One-third of the population dines on pasta at least three times a week. If you’re an average American, you’ll eat about 20 pounds of the stuff this year. But if you’re a resident of Italy, that figure is 60 pounds!
• Not sur-prisingly, the word “pasta” has its origin in the Italian lan-guage, and translates “paste,” meaning a com-bination of flour and water. High-quality pasta comes from semolina flour, which comes from durum wheat. Using softer flour will result in mushy pasta. North Dakota is the top Ameri-can producer of durum wheat, 73 percent of the U.S. total. That’s enough to dish up about 13.7 billion servings of spaghetti! One bushel of wheat yields about 42 pounds of pasta. Al-most two million tons of pasta is produced in the United States every year.
• Not all pasta is produced from wheat flour. Some varieties are made from rice, barley, corn and beans.
• Explorer Marco Polo dined on pasta in China in the courts of Kubla Khan during the 13th century. It’s believed that the Chinese were eat-ing pasta as early as 3000 B.C.
• Thomas Jefferson is credited with bringing pas-ta to America. During his tenure as U.S. Am-bassador to France, he tasted a pasta dish while visiting Naples, Italy, and enjoyed it so much, he had crates of pasta and a pasta-making ma-chine shipped to America in 1789. However, it wasn’t until 1848 that a Frenchman named Antoine Zerega opened America’s first com-mercial pasta plant in Brooklyn, New York. He used one horse in the basement to power the machinery and placed the strands of pasta on the roof to dry them out.
• Don’t confuse pasta with egg noodles. Pasta is produced by kneading flour and water together. According to government regulations, egg noo-dles must be at least 5.5 percent egg in order to bear that label. The word noodle translates from the German nudel, meaning “paste with egg.” So if a noodle doesn’t contain eggs, it’s not a noodle!
• There are about 600 different shapes of pasta, but its main types are flat (such as fettuccine and lasagna), tubular (manicotti, penne and macaroni), shaped (the wheel-shaped rotelle and bowties), strand pasta (spaghetti and angel hair), spirals (fusilli) and the small soup pasta. Those little bowties are officially known as far-falle. But this term doesn’t have anything to do with ties. It actually means “butterflies.” Ditalo-ni, also known as thimble pasta, is shaped like small cups, and stellini are star-shaped, while anellini are tiny rings of pasta. The very thin strand vermicelli means “little worms” in Ital-ian!
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POSTCARD MARKETING
By Ron RossAn easy way to keep in touch with clients and future clients is a simple postcard every month or so. You can use the ones you buy at the Post Of-fice, but better yet, print them out on your color printer using your cor-porate logo, photographs or other powerful visuals that sell. You can also have very beautiful full-color post-cards printed at very reasonable rates. Here’s a website just getting started that you should look at for both postcards and business cards – www.ViralPrint.com. If you go there, use the refer-ral code: YourDiscountPrinting. You can both SAVE money and MAKE money there.Your postcard message should always be short, personal and problem solving for the recipient. Here are a few ways to use postcards in market-ing your business or service:
• Describe how your business or service positively impacted an existing client and how it can help the reader. “Our new W-76 model in-creased the productivity of International Widget by 54%! You want to increase your productivity as well, so give me a call and I’ll show you how it works!”• Express appreciation. Alisha Collins, owner
of two Tidbits papers in Wyoming uses color postcards to say thanks to her prospects and clients. She carries them in her car and, after a good sales call, she dashes off a thank you note and drops it in the mail before she goes back to her office.
• Postcards can be used to show recognition: “I read in the paper you’re the new president of the Downtown Rotary Club! Congratula-tions!”
• A postcard can be used to make a special offer: “You’ve been a client of ours for three years and we want to offer you a special discount on your next purchase. Bring in this postcard and we’ll give you a 30% discount on all fall merchandise.”
Here’s another advantage - in this digital age, a postcard really stands out. They’re much better than an email or text message because they are unique and much more personal.There are dozens of ways you can use this little but powerful marketing tool to attract attention, increase influence and boost business.------------------------------------------------------Dr. Ross is the publisher of Tidbits of Greeley. To contact him: [email protected]
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• On Dec. 29, 1845, Texas became the 28th state in the United States.
• On Dec. 30, 1940, California’s first freeway opened.
• On Jan. 5, 1643, in the first record of a legal divorce in the American colonies, Anne Clarke of the Mas-sachusetts Bay Colony is granted a divorce from her absent and adulterous husband, Denis Clarke, by the Quarter Court of Boston.
• On Jan. 2, 1971, 66 football (soccer) fans are killed in a stampede at a stadium in Glasgow, Scotland, as they attempt to leave a game. The tragedy was caused by the crush of spectators all leaving at the same time on the same stairway.
• On Jan. 3, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower closes the American embassy in Havana and severs diplomatic relations between the United States and Fidel Castro’s government in Cuba. The action sig-naled that the United States was prepared to take extreme measures to oppose Castro’s regime.
• On Jan. 4, 1847, Samuel Colt rescues the future of his faltering gun company by winning a contract to provide the U.S. government with 1,000 of his .44 caliber revolvers. Though never cheap, by the early 1850s, Colt revolvers were inexpensive enough to be a favorite with Americans headed westward during the California Gold Rush.
• On Jan. 6, 1925, in Madison Square Garden, Finn-ish long-distance runner Paavo Nurmi sets a new indoor world record, running a mile in 4:13.5. In the 5,000-meter race, the “Flying Finn” broke another indoor world record in 14:44.6. Nurmi often ran holding a stopwatch to pace himself, an innovation he developed.
• On Jan 8, 1877, Crazy Horse and his warriors -- outnumbered, low on ammunition and forced to use outdated weapons -- fight their final losing bat-tle against the U.S. Cavalry in Montana. On May 6, Crazy Horse led approximately 1,100 Indians to the Red Cloud reservation near Nebraska’s Fort Robinson and surrendered.
