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Serving Northeast South Dakota & West Central Minnesota • Advertising Information 605-541-0110 • www.LakeAreaTidbits.com
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November 2, 2015Volume 4 • Issue #09
Free
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Laugh-A-Bit with Tidbits I tried to join the Kleptomaniacs Anonymous
meeting – but all the seats were taken.
Q: What do you get when you cross the Godfather with a lawyer?
A: An offer you can't understand.
TIDBITS® CELEBRATES UNUSUAL
November Holidays
by Kathy Wolfe
Over 4 Million Readers Nationwide
JENSEN’S NEW BEDS JENSEN’S RETAIL USED FURNITURE
Couches - Loveseats - Recliners - ChestsTables and Chairs - Dressers - End Tables - Night Stands
Bunkbeds - Refrigerators - Stoves - Washers - Dryers Freezers - Used Mattresses and Box Springs: All Sizes
Antique Furniture - Collectibles - Unique PiecesLots of Miscellaneous to Choose From
WE BUY - SELL - TRADECall Randy: 605-868-9203 ANYTIME
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When we think of November holidays, Thanksgiving most frequently comes to mind. But there are several other unusual observances you may not know about. Tidbits brings you up to date on a few others worth noting. • Folks around the world band together every 11th month
to celebrate “No-Shave November,” when they toss their razors aside for 30 days. Do you know the reason behind this observance? It began in Australia in 2003 as “Movember,” a campaign to raise awareness for prostate and testicular cancers. In the last 12 years, the movement has grown to 21 countries. Participants are urged to show off their mustaches, goatees, or what have you, and then to donate what they would have spent on hair grooming to their country’s cancer society for research. In the U.S., prostate cancer accounts for about 5% of all cancer deaths. Leaders of the foundation hope that men will be asked why they have a beard, which can promote conversations about men’s health.
• MostofusareprobablyunawarethereisaNationalButton Society, let alone National Button Day! The
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The Ortonville High School Theater Department Presents:Make You Laugh, Make You Think • A Fall Festival of 1 Act PlaysSunday, November 15, 2015, 2:00 p.m.Crumpled Classics by Craig Sodaro • The Struggles by Kendra ThomasFriday, November 20, 2015, 7:30 p.m.The Mysterious Case of the Missing Ring by Janie Downey Max-well • Mission: Possible By Craig SodaroSunday, November 22, 2015, 2:00 p.m.Silver’s Secret By Charlotte Nixon • Gossip By Brian Hampton • Two Fronts By Christy Fredrickson – a play dedicated to our American military and their families, to anyone who has served and to those who waited for them.
society was formed in 1938 for all who enjoyed preserving, studying, collecting, and crafting with buttons, and November 16 was designated National Button Day. The organization boasts 3,000 members on four continents.
• November 10 has been designated Sesame Street Day in honor of the premiere of this popular educational program on that day in 1969. Now the most widely-viewed children’s program in the world, it has aired in upwards of 120 countries, with more than 74 million American viewers.
About 8 million Americans tune in every week. Sesame Street was the brainstorm of Joan Cooney, a public TV documentary producer, with the goal of entertaining preschoolers while educating them, particularly underprivileged children. She hired puppeteer Jim Henson to create characters such as Big Bird, Bert and Ernie, Cookie Monster, and Oscar the Grouch. Tests conducted after one year on the air showed that the more kids watched the program, the more they knew, an average of a 19% increase in general knowledge.
• Every year, the third Thursday of Novemberis designated The Great American Smokeout, when all Americans are urged to stop smoking. The challenge is only for 24 hours (this year it’s November 19), but it is the hope of the American Cancer Society that the decision will last forever. The event had its beginnings in 1970, when a Randolph, Massachusetts man named Arthur Mullaney asked people to give up cigarettes for one day and donate the money saved to the local high school’s scholarship fund. A similar campaign was held in Minnesota a few years later, and in 1976, the American Cancer Society had itsfirst officialSmokeout inSanFrancisco.TheSociety reminds citizens that tobacco causes more than 5 million deaths every year, and that the life
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expectancy for a smoker is 10 years less than that of a non-smoker.
• International Tongue Twister Day falls on November 8ththisyear.Theofficialdefinitionofatongue twister is “a phrase containing a combination of alliteration and rhyme strategically designed to be stumbled over.” Some of the more familiar ones include “rubber baby buggy bumpers” and “She sells sea shells by the seashore.” Most of us know that “Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,” but were you aware that Peter Piper was a real person? Pierre Poivre, a one-armed French pirate and horticulturist who lived in the mid-1700s, was known for stealing spice nuts, known as peppers, from Dutch trade ships and planting them in his garden. The Guinness Book of World Records states that the English language’s most difficulttonguetwisteris,“Thesixthsicksheikh’ssixth sheep’s sick.”
• November8th is also X-Ray Day, commemorating the day in 1895 when German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen accidentally discovered the X-ray in
his laboratory. While experimenting with passing high-voltage current through a glass gas tube, Roentgen observed that the beam turned a screen 9feet(2.7m)awayastrangegreenishfluorescentcolor, even though the tube was covered in heavy black cardboard. Realizing that objects could be penetrated by the rays, he made an X-ray of his wife’s hand that clearly showed its bones. Roentgen was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1901 for his discovery.
• November 19 is also Rocky & Bullwinkle Day, to commemorate the original premiere day of Rocky & His Friends (later known as The Bullwinkle Show) on that day in 1959. The animated series, which featured Bullwinkle the moose and his flying squirrel friend Rocket J. Squirrel (Rockyfor short), aired from 1959 to 1964.
• Bullwinkle received his name from the name of a Berkeley, California car dealership called
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• It was early 20th-century American horror novelist H.P. Lovecraft who made the following observation: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.”
• Those who study such things say that Americans spend about $1.65 billion every year on tattoos, and that 45 mil-lion Americans have at least one tattoo.
• Ancient Aztecs believed that when a warrior died, he became a hummingbird.
• In 1974, fast-food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken launched a new marketing campaign in their Japanese stores. Called “Kentucky for Christmas,” it has had a lasting impact on the habits of the Japanese. More than 40 years later, the special fried chicken meal, which comes complete with cake and sparkling wine, is offered every Christmas. It’s so popular that those who fail to order theirs months in advance end up waiting in line for hours on Christmas Day to get their traditional holiday meal.
• Scientists have identified fruit flies that are genetically resistant to getting drunk. It seems the insects have a certain gene that influences their susceptibility to the effects of alcohol; those with the inactive version of the gene are far less likely to get drunk. Those conducting the studies are calling the gene “happyhour.”
• The average citizen of France drinks six times as much wine as the average American.
• You might be surprised to learn that acclaimed Ameri-can author (and noted recluse) J.D. Salinger once worked as an entertainment director for a Swedish cruise line.
• • •Thought for the Day: “A man is like a fraction whose
numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.” -- Leo Tolstoy
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November 7 - 7:30pm Concordia College Orchestra, DD Miller Auditorium, for more info send email to Brad Johnson:[email protected] 11 - 10am Veteran's Day Program at the Codington County Extension Complex, for more info call 605 882-6289.
At Mother of God Monastery - For more info call 605 886-4181November 4 and 18 - Conversation & Coffee from 9:15-10:15am. November 5 and 19 - Understanding the Old Testament sessions from 1:30-3:00pm.November 6 - Healing the Inner Child: A Way to Inner Peace from 7-8:30pm.November 7 - Healing the Inner Child: A Way to Inner Peace from 9:30am-8pm.November 9 and 16 - The Book of Revelation sessions from 6:30-7:30pm.
Watertown SchoolNovember 2 - Play Rehearsal Continues - AudNovember 3 - Novice Debate @ Brookings • Play Rehearsal Continues - Aud • Volleyball/Districts ArenaNovember 4 - Play Rehearsal Continues - AudNovember 5 - Play Rehearsal Continues - AudNovember 6 - Debate / I. E. @ SF Washington • Football Playoffs • Optimist Volleyball (H) 5 - 10PM - ArenaNovember 7 - Debate / I. E. @ SF Roosevelt • Optimist Volleyball Continues - Arena • Orchestra Concert w/Concordia - 7PM - Aud • Volleyball Districts - ArenaNovember 9 - Play Rehearsal Continues - Aud
Great Plains Lutheran SchoolNovember 3 - VB RegionNovember 4 - 10:30am Southeast Tech Sioux Falls Recruiter HereNovember 5 - VB RegionNovember 6 - OI @ Sioux Falls November 7 - Mall of America Trip • 9am BOD Meeting • 10am Auxiliary Meeting • 10am Delegate Meeting • 6:30pm Guthmiller Gym Commons
BullwinkelMotors.TheduolivedinthefictionalFrostbite Falls, Minnesota, which was loosely based on the real city of International Falls, Minnesota. They battled the Russian-esque spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale.
• Happy Area Code Day! In the early 1950s, the Bell Telephone System used human operators to direct long-distance calls to their destinations. However, a change was on the on the way when the North American Numbering Plan was devised, a plan that assigned area codes across the continent. New Jerseyreceivedthefirstareacode,201,followedby the District of Columbia, which was assigned 202.Thefirstcustomer-dialedtelephonecallusingarea codes was made on November 10, 1951, from Englewood, New Jersey, to Alameda, California.
• You probably didn’t know thatNovember 15 isNational Bundt Pan Day, a day set aside to honor thisring-shaped,flutedcakepan.InspiredbytheEuropean fruit cake known as Gugelhupf, the pan was invented by David Dalquist, founder of the NordicWareCompany,in1950.Hefirstcalledita“bund” pan, from the German word for “gathering,” but added a “t” at the end for trademark protection. There wasn’t much enthusiasm about the tube pan until the 1960s, when Texas housewife Ella Helfrich concocted a recipe for the Tunnel of Fudge cake using her Bundt pan, and was awarded second place in the annual Pillsbury Bake-off Contest, taking home a $5,000 prize. Since then, more than 60 million Bundt pans have been sold.
NOTEWORTHY INVENTORS:ELISHA OTIS
The name of Otis conjures up a vision of elevators for most folks, but there was much more to this inventor than just that apparatus. Here are the facts on American industrialist and inventor Elisha Otis. • As a young married man in Vermont, Elisha Otis
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• On Nov. 10, 1775, dur-ing the American Revolu-tion, the Continental Con-gress passes a resolution
that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the Continental Navy. The date is now ob-served as the birthdate of the United States Marine Corps.
• On Nov. 13, 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson, author of “Treasure Island” and “Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,” is born in Scotland. He pursued a career as a writer, but his decision alienated his parents, who expected him to follow the family
trade of lighthouse keeping.• On Nov. 15, 1867, the first stock ticker is unveiled in
New York City, making up-to-the-minute prices available to investors around the country. Since the New York Stock Exchange’s founding in 1792, information had traveled by mail or messenger.
• On Nov. 14, 1900, composer Aaron Copland is born in Brooklyn, New York. Copland was responsible for the creation of some of the 20th century’s most beloved and enduring works of classical music, such the Pulitzer Prize-winning “Appalachian Spring” (1944).
• On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island, the gateway to America, shuts it doors after processing more than 12 million im-migrants since opening in 1892. Today, an estimated 40 percent of all Americans can trace their roots through Ellis Island, located in New York Harbor.
• On Nov. 11, 1978, on the Georgia set of “The Dukes of Hazzard,” a stuntman launches the iconic 1969 Dodge Charger named the General Lee off a makeshift dirt ramp and over a police car. More than 300 different General Lees were used in the CBS TV series.
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• “Here’s a great way to organize in the shop: Use chalkboard paint on the outside of cabinet doors, and
even drawer fronts. You can label the contents, or use the surface to jot down quick measurements if needed. Simple to erase when you make a change. I write down references for a project as I go, and it’s easier to see than shuffling through scrap papers on my workbench.” -- A. in Montana
• Experts say to always crack your egg on a flat sur-face, rather than using the edge of a counter or bowl. More egg-tastic advice is to crack eggs into a small bowl instead of directly to ingredients. If you have a sneaky “bad egg” in your dozen, it’s better to find out before you ruin your baking.
• Attention salad eaters: Got a thick dressing that’s high in fat? Rinse lettuce before dressing your salad. Wet or moist lettuce traps less dressing. If your dress-
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• Another great use for baking soda: Add a cup or two to your toilet bowl. Swish and let sit for 1-2 hours. Flush for odor control and shine.
• “I love to search for recipes online, and I have learned to pay attention to the comments section. You’ll find a lot of explanation and frequently a tweak that many people have found successful. Comments have saved me from oversalting a recipe, as well as making necessary adjustments in temperature and cooking time. I have found complicated techniques broken down in a way that was helpful. It pays to check the comments out!” -- W.G. in Missouri
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November 5 - Estelline American Legion Auxiliary will meet at 7pmNovember 10 - Bookmobile - 9am-1pm Estelline School; 1:15-2pm Estelline Care CenterNovember 3 - Volleyball Districts @ ArlingtonNovember 3 - Estelline vs DeSmet @ 6:00November 5 - Volleyball Districts @ Arlington
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November 3 - District VB at Top Seed (Deubrook and Arlington Host)6:00November 4 - 1:30 Dismissal - Pink DayNovember 4 - District Oral Interp in Brookings (All Day)November 5 - District VB at Top Seed 7:00November 5 - FFA CDE's in Harrisburg (All Day)November 9 - Board Meeting 7:00November 10 - Region VB at High Seed 7:00November 10 - FFA District CDE's in Brookings (All Day)November 11 - Veteran's Day Program in White 9:00
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designed and built his own gristmill, grinding grains intoflour.When it failed toearnaprofit,he converted the operation into a sawmill. Unfortunately, the sawmill was a bust as well, and Otis started building wagons and carriages. Tragically, his young wife passed away, leaving him with an infant and an eight-year-old.
• At34,OtishadremarriedandmovedtoAlbany,New York, where he worked as a doll maker.He tired quickly of the job, and took a position making bedsteads for four-poster beds. While working for that company in Albany, Otis set to work inventing a machine that could turn bedsteads four times faster than doing it manually. Production skyrocketed to 50 units per day. Otis was paid a $500 bonus, enabling him to start up his own business. In the meantime, he was also devising plans for a safety brake for trains and an automatic bread baking oven.
• Tasked with converting a former sawmill into a bedstead factory of his own, Otis was discouraged with the amount of garbage and rubble he had to clean up. Much of it had to be moved to the upper floors of the factory. Otis and his sonswent towork devising a safety elevator for the project. His invention wasn’t the elevator, but rather a safety device that prevented the elevator from falling if the hoisting cable were to fail. The machine featured toothedwoodenguide rails thatfit intooppositesidesoftheelevatorshaft.Hethenfitteda spring to the top of the elevator with the hoisting cables running through it.
• Otis’ elevator was guided by the cables, but if they broke, the spring mechanism was thrown outward into the notches, keeping the cab from falling. When it appeared to be successful, he and
his sons founded the Union Elevator Works, and hesoldhisfirstsafetyelevatorin1853.
• Itwasn’tuntil the1854NewYorkWorld’sFairthat Otis’ contraption gained notoriety. In a daring
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• Monday, November 2nd- No 5th and 6th Boys Basketball with Webster. 7th and 8th GBB starts. Snow Prince and Princess forms are due.• Tuesday, November 3rd- Volleyball districts. • Wednesday, November 4th- District Oral Interp in Watertown, depart at 7:30 am. • Thursday, November 5th- Volleyball Districts in Florence. 5th and 6th GBB (girls only) with GD in Summit at 4:00 pm. • Friday, November 6th- Staff day. Volleyball Districts Championship game in Florence. • Saturday, November 7th- Lutefisk Supper at the hall. • Sunday, November 8th-9:15 am Sunday school, 9:30 am Coffee time, 10:30 am Worship at Hope Lutheran. All are welcome!
LUNCH SPECIALS At RED'S BAR & GRILL11/3 .................................Goulash, slice of bread, and vegetable11/4 ........................................Garden Hotdish and slice of bread11/5 ...... Baked Chicken, mashed potatoes/gravy, and vegetable11/6 ........Meatballs, mashed potatoes with gravy, and vegetable11/7 ............................ Chicken Bacon Swiss Sandwich and fries11/8 ........ Roast beef dinner, mashed potatoes/ gravy, vegetable11/9 ...................................................................Hot beef combos11/10 ..................................... Tator tot hotdish and slice of bread
* all served with dessert
C-STORE OPEN 5AM-9PM M-F; 5:30AM-10PM Sat/Sun
• November 5 - Soup & Chili Bingo Supper, Big Stone City School 5-7pmThis is a fundraiser for our student's field trips• November 11 - Veteran's Day Program, Big Stone City School 2pm
At the Community CenterNovember 2 - City Council Meeting - 7pmNovember 3 - BSC Senior Citizen Potluck Lunch - 12pmNovember 5 - EDA Meeting - 12pm
At the Big Stone American LegionNovember 6 - 5pm Chicken & Fish Fry, fundraiser for the Big Stone Cancer Support Group
At the Big Stone City Municipal Liquor StoreNovember 6 - 9pm Rock-N-Roll Farmer
Big Stone City SchoolOctober 30th: End Q1, 12:30 DismissalNovember 5th: 2:30 Dismissal, PT ConferencesNovember 6th: No SchoolNovember 25th-27th: No School
Big Stone City LibraryJanelle Kelly/Branch Manager400 Washington Street • Big Stone City, SD [email protected] 2-6pm • Saturdays 10am-1pm
demonstration at the Crystal Palace exhibition building, Otis stood on a platform high in the air, and ordered the rope cut. The platform fell just a few inches before Otis’ safety device stopped its descent. Orders for his elevator began pouring in, with the numbers doubling every year. Otis perfected a three-way steam valve engine, which could switch the elevator between up and down aswellasstopthecabrapidly.In1857,thefirstsafety elevator for passenger service was installed inaNewYorkCitydepartmentstore.
• Otis’otherpatentsincludedrailroadcartrucksandbrakes, an oscillating steam engine, a steam plow, and a baking oven. His success was cut short when he contracted diphtheria in 1861 and perished from the disease at age 49 in 1861. Sadly, he didn’t live to see one of his safety elevators installed in Paris’ Eiffel Tower for the 1889 World’s Fair. The Otis Elevator Company gained further notoriety when their elevators were installed in the Chrysler Building in 1930, at the time the world’s tallest building, and the Empire State Building in 1931, which grabbed the title from Chrysler.
PLAN YOUR EPITAPHOne of the more unusual November observances takes placeonNovember2.PlanYourOwnEpitaphDayis the day set aside for you to determine what your tombstone should say about your life. Take a look at how some folks chose to be remembered. • The word “epitaph” has its origins in the Greek
and Latin meaning “a funeral oration” or “over tomb.” Some epitaphs testify of the deceased’s character, whether good or bad, while others are designed to make the reader smile or contemplate his own mortality.
• Merv Griffin, host of a popular talk show for23 years, passed away in 2007 at age 82. His humorous tombstone contradicted the phrase he had uttered thousands of the times over the years, with the epitaph reading, “I will NOT be right back after this message.”
• Oftenreferredtoas“themanwith1,000voices,”Mel Blanc, the voice behind our favorite cartoon characters including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, SylvestertheCat,andYosemiteSam,chosealinepopularized by another of his characters, Porky Pig, as his final sign-off. The engraving on histombstone appropriately reads, “That’s all folks.”
• Some epitaphs speak of the reason behind the entombed’s death, such as “First a cough carried meoff.Thenacoffintheycarriedmeoffin,”or“She always said her feet were killing her, but nobody believed her,” and the classic, “I told you I was sick.”
• Some folks allowed their next-of-kin to pen their epitaph, and may not have liked the results. Consider what one husband had engraved on his wife’s tombstone: “To follow you I’m not content. How do I know which way you went?” Another
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The CGB Industrial Arts Club is holding a raffle until Febru-ary. The tickets are $10 each & will be drawn at a boys home basketball game in February. The CGB Industrial Arts Club appreciates your support!!
The Football team will be selling District Championship shirts until November 13th. Call school for more info.
November 2 - 5pm AARP 4 Hour Refresher CourseNovember 2 - 7:30pm Graceville Firemen's MeetingNovember 2 - 7:30pm Public Info on Special ElectionNovember 3 - 7am-8pm Special ElectionNovember 3 - 8pm Sno RiderNovember 4 - 8:30am TOPSNovember 4 - 6:30pm Al-AnonNovember 4 - 7pm Graceville Women's OrganizationNovember 5 - 6pm Women & MoneyNovember 8 - 5pm Adult VolleyballNovember 9 - 7:30pm Graceville American LegionNovember 10 - 7:30pm Graceville Ambulance
rubber boots and raincoats is a happy pastime for Canadian-born Melissa Oliveri and her 5-year-old son Luca. And when the leaves change color, it’s even more of an adventure, espe-cially when the falling leaves in their neighborhood are Melissa’s beloved maples, the symbol of her homeland.
Pockets full of colorful maples are often the centerpiece of fun learning activities when they get home — like creating an artful version of the Cana-dian flag. Noting the 11 points on the leaf, they sandwich it between pieces of adhesive-backed, self-laminating sheets and glue it to the center of a large sheet of white art paper. Melis-sa draws two vertical red lines from top to bottom on the paper, about two inches from the side edges of the leaf. Luca fills in the two borders with red markers, crayons or paint, and it’s ready to hang.
Explore the magic of leaves and other nature finds where you live this week. Here are two more ideas:
SWIMMING IN THE LEAVESIf raking the yard is on your to-do
list, set out your kiddie pool before you store it for winter, and fill it to overflowing with fallen leaves. Luca enjoyed active afternoons as a pre-schooler “swimming,” “splashing” and “kicking” in the contained space of crackly red and gold leaves, while Melissa and her husband got the rak-ing done.
PRESS AND FRAMEFirst, press a variety of shapes and
colors of leaves. Spread them out on smooth paper towels. Place heavy books on top and let the leaves dry for a couple of days. Remove books and gently remove leaves. Or, simply press them in pages of a phone book.
Group them together in an inex-pensive poster frame, and display in a prominent place in your home. If you have a collage-style frame with outdated or faded photos, remove them and frame different leaves in the square and/or oval sections of the mat-ting.
***Donna Erickson’s award-winning
series “Donna’s Day” is airing on pub-lic television nationwide. To find more of her creative family recipes and activ-ities, visit www.donnasday.com and link to the NEW Donna’s Day Facebook fan page. Her latest book is “Donna Erick-son’s Fabulous Funstuff for Families.”
husband declared, “Here lies my wife. I bid her goodbye. She rests in peace and now so do I.”
• The mother of outlaw Jesse James chose theepitaph for her 34-year-old son’s grave, “Murdered by a traitor and a coward whose name is not worthy to appear here.” She was referring to an unarmed Jesse being shot in the back of the head by a member of James’ own gang. The name she considered unworthy was Bob Ford.
• Tombstone, Arizona’s Boot Hill Cemeterycontains the remains of another outlaw, whose clever inscription reads, “Here lies Lester Moore,
shot 4 times with a .44, No Les No More.” Another Boot Hill grave has the epitaph, “Here lies George Johnson, hanged by mistake 1882. He was right, we was wrong, but we strung him up and now he’s gone.”
• How about a play on words on a surname oroccupation? A British lawyer named John Strange chose his inscription to read, “Here lies an honest lawyer, and that is Strange.” A dentist opted for “Stranger! Approach this spot with gravity! John Brownisfillinghislastcavity!”JohnnyYeast,aRuidoso, New Mexico, gentleman’s gravestone is etched,“HereLiesJohnnyYeast.Pardonmefornot rising.”
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CLINTON, MNNovember 2 - 6pm Clinton Women's Civic ClubNovember 3 - 8pm Clinton American LegionNovember 4 - 4-7pm Clinton Women's Civic Club's 1st Ever Holiday Expo, Memorial Building, questions contact Donnette or Chelsea at 320-325-5401.November 9 - 7pm Clinton Firemen's Meeting
CGB SchoolNovember 3 - 3:30pm Ceramics, CGB Elementary Art RoomNovember 3 - 6pm ECFC, CGB Elementary 3 Year Old Preschool RoomNovember 5 - 3:30pm Camp-Move-ItNovember 6 - No School/Teacher Workday
Congratulations to Ed Atyeo for being inducted into the South Dakota Municipal League Hall of Fame at the an-nual conference held in Watertown earlier this month!
November 11 - 2pm Veteran's Day Program on TVNovember 13 - Prime Rib at Melvee's
Deuel School DistrictNovember 2 - Football Play-offsNovember 3 - 7pm Region VBNovember 5 - 3pm FFA Leadership Contest @ HarrisburgNovember 5 - 7pm Region VBNovember 6 - No School November 7 - FB Play-OffsNovember 9 - 5pm School Board MeetingNovember 10 - MS Science FairNovember 10 - FFA Leadership Contest @ BrookingsNovember 10 - 7pm Region VB
November 2 - 4:30pm 5-6 BB Wilmot @ Henry - Girls FirstNovember 2 - 6pm I Cook November 3 - 7pm Volleyball DistrictsNovember 4 - 10am Oral Interp DistrictsNovember 5 - 6pm Volleyball DistrictsNovember 6 - 8:30pm Volleyball Districts ChampionshipNovember 7 - 7pm Iron Man VolleyballNovember 9 - 4:30pm 5-6 BB Wilmot @ Waverly SS - Girls FirstNovember 10 - TATU TrainingNovember 10 - 7am Volleyball RegionNovember 10 - 6pm I Cook
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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: A local pet charity is going to hold a Halloween-themed pet walk, where participants bring their dogs in costume to parade along a local street. My question is, do these kinds of charity events really help pets in need? They just seem like chichi see-and-be-seen social gatherings without any real purpose. -- Dan in Long Beach, California
DEAR DAN: Charity events can do a tremendous amount of good for pets in need. Besides donations of food, blankets and other items, most shelters and nonprofits need cold hard cash in order to function. These events can raise quite a bit of money.
Many pet owners join in walks like these just for fun, and I think that’s fine. They’re proud of their pet and want to show it off, and it’s a great chance to socialize (as long as the dogs can handle large crowds).
However, if you’re also concerned about how your donation
Do Charity Events Really Help Pets?
By Sam Mazzotta
will be used, it doesn’t hurt to do some research first. What exactly does the charity support? (Some fund pet rescues or local shelters; others advocate for seniors and their pets, and so on.) How much of its funding goes directly to the cause being supported?
You can find the answer through watchdog groups like Char-ity Navigator (www.charitynavigator.org/), Guidestar (www.guidestar.org/Home.aspx) or the Wise Giving Alliance (www.give.org/). You also can check an approved nonprofit’s 990 tax forms from the IRS to see how efficiently donations are used.
If you’re still skeptical, save those funds and donate them
directly to your local shelter, where you can ask someone how that money is used, and it generally travels the shortest path toward helping animals in need.
