Amy Dickinson Tribune Content Agency Dear Amy: I’m a senior woman, divorced for more than half my life. Recently I’ve hired a worker (30 years younger than I) to update my home, which badly needed some work done.
BY JENNIFER LASALLE When the tomatoes are blushing red and the cucumbers get plump, and sweet corn turns up at your front door, what do you think of? If you are like a growing number of Americans, you imagine shapely glass jars packed with a bountiful harvest of good things, beautiful to look at, delicious to taste, and a delight to both give and receive. Home canning was once the only way to “stock up” for the winter.
BY BEVERLY SCHMITZ GLASS July at the Finney County Humane Society was a blockbuster of a month that included a three-week long Empty the Shelter pet adoption event. FCHS partnered with the Bissell Pet Foundation to offer this reduced adoption fee program which featured a spay or neuter procedure (if animal was too young the adopter received a voucher for the procedure later on), rabies vaccine, microchipping and City tags all for $50.
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Local residents make their way through a food line Tuesday night in a Fnney County Public Library parking lot during a National Night Out event. Tyson Fresh Foods donated 160 pounds of hamburgers for the event, as Black Hills Energy employees grilled up the burgers. This was the first year the library held a block party with the event. BRAD NADING/GARDEN CITY TELEGRAM
Dear Amy: I love my friend “Charlene,” but she is the very definition of high-maintenance. She drinks way too much - every day - and sleeps with strangers she meets in bars.
Ceyda Kural, left, shows Jack Demel, 5, a close up view of a clover leaf through a microscope, with the image shown on a laptop, Sunday at Lee Richardson Zoo during a “Microbes on the Move” event. The science outreach program event was provided by the University of Kansas Natural History Museum and presented locally by the zoo and the Finney County Public Library. Kural is a KU graduate student and program assistant. BRAD NADING/GARDEN CITY TELEGRAM
Dear Amy: My wife of over 25 years is foreign-born. She travels to her home country for an extended period almost every year.
I wonder if it was always called a family reunion. Maybe it was just normal family gatherings or maybe families were so spread apart they never got together.
Pablo Picasso stated “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” We arrive in the world brimming with passion and natural creativity, yet as we grow and age, we begin to concern ourselves with what others think or if we have enough talent or if we’re drawing or painting things correctly, instead of just letting our creativity flow.