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' / • « 4 - S>^. # PAGE 4 - PLAINDCALER • WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, ISM /\f iUp 117AA|f Learning my way around the grocery store IMs week Crime Stoppers is during the burglary. It 4 Seems strange. Nobody warned me about an early deadline for Labor Day week. Usuallythree fellow workers get a degree of joy about letting me know. Walsh ghjter, Aleen, went witb me aira zipped arourid the store like grandma. • • My first trip alone was somewhat of a disaster. Twas discouraging to say the least. I made boo-boos on thf first four items on the list and another one barely passed censorship. • j .Now, I am gaining. Found odt that a helpless man can get help from lady shoppers by asking or just standing there. with a puzzled (dumb) look. 1 get a bit lost-A Some nice ladies have been .angels to me as they helped find various items. In some oases, I have walked right past an item on my list without seeing it. As I drove past McHenry State Bank, the thermometer showed 95 degrees. So I drove on a passed Mc- Cracken Field where the Warrior Football team was out for practice. I used to think football was a cold weather sport. Wheeling along, I passed the McHenry Country Club and saw golfers swinging away. , You don't have to be funny to be out there in that hot sun without an umbrella, but it helps! J Way back when population was today's figure, the area was known as a summer resort. w Honrv,c seeking information on a rattier <« S7* th* "r4 As a eater. shopper, I'm a great It has been a month now since Alvina has been able to do the grocery sfl&pping. I'm gaining experience. • My first trip was a breeze. Our "CONCERT TICKETS • The board of trustees and auxiliaries of the Chicago- Northern Illinois Chapter, •National Multiple Sclerosis 'Society, are offering 1,500 main ; floor and first balcony tickets to •a recital by violinist Itzhak 'Perlman at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. -14 in the Auditorium Theatre, ; Chicago. Tickets are priced fom ;$75 to $100 with proceeds over ; cost to benefit research studies ; funded by the Multiple Sclerosis »Society. Tickets may be ordered !from the Chicago-Northern 5 Illinois Chapter, MS Society at *53 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, • 60604. Additional information is > available by calling (312) 922- ;8000. ;CAR RALLY » The seventh Annual Lake > Geneva Classic Car Rally, a Z benefit for the American Cancer 1 Society, will be held Sunday, * Sept. 23 at the Americana Lake I Geneva Resort. Over $3,000 in 'prizes will be awarded. I Proceeds of the Classic Car I Ralfy are for Childhood Cancer ; Research. Almost $35,00tif has * been raised since 1978 when the - rally tour was originated. For £ further information contact: * Jean Ledger, P.O. Box 544 Lake -Geneva, 53147 or call (414) 248- S 4505. It was in the Northern Illinois Medical Center where a per­ sonable young man walked up to me and said, "You don't know me, but you know my Mom." The young man was Tom Merkel. Now, I learn that he lost his life in an automobile ac­ cident. The news saddened m»< I liked that young man. I saw 'enough so steered the gas buggy home to our air- conditioned living room. Labor Day came and went. Now we go through my favorite season of autumft. crisp day, when leaves lose grip and fall gracefully to the ground, is my kind of day. Then comes winter, but let's not get into that. 7T~ Labor Day is the day when labor takes a holiday. In my day, schools opened right after Labor Day and closed just before Decoration Day. Must have had shorter vacations throughout the year. PROFESSIONAL & SERVICE JACK WALSH. AGENT EARL R. WALSH. BROKER INSURANCE «c BONDS ' Mrm. Awt*. Farm. IN* MMAtU COMPAMtS Ml* V* Km St.. McMmry MS-MOO DENNIS CONWAY AUTO.ltrt.MK State Farm Ins. Co. Ml* W. Dm M. MS-7III McHENRY COUNTY OFFICE MACHINES SAltt. MCVIC<1 KNTALS / MM,W MiM. FrMar HI *00. 9) Grant Si.. CifiMl Ldw i-rat DR. LEONARD BOTTARI MM.. Twot., Ttwrt..Nt.,44f.M.. «.. Ttiwr*.. M. 7-»p.m.. 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