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A slow melt A front-end loader undertakes the arduous task of pushing back the massive drifts that have plagued motorists in the McHenry area since the turn of Platndealer Herald photo by Anthony Oliver the year. This scene took place Tuesday near the intersection of Ringwood and Wilmot Roads, in Sunnyside. ' ' ' I . 'Modern world' is not so bad 1 wearing a hearing laid and he said to me that he wouldn't like it."-Mittie H. A can phone Blue Cross and inquire. An examination by an otolaryngologist's (ear doctor) aumologist should cost from $25 to $35. Mittie can en­ courage her husband by ex­ plaining to him that millions of Americans are wearing hearing aids with satisfaction and, in countless cases, with much joy because they can hear everything in the world about them again--clearly and totally. At 72, t don't think it makes any difference whether other By Carl Riblet Jr. Q:"We senior citizens are sometimes laughed at for longing for the good old days, when there were horses and buggies and more farms and not so many problems. When freedom rang. Now we have too much machinery, too many automobiles, too much radio and television, too much leisure and entertainment, and too much pressure of advertising. I say- 'stop the world:' Most of us would like to get off, especially those of us who comprehend the simplicity of those good old days."--Ned W. ear and is barely noticeable, anyway. Mittie's husband will be able to hear normally and that is what counts. Once he tries it, he is certain to like it. Almost everybody does. The audiology test may shock him out of his reluctance to wear a hearing aid because he may learn how unhappy it is to miss so much that is good to hear and to thus inflict misunderstanding and irritation on others. " v •§ Q:"When my father died in Honolulu 16 years after serving in the Navy, my mother came here to North Carolina to live with me. She died last month at 80. While going through her papers after the funeral I found part of a classified ad page torn out of a Honolulu newspaper clacked and slid and rocked so with one ad circled in re4 pencil. removed at It aroused my curiosity, i don't says 'Him big fella bockus hit 'em teeth he cry. $150.' s an ad from a second-hand musical instrument store. Can you tell me what it means !"- Leilani M. A:A phone call to Honolulu supplied the answer. The words of the ad are pidgin English, once upon a time used by a music store in Honolulu as an attention-getter to advertise its merchandise. Pidgin English is a simplified speech for com- mbnication between people with different languages, par­ ticularly in the South Pacific imChii I A:Perhaps so. There are • always people who want to get 'off, but Ned should pause a t moment and • medical advances that have ! made the modern worlfl so good ; for most of us. A woman who • enjoys life with insulin to 1 counteract the disease of • diabetes is most likely to perfer «today to 1910. A man, who can chomp nicely into an apple with ' Ins 1985 dentures would not like • to use the store teeth of 1915 that ; that they had to be * meal time so he could smack his understand it. * gums over a repast of soft foods. ; While the horse and buggy ' were just dandy for those who 1 didn't mind curring the horse ; and harnessing it to the buggy, - just imagine the mess that ' horses made of boulevards when ; it rained. The street cleaners, ' call "white wings" in those days, couldn't sweep it up. As for me, I'm glad to be living today, if for no other ; reason that otherwise I would be * dead. Q:"My husband is 72, very I active, and healthy. The only ; problem he has is that he doesn't * near very well out of one ear. ' Does Blue Cross pay on a : hearing aid? How much does an examination cost? How do I i encourage him to be tested? He ; would be very self-conscious This is what the China coast. In pidgin, as I understand it, both people and things are referred to as "fella," big or little. Thus, "him big fella Mary" is a large or fat woman. "Him little fella Joe" is a small man. Any box, from a small shoe box to a huge truck- hauled container, is a "bockus" to all who speak pidgin. Leilani's mother probably was attracted to an advertisement for a used upright piano offered at $150, and bought it. Leilani can read the aa this way, "a piano, a big bockus (a box) has teeth (the piano keys) that when struck by the untutored make a sound that comes out like a cry." I hope Leilani writes to let me know if she remembers the piano in her home when she was a child in Honolulu. If you need information or help on problems of aging, write to Carl Riblet Jr., P.O. Box 40757, Tucson, AZ 85717, with stamped self-addressed en­ velope. No identities revealed. Seminar set on back injuries The Crystal Lake Ambutal will present a breakfast seminar, "Preventing Back Injuries on the Job," Thursday, March 7, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., at the Ambutal. Featured speaker will be Ruth Hathaway, registered oc­ cupational therapist and director of physical medicine for the Crystal Lake Ambutal and Sherman Hospital. The program is designed to help personnel managers, employee health nurses, safety managers and others take ac- Page 11. PLAIN DEALER-HERALD. FRIDAY, MARCH 1,19S5 VCR class offered in March The University of Illinois Extension office in McHenry County has scheduled a! two- hour Tele-net course on how to select and purchase a video recorder that meets your per­ sonal needs announced Nancy Moore, Extension Home Economist. The class will be taught at the extension office, 789 McHenry Avenue in Woodstock with three choices of dates and times. The first will be held March 27 from 7 to 9 p.m., the second on April 3 at 1:30 p.m. and lasting untp 3:30 p.m. The third and last choice will be April 15 from 2 to 4 p.m. Each class is identical, the choice is for your convenience states Moore. The University of Illinois Tele­ net system allows each office to be in direct contact with the University. The class instructor is Carla Rich, Extension In­ structional Television Leader, who will be .presenting the material from Urbana. Persons attending do have the option of asking his or her questions via the Tele-net system. Each lesson will cover in­ formation on video recorders that will answer the questions:' (1) the difference between VHS and Beta, (2) what are the features you can get, (3) what are video clubs and their cost, and (4) what are costs of equipment and tapes. Material also covers the subject of video cameras, features and ap- proximate costs involved. For additional information, or to make reservations, contact the McHenry County office at 789 McHenry Avenue, Box 431, Woodstock, 111. 60098. Phone (815) 338-3737 or 338-4747.* Music students to give concert The Fox Hills Chapter, Illinois State Music Teachers' Association, will present the next concert in its "First Sunday at Four" services on Sunday, March 3, at 4 p.m. The concert will be held at the Bethany Lutheran Church, Crystal Lake Avenue, in Crystal Lake. The public is invited to the free concert. Featured soloists will be Thomas Denker, pianist, and Larry Visk, tubaist. Thomas Denker, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard Denker, is a native of Crystal Lake, and received his training from Marilyn Scherer through high school. While at Central High School, he was active in music, drama and speech, and attended the Interlochen International Music Camp for two summers. He also traveled in Europe one summer with a high school choral group. Denker is a student of Mary Sauer, keyboard artist with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and head of the piano department at DePaul University, where he is preparing for his senior recital. Interested in acoustics and theory of sound and the physics of music, he is currently working on composition for electronic keyboard in­ struments. tion to reduce back injuries in business. Hathaway said that the seminar will highlight screening employees for the right job, analyzing work set­ tings for potential problems, educating employees on back safety and incentives for preventing back injuries. A $5 registration fee includes a continental breakfast. For more information call Cheryl Trester, physical therapist, at the Am­ butal, (815) 455-3650. Buy and install a Bryant Plus 90 " or Formula gas furnace, and we'll pay you back for any month's gas bill from date of installation until June 30, 1985. 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