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D-8 Home Life Wednesday, May 17, 2017 The Press-Dispatch To enter the Birthday Club, email your name, ad- dress, phone number and birthdate to birthdayclub@ pressdispatch.net. Only the person's name, town and birthday will appear in the paper. As an added bonus, one lucky person each month will receive a free prize from a local business and a free three month Press-Dispatch subscription. This month's birthdays have a chance to win a $20 gift certificate to Jewel Craft Jewelers. THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS Cathy Dearing .............................. Otwell .......... 5/17 David Dorsey............................. Petersburg .......5/18 Cindy Ridao ................................. Otwell ......... 5/20 Braden Knight ........................... Petersburg .......5/21 THIS MONTH'S SPONSOR 217 Main St., Vincennes • 1-812-882-7603 My Point of View by Dr. H. K. Fenol, Jr., M.D. www.pressdispatch.net/subscribe and your budget fits in your POCKET Sign up today Just $5 per year additional to current paper edition subscribers or $35 per year for NETedtion only. net edition pressdispatch.net/edition Web, Smartphone, Tablet Sweet's Column by Barbara Sweet Hi stars and welcome to this big stage all lit up in colorful lights and decorated to help celebrate with all our stars who will have a birthday or anni- versary in the week of May 18 to the 24, so come on up onto this big stage and take a bow. May 18 – Darlene Broshears turns 69 years, Logan Mattox Guthrie turns 10 years, Grace Olivia Jean Jones turns 9 years. May 19 – Rachael Ehrich turns 31 years, Joshua Popp turns 29 years. May 20 – Eric Dillman turns 31 years, Dustin Dove turns 30 years. May 21 – Brittaney Merritt turns 21 years, Chelsea Loveland. Curtiss and Michelle Genco will celebrate three years. May 22 – Matthew Nicholson turns 37 years, Makenna Goins turns 16 years, Jonathan Stokes turns 16 years, Mike An Joseph turns 43 years, Tif- fany McCandless. Andrew and Mary- beth Bolin will celebrate 7 years. May 23 – Katie Green turns 37 years, Mike Russell turns 61 years. John and Mindy Gayhart will celebrate 2 years. May 24 – Madison Braunecker turns 6 years, Joshua Travis turns 18 years. May all our stars have a really great day and may all your wishes come true. Keep in your heart and in your prayers all our stars who need that card, visit, phone call and that daily thought of them to help them have a pleasant day. We all still have the aller- gies of pollen or the poisons that grow in almost everybody's yards, the ticks are a new breed and the mosquitoes are still abundant since the weather has changed to hot, then the aches and pains we all have after any project is done. Events coming up in Winslow and the surround- ing areas are: May 18 – Winslow Lions Club will meet at 7 p.m. at the Trading Post. Pike Co. Moms Group at 7 p.m. at the Otwell United Methodist Church. May 22 – Winslow Girl Scout Troop 211 will meet at 6 p.m. in the House of Mercy Church basement. Anyone wishing to join, call Robyn Goins at 1812-789 -2756. May 24 – Last day for all Pike Co. Schools so have a great summer and congrats to all our stars who will go to another grade, or out in the work force or on to more education. May 29 – Memorial Day – There will be short ceremonies at most cemeter- ies in the morning hours and you can find those times in the Press-Dispatch. Winslow 10th Memorial Day Parade is at 2 p.m., with line up at 1 p.m. at the Winslow Elementary School parking lot and we would love you to partici- pate in the parade or to be the stars on Main St. as we travel South on Main to Union to Oak Hill Cemetery. There will be a service held to Honor our fallen ser- vice men and women. We would love to have every- one who can to come and honor our loved ones who fought and died to keep our Freedom. Winslow Learning Center is open every Monday from noon to 6 p.m. at the Snyder Com- munity Center. Winslow Seniors meet at the Sny- der Community Center on Monday and Tuesday. Petersburg Seniors met on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday in the Courthouse Basement. Postcards this week were none at Sweets Column Winslow, IN 47598. Since this is or was, when you read the column, Mother's Day, your cup of coffee may be still warm. I did go somewhere to celebrate Mother's Day instead of writing more, but I hope ev- ery Mother had a great time with fam- ily and you all got to hear those words " I Love You, Mom." Keep an eye on family and friends, slow down and enjoy life all around you and always smile, wave and say Hi to everyone you see this week. My son holds up six nearly identical Crayola crayons in his hand and pre- sents them to me one by one. "What's this one called? " he asks. "Green." "And this one? " "Green." "What about this one? " "Green." "No, Mama! What are their real names? " Oh, how foolish of me. Have so many decades passed that I have for- gotten the utter importance of know- ing the given name of each crayon in the 120 -count box, how I used to line them up according to the coolness of their names, how desperately I want- ed to one day grow up and become the person who bestows such greatness on- to the highest level of art a kid can as- cend to – crayon art? I read the names to my son: pine green, forest green, middle green, me- dium chrome green, maximum green and asparagus. "Oh," my son said. "Yeah," I replied, matching his dis- appointment. Asparagus, huh? Really captured the essence of a kid with that one, didn't ya? I take names very seriously. Every time I meet someone who says she de- cided to name her kid Piper or Mary just because it sounds pretty, I start to hyperventilate. A steady stream of questions leave my mouth in a single breath: "Yes, but there are a lot of pret- ty names in this world. Is it a family name? Do the initials stand for some- thing? What emotions does the name conjure? What connection do you have to the name? What mental image of your daughter does the name elicit? Why that pretty name? " I don't mind the reason, as long as there is one, but most often I'm met with a shrug and the question, "You don't think (fill in any name here) is pretty? " That's not the point. But for the record, I do not think the name "medium chrome green" is pretty. My first job out of college was with a toy and licensing company, for which I came up with dirty bumper stickers that you can still find proudly plastered on the backs of rusted-out pickup trucks down dark, seedy alleys in a town near you! It was the perfect post-degree gig for a creative writing major who had no in- tention of becoming an adult too soon. Every week, there was something new they wanted me to write: shirt slogans for a bachelorette party, "over the hill" gags, princess keychains. No assign- ment got me more pumped, howev- er, than when fake street signs were dropped onto my desk. Like my dream of one day naming crayon colors, be- coming a street sign scribe was high on my bucket list when I became a creative writing major. Growing up on lackluster Allenhurst – when my neigh- borhood was otherwise surrounded by strong Native names of Sioux and Seneca – I vowed to never allow anoth- er kid to live with the shame of a boring street name. Here, at last, I was given my chance! I would name the streets of the country. I would make a difference in this world! My boss quickly reminded me that I worked for a novelty toy company, not the government. And rather than have me write anything empowering, he said he really would prefer I write something more along the lines of Bong Boulevard. It was not the shining moment of my career that I had hoped it would be. That being said, more than a decade later, you can still find my fake street signs in gift shops around the country. You're welcome, America! When it comes to the name game, it seems that pharmaceutical com- panies have the right idea. The drug names conjure up feelings of your de- sired results. Lunesta treats insom- nia. The name is a combination of "lu- na," Latin for "moon," and "siesta," a nap. Heck yeah, I want a moon nap! Be- cause you know what a moon nap is? It's sleep – something every insomni- ac surely craves. Lunesta is a brilliant name. Much better than Allenhurst or Piper or Mary or any other name that was selected without reason. I think Crayola needs to up its name game and give children's crayons the names that suit their imagination. "Middle green"? I don't even know what that means. But I do know what "slimy swamp creature green" means. What about "witch's wart green" or "cool caterpillar green" or "grass stain green"? When the best thing you've got going for you is asparagus, it's time for some self-reflection. Like Katiedid Langrock on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/katiedid- humor. Katiedid vs... by Katiedid Langrock The 'name game' is important Rev. Robert King celebrates 80th birthday with open house On Saturday, May 20 at 3 p.m., Rev. Robert King will celebrate his 80th birthday with an Open House at the Winslow Nazarene Church Fellowship Hall. All friends and relatives are invited to attend. Cards may be sent to: Rev. Robert King, 6019 S. Augusta Main Street, Winslow, IN 47598. They request no gifts. Flowers. Year after year, many of us welcome spring and summer. I say this because we start see- ing a lot of plac- es selling beau- tiful flowers. Don't you get a festive and up- lifting mood when you ap- proach stores that stock col- orful flowers and plants? When I bring my grand- kids shopping, they all get excited to see the colorful array of different flowers that greet shoppers at the front of the stores. Now, I have often gotten this puz- zle in my mind of how did these flowers produce such brilliant colors and such wonderful shapes? Did these happen by accident? Evolution? Somebody or someone was behind this amazing display of beauty? Do some thinking using logic and reason. You make the con- clusion. One of the things I cannot resist is to buy a bunch of these flowers and plants from the store because they are just so tempting to work on. It is so easy to get car- ried away. Doing flower gardening is a mix of hard work, good exercise, satis- faction, etc . to create and coordinate planting these flowers. It is so rewarding to see them multiply and grow, but like anything beautiful, it requires work and sacrifice and patience to tend to them. We hope to savor the beauty of these colorful creation for next several months. • • • I was doing some light reading, one of my favor- ite materials to read ev- er since I can remember is the Reader's Digest. In the June 2017 issue, there was an article about nine easy Eco-Friendly Back- yard Tips. The author is Rachel Lis- ka from Birds and Blooms. I think they are quite help- ful and makes a lot of sense. Here they are: 1) Let the grass grow, mow less often so the roots of the grass can grow deeper to help survive dry spells. 2) Grow local- mean- ing try to select plants and flowers that tend to grow in the area since they tend to sur- vive better. 3) Water right away- water before 10 a.m. when the air is cool and not as much mois- ture is lost to evaporation. Watering late in the afternoon is the sec- ond best option, though be sure that foliage has time to dry before damp night- time temperature and fun- gal diseases set in. 4) Get keen on com- posting- like kitchen left overs- such as veggie and fruit scraps, tea bags, egg shells, dry leaves, untreat- ed glass clippings. 5) Be efficiently wild- take a corner of your lawn and replace the grass with something that requires less watering. 6) Mulch fall leaves with your mower instead of bag- ging or burning them. Leaf fragments add nutrients to the soil. A friend of mine who is a soil expert said the brown leaves that fall from trees contain food for the trees, and that nature has let these process happen in forests eversince. 7) Save with solar light- ing, spotlights, deck lights, path lights. They do look lovely at night. 8) Give bees the green carpet treatment. Honey- bees, butterflies, and hum- mingbirds help pollinate 75 percent of our flowering plants and nearly 75 per- cent of our food crops. 9) Opt for earth friendly outdoor furniture, such as furniture made from aca- cia and teak wood. There are many more tips on this matter but space does not allow me to expound on this. • • • Who on earth dreams these up? Venison for dinner again? Oh deer. England has no kidney bank, but it has Liverpool. How does Moses make tea? Hebrews it. Velcro-what a rip off. I got a job at a bakery be- cause I kneaded dough. Birthdays