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She was in the bathroom, putting on her makeup, under the watchful eyes of her young granddaughter, as she'd done many times before. After she applied her lipstick and started to leave, the little one said, 'But Grandma, you forgot to kiss the toilet paper good-bye!' I will probably never put lipstick on again without thinking about kissing the toilet paper goodbye.

Irving Benson and Jessie Carter were married on Oct. 24 in the church.

Thank God for church ladies with typewriters. These sentences actually appeared in church bulletins or were announced in church services.

My first experience with cardiopulmonary resuscitation was during the summer of 1969. I was an orderly in a Minneapolis intensive care unit (ICU) when my patient stopped breathing. I called for help and provided mouth-to-mouth breathing until the team arrived. Later the doctor told me I saved the patient’s life, further convincing me that medicine was my life’s purpose.

There were 20 migrating white pelicans on Lake Helen last week. The birds overwinter along the Gulf Coast and then nest in the northern Great Plains. They pass through Nebraska both during the spring and fall, and some even stick around all summer long. During migration, you can see large flocks of them circling and riding the thermals. They are graceful flyers.

Two elderly women were out driving in a large car - both could barely see over the dashboard. As they were cruising along, they came to an intersection.

From the Collection of Pat Young Remember when: You were born a daughter. You looked up to your mother.

Don’t you love the sound of that first thunderstorm after winter with all the lighting and thunder? Lighting is described as a ”natural electrical discharge of very short duration and high voltage between a cloud and the ground or within a cloud”. This high voltage discharge can heat the surrounding air to 50,000*F., which is hotter than the surface of the sun! The air with that kind of heat expands rapidly sending out a series of shock waves.

1. Restores and cleans padded leather dashboards in vehicles, as well as vinyl bumpers.

The dog and I took a walk along the river road and I wished I had along my son’s ranger beads. Ranger beads are a string of beads that soldiers use and they are like an abacus. There are two sections. The top has four beads and the bottom has nine. You simply count 100 paces and then slide a lower bead from one end to the other. After you have the nine lower beads to one end, after the next 100 paces you slide one of the upper beads. You have now walked 1000 paces. At that point, you start sliding the beads back. Using the beads you can easily keep track of up to 5,000 paces, or close to five miles.