Tidbits of Casper 04/19/12

April 19 - 25, 2012 Tidbits of Casper - For Advertising call 307-473-8661 • 161 South Fenway, Casper, WY Page 1

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April 19 - 25, 2012

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Office worker to supervisor:“I don’t like the new copier.

It says ‘put face down,’ but every time I do it, it blinds my eyes.”

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Hi, Ladies, I want to invite all of you ABC Charm lovers to a “Designing Women” Charm Jewelry Contest with Brighton. This contest will begin on Monday, April 9th and end on Friday, April 20th. It is easy to enter your design. Just read the directions below and you will be included: 1. Design a charm bracelet inspired by a heroine in your life. • Build a bracelet in store • Use the Charm Builder at Brighton.com OR • Bring a color photo to Total Elegance Boutique2. Fill out an entry form including a picture of your bracelet and a brief summary describing the meaning behind your jewelry creation.3. May 6th – May 12th the top 10 finalists will be posted on Facebook and Brighton.com for a nationwide vote open to all. The three Grand Prize Winners who receive the most votes will be chosen on May 13th, Mother’s Day. The designs will be showcased on our website and will receive the following prizes:

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• It’s tough to eat home-cooked meals as a single eater -- most recipes are geared for multiple

portions, and you probably don’t want to eat the same thing for five days straight. Try this: Get together with some friends and have a potluck. Each guest brings an entree and at least two side dishes, in extra-large portions, and his or her own leftovers containers. Split the food up amongst the guests, packaged as meals. Everyone can cook once and eat for a week.

• “If your baby gets very rashy on her backside, try to give her some “air time” each day. Just an hour a day with no diaper has made a big difference in my baby girl’s rash.” -- H.P. in Illinois

• “Leftover dry-erase calendars make good bingo-card bases. Cut out a 5 by 5-inch section, and use a permanent marker to fill the squares with small random numbers. Make matching call cards from the unused squares. Place the call cards in a sandwich baggie

and the rest in a larger plastic bag. Include a couple of dry-erase markers, and you have a set that can be used anywhere (ours is in the car) over and over again.” -- E.W. and S.D. in Oregon

• Did you have too much fun last summer? Be

ready to soothe that sun-kissed skin this year with frozen aloe vera. Use an ice-cube tray to freeze aloe vera gel, and let the soothing begin!

• Control kids’ artwork with a digital photo album. Take photos of the best pictures of the month, then arrange them in a scrapbook template and print them out. Keep the pages in a three-ring binder. Label with the child’s name.

Send your tips to Now Here’s a Tip, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475 or e-mail JoAnn at [email protected].

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DEAR PAW'S CORNER: Our dog, "Kerry," has pigmentary keratitis, and our vet prescribed tacro-limus and gentamycin solutions, which are very expensive. Instead, we are trying Similasan dry eye relief in Kerry's eyes. Is this safe to use? It seems to be working. -- C. Tobias

DEAR C.: Pigmentary keratitis can be difficult to treat, and often is chronic in many dogs. According

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to vision4pets.com, this clouding of the cornea is caused by chronic inflammation stemming from a number of possible issues, such as constant irrita-tion from hairs, decreased tears, an incomplete blink reflex, abnormally shaped eyelids or very prominent eyes -- such as those seen in pugs and other short-faced breeds.

Because it's chronic, Kerry likely must be treated with eyedrop solutions like the ones you mentioned, and they are indeed often expensive.

Using Similasan may be one option. According to justanswer.com's veterinary section, while this dry-eye treatment is normally for humans, it can be applied to your dog's eyes two or three times a day.

The website didn't find Similisan to be very ef-fective, but if it's work-ing for Kerry, then it's worth a try. Just be sure to tell Kerry's vet that

you're using it so that he can monitor its effectiveness and make sure that it's safe for your dog.

As far as using it long term, definitely consult the vet. Treating pigmentary keratitis properly is impor-tant, because not only does it make your dog more comfortable, it also slows or prevents the pigmenta-tion of the cornea, which can cause vision loss.

Send your questions or tips to [email protected], or write to Paw's Corner, c/o King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. For more pet care-related advice and information, visit www.pawscorner.com.



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Mother’s Day - May 13, 2012

Mothers Day Trivia:Shortest Interval Between Two ChildrenJayne Bleackley is the mother who holds the re-cord for the shortest interval between two children born in separate confinements. She gave birth to Joseph Robert on September 3, 1999, and Annie Jessica Joyce on March 30, 2000. The babies were born 208 days apart.

Longest Interval Between Two ChildrenElizabeth Ann Buttle is the mother who holds the record for the longest interval between the birth of two children. She gave birth to Belinda on May 19,1956 and Joseph on November 20, 1997. The babies were born 41 years 185 days apart. The mother was 60 years old when her son Joseph was born.

Highest Recorded Number of ChildrenThe highest officially recorded number of children born to one mother is 69, to the first wife of Feodor Vassilyev (1707-1782) of Shuya, Russia. Between 1725 and 1765, in a total of 27 confinements, she gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, seven sets of triplets, and four sets of quadruplets. 67 of them survived infancy.



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So far for Jeff Burton, the season has been “just OK.” Burton collected top-10 finishes in four of the final Sprint Cup races of 2011 and expected more than what the current season has yielded to date.

Burton, 44, has failed to make the Chase in two of the past three seasons. The most recent of his 21 victories at NASCAR’s premier level occurred on Oct. 11, 2008, at Charlotte Motor Speedway. That was 119 races ago.

The South Boston, Va., native admitted, “We have certainly not had the start we wanted to have.

“We set out to change a lot of stuff, and we’ve seen some improvement in some areas, and in others we haven’t. ... The day I don’t think I can be com-

petitive, I promise you, I will leave. I’ve never gotten into a race car to get a check. I got every dollar I could get while I was driving it, but I didn’t want to get in it to get the dollar. I got in it be-cause I wanted to get the trophy.”

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run at the Chase. Entering this weekend’s Samsung Mobile 500, he ranks 15th in the point standings. He already has a fifth-place fin-ish in the Daytona 500 and a sixth in the Auto Club 400 (Fontana, Calif.).

“I have been through this before in my career where I wasn’t successful, but we got back to it, and I believe we will get back to it this time,” Burton said. “It will be difficult. There are some things I’ve got to change and some things that have to change around me.

“We’ve had a few shots, and at this point last year we weren’t even close to seeing it. We have seen some improvements but not at the level we need to.”

Burton won six races in 1999, then driving a Ford for Jack Roush. Now he is in his eighth full season driving one of Richard Childress’s Chevys. He once finished in the top five in points four years in a row with Roush (1997-2000). His best showing with Childress to date was a sixth in 2008.

Texas Motor Speedway, coincidentally, was the site of Burton’s first Cup victory on April 6, 1997.

• • •Monte Dutton covers motorsports for The Gaston (N.C.) Gazette. E-mail Monte at nascart

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Thurs., Apr 19th .......CASPER CHILDREN’S THEATRE presents ALICE IN WONDERLAND, JR., Kelly Walsh High School, Casper Children’s Theatre

Thurs., Apr 19th .......CASPER COLLEGE ETHNIC DINNERS, CASPER COLLEGE ROBERTS COMMONS, CASPER COLLEGEFri., Apr 20th ............CASPER CHILDREN’S THEATRE NOT READY FOR BEDTIME PLAYERS presents CINDERELLA KIDS, 138 S. Kimball

Commissary Mall, Casper Children’s TheatreFri., Apr 20th ............BGCCW HOSTS A LATE NIGHT TEEN EVENT, BOYS & GIRLS CLUB AT 1701 E. K STREET, BOYS & GIRLS CLUBFri., Apr 20th ............ROPIN AND RIGGIN DAYS RODEO, CENTRAL WYOMING FAIRGROUNDS, CASPER COLLEGEFri., Apr 20th ............KELLY WALSH BOYS SOCCER VS EVANSTON, KELLY WALSH HIGH SCHOOL, KELLY WALSH HIGH SCHOOLFri., Apr 20th ............WYOMING CAVALRY vs. NEW MEXICO STARS, Casper Events Center, Wyoming CavalryFri., Apr 20th ............NATRONA COUNTY BOYS SOCCER VS GREEN RIVER, NATRONA COUNTY HIGH SCHOOL, NATRONA COUNTY

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One of the goals of the Craig and Susan Thomas Foundation is to introduce students to some of the GRAND POSSIBILITIESavailable after high school.

We provide opportunities to Wyoming high school graduates and GED recipients, who DO NOT qualify for Hathaway scholarships, who have struggled in school, who want to further their education.

• It was British doctor and author Alec Bourne who made the following sage observation: "It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated."

• In 2007, a world record was set off the coast of Brazil when a single wave was caught by 84 surfers.

• Have you ever heard of a book called "Never Again" by Doug Nufer? Probably not -- it's not on any bestseller lists and hasn't been reviewed by any notable critics. It's quite possibly unique in literary history, however; in its entire 192 pages, not a single word -- even basic words such as a, an, the, of and for -- is used twice.

• If you were to stack up a million $1 bills, they would weigh about one ton.

• The Twist dance craze in the 1960s changed the culture in America and spread around the world. Most people don't realize, though, that the song "The Twist," which started the fad, wasn't originally sung by Chubby Checker, though he was the one who sent the single up the charts and has since been irrevocably associated with the dance. The song was originally written and performed by an R&B singer named Hank Ballard. A deejay in Baltimore saw teenagers dancing to Ballard's song and called Dick Clark, host of "American Bandstand." Clark loved it and invited Ballard to perform the song on the show, but it didn't work out. Instead, Clark found someone else to perform the song: Ernest Evans, who changed his name to Chubby Checker. It made his career.

• Colonel Sanders started selling chicken when he was 65 years old, and his only goal was to make $1,000 a month.


by Samantha Weaver


DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am 25. I have a serious case of GERD. I’ve been put on four different medicines. They aren’t working.

I also have palpitations throughout the day. I’ve been told by doctors and nurses that there is nothing dangerous about them. I’d like to know if this true. -- J.C.

ANSWER: GERD -- gastroesophageal reflux disorder -- is heartburn. It’s the upward spurt-ing of stomach acid and digestive juices into the esophagus, the swallowing tube, a place that is not able to cope with these corrosive juices the way the stomach is.

Eliminate or go easy on foods that make GERD worse: citrus fruits; tomatoes; onions; carbonated drinks; spicy, fatty or fried foods; chocolate; peppermint; and caffeine. If you’re overweight, weight loss lessens GERD symptoms. Don’t lie down after eating. Don’t smoke. Sleep with your head, chest and stomach on a slope by putting 6-inch blocks under the bedposts at the head of your bed. That position keeps stomach acid in the stomach. Don’t wear anything that constricts your stomach, like tight pants or tight belts.

Medicines called “proton pump inhibitors” nearly completely turn off acid production. Nexium, Prevacid, Prilosec, Protonix, Aciphex and Dexilant are their names. If you still have heartburn while on these medicines, it’s OK to use an antacid along with them.

If medicines fail, other causes of heartburn need consideration, things like bile reflux or eosinophilic esophagitis. If these conditions aren’t found, then surgical treatment of GERD is an option that’s open to you.

Palpitations mean a thumping or racing heart. They can be felt as a thud in the chest. The cause is an extra beat -- or more correctly, a premature beat -- one that comes before it should. The beat after a premature beat is delayed. During the delay, the heart fills with more blood than usual, and that causes a thump in the chest when the heart empties. Premature beats are almost always innocent and need no treatment. You can believe your doctors and nurses.

The booklet on GERD explains this common malady and its treat-ment. To order a copy, write: Dr. Donohue -- No. 501W, Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475. Enclose a check or money order (no cash) for $4.75 U.S./$6 Canada with the recipient’s printed name and address. Please allow four weeks for delivery.

• • •DEAR DR. DONOHUE: Can you give me insight into the Hamman-

Rich syndrome? My father passed away from it. -- L.R.ANSWER: I can tell you only a little, because only a little is known

about it. It’s a lung injury that comes on suddenly, with damage to the lung air sacs (the alveoli) and the spaces between the air sacs, the interstitium. The cause is unknown. Because of such destruction, oxygen cannot get into the blood. Patients are severely short of breath, have a fever and they cough. The only medicines are ones to keep the person going as best as possible. There is no cure medicine. Even with a ventilator, death happens to more than 60 percent of these patients.

It’s an illness that reminds doctors that they don’t have an answer for every malady. You and your family have my condolences.

• • •

When Medicines Fail to Quell Heartburn

Dr. Donohue regrets that he is unable to answer individual letters, but he will incorporate them in his column whenever possible. Readers may write him or request an order form of available health newsletters at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475.

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There’s a website that rates gad-gets just for us! Elder Gadget ranks cameras, computers and more with an eye to how senior friendly they are. Besides an overall rating, it cat-egorizes products in terms of easy to see, easy to use, easy to hear and easy to understand. If that’s not enough, it even gives each item a Cool Factor number.

If you’re going to buy a gift for a senior or want something help-ful for yourself, this might well be a good place to check reviews for useful items.

How about a pair of reading glass-es that come with two tiny lights next to the lenses? No need for a flashlight if you need to look at something in a low-light situation.

What about a talking thermometer for when you’re cooking? You won’t need to squint at the tiny numbers on your digital thermometer anymore.

Then there are the easy-to-use cameras, those with simple menus that still have a whopping 12 mega-pixels to take really sharp photos.

And how about a small digital emergency-alert radio? With a hand crank, you don’t need to use batter-ies, and you’ll get advance warning if bad weather is coming.

One of the best gadgets on the site is a temperature control faucet light. If the water is cool, the color stays blue. Once the temperature rises above 89 degrees F, the light becomes red. No more putting your hands under water that’s too hot!

The best place to start exploring www.eldergadget.com is with the Find A Review drop-down list on the left side of the screen. It offers more than a dozen categories, including games, cell phones, laptops.

Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot personally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into her column whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].

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