Out and About by Norm Stutesman

Food items can be used for other things besides being consumed. Read on:

Lemon and wood ashes remove tarnish from brass.
Salts of lemon will aid in removing ink stains.
Lemon and salt will invariably remove iron rust from linens.
There are many things that are hard to believe these days. It’s amazing what people get away with and manage to stay alive. “Ripley’s Believe it or Not” contains many facts that are hard to believe, but have been proven to be absolutely true. Here are seven facts that might seem strange, but are true:

The starfish has no nose, but the whole underside of this fish is endowed with a sense of smell.
Ireland has a breed of cattle that seldom grows more than three feet high. They thrive on the poorest of pasture, yet the cow yields twenty quarts of milk daily.
In the heart of Russia is a town where the houses are built of salt.
The first word in advertising was the scrip written on papyrus 3000 years ago by an Egyptian gentleman who had lost a slave.
There was a time when the Turkish empire imposed a death penalty upon persons caught trying to smuggle the best breeds of Angora goats out of the country.
Some of the finest lace in the world is made by Filipino women from a fiber obtained from pineapples.
Fishing lines made of wild cocoon silk are said to be invisible in the water. They are used by the Japanese.
You don’t find information like this on the six o’clock news folks.

If giving blood is one of your favorite things, this is your week. The American Red Cross will sponsor three blood drives this week at three different locations. Tomorrow, October 23, The JOCO Center, 805 Wood Street, here in Three Rivers, will host a drive from 11:30 AM until 5:15 PM. If your Wednesday schedule is already full, you will have two more chances to give this Friday, October 25. In Centreville, St. Paul’s Lutheran Church, 585 West Burr Oak Street, will host a drive from noon until 5:45 PM, or if you’re planning to be in the White Pigeon area, St. Joseph’s Catholic Church will host a drive from noon until 5:45 PM. St. Joseph’s is located at 16603 US-12, in White Pigeon.

Here are six things that might make you sit back and say, “Hmmm”:

If the #2 pencil is the most popular, why is it still #2?
Why do we press harder on the TV remote when we know the batteries are getting weaker?
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why do “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing?
At a movie theater, which arm rest is yours?
Why do people say, “Heads Up” when you should duck?
With winter weather closing in on us, the need for winter clothing is greatly in demand. To help those in need, Three Rivers Area Mentoring (TRAM) will hold a coat drive this Saturday, October 26, at the Riviera Theatre, 48 North Main Street, in historic downtown Three Rivers. The hours for the drive are from 9 AM until noon.

The greatest prison you could ever live in is the fear of what other people think.

See you Out and About!