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By Ron RozelleContributing Editor

A moment of silence, please, for the recently departed. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer was 146; the Rocky Mountain News was three years older. They’re the latest additions to the roll of the honored

dead, two of which were from hereabouts: The Dallas Times Herald (RIP 1991) and The Houston Post (1995).

There was a time when it

wasn’t at all uncommon for big cities to have at least two daily newspa-pers, each of them putting out morn-ing and afternoon editions. Not to mention extras that newsboys would hawk on the streets when juries came in with important verdicts or crooks got arrested or things blew up.

We shouldn’t assume that the newspaper graveyard is full; in fact I’ll predict that it’s in for an expan-sion. Not because journalism has hit the skids; papers are mostly as good now as they were in their heyday, but as an author and avid reader, I resent the fact that so many of them have done away with on-staff book critics and rely on reviews from other publications. The reason of course is that wicked old bottom line: cost. For whatever reason — I could nom-

THE WORDSMITH

By John TothEditor and Publisher

I was worldwide radio dial-hop-ping the other day, looking for some different music styles, but instead caught the news, which led with a

story from the United States.

The station was in Europe, and I picked it up on my cell phone with the TuneIn app. There are other apps like this. I just happen

to use this one.They all let you listen to radio

stations all over the world. It still amazes me how this can be done, even though I understand how it works.

I was in the mood for some Austrian light retro pop (I know, it’s not on your bucket list.) and found a couple of stations in Vienna and Tyrol. In between the German language songs, they mixed in an ample amount of American music, like every second song. It’s good to know that we’re still the top exporters of entertainment products around the world.

I was working out in the gym the other day and tuned into the news on a radio station in Budapest. I just happened on it and started listening. What I was really looking for was light retro pop, but at that particular time, the station was broadcasting news at the top of the hour.

The top story was the northeast blizzard and flooding in the U.S. The second item was Michael Wolf’s book “Fire and Fury,” and President

RAMBLINGS

Holidays brought cheers for county children in foster careBy Lisa Jolly, MPAChief Executive OfficerBrazoria County Alliance for Childrenwww.cac-bc.org

The staff, board members and I at Brazoria County Alliance for Children would like to person-ally thank each contributor to our

super successful 2017 Christmas Partners Blessing Children program. As a result of this communitywide effort, we supplied Christmas gifts to nearly 400 children and their families.

We appreciate our generous sponsors from the community.

Sponsors like the Natalie Wool-sey Toy Drive, Shintech, Catholic Daughters-St. Helens Catholic Church, Christ Lutheran Church Lake Jackson, TEAM, First Baptist Church, Chevron Phillips Chemical Co LP, First State Bank, Bench-

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OH, GREAT, AN INSTRUCTION MANUAL: A few hours after being released from jail, a 20-year-old man tried to steal a locomotive from a railyard in Phoenix, Ariz. He climbed into the engineer’s seat, and began moving levers and pushing buttons while reading the operation instructions he found inside. He inadvertently sounded the horn, which brought workers there to investigate. They said that all he had left to do was engage the gear and apply the throttle, and he would have gotten the locomotive to move.

WHAT!? YOU CALL THAT EVIDENCE!? A game warden engaged in a three-mile low-speed chase of an intoxicated hunter she spotted driving erratically through a rural area of Lubbock County, Texas. Along the way, the guy tossed his 32-ounce cup of whiskey and water out the window, and the pursuit ended when he pulled up at his home. The warden found an empty half gallon bottle of Canadian whiskey and two loaded pistols in his back seat.

AND ANYWAY, THE MOVIE WAS BORING: A couple took part in an act of frenzied intimacy in a movie theater at midnight in San Antonio. They were caught by a “shocked” usher, and charged with public lewd-ness. The man told arresting officers, “We were just having a little fun!”

IS THAT YOU, DELORES? A woman robbed the branch of a Chicago bank she used to work at, and her only disguise was a dark curly wig, black lipstick and a pink floral nightgown which did not keep her former colleagues from recognizing her. She was arrested when she showed up at another branch of the bank across town where she now works.

NOW, THAT’S HOW YOU MAKE AN ENTRANCE: A man, clad only in a tight black T-shirt and high heels, barged into a couple’s home in Rutherford, N.J., at 5 p.m., and yelled, “I’m here!” frightening the residents who were watching television at the time.

OH YEAH, SHE’S RUNNIN’ PRETTY GOOD NOW … CRASH! After repairing his car, a somewhat intoxicated man took it for a test drive in Hayes Township, Mich., at 1:30 in the morning, and crashed it into his own home.

SHE REALLY WASN’T THAT HARD TO CATCH: An 86-year-old woman, who uses a walker to get around, tried to rob a bank in Philadel-phia. She was arrested before she could leave the building.

HEY, HOW DID YOU GUYS GET HERE SO FAST? A man was injured when he was ejected from his car during an annual road race in Runnells, Iowa, Since the event was a fundraiser for the Fire Department, at least 10 emergency medical technicians and an ambulance were right there to treat him immediately.

WHEN RUNNING FROM THE COPS, JUST KEEP MOVING: A man, who was fleeing from police, walked into a home in Boca Raton, Fla., asked for a glass of water, and, while the lady of the house was get-ting it for him, started to play with her cats. He then left and dove into the Intracoastal Waterway, where a police boat picked him up.

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mark, Alvin 4-H, Law Office of Gregory L. Donnell, DBA Angleton Real Estate, Zachry Corporation, S&B Engineering, and the many individual donors.

We celebrate that we were able to

provide Christmas this year for girls and boys in the foster care system, children in ages from birth to 18 years old. Every gift was brand new, in their package. We received $20,000 worth of in-kind donations. Some of the gifts received were

bikes, dolls matching the child’s ethnicity, board games to share with the household, popular TV character toys, and more. We were blessed to receive over $22,000 in small and large amounts. This allowed us the opportunity to purchase gift cards for the older teenagers to personally select their gifts. Funds will also serve to help the Rainbow Room program throughout the year with providing birthday gifts to every child in the foster care system and help provided critically needed items such as car seats, portable sleep cribs, clothing, toiletry items, diapers and baby formula.

BCAC provides many services to victims referred to us by 23 law enforcement agencies or the Department of Family Protective Services. Services such as forensic interviews, case review team meetings, crime victim assistance, family advocate services, non-acute medical exams, mental health and crisis transition services, child abuse awareness and prevention training, and our wonderful Rainbow Room program. We are able to offer this thanks to caring sponsors. More information can be found at www.cac-bc.org.

Each year Brazoria County Alliance for Children serves over 360 children a year in our two offices.- one in Angleton and one in Pearland. We are a member of the Children’s Advocacy Centers of Texas and accredited by the National Children’s Alliance. We are

among the 72 children advocacy centers in the state of Texas serving more than 47,000 children each year and the 854 children’s advo-cacy centers nationally. It is our col-lective mission to restore the lives of abused children in partnership with local communities and agencies prosecuting child abuse.

Thank you for your wonderful support. We know that you have many options when it comes to your philanthropic giving and feel hon-ored that you have entrusted Brazo-ria County Alliance for Children, Inc. with your investment! We wish you and your family many blessings this New Year in 2018.

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Strange but TrueBy Bill Sonesand Rich Sones, Ph.D.

Q. If the centerpiece of your Thanksgiving dinner is turkey, you might take a moment to ponder how the bird ended up with the same name as the coun-try Turkey. So, how did it?

A. “Turkeys are indigenous to the U.S. and Mexico; in fact, Euro-peans only first came into contact with turkeys roughly 500 years ago,” likely during Cortes’s 1519 expedition to Mexico, says Dan Lewis in his book “Now I Know.” Five years later, the birds had reached England from the eastern Mediterranean Sea aboard mer-chant ships manned by so-called Turkey merchants, since much of the area then was part of the Turkish Empire. Back in England,

buyers called the fowl “Turkey birds” or just “turkeys.”

Within 10 years, they had been domesticated, and by the turn of the century the word “turkey” had been in the English language long enough that Shakespeare used it in his play “Twelfth Night” (1601).

As Lewis says, “To this day, we’re simply carrying on the mistake of a few confused English-speaking Europeans.”

Q. If the writer of “Twinkle, twinkle, little star” had been peering out an airplane window instead (not likely in 1806!), how might her lyrics have gone dif-ferently?

A. In “Science From Your Airplane Window,” Elizabeth Wood describes star twinkle as starlight paths bending rapidly from side to

side in the turbulent air of Earth. Off toward the horizon--their light coming slantwise through the atmo-sphere -- stars twinkle even more in restless merriment.

From “the airborne observation post of a plane at night,” even certain ground light sources may twinkle, their light dancing up through tens of thousands of feet of variable and varying air. This will not apply however to stars seen overhead from a window seat, high up through the stable air of the stratosphere.

Which suggests to Wood a light literary revision for our winged age: “Steady, steady, little star/ What a constant lamp you are!/ Far below, each man-made light/ Twinkles up at me, in flight.”

Q. When it comes to food sizing, when might more be less than it seems?

A. “It’s harder to evaluate increases in the size of food serv-ings than to judge decreases,” reports University of California Berkeley “Wellness Letter.” According to several studies in the “Journal of Experimental Psy-chology,” subjects who took part in a downsizing test were fairly accurate, but when supersizing was involved, they “greatly under-estimated” the numbers. Even professional chefs and servers who should have had a sense of food quantities were equally error-prone.

Researchers hypothesize that “it’s easier to gauge a decrease in portion sizes because there is a ‘natural lower bound’” of zero, below which nothing goes, whereas when portions increase, there’s no upper bound to help determine how big something has become. Overall, “this may be why people are likely to notice when their favorite brands reduce the size of their packages, while being less aware when quantities increase.” Yet it’s not just a matter of feeling cheated or preferring to avoid losses but, the research suggests, it’s also a matter of perception.

So not perceiving the supersiz-ing of food and beverages, eaters may unwittingly consume more than they intended.(Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at [email protected])

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Brazosport College’s Jumpstart program now registering for new semesterRegistration is currently ongo-

ing for a new session of Brazos-port College’s popular Jumpstart program.

The Jumpstart program, which is free for those who qualify, trains and provides skills to participants who want to be hired in the pipefitting,

machining or electrical fields with local industry.

The new training session begins Jan. 29 and runs through April 10 from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on weekdays. Registration and orienta-tion is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Jan. 24.

All course expenses, including tuition, books, tools and lab materi-als, may be covered.

Seats in this program are limited. Being a grant-based program, certain criteria must be met in order to qualify for tuition assistance in the program.

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Jazz and swing dance enthusiasts will take to the dance floor during the Alvin Community College Big Band Concert on Feb. 10.

The 19th Annual Evening of Big Band Music with the Alvin Com-munity Band will start at 7 p.m., and the last dance will be 10 p.m. at the Nolan Ryan Center.

ACC to host Big Band Concert fundraiser Feb. 10There will also be a silent auction

at the concert.The Big Swing Jazz Orchestra

will perform for the concert.Funds raised at the event will go

directly to the Music Department and alumni scholarships.

Tickets are $15 and will include admission to the dance and

light refreshments throughout the evening. Tickets are avail-able at the Music Department, the Administrative office and at the ACC Marketplace online at www.alvincollege.edu. They also will be sold at the door.

The dance will be at the Nolan Ryan Center and will run from 7-10 p.m. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. For more information about the event, call (281) 756-3600.

Musicians perform during the Alvin Community College Big Band concert in 2017. The concert helps to raise funds for the ACC Music Department and alumni scholarships.

• A big band is a type of musi-cal ensemble that usually consists of 10 or more musicians with four sections: saxophones, trumpets, trombones, and a rhythm section. Big bands originated during the early 1910s and dominated jazz in the early 1940s when swing was most popular.

DID YOU KNOW?


(Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelis-tic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit the Web site for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association: www.billygraham.org.)

Reach out to others who might also be lonelyMy Answer by Billy Graham

Q: I’m an old man now, and for me the worst part of getting old has been loneliness. My wife has passed away, none of our children live nearby, and when I go to church, almost no one talks to me. I don’t have a question, but maybe you can encourage people to pay more attention to those who are older. - M.R.

A: Thank you for your letter, and I certainly can sympathize with your concerns. As friends or loved ones pass away and our health limits our contact with others, it’s easy to feel isolated and lonely. We even may be tempted to say with the psalmist, “No one is con-cerned for me.... no one cares for my life” (Psalm 142:4).

But it doesn’t need to be this way! For one thing, we can reach out to others and make new

friends. In your letter you mention that almost no one speaks to you at church, but what’s to prevent you from taking the initiative and speaking to them?

Some may be just as lonely as you, and even a few words of friendship will encourage them and cheer their day. Ask God to make you a blessing to others.

But the most important thing I can tell you is that we are never alone when we know Christ. God loves you just as much now as He did 50 years ago, and He is with you every moment of the day. God’s promise is true: “Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you” (Isaiah 46:4).

Make prayer and the promises of God’s Word part of your life every day. Above all, never forget that someday soon you’ll never be lonely again, for you will be with Christ in heaven forever.

Tribune Media Services

inate several — fewer and fewer people are reading newspapers. Or, I fear, reading much of anything. So when the readership and the ad revenue dwindles, journalists have to find new lines of work.

One time I bought a couple of copies of the Sunday paper in Houston. I needed the book review sections for my creative writing class and I wanted them to have the actual newsprint, not sheets conjured up by a computer and regurgitated out of a printer.

My own copy of the paper had arrived in my front yard early that morning, and it seemed a shame

to throw away the rest of those two bulky masses of information, minus only the sections I needed. So I offered them to a couple of police-men on the sidewalk. The older guy thanked me and said he had a copy at home that he looked forward to reading that evening; the other fellow, maybe all of 21, shook his head.

“I get all the news I need right here,” he told me, tapping a sleek device: a cell phone or iPod or BlackBerry or some other beam-me-up-Scotty contraption. His partner grinned, and asked him if he ever really used that thing to get the news.

To which the young fellow responded that he could if he wanted to.

Which is absolutely true. But being able to do a thing and doing it are two very different endeavors. As a general rule, more and more of modern society stays as clear of the news as it would a mean stepmother.

These days it seems most folks are content to watch a reality show or two and think they’ve really gotten a dose of reality, or listen to a bellicose, blabbering host of a radio call-in show — at either end of the political spectrum — and think they’ve actually gotten the news.

If I might offer a subtle opinion: They haven’t.

It will come as no surprise to anyone who knows me that I am much in favor of newspapers. I start every day with two of them and they are as essential to me as coffee. When I travel, I look for the local paper wherever I am, thoroughly enjoying the big boys like The New York Times and The Washington Post and just as thoroughly, and maybe more so, the tiny publica-tions — usually weeklies — that are mighty strong threads in the fabric of the nation. I do believe that reading the sheriff’s report in a rural paper is as satisfying as a wedge of coconut pie in a country café.

Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not opposed to technology, or gad-getry. A little gizmo that can tell me the time in Cairo and the weather in Iceland is dandy. But it’s not a newspaper.

A newspaper is something I can stretch out with in my favorite chair, ruffle the pages and wander slowly through its various sections. Then when I start to nod off, I can spread the whole thing out wide over me like a blanket.

I keep thinking that America will awaken from its own nap and redis-cover newspapers before they’re all gone.

But the day might very well come, hopefully after I’ve had my last word on this matter or any other, when a child will dig down into a trunk

one rainy afternoon and pull out an old paper, brittle and brown in its dotage.

“What is this?” that child will surely ask.

And some ancient, sad soul will look at the relic being held aloft by smooth, tiny hands and smile.

“It —” the great-great-grandparent

might respond, a flood of memories rushing out of the dark past, “— was wonderful.”

Ron Rozelle’s columns can be accessed at ronrozellewordsmith.wordpress.com. He is the author of “Writer’s Digest’s Write Great Fic-tion: Description & Setting,” and nine other books of fiction and nonfiction.

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The Greater Angleton Chamber of Commerce’s 60th Annual Heritage Gala

Thursday, Jan. 18, 6-10 p.m. at the Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport Hangar

The gala is a great opportunity to congratulate the award recipients and recognize chamber leadership. Plus, enjoy an exciting evening

of dinner, music, auction and socializing

A Special pull-out section of The Bulletin

Angleton Chamber of Commerce Special Section

PHOTOS FROM 2017 GALA


2018 Executive Board of DirectorsJames Rogerson - Chair

David Spence - Past ChairMark Holian - Chair Elect

Chris Christensen - TreasurerLucille Maes -Vice Chair

Gabriella Cone - Vie ChairBeth Journeay - President & CEO

Board of DirectorsBelinda Gaines

Jeff BilyeuJustin GilbertAngela Dees

Shane JenningsGina Langlinais

Kristy PlattTravis Smith

Look forward to an evening of swinging in the New Year at the 60th Annual Heritage Gala held on Thursday Jan. 18.

The fun starts at 6 p.m. and promises a swell time. Take a step back in time as this year’s theme is Swing Under the Wings at the Corporate Hangar at the Texas Gulf Coast Regional Airport providing the WWll USO Show setting.

Throw on your best duds and get ready to jitterbug with a live band that is sure to make you swing under the wings!

For more information, call the chamber at (979)849-6443, or email Blair Bugg at [email protected].

Brazosport Big Band to perform at the Angleton Chamber Gala

Brazosport Big Band performs traditional and contemporary big band jazz and will focus on 1940s music at the gala. The members represent the highest quality musicians from Brazoria County. Band Members: Pat Singletary, Alto Sax; David Box and Linda Crummel, Tenor Sax; Randy Marble, Baritone Sax; Richard Birk, Jimmy Koch, Martin Montoya, David Griffith, Trombone; Stephen Forse, Chris Cermak, Kelby Koch, Donnie Artley, Trumpet; Ted Wenglinski, Piano; and Brian Casey, Bass.



Awards Banquet

James Rogerson of MSR Houston, the 2018 chamber chairman, left, assists outgoing chairman David Spence, center, of The Medicine Shoppe, and Beth Journeay, Chamber President and CEO, in presenting the Pioneer Award to Brazoria County Commissioners Court.

Janice Smithhart, owner of Smithhart’s Texas Grill, was named Citizen of the Year for 2017.

Cindy Suggs with BASF, left, presents the Ambassador of the Year award to Anne Alstott, branch manger of TDECU in Angleton.

Shane Jennings, Brazoria County Fair Manager, was given the Volunteer of the Year award for his work with the chamber.

David Spence congratulates Mark Holian, Gulf Coast Auto Park manager, for being named the recipient of the President’s Award.



Leadership Angleton ~ Class of 2017

Leadership Angleton is designed to promote and foster the development of community leaders for the Angleton Area by acquainting program participants with the area’s assets, needs, and opportunities. This program provides a forum to discuss community challenges with representatives from the Angleton Area. By providing an aware-ness of the continuous growth of the Angleton Area, Leadership Angleton strives to stimulate leadership skills and motivate participants to choose an area of interest for active involvement upon graduation from the program. The ultimate goal of this program is to build community leaders for today and tomorrow.

The past three Ambassadors of the Year for the Greater Angleton Cham-ber got together for a photo at the Dec. 7, 2017 Fa La La / Ladies Night Out at The Pearl. Shown, from left, are 2016 Ambassador Jordana Harwell, Crystal Clear Pools; Kaci Haviland, Kennemer, Masters & Lunsford, 2014; and Sharon Toth, The Bulletin, 2015. Anne Alstott with TDECU has joined the ranks as the newest Ambassador for 2017. Ambassadors are the movers and shakers of the community. They act as the public extension of the Chamber and are active with ribbon cuttings, grand openings, and all events.

Chamber Ambassadors of the Year

The Greater Angleton Chamber of Commerce mission“Leading the Angleton area and Brazoria County as the “Community of Choice” for business and

family.”At the heart of the local economy and the backbone of the nation’s economy, you’ll find a chamber of

commerce. Celebrating and promoting the diversity and uniqueness of their communities, chambers of commerce form the fabric of America.

The Chamber staff, board, ambassadors, and a vast network of citizens work together to promote growth and the enhancement of the quality of life in the Angleton Area. We want Angleton to be “The Community of Choice” for both business and family. We want you to call Angleton home!

Participation and involvement are key components in the success of any volunteer-based group. Each and every volunteer provides something of value to the Chamber. The volunteers are the heartbeat of this organization that strives to promote business and community.


Trump’s reaction. The third story involved something else about the U.S., and then they started to run local stories.

Then I tuned into a Spanish station. You guessed it - light retro Spanish pop. It was soothing to my ears, although my understanding of the words is limited. I’m getting there, but learning a language is slow and tedious, no matter what those ads for Babbel say.

In between the songs, I could make out some names, all American singers, and then they started with the news and lost me completely. But I did hear President Trump’s name mentioned a few times. A year from now I’ll be better at this.

I wish now that in my younger days I would have kept on learning languages in my spare time. All you high school kids who are reading this column, keep perfecting your Spanish past high school, and then jump into another language. You’ll thank me for it much later when you’re old and the languages help

keep your brain fresh and young. It’s exercise for the mind.

I really like this instant access to any type of radio station all over the world. In the days when we didn’t have the Internet, each time I went to a country, I took a cassette player-recorder with me and taped the local radio programs.

When I returned to the U.S., I replayed them over and over. It made me feel a little like I was still there. I still have some of those tapes, but haven’t touched them since I have been able to tune in a local station anytime I want.

And each time I played it back, I noticed something that I missed previously. Then I played it back so often that I just about had the whole thing memorized. That’s when the tape went in the closet.

Many of us still say that we tape a show or a song, but we really don’t tape things anymore. We record them digitally. The old cassette tape is long gone, except for nostalgic purposes.

Jumping around radio stations in

countries where I sort of know the language, it amazes me how they are hung up on what we do here. When a hurricane hits here, it’s big news there. When we get into a political squabble of sorts, it leads the news around the world.

The Super Bowl and the NBA All-Star Game, just to name a few, are big items of interest, even though we don’t return the favor by support-ing professional soccer very much.

So, thanks to TuneIn and the other apps, we are even more inter-connected, and can country-hop all over the radio dial.

Let’s see, which station in Sweden has some light retro pop music?

I don’t know the language, but like the sound. Wait, they’re doing the news. Why not?


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Some of my discoveries while radio dial-hopping worldwide

DID YOU KNOW?• Radios are everywhere, with at

least 75% of households in develop-ing countries having access to a radio. There are about 44,000 radio stations worldwide.


LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A good relationship can out-last a brief skirmish. Strive to create harmony rather than letting a minor clash of opinions put you and a loved one at odds. Displaying flirtatious ways can cause jealousy in the week to come.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Don’t lecture to an empty auditorium. Something that strikes you as important and activates your enthusiasm could encourage you to drag out the soapbox. Your preaching might fall on deaf ears in the week ahead.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Sit still and hold on tight. Your financial boat might rock in the coming week, so don’t go overboard. Ingenious ideas or new technolo-gies might seem feasible but could be too expensive to implement.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Don’t scratch an itchy trigger finger. A valuable relationship might be turned topsy-turvy by an issue that will turn out to be a mere tempest in a teacup. Strive for cooperation, not aggrava-tion, this week.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Stick to what you know. You might have the urge to experiment with something new or try innovative methods just for fun. With investment issues in the week ahead, don’t test the waters, but get advice from partners.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Go ahead and make contact. The attractive person who is on your mind might be thinking about you as well. In the week ahead, tighten your belt where spending is concerned and buy only things of solid value.

Bulletin Horoscope

History of the World By Mark AndrewsTribune Content Agency

Jan. 15: ON THIS DATE in 1559, England’s Queen Elizabeth I was crowned in Westminster Abbey. In 1943, work was completed on the Pentagon, headquarters of what was then called the U.S. War Department.

Jan. 16: ON THIS DATE in 1920, Prohibition began in the United States under the 18th Amendment to the Constitution. It later was repealed by the 21st Amendment. In 1991, Operation Desert Storm began to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait.

Jan. 17: ON THIS DATE in 1821, Moses Austin of Missouri received permission to bring 300

Americans into Texas, which was then part of Mexico. In 1956, Ford Motor Co. began selling stock to the public, ending total family control of the company.

Jan. 18: ON THIS DATE in 1778, Capt. James Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands, now known as Hawaii. In 1943, by government order, American bakeries stopped selling sliced bread to save steel for cutting machinery for the war effort.

Jan. 19: ON THIS DATE in 1966, Indira Gandhi became prime minister of India, following in the footsteps of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru. In 1976, the Beatles turned down a $30 million offer to hold a

reunion concert.Jan. 20: ON THIS DATE in

1958, Elvis Presley got his draft notice. He was given 60 days to finish making the movie “King Creole”. In 1981, the 52 American hostages in Iran were released after 444 days - just minutes after the presidency passed from Jimmy Carter to Ronald Reagan.

Jan. 21: ON THIS DATE in 1793, during the French Revolution, King Louis XVI was sent to the guil-lotine for treason. In 1977, President Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft evaders.

Answer to last week’s question: This week in 1967, the Green Bay Packers defeated the Kansas City Chiefs in the first Super Bowl.

This week’s question: Name the astronauts who were killed in a flash fire during a test aboard the Apollo 1 space capsule as it sat on the launch pad at Cape Kennedy in 1967.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Apply brainpower to business ideas or projects and employ the latest tech-nology. Email and software can be valuable tools. You may lose ground if you are too competitive or aggres-sive in the week ahead.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Every attraction does not constitute true love. A casual flirtation that seems quite fascinating now might repel you by the end of the week or cause some sort of disruption. Focus on work rather than your co-workers.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your mind spins with original ideas, and you are happy to discuss them. You may be pushed to make a key decision but should wait until things settle down late in the week. Consider fund-ing via a social media website.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Those in close connec-tion may be focused on climbing the ladder of success as this week unfolds. Don’t distract partners by promis-ing more than you can deliver or inadvertently waste someone’s precious time.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Under some conditions in the week ahead you may be tempted to take unrea-sonable risks with your money and heart. Avoid taking drastic steps or letting your passions rule your head. Avoid confrontations and disputes.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Brilliant is as brilliant does. In the week to come, you might be given a chance to show off your intelligence and high ideals. Avoid spending too much on entertainments or hob-bies, just to compete with others.

Jumble AnswersJumbles: GUESS BRIBE CELERY UNPACKAnswer: The star of the new “Deer Hunter” show was beginning to -- EARN BIG BUCKS

DID YOU KNOW?• The Jonah complex is the fear of success, which prevents self-actualiza-

tion.• On average, it takes 66 days to form a new habit.• Orangutans share 97% of DNA with humans.• The orangutan has the longest childhood dependence on the mother of

any animal in the world.


Solutions on the right side of this page

Complete the grid so each row, column and 3-by-3 box (in bold borders) contains every digit 1 to 9. For strategies on how to solve Sudoku, visit www.sudoku.org.uk.

Solutions

ACROSS1 Little fight5 Scurries, old-style9 Prefix with chute13 Other than that14 __ buco: veal dish15 Hieroglyphics bird16 Madonna hit with the lyrics “I’m keeping my baby”19 Lacking20 Choose (to)

21 Roast host22 Add up to, in arithmetic23 Skinny swimmer24 Live-in nannies26 Like some family-owned busi-nesses29 Kindle buy30 Hops-drying oven31 Woolf’s “__ Dalloway”34 Narrow cut35 Bake, as eggs

37 Veggie that can be pickled38 Title time traveler with Bill39 Fellas40 Hardship41 2003 Eddie Murphy movie about an entrepreneurial stay-at-home parent44 Cast maligning remarks at47 Watch closely48 Sleuths, for short49 Meager50 Tavern brew51 Ladies52 Propose marriage56 Olympian’s blade57 Baseball tactic to advance a runner58 Desire59 Stereotypical techie60 Make less intense, as one’s breath61 Iowa State city

DOWN1 Unlike bosom buddies2 Smallish celestial body3 Hieroglyphics snakes4 Beverage leaves5 Showy publicity6 “This __ working”7 D.C. winter clock setting8 Soak (up), as sauce9 Merchant whom Simple Simon met10 Beaded calculators11 Potato cutter12 Lenten symbol17 Couch potato’s opposite18 Move to a new container, as a houseplant19 Least dangerous23 Startled cry24 Hebrew winter month25 Cold War country: Abbr.27 Selling really well28 Clangorous31 Cheerleader’s sound booster32 Adjusts the position of33 Emphasize35 Soap bubbles36 Jekyll’s murderous other self37 Ballpoint brand39 Brooks of country music40 Pastrami sandwich bread41 A little banged up, fenderwise42 Backspace over43 Yes votes44 Colorado ski resort45 Range46 Origami medium50 Em, to Dorothy51 Former name of Thailand53 Flow back54 Sine __ non: essential55 Pan Am rival(c)2018 TRIBUNE CONTENT AGENCY, INC.

In memory of Greg Wilkinson

Bulletin Crossword Puzzle of the WeekBOGGLE ANSWERS ATHENS MADRID BERLIN LISBON PARIS KIEV ROME


Scramble solutions: use a mirror to check your answers

CHARMY’S ARMY By Davey Jones

• A little less than half of kids in the U.S. live in a home with two hetero-sexual parents in their first marriage.

• About 50% of all giraffe calves do not survive their first year due to predation from hyenas, leopards and wild dogs.

• When you walk into a room and you forget why you walked in there in the first place is the phenomenon known as “event boundary.”

• Rolling a pair of dice is as predic-tive of your future income as your college GPA is.

• Humans are the only mammals that engage in warfare.

• Lego doesn’t make any military-themed sets because the creator didn’t want to make war seem like child’s play.

• Alcohol poisoning kills six people in the U.S. every day.

MR. MORRIS By Rick Brooks

DID YOU KNOW?


Brazosport College’s Phi Theta Kappa chapter recently inducted 73 new members at ceremonyBrazosport College’s Psi Psi Chapter of Phi Theta Kappa International

Honor Society recently inducted its new members at a ceremony at The Clarion at Brazosport College.

Seventy-three students accepted membership in the fall 2017 semester.Students accepting PTK membership in the Fall 2017 semester were:

Cedrick Anderson, Olivia Baradhi, Winfred Bowling, Jennifer Capelo, John Cardenas, Rigoberto Cardenas, Victoria Cardenas, Renee Coffey, Tiffany Cook, Osvaldo Delvillar, Rylee Eaton, Ethan Ebner, Victoria Fonseca, Kayley Fuqua, Yocelyn Gallardo, Oliver Garcia, Carlos Gaytan, Lacie Gibson, Kira Gonzales, Arleth Gonzalez-Alanis, Conner Graham, Morgan Hall, Cassie Harrell, Tiffany Harris, Lillian Hickman, Erika Holley, Garrett Horning, Harold Jarder, Colton Jones, Lillie Kopecky, Elly Laughland, Shuqing Liu, Jesus Longoria, Uber Lopez, Joseline Loya, Jay Mallow, Leonard McBee, Joshua Mey, Aaron Mikel, Zoey Miles, Abby Millsap, Angelica Moore, Jeremy Moore, Olivia Moore, Nhu Nguyen, Leslie Obregon, Kyle Obryan, Brittany Orsak, Thelma Patlan, Ana Perez-Roman, Audriana Pohlman, Jessica Portillo, Jay Powers, Jessica Rios, Craig Roberson, Caroline Sablatura, Allyssa Sanchez, Timothy Sargent, Zachary Sebesta, Sadie Smith, Ashlee Sumners, Jewel Tonry, Victor Vega, Amy Villarreal, Julia Walker, Catherine Warren, Kimberly Weems, Richard Wetta, Dillon Wick, Trey Wilbanks, Kateisha Williams, Rashad Williams and Shaun Christoper Yu. To learn more about Phi Theta Kappa at Brazosport College, call (979) 230-3259.

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