Today's Feature

Maple Leaf Shirt Sale.

The Carthage Chamber of Commerce is making room for the arrival of T-shirts for the 40th Annual Maple Leaf Festival. A variety of past year’s Maple Leaf shirts are being sold at a fraction of their original price.

Shirts available for one dollar include 2000 Maple Leaf Polos (adult XXL), 2001 Maple Leaf T-Shirts (L), 2002 Maple Leaf T-Shirts (L), 2003 Maple Leaf T-Shirts (L), 2004 Maple Leaf T-Shirts (Adult L, XL, XXL) and 2004 Maple Leaf Sweatshirts (L). A limited number of youth large shirts are also available in various years.

Shirts available for five dollars include 2005 Maple Leaf T Shifts (M,L,XL) and 2005 Maple Leaf Sweatshirts (M,L).

The shirts are available for purchase at the Chamber, Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m.

Ministerial Alliance To Host Seminar.

The Carthage Ministerial Alliance will host a seminar featuring nationally known relationship experts Dr. Les and Leslie Parrott Saturday, September 9 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Fairview Christian Church, 2320 Grand Avenue. The one day seminar will focus on "making bad relationships better and good relationships great".

Topics to be covered include; The three most important misbeliefs of marriage, the single sentence that can revolutionize your relationship, how to escape the disease to please, the three essential ingredients of lasting love and more.

Collectively, Les and Leslie have written more than two dozen books including their best-selling, The Love List. They have appeared on many shows including Oprah, CBS This Morning, The View and others. For more information about the Parrotts, visit www.real-relationships.com.

Stench Report:

Friday,
9/1/06

No Stench Detected on Carthage Square

I’ve always had mixed emotions about the old sayin’ of "Rule #1-Don’t sweat the small stuff. Rule #2-It’s all small stuff."

In a lot a ways most of us get pretty wound up about things that really don’t matter much. But on the other hand, there are things that need to be attended to.

I’d guess that the tendency for most to worry too much makes the rules #1 & #2 worth rememberin’, just as long as those timeless values, and there are at least a couple, are kept in perspective.

I suppose the other old sayin’ that fits ends with "grant me the wisdom to know the difference."

This is some fact, but mostly,

Just Jake Talkin’.

Prostate Biopsy Can be Lifesaver

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: You wrote that a prostate biopsy is "uncomfortable but not medieval torture." Have you ever had one done? I was with my husband when he had his. I almost passed out during the procedure. My husband squeezed my hand all through the ordeal, and he grunted nonstop in pain. He told me he suffered more from this than from anything that has happened to him before. How do you square that with your comment? -- B.W.

ANSWER: I got many letters informing me that a prostate biopsy was most unpleasant. I got an equal number saying it was a breeze. No, I have never had one, but I won’t hesitate to submit to one if it’s necessary.

I’d like to quote a letter from a Michigan man: "The point of this letter is to let other people know that a prostate biopsy is slightly uncomfortable. I wouldn’t choose it as a form of recreation. The real burdens of a biopsy are two: the period of uncertainty that follows, during which a man contemplates the possibility of a bad outcome (cancer), and the risk of complications from the procedure. The biopsy really does fall into the not-a-big-deal pain category."

In the original letter that prompted this discussion, the writer was going to put off a prostate biopsy for fear of the pain involved -- a bad mistake.