Columns

By VINCE LUECKE
Editor

Life is at lot like a Sunday afternoon of bingo. Sooner or later everybody’s number is bound to come up.

Bingo comes into my life only once a year. Every July, my home church, St. John Chrysostom in New Boston, throws its picnic. And like just about every church picnic everywhere, bingo is on the schedule.

Church picnics take a lot of help to pull off, and everyone gets a job.

By BILL STANCZYKIEWICZ
Guest Columnist

Participation in organized youth sports leagues for baseball, football, basketball and soccer declined by 4 percent between 2008-12, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal. National experts speculate on several reasons for this decline, including a squeeze on family finances caused by the Great Recession, increased concern about injury and too many kids playing video games instead of the real thing.

By VINCE LUECKE
Editor

I recently spotted a teenager at a county fair with a painful looking sunburn. I didn’t know him so I don’t know how he got the burn, but he spent far too long in the sun with either no or definitely not enough sunscreen.

I’ve been in his skin before. I try hard to avoid burns as an adult because I know increased sun damage increases the chances for all types of skin cancer, including the most serious, melanoma.

Trina Severson
Feature Writer
lifestyles@perrycountynews.com

Dog bites and attacks –  and the associated media coverage – have created quite a stir recently. Dog bites are serious stuff and, because of their size and lack of experience around dogs, children are at a much greater risk of being bitten and sustaining injury.

As a community, we’re smart to recognize this as an issue and work toward solutions.