Now if you would tell me what you want to hear about this week I’d know just what to write! I enjoy chatting with you, but neither do I want to bore you with too much rambling about our “corner of the woods.” OK, we don’t really live in the woods, just right next to 300 acres of woods behind and back yonder from our house.
Ice cream is the best of desserts any time of year, but it really hits the spot on a warm and balmy summer evening. Cool and creamy, it’s both decadent and nostalgic, whether it’s piled high on an ice cream cone or — my favorite way — scooped into a crispy waffle bowl and drenched with spoonful after spoonful of homemade hot fudge.
Ripe tomatoes are in season. Here’s an easy way to use them. To keep their fresh flavor, the tomatoes are not cooked. Their juice and seeds are blended into a sauce and mixed with mayonnaise. The remaining tomato pulp is cut into cubes and added to the sauce.
The Examiner inadvertently transposed a word in a letter to the editor, “Preston Smith would serve all as county executive,” in Thursday’s paper. Smith served 14 years on the county Board of Equalization, not a Board of Education. The Examiner regrets the error.
From The Examiner during the week of July 24-29, 1972: “LOCAL DEMOS SURE OF SENATOR”– Senator Thomas F. Eagleton’s disclosure that he has been hospitalized several times for “nervous disorders” does not make state and local Democrats nervous about his political future.
Parts of Europe are experiencing a heat wave that is causing emergency situations for millions of residents. And, in the United States, many parts of the country are grappling with temperatures that remain unseasonably high.
DEAR ABBY: I have been married to my wife for 32 years. I love her dearly. Recently, though, her smoking has been really bothering me. Her father passed away from COPD five years ago because he was a lifetime smoker. I thought that would convince her to stop. She has tried, but she always goes back.
SATURDAY’S TELEVISION • Australian Rules Football: Western at Geelong, 4 a.m., FS1 (Comcast 43) • Golf: DP World Tour: Hero Open, 5 a.m., GOLF (27) • Soccer: SPFL: Rangers at Livingston, 6 a.m., CBSSN (274) • Tennis: ATP Atlanta/ATP Umag/ATP Kitzbuhel/WTA Prague/ WTA Warsaw semifinals, 6:30 a.m., Tennis (277) • Golf: LPGA Women’s Scottish Open, 7:30 a.m., GOLF (27) • Auto racing: W Series (Round 5), 7:35 a.m., ESPNU (269) • Track & field: ATL Ed Murphey Classic, 10:30 a.m., ESPN2 (29) • WNBA: Seattle at Washington, 11 a.m., ESPN (13) • Auto racing: IndyCar Gallagher Grand Prix (Indianapolis Road Course), 11:30 a.m., KSHB 41 (8) • Basketball: Big3: Week 7, noon, KCTV 5 (3) • Golf: PGA Rocket Mortgage Classic, noon, GOLF (27) • Swimming: U.S. National Championships (Day 4) (taped), noon, CNBC (33) • Horse racing: NYRA Vanderbilt Handicap/Jim Dandy Stakes, noon, FS1 (43) • MLB: Cleveland at Tampa Bay, noon, MLBN (272) • Lacrosse: PLL: Archers vs.
WASHINGTON — The FBI has reached out to attorneys representing Olympic gold medalist Simone Biles and other women who were sexually assaulted by Larry Nassar to begin settlement talks in the $1 billion claim they brought against the federal government, according to three people familiar with the matter.
Tryouts for the Blue Springs Post 499 Fike American Legion 18U and 17U baseball teams will take place at Hidden Valley Baseball fields on July 31, Aug. 3 and Aug.