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#1

This is a nice week for a bunch of people that certainly deserve a week of their own.  Nurses and Teachers!   They are a very special bunch for more reasons than I can mention.

There are few professions that are more demanding, and more rewarding in the long run.  Think about both of them.  They, for the most part, spend far more time caring and tending to others than they do their own. 

Nurses -  You know how tough it is when someone in your own home is sick or laid up.  You take care of them, because they are family, and you love them. And after a few days, your patience can wear thin.  Nurses take care of countless people every single day, they don't even know. And they will do the same thing the next day, and the day after that.  Many times dealing and saving people's lives that are less than decent to them.

Teachers  -  In a classroom with 25  or so kids, (Not theirs) teaching them, dealing with them, and spending precious time sometimes before and after school with them.  And of course, dealing with their parents first in many aspects,  all while their own families wait for them to come home.

We all have our things to deal with our own jobs. And yours, or mine is not being minimized here.  But with all our nurses and teachers do, they have well earned our respect and our admiratoin for a job well done, and in the end, a life well lived..

Thank you!


#2

There are a couple new flicks due out this weekend, and all of them will continue to sit in the back seat to the Avengers:Endgame that will mow everything in its pass again.


The Hustle

Rebel Wilson is back again with another comedy. She stars in this with Anne Hathaway as a couple of con women from different backgrounds, who fleece men of their wealth.  These men have all wronged women.

Both of these women can be very funny, but as in most comedy's they are at the mercy of the script.


Poms

Diane Keaton and a nice cast star in a new movie about a woman that starts a cheerleading camp in a retirement community.   You heard me right.


Should be interesting.


Pokemon: Detective Pikachu

Early returns say this is OK.

#3

In a few weeks, I will have the honor again being the Honorary Chairperson for the Habitat For Humanity of Summit County Annual Golf Outing.  I am very proud of it, and proud I have been so for about the last 10 years.

This incredible outing is Monday July, 29 at the Amazing Hudson Country Club, and we would love to have you join us.  Click below and get all the information you need.  If you want to enter a team, or be a sponsor that would be great. This outing is everything you would imagine.  Good times, prizes, course and food.

Habitat is sincerely a remarkable organization, and the cause and the local people in it are worth supporting.  In look forward to seeing you there.  Mark this on your calendar and let's support this worthwhile cause.

#5

I recently was given the chance to do a WQMX Ticket Stop at the Portage Lakes Career Center.  What a great time, and what great people!

We gave out some WQMX t-shirts and some tickets to the Country Fest to some lucky listeners, and I made some new friends!  It felt great to be around a place of learning and to feel the enthusiasm that learning a trade can instill in the young people that go there. And the staff and faculty I met were all terrific and were very eager to show me the results of their dedicated work.

We were set up in horticulture area, where they are now selling beautiful plants that YOU can buy, and they are amazing.  The greenhouse is spectacular and so are the proud kids who work in it.

So stop by and buy some beautiful plants for your yard. The kids grew them, and you need them!  Every day for the next couple weeks  8AM - 1 PM  (Except Sundays)


#6

Every time I watch a MLB game these days, there always seems to be a conversation about speeding the game up.  I personally and not bothered by the length of the game, but many are.  MLB has done some things to help move the game along, to a degree.  But with replay some of this has been counterproductive.   But there are things that can be done I feel that would help too.

1/  Limit the relief pitchers to 3 warm up pitches on the mound as they enter the game.  (They've been throwing in the bullpen for 15 minutes)  Get a feel for the mound, and let's go.  (Think about it, this can happen 8-10 times in a game)

2/  Limit starting pitchers to half the warm up pitches between innings.  (This happens 18 times a game)

3/  Pitchers  - No stepping off the rubber once on it.  You must deliver the pitch, or throw to a base.

4/  Hitters  - Quit letting hitters call "time" all the time. Get in the box and let's hit.

5/  Umpires  -  Call the "high strike"  call the zone as it is designed.  The zone is to tight right now too many deep counts.

6/   Teams  -  Start games at 6PM (except for National TV games)  Part of Baseballs problem is it seems long because it goes deep in the night.  A 6PM start ends the game at about 9ish, and fans can still do more after the game.

7/   Teams   -  Stop the stupid 710 or 720 start.  Agian the appearance of long.  Things in the world start at the top of the hour.

Just a few thoughts on this ongoing subject.