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Father’s Day is the 3rd Sunday in June every year. It is a time to celebrate dad – and what better way to celebrate than to learn some fantastic, fatherly facts?• Did you know that Grace Kelly’s father, John B. Kelly Sr., was a triple Olympic Gold Medal winner in rowing?• In 1990, both Ken Griffey Jr. and Sr. played for the Seattle Mariners. It was the fi rst time a father and son had played together on the same team in the major league.• Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was originally named Michael like his father. After a trip to Germany, Mi-chael Sr. changed both their names to Martin after the Protestant leader.• A. A. Milne, author of Winnie-the-Pooh, based the character of Christopher Robin, Winnie-the-Pooh and friends off of his son and his stuffed animals. • The Egyptian deity Amon, represented by the ram, is the father of the moon.• Father’s Day will celebrate its 100th Anniversary in 2010.• Grammatically it should be Mothers’ Day and Fa-thers’ Day, as we are celebrating multiple mothers and fathers. However, it was initially spelled on the proposal to make it a holiday as Father’s Day and that just stuck.• Research shows that over 110 million Father’s

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Repairs That Can’t WaitQ: I know everyone is trying to save money wherever they can these days. But some people are avoiding making home repairs because they are worried about the cost. Please let your readers know that some problems have to be taken care of when they’re small, before they become really expensive to fi x. Thanks. -- Bill in Minneapolis

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Day cards are exchanged annually. 50% of those are purchased for dads, 20% are purchased for hus-bands.• In Thailand, Father’s Day is celebrated on the same day as the king’s birthday. King Phumiphon was born December 5, 1927.• There isn’t a formal Father’s Day celebration in Ger-many but there is a holiday just for men called Män-nertag (Men’s Day).• Did you know there are stay at home dad in the animal kingdom? The rhea is a fl ightless South American bird similar to an emu in appearance. It is the male rhea who builds the nest and incubates the eggs, much like male Emporer penguins guard and incubate their eggs while the mothers hunt.• Sonora Dodd was listening to a Mother’s Day service at church when she thought there should a holiday honoring fathers. She held her own father, William Smart in particularly high esteem, as he was a widowed Civil War veteran who had raised Sonora and her fi ve brothers himself.• Mrs. Dodd proposed the celebration to the Spo-kane Ministerial Alliance in her hometown of Spo-kane, Washington and the fi rst Father’s Day was cel-ebrated in Spokane on June 19th, 1910.• In 1924, President Coolidge showed his support for making Father’s Day a national holiday. It was in 1966 that President Johnson actually proclaimed it a holiday throughout the nation. However, it wasn’t un-

til 1972 that President Nixon made it an offi cial U.S. holiday.• The rose is the offi cial fl ower of Father’s Day. Red roses are worn if a father is still alive. White roses are worn in remembrance of a father who has passed away.• Father’s Day cards are one of the Top Five holi-day cards sold each year. It is the 4th largest card-sending holiday after Christmas, Valentine’s Day and Mother’s Day.• Father’s Day is not an offi cial holiday in Taiwan, but it is widely celebrated on August 8th. The pro-nunciation of the word for the number eight in Man-darin Chinese (ba) is similar to the pronunciation of the word that means father, so father’s day in often called Baba Day in Taiwan.• Americans are expected to spend $11 billion on Father’s Day gifts this year. The average gift costs about $27.60 per person.• Neckties are the #1 gift on Father’s Day.• Other popular gifts for dad are tools. Did you know there are over 14,257 hardware stores in the U.S. alone?• There are over 64.3 million fathers in the U.S. and over 159,000 are stay-at-home dads.• Darwin’s Frog, named after and discovered by Charles Darwin, is a native frog to the forests and streams of Argentina and Chile. The female frog lays about thirty eggs and the male guards them until they hatch. The male then takes the tadpoles and carries them in his vocal pouch as they develop. The

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Dear Dave,Our daughter has one year left in college. She’s going to a state school here in Texas , and we’ve already taken out two loans to help her out. She’s living in nice apartment off-campus. She doesn’t work so she can concentrate on her studies. Should we get another loan for her last year?

DavidDear David,I’ve got a better idea. Keep in mind I said a better idea, not an easier idea.She needs to be working full-time and then some, all summer long. If she does this and also works part-time during the school year, and you guys chip in a little, you may not need to think about another loan.I really don’t give a hoot about her lifestyle while she’s in college. No college kid, especially one that’s not working to help make things happen, deserves to be put up in a fancy apartment while her parents go into debt or break their backs working to support them. I worked all the way through college, and so did thousands of other people.Statistics show that the average, in-state cost of tuition for college in this country is about $6,000 a year. It costs about $5,000 to live in a dorm, plus you’ve got books and food and a few incidentals. So, the average total will be between $12,000 and $15,000 year. That means you guys have to come up with about $1,000 to $1,200 a month. I really believe that if you’ll all work together, and involve everyone in the process, you can make this happen with-out taking another loan!In the long run, you’ll all be happier if you do it that way.

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Dear Dave,Do you think it would be a good idea to budget a little money each month for playing the lottery? I spent $10 on scratch tickets the other day and won $100. I think it might be a pretty good idea to save $90 and put the other $10 toward more tickets.

EdwardDear Edward,Here’s a thought. Just stuff ten bucks down your gar-bage disposal each month and save the cost of driving to the nearest convenience store.Really, now, you can’t be serious! The lottery is a tax on the poor, and on people who can’t do math. I’m not riding a moral high horse. Research shows that people from lower income brackets, folks who can’t afford to be throwing their money away on some ridiculous game, spend four times as much on lottery tickets as anyone else. Rich people don’t mess with this garbage, because they know the lottery isn’t a wealth-building tool. When was the last time you saw a line of BMWs and Mercedes’ pulled up to your local convenience store to buy lottery tickets?The only winners in the lottery game are the students who get scholarships, but in reality they are riding to school on the backs of the poor masses who gamble away their grocery money.Lots of people think winning the lottery will mean life on easy street. The truth, however, is that it rarely works out that way. Did you know that 65 percent of Lotto winners go bankrupt in less than 15 years? Your chanc-es of winning big are about 125,000,000 to 1. You’re more likely to be bitten by a snake, or die in a car ac-cident on the way to buy the stupid lottery tickets!If you’ve got money to throw around, do something smart with it, like get out of debt! Do you have an emer-gency fund? Are you investing for your retirement, or your kid’s education? If you’ve done all of this, give it to someone who’s hurting, or invest it in your community. Don’t waste it on something as dumb as the lottery!

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tadpoles develop in the baggy skin of the chin, feed-ing off their egg yolk until they are mature. Talk about a dedicated dad!• Zeus is the Father and King of the Greek gods. He is credited with fathering Ares, Aphrodite, Orion, Apollo, Artemis, Hermes, Persephone and Heracles. He had consorts with mortal women as well as divine and fathered Helen of Troy by a mortal.• Father Knows Best (1954) fi rst aired on the radio, running six years of original episodes before moving solely to television.• Pater Patriae, a Latin honorifi c, means “Father of his Country,” or literally “father of his fatherland.” It was used to describe many ancient Roman leaders like Caesar Augustus. Nero was offered the honor during the fi rst year of his reign, but because of his youth (he was seventeen at the time) he turned it down although he didn’t hesitate to accept it the second time around.• The world’s current oldest father is Nanu Ram Jogi, a farmer from India. His fourth wife, Suburi, gave birth to their seventh child in 2007 when he was 90 years old. Mr. Jogi has approximately twenty-one children and twenty grandchildren.• Papa John’s Pizza is the third largest take-out/de-livery pizza chain in the United States. It was founded by John Schnatter in Jeffersonville, Indiana in 1984.• What does Father Time have in common with the Grim Reaper? Both ancient, scythe wielding fi gures stem from the Greek god Chronos, god of time. His Roman counterpart is Saturn, the god of agriculture and this connection brought about the association with a scythe/sickle.• Father Edward Joseph Flanagan was a priest of the Roman Catholic Church. He founded the or-phanage Boys Town in 1917.• Jacob Cats was a Dutch writer of poetic emblem books, which were widely popular in the 17th cen-tury. He was affectionately known by his peers as “Father Cats.”• Actress Anjelica Huston was in two fi lms directed by her father, John Huston. They were Prizzi’s Honor (1985) and The Dead (1987).• “A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” – Anonymous.

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Operation Gratitude

Operation Gratitude has been at it again: During the Memorial Day weekend it sent 20,000 packages to

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In this week’s addition of Local Business Matters I would like to share a story about a recent experience I had while looking to purchase a commuter car. Like many Inland Northwest residents, I never look forward to purchasing a car. My experience has been generally nothing short of many frustrating hours sitting trying to find common ground on a price. To say nothing of the feeling of being taken advantage of and did I mention many hours wasted sitting in a salesperson office.

To my pleasant surprise I did not encounter this same frustration this time, as in past automobile purchases. The truth is I was looking for a well built, good looking commuter car that would do well in our winter climate, and not empty my wallet on gas. I must have looked at least 20 different cars. As you would expect I called and spoke with many different sales people at different dealers, but one call I made was much different than the rest!

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