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STILL WORKING AND VOLUNTEERING TO KEEP ACTIVE Lodging tips for 2017 travels • Mayor Corbin N. Shook • Brisket is a winter treat FREE Volume 15, Issue 1 features our INSPIRE 3 80-year-old John Bos: Still 3 working and volunteering Generation’s to keep active by Christina Ryan Claypool Our Generation’s Magazine

EDITORIAL department Lifestyle/Special Sections Editor Adrienne McGee Sterrett TRAVEL 567-242-0510 4 Tips on lodging for [email protected] your 2017 travels • Contact Adrienne McGee Sterrett if you by John Grindrod have a story idea or if you see an error of fact.

ADVERTISING SPORTS SPOT For information on advertising 5 Nestled in Southwest Ohio, in this publication, contact: Miami’s cradle of coaches Advertising Manager by John Grindrod 4 Barbara Staples [email protected] HISTORY 6 Mayor Corbin N. Shook Our Generation’s Magazine is published monthly by By Greg Hoersten The Lima News by the fi rst of every month. Address correspondence to The Lima News, 3515 Elida Road, Lima, OH 45807, Attn: Our Generation’s Magazine. SEASONINGS Our Generation’s Magazine is available free at 10 Brisket is delicious libraries, supermarkets, retail stores, assisted living for winter center, hospitals and other outlets. Our Generation’s Magazine all rights reserved. No portion of Our Generation’s Magazine may be YOUR MONEY reproduced without the written consent of the 11 Understanding health publisher of The Lima News. savings accounts

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January 2017 ON THE COVER: our Volume 15, Issue 1 Generation’s AT OUR AGE Q&A As for John’s age, Randall magazine 10 Bearings’ supervisor Kathy 11 Koverman said, “We see that as being a benefit … because he is retired, he is flexible. Many times our needs are last minute and he is available. He brings a lot of for fun knowledge and experience.” by Christina Ryan Claypool S       EVENTS CALENDAR Lodging tips for 2017 travels • Mayor Corbin N. Shook • Brisket is winter treat 8 FREE 9 CROSSWORD

2 | January 2017 | Our Generation’s Magazine Inspire 80-year-old John Bos: Still working and volunteering to keep active Story and photos by Christina Ryan Claypool “My philosophy is that ago, at the age of 75. understanding of what it Randall I would rather burn out “I am working, not means to take ownership Bearings’ president than rust out,” said John as much for the money, of your job.” Kent Morgan Bos. “At my physical this as the opportunity to Both Morgan and believes that year, I was told that I am be involved,” said the John’s immediate super- John Bos is probably the oldest truck 80-year-old Elida resi- visor Kathy Koverman an asset to driver passing a physical dent. agree. the company. in Allen County.” Kent Morgan has “He’s been very excel- According Bos is a retired public been the president of lent in being able to to Morgan, “John is most school administrator who Randall Bearings since represent the company,” dependable now drives truck part- 2003. Morgan originally said Koverman, who is and has time at Randall Bearings. invited Bos to join the the strategic accounts extensive He started driving for staff there, because of experience the company fi ve years John’s “fundamental See INSPIRE | 7 in his area of 4 contribution.”

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Our Generation’s Magazine | January 2017 | 3 Travel Tips on lodging for your 2017 travels By John Grindrod

As we head into another year, all of would routinely do if buying tickets to a us who love to travel can begin thinking sporting event. Personally, I don’t want about new road adventures, whether to be too close to the pool and the kid- those adventures are the by-product of dos that tend to populate the old water- work travel or leisure. ing hole. Additionally, I don’t want to While it’s nice to have a home base, be too close to the ice machine or the leaving it for stretches of time can add elevator. I’ve been amazed too many so much zest to life. Now, since the cost times before I learned my lesson and of lodging is, perhaps, the most dramatic began asking about the room’s location portion of any travel budget, I thought at the late hours that people are hitting I’d start the year by taking a closer look that ice-machine button for those noisy, at how we all can more wisely select tumbling cubes or using that elevator, where we stay. which always “dings” when it reaches Some tips come from one, so-called each floor. expert, and I’ll pass along some of my One final tip I’ll pass along, and that own as well. I think most are pretty involves a question I get a lot, which is common-sense based, although they’re which hotel chain I prefer. tips that may not come to mind as you I’ll start by saying that if I’m just plan your travels. looking for the most comfortable bed I guess the first consideration when it and best breakfast as far as variety comes to lodging, as it seems to be with and taste, it’s really hard to beat a pretty much everything, is how much John Grindrod Hampton. I’m a frequent visitor at the John Grindrod enjoys the Drury chain for its comfy rooms, generous food and good rewards program. that room is going to cost and how a one on the west side of my old college traveler can get the best deal. town of Oxford in the southwest part of Well, according to travel tipster Typically Thyberg feels the worst really must-see for music lovers. I also the state during business travel. If it’s David Thyberg — whose work has been time to get the best price for any lodg- encountered this type of lodging gouging breakfast more than anything else you featured in USA Today and more — ing is less than a month out from when just last July in Milwaukee when Lady prioritize, the made-to-order omelet at understanding a little about strategy in you’ll be checking in, which will ensure Jane and I visited what I discovered to an Embassy Suites is hard to pass up. booking hotels is vital in getting the best there’ll be a place to lay your head and be a very underrated city to see a home- However, for the total package — as price. Thyberg points out the science also ensure the avoidance at popular town Brewers game and to attend Sum- in friendly staff, commodious room with is certainly inexact as to when it’s most destinations of last-minute increases in merfest, which bills itself as the world’s a nice work space for business paper- economical to book, but, all things con- prices, something not at all uncommon largest music festival. The tab for a two- work, a firm mattress, an excellent food- sidered, he feels it’s best to book early, when hotel management gets wind of big night stay at a hotel called the Knicker- and-drink kickback in the evening (one despite the fact that hotels often will events in the area. bocker on the Lake was nearly $600. which includes both bar and enough offer a last-minute deal on a room rather Of course, prices will typically rise Of course, using one of the plethora food that it’s a full dinner), a hot break- than see the room go unsold the day a based on a number of factors, such as of websites such as Travelocity and fast and, finally, a great rewards pro- traveler shows up. whether you desire weekend lodging or Expedia, there are plenty of opportuni- gram — you absolutely can’t beat the Says Thyberg, “Some hotels won’t dip during holiday times or whether, typical- ties to comparison shop to obtain the Drury Inn and Suites. It’s also reason- below a certain price to offer discounts ly in larger cities, there will be conven- best deals, but, if there’s an event that ably priced. no matter how many rooms they have tions or major events in town planned at coincides with the time you wish to visit, So there you have it, folks, courtesy empty. This is because hotels want to the same time each year. don’t expect much help with the fare. of David Thyberg and yours truly, a few protect their published room rates. If I’ve discovered that major event thing As far as some things I’ve learned on lodging tips for your 2017 travels. word got out that travelers could con- when traveling, often to scratch my base- my own during business and leisure trav- Please join me next month, and I’ll sistently take advantage of last-minute ball itch in Major League cities as well els, I’ll give you three tips, all of which, I get you out on that road with me when deals rather than making reservations in as, on other occasions, securing metro think, are common sense. I start a series that begins in New York’s advance, then hotels would stand to lose lodging during annual events such as the First, make sure you ask about the Adirondacks, bounces into Canada and a lot of money.” Chicago Blues Festival in Grant Park, a location of the room, the same as you concludes in Vermont. Please join me.

4 | January 2017 | Our Generation’s Magazine Part Sports Spot 2 of 3 Nestled in Southwest Ohio, Miami’s cradle of coaches By John Grindrod

Surely for its size, three different platoons graduate of LCC. Over Miami University in by its innovative coach Parseghian’s 10 years, tiny Oxford casts a in a time when most col- no team lost more long shadow when it lege teams had several than three games. comes to coaching leg- players play both offense Former teammates ends. Even if the list and defense. No doubt, from well over a half of coaches whose like- of the three platoons, the century ago remem- nesses are bronzed in one that gained the most ber the mark Ara left. life-size statues beyond notoriety was the defen- Recalled teammate the south end zone at sive unit known as the Wayne Gibson about Yager Stadium, Miami’s Chinese Bandits because Parseghian, “As a home fi eld, stopped with of the players’ speed and player, he played both the likes of Earl “Red” tenacity. offense and defense, Blaik, Weeb Ewbank, Dietzel also coached in the backfi eld and on Paul Brown and John successful programs at the line.” Harbaugh, that would be both Army and South Parseghian holds enough to establish the Carolina during his illus- the distinction of both schools credentials as a trious coaching career. playing on an unde- maker of great coaches. The next “Cradle” feated Miami team But, there are six more coach is considered by and, during his 1951- coaching icons I’ll cover football historians as 1955 head coaching this month and next in someone who is the tenure at Miami, also the last two installments exact center of the coaching an undefeat- of my series on Miami’s famous Miami Univer- ed squad. Cradle of Coaches. sity coaching fraternity. Recalled the ever- Paul Dietzel is a 1948 Ara Parseghian played optimistic and posi- Miami graduate who for fellow Cradle coach tive thinking coaching John Grindrod fi rst played for Sid Gill- Paul Brown, assisted icon, “Perfect seasons Weeb Ewbank man and then coached as on Woody Hayes’ staff like those occurred an assistant for Gillman, at Miami, was a team- because coaches never in 1969. During his ten- football fi eld. Said Park, single day I was around yet another great Miami mate of Cradle coach allowed themselves to ure at Michigan, many “The team, team, team [Coach Schembechler], coach not included Bo Schembechler and get down on themselves a classic confrontation was all that mattered.” I was motivated. He not among the 10 statues. also coached two other or down on one anoth- ensued when his teams Jack Harbaugh, John’s only motivated his play- Additionally, Dietzel Cradle coaches, Johnny er.” played Woody Hayes’ and Jim’s father, assisted ers but also his assistant also was an assistant Pont and Carm Cozza. Another bronzed Buckeyes in a series on seven of Schem- coaches.” coach to Red Blaik at Parseghian is best Cradle coach is Bo of games collectively bechler’s Michigan Next month, I’ll close West Point. You’ll recall known for his years Schembechler, a Miami known as “The Ten-Year teams. In fi ve of those the series on Miami’s I told you last month coaching Notre Dame graduate of 1951. He War.” years, the Wolverines famed Cradle of Coaches how much Blaik loved when his teams earned played for Woody Hayes According to football won Big Ten champion- with a look back at the bringing on Miami men. three national titles over and then, at Ohio State, historian Jack Park, like ships, went to three careers of John Pont In his own head coach- his decade-long ten- coached under Hayes. Coach Hayes, Schem- Rose Bowls and an and Carm Coza as well ing career, Dietzel, who ure. His fi rst, national Schembechler then bechler had strong Orange Bowl. as some other coaches died in 2013 in Baton championship team in became Miami’s head personal values. Both of Recalled Harbaugh, who are certainly in the Rouge, Louisiana, had 1966 featured a stout coach for six years in these one-time Miami the elder, about the man Cradle but not, as yet, his greatest team at defense anchored by All- the 1960s before being coaches demanded excel- he considers the single bronzed on the plaza at LSU in 1958, a national American linebacker Jim tapped as the Michigan lence in the academic biggest infl uence in his Yager Stadium. Please champion comprised of Lynch, Lima’s own, a Wolverines’ head man world as well as on the coaching career, “Every join me.

Our Generation’s Magazine | January 2017 | 5 This feature is a cooperative History eff ort between the newspaper and the Allen County Museum and Mayor Corbin N. Shook Historical Society. By Greg Hoersten LIMA — The media got it wrong. As the days dwindled before the November 1911 elections, the Republican- Gazette predicted the election of Republican mayoral candidate John W. Rowlands was “now certain” because the news- paper had successfully refuted the “campaign cunard” that Rowlands more than a decade earlier had said $1.50 a day was enough wage for any man. The rival Times-Democrat just as confi dently touted Democratic candidate Dwight Goodyear, “a busi- ness man of the highest integrity; a councilman whose record is without Photos Courtesy of Allen County Historical Society fl aw …” This photo, from 1958, shows Corbin N. Shook in his later years. When he was 45 years old, in 1911, he The Lima Daily News was elected mayor of Lima as a Socialist. on Nov. 5, 1911, how- ever, called for “a tightened on Nov. 8, 1911. “Corbin a reforming mood. The race,” adding that “where N. Shook, 45 years of age, nation had developed a a week ago landslides were born and raised in the City taste for political reform used as a term, today politi- of Lima, against whom not and social activism, a cians and friends of the two a word of criticism was spo- “Progressive Era” that candidates speak of hun- ken, is elected by the Voice lasted from the 1890s dreds.” of the People, Mayor of the to the 1920s. The There was a third candi- City of Lima.” Socialist Party, with a date, though Lima’s newspa- Shook was a Socialist platform that included per seldom mentioned him who ran a printing busi- a guaranteed minimum until Election Day. ness behind his Washington wage, tax reform and “The birds that have been Street home and spent less protection for child and warbling in the trees on the than $25 on the campaign. female labor, was tailor outskirts of town, now and Shook, the Daily News made for the times. No then fl itting down into the wrote, “was elected not fewer than 25 Ohio cit- A publicity card that Corbin printed himself for his campaign. business district, where so much because he was a ies elected Socialists to The Socialist Party, with a platform that included a guaranteed he who would, might hear, Socialist, but because he public offi ces in 1911. minimum wage, tax reform and protection for child and female labor, was tailor made for the times. No fewer than 25 Ohio are today singing in loud was a man against whom Socialism took root in cities elected Socialists to public offices in 1911. tones the refrain that ‘dirty the party press had not Lima as early as 1903. Corbin returned to politics’ have been given a hurled invective, censure, “There was a meeting printing after his term as severe rebuke,” the Daily sarcasm or abuse …” held last night without a mayor. He is shown here News fairly warbled itself America in 1911 was in great deal of ostentation in 1921. See HISTORY | 12

6 | January 2017 | Our Generation’s Magazine Inspire, continued from page 3 manager for Randall spending 31 years in Bearings, which has local education. He also facilities in Lima and taught in the graduate Coldwater. program for the Uni- “Randall Bearings versity of Dayton for a treats me and others as decade. family,” said Bos, and After retiring, he sold family is important to electronics for 14 years. him. He has been mar- “I enjoyed what I did, ried to his wife, Joann, working with people. for 57 years. Joann has It was a good learn- always struggled with ing experience for me, health issues related to working with different a bout with rheumatic kinds of people from fever as a teen, which very affluent to abso- left her with a damaged lute poverty,” said Bos. heart. “It’s very difficult for The couple has one me not to be active. I’ve daughter, Linda Miller, kind of done that my who is a teacher at whole life,” he said. Shawnee schools, and a John is involved deceased premature son. as a cemetery board They are also proud of member at St. Matthew their three grandchildren Lutheran Church, too. and will be great-grand- He believes he learned parents soon. his work ethic from The busy senior grew both of his parents, up in Vickery, where who were “very hard- he graduated from working people.” His Christina Ryan Claypool photos Townsend High School, father was also a public Former public school administrator John Bos has had a variety of careers since he retired in 1989. For the past five years, the 80-year-old and then earned a bach- school superintendent. Elida resident has been driving a truck part-time for Randall Bearings, which has local facilities in Lima and Coldwater. elor of science from In retirement, he has Bowling Green State found volunteer work University. He received a to be fulfilling. For the Area Agency on Aging 3, “He is a good asset and spend so much of his that God has given me masters degree in educa- past four years, John and who coordinates the vol- a good representation time assisting others? good health and abilities, tion from the University Joann have donated their unteers for the program. of what the American “I firmly believe that and has allowed me to of Toledo, and Ed.S. time to transport rescue “He was one of the Cancer Society is trying your health will dete- use them to help others from BGSU, as well. dogs within Ohio. John first volunteers in Allen to accomplish with the riorate quickly if you do and to be active,” he During high school, would drive, and Joann County,” said Petrie. Road to Recovery pro- not keep active,” he said. said. “And I think that’s John worked in various would care for the dogs, “When we first launched gram.” Besides, the caring octo- true of a lot of other farming-related jobs. Fol- until recently when her the program, [about five But why does John Bos genarian adds, “I think retirees, too.” lowing college gradua- health issues interfered. years ago], he picked up tion, he taught school for “We plan to start doing a lot of rides for us.” seven years in the Toledo this [again] as soon as Bos admits that this area. Then he became a Joann is stronger,” he can be a difficult task, principal at Upper Scioto said. because he sometimes Valley, worked at the The compassionate hears the heartbreaking Allen County Service senior is also a driver stories from the can- Center in curriculum for the American Cancer cer patients who have development, and was an Society’s Road to Recov- no family or friends to assistant superintendent ery program. transport them. Yet, he at both Perkins schools “He drives cancer says, “I get more out of it in Sandusky and at patients to cancer treat- than they do.” Lima’s Shawnee schools. ment when they don’t “He’s able to talk to He ended his career at have any other ride,” people… to put people Shawnee in 1989 after said Erica Petrie, of the at ease,” said Petrie. 40939673

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There are fi ve easy ways THU JAN 5, 2017 TUE JAN 10, 2017 SAT JAN 21, 2017 to send information: INTERNET: Visit limaohio.com to put Friends of Putnam County Conservation Tillage Club Diva’s Den Sponsored by the your event in the database. In the District Library Tree Festival, Breakfast Series Kiwanis Club of Lima black bar at the top, click “Calendar.” Silver Memories 7:30 am Plaza Inn Restaurant, 491 9:00 am Lima Masonic Center, 2165 N. MAIL TO: Your Community Calendar, 9:00 am Putnam County District S. Main St., Mount Victory. Dr. John Cole St., Lima. The Kiwanis Club of Lima Newsroom, The Lima News, 3515 Library, 136 Putnam Parkway, Ottawa. Fulton, Precision Ag & the 4Rs will be providing free of charge gently Elida Road, Lima, OH 45807 Red Cross Blood Donation ABLE/GED Orientation used prom dresses. Dresses cleaned DROP OFF: Items may be 10:30 am Delphos Eagles Aerie, 9:00 am Apollo Career Center, without charge by Duff y Cleaners. dropped off at the front desk. 1600 East Fifth Street, Delphos. 3325 Shawnee Road, Lima. Allen County Chess League 9:30 am Lima Public Library, EMAIL: Items may be emailed to: info@ FRI JAN 6, 2017 Apollo Able/ged Orientation limanews.com. Put “Your Community 6:00 pm Apollo Career Center, 650 W. Market St., Lima. Calendar” in the subject line. American Red Cross blood donation 3325 Shawnee Road, Lima. 1:00 pm The Dannon Company, TUE JAN 24, 2017 FAX: 419-229-2926 Support Group for Healing Items must be submitted in writing at 216 Southgate Dr., Minster. Conservation Tillage Club After a Loved One’s Suicide Breakfast Series least two months prior to the event. SAT JAN 7, 2017 6:30 pm Partnership for Violence Free 7:30 am Plaza Inn Restaurant, 491 Always include a contact Share The Trails Acres Families, 309 W. High St., Lima. name and phone number. S. Main St., Mount Victory. Dr. Jeff Land Trust Hike Miracle Revival Services with Stachler, Ag. and Natural Resources SUN JAN 1, 2017 2:00 pm Flat Rock Creek Nature Rev. Ted Shuttlesworth Extension Educator in Auglaize County. Preserve, 8654 SR 500, Paulding. New Years Day Mass 7:00 pm Only Believe Ministries, Cabaret 9:30 am St. John Catholic Church, Only Believe Ministries 13815 Botkins Rd., Botkins. 8:00 pm Veterans Memorial Civic and 777 S. Main St., Lima. New Years special services WED JAN 11, 2017 Convention Center, 7 Public Square, Day Mass. 419-222-5521. Free. 6:30 pm Only Believe Ministries, Apollo Able/esol Orientation Lima. 419-224-1552. $35-$60. New Years Day Mass 13815 Botkins Rd., Botkins. 6:00 pm Apollo Career Center, 11:00 am St. Rose Catholic Rev. Jesse Duplantis. THU JAN 26, 2017 3325 Shawnee Road, Lima. OSU Extension: New & Church, 523 N. West St., Lima. SUN JAN 8, 2017 New Years Day Mass . Free. Miracle Revival Services with Small Farm College Only Believe Ministries Rev. Ted Shuttlesworth 6:00 pm OSU-Lima, 3900 Campus Drive, MON JAN 2, 2017 Special Services 7:00 pm Only Believe Ministries, Lima. Are you a small farm landowner Tree Festival, Silver Memories 10:00 am Only Believe Ministries, 13815 Botkins Rd., Botkins. wondering what to do with your 2:00 pm Putnam County District 13815 Botkins Rd., Botkins. The African Children’s Choir acreage? Are you interested in exploring Library, 136 Putnam Parkway, Ottawa. Rev. Jesse Duplantis. 7:00 pm Piqua Baptist Church, options for land uses but not sure TUE JAN 3, 2017 Bingo 1402 High Street, Piqua. where to turn or how to begin? $150. 2:30 pm VFW Post 9142, 212 W. Second Friends of Putnam County St., Ottawa. Early Birds at 1:30 p.m. MON JAN 16, 2017 District Library Tree Festival, Miracle Revival Services with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Silver Memories Rev. Ted Shuttlesworth Memorial Breakfast 9:00 am Putnam County District 6:30 pm Only Believe Ministries, 8:00 am Veterans Memorial Civic and Library, 136 Putnam Parkway, Ottawa. 13815 Botkins Rd., Botkins. Convention Center, 7 Public Square, Red Cross Blood Donation Lima. Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. 10:00 am American Red Cross MON JAN 9, 2017 - Sigma Mu Omega Chapter. $10. Allen County Chapter House, Women In Agricultural series THU JAN 19, 2017 610 S. Collett St., Lima. 5:30 pm Putnam County Extension OSU Extension: New & State of the Village Address Offi ce, 1206 E. Second St., Ottawa. For Small Farm College 12:00 pm Schnipke Inn, 202 information or to register, contact Beth 6:00 pm OSU-Lima, 3900 Campus Drive, W. Main St., Ottawa. Scheckelhoff at scheckelhoff .11@osu. edu or phone 419-592-0806. $10-$50. Lima. Are you a small farm landowner WED JAN 4, 2017 wondering what to do with your Miracle Revival Services with Red Cross Blood Donation acreage? Are you interested in exploring Rev. Ted Shuttlesworth options for land uses but not sure 2:00 pm American Legion, 200 7:00 pm Only Believe Ministries, where to turn or how to begin? $150. S. Broadway, Spencerville. 13815 Botkins Rd., Botkins.

8 | January 2017 | Our Generation’s Magazine Just for Fun Answer on page 12 CLUES ACROSS 35. Fruit of the oak tree CLUES DOWN 27. Yemen capital 1. Isodor __, American 37. Royal Navy ship during WWII 1. Seafood 29. Sacred book of Judaism Nobel physicist 38. Of cherished symbols 2. Incan god of mountains 32. Make a mistake 5. One a day keeps the doctor away 40. Satisfy 3. Ritzy LA neighborhood __ Air 34. Wrestlers wrestle here 10. Extents 41. 5th. day (abbr.) 4. Line that connect points 35. Respiratory issue 12. Noticing 42. Swiss river of equal pressure 36. In league 14. Scriptural 44. Royal Albert Hall (abbr.) 5. Audience-only remarks 39. Resinous insect secretion 16. Star Trek character Laren 45. Cool! 6. Chest muscle (slang) 40. Unhappy 18. “The Crow” actress __ Ling 48. Flat metal shelves 7. Pointed top 43. Turbulent area of a river 19. Not good 50. Enclosed 8. Lavender 44. Neglectful 20. Measures gold 52. A way to pass 9. Linear unit 46. Sours 22. TV network 53. City in Iraq 10. Knifes 47. Calendar month (abbr.) 23. Wasting 55. Printing speed measurement 11. 2016 World Series champs 49. Grooves 25. Money in Ghana 56. Twitch 13. A way to arrange 51. Sony Pictures Television 26. Young girls’ association 57. Indicates position 15. Talk 54. Monetary units 27. Title of respect 58. Made lawful 17. Serving no purpose 59. Command right 28. High schoolers take this test 63. Took down 18. Container 60. 1,000 cubic feet 30. Crunches federal numbers 65. A way to travel on skis 21. Breathes new life into 61. Expression of triumph 31. Wild or sweet cherry 66. North winds 23. Beloved dog Rin Tin __ 62. Dinner jacket 33. Celestial bodies 67. Tunisian metropolis 24. A bag-like structure 64. The first two in a plant or animal

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Our Generation’s Magazine | January 2017 | 9 Seasonings Brisket is delicious for winter By KATIE WORKMAN not so important — just keep roasted garlic from the skins This September Associated Press the flavors balanced. and add it to their sauce, or 2016 photo Brisket shrinks when it spread it on toast or crusty shows brisket A good brisket recipe is cooks, so keep that in mind as bread (which you should pro- with wild a nice thing to have in your you are assessing the size you vide!). Make sure to serve this mushrooms, in New York. winter repertoire. Brisket is a need. You can make brisket a with egg noodles or potatoes Brisket is a tough and fairly inexpensive couple of days ahead and keep to soak up all the sauce. tough and fairly cut of meat that gets amazingly it in the fridge. Skim off any If you want a more subtle inexpensive cut tender after some quality time fat that has accumulated on mushroom flavor, mix in of meat that in the oven, and it requires the top, and slice the brisket some sliced button or cremini gets amazingly little attention or care while it before returning it to the pot mushrooms with the wild tender after some quality cooks. That’s a nice character- with the sauce and heating it mushrooms. This is also help- time in the oven, istic in a piece of beef. gently in the oven or on the ful budget-wise, as wild mush- and it requires You can use a larger size stove. rooms can be pricey (but as little attention piece of brisket and just bump Adding almost two heads of any mushroom lover will tell or care while it up the quantities of the other garlic cloves to the sauce may you, worth every penny). cooks. ingredients proportionately. seem crazy, but they will mel- Brisket is a very flexible meat low and also turn meltingly Katie Workman has written two cookbooks focused on easy, family-friendly cooking, as long as you cook it low and soft in their papery skins as “Dinner Solved!” and “The Mom 100 slow, so the exact measure- the brisket cooks. Tell your Cookbook.” She blogs at http://www. themom100.com/about-katie-workman/ ments of onions and liquid are guests to squeeze out the Lucy Beni via AP

BEEF BRISKET WITH WILD MUSHROOMS Serves 6 Preheat the oven to 300 F. Peel and 5 minutes until softened and lightly the mushrooms have turned nicely mince two of the garlic cloves and set browned. Add the wine and stir, scrap- brown, and any liquid that was released Start to finish: 4 hours aside. ing up any browned bits from the has been evaporated, about 8 minutes. Place the porcini mushrooms in a bottom, until the wine is reduced by Sprinkle in the balsamic vinegar and 2 heads garlic, cloves separated but small bowl and add the boiling water. half. Add the beef broth, the chopped stir to release any browned bits from unpeeled Let the mushrooms soak for 20 min- soaked mushrooms, the strained mush- the bottom of the pan. 1/2 ounce dried porcini mushrooms utes. Remove them, squeeze out any room soaking liquid, and the thyme Skim and discard any fat that has 2/3 cup boiling water extra water back into the bowl, and to the pot. Tuck the brisket back into accumulated on the braising liquid. Stir 2 tablespoons olive oil then strain the soaking liquid through the pot; the meat will be about halfway the sauteed mushrooms into the pot. 1 2 ½- to 3-pound piece beef brisket a fine mesh strainer into a large bowl. submerged. Tuck the remaining garlic When the meat has finished resting, Kosher salt and freshly ground Chop the soaked mushrooms, and set cloves in their skins around the meat cut it into slices as thin or thick as pepper to taste the mushrooms and the strained soak- into the liquid. Cover the pot and you like, across the grain. Transfer the 1 red onion, halved and sliced ing liquid aside. transfer it to the preheated oven. slices neatly back to the pot, and nestle 1 cup dry red wine Meanwhile, heat a large, deep oven- Cook for about 3 1/2 hours until the them into the sauce and mushrooms. 1 1/2 cups beef broth proof pan or stockpot with a lid over brisket is fork tender. Remove it from Serve hot. Alternately, you may place 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme medium high heat. Add the oil. Season the pot to a cutting board with a moat the meat on a deep serving platter with leaves the brisket on both sides with salt and to catch the juices, and let it rest for at sides, and ladle the sauce with the 2 tablespoons unsalted butter pepper. Sear the brisket on both sides least 15 minutes. Let the braising liq- whole garlic cloves and mushrooms 1 pound sliced wild mushrooms, for about 4 minutes per side, until uid rest in the pot. over the top. Sprinkle over the parsley any sort browned. Transfer the brisket to a large Meanwhile, heat the butter in a very or arugula. 3 tablespoons balsamic vinegar plate. large skillet over medium-high heat Chopped parsley or arugula to Return the pan with the oil to until melted. Add the wild mushrooms Nutrition information per serving: 446 calories; 249 calories from fat; 28 g fat (10 g saturated; 1 g trans garnish medium heat. Add the onions, season and reserved, minced garlic, season fats); 91 mg cholesterol; 264 mg sodium; 10 g with salt and pepper, and saute for with salt and pepper, and saute until

10 | January 2017 | Our Generation’s Magazine Money At Our Age Q&A Understanding health savings accounts SOCIAL SECURITY - QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS Courtesy of Metro What are the advantages and disadvantages of HSAs? Question: A few years ago, I lost my It’s against the law to use someone else’s There are advantages Navigating health insur- Social Security card. Now my credit Social Security number, give false infor- and disadvantages to ance plans can be confus- report shows that someone might be mation when applying for a number, or HSAs. HSA account hold- ing. One health insurance using my Social Security number. I’m alter, buy, or sell Social Security cards. ers can control how their product that’s relatively afraid they might ruin my credit. What Keep in mind, you should never carry saved money is spent, and easy to understand is a should I do? your Social Security card with you. 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Our Generation’s Magazine | January 2017 | 11 History, continued from page 6 but one which is declared to to progressive reforms and the Red Light district closed Sept. 8, 1912, speech in the McPheron, speaking at a rally be only preliminary to oth- continue in the old rut infest- and abandoned.” northeast corner of the Pub- in the Public Square on Aug. ers which will follow in the ed with political corruption His crackdown extended lic Square, the Daily News 24, 1913, called Shook “the interest of the socialist labor and sordid political schemers to dance halls (he upheld a reported. Wilkin said Shook’s traitor who has betrayed our party,” the Times-Democrat who are the stool pigeons of ban on the tango at a Hover “system of assessing fines and interests into the hands of the wrote on Aug. 24, 1903, not- special interest and are in Park dance hall and refused costs against weak men who capitalist class.” ing that “enthusiasm was politics for revenue only.” a permit for another on the become sufficiently addicted Shook finished second to stirred up by an advocate After a quick trip to Chica- grounds “the dances given to the abuse of intoxicating Democrat Theodore Robb, of socialism, who recently go, where he visited a daugh- were objectionable”), unli- drink” merely worked “an while McPheron finished a made a speech on the Public ter, and Milwaukee, where censed dogs and fireworks on additional hardship on inno- distant fourth. Shook, who Square …” In early October he visited that city’s Socialist the Fourth of July. On June 26, cent and suffering wives.” was reinstated in the local 1911, Socialist Party standard mayor, Shook got down to 1912, after Shook promised As the November 1913 Socialist party in 1919, made bearer Eugene Debs spoke to business. On Dec. 6, 1911, he to uphold a fireworks ban, the city elections neared, Shook, several more unsuccess- about 800 party members at named Frank E. Harman as News noted, “Allen County’s described as “the ostracized ful runs for mayor. He was Memorial Hall. “his chief lieutenant,” accord- metropolis will be as quiet socialist,” filed as an inde- elected to one term as city Shook, who was born in ing to the News. Harman, a as a country cemetery on the pendent. “I will depend on commissioner in 1925 during Lima Aug. 10, 1866, and had Lima furniture dealer, was a nation’s birthday.” my two years’ record for Lima’s experiment with a city worked as a typographer in Republican. At other times, Shook’s re-election,” Shook told the manager form of government. Lima and Chicago before Shook’s bipartisan streak Socialist side came through. Daily News on Aug. 18, 1913. Shook died May 6, 1960, at running a newspaper in Jack- did not sit well with the local When Lima Locomotive The Socialist candidate, E.O. the age of 93. son Center, had joined the Socialist Party. And, when he Works officials asked the city Socialist Party about six years repudiated a letter of resigna- to abandon a portion of Third before his run for mayor. He tion signed before the election Street for factory expansion, returned to Lima in 1904 to and intended to ensure he Shook on Sept. 12, 1912, told Find up-to-date local news and sports coverage at run his printing shop. Accord- adhered to party principles, the News, “I am opposed to ing to a 1984 story in The the local Socialist party kicked the giving of anything to cor- www.limaohio.com Lima News, “The candidate him out. porations.” And, on Aug. 24, did not seek his party’s nomi- Shook, however, still consid- 1912, when some complained nation and was absent from ered himself a Socialist, albeit a red flag flying over the Pub- the meeting at which his name one with strong law-and-order lic Square announcing “a mon- was selected to run for office. leanings. Reminiscing in a ster mass meeting” of Social- Shook held no party office at story in the Aug. 9, 1958, ists was “a symbol of anarchy,” the time.” edition of the Lima Citizen, Shook replied, “The red flag is On learning of his victory, a 92-year-old Shook boasted an emblem of brotherhood, in Shook told the Republican- that he and his safety director, which I am a firm believer.” Gazette, “I have no platform Edwin Blank, “cleaned up that Shook’s administration also and no promises, and I may saloon crowd to a fare thee was dogged by controversy. add that I had no campaign well.” Shook and Blank were accused expenses except the printing “My safety director and I of nepotism for giving their of a few cards. I did not ask brought anyone in who was children jobs with the city. anyone to vote for me and caught selling after hours and When Blank was accused of made no campaign except to fined them $100 right on the ruining the police depart- meet people when asked by spot,” Shook told the Citizen. ment with his policies, Shook my friends to do so.” “One fellow paid 10 of those clamped down on newspaper Lima’s Socialist leader, fines and another paid 13 access to City Hall. A headline Samuel Kleinberger, who it before they realized we meant from Sept. 6, 1912, predicted was rumored would become business.” the move would prove popu- Shook’s adviser, was glee- Shook also tried to put out lar “since the public may be ful. Kleinberger wrote in the the lights in Lima’s “red light prevented from smelling more Republican-Gazette on Nov. 9, district” on North Central police stench.” 1911, that the results showed Avenue. On June 18, 1912, the Shook was even taken the voters “of this city as well News reported, “The lid came to task for his war on the as this nation are deserting down with a bang last night saloons. Scott Wilkins, the the ranks of the old parties when Mayor Shook ordered Socialist mayor of St. Marys, because they remain dormant the two remaining resorts in lashed out at Shook in a

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