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Bob Felderman, Ivonne Simmonds Fals, all of our 365 friends and advertisers... and you for reading. Dubuque365/365ink Magazine WHERE’S WANDO 432 Bluff St., Dubuque, IA 52001 •Dubuque365.com • 563-588-4365 We’ve hidden Wando somewhere in this issue of 365ink. Can you find him? All contents © 2015, Community, Incorporated. All rights reserved. All bacon served semi-crispy. 2 TOC & INKWELl 365INK MAGAZINE JUNE 4–JUNE 17, 2015 ISSUE #240 DUBUQUE365.COM Either my wife is really interested made sense that there was something in where she comes from or else she other than European in my bloodline. secretly is wondering who the heck she Well, you know what? Bologna! married and wants to do research to I’m about as white as it gets. 100% explain, uh… me. European. That was my result. Some A couple of years ago so got hooked surprise that it was as much British and on that TV show where Phoebe from Irish as it was French and German, since I Friends roots around in famous people’s assumed there would be a heavy dose of heritage to see who their ancestors were. German based on the rest of my known I admit it was pretty interesting. Each lineage. So I guess the DNA from that episode generally had a lot of tears and unknown element must have been pretty some wow moments. I wonder how many heavily British and Irish, because, well, boring people they checked into and you know how well the Irish are known edited out of the show? for developing a deep and lustrous tan. Anyway, following that experience she Someone’s got some ‘splainin’ to do. decided to do the Ancestry.com thing. So I’m a very European white guy. But I Honestly, I don’t remember what ever guess I can wear green on St. Patrick’s came of that. Maybe we didn’t dig very Day now and not just because I need an deep in our own families to give it enough excuse to get drunk. However, I have to info to figure it out. And then, of course, start taking it easy on Cinco de Mayo. I’ve got a big question mark on my side of Christy didn’t get her results back the family. More on that later. yet. But when she does, apparently she’s The new thing is DNA testing. It used got another website we can go to and to be expensive, but now you can send input our results to find out information off your DNA using a spit collector kit on genetic health markers and such that provided by the company that does it, can tell you things about disease and in our case 23andme.com. So we did what you might be predisposed to (like just that. I had to spit into a vile. Kind of Livewello.com or GeneticGenie.com). I a lot of spit actually. And then we put it can’t say I’m all that jazzed about finding in the fancy little box and shipped it off. that out, but she seems pretty stoked Then we went on the website and took about it. I suppose that kind of info is like a couple surveys. Actually, they have catnip to a hypochondriac. Can’t wait! endless surveys and if you have the free And in the end, I’m 2.8% Neanderthal, time, I think you could answer questions registering in the 61st percentile about your family, your life, and your among all those who have tested with health for a day or two and never get 23andme.com. Apparently they’ve never through them all. I just took a few about seen me eat BBQ ribs? But still, that is surgery and got bored and had enough. I 0.1 percent more Neanderthal than the think maybe Christy revisited it later and average person, so perhaps that explains filled out more. Among the fun things to my extreme aversion to shaving. n get to find out is how much Neanderthal DNA you have in you. I’m glad that one’s not a survey question for my wife to guess about me. Today, while working on the next issue of the paper, my results were emailed to me. They were both very interesting and at the same time, pretty boring. I’ll explain. My father’s father was adopted. On top of that, he was divorced from my grandmother and I don’t think my dad even met him until the 70’s. Even after that, I never knew him very well. He moved to Dubuque in the 80’s and I mowed his yard for a while when I was a teenager. He paid well, I’ll give him that! From what I gathered from Mel (that’s his name) and my dad, there was assumed to be some Hispanic ancestry in there somewhere. Certainly based on Mel’s skin tone as well as that of my dad, who never tanned but always got a good bronze on in the summer (probably doesn’t hurt that he never wore a shirt back then), it DUBUQUE365.COM ISSUE #240 JUNE 4–JUNE 17, 2015 365INK MAGAZINE InkubatoR 3 EVENTS ONGOING Everything that shoppers love about the Dubuque Farmers’ Market is back and better Master Gardener Call Center than ever. Produce, hanging baskets, freshly Mondays & Thursdays: Through September baked goods, locally bottled wines, a great the Dubuque County Master Gardeners are ready selection of arts and crafts, and more are now to help with gardening challenges of all kinds. available. SNAP customers are able to receive $1 the call center runs Mondays: 6–8 PM; thursdays: SNAP tokens to purchase eligible food items at 1–4 PM. In October there are Master Gardeners the Dubuque Farmers’ Market, and any customer on duty on Thursdays only from 1–4 PM. Call will be able to purchase $5 Debit/Credit tokens 563-583-6496 to reach the call center. to purchase anything at market through the new Market Money program. For more information, 365ink Lunchtime Jam contact Dubuque Main Street at 563-588-4400 Fridays: Through September 4 @ Noon–1 PM or visit dubuquefarmersmarket.org. Town Clock Plaza Hosted by the 365ink crew and sponsored THURSDAY, JUNE 4 by Prudential Financial and Carlos O’Kelly’s, Lunchtime Jams feature free laid-back Tri-State Wind Symphony Concerts: lunchtime performances by great local acoustic Dubuque Fiddlers musicians in Town Clock Plaza Fridays around 7:30 PM @ Eagle Point Park Band Shell lunchtime (weather permitting). Lunchtime Pack up a picnic and your lawn chairs and Jams also features great food from Carlos bring the family to the Eagle Point Park Band O’Kelly’s with many other fantastic dining Shell for the 21st season of tri-State Wind TITANIC: THE ARTIFACT EXHIBIT options in the immediate area. Symphony Concerts! For more information, DAILY: NOW THROUGH SEPTEMBER 7 @ 9 AM–6 PM visit TSWS.org. NATIONAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM & AQUARIUM Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition Titanic: the Artifact Exhibition poignant look at this iconic Ship and its Through September 7 FRIDAY, JUNE 5 takes you on a journey back in time passengers. National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium to experience the legend of Titanic The Exhibition has been designed See article on left for more information. Summer Farm Toy Show like never before. The galleries in this with a focus on the legendary RMS Noon-6 PM @ National Farm Toy Museum fascinating Exhibition feature real Titanic’s compelling human stories Dubuque Farmers’ Market (Dyersville IA) artifacts recovered from the ocean as best told through over 150 Saturdays: Through October @ 7 AM–Noon This year the Summer Farm Toy Show is floor along with room re-creations and authentic artifacts and extensive room Near Iowa & 12th St. celebrating their 30th anniversary! The two day personal stories. Engineering, physics re-creations. Receive a replica boarding event will have of a Diorama Display Contest and social studies are all addressed as pass of an actual passenger aboard you explore the science of Titanic. Titanic, then begin a chronological On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world’s journey through Titanic‘s life, moving largest Ship, sank after colliding with an through the Ship’s construction, to life iceberg claiming more than 1,500 lives on board, to the ill-fated sinking and and subsequently altering the world’s amazing artifact rescue efforts.