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OCTOBER 17, 2010
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www.talkingabout cancer. com  
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CHOICES
Health Services
Is a program to provide
health care for thousands
County who do not have
health insurance.   
www.acchoices.com
CRISIS INTERVENTION

North Central Florida
Residents:  
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Overwhelmed?  Money
trouble?  Depressed? Alcohol
or drug problems?Legal
issues?  
Abused?  Child care
concerns?  Whatever has you
feeling swept away, we can
help.
To get or give help, just dial:  
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North Central Florida
(352-332-4636) & Alachua
County Crisis Center
AUTISM, ASPERGERS &
RELATED DISABILITIES
Center for Autism and Related
Disabilities
University of Florida
P.O. Box 100234, Gainesville,
Florida
32610(352) 846-2761
http://www.card.ufl.edu
The Center for Autism and
Related Disabilities (CARD)
provides support and assistance
with the goal of optimizing the
potential of people with autism
and related disabilities: People
who show difficulties in verbal
and non-verbal communication,
social interactions, and leisure
or play activities may be dealing
with such a disability.
33.  Inner Resources
To know how other people behave
takes intelligence, but to know
myself takes wisdom.

To manage other people’s lives my
own life takes true power.

If I am content with what I have,I
can live simply and enjoy both
prosperity and free time.

If my goals are clear,I can achieve
them without fuss.

If I am at peace with myself,I will
not spend my life force in conflicts.

If I have learned to let go,I do not
need to
fear.     
                                        
                         
The Tao of Leadership by
John Heider


ALACHUA EVENTS
Saturdays 10-3
Millcreek Farm visit the retired horses - bring Carrots!
www.millcreekfarm.org

Weekends
Great Outdoors Music Schedule:
Grreat Outdoors Dining  make reservations at 386-454-1288
FRIDAY &
SATURDAY
NIGHTS
MUSIC 8:30 PM   BEEF O’BRADYS DOWNTOWN ALACHUA 386-418-0018
www.
beefobradys.com
JANUARY
Recover from Holidays
FEBRUARY
Valentines
MARCH
GATOR NATIONALS www.gainesvilleraceway.com
17th - St. Patricks Day - Celebrate Safely
APRIL
Alachua Spring Festival www.alachuabusiness.com
High Sprngs Pioneer Days www.highsprings.com
MAY
Relay for Life www.cancer.org
JUNE
End of School, Graduations
JULY
4th of July Celebration   www.cityofalachua.com
AUGUST
5TH - 15TH - World Series of Girls Softball    
www.cityofalachua.com
School Starts in Alachua County
SEPTEMBER
Recovering from Summer
October
1 - 31 - Scarecrow  Row www.alachua.com
17th Sunday - Alachua Harvest Festival  www.alachuabusiness.com
Trick or Treat on Main Street www.alachua.com
NOVEMBER
DINNER WITH THE AUTHOR!  17th rmorse47@yahoo.com
Shop Dine and Stroll www.alachua.com
Gainesville Downtown Art Festival www.gvlculturalaffairs.org
DECEMBER
Shop, Dine and Stroll www.alachua.com
Tree Lighting www.cityofalachua.com
Alachua Branch Library  
14913 NW 140 Street
Alachua, FL
386-462-2592      
http://www.aclib.us
Book I just finished - OLIVE KITTERDIGE by Elizabeth Strout.

Hmmnm – what to say?  I’m glad I read it, it was extremely well written and a winner of the
Pulitzer Prize.  I SHOULD have LIKED IT.  But alas, I was, by turns, annoyed, depressed, on
occasion hopeful – but amazingly I kept reading it!  The book is a series of short stories set in the
town of Crosby, Maine.  The thread that binds the stories together is the character of Olive
Kitteridge.  Olive is an older women, a former teacher who fearlessly blunders through life,
thinking she knows what is going on and doesn’t hesitate to comment on it.  Each story unfolds
revealing a seemingly unknown fact and Olive’s part in that particular story.

Taken from a review by Andrew Sperling “…But as the stories continue, a more complicated
portrait of the woman emerges. Olive may hurl invectives at her son, but she also loves him,
almost more than she can bear. Her husband is a kind man and she loves him too, although she
has trouble expressing it. She’s prone to “stormy moods,” as well as “sudden, deep laughter,”
and she harbors a sense of compassion, even for strangers.   

Taken from a 2008 book review by Louisa Thomas for the New York Times:  The pleasure in
reading “Olive Kitteridge” comes from an intense identification with complicated, not always
admirable, characters. … And there are moments in which slipping into a character’s viewpoint
seems to involve the revelation of an emotion more powerful and interesting than simple fellow
feeling — a complex, sometimes dark, sometimes life-sustaining dependency on others. There’s
nothing mawkish or cheap here.   There’s simply the honest recognition that we need to try to
understand people, even if we can’t stand them!
HOME
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Alachua County Library
District, …thinking outside the
book
Alachua’s Main Street:
Ace Hardware
Alachua Chiropractic
Alachua County Today
Alachua Farm & Lumber
Alachua Health & Fitness
Alachua Properties
Alachua Woman’s Club
Bev’s Better Burgers
Beef O’Brady’s
Buttery Sweet Bakery
Buttons & Bows Quilt Shop
Christ Central Ministries
Cloud K-9 Grooming
Colleen's Kloset
Computer Doctor
Conestogas Restaurant
Custom Lighting
CVS  Pharmacy
Deneno’s Ristorante
D.W. Ashton Catery
Eveready Tree Service
Garden Gallery Gifts
Green Heron Art Gallery
Harvest Health Food
Ivy House Restaurant
Jackson's Antiques
Limelight on Main Gifts
Lee’s Hair Salon
Main Street Pie: A Pizzeria
Mexican Grocer
North Florida Flooring
The Office Dealer
Open Show Photography
Paul Stresing Architect
Pink Porch Bookstore
Prissy Pals
Sarah Vierra Salon
Request Physical Therapy
Valerie's Loft -Designer Consignment
Windstream Communications
Discover Rural
North Florida
through the stories of Mary Lois
(Douglas) Forrester.  Read her
wonderful personal stories
about her childhood and how
things used to be growing up in
rural North Florida.  
Mrs. Forrester has authored four
(4) books:

Lest We Forget, A Town,
Newnansville (Alachua)

Florida  Our Towns
- The Way
They Were & Memories of my
Childhood

High Springs, Florida Our
Town
 

Think on These Things

Books Available at The Pink
Porch Bookstore
in downtown
Alachua.

USEFUL WEB SITES
Measure your risk of identity theft:  www.myidscore.com
Ask a librarian:  www.ipl.org/div/askus
Native plant database:  www.wildflower.org/explore
Home product savings:  www.habitat.org/env/restores.aspx
Antiques price guide:  www.kovels.com/quick_lists
Healthier pets:  www.petmd.com
SEPTEMBER
CONTENTS
ARTICLE
ALACHUA HARVEST FESTIVAL
ARTICLE
SOCIAL SECURITY SHOWDOWN
ARTICLE
Alachua Downtown Redevelopment Trust Board
AUTHOR DINNER
NOVEMBER 17TH
N FLORIDA
DISCOVER NORTH FLORIDA
HEALTH
Instructions for Life- Dali Lama
FOR FUN
FOR LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS)
RECIPE
Honey Chicken Recipe
BOOK
BOOK OF THE MONTH-Olive Kitteridge
MUST READS
NOW THAT WE ARE WISER - Classics to be Re-Read!
POETRY
Women in My Circle
CALENDAR
ALACHUA EVENTS
SHOPPING
Alachua Main Street
LIFE COACHING
Why I can help ...
CRISIS NUMBERS
Cancer, Autism, Information and more
FOR FUN -LEXOPHILES (LOVERS OF WORDS):

1. A bicycle can't stand alone; it is two tired.
2. A will is a dead giveaway.
3. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. A chicken crossing the road: poultry in motion.

6. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
7. The guy who fell onto an upholstery machine was fully recovered.
8. You are stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
9. He broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
10. A calendar's days are numbered.

11. A boiled egg is hard to beat.
12. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
13. The short fortuneteller who escaped from prison: a small medium at large.
14. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
15. When you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall.

16. If you jump off a Paris bridge, you are in Seine .
17. When she saw her first strands of gray hair, she thought she'd dye.
18. Santa's helpers are subordinate clauses.
19. Acupuncture: a jab well done.
20. Marathon runners with bad shoes suffer the agony of de feet.

21. The roundest knight at King Arthur's round table was Sir Cumference.
He acquired his size from too much pi.
22. I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an
optical Aleutian .
23. She was only a whisky maker, but he loved her still.
24. A rubber band pistol was confiscated from algebra class because it was a
weapon of math disruption.
25. No matter how much you push the envelope, it'll still be stationery.

26. A dog gave birth to puppies near the road and was cited for littering.
27. Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.
28. A hole has been found in the nudist camp wall. The police are looking into it.
29. Atheism is a non-prophet organization.
30. I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger. Then it hit me.

31. A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: 'Keep off the Grass.'
32. A small boy swallowed some coins and was taken to a hospital.
When his grandmother telephoned to ask how he was, a nurse said, 'No change
yet.'
33. The soldier who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned
veteran.
34. Don't join dangerous cults: practice safe sects.
From our friend Gib Coerper.
BOOKS WE SHOULD  RE-READ . . .
Most of us have read these books,  but I have
found that as I’ve become wiser,  these books
have many meanings beyond what I thought
they did!  
  1984, Orwell
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Twain
Anthem, Rand
Awakening, Chopin
Catcher in the Rye, Salinger
Chosen, Potok
Crucible, Miller
Tao of Leadership, Heider
Ethan Frome, Wharton
Good Earth, Buck
Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck
House on Mango Street, Ciscneros
Lord of the Flies, Golding
Macbeth, Shakespeare
Our Town, Wilder
Pygmalion, Shaw
Red Badge of Courage, Crane
Roots, Haley
Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne
To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee
Wuthering Heights, Bronte
BE READY
FOR THE
HOLIDAYS!
ORDER YOUR
LIGHTED WINE
BOTTLES  
NOW!        
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SOCIAL SECURITY SHOWDOWN  … coming to a
neighborhood near you soon.  Lots of people in
Washington are talking about reducing the deficit.  I
suspect most of us agree reducing the deficit is a great
goal for all of us - including the federal government.  But
of course the question is always “whose ox is going to get
gored” - in order words, what is going to get cut?   

Social Security is viewed by many legislators as the
Golden Goose.  The claim is that they just want to make
it solvent for the “lesser people” (Senator Alan Simpson).  
Hmmm, I know lots of people getting social security and
they don’t seem like lesser people to me.   

OF COURSE WE ALL WANT
SOCIAL SECURITY TO BE SOLVENT!  

Whether or not we now think Social Security is a great or
bad program, millions of people have planned their lives
around the guarantee that those funds would be
available to them in their later years; at a time when
they can’t work anymore, when they are encountering
disease and illness, many for perhaps the first time in
their lives.  Sounds pretty un-American – “kick ‘em while
they’re down”.  If you have no experience with Social
Security, let’s put this in perspective, recipients are lucky
to get about $1,000 a month so they are not exactly
living in luxury on Social Security.

MAYBE our legislators should think about ways to
increase revenue or cut spending that doesn’t cut off the
lifeline to millions of middle class elders.  How about first
taking a look at the income tax rate cuts given to the
extraordinarily wealthy over the last 10 years.  

Yeah, yeah I know the theory that when the rich get
richer the money will trickle down to the peasants and
we’ll all be doing great.  That just didn’t seem to work
out.  The corporate big wigs got our tax bailout, then got
their million dollar salaries, and just to put salt in the
wound, they then got bonuses on top of that!  

We the people got our jobs cut and our mortgages
foreclosed.  Oddly, it does not make me sad that the
moguls wives have to sell their mink coats or the mogul
himself might have to get rid of one of his yachts.  It
might make me sad if they fired the maid.
As the TV, websites, newspapers, etc. become filled with
in-your-face fear propaganda for the upcoming elections
- please JUST KEEP IN MIND, BIG BUSINESS IS NOT YOUR
FRIEND, THEY’LL FIRE OR FORECLOSE YOU IN A
HEARTBEAT!   Small businesses, yes, we should help,
support, patronize, loan money to, de-regulate etc.  
Small businesses are America at its best.  Government
unfortunately defines small business as less than 500
employees and that’s big business in this neck of the
woods.  In an event, any method for deficit reduction
must be one that focuses on getting the middle class back
on its feet and making Big Business pay its fair share
instead of getting all the breaks.    Doesn’t it seem odd to
you that American corporations have more protections
than American citizens – if you poisoned hundreds of
people you’d go to jail, if you defrauded hundreds of
homeowners you’d go to jail – how did we get to this
point that corporate America can get away with
anything!

Be careful who you vote for – know what they really
stand for.  I don’t love government, but come on, who is
going to watch over big business on our behalf if it isn’t
the government?  Let’s not try to do away with
government, let’s just make government better.

DINNER WITH
THE AUTHOR!
WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 17, 2010 6
PM
THE GREAT SOUTHERN
CIRCUS
by Nick West
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WOMEN IN MY CIRCLE

When I was little,
I used to believe in the concept of one best friend,
and then I started to become a woman.
And then I found out that if you allow your heart to open up,
God would show you the best in many friends.

One friend is needed when you're going through things with your man.
Another friend is needed when you're going through things with your mom.
Another will sit beside you in the bleachers as you delight in your children
and their activities.
Another when you want to shop, share, heal, hurt, joke, or just be.

One friend will say, "Let's cry together,"
another, "Let's fight together,"
another, "Let's walk away together."

One friend will meet your spiritual need,
another your shoe fetish,
another your love for movies,
another will be with you in your season of confusion,
another will be your clarifier,
another the wind beneath your wings.

But whatever their assignment in your life,
on whatever the occasion,
on whatever the day,
or wherever you need them to meet you with their gym shoes on and hair
pulled back, or to hold you back from making a complete fool of yourself .
those are your best friends.

It may all be wrapped up in one woman,
but for many, it's wrapped up in several..
one from 7th grade,
one from high school,
several from the college years,
a couple from old jobs,
on some days your mother,
on some days your neighbor,
on others, your sisters,
and on some days, your daughters.

Thank you to all of you for surrounding me with friendships that nourish,
inspire, and fulfill me.   

From our friend Sharon Traud

Honey Chicken Skewers W/Grilled-Corn
Serves 4 Hands-On Time: 10m Total Time: 20m

Ingredients
•        1/2 cup ketchup
•        2 tablespoons honey
•        1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
•        1 1/2 pounds boneless, skinless chicken breasts
•        kosher salt and pepper
•        canola oil, for the grill
•        6 ears corn, shucked
•        1 tablespoon unsalted butter, cut into pieces
•        2 scallions, sliced   
    
Directions
1.        Place twenty 8-inch wooden skewers in water to soak. Heat grill to
medium-high. In a small bowl, combine the ketchup, honey, and
Worcestershire sauce; set aside.
2.        Slice the chicken lengthwise into twenty 1/2-inch-thick strips. Thread
each strip onto a wooden skewer. Season with 1/4 teaspoon salt and 1/4
teaspoon pepper.
3.        Lightly oil the grill. Cook the chicken, turning occasionally, until cooked
through, 6 to 8 minutes, basting with the ketchup mixture during the last 2
minutes of cooking.
4.        Meanwhile, grill the corn, turning occasionally, until slightly charred, 3
to 4 minutes. Cut the kernels off the cobs, place in a medium bowl, and toss
with the butter, scallions, 1/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Serve
with the chicken.
The City of Alachua Downtown Redevelopment Trust
Board administers the Community Redevelopment
Agency (CRA).  The CRA is a public body created by the
City Commission following Florida Statute guidelines.  
The CRA creates a redevelopment plan that includes
the overall goals for redevelopment in the area, as
well as identifying the types of projects planned for
the area.  It is funded through tax increment financing
contributions from the City of Alachua and the
Alachua County Board of County Commissioners.

Tax increment financing is a unique tool available to
cities and counties for redevelopment activities.  The
dollar value of all real property in the Community
Redevelopment Area is determined as of a fixed date,
also known as the “frozen value.”  Taxing authorities,
who contribute to the tax increment, continue to
receive property tax revenues based on the frozen
value.  These frozen value revenues are available for
general government purposes.  However, any tax
revenues from increases in real property value,
referred to as “increment,” are deposited into the
Community Redevelopment Agency Trust Fund and
dedicated to the redevelopment area.
CITY OF ALACHUA’S DRTB  - Connecting the
dots –
we citizens often understand how these
wonderful things happen! Just in case you’ve been
noticing improved streets, sidewalks, streetlights,
parking plans, seasonal decorations, the annual
Christmas Tree and more  ...  These projects and more
are the result of the City of Alachua’s Downtown
Redevelopment Trust Board (DR
TB) which serves as
the City of Alachua’s Community Redevelopment
Agency.  Members, along with the Chair and Vice-Chair
are appointed by the Alachua City Commission.  
The community redevelopment district was established
in 1982.  The purpose of the community
redevelopment district is to rehabilitate, conserve, and
redevelop areas within its geographical boundaries.  
www.cityofalachua.com, Boards, DR
TB.  
I’ve been honored to serve on this Board for the past
several months.  During this time I have learned of the
outstanding work this group has done over the years to
improve the downtown district.