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HINTS FROM HELOISE: How to handle expiring dates on packaging

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DEAR HELOISE: Renee recently commented about trying to read impossibly small print against similar colored backgrounds. This has been a thorn in my side for years! Additionally, the location, color and font size of a product’s expiration date is a problem. Expiration dates should be clearly stamped in contrasting ink on the top of the product, whether it’s a jar lid or a box top. I don’t know about anyone else, but I select products by looking at the front of the label because this is what’s visible on the shelf. The presentation of the top of the package doesn’t matter. I ...

TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH: Prostate biopsies usually succeed

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DEAR DR. ROACH: I read your recent column on prostate biopsies. I’m no doctor, but I’d advise against them. My boyfriend got a biopsy in 2012, which I believe caused his cancer to spread beyond his prostate into his bones. He died three years later in 2015. Think about this: A needle is inserted to extract cells so that they can be tested. When the needle is pulled out with its open end, and cancer is present, cells in the needle can then come out of the open end, causing cancer to spread throughout the prostate. It may be rare, but this is documented (tumor seeding). — ...

Playhouse’s ‘Shark’ is well-oiled machine

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YOUNGSTOWN — The shark may be broken, but Youngstown Playhouse’s production is in shipshape. “The Shark Is Broken,” a play about the making of the 1975 film “Jaws,” opened Friday before a sell-out crowd at The Playhouse Downtown, which proved to be a perfect venue for the intimate, three-character story. The movie was plagued by delays, cost overruns and other calamities during production, in part because director Steven Spielberg chose to shoot the film on the ocean instead of a studio lot and the mechanical sharks built for the movie seldom worked. In the era of the ...

Girard church organist plays her last note

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GIRARD — After serving for nearly 60 years as the organist at Girard First Baptist Church, Carol Armstrong has decided it is time to retire from the position she has loved for so long. Members of the church recently gathered to celebrate Armstrong and her musical abilities that have been ...

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CHURCH HOSTS CONCERT: Cortland Nazarene Church, 293 E. Main St., Cortland, will have a concert with Dan Schall at 10:45 a.m. Sunday. RELEASED TIME: Released Time, which is Bible education during school hours, will host a year-end celebration and a parent meet-and-greet 5:30 to 7 p.m. June 27 at Warren First Assembly of God, 2640 Parkman Road NW, Warren. The school ministries team will be there to answer questions, and there will be food and games. RSVP to Don James at 330-647-3457 or djames1oh@gmail.com 102 YEARS: The 102nd anniversary of New Bethel Baptist Church, 1507 Hillman St., ...

Vance writes of journey to Catholicism in ‘Communion’

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Vice President JD Vance, a convert to Catholicism whose faith has been central to his adult life, writes about his religious journey in a new book that could ultimately serve as a sort of origin story for a future presidential campaign. “Communion: Finding My Way Back to Faith” comes out Tuesday from Harper, and The Associated Press obtained a copy ahead of its release. The HarperCollins imprint also put out “Hillbilly Elegy,” the best-selling memoir from 2016 that helped make Vance a national figure. Vance has been working on and off on his new book since then, a tumultuous ...