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FOR A HAPPY EASTERby Patricia L. Cook

Easter is the most important holiday for Chris-tians when the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ are remembered and celebrated. It is also a time when chocolate bunnies hop off the store shelves! Hop with Tidbits for a look at some Easter traditions.• The Easter tradition of wearing new clothes came about when, after their baptisms, new Christians would wear white robes all through Easter week to indicate their new lives with Christ. Others who were already Christians would also wear new clothes to show that they shared the same beliefs. • In Medieval Europe, after Easter Mass, church-goers would walk in a procession led by the Cru-cifix or an Easter candle. With people in their Easter bonnets and new spring clothing, these were the first Easter parades. • Easter parades were at their peak in 1948 when the movie, Easter Parade, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, was made. The title song, writ-ten by Irving Berlin, included the lyrics: “In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Easter parade.”• New York City has an Easter parade on Fifth Avenue, with fancy clothing, hats and bonnets, but it doesn’t have the religious significance of the parades of long ago.

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EASTER (continued):• Also on Fifth Avenue in New York, Easter bonnet

displays are in shop windows. This stems from a European tradition of decorating hats with flowers to celebrate spring. This tradition is not as strong as it once was. Check your old family pictures though, and you may see yourself or your parents or grand-parents all dressed up in Easter finery including hats and bonnets.

• Today, Easter eggs are the symbol that everyone identifies with the spring holiday. The egg is a sym-bol of new life and fertility.

• New life is associated with spring because warmer temperatures and abundant water from rain or melt-ing snow brings grass, trees and flowers back to life. Easter lilies are a beautiful symbol of purity, hope and life. These lilies are native to Japan.

• Louis Houghton, a World War I soldier is credited with beginning U.S. production of Easter lilies. He brought a suitcase load of bulbs to the southern coast of Oregon in 1919 and distributed them to his friends and neighbors.

• Following World War II, Japanese lily bulbs were in-accessible to foreign customers. The value of Easter lily bulbs in the U.S. rose tremendously, and they became known as “white gold.” Growers, who grew the lilies to beautify their own yards, started busi-nesses for the cash crop. By 1945, there were about 1,200 growers on the Pacific coast from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Long Beach, California.

• Today almost all of the bulbs for the potted Easter lily market are grown by 10 farms in a small coastal area along the California-Oregon border. Appropriately, this region is called the Easter Lily Capital of the World.

• In the Ukraine city of Kolomyia, there is an egg-shaped building, the Pysanka Museum, that showcases Ukrainian Easter eggs known as pysanky (plural; singular is psanka). The eggs are decorated using beeswax in a wax resist method, and this folk art has been around for thousands of years. There are over 10,000 pysanky in the museum that opened in September 2000.

• The world’s largest pysanka is located in the small town of Vegreville, Alberta. This artwork was chosen by the many Ukrainian immigrants in the region to honor the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in their centennial year of 1975. It has in-scriptions written in English, Ukrainian, French and German: “This Pysanka (Easter Egg) sym-bolizes the harmony, vitality and culture of the community and is dedicated as a tribute to the One-Hundredth Anniversary of the Royal Ca-nadian Mounted Police who brought peace and security to the largest multi-cultural settlement in all of Canada.” Professor Ronald Resch, of the University of Utah, designed the giant egg, the first computer modeling of an egg. It actu-ally achieved nine architectural, mathematical and engineering firsts! The giant pysanka turns in the wind like a weathervane. Now, that’s egg-straordinary!

• Eggs come from chickens, but another Easter symbol, the rabbit, is known for its high fertil-ity. German settlers in Pennsylvania brought the Easter bunny to America in the 1700s. Children hoped to find colored eggs hidden in their caps and bonnets. Later, the basket would become the container of choice for Easter egg hunts of all types, both indoors and out.

• Edible treats shaped like Easter bunnies origi-nated in Germany during the 1800s. They were not the chocolate bunnies we find now but were made instead of pastry and sugar.

• Today, the chocolate bunny is the prize of most Easter baskets. Whether hollow or solid, dark or milk chocolate, in a box or wrapped in colored foil, they are immensely popular. Did you know that over 90 million are produced each year? By the way, 76% of Americans think the ears should be eaten first!

• Love them or hate them, Peeps® are also very popular at Easter. In fact, they are the best-selling non-chocolate Easter candy. Peeps® chicks and bunnies come in six colors. Yellow chicks are the top sellers.

• The Easter Egg Roll is the largest annual event held at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue (the White House). The event was held on the Capitol grounds until the Turf Protection Law passed in 1876 banned the event. Basically, the lawmak-ers of the day were saying, “Keep off the grass!” President Rutherford B. Hayes restarted the tra-dition at the White House in 1878.

• The object of an egg roll is to propel a hard-boiled egg across a lawn using a long-handled spoon. After the White House event, participants are given a souvenir wooden egg with the printed signature of the President and First Lady.

• The souvenir egg given at the Easter 2009 event was the first to be environmentally friendly. The wood was from “sustainably-managed forests,” and the ink used was made with vegetable oil.

• The date of Easter changes. It can occur as earl as March 22nd or as late as April 25th.

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• If you’re ever visiting Woodruff, Wisc., be sure to stop by and see its penny. The tour-ist attraction is 10 feet tall and weighs 17,452 pounds. • It’s not surprising that the word “fondue” comes from the French verb “fondre,” which means “to melt.” • With the health-care debate so much in the news these days, you’ve probably heard of the pharmaceutical company Bristol-Myers Squibb. Given its multi-billion-dollar revenues today, you may be surprised to learn that way back in the 19th century when William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers were just get-ting started, they paid a mere $5,000 for their fledgling pharmaceutical company. • If you suffer from ophidiophobia -- and many people do -- you may find the following tidbit to be rather unsettling: There are more than 3,000 different species of snakes.***Thought for the Day: “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.” -- Albert Einstein(c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.

MUSIC LEGEND

CHARLIE DANIELSIn 2009, the biggest hit of Charlie Daniels’ ca-reer was 30 years old. His tune, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” featured some fantastic elec-trified fiddling.• Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Oc-

tober 28, 1936, Charlie Daniels was a skillful musician on fiddle, mandolin and guitar by the time he graduated from high school in 1955. He grew up listening to and participating in Pentecostal gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues and country music.

• Charlie refuses to label his music as country, rock ‘n’ roll or other style. He prefers it be called “CDB” (Charlie Daniels Band) music.

• After high school, he hit the road during the rock ‘n’ roll revolution that was started by El-vis Presley. He wrote “It Hurts Me” with as-sociate Bob Johnston, and Elvis recorded the song as the B side of his hit “Kissin’ Cousins” in 1964.

• Charlie wrote and recorded with many other notable singers through the years, including Bob Dylan, Al Kooper, Ringo Starr and Marty Robbins. His songs “Uneasy Rider,” “Long Haired Country Boy” and “The South’s Gonna Do It Again” were big hits in the 1970s. The 1974 album Fire On the Mountain became a Double Platinum success. (That’s 2 million al-bums sold!)

• In 1979 when the CDB recorded “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” the awards and re-wards really started pouring in. The song be-came a Platinum single, topped the pop and country charts, earned three Country Music Association trophies, won a Grammy Award, was a cornerstone of the Urban Cowboy movie soundtrack, and sent the Million Mile Reflec-tions album to Triple Platinum status!

• There has been a lot written about Charlie Dan-iels, but always included is the fact that he is part Western and part Southern. He wears a signature “bull rider” hat and belt buckle and loves horses, cowboy lore, rodeo heroes, west-ern movies and Louis L’Amour novels.

• In the mid 70s Charlie and his wife Hazel bought a farm near Nashville, Tennessee. They added more acreage, and now as his website states: “Charlie Daniels’ Twin Pines Ranch has been ranching the Western way for over 20 years!”

• Charlie is also deeply patriotic and has done much to encourage support for the U.S. mili-tary. He has visited more than 20 military in-stallations around the world. When Charlie visited bases and talked to soldiers who had lit-tle access to music while away from home, he started “Operation Heartstrings” to put instru-ments, CDs, DVDs and more into the hands of U.S. troops. The program was very successful, and now installations all over the globe have music for the soldiers to share. On June 25, 2007, the Pentagon presented Charlie with the Office of the Secretary of Defense Medal for Exceptional Public Service, the Defense De-partment’s top civilian award.

• One of Charlie’s lifelong desires became a re-ality on January 19, 2008. He was inducted as a full-fledged member of the Grand Ole Opry. While a complete list of his awards is too long to include in this article, two of his latest were his inductions into the Musicians Hall of Fame on October 12, 2009, and the Music City Walk of Fame on November 8, 2009, which is com-memorated with a star on the sidewalk of Nash-ville’s Music Mile. Congratulations, Charlie!

• It was British romance author Jilly Cooper who made the following observation: “The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.” • What do Steve Martin, Donald Trump, Dan Aykroyd, Gene Simmons, Leslie Nielsen, Burt Reynolds, Jerry Seinfeld and Peter Sellers have in common? They’ve all been featured on the cover of Playboy magazine. • Those who study such things claim that the hair on top of your head grows more rapidly than the hair on the sides of your head.

• If you’re up on your Biblical standards of measurement, you probably already know that a handbreadth equals 3 inches, a span is 9 inches and a cubit equals 18 inches.

• Before horror author Stephen King became famous for novels such as “Carrie,” “The Stand” and “The Shining,” he wrote four novels and 60 short stories that failed to be accepted for publication.

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: My 4-year-old Dachshund, “Miss Itzy,” is very aggressive with all of my neighbors, friends and some of my family. However, she’s a sweetheart around my granddaughter and great-grand-children. She has to wear a muzzle when she gets her nails trimmed or goes to the vet. I’m so afraid she will bite someone. I love her to death and don’t want to get rid of her. Can you help? - Maria, Marion, Ind.

DEAR MARIA: You should find out what your granddaughter and great-grandchildren are doing that makes Miss Itzy so calm around them. (Do they have dogs of their own? How do they train their dogs?) There’s something about the way they interact with your dog that really calms her down.Miss Itzy is likely aggressive due to anxiety. The clues in your letter -- aggression toward strangers, the groomer, the vet -- show that she’s got a lot of worries about these strange

people. The groomer and vet are easy to spot -- most dogs do not like nail trimming or getting exams and shots. Another question is, how do you act around neighbors, the vet or groomer? Do you get anxious (maybe because you’re worried that Miss Itzy will get anxious)? Dogs are really good at reading owners’ emotions, and Miss Itzy, devoted to you as she is, will get more anxious, and even take a protective posture, if she thinks you’re afraid or in danger. Talk to the veterinarian about prescribing anti-anxiety medication for Miss Itzy, and talk with a professional trainer, if possible, about ways to train your dog to settle down in unfamiliar situations. Also, observe your own behavior in different situations and try to keep a calm and level voice, even when your dog is barking her head off.

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If you’re still working on your taxes and looking for some last minute deductions to reduce your tax bill, here are a few to con-sider:State taxes: If you paid state taxes for the year 2008 when you filed last year, you can deduct that amount from your Federal return.Property tax: Until recently, only those tax-payers who itemize deductions (Schedule A) could deduct their property tax. Now, even if you take the standard deduction, you can de-duct some or all of the property tax you paid in 2009. There’s a limit, however. You can deduct the amount that is lower: the taxes you paid, or up to $500 for single or $1,000 for filing jointly. Charitable deductions: If you tend to save all your receipts, it could be worth your while to look for those related to charity. You can deduct your expenses for quite a number of things: the cost of ingredients for the cakes and pies you baked, mileage at 14 cents per mile, postage for mailings, and more.Home improvements: If you made energy-saving improvements to your home, you can deduct part of the cost. Windows, water heaters, doors and more are included.

(Unfortunately this doesn’t apply to everyday appliances such as dishwashers and refrigera-tors.) Each item has a different limit on how much can be deducted. Go online to www.energystar.gov and scroll down to Tax Credits for Energy Efficiency. Read the particulars on your appliance or energy-saving product. You’ll need IRS Form 5695 as well as your receipts and the Manufacturer’s Certification Statement to send in with your Form 1040.Home purchase: If you bought your first home in 2009 before Nov. 7, you could be eligible for a credit of up to $8,000. If you are a repeat buyer who purchased a home after Nov. 7, 2009, and who will close on a house by July 1, you could be eligible for a credit up $6,500 if you’ve lived in your home for at least five years. This government program has changed since it was first started in 2008 with a $7,500 interest-free loan to first-time home-buyers. If you’ve bought a home at during that time, check to see if you qualify.

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FOR RELEASE WEEK OF MARCH 29, 2010ARIES (March 21 to April 19) An unexpected problem should be handled as quickly as possi-ble so that it doesn’t cause too much of a delay. Someone who knows what you’re facing could provide needed advice.TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) An unset-tling situation seems to be taking forever to be resolved. Fortunately, your Bovine aptitude for patience is strong this week, so you’ll be more than able to wait it out.GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Taking a stand against an uncalled-for situation involving a friend or co-worker isn’t easy, but somehow you’ll rise to the challenge and do it. Rely on advice from someone you trust.CANCER (June 21 to July 22) There are still some questions on all sides that need to be dealt with in order to allow hurt feelings to heal. Get your workplace tasks done early so that you can devote more time to loved ones.LEO (July 23 to August 22) Consider a new spring makeover that will show all you Leos and Leonas in your best light. A new hairdo and some fashionable new clothes can help put a fresh glow on your image.VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Some stormy, emotional weather can blow up in the workplace when an irate co-worker has strong words for you. But if you believe right is on your side, you’ll be able to ride it out.LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Creating more balance in your life is especially important now so that you’re not distracted when you get into projects that will make demands on both your physical and mental energies.SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) As much as you enjoy being right when others are not, show your generous side by offering to use what you know to everyone’s benefit. This way, you gain admirers and avoid resentment.SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to December 21) This is a good week for the Archer to aim at healing relationships. Whether it’s at home, at work or among your friends, get everyone to set things straight and make a fresh start.CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Although you like things done your way, this is a good time to listen to ideas from others. You might even find yourself agreeing with one or more of their suggestions.AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) As-pects favor positive action to reclaim your ideas from someone who might want the glory with-out doing any of the work. Expect to find many people rallying to support you.PISCES (February 19 to March 20) You might feel uneasy about taking that step forward at work or in your private life. But who knows better than you that while treading water keeps you afloat, it doesn’t get you anywhere.BORN THIS WEEK: You have a way of creat-ing positive attitudes and making people feel good about themselves.(c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.

HOLLYWOOD ... Mickey Rourke is set to play a famous barbarian’s father in the feature film “Conan,” the fantasy franchise that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star. The project will shoot in Bulgaria, and the plot is that Conan sets out to avenge the slaughter of his people. It’s all a bit complicated at the moment, as is the career of that other Conan, last name O’Brien, who traveled from New York to California to host a TV show. ... And speaking of TV shows, I truly wonder why Letterman thinks it’s enter-tainment and fun to drop things from tall build-ings to the street below. Recently, huge weights were dropped from a rooftop onto the top of automobiles below, completely destroying the vehicles.

Aside to Gisella T. of Santa Monica, Calif.: You ask how Oscar got the name. As far as I know, when the little gold man was created and shown to Academy members, Margaret Herrick, a prominent member, said, “He looks just like my Uncle Oscar.” From then on, that’s what the Academy Award prize has been named.All kinds of awards are being given out. Drew Barrymore received the Gay and Lesbian Al-liance Against Defamation” Award. As for her personal life, Drew favors the “opposite” sex. And at the moment, I don’t know too much about that. As for the Academy Awards, I’m certain you have had your fill of that for this year. And to Nina D. of Brooklyn, N.Y.: Yes, there have been female emcees. They are called Mistress of Ceremonies. Ellen DeGeneres was one.

A bit more on award shows: I shall never forget an Emmy show held at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, which had recently hosted an ice-skating show. The rink was still there, so they just put planks over the ice, then desks, typewriters, computers, etc. were in place. We sat on the planks, over the ice, and after about four hours, our “you know whats” were fro-zen. Another time I was at an Oscar-cast at the Chandler Pavilion. When I couldn’t catch an elevator to the fourth-floor press room, I kid-dingly said, “If I don’t get up there and get a seat, I’m going to blow up this place.” The attending police did not think I was kidding. They grabbed me by the arms, hustled me to an outside spot and searched my purse, in which I

JILL JACKSON’S HOLLYWOOD By Jill Jackson

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unfortunately had a small jar of powdered milk I kept for coffee at outings. I was handcuffed, and they were about to take me off in the paddy wagon when, luckily, Bop Hope passed by on his way to his dressing room. He identified me, and I was let loose. So, enough of award shows for this reporter.

I thought everything that could be said about Katharine Hepburn had been said. But no, there’s even more in a new book by Charlotte Chandler titled “I Know Where I’m Going” (Simon and Schuster) that should be in every fan’s library.***BITS ‘N’ PIECES: Angelina Jolie is in talks to develop several projects. No special one as yet. ... W.C. Fields (known for his nipping) always kept a flask of martinis on the set, pretending it was pineapple juice. ... Betcha didn’t know that old-time star Alan Ladd also was American Diving Champion in 1932. ... And Richard Har-ris once said he believed sex ruined marriage. ... And at the moment, I really don’t know if “Gorgeous” George Clooney is serious about any one femme.(c) 2010 King Features Synd., Inc.

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1. Sade No. 1 “Soldier of Love” (Sony)2. Lady Antebellum No. 2 “Need You Now” (Capitol Nashville)3. Johnny Cash new entry “American VI: Ain’t No Grave” (American/Lost Highway)4. The Black Eyed Peas No. 3 “The E.N.D.” (Interscope)5. Lady Gaga No. 4 “The Fame” (Streamline/KonLive/ Cherrytree/Interscope)6. Lil Wayne No. 5 “Rebirth” (Cash Money/Universal Motown)7. Ke$ha No. 14 “Animal” (Kemosabe/RCA)8. Susan Boyle No. 6 “I Dreamed a Dream” (SYC0/Columbia)9. Taylor Swift No. 10 “Fearless” (Big Machine)10. Justin Bieber No. 12 “My World (EP)” (SchoolBoy/Raymond Braun/Island).

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