Dear Abby Advice Column Highlights Unwanted Attention
Readers share stories of a persistent suitor invading a widow’s garden and a son borrowing items, plus musicians asked to avoid interruptions. Abby advises clear boundaries, potential police involvement, and direct talks to recover borrowed items and the key. A Bend Oregon note ends with relocating suggestion.
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Deborah Westfall Oughton Named BPW Young Career Woman
Deborah Westfall Oughton, eee Messenger women's editor and Rochester native, earned the BPW Young Career Woman title in district competition in Gallipolis and advances to the Cleveland state contest in May 2022. She has dual careers in dance instruction at Ohio University and her own dancing school, with a background in Butler and Indiana universities.
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Retirement Skills Swap Builds Social and Cash Value
Seniors trade lifelong abilities through USE, a growing barter system led by the Philadelphia Center for Older People. With 1700 members and 400 active participants, the exchange catalogs skills from sewing to plumbing, offering one hour per credit and often turning exchanges into part time or permanent jobs.
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Jean Fisher
USE
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