Ice cream obsessions span flavors and cicada controversy
A playful piece notes National Ice Cream Month and National Ice Cream Day declared by Reagan, then dives into global and unusual flavors. Highlights mint chocolate chip affection, quirks like octopus and cicada ice creams, and reports Sparky's cicada batch in Columbia facing health-advisory limits.
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Reagan
Japan
Italy
France
Sparky
Columbia
Missouri
Sparky’s
Boone County
Colbert School in Dayton Becomes a Rosenwald Museum
The Colbert Rosenwald School in Dayton, once the town’s colored school, has been restored as a museum. Alumni volunteers arranged displays about Colbert and African-American education, preserving history from the 1920s Rosenwald school era and honoring teacher Annie E. Colbert.
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Dayton
Colbert-Rosenwald
Brenda Trahan
Lois Redman
Katrina Dickens
Jo Ann Paul
Colored School
Rosenwald
Tuskegee Institute
Booker T. Washington
Annie E. Colbert
They Play Our Songs and We Name Our Favorites
A reader recalls how songs tie to memories with parents and a long marriage. They share fond affection for My Blue Heaven’s lyric twist, Casablanca tunes, and show tunes from My Fair Lady and The Music Man, noting many favorites and lacking a single “our song.” They wonder why more couples don’t have a shared tune.
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Bennie
Molly
Baby
Casablanca
Sam
Skeeter
Final Bowler Ed Lorenz Dies After Perfect Game At Airway Lanes
Jim Finley recalls Ed Lorenz of Portage Michigan who collapsed and died soon after bowling a perfect 300. The piece ponders ideal final moments and features a quote from friend Johnny Masters about dying doing what one loves, plus a nod to an AP report and a hypothetical farewell. Page 5B.
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Jim Finley
Ed Lorenz
Portage
Mich
Jess Navarre
Harris County
Michigan
Johnny Masters
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