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“If you have to ask what jazz is, you’ll never know.” -Louis Armstrong

We’re dusting off our dancing shoes at Snippetz because it’s Jazz Appreciation Month! Jazz has been evolving since the

1600’s, has spawned more than a couple dozen distinct styles and continues to be a prominent force in American music. The Joint Houses of Congress declared jazz to be an “American Na-tional Treasure” in 1987, recognizing the music’s cultural signifi cance to the country.

JAZZ ROOTSWith a rich history too extensive to give it justice in this writing, there is no arguing the fact that American jazz is rooted in black slavery. Slaves sang work songs, spirituals and sorrowful songs, most of which were improvised. The blues combined the West African black folk music that was developed in America and combined with late 18th

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and early 19th century European classical and folk music.

New Orleans is considered the birth place of jazz which then spread to Chicago, Kansas City, New York and on to the west coast. The original blues inspired ragtime, Dixieland jazz, swing, bop/bebop, progres-sive jazz, neo-bob/hard-bop, Latin-jazz, jazz-rock, free jazz and many more varia-tions. But it all began with improvisation with the occasional foray into less freeform performances and more structured and re-hearsed performances in venues such as Swing or Big Band music.

LIGHT ON OUR FEETJazz music received a lot of bad press in its earlier days. Many thought the music immoral and pathological with its rhythms that could incite physical passion. Clearly a danger to the moral character of young girls! We’ve come a long way, baby. Some popular dances that came from jazz were The Shimmy, which showed up on Broad-way and in Mae West’s “Sometimes.” The Black Bottom was so named because of the dragging and sluggish foot movement, suggesting a drag through the mud. The Charleston became hugely popular and was performed in 1923 on Broadway in “Liza.”

INFLUENTIAL JAZZ ARTISTS Scott Joplin (1867 or 1868-1917) was known as the “The King of Ragtime.” Jop-lin was born in Texas of a former slave and a free-born woman of color. He was mostly self-taught while a youth, but eventually received some formal classical music train-ing. In 1898, he produced “Original Rags,” followed by the “Maple Leaf Rag,” in 1899, which became a national and international hit. He also wrote “The Entertainer.” He spent much of his life in St. Louis with some time spent in both Chicago and New York. Although he was best known for jazz compositions, he also wrote opera. Gone, but never forgotten, Joplin’s music was re-vitalized in the 1940’s as well as the 1970’s on Broadway. His music was used in the hit movie, “The Sting.”

Louis Armstrong (1901-1971), well known for such songs as “What a Wonder-ful World,” started playing the cornet at the age of seven. He was an elementary school dropout, wandering the streets playing mu-sic, eventually being placed in a home for troubled boys. He played a bugle and cor-net in the band while at the home. When he was released at the age of 13 he began selling newspapers and unloading bananas from boats to earn money. Another impor-tant cornet player, Joe “King” Oliver, men-tored Armstrong before he left to play in Chicago. Armstrong eventually followed Oliver to Chicago in 1922 to play in his band. In 1924 he went to New York for a year to play with Fletcher Henderson’s band before returning to Chicago to start his own band, the Hot Five. Armstrong be-gan playing the trumpet at this time. His record producer encouraged him to sing and started “scat” music, using improvisa-tion and nonsensical sounds. Back to New York in 1929, Armstrong became one of the most well-known jazz artists in Amer-ica and abroad. He was a recording artist, played in movies and on Broadway.

Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) was consid-ered the First Lady of Song. Fitzgerald was raised in a New York orphanage and her musical prowess was discovered during a talent contest when she was 16 years old. In 1935 she then joined Chick Webb’s band

and recorded “A-Tisket A-Tasket” shortly thereafter. She never looked back, touring with both nationally and internationally with Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington and Louie Armstrong. In the 1950’s and 1960’s, she recorded nu-merous albums of songs written by some

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Miles Davis (1926-1991) began his musical career as a teen in St. Louis and moved to New York after high school with the intention of attending Julliard School of Music. He skipped out on the Julliard experience, instead play-ing trumpet with Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker’s group. He started his own band in 1949, the beginning of many different groups. Davis was a gifted musician whose style evolved over time into cool jazz, fusion (rock music and jazz) and even played Flamenco. He was well known for bringing new and talented artists into his group who would then go off on their own, such as John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderly, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock and many others. He appeared on the TV show “Miami Vice”, the movie “Dingo in 1990 and made com-mercials for a radio station. Davis died in 1991 after win-ning several Grammy Awards in the 1980’s.

JAZZ IN A WORDThere are folks out there who spend lifetimes studying words and many who have tried to determine exactly when the term ‘jazz’ was used to describe music or anything else for that matter. The earliest seen in writing was in the Los Angeles Times in 1912 which referred to the Portland Bea-vers pitcher Ben Henderson’s “jazz ball.” Henderson said his jazz ball “wobbles and you simply can’t do anything with it.”

The term jazz was used again in conjunction with baseball in 1913 and meant something spirited, energetic, peppy, joyous.

Jazz, the word, entrenched itself in academia during 1915-1918 at both the University of California, Berkeley and Stanford University. President Benjamin Ide Wheeler at Berkeley used the term so much that many thought he in-vented the word.

The word jazz itself wasn’t used to describe music until 1915 in Chicago. A musician and bandleader, Bert Kelly reportedly was familiar with the term from his time in Cal-ifornia and claimed to use the word to name his 1915 band in Chicago called Bert Kelly’s Jazz Band.

The word jazz found its way to New Orleans in 1918, spelled ‘jass.’

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And that included the military. A white military offi cer, Colonel William Hayward, was so impressed with black soldiers in the Spanish American War that he persuaded the army to recruit African-Americans for WWI duty. His recruiting strategy was a bit unusual. Hayward used the jazz music craze to his advantage by recruiting James Reese Europe, a well-known orchestra leader from Harlem, to become an offi cer and a bandleader in the service. Europe recruited 60 African-American and Carib-bean musicians to form a jazz band which toured Harlem in New York as well as other cities in order to recruit African-American men for the army. His recruits formed the 359th regiment and were sent to the coun-try of Europe to become the fi rst American soldiers to go to France. They were known as the Harlem Hell Fighters and saw 200 days of continuous warfare. Two of the fi ghters earned France’s highest military medal for bravery.

More importantly for jazz music, these sol-diers played in their band as much as pos-sible across Europe – the fi rst jazz music heard by the Europeans – and they loved it. The band played in numerous victory pa-rades after the war including one in New York. When James Europe died, he received full military honors with a funeral proces-sion down Fifth Avenue in New York. This is the fi rst time an African-American re-ceived such an honor.

THE BIG APPLE AND JAZZThe term “Big Apple” was coined by a sportswriter named John Fitzgerald in the 1920’s who named his column “Around the Big Apple” after hearing some New Orleans stable hands call New York City’s racetracks “The Big Apple.” A decade or so later, jazz musicians began referring to

Harlem in particular and New York City in general as the big apple: “There are many apples on the trees of success, but when you pick New York City, you pick the big apple.”

LOCAL JAZZ SCENEThink Colorado Springs is devoid of jazz? Well, you might be wrong about that! Al-though there is only one jazz radio station, 105.5 Smooth Jazz, there are several loca-tions around town that offer regular jazz venues:

• Antlers Hilton Lobby Bar features Brad Bietry, solo jazz artist on Fridays and Sat-urdays from 6 to 9 p.m.

• The Broadmoor Penrose Room Trio with vocalist Lila Mora performs Wednesdays through Saturdays from 6:30 to 10:30 p.m.

• The Broadmoor Tavern Orchestra per-forms with Lewis Mock Wednesdays through Sundays at 8:30 p.m.

• Sunbird Lounge features Casablanca with Jay McGuffi n & Friends on Friday evenings starting at 5:00.

• The Springs Contemporary Jazz Big Band performs at the Thirsty Parrot in downtown Colorado Springs Wednesdays from 6 to 8 p.m.

• The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center is hosting jazz performances on Fridays dur-ing April from 6 to 9 p.m.

For you jazz lovers, there is the Pikes Peak Jazz and Swing Society for all things per-taining to jazz in Colorado Springs. Their website is www.ppjass.org.

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DEAR LORA: Great answer. Thank you for giving readers something to think about.

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YOUR POISE

At any moment you can have a dozen different things to do, places to go, people to see, and annoyances to

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Consider looking at your life as an hourglass. In this hourglass let’s make the little passage between the upper and lower bowls that lets the sand through just large enough to allow only one grain of sand at a time to pass through. Now, make this vision of the hourglass the way you look at your life. It’s certainly a much better picture of daily living than the raging torrent of activity you are now experiencing, wouldn’t you agree?

Here’s why: the busy hours come to you only one moment at a time. There is no other way. No matter how hectic your schedule or how great your stress; life can come at you only one moment at a time.

Sure there is much to be done, problems to be solved, work to be completed, but you can only deal with them one at a time. They must line up single fi le to await your personal attention or else they won’t get done.

You simply can’t do two things at the same time and do either of them well. So make those problems, those demands, those raging torrents of activity line up and take their turn.

Make them stand in line like the grains of sand awaiting their passage to the lower bowl – each to come at their own turn and in their own time. By so doing you are practicing your poise.

Poise: isn’t that a wonderful word. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you overheard someone saying about you, “she always has so much poise.” You see, poise is the outward expression of your inner self-assurance and self-control.

Once you begin taking life one moment at a time instead of allowing a daily avalanche of responsibilities and disruptions to overwhelm you, you will be a person of poise. Then when the unexpected comes upon you, you will be able to deal with it with the same calmness and elegance as you deal with the expected. That’s poise.

But it’s not easy to acquire. It takes practice…and time…like the hourglass dropping one grain of sand after another.

A compilation of the “Prepare for the Boom” columns will be made available soon free to those who request it. For your copy please email your request to [email protected]. For more on Dr. Ross please visit www.MileHighMotivator.com.

©2009 Ronald Ross

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Simple…• because I’ve learned homeopathy and its application in a basic foundational process with the emphasis on a progressive mind-set rather than historic use.• because I’ve learned to prescribe homeo-pathic remedies which are already com-bined in specifi c ratios and dilutions which allow for the coordination of physiological and emotional rebalancing to the chiro-practic adjustment.

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The DNR is an order your doctor gives about not providing resuscitation for re-spiratory arrest or heart attack -- AFTER having discussed your wishes with you in advance.

I can easily envision a situation where things could go very wrong. Let’s say you have a living will and for some reason emergency services personnel are called. They might ask, “Do you have a living will?” You answer, “Yes.” Suddenly, they might decide not to treat your condition ap-propriately and transport you as quickly.

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Matilda Charles regrets that she cannot person-ally answer reader questions, but will incorpo-rate them into her column whenever possible. Write to her in care of King Features Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].


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If you, or someone you know, is interested in being a candidate, please contact a member of the nominating committee. A candidate must be an MVEA member and reside in the district where there is a vacancy. Before applying, please contact either MVEA of ce at 719-775-2861 or 719-495-2283 to verify your district. Candidate information must be turned into the committee by 5:30 p.m., Monday, April 20, 2009. A member may also petition for nomination. Petitions are available at either MVEA of ce or online at www.mvea.coop. Petitions must be signed by 15 members of MVEA residing in the district where there is a vacancy. It must be returned to either MVEA of ce by 5:30 p.m., Mon-day, April 27, 2009. An application must also be completed for either the verbal nomina-tion or petition. The application can also be found on MVEA’s web site or you may pick one up at either of ce. If you have questions, please contact a member of the nominating committee.

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1 oz Bittersweet Chocolate (70% cocoa or more)1 c Milk2 tsp Sugar1 ea clove 1 pinch Nutmeg1 ea Egg WhiteOrange Zests

1. Crush chocolate into small pieces.

2. Place milk, sugar, chocolate, clove and nut-meg in a small pot and bring to a boil while stirring.

3. Cook until chocolate is melt-ed and remove from heat.

4. Whip egg white until stiff and remove clove from chocolate mixture.

5. Add some of the chocolate mixture into the egg white to temper the egg and then add back into chocolate while whip-ping with a whip.

6. Garnish with orange zests and serve hot.

Hot chocolate originated in Mexico and spread through out the Mayan

and Aztec cultures. When the Spanish came to these countries they went crazy for the drink and exposed it to the rest of the

world. Of course hot chocolate here and ev-erywhere else is quite different.

This hot chocolate is the way the Chileans have their hot chocolate at 11:00 am every day. In fact, it is called Chocolate con leche para las once, which translates to hot chocolate with milk for 11:00. They like it sweet and thick. In Mexico their hot chocolate has cinnamon, which you can fi nd Mexican chocolate in the stores so you can just heat it in a little milk. In Spain they will add cornstarch to make it so thick that it is more like a sauce then a drink.

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Trivia Test ByMarge Svenson Sports Quiz By

Chris Richcreek

1. U.S. STATES: What time zone is the state of Oklahoma in?2. LANGUAGE: What day of the week was named after the Roman god Jupiter?3. SCIENCE: What does the sym-bol “c” stand for in physics?4. LITERATURE: In which Shake-spearean play does the character named Bianca appear?5. TELEVISION: Which TV drama was introduced weekly with a voi-ceover that described the main character as “falsely convicted for the murder of his wife.”6. THEATER: Who wrote the play “Seascape”?7. GAMES: What is the length of a standard tennis court?8. HISTORY: In what year did Yuri Gagarin become the fi rst human to orbit the Earth?9. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What does the Fujita Scale measure?10. ETIQUETTE: When is it appro-priate to fl y the U.S. fl ag upside down?

1. Who won more league MVP awards dur-ing his career -- Cal Ripken Jr. or Tony Gwynn?2. Entering the 2009 campaign, how many consecutive seasons had the Chi-cago Cubs pitching staff led the National League in strikeouts?3. In 2007, Cincinnati’s Carson Palmer became the fi fth-fastest quarterback in NFL history to toss 100 touchdown passes for his career (59 games). Name two of the four ahead of him.4. When UConn basketball player Hasheem Thabeet set the Big East single-season blocked shots record of 147 in 2007-08, whose mark did he break?5. Which NHL conference advanced more of its top four seeds through the fi rst round of the playoffs in 2007-08 -- the Eastern or the Western?6. Name the last time a U.S. male swim-mer did not win an Olympic gold medal in the 100-meter backstroke?7. In 2009, Phil Mickelson became the fourth golfer two win back-to-back PGA events at Riviera County Club in Califor-nia. Name one of the three others to do it.


SNIPPETZ® PUZZLES AND TRIVIA

1. Name the one big hit by the band Ides of March.

2. What were the names of the four original Isley Broth-ers?

3. Where was Grace Jones originally from?

4. The Eagles recently won a Grammy for which song?

5. What song was Jan and Dean’s only No. 1 hit?

6. “A Whiter Shade of Pale” was a hit song for which group?

New DVD Releases forWeek of April 6, 2009

PICK OF THE WEEK“Doubt” -- Based on the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning play, “Doubt” is a compelling tale of faith, progress and prejudice, starring Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams and Viola Davis. Set against the backdrop of the tur-

bulent civil-rights movement of 1964, the fi lm revolves around the admission of the fi rst black student at a Catholic school in an Irish-Italian community.

Hoffman plays Father Flynn, a jovial, pro-gressive-minded young priest who takes the young man under his wing. Streep plays Sister Aloysius, the school’s narrow-minded principal who opposes the admis-sion of the boy. A young, na•ve nun (Ad-ams) makes an off-hand comment about how much attention the priest is giving the new student and unwittingly sets into mo-tion a witchhunt against Father Flynn for suspicion of “impropriety” with the young man.

“Doubt” is a great adaptation of the play and the performances by the cast are stel-lar. Highly recommended.

AWESOME ANIMATION

“Disney Animation Collection 1: Mickey & The Beanstalk” -- I remember watch-ing this when I was a child, and I loved it to pieces. “Mickey & The Beanstalk” is the Disney retelling of the classic fairy tale “Jack and the Beanstalk,” featuring Mickey, Goofy and Donald, who climb the magical beanstalk and fi nd themselves in a castle in the sky fi lled with giant food -- and a giant named Willie who guards a golden harp.

“Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941-1942” -- This is the best version of the classic Max Fleischer Superman cartoons you will ever fi nd. And the Fleischer Superman cartoons are the best Superman cartoons ever made. These fi lms were taken from the restored original negatives and remastered by War-ner Brothers for inclusion in the 14-disc

“Superman Ultimate Collector’s Edition” and the eight-disc “Christopher Reeve Su-perman Collection.” Now that they’re on this two-disc collection, you don’t have to pony-up the big bucks to own these awe-some short fi lms.

TV SERIES“The Paper Chase” Season One

“PBS The American Experience:The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln”

“Iditarod -- Toughest Race on Earth”“Deadliest Catch” Season 4

“Alias” The Complete Fifth Season“Felicity” Season Four

“Beverly Hills 90210” Seventh Season“Dynasty” Season Four, Vol. 1

“Davey And Goliath: The Lost Episodes”


In order to keep everyone honest (you know who you are,) we have moved the answers and solutions to the trivia and puzzles to the next page (19).


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SNIPPETZ® COMICS AND ENTERTAINMENT

Answers & Solutions

ARIES (March 21 to April 19) A sugges-tion from a colleague on how to work out a problem might not sit too well with you. But before you suspect his or her motives, why not just accept it as a friendly ges-ture?

TAURUS (April 20 to May 20) An associ-ate might seek your counsel on a workplace dispute with another co-worker. Listen to what she or he has to say, but withhold ad-vice until you’ve heard the other side of the story.

GEMINI (May 21 to June 20) Use your Twin gifts for creativity and practicality to score points in landing an opportunity that could open doors to a new career. Someone returns after a long absence.

CANCER (June 21 to July 22) Although things are pretty hectic through much of the week, some quiet time with loved ones helps restore balance. An unexpected visi-tor brings welcome news about a mutual friend.

LEO (July 23 to August 22) Getting used to change isn’t always easy for the Big Cat. But make the adjustments gradually, and soon you’ll hardly remember when things were any different from how they are now.

VIRGO (August 23 to September 22) Continue to stay the course you’ve chosen, and avoid distractions that could throw you off track. Some knowledgeable folks are happy to provide guidance if you need it.

LIBRA (September 23 to October 22) Al-though you earned plaudits from most co-workers for your recent stand on a work-place situation, you also raised the envy quotient among others. Tread carefully for now.

SCORPIO (October 23 to November 21) You feel more positive about that delayed project, and you’re ready to pick it up on a moment’s notice. However, you might need to re-motivate those who have since lost interest.

SAGITTARIUS (November 22 to De-cember 21) Some welcome news should be coming your way. In the meantime, use that Sagittarius charm to persuade some still-reluctant colleagues that your ideas have merit.

CAPRICORN (December 22 to January 19) Don’t wait for a misunderstanding to work itself out. Instead, ask for a chance to explain the circumstances before those bruised feelings lead to an irreversible break.

AQUARIUS (January 20 to February 18) A physical problem should be checked out in order to avoid it going from just being a nuisance to something more serious. Your social life takes an unexpected but not un-welcome turn.

PISCES (February 19 to March 20) Yours might be the wisest sign in the Zodiac. But you still could benefi t from the wisdom of a close friend who has suggestions on how to handle a perplexing personal problem.

BORN THIS WEEK: Your passion for doing the right thing inspires others to fol-low your well-trodden path toward justice.


APRIL 6, 2009

TRIVIA TEST ANSWERS

SPORTS QUIZ ANSWERS

FLASH BACK ANSWERS1. “Vehicle” reached No. 2 on the charts in 1970. Many listeners thought it was done by Blood, Sweat and Tears because of the musical similarities.2. Rudolph, Ronald, Vernon and O’Kelly, who eventu-ally dropped the “O.”3. She was born in Jamaica. Jones was a Paris mod-el before she became a singer.4. “I Dreamed There Was No War,” which is an instru-mental on the “Long Road Out of Eden” album.5. “Surf City,” written with help from Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, hit the top of the charts in 1963.6. Procol Harum saw the song top charts around the world in 1967. There have since been lawsuits over authorship of the song.

1. Central2. Thursday (Dies Jovis or Jupiter)

3. Speed of light4. Bianca is the younger sister of Katherine in “The

Taming of the Shrew.”5. “The Fugitive”6. Edward Albee

7. 78 feet8. 1961

9. Tornado intensity10. When you are in distress, it is a sign for “help!”

1. Ripken won two MVP awards (1983, 1991); Gwynn did not win an MVP award.2. Eight consecutive seasons (2001-08).3. Dan Marino (44 games), Kurt Warner (50), Johnny Unitas (53) and Peyton Manning (56).4. Georgetown’s Alonzo Mourning blocked 93 shots in 1991-92.5. Each conference had two of its top four seeds ad-vance.6. It was 1992, when Canada’s Mark Tewksbury won the gold medal.7. Ben Hogan (1947-48), Corey Pavin (1994-95) and Mike Weir (2003-04).

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Many stocks were pummeled by the long and severe market

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When looked at mathematically, P/E is a simple concept — it’s calculated by dividing the current stock price of a company by its earnings per share. So, for example, a stock that is now priced at $40 and has $2 of earnings per share will have a P/E of 20. Generally speaking, a stock’s P/E reveals how much investors are willing to pay per dollar of earnings. So, for the stock mentioned above, its P/E of 20 implies that investors are willing to pay $20 for every $1 of earnings that the company generates. It follows, therefore, that the higher the P/E, the more “expensive” a stock is perceived as being.

Because the average P/E in the stock market has been around 15 over the past 50 years, one might say, in a broad sense, that a stock with a P/E of 20 is neither terribly expensive nor particularly cheap.

Overall, the P/E ratio is a typically a good indicator of a stock’s value — and a much better indicator than the price alone. To illustrate: A $20 stock with a P/E of 70 may actually be much more “expensive” than a $100 stock with a P/E of 20. As an investor, you’re paying much more for the future earnings of the $20 stock than you are for the earnings of the $100 stock. So, in the present-day situation, with the market still down so much, you might be able to use P/E to get a clearer sense of which stocks are really priced attractively and which ones are expensive, despite their low market price.

Keep in mind, however, that a low P/E doesn’t automatically mean that a company is undervalued. One way of interpreting P/E is as a measure of the market’s optimism about a company’s growth prospects. So, if a company has a P/E that is lower than average, it could mean that the market has low expectations for this company.

Furthermore, just looking at a stock’s P/E in isolation can’t always tell you if it’s a good deal. For that, you also need to compare its P/E with other stocks in the same industry. That’s because some industries, such as utilities, typically have low P/Es, while others, such as technology, generally have higher ones.

As you can see, you’ll need to consider a few “wrinkles” in P/E before using it to evaluate whether a stock is priced attractively. Consequently, you may want to get some help from a fi nancial advisor. But one thing to keep in mind: Right now, you can fi nd attractive prices on quality stocks — and the correct use of P/E may well help you fi nd the best ones.

This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones fi nancial advisor.

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• In this shaky economy, it’s not too much of a stretch to wonder if our insurance companies are going to go under. Fear not. Just as bank customers are protected if a fi nancial institution fails, most state have guaranty funds to handle insurance claims, up to a certain limit.

• Insure.com has a number of useful tools, such as car-crash safety ratings. Select your vehicle by make, model and year, and you’ll get star ratings in front and side im-pacts, as well as rollovers.

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• Need health insurance, but you’re already sick? Look at the list of 12 ways to get health insurance. One particularly inventive way is to declare yourself a “group of one.” This varies by state, but in many locations insurers are required to sell guaranteed issue policies to small groups.

• Before you buy a policy for any reason -- home, health, auto -- check the company’s ratings. You can search the site by company name or by ratings. The ratings will tell you the fi nancial shape a company is in.

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• Wondering if you should call your insurance company about a small claim? Even if you decide not to fi le a claim, your call will be recorded and a note made that will stay in your fi le for seven years. Too many of these “losses,” and you could end up with a higher rate, even without a claim.

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‘79 Jeep CJ-7With factory hardtop, 350 V-8 with fuel injection, only 10,000 miles on engine, good tires, clean, some rust. $4,500

Call 719-339-8290

PART-TIME HAIR STYLISTBooth Rental. Preferclientele established.

Call Brynn719-651-9073

STYLIST WANTED-BOOTH RENTWant to go out on your own, best rent in town, group health insurance available TWO WEEKS FREE RENT. MOUNTAIN AIR SALON - CALL KAREY AT 481-3265 OR 332-0810 call or come in 251 North Front St. next to the coffee cup.

LOOKING FOR DIVERSITY!Historic Downtown Monument Salon

Stylists/Nail TechBooth rent-pt/ftMale/Female487-7366

HELP WANTED

COUCH & REFRIDGERATOR*Beautiful Sectional Couch with end recliners. Excellent condition! ($475) *Refridgerator-22 Cubic foot. Great condition. Perfect for garage or basement. ($225)

481-6508

On April 18th, 2009 there will be a cornhole tournament

in Monument. This event is to support the Anderson fam-

ily of Gleneagle. Evan Anderson, son of Craig and Missy

Anderson was diagnosed with Leukemia in January. He is

fi ghting his cancer with a terrifi c attitude! The tournament

will take place at Si’s barn, just north of the park. It will

begin at 9:30 am. For those of you who are unfamilliar

with the game: Cornhole, also called Corn Toss, bags, or

sacks is a game in which players take turns pitching corn-

hole bags--small bags fi lled with corn--at a raised platform

with a hole in the far end. The entry fee is $41.89 per team

(2 people), or $20.95 for an idividual. If you would like to

enter or donate, please send checks to Amy Christison P.O.

Box 522 Cripple Creek, CO 80813, contact by phone 641-3322, Or just show up on the 18th and register then!

COME JOIN THE FUN FOR A GOOD CAUSE!

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