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Kids more likely to accept wrong parent A ROBERT LEBZELTER column for May 17, 2009 Star BeaconI was the guy who wrote the series of clues and put them out for a treasure hunt and made up crossword puzzles that included the name of every student in the class using free software. (That was something new, because back then not everybody had a computer.) At the end of the school year, at an assembly, it was announced room “mothers” were going to get a special reward for all of their work over the year. So Louise goes up to get the reward. I sat there. It's like if Meryl Streep was deserving of a Best Actress award but her stand-in got up to receive it! See how society emphasizes Mom over Dad? My kids learned important lessons from me. They wouldn't know near the Rolling Stones lyrics if not for me. They would never know the music that meant the next scene on “The Beverly Hillbillies” would take place at the Commerce Bank of Beverly Hills if not for my gentle instruction. Special life lessons may never have been learned if not for me, like, when you see a short person with gray hair in front of you on the road, get around him / her fast or you may be stuck driving at 25 in a 45 zone for miles. Mom isn't going to tell you that! And one other observation about this survey: It is just plain cruel. Do you mean to say when wife and I get old and gray in 50 or 60 years, when we no longer know “Satisfaction” from “Sympathy for the Devil” and can’t defrag our own computer hard drives, our kids will say, "Mom, come live with us. Dad, you are on your own." Next time, they can create their own damn crossword puzzle. p Last week I suggested with Consumer Report’s No. 1 supermarket chain a half-hour drive from Ashtabula County, we try to get Wegman’s to locate stores here, possibly the Gateway Plaza in Conneaut and the old Tops Market in Ashtabula. Alas, it appears Wegman’s has an agreement with the Meijer chain not to locate in Ohio, even though we have no Meijer stores in this area. The person informing me of this said Conneaut’s best bet for replacing the long-gone Giant Eagle store out by the interstate is with Giant Eagle. “I would also keep in mind that the Conneaut store was independently owned, not corporate, so it would not be far-fetched to convince corporate to locate in Conneaut,” he wrote. He also suggested getting Kroger to return here, since it has a distribution center in Delaware, Ohio. Kroger was the original grocery tenet when the plaza was built a few decades ago. Also, Kroger has remodeled many stores with the same older format to meet new standards. 
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