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PUBLISHER/EDITOR PRESIDENT VP ADVERTISING ANY CONTENT EDITOR (ACE) ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR NIGHT LIFE EDITOR TRAVEL EDITOR RADIO HOST GRAPHICS EDITOR DIGITAL MEDIA VIDEO PRODUCTION WEB DESIGN PROJECT DIRECTOR Pat Alexander Adrea Barrera John Bielun Liz Breier Yvonne Cloutier Dianne Davis Sandi Davis Chuck Dean Jan Fair Howard Galin Susan Goldfein www.thevegasvoice.net www.vegasvoicetv.net OUR 18th YEAR OUR FANTASTIC COLUMNISTS Linda Gomez Ali Guggenheim Dianne Hahn Dan Hyde Pat Landaker Mike Landry Heather Latimer Gayla Kalp BJ Killeen Kathy Manney Kyo Mitchell Dan Roberts dan@thevegasvoice.net Ray Sarbacker ray@thevegasvoice.net Debbie Landry debbie@thevegasvoice.net Rana Goodman rana@thevegasvoice.net Evan Davis evan@thevegasvoice.net Sam Wagmeister Stu Cooper Rich Natole / Jon Lindquist Michael Roberts Ross Roberts Jason Roberts Success City Online Bill Caserta bill@thevegasvoice.net Liz Palmer Judy Polumbaum Mary Richard Samantha Rivero Renee Riendeau Crystal Sarbacker Moishe Tombosky Jim Valkenburg Beverly Washburn Vicki Wentz Kate Wind 4 July 2021 PROUD MEMBERS OF: About The Vegas Voice In 2020 The Vegas Voice received six national awards from the North American Mature Publisher’s Association. The awards were for our investigative articles, front-page design, editorials and columns. As the judges stated (and we humbly agree): The Vegas Voice gets credit for pulling no punches, striking hard… with its articles. It’s unequivocal style leaves no room for readers to wonder where it stands on senior issues.
The Bell Returns By: Dan Roberts / Roberts Rules “ You can use the bell.” And for one very brief moment, I almost smiled. For some unfathomable reason, I decided to get sick last month. How ill was I, you ask? Sick enough to see a doctor. After the initial check-up, the physician advised that I should not worry - it was “merely a cold.” “Merely a cold” my foot (more like another body part) I thought. Despite my Rana claiming I was exaggerating; it was definitely the mother of all colds. A combination of Covid, (even though the test came back negative - as if shoving a giant Q-Tip up my nose until it reached my brain can really tell) Ebola, the Hong Kong and Spanish flu (and all the other flues) as well as the bubonic plague. To say that I felt lousy was an understatement. It did not even come close to explaining my misery. I have been told that there are two kinds of people when they get sick. Those that need to be babied and the rest that want to crawl into bed, curl up into the fetal position and wait to die. I am in the latter group and despite Rana’s best attempts to take care of me, I just wanted to sleep, chug some NyQuil, go back to sleep and gulp some more NyQuil. Then repeat. To her loving credit and in her zeal of playing Florence Nightingale, she remembered the “bell.” Regular readers of this column will remember my previous posting of this device. Originally, the bell was (I thought) my brilliant, but as it turned out, really stupid idea. I got it for her when she was laid-up in bed so Rana could easily call me by ringing it. While the theory was sound, the reality was a nightmare. My Ladylove developed this habit to use it upon any whim or wish. “Can you get me…?” or “Would you mind…?” I lost count how many times I wanted to walk into the bedroom after being summoned and tell her that if she rang it one more time, I was going to take that bell and… Fortunately, my brain always kicked in before my mouth moved. Suffice to say, I dreaded that sound. And if you want me to freak-out, sneak up behind me and ring that damn thing. Unlike Pavlov’s dog, I learned to hate that bell. When Rana no longer needed it, I immediately and happily tossed it in the garbage. Unfortunately for yours truly, Rana actually retrieved it from the trash, cleaned and placed the bell on her nightstand as a forever symbol of my “love and commitment.” And wouldn’t you know it, seven months later when she broke her shoulder and was once again bed-ridden, the bell (and the sound… always the sound) returned. But now suffering from the worst ailment befallen upon mankind (“This has gotta be ten times worse than childbirth” I told her more than once) Rana offered the bell as her token of her love and commitment to me. So after making sure “my affairs were in order” I very, very slowly rose from my deathbed, and with trembling hands, reached for the bell and rang it. No response. With every ounce of my nowdiminishing strength as I awaited my imminent meeting with St. Peter at the gates of heaven, I shook it again. Still no response. I then rang it one last time as I cried out my “final good-bye” to my PILL (partner in love & life) of nearly nine years. And then… finally, I heard her reply: “Knock it off, I hear you. Wait your turn. I’m feeding the dogs.” Somehow I miraculously survived the Grim Reaper. But as Rana returned the bell to its rightful place next to her, I even began to smile - I broke the clapper. What Do You Think? Do you agree with our columnists? Did anyone get you angry, make you think or simply put a smile on your face? Please tell us by forwarding your comments, thoughts or suggestions to Publisher Dan at: dan@ thevegasvoice.net. 5
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