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This Week’s Wisdom
Treat the Sick with Kindness
by Mike Selinker
What do you say to someone who’s terribly ill? The first step might be removing the word
“terribly” from your vocabulary. In a June New York Times column, Walking the Bible author
Bruce Feiler details six things you should never say to a sick person, even though you might think
they’re innocent words. One was, “Did you try that mango colonic I recommended?” The other
five things not to say are in this puzzle.
ACROSS
1 Penalize for swearing, perhaps, in the NBA
4 Taking to court
9 Falling Skies vessels
13 With 17-Across, seemingly comforting words
you shouldn’t actually say to a sick person
16 Vivacity
17 See 13-Across
18 Wriggly fish
19 ___ Alley (music publishers’ street)
20 Drags through the mud
22 Two times tetra-
23 They pilot 9-Across
24 Greek X
27 Blasé comments
28 Seemingly comforting words you shouldn’t
actually say to a sick person
33 Bloom County cartoonist Breathed
34 Snitch
35 Seemingly comforting words you shouldn’t
actually say to a sick person
41 “___ le roi!” (“Down with the king!”)
42 Tab and RC
43 Seemingly comforting words you shouldn’t
actually say to a sick person
47 Plane that could exceed 2000 KPH
50 Glee star ___ Michele
51 ___ Pérignon
52 ___ Tzu
53 Like some transfers
56 TV host Stephanopoulos
58 Sony laptop brand
60 With 63-Across, seemingly comforting words
you shouldn’t actually say to a sick person
62 Checkup
63 See 60-Across
64 TV’s Warrior Princess
65 “It’s someone ___ problem”
66 Freddy Krueger’s street
DOWN
1 Walk like a cat burglar
2 Scream actor Skeet
3 Adds to a garden
4 Couch
5 Atop
6 Suffix with cash or bombard
7 Votes from the opposition
8 2011 animated film ___ & Juliet
9 Umlauted prefix
10 Painted on fresh plaster
11 Vinaigrette ingredient
12 “Help, we’re sinking!”
14 Steroid injector’s injector
15 As a result of
21 “___ me anything”
25 Guatemalan greeting
26 One way to sit by
28 Poisonous evergreen
29 “Jesus ___ Gun” (Fuel song)
30 Letters on an Odessan’s Olympic uniform
31 Bloodletter’s critter
32 Classic Pontiac muscle cars
33 Pear variety
35 Comedian Mort
36 Instrument whose name comes from the
word hautbois
37 Magnum, P.I. extra, most likely
38 Misfortune
39 Letter after kay
40 Faucet
44 Much ___ About Nothing
45 “Read my lips: ___ taxes” (1988 campaign
pledge)
46 Filmmaker’s Apple-ication?
47 Bird that impales its prey on thorns
48 Traffic light
49 Where you might work out after work
52 Neighborhood in London or NYC
54 Tomato type
55 Jodie Foster role
56 Turn through the wind, nautically
57 St. Tropez summers
58 Trouble
59 Lumberjack’s tool
61 Monogram of the author of Treasure Island
© 2011 Eltana Wood-Fired Bagel Cafe, 1538 12th Avenue, Seattle.
All rights reserved. Puzzle created by Lone Shark Games, Inc. Edited by Mike Selinker and Mark L. Gottlieb.
Sports, school, synagogue
and scouts • Also: Longtime
Red Cross volunteer
diana bReMent JTNews Columnist
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It’s always great when
families get along, and
more so when blended
families do. Stepbrothers
Raphi Schuster and Daniel
Kaplan are doubly, maybe
quadruply, blessed: They
enjoy the support of an array
of parents and stepparents,
and shared interests in sports,
school, synagogue and scouts.
Members of Chief Seattle
Council Boy Scout Troop 662, Raphi
and Daniel were inducted as Eagle Scouts
together last month during a shared court
of honor held at their synagogue, Temple
B’nai Torah in Bellevue. This highest
scout rank is only attained by a handful
of scouts.
Both young men turned their attention
to the Jewish community for their
required community service projects.
“I built a drainage ditch on the corner
of the temple property,” Raphi told me.
Last winter, rainwater flowing down a
hill purportedly flooded a neighbor’s basement.
Raphi worked with troop members
to remedy the situation, providing planning
as well as execution.
“It’s more about the leadership…
than carrying out the physical labor,” he
explained.
Daniel’s project was “re-striping the
[Jewish Day School] parking lot,” he said,
because he’d repeatedly “noticed people
couldn’t figure out where the stripes were.”
(JDS and TBT share a parking lot.)
He also improved some outside stairs
with railings and lights.
“It wasn’t a very safe staircase,” he said.
His work also involved management and
planning, including constructing templates
so volunteers could place stripes correctly.
Daniel is the son of John Kaplan and
Carol Schuster, stepson of Brian Schuster
and stepson of Michelle Kaplan, all
of Bellevue. Raphi is the son
of Brian Schuster and Terri
Schuster of Bellevue and
Carol’s stepson. Family and
friends shared reflections on
the boys’ lives at the court of
honor, which concluded with
a blessing from Cantor David
Serkin-Poole.
Raphi called the event
“exciting… Everyone who
helped me get there was
there…celebrating.”
The boys have deep roots in
the Seattle area. Their grandparents are
Rabbi Arlene Schuster of Bellevue and the
late Dr. Joseph Schuster; Pauline Stusser
of Seattle and the late
Richard Stusser;
Sharon Carmody of
Seattle and John and
Shar Carmody of
Edmonds; and Dr. F.
Alan and Margie
Coombs of Salt Lake
City.
Juniors at Bellevue
High School,
Raphi and Daniel
run track and cross
country and are
involved in clubs and
activities. They are
active in their temple
tribe
CourTeSy CaroL SChuSTer
Stepbrothers Raphi Schuster, left, and Daniel Kaplan, during a board review
in which they both earned the title of eagle Scout.
youth group and the
Reform movement’s
local National Federation
of Temple
Youth chapter, for which Raphi is the merchandising
and fundraising vice president.
2
By his own admission, landing a
job with a “West Coast airplane
manufacturer” was the furthest
thing from Albert (Bert) Goldstein’s
mind in 1974. But land here the Brooklyn
native and retired Boeing engineer did.
Back then, “I was never much of a volunteer,”
he says. “Work was everything.”
So on retiring in 1995, “it was time to give
back.” He joined the Boeing Bluebills,
Boeing retirees who volunteer in the community,
mostly helping seniors with repair
projects (www.bluebills.org).
In 1998 he helped found the Olympic
Peninsula Bluebills when he and his late
wife Libby lived in Port Ludlow. When
her illness brought them back to the Seattle
area, he helped found a Bluebills Eastside
chapter. That group decided to become
active in the local Red Cross.
“We started working in emergency
shelters,” he says. “I wound up being
trained as a manager for shelter operations.”
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