Tips to Keep Roof Rats Away

• Prune fruit trees so the ground under them is visible.

• Remove wood and brush piles. If you must store wood and lumber, keep it at least 18 inches above the ground and 12 inches from walls.

• Trim palm trees. Roof rats’ nest in the skirts of old palm fronds, in piles of debris and in hollow trees.

• Thin out bushes so you can see daylight through them. Roof rats like to nest in oleanders in the summer.

3. Seal your home

• Roof rats can enter through openings as small as a nickel, so be diligent sealing cracks and crevices. Use stucco diamond mesh, which is available at building material suppliers, to seal holes and vents. It is easy to cut and mold, but for rats it’s like chewing razor blades.

• Check for holes in exterior walls and near water heaters, washers, dryers, dishwashers and under sinks.

• Caulk cracks, screen the sewer stacks on the roof and stuff air-conditioning lines that run from outside into the attic with steel wool or copper mesh to prevent rats from entering.

4. Be strategic with traps

• Set traps baited with a little peanut butter in areas such as the laundry room or garden shed.

• Place traps away from places they can be found by pets or small children.

• Roof rats can be skittish about unfamiliar objects, so leave the traps in place for at least a week before moving them.

5. Be careful with poisons

• Bait stations are protected places for rats to feed without being accessible to non-target animals.

• Don’t wire poison bait blocks directly to tree branches. That could lead to accidental poisoning of cats and birds.

• Make sure your home is sealed before putting out poison bait so the rats don’t enter the house and die, creating a stench it might be hard to get rid of. Find

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9:15 a.m. - Integrity Health Neuropathy, 10:15 a.m. Knee Pain, 11:15 a.m. Shoulder Pain, 12:15 a.m. Spinal Stenosis

9:30 a.m. Summit Memory Care – 5 Signs it’s Time to Make a Move

Oftentimes it is difficult to know when it is time to seek additional help and move a loved one to an Assisted Living or Memory Care community but there are some very clear signs to look out for. Join us for an informative program on the, «5 Signs It is Time to Make a Move» and be informed on the options available in Senior Living. Presented by Lori Marsh, Outreach Director, The Summit at Sunland Springs Assisted Living & Memory Care

10 a.m. - Care Access - Prevention and Alzheimer’s

10:30 a.m.- Edward Jones Market Update, 12:30 p.m. Long Term Care

11 a.m. - Shepherd Insurance – Medicare 101

11:30 a.m. - Stem Cell Pro – Natural approach to chronic pain using regenerative medicine

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12 p.m. Humana- Medicare

If you have questions about Medicare, how to find the right plan to fit your needs, or all of the extra benefits you could be getting like dental coverage, hearing and help with medication costs. Then please join us for an overview of Medicare from our leading agent in the state to answer all of your Medicare Insurance questions.

Volunteers Needed!

Don’t miss out, plan now to volunteer and be part of the action at the Expo & Home Show Saturday, January 28. Both morning and afternoon shifts available! Sign up in the Recreation Office! Volunteers will be given a free lunch and free T-Shirt for participating.

Vendor Greeters: Meet vendors in on specific area in Rec. 1 and help them find their booth location and give them their vendor packet.

Expo Ambassadors: Posted outside Rec. Center 1 to act as host and hostess for the event. Greet guests, hand out programs, and answer general questions.

Room Hosts: Stationed in one of the various exhibit rooms to welcome guests, hand out programs and answer general questions. Coordinate with staff on room conditions such as A/C or heat.

Presentation Hosts: Similar to Room Hosts; greet guests, hand out programs, answer questions and help time the speakers.

By Sue De Carlo

Many thanks to all those who patronized our Library Book Sale on Saturday November 19th. The sale was a success and we hope you will enjoy all the wonderful books.

Meet a Really Popular Author –Fern Michaels

Under the pen name Fern Michaels, Mary Ruth Kiczkir has written 161 Romances and Thrillers. She has had 150 best sellers with nearly 2 million copies in print and has been inducted into the New Jersey Literary Hall of Fame. Mary Ruth Kiczkir was born on April 9, 1933, in Hastings, PA where she grew up. She married, moved to New Jersey and had 5 children. When her youngest entered kindergarten the man who is now her ex-husband told her to “get up off her ass and get a job”. A lifelong lover of books and libraries, she decided she was more likely to earn money writing books than trying to get a job with no training outside the home. As we now know, writing as Fern Michaels has worked out very well for her. When she became an empty nester, she sold the house in New Jersey and moved to an old plantation house in South Carolina which she remodeled. The author claims the house is haunted by a friendly lady ghost she calls Mary Margaret with whom she cohabits comfortably. Ms. Kiczkir says she knows when the ghost is around because her 5 dogs line up in a row and “look like they are at a tennis match.” Believing that “when God is good to you you have to give back” she set up the Fern Michaels Foundation through which she grants 4 year scholarships to needy, deserving students. She has also opened pre-schools and day care centers with affordable rates so single moms can go to work. The foundation also donates bullet proof vests for K-9 dogs working with police. The author says she does not consider herself a great writer but believes she is a great story teller. I’m sure that’s what keeps her many fans coming back for more.

Author New to the Leisure World LibraryDebi Pace

Ms. Pace lives in the small town of Vaughn, Montana and earns her living as Superintendent of the Osceola School District. Since she was a small child she had always wanted to care for animals that needed help and had done so on a small scale. In October of 2002 the border patrol confiscated172 purebred collies, about a dozen cats and a few other dogs as they were brought across the border from Canada. They were stuffed into small cages and crates and had been in transit for about a week in a filthy, smelly overcrowded truck. Dehydrated and starving the dogs were taken to temporary housing in a barn outside a small town to await the disposition of the courts. The commercial breeders who owned the animals had been relocating to Florida without properly caring for the animals. Debi Pace helped care for these animals every weekend for 9 months until they were legally able to be adopted by loving families. This experience led Ms. Pace to become a regular volunteer in the animal rescue community. She has opened her home and her heart to needy animals of many different sorts. In her first book she tells the story of fostering &/ or adopting Collies and other breeds of needy animals.

Review of New Author’s Book – Paw Prints Across My Heart by Debi Pace

This little book of short stories tells about what it is like to foster and adopt some of the animals that have come into the home and heart of Debi Pace. It will warm your heart and perhaps even make you want to join with the many rescue volunteers who care for animals in need of help and homes. All who rated this book on goodreads. com have given it 4 or 5 stars.

New Non-fiction: Like Comment Subscribe – Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination by Mark Bergen “Every day a worldwide audience watches more than a billion hours of video on YouTube. Every minute more than 500 additional hours of footage are uploaded.” So states the book jacket of head tech reporter Mark Bergen’s new book. Everyone uses YouTube but few know how it works. In this book you will learn the story of YouTube’s technology, how it functions as a business and how it empowers parent company Google. As the top technology reporter at Blumberg News Mark Bergen has had deep access into the YouTube company for many years. His story is told through the people who run YouTube and the famous stars born on its stage. It’s the story of revolution in media and an industry run amok unleashing an outrage and addiction machine that spun out of the company’s control as it changed the world. This book discusses fundamental questions such as when does content moderation become censorship? Where is the line between disinformation and a different opinion? What are the obligations of a social media platform? There are no easy answers. The goodreads website reports

93% of readers rated Like Comment Subscribe either 4 or 5 stars.

New Acquisitions By some Favorite Authors

Las Vegas Fairy Tale – Random by Penn Jillette

Famed magician, the Penn of Penn and Teller, knows Las Vegas well. Here he has penned a fanciful tale about a young man who devotes himself to the idea of “Random” where his life choices both large and small are based entirely on the roll of his “lucky” dice. Kirkus review calls this “An average joe’s free-spirited, madcap romp through the last days of American empire.” There is lots of quirky fun along with gangsters and oddball characters. On goodreads.com the ratings were 30% 3 stars, 30% 4 stars and 27% 5 stars.

Western Mystery – Hell and Back – the 18th installment of the Longmire series by Craig Johnson

In a turn to the mystical, Longmire is trapped in an alternate world with some of his past bad acquaintances. Daring, fast-paced, and overflowing with twists and misdirection. Definitely something new and different in the adventures of Sheriff Longmire. On goodreads. com 72% of readers rated this book either 4 or 5 stars.

Large Print Murder, Mystery & Spies - Distant Thunder by Stuart Woods – A Stone Barrington Novel

It was a dark and stormy night in Dark Harbor, Maine when a corpse turned up on Stone Barrington’s doorstep. In this story, there are nefarious foreign forces, a bewitching woman, and the CIA all embroiled in cunning misdirection and lies. What else could one want in a good story? Then appears an old arch-enemy to complete the picture. On goodreads.com 70% of the readers rated this either 4 or 5 stars.

Large Print Novel – The High Notes by Danielle Steel

This novel is set in the country music industry. A young singer must find the strength to stand up for herself and her dreams no matter how hard that is. Iris has the gift of a voice with spectacular high notes. Will it be enough to fulfill her dreams of success? Ms. Steele delivers a realistically rough ride through the country music scene from Iris’ childhood with an alcoholic father to her final success. You may want to keep the tissues nearby. 84% of the people who rated this book on goodreads.com gave it either 4 or 5 stars. If you enjoyed reading Danielle Steele’s “Star” the reviewers say you will like this story too.

Library Thanks and Stats

Donations: Many thanks to all those who may have tucked a donation into the box on the library desk this past month. Your generosity funds the book purchases that keep our inventory fresh and refreshing. The library just couldn’t function without your thoughtfulness.

Books Checked Out

November 2022

Regular Print:734

Large Print 643

Paper Backs 131

Volunteer Hours 472