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TIDBITS® CELEBRATES APRIL 10 WITH FAMOUS SIBLINGS

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Since April 10 is National Sibling Day, Tidbits is taking this opportunity to bring you facts about some famous siblings who’ve made the news over the years.

• The Olsen twins, Mary-Kate and Ashley, were born to a mother who was a personal manager and a real estate developer/mortgage broker father. The two were cast in the ABC sitcom “Full House” at the age of nine months, sharing the role of Michelle Tanner for the entire series’ run from 1987 to 1995. After two more sitcoms, they branched out into producing. The Olsens are authors and businesswomen, with the majority of their time now spent on their luxury fashion design business. Their combined net worth is estimated in the $300 million range.

• Shirley MacLaine and Warren Beatty were born to a psychology professor father and a drama teacher mother. Shirley made her film debut at age 21 in an Alfred Hitchcock movie, and went on to fame in Terms of Endearment and Steel Magnolias. Although as a young man, Warren had been offered ten college football scholarships, he turned them down to study acting after seeing the success of his sister, who was already a Hollywood star.

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FAMOUS SIBLINGS (continued): • Country singer Naomi Judd has two famous daughters, Wynonna and Ashley. These sisters are direct descendants of famous Pilgrims Mary and William Brewster, who helped organize the first voyage of the Mayflower. Ashley, born Ashley Ciminella in 1968, has appeared in close to 40 films, but has many other accomplishments, including an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.

She is active in humanitarian causes, including prevention of genocide and crimes against women.

Sister Wynonna (birth name Christina Ciminella) teamed up with her mother to form a musical duo that had 14 No. 1 hits on the charts. The pair released seven albums before disbanding in 1991.

Wynonna’s solo career has led to 20 more singles on the charts.

• Professional tennis playing sisters Venus and Serena Williams have faced each other 27 times in Grand Slam finals. Both have been ranked Number One in the world in their career, with Venus top-ranked for 11 weeks, and Serena for 200 weeks. Currently Serena is No. 1 and Venus is No. 16.

Venus is a seven-time Grand Slam title winner in singles, with Serena grabbing 21 titles. Each woman has won four gold medals in the Summer Olympics Games. A Williams sister has won the Wimbledon singles championship in 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012, and 2015.

• The American pop band Hanson, consisting of three brothers Isaac, Taylor, and Zac have sold more than 16 million records, and have had eight Top 40 albums. When their first album “Middle of Nowhere” was released in 1997, Isaac was 17, Taylor, 14, and Zac, just 12 years old. The album sold 10 million copies worldwide. The young brothers were nominated for three Grammy Awards in 1998.

• New Jersey brothers Paul, Joe, and Nicholas Jonas have sold upwards of 17 million records. Formed in 2005, they are the youngest band to be featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.

• Baby boomers will remember the character of Opie Taylor on “The Andy Griffith Show,” a role that Ron Howard played for eight years. The Oklahoma-born Howard appeared in his first movie at 18 months, but had his first credited role at age 4. As a teenager, he began a six-year stint as Richie Cunningham on the popular sitcom “Happy Days.” At age 25, he left the series to focus on a career as a director.

His many successful films include Cocoon, Apollo 13, A Beautiful Mind, The Da Vinci Code and Frost/ Nixon. Ron Howard has cast his younger brother Clint in 16 of the films he has directed. Clint was also a child star, appearing in the 1960s series “Gentle Ben” as the son of a Florida Everglades game warden who kept a bear as a pet. Ron is worth a little more than his brother -- $140 million to Clint’s $20 million.

• There were more sets of siblings competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics than any other. Seven sets of siblings on Team USA competed either as teammates or as rivals, along with Ukraine’s female twins, three sisters from Switzerland, another three sisters from Canada, and two brothers from Norway. Two of the three Canadian sisters took gold and silver in the moguls event. In the men’s double luge event, two Austrian brothers won the silver medal, while two Latvian brothers took the Bronze. Dutch twin brothers won gold and bronze in the men’s 500-meter speedskating race. Over the years, there have been 19 families who have had three or more siblings compete at the Winter Olympics. The record is held by the Spanish Fernandez Ochoa family, who had three brothers and two sisters competing.

• The Aurness brothers were born in the 1920s to a businessman and his journalist wife. James was the elder, who had his eyes set on being a World War II fighter pilot, but his height of 6’7” made it impossible. Instead, he served as an Army infantryman in Italy, where his leg was severely injured by machine-gun fire. After the war, James and his brother Peter, also a WWII vet, pursued careers in the entertainment field and both became well-known television actors in very different roles. James, who dropped the “u” in his name, became James Arness, the star of TV’s “Gunsmoke,” a long-running western set in 1870s Kansas. For 20 years from 1955 to 1975, Arness was Marshal Matt Dillon on the series, along with several made-for-TV “Gunsmoke” movies after the regular series ended. His brother changed his name to Peter Graves and became famous in his role of Jim Phelps, the director of the Impossible Missions Force on TV’s “Mission Impossible” from 1967 to 1973 and again from 1988 to 1990.

The highly-successful 1980s comedy Airplane! films featured Graves as Captain Clarence Oveur, the pilot of a Boeing 707.

• The 1977 Saturday Night Fever movie soundtrack album, recorded by siblings, Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb sold 15 million copies and was Album of the Year, with five the songs making it to #1 on the charts. The Gibbs composed half of 1978’s biggest songs, with Barry and Robin once writing three #1 singles in one afternoon. Their sales exceed 220 million records. Of the three, only Barry survives, Maurice having died from intestinal problems in 2003 at 53, and his twin Robin succumbing to cancer in 2012.

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Brian’s Boot & Shoe Co. Brian McMahan came to Sheridan to help his uncle, Dan George, remodel Dan’s Western Wear. “The shoe repair shop at Dan’s was empty,” McMahan said, “and Uncle Dan taught me the basics of shoe repair.”

From 1978 to 1984 Brian owned Brian’s Repair inside of Dan’s Western Wear. In 1987, Brian bought the 256 N. Main St. building and it became Brian’s Boot & Shoe Co. He bought 2 dozen pairs of Olathe and Pecos boots and spaced them each a few inches apart to make it look like he had more inventory. The retail part of his business was an instant success. In 1991, Peter Crawford joined Brian. Peter and Brian have been good friends since they went to Junior High School together in Lafayette, Colorado. Brian taught Peter how to repair shoes. Peter fills in holes and stitches shoes or boots. He also builds orthopedic modifications. Cowboy boots are about 90% of their repair business.

What sets Brian’s Boot & Shoe Co. apart from other shoe stores is the fact that, “we offer personal service and always take the time to measure a person’s foot to make sure the shoe fits correctly,” says Brian.

“People aren’t always used to that. We are also the only shoe store within 100 miles that still repairs shoes.” When Brian isn’t working, he enjoys going for bike rides or doing carpentry work. Peter enjoys fishing and playing with his dogs.

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PET OF THE WEEK! Binx is our cat of the week at Second Chance Sheridan Cat Rescue! Binx was rescued after his family left him behind. Binx is very sweet and loves to be held and carried around. He will follow you around talking to you until you pick him up and give him a kiss! For more information about Binx or any other adoptable cat, please call 307-461-9555 or visit http://sheridancatrescue.org

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By Sam Mazzotta New Dog May Have to Wait --DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I’d like to get a dog, but my younger brother is very afraid of dogs because he was once bitten by one. How can I tell him not to be afraid, so I can have a dog? -- Christine in Mesa, Arizona

CHARLIE THE TUNA You probably didn’t know that April 6 has been designated Charlie the Tuna Day, honoring the “spokesman” for StarKist tuna. There’s nothing fishy about these facts.

• The StarKist tuna company got its start in 1910 when an immigrant from Yugoslavia, Martin Bogdanovich, started fishing along the California coast. Business was good and in 1918, Martin and five partners established a tuna business, naming it the French Sardine Company. They retained that name until 1942 when the name of StarKist was introduced.

• In the midst of World War II, more than half of StarKist’s production was being used to supply the U.S. Army. In 1952, the company opened a new and expanded tuna cannery on Terminal Island, California. In 1953, they began production of 9 Lives cat food, using tuna by-products.

• In 1961, StarKist hired the Leo Burnett Advertising Agency to create a catchy ad campaign. The Agency was already famous for its creation of the Jolly Green Giant in 1935, Tony the Tiger in 1951, and the Marlboro Man in 1954. (The agency would go on to come up with Fruit Loops’ Toucan Sam in 1963, the Pillsbury Doughboy in 1965, and Morris the Cat and the Keebler Elf in 1968.) An employee of the agency, Tom Rogers, created Charlie the Tuna, based on a good friend of his, Henry Nemo, a jazz composer who was a Cotton Club musician and sometimes referred to as the creator of jive.

• Charlie was created as a hip, cool beatnik tuna with a beret and trendy shades. (continued on last page).

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DEAR CHRISTINE: You might not be able to get a dog right now, unfortunately. If your parents don’t think that it’s a good idea because your younger brother is still very fearful of them, then that may be that.

However, there are some other things you may be able to do, even if you can’t have your own dog. You could spend time with a friend or a neighbor’s dog. That’s a good way to learn how to walk, feed and even train a dog. I myself grew up around many dog owners, and by spending time with them, paying attention to how they gave their dog commands and the different training methods they used, I got a wider perspective and better education on training dogs than a book might have provided.

You could volunteer at a local shelter. While kids under 18 may be restricted from working directly with the pets residing there, many shelters have programs designed especially for school-age kids so they can contribute to shelter pets’ care, and learn about caring for these animals.

Consider getting a different pet to care for, as well. Learning to care for animals is a really important skill.

Plus, your brother can and should have a say in what kind of pet to get -- and he’ll share the responsibility for caring for it.

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DOLPHINS April 14 is National Dolphin Day, and what better time to examine the specifics on this group of marine animals!

• The word “dolphin” comes from the Greek word “Delphis,” which translates to “womb,” leading to an interpretation of the meaning as “a fish with a womb.” Yet they aren’t fish at all, but mammals who breathe air, give birth to live young and nurse them with milk, and are warmblooded, maintaining a constant body temperature. They do have hair, but only when they are first born. It falls out within two weeks, and doesn’t grow again for the remainder of their lives.

• Of the 43 species of dolphins in the world, 38 are marine dolphins, living in saltwater, and five are river dolphins. The marine dolphins live mainly in shallower water near coastlines in warmer locations, and are common in Southern California, Chile, the tip of South Africa, and the Gulf of Mexico. Yet they’ve been found from Nova Scotia to Norway.

• The most well-known species is the Bottlenose Dolphin. Because of the design of their face, they always appear to be smiling. The Bottlenose is large, ranging from 10 to 14 feet long (3 to 4.3 m) and weighing up to 1,100 pounds (499 kg). Their size varies according to their location, with living in cooler bodies of water a larger size than those in warmer temperatures.

• Dolphins come up for air every few minutes, only able to remain submerged for up to 4 ½ minutes without a breath. While traveling in their pods, each has a distinctive whistle that helps the others recognize them.

• We’ve all seen photos of dolphins leaping high into the air. A dolphin can vault up to 20 feet (6.1 m) into the air before splashing back into the water. It could be they are dislodging parasites such as sucker fish or barnacles, or to escape predators.

• The number of a dolphin’s teeth varies from eight up to 250, with only one set of teeth for life. Consuming between 10 and 35 pounds (4.5 to 15.9 kg) of food each day, they use their teeth to catch their prey, but not to chew it, rather, they swallow their dinner whole.

• As far as senses, they have excellent vision, both in and out of the water, with special corneas that adapt to both conditions. Although their ear openings are only small the middle ear, it’s believed that sound moves to the inner ear via fat lobes located in the jaw and other bones in the skull. Their sense of smell is poor, due to the absence of olfactory nerves.

• Dolphins are the second most intelligent animals, behind human beings. MRI scans of dolphin brains indicate a large brain with an intricate neocortex, and capable of experiencing emotions. They are highly trainable, and actually pass their knowledge on to fellow dolphins.

They exhibit concern for other animals, staying and helping the injured, even saving the lives of humans in some cases.

• Did you know that the orca killer whale is actually a member of the dolphin family, the largest member of Delphinidae category?

• Living in the wild, a male dolphin will have a lifespan of 40 to 45 years, while a female can live to age 50.

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CHARLIE THE TUNA (continued): • He was animated by the same studio that had created the Pink Panther.

Charlie’s goal was to be chosen by Starkist. He believed himself to be so cultured that he had “good taste,” and was the perfect catch for Starkist.

Throughout his 85-commercial career, Charlie was always rejected with a note on a fish hook that said, “Sorry, Charlie.” The point of the message was that StarKist wasn’t looking for tuna with good taste, but rather for tuna that tasted good.

• The voice of Charlie the Tuna was actor Herschel Bernardi, known for his roles in the television series “Peter Gunn” and “Arnie.” He was also the voice of the Jolly Green Giant.

• Charlie himself never said the popular catchphrase “Sorry Charlie,” but at the end of most of the ads, he said, “Tell ‘em Charlie sent ya.” Both of these phrases are considered among the most recognized advertising slogans in history.

• In 1963, StarKist was purchased by the H. J. Heinz Company, although a Bogdanovich descendant remained as company president. During these years, a new manufacturing facility was established in American Samoa.

StarKist was acquired by Del Monte in 2002, who sold it again just four years later to a South Korean concern, Dongwon Industries.

• In the late 1980s, the Charlie ad campaign was retired. He enjoyed a brief comeback in 1999, when StarKist brought him back to introduce their new line of healthier tuna products.

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