Bette LeClair Kuss DigELife Legacy Story

When we got to see Dick clark that I sang this in her ear, woman, give me all your Betty called me in the middle of the week, in the middle of the night.

She needed a date and she guaranteed it was only going to be a good time.

Didn't want any kind of commitment of that kind of stuff.

Oh my darling and the stand right there, I'll tell you, won't you stand by me, be my lover, my friend.

Just stand by me.

You're not helping anyone whoo

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Welcome.

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Betty.

Dwayne, Ryan and Jason.

We're all here for your new family day and what an exhilarating family you have.

You so wisely chose october for your special months of celebration.

It perfectly matches your new union.

It's october that flashes its brightest colors, the vivid reds, fiery oranges and dazzling yellows.

But it's also october that echoes the cacophony of the gathering geese and the rushing of the wind frenzy, leaves.

Yeah, two days ago we even woke up to a flirtation of waking.

Diamonds lining are denuded oaks that whitened walkways.

Minnesota october is noted for its swift seasonal shifts, sensational sounds and vivid colors.

Benny and Dwayne are october people, vibrant musical open to daring adventures and the unexpected.

All of us enjoy Benny's spontaneity and Duane's optimism.

What a combination of good cheer, energy and hope these to share with Jason and Ryan in office.

So we thank you for including us in your first day of your eternal commitment.

Fly high with your dreams and continues to astound us all with your journey.

Just one final ps.

In your short three letter word that you use for your new business and your personal password, wow.

Dwayne and Betty.

Thanks for inviting us here to celebrate this wedding with you who would have thought that this would have happened when I invited you to come to the mentor core and uh then you found another accompanies.

That was so great.

She's really going to accompany you now.

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And what a wonderful memory we have as a, as a mentor core that we were in europe together last summer.

And how enjoyable that was with you, heading it up, Dwayne.

And it was so fun to watch all those Germans running for their dictionary when you were speaking german to them.

Some said Air gave stock something like that Betty with your wonderful playing.

That was a wonderful trip last year.

Uh And how you were so spontaneous playing the pipe organ in Villar Switzerland when you hadn't played a pipe organ before.

So that was just a wonderful trip.

And and we're having a wonderful trip today too.

So we celebrate with you, your friends, your relatives, the manticore.

So we dedicate the service to the glory of God, the father, the son and the Holy Spirit Amen.

You've chosen some wonderful som versus the one because of your great love for the out of doors.

148 Praise the Lord, praise the Lord from the heavens, praise him in the Heights, praise him all his angels, praise him all his hosts, praise him Sun and moon, praise him all youth, shining stars, praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the heavens, praise the Lord from the earth.

You see monsters and all deeps fire and hail, snow and frost, stormy wind fulfilling his command.

Mountains and all hills, fruit trees and all cedars, beasts, and all cattle, creeping things, and flying birds.

Let them praise the name of the Lord.

For his name alone is exalted.

His glory is above earth and heaven.

Another while from the psalms 150 Because of your great love for music and what a bonding thing that is.

Praise the Lord.

Praise God in his sanctuary.

Praise him in his mighty firmament.

Praise him for his mighty deeds.

Praise him according to his exceeding greatness.

Praising with trumpets, sound praise him with loot and heart phrasing with timber all and dance.

Praise him with strings and pipe praising with sounding Cymbals, praise him with loud clashing Cymbals.

Let everything that breathes praise the Lord.

You've also chosen this some Number nine.

I will praise you Lord with all my heart.

I will tell you of all the wonderful things you have done.

I will sing with joy because of you.

I will sing praise to you.

Almighty God.

But the Lord is king forever.

He has set up his throne for judgment.

He rules the world with righteousness.

He judges the nations with justice.

The Lord is a refuge for the oppressed, A place of safety in times of trouble.

Those who know you Lord, I will trust you.

You do not abandon anyone who comes to you.

God has been with you.

He's brought you through some tough times to get where you're at today.

We're glad that you're here.

I'm glad to celebrate with you.

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Come bring me your softness.

Comfort me through all this madness woman.

Don't you know with me I'm born again.

Come, give me your sweetness.

Now there's you.

There is no weakness, woman.

Don't You know with come show me your kindness in your arms.

I know I'll find this woman.

Don't you know with you.

I'm born again.

Are you safe with you? I'm born again.

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Lying safe within your arms.

My morning.

Come give me your sweetness.

Now.

There's you.

There is no weakness.

Lying safe within your text.

I've chosen our lead Written in first time.

Chapter four verses 7- nine.

Dear friends.

Let us love one another where love comes from God.

Whoever loves is a child of God and knows God.

Whoever does not love does not know God because God is love.

This is how God showed his love for us.

He sent his only son into the world that we might have life through him.

Betty and Dwayne friends.

We hear an awful lot about love today.

And it's used in so many different ways.

That one simple word.

I love shrimp.

I love the color blue.

I love music.

I love my wife.

I love my kids.

I love golf.

I love the Vikings this year.

We use it in so many different ways and we even sing.

I love to sing in the men are cold and then up to half dome.

Hello, the greek new testament talks a lot about love too.

But it's more specific about the type of love that is given to us through our faith in christ and in God, the father and the son and the spirit.

One of these is eras from the greek new testament and there's a lot said about Iraq today, the erotic love.

Unfortunately a lot of it is sold as a commodity and there's much abuse of it.

But nevertheless it's still a very beautiful thing, especially when it's sanctified in a christian marriage.

And it's not only the sexual act as such, but it's the whole intimacy thing that goes along with keras, it's the communication, it's the growing together, it's the loving one another.

It's a giving type of love in christian marriage outside of that it becomes a very self centered thing.

And sometimes that creeps into sometimes we're only going intimate life.

It is a giving type of love towards our part.

So that's one type of love that's talked about in the new destiny, another is philia we get the word philadelphia from that city of brotherly love.

And this love is more of a type of companionship.

It's a type of enjoying things together, going out in the boat together, getting the picture taken together.

Um going to the Ballgame together, having a picnic together, doing music together, whatever it is, a lot of companionship there and the boys are involved in that too.

As you find common activities that you can all enjoy.

And it doesn't mean that you become welded and melded as one in that in the sense that you never do anything of your own, you do keep your own boundaries and yet you also do some things that you mutually enjoy and that's philia, that's important.

Another part of Christian love towards one another is agape and this is a special type of love that God gives us in christ, he says this is how God showed his love for us, he sent his only son into the world so that we might have life through him, christ has come to suffer, die and rise again for our salvation and he sends us his spirit and he says that he wants us to have life and have it more abundantly.

So it's an abundant, lovely life.

It's a giving self sacrificing, unconditional type of love.

It's a love that does not expect in return.

It's wonderful when that happens we get some love back, but it's a sacrificing type of love such as christ has shown, shown towards his church and that's so important in a marriage that sometimes you just plain have to sacrifice.

So I wish for you all three kinds of love that the new testament speaks of the eros, the sensual sexual part, the cilia, the companionship comradeship and the ag api the self sacrificing unconditional love, the forgiving love.

You know that that piece that you picked up from the gift from the sea and moral Lindbergh wrote this, I think it's just beautiful.

It really sums up what I've said and I want to close with this.

one recognizes the truth.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction for in fact man and woman are only looking outward in the same direction they are working outwards here.

One forms ties roots, the firm base Here one makes himself oneself part of the community of all people of human society.

Here the bonds of marriage are formed for marriage which has always spoken of as a bond becomes actually in this stage.

Many bonds many strands of different texture and strength making up a web that is taut and firm.

The web is fashioned of love.

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Yes, but many kinds of love, romantic love.

First, then a slow growing devotion and playing through these a constantly rippling companionship.

It is made of loyalties and interdependencies and shared experiences is woven of memories of meetings and conflicts of triumphs and disappointments.

It is a web of communication, a common language and the acceptance of lack of language too.

Sometimes a knowledge of likes and dislikes of habits and reactions, both physical and mental.

There's a web of instincts and intuitions and known and unknown exchanges the web of marriages made by propping equity in the day to day.

Living side by side looking outward and working outward in the same direction is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.

God bless you.

Grant you this love in jesus name.

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Into this holy estate.

You now come to the United in order that all people may know your mutual consent in holy wedlock to have been sincerely and freely given is right for you to declare before God.

And in the presence of these witnesses.

The sincere intent.

You both have Dwayne, will you have Betty here present to be your wedded wife.

Will you love honor and cherish er and keep with her this bond of wedlock holy and unbroken until death parts you if so declared before God and these witnesses by saying I will I will Betty will you have Dwayne here present to be your wedded husband.

Will you love honor and cherish him and keep with him this bond of wedlock holy and unbroken until death parts you if so declared before God and these witnesses by saying I will I will yes.

Exchange rings as a pledge and token of wedded love and faithfulness.

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As the lines of these rings never end and return ever unto themselves.

So may your love be throughout life following and consecrating yourselves to God.

No, I know that you want to exchange vows Betty it is here among our friends, relatives and family that I must begin by saying thank you.

Thank you for the very first phone call in the middle of the night.

Thank you for that first date and the chance to meet this sensitive Curing Little four H Girl from the Little Town of Gibbon.

And yes, thank you for the past 2.

5 years of courtship which has truly brought the wow back into my life.

Today it is my wish for us to begin a marriage filled with love and joy in a lifetime together of trust, growth sharing and forgiveness.

I today proclaim that I love you unconditionally for the magnificent woman you are.

And I am excited about having you as my partner and friend to grow and enjoy life with our relationship together will not be measured by time but by the quality of our caring for each other.

Each and every day is my cherished wife.

I will feel free to laugh with you but not at you.

I look forward to crying with you but never because of me together.

We commit to our passion for life and first and most importantly to loving ourselves.

It is through self love.

I see you Betty my beloved not as an extension of myself but as a unique, forever becoming beautiful woman that I have the special gift of spending the rest of my life with earlier.

I thanked you for what you have already given to me in so many precious ways.

And one of those gifts has been the unconditional love, warmth and acceptance.

But my two sons, Jason and Ryan, which I'm both very, very proud of being with the I know that the family bond between the four of us will continue to grow and I'm grateful that Jason and Ryan will have you as their faithful friend and companion as I will.

Who knows what wonderful adventures lie in the future for the two of us.

For the four of us as a new family.

There is something I commit to.

You will remain without the shadow of a doubt that an easy times and in seasons of struggle with the help and guidance from God, I'm your partner.

I'm your best friend.

I'm your husband and I truly love you Dwayne.

Before I pledge my vows to you, I would like to read a tribute to you.

Mhm I found a passage in the bible In the Book of Song of Songs, Chapter two, Beginning with verse three and I chose to read this passage to you Today is a tribute because as I ran it over at home I truly believe that this passage perfectly describes you you as a man.

And it also describes how I feel about you as a partner in France like an apple tree among the trees of the forest.

So is my dearest compared to other men.

I love to sit in its shadow and its fruit is sweet to my taste.

He brought me to this banquet hall and raised the banner of love over me, restore my strength with raisins and refresh me with apples.

I am weak from passion.

My dearest wayne in the presence of all who are gathered here today.

I bet he pledge myself to you as your wife and friends forever in life.

I promise to share with you your moments of joy and exuberance and to be a comfort to you in times of sadness and disappointment.

I pray that our hearts will always be open to one another without judgment and that we will live together in unconditional love and acceptance.

My heart will continue to be open to your sons, Jason and Ryan and I will offer them my love and acceptance as well.

I promise to support you and your endeavors as you support me in mind together.

Let us work toward making a positive difference in the lives of those around us.

I will be sensitive to the call of your eternal spirit as you have the same respect and sensitivity to mind.

I will be faithful to you in body and heart.

And I will protect the special bond which only you and I share.

I will work very hard at keeping the wall in our relationship.

And I pray that you will cherish the same when difficult situations in our marriage arise.

Let us work together to resolve them so that nothing will ever stand in the way of the love that we have for each other.

And when we fail to live up to each other's expectations, let us freely give the gift of forgiveness without holding grudges and without keeping score.

I will stand beside you in good times and bad in sickness and in health with God being present with us every step of the jury.

I am so thankful to have you as my life's partner and friend.

I am very much looking forward to a very special adventure in life with you.

I am very honored to be your wife.

I love you very much.

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When God has joined together, let no one put asunder and for as much as Dwayne and Betty have consented together in holy wedlock.

I have witnessed the same before God.

And these witnesses, I pronounce them husband and wife in the name of the father and of the son and of the Holy spirit.

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Okay, okay, I invite you to join with us in bringing our Lord's prayer.

What shall we stand for prayer? All right, Our father who art hell be thy name, thy kingdom.

Come, I will be done on earth.

Give us this day, our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us, deliver us from evil.

For that is the kingdom and the power and the glory probably never.

Oh yeah, please remain standing.

And we will say the blessing to this new family for Betty and Dwayne and Jason and Ryan.

This blessing is on the back side of your worship folder and dear heavenly father family of according to your race, failure And nurture and support one another.

Their homes gathered.

Give me it's about an understanding, patience and forgiveness has given to each other today, a continuous source of strength for the entire family, jesus and you're right.

Please be safe and Yeah.

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Thank you father.

And now it's my great pleasure to introduce our speaker for the opening ceremony.

Betty, okay.

Yes, I'm very close to 40 year cancer survivor.

Yeah, well praise God, thank you so much to the relay for life committee for asking me this evening.

I consideration greyhound honor and privilege to be able to tell you my story of victory over cancer.

My story actually started 45 years ago When I was a freshman in high school, sitting in 9th grade health class on that spring day, I learned that the most deadliest form of cancer was Hodgkin's disease or Hodgkin's lymphoma as it's also called.

There was absolutely normal for survival.

If a person contracted that disease, it's a type of cancer which attacks one slim plants and ultimately weakens a person's immune system.

So at the tender age of 14 I did a mental note to self, don't ever get Hodgkin's disease.

Well now let's fast forward five years to 1974.

I was in my last term of my sophomore year of college in Minneapolis.

Having had a rigorous schedule of studies, choir tours and work.

I remember being worn out having a bad sinus cold and the lands on the right side of my neck were sore and hard have been swollen glands at that time was a very common occurrence for me.

I thought if I would just take more naps in my free time, my glands would go back to normal.

Well that wasn't the case.

Even at the resting more, my Sinus school didn't get any better and my limp lands were still hard and hurting.

So I went to the doctor and after feeling my limp lands and taking a thrill culture, he diagnosed feed with strep forward.

I went back to the clinic for my shadow penicillin.

He told me to come back in a week.

The time lamps.

I felt so much better but the right side of my neck was still swollen doing like I was told.

I went back to see the doctor after a week thinking that I probably just needed another shot of pandas Dylan.

Well, it turned out completely different than I thought.

After filling my neck, the doctor looked at me and said that he was going to schedule me for a biopsy.

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I would say what for a question.

In a nervous way.

He blurted out, I have a hunch that what you might have is Hodgkin's disease at that very second sirens went off in my head and I looked at the doctor like he was crazy.

My thoughts instantly flashed back to ninth grade health class Taking the card which had my surgery scheduled for June one I left and went back to campus at this time.

I was in the middle of writing papers, completing projects and studying for finals.

But I knew that soon I'd be going home and I get dressed up also at this time.

I made use of the college library and researched what I could on Hodgkin's disease Since 1969.

The research started to give some hope of surviving five years, but the statistics still weren't that encouraging.

Around 25 May I went home to the farm.

My colleagues were completed and I look forward to resting.

My parents knew of my illness so they let me sleep as much as I wanted by the end of May, the swelling in my neck had completely vanished, yep.

I thought all I needed was some good rest and now I'm all better.

I remember my dad predicting that I probably wouldn't need surgery after the surgeon would take one good look at me Going to the hospital on that Friday, June one I was confident that everything would turn out fine.

And even if surgery was still performed, nothing unusual would be found.

The biopsy was a simple procedure and I felt great after the anesthesia wore on.

Even with a nice firings incision, the surgeon explained to me that he removed three tumors from my neck, one the size of a chicken egg, one the size of a birdseed and one the size of the tip of his middle finger testing would prove that any of them were cancers.

Although he did tell my parents that they did look suspicious.

If the tests prove positive for Hodgkins.

I'd be in for more surgery.

I had to wait a few days before knowing the results.

Well, I think that was the longest wait of my life.

On Sunday Morning June 3rd the nurses started prepping me for major abdominal surgery.

After I was in a fog the state.

The surgeon came to my room and said that the tumors were cancerous and that I need to have my spleen removed and have exploratory surgery done at that moment.

I don't know what got into me, but I responded with the craziest statement.

I looked at my mom and said, I think I'll donate my body to science.

Even after saying that I still didn't believe I had cancer.

My biopsy samples had to have gotten mixed up with somebody else's.

I thought that's when the denial stage started.

For me.

It was a coping mechanism.

The truth was it was just too painful for me to process.

I talked myself into believing I was perfectly healthy and that someday the mistake would be found.

After surgery, the surgeon reported that my screen had been removed and three lymph nodes and a chunk of my liver were taken for testing my intestines were held up to the light for inspection and he said they looked good testing results of delivery and lip loads would determine if cancer had spread to the Albany recovering from the surgery wasn't as easy as recovering from the first because along the decision was made through the abdominal wall.

It was very difficult to walk and I know I looked like a hunchback trying to do so at this time I was also given a bone marrow test.

It was so excruciatingly painful.

I certainly do hope that 40 years later the process is easier to handle.

During this test I was awake with only a local injection to numb the area which in my opinion didn't really do much.

Two technicians at the same time drill holes into my pelvis and long thick needles were used to draw out the bone marrow.

It's a half hour process which seemed like hours.

I sure could have used someone at that time to comfort me.

Nobody was available.

So I just toughed it up thankfully.

All of the tests of my abdomen and bone marrow turned out negative.

So no cancer in either place.

On June eight I was discharged from the hospital and given choices where I could receive treatment for Hodgkin's.

The only available hospitals in southern Minnesota in 1970 for where the male clinic, the U.

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Hospitals and Abbott Northwestern.

Even though it would still be a half an hour and a half drive from my parents farm hospital in the cities would be the closest.

And we chose adam.

Looking back at the experience, it was a great choice and I received wonderful care treatments began on monday june 11th when I was given manmade cobalt 60 radioactive radiation treatments covered my whole chest.

Starting from the bottom of the sternum up to the tops of my shoulders.

Then up besides my throat and neck halfway through the treatment I turned over and received the same mass rep radiation exposure on my back To the tops of my shoulders and then to the base of my head.

I was given one treatment a day and the radiation lasted for 3.

7 minutes each time.

The first treatment went very well.

No side effects.

But with each successive treatment, the radioactive radiation built up in my system so that after five treatments, I was so weak I couldn't handle the hour and a half ride each way to and from the hospital.

My oncologist recommended that I stay in the hospital to finish treatments.

I just hated the thought of that being left alone to stay with our family near or have business from college friends who had already gone home for the summer.

The fact that I had a chance to now get hard for me.

I knew that it wasn't a lie.

Looking back, it was a good decision for me to be a hospital patient at this time called out radiation fried my skin to the color of ketchup.

And I'm not exaggerating.

A nurse told me that as red as my skin was on the outside.

That's how red it was in the inside.

My scott My esophagus was so terribly burned that I couldn't eat foods containing acid that included fruits, meat, milk and vegetables.

What? Who would have thought vegetables? The only foods that do hurt to swallow after being chewed very well.

We're buttered bread and eggs, thank goodness.

I still liked aims Even after growing up on a poultry farm.

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My badly burned chest caused every breath I took to be very painful.

Oozing sores developed on the back of my head and my long hair came out in handfuls Psychologically for a 19 year old girl.

That was very devastating.

Something terrible knowledge and hits.

And I had a bad reaction to an anti nausea medication.

During this time all the mirrors were removed from my hostel room.

I know I must have looked pretty pathetic.

The only thing that really worried me at this point.

What's that with all the radiation and that might not have Children someday.

one of my oncologist reassured me to not worry because my optimum wasn't radiated.

I prayed that he wouldn't.

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Well how did I cope with all this? I received many cards and letters from pressures of my own church of ST Peter's Lutheran near Cuban Minnesota.

Many many prayers were said on my behalf as well.

It was my faith which got me through and I knew that I was going to beat this thing called cancer.

I also read about something called positive visualization.

It taught me to imagine little pac man gobbling up all the cancer cells in my body even though it was difficult.

I tried to remain as positive, as cheerful as possible.

All the workers at abbots were a positive ending looks on me as well.

23 cobalt treatments were prescribed but the doctor stopped them after 21 because my body was just too weak to handle anymore.

On July one I was released from the hospital at the farm.

I remember going outside sitting underneath the shade tree and feeling like a glowing light lager.

The regulation was still working.

I remember being so weak that I couldn't even open up a can of soup prayers, positive thinking and TLC help beyond the recovery process So that by the 4th of July I could eat a hamburger without having it hurts while pink swallowed.

Being strong enough to be able to wipe dishes was yet another milestone.

You think I've got to say no.

Oh okay.

But from that point on the healing process went by quickly.

I had another incentive to get well.

There was a job at the college in Minneapolis waiting for me plus an apartment that I was going to share with two other friends at my six week checkup.

The doctors were so impressed with my recovery.

They told me I was an inspiration.

They gave me the green light to take the job and live in the suburbs for the summer.

During the second half of the summer.

I felt so good.

It felt so good to feel so well after that summer I continued my education in ST cloud at ST cloud state, receiving my bachelor's degree in elementary education, having great checkups every three, then six, then 12 months and I was looking forward to landing my first teaching job and beginning my career.

The years have been good to me.

I taught elementary school for a few years, then received my masters degree in special education, working with special needs middle school students for a number of years.

I met the man of my dreams 1989.

We were married in 1992.

In the 1994.

I found out that my an oncologist was right.

I could indeed have Children that year after two miscarriages, Samuel was born and two years after that we were blessed with our lovely daughter lily.

During the past 5 to 10 years, I've been noticing some long term effects of cobalt radiation on my body again on breath, easily tire quickly and have a fast pulse and at times of trouble swallowing my food.

Um, if it hasn't been shoot correctly, tell you.

That's hard to do with these dark races.

Mm And it's been detected that I do have my travail to stop dysfunction in my heart and health vacations in my arteries Because my spleen was removed as her treatment back in the 1970s.

I need to be very careful that I don't get any infections Networking with other Hodgkin's survivors who received cobalt radiation 24 years ago has shown me that those symptoms are quite common.

It would be easy for me to feel victimized.

But instead I choose to feel grateful.

I'm grateful that I've been able to celebrate 44 birthdays and I'm planning on celebrating a whole lot more because of the many people and businesses donating um Donating to cancer research and the American Cancer Society during the 1950s, 60s and early 70's.

I am here today because of the skill of my general practitioner, my surgeon, my oncologist, nurses and other medical staff.

I am here today and I am here today because of God's person ever undertaken.

Survival rates for Hodgkin speeds have gone from noble to being one of the most curable kinds of cancer.

I truly believe that I've been given a second chance in life and for that I'm very grateful today.

Treatment for those who have Hodgkin's is better pull out.

Radiation is no longer used and the spleen is no longer removed.

Radiation can be pinpointed with laser accuracy instead of widespread coverage.

Just a and I am grateful to those who gave money for cancer research in decades back.

I am grateful to those who gave and are still given to research these past 40 years.

Every cancer patient deserves to have more birthdays.

Some of you may sing an inspiration for being a 40-year cancer survivor.

Thank you and I have encouraged you in any way, but I too have my heroes.

They are those who presently have cancer and are still struggling with the disease and struggling or struggling with the damage that the treatment stood to their bodies.

The night is young and later as you take a break from walking, stopped by the many booths here in the arena, purchase a luminary day in honor of or a memory of a loved one.

Um, there's popcorn for sale, um, there's um, cotton candy milk and cookies.

You name like lots of fun things, cute schemes.

Um, and you know, you're gonna get hungry.

So you get that hamburger from the Lions club.

These admit more options, including the silent options are available to you to help raise money for the american cancer society.

Let's all do our part to help those who need today to get into the future.

And at this time I'd like to call up my family and I want them to join me.

My husband Duane, my son, Samuel just made it back from ST Olaf, my daughter really man being able to have a loving, caring family is the reason why I am so grateful the treatments to Hodgkins Batman was the pits.

But look at my reward bringing it on.

Okay, Dwayne listens to me and cares about my health.

He keeps me posted on the latest internet findings and supports me in all things and I'm so proud of Sam and lily.

They have been both.

They both have been on national honor society relay for life teams from her quarry and have raised money for four different relays.

Sam has also been on a relay team at ST al's, full of college and has also raised money for the ST Baldrick's Foundation for childhood cancer Research in april he shaped shaped shaved his head and my honor don't start that I had Hodgkin's when I was under the age of 21.

So mine was considered a childhood cancer.

I Challenge eight of you to give to this year's relay for life.

Give the gift of more birthdays and life with family to those who will be facing cancer this year and years to come.

Our hope is still that someday cancer will be a thing of the past.

Will that be great? Mm hmm.

Public.

Thank you so much and enjoy the evening of celebration and remembrance.

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Who? Mm hmm.

This home remedy is centuries old.

It started with the Egyptians um and it's popular.

More popular probably in europe than it is in our country but I think it's gaining popularity in our country as well because it works and it's totally painless.

In fact I've done many people's ears and they fall asleep on me so it's very relaxing as well.

Okay.

Samuel came to me last night and said mom, can you cancel my ears um like tomorrow, like this morning? And I said sure and he's right now all stuffed up.

He has a cold, his ears are probably plugged.

What candling does? It's a uh this is an ear candle about a foot long and you can see it's hollow on the inside.

Um what it is, it's wrapped muslin and it's dipped in wax.

Some candles are dipped in paraffin.

I prefer the bees wax type because they burn more cleanly.

There's less smoke.

Um I think they burn more efficiently as well and when it's placed in your ear correctly.

And um what happens is it creates a slight vacuum, a gentle vacuum when it's put in your ear, then it draws out it's built up earwax fungus, other impurities from your ear canal and in your sinuses um gives people relief.

Um I used to get sinus infections every year, but Dwayne candles, my ears regularly and no more sinus infections.

I've done ear candling now for I'd say four years started with my family and and friends have asked to have me do it for them.

And now other people are asking too.

So um it's really kind of a a good thing to have done I think especially if you have problems with your sinuses or you know, ear aches from too much built up wax does a good job of getting everything out.

You can see this is the first candle, what's, what accumulated in the first candle of his right ear and you can see that there's just a lot more in this one.

A lot of times people's ears um one ear will have more wax and fungus in than the other and that's definitely true with Samuel here see you all accumulation of built up wax.

Which candle was that? This is just the first candle a lot of times.

The first candle, its job is just to heat up um the wax but this one a lot came out already.

So I know there's quite a bit more to come in the next two candles.

And how many candles might you do? You can do two or up to three.

Um so if somebody has a lot of earwax built of earwax or fungus in their ears sinuses that I get out.

I usually recommend three Um three candles for the ear.

So Samuel said now that his, his nose is unplugged, you can breathe now.

So it does work.

Mm hmm, mm hmm.

Okay.

Yeah

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Right.

Yeah.

Okay.

Take two Samuel.

Today we come from Walnut Grove.

This is where Laura and Mary and Take three.

Today we come from Walnut Girls.

This is where Laura Ingalls and her family grew up pa and her family would come here and go to Mr Olson's store to get food and supplies.

So they had a really fun time coming here.

He's got the Newbery Award.

This must be the place pa said it's half a mile up the creek from nelson's, we've come a good half a mile and there's the creek.

Laura could not see the creek.

She saw a grassy bank and beyond it a line of willow tops waving in the gentle wind everywhere else.

The prairie grasses were rippling far away to the skies, straight edge.

The front wall was built of sod.

Mr Hanson had dug out his house and then he had cut long strips of prairie sod and laid them on top of one another to make the front wall.

It was a good thick wall with not one crack in it, no cold could get through that wall.

Mom was pleased.

She said it's small but it's clean and pleasant.

Then she looked up at the ceiling and said, look girls, the ceiling was made of hey willow bows had been laid across and their branches woven together.

Family hungry.

Who used to live here.

Little.

That's right.

We just read the book on the banks of plum Creek.

Threesome, mm hmm.

Come in and the supplies are being unloaded.

There's a livery stable of mercantile, a hotel, a few houses and a lot more to come.

And I remember our spirits were high as we bounced and plotted our way into walnut grove.

They came to our destination walnut grove and that wandering trail of water, Plum Creek.

Now, two things really made our little village come alive, the church and the school this week, we'll be having a spelling bee and all your families are invited to give it back.

Okay.

Okay.

Goodbyes were hard, wondering what the future would bring to walnut grove and the families who had known so well, wondering what new struggles for survival would test and shape us.

I'm going to miss this little community Charles.

Okay.

Tell me, what would it be like to ride in that thing for hundreds and hundreds of miles boring.

I'm not really boring because you can see out and you have to sit back here so you'd be like board and just try to do something.

Mm hmm.

22 3.

Hello? Hello, here we are everybody.

Say hi, hi on.

The windows were down.

We did it, yeah.

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Mhm.

Okay.

Mhm.

Yeah,

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Right.

Yeah.

Well, good day to you.

I'm sure you've heard about various kinds of diets, everything under the sun.

Well, I've got one for you, that's just out of this world.

Can you imagine eating ice cream in terms of losing weight? Yeah, I couldn't believe it either.

But here's my lovely bride to tell you the story.

Okay, love, tell us about this fabulous diet you're on where you are now consuming just wonderful, wonderful ice cream.

Yeah, this is great.

I've never been on such a great died before.

Honestly, have a look.

You know what the best part is Since June I've lost and kept off £8.

What do you think of that? Well, let's hear the story.

I don't know if anybody else will believe you, but I do.

I believe you.

Mhm.

Well, I tell you, I was visiting with a lady and she works at the exercise place where I frequent and was telling her, you know, exercise alone, I can't lose weight, I maintain don't gain anything, but I can't lose.

And she said, well, when I was working at the ST Cloud Hospital, um there was this diet that um circulated amongst the employees.

And she said, yeah, that's the ice cream and hot dog diet.

And I said, what ice cream and hot dogs of all things on a diet.

And she said, yeah, well, she said, let me go home and look for it and I'll make you a copy.

Well, lo and behold, she came up with your copy of this diet and it's a three day diet.

I love it.

So, you're on this diet for three days, you eat only, um what's listed on the diet and the quantities specified.

Um and then of course, you drink 6-8 glasses of water every day.

That's very important, you don't stray from it, and then after the three days you eat normally for four days, and then go back on it again for three.

So um yeah, I really like that, it's only three days.

And um and, you know, at the end of each day, or for dinner, each day you get treated with ice cream.

Okay, so, tell us about day number one, you were just you just finished day number one.

Right, right, And this is your eighth cycle now, or ninth? Oh, boy.

The first time I went on the diet, I lost £4 lost £4 kept them off, and then each time I go on the diet for three days, I lose an additional pound.

Um so four, so four lbs, that was the first time.

Um then four more pounds.

So, I guess maybe this is about my fifth cycle, or so with the diet.

Okay, so, tell us about day number one.

All right, this is what I had for breakfast, or this is what you can have, you can have black coffee, tea, or water.

I choose water.

Generally, once in a while, t half a grapefruit, one slice of toast, dry toast, and two tablespoons of peanut butter on your toast.

Um And then for lunch I had a half a cup of tuna, half a cup of tuna is one small can of tuna, one slice of dry toast and um either coffee or tea.

And then for dinner tonight um you can have two slices of any type of meat, about three ounces.

So tonight I had a hamburger, one cup string beans, one cup of beats, one small apple.

Oh I haven't had that yet.

And one cup of vanilla ice cream.

And you see I measured it in this measuring cup.

So yeah, she really cramped and let me tell you she was pushing hard.

Well it says a cup.

Another thing I really like about the diet, I get hungry for meals but I'm not starving for meals.

Um And that's never happened before.

Another side benefit of this diet.

I don't crave chocolate.

Um That was my downfall.

So um I think it's wonderful.

I was at the doctor today to get my physical exam I brought the diet with and I said, well you know, looking at my case history and and you know where I'm at um take a look at this diet.

What do you think? Um He kind of chuckled at the ice cream and orthodox but he says I said you know, I asked him is it safe to be on until I lose the weight that I want to lose.

And he said yeah it should be fine.

So um it includes all the food groups.

I like that about it.

To a lot of diets.

You know, a lot of food groups, different food groups are eliminated, but you have all the food groups here.

So tomorrow day two for breakfast I have one hard boiled egg, a slice of toast and a half a banana.

For lunch I get one cup of cottage cheese and five saltine crackers.

Then for dinner too hot dogs, one cup of broccoli, a half a cup of carrots, half a banana and half a cup of vanilla ice cream.

Alright, what do we call this diet again? Well, it's called the ST joseph Hospital Medical Center, three day diet.

Yeah.

Right.

Yeah

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Right.

Yeah.

Okay.

How are you today? Welcome back.

You'll recall that yesterday we had the opportunity to visit with Betty Lou as she introduced us to her new wonderful diet that included ice cream and hot dogs.

Well, today we're gonna find out about the rest of the story and I got a hunch.

It might prove to be fairly interesting.

Here's Betty Lou.

Mhm.

All right.

Let me tell us all about this marvelous diet.

And where are we at now in this this process.

Three days, four days what? Bring me up to speed.

I forget.

Oh, I know.

Well, okay.

Well, I tell you I woke up this morning, this is day four, which is my day off on the cycle.

First day off.

So yesterday was day three.

I woke up this morning.

First thing I always do is way myself in the morning.

I guess what? I lost another pound down, £9 since I've started this diet.

But I'm just I'm just so thrilled because I, you know, I I lose the weight and I can keep it off as never happened before, so I'm just delighted I really am.

It's it's working for me.

All right, good.

Okay.

Then.

Now the let's see, tell us about day three of the diet.

What were the goodies that you had on that day? It seems to me, we had recipe for day one, recipe for day two.

Yeah, tell us about number three.

Okay.

Um a lot of similarities here for breakfast.

I have five saltine crackers.

Um One slice of cheddar cheese.

When they say one slice, they mean one ounce of cheddar cheese, one small apple.

Um This is what I do too, and the apples I get at the store are pretty good size, so then what I do, I slice it in half and half of a large apple is like a small apple, so that's what I do.

Um For lunch I had one hard boiled egg and one slice of dry toast.

Um Then came dinner.

Now I will have to admit that what's listed on the diet here, I can't eat everything.

Maybe some of you can but I can't so I just eat what I'm able to.

Alright um What's listed on the diet is one cup of tuna.

Okay, that's two small cans of tuna.

one Cup of beats, one Cup of color flower when it comes to vegetables, you can eat them either raw or steamed however you like.

It.

Just don't put on any sauces or butter or anything like that.

Okay, so we've got one cup of tuna, one cup of beats, one cup of cauliflower and then a half of cantaloupe.

I'll say it again, a half a cantaloupe.

Um I've never been able to eat a half a cantaloupe.

Um During any of the cycles of the diet that I've been on, but that's what's listed and then of course a half a cup of vanilla ice cream.

So um like I said, that was the third day I woke up this morning, I kept off the weight plus I lost an additional pounds.

So ye £9.

I can't believe it I can't believe it.

And um you know like I said it's I get hungry for food for meals but I I'm not starving.

This is working for me.

I hope it works for the rest of you to that want to try it.

Um So you're gonna do it again, you're gonna go into a cycle again? Well absolutely absolutely.

One thing I found two um when I'm on the four days off I don't eat as much as I used to.

I've noticed that my appetite isn't like it used to be.

So um that's great and um doesn't this might sound kind of strange but when I'm on the four days off the first couple of days it's it's fun to eat whatever you want within reason of course.

Um But then is the 3rd and 4th day roll around you know I'm ready to go back on the diet again and it's like honey, somebody that likes food but I don't know what that's how it works.

It says here it works on a chemical breakdown this diet.

So um maybe it's changing my metabolism.

I don't know what's the name of this diet again? Okay.

It's the other formal name is ST joseph hospital medical center three day diet.

So check back with me maybe in a couple of months.

See where I'm at that.

All right.

Thank you.

Yeah, Yeah

Hi, I've got a story to tell you about one of our good neighbors in Richmond and it's planted berg's the home food pride store.

And I I go there every week to do all my big shopping and You know, I drive five miles on a cold spring to do this.

But I tell you what happened today is just another example of of why go through the extra effort of driving west to get my groceries.

Um this morning I called and and the store and healed the answered, I asked her if if they had more salsa mix in stock because I wanted to make salsa.

My tomatoes were waiting and she says just a second, I'll check, I'm not quite sure, I don't know if they've come in yet.

And so she got off the phone and, and I think she was checking through invoices or whatever, but she came back on and she says, oh, Betty, I'm sorry.

But you know, they didn't come in on the truck and but you you ask again on friday, they'll probably come in on friday.

And I said, well, you know, I I, these tomatoes can't wait and we'll probably have to go somewhere else.

And and she says, and well, she said, I'm sorry, but we appreciate your business.

Well, I tell you, we got off the phone was no more than five or 10 minutes later, he'll hear healed.

He calls up again and she said, say Betty Sydney and I she said, we looked through the palettes and everything trying to find your salsa mix and and then we thought, oh maybe it's on the shelf already.

Sure enough here it was out into the big display that they have.

And so she said you we've got it here and and how many would you like? We'll put some aside for you so you can come in, get your salsa mix and and get those tomatoes and salsa canned and so that's what I did.

I went to the store and sure enough here they had them for me.

You know what, customer service and I'm not getting paid to say this.

But I tell you, I sure love shopping at planting bergs.

They go through the extra effort and tucker and patty.

They sure do a great job.

I'm greeted when I come and they wish me well when I leave.

So thanks tucker and patty and all the workers there, Sandy Hildy, um Shirley, Cindy, um Brandon, he carries out my groceries.

Thanks so much.

You make shopping a pleasure

Our dear friend Betty koos, longtime resident of Cold Spring Minnesota, wife to Duane Couscous and mother of high school grads sam and lily Couscous has been hospitalized in Minneapolis for heart and respiratory failure.

Betty is currently and has been for many years.

The beloved accompanist at peace Lutheran Church in Cold Spring.

We were deeply saddened when she was first admitted to Abbott Northwestern Heart Hospital in Minneapolis in december.

A long procedure was necessary before surgeons could clear her for open heart surgery.

On december 16th, after nearly 60 days in the ICU, she was moved to regency Hospital in Golden Valley for recovery.

She's been a fighter through this long battle.

Many people in central Minnesota know Betty for her many years of teaching piano and accompanying various church community and school concerts and music productions.

Betty's music history includes little falls middle school where she was a special education teacher from 1979 to 1992.

She enjoyed working with many special needs students Over the years.

Betty played piano for many school theater performances and other musical events.

She also shared her musical talents in the community.

While she was a member of first Lutheran Church for the past 25 years, Betty has accompanied the Cold Spring area medic or and as mentioned earlier, many people in Cold Spring and Central Minnesota know Betty for her many years of teaching piano and accompanying various church Community and school concerts and music productions.

While her body is recovering.

Hospital bills have devastated the Coors family finances.

Betty's friends and community are organizing various fundraising efforts to help them recover.

In particular, a fundraising dinner is in the planning for April 30 at record high school as well.

We hope to plan a musical event later in the spring, donations will be used to pay medical expenses not covered by insurance.

Please help financially in any way that you can to the benefit for Betty fundraising effort accounts have been set up at all three cold spring banks to receive donations.

There's a Go Fund me page or call 3 to 06857656.

We miss her music, her beautiful smile and we long for her return.

Thank you for taking time to hear about Betty

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Betul.

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okay, what we got going here? Making a easy bake oven, Making an easy bake oven, what are we making? And the easy bake sugar cookies.

Show us your oven will, is it working right now, wow, we got cookies in there.

Show dad this is the next pan, ready to go in and see the cookies here getting bigger, getting bigger, getting flattened, start, start time.

Uh You, I'm Betty leclair couscous and I was born on December five, 1954 to Ruth and Baltimore Group of Rural Gibbon.

Um and my most favorite Memorial weekend, probably the most fun one.

I'll start with that.

One of the most fun weekend memorial weekend was this past one because um it was just a lot of fun to do all that fishing and I sure enjoyed those rides on the pontoon and but the one I'm going to talk about.

Yes, most memorable.

It's so memorable.

I remember almost every detail Um and it happened 11 years ago, so it's memorial weekend, 1990 Dwayne and I were dating for only about a month and I had met Donna Darla and also Lori at a medic or concert.

Um but this memorial weekend was the first time that I would be meeting the rest of the family.

Um and so Duane told me about this cabin his parents had on lake and I said, oh grand rapids and no pine city, okay.

Um I know where that is and and I guess in my own mind I was thinking, okay, Lake cabin and I'd only been at two cabins previously and they were like three seasons homes and so I was you know deciding on what to wear and that and thinking wow this must be a pretty nice place.

And so the first night we got there and it was already raining and and everybody was huddled in the in the porch of the cabin and there were 10 of us adults and at that time four grandchildren, Jason and Ryan were with her mother that weekend and it was raining out and to go to the bathroom, there was no indoor plumbing and so we um you know I had to go to the outhouse and had a huge umbrella that we would take with, it was raining so much, it was like a mudslide from the cabin to the um to the outhouse and none of us brought boots along so we would take these old Land O lakes, um plastic bags, slip them over our feet, um put rubber bands over that to hold them out and away we go.

And that weekend I remember um you know fuses blowing because you know people have the um the microwave plugged in at the same time, they have the water heater plugged in and and there's totally no privacy we're sleeping.

So I got to know everybody real quick real fast.

I remember thinking oh man what have I gotten myself into but um everyone was just very cordial and um Doug especially friday night took me aside and you know I had a real nice conversation with me and made me feel welcome and, and I remember a lot of singing that weekend, Lori brought her keyboard and Dwayne brought his guitar and we did a lot of singing and playing games.

And I was just amazed at how well everybody could get along for um friday night through saturday saturday night, sunday, sunday night just cooped up in this torrential rainstorm and how everybody got along so well that you know really boggles my mind.

And, and so I felt that this was quite a special family and, and I was happy to be a part of that weekend.

This is what? Oh those cookies that we made turned like this.

Alright, why don't you try one and see how they taste? Okay.

They're already well did you, did you? How did you want a cookie? Mm hmm.

You guys are good cooks