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Lantagnes celebrate 70th anniversary

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ESCANABA — More than 100 friends and family of Orville and Mary Lou Lantagne joined with the couple as they celebrated their 70th wedding anniversary at the Pioneer Trail Park Pavilion in Gladstone. Orville and the former Mary Lou Royer were married on July 28, 1956 during a ceremony held at St. Thomas Parish in Escanaba. Attending the couple were: Ron and Joan Lantagne, brother and sister-in-law of the groom; Jon and Marlene Servant, sister and brother-in-law of the groom; and Art and Vickie LaFave. Art is the groom's cousin and Vickie is a friend of the bride. Orville worked for ...

Neighbor's barking dog keeps baby awake

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Dear Annie: My husband and I recently welcomed our first baby, and we are exhausted but overjoyed. We live in an apartment building, and after weeks of trial and error, we finally started getting our daughter onto a somewhat predictable sleep schedule. The problem is our next-door neighbor's ...

Testing basements for dampness

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Dear Heloise: My husband and I decided to remodel our basement and use it as a hobby/crafts/half-bath/extra TV room, where our teenagers and their friends can enjoy themselves or where we can gather as a family to watch movies. Since my dad had been a builder all his life and knew what to look ...

Sixty-five-year old gets hospitalized due to hypercalcemia

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DEAR DR. ROACH: A few years ago, at the age of 65, I was hospitalized and in critical condition with a calcium score of 14 mg/dL. After many tests, the diagnosis was hypercalcemia. After a 10-day hospital stay, I was discharged, and every test in the book was done to find the cause. All tests ...

Is coffee bad for health?

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Dear Heloise: My husband hates coffee and asked me to switch to tea, but I don't like tea. He says that coffee damages our health. Is this true? -- Shelly J., in Little Rock, Arkansas Shelly, studies have been done on thousands of people to discover the effects of coffee on the human body, ...

The gift -- and challenge -- of having two cultures

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Dear Annie: My mother is German, and my father is American. Growing up, I was raised with traditions from both cultures, but I have never felt fully part of either one. Last Christmas, my mother made a traditional German dinner and invited several relatives. I tried to join the conversation, ...