Published: October 12, 2007 06:13 pm            

THE ISLE FILE: Isle seminar focuses on women's health

The Business & Professional Women scored a real coup in arranging that Women’s Health seminar next Wednesday at the Holiday Inn.

Regina Schunk and Diana Dinsmore wrote the grant request that helped land Drs. Christine Rizk and Sherry Bradford as principal speakers for a program focusing on inflammatory breast cancer. They’re among the world’s experts on this form of the disease, which is less well-known but more threatening. A $20 registration fee includes refreshments and appetizers. Proceeds will help support the BPW’s scholarship fund. Everyone wins. It all begins about 5:30 p.m.

FASHION PLATES – Barb Nowakowski would like everyone to consider making the annual Zonta Club fashion luncheon their principal after-church activity Oct. 21. That’s a week from Sunday, starting at 12:30 p.m. It’s $20 at the Launch Club and if you’re new around here, that’s one of the Island’s premiere beauty spots, down near East River and Bush. Proceeds benefit Zonta’s scholarship activities. Besides lunch there’s a cash bar and basket raffle. No swimsuits though, says Barb. Maybe next year.

PRESIDENTIAL PARTY – Isle File received notice of a private exhibit and reception of memorabilia of “Buffalo’s First Lady,” Frances Folsom Cleveland, next Saturday, 4 to 7 p.m., at River Lea. That’s the Victorian summer home of Grover Cleveland’s “Uncle Lew,” and now part of the Beaver Island landscape. We’ll bet they’re not checking IDs, but dress nicely. No tank tops or cutoffs, please and you didn’t hear it here.

BUNNY’S BUDDY – The world shrank again for Isle File last week at the Terra Nova B&B in Grove City, PA. Over morning chow, Tom Hoover, a fellow traveler from the Pittsburgh area, wondered, “Did you by any chance know my old army buddy ‘Bunny’ Luther?” The two shared a foxhole and more during World War II.

Isle File knew LaVerne “Bunny” Luther as a shortstop as much as a supervisor and while the Pittsburgh doughboy had kept touch a little, he did not know that Bunny’s son Bobby had been claimed by a later conflict. Hoover sent greetings to Bunny’s widow Shirley and then asked “Why did they call him ‘Bunny.’” We never knew.

As we broke camp, Tom cautioned “Now you drive carefully in that Mini.” Tom is 80 and rides a motorcycle.

A SPRITZER OF SPITZER – E-mailer Mike says Isle File erred in blaming Gov. Eliot Spitzer for the proposed Thruway toll hike. Actually, we didn’t, but the column did praise Spitzer’s work as attorney general, especially his crackdowns on bait-and-switch tactics. That may have left the impression that we thought he himself was now bait-and-switching on the Thruway Authority. We plead guilty to clumsiness. The matter of drivers licenses for illegal aliens; well, Isle File defers that debate to other spaces, but not here. Until this week Doug, a registered Conservative, has rather liked the guy.

Isle File idea? Write Box 1186, Grand Island, NY 14072 or e-mail pollyndoug@hotmail.com.

        

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