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THE REVERE ADVOCATE – FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2022 Page 13 BUDGET | FROM Page 1 members voted in favor of the Is Skin Cancer Hereditary? Dear Savvy Senior, Is skin cancer hereditary? My 63-year-old brother died of melanoma last year, and I’m wondering if I’m at higher risk. Younger Sister Dear Younger, While long-term sun exposure and sunburns are the biggest risk factors for melanoma – the deadliest form of skin cancer – having a sibling or parent with melanoma does indeed increase your risk, according to the Skin Cancer Foundation. Each year, around 100,000 Americans are diagnosed with melanoma, and about 7,500 people will die from it. While anyone can get it, those most often diagnosed are Caucasians, age 50 and older. And those with the highest risk are people with red or blond hair, blue or green eyes, fair skin, freckles, moles, a family history of skin cancer and those who had blistering sunburns in their youth. Skin Exams The best way you can guard against melanoma and other skin cancers (basal and squamous cell carcinomas) is to protect yourself from the sun, and if you’re over age 50, get a fullbody skin exam done by a dermatologist every year, especially if you’re high risk. Self-examinations done every month or so is also a smart way to detect early problems. Using mirrors, check the front and backside of your entire body, including the tops and undersides of your arms and hands, between your toes and the soles of your feet, your neck, scalp and buttocks. Be on the lookout for new growths, moles that have changed, or sores that don’t heal, and follow the ABCDE rule when examining suspicious moles. • Asymmetry: One half of a mole doesn’t match the other. • Border: The border is blurred or ragged. • Color: The mole has uneven colors, often shades of brown, tan or black, with patches of pink, red, white or blue. • Diameter: The lesion is new or at least a quarter inch in diameter. • Evolving: The mole is changing in size, shape or color. For more self-examination tips and actual pictures of what to look for, see SpotSkinCancer.org or use a skin cancer detection app like Miiskin.com, MoleMapper.org or SkinVision.com. In the spring and summer, there are also a variety of places that offer free skin cancer screenings, like the American Academy of Dermatology (spotskincancer.org) and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (asds.net/skincancerscreening.aspx), which off er screenings done by volunteer dermatologists across the U.S. Sun Protection Even though you can’t change your skin or family history, there are some proven strategies that can help you protect yourself. For starters, when you go outside put-on broad-spectrum SPF 30, water-resistant sunscreen on both sunny and cloudy days. If you don’t like the rub-on lotions, try the continuous spray-on sunscreens which are easier to apply and re-apply and less messy. Also, seek the shade when rays are most intense – between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. You can also protect your skin by wearing a wide-brimmed hat, and long sleeves and pants when possible. The best clothing options are tightly woven fabrics that help prevent the sun’s rays from reaching your skin, or you can wash in an invisible shield sun protection into your clothes with SunGuard laundry additive (see sunguarduv.com). You can even buy a variety of lightweight clothing and hats that off er maximum UV protection in their fabric. Coolibar.com and SunPrecautions.com are two good sites that off er these products. Treatments If caught early, melanoma is nearly 100 percent curable. But if it’s not, the cancer can advance and spread to other parts of the body where it becomes hard to treat and can be fatal. Standard early treatment for melanoma is surgical removal. In advanced cases, however, immunotherapies and targeted therapies have shown positive results, or chemotherapy and radiation may be used. Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior. org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book. 1. June 24 is National Take Your Dog to Work Day; Balto was a Siberian husky who led dogsled runs of serum to Nome; there is a statue of Balto in what well-known park? 2. What profession did Jules Léotard, the namesake of the leotard, have: acrobat, ballet dancer or swimmer? 3. What group is credited with inventing the California sound? 4. What children’s author’s last book was “Oh, the Places You’ll Go!”? 5. On June 25, 1951, CBS televised the fi rst commercial color television show, “Premiere,” from NYC to what four major eastern USA cities? 6. What animated TV series character lived in Frostbite Falls? 7. On June 26, 1812, the Massachusetts House voted against what war? 8. What company had “Don’t be evil” as its motto but changed that to “Do the right thing”? 9. In June 1872 what composer of “The Blue Danube” performed at the World’s Peace Jubilee and International Musical Festival in Boston along with others, including the fi rst time African American “singers [were] included in a big musical production” in the country – the Fisk University Jubilee Singers? Answers 10. What tropical fruit is known as a meat tenderizer? 11. On June 27, 1829, British scientist James Smithson died, who bequeathed funding for what establishment to spread knowledge? 12. In what century did the circus clown develop: 17th, 18th or 19th? 13. What is cos lettuce also called? 14. On June 28, 1946, actress/director Antoinette Perry died; what is she the namesake of? 15. In a 1947 court case regarding import tariff classifi cations, what spring plant was decided to be a fruit rather than a vegetable? 16. What Madonna song name-checks 16 Hollywood celebrities? 17. June 29 is National Camera Day; the fi rst digital camera was invented in what year: 1963, 1975 or 1984? 18. Reportedly, in 1992, Lonnie, the wife of what sports celebrity, incorporated Greatest of All Time, Inc. – what would become known in popular culture as GOAT – to license her husband’s intellectual properties? 19. Are the Copacabana Night Club and Copacabana Beach in the same city? 20. On June 30, 1864, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill to create what park that includes the Mariposa Grove, Glacier Point and Hetch Hetchy? $240,469,324 budget, with Councillors Ira Novoselsky and Patrick Keefe absent and Councillor-atLarge Marc Silvestri voting present. Following a half dozen Ways and Means Subcommittee meetings over the past two weeks, the full City Council trimmed $221,489 from the budget as originally proposed by Mayor Brian Arrigo. The Ways and Means Subcommittee had recommended a little over $425,000 in cuts from the budget. “We appreciate the guidance of our Chief Financial Officer Richard Viscay, along with City Clerk Ashley Melnik, who was extremely helpful in organizing the meetings and putting the information together,” said Councillor-at-Large Dan Rizzo, the chair of the Ways and Means Subcommittee. “I would also like to thank the department heads who appeared and talked about their accomplishments and goals. It was a good learning experience, especially for the city councillors who don’t deal with [the] departments every day.” While there were not any huge cuts made to the budget as presented by the mayor, Rizzo said he hoped the cuts that were proposed and made would show residents that the council was looking at the numbers and cutting where it felt it was appropriate. He said providing fi scal oversight for the city and the budget is one of the biggest jobs of the council. The successful budget cuts included $70,000 in the Human Resources Department for outside legal expenses and team building, $20,000 for payroll for the Zoning Board of Appeals, $45,000 for payroll in the Planning and Economic Development Department, $20,000 in contracted services for the Planning Department, $9,000 in expenses for the Human Rights Commission, and just under $7,500 in payroll in the Offi ce of Innovation and Data Management. There was a slight delay at the end of the meeting on the vote for the fi nal budget number due to the salary fi gure in the Offi ce of Innovation and Data Management. The Ways and Means Subcommittee initially proposed cutting just over $131,000 in salaries from that department. That cut failed before the full council. However, there were not enough votes to pass the payroll budget of $382,489. Even though there were fi ve votes in favor versus only three no votes, because of the two absences, the payroll budget did not get the necessary six vote majority. A subsequent motion to rescind the fi rst vote on the payroll budget also failed to gather enough votes. After a little more conversation among the council, Councillor-at-Large George Rotondo presented a new motion to fund the Offi ce of Innovation and Data Management payroll budget at $375,000, and that vote did pass muster. 1. Central Park 2. Acrobat 3. The Beach Boys 4. Dr. Seuss’s 5. Baltimore, Boston, Philadelphia and Washington 6. Bullwinkle J. Moose of “Rocky and Bullwinkle” 7. The War of 1812 8. Google 9. Johann Strauss II 10. Papaya 11. The Smithsonian Institution 12. 19th 13. Romaine 14. The Tony Awards 15. Rhubarb 16. “Vogue” 17. 1975 18. Muhammad Ali 19. The nightclub is in NYC and the beach is in Rio de Janeiro 20. Yosemite

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