On Feb. 24 I attended the Marist Parents Club fashion show at Gaelic Park in Oak Forest, and as always it was a very nice time. My girlfriend Pat won what everyone considered the best raffle prize: a basket filled with $175 of Illinois scratch off lottery tickets. Everyone was curious as to how much money she would win.
In college I studied mathematics along with probability. That is why I don’t play the Lotto. It turns out her $175 worth of lottery tickets yielded $74 of cash and nine free tickets. The nine free tickets turned up with no winners. So the basket actually lost $101.
As I told my colleagues at work about this, they were not surprised. But again my colleagues at work are accountants and mathematicians. My co-worker Jeanette at her wedding gave each of her 150 guests a scratch-off ticket as a party favor. No one walked away with big money.
So the moral of this story: Next time you are in line at the convenience store ready to spend $20 on the lottery chances, $1 would do you just as good.
This past Saturday my husband surprisingly took me out for a cocktail. We stopped at a local tavern, and had an enjoyable afternoon meeting some old friends — Mike from 58th and St. Louis, and Mike our old neighbor across the alley.
Saturday, March 8 is the St. Richard “Party With Paddy.” Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and dinner will be served at 7:30 p.m. The cost is $20 per person. Featured will be fun, food, music, green beer and, of course, corned beef and cabbage.
The St. Turibius Mothers Club will be holding the 2nd Annual Family Dinner Show featuring Samantha’s Amazing Animals on Saturday, April 5. A buffet dinner will be served at 5 p.m., and the show starts at 6 p.m. The cost is $15 for adults and $10 for children. For more information, call the rectory at (773) 581 2730, ext. 10.
If you would like to learn the Polish tradition of decorating Easter eggs, you are invited to the Polish Museum of America at 984 N. Milwaukee Ave. The class will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday, March 16. For more information, call (773) 384-3352, ext. 104.
Do you remember those little bottles of red, blue and yellow liquid to color your eggs? Have any of you looked for these recently? Well, I did last year for a child in Switzerland, and to my dismay the company that made this product, Ruby, went out of business in 2006.
I would like to thank the City of Chicago Snow Plow crews for keeping our major streets clean on all the snowy morning rush hours we have had. It is amazing on my morning drives during the snow storms that 55th Street to Archer is clear all the way to Harlem.
But once I cross over into Summit, Archer has snow on it and the roads get progressively worse. As I travel from the city into the progressively “richer” suburbs, such as LaGrange, Western Springs and Oak Brook, the roads get progressively worse along 47th Street, and Wolf Road is always terrible.