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Our husbands don't talk. They have long ago left us. I suppose I come here to still feel married." Along with three others, the women try to get together once a month at Betty's condo. They call it their "whine and wine" nights. "You need a sense of humour for this," Ella Evans says. About a decade ago, Hilda Harris decided the wives needed something more, as well. Her husband, Eric, now 90 and a British army vet, has been in Sunnybrook for 13 years. "When you come here you lose all your outside contacts," she says. "Everyone here is in the same situation – you are laughing on the outside, crying on the inside. I try to make it pleasant because I know." So she organized a barbecue for a few of the wives. It poured rain, but just being with others who understood their world was enough for the women.
81-Year-Old Scotch Sells For $54,000
A bottle of 81-year-old Scotch sold for $54,000 at this New York's first liquor auction since Prohibition.
An anonymous collector bought the pricey potable at Christie's sale of wines and spirits on Saturday.
The 100-lot auction sold a total of $304,800 worth of rare wine and liquor. The top lot was a collection of 729 bottles of whisky, which went for $102,000.
The $54,000 bottle was distilled at Macallan in Scotland in 1926, bottled in 1986 and rebottled in 2002.
Prohibition lasted from 1920 to 1933, but New York State did not allow auctions of spirits until this year.
The auction prices include Christie's 20-percent commission.
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Saffron's was gold at Guasti
ONTARIO'S GUASTI neighborhood loses its last business today as Saffron Cafe and Bakery folds up its tablecloths and moves on. Saffron was a popular lunch spot for business people and retirees who liked the ever-changing menu and the ambience of the 1923 Guasti Villa. To make way for demolition and construction on the property near Ontario International Airport, the cafe lost its lease. So did all the other tenants. The Filippi Winery tasting room closed, the Guasti Post Office relocated, the Guasti Cafe moved to Chino and patio furniture stores and other shops left. Saffron's entire existence was a happy accident. In 2002, owner Linda Rouyer and her mother, Sherry Powell, signed a lease to move their decade-old catering business from Montclair to Guasti and bought a liquor license for catering purposes.
Keep kitty off counters
Cats on kitchen counters are an unwelcome sight in many homes. Here are a few ways to give the felines the message that their help is not needed in the food-prep area. - Apply double-sided sticky tape to the edge of counters and kitchen table. Cats hate the feel of the tape. - A spritz of water from a spray bottle works on some cats. - Fill shallow-sided cookie sheets with water and place them in the center of the counters rimmed in tape, recommends Arden Moore, author of the "Cat Behavior Answer Book." If the cat leaps over the sticky tape, she'll still get a surprise where she lands. - If possible, give your cat a place on high to survey the goings-on. Nothing wrong with a cat tree in a corner of the kitchen. Cats are social creatures and will be content to peer down from the top of a fridge or cat tree and swish-swish while you chop-chop.
Fast-growing York Label acquires Cameo Sonoma
SONOMA � A rapidly expanding Nebraska-based commercial printing company has acquired wine and spirits label printer Cameo Sonoma.
On Oct. 25 York Label acquired Cameo Sonoma along with its 75-year-old Montreal-based parent Cameo Crafts, which has three facilities in Montreal, two in Toronto, one in Sonoma and one in Santiago, Chile.
In the same set of recent deals, York Label picked up Kansas City, Mo.-based Package Service Co., which focuses on printing pressure-sensitive labels for personal care, beverage, household and food products.
By gaining a 50 percent stake in Cameo Marinelli, which the Kendall family that owned Cameo Crafts set up five years ago, York Label stepped into the maturing Chilean wine and spirits markets.
Terms of the deals were not disclosed.
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