100 years old and still working
Erna Cartwright isn’t boastful about her age, but she would deserve to boast about her upcoming birthday.
The Oshkosh resident turns 100 on Oct. 31 and it’s a milestone in more ways that one. Not only is she turning triple digits, but she’s also still working. That marks 82 years in the workforce.
Cartwright is the bookkeeper for Oshkosh City Cab Co., where she’s been employed since 1946. She has no formula for longevity, but said “keeping busy and moving around” at her age is a plus.
She’s a throwback and doesn’t use a computer for her bookkeeping work.
“I use an adding machine where you pull the handle. I think using pencil and paper and the adding machine does a better and more exact job than a computer,” Cartwright said. “The trouble with the world today is there are too many computers.”
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Drew Brees Doesn’t Get Along With His Mom
Drew Brees wants no part of his mother’s political aspirations.
The NFL quarterback and Westlake High School graduate has told Mina Brees, an Austin attorney, to stop using his picture in TV commercials as she runs for a spot on Texas’ 3rd Court of Appeals, saying their relationship is now “nonexistent” after souring six years ago.
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That’s a lot of web spinning
If the thought of tens of millions of tiny spiders spinning a web 24 hectares – 60 acres – in size and crawling all over it scares the wits out of you, you might want to tread carefully over the following. Because that’s exactly what happened last month on a farmer’s field
For reasons that area scientists don’t really understand, millions and millions of tiny black spiders called Halorates ksenius became trapped in Russell Jervis’ clover field and started spinning webs.
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