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One of the hazards of writing a column based on things that happened 50-60 years ago is that some memories are fuzzier than others. I have struggled the past few weeks with a topic for this column (my apologies to those who have missed it!).

People need to know about new diseases that result from outdoor living. One of them is known as the ‘Alpha-gal’ syndrome, a sometimes-fatal disease people get from the spotted wood tick bite.

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Larry Dablemont After all those years of joking about being a grizzled old veteran hunter, I now am one and it ain’t no joking matter! I hunted blue-winged teal during that very first special teal season, about 1964. I was in high school, and Dad and I floated the river in September in one of our wooden johnboats, with a blind attached to the bow, jump-shooting them like we did mallards in December.