Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud or shed a tear. Here we go. July 2025 *************************************** CHEESESTEAKS So are you a WITH or WITHOUT? That's with friend onions or without. Just as long as you stay away from cheesewiz in my book A cheesesteak is a sandwich made from thinly sliced rib eye or top round beef with cheese on a hoagie roll that has it's roots in Philadelphia. Pat and Harry Oliveri...
6 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud or shed a tear. Here we go. June 2025 *************************************** ICE CREAM When it comes to desserts, we get serious about them. Ice Cream was started by the ancient Chinese and brought to Italy by Marco Polo and to America by Thomas Jefferson. The Ice Cream industry has an 11.6 Billion impact on the US economy and supports 26,704 jobs. The majority of US ice cream...
7 months ago • 6 min read
Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud or shed a tear. Here we go. May 2025 ************************************************* PIZZA So it's a little dough, some sauce, cheese and toppings and we cannot get enough of it. Every day, more than 8 million pizza's are sold in the US and that doesn't count all the people who make it at home or buy frozen pizza in the supermarket. That boils down to 761 slices of pizza...
8 months ago • 7 min read
Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud or shed a tear. Here we go. April 2025 ************************************************* Tom Foolery So to celebrate April Fools day, we are celebrating one of the High Priests of High Jinks - none other than Steve Martin. Steve's first job was at Disneyland in 1960. Then he went onto write jokes for the Smothers Brothers. The poor bastard didn't learn to stay away from Martin...
9 months ago • 10 min read
Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud or shed a tear. Here we go. March 2025 ************************************************* The Hero for March 2025 is Gene Kapp Written by Mike Russell & Sal Urbano It was in the mid-1980’s that I would meet the finest man I’ve ever known. I didn’t know it at the outset but when Gene Kapp and I met in Norfolk at WTKR-TV, a forty-year friendship would began innocently enough over...
10 months ago • 16 min read
Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud. Here we go. February 2025 This edition is all LOVE SONGS ***************************************************** For the Love of You - Isley Brothers This song was recorded by the 5 Isley Brothers in 1975 on an album entitled, "The Heat is On." This is the extended mix version which runs 20 minutes. The song was also recorded by Whitney Houston, Regina Belle and Harold Melvin &...
11 months ago • 5 min read
Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud. Here we go. January 2025 ***************************************************** HEROES The Hero we are profiling this month is SAM WORLEY. I met Sam ten years ago at a local government conference in Hershey, PA. There was a little time before the conference began, so I took a walk to see some of the other booths and bumped into Sam. Our conversation flowed easily. He was 93...
12 months ago • 9 min read
Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud. Here we go. December 2024 ***************************************************** HEROES The Hero we are profiling this month is DACK AXSELLE. Dack Axselle - October 1984 I met Dack when he was 8 years old and the cutest little bugger. Little did I know that he would become a source of inspiration for my entire life. Sometimes a hero comes into your life in an unexpected and...
about 1 year ago • 13 min read
Welcome to the SALections! We hope you find this newsletter inspiring and just maybe it will make you laugh out loud. Here we go. November 2024 ***************************************************** HEROES The Hero we are profiling this month is ED HUGHES. Sometimes we meet people who have an everlasting affect on your life, who are real life, real time heroes for just being themselves and by being real, they are larger than life years after they are gone. For me that is Ed Hughes. Ed was a...
about 1 year ago • 13 min read