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I'm making short work of my column this week: The flu bug has struck. At least it decided to arrive the week before Thanksgiving! I've got my fingers crossed it will be well gone by the big turkey day.

Radio Shack has moved from Country Club Plaza in Belleville to a new spot in Belleville Crossing on Illinois 15.

Q. I have enclosed a sample of the condition that developed on all of our tomatoes this summer. The tomatoes were a very nice size and when they started to ripen they would develop this condition. Some of them would be nearly ripe when it hit. We did not use any of our tomatoes because we were afraid we would get sick. Do you have an answer?

Q. One of my friends, who is slightly overweight, talks and talks and talks about it like no one else has ever gained a pound. Then she's always talking about how she is going to go on a diet, asks everyone what they do to stay "thin," where they go exercise, what machines they use and on and on. Then she never does any of it for herself.

It didn't matter what we were playing -- baseball, freeze tag, Red Rover. If we had to choose sides, we'd get out the Big Bat.

On Monday, Nov. 2, I saw my first hint of the holidays.

Q. What's the scoop on J.C. Corcoran's departure from KIHT-FM (K-HITS)? Just economic or does it go deeper?

On Thursday morning, a crew of about a dozen Belleville firefighters descended on the home of Jon Brough.