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Grandma is a centerfold: Rest home bares all for calendar

AKRON

The stars of a charity calendar are in their 80s and 90s, but that didn’t stop the men and women from an assisted-living facility in Ohio from showing a little skin.

Miss March, who’s 88, wears a green top hat and not much else in the calendar from Pleasant Pointe Assisted Living, and the centerfolds are two women in their 90s who seem to be playing poker with strategically placed oversize cards.

Flip to February and you’ll see a smiling, white-haired Dottie Rutter soaking in a bubble bath and flower petals, with chocolates and lingerie nearby.

At 87, she’s the same age as the youngest of three models standing in the cover photo, where their bare feet and shoulders peek out from behind a banner they hold advertising the Barberton facility and the affiliated Pleasant View Health Care Center.

It reads: “Pleasant View, Pleasant Pointe.”

Another resident in the calendar is covered only by a large exercise ball.

Administrator Teresa Morris told The Akron Beacon Journal that the residents clearly were having fun the morning the photos were taken.

“The residents were like 20-year-olds — giggling, and having the time of their lives,” Morris said. “I do not believe the elderly should just sit around staring at each other. I want a fun environment where I challenge them and they challenge me.”

Money from the $12 calendars goes toward a fund providing shoes for children in the schools in Barberton.

Officials: Pizza-shop burglar steals 100 candy bars, cookies

PLEASANTVILLE, Pa.

State police in northwestern Pennsylvania are looking for a burglar who just may have some cavities — or, at least, a sweet tooth.

Troopers from Franklin say whoever broke into Corky’s Pizza Shop overnight Friday into Saturday stole more than 100 chocolate bars and eight chocolate-chip cookies.

The shop is in the tiny borough of Pleasantville in Armstrong County, about 90 miles northeast of Pittsburgh. The candy bars were larger fundraiser-type bars from Daffin’s Candy in Sharon.

Man pays fine, avoids jail for missing jury duty 11 times

SOMERSET, Pa.

A western Pennsylvania man has paid a $500 fine to avoid being jailed for missing jury duty 11 times in the past two years.

Somerset County Judge D. Gregory Geary told 32-year-old Owen Fazenbaker III that he’d spend a week in jail if he didn’t pay the fine. Fazenbaker paid Friday.

Fazenbaker was arrested March 23 when he showed up at the courthouse for a child- custody hearing, and deputy sheriffs arrested him on a warrant for missing jury duty.

Under the law, the judge could have sentenced Fazenbaker to a $500 fine and 10 days in jail for each time he had missed jury duty.

Associated Press