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« Reply #225 on: November 29, 2005, 09:13:00 PM »
Dear lord, how old is she?
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« Reply #226 on: November 29, 2005, 10:05:00 PM »
I know a little about Teen Challenge. A lot of it does sound an awful lot like a Seed/Straight type program. But it's a lot more God based. And they do take adults under court order. I know of a guy probably in his late 30's who just did a turn through there around a year or so ago. Dunno if he'll be willing to talk about it or not, but I'm trying.

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« Reply #227 on: December 01, 2005, 01:16:00 AM »
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On 2005-11-29 18:13:00, NOT12NOW wrote:

"Dear lord, how old is she?"

We met in AA when she was 22. She is now 27. We were engaged to be married for a time have never really stopped loving each other though I fear what her being in this program will mean for us I am trying to turn it over to Gods will. I know she needed help that AA wasn't providing and I want her to get that help. I just don't know if this is the path to what she is seeking. The sense of loss is overwhelming. Even when we have been apart she remained my very best friend. I am not allowed to have any contact with her and I don't know how long she will be gone. She did go into this voluntarily but that has been only a small comfort for me.
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« Reply #228 on: December 01, 2005, 01:26:00 AM »
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On 2005-11-29 19:05:00, Antigen wrote:

"I know a little about Teen Challenge. A lot of it does sound an awful lot like a Seed/Straight type program. But it's a lot more God based. And they do take adults under court order. I know of a guy probably in his late 30's who just did a turn through there around a year or so ago. Dunno if he'll be willing to talk about it or not, but I'm trying.

It has ever been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues

--Abraham Lincoln


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Thanks Ginger. I appreciate your help. I know she needed help. I honestly think she has Borderline Personally Disorder. At least she has every symptom which while it didn't diminish my feelings for her it made things very hard sometimes. Doesn't change how much I miss her. Has anybody here read "A Million Little Pieces" and "My friend Leornard" by James Frey? Great books on one mans recovery by the way. His description of his loss of Lili describes well the feelings I've been experiencing. I guess some good has come of it because I have started working on myself again and I needed to do that. Trust me on this.
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« Reply #229 on: December 03, 2005, 04:46:00 PM »
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Yes and I saw some of the changes so I do understand some of the strong feelings people have. Just out of curiosity does anybody here know if Teen Challenge is based on the same model that these other programs were?  "


I called teen challenge several years ago and was told they have different locations that use different techniques, with some of the locations lock-down theraputic community based.

Ie:  yes they use similar techniques in at least some of the treatment centers.
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« Reply #230 on: December 03, 2005, 04:47:00 PM »
oops, that was me.
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« Reply #231 on: December 03, 2005, 11:39:00 PM »
junkies and freaks throughout the land, join our family hand in hand...
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« Reply #232 on: December 03, 2005, 11:45:00 PM »
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Yes and I saw some of the changes so I do understand some of the strong feelings people have. Just out of curiosity does anybody here know if Teen Challenge is based on the same model that these other programs were?  "




I called teen challenge several years ago and was told they have different locations that use different techniques, with some of the locations lock-down theraputic community based.



Ie:  yes they use similar techniques in at least some of the treatment centers.



 
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thanks for the information. God help her.
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« Reply #233 on: January 05, 2006, 08:59:00 AM »
:cry2:  :cry2:
Skipper Chuck died yesterday.

Whatever became of Banjo Billy?  I was on his show with my kindergartin class.

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« Reply #234 on: January 05, 2006, 10:39:00 AM »
Sorry to hear about Skipper Chuck's passing. What was the cause of death? Too much zinc?
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« Reply #235 on: January 05, 2006, 12:04:00 PM »
okay Thom, you gonna have to explain that joke.
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« Reply #236 on: January 05, 2006, 04:50:00 PM »
Posted on Thu, Jan. 05, 2006
CHUCK ZINK | 1925-2006TV's Skipper Chuck gave kids lots of peace, love, happinessChuck Zink, 80, who delighted countless South Florida children for decades as Skipper Chuck on the Popeye Playhouse, has died.BY ROBERT L. STEINBACKrsteinback@MiamiHerald.comChuck D. Zink, known to hundreds of thousands of South Florida baby-boom kids as ''Skipper Chuck,'' has wished his fans ''Peace, love and happiness'' for the last time.
Zink's death was announced Wednesday by the Boca Raton hospice where he spent the last weeks of his life following a stroke. He was 80.
A lifelong entertainer, Zink was best known as the spirited host of the Popeye Playhouse morning children's show on the old WTVJ for nearly a quarter-century, from 1957 to 1979. At one point, the waiting list to be one of the 30 to 35 kids who got to enjoy the show live in the studio reached two years. In 1972, an estimated 49 percent of Dade, Broward and Monroe county televisions regularly tuned to his 7 a.m. broadcast.
In a Miami Herald Tropic interview that year, Zink attributed his success to his genuineness.
''You sure as heck will never last in the kid business being anybody but yourself,'' he told writer Robert A. Bonin. ``Kids can spot a phony a mile away -- and they'll tell you if you are.
''I'm a guy I hope these kids like to look up to,'' he said. ``I suppose as Skipper Chuck I can be sort of a hero to them -- and we all need a hero. I've never tried to be a father image or a big brother. I've just tried to be me.''
OTHER VENTURES
Although rare was the day in Zink's life that he wasn't greeted by ''There's Skipper Chuck!'' children were not his only audience.
Zink hosted Miss Universe pageants for CBS. He also hosted 22 King Orange parades, 24 local broadcasts of Labor Day telethons for Muscular Dystrophy and several quiz shows and travel programs.
He even once hosted the Orange Bowl Parade on the radio after he was booted from the annual TV broadcast to make way for younger talent, recalled his co-host at the time, current WLRN/Miami Herald News anchor Rhonda Victor.
''There was an outcry from a lot of traditionalists who were unhappy to see Chuck go,'' said Victor, who twice as a child was among the Popeye Playhouse studio audience. ``WKAT, thinking it could capitalize, decided Chuck and I could co-host that Orange Bowl Parade on radio. It wasn't the best executed plan ever, but we had a ball.''
Listeners to WJNA 640-AM heard Zink as disc jockey of his daily Lunch Bunch radio program featuring music of the '40s and '50s, which he hosted until last autumn. And in recent years he was a familiar television pitchman for the Century Village communities.
He was always brimming with new concepts to pursue, said Doris Bernhardt, who produced Zink's children's show in its later years and worked with him on many other projects.
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''Right up until the last time I saw him around Labor Day, he was planning three different shows that he wanted to do, and I was putting the proposals together for him,'' Bernhardt said. ''
Zink, an only child, was born in South Bend, Ind., and grew up as a farm boy. He spent five years in the Marines and served as a sergeant in the South Pacific during World War II, receiving a Bronze Star for bravery. He later worked on radio in Pennsylvania, from disc jockey to program director, before becoming a television newscaster.
He came to Miami in 1956 and began as a weatherman for WTVJ. The following year, he was asked to write and host a children's program.
23-YEAR RUN
''It started out and I thought it might last six months, and it went 23 years,'' he said in an interview with Miami-Dade TV in the late 1990s.
As Skipper Chuck, Zink employed occasional set-pieces, but mostly he and his longtime sidekick Scrubby, played by Richard Andrews, followed an ad-lib format. Zink opened each show with a three-finger wave, and another standby was the song, Peace, Love and Happiness. The live audience was filled with children who sat in bleachers, cheered, played games and chatted with Skipper Chuck, Scrubby and the show's other characters.
''It was completely spontaneous; we'd get together an hour, half hour before the show,'' said Andrews, who joined the show in 1962 in addition to his duties in the WTVJ mailroom. Andrews also was the voice of Limbo the Lion and other puppet characters.
Zink ''was wonderful to work with,'' Andrews said. ``We were like, symbiotic. I would know what he was going to say and vice versa. I don't know how. We're not socially close. But we worked together very well. It was easy.''
Doreen Ernst was 9 years old when she won a role on Popeye Playhouse as Annie Orphanic, which she played for the next 11 years. Her fond memories of the show include the 80 to 150 public appearances Zink and the cast would make each year for children in hospitals, clinics and orphanages.
''Never in my life have I ever met anybody who was as good with kids as Chuck,'' said Ernst, who is Bernhardt's daughter.
MORAL STAND
Zink didn't claim to be broadcasting educational television. ''I'm not an educator. I'm an entertainer,'' he once said. But Zink took a courageous moral stand in the 1950s when he insisted that in-studio audiences for Skipper Chuck's Popeye Playhouse no longer be racially segregated. This was unprecedented for a southern TV station of the day -- which earned Zink national praise.
In its early days, Zink said, the playhouse had been playing either to all-black or all-white studio audiences. One day, he heard the program's reservation-taker asking a phone caller, ''Are you colored?'' Incredulous, he ordered the person ``never to ask that question again.''
The show went through ''pure hell'' making the policy stick, Zink said.
The show also went on to win two regional Emmy awards.
`HAPPY GUY'
Zink and his wife, Clarice, never had children, a fact that Zink said gave him ``greater patience with kids than if they were my own.''
At the end of the interview with Miami-Dade TV, which was filmed when he was 72, Zink reflected on his lengthy career and broad appeal.
''Nobody could have had a better life than I did,'' Zink said, his impish grin filling the television screen. 'I get up every day and I just say `Thank you, God. I don't know why, but you made me a very happy guy.' ''
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« Reply #237 on: January 06, 2006, 12:06:00 AM »
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On 2006-01-05 07:39:00, Thom wrote:

"Sorry to hear about Skipper Chuck's passing. What was the cause of death? Too much zinc?"


No, that was his girlfriend, Mrs. Finklestein.

A multitude of laws in a country is like a great number of physicians, a sign of weakness and malady.


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« Reply #238 on: January 06, 2006, 12:11:00 AM »
Skipper Chuck's Popeye Playhouse - eventually renamed The Skipper Chuck Show because the Popeye cartoons were deemed to be "too violent" - was a fixture in South Florida for 20+ years.  I watched it in the 60's and early 70's as a kid.  

There was Skipper Chuck (Chuck Zinc), Scrubby the klutzy janitor, Little Annie Orphanik, Sargeant Dick Cargill (real policeman who'd come in and talk about safety), HoHo the Clown (yes, a real clown who did in fact commit suicide in the early 70's - in an odd coincidence I met his son and knew him for a couple of years when I was 15) and more.  Of course, there was the cartoon "windmill" - Skipper Chuck would tell the kids in the audience (and at home) to blow to make it spin which would start the cartoons.  The show was locally produced in Miami.

I wish I knew what happened to the people I mentioned.  Skipper Chuck went on to be a national co-chair of the Muscular Dystrophy Association and in what I call somewhat jokingly a "cradle to grave" policy, he went from entertaining kids to being the spokesman for Century Village, properties for senior citizens.  Chuck just passed away a couple of days ago at age 80 from a stroke he suffered in late December, but was working almost to the end.

We also had Banjo Billy's FunBoat on the ABC affiliate, another local show.  I believe the boat's captain (Captain Jack) was played by Jack Metzger.  I remember the banjo, the cheap boat set and the captain but not much more.  

Of course, after Skipper Chuck was Captain Kangaroo!  Ah...I miss those fun-loving days!

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« Reply #239 on: January 06, 2006, 12:26:00 AM »
[ This Message was edited by: Thom on 2006-01-05 21:36 ]
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