Walter Russell earned Fish of the Week for his personal-best

Walter Russell epitomizes one affect of fishing throughout the pandemic: Many are catching personal-bests at more than a few ranges. For Russell, it used to be a 25-inch, 6.5-pound largemouth bass stuck round midday remaining Thursday on an evening crawler from shore at Lake Zurich. “I have been fishing my whole life and this was definitely my personal best for a largemouth bass,’’ he emailed. “Our family has been spending most of the days this summer fishing as a way to be outdoors and social distance.” A large number of this is going round. FOTW, the birthday party of huge fish and their tales (the tales topic, as this one presentations) round Chicago fishing, runs Wednesdays within the Sun-Times. Submit

Walter Mercado useless: Iconic Puerto Rican astrologer dies at

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Television astrologer Walter Mercado, whose flamboyant persona made him a star in Latin media and a cherished icon for homosexual individuals in a lot of the Spanish-speaking world, has died. He was 88. Mercado was identified all through Latin American for the melodrama of his day by day horoscopes, delivered on internationally broadcast networks similar to Univision with an exaggerated trilling of the “r.” He favored colourful brocaded capes and large gemstone rings, which he flashed whereas pointing at viewers. Mercado by no means publicly mentioned his sexual orientation however his display screen presence was a supply of consolation for many individuals in lesbian, homosexual, bisexual and transsexual communities all through