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Hello, all charity of your choice – with no cost to you or any

change in pricing, shipping, returns, etc. for their cus-
It’s starting to feel more like fall, isn’t it? More dark- tomers. To learn more and to sign up, go to
ness, less daylight; a chill in the air; leaves begin- www.smile.amazon.com. As part of the sign-up pro-
ning to turn to fall colors (and fall from their trees) cess, you will be asked to designate a charity to re-
and a fresh crop of apples at nearby orchards – ceive the credits resulting from future orders. I rec-
waiting for us to come pick them (or at least buy ommend “Lake County Honor Flight”, the local or-
ones the orchard has picked for us). Halloween will ganization that arranges for weekend “honor” visits
be different for many this year, as trick-or-treat is to our nation’s capital for older veterans, but you can
being discouraged because of our COVID-19 pan- select any charity that is important to you. (You may
demic, but late that night we will switch back to Cen- remember that J.J. was an honoree on one of their
tral Standard Time, as usual. flights to Washington not too long ago.) Now would
be a good time to take advantage of this program,
“Calendar creep” has become more prevalent in re- before you begin any holiday shopping!
cent years, as we approached major year-end holi-
days. Although I haven’t seen many ads or articles Now for some tech news… Roku is in the process of
about Thanksgiving yet, I was startled to see artifi- updating their operating system and introducing sev-
cial Christmas trees on display at Sam’s Club the eral new products and offerings. If you use Roku
other day. Seems like they used to wait until at products/services to assist in entertainment stream-
least Halloween before they began pushing Christ- ing (or might consider doing so), here is a link to a
mas…. reviewgeek article which discusses this topic in
more detail: https://www.reviewgeek.com/55271/roku
Meanwhile, I just saw an article in a reviewgeek -announces-the-130-streambar-and-updated-ultra-
newsletter about this year’s Amazon Prime Day set-top-box/ .
sales event. Turns out that instead of holding it in
July, as usual, Amazon has decided to reschedule Stay safe, enjoy the fall colors and be sure to join our
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for October 13 and 14 – perhaps to take ad- next LCACE Zoom meeting at 1:00pm on Saturday,
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vantage of the fact that many major retailers have October 10 , for a lively Q&A session. Zoom invita-
apparently announced that they will not be partici- tions will be sent to your email inbox on Friday, Octo-
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pating in Black Friday and/or Cyber Monday sales ber 2 , with a follow-up reminder on Friday, October
this year – while still allowing themselves plenty of 9 . Simply click on the embedded email link a few
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time to process and ship any resulting orders before minutes before 1:00 pm on October 10 to join our
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the year-end holidays. Here’s a link to the newslet- meeting. Hope to see you then!
ter article: https://www.reviewgeek.com/55257/prime
-day-is-october-13-14-will-feature-amazons-best- Phil
deals-of-the-year/ .

(Speaking of allowing plenty of time for orders to be
processed and shipped, note that some retailers are
already behind in filling orders - no doubt because of
increased online orders as shoppers shun brick and
mortar retail stores to avoid COVID-19 exposure.
As you plan holiday shopping, best to allow lots of
time for deliveries – especially as we get closer to
the holidays.)

And, speaking of Amazon, have you signed up yet
for Amazon Smile? As a reminder, this is an Ama-
zon program designed to help charitable organiza-
tions across the country. Amazon will contribute
0.5% of the amount you spend on every order to a

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