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THE ENQUIRER LOCAL NEWS FN WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 20. 2004 C5 Straus: 100 years young soon PEOPLES JL COMMUNITY BANK Our tiered premium savings account, with an APY of 2.5 is accessable by an ATM card with no withdrawal penalrW I ill Stop by our 13 nearby locftiis, olir website at www.pcbionline.rop or call 513.870.3530 for all our" competitive deposit products! UNDER FDIG His favorite: Rice pudding. Exercise. "When he's not volunteering," his wife noted, "John rides a stationary bike 30 minutes a day." Stay healthy.

"I don't have arthritis. I've never had a cataract," Straus said. He only takes two medications, a blood thinner and a baby aspirin. Honor your parents. "My mother lived 98 years and 10 months.

People tell me: 'Living long is in your I tell them: 'I don't wear jean's." Keep the customer satisfied. With every purchase, everyone gets a gift, a zinger or a compliment To the doctor buying one stamp, Straus asked: "Just one? Can you afford it?" To nurse Chris Holmes, who told Straus she was a 31-year veteran at Jewish, he remarked: "Can't be. You're just a teenager." Holmes laughed and stepped back to gaze in wonder at the soon to be 100-year-old man. "He's amazing," she said, Tve never seen him have a sad day." Accentuate the positive. Margo and John Straus got married in their native Cologne, Germany, on Jan.

8 and 11, 1939. The first was before a swastika-wearing government toady. A rabbi performed the second ceremony. They tried to leave the country for Australia and Trinidad. No deal.

They got on a waiting list to come to America, but their numbers never came up. Their luck changed, Margo said, "on Aug. 27, when we left for England." Five days later, Hitler launched World War II. During the war, they had no inkling about the horrors Hitler created with the Holocaust "We only learned about the Holocaust after the war," Margo said. "We never thought we would never see our family again.

We lost 80 family members, cousins, aunts, uncles. And my mother." In England, they found work as domestics. Straus scrubbed floors on his hands and knees. He broke "chunks of coal into little pieces. I had never done work like that" Someone else might have found that work demeaning.

But not John Straus. "It didn't bother me," he said. "When I came home, I took a bath and I was still the same person." They had bad days in Nazi Germany before the war and in England during the war. When they came to America, they struggled to make ends meet and raise a family on $35 a week. Through it all, John told his wife what he believed in his heart: "Tomorrow will be better." E-mail cradelenquirer.com From Page CI He started volunteering I was young and pretty" at Jewish and Bethesda North.

He's donated 11,387 hours of his time. "I've never met a more selfless man," said Karen Calligandes, Jewish Hospital's gift shop manager. "I hope his spirit for helping others and bringing a smile rubs off on the young people who come into the store." Ever the quipster, Straus has puckish advice for anyone wanting to reach the century mark: Stand on your own two feet "I do," he said, standing behind the gift shop's cash register. "And after all these years, they're not flat" Stick around for the long haul. He's been married to Mar-go, 88, his one and only love, for 65 years.

"It was love at first sight When I asked her if it was love at first sight for her, she didn't say yes, she didn't say no. After 65 years, I figure it's yes." Eat right "I never take vitamins," he said. "I just eat whatever she cooks," he added with a nod to Margo. "John eats lots of vegetables," she said. "But he is a meat-and-po-tatoes man." With a sweet tooth.

"I can't keep him away from sugar," she sighed. "To him a meal isn't complete without dessert." ouuuuie iiu us today, for an i installation tomorrow! (guaranteed on most straight-run models) It. Hug: Photo turns into television ad for Bush From Page CI "You could see those words hit him so hard so suddenly." The president drew the girl to his chest and held her. Lynn Faulkner held his new digital camera in the air and snapped one frame in the hopes of getting a picture for the family photo album. "It wouldn't have surprised me if I had gotten his shoes or the sky or something else," he said.

But the candid photo turned out clearly. The picture was sent to a few family friends, spread wildly over the Internet and ran in The Enquirer. That's how the Progress for America people found the family and approached them this summer. "People can immediately see in that photo an authenticness," Lynn Faulkner said. "I think that's why the image continues to travel." The Faulkners along with Prince agreed to be part of the ad shot at their Mason home in late July.

"Brian (McCabe, the group's president) told us they were really excited about sending positive messages instead of ending on a negative note," Faulkner said. In the ad, Ashley Faulkner says: "He's the most powerful man in the world, and all he wants to do is make sure I'm safe, that I'm OK." A new TV ad for Democratic candidate John Kerry also uses the relative of someone who lost a loved one in the terrorist attacks. Kristen Breitweiser, whose husband was killed on Sept. 11, says: "I want to look in my daughter's eyes and know that she is safe, and that is why I am voting for John Kerry." Faulkner said he wrestled with potentially politicizing his daughter's life, but two things made him feel better about the commercial. One is that his wife had been a You'll Feel the Difference! 513-469-2990 Access of Cincinnati rm Black journalists' group honors veterans and students Urgent Alert for Vioxx Users: Are you a Vioxx victim? 'u If you or a family member took Vioxx for 18 months or longer and had a stroke or heart attack, you may be entitled to compensation by filing a lawsuit against the drug's manufacturer.

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"This is something she would have approved of," Faulkner said. Also, he doesn't feel the ad is very political. "We're not attacking anyone, saying Kerry is a bum or whatever. We're just saying this is what happened to us, and I don't think that's terribly political," he said. The teenager also had final say.

about whether to do the commercial. "Because she is an informed, politically astute young woman it was up to her," her father said. Ashley decided she wanted people to know her story. "Most people haven't had the opportunity to stand 18 inches from George Bush and speak to him and form an opinion, and we did," Lynn Faulkner said. "What we're trying to do is tell anyone who is interested what our feelings were.

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