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• My 50th Wedding Anniversary By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on January 20, 2011.

  I survived a lose-lose situation recently.
  To mark my 50th wedding anniversary, my wife, Sandy and I booked a 12-day Greece-Egypt-Turkey cruise.
  Changing airplanes at the Frankford Germany Airport, I tripped and fell.
  I landed on my knees and hands.
  I knew there was slight damage to my knees, as there was a trickle of blood.

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• Philadelphia Area Marketing Business Recognized For 50th Anniv. By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on January 20, 2011.

  The Lower Merion Township Board of Commissioners has recognized a Philadelphia-area marketing business for its 50th anniversary.
  American Advertising Services, located at 29 Bala Avenue, in Bala Cynwyd, PA and its founder, Joseph H. Ball, who continues as American’s CEO received an “Official Commendation” plaque recently from the commission.

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• A Near-Death Experience By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on January 20, 2011.

  I think I know what death is. I had a “near-death” experience.
  It was nothing like the recollections of the people featured recently in the Inquirer by staff writer Faye Flan. Those people told of happy near-death experiences involving light, flowers, music and even a beautiful male angel. T’aint so, from one who knows (or so thinks).
  My experience came several days after an emergency gall bladder operation.

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• A Game To Forget / A Moment To Remember By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on January 20, 2011.

  My soon-to-be 13 year-old grandson, Max Meyers, is big on ice hockey.
  He’s a player. More so, he is a Goalie.
  He is the starting goalie on an organized Montgomery County, Pa., team, “The Bulldogs”.
  It is within an established league: Uniforms, Practice, Scheduled Games and Play Offs.
  He is so into it.

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• Family Bonding Via Memories By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on January 20, 2011.

  I had a watermark, one of those special, round-number birthdays recently.
  I don’t give the number.
  My wife Sandy, instructed me, “Don’t tell your age!”
  As to “why not,” she referred to a friend of a friend who was part of a bridge group for many years. A regular member.
  One day the bridge partners were invited to her birthday — a BIG number. They never knew her age. Now they did.

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• Learning – -For Business & Life By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on January 20, 2011.

  Personal Thoughts…An Open Diary Learning- -For Business & Life By: Joe Ball This time of year we interview recent graduates seeking starting positions in what we do: Publishing. Broadcasting. Event Planning. And virtually all aspects of Advertising & Marketing. I often volunteer to them lessons I have learned from being in business for many decades. Recently, I decided to broadcast

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• To Write A Book- -And Never Do It? By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on January 19, 2011.

  I’ve been thinking about writing a book.
  Thinking about it.
  Have doubts I’ll ever get to it.
  I have made notes, many of them. On scrap paper. On “Things To Do Today” note paper. Memos to myself. And daily, diary entries.

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• An Obituary … (Somewhat Unusual) By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on January 23, 2008.

  Personal Thoughts … An Open Diary An Obituary … (Somewhat Unusual) By: Joe Ball There was a death in my immediate family recently. It ended a close relationship of over 11 years. My car died. My Mercury Grand Marquis, which joined my household in April 1998, died suddenly. No warning. No sputtering. Just dead. What turned out to be my

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• LM Honors Joe Ball for Five Decades in a Business He Loves By: Joe Ball, Publisher

  Published on November 9, 2006.

  Although he has been working for a half-century as founder and CEO of American Advertising Services, Joseph Ball said he feels like he hasn’t worked at all. “I didn’t work a day in 50 years because I loved every minute of it,” said Ball of Penn Valley. “I believe in advertising, I sincerely do.” By Melissa Steven Although he has

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