I ran out of Tylenol last week and went looking to purchase another bottle. The act turned out to be a game of “hide and seek.”

The first store I visited had none on their shelves. I just thought they had sold out and went somewhere else only to discover the shelves were empty of the product there as well. In the third store I visited, I found one bottle on the shelf and as I purchased it inquired as to why the product was so scarce around town. A store clerk informed me that certain “lots” of the product had been recalled by the company.

That same night a news report on the recall aired on the national news. It seemed the product itself was good, but there was a “musty” smell to some of the bottles that had consumers complaining. Mine had no noticeable aroma when I opened it.

A recall is not something new for Tylenol. There have been several through the years. Thankfully, this last one seems to have been for something minor rather than for product tampering or an inferior product.

At least the company seems willing to face the problem once it was discovered and do whatever was necessary to insure the safety of its consumers.

Here it comes – BP oil company could take a lesson from them!!!

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Happy birthday this week to: Jasper McKinzie, David Brown, Matt Bazemore, Megan Bazemore, Seth Linder, Zadell Wilson, Ansley Burke, Jackie D. Glisson, Chris Adams and Sandy Marie Reid.

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Celebrating wedding anniversaries are: Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Dickey and Mr. and Mrs. Buford Williams.

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Military Active Duty List: PFC E3 Jeremy Johnson, U.S. Army, 59th Quartermaster Company, Ft. Carson, Colorado;

Cpl. Adam T. Lanier, 2nd Marine Division, 2nd Bt. 6th Marine Regiment, Weapons Co., Scout Sniper Platoon, Camp Lejeune, N.C.; E-4 Sr. Airman Roy Davis, U.S. Air Force, RAF Molesworth, United Kingdom; Cpl. Patrick Barnette, U.S. Marines, 29 Palms, California; Sgt. Adam Demshar, 44th Signal Battalion, Baghdad, Iraq; Cpl. Lee Ogden, U.S. Marines, Camp Pendleton, CA; E5 Petty Officer 2nd Class Eric B. Kelsey, U.S. Navy, NSA Naples, Italy; Senior Airman Charles F. Woods, Moody Air Force Base, Valdosta, GA; Stuart Burrus, U.S. Air Force, Osan AFB, Korea; SPC 4 Travis D. Motes, 1st Calvary Division, T. Hood, Texas; Capt. Donald Slade Burke, 735th Air Mobility Squadron Detachment 1 Commander, Richmond Royal Australian AFB, Richmond, Australia; Staff Sgt. Gilbert C. Sheppard III, 48th Brigade, 118th Field Artillery, Iraq; Petty Officer 3rd Class Jamie A. Yager, U.S. Navy, Marine Corps Base Hawaii; Chief Petty Officer Andy D. Crosby, U.S. Navy, Elroy Destroyer, Norfolk, Va.; Stephanie Crosby, R.N., U.S. Navy, Lafayette Destroyer; Jimmy Cooper, U.S. Army National Guard, 878th Engineering Battalion-Augusta, Persian Gulf ; 1st Lt. J.R. Taylor, 25th Infantry Division, Schafield Barracks, Oahu, Honolulu, Hawaii; SPC. Daniel Stuart, 18th MEDCOM, 121 General Hospital, Seoul, Korea; Jeffrey Sweat, U.S. Navy, USS Kauffman, MM3 59/E-Division, A-Gang, Norfolk, Va.;

Cpl. Larry Lamont Clark, U.S. Marine Corp, 2nd Marine Expeditionary Force, Camp Lejeune, N.C. Baghdad, Iraq; Khan Young, U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Kitty Hawk, Persian Gulf; Robert Milton Jr., E-3, U.S. Army, Ft. Stewart, Hinesville, Ga., Mission Kuwait; Arnold R. Mosley, 2nd Lt., U.S. Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas; and Debra A. Mosley, Tech. Sgt., U.S. Air Force, Randolph AFB, Texas; and SPC Charles “C.J.” Amerson, U.S. Army, Louisiana.