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A challenge: who can come up with a punchline for "How many people with Parkinson's does it take to package a pack of pennies?" This Pennies for Parkinson's project is a great one for children. They don't see it as "child labor" to sort, roll up and count the change. My kingdom for a kid! but you can't hurry love, and my son and his bride won't be producing a penny-packer for us for a while. The coin-sorter gadgets from various stores like Brookstone are flimsy. With some patience, you can make them work and mesmerize all your friends. In Los Angeles, Ralph's, one of the grocery chain stores, has "Coin-o-Matic" machines. I fed it all the change that Carol, Kim and Kathleen had charmed out of the Irvine PD Symposium audience. What a shakedown! It was a bundle! in just a few minutes, out popped a voucher for $102.78! which the cashier turned into cash for us to add to the $29 in bills the audience had given, then for us to turn into a check and then to mail to the Parkinson's Alliance in Washington, Do you have access to sorting machines in your town too? Mary Yost,51/diag.92, proud owner of a plump pink Parkinsons Piggybank, festooned with tulip stickers and weighed down inside with heavy metal -- all the more to love, m'dear. [log in to unmask]