At age 86, an inconvenienced Ruth battles suburb.(News)

From: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) | Date: July 26, 2007 | Copyright information

Byline: Burt Constable

For her 86th birthday today, Ruth Molenkamp probably could use someone to clean her house in Rolling Meadows, pull those 5-foot thistles, mow her yard, fix her sheds, kill the fruit flies in her kitchen, pick up clutter, and miraculously find a buyer for her husband's inventory of old inventions that include "Hank's Ladder Stabilizer" and a steam-powered contraption designed to clean a smoker's pipe.

But her birthday probably will be just another day.

"The only birthday worth celebrating was the one when I was born," Ruth says. "And even then, ...

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