BJ retirees stuck on 7

For the second straight month, only 7 BJ retirees showed up at Papa Joe's for the monthly lunch/chat.

The newsroom almost had a majority, with Tim Hayes, Sandy Levenson and John Olesky, but that's because only Cal Deshong, Carl Nelson, Gene McClellan and Al Hunsicker showed up from composing.

And if you count Karen Chuparkoff Lefton, once in the newsroom before she began helping what's left of the BJ on the legal front, it was a tie. Karen was elsewhere in the restaurant and noticed a few BJ retirees heading into their room, so she stopped by briefly to say "Hi!"

Since Tom Moore and Bob Pell weren't there, there are no photos.

In December, 18 showed up at Papa Joe's. Not any more.