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CONTENTS
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Lifestyle
Now & Then
Health
Questions to Ask When Your Doctor Prescribes a New Medicine
Wellness
Exercise and Arthritis
Local Feature
Happy Mothers Day, Mom!
Local Feature
Captain Bill Calmly Cruises Through Life
Finance
Explaining Financial Plans and Why You Need One
Travel
3 Memorial Day Weekend Travel Tips
Looking Back
Secrets of a World War Two Scrapbook
Local Feature
Stone Academy Opens Underground Railroad Exhibit
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Recipes Games & Puzzles Did you know? Crossword & Sudoku Answers Wordsearch Events The Last Word
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“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” – Vincent Willem van Gogh –
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Health
questions
to ask
when your doctor
prescribes a new
medicine Though few people may want to take medicine each day, prescription drugs prolong lives and help people manage conditions that might otherwise make it difficult to live life to the fullest. A 2017 survey from Consumer Reports found that 55 percent of people living in the United States take a prescription medicine. The survey also found that those who take prescription drugs use an average of four such medications. That figure might alarm some people, especially aging seniors whose bodies might be more susceptible to conditions that are often treated with medication. There’s no denying that prescription drugs can save lives. But patients have a right to explore their options when doctors prescribe them medications, and asking the right questions when doctors suggest medication can help men and women decide if prescription medicine is their best option. To help seniors make the best decisions regarding healthcare, the National Institute on Aging advises people to ask their physicians these questions when being prescribed a new medicine. • What is the name of the medicine, and why am I taking it? • Which medical condition does this medicine treat? • How many times a day should I take the medicine, and at what times should I take it? • If the prescription instructions say the medicine must be taken “four times a day,” does that mean four times in 24 hours or four times during the daytime?
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• How much medicine should I take? • Should I take the medicine on its own or with food? Should I avoid certain foods and beverages when taking this medicine? • How long will it take this medicine to work? • Will this medicine cause problems if I am taking other medicines? • Can I safely operate a motor vehicle while taking this medication? • What does “as needed” mean? • When should I stop taking the medicine? • What should I do if I forget to take my medicine? • Can I expect any side effects? What should I do if I have a problem? • Will I need a refill, and how do I arrange that? When discussing medications with a physician, it’s imperative that men and women be forthcoming about any other medicines they might be taking under the guidance of other doctors. In addition, men and women should tell their physicians about any over-the-counter medicines or vitamins and supplements they are taking. Sharing such information can prevent potentially serious complications from arising. Medicine saves lives every day. Smart patients can help medicine do its job by learning about their medications and discussing them openly and honestly with their physicians.
WELLNESS
Exercise and Arthritis Across the country, more than 50 million people are living with doctor-diagnosed arthritis. So says the Arthritis Foundation, which projects that figure will rise to 67 million by the year 2030. Simply put, arthritis is a significant problem, one that can not only affect a person’s quality of life, but also their pocketbook, as the Arthritis Foundation notes that woking-age men and women (those between the ages of 18 and 64) who contend with arthritis are less likely to be employed than people of the same age who do not have arthritis. Arthritis is not only bad for employees, but also for employers, as it accounts for $156 billion annually in lost wages and medical expenses. Exercise may be the last thing on many arthritis sufferers’ minds, but exercise can play a vital role in reducing the often painful symptoms associated with arthritis. Among its other benefits, exercise can strengthen the muscles around arthritic joints and help men and women maintain bone strength. In addition, the Mayo Clinic notes that lack of exercise can make joints feel more painful and stiff, as a sedentary lifestyle will ultimately contribute to putting more stress on joints. Upon being diagnosed with arthritis, patients should speak with their physicians about the best way to use exercise to combat and relieve their symptoms. Some patients may require physical therapy, while others might be able to work with their physicians to develop an exercise regimen that can help reduce the severity of their symptoms and any pain that accompanies those symptoms. The following are some types of exercises that figure to play a strong role in managing arthritis and improving quality of life. • Aerobic exercises: Low-impact aerobic exercises, such as walking and swimming, can help arthritis sufferers alleviate their symptoms and improve their overall health.
Arthritis sufferers who have not exercised in awhile because of their pain may have gained weight as a result, and aerobic exercise is a great way to shed extra pounds. Losing excess weight is a great way to make physical activity less taxing on your joints as well. • Range-of-motion: Range-of-motion exercises are typically simple and don’t take much time, but when done correctly, such exercises can be very effective at relieving the stiffness associated with arthritis. A physician or physical therapist might advise you to do range-of-motion exercises each day, and you may even need to do them a few times each day. Adhere to this advice, continuing to perform the exercises as long as your doctor or physical therapists deems them necessary. • Strength training: As previously noted, arthritis sufferers may feel as though lifting weights will only exacerbate their existing symptoms. But strength training will strengthen the muscles around the joints, providing more support for those joints and ultimately reducing symptoms of pain. Speak with your physician or physical therapist about appropriate strength-training activities and the importance of rest. If you experience any pain during strength-training sessions, stop immediately and report the pain to your physician. More information about managing arthritis can be found at www.arthritis.org.
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Local Feature
Happy
Mothers Day, Mom!
by Dan Paulun
It was Sunday, May 14, 1939— Mother’s Day—and Mrs. Feller, along with other members of her family, had traveled from Van Meter, Iowa, to Chicago’s Comiskey Park to watch her son, who played for the Cleveland Indians Major League Baseball team, in a game against the Chicago White Sox. Her son had arranged for his folks to sit in box seats on the first base side close to the field so that he could see them from the pitcher’s mound.
face just above her right eye. The impact broke Mrs. Feller’s glasses and opened up a deep cut. Bob Feller rushed to the stands to check on his mother, who was hurt and bleeding, but still conscious. “I felt sick,” Bob Feller later recalled. “I saw the police and ushers leading her out of the stands so they could take her to the hospital. There wasn’t anything I could do, so I went on pitching.” But, Bob was shaken up and he lost his control, walking several batters and giving up 3 runs in the inning. But he settled down and finished the game, winning it 9-4. Then Bob rushed to the hospital where his mother had received 6 stitches and was kept under observation for 2 days. “Mother looked up from the hospital bed, her face bruised and both eyes blackened, and she was still able to smile reassuringly,” Bob recalled. “She told me, ‘My head aches, Robert, but I’m all right. Now don’t go blaming yourself. It wasn’t your fault.’” “It was a one-in-a-million shot that my mother, while sitting in a crowd, would be struck by a foul ball resulting from a pitch I had made.”
Her son, Robert Feller, pitching for the Cleveland team, set
Robert William Andrew Feller (1918-2010), nicknamed “The Heater from Van Meter,” “Bullet Bob,” and “Rapid Robert,” played 18 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Cleveland Indians from 1936 to1941 and from 1945 to1956, interrupted only by a four-year engagement with
the White Sox batters down in the first two innings. In the third inning, with two men on base and two out, the White Sox batter Marv Owen hit a foul ball into the stands. Out of 28,000 fans, the ball hit Mrs. Feller in the
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the Navy. He signed with Cleveland for a bonus of a one dollar bill and autographed baseball (He bypassed the minor leagues). On July 7, 1936, when he was 17 years old, Bob struck out 8 Cardinal batters in 3 innings in an exhibition games. In his first full season (1937), Bob struck out 150 batters in 149 innings. On the season opening game of April 16, 1940, he pitched a no-hitter against the Chicago White Sox—the only no-hitter to be thrown on Opening Day in major league history. And on July 1, 1951, Bob became the first major league baseball pitcher in the 20th century to throw 3 career no-hitters. He was the first pitcher to win 24 games in a season before the age of 21, the first baseball player to get a franchise to agree to a share of game receipts when he was the starting pitcher for the Indians’ games, the first American professional athlete to enlist in what is considered World War II, and is credited with being the first baseball star to sign autographs at baseball memorabilia conventions. Bob shares the major league record of 12 career one-hitters with Nolan Ryan. He was ranked 36th on ’The Sporting News’ list of the 100 greatest baseball players and ”the greatest pitcher of his time.” Upon his retirement, Bob held the major league baseball record for most career walks (1,764), and a 20th century record for most walks in a season (208 in 1938). The Cleveland Indians retired Bob’s jersey number (19) on Dec. 27, 1956. Bob was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1962 and into the Ohio Baseball Hall of Fame in 1976. The Bob Feller Museum opened in Van Meter, Iowa, on June 10, 1995. Bob Feller died on Dec. 15, 2010, at the age of 92, in Cleveland, of complications from leukemia. In 2010, the “Cleveland Indians Man of the Year” was renamed the “Bob Feller Man of the Year Award.” For the entire 2011 season the Cleveland Indians players wore uniforms that had an outline of Bob’s pitching motion. A statue of Bob Feller stands outside of Progressive Field. Each year, American Legion Baseball presents the “Bob Feller Pitching Award” to the pitcher “with the most strikeouts in regional and national competition” (Bob played American Legion baseball before he was signed by Cleveland).
ball beat the motorcycle to the target by 3 feet (0.91 m). Bob’s pitch was calculated at that time to have reached 98.6 (158.7 km/h), and later 104 mph (167 km/h) using updated measuring methods. There is footage of Bob’s fastball being clocked by Army ordnance equipment (used to measure artillery shell velocity) and registering at 98.6 mph (158.7 km/h). He also threw the second fastest pitch ever officially recorded, at 107.6 mph (173.2 km/h), in a game in 1946. He wrote “Strikeout Story” and “How to Pitch.” Bucky Harris, a manager for an opposing team, once told his team how to bat against Bob Feller: “Go up and hit what you see. And if you don’t see anything, come on back.” Sources: Aylesworth, Thomas G. “The Kids.” World Almanac of Baseball. 1996 book, page 167. The Baseball Chronicle: Year by Year History of Major League Baseball. 2004 book. Pages 176, 185,188,189,200, 201, 240, 268 and 340. Nash, Bruce and Zullo, Allan. The Baseball Hall of Shame: The Best of Blooperstown. 2012 book. Pages 145-147 Wikipedia: Bob Feller
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Captain
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Calmly Cruises Through Life
by BEverly kerr
When you've been a captain for thirty-five years, navigating the waters is something you do with ease no matter the situation. William Page, called Captain Bill by those who know him best, has surrounded himself with life on or near the water for most of his life. Growing up in Zanesville, he lived close to the Muskingum River and had many daring adventures there as a child while picking up coal along the railroad tracks. Riding a log jam down the river while
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fishing was one escapade that got him in trouble. Often he and his cousins would climb up under the bridges to catch pigeons – they wanted a carrier pigeon. Bill worked for Anchor Hocking Glass for 25 years as an engineering draftsman and mold maker. But the water was calling him and he opened Aquatics Unlimited in Zanesville. Here he designed and built swimming pools and spas, and taught scuba diving. Because of his diving abilities, he was a reserve deputy sheriff in Perry and Muskingum Counties. There he was active doing search and recovery dive team training and rescue missions. Then he took a vacation and fell in love with the waters of Florida. Soon he moved there, where he owned Knox Bait House Marina. When Bill decides to
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5 PHOTOS: 1 –Captain Bill takes the wheel of the Lorena. 2 –That's Bill on the right with a diving helmet his dad found in a Pittsburgh river. 3 –The Captain's home office is filled with nautical memorabilia. 4 – Bill and his wife, Becky, share a passion for the waterways. 5 – Swimming with the manatee was a favorite Florida pastime. 6 – His next project is to direct the restoration of the Queen of the Lake III at Buckeye Lake.
tackle a project, his persistence has always paid off. Since he had been a commercial diver, he decided to open a scuba diving center where he gave lessons on the Crystal River. He set up a manatee training program at Crystal River because of their abundance at that location. His training program received international recognition. He fell in love with the manatees and enjoyed teaching people how to interact with these large aquatic mammals, who are very friendly when properly treated. While managing Port Paradise Dive Center, he was in charge of everything from boat and diving equipment rentals to training divers and giving tours. This is where he was lucky enough to wear one of the famous silver suits of Jacques Cousteau who said, “The best way to observe a fish is to become one.” Bill understood how to do that. While in Florida, Bill's life was filled with excitement. He worked at Walt Disney World with the dolphins, was
part of the support team for a simulator space capsule with NASA, and directed scuba diving programs at the University of Florida and Bay Point Dive Center. There's a special experience of freedom while diving. The feeling of weightlessness in the water and in the space capsule were pure delights for Bill. One special pleasure was diving to view all the colorful fish, especially at night when some give off a fluorescent glow. "We dive not to escape life but for life not to escape us." There he received his captain's license and took people on cruises from Ft. Lauderdale to the Caribbean. For three years he captained The Challenge, a 52' charter sailing yacht. An old friend from Zanesville, Dorothy Montgomery, pulled some strings and asked him if he would come back and temporarily captain the Lorena. He had never operated a sternwheeler before but decided to accept the challenge. That was fifteen years ago. Since then Captain Bill and his wife “Admiral” Becky, social director on the Lorena, have enjoyed the Muskingum River and the people who ride along with them. They hope to be back on board by the end of May. While steering the Lorena, he notices his environment. Captain Bill continued on pg 10
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Captain Bill continued from pg 9 In the sky, he sees many different birds, eagles and an occasional seagull. In the water, herring and other fish make themselves known but he quipped, “I haven't seen an alligator, but I'm looking.” In his spare time, Bill drives tour buses and school buses for West Muskingum. He fills every hour of the day. If he would have one bit of advice for young people, it would be, “Education. Get it all.” Everyone has dreams and Bill is no exception. One dive he would still like to make is off the coast of Australia in the Great Barrier Reef, the world's largest coral reef system. His next project is fairly close to home as he has been asked to be project manager at Buckeye Lake as they complete the final steps on the restoration of Queen of the Lake III. There's no doubt that Bill and Becky enjoy life to the fullest these days. Bill enjoys playing keyboard, guitar and accordion but never took a lesson. He's one of those true musicians that play by ear. Today he's perfectly happy to just relax in their beautiful home near Zanesville. Bill has seen things under the water that most have never seen. Memories float to the surface when he speaks of his adventures. 1
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“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonders forever.” ~Jacques Cousteau
PHOTOS: 1 –He was honored to wear the Silver Suit of Jacques Cousteau. 2 – Today Bill is captain of the Lorena on the Muskingum River. 3 –Aquatics Unlimited in Zanesville was one of his first business adventures. 4 – Sailing his charter yacht Challenge led to many exciting trips in the Caribbean.
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FINANCE
Explaining
Financial Plans and
Why
You Need One A clear understanding of personal expenditures and savings rates is essential for securing a strong financial future. A financial plan can help everyone from the extraordinarily wealthy to those struggling to make ends meet. The Financial Planning Association says a financial plan identifies goals and objectives that take finances to achieve and creates a plan for making those things happen. A financial plan can serve as a road map that people can look to for years to come as they work toward securing their financial futures. Whether you aim to retire by age 50 or to reduce your debt, a financial plan can be just what you need to turn your dreams into a reality. Here are some steps for devising a financial plan.
1. Identify what you want.
You must identify what you want to achieve. Goals may include buying a home, retiring early, providing for a child’s education, or having more time and money for travel. Putting your goals on paper may inspire you to pursue them more vigorously.
2. Audit your finances.
Conduct an audit of your finances so you can get a clear grasp of your current situation. Make a list of all of your assets, and then subtract existing debts to figure out your net worth. While you’re tabulating, find out how much you bring in and spend each month so you can get a clear picture of your spending habits. This will help you make smart choices in regard to spending and saving.
3. Eradicate existing debt.
One of the key parts of a financial plan is to pay down high-interest debt to free up money for the future. Focus on paying off credit card balances, high-interest loans or balances for other accounts where interest is high. A debt consolidation loan may be worth exploring if you’re having trouble paying down high-interest debt.
4. Start saving.
Building savings is essential to reaching many goals. It also is key to help avoid financial ruin during emergency situations, such as home or car repairs, disability that takes you out of work, etc. Start small by having a certain percentage of money deposited into a separate account automatically. Then watch it grow. Investing in the right products also can help you grow your savings. Financial advisors can help individuals devise plans to meet their short- and long-term goals.
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Recipes Spring is synonymous with special events worthy of celebration. From Mother’s Day to graduations to communions and confirmations, spring provides a host of opportunities for families and friends to come together and show their love for one another. The right food can make any party that much more spectacular. Lunch and brunch parties, whether they’re at home or in a restaurant, provide great opportunities to enjoy fun, budgetfriendly food with loved ones. For those who will be celebrating at home or attending a potluck-style gathering, this “Brandied Baked Ham With Mustard Butter” courtesy of Denise Gee’s Southern Appetizers (Chronicle Books) can make for the perfect dish to serve or bring along. The decadent ham can be served as fashionable tea sandwiches, either in soft biscuits or rolls. Brandied Baked Ham With Mustard Butter
Ingredients: For the ham:
1½ cups packed dark brown sugar ¼ cup brandy 2 tablespoons grainy mustard 1 5-pound bone-in, half ham, fully cooked 1½ teaspoons whole cloves
Directions: 1 In a small saucepan, stir to combine the brown sugar, brandy and mustard. Bring the mixture to a boil over medium-high heat and, stirring constantly, cook until the glaze is thick and syrupy, about 3 minutes. Store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 2 days or use immediately. 2 Preheat the oven to 325 F. Line a shallow roasting pan with heavy-duty aluminum foil and place a wire rack on top. 3 Score the fat on top of the ham by making diagonal cuts in a diamond pattern. Insert the cloves into the intersections of each diamond. Place the ham on the
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Serves: 16 to 20
rack. Insert a meat thermometer, making sure it doesn’t touch the bone. Bake the ham for about 1 hour, or until the thermometer registers 125 F. 4 Remove the ham and brush on the brandy glaze. Return the ham to the oven and cook for 20 to 30 minutes more, or until the thermometer registers 135 F. Let it stand for 15 minutes. (The meat temperature will rise to 140 F).
Ingredients:
For the mustard butter: 2 cups butter, softened ¼ cup grated sweet onion ¼ cup Dijon or Creole mustard
Directions: 1 In a medium bowl, stir to combine the butter, sweet onion and mustard. Scrape it into a serving bowl. 2 Cut the ham into thin slices and build your sandwiches (or serve slices on their own on a platter). Offer with accompanied bowl of mustard butter.
Recipes Before pulling up to the nearest drivethrough window, family chefs should know that many home—cooked meals can be whipped up in a pinch. During barbecue season, burgers are often a go-to meal for their convenience and portability. But another bun- and beefbased option is readily available — and it could stir up nostalgia for comforting family meals of years past. It’s hard to beat the savory flavor and deliciously messy trappings of Sloppy Joes. As the name implies, this isn’t a meal for someone who likes to keep things neat. In fact, part of the fun of Sloppy Joes, for adults and children alike, is the chance to get a little messy at the dinner table. Here’s a recipe for “Classic Sloppy Joes,” courtesy of the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association.
Classic Sloppy Joes
Ingredients: 1 pound ground beef (93% lean or leaner) 1 cup minced sweet onion 1 cup minced green bell pepper 1 can (141⁄2 ounces) unsalted tomato sauce ¼ cup barbecue sauce ¼ cup ketchup 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce 2 teaspoons packed brown sugar 1 teaspoon dry mustard 4 whole wheat hamburger buns or 8 slider buns
Directions: 1 Heat a large, nonstick skillet over medium heat. Add onion, cook 3 to 5 minutes until golden brown. Add ground beef and bell pepper; cook 8 to 10 minutes, breaking
Serves: 4 beef into 1⁄2-inch crumbles and stirring occasionally. 2 Stir in tomato sauce, barbecue sauce, ketchup, Worcestershire sauce, brown sugar, and mustard; increase heat to medium-high. Bring to a boil; cook 5 to 10 minutes, or until sauce is thickened, stirring occasionally. Season with salt, as desired. 3 Divide beef mixture evenly among buns. Top with pickles, coleslaw and cheese, if desired. Close the sandwiches. 4 Cook’s Tip: Cooking times are for fresh or thoroughly thawed ground beef. Ground beef should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160 F. Color is not a reliable indicator of ground beef doneness.
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Recipes Warmer temperatures on the weekend means hosts tasked with cooking dinner might be able to expand their culinary horizons and avoid the stove. Though they might not have considered it before, hosts might want to fire up their smokers to give their families something delicious and different to dine on. If the weather takes an unexpected turn for the worse, electric smokers can typically be used indoors, but check the manufacturer’s instructions to confirm that. This recipe for “Pork Loin Roast with Hot Pepper Jelly Glaze” from Karen Putman and Judith Fertig’s Championship BBQ Secrets for Real Smoked Food (Robert Rose) is a great way to take advantage of warmer weather while still ensuring everyone has a full belly by the end of the meal. Pork Loin Roast with Hot Pepper Jelly Glaze
Ingredients:
1 boneless pork loin roast (about 2 lbs.) 4 cups apple juice ½ cup Brown Sugar Rib Rub (see below) 1 cup hot pepper jelly Additional apple juice for spraying
Directions:
1. Rinse pork under cold running water and pat dry. Place in a large sealable plastic bag and pour in apple juice. Seal bag and refrigerate for at least 8 hours and up to 12 hours. 2. Remove pork from marinade and pat dry. Discard marinade. Sprinkle dry rub over the surface of the meat, coating evenly. Set aside. 3. Prepare a fire in your smoker. 4. Meanwhile, in a small saucepan, melt hot pepper jelly over medium-low heat. Keep warm by the smoker. 5. Place pork directly on the smoker rack, add wood to the coals and close the lid. Smoke at 225 F to 250 F, spraying with apple juice every 30 minutes, for 2 hours. Brush with
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Serves: 4 to 6
hot pepper jelly, close the lid and smoke, spraying with apple juice every 30 minutes, for 1 to 11⁄2 hours, or until a meat thermometer inserted in the thickest part of the pork registers 160 F for medium, or until desired doneness. Let rest for 15 minutes before slicing.
Brown Sugar Rib Rub: Makes about 31⁄2 cups
2 cups packed dark brown sugar or granulated maple sugar ½ cup fine kosher or sea salt ¼ cup sweet Hungarian paprika ¼ cup chili powder ¼ cup ground lemon pepper ¼ cup granulated garlic 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon dried basil 1 teaspoon dried thyme
Directions:
In a medium bowl, combine brown sugar, salt, paprika, chili powder, lemon pepper, garlic, black pepper, basil, and thyme.
Recipes Mothers selflessly devote themselves to their children from infancy into adulthood. A mother’s love never wanes, and she’s always ready and willing to step in and put her children first. Mother’s Day is a great chance for men, women and children to honor the special women in their lives. Delicious homemade treats can show mothers just how much they’re appreciated and adored. Try this tasty recipe for “Cold Mango Soufflés Topped with Toasted Coconut” from The Complete Mexican, South American & Caribbean Cookbook (Metro Books) by Jane Milton, Jenni Fleetwood and Marina Filippelli.
Cold Mango Soufflés Topped With Toasted Coconut
Ingredients: 4 2 1 2 ½ ½ 1¼
small mangoes, peeled, pitted and chopped tablespoons water tablespoon powdered gelatine egg yolks cup superfine sugar cup milk cups heavy cream Grated rind of one orange Toasted flaked or coarsely shredded coconut, to decorate
Directions: 1 Place a few pieces of mango in the base of each of four
2⁄3-cup ramekins. Wrap a creased collar of nonstick parchment paper around the outside of each dish, extending well above the rim. Secure with adhesive tape, then tie tightly with string.
Makes 4
2 Pour the water into a small heatproof bowl and sprinkle the gelatine over the surface. Leave for 5 minutes or until spongy. Place the bowl in a pan of hot water, stirring occasionally, until the gelatine has dissolved. 3 Meanwhile, whisk the egg yolks with the superfine sugar and milk in another heatproof bowl. Place the bowl over a pan of simmering water and continue to whisk until the mixture is thick and frothy. Remove from the heat and continue whisking until the mixture cools. Whisk in the liquid gelatine. 4 Puree the remaining mango pieces in a food processor or blender, then fold the puree into the egg yolk mixture with the orange rind. Set the mixture aside until starting to thicken. 5 Whip the heavy cream to soft peaks. Reserve 4 tablespoons and fold the rest into the mango mixture. Spoon into the ramekins until the mixture is 1 inch above the rim of each dish. Chill for 3 to 4 hours, or until set. 6 Carefully remove the paper collars from the soufflés. Spoon a little of the reserved cream on top of each soufflé and decorate with some toasted flaked or coarsely shredded coconut.
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Travel
Memorial Day
Weekend Travel Tips
Memorial Day weekend is one of the busiest travel weekends of the year. In 2017, the automotive group AAA estimated that 40 million Americans would travel 50 miles or more on Memorial Day weekend. Those estimates also projected that 34.6 million vehicles would be used to make those trips. Often referred to as “the unofficial beginning of summer,” Memorial Day and the weekend that precedes it has become synonymous with beach trips and backyard barbecues. Travelers who want to avoid traffic jams and ensure their weekends get off on the right foot can benefit from employing these three travelsavvy strategies.
1. Start the weekend early.
In its “State of American Vacation 2017” survey, Project: Time Off found that 662 million vacation days were unused in 2016. People traveling for Memorial Day who typically leave some vacation days on the table can start their weekends early this year. Many offices close early the Friday before Memorial Day, and workers who aren’t so lucky may just leave work early, meaning Friday afternoon traffic figures to be heavy. By leaving Thursday afternoon or evening,
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travelers can avoid the Friday rush to the beach.
2. Take public transportation.
Travelers who can’t take an extra day off or leave work early the Friday before Memorial Day may want to consider taking public transportation to their beach destinations instead of driving themselves. In 2016, the U.S.-based data firm Inrix noted that a traffic-free Friday jaunt from New York City to Long Island’s East end would take 90 minutes, while the same trip would take three hours and 40 minutes on the Friday of Memorial Day weekend. Travelers who can’t leave early can save themselves from the stress of holiday traffic jams by letting someone else do the navigating.
3. Be patient and depart on Saturday morning.
Travelers who can be patient may find that waiting to depart for their destinations until Saturday can save them from dealing with much of the stress of traveling on Memorial Day weekend. The benefits of being patient may depend on where travelers live, as the Inrix study noted that Friday was the busiest day to leave Los Angeles on Memorial Day weekend, while San Diego residents tended to deal with the most traffic on Saturday. An added benefit of waiting until Saturday is the likelihood that such travelers will not return home until Tuesday, avoiding traffic on Monday, which tends to be the busiest return travel day of the weekend. Memorial Day weekend travel tends to be hectic. But savvy travelers with some flexibility can take steps to make their trips less stressful.
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Salute to Seniors Welcome, Awards, & Invocation Luncheon Guest Speaker Door Prizes
Beef Tenderloin Bacon Wrapped Baked Potato w/ Butter & Sour Cream Steamed Broccoli w/ Parmesan Cheese Green Leafy Salad w/ Vinaigrette Dressing Guest Speaker Baked Wheat Roll & Butter John Slicer Fresh Grapes Petit Fours Pink Lemonade, Water & Coffee
For additional information, or to reserve & purchase tickets, visit Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Inc. or call (740) 439-6681.
Please come and join us at the Large Pavilion of the Cambridge City Park for a day full of entertainment, food, door prizes and fun! Baked Ham Breaded Chicken Legs Baked Beans Au Gratin Potatoes Fruit Kabob Assorted Desserts Choice of Roll or Bun Lemonade, Water & Coffee
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Secrets of
a World War Two Scrapbook
“Gibbs… was among the 23 officers and men who distinguished themselves during the Midway and Coral Sea battles. He bagged three Jap fighter planes in rapid succession…” — S crapb o ok newspap er clipping ab out Buffalo native Harr y B. Gibbs, 1942
Story by Rick Booth
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ambridge native Margaret Kmitts was just 15 years old when her older brother, John, signed up for the Army in mid-October, 1941. War was already raging in Europe, and America was gearing up for the possibility it might have to get involved. Seven weeks later, the Japanese Imperial Navy forced the issue with its sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. Suddenly, it seemed, everyone was enlisting – not just older brother John.
Throughout the war, the local Jeffersonian newspaper printed frequent small picture articles about individuals with connections to the greater Guernsey County area who were in military service. John Kmitts’s little sister, Margaret, likely inspired by her brother’s pre-war enlistment, then spent the World War Two years dutifully clipping out virtually every such article she found in the paper, adding each one neatly and very systematically to a scrapbook. The small article about John Kmitts was the first one in Margaret’s book, but it was followed by more than a thousand others, filling nearly 100 pages with more than 1,600 descriptions of the service of locally-connected individuals. By the end of the war, Margaret had collected a magnificent record of the depth and
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The first page of Kmitts scrapbook articles. breadth of the Guernsey County area’s participation in the war. Then the scrapbook was put away and largely forgotten. Margaret lived the rest of her life in Cambridge, never marrying, working at NCR in later years. By the time she died in 2012, the
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The Jaselium brothers, Pearl Harbor survivors. being shot down himself. The Battle of Midway was the turning point of the Pacific war, wherein we sank all four major carriers the Japanese had sent, losing only the Yorktown carrier in return. In fact, the Japanese thought they had sunk the carrier Yorktown a month earlier when they last saw it damaged and burning at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Another “secret” revealed by the scrapbook was that the son of a Cambridge couple, Lieutenant Commander James H. Flatley, Jr., had likewise won the Navy Cross at the Battle of the Coral Sea, leading a fighter squadron against enemy carriers there for the first time in the war. He and Harry Gibbs knew each other and flew together, likely exchanging memories of Guernsey County in the process, though neither one returned here after the war. Harry also won the Distinguished Flying Cross at the Coral Sea.
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scrapbook’s pages had yellowed and were starting to crumble with age. Friends helping to clear out her home for estate settlement came across it and were at first inclined to send it to the dumpster. But fortunately, neighbor Tim Todd was part of the cleanup crew, and he felt it should be saved. Receiving permission to do so, he also knew just the local World War Two historian to give it to – Judge John Mark Nicholson. The Jeffersonian ran an article about the historical find in 2014, which alerted me to its existence. This year, to produce this article in anticipation of Memorial Day, I borrowed the scrapbook, digitized it, indexed it, and put it online so that anyone can look up their relatives and acquaintances who served in World War Two. Anecdotally, it seems about half the people looking for a relative from this area in the book have been able to find one. Indeed, I was pleasantly surprised to find my own uncle, a very young Dick Gibson studying to be a sonarman, within its pages, not to mention a number of other much more distant relations. Margaret Kmitts placed a silver star on each picture of a serviceman she knew had died during the war. I checked online records and found some more, ones that she no doubt missed for lack of receiving the news. In all, at least 40 of the servicemen listed in the scrapbook died during the war. That appears to account for close to half of Guernsey County’s war fatalities, though I don’t know of any one truly definitive list as of this writing. As I studied the scrapbook, I found it striking how many famous events in the war had witnesses and participants from Guernsey County. The rest of this article is a somewhat chronological view of the war through the lives and deaths of those who served. A surprising number of area servicemen were stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked. Some of those mentioned in the scrapbook include Jack Nowell, F. W. Hunt, William “Billy” Cooley, John William “Bill” Shepard, and four brothers from the Pleasant City Jaselium family – Francis, Leon, Joseph, and Michael. They all survived the battle, though Nowell had to swim for his life when the USS California was sunk. Bill Shepard was Guernsey County’s last living Pearl Harbor survivor when he passed away six years ago. It wasn’t long after Pearl Harbor when Guernsey County had its first war-related death recorded in the scrapbook. Just five days after the attack, flight cadet Arthur Raymond Oliver of Byesville died in a training crash. He was the first of at least four training flight fatalities listed in the book. Frederick Albert Frizzell was a flight instructor in Kansas, perhaps flying with a student, when his accident occurred in 1943. Steve Voytko had died similarly just a few days earlier in New Mexico, and Michael Sekel did not survive a Mitchell Bomber crash the next year in South Carolina. A very interesting fact I learned from the scrapbook was that our esteemed former congressional representative, Robert T. “Bob” Secrest, who was first elected to Congress in 1932, resigned his seat in August, 1942, to serve as an officer in the Navy. He was actually the very first member of Congress to resign to enter military service. After the war, he served two more stints in Congress, the last one ending in 1966. As I started studying the articles in the scrapbook, one in particular sent a shiver down my spine. It said a young naval ensign, Harry B. Gibbs, who had grown up in Buffalo in the southern part of the county, had just been assigned to a fighter squadron on the aircraft carrier Yorktown. Though the article was undated, I was sure it was early in the war, for the Yorktown was sunk six months after Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway. Quite a few of its pilots did not survive the battle. I had to find out what happened to our own Ensign Gibbs! It didn’t take long to find out that Ensign Gibbs not only survived the battle, but made it into the history books, earning the Navy Cross for valor in combat. He shot down three Japanese planes before
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Book continued from pg 19 way back to Allied lines with the help of the French Underground, but Slightly Dangerous disintegrated in midair before Sarchet could “hit the silk,” crashing at the little French town of Saint Didier des Bois. After the war, the townspeople erected a small monument in memory of the men who died there, and also of the men they saved. At about the same time Flying Fortresses were bombing Europe, U.S. Marines were heavily involved with fighting west past Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, half a world away. Buffalo’s Albert Alfred Goffos and East Cambridge’s Harold E. Bonnell, both met their fate there in August and September, 1943, respectively. Byesville’s Private Cecil H. Hillyer was killed in action fighting with the 36th Division, 142nd Infantry Regiment in Italy on the same day in November that the ill-fated ship Rohna left Oran. Then, Pleasant City’s John Spishok died less than a week later when the Japanese torpedoed and sank the cruiser Northampton, on which
Lt. Comdr. Bob Secrest and Ensign Harry Gibbs The first “killed in action” account in the scrapbook is that of Cambridge’s Shipfitter Third Class John Francis Watson. He died on October 12, 1942, Columbus Day, somewhere in the South Pacific. Most likely he was killed off the shore of Guadalcanal at the Battle of Cape Esperance that day. While the war in the Pacific had already turned in America’s favor by late 1942, we were just getting started in the European theater, flying bombing missions from bases in England. Cambridge resident Charles R. Wilson was a gunner on the B-17 Flying Fortress “Miss Swooze” when it went on a November 9, 1942, bombing mission against the U-boat pens at St. Nazaire, France. Hit by anti-aircraft fire, the plane crashed at sea with three survivors, but Charles was not one of them. At the same time the Japanese attacked Midway, another of their fleets landed troops in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands against essentially no resistance. It took about a year for American forces to get organized for cold weather fighting and evict them. Quite a few people mentioned in the scrapbook ultimately served in Alaska. In fact, Gene Robert Bates, a member of the Naval Air Service, died of injuries there in February, 1943. The scrapbook and online records do not reveal whether enemy action was involved, or simply, perhaps, an aviation accident. In November, 1942, American and British troops launched Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, keying on the cities of Casablanca, Oran, and Algiers. On May 19, 1943, we lost Private Ellis C. Larrick at Oran in Algeria. Six months later, Byesville’s John William Freeman, Pleasant City’s Richard B. Patterson, and Byesville’s Herbert G. Foraker, along with about 2,000 other American military personnel, boarded the troop transport ship Rohna at Oran. It was supposed to join a convoy transferring troops eastward to Alexandria, but the day after it left its Mediterranean port, German aircraft attacked and sank it. Over a thousand men died, making the Rohna disaster the single largest loss of life at sea from a single ship in American military history. Neither Freeman, Patterson, nor Foraker survived. A few months earlier, First Lieutenant James R. Sarchet, a descendant of the original Guernsey County settlers from the Isle of Guernsey, was piloting the Flying Fortress “Slightly Dangerous” on a mission from Horham, England, to bomb warehouses at LeBourget, France, near Paris, on July 10, 1943. On their return to England, they were jumped by German ME109 fighters. Losing altitude, with two engines on fire, Sarchet ordered a bail-out. Five of the ten men aboard survived, and two even made their
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The Rohna, sunk November 26, 1943. he was serving in the Solomon Islands. The year 1944 started off with another Flying Fortress story. Fred H. Booth, a very distant relative of mine, served as the ball turret gunner on “Meat Hound,” a B-17 flying out of Molesworth, England. On January 11, 1944, the plane took part in a bombing raid on Oschersleben, Germany. On the way back, they were attacked by a swarm of German fighters over the Dutch coast. Two engines were knocked out and the left wing sustained bad damage. As they were still over land, the pilot ordered the crew to bail out. Some survived and even made their way back to England by way of the Dutch resistance network. Unfortunately, by the time Fred Booth and three others jumped from the plane, it was over the Zuider Zee, the shallow Dutch inland sea. All four drowned, but Fred’s body was found, buried, and returned to Newcomerstown’s West Lawn Cemetery in 1949. Ironically, the pilot of Meat Hound, seeing that he couldn’t bail out over land, nursed the plane across the English Channel to crash land successfully at an English air base. In the months leading up to the D-Day Invasion, at least three more locals were lost. Antrim’s Paul Raymond Rast was on the crew of a bomber that disappeared in the South Pacific. Bombardier Edwin Revere Farrar, a New Concord High School graduate, likewise was lost along with a B-24 Liberator Bomber that never returned to its home base in Italy. In fighting closer to the ground, Kimbolton’s Private Fred Johnson was killed in action at Anzio. When D-Day, June 6, 1944, came, Cambridge’s Gerald C. Long was there in the thick of it at Omaha Beach. He died that day or the next, from wounds received at the very start of the Normandy Invasion, leaving behind his widow, the former Lovella Maxine Scott of Derwent. He was 30 years old. Over at Utah Beach, the other major American invasion landing site, they were trying to clear the waters of mines so that supplies
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James Sarchet’s “Slightly Dangerous,” destroyed. could come in safely. The destroyer escort USS Rich had been called to aid another ship there damaged by a mine. As it accompanied a minesweeper towing the damaged ship, another pair of mines went off and the Rich was sunk, taking Buffalo’s Milton Andrew Albin with it. Back on the other side of the earth, 21-year-old Lieutenant Commander Charles Robert “Bob” Bowden, a Cadiz native, was piloting a B-24 bomber in the South Pacific. He was former Congressman Bob Secrest’s brother-in-law. On June 26, 1944, his plane did not return from a mission over Japanese-held Truk Atoll. He was never found. Through the summer and fall of 1944, Europe was the focus of casualties. Winterset’s James H. Headley was lost there. Salesville’s Robert A. Nicholas died in France. Luard I. “Joe” Martin of Cambridge was killed in action in Italy. And Private Edward J. Colvin, also of Cambridge, likewise died in France.
last top-secret mission to carry some mysterious crates to the little Pacific island of Tinian. After delivering its freight, the Indianapolis stopped briefly at Guam and then set out alone for the Philippines through waters thought to be safe from enemy attack, without a convoy, unescorted, under radio silence. It did, however, meet a rogue Japanese sub and was sunk without getting out a confirmed distress call. For three and a half days, the Pacific Command was unaware that the ship had gone down. Only by chance were the parched, sunburned survivors – the ones not taken by sharks – noticed in the water by a passing plane. Nearly twothirds of the 900 men who survived the initial sinking had died while waiting for rescue. It was the final American mass tragedy of the war. Claysville’s John Joseph Jakubisin perished in the water, never knowing his ship had delivered the first atomic bomb, destined for Hiroshima. World War Two officially ended when Japan signed surrender documents on the deck of the USS Missouri on September 2, 1945. But that wasn’t quite the end of tragedy for Guernsey County. Kimbolton’s Melvin Albert Ingram, the husband of the former Norma Jean Meighen of Byesville, had survived the sinking of the USS Pecos in 1942 in the Pacific.
Herbert F. Christian and Blanche Faye Sigman.
Firefighting on “Meat Hound” after landing. When Hitler’s surprise winter offensive, the Battle of the Bulge, took place, Lore City’s Private Paul L. Paden met one of the cruelest fates in the war. Taken prisoner early in the battle, he became one of the 84 victims of the infamous Malmedy Massacre wherein the Germans simply chose to execute a group of American POWs rather than keep them as prisoners. The massacre was one of the infamous war crimes prosecuted at the Nuremberg Trials after Germany surrendered. Days after the massacre, flying an American support mission during the Battle of the Bulge, the B-24 carrying Pleasant City’s Albert R. Eibel was forced to ditch in the North Sea. Though three crew members survived, Eibel did not. At least four more individuals in the scrapbook died before the war’s end, two each on opposite sides of the world, and half of those were named Lucas. Quaker City’s Dallas R. Lucas and Kimbolton’s Russell W. Pollock both died taking the final ground fight into Germany. Robert D. Lucas and Ivan Crites, both from Cambridge, ended their days in the Pacific. There is one more tragic Guernsey County brush with history of note at the end of the war. Claysville brothers John Joseph Jakubisin and Emil Aloise Jakubisin are both in the scrapbook, but a third brother, Joseph Sylvester Jakubisin, is not. He served aboard the USS Indianapolis on its
But by war’s end, he was stationed on the seemingly safer U.S. East Coast on the minesweeper YMS-409. By bad luck, the small ship was a few miles east of Cape Hatteras on September 14th when a category 4 hurricane struck with 60-foot waves. The little ship went down with its crew of 33. None were ever found. Melvin left behind his widow and an infant son. World War Two had taken a large toll on Guernsey County, as illustrated by the stories teased out of Margaret Kmitts’s old scrapbook. A bit surprisingly, the two most famous Guernsey County war deaths aren’t to be found in it: Private Herbert F. Christian and First Lieutenant Blanche Faye Sigman. Mr. Christian was awarded a posthumous Congressional Medal of Honor for sacrificing himself to save others on June 3, 1944, in Italy. He is buried in Byesville’s Greenlawn Cemetery. Nurse Sigman received the Italian War Cross for helping to save others on a sinking ship in 1943. The next year, she was killed when a German plane bombed her 95th Evacuation Hospital tent at Anzio. She was reportedly the first American woman killed in the European theater of war. The hospital ship USAHS Blanche F. Sigman was named in her honor a few months later. She is buried in Byesville’s Enon Cemetery, just half a mile from Mr. Christian. The World War Two scrapbook, a historical gem, is available for inspection at the following Internet address: TinyURL.com/GCpictures A secret no more, its secrets are out. The scrapbook is even indexed. Thanks to young Margaret Kmitts, the forebearers of those we live and work with every day are in it. They truly were – and some still are – the Greatest Generation.
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Stone Academy Opens Underground Railroad Exhibit
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Freedom. Its importance isn't usually discovered until it is taken away. 5 Perhaps you have felt like running away from a bad situation. That's how most of the slaves felt in their quest for freedom. The Underground Railroad helped them succeed in finding this special liberation. Even before the time of the Civil War, Anti-Slavery organizations were very active especially in Ohio. A center of activity was the Stone Academy in Putnam on the Muskingum River. While the Stone Academy served as a station on the Underground Railroad in the 1830s, that wasn't the reason it was built back in 1809. The oldest building in Muskingum County was designed to be the new state capitol building. It was built by Dr. Increase Mathews, Levi Whipple and Ebenezer Buckingham. However, across the river in Zanesville, then a separate community, John McIntire and others constructed a building for that same purpose. Zanesville did serve as the capital of Ohio from 1810 to 1812. The Stone Academy became a school and had public offices for several years. It was the center of abolitionist activity in Putnam with the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society holding state conventions there in 1835 and 1839. Both years, mobs of pro-slavery advocates disrupted their meetings threatening to burn all of Putnam. The people of Putnam were very unpopular with their neighbors across the river in Zanesville. The Stone Academy has been accepted by the National
Park Service as part of the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. There is a new Ohio historical marker at the Stone Academy. Nearby the Putnam Presbyterian Church held many anti-slavery meetings. Their pastor was the brother of Harriette Beecher Stowe. One of their popular speakers was Frederick Douglass, an African American orator who spoke of slavery issues across the state. A story was published about Douglass in “The AntiSlavery Bugle”, which told of his purchasing a ride from Columbus to Putnam to speak at the Presbyterian Church. Douglass paid $3 in order to ride inside the stagecoach that day, but when they saw he was an African American, he was not permitted to ride. He took the case to court and won an out-of-court settlement for $15. The slaves who came through this direction were understandably not very trusting of the station masters. Those brave souls took a lot of chances during their flight. They wanted above all else to be free. Nelson Gant was one of those freed blacks who settled in Muskingum County. Gant became one of the wealthiest men in the county with a successful produce business, which originated that famous cantaloupe, the Dresden Melon. He worked hard at his business and helped free others by transporting slaves in his wagons. Jim Geyer, museum director, tells of interesting programs they are developing at the museum. Jim and
PHOTOS: 1 –This closet held a trap door where a slave could enter the basement to hide. 2 – Stone Academy provided a place for Anti-Slavery meetings as well as the Underground Railroad. 3 – These dolls were made by an antislavery advocate with a duplicate set being given to Queen Victoria. 4 – Lett Settlement, located where the Wilds is today, was composed of "free people of color". 5 – This notice was posted as a warning to Fugitive Slaves.
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other volunteers are reaching out to the community with a power point presentation suitable for schools, civic groups or retirement communities. He serves as a step-on guide for bus groups that come to the area. They are taken to various places in the Putnam Historic District that have a part in the UGRR story. At present, they have six sites locally that were called “safe houses”. Soon they are planning to add another interesting spot to their tours – The Wilds! On this land, the Lett Settlement beginning in 1820 consisted of a group of “free people of color” who later assisted the fleeing slaves. Since the Stone Academy has been filled with so much activity over the years, it's no surprise that paranormal activity is frequently observed in the house and in the area. They have one special program called “History, Mystery, and Unsettled Spirits” that speaks of this phenomenon as well as some folklore. Ghost tours are conducted and paranormal investigations continue. One problem at the Stone Academy is limited floor space. There are few artifacts here but much information in the form of charts and pictures. Due to the limited space, exhibits in the hallways are frequently changed. A highlight of the tour are the stories told by volunteers, who are very knowledgeable about its history as a station for the Underground Railroad. A popular feature is a hidden trap door in a closet that led to the crawl space under the building where the runaway slaves hid. In the 1870s, Stone Academy became the private residence of Elizabeth Robbins, well-known actress, activist and writer. Today it is home to the display of the UGRR and features informative local history directed by Muskingum County History and located in the Putnam Historic District. Freedom remains an important element of our lives today. May we remain a nation where our freedom of choice is never extinguished. Photo Right Top: The Putnam Presbyterian Church served as a meeting place for Anti-Slavery meetings. Photo Right Middle: Museum director, Jim Geyer, told many interesting stories of the early days of the Stone Academy. Photo Right Bottom: These articles were found under the stairs of the trap door.
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Events for Seniors: Calling All Veterans- Please share your story with future generations Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center is looking for Veterans who would like to share some of their story and their picture for our Wall of Heroes booth at the Older Adult Extravaganza on Wednesday, May 8th. We ask that you stop by the Center or contact Janie at (740) 439-6681 by 11:00 AM on Friday, May 3rd if you would like to participate. If you provide us with a picture it will be available for you to pick back up on Thursday, May 9th at Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center guest services desk. We would like to thank all veterans for their service. Breakfast Buffet Wednesday, May 1st Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center will be hosting the monthly breakfast buffet on Wednesday, May 1st beginning at 9:00 AM. The appetizing menu will include: scrambled eggs, bacon, hash brown, sausage gravy & biscuits and assorted fresh fruit. Coffee, water and assorted fruit juices will also be served. If you would like to make reservations, please visit the guest services desk of the Senior Center or for your convenience; please call (740) 439-6681. Do you enjoy walking? Join our Walking Group, which begins Friday, May 3rd Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center walking group will start meeting again on Friday, May 3rd at 10:00 AM at the Great Guernsey Trail. We meet every Friday from 10:00 AM11:00 AM, except for the 3rd Friday of the month. Bottled water will be provided for walkers. In case of inclement weather you will receive a personal phone call informing you of a cancellation. If you are interested in joining this group, please call Kylee at (740) 439-6681. New Class- “A Matter of Balance” Starting Monday, May 6th Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center will start a new Matter of Balance session on Monday, May 6th as long as 6 participants are signed up. Classes will be held on Mondays from 8:30 AM to 10:00 AM in the living room at the Senior Center. If you are interested in signing up or have any questions please call Kylee at (740) 439-6681. Matter of Balance includes eight two-hour sessions for a small group. Falls are NOT a normal part of aging! Tai Chi starting on Monday, May 6th Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center will offer a Tai Chi class on Mondays from 10:00 AM to 11:00 AM in the first half of the dining room at the Senior Center. If you are interested in joining this class or have any questions, please call Kylee at (740) 439-6681. Please note that class times are subject to change depending on the amount of participants that sign up.
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MAY Birthday Party & Luncheon Tuesday, May 7th For those who were born in May, Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center will celebrate you on Tuesday, May 7th at the birthday party & luncheon beginning at 11:30 AM. Along with lunch will be a special treat of cake and ice cream. Reservations are required and can be made by calling (740) 439-6681. We look forward to seeing everyone then. Older Adult Extravaganza Wednesday, May 8th The 2019 Older Adult Extravaganza will be held at the Pritchard Laughlin Civic Center on Wednesday, May 8th from 10:00 AM until 2:00 PM. This year the theme will be “A Salute to the Armed Forces”. Visit the many booths, including Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, for lots of useful tools, helpful information, give-a-ways and much more! Transportation is available from the Senior Center’s transportation department. If you have any questions, or would like to schedule transportation, please call (740) 432-3838. We hope you plan to join us for a day full of fun. Mother’s Day Luncheon Friday, May 10th Celebrate Mom on Friday, May 10th as Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center hosts a special Mother’s Day luncheon at 11:00 AM. The delectable menu will include: Grilled chicken salad w/ dressing, bread stick, fresh fruit cup, and lemon blueberry cupcake for dessert. Iced tea, water and coffee will also be served. If you would like to attend this special celebration, please make your reservations by contacting the Senior Center at (740) 439-6681. Due to this special luncheon, fun bingo will begin at 9:30 AM. Red Hat Diva Meeting & Luncheon Monday, May 13th The Red Hat Divas will be having their monthly meeting and luncheon on Monday, May 13th. They will meet at Downtown Arena restaurant, located at 1005 Wheeling Ave in Cambridge, at 12:00 PM. Lunch will be on your own off the menu. To make reservations, please contact the Senior Center at (740) 439-6681. Sunny Side Singers Choir Group Sunny Side Singers practice at the Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center on the second, third, and fourth Monday of each month at 12:45 PM. If you would like additional information about the Sunny Side Singers Choir Group or maybe are interested in joining the choir, please visit the guest services desk or please call (740) 439-6681. Dining and Event Schedule Changes, Updates & Special Notifications for May 2019 Due to Older Adult Month special activities and events there will be no Kountry Swinger dance practice, Tuesday afternoon line dancing, no monthly evening dinners at the Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center or Byesville site during the month of May.
Community Events There will be no activities or lunches served at Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center main location in Cambridge on Thursday, May 2nd and Friday, May 3rd. On Thursday, May 2nd lunches will be served at Pleasant City and Londonderry satellite sites by reservation only. On Friday, May 3rd lunches will be served at the Byesville and Cumberland satellite sites by reservation only. If you would like to attend lunch either day at any of those sites, please make your reservations by calling (740) 439-6681 by 9:00 AM on the day you would like to attend. There will also be no activities held at Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center on Tuesday, May 14th due to preparation s for the Senior Citizens Day luncheon on Wednesday, May 15th. Lunches on the 14th will however be served at the Cumberland and Byesville satellite sites. If you would like to attend lunch at either of those sites, please make your reservations by calling (740) 439-6681. 2019 Annual Senior Citizens Day Luncheon Wednesday, May 15th Please plan to join Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center, Inc. in celebrating “Older Americans Month” by attending the 2019 Annual Senior Citizens Day Luncheon on Wednesday, May 15th. The day will begin with a salute to seniors at 10:30 AM followed by welcome, awards and invocation at 11:00 AM. The menu for the event will include: beef tenderloin, bacon wrapped baked potato w/ butter & sour cream, steamed broccoli w/ parmesan cheese, green leafy salad w/ vinaigrette dressing, baked wheat roll with butter and petit fours for dessert. Pink lemonade, water and coffee will also be served. After the meal, sit back and enjoy our guest speaker, John Slicer. Local business and organizations have donated a multitude of items for the door prize drawing, which will be at 1:00 PM. Advanced reservations & tickets are required for the event. If you would like additional information, or to reserve & purchase tickets, please visit the Senior Center or call (740) 4396681. Due to tremendous attendance, we regrettably cannot hold tickets for this event. Food Commodity Pick-Up Friday, May 17th The Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center partners with the Mid-Ohio Food Bank in providing a Commodity Supplemental Food Program. The next distribution will be held on Friday, May 17th from 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM. You must pick up on this day due to limited storage. If you have any questions, are interested in this program, or can’t pick up on this date, please call Kylee Quinn, Wellness Coordinator, at (740) 439-6681.
beans, choice of roll or bun, fruit kabob and assorted desserts. Lemonade, water and coffee will also be served. Advanced tickets and reservations are required. Tickets are free but donations are welcomed and appreciated. If you would like additional information, or to reserve & purchase tickets, please visit the Senior Center or call (740) 439-6681. Due to tremendous attendance, we regrettably cannot hold tickets for this event. Memorial Day Luncheon Friday, May 24th Not only is Memorial Day a time to pay tribute to America’s heroes but also is the start-of-summer. Kick off the season by attending lunch at Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center’s on Friday, May 24th beginning at 11:30 AM. To make your reservations for this luncheon, please visit the guest service desk or call (740) 439-6681. Due to the luncheon, fun bingo will begin at 9:30 AM. Senior Center—Closed Monday, May 27th Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center will be closed on Monday, May 27th in observance of the Memorial Day holiday. There will also be no lunches or activities at any of the satellite sites. For your nutritional well-being and convenience, frozen meals are always available prior to the holidays and should be used on the dates in which the Senior Center is closed. If you have any questions please call (740) 439-6681. Ice Cream Treat Day Tuesday, May 28th Join Shon Gress, Executive Director of Guernsey County Senior Citizens Center in a special Older Adult Month tradition, a treat of ice cream at one of our area’s favorite drive-ins, Rasor’s in Byesville. We cordially invite you to stop by and join us for lunch on Tuesday, May 28th and you will receive a complimentary ice cream cone. There are no rain checks and you must be in attendance for lunch at our Cambridge, Pleasant City, Londonderry or Byesville sites to participate. Due to coordinating of tickets and transportation, we ask that you please be at the Senior Center before 12:15 PM. Rasor’s has blocked off the hour of 12:30 PM until 1:30 PM specifically for seniors. The treats will be available until 1:30 PM. If you have any additional questions, please visit the Senior Center or call (740) 439-6681.
Senior Citizens Picnic at the Park Wednesday, May 22nd You are cordially invited to attend the Senior Citizens Picnic at the Park on Wednesday, May 22nd from 10:30 AM – 2:00 PM. We hope you plan to join us for a day full of entertainment, food, door prizes, and fun. The menu will include: choice of baked ham or breaded chicken legs, au gratin potatoes, baked
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