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contents
52 fe at u re S A Life Undaunted | 28 Neither war nor abuse dimmed Vivian Kincaid’s spirit get ting to know georgetown
Taking the Wheel | 34
Great Expectations
Engaging in Diamonds | 40
Why do engagement rings feature diamonds?
Much Ado About a Minnow | 49
d e pa rt m ents
a Healthy View
A family keeps its Native American heritage alive a Giving view
It’s Not Your Grandma’s Chicken Soup | 52
Chinese medicine isn’t fancy, but it works an Animal view
Kids Teaching Kids | 55
Campers, Counselors, and Caring | 15
A girl, a goat, and a few good lessons
Grieving kids find solace at a special camp
a natural view
A FITNESS VIEW
A couple creates a wildlife haven
Foxtrotting for Fitness | 19
Get healthy with ballroom dancing Create
Stitches in Time | 23
Golfer’s Corner
Tips from Pro Bill Easterly
What’s all the fuss over a fish in Big Bend?
Family and Tradition | 11
Greetings | 6 Learn from the Best | 63
a Traveler’s view
What happens when a spouse gets dementia?
live and learn
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For Love of a Quilt | 43
What it takes to repair a damaged heirloom
what’s cookin’
Romantic Valentine’s Dinner on a Shoestring | 66
Simple, sensuous recipes that won’t break the bank
Hassle-free travel for adults
Georgetown Toastmasters | 47 Toastmasters can cure public speaking fears
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Need a simple formula to help you with your fitness goals?
Start a Journey to Health | 69 Moksha Yoga guides you to a better body and mind
A Friend Along the Tax Trail | 72 Free tax help for those who can’t afford it
Events | 70
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Get Away with Stine Travel | 44
GET F.I.T.T. | 64
A Soaring Legacy | 57
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Greetings
Publisher
Meg Moring
EDITOR’S NOTE
This year, my husband and I will celebrate our thirtieth wedding anniversary. If there’s one thing we’ve learned over this span of years, it’s that love can reside in ordinary gestures, like his running a bubble bath for me when I’ve been sick, or my making sure he hits the road each day with a good breakfast, or—and this is a true story—in prying ticks
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off one another after foolishly hiking through tall
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grass filled with the little devils. But how would our
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the other’s name, much less that bonding experience with the tweezers and the ticks? As Karen Warner can tell you in our story “Taking the Wheel,” a terrible disease can rob a marriage of many things, but it doesn’t have to ruin it. For Karen, anniversaries are even more poignant now. When her husband was diagnosed with dementia, she essentially lost the man she’d always known, but she also discovered that her love for him, like a mound of clay, could be molded to fit any circumstances. The key is in having the courage to let go of one shape and embrace a new, different one. Speaking of anniversaries, View celebrates its second anniversary in March, and I’m pleased to announce that Alicea Jones will be back as editor in chief after successfully surviving her daughter’s months-long,
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Emily Treadway Karen Pollard Christine Switzer Karen Jones Cindy Weigand David Giese Carol Hutchison April Jones Contributing Photographers
of her moving, insightful stories, like the one about Ethiopian refugee
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Meddy Tekle in January’s issue. Recently, reader Don Johnson wrote to
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tell us that reading the article about “fellow townie” Meddy “reinforces the continued feeling that this is indeed a great hometown.” Together, Alicea and I are planning issues that we hope will continue to highlight the fascinating people and places of Georgetown. Don is right: It truly is a great hometown. Happy Valentine’s Day, fellow townies!
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s groundskeeper at Southwestern University, Ben Nava maintains a pleasant physical environment for students, but he also helps provide a unique cultural experience. Ben, a Lipan Apache, serves as advisor to the SU Native American student organization that organizes the SU Native Traditions Powwow each year. “A liberal arts college is a perfect venue for a powwow because it fits in with religion, history, music, the arts, and education,” he says. Ben’s heritage is evident in his square face, brown skin, and the black ponytail trailing down to his waist. His necklace that he carved from a deer antler features an eagle holding a medicine wheel in its wings. The eagle is considered the Native American’s messenger
to the creator. The wheel contains the four cardinal directions and represents the circle of life within which everything is connected. When asked about his earrings, he laughs and says, “Oh, they’re just for decoration.” A feather sticks out of the top of the baseball cap he wears backwards, providing a contemporary touch. Nine years ago, a Cherokee student wanted to start a Native American organization on campus, and Ben agreed to be the advisor. The new organization then decided to host a powwow. Ben and the SU Native students contacted several central Texas powwow organizations to enlist their help in hosting the first powwow on the campus. A powwow is a social gathering that includes dancing, storytelling, and an evening meal. It’s also all about family and tradition. “It’s
not unusual to see three generations in a dance—a grandfather, his son, and his grandson. It’s pretty cool,” Ben says. Participants also continue the oral tradition that Ben recalls as a child. “I
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For more information about the SU Native American Powwow or to contact Ben or Lisa, you may e-mail questions or comments to sunativepowwow@gmail.com. For more information on powwows and dances, go to www.powwow.com
remember visiting family elders—my grandmother, great aunts, and uncles— and hearing stories about living in wikiups in the mountains of Texas,” Ben says. “The powwow continues that tradition.” The powwow at Southwestern has a morning session and an evening session to accommodate the public’s schedule. Prior to the start is a Gourd Dance, in which Ben participates. Following the Gourd Dance, the powwow begins with a Grand Entry in which dancers parade into the arena in full Native American regalia. Each session includes exhibition dances performed by individuals. In the past, men have danced the Straight, Traditional, Grass, and Fancy dances. The Traditional dance, for example, tells what happened during a hunting trip or battle. The dancer never turns a complete
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circle, facing his enemy at all times. The regalia consist of a single feather bustle, a hair roach or elaborate feather headdress, and a coup stick. Dancers paint their faces to achieve fierce expressions. Women’s dances include the Buckskin, Jingle, Southern Cloth, and Fancy Shawl. In a typical dance, there are four “pushups,” or repetitions. In all dances, the dancer’s feet move with each beat of the drum, and both feet must be on the ground on the final beat. The Fancy Shawl dance reportedly originated when a sister grieving her fallen brother grabbed a horse blanket, entered the dance circle—in which only men were allowed—and created movements with the blanket while dancing. Thereafter, women joined in, and over time, this woman’s dancing evolved into the Fancy Shawl Dance. Included in the exhibition is a Tiny Tot category where children dance for the audience. Dancers then participate in intertribal dancing during which spectators are invited to take part. Dancers representing the Kiowa, Cherokee, Cheyenne, Comanche, Apache, Alabama-Coushatta, and Navajo tribes have participated in previous powwows. “There’s even a woman from the Micmac (Mi’k maq) nation, located in Nova Scotia, Canada, who attends,” Ben says. “Last year, a
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Choctaw who worked in Kazakhstan took time off to come back to the States to the powwow.” As advisor, Ben also gets help from his wife Lisa, but they stress that the event is student- driven. “The students have to apply for grants to fund the powwow,” Lisa says. They apply to the Community Chest Fund, Diversity Enrichment Committee, and the McMichael Fund to help fund the powwow annually.” In addition, the Fleming Lecture Series, based in the religion department, helps fund the drum groups. Dr. Hal Haskell and the Paideia Program ask various businesses in the Georgetown area to donate food for the dancers, singers, their families, vendors, and volunteers during the day. “We are very fortunate to have the support of the Southwestern University faculty, staff, and students to continue the annual powwow,” Lisa says. The 2012 SU Native Spring Powwow will be held on April 14th starting at eleven o’clock in the Robertson Center. The free event is open to Southwestern, Georgetown, and surrounding communities. “We extend hospitality to the whole community, not just the Native American community,” Lisa says. “We want everyone to feel welcome.” In addition to the dancers and singers, the powwow will have vendors selling their arts and crafts and Native American foods. In addition to assisting with the powwow at Southwestern, Ben, Lisa, and their four children make presentations at GISD and surrounding schools to educate students and staff about Native heritage and cultures. For the Navas, family traditions are cultural tradition.
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any of us go through life without experiencing great tragedy. Kim Turk, founder of Camp Agape, confesses to being one of these people. But not all of us are so lucky, and tragedy seems magnified when it happens to children. How can they cope with the death of a loved one? For children between the ages of seven and twelve, Camp Agape is an innovative addition to counseling. “The initial impression put upon my heart,” Kim says, “was that there needed to be a healing place for hurting children. It needed to be grief-focused so that children who suffered the loss of a parent or a sibling would be able to come together and be around other children who are going through similar circumstances. That in itself is a huge healing component.” Camp Agape is a free, four-day, Christian-based summer camp that features typical summer camp activities—swimming, horseback riding, fishing, and archery. Kim explains that children at this young age find it hard to stay emotionally “down” during the therapeutic activities Camp Agape offers. After a 45-minute therapeu-
tic program, the kids have some fun. “We’ve had children who have come to our camp believing that, if they smile or laugh or have a good time, they’re dishonoring the death of their loved one,” Kim says. “Part of our goal is to teach them that life gives us what it gives us, but that doesn’t mean we stop living. We want them to learn there is hope, there is a future. They can love again and laugh again and heal.” Kim shares a memory from Camp Agape’s first year. “A little boy walked in, and the first thing out of his mouth was, ‘Am I the only little boy here whose dad has died?’ Another little boy raised his hand and said, ‘No, my dad has died, too.’ It was an instant connection between them, and it’s not just a connection they have at camp. These kids continue to stay bonded. . . . Through their grief and their loss, they stay connected.” Camp Agape is a nonprofit organization run by volunteers, including therapists and child psychologists, which is the primary reason the camp holds only one four-day session per year. Camp Agape’s dream is to have its own facility so that volunteers can
provide more sessions each summer. Camp Agape currently rents Highland Lakes Camp in south Austin, which at capacity serves only 80 children. “We would like to have our own facility and potentially open a bereavement center in our own outdoor setting,” says Kim, who hopes to take a more holistic approach to bereavement by combining nature and therapy. “These kids come together [at camp] and lean on each other,” she says. “It’s not so much about ‘therapy.’ The transformation that happens at camp is greater than years and years of one-on-one therapy, with an adult therapist sitting in an office surrounded by books on shelves and certificates on the wall. It’s so much more than that.”
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he foxtrot is not a bouncy dance. You glide, “smooth as a fox in the woods,” says certified dance instructor Lillian Nash into the mic. The whisper of leather soles sliding across the floor intensifies as dancers adjust to this new instruction. They are taking part in a dance lesson, part of this dance club’s three-hour monthly event. The mission of the nonprofit USA Dance is “to improve the quality and quantity of ballroom dancing in the United States.” That’s happening here at Georgetown Chapter 5034 every month, as the room fills with 70 to 80 people of various ages and abilities. “That’s what I love about this club,” says board member Nancy Hanrahan. “Anyone can come.” With admission only $10.00 for
nonmembers and $5.00 for members and students, it’s certainly an affordable evening of entertainment. After the hour-long lesson, there are two hours of general dancing, including the foxtrot, waltz, tango, swing, rumba, cha cha, bolero, and samba. During the intermission, a mixer—also known as a waterfall—pairs dancers with a new partner every few minutes. The men line up on one side and the women on the other. At the head of the room, a couple forms, dances down to the other end, and then parts to get back into line. It looks like organized chaos and it works. With never a shortage of available partners, couples drift easily onto and off the floor during the general dancing, to a playlist that is carefully prepared by board member Jim Nelson and
Karen Jones, writer for the View, enjoys a dance lesson as part of her research for this article
his committee. President Beverly Williams has been dancing all her life. She began in high school and eventually became an Arthur Murray instructor. Though she won’t confirm her age, when Beverly is led out on the dance floor for the cha cha by fellow board member and certified dance instructor Bill Purbaugh, she moves like a girl. The physical benefits are evident. “Football, softball, and running are sports you can do only for so long,” Beverly says as she sips ice water between dances. “Dancing is something you can do your whole life.” Indeed, after a few minutes of dancing, the heart rate goes up, promoting cardiovascular health. The calves and thighs work to move the body fluidly and to adjust its center of gravity. Though it may appear that
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For more information and a calendar of upcoming dances, visit USA Dance Chapter 5034’s web site, http:// usadancegeorgetowntexas.org/, or call Beverly Williams at 512-864-3235.
Lillian Nash, certified Ballroom Instructor
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Lillian Nash teaching students
the legs do all the work, the upper body also gets exercise as couples keep up the “frame” their joined arms make. In addition, core muscles in the abdomen and back work to maintain graceful balance and posture. Dancing is also associated with brain health, similar to activities such as reading and writing for pleasure. The dancers attribute this benefit to the spontaneous decision-making and motor planning necessary for freestyle
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dancing. “This is not choreographed,” says Lillian, the instructor. There are so many dances to learn that just acquiring new skills is a good mental workout. Keeping in mental and physical shape is a happy byproduct of dancing for several of the couples who are in their twenties. For them, dancing is mostly about spending time together, doing an activity they all enjoy, and meeting new people. Board member Larry Robertson and his wife, Anita, began dancing years ago when Larry found a coupon in the back of the phone book. They took a few lessons and were hooked. Jim and Pat Young have been dancing together so long that it’s almost like mindreading. Pat picks up on subtle signals from Jim
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hen Ray Carter neared retirement, he decided it was time to discover a hobby. He just wasn’t sure what it should be. Then he and his wife visited his sister in Louisville, Kentucky, and a project his sister had created caught his interest—a picture made from row upon row of diagonal yarn stitches. Colors blended and changed, coming together like a fiber mosaic to create a beautiful rendition of a family home. Ray asked his sister if he could take the picture home and try to duplicate it. With true sisterly love, she said yes. So he set to work, learning the technique and recreating the picture. That’s when he realized he had found his new hobby—needlepoint. Now, at 89, Ray continues to find pleasure in every aspect of his handwork. By his calculations, he has finished 197 pictures over
Threads of Design the past 30 years and given most The majority of Ray’s portrayals of them away. He says, “I enjoy are architectural. Captivated by the making, the showing, and the that first needlework, his sister’s giving.” stitched picture of a family home, With needle in hand, Ray he found that he loved recreating threads together pieces of hishistoric buildings. He felt tory—buildings and churches of Georgetown, fullbranched trees recording family lineages, his Kentucky homestead, courthouses from all over, and even UT’s Bevo (sorry, Reveille). He also stitches clock faces. Three of his clocks hang in his room, with the twelve apostles’ names marking time on one, the twelve sons of Jacob another, and family represented on the third. “This is just my thing,” says Ray. He finds the repetitive stitching very relaxing. Ray Carter, where he sits each day for hours and works on a
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Stitches in Time from page 23 that others would enjoy seeing them, too, especially if they had walked the same streets and would recognize the stores, courthouses, and churches. When he’s beginning an architectural scene, Ray says, a photo is a must because “you have to know the personality of the building.” Is it traditional or modern, cozy or statuesque? Does it have colorfully painted woodwork or decorative stone moldings? Next, with a general design idea in his head, Ray determines the overall size of canvas he needs, as well as whether to work in needlepoint (with 14 squares to the inch) or petit point (with 18 squares per inch), which accommodates finer detail. Then it’s time to start stitching. Ray selects a color of embroidery thread— he likes the look of embroidery thread better than yarn—and chooses where to place the first stitch. When depicting a building, he usually starts stitching at a corner of the design. If the project is a family tree, he starts at the base of the tree trunk. With clocks, he starts in the middle and works outward. Amazingly, Ray uses no pattern, nor does he create one before starting. He says, “A lot of the time I don’t even know where I’m going.” If he decides he doesn’t like how the design is progressing, that’s okay. “I enjoy pulling the stitches out as much as I enjoy putting them in,” says Ray. Each and every step of the process is gratifying, and he says with a laugh, “A mother don’t have a favorite child.” Stitch by stitch, color by color, he builds—churches with blue and green stained glass, storefronts with arched or pediment windows, detailed columned courthouses. He creates wonderful 3-D 24
effects through color variations. He spends about six hours a day in a comfy recliner by the window, crafting his scenes. Ray insists, “I’m really not an artist,” but his needlework proves otherwise. Stitching Up Enjoyment Ray even incorporates occasional humor into his works. In his Kentucky homestead scene, for example, he included farm animals in the foreground. One of them didn’t turn out looking so great, but Ray didn’t pull out the stitches and start over. Instead, he stitched the words ‘Call Vet’ above the little calf’s head! After a final tied-off thread, the scene is ready for framing. Ray’s son-in-law helps him mat and frame all of his pictures. Then the only question is where to hang it. Sharing his work is just as important to Ray as creating it, so he gives most of his pictures away. The few pieces he’s kept hanging in his room are a delight to visitors, and he gives frequent tours. At Wesleyan Home where he lives, his work is also displayed in the lobby.
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In 2007 Ray began entering his needlework in competitions and has been winning awards ever since, including several First Place ribbons and a Best of Show. He hopes to enter his needlepoint depicting the Wesleyan Homes in a competition this spring. Ray is quick to acknowledge that the Lord gave him this gift. He notes that “all people have gifts, but they may never seek them out.” Whether they portray historic buildings or family trees, Ray’s needlepoint projects are timeless artistic records, and the enjoyment he gets from creating and sharing his scenes is magnified by the pleasure others get from viewing them.
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hen 12-year-old Vivian opened the door, she immediately knew something bad was about to step in. It wasn’t unusual for people to show up on her family’s doorstep in the Dutch village of Vught, especially if, like these two men, one was supported by crutches and the other was missing an arm. The Van der Sande house was a refuge to those needing help. But Vivian took one look at their Nazi uniforms and shouted, “Mom, the
Germans are here!” “It was a Monday evening in early 1944,” Vivian remembers. “They told us we had to be out of our house by Wednesday morning and that we had to leave everything.” That was the first of many times that Vivian Kincaid, now 80, had to pick up her life and put it back together somewhere else. “Adventurous,” she calls her life. Others might look at all that Vivian has survived and call her life something else: Fearless. Brave. Undaunted.
A Dark Cloud on Childhood Vivian was a tomboy who hankered for fun and mischief. She and her brother ran wild in the woods behind their house in Vught. “This was the best part of my childhood,” Vivian recalls. “There was nothing but woods, and heather, and freedom to rove.” In 1942, however, they were banned from the woods. Trees came down, barbed wire went up. A concentration camp mushroomed inside the perimeter. Soon, the road in front of their house filled with a strange, slow parade of Dutch prisoners. Vivian remembers once seeing a shuffling procession of Jewish people. “They were all walking in wooden shoes, although a lot of Dutch people actually didn’t wear wooden shoes. They’re not easy to walk in. But the Germans took away their shoes and made them wear wooden ones.” Vivian’s mother told her five children, “This is only the beginning.” Vivian’s parents joined other villagers in taking food to the prisoners, and when any were
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A LIfe Undaunted from page 29 lucky enough to be released, starving and lice-ridden, they gave them clothes, food, and train tickets. Like other Dutch citizens, her parents refused to bow to the Nazis, and for that the Nazis forced them out of their home. Survival in Amsterdam The family moved to Amsterdam, where trash and hungry people littered the streets. Vivian remembers winter in 1944, when breakfast was a slice of bread, lunch was soup, usually made from potato peels and tulip bulbs, and supper wasn’t much more. Vivian and her little sister stood in long lines before school, hoping to trade the family’s coupons for potatoes, oil, bread—whatever was available. “People walked around with a piece of leather attached to wooden soles” for shoes, Vivian recalls. The Van der Sandes had been forced to abandon their home in Vught, but they did not give up their defiance of the Nazis. Vivian and her siblings weren’t allowed to see them, but they knew that desperate people came and went through the house and that there was a small hidden room on the third floor. For a while, a Jewish man who had lost his entire family lived with them, disguising himself 30
as a woman when he needed to go out. “People came at night, when we were already in bed, or if we were in the living room, we were told not to go see,” she says. “We were told, ‘Never say anything about the people in our house. Never talk to the Germans.’” One day, Vivian witnessed an execution. Fifteen Dutch people, among them a boy near her own age, were lined up and shot in retaliation for a German officer’s death. Vivian could do nothing. “Never talk to the Germans,” she dutifully remembered. For years after the war ended, Vivian dreamed of faceless people taking her away because she’d let something slip to the Germans. Although the war’s end was joyous for Vivian, it was not the fresh start she’d longed for after such deprivation and fear. “I finished high school at 16,” Vivian says. “I wanted to study archeology [at the university], but my mom said, ‘No, you’re going to study medicine.’” Vivian’s disappointment was so severe that she suffered a breakdown. But she pulled herself back up. She worked as a secretary by day and shimmied down the gutter to go dancing at night. “My mom never knew,” Vivian says with some satisfaction. She attended university classes, where she met an American man; her father disowned her when she married him. At 22 years old, she found herself starting over in the Charlotte, North Carolina. In America—and Back into the World For years, Vivian endured her husband’s physical and mental abuse. “There weren’t any shelters for battered women in Charlotte,” she says, and the police ignored her complaints. She kept her sanity by taking college courses, and when she earned a BA in English, she took a bold step: She divorced her husband. She had two children at home and a low-paying job, but her oldest daughter, in college, encouraged her to break free. “So I did it,” Vivian says. “I was scared of what he might do to me. But I did it.” And then she earned a Left: Vivian in Kenya–Peace Corps. Right: “Lunch Buddy” at Williams Elementary
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master’s degree. Vivian might have retreated from the world at that point, but the woman who had flashbacks from war and scars from marriage wasn’t afraid to tackle other challenges. As a high school English teacher, she took on the kids who needed her the most, the troubled kids. She joined the Peace Corps at age 60, though she hesitated when assigned to Poland. “I can’t go to a place where there were extermination camps,” she thought. But she pulled back her shoulders and went anyway. She took a second posting in Kenya in 1988. There, she taught English on a wall painted black to produce a primitive blackboard. She hung her clothes on nails, bathed in a washbasin. “I think I went to more funerals in Kenya than I’ve ever done in my whole life,” Vivian says. So many people died of AIDS. “I had gone through so much in my life— that enabled me to face things like that.” When she returned from the Peace Corps, Vivian accepted a position in a community for mentally-challenged adults. She moved to Georgetown in 2006 to be close to a daughter. “Oma” now dispenses hugs as a lunch buddy at Williams Elementary and is a Friends of the Library volunteer. Would she change anything in her long, adventurous life? The hardships of war? The abuse? What she witnessed in Kenya? Her answer is swift and decisive: She would have been braver. “I would have stood up to my mom and studied archeology.”
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he phone call came out of the blue one morning. “This is the Oklahoma Highway Patrol,” a voice announced. “Is your husband named Edmund Warner?” “Yes,” Karen Warner replied, knowing that friends and family called Edmund “Dan.” She thought he was in Missouri, visiting their daughter. Her stomach clenched as the officer continued. “We found him and his vehicle sitting in the middle of a field, and he didn’t know where he was. It took him a while to even tell us who he was. He’s very disoriented,” he told her. “We’ve taken him to a hospital.” Of course Karen rushed to Oklahoma to get her husband. He didn’t remember how he’d gotten there, but he told Karen that malicious “green men” had fooled him with road signs, diverting him from his route to Texas. After Karen got Dan back home, she took him to see an Austin neurologist. Tests revealed a terrifying diagnosis: Korsakoff’s Syndrome, a type of dementia that results in memory loss, confusion, personality changes, and delusions. Suddenly, all the puzzle pieces fit together for Karen. All those exasperating times she’d told Dan something and he hadn’t remembered it now made sense. “I thought, ‘He never listens to me. No matter what I say, he doesn’t remember it.’” And then there were the arguments in which their perceptions of things and events didn’t mesh. It sometimes seemed like Dan was being contrary just to irritate her. “I didn’t attribute any of that to dementia,” Karen says, looking back. Karen was abruptly forced into the driver’s seat in their marriage. Although no “green men” turned the signs on her, she made many wrong turns in her journey with Dan’s disease. As he sank further into dementia, she had no clear directions for how to deal with his frustrating behavior or with the fact that he wasn’t the Dan she’d married anymore. But F E B R u a r y 2 0 1 2 G E O R G E T O W N view
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She remarried him in 2003, after 12 years apart. “I put him on a diet and Karen found her way, and she can got him in A-1 shape, but mentally…” now offer a road map for others trying Karen’s voice trails off. She had no to navigate a loved one’s dementia. clue that dementia was eroding Dan’s mind—until he ended up in that field A Lift from a Handsome Man in Oklahoma. Karen was just 14 when she met After his diagnosis, Karen cared Dan, who was 18. Her family lived in for Dan at home—but she was not Yokohama, Japan, where her father prepared for how hard it was to live was stationed. One night, when a with someone divorced from reality. double date went awry and Karen “I’m very ashamed of the way I was and a girlfriend were trying to hail a with him [when he was delusional],” cab, a “horribly handsome” military she admits now. “For example, we’d police officer came to their rescue. take our dog, Joy, for a walk, and he’d Karen couldn’t help but sneak glancinsist that I pick up her poop when es at the suave young man who, in there wasn’t any. But rather than her eyes, resembled heartthrob Alan pretend to pick up the poop, I’d argue Ladd. Apparently, he took note of her, with him. I was determined to make too. Dan safely delivered Karen home him see reality.” Karen’s constant to her parents, but a few weeks later, vigilance became exhausting as Dan, he asked Karen’s father for permislost in his own world, grew agitated sion to date her. “My parents just and began tearing up things: his medloved him right away,” Karen rememals, a Bronze Star, military memenbers. “He was always respectful to toes. She spent nights on the couch, women. I think that’s what made me ready to intercept him if he tried to fall in love with him.” leave the house or break something. Karen was 19 when Dan was ordered to Okinawa for two Finally, Karen had an epiphany. “I realized that dementia is years. With that daunting separation hanging over them, they a constant death, because you get used to one person, and married. The newlyweds had a week together before Dan left. then they’re gone, and you’re constantly grieving the loss of During Dan’s 26-year military career, the couple endured that person that they were. You get used to who they become, other separations—the hardest when Dan was sent to Vietand then that person is gone, too, and a new person is in their nam—but they also led a rich life together. Along with raising place.” The reality, she finally saw, was that Dan needed care two children, the couple served as leaders in various organizaby people who understood his world—and let him live in it. tions such as the Masons, Eastern Star, and the NoncommisShe had to say goodbye to the Dan she’d once known and acsioned Officers’ Wives Club. They were avid golfers and bowlcept him as he now was. ers, and they volunteered in the communities where they lived. Karen chose the Lodge at Rocky Hollow, a dementia facility, as the place for Dan. “The Lodge is not a nursing home,” Warning Signs Karen explains. “They are strictly there to give people like Dan Like so many other couples, however, the Warners hit a a home—everything there is geared toward people like him.” rough patch. “We were really going in different directions,” When Karen visits Dan, she finds him content and comfortable; Karen realizes now. “He was ready to retire, and I wasn’t.” he has friends and a routine, and he has a pleasant, safe place After 31 years of marriage, they divorced in 1991. “We kept in to roam. She can relax and just enjoy who he is now. “We’ll touch, though,” Karen says. “I saw him on visits at our daughsit and talk,” Karen says. “He doesn’t always make sense, but ter’s house. We’d talk on the whatever he’s saying is funny phone and all that.” to him, and I’ll end up laughDuring one of those visits, ing, too.” Karen’s advice for people dealing with a Karen was shocked at the Once, Dan drove Karen loved one’s dementia: change in Dan’s appearance home and fell in love with her. Let go—accept changes in your loved one’s personality since she’d last seen him. “He’d Now, wherever Dan drives her Relax—go into your loved one’s world and enjoy it gotten huge, well over 200 in his new and shifting landpounds,” she says, “but what scape, Karen goes along. Part Give up the guilt—you aren’t less of a person because you scared me most was the gray of loving him is letting him can’t handle caretaking alone color of his skin. I thought, take the wheel. Choose a dementia facility—visit facilities, and look for an ‘This man needs care.’ And to engaged, happy staff that specializes in dementia be honest, I still loved him.” from page 34
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Engaging in Diamonds A brief history of diamond engagement rings By
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istory records that the Archduke Maximilian of Austria was the first person to give his betrothed a diamond engagement ring—in 1477. For hundreds of years, only the very wealthiest could afford such a ring, but the discovery in the late 1800s of South Africa’s diamond mines made the jewel more available and affordable. However, it wasn’t until the 1930s that the United States became a marketplace for high-quality diamonds, making the diamond ring the engagement ring of choice for Americans. Tiffany & Co., a name synonymous
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with diamonds and little blue boxes, invented their signature design—the prong setting—in the late 1800s. The prong setting allows light to reach all facets of the diamond, creating, according to Tiffany’s, a “stunning radiance.” The prong setting is still popular, but Franklin Pulliam of Franklin Jewelers on the Square in Georgetown says, “It matters how a diamond is cut, not how it is set. Most people, when they hear the four Cs—color, cut, clarity, carat weight—think cut means round, oval, pearshaped, marquis, but it doesn’t. It means how well the diamond is proportioned to return light back to the viewer.” When people are not aware of cut, the average diamond is good enough, but Franklin explains that the cut makes more difference in the beauty of the diamond than the other Cs or any other factor. “Many times you’ll go to a jewelry store and you’ll see a diamond set real high. If you ask why, they’ll
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tell you that’s so the diamond can get light. If a diamond has to get light from underneath, it’s cut wrong. You should be able to take the diamond so it’s getting no light from underneath and that diamond should still sparkle and shine.” The current style of engagement rings has circled back to the 1930s era. Franklin believes people enjoy the vintage look and the micro pave diamonds. “With all the little diamonds on the shank, it gets people’s attention,” he says. “Instead of having a metal shank, you have diamonds, and that adds a lot more bling to it.” Whatever the reason, whatever the style, it seems that the Archduke Maximilian of Austria was onto something with his gift to Mary of Burgundy. Diamonds have been the jewel of choice to symbolize love and commitment for over 500 years—and their dazzling beauty shows no sign of dimming any time soon.
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hether it happens in the form of an unraveling thread, a jagged tear, a split binding, or a discoloring stain, damage to a quilt can occur over time or in an instant. Repeated washings or exposure to natural and artificial light can also stress a quilt’s fabric, stitching, or binding. An over-excited Labrador puppy may chew a hole in the patchwork, or a college-bound daughter may carry the family heirloom across the country to her dorm room and then pass the quilt on to her own daughter a generation later. “Every quilt is different,” says Peggie Tindle, who provides quilt repair services through Handcrafts Unlimited on the Square. “Every one that comes in has a different problem. Sometimes the quilt is really easy to repair and only takes a couple of hours, such as when new fabric is pulling away from old fabric, and sometimes
it takes a long time and requires more involved work. Every quilt is a challenge in itself.” The process for repairing a quilt, Peggie explains, involves a few simple steps but requires dexterous skill and expertise as well. She begins by examining the quilt and looking closely at the pattern as she seeks to complement the original design of the quilt as much as possible. Then she will cut the needed fabric to size and use an appliqué process to attach the new pieces of fabric to the quilt. She will also mend the lining, insert new filling, stitch up the binding, and make any other necessary repairs. “I keep a pretty good stash of older, muted fabric for repairs,” Peggie says. “Quilts today are made only of cotton fabric, but they used to be made using a wide variety of material, such as wool, denim, and even old clothes. I will go through my fabric stash and look for
something that looks good with By the quilt. Sometimes I will even wash and dry a piece of fabric a couple of times so that it doesn’t look new.” Photos by Once repaired, a quilt needs ongoing maintenance to stay in healthy condition. Proper care and cleaning, Peggie explains, can extend the lifespan of the quilt and add to its owner’s enjoyment of this useful and beautiful item. “I think people are just realizing that quilts are an art form,” she says. “I like to see old things used and not just stored away. Once a quilt is repaired, then someone can use it or show it, and other people have a chance to enjoy it. I love being able to help to repair something that is Handcrafts Unlimited on the meaningful and can Square provides a detailed be useful to someone handout on the storage and else.” cleaning of quilts.
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move.” Bob Stine, owner and operator with his wife, Nancy, of Stine Travel Associates, feels the same. “I really enjoy the travel. I enjoy the challenge of planning a trip.” Bob and Nancy Stine map out every trip before they escort a group. They drive through the area to plan how long the drive will take and scope out the best places to stop. They know where to stay, where to eat, what to do, and when to do it because they’ve done it all themselves first! The Stines feel this is an advantage they offer over other travel companies. “[Our clients] are not signing up with just anybody. They
feel more comfortable traveling with us. We’ve been told they feel a certain amount of security traveling with us because they know things will be taken care of.” Bob and Nancy have been in the travel industry for over 30 years. They started out booking high school ski trips and high school band trips to Disney World. “But as we got older,” Bob says, “our clientele got older, and we migrated toward adult travel.” After Bob and Nancy moved from Beaumont to Sun City 10 years ago, their business grew by word of mouth. “We have good clientele, but we’re always looking for more people,” says Bob, who stresses that their business is adult group travel. The Stines also travel internationally. For these trips they use established companies like Grand
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Georgetown Toastmasters An international organization to improve speaking and leadership skills
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ave you ever had to address a roomful of people? Does your heart race? Do your palms sweat? You’re not alone. It’s been jokingly said that many people fear public speaking more than they do death. “I’ve been in Toastmasters a long time,” says Mike Leviant, “and I’ve seen many people give speeches. I’ve yet to see anyone die from it.” For more than 35 years, Mike has been a member of Toastmasters International, the world’s largest organization dedicated solely to self-improvement. The mission of a Toastmasters club is to provide a mutually supportive and positive learning environment in which every member has the opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills, which in turn foster self-confidence and personal growth. With 275,000 members in 109 different nations, Toastmasters has 13,000 separate chapters or clubs, including one here in Georgetown. Sabrina Gren, president of the Georgetown chapter of Toastmasters, admits that her palms still sweat when she speaks in public, but she says, “You learn how to control being nervous.” “They say you don’t get rid of the butterflies, you teach them to fly in formation,” Mike jokes.
Each person who joins Toastthat was organized like a speed masters, Sabrina explains, “has dating event. Hopeful applicants to give 10 speeches in the beginwere allotted 90 seconds to tell ning.” The speeches are evaluated each company representative why by the more senior members of they should be given an interview. the group. “I have had some really “It was table topics at its finest,” great evaluators who have helped Sabrina says. Toastmasters’ table me become a better speaker.” topics are one- to two-minute imLocal realtor and Toastmasters promptu speeches. “Someone will member Lindsay Currey agrees. randomly throw you a question, Lindsay admits to being one of and you have no idea what it’s gothose weird people who actuing to be. That’s what this speed ally enjoys speaking in public: “I pitching was.” The situation was wasn’t good at sports, but I can unexpected, but Sabrina managed talk!” Yet she had fallen into some to rise to the occasion, and she bad habits common to public thanks Toastmasters for it. speaking. Evaluators rate not only “Being a better communicator speech skills but also physical helps you in almost every facet of behaviors. Without knowing it, your life,” Mike says. “The abilLindsay used distracting gestures ity to communicate helps your and mannerisms as she spoke. family relationships. It helps your She also used the dreaded filler work relationships. There’s almost words “ah” and “um.” She says, nothing that being a better com“As a salesperson, as a profesmunicator won’t have a positive sional, when you use filler words, effect upon.” it makes you sound like you don’t know what you’re talking about, which is The Georgetown Chapter of Toastmasters not the case at all. meets in the GISD administration It’s just a habit”—a habit everyone can building on Lakeway the second and learn to correct. fourth Thursday of the month from 7 to Sabrina recently 8 p.m. For more information, visit www. had an opportunity to put her ToastGeorgetownToastmasters.com masters skills to the test when she attended a job fair
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Much Ado About a Minnow A tiny fish draws a crowd on the Rio Grande
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verhead, a Border Patrol helicopter circled, making sure the brush along the Rio Grande, where they’d strategically stationed officers with guns, was clear of threats. Along the shore, Big Bend National Park rangers were alert for problems. Then biologists from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and from Texas Parks and Wildlife, as well as other scientists, all donned fishermen’s waders. A woman with a clipboard barked orders at two cameramen from the Discovery Channel. About noon, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar arrived with Mexican Environment Min-
ister Juan Elvira and his entourage—fresh from dedicating the construction of a border river crossing at Boquillas, Mexico. People scrambled to get a view on the slick shoreline as he and the Mexicans pulled on borrowed waders and plunged into the murky Rio Grande. All those people—all with cameras—were there for the sake of a tiny, shiny fish. Or, more accurately, about 267,000 fish. “It’s so cool, how all those people are here to make much ado about a little fish,” said Bruce Moring, who traveled from Georgetown to participate in the October 24, 2011, release of the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow into its historic habitat
in Big Bend National Park. The release was part of an effort by Mexico and the U.S. to “improve the health and resiliency of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo ecosystem,” said Fish and Wildlife biologist Aimee Roberson, who spearheaded the release. Bruce, an aquatic biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey in Austin, is leading a study on how different river flows affect minnow habitat. Trucks equipped with special holding tanks had traveled all night from a hatchery in New Mexico with the fish, and that morning Fish and Wildlife biologists replaced tank water with water siphoned from the Rio Grande to acclimatize the fish to their new home. When the
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“The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant, ‘What good is it?’ If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not
temperature in the tanks matched that of the river water, people formed a bucket brigade to get the minnows into the Rio Grande. “The silvery minnow may be small, but it is an important part of the food chain,” Bruce explained. “Algae gets eaten by minnows, and in turn larger fish, like channel catfish, eat them. Part of restoring the river is restoring the food chain. It’s worth driving all this way and getting muddy.” He gestured to the desert mountains beyond the river and added, “It’s absolutely beautiful here.”
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edy Chen wishes we lived in a world with no illness. As a licensed acupuncturist and practitioner of Chinese medicine, she believes that if there is an ailment, there is also a treatment, and she is confident that these treatments are found in Chinese medicine. Hedy wants people to know that Chinese medicine produces
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quick results, but she points out, “It’s not Most insurance companies cover the cost of magic. We deal with acupuncture. For more information on this and the body as a whole on Hedy Chen, visit at www.cacuclinic.com. The by using known office is located at 3613 Williams Drive, Ste. physiology.” For 303, and the phone number is (512)864-1441. instance, if a patient came to Hedy with a stomach ailment, she would not scribed medication and Chinese focus solely on the stomach. “I medicinal herbs, and she is very would also look at all the other careful to go over this informadigestive organs because they all tion with her patients. She would work together with the stomach.” never compromise her patients’ Many people have the wrong well-being. idea about Chinese medicine. It Hedy admits that sometimes doesn’t require excessive visits, her treatments may seem simple and most ailments don’t require or lack the flash and glamour of extensive treatments. “Some illmodern Western medicine. “If you nesses do,” Hedy acknowledges, tell people to eat an orange for vi“but when I treat pain, most tamin C, people feel it’s not fancy. people will experience immediate Tell them to take ascorbic acid relief in the office.” supplement and they ask, ‘What’s On average it takes seven days that? It must be better for me.’” to rid the body of the common That’s not always the case. cold and flu, but Hedy claims she One day Hedy would like for can treat these illnesses in three people in Georgetown to be able days. “My mentor says that if you to state that they have great Chicannot treat a cold or flu within nese medicine care. She knows three days, you need to study that a growing number of people more!” A combination of herbs are expressing an interest in and acupuncture relieves the Chinese medicine, but she doesn’t symptoms more quickly, but if a understand why they try Chinese choice must be made, Hedy sugmedicine as a last resort. “Why gests herbs. don’t people do it the other way?” A licensed acupuncturist studies Chinese medicine is effective and herb and drug interaction training could be a preventative medicine in school. Hedy has studied the instead of a last attempt. “They interactions between doctor-presuffer less, they spend less.”
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hrough a cloud of dust, Lauren Frazier makes her way through the milling crowds of parents, kids, and judges gathered for the annual Williamson County Youth Fair. She’s heading to the Georgetown FFA (Future Farmers of America) pens at the show barn with her goat— newly bathed, clipped, polished, and fed—and she’s nervous. It’s her third year to show, but it’s the first for the prized goat she lovingly calls “Goatie.” After Lauren changes into her pink longsleeved shirt and gives Goatie a few last words of encouragement, she leads him to the show ring to strut his stuff before the judge. Folks watching the stocky goat follow Lauren into the arena for inspection might believe that Goatie’s done this before. “Practice makes perfect,” Lauren says. “You have to work with the animal for a few hours every day to get it used to walking with you.” Lauren confidently demonstrates that she’s ready for the judge’s scrutiny. Judges, she says, also look for muscle on the animal. Winning goats should sport “a constant muscle down the back. It should look like a loaf of bread,” she explains. “They teach us a lot in FFA,” she adds, knowing that all of the feeding, packing on muscle, and hours of working
with the animal come down to this moment for her and Goatie. Showing animals is just one skill that FFA students learn. The high school club also instills leadership and personal growth through agriculture. Students show lambs, rabbits, pigs, goats, and other animals they’ve raised. Lauren says, “I’ve had dogs and cats, but I wanted to learn about and show different animals, so I joined FFA.” She learned not only about other animals, but also about responsibility and commitment. “If you’re not committed to caring for the animal and putting in the hours, you probably won’t do well,” she says. She also better understands the value of a dollar. Raising her show goat “taught me what things cost. You have to feed [the animal] and take it to the vet. It taught me a lot about life and money.” As a high school senior, Lauren has some decisions to make about her future. She’s set her sights on Stephen F. Austin University. “As a child, I was always interested in becoming a veterinarian. This experience has held my interest in animal science,” says Lauren. But she’s undecided; she’s also considering becoming an architect. One thing’s for certain—Lauren knows what it takes to commit to something and see it through to the end.
Lauren and her goat placed an impressive fifth in their class of approximately 20 entrants from all over the county. “Goats definitely have personalities. My goat is silly, but he can be hard-headed like me,” Lauren says with a grin. Some exhibitors sell their show animals for consumption. “For now,” Lauren says, “I’ll just hold onto him. I’ll probably end up keeping him. I get attached, and I just couldn’t put him on a meat truck.”
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By In 2006, the Kyles donated their domain to the Travis Audubon Society. Paul says that, aside from marrying as teenagers and buying their property, this is the best decision they’ve ever made. He explains that Travis Audubon “will work with us until we die, and then continue to protect and nurture the property as a sanctuary in perpetuity.” Paul and Georgean have built a legacy benefitting both nature and everyone who visits. Paul says, “The For more information about Paul and Georgean Kyle legacy is just or chimney swifts, visit www.ChimneySwifts.org. To serendipity,” learn more about Travis Audubon’s Chaetura Canyon but there Sanctuary and to view a schedule of events, go to www.TravisAudubon.org and click on Conservation/ is no doubt Sanctuaries/Chaetura Canyon. that love, devotion, and hard work made this legacy soar.
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iet books by the hundreds, trendy new workouts, and every piece of exercise equipment you could ever want to spend your money on—it’s all available. But do you need it? If your current program isn’t generating the fitness level you’re pursuing, or if you want to enhance your current program, you can accomplish either objective by properly modifying your program using the F.I.T.T. formula: Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type. Frequency How frequently you exercise largely determines your current fitness level. Most people need to work out a minimum of three times a week. If you have more time, then working out four or five times a week will help you achieve a higher level of fitness.
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To sustain at least three weekly workouts: - Write down specific fitness objectives. - Track completion of your workout against those objectives. - Exercise with a friend—use the buddy system. - Set a goal to participate in an upcoming event, such as a 5K run.
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Hearts of Palm Salad Ingredients: 1 jar Roland hearts of palm (or other brand) 1 container grape tomatoes 1 handful fresh basil 2 Tbs good olive oil 2 Tbs white balsamic vinegar (do not use dark balsamic vinegar) Sea salt & fresh ground black pepper to taste Preparation: Chiffonade the basil (stack the leaves, roll them loosely into a tube, and use a sharp knife to cut across the tube, producing long, thin strips). Slice grape tomatoes in half lengthwise. Slice hearts of palm into one-quarter-inch wide disks. Whisk the oil and vinegar together in a medium bowl. Add the rest of the ingredients to the bowl and toss gently. Serve in a fun dish such as a margarita glass or in a butter lettuce leaf.
Butternut Squash Risotto Ingredients: 1½ cups diced (¼ inch) peeled, seeded fresh butternut squash 4 cups chicken or vegetable stock +1 sprig thyme 1 shallot, finely chopped 1 Tbs olive oil ¾ cup Arborio rice 1 oz. grated Pecorino Romano (1/3 cup) 1 Tbs butter Preparation: Roast the diced butternut squash on a cookie sheet until tender and lightly golden, 20–25 minutes at 375° Fahrenheit. Bring stock to a simmer in a small saucepan and keep at a bare simmer. Cook shallot in oil in a 2 to 2½-quart heavy saucepan over moderate heat, stirring occasionally, until softened, about 3 minutes. Add rice and cook, stirring, 1 minute. Add 1 cup simmering stock and cook at a strong simmer, stirring constantly, until stock is absorbed. Continue simmering, adding stock ½ cup at a time, stirring constantly and letting each addition be absorbed before adding the next, until rice is tender and creamylooking but still al dente, 18–20 minutes total. (There may be broth left over.) Remove rice from heat and stir in diced butternut, cheese, and butter, stirring until butter is melted. Season with salt and pepper, and cover to keep warm. Makes four servings.
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Ingredients: 2 rib-eyes or New York strips Salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste 1 garlic clove, minced 1 Tbs olive oil 2 small shallots, minced 1/3 c. cognac or brandy 1 cup chicken broth 1 tsp chopped fresh thyme (or ¼ tsp dried thyme) 2 Tbs cold butter 1 Tbs Dijon mustard
Ingredients: 15 large bamboo skewers Green food coloring 15 large strawberries 6 oz. Ghirardelli or Callebaut chocolate (not chips) Silk greens or Italian parsley Clay pot or vase Marbles to fill pot or vase 2/3 full
Preparation: Rub steaks with salt, pepper, and garlic clove. Sauté in 1 Tbs olive oil 3–5 minutes per side, depending on thickness. Remove from pan and cover to keep warm. Add shallots to pan and sauté till browned. Deglaze the pan with cognac, stirring to release cooked bits of shallot, and add chicken broth. Reduce to half and add juices accumulated from plate. Whisk in the thyme, Dijon mustard, and cold butter. Pour over steaks and serve immediately.
Chop the chocolate and set 1/3 aside. Melt the other 2/3 of the chocolate to 110° Fahrenheit over a double boiler. Remove from heat, and add the other 1/3. Gently stir till all the chunks are incorporated.
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stress and to actually relax, someThe studio’s 16 instructors teach thing she had longed to experimore than 20 different classes ence after a busy workday. weekly for all levels of students. “There is so much breath work “Yoga can help with so many in yoga,” Shawn says. “Yoga can health issues,” Shawn says. be everything from restorative “I have seen people experience postures to a really good workout, general wellness and weight loss but if you do only the breath work, and people with chronic pain feel it’s the most important thing. better. The cool thing about yoga Learning how to breathe effecis that it can be modified for anytively and efficiently is huge. My body, depending on the individlife has been much more peaceual’s need. For me personally, it ful as a result, regardless of what has become a way of life. It really is happening. I have even found has been an amazing journey.” myself becoming more creative with problem solving and more mindful with what I do every day.” Shawn’s experience with the benefits of yoga had such an important and beneficial impact on her life that she and her husband, Jeff, opened Moksha Yoga on the Square in downtown Georgetown a little over a year ago. (Moksha is a Sanskrit word that means “freedom” or “liberation.”) The studio offers a beginning yoga series, core cultivation classes, and yoga therapy and rehabilitation, in addition to a normal Shawn Maurice and Leticia Olivarez yoga class schedule.
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2 | THE BIG MAX BAND at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35, www. hardtailsbarandgrill.com 3 | FIRST FRIDAY. On the Square, 6-8pm, Shop, Live Music (check out Cianfranis) Stroll. thegeorgetownsquare.com 3 | STOOCH plays at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35. www. hardtailsbarandgrill.com 3 | AWARD’S BANQUET. Georgetown Chamber of Commerce, 6pm, Gabriel Springs Event Center 5299 W. Hwy 29, $50 pp. georgetownchamber.org 4 | ENCORE GEORGETOWN. Austin Civic Orchestra and Guest, 7:30-9:30pm, Alma Thomas Theatre, 1001 E. University 4 | CUPID’S CHASE 5K. 8:30am, cupid.georgetown.org
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4 | PLANET TEXAS plays at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35, www.hardtailsbarandgrill.com 8 | KING CORN. Southwestern University Documentary Film Festival on Ethics of Food, 6:30pm, Olin Building on Campus, Free (1st of several documentaries) 8 | GUEST & FACULTY RECITAL. Chuck Dillard and Dana Zenobi, 7pm, Alma Thomas Theatre, Southwestern University 9 | SONNY WOLF BAND at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35. www.hardtailsbarandgrill.com 10 | Crush plays at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35. www.hardtailsbarandgrill.com 11 | TEEN VALENTINE DANCE. 7-10pm, Crowning of King and Queen, Food, Prizes. 512 E. University Ave. $5 presale, $10 at door
17 | Leigh Cates Band at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35, www.hardtailsbarandgrill.com 18 | VALENTINE’S ARTISTS SHOWCASE. 5-9pm, 512 E, University, Local Photography Exhibit, Silent Auction, Dinner, Show, Wine. Dinner Showcase (all events) $35 presale. General Admission Free 18 | GARRETT ISLAND PADDLE & PICNIC. Lake Buchanan, 8am-6pm for ages 8 a& up, Bald Eagles are back!) adventuregeorgetown.org or 512-769-8365 18 | WEATHERMAN plays at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35, www.hardtailsbarandgrill.com 19 | GETTING STARTED WORKSHOP. John Berry Chapter of Daughters of the Republic of Texas, 2pm-4pm, Hewlett Room of the Georgetown Pub Library Free. Learn how to get started in genealogy research, photo preservation, research internet out outside sources 21 | ANNUAL FAT TUESDAY GAME DAY & LUCHEON EVENT. 9:30am-2:30pm, San Gabriel Women’s Club. San Gabreil Community Center, Bridge – Dominoes – Canasta – Mexican Train and more. $20, breakfast, lunch, games, $10 Lunch only, cash & door prizes, raffles, local scholarships and charities. 512-863-8269 & 512-218-0248 22 | FOOD MATTERS. Southwestern University Documentary Film Festival on Ethics of Food, 6:30pm, Olin Building on Campus, Free 23 | SWAMP SAUCE plays at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35, www.hardtailsbarandgrill.com
11 | MELODIC DRIFTER BAND at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35. www.hardtailsbarandgrill.com
25 | KB & THE HEADLINERS plays at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35, 512-869-5454
11 | ALL FOR THE LOVE OF BOOKS. Hill Country Book Festival, 10am-3pm, San Gabriel Community Center in San Gabriel Park, 445 E. Morrow, Over 40 Authors, Children’s Activities, Free, hillcountrybookfestival.org
26 | BRIDAL SHOW. East View High School, noon-5pm, 4490 East University Avenue
12 | DANCE, USA. Dance Georgetown Chapter, 7-10pm, Sun City Village Center at 2 Texas Dr, $5 members and students, $9 nonmembers, dancegeorgetowntexas.com 70
16 | BRIAN HANKIN & BREWER NATIONS at Hardtails, 1515 IH 35, 512-869-5454
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27-28 | BROWN SYMPOSIUM. Back to Foodture:Sustainable Strategies to Reverse a Global Crises, www.southwestern.edu/academics/ brownsymposium
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3 Big Miracle 3 Chronicle 3 The Woman in Black 10 Journey 2: The Mysterious Island
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A Friend Along the Tax Trail County coalition makes tax time less taxing By
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For more information, contact: LeAnn Powers, Chief Professional Officer United Way of Williamson County P.O. Box 708 Round Rock, TX 78680 512-255-6799 leann@unitedway-wc. org
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couple walked into a Financial Stability Coalition site where free tax preparation services were being offered. They were apprehensive because the man had not filed taxes from the previous year, so they assumed that any returns would be discounted by late fees. LeAnn Powers of Williamson County United Way says, “Our volunteers prepared both returns and found that he would actually get a small refund from the previous year.” Getting the help they needed to complete both returns allowed the couple to move forward. “They were so grateful for the additional time the volunteers spent with them—at no cost,” recalls LeAnn. If you live in Williamson County, you may be able to enlist a friendly volunteer to walk you through the taxing process of filing a tax return. The Coalition, made up of five entities, expands on a year-old program that offers free tax preparation to low- to moderateincome residents. In addition to the two sites added in 2011, two more will be introduced in 2012, with one in Georgetown and another in Sun City. Program volunteer Kristee Watts says, “Clients are amazed that we provide this service for free.” Kristee, who volunteers in different capacities in the community, says this program is different than others because her clients get immediate help. Kristee recalls many refunds that citizens are unaware of. She says, “Some families walk away with up to 25 percent of their income in refunds.” She adds F E B R u a r y 2 0 1 2 G E O R G E T O W N view
that “too many single moms to count have come in to get help. Most of them are not aware of what’s available to them. When they are told of the amount that will be refunded, many are moved to tears.” The program goals are two-fold: to help qualified families receive tax preparation services for free and to ensure they will get all the tax credits due them. Last year the number that received help increased by 35 percent and the monies in returns increased by 36 percent. In addition, clients saved more than $400,000 in fees. The coalition hopes to serve 750 to 1,000 more families in 2012 than in 2011. Each volunteer has completed a minimum of 16 hours training to become IRS certified, and volunteers also have resources available to help them efficiently answer all tax questions. LeAnn recalls a particular client, a woman working her way through college, who came to the Taylor site. The volunteer learned that she was a student and determined that she was eligible for the American Opportunity Credit, a compensation she had not been aware of. “The credit allowed her to receive a refund of two thousand dollars—roughly equivalent to the amount she paid in college tuition,” recounts LeAnn. Expanding on the tax assistance program, the Coalition is planning a no-cost Financial Fitness Festival to equip county residents for financial stability. The festival is scheduled to premiere in March 2012 and includes workshops, exhibits, food, kids’ activities, and more.
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