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HAPPY FATHER’S DAY A Salute to Our Fathers and the Guys Taken Too Soon

Southwest Edition Published monthly by Lifestyles After 50 Volume 30, Issue 6 Publisher Ed Graves Ed.Graves@lifestylesafter50.com Editor Terri Bryce Reeves Terri.Reeves@lifestylesafter50.com Website Coordinator Allie Shaw Allie.Shaw@lifestylesafter50.com Distribution Nancy Spencer Nancy.Spencer@lifestylesafter50.com Questions/Customer Service 813-653-1988 • 1-888-670-0040 Press Releases Editor@lifestylesafter50.com Advertising Sales Karen Lyons: 941-505-0101 deadlinelady@comcast.net

Flight Officer Robert W. Heyn of Toledo, Ohio

y first summer job was working as a soda jerk at my parents’ pharmacy, Orchard Drugs, in Toledo, Ohio. I was 14 and that summer, the fountain actually lost money.

Apparently, I was way too generous with the syrup, ice cream, nuts and other toppings. Ah, but it kept me out of trouble, my parents reasoned, and I made good tips.

I also made many friends, including one delightful woman who came in occasionally. She never told me her name or that she knew my folks, but after I went back to school in the fall, she called my mother to tell her what great manners I had, such as when I said, “It’s my pleasure.”

As I would learn, she was the mother of a young serviceman, Flight Officer Robert Warren Heyn, who was killed in World War II. He was a member of a bomber group stationed in England; the plane he was navigating, the Flying Fortress, was shot down in combat over France. My mother, to whom he was engaged, had a nightmare premonition of his burning plane tumbling from the sky a couple of nights before it happened.

World War II was the deadliest military conflict in our history.

It is estimated that between 70- and 85-million people perished– about 3% of the world’s population in 1940.

I don’t know if Bob was the only child of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Heyn, but I have wondered if the woman who befriended me that summer may have regarded me as the granddaughter that

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war stole away—and that fate would later return, if only for a brief period of time.

I would have liked to have known her better.

War may be a necessary evil on this planet, but the fact remains that it is a thief that not only takes away our children, but our children’s children as well. It robs us of our future family members and, along with that, our awaiting dreams, memories, reunions and celebrations. The survivors are left missing not only their loved ones but yearning for the ones who will never be.

On this Father’s Day, we honor our fathers, celebrate fatherhood and pay tribute to those men whose lives were taken too early in service to their nation. Many were never given the opportunity to become fathers, but they are remembered nevertheless.

We hope you enjoy our June edition featuring one of our favorite fathers and family men, Hugh Jackman. See you in July.

Terri Bryce Reeves

~ Nancy Gibbs, former managing editor for Time magazine

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Good News ‘Ding’ Tarpon Tournament Raises Record $125K

Tarpon Tournament first place winners, Team Dorado Boatworks, are surrounded by sponsors and ‘Ding’ staffers as they receive a check for $13,410. From left to right: Lynnae Messina, Dot Voorhees, Joe Harrity, Seth Hayes, Eric Davis, Randall Marsh, Sierra Hoisington, Monica Scroggin and Marty Harrity.

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he eighth annual Ding Darling & Doc Ford’s Tarpon Tournament on May 3 topped previous years’ fundraising efforts by netting $125,000 from tournament sponsorships, donations, and silent auction proceeds to benefit the J.N. Ding Darling National Wildlife Refuge. Anglers documented a record 88 tarpon catches this year, compared to as few as two and as many as 49 in the previous seven years. The first-place prize went to Team Dorado Boatworks for catching seven fish.

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’d like to have a conversation about bare-chested men. And no, this topic did not arise because of erotic fantasies about Vladimir Putin.

But rather, a reality that confronts me regularly now that the weather has heated up here in South Florida.

As I walk my dog, it is not unusual for me to encounter a topless male of a certain age. Said male has removed his T-shirt because he is hot. He is probably unaware that his unsolicited nakedness is raising my body temperature — and not in a good way.

While a woman can’t reveal the upper half of her anatomy without censure or possible arrest, a man can. And I’m not at all advocating for equal treatment when it comes to disrobing. But I do have a question where men are concerned: Just because you can, does it mean that you should?

Obviously, there are certain environments where it’s perfectly acceptable to let it all hang out such as the beach or one’s backyard — but stripping on a public street? Let’s please rethink that option, even if you’re too young for Social Security.

None of us is perfect.

And those among us who are retirement age may have left that idyllic image behind a while ago. That’s fine. Love thyself, I say.

But casually passing a guy on the sidewalk shouldn’t have to be an intimate visual exchange. Hey, neighbor, knowing that you have sagging pectorals and an appendix scar is simply too much information!

Remember “Ugly Naked Guy” from the TV show Friends? Well, we never really saw his face on the series, but my theory is, he went on a diet and moved to South Florida after the season finale. I think I saw him at the supermarket as he parked his car next to mine.

One quick glance at his shirtless torso told me all I needed to know: he was scrawny, hairy, and had pasty white skin. Presumably “UNG” was wearing pants, but I didn’t wait long enough to find out. It’s at least 24 hours, and I still haven’t managed to “un-see” him.

I’m no prude, but I would appreciate just a bit more modesty. Fortunately, there are public places that do frown on male toplessness like restaurants and even gyms, where sweat equals success.

So gentlemen, please remember it’s as hot for me as it is for you outdoors. So jog, bike, fast-walk, stroll, whatever you like. But for heaven’s sake, keep your shirt on.

Susan Goldfein’s newest book, How to Complain When There’s Nothing to Complain About, is available at Amazon.com. Read her blog at: www.SusansUnfilteredWit.com. Email Susan at SusanGoldfein@aol.com

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‘HUGH JACKMAN:

The Man. The Music. The Show.’

By RANDAL C. HILL

Photo Credit: Ben Watts

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ugh Jackman has kicked off his 22-stop world concert tour, and with one big, shiny, two-anda-half-hour show planned in Tampa on July 5, we thought this would be the perfect opportunity to pull back the curtain and take a closer look at one of today’s greatest showmen, his music, and his upcoming songand-dance revue.

The saucy Aussie, an Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-, Grammy- and Tony Award-winning headliner, will be performing hits from The Greatest Showman, Les Misérables, Broadway and film replete with a dance troupe and a live orchestra. Ladies, expect a flirty wink and a tight-pants wiggle now and then from the fun-loving guy. *** Hugh Michael Jackman was born on October 12, 1968, in Sydney, New South Wales. His English parents had migrated to Australia a year before Hugh’s birth. Jackman attended the all-boy Knox Grammar

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School in Sydney, where he excelled at rugby, Jackman’s star rose higher—much higher—when, cricket and high-jumping, and swam on the in 2000, he became Wolverine in the Marvel Comicsschool team. based X-Men films. From 2000 to 2017, he appeared Initially planning to become a chef, Jackman in nine of the hugely successful superhero movies. found himself bitten by the show-biz bug And after the blockbusters Les Misérables and The early on when he starred in a production, Greatest Showman, we hear The Greatest Showman 2 at age 16, of My Fair Lady. After high is in the works with a possible Christmas 2020 release. school graduation, Jackman entered Sydney’s *** University of Technology and earned a B. A. To relax when he’s home, Jackman meditates, degree in communications. During his senior practices yoga and noodles around on guitar, piano year, he took a drama course to fill in some and violin. (Is there anything this man can’t do— required credits; in doing so, he won the other than hold a job at a convenience store?) His lead in a production of Vaclav Havel’s dark philanthropic projects include Microcredit, which comedy The Memorandum. extends small loans to prospective entrepreneurs in By the close of that production, Jack- impoverished countries, and he advises the Global man knew that he had Poverty Project. In 2011, to make some imporhe launched the Laughing tant career decisions.

Man Coffee Company As he told Bravo’s Inin which all profits go to side the Actor’s Studio, educational programs, “It wasn’t until I was community development 22 that I ever thought and social entrepreneurs about my hobby bearound the world. ing something I could Of utmost importance make a living out of. to Hugh Jackman is his I’d always had an infamily, especially his terest in theater, but wife. “We’re really honest the idea at my school with each other; we talk Hugh Jackman and his wife was that drama and about everything,” he Deborra-Lee Furness music were to round said to British interviewer out the man; it wasn’t what one did for a liv- Scott Baumgartner in etonlone.com. “I think [in] ing. I got over that. I found the courage to relationships, you’ve got to be yourself, even the bits stand up and say, ‘I want to do it.’” you don’t love.”

But first would come a (very) brief foray November 30 is Furness’s birthday, and Jackman into the workday world. Jackman clerked at a local always tries to set aside that day each year to cook convenience store for six weeks before his manager her favorite ricotta pancakes and take her and their sacked him for spending too much time chatting with adopted children, Oscar and Ava, out for a day of the customers. surprises.

Jackman went on to attend the Western Australian No telling what he’ll have in store this year, but Academy of Performing Arts in Perth. On the night in last year Jackman posted this message on Instagram: 1994 that he earned his diploma, Jackman was offered “Happy Birthday to my smart, sassy, sexy bride. I love his first major role on a 10-part TV drama series called you with my entire heart.”

Correlli. That’s where he met—and began courting— film and TV actress Deborra-Lee Furness, 13 years IF YOU GO: his senior. They soon fell in love. After Furness Hugh Jackman: accepted his wedding proposal, Jackman designed The Man. The Music. The Show. an engagement ring that bore the Sanskrit inscription WHEN: “Om paramar mainamar”—“We dedicate our union to July 5, 7 p.m. a higher source.” They married in 1996 at a church in a WHERE: suburb of Melbourne.

Tampa’s Amalie Arena, 401, Channelside Dr. Jackman gained international attention when he PHONE: landed the role of Curly in the stage production of (813) 301-6500 Oklahoma in London’s West End; his performance TICKETS: earned him an Olivier Award nomination for Best Ticketmaster.com Actor in a Musical.

‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ June Film

By RANDAL C. HILL

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our years ago, two best friends— Jimmie Fails and Joe Talbot— released a demo trailer with a softedged, romantic feel for their future movie called The Last Black Man in San Francisco. The trailer quickly went viral and led to the financial help needed to bring the pair’s docu-fiction flick to fruition.

Based in part on Fails’s life in the bay area, The Last Black Man in San Francisco mirrors the city’s currentday realities: lack of affordable housing, an influx of well-paid techno-geeks, displacement of people of color and gentrification.

In the story, the young AfricanAmerican Fails refuses to give up a longheld dream of returning to his childhood home. The problem he faces is that the area has been gentrified, and the twostory Victorian built by his grandfather, now worth $4 million, is owned by a wealthy white couple.

Back in the 1940s, his grandfather moved into the city’s Fillmore District and shared the neighborhood with Japanese-American families. When the latter were shipped off to internment camps during World War II, the remaining black residents took special pride in the ghetto area, dubbing it “the Harlem of the West” and crowning the grandfather as the “first black man in San Francisco.”

Eventually, the Fails’s family unit fell apart, the house was sold and people moved elsewhere.

When not skateboarding aimlessly around town, Fails fantasizes about one day owning the home of his youth. He has been living in cramped quarters

with his quiet and brooding best friend unrealistic utopia can’t possibly last, but Montgomery Allen (Jonathan Majors) we’re left hoping that somehow it will.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco and Mont’s burned-out, invalid father, Papa Allen (Danny Glover). Fails works is a powerful testimony to the power as a part-time hospice nurse, while Allen of friendship and the elusiveness of toils as a fishmonger. stability. The diverse cast also includes While the owners are away, the Jello Biafra and Thora Birch.

The movie is scheduled to release this two buddies sneak onto the hallowed property and do touch-up painting and month – check your local listings. tend the garden, with Fails always wondering what life would have been like if nothing had changed.

One day, the house becomes vacant.

Bringing along Allen, Fails boldly becomes a squatter in the mansion, fills the rooms with his aunt’s old stored furniture and has the gas company account switched to his name.

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Sweet & Crabby Salad

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amed for their sapphire-tinted claws, blue crabs are valued for their sweet, succulent meat. Though they may taste “sweet,” they are also known for their quick ability to weaponize their front pincers –thus the origination of the term, “crabby” disposition.

Crab meat is an excellent source of high-quality protein, vitamins and minerals and is very low in saturated fat. It can be somewhat high in cholesterol so consult a healthcare professional if you are on a restricted diet.

Whether served for Father’s Day, the Fourth of July, or any special meal, we think this “Sweet and Crabby Salad” will put everyone in a good mood.

Florida Blue Crab Salad with Avocado Ingredients 8 oz. Florida blue crabmeat, picked over for shells 1 lg. ripe Florida avocado, halved, pitted, peeled 3 tsp. fresh squeezed Florida Key lime juice 1/2 tsp. Florida Key lime zest 1/3 c. red onion, finely chopped 3 Tbsp. mayonnaise 2 Tbsp. fresh cilantro, finely chopped 1/2 tsp. ground cumin Salt and pepper, as needed Hot chili oil and cilantro oil (optional)

Photo and recipe are courtesy of Fresh from Florida freshfromflorida.com.

Preparation Mix together red onion, mayonnaise, cilantro, two teaspoons lime juice, cumin and lime zest in medium-sized mixing bowl. Gently stir in crab meat; season salad with salt and pepper.

Drizzle avocado halves with remaining teaspoon of lime juice to prevent discoloration and season with salt and pepper. Arrange avocado halves, cut side up, on plates. Fill tops of avocado with crab salad. Garnish salad with cilantro oil and hot chili oil, if desired.

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‘A Man Called Ove’

book Review

A Father’s Day Book to Read and Remember

by KATHy MEGyERI

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By Fredrik Backman, translated by Henning Koch, Washington Square Press, 2012, 352 pp.

he inside front cover of A Man Called Ove sums up this book dimmer switch, lay tile, plaster a wall, file their own taxes, and in two sentences: “At first glance, Ove is most certainly the don’t need to do much talking. Now he exists in a world that grumpiest man you ever met. Never trust first impressions.” is foreign to him—one filled with new technologies, friends The book, based on Swedish author Fredrik Backman’s best- he doesn’t care to entertain, and others he doesn’t understand. seller, is a sweet, sad and humorous yarn about a 59-year-old Then a young “foreign” couple with a couple of chatty kids curmudgeon who has basically given up on life. In 2105, it was moves in next door and accidentally drives over Ove’s mailmade into a Swedish film; now actor box while backing up their U-Haul.

Tom Hanks and his wife Rita Wilson The resulting relationship changes the are remaking the film with Hanks in course of the book and Ove’s life.

The book’s last chapters deliver the lead role. The American version I found Backman’s writing style— simple, repetitive and formatted in epis expected to be released in 2020. some unexpected emotional isodic structure—downright charming We’ve all known men like Ove— blows but still carry hope and sad and lonely widowers who are as illustrated in the following passage: grumpy, outspoken and opinionat“‘I miss you,’ he whispers. It’s been quiet joy. ed; the kind that follow strict rules, six months since she died. But Ove still inspects the whole house twice possess a short fuse, never smile or a day to feel the radiators and check strive for political correctness.

Retired from his railroad job of 43 years, Ove spends his that she hasn’t sneakily turned up the heating.” days visiting his wife’s grave and nitpicking at neighbors who The book’s last chapters deliver some unexpected emotional don’t follow the association rules—even though he is the oust- blows but still carry hope and quiet joy. Backman’s stirring ed president of his condominium association. narrative about the importance of the human connection will Ove has tried to commit suicide on more than one occasion. leave the reader cherishing a man they disliked in the beginning He is used to living in a world where men know how to install a but loved at the end, and certainly one they will never forget.

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A quick narcotics test revealed that Burkhalter’s solution tested positive for THC, the ingredient in marijuana that gives its users a high. The 69-year-old, who had never received as much as a speeding ticket in her life, was held in a cell in the Orange County Sheriff’s Office for 12 hours before being released on $2,000 bail.

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ne of the relatively new products in the investment world is the targetdate mutual fund. In this type of fund, an investor selects a portfolio with a future date that is expected to coincide with a particular event – most commonly retirement. As this date approaches, the company managing the fund automatically adjusts the asset allocation to get more and more conservative in anticipation of the investor needing access to at least a portion of the money.

These funds have become very popular in the last 15 years or so of their existence – so popular in fact, that according to Vanguard, approximately half of retirement investors had their entire account invested in a target-date fund in 2017. This “set it and forget it” strategy sounds like a no-brainer for investors –what could be wrong with it?

Plenty, it turns out.

Let’s start with fees. These funds are considered “funds of funds,” meaning they are simply mutual funds that own other mutual funds. Obviously, these extra layers mean that internal expenses can add up quickly.

Another issue with the target-date fund is consistency. While you may think that target-date funds with the same retirement date would have a similar weighting in stocks and bonds, this is actually not the case. Among the most common target-date fund providers like Fidelity, Vanguard and T. Rowe Price, there is a meaningful difference in asset allocation even for the same designated retirement year.

Perhaps more concerning than this disparity is the fact that with a target-date fund, you are locked into a single fund family so your entire portfolio will be invested only in one fund family’s mutual funds. In more than two decades in this business, I have yet to find one family that excels in all areas of asset allocation.

Possibly the most underappreciated problem with target-date funds is how they treat fixed income. Because traditional views on asset allocation would equate being more conservative with having a higher percentage of the portfolio in bonds, target-date funds are structured as such. The problem is that in an environment where interest rates rise, bond funds will struggle to break even since bond prices move inversely to the direction of interest rates.

Before you put your retirement portfolio on autopilot, make sure you understand all the risks of target-date funds.

David Novak, CFP® is a Certified Financial Planner™ at Novak & Powell Financial Services in Pinellas County.

Please note: he is not an attorney and this article should not be construed as one offering legal advice.

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