Chester County 50plus LIFE October 2019

Complimentary | Chester County Edition

October 2019 • Vol. 16 No. 10

Hooked on Fishing Lures page 4

Special Section: Funeral Preplanning page 12

4 Powerful Herbs for breast cancer page 17

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This sweetheart can’t get enough attention, especially when it’s right in your lap.

Playful, curious, and affectionate, Felix is the whole package and would make a good addition to almost any home.

For more information, contact Brandywine Valley SPCA, 1212 Phoenixville Pike, West Chester, at (484) 302-0865 or bvspca.org.

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today

‘Suspicious Minds’ Randal Hill

The King of Rock ’n’ Roll was pretty much washed up as a recording star by the late 1960s, especially in comparison to the days when he seemed to own the radio airwaves.

Many offered their own opinions for the decline of Elvis Aron Presley: The explosive arrival of the Beatles. His choice of weak recording material.

Each film a bigger disappointment than the last.

But in late 1968, things changed. Suddenly Presley found himself on a roll. His December television special, Singer Presents … Elvis (better known as “the ’68 Comeback Special”) was viewed — and enjoyed — by 42% of America’s total television audience.

People seemed ready to re-embrace the Grand Old

“Suspicious Minds” Elvis Presley, October 1969

Man of Rock who, in pop-music years, was in his dotage at age 33.

In January 1969, Presley left Hollywood and RCA Victor’s recording studio and came to his hometown of Memphis to cut a series of tracks at the American Sound Studio. Maybe — just maybe — he could get his groove back there.

A dozen of the tunes that Presley recorded over a 10-day period that January ended up on his June 1969 LP, From Elvis in Memphis. The album’s highlight had been the single “In the Ghetto,” his only recorded nod to social consciousness.

One of the songs left off the album had been “Suspicious Minds,” which had been written a year earlier by Texas-born songwriter Mark James. please see Suspicious Minds page 6

At Your Fingertips Helpful numbers, hotlines, and local businesses and organizations eager to serve you—all just a phone call away.

Disasters American Red Cross Greater Brandywine (610) 692-1200 Chester County Emergency Services (610) 344-5000 Salvation Army Coatesville (610) 384-2954

Arthritis Foundation (215) 570-3060

Housing Authority of Chester County (610) 436-9200

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (800) 232-4636

Housing Authority of Phoenixville (610) 933-8801

Coatesville VA Medical Center (610) 383-7711 Domestic Violence (800) 799-7233

JEWELERS American Gold & Estate Buyers, Inc. 363 E. Lincoln Highway, Exton (484) 872-8216

National Osteoporosis Foundation (800) 223-9994

Legal Services Lawyer Referral Service (610) 429-1500

PACE (800) 225-7223

Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania (610) 436-4510

Office of Aging (610) 344-6350/(800) 692-1100

Senior Healthlink (610) 431-1852

Financial Services Internal Revenue Service (800) 829-3676

Social Security Administration (800) 772-1213

Nutrition Meals on Wheels Chester County Inc. (610) 430-8500

Salvation Army West Chester (610) 696-8746 Emergency Numbers Central Pennsylvania Poison Center (800) 521-6110

Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (302) 573-4027 Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (800) 272-3900 American Cancer Society (800) 227-2345 American Heart Association (610) 940-9540 www.50plusLifePA.com

Southeastern Pennsylvania Medical Institute (610) 446-0662 Hearing Services Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY Housing Assistance Community Impact Legal Services (610) 876-0804

retirement living Friends Home in Kennett 147 W. State St., Kennett Square (610) 444-2577 Harrison Senior Living Locations in Christiana and East Fallowfield (610) 384-6310 The Hickman Friends Senior Communities of West Chester 400 N. Walnut St., West Chester (484) 760-6403 Senior Centers Coatesville Wayne (610) 383-6900 (610) 688-6246 Downingtown (610) 269-3939

Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center (800) 366-3997

Great Valley (610) 889-2121

Office of Aging Chester County Department of Aging Services (610) 344-6350

Kennett Square (610) 444-4819

Pharmacies CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com

Phoenixville (610) 935-1515

West Chester (610) 431-4242

Oxford (610) 932-5244

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By Bart Stump

Hooked on Fishing Lures

The expression nesting, territorial “gone fishing” has Canada geese loudly taken on a whole hiss and boisterously new meaning for attack their kayaks.

Dale and Gail Perils during the Stump. winter have included Since 1999 the becoming stuck retired couple has atop sheets of ice, taken their love of requiring sharp blows kayaking and fishing from their kayak in a whole new paddles to break direction: finding through. and recovering lost Dale has The main display contains some of Dale and Gail’s fishing lures from developed an favorite finds and larger-than-life gag gifts. lakes throughout ingenious method south-central of retrieving items Pennsylvania. caught high up in All told, they tree branches. Using have amassed a a three-pronged collection containing gardening scratcher over 4,200 lures attached to three and 6,500 bobbers. threaded sections of Visitors’ reactions to tube and a piece of seeing the collection PVC pipe, he can for the first time reach up to 20 feet vary from an audible in the air, pulling gasp to a stunned, snagged items from Gail adds a new addition to a display containing over slack-jawed silence. the branches.

200 sinkers of every size and style.

Hitting the water “Many a lure with their green twowould fall down person kayak, the right on top of Gail pair slowly paddles or in the water if I along the shore, didn’t hook it just sharp eyes scanning right,” states Dale the water’s edge, with a chuckle. underlying roots, During the and overhanging drought of 1999, branches for lost Dale and Gail would lures and bobbers. walk along the newly “It’s good exercise exposed shoreline and very relaxing,” looking for lost says Dale. fishing items. That Dale Stump attempts to free a tangled lure from a tree.

Sometimes year they found 507 recovery is as simple items, including the as plucking the object from the water or using a contents of an unfortunate fisherman’s boat that had paddle to coax it out from under some vegetation or tipped over. among tree roots.

Other unusual finds include an ornate .22 rifle More adventurous approaches include leaning that was turned over to the proper authorities, golf precariously over the edge of the boat or plowing clubs, complete tackle boxes, and a radio-controlled headlong into brambles as large spiders and snakes toy racing boat. fall from overlying branches.

Finding the lures and bobbers is only the first During the spring, Dale, being quite the step. When the pair gets the items home, Gail prankster, has been known to trick unsuspecting dutifully records the number and type of each item family members into approaching areas of tall grass found in her journal and then carefully cleans them. along the shore with promises of “that looks like a Dale is in charge of making any needed repairs good spot,” only to sit back and heartily laugh as please see FISHING LURES page 11 www.50plusLifePA.com

Chester County

Calendar of Events

Support Groups Free and open to the public

Senior Center Activities

Mondays (except holidays), 10-11:30 a.m.

Sunshine Memory Café United Methodist Church of West Chester 129 S. High St., West Chester (610) 349-3401 adean0413@gmail.com

Coatesville Area Senior Center (610) 383-6900 250 Harmony St., Coatesville www.coatesvilleseniorcenter.org Oct. 17, noon – Lunch and Learn: Seasonal Affective Disorder Oct. 22, noon – Lunch with Secretary of Aging Robert Torres Oct. 21-25 – Bingo Week

Oct. 1, 1:30-2:30 p.m.

Grief Support Group Phoenixville Senior Center 153 Church St., Phoenixville (610) 327-7216 Oct. 1 and 15, 6:30-8 p.m.

Bereavement Support Group Brandywine Hospital Conference Room 2N 201 Reeceville Road, Coatesville (610) 998-1700, ext. 226 Oct. 1, 15, 29, 5-6:30 p.m.

Bereavement Support Group Main Line Unitarian Church 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon (610) 585-6604 phoenixbereavement@yahoo.com Nondenominational; all are welcome.

Oct. 2, 6 p.m.

Memory Loss and Dementia Support Group Sunrise Assisted Living of Paoli 324 W. Lancaster Ave., Malvern (610) 251-9994 Oct. 8 and 22, 6:30-8 p.m.

Bereavement Support Group Jennersville Hospital Conference Room B 1015 W. Baltimore Pike, West Grove (610) 998-1700, ext. 226

Oct. 9, 1:30 p.m.

Family Caregiver Support Group Sarah Care 425 Technology Drive, Suite 200, Malvern (610) 251-0801 Oct. 9, 7-8:30 p.m.

Hearing Loss Support Group Christ Community Church, Second Floor 1190 Phoenixville Pike, West Chester (484) 402-4907 hlaaachesco@gmail.com www.hearinglosschesco.com Oct. 14 and 28, 10:30 a.m. to noon Caregiver Coffee Break/Support Group Active Day of Exton 201 Sharp Lane, Exton (610) 363-8044 Oct. 15, 6 p.m.

Family Caregiver Support Group Sunrise of Westtown 501 Skiles Blvd., West Chester (610) 399-4464 Oct. 17, 12:30-2:30 p.m.

To Live Again … Support and Socialization for Widows and Widowers Surrey East Goshen 1201 N. Chester Road, West Chester (610) 389-1124 Oct. 30, 6 p.m.

Living with Cancer Support Group Paoli Hospital Cancer Center 255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli (484) 565-1253

Downingtown Senior Center – (610) 269-3939 983 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown www.downingtownseniors.org Tuesdays, 11 a.m. – Quiddler Word Game Thursdays, 9-10 a.m. – Meditation Class Fridays, 10:30 a.m. – H istorical Study of Biblical Times Great Valley Senior Center – (610) 889-2121 47 Church Road, Malvern Oct. 9, 11 a.m. – L unch & Learn: Rep. Christine Howard Oct. 16, 5 p.m. – Senior Supper Oct. 23, 5 p.m. – F ascinating Facts about Andrew Jackson Kennett Area Senior Center – (610) 444-4819 427 S. Walnut St., Kennett Square http://kennettseniorcenter.org Oxford Senior Center – (610) 932-5244 12 E. Locust St., Oxford – www.oxfordseniors.org Wednesdays, 8:30-11:30 a.m. – Paint Class Phoenixville Area Senior Center – (610) 935-1515 153 Church St., Phoenixville http://phoenixvilleseniorcenter.org West Chester Area Senior Center – (610) 431-4242 530 E. Union St., West Chester http://wcseniors.org Thursdays, 1 p.m. – WCASC Chorus Submit senior center events to mjoyce@onlinepub.com.

Community Programs Free and open to the public

Library Programs

Oct. 1, 11:30 a.m.

West Chester University Retirees Luncheon Call for location (610) 269-1503

Avon Grove Library, 117 Rose Hill Ave., West Grove, (610) 869-2004 Oct. 3 and 10, 6:30 p.m. – Craft and Create

Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m.

Compassionate Friends Valley Forge Chapter Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 132 E. Valley Forge Road, King of Prussia (484) 919-0820 www.tcfvalleyforge.org

Oct. 5 and 19, 5-10 p.m.

Bingo Night Marine Corps League Detachment 430 Chestnut St., Downingtown (610) 429-8174 Oct. 15, noon AARP Valley Forge Chapter Meeting St. Luke Evangelical Lutheran Church 203 N. Valley Forge Road, Devon (610) 647-1823

If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.

Oct. 7 and 21, 3 p.m. – Sit & Knit Oct. 16, 10 a.m. – Medicare Presentation: Changes and Info You Should Know

Downingtown Library, 330 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, (610) 269-2741 Oct. 8, 6:30 p.m. – Film Forum

Oct. 14, 6:30 p.m. – Fantasy Book Club Oct. 24, 6:30 p.m. – Reading the Classics Paoli Library, 18 Darby Road, Paoli, (610) 296-7996 Mystery Book Club – Call for dates/times West Chester Public Library, 415 N. Church St., West Chester, (610) 696-1721

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Suspicious Minds from page 3 In a 2017 interview, James recalled how the tune came about.

“Late one night, fooling around on my Fender guitar and using my Hammond organ pedals for a bass line, I came up with a catchy melody.

I was married to my first wife then but still had feelings for my childhood sweetheart, who was married back in Houston.

“My wife suspected I had those feelings, so it was a confusing time for me,” James said. “I felt as though all three of us were caught in this trap that we couldn’t walk out of.”

James was so pleased with his creation that he decided to record “Suspicious Minds” himself. But the song quickly died a quiet death after it was issued on New York’s little Scepter Records label.

When someone at American Sound Studio showed Presley the failed James 45 during a recording break, Presley immediately felt that this was the song — if done right — that could return him to the “big time.”

He made eight attempts to get things right with “Suspicious Minds,” with everything coming together perfectly sometime between 4 and 7 a.m. on the day that he recorded the future classic that would quickly change the arc of his latter-day career.

After a 13-year absence, Presley returned to the concert stage that July and premiered “Suspicious Minds” at the Las Vegas International Hotel. The audience loved it.

In August, RCA Victor released what would become the King’s 18th and final No. 1 Billboard single.

“Suspicious Minds” became a centerpiece of Presley’s live performances, and he offered it with high-octane enthusiasm right up to his final concert in 1977.

Randal C. Hill is a rock ’n’ roll historian who lives at the Oregon coast. He may be reached at wryterhill@msn.com.

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These scams are at the top of that list: Via phone — Identity fraudsters often target older Medicare enrollees via a phone call, telling seniors they’re with the government or a doctor’s office, and try to steal Medicare account data that they later use to commit fraud.

Via email — Medicare fraud artists also frequently use email “phishing” techniques to reach out to Medicare enrollees, again Medicare Open claiming to be from the government Enrollment Period or from a local hospital or doctor’s Oct. 15 - Dec. 7 office.

The scammers often try to elicit a Medicare enrollee’s personal data through email directly, claiming they need the user’s personal data to complete some important paperwork, and ask the Medicare beneficiary’s Social Security number and/or bank account and credit card account information.

Or, they’ll attempt to get a senior to click on a malware-loaded email link, which then steals the consumer’s data.

Actions to Protect against Medicare Fraud The good news? Medicare enrollees can take direct action to mitigate or even eliminate Medicare fraud, experts say. Get started with these tips: Lock down your medical information. “Be suspicious if anyone other than your doctor or medical provider asks for your information, especially because this includes your Social Security number,” says Diana Golub, a licensed medical professional and director of options at AIA Direct in Bradenton, Florida.

“Make sure you protect your Medicare card, and don’t share your Medicare number. Think of it like a credit or debit card number. Be aware of online or phone scammers. You don’t have to pay a processing fee or purchase a temporary card should you misplace your Medicare card.” please see Medicare Fraud page 10

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Soldier Stories

Robert Naeye

He Survived Firefights, Hepatitis, and a Landmine that Failed to Detonate

to the day, he was drafted. He went into the Army so Central Pennsylvania resident Dan Dorsheimer had he would only have to serve two years. been in Vietnam for only three weeks when he went out on his first patrol as an Army infantryman. The He spent eight weeks in basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, followed by nine weeks of advanced events that followed would be seared into his memory. infantry training at Fort McClellan, Alabama.

His platoon destroyed a South Vietnamese village “We didn’t hear a lot of positive things in those 17 and killed a young Vietnamese girl. weeks of training. They really beat us up physically He stepped on a landmine, which miraculously failed to explode. and emotionally. That’s just how it was,” says Dorsheimer.

But despite experiencing intense combat and At the end of his training, Dorsheimer’s worst fears becoming severely ill twice, became reality: He received a letter ordering him to he would survive his tour and return to his report to Fort Lewis, Washington, in the first week of hometown.

November 1967. He realized he was going to ’Nam at Dorsheimer was born in February 1948 and raised a time when the war was intensifying and American in a family with a distinguished history of military service. His maternal grandfather served during casualties were starting to mount.

After a brief period of rest back home, Dorsheimer’s World War I. His father fought in the brutal Battle of parents drove him to Baltimore for the flight to Okinawa in World War II, where he earned a Purple Washington.

Heart. His brother also served in Vietnam.

Dorsheimer at a fire support base, 1968.

“My mother watched the news; she knew what was “When our country called, we answered the call, and I’m very proud of that,” says Dorsheimer. going on in Vietnam. She was a mess. She didn’t know if she was ever going to see me again alive,” recalls Dorsheimer.

Dorsheimer graduated from high school in June 1966. Almost one year later

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carrying heavy loads, going many days without showers, and eating the same dreary rations day After stops in Hawaii, Wake Island, and Guam, after day.

Dorsheimer landed at Cam Ranh Bay in November About five months into his tour, Dorsheimer 1967. He wondered why men were cheering as he contracted hepatitis and had to be medevacked got off the plane but then realized they were going to an aid station. By the time he got there, he home. They told him “to have fun.” Dorsheimer was lapsing in and out of consciousness. He was recalls being scared to death. freezing, but his head felt like it was on fire. He The next day, Dorsheimer flew on a cargo plane was running a high fever, so the medical personnel to the village of Pleiku in South Vietnam’s Central packed him in ice “like Charlie the Tuna.”

Highlands. There, he was assigned as a replacement While recuperating at Cam Ranh Bay, he had to a company in the Army’s 4th Infantry Division. an incredibly unlikely chance encounter with a To some extent, Dorsheimer lucked out. During fellow high school graduate, Rick Criswell, who was his 366-day tour of duty, the North Vietnamese serving in the Army’s 101st Airborne Division.

Army and Viet Cong concentrated their forces to The two spent several days together at the the north and south of the Central Highlands, so, hospital and had a photo taken. They sent a copy to Dorsheimer with two ARVN (Army of the as Dorsheimer says, “We didn’t see a whole lot of the local weekly newspaper, which published it on Republic of Vietnam) soldiers. combat for an infantry unit.” the front page of the April 19, 1968, issue.

Still, he saw horrible things and watched some Tragically, Criswell died in action four months of his buddies die. He calls his first three weeks in later. Shortly after returning home from the war, Vietnam “a nightmare,” and that experience included Dorsheimer landed a job with a small bottling watching a fellow 19-year-old kid blow himself up company. By an extraordinary coincidence, he while mishandling a grenade. discovered that Criswell’s mother worked there too.

On his first patrol, his platoon went out in the He went to see her and saw that she was reading the morning on a search-and-destroy mission to a nearby paper. village that was thought to be sympathetic to the “I turned around and said, ‘Mrs. Criswell, hi, I’m Viet Cong.

Dan Dorsheimer.’ The tears rolled down her cheeks.

The 40 or so men crossed a river and entered the It was Rick’s mother, probably two years after she village. The inhabitants lived in primitive conditions, buried her son. That picture in the [newspaper] was with thatched dwellings and dirt floors. The quite possibly the last picture she saw of her son Americans only saw old men, women, and young before she saw him dead in that casket. children.

“She never came back to work, and I have never As a newcomer, Dorsheimer depended on the seen her to this day. Why did that happen?” officers and hardened veterans for his survival. But Dorsheimer vividly recalls a pitched firefight after Rich Burton, left, and Dan Dorsheimer. right away, he worried that his comrades were having recovering from his illness. He watched one of his too much fun searching and destroying. fellow soldiers die from a bullet fired from a nearby Before departing the village, the commanding officer ordered the men to village. Suddenly, two American jets zoomed by at low altitude and dropped burn it down. The men set fire to the grass with their lighters, which then lit canisters of napalm on the village, incinerating everything. the hatched dwellings. Dorsheimer admits that he helped.

“No fireworks display can do what these two canisters did,” says “These people had nothing — they were primitive peasants,” he recalls.

Dorsheimer. But the attacks ceased.

“And that wasn’t the worst of it. We killed their chickens, their pigs, and we This young soldier would survive several more firefights and a bout of shot their water buffalo. These people had nothing. We destroyed absolutely malaria. Dorsheimer received several ribbons and a letter of commendation for everything in that village. Everything.” his service, but he is quick to dismiss any notion that he was a hero.

Dorsheimer was only 19, but he understood that ruining the livelihood of “I didn’t do more than any of the guys beside me. People back at base camp the locals was not exactly the best way to establish their faith in democracy. wrote this stuff up to try to build morale,” he insists.

Walking back to the base camp, the line of men suddenly stopped. The Despite everything he endured and all his unpleasant memories, point man looked at Dorsheimer, who heard a “poof.” He realized he was in Dorsheimer has built a successful postwar life. He retired in 2011 after trouble. He looked down to see smoke coming out from his right boot. working 22 years for Coca-Cola, and he has been married to his wife, Fran, He was told not to move. He had stepped on a small landmine consisting of for 28 years. Their son, Sage, currently lives in Williamsburg, Virginia. plastic explosives.

Like many Vietnam veterans, Dorsheimer has found it difficult for other Fortunately for the rookie soldier, the mine failed to detonate. Even if it did, people to relate to his wartime experiences.

Dorsheimer probably would have survived.

“For 46, 47 years, I didn’t talk about it because no one cared. Even the “It wasn’t meant to kill you. It was meant to put a hole in your foot and put veterans [here in town] really didn’t acknowledge us at the Legion and the you in the hospital.”

VFW. Yeah, they signed us up, but they told us, ‘That’s not a real war.’ Yeah, As the men neared base camp, they saw a Vietnamese person cross their tell that to the 58,000 people who died.” path in a rice paddy. Someone behind Dorsheimer yelled, “Go ahead and But like most Vietnam veterans, his war experiences remain a defining part fire.” After turning over the body, they realized they had killed a young girl. of his life.

Making matters worse, some of the men laughed.

“I was 19 when I landed, 20 when I left. I’m proud of my service, as is my “I’m thinking, ‘What the hell is going on here?’” recalls Dorsheimer. “I father, my grandfather, and my brother. I’m not proud of some of the things wasn’t brought up that way.” that we did. We did some really nasty things.”

Dorsheimer’s company went on numerous jungle patrols but rarely made

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Medicare Fraud from page 6 Review your Medicare claims. Review your Medicare claims to make sure there aren’t any errors or suspicious activity, advises Justin Lavelle, chief communications officer at BeenVerified, an online background-check platform.

“Each time you receive healthcare services, write the service date on your calendar and save all the statements or receipts you may get back from your providers,” Lavelle says.

“Check them for errors by comparing your healthcare service dates — as listed on your calendar — with what is listed on your statements.”

In addition, check to ensure the prescriptions you’ve filled match the ones listed on your statements. If you find any errors, call (800) MEDICARE, Lavelle says.

Don’t accept any services you don’t need. If your provider is putting pressure on you to get healthcare services you feel you don’t need, you can refuse the care and request another physician give you a second opinion.

“Don’t feel that because it is your physician, someone you’ve trusted in the past, that you must move forward with all of their healthcare recommendations,” says Lavelle.

“Medical professionals falsely billing Medicare, advising procedures with higher rates of payment, and filing false claims have been on the rise in the last decade.”

Be careful with all physician interactions. On its fraud-prevention webpage, Medicare.gov advises Medicare enrollees to not allow anyone, except your doctor or other Medicare providers, to review your medical records or recommend services.

“Also, don’t contact your doctor to request a service that you don’t need, and don’t let anyone persuade you to see a doctor for care or services you don’t need,” the agency states.

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League of Women Voters Introduces New Officers At the recent annual meeting and dinner at the West Chester Golf and Country Club, the League of Women Voters of Chester County introduced their officers and board members for 2019–20.

Among those introduced were, standing, from left, Valerie Thomas; Lisa Forsyth; Marian Schneider, guest speaker; Kim Byrd; Sandy Schaal; Lorraine Deisinger; Gretchen Cole; and Susan Carty, president of the League of Women Voters of Pennsylvania and board member of the LWV of the United States.

Others introduced were, seated, from left, Dr. Pam Gray, president; Meryle Rothman, membership chair; and Barbara Lathroum, first vice president.

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FISHING LURES from page 4 and replacing missing hooks.

The next step is putting the lures and bobbers on display in a section of their basement affectionately called the “shrine.”

“I decided we had too many lures sitting around, and I wanted to display them,” explains Gail.

Various hanging wire baskets and clear jars house hundreds of brightly colored round bobbers. Stick bobbers are artistically hung on a wall display while still other bobbers are carefully sorted into smiley face and light-up styles.

A dazzling array of lures in every color of the rainbow hangs on chains strung from the rafters or arranged by style in displays backed by underwater scenes. Rapala minnows swim next to imitation crayfish.

Lead-headed jigs hang beside rubber worms.

Various spinners and spoons dangle from the ceiling, light gleaming off their shiny gold and silver blades. Multicolored poppers, surface plugs, and artificial frogs are suspended nearby.

Dale points out his favorite lure, a white mouse.

“I had to get out of the kayak to get it. It was up in a tree near the dam breast. It was really neat.”

An assortment of fishing lure catalogs add to the overall atmosphere, and a brightly colored yellow-and-green tin sign has been slightly altered to advertise Stumpy’s Bait and Tackle.

An adjacent wall display contains dozens of lead sinkers meticulously arranged by size and style.

Certain items have a place of

Lures of every type and color hang from the rafters.

Baskets of bobbers hang near vintage and modern fishing tackle.

honor in the display, including the small grasshopper lure that landed Gail in the emergency room after it became embedded in her thumb.

“He [Dale] wanted to cut it out, but I wouldn’t let him,” states Gail.

“The doctor at the ER told me I was the first patient that year to have a hook taken out.”

The collection has become a family affair, as Dale and Gail’s children and grandchildren have gotten into the act. Not only do they retrieve lost lures and bobbers, they also provide fishing-related gag gifts, such as a

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Gail Stump with the lure that landed her in the emergency room.

larger-than-life bobber cooler and a gigantic Rapala fishing lure.

More importantly, the collection provides Dale, Gail, and their family with a compelling reason to get outside on the water and enjoy the fresh air and sunshine.

Gail keeps a detailed journal describing each outing. She includes the location, weather, wildlife seen, and other noteworthy observations.

Highlights include deer grazing and bedding down along the shore, a snapping turtle laying eggs on the bank, bald eagles and ospreys soaring

overhead, beaver-cut trees, snakes and turtles sunning on rocks, flocks of geese and cormorants swimming nearby, and even a chipmunk eating raspberries under a tree.

When asked about their favorite memories, Gail fondly reminisces about a winter jaunt in which a thin layer of ice covered the lake and how melodious it sounded as the ice cracked and broke apart as they paddled through it.

“It was neat to go down early in the morning when no one else was on the lake. The sound of the breaking ice echoed across the lake,” she says.

Dale fondly recalls seeing large numbers of carp noisily splashing in the shallows during the spring spawning season and making a game out of trying to catch leaves in the boats as they fell from the trees in the fall.

“It was something — you never knew which way the leaves were going to go. It was a real workout, but a lot of fun.”

Overall, being hooked on fishing lures has provided a plethora of delightfully memorable experiences for Dale and Gail and has started a wonderful tradition that is being carried on by the entire family.

Bart Stump, a history teacher, writes from York, Pa., and has been published in numerous magazines.

On the cover – Gail and Dale Stump have amassed a collection of 4,200 fishing lures and 6,500 bobbers, all housed in a section of their basement affectionately called “the shrine.”

All photos courtesy Bart Stump.

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There are many options available to choose from, such as traditional services, which typically include casket, viewing, religious service, and burial, or memorial service and cremation.

Another consideration is the amount of funds available to prepay for their final wishes. Prepaying options include lump-sum or a monthly payment plan.

Can changes be made to the plan after it’s been “finalized”?

Yes, the plan is a blueprint, as such, until the time comes to implement the services.

Does preplanning protect against cost inflation?

The simple answer is yes, if prepaid through a funeral home. Services and merchandise are guaranteed against any cost increases/inflation.

How are funeral prepayments protected? For example, what if the funeral home goes out of business?

The prepayment or money is protected by being placed into a funeral escrow account. It can be transferred at any time or for any reason.

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Anyone has the ability to plan their own or loved one’s funeral; however, without prepaying, the cost is not guaranteed — but it does provide guidance to a family.

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Stingy Jack Carves Out His Legacy Every Oct. 31, we see suburban homes displaying fat orange pumpkins aglow with light pouring through triangular eyes and jagged teeth.

They stand guard over the house, ready to ward off whatever evil spirits might be lurking about.

It’s a good thing that those silent sentinels are on duty. After all, one of those spirits just might be Stingy Jack.

— His story starts out in ancient Irish mythology.

In the tale, the local blacksmith in one particular village was a notorious drunk who lied, cheated, played pranks, manipulated people, and did what he could to avoid spending his money.

Locals called him Jack the Smith to his face but Stingy Jack behind his back.

Lucifer had heard of Jack’s vile reputation and decided to seek out the rascal for himself.

When the devil met Jack, the town con artist invited him to the town tavern for a drink.

True to his name, Jack claimed to be broke when the drinking was done.

The wily scoundrel then convinced Satan to turn himself into a coin so Jack could settle the evening’s tab.

The bemused devil took on the requested shape, and Jack slipped the coin into his coat pocket — and right next to a silver crucifix. The cross kept Satan from shifting back to his original form. Jack then slipped out of the tavern without paying the bill.

Jack eventually let Lucifer loose, but only after making him promise to not bother him for one year. And, oh yes, not to claim the blacksmith’s soul when he died.

Jack was still up to his usual machinations one year later. When the devil came to collect the reprobate’s soul, Jack begged for a single last request: a juicy red apple. While Lucifer was climbing a nearby tree, Jack hurriedly carved the sign of the cross into the tree’s trunk.

As a result, the devil couldn’t return to solid ground until he promised once more to leave Jack alone, this time for a full decade.

Predictably, Jack wasted the next 10 years drinking, causing problems, and annoying people.

When he finally died and met St. Peter at the Pearly Gates, the good saint turned him away, convinced that God wouldn’t want such a miserable hunk of humanity in heaven.

And when Jack turned up at the gates of hell, Satan, who was still smarting from the tricks Jack had pulled on him earlier, refused to admit him. After all, the devil smugly maintained, that had been part of their original bargain.

The devil sent Jack off into the night to “find his own hell” in the dark and mysterious netherworld.

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As a senior-relationship columnist, I receive many interesting questions from older singles.

Recently, Nancy emailed, “Are you married legally to Greta?”

(The “Greta” to whom Nancy was referring has been my life partner for 21 years.)

Nancy added, “I’m 65 and have a man I’d like to spend the rest of my life with.

We’ve been together — on and off — for eight years. We don’t want to marry legally, but we would like a commitment ceremony.

“I stayed home raising my ex-husband’s and my children for 25 years. We were divorced in 1996; he remarried. After he passed away, I started receiving his Social Security benefits because of the length of time married to him. If I were to marry legally, I’d lose the benefits.

“Is there a way to be together with my guy without legally marrying so I don’t lose my ex-husband’s Social Security benefits?”

Before addressing Nancy’s questions, I strongly suggest she contact an attorney to ensure she doesn’t do anything to jeopardize receiving her deceased husband’s benefits.

My answer to Nancy’s initial question: No, Greta and I are not “married legally.”

We aren’t even married illegally. We’ve been together 21 years and have lived together 18 of those years, 13 of them in her home and the last five in my home.

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Let’s start with the basics. When you say the word estrogen, that’s actually three compounds: estradiol, estrone, and estriol. Of the three, estradiol is more strongly associated with causing cancer than the other two.

Men and women both make estrogen. It’s the breakdown product from testosterone, actually. If you have low testosterone, you’ll have low estrogen too.

Your body breaks down estrogen into metabolites, and some of those are more likely to cause cancer than others. Like I said, you can change the way your body breaks down the circulating estrogen.

Here is some valuable information about how to manufacture your own healthy estrogen metabolites and make it such that you break it down into forms that are less likely to cause cancer.

If you are currently undergoing chemotherapy, please ask your doctor if these are right for you.

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Rosemary – I recommend this as a fresh herb from your grocery store.

Cook with it, and make tea with it. Rosemary is a powerful antioxidant that has anti-inflammatory effects similar to a COX-2 inhibitor drug.

Rosemary has antimicrobial and direct benefits for breast and prostate health. It also has anti-tumor benefits. Rosemary works by helping you break down estrogen into the safer anti-cancer metabolites.

Broccoli – It’s impossible to eat 4 pounds of broccoli every day, so take the supplement called indole-3-carbinol (I3C) or DIM, I3C’s metabolite. It helps to balance estrogen levels in the body and appears to have anti-cancer effects, particularly for the breast and prostate.

Too much of it, however, can crash your thyroid levels, due to its goitrogenic effect.

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Flax seed – This is kind of like plant-based estrogen (termed phytoestrogen), which kicks off dangerous estrogens from your cells.

Men with prostate problems could benefit. Women with estrogen dominance — hallmarked by heavy periods, breast pain, cramping, and anxiety — might benefit from flax seed.

I recommend buying fresh flax seed, grinding it in a coffee grinder, and sprinkling it on yogurt or oatmeal.

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Sage – Salvia officinalis is the botanical name. Just like rosemary, sage contains a lot of “carnosic acid.” This compound was shown in numerous clinical trials to exert apoptosis, which means cancer cells die off.

When combined, the breast cancer drug Tamoxifen and carnosic acid work more effectively together at slowing down cancer growth. You can buy fresh sage herb to cook with or herbal extract at any health food store.

There are many other alternatives that I haven’t elaborated on, such as vitamin D, curcumin, and iodine, so if you’re interested in those, come to my website and sign up for my newsletter.

Please ask your physician or oncologist if these are right for you. Cooking with the fresh herbs should be just fine.

This information is not intended to diagnose, prevent, or treat your disease.

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Nancy also wanted to know if Greta and I have had a commitment ceremony. No, again. Every day is a commitment to each other; we don’t feel the need to have a ceremony.

Other readers have shared thoughts on the marriage-vs.-committedrelationship topic.

Annie said, “I met my partner five years ago. We are in a committed relationship and living together. We are surprised at the number of friends who ask, ‘When is he going to make me legal?’

“We don’t feel the need to be married. Our kids don’t care one way or the other. I wear a ring on my wedding-ring finger. We are turning 65 this year and have earned the right to do as we wish.”

Nina stated, “I’m in my mid-50s, six years divorced, alone, have great friends, a pretty good life, and am fine with this for now. I don’t want to remarry, even if I find someone with whom love is real and mutual. I would like to be in a committed, loving relationship.”

Jennifer shared, “Older people have already completed the child-raising task. They don’t need to nail down a reproductive agreement.

“They have often spent a lifetime working and accumulating assets, and they frequently like to keep their finances separate. Sometimes, it’s simpler just to remain single, even while living together.

“Those who, for religious or other reasons, are uncomfortable with this arrangement can still get married.”

Marcia wrote, “Russ and I did not marry for myriad reasons. We know of couples who’ve had religious ceremonies under God, and they are happy.”

Final thoughts to Nancy: Getting married would likely cause you to lose the Social Security benefits you are receiving. Don’t marry.

Another reason not to marry: You said your eight-year relationship has been “on and off.” That’s not a good omen for marriage.

A commitment ceremony? If you wish. Just be sure it’s not legally binding.

Exchange rings, invite family and friends, have a ball — whatever you choose.

The most important thing for seniors is to appreciate life, whether single, married, or in a committed relationship.

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Stingy Jack from page 14 hell and given to him to create a makeshift lantern. Jack plucked a turnip from the ground, carved an opening in it, and placed the ember inside.

Ever since that night, Stingy Jack has been roaming the earth, finding neither peace nor a resting place.

The Irish began referring to his ghostly figure as “Jack of the lantern,” which was eventually shortened to “Jack o’ lantern.”

In Ireland, then later in Scotland and England, people began replicating Jack’s lantern by carving scary faces into turnips, potatoes, gourds, and beets.

Eventually, migrants brought the Irish tradition of Stingy Jack to America.

It was here that newly arrived folks found that pumpkins, which were native to America, made perfect jack-o’-lanterns.

— Today, the Stingy Jack legend has taken a back seat to costumes, candy, and Charlie Brown cartoons at Halloween.

However, that doesn’t mean that the creepy codger isn’t still wandering about in the darkness somewhere. Maybe even in your own neighborhood.

Although Randal C. Hill’s heart lives in the past, the rest of him resides in Bandon, Ore. He can be reached at wryterhill@msn.com. www.50plusLifePA.com

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Booming Voice

Cursed by Cursive Bill Levine

In sixth grade I was forced to miss at least a week’s worth of recess periods. I stayed in the classroom, while outside, my classmates were frolicking.

What’s worse, I hadn’t even committed a detention-deserving act. Not even a worthwhile classroom misdemeanor, like passing a note to a cute girl.

But actually, I would be embarrassed to pass a note to anyone because it would probably be unreadable.

Alas, that’s why I was missing the great outdoors. I was in remedial cursivewriting class.

There were a half dozen of us “illegibles” assembled by Mrs. F, based on classroom writing samples that had the clarity of filled prescription pads. The class was terribly unstimulating as we had to attempt to copy Mrs. F’s perfect, chalk-gliding script on the blackboard onto our own cursive workbooks.

My pencil, instead of gliding, hesitated between loops and curves, producing poorly shaped cousins of Mrs. F’s letters. My preference would have been to doodle in my workbook, but Mrs. F came around to inspect our efforts.

Heading into college, I felt I had been able to limit the academic damage of my bad cursive handwriting, ignoring the oncoming 20-page collegiate term paper. Thus, I left my Olivetti portable typewriter behind when leaving for school. Plus, my typing speed, if you include words off for mistakes, was about 0 per minute.

Of course, I found early on that there were students who would type papers for you, but I foreswore this chance to give my gnarled submissions a facelift until one day in my junior year.

The incentive for this positive step was my well-thought-out term paper for a bio class on evolution. I didn’t want to jeopardize 50% of my grade because my prof confused my written “survival of the fittest” for “survival of the fattest,” etc. — so I needed a typist. Luckily, I hired a friend to type it who had the patience to work with my cursive draft.

A couple of weeks later, I picked up a B+ on my evolution paper, my highest term-paper grade. I certainly thanked my typist with the enthusiasm of an Oscar acceptance speech. It was an academic crutch to be sure, but as a grade booster, my legibility gain rivaled my frat’s copies of old exams.

But I couldn’t escape my problematical penmanship during final exam week.

The two challenges in filling up perhaps two blue books were formatting my answers in my head and then formatting the writing of the answers

legibly under an intimidating time constraint. I had to write as fast as I could, exacerbating the unreadability of my test answers.

But I would hand in my final exam, invoking my ongoing rationalization that professors would not mark me down for filling two books with scrawl.

They would decipher the keys words of my solid arguments, and I would be OK. Once I graduated college, my cursive ceased to be my most worrisome elementary school subject, as it was no longer involved in high-leverage situations. It has, though, slowed down my creative writing process, as I like to write first-draft-like notes for an essay in a mixture of cursive and print lettering, which later makes rereading these notes difficult.

This was also a minor problem in college, as I would write notes in class, only to struggle to read them at exam time.

One day on the internet, I found out that in 2018 academia, I would qualify for a personal scribe to take notes for me in class.

This pinch-writer accommodation was based on my having a learning disability. I wasn’t diagnosed with this LD until 2000, 37 years after Mrs. F’s class.

On learning this, I cut myself some slack, as my poor penmanship was much more congenital than careless, but the modern accommodations for poor handwriting bothered me. That I would be scribe-eligible today meant that experts believed compromised handwriting could compromise grades.

I have wondered since if maybe I was too optimistic back in college about my handwriting obscuring my obviously brilliant exam answers.

I surmised that in my small college, without teaching assistants, my history and government profs had, say, 200 or so blue books to read at finals times.

Thus, perhaps out of waning stamina, they gave up trying to figure out my answers, leading to a lower grade.

I was very concerned when I entered college that my lack of high school math mastery would be my Achilles heel, but now I’m wondering if my biggest weakness was in fact my poor cursive, an elementary school skill.

Mrs. F would have probably agreed.

Bill Levine is a retired IT professional and active freelance writer. Bill aspires to be a humorist because it is easier to be pithy than funny. He may be reached at wlevine0607@comcast.net.

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Plan Ahead for Amaryllis Blooms All Winter Long

Let amaryllis fill your home with flowers for bold, white stripes. the holidays and keep the blossoms coming all Display your amaryllis on a mantle, kitchen winter long. counter, or entryway table where you can watch When you plant several different types of the amazing show as the first sprout appears, amaryllis bulbs, from both the southern and followed by buds and the spectacular trumpetnorthern hemispheres, you can be sure to get a shaped blooms. Amaryllis are also beautiful, longlong-lasting, colorful show that will brighten your lasting cut flowers. mood and surroundings throughout the winter For best selection, order your bulbs early and months. store them in a cool, dry, dark place until you are Kick off the holiday season with amaryllis ready to plant. Once you pot up the bulbs and bulbs that are imported from growers in Peru. place them in a warm, bright location, flower buds As we enter autumn, it’s springtime in South should appear in about six to 10 weeks.

America, and these bulbs are eager to start Protect yourself from the winter blahs by blooming. Pot them up before early November for investing in amaryllis. You can count on their big flowers in December. flowers and bright colors to lift your spirits and Amaryllis varieties grown in the southern ease your way to spring. hemisphere include deep-red Mandela, frostyMelinda Myers has written more than 20 gardening white Denver, coral-pink Bolero, and two-tone books, including Small Space Gardening. She Charisma. Combine these impressive blossoms hosts The Great Courses’ How to Grow Anything with greens, poinsettias, candles, and other DVD series and the nationally syndicated Melinda’s Photo credit: Longfield Gardens holiday décor, or give them as living gifts to Garden Moment TV and radio program. www.

Amaryllis Double King friends, family, and neighbors. melindamyers.com, www.longfield-gardens.com Most amaryllis bulbs that are grown in the U.S. are imported from Holland, and their natural bloom time is January through March.

The December issue of LIFE Exactly when the flowers will open is impossible to predict. The best will include a special focus — strategy is to choose a number of different varieties and plant them three to four weeks apart during November, December, and January. This way you will always have flowers coming into bloom.

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