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Bearing the Burden to Ease Burdens By Lori Van Ingen What has been called “the strangest sporting event” is just another way for Steve Jones to help ease the burdens of local families. Jones will be powerwalking with hundreds of pounds of weights to the top of Roundtop Mountain in Lewisberry on Nov. 3 to benefit a girl with leukemia. People who have come to watch his benefit powerwalks over the years often ask, “‘Where’s the hulk?’” Jones said. “They think it’s the spotter.” They are amazed to discover that it is a 5-foot, 9-inch, 200-pound, gray curly-haired man who will be carrying 700 pounds up a mountain, said Jones, who works as a hospital security guard. Although he bills his benefits as powerwalks, Jones really thinks of himself as an “endurance walker.” He walks with ever-increasing weights until he reaches his goal. “I walk with a squat stand (vertical posts with horizontal bar catchers on each side),” he said. The weights sit on the stand and his crew puts them on his bar. “Six or seven people lift the weight up to my shoulders. Two guys go in front of me so I don’t step in a hole because once you turn your leg (it’s all over),” Jones said. Someone also walks behind him to hold his back up because he leans backward with so much weight on him, he said. New weights are added after he walks as far as he can up the mountain, as much as 100 yards with the lowest weight of 340 pounds at the bottom of please see BURDEN page 14 Endurance walker Steve Jones will shoulder up to 700 pounds as he ascends Roundtop Mountain for the Nov. 3 charity benefit.

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My 22 Cents’ Worth

What We Owe Native Americans Walt Sonneville he United States owes much to the original Americans. This recognition need not be symbolized by erecting another monument or by creating an additional national holiday. Columbus Day has been a federal holiday since 1937, observed on the second Monday of October. In 1989 South Dakota began to celebrate Native American Day and Columbus Day together. It is unlikely the rest of the country soon will follow their example. California governor Ronald Reagan proposed in 1968 that the fourth Friday in September be observed as American Indian Day. Thirty years later the state assembly made Native American Day an official holiday. Combining Thanksgiving with Native American Day may be more appropriate than merging Native American Day and Columbus Day. Columbus’ arrival in the

Bahamas subsequently brought to Native Americans diseases, broken treaties, and war. The joint observances of Columbus Day and Native American Day would seem antithetical. The arrival of Columbus led, however, to European colonists benefiting from a legacy of Native American agricultural practices, use of natural medicines, examples of governance, and much more. The cultivation of corn, squash, beans, melons, peanuts, pumpkins, and cotton are New World commodities that today comprise much

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of the world’s agricultural demand. The canoe, toboggan, kayak, and snowshoes were developed by the Indians, and longhouses constructed by Native Americans inspired the simpler log cabins of settlers. In the southeastern region of the United States, tribes extracted salicylic acid from willow bark to relieve pain. This is the main ingredient in today’s aspirin. Medicine men (shamans) of tribes elsewhere used herbs that proved effective in treating ailments from dandruff, nausea, and sore throats to

constipation. The standard reference for accepted pharmaceuticals, the U.S. Pharmacopeia, includes 170 drugs used by the shamans. In a single sentence, Benjamin Franklin both maligned and commended the governance of the Iroquois League. Seeking support for the unification of the 13 colonies, he cited the worthy example of “six nations of ignorant savages.” He was referring to the league of five tribes, formed in 1570, and joined much later by a sixth tribe. The tribes, through a Council of Sachems (leaders), each participated as equals in controlling relations among themselves and other tribes. The council served as the league’s central authority with power not given to it reserved to the individual tribes. This is believed to have inspired a key provision in the U.S. Constitution, adopted in 1789. The Iroquois League was not the only

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Native American confederacy. In the southeast the Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, and Creek were members of a league that also dated to the 1500s. Joined later by the Seminoles, they became known to colonists as “the Five Civilized Tribes.” These tribes sought to deal with the United States as equals, but failed when President Andrew Jackson in 1830 signed the Indian Removal Act, exiling them to western territories. Indian trails often became roads for settlers. Indian villages near key waterways and trails became large cities. Among them are Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, and Pittsburgh. The names of 20 states, located from Massachusetts to Arizona, are of Indian derivation as are

names of many cities, counties, rivers, and lakes. Thanksgiving would be a vastly preferred holiday to combine with a Native American Day. In his report following his voyage to the Bahamas in 1492, Columbus acknowledged his gratitude when he wrote: “The people of this island are generous with what they have, to such a degree as no one would believe, but he who had seen it.” Likewise, the English who established the ill-fated colony at Jamestown, Va., in 1607 depended on help from the native Powhatan to survive. They had settled on a marshland of stagnant water on the banks of the James River, entirely unsuited for farming.

The Pilgrims, who landed in Plymouth, Mass., in 1620, fared much better. Early mentoring from Squanto, a Pawtuxet, in cultivating corn, drawing sap for maple syrup, and avoiding poisonous plants sustained them. In 1621 the Pilgrims invited 90 Wampanoag Indians to share a feast that lasted over three days—the first Thanksgiving. To the event the Indians brought five freshly killed deer. Harmonious relations with the Wampanoag lasted only 40 years. The time is overdue for other states, if not the federal government, to consider the California example. The Bureau of Indian Affairs indicates how belated this observance has become, reporting that in

1914, “Red Fox James, a Blackfoot Indian, rode horseback from state to state seeking approval for a day to honor Indians. “On Dec. 14, 1915, he presented the endorsement of 24 state governments at the White House. There is no record, however, of such a national day being proclaimed.” Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen, a book of personal-opinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, was released in January 2012. Contact him at waltsonneville@earthlink.net.

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The Best Foods for Older Diabetics Jim Miller Fat-free milk and yogurt: These dairy foods provide the calcium and vitamin D your husband needs, and they’ll also help curb cravings and between-meal snacks.

Dear Savvy Senior, My 62-year-old husband was just diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. As the cook in the family, I’m interested in finding out the best diabetic foods that he should now be eating, and where I can put my hands on some good diabetic cookbooks.What can you tell me? – Diabetic Caretaker

More Information For additional information on healthy food choices for diabetics, including hundreds of free recipes, visit the ADA website at www.diabetes.org and click on “Food & Fitness,” or call (800) 342-2383 (press option No. 4) and ask them to mail you a copy of their free booklet, What Can I Eat? The ADA also offers a wide variety of diabetic cookbooks that you can purchase through their online store at www.shopdiabetes.org or (800) 232-6455.

Dear Caretaker, Eating healthy is important for everyone, but it’s even more important for the nearly 26 million Americans who have diabetes—half of whom are over the age of 60. Here’s what you and your husband should know. Diabetic Super Foods A healthy diet, coupled with regular exercise and medication (if needed), are the keys to keeping your husband’s blood sugar under control. To help meet your husband’s new dietary needs, the American Diabetes Association (ADA) offers a list of the top 10 super foods for type 1 and type 2 diabetics. These are foods that contain nutrients that are vitally important to people with diabetes, such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, and vitamins A, C, and E. They’re also high in fiber, which will help your husband feel full longer and keep his glycemic index low so his blood sugar won’t spike. And, they’ll help keep his blood pressure and cholesterol in check, which are also critical for diabetics. Here’s what they recommend he eat plenty of. Beans: Kidney, pinto, navy, black, and other types of beans are rich in nutrients and high in soluble fiber, which will keep his blood sugar steady and can help lower his cholesterol. Dark-green, leafy vegetables: Spinach, collard greens, mustard greens, kale, and other dark-green, leafy veggies are nutrient dense and low in calories and carbohydrates. Your husband can’t eat too much of these. Citrus fruits: Grapefruit, oranges, and other citrus fruits are rich in vitamin C, which helps heart health. Stick to whole fruits instead of juice. Fiber in whole www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

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Wednesdays in November, 9 to 10 a.m. – Warwick Walkers, Warwick County Park Nov. 9 and 16, 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. – Owl Prowl, Wolf ’s Hollow and Nottingham County Parks (Respectively) Nov. 17, 8 to 10 a.m. – Birding at Black Rock, Black Rock Sanctuary

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Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Wellness Community of Philadelphia: Support Group for People with Cancer The Cancer Center at Paoli Hospital 255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli (215) 879-7733

Nov. 12, 7 to 8 p.m. Cancer Support Group: Double Hope of Chester County Calvary Fellowship Church 95 W. Devon Drive, Downingtown (484) 319-8167 Nov. 12 and 26, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Caregiver Support Group Adult Care of Chester County 201 Sharp Lane, Exton (610) 363-8044

Nov. 6, 2 p.m. Grief Support Group Phoenixville Senior Center 153 Church St., Phoenixville (610) 327-7216

Nov. 14, noon Family Caregiver Support Group Sarah Care 425 Technology Drive, Suite 200, Malvern (610) 251-0801

Nov. 7, 6 p.m. Memory Loss and Dementia Support Group Sunrise Assisted Living of Paoli 324 W. Lancaster Ave., Malvern (610) 251-9994

Nov. 20, 6 p.m. Family Caregiver Support Group Sunrise of Westtown 501 Skiles Blvd., West Chester (610) 399-4464

Community Programs Nov. 3 and 17, 5 to 10 p.m. Bingo Nights Marine Corps League Detachment 430 Chestnut St., Downingtown (610) 431-2234 Nov. 5, 6:30 p.m. Exton PC Club – Windows 8 Chester County Library Struble Room 450 Exton Square Parkway, Exton (484) 876-1221 www.extonpc.org Nov. 6, 11:30 a.m. West Chester University Retirees Luncheon For restaurant location, please email darsie@verizon.net

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Free and open to the public Nov. 7, 12:10 p.m. So You Want to Write a Book? Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Widener University Exton Campus 825 Springdale Drive, West Whiteland Township (484) 713-0088 Nov. 13, 11 a.m. New Century Club Meeting (Women’s Charity Club) Days Hotel 943 S. High St., West Chester (610) 436-9158 eichhornb@verizon.net Nov. 14, 12:10 p.m. A Pictorial Journey from Nice to Paris Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Widener University Exton Campus 825 Springdale Drive, West Whiteland Township (484) 713-0088

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Nov. 16, 7:30 p.m. Concert: 12-Year-Old Trumpeter Geoff Gallante Tel Hai Retirement Community Chapel 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook (610) 273-9333

Downingtown Senior Center – (610) 269-3939 983 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown http://home.ccil.org/~dasc Great Valley Senior Center – (610) 889-2121 47 Church Road, Malvern Kennett Area Senior Center – (610) 444-4819 427 S. Walnut St., Kennett Square www.kennettseniorcenter.org Nov. 1 and 29, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Free Medicare Counseling Clinic Nov. 9, 10 a.m. – Veterans Day Luncheon Nov. 14, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. – “Black Friday on Wednesday” Shopping Spree Oxford Senior Center – (610) 932-5244 12 E. Locust St., Oxford – www.oxfordseniors.org Phoenixville Area Senior Center – (610) 935-1515 153 Church St., Phoenixville www.phoenixvilleseniorcenter.org West Chester Area Senior Center – (610) 431-4242 530 E. Union St., West Chester – www.wcseniors.org Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or visit their website for more information.

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Nov. 24 and 25, 1 to 5 p.m. Model Railroad Open House Schuylkill Valley Model Railroad Club 400 S. Main St., Phoenixville (610) 935-1126 www.svmrrc.com

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Creativity Matters

For Veterans: Art-Making and Transformation Judith Zausner here are many hurdles in life and, for veterans, some of these hurdles seem insurmountable. The warzone has scorched traumatic memories in their psyches that may sit buried and unreachable. Fortunately, now there are innovative support groups that provide a cathartic relief through creativity. Combat Paper (http://www.printnj.org /combat-paper), a New Jersey nonprofit, is an extraordinary program that travels around the country to help veterans relieve their stress from the effects of war. It fully embraces a creative process in three stages. Starting with “deconstructing,” the veterans bring in their worn combat fatigues for shredding to begin the papermaking process; then, the shredded, small fabric pieces are pulverized to produce paper pulp, which begins the “reclamation” process—they get to reclaim their uniforms as paper. The third stage is “communication” because when the paper is dry, they can write poetry or draw images on it to communicate their feelings and/or stories. As they go through this transformation process of their uniforms and, internally, themselves, each person is encouraged to talk and share their war

experience with facilitators who also have military backgrounds. For most of these veterans, it is the first time they have spoken about traumatic events from the combat zone. Since the workshops are closed sessions for veterans only, they feel safe to open up and process emotions and memories that have previously been untouched. This is a community of veterans helping other veterans to heal psychologically, emotionally, and physically through a creative journey of inner exploration. Drew Cameron, an Iraq war veteran and talented artist, co-founded Combat Paper in 2007 with his idea to “liberate the rag.” “The story of the fiber, the blood, sweat, and tears, the months of hardship and brutal violence are held within those old uniforms,” Cameron says. “The uniforms often become inhabitants of closets or boxes in the attic. Reshaping

that association of subordination, of warfare and service, into something collective and beautiful is our inspiration.” With the success of Combat Paper, other organizations have formed to support veterans’ healing through art. Warrior Writers Project (www.warrior writers.org) is a Philadelphiabased nonprofit that is a “community of military veterans, service members, artists, allies, civilians, and healers dedicated to creativity and wellness.” There is emphasis on writing, although they also encourage other mediums such as painting and photography. To expand their reach, Warrior Writers also offers trainings, retreats, exhibitions, performances, and alternative healing

practices that include massage and yoga. They have recently published their third anthology After Action Review, which showcases more than 100 veteran poems, creative writing, and art. Inspired by Combat Paper and Warrior Writers, in March 2011, Veterans in the Arts (www.veteransinthearts.org), a Minneapolis-based organization, began offering classes. Their direction includes literary and visual as well as musical initiatives. Although new to this approach of creative healing, they have already received the support of 10 art partners to build on their mission. Being deployed overseas will generate feelings of loss of family and friends, but it is very difficult to predict what experiences the soldiers come back with. These organizations strive to heal those wounds through sharing, art-making, and heartfelt support. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. — Helen Keller Judith Zausner can be reached at judith@caringcrafts.com.

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Vietnam Traveling Wall Coming to Coatesville The Vietnam Traveling Wall, also known as The Wall that Heals, is coming to Coatesville Veterans Affairs (VA) Medical Center from Nov. 7–11. The wall will be located on the medical center’s athletic field and will be open 24 hours each day to the entire community. The Vietnam Traveling Wall is a halfsized replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. The Traveling Museum and Information Center will accompany the wall. The hosting of the wall coincides with the medical center’s annual Veterans www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

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Salute to a Veteran

He Survived 35 Combat Missions in a B-17 Bomber Robert D. Wilcox hen Bob Hansen grew up in Brooklyn, the neighborhood was primarily home to working-class European immigrants. He says that very few, including his family, ever owned or drove an automobile. So, picturing himself flying a four-engine airplane would have seemed pretty farfetched for most people. But not for him. Ever since he had become the first-ever Eagle Scout in his Boy Scout troop, he had enjoyed a serious interest in mapping. And the U.S. Air Force seemed to him to be a perfect place for 1st Lt. Robert Hansen upon someone interested in his return from combat in Europe. maps. So, in late 1942, he enlisted in the Army Air at MacDill Field, Fla., and the crew went Corps and became an aviation cadet through combat training there before designee. picking up a brand-new B-17G on their In basic training at Atlantic City, he way via the northern route to England. was found to have a slight problem with Hansen grins as he notes, “Lots of our depth perception that would prevent his crew were from New York and New becoming a pilot … but not for England, so our pilot would wave our becoming a navigator. So he was off to wings as we flew over their hometowns as navigator training at Selman Field, we flew north to Maine, then to Monroe, La., where he earned his Labrador, Iceland, and finally to navigator wings and a commission as a Prestwick, Scotland. There we left our 2nd lieutenant. airplane and proceeded to our He was then assigned to a B-17 crew

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necessary to remove his eye. “Then, on a mission to Mersburg, Germany, we lost two of our four engines to flak and were able to crash land near Liege, Belgium, in friendly territory. On the way down, we were in and out of clouds, trying hard stay out of sight of enemy aircraft, when, all of a sudden, a P-51 showed up off our wing, with wheels and flaps down. Bob Hansen, third from left in front row, “The pilot was using in a picture of his crew in England. his hands to point straight down. I looked assignment to the 351st Bomb Group, in to where he was pointing, and, sure Polebrook, England.” enough, there was a small metal landing After some intense training flights, strip that was intended for fighters to they were ready for their first combat make emergency landings. We managed mission on Sept. 5 to Ludwigshaven, to crash land on that little strip. Our Germany. How did that go? bombardier was severely wounded in the “Well, we ran into heavy flak, but, landing, however, but the Army was able fortunately, no fighters. Nobody got to get him to a hospital.” hurt, although we saw one of our B-17s The crew completed their 35th and last take a direct hit and explode with the mission on Jan. 17, 1945, and all but loss of all 10 men aboard. Hansen were returned to the U.S. He “On every mission, we saw flak, with remained in Europe, assigned to the Air planes being set on fire and blown apart Transport Command, navigating C-54s all around us. That was bad enough, but across the Atlantic while bringing nurses I guess it never came home to us quite and other personnel back to the U.S. like it did on our 12th mission, on Oct. After his discharge in late 1945, 5, 1944. Hansen attended Brooklyn Polytech, “Our target was a synthetic oil graduating as a civil engineer. He then refinery in Politz, Germany, where worked for Exxon Mobil for 35 years as a our group lost seven aircraft and had licensed engineer, ultimately becoming severe damage to 24 more. As for senior advisor to management in the area us, we lost our ball turret operator, of marketing operations and engineering. who was killed by flak that caught In that capacity, he traveled worldwide, us squarely on the ball turret. None evaluating operations and reporting to of us had seen death so close up, management in New York. He retired and it came home to us in a hurry. from the company 1984. “Also, one of our waist gunners Hansen stayed in the Air Force was hit by a piece of aluminum that Reserve and retired as a captain. After his had been torn loose by a burst of wife, Judith, died in 2005, he came to a flak. The aluminum was as sharp as retirement home in Central Pennsylvania a razor blade, and it caught him to be close to friends and to occasionally squarely in his right eye. He was share with them tales of his experiences covered with blood, and all we in having flown 35 bomber combat could do for him was to bandage missions over Europe. him and give him a shot of Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in morphine to ease the pain. When Europe in World War II. we landed, the hospital found it www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

The Green Mountain Gardener

Introducing Children to Fall Gardening Fun Dr. Leonard Perry ertrude Jekyll, the celebrated English garden writer, thought so much of introducing children to the joy of gardening that she devoted a classic 1908 book, Children and Gardens, to the subject. In it she suggested that “autumn is the time to plant little gardens.” Many grandparents find gardening an excellent way to spend quality time with their grandchildren, teach lessons such as environmental awareness and the workings of nature, and have a liberal dose of good, old-fashioned family fun. Jekyll had an additional thought. She felt that it was not so much the vegetable or flower garden but the pure fun of digging in the dirt that was the real key to instilling an interest in gardening in children. Fall, with its many garden tasks, offers plenty of this kind of fun. Raking leaves into piles, for example, is work to an adult but can be satisfying for a child. Planting is another pleasant chore for young and old. Autumn is the season to plant trees, turf grasses, and springblooming flower bulbs such as tulips,

daffodils, hyacinths, and crocuses. Children will especially have fun with “naturalizing,” the planting of bulbs to achieve a natural look. It’s easy to do. Just grab a handful of bulbs, toss them out on the target area, and plant them where they fall. Fall is also the season to reseed the lawn, fix bare spots, or even renovate the entire lawn. Although a full-scale renovation is probably not a job for children, reseeding small areas can be fun for them. Their active participation in the process may help parents convince them to stay off newly

seeded areas, thus giving the new grass a chance. In her writings, Jekyll suggested that children begin their gardening experience by helping their parents tend to existing plantings. Later, they should be given a spot of their own in which to create a small garden. She advised her readers not to put the children’s garden in a marginal area or back corner but to give them a prime location where they can take pride in showing off their accomplishments. Jekyll also firmly stated that “children should be provided with proper tools.” In

her day, acceptable implements had to be custom-made by clever country blacksmiths. Today, child-sized tools, including trowels, spades, rakes, hoes, blunt weeding tools, small wheelbarrows, and baskets for weeding and harvesting, are available through mail-order catalogs or many garden centers. Of course, fall with its apple picking, pumpkin carving, and many outdoor activities is only the beginning of gardening as a family. Come spring, when you are enjoying your new lawn or spring-flowering bulbs, take time to involve your children in planning and planting the flower and vegetable garden. Gertrude Jekyll, thinking back to her own youth, wrote that she thought at that time there were “only two types of people in the world—children and grown-ups— and that the world really belonged to children. And I think it is because I have been more or less a gardener all my life that I still feel like a child in many ways.” Dr. Leonard P. Perry is an extension professor at the University of Vermont.

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person. One series of two shots protects you. Pneumococcal. Infections of the lungs, blood, or brain caused by this bacteria lead to 22,000 deaths each year in the U.S. A single shot protects against them. If you have chronic health conditions or you’re over 65 and your pneumococcal vaccination was more than five years ago, ask your internist if you need a booster. More information on adult immunizations can be found at www.acponline.org. So much of your health is based on chance. Keeping up with adult vaccinations is one way you can take control of your health and safety. If you can’t remember the last time you were immunized, talk to your doctor about getting back on track. (StatePoint)

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KASC Opens Breakfast Café

The Kennett Area Senior Center recently celebrated the grand opening of the Walnut Street Café with an early-morning free breakfast to commemorate the occasion. Approximately 130 people thoroughly enjoyed themselves as they sampled delicious food

combinations from the family-style, buffet breakfast. Breakfasts are currently being served in the Walnut Street Cafe Monday through Friday from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Meals are prepared with healthy, nutritious ingredients and are economically priced.

Senior Models Take to the Catwalk The Kennett Area Senior Center recently sponsored an afternoon tea party with a theme of “The Fashion Show.” The event was a preview of an upcoming crafts showcase and bazaar and featured 20 senior models.

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the mountain. As the weights become their heaviest, he will walk as far as 10 to 15 yards. His goal is to walk 10 yards with 700 pounds. “It’s tough to do, but I like doing it. It’s part of my life,” Jones said. The 60year-old has powerwalked for 34 years, more than half of his life. At first, Jones powerwalked at a local reservoir. “It’s really rough on the rocks,” he said. Later, he switched to Ski Roundtop, going up the Minute Man slope where the chair lifts and lodge are located. In order to get ready for his yearly powerwalk benefits, Jones trains for five months: four days a week for two to three hours. Jones trains so hard because when the weights are set on his neck, it can dislocate his shoulder. “I build calluses on my back and shoulders so I can handle that,” he said. Jones also noted that he does not and has never taken steroids. He is able to do his powerwalks only because of the intense workouts he does, he said. Once the powerwalk is done for the year, Jones puts the equipment away for a while and instead works out on the machines at his gym. “I do a lot of walking. You have to stay in shape to go up a mountain,” he said. Jones began his powerwalking journey at the age of 26 to build up his “bird legs,” he said. He would walk up 186 steps to his garage with the bar and plates behind his head, and when he was done, he would get some ice cream from the ice cream factory at the bottom of the steps. But he really likes to practice out in a field where nobody is around. He now practices at a 1-acre lot close to his home, which has an empty trailer where he is allowed to keep his equipment. “I’m always pumped up to practice. I can’t wait to do it. It’s in my blood. The older I get, the more I want to do it. I’ll know when it’s over when I don’t want to practice,” Jones said.

The idea of a benefit powerwalk began in 1978 when Jones was working as a bartender. Someone suggested he walk up the split in the mountain with his 160-pound weights to raise money for the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon. “It was 90 degrees that day,” he recalled. The following year, he wanted to do something for the little kids. “I saw what families go through and how lucky I was,” Jones said. “Davey Smith was the little guy that got me going. He had cancer, was in a wheelchair and going blind, but he made me smile.” Jones said Smith and his family’s situation hit him hard, so he decided to do something once a year for kids and their families. “Raising a lot of money was not my intention,” Jones said. “I have set no goals, so we won’t be disappointed. In this economy, whatever we get we’re grateful for. I’m glad to get something, is the way I always look at things. I do it for the personal satisfaction.” He has raised funds for Special Olympics and numerous other charities, “but I like (to raise money) for the little kids the best … I do a different person each year, and they never see me again because when I got close to little Davey, it hurt me.” This year, Jones will be raising funds for the Tuckey family in Biglerville. Sixyear-old Bekah Tuckey was diagnosed with leukemia in August 2011. All proceeds from the powerwalk— which will begin at 11 a.m. on Nov. 3 with a rain date of Nov. 4—go directly to the Tuckey family. Jones has a volunteer staff who will be collecting donations so that people know that none of it goes to himself, he said. To donate, make checks payable to Bekah Tuckey Power Walk Fund, Account No. 473817, Member’s 1st Federal Credit Union, 5000 Louise Drive, Mechanicsburg, PA 17055. T-shirts and bracelets also are available for purchase by calling (717) 433-4996 or on the day of the event.

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