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A Woman with 2 Birthdays Transplant Recipient Helps Others through Book and Organ-Donation Advocacy By Lori Van Ingen Chronic kidney disease affects one in nine Americans, and millions more are at risk. More than 105,000 people are on the National Kidney Transplant List in the United States. “Every day, 18 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ, such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or bone marrow,” said Carole Fair, an organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania for nearly two years. Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 4,573 kidney patients, 1,506 liver patients, 371 heart patients, and 234 lung patients died in 2008 while waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, Fair noted. “I’m hoping that with more awareness of transplantation and the generosity of others, these numbers could certainly decline,” said the Mechanicsburg woman, who recently spoke at events at Holy Spirit Hospital and Hershey Antique Auto Association. Fair is a circuit speaker at civic clubs, women’s organizations, and churches. She helps people become aware of transplantation, clears up misconceptions, and promotes organ donation in general. “I get asked the most basic questions, like, ‘Where is my kidney located?’ and ‘Is the old kidney removed during a transplant?’” said Fair, who also is a please see ADVOCACY page 17 Kidney transplant recipient Carole Fair is now an author as well as an active organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania.
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Book Review
Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch By C. Eugene Moore
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ho has a stronger sense of tradition than the Amish? In Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch, we find anecdotes that have been passed down in families. In the retelling of these stories we find that each has been given a special patina as it has been lovingly handed down from generation to generation. “Amos Trades Up” follows the comical misadventures of a young Amishman. Paid off after his year of indentured service, Amos starts walking home. But along the way he meets temptation after temptation—and he pursues them all. “Eilenshpiggel and His Shenanigans” tells of the willful, mischievous rogue who’s a legend among the Pennsylvania Dutch people. In “John the Blacksmith,” we learn of the native intelligence of this character and of how he manages to outwit an emissary from the devil himself.
“Tales Tall and Taller” is a collection of exaggerations that make for wonderful reminiscences. For example, what happened to the man from Ephrata whose dentist pulled his tooth, then somehow let it slip off the tongs and travel down the patient’s throat? Read “Graven Images and the Legends that Grow Around Them” to find out about burial customs among the Pennsylvania Dutch and to learn what the emblems on grave markers signify. “Pennsylvania German Humor” is filled with traditional stories that bring laughter to the people of southeastern Pennsylvania. The book even offers “A True Ghost Story.” This is a fast-moving tale of
murder and its eerie consequences. It asks you to explain what happened, if you can. An appendix, “Forearmed in Bilaspur,” tells of two Lancaster County men who link up to hunt tigers in India. This is all we’ll tell you about this story, which has a surprise twist at the end. The book is richly illustrated with color photographs depicting items made by Pennsylvania Dutch craftsmen: tall clocks, furniture, Conestoga wagon hardware, quilts, guns, and Amish toys. Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch is available at local bookstores or from Schiffer Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, Pa. 19310 or (610) 593-1777.
About the Author Gene Moore, a former navy officer, is a graduate of Auburn University who earned a master’s degree from Florida State University. He retired as director of public relations from Armstrong World Industries, Inc. A previous book, How Armstrong Floored America: The People Who Made It Happen, 1945-1995, was published by the Lancaster County Historical Society. He and his wife, Jan, make their home in Lancaster. Calling All Authors If you have written and published a book and would like 50plus Senior News to feature a Book Review, please submit a synopsis of the book (350 words or fewer) and a short autobiography (80 words or fewer). A copy of the book is required for review. Discretion is advised. Please send to: On-Line Publishers, Inc., Megan Joyce, 3912 Abel Drive, Columbia, PA 17512. For more information, please email mjoyce@onlinepub.com.
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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
Big Plays on Display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
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Dr. Lori f you like vintage architecture interactive displays featuring game uniforms from the Pro Bowl as well from the 1960s, you’ll like the footage and player videos, the as equipment and apparel worn by surroundings of the Pro Football Lamar Hunt Super Bowl exhibition Walter Payton, Joe Namath, and Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. gallery with the Vince Lombardi Dan Marino, among others. The The building was ultra-modern trophy on display, the Super Bowl exhibits also focus on the impact of in its day with its interior spiral ring display (for the jewelry lover in stars like O.J. Simpson and the ramp (like the one designed by the family), and the popular Hall of Buffalo Bills’ Electric Company. Frank Lloyd Wright for the Fame gallery. Some displays show a player’s Guggenheim Museum in New York While the Super Bowl ring love of the game by focusing on City), glass curtain wall (a nod to display was one of my favorites great plays made by Chicago Bears the urban office-building (who doesn’t like all those running back Brian Piccolo or architecture of Mies van der Rohe diamonds?), the Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman. And, and Philip Johnson), and footballgallery speaks to the core of the Hall who could forget the famous shaped roofline Immaculate Reception indicative of midmade by Pittsburgh century modern Steelers fullback Franco American Harris (a fellow Penn architecture. Stater) on Dec. 23, Canton, Ohio, 1972? The museum, was chosen as the through its diverse site for the Hall of exhibits, shows visitors Fame for many the heart of the game reasons. However, of football. we focus on I discovered one last football’s legacy interesting thing about there as opposed sports museums during to some other my visit to the Pro locale because of Football Hall of Fame. the Native No matter how much American athlete information is available Exhibition Gallery at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio. named Jim to a visitor in a sports Thorpe, who museum, fans always signed a football search for more. I of Fame. The gallery houses contract there. Thorpe, the star of noticed many visitors standing in interactive displays and an the 1912 Olympic Games, signed front of very good, informative impressive assemblage of fine-art his first contract to play football displays—even interactive bronze portrait busts of the Hall of with the Canton Bulldogs in 1915. displays—who were still searching Fame inductees through the years. While the vintage building is for additional stats on their cell good looking, the museum is in the The bronze busts are the work of phones. I even found myself doing Utah sculptor Blair Buswell and midst of completing a major it. they capture the likeness of each construction/ As a former museum curator and football great. As a display, the expansion project to host more director, I bet you think I’d be football fans. The completion of the gallery is awe inspiring as visitors appalled by this but, in fact, I think search for their favorite Hall of museum expansion will coincide when a museum’s displays prompt th Famer. with the Hall of Fame’s 50 visitors to find out more, that’s a anniversary in 2013. The new At the Pro Football Hall of Fame, pretty cool and quite interactive facilities will not only host a world exhibits trace the history of museum. Plan a visit. of football fans, but they will also professional football with unique Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, and offer the Ralph Wilson Jr. Football objects like the Baltimore Colts award-winning TV personality, Dr. Lori Research and Preservation Center, marching band’s bass drum, press presents antique appraisal events the researchers’ reading room, an wood posters announcing the 1962 nationwide. Dr. Lori is the expert event center, and a meeting room. AFL championship game between appraiser on the hit TV show Auction In addition, there will be the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Kings on Discovery channel, which airs exhibition galleries focusing on the Texans, and early helmets worn by Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Visit history of the game dating back to various players. www.DrLoriV.com, www.Facebook.com/ the early 1900s, state-of-the-art The exhibits highlight player DoctorLori, or call (888) 431-1010.
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My 22 Cents’ Worth
Do You Collect, Clutter, or Hoard?
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Walt Sonneville ollect, clutter, or hoard. Which best describes your habits relating to storing your “stuff ” (to use the descriptor popularized in a monologue by satirist George Carlin)? If you collect, you probably are normal if you do not clutter excessively. If you clutter within reason, you may be near average in orderliness. If you admit to hoarding, medical professionals recommend you promptly seek psychological help. In his skit, Carlin said: “A house is a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” It’s true. We do keep adding to our stuff. That may help explain why the average house in our nation is larger than the average three decades ago, while the number of dwellers per average household declined slightly. The median square footage per household increased from 1,488 in 1980 to 1,769 in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. At the same time the mean average of persons per household fell from 2.76 to 2.56. Bigger homes have not solved our storage needs. The Self-Storage Association, which represents 46,500 self-storage facilities, claims that 10 percent of U.S. households rent a selfstorage unit, up from 6 percent in 1995. These units, at December 2009, had a combined space of 2.22 billion square feet, seven times as much as existed at the end of 1995. For comparison, the square footage of the island of Manhattan is only 20 percent as large. After reading the examples that follow, you may conclude that, by comparison, you are a moderate collector or moderate hoarder. Collectors acquire a category of items, such as Barbie dolls, old beer cans, or baseball cards. Comedian Jay Leno reportedly has a collection of approximately 200 automobiles. Should this be regarded as an example of a normal collector or of a private-museum curator? His automobile-insurance
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premiums alone must cost a fortune. Sigmund Freud was a collector of antiquities—items older than mere antiques—cluttering his office with an overabundance of them. Some of the very rich may be compulsive collectors of money if their life experience is virtually limited to acquiring more and more wealth. Ida Mayfield Wood was wealthy, but miserly. She did not seek more wealth. Her objective was to hoard money. She lived as a recluse in a New York City hotel from 1907, at which time she withdrew her fortune from banks, until 1931. When authorities examined her apartment, they found approximately $900,000 in cash. Bills of high denominations were stored on the floors of the bathroom and living room, substantial cash was kept in pots and pans, and stock certificates were squirreled away in her bed. Clutter is a common indulgence. It occurs when items “prevent any part of the inside or outside of a dwelling to be used for its intended purpose,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services in Montgomery County, Md. (Fibber McGee’s stuffed closet is an example.) Beethoven cluttered his living quarters to the point he could be said to have lived slovenly. Keeping a neat household, while writing some of the world’s greatest music, apparently were mutually exclusive capabilities for this genius. Will Cuppy, a writer of articles for the New Yorker magazine and author of several zany books, including his bestknown work, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, can be regarded as a collector who severely cluttered, not a hoarder. His apartment was filled with books stored for his research. Any space in the bathroom, kitchen, even the refrigerator, was subject to book storage.
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The Squint-Eyed Senior
Warmed in the Glow of My Golden Years Theodore Rickard hate to admit it—or, at least, I should be somewhat bashful about admitting it—but there is a certain smug satisfaction in being retired. First of all, there is an inner contentment, somewhat akin to a sense of triumph, in not being awakened by the clock radio. For years the little white cube was set for the same time and the same unctuous and annoyingly happy voice told us what the local weather was. This information was a loser either way. If the weather was bad, it meant a rush to leave early enough to allow for the inevitable traffic snarls. If the weather was good, the call to duty and the reality of a second mortgage engendered painful resentments. In the first few months of not having to go to work I’d call the bank to see if the pension deposits had actually been made. The patient lady (her name is Alice) at the local branch would recite the figures—the same numbers every month. Something tells me I was not the only one doing this just to make sure. Alice never sounded surprised at the request. At our house the lifetime spousal comptroller and treasurer dealt with none of this uncertainty. With sublime confidence in the world of finance, she’d go ahead and write the checks for the
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condo assessment, telephone bill, and all those essential etceteras of living. I admire her faith in the banking system even after all the bad press that bankers have been getting. And especially since our own local financial institution is now in its fourth name change, and we hear it’s been acquired yet again, although neither of us can remember either its last-year name or its current name or this year’s slogan. Only Alice has remained the same throughout the bank’s successive identities. Her continued presence gives us some sense of a stable housing for our modest deposit balance. I keep wondering what’s going to happen when Alice retires, but I’ve stopped calling her every month to see if the money is actually there. And we sleep later in the morning. Or I do, anyway. Sometimes I awaken to the
scent of coffee freshly brewing. This means we’re going shopping today. “Shopping” entails me finding a place to sit down while the lifetime spousal purchasing agent provides whatever we need to survive both the immediate and the distant future. These needs are heavily weighted with grandchildren’s birthdays, graduations (including play school), and the next Yuletide, however many months away it might be. Occasionally I do the “guy thing.” For some reason, this almost always involves the car. For example, our somewhat aged, mid-sized sedan gets a regular oil change. This requires man-to-man talk with “Angie” at the local service station. Usually we decide that the brakes are “good for another 20,000, but we better keep an eye on the muffler” and “we’ll want to replace all four tires before we
get snow.” Actually, it is not “we” doing any deciding here. Angie’s voice may be muffled coming as it does from someplace deep underneath the chassis, but his diagnosis is unmistakable. This might be because it’s the same thing he said the last time we changed the oil. I know it sounds somewhat meanspirited of me, but the best retirement days are those when the dawn brings a downpour—a rainstorm enough to frighten Noah. I don’t need that artificially cheerful radio voice to tell me about it. I can hear the water lashing against the windows even though the blinds are drawn tight. All that I have to do about it is to roll over and go back to sleep. I’m somewhat ashamed to admit I do so with barely a twinge of sympathy for those wage earners, including our own offspring, who have to slog through the day to earn their daily bread and cough up their Social Security taxes. Selfishly sleepy as I may be, I hope they are successful. And I make a mental note to call Alice just to make sure. A collection of Ted Rickard’s family-fun essays is titled Anything Worth Knowing I Learned from the Grandkids. It is now available in paperback on Amazon.com.
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Oct. 19, 2011). Hoarders take collections past the threshold of eccentricity and into the realm of psychosis. Susan Hoskins, executive director of the Princeton (N.J.) Senior Resource Center and its hoarding task force, was quoted in the AARP Bulletin (Feb. 4, 2011) stating: “As a therapist I have found very few things that are as difficult to treat, and so hard for people to give up.” The behavior of hoarders is so bizarre it is frequently detailed in the press. The two most publicized types of hoarders are the reclusive wealthy and animal hoarders. The former have been found in
mansions filled with debris while the latter have an insatiable compulsion to keep dozens of cats or dogs. The Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, lived in a New York City mansion filled with 136 tons of junk and trash. In 1947 Langley was fatally crushed as one of the piles collapsed. Homer, trapped by the fall and unable to move, died of starvation. The hoarded items included 10 grand pianos, kept because the brothers believed “they all have such different tonal effects.” In 1971 Jackie Kennedy’s aunt Edith Beale, and Edith’s daughter Edie, were found living in a 28-room mansion filled
with junk and debris. Kennedy came to their rescue, paying $32,000 to remove more than 1,000 bags of garbage, clean with 40 gallons of germicide, and install a new furnace and plumbing. There seems to be a lesson here to not patronize all relatives residing in mansions.
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The collection represented a readily accessible research resource, not a pathological compulsion. When he died, they found more than 15,000 note cards comprising his reference file. He differs from the hoarding compulsion of Ida Mayfield Wood, who used the cash she stored only to maintain her impoverished lifestyle. Herb Block, the famed political cartoonist for the Washington Post who went by the penname “Herblock,” had an office that an assistant once described as “an organized disaster.” He was not considered a slob but, rather, “an information hoarder” (Washington Post,
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Preventive Measures
Too Much Wheat? Wendell Fowler mericans associate wheat with apple pie, the American flag, and Kate Smith belting out “God Bless America.” The food pyramid encourages eating a gut-busting six to 11 servings a day. You can’t make this up, folks: Society eats too much “carbolicious” wheat, and it’s taken a toll. Great news! We’re witness to a joyous dietary awakening. Medical science is enlightening Americans that their devotion to unhealthful eating customs, veggie-phobia, and dependence on processed carbohydrates initiates disease and diminishes their earthly quality of life. We perceive white flour as healthy, but industrial processing destroys half of its unsaturated fatty acids and EFAs, all the vitamins, 50 percent of the calcium, 70 percent of the phosphorus, 80 percent of the iron, 98 percent of the magnesium, and 50 to 80 percent of the B vitamins. Processed flour is linked to diabetes, celiac disease, inflammation, accelerated aging, cancer, depression, anxiety, and “poochy” belly. Wheat’s not even too neat today. It’s altered from our perfect creator’s design. The temple struggles with digesting alien strains of wheat. Dr. David Kessler, retired FDA director, asserts that modern processed wheat, vastly different from the original earliest forms, is also addictive. Alloxan, which makes all-purpose flour white, creates unholy free radicals in pancreatic beta cells. Destroy the beta cells and, voila, diabetes sets in. Alloxan is given to lab rats to damage the pancreas for studying its toxic effect. Alloxan’s effects on the pancreas are so severe the Textbook of Natural Medicine calls it “a potent beta cell toxin,” yet the FDA approves it.
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White bread, bagels, croissants, biscuits, pasta, bread sticks, pizza crust, cookies and cakes, and pie have a high glycemic index. They break down into glucose, spiking blood sugar; therefore, eating them could aggravate diabetes and fertilize obesity. Whole grains don’t throw your temple into a sugar-fueled, drug-like dependency cycle. Replace white flour pasta with whole-grain or quinoa versions. Replace all-purpose flour products with rice, potato flour, or robust, artisan whole-grain flours. Wholegrain food fare brims with coloncleansing fiber and digests more slowly so you feel fuller longer and eat less; plus, you’ll intake more heavenly nutrients. Saner carbs should come from fresh, unadulterated gifts of earth, such as apples, apricots, bananas, cantaloupe, peaches, pears, oranges, figs, grapes, kiwi, pineapples, plums, strawberries, blueberries, dates, raisins, legumes, dried peas, peanuts, brown rice, bulgur, wheat berries, oatmeal, rye, and quinoa. After 30 days, if you don’t feel mentally, spiritually, and physically better and have improved blood glucose readings, sue me. But I hope you’ll be grateful instead. Simply switching from white flour to oat, quinoa, brown rice, spelt, buckwheat, or rye flours can lower heart disease risk. You deserve the best, dear friends. Awaken, open your minds, and grab a fork full of wholesome reality. Even lab rats won’t eat white flour. Chef Wendell is an inspirational food literacy speaker and author of Earth Suit Maintenance Manual. To order a signed copy of his food essays and tasty recipes, contact him at chefwendellfowler@gmail.com or www.chefwendell.com.
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Beyond the Battlefield
His Army Unit Helped Defeat the Nazis in Italy Alvin S. Goodman .M. Richard Simons, 87, of Harrisburg, has had a distinguished career in the military during World War II and in community service afterward. He was an insurance agent and served as city treasurer and a member of city council. A native and lifelong resident of Harrisburg, Simons was the only child of George and Esther Simons. His father owned the London Clothes Shop in the former Senate Theater Building on Market Square and his mother was a clerk in her brother-in-law’s drug store, operated by Harry H. Buch at North Second and State streets. He attended Steele Elementary School and Camp Curtin Junior High School and graduated in 1943 from William Penn High School, where he was a member of the swim team. He attended Dickinson College in Carlisle
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for one semester before enlisting in the U.S. Army and serving in Italy as a member of the 10th Mountain Infantry Division. A yearbook Simons has, which details the history of the 87th Mountain Regiment (Italy 1945), states that the 10th Mountain Division played an important part in defeating the 26 German divisions in Italy during World War II. “The 10th chewed Simons serving as a disc jockey at the up more German American Expeditionary Radio divisions than any Station at Livorno (Leghorn), Italy.
other Allied division during the entire Italian campaign,” the yearbook says. “Against all odds, America’s ski troops pushed the Nazis out of Italy’s high country and helped bring WWII to an end.” Simons sustained a broken leg when he dove into a foxhole during enemy fire. As a result, he was reassigned to the American Expeditionary Radio Station at Livorno (Leghorn), Italy, as a disc jockey, playing recorded music of the
big bands and popular American vocalists. He was awarded the Combat Infantryman Badge, the Good Conduct Medal, and the Bronze Star. He was also eligible to receive the Purple Heart but decided not to pursue it because he felt his broken leg, while combat related, didn’t compare with the serious injuries suffered by other servicemen. He returned home in September 1945 and, after his discharge from the Army, resumed his education under the GI Bill at Dickinson College, receiving a BA degree in political science and history in 1949. Simons formed his own insurance firm, Simons and Co. Affectionately known as “Mr. Insurance” in the Harrisburg area, Simons also decided to run for public office. He served as city treasurer from 1976 to 1980 and as a
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member of Harrisburg City Council Dial M for Murder and Detective Story from 1985 to 1989. with his wife. He married Elaine He is a now a resident of a Yaverbaum in July 1952. local retirement community, She died in December 2007. where he enjoys watching TV, Simons has four daughters: reading, going out to lunch, Lynn, a speech pathologist; and socializing with his fellow Leann, a nutritionist; Ruth, residents and friends. who joined her father’s All things considered, insurance business in 1985; Simons said, “I consider and Rhea Amy, who stayed myself to be a lucky person. I at home until her death went through a lot and the Simons today. three years ago. He has six good Lord was with me.” grandchildren. If you are a mature veteran and have Simons was active in the Boy Scouts interesting or unusual experiences in your and served as a Scout leader for 25 military or civilian life, phone Al Goodman years. He was an actor at the Harrisburg at (717) 541-9889 or email him at Community Theater and had roles in klezmer630@comcast.net.
Tech Day at Library Did you receive a Christmas gift that came with little or no instructions? Does that technology gift have you puzzled? The Dillsburg Area Public Library is sponsoring a drop-in session on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2013, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. during which time students from Trinity High School will be available to assist individuals in setting up or using their new smartphones, tablets,
webcams, watches, or other electronic devices. The program is free and open to the public. No registration is necessary. The Library is located at 17 S. Baltimore St., Dillsburg, PA 17019. For further information, call the library at (717) 432-5613 or visit www.yorklibraries.org/ dillsburg.
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Pirates and More in Tampa captain disembarks and approaches the mayor, demanding the key to the city of Tampa. The mayor complies; the party can begin. Tampa’s annual pirate fest, which will take place this year on Jan. 26, honors JosÊ Gaspar, the bold buccaneer who, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, captured hundreds of ships off the coast of Florida. Today the Gasparilla Festival has become a major event, and the stolen treasure is being returned in the form of tourist dollars. Gasparilla combines the legend of Gaspar with the magic of Mardi Gras. Following their successful takeover of the city, the merry pirates (a.k.a., civic leaders who are members of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla) strut through downtown in true swashbuckling style, accompanied by more than 100 floats and marching bands. At the same time, merrymakers fill the streets, where there’s nonstop entertainment and an abundance of
By Andrea Gross “There it is!â€? The child who is standing next to me jumps up and down, accompanying each jump with an ear-splitting shriek. I look in the direction he is pointing. It is indeed a scream-worthy sight. There, sailing toward us, in a slow but steady manner, is a giant pirate ship, with masts that pierce the sky and bright flags that wave in the breeze. The name of the ship is emblazoned on its side: JosĂŠ Gasparilla. The deck is crowded with hundreds of men, some with black triangular hats adorned with a skulland crossbones insignia, others with colorful rag-wrapped turbans. The men blast cannons, brandish swords, and whoop and holler as the ship, surrounded by a flotilla of small boats, prepares to invade the city of Tampa. The ship docks and the pirate
The pirate ship JosĂŠ Gasparilla approaches the city of Tampa.
After the invasion, the pirates parade through town, tossing treasures to the waiting crowd.
Tampa residents get into the spirit of Gasparilla.
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Hershey Lodge food stands. The partying continues until 10 p.m., at which time the victorious pirates retreat, letting Tampa return to the 21st century. Of course, Tampa is more than pirates. Its attractions include great beaches (nearby St. Pete Beach was voted No. 1 by TripAdvisor), a temperate climate (average summer temps are in the low 80s; average winter ones are in the low 60s), and a historic district that reflects the city’s Latin heritage. We start our exploration in Ybor City (pronounced EE-bore), the historic neighborhood named after the Cuban cigar manufacturer who made the region a mecca for hardworking immigrants. Less than 100 years after Gaspar pillaged the region, workers from Cuba were joined by workers of other nationalities, and together they produced approximately 700 million hand-rolled cigars a year. Today the area is filled with eclectic shops and trendy nightclubs, but traces of the past remain. Old, red-brick buildings with wrought-iron grillwork line streets bordered with spindly palms; master cigar rollers continue to practice their craft; and the Columbia Restaurant, Florida’s oldest and the world’s largest Spanish restaurant, features a full array of Cuban food, as well as the “original Cuban sandwich” (a long loaf of soft, white bread filled with layers of ham, roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard). Walking through the restaurant is almost as interesting as tasting its food. Amidst the wrought iron and bright www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
tiles, there’s a royal dining room, a Spanish courtyard, and a flamenco nightclub. The Tampa Bay History Center, a 60,000-square-foot facility that opened in January 2009, tells us more about Ybor City and the entire Tampa Bay region. Various exhibits highlight people from the Seminole Indians and Spanish conquistadors to the “cowmen and crackers” who were part of Florida’s cattle-ranching past. To see a bit of Tampa’s natural history, we go to the 240-acre Lettuce Lake Park, so named because the surrounding greenery reminded folks of a lunchtime salad. Rather than renting a canoe or kayak, we pick up a map and brochure at the visitors center and explore on foot. There are 3,500 feet of boardwalk, more than a mile of paved pathways, and an abundance of wellmaintained nature trails that lead us though groves of cypress and ferns and past two alligators, a few turtles, and an untold number of birds. That evening we arrive early for our flight home and are relaxing at the mojito bar when a gentleman tells us that the best place to see a Florida sunset is from the top of the airport parking garage. We take the elevator to the top floor and there, against a red sky, we can almost see a fully rigged pirate ship sailing into the bay. With a smile and a toast to José Gaspar, we go down to catch our plane.
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Eye Care Coverage and Services for Retirees Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Does Medicare cover eye care? I had excellent vision insurance through my employer for many years but lost it when I retired, and now I am confused as to what Medicare actually covers. What can you tell me? — Living on a Budget Dear Living, Many retirees are confused with what Medicare will and won’t cover when it comes to eye care. Here’s a breakdown of how Medicare handles different types of vision care services, along with some additional tips that can help you get affordable care when needed. Medicare Coverage If you have original Medicare (Part A and B), it’s important to know that “routine” vision care like eye exams, eye refractions, eyeglasses, or contact lenses are generally not covered. But, “medically necessary” eye care usually is. Here’s a list of what is covered: • Eye surgeries: any surgical procedure that helps repair the function of the eye like cataract removal, cornea transplant, glaucoma surgery, etc. • Eyeglasses or contacts: only if you’ve had cataract surgery.
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have Medicare Advantage, some plans provide eye care benefits. Be sure you check with your plan administrator.
• Glaucoma screenings: annual screenings for those at high risk (diabetics, those with a family history of glaucoma, or those who are AfricanAmerican or Hispanic). • Diabetic eye exams: if you have diabetes, yearly exams for diabetic retinopathy.
Ways to Save If you find your eye care needs aren’t covered, or you can’t afford the 20 percent outof-pocket that Medicare doesn’t cover, there are other ways to save. For starters, if you need a refractive eye exam or a new pair of eyeglasses, many optometrists and eyeglass dealers offer discounts—usually between 10 and 30 percent—to seniors who request it. Memberships in groups like AAA and AARP can also provide lower rates. Another way to get low-cost eye care is at an optometry school. Many offer affordable care provided by students that are overseen by their professors. See www.opted.org for a directory of schools and their contact information.
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• Macular degeneration: certain treatments are covered. You also need to be aware that of the eye care services that are covered by Medicare, you’re still responsible for 20 percent of the cost—Medicare pays the other 80 percent. To help with this out-of-pocket expense, some Medigap supplemental policies provide gap coverage. Or, if you
Assistance Programs Depending on where you live, there may also be some local clinics or charitable organizations that provide free or discounted eye care or eyeglasses. Put in a call to your local Lions Club to see what’s available in your area. To reach your local club, visit www.directory.lionsclubs.org or call (800) 747-4448 to get the number to your state Lions Club office, which can refer you to your community representative. Or, if you need medical eye care, check into EyeCare America. This is a national program that provides comprehensive medical eye examinations to seniors age 65 and older and up to one year of treatment at no cost. They accept Medicare or other insurance as full payment. And if you don’t have insurance, care is free. To learn more or to find out if you qualify, visit www.eyecareamerica.org. If you’re under age 65, some other services that can help include Mission Cataract USA (www.missioncataract usa.org), which provides free cataract surgery to low-income people who don’t have insurance. And Vision USA (www.optometryscharity.org/vision-usa, (800) 766-4466) provides free vision care to uninsured and low-income workers and their families. Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org.
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Who Has the Best Bites in Central PA? Vegetarian Black Bean Soup
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By Pat Sinclair Every year I resolve to eat healthier food in the new year, along with at least half of the population. An easy change to make is to serve one meatless meal a week, and using canned beans simplifies prep. Rinsing the beans thoroughly removes a significant amount of sodium. Using low-sodium chicken broth instead of the vegetable broth also reduces sodium. For a second meal, I like to serve the soup over rice instead of adding the sherry, but I still garnish with sour cream and cilantro. This soup also freezes well, but the spiciness intensifies.
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2 teaspoons canola or vegetable oil 1/2 cup chopped onion 1/2 cup chopped carrot 2 cloves garlic, minced 2 (15 3/4 ounces) cans vegetable broth 2 (15 ounces) cans black beans, drained and rinsed 1 (14 ounces) can diced tomatoes 1 teaspoon chili powder 1 teaspoon sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon cinnamon 1 chipotle chile en adobo, chopped 1 bay leaf
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1/4 cup dry sherry, if desired 1/2 cup reduced fat sour cream 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro Sliced avocado Heat the oil over medium heat in a medium saucepan. Add the onion and carrot and cook until softened, five to six minutes. Add the garlic and cook 30 seconds, stirring constantly. Stir in the broth, beans, tomatoes, chili powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon, chipotle chile, and bay leaf. Bring the soup to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer 20 minutes. Remove bay leaf. Remove about 2 cups of the soup. Using an immersion blender or blender, puree the remaining soup. Add the reserved soup to the puree. Stir in a little water if the soup is too thick. Stir 1 tablespoon sherry into each serving. Garnish each with sour cream and cilantro and a few avocado slices, if desired.
Cook’s Note: Chipotle chiles are smoked jalapeno chiles. They are pickled and canned and keep well in the refrigerator after they are opened. Use them to add a smoky flavor to meats and stews. Remove the seeds and the ribs to reduce the heat, if desired. Or add another pepper if you like it smokin’ hot. Copyright by Pat Sinclair. Pat Sinclair announces the publication of her second cookbook, Scandinavian Classic Baking (Pelican Publishing), in February 2011. This book has a color photo of every recipe. Her first cookbook, Baking Basics and Beyond (Surrey Books), won the 2007 Cordon d’Or from the Culinary Arts Academy. Contact her at http://PatCooksandBakes.blogspot.com
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Cumberland County
Calendar of Events PA State Parks in Cumberland County
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Jan. 1, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. – First Day Hike, Kings Gap Environmental Education Center
Big Spring Senior Center – (717) 776-4478 91 Doubling Gap Road, Suite 1, Newville Mondays in January and February, 2 p.m. – Learn to Paint with Watercolor Wednesdays, 1 p.m. – Interdenominational Bible Study Jan. 8, 12:30 p.m. – Presentation on End-of-Life Resources
Programs and Support Groups Jan. 1, 7 p.m. CanSurmount Cancer Support Group HealthSouth Acute Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd. Mechanicsburg (717) 691-6786
Jan. 9, 11:30 a.m. NARFE West Shore Chapter 1465 VFW Post 6704 4907 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg (717) 737-1486 www.narfe1465.org Visitors welcome; meeting is free but fee for food.
Jan. 3, 6:30 p.m. Too Sweet: Diabetes Support Group Chapel Hill United Church of Christ 701 Poplar Church Road Camp Hill (717) 557-9041
Jan. 9, 1:30 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group of Central PA HealthSouth Acute Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd. Mechanicsburg (717) 877-0624
Free and open to the public. Jan. 9, 6:30 p.m. Amputee Support Team Meeting HealthSouth Rehabilitation Center 175 Lancaster Blvd. Mechanicsburg (717) 944-2250 dehoss67@comcast.net www.astamputees.com Jan. 15, 1 p.m. Caregiver Support Group Mechanicsburg Church of the Brethren 501 Gale St., Mechanicsburg (717) 766-8880
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Amelia Givin Library, 114 N. Baltimore Ave., Mt. Holly Springs, (717) 486-3688 Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W. High St., Carlisle, (717) 243-4642 Jan. 16, 1 p.m. – Afternoon Classic Movies at Bosler
East Pennsboro Branch Library, 98 S. Enola Drive, Enola, (717) 732-4274 John Graham Public Library, 9 Parsonage St., Newville, (717) 776-5900 Joseph T. Simpson Public Library, 16 N. Walnut St., Mechanicsburg, (717) 766-0171 New Cumberland Public Library, 1 Benjamin Plaza, New Cumberland, (717) 774-7820 Jan. 5 and 19, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Library Book Sale Jan. 21, 6 to 8 p.m. – Great Books Discussion Group: Idylls of the King by Tennyson Jan. 19, 11 a.m. to noon – Couponing for Extreme Savings Shippensburg Public Library, 73 W. King St., Shippensburg, (717) 532-4508
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kidney transplant recipient. Fair said her new kidney is in the right lower quadrant of her stomach, attached to the artery in the leg and bladder. “If you have uncontrollable hypertension, they will remove the (old) kidney, but I only had mild hypertension, so mine wasn’t removed,” she said. She also gets asked how it feels to have someone else’s kidney. But Fair doesn’t think of it that way, she said. She only thinks about how good it is to no longer be on dialysis, 10 hours every night, seven days a week. “I’m so glad to be rid of it because of the donation,” Fair said. “Many think of it as their new birth date. Mine was Feb. 21, 2011. It’s a new life.” Organ transplants are based on supply and demand and, currently, the demand is far greater than the available supply, Fair said. When there were no airbags in cars and fewer people were saved from accidents, there were more cadavers available. But because airbags are saving lives, those cadavers are no longer an option for transplantations. Therefore, organ donors are needed more than ever before. In 1987, those in need of a kidney transplant only had to wait seven months after first being placed on the transplant list, Fair said. But by 2012, the wait had lengthened to four to six years. Twelve thousand people meet the criteria for needing a kidney transplant, but fewer than half get donors. “That statistic really struck home,” Fair said. Transplant recipients are looking more and more to living donors since people can live with only one of their two kidneys. At Harrisburg Hospital, more than 50 percent of kidney transplants are due to living donors, Fair said, quoting Dr. Harold Yang, a Harrisburg Hospital surgeon who helped save her life. While kidney disease can be from hypertension, diabetes, or polycystic kidney disease, Fair’s kidney problem stemmed from a birth defect in her sphincter muscle. “There was a surgery that could be done by age 5,” she said, but her diagnosis at age 21 put her well beyond that point, and her kidneys slowly deteriorated over the years. Fair began journaling about her experiences with kidney disease in September 2007. By the fall of 2010, she needed to go on dialysis, and she continued writing. “I had no idea if I would even receive a kidney, and if I did, how would I get through the surgery? The recovery period? Would there be a happy ending? All these www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
questions remained unanswered,” Fair said. “Although I had excellent medical care ... I could not have gotten through this time in my life without my faith,” Fair said. “Faith is a choice—it comes from the heart. You either want to believe or you don’t. I so believed in God and knew that he would see me through this most difficult time. After all, (God) is the physician of all physicians.” Fair’s earlier kindness to a young girl reaped benefits to not only herself, but another kidney transplant recipient as well. Because Fair had sponsored Janette “Jay” Diaz into Milton Hershey School, Diaz wanted to repay her kindness by donating her kidney to Fair. But after testing, the two weren’t a match. Instead, they were put on the Paired Donor List for a live match. Diaz matched a woman in Pittsburgh, and that woman’s friend, Marlane, matched Fair for a fourway swap. “So exciting!” Fair said. On Feb. 21, 2011, Marlane’s kidney was flown from the Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to Harrisburg Hospital, where Fair was waiting for the lifesaving surgery. After an excellent recovery, Fair decided to compile her journal entries and craft them into a book, Transplanted to Better Health. “I wanted to offer hope and encouragement to patients who were suffering from kidney failure, or anyone suffering from a serious illness in general,” Fair said. In her memoir, Fair describes the good and bad days, the ups and downs of dialysis treatment, waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant, and the road to recovery. “My story will be familiar for anyone who has been down the road with kidney failure, and will uplift and empower those who are just setting foot on that path,” she said. “My book is like one patient talking to another patient.” But what sets Fair’s book apart from others is the details in her journals that only a person with a medical background would include. Fair is a medical technician who worked in a doctor’s office. A signed copy of Fair’s book may be purchased from Fair by emailing her at transplanted44@hotmail.com or through Amazon.com as a book or an e-book. To receive a signed copy, send a check payable to Fair Book Publishing for $18, which includes shipping, to: FBP, 1522 Collingdale Circle, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050. To engage Fair as a speaker, contact her at the above email address.
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Citizenship and Naturalization Angelo Coniglio rom the earliest days of the United States of America, citizenship was an important status for its residents, allowing individuals the freedom to live and work in the country, to enter and leave as desired, and to vote and hold public office. My next two columns will discuss citizenship and naturalization, and how information regarding that status can help in genealogical research. When the 13 colonies became the United States, under Article IV of the new Constitution, the existing citizens of each colony (state) automatically were entitled to all privileges and immunities of the citizens of every other state, including citizenship in the United States. After the Constitution was ratified in 1788, persons born within the territorial limits of the United States qualified as citizens. This is known as citizenship by birthright.
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In 1788, however, in accordance with the laws of most colony/states, only whites were citizens, and only white male landowners could vote. After the Civil War, free blacks and former slaves were granted the vote, still withheld from women and from indigenous peoples who maintained tribal affiliations. A valued characteristic of our great nation is that citizenship has also been available, under varying circumstances, to persons born in other countries, who wish to become Americans; that is, to gain citizenship by naturalization.
The first federal law defining a procedure for naturalization as a United States citizen was passed in 1790. It explicitly stated that only “free white” immigrants could become naturalized citizens. By 1870, immigrant blacks were permitted to become naturalized. In 1882, Chinese were explicitly excluded from being naturalized. In 1890, a law was passed requiring Native Americans to “apply” for citizenship, similar to naturalization of immigrants. I can’t let this pass without commenting on the injustice of the fact
that indigenous peoples, born in the land of their ancestors, could not be citizens of the United States until 14 years after the Revolution. In 1920, women, already citizens in every other capacity, were granted the right to vote. In 1922 and 1923, first Japanese and then immigrants from India were prohibited from being naturalized. Then the Immigration Act of 1924 limited the annual number of immigrants from any country to 2 percent of the number of people from that country who were living in the U.S. in 1890. This essentially reduced to a trickle the immigration from southern and eastern Europe (Italy, Poland, etc.), while 86 percent of those admitted were from northern European countries like Germany, Britain, and Ireland. Needless to say, if people couldn’t immigrate, neither could they be naturalized. These quotas remained in
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place until 1965. Various laws were passed over the years to allow Filipinos, Native Americans, and other immigrants to gain naturalization or ease citizenship requirements for those who served in the U.S. military. In 1947, barriers to the Native American vote were removed, and in 1952, the McCarranWalter Act granted all people of Asian ancestry the right to become citizens. In 1965, the Hart-Celler Act abolished the national origins quota system that was established in 1924, replacing it with a preference system that focused on immigrants’ skills and family relationships with U.S. citizens or residents. How do these facts about citizenship and naturalization impact genealogical research? In many cases, the impact is negative; that is, it precludes finding certain information about some
ancestors. For example, voter registration lists exist for many communities and jurisdictions; however, before you spend time searching such lists for an ancestor, be sure he or she held the right to vote during the period you’re researching. Also, early censuses may have listed solely white male landowners by name, giving only a simple count of women, children, or slaves in a household. A future column will discuss ways of using census data about naturalization to further genealogical research. Angelo Coniglio encourages readers to contact him by writing to 438 Maynard Drive, Amherst, N.Y. 14226; by email at Genealogytips@aol.com; or by visiting www.conigliofamily.com/ConiglioGenealog yTips.htm. His new historical fiction novel, The Lady of the Wheel, is available through Amazon.com.
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