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Cumberland County Edition

June 2015

Vol. 16 No. 6

Shall We Dance? Octogenarian Passes ’50s-Era Dance to New Generation of Swing Enthusiasts

By Jason Tabor Ivan Kerns turned 83 last September, but he hasn’t let that keep him off the dance floor. “If you want to stay young, hang out with young people and others who think young,” he says. Kerns, a Carlisle native, is the president of the Central Pennsylvania Swing Dance Club, a volunteer-run organization comprising swing dance enthusiasts based out of the Green Door Dance Studio in Carlisle. He’s not just the president, however. He’s also an instructor. Swing dancing is the energetic form of dance named after the “swing” style of jazz music made popular in America in the 1920s to 1950s. It is associated with dancers lifting, spinning, or flipping their partners into the air in time to the music. Kerns has been dancing for most of his life. A congenital heart condition sidelined him from sports during high school, and that’s when he got involved in dancing “to have something to do” that was physically active but wouldn’t pose a risk to his health. As a result of his heart condition, Kerns underwent a new, radical openheart surgical technique in 1950 to fix the problem. His doctors informed him he was one of the first 10 people to undergo this revolutionary procedure. “I do believe that I am a world’s record, which I cannot prove—but think I am the world’s longest surviving open-heart surgery patient,” says Kerns. “Sixty-five years later, still here and kicking.” please see DANCE page 18

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Dance instructor Ivan Kerns doing the East Coast Swing with one of his students.

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Salute to a Veteran

The Seabees Moved Liquor in Pontoons, Beer in Wooden Crates Robert D. Wilcox rand-new Navy Ensign Myron (Mike) Geller landed on the Philippine island of Samar in June 1945. If he had been there only a few months earlier, he would have found himself in the middle of an enormous battle, since Samar was smack in the center of the Battle of Leyte Gulf, one of the largest naval battles in history. Historians also call it one of the greatest military mismatches in naval history. Admiral Halsey had been lured into taking his powerful 3rd Fleet after a decoy fleet, leaving only three escort carrier groups of the 7th Fleet and their destroyers, which had been repurposed to attack ground targets and thus had few of the torpedoes they would normally carry. The northernmost of the three groups, Task Unit 77.4.3 (“Taffy 3”) found itself

facing a large force the further battle in of Japanese Leyte Gulf. battleships and That was then. cruisers. Although But now Geller was Taffy 3 destroyers assigned to the 29th Naval Construction had neither the Battalion (Seabees). firepower nor armor And he found to do so, they himself on Samar, attacked the huge facing a huge Japanese fleet in collection of all order to permit the kinds of equipment safe retreat of their used by Seabees: slow “Jeep” carriers. bulldozers, trucks, Planes from those cranes, drag-lines, carriers then strafed, etc. bombed, torpedoed, As cargo officer, rocketed, and Ensign Myron (Mike) Geller in New York after graduation from midshipman it was his depth-charged the school in January 1945. responsibility to sort Japanese forces, it all out and get it sinking or disabling securely off the island. We had dropped three cruisers and causing the Japanese the two A-bombs on Japan, and the force to turn tail and fail to take part in Japanese had finally surrendered unconditionally. But we still had equipment to take care of and men to support. One special concern was the large stock of liquor and beer they had to move. Experience was clear that no matter how well you guarded anything alcoholic, it somehow managed to disappear. So they solved that by filling pontoons with the bottles of liquor and then welding the pontoons shut. The beer went into large wooden crates they fashioned and carefully padlocked. The destination was Truk, halfway APPRISE is a free health insurance across the Pacific. It had once been the counseling program for Medicare largest Japanese base in the Pacific. The beneﬁciaries that is designed to provide deep lagoon was 40 miles wide, with objective, easy-to-understand information high islands and an encircling barrier about Medicare, Medicare Supplemental reef. Phone: Insurance, and Medicaid. Often there had been more than 1-800-783-7067 1,000 Japanese merchant and warships moored there awaiting further www.aging.pa.gov/aging-services/insurance deployment. However, our submarines had effectively cut off supplies from Japan, with supply convoys receiving e Pennsylvania Link to Aging and nearly 90 percent losses en route to Truk. Disability Resources is a free service that And in February 1944, we put provides objective information and together a huge armada of top-line assistance to access community-based Phone: carriers, battleships, cruisers, destroyers, services and supports for older adults and and submarines for attacks that reduced 1-800-753-8827 for persons of all ages with disabilities. Truk to rubble, with more than 70 shipwrecks, 400 aircraft destroyed, and

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the base no longer a threat to our forces. Starvation had killed many of the soldiers before the complete surrender of the base in 1945. When Geller and his convoy reached Truk, he got the additional job of water officer, since water was a key need of our soldiers, sailors, and Marines there. He supervised the maintaining of procedures that were essential for purifying the drinking water on the main island. Did he lose any of the liquor or beer on the voyage from Samar? “Well,” he grins, “there was some of the beer that came up missing, but the welded pontoons did a good job of keeping the liquor safe.” By that time, Geller had accrued enough points to go home. So he caught a Navy flight to Guam and another to Hawaii. Then it was by ship to San Francisco and a commercial flight to New York, where he was discharged. Before he ever joined the Navy, he had been studying at City College of New York when he decided to join the Navy’s V-12 program that sent him to Cornell University and permitted him to graduate there before he became a Navy ensign. Now, after returning from the Pacific, he was able to use the G.I. Bill to get a master’s degree in industrial management at Columbia University. He wrote his thesis on the power crane and shovel industry and was careful to send a copy of it to manufacturers in that industry. That got him an interview—and a job as sales rep—at the Bucyrus Erie Company upon graduation. He worked his way up in several other companies before becoming vice president of sales at Dynapac, where he worked until his retirement in 1986. He then used his computer to search for the kind of retirement home he thought he would like and found just what he wanted in Central Pennsylvania. He feels very comfortable in retirement there and often thinks of those formative years in the Navy and how they helped him so well in choosing the rewarding civilian career he’s had. Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.

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Resource Directory This Resource Directory recognizes advertisers who have made an extended commitment to your health and well-being. Adult Day Services SpiriTrust Lutheran LIFE 1920 Good Hope Road, Hampden Twp. (717) 728-5433 Emergency Numbers American Red Cross (717) 845-2751 Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110 Cumberland County Assistance (800) 269-0173 Energy Assistance Cumberland County Board of Assistance (800) 269-0173 Eye Care Services Kilmore Eye Associates 890 Century Drive, Mechanicsburg (717) 697-1414 Funeral Directors Cocklin Funeral Home, Inc. 30 N. Chestnut St., Dillsburg (717) 432-5312 Hoffman-Roth Funeral Home 219 N. Hanover St., Carlisle (717) 243-4511 Gifts Edible Arrangements 3401 Hartzdale Drive, Camp Hill (717) 730-6240 Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (717) 651-5020 American Diabetes Association (800) 342-2383 Arthritis Foundation (717) 763-0900 CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400 The National Kidney Foundation (800) 697-7007 PACE (800) 225-7223 Social Security Administration (Medicare) (800) 302-1274

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Healthcare Information Pa. HealthCare Cost Containment Council (717) 232-6787 Hearing Services Duncan Nulph Hearing Associates 5020 Ritter Road, Suite 10G, Mechanicsburg (717) 766-1500 Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY Home Improvement Bath Fitter/Kitchen Saver (877) 922-2250 Hospice Services Homeland Hospice 2300 Vartan Way, Suite 115, Harrisburg (717) 221-7890 Housing Assistance Cumberland County Housing Authority 114 N. Hanover St., Carlisle (717) 249-1315 Property Tax/Rent Rebate (888) 728-2937 Salvation Army (717) 249-1411 Insurance Apprise Insurance Counseling (800) 783-7067 Legal Services Daley Zucker Meilton & Miner, LLC Attorneys at Law 635 N. 12th St., Lemoyne (717) 724-9821 Medical Equipment & Supplies Medical Supply (800) 777-6647 Memory Impairment The Woods at Cedar Run 824 Lisburn Road, Camp Hill (888) 265-0613 Nursing/Rehab Homeland Center 1901 N. Fifth St., Harrisburg (717) 221-7902

Personal Care Homes Homeland Center 1901 N. Fifth St., Harrisburg (717) 221-7902

Medicare Hotline (800) 638-6833

Pharmacies CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com

Organ Donor Hotline (800) 243-6667

Retirement Living The Woods at Cedar Run 824 Lisburn Road, Camp Hill (888) 265-0613 Services Cumberland County Aging & Community Services (717) 240-6110 Meals on Wheels Carlisle (717) 245-0707 Mechanicsburg (717) 697-5011 Newville (717) 776-5251 Shippensburg (717) 532-4904

National Council on Aging (800) 424-9046

Passport Information (888) 362-8668 Smoking Information (800) 232-1331 Social Security Fraud (800) 269-0217 Social Security Office (800) 772-1213 Travel AAA Central Penn (717) 657-2244 Veterans Services American Legion (717) 730-9100 Governor’s Veterans Outreach (717) 234-1681

Toll-Free Numbers Bureau of Consumer Protection (800) 441-2555 Cancer Information Service (800) 422-6237

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Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Where can I find out about alternative transportation options for my elderly mother? She needs to give up driving, but before she does, we need to figure out how she’ll get around. – Searching Daughter

national nonprofit that has 27 affiliate transportation programs in 23 states. With this program, seniors pay membership dues and fees based on mileage. And, most programs will let your mom donate her car in return for credits toward future rides.

Dear Searching, Alternative transportation services vary widely by community, so what’s available to your mom will depend on where she lives. Here’s what you should know. Transportation Options For starters, it’s important to know that while most urban areas offer seniors a variety of transportation services, the options may be few to none for those living in the suburbs, small towns, and rural areas. Alternative transportation is an essential link in helping seniors who no longer drive get to their doctor appointments, stores, social activities, and more. Depending on where your mom lives, here’s a rundown of possible solutions that can help her get around, along with some resources to help you locate them. Family and friends: This is by far the most often used and favorite option among seniors. So make a list of all possible candidates your mom can call on, along with their availability and contact information. Local transportation programs: These are usually sponsored by nonprofit organizations that serve seniors. These services may charge a nominal fee or accept donations and often operate with the help of volunteer drivers. Also check out the Independent Transportation Network (http://itnamerica.org), which is a

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Private program services: Some hospitals, health clinics, senior centers, adult day centers, malls, or other businesses may offer transportation for program participants or customers. And some nonmedical home-care agencies that bill themselves as providing companionship and running errands or doing chores may also provide transportation. Mass transit: Public transportation (buses, trains, subways, etc.), where available, can also be an affordable option and may offer reduced senior rates.

Demand response services: Often referred to as “dial-a-ride” or “elderly and disabled transportation service,” these are typically governmentfunded programs that provide doorto-door transportation services by appointment and usually charge a small fee or donation on a per-ride basis. Many use vans and offer accessible services for riders with special needs. Taxi or car service: These private services offer flexible scheduling but can be expensive; however, they’re cheaper than owning a car. Some taxi/car services may be willing to set up accounts that allow other family members to pay for services, and some may offer senior discounts. Be sure to ask. Another option to look into is ride-sharing services, which connect people who have cars with people who need rides. Uber (www.uber.com), Lyft (www.lyft.com), and Sidecar (www.side.cr) are three of the largest companies offering services in dozens of cities across the U.S.

Hire someone: If your mom lives in an area where there are limited or no transportation services available, another option to consider is to pay someone in the community to drive her. Consider hiring a neighbor, retiree, high school student, or college student who has a flexible schedule and wouldn’t mind making a few extra bucks. Where to Look To find out what transportation services are available in your mom’s community, contact the Rides in Sight national toll-free call center at (855) 607-4337 (or see http://ridesinsight.org) and the Eldercare Locator at (800) 6771116, which will direct you to her area agency on aging for assistance. Also contact local senior centers, places of worship, and retirement communities for other possible options. And check with her state department of transportation (www.fhwa.dot.gov/webstate.htm) and the American Public Transportation Association (www.publictransportation .org). 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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Such is Life

May I Have Your Help? Saralee Perel didn’t realize until I got home that I had left my cane in my cart at the supermarket. It was the first time in the 12 years since my spinal cord injury that I was without it. I panicked. After I drove back, I held onto parked cars and outside walls to get in the store. Like a fool, when five shoppers offered to help me, I didn’t accept. I think that when many of us are offered help, such as to carry things or to borrow anything or for a ride to pick up something we need, we say no. I feel so badly for my husband, Bob. It breaks my heart that he helps me so much. Earlier that day, he was washing dishes. I cried, “I’m sorry I don’t wash my tomato juice glass.” He said, “It’s hard for you to stand at the sink.” He put his arms around me. “I love helping you. Wouldn’t you want to help me?” Of course I would. While shopping that day, a woman offered to pick up the bag of popcorn I had dropped. I said, “Thanks so much, but I can do it.” But once I knelt down, I couldn’t get back up. So I held onto a store fixture in order to stand. Who do I think I am? Am I a stronger person for refusing help? No. That’s ridiculous. Apparently I think that asking for help makes me inferior, dependent, and needful. Well, the reality is, I am in need. Most of us are at some point. Is that a sin? Accepting help would show some real strength. There were samples of sandwiches at the deli counter. I tried but couldn’t reach one because I have no balance. I thought, “So what if I’m hungry and can’t reach a sandwich?” A shopper reached one for me. She said, “Please take this sandwich. The world is full of people who want to help.”

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With thoughtful tenderness, she handed me the sandwich and then got one for herself. We quietly enjoyed our snacks. “Oh, it’s delicious,” I said, grateful for more than the sandwich. I stood next to her, cherishing this sweet, touching moment of a stranger who cared about me. We all have pitfalls: a loss of a relationship, avoidance of public speaking, fear of being alone, a bad shoulder. Who is perfectly capable in all ways? Nobody I know. When I left my cane at the store, I felt I had lost an attachment of me. My cane is a part of me, like a real limb. Of course I could get another cane, but this one’s been with me for so long. We had become— sort of—family, my cane and me. Constantly interconnecting with each other. I wanted my cane back so badly. When I saw it behind the store’s service counter, I told the store worker I could get it myself. Then, when I saw the obstacles that would make that hard, I asked a simple question that would change my life. “Would you please get it for me?” Naturally, he reunited me with my cane. I knew then that I’d never turn back. I’m not inferior. I’m not in the way. I’m not bothering anyone. And if I am, whose problem is that? I may be physically impaired, but my greatest handicap has been in not accepting the helping hands of others. Of that, I am no longer disabled. Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist. Her new book is Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories From a Life Out of Balance. To find out more, visit www.saraleeperel.com or email sperel@saraleeperel.com.

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Social Security News

Social Security Supports National Cancer Survivors Day By John Johnston In 2015, more than a million people will be diagnosed with cancer. This alarming statistic affects people and families all over the world. On June 7, 2015, we observe National Cancer Survivors Day in the United States. In support of this day, Social Security encourages checkups, early detection, and awareness, while honoring the survivors who have gone through this battle and defeated the disease. Social Security stands strong in our support of the fight against cancer. We

offer services to patients suffering from this disease through our disability program and our Compassionate Allowances program. Compassionate Allowances are cases with medical conditions so severe they obviously meet Social Security’s disability standards, allowing us to quickly process the cases with minimal medical information.

There is no special application or form you need to submit for Compassionate Allowances. Simply apply for disability benefits using the standard Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) application. Once we identify you as having a Compassionate Allowances condition, we’ll expedite your disability application. Social Security establishes

Compassionate Allowances conditions using information received at public outreach hearings, from the Social Security and disability determination services communities, from medical and scientific experts, and based on our research. For more information about Compassionate Allowances, or to view the conditions currently listed, visit www.socialsecurity.gov/ compassionateallowances. John Johnston is a Social Security public affairs specialist.

Calendar of Events

Cumberland County

Support Groups

Free and open to the public. June 10, 1:30 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group Bethany Village West Springfield Room 325 Asbury Drive, Mechanicsburg (717) 877-0624

June 2, 6 p.m. CanSurmount Cancer Support Group HealthSouth Acute Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd., Mechanicsburg (717) 691-6786 June 4, 6:30 p.m. Too Sweet: Diabetes Support Group Chapel Hill United Church of Christ 701 Poplar Church Road, Camp Hill (717) 557-9041

June 16, 1 p.m. Caregiver Support Group Mechanicsburg Church of the Brethren 501 Gale St., Mechanicsburg (717) 766-8880

June 9, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Carlisle Area Men’s Cancer Support Group The Live Well Center 3 Alexandria Court, Carlisle (717) 877-7561 sirbrady12@gmail.com

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

Community Programs Mondays and Wednesdays, noon to 12:45 p.m. Silver Sneakers and Silver and Fit Classes Living Well Fitness Center 207 House Ave., Suite 107 Camp Hill (717) 439-4070

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Free and open to the public. June 10, 11:30 a.m. NARFE West Shore Chapter 1465 VFW Post 7530 4545 Westport Drive, Mechanicsburg (717) 737-1486 www.narfe1465.org Visitors welcome; meeting is free but fee for food.

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June 21, 6 p.m. New Cumberland Town Band Performance New Cumberland Borough Park www.nctownband.org

Senior Center Activities

Big Spring Senior Center – (717) 776-4478 91 Doubling Gap Road, Suite 1, Newville Mondays in June, 9:30 a.m. – Easy Walk Wednesdays in June, 9:30 a.m. – Tea & Talk June 24, 12:15 to 1 p.m. – Blood Pressure Check Please contact your local center for scheduled activities.

Cumberland County Library Programs Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W. High St., Carlisle, (717) 243-4642 June 5, 7 p.m. – Music at Bosler June 10, 1 to 2 p.m. – Wicked Wednesday Book Discussion Group June 26, 1 to 2 p.m. – Just Mysteries! Book Club Cleve J. Fredricksen Library, 100 N. 19th St., Camp Hill, (717) 761-3900 Thursdays, 9:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Free Blood Pressure Screenings June 9, 7 p.m. – Fredricksen Reads: The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown June 13, 1 to 4 p.m. – Worldwide Knit in Public Day New Cumberland Public Library, 1 Benjamin Plaza, New Cumberland, (717) 774-7820 June 10, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Great Books Discussion Group: The Selfish Giant by Richard Dawkins June 15 to Aug. 8 – “Escape the Ordinary” Adult Summer Reading Club June 24, 6 to 9 p.m. – Pennwriters Writing Group www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

The Beauty in Nature

Tree Cavity Critters Clyde McMillan-Gamber any trees, dead and alive, in the Mid-Atlantic States, as elsewhere, have holes in them that were created by wind ripping limbs off those trees or different kinds and sizes of woodpeckers chipping out nurseries for their young. Those trees with cavities are in woods, suburban areas, and farmland. A tree with several hollows is like an apartment complex with several tenants of different kinds. Multiple species of wildlife, other than woodpeckers, live and/or nest in holes in trees in those local environments. Hollows in trees are of different sizes and are used by various-sized creatures. Carolina chickadees, tufted titmice, white-breasted nuthatches, and house wrens squeeze into the smallest cavities in woods and older suburbs. By using the smallest holes, these little birds lessen the

chance of being ousted by bigger animals. Gray squirrels, flying squirrels, and black rat snakes are some White-breasted nuthatch of the critters that live in medium-sized hollows in the woods. Gray squirrels also live in tree cavities in mature suburbs with their big trees. Some of the rat snakes dwell in holes in trees after they caught and ate the original inhabitants. Eastern bluebirds and tree swallows compete for medium-sized holes in trees in farmland, with the swallows usually

winning those contests. Little gangs of swallows mob individual pairs of bluebirds at tree cavities Barred owl until the bluebirds give up and move away. But the bluebirds have two advantages over the swallows. Although both species prefer open country to rear offspring, swallows prefer hollows near water, but the bluebirds don’t. And the bluebirds will nest later in summer, when the swallows are finished raising babies and forming flocks to drift

south for the winter. Raccoons, barred owls, screech owls, American kestrels, and wood ducks compete for larger tree cavities in woods, suburbs, and farmland. There they live and raise youngsters. Kestrels rear young in hollows in farmland and suburbs only. Some colonies of honeybees settle into larger tree hollows in farmland and suburban areas where flower nectar and pollen is plentiful. Worker bees build masses of waxy, sixsided cells on wooden walls in those cavities by sweating some of the honey they ate through pores in their exoskeletons. They raise larvae in those cells during warmer months and store honey and pollen in them to feed the larvae and wintering adults. Check trees closely for hollows. Some of those cavities could have one or more interesting creatures living in them.

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Assisted Living Residences/Personal Care Homes The listings with a shaded background have additional information about their center in a display advertisement in this edition.

Bethany Village — MapleWood

Homewood at Plum Creek

325 Wesley Drive • Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 717-766-0279 • www.BethanyVillage.org

425 Westminster Avenue • Hanover, PA 17331 717-637-4166 • www.homewood.com

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 100 Assisted Living Residence: Yes Private: 100 Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 98 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: One-bedroom suites; secured memory support neighborhood; skilled nursing – The Oaks.

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: No Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Excellent care in a lovely environment. Call to schedule a visit.

Colonial Lodge Community

Lakeview at Tel Hai Retirement Community

2015 North Reading Road • Denver, PA 17519 717-336-5501 • www.coloniallodgepa.com

1200 Tel Hai Circle • Honey Brook, PA 19344 610-273-9333 • www.telhai.org

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 70 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes* Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 100 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: No Alzheimer’s Care: No Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: *SSI depends on availability. A veteran-approved “home for heroes” facility, all in a beautiful, rural setting.

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Discover our newly renovated accommodations and homelike environment with the security of 24-hour nursing care.

Heatherwood Retirement Community

Mennonite Home Communities

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An Off-Beat Food Adventure in New Orleans By Andrea Gross he food is tasty, the service outstanding, and the money the best we’ve ever spent. Café Reconcile is New Orleans’ most unusual restaurant. While the French Quarter is exciting, after a few days my husband and I found it both too expensive and too frenetic for our taste. Therefore, we’d moved to the Whitney, a charming historic hotel in the Central Business District. My husband asked a gentleman who works at the hotel for a restaurant that caters to locals rather than tourists. “There’s a place about a mile from here where they train impoverished youth to work in the tourist industry. Can’t get much more local than that. New Orleans has lots of tourists and lots of impoverished youth,” he answered. And thus began our offbeat New Orleans Food Adventure.

Café Reconcile helps young folks learn life skills as well as work skills.

Big Dreams at a Small Café When we arrive at Café Reconcile almost every table is filled, some with families, others with businessmen and women who are enjoying their lunch break. A bevy of young adults sporting Café Reconcile shirts are cooking, waiting tables, cleaning up. In short, they’re running the restaurant.

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of the café’s directors. Our server brings us our order: shrimp etouffée with salad for me; fried catfish with two sides for my husband ($10.99 each). He’s deferential, a bit tentative, but determined. I ask him why he joined the program at Café Reconcile. “Because I want to turn my life around,” he says. If the concerned folks who run Café Reconcile have their way, he’ll be able to do just that. After completing a short apprenticeship at a New Orleans restaurant, they’ll help him find a job and track him for a year, offering him advice and support if he feels overwhelmed. By this time he should have the life skills as well as the work skills to break the cycle of poverty. (www.cafereconcile.org) The Intersection of Culture and Cuisine We only have to walk across the street and down the block to reach The

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Southern Food and Beverage Museum, 16,000 square feet dedicated to the culinary heritage of the South, both in toto and in all its regional variations. There are Coca-Cola bottles from Georgia, fishing nets from Louisiana, a ham-smoking rack from Virginia, and an entire wall that explains the history of the American cocktail. In addition, behind closed doors but accessible to the public, there’s a library of more than 15,000 books. Most are cookbooks but some are manuals for old appliances. Finally I may learn how to work my mother’s vintage blender! The museum’s restaurant, Purloos, which is named after a traditional Lowcountry dish, serves Southern regional fare such as Cape Hatteras clams and Delta corn tamales, as well Swamp Pop, a made-in-Louisiana soft drink to which I soon become addicted. With a Swamp Pop Satsuma Fizz in hand, we look at a special exhibit highlighting the oldest continuously operated, family-owned restaurant in the United States, which just happens to be back in the French Quarter. (www.southernfood.org) 175 Years of French-Creole Food I know exactly what I want when I walk into Antoine’s: Oysters Rockefeller,

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of money rather than spinach. These were exactly the kind of folks that Antoine Alciatore hoped would patronize his restaurant when he immigrated to New Orleans in 1840. By that time, the 18-year-old boy had spent 10 years as an apprentice for a master chef in a ritzy French hotel, and he was familiar with the preferences of the upper class. He knew they would want more than the simple boiled dishes that were the staple of other Louisiana restaurants. Thus he added French flair in the way of sauces and seasonings and, voilà, a new regional cuisine and one of New Orleans’ most renowned restaurants were born. As we leave, my husband and I both have the same thought. Nearly 200 years ago, a young boy named Antoine learned kitchen skills from a master chef in France in order to ensure a more secure future for himself and his family. Today, another young man is learning kitchen skills at a small café in New Orleans for much the same reason. Fingers crossed that he has similar success. (www.antoines.com) Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).

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Watch for These Tomato Problems Dr. Leonard Perry f your tomato plants and fruits aren’t looking as healthy as they should, perhaps with leaf spots or diseased fruits, they may have one of several diseases.

Late blight. The disease that flared up a few years ago in the Northeast, destroying many home and commercial tomato plantings, was late blight—the same fungal disease that gets on potatoes and caused the famous Irish potato famine in the mid-1800s. If you had tomatoes with this, you may recall the nickel-sized or larger spots, olive-green to brown, on leaves. Sometimes the border of these spots is slightly yellow or appears water-soaked. Soon, brown to black lesions grow on stems with brown spots on fruit. Late blight is often around, but conditions aren’t primed for it to spread and get out of control. If it is present,

sprays are available but must be applied early in the season. Once leaves are more than about 10 percent affected, sprays do little good, so plants should be destroyed. Before doing this, make sure you have this disease by checking with the state agriculture department specialists. Early blight. Much more common on tomatoes (and potatoes) is early blight, a different fungal disease. It causes leaf spots, stem lesions, and fruit rots. The name is deceiving, as it more often

develops not early but rather on mature leaves. It usually progress up the plant, starting first with older leaves near the base. Spots may have concentric rings, giving a target or “bullseye” appearance. Stem lesions often are sunken with lighter centers. On older fruits, the dark and leathery sunken spots are often on the end attaching to the stem. Rotating other crops for a couple of years in the same spot, particularly smallgrain cover crops, corn, or legumes, can help with disease control. Some cultivars (cultivated varieties) have resistance to

early blight (sometimes seen as Alternaria blight). Keeping up with weeding and fertility, especially nitrogen and phosphorus, and watering early in the day so leaves dry quickly all can help in avoiding early blight. Sprays are available and ideally should be started early in the season. Septoria leaf spot. Another fungal disease, this occurs under similar conditions as early blight does and has similar controls. Its spots are often gray or tan with darker margins and have dark, pimplelike structures in the center that are fairly easily seen. These dark fungal structures are absent from early-blight lesions, nor do the spots have the target-like appearance. If the fruits rot on the ends opposite the stems, this is likely the common blossom-end rot. It is not actually caused

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by a disease, but by the growing conditions—uneven watering and a calcium deficiency. This rot can develop if conditions are hot and dry and are then followed by heavy rain or watering, as the plant can’t absorb enough calcium. Other factors to try to avoid through culture include low potassium or calcium levels; excess magnesium or nitrogen, which causes rapid plant growth; root damage; or high relative humidity. Balanced watering and fertility, and perhaps calcium sprays to foliage, should keep this under control on tomatoes, as well as on squash and peppers. Verticillium wilt. These fungi are in the soil and, if present, can cause plants to wilt, beginning with lower leaves. Lesions on leaves have a v-shape,

widest on the leaf margin. Leaves die, and eventually the whole plant can die. As there aren’t easy controls for this, practice crop rotation and control weeds, as many host this disease. Anthracnose. This is a fungal disease of green, but especially of ripening, fruit. Small, slightly sunken, and water-soaked spots appear, which grow larger and become dark in the centers. As it spreads in the fruit, it causes a softening decay. To avoid this disease, grow plants on well-drained soils, keep up with weeding, avoid excessive overhead watering, and rotate crops yearly. If this fungus is present, you may need to resort to sprays. Dr. Leonard P. Perry is an extension professor at the University of Vermont.

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an you picture yourself sitting in your backyard watching the roses bloom while “surfing the ’Net”? Or perhaps you’re traveling on a plane with your tablet tucked into your carry-on luggage. Maybe you’re even snuggled up all comfy in your bed answering emails. On the other hand, you might be sure you’ll use the computer only in the warmth of your den and have no intention of moving it. Read on to help you decide whether a desktop, laptop, or tablet best suits your needs. A desktop and a laptop function in exactly the same way, using the same software and allowing you to access the Internet. They both have the same basic hardware (monitor, keyboard, and mouse). They also have the capability of being plugged into a printer or other peripherals using ports. A desktop, which is not portable, comes at a significantly lower price point than a laptop computer. Smaller technology equals higher prices.

What’s the difference between a notebook and a laptop computer? I once posed a similar question to a farmer when visiting the Berkshires. “What’s the difference between a pig and a hog?” I asked. “Way you spell it,” he answered. That is the same answer for the difference between a notebook and a laptop computer. Two names for the same thing. A netbook (don’t mistake it for a notebook) is a small, lightweight, and inexpensive laptop. A netbook averages 2 to 3 pounds and the screen is quite small—they measure between 5 and 10 inches. Netbooks are less expensive than laptops and can be purchased for as little as $200. How does a tablet compare to a computer? A tablet is a computer. The distinction is that a tablet is fully contained in a single panel and it utilizes touch-screen technology.

So instead of using a mouse to navigate, you simply tap the screen to take an action. The keyboard is even integrated into the touch screen. A tablet can do pretty much anything a desktop or laptop computer can do, but the only option for adding software (referred to as apps) to a tablet is by downloading it from the Internet (there is no CD or DVD drive). The other significant difference is portability. As small and light as a laptop may be, a tablet can be slipped into a handbag or even a large pocket. The sacrifice that you make for something portable like a laptop or tablet is that everything is smaller. You may find some laptop screens difficult to view. If a laptop screen feels too small for you, a tablet screen might seem impossible. And if your hands are large, you may feel cramped using the keyboard or mouse on a laptop or the touch screen on a tablet. But for some people, it is infinitely more important that they can take their technology with them, even if it is a little harder to see or type. So why not buy a tablet if you want something portable? If you’re working with complex spreadsheets, heavily designed documents, or lots of typing, the smaller format of a tablet can make the task more difficult to manage than it would on a laptop. Also, if you need to use a particular software program, be sure there is a version available online for a tablet. The best way to decide is to test drive each choice for yourself. It’s your eyes that need to be able to see the screen and your hands that will be tapping on the keyboard. Go to http://tinyurl.com/ AAStestdrive for a printable test-drive form to bring with you. Abby Stokes, author of “Is This Thing On?” A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming and its companion website, AskAbbyStokes.com, is the Johnny Appleseed of Technology, singlehandedly helping more than 300,000 people cross the digital divide.

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DANCE

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After graduating from high school, he accepted an offer from Arthur Murray Dance Studio in Harrisburg to teach ballroom dancing on weeknights and weekends, which included swing dancing. During this time, he met his future wife, Leona, and decided to get married and start a family, thinking it “prudent to give up the dancing part” of his life. He and Leona had three daughters, Vicki, Kathy, and Cindy, and Kerns took a fulltime job at AMP Inc. (now Tyco) as a die engineer, where he worked in management before retiring in 1995. In 2001, after 49 years of marriage, Leona passed away from cancer, and Kerns began looking for activities and organizations to keep him occupied and active. He heard about the Central Pennsylvania Swing Dance Club, then meeting once a week at Rod’s Roadhouse in Carlisle, and decided to put on his dancing shoes and check it out. “Turned out that their swing dancing was right up my alley, so I started going each week,” says Kerns. “In 2004, they asked me to become their president.” As president, Kerns guides board

meetings and keeps love of dance and our the club moving desire to pass the forward. ’50s-era dancing on That same year, the to future generations,” club obtained its own says Kerns. venue for holding The dances attract dances, and Kerns about 50 dancers began teaching swing most nights, from dance to students high school and again, 50 years after college students to his retirement from seniors, many with Arthur Murray. Photo credits: Jason Tabor various diverse The swing dance backgrounds but all Kerns volunteers as a dance instructor “to pass the ’50s-era club celebrated its 10with a love for swing dancing on to future generations. ” year anniversary last dancing. year. The club holds “To keep things dances each week on interesting, we teach Tuesday and Saturday various forms of nights and also holds swing dance,” special dance events including East and with live bands West Coast Swing, throughout the year. Lindy Hop, and the Dancers can attend Charleston, says a “beginner’s” lesson Kerns. A mural celebrating the swingbefore each dance, “We love it that all dance era brightens up the dance taught by Kerns and ages come to dance. studio where the club meets. other instructors at the Our advice to club. beginners is to learn “The officers and instructors are the basics well first, as all other steps are volunteers and do this because of our developed from that firm foundation,

and it makes intermediate and advanced learning much easier and fun.” Kerns is also active outside of the dance studio. For 25 years, he was the president of the Carlisle Area Table Tennis club (CATT). He has won medals in the state and national Senior Games and competed in various USA Table Tennis-sanctioned tournaments. In addition, he is a volunteer at Carlisle Cares (an organization providing support for the homeless), working overnight at the shelter and serving as president and a member of the governing board. He also volunteers at the Carlisle Theatre, where he ushers patrons at live shows. Kerns enjoys spending time with his family—now numbering three children, six grandchildren, and two greatgrandchildren—and traveling. He has traveled all around the world and visited most of the continents along the way. “When you retire, retire from work,” says Kerns. “Do not retire from life.” For more information about the Central Pennsylvania Swing Dancing Club and a schedule of their events, visit their website at www.centralpaswing dance.org or call (717) 218-9846.

Farmers Market Vouchers Now Available

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Farmers market nutrition vouchers will be distributed to eligible seniors 60 years of age and older at the following locations starting June 1. The nutrition vouchers, with a $20 total value, can be exchanged for Pennsylvaniagrown fruits and vegetables from June 1 through Nov. 30 at participating farmers markets and roadside stands. To be eligible, county residents age 60 and older must have an annual income less than $21,775 for one person, $29,471 for two people, and $37,167 for three people.

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Proxy forms are available at each site and must be completed and returned with signatures and a photo ID of the eligible senior at the time of distribution. Please keep in mind these vouchers are available on a first-come, first-served basis, as funding is limited. Vouchers may only be obtained once per year. For eligible income guidelines or more information, contact Cumberland County Aging and Community Services at (717) 2406110. Distribution sites are as follows:

Big Spring Senior Center, 91 Doubling Gap Road, Newville, (717) 776-4478 – Wednesdays, 9 to 11 a.m.

Salvation Army Senior Action Center, 20 E. Pomfret St., Carlisle, (717) 2495007 – Wednesdays, 9:30 to 11 a.m.

Branch Creek Place, 115 N. Fayette St., Shippensburg, (717) 300-3563 – Wednesdays, 9 to 11 a.m.

Schaner Senior Center, 98 S. Enola Drive, Enola, (717) 732-3915 – Fridays, 8:30 to 11 a.m.

Cumberland County Aging & Community Services, 1100 Claremont Road, Carlisle, (717) 240-6110 – Tuesdays, 2:30 to 4 p.m.

West Shore Farmers Market – 900 Market St., Lemoyne, (717) 737-9881 – June 19, 10 a.m.

Mechanicsburg Place, 97 W. Portland St., Mechanicsburg, (717) 697-5947 – Wednesdays, 9 a.m. to noon

West Shore Senior Center, 122 Geary Ave., New Cumberland, (717) 774-0409 – Wednesdays, 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 3 p.m.

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WEBSTER

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country to this day remains undecided as to theatre or theater and ketchup or catsup. Our nation could not be culturally fragmented and succeed. Differences in pronunciation, spelling, and values were seen by Webster as pathways to persistent regional separateness. William Holmes McGuffey (18001873) has been called the “Schoolmaster to the Nation.” Author John H. Westerhoff III, in his McGuffey and His Readers: Piety, Morality, and Education in Nineteenth-Century America, stated: “It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey’s Readers were sold between 1836 and 1920 … by 1890 [they] had become the basic school readers in thirty-seven states.” There were 44 states in the union by 1890. McGuffey’s Readers did not sell well in New England. They were popular in the newer states of the country, where a frontier mentality prevailed. The shared values emphasized by the Readers included cleanliness, courageousness, frugality, honesty, patriotism, perseverance, and piety. They laid the foundation for the succeeding

“Greatest Generation,” those young citizens who experienced the Great Depression and World War II and their common values of duty, frugality, and sacrifice. As founders of the American culture, the books of Webster and McGuffey are importantly instructive. What lessons can we learn from these two in establishing themselves as our nation’s first bestselling authors? From Webster’s life we learn that an unrelenting obsession in achieving a stellar mission can be fundamental to success—and that the timing of the release of your work can be critical to its broad acceptance. The books of both authors also demonstrate that dependency on the foundations laid by predecessors is inescapable. Both Webster and McGuffey borrowed heavily from the writings of others. Webster’s dictionary quoted Franklin, Washington, Madison, and many others to define the meaning of words. He also borrowed extensively from Samuel Johnson’s dictionary, “sometimes verbatim,” according to literary scholar Joseph Reed.

McGuffey’s Eclectic Fourth Reader, published in 1838 and meant for children in the seventh and eighth grades, was 324 pages—according to the title page—of “elegant extracts in prose and poetry from the best American and English writers with copious rules for reading and directions for avoiding common errors.” The sources whose work he featured included the Bible, Jefferson, Washington Irving, Lord Bryant, Milton, Shakespeare, and many others. Webster, a Connecticut Yankee, and

McGuffey, born in Pennsylvania and reared in Ohio (at that time the western frontier), linked the country culturally. Now it was left for Lincoln to reunite the country politically and the railroads to unite it commercially. Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen and A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, books of personal-opinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. Contact him at waltsonneville@verizon.net.

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