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I think I am a real germaphobe because I get very conscious when someone sitting next to me starts coughing, especially when they don’t cover their mouth.

I’ll let the first one slide, but if it happens again, I am apt to leave or hand them a tissue. Cover it! Is it just me, or are you that way too?

If you feel like you’re coming down with something, here are five considerations: 1. Oil of oregano is a super-strong germ fighter—the essential oil of oregano sold at health-food stores and online in a little dropper bottle. Pour one or two drops in your own “medicinal herb tea” (wink) and then drink it.

It will not taste pleasant. You will probably curse me. But it’s going to help you. Squeeze some lemon and honey into it.

The key ingredients in oregano are carvacrol and thymol, both of which inhibit the growth of hundreds of microorganisms.

2. Probiotics should be taken daily for proper immunity, but when you feel symptoms coming on, then of course I feel like you should at least double up on the dose.

I am not afraid of taking probiotics throughout the day; I’m more afraid of feeling miserable and sick. Highquality probiotics will improve the quality and count of your healthy, disease-fighting bacteria.

Some strains will even induce IL-10producing regulatory T cells, which is a scientific way of saying they reduce inflammation and can help immune function as well as inflammatory disorders of the gut like painful Crohn’s.

3. FluNada is a natural, over-thecounter spray that I squirt into my

throat. You can (and should) spray this product into your nose because this is the point of entry for germs.

FluNada contains a homeopathic blend of wintergreen, eucalyptus, and elderberry essential oils. It is sold at Walgreens if you need it right now, and if you’re feeling like you’re coming down with something, now is the time.

This product was tested by two independent labs and found to be 99.9 percent effective against multiple cold and flu strains, including swine, bird, and seasonal flu.

FluNada provides non-drowsy relief from multiple symptoms, including runny or blocked nose, sore throat, cough, and body aches and pains.

4. If you keep rummaging around in my purse, you will find teabags of flavored green tea.

It is common for me to ask the waitress at a restaurant for a little cup of hot water “because I have my own medicinal herbs.”

My husband affectionately scolded me once, saying, “Do you realize we live in Colorado? She thinks your little ‘medicinal herbs’ are a different kind of ‘green’ tea!”

The EGCG in green tea was shown in numerous studies, including a 2005 “Antiviral Research” article, to have antiviral effects by unraveling the viral membrane.

5. Vitamin D is a strong immune modulator and reduces susceptibility to all sorts of infections. Also, D controls the expression of more than 900 genes involved in hundreds of physiological functions.

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

For more information about the author, visit SuzyCohen.com

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On Life and Love after 50

Tom Blake

Pa. Couple Met Online Years Ago, Still Going Strong

Nearly every Friday for 15 years, I’ve published and emailed a newsletter called On Life and Love After 50. One of my longtime subscribers is Pat, who became a widow shortly after the newsletter started and lived in Shickshinny, Pa.

In 2005, Pat sent me an email saying she had met a wonderful man named Len on a website called BikerKiss.com.

She wrote, “I had not heard of that website until a girlfriend, who had just bought a motorcycle, told me about it.

I went on it as sort of a joke. Len is also

from Pennsylvania; however, he lives 85 miles away.”

Pat stated that Len had not dated since his wife had died two years before. She had dated, but “not very successfully,” in the 3.5 years since she had lost her husband.

“Why was he on BikerKiss.com?” I asked.

She said, “Although he’s not a biker type, he has a Honda motorcycle.

After a few dates, we knew there was no turning back. Love is wonderful please see GOING STRONG page 15

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CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400 The National Kidney Foundation (717) 757-0604 (800) 697-7007 PACE (800) 225-7223 Social Security Information (800) 772-1213 Tri-County Association for the Blind (717) 238-2531 Healthcare Information PA Healthcare Cost Containment Council (717) 232-6787 Hearing Services Enhanced Hearing Solutions, LLC 431 E. Chocolate Ave., Hershey (717) 298-6441 Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY Home Care Services Senior Helpers (717) 920-0707

Funeral Directors Zimmerman Auer Funeral Home, Inc. 4100 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 545-4001

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Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (717) 651-5020

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American Diabetes Association (800) 342-2383 Arthritis Foundation – Central PA Chapter (717) 763-0900 www.50plusLifePA.com

Housing/Apartments B’Nai B’rith Apartments 130 S. Third St., Harrisburg (717) 232-7516

Housing Assistance Dauphin County Housing Authority (717) 939-9301

Services Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging (717) 780-6130

Property Tax/Rent Rebate (888) 728-2937

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Insurance Apprise Insurance Counseling (800) 783-7067 Intellectual Disabilities Keystone Human Services 124 Pine St., Harrisburg (717) 232-7509 Medical Equipment & Supplies Ablemart (717) 589-7564

Therapies Madden Physical Therapy 5425 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 901-9487 Toll-Free Numbers American Lung Association (800) LUNG-USA Bureau of Consumer Protection (800) 441-2555

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Social Security Office (800) 772-1213

PeT SERVICes Pet Guardians (717) 464-5606

Transportation CAT Share-A-Ride (717) 232-6100

Pharmacies CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com

Travel AAA Central Penn (717) 657-2244

Realtors Brokers Realty (888) 774-8488, ext. 753 – Office (717) 608-1284 – Cell

Veterans Services Lebanon VA Medical Center 1700 S. Lincoln Ave., Lebanon (717) 228-6000 or (800) 409-8771

National Council on Aging (800) 424-9046

Veterans Affairs (717) 626-1171 or (800) 827-1000

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Nick Thomas

From I Love Lucy and All in the Family to Married … with Children and Seinfeld, structuring a sitcom around four lead characters often proved a successful formula.

“It was the perfect format for The Honeymooners,” said Joyce Randolph, who starred as Trixie in the popular 1950s series based on two tenement-dwelling couples: the Kramdens and the Nortons.

As the sole surviving member of the original series cast—which included Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Audrey Meadows— Randolph, who turned 91 last year, continues to be identified with the show.

“I worked mostly in theater and early TV, but people still recognize me as Trixie,” said Randolph. “I’m amazed by the show’s longevity.”

The Honeymooners was originally a series of short sketches on the DuMont Network’s Cavalcade of Stars and later featured regularly on The Jackie Gleason Show at CBS. “I had done a breath mint commercial and got a call that Jackie wanted ‘that serious actor’ to audition for a skit called ‘The Honeymooners’ and to play the sewer worker’s wife,” recalled Randolph. “It didn’t pay much and my character was less developed than the other three, but I was happy to have a job.”

Gleason soon recognized that the chemistry between himself, Carney, Meadows, and Randolph had sitcom potential and expanded The Honeymooners into a half-hour series that ran initially for 39 episodes during 1955-1956.

The show was filmed with a live audience at the Adelphi Theater in Manhattan and generally without full rehearsals.

“Jackie hated to rehearse and

wanted shows to be spontaneous, so Art, Audrey, and I would go over the script together on Saturday mornings,” said Randolph. “Jackie ran everything and nobody told him what to do.

“He was extremely talented, and for a big guy was incredibly

Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph in The Honeymooners on CBS.

Recent Joyce Randoph photo provided by Randoph’s son, Randy Charles.

light on his feet doing physical comedy. For one roller-skating skit, I went with Art and Audrey to practice at a roller-skating palace here in New York. But we never saw Jackie practice. He just came out on the skates and amazed us.”

Gleason, however, was not the most convivial of coworkers.

“Jackie was a very strange man, not overly friendly and very moody,” said Randolph. “He just never sat around and talked.

Audrey was very professional

and would have the whole script memorized. If Jackie forgot a line, she got him back on track.

“Art was quiet, and it was well known he had a long history of problems with alcohol, but was a wonderful and talented guy.”

And while fans like to imagine their sitcom stars from a favorite show palling around after hours, that wasn’t the case with The Honeymooners’ foursome.

“We just didn’t hang out,” said Randolph. “At 9 o’clock, when we finished filming, we all went our own way.”

Randolph continued in the role when it once again became part of a new Jackie Gleason show. But when Gleason moved to Florida and revived The Honeymooners in several TV movies and in another show from 1966-1970, Randolph wasn’t invited.

“Years later I saw Audrey, and she said Jackie had looked for me, but couldn’t find me,” Randolph recalled. “Well, that was a lot of nonsense. Jackie wanted to use his longtime friend Jane Kean to play Trixie, and that’s what he did.

“But that was fine with me because I wasn’t going to move from New York where my husband had his job, and I was happily raising my son.”

Today, when she ventures from her New York apartment of 55 years, Randolph happily greets devoted Honeymooners fans.

“Strangers still come up and want to hug and kiss me and tell me how much they love the show,” she said. “You learn to accept it, but it’s fun and people are nice. The show continues to influence my life.”

Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns, and interviews for more than 600 magazines and newspapers. Follow @TinseltownTalks

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Terri Schlichenmeyer

NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football

Three points! That’s all your team He repeatedly lost, then found, needs to win. Can they make it? the anger that made him good at You’re doing your part: You’re playing offense, and he ate constantly wearing your lucky shirt and hat. A to maintain the weight the coaches stuffed mascot is nearby, the team logo unofficially said he had to have. hangs on the wall, and you had coffee He hurt everywhere, often, until his this morning in the official team mug. teammates returned from their injuries You’re doing everything you can for and Anonymous stepped back because a win but, as in the new book NFL that’s what players do.

Confidential by Johnny “… This isn’t a Anonymous, other fairytale,” he says. “This forces are afield. isn’t a Hollywood story.

Johnny Anonymous This isn’t a happy ending. came to football later “This is the NFL.” than most boys.

There’s a reason Looking to fill a why author Johnny void after his mother Anonymous has changed died, he joined his “names, timeline, details, high school team as a the usual” in this book. freshman. Neither he “Go ahead, try” to figure nor his father knew a out who he is. I’m sure thing about football, the league would like to but Anonymous learned know, too, because NFL quickly, just as he Confidential is TNT on NFL Confidential: learned that he had paper.

True Confessions from the talent for the game.

But here’s the rub: Gutter of Football “Back in high It’s easy to wonder if

By Johnny Anonymous school, football was Anonymous is hiding c.

2016, Dey St. fun,” he says, but in behind a pseudonym 241 pages college, “it was a fullin order to embellish time job.” the truth—because this College ball was serious, both book is funny, very entertaining, and mentally and physically; it was more than a little smart-alecky, readers also where Anonymous began to may be tempted to dismiss his words. understand what football would do to It would be likewise easy to say his brain and body. He suffered injuries that it’s just a profanity-laced, updated playing college ball and he considered North Dallas Forty, until you consider quitting, but going pro was a chance to that what Anonymous describes seems “make a … ton of money.” to be on display, to a greater or lesser He was cut from his first pro team, degree, each August through February: through no fault of his own. He started injuries, mental abuse, domestic issues, as third-string at his second team and substance abuse, and more. soon decided that standing on the So … truth? Or just a good story? sidelines was an easy way to make a You’ll have your theories, but either living—but then his teammates started way, I think you’ll love this book. For getting injured. die-hard fans of the ol’ pigskin, NFL They were out. Anonymous was in, Confidential is a big win. at least for awhile.

The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer.

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Combating Colon Cancer

By Claire Yezbak Fadden It’s your first physical since you turned 50, and instead of wishing you a happy birthday, your doctor hands you a referral for a colonoscopy. Not the gift you had in mind, but quite possibility the best present you can give yourself.

Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United States. It is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), and is expected to cause about 49,190 deaths this year.

Most health experts consider colorectal cancer highly preventable, pointing to early detection and routine checkups to save lives. In fact, according to the ACS, the death rate from colorectal cancer has been dropping for more than 20 years. Doctors credit the decreased numbers, in part, to screenings that detect colorectal cancer at its earliest

stages when it is easier to treat and possibly cure.

hollow, lighted tube that has a tiny video camera on the end. The doctor is looking for polyps or signs of cancer. Polyps are small growths that, over time, can become cancer.

The exam itself takes about 30 minutes. This test is recommended once every 10 years. However, depending on your individual risk factors, your physician will determine how frequently you need to repeat it.

A sigmoidoscopy is similar to a colonoscopy; however, a doctor examines only the lower part of the colon and the rectum for signs of cancer or polyps. The scope used is about 2 feet long, enabling the doctor to see the entire rectum but less than half of the colon. This test takes between 10 and 20 minutes and is recommended once every five years, depending on your personal risk for colon cancer.

For individuals over the age of 50 with no symptoms and no family history of colon cancer, some doctors recommend using a fecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening kit. This is a

“It may take a patient some time to realize there is blood in their stool, if the initial amount is small,” said Ly. “There are some cases where a patient may not recognize the symptom or diagnose themselves as having hemorrhoids and purchase overthe-counter products as a treatment.”

Evaluating the Risk “While discussing bowel movements and following through with an invasive procedure may be uncomfortable,” said Quan Ly, M.D., “finding colon cancers at Screening an early stage Options often reduces Doctors the length, agree that the severity, and single most cost of cancer important treatment.”

Ly, a surgical thing you can do to combat oncologist at March is the University Colon Cancer Awareness Month colorectal cancer is to of Nebraska be screened.

Medical Center in Omaha, acknowledges that the “And to follow through to make a colonoscopy appointment when one is topic is difficult to broach because many people are uncomfortable recommended,” reminded Ly. A colonoscopy lets a doctor closely talking about changes in their bowel movements, constipation, or diarrhea look at the inside of the entire colon and rectum by using a thin, flexible, with their physician.

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non-invasive test, which can be done at home by collecting three stool samples on three different days. The test can detect blood in the stool and some cancers; however, it doesn’t typically notice any pre-cancerous cells that may be present.

“Many people don’t consider themselves at risk for this disease,” added Dr. Ece Mutlu, a boardcertified gastroenterologist in Chicago, Ill. “The truth is everyone is at risk. Some groups are just at a higher risk. Early detection and routine checkups for colon cancer can save lives.”

Just the Facts The most recent estimates for the

number of colorectal cancer cases in the United States: • 93,090 new cases of colon cancer • 39,610 new cases of rectal cancer • The lifetime risk for developing colorectal cancer is about one in 21.

This risk is slightly higher in men than in women.

For more information, visit the American Cancer Society at www. cancer.org.

To learn more about advances in colorectal cancer research, visit the National Institutes of Health website at www.nih.gov/science/colorectalcancer.

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Room by Room Don’t bite off more than you can chew. For instance, give yourself an entire afternoon to clean out the guest room. By contrast, you probably need to set aside an entire weekend to tackle the attic.

Remember that closets filled with

items always take longer than you think. Get organized, devote time to your project, and ask family and friends for help.

When it comes to collecting antiques, museum professionals like me always stick to categories and try to collect in categories.

If you are decorating using items that you already have and are in storage, try to group them by category. This will provide decorative groupings that are seasonably appropriate.

When you put these items away after the season passes, consider using plastic bags (for smaller items) and plastic tubs (for larger items).

Mark the bags or tubs by category, like toys and games, china, glass, etc.

It will make it much easier to find what you are looking for later.

Big WOW Main walls or confrontation walls—which are the first walls you see when you enter a room—are the most important in the decorating scheme.

Place an item with a big impact on these walls: a spectacular work of fine art, a superb faux-paint technique, or a bunch of family photos.

One big statement piece is plenty.

At the opera, only one fat lady sings, and that’s enough!

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Deal Me In

By Mark Pilarski

Chuck A. Luck Wagers a Buck

Dear Mark: Decades ago I played a now-extinct game called Chuck-aluck at the Nevada Club in Reno. All I remember now is that three very large dice were shaken out of a large cage.

Could you refresh my memory as to its history, the rules, and odds of the game?

– Dennis S.

Chuck-a-luck is a game that originated in English pubs. The game was also known as Crown and Anchor (because the six sides of the dice are inscribed clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, crown, and anchor).

Originally, it was called Sweat Cloth, and it found its way to the U.S. around 1800 as just Sweat. Other names associated with Chuck-a-luck are Chuck-Luck and Chucker Luck, along with just Chuck during the mid- to late 1800s. It was not until 1900 that it was called Birdcage, and eventually, as you saw it at the Nevada Club, Chuck-a-luck.

Like you, I too remember playing the game decades ago both at the Nevada Club and its sister property at the time, The Nevada Lodge (today called the Tahoe Biltmore). You can see the game played by Lazar in the James Bond movie The Man with the Golden Gun, something that might delight gamers who are also film buffs.

Initially, Dennis, the game was played with a cup and three dice that were tossed across the table. To deal with allegations of cheating by operators who used both weighted dice and the practice of trick throwing, the cup was replaced with a birdcage-like device.

Chuck-a-luck is a simple-enough dice game in which the player has various wagering opportunities on the www.50plusLifePA.com

outcome of the roll of three dice. The game’s gambling apparatus consists of three oversized dice in an hourglassshaped cage known as the birdcage and a table layout with several betting options.

After all the wagers are placed, the birdcage is flipped several times by the dealer with the result displayed once the cage stops moving and the dice drop and rest.

Wagers are paid based on the possible combinations that appear on the three dice.

Those bets include:

Numbers Bet: Here you bet on any single number (1 to 6) and are paid according to the number of dice that land on your chosen number.

If you bet on the number 6 and one die shows a 6, you are paid even money (1-to-1). If two dice come up with a 6, you are paid 2-to-1. If all three dice appear 6, you are paid 3-to-1, although on some layouts it can be significantly higher.

Field Bet: The “field wager” is a bet that the sum of the values on the three dice comes to 3 through 7 or 13 through 18. This bet pays even money (1-to-1). If the dice total is 8 through 12, you lose.

High Bet (Over 10): A bet on “high” is a wager that the sum of the three dice will be over 10. A high bet pays even money.

If the dice total is less than 11, you lose, and, if all three dice are the same (three-of-a-kind), you also lose.

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Cover Story

Culture Club President Helps Blend Central PA’s Melting Pot

By Lori Van Ingen Ukrainian-born Vlada Prymak moved to the United States more than 20 years ago looking for better opportunities for her young family.

Living in a democracy was very important to her, she said.

Prymak lived in Kyiv, only 30 miles from Chernobyl when it had its nuclear disaster in 1986.

“I saw so many terrible things happen. A lot were dead because of radiation and the aftermath of the tragedy … I wanted my life better than that.”

So after she had earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and engineering from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, she and her husband moved to start their own American dream.

Prymak—who had been a straight-A student in an English boarding school as a young child— was fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, and English, but not in American English, so she pushed herself to learn American English from the time she arrived in the U.S. Prymak held numerous positions after arriving in this area; she was a manager for Estee Lauder Cosmetics and Lord & Taylor. She also worked at a Volvo dealership, getting great experiences interacting with affluent people, who know how to achieve.

“It opens your mind to what they do,” she said.

Prymak is now a certified licensed insurance professional and member of her local rotary club.

“The more you put into life, the more you get. Learn always and be an example for others. If you just sit at the computer and look at someone else’s life, you will not get a better education or life,” she said.

The mother of two children, a 24-year-old son and a 14-year-old daughter, Prymak had gotten involved in the Swarthmore Parents Council when her son attended college there. But after he graduated, she

wanted to do something to help her own community that she could be passionate about.

That something came along when she found World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania.

According to its website, the World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania strives “to foster education, understanding, and tolerance; to build a community that welcomes people of different cultures and traditions; and to promote a shared humanity and a better society.”

The club—which formed in March 2001 as the Cultural Community Club and became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization when it changed its name in 2009—presents free programs the first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

Approximately 60 to 110 people attend each program to learn about traditions and culture.

Five years ago, Prymak and her daughter, then aged 10, did a presentation on the Ukraine for World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania.

From that point on, then-president Diana Carel-Diaz came alongside Prymak and mentored her.

“Diana was important to me,” Prymak said. “She prepped me a long time to be more active (in the club).”

Prymak held several positions in the club, and little by little she became ready to take over as president when Carel-Diaz retired two years ago.

“All of the board members were supportive of me through the transition,” she said.

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania has been built on the traditions of “embracing diversity and overcoming intolerance, ignorance, and prejudice against other cultures, races, and traditions through educational programs,” Prymak said.

The Central Pennsylvania area— from Lancaster to Hershey, Harrisburg to Carlisle—is such a diverse place, she said. www.50plusLifePA.com

“There is so much diversity in culture and countries. We want them to feel more welcome.”

The club initially began as a place where people from other countries could feel more comfortable and welcome and adjust to a new environment. But it evolved to become increasingly centered on the educational aspect of their programs to “help alleviate the tension and cultural divide among world communities,” according to its website.

The World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania received the 2011 Penn State Hershey Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Community Service Award. And in May 2015, it

received a certificate of appreciation from the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg as its founding institution.

In December, Prymak received the Diversity Champion Award for 2015 from the Campus Council on Diversity at Penn State Hershey Medical Center for her “outstanding efforts, passion, and dedication to diversity.”

“I’m not a shy girl, but I am humbled to receive such recognition,” Prymak said.

Among her duties as president, Prymak works with sponsors and donors of the club and does a lot of networking.

But she also spends a great deal

of time trying to find great speakers for each meeting. She meets with potential speakers and listens to their presentations elsewhere to be sure she finds just the right speakers who would be interesting for the World Culture Club members to hear.

She doesn’t look for “boring college lectures” but presentations that are exciting, hold your attention, and open your mind.

Among the prominent speakers at the World Culture Club were Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes and Dr. Hector Ortiz, an assistant professor at Central Penn College.

But the speakers she is most proud of are two students who spent a

year in Romania and Croatia as part of a study abroad program. Their presentation, “Youth Around the World: Realities and Possibilities,” was “stellar,” she said.

Prymak was excited about bringing in the younger generation and getting them involved.

“It all starts with the children,” she said. “By understanding others’ traditions and how others live their lives, we can better accept what differences there are ... and how to solve conflicts peacefully.”

For more information on the World Culture Club of Pennsylvania, visit www.worldcultureclubpa.org.

LUCK from page 9 “low” is a wager that the sum of the three dice will be under 11. This bet pays even money.

If the aggregate of the dice is over 10, you lose. Again, you also lose if a three-of-a-kind appears. This wager can also be labeled under 10/over 11 with the same payoffs.

Any Triple: A bet on “any triple” is a wager that all three dice will be the same. This bet pays 30-to-1.

Yes, Dennis, Chuck-a-luck still exists, except now you will only find it at carnivals and casino-night fundraisers for charities.

Finally, Chuck-a-luck, with a house edge that averages 7.5 percent, is/was a game, charity aside, that all Deal Me In readers should chuck.

Gambling Wisdom of the Month: “People in the rest of the world merely go broke and die broke.

In Vegas, you live broke.” – Sherlock Feldman, The Green Felt Jungle (1965) Mark Pilarski is a recognized authority on casino gambling, having survived 18 years in the casino trenches. Pilarski is the creator of the bestselling, award-winning audio book series on casino gambling, Hooked on Winning. www.markpilarski.com

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Support Groups Free and open to the public Mondays, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Grief Support Group Mohler Senior Center 25 Hope Drive, Hershey (717) 732-1000 March 2 and 16, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

ANAD Eating Disorders Support Group PinnacleHealth Polyclinic Landis Building, Sixth Floor Classroom 1 2501 N. Third St., Harrisburg (717) 712-9535 March 8, 6 to 7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Graysonview Personal Care Community 150 Kempton Ave., Harrisburg (717) 561-8010

March 9, 6 to 7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Emeritus at Harrisburg 3560 N. Progress Ave. Harrisburg (717) 671-4700 March 16, 1:30 p.m.

Parkinson’s Support Group on East Shore Jewish Home of Harrisburg 4004 Linglestown Road Harrisburg (717) 441-8627 March 17, 6 to 8 p.m.

Harrisburg Area Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver Support Group Giant Food Stores – Second Floor 2300 Linglestown Road Harrisburg (717) 580-7772

Senior Center Activities March 21, 6:30 p.m.

Support Group for Families of Those with Memory-Related Illnesses Frey Village 1020 N. Union St., Middletown (717) 930-1218

Bistline Senior Center – (717) 564-5633

March 30, 7 to 8 p.m.

Connections Support Group: Families of Memory Impaired Ecumenical Retirement Community Building 3, Second Floor 3525 Canby St., Harrisburg (717) 561-2590

Heinz-Menaker Senior Center – (717) 238-7860

Community Programs Free and open to the public March 2, 7 p.m.

World Culture Club of Central PA Meeting Penn State Hershey Medical Center Fifth Floor, Lecture Room B 500 University Drive, Hershey www.worldcultureclubpa.org March 3, 7 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable Meeting Grace United Methodist Church 433 E. Main St., Hummelstown (717) 503-2862 charlie.centralpaww2rt@gmail.com www.centralpaww2roundtable.org March 6, 4 to 5:30 p.m.

Keystone Brass Quintet: 40 Years of Brass Derry Presbyterian Church 248 E. Derry Road, Hershey (717) 533-9667 www.derrypres.org March 10, 7:30 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania Vietnam Roundtable Meeting Vietnam Veterans of America, Michael Novosel MOH Chapter 542 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg (717) 545-2336 centralpavietnamrt@verizon.net www.centralpavietnamroundtable.org

March 15, 10 a.m.

Brazil: A Journey of Music, Language, and Love Derry Seniors Derry Presbyterian Church 248 E. Derry Road, Hershey (717) 520-0764 www.derrypres.org March 19, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

16th Sew Much for Charity Event Trinity United Methodist Church 210 Main St., Hummelstown (717) 561-9964 March 23, 7 p.m.

Piecemakers Quilt Guild of Middletown St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Spring and Union streets, Middletown (717) 915-5555 gsk1308@gmail.com March 29, 6 p.m.

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The first Easter Egg Rolls were held on the Capitol grounds. In 1877 members of Congress grew tired of slipping on the remains of boiled eggs and gave orders to ban the event.

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Salute to a Veteran

Robert D. Wilcox

This Marine’s World War II Service Took Him 15,000 Miles through the Pacific them off your food with to feed the azimuth, your hand and quickly elevation, and range grab a bite before they information for were all over it again. attacking enemy aircraft to the anti-aircraft guns.

“The only stop we made en route was when Then it was to we anchored off the Treasure Island, Calif., Admiralty Islands, and by troop train coaches fitted with bunks. There, everyone piled off to get they were soon loaded a beer or two at Duffy’s Tavern. I’ll never forget on the Navy destroyer Carrol G. Smith how wonderful that beer USS Thatcher to take tasted after weeks at sea,” Smith adds. them to Hawaii.

When they arrived in Oahu, Smith “Our next stop and destination taught radar maintenance before being was the Palau Island group, where we transferred to an anti-aircraft battalion assaulted Angaur, one of the islands of the group.” on the island of Kauai. The DC-6 How did that go? plane that flew him there gave him the Wagging his head slowly, Smith first airplane ride of his life, and there he got more training that prepared says, “It was a terrible experience.

I was 19 at the time and found out him for going into combat. quickly that it made men out of boys.

In early 1944, all their gear was Throughout the island, the Japanese loaded on the Army transport Sea had built pillboxes, bunkers, dugouts, Sturgeon, and they were off for a twomonth trip to the Palau Islands as they and antitank trenches.

“Our battleship, Tennessee; four zigzagged their way across the broad Pacific. cruisers; and 40 Douglas SBD dive bombers had been thoroughly What was that like?

Smith says, “It was OK, but, during lambasting the island, but to conquer it took 36 days of fighting and a drill, I slipped while running to my gun position and cut the top of my blasting the Japanese from their caves head. They let an Army medic practice with explosives, tanks, artillery, and flamethrowers.” by sewing it up. When he messed up, Smith says, “Two things about that they took out the stitches and told him ordeal that I’ll never forget were the to try again.

“As we went by the Marshall first sight of tracer bullets coming at me … and nights in the jungle, before Islands, they looked great, but any the island was secured, when we didn’t time we were near land, our food was know where the [Japanese] were. We covered with flies. You had to scoop

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In the first 17 years of his life, Carrol G. Smith had scarcely been outside New Jersey, where he lived in Cranford.

That changed a bit when he decided to go to Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. And it changed a lot more when, at the end of his first semester and nearing his 18th birthday, he left college in 1942 to enlist in the Marine Corps.

Parris Island, S.C., where he went to boot camp, was a long trip for him.

But, as he learned later, it was to be negligible in the miles he was to travel as a Marine.

Was Parris Island as tough as it was reputed to be?

“Nah,” he says, “not for me. At home I had worked in a feed store, where I was used to slinging those huge bails of feed I delivered to farmers. So I was in good shape and really enjoyed what turned out to be a real test for some of the guys.”

Another thing he did well was firing the M-1 rifle. He qualified at the coveted “sharpshooter” level that was to mean so much to him later.

After boot camp, he dreamed of being assigned to sea duty. But he was told that he could ask for any kind of duty at all … as long as it was radar operator, since that was what the Marines needed right then.

So he was soon off to Radar Technician School at Camp Lejeune, N.C., where he learned how to use radar to correct fire for artillery and

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Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II. Brainteasers

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also learned to live with land crabs that were 6 to 8 inches in diameter.”

After Angaur, Smith was ordered to another anti-aircraft battalion on Guam, where he learned that he had been accepted for the Merchant Marine Academy in King’s Point, N.Y. By that time, he had lost interest in that, however, and his next stop was to Saipan, where he trained for the dangerous job of shore observer.

Doing that, he would sneak ashore, hide, and observe where the big shells from the naval armada off shore were landing and then report by radio to the Navy ships the corrections they should make in azimuth or range.

After the atomic bombs were dropped and Japan surrendered, Smith sailed for Nagasaki, where he did occupation duty and had a chance to see the “total and absolute destruction” of the city caused by the atomic bomb.

A point system was set up to decide the order in which men would be brought home. Since Smith had been overseas for about 22 months, he was high on the list.

So he soon boarded a Liberty ship in Sasebo and sailed to San Diego. From there it was by train to Bainbridge, Md., where he was discharged as a sergeant on Jan. 7, 1946.

Summing up his wartime service, he now says simply, “It was the most tremendous experience of my life.”

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GOING STRONG from page 3 volunteering at our library. And yoga the second time around. We are like takes up a few mornings each week. two kids—holding hands, laughing, “We both love music and go to motorcycling, and enjoying the simple many concerts; we have eclectic musical things.” tastes, so there is always something new In 2009, I included Pat and Len’s and fun to listen to. story in How 50 Couples Found Love “We are truly blessed,” Pat said. “We After 50, a book I wrote that revealed how 50 couples had met later in life and found the right person at the right time, and life is good. The most important to give hope to singles that finding a thing to me as I have mate is possible. gotten older is having Pat and Len’s someone to laugh story had two with and enjoy all of important lessons: the crazy, silly things long-distance that life is made up relationships can of. Quirkiness is a work, and when good thing.” people venture out of Pat and Len found their comfort zones, love where they least positive results can expected to find it, occur.

Pat and Len in Lone Butte, which often happens From time to British Columbia. to older singles. time, I follow up They also met the challenges of a longwith the couples featured in the book distance relationship. to see how they are doing and to get And now, they are active, still on an update on their lives. Last month, I the bike and very much in love. And, checked in with Pat and Len. BikerKiss.com is still operating.

She wrote, “Len and I are still If you see an older couple whiz by on together, into our 12th year now and a motorcycle, wave! It just might be Len still going strong. And we’re still and Pat, living the good life and happy riding. Since 2005, we’ve covered close they met nearly 13 years ago. to 175,000 miles across the U.S. and Canada.

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