Dauphin County 50plus Senior News May 2013 by On-Line Publishers, Inc.

Dauphin County Edition

May 2013

Vol. 15 No. 5

The Abstract Eye Never Ages Octogenarian Painter Inspired by Nature, American Southwest By Lori Van Ingen Eighty-nine-year-old Etta M. Schreiner’s most rewarding experience is to just sit and paint. “If there’s a dish of pears or grapes, instead of eating them, I’d paint them,” Schreiner said. Over the years, Schreiner has produced more than 200 paintings. In September, Schreiner’s lesser-known Back of the Canvas series will grace the walls of Mulberry Art Studios’ Louise Gallery. Last summer, a retrospective of Schreiner’s work was exhibited. Schreiner has always painted. When she was 2 years old, she would “crawl up to where Mom was working at the kitchen sink. To keep me out of her hair while she was cooking, she gave me a piece of paper and a pencil. That’s what started the whole thing. I sat on the floor since I couldn’t walk yet, and I’d be painting away.” While she enjoyed painting, Schreiner didn’t go into art as a career. Instead, she earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from Lebanon Valley College and master’s degree from Penn State. “I taught farm kids in a one- or two-room school. It was a great experience to teach,” she said. After marrying her husband, Jack, in 1950, Schreiner didn’t go back to please see ABSTRACT page 32 When not on display in a gallery, much of Etta Schreiner’s abstract artwork is on display in her apartment. Clockwise, from bottom left, Three Sisters, Cosmic Event, Fanned Out, and, in Schreiner’s hands, Third Quartet.

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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori

The Truth Is in the Workmanship Dr. Lori ne of the questions that I often hear at my public appraisal events is, “How can you tell?” I draw upon my decades of appraising and museum experience to glean important information about your antique pieces: works of art, antiques, or collectibles. My stage shows are totally unscripted, and I do not know what antiques are going to be presented to me at my events beforehand. So I appraise on the fly, and I spare no feelings—you either have a gem or you have a piece of junk! When someone today asks me how I can tell the age of something or if an object is repaired or restored, I tell them to look beyond the beauty. Look at the workmanship. Look at the construction. Look at the foundation of the piece. That is where the lies hide. We can shine something up or decorate a piece to make

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19th-century letterbox with replacement inlaid marquetry work on the top.

Dr. Lori and Cindy Shook on the set of Discovery’s TV show, Auction Kings.

it look great, but the truth is in the construction. For instance, the late 19th-century letterbox that my friend Cindy Shook, the Gallery 63 office manager from Discovery’s Auction Kings, picked during our season four premiere episode is a good example because it had many issues.

First, the interior of the box was not authentic rosewood but rather wood painted to look like the grain of rosewood. When appraising the piece for the TV episode, I broke the news to Cindy that she purchased a locking letterbox that was only partly from the 1800s.

She asked me, “How can you tell?” I told her to look at the contrasting, different types of wooden pieces used in the marquetry work on the top of the box—satinwood, walnut, rosewood, etc. The decorative motif of the marquetry inlay piece featured a recorder, trumpet, and flowers, and this piece was probably cut out of an early-1900s music box— hence the musical instruments—and replaced on top of the letterbox. If you look at the positioning of the decorative marquetry forms, the flowers on the left and right sides are nearly cut off, indicating that perhaps the damage to the original music box was so significant that the restorer had to cut the wooden replacement piece so close to the decorative flowers that there was no space left on either side of the floral motif. Typically, there would be an area of blank space between the flowers at both

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left and right sides and the framing of the marquetry piece. But, that is not the case on this box, which is a telltale sign that the box has been reworked and a replacement piece inserted into the top. Cindy has been in the auction business a long time and has experience restoring objects too. She knows her stuff. Her aim was to purchase an object

that would attract auction buyers. She succeeded, as this piece still did well at the Atlanta auction despite the replacement. The other issue I see with this box is the highly feminine motif on a very masculine writing lap desk or letterbox. There is no delicate keyhole hardware and no floral element anywhere else on

this letterbox. The hardware is straightforward and functional, and the framing around the box itself shows clean lines, which are both indicators of a man’s functional object from circa 1875–95. When it comes to evaluating antiques, look at the object closely and let it reveal its history to you. Remember, antiques

don’t lie—people do. Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, awardwinning TV personality, and TV talk show host, Dr. Lori presents antiques appraisal events nationwide. Dr. Lori is the expert appraiser on Discovery channel’s hit TV show Auction Kings. Visit www.DrLoriV.com, www.Facebook.com/DoctorLori, or call (888) 431-1010.

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call and you know who is on the other end,” said Kane. Kane said if someone calls, offering to help you obtain this nonexistent national medical card, you should call the AG’s Health Care Hotline at (877) 888-4877.

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

Social Security Information (800) 772-1213 Tri-County Association for the Blind (717) 238-2531

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

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Healthcare Information PA Healthcare Cost Containment Council (717) 232-6787

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

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Floor Coverings Gipe Floor & Wall Covering 5435 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 545-6103 Funeral Directors Zimmerman Auer Funeral Home, Inc. 4100 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 545-4001 Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (717) 651-5020 American Diabetes Association (800) 342-2383 Arthritis Foundation – Central PA Chapter (717) 763-0900 CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400 The National Kidney Foundation (717) 757-0604 (800) 697-7007 PACE (800) 225-7223

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Stoneridge Retirement Living (717) 866-3204 Services Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging (717) 255-2790 The Salvation Army Edgemont Temple Corps (717) 238-8678 Toll-Free Numbers American Lung Association (800) LUNG-USA Bureau of Consumer Protection (800) 441-2555 Meals on Wheels (800) 621-6325

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Walt Sonneville eniors deserve special recognition if they have served as remarkable examples of achievement in their elderly years. A title, awarded by a prestigious authority such as state governors or the president, would be fitting. A proposed title is Senior-Citizen Laureate. An example of recognition for outstanding service is the British Empire Medal for Meritorious Service, commonly called the B.E.M. Although it ranks as the fifth of six levels of UK medals, the B.E.M. nonetheless enjoys a proud status. The Jan. 29, 1951, issue of Life Magazine had a feature article on Fanny Thorne, then an 88-year-old greatgrandmother. She was awarded the B.E.M. in 1951 by King George VI to honor her for continuing to toil on her farm, six days a week, from the time her husband died in World War I until 1951. The award was for “her devoted service to agriculture.” In 1943, at the age of 80, Thorne demonstrated extraordinary stamina when, according to the magazine, she “shucked an 8-acre field of barley by herself in 11 hours and 30 minutes.” Her routine tasks included threshing wheat, sorting potatoes, and cutting kale to feed the cattle. She lived alone in her four-room cottage. This exceptional woman won her medal by going far beyond what might be expected of the human body. Medals should be awarded as well for those who render outstanding, if not Herculean, contributions. Why not an American medal specifically to recognize seniors who accomplish remarkable achievements in their advanced years? Our country has several types of medals to recognize other exceptional civilians. They include the U.S. Presidential

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Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal, the Presidential Citizens Medal, the National Medal of Arts, and the National Medal of Technology and Innovation. Young people have two types of medals awarded, both by the U.S. Department of Justice: the Young American Medal for Bravery and the Young American Medal for Service. Seniors are deserving of recognition for their services as well. To promote intergenerational harmony, seniors able to do so may wish to volunteer for occasional

assignments with nonprofit organizations, including local and county governments, social and faith-based groups, and service organizations. This would ease the fiscal burdens faced by nonprofits and burnish the esteem to which seniors are held. The U.S. Census Bureau’s “Current Populations Survey” found that in 2010 approximately 26.3 percent of Americans over the age of 16 volunteered. The rate for men and women combined, ages 55–64, was 27.2 percent, dropping to 23.6 percent for those 65 and older. Recognizing Senior-Citizen Laureates could encourage raised levels of participation. A report by the Urban Institute, “Volunteer Transitions among Older Americans,” using 2002 data, found “the time that adults age 55 and older devoted to formal volunteer activities has been valued at $44 billion, and this estimate is likely to increase as the large Baby Boom generation grows older.”

What benefit is there to seniors who volunteer? A study published in the journal Social Science and Medicine (November 2010) finds that elderly persons who volunteer live longer and healthier. The data are based on a study of 916 noninstitutionalized American seniors, ages 65 or older, who are “cognitively functional.” Volunteering provided them a sense of purpose, the study concluded. May is the appropriate month to announce the names of perhaps a dozen national honorees selected annually as “Senior Laureates.” May is designated as “Older Americans Month,” a program originated by the Kennedy administration. It is celebrated across the country through ceremonies and events and is managed by the Administration on Aging of the Department of Health and Human Services. According to the AOA, the theme for Older Americans Month in 2013 is “Unleash the Power of Age.” The theme was selected to recognize seniors as “productive, active, and influential members of society, sharing essential talents, wisdom, and life experience with their families, friends, and neighbors.” Honoring inspirational seniors who are civically engaged could raise the level of volunteerism among older Americans, enhance their sense of purpose, support deserving nonprofits, and raise the stature of seniors among their own and younger generations. Laureates, lead the way! Walt Sonneville, a retired marketresearch analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen, A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, and Opinion Essays for Seasoned Citizens and Their Elders. Contact him at waltsonneville@earthlink.net.

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Beyond the Battlefield

He Survived 34 Days in a Lifeboat: Part 4 of a 4-Part Series Alvin S. Goodman fter the harrowing experience of spending 34 days in a lifeboat during World War II when his Merchant Marine ship was sunk by a German u-boat in 1943, Alvin T. Kemble deserved to be discharged from the Navy, but it was wartime. “After returning home for 22 days of R&R (rest and recovery), I went back to the Navy’s Armed Guard Center in Brooklyn. They put me aboard the S.S. Robert M. La Follette, a Liberty ship. We went to England. At night we watched unmanned German ‘buzz bombs’ fly over. “Our ship moved around and ended at Plymouth, England, when we got word that a lot of ships were leaving port. It was June 6, 1944—D-Day. We later learned about the invasion of Normandy. “Five days later, our ship crossed the English Channel bound for Utah Beach,

but a storm came up “We lay there 35 and we could not days, and then unload our cargo returned to New York there, so we waited and I was discharged until our troops took from the Navy. The Cherbourg, France, war was over by then.” where we unloaded Kemble went to our supplies. work in the carpentry “Returning to shop of the Hershey England, we took on Foods Corporation in another load of cargo Hershey, doing mostly and dropped it off at masonry and concrete Le Havre. From there work. He retired in we went back to the June 1982 after 43 States—Rhode years with the Island—got a load company. there and headed for On Oct. 6, 1943, the South Pacific. We Kemble married went through the Thelma Garrett. She Alvin T. Kemble today. Panama Canal to died Dec. 7, 2010, Hawaii and from there to the invasion of after 67 years of marriage. Kemble has Okinawa. two sons, Gary Lee and Roy Edward

Kemble, and two grandsons, Cody and Trey. In summary, Alvin T. Kemble of suburban Harrisburg, now 88, enlisted in the Navy in 1942 and served as a gunner in the USN’s Armed Guard, a littleknown unit assigned to protect merchant ships operating under the War Shipping Administration. His first ship, the S.S. James W. Denver, on its maiden voyage, was hit by two torpedoes fired from a German u-boat and sunk on April 11, 1943. Kemble and 18 other men were crammed into a lifeboat adrift for 1,400 miles and 34 days before being rescued by a Spanish fisherman near the Canary Islands. All 19 seamen barely survived the ordeal at sea, but one man was fatally injured in Spain when hit in the head by a tree branch while riding in an open truck.

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on 6,236 merchant ships, including Allied vessels, of which more than 700 ships were sunk and many more were damaged. Armed Guard casualties numbered more than 2,000 killed or missing in action, and many were wounded, a casualty rate that grimly rivals the rate of any of the Armed Forces during WWII. The AG was disbanded following the end of the war. Kemble still meets with some AG and other World War II vets on the first Thursday of the month at the Old Country Buffet on Jonestown Road (Route 22) in Lower Paxton Township. Other senior veterans of all service branches are welcome to join the group, starting about 11 a.m. If you are a mature veteran and have interesting or unusual experiences in your military or civilian life, phone Al Goodman at (717) 541-9889 or email him at klezmer630@comcast.net.

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ddie loved to run along the river’s edge so the wind could blow through her long hair, released from the strict bun her father demanded. When Jed returned from the lumber harvest in the spring, she would fly into his arms, releasing her pent-up passion from its winter prison. Little did they know their forbidden love would set in motion a series of events that would forever change their lives and make Jed a fugitive. With a bounty on his head and his infant son hidden beneath his coat, Jed sought out the only man he felt he could trust—a Native American Sagamore, the leader of a nearby Micmac settlement. The unlikely partnership defied all odds, overcoming bigotry, betrayal, and the unforgiving 1820s Maine wilderness, to stake a claim on the primitive New England landscape.

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As the strife escalated between Great Britain and the United States over the border between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada, and the rights to its lucrative lumber industry, determination to survive and create a life for his young son drove Jed into uncharted territory and perilous adventure. About the Author With a background in art and education while raising her family, award-winning author Elizabeth Wilder achieved her lifetime dream of writing a novel when The Spruce Gum Box was released on her 72nd birthday. Its sequel, Granite Hearts, was published at age 74 and, to complete the Maine historical fiction trilogy, Beneath Mackerel Skies is due in fall 2013. She lives an active life at Simpson Meadows in Downingtown with her husband of 53 years and likes to talk about age as attitude over number.

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The Levin Law Firm 150 N. Radnor Chester Rd, Ste F-200, Radnor, PA 19087 610-977-2443 philip@levinlawyer.com www.levinlawyer.com

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The Beauty in Nature

Purple and Yellow Lawn Flowers Clyde McMillan-Gamber

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species adapted to lawns. They have purple blooms that are threequarters of an inch across. Their blossoms and heartshaped leaves are edible to white-tailed deer, cottontail rabbits, woodchucks, and other critters, as well as people. Ground ivy is a mint with a pungency that people smell when cutting grass. This species creeps over the ground and through short

grass. It has half-inch purple flowers; rounded, scalloped leaves; and prefers shaded, damp habitats. Its leaves were once used to ferment and flavor beer. Dandelions have inchwide, yellow blooms. Only dandelions with short flower stems produce seeds on regularly mowed lawns because long-stemmed blossoms get cut by mowing. Photo courtesy Olaf Leillinger

eauty is where you find it.” Two species of plants with purple flowers and three kinds of vegetation that have yellow blossoms live abundantly on many shortgrass lawns in the Mid-Atlantic States. And the lovely, cheery blooms on these prostrate plants beautify lawns in April and early May. This vegetation includes common blue violets, ground ivy, dandelions, Indian strawberries, and yellow wood sorrels. Violets are native to America, but the rest are aliens from Eurasia. These lawn plants grow close to the ground, and most of their leaves and flowers are missed by mower blades, allowing them to complete their life cycles. Mowing actually helps this vegetation grow because it removes grass that would shade it. Common blue violets are a woodland

Pretty, seed-eating birds, including house finches, cardinals, goldfinches, indigo buntings, and various sparrows, eat dandelion seeds in May when few other seeds are available. And dandelion leaves and flowers are edible to people, rabbits, and chucks. Indian strawberries trail across the ground and through short grass like tiny vines. They have three-quarter-inch yellow blooms and tasteless, but attractive, strawberry-like berries with seeds on their surfaces. Squirrels, birds, and other creatures eat those red berries. Yellow wood sorrels have clover-like leaflets and one-half-inch yellow blooms. Tiny, erect seedpods form where the golden blossoms were. Plants with purple or yellow flowers help make lawns attractive and interesting during April and early May. Enjoy their beauties.

Swim Your Way to Heart Health A refreshing swim can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol. These are vascular health bonuses for people who are at risk for stroke, the leading cause of disability and the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. In 2010, 137,000 Americans died of stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Swimming is a vascular health bonanza,” said David H. Stone, MD, a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery. “Low-impact swimming provides a total cardiovascular workout. Regular exercise strengthens the heart muscle, resulting in less effort [exerted] and a decrease in blood pressure.” One in every three Americans over 20 years old—74 million Americans— has high blood pressure, according to 2010 statistics from the CDC. One in every six American adults has high cholesterol (more than 250 mg/d L). More American women than men have high cholesterol. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

In a 2010 University of Western Australia study, 100 women swimmers, ages 50 to 70, lowered their bad cholesterol and lost more inches in the waist and hips than walkers. Likewise, swimming is easy on the joints and doesn’t result in overheating. The American Council on Exercise suggests that adults burn 2,000 calories a week from exercise. A lack of regular physical activity results in 250,000 deaths annually, according to a 2003 report in the journal Circulation. As long as the exercise regimen continues, the health benefits remain. After 12 to 14 weeks of a three- to five-days-a-week exercise regimen of 20 to 60 minutes at an intensity of 60 to 90 percent heart rate, bad (LDL) cholesterol can decrease by up to 20 percent, according to Livestrong.com. Another bonus: Aerobic exercise can increase good (HDL) cholesterol. (NewsUSA)

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Creativity Matters

The Evolving Wheelchair: Innovation, Adaptability, Design Judith Zausner

rue or false? 1. All wheelchairs look alike.

2. All wheelchairs have a gray or dark-colored surface. 3. All wheelchairs cost only a small fraction of the cost of a car. 4. No wheelchair can climb stairs. 5. Wheelchairs can never be used on sand, mud, or other exceptional terrain. The answer to all of the above is false. Wheelchairs have come a long way since their first debut in 1595 as an “invalid’s chair” for Phillip II of Spain. Recently industrial designers worldwide have taken the challenge to create the exceptional merger of form, function, and uniqueness. Some prototypes are so unusual that they may never get to market or, if they did, they may not be able to sell enough

wheelchairs to sustain their business. Adaptable for scuba diving, it uses Yet wild designs are important because dive thrusters, control surfaces, and they break down the stereotypes, and flotation devices as well as fins attached then innovative to Austin’s feet to elements start propel under to appear in water. Engaged in other models. performance art, Also, the the wheelchair is “Money cannot buy health, reverse is true. part of her but I’d settle for a diamondSeeing the Freewheeling studded wheelchair.” capability of a project, which – Dorothy Parker wheelchair in a addresses the special way can intersection of art trigger and disability. thoughts of All-terrain advancing that wheelchairs are feature with more functionality in a new attracting interest. From moving model. gracefully on a sandy beach to climbing One of the most remarkable up and down stairs, these wheelchairs wheelchair innovations is a submersible have been designed with unique sets of model. British artist Sue Austin, a wheels. wheelchair user since 1996, pursued this HEROes Series of Sport Wheelchairs, development with a team of engineers. inspired by Mark Zupan, a quadriplegic and captain of the United States wheelchair rugby team, built a wheelchair not just for the beach, but predictably also for beach rugby. And a team of designers, Julia Kaisinger, Mathias Mayrhofer, and Benesch Xiulian, worked together to develop the CARRIER Wheelchair, which can provide complete independence for the user traveling over any terrain. Its functions include traction to climb the stairs as well as a standing position so the user can be at eye level with other people and have the potential to reach things that previously could not be reached from a seated position. Another very special practical design element

would eliminate the need to physically transfer to a toilet seat. And there’s the social and psychological aspect of being in a wheelchair that the average mobile person does not think about. Yet for Alexandre Pain, his design goal was “Designing for Social Stigma”; he wanted to create change with a dramatic and elegant design that does not resemble a wheelchair. To fully understand the dynamics of a wheelchair with respect to both its function and challenges of the user, Pain, though himself mobile, spent time in the wheelchair. He found that the most difficult aspect was the stigma associated with it, and so his goal was to reinvent the wheelchair and morph it into an entity that did not resemble its former life. The result is the electric Tandem scooter, which is quite beautiful and, like a scooter, comes with additional seating for another person in the back. There will always be people with disabilities and there will always be wheelchairs, but now designers have taken the challenge to blend form and function. Leaving the classic stereotype behind has given designers the freedom to bring more versatility to the wheelchair and an enhanced quality of life to the user. For the disabled, it will provide more mobility and independence and therefore enhance their social interactions, their options for leisure time, and their selfesteem. Judith Zausner can be reached at judith@caringcrafts.com.

“Roll with the Punches” Rolling with the punches is a technique used in boxing. The objective is to avoid receiving a direct hit with solid contact. The technique is to move away from the punch in an attempt to avoid the blow or at least create a glancing blow— a glancing blow being preferable to a direct hit.

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Waste Not Your Produce Dr. Leonard Perry esearch done in the past by the University of Arizona, in cooperation with the United States Department of Agriculture, found that on average families throw out up to a quarter of their fruits and vegetables due to spoilage. You can lessen this loss greatly by purchasing or picking produce at the right stage, not storing certain fruits and vegetables together, storing them properly (not all like it cool), and using some before others. In regards to purchasing, there are a couple main points. Most stores have the produce as you enter, so you buy it before all else, lengthening the time it is not cool and moist. Instead, pick the produce last after you’ve chosen the non-perishable goods. Then get the produce home as soon as possible. Plan other errands before this shopping, or carry a cooler (especially if warm outside) in your vehicle if not going directly home. Also, pick or purchase at the right stage and in good condition. Apples or peaches without bruises, firm oranges, dark-green spinach, bananas that are slightly green and not all the way yellow with brown spots—these are all examples of good-quality produce. While it is tempting to store produce in air-tight bags, don’t. As produce ripens, it respires, or breathes. Storing any in tight plastic bags stops this, causing them to suffocate and speeding up decay. As they ripen, some fruits and vegetables emit ethylene—a gas that is odorless and colorless but that can speed ripening of other sensitive crops. That is why spinach will turn yellow in only a couple of days if in the refrigerator crisper along with an apple. So keep such ethylene releasers—apples, cantaloupe, and honeydew—separate. Don’t refrigerate other ethylene producers at all, including avocado,

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unripe bananas, peaches and nectarines, pears, plums, and tomatoes. If fully ripe, you may store these cool, but return to room temperature for best flavor. Other crops not to refrigerate include potatoes, onions, winter squash, and garlic. Cold delays ripening and spoiling of many crops, but not these. These are cold sensitive and can lose flavor and moisture when too cold, or their smells can taint other produce. Keep in a cool, dry space that stays between 50 and 60 degrees (F). They may store a month or more with proper conditions. A special note on potatoes: Keep them away from light, as in a paper bag, to prevent them from greening and becoming inedible. Finally, after you’ve bought or picked fruits and vegetables, use the ones first that spoil most quickly. But don’t bruise or break their skins, such as pulling stems off, before ready to use, as decay microorganisms will enter and begin their work. In the first one to three days, eat or use asparagus, ripe avocados, ripe bananas, broccoli, cherries, corn, green beans, mushrooms, and strawberries. Next, in days three to five from purchase, use cucumbers, eggplant, grapes, lettuce and similar greens, pineapple, and summer squash, such as zucchini. By five to seven days from purchase, plan to use many other crops, such as bell and similar peppers, blueberries, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower, leeks, oranges, parsley, peaches, pears, plums, spinach, tomatoes, and watermelon. Under proper conditions, several crops will store and can be used much later after a week, including apples, beets, cabbage, carrots, celery, garlic, onions, potatoes, and winter squash.

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Dr. Leonard P. Perry is an extension professor at the University of Vermont.

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First-Aid Myths that Just Won’t Die Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES was about 10 feet behind another woman as we both headed into the nail salon at the mall early one morning. I wasn’t paying attention to the salon entry itself and apparently neither was she, as neither of us noticed that their sliding glass doors were closed. She hit full face on, bounced back (didn’t fall), immediately cried out, and put her hand up to the upper right side of her face. The glass hadn’t broken, so her skin wasn’t cut, but it was obvious from the sickening thud that she was going to have, at the least, a killer black eye. The salon owners slid open the doors, let us in, and the woman sat down. I suggested we get some ice, wrap it in a wet cloth, and let her put it on her face. Any blunt trauma can cause the blood vessels beneath the skin to rupture and leak, causing a bruise or, in

medical-speak, a contusion. The immediate application of ice (although not directly onto the skin) restricts the blood ooze and, by doing so, can stave off some of the bruising. But the woman didn’t want to use ice and she didn’t want to use even a cold, wet towel without ice. What she did want to do was to retrieve a cream from her purse and smear it on the side of her face. She’d be OK with just that, so everyone can stop fussing, please? Cream as an appropriate preventive for a bruise? That was a new one for me, but I do now and again run up against a number of old, familiar first-aid myths that just don’t seem to ever die out. Here are some first-aid myths you’ve probably heard:

cold running water.)

1. You should put butter on minor burns to reduce the pain. (Never. Use

6. The best way to reduce a fever is to swab down with alcohol. (Swabbing

with towels soaked in tepid water is better.)

2. The best way to deal with a poisoning emergency is to induce vomiting. (Don’t do this. Call 911 or Poison Control.) 3. Putting hydrogen peroxide on minor cuts and scrapes is the most effective way to prevent infection. (Soap and water is a better choice.) 4. To stop a nosebleed, tilt your head back and pinch your nose. (Forget the tilt back; you might swallow blood, which can cause you to vomit.) 5. Tourniquets are the best first-line treatment for any bleeding injuries. (Not unless the bleeding is life threatening.)

7. If you witness a seizure, you should restrain the person and put something solid between his teeth so he cannot bite his tongue. (No. Get the furniture out of the way, let the seizure run its course, and call 911.) There are great websites devoted to first-aid myths and mistakes, and a oneevening first-aid class at your local Red Cross or community center is always a good idea. If this subject interests you, pursue it. You may find yourself to be a hero someday. Gloria May is a registered nurse with a master’s degree in adult health education and a Certified Health Education Specialist designation.

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Dear Friends, I hope you will join us for the 14th annual Dauphin County 50plus EXPO. Each month, 50plus Senior News brings you information on topics of health, wellness, finance, and much more. This is our opportunity to bring 50plus Senior News to life—your life! Representatives from an array of businesses are looking forward to speaking with you about topics that are important to you! Unbeknownst to many of us, our own communities hold a wealth of information on the topics relevant to your life: money-saving strategies, home renovation ideas, health and wellness matters, retirement living options, travel, or great places for entertainment. Our 50plus EXPOs are effective forums for all those “hidden” community resources to gather in visible, easy-toaccess locations! On-Line Publishers, Inc. and the Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging are happy to be able to present this dynamic, one-day event to our visitors free of charge. You could spend a couple of hours at the EXPO while you talk with the exhibitors and have a few precautionary screenings done. If time doesn’t permit, make a shorter visit. Either way, we’d love to have you come. The 50plus EXPO isn’t just informative, however—it’s also entertaining! PinnacleHealth will discuss grandparenting in 2013; see previews of Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre’s upcoming musical season; and see why you chose Vickie Kissinger, Barry Surran, and Peggy Kurtz Keller as three of your PA STATE SENIOR IDOLs. See page 22 for more details. This day is made possible through the generous support of our sponsors. Please stop by their booths, have your bingo card signed, and talk with them about how they can assist you. Co-Host – Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging Travel Sponsor — AAA Travel

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Directions To Hershey Lodge West Chocolate Avenue & University Drive, Hershey FROM NORTH Take I-83 South/US-322 East toward Hershey. Take exit 47 for US-322 East toward Paxton Street/Hershey. Continue straight onto Eisenhower Boulevard. Take the US-322 East ramp to Hershey. Keep left at the fork to merge onto Paxton Street/US-322. Take the ramp to Hersheypark Drive/39 West. Merge onto and continue to follow Hersheypark Drive. FROM SOUTH Take I-83 North to exit 46B for 322 East toward Hershey. Merge onto Paxton Street/US-322. Take the ramp and merge onto to Hersheypark Drive/39 West. Continue to follow Hersheypark Drive.

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FROM EAST Take the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) West to exit 266. Turn left onto 72 North. Follow 72 North to 322 West. Take 322 West to Hershey (approximately 12 miles). Follow 322 West to the traffic light at University Drive. Turn right on University Drive. Take the first left into the entrance to Hershey Lodge. FROM WEST Follow the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-76) East to exit 247. Take I-283 North to exit 3C and follow 322 East toward Hershey. 322 East becomes 422 East. At the traffic light, turn right onto University Drive. Take the first right into the entrance to Hershey Lodge. www.50plusExpoPA.com

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If you or a loved one are 60 years of age or older, there are probably services or community resources available to assist you. We can assist you with a wide array of issues including the following: • Medicare Part D - We have counselors who can help you sort through and choose the best prescription drug plan for you. • Home Delivered Meals - We deliver hot meals 5 days per week, approximately 4,000 meals per week to senior citizens in Dauphin County. There is no charge for this service. • Senior Centers - With 18 Senior Centers throughout Dauphin County, senior citizens can gather for fellowship and activities including board games, cards, dance, tai chi, exercise, computer classes and trips. There is no charge to join a senior center, and many of the activities have no cost.

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• Adult Day Care - Your loved one can spend the day engaging in supervised activities at one of seven facilities that is licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. • Home Care Support - Our Family Caregiver Support Program can help you care for an older relative in your home.

• Nursing Home or Personal Care Placement - We can do an assessment to determine if you or a loved one is medically eligible for nursing home admission and provide you with information so that you and your family can make an informed decision. If you would prefer to stay in your home instead of going into a nursing home, we can help you obtain a waiver to receive that care in your home or in your community. There is no charge for this service. • Concerned about possible exploitation, abuse or neglect of a loved one? Our Protective Services Unit and Elder Abuse Task Force will intervene to assure that the health, safety and welfare of the senior citizen is protected. To report suspected elder abuse or exploitation, call 1-866-SAFE-111 (1-866-723-3111). There is no charge for this service. • Other services are available such as transportation, long-term care Ombudsman representation and inhome personal care.

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PinnacleHealth System began its dynamic journey more than 140 years ago as a pioneer healthcare system dedicated to providing and improving the health and quality of life for the people of Central Pennsylvania. PinnacleHealth offers a wide range of services, including family practice, imaging, outpatient surgery, and oncology, at multiple locations throughout the region. Through remarkable teamwork among physicians, nurses, and other health professionals, we deliver the most advanced, compassionate care to our patients every day. Our community is changing. As people age, the demands for orthopedic, heart, cancer, and other services will increase. Mobility and transportation are challenges that our region faces as our population ages. We need to be sure that our region has access to the highest quality care and that care is convenient, especially primary-care services that focus on prevention. We are always working to meet the ever-changing needs of patients. From advancements in technologies to establishing trusted relationships between providers and patients, we continually evolve and grow to ensure we deliver the best care in the best setting. We call this strategy “Vision 2017.” That strategic vision includes major improvements to many of our facilities and the expansion of the hospital from two to three acute-care campuses. The West Shore Hospital in Mechanicsburg will open in 2014. The five-story hospital will include 108 beds with an emergency department, medical/surgical care, cardiology, orthopedics, chronic disease management, and private patient rooms. One of our current hospitals, Community General Osteopathic Hospital in Lower Paxton Township, offers a full range of services from emergency to surgical care. Recently, three floors were added for additional operating rooms and to facilitate the

transition to all private patient rooms. These changes are designed to provide the best patient experience. PinnacleHealth’s other hospital, Harrisburg Hospital, is a leading acute-care hospital where more than 14,500 surgical procedures, 70 kidney transplants, and 588 open-heart surgeries are performed. Almost 5,000 babies are born at Harrisburg Hospital each year. As an anchor in the community, PinnacleHealth has continued to invest in the Harrisburg area, including the expansion of emergency and cardiac services at Harrisburg Hospital and the addition of the Medical Sciences Building. PinnacleHealth’s focuses on patient satisfaction, credentials (including Magnet recognition for nursing excellence), experience, range of services, research, education, and outcomes are a strong testament to our quality of care. We receive national and statewide recognition for our excellence in care of heart attack, heart failure, diabetes, and transplant patients. PinnacleHealth was given the maximum reward possible through Highmark’s Quality Blue hospital program, which focuses on quality and ultimately helping improve health outcomes for people. By focusing on the “big picture,” such as demographic changes and the future healthcare needs of Central Pennsylvanians, we ensure that all aspects of the community’s needs are addressed-including easier access to services and simplified transition from inpatient to outpatient care. The best care is about more than buildings and equipment-it’s about compassion, concern, and promoting wellness and healing. These principles are at the core of our long-term vision for the next century of healthcare in our region. For a complete list of services, visit our website at www.pinnaclehealth.org

Health & Wellness Area – PinnacleHealth Blood pressure, total cholesterol, glucose, bone density, information on diabetes Booths #121–126

Additional Free Health Screenings Emeritus Senior Living – Booth #114 Blood pressure

Premier Eye Care Group – Booth #107 Glaucoma screening

Iron & Silk Alternative Health & Fitness – Booth #129 10-minute chair and table massages

ReNewed Hearing Solutions – Booth #198 Hearing and tinnitus evaluation

Orthopedic Institute of Pennsylvania (OIP) – Booths #205–206 Heel scans for osteoporosis screenings

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11 a.m. – RetireSafe What’s Next in Washington? What Does it Mean for You? Presented by: Thair Phillips, President, RetireSafe

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RetireSafe President Thair Phillips will discuss the latest news from Washington, DC, including the CPI for Seniors Act, Social Security, Medicare, taxes, and debt. RetireSafe will cover issues and topics that can save your life or your retirement. Come learn and share your thoughts and concerns—RetireSafe will be listening! RetireSafe is a nonprofit, nonpartisan bronze EXPO sponsor representing 400,000 seniors nationwide and more than 15,000 in Pennsylvania. Learn more at www.retiresafe.org.

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Presented by: Christian Caicedo, MD, PinnacleHealth, Administrative Director of Emergency Departments, and Christopher Markley, Esq., PinnacleHealth, Senior Vice President of Strategic Services and General Counsel There may be times in your life when you cannot make your own healthcare choices. An advance healthcare directive helps you plan for your care in these situations. By stating your wishes in advance, you can have a voice in your care when you cannot speak for yourself. You also can choose who may speak for you. Hear advantages explained and myths refuted.

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11 a.m. – Leaky Plumbing and Rusted Pipes: Common Heart Conditions and the Latest Treatments Presented by: Mubashir Mumtaz, MD, FACS, PinnacleHealth, Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery Learn more about heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation, coronary artery disease, valve disease, and leading-edge treatments.

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Noon – Oh, My Aching Back! Presented by: Mark Smith, PinnacleHealth, Physical Therapist, Cert. MDT We depend on our backs for a lifetime, so supporting and strengthening them are important. Learn causes, diagnosis, and treatments for lower back pain, including the McKenzie Method.

1 p.m. – Men … It’s Your Prostate and Your Concern Presented by: Scott Owens, MD, Urology of Central Pennsylvania An informal discussion for men only with a time for questions and answers.

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11 to 11:45 a.m. – AAA 2014 Chairperson’s Trip “American Parks Trail” and Other Trips Presented by: Elayne Raksnys, Insight Vacations

Noon to 12:45 p.m. – General Info: Royal Caribbean Ships and Itineraries Presented by: Ralph Alesio, Royal Caribbean

1 to 1:45 p.m. – AAA President’s Cruise, “Castles on the Rhine” Presented by: Walter Nadratowski, Uniworld River Cruises

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9:30 a.m. – PinnacleHealth: The Gift of Grandparenting in 2013 So many changes have taken place since we had our children! Some of the things we were taught have since been revised or proven incorrect. It is important for us to be up to date with current recommendations and researched guidelines. Grandparents have the opportunity to love unconditionally and positively impact the lives of their grandchildren. 10 a.m. – Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre is thrilled to entertain the audience with hits from their current season! You’ll enjoy a preview of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s spectacular musical CATS, you’ll be tapping your toes with hits from South Pacific, and get a glimpse of the international phenomenon that is Menopause, The Musical!

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It’s the Quality of Your Life that We Care About! At Spring Creek, our team of skilled healthcare professionals is committed to meeting your loved one’s skilled nursing needs in a beautiful home-like environment. Our shortterm and sub-acute rehabilitation programs deliver residentcentered care to maximize full potential. We offer a full array of exemplary services to include: Physical,

speech, and occupational therapy services, including ventilator and tracheostomy care Nutritional services Secure Alzheimer’s community Wound care clinic Respiratory

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11 a.m. – Vickie Kissinger, 2012 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL Winner Vickie Kissinger of Gap holds a B.S. in music education and is a classically trained mezzo-soprano, pianist, and organist. She is also a student of internationally recognized master voice teacher Dr. Thomas Houser. With more than 25 years’ teaching experience, Vickie runs a fulltime private voice studio from her home. 1 p.m. – Barry Surran, 2008 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL Winner, and Peggy Keller, 2011 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL Winner Since winning PA STATE SENIOR IDOL, Barry has been performing for senior groups, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, private functions, and at weddings. Barry performed a three-hour concert at Delaware Water Gap Country Club and was a guest soloist with the Reading Pops Orchestra. He continues to perform at DeLorenzo’s Restaurant in Easton, Pa. A nurse, teacher, wife, and mother from Ephrata, Peggy Kurtz Keller has sung the national anthem for the Lancaster Barnstormers. Peggy enjoys singing at the VA Hospital in Lebanon, for community and civic organizations, and in local theater. Barry and Peggy will be performing jointly at the EXPO, alternating between individual performances and duets.

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Emeritus Senior Living Gift basket ($100 value)

New York Life Long-Term Care Cracker Barrel gift certificate ($50 value)

Gretna Theatre Two tickets to any Gretna Theatre show ($84 value)

Orthopedic Institute of Pennsylvania (OIP) OIP coffee mug, water bottle, and t-shirt ($25 value)

HCR ManorCare Gift basket ($50 value) Holy Spirit Health System Travel consultation ($100 value) Iron & Silk Alternative Health & Fitness One-hour massage ($60 value) Madeira Chiropractic Wellness Center Gift basket Mary Kay Cosmetics Cosmetic bag with Peach Satin Hands Hand Cream ($15 value) Messiah Lifeways Gift certificate for Messiah Lifeways services

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Exercises That Can Help Ease Arthritis Pain Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Can exercise help seniors with arthritis? I have osteoarthritis and have read that certain exercises can help ease the pain, but I don’t know where to start, and I certainly don’t want to make it any worse than it already is. What can you tell me? – Sedentary Sally Dear Sally, Lots of seniors who have arthritis believe that exercise will worsen their condition, but that’s not true. Study after study has shown that exercise is actually one of the best treatments for osteoarthritis. Proper and careful exercises can help reduce joint pain and stiffness, strengthen muscles around the joints, and increase flexibility. It also helps manage other chronic conditions that are common among seniors with arthritis, such as diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. Here are some tips to help you get moving. Exercises for Arthritis Determining exactly which types of exercises are best for you depends on the form and severity of your arthritis and which joints are involved. It’s best to work with your doctor or a physical therapist to help you develop an exercise program that works for you. The different types of exercises that are most often recommended to seniors with arthritis include:

Range-ofmotion exercises: These are gentle stretching exercises that can relieve stiffness as well as improve your ability to move your joints through their normal range of motion. These exercises should be done daily.

need to go slow to give your body time to adjust. If you push yourself too hard, you can aggravate your joint pain; however, some muscle soreness or joint achiness in the beginning is normal. To help you manage your pain, start by warming up with some simple stretches or range-ofmotion exercises for five to 10 minutes before you move on to strengthening or aerobic exercises. Another tip is to apply heat to the joints you’ll be working before you exercise, and use cold packs after exercising to reduce inflammation. If you’re experiencing a lot of pain while you exercise, you may need to modify the frequency, duration, or intensity of your exercises until the pain improves. Or you may need to try a different activity—for example, switching from walking to water aerobics. But it you’re having severe, sharp, or constant pain; large increases in swelling;

May is National Arthritis Month

Strengthening exercise: Calisthenics, weight training, and working with resistance bands are recommended (two or more days a week) to maintain and improve your muscle strength, which helps support and protect your joints. Aerobic exercises: Low-impact activities like walking, cycling, swimming, or water aerobics are all recommended three to five times per week to help improve cardiovascular health, control weight, and improve your overall function. It’s also important to keep in mind that when you first start exercising, you

or your joints feel hot or red, you need to stop and see your doctor. Exercise Resources To help you exercise at home, there are a number arthritis exercise DVDs you can purchase to guide you through a wide variety of activities. Collage Video, at www.collagevideo.com and (800) 8197111, sells several, as does the Arthritis Foundation Store at www.afstore.org or (800) 283-7800. Also see Go4Life (http://go4life.nia. nih.gov), a resource created by the National Institute on Aging that offers a free exercise DVD and book that provides illustrated examples of exercises you can do to improve your condition. You can order your free copies online or by calling (800) 222-2225. If you need some motivation or don’t like exercising alone, ask your doctor about exercise programs in your area for people with arthritis. Hospitals and clinics sometimes offer special programs, as do local health clubs and senior centers. The Arthritis Foundation also conducts exercise and aquatic programs for people with arthritis in many communities throughout the U.S. Contact your local branch (see www.arthritis.org/chaptermap.php or call (800) 283-7800 for contact information) to find out what may be available near you. 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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Tips to Avoid New Scams Targeting Seniors While we are all taught to use good manners when answering the telephone, not everyone who calls you necessarily has good intentions. According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, a recent spate of lottery scams or advance-fee frauds originating in Jamaica are targeting seniors and other Americans by telephone. While the Jamaican and U.S. governments have teamed to tighten laws and combat the problem, it’s important to guard against becoming the next victim. Knowing the difference between legitimate telemarketers and scammers is crucial. Protect yourself by taking the following precautions: • Never pay money to collect supposed sweepstakes winnings. Legitimate operations won’t require you to pay to collect winnings. It’s against U.S. law to play foreign lotteries. If you get a call saying you’ve won one, it’s probably a scam. • Never wire money to anyone you don’t know.

• Ignore unsolicited calls from anyone, even charities and companies with whom you already do business. You have no way to confirm the caller is legitimate. Even caller ID can be faked. When in doubt, just hang up. • Place your telephone number on the National Do Not Call Registry. It’s fast and free. Visit www.DoNotCall.gov or add your number to the registry by calling (888) 382-1222 from the phone you wish to register. • Check unfamiliar area codes before returning calls. Be aware that there are many three-digit area codes that connect callers to international telephone numbers.

• If you don’t make international calls, ask your telephone provider to block incoming and outgoing international calls. • Never provide anyone with personal information, such as bank accounts, PINs, or Social Security numbers.

If you feel pressured, hang up. You’ve spent a lifetime earning your money. You deserve time to choose how to spend it. • Help others from falling victim to scammers by warning friends and family. If you’ve received a call, mail, or email you think might be from a scammer, report it to the Federal Trade Commission by calling (877) FTCHELP—(877) 382-4357—or contact local authorities.

• If callers insist on speaking with you, tell them you’ll call them directly. Don’t take a number offered by a potential fraudster. You’re safer looking up the number independently.

“The Jamaican government is resolved to successfully combat this scourge. We have put in place both legislative and operational measures that will ensure that persons who prey on vulnerable seniors are held accountable,” said Peter Bunting, Jamaica’s minister of national security, who is working with U.S. officials to stop new Jamaican lottery scams. You don’t have to live in fear to avoid being a victim. By becoming informed of the latest tactics used by scammers to defraud consumers, you can protect yourself and your finances.

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• Prevent criminals from accessing your money. Contact your bank, brokerages, and the Social Security Administration to add a password to your accounts.

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Traveltizers

Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel

Cruising through 10 Centuries of European History By Andrea Gross he scenes drift by—castles perched on hills, towns with multicolored buildings, fields with checkerboard patterns. Then, as if a shade has been drawn, all I see is dark, gray stone. The Viking Njord, a new vessel that’s larger and more environmentally friendly than most riverboats, has entered a lock. A few minutes later, it exits, having been gently raised more than 20 feet. Thus we cruise from Amsterdam to Budapest, stair-stepping up and down along three rivers (the Rhine, Main, and Danube), two canals (the Amsterdam and the Main-Danube Canal), and 69 locks. It takes us 13 leisurely days to traverse 1,200 miles, visit five countries, and time travel through 10 centuries of European history. Our first stop is Kinderdijk, where we’re greeted by 19 windmills, all starkly outlined against a somber sky. The scene is so perfect in its simplicity, so stereotypically Dutch, that it could be the cover of a tourist brochure for the Netherlands. The mills, which were built in the mid-1700s and are still in working condition, are reminiscent of ones used in the Middle Ages, when the Dutch realized that in addition to grinding corn, wind-powered mills also could help drain wetlands and reclaim land from the sea. Feudal reality again melds with fairytale fantasy as we enter Germany. Because rivers were once the main means of transportation, towns and cities

The windmills of Kinderdijk, a UNESCO World Heritage Center, are still in working order.

were built on their shores, and we’re never very far from land. I step out on the veranda of my stateroom, and as we sail eastward along the Rhine, I see one castle after another. Each is special in its own way—a tower here, a drawbridge there, ivycovered walls everywhere—but they are all also startlingly similar. They were homes for feudal lords as well as fortresses that defended their fiefdoms, which, I figure, makes them a medieval version of a governor’s mansion surrounded by armed guards. Many days we wander through small villages filled with cobblestoned streets, half-timbered houses, and narrow buildings in rainbow colors. Other times we explore big cities where the buildings are more stately and the ambience more harried. But wherever we are, we overdose on chocolate, pretzels, and beer before returning to the ship for a white-

The Cologne Cathedral dates back to the 1200s and is a masterful example of Gothic architecture.

tablecloth dinner. The days, as well as our stomachs, are full. It’s in Nuremberg that we bridge the centuries, moving from the Middle Ages, when the city was the unofficial capital of the Holy Roman Empire, to the 1930s and ’40s, when it was the unofficial capital of the Nazis’ Third Reich. “Hitler dreamed of an empire that would be as large as the ancient Roman one,” says our guide, as we pass the parade grounds where Hitler staged party rallies. I notice that the nearby building, the massive Kongresshalle, bears a startling resemblance to the Roman Colosseum. We’re still munching on Lebkuchen, the traditional gingerbread cookies that we bought in Nuremberg, when the ship enters the lock that takes us to a watershed 1,332 feet above sea level, the highest point on any European waterway. From here our trip is literally downhill, but each stop gives us another high.

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We sail through Austria’s wine country before spending a day in Vienna, where we attend a classical concert featuring the music of Mozart and Strauss. Aboard the ship, we learn how to make strudel and listen to rollicking music as we’re served a buffet of Austrian specialties. It’s fitting that the river cruise ends in Budapest, a city that is divided physically as well as metaphorically by a river. “Buda,” on the west side of the Danube, is the old part of the city, replete with a castle, fortress, and several museums. Eight bridges join it to “Pest,” the more modern area that, although still home to sites of historic and cultural significance, is characterized by expansive boulevards, fine restaurants, and good shopping. That night during our last dinner aboard the ship, we sit with friends and reflect on our trip. In less than two weeks we’ve traveled from the hip atmosphere of Amsterdam to the more restrained elegance of Budapest, walked through the winding alleys of ancient towns as well as the wide aisles of upscale department stores, and learned about events both tragic and heroic. “It’s been a crash course in European culture and history as well as a relaxing vacation,” says one fellow. Just then the pianist begins playing a familiar Gershwin tune, “I Got Rhythm,” with the line, “Who could ask for anything more?” and we all start laughing. It’s as if the pianist has read our thoughts.

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Calendar of Events

Dauphin County

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May 5, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Garden Faire, Fort Hunter Park May 12, 1:30 to 3 p.m. – Flower Walk: Jack-in-the-Pulpits and Other Spring Flowers, Wildwood Park May 19, noon to 4:30 p.m. – Classic Music and Classic Cars, Fort Hunter Mansion

Bistline Senior Center – (717) 564-5633

Dauphin County Library Programs

East Hanover Township Senior Center – (717) 469-7514

East Shore Area Library, 4501 Ethel St., Harrisburg, (717) 652-9380

Edgemont Senior Center – (717) 236-2221

Elizabethville Area Library, 80 N. Market St., Elizabethville, (717) 362-9825 May 2, 6:30 p.m. – Friends of Elizabethville Area Library Meeting

Friendship Senior Center – (717) 657-1547

B’Nai B’rith Senior Center – (717) 232-6757

Heinz-Menaker Senior Center – (717) 238-7860 Harrisburg Downtown Library, 101 Walnut St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-4976 Hoy/Latsha Senior Center – (717) 939-9833 Johnson Memorial Library, 799 E. Center St., Millersburg, (717) 692-2658 Jewish Community Center – (717) 236-9555 th

Kline Branch, 530 S. 29 St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-3934 May 23, 6:30 p.m. – Friends of the Kline Library Meeting

Lick Towers Senior Center – (717) 233-0388

Madeline L. Olewine Memorial Library, 2410 N. Third St., Harrisburg, (717) 232-7286

Lykens Senior Center – (717) 453-7985

McCormick Riverfront Library, 101 Walnut St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-4976

Millersburg Senior Center – (717) 692-2657

Northern Dauphin Library, 683 Main St., Lykens, (717) 453-9315

Mohler Senior Center – (717) 533-2002 www.hersheyseniorcenter.com

William H. & Marion C. Alexander Family Library, 200 W. Second St., Hummelstown, (717) 566-0949 May 2 and 16, 6 p.m. – Friends of Alexander Family Library Knitting Club May 7, 6:30 p.m. – Novel Thoughts Book Club May 21, 1 p.m. – Novel Thoughts, Too! Book Club

Rutherford House – (717) 564-5682 www.rutherfordhouse.org Wednesdays, 12:15 p.m. – Free Aerobics Steelton Senior Center – (717) 939-0693

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May 14, 6 to 7 p.m. Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Graysonview Personal Care Community 150 Kempton Ave., Harrisburg (717) 561-8010 May 15, 1:30 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group on East Shore Jewish Home of Harrisburg 4004 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 441-8627

May 28, 6 p.m. Susquehanna Rovers Volksmarch Walking Club Gander Mountain 5005 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 991-5232

May 16, 1:30 p.m. Hershey Area AARP Meeting Spring Creek Church of the Brethren 335 E. Areba Ave., Hershey (717) 832-3282

May 28, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Parental Loss Support Group AseraCare Hospice 75 S. Houcks Road, Suite 101, Harrisburg (717) 541-4466

AARP Driver Safety Programs For a Safe Driving Class near you, call toll-free (888) 227-7669 or visit www.aarp.org/findacourse. May 13 and 14, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Susquehanna Township Parks & Recreation 1900 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 909-9228 May 16, 5 to 9 p.m. Mohler Senior Center 25 Hope Drive, Hershey (717) 533-2002 May 24, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Susquehanna Township Parks & Recreation 1900 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 909-9228

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May is Better Hearing & Speech Month Devices to Help You Hear Hearing loss is one of the most common conditions affecting older adults. One in three people older than 60 and half of those older than 85 have hearing loss. Hearing problems can make it hard to understand and follow a doctor’s advice, to respond to warnings, and to hear doorbells and alarms. They can also make it hard to enjoy talking with friends and family. Your treatment will depend on your hearing problem, so some treatments will work better for you than others. Here are the most common ones: Hearing aids are tiny instruments you wear in or behind your ear. They make sounds louder. Things sound different when you wear a hearing aid, but a doctor can help you get used to it. To find the hearing aid that works best for you, you may have to try more than one. Ask your doctor whether you can have a trial period with a few different hearing aids. You and your doctor can work together until you are comfortable. Personal listening systems help you hear what you want to hear while eliminating or lowering other noises around you. Some, called auditory training systems and loop systems, make it easier for you to hear someone in a crowded room or group setting. Others, such as FM systems and personal amplifiers, are better for one-onone conversations. TV listening systems help you listen to the television or the radio without being bothered by other noises around you. These systems can be used with or without hearing aids and do not require you to use a very high volume. Direct audio input hearing aids are hearing aids that can be plugged into TVs, stereos, microphones, auditory trainers, and personal FM systems to help you hear better. Telephone amplifying devices. Some telephones are made to work with certain hearing aids. If your hearing aid has a “T” switch, you can ask your telephone company about getting a phone with an amplifying coil (T-coil). If your hearing aid is in the “T” position, this coil is activated when www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

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The Best Playground Mike Clark p until I was 11 years old, I lived right across the street from the dusty entryway to a playground—the most imposing playground that God, railroads, and rivers could ever devise. It wasn’t necessarily safe. But isn’t that the essence of adventure? A rocky field stretched from the backyard walkway of a small row house to an obsolete railroad reservoir. This

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field was our baseball diamond. It was roughly configured, and it was in use daily, as weather permitted. The designated pitcher was most always Shorty Lehman, a small, middleaged man who worked for the local telephone company. Shorty not only pitched, but he also coached and encouraged each child who stepped up to the plate. He never berated or ridiculed, but his good-natured razzing was

constant. Shorty was the positive influence that helped to turn children into good men and good women. The railroad reservoir sat atop a low hill, and a circular concrete wall topped with a pointed iron fence kept us out of harm’s way. The stagnant water within the small basin was covered with algae and was polluted with old tires, discarded wood, tree limbs, baseballs, and other unidentifiable debris.

Fish, caught in the Susquehanna River, mysteriously found their way into the filthy stew, along with some snapping turtles and snakes. We actually tried catching those creatures with a fishing rod and dough balls made from wet bread. We caught a lot of foul carp in that mess. At the base of the reservoir, a large cellar door led to a dark and dank earthen floor where an intake pipe and

The Southwest was a big influence on Schreiner, with Aztec colors and tones creeping into her artwork. “That’s where I started painting seriously. My son was raised and I had more time,” she said. Schreiner studied watercolors at Penn State and acrylics at Syracuse University.

But Schreiner’s passion for abstracts was fueled by her studies with Robin Bolton, a nationally recognized abstract artist. Schreiner also has taught a couple of art classes for amateurs who wanted to learn to paint or paint better. Schreiner’s work was accepted on three occasions by the prestigious New York State Fair Art Shows and received a ribbon. Nature has been Schreiner’s greatest inspiration. “It gives me the opportunity to be really original,” she said. Although she has painted realistic still lifes, portraits, and landscapes, abstracts are Schreiner’s favorite style. Schreiner’s “pride and joy” among her abstracts doesn’t have a title. “It speaks for itself,” she said, adding that the purple colors are grapes and the whites are trees, and various designs compose the rest of it. Cosmic Event and Cosmos are two other favorite abstracts. For Cosmos, she “flicked” paint onto the canvas and then began outlining three parts to the painting as land, water, and sky. In Cosmic Event, orange colors weave through land, river, and trees. Schreiner prefers to work in watercolors instead of oils. “It spreads more, so I can do a lot more with it,” she said. “You also can blend colors better.” Schreiner said she is now allergic to some ingredients in her paints, so she has to paint with a mask covering her face. “I developed this allergy over a period of time within the last three years,” she said.

Because of this allergy, Schreiner has begun using watercolor markers that April Koppenhaver, Mulberry Art Studios’ gallery owner, gave her. “It was time to retire my regular painting and start working in a different medium.” She also is enjoying making abstract cut-out pictures from items like bubble wrap, fabrics, and calendars. “I cut things of interest to me,” she said, and “create shapes and colors that come out of my head. I intend to continue creating. It’s part of my nature.” “She’s always experimenting, pushing the envelope. Not what others want her to paint,” said Koppenhaver. “I paint something because I want to paint it,” Schreiner said. When Koppenhaver first saw Schreiner’s artwork three years ago, she wanted to be sure it was maintained for posterity. “She’s a serious artist with an eye and a flair,” Koppenhaver said. “It was a thrill to see her art collection, and I’m thankful for the opportunity to show them.” Unlike most painters, Schreiner has utilized both the front and back sides of her canvases over the years. She would get an idea but didn’t have a new canvas cut, so she’d just turn over one of her paintings and get started, she said. Because her paintings are on both sides, figuring out how to exhibit them is a challenge, Koppenhaver said. For more information on Schreiner’s Back of the Canvas exhibit in September, call (717) 295-1949 or visit www.mulberryartstudios.com.

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teaching. Instead, she began a family. The Schreiners moved around, living in Washington, D.C.; Ohio; and Pennsylvania; and they toured a number of countries. They retired to Albuquerque, N.M., before moving to a Central Pennsylvania retirement community 10 years ago.

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valve that fed the reservoir stood dormant. It had been locked off for many years as there was no longer a need to pump water; steam engines hadn’t run this line in ages. But we found enough toads down there to amuse ourselves for hours. The back hill of the reservoir descended farther into the railroad beds, making a decent grade for sledding and rolling to the bottom in large cardboard drums that had been discarded by a metal smelting plant a block away. I don’t know that these drums were as much discarded as they were pilfered. Also, the back hill was like the dark side of the moon; we were hidden from the watchful eyes of parents. But the best part of this playground lay beyond The Rezzie, as we called the reservoir. The tracks of The Reading Railroad, once the Columbia & Reading, often presented boxcars and flatbeds at rest. These marvelous carriages hauled the most interesting freight. Our favorite cargo was the military equipment that sat proudly above the tracks on the flatbed cars. My brother and I have a black-andwhite photo of us standing on top of a tank while sporting boat shirts and clam diggers, the fashion rage in the late 1950s.

Not too far over the tracks, just before the actual banks of the mighty and treacherous Susquehanna River, lay a shallow, timeworn channel of the Pennsylvania Canal system, a part of local history that began in 1832. We never gave history a thought, though, as we played on the banks and in the muddy water of that ancient waterway. My last adventure there was the day we “found” a canoe and paddled our way toward a small inlet. We all went into the drink when the canoe became unstable from all the movement within, which I thought was dubious. My doubt was in order as I just found out this week, after over 50 years, that my brother intentionally overturned the boat. He now owes me a brand-new pair of sneakers. These adventures, and more, went on day after day in the best playground ever. Each of us has a story of our adventurous childhood. Think about it whenever you see a bunch of kids milling about a large screen, playing video games. You’ll feel kind of sorry for them, I’ll bet. Mike Clark writes a regular column for The Globe Leader newspaper in New Wilmington, Pa. He lives outside Columbia, Pa., and can be contacted at mikemac429@aol.com.

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n Aug. 27, 1896, a war was fought between Great Britain and the East African nation of Zanzibar. The war broke out after Sultan Hamad bin Thuwaini, who was sympathetic and friendly toward the colonial British administration, died. Two days later his nephew, Khalid bin Bargash, seized power. Because the British favored another candidate, they gave Bargash an ultimatum to abdicate immediately. He refused and assembled an army of 2,800 men. Bargash also seized the former sultan’s armed yacht, the H.H.S. Glasgow, to use as a navy attack ship. British troops promptly surrounded the palace while the Royal Navy assembled five warships in the harbor directly in front of the palace. Despite Bargash’s last-minute efforts to negotiate a peace via the U.S. representative on the island, the Royal Navy ships opened fire on the palace at 9 a.m. on Aug. 27. The Glasgow was promptly sunk; the palace began falling down around Bargash as casualties mounted. Bargash retreated to the German consulate, where he was granted asylum. The war had a duration of 38 minutes and holds the record of being the shortest war in history. Adding insult to injury, the British demanded payment from the Zanzibar government for the shells fired on the country! Here are a few other fascinating military facts.

World’s longest war. It started in 1651 and didn’t end officially until 1986, a war declaration lasting 335 years. This was a conflict between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly, located off the southwest coast of the United Kingdom. The origins of the war go back to the

Second English Civil War fought between Cromwell’s Parliamentarians and Royalists, supporters of Britain’s monarchs. Cromwell’s military pushed the Royalists into retreat to the Isles of Scilly. The Netherlands, allied with British monarchy, backed the Royalists, believing they would be victorious. Even though the Royalists were defeated, a treaty of peace was never signed between the Netherlands and Great Britain. Finally, in 1985, Roy Duncan, historian and chair of the Isles of Scilly Council, wrote the Dutch embassy in London noting there was still an official declaration of war. He invited the Dutch ambassador to visit the islands and sign a peace treaty. This was done on April 17, 1986. The War of Jenkins’ Ear. Whenever there is a military conflict, it has to be identified with a name. And, there are some oddities here. There was The War of Jenkins’ Ear. The war took its name from Robert Jenkins, captain of the ship Rebecca, who claimed Spanish coast guards cut off his ear in 1731. With full confidence that his mistreatment would not be tolerated by Great Britain, Jenkins sailed home with his ear in a jar. He exhibited his ear in the House of Commons and so aroused public opinion that the government of the British Prime Minister Robert Walpole declared war on Oct. 23, 1739. The Spanish explained that Jenkins was smuggling in their territorial properties and was thus punished. Nevertheless, the War of Jenkins’ Ear lasted until 1742. “Neutral” nations of World War II. The official stance of Switzerland during World War II is well known: The country was neutral during this conflict. In that position, Switzerland was joined by Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, and Argentina. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

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their country when the war ended. How guerrilla warfare came to be named. Guerrilla warfare goes back as far as recorded history but received its name during the Peninsular War of 1809-14 when Napoleon fought for control of the Iberian Peninsula, controlled by Spain and Portugal. In Spanish, guerilla means “small war.” The resistance to Napoleon’s troops employed tactics that are typical of what we know as guerrilla warfare: fighting in small bands, sudden raids, ambushes, sabotage, and kidnappings.

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Social Security Honors All Who Serve By John Johnston Every day of the year, Americans across the nation remember friends and family members who have served and sacrificed for their country. May is National Military Appreciation Month. As we observe Memorial Day and Military Appreciation Month, we would like to let members of our military know how much we value what they do for our nation. At Social Security, we offer a wide range of services for our service members. Families of fallen military heroes may be eligible for Social Security survivors benefits. Learn more about Social Security survivors benefits at www.social security.gov/pgm/survivors.htm. For service members who return home with injuries, Social Security is here to help. Visit our Wounded Warriors website (www.social security.gov/ wounded warriors). We use an expedited process for military service members who become disabled while on active military service, regardless of where the disability occurs. It is important to note that benefits www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

available through Social Security are different than those from the Department of Veterans Affairs and require a separate application. Even active-duty military who continue to receive pay while in a hospital or on medical leave should consider applying for disability benefits if they are unable to work due to a disabling condition. Active-duty status and receipt of military pay does not necessarily prevent payment of Social Security disability benefits. Receipt of military payments should never stop someone from applying for disability benefits from Social Security. If you’ve served in the Armed Forces and you’re planning your retirement, you’ll want to read our publication, Military Service and Social Security, at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10017.pdf. You also may want to visit the Military Service page of our Retirement Planner (www.socialsecurity.gov/retire2/ veterans.htm). At Social Security, we honor all those who served in the military and we remember those who died for their country.

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May 2013

You bring the talent, We’ll provide the stage! Do you dance … sing … play an instrument … perform magic … do comedy? Do you think you’ve got what it takes to be called PA STATE SENIOR IDOL? Then we’re looking for you!

Pennsylvanians over 50 are invited to audition for the eighth annual PA STATE SENIOR IDOL competition at one of these locations:

Tuesday, August 27

Thursday, September 5

Holiday Inn Harrisburg East

Heritage Hotel – Lancaster

4751 Lindle Road, Harrisburg, PA 17111

500 Centerville Road, Lancaster, PA 17601

(Morning/Early Afternoon Auditions)

(Afternoon/Evening Auditions)

Win a limousine trip to New York City with dinner and a Broadway show! Not a contestant but would like to attend the finals? Reserve your seats now for this annual sell-out! Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre 510 Centerville Road, Lancaster, PA 17601 • (717) 898-1900 October 7, 2013 • 5:30 p.m. – Dinner; 7 p.m. – Show Dinner & Performance: $44 Adults; $33 Children 18 & under Performance Only: $29 (limited number available)

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