Dauphin County 50plus Senior News October 2014 by On-Line Publishers, Inc.

Dauphin County Edition

October 2014

Vol. 16 No. 10

Adventures from on High Retired Teacher Has Scaled Some of World’s Tallest Peaks By Lori Van Ingen Avid might be a tame word to describe James “Jim” Beckerich’s love of climbing. Beckerich, who was a high school mathematics teacher for 36 years, as well as a men’s soccer and baseball and co-ed floor hockey coach, enjoyed having his summers free. It gave him the opportunity to follow his passion. Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Mount Everest base camp, Machu Picchu in Peru, Ixta and Orizaba in Mexico, and Cotopaxi in Ecuador—the 67-yearold has conquered them all. And just last year, Beckerich climbed to 19,600 feet at Aconcagua Peak, the highest peak in South America and only second in the world to Mount Everest, before running out of gas, just shy of reaching the summit. But, he said, “there are amazing peaks right here in the United States.” Besides these adventures, for two months every summer, Beckerich takes his Nissan, with his climbing gear and clothes, and drives to the Colorado peaks—where he has climbed 40 of the 14,000-foot peaks—or other peaks around the United States. He also has scaled Mount Whitney and Mount Shasta in California, Mount Rainier in Washington, Mount Hood in Oregon, and Mount Washington in New Hampshire. please see ADVENTURES page 18 Beckerich displays his banner of sponsors at high camp (19,600 feet) of Aconcagua Peak, Argentina.

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The Beauty in Nature

Storing Nuts Clyde McMillan-Gamber

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the acorns, one at a time, crack the shells with their sturdy beaks, and eat the meat inside. Gray squirrels are most obvious in September and October, when they rummage noisily through trees and dead leaves on the ground for acorns, walnuts, and hickory nuts.

Squirrels rustling through dry leaves make one think of deer or bears in the woods. They stash nuts in tree cavities and bury them one at a time in the ground. During winter, they visit their caches to eat stored nuts. Only rodents have jaws strong enough and teeth sharp enough to chew through the hard husks and shells of walnuts and

hickory nuts. Those foods belong almost exclusively to rodents. Eastern chipmunks, which are a kind of ground squirrel, scamper noisily over dead leaf carpets in the woods and the lawns of older suburbs in search of nuts and seeds for the winter. They stuff that food into their cheeks and whisk it to their underground burrows. There they push that food out of their cheeks with their front paws into a storage chamber and zip out to find more. They do that much of each day, every day in fall. Chipmunks sleep in their snug dens through winter, waking up occasionally to eat stored food and then sleeping again. Thus they spend the winter in relative comfort and safety. Watch for these birds and mammals gathering nuts this autumn. They are entertaining.

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Flu Shots Available in Dauphin County The Visiting Nurse Association of Central Pennsylvania (VNACP) will again provide the 2014 standard yearly flu shot and pneumonia shot clinics. If you are 65+ and your primary insurance plan is Medical Assistance, you must go to your primary physician. Medicare HMO subscribers, except those with Geisinger Gold and Unison Advantage, must receive shots through their HMO. All other Dauphin County residents age 60 and older are eligible. You will be completing a consent form on site. Flu shot and pneumonia shot forms will be available at the clinics. Bring all your medical insurance cards, including your Medicare card. Also, please bring a return address label for your 2014 mailing.

Anyone with an egg allergy may not receive a flu shot but can receive a pneumonia shot. Each clinic will have designated time slots for shots organized by last name. Please call (717) 233-1035 with questions. Wednesday, Oct. 1 Hoy Towers Senior Center 301 Mohn St., Steelton A–F: 9 to 9:30 a.m. G–M: 9:30 to 10 a.m. N–R: 10 to 10:30 a.m. S–Z: 10:30 to 11 a.m.

PACE (800) 225-7223

Emergency Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110

Tri-County Association for the Blind (717) 238-2531

Social Security Information (800) 772-1213

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

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

Floor Coverings Gipe Floor & Wall Covering 5435 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 545-6103

Hearing Services Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY

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

Home Modifications 3-D Consultants (717) 651-5133

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Senior Home Repairs (717) 545-8747 Hospice Services Homeland Hospice 2300 Vartan Way, Suite 115, Harrisburg (717) 221-7890 Housing/Apartments B’Nai B’rith Apartments 130 S. Third St., Harrisburg (717) 232-7516

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Monday, Oct. 6 Colonial Park UCC 5000 Devonshire Road, Harrisburg A–D: 9 to 9:30 a.m. E–H: 9:30 to 10 a.m. I–L: 10 to 10:30 a.m. M–P: 10:30 to 11 a.m. Q–S: 11 to 11:30 a.m. T–Z: 11:30 to noon Wednesday, Oct. 8 Heinz-Menaker Senior Center 1824 N. Fourth St., Harrisburg A–M: 9 to 9:30 a.m. N– Z: 9:30 to 10 a.m.

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

Services Dauphin County Area Agency on Aging (717) 255-2790

Property Tax/Rent Rebate (888) 728-2937

The Salvation Army Edgemont Temple Corps (717) 238-8678

Insurance Apprise Insurance Counseling (800) 783-7067 New York Life Insurance Co. William Gumbinger (717) 230-0648 Legal Services Daley Zucker Meilton & Miner, LLC Attorneys at Law 635 N. 12th St., Lemoyne (717) 724-9821 Nursing/Rehab Homeland Center 1901 N. Fifth St., Harrisburg (717) 221-7902 Personal Care Homes Homeland Center 1901 N. Fifth St., Harrisburg (717) 221-7902 Pharmacy CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com

Toll-Free Numbers American Lung Association (800) LUNG-USA Bureau of Consumer Protection (800) 441-2555 Meals on Wheels (800) 621-6325 National Council on Aging (800) 424-9046 Social Security Office (800) 772-1213 Veterans Affairs (717) 626-1171 or (800) 827-1000 Transportation CAT Share-A-Ride (717) 232-6100 Veterans Services Lebanon VA Medical Center 1700 S. Lincoln Ave., Lebanon (717) 228-6000 or (800) 409-8771

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Robert D. Wilcox

an Cooper grew up in East Liverpool, Ohio, the son of a Navy officer dad. Unlike most sixth-graders, Cooper knew exactly that he wanted to do with his life. That early, he had his eyes set on attending the U.S. Naval Academy and becoming a naval officer. And instead of just dreaming about it, he knuckled down and prepared for it, seriously studying and gaining the broadest knowledge he could get. When he graduated from high school in 1952, he was first turned down for an appointment because he was unable to pass the eye test. So he attended Washington & Jefferson College for a year before he was able to gain a waiver for his eyes and become a plebe at the naval academy. Graduating in 1957, he spent 18 months as an ensign aboard an amphibious ship before he was able to volunteer for submarine service. After six months in submarine school, he spent three years as a junior officer at sea on a diesel submarine, after which he was selected to spend a year at Harvard, studying international relations. “Then,” Cooper says, “I was sent orders to be interviewed by Admiral Hyman Rickover, who personally met and selected every officer going into the Navy nuclear power program.” How did that go? “Not real well,” Cooper says. “The admiral had a very confrontational style, challenging everyone to realize how rough the job would be and questioning frankly whether they’d be able to handle it. He asked me sternly why I wasn’t doing better. “What I learned later was that this was his style. He apparently never met anyone that he didn’t feel could do better. And he let them know it in no uncertain terms,” he says. “I’ll be honest: I hoped that as I furthered my career, he wouldn’t be around. “Only later did I realize how much he meant to developing a safe nuclear Navy. He was tenacious, patriotic, absolutely dedicated, and supremely gifted in all the other ways he had to be in order the fashion the nuclear

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CDR Daniel L. Cooper at Pearl Harbor in 1975, as he took command of the nuclear-fueled attack submarine USS Puffer.

Navy we have today. Frankly, I can’t think of one other person who could have pulled that off.” In 1966, Cooper became executive officer on the USS Simon Bolivar, a nuclear-powered ballistic submarine that was longer than a football field. It carried 16 Poseidon nuclear missiles and had two separate crews of 14 officers and 126 enlisted men. Rotating the crews’ time aboard allowed a much greater time at sea in the sub’s mission of providing nuclear deterrence. Cooper served for two years aboard the Simon Bolivar before he was assigned as an aide to the vice chief of naval operations. That was followed by two years as commanding officer of the USS Puffer (SSN-652), a nuclear attack submarine operating out of Pearl Harbor. Then came three years as commander of a submarine squadron, home based in New London, Conn. In 1980, he was selected to flag rank (admiral), serving as comptroller, sea systems command. And after two years there, he served for three years as budget officer for the Navy. He continued to get more responsibilities, becoming director of navy program planning and budgeting and being promoted to vice admiral (three stars). In 1986 he became commander, submarine forces, Atlantic fleet. Then it was back to Washington again to serve for three years as assistant chief

of naval operations for undersea warfare, his last post before retiring from the Navy in 1991. As an aside, he recalls that when the film The Hunt for Red October was to be filmed, the script came to his office to make sure it revealed nothing classified. He says, “I took the script home to read and told them the next day that it revealed nothing classified and that, except for one off-color story that didn’t reflect well on the Navy, I saw it as a fine, G-rated film that I’d be comfortable in having my wife or grandmother see.” Did they delete that story before releasing the film? With a smile, he says, “They did.” You might think that after shedding all the responsibilities he shouldered during his Navy days, retirement would become time for a life of relaxation … and perhaps some serious golf. But, when he was offered the job of undersecretary for veterans benefits, Department of Veterans Affairs, he felt he had to say yes. During his six years in that position, he testified before congressional committees several times a year. That had been a common experience for him during all his years in Washington, when he testified before Congress frequently as a submariner and navy budget officer. He also remembers vividly the time when a young senator named Barack Obama asked him for a personal briefing on the many aspects of the VA with which the senator needed to be familiar. After retiring a second time in 2008, Cooper did a detailed analysis of retirement communities and found one in Central Pennsylvania where he and his wife, Betty, came in 2012 to live in retirement. As can be expected, his “retirement” is so full of activities that most people would consider it going full throttle. And he reflects that it’s frosting on the cake that so many other Navy men have discovered the same retirement community. Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.

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Creativity Matters

3 Living Holocaust Survivors and Their Creative Success Judith Zausner

orld War II ended almost 70 years ago, but the impact of the Holocaust still lives with more than 200,000 survivors worldwide. Although it is difficult to accurately capture exact data on the number of survivors, it is estimated that their average age is 79. And although so many brilliant and talented individuals were killed in camps, fortunately there are individuals who, despite incredible obstacles, are alive and have experienced successful creative lives. Samuel Bak, 81: Painter and Writer An exceptional artist, whom some acknowledge to be the greatest living painter of the Holocaust, has developed his art from a young age. He was born in Lithuania/Poland where, at the age of 9, he had his first exhibition inside the confines of the Vilna Ghetto. Surviving the war with only his mother, they eventually settled in Israel, where he studied art at the Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem. A collection of his works is on permanent display at Pucker Gallery in Boston, and many exhibitions of his art have been in prominent museums and galleries worldwide. • 2001 – publication of his book Painted in Words: A Memoir (printed in four languages) • 2002 – received the Herkomer Cultural Prize in Landsberg, Germany Judith (Peto) Leiber, 93: Handbag Designer Born in Hungary, Leiber was preparing for university matriculation in London when she returned home to be with her family despite the new restrictions for Jews. “Hitler put me in the handbag business,” Leiber says. Because Jews were

and hiding places not allowed to 72 times. study, she had to He later moved learn a trade. to Israel, where he She met and worked and learned married Gerson about (Gus) Leiber, an documentaries and American GI, in films, and then Budapest, and they moved to Australia settled in New York where, with his City. She worked wife, he honed his for various handbag animation skills and companies when, in The Family, oil on canvas painting by created experimental the 1960s and with Samuel Bak, 1974, private collection. films. encouragement Well known for his series Blinky Bill from her husband, she began her own and Dot and the Kangaroo, he tells stories company. Judith Leiber’s worldwide success is an to the hearts of children that are rooted extraordinary story of hard work, smarts, in the Holocaust experience and laced and enormous technical and visual talent. with lessons of survival, kindness, and triumph. Her handbags are on permanent display at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New • 80+ international awards for various films York City; the Victoria and Albert Museum in London; and her own museum, The Leiber Museum, in Springs, N.Y. • 1973 – Coty American Fashion Critics Award

• 2011 – Autobiography, My Animated Life The University of Southern California’s SHOAH Foundation and the University’s Institute for Creative Technologies are working on an extraordinary project to create holographic interviews available at museums worldwide. Designed to be an interactive exhibit, it will inform, educate, and create a permanent remembrance for many years. After the remaining Holocaust survivors have passed on, their legacies will remain visible and audible in perpetuity, and the lessons should never be forgotten. Judith Zausner can be reached at judith@caringcrafts.com.

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Year Est.: 1908 Counties Served: Berks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill, York RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes

Other Certifications and Services: Home care specialists in physical, occupational, and speech therapy; nursing; cardiac care; and telehealth. Disease management, innovative technologies, and education help you monitor your condition to prevent hospitalization. Licensed non-profit agency; Medicare certified; Joint Commission accredited.

Year Est.: 2006 Counties Served: Lancaster RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: No Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No

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Year Est.: 1997 Counties Served: Berks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York RNs: Yes LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: No

Medicare Certified?: Yes Other Certifications and Services: Caring Hospice looks at hospice care as an approach to end of life, not a place. We offer a very local, holistic approach with low patient-to-staff ratios. Contact us to learn more about the Caring Hospice experience, because life is for living. Joint Commission accredited.

Year Est.: 1911 Counties Served: Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes

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Year Est.: 1984 Counties Served: Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No

Other Certifications and Services: Providing all levels of care (PCAs, CNAs, LPNs, RNs), in the home, hospital, or retirement communities with specifically trained caregivers for Alzheimer's and dementia clients. Home care provided up to 24 hours a day to assist with personal care and housekeeping. A FREE nursing assessment is offered.

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(717) 299-6941 www.ConnectionsAtHome.org Year Est.: 2014 Counties Served: Lancaster RNs: Yes LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No

Year Est.: 1979 Counties Served: Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes

Other Certifications and Services: Good Samaritan Home Health is a Pennsylvania-licensed home health agency that is Medicare certified and Joint Commission accredited. We work with your physician to provide nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, wound care, and specialized care as needed.

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Year Est.: 2009 Counties Served: Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Schuylkill, Lebanon, Perry, York, Adams, Franklin, Juniata RNs: Yes LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes

Medicare Certified?: Yes Other Certifications and Services: Exemplary personalized care that enables patients and families to live each day as fully as possible.

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Counties Served: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: No Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes

Year Est.: 2002 Counties Served: Berks, Lancaster, Lebanon RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No

Other Certifications and Services: Skilled home health specializing in physical therapy, occupational therapy, skilled nursing, and speech therapy. PA licensed and Medicare certified. Many insurances accepted. Call to learn more about our clinical specialty programs.

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Year Est.: 2004 Counties Served: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No

Year Est.: 1962 Counties Served: Adams, Franklin, Lancaster, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: No Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No

Other Certifications and Services: Two- to 24-hour non-medical assistance provided by qualified, caring, competent, compassionate, and compatible caregivers. Personalized service with Assistance for Daily Living (ADL, IADL): companionship, meal prep, bathing, cleaning, and personal care needs. Respite care, day surgery assistance. Assistance with veteransâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; homecare benefits.

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Other Certifications and Services: UCP provides non-medical adult in-home care services to adults, including DPW and aging waiver programs. PA licensed and working hand in hand with your service coordinator, UCP provides personal care attendants who implement your individualized service plan.

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Carlisle: (717) 241-5900; Chambersburg: (717) 709-7244 East Shore: (717) 652-8899; Gettysburg: (717) 337-0620 Hanover: (717) 630-0067; Lancaster: (717) 393-3450 West Shore: (717) 737-8899; (717) York: (717) 751-2488 www.visitingangels.com

Year Est.: 2007 Counties Served: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No

Other Certifications and Services: Offering nonmedical home care to provide positive solutions for aging in place. Companionship, personal care, and our specialized dementia care. No minimum number of hours. Medicaid Waiver approved. Convenient, free assessment.

Year Est.: 2001 RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No

Other Certifications and Services: Visiting Angels provides seniors and adults with the needed assistance to continue living at home. Flexible hours up to 24 hours per day. Companionship, personal hygiene, meal prep, and more. Our caregivers are thoroughly screened, bonded, and insured. Call today for a complimentary and informational meeting.

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The Squint-Eyed Senior

Let’s All Stay Calm about the National Debt Theodore Rickard

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man far better than I at arithmetic informs me that the national debt is now more than $17 trillion. My source for this bit of ominous-sounding financial information is Oscar, the proprietor of Oscar’s Tap, our neighborhood haven for the jittery and thirsty. Oscar, along with mastery of the foaming technique that makes the glass appear full when it really isn’t, subscribes to the Wall Street Journal, so he obviously understands finance. Apparently there was something new in the world of big numbers; Oscar was loaded with numerical information the other evening. He waited a minute, letting the 17 trillion figure sort of soak in, before adding that there are now more than 140 million Americans working for a living, with most of them paying taxes and providing about three-fourths of the government’s income. “Not to worry,” Oscar added rather hastily, perhaps fearful that I would throw up both arms, abandon myself to total despair, and go home without paying. Then Oscar draped himself over the bar to make sure I could hear. “I’m rounding off the numbers,” he explained, recognizing a bit late the mathematical naiveté of his audience, “but you get the idea.” I didn’t, of course, but I couldn’t imagine Oscar had it in him to make up all these numbers, so I guessed that somehow in response I was supposed to divide 17 trillion by 140 million and then do something about the threefourths that was involved in this thing. The trouble was that I couldn’t remember how many zeros are in a trillion — just one trillion, let alone 17 of them. And I was trying my best to recall details of the 140 million number — taxpayers, I think they were. All I could think of was “six-figure

income,” which I’d been told rather pointedly my brother-in-law was making, but I suspected that number had nothing to do with this. But did the figures include all the zeros in 140 million or not? I mentally pictured 140 million. There were distinctly nine numbers in a row. Confusion was already reigning, and I hadn’t yet had a sip from the draft beer Oscar had put in front of me, spilling a little to make an island out of the paperboard coaster as he always did, and calling into play his sodden bar rag. He slopped it around a bit as I tried to picture in my mind the extended long division of the 140 million and the 17 trillion. In a flash, I could remember Sister Mary Agatha of the Seven Sorrows putting the long division problem on the blackboard. She always ended up with the veil of her black habit streaked with white chalk dust. But her numbers never had a lot of zeros. Maybe one or two, after we fifthgraders had begun to get the hang of the thing, but nothing like what a trillion called for. Bluntly, I think Sister Mary Agatha would have been just as thrown by all these zeros as I was. The 140 and the 17 were no problem, but I knew the answer couldn’t possibly be dividing 17 into 140 and coming up with whatever that was. It would be small change to Oscar, and he’d hardly have brought the matter up if that’s all it was. And dividing the 17 into the 140 would come up with a decimal of some sort, which Sister Mary Agatha also taught, but I was out with mumps that week. “There’s really nothing to worry about,” Oscar broke into my thoughts in the nick of time. “It comes out to about 80 G’s per head. But that’s over the next 30 years or so, and we can just roll it over — most of it, anyway.” Oscar paused to reassure me. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

“These guys on TV just want something scary to talk about. They don’t understand how it works.” Neither did I, and now I was left wondering why Oscar had brought the subject up in the first place, as I watched

him scoop my five-dollar bill out of the puddle on the bar, punch “no sale” on the cash register, and put down a dollar and two quarters in the puddle. Here was another financial challenge. Should I leave behind the dollar or the

two quarters as a tip? I left only the quarters. I figured if Oscar knows that much about high finance, he doesn’t need a lot of my help. And, besides, I wonder if he made up all those figures—just so $3.50 for a beer

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n my day (I’ve gotta come up with a better expression), there were no designated hitters or runners. There were no closers. I remember seeing Bob Feller pitch a double hitter on the 4th of July. No, I didn’t. But I heard he did. There was no instant replay back then, like we’re going to have to put up with from now on. What’s next? Laser beams at home plate, so there’ll be no more yelling at the ump?

I guess they’re trying to do away with human imperfections. Pitchers are throwing close to 100 miles an hour these days, and we’ve got radar to prove it. They do have a shorter shelf life, but we don’t get as attached to players as we used to. So it’s not that hard to see them go.

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Scandals of Past Generations Walt Sonneville

first term of the presidency. He simply separating Louisiana from the nation. Two years later, in 1806 when he was ignored the charge. Today’s press would then out of office, Burr not allow that news to told the Spanish lapse. minister to the United Alexander Hamilton, States that his plan went our first secretary of the beyond having western treasury, had a three-year territories secede. He affair with a married conspired to capture our woman that eventually nation’s capital as well. became public. He never Burr was acquitted of held public office after the charge of treason the disclosure. because his plan was not President Grover accompanied by direct Cleveland, president action. during two separated Jefferson, admired for terms toward the end of Benedict Arnold. th many qualities, Copy of engraving by H. B. Hall the 19 century, reportedly fathered acknowledged his several children by one paternity of an of his slaves, Sally Hemings, years after illegitimate son 10 years before he his wife died. This scandal first broke as became president. He was unmarried at public news while Jefferson was in his the time. Other paramours of the mother were married. Cleveland did the magnanimous thing and assumed child support to spare the others. Rather than destroying him politically, his noble gesture attracted considerable praise. President Harding (1921-23) had two affairs before entering the White House. The latter romance was with a married woman that lasted from 1905 until 1920. He kept the matter quiet during his presidential campaign by paying the woman for her silence, only to die of a heart attack while in office. Some Send us your favorite smile—your children, suspected the illicit romance drove Mrs. grandchildren, friends, even your “smiling” Harding to poison the president, a gossip unsupported by evidence. pet!—and it could be 50plus Senior News’ next Recent years have seen scandalous Smile of the Month! behavior among our military leaders but You can submit your photos never a betrayal of allegiance to the (with captions) either digitally to country. That can’t be said of all military mjoyce@onlinepub.com or by mail to: commanders decades ago. James Wilkinson was twice the 50plus Senior News commanding general of the United States Smile of the Month Army, from 1796-1798 and from 18003912 Abel Drive, Columbia, PA 17512 1812. Teddy Roosevelt said of him, “In all our history there is no more Digital photos must be at least 4x6'' with a despicable character.” After his death, it resolution of 300 dpi. No professional photos, please. Please include a SASE if you would like to have your photo returned.

candal is no stranger to any period of American history, or to any sector of our society. It’s a misconception that contemporary times have brought a severe decline in the morality of our public figures. The founders of our republic, otherwise deeply revered, themselves had episodes of falling from grace. We tend to not know or to forget the sins of the prominent in an earlier America. Are leaders today more debased than those of the 18th and 19th centuries? Maybe the reporting of the follies of our contemporaries is more lurid and detailed than the scandals of bygone eras. Political figures of our developing country were not always role models. Aaron Burr, vice president in President Jefferson’s first term in office, asked the British minster to the United States for $500,000 to have Burr’s help in

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was discovered Wilkinson was a paid agent of Spain. Another revolutionary army commander, General Charles Lee, second in command under Washington, disobeyed battle orders issued by Washington, for whom he held personal contempt as unfit to lead the revolution. Lee previously had been held prisoner by the British. It was found, after his death, that during that imprisonment he had worked to assist British General Howe. Benjamin Church was the first surgeon general of the United States Army during the American Revolutionary War. He was also an informer to British General Thomas Gage. Church was convicted of treasonous behavior. No one matched the treachery of Benedict Arnold, a Revolutionary War hero who became disillusioned with the cause and bitter at those superiors who claimed personal credit for Arnold’s accomplishments. Appointed to command the fort at West Point, Arnold offered to surrender to the British. His treason discovered, he escaped capture by Washington’s forces and became a general in the British army, leading attacks in Virginia and Connecticut. Scandals serve a purpose. They demonstrate to the ethically frail that the moral and ethical transgressions of even the wealthy and powerful can go awry, regardless of their skill in concealment. Follies of the prominent provide public morality lessons. The rest of us sin in private. Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen and A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, books of personal-opinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. Contact him at waltsonneville@verizon.net.

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ctober is “Talk about Prescriptions Month” and marks the beginning of this year’s Medicare Open Enrollment Period. It’s the perfect time to talk about Medicare prescriptions and the Extra Help available from Social Security. Newly eligible Medicare beneficiaries and current beneficiaries who are considering changes to their Medicare Part D (prescription drug coverage) plan should act now. The Medicare Open Enrollment Period runs from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7. The Medicare Part D prescription drug plan is available to all Medicare beneficiaries to help with the costs of medications. Joining a Medicare prescription drug plan is voluntary, and participants pay an additional monthly premium for the prescription drug coverage. While all Medicare beneficiaries can participate in the Medicare Part D

prescription drug plan, some people with limited income and resources may be eligible for Extra Help to pay for monthly premiums, annual deductibles, and prescription co-payments. The Extra Help is estimated to be worth about $4,000 per year. Many Medicare beneficiaries qualify for these big savings and don’t even know it. To figure out whether you are eligible for the Extra Help, Social Security needs to know your income and the value of any savings, investments, and real estate (other than the home you live in). To qualify, you must be receiving Medicare and have: • Income limited to $17,235 for an individual or $23,265 for a married couple living together. Even if your

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How to Make One To make an online memorial, you can either create an independent website or use an established memorial site, which is what most people choose to do. Memorial websites are very easy to create and personalize and can be done in less than 30 minutes. There are literally dozens of these types of sites on the Internet today. To locate them, do an online search for â&#x20AC;&#x153;online memorial websites.â&#x20AC;? In the meantime, here are a few good sites to check into.

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Average Funeral Cost Exceeds $7,000 Since the 1960s, the National Funeral Directors Association has calculated the median cost of a funeral. The cost does not take into account cemetery, monument, or marker costs; crematory fees (if cremation is selected); or cash-advance items, such as flowers and obituaries.

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1995 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $4,626 2000 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $5,180 2006 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $6,195 2009 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $6,560 2012 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $7,045 Source: www.nfda.org

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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori

Repurposing Ideas Lori Verderame

IYers are enjoying the process of reclaiming, recycling, and repurposing worn-out, vintage, and antique objects. I have seen my fair share of vintage teacups turned into candlesticks or lamps, reclaimed headboards repurposed into benches, and drainage gutters reused for strawberry planters. While not everything should be repurposed, some junk can be reconsidered and made into some cool, contemporary stuff. Here are some vintage and antique pieces that have been re-done, which may provide a few ideas for those of you who like Dumpster diving, yard-sale hunting, and rehabbing old treasures.

• Old armoire gutted and turned into a liquor cabinet

• Old but clean fishing creel recycled into a pocketbook

• Old library card catalog cabinet repurposed into a wine rack

• Old clarinets and trumpets made into garden fountains

• Old wicker hamper reclaimed into an oversized garden planter

• Vintage suitcases reused as coffee table with glass top • Old casement window as garden table top • Old feed bag material re-sewn as throw pillows • Old Ball jars as miniature plant terrariums for kitchen shelf Photo courtesy staff of www.DrLoriV.com

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A recycled plastic-spoon mirror won a 4-H ribbon at the Nebraska State Fair.

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Scientists Find Perks to Drinking Coffee Coffee helps lots of people wake up every morning, but that’s not the only role it plays. Scientists have unlocked some interesting health benefits associated with caffeine consumption in these areas: Memory. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have determined

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Liver disease. A study conducted in Singapore found that coffee consumption was linked to a 66 percent lower mortality risk in people suffering from liver cirrhosis and related diseases like nonviral hepatitis. Suicide. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health,

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Gettle & Veltri 13 East Market Street, York, PA 17401 717-854-4899 fax 717-848-1603 ghg@gettleveltri.com www.gettleveltri.com

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Keystone Elder Law 555 Gettysburg Pike, Suite C-100, Mechanicsburg 43 Brookwood Ave, Suite 1, Carlisle 717-697-3223 toll-free 844-697-3223 karen@keystoneelderlaw.com www.keystoneelderlaw.com

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1984

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2009

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McAndrews Law Offices, P.C. 30 Cassatt Ave., Berwyn, PA 19312 610-648-9300 fax 610-648-0433 amcandrews@mcandrewslaw.com www.mcandrewslaw.com

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Volunteer Spotlight Clark Named Volunteer of the Month RSVP of the Capital Region has named Lyn “Gram-gram” Clark as its Dauphin County Volunteer of the Month for October. Clark has been a volunteer with RSVP for two years and serves at Steelton-Highspire Elementary School, where she has donated more than 3,000 hours of service to children of the Steelton-Highspire School District. Clark is such an inspiration to the children and staff that they affectionately call her “Gram-gram.” She spends most of her time working with children from first to third grade, but she spearheaded the coordination of a gardening project between kindergarten students, the

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He said 50 “Tragedies percent of his happen,” he said, climbs are referring to a repeated, while 50 recent avalanche percent are new at Mount expeditions. Everest base “I’ve had camp. “I camped amazing there two years adventures,” ago.” Beckerich said. He also had a “It’s an amazing fall about six feeling when you years ago in the Beckerich taking a break above base camp, get over the top. Colorado peaks Plaza de Argentina. You’ve worked all when he was by day to attain the pinnacle. If I could himself. bottle it, I’d sell it.” “There was a mini-rock slide. I had to But Beckerich only stays at the self-medicate and walk to get help. I had summits for 15 minutes to half an hour to be medevaced to a Denver hospital. I because of how fast the weather can was lucky; I just had a severe laceration change at those heights. to my lower leg,” Beckerich said. “You don’t want to give it disrespect. Now, after meeting other climbers Lightning, hail, wind can strike at any with his same passion, Beckerich goes time.” with them. This summer he spent several Although retired from teaching math, weeks climbing in the Denver area. Beckerich is still teaching to the “curious “Once you get started on adventures, and committed” at a night school and a people give you other places to go,” he community college in his class said. Now on his wish list is “Adventures of a Lifetime.” circumnavigating around Mont Blanc in He also has given presentations at the Alps. retirement communities, homeless Beckerich said in order to take shelters, sporting-goods stores, and local adventures such as the ones he has gone high schools. on, you have to be in shape. He goes to Beckerich’s topics range from choosing the gym once a day for a one-hour an outfitter and training tips, to workout and takes 1.5-hour to two-hour organizing gear lists and getting the right treks through nearby parks. pre-trip medical tests. He also has trekked through the “My mission is to motivate, inspire, Adirondacks on the Appalachian Trail “to and educate people of all ages and make sure I’m fit. The body has its interests in their quest to make a limitations … make sure your diet is difference on the planet, pursue their good, as well as your sleep habits and dreams, and make each day count,” lifestyle. Beckerich said. “If you take care of “I’ve been a lucky person. I’ve had my yourself and are not afraid to take a health, the opportunity, and the financial chance, there are a lot of adventures to ability.” do.” For further information about Although he started out climbing Beckerich’s adventures, contact him at alone, Beckerich doesn’t recommend it. james_beckerich@yahoo.com.

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Such is Life

The Worst That Can Happen Saralee Perel

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f you imagine the worst-case scenario and it happens, you lived it twice,” says Michael J. Fox. Do I need to spend my days imagining something awful happening to my husband, Bob, or to me? A car accident? A heart attack? A house fire? If, God forbid, any of these things were to happen, must I go through the agony of them before they even occur, if in fact they ever do? No. Although I’ve recently written about my little cat, Jordy, he’s had another remarkable experience in his short life. A few months ago, I wrote that when Jordy was a kitten, his back leg was destroyed. Given no medical care, someone had left him to suffer. Bob and I don’t know the person who did this to him, nor how it happened. Thank God we found him and adopted him. After his leg was amputated, he was a

Two years ago, when Bob brought happy kitten. Now he slips, slides, falls, and bounces right back up, purring the Eddie’s body home from an emergency clinic, he gently placed him, still warm, whole time. in my arms. I cradled him while I rocked But last week, Bob and I found Jordy him and sang to him for one crying in pain, unable to last time. get up. Too early in the morning to see our regular I am only hurting myself by reliving that day again and vet, we took him to an again. Only recently have I emergency clinic. Although allowed myself to relive the the doctor was great, she was unable to help him. good times, the funny times, When I was a practicing like Eddie’s famous glare, his eyes half shut in an intense psychotherapist, I learned Jordy stare, looking for anything that traumas, particularly deaths, bring up older deaths with nearly that had been added to the room or the same intensity as if they had just moved an inch so that he could pounce happened. Helplessly watching Jordy cry, on it and smash it to smithereens. I can choose what to think. And now I relived the last day of the life of my cat, I have a choice with Jordy. I can imagine Eddie. Therefore, instead of imagining the the worst-case scenario or not. worst-case scenario in the future and Jordy’s day turned out gloriously. Our regular vet quickly diagnosed the living through it twice, I’m reliving the problem as an injury to the hip where worst-case scenario of the past.

the leg had been amputated. That very afternoon, with no pain and no crying, Jordy happily joined his family as if nothing had ever happened. Jordy sleeps between Bob’s knees. Bob doesn’t move all night because heaven forbid he moves the cat. That night, Jordy slept soundly while Bob blissfully groaned in discomfort. Jordy wasn’t dreaming about whatever bad thing might come his way. Twitching lightly, he was probably dreaming about the chipmunk he loves to watch from the window. I’ll always learn my most important lessons from my cat. Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist. Her new book is Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories From a Life Out of Balance. To find out more, visit www.saraleeperel.com or email sperel@saraleeperel.com.

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Traveltizers

Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel

Up Close with the Upper Class the most well known, of the super-elites.

By Andrea Gross

here’s no doubt about it. If I lived The Vanderbilt Mansion in the days before Our first stop: the air conditioning and had Vanderbilt Mansion, owned oodles of cash to spare, I by Frederick Vanderbilt, too would escape the grandson of railroad baron sweltering summers of Cornelius “Commodore” The Vanderbilt Mansion was A statue of FDR and ER sits outside New York’s moneyed class liked New York City by building Vanderbilt. extravagantly and elegantly the Wallace Visitor Center at the to build summer estates along a mega-mansion in the As we tour the mansion, furnished, as befitted the wealthiest Franklin D. Roosevelt National the Hudson River. Hudson River Valley. the guide tells us that at family in America. Historic Site. I would have it designed Grandpa’s death in 1877, he by one of the top architects was worth $105 million, in the country, decorated which, if converted into we’d picnic and party until the weather figurative sense, been to the manor born. with the finest art and antiques, and today’s dollars, would make him almost Many of their opulent estates are now four times as rich as Bill Gates. surrounded by formal gardens equal to or cooled and it was time to move back to the city. open to the public and are located within better than those in Europe. When I hear this, I’m surprised that th th During the late 19 and early 20 the Hudson River Valley National As the weather heated up and the the house, although filled with carved centuries, this seasonal migration was de Heritage Area, a 150-mile swath of land winter social season wound down, my ceilings, marble columns, heavy drapes, that runs from Troy (just north of family and I would leave our Manhattan rigueur for financially successful and and delicate tapestries, has only 54 socially prominent New Yorkers. The Albany) to New York City. home, take a steamship—or possibly a rooms. men, who were mostly self-made My husband and I anchor ourselves in railroad—to the east bank of the “This is the smallest of the entrepreneurs or the scions of self-made the Mid-Hudson region of Dutchess Hudson, and move into our 50-, or 60-, Vanderbilts’ 40-plus homes,” explains the entrepreneurs, wanted to live as though County, which contains the summer or 70-room manor house. guide. “His relatives called it ‘Uncle they had, in both the literal and homes of the most interesting, or at least Once we were comfortably ensconced, Freddie’s cottage on the Hudson.’”

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Locust Grove Estate was owned by Samuel Morse from 1847 to 1872. He was an outstanding painter but is best remembered as the inventor of the Morse code.

Our 32nd president, says our guide, may have had his way with world leaders, but not with his own mother! The only part of the estate that wasn’t under Sara’s direct control was Val-Kill, the Dutch Colonial home of Eleanor Roosevelt. She wanted cozy and comfortable, and that is exactly what she got. The knotty pine walls are covered with photos of family and friends, the overstuffed chairs are mismatched, and the dishes on the table look exactly like those used by many middle-class housewives in the mid-20th century— including my own mother-in-law.

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Wilderstein and Locust Grove We tour two other estates: Wilderstein, the home of Margaret “Daisy” Suckley, who was a distant cousin and “close friend” of Franklin Roosevelt—“How close,” says the guide, “is not known”— and Locust Grove, the home of Samuel Morse, a man who is best remembered as the inventor of the telegraph and the code that bears his name. We’ll have to visit the other mansions on our next visit. As we’ve learned, the Hudson Valley is the place to be in the summer. The mega-rich of yesteryear have told us so. www.travelhudsonvalley.com www.dutchesstourism.com Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).

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