Lancaster County Edition
January 2013
Vol. 19 No. 1
A Woman with 2 Birthdays Transplant Recipient Helps Others through Book and Organ-Donation Advocacy By Lori Van Ingen Chronic kidney disease affects one in nine Americans, and millions more are at risk. More than 105,000 people are on the National Kidney Transplant List in the United States. “Every day, 18 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ, such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or bone marrow,” said Carole Fair, an organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania for nearly two years. Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 4,573 kidney patients, 1,506 liver patients, 371 heart patients, and 234 lung patients died in 2008 while waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, Fair noted. “I’m hoping that with more awareness of transplantation and the generosity of others, these numbers could certainly decline,” said Fair, who recently spoke at events at Holy Spirit Hospital and Hershey Antique Auto Association. Fair is a circuit speaker at civic clubs, women’s organizations, and churches. She helps people become aware of transplantation, clears up misconceptions, and promotes organ donation in general. “I get asked the most basic questions, like, ‘Where is my kidney located?’ and ‘Is the old kidney removed during a transplant?’” said Fair, who also is a please see ADVOCACY page 17 Kidney transplant recipient Carole Fair is now an author as well as an active organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania.
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The Beauty in Nature
Two Hunters Clyde McMillan-Gamber hile pulling out of a suburban parking lot one January afternoon, I saw a beautiful red fox with thick fur running along a nearby hedgerow of weeds, shrubbery, and tall trees. And down the street a few seconds later, I saw an immature Cooper’s hawk zip in flight right in front of my moving car. I thought, “Wow, two predators of different kinds seen within seconds of each other in the same suburb in daylight.” But upon reflection, I realized both these adaptable and common hunters had reason to be there. And I knew they were part of different food chains of who eats whom. The fox was there because mice, rabbits, squirrels, and other little creatures live in the thickets of the hedgerow. The fox was out in daylight because January is red foxes’ time of courting, when they throw caution to the
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wind. The normally nocturnal foxes look for mates in fields and woods around the clock during January. I’ve heard the hoarse barking of courting red foxes day and night during that month. Cooper’s hawks specialize in catching birds from sparrow- to dove-sized. Suburbs, with their berry-producing shrubbery, wind-breaking coniferous
trees, and birdfeeders in winter, are attractive to birds for food and shelter. And some of those birds are prey for the predatory Coops. Most people who maintain feeders don’t like to see “their” birds eaten by hawks, though that’s what predators do. But birds concentrated at feeders are easy
pickings for hawks, cats, and other predators. Feeders must be located near sheltering bushes or evergreen trees so the birds can easily dive into them to escape predation. Hawks, however, use those same shrubs and trees to ambush victims. But raptors are likely to catch infirm birds. Healthy ones quickly retreat to safety when threatened by predators. Hawks and other predators eliminate crippled, sick, or otherwise infirm birds and other creatures, leaving only healthy individuals of any species alive to reproduce. Predators strengthen populations of their prey species. It was thrilling to see those predators in a suburb within seconds of each other. I happened to be in the right place at the right time. Clyde McMillan-Gamber is a Lancaster County Parks naturalist.
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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
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f you like vintage architecture interactive displays featuring game uniforms from the Pro Bowl as well from the 1960s, you’ll like the footage and player videos, the as equipment and apparel worn by surroundings of the Pro Football Lamar Hunt Super Bowl exhibition Walter Payton, Joe Namath, and Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. gallery with the Vince Lombardi Dan Marino, among others. The The building was ultra-modern trophy on display, the Super Bowl exhibits also focus on the impact of in its day with its interior spiral ring display (for the jewelry lover in stars like O.J. Simpson and the ramp (like the one designed by the family), and the popular Hall of Buffalo Bills’ Electric Company. Frank Lloyd Wright for the Fame gallery. Some displays show a player’s Guggenheim Museum in New York While the Super Bowl ring love of the game by focusing on City), glass curtain wall (a nod to display was one of my favorites great plays made by Chicago Bears the urban office-building (who doesn’t like all those running back Brian Piccolo or architecture of Mies van der Rohe diamonds?), the Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman. And, and Philip Johnson), and footballgallery speaks to the core of the Hall who could forget the famous shaped roofline Immaculate Reception indicative of midmade by Pittsburgh century modern Steelers fullback Franco American Harris (a fellow Penn architecture. Stater) on Dec. 23, Canton, Ohio, 1972? The museum, was chosen as the through its diverse site for the Hall of exhibits, shows visitors Fame for many the heart of the game reasons. However, of football. we focus on I discovered one last football’s legacy interesting thing about there as opposed sports museums during to some other my visit to the Pro locale because of Football Hall of Fame. the Native No matter how much American athlete information is available Exhibition Gallery at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio. named Jim to a visitor in a sports Thorpe, who museum, fans always signed a football search for more. I of Fame. The gallery houses contract there. Thorpe, the star of noticed many visitors standing in interactive displays and an the 1912 Olympic Games, signed front of very good, informative impressive assemblage of fine-art his first contract to play football displays—even interactive bronze portrait busts of the Hall of with the Canton Bulldogs in 1915. displays—who were still searching Fame inductees through the years. While the vintage building is for additional stats on their cell good looking, the museum is in the The bronze busts are the work of phones. I even found myself doing Utah sculptor Blair Buswell and midst of completing a major it. they capture the likeness of each construction/ As a former museum curator and football great. As a display, the expansion project to host more director, I bet you think I’d be football fans. The completion of the gallery is awe inspiring as visitors appalled by this but, in fact, I think search for their favorite Hall of museum expansion will coincide when a museum’s displays prompt th Famer. with the Hall of Fame’s 50 visitors to find out more, that’s a anniversary in 2013. The new At the Pro Football Hall of Fame, pretty cool and quite interactive facilities will not only host a world exhibits trace the history of museum. Plan a visit. of football fans, but they will also professional football with unique Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, and offer the Ralph Wilson Jr. Football objects like the Baltimore Colts award-winning TV personality, Dr. Lori Research and Preservation Center, marching band’s bass drum, press presents antique appraisal events the researchers’ reading room, an wood posters announcing the 1962 nationwide. Dr. Lori is the expert event center, and a meeting room. AFL championship game between appraiser on the hit TV show Auction In addition, there will be the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Kings on Discovery channel, which airs exhibition galleries focusing on the Texans, and early helmets worn by Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Visit history of the game dating back to various players. www.DrLoriV.com, www.Facebook.com/ the early 1900s, state-of-the-art The exhibits highlight player DoctorLori, or call (888) 431-1010.
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My 22 Cents’ Worth
Do You Collect, Clutter, or Hoard? Walt Sonneville ollect, clutter, or hoard. Which best describes your habits relating to storing your “stuff ” (to use the descriptor popularized in a monologue by satirist George Carlin)? If you collect, you probably are normal if you do not clutter excessively. If you clutter within reason, you may be near average in orderliness. If you admit to hoarding, medical professionals recommend you promptly seek psychological help. In his skit, Carlin said: “A house is a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff.” It’s true. We do keep adding to our stuff. That may help
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explain why the average house in our nation is larger than the average three decades ago, while the number of dwellers per average household declined slightly. The median square footage per household increased from 1,488 in 1980 to 1,769 in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. At the same time the mean average of persons per household fell from 2.76 to 2.56. Bigger homes have not solved our storage needs. The Self-Storage Association, which represents 46,500 self-storage facilities, claims that 10
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Book Review
Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch By C. Eugene Moore
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ho has a stronger sense of tradition than the Amish? In Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch, we find anecdotes that have been passed down in families. In the retelling of these stories we find that each has been given a special patina as it has been lovingly handed down from generation to generation. “Amos Trades Up” follows the comical misadventures of a young Amishman. Paid off after his year of indentured service, Amos starts walking home. But along the way he meets temptation after temptation—and he pursues them all. “Eilenshpiggel and His Shenanigans” tells of the willful, mischievous rogue who’s a legend among the Pennsylvania Dutch people. In “John the Blacksmith,” we learn of the native intelligence of this character and of how he manages to outwit an emissary from the devil himself.
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“Tales Tall and Taller” is a collection of exaggerations that make for wonderful reminiscences. For example, what happened to the man from Ephrata whose dentist pulled his tooth, then somehow let it slip off the tongs and travel down the patient’s throat? Read “Graven Images and the Legends that Grow Around Them” to find out about burial customs among the Pennsylvania Dutch and to learn what the emblems on grave markers signify. “Pennsylvania German Humor” is filled with traditional stories that bring laughter to the people of southeastern Pennsylvania. The book even offers “A True Ghost Story.” This is a fast-moving tale of
murder and its eerie consequences. It asks you to explain what happened, if you can. An appendix, “Forearmed in Bilaspur,” tells of two Lancaster County men who link up to hunt tigers in India. This is all we’ll tell you about this story, which has a surprise twist at the end. The book is richly illustrated with color photographs depicting items made by Pennsylvania Dutch craftsmen: tall clocks, furniture, Conestoga wagon hardware, quilts, guns, and Amish toys. Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch is available at local bookstores or from Schiffer Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, Pa. 19310 or (610) 593-1777.
About the Author Gene Moore, a former navy officer, is a graduate of Auburn University who earned a master’s degree from Florida State University. He retired as director of public relations from Armstrong World Industries, Inc. A previous book, How Armstrong Floored America: The People Who Made It Happen, 1945-1995, was published by the Lancaster County Historical Society. He and his wife, Jan, make their home in Lancaster. Calling All Authors If you have written and published a book and would like 50plus Senior News to feature a Book Review, please submit a synopsis of the book (350 words or fewer) and a short autobiography (80 words or fewer). A copy of the book is required for review. Discretion is advised. Please send to: On-Line Publishers, Inc., Megan Joyce, 3912 Abel Drive, Columbia, PA 17512. For more information, please email mjoyce@onlinepub.com.
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percent of U.S. households rent a selfstorage unit, up from 6 percent in 1995. These units, at December 2009, had a combined space of 2.22 billion square feet, seven times as much as existed at the end of 1995. For comparison, the square footage of the island of Manhattan is only 20 percent as large. After reading the examples that follow, you may conclude that, by comparison, you are a moderate collector or moderate hoarder. Collectors acquire a category of items, such as Barbie dolls, old beer cans, or baseball cards. Comedian Jay Leno reportedly has a collection of approximately 200 automobiles. Should this be regarded as an example of a normal collector or of a private-museum curator? His automobile-insurance premiums alone must cost a fortune. Sigmund Freud was a collector of antiquities—items older than mere antiques—cluttering his office with an overabundance of them. Some of the very rich may be compulsive collectors of money if their life experience is virtually limited to acquiring more and more wealth. Ida Mayfield Wood was wealthy, but miserly. She did not seek more wealth. Her objective was to hoard money. She lived as a recluse in a New York City hotel from 1907, at which time she withdrew her fortune from banks, until 1931. When authorities examined her apartment, they found approximately $900,000 in cash. Bills of high denominations were stored on the floors of the bathroom and living room, substantial cash was kept in pots and pans, and stock certificates were squirreled away in her bed. Clutter is a common indulgence. It occurs when items “prevent any part of the inside or outside of a dwelling to be used for its intended purpose,” according to the Department of Health and Human Services in Montgomery County, Md. (Fibber McGee’s stuffed closet is an example.) Beethoven cluttered his living quarters to the point he could be said to have lived slovenly. Keeping a neat household, while writing some of the world’s greatest music, apparently were mutually exclusive capabilities for this genius. Will Cuppy, a writer of articles for the New Yorker magazine and author of several zany books, including his bestknown work, The Decline and Fall of Practically Everybody, can be regarded as a collector who severely cluttered, not a hoarder. His apartment was filled with books stored for his research. Any space www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
in the bathroom, kitchen, even the refrigerator, was subject to book storage. The collection represented a readily accessible research resource, not a pathological compulsion. When he died, they found more than 15,000 note cards comprising his reference file. He differs from the hoarding compulsion of Ida Mayfield Wood, who used the cash she stored only to maintain her impoverished lifestyle. Herb Block, the famed political cartoonist for the Washington Post who went by the penname “Herblock,” had an office that an assistant once described as “an organized disaster.” He was not considered a slob but, rather, “an information hoarder” (Washington Post, Oct. 19, 2011). Hoarders take collections past the threshold of eccentricity and into the realm of psychosis. Susan Hoskins, executive director of the Princeton (N.J.) Senior Resource Center and its hoarding task force, was quoted in the AARP Bulletin (Feb. 4, 2011) stating: “As a therapist I have found very few things that are as difficult to treat, and so hard for people to give up.” The behavior of hoarders is so bizarre it is frequently detailed in the press. The two most publicized types of hoarders are the reclusive wealthy and animal hoarders. The former have been found in mansions filled with debris while the latter have an insatiable compulsion to keep dozens of cats or dogs. The Collyer brothers, Homer and Langley, lived in a New York City mansion filled with 136 tons of junk and trash. In 1947 Langley was fatally crushed as one of the piles collapsed. Homer, trapped by the fall and unable to move, died of starvation. The hoarded items included 10 grand pianos, kept because the brothers believed “they all have such different tonal effects.” In 1971 Jackie Kennedy’s aunt Edith Beale, and Edith’s daughter Edie, were found living in a 28-room mansion filled with junk and debris. Kennedy came to their rescue, paying $32,000 to remove more than 1,000 bags of garbage, clean with 40 gallons of germicide, and install a new furnace and plumbing. There seems to be a lesson here to not patronize all relatives residing in mansions.
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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@earthlink.net.
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Lancaster County
Calendar of Events Lancaster County Department of Parks and Recreation
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Pre-registration is required for these programs. All activities are held at the Environmental Center in Central Park unless otherwise noted. To register or to find out more about these activities or any additional scheduled activities, call (717) 295-2055 or visit www.lancastercountyparks.org.
Cocalico Senior Association – (717) 336-7489 Jan. 3, 6 p.m. – Cocalico Jam at Reamstown Community Center Jan. 11, 10 a.m. – Music with Sterling Lamm Jan. 29, 6 p.m. – Senior Social with the Cocalico Middle School Jazz Band
Jan. 12, 10 to 11 a.m. – Owls of Lancaster County Jan. 13, 1:30 to 3 p.m. – Wildlife in Winter Jan. 24, 1 to 2 p.m. – Let’s Go Tracking
Columbia Senior Center – (717) 684-4850 Jan. 4, 10 a.m. – History of the Columbia and Reading Railroad Jan. 15, 10 a.m. – Create a Snowman Pin Jan. 17, 10 a.m. – Medicare Bingo
Library Programs Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, (717) 626-2255 Jan. 2, 6:30 p.m. – Astronomy Enthusiasts of Lancaster County: Eyepieces and Filters Part II Jan. 10, 7 p.m. – Lancaster Civil War Roundtable: Virtual Antietam Jan. 15, 6:30 p.m. – Jane Austen Society
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Jan. 2, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Parents/Grandparents with Special Cares Support Group Garden Spot Village Village Square Board Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6010 khorning@gardenspotvillage.org Jan. 2, 7 to 8:15 p.m. Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Willow Lakes Outpatient Center 212 Willow Valley Lakes Drive Willow Street (717) 464-9365
Jan. 14, 10 to 11 a.m. Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support Group Garden Spot Village Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6076 jmorton@gardenspotvillage.org Jan. 17, noon Brain Tumor Support Group Lancaster General Health Campus Wellness Center 2100 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster (717) 626-2894
Jan. 23, 6 to 8 p.m. Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania Support Group Lancaster General Hospital Stager Room 5 555 N. Duke St., Lancaster (800) 887-7165, ext. 104 Jan. 28, 2 to 3 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group Garden Spot Village Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6259 jshaffer@gardenspotvillage.org
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Elizabethtown Area Senior Center – (717) 367-7984 Jan. 9, 10:30 a.m. – Program on Arthritis and Cold Weather Jan. 15, 10:15 a.m. – Penn State Nutrition Program with Donna Jan. 16, 10 a.m. – Medication Take Back Drop-Off Lancaster House North – (717) 299-1278 Thursdays, noon to 3 p.m. – Happy Hearts Club Pinochle Lancaster Neighborhood Senior Center (717) 299-3943 Jan. 2, 10:30 a.m. – Learning Spanish and English Jan. 10, 9:30 a.m. – Health Program by ManorCare Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. – Exercise with Lucy Lancaster Rec. Center – (717) 392-2115, ext. 147 Fridays, 12:30 to 3 p.m. – Happy Hearts Club Bridge Lititz Senior Center – (717) 626-2800 Jan. 3, 10 a.m. – Learning Easy Ways to Use Computers and Cell Phones Jan. 17, 10:30 a.m. – Motivational Speaker and Ballroom Dancer Eleanor Isaacson Jan. 28, 10:15 a.m. – Music and Dancing: “Return to Happy Days” by Tony Gro LRC Senior Center – (717) 399-7671 Jan. 8, 9:15 a.m. – Healthy Steps in Motion Exercise Class Jan. 18, 10 a.m. – Learn and Play Mahjong Jan. 23, 10 a.m. – Play Indoor Shuffleboard
Luis Munoz Marin Senior Center – (717) 295-7989 Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. – Arts & Crafts with Teresa Rivera Jan. 18, 6 to 9 p.m. – Music Fridays, 200 and 300 Blocks of North Queen Street, 24 W. Walnut St., Lancaster, Jan. 3, 10:30 a.m. – Three Kings Celebration (717) 341-0028 Jan. 8, 9 a.m. – Blood Pressure Checks Free and open to the public
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was sold out at the Broadway Palm in Florida two months ago. The songs include: “My Way,” “High Hopes,” “Volare,” “Come Fly With Me,” “Young at Heart,” “Ain’t That a Kick in the Head,” “Bye Bye Blackbird,” “That’s Amore,” “You Make Me Feel So Young,” “Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime,” “What Kind of Fool Am I?,” “I’ve Got the World on a String,” and more. Don’t miss The Rat Pack Lounge at the Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre in Lancaster through Feb. 9. There’s a special season opener price of just $39 for all matinees and $42 for all evenings; prices include both dinner and show. Travel back to the time of high rollers and highballs with The Rat Pack Lounge!
Smile of the Month This month’s smile belongs to Olianna Rose, 6, the happy daughter of Vicky and Rick Oravitz of Quarryville. Olianna had been their great-granddaughter, but they adopted her when she was 2 years old. This picture always makes Vicky think of Shirley Temple!
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Pirates and More in Tampa By Andrea Gross “There it is!” The child who is standing next to me jumps up and down, accompanying each jump with an ear-splitting shriek. I look in the direction he is pointing. It is indeed a scream-worthy sight. There, sailing toward us, in a slow but steady manner, is a giant pirate ship, with masts that pierce the sky and bright flags that wave in the breeze. The name of the ship is emblazoned on its side: José Gasparilla. The deck is crowded with hundreds of men, some with black triangular hats adorned with a skulland crossbones insignia, others with colorful rag-wrapped turbans. The men blast cannons, brandish swords, and whoop and holler as the ship, surrounded by a flotilla of small boats, prepares to invade the city of Tampa. The ship docks and the pirate
The pirate ship José Gasparilla approaches the city of Tampa.
After the invasion, the pirates parade through town, tossing treasures to the waiting crowd.
Tampa residents get into the spirit of Gasparilla.
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captain disembarks and approaches the mayor, demanding the key to the city of Tampa. The mayor complies; the party can begin. Tampa’s annual pirate fest, which will take place this year on Jan. 26, honors José Gaspar, the bold buccaneer who, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, captured hundreds of ships off the coast of Florida. Today the Gasparilla Festival has become a major event, and the stolen treasure is being returned in the form of tourist dollars. Gasparilla combines the legend of Gaspar with the magic of Mardi Gras. Following their successful takeover of the city, the merry pirates (a.k.a., civic leaders who are members of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla) strut through downtown in true swashbuckling style, accompanied by more than 100 floats and marching bands. At the same time, merrymakers fill the streets, where there’s nonstop entertainment and an abundance of
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food stands. The partying continues until 10 p.m., at which time the victorious pirates retreat, letting Tampa return to the 21st century. Of course, Tampa is more than pirates. Its attractions include great beaches (nearby St. Pete Beach was voted No. 1 by TripAdvisor), a temperate climate (average summer temps are in the low 80s; average winter ones are in the low 60s), and a historic district that reflects the city’s Latin heritage. We start our exploration in Ybor City (pronounced EE-bore), the historic neighborhood named after the Cuban cigar manufacturer who made the region a mecca for hardworking immigrants. Less than 100 years after Gaspar pillaged the region, workers from Cuba were joined by workers of other nationalities, and together they produced approximately 700 million hand-rolled cigars a year. Today the area is filled with eclectic shops and trendy nightclubs, but traces of the past remain. Old, red-brick buildings with wrought-iron grillwork line streets bordered with spindly palms; master cigar rollers continue to practice their craft; and the Columbia Restaurant, Florida’s oldest and the world’s largest Spanish restaurant, features a full array of Cuban food, as well as the “original Cuban sandwich” (a long loaf of soft,
Ybor City is a National Historic District that commemorates the city’s Latin heritage.
Columbia Restaurant, established in 1905, is Florida’s oldest restaurant.
Hand-rolled cigars are still made in Ybor City.
white bread filled with layers of ham, roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard). Walking through the restaurant is almost as interesting as tasting its food. Amidst the wrought iron and bright tiles,
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there’s a royal dining room, a Spanish courtyard, and a flamenco nightclub. The Tampa Bay History Center, a 60,000-square-foot facility that opened in January 2009, tells us more about Ybor City and the entire Tampa Bay
region. Various exhibits highlight people from the Seminole Indians and Spanish conquistadors to the “cowmen and crackers” who were part of Florida’s cattle-ranching past. To see a bit of Tampa’s natural history, we go to the 240-acre Lettuce Lake Park, so named because the surrounding greenery reminded folks of a lunchtime salad. Rather than renting a canoe or kayak, we pick up a map and brochure at the visitors center and explore on foot. There are 3,500 feet of boardwalk, more than a mile of paved pathways, and an abundance of well-maintained nature trails that lead us though groves of cypress and ferns and past two alligators, a few turtles, and an untold number of birds. That evening we arrive early for our flight home and are relaxing at the mojito bar when a gentleman tells us that the best place to see a Florida sunset is from the top of the airport parking garage. We take the elevator to the top floor and there, against a red sky, we can almost see a fully rigged pirate ship sailing into the bay. With a smile and a toast to José Gaspar, we go down to catch our plane. www.visittampabay.com Photos © Irv Green; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).
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Salute to a Veteran
He Spent Many 2-Month Tours Under the Sea Robert D. Wilcox s he grew up in Corning, N.Y., Bill Landis saw a future for himself as an electrical engineer. So after he graduated from high school in 1967, he went to work at RCA’s Lancaster, Pa., plant, working on jobs as technically complex as creating the camera used on the Apollo missions to the moon. He had a low number in the military draft, however, and he knew that he would soon be called into the military. So he decided to join the Navy, where he could hope to be part of the Navy’s program of rapidly converting to nuclear propulsion for its submarines. He didn’t know at the time how difficult that would be. But he was soon to find out. Upon enlisting, he was called to active duty in 1970 and took boot camp at Great Lakes Training Center. He then learned of the rigid requirements of those
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who were selected for submarine service. physics. A special board was sent from They were all volunteers. No one could Washington, D.C., to grade the tests be taller than 6 feet, and faced by those who they must have perfect completed those jamcolor vision and perfect packed months of physical condition, training. including sound teeth. Landis and the others Those meeting those who had qualified were requirements then faced a sent to assignments in the number of mental and fleet. Landis was sent to psychological tests, from Pearl Harbor, where he which only those in the was assigned to the Puffer, top 10 percent had any an SSN-652 nuclear chance of being selected. attack submarine. Having passed all The mission of the William C. Landis, aboard the those hurdles, Landis was attack submarine Puffer, with Puffer was to find and sent to the Navy’s Mare destroy enemy his submarine qualification certificate. Island Nuclear Power submarines and surface School in California, and vessels, using its then to Idaho at an operating atomic torpedoes and the Tomahawk cruise reactor for six months. There, he studied missiles it carried aboard. The sub also math, chemistry, metallurgy, and nuclear was able to carry Navy Seals and offload
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craft that needed to come to land only at enemy subs, but wouldn’t lead them to the end of a mission. us. Our torpedoes could be steered from What was life like aboard the sub? our sub to go exactly where we wanted “Well,” Landis says, “they fed us four them to go.” times a day, and the food was Other jobs of the Puffer were to outstanding. And they kept us so busy participate in war games, where they gave that there was little time to think of the surface ships a chance to try to locate diversions we might be missing. Meals threatening subs. Also, to keep tabs on were served continuously, so you had to Soviet subs, often trailing them for days, fit them reporting in on their between movements your and other recording duties. noise There signatures. were only An four interesting tables in sidelight the was that enlisted prior to the mess, so filming of meals The Hunt took for Red The Puffer attack submarine on which some October, Bill Landis served in the Pacific. planning. Sean But every Connery man aboard—even the cooks—were was on board the Puffer preparing for his submarine qualified to know all the sub’s role as Capt. Marko Ramius. He was basic systems. given the status of a commander and was “Big as the Puffer was, every inch of allowed (while the captain was next to space was used to carry essential food him) to give orders while the boat was and gear. It was so crowded that you had underway. virtually no privacy. Since water was at Just after Christmas in 1976, Landis such a premium, you had a ‘Navy was discharged from the Navy at Pearl shower’ once a week. You turned the Harbor as an E-5 2nd class petty officer. water on to get yourself wet, then turned He returned to Lancaster to again work for RCA in engineering, gaining several it off to get soaped up, and then turned patents for his work in fiber optics. At it back on to rinse off. If the guy after the same time, he attended Franklin & you thought you were taking a minute Marshall College, in the evening division, more than necessary, he simply turned and earned an associate degree in the faucet to cold, and you hopped out business administration. in a hurry. There were only two shower Landis, who now lives in Lancaster, stalls for the 100 or so enlisted men retired in 2009 and now spends much of aboard, and each was so small that you his time talking with groups and couldn’t turn around. individuals about his having served for so “The Puffer often did escort duty, many years under the seas in the Pacific. where we shadowed our carriers, for example, and protected them from Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in enemy subs. We used passive sonar that Europe in World War II. listened for the electronic imprint of
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Creativity Matters
Legendary Chefs at Age 60+ Judith Zausner ood is trendy. It is no longer about TV dinners and microwave popcorn. The following chefs began their journeys many years ago to transform good eating into a fine art, a nutritious experience, and big business.
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Cecilia Chiang, 91, Chinese – Raised in a very wealthy family in Shanghai, she was not allowed in the kitchen. As a young woman, Chiang escaped occupied China and, years later, traveled to San Francisco to visit her sister. Serendipitously, she met a friend there who planned to open a restaurant and then reneged, but Chiang went forward with the lease since she had already written a large, nonrefundable check to the landlord on behalf of her friend. And so her restaurant Mandarin began and remained active for more than 40 years.
Chiang has taught Julia Child, James Beard, Alice Waters, and Danny Kaye.
Indian Cooking. Jaffrey has written numerous cookbooks of Indian, Asian, and world vegetarian cuisines, and has won James Beard Foundation awards for some of her books. As a result of the success, Jaffrey also developed a unique line of mass-marketed Photo courtesy of David Sifry cooking sauces.
Madhur Jaffrey, 79, Indian – Born in Delhi, India, she did not cook at home when she was young and traveled abroad to study in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After marrying she moved to Alice Waters at dinner with friends. New York City and, in 1973, Diana she published Kennedy, 88, her first cookbook, An Invitation to Mexican – Born in the United
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Kingdom, she arrived in Mexico with her husband, who was a New York Times correspondent. She traveled throughout Mexico researching cooking techniques as well as the history of Mexican cuisine. Craig Claiborne urged her to give Mexican cooking lessons in New York City and then, in 1972, Kennedy published her first book, The Cuisines of Mexico, and eight more books would follow. Jiro Ono, 86, Japanese – Born in Japan, he is considered the world’s greatest sushi chef. After his father left, the 9-year-old Ono left home and never returned. He has been mastering sushi for the past 76 years and now is the subject of a documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi. please see CHEFS page 19
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The Squint-Eyed Senior
Warmed in the Glow of My Golden Years Theodore Rickard hate to admit it—or, at least, I should be somewhat bashful about admitting it—but there is a certain smug satisfaction in being retired. First of all, there is an inner contentment, somewhat akin to a sense of triumph, in not being awakened by the clock radio. For years the little white cube was set for the same time and the same unctuous and annoyingly happy voice told us what the local weather was. This information was a loser either way. If the weather was bad, it meant a rush to leave early enough to allow for the inevitable traffic snarls. If the weather was good, the call to duty and the reality of a second mortgage engendered painful resentments. In the first few months of not having to go to work I’d call the bank to see if the pension deposits had actually been made. The patient lady (her name is Alice) at the local branch would recite the figures—the same numbers every month. Something tells me I was not the only one doing this just to make sure. Alice never sounded surprised at the request. At our house the lifetime spousal comptroller and treasurer dealt with none of this uncertainty. With sublime confidence in the world of finance, she’d go ahead and write the checks for the
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scent of coffee freshly brewing. This means we’re going shopping today. “Shopping” entails me finding a place to sit down while the lifetime spousal purchasing agent provides whatever we need to survive both the immediate and the distant future. These needs are heavily weighted with grandchildren’s birthdays, graduations (including play school), and the next Yuletide, however many months away it might be. Occasionally I do the “guy thing.” For some reason, this almost always involves the car. For example, our somewhat aged, mid-sized sedan gets a regular oil change. This requires man-to-man talk with “Angie” at the local service station. Usually we decide that the brakes are “good for another 20,000, but we better keep an eye on the muffler” and “we’ll want to replace all four tires before we
get snow.” Actually, it is not “we” doing any deciding here. Angie’s voice may be muffled coming as it does from someplace deep underneath the chassis, but his diagnosis is unmistakable. This might be because it’s the same thing he said the last time we changed the oil. I know it sounds somewhat meanspirited of me, but the best retirement days are those when the dawn brings a downpour—a rainstorm enough to frighten Noah. I don’t need that artificially cheerful radio voice to tell me about it. I can hear the water lashing against the windows even though the blinds are drawn tight. All that I have to do about it is to roll over and go back to sleep. I’m somewhat ashamed to admit I do so with barely a twinge of sympathy for those wage earners, including our own offspring, who have to slog through the day to earn their daily bread and cough up their Social Security taxes. Selfishly sleepy as I may be, I hope they are successful. And I make a mental note to call Alice just to make sure. A collection of Ted Rickard’s family-fun essays is titled Anything Worth Knowing I Learned from the Grandkids. It is now available in paperback on Amazon.com.
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kidney transplant recipient. Fair said her new kidney is in the right lower quadrant of her stomach, attached to the artery in the leg and bladder. “If you have uncontrollable hypertension, they will remove the (old) kidney, but I only had mild hypertension, so mine wasn’t removed,” she said. She also gets asked how it feels to have someone else’s kidney. But Fair doesn’t think of it that way, she said. She only thinks about how good it is to no longer be on dialysis, 10 hours every night, seven days a week. “I’m so glad to be rid of it because of the donation,” Fair said. “Many think of it as their new birth date. Mine was Feb. 21, 2011. It’s a new life.” Organ transplants are based on supply and demand and, currently, the demand is far greater than the available supply, Fair said. When there were no airbags in cars and fewer people were saved from accidents, there were more cadavers available. But because airbags are saving lives, those cadavers are no longer an option for transplantations. Therefore, organ donors are needed more than ever before. In 1987, those in need of a kidney transplant only had to wait seven months after first being placed on the transplant list, Fair said. But by 2012, the wait had lengthened to four to six years. Twelve thousand people meet the criteria for needing a kidney transplant, but fewer than half get donors. “That statistic really struck home,” Fair said. Transplant recipients are looking more and more to living donors since people can live with only one of their two kidneys. At Harrisburg Hospital, more than 50 percent of kidney transplants are due to living donors, Fair said, quoting Dr. Harold Yang, a hospital surgeon who helped save her life. While kidney disease can be from hypertension, diabetes, or polycystic kidney disease, Fair’s kidney problem stemmed from a birth defect in her sphincter muscle. “There was a surgery that could be done by age 5,” she said, but her diagnosis at age 21 put her well beyond that point, and her kidneys slowly deteriorated over the years. Fair began journaling about her experiences with kidney disease in September 2007. By the fall of 2010, she needed to go on dialysis, and she continued writing. “I had no idea if I would even receive a kidney, and if I did, how would I get through the surgery? The recovery period? Would there be a happy ending? All these www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
questions remained unanswered,” Fair said. “Although I had excellent medical care ... I could not have gotten through this time in my life without my faith,” Fair said. “Faith is a choice—it comes from the heart. You either want to believe or you don’t. I so believed in God and knew that he would see me through this most difficult time. After all, (God) is the physician of all physicians.” Fair’s earlier kindness to a young girl reaped benefits to not only herself, but another kidney transplant recipient as well. Because Fair had sponsored Janette “Jay” Diaz into Milton Hershey School, Diaz wanted to repay her kindness by donating her kidney to Fair. But after testing, the two weren’t a match. Instead, they were put on the Paired Donor List for a live match. Diaz matched a woman in Pittsburgh, and that woman’s friend, Marlane, matched Fair for a fourway swap. “So exciting!” Fair said. On Feb. 21, 2011, Marlane’s kidney was flown from the Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to Harrisburg Hospital, where Fair was waiting for the lifesaving surgery. After an excellent recovery, Fair decided to compile her journal entries and craft them into a book, Transplanted to Better Health. “I wanted to offer hope and encouragement to patients who were suffering from kidney failure, or anyone suffering from a serious illness in general,” Fair said. In her memoir, Fair describes the good and bad days, the ups and downs of dialysis treatment, waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant, and the road to recovery. “My story will be familiar for anyone who has been down the road with kidney failure, and will uplift and empower those who are just setting foot on that path,” she said. “My book is like one patient talking to another patient.” But what sets Fair’s book apart from others is the details in her journals that only a person with a medical background would include. Fair is a medical technician who worked in a doctor’s office. A signed copy of Fair’s book may be purchased from Fair by emailing her at transplanted44@hotmail.com or through Amazon.com as a book or an e-book. To receive a signed copy, send a check payable to Fair Book Publishing for $18, which includes shipping, to: FBP, 1522 Collingdale Circle, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050. To engage Fair as a speaker, contact her at the above email address.
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Eye Care Coverage and Services for Retirees Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Does Medicare cover eye care? I had excellent vision insurance through my employer for many years but lost it when I retired, and now I am confused as to what Medicare actually covers. What can you tell me? — Living on a Budget Dear Living, Many retirees are confused with what Medicare will and won’t cover when it comes to eye care. Here’s a breakdown of how Medicare handles different types of vision care services, along with some additional tips that can help you get affordable care when needed. Medicare Coverage If you have original Medicare (Part A and B), it’s important to know that “routine” vision care like eye exams, eye refractions, eyeglasses, or contact lenses are generally not covered. But, “medically necessary” eye care usually is. Here’s a list of what is covered: • Eye surgeries: any surgical procedure that helps repair the function of the eye like cataract removal, cornea transplant, glaucoma surgery, etc. • Eyeglasses or contacts: only if you’ve had cataract surgery. • Medical eye exams: only if you’re having
vision problems that indicate a serious eye condition like macular degeneration, retinopathy, glaucoma, or dry eye syndrome. • Glaucoma screenings: annual screenings for those at high risk (diabetics, those with a family history of glaucoma, or those who are African-American or Hispanic).
expense, some Medigap supplemental policies provide gap coverage. Or, if you have Medicare Advantage, some plans provide eye care benefits. Be sure you check with your plan administrator.
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• Diabetic eye exams: if you have diabetes, yearly exams for diabetic retinopathy. • Macular degeneration: certain treatments are covered.
You also need to be aware that of the eye care services that are covered by Medicare, you’re still responsible for 20 percent of the cost—Medicare pays the other 80 percent. To help with this out-of-pocket
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Ways to Save If you find your eye care needs aren’t covered, or you can’t afford the 20 percent out-ofpocket that Medicare doesn’t cover, there are other ways to save. For starters, if you need a refractive eye exam or a new pair of eyeglasses, many optometrists and eyeglass dealers offer discounts—usually between 10 and 30 percent—to seniors who request it. Memberships in groups like AAA and AARP can also provide lower rates. Another way to get low-cost eye care is at an optometry school. Many offer affordable care provided by students that are overseen by their professors. See www.opted.org for a directory of schools and their contact information.
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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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Assistance Programs Depending on where you live, there may also be some local clinics or charitable organizations that provide free or discounted eye care or eyeglasses. Put in a call to your local Lions Club to see what’s available in your area. To reach your local club, visit www.directory.lionsclubs.org or call (800) 747-4448 to get the number to your state Lions Club office, which can refer you to your community representative. Or, if you need medical eye care, check into EyeCare America. This is a national program that provides comprehensive medical eye examinations to seniors age 65 and older and up to one year of treatment at no cost. They accept Medicare or other insurance as full payment. And if you don’t have insurance, care is free. To learn more or to find out if you qualify, visit www.eyecareamerica.org. If you’re under age 65, some other services that can help include Mission Cataract USA (www.missioncataract usa.org), which provides free cataract surgery to low-income people who don’t have insurance. And Vision USA (www.optometryscharity.org/vision-usa, (800) 766-4466) provides free vision care to uninsured and low-income workers and their families.
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Ono’s tiny restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro, is in Tokyo, where he holds the Guinness Book of Records title for being the oldest three-star Michelin chef. Reservations are not easy; you are encouraged to book up to a year in advance with a cash deposit of about $368. Jacques Pépin, 76, French – Born in France to restaurateurs, he learned to appreciate food at an early age. In the 1950s he was the personal chef to Charles DeGaulle and then moved to the United States in 1959. He has appeared on numerous television shows and received a Daytime Emmy award in 2001 for his show Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home with Julia Child. Today he serves as dean of special programs at the French Culinary Institute, teaches an online class for Boston University, and writes a quarterly column for Food & Wine magazine.
he learned much of his cooking skills from his mother, who had sometimes worked as a pastry chef. At 25, he moved to Los Angeles where, 15 years later, he opened the award-winning Spago restaurant. Now he has a gastronomic empire under his name that includes more than 20 fine restaurants, catering services, more than 80 Wolfgang Puck Express operations, and kitchen and food merchandise, including cookbooks and convenience foods. He is the official caterer for the Academy Awards and his favorite food is macaroons.
Georges Perrier, 69, French – Born in France and although not from a poor family, he began working at 14 and then moved to the United States when he was 21 years old. In 1970 he opened Le Bec Fin (French colloquial translation: fine palate) in Philadelphia, which gained a five-star reputation and was known as the leader of the “Philadelphia restaurant revolution.” In January 2009, the French government awarded Perrier the Legion d’Honneur. In February 2012, Perrier announced his retirement from Le Bec Fin by selling it to a former Le Bec manager. Perrier still maintains ownership/interest in other restaurant venues.
Alice Waters, 67, American – Born in New Jersey, she moved to California to attend college. It was during her study abroad time in France that she began purchasing fresh foods directly, and it was this experience that resonated with her and led to the development of her food-fresh sustainable beliefs. In 1971 she opened the Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., which quickly became famous for its organic, locally grown ingredients and is ranked among the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Waters created the Chez Panisse Foundation with a mission to transform public education by using food to teach, nurture, and empower young people. In 1992, Waters was the first woman to be awarded Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation and has received numerous other awards, written about a dozen cookbooks, and is a board member of relevant institutions. Waters is an internationally acclaimed food activist who has inspired the organic food revolution.
Wolfgang Puck, 63, Austrian – Born in Austria and trained in France,
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