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LANCASTER COUNTY
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 please see ADVENTURES page 36
Beckerich displays his banner of sponsors at high camp (19,600 feet) of Aconcagua Peak, Argentina.
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Let’s Talk about Medicare By John Johnston
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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
annual income is higher, you still may be able to get some help with monthly premiums, annual deductibles, and prescription co-payments. Some examples where your income may be higher include if you or your spouse support other family members who live with you, have earnings from work, or live in Alaska or Hawaii. • Resources limited to $13,440 for an individual or $26,860 for a married couple living together. Resources include such things as bank accounts, stocks, and bonds. We do not count your house or car as resources. You can complete an easy-to-use online application or get more information by visiting www.socialsecurity.gov/medicare. To apply for the Extra Help by phone or have an application mailed to you, call
Social Security at (800) 772-1213 (TTY (800) 325-0778) and ask for the Application for Extra Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs (SSA-1020). And if you would like more information about the Medicare Part D prescription drug program, visit www.medicare.gov or call (800) MEDICARE or (800) 633-4227 (TTY (877) 486-2048). While we’re on the subject of open seasons, the open enrollment period for qualified health plans under the Affordable Care Act is Nov. 15 to Feb. 15. Learn more about it at www.healthcare.gov. This Medicare Open Enrollment season, while you search for the Medicare prescription drug plan that best meets your needs—see if you qualify for the Extra Help through Social Security. That’s a winning prescription worth talking about. John Johnston is a Social Security public affairs specialist.
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an Cooper grew up in East assigned as an aide to the vice chief of Liverpool, Ohio, the son of a naval operations. That was followed Navy officer dad. Unlike by two years as commanding officer most sixth-graders, Cooper knew of the USS Puffer (SSN-652), a exactly that he wanted to do with his nuclear attack submarine operating life. out of Pearl Harbor. Then came three That early, he had his eyes set on years as commander of a submarine attending the U.S. Naval Academy squadron, home based in New and becoming a naval officer. And London, Conn. instead of just dreaming about it, he In 1980, he was selected to flag knuckled down and prepared for it, rank (admiral), serving as comptroller, seriously studying and gaining the sea systems command. And after two broadest knowledge he could get. years there, he served for three years When he graduated from high as budget officer for the Navy. He school in 1952, he was first turned continued to get more CDR Daniel L. Cooper at down for an appointment because he responsibilities, becoming director of Pearl Harbor in 1975, as he took was unable to pass the eye test. So he navy program planning and command of the nuclear-fueled attack submarine USS Puffer. attended Washington & Jefferson budgeting and being promoted to College for a year before he was able vice admiral (three stars). to gain a waiver for his eyes and In 1986 he became commander, safe nuclear Navy. He was tenacious, become a plebe at the naval academy. submarine forces, Atlantic fleet. Then patriotic, absolutely dedicated, and Graduating in 1957, he spent 18 supremely gifted in all the other ways it was back to Washington again to months as an ensign aboard an serve for three years as assistant chief he had to be in order the fashion the amphibious ship before he was able to nuclear Navy we have today. Frankly, of naval operations for undersea volunteer for submarine service. After I can’t think of one other person who warfare, his last post before retiring six months in submarine school, he from the Navy in 1991. could have pulled that off.” spent three years as a junior officer at As an aside, he recalls that when In 1966, Cooper became executive sea on a diesel submarine, after which officer on the USS Simon Bolivar, a the film The Hunt for Red October was he was selected to spend a year at to be filmed, the script came to his nuclear-powered ballistic submarine Harvard, studying international office to make sure it revealed nothing that was longer than a football field. relations. It carried 16 Poseidon nuclear missiles classified. “Then,” Cooper says, “I was sent He says, “I took the script home to and had two separate crews of 14 orders to be interviewed by Admiral read and told them the next day that officers and 126 enlisted men. Hyman Rickover, who personally met Rotating the crews’ time aboard it revealed nothing classified and that, and selected every officer going into except for one off-color story that allowed a much greater time at sea in the Navy nuclear power program.” the sub’s mission of providing nuclear didn’t reflect well on the Navy, I saw How did that go? it as a fine, G-rated film that I’d be deterrence. “Not real well,” Cooper says. “The Cooper served for two years aboard comfortable in having my wife or admiral had a very confrontational grandmother see.” the Simon Bolivar before he was 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 4 lots available ... going fast! sternly why I wasn’t doing Please join us at our better. “What I learned later was that this was his style. He apparently never met anyone Sunday, October 5th that he didn’t feel could do 1 to 3 p.m. better. And he let them know it in no uncertain terms,” he says. Eastwood Village • Spec home and pre-owned “I’ll be honest: I hoped that as I homes available to inspect • Homes LLC furthered my career, he 102 Summers Drive wouldn’t be around. Lancaster, PA 17601 Directions: Rt. 30E – Greenfield Road exit, Right onto Greenfield Road to Fallon Drive. “Only later did I realize how 717-397-3138 Right onto Fallon Drive; follow signs to Sales Center. www.eastwoodvillagehomes.com much he meant to developing a
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November 14, 2014 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. Eden Resort • 222 Eden Road, Lancaster
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The Red Rose Veterans Honor Guard will be performing a special ceremony honoring all branches of military service during the Veterans’ Expo & Job Fair on Friday, Nov. 14, to be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Eden Resort, 222 Eden Road, Lancaster. For more information, visit www.veteransexpo.com or call (717) 285-1350.
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By Chris Lee-Jimenez Inspired to ensure local veterans receive appropriate funeral honors and hoping to provide the support those honors require, community members and Lancaster County veterans formed the Red Rose Veterans Honor Guard (RRVHG) in 1998. With a logo adopted in 1999, and the motto Honos Officio Fideli (honor for faithful service) established in 2000, the RRVHG has been an active part of the veteran community since its inception, performing graveside honors, including flag-folding and the live playing of “Taps” for local veterans who have passed. The Red Rose Veterans Honor Guard comprises honorably discharged and retired veterans, as well as active-duty Reserve and National Guard members. To join, the application process requires proper proof of honorable discharge, as well as evidence of good character and interest in promoting the honor guard’s mission. Honor guard members must be dedicated to providing military funeral
honors and must observe the grooming standards of military uniformed services. If the applicant is active-duty, a chainof-command recommendation is required, including military identification. The process of joining the RRVHG is not taken lightly, as the organization takes its work seriously and commits to a respectable cause. A nonprofit, the RRVHG does not solicit or require payment for funeral services, but the organization welcomes donations to assist with expenses and to provide scholarships for students in Lancaster County with parents, grandparents, and great-grandparents who are members of the RRVHG. So far in 2014, the RRVHG has performed services for 225 funerals and 23 Color Guard services. Full of dedicated members ready to provide proper funeral services for the honorably discharged, the RRVHG serves its veterans well and truly lives up to its mission. For more information on the Red Rose Veterans Honor Guard, visit www.rrvhg.org or call (717) 725-2209. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
Resource Directory This Resource Directory recognizes advertisers who have made an extended commitment to your health and well-being. Cemeteries Woodward Hill Cemetery 501 S. Queen St., Lancaster (717) 872-1750 Coins & Currency Steinmetz Coins & Currency, Inc. 350 Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 299-1211 Dental Services Advanced Denture Center 39 E. Main St., Ephrata (717) 721-3004 Dental Health Associates 951 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster (717) 394-9231 Lancaster Denture Center 951 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster (717) 394-3773 Smoketown Family Dentistry 2433 C Old Philadelphia Pike, Smoketown (717) 291-6035 Emergency Numbers Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110 Office of Aging (717) 299-7979 or (800) 801-3070 Employment Lancaster County Office of Aging (717) 299-7979 Entertainment Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre 510 Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 898-1900 Financial Services Internal Revenue Service (717) 291-1994
Gastroenterology Regional Gastroenterology Associates of Lancaster (RGAL) 2104 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster 694 Good Drive, Suite 23, Lancaster 4140 Oregon Pike, Ephrata (717) 544-3400
Richard H. Heisey Funeral Home 216 S. Broad St., Lititz (717) 626-2464
Hearing and Ear Care Center, LLC 806 W. Main St., Mount Joy (717) 653-6300 Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY
Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (717) 651-5020 American Cancer Society (717) 397-3744
Hobbies CoolTrains 106 W. Main St., Landisville (717) 898-7119 Home Care Services
American Diabetes Association (888) DIABETES American Heart Association (717) 393-0725 American Lung Association (717) 397-5203 or (800) LungUSA
Senior Helpers 1060 S. State St., Suite E, Ephrata (717) 738-0588 Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services Serving Lancaster and surrounding counties (717) 393-3450
American Red Cross (717) 299-5561
Real Estate Prudential Homesale Services Group Rocky Welkowitz (717) 393-0100 Retirement Communities Colonial Lodge Community 2015 N. Reading Road, Denver (717) 336-5501 Senior Move Management TLC Ladies (717) 228-8764 Transition Solutions for Seniors Rocky Welkowitz (717) 615-6507 Spirituality Wells Contemplative Solutions 255 Butler Ave., Suite 301-B, Lancaster (717) 208-3633
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Consumer Information (888) 878-3256 CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400
Medicare (800) 633-4227
Veterans Services Lebanon VA Medical Center 1700 S. Lincoln Ave., Lebanon (717) 228-6000 or (800) 409-8771 Volunteer Opportunities RSVP of Capital Region, Inc. (717) 847-1539
Disease and Health Risk (888) 232-3228
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May•Grant Obstetrics & Gynecology Women & Babies Hospital with other locations in Brownstown, Columbia, Elizabethtown, Willow Street, and Intercourse (717) 397-8177
Women’s Services Building You, LLC 804 New Holland Ave., Lancaster (888) 769-3992
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Affilia Home Health
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(717) 544-2195 (888) 290-2195 (toll-free) www.AffiliaHomeHealth.org
(717) 355-6000 www.gardenspotvillage.org
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
Other Certifications and Services: Personal care and companionship services in your home with all the professionalism, friendliness, and excellence you expect of Garden Spot Village. Contact info@gardenspotvillage.org.
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Good Samaritan Home Health
(800) 390-2998 www.caringhospice.com
(717) 274-2591 www.gshleb.org
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
Central Penn Nursing Care, Inc.
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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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Other Certifications and Services: Good Samaritan Hospice provides services to patients and their families facing a life-limiting illness. We are Pennsylvania licensed, JCAHO accredited, and Medicare certified. We provide services 24 hours per day with a team approach for medical, emotional, spiritual, and social needs.
Homeland Hospice (717) 221-7890 www.homelandhospice.org
(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.
Other Certifications and Services: Connections at Home VIA Willow Valley delivers unparalleled, personalized care and companionship in the home, hospital, or senior living community, by compassionate, reliable, dedicated caregivers who are backed by the area’s most trusted name in senior living for more than 30 years—Willow Valley Communities.
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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Home Care Services & Hospice Providers Listings with a screened background have additional information about their services in a display advertisement in this edition.
Intrepid USA
Senior Helpers
(717) 838-6101; (717) 838-6103 (fax) www.intrepidusa.com
(717) 738-0588 www.seniorhelpers.com/lancastercounty
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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UCP of South Central PA
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(800) 333-3873 (Toll Free) www.ucpsouthcentral.org
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 veterans’ homecare benefits.
Other Certifications and Services: A PA-licensed, non-medical home care company providing companion, personal, Alzheimer’s, and dementia care from two to 24 hours a day. Call for a FREE homecare assessment and to learn more about benefits available for veterans and their spouses.
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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Visiting Angels
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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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Traveltizers
Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
Up Close with the Upper Class the most well known, of the super-elites.
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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. the guide tells us that at Hudson River Valley. family in America. Historic Site. Grandpa’s death in 1877, he I would have it designed was worth $105 million, by one of the top architects in the country, decorated which, if converted into figurative sense, been to the manor born. we’d picnic and party until the weather 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 open to the public and are located within the city. better than those in Europe. When I hear this, I’m surprised that th th and early 20 the Hudson River Valley National During the late 19 the house, although filled with carved As the weather heated up and the 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, rigueur for financially successful and that runs from Troy (just north of family and I would leave our Manhattan 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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The Vanderbilt Mansion gives a whole new meaning to the word cottage. Springwood, Top Cottage, and Val-Kill The nearby homes of Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt are more modest when taken individually, but the property, which comprises The Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site at Hyde Park, contains three separate homes. Springwood, where FDR spent many of his pre-presidential years, is a mere 20,000 square feet, and the antiques and art are mixed with family mementos. Of course, the stuffed birds collected by the child of the family might be less interesting had that child not grown up to be president of the United States! After FDR’s father died, the home and surrounding land passed to Sara, Franklin’s mother. From that time on, she not only controlled the family money, but to a large extent she also controlled her only son. For example, before allowing him to build a small retreat on a heavily wooded part of the property, she made him promise that he would never spend the night in that house. She worried that if he needed medical attention, an ambulance might find it difficult to navigate the forest roads in the dark. Roosevelt, who at that time was probably the most important man in the
Springwood, which was purchased by FDR’s father in 1866 and updated many times thereafter, was modest compared to the estates of its neighbors.
Eleanor Roosevelt’s home, Val-Kill, is the only National Historic Site dedicated to a first lady.
world, protested but eventually agreed to his mother’s demands, and Top Cottage, which is a cottage in the traditional rather than the Vanderbiltian sense of the word, was built in 1938.
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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,
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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There are literally dozens of these types of sites on the Internet today. To locate them, do an online search for “online memorial websites.” In the meantime, here are a few good sites to check into. The biggest and most established site in the industry is Legacy.com, which also publishes about 75 percent of the obituaries in North America each year through its newspaper affiliations. Creating an online memorial through this site (see www.memorialwebsites. legacy.com) will run you $49 for the first year, plus an annual $19 sponsorship fee to keep it visible.
Some other popular sites to check out are ForeverMissed.com, which offers a free, barebones option, along with a premium plan that runs $35 per year or $75 for life, and iLasting.com, which runs $49 per year or $99 for permanent display. If you’re on a tight budget, consider LifeStory.com, which is completely free to use but requires you to log in through Facebook to get to it. iMorial.com is free if you allow ads to be posted on your uncle’s page, or it costs $50 without ads. Or, if your uncle used Facebook, you can also turn his profile into a
memorial for free when you show proof of death. Once his page is memorialized, his sensitive information will be removed and his birthday notifications will stop, but (depending on his privacy settings) it still enables family and friends to post memories and condolences. In addition, you can also request a Look Back video, which is a short video created by Facebook highlighting your uncle’s pictures and most liked status messages. Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org
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
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1965 – $790 1971 – $983 1975 – $1,285 1980 – $1,809 1985 – $2,737 1991 – $3,742
1995 – $4,626 2000 – $5,180 2006 – $6,195 2009 – $6,560 2012 – $7,045
1960 – $708
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My 22 Cents’ Worth
Scandals of Past Generations Walt Sonneville
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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 separating Louisiana from the nation. Two years later, in 1806 when he was then out of office, Burr told the Spanish minister to the United States that his plan went beyond having western territories secede. He conspired to capture our nation’s capital as well. Burr was acquitted of the charge of treason because his plan was not accompanied by direct action. Jefferson, admired for many qualities, reportedly fathered several children by one of his slaves, Sally Hemings, years after his wife died. This scandal first broke as public news while Jefferson was in his first term of the presidency. He simply ignored the charge. Today’s press would not allow that news to lapse.
Alexander Hamilton, our first Some suspected the illicit romance drove secretary of the treasury, had a three-year Mrs. Harding to poison the president, a affair with a married woman that gossip unsupported by evidence. eventually became Recent years have public. He never held seen scandalous public office after the behavior among our disclosure. military leaders but President Grover never a betrayal of Cleveland, president allegiance to the during two separated country. That can’t be terms toward the end said of all military of the 19th century, commanders decades acknowledged his ago. paternity of an James Wilkinson illegitimate son 10 was twice the years before he became commanding general president. He was of the United States Benedict Arnold. unmarried at the time. Army, from 1796Copy of engraving by H. B. Hall 1798 and from 1800Other paramours of the mother were 1812. Teddy Roosevelt married. Cleveland did said of him, “In all our the magnanimous history there is no thing and assumed more despicable child support to spare character.” After his the others. Rather death, it was than destroying him discovered Wilkinson politically, his noble was a paid agent of gesture attracted Spain. considerable praise. Another President Harding revolutionary army (1921-23) had two commander, General affairs before entering Charles Lee, second in the White House. The command under latter romance was Washington, disobeyed Thomas Jefferson. with a married woman Copy of engraving by C. Mayer battle orders issued by that lasted from 1905 Washington, for whom until 1920. He kept the matter quiet he held personal contempt as unfit to during his presidential campaign by lead the revolution. paying the woman for her silence, only Lee previously had been held prisoner to die of a heart attack while in office. by the British. It was found, after his
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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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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.
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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. “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 with a lot of foam wouldn’t seem so expensive. 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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There’s a New Heartthrob in Town Sy Rosen
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his story begins on a Sunday afternoon in my mom’s assisted living facility. An accordion player, Ramon, comes every week. He is 50, good looking, and Latin and is the heartthrob of the facility—and he definitely knows it. He struts, he prances, he winks, and the ladies all put on an extra dab of rouge when Ramon is there. Lately, however, Ramon seems bored and is just going through the motions, like he would rather be somewhere else. When he played his half-hearted version of “You Send Me,” he was really sending everyone to sleep. I was sitting next to my mom, and I could see that half of the seniors in the lobby were dozing, but Ramon didn’t seem to care. He knew he was the only game in town. And then the game changed! My daughter Ann arrived with her 8-month-
old baby, Summer. My granddaughter looked gorgeous. Even at 8 months she was making a real fashion statement with her bow matching her outfit. Ann put my granddaughter in my mom’s lap. And there they sat, both of them smiling away. And then a strange thing happened. All 60 gray heads in the lobby turned in unison and watched my granddaughter with her great-grandmother. Ramon was momentarily forgotten. The heartthrob had been replaced. So what could the accordion player do? Of course he stepped up his game to recapture the audience. Nobody was going to steal his thunder. He started to play faster and louder as he bounced around the room, desperately trying to get everyone’s attention. He played “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and “Great Balls of Fire.” Both songs were crowd pleasers and the seniors turned toward him, but then Summer
would giggle and audience turned back to her. It was like the seniors were watching a championship pingpong match, their heads turning right and left. Ramon played his accordion faster and faster. He would crescendo and decrescendo. Everyone stared at him. Summer would answer with a coo and a gurgle, and everyone would then stare at her. Ramon’s fingers were now flying across the accordion. And then he did something he hadn’t done in years: a quadruple bellow shake. In the space of one beat, he hit a note four times. It was breathtaking, and everyone watched him. Summer then made a sound, “boeleebboobbaa,” and everyone turned toward her. Finally, Ramon decided it was time to stop fooling around. He had to establish his superiority. He had to squash Summer and once again become the King of
Assisted Living. And he tried to do it by playing “Bolero.” That’s right—he was going for the tango! And he didn’t just play “Bolero.” He also grabbed one of the ladies from her seat and somehow danced with her while keeping his accordion at full blast. Everyone was watching. And then Summer did something miraculous. She yelped, “Whoooo, whooooo” and wiggled her body as though she were dancing. Game. Set. Match. Summer had defeated Ramon. She had clearly become the Queen of Assisted Living. And Ramon had no choice but to acknowledge her superiority and decided, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” He danced over to Summer while playing “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.” All eyes were now on Summer and Ramon. But really, they were just looking at Summer. All hail the queen.
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Directions to Spooky Nook Sports From Harrisburg and points northwest: Take I-83 North to exit 46-A to merge onto Route I-283 South. Take exit 1-A to merge onto PA-283 East toward Lancaster. Take the Salunga exit; turn left on Spooky Nook Road. The facility will be on your right.
From York and points west: Take Route 30 East across the Susquehanna River. Take the Prospect Road exit and turn left onto Prospect Road. After about 4.5 miles, Prospect Road becomes Spooky Nook Road. The facility will be on your right.
From Lebanon and points north: Take Route 72 South until you reach downtown Manheim; make a right onto PA-772 West. Turn left onto South Colebrook Road; then turn right onto Landisville Road. Turn right onto Spooky Nook Road and then a slight left to stay on Spooky Nook. The facility will be on your left.
From Lancaster and points east: Take Route 30 West and stay left at the fork onto Route 283 West. Take the exit toward Salunga and make a sharp right onto Spooky Nook Road. The facility will be on your right.
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What to Expect at the EXPO The 50plus EXPO is an event that’s a unique hybrid of information and entertainment, all geared toward satisfying the needs of the area’s over-50 crowd. This day is about you and whatever is on your mind. Finances, health, leisure, travel—the knowledge you seek is all available at one of our more than 100 exhibitors. Each exhibitor booth is loaded with information and staffed by friendly people who are eager and willing to answer your questions. The EXPO will also offer a variety of health screenings free to each visitor, so be proactive about your health and take advantage of this convenient opportunity to give your body a little “tune-up”! At the Lancaster County 50plus EXPO, you can take your “quest A DI R
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50plus EXPO – Brought to You By: On-Line Publishers produces (((b))) magazine, Central Pennsylvania’s premier publication for baby boomers. (((b))) magazine reflects on the past, recalling the provocative and history-changing decades of the 1960s and ’70s; it also examines where baby boomers are today and identifies the issues they face now—all with a mind toward representing the mid-state’s own boomer community. On-Line Publishers also works to inform and celebrate women in business through its Business Division. BUSINESSWoman includes professional profiles and articles that educate and encourage women in business. SUCCESS STORIES highlights the achievements of local professional women so that others may be inspired. It is a special insert in the March issue of BUSINESSWoman magazine. POWERLUNCH is an extension of BUSINESSWoman and is held in York in the spring and in the Capital Region during the fall. Executive women are offered the opportunity for networking, lunch, seminars, and information from a select number of exhibitors interested in marketing to women. The women’s expo is a one-day event featuring exhibitors and interactive fun that encompasses many aspects of a woman’s life. It is held in Hershey and Lancaster in the spring and will be held in Lebanon on Oct. 4 and in Carlisle on Nov. 8.
For more than a decade, On-Line Publishers, Inc. has celebrated serving the mind, heart, and spirit of the 50+ community of Central Pennsylvania through our Mature Living Division of publications and events. OLP EVENTS, its events division, produces six 50plus EXPOs annually in Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster (two), and York counties. These events are an opportunity to bring both businesses and the community together for a better understanding of products and services available to enhance life. New for 2014 is the Veterans’ Expo and Job Fair, to be held 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 14 at Eden Resort, 222 Eden Road, Lancaster. The Expo provides veterans and their families an opportunity to be introduced to exhibitors who are interested in their well-being. The Job Fair connects veterans and employers face to face to discuss available positions. 50plus Senior News is published monthly, touching on issues and events relevant to the 50+ community. The Resource Directory for the Caregiver, Aging, and Disabled is published annually in distinct county editions and contains information from local businesses and organizations offering products or services that meet the needs of these groups. 50plus LIVING is an annual publication and the premier resource for retirement living and healthcare options for mature adults in the Susquehanna and Delaware valleys. A DI R
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The Lancaster County Office of Aging has been in existence since 1974 and strives to provide a variety of services that enable older persons to live independently and with dignity. The agency’s primary source of funding comes The Lancaster County from the Pennsylvania Lottery. Federal and state Office of Aging legislation mandate services rendered by the Office of Aging. Agency programs meet many types of needs and range from basic help to the provision of skilled care. Certain programs are available to persons under the age of 60. All services are intended to keep people at home, where they most likely want to remain. Individuals may be asked to share in the cost of services, depending upon their financial resources. The Office of Aging also accepts contributions, which support ongoing operations and services to older persons and their families. The agency is located at 150 N. Queen St., Suite 415, in Lancaster. Hours of operation are 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call (717) 299-7979 or (800) 801-3070 (tollfree) for more information.
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Aging in Place Studies show that for boomers and seniors, aging in place— that is, living in their homes safely and comfortably for as long as possible—is a primary concern. Please take some time to check out two important aging-in-place resources at the Lancaster County 50plus EXPO.
Seminars Seminar Room 10 a.m. Noon Good News Consulting Making a Difference in Dementia Care Presented by: Alison Sprankle, BS, CMC, and Lori Brenizer Smith, CTRS, MHA/ED During this session, offered at both 10 a.m. and noon, you will learn what to expect as the disease progresses and how to communicate better with someone with dementia. You will walk away with new techniques and new approaches for different stages of the disease process and will learn new activities and games to engage your loved one.
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Aging in Place Products United Disabilities Services At their booth area (booth 111), United Disabilities Services will display products available to help adults age in place. From walk-in bathtubs and showers, raised toilet seats, and hand rails to stair lifts and motorized wheelchairs and scooters, UDS’s friendly staff is here at the 50plus EXPO to answer your questions and show you how these products as well as their community services can help to make aging in place a possibility for you or a loved one.
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The 50plus EXPO committee is looking for volunteers to help at our 18th annual Lancaster County 50plus EXPO on Nov. 5, 2014, at Spooky Nook Sports, 2913 Spooky Nook Road, Manheim, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. If you could help greet visitors, stuff EXPO bags, or work at the registration desk, we would be glad to have you for all or just part of the day. Please call On-Line Publishers at (717) 285-1350.
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AccuQuest Hearing Aid Center – Booth 138 Video otoscope
Senior Living at Lancaster Booth 137 Balance screening
HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of York – Booth 186 Stroke risk assessment
Take Shape For Life Booth 153 BMI
Pure Sound Hearing Aids Booth 126 Video otoscope evaluations with digital images
Zounds of Lancaster Booth 156 Ear otoscopy
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Brought to you by: & The Lancaster County Office of Aging
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Proudly Sponsored By: Principal Sponsors:
Supporting Sponsors: Brethren Village • Emerald Springs Spa • Gateway Health Lancashire Hall & Lancashire Terrace Landis Communities • The Long Community at Highland Regional Gastroenterology Associates of Lancaster (RGAL) UPMC for Life • Westphal Orthopedics
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abc27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .187 Academic Wealth Strategies ..................................119 AccuQuest Hearing Aid Center.............................138 American Dental Solutions....................................122 AMTRAK...............................................................195 Appleby Systems, Inc. ...........................................198 Ascendant Home Health Care ..............................155 Bath Fitter .............................................................147
Brethren Village . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .151 Campus Eye Center ..............................................144 Capital BlueCross..................................................197 CaptionCall...........................................................163 Casino at Delaware Park .......................................113 Castle “The Window People”................................191 Century Spouting Incorporated .............................215 Charles F. Snyder Funeral Home & Crematory ......129 CoolTrains...........................................CoolTrains Area Cremation Services of Lancaster............................219 Cremation Society of Pennsylvania Inc..................212 Dedicated Nursing Associates Inc..........................235 Dollar Energy Fund/PPL Epower Team ..................142 Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre ................................183 Edward Jones ........................................................135 Elite Coach LTD ....................................................231
Emerald Springs Spa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .199 Engle Printing & Publishing Co. Inc. ......................170 Estate Gallery ........................................................208 Family Chiropractic of Lancaster County ...............213 Fred F. Groff, Inc. ..................................................157 Freedom Village, Brandywine................................226 Garden Spot Village ..............................................160 Gardner’s Mattress & More...........................228, 229
Gateway Health . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .166 Geisinger Gold......................................................104
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The Groffs Family Funeral Home ..........................193 Health Network Laboratories ................................173 HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital of York..........186 Highmark Blueshield.............................................174 Hinkle’s Pharmacy, Inc..........................................125 Home Care Assistance ..........................................194 Humana MarketPOINT, Inc. .................................128 Ideal Study, National Institute on Aging, NIH ........211 Janney Montgomery Scott LLC/ The Meyer LePrell Group ..................................201 Keystone Military Families .....................................127 Kitchen Saver........................................................152
Lancashire Hall & Lancashire Terrace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .130 Lancaster County Office of Aging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .133 Lancaster EMS (LEMSA) ........................................200 Lancaster School of Cosmetology & Therapeutic Bodywork.................Pamper “U” Zone
Landis Communities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .120 LeafFilter North, Inc. .............................................114
The Long Community at Highland . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .188 Longwood Manor Personal Care & Memory Care .180 Messiah Lifeways at Mount Joy Country Homes....145 Mid-Atlantic Waterproofing...................................108 Nerium International ............................................150 Office of the Attorney General, Bureau of Consumer Protection.........................205 Orthopedic Associates of Lancaster.......................181 PA Public Utility Commission ................................202 PA State Representative Ryan P. Aument 41st Legislative District & PA State Representative Mindy Fee 37th Legislative District ....................232 Pampered Chef.....................................................230 Pennsylvania Bureau of Radiation Protection ........102 Pennsylvania Department of Banking and Securities..101 The Pennsylvania Lottery ......................................184 ProCare Medical ...................................................178
Pure Sound Hearing Aids ......................................126 Re•Bath & More...................................................206 Red Rose Transit Authority ....................................161
Regional Gastroenterology Associates of Lancaster (RGAL) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .110 The Rehab Center, Physical Therapy .....................118 Renewal by Andersen ...........................................139 Respitech Cpap Services .......................................158 Ricker Sweigart & Associates .................................185 Robert E. Meyer, Independent Reliv Distributor ....143 RSVP of the Capital Region, Inc. ...........................146 Senior Living at Lancaster......................................137 Shady Maple.........................................................131 Smilebuilderz........................................................167 Sundance Vacations ..............................................149 Take Shape For Life...............................................153 Terry’s Enterprise ..................................................124 uFinancial Group/Deborah Pajak ..........................115 United Disabilities Services ...................................111
UPMC for Life . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .214 Vector Security......................................................121 Vein Center of Lancaster .......................................107 Visiting Angels.......................................................165
WDAC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .148 Weaver Memorials................................................169 Wellington Adams.................................................140
Westphal Orthopedics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .192 WHP580 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .182 Window World, Inc. .............................................218 Your Remodeling Guys..........................................136 Zounds of Lancaster..............................................156 Co-Host Supporting Sponsor
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Lancaster County OOA Hits Major Milestone executive director in 1996, a position she’s held ever since. “Serving as deputy director with Mrs. Mann for eight years was good preparation for following in her footsteps,â€? said Burch, although she admits to not realizing just how big those shoes really were or would need to be. The Office of Aging now has a $10 million annual budget with approximately 75 full-time and part-time staff members. As executive director, Burch primarily deals with administrative duties. Alongside those, she assists with the delivery of services, both home and community based, that provide the aging population of Lancaster County with resources they may need. Burch noted that keeping up with the rapidly changing local, state, and federal aging landscape can be quite difficult. “More people are living longer with greater needs and fewer resources,â€? said Burch. “Impacts of the economy, technology, politics, and an increasingly ethnic and culturally diverse service population have greatly shaped and directed that change, and will no doubt continue to do so.â€? However, Burch stands firm on remaining true to the principles upon which the organization was founded, ever grateful for everyone that has helped the Office of Aging grow into the organization that it is today. “We inherited a firm organizational foundation ‌ but it has been the incredibly skilled and dedicated staff, volunteers, providers, and countless community partners who have helped us get this far, and to whom I am most grateful on this anniversary.â€? For more information on the Lancaster County Office of Aging, please visit www.co.lancaster.pa.us/150/Aging or call (717) 299-7979.
By Molly Carl Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, the Lancaster County Office of Aging was created in 1974 as a vision to provide “needed assistance to older persons and their families in the most appropriate and least restrictive manner, enabling them to maintain dignity and independence.� Now, four decades and a lot of hard work and dedication later, the Office of Aging is still focused on never wavering from these goals. At its onset, the Office of Aging had a $57,000 budget and a “20-something� social worker named Peter Dys as the first executive director. The program offerings included senior centers, homemaker/chore assistance, telephone reassurance calls, and information and outreach. Dys was succeeded by Patricia Mann, who established the first adult day programs in the county. Under her direction, various other projects gained headway. It has since expanded its offerings to include volunteer insurance counseling, the Senior Games, smoke detector distributions, job fairs, and art and essay contests, among many others. Several of these programs are not only still in existence, but have also served as program models on the state level. When Mann retired in 1995, she was succeeded by eight-year deputy director Jacqueline Burch. Burch began as a student intern with the agency in 1981 and was hired to work part-time as a site manager before she went full-time. In 1988 she took on the role of deputy director and was promoted by the Board of County Commissioners to
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The Rehab Center, Physical Therapy Gift basket ($50 value)
Century Spouting Incorporated Gift certificate for any project (not a service call) ($100 value)
Robert E. Meyer Independent Reliv Distributor One Reliv Now and one Reliv LunaRichX ($135 value)
Dollar Energy Fund/ PPL Epower Team Conservation kit ($75 value)
Shady Maple Gift card ($25 value)
Family Chiropractic of Lancaster County One-hour massage ($100 value)
Take Shape For Life Gift basket with food and book ($25 value)
Fred F. Groff, Inc. Dinner for two in limousine and $100 toward local restaurant ($350 value)
uFinancial Group/Deborah Pajak Cork & Cap Restaurant gift card ($50 value)
Freedom Village, Brandywine Fall-themed wine basket ($75 value) Janney Montgomery Scott LLC/ The Meyer LePrell Group Financial plan with dinner/gift basket Landis Communities Two 1-pound boxes of Miesse Candies chocolate ($15 value each) Longwood Manor Personal Care & Memory Care Fall coffee and candy basket ($50 value) Nerium International One bottle of Nerium AD Night Cream ($110 value) Pampered Chef Pampered Chef gift certificate ($20 value)
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Vein Center of Lancaster Thanksgiving basket — centerpiece, decorations, party supplies ($75 value) Westphal Orthopedics Handcrafted Westphal Orthopedics coffee mugs ($30 value), two of each Handcrafted Westphal Orthopedics pilsners ($30 value), two of each Zounds of Lancaster Book: Hearing Loss Tips by Linnaea Mallette ($15 value)
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Don’t Miss the Great Lineup of Demonstrations and Entertainment at the EXPO! 10:30 a.m. – Senior Scams, Office of Attorney General
10 a.m. – Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre
Jerry Mitchell, education and outreach specialist for the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General and expert on cybercrimes and fraud, will present Senior Crime Prevention University, educating seniors on how to protect themselves against fraud and financial exploitation. You will learn of the latest scams, frauds, and tactics in use to steal your life savings, how to avoid becoming a victim, and other important consumer information needed to protect your assets and your identity.
Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre’s 2014 and 2015 season is filled with classics such as It’s a Wonderful Life, Funny Girl, Les Misérables, Oklahoma!, and West Side Story. Get a sneak peek of some of these shows as well as the regional premiere of Mid-Life 2: The Crisis Continues.
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11:30 a.m. – Container Gardening Jodie Morris, garden center manager and employee for more than 17 years at Stauffers of Kissel Hill, will demonstrate how to use thrillers, fillers, and spillers to transform your container garden from ordinary to amazing. Jodie will also share tips on growing vegetables or herbs in containers and show you how to spice up your existing container gardens for fall. One lucky attendee will be chosen at random to receive Jodie’s demonstration container garden.
Originally from Long Island, N.Y., Chris Poje of Lititz retired as a detective sergeant for the New York Police Department right before 9/11. Having performed in bands most of his life, Chris has started up a DJ company that incorporates some live singing into its gigs during dinners or cocktail hours.
Noon – Vickie Kissinger, 2012 PA SENIOR IDOL Winner
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Matt Macis, at 25 years old, has headlined venues around the globe, performed with entertainers like Shirley Jones and others, and fronted Michael Jackson’s This Is It band. Declared “a genuine find” by The Washington Post, his shows are packed with delightful music, hilarious comedy, memorable song-and-dance routines, and more!
Vickie Kissinger of Gap holds a B.S. in music education and is a classically trained mezzo-soprano, pianist, and organist. She is also a student of internationally recognized master voice teacher Dr. Thomas Houser. With more than 25 years’ teaching experience, Vickie runs a fulltime private voice studio from her home.
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Support Groups
Oct. 1, 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 Oct. 4, 2:30 p.m. Author Book Talk: Addicted to Life & Death: Memoirs of an EMT & Deputy Coroner by Janice Ballenger Ephrata Public Library 550 S. Reading Road, Ephrata (717) 738-9291
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Oct. 13, 10 to 11 a.m. Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Garden Spot Village Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6076 jmorton@gardenspotvillage.org Oct. 16, noon Brain Tumor Support Group Lancaster General Health Campus Wellness Center 2100 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster (717) 626-2894
Community Programs Monday–Saturday through Oct. 18, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mascot Roller Mills and Ressler Family Home Tours 443 W. Newport Road, Ronks (717) 656-7616 resslermill@gmail.com Oct. 6, 6 p.m. Red Rose Singles Meeting Hoss’s Steak & Sea House 100 W. Airport Road, Lititz (717) 406-6098
Oct. 22, 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 Oct. 27, 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 Free and open to the public
Oct. 8, 7 p.m. Rise of the Nones: Conversations with the Spiritual but Not Religious Garden Spot Village Chapel 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6000 Oct. 12, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Pennsylvania Music Expo Continental Inn 2285 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster (717) 898-1246 www.recordcollectors.org
Oct. 17, 6 to 9 p.m. Music Fridays Downtown Lancaster (717) 341-0028
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Cocalico Senior Association – (717) 336-7489 Oct. 2, 6 p.m. – Cocalico Jam with Music by Honey & the Bees Oct. 6, 9 a.m. – Haircuts with Deb Oct. 22, 9 a.m. – Fall Fest with Cocalico Daycare Columbia Senior Center – (717) 684-48500100 Oct. 6, 10:15 a.m. – Manicures Oct. 27, 10:15 a.m. – Halloween Party Elizabethtown Area Senior Center – (717) 367-7984 Oct. 9, 10 a.m. – Crafts with Amy Holland Oct. 14, 10:30 a.m. – Music with Chuck Mummert Oct. 24, 9:30 a.m. – Flu Shot Clinic Lancaster House North Happy Hearts Club Senior Center – (717) 299-1278 Tuesdays, 1 p.m. – Varied Activities Thursdays, noon – Pinochle Lancaster Neighborhood Senior Center – (717) 299-3943 Oct. 17, 9:30 a.m. – Flu Shots Oct. 24, 10:30 a.m. – Nutrition Program Lancaster Rec. Senior Center – (717) 392-2115, ext. 147 Mondays, 1:30 p.m. – Learn to Play Pickle Ball Tuesdays, 1 p.m. – Art Studio Classes: Painting and Drawing Wednesdays, 1:30 p.m. – Play Indoor Shuffleboard Lititz Senior Center – (717) 626-2800 Oct. 2, 10 a.m. – Haircuts and Manicures by Lancaster School of Cosmetology Oct. 16, 10 a.m. – White Elephant Sale Oct. 30, 10:15 a.m. – Music and Dancing
Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, (717) 626-2255 Oct. 8, 6:30 p.m. – Great Decisions Discussion Group: U.S. Trade Policy Oct. 14, 7 p.m. – Exploring the Panama Canal Oct. 28, 7 p.m. – Drawing Workshop
Luis Munoz Marin Senior Center – (717) 295-7989 Oct. 8, 10 a.m. – Turning “I Can’t” into “I Will” During a Depressive Time Oct. 15, 9:30 a.m. – Flu Shots Oct. 23, 10 a.m. – Fall Fest Talent Show
Lancaster County Department of Parks and Recreation
Millersville Senior Center – (717) 871-9600 Wednesdays, 9 a.m. – Tai Chi Oct. 27, 9:30 a.m. – Flu Shot Clinic Oct. 29, 10 a.m. – Music with Chuck Mummert
Pre-registration is required for these free 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. Oct. 17 or 18, 7 to 9 p.m. – Astronomy Series and Star Watch
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Next Gen Senior Center – (717) 786-4770 Mondays, Tuesdays, and Fridays, 9:30 a.m. – Exercise with Vickie Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – Bible Study Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. – Zumba Gold Rodney Park Happy Hearts Club Senior Center – (717) 393-7786 Tuesdays, noon – Pinochle Wednesdays, 1 p.m. – Varied Activities Thursdays, noon – Bingo
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New Resource Available to Help Older Adults Quit Smoking The National Institutes of Health has released a new Web resource to help older adults stop smoking. Quitting Smoking for Older Adults, a new topic from NIHSeniorHealth, offers videos, worksheets, interactive features, strategies, quizzes, and more for older smokers who want to or are thinking of quitting. In addition to lung and other cancers, smoking can cause heart disease, stroke, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The recent surgeon general’s report, The Health Consequences of Smoking – 50 www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
Years of Progress, provides new data that links smoking to bone disease, cataract, diabetes, macular degeneration, and erectile dysfunction. Research shows that people who quit smoking, regardless of their age, are less likely than those who continue to smoke to die from smoking-related illness. Although the rates of smoking have
declined in recent years for all age groups, nearly 10 percent of adults over 65—almost 4 million older Americans— continue to smoke. “Most older adults know that smoking is harmful, and many have tried unsuccessfully to quit, often a number of times. But stopping smoking is a difficult goal that still eludes many older smokers,” says Erik Augustson, program director of
the Tobacco Control Research Branch at the National Cancer Institute (NCI), which developed the topic for NIHSeniorHealth. NCI has also included information about the challenges and advantages of quitting when you’re older, smoking’s effect on medications, and how to handle withdrawal, cravings, and more. NIHSeniorHealth is designed to be senior friendly and tailored to the cognitive and visual needs of older adults with short, easy-to-read segments of information, large print, opened captioned videos, and simple navigation.
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The Search for Our Ancestry
How Can DNA Results Help Our Search? Angelo Coniglio Our DNA is contained mostly in shape; susceptibility to asthma, or tuberculosis, or color blindness; ability to genes, in our chromosomes, of which we have 23 pairs. Most of our DNA is of a procreate; etc.—the very things that make us individuals. type called autosomal, contained in 22 of the 23 These traits, chromosome however, have pairs. The 23rd been passed One of the genealogical down from our pair is the one reasons for DNA testing ancestors via the that determines coding described our sex. In males, includes the desire to by substances the pair comprises know one’s broad ethnic called one X and one Y deoxyribonucleic chromosome, and or national origins. acids: DNA. in females it has We receive two X some of the chromosomes. DNA from one parent, some from the Thus, the DNA in the Y chromosome other. Since our parents had parents, they, (Y-DNA or paternal DNA) is passed too, received some from each parent, only from male to male. meaning that part of our DNA is from Another key form of DNA is our grandparents—and from our greatmitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or grandparents and our great-greatmaternal DNA), which can be passed grandparents, back to the first humans. from a woman to both male and female
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here are several firms that cater to the general public for testing of individual DNA. Most of them actively promote their services and can be found on the Internet. The “big four,” with the main thrusts of their services, are: 23andMe (medical, genealogical, and personal ancestry); Family Tree DNA (genealogical, personal ancestry); AncestryDNA (genealogical, personal ancestry); and Genographic by National Geographic (population genetics research, personal ancestry). The first three charge about $100 for a basic test, while NG charges about $200 for a more comprehensive test. For a detailed comparison of these firms, see http://bit.ly/DNATestVendorsCompared. The premise behind all of these tests is that humans, like all living things, have a genome—a set of biological “plans” that determines the details of our very existence: hair color; eye color; body
offspring but cannot be further passed on by the males. These characteristics mean that paternal and maternal DNA can (separately) be compared to known DNA characteristics of various ethnic and geographic groups (called haplogroups) that existed in the distant past. Last time, I noted that one of the genealogical reasons for DNA testing includes the desire to know one’s broad ethnic or national origins. Many people are intrigued by such questions. Do they have black, or Jewish, or Native American ancestry? While the test vendors use DNA analyses to indicate a subject’s “ancestry composition,” I believe many researchers put undue weight on such descriptions. For example, my 23andMe ancestry composition shows 87.7 percent European, with 75.1 percent Southern European and 59.9 percent Italian, and it found that less than one-tenth of 1
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percent of my ancestry is Irish or British. Those findings are not surprising, because I have found by traditional “paper genealogy” that most of my ancestors back to the sixth generation in the mid-1700s were from one of only two towns in central Sicily. The part about 5.1 percent being Middle Eastern or African is intriguing but no more surprising.
The “small print” says that these estimates are for one’s ancestry approximately “500 years ago, before ocean-crossing ships and airplanes came on the scene.” Other results claim to define one’s ancestry as far back as 5,000 to 50,000 years, but I feel that such “ancestry” simply refers to stages or regions that the familial forebears passed through
during the long history of mankind. I happen to believe that all mankind descended from the first humans in Africa, so that if the DNA studies were all completely accurate, everyone’s ancestral composition would be the same: 100 percent African. Next time, I’ll discuss what DNA testing can do to answer the questions I’m most interested in: those
surrounding “personal ancestry.” Coniglio is the author of a novella inspired by his Sicilian research entitled The Lady of the Wheel, available in paperback at amzn.to/racalmuto or in an e-book at bit.ly/LadyOfTheWheelKindle. For more information, check out his webpage at bit.ly/AFCGen or email him at genealogytips@aol.com.
Registration Open for Medicare Information Sessions Why is Medicare’s Open Enrollment Period important? What can a Medicare beneficiary do during that time? When is the annual Enrollment Period for 2014? What do the terms deductible, co-pay, and total out-of-pocket expenses mean? And when is a “doughnut hole” not just a sweet treat?
To find the answers to these questions and to get information that will be helpful during the 2014 Medicare Open Enrollment Period, attend an information session in your area. Medicare Advantage plans and Part D prescription drug plans are allowed to change the amounts of their plan
deductibles, co-pays, and total out-ofpocket expenses, as well as their drug formularies, each year. That’s why Medicare strongly recommends that beneficiaries compare their current plan against other plans available for 2015. What should you look for in a plan
and what questions should you ask? Attend an information session and get the answers to these questions and others. Space is limited and registration is necessary. Register for a session by calling Lancaster County Office of Aging at (717) 299-7979 or (800) 801-3070 or by emailing aging@co.lancaster.pa.us.
Wanted: Lancaster Senior Artists The Lancaster County Office of Aging will be celebrating the creative and artistic talents of Lancaster County seniors by hosting the 21st Annual Lancaster Senior Arts Exhibition Oct. 21–24 at Lancaster General Hospital Suburban Outpatient Pavilion, 2100
Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster. This event is open to non-professional artists, 60 years of age and older, who live in Lancaster County. Entries will be accepted in the areas of watercolor, oils, pastels, acrylics, photography, and “other mediums.”
Artwork must be framed and hangable. Each category will be judged, and first-, second-, and third-place winners will be recognized at an artists’ reception and awards presentation at the Suburban Outpatient Pavilion on Oct. 24 at 1 p.m. In addition, a People’s Choice Award
will be given for the artwork that receives the most votes from the viewing public. For more information, contest guidelines, and entry forms, call Betty Sementelli at (717) 299-7979 or visit www.co.lancaster.pa.us/lanco_aging. Deadline for registration is Oct. 6.
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Deal Me In By Mark Pilarski
Where’d Ya Go? Dear Mark: With apologies to General Douglas MacArthur, the question still remains: What happens to old slot machines that have outlived their usefulness? I have noticed that some of my favorite machines mysteriously disappear, one casino at a time, until they are just a fleeting memory of spinning reels and flashing lights. Gone, but not forgotten. Is there a graveyard for our dearly departed friends? – Leigh H. Any time you see a slot machine disappear from the floor, from the casino’s point of view, that machine was misbehaving, or better stated, underperforming. All machines, Leigh, need to show reasonable results, or their replacement is inevitable. A gaming machine’s performance is measured by two factors: the amount of coins wagered daily (“coin in”) and the amount collected daily by the casino (“win”). If a machine’s performance falters ever so slightly, a slot manager could decide a change is needed in the slot mix, meaning the placement and positioning of machines on the casino floor. My guess here, Leigh, is that you might also be inquiring about those 20thcentury antique machines from manufacturers like Mills and Jennings or some of the later IGT or Bally machines from the ’70s or ’80s. Their resting places have a variety of possibilities. The first being, as with any
slot machine, they are usually sent to a facility that strips them for usable parts and sorts the rest for scrap. Also, stored in the basement of many casinos is that slot graveyard you speak of, where they live out their lives collecting dust. Some machines might go to a private collection, but, depending on local law, they may have to be rendered inoperable. Many a man cave has one sitting in the corner to pilfer quarters from the owner’s friends. A collector like yours truly would never part with his 1934 Mills Star “Firebird” QT nickel machine, as it pays for the free Guinness or PBR, their choice, offered when some sucker is yanking its handle. Then there are retail establishments specific to the selling of older slot machines in gambling towns like Reno and Las Vegas, where selling gambling equipment is legal. Some of these stores have a decent-sized collection on site. If you are a want-to-be buyer of a “dearly departed friend,” it is important to check state and local laws before you pull the trigger (handle), although,
generally speaking, antique slot machines are legal in most states if they are over 25 years old. You can also do an online search for “old slot machines for sale,” or go to eBay, where a plethora of slots is always for sale. Even though Nevada may be the gambling capital of the United States, the slot machine was actually born elsewhere, in San Francisco. The first mechanical slot machine, the Liberty Bell, was invented in 1895 by Charles Fey, a San Francisco mechanic. Fey’s machine housed three spinning reels, each decorated with diamonds, spades, hearts, and one cracked Liberty Bell per reel. When the bells lined up, they produced your biggest payoff: 10 nickels. The original Liberty Bell used to be on display at the Liberty Belle Saloon & Restaurant in Reno, but since its closing in 2006, it is now exhibited at the Nevada State Museum. Back in the ’40s and early ’50s, those older mechanical slots were chock full of springs and gears that were powered by a player pulling the handle, which started
the reels spinning. The problem with these early machines was that they were limited in the size of the jackpots because they could only accept one coin, which restricted the number of coins they could pay out. Once the electromechanical machine appeared, it allowed multiple-coin play, which included electrically powered hoppers that could pay out much larger jackpots. When the computerized slots were introduced in the ’80s, machines with progressive jackpots were linked among different machines hundreds of miles apart, offered huge jackpots starting in the millions. Essentially, Leigh, slot machines keep advancing and getting more complicated, necessitating new homes for the older ones. I will write in a future column about some new three-reel mechanical slots with the feel of a traditional slot that are now hitting the floor. Gambling Wisdom of the Month: “Slot machines are the cotton candy and the McDonald’s of the casino. Everyone knows that they’re bad for you, but few can resist their junk-food appeal.” – Andrew Brisman Mark Pilarski is a recognized authority on casino gambling, having survived 18 years in the casino trenches. Pilarski is the creator of the bestselling, award-winning audio book series on casino gambling, Hooked on Winning. www.markpilarski.com
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The Worst That Can Happen Saralee Perel
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worst-case scenario of the past. Two years ago, when Bob brought Eddie’s body home from an emergency Fox. clinic, he gently placed him, still warm, Do I need to spend my days in my arms. I cradled him while I imagining something awful happening rocked him and sang to him for one last to my husband, Bob, or to me? A car time. accident? A heart attack? A house fire? I am only hurting myself by reliving If, God forbid, any of these things were that day again and again. Only recently to happen, must I go have I allowed myself to through the agony of relive the good times, the them before they even funny times, like Eddie’s occur, if in fact they ever famous glare, his eyes do? half shut in an intense No. stare, looking for Although I’ve recently anything that had been written about my little added to the room or cat, Jordy, he’s had moved an inch so that he another remarkable could pounce on it and experience in his short smash it to smithereens. Jordy life. I can choose what to A few months ago, I think. And now I have a wrote that when Jordy was a kitten, his choice with Jordy. I can imagine the back leg was destroyed. Given no worst-case scenario or not. medical care, someone had left him to Jordy’s day turned out gloriously. Our suffer. Bob and I don’t know the person regular vet quickly diagnosed the who did this to him, nor how it problem as an injury to the hip where happened. Thank God we found him the leg had been amputated. and adopted him. That very afternoon, with no pain After his leg was amputated, he was a and no crying, Jordy happily joined his happy kitten. Now he slips, slides, falls, family as if nothing had ever happened. and bounces right back up, purring the Jordy sleeps between Bob’s knees. Bob whole time. doesn’t move all night because heaven But last week, Bob and I found Jordy forbid he moves the cat. That night, crying in pain, unable to get up. Too Jordy slept soundly while Bob blissfully early in the morning to see our regular groaned in discomfort. vet, we took him to an emergency clinic. Jordy wasn’t dreaming about whatever Although the doctor was great, she was bad thing might come his way. unable to help him. Twitching lightly, he was probably When I was a practicing dreaming about the chipmunk he loves psychotherapist, I learned that traumas, to watch from the window. particularly deaths, bring up older I’ll always learn my most important deaths with nearly the same intensity as lessons from my cat. if they had just happened. Helplessly Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally watching Jordy cry, I relived the last day syndicated columnist. Her new book is of the life of my cat, Eddie. Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories Therefore, instead of imagining the From a Life Out of Balance. To find out worst-case scenario in the future and more, visit www.saraleeperel.com or email sperel@saraleeperel.com. living through it twice, I’m reliving the
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Nostalgia Road
Sportsalgia Dick Dedrick
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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?
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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.
I know—you’re wondering what my problem is. But I’m not really talking to you. I’m talking to my grandkids and pretending they’re listening. I played ball with a $4 bat and an $8 glove. Your folks are paying $200 for a bat and traveling 200 miles for a playoff game.
Photographers and trophy stores are getting rich off your Little League teams. Am I getting through? So much for my baseball rant. Yes, their grandma and I were out there every weekend this summer (and fall) to cheer ’em on. “Good eye, Ashley!” “Good cut, Sophie!” “Good gawd, Wesley!” Visit NostalgiaRoad.com
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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. He said 50 percent of his climbs are repeated, while 50 percent are new expeditions. “I’ve had amazing adventures,” Beckerich said. “It’s an amazing feeling when you get over the top. You’ve worked all day to attain the pinnacle. If I could bottle it, I’d sell it.” But Beckerich only stays at the summits for 15 minutes to half an hour because of how fast the weather can change at those heights. “You don’t want to give it disrespect. Lightning, hail, wind can strike at any time.” Although retired from teaching math, Beckerich is still teaching to the “curious and committed” at a night school and a
community college in his class chance, there are a lot of adventures to “Adventures of a Lifetime.” do.” He also has given presentations at Although he started out climbing retirement communities, homeless alone, Beckerich doesn’t recommend it. shelters, sporting-goods stores, and local “Tragedies happen,” he said, referring high schools. to a recent avalanche at Mount Everest Beckerich’s base camp. “I camped topics range from there two years ago.” choosing an He also had a fall outfitter and about six years ago in training tips, to the Colorado peaks organizing gear lists when he was by and getting the himself. right pre-trip “There was a minimedical tests. rock slide. I had to “My mission is self-medicate and to motivate, inspire, walk to get help. I Beckerich taking a break above base camp, Plaza de Argentina. and educate people had to be medevaced of all ages and to a Denver hospital. I interests in their quest to make a was lucky; I just had a severe laceration to difference on the planet, pursue their my lower leg,” Beckerich said. Now, after meeting other climbers with dreams, and make each day count,” Beckerich said. “If you take care of his same passion, Beckerich goes with them. This summer he spent several yourself and are not afraid to take a
weeks climbing in the Denver area. “Once you get started on adventures, people give you other places to go,” he said. Now on his wish list is circumnavigating around Mont Blanc in the Alps. Beckerich said in order to take adventures such as the ones he has gone on, you have to be in shape. He goes to the gym once a day for a one-hour workout and takes 1.5-hour to two-hour treks through nearby parks. He also has trekked through the Adirondacks on the Appalachian Trail “to make sure I’m fit. The body has its limitations … make sure your diet is good, as well as your sleep habits and lifestyle. “I’ve been a lucky person. I’ve had my health, the opportunity, and the financial ability.” For further information about Beckerich’s adventures, contact him at james_beckerich@yahoo.com.
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Creativity Matters
3 Living Holocaust Survivors and Their Creative Success Judith Zausner
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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. • 2002 – received the Herkomer Surviving the war Cultural Prize in with only his Landsberg, mother, they Germany eventually settled in Israel, where he Judith (Peto) studied art at the Leiber, 93: Bezalel Academy Handbag of Arts and Designer Design in Born in Jerusalem. Hungary, Leiber A collection of his works is on was preparing for The Family, oil on canvas painting by Samuel Bak, 1974, private collection. university permanent display matriculation in at Pucker Gallery London when she returned home to be in Boston, and many exhibitions of his art have been in prominent museums with her family despite the new restrictions for Jews. and galleries worldwide. “Hitler put me in the handbag • 2001 – publication of his book Painted business,” Leiber says. Because Jews were in Words: A Memoir (printed in four not allowed to study, she had to learn a trade. languages)
She met and married Gerson (Gus) Leiber, an American GI, in Budapest, and they settled in New York City. She worked for various handbag companies when, in the 1960s and with encouragement from her husband, she began her own company. Judith Leiber’s worldwide success is an extraordinary story of hard work, smarts, and enormous technical and visual talent. Her handbags are on permanent display at the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C.; the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New 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 • 1980 – Silver Slipper Award from the
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Costume Institute of the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston • 1994 – Lifetime Achievement Award from the Council of Fashion Designers of America • 2010 – Visionary Woman Award from Moore College of Art & Design Yoram Gross, 87: Animation Artist of Stories for Children Born in Poland, he loved music above all and says, “All I wanted to do
was play Chopin.” But he and his family were on Oskar Schindler’s famous list. They decided to take their own risk escaping by moving and hiding places 72 times. He later moved to Israel, where he worked and learned about documentaries and films, and then moved to Australia where, with his wife, he honed his animation skills and created experimental films. Well known for his series Blinky Bill and Dot and the Kangaroo, he tells stories to the hearts of children that are rooted
in the Holocaust experience and laced with lessons of survival, kindness, and triumph. • 80+ international awards for various films • 1995 – Received the Order of Australia • 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.
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 that 200 mg of caffeine appears to aid memory retention. The dose of 200 mg is apparently the optimum amount, producing better
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
effects than 100 mg, while 300 mg produced no greater improvement. By the way, 300 mg is the amount consumed daily by the average American— between two and four cups.
diseases like nonviral hepatitis. Suicide. Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, reviewing data from three large U.S. studies, found adults drinking two to four cups of coffee a day were 50 percent less at risk of suicide than those who drank no coffee (or consumed decaf ). The scientists speculate that caffeine may serve as a mild antidepressant, boosting levels of dopamine and serotonin in the brain.
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The Beauty in Nature
Storing Nuts Clyde McMillan-Gamber
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lue jays, gray squirrels, and eastern chipmunks are interesting to watch gathering and storing nuts and seeds during September and October in the woods and suburbs of southeastern Pennsylvania, as in much of North America. These creatures obviously have memories that enable them to find stashed food. Each species stores food for winter in a way different from the others. Groups of blue jays flash into pin oak trees with patches of red or brown autumn foliage among the green to pick acorns, one at a time, and fly away with them to stash them in tree cavities and behind loose bark or poke them into loose soil. Each jay offers a beautiful contrast of blue feathers among the colored oak leaves, particularly on sunny days. During winter, jays visit the places where they stashed acorns. They pull out the acorns, one at a time, crack the shells
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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
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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. Clyde McMillan-Gamber is a retired Lancaster County Parks naturalist.
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