Lebanon County Edition
January 2013
Vol. 8 No. 1
A Woman with 2 Birthdays Transplant Recipient Helps Others through Book and Organ-Donation Advocacy By Lori Van Ingen Chronic kidney disease affects one in nine Americans, and millions more are at risk. More than 105,000 people are on the National Kidney Transplant List in the United States. “Every day, 18 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ, such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or bone marrow,” said Carole Fair, an organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania for nearly two years. Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 4,573 kidney patients, 1,506 liver patients, 371 heart patients, and 234 lung patients died in 2008 while waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, Fair noted. “I’m hoping that with more awareness of transplantation and the generosity of others, these numbers could certainly decline,” said Fair, who recently spoke at events at Holy Spirit Hospital and Hershey Antique Auto Association. Fair is a circuit speaker at civic clubs, women’s organizations, and churches. She helps people become aware of transplantation, clears up misconceptions, and promotes organ donation in general. “I get asked the most basic questions, like, ‘Where is my kidney located?’ and ‘Is the old kidney removed during a transplant?’” said Fair, who also is a please see ADVOCACY page 11 Kidney transplant recipient Carole Fair is now an author as well as an active organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania.
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Pirates and More in Tampa page 6
Eye Care Coverage and Services for Retirees page 10
Local Man Celebrates Centennial Birthday
The residents at Traditions presented Fields with a t-shirt that said, “I’m 100 Years Old.”
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Raymond (Ray) Fields, a resident at Traditions of Hershey, recently turned 100 years old, and the entire community and some of his family members celebrated by throwing him a surprise party. Fields was born on Nov. 30, 1912. He has nine children, 16 grandchildren, and 15 greatgrandchildren. He is a retired toll collector from the Pennsylvania Turnpike and has been a resident at Traditions of Hershey since 2008. Fields loves to play pool in the game room and attends all the entertainment events because he loves
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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
Big Plays on Display at the Pro Football Hall of Fame
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Dr. Lori f you like vintage architecture interactive displays featuring game uniforms from the Pro Bowl as well from the 1960s, you’ll like the footage and player videos, the as equipment and apparel worn by surroundings of the Pro Football Lamar Hunt Super Bowl exhibition Walter Payton, Joe Namath, and Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. gallery with the Vince Lombardi Dan Marino, among others. The The building was ultra-modern trophy on display, the Super Bowl exhibits also focus on the impact of in its day with its interior spiral ring display (for the jewelry lover in stars like O.J. Simpson and the ramp (like the one designed by the family), and the popular Hall of Buffalo Bills’ Electric Company. Frank Lloyd Wright for the Fame gallery. Some displays show a player’s Guggenheim Museum in New York While the Super Bowl ring love of the game by focusing on City), glass curtain wall (a nod to display was one of my favorites great plays made by Chicago Bears the urban office-building (who doesn’t like all those running back Brian Piccolo or architecture of Mies van der Rohe diamonds?), the Hall of Fame Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman. And, and Philip Johnson), and footballgallery speaks to the core of the Hall who could forget the famous shaped roofline Immaculate Reception indicative of midmade by Pittsburgh century modern Steelers fullback Franco American Harris (a fellow Penn architecture. Stater) on Dec. 23, Canton, Ohio, 1972? The museum, was chosen as the through its diverse site for the Hall of exhibits, shows visitors Fame for many the heart of the game reasons. However, of football. we focus on I discovered one last football’s legacy interesting thing about there as opposed sports museums during to some other my visit to the Pro locale because of Football Hall of Fame. the Native No matter how much American athlete information is available Exhibition Gallery at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Canton, Ohio. named Jim to a visitor in a sports Thorpe, who museum, fans always signed a football search for more. I of Fame. The gallery houses contract there. Thorpe, the star of noticed many visitors standing in interactive displays and an the 1912 Olympic Games, signed front of very good, informative impressive assemblage of fine-art his first contract to play football displays—even interactive bronze portrait busts of the Hall of with the Canton Bulldogs in 1915. displays—who were still searching Fame inductees through the years. While the vintage building is for additional stats on their cell good looking, the museum is in the The bronze busts are the work of phones. I even found myself doing Utah sculptor Blair Buswell and midst of completing a major it. they capture the likeness of each construction/ As a former museum curator and football great. As a display, the expansion project to host more director, I bet you think I’d be football fans. The completion of the gallery is awe inspiring as visitors appalled by this but, in fact, I think search for their favorite Hall of museum expansion will coincide when a museum’s displays prompt th Famer. with the Hall of Fame’s 50 visitors to find out more, that’s a anniversary in 2013. The new At the Pro Football Hall of Fame, pretty cool and quite interactive facilities will not only host a world exhibits trace the history of museum. Plan a visit. of football fans, but they will also professional football with unique Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, and offer the Ralph Wilson Jr. Football objects like the Baltimore Colts award-winning TV personality, Dr. Lori Research and Preservation Center, marching band’s bass drum, press presents antique appraisal events the researchers’ reading room, an wood posters announcing the 1962 nationwide. Dr. Lori is the expert event center, and a meeting room. AFL championship game between appraiser on the hit TV show Auction In addition, there will be the Houston Oilers and the Dallas Kings on Discovery channel, which airs exhibition galleries focusing on the Texans, and early helmets worn by Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Visit history of the game dating back to various players. www.DrLoriV.com, www.Facebook.com/ the early 1900s, state-of-the-art The exhibits highlight player DoctorLori, or call (888) 431-1010.
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Book Review
Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch By C. Eugene Moore
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ho has a stronger sense of tradition than the Amish? In Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch, we find anecdotes that have been passed down in families. In the retelling of these stories we find that each has been given a special patina as it has been lovingly handed down from generation to generation. “Amos Trades Up” follows the comical misadventures of a young Amishman. Paid off after his year of indentured service, Amos starts walking home. But along the way he meets temptation after temptation—and he pursues them all. “Eilenshpiggel and His Shenanigans” tells of the willful, mischievous rogue who’s a legend among the Pennsylvania Dutch people. In “John the Blacksmith,” we learn of the native intelligence of this character and of how he manages to outwit an emissary from the devil himself.
“Tales Tall and Taller” is a collection of exaggerations that make for wonderful reminiscences. For example, what happened to the man from Ephrata whose dentist pulled his tooth, then somehow let it slip off the tongs and travel down the patient’s throat? Read “Graven Images and the Legends that Grow Around Them” to find out about burial customs among the Pennsylvania Dutch and to learn what the emblems on grave markers signify. “Pennsylvania German Humor” is filled with traditional stories that bring laughter to the people of southeastern Pennsylvania. The book even offers “A True Ghost Story.” This is a fast-moving tale of
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murder and its eerie consequences. It asks you to explain what happened, if you can. An appendix, “Forearmed in Bilaspur,” tells of two Lancaster County men who link up to hunt tigers in India. This is all we’ll tell you about this story, which has a surprise twist at the end. The book is richly illustrated with color photographs depicting items made by Pennsylvania Dutch craftsmen: tall clocks, furniture, Conestoga wagon hardware, quilts, guns, and Amish toys. Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch is available at local bookstores or from Schiffer Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley Road, Atglen, Pa. 19310 or (610) 593-1777.
About the Author Gene Moore, a former navy officer, is a graduate of Auburn University who earned a master’s degree from Florida State University. He retired as director of public relations from Armstrong World Industries, Inc. A previous book, How Armstrong Floored America: The People Who Made It Happen, 1945-1995, was published by the Lancaster County Historical Society. He and his wife, Jan, make their home in Lancaster. Calling All Authors If you have written and published a book and would like 50plus Senior News to feature a Book Review, please submit a synopsis of the book (350 words or fewer) and a short autobiography (80 words or fewer). A copy of the book is required for review. Discretion is advised. Please send to: On-Line Publishers, Inc., Megan Joyce, 3912 Abel Drive, Columbia, PA 17512. For more information, please email mjoyce@onlinepub.com.
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Pirates and More in Tampa By Andrea Gross “There it is!” The child who is standing next to me jumps up and down, accompanying each jump with an ear-splitting shriek. I look in the direction he is pointing. It is indeed a scream-worthy sight. There, sailing toward us, in a slow but steady manner, is a giant pirate ship, with masts that pierce the sky and bright flags that wave in the breeze. The name of the ship is emblazoned on its side: José Gasparilla. The deck is crowded with hundreds of men, some with black triangular hats adorned with a skulland crossbones insignia, others with colorful rag-wrapped turbans. The men blast cannons, brandish swords, and whoop and holler as the ship, surrounded by a flotilla of small boats, prepares to invade the city of Tampa. The ship docks and the pirate
The pirate ship José Gasparilla approaches the city of Tampa.
After the invasion, the pirates parade through town, tossing treasures to the waiting crowd.
Tampa residents get into the spirit of Gasparilla.
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Bringing Addison’s Disease Into the Open Addison’s disease is a rare affliction, one that strikes only one in about 100,000 people. President John F. Kennedy suffered from it for most of his life, and he took steps to hide it from the public, but for most people secrecy is unnecessary. With the right treatment, people with Addison’s can live long, full lives. Dr. Thomas Addison was the British physician who first documented the condition in 1849; it’s a chronic disorder of the endocrine system that prevents the patient’s adrenal glands (located just above the kidneys) from producing important hormones, including those needed to maintain appropriate blood sugar levels, decrease immune system response, and respond to stress, among other functions. The symptoms are easy to mistake for simple fatigue, but keep an eye open for these: • Muscle weakness or pain • Lightheadedness
captain disembarks and approaches the mayor, demanding the key to the city of Tampa. The mayor complies; the party can begin. Tampa’s annual pirate fest, which will take place this year on Jan. 26, honors José Gaspar, the bold buccaneer who, in the late 1700s and early 1800s, captured hundreds of ships off the coast of Florida. Today the Gasparilla Festival has become a major event, and the stolen treasure is being returned in the form of tourist dollars. Gasparilla combines the legend of Gaspar with the magic of Mardi Gras. Following their successful takeover of the city, the merry pirates (a.k.a., civic leaders who are members of Ye Mystic Krewe of Gasparilla) strut through downtown in true swashbuckling style, accompanied by more than 100 floats and marching bands. At the same time, merrymakers fill the streets, where there’s nonstop entertainment and an abundance of
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food stands. The partying continues until 10 p.m., at which time the victorious pirates retreat, letting Tampa return to the 21st century. Of course, Tampa is more than pirates. Its attractions include great beaches (nearby St. Pete Beach was voted No. 1 by TripAdvisor), a temperate climate (average summer temps are in the low 80s; average winter ones are in the low 60s), and a historic district that reflects the city’s Latin heritage. We start our exploration in Ybor City (pronounced EE-bore), the historic neighborhood named after the Cuban cigar manufacturer who made the region a mecca for hardworking immigrants. Less than 100 years after Gaspar pillaged the region, workers from Cuba were joined by workers of other nationalities, and together they produced approximately 700 million hand-rolled cigars a year. Today the area is filled with eclectic shops and trendy nightclubs, but traces of the past remain. Old, red-brick buildings with wrought-iron grillwork line streets bordered with spindly palms; master cigar rollers continue to practice their craft; and the Columbia Restaurant, Florida’s oldest and the world’s largest Spanish restaurant, features a full array of Cuban food, as well as the “original Cuban sandwich” (a long loaf of soft,
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Ybor City is a National Historic District that commemorates the city’s Latin heritage.
Columbia Restaurant, established in 1905, is Florida’s oldest restaurant.
Hand-rolled cigars are still made in Ybor City.
white bread filled with layers of ham, roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and mustard). Walking through the restaurant is almost as interesting as tasting its food. Amidst the wrought iron and bright tiles,
there’s a royal dining room, a Spanish courtyard, and a flamenco nightclub. The Tampa Bay History Center, a 60,000-square-foot facility that opened in January 2009, tells us more about Ybor City and the entire Tampa Bay
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region. Various exhibits highlight people from the Seminole Indians and Spanish conquistadors to the “cowmen and crackers” who were part of Florida’s cattle-ranching past. To see a bit of Tampa’s natural history, we go to the 240-acre Lettuce Lake Park, so named because the surrounding greenery reminded folks of a lunchtime salad. Rather than renting a canoe or kayak, we pick up a map and brochure at the visitors center and explore on foot. There are 3,500 feet of boardwalk, more than a mile of paved pathways, and an abundance of well-maintained nature trails that lead us though groves of cypress and ferns and past two alligators, a few turtles, and an untold number of birds. That evening we arrive early for our flight home and are relaxing at the mojito bar when a gentleman tells us that the best place to see a Florida sunset is from the top of the airport parking garage. We take the elevator to the top floor and there, against a red sky, we can almost see a fully rigged pirate ship sailing into the bay. With a smile and a toast to José Gaspar, we go down to catch our plane. www.visittampabay.com Photos © Irv Green; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).
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Salute to a Veteran
He Spent Many 2-Month Tours Under the Sea Robert D. Wilcox s he grew up in Corning, N.Y., Bill Landis saw a future for himself as an electrical engineer. So after he graduated from high school in 1967, he went to work at a Central Pennsylvania RCA plant, working on jobs as technically complex as creating the camera used on the Apollo missions to the moon. He had a low number in the military draft, however, and he knew that he would soon be called into the military. So he decided to join the Navy, where he could hope to be part of the Navy’s program of rapidly converting to nuclear propulsion for its submarines. He didn’t know at the time how difficult that would be. But he was soon to find out. Upon enlisting, he was called to active duty in 1970 and took boot camp at Great Lakes Training Center. He then learned of the rigid requirements of those
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who were selected for submarine service. physics. A special board was sent from They were all volunteers. No one could Washington, D.C., to grade the tests be taller than 6 feet, and faced by those who they must have perfect completed those jamcolor vision and perfect packed months of physical condition, training. including sound teeth. Landis and the others Those meeting those who had qualified were requirements then faced a sent to assignments in the number of mental and fleet. Landis was sent to psychological tests, from Pearl Harbor, where he which only those in the was assigned to the Puffer, top 10 percent had any an SSN-652 nuclear chance of being selected. attack submarine. Having passed all The mission of the William C. Landis, aboard the those hurdles, Landis was attack submarine Puffer, with Puffer was to find and sent to the Navy’s Mare destroy enemy his submarine qualification certificate. Island Nuclear Power submarines and surface School in California, and vessels, using its then to Idaho at an operating atomic torpedoes and the Tomahawk cruise reactor for six months. There, he studied missiles it carried aboard. The sub also math, chemistry, metallurgy, and nuclear was able to carry Navy Seals and offload
them underwater to perform a mission, and then recover them after the mission, without an enemy’s knowing from where they came or where they went after completing the mission. An important asset of the Puffer was its ability to descend to great depths at sea. Where previous diesel-powered subs had been able to go as deep as 500 feet, the nuclear-powered subs like the Puffer were able to dive far deeper. The sub itself was about the length of a football field … and carried all the food the crew of some 120 men would need on a typical patrol of two months. It had its own water-purification and waste-disposal systems, and the nuclear power plant would propel the vessel indefinitely. Where diesel-powered subs had been essentially surface craft that could submerge, nuclear-powered subs like the Puffer were truly underwater
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craft that needed to come to land only at us. Our torpedoes could be steered from the end of a mission. our sub to go exactly where we wanted What was life like aboard the sub? them to go.” “Well,” Landis says, “they fed us four Other jobs of the Puffer were to times a day, and the food was participate in war games, where they outstanding. And they kept us so busy gave surface ships a chance to try to that there was little time to think of the locate threatening subs. Also, to keep diversions we might be missing. Meals tabs on Soviet subs, often trailing them were served continuously, so you had to for days, reporting on their movements fit them in between your other duties. and recording noise signatures. There were only four tables in the An interesting sidelight was that prior enlisted mess, so meals took some to the filming of The Hunt for Red planning. But every man aboard—even October, Sean Connery was on board the the cooks— Puffer were preparing for submarine his role as qualified to Capt. Marko know all the Ramius. He sub’s basic was given systems. the status of “Big as a the Puffer commander was, every and was inch of allowed space was (while the used to captain was The Puffer attack submarine on which carry next to him) Bill Landis served in the Pacific. essential to give food and orders while gear. It was so crowded that you had the boat was underway. virtually no privacy. Since water was at Just after Christmas in 1976, Landis such a premium, you had a ‘Navy was discharged from the Navy at Pearl shower’ once a week. You turned the Harbor as an E-5 2nd class petty officer. He returned to Central Pennsylvania to water on to get yourself wet, then again work for RCA in engineering, turned it off to get soaped up, and then gaining several patents for his work in turned it back on to rinse off. If the guy fiber optics. At the same time, he after you thought you were taking a attended Franklin & Marshall College, minute more than necessary, he simply in the evening division, and earned an turned the faucet to cold, and you associate degree in business hopped out in a hurry. There were only administration. two shower stalls for the 100 or so Landis retired in 2009 and now enlisted men aboard, and each was so spends much of his time talking with small that you couldn’t turn around. groups and individuals about his having “The Puffer often did escort duty, served for so many years under the seas where we shadowed our carriers, for in the Pacific. example, and protected them from enemy subs. We used passive sonar that Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in listened for the electronic imprint of Europe in World War II. enemy subs, but wouldn’t lead them to
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Eye Care Coverage and Services for Retirees Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Does Medicare cover eye care? I had excellent vision insurance through my employer for many years but lost it when I retired, and now I am confused as to what Medicare actually covers. What can you tell me? — Living on a Budget
are generally not covered. But, “medically necessary” eye care usually is. Here’s a list of what is covered:
Dear Living, Many retirees are confused with what Medicare will and won’t cover when it comes to eye care. Here’s a breakdown of how Medicare handles different types of vision care services, along with some additional tips that can help you get affordable care when needed.
• Eyeglasses or contacts: only if you’ve had cataract surgery.
Medicare Coverage If you have original Medicare (Part A and B), it’s important to know that “routine” vision care like eye exams, eye refractions, eyeglasses, or contact lenses
• Glaucoma screenings: annual screenings for those at high risk (diabetics, those with a family history of glaucoma, or those who are African-American or Hispanic).
• Eye surgeries: any surgical procedure that helps repair the function of the eye like cataract removal, cornea transplant, glaucoma surgery, etc.
• Medical eye exams: only if you’re having vision problems that indicate a serious eye condition like macular degeneration, retinopathy, glaucoma, or dry eye syndrome.
• Diabetic eye exams: if you have diabetes, yearly exams for diabetic retinopathy. • Macular degeneration: certain treatments are covered. You also need to be aware that of the eye care services that are covered by Medicare, you’re still responsible for 20 percent of the cost— Medicare pays the other 80 percent. To help with this out-of-pocket expense, some Medigap supplemental policies provide gap coverage. Or, if you have Medicare Advantage, some plans provide eye care benefits. Be sure you check with your plan administrator.
Assistance Programs Depending on where you live, there may also be some local clinics or charitable organizations that provide free or discounted eye care or eyeglasses. Put in a call to your local Lions Club to see what’s available in your area. To reach your local club, visit www.directory. lionsclubs.org or call (800) 747-4448 to get the number to your state Lions Club office, which can refer you to your community representative. Or, if you need medical eye care, check into EyeCare America. This is a national program that provides comprehensive medical eye examinations to seniors age 65 and older and up to one year of treatment at no cost. They accept Medicare or other insurance as full payment. And if you don’t have insurance, care is free. To learn more or to find out if you qualify, visit www.eyecareamerica.org. If you’re under age 65, some other services that can help include Mission Cataract USA (www.missioncataract usa.org), which provides free cataract surgery to low-income people who don’t have insurance. And Vision USA (www.optometryscharity.org/vision-usa, (800) 766-4466) provides free vision care to uninsured and low-income workers and their families.
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Ways to Save If you find your eye care needs aren’t covered, or you can’t afford the 20 percent out-of-pocket that Medicare doesn’t cover, there are other ways to save. For starters, if you need a refractive eye exam or a new pair of eyeglasses, many optometrists and eyeglass dealers offer discounts—usually between 10 and 30 percent—to seniors who request it. Memberships in groups like AAA and AARP can also provide lower rates. Another way to get low-cost eye care is at an optometry school. Many offer affordable care provided by students that are overseen by their professors. See www.opted.org for a directory of schools and their contact information.
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kidney transplant recipient. Fair said her new kidney is in the right lower quadrant of her stomach, attached to the artery in the leg and bladder. “If you have uncontrollable hypertension, they will remove the (old) kidney, but I only had mild hypertension, so mine wasn’t removed,” she said. She also gets asked how it feels to have someone else’s kidney. But Fair doesn’t think of it that way, she said. She only thinks about how good it is to no longer be on dialysis, 10 hours every night, seven days a week. “I’m so glad to be rid of it because of the donation,” Fair said. “Many think of it as their new birth date. Mine was Feb. 21, 2011. It’s a new life.” Organ transplants are based on supply and demand and, currently, the demand is far greater than the available supply, Fair said. When there were no airbags in cars and fewer people were saved from accidents, there were more cadavers available. But because airbags are saving lives, those cadavers are no longer an option for transplantations. Therefore, organ donors are needed more than ever before. In 1987, those in need of a kidney transplant only had to wait seven months after first being placed on the transplant list, Fair said. But by 2012, the wait had lengthened to four to six years. Twelve thousand people meet the criteria for needing a kidney transplant, but fewer than half get donors. “That statistic really struck home,” Fair said. Transplant recipients are looking more and more to living donors since people can live with only one of their two kidneys. At Harrisburg Hospital, more than 50 percent of kidney transplants are due to living donors, Fair said, quoting Dr. Harold Yang, a hospital surgeon who helped save her life. While kidney disease can be from hypertension, diabetes, or polycystic kidney disease, Fair’s kidney problem stemmed from a birth defect in her sphincter muscle. “There was a surgery that could be done by age 5,” she said, but her diagnosis at age 21 put her well beyond that point, and her kidneys slowly deteriorated over the years. Fair began journaling about her experiences with kidney disease in September 2007. By the fall of 2010, she needed to go on dialysis, and she continued writing. “I had no idea if I would even receive a kidney, and if I did, how would I get through the surgery? The recovery period? Would there be a happy ending? All these www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
questions remained unanswered,” Fair said. “Although I had excellent medical care ... I could not have gotten through this time in my life without my faith,” Fair said. “Faith is a choice—it comes from the heart. You either want to believe or you don’t. I so believed in God and knew that he would see me through this most difficult time. After all, (God) is the physician of all physicians.” Fair’s earlier kindness to a young girl reaped benefits to not only herself, but another kidney transplant recipient as well. Because Fair had sponsored Janette “Jay” Diaz into Milton Hershey School, Diaz wanted to repay her kindness by donating her kidney to Fair. But after testing, the two weren’t a match. Instead, they were put on the Paired Donor List for a live match. Diaz matched a woman in Pittsburgh, and that woman’s friend, Marlane, matched Fair for a fourway swap. “So exciting!” Fair said. On Feb. 21, 2011, Marlane’s kidney was flown from the Thomas E. Starzl Transplant Institute of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center to Harrisburg Hospital, where Fair was waiting for the lifesaving surgery. After an excellent recovery, Fair decided to compile her journal entries and craft them into a book, Transplanted to Better Health. “I wanted to offer hope and encouragement to patients who were suffering from kidney failure, or anyone suffering from a serious illness in general,” Fair said. In her memoir, Fair describes the good and bad days, the ups and downs of dialysis treatment, waiting for a lifesaving kidney transplant, and the road to recovery. “My story will be familiar for anyone who has been down the road with kidney failure, and will uplift and empower those who are just setting foot on that path,” she said. “My book is like one patient talking to another patient.” But what sets Fair’s book apart from others is the details in her journals that only a person with a medical background would include. Fair is a medical technician who worked in a doctor’s office. A signed copy of Fair’s book may be purchased from Fair by emailing her at transplanted44@hotmail.com or through Amazon.com as a book or an e-book. To receive a signed copy, send a check payable to Fair Book Publishing for $18, which includes shipping, to: FBP, 1522 Collingdale Circle, Mechanicsburg, PA 17050. To engage Fair as a speaker, contact her at the above email address.
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Calendar of Events Senior Center Activities
Lebanon County Library Programs Annville Free Library, 216 E. Main St., Annville, (717) 867-1802 Lebanon Community Library, 125 N. Seventh St., (717) 273-7624 Jan. 3, 5:30 p.m. – Tablet Class (for Users of Kindle Fire, Nook Color, Nook Tablet, iPad, iPod, Galaxy Tablet, or a Smartphone) Jan. 10, 5:30 p.m. – Basic e-Reader Class (for Users of Basic Kindle, Nook, Sony, or Kobo)
Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796 200 S. White Oak St., Annville Jan. 4 – Ugly Sweater Day Jan. 7, 12:30 p.m. – Free Blood Pressure Screening Jan. 10, 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast Club Meeting at Annville Grille Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048 710 Maple St., Lebanon
Matthews Public Library, 102 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, (717) 865-5523 Myerstown Community Library, 199 N. College St., Myerstown, (717) 866-2800 Palmyra Public Library, 325 S. Railroad St., (717) 838-1347 Jan. 16, 5:30 p.m. – Tablet Class (for Users of Kindle Fire, Nook Color, Nook Tablet, iPad, iPod, Galaxy Tablet, or a Smartphone) Jan. 23, 5:30 p.m. – Basic e-Reader Class (for Users of Basic Kindle, Nook, Sony, or Kobo) Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939
Programs and Support Groups
Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-6786 51 W. Stoever Ave., Myerstown Jan. 8, 8 a.m. – Golden Sneakers Walking Jan. 11, 1:30 p.m. – Pinochle Card Party Jan. 16, noon – Snowman Luncheon at Dutchway Restaurant Northern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 865-0944 335 N. Lancaster St., Jonestown – www.jonestownpa.org/senior.html Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237 101 S. Railroad St., Palmyra
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Jan. 4, 2 to 4 p.m. – The Brain Show Trivia Game Show, Traditions of Hershey, 100 N. Larkspur Drive, Palmyra, RSVPs requested at (717) 838-2330 If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.
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Southern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 274-7541 Midway Church of the Brethren, 13 Evergreen Road, Lebanon Privately Owned Centers Senior Center of Lebanon Valley, Inc. – (717) 274-3451 710 Maple St., Lebanon Washington Arms – (717) 274-4104 303 Chestnut St., Lebanon Jan. 2, 9 a.m. – Zumba Tone with Weights Jan. 2, 10 a.m. – Book Club with Cari Jan. 28, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Bus Trip: The Gap, Farmer’s Wife, Sweet Sensations (Progressive Meal)
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• Greeter • Tax preparer • Site coordinator support • Tech support Even though tax season may seem far away, now is the time to get involved with VITA. All are encouraged to sign up; no previous tax preparation experience is required. For more information and/or to sign up for training, please contact Sandy Long at (717) 273-9328, Lebanon County Community Action Partnership. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
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The Squint-Eyed Senior
Warmed in the Glow of My Golden Years Theodore Rickard hate to admit it—or, at least, I should be somewhat bashful about admitting it—but there is a certain smug satisfaction in being retired. First of all, there is an inner contentment, somewhat akin to a sense of triumph, in not being awakened by the clock radio. For years the little white cube was set for the same time and the same unctuous and annoyingly happy voice told us what the local weather was. This information was a loser either way. If the weather was bad, it meant a rush to leave early enough to allow for the inevitable traffic snarls. If the weather was good, the call to duty and the reality of a second mortgage engendered painful resentments. In the first few months of not having to go to work I’d call the bank to see if the pension deposits had actually been made. The patient lady (her name is Alice) at the local branch would recite the figures—the same numbers every month. Something tells me I was not the only one doing this just to make sure. Alice never sounded surprised at the request. At our house the lifetime spousal comptroller and treasurer dealt with none of this uncertainty. With sublime confidence in the world of finance, she’d go ahead and write the checks for the
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condo assessment, telephone bill, and all those essential etceteras of living. I admire her faith in the banking system even after all the bad press that bankers have been getting. And especially since our own local financial institution is now in its fourth name change, and we hear it’s been acquired yet again, although neither of us can remember either its last-year name or its current name or this year’s slogan. Only Alice has remained the same throughout the bank’s successive identities. Her continued presence gives us some sense of a stable housing for our modest deposit balance. I keep wondering what’s going to happen when Alice retires, but I’ve stopped calling her every month to see if the money is actually there. And we sleep later in the morning. Or I do, anyway. Sometimes I awaken to the
scent of coffee freshly brewing. This means we’re going shopping today. “Shopping” entails me finding a place to sit down while the lifetime spousal purchasing agent provides whatever we need to survive both the immediate and the distant future. These needs are heavily weighted with grandchildren’s birthdays, graduations (including play school), and the next Yuletide, however many months away it might be. Occasionally I do the “guy thing.” For some reason, this almost always involves the car. For example, our somewhat aged, mid-sized sedan gets a regular oil change. This requires man-to-man talk with “Angie” at the local service station. Usually we decide that the brakes are “good for another 20,000, but we better keep an eye on the muffler” and “we’ll want to replace all four tires before we
get snow.” Actually, it is not “we” doing any deciding here. Angie’s voice may be muffled coming as it does from someplace deep underneath the chassis, but his diagnosis is unmistakable. This might be because it’s the same thing he said the last time we changed the oil. I know it sounds somewhat meanspirited of me, but the best retirement days are those when the dawn brings a downpour—a rainstorm enough to frighten Noah. I don’t need that artificially cheerful radio voice to tell me about it. I can hear the water lashing against the windows even though the blinds are drawn tight. All that I have to do about it is to roll over and go back to sleep. I’m somewhat ashamed to admit I do so with barely a twinge of sympathy for those wage earners, including our own offspring, who have to slog through the day to earn their daily bread and cough up their Social Security taxes. Selfishly sleepy as I may be, I hope they are successful. And I make a mental note to call Alice just to make sure. A collection of Ted Rickard’s family-fun essays is titled Anything Worth Knowing I Learned from the Grandkids. It is now available in paperback on Amazon.com.
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Creativity Matters
Legendary Chefs at Age 60+ Judith Zausner ood is trendy. It is no longer about TV dinners and microwave popcorn. The following chefs began their journeys many years ago to transform good eating into a fine art, a nutritious experience, and big business.
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Cecilia Chiang, 91, Chinese – Raised in a very wealthy family in Shanghai, she was not allowed in the kitchen. As a young woman, Chiang escaped occupied China and, years later, traveled to San Francisco to visit her sister. Serendipitously, she met a friend there who planned to open a restaurant and then reneged, but Chiang went forward with the lease since she had already written a large, nonrefundable check to the landlord on behalf of her friend. And so her restaurant Mandarin began and remained active for more than 40 years. Chiang has taught Julia Child, James Beard, Alice Waters, and Danny Kaye. Madhur Jaffrey, 79, Indian – Born in Delhi, India, she did not cook at home when she was young and traveled abroad to study in London at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. After marrying she moved to New York City and, in 1973, she published her first cookbook, An Invitation to Indian Cooking. Jaffrey has written numerous cookbooks of Indian, Asian, and world vegetarian cuisines, and has won James Beard Foundation awards for some of her books. As a result of the success, Jaffrey also developed a unique line of massmarketed cooking sauces. Diana Kennedy, 88, Mexican – Born in the United Kingdom, she arrived in
Mexico with her United States in husband, who was 1959. He has a New York Times appeared on correspondent. numerous She traveled television shows throughout and received a Mexico Daytime Emmy researching award in 2001 for cooking his show Julia and techniques as well Jacques Cooking at as the history of Home with Julia Mexican cuisine. Child. Craig Claiborne Today he serves urged her to give as dean of special Photo courtesy of David Sifry Mexican cooking programs at the Alice Waters at dinner with friends. lessons in New French Culinary York City and Institute, teaches then, in 1972, Kennedy published her an online class for Boston University, and first book, The Cuisines of Mexico, and writes a quarterly column for Food & eight more books would follow. Wine magazine. Jiro Ono, 86, Japanese – Born in Japan, he is considered the world’s greatest sushi chef. After his father left, the 9-year-old Ono left home and never returned. He has been mastering sushi for the past 76 years and now is the subject of a documentary, Jiro Dreams of Sushi. Ono’s tiny restaurant, Sukiyabashi Jiro, is in Tokyo, where he holds the Guinness Book of Records title for being the oldest three-star Michelin chef. Reservations are not easy; you are encouraged to book up to a year in advance with a cash deposit of about $368. Jacques Pépin, 76, French – Born in France to restaurateurs, he learned to appreciate food at an early age. In the 1950s he was the personal chef to Charles DeGaulle and then moved to the
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Georges Perrier, 69, French – Born in France and although not from a poor family, he began working at 14 and then moved to the United States when he was 21 years old. In 1970 he opened Le Bec Fin (French colloquial translation: fine palate) in Philadelphia, which gained a five-star reputation and was known as the leader of the “Philadelphia restaurant revolution.” In January 2009, the French government awarded Perrier the Legion d’Honneur. In February 2012, Perrier announced his retirement from Le Bec Fin by selling it to a former Le Bec manager. Perrier still maintains ownership/interest in other restaurant venues. Wolfgang Puck, 63, Austrian – Born in Austria and trained in France, he learned much of his cooking skills from
his mother, who had sometimes worked as a pastry chef. At 25, he moved to Los Angeles where, 15 years later, he opened the award-winning Spago restaurant. Now he has a gastronomic empire under his name that includes more than 20 fine restaurants, catering services, more than 80 Wolfgang Puck Express operations, and kitchen and food merchandise, including cookbooks and convenience foods. He is the official caterer for the Academy Awards and his favorite food is macaroons. Alice Waters, 67, American – Born in New Jersey, she moved to California to attend college. It was during her study abroad time in France that she began purchasing fresh foods directly, and it was this experience that resonated with her and led to the development of her food-fresh sustainable beliefs. In 1971 she opened the Chez Panisse restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., which quickly became famous for its organic, locally grown ingredients and is ranked among the World’s 50 Best Restaurants. Waters created the Chez Panisse Foundation with a mission to transform public education by using food to teach, nurture, and empower young people. In 1992, Waters was the first woman to be awarded Best Chef in America by the James Beard Foundation and has received numerous other awards, written about a dozen cookbooks, and is a board member of relevant institutions. Waters is an internationally acclaimed food activist who has inspired the organic food revolution. Judith Zausner can be reached at judith@caringcrafts.com.
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