Lebanon County Edition
October 2013
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The Six-Decade Chase Seasoned Hunter Recalls Exotic Catches and Locales By Chelsea Peifer The thrill of the hunt started for Jim Wagner when he was only 5 years old, and the thrill is just as strong and persistent today at age 73. A Central Pennsylvania native, Wagner followed his father around in the fields and through the woods while he hunted for small game. They shot pheasants on a regular basis—a bird that is much more difficult to spot in the region today than it was during his childhood. Wagner started hunting on his own as soon as he turned 12 years old and it was legal for him to do so. He has been hunting every year since then, skipping out on his favorite hobby only for the four years after high school that he spent serving in the United States Navy, where he had the dangerous job of operating the boilers in a destroyer ship. Once back stateside, that boiler knowledge translated into a more than 40-year career in the field. Now retired and working part-time, Wagner’s hunting adventures have taken him not only all throughout the state of Pennsylvania, but into several other states and countries including Canada, Argentina, New Zealand, and the African plains. More than 50 mounts of animals he has killed are on display in his home. His wife, Janet, “puts up with it,” said Wagner with a chuckle. At first the mounts were scattered throughout different rooms of their please see CHASE page 15 Jim Wagner’s hunting excursions have taken him around the globe, including New Zealand and Argentina.
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Senior Idol Moves to Fall, Talent Follows published in a poetry anthology. Jeanette Miller of Shippensburg performed a Some sat in the waiting area silently, rapid-fingered tune on the flute. Tom sporting serious game faces. Others LaNasa of York and Eugene Constantine alleviated performance jitters by chatting Hrynkiewicz of Harrisburg both and laughing with fellow contestants. No presented dramatic monologues: LaNasa matter their prep tactic, though, all the with "Ragged Old Flag" by Johnny Cash nearly 100 people who auditioned for and Hrynkiewicz with The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. 2013 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL came And several contestants prepared and ready to impress. complemented Produced by OLP their vocals with EVENTS, the eighth Ray Ricke Jr., their own York annual PA STATE SENIOR accompaniment, IDOL competition such as Paul showcases the vocal, Zavinsky of instrumental, comedic, Hummelstown or dance abilities of the and Tom state’s over-50 Williams of population. West Traditionally held in Brandywine, the spring, the Ernest Batz, both on guitar, competition was moved Ephrata and Ross to the fall for 2013, a Mounds of move that did not Harrisburg on affect the spectrum or the keyboard. quantity of contestant Deb Olsen of turnout. Individuals from as Manheim and far west as Westmoreland Ray Ricke Jr. of County traveled to the York both paid competition’s Central tribute to Pennsylvania audition sites. Michael Jackson From this vast talent pool, with a medley of 15 his most semifinalists memorable have been hits—Olsen on the drums and Ricke selected, with his moonwalking feet. having been When the chosen semifinalists judged on the return to the stage, they will be merits of performing for both a packed ability, audience as well as local celebrity originality, judges: R.J. Harris of WHP580, appearance, Buddy King of The Magnificent and stage Jeanette Miller, Shippensburg Men, Valerie Pritchett of abc27, and presentation. Janelle Stelson of WGAL-8 will These 15 select three finalists after the first round performers will vie for the title of 2013 of performances. PA STATE SENIOR IDOL at the sold-out The finalists will then perform a finals night competition on Monday, second selection, after which the judges Oct. 14, at The Dutch Apple Dinner and the audience will vote together to Theater, Lancaster. Emcee of the evening select the 2013 Pennsylvania State will be Diane Dayton of Dayton SENIOR IDOL. The winner will receive a Communications. limousine trip for two to New York City Although the majority of contestants to enjoy dinner and a Broadway show. flexed their vocal abilities, SENIOR IDOL The 2013 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL judges still saw a fair share of other competition is brought to you by OLP talents represented. Steve Gallion of EVENTS. Media sponsors are abc27, Blue Lancaster performed a stand-up comedy routine. Ernest Batz, Ephrata, played the Ridge Communications, WHP580, and WHYL. accordion that he has played for the last For more information, call On-Line 70 of his 75 years. Publishers at (717) 285-1350 or visit Christian Kendig, Millersville, recited www.SeniorIdolPA.com. a poem—one of his own that had been By Megan Joyce
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He Served in Vietnam Before Our Combat Units Were Deployed There Robert D. Wilcox ill Hoin lives today close to where he was born 74 years ago. Even he finds it hard to believe what happened to him through those years. After graduating from high school in 1957, he enrolled at Millersville University and earned a B.S. in industrial arts. In order to get his military duty taken care of, he then volunteered for the Army, with the hope for duty that would involve working with languages. Instead, he was assigned to the U.S. Army Security Agency, where much of the work was top secret. Its work was also so complex that much of the recruiting was done at colleges, and most of the personnel were college grads. After basic training, Hoin was shipped to Fort Devens, Mass., for a six-month course to become proficient at Morse code and the various ways codes could be used. Then he learned that he was to serve as an “observer” in Vietnam. The South Vietnamese at that time were fighting the communists in that country, and his role was to do what he could to help them and other “observers” with communication security. After more training at Colorado Springs, Colo., he flew by commercial aircraft to Saigon, reaching there in January of 1963. He was stationed at Davis Station, an American base in the outskirts of Saigon, named for a man in his outfit who had been the first American killed in Vietnam. Hoin’s highly classified work there was in intelligence gathering: collecting and disseminating information on where North Vietnamese troops were deployed, where and how they were attacking, and what they were achieving. The North Vietnamese had their own coded electronic messages, often transmitted from captured American equipment. Many of their bases were underground. And defectors from the north, called “Daniel Boones,” were most helpful in revealing for the Americans the
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location of such facilities. Did he have much chance to know the Vietnamese people themselves? “Oh, sure,” he says. “It was a challenge, though. Because you never knew whether the man who poured you a cup of coffee in the morning might be the man trying to kill you that night. The Viet Cong and the other South Vietnamese looked alike.”
Specialist 4th Class William A. Hoin at Fort Devens, Mass., in 1961.
Hoin’s work took him to many remote villages, where he got the overall feeling that most of the Vietnamese in the south just wanted to be left alone and avoid getting killed. For Hoin, the death threat was particularly strong because the Viet Cong pervaded the south, and you never knew who they were. It was a new kind of war, not at all like World War II and previous wars, where enemies wore uniforms and where you knew who was your friend and who was your foe. “There was a common, everyminute dread that I never forgot,” he says. He notes wryly that, although Vietnam was and is an underdeveloped nation, what used to be the famed Ho Chi Minh trail
that supplied the North Vietnam troops is now a paved, three-lane highway. He left Saigon to return to the U.S. by air in July 1964, just as the build-up of American troops began in earnest. He was discharged in Oakland, Calif., and returned to Millersville University to earn a B.S. in arts education. He remembers being called a “baby killer” there because of his service in Vietnam. He taught art and industrial arts in high school in Haddonfield, N.J., for a year, and then used the G.I. Bill to earn an M.S. in art education at Glassboro State Teachers College. After that, he taught at the State Hospital for Crippled Children in Elizabethtown, Pa. And that was followed by a job with a company called Emtol, where he did computer design work and was involved in equipment and assembly line design for large companies like Kellogg, the cereal company. Suffering from the physical handicap of epilepsy (and, more recently, the effects of Agent Orange, from his days in Vietnam) he says that “art became a major therapy and a career choice” for him. He has become an internationally honored artist, craftsman, and author, exhibiting paintings, silkscreen prints, and weavings in many local and national shows. His work has been exhibited, for example, in the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, New York, and the Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pa. He says, “I now use art to enrich my life and help others find ways to overcome their handicaps. With this as background, I helped create a local art group of veterans doing artwork.” So, despite his physical handicaps, he continues to fill his life with the art that means so much to him. Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.
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Doing Without a College Degree Walt Sonneville f one wishes to become a physician, physicist, lawyer, or any other profession where entry is limited to college graduates, higher education is unavoidable. Success has come, nevertheless, to some who have not graduated from college, and to others who dropped out of, or never attended, high school. Familiar names of those who never attended high school include authors Walt Whitman, Charles Dickens, and Mark Twain. High-school dropouts include authors H.G. Wells, Jack London, Dashiell Hammett, George Bernard Shaw, and Leon Uris; entertainers Julie Andrews, Lucille Ball, Gene Autry, George Gershwin, and Walt Disney; inventors Ben Franklin, Thomas Edison, and Orville Wright; media leaders Horace Greeley and David Sarnoff; food entrepreneurs Wally “Famous” Amos
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(cookies), Ray Kroc (McDonald’s), and Dave Thomas (Wendy’s); and four-time New York Governor Al Smith. Prominent computer-technology developers rose to fame despite dropping out of college. Among them are Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Michael Dell, and Laurence Ellison. Another category heavily represented by college dropouts is writers of fiction. F. Scott Fitzgerald, John Steinbeck, and William Faulkner are standouts in this field. Countless other college dropouts are in other career categories, including newscaster Brian Williams, cable-TV tycoon Ted Turner, White House advisor
Karl Rove, Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, and Michigan Governor George Romney, the father of Mitt Romney. Eight of our nation’s presidents did not graduate from college. President Lincoln did not attend either high school or college. Prime Minister Winston Churchill never attended college. A college degree was not a career pathway for most adult Americans. As of 2008, only 29.4 percent of Americans, 25 years of age and older, were college graduates. That percentage does not appear to be rising. Approximately 72 percent of students in the past decade finished high school and, of these, 52 percent earned a
bachelor’s degree within six years. Hence, these numbers indicate that 37 percent of 21st-century high-school graduates earned a college degree. How many college graduates, known to you, work in the field in which their degree is related? The Heldrich Center at Rutgers University recently surveyed 571 college graduates and found “the portion of graduates who described their first job as a ‘career’ fell from 30 percent, if they had graduated in 2006 or 2007—before the 2008 economic downturn—to 22 percent if they had graduated in 2009 or 2010” (as reported by the International Herald Tribune Sept. 2, 2011). Gaining a college degree is a worthy aspiration for students who believe their career prospects merit the risk of defaulting on their student loan. Such defaults are below the levels seen in the economic recession of the early 1990s please see DEGREE page 7
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The Pros and Cons of DTC Meds Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES he direct-to-consumer (DTC) pharmaceutical advertising format that leapfrogs over health professionals and delivers its pitch right to consumers began back in the early ’80s with a small ad for a pneumonia vaccine placed in Reader’s Digest. Today, you can hardly get through 15 minutes of television or talk radio without a DTC pitch for an antidepressant, a medication to lower your “bad” cholesterol, or a remedy for erectile dysfunction. (And isn’t it fun, explaining that one to your grandchildren?) In print, about half of all magazine ad pages are devoted to health/medical products, and your email junk box is probably full of promos for diet products, incontinence remedies, and pain relievers. Given this bombardment, have you ever actually taken the next step and asked your physician about or for a DTC product? If so, how did it go? Did you feel it enhanced your professional relationship or was it met with edgy dismissal? In one study of 500 randomly selected physicians, 95 percent of them reported that their patients do indeed ask about DTC products. And were these interactions seen by the doctors as beneficial? “Yes” for 41 percent in that the conversations were perceived to facilitate more open communication and to provide an opportunity to educate the patient. However, for the 59 percent who said, “No, they weren’t beneficial,” it was, in part, because doctors felt that, in the first place, the ads encouraged the overuse of medications as an easy fix for problems that could be alleviated by other means, particularly lifestyle changes. They also felt that manipulative and misleading marketing tactics created
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confusion in their patients’ minds. Doctors reported that patients are so often befuddled and misinformed about the drug, its appropriateness for them and its risks and benefits for them, that the doctors needed to spend considerable time away from their busy practices in order to address these misunderstandings; they felt this was not the most effective use of their time. On the other hand, if those 59 percent don’t take the time to educate their patients who come to them waving a DTC drug ad and asking if it’s the right drug for them, you know what that patient might then do? Stop talking and buy the prescription drugs he is so intent on having online without a prescription! Millions of Americans do this (yes, millions), and if you think it’s complicated, it’s not. Illegal, yes; complicated, no. There are not only websites that will sell you the drugs, but there are also websites that will walk you through how to do it. I know there are many patients who, with their own doctor’s consent and prescription, order drugs from foreign pharmacies, those that meet the standards of care established by the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy. There is no denying the financial savings involved. But buying prescription drugs without your own doctor’s prescription? Remember Groucho Marx’s line about not wanting to join any club that would have him as a member? Same thing: You don’t want to deal with any pharmacy willing to sell you a prescription drug without your own doctor’s prescription. Gloria May is a registered nurse with a master’s degree in adult health education and a Certified Health Education Specialist designation.
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Medicare Beneficiaries Unaffected Federal health officials are trying to assuage public confusion over the effect the Affordable Care Act will have on Medicare. Medicare isn’t part of the new Health Insurance Marketplace, so Medicare beneficiaries need not be concerned. If you have Medicare, you are considered covered. The Marketplace won’t affect your Medicare choices, and your benefits won’t be changing because of it. Here are the top five things to know about the Affordable Care Act (ACA) if you have Medicare: 1. Your Medicare coverage is protected. Medicare isn’t part of the Health Insurance Marketplace established by the ACA, so you don’t have to replace your Medicare coverage with Marketplace coverage. No matter how you get Medicare, whether through Original Medicare or a Medicare Advantage Plan, you’ll still have the same benefits and security you have now. You don’t need to do anything with the Marketplace during Open Enrollment, which is still Oct. 15 through Dec. 7. 2. You get more preventive services for less. Medicare now covers certain preventive services, like mammograms or colonoscopies, without charging you for
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“Fats” Domino, the singer and songwriter, summed up the situation succinctly, saying, “A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.” Our country needs college graduates pursuing those disciplines responsive to market demand. High schools fail to produce enough graduates keen about the fields of science, engineering, or math— all essential to our national economic security. Too often the goal is selfaggrandizement in financial careers, an illusion exposed as fantasy once the market bubbles burst. Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen and A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, books of personal-opinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. Contact him at waltsonneville@earthlink.net.
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Traveltizers
Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
Alligators, Birds, and Plants, Oh My! By Andrea Gross t’s 9:30 in the morning, but the air is still cool. Nevertheless, I’m slathered in sunscreen and dripping with insect repellant. In other words, I’m ready to meet some alligators on a trip that will take my husband and me from Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp, the largest blackwater swamp in North America, to Florida’s Everglades National Park, a UNESCO International Biosphere Reserve as well as a World Heritage Site.
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Okefenokee Swamp Along with a dozen other passengers, we climb into a 24-foot flat-bottomed boat and set out through water that’s the color of strong tea—a result of tannic acid caused by decaying vegetation. At 10:08, we spot our first alligator. At 10:12, there’s another one, and then another. At 10:32, one leaps out of the water, arcing in front of us.
The American alligator sometimes grows to more than 14 feet in length.
The guide pushes the boat through the shallow swamp waters.
Georgia’s Okefenokee Swamp is home to turtles as well as alligators and snakes.
Visitors glide through the Okefenokee in a 24-foot flat-bottomed boat.
“Sometimes they leap 6 feet into the air,” says our guide, Chip Campbell, owner of Okefenokee Adventures. It’s a fact I find most disconcerting. By this time, the gators are appearing every two, three minutes. There’s one over there, curled in the grass, gazing at us with steely eyes. And that log over there … It moved! I stop counting when I realize I may be tracking fallen trees as well as prehistoric reptiles. In short order we become miniexperts on alligators. We learn how to tell an alligator from a crocodile (it’s all in the teeth—a croc’s lower teeth overlap his upper); to judge the reptile’s length (estimate the distance between the eye bumps and snout bump; that distance in inches pretty much equals the gator’s length in feet); and to escape one that’s chasing you. “Climb a tree, run in zigzags, or …” Chip laughs heartily, “outrun your friend!” It’s obviously a good day for alligators, please see ALLIGATORS page 16
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Calendar of Events
Lebanon County
Senior Center Activities
Lebanon County Department of Parks and Recreation All events held at the Park at Governor Dick unless noted.
Oct. 6, 1 to 4 p.m. – Music on the Porch: Bluegrass and Country Music Jam Oct. 12, 4 to 5:30 p.m. – Volunteer Picnic Oct. 18, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. – The Art of Charcoal Making
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 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 Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939
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Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796 200 S. White Oak St., Annville Oct. 16, 4 to 7 p.m. – Open House with Music by The Toad Creek Duo Oct. 22, 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. – Friends Helping Friends Day at Boscov’s Oct. 31, 10 a.m. – Costume Penny Bingo Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048 710 Maple St., Lebanon Oct. 11, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Center Carnival Oct. 18, 9 a.m. – Pancake Breakfast Oct. 30, 10 a.m. – Lottery Ticket Bingo Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-6786 51 W. Stoever Ave., Myerstown Oct. 3, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Bus Trip: Penn’s Peak Theatre for The Swing Dolls Oct. 10, 9 a.m. – Healthy Steps Fall-Prevention Program Oct. 29, 9:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Bus Trip: Bird-in-Hand Dinner Theater for HalfStitched Northern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 865-0944 335 N. Lancaster St., Jonestown – www.jonestownpa.org/senior.html Oct. 17, 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast Club at Classic Creations Oct. 30 – Spooky Party Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237 101 S. Railroad St., Palmyra Oct. 15, 11 a.m. – Fall Fest at Quality Inn Oct. 16, 10:45 a.m. – Craft: Making Gift Boxes from Greeting Cards Oct. 30, 10:45 a.m. – Consumer Education and Discussion on Medicare Fraud 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 Please call or visit the centers’ websites for additional activities.
A History of the Banknote Governments print it, misers hoard it under their mattresses, rich people light their cigars with it—but where does the idea of paper money come from, anyway? China, actually. The banknote apparently originated during the Tang Dynasty (seventh century) to replace bulky copper coins carried by merchants. The coins were minted with rectangular holes in their center so they could be strung together on cords, but wealthy merchants found that lugging their coins around was difficult.
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in time, paper money called “jiaozi” evolved. In Europe, banknotes first came into use in the 14th century. The term “banknote” derives from nota di banco. The holder of a note could redeem it for an amount of silver or gold held on deposit with a bank.
In the New World, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was the first of the American colonies to circulate its own banknotes in the early 1690s, but all 13 colonies were issuing their own notes by the early 1700s. The First Bank of the United States, chartered by Congress in 1789 shortly after the signing of the Constitution, was authorized to issue banknotes, but the U.S. federal government didn’t start printing its own paper money until 1862. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
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Alliance Home Help
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Year Est.: 2010 Counties Served: Lancaster RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
Year Est.: 1911 Counties Served: Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes
Other Certifications and Services: Providing non-medical companion, respite, and personal care services throughout Lancaster County. Caregivers matched specifically to you and your needs. Compassion, 24/7 on-call availability, trained, competent, and reliable. Medicaid Waiver approved.
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Good Samaritan Hospice
(717) 569-0451 www.cpnc.com
(717) 274-2591 www.gshleb.org
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.
Year Est.: 1979 Counties Served: Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes
ComForcare Home Care
Homeland Hospice
(610) 363-1485; (717) 421-0607 www.comforcare.com
(717) 221-7890 www.homelandcenter.org
Year Est.: 2009 Counties Served: Chester, Dauphin, Lancaster, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
Other Certifications and Services: 2013 Best of Home Care. Employer of Choice Award from Home Care Pulse. ComForcare provides companionship and/or personal care services up to 24 hours/day, 365 days/year with our meticulously selected, highly qualified, and reliable caregivers. When you can’t be there, ComForcare!
Year Est.: 2009 Counties Served: Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon, Perry, York RNs: Yes LPNs: No 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: 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.
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Year Est.: 2006 Counties Served: Lancaster RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: No Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
(717) 295-3900 www.hospicecommunity.org 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.
Year Est.: 1980 Counties Served: Adams, Berks, Chester, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes
Other Certifications and Services: Hospice & Community Care provides compassionate care and support for patients and their families facing serious illness, end of life, and loss. Care is provided at home, in nursing homes, hospitals, and our Inpatient Center. Joint Commission accredited. You are welcome to call with questions.
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(717) 738-0588 www.seniorhelpers.com/lancastercounty
Year Est.: 2004 Counties Served: Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes
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.
Year Est.: 2002 Counties Served: Berks, Lancaster, Lebanon RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
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Year Est.: 1997 Counties Served: Providing service to over 20 counties including Adams, Berks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Franklin, Lancaster, Lebanon, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
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Other Certifications and Services: For everyone’s peace of mind, 24-hour personal care in the home you love, yours! Premier, professional caregivers. Extensive background checks. Free home evaluations.
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Year Est.: 2005 Counties Served: Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes
Other Certifications and Services: Owners Leslie and Sandra Hardy are members of the Society of Certified Senior Advisors. We have contracts with the VA and the Area Agency on Aging. Private insurance and selfpayment are also accepted. Friendly faces, helping hands, warm hearts. Skilled nursing also available.
Year Est.: 1962 Counties Served: Adams, Franklin, Lancaster, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: No Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
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Visiting Angels
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Year Est.: 2007 Counties Served: Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Perry, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
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Year Est.: 2001 Counties Served: Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
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home, but now just one entire room is devoted to displaying the mounts. At this point, when he has a noteworthy catch, he just puts the nice rack on a plaque rather than adding more mounts to the collection. Wagner devotes four weeks of each year to rifle hunting. “I just prefer rifle,” he said. “I never got into archery. I’ve done a lot of hunting, but there are a lot of guys who would make me look pretty small.” Internationally, he has captured zebra, wildebeest, gemsbuck, impala, bushbuck, blezbuck, nyala, southern greater kudu, fallow deer, red hartebeest, Spanish goats, axis deer, black buck antelope, and more. Wagner has hunted for moose and black bear in Newfoundland, caribou in Quebec and other parts of the Arctic, black bear in Manitoba and New Brunswick, and for black bear and mountain goats in British Columbia. Within the United States he has gotten mountain lions in Idaho; whitetail deer in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Missouri, and South Carolina; and mule
deer, elk, and antelope in Colorado. Elk hunting is challenging because the elk can be so elusive, he said. “The elk is the ultimate animal you can get,” Wagner said. Hunting for mountain goats is a great adventure because it usually involves traversing the rocky crags that the animals do in order to capture them. Wagner has memories of crawling on his hands and knees all day through the mountains of British Columbia to get to the mountain goats. “Some of that’s scary when it’s straight peaks on both sides of you,” he said. “You crawl all day, and it’s dark when you leave and dark when you come back. Or sometimes you just camp right out on the mountain.” Sometimes the hardest part about hunting is coping with the extremes in temperature. Wagner has been hunting when the thermometer read as low as 17 degrees below zero and says that’s just “terrible.” “It gets cold and miserable sometimes, and you feel like you’re freezing to
death,” Wagner said. “And you ask yourself if this is supposed to be fun.” Usually it’s between zero and 15 degrees, which isn’t quite so bad, he said. Hunters put in long hours, but when you capture the animal you’ve been pursuing, Wagner says that everything you’ve put yourself through is more than worth it. “The more you hunt, the better you get, just like everything else,” said Wagner. “Once you get something, you just keep going for something else.” South Carolina is his favorite spot to hunt in the country, and he has been traveling there once a year for the past 10 years to hunt deer and wild boar. He hunts at a 10,000-acre plantation there and said some of the deer are bigger than those in Pennsylvania, reaching 180 pounds. “In Pennsylvania, deer hunting isn’t what it used to be, but a lot of organizations are fighting to make it better,” he said. Still on his wish list of places to hunt is Texas, where he hopes to get some
whitetail deer. “I think I’ll go until I can’t go anymore,” Wagner said with a smile on his face. On international hunts he gets to try the meat after it’s been killed and cooked for the hunters, but none of that can be transported home. But his freezer at home is always stocked with meat— usually whitetail deer, elk, and mule deer. Wagner says that moose is the best meat he has tasted on all of his hunts and is close to beef in flavor. Wagner is a life member of the North American Hunting Club and a member of the National Rifle Association, Safari Club International, and a board member of the Unified Sportsmen of Pennsylvania. Out of Wagner’s four children and two stepchildren, none have become his hunting buddies. “It’s something that is born in you,” he said. “Some people love it and some people hate it. Some people try it for a year and don’t like it, but I guess it was just born in me.”
Why Do We Enjoy Being Scared? Halloween may be one of the scariest holidays of the year, but people seem to take delight in being scared in every season. What’s the appeal of ghost stories, horror movies, frightening novels, and things that go bump in the night? Experts have a few theories: www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
We like the adrenaline. Fear has the same adrenaline-producing effect as excitement. It feels good. Scary movies, stories, and books are methods of releasing adrenaline in a controlled environment.
Shared fear helps us bond. The “creeps” create social bonding. Activities like telling ghost stories around a campfire or watching a scary movie together allow us to form ties with strangers as well as family and friends.
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but even on gatorless days, there’d be plenty to see. The swamp is home to a large variety of other reptiles, as well as amphibians, fish, mammals, butterflies, and more than 230 species of birds, including egrets, herons, ibis, sandhill cranes, and red-shouldered hawks. Chip puts the boat in reverse so we can better see a softshell turtle, which instantly submerges to avoid us. No problem. Chip heads toward a flooded forest, where, he says, we’re likely to see a snake. “Most, but not all, poisonous snakes have cat-shaped eyes,” he tells us. Since I have no intention of getting close enough to a snake to see the shape of its eyes, I dismiss this piece of information as superfluous. I’m more interested in learning about the medicinal properties of various plants—spotting those that will repel insects, relieve depression, grow hair, and clean hands. “But there’s no remedy for folks who get their hands eaten while plucking plants,” says Chip, and I decide to stick with the pharmacy for my medications. By 11 a.m., as another gator glides by, we’ve seen so many that we’ve become blasé. We turn our heads but don’t rush for our cameras. Our memory cards are full, but even without
A boardwalk along the Anhinga Trail in Everglades National Park makes wildlife viewing accessible to all.
personal with more alligators and birds than we’d seen from farther away and during much longer expeditions. We get about 10 feet down the path when a giant black bird with a yellow bill hops on the rail in front of us. He’s waving a small fish in his mouth. We stand mesmerized for several minutes while the cormorant shakes the fish into submission, positions him in line with his throat, and swallows him whole. A few feet farther, a large osprey spreads his wings, his white upper feathers looking like a fringed cape against the black background. We turn left along a nice plank pathway. With the water undisturbed by a moving boat, dozens of alligators sun in peace, some half-submerged, others happily snoozing in the roots of swamp trees, others completely visible. The boardwalk makes a stable resting place for tripods, and there seem to be more photographers than gators or birds. Yet the mood is serene. Despite the manmade conveniences, we feel at one with nature.
A cormorant spreads his wings before diving into the water for his dinner.
An osprey can have a wingspan of 6 feet.
more photos, we know we’ve had a trip we’ll never forget. http://www.fws.gov/okefenokee; www.okefenokeeadventures.com Everglades National Park It’s a seven-hour, 385-mile drive from Okefenokee to the Everglades, and I didn’t want to go. When I read that the best way to see
the alligators is to walk along a 0.8-mile boardwalk, I turned up my nose. After all, I rode in a low-lying boat through a swamp in Georgia, so why would I want to peer down at gators from a raised walkway? So tame. So tacky. I was wrong. Everglades National Park is nature at its most convenient and abundant. A one-hour walk along the Anhinga Trail lets us get up close and
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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
Animals in Art & Antiques Dr. Lori have appraised many antique and vintage objects in the form of animals—from cow creamers to Kermit the Frog dolls. While objects are collectible for many reasons, when it comes to animals in art and antiques, it is interesting to note what an animal form symbolizes and why a particular animal was highlighted in a certain period of art history. We love the animals that share our lives, and in art and antiques, these beloved creatures reference important life lessons. When found in a work of art (painting, sculpture, print) or an antique object (figurine, decorative carving, fetish), the appearance of animals has special meaning.
Rabbit – Rebirth. Female artists often choose rabbits as subject matter for paintings, prints, and works on paper to suggest the rejuvenation of the earth in spring.
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Bee – Industry and community. Famous wealthy families of the Renaissance and Baroque periods oftentimes commissioned artists to include bees in paintings of their family coat of arms to suggest their public interest in serving the community.
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other insects in many of his decorative creations, including jewelry and lamps. 19th-century painting with rabbits
beauty and personal accomplishment. The French Impressionist artist, Edouard Manet, painted cats in his masterpieces to suggest the abilities of a woman to attract male suitors. Cock – Passion. Ceramic figurines of cocks are common decorations in the kitchens of female chefs in France as they are female power symbols.
Bull – Wealth. Associated with the financial world today, images of bulls were painted on cave walls in Lascaux, France, and Santander, Spain, dating back to prehistoric times.
Dog – Fidelity. A dog is shown at the feet of a couple on their wedding day in the world-known Arnolfini Wedding Portrait (National Gallery, London) from 1434 by Jan van Eyck.
Cat – Pride. The ancient Egyptians via sculptures associated cats with pride in
Dragonfly – Carefree. Louis Comfort Tiffany highlighted the dragonfly and
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Fish – Long life. In their numerous forms, fish symbolize longevity in works of art dating from the early Christian era to the present. Horse – Stamina and power. The famous sculpture of a horse turned machine by Futurist artist Raymond Duchamp Villon highlighted society’s change from an agricultural society to an industrial one in the early 1900s. Lion – Power and majesty, guardian. Lions have guarded the gates and entrances of some of the most famous sites in the world. Lions are featured on the Ishtar Gate, the eighth gate (north) to the inner city of Babylon. The gate was ordered by King Nebuchadnezzar II in 575 BC.
Turtle – Perseverance. French sculptors cast forms of turtles in bronze and other metals in the art movement called animalier. Animalier, or animal sculptures, were popular with artists such as Barye and Bonheur in the mid-1860s to the 1880s. Personally, I have collected art and antiques that feature fish for decades. It started when I was a youngster on the swim team and the association meant something important to me. Over the years, fish have served as pets, and fish objects have been the basis for some of my collections. This glossary of animal symbolism may help you collect with a vision in mind and learn about the history of your favorite animals. Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, awardwinning TV personality, and TV talk show host, Dr. Lori presents antiques appraisal events nationwide. Dr. Lori is the expert appraiser on Discovery channel’s hit TV show Auction Kings. Visit www.DrLoriV.com, www.Facebook.com/DoctorLori, or call (888) 431-1010.
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Deer – Sensitivity. Walt Disney’s animated feature film, Bambi, captured the longstanding art historical symbol of the deer.
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Bear – Gentle strength and nurturing. In Native American totem poles, bears are oftentimes carved to suggest the strength of nature and the nurturing characteristics of forest animals.
Eagle – Protection from evil. American flag collectors look for intricate and decorative flags featuring the eagle from the late 1700s and 1800s.
Tiger – Strength, ferocity, power. Japanese artists of the 1700s often featured tigers in their gouaches, watercolors, woodblock prints, and paintings.
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Getting Your Affairs Organized Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, My husband and I (both in our 70s) would like to get our personal and financial information better organized so our kids will know what’s going on when we die. Any tips on how to get started? – Unorganized Edna Dear Edna, Collecting and organizing your important papers and information is a smart idea and a great gift to your loved ones. Here’s what you should know. The first step in getting your affairs in order is to gather up all your important personal, financial, and legal information so you can arrange it in a format that will benefit your caregivers, survivors, and even yourself. Then you’ll need to sit down and create various lists of important information and instructions of how you want certain things handled. Here are some key areas to help you get started. Personal Information • Contact list: A good starting point is to make a master list of names and phone numbers of family members, close friends, clergy, doctor(s), and professional advisers such as your lawyer, tax accountant, broker, and insurance agent. • Personal documents: This can include such items as your birth certificate, Social Security number, marriage license, military discharge papers, etc. • Secured places: List all the places you keep under lock and key (or protected by
password), such as safe-deposit boxes, safe combination, security alarms, etc. • Service providers: Provide contact information of the companies or people who provide you regular services, such as utility companies, lawn service, etc. • Pets: If you have a pet, give instructions for the care of the animal. • Organ donation: Indicate your wishes for organ, tissue, or body donation, including documentation (see www.donatelife.net). • Funeral instructions: Write out your final wishes. If you’ve made prearrangements with a funeral home, provide their contact information and whether you’ve prepaid or not, and include a copy of the agreement.
• Advance directives: These are the legal documents (living will and medical power of attorney) that spell out your wishes regarding your endof-life medical treatment when you can no longer make decisions for yourself. For state-specific advance directive forms, visit Caring Connections (www.caringinfo.org). Financial Records • Income and debt: Make a list of all your income sources such as pensions, Social Security, IRAs, 401(k)s, interest, investments, etc. And do the same for any debt you may have—mortgage, credit cards, medical bills, car payment.
Legal Documents • Will and trust: In your files, have the original copy of your will (not a photocopy) and other estate-planning documents you’ve made, including trusts.
• Financial accounts: List all your bank and brokerage accounts (checking, savings, stocks, bonds, mutual funds, IRAs, etc.), including their location and contact information. And keep current statements from each institution in your files.
• Financial power of attorney: This is the legal document that names someone you trust to handle money matters if you’re
• Pensions and benefits: List any retirement plans, pensions, or benefits from your current or former employer,
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incapacitated. Talk to an elder law attorney (National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, www.naela.org) to learn more.
including the contact information of the benefits administrator. • Government benefits: Information about Social Security, Medicare, or other government benefits you’re receiving. • Insurance: List the insurance policies you own (life, health, long-term care, home, and car), including the policy numbers and agents’ names and phone numbers. • Credit cards: List all your credit and charge cards, including the card numbers and contact information. • Taxes: Keep copies of your income tax returns over the last five years and the contact information of your tax preparer. • Property: List the real estate, vehicles, and other personal properties you own, rent, or lease and include important documents such as deeds, titles, and loan or lease agreements. Savvy Tips: It’s best to keep all your organized information and files together in one convenient location — ideally in a fireproof filing cabinet or safe in your home. Also be sure to review and update your information every year, and don’t forget to tell your loved ones where they can find it. Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org
Are You Reading? Join the 2013 One Book, One Community campaign by reading The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway 93 libraries in Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, and York counties and their community partners will host special events and group discussions in October.
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