Lebanon County Edition
December 2012
Vol. 7 No. 12
Memories in the Mail Local History Preserved in Vast Postcard Collection By Chelsea Shank Bob Sallade loves the thrill of the hunt. And as a deltiologist—that is, someone who collects postcards—he takes every opportunity that he can to hunt for postcards to add to his collection. Sallade, 63, has a collection of between 4,000 and 5,000 postcards. Collecting postcards is tied with coin collecting as the second most popular hobby, next to collecting stamps, said Sallade. He started his collection about six years ago. “I went to flea markets for other reasons and I picked up five old postcards … and that’s what started it,” Sallade said. As a native of Central Pennsylvania, he takes a personal interest in the history of the area and enjoys finding postcards featuring old buildings that are no longer around and others that are still standing. “My thrill is getting different scenes,” said Sallade. He has postcards of a former recreational facility called Playland, which had a roller skating rink and swimming pool where Sallade spent time as a teenager. There are others in his collection of an old judicial center, the Wrightsville Bridge, and hotels and motels that are no longer in operation. “That’s the interesting part—seeing what your town used to look like,” said Sallade. please see MEMORIES page 14 Postcard collector Bob Sallade preserves images of days gone by in dozens of binders stored at his home.
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Saralee Perel y husband, Bob, attracts lunatics. One is a standalone screwball. Hey, I heard that! It’s not me. It’s our 6year-old cat, Murphy. Of course we adore him, and he’s the happiest being we’ve ever known. Murphy’s not just dimwitted; he’s also a thief. But he swipes things that no cat with even half a brain would want. Well, I’m not being fair. Murphy doesn’t have half a brain. There should be a sign over his head that reads: “Vacancy.” He’s lightning fast. One night, in a flash, he jumped on the table, grabbed an entire crown of broccoli that was twice the size of his head, and raced away with it, all the while scarfing it down so that none of our other cats could have what every cat dreams of (sarcastic): broccoli. His favorite food group? Dust balls. Yes, we vacuum. They appear out of nowhere like Bob’s ex-brother-in-law who’s suddenly in our living room wanting to borrow more cash. Murphy has an incessant desire to rip tape off UPS boxes. When I extract the tape from his throat, he doesn’t notice. Can you imagine sticking your fingers 3 inches down your cat’s throat without him even caring you’re doing it? Murphy’s race to eat everything recently took a disastrous turn on a late Sunday night. Bob put a pill on the counter for our dog, Gracie. This pill is so bitter that no pet will take it unless owners disguise it in something tasteful. But Murphy made a beeline to it and ate it. We called a poison hotline. We were told he needed to get to a 24hour emergency veterinary hospital immediately. I’m disabled and can’t move late at night. Bob rushed Murphy to the vet. We figured they’d pump his stomach and send him home. We were wrong.
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Bob called me from his cell after the vet saw Murphy. “He has to stay here three days. They made him vomit, but the toxin is still in his system.” He was sobbing. “He could lose all kidney function.” “Did the vet say he could die?” “Yes.” I felt as much anguish for Bob as I did for Murphy. He went on, “Murphy’s so innocent,” he said, crying harder. “I hate myself for letting this happen.” “Oh, Sweets, you didn’t mean for this to happen. I wish I was sitting
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next to you.” We cried without speaking. Then I said, “Don’t drive. Not when you’re like this.” Then I called the vet. I asked her for emotional guidance for Bob. She said, “This happens all the time. It happened with me and my cat. He needs to forgive himself. It’s impossible to prevent these things 100 percent. Plus, I’ve never heard of a cat who’d want to eat a pill, especially one that tastes so awful.” “Bob’s in your parking lot. Would you please go to him and tell him what you told me?” And she did. Three days later, Murphy came home happy and healthy. When the vet called and asked about him, I incorrectly assumed she knew about Murphy’s insane antics. “He’s back to normal. He just presented me with a dust ball the size of a Burger King Triple Whopper! Isn’t that great?”
“What?” “Don’t worry,” I said, and then cemented myself as a bonehead. “Nobody’s getting near my broccoli again!” She asked to speak to Bob. I said, “He’s busy. UPS came. Bob’s racing like a cyclone, ripping tape off the boxes before disaster hits. You know what he’s like around UPS tape.” She sounded confused. “Bob?” I laughed, “Not Bob—” Before I could explain she interrupted, “Please have him call me.” Bob’s role as a caregiver is not a role he asked for, but one he feels blessed to have. He takes care of me with my spinal cord issues, our old pet duck who’s arthritic, our young border collie who can never run again because of a genetic spinal problem, and our very sick cat, Josie, to whom Bob administers IV fluids daily. “How could I be so lucky?” Bob says, every single day of his life. Yesterday at dawn, as the light gently filled our bedroom, I slowly turned over to see which of Bob’s brood was in the protection of his arms. He was cradling beautiful Murphy, who was sound asleep on his back in the crook of Bob’s armpit. Bob’s eyes were open but I didn’t say a word. I knew he was preserving the precious moments for as long as he could before Murphy would wake up. I watched as Murphy opened his eyes then curled his paw under his chin. I heard him purr when he closed his eyes again, preferring to remain in the safety of Bob’s arm for just a little while longer. And so, snuggling next to Bob, I closed my eyes again too. Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist. Her new book is Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories From a Life Out of Balance. To find out more, visit www.saraleeperel.com or email sperel@saraleeperel.com.
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Benefit Increase Announced, Office Hours Reduced Dec. 31, 2012. maximum) will increase to $113,700 Some other changes that take effect in from $110,100. January of each Of the estimated 163 year are based on Increased payments to the increase in million workers average wages. who will pay more than 8 million SSI Social Security Based on that beneficiaries will begin increase, the taxes in 2013, nearly 10 million maximum on Dec. 31, 2012. amount of will pay higher earnings subject taxes as a result of to the Social Security tax (taxable the increase in the taxable maximum.
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Monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for nearly 62 million Americans will increase 1.7 percent in 2013, the Social Security Administration announced recently. The 1.7 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with benefits that more than 56 million Social Security beneficiaries receive in January 2013. Increased payments to more than 8 million SSI beneficiaries will begin on
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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
Holiday Fruits in Home Décor Dr. Lori long with festive sights, a major part of the holidays is aromatic smells. From evergreens to the holiday meal, the holidays offer a feast for the eyes and for the nose. Some of the most popular scents derive from holiday decorations like fruit wreaths, citrus pomanders, and evergreen garlands. The models for these luscious holiday elements all have roots in art history.
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Renaissance Wreaths The works of art by the Renaissance artisan and master Luca della Robbia served as the impetus for today’s version of the holiday fruit wreath. Aptly called the della Robbia wreath, fruit wreaths decorate homes and hearths all over the world. Della Robbia’s 15th-century architectural medallions were often
highlighted with fruit wreaths and decorative garlands of green and red apples, berries, pineapples, lemons, limes, and oranges. Based on these Renaissance decorations, the della Robbia-style wreath was reintroduced during the late 1800s in a time period known as the Renaissance Revival. Traditionally, fruit wreaths were lovingly hung on the exterior doors of homes at holiday time. Fruit wreaths gave the winter greenery a bright, colorful contrast. Fruits often appear in the paintings, prints, architectural, and furniture designs of the 18th and 19th centuries based on Renaissance iconography. The type of fruit chosen for such living wreaths was symbolic. For instance, ornamental apples symbolized the family, and this fruit played a major role in holiday decorations. Apple ring
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century, sweet-smelling fruit pomanders wreaths were associated, at Christmastime, with the holy family and had yet to be relegated to the hall closet, but instead they were prominently hung the nativity. front and center in a Victorian home’s Other related wreaths featured fruits such as lemons, pineapples, and oranges. entry foyer. Orange, lime, or lemon pomanders, Wreaths made of whole lemons enhanced with symbolized whole cloves, were friendship and suspended over were typically hung doorways and in on doors at the stairwells to give back of homes busy areas of a (where close friends home a lovely enter), rather than scent. Made by on front doors. For pushing cloves into the holidays, fruitwhole oranges or inspired other citrus fruits, a decorations remind pomander was a us of the bountiful welcomed and harvest and the joy popular hostess of sharing with gift. They were family and friends. used in the 1700s Also, pineapples Photos courtesy of Staff of www.DrLoriV.com and 1800s to ward were symbolic fruits A traditional della Robbia-style fruit associated with the wreath featuring symbolic holiday fruits. off foul odors that were thought to holiday season. bring illness into a The pineapple home in represented the wintertime. tradition of In Colonial hospitality at America, fruit holiday time and wreaths, pyramids, all year long. The and pomanders hospitable were popular in pineapple form was holiday homes. typically carved These antique into Chippendale holiday handicrafts and Federal not only smelled furniture, delightful with the including bedposts, scents of apple, mantles, dining clove, and citrus, room sideboards, Fruit wreath sculpture by Luca della but they were also etc. Robbia, circa 15th century, from the pretty, natural Today, collection of the Hermitage Museum, additions to the pineapples are the St. Petersburg, Russia. interior decor. fruit of choice for The pleasing home décor items aroma of the fruit decoration allows the ranging from silver candelabras to front pomander to maintain a prominent porch welcome mats. place among holiday decorations. Happy holidays! Fancy Fruit Like fruit wreaths, fruit pyramids and Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, and awardaromatic pomanders dating back to the winning TV personality, Dr. Lori presents Colonial period were among the delights antique appraisal events nationwide. Dr. Lori of a holiday home. is the expert appraiser on the hit TV show Scents of fresh fruit and spices Auction Kings on Discovery channel, which lingered from the tabletop fruit airs Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Visit pyramids suggesting architectural www.DrLoriV.com, www.Facebook.com/ examples in miniature. In the 19th DoctorLori, or call (888) 431-1010. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
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Welcoming the New Year with Double the Fun By Andrea Gross Photo courtesy of Savannah Riverboat Cruises
Traditional stern-wheel riverboats offer a unique party spot for New Year’s Eve revelers in Savannah.
The clock strikes midnight. Fireworks explode. Confetti fills the air. And I get a chance to make a whole new set of resolutions, some of which I may even keep. How can I not like New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day? What’s more, if celebrating once is nice, wouldn’t twice be even better? Squeezing two such festivities into one year takes planning, but it can be done. First, welcome the new year on Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, the dates set by the internationally accepted Gregorian calendar. Then, several weeks later, partake in a traditional Chinese New Year’s celebration, the date of which is set according to the age-old Chinese calendar. (In 2013, Chinese New Year will fall on Feb. 10.) Here, two places that celebrate the new year in very different ways.
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More than 2,000 people partake in a New Year’s Day Polar Plunge near Savannah. Lion dancers provide entertainment during New Year’s Day festivities.
Savannah, Ga. As midnight approaches, people make their way to the upper deck of the three-tiered riverboat. They’ve been partying for more than three hours— dancing to live music, feasting on hors d’oeuvres and a buffet of elegant offerings. Now, as fireworks from nearby Tybee Island color the sky, it’s time to welcome the new year. On shore, Savannah’s famed City Market, a four-block area of restored buildings, is filled with landlubbers who are enjoying the city’s biggest street party. Some are dining in one of the many restaurants; others are enjoying the free entertainment outside. Then the countdown begins, and a man lifts his son to his shoulders for a better view of the fireworks. Another man lifts his drink as the band strikes up “Auld Lang Syne.” The new year has officially begun. The next day, more than 2,000 people, presumably recovered from the previous night’s revelry, gather on Tybee
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Island for the Polar Plunge, an event that raises money for a local charity. In addition to swimming caps, which range from ordinary-plain to frivolously freaky, they are outfitted in glittery capes, feather boas, bathrobes, PJs, and, occasionally, regular old bikinis and briefs. At noon they race for the water, emerging a few minutes later, shivering and smiling. “I’ve washed off the sins of the past. Now I’m ready to enjoy the new year,” says one woman. She wraps her arms about herself, smiles, and disappears into the crowd of cold, but cleansed, folks. www.savannahvisit.com Richmond, British Columbia Three thousand miles away, people in Richmond, British Columbia, have just finished packing away the piney boughs and glass ornaments that represent the Western holiday season when they begin preparing for the traditional Chinese New Year’s celebration. In Richmond, this second welcoming of the new year is a very, very big deal. This isn’t surprising, given that the city boasts North America’s highest percentage of people of Chinese heritage outside of China. Walking the streets of the area known as the Golden Village—a four-square-
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Elaborate flower booths are set up in malls.
Young dancers prepare to entertain people who are shopping for holiday presents at a Richmond mall. Hot pot dinners are favorites throughout the year.
block enclave that is home to more than 400 Asian restaurants and three Asianthemed malls—it’s easy to believe you’re in China, except that there’s no smog, the water is safe to drink, and most people understand English. Festivities begin approximately two weeks before New Year’s Day, as malls set up special booths where vendors hawk elaborate flower arrangements and special holiday treats. At Landsdowne Mall,
women make paper fish and lanterns; children perform dances and demonstrate their skill in martial arts; and expert calligraphers make banners that are used to decorate homes and public places. On New Year’s Eve, restaurants serve multicourse feasts where each food has a special meaning. Since pork symbolizes good luck, Shanghai River Restaurant prepares bamboo baskets filled with xiao
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long bao (steamed dumplings filled with minced pork and jellied broth). “These are packages of good fortune,” says the waiter. Seafood dishes are supposed to bring prosperity because in ancient times only the wealthy could afford such treats, while eating long, uncut noodles foretells a long life. Sweet, sticky rice is served as a reminder that families should “stick together” and support one another. After dinner, many folks go to the Aberdeen Mall, where the new year is welcomed with speeches, lion dancing, and lots and lots of confetti. Others go to the Kuan Yin Temple of the International Buddhist Society, which is modeled in part after the Forbidden City in Beijing. It is considered by many to be one of the most magnificent Buddhist temples in North America. There, they greet the new year with prayer, many even staying overnight in order to be among the first to receive blessings in the new year. By noon on New Year’s Day, thousands of folks have congregated at the temple for a prayer ceremony and vegetarian lunch. “Yes,” I say to myself as I munch on some bamboo shoots, “it’s definitely nice to celebrate twice.” www.tourismrichmond.com Photos © Irv Green; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).
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Salute to a Veteran
He Flew in 3 Raids on the Dreaded Oil Fields at Ploesti Robert D. Wilcox hat he didn’t know was that the first raid against this critical target had been one of the costliest for the USAAF in the European Theater, with 53 aircraft and 660 aircrewmen lost. It had been the worst loss ever suffered by the USAAF in a single mission. Ploesti was a cluster of nine oil refineries around Ploesti, Romania, that produced one-third of the oil that powered the German war machine. It was so critically important to the German war effort that it was guarded by 50,000 German troops and, literally, hundreds of anti-aircraft guns. It had been bombed many times by American bombers from Libya, then from Italy, by the time Fred Lowery and his B-17 crew arrived in their base at Foggia, Italy, and found that Ploesti was to be their first mission. Did they realize
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how hazardous that mission would be? learned after the mission that our “I guess the officers might have navigator and bombardier had been shot learned that in their briefing,” he says. down and had become prisoners of war. “But the other enlisted men and I had no Worse still, our waist gunner had been idea. killed by “We flak. were being “We checked out were then on our first all split up mission, and sent to and we all different flew on crews, as different needed. crews, to Only once give us did I ever some fly again experience with any of before our flying in original combat crew, and together as that was Frederick C. Lowery (at right, standing) a crew. I on my 17th with his original B-17 crew in training.
and final mission. My original copilot had become a first pilot, and he flew the mission to bomb an oil refinery near Vienna. “Strangely enough,” he explains, “I came closer to buying the farm on that mission than on any other. For the first time, we had with us a guy who was operating a ‘flak jammer.’ This was a device that confused the radar that guided the German ack-ack guns. “While we were flying at 28,000 feet, he kicked me and pointed to my main oxygen line. It had been severed by flak, so, although I was breathing, what I didn’t realize was that I wasn’t getting any oxygen. I was able to quickly uncouple my oxygen line and couple it to his. If it hadn’t been for him, I surely would have died.” Lowery wouldn’t have been there at all if he hadn’t been called by the draft
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board when he was 18 years old and still a senior in high school. His father was a minister, and Lowery had grown up in a strictly religious home. So he says he was rather looking forward to striking out on his own. The Army sent him to Miami for basic training, then to Sioux Falls, S.D., for radio school. It was then to Yuma, Ariz., for gunnery school, and to Salt Lake City to join a B-17 crew. After combat training at Biloxi, Miss., the crew flew to Newfoundland and the Azores on their way to their base in Foggia, Italy. Thinking back to the missions he flew, he says, “We were really lucky. We really had to worry only about flak. The German fighter planes had been decimated by the time we got there. We never saw a one. Once, flak knocked out one of our engines and we fell behind the group until we were all alone. Our tail gunner then found a fighter coming at us. But, when it got closer, we found it was one of ours. So I never got to fire a gun.” Lowery returned to the U.S. in late 1944 and served at several bases before
being discharged as a tech sergeant at Fort Indiantown Gap in 1948. He returned home, entered Franklin and Marshall College, and earned a B.A. in history in January 1950. He then entered seminary at the Dallas Theological Seminary, earning a Master of Theology degree in 1954. He joined the Army Reserve in 1957 as a first lieutenant and served as chaplain at many bases and hospitals before retiring from the Reserve as a lieutenant colonel in 1995. In civilian life, he served as minister of a United Brethren Church for 27 years. In retirement, he was asked if he would be interested in serving as minister for his father’s church. He readily accepted the call and served there for 16 more years before settling in a retirement community with his wife, Cora Jean. Lowery says that, despite his years since then, he still thinks of those exciting, dangerous months of missions over Europe as if they were yesterday.
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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 Matthews Public Library, 102 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, (717) 865-5523
Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796 200 S. White Oak St., Annville Dec. 7, noon to 7:30 p.m. – Bus Trip: “Christmastime in Hershey” – Auto Museum and The Sweet Lights Dec. 12, 10:30 a.m. – Christmas Party at Heisey’s Diner Dec. 17, 11:30 a.m. – Bob Lemon’s Holiday Brass Quintet Concert
Myerstown Community Library, 199 N. College St., Myerstown, (717) 866-2800 Palmyra Public Library, 325 S. Railroad St., (717) 838-1347
Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048 710 Maple St., Lebanon
Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939
Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-6786 51 W. Stoever Ave., Myerstown
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Northern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 865-0944 335 N. Lancaster St., Jonestown – www.jonestownpa.org/senior.html
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Dec. 18, 8 a.m. Holiday Breakfast and Choral Concert for Seniors Cornwall-Lebanon School District Middle School Cafetorium (717) 272-2031 www.clsd.k12.pa.us under “Community” tab Age 68 and older; free tickets required.
Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237 101 S. Railroad St., Palmyra Dec. 5, 11 a.m. – Christmas Party at Campbelltown Fire Hall Dec. 13, 4 to 8 p.m. – Bus Trip: Dinner at Cedar Grill and Christmas Lights in City Dec. 18, 11:30 a.m. – Christmas Luncheon at Hilltop Café
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Washington Arms – (717) 274-4104 303 Chestnut St., Lebanon Dec. 7, 9 a.m. – Holiday Breakfast with Entertainment Dec. 7, 10:30 a.m. – Card Making and Cookies Dec. 9, 17, 31, 9 a.m. – Art Class Privately Owned Centers Senior Center of Lebanon Valley, Inc. – (717) 274-3451 710 Maple St., Lebanon Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or visit their website for more information.
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(www.flu.gov). Most chains like CVS, Walgreens, Safeway, Kmart, Walmart, Rite Aid, and Kroger offer all types of shots. You’ll also be happy to know that if you’re a Medicare beneficiary, Part B will cover 100 percent of the costs of any flu shot. But if you’re not covered, you can expect to pay around $25 to $35 for a regular or intradermal flu shot or $50 to $60 for a shot of the high-dose. Pneumonia Vaccine The other important vaccination the CDC recommends to seniors—especially this time of year—is the pneumococcal vaccine for pneumonia and meningitis.
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Pneumococcal diseases hospitalize around 300,000 U.S. seniors each year and kill around 5,000. The CDC currently recommends all seniors 65 or older get a one-timeonly shot of the vaccine Pneumovax, as well as those under 65 who smoke or have chronic health conditions like asthma, lung and heart disease, diabetes, or a weakened immune system.
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Pneumovax, which protects against 23 strains of the pneumococcal disease, is also covered 100 percent under Medicare Part B, and you can get it on the same day you get your flu shot. If you’re not covered by insurance, this vaccine costs around $45 to $85 at retail clinics. You also need to know that this year,
there’s an alternative pneumococcal vaccine available to people age 50 and older called Prevnar 13. This vaccine, which has been available to children for several years, may provide seniors longerlasting and better protection against pneumonia than Pneumovax. Talk to your doctor to determine which pneumonia vaccine is best for you. Prevnar 13 is also covered by most insurers, including Medicare Part B, but if you aren’t covered, the shot runs between $100 and $150. Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org.
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LIHEAP Now Open Eligible Pennsylvania residents are encouraged to apply for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), which helps low-income people pay their heating bills through home energy assistance grants and crisis grants. Cash grants are awarded based on household income, family size, type of heating fuel, and region. Crisis grants are provided in the event of a heating emergency, including broken heating equipment or leaking lines that must be fixed or replaced, lack of fuel, termination of utility service, or danger of being without fuel or of having utility service terminated. In most counties, assistance with home heating crisis situations is available 24 hours a day. The Department of Public Welfare is sending all LIHEAP clients who applied online last year a postcard notice
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Many people he shows his collection to do not know that when Milton
Hershey first started manufacturing Hershey’s chocolate bars, he included
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postcards with them as a way to advertise, Sallade said. “There are a total of 78 different ones and I have 77,” he said. “I’m missing one but it is hard to locate.” Besides finding the last of the postcards from Hershey’s chocolate bars, Sallade said that he has no set goal or finish line in sight for his postcard collection. Selling postcards is a popular way to regroup collections and make room for more, or to simply make a profit, but for now his collection remains a hobby that he enjoys. Sallade has been retired for five years from his job as a florist. His grandfather started the business in 1898 and Sallade said he worked there since he could hold a broom in his hand. He majored in horticulture at Ohio State University before returning to the family business. Since retiring, Sallade and his wife, Caryn, have had more time to travel to places like Canada and Ireland, and he purchases postcards everywhere that he goes. He has paid as little as 10 cents for a postcard and as much as $250, he said. Looking for them at flea markets is more fun and the price is usually better as well, said Sallade. But sometimes postcards he finds for sale online are only a few dollars. “It is something that varies considerably,” Sallade said. While the bulk of his postcard
collection is from what Sallade calls “the golden age of postcards,” between 1900 and 1915, he certainly does not shy away from new postcards. “I buy new ones too, because some day they are going to be old,” he said. He stores the postcards in notebooks that have plastic liners to protect each card and has the chance to display the cards at his postcard club’s monthly meetings. Sallade is president of the club. He is also one of the youngest members, with the average age of the 45 club members being between 65 and 70 years. The club has been around for more than 30 years and meets monthly at a local church. “We welcome anybody to come to visit,” said Sallade. “We have a speaker every month or sometimes we do a display. This month everyone will be displaying their Thanksgiving or Christmas postcards.” Sometimes the club holds events where vendors come to purchase postcards from the club members. He said there are postcard clubs that meet in York, Lancaster, and Carlisle. And although so much of the world is switching to digital, postcard collectors like Sallade say that the postcard is something that will always be around. “I think there is always an interest in a postcard of some place where someone went to visit,” said Sallade. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
Book Review
Jackie O: On the Couch Inside the Mind and Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis By Alma H. Bond, Ph.D. fascinating psycho-biography, Jackie O: On the Couch takes readers into the mind of Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis through a first-person, autobiographical narrative. The book delves into Jackie’s childhood and helps the reader understand how and why she became the person she was. It also explores JFK’s background and the ways it affected his marriage. Jackie’s deep love for Jack, the cat-andmouse game he played before their engagement, his early inattentiveness, the difficult years they spent together, along with details of his outrageous womanizing and their happier times at the White House late in the marriage—
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all are viewed through her eyes. A poignant description of Jack’s assassination and funeral is recounted. The book also looks into the widow Jackie’s need for Aristotle Onassis. She debunks the idea that she married Ari purely for his money. The joyful early years and the gradual collapse of the marriage are described, as is Ari’s death. Jackie’s successful entry into the publishing world, and how the work helped to define her, follows. A new
Jackie emerges, who is probably closer to the one she would have become had she not been first lady. Her new persona allows her to form the best relationship of her life, with the elderly, stout, and adoring Maurice Tempelsman, who gave her the love, devotion, and constancy she never received from her two husbands. The book also carefully follows the progress of the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma disease that led to Jackie’s death at age
63—from her fierce denial to the gradual acceptance that she would not survive. Jackie O: On the Couch is available from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and directly from Bancroft Press at www.bancroftpress.com. About the Author Alma H. Bond received her Ph.D. from Columbia University and became a highly successful psychoanalyst for 37 years in New York City. Jackie O: On the Couch, the first of her On the Couch series to be published, received a Pinnacle Book Achievement Award and Finalist International Book Award. She has also had 19 other books published. She lives in Carlisle, Pa.
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Experienced cardiac & thoracic surgeon Joins Good Samaritan Cardiovascular Surgical Associates. When you put your life in a surgeon’s hands, you want to know they are highly-trained, experienced and have a track record of success. Accomplished cardiovascular surgeon Dr. Martin LeBoutillier has joined Good Samaritan Cardiovascular Surgical Associates, expanding the team of experienced surgeons who routinely perform complex cardiac, thoracic and vascular surgeries at The Good Samaritan Hospital. Dr. LeBoutillier is a highly-trained, board-certified surgeon, proficient in open heart procedures including coronary artery bypass grafting, minimally invasive surgery and valve repair surgery. In addition to his clinical expertise, his work has been published in numerous medical journals. An experienced cardiovascular surgery team working together to provide our community with exceptional cardiac care. That’s powerful medicine and comforting care. Only at Good Samaritan.
Martin LeBoutillier III, MD Dr. LeBoutillier received his medical degree from Columbia University College of Physicians & Surgeons in New York, NY, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery. Dr. LeBoutillier completed his fellowship in Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the NYU Medical Center. Before joining Good Samaritan, Dr. LeBoutillier was affiliated with Cleveland Clinic Heart Surgery Program and was the Chief, Section of Cardiac Surgery, at The Chester County Hospital.
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