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for the Performing Arts at The April RSVP York Penn State, York Campus; County Volunteer of the Month, Ted Kraft, and Marketview Arts in York. was born and raised in In summer 2015 Baltimore. Kraft joined RSVP and After serving in the volunteered at the MasonU.S. Army overseas and working as a Baltimore Dixon Community Services food pantry in police officer and in Ted Kraft Delta. Four hours a week soon a management position for the Baltimore Sun, Kraft retired in 1995 turned into eight. He currently to be a caregiver for his wife, Carole, volunteers an average of 5.5 hours two days a week. who was suffering from MS and Kraft continues to serve at all passed in 2008. In appreciation for the care his these locations, including the wife received at York Hospital, Kraft hospital’s gift shop. We are pleased to became a volunteer there, running a recognize Ted Kraft and appreciate his volunteer service in York County. “Munch Mobile” with sandwiches, For more information on sodas, and snacks for the staff for four years, up to four days a week. volunteering with RSVP of the Capital Region, please contact Scott Kraft also became a volunteer at The Strand-Capitol Theater for the Hunsinger at (443) 619-3842 or yorkadamsfranklin@rsvpcapreg.org. Performing Arts; the Pullo Center
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William Schreiber, Carol Deland, Ephraim Sheffer, and Catherine Dietz are York County Area Agency on William Schreiber Aging’s volunteers of the month for their service and dedication to the county’s older adults. Schreiber, of Ephraim Sheffer Springettsbury Township, provides bulk mail and general office assistance for New Horizons delivery and is a peer educator. He volunteers for the agency’s Senior Games and is very active in his church. Deland, of York Township, assists with bulk mail and general
office assistance at the agency as well as New Horizons delivery. Sheffer, a.k.a., Sheff, volunteers with bulk mail Carol Deland and New Horizons delivery, general office assistance, and special events. In his spare time, he volunteers for other Catherine Dietz organizations. Dietz, of North Codorus Township, began volunteering for the agency after she saw how the services benefitted her mother. Volunteering fulfills her during her retirement years. She also volunteers as an APPRISE counselor.
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On Life and Love after 50
It’s Never Too Late to Find a Mate Tom Blake
I receive far too many emails that state something like this: “I just turned 71. I’ve been single for 10 years. I’ve given up on meeting a mate.” Emails similar to the one above come from widows, widowers, divorced people, and sometimes from people who’ve never married. The common thread is loneliness; they would like to have someone in their lives, but finding someone seems impossible. So, they don’t try. Yes, the dating world for people age 60-plus can appear bleak. But, in the 23 years I’ve written about senior dating, I’ve also received hundreds of
Chris and Tina. emails from singles telling me they’ve
Phil and Sue. met someone and to remind older
singles to “never give up.” And these emails are not from spring chickens, but from people age 70-plus. On Feb. 12, 2017, my partner Greta and I attended the wedding of Chris and Tina. They met in 2004 on a cruise. Chris was a dance host and Tina a passenger. He lived in California; she lived in England. It would have been easy for them to give up seeing each other because the distance between them was 5,419 miles. But they hung in there and saw each other as often as they could. “When you’ve met the right person, please see NEVER TOO LATE page 7
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Staying One Step Ahead of the Game By Sam Peeples and Megan Joyce
In the sports world, the players get the praise. But also there, literally on the sidelines, are the referees whose knowledge and skill are integral to the structure and flow of the game. Also overlooked is the sheer physicality of a referee’s job; to effectively officiate a game, refs must run alongside the athletes and keep up with game play—and they need to remain mentally and physically fit enough to do so. Eileen Grumbine has officiated a variety of sports for more than 30 years, from basketball to field hockey to lacrosse. She’s still hustling across the outdoor fields and indoor courts, keeping pace with the players and making calls that keep game play running smoothly. “I played field hockey, basketball, and tennis in high school,” Grumbine said. “I grew up on a farm and would rather stay after school and participate in other activities so I would not have to go home and do farm chores.” She continued playing well into her adult years, spending a lot of time either on the courts or beside them. When a friend brought her into a local field hockey adult league where the coaches and officials both ran the games and participated in them, Grumbine became curious about getting involved as more than just a player. “I started to play on a league, and then went for my test with [the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association], and one sport grew into another and then another,” she said. She started officiating games in 1981, beginning with basketball and soon adding field hockey. Years later, lacrosse arrived in the area. Despite having never played or watched a lacrosse game, Grumbine learned its rules and signed up to try her hands at
Grumbine indicating a penalty corner. refereeing it. The sport proved very entertaining and popular with audiences, so she added it to her regular roster. She continued to referee all three sports until injury forced her to cut back. “After suffering a knee injury and having surgery, I gave up the basketball and lacrosse and stayed with hockey,” Grumbine said. “Indoor hockey started to grow in this area, and we had [large facilities in the region] for more indoor games and large tournaments.” Grumbine worked for an international designer and manufacturer of floors and ceilings for 28 years, mostly with customer financial services in the company’s floor division. When new management proved less flexible with the hours she needed to continue refereeing, Grumbine chose to take early retirement and find employment with a more accommodating schedule. When not refereeing, Grumbine now works at a women’s boutique or provides private, in-home care to seniors, depending on the day. “It was the best decision I could have made,” she said. When Grumbine first began officiating, there were more than 20 women refereeing girls’ games for basketball alone. Currently, there are about a dozen left. She considers the dip a likely result of family and work issues taking up most of women’s already-busy schedules.
“There is a big time commitment involved when you want to be an official,” she said. “There are numerous meetings to attend and training sessions to keep on top of all the rule changes.” Conversely, the number of men involved with girls’ sports has seen a steady rise. Fathers get involved in the games through their daughters and eventually become interested in coaching or officiating. Another change Grumbine has observed over the decades: Some teams are now mixing the sexes. When Grumbine first became an official, there were two chapters for basketball in her area: one for girls, one for boys. But as the pool of available referees and coaches became smaller, the two chapters merged into one. This can cause minor issues for a referee, as the rules for men’s and women’s versions of the sports are often slightly different. Grumbine herself preferred to referee games for girls and women, being more familiar with their rule set, but she has refereed a few boys’ basketball games and some mixed field hockey games as well. “It is so rewarding to see young girls learn this game and develop a love for hockey as they go through school and into college and then their adult lives,” she said. Grumbine currently calls games both during the school season and the winter break, particularly the national field hockey tournaments. Despite now being considered “semi-retired,” she plans to continue hurrying up and down the field, keeping the game play honest and fair. “I enjoy student athletes and want to give back to them, as someone had to do this when I was playing sports or I would have been stuck down on the farm,” she said. “I enjoy doing something I love and getting in some extra exercise!” www.50plusLifePA.com
Bucket List: No Laughing Matter By Bill Levine Like all baby boomers, I intend to diligently execute my bucket list or drop dead trying. Just like we were told to not trust anyone over 30, now we need to frown on any cohort who has less than a 30-item bucket list. Old baby boomers don’t die; we just stay in perpetual motion. Many of these bucket-list items are more doable than ever. For instance, travel excursions are available anywhere. OK, perhaps areas under the influence of ISIS, Zika, and Putin — as well as no-fly zones — are off limits, but the rest of the world is accessible, by air or ship or yak. I, for one, have a bucket-list goal of vacationing in Tahiti, which is now served by 12 airlines. Then there are those crucial “this is really me” career opportunities. With the proliferation of online schools, anyone can pursue a dream career, if he is willing to invest his
life savings to garner a blacksmithmanagement degree. But what if we are equally afraid and enthralled when contemplating some of these bucket-list activities? Sure, some of us would like to be shot out of a cannon, but fear could reduce this goal to shooting pictures with a Canon camera. In all honesty, I have to admit that some of my bucket-list items have been unfulfilled as much by lack of moxie as by lack of opportunity. For instance, when I was 23, I went to a life-coach firm, where I had the opportunity to write a brief essay outlining what I wanted to do with my life. One goal was to be a
comedian. This odd desire was based on having cracked one-liners for the entertainment of my drunken frat brothers. My dad nixed the life-coaching firm by pointing out that I could save $500 by just listening to him, whose advice included getting off my derriere and getting a job. At any rate, comedy as a realistic goal did give way to the establishment of a real job. It was one thing to handle drunken frat brothers, but the idea of deflecting a heckling bunch of lounge lizards was intimidating. I settled into an IT career, a left-brained endeavor and a comic wasteland. Still, I did have a creative
side and took on the challenge of writing humorous essays on IT, starting in the early ’80s. I was fortunate enough to have a piece run in the New Yorker of computing, Computerworld. Later I branched out to writing humorous pieces in areas other than IT with some success. Even with the experience of sitting down and writing comedy, standup still seemed like a quantum leap. Yet I never gave my standup-comic yen the proverbial hook. It was just sublimated into a lifelong interest in patronizing standup. I was part of the very small, hardcore audience of the Boston comedy scene’s informal, pub-based infancy in the late ’70s, where the standups would thank me profusely for coming. When I got married, Les and I followed these comedians into the spiffier comedy clubs that sprung up as the Boston scene exploded. We would make comedy clubs in New York City a must-stop in the please see BUCKET LIST page 13
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Homeland Center: Meeting the Needs of South-Central Pennsylvania for 150 Years The Civil War remains the bloodiest conflict in American history. After the guns fell silent, Harrisburg, like communities across the country, was left stunned by the staggering losses its families had suffered. “They are in the midst of us,’’ the local newspaper said of the households struggling to survive after losing fathers and sons, the breadwinners. “The homeless stranger and friendless, the destitute widow, the fatherless and orphan children.’’ But 18 women representing nine Harrisburg churches vowed to make a difference and establish a “Home for the Friendless’’ to save the widows and orphaned children from life on the streets. It was an act made more remarkable by the times: In the 19th century, married women could not legally conduct the business functions required to open such a place. Undeterred, the members of what became Homeland’s first “board of lady managers” convinced seven prominent men to lend their support and serve as the board of trustees. As Homeland Center celebrates its 150th anniversary this year, many things have changed, not the least of which is that women proudly serve as trustees as well as managers who focus
on the day-to-day needs of residents. What hasn’t changed is Homeland’s commitment to meeting the unmet medical and social needs of South-Central Pennsylvania. By the 1950s, the Home for the Friendless became Homeland Center, and with it a new mission: caring for the community’s seniors. Still located on its original Fifth Street site, Homeland offers personal and skilled care and rehabilitation services. A special unit provides a supportive environment to help those with Alzheimer’s or other forms of dementia. In keeping with its founders’ goal to meet the region’s needs, Homeland last year unveiled two new services to help seniors remain in their homes while receiving the quality care they require. Homeland HomeCare will assist seniors with daily tasks such as meal preparation and transportation, while Homeland HomeHealth will provide doctorordered medical assistance, ranging from providing intravenous therapy and other medications to physical therapy. Homeland Hospice, which serves 13 counties, in 2016 became the only service in Central Pennsylvania to offer a dedicated pediatric hospice program. Also in keeping with the spirit of Homeland’s founders, no resident in financial distress has ever been asked to leave. Homeland in the past year provided more than $3 million in charitable care. When those determined Read it online, in print, and 18 “lady managers” first opened the doors, they on mobile/tablet devices. certainly could not have onlinepub.com foreseen all they set in motion. But everything Homeland is today harkens back to their abiding principles of providing the best quality of care in a homelike and welcoming setting. Emphasizing Homeland’s commitment to these principles, the center received a perfect 5.0 score in U.S. News and World Report’s Best Nursing Homes 201617. Homeland also is one of the few in Central Pennsylvania to earn
Homeland Center circa 1892.
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Harrisburg who saw a need and gathered the resources to address it,” said Barry S. Ramper II, Homeland’s president and CEO. “We are proud to carry on their legacy and to demonstrate, in our daily tasks and our outlook for the future, a history of caring.”
NEVER TOO LATE from page 3 you have to figure out a way to make it work,” Chris said. “Tina and I never gave up hope and never gave up trying. Now we are man and wife.” By the way, Chris is 83 and Tina is 76. Last month, I received an email that said two of my high school classmates, Phil and Sue, both 77, had gotten married on Feb. 24. I was dumbfounded and frankly did not believe the news. They had not seen each other in 50 years, except for a half hour at their 50th high school reunion. They had never dated. She lived in Michigan, he in California. I wondered how it was possible that they got married. Later, I received the rest of the story: Both were widowed. Both had been caregivers for the last few years. On Feb. 1, Sue took the initiative to call Phil to tell him the person she had been caregiving passed away. Sue was assertive and called him again the next day. They spoke on the phone every day until Feb. 12. They were openly honest with each other. Finally, Sue said to Phil, “If you want to marry me, why don’t you ask me?” Phil said, “I just did.” www.50plusLifePA.com
Sue flew to California on Feb. 24. They were married an hour later. Both couples simply refused to allow health issues, mileage distances, public opinion, family members, and other obstacles get in their way in their quest to share life with a mate in the waning years of their lives. They stopped at Greta’s and my home on March 11. We were amazed at how thrilled they are to be together. When I hear from naysayers who say it’s too hard to meet someone later in life, I say that is simply a hurdle to overcome. Older singles should attend their class reunions. Plus, older singles, men and women alike, should be assertive (not aggressive—there is a difference), as Sue was, in trying to meet someone. Love can happen, as these two stories illustrate, with a little effort from both parties on the relationship. Being with someone later in life is a heck of a lot better than being alone. For dating information, previous articles, or to sign up for Tom’s complimentary, weekly e-newsletter, go to www.FindingLoveAfter50.com.
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The Beauty in Nature
April’s Woodland Flowers Clyde McMillan-Gamber
Several kinds of native, woodland Each spring beauty has a few wildflowers bloom in many woods in grass-like leaves and pale-pink April in southeastern Pennsylvania. flowers that bloom a few at a time Some more common of those for a month. This species colonized flowering plants are, in a debatable certain meadows that were created order of blooming, bloodroots and from woodlands. Some sections of spring beauties, Dutchman’s breeches, those pastures are pink with spring trout lilies and beauty blossoms. wild ginger, American Indians and Virginia boiled and ate bluebells and their bulbs, as we erect trillium. do small potatoes. These plants Dutchman’s are small and breeches, trout simple, except lily, and wild bluebells and ginger commonly trilliums. Fuzzy bloom in many flies shaped like woods in the bees, called bee Photo by Jason Hollinger middle of April. flies, pollinate Each breeches Bloodroots those blossoms plant has fern-like as they sip foliage and a stem nectar. of flowers that These are lined like tiny, wildflowers white pantaloons adapted to on a wash line. growing and Those blooms blooming in also remind me April because of molar teeth there is no with their roots foliage on pointing up. deciduous Each trout Photo by Katja Schulz trees, allowing lily has a single Virginia bluebells sunlight to yellow blossom reach and and twin warm the carpet of dead leaves and dappled leaves. Trout lilies colonize soil on woodland floors. Forest floors bottomland woods’ floors. are warmer in April than any other Wild gingers are unique in that month, encouraging the growth of their brownish-purple blossom, one woodland wildflowers that beautifies per plant, is under its two glossy, woods’ floors. heart-shaped leaves. These flowers are Bloodroots and spring beauties fertilized mostly by ants. bloom early in April. Bloodroots Bushy Virginia bluebells have each have one scalloped leaf and one several sky-blue flowers shaped like white flower that looks like a small bells, and foot-tall erect trillium has tulip until it opens completely to be one big, white bloom by the third pollinated. week of April. Beautiful, mixed This plant also has reddish-orange patches of bluebells and white trillium sap in its roots that American Indians seem to mirror the sky. used as a dye and gives the plant This April, or succeeding ones, visit its name. Bloodroot also blooms woods to see wildflowers. They are along roadsides that were cut into wonderfully attractive. woodlands. www.50plusLifePA.com
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South Korea: From Hanboks to Headsets By Andrea Gross
Flash back 60 years. Korea had barely recovered from a half century of domination by the Japanese when it became ground zero for a contest between China and Russia to the north and United Nations forces to the south. The streets of Seoul were filled with oxcarts, the buildings were pockmarked with shrapnel, and starving people, dressed in tattered hanboks, foraged in the country for food. Today the streets are filled with Hyundais, the buildings have been replaced with skyscrapers, and the country has morphed from one of the poorest in the world to one of the richest. Korea’s growth has been so extraordinary that it is commonly referred to as “The Miracle on the
Deoksugung Palace is one of five royal palaces in Seoul.
Namdaemon Market is the largest traditional market in Korea.
Han,� the Han being a river that flows through the center of Seoul. To accomplish such a miracle, a country needs folks who are driven. It also needs folks who are caffeinated. Fortunately, South Korea has both. And now it plans to use that energy to brag a bit, to invite others to
learn about its prewar past and its remarkable present. It seems to be succeeding. National Geographic lists Seoul as one of the top go-to places for 2017. Thus, here we are—tourists in the Land of the Morning Calm, which actually isn’t very calm at all. The
only thing that’s calm is the traffic, which is calm because it’s gridlocked to a standstill. It takes us a while to acclimate. Few signs are written in English, few people speak English, and most are too rushed to try even if they can. But on the other hand, it’s worth the trouble. Where else can you see a miracle still in the making? We begin our exploration at Deoksugung Palace, one of five royal homes in Seoul that served as the seat of government during the Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). It’s here that we’re able to glimpse the city’s transition from past to present. Seen from certain vantage points, the changing of the royal guard takes place in front of the stately gate of the ancient palace. From others, the drum rolls are backed by streets of distinctly
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modern buildings. A short subway ride takes us to Bukchon Hanok Village, an authentic enclave of centuries-old homes (hanoks). Many of the homes have been turned into guesthouses and cultural centers, and women stroll the streets dressed in colorful hanboks, the shortjacketed, long-skirted dresses that date back thousands of years. No matter that the women are tourists who spent $20 to rent a hanbok for four selfie-filled hours. They give the village a certain panache, and I’m delighted to revel in a picturesque version of Korea’s past. What’s more, off in the distance, framed by wing-roofed homes, I can see the high-rises of downtown Seoul. This serves as yet another reminder of the miracle that has transformed the city. We leave the past behind when we go to Hapjeong, a former riverfront neighborhood that is now dominated by Mecenatpolis Mall, a group of three towers that punch more than 40 stories into the air. On the streets people scurry about, a smartphone in one hand, a latte
Bukchon Village is a historic neighborhood filled with traditional homes, narrow alleys, and a few teashops and eateries.
Bulgogi, a popular Korean dish made of grilled meat and usually served with an assortment of sides, literally means “fire meat.”
in the other. This is the home of the driven, folks who are harried as well as hurried. But as we wander a few blocks downhill from the mall, we come upon a neighborhood that has yet to be renovated. It’s filled with homes that date back to the ’70s; some still have echoes of traditional architecture. The owner of a small café tells us that these buildings are slated to be torn down and replaced with modern skyscrapers filled with
offices for tech-savvy geeks. “But,” he says, “others are betting it’ll become part of the area’s creative renaissance, a place for filmmakers, musicians, and other artists. After all, Hapjeong is part of the new Seoul.” Located across the Han River, Gangnam is the new Seoul on steroids. The people may be determined, but they’re also energized—not only by the omnipresent coffee shops but also by a palpable enthusiasm that permeates
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the rarefied air. A while back, Gangnam was rice fields, but then came the 1988 Olympics and the rice fields became expensive real estate. In 2012 a South Korean rapper named Psy released a song about the upscale neighborhood in which he grew up. After “Gangnam Style” was featured on a YouTube video that received a reputed billion hits, his old neighborhood became Seoul’s hippest hangout. We gaze at tall skyscrapers, visit the largest underground shopping mall in Asia, and wander through a maze of upscale shops, galleries, and restaurants that seems to go on forever. It’s a far cry from the war-torn and depressed city of the ’50s. Korea has indeed leapfrogged from hanboks to headsets with unprecedented speed. It’s a miracle to be sure. For more information on Korea, see the Napkin Notes section of our website: www.traveltizers.com. Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www. andreagross.com).
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Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori
Antiques and Alzheimer’s Memory Care Lori Verderame
My parents both suffered from (paper), mementos, and photos. I Alzheimer’s disease and required scanned old photos and printed specialized care. I am not a specialist them out in booklet form from my in Alzheimer’s care, nor am I trained computer. to give medical advice. Digitalization allowed me to That said, as a child of two parents reproduce original photos and leave with Alzheimer’s, I know something a copy of the memory albums with about the struggles for families my parents without the fear of losing living with the original family disease. Since I photographs. The have met many album helped my other Alzheimer’s mom recall the families, I wanted names of her eight to share what I siblings, children, have learned about grandchildren, how heirlooms friends, neighbors, contribute to etc. happy visits Dad liked to talk with loved ones about the summer suffering from cottage he built Alzheimer’s. or his cars. Each While my page had a photo parents’ care Verderame’s parents, circa 1950. and a caption facilities offered with names, a quiet room, ages, locations, a reminiscence approximate dates, room, and a and descriptions. Snoezelen room Photos of family to help stimulate homes, vacation the five senses, my spots, schools parents responded attended, church best to personal weddings, and visits from family childhood pets and friends. were featured. The My parents were visuals sparked more responsive questions and and engaged if I conversation from brought an object Mom and Dad. from our family Her mother’s salt and pepper home for them Mom’s Kitchen shakers. to talk about and In addition to touch. If anyone the memory album, looked in my pocketbook when I my mom, who loved to cook for went to visit my parents, they would our big, Italian family, lit up when I have thought I was crazy with all the brought part of her kitchen canister set collectibles I carried around. for our visit. The most comforting activity for my The salt and pepper shakers would parents was discussing stuff that they get her talking about favorite recipes, recognized as their own. and before you knew it, she would offer a tried-and-true baking tip! Memory Album My mom’s memory could be I regularly brought a memory sparked by such diverse objects— album filled with small ephemera shown to her one at a time so as not www.50plusLifePA.com
to overwhelm her—as her wedding photo, a Hummel figurine from her collection from the 1950s, or an afghan that she crocheted in the 1970s. Dad’s Sports Of course, my mom’s disease was different from my dad’s. Mom was less combative, more engaged, and more talkative than Dad. My dad was very quiet until he was upset by some outside stimulus. Then he was in the moment. After he calmed down and started to enjoy our visit, he would repeat sentences and phrases over and over again. A highly intelligent man and a professional athlete, listening to him repeat himself was very difficult for me.
leaguer named After trying Mickey Mantle. to redirect him, I found that Dad’s postwar-era my dad’s verbal baseballs sparked loop could be a positive interrupted if conversation and I introduced a related object stopped, albeit Her dad’s baseballs. temporarily, to him. If we the repetitive started our visit talking about baseball, my dad would chatter. This heirloom helped my dad reminisce calmly. It helped me find say the same sentence about the sport comfort in the fact that he could recall over and over again. Yet, if I were to hand him a baseball memories with the aid of an heirloom. from our attic—one dating from his At my appraisal events, I often days as a big league pitcher—things say that antiques spark all types of quickly changed. He could grip the emotions. Some objects collected baseball and show me how to throw over a lifetime can stir memories even a curve. Holding the baseball, Dad could explain proper finger placement when you think there are none. Vintage objects from my parents’ or recall the day he struck out a minor
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BUCKET LIST from page 5 ’80s, big crowds or not. We went to a near-empty New York club and, emboldened by the intimacy, handed headliner Carol Leifer pictures of our two clumber spaniels, which led to some ugly-dog jokes. Thirty years later, Les and I are sometimes the oldest patrons of local comedy shows held in basement folk clubs and attics of Chinese restaurants. Millennial jokes may fall flat on me, but I am there to study the art of comedy. I pay attention to the standup’s material and the timing of the comic’s joke delivery. Finally, I study the demeanor of the comic. Is he or she nerdish, cerebral, frat boyish, acerbic, etc.? I realize that the comic has to throw these aspects into a blender and come up with either a solid, comic cocktail or else risk “bombing or dying on stage.” I invest in this critical analysis
partially to be a comedy connoisseur, but truthfully, another goal is to springboard my own open-mic debut in some future century. Standup is no easy gig. I have seen too many comedians fail with decent material, including big names who have not polished new bits. Indeed, the specter of melting on stage dissuades me from even sitting down and developing a five-minute set of jokes and contemplating a stage persona. Every time my quips at Passover seders fall as flat as matzah or when I can’t merit top banana at friends’ dinner parties, visions of “killing them” at comedy clubs vanish. I have not, though, eliminated standup from my bucket list. I just need to crawl toward the open mic, instead of blindly hurdling over obstacles and inebriates. To this end, I am starting with
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my Toastmasters Club. I have taken on the challenge of completing the Humorously Speaking manual, which prescribes five humorous speeches. This should be in front of a friendly, sober audience. Maybe then I can come away with
five minutes of material, which I can parley into a Toastmasters humorousspeech contest routine. Then maybe I will audition for open mic night, or if not, execute Plan B, where I wax comedic to empty stools at a Tahitian tiki bar.
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Community Programs/Support Groups Free and open to the public April 3, 9:30 a.m. Green Thumb Garden Club Meeting Emmanuel Lutheran Church 2650 Freysville Road, Red Lion (717) 235-2823
April 18, 7-8 p.m. Alzheimer’s Support Group Providence Place 3377 Fox Run Road, Dover (717) 767-4500
April 4, 7 p.m. Surviving Spouse Socials of York County Faith United Church of Christ 509 Pacific Ave., York (717) 266-2784
April 20, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Veterans’ Expo & Job Fair York Expo Center – Memorial Hall East 334 Carlisle Ave., York (717) 285-1350 www.veteransexpo.com
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Parks and Recreation April 18, 6:30 p.m. – Sunset Scramble Bike Ride, Brillhart Station April 22, 9-10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Wetland Walks, Nixon County Park April 23, 1-4 p.m. – Garlic Mustard Pull and Tasting Program, Nixon County Park
Library Programs Collinsville Community Library, 2632 Delta Road, Brogue, (717) 927-9014 Tuesdays, 6-8 p.m. – Purls of Brogue Knitting Club April 27, 6-8 p.m. – The Novel Bunch Book Club Glatfelter Memorial Library, 101 Glenview Road, Spring Grove, (717) 225-3220 Mondays, 6-8 p.m. – Knitters Group April 20, 1-2 p.m. – Third Thursday Windy Hill Book Club Paul Smith Library of Southern York County, 80 Constitution Ave., Shrewsbury, (717) 235-4313 April 5, 7-8:30 p.m. – Local Author Talk and Book Signing: Eliza Rusk April 12, 6:30-8 p.m. – Medicare Workshop: Missed Open Enrollment? Now What? Village Library, 35-C N. Main St., Jacobus, (717) 428-1034 April 20, 7:30-8:30 p.m. – Rowdy Readers Book Discussion Group
Some Taxing Trivia No one enjoys paying taxes, but these factoids might take some of the sting out of writing that annual check: • The first national income tax was established by Congress in 1894. However, it was ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court the following year. The Constitution was changed in 1913 to allow for a legal income tax. • Taxes were originally due on March 1. The date was changed to March 15 shortly before the beginning of Prohibition. In 1955 it was changed to April 15 to spread out the work of processing all the tax forms.
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• The first tax form was just four pages long, including instructions. • Unusual deductions: A parent was able to deduct the expenses for her child’s clarinet lessons because she claimed they corrected the child’s overbite. A junkyard owner deducted cat food for the cats he kept to drive away mice and rats, and the IRS approved it as a business expense. A bodybuilder claimed a deduction for the cost of the body oil that he used in competitions, and again the IRS allowed it as a business expense.
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It Was 50 Years Ago Today
‘Strawberry Fields Forever’ Randal Hill
Accompanied only by his acoustic guitar, John Lennon auditioned “Strawberry Fields Forever”— conceived as a slow-talking blues song—for Beatles producer George Martin, who sat entranced in a dimly lit Abbey Road studio room while Lennon sang his complex and sophisticated tune. In the Beatles’ Anthology, Martin recalled, “It was magic. It was absolutely lovely. I love John’s voice anyway, and it was a great privilege listening to it.” Such poignancy and intimacy were rare from the normally guarded Beatle, who had become lyrically more introspective after falling under the influence of American icon Bob Dylan. Strawberry Field (no “s”) was a Liverpool orphanage young Lennon could see from his upstairs window. The old residence was a sprawling 1870 Victorian home set in wooded grounds and converted by the Salvation Army in 1936. The name had come from the rows of strawberries that grew in the lush gardens there. Lennon’s song “Strawberry Fields Forever” (he added the “s” as a stylistic choice) took Lennon back to his childhood and carefree summer mornings with his friends, who often scaled the orphanage walls to play in the trees that became their private
playground instrumentation, sound loops, and key word and a reversed tape sections. This way, as “Fields” sanctuary developed. Martin managed to create an aural from annoying Lennon added montage by speeding up one tape and adults. slowing down the other, blending the sound of His aunt both onto a single tape with a a Mellotron, Mimi (who distinctive “faraway” sound. a synthesizerraised him) type machine Released as the “B” side to the sometimes more commercial “Penny Lane,” that played complained Lennon’s masterpiece became one of recorded “Strawberry Fields Forever” to her nephew the defining works of the psychedelic instruments The Beatles about his rock genre and the one of his most (in this case, April 1967 trespassing personal works. A short promotional flutes). onto private property. Lennon would film shot for it became one of history’s He also playfully added a littleretort, “What are they going to do, noticed series of Morse code beeps first music videos and a forerunner of hang me?” From that would later MTV. that spell out the letters J and come his often-misconstrued lyric Some have deemed “Strawberry L. George Harrison contributed line, “Nothing to get hung about.” Fields Forever” rock’s all-time greatest the sound of a zither-like Indian Lennon called his work song. Period. instrument called a swarmandal. “psychoanalysis set to music,” The song was actually recorded Randal C. Hill is a rock ’n’ roll historian according to The Beatles: The twice, in different keys, tempos, who lives at the Oregon coast. He may be reached at wryterhill@msn.com. Biography. It featured surreal images and moods, and with differing that helped him bring his emotional world alive, some lyrics revealing Stories of ordinary men and women long-suppressed insecurities and called to perform extraordinary military service. feelings of being misunderstood as a child. Since 1999, writer and World War II veteran “No one I think is in my tree” Col. Robert D. Wilcox has preserved the shows his concern about being above firsthand wartime experiences of more than or below everybody else—either a 200 veterans through Salute to a Veteran, his genius (“high”) or a madman (“low”). monthly column featured in 50plus LIFE. With an open-ended recording budget, Martin could grant Lennon Now, for the first time, 50 of those stories— the 45 hours he needed to create what selected by Wilcox himself—are available to would become the most complex own in this soft-cover book. Beatles single ever. Simply complete and mail this form with your payment Experimentation became the
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Such is Life
Bob’s Gambling Habit Saralee Perel
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“What do you have behind your back?” I asked my husband, Bob. “What do you think it is?” He showed me the $1 scratch ticket. “Bob, you said you wouldn’t waste money on these anymore.” He grinned and gave it to me. It was a $40 winner. “What on earth is going to motivate you to stop gambling if you keep winning?” I said. “Losing,” he said. “But you never do. Every month you get a winning check from the State Lottery Commission.” I went to his desk and pointed to the stack of scratch tickets. I looked through them and said, astonished, “Each one is a winner!” “You weren’t against gambling when I was on TV in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?” (He really was,
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25. Distress call 26. Wane 27. Mode of travel for 47 Across 28. See 2 Down 29. U.S. gambling city 30. Peculiar in appearance 32. Author LeShan 34. To a sickening extent 35. Ireland 36. Levees 38. Astern 39. Lament 43. Flop 44. TV news station
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That’s Life Dick Dedrick
When I was in college, a professor referred to Life magazine as a glorified comic book. “Too many pictures, not enough words.” I guess the phrase, “One picture is worth a thousand words” meant nothing to him. Obviously he had little regard for the Saturday Evening Post paintings by Norman Rockwell or Stevan Dohanos. Same goes for Joe Rosenthal’s photo of the flag-raising on Iwo Jima, or Alfred Eisenstaedt’s V-J Day pic of the kissing sailor and nurse in Times
Square. Would that teacher rather have read about it? OK, I’ll admit it: I like books with pictures. The Monkey Ward catalog was always a favorite of mine. My grandma was a big fan of Reader’s Digest. And I liked some of the stories
Alfred Eisenstaedt’s V-J Day photo “V-J Day in Times Square.”
she’d read from it. Otherwise, it was nothing more than words on top of words to this 5-year-old kid. I miss Life. I suppose people today prefer to get their pictures on YouTube. And I can’t blame them. I could tell you
all about this crow on YouTube who found a jar lid and used it to sled down a snow-covered roof, time after time. But you really need to see it. Same goes for this baby, getting all sentimental and teary-eyed over a song his mother was singing. Those are pictures I can’t paint. If that professor’s still around today, he’d be well into his 90s. And if he has a book in hand, I’d say there’s a good chance it’s a photo album. I doubt if he’d call that a glorified comic book. Visit NostalgiaRoad.com
School Tutors, Client Intake Volunteers Needed in York County RSVP of the Capital Region – York County is seeking volunteers fill two available positions. The City of York, Southeastern, and Hanover Public school districts need volunteer tutors in math or reading for their elementary schools. Also, a southern York County
community services provider is seeking a volunteer to assist with client intake, providing information and referral, and helping with center operations of the food pantry as needed. Times are available during center hours on Mondays through
Thursdays, from 9 a.m. to noon. The organization is interested in a volunteer who can share their knowledge of budgeting, food preparation, and parenting and who has a desire to help those experiencing challenging life circumstances. Volunteer benefits for both
positions include: transportation reimbursement, free supplemental liability insurance, recognition and appreciation events, assistance with clearances, and free training. For further information, contact Scott Hunsinger at (443) 619-3842 or yorkadamsfranklin@rsvpcapreg.org.
‘Superfoods’ Will Be Big in 2017
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The most recent “What’s Trending in Nutrition” national survey of more than 1,700 dieticians has found that Americans are putting more emphasis on eating healthier foods. Here’s a list of the top 10 “superfoods” this year:
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• Kale • Green tea • Coconut products • Exotic fruits • Salmon Brainteasers
Major Movie Titles of the ’60s 1. Midnight Cowboy 2. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 3. The Graduate 4. Goldfinger 5. The Manchurian Candidate
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• Seeds, like chia and hemp • Avocado • Nuts, like almonds and walnuts • Fermented foods like yogurt • Ancient grains
Singers of the Top Songs of the ’50s 1. “The Tennessee Waltz,” 1950 – Patti Page 2. “Be My Love,” 1950 – Mario Lanza 3. “Cry,” 1951 – Johnnie Ray 4. “Any Time,” 1952 – Eddie Fisher 5. “I Believe,” 1953 – Frankie Laine
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Easter Eggs around the World Eggs were colored, blessed, exchanged, and eaten as part of the rites of spring long before Christian times. Even the earliest civilizations held springtime festivals to welcome the sun’s rising from its long winter sleep, viewing the sun’s return from darkness as an annual miracle and the egg as a symbol of the renewal of life. As Christianity spread, the egg was adopted as a reminder of resurrection. Here’s how eggs have been celebrated at Easter in different countries: Slavic countries. Baskets of food including eggs are traditionally taken to church to be blessed on Holy Saturday or before the Easter midnight Mass and then taken home for a part of Easter breakfast.
Central European countries. Polish, Slavic, and Ukrainian people
create intricate designs on the eggs. They draw lines with a wax pencil or stylus, dip the egg in color, and repeat the process many times to make true works of art. Every dot and line in the pattern has a meaning. Yugoslavian Easter eggs bear the initials XV for “Christ is Risen,” a traditional Easter greeting. Russia. During the reign of the tsars, the Russian royal family carried the custom of decorative eggs to great lengths, giving exquisitely detailed jeweled eggs made by goldsmith Carl Faberge from the 1880s until 1917. Germany. Eggs that go into Easter foods are not broken, but emptied out. The empty shells are painted and decorated with bits of lace, cloth, or ribbon and then hung with ribbons on an evergreen or small, leafless tree.
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