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from the editor What if heaven were on earth? What would it look like? How would we experience it?

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Experiencing a joyful life and the arts are a part of creating one’s own heaven on earth. A quote, so old that it’s been attributed to an African proverb, Mark Twain, several contemporary writers and even more musicians, says,

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“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching, Love like you'll never be hurt, Sing like there's nobody listening, And live like it's heaven on earth.”

Entertainment, whether performing or watching, can connect us with the divine within ourselves. Baby boomers and the silent generation appreciate these experiences, choosing to create memories with family and friends while participating in the arts.

While interviewing Eve Plumb and Rex Smith, who are starring in “Plaza Suite” this month at the Judson Theater at Owens Auditorium at Sandhills Community College, their exuberance for performing on stage carried over 2,500 miles on the phone. Smith’s excitement about the performance and turning 60 in September affected the tenor in his voice and colored the stories he shared. Will retirement ever take center stage? No. They’re living creative lives, which for them is heaven on earth.

The June issue is filled with entertainment, health and advice for you. Entertainment comes in many forms, including dancing North Carolina’s official dance, the shag, the journey of a lead singer and his well-loved band, the transformation of a jitterbugging wallflower, interviews with veteran performers, appreciating fathers and health tips for men over 50.

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Fit Over 50

by Amy Natt, MS, CMC, CSA I am 72 years old and am in the best shape of my life. At age 68 I suffered a minor heart attack and starting eating better and exercising. My brother, who is 76, is more sedentary and seems to be having more health problems. How can I encourage him to become more active?

Good for you! Being fit over 50 is a fabulous and growing trend. There are many studies that show active older adults have fewer physical, mental and medical issues as they age. Many health care providers are starting to promote exercise as medicine and developing programs that support this as a part of the ongoing treatment plan.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, adults between 18 and 65 should get at least two and a half hours of moderate-intensity aerobic activity every week. At least twice a week, adults should partake in muscle-strengthening activities. Currently, only about 20 percent of adults are meeting the overall physical activity recommendations, with the 65-plus age group being the least likely to measure up. However, those results are based on compliance with all the recommendations.

Overall, those 65 and over are exercising in record numbers.

The National Institute on Aging has physical exercise as a top priority. The information may encourage your brother. Staying active can help you: • Keep and improve your strength so you can stay independent • Have more energy to do the things you want to do • Improve your balance •P revent or delay some diseases like heart disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis • Perk up your mood and reduce depression The lack of physical activity is a huge risk factor to mobility, independence and overall health. Many forms

of exercise are free, they increase social interaction and each person can work with her/his physician to create a safe, individualized plan.

Most of us want the key to aging well, and exercise is a big part of that. As we age, muscle mass decreases, endurance and metabolism slows down; exercise helps to boost all of these. Getting started may be a challenge for many people, but it is never too late! Here are some ideas to help your brother: Get medical clearance to start an exercise program, especially if he has been sedentary.

• Start small and build up, even if it is 10 minutes a day • Work with a trainer or workout buddy for motivation • Try simple movements, like walking, gardening, stationary bike, swimming, playing with grandchildren • Join a class like yoga, stretching, weight training, martial arts, tennis or ballroom dancing • Go on an outing, like a nature hike, exploring gardens or bowling • Try a new sport like shuffle board, pickle ball, corn hole or bocce ball • Check out gyms and programs that your health provider recommends Bottom line, even though we know exercise is good for us, we have to find a program that fits our lifestyle and stick to it. When exercise is fun it doesn’t seem like so much work! Keep encouraging him and providing a positive example.

Natt, the CEO of Aging Outreach Services, who is also a certified senior adviser and care manager, receives monthly emails from readers with questions about aging. Email her at amyn@agingoutreachservices.com.

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PLANNING AHEAD

Time for Family Financial Decisions

by Mark A. Trudeau

Each year, thousands of Americans are thrust into the uncomfortable role of making long-term care decisions for thier family members. These emotional decisions may create stressful situations for the entire family in addition to being time-consuming and expensive.

Fortunately, there is a way to help reduce the stress connected to these situations: communication. Discussing plans for long-term care before the need arises can greatly reduce the stress that may arise while dealing with an illness or disability.

Raising the subject may create some momentary awkwardness for both parents and their adult children.

However, it is far better to discuss long-term care options ahead of time and together decide what makes the most sense for the family.

Thrivent Financial recommends that families ask certain questions regarding a long-term care strategy: • Where and how you would like care delivered, if you were to need it • The level of independence you’d like to maintain • The role you’d like your family to play in your care • How you want to fund your care, while protecting your assets Clear communication can help eliminate the problem of catching a spouse or adult child off guard. It can also help eliminate the burden of uncertainty with difficult decisions. Spelling out the location of important documents, as well as care wishes, ensures that family members have the information they need to provide for their loved ones' desired care.

Create a financial and care inventory

It is also important to update family members on the location and status of financial and care documents.

Having an inventory of these documents provides family members with a roadmap to critical information. It is focused on where information about financial holdings are located, not specific details about the financial holdings. The inventory is not a legal document, and it need not divulge personal or confidential details you are not prepared to share. It should, however, enable loved ones to quickly locate where you keep your financial, legal, care and legacy records should a crisis occur.

This inventory should be updated at least annually, and copies given to family members — a lawyer or executor — or placed in a secure location where those who might need it can access it.

While each family’s inventory will differ, the inventor should include information related to where someone can find the following: Living wills/health care directives I nsurance and other contracts (health, life, long-term care, annuities, auto, homeowners, etc.)

Wills, trusts and deeds Bank accounts and investment accounts Credit card accounts and other outstanding debt ontact information from lawyers, accountant, C brokers, agent

Mark A. Trudeau is an Air Force decorated combat veteran and now serves on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity of the NC Sandhills. He is a financial adviser for Thrivent Financial. To reach Trudeau directly, email him at mark.trudeau@thrivent.com.

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C O N S U M E R B E WA R E

Don’t Let Fake Charities Hurt Earthquake Victims a Second Time

by Elaine F. Marshall, NC Secretary of State

North Carolinians are joining people across the globe in respected charities. A few extra minutes spent finding seeking ways to help the victims of the deadly earthquake the website of the established charity and making your in Nepal. But the NC Department of the Secretary of State donation directly to it could be the difference between your is urging North Carolinians to give wisely in order to make dollars making a real difference where they’re needed, or sure their dollars do the most good possible to assist relief simply padding a con artist’s wallet. efforts in the region.

Visit the Secretary of State’s Charitable Solicitation The Secretary of State’s Charitable Solicitation Licensing Licensing Division online at http://www.secretary.state.

Division encourages everyone to visit the charities section nc.us/CSL/ for more advice and information on charitable of www.sosnc.com to check out groups soliciting you for giving. donations online or by phone and make sure they are legitimate charities.

“Unfortunately, there are people who will seek to For North Carolinians who want further take advantage of natural disasters like this and defraud guidance, Charity Navigator has compiled, the goodwill of donors, essentially taking away muchrated and ranked a list of charities helping needed resources to help disaster victims,” says Charitable with earthquake relief efforts. Guidestar Solicitation Licensing Director Heather Black. is also providing a list of recommended To avoid scams, be wary of high-pressure solicitations charities working in the region. on social media or via emails or texts. Also keep an eye out for groups using names that merely sound like established, Secretary of State Elaine F. Marshall became interested in public service at an early age. She has been a teacher, a small-business owner, and a lawyer. In 1996, she became the first woman elected to this office and the first woman elected to serve on the Council of State.

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T E C H S AV V Y

Computer 101: Let Your Computer Work for You

by Phil Perry

EMAIL: Tips & Tricks

Let’s face it, email has practically replaced traditional mail. Why wait days to receive a letter from a friend or family member when you can receive one instantly and reply back just as quickly?

Try using free email services offered by Gmail, Microsoft or Yahoo. These companies walk you through each step of the registration process. Once complete, you only have to remember your username and password to begin writing, sending, storing and receiving email.

SKYPE: The New Phone

Skype is a free service that takes talking on the phone to the next level by providing a live video and audio feed of the person you are talking to. You’ll get to see and hear from friends, family and colleagues as if they are in the same room!

To use Skype, you will need a webcam on your computer. The good news is, almost all laptops and tablets come with a built-in webcam. If you are using a desktop, you will need to purchase one.

To start using Skype, go to skype.com, and find the “Download Skype” button on the center of the homepage.

Click this button to begin installing the program, follow the instructions on the screen, and you will be ready to use Skype during your next conversation! To have a conversation with a person on Skype, you only need to know his or her username. There are no fees associated with Skype and you can talk to anyone, anywhere, for as long as you want, as long as they have Skype too.

Font Size: How to Increase it on your Computer

Ever look at your screen and say, “I have no idea what that says?” If you are having trouble seeing what is on the screen, I have a few tricks for you.

While viewing a webpage When you are on a webpage, try holding down the “CTRL button” and scrolling up on your mouse wheel. If you do not have a mouse wheel simply hold down CTRL and press +.

While on the desktop When you are on the desktop, click the "Start" button at the bottom left and select Control Panel. Under "Control Panel," select "Hardware and Sound," then select "Display."

You should have a window that says “Make it easier to read what’s on your screen.” You can select "medium" or "larger" to change the font size. You will be asked to log off and once you log back on, your icons, start menu, font, and windows will all be bigger.

COMPUTER VIRUS: Try Microsoft Security Essentials (It’s Free!)

Microsoft released Security Essentials two years ago. It is absolutely free as long as you are using it for personal use and not for a business. Simply go to http://windows. microsoft.com/en-us/windows/security-essentialsdownload and click to download it and protect your computer.

Phil Perry is an IT Services Specialist with K2 Solutions Inc. located in Southern Pines, NC. He provides assistance with technology questions from beginner to advanced.

Feel free to email him at pperry@k2si.com.

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E Y E H E A LT H

Back to Basics: Cataracts

by Dr. Anna Fakadej What is a cataract?

A cataract is a clouding of the natural lens inside your eye. This lens, located behind the iris, works just like the lens of a camera: focusing light images on the retina, which sends images to the brain. The human lens can become so clouded it keeps light and images from reaching the retina. Cataracts are the leading cause of visual loss in adults 55 and older.

Are glasses needed after cataract surgery?

Did you know that most people wear glasses after cataract surgery but we can now reduce the need for glasses? The cost of glasses can add up over time. There are many options for cataract surgery if you want to decrease dependence.

What are the symptoms and signs of cataracts?

A cataract can cause images to become blurred and bright colors to become dull. It can also make seeing at night more difficult. Vision with cataracts is often described as seeing through an old, cloudy film. Is your vision blurry or foggy? Do colors appear dull or muted? Are your glasses no longer working? Does sunlight or other light seem overly bright or glaring? Do you have decreased night vision or see halos around lights? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you may have cataracts.

When is the best time to treat cataracts?

Many people believe cataracts have to be “ripe” before they can be removed. This is no longer true. Today, cataract surgery can be performed as soon as your vision interferes with the quality of your life.

Anatomy of the Eye

What does cataract surgery entail?

Cataract surgery is generally an outpatient procedure with little discomfort. First, you will be given an anesthetic to numb the nerves in and/or around the eye. The procedure involves making a tiny incision in the eye. The surgeon then inserts a small instrument into the eye to break up the cloudy lens with ultrasound technology and remove it from the eye. Once the cataract is removed, a new, artificial lens is inserted through the same incision.

Normal Eye during refraction

Cataract detected during refraction

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Sleep and the Older Adult

by Karen D. Sullivan, Ph.D., ABPP

As we age, our ability to get a deep, continuous night's sleep decreases due to the brain’s reduced production of human growth hormone and melatonin and changes in our circadian rhythm (the body's “internal clock”).

These changes, combined with more frequent trips to the bathroom due to an enlarged prostate in men or decline in antidiuretic hormones in women, can be frustrating and lead to a fitful, unsatisfying night's sleep.

Research has shown that among older adults interrupted sleep rather than total amount of sleep most negatively affects the brain’s ability to think clearly and learn efficiently. Cognitive symptoms due to chronically poor sleep can include a decreased ability to concentrate, multitask, learn new information, reason, process complex information, and engage in critical thinking and decisionmaking. Interrupted sleep in older adults usually occurs in two different phases: sleep maintenance problems (awakening several times throughout the night) or sleep termination problems (waking up before you have gotten enough sleep to feel rested and being unable to get back to sleep).

Beyond the age-related changes that affect sleep, poor quality sleep can be caused by other modifiable factors that can be improved including a high level of stress (excessive worrying), lack of a routine sleep-wake

schedule, medication side effects, lack of exercise, chronic pain, or caffeine intake after 3 p.m.

How to improve your sleep:

• Address stressful problems that may be contributing to poor sleep during your waking hours; consider counseling if you need to improve coping skills.

• Keep a regular sleep schedule, reduce caffeine intake, limit liquid intake two hours before sleep •T ry to get at least one to two hours of sunlight a day to help regulate circadian rhythms • Use of the bed should primarily be restricted to sleeping and physical intimacy. Reading, watching TV, and other activities in bed can make it harder for the brain to transition to sleep • I f you do not fall asleep within 30 minutes of going to bed, get out of bed and do something that may increase sleepiness such as reading a book or watching television and then return to bed •A void over-the-counter medications for sleep with PM in the title (Tylenol PM, for example) as they have a negative effect on memory in older adults If none of these suggestions work, discuss your sleep concerns with your primary care physician to see if you may have a sleep disorder such as restless legs syndrome or sleep apnea.

Experts say that there is no universal “magic number” for how many hours of sleep older adults should get.

Sleep need is an individual matter that varies from person to person. Your magic number is the amount of sleep that leaves you feeling rested and “clearheaded” when you wake up in the morning. Research suggests regularly getting seven to eight hours of uninterrupted sleep may be optimal.

Dr. Sullivan, a clinical neuropsychologist at Pinehurst Neuropsychology, can be reached at 910-420-8041 or www.pinehurstneuropsychology.com.

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Why Tai Chi for Arthritis and Fall Prevention?

by Dr Paul Lam and Maureen Miller

Tai chi for arthritis and fall prevention is an enjoyable exercise that can relieve your pain, improve your health and your ability to do things. What is more, it is easy to learn — almost anyone can do it. In fact, many people who learn the form, like it so much that they continue to practice and enjoy the benefits of tai chi for years. To get started, first, let’s look at a short history of tai chi and its benefits, followed by a brief background as to how tai chi for arthritis came about and some of the medical evidence showing that, practiced regularly, it actually improves health. We’ll conclude with suggestions as to how you can begin to learn tai chi for arthritis.

What is Tai Chi? Tai chi originated in ancient China, where it is considered a martial art. There is much more to tai chi than one can see, and no one can describe this complex art in a simple sentence. Basically, tai chi consists of slow continuous whole-body movements, strung together in a form. Like dance, the movements are learned and follow one after the other.

The essential principles of tai chi include mind and body integration, fluid movements, controlled breathing and mental concentration. The central focus is to enable the qi (pronounced chee), or life force, to flow smoothly and powerfully throughout the body. Total harmony of the inner and outer self comes from the integration of the mind and body. This can be achieved through regular practice.

The Benefits of Practicing Tai Chi Today, tai chi is one of the most effective exercises for the health of mind and body, not only in China, but around the world. Tai chi helps people to relax and feel better.

Everything improves when you are more relaxed and feeling good about yourself.

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The National Institute of Health’s National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health found, in a 2007 survey, that more than 2.3 million Americans practice tai chi for various health-related purposes, including: • to obtain benefits associated with low-impact, weightbearing, aerobic exercise; • to improve physical condition, muscle strength, coordination, and flexibility; • to improve balance and decrease the risk of falls; • to ease pain and stiffness; • to improve sleep; and • for overall wellness.

Harvard Medical School, in its May 2009 Health Publications, suggests that tai chi, which is often called meditation in motion, might well be referred to as “medication in motion.” For, in addition to preventing falls and reducing the effects of arthritis, the practice of tai chi has been shown to be helpful for a number of medical conditions including; low bone density, breast cancer and it’s side effects, heart disease and failure, hypertension, Parkinson’s disease, sleep problems, and stroke.

Tai chi is especially suitable for older adults because its level of exertion can be adjusted for each individual.

From my own experience in many years of teaching, I have found that people adhere to their tai chi practice because they enjoy it, it is easily accessible, and there is no need for special clothing or equipment. For many, like myself, practicing tai chi continues as a lifetime journey, as it is an art with great depth.

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Taoist Tai Chi Center 5218 Hollyridge Drive, Raleigh, NC 27612 919.787.9600 www.Taoist.org The Magic Tortoise Taijiquan School 15 Timberlyne Road, Chapel Hill, NC 27514-1522 919.968.3936 www.MagicTortoise.com Rex Healthcare 4420 Lake Boone Trail, Raleigh, NC 27607 919.784.3100 www.rexhealth.com/yoga-tai-chi-schedule SANDHILLS

FirstHealth Fitness 205 Davis Road, Southern Pines, NC 28387 910.692.6129 www.FirstHealth.org FAYETTEVILLE

Cape Fear Valley Health System 1638 Owen Drive, Fayetteville, NC 910.615.4000 www.CapeFearValley.com Family Martial Arts Academy 1242 Fort Bragg Road, Fayetteville, NC 910.433.1000 www.FamilyMAA.com

Dr. Paul Lam is the director of the Tai Chi for Health Institute. After a challenging upbringing in China where he narrowly avoided death and starvation, Dr. Lam healed himself through tai chi and is dedicated to promoting tai chi for health and wellness. Contact Dr. Lam at service@tchi.org.

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by Rhett Morris I Photography by Diana Matthews

Shrimp cakes are great as an entrée served over fresh greens, creamy grits, risotto or rice.

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Ingredients 2 lbs. peeled and deveined raw shrimp ½ red onion, diced 1 stalk celery, diced 2 ears of corn, cut off the cob 1-1/2 cup panko bread crumbs 1 egg, beaten 1 T Old Bay seasoning 3 T olive oil

Directions Place 1 lb. of shrimp into the food processor and pulse until mixture becomes a paste. Place the mixture into a mixing bowl. Dice other 1 lb. of shrimp and add to mixing bowl. Add all other ingredients, reserving ½ cup of the panko bread crumbs. Mix until combined. Make into four 8 oz. patties. Put other panko bread crumbs in a shallow bowl and lightly coat shrimp patties with panko. Heat a non-stick pan over medium high heat and cook patties until golden brown, about 4 minutes per side.

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Back to Back: Advice for Back Pain

by Brian Thwaites, M.D.

Take control of your back pain by incorporating the following suggestions into your daily routine. Sometimes just knowing there are steps you can take to get relief will ease the anxiety and helplessness that sometimes comes with the pain.

1. Most acute or new onset episodes of back pain are caused by strain involving a soft tissue such as muscle, ligament or tendon, but may sometimes be related to a tear in a disc or injury to a joint. There is no definitive way to prevent back pain from developing. However, staying physically active, having good dietary habits, and keeping your weight down seem to help a great deal.

2. Most acute episodes of back pain will resolve by themselves or with conservative treatment such as anti-inflammatory medication, stretching or exercise regimen, heat/ice, electrical or ultrasonic stimulation, or physical manipulation. The typical healing process takes less than four weeks.

4. If you have hip or leg pain, numbness or weakness involving the legs, trouble walking more than a short distance, or if your back pain has become a long-term problem, seek care from a spine specialist.

5. Your spine specialist may recommend an MRI scan or other studies to help determine the true cause of your symptoms. Further treatment options might include steroidal injections, nerve blocks, nerve ablation techniques, medications, and possible surgical intervention as well.

Sometimes it takes a combination of therapies to stop or reduce severe, persistent pain and keep it under control. Some patients will need to see different medical specialists or therapists for their pain.

3. Back pain is occasionally associated with radiation of pain into the hips or legs and may also involve numbness, weakness or troubles with balance or walking. This likely represents nerve impingement or compression within the spinal canal. Common causes of these symptoms include herniated disc and spinal stenosis.

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Men's Health

Preventative Care for Men Over 50

by Gayvin Powers | Photography by Diana Matthews & Sondra Honrado

Preventative health care for men over 50 doesn’t have to be a drag. In fact, it can be down right fun. Especially if the execution of it is done with loved ones or with them in mind. Spending time together and working out with family members is an organic way of getting healthy and creating life long bonds. Preventative care can add months and years to a person’s life expectancy as well as increase the quality of life.

Be Active. The activity level can very based upon what you are able to do. People who have full mobility are encouraged to continue being active with swimming (nonweight bearing exercise that utilizes the entire body), yoga (that stretches and increases mental well being) and Pilates (increases core strength, stretching and balance). All three activities tend to also be easier on the joints than other activities. Cycling is popular for many men, but it can be hard on a man’s prostate. Whatever form of exercise you choose, make sure it’s right for you, your body and your lifestyle.

Exercise is also a form of entertainment that can be better when shared with others. Encourage your children and grandchildren to become active with you. This not only gets all of you healthy, but it also increases your quality of life by creating experiences and memories together as a family. Sometimes the best activity is simply playing together. When activity is fun, no one is paying attention to the fact that physical activity is taking place.

For people with limited mobility, Kaiser Hospital’s pain management clinic recommends to move. Move what you can. It is far better to move than to remain still and let muscles atrophy. They also suggest doing activities in the simplest form. If you can only move for five minutes one day, do that. Try increasing it to six minutes the next day.

But take it slow as you build your strength back. Talk with your doctor and create a plan that is good for you.

Activity Level: 3 – 5 times per week.

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Eat Healthy. It goes back to the old saying, “You are what you eat.” The owner of a Deusenberg wouldn’t think of putting Dollar Dave’s gasoline in the fuel tank, and neither should you. The National Institute on Aging recommends that men over 50 eat seafood at least twice a week, whole grains, avoid sugar and solid fats and eat a several fruits and vegetables in a variety of colors.

Sugars have been known to create addiction and crashes within people’s bodies, causing depression and fatigue. Natural sugars found in fruits and vegetables are recommended. Simple snacks of vegetables before dinner are a great way to curb hunger and set a good example for grandchildren. Grandchildren learn more from actions than words. By illustrating healthy eating, you are showing grandchildren your health is important and their's is too.

How Often: Every day.

Drink Water. According to H.H. Mitchell, in the Journal of Biological Chemistry 158, “the brain and heart are composed of 73 percent water, and the lungs are about 83 percent water. The skin contains 64 percent water, muscles and kidneys are 79 percent and even the bones are watery at 31 percent.” Water does a number of essential functions, including that it regulates the body's temperature, acts as a shock absorber for the brain and spinal cord, lubricates joints and flushes out waste and toxins from the body.

Squirt lemon juice in a glass of water each morning 30 minutes before eating breakfast. It helps with digestion and metabolism. Reach for water to hydrate the body instead of dehydrating fluids like soda, tea or coffee. Hydration keeps older muscles and joints lubricated. Regularly drinking water not only helps you get the daily amount of water needed, but it also shows grandchildren that water is an important health choice.

Drink per Day: 3-3.7 liters (13-15 cups for men over 50)

For people with limited mobility, Kaiser Hospital’s pain management clinic recommends to move. Move what you can. It is far better to move than to remain still and let muscles atrophy.

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Regularly drinking water not only helps you get the daily amount of water needed, but it also shows grandchildren that water is an important health choice.

Take Aspirin. It’s recommended for people who are at risk for a heart attack to take one aspirin a day to help prevent attacks. Contact your doctor to see if this is right for you.

This is an important preventative measure considering that a CNN survey found that “one-third of men would not go to the doctor, even if they were experiencing major health problems, such as severe chest pains or shortness of breath.”

How Often: Take daily (or as directed by your doctor) Vitamin D. This incredible little vitamin does more than help keep a positive mental state, it also helps prevent falls. This is important for people with active lifestyles to more sedate ones. The chance of falling and fracturing a hip increases in people over 50, and a fractured hip greatly reduces mobility 24

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and quality of life. Be sure to take vitamin D 500 and drink orange juice with the vitamin. The acid in the orange juice ensures that the vitamin is absorbed in the body.

How Often: Take daily.

Laugh. Laugh often. Laugh with loved ones. It’s long been said that “laughter is medicine.” It’s true. Laughter is contagious. It’s a great defense against depression. It changes one’s perspective on life, situations and people. It also brings people closer. Laughter bridges the gap in age and helps create bonding between generations. All of that increases a person’s quality of life.

How Often: Every day, several times a day. As often as possible.

The 50,000 Mile Checklist for Men Over 50 Imagine owning a classic 1923 Duesenberg car.

As the owner, you would take it for regular check-ups and get the correct oil. Would you service it at a Yugo dealership? No! As the owner of such a precious body, you know how important it is to get mileage checkups to ensure it runs well and retains its value.

Just like a fine, classic car, men get better with age and check-ups ensure good health and early detection of illness. All of this is important to help maintain a high quality of life where the simple pleasures of family, friends, health and entertainment can be enjoyed.

During a checkup for men (over 50), guidelines from the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force recommends regular testing for the following health concerns: High Blood Pressure: If a car runs too hot, eventually it breaks down and simply won’t turn over to start. The same is true with hypertension, which can cause heart attacks, strokes, heart failure as well as kidney and eye issues. 115 over 70 is normal blood pressure; 130 over 80 means your blood pressure is off to the races and you need to get it checked. This is especially important since, according to the task force, “Men are 28 percent more likely than women to be hospitalized for congestive heart failure.”

Check it: Once a year.

Prostate Cancer: According the American Cancer Society, “About two-thirds (66 percent) of prostate cancers occur in men over the age of 65.” Once a man is over 75, a Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) blood test can be done to screen for prostate cancer; if the results are positive then following up with a biopsy is necessary.

Check it: Once a year.

by Gayvin Powers

Colorectal Cancer: Colorectal cancer is screened 20-45 percent less in men than prostate cancer. Jordan McNerney, an AARP spokesperson, says that “only one in four adults from 50 to 64 years old is up to date with basic recommended cancer screenings and other preventative health care.” Be one of the 25 percent! A colonoscopy and stool sample are two ways, of several, that are available for testing. According to the American Cancer Society, once a person reaches 50, tests that find polyps and cancer need to be checked with a regularity of: Flexible sygmiodoscopy* Check it: Every five years, or Colonoscopy Check it: Every 10 years, or Double-contrast barium enema* Check it: Every 5 years, or CT colonography (virtual colonoscopy)* Check it: Every 5 years If any of these above tests or stool samples come back positive, then a colonoscopy needs to be done.

High Cholesterol: Many times high cholesterol affects even the healthiest of people due to its tendency to run in a family, possibly leading to stroke, heart disease and poor circulation. This is easily checked with a blood test.

According to the task force, “Men are 24 percent less likely than women to have visited a doctor within the past year and are 22 percent more likely to have neglected their cholesterol tests.”

Check it: Once a year.

Thinking about your body like you would a prized automobile may increase your health and lengthen longevity. After all, there's nothing wrong with a specialist looking under the hood to ensure another successful 50,000 miles.

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Optimize Health

by Trey Waters, Pharm.D., R.Ph., FAAFRM

As warmer weather arrives, more of us are going to be outside, enjoying the sunshine. Many people are going to be enjoying athletic activities and some of us will train harder than others. Consequently, some of us will recover better than others.

Whether you are a high intensity athlete, who trains hard every day or you are a weekend warrior who goes all-out a few times a month, there are nutritional and supplement guidelines that you can follow that will optimize your performance and your recovery.

This issue of how to fuel and how to best recover has been debated among athletes, coaches and trainers (and parents) for years. Obviously, the foundation for optimal sports performance is a healthy diet. A diet high in refined carbohydrates and refined sugars provides very little sustainable energy.

It is generally recommended that aerobic athletes consume a diet with the following macronutrient breakdown: • 55-60

percent carbohydrate (not refined carbs) • 15-20 percent protein • 30 percent fat (avoid trans-fatty acids)

Here’s some data from highly respected authorities in the field: According to John Ivy, Ph.D and Robert Portman, Ph.D in the book, “The Performance Zone,” “A recent study performed at St. Cloud University compared the effects of a sports drink containing carbohydrates and proteins to a sports drink containing only electrolytes on sprinting speed at the end of a long training session.

Following an intense workout of 75 minutes, the subjects participated in four speed trials with fives minutes of rest after each sprint. Half the players drank the carbohydrate

and protein drink while the other drank an electrolyteonly drink. The carbohydrate and protein group actually improved their speed by 1.1 seconds between the first and last sprints, while the other group decreased their speed by 2.2 seconds.”

“The Performance Zone” also reviews a concept called 30W15 which simply means ‘starting nutrient intervention 30 minutes before and within 15 minutes after exercise.’ This suggests that in reality your workout beings and ends 30 minutes before and 15 minutes after your event, respectively.

KEY POINTS Dehydration Dehydration hinders performance and puts an immediate unnecessary stress on the heart. As dehydration increases, performance decreases.

Dehydration can cause poor stamina and also loss of acute motor skills such as hand-eye coordination and alertness. A loss of electrolytes such as sodium, potassium, and chloride are a consequence of sweating.

These electrolytes are necessary for many metabolic functions such as muscle contraction and nerve transmission.

Hydrate yourself with a sports carbohydrate and protein drink starting 30 minutes before your event and continue hydrating throughout and after your event. (Six to eight percent carbohydrate and one and a half to two percent protein drink.)

Muscle Glycogen Depletion Muscle glycogen depletion occurs when a person is operating at near maximum output for any length of time. Glycolysis is the only energy system that will generate energy fast enough to keep up with the muscles’ demands of high intensity exercise. This type of exercise

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Back in the Saddle

by Jennifer Kirby

For the first half of his life, Rick Steinbacher had working out down cold.

A swimmer in middle school, he transitioned to football, basketball and track in high school and “lived in the gym or in the weight room.” In college, he played football at UNC-Chapel Hill, where he started 30 games at inside linebacker, earned third-team All-ACC honors and co-captained his team senior year.

But after graduation, everything abruptly changed. “I got married right away, I got a job right away, we had our first child within a year,” he says, “and I spent about 18 years making excuses why I didn’t have time to work out.”

Steinbacher worked for several years in sales and marketing before returning to UNC in 2000, working first with the football program and then as associate athletic director for marketing and new media. His current position, as UNC’s senior associate athletic director for external communications, is “many times a seven-day-a-week job,” he says. “I was not carving away enough time from work and family responsibilities to invest enough time in working out myself.”

That changed a couple of years ago, when his oldest daughter, who at the time had just finished her junior season of high school tennis and wanted to stay in shape and get stronger in the offseason, suggested that she and Steinbacher get a personal trainer. They started working out, separately, twice a week.

The early results weren’t what Steinbacher had hoped for.

“After a month or two I was actually gaining weight. I’ve always loved to lift, but I think I was using working out as an excuse to eat whatever I wanted,” Steinbacher says. “My trainer challenged me to continue working out with her, because she was really helping me with strength training, core and some cardio, but her message to me was, one hour twice a week is not enough time for what you need cardio-wise. … She really encouraged me to start running more outside of the workouts and stayed on me to start eating better and kept making me get on the scale.”

So, for about six months, Steinbacher ran on his own. At the time, “the thought of running a half-marathon or a marathon was beyond me,” he says.

But the more he ran, the better he felt and the more he enjoyed it.

Eventually, he was able to start running with one of his best friends, former Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver Corey Holliday. Holliday, who was Steinbacher’s teammate and co-captain in college and is now a co-worker, encouraged Steinbacher to join him on long group runs.

“I think running with him and getting back in shape is what helped me go back to how I was in middle school and high school and remind myself how much I enjoy working out and how great it felt to be in shape,” Steinbacher says.

It also reignited his competitive streak: “I’m new to the distancerunning thing so I’m honest with myself that I’m not gonna place in the top 10 or anything. … For me, being competitive is keeping up with [Holliday].” The two friends ran Steinbacher’s first halfmarathon together in November 2012.

In January 2013, Steinbacher ran his second half-marathon with his wife, Valerie. “She’s always been a runner. She would go out running and I wouldn’t go with her. But now we run together a lot, and that’s been a wonderful thing that we’ve really enjoyed doing together,” Steinbacher says.

They went on to train for the Tobacco Road Marathon the following March and the Tar Heel 10-Miler that April.

Finding time to exercise is no longer a problem.

“It’s been amazing that the more I run the more energy I have. I’ve lost a lot of weight and [two years ago] the thought of getting up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. to get a ninemile run in would have been beyond comprehension. Now, I go to bed at night and I’m fired up that I’m gonna get up early and run before I go to work,” he says. “My excuse was, I don’t have the time. Now, next to spending time with my family, running is the thing I look forward to each day more than anything else.

“As much as I wish I’d done it 18 years ago, I’m thrilled that I got back to it eventually.”

Source: Reprint from the March 2013 issue of Endurance Magazine.

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Shaggin' in Carolina

by Ray Linville | Photography by Diana Matthews

oes shag music evoke beach scenes and announces “I’d Rather Be Shaggin’.” Part of the license coastal memories for you? It does for many fee supports the Hall of Fame Foundation, begun in in our area. Although sandy beaches are 1991 by shaggers to help friends in need. miles away and some old dance pavilions Modern shag dancing gained in popularity along the no longer exist, the music is known to Carolina coast in the 1940s and early 1950s. According transport many fans to a different place and to the General Assembly, shagging “evolved from the time. jitterbug and jump blues of the big band era.” A better The baby boomers of today are the source on its roots, however, is the Fayetteville Area teenagers of yesterday who escaped to Shag Association, which dates the shag to the 1930s beach towns for a weekend, a full week, and proclaims that the standard tempo is 110-135 beats or the entire summer (if they could get per minute. This club describes the shag as smooth permission). After baby boomers matured and graceful and emphasizes footwork rather than sufficiently to win political office, they turns. nurtured a bill through the N.C. General One of the charismatic and best-known dancers in Assembly to recognize the importance of shag music the late 1940s was Harry Driver of Dunn, just minutes in our culture. In 2005 the legislators established from Raleigh and about two hours via U.S. 421 from shagging as the official popular dance of the state.

Carolina Beach, where the term “Carolina shag” was The rationale for this recognition: shag brings coined. Considered the Father of Shag, Driver was entertainment value to “participants and spectators in renowned for his moves. In a 1982 interview, he said, the state.”

“If you were going to the beach in the summer, you had Not only is shag the official popular dance, but better know how to dance.” shaggers now enjoy their own personalized license Driver and his buddies have been replaced on the tag that was recently approved when the minimum dance floor by a new generation, which includes 300 applications were submitted. The “shag tag” Sam and Lisa West of Hamlet, who not only enjoy

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the shag but dance competitively. They met in 1998 in Atlanta at the USA Grand Nationals. Since then they have been promoting and teaching the shag throughout the country. They also have held workshops on cruise ships and overseas in France, Spain, England, and the Netherlands.

Although Sam and Lisa have been dancing for most of their adult lives, each learned at a different age. Lisa didn’t begin her dance career until she was 27. However, Sam started shag dancing at age 9, when he was also playing basketball, baseball, and soccer.

The Wests are in heavy demand for lessons. Sam says that students have driven two to three hours for lessons.

“One fellow even flew in from Seattle for a weekend of lessons,” he says. Others have flown to cities on the Carolina coast where he was attending events.

Lisa has won several swing and cabaret national championships. In addition, Sam is a six-time champion of the Carolina Shag Division of the USA Grand National Dance Championships and a three-time U.S. Open Shag Champion.

They won their first big title together in 2010 when competing in the U.S. Open Swing Dance Championships.

How important is the shag to the dancers who have replaced Driver and his generation?

“Basically, it has given me a life,” Sam said. “I have grown up respecting the people who respect this music – the shag community.”

The shag dancers of today recognize the contributions of Driver and his generation in creating a culture they enjoy. Driver, who served as a shag contest judge in the 1980s, said that part of the reason for the dance is that guys wanted a way to impress girls.

The classic tune “Best Things Happen While You’re Dancing” explains: "Even guys with two left feet Come out all right if the chick is sweet."

The website of the Society of Stranders, a group that perpetuates “the dance, music, and culture that make up the shag,” opens with the Fantastic Shakers singing the song to also let us know: "The best things happen while you’re dancing.

Things that you would not do at home Come nat’rally on the floor."

According to Driver, the dance wasn’t called the shag until the '60s. After the music survived through the '60s and '70s, it enjoyed a renaissance in the late '70s and early '80s. Then groups, such as the Society of Stranders formed in 1984, were created as baby boomers reached middle age to preserve and expand the music that shaggers love. Also established in 1984 were the Association

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Beach and Shag Club DeeJays, formed in Chapel Hill, more shag clubs that any other state. and the Association of Carolina Shag Clubs, formed in In 1984, the same year that regional shag Columbia, South Carolina. associations were formed, the Fayetteville Area Shag As shaggers were brought together by these Association was founded as a local club. In central associations, baby boomers organized local clubs as North Carolina, soon other clubs were encouraged to they settled in the Triangle, Sandhills, and other areas capitalize on the growing interest in shag music and distant from the coast, proving that proximity to the dancing. The Burlington club has been active since beach is not a factor for organizing a club – only an 1985. Raleigh shaggers waited until 1993 to form their interest in preserving shag music. North Carolina has club.

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Clubs now cover the state from Boone to Wilmington, with a club in Fuquay-Varina established as late as 2006.

Dues are quite reasonable. For example, annual dues of the Raleigh club are $20.

As shag historian Bo Bryan writes in his poem on shag dancing, “If you are a baby boomer, / you won’t be alone / in The Land of Shag.” Nurtured by the Association of Carolina Shag Clubs, local clubs bring people together to preserve the shag dance and its music while they enjoy fellowship and develop friendships. The club in Pittsboro says, “It’s not just a dance; it’s a lifestyle.”

Shag dancing is also “great exercise,” says Yvonne Jordan, president of the Moore Area Shag Society, one of the clubs in the Sandhills. In addition to dancing, her club is very civic-minded. Each year it holds a September dance to benefit two charities – Special Olympics and Interfaith Food Pantry. Last year when 250 people attended, the club raised $5,500, she says.

Her club offers two types of membership: full for people who can participate regularly and associate for others. The club has 146 full and 97 associate members.

She said the median age of members is in the 50s, but ages range from 30s to 80s. The more senior that members are, the more they inspire others. “We really have to keep up with our members who are in their 80s,” she says.

The Sanford area also has a club that takes supporting charities seriously. Most of its 91 members live in Lee County, but some drive from several neighboring counties for the monthly socials.

“For the past 26 years, we have donated more than $350,000,” said Jeff Rosser, club president. The primary recipient is Make-A-Wish, but the Sanford shaggers also contribute to six or seven other local charities each year.

Their fundraiser last March raised more than $13,000 for their causes.

Rosser said that he is a “newbie.” Although he has been a club member for only five years, he wanted to be president to build on the legacy of past accomplishments.

He said that his club “is like a big family – a comaraderie of friends.”

Rosser is one of the many N.C. shaggers who participated in the spring safari of the Society of Stranders, a 10-day party attended by thousands of shaggers who hit the Carolina coast like an ocean wave.

With such dedicated organizations promoting shag culture, shaggers are listed in the book of Guinness World Records, of course. However, it didn’t happen until last year. By dancing in synchronized steps for five minutes, 744 dancers – three times the number needed – established the record for “Largest Carolina Shag Dance.”

“It’s not just a dance;

it’s a lifestyle”.

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C a r ol i n a C on v e r s at i on s w i t h t h e s ta r s of t h e J u d s on T h e at r e ' s " P l a z a S u i t e "

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ife is good in North Carolina. Entertainment from live music, to museums, to wine tours, food tastings, golf and equestrian rides name only a few. One of the biggest treats is when Judson Theater brings stellar performers to showcase talents that one could easily see if vising Broadway in New York. This June, the Judson Theater proudly presents "Plaza Suite," starring Eve Plumb, formerly Jan Brady on "The Brady Bunch," and Rex Smith, a Broadway and screen actor. Audiences will be charmed watching the wide range of characters and story lines presented on June 18-21 at Owen's Auditorium in Sandhills Community College in Pinehurst.

Written by the comic genius of Neil Simon, "Plaza Suite" opened on Broadway in 1968 with Mike Nichols directing George C. Scott and Maureen Stapleton in the leading roles. The play highlights three couples in a honeymoon suite at the Plaza Hotel — their individual stories told in three separate acts. Set in the 1960s, stories in Suite 719 range from an older couple revisiting their honeymoon suite, to a nervous, suburban housewife being seduced by her childhood sweetheart, a slick ladies man, to the parents of a bride with cold feet, who refuses to come out of the bathroom, while the wedding awaits below.

Rex Smith

Rex Smith, a 59-year-old veteran actor of the stage and screen, who grew up a southern boy in Greenville, North Carolina and is returning to his roots in "Plaza Suite."

Smith started his theatrical career by starring as Danny Zuko in the original "Grease" on Broadway and was a teen idol with the platinum album hit "You Take my Break Away." That was just the beginning. It has led him to act in over 600 performances, both on and off Broadway.

When asked about his background in acting, the South and his family, the gregarious performer had engaging anecdotes to share.

What drew you to "Plaza Suite?"

I love Neil Simon. His work is a great exercise. School is never out in life, especially life on the stage. To experience Neil Simon, you have to find those beats, the elusive smoke…There is an alchemy when training and performing Neil Simon.

If you’re lucky enough to live for a while on this earth.

I’ve learned it doesn’t always have to be a Broadway stage.

I hope to bring the Judson theater, a lifetime of stage experience.

My father flew Hell Cats in World War II. Think of all the hours he logged. As an actor, I’m a 747 pilot for the stage. Six starring shows, hours logged. Over six hundred shows. It’s my job to take people on a journey during the play.

What do you find interesting about your family?

My great-grandmother was born before the Civil War and lived to 106...My great-great-uncle was a fire eater, one of the soldiers that fired the first shot at Fort Sumter...I’m charmed when I meet elders. Growing up in the South, we tend to wait for elders to tell a story and share the knowledge.

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What was it like growing up?

Mom studied gourmet cooking in Paris and has master's in criminology. There were four of us boys. We couldn’t get away with anything.

You have five children (two boys and three girls), ages 11 to 35. What is entertaining about being in your 50s and having daughters?

My only entertainment in my grandmother’s house was a victrola. With all three daughters, their first dance was always with me and the victrola… …Savannah, my youngest daughter, likes to tell everyone that she’s the favorite child. So much so that she sings a song she wrote to the other children called “I’m the Favorite Child.”

What was the best advice you received?

From my dad. After I had a child, I asked him for advice.

He said, “If you’re doing your job right, you’re making yourself obsolete.”

What is your motto or philosophy in life?

Since I’ve been a father, I’ve been sleeping with one eye open and one ear open most of my adult life. At 59, it’s learning to let go. Being humble and grateful. Let go that my kids aren’t 5 years old anymore. If you try to hold onto everything, you can’t.

What does aging successfully mean to you?

Staying relevant. It’s unacceptable that if I’m getting older I let myself go. I have a responsibility to myself and my life.

What can I do today that will bring more joy?

If you don’t feel relevant in the world, then the world will stop. It can happen if you lose your wife, partner or someone dear. When my grandmother passed away, my grandfather didn’t know I was standing there at the hospital.

He was a resilient man in the medical corps and met her in World War I. After she passed, I remember hearing him say, “Now I have nothing to live for.” I witnessed him shutting down. He sort of turned to sand after that. He quietly got smaller and smaller. There are no excuses. Stay relevant!

EVE PLUMB

While Eve Plumb started her acting career at age 6, most baby boomers and generation Xers remember her as Jan on "The Brady Bunch" with her braids, good grades and George Glass. Plumb continued acting after her TV run with America’s favorite family and now resides in New York with her husband where she continues acting and painting.

What made you fall in love with this play?

It’s a classic play. It's always great to be able to play a classic role. I’ve played two of the three characters before.

Since it’s set in the 1960s it’ll be interesting to explore now versus how it was then. But I think it won’t be very different because it’s (universal) stories about relationships.

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years ago and focus on getting acting work. I find that in New York there is more opportunity and parts for women.

In Los Angeles, it’s mostly TV, and there aren’t a lot of roles for women of a certain age. That being said, there is some good TV being made in New York as well. So that is great.

Then this ("Plaza Suite") came up. It’s not in New York, but it’s a good play and great opportunity to play these roles. It’s experience that I bring to the role, the depth of experience that older women bring from life.

I’ve always thought that no learning is wasted. It’s always there in the back of your head.

What is your motto in life and how do you live it?

Show up, pay attention and tell the truth.

every day.” I was trying to find a sense of accomplishment without having to spend a lot of money. And volunteering does that too.

Where have you volunteered?

I haven’t volunteered much since I moved. But I used to volunteer with Pageant of the Masters in Laguna Beach. I had never even seen the pageant when I volunteered for it.

(The Pageant of the Masters is a one-of-a-kind, live performance where exquisite re-creations of classical and contemporary paintings are reproduced with live people dressed up in costumes to look exactly like their counterparts in the paintings.)

Do you bring that to your painting as well?

That comes from years of learning incrementally. I do find that there is always something new. There is always a new technique to try, a new subject matter to explore, a new medium, a new surface to paint on.

What does aging successfully mean to you?

It’s an interesting thing that happens, and I hear about it from older people as well. I forget how old I am.

We’re wrapped up with our lives, and I don’t have children, so I have nothing to compare the aging to. I go shopping and I forget that certain things like bows are for 20-year-olds and not for me.

I hear people say this, and we brand ourselves. It happens when I think of iconic rock-and-rollers that say, “In my day…everything was so much better. People were so much nicer...."

The minute I hear music I have to laugh. There’s too much music everywhere. Yesterday, we went shopping, and I love the store. But the length of time I can spend in the store is determined by how long I can bear the thumping of the music.

What did painting give you?

It gave me a sense of accomplishment. When you’re unemployed as an actor, you become aware, you think, “I don’t want to spend money on going to the movies

Does it make you laugh that when we were young we were told “Oh, that rock 'n' roll,” and now that wild music is called “elevator music”?

Yes!

For people in their second 50 years, what would you say is the key to success in relationships?

Patience.

I’m still working on that one myself.

(Eve laughs.)

Do you think that you bring experience to your roles?

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Jitterbug Saturday

by Nan Leaptrott

Bah doot’n doot’n doo wah, bahp, bahp, bahp. Cut a rug, it's Jitterbug Saturday.

What? Jitterbug language I did not understand. I understood Beethoven’s rhythmic pattern and cyclic form.

I didn’t understand a word of this nonsense, however, soon I knew I needed to learn more about jive talk.

Airbags were lungs; benders were elbows, arms and knees.

Bounce meant jumpy steps, padders were hands, shutters were eyelids. Stealers were fingers and stems were legs.

"Beat it out" meant to play it out; "frisking the whiskers" meant to tune up to jitterbug. "Get your boots on" was "hop to the jive." A rug cutter was an excellent dancer.

"Let's mop" An excellent dancer I was not, but I found it fascinating how the jitterbug came about. It is a form of swing that dates back to the 1920s. The Charleston and the Lindy Hop were the contemporary jazz music of the time. The Lindy Hop got its name in an unusual way. On March 26, 1926, the Savoy Ballroom opened its doors in New York City. The Savoy was an immediate success with its blocklong dance floor and a raised bandstand.

One evening in 1927, following Lindbergh’s flight to Paris, a local dance enthusiast named “Shorty George” Snowden was watching some of the dancing couples. A reporter asked him what dance they were doing, and it just so happened there was a newspaper with an article about Lindbergh’s flight lying on the bench next to them.

The title of the article read, “Lindy Hops the Atlantic.”

George replied; “Lindy Hop” and the name stuck.

Cab Calloway, a noted band leader in the 1930s introduced a tune entitled “Jitterbug.” The bouncy sixbeat variant became the jitterbug dance.

With the Lindy Hop and the jitterbug discovery, people everywhere began dancing to the contemporary jazz and swing music. Benny Goodman and his band led the action.

I did not lead the action on Jitterbug Saturday. Always a half-beat behind the music, so I was told, made me the proverbial jitterbug wallflower. I didn’t look like a wallflower. I was cute. I had personality and I wanted to cut a rug like the other 500 kids who showed up at DucInn on Jitterbug Saturday. Dancing a half-beat behind the music made this highly unlikely. Still, I loved to go to Duc-Inn on Jitterbug Saturday. The air smelled of sweet doughnuts from the Yum-Yum bakery, some frosted, others plain. Trays of ham sandwiches, bottles of coke, rich chocolate syrup to pour over vanilla ice cream was always in demand. Duc-Inn on Jitterbug Saturday was the place to be. The beat was fast and the proper dress code imperative.

We girls decked out Duc-Inn in our short skirts over a stiff, full crinoline slip and colorful bloomers. After all, those who got a chance to jitterbug had to make sure when they went into a spin or with high kicks they could

Airbags were lungs; benders were elbows, arms and knees. Bounce meant jumpy steps, padders were hands, shutters were eyelids.

Stealers were fingers and stems were legs.

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I always showed up on Jitterbug Saturday.

I even practiced the steps all week. show off their colorful bloomers on the dance floor. The boys in their zoot suits with pegged pants, narrow cuffs, long, watch chain hooked to their belt and the watch tucked in their pocket, duck butt haircuts, and white loafers strutted around the dance floor. We had fun; Duc-Inn was a safe place where teens could swing and sway and beat out a hot tempo to the jive tunes of local trumpeter Eddie Helms and his Sons O’Fun and jukebox craze. String of Pearls, Pistol Packin’ Mamma and always Summer Ridge Road kept the dancing going at feverish pitch until the beat slowed down at night's end with "I‘ll Be Seeing You." I always showed up on Jitterbug Saturday. I even practiced the steps all week. Holding on to a door knob I’d count in tempo, left foot step, right foot step, left foot back, right foot back; 1-2-3-4-5 and 6; turn and start over. I never got it but when I got to Duc-Inn on Jitterbug Saturday I knew I could mingle well, at least until the music began. When the nickel was put in the jukebox I stood in the background with wallflower envy watching others swing until one magical Jitterbug Saturday.

From the center of the room a young man, a handsome man, a man voted the best jitterbug dancer in South Carolina danced towards me. Dance was in his genes: his father once danced with Laurel and Hardy and his mother made the Charleston look like a stroll around the block) danced toward me.

This popular young man took my hand and led me to the dance floor.

All you have to do is swing and sway and slide; keep your center; bend your knees. Jitterbug Saturday. Swing to the left, swing to the right, we’re going to party all night.

For the first time ever on the dance floor I was not a half-beat behind the music. I got it. I was nimble. With the young man’s left hand lightly on my right hand, his right hand on my left shoulder, I began to swing and sway and slide with the best.

The decades have passed too fast but the beat hasn’t. I am no longer the proverbial jitterbug wallflower. The now older man frequently turns on the music, takes my hand and once again we are back at Duc-Inn on Jitterbug Saturday.

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Craig Woolard has simply got it.

The IT is a combination of talent, pizzaz and energy.

Which translates into an exciting performer who makes listening to the Embers just as fun as it used to be.

As the lead singer for one of beach music's legendary bands, Woolard is a front man who is much more than a front man. He is an entertainer of the first degree, one who is always in touch with his audience.

“It's kind of a feeling,” says the 62-year-old who has been singing and playing beach music for 39 years.

“I get out there on the stage, and I become as much a part of the crowd as I am part of the band. I'm having a good time.”

Woolard has been back with the Embers a little over a year, reunited after being kicked out in 2004. “That was a shock,” he says, “after spending 27 years with the same band. I saw it coming, but when I got the letter telling me I was out, it was truly devastating.”

With the help of Debbie, his wife of nearly 32 years, he formed the Craig Woolard Band and strung together a decade of tremendous success. His infectious personality and style made him hugely popular, and he flourished in the spotlight.

Plenty of folks were noticing, including the Embers, who made him the proverbial offer he couldn't refuse.

“It's good to be back,” he says. “The Embers are a great group with a great following. Our calendar is jam-packed. We're playing weekends, week days,

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weddings, community theaters, outdoor venues, you name it. It seems we are always either on the road or doing a show. But hey, that's the way we like it.

“There were some mixed emotions at first, but it feels good doing what I did before. Like the song says, ‘I love beach music.’ Really, I love all kinds of music.

I'm a fan as well as a musician. I get up there and have an extraordinarily good time.”

In 2011, Woolard was inducted into the Carolina Beach Music Association Hall of Fame. Last year, the CBMA honored him as the Male Vocalist of the Year for the 13th time. He has also been named Entertainer of the Year twice and has had the Song of the Year two times.

Woolard was born in Durham where his dad was finishing law school at Duke. The family lived in North Wilkesboro for a while under the last name of Williams. “Dad worked undercover with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, and it was very tense and dangerous.

“By the time I was in first grade, we had moved to Washington, North Carolina, where my dad was an attorney. Growing up, I figured I would attend law school and go back to join him in his practice.”

In the meantime, Craig was bitten by the music bug.

“I listened to all kinds of music on the radio,” he says.

“In sixth grade, I joined the junior band at school, and in the eighth, we got to play with the high school band. I started out on the clarinet, and then my dad gave me a saxophone for my birthday.

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EMBERS “I liked the music, but the main reason I got into it was to meet girls. Don't let anybody kid you . . . that's why most boys get into bands. I played with some guys at a party one night, and afterward, somebody came over and handed me five dollars. I was thinking, 'I'm getting paid to do something I love.'”

Woolard was a member of several bands along the way, beginning in high school in the late 60s with the Matadors. They played at various functions for Jim Gardner in his gubernatorial bid, and at car dealerships and battles of the bands. Wherever they were invited.

“I didn't sing back then,” Woolard says. “One time when our band was practicing, one of the guys asked if I could sing. I tried 'Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter,' and it was so bad that the other band members fell onto the floor laughing. I was so traumatized that it was a long time before I had the nerve to try again.”

Following high school, he attended Duke. Seeing a life as an attorney was not for him, his interest in studies waned and a sub-par freshman year landed him in summer school. “I took two courses and had A's in both going into the exams. Someone offered me $150 a week to play in a band, and I was out of there. I didn't even take the exams.”

Woolard bounced from one band to another over the next five years and became quite the vocalist as experience boosted his confidence behind the mike. A phone call in 1976 proved life-changing. On the line with a job offer was Jackie Gore, the lead singer of a hot beach music group called the Embers.

Now, almost 40 years later, Craig has come full circle.

With him back, the Embers are the Embers again. The band has never sounded better. Bobby Tomlinson, who formed the group in 1958, remains the drummer and is joined by Jeff Grimes, Andy Swindell, Bobby Nantz, Stephen Pachuta and Hugh Blanton.

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Audiences love Woolard – the way he sings, the way he moves … the way he is. He comes across as very likable.

And not just as an artist.

“I hope so,” he says, “because I like people.”

Singing songs he has sung hundreds and hundreds of times, Craig makes every number sound fresh.

“It's what I do. Doesn't matter if a song may get a little old. Or if I have a cold or am just plain tired. My job is to give people a good show. That's why they come. If you're not on your game or you let up, that's the start of a bad habit.”

Among his favorite songs are “Georgia On My Mind” by Ray Charles and “Never Found a Girl” by Eddie Floyd.

“I could name so many more,” Woolard says. “Truth is, there is something in every song that's unique, and I look for that. I never get tired of those good old beach music hits. Or, of doing what I do.

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That's What Happens With Dancing

by Jennifer Pollard, MSW

The best things happen while you're dancing Things you would not do at home Come naturally on the floor For dancing soon becomes romancing When you hold a girl in your arms That you've never held before Even guys with two left feet Come out all right if the girl is sweet If by chance their cheeks should meet while dancing Proving that the best things happen while you dance -Irving Berlin White Christmas, 1942

An image of the "good old days" that brings a sting of jealousy to me is dancing. Parties and nights on the town when everyone had a dance card and a dress that hung perfectly as you glided across the floor in the arms of your beau sounds ideal. Even though my generation doesn’t have these kind of memories, I love hearing the stories from my clients of their nights of dancing. I’m mesmerized by the movie scenes of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers as they danced in "Swing Time," "Shall We Dance," "Follow the Fleet," "Top Hat," "The Gay Divorcee" and "Roberta" – just to name a few. And who can forget the role a dance scene adds to the dynamic

of romance. I think of Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer in "Sound of Music," dancing a traditional Austrian dance and the way they looked at each other.

Or in "Easter Parade" when Fred Astaire takes on a young protégé, Judy Garland, and they dance for the first time. Magic!

That’s what happens with dancing.

Alice Barker, a 102-year-old former Apollo and Cotton Club dancer, had never seen film footage of herself dancing. She resides in a nursing home in Brooklyn and a young film student, volunteer found videos to show her. The video of Barker seeing the reels of herself dancing made the national evening news and even went viral on Facebook. She became animated and started tapping her fingers and recounted stories of the various films she was in and the iconic stars she met.

“I used to often say to myself, I am being paid to do something that I enjoy doing, and I would do it for free,” she said. "Because it just felt so good doing it. Because that music, you know, I just get carried away in it."

Dancing has a visceral connection. The music starts and the feet want to move. And if there is a dance partner, even better!

What are your stories of dancing? Do you have fond memories of dancing the night away with the love of your life? And maybe it’s not too late to start dancing!

“Love the Second Time Around,” in the May Issue, inspired one of our readers to share his story with me. Thank you, Jack Dauner of Pinehurst, North Carolina, for writing in and sharing the beautiful story of your second-time love story. The story of Denise and you was very touching. I appreciate you taking the time to share how the song was an important part of your love.

Have you found love a second time? Are you inspired by music in your golden years?

I’d love to have you share your stories with me.

Jennifer Pollard, MSW, is a geriatric care manager with AOS Care Management who has a passionate musical connection she shares with her clients. Her career has taught her the powerful role music has in preserving and unlocking our memories. ‘Better living through lyrics’ has become her motto.

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LITERARY CIRCLE

“The Best of Bob Steed:

The Not-So-Serious But Seriously Accomplished Life of Robert L. Steed” Book Review by Cos Barnes

Everybody likes to read the works of humorists – and it is especially enticing when you know the writer. As a beginning young lawyer, my daughter went to work at King & Spalding, the prestigious law firm in Atlanta. She was soon exposed to the wisdom of Bob Steed, bond attorney and writer who had frequent columns in the Atlanta Constitution.

He was known for his outrageous sense of fun, his pot shots at Georgia’s political elite, and his whimsical approach to the more serious side of life.

Books by him included “Willard Lives,” “Money, Power and Sex,” “A Ship Without an Udder,” and others. My daughter gifted me with all of them because she knew I loved them. I returned the favor when I recently moved and had to dispose of many of my books.

Steed served Mercer University as trustee and chairman of the board. He was elected the seventh life trustee and was the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws degree and was named outstanding alumnus. A bronze cast bust of Steed graces the lobby of the law school, which was dedicated to him. And still, because of Steed’s antics, former U.S. Attorney General Bell, a partner in the law firm with Steed, described him as “half-lawyer, half-wit.”

Some years ago Steed spoke at the Carolina Hotel as guest of our local chamber of commerce.

Chuck Perry, founder of Longstreet Press and presently in corporate marketing at Cox Enterprises, Inc., aided in the publication of “The Best of Bob Steed.”

Barnes has been writing for OutreachNC since the first publication in 2010 and currently participates in three book clubs.

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B E L L E W E AT H E R

Look no Further, Will and Kate, I Can Clean your House

by Celia Rivenbark

Well, here we go again. Loyal readers may recall that I offered my services when Prince William and Kate Middleton advertised - ADVERTISED - for a nanny to take care of their firstborn. I was a little surprised that they went public with their search. I mean, this isn't exactly selling your raggedy pleather recliner on Craig's List of Pervs and Weirdos, now is it? But, advertise they did and apparently they rejected my semi-serious offer to take care of baby George.

Back then, I sought the job because I had never been across the pond and thought what better excuse? Since then, I have been to London on vacation and would love to return to offer my services. Truth is, I miss England. The gardens, the museums, the $85 plates of tiny sandwiches you eat everyday at 4 o'clock for no apparent reason ...

Lucky for me, it turns out that William and Kate have again reached out to the great unwashed via classified ad to find a proper housekeeper for their second born. In a tiny ad in "The Lady" magazine (I know; I never heard of it either, possibly because I'm not much of one), the royals announce that they are in need of a "housekeeper who can handle a variety of chores including cleaning, accepting deliveries, some meal preparation, polishing silver and glass, buying groceries, assisting with childcare and tending the dogs."

Wow. I like doing all that stuff except for the part that begins with "cleaning" and ends with "dogs."

But there's more! The Chosen will be provided a live-in apartment and can even bring along a spouse or significant other for this once-ina-lifetime adventure.

As long as there is ESPN, Duh Hubby assures me he will join in, perhaps envisioning hours in the lush British countryside, drinking pints at the local pub whilst I scrub the oak floors on hands and knees and learn to say things like "whilst" without feeling goofy.

"I heardest that," I will say to no one in particular, trying to fit in.

To tell the truth (for once), I'm better equipped for the housekeeping gig than the nanny role. I love babies, even the ugly ones, but, as I recently overheard Duh Hubby describe me, I am a "sturdy, hardworking woman" which made me blush with pride.

Sure, it sounded as if he was auctioning me off in a bad remake of "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers" ("she's got a great personality but, yes, she's about six axe-handles across") but I knew what he was getting at. I run this little ship of fools like a well-oiled, er, something that needs oil.

Kate and Wills, look no further. I'm here to serve. I believe we have established that I am sturdy. And I am apple cheeked thanks to some middle-age rosacea, plus I look great in a full-length apron. I can also snap a chicken's neck, or a paparazzi's. Makes no never mind to me. Stay in touch.

Celia Rivenbark is the author of "Rude Bitches Make Me Tired" and six other humor collections.

Visit her website at www.celiarivenbark.com

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life THE NONAGENARIAN

An Exclusive Club for Aging

by Glenn A. Flinchum

Not long ago, I became a member of a rather exclusive club — the Nonagenarians. Actually, there is only one requirement for membership; you must have reached the age of 90 or beyond. It also helps if you can remember your name.

I was sharply reminded of my status as a super senior citizen recently when I went shopping and decided to use a credit card to pay for my purchases. As I fumbled with the gadget provided to swipe my card, I adjusted my bi-focals to try and read the instructions on the tiny screen. The cashier, who appeared to be about the age of the sneakers I was wearing, smiled and rolled her eyes slightly as she said, “You push the red button, hon.”

Oh. Now I see it.

On my way home from the store, while adhering to the speed limit and ignoring the cowboy in the souped-up pickup having a fit to pass me, the thought occurred to me that considering our ages and life experiences, that young cashier and I may as well have been from different planets. I recall that on the bar beside her she had a miniature telephone with which she could call someone halfway around the world, as well as take pictures, send messages and Lord knows what else.

When I was her age, to make a telephone call, we rang

the central office on our wall telephone and a nice lady we called “Miss Bess” connected us with our party. The neighbors could also listen in if they chose. Long-distance calls were rare and usually meant bad news.

That’s just one example of the huge contrast between today’s world and the one in which I grew up. Television was unheard of, computers were mechanical and hand-operated, and rocket ships were only in Buck Rogers comic books. As for the Internet and all its ramifications — it’s too mind-boggling to go there.

Yet if you take away all the exterior trappings, I suspect today’s generation is not all that different from mine. We all experience the same human emotions - fear, anger, sadness, happiness and the need to live and be loved. Was that young cashier anxious about a date for Saturday night? I would have been at her age. Did she hope a certain boy liked her? I had the same thoughts about girls. When I look at my great-grandchildren today, I see myself all over again, just in a totally different environment.

What will life be like when today’s generation become nonagenarians? That’s too mind-boggling to even contemplate right now. Besides, it’s time for my afternoon nap.

Glenn A. Flinchum is a talented nonagenarian who is writing his memoirs.

To reach him, please email him at: info@outreachnc.com.

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BETTER WITH AGE SERIES

by G a y v i n P o w e r s

1923 Duesenberg Model A Straight 8 John Bools, owner of the 1923, light green Duesenberg Model A Straight 8, exclaims that he was “in the right place at the right time.” His friend started a restoration on the car that took 12 years, and he passed on before it was finished. Bools worked another eight years on the car to get it in the condition that it is now, complete with beveled rear view mirror and nickel plate on the spindle wheels.

When Bools first saw the car, he thought, “This is too good to be mine.”

He shares that when the car was made, Fred and August Duesenberg wanted to make the world’s best car and decided to bring racing details to the public. It shows.

With wins at the Indianapolis 500 and 1921 French Grand Prix, Duesenberg cars are known for details, elegance, performance and the engine -- Bools favorite detail. It’s the first car with fourwheel hydraulic brakes in a time when most cars had two-wheel mechanical breaks. An up close look at many of the fine details on the car shows that thought, appreciation and time went into this luxurious design.

PHOTOGRAPHY SOURCE: STACEY YONGUE 2015 PINEHURST CONCOURS D' ELEGANCE

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GAME ON!

My Dad Stood Tall in Every Way

by Thad Mumau

I don't remember giving my dad a lot of Father's Day cards. I probably made a few with crayons when I was smaller, but didn't buy many. Our family didn't have extra money for things like that, and besides, I appreciated Dad every day.

I think he knew that. Our family was very close. Both of my parents always told my sister and me they loved us, so Judy and I grew up comfortable with sharing our feelings.

All four of us really liked being together.

It wasn't until later in life that I fully grasped the sacrifices my dad made for us. There were a multitude of those. His main concern was providing what we needed. I cannot recall one time that he mentioned something that HE wanted.

My mother was in poor health for many years and I would ask what he would like for Christmas or his birthday, and he'd pause a minute, then say, “I can't think eventually lost both legs. Dad remained steadfast in his love and commitment. She was always his sweetheart. of a thing. Guess I've got about everything.”

His example was one of strength and loyalty. The way That was far from the truth. At least, in terms of folks should be. A man of character, always doing the material possessions. right thing.

The fact is, though, that it was pretty accurate when Dad was overseas with the 9th Division, known as the it came to what mattered. Dad had integrity, dignity “Old Reliables, ” from the beginning until the end of World and respect. People liked him because they knew he War II. He laid wire to make communications possible all was a man of his word and that he was honest. His firm over Europe and in every major campaign. handshake was a signed contract.

Once I found some war medals in the attic and asked I admired my dad tremendously. He stood a little over my dad about them.

6-foot-4 and was slender, and boy was he strong. His “They are insignificant,” he said. “Nobody should be hands were huge and powerful. He worked nine and 10 given prizes for doing what he is supposed to do.” hours a day, changing tires the old-fashioned way – with Bill Mumau never had a big bank account or a fancy a jack and a lug wrench. He did it outdoors in blistering title.

He never held an office or was on any board of heat and chilling cold. directors.

Dad introduced me to baseball, a game I grew to love, But he was the greatest man I ever knew. just as he did. He showed me how to throw and catch and taught me the fundamentals of the sport. I would wait anxiously for him to get home from work so we could play catch. I cannot remember him ever saying he was too tired.

Thad Mumau has been a writer for over 42 years, covering some of the sports greats, We listened to Pittsburgh Pirates games on the radio, including Michael Jordan, John Wooden, sometimes getting more static than play-by-play. Those Jack Nicklaus and Dean Smith at UNC were wonderful times. To this day, I still get good feelings Chapel Hill. Contact Mumau at: from hearing baseball over the radio, and I visualize the rutabega12@aol.com. action just as I did back then.

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Optimize Health continued from page 26 glycosis. As lactic acid continues to build, it inhibits the normal functioning of muscles and reduces the energy production which causes fatigue. As the intensity of the exercise becomes lessened, the lactic acid can be converted to glucose by the liver and results in the body’s ability to continue exercising.

Muscle Damage Muscle damage is an unavoidable outcome of exercise.

Initial damage occurs as a result of stress on the muscles leading to an acute inflammatory process. This process usually occurs 24 hours or so after an event. This is why muscle soreness is often not felt until well after the exercise is completed.

The second reason for muscle damage is a hormone called cortisol. Cortisol is released by the adrenal glands in response to low blood sugar. Cortisol stimulates the breakdown of proteins in the muscle to form sugars. The more muscle is broken down, the greater the damage.

Lastly, muscles can be damaged by the presence of free radicals.

Free radicals are highly reactive molecules formed in the presence of oxygen. As a person’s oxygen consumption increases, so too does free radical formation.The resulting surge of free radicals overwhelm the body’s defense (anti-oxidant) abilities which results in damage to the muscle proteins, injuring cell membranes and compromising the body’s immune system. Immune system suppression can last up to 72 hours after intense exercise.

Glutamine Glutamine is the most prevalent amino acid found in muscles and is also responsible for maintaining immune function. Studies show a direct relationship between infection and depletion of glutamine.

Supplements Supplementing with a protein drink during exercise will spare muscle protein from being broken down.

The same principle holds true for muscle glycogen; maintaining proper glucose levels during exercise results in less depletion of glycogen stores. To help with this, consume a carbohydrate and protein drink during exercise.

In the presence of the correct combination of nutrients, the body has the machinery necessary for rebuilding and replenishing energy stores and repairing damaged muscles. Most people, however, do not replenish their nutrient stores post exercise. According to “The Performing Zone,” two principles in recovery nutrition are as follows: Recovery from exercise is time dependent The optimal activation of the rebuilding process depends on the types of nutrients you consume post exercise The Metabolic Window The metabolic window occurs within the first 15 minutes of finishing exercising. This window has a major effect on the muscle cells’ rebuilding processes, including glycogen storage and protein synthesis. Glucose transport into the muscles is three to four times faster when done immediately following exercise as opposed to three hours later.

A key point is to consume 18-20 ounces or more of a carbohydrate and drink within 15 minutes following exercise.

(Much of this information has been adopted from “The Performance Zone” by John Ivy, Ph.D and Robert Portman, Ph.D.) Trey Waters is owner/Pharmacist at Specialty Pharmacy of Cary, LLC. Waters' goal is to educate and inform patients that wellness is achievable; to operate with a mindset that propels them towards health and wellness, and not running from disease.

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- Ava B., 8, Don Steed Elementary, (DSE) “He taught me how to behave.” - Sydney, 6, DSE "My dad taught me to say what I mean and mean what “He taught me how to read words.” - Anabelle, 6, DSE "The best thing that I learned from my dad is how to save money for important stuff.”

- Aaron Y., 8, DSE “The best thing that I learned from my dad is to be funny.

The other day I asked him if I could do his hair and he wanted to cut off my bangs.” Jayden, age 7, DSE “He taught me how to respect people.”

- Rainer, 7, DSE “My dad taught me how to play softball.”

- Payton, 9, DSE

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