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THE WORLD IS MY HIMALAYAN WATCHING EXPERIENCE 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasions

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CONTENTS JUNE 2014 • VOL. 14 ISSUE 06

ON THE COVER – Shirley Bloodworth is a force of nature. Her remarkable curriculum vitae includes a long list of educational accomplishments, memberships to innumerable organizations and an impressive array of awards and honors.

PHOTO BY TJ MORRISSEY for LOTUS STUDIOS

departments 8 14 24

Tapas Community News Community Voice

columns 42 46 47

Calendar of Events Crossword Puzzle Theatre Listings

Embracing Life

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by Donna Bonnell

Tinseltown Talks

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by Nick Thomas

Healthy Edge

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by Kendra Siler-Marsiglio

features 16

To Light a New Fire Gainesville’s Tacachale Center

Five ‘G’s for a Wonderful Life

BY DARLA KINNEY SCOLES

BY DARLA KINNEY SCOLES

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38 My Himalayan Experience

70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasions

Trekking the Sacred Mountains of Nepal

BY MARY W. BRIDGMAN

BY JUDITH MORROW

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Reading Corner Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer

WINNER! Congratulations to the winner from our MAY 2014 issue…

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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC

Remembering D-Day I have read, according to recent US Veterans Administration figures, that approximately 555 World War II Veterans die each day. This translates to the grim statistic that just about every two minutes we lose another man or woman who had fought and won the war to end all wars.

It boggles my mind.

This month marks the 70th anniversary of D-Day. It’s hard for me to imagine what it must have been like for those young soldiers who stormed the beaches. I’ve read some of the stories.

And I’ve seen “Saving Private Ryan.” But I can’t wrap my mind around the horror they witnessed and endured. But, if not for their heroic actions, I doubt you would be reading my words -- at least not in English.

With that in mind we bring you a story about a group of veterans, members of the “D-Day Normandy Veterans of North Central Florida” organization, that meet regularly at Conestogas Restaurant in Alachua. Writer Mary Bridgman tells us about this group. She also offers a brief history of the Normandy invasion as well as her personal feelings

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experienced while visiting the D-Day sites last summer.

We also bring you a travel piece -- a mother-daughter trip to Napal -- for your reading pleasure. Senior reader (and writer) Judith Morrow describes her experiences trekking the Himalayans with her daughter.

Reading these travel stories makes me want to get out and see the world. But, truth be told, I’m pretty much a homebody. Aside from a high school trip to Mexico, I’ve never even left the country.

My daughter, however, has visited England on more than one occasion. I really should get out more.

Also within these pages you will find a profile on a Gainesville dynamo, Shirley Bloodworth, for whom a scholarship for at-risk youth was recently named in her honor. You can read more about Shirley and some of her many accomplishments within these pages.

Additionally, we continue with our monthly (nearly) volunteer series. For this issue, Senior Times writer Darla Kinney Scoles spent her time volunteering at Tacachale, the oldest and largest community for Floridians with developmental disabilities. Like all of the places Darla has visited, Tacachale could use volunteers.

Lastly, we have a reader-submitted story on lessons we learn as we grow older.

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TAPAS œ JUNE

Indivisible

THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TIMELINE JUNE 22, 1942 Flag Code Becomes Law The law sets out the rules for use and display of the flag, conduct during the playing of the national anthem, and the words of the Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag (Bellamy’s) to be recited.

The flag code also contained the raised-arm salute (as prescribed during the 1924 Flag Day conference).”

— JEFFREY OWEN JONES AND PETER MEYER, THE PLEDGE: A HISTORY OF THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, 2010.

DEC. 22, 1942 Congress Changes Flag Salute to Hand over Heart Instead of Straight Arm Salute.

Congress apparently was embarrassed by the similarity between the original Flag salute and the Nazi salute.

JUNE 14, 1943 Supreme Court Rules That Children Cannot Be Forced to Recite Pledge The US Supreme Court, in West Virginia State Board of Education et al. v. Barnette et al. rules 6-3 that children could not be forced to say the Pledge of Allegiance in school.

— LATIMES.COM, SEP. 29, 2003.

FEB. 12, 1948 Sons of the American Revolution Chaplain Includes ‘under God’ in Pledge Recitation Louis A. Bowman, a member of the Board of Governors of the Illinois Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, and its Chaplain, leads the group in the Pledge of Allegiance with the words “under God” added. The National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution gives him an Award of Merit as “the originator of the [under God] idea.”

— JOHN W. BAER, DA, MBA 1992

JUNE 14, 1954 President Eisenhower Signs Law Adding ‘Under God’ to Pledge President Eisenhower says: “In this way we are reaffirming the transcendence of religious faith in America’s heritage and future; in this way we shall constantly strengthen those spiritual weapons which forever will be our country’s most powerful resource in peace and war.”

— UNDERGODPROCON.ORG

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June has 3 Birthstones The traditional stone for June is the pearl, a symbol of purity, and is the only gem that comes from living sea creatures.

Alexandrite is an alternate birthstone and is a symbol of joy and good fortune. When exposed to light, the stone is a greenishbrown color.

When observed in incandescent or candlelight, it changes to a purple-reddish hue.

Moonstone is yet another June birthstone, considered a sacred stone in India. It varies in color from clear, to bluish white or peach. It is a symbol of health and longevity.

Gettin’ Hitched June, named after the Roman goddess, Juno, is a popular month for weddings, likely because Juno was the goddess of marriage.

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BENJAMIN IN FRANKLIN DISCOVERED ELECTRICITY ON JUNE 15, 1752 Legend has it that Franklin performed his famous kite experiment, drawing electricity down from the clouds and charging a Leyden jar from the key at the end of the string.

Recently, his technique was put to the test in an episode of the television series “MythBusters.” The hosts tried to emulate a variation on the story of this famous experiment in which Franklin was to have received the lightning arc directly from the key attached to the kite string, according to Wikipedia. The team declared the myth “busted” and proved that Franklin would have been killed if he had done the experiment, but also confirmed certain aspects of the experiment were feasible. Such as: You can get electricity down a [wet] kite string.

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George H.W. Bush JUNE 12, 1924 (89) – George H.W. Bush is Republican A American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States, elected after serving as the 43rd Vice President. Bush is the oldest living former President and Vice President, and the last former President who is a WWII veteran. Following in his footsteps, his son, George Bush, also served as President of the United Years Old States. Prior to his son’s fame, he was known simply know as George Bush. To distinguish him from his son, he is now referred to as “George H. W. Bush,” “Bush 41,” “Bush the Elder,” “Bush I,” or “George Bush, Sr.”. After his presidency, he became involved in various humanitarian activities and received a number of awards and recognition, including a library named in his honor. The George Bush Presidential Library and Museum is located at the Texas A&M University in College Station, Tx. In addition, Texas A&M has a public policy school for graduates called the George Bush School of Government and Public Service. In recent years, Bush’ Parkinson’s disease has worsened, forcing him to use a motorized scooter or wheelchair.

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A FEW OTHER NOTABLE

Birthdays this Month Richard Long

Joe Montana

June 2, 1945 (69)

June 11, 1956 (58)

Emmitt Thomas

Tim Allen

June 3, 1943 (71

June 13, 1953 (61)

Michael J. Fox

Paul McCartney

June 9, 1961 (53)

June 18, 1942 (72)

“Instant gratification is not soon enough.” — MERYL STREEP

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Born June 22, 1949, in Summit, New Jersey, Streep began her acting career on the New York stage in the late 1960s and appeared in several Broadway productions. In the Years Old 1970s, she began appearing in films, and soon began earning both nominations and awards. IN 1977, Streep appeared in the drama “Julia.” The following year she appeared in “The Deer Hunter” opposite Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, for which she earned her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

Equally able to wow audiences in drama, comedy and musicals, she has come to be considered one of the greatest actresses of our time.

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CHARITY OF THE MONTH

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They’ve done it again! Beauty’s Haven Farm and Equine Rescue was April’s Charity of the Month winner.

Here’s the backstory: When Theresa Batchelor received a call about a young Arabian mare that had been seized by the county due to neglect, she knew the mare, now named Beauty, was not the only one in need of rescuing.

After a surgery to remove a tumor that was growing inside Batchelor’s spinal cord, she had permanent nerve damage. Her life changed dramatically when she was left quadriplegic and was told she would never walk again.

Through physical therapy, tenacity and faith, she did regain use of her limbs. However, Batchelor has no feeling or proprioception below her neck — she is what is called an incomplete quadriplegic. She has no idea where her arms and legs are unless she is looking at them. She was advised to give up many of her favorite activities, including horseback riding.

Enter: Beauty. The mare had been traumatized by prior abuse, and to say she did not like people would be an understatement.

Gaining her trust seemed impossible, but Batchelor has experience with overcoming impossible situations.

She had a plan — she would spend each day with Beauty, teaching her voice commands. Over the course of a few months Beauty finally began to heal. She seems to sense that Batchelor is different. This has only helped to strengthen their bond, which developed into a beautiful and trusting relationship that led Batchelor to be able to horseback ride again.

Because of this experience, Batchelor was inspired to start a non-profit organization in 2006 called Beauty’s Haven Farm and Equine Recue. The purpose is to help as many equine friends as

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possible when they are in need. The charity networks with other rescue organizations and individuals, and works to educate others about horse slaughter in an effort to make it illegal — not just in the United States but also in Canada, Mexico, and other countries.

Horses that arrive at the rescue come from auctions and kill buyers; some are surrendered by owners who can no longer care for them and others are seized by authorities. The organization tries to help horses that are desperately in need of a safe place to go. Once a horse is at the rescue, then comes the costs of rehabilitation, training, proper feed and care. Expenses include initial care, grain, feed and other necessities, which are costly.

Some horses with special needs will live out their days there.

Jeanne Bartsch is on the board of directors for the rescue, and said this organization is unique because Batchelor takes in horses that other rescues might not because of the cost it would take to rehabilitate them.

“If they need acupuncture they get it, if they need massage therapy they get it,” Bartsch said. “She never gives up on them.” s

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“To be effective in truly preventing balance deficits among senior adults, it is essential that a fall risk program addresses the root cause of why the falls may occur, have occurred or may occur again. The Caretenders’ Optimum Balance program is second to none for assessment and treatment of balance issues and their origins,” said Susan Swirbul, Patient Care Representative at Caretenders.

Optimum Balance incorporates all five systems that contribute to balance – vestibular, somatosensory, vision, musculoskeletal and cognitive.

Therapists give patients a thorough evaluation of these five systems, and then the clinical team implements a customized treatment strategy. A wide variety of treatment methods is used in the Optimum Balance program, including anodyne infrared light therapy, the Epley Maneuver (canal repositioning treatment often done

with vertigo patients) and retraining of oculomotor system.

Patients undergoing Optimum Balance treatment experience a significant decrease in falling. Studies show that 90 percent of program patients had not experienced a fall for one year after treatment, and 87 percent experienced a decrease in neuropathic pain.

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Wings of Dreams On June 7, Wings of Dreams will commemorate the D-Day Normandy Campaign at the Keystone Heights Airport hangar with a Fly-In/Cruise-In Breakfast. All veterans will receive a free breakfast, which will be followed by a program honoring those who participated in the Normandy Campaign.

A breakfast buffet, consisting of scrambled eggs, grits, bacon, ham, biscuits, fruit, juice, coffee, will be offered — first, come first served — for $7 per person and $4 per child (9 and under). All proceeds to benefit Wings of Dreams Aviation Museum. Breakfast is free for WWII and Korean War veterans.

Wings of Dreams is 501(c)(3) charitable organization founded in 2005

by Susan King and Bob Oehl. The airport, formerly the Keystone Army Airfield, has a rich military history as a World War II Army Air Corps air base, tasked with reconnaissance pilot training, as well as preparing a squadron of fighter pilots for the Normandy Invasion. Part of the

Wings of Dreams mission is to preserve the airport’s wartime history, much of which is unknown or forgotten.

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Embracing Life A Spoonful of Sugar

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n varying degrees, we all have a basic desire to learn difficult lessons and receive bitter messages with some sugarcoating. Is that seemingly cowardly necessity a complex human flaw or an extraordinary attribute of earthly beings?

Most of us will never forget the song from the 1964 Disney production, “Mary Poppins.” Julie Andrews sang an upbeat tune that seemed to soothe any tough task: “A Spoonful of Sugar.” Can you easily whistle or hum the music to accompany the words of this uplifting stanza?

For a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down The medicine go down, the medicine go down Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down In a most delightful way My guess is that was an effortless assignment, fun and stress free. Yet, do you know the roots of this famous musical melody?

In the midst of making “Mary Poppins,” Julie Andrews would not commit to playing the lead role. She was not satisfied

with the original tune. Andrews wanted it to be a livelier musical. Walt Disney asked the Sherman Brothers — Richard and Robert — to create a snappier song.

Lyricist, Robert Sherman, struggled with creating a new jingle. Fortunately, (as is the case with many artists) he had an inspiration from an unexpected source: his children’s polio vaccinations. He asked if the immunizations hurt, assuming they had received injections. The answer was no; the medication was put on a cube of sugar. All they had to do was swallow it.

Needless to say, the proverbial light bulb went on. Robert talked his brother, Richard, into adding music to the lyrics.

Magically, the enchanting song we have loved for years was born.

The Sherman children literally had sugar to help their medicine go down.

The song has helped generations work through tedious tasks. Some issues, however, are not that easy. Sometimes we get an invisible lump in our throat so large that it is hard to swallow. That imaginary mass is usually a form of pride.

Pride is a self-focused emotion. Experiencing an embarrassing event, admitting our mistakes or needing support can be difficult. Personally, I have been in all of those situations. However, my most difficult challenge lies in asking for assistance. For decades, I felt rather noble about my ability to take care of myself.

What I once believed to be a satisfying strength is actually an arrogant weakness.

Like everyone, I periodically require

help and tend to wait for others to offer their assistance. A liberal helping of honey, applied to their generous proposition, makes it easier for me to accept.

On the other hand, I feel compassion for folks who find the truth nearly impossible to swallow, as they are choking on their pride. I know that deep down inside their soul is hurting and they desperately need a little kindheartedness and sugar.

The lyrics of the song, “Candy Man,” in “Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory,” illustrate the miraculous powers of a mixture of chocolate and love.

Who can take a sunrise?

Sprinkle it with dew Cover it in chocolate And a miracle or two The candy man The candy man can The candy man can cause he Mixes it with love and Makes the world taste good The harsh realities of life are more palatable with a sugar cube and a heaping helping of kindness. The ability to give and receive a spoonful of sugar is immensely important to survive and thrive in today’s tempestuous culture.

I am grateful for having learned how to embrace the divine gift. s Donna Bonnell is a freelance writer who moved to Newberry in 1983. She enjoys living and working in the town she now calls home. dbnewberry@aol.com

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To Light a New Fire Gainesville’s Tacachale Center

by Darla Kinney Scoles

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he word “Tacachale” is a Timucuan Indian word meaning “to light a new fire” — a perfect fit with the mindset of the people who care for and serve those living at Gainesville’s Tacachale Center. This unique community is Florida’s oldest and largest facility for those with developmental disabilities. Listed by the Agency for Persons with Disabilities as “a progressive community dedicated to offering its residents the opportunities and services which respect and encourage their personal choices, enhance their quality of life, and maximize their individual potential,” Tacachale is quite simply a special place for special people — including those who live, work and yes — volunteer there.

>> THE NEED With 500 acres and greater than 400 residents, Tacachale is, by design, a bustling community.

“We ensure that all the people we serve have active treatment and are engaged in something meaningful every day,” said Michael Mayfield, Tacachale’s Center Administrator.

Whether it is working on daily living skills, taking a trip to go bowling, performing on-site contract employment, or participating in bingo night, swimming, movies, concerts and dances, residents are kept busy. Keeping them busy keeps many others busy too. So much so, that even with more than 1,100 dedicated staff members, volunteers are needed, as well. >> THE WORK While some who volunteer are trained to serve at individual homes or with individual residents, most come as groups to help with large-scale activities such as the carnival I attended in March. For several hours one

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PHOTOS BY DARLA KINNEY SCOLES Bingo, movies, bowling, swimming, dances, fashion shows, concerts and carnivals are just a few of the activities offered to residents at Tacachale. Small activities are scheduled daily. Larger ones are weekend events, and always require volunteer assistance.

“We challenge the various facilities onsite to be as creative as possible in planning events,” said Tacachale Center Administrator, Michael Mayfield (right, with Tacachale resident Laura H.). “We even have a haunted house at Halloween as well as a parade and tree lighting at Christmas -- complete with Santa.”

Laura plays basketball in the Special Olympics, enjoys golfing and swimming, and works in Tacachale’s onsite warehouse.

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T Saturday morning, and with help from a local college organization, residents were treated to an event that included a variety of games, food, prizes, dancing and social interaction.

Volunteers worked to set up and take down the carnival, as well as man every station and help attendees play the games, choose a prize or get up and dance.

University of Florida’s Alliance Ambassadors members Shantasha Laing and Brittani Powell handed out chips and cookies to carnival visitors and were impressed with what was their first visit to Tacachale.

“It’s definitely different than anything we’ve done before,” said Laing. Her group is mostly involved in tutoring, mentoring and minority education. “I think it’s great that Tacachale does these events for the residents, their families and friends.

It’s been fun and a great experience.”

“It’s great,” Powell said. “Everyone here is smiling and the staff is very friendly. This has been a humbling experience. I would do it again.”

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>> THE REWARDS It was both humility and gratitude that overwhelmed me as I surveyed the carnival scene that day and felt the love and generosity that went into making the event a reality for these special people. It was a feeling and an experience I will certainly never forget.

“When the state first asked me to come here, I didn’t want to,” said Tacachale’s Volunteer Services Specialist Rosa Williams. “I was shy and scared. I didn’t know what to expect. But then I spent some time talking with one of the residents, who came up and gave me a big hug. I realized the problem was not them. It was me. My heart was softened and I’ve been here ever since.”

Now assisted by Rehabilitation Therapist Paula Hawkins, Williams said she loves the Tacachale community and its residents and would never go anywhere else.

Everyone I met during my two visits to Tacachale made me feel special and most had no idea who I was or why I was there. seniortimesmagazine.com

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PHOTO COURTESY OF PAULA HAWKINS Volunteer Services Specialist Rosa Williams recently accepted the University of Florida’s Center for Leadership and Service Program’s Most Collaborative Community Agency Award on behalf of the Tacachale community for “collaborating with the Center to provide diverse and excellent opportunities for their students.” Williams often involves student groups and organizations as volunteers.

and college associations are just a few of the types of groups that help the community put on weekend events such as fashion shows, holiday celebrations, 5k runs and even a haunted house at Halloween.

“We ensure that all the people we serve are engaged in something meaningful,” Mayfield said.

The same could be said for those who serve there. Volunteering at Tacachale is meaningful simply because of the nature of the community. It is a life-changing learning experience.

It is simply the overall attitude. Everyone is special. Everyone is loved. You can feel it in the air. Time spent here is sacred. >> THE FIT A handful of individual volunteers serve at the facility now, though Mayfield would like to increase that number, encouraging those inclined to this type of service to come and visit the community.

“If an individual wanted to volunteer, Rosa and Paula would find an area that is a good fit for them here,” Mayfield said. “They also invite groups to come in and help with center-wide activities.”

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>> HOW TO GET INVOLVED Williams has been a constant at Tacachale since the 1980s and now, with help from Hawkins, coordinates the volunteer program there. The pair works to match those who come to help at the community with the area and the tasks that are a perfect fit for all involved.

Getting started is as easy as contacting Williams at 352-9555958 or Rosa_Williams@apd.state.fl.us. Tacachale is located at 1621 NE Waldo Road in Gainesville. s Thanks to you! — Darla EDITOR’S NOTE: Each month Darla Kinney Scoles participates firsthand in, and then shares with readers, a local volunteer experience opportunity. The needs are great. The rewards, even greater.

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Tinseltown Talks Norman Lloyd Still on the Ball

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orman Lloyd admits he’s taking things a bit easy these days. This year, he currently has only one film waiting for release and he now plays just two tennis matches a week. Still, that’s not bad, considering the veteran actor, producer and director turns 100 later this year!

“People are always asking me for the secret of long life,” said Mr. Lloyd from his home in Los Angeles. “Well, I have no secret and I suspect it’s partly luck. But I do know one thing. You’ve got to stay active as you get older. And tennis is a great way to do that. It helps to take away all the aches and pains.”

One of Lloyd’s memorable singles opponents, whom he first met in the 1940s, was a childhood idol.

“Charlie Chaplin loved tennis and I was invited to his home by a friend to play,” recalled Lloyd. “We became good friends, played regularly, and after would sit on his sun porch and drink a Scotch Old-Fashioned.”

Off the courts, Lloyd appeared in some 40 films and numerous TV shows but was equally comfortable behind the camera as director or in the front office producing.

“Alfred Hitchcock hired me to direct many of his weekly mystery shows,” said Lloyd, who also produced more than 200 episodes between 1957-1965. “I’ve been directing and producing since my early days in theater.”

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Lloyd and Hitchcock were no strangers on a train. The pair had worked previously on two films, “Spellbound” (1945) and “Saboteur” (1942).

As a villain in “Saboteur,” Lloyd helped create a memorable Hitchcock sequence, staged from the lofty heights of the Statue of Liberty.

“Hitchcock recreated the arm of the Statue from the elbow up to the torch at full scale, on a Universal Studios stage,” Lloyd said. “The closest I got to the real Statue during filming was the base.”

In a scene with Bob Cummings atop of the Statue’s torch platform, Cummings lunges at Lloyd with a gun.

“Then I fall over the rail,” explained Lloyd.

“Hitchcock was a master of ‘writing with the camera’ from his silent film days and wanted the scene in one take. So instead of cutting to a stuntman, he asked if I would do it. I was an accomplished tennis player at the time and quite athletic — not to mention being young and foolhardy — so I agreed to do a backflip over the rail!”

Out of camera view, Lloyd says a platform had been constructed to catch him, but the stunt was still risky.

“The platform was about 14 feet high and covered with mattresses and a man was there to catch me and prevent me from rolling off. But in the scene, after I go over the rail, I grab onto a ledge and Bob tries to pull me up by my jacket, but the seniortimesmagazine.com

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Hitchcock didn’t use any music in the scene, just the sound of wind which was brilliantly effective.”

On TV, Lloyd is best remembered as a regular in the groundbreaking ‘80s medical series “St. Elsewhere.”

He played Dr. Daniel Auschlander in more than 130 episodes during the show’s six-year run.

“The show dealt with subjects never discussed before on television,” noted Lloyd. “To my knowledge, it was the first time that AIDS was featured. It also examined issues such as the expense of dialysis for patients, and other topics included religious themes. The writing was brilliant with a superb cast including Ed Flanders — I don’t think there was a finer actor in America — and Denzel Washington who went on to have great success.”

In addition to his accomplishments in entertainment and on the tennis court, Lloyd can claim one of the longest marriages in show business history — to stage actress Peggy Lloyd,

who passed away in 2011.

“A couple of days before she died, she asked how long we had been married,” recalled Lloyd. “I told her 75 years and she said, ‘It should last!’ I thought that was charming.”

As his milestone birthday approaches in November, Lloyd knows exactly how Peggy would want him to celebrate.

“My tennis friends and I are going to have a big tournament on my 100th birthday,” he said. “Perhaps at that age they may forgive me if I cheat a little.” s Nick Thomas (www.getnickt.com) teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns, and interviews for over 400 magazines and newspapers.

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id you ever understand why our parents might have told us these things when we were younger? “You are too young to understand.” Or, “One day you will understand why I am making you do this.”

Or, “One day you will be a parent and understand what I’m talking about.”

Now that I am 68 years old I have been reflecting on the lessons learned through the years. Interestingly enough, you don’t really recognize or understand these lessons until your later years.

So, what are these lessons learned?

Well, first let me say they are the same

ones carried on from generation to generation. That seems somewhat strange on the surface that some things do not change regardless of years gone by.

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cold do the same things as the “older” boys and girls — like stay out past 11:00 pm or sleep over at a friend’s house — my father or mother would say to me, “Let me tell you what my parents told me: Be patient. Don’t wish your life away.” I would say, mostly to myself, “Yes, I do wish I was older.” I did not know at that period in my life that time goes by very quickly.

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will make you a better person.” Or, “This is going to hurt me more than it does you.” Doesn’t that sound familiar? What did that mean? What kind of lesson is that?

But as the years went by, I finally understood what it all meant. Follow the rules and you will be rewarded, a lesson learned passed on from past generations to them, to me, and on to my children during their growing-up years.

Then there are lessons learned pertaining to wisdom. When I was starting my first sales job, my father’s advice in order to succeed was, “The elevator to success is broken, you must take the stairs.” The lesson there, of course, is you must work hard as there are no shortcuts. That stayed with me throughout my career and was passed on to my son and daughter.

“Follow your heart, it will take you in the right direction,” is what I would tell my children when in a quandary about making an important decision. Thinking back, all of us can recall a catchy phrase or line that our parents used to guide us. They were lessons learned from our parents and how it was applied to their children and how their children will apply it to their children. As the title song from the musical “Lion King” says, “The circle of life.” Isn’t that song bringing out that the circle of life is generation to generation?

We are at a time in our lives that it all makes sense, at least most of it. Can you imagine what our lives would be like if we actually knew and understood these lessons while growing up?

Or what if all of us on this wonderful Earth were blessed to have had this knowledge when born? Just think of the possibilities.

Senior is a word I thought I would never be called. Doesn’t Father Time catch up to us all? But with time comes wisdom — the wisdom of passing the lessons learned from generation to generation. And for this we should feel we did our part.

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A Lasting Tribute

for Veterans SunState Federal Credit Union matching funds to help expand the Kanapaha Veteran’s Memorial

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rom locations in both the Gainesville and Lake City Veterans Administration Medical Centers, SunState Federal Credit Union has a longstanding tradition of honoring and helping area veterans. In its latest efforts, however, SunState is calling upon not only its members, but the community at large as well, for help.

SunState has pledged $7,500 in matching funds for contributions toward the refurbishment of the Veteran’s Memorial at Kanapaha Park in southwest Gainesville.

For every dollar contributed to the fund, SunState will match with a dollar of its own in hopes of raising at least $15,000 for the Alachua County Memorial Committee, the group which maintains the Kanapaha facility.

“We want to encourage our members to contribute to this cause,” said David Nicholson, who served in the Marine Corps, is a past commander of Post 16 of the American Legion in Gainesville, and is a current board member for SunState. “We’re committing $7,500, and we really want to encourage the community to support this important endeavor as well.”

The memorial is in need not only of refurbishment, but expansion as well, according to John Gebhardt, Chair of the Alachua County Memorial Committee.

“The memorial is beautiful, but we cannot recognize in proper form veterans from current or future wars,” he said, explaining that the layout is based on a “walk through time” in which one foot of space equals one year. Currently the latest entries run into the parking lot,

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leaving no room for additional recognition.

The plan is to reduce the length representing a year to three quarters of a foot, which will allow inclusion of veterans from current wars and still leave room for 80 more years of space – allowing for a more lasting tribute.

New memorial stones will be made, with the existing stones being recycled via donations to other memorial gardens and facilities.

It’s easy to donate! Simply stop into any SunState branch with your donation. Cash or checks accepted.

While there is no deadline to contribute funds, the committee hopes to have the work completed in time for Veterans Day, 2014. The new memorial will be dedicated with a ceremony that day, and the committee expects thousands of people to come out and help in the celebration.

Gebhardt said that SunState reached out to them to offer their support for their project in the form of a matching-funds campaign, which lends a much-needed boost to the cause. To encourage the donations even more, the credit union has made it easy to give; anyone wishing to donate can simply bring a check or cash into any SunState branch and mention that it is for the expansion of the Kanapaha Veterans Memorial.

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the credit union, a citizen of Gainesville, or even a traveler passing through.

Gebhardt, who served with the United States Army in the Vietnam War, is heartened and encouraged by the campaign and looks forward to seeing the support come in. This is because he knows the importance of recognizing those who have served, and he appreciates the contribution that SunState is making to this cause.

“We live in a complex time when there is rich diversity of opinions and activity. All that diversity is guaranteed by the constitution, and vets and current active duty personnel are sworn to protect the constitution. But while we enjoy this diversity, we need to step back and remember who paid the price for the freedoms.

“It’s only right and proper that we recognize the service of all veterans and active duty personnel by erecting monuments in their honor,” he continued. “And it’s more important to remember those who have paid the supreme price and were killed in action. We live in a very patriotic community – and SunState has stepped up.”

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SENIOR TIMES PUBLISHER’S NOTE

I think this is the first time I have ever done this, but after proofing the magazine and reading this particular commitment that SunState is making to the Veteran’s Memorial in our area, I wanted to offer them our support.

As a life-long resident of Gainesville and Alachua County, my family and I are fortunate to call this area our home. As a business owner and publisher of several area magazines, Tower Publications has always supported the veterans in our area. Through the pages of Our Town and Senior Times Magazines, we’ve often written about the brave men and women who’ve served the country, and today I’m happy to be able to support them financially.

On behalf of Tower Publications, it is my privilege to commit $1000 to this cause and look forward to seeing the expansion project begin. My hope is that our initial commitment “kick-starts” this campaign and gets SunSate closer to its goal of expanding the Veterans Memorial.

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The World is Watching Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Invasion of Normandy

by Mary W. Bridgman

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he men who landed on the beaches of Normandy on D-Day during World War II and lived to tell about it are quickly fading into history. Yet, the significance of their sacrifices and valor will be remembered, especially this year, the 70th anniversary of the invasions. The commemorations will culminate June 6 in Ouistreham, France, where U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande and Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II will gather to remember the more than 9,000 Allied soldiers killed or wounded on June 6, 1944.

Frank W. Towers of Alachua County will also be there. Towers, hale and hearty at age 97, was there on D-Day “plus six,” landing in France on his 27th birthday. He reminisced about his experiences recently at a meeting of the D-Day Veterans of North Central Florida at Conestogas Restaurant in downtown Alachua.

“I was on a Liberty Ship, taking packets from the Isle of Wight to the beaches,” Towers said.

His unit was supposed to land on Omaha Beach, but ended up at Utah Beach, 40 miles to the west, by mistake. Because there was a foot-long drop to the beach from the landing ramp, the service vehicles could not be reloaded. They traveled by land and met the ship when it landed at Omaha Beach later that day, the only unit to “land” at both beaches.

“We didn’t know what we were getting into. It was noisy. There was shelling over us all night.”

There was no fighting at Omaha Beach when Towers landed. He could hear artillery fire, and he saw the carnage.

“There were wrecked vehicles and ships, and stacks of bodies waiting to be shipped to England,” Towers said. “There were a lot of wounded and field hospitals. It was not pleasant.”

For the five months leading up to D-Day, Towers had been training in England.

“It was all play -- dummy bullets,” he said. “But this was the real thing.”

Towers’ wife of 71 years, Mary, remembers how she felt back home in the U.S., waiting to hear from Frank with his mother in Boston.

“I was scared to death,” Mary said. “I pictured him in every one of the pictures.”

Because there was no television in those days, she went to the movie theatre to see newsreels.

OPPOSITE: Landing ships putting cargo ashore on Omaha Beach at low tide during the first days of the operation, mid-June 1944, with an Army “half-track” convoy forming on the beach. (Photo courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

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PHOTO BY BRYAN WALKER Members of the “D-Day/Normandy World War II Veterans of North Central Florida organization at Conestogas Restaurant in Alachua last October. FRONT ROW (LEFT TO RIGHT): Carlos Crews, Art Butler, Frank Towers, Bill Scruggs, Billy Beltz. BACK ROW: Lloyd Murphy, Bob Gasche,* Lee Foreman,* Charles Remke,* Tom Santarsiero, Leo McCracken, Bob Ziller, Bob Overton, A.T. Andrews. * Veterans of the Pacific Theater INSET: Don Mandeville of Gainesville made 26 trips ferrying soldiers across the English Channel during the Normandy invasions. The D-Day Veterans meet at Conestogas Restaurant on the second Thursday of each month.

“We wrote letters to each other each day,” she said, noting that the first letters arrived about 10 days after her husband’s landing. They numbered their letters, so when several arrived at once, she could put them in order for reading.

Towers served in Europe for 18 months and was due to go to the Pacific when atomic bombs dropped over Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ending the war. His commission was deactivated, although within six months he returned to Germany where he was stationed for three years. Mary went with him, and their three children were born there. The family settled in Alachua County where they raised chickens and eventually opened a country store. Years later, Frank took a computer course and went to work at the University of Florida.

Frank and Mary Towers have made many trips to the Normandy Beaches over the years, although Mary is no longer able to fly because of medical issues. This time, their 17-yearold grandson will accompany Frank.

During the Normandy invasions, Don Mandeville of Gainesville, also a member of the D-Day Veterans of North Central Florida, was in the Navy working aboard a rhino barge -- a long, wide, floating platform built of steel pontoons joined together by steel angle irons.

“We weren’t scared, we were petrified,” he said.

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struction left by fierce tornadoes.

“We made 26 trips carrying soldiers across,” he said.

The following November, Mandeville’s ship hit a mine and sunk, although the water was shallow so it didn’t go completely under and he was able to board another ship. But the incident left him shell-shocked and jumpy. He recalled seeing a terribly wounded German soldier, who was missing a leg and part of his hand.

“I thought he probably didn’t want this war any more than I did,” Mandeville said. “The people that want it the least suffer the most.”

Art Butler of Lake City also participated in the D-Day invasions, landing on Utah Beach on June 19th. Like Towers, he was 27 years old.

“We didn’t know what we were getting into,” he recalled.

“It was noisy. There was shelling over us all night.”

Butler said he didn’t worry about making it home because he knew he had to; he had a wife and two children. After the war he settled in Lake City, pursuing a career in lumber and construction supply.

Asked about whether he felt “the eyes of the world” upon him during those harrowing days, Butler paused before answering.

“We went over there knowing we had a big job to do,” he said. “We were hell-bent to make good.” s seniortimesmagazine.com

Les Fleurs de la Memoire Frank Towers is one of the founders of Les Fleurs de la Memoire, an association that arranges for French families to adopt the grave of an American soldier buried in Normandy in perpetuity, making at least one visit annually to place flowers on it. The association’s website includes an excerpt from a letter Towers wrote to Claude Lavieille, a co-founder of the association: “When I come to Europe it is most difficult for me to visit the American Cemeteries wherein my comrades lie at eternal rest. As a Liaison Officer, I knew many of them personally. Each of these visits is hard on me…for when I am standing in silence in front of a tomb, images of my comrade’s life ront o come to mind, and it is like that for each visit. But I have com ind, a to do it. I can’t miss visiting each of them. Soon, neither I companions will be ab able to visit the graves nor anyy of my compa of American men and women at e eternal rest in erican service m Europe. they be forgott forgotten?” pe. Then what? Will th Thanks to American o the efforts o of Towers ers and other o can and French citizens who share his concer concern, approximately zens w hare hi mately 95 percent of the graves have been ado adopted.

A Personal Tribute

By Mary W. Bridgman My husband Ben, a Cold War veteran, and I made a personal pilgrimage to the D-Day sites this past summer.

We booked a tour that started in Versailles and journeyed through the Loire Valley and Brittany before arriving in Normandy. Although the Normandy visits comprised only two days out of a two-week trip, everyone in the group said that paying tribute at Normandy would be the highlight.

My husband was especially moved by the broad expanse of Omaha Beach at low tide -- it brought home how vulnerable the troops were as they fought their way ashore. At the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial, which is hidden from view by a small group of trees, we were overwhelmed by the sudden appearance of row upon row of white marble crosses. I paid tribute in my own way, placing a rose at the headstone of a Florida boy.

Most of our fellow travelers were older than Ben and I, who were born years after the war. I couldn’t help but wonder what would happen to those sacred places, and who would remember, when the people who lived through those awful days were gone. After meeting Frank Towers, my mind is at peace.

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The Decision to Invade From June 1940, when Europe was under the control of the Axis, it was obvious to Winston Churchill that in order to defeat Hitler it would be necessary to invade the Continent. In December 1941, after Japan’s attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt confirmed this priority.

“In spite of the entry of Japan into the War, Germany remains the main enemy and its defeat is the key to victory.

When Germany is defeated, the collapse of Italy and Japan will follow,” he said.

In April 1942, the Chief of Staff of the American Army was asked to draw up plans for the invasion. During 1943, Churchill and Roosevelt brought about all the preliminary conditions required for the European invasion, which was planned for the following year. The two leaders declared, “The War will be pursued until the Unconditional Surrender of the Hostile Powers is achieved.” The mission, codenamed Overlord, was “to secure on European soil the necessary space to lead later to offensive action…to seize ports capable of permitting the arrival of reinforcements coming direct from the United States…to back up the British and Canadian forces already on the ground.”

Winston Churchill

Roosevelt designated General Dwight D. Eisenhower Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. He took command in London in January 1944, at the age of 49. Originally scheduled for May 1944, the invasions were postponed because of bad weather. On June 6, 1944, after months of deceptive operations designed to surprise and confuse the Germans, the Allies mounted a massive assault on the Normandy coastline with the goal of liberating France and driving into Nazi Germany.

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Before dawn, three airborne divisions landed by parachute and glider behind the targeted beaches. Allied naval forces conveyed troops across the English Channel. Starting at 6:30 a.m., six U.S., British and Canadian divisions landed on Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword Beaches in history’s largest amphibious assault. U.S. troops pushed inland from Utah Beach. To the east, they battled German resistance across Omaha Beach, which was riddled with obstacles. After a bloody day of fighting, Americans held tenuous control of Omaha. In less than a week, the Allies linked the beachheads and pressed onward.

During the following three months, the Allies fought the Germans throughout Normandy, liberating Caen and Cherbourg, eventually encircling and annihilating German troops at the Falaise Pocket. By then, the way was open to advance toward Paris and on to Germany.

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Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, Ph.D. is the Director of Rural Health Partnership at WellFlorida Council.

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The Science Behind Why You Should Hang with “Happies”

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ou know that adage “Laughter is contagious”? Science now shows that laughter isn’t the only contagious expression. Also contagious are: fear, worry, envy and sadness. The tips below can help you protect yourself from others’ negative Emotional Contagions and energize yourself with positive ones.

“Emotional Contagion” (EC), a term coined by University of Hawaii’s Dr. Elaine Hatfield, describes when a person or group “influences the emotions and affective behavior of another person or group through the conscious or unconscious induction of emotions.”

Lay terms: EC means you can catch someone else’s emotions much like you catch a cold.

EC doesn’t refer to when your mood changes for better or worse because you encountered a situation that evokes emotion. It’s also different from when you THINK about how it would be in someone else’s shoes.

EC is about when someone else’s emotions are transferred to you, causing you to feel the emotion. Oftentimes you won’t know it’s not your own emotion.

Mounting scientific evidence shows that others’ emotional expressions can influence (and sometimes hijack) our own emotional states.

Who’s vulnerable to ECs? Dr. Hatfield’s research team found that some of us are more vulnerable than

others. Those most susceptible to EC have the following characteristics: • highly attentive and sensitive to others’ emotions; • value interrelatedness over independence/uniqueness; and, • more frequently have conscious emotional experiences that are heavily influenced by the attention and opinions of others.

To avoid unwanted ECs, consider eight tips from Psychology Today: 1. Make like an Ancient Greek and get to know thyself! Start paying close attention to how you feel with different people and emotional settings. On pins and needles with a certain friend? Calm around another friend? Start identifying these emotional patterns.

2. Watch out for “electronic” ECs. EC even happens in massive virtual networks: think Facebook. With the support of an Army Research Office Grant, Lorenzo Coviello and team recently found that rainfall directly affects the emotional content of Facebook status messages for those experiencing rainfall. More importantly, those messages affected the content of status messages created by users not experiencing rainfall.

3. Hang with “happies” ( just now coined by me). Happy people

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(Happies) can spread positive ECs. Time with happy people can increase energy and decrease stress. Christakis and Fowler report that each of your “happy” friends ups your chances of being happy 9 percent.

Take happy breaks. We can’t get away from everyone who makes us feel a negative emotion. For instance, sometimes our loved ones are going through a rough time and need support; they may even have a condition such as chronic depression.

If so, do something for yourself to rejuvenate your emotions.

Talk it out. Sometimes those responsible for negative ECs just aren’t aware. Psychology Today blogger Dr. Sherrie Bourg Carter recommends you try “I” statements to have a conversation. For example: “When I’m around you, I find myself feeling really tense, and I sometimes wonder if you’re feeling stress, and I’m picking it up.”

Realize that negative ECs can harm your physical health. Over time, negative ECs that affect you can give you “second-hand stress.” Your body experiences second-hand stress like it’s your own direct stress.

Avoid super-ECers. Dr. Hatfield says that the most infectious people pull others into their “emotional orbits.”

They tend to be intensely emotional, yet don’t respond emotionally to those around them conveying emotions “incompatible with their own.”

Practice health hygiene. Tired, weak, hungry? You’re more vulnerable to negative ECs if you don’t take care of yourself.

Wondering how vulnerable you are to catching various ECs? Check out the Emotional Contagion Scale at: www. psychologytoday.com/blog/highoctane-women/201210/the-emotionalcontagion-scale. s June 2014

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Paying it Forward Five ‘G’s for a Wonderful Life

by Darla Kinney Scoles

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hirley Bloodworth said she can’t think of anything worse than dying well rested.

“When you are working, you have deadlines, demands and responsibilities,” she said. “Then you retire. Now you have to build those same things into your life yourself. You have to redefine yourself and your schedule. For me, getting involved in my community is the way to do just that.”

This soon-to-be 85-year-old lives out her dizzyingly busy days as one of Gainesville’s most in-demand octogenarians, based on the premise of what she calls “The Five ‘G’s.”

Glad to be Here!

“Well, the alternative to being here is that long rest, now isn’t it?”

Bloodworth said. “It’s an attitudinal thing. I am glad to have each day, and I try to give meaning to each day by learning, engaging, helping, encouraging and empowering at least one other person.

The longer I live, the more I see that life is all about relationships.”

Bloodworth is also glad to be here — as in Gainesville. After becoming a registered nurse in Brooklyn, she decided that New York was not where she wanted to live. She contacted a friend in Florida, left the Big Apple during a blizzard, and said that when she woke up the next day in warm, sunny Jacksonville, she knew she had come to Heaven on Earth.

PHOTOS PROVIDED BY SHIRLEY BLOODWORTH “Intergenerational” is a term Shirley Bloodworth uses often. The Gainesville resident champions strong relationships between the generations when it comes to all life’s issues. Whether traveling, dining locally or spending time with family, Bloodworth is constantly mingling with people of all ages.

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PHOTOS PROVIDED BY SHIRLEY BLOODWORTH Though her roots are deep in Florida soil, Shirley Bloodworth is an avid traveler. With husband Thomas, her early adventures were via their 1958 Alpha Romero. Now, when not globetrotting by plane, train, boat and bus, the octogenarian is a tireless advocate for the elderly.

Good Natured!

Friend and traveling companion Sharon Faris met Bloodworth about 15 years ago when she signed up for a class titled “Is Your Life in Order?” at Santa Fe College. Thinking she would be learning how to organize her closets, Faris was surprised when Bloodworth, instructor for the class, started talking about end-of-life planning. Too embarrassed to get up and leave, Faris stayed and was so taken in by Bloodworth’s enthusiasm for elderly issues that she agreed to join the cause.

She is still involved with the Community Coalition for Older Adults (CCOA) — a local organization recently reenergized by Bloodworth and several other community leaders.

“There’s something about Shirley that inspires people,” Faris said. “So when she asks you to help out with something, you can’t say no. People do want to get involved. They are just not always sure how, or what they should do. Shirley empowers them to take action. Can you smell her hair? It’s on fire all the time! She never stops.”

“I try to lean on the positive side of things,” Bloodworth said. “I am always asking, ‘Who am I? What are my values? How should I live my life?’ I have found that relationships take work and effort and care and sensitivity and love — and yes, a good nature.”

“The good life is down here in Florida,” she said.

The years that followed included her enrollment in the University of Florida to earn her Master’s in Nursing, where she met Thomas Hardwick Bloodworth, Jr. in a philosophy class.

It was only with his help, she said, that she passed the course and became the person she now is, thanks to his ability to empower others to achieve their potential. The couple married and enjoyed rural life on 12 acres in Newberry, raising a son, a daughter and several animals while living there.

Having now outlived her husband by seven years — as well as five parental figures for whom she provided care in their final days — Bloodworth packs each day with as much adventure and lifelong learning as possible, with regular traveling also on the agenda.

“I went around the world in one month last year, visiting Hong Kong, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Mumbai, Oman and Abu Dhabi. It was great fun,” Bloodworth said.

Along with her husband and her granddaughter, Bloodworth traveled and camped across the United States and Canada learning much about both American history and her own family history.

“I found out I’m a first-generation American,” she exclaimed. “My parents emigrated from Canada!”

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Genuine!

“I’ve always been very curious about everything,” Bloodworth said. “I think that I am very sensitive to life in general and am often moved to tears. I feel life.”

Bloodworth attributes part of her sensitivity to her 11 years spent working with Hospice, taking its crisis training program and running the transitions management. Having left home at age 18 to pursue a nursing career, the avid bridge player spent many interim years caring for aging family members, as well.

“After her own experience as a caregiver for her parents and in-laws and her work with Hospice, Shirley organized and shared educational material about caregiving and Alzheimer’s disease (AD),” Faris said. “She has provided training for the Alachua County Sheriff’s Department so that the deputies could better relate to Seniors and to those with Alzheimer’s.

She has also been a volunteer facilitator for support groups for individuals with impaired memory or those dealing with a diagnosis of AD.” It is Bloodworth’s caring (and feeling) nature that puts others at ease with even the most difficult of subjects, which she is often tackling in her educational, volunteer and community seniortimesmagazine.com

involvement roles — and has garnered her more than a dozen nominations and awards in the last 30 years, including being a member of Who’s Who of American Women (1979-81).

Generous!

Whether it is time, knowledge, wisdom, money, or even her own medical history, Bloodworth shares it all with the community she has grown to love and call home, especially when the cause involves children or older adults.

“I do believe in paying it forward,” Bloodworth said. “And I don’t believe in being done having interaction with children just because one is older. You can’t say that it is someone else’s turn now. You’ve got to take care of the future. Life is intergenerational.”

Her interest in the future generations led to becoming involved with the North Central Florida YMCA, where she asked fellow Seniors to get involved personally and monetarily.

The endeavor was such a success that Bloodworth was recently honored with a continuing scholarship there in her name.

“Shirley has made tremendous effort to bridge the intergenerational gap by rallying Seniors to support our children’s programs with both their time and their financial support,” said North Central Florida YMCA CEO John Bonacci in a recent email. “When she heard that our agency had successfully emerged from bankruptcy, yet our scholarship programs for at-risk youth — which represents approximately 30 percent of our children served — was at risk of seeing cuts due to lack of community support, she felt compelled to make a difference.”

Bloodworth asked everyone she knew to think of the children at the YMCA over the holiday giving season — and they did, Bonacci said.

“She then got many Seniors involved in our 23rd Annual Healthy Kids Day by volunteering their time to engage our children in various fun activities, to show them that someone in our community cares about them and their future,” Bonacci said. “She continues to work tirelessly to raise funds for our scholarship campaign for at-risk youth, so in recognition thereof we have renamed the campaign the Shirley Bloodworth Scholarship Fund.”

Slightly Goofy!

Bloodworth — though humble — takes pride in her sense of humor. She is looking for an artist who can make a poster for the city’s Senior Recreation Center that reads: “Aging is not sexy, but it can be attractive and can be funny!”

“Fun is what we’re all about,” Bloodworth said. Her ways of weaving a bit of goofiness into every project she takes on garners her additional help with the task at hand, whether for the arts, education, children or the elderly.

The daughter of a commercial fisherman, the Gainesville resident said she would “rather fish than eat” and enjoys time spent on the river with her son, Tom, in Suwanee.

Though she jokes that “slightly goofy” should perhaps be the first ‘G’ instead of the last, at the end of the day, Bloodworth is most of all, grateful. It is this “G-word” that motivates much of what she endeavors to accomplish as the weeks, months, and senior years of her life play out.

“Life here has been tremendous for me — our early farm, family, marriage — and to be able to give back to the community that made it all possible is a privilege and a joy,” she said.

“I do believe in paying it forward. And I have great faith in the next generation. They’ll figure it out.” s June 2014

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My Himalayan Experience Trekking the Sacred Mountains of Nepal Story and photos by Judith Morrow

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n innocent question posed by my daughter, “Would you like to go trekking in Nepal?” started a flurry of activity to ready myself for an adventure of a lifetime.

First, conditioning; Phase One: a fourmile walk on flat Florida soil with an occasional two-foot rise as hill-climbing exercise. Phase Two: outfitting this novice with trekking shoes, clothing, medications and a good dose of “you can do it” attitude. To say I was “conditioned” is a stretch, but hey, I was committed. We were going to the top of the world!

First stop Mumbai, India for a twoday visit. It is not the exotic city presented in old movies. It was noisy, dirty and a lesson in contrasts: modern skyscrapers of glass and steel climbing above the beautiful Gothic architecture of Victoria Station built in 1887; hundreds of Fiats jockeying for lane position among the bicycles, rickshaws, dogs and sacred cows; the beauty of manicured gardens and lawns versus the claustrophobic slum, Dharavi, home to over a million people. Within all these obvious differences, however, was the unifying hum of

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daily life.

We put the dirt and crowdedness of India behind us; destination Kathmandu, Nepal, home to Himalayan grandeur.

What we saw was anything but, as the capital city was in questionable stages of construction. Buildings had bottom floors with only columns reaching to open sky. Roads were paved, but often sections were missing. A two-lane, crumbling ribbon that wound its way up and down mountains served as the only interstate highway. We were still dodging cows, dogs and now, potholes.

around people, cars, cows and decorated auto rickshaws. The brightly colored clothing, rugs, flags and trekking gear ran together forming an unending kaleidoscope up and down the streets.

Riding the breeze, incense burning in dim shops mingled with unfamiliar, but not unpleasant scents, as we passed the open doors.

The first evening, we met our guide and companions. Our group had a total of 15 consisting of seven Americans and eight Malaysians. I was the oldest in the group followed closely by a short, outgo-

The second day brought a climb of 3,326 steps.

Not precisely spaced steps, but rocks of various heights, depths and width.

Our hotel was set at the end of a small lane off a busy shopping street. It was here we experienced our first power outage, a daily afternoon occurrence because of the country’s inability to generate sufficient electricity. So, we set out to see the town.

In the narrow streets we navigated

ing fellow from North Carolina. The others represented every decade down to the Malaysian group of people in their 30s. It was a diverse outgoing bunch and the excitement was contagious.

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Majestic peaks framed by rhododendron forests rise to meet the new day. The range of Mount Annapurna holds huge glaciers on its slopes.

The travel group (below) as we trek through steep climbs and through busy communities on sunshine-filled days. Cushioned by colorful blankets and led by a flipflopped sherpa, the pack pony takes the steep slopes with ease. Missing? The Grand Canyon Suite.

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bus ride to Pokhara, the jewel in the Himalaya. It was there we would access the starting point of our Annapurana trekking range.

Rumors of political unrest along the route were now reality. Some distance ahead there were tires burning in the center of the roadway and the sound of sporadic gunfire. A military truck filled with soldiers soon made its way toward the disturbance, driving on the crumpled shoulder.

As we were about four miles from our lunch stop our guide decided to walk around the fray. Nervous, and not ready for such a hike as many of us wore flip-flops, we were led into the woods and through the town under the watchful eye of the locals. By 8:00 o’clock that evening the disturbance had quelled and we proceeded, arriving late into Pokhara.

We found a local café with large open windows on the street side. We perused the menu. Traditional dishes heavily spiced with ginger, garlic and coriander were basic menu items everywhere. Rice, curried vegetables and milk tea were staples.

While waiting for our dinner, a slender brown cow chose our window box to munch on the lush flowers. After eating a few she meandered down the street.

“Who takes care of the cows?” we inquired. “No one,” replied the manager.

Seems they are lone wanderers and little attention is paid to them except to dodge them in the streets. Dogs are also tolerated and dodged as they are considered to be the last step before reincarnation.

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mandu with sidewalks and a lovely lake in the center of town. In the “touristy” part we found shop after narrow shop lining the streets with goods proudly displayed inside and outside the stores.

Soon we realized we had seen it all before. But, there were very nice shops to be found that had lovely handmade Nepalese goods. We found handcrafted jewelry with genuine Nepalese stones and beautiful Thangkas, traditional wall hangings that are more than incredible works of art; they are objects of devotion and aid in spiritual practices, which are central to Himalayan culture.

The next morning found us on our way to Nayapu where we would begin our trek to Tikhedhunga and our first teahouse. Each day we trekked

six to seven hours to the next teahouse destination. A teahouse is simply a guesthouse. Not an actual house, it is more like our older motels. There are two stories, plain but clean, with a lot of local character. The unheated rooms contained two single wooden platforms covered with an inch of foam and a small table between them. That’s it, nothing else. The facilities were down the corridor with the shower in one noninsulated enclosure and the toilet in another. We were indeed fortunate when the toilet was western style as opposed to a porcelain hole in the floor. Showers were cold to warm water. But, at the end of a trekking day, the teahouse was a welcomed sight.

Our first official trekking day opened my eyes about Florida conditioning. I learned rapidly that downhill was manageable, but uphill was a killer and the 6,000-foot climb was still ahead of us. No one complained about the difficulty. We were all there for the glorious adventure and even the accomplished climbers accommodated us “turtle trekkers” — basically, me and a young Malaysian girl who brought up the rear.

The second day brought a climb of 3,326 steps. Not precisely spaced steps, but rocks of various heights, depths and width. Enter the pony. Sounded like a perfect solution, however, staying on that well-muscled, sure-footed pony was an exercise in balance. At one point, it was necessary to dismount and allow the pony to make its way without the shifting weight on top.

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127-year-old Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, formally Victoria Station, but known today as VT is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A beautiful example of Gothic-revival architecture, it is the busiest rail station in the country.

Warm and cozy, a gaily decorated rickshaw (opposite) claims its space on the crowded shopping streets of Pokhara.

only as the sherpas carried the rest on their backs. What a monumental task.

The weight and size of goods they carried up the mountain were amazing, but sherpas and ponies are the only way to get materials to their destinations.

Each day brought new sights and the higher we climbed, the more astoundingly beautiful was the scenery. The first time I saw the soaring snow-covered sun-glistening peaks it took my breath away. The panorama included huge rhododendron forests that marched up the mountain leaving crimson trails behind.

It was exhilarating.

Our trekking was rather informal. We turtle trekkers left earlier than the others, but within an hour they had caught up.

They would join us for a distance, chat

and move ahead, all setting a comfortable pace. Our walking sticks were invaluable in steadying the foot, making the trek much safer. Layers — soon shed — were our uniforms in the cold morning starts.

Along the trail we would always go through a family yard. The children were playing, the women doing chores, the men unseen, but they were always ready with a friendly “Namaste,” smiling widely to reveal missing and yellowed teeth.

Theirs is an almost primitive existence.

On the eighth day we returned to Pokhara where we visited a Buddhist Monastery. A large golden Buddha looked down as monks chanted, rang bells and pounded drums performing their daily prayer ritual. A lovely sunset boat ride on Phewa Lake ended our visit in Pokhara.

Mt. Everest is about 30 miles from Kathmandu so we boarded a Buddha Air flight to see that majestic summit. The range was massive with multiple peaks, but at 30,000 feet Everest is unrivaled.

Saying good-bye to the Himalayan peaks, it was back to reality. Back to flat land and hot temperatures. The misty mountains, the lush foliage and gentle people seemed like a dream. Words fail in trying to share my experience. It was the hardest physical endeavor I have ever attempted and I thank God for giving me the strength to complete the journey. And I thank my beautiful daughter for asking me to join her on this adventure. Would I go again? Perhaps. But, one thing I know for sure, it is great to hear passport security say, “Welcome Home.” s June 2014

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CALENDAR UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION FREE FRIDAYS CONCERTS Every Friday

VICTORIAN AFTERNOON TEA WITH LADIES

8:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Community Plaza. New for 2014 are musical tributes to Eric Clapton, Steely Dan, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young.

Bands will play each Friday night through Oct. 24 for a total of 26 weekly concerts.

Sunday, June 1

GUIDED WALK

SOCIAL DANCE PARTY

First Saturday

Wednesday, June 4

10:00am GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Drive. Kanapaha offers guided tours the first Saturday of every month. The docent is master gardener Alicia Nelson. Regular admission price for non-members and members are admitted free of charge. 352-372-4981.

7:00pm – 9:00pm OCALA - Dancin’ Around Studio, 3960 S. Pine Ave. Practice makes perfect! Have fun improving your moves with dances such as the Waltz, Foxtrot, Tango and many more. Admission is $10. 352-690-6637.

3:00pm – 5:00pm OCALA - Seven Sisters Inn, 828 E. Fort King St. Relive the traditional elegance of Victorian Afternoon Tea. Along with tea there will be scrumptious treats for you enjoyment.

The afternoon costs $15. 352-433-0700

CHAIR YOGA LIFE IS A HIGHWAY

Wednesday, June 4

Now Through August 17

10:30am – 11:30am OCALA - Bliss Yoga Center, 1738 SE 58th Ave. Yoga isn’t just for the limber and flexible. Chair yoga allows you to perform gentle, relaxing movements to help balance your mind, body and spirit. $25 per month. 352-694-6942

Times vary GAINESVILLE - Harn Museum of Art, 3259 Hull Road. “Life is a Highway: Prints of Japan’s Tokaido Road” will highlight a selection of more than 150 woodblock prints that depict the history of the Tokaido Road — the most heavily traveled route in pre-World War II Japan.

Works by such notable Japanese printmakers as Utagawa Hiroshige, Utagawa Kuniyoshi, Utagawa Kunisada and Sekino Jun’ichiro will be included in the exhibition, which spans more than 100 years of Japanese printmaking traditions. “Life is a Highway,” signals the Harn’s commitment to the exhibition, study and preservation of Asian art, following the opening of the museum’s 26,000-squarefoot Asian art wing. 352-392-9826.

PORTRAITS WITH PRESENCE Now Through September 20 Times vary GAINESVILLE - Thomas Center, 302 NE 6th Ave. Presenting work from both emerging and established artists, “ABOUT FACE Portraits with Presence” is one of the most expansive exhibits in the 35-year history of the Thomas Center Galleries. Curated by Anne Gilroy, the exhibit reaches broadly in defining “portraiture.”

The collection of work combines classical and traditional work with unexpected interpretations of portraiture in the artist’s enduring quest to capture the presence of a person in both twoand three-dimensional media. 352-393-8532.

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SENIOR SAFETY SEMINAR Thursday, June 5 2:00pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - The Village, Tower Club Ballroom, 8000 NW 27th Blvd. A series of educational lectures targeting three major safety issues for seniors: fall prevention, medication safety and fraud.

HISTORY BUS TOURS Saturday, June 7 10:00am – 11:30pm GAINESVILLE - Matheson Museum, 513 E. University Ave. Experience the heritage, culture and history of Alachua County with the Matheson Museum’s “Now and Then History Bus Tour.” Discover the rich history of education in Gainesville. Hear the stories of the determined individuals and institutions that transformed Gainesville from frontier town to the educational heart of Florida. The history bus tour begins at the Matheson Museum with light refreshments. 352-378-2280.

SUMMER READING KICK OFF Saturday, June 7 11:00am – 4:30pm GAINESVILLE - Tower Road Branch Library, 3020 SW 75th St. Children get ready to “Fizz, Boom, Read!” and sign up for Summer Reading.

Teens - Spark a Reaction! And adults are invited to enjoy Literary Elements. The Puppetman and Storybook Lady will put on a great show to encourage reading. Afterward, participate in a community fair and Tower Road Branch’s summer science fair project to find out what happens to trash in a compost bin with superhero “Waste Watcher.” Please bring an item to contribute to the compost pile. 352-333-2840.

AFRICAN SAFARI Saturday, June 7 1:00pm – 2:30pm GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Headquarters Library, 401 E. University Ave. A young missionary student finds himself behind the lens in 1970s Africa filming one of the world’s greatest philosophers and religious leaders, A.C. Bhaktivendanta Swami Prabhupada.

John Milner, also known as Cyavana das, will comment on his experiences after showing his film. 352-334-3939.

D-DAY/NORMANDY CAMPAIGN COMMEMORATION

DECORATING WITH NATURE

Saturday, June 7

Saturday, June 7

8:00am – 10:00pm KEYSTONE HEIGHTS AIRPORT - First come, first served. $7/person, $4/children (9 & under).

Complimentary breakfast for WWII and Korean War veterans. “Fly Into History” program: D-Day/ Normandy Campaign Commemoration.

1:00pm – 2:30pm GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Headquarters Library, 401 E. University Ave. Candle votive craft using natural materials to bring nature into your home. Materials provided.

Please register in advance at www.aclib. us/events or call 352-334-3939.

COUPON CLASS Saturday, June 7 10:00am GAINESVILLE - Christian Life Fellowship Church, 19817 W. Newberry Road. When you leave TrueCouponing Coupon Class, you will be ready to start immediately saving. Become a super saver. All workshops are free. 352-472-5433.

FITTING WRITING INTO A BUSY SCHEDULE Sunday, June 8 2:30pm GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Branch Library, 3145 NW 43rd St. Satchel Raye, of Satchel’s Pizza,

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LUAU Tuesday, June 10 7:00pm – 10:00pm OCALA - St. Mark’s Methodist Church, 1839 NE 8th Ave. The Ocala Dance Club, CardioWaltz and The Institute for Cardio Excellence are hosting a Luau to benefit Hospice of Marion County. The event features dance exhibitions, open dancing, prizes and raffles, a dinner buffet and table seating. Attire: Hawaiian shirts for men and floral dresses for ladies. General admission tickets are $25/person, which includes dinner and beverages. Seating is limited to 90 people. Advance ticket purchase is highly recommended - include full name, address and phone number and mail check payable to The Ocala Dance Club, 2108 NE 50th Street, Ocala, FL 34479. Dennis Rose at 352-425-0500.

TAMPA TAIKO Wednesday, June 11 2:00pm – 3:00pm NEWBERRY - Alachua County Library Newberry, 110 S. Seaboard Drive. Celebrate the science of sound by joining Tampa Taiko for their astounding drum show. 352-472-1135.

DEARLY DEPARTED June 13 – July 6 8:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - High Springs Playhouse, 130 NE 1st Avenue. Friday and Saturday nights, 2:00pm, Sunday matinees. This wacky comedy is a tale of the Turpin family proves that living and dying in the South are seldom tidy and always funny. Tickets are $11 for adults, $8 for children 12 and under, $9 for seniors on Sundays and are available on-line (for a $1 service fee) at www.HighSpringsCommunityTheater. com/2/. www.facebook.com/HSCTheater.

MASQUERADE OF THE RED DEATH Saturday, June 14 8:00pm OCALA - Seven Sisters Inn, 828 E. Fort King St. Edgar Allen Poe’s masterpiece “The Masque of the Red Death” will be recreated in the form of a gothic Victorian masquerade ball. The Insomniac Players play tribute to the anniversary of this epic short story’s original publication date of 1842, by brilliantly creating a mystical production within a Gothic Victorian Ball. 352- 433-0700.

School’s Out Family Fest Saturday, June 7

11:00am – 5:00pm

GAINESVILLE - Forage Farm and Prairie Creek Lodge, 7204 SE Circle 234. Come join Forage Farm to celebrate what’s great about our community. Live music geared toward kids from great local bands, local food vendors, arts and crafts, games, nature walks, food and garden workshops, water fun and more. All proceeds from event benefit Forage outreach programs and the Gainesville Seed Library. Adults are $8, and kids are $5. www.foragefarm.org.

Central Florida Truck Show w Sun, June 15 12:00pm – 6:00pm OCALA - Ocala Drive-In Theater,, 4850 S. Pine Ave. Walk the grounds looking at magnificent trucks, listening to music and shopping the vendors at the Xtreme Auto Shows for Central Florida Truck Show. General admission is free. 352-512-3319.

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Alachua Fireworks Celebration Friday, July 4

3:00pm – 10:00pm

ALACHUA - Hal Brady Recreation Complex. The City of Alachua will hold its annual Fourth of July Celebration with fireworks at 9:30. This year kids can also take advantage of the Spray Park and Skateboard Park located onsite. For the adult audience there are several unique vendors, bingo contests, dancing groups and live musical entertainment to name a few.

Stop, Drop, and Run 5K Saturday, June 14 7:30am

1:00pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Harn Museum Of Art, 3259 Hull Road. Take a family-friendly tour of the art on view in the exhibition. Print your own multicolor image of a playful scene from woodblocks prepared by a local artist and enjoy a demonstration of traditional woodblock cutting methods. A donation of $5 per family or $2 per child is requested if participating in the art activity. 352-392-9826.

MARJORIE HARRIS CARR Tuesday, June 17 6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Matheson Museum, 513 E. University Ave. Dr. Peggy Macdonald will make a presentation on her new book “Marjorie Harris Carr: Defender of Florida’s Environment” at the Matheson Museum. Discover one of Florida’s unsung environmental heroes, Marjorie Harris Carr. Macdonald will examine Carr’s campaigns to protect Paynes Prairie, Lake Alice, the Micanopy Historic District and the Ocklawaha River. Matheson Museum founder Dr. Mark Barrow will share historic postcards and take the audience on a photographic tour of the Ocklawaha River. 352-378-2280.

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OCALA - Marion County YMCA, 3200 SE 17th St.. Start summer the right way by getting active with the 4th Annual Stop, Drop, and Run 5K. Come as a family, with friends or by yourself to compete to win prizes.

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Wednesday, June 18 11:30am – 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - Sweetwater Branch Inn, 625 E. University Ave. The Gainesville Area Women’s Network luncheon – third Wednesday each month. Attend for great networking and a hot lunch. Register: GAWN.org.

GAINESVILLE NETWORKING CHALLENGE Wednesday, June 18 5:30pm – 7:00pm JONESVILLE - Sabore Restraurant, 13005 SW 1st Rd. Come network with business professionals in a casual setting on the third Wednesday of each month. Invite your friends! Enjoy complimentary delicious hors d’oeuvres!

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3:00pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Headquarters Library, 401 E. University Ave. Join local sustainable grower Stephanie as she teaches you how to make food with items found locally. Space is limited to 40 participants. 352-334-3900.

11:00am – 11:30am

HIGH SPRINGS - High Springs Branch Library, 135 NW 1st Ave. Come meet the miniature horses Magic and Hamlet. Learn about their work and read along with their new book. Don’t leave without a horse hug. 386-454-2515.

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GALLERY WITH A MEDIUM Friday, June 20 7:00pm – 8:30pm OCALA - Seven Sisters Inn, 828 E. Fort King St. The area’s most talented psychic will be at the Inn, where her work will be set up. To see Kayla at the gallery’s event, admission is $28. 352-433-0700.

HOGGTOWNE HOMEGROWN COOKING DEMO Tuesday, June 24 2:00pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Cone Park Branch Library, 2841 E. University Ave. Learn how to grow, harvest and create your own meals out of the items you have at home. Participants will make their own meals. This program is limited to 40 patrons. Please register in advance at www.aclib.us. 352-334-0720.

POLYNESIAN/HULA DANCE CLASSES

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6:00pm – 9:00pm OCALA - Citizens’ Circle, 151 SE Osceola Ave. A patriotic festival in honor of our country.

Live music, food and fun for the entire family. Splash pad open, too. For details, contact Stan Creel at 352-368-5517.

7:15pm – 8:45pm GAINESVILLE - Unified Training Center, 809 W. University Ave. Traditional Hula Dance classes offered every Tuesday. All levels welcome. Instructor is Hawaii born with professional Polynesian dance background.

Hot Hula Fitness classes (cardio/fitness based) offered every Tuesday from 8 p.m. - 8:45 p.m. First class is free. 352-641-0885.

SWING DANCING CLASSES FOR BEGINNERS Wednesday, July 2

JAZZIN IT UP Saturday, June 28 8:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - High Springs Women’s Club.

Jazz concert hosted by “Jazzin It Up,” hosted

by WUBA 88.1, featuring Jazz Artist Philip Thomas and guests. WUBA 88.1 is on the air, broadcasting local music and local events.

General admission: $10.00. 352-672-2122.

7:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - The Movement, 1212 N. Main St. Enjoy beginner West Coast swing classes and join an active community of friendly dancers.

What is West Coast Swing? This ain’t your grandparents swing dance: you don’t throw the follower in the air, and you aren’t dancing at 2,000 beats per minute. This is a mid-tempo dance that is sultry, sophisticated and playful — and a fun way to get in shape. 352-514-4238.

Thursday, July 3

WOMEN’S SELF-DEFENSE CLASS Saturday, July 5 2:30pm - 3:30pm GAINESVILLE - Global Mixed Martial Arts Academy, 4000 W. Newberry Rd. This class is offered free to the community. This class is offered every first Saturday of the month. You are welcome to come every month. 352-371-1007.

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THEATRE Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville Curtis M. Phillips Center ........................................... 315 Hull Road, Gainesville Fine Arts Hall Theatre - SFC ........................... 3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville Gainesville Community Playhouse ....... 4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville Hippodrome State Theatre................................. 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville UF Constans Theatre ................................................. Museum Road, Gainesville Nadine McGuire Blackbox Theatre ................... Museum Road, Gainesville Actors’ Warehouse .............................................. 608 N. Main Street, Gainesville Ocala Civic Theatre ..................................4337 East Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala High Springs Community Theater .......... 130 NE 1st Avenue, High Springs

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The Foreigner June 20 - July 6 On a stormy spring night, two Englishmen arrive at a rural fishing lodge in Georgia: Froggy LeSueur, a British demolitions expert who sometimes runs training sessions at a nearby military installation, and Charlie Baker, who is inconsolable and almost pathologically shy. When Froggy informs the lodge owner that Charlie is from an exotic foreign country and neither speaks nor understands English mayhem ensues as the guests speak a bit too freely and Charlie struggles to keep up the facade in this laugh-out loud farce.

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The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical May 28 – June 22 It’s Christmastime in Armadillo Acres and the residents are filled with holiday warmth and beer. Everyone’s invited over to Betty, Lin and Pickles’ to catch up with Starke, Florida’s rowdiest residents, for a cat-fightin’, sun-worshippin’, chair-throwin’, goodole festive Hipp summer musical good

Camelot May 15 – June 8 In long-ago England, noble King Arthur and his beautiful Queen Guinevere reign over the peaceful land of Camelot. When fame of Arthur’s legendary Knights of the Round Table reaches France, gallant Lancelot, “the perfect knight,” heeds its call. Lancelot and Guinevere fall in love, threatening the serenity of the kingdom and its royal ideals of chivalry, honor and justice. This classic musical, having recently celebrated its golden anniversary, is just as radiant as ever.

The lush, lyrical score includes such gorgeous songs as “The Simple Joys of Maidenhood,” “The Lusty Month of May,” “How to Handle a Woman,” “I Loved You Once in Silence,” “If Ever I Would Leave You,” “C’est Moi” and “What Do the Simple Folk Do?” Magical and merrily medieval, full of regal romance and heroic deeds of chivalry, the enchanting tale of Camelot shines a glorious light on the Dark Ages. www.ocalacivictheatre.com.

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Into the Woods May 23 – June 15 Everyone’s favorite storybook characters come together for a timeless yet relevant piece. The story follows a baker and his wife who wish to have a child, Cinderella, who wishes to attend the King’s Festival and Jack, who wishes his cow would give milk. When the baker and his wife learn they cannot have a child because of a witch’s curse, the two set off on a journey to break the curse. Everyone’s wish is granted, but the consequences of their actions return to haunt them later with disastrous results. 352-376-4949.

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When the patriarch of the Turpin family keels over dead in the first scene, the struggle to get him buried involves the whole clan, including the not-so-grieving widow who wants to put “Mean and Surly” on the tombstone.

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Glorious JEFF GUINN © 2014, Putnam $26.95 / $31.00 Canada 407 pages

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verybody deserves a second start.

You’d never begrudge a down-on-his-luck fellow a new lease on life. It’s his right to begin over, to get another chance to fix what broke, and to seize new opportunities. Yep, a clean slate does a body good and, as you’ll see in “Glorious” by Jeff Guinn, it keeps him from getting killed.

Cash McLendon always had a knack for people-skills.

It started when he was young, when he convinced businessmen not to fire his nogood, alcoholic father. It continued when

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his father died, and McLendon talked his way into a place to sleep and a clean-up job where he eavesdropped for gossip that he passed to factory owner Rupert Douglass.

His industriousness impressed Douglass enough to take the young man under his wing, into his home, and into his family.

Finally, McLendon had everything he’d ever wanted in life — money, power and status — but it came with a price. Douglass’ daughter, Ellen, was prone to fits of white-hot anger and irrationality, and McLendon hoped he’d grow fond of her after their marriage. Still, he couldn’t forget Gabrielle, the woman he really loved.

She was on his mind, in fact, as he fled St. Louis after Ellen was found dead by her own hand. McLendon knew Douglass would find him, just as he knew Douglass would blame him for Ellen’s suicide. So, partly as a hiding place and partly as a second chance at love and life, McLendon followed Gabrielle to Glorious, Texas.

Perched near the Pinal Mountains, Glorious was little more than half-finished shacks and a few tents surrounded by desert and Apache territory. It boasted a hotel and a drinking establishment, a livery, a Chinese laundry and a dry goods store that serviced the miners. It was dry, sticky-hot,

Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives with her two dogs and 11,000 books.

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dangerous and dying; few visitors ever came through and fewer stayed, though residents hoped Glorious’ nearest neighbor might help save the town. Wealthy rancher Colin MacPherson owned most of the valley anyway, and, early in his stay, Cash McLendon knew that MacPherson wanted to own Glorious, too…

Set in 1872, “Glorious” is a surprisingly modern old-time western that starts out with a gruesome murder but tames almost immediately. That’s good for readers who want an oater rather than blood-and-torture, but not so good for anyone who wants a little more gunsmoke and gunslinging.

While I liked the basic premise of this book, I wasn’t wild about Cash McLendon. Author Jeff Guinn makes McLendon quite the dandy, uncomfortable on a horse and unable to shoot, which seemed to be the antithesis of a western hero to me. I also had some problem with the book’s predictability and the choppiness. Still, there were some surprises in the story and enough Old West to keep me occupied until the cliffhanger ending.

If mysAuthor, Jeff Guinn teries have a subgenre called “cozy,” this slowerpaced western could be said to be a “mosey.” It’s leisurely with some spice and, despite its flaws, ain’t all bad. And if that’s what you need, then “Glorious” is a book you should start. s

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