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The railroad downsized the complex during the early 1950s when the railroad industry transitioned from steam locomotives to diesel engines. The railroad abandoned the shops in the 1980s and subsequently sold the complex to a local salvage operator. The Siouxland Historical Railroad Association bought the complex in 1996 and began its historic preservation work to transform the Milwaukee Railroad Shops into a railroad museum.
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The Milwaukee Railroad Shops were originally built to function as workplaces for railroad workers to repair and maintain the Milwaukee Road’s fleet of steam locomotives, freight cars, and passenger cars. During its peak years of operations in the 1920s and 1930s, over 500 craft and trades workers serviced and repaired approximately 850 steam locomotives a month and tens of thousands of rail cars a year. The workers were employed in craft professions such as boiler makers, machinists, carpenters, pipefitters, steam fitters, and many other trades.
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Money Matters
Most mutual funds fail to beat market large returned nearly 1.8 percent including dividends last year, while stock mutual funds lost an average BOSTON - More than 4 out of 5 2.6 percent. It was the worst result managers of stock mutual funds in the 10 years that S&P has tracked failed to beat the market last year. performance of managed funds. It’s the kind of news you might Noting that the 2011 result was expect someone like John Bogle markedly worse than any other, would jump on, and say, “Told you so.” The Vanguard funds founder is Bogle cuts managers some slack. “One isolated year should be an apostle of passive index investignored,” he says. ing, and the notion that investors After all, a single year isn’t shouldn’t expect to gain an advanlong enough to base any conclutage paying a manager to pick sion about how to invest over the stocks. decades that most of us will be in Yet Bogle didn’t gloat in an interthe market. view about this week’s key finding by S&P Indices: 84 percent of manInstead, it’s critical to consider aged U.S. stock funds failed to beat long-term results. There, the the Standard & Poor’s Composite evidence also suggests an index 1500. That index of stocks small and approach will serve most investors
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better than active management. One example is S&P’s finding that over the past 10 years, the average percentage of managed funds underperforming in a given year was 57. The bottom line is that the odds are stacked against anyone thinking he or she can select a managed fund that’s likely to outperform a comparable index fund, year after year. In fact, it’s very unlikely a manager will outperform the market for three years in a row, according to Srikant Dash, an author of the S&P study. And it’s highly unusual to achieve that feat for five years running. Some manage to outperform over a 5-year stretch - 38 percent did so over the period that ended in 2011, S&P found. But nearly all had a subpar year or two along the way. And five years is relatively brief, measured against a decades-long investing horizon. Bogle, who runs Vanguard’s Bogle Financial Markets Research Center, estimates there’s a less than 1 percent chance that an actively managed fund will beat its market index over an average person’s investing lifetime. The main reason is the higher fees that managed funds charge compared with index funds, which seek to match the market, rather than beat it. There’s no one picking stocks, so costs are lower. Index fund expenses typically range from 0.1 to 0.5 percent, while the lowest-cost options charge just
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Managers of stock mutual funds had an unusually tough time beating the market in 2011, with more than 4 of 5 failing to achieve that goal. Over 10 years, the average percentage of funds underperforming in a given year was 57. Below are percentages of funds that underperformed versus the S&P 1500, going back 10 years: 2002...........59.0 2007...........48.8 2003...........47.7 2008...........64.2 2004...........51.4 2009...........41.7 2005 ..........44.0 2010...........57.6 2006...........67.8 2011...........84.1 0.06 percent - $6 per year for every $10,000 invested. Expenses at managed U.S. stock funds average 1.34 percent, according to Morningstar. The average expense drops to 0.74 percent when the calculation factors in that lowercost funds tend to have more investors and assets than more expensive funds Managed funds’ higher fees are difficult to offset, even if a manager is a strong stock-picker. Fees drain returns whether a manager has a good year or a bad one. A fund’s expenses are almost always a more significant factor in long-term returns than any edge a manager can achieve. Says Bogle: “We all hear about the magic of compounded returns, and how investments can grow over the years. But so many investors forget about the tyranny of compounding costs.”
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Terry’s Turn
Time for some spring cleaning “Well, I thought I’d just spend the day...,” I began. She gave me that As I write this Siouxland is look that all husbands have seen experiencing a weather warm up. many times. It’s the look that says, Hopefully it’s a precursor to spring. “Do what I just told you and no one Today it’s supposed to get up into gets hurt.” I smiled weakly and the sixties with grabbed the can and cloth then folsunny skies. For lowed her upstairs. many people “I’ll clean my side,” she said. “And spring not only you can...do something with your means warmer side. You might want to go out to the temperatures garage and get a shovel.” She chuckbut a chance to led to herself and I looked over at get outside once my side of the room. Hey, it’s not again for sports that bad. Well, okay it is that bad. activities, garI love to read and a lot of my readdening and other ing is done in bed before falling to warm weather sleep at night. Beside the bed on Terry Turner pursuits. Around tturner174@longlines.com my side were stacks of books. Some my house this stacks contained books I’d read time of year means but one thing while others were books to be read. spring cleaning. I sat on the bed and began going I remember clearly what hapthrough those piles of books. pened last year. I was quietly readI picked up one of the last books ing the paper when my normally I read. “The Moor” by Laurie R. quiet wife made an announcement. King. It’s a Sherlock Holmes mys“Okay, today we’re cleaning this pig tery told not by Dr. John Watson as sty from top to bottom!” I slowly the originals were but instead by look up from my newspaper. “We’ll his wife Mary Russell. His wife! start with our bedroom,” she said Preposterous! I have to admit it was handing me a dust cloth and a can of a good story and well written by I cleaner. just can’t imagine Sherlock Holmes
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with a wife. Another book in the pile of those I had read was “The Spy” by Clive Cussler and Justin Scott. I have a feeling this book although a good read was written by Justin Scott with Cussler’s name on it. It just doesn’t read like an old Clive Cussler adventure novel. Then there’s one of my favorite horror novels, “Harvest Home” by Thomas Tryon. It scared the heck out of me I looked in the pile of books to be read. There was “World Without End” by Ken Follett. I read the first one, “The Pillars of the Earth” and both are epic novels which basically means they are very long. “World Without End” is a whopping 1,046 pages. I can’t imagine typing something like that let alone writing it. Other books waiting to be read were, “An Exchange of Eagles” by Owen Sela. It’s a WWII adventure novel. I love those things. Also in that pile were several non-fiction books. “Curiosities of Literature” by John Sutherland was one which according to the book cover is “A Feast for Book Lovers”. Another non-fiction book in the queue to be read was “The Hornet’s Sting”
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Morningside College students Elizabeth Lippke, a senior from Sioux City, and Katie Knocke, a freshman from Cannon Falls, Minn., enjoy the warm temperatures on Tuesday. The high of 80 degrees broke a record. by Mark Ryan. It tells the tale of WWII spy Tomas Sneum. I bought it after reading that Sneum escaped Denmark in a battered biplane and refueled it by climbing out on the wing. I can’t wait to read about that. Then there’s the one I was in the process of reading, “The Irish Manor House Murder” by Dicey Deere. I was almost done reading it.
The previous night I found out who murdered Dr. Ashenden and why but apparently there’s more to the mystery than I thought. Hmmmm... could it be that one of the other residents of this small Irish hamlet is somehow involved. Well, I couldn’t wait until bed time. I had to know right then. I grabbed the book and assumed my usual reading position
of lying in bed. I was just getting back into the tale of murder on the Irish countryside when I heard a noise. I looked up from the pages only to see my wife hands on hips glaring at me. “I was just taking a little break dear,” I stammered. She looked at the piles of books. I looked there too. “I mean I was just about to start putting those books away.” She slowly shook her head and muttered something about men just being taller little boys and left the room. I reluctantly got up and began picking up the books. I’ll just stack them out of the way in the closet in the spare bedroom. I went into the spare bedroom, put the books to be read in the closet and looked at the murder mystery that somehow ended up in my hand. I looked at the bed then at the book. I listened carefully for any movement outside the door. There was none. Then I heard the vacuum cleaner start up downstairs. I assumed my reading position on the small bed. It wasn’t my familiar spot but it would do. As I started to read I thought to myself, this spring cleaning stuff isn’t so bad after all.
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Couples
They met, they danced, they married and danced married in March of ‘47, SIOUX CITY – A native of five months Centerville, S.D., Joyce Smith moved later.” to Sioux City in 1945 and went to ‘Twas a fast work for Dunn & Bradstreet. courtship It was well before a young U.S. considering Army Air Corps cadet from Sioux how underJournal photo by John Quinlan City named James McMartin was whelmed James and Joyce McMartin to return home after two years of she felt after service, take a summer job with the their first Post Office, then begin his studies dance. But they both loved dancing at Morningside College on the G.I. and quickly grew to love each other. Bill. It was an interesting postwar “She was very nice looking and she class he entered, with 750 freshmen was good at dancing,” James said. clearly outnumbering the 200 upper‘That was the main thing. We classmen. enjoyed doing it together,” Joyce Then one Saturday night, Joyce and said.” some of her friends went to a dance “And then we square danced afterin the Skyline Dance Hall on the wards, three or four times a week, top floor of the Commerce Building and then we went regular dancing, downtown. too,” he said of their later married “He was there,” she said, “and life. we danced and we’ve been dancing They exchanged vows on March 7, ever since. We met in October of ‘46, 1947, at the First Methodist Church. started going together, and we were “I think we were married on a
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Saturday night and we went to work on Monday. It wasn’t very romantic,” she said. “It rained. It was cold and rainy,” he added. Joyce explained: “I guess that’s what people did back then. They met, fell in love and got married.” Joyce kidded him that his marriage proposal was all about the money. As a veteran on the G.I. Bill, he got $50 a month from the government. But as a husband, the amount went to $90. James would work as a carpenter during the summer months even after picking up his teaching degree from Morningside. After college, he taught the vocational carpentry class for three Sioux City high schools, feeding a lot of his students into the trade classes at Western Iowa Tech Community College. Other students just went straight into the unions, the same unions that helped James and his high school students build
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Sertoma Breakfast Club provides service to mankind man of the board, Don Herbold. Since 1992, Communicative SIOUX CITY – Although it’s been Disorders and Hearing Impaired in existence for a century, many may Scholarships have been established. not know “Sertoma” is not a word. During 2010-11, Sertoma awarded 45 Rather it is an acronym for scholarships throughout the nation. SERvice TO MAnkind that reflects “The enthusiasm, satisfaction, the primary focus of the organizafriendliness and fellowship of worktion – to assist the more than 50 ing together to provide a service million people with hearing health to mankind is most gratifying,” issues and educating the public Herbold said. on the issues surrounding hearing The Sertoma Breakfast Club health. has sponsored students to Camp The international group was found- Sertoma, a camp for deaf or hard of ed on April 11, 1912, in Kansas City, hearing students, as well as assisting Mo. The Sertoma Breakfast Club of with the purchase of hearing aids Sioux City was chartered in 1968. where the needs exists. The Sertoma The Sertoma Noon Club of Sioux Breakfast Club has cooperated with City – which celebrated its 65th anni- the Noon Sertoma Club in funding versary this year – sponsored the and building Sertoma Park in Sioux Breakfast Club. City. “Most members, like myself, got The Sertoma Breakfast Club holds involved because we wanted to be two fundraising events, Herbold a part of an organization that helps explained. and serves others,” explained chair“We host a Hunter’s Breakfast on
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the opening day of pheasant hunting season,” he said. “During the spring season, we hold a Gift and Goodie Auction.” In addition to Herbold, other officers are: Gerald Taylor, president; Paul VanderWeil, vice presidentsponsorships; Mike Goodwin, vice president, membership; Russ Clifford, secretary; Jerry Houpt, treasurer; Paul Massey, sergeant-atarms; Kathan Jager, publicity chairperson; Stan Ahrendt, fifth grade Declaration of Independence chairperson; and Steve Struthers, past Iowa governor. “Each year, during Presidents Week, both Sertoma Clubs give all fifth graders in the Sioux City and South Sioux City schools a copy of the Declaration of Independence,” Herbold said. “This has been done since 1947, with approximately 75,00 copies given thus far.” The Sertoma Breakfast Club’s
March 21 meeting will feature Robert Cooley with Hearing Dogs Inc., a nonprofit organization headquartered in Henderson, Colo., which specializes in the training and placement of hearing dogs with the deaf and hard-of-hearing throughout the United States and Canada – free of charge. The event is also free and open to the public. “We thought this would be a perfect fit for our group and the Hearing Dogs group,” said Taylor. “This meeting, we are inviting the public to attend.”
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Cover Story
Boomers finding space for team, fitness sports Efforts counteract the effects of getting older
Tennis instructor Dan Rasor, 52, of Plano, Texas serves to a student during an instructional class at High Point Tennis Center on March 14 in Plano, Texas. Rasor, not only an instructor, also competes in a United States Tennis Association (USTA) league. The country’s largest generation is running, walking, swimming and using exercise machines in hopes of changing the face of aging.
By BETSy BLANEy The Associated Press
LUBBOCK, Texas — The country’s largest generation is running, walking, swimming and using exercise machines in hopes of changing the face of aging. Baby boomers — the 78 million Americans born between 1946 and 1964 — are working to counteract the effects of getting older. They grew up watching Jane Fonda workout videos and were the first generation where large numbers exercised from their early years onward. “Are the boomers playing more sports than 20 years ago? I think the answer to that is yes,” said Tom Cove, president of Sports Goods Manufacturers Association. It annually surveys Americans about their exercise activities. “The boomers are dramatically more active and the numbers are much more skewed to fitness and outdoor activities.” They sign up for swimming classes and will pay to play basketball or hockey at odd hours in facilities used by youth during the day. People tend to do the same activities as in their youth, said Bill Beckner, research manager for the Virginiabased National Recreation and Parks Association. That could mean new sorts of senior activity centers. “I keep waiting to see the first senior skate park,” he said. “I won’t be surprised when it shows up.” And while boomers like their exercise to be social, the number partici-
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pating in organized team sports is growing slowly because scheduling the time can be difficult. Across all ages, the percentage of people participating in team sports grew by low single digits in the most recent survey in 2011, ending a two-year decline in sports such as tackle football, soccer, basketball and baseball. Participation had suffered due to the economic slowdown, Cove’s survey states. There is also the problem of availability: Many communities don’t have enough fields for everyone who wants to play organized sports. “Where ballparks are at a premium
... usually they have a priority for the kids,” Beckner said. Les Clemmons, 58, of Lubbock, played softball as a youngster and was happy eight years ago when he found an over-50 league. It grew so popular a few years ago — some games were starting at 10:30 p.m. — that players had to move beyond the one field the city gave the league one night a week. The league, now about 120-players strong plays at an older city park where it gets two fields one night a week. The games provide more than just exercise, Clemmons said. Good friendships get built and are “the
most important thing,” he said. “It’s more about camaraderie, teamwork.” His 57-year-old league colleague, banker Gary McCoy, agreed but said players also enjoy the competition. “It gives us that competitive relief, sometimes comic,” he said. “It’s not the chronological age; it’s how you feel.” Boomers also find themselves playing basketball and soccer early in the morning or late in the day. Where facilities are in higher demand, there is some squeezing out for space. That’s where being older liter-
It is important for boomers to work the Texas Tech athletics departto strengthen the muscle groups ment, she played on the Women’s around joints, like knees and hips, to Tennis Association tour in the 1980s avoid injury. and 1990s, climbing to No. 17 in the Numbers crunched by the orthoworld. Because of the wear and tear, pedic surgeon’s group show boomshe has had surgeries on her left ers are already feeling the ouch. shoulder and four on the same knee. Doctors’ visits for symptoms and She no longer plays competitively diseases of the musculoskeletal sysbut hits with her teenage daughter. tem and connective tissue in 2009 for “You learn your limitations quicker boomers were markedly higher than and you listen to them more,” Collins five years earlier. Numbers of hip said. “I understand my limitations and knee replacements also are up. and accept them because I don’t plan Wright’s suggestions for boomers on having any more surgeries.” are to work on flexibility, do aeroExercise doesn’t stop with the bic exercise regularly, carry a load boomer generation, though. Athletes that uses muscles in three planes near the century mark say it can of motion, rather than using weight be the proverbial fountain of youth. machines, and equilibrium and balHouston’s Harry Pepper played baseance. ball, football and some tennis in his “I believe we are saving lives by younger years. saving mobility,” Wright said. At 101 he’s still competing. Last Dr. Mimi Zumwalt, a 50-year-old year he was the sole entrant in the orthopedic surgeon at Texas Tech 100-year-olds’ division at the senior AP Photo by Tony Gutierrez University who has injured her both games. He had to compete to win Julie Rodriguez, 55, of Sachse, Texas, front, and her practice partner Laura Ferlicof her shoulders during fitness com- his division, so he bowled with the Stark, 50, of Plano, Texas, gather tennis balls during a break from a instructional petitions, said active boomers need 95-year-olds, besting their bronze class at High Point Tennis Center on March 14 in Plano, Texas. to think smarter about their bodies. medal winner’s score. “You can’t slow down the aging “If you want to live, you’ve got to ally pays and businesses fill the void. Medical Center and a spokeswoman process but at least you can protect” move your body,” Pepper said. “You Take senior softball leagues, where for the American Academy of your body better, she said. “You need lose it if you don’t move it.” participation is booming. Games are Orthopaedic Surgeons. Those 55 and to preserve whatever your body has often played at privately owned and older are joining at a rate of 34 perleft and respect it.” operated facilities. cent a year, while the rate for ages That’s what Sandy Collins is doing. “They’re for-pay, first-class facili35 to 55 is growing by only 18 perA Lubbock resident who works in ties,” Cove said. “There is some evicent a year, she said. dence there is some crowding out (of A million boomers joined health youngsters). They’re looking for who and fitness clubs between 2007 and will pay and frankly the older ones 2010, according to a survey from are willing to pay.” the International Health, Racquet Hockey facilities in some areas are & Sportsclub Association. tough to find for any age, he said. Wright said research shows that “There aren’t enough hockey rinks 70 percent of how we age is lifein the world,” said Cove. style choices, while 30 percent is At health clubs, boomers genetic. are outpacing younger Doctors say boomers who’ve been generations, said Dr. active most of their lives and are Vonda Wright, an reaching their late 50s or early 60s orthopedic surgeon can continue to do so but with modiat the University fications. For those who have been of Pittsburgh sedentary much of their lives, they say, it’s never too late to start movAP Photo by Betsy Blaney ing. Sandy Collins poses for a photo in the athletics department at Texas Tech University
where she works in Lubbock, Texas on March 14. The 53-year-old, who has had surgeries on her left shoulder and four on the same knee, climbed as high as No. 17 in the world when she played on the women’s professional tennis tour during the 1980s and 1990s.
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Music therapy strikes a chord with area pro By Tim GallaGher Prime staff writer
SIOUX CITY – Jamie Young remembers a watershed moment she had recently while visiting a nursing home in Odebolt, Iowa. “A woman told me she could not sing any longer because she’d had a stroke,” said Young, a certified music therapist. Young was playing for – and with – a group of residents that had gathered. She invited the newcomer to join. In perfect pitch, the 92-year-old joined in a rendition of “My Wild Irish Rose.” “I told her, ‘Once a musician, always a musician,” said Young. “It was neat to watch,” said Linda Cravens, a community representative who works with Young through Care Initiatives Hospice of Sergeant Bluff. “Music enhances what you know,” said Young, who earned a master’s in music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Music can aid a person battling cancer by allowing them to forget about their pain for a while. Music has helped persons with autism to communicate more effectively. Music, said Young, helped teach her to 12 | Prime | www.siouxlandprime.com
read. Young is dyslexic and she struggled to read until she began setting words to music in her head. An experience in a vocal music classroom led to Young’s music therapy career arc. As an undergraduate at Wayne State College, Young was sent to
“I played for my grandpa and he had a glass of ice water that usually rattled,” she said. “When I played the rattling stopped. I played again and it stopped. I could see then a pattern developed.” Jamie Young
Certified music therapist student teach at South Sioux City. She managed 101 students in a mass choir, all the while focusing on a young student who struggled to sing. “I asked her to come in a work with me during her study hall,” she said, adding that the student was extremely quiet and introverted in school. The student worked with Young in front of a mirror. They explored facial contortions and the movement of the
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mouth during speech and song. A few weeks later, a beautiful voice began to emerge. “Her voice blossomed,” Young said. “Her disposition, her posture, they improved too. Her personality grew. I knew then that I had helped someone with their selfconfidence.” “Jamie is our music therapist and we see who can benefit,” Cravens noted. Research in music therapy tends to focus on persons with autism and those in hospice care. Young has conducted group settings in care facilities where she employs instruments, sticks and repetition. Often, her work catches on and draws listeners and participants. “Music therapy isn’t a new concept,” Young noted. “It’s been around since World War I. Musicians went in to help provide pain relief for veterans.” Young added that
patient, help determine the kind and method of music therapy Young will use. As Young shared her career path, she noted that her introduction to the field actually came much earlier in her life. It came when she was playing piano for her grandfather years ago. He suffered with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s Disease. “I played for my grandpa and he had a glass of ice water that usually rattled,” she said. “When I played the rattling stopped. I played again and it stopped. I could see then a pattern developed.” Young was – and remains – convinced that music affected a neurological connection in her grandfather’s brain.
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PHILADELPHIA - Edgar Allan Poe is probably best known for his gothic tales of horror but in fact he was also a literary critic, poet and is credited with inventing the modern detective story. Although Poe is probably more associated with Baltimore since he’s buried there, he also lived in Philadelphia and wrote many of his most famous stories there. Poe lived in several houses while in Philadelphia but only one still remains and is owned by the National Park Service and open to the public. Poe lived in the house in 1843 before moving to New York City. Poe was born in Boston on Jan. 19, 1809, to David and Elizabeth Poe. Shortly after his birth his mother separated from her husband and took her three children with her. She died in 1811 when Edgar was just 2 years old. After her death the three children were divided up among friends and relatives and Edgar went to live with Mr. and Mrs. John Allan. John Allan was a successful merchant and Edgar grew up in a somewhat privileged household and went to
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of Virginia but began to drink heavily and was soon in debt. He quit school less than a year later. His adoptive father shunned him and with no money or job skills Poe enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1827. He did well in the military and obtained the highest enlisted rank of Sergeant Major. When Mrs. Allan died in 1829 John Allan tried to mend the differences between himself and Edgar by signing Edgar’s application to West Point. While waiting for his first term to start at the military academy Poe stayed with his grandmother, aunt, his brother and his young cousin Virginia. In 1830 Edgar became a cadet at West Point
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but was soon asked to leave. It’s believed Poe ignored his duties and regulations in order to get dismissed because John Allan refused to send him money. A year later Poe went to New York City and had some success getting his poetry published. In spite of that he was soon broke and in debt. He wrote to John Allan for help but was refused. Allan died in 1834 and left his adopted son out of his will. In 1835 Poe got a job as editor of the Southern Literary Messenger in Richmond, VA and with his new found success sent for his aunt and cousin Virginia. In 1836 Edgar Allan Poe married his cousin. Poe was 27. Virginia Clemm was 13. Poe increased the paper’s circulation from 500 to 3,500 but left in 1836 saying his salary wasn’t high enough. Edgar continued to write and gain some success and in 1840 he became editor of Graham’s Magazine in Philadelphia. While there he wrote and published “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” which has been called the first detective story in American literature. He continued to have limited success with his writing but was seem-
ingly always broke and in debt. Virginia developed tuberculosis at a young age and in 1847 died from the disease. Edgar was devastated by her death and collapsed from stress at the loss of his beloved wife. Although he eventually recovered from his loss Poe was never the same. Like many of the stories and books he wrote Poe’s death is a mystery. What’s known of his final days is that he left New York in June 1849 and went to Philadelphia to visit his friend John Sartain. The next month he went to Richmond, Va., where he joined “The Sons of Temperance” in an effort to stop drinking. He renewed a boyhood romance with Sarah Royster Shelton and made plans for an October wedding. On Sept. 27 Poe went to Philadelphia and stayed with his friend James P. Moss. He left Philadelphia on Sept. 30 intending to go to New York but apparently took the wrong train and ended up in Baltimore. On October 3 Poe was found unconscious at Gunner’s Hall, a public house in Baltimore and was taken to the hospital. He never fully regained consciousness and couldn’t explain what had happened to him. Edgar Allan Poe died in the hospital
on Oct. 7, 1849. Researchers have proposed many theories about Poe’s death including being mugged, acute alcoholism and even rabies but the exact cause remains a mystery today. The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site in Philadelphia was Poe’s residence in 1843. The red brick building has 6 rooms on two floors and a basement. Visitors entering the front door are greeted by National Park Rangers who are available for guided tours. Those wanting to tour the home on their own can get a self-guided map and brochure. The front part of the Poe house has an exhibit room, a theater showing an eight-minute film about Poe, a reading room and gift shop. The rooms in the home are sparsely decorated which probably reflects the way the house looked when Poe and his family lived there. Those brave enough can venture into the dank and dismal basement of the Poe house. A basement many believe served as the location for Edgar Allan Poe’s story, “The Black Cat”. Park rangers tell of visitors who went into the dimly lit basement only to see a cat watching
them through the window. Others have reported getting an eerie feeling while in the crypt-like basement. One park ranger when asked if there were any ghosts in the basement replied, “I don’t know but if you see one, don’t tell me.”
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The Edgar Allan Poe National Historical Site is located in Philadelphia at 532 N. Seventh St. Ranger guided tours of the home lasting from 30 to 45 minutes are available. The knowledgeable guides provide an insight into Poe’s life with stories of how he dealt with his poverty, his wife Virginia’s illness and his own personal demons. During the tour rangers encourage visitors to ask questions and take photos. The house consists of 6 rooms and a basement. There is also an exhibit room, a theater showing an eight-minute film about Poe, a reading room and gift shop. Visitors can also tour the home on their own with a self-guided map and brochure. Outside the home is a large statue of a raven making it a popular spot for photographs. The Edgar Allan Poe National Historic Site is open Wednesday through Sunday from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission is free.
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Local & Government Services Siouxland Directory of Elderly Services
Sioux City Better Business Bureau: 1-800-222-1600 City Hall: 405 Sixth St., 279-6109 Department of Human Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833 Elder Abuse Awareness: 1-800-362-2178 Emergency: 911 Fire Department: 279-6314 Police Department: 2796960 (general) Post Office (Main): 214 Jackson St., 277-6411 Siouxland Aging Services: 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900. Information and referral services, case management. Senior Advocacy Program, Chris Kuchta, program director. Social Security Office: 3555 Southern Hills Drive, 255-5525 South Sioux City City Hall: 1615 First Ave., 494-7500 Department of Social Services: Dakota City, Neb., 987-3445 Emergency: 911 Fire Department: 494-7555 Police Department: 701 West 29th St., 494-7555 Post Office: 801 West 29th St., 494-1312
Adult Day Programs
Adult Day Program: Alzheimer’s Association, 420 Chambers St. 279-5802. A safe, nurturing group environment for functionally impaired adults who need supervision. Available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Employment and Volunteer Service
RSVP (Retired and Senior Volunteer Program): Center for Siouxland, Johnalyn Platt, 252-1861, ext. 21 Senior Community Service Employment Program: 2700 Leech Ave., Cindy Thomas, 274-1610 Experienced Works: Siouxland Workforce Development Center, 2508 Fourth St., assistant; Faye Kinnaman, 233-9030 ext. 1020 Senior Companion Program: 4200 War Eagle Drive, 712577-7848 or 712-577-7858
Financial Assistance
Commission of Veterans Affairs: 702 Courthouse, 2796606 Iowa Department of Human Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833 Salvation Army: 510 Bluff St., 255-8836 Social Security Administration: 3555 Southern Hills Drive, 255-5525 South Sioux City Community Center: 2120 Dakota Ave., 494-3259 Center for Siouxland: 715 Douglas St., 252-1861, Tax Counseling Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech Ave., 274-1610, energy assistance
Financial, Insurance and Tax Counseling
Consumer Credit Counseling Service: 705 Douglas St., 252-5666 Siouxland Senior Center: 217 Pierce St., 255-1729, tax counseling SHIIP (Senior Health Counseling Insurance Information Program): Information Catholic Charities: 1601 available from either Mercy Military Road, 252-4547 Medical Center, St. Luke’s Heartland Counseling Service: 917 West 21st., South Regional Medical Center, or The Center Sioux City, 494-3337 Center for Siouxland: Lutheran Social Service: 4240 Hickory LaNeb.276-1073 715 Douglas St., 252-1861. Conservatorship service, Mercy Pathways: 801 5th provides money management St., 712-279-5991 and protective payee services Siouxland Mental Health: Woodbury County Extension 625 Court St., 252-3871 Vet Center: 1551 Indian Hills Service: 4301 Sergeant Road, 276-2157 Drive, No. 204, 255-3808 April 2012 | 17
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Persons 60 years of age and older and their spouses may participate in the elderly nutrition program in Siouxland. In Sioux City, meals are served TuesdayFriday at Riverside Lutheran Church, 1817 Riverside Blvd.; on Monday at Riverside Gardens’ Community Room, 715 Bruner Ave., Fairmount Park, 210 S. Fairmount St., and Centennial Manor, 441 W. Third St. A suggested contribution is $2.75 or what each person can afford without causing a financial hardship. Reservations are required a day in advance by calling the Sergeant Bluff site, 943-5356, or the Siouxland Aging Services nutrition office at 279-6900, ext. 15. For more information about other available meal sites, call Siouxland Aging Services at 279-6900.
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walk, 10 a.m.; talk show, 10:30 a.m.; drama group, 11 a.m.; bridge, 12:30 p.m.; scrabble, 500, 1 p.m.; 1 mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m.; fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m.; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m. April 19: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; beg. 1 line dance, 8:45 a.m; walking off pounds, 9 a.m.; beg. 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m.; senior yoga, Men’s Club, beginning German, 10 a.m.; advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 a.m.; canasta, inter. line dance, woodcarving, bridge group, cribbage, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m. April 20: Exercise Plus 50, 8:30 a.m.; fitness with Dixie, Wii practice, 9:30 a.m.; blood pressures, 10 a.m.; bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, card design class, dance with Terry & the Remnants, 1 p.m. April 23: Exercise Plus 50, 8:15 a.m.; advanced tap class, 9 a.m.; guitar practice, Wii practice, intermediate tap class, 9:30 a.m.; beginner tap class, 10 a.m.; duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m.; movie, Parkinson’s meeting, Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m.; Super Strong Seniors with Kelly, 2:30 p.m. April 24: Penny bingo, advanced Spanish, 8:30 a.m.; senior yoga, 9 a.m.; genealogy, painting class, beg./interm. Spanish, 9:30 a.m.; creative writing, walking off pounds, 10 a.m.; crafts, 10:30 a.m.; tap practice, 12:30 p.m.; painting class, pitch, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m. April 25: Senior yoga, chorus, 9 a.m.; painting class, novice dup. bridge game, 9:30 a.m.; talk show, 10:30 a.m.; drama group, 11 a.m.; bridge, 12:30 p.m.; scrabble, 500, 1 p.m.; Senior Living Fair, 1 to 3 p.m.; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m. April 26: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m.; beg. 1 line dance, 8:45 a.m.; walking off pounds, 9 a.m.; beg. 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m.; senior yoga, Men’s Club, beginning German, 10 a.m.; advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 a.m.; canasta, inter. line dance, woodcarving, bridge group, cribbage, 1 p.m.; ping pong, 2 p.m. April 27: Exercise Plus 50, 8:30 a.m.; fitness with Dixie, Wii practice, 9:30 a.m.; blood pressures, 10 a.m.; bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, dance with Burt Heithold Band, 1 p.m. April 30: Exercise Plus 50, 8:15 a.m.; advanced tap class, 9 a.m.; guitar practice, Wii practice, intermediate tap class, 9:30 a.m.; beginner tap class, 10 a.m.; duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m.; movie, “Coach of the Year,” Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m.; fitness with Kelly, 2 p.m.
Local & Government Services Food
Iowa Department of Human Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833 Meals on Wheels: Siouxland Aging Services, 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900, deliver noon meals, suggested donation $3.72 per meal Salvation Army: 510 Bluff St., 255-8836 Le Mars SHARE: Betty Dutcher, (712) 5484229 (Distribution Site: Assembly of God, 410 First St. S.W.) Mid-City SHARE: Center for Siouxland, Johna Platt, 252-1861, ext. 21, (Distribution Site: Mary TreglIowa.900 Jennings St.) Sioux City SHARE: Center For Siouxland, Lisa Thomas, 259-7412 (Distribution Site: DAV, 5129 Military Road) South Sioux City SHARE: Sherry Stubbs, 4946477 (Distribution Site: First Lutheran Church, 3601 Dakota Ave.) Siouxland Senior Center: 217 Pierce St., 2554240, congregate meal site Siouxland Tri State Food Bank: 215 Douglas St., 255-9741 South Sioux City Community Action Center:
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2120 Dakota Ave., 494-3259 South Sioux City Senior Center: 1501 West 29th St., 494-1500, congregate meal site St. Luke’s Heat-n-Eat Meals: 2720 Stone Park Blvd., 279-3630, Cindy Hanson Center for Siouxland: Food pantry, 715 Douglas St., 252-1861 Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech St., 274-1610
Senior Companions provide friendship, understanding and assistance to homebased adults in your community. Volunteers, age 55 and older, may receive a Federal tax-free stipend that does not affect any type of assistance.
Health Care Information
Alzheimer’s Association: 420 Chambers St., 279-5802. Referral and information about Alzheimer’s disease, support groups and respite care Dakota County Health Nurse: 987-2164 Iowa Department of the Blind: 1-800-362-2587 Lifeline: Personal emergency response system: St. Luke’s, 279-3375, Jenny Herrick; Mercy Medical Center, 279-2036, Karen Johnson Marian Health Center: Community Education, 279-2989 Siouxland Community Health Center: 1021 Nebraska St., 252-2477
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