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Siouxland senior contest a piece of (cup) cake because they’re elderly, doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate sometgallagher@siouxcityjournal.com thing that’s appealing to see and SIOUX CITY – For Iris Hammer, taste.” one annual dessert contest is a piece The Cupcake Display she made is of cake. an outgrowth of a cupcake creation Cupcake, that is. she does each Friday. “‘Cupcake For the third consecutive year, Wars’ on TV is so popular, so at Hammer created the winning Northern Hills we do Cupcake entry in the dessert contest held Friday,” she said. “We have a disat the Siouxland Center for Active play of three cupcakes each week, Generations in Sioux City. Judges each filled and decorated.” named her Cupcake Display the Her winner in the contest champion among a dozen or so involved a bottom layer of black entries in the contest. forest cupcakes. The second layer Fruit Salsa and Puff Pastry, a featured raspberry cakes with butdessert from Sunrise Retirement ter cream filling. The top? A giant Community, earned second place. red velvet cupcake filled with “This is more than a job, it’s my cream cheese. It was adorned with hobby and passion,” said Hammer, a chocolate butterfly that Hammer describing her role as dessert designed freehand. maker in the dining services staff Hammer’s other dessert winners at Northern Hills Retirement featured a cake with the Northern Community in Sioux City. “I want to Hills facility pictured on it (in 2009) give our residents here more than anAM orange (in 2010). 11132-SUNR Soup Ad:Layout 3 3/18/11 and 9:13 Pagecheesecake 1 just a piece of cake on a plate. Just “I wasn’t sure we could enter a By Tim Gallagher
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Remembering actor Dick Powell career or the marriage lasted very long. He then went on tour One of my favorite actors with Kentucky’s Royal Peacock from the old days is Dick Powell. dance band which took him all Not long ago I picked up a DVD over the Midwest. of an early Powell movie titled Powell eventually became the “42nd Street.” The film includes emcee at the Stanley Theater such stars as Ruby Keeler who in Pittsburgh where along would later be paired with with introducing the movie Powell in other films. he would sing and I remember thinkperform for the audiing as I watched “42nd ence before the film Street” that Dick started. Because it was Powell looked like he a Warner Brothers’ just graduated from theater he was soon high school. I wondiscovered by a studio dered how a kid that representative and young got into a major offered a contract. Warner Brothers Along with appearing movie. It turns out in musicals on the big Terry Turner Powell was no high screen Powell hosted tturner174@longlines.com the CBS radio series school kid at the time but was actually 29 Hollywood Hotel. He when the film was released in also appeared in the film version 1933. of “Hollywood Hotel” in 1937. Powell’s first appearance in Because he never thought of a film was “Blessed Event” himself as a competent singer in 1932. He became a regular or dancer he asked the studio to in Warner Brothers’ musicals cast him in more demanding and including the popular Busby serious roles. In one interview Berkeley series of Gold Digger he’s quoted as saying, “I was movies. Although his boyish never much of a singer. As for good looks and singing ability my dancing, I couldn’t raise a made him a natural for those foot. If I were a Bing Crosby or musicals in the 1930s it would a Fred Astaire, I wouldn’t have later turn out to be a handicap minded musicals, maybe. But when he wanted to try more you know how long second-rate serious roles. talent – I’m speaking of my singRichard Ewing Powell was ing and dancing – lasts with the born November 14, 1904, in movie-going public.” Mountain View, Ark. He was Powell was finally able to buy the second of three sons born his contract from Warners and to Sallie and Ewing Powell. made a few movies for other His mother encouraged all her studios but didn’t feel they sons to develop their musical stretched his talent as an actor. talents and by the age of 5 Dick When Paramount was casting was singing for residents of the lead in “Double Indemnity” Mountain View. Powell lobbied the studio to give The Powell family moved to him the part. Instead it went to Little Rock in 1914 where young another actor trying to break Richard sang in church and per- out of the nice guy mold, Fred formed in high school musical MacMurray. productions. While attending Then in 1944 Powell finally Little Rock College he formed a convinced an RKO executive band called The Peter Pan. After to give him the lead role in a short stint in college Powell film adaptation of Raymond went to work for the telephone Chandler’s “Farewell My company and got married. Lovely.” Because the title might Neither his telephone company lead audiences to think it was
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another Powell musical the name was changed to “Murder, My Sweet.” It was a turning point in Powell’s career. Critics and audiences loved this new side of the actor who went on to play similar tough guy roles in such films as “Johnny O’Clock” and “Pitfall.” Powell also lent his talents as a detective to radio and starred in Rogue’s Gallery in which he played wise-cracking private detective Richard Rogue. Another detective drama on the radio starring Powell was Richard Diamond Private Detective. Several years later Powell as producer would bring Richard Diamond starring David Jansen to television. Powell also directed several theatrical movies in the ’50s including “The Conqueror” starring a miscast John Wayne as Genghis Khan. Powell tried to talk Wayne out of the role but later said, “Who am I to turn down John Wayne?” The film has the distinction of being deadly for many of those involved in its production. Filming took place in Utah downwind from a former atomic bomb test site in Nevada and many of the cast and crew developed cancer later on. Powell may have been one of those victims along with John Wayne, Susan Hayward, Ted de Corsia and Agnes Moorehead. Dick Powell was diagnosed with throat cancer and died of the disease Jan. 2, 1963, at the age of 58. Although Dick Powell never reached superstar status he was still one of my favorites. He seemed to be one of those actors who didn’t take himself too seriously. I recently read a quote attributed to Powell that shows what I mean. Powell said, “The best thing about switching from being an actor to being a director is that you don’t have to shave or hold your stomach in anymore.”
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St. Luke’s College CPE founder Pohlman moving on By John Quinlan
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SIOUX CITY – More than 50 years ago, Steve Pohlman gained some “notoriety” as a sophomore basketball player at Sibley High School when he helped lead his Cinderfella of a team to a major upset, a 4-point victory over mighty Sioux City Central in the consolation round of the Iowa state tournament. “The little guys can sometimes beat the big guys. So those were great days,” Pohlman said, also recalling his four years on the court at Morningside College – and his later years of intramural play at Boston University where the conservative Northwest Iowan learned the true value of social justice while marching with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., another graduate of the Boston University School of Theology. So the basketball victory wasn’t the defining moment of his life that it probably felt like at the time. Those moments came one after another during the Rev. Dr. Steve Pohlman’s career as a United Methodist minister, 12 years in Iowa parish ministry which included time spent at his hometown of Melvin, and more especially
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St. Luke’s College’s the Rev. Dr. Steve Pohlman is shown during an interview at the Sioux City college Wednesday, March 16, 2011. He started the college’s clinical pastoral education program and he will be retiring soon.
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as supervisor of the CPE program which he started in 1982. Over the years, he has taught and supervised some 260 students of nearly every Christian denomination, helping these ministerial students, chaplains and ordained ministers to simply be better at what they do, he said. A retirement party for Pohlman was held in the Atrium at St. Luke’s Health System. After earning his Doctor of Ministry degree and gaining certification for CPE work in Kansas at the Menninger Foundation and at Topeka State Hospital, he worked for three years at the Methodist Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, before the Sioux City job opened up. Bob Peck, then president and CEO of St. Luke’s, wanted a CPE program and brought in Bob Alexander, the chaplain at the Cherokee Mental Health Institute, to help get it started up. Alexander became Pohlman’s mentor, turning the reins over after a one-year program trial. “So I came here as manager of chaplaincy, a chaplain doing work on the unit and Clinical Pastoral Education supervisor,” Pohlman said. “But the genius of Sioux
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Lessons learned from 4 years of 401(k) volatility By DAVID PITT
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DES MOINES, Iowa — Americans who were afraid to open their 401(k) statements during the recession are finding good news inside the envelope now: For the most part, their accounts have come all the way back and then some. Nine in 10 of the popular retirement plans are at least back to where they were in October 2007, the peak of the stock market. Since the bull market began in March 2009, stocks have almost doubled. And many investors who kept their nerve and continued putting some of their paycheck into a 401(k) during the market’s worst months are now ahead. “I thought it would be more like six to eight years of pain, so I’m more than happy,” says Brett Hacker, a photographer for a TV station in Kansas City, Mo. The married father of two says most of his account is invested in a mutual fund that tracks the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, and the rest in Meredith Corp., his employer. His balance fell 53 percent in the downturn. He’s now 15 percent ahead of where he stood in 2007. “By the time that the market started going down, I thought it was too far gone to jump out — and I just let it ride,” Hacker says. “I figured that I was in for a long haul.” Account balances didn’t recover entirely from the strength of the market. Those automatic paycheck deductions helped a lot. On average, 401(k) participants put in about 8 percent of their pay from 2003 to 2006, says business consulting firm Aon Hewitt. Contributions slipped slightly during the recession, falling from an average 7.7 percent in 2007, to the current average around 7.3 percent. Advisers typically recommend setting aside from 11 percent to 15 percent of your salary to enable you to live comfortably in retirement, and ensure you save enough to last for decades. An Associated Press analysis of 401(k) balance data provided by the nonpartisan Employee Benefit Research Institute in Washington, D.C., shows the youngest workers with the shortest time on the job saw the most significant recovery.
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Sixty-nine years of special Valentines for sweethearts hogs,” LaVonne said. “We had them come up to the house for CUSHING, Iowa – Valentine’s coffee and rolls. They didn’t like Day has always been special in the our coffee; it was too weak for Todd house. Cakes and treats that what they were used to. But they day don’t merely commemorate did like my cinnamon rolls.” the day reserved for sweethearts; Feb. 14, 1942, LaVonne said, they note Lloyd and LaVonne was a sun-splashed day, one that Todd’s wedding anniversary. brightly reflected a consistent The couple exchanged vows blanket of snow from the Cushing/ Feb. 14, 1942, some 69 years ago. Correctionville area to South LaVonne was 19 and just out of Sioux City, where the couple wed high school. Lloyd was 21 and three days after Lloyd’s sister, already farming. They would con- Florence, tied the knot with hustinue farming into the 1980s. band Earl Evans. “We farmed 38 years together,” LaVonne’s parents, Andy and LaVonne said. “We worked togeth- Eva Martin of Correctionville, er every day. I did the chores hosted a dinner for the couple that along with him. Lloyd and I were evening. always together.” “We had supper and then cake The couple raised purebred and ice cream,” LaVonne said. Hampshire hogs, and sold pureAnd then it was back to work, bred boars and sows to customers raising crops and livestock. They from Okinawa, Japan. also raised three children: daugh“We had Japanese businessmen ter Marcia Albers resides at come to our home to look at the Jewell, Iowa; son Gene Todd lives
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in St. Louis, Mo.; and daughter Roxanne Paulsen lives in Orlando, Fla. The Todds have eight grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren. Up to this fall, the couple could still be found canning fruit and vegetables they grew in a large garden. Not bad for “sweethearts” who are 91 and 87, respectively. Lloyd, who is battling Parkinson’s Disease, still talks of selling corn and soybeans. LaVonne dotes over her flowers. For 28 years, she has decorated the altar at First United Methodist Church with two bouquets each Sunday during warmweather months. She raises roses, lilies, columbine, iris, tulips, ferns and more. “I love my flowers and Lloyd has always had a huge garden,” she said.
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LaVonne Todd shows off an anniversary photo and the wedding photo of her and husband Lloyd Todd, who currently resides that Good Samaritan Center in nearby Holstein, Iowa, at the Todd residence in Cushing, Iowa.
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Meg Bishop, right, laughs along with Bickford Cottage residents after reading one of their creative writing pieces at the facility. From left are Velva Shea, Edna Martinsen, Genevie Flannery, Rita Treinen, and Geri Utecht.
‘Keeping the creative fires burning’ Bickford Assisted Living writing class helps create new memories By Earl Horlyk
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SIOUX CITY – She calls herself Esther, but friends know her by another name. “Everybody calls me Esther the Pester,” Esther Sluyter said with a smile. “That’s because I’m a knowit-all. Or at least I pretend to be.” 12 | Prime | www.siouxlandprime.com
One thing the 86-year-old Bickford Assisted Living & Memory Care resident didn’t know was that she’s also a wonderful writer. As part of a creative writing assignment, Sluyter has penned a racy “Bickford Romance,” which ends with the heroine telling her beau: “Your dimples have turned to wrinkles, yet I love you just the same.” Sluyter is one of approximately 10 Bickford residents participating in a weekly writing class that started last fall and is conducted by the family’s activities director
“When a person enters an assisted living facility, it’s one more stage of acceptance they must pass through in life. They already given up their car and their home by the time they get here. But accepting this next stage doesn’t mean they’ve stopped living or stopped being creative.”
Meg Bishop Bickford activities director
Meg Bishop. “When a person enters an assisted living facility, it’s one more stage of acceptance they must pass through in life,” she explained. “They already given up their car and their home by the time
they get here. But accepting this next stage doesn’t mean they’ve stopped living or stopped being creative.” Putting pen to paper gives residents a chance to accept another stage they are now going through. Most of
Bishop’s creative writing students have been diagnosed with pre-dementia, the first stage of Alzheimer’s disease. “Some of the residents may not remember what happened five minutes ago. Yet they can write beauti-
Bickford Cottage residents Edna Martinsen, right, and Velva Shea listen to creative writing instructor Meg Bishop read a piece by one of the class participants.
Bickford Cottage resident Paul Goetz listens to selected writings by residents.
fully about a memory that occurred during childhood,” Bishop said in amazement. “There’s so much research going on about the human brain and so much we don’t know yet,” she continued. “Keeping the creative fires burning just a little bit longer can make a big difference.” Bishop’s students alternate between remembrances written in the first person and complete flights of fancy. Resident Ruth Oien chose the latter in creating a story set in the fictional town of “Sugarville,” where flowers are gumdrops and licorice and candy canes grow on trees. “When the town’s people discover such foods were not healthy, all the candy was replaced with sugar substitute,” Bishop said, reading the story aloud. “And Sugarville’s name was soon changed to EatQualiTee.”
Admitting to having a sweet tooth, Oien said she likes every kind of candy with the exception of chocolate. “If I had to choose a favorite candy,” she said, “it would have to be peppermint.” While Oien used her imagination to conjure up a fictional place, Edna Martinsen prefers a memory much closer to home. “I’ve traveled to many places, but Sioux City has been my home for 81 years,” she wrote in an essay called “My Favorite Place to Live.” “This is where my husband and I spent 57 years together.” “Even though, my husband is now gone, time marches on,” Martinsen continued. “And I’m still making new memories in Sioux City.” Martinsen smiled at the warm reaction her story got from fellow residents. “I haven’t really written
Bickford Cottage resident Genevieve Flannery listens a one of the resident’s work is read.
Creative writing instructor Meg Bishop reads some work by Bickford Cottage residents as they listen. From left is Genevie Flannery, Rita Treinen, Geri Utecht, Bishop and Ruth Oien.
anything since I was back in school, and that was a long time ago,” she said. “Guess it’s never too late to begin again.” Martinsen’s friend, Genevieve Flannery, prefers
reading to writing. “I’ve always read stories,” Flannery, a former “Sioux City Sue” beauty contest winner, explained. “Now, I’m writing ’em.” Which is exactly what
Bishop wants her students to take away from her class. “Through writing, the residents are reaching back into memories that might otherwise be lost,” she explained. “After all, fireflies shine brightest at sunset,” Bishop said, “and so should people.”
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Hospitals open ERs just for graying patients WASHINGTON — Many hospitals run emergency rooms just for children. Now a few are opening ERs specially designed for seniors, without all the confusion and clamor and with a little more comfort. It’s a fledgling trend, but expected to increase as the population rapidly grays. The question is whether they’ll truly improve care. “Older people are not just wrinkly adults. They have totally different needs,” says Dr. David John, who chairs the geriatric medicine division of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Modern ERs are best equipped to handle crises like gunshot wounds or car crashes, not the lengthy detective work it can take to unravel the multiple ailments that older people tend to show up with, John says. Those older patients may not even have the same symptoms as younger people. They’re less likely to report chest pain with a heart attack, for instance, complaining instead of vague symptoms such as dizziness or nausea. Urinary tract infections sometimes cause enough confusion to be mistaken for dementia.
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And a study published in January called delirium and dementia an “invisible hazard” for many older patients because ERs don’t routinely check for not-too-obvious cognitive problems — yet such patients can’t accurately describe their symptoms or understand what they’re supposed to do at home. Seniors already make 17 million ER visits a year, and 1 in 5 Americans will be 65 or older by 2030. St. Joseph’s Regional Medical Center in Paterson, N.J., started a 14-bed Senior Emergency Center two years ago, and plans to open a larger one in the fall, said emergency medicine chairman Dr. Mark Rosenberg. “It’s still hustle and bustle, but it’s a couple notches down from the craziness of the main emergency department,” he says. The idea behind senior ERs: Put older patients in an area that’s a bit calmer for team-based care to not just treat the problem that brought them to the hospital, but to uncover underlying problems — from depression to dementia to a home full of tripping hazards that might bring them back.
Rosenberg has documented a big drop in the number of seniors who make return visits since his center began day-after-discharge calls to monitor how they’re doing. There’s no official count, but at least a dozen self-designated senior ERs have opened around the country since the first in Silver Spring, Md., in 2008. The one in Maryland and eight in Michigan are operated by Catholic health system Trinity Health of Novi, Mich., which plans to open two in Iowa later this year, followed by more in other states. How does it work? Seniors still enter through the main ER, where triage nurses decide if they have an immediately life-threatening condition. Those patients stay in the regular ER with all its bells and whistles. But other seniors get the option of heading for these new special zones. “It’s a very nurturing environment,” says nurse practitioner Michelle Moccia, who heads the senior ER at Trinity’s St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Mich. There, doors instead of curtains separate beds, tamping down the noise that can increase anxiety,
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Senior Emergency Room Program Director J. Michelle Moccia looks at a hearing amplifier for seniors at St. Mary Mercy Hospital in Livonia, Mich. confusion and difficulty communicating. Nurses carry “pocket talkers,” small amplifiers that hook to headphones so they don’t have to yell if a patient’s hard of hearing. Mattresses are thicker, and patients who don’t need to lay flat can opt for cushy reclining chairs instead; Moccia says people feel better when they can stay upright. Nonskid floors guard against falls. Forms are printed in larger type, to help patients read their care instructions when it’s time to go home. Pharmacists automatically check if patients’ routine medications could cause dangerous interactions. A geriatric social worker is on hand to arrange for Meals on Wheels or other resources. “In the senior unit, they’re just a lot more gentle,” says Betty Barry, 87, of White Lake, Mich., who recently went to another of Trinity’s senior ERs while suffering debilitating hip pain. But Moccia says the real change comes because nurses and doctors undergo training to dig deeper into patients’ lives. While they’re awaiting test results or treatments, every senior gets checked for signs of depression, dementia or delirium. An example: A diabetic was treated for low blood sugar in a regular ER. A few weeks later she was back, but the newly opened senior ER uncovered that dementia was making her mess up her insulin dose, repeatedly triggering the problem, says Dr. Bill Thomas, a geriatrician at the University of Maryland Baltimore County who is advising Trinity Health Novi’s senior ER program. It doesn’t take opening a separate ER to improve older patients’ care, says New Jersey’s Rosenberg, who calls better overall geriatric awareness and training the real key. Still, he says his center saw a 15 percent rise in patients last year. “Those hospitals that have the money and space and the luxury to do something like that are going to get a definite advantage down the road,” predicts John at the American College of Emergency Physicians, who says his own Boston hospital didn’t have the money to try it.
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Coffee tied to lower stroke risk in women By JAMIE STENGLE The Associated Press
DALLAS — Women who enjoy a daily dose of coffee may like this perk: It might lower their risk of stroke. Women in a Swedish study who drank at least a cup of coffee everyday had a 22 to 25 percent lower risk of stroke, compared to those who drank less coffee or none at all. “Coffee drinkers should rejoice,” said Dr. Sharonne N. Hayes, a cardiologist at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. “Coffee is often made out to be potentially bad for your heart. There really hasn’t been any study that convincingly said coffee is bad.” “If you are drinking coffee now, you may be doing some good and you are likely not doing harm,” she added. But Hayes and other doctors say the study shouldn’t send non-coffee drinkers running to their local coffee shop. The study doesn’t prove that coffee lowers stroke risk, only that coffee drinkers tend to have a lower stroke risk. “These sorts of epidemiological studies are compelling but they don’t prove cause,” said Dr. David S. Seres, director of medical nutrition at Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons in New York. The findings were published online Thursday in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. Scientists have been studying coffee for years, trying to determine its risks and benefits. The Swedish researchers led by Susanna Larsson at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm said previous studies on coffee consumption and strokes have had conflicting findings. “There hasn’t been a consistent message come out” of coffee studies, said Dr. Cathy Sila, a stroke neurologist at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. For the observational study,
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Women who drank at least one cup of coffee a day have a lower stroke rate than those who drank less coffee or none at all. researchers followed 34,670 Swedish women, ages 49 to 83, for about 10 years. The women were asked how much coffee they drank at the start of the study. The researchers checked hospital records to find out how many of the women later had strokes. There were 1,680 strokes, including those who drank less than a cup or none. Researchers adjusted for differences between the groups that affect stroke risk, such as smoking, weight, high blood pressure and diabetes, and still saw a lower stroke risk among coffee drinkers. Larsson said the benefit was seen whether the women drank a cup or several daily. “You don’t need to drink so much. One or two cups a day is enough,” she said. Larsson and others point out that those who want to reduce their chances of a stroke should focus on the proven ways to lower risk: Don’t smoke. Keep blood pressure in check. Maintain a healthy weight. April 2011 | 17
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Remembering Elizabeth Taylor Like a bee to honey: Liz lured media By The Associated Press
Some media comments on Elizabeth Taylor during her career: Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper, 1942: “Elizabeth Taylor, one of the most beautiful children I’ve ever seen, is playing opposite Roddy McDowall in ‘Lassie, Come Home.’ New York Times review of “National Velvet,” 1944: “(Director Clarence) Brown has also drawn some excellent performances from his cast, especially from little Elizabeth Taylor, who plays the role of the horse-loving girl. Her face is alive with youthful spirit, her voice has the softness of sweet song and her whole manner in this picture is one of refreshing grace.” Time magazine, 1952: “The day after her divorce from young Conrad (‘Nicky’) Hilton became a legal fact, Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 19, announced that she would marry British Cinemactor Michael Wilding, 39, who is waiting for his own divorce to be final. Said she: ‘We are definitely engaged. We have no definite plans as to exactly when we’ll be married.’” New York Times, review of “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” 1958: “She is terrific as a panting, impatient wife, wanting the love of her husband as sincerely as she wants an inheritance.” Judith Crist, “The Private Eye, the Cowboy and the Very Naked Girl: Movies From Cleo to Clyde,” 1968: “(Taylor’s Cleopatra) is an entirely physical creature, no depth of emotion apparent in her kohl-laden eyes, no modulation in her voice, which too often rises to fishwife levels.
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Elizabeth Taylor poses as Queen Cleopatra in this photo from Joseph L. Mankiewiez’ 1963 film, “Cleopatra”. It was one of her most famous roles. Out of royal regalia, en negligee and au naturel, she gives the impression that she is really carrying on in one of Miami Beach’s more exotic resorts rather than inhabiting a palace in ancient Alexandria or even a villa in Rome.” New York Times, capsule TV listing review: “‘Cleopatra’ (1963) Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison. The original energy crisis. Big, not nearly as bad as everyone had hoped and Rex supplies the real current.” Rex Reed, “Valentines and Vitriol,” 1977: “At 43, she opens the door of her suite at the luxurious Dorchester Hotel in London looking more like a creation dreamed up by the gods on Olympus. It is impossible to imagine any living creature more beautiful. ... She manages to be what the Technicolor screen can only suggest teasingly.”
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Jimmy Carter National Historic Site By TERRY TURNER Prime staff writer
PLAINS, Ga. - This sleepy little town in southwest Georgia with a population of 716 seems an unlikely location for the birthplace of a president of the United States and Nobel Peace Prize recipient but in fact it was where our 39th president was born and where he currently lives. James Earl “Jimmy” Carter was born here Oct. 1, 1924, the first of four children for Earl and Lillian Carter. When Jimmy was four years old the family moved to a farm a few miles from Plains. That farm is now part of a National Historic Site. Jimmy Carter said of his days spent on the farm, “The early years of my life on the farm were full and enjoyable, isolated but not lonely. We always had enough to eat, no economic hardship but no money to waste. We felt close to nature, close to members of our family and close to God.” The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site in Plains includes the farm, the Plains High School he attended and the train depot that served as headquarters for his 1976 presidential campaign. The farm where young Jimmy Carter grew up has been restored to how it was when the family lived there. Along with the home are several outbuildings including the little one used for the “facilities”. The house has wood stoves and fireplaces for heat but no indoor plumbing or electricity. One unusual feature of the farm is a clay tennis court where the future president developed a life-long love of tennis. In his 1975 book “Why Not the Best?” Carter wrote,
The Jimmy Carter Boyhood Farm.
A classroom in the Plains High School has been preserved just as it was when Jimmy Carter attended.
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This windmill on the Carter family farm was ordered from the Sears Catalog and still pumps water.
Billy Carter’s Service Station in Plains, Ga., made famous during his brother’s presidential campaign is now a mini museum.
to the economy of Plains. “My father...was an excelful farmer who raised cotton, Earl also had a general store lent tennis player...I could corn and sugar cane with the on his property where he sold canned goods, coffee, never beat my father. He had help of tenant farmers. He kerosene, overalls and a a wicked sliced ball which was one of the first farmers variety of other items. The barely bounded at all on the in the area to try growing store is one of the restored relatively soft dirt court.” peanuts a crop that would Earl Carter was a success- later become very important buildings on the property.
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Travel est boy in the family he was usually chosen to be the one to serve the customer only to return to a cold plate at the table. After his father began growing peanuts on the farm Jimmy would sell bags of boiled peanuts on the streets of Plains for a nickel. Carter said his parents taught him and his siblings to work hard, value education, be a part of the community, be active in the church and love and respect one another. The high school in Plains where Jimmy spent his formative years is now a museum dedicated to his life. Carter graduated after the 11th grade since there was no 12th grade at the school. When he graduated in 1941 he was salutatorian with the second highest grades in his class. In what was once the school audito-
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During Jimmy Carter’s presidential campaign this train station served as campaign headquarters. Today posters and artifacts from that campaign are on display in the building.
rium visitors can view a film about Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter and their years in the Georgia governor’s mansion and White House. Also in the
high school is a restored classroom and principal’s office along with a visitor’s center and gift shop. For those wanting a brief feeling
n The Jimmy Carter National Historic Site is open year round except on New Year’s Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas Day. The first stop on your tour should be the Visitor Center and Museum in the Plains High School. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. n The 1976 Campaign Headquarters/Train Depot Museum is open from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. n The Jimmy Carter Boyhood Farm is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Park rangers are available throughout the site but tours are self guided. Although the Carters still live in Plains their family home and of what it must be like to sit at the president’s desk in the White House there is a pre-
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The Plains High School is now a museum dedicated to the life of former president Jimmy Carter.
compound is not open to the public. Admission to all parts of the Jimmy Carter National Historic Site is free. For more information visit the National Park Service web site at www.nps.gov. production of the oval office where visitors can have their photo taken.
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Spanish, creative writing, walking 3501 Dakota Ave. • South Sioux City, NE. • 402-494-4273 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap practice, 10 a.m. ; off pounds, 10 a.m. ; painting class, pitch, talk show, “Cooking with Sarah,” 10:30 a.m. tap practice, 1 p.m. ; zumba gold, ping ; drama group, 11 a.m. ; bridge, 12:30 p.m. pong, 2 p.m. group, shanghai, 1 p.m. ; ping pong, 2 p.m. ; euchre, 500, 1 p.m. ; Senior Living Fair, a.m. ; tap dance workshop, 10:30 a.m. ; April 6: Chorus, senior yoga, 9 a.m. ; April 15: Fitness with Sandy, Wii practice, 1-3 p.m. ; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m. duplicate bridge, 11:30 a.m. ; birthday party, painting class, duplicate bridge lessons, April 28: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m. ; walking Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m. ; 9:30 a.m. ; blood pressures, 10 a.m. ; 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap practice, 3 mile Super Strong Seniors with Kelly, 2:30 p.m. bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, off pounds, beg. 1 line dance, 9 a.m. ; walk (tape), 10 a.m. ; talk show, “Egyptian beg. 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m. ; senior yoga, dance with Art & Gwen, 1 p.m. April 12: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m. ; presentation,” 10:30 a.m. ; drama group, 11 Men’s Club, beginning German, 10 a.m. ; April 18: Experienced tap class, 9 a.m. ; advanced Spanish, senior yoga, 9 a.m. ; a.m. ; bridge, 12:30 p.m. ; euchre, 500, 1 advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 Wii practice, 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap class, genealogy, painting class, 9:30 a.m. ; beg. / p.m. ; one mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m. ; a.m. ; woodcarving, inter. line dance, bridge 9:45 a.m. ; guitar practice, 10 a.m. ; tap interm. Spanish, creative writing, walking fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m. ; duplicate bridge group, shanghai, 1 p.m. ; ping pong, 2 p.m. dance workshop, 10:30 a.m. ; duplicate off pounds, 10 a.m. ; crafts, 10:30 a.m. ; club, 6 p.m. April 29: Fitness with Sandy, Wii practice, bridge, 11:30 a.m. ; movie “Unstoppable,” April 7: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m. ; walking painting class, pitch, tap practice, 1 p.m. ; Mah Jong, pinochle, woodcarving, 1 p.m. ; 9:30 a.m. ; blood pressures, 10 a.m. ; off pounds, beg. 1 line dance, 9 a.m. ; beg. zumba gold, ping pong, 2 p.m. bridge group, noon; bridge & 500, scrabble, fitness with Kelly, 2 p.m. April 13: Chorus, senior yoga, 9 a.m. ; 2 line dance, 9:45 a.m. ; card design, senior dance with Shirley’s Big Band, 1 p.m. April 19: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m. ; painting class, duplicate bridge lessons, yoga, Men’s Club, beginning German, ersons 60 years of age and older and P their spouses may participate in the elderly nutrition program in Siouxland. In Sioux City, meals are served Tuesday-Friday 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 2796900.
10 a.m. ; advanced line dance, advanced German, 11 a.m. ; woodcarving, inter. line dance, bridge group, shanghai, 1 p.m. ; ping pong, 2 p.m. April 8: Fitness with Sandy, 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. (Siouxland Music Jamboree, 7 p.m. Saturday) April 11: Experienced tap class, 9 a.m. ; Wii practice, 9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap class, 9:45 a.m. ; guitar practice, story time, 10
9:30 a.m. ; beginner tap practice, 3 mile walk (tape), 10 a.m. ; talk show “One Book One Siouxland 2011 Selection,” 10:30 a.m. ; drama group, 11 a.m. ; bridge, 12:30 p.m. ; euchre, 500, 1 p.m. ; one mile walk warm up, 2:40 p.m. ; fitness with Kelly, 3 p.m. ; duplicate bridge club, 6 p.m. April 14: Penny bingo, 8:30 a.m. ; walking off pounds, beg. 1 line dance, 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. ; inter. line dance, woodcarving, bridge
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Calendar Arts & Theatre
Cirque Du Soleil-Dralion, 1 and 5 p.m. April 9-10, Tyson Events Center, 401 Gordon Dr. 1-800-745-3000, www.cirquedusoleil.com/ dralion The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, April15-19, Wayne S. Knutson Theatre, Warren M. Lee Center for the Fine Arts 414 E. Clark St., Vermillion. 605-677-5400, www.usd. edu/theatre Broadway at the Orpheum: The Rat Pack is Back!, 7:30 p.m. April 28, Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St. This spirited tribute recreates the famous “Summit at the Sands” hotel shows, when the “Rat Pack” was creating a free-wheeling nightclub act. (712) 2794850, www.orpheumlive. com
Classes & Lectures
Free Lymphedema Screenings, Noon-3 p.m. April 19, June E Nylen Cancer Center, 203 Nebraska St. Call 712252-0088 to make an appointment.
Diabetes Express, 7-9 p.m. April 5, St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center, 2720 Stone Park Blvd., For those living with diabetes and their loved ones who have never taken diabetes education previously. Learn about the disease, ways to prevent complications and appropriate food choices. Call 279-3188 to register. Free. www.stlukes.org Kidney Health Options, 1-3 p.m. April 13, Fresenius Medical Care Siouxland, 2530 Glenn Ave., Free class on treatment options for those with poor kidney function.Diann Conrad, dconrad@fmc-na.com, (712) 266-1246.
Music
Iowa Piano Competition, April 1-2, Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St. 712-277-2111, www. siouxcitysymphony.org Sioux City Rockestra: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, 8 p.m. April 9, Orpheum Theatre, 528 Pierce St. 712-279-4850. Darius Rucker, 7:30 p.m. April 13, Orpheum Theatre, Photo by Daniel Desmarais, danieldesmarais.com 528 Pierce St. 800-7453000. Join the 4 elements, clockwise from left: Oceane, Gaya, Azala and Yao, at the Tyson Events Community Sioux City Symphony Center as Cirque Du Soleil-Dralion performs. Make Your Health Last Orchestra: New Discoveries, 2720 Stone Park Blvd. There News. Learn what you can as Long as Your Life, 6:30- 8 p.m. April 7, St. Luke’s 7:30 p.m. April 16, Orpheum Regional Medical Center, is a difference between the do now to maximize your Theatre, 520 Pierce St. amount of years you live ‘health span’ and increase (712) 277-2111, www. and the number of years the number of years you will siouxcitysymphony.org you live in good health. have good health. A book One of the country’s most signing will follow the event. respected experts on how to For more information, log on Shows & Festivals Alzheimer’s Association’s live a healthy lifestyle, Joe to www.stlukes.org. FREE. neW one day escaPes Paul and elaine's 18th Annual Wine & Roses Piscatella will discuss his Free income-tax prep by extended tours The Hoppers .................................April 15 Festival, 6-10 p.m. April 7, own experience as one of BCU students, 5-8 p.m. April Oak Ridge Boys ............................ May 20 Smoky Mountain Shows ..............May 14-22 Willow Creek Golf Course, the longest-living survivors 5-14, Briar Cliff University, "Wicked" at the Orpheum Theater, Pacific Northwest Grandeur - with Victoria 935 Park Lane, LeMars. of cardiac bypass. Piscatella 3303 Rebecca St. To Omaha........................................... May 26 Butchart Gardens option .................July 7-19 Terri Schroeder, terri. is a frequent guest on The schedule an appointment, Hutterite Colony, South Dakota.. June 22 schroeder@alz.org, 712Grand Canyonlands of the Today Show, CNN, Good call Briar Cliff at 712-279Mystery Tour..................................Oct. 15 Great Southwest ........................... Sept. 9-19 279-5802, alz.org/siouxland Morning America and Fox 5417. 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
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Christy Smith Family Resource Center Christy Smith Family Resource Center offers many unique gifts unlike any other store in the area.
Pet Loss
Pet Loss can be heartbreaking. There are several items to choose from to help you remember your pet forever. Items range from urns, stone markers that can be personalized with your pets name, frames, figurines, sympathy cards and literature on grieving.
Lending Library
The Lending Library offers a wide range of books that can be checked out to comfort you or a loved one in your time of need. We have a large selection including: Grief of Child, Children’s Grief, Teenage Grief, Spiritual, Hope/ Encouragement, Women’s Interest, Holidays, Death of Parent, Child and Miscarriage/Infant Death, Suicide, and Pet Loss. We also have books for purchase.
Keepsakes
Seraphim Angels make a wonderful remembrance gift. Angels are a symbol of hope and healing. When you need a special touch and to show you care, angels make a nice choice. Inspirational figurines and statues often help express your thoughts of faith, hope and love. We have the perfect item for you.
Personal Expressions
Our selection of unique pendants and jewelry can help to hold your loved one close to your heart. Stone Markers with several sayings help to create your own memorial garden in honor of your loved one or pet. Cards always let people know just how you feel. Our card department is endless and includes Sympathy cards, Get Well, Birthday and Thinking of You cards for that special occasion. When words don’t express what you feel we invite you to visit us at our Family Resource Center located at 1819 Morningside Ave, Sioux City, Iowa. or call us at 712-276-7319.
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