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Worried about getting old?

Poll sees optimism grow with age

BY MATT SEDENSKY AP National Writer‌

NEW YORK — Feel down about getting older? Wish your life was better? Worried about all the problems that come with age?

A new survey suggests you need only wait: Many pessimistic feelings held by people earlier in life take an optimistic turn as they move toward old age. Even hallmark concerns of old age — about declining health, lack of independence and memory loss — lessen as Americans age.

“The younger generation is less optimistic,” said Dr. Zia Agaha, chief medical officer at West Health, a nonprofit focused on aging issues whose related research institute released the poll March 22 with the independent research organization NORC at the University of Chicago. “Perhaps as they age they will build resilience and they build the capacity that will help them cope better.”

Generally speaking, optimism about growing older increased steadily with age, the poll found. Among people in their 30s, 46 percent described themselves as mostly or somewhat optimistic about aging, compared with 66 percent of people 70 and older.

Likewise, respondents showed a decade-by-

decade increase in feeling confident, not helpless, about aging, and in assessing their household finances positively.

When asked to rate their quality of life, people noted an improvement as they moved from their 50s to their 60s and beyond.

Among respondents 70 and older, two-thirds rated their life excellent or very good, compared to about half of 30-somethings.

Among some metrics, pessimism appears to grow as people move out of their 30s into middle age before falling late in life. Those 70 and older were least likely to express worry about age bringing poor health, a move into a nursing home or memory loss. They also were least likely to fear

old age could prompt them to be disrespected or become a burden on their families. People in their 60s and beyond had the lowest fear of losing their independence.

Other research has pointed to greater satisfaction, happiness and optimism among older people.

Agaha said the latest survey reflects the idea that people often find in their later years a growing appreciation for facets of life they may have focused on less when they were younger, including spirituality and personal relationships.

Fulfillment from those things can helps bolster overall happiness, even in the face of potential physical decline.

The NORC-West Health poll also found

those 70 and older were also less likely than younger people to feel that seniors are forgotten in America today or that they receive too little respect. Not surprisingly, older people were less likely to see the age of 65 as a marker of old age. About four in 10 people in their 30s regarded that number as symbolic of reaching old age, twice as large a share as those in their 70s or beyond.

The poll is based on online and telephone interviews of 3,026 adults age 30 and older who are members of NORC’s nationally representative AmeriSpeak panel. It was conducted Sept. 19 through Oct. 21 and has a margin of sampling error for all respondents of plus or minus 2.2 percentage points.

Physical Fitness

Best way to slow aging? Exercise.

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Lace up those sneakers. Exercise – specifically high-intensity interval training – slows down the aging process.

A new study published in the journal Cell Metabolism noted that any kind of exercise is better than none, but it’s the high-intensity interval training that does best in reversing age-related changes at the cellular level. Though this works for people of all ages, it seems to offer more benefits to older people.

HIIT, as it is commonly known, requires short bursts of intense aerobic activity, intermixed with longer stretch of moderate exercise.

Participating in this kind of training encourages cells to make more proteins to fuel the energy producing cellular mechanism. This, in turn, arrests the aging process.

The study found that younger people participating in HIIT showed a 49 percent increase in mitochondrial capacity and the older group saw a 69 percent. (Mitochondria are the cells’ powerhouses, responsible for producing the molecule that transports chemical energy within cells.)

“Based on everything we know, there’s no substitute for these exercise programs when it comes to delaying the aging process,” Dr. Sreekumaran Nair, senior author of the study and a diabetes researcher at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, told Medical News.

“These things we are seeing cannot be

done by any medicine.”

The study, funded by the National Institutes of Health, used two sets of Emily Michot, Miami Herald/TNS volunteers: the younger set ranged A recently published study found that high-intensity interval training, which combines short in age from 18 to 30 and the older bursts of intense aerobic activity with longer stretch of moderate exercise, is best to reverse ranged in age between 65 and 80. age-related changes.

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Games, crafts, other activities may safeguard aging brain have access to.

“They don’t have to spend their CHICAGO — Even in your 70s and life savings” on fancy gadgets, said Dr. Yonas Geda, the study’s senior beyond, simple activities includauthor and a neurologist at the Mayo ing web-surfing, playing bridge and Clinic’s Scottsdale, Arizona, campus. socializing can stave off mental The study was published Jan. 30 decline, new research says.

Benefits were greatest in computer in the journal JAMA Neurology. The researchers noted that the statistiusers and in those without a gene variation linked with Alzheimer’s dis- cal link they found with reduced risk does not prove the activities were ease. But even among seniors with responsible. that trait, mental decline that someStill, said Heather times precedes dementia was less Snyder of the common among those who engaged Alzheimer’s Association, in mind-stimulating activities. the results support the The results don’t apply to costly, idea that “being engaged computer-based games that purport to keep the brain sharp — those were mentally is good for not studied. The benefits were found brain health.”

The study looked at five from activities that many seniors

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types of activities that are thought to help keep the mind sharp: computer use; making crafts; playing games including chess or bridge; going to movies or other types of socializing; and reading books. The idea was to see if these activities could help prevent mild cognitive impairment.

That condition involves problems with memory, thinking and attention that don’t interfere much with daily life but which increase risks for developing Alzheimer’s disease and other types of dementia.

Almost 2,000 adults aged 70 to 93 without any memory problems participated.

They lived in

Minnesota’s Olmsted County, where the Mayo Clinic in Rochester is located. They were asked whether they had engaged in any of the five activities during the previous year and if so, how often. They were tested for the condition in mental exams at the beginning and every 15 months for about four years. During that time, 456 study participants developed the mild impairment.

Analysis found a protective effect from each activity except for reading books. Study participants who engaged in any of the other activities at least once weekly were 20 percent to 30 percent less likely to develop the condition over the four years than those who never did those activities.

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Travel

The Cabbage Patch Fantasy Land Museum is jam-packed with Cabbage Patch Kids.

Iowa museum is chock-full of

CABBAGE PATCH KIDS

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Donna Brown now has a collection of more than 3,000 dolls and accessories in her Cabbage Patch Fantasy Land Museum.

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GRISWOLD, Iowa – When Donna Brown first saw a Cabbage Patch doll she remarked, “That’s the ugliest doll I’ve ever seen.” But somehow the soft sculpture dolls won her heart, and she now has a collection of more than 3,000 dolls and accessories in her Cabbage Patch Fantasy Land Museum.

Brown said her huge collection started with one doll given to her by her daughter Sherry Seyler. “She bought it at a thrift store in Omaha,” said Brown. “So I guess I can blame my passion for Cabbage Patch Kids on her.”

It wasn’t long before other relatives and friends began giving Brown the soft sculpture dolls as gifts for birth-

days and Christmas.

As the collection began to grow and her house filled with dolls, Brown desperately needed more room. “We got a trailer house but then it got full and we got another trailer house. Then I told my husband I wanted a museum so that I could have them all in here.” It was then her late husband Clyde came to the rescue. “He built the museum,” she said.

Clyde even helped in collecting more Cabbage Patch Kids for the collection.

“When we went on vacation that was our thing to find Cabbage Patch Kids,” she said. “Hardly any of them were fully dressed. They might have a shoe or top.”

Brown would then take piec-

Donna Brown demonstrates how some special Cabbage Patch Kids can eat French fries.

Shelves in the museum are filled with Cabbage Patch Kids.

Donna Brown poses with the doll that hooked her on collecting Cabbage Patch Kids. The doll was given to Brown by her daughter Sherry.

es from several to make one.

“The older ones are getting hard to find in good shape.”

The story of the Cabbage Patch doll begins in 1976 when 21-year-old art student Xavier Roberts came up with the idea. It was two years later that Roberts and five of his college friends joined together and formed a company called the Original Appalachian Artworks Inc. that produced a plush, handmade Little People doll.

Even those first dolls came with what would become a signature item with the later Cabbage Patch dolls, a birth certificate and adoption papers.

By 1981 his unique dolls were so popular Roberts and his friends couldn’t keep up

The Cabbage Patch Fantasy Land Museum has more than 3,000 Cabbage Patch Kids on display.

If you go What: Cabbage Patch Fantasy Land Museum.

Where: Just outside of Griswold, Iowa, at 69868 590th St. Hours: Wednesday through Sunday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. or by appointment.

Admission: Free but donations are accepted.

More info: Call (712) 778-4244.

with the demand. The Little People dolls even appeared on the cover of Atlantic Weekly. In 1982 they signed a contract with Coleco, who would mass-produce the dolls with plastic heads and be called Cabbage Patch Kids. By the next year even Coleco couldn’t keep up with the demand.

From 1989 to 1994 Hasbro

took over production of the dolls that had now shrunk to 14 inches tall. Mattel began production in 1994, keeping the smaller 14-inch design that continues today.

Brown points out that Cabbage Patch collectors don’t refer to the popular toy as dolls. “You’re supposed to call them babies,” she explained. “And when you adopt a baby you’re supposed to take an oath that you will take care of your baby.”

On the left side of every baby’s bottom is the signature of the inventor, Xavier Roberts. What many people don’t know is the color of the signature changed for just about every year they were made. In 1983, the signature

The museum even has a school for Cabbage Patch Kids.

was black but in 1993 it was forest green.

Brown said Cabbage Patch Kids have been just about everywhere, including small versions in McDonald’s Happy Meals. “Burger King also had them in their kids’ meals,” said Brown. She said one lucky Cabbage Patch Kid even went into space.

“On October 30, 1985, a Cabbage Patch Kid went into space on the Space Shuttle Challenger.”

Then in 1996 the Olympic Games Committee selected the Cabbage Patch Kids as their official mascot.

There were various ideas for special Cabbage Patch Kids, including one that could say their ABCs. But not all the ideas for the

Cabbage Patch Kids were successful. Brown has one example that can eat French fries. “It wasn’t out very long,” she said. “Kids could get their fingers or hair caught in them. They didn’t recall them but you could take it back and get your money back.”

Just like the flu that swept through Iowa recently, the Cabbage Patch Kids had their own bout with disease.

“They called it the ‘Cabbage Patch Pox,’” said Brown. “It was a defect in the material that caused spots.” Those Cabbage Patch Kids in the museum affected by the pox have been isolated. But not to worry, they have a full-time nurse looking after them.

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Calendar Through April 30

Sioux City Camera Club exhibit, Betty Strong Encounter Center, 900 Larsen Park Road. An exhibition of photographs made by Sioux City Camera Club members in Siouxland and beyond. Closed Mondays. 712-224-5242. www.siouxcitylcic.com.

Through May 28

”Korea Remembered” photo exhibit, Betty Strong Encounter Center, 900 Larsen Park RoadA. A photo exhibit honoring Siouxland veterans of the Korean War, part of The Journal’s 20-part series, “Korea: Forgotten war remembered,” produced

by Journal newsroom staff.

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April 1

Building Bridges to Better Lives, Betty Strong Encounter Center, 900 Larsen Park Road. An exhibit focusing on the East Bottoms, a neighborhood near the Sioux City Stockyards, meatpacking plants and expanses of railroad tracks, was home to many new immigrants in the first half of the 20th century.

712-224-5242. www. siouxcitylcic.com.

Short Shorts! 5 minutes or less, Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, 300 Third St. The Festival opens with shorts films about 5 minutes long, all genres, from all over the world. 1-3 p.m. www.siouxcityfilmfest. org/.

Selected Documentaries, Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, 300 Third St. Although the documentary event was completed during the Festival in February, selected documentaries will be screened again. The program will include the local film

that won the competition “A New Tomorrow Begins Today,” produced by students at Sioux City North High School. 4-6 p.m. www. siouxcityfilmfest.org/.

A Night at the Derby Bishop Heelan Auction, Sioux City Convention Center, 801 4th St. Bishop Heelan Catholic Schools will present a “Night at the Derby” for its 2017 Heelan Auction. 5:30 p.m.

Horror and Sci-Fi movies, Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, 300 Third St. Any audience member wearing a costume will get in free. An after party for filmmakers and filmgoers follows the awards presentation. 7-10 p.m. www.siouxcityfilmfest.org/.

Dueling Pianos, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd St. Dueling Pianos is a collection of some of the best entertainers in the industry. *One table equals four seats. 8-11 p.m. $10-$20.

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April 2

2017 Spring Fling Craft and Vendor Event, Marina Inn Convention Center, 385 E. 4th St., South Sioux City.

50+ vendors and crafters along with inflatables for kids, kids activities and face painting! 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Faces of Siouxland Mutli-Cultural Fair, Sioux City Convention Center, 801 Fourth St. Live entertainment, arts & crafts for children, informational booths, foods and crafts for sale. Sponsored by the Sioux City Human Rights Commission. Noon-4 p.m.

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The Write Stuff, Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, 300 Third St. Workshop presented by

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Adam Gonshorowski is designed to teach how to write achievable, low budget, short films. Noon-1 p.m. www.siouxcityfilmfest.org/.

Best of the Midwest, Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, 300 Third St. Some amazing films are produced right here in the Midwest, and you are going to be impressed and satisfied. Huge range of film styles, and every film is 30 minutes or less. 1-3:30 p.m. www.siouxcityfilmfest.org/.

Popcorn, Ice Cream and Fun, US Bank, 501 Pierce St. Sioux City Symphony musicians share instruments with children and let them try out, hear and learn about the instruments provided by Ray’s MidBell Music. Learn about the mechanics and science behind the instruments at the LaunchPAD displays. 2-3 p.m.

Free Family Concert, Orpheum Theater, 528 Pierce St. The Sioux City Symphony Orchestra introduces young listeners to the world of classical music.

Through an unconventional mix of classic music and exciting storytelling, listeners meet Russian composer Tchaikovsky. Call 712-2772111 to reserve your free tickets. 3-4 p.m.

Sioux City Musketeers Hockey, Tyson Events Center, 401 Gordon Dr. vs.

Tri-City. 3:05 p.m. $9.50$20. 712-224-7825. www. musketeershockey.com/.

Selected Short Shorts, Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, 300 Third St. Encore screening of selected short shorts. 4-5 p.m. www.siouxcityfilmfest. org/.

Festival Showcase, Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, 300 Third St. The Festival

prizes and entertainment from awarding-winning humorist and professional speaker, Kay Dodd. For more information visit www.mercysiouxcity.com/ April 3 womens-night-out. $40.

Open Mic Night at Half Country Dance Class, Moon Bar & Grill, Half Galaxie Bar and Grill, 1951 Moon Bar & Grill, 714 S. Leech Ave., 2nd floor. You Lewis Blvd. Test your talents will learn the 2 Step, Waltz, at Half Moon Bar & Grill’s Triple 2 Step, Stationary Cha open mic night. The event Cha, Teton and many more. takes place at 9 p.m. every DO NOT need a partner to Monday until midnight. join class. Thursdays 7-8:30 p.m. Only $5. For more info April 4 April 5 – April 9 call Karen at 712-276-6694.

Free Soup & Speaker, 67th Annual Shrine 7-8:30 p.m.

Sunrise Retirement Circus, Tyson Event Center, The Star on My Heart Community, 5501 Gordon 401 Gordon Dr. Two shows The Inge Auerbacher Dr. “Assisted Living: How each day. Wed-Fri 11:30 a.m. Story, Sioux City Orpheum to Access The Support and 7 p.m., Sat 11:30 a.m.

Theatre, 528 Pierce St. The You Need & Keep Your and 5 p.m., Sun 11 a.m. and Star on My Heart is the Independence” presented by 3 p.m. We will have tigers story of one of the child Hallie Salmen, CEO & Pam and elephants at our circus Glanzer, Marketing Associate this year. New toys, new acts survivors of Terezin, Inge Auerbacher. The play was at Sunrise Retirement and as always new fun for Community. Limited seating. the kids of all ages. Free kids written by Ohio writer and theater director Angela Please RSVP by March 31 at coupons available on Abu Miloro-Hansen. Both Ms. 712-212-9370. 5:30-7 p.m.

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Hansen will be present Tangled Yarns, South abubekr.com/. at the Sioux City opening Sioux City Public Library, night. Ms. Auerbacher will 2121 Dakota Avenue, South April 6 be the guest of honor and Coffee and Conversation Sioux City. Tangled Yarns is speak to the audience after with Russ Gifford: a group of needle workers the performance. 7:30Remembering 1919, who meet each Tuesday 9 p.m. 712-255-4346.

Western Iowa Tech at 6:30 p.m. to ply their toleranceweek.com. needlecraft and to teach one Community College, Wells Fargo Room L110, 4647 another new techniques in April 7 Stone Ave. Join historian crochet, knitting and other Library Fan Fiction Russ Gifford for a trip needle work. 6:30-7:30 Writing Contest, back to 1919 starting with p.m. 402-494-7500. www.

Morningside College Prohibition and ending with Hickman Dining Room in southsiouxcity.org/library/.

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Peters Ave. Friday is Writing Training, Western Iowa 10:30 a.m.-noon. 712-255Day series. Finalists in the Tech Community College 2933.. onebookonesiouxland. writing contest will present Rocklin Conference Center, org. their short fan fiction. A 4647 Stone Ave. The winner will be chosen from Mercy Women’s Night training will cover basics of the finalists and awards thunderstorm development, Out, Sioux City Convention given. Noon-12:50 p.m.

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Beginning at 4 p.m., come severe weather features, enjoy shopping, health ihow to report information, St. Michael Famous Fish screenings, wine and hors basic severe weather safety Dinners, St. Michael Parish d’ouevres. There will be and more. Check in time is Center, 2223 Indian Hills Dr. nearly 50 centers of health 6:30 p.m. The presentation Every Friday of Lent we will is free and open to the public and beauty to visit. Dinner be serving fish, salad bar, with limited seating. It will be will begin at 7 p.m., to macaroni and cheese, and be followed with door held in the WITCC Rocklin desserts. 4:30-7 p.m. $9 Showcase features narrative short films, both comedy and drams, national and international. 7-10 p.m. www.siouxcityfilmfest.org/.

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Alton Brown Live - Eat Your Science, Orpheum Theater, 528 Pierce St. Alton Brown is bringing his live show to Sioux City! Fans can experience all of the things Brown wasn’t allowed to do on TV, including bigger and better potentially dangerous food demonstrations! 7:30 p.m. $47.50-$127.50. orpheumlive.com/.

adult, children under 10 are $5, children under 4 are free.

Vince Gill, Orpheum Theater, 528 Pierce St. Twenty-time Grammy Award-winning and 18-time CMA Award-winning songwriter and musician.

Tickets on sale at the Tyson Events Center Box Office, online at OrpheumLive.com, or by calling 800-514-3849.

7:30 p.m. $35-$125.

Sundance Head, Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd St. Sundance Head is the most recent winner of NBC’s “The Voice,” and the son of singer Roy Head from the band The Traits who are known for their 1965 hit, “Treat Her Right.” 8-11 p.m. $17-$45.

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Siouxland Soldiers. Plenty of parking available beside the building and on the streets.

Stay after the concert for a tour of the building and view the costumes used n the Masonic degrees. 100% of admission goes to the Warming Shelter. 2:30 p.m. $10, students free.

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Free Soup & Speaker Series, Sunrise Retirement Community, 5501 Gordon Dr. “Common Medications & Concerns in Patients Over 65” presented by Abby Banks, PharmD; Drilling Pharmacy. Limited seating.

Please RSVP by April 7 at 712-212-9370. 5-7 p.m. www.sunriseretirement.com.

Welcome - A gathering for people who have relocated to Sioux City, Sunnybrook Community April 8 Church, 5601 Sunnybrook Dr. If you’ve just relocated to Stone Park Trail the Sioux City area or moved Maintenance, Stone State Park, 5001 Talbot Road. Join here a few years ago, we welcome everyone to attend.

AmeriCorps members to help with a project to repair Make a few new friends, find out more about the Sioux water diversions on the Mt. City area and Sunnybrook Lucia trail. Tools provided but bring your work gloves. Community Church! 5:306:30 p.m. 239-437-1838.

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Wahkaw Shelter (take Pammel Road to the bottom April 13 and turn left). 10 a.m.-noon.

Live Animal Lunchtime, 712-255-4698.

Dorothy Pecaut Nature The Outlaws, Hard Center, 4500 Sioux River Rock Hotel & Casino Road. Come and watch Sioux City, 111 3rd St. our live animals eat. Learn The Outlaws return with about their habitat needs new music, new focus and and adaptations. Free! 4:30an uncompromising new 5:15 p.m. 712-258-0838. mission: It’s about a band woodburyparks.org. of brothers bound together Sioux City Camera Club by history, harmony and meetings, First Presbyterian the road. 8-11 p.m. $32Church, 608 Nebraska St. $69.50. 844-222-7625. www.

Guests are welcome. Parking hardrockcasinosiouxcity.com. is available in the parking April 9 lot on the north side of the All-America Concert church. Enter through the Band, Scottish Rite Temple, lower-level. Sharing the 801 Douglas St. Special art, science and fellowship salute to our military and of photography! 7-9:30 Veterans. Benefits Support p.m. 712-234-2729.. www.

Center Gateway Arena, 401 Gordon Dr. The Harlem April 14 Globetrotters are legendary Starship featuring Mickey worldwide, synonymous Thomas, Hard Rock Hotel with one-of-a-kind family & Casino Sioux City, 111 entertainment and great 3rd St. 8-11 p.m. $39basketball skills for the past $80. 844-222-7625. www.

90 years. 7 p.m. $23.50hardrockcasinosiouxcity.com. $72.50. 712-279-4850.

April 15 tysoncenter.com.

Sioux City Bandits April 19 Football, Tyson Events Caregiver Support Group, Center, 401 Gordon Dr. vs.

Faith United Presbyterian Bloomington Edge. Purchase Church, 4327 Morningside your single seat tickets at the Tyson Box Office or online at Ave. For all those caring for etix.com. 7 p.m. $9-$31.50. someone with Alzheimer’s disease or another dementia.

800-743-3000. www.

10-11:30 a.m. 712-587scbandits.com.

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The Man in Black a tribute to Johnny Cash, April 20 Hard Rock Hotel & Casino History at High Noon: Sioux City - Anthem, 111 Sioux City’s Favorite 3rd St. Tribute show. 21 Pastime Baseball 1888and older only. 8 p.m. $181993, Sioux City Public $44. 844-222-7625. www.

Museum, 607 4th St. hardrockcasinosiouxcity.

This program highlights com. various professional, semi-professional and April 17 amateur teams that have Brian Wilson presents called Sioux City home.

Pet Sounds: The Final Prominent individual Performances, Orpheum players and historic venues Theatre, 520 Pierce Street will also be discussed.

Suite 280. In celebration of 12:05 p.m. 712-255-2933. the 50th Anniversary of the release of Pet Sounds, Brian onebookonesiouxland.org.

WITCC Expo Open Wilson will be performing House, Western Iowa his legendary Pet Sounds Tech Community College, album in its entirety. 7:30 4647 Stone Ave. Western p.m. $61.50-$127.50.

Tickets on sale at the Tyson Iowa Tech is celebrating 50 Years. Take a tour of Events Center Box Office, online at OrpheumLive.com the campus, grab some free food, and register for or by calling ETIX at 800prizes. Unveiling of the new 514-3849. alumni wall and student April 18 performances. This event is Free Soup & Speaker setup for the community to Series, Sunrise Retirement come and go as they please Community, 5501 Gordon from 3-7 p.m., class and Dr. “You Know You’re demo sessions start at 3:30 a Geriatrician When...” p.m. are only 20 minutes presented by Dr. Joseph long, food available from Rees. Limited seating.

5-6:30 p.m. Go online to Please RSVP by April 14 www.witcc.edu/expo for at 712-212-9370. 5:30-7 full schedule of events and p.m. 712-276-3821. www. details. 712-274-6400. sunriseretirement.com.

April 21 The Original Harlem Genocides of Our Time, Globetrotters, Tyson Event siouxcitycameraclub.com.

Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center, 4500 Sioux River Road. Here’s your exclusive chance for a photography session with the resident birds of prey. Bring your own camera and gear; we will provide opportunities for you to photograph the American Kestrel, Barred Owl and Red-tailed Hawk.

Pre-registration is required.

This session is limited to 30 people. Pre-register at 712-258-0838 or tkruid@ woodburycountyiowa. gov. 10-11:30 a.m. www. woodburyparks.org.

Diamond Rio, WinnaVegas Casino Resort, 1500 330th, Sloan, Iowa. in 1989 in Nashville, April 21 – April 22 Formed Tenn. Doors open at 6 p.m.

Fish Fest, SCHEELS, 4400 All ages welcome. 7-11 Sergeant Road, Sioux City, p.m. $25-$35. 7124287164.

IA. Join SCHEELS Experts winnavegas.com/events.php. and Fishing Vendors for the The Marshall Tucker best deals of the season!

Band, Hard Rock Hotel & Fun for the whole family Casino Sioux City, 111 3rd including the youth angler St. Southern Rock group trout pond. Noon-7 p.m.

The Marshall Tucker Band 712-252-1551. experience. is scheduled to perform scheels.com/event/fishin Anthem.

Tickets can fest-9/. be purchased at the Rock April 21 – May 7 Shop or online at tickets.

The Music Man, Sioux hardrockcasinosiouxcity.

City Community Theatre, com. Events in Anthem are 1401 Riverside Blvd. There’s 21 and older only. 8 p.m. trouble in River City when a April 25 fast-talking salesman gets Free Soup & Speaker, his heart stolen by the town Sunrise Retirement librarian. Shows 7:30 p.m.

Community, 5501 Gordon Friday and Saturday and 2 Dr. “Planning with p.m. Sunday. 7:30 p.m. $18 Beneficiary Designation: adults, $15 students, $12 children ages 3-12, children How to Navigate IRA’s, Life Insurance, Annuities under 3 are free. 712-2332719. www.SCCTheatre.org. & More” presented by Kyle Irvin, attorney. Limited April 22 seating. Please RSVP Walk MS: Sioux City

by April 21 at 712-2122017, Riverside Park, 1301 9370. 5:30-7 p.m. www.

Riverside Blvd. Team up sunriseretirement.com. with friends, loved ones and April 26 co-workers to change the Waffles for Warriors, 1551 world for everyone affected

by MS. Together, we become Indian Hill Dr. Suite 102, 1551 Indian Hill Dr. Suite a powerful force. 9 a.m.102. The last Wednesday of noon. 712-251-8085.

CALENDAR, PAGE 14 Photograph the Raptors, Morningside College Hickman Dining Room in Olsen Student Center, 3609 Peters Ave. Friday is Writing Day series. Students in Rabbi Guy Greene’s class will read research and reflection papers on genocides. Noon-12:50 p.m. www.morningside.edu.

Hairball, Sioux City Convention Center, 801 4th St. The band returns to the Sioux City Convention Center for one show only. Tickets on sale at the Tyson Events Center Box Office, online at Etix.com, or by calling 800-514-ETIX. 7:30 p.m. siouxcityconventioncenter. com

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Terry’s Turn

Spring brings memories of model airplanes

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ccording to the calendar spring is here, but as is typical of Iowa this time of year the temperature is fluctuating as much as the stock market, which means some days feel more like the dead of winter than spring. But soon it will warm up and stay that way.

These days I look forward to the warmer weather just so my joints don’t ache as bad, but when I was a kid it was different.

Those warm days Terry Turner meant we could play outside more turnert185@outlook.com and do things like play baseball or do my favorite warm weather thing, fly model airplanes.

I’ve always loved airplanes, both the real ones and models. One of my earliest experiences with model planes actually started with our family dentist. His office was alongside the Beacon Theater on Ames Avenue in North Omaha. I was understandably a little worried when I found out I was going to the dentist for

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every month. Sponsored by Support Siouxland Soldiers.

9-11 a.m.

United Way of Siouxland’s 2017 Women’s Power Lunch, Sioux City Convention Center, 801 4th St. Taya Kyle will speak at the 17th Annual Women’s Power Lunch. Her husband, U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle, was killed in February of 2013. He is the author of New York Times bestselling book and subject of the motion picture, “American Sniper.” 10:30 a.m.-1:30

the first time, but my older brother put my mind at ease. “His name is Dr. Carr,” he said. “But he’s known far and wide as ‘painless Carr.’”

Although my brother often told me things that weren’t exactly true, this time he was right. I credit Dr. Carr with my lack of fear of dentists that continues today.

But the best part of going to the dentist back then was that Dr. Carr’s dad had a hobby shop next door. If all went well at the dentist my mother would take me to that hobby shop and I could get a model airplane.

I even remember my first plane from Dr. Carr’s dad’s hobby shop. It was a WWII Curtiss P-40 Warhawk with the tiger teeth from the famous Flying Tigers squadron. It was a solid wood model so it didn’t fly, but it sure looked cool sitting on my dresser after I put it together and painted it.

I also put together plastic model planes, but my very favorite was the stick and paper type. Those models were made just like the real thing with ribs and stringers and all the innards of a real plane.

The first thing I did when I made one of those models was to spread

p.m. $55. 712-255-3551. www.unitedwaysiouxland. com/womens-powerlunch-2017.

Creative Edge Ad Club Presentation, Morningside College Hickman Dining Room in Olsen Student Center, 3609 Peters Ave. Friday is Writing Day series.

The club will present its 2017 marketing campaign for Werner Fleet Sales.

Noon-12:50 p.m. www. morningside.edu.

42nd Street, Orpheum Theater, 528 Pierce St. Based on a novel by Bradford Ropes and Busby Berkeley’s 1933 movie, 42nd Street tells the story

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of a starry-eyed young dancer named Peggy Sawyer who leaves her Allentown home and comes to New York to audition for the new Broadway musical Pretty Lady.

7:30 p.m. 712-279-4850. broadwayattheorpheum.com.

April 27 - April 28

Design & Dine, Stoney Creek Hotel & Conference Center, 300 Third St. Design & Dine is Crittenton Center’s two night, signature fundraising event in which designers create amazing, beautiful, extravagant, and, even a little crazy, decorated tables. Thursday: View and Vote Party. Casual social

out the plans and cover them with wax paper. That kept the glue from sticking to the paper plans. Then I used pins to keep the wood in place and glued it all together. After that the model was covered with paper and attached to the wood with some stuff appropriately called dope.

Between the fumes from the glue and dope I was usually flying higher than the plane ever would.

I remember making what was probably my last wood and paper plane. It was a Piper Cub and it took many long hours to make. It even had decals, including the N number on the tail. It was beautiful.

Once my plane was completed I proudly took it to the park down the street for its maiden flight. When I reached the open area at the park a small crowd gathered around and stared in amazement at my newly completed plane. I gratefully accepted their oh’s and ah’s as I explained how I made the beautiful machine.

The Piper Cub was powered by some long rubber bands inside the plane that went from the prop to the tail. The idea was to wind the bands until knots began to appear. The more knots the more power. I had

time with a silent auction table, FREE appetizers, a live band and cash bar.

Tickets are $10 each and can be purchased at the door. Friday: Dinner and Auction. Individual dinner tickets are $100. All sponsors at all levels are listed in the program. www. crittentoncenter.org.

April 27

Brantley Gilbert, Tyson Events Center, 401 Gordon Drive, Sioux City, IA. Awardwinning country music artist Brantley Gilbert will perform with special guests Luke Combs and Brian Davis.

Tickets on sale at the Tyson Events Center Box Office,

already tested the rubber bands at home in my room, winding them just enough to run a few seconds, but now I was ready to amaze my adoring fans and crank that baby up to supersonic.

I began winding the rubber bands and soon knots began to form. I continued turning the prop making more and more knots. Sweat began to form on my fevered brow as I kept turning the prop. Just one more turn, I thought to myself.

Suddenly and without warning one of the rubber bands broke! It began flailing around inside the plane and tearing it to shreds. When the horror stopped I stood there with the shattered remnants of my once beautiful plane in my hands.

The crowd that had gathered began to walk away and I heard comments like, “That’s too bad. It was a neat looking plane.”

“Tough luck but you shouldn’t have wound it so tight.”

I gathered up the pile of torn paper and splintered wood and headed home. I never made another stick and paper plane but in spite of that terrible mishap I never lost my love for all things that fly.

online at TysonCenter.com, or by calling 800-514-3849.

7 p.m. $34.75-$39.75. 800514-3849.

April 28

Kiosk Celebration, Morningside College Helen Levitt Art Gallery, Eppley Fine Arts Building, 3625 Garretson Ave. Friday is Writing Day series. Get the latest issue of the college’s art and literary magazine. Winners of the art and literary competitions will share their work.

Noon12:50 p.m. www. morningside.edu.

April 29

Volunteer Work Day,

Dorothy Pecaut Nature Center, 4500 Sioux River Road. Help us spruce up the trails, gardens, Nature Playscape and grounds this spring. Wear sturdy shoes and bring work gloves. Preregistration is appreciated so we can plan our volunteer tasks. 9 a.m.-noon. 712-2580838. www.woodburyparks. org.

Sioux City Bandits Football, Tyson Events Center, 401 Gordon Dr. vs.

West Michigan Ironmen.

Purchase your single seat tickets at the Tyson Box Office or online at etix.com.

7 p.m. $9-$31.50. 800-7433000. www.scbandits.com.

Senior Activities Nutrition program

Persons 60 years and older, and their spouses may participate in the elderly nutrition program in Siouxland. In Sioux City, meals are served Monday-Friday 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 $3.75.

Reservations are required a day in advance by calling the Sergeant Bluff site at 943-4669 or the Connections Area Agency on Aging nutrition office at 279-6900 ext. 25.

For more information about other available meal sites, call 279-6900.

Siouxland Center for Active Generations

Siouxland Center for Active Generations, 313 Cook St., is open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Weekly classes, programs: April 3: 8 a.m. Scrapbooking; 8:30 a.m. Yoga with Amanda, Exercise Plus 50; 9:30 a.m.

Beginning Duplicate Bridge Class, Wii Bowling, Computer 1-on-1 (Pre-register), Tap Class; 9:45 a.m. Review Tai Chi Class; 10 a.m.

Knitting & Crocheting; 11:30 a.m.

Duplicate Bridge Game; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 12:30 p.m. Movie “Second Hand Lion;” 1 p.m. Pinochle, American Mah Jong, Woodcarving; 2 p.m. Walking Off Pounds; 2:30 p.m. Fitness with Kelly April 4: 8:30 a.m. Enhance Fitness w/ YMCA Instr., Penny Bingo; 9 a.m. Senior Yoga; 9:30 a.m. Painting Class; 9:45 a.m. Blood Pressures/YMCA; 10 a.m. Creative Writing, Walking Off Pounds; 10:15 a.m. Belly Dancing; 10:45 a.m.

Beginning Tai Chi Class; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 11:45 a.m.

Adaptive Aerobics; 12:30 p.m. Tap

Class, Penny Bingo; 1 p.m. Mexican Train, Scrabble, Balance Class with YMCA Instructor, Painting Class, Pitch; 2 p.m. Ping Pong April 5: 8:30 a.m. Enhance Fitness with YMCA Instr.; 9 a.m.

Yoga with Dixie of Recover Health, Novice Duplicate Bridge Game; 9:30 a.m. Computer 1-on-1 (Preregister/Pre-pay), Painting Class; 10 a.m. Chess Group, Sexy & Fit after 40; 10:30 a.m. Talk Show “Fall Prevention;” 10:45 a.m. Guitar Practice; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch; 11:30 a.m. Jam Session; 12:30 p.m. Beginning Bridge; 1 p.m.

Choreographed Ballroom, Coloring Corner, Scrabble, 500; 2:30 p.m. 1 Mile Walk Warm Up; 3 p.m. Fitness with Kelly April 6: 8:30 a.m. Penny Bingo; 8:45 a.m. Beg. 1 Line Dance; 9 a.m. Yoga; 9:30 a.m. Drum Circle, Beginning Bridge I; 9:45 a.m. Beg. 2 Line Dance; 10 a.m. Book Club, Walking Off The Pounds, Men’s

Club; 11 a.m. Advanced Line Dance; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 12:30 p.m. Canasta, Penny Bingo, Woodcarving; 1 p.m. Beginning Bridge Class, Men’s and Women’s Social Group, Intermediate Line Dance, Cribbage; 2 p.m. Ping Pong April 7: 8:30 a.m. Enhance Fitness with YMCA Instr., Exercise Plus 50; 9:30 a.m. Wii Bowling, Mixed Media Art Class/Vivian Miller, Fitness with Dixie of Recover Health, Women’s Pool Shooting Class; 10 a.m. Blood Pressures/ St.Luke’s; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch; Noon Basic Tap, Bridge Group; 12:30 p.m. Open Craft Time; 1 p.m. Bridge, 500, Friday Dance “Terry & Three on the Road” April 10: 8 a.m. Scrapbooking; 8:30 a.m. Yoga with Amanda, Exercise Plus 50; 9:30 a.m.

Beginning Duplicate Bridge Class, Grief Support Program, Wii Bowling, Computer 1-on-1 (Preregister), Tap Class; 9:45 a.m.

Review Tai Chi Class; 10 a.m.

Knitting & Crocheting; 11:30 a.m.

Duplicate Bridge; 11:30 am. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 1 p.m. Birthday Party, Pinochle, American Mah Jong, Woodcarving; 2 p.m. Walking off Pounds; 2:30 p.m. Fitness with Kelly.

April 11: 8:30 a.m. Enhance Fitness with YMCA Instr., Penny Bingo; 9 a.m. Senior Yoga; 9:30 a.m. Painting Class; 9:45 a.m.

Blood Pressures/YMCA; 10 a.m.

Creative Writing, Walking Off Pounds; 10:15 a.m. Belly Dancing; 10:30 a.m. Crafts with Betty; 10:45 a.m. Beginning Tai Chi Class; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 11:45 a.m.

Adaptive Aerobics; 12:30 p.m. Tap Class, Penny Bingo; 1 p.m. Mexican Train, Scrabble, Balance Class with YMCA Instr., Pitch; 2 p.m. Ping Pong PLEASE SEE SENIORS, PAGE 16

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Technology

Comfort Keepers debuts GrandPad, a tablet for the elderly

BY CARRIE RENGERS The Wichita Eagle‌

WICHITA, Kan. – You’ve heard of the iPad, but how about the GrandPad? It’s a tablet designed to help the elderly, especially those with vision and dexterity issues, keep in touch with family and friends without the risk that being on the internet sometimes brings.

“This is an antiisolation product,” says Doug Stark, who owns the Wichita franchises of ComfortCare Homes and Comfort Keepers.

ComfortCare Homes offers long-term dementia care, and Comfort Keepers offers companion care for people who aren’t ready for full-time care.

It’s Comfort Keepers that is distributing the

Seniors

Men’s & Women’s Social Group, Inter. Line Dance, Cribbage; 2 p.m. Ping Pong FROM PAGE 15 April 14: 8:30 a.m.

Enhance Fitness with YMCA April 12: 8:30 Enhance Instr., Exercise Plus 50; 9:30 Fitness, 9 a.m. Yoga with a.m.

Wii Bowling, Mixed Dixie of Recover Health, Media Art Class with Vivian Novice Duplicate Bridge Miller, Fitness with Dixie of Game; 9:30 a.m. Computer Recover Health, Women’s 1-on-1 (Pre-register/PrePool Shooting Class; 10 pay), Painting Class; 10 a.m. Blood Pressures/Mercy; a.m. Chess Group, Sexy & Fit after 40; 10:30 a.m. Talk 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch; Noon Basic Tap, Show “The American Red Bridge Group; 12:30 p.m.

Cross Today;” 10:45 a.m.

Open Craft Time; 1 p.m.

Guitar Practice; 11:30 a.m Bridge, 500 - 12:30 a.m. Lunch; 11:30 April 17: 8 a.m. a.m. Jam Session; 12:30 Scrapbooking; 8:30 a.m. p.m. Beginning Bridge; Yoga with Amanda, Exercise 1 p.m. Choreographed Plus 50; 9:30 a.m. Beginning Ballroom, Coloring Corner, Duplicate Bridge Class, Wii Scrabble, 500; 2:30 p.m. 1 Mile Walk Warm Up; 3 p.m. Bowling, Computer 1-on-1 (Pre-register), Tap Class; Fitness with Kelly April 13: 8:30 a.m. Penny 9:45 a.m. Review Tai Chi Bingo; 8:45 a.m. Beg. 1 Line Class; 10 a.m. Knitting & Crocheting; 11:30 a.m.

Dance; 9 a.m. Yoga; 9:30 a.m. Drum Circle, Beginning Duplicate Bridge; 11:30 a.m.

- 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 12:30 Bridge I; 9:45 a.m. Beg. 2 Line Dance; 10 a.m. Walking p.m. Movie “Moana;” 1 p.m. off the Pounds, Men’s Club; Pinochle, American Mah Jong, Woodcarving; 2 p.m.

11 a.m. Advanced Line Walking off Pounds; 2:30 Dance; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Fitness with Kelly p.m. Lunch; 12:30 p.m.

Canasta, Penny Bingo, April 18: 8:30 a.m.

Woodcarving; 1 p.m.

Enhance Fitness with YMCA Beginning Bridge Class, Instr., Penny Bingo; 9 a.m.

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GrandPads nationally.

They’re now part of the hourly rate for clients.

“That’s the nice thing about it,” Stark says.

“It is part of our service.”

Others who would like the GrandPad can rent one for $70 a month, which includes unlimited access from Verizon Wireless.

Stark says a man and his son in

California invented the GrandPad. “They were trying to figure out a way to communicate with grandma,” he says.

“Grandma was way past being able to use an iPad.” They wanted her to be able to have conversations, easy e-mails and to share photos.

“She didn’t want to just be 91 years old and stuck in the

abyss,” Stark says.

He says the pair seriously considered what features the elderly would need.

“They didn’t get a bunch of California geeks together in a development office and have everybody say, ‘Well, I think they would want this, I think they would want that.’ “ There’s no user name or password with the

GrandPad. It’s ready to use without having to find an “on” button.

Users simply pick it up from a carriage that sits next to them.

“You open the lid, boom, it’s instant on,” Stark says.

When they set the GrandPads back down, they automatically start charging on the carriage. Photos rotate on display on the carriage as well.

Senior Yoga; 9:30 a.m.

Painting Class; 9:45 a.m.

Blood Pressure/YMCA;10 a.m. Creative Writing, Walking off Pounds; 10:15 a.m. Belly Dancing; 10:45 a.m. Beginning Tai Chi Class; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 11:45 a.m.

Adaptive Aerobics; 12:30 p.m. Tap Class, Penny Bingo; 1 p.m. Mexican Train, Scrabble, Balance Class with YMCA Instr., Painting Class, Pitch; 2 p.m. Ping Pong April 19: 8:30 a.m.

Enhance Fitness with YMCA Instr.; 9 a.m. Yoga with Dixie of Recover Health, Novice Dup. Bridge Game; 9:30 a.m. Computer 1-on-1 (Preregister/Pre-pay), Painting Class; 10 a.m. Chess Group, Sexy & Fit after 40; 10:30 a.m. Talk Show “What’s Happening at the S.C. Railroad;” 10:45 a.m. Guitar Practice; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 11:30 a.m.

Jam Session; 12:30 p.m.

Beginning Bridge; 1 p.m.

Choreographed Ballroom, Coloring Corner, Scrabble, 500; 2:30 p.m. 1 Mile Walk Warm Up; 3 p.m. Fitness with Kelly April 20: 8:30 a.m. Penny

Bingo; 8:45 a.m. Beg. 1 Line Dance; 9 a.m. Yoga; 9:30 a.m. Drum Circle, Beginning Bridge I; 9:45 a.m. Beg. 2 Line Dance; 11:30 a.m. 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 12:30 p.m. Canasta, Penny Bingo, Woodcarving; 1 p.m.

Beginning Bridge Class, Men’s & Women’s Social Group, Inter. Line Dance, Cribbage; 2 p.m. Ping Pong April 21: 8:30 a.m.

Enhance Fitness with YMCA Instr., Exercise Plus 50; 9:30 a.m. Wii Bowling, Mixed Media Art Class, Fitness with Dixie of Recover Health, Women’s Pool Shooting Class; 10 a.m. Blood Pressures/St. Luke’s; Noon Basic Tap, Bridge Group; 12:30 p.m. Open Craft Time; 1 p.m. Bridge, 500, Friday Dance “Shirley’s Big Band” April 24: 8 a.m.

Scrapbooking; 8:30 a.m.

Yoga with Amanda, Exercise Plus 50; 9:30 a.m. Beginning Duplicate Bridge Class, Wii Bowling, Computer 1-on-1 (Pre-register), Tap Class; 9:45 a.m. Review Tai Chi Class; 10 a.m. Knitting & Crocheting; 11:30 a.m.

Duplicate Bridge; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch;

12:30 p.m. Movie “Nights in Rodanthe,” 1 p.m.

Parkinson’s Support Group meeting, Pinochle, American Mah Jong, Woodcarving; 2 p.m. Walking Off Pounds; 2:30 p.m. Fitness with Kelly April 25: 8:30 a.m.

Enhance Fitness with YMCA Instr., Penny Bingo; 9 a.m.

Senior Yoga; 9:30 a.m.

Painting Class; 9:45 a.m.

Blood Pressures/YMCA; 10 a.m. Creative Writing, Walking off Pounds; 10:15 a.m. Belly Dancing; 10:30 a.m. Crafts with Betty; 10:45 a.m. Beginning Tai Chi Class; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 11:45 a.m.

Adaptive Aerobics; 12:30 p.m. Tap Class, Penny Bingo; 1 p.m. Mexican Train, Scrabble, Balance Class with YMCA Instr., Painting Class, Pitch; 2 p.m. Ping Pong April 26: 8:30 a.m.

Enhance Fitness with YMCA Instr.; 9 a.m. Yoga with Dixie of Recover Health, Novice Dup. Bridge Game; 9:30 a.m. Computer 1-on1 (Pre-register/Pre-pay), Painting Class; 10 a.m.

Chess Group, Sexy & Fit after 40; 10:45 a.m. Guitar Practice; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30

p.m. Lunch; 12:30 p.m.

Beginning Bridge; 1 p.m.

Choreographed Ballroom, Coloring Corner, Scrabble, 500 April 27: 8:30 a.m. Penny Bingo; 8:45 a.m. Beg. 1 Line Dance; 9 a.m. Yoga; 9:30 a.m. Drum Circle, Beginning Bridge I; 9:45 a.m. Beg. 2 Line Dance; 10 a.m.; Walking off the Pounds, Men’s Club; 11 a.m.

Advanced Line Dance; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. Lunch; 12:30 p.m. Canasta, Penny Bingo, Woodcarving; 1 p.m.

Beginning Bridge Class, Men’s & Women’s Social Group, Inter. Line Dance, Cribbage; 2 p.m. Ping Pong April 28: 8:30 a.m.

Enhance Fitness with YMCA Instr., Exercise Plus 50; 9:30 a.m. Wii Bowling, Mixed Media Art Class with Vivian Miller, Fitness with Dixie of Recover Health, Women’s Pool Shooting Class; 10 a.m. Blood Pressures/Mercy; 11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

Lunch; Noon Basic Tap, Bridge Group; 12:30 p.m.

Open Craft Time; 1 p.m.

Bridge, 500, Friday Dance “Jerry O’Dell & His Country Flavor Band”

Retirement

Jimmy Buffett launches Margaritaville retirement village

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS‌

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — You can’t get any more laid back than retirement. So perhaps it’s fitting that the king of laid-back music, Jimmy Buffett, is lending his vibe to a retirement community.

Latitude Margaritaville — named after Buffett’s best-known song, “Margaritaville — will open its first community in Daytona Beach for “those looking to live the Margaritaville lifestyle as they grow older, but not up,” according to a news release.

Current plans call for walkable

neighborhoods, a fitness center and food and drinks from Buffett’s Margaritaville restaurant.

Margaritaville Holdings and Minto Communities announced the partnership last month. Minto said the community’s focus will be on music and will include a band shell for live entertainment.

Construction has begun, and the village is slated to open this fall.

Jimmy Buffett’s Latitude Margaritaville will open its first retirement community in Daytona Beach, Fla., in the fall.

MILITARY MONDAYS Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or active military personnel are awarded $5.00 in Free Play.

Associated Press

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Local & Government Services Siouxland Directory of Elderly Services Sioux City Better Business Bureau: 1-800222-1600 City Hall: 405 Sixth St., 279-6109 Connections Area Agency on Aging: 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900 or 800-432-9209. Information and referral services, options counseling, case management, nutrition services, transportation options, and advocacy Department of Human Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833 Elder Abuse Awareness: 1-800362-2178 Emergency: 911 Fire Department: 279-6314 Police Department: 279-6960 (general) Post Office (Main): 214 Jackson St., 277-6411 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

Eagle Drive, 224-2610 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

Financial Assistance Commission of Veterans Affairs: 702 Courthouse, 279-6606 Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech Ave., 2741610, energy assistance 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

Meals on Wheels: Connections Area Agency on Aging, 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900, volunteer-delivered noon meals (M-F), suggested donation $3.75-$6.50 Salvation Army: 510 Bluff St., 255-8836 Siouxland Center for Active Generations: 313 Cook St., 255-1729, open to the public, $5.25 meals South Sioux City Community Action Center: 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, Karen Bergenske

Health Care Information

Alzheimer’s Association: 201 Pierce St., Suite 110, 279-5802.

Information and education about Alzheimer’s disease, support groups Financial, Insurance and and services. 24/7 Helpline: 1-800Tax Counseling 272-3900.

Center for Siouxland: 715 Douglas Dakota County Health Nurse: 402St., 252-1861. Conservatorship service, provides money management 987-2164 Iowa Department of the Blind: and protective payee services 1-800-362-2587 Consumer Credit Counseling Lifeline: Personal emergency Service: 715 Douglas St., 252-1861 response system: St. Luke’s, ext. 47 279-3279; Mercy Medical Center, SHIIP (Senior Health Insurance 279-2036 Information Program): Information Mercy Medical Center: Community available from Connections Area Education, 279-2989 Agency on Aging, Siouxland Center Counseling Siouxland Community Health for Active Generations, Sunrise Center: 1021 Nebraska St., 252-2477 Retirement Community, and Mercy Catholic Charities: 1601 Military Medical Center Road, 252-4547 Siouxland District Health: 1014 Nebraska St., 279-6119 or 1-800Siouxland Center for Active Heartland Counseling Service: Generations: 313 Cook St., 255-1729, 587-3005 917 West 21st, South Sioux City, tax and Medicare insurance (SHIIP) 494-3337 St. Luke’s Health Professionals: counseling 279-3333 Lutheran Social Service: 4240 Hickory Lane, 276-1073 Woodbury County Extension Home Health Care Mercy Behavioral Care Center: 801 Service: 4301 Sergeant Road, 276Boys and Girls Home and Family 2157 5th St., 279-5991 Services: 2101 Court St., 293-4700 Siouxland Mental Health: 625 Food Care Initiatives Hospice: 4301 Court St., 252-3871 Center for Siouxland: Food pantry, Sergeant Road, Suite 110, (712) Vet Center: 1551 Indian Hills Drive, 715 Douglas St., 252-1861 239-1226 No. 204, 255-3808 Community Action Agency of Geri-Care: Transit Plaza, 276-9860 Employment and Volunteer Siouxland: 2700 Leech St., 274-1610 Home Instead Senior Care: 220 S. Food Bank of Siouxland: 1313 11th Fairmount, 258-4267, non-medical Service St., 255-9741 home health Foster Grandparent & Senior Iowa Department of Human Hospice of Siouxland: 4300 Companion Programs: Rotary Club of Rock Valley Foundation, 4200 War Services: 822 Douglas St., 255-0833 Hamilton Blvd., 233-4144, nursing

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care, home health aide/homemaker, social services Mercy Home Care: 801 Fifth St., Suite 320, 233-5100, 1-800-8973840, home health aides/homemaker services, therapy services REM Health of Iowa Inc.: 2212 Pierce St., Suite 200, 233-5494, skilled nursing care, home health aides, homemaker services, waivers Siouxland District Public Health Nursing: 1014 Nebraska St., 2796119, skilled nursing care in home, home health aide, homemaker services St. Luke’s Home Care: 2905 Hamilton Blvd., 279-3279. In-home nursing, therapy, home medical equipment and supplies, lifeline program Synergy Home Care: Kim Kreber, 600 Stevens Port Drive, Suite 102, Dakota Dunes, S.D., (605) 242-6056 Tri-State Nursing Services: 621 16th St., 277-4442, skilled nursing care, Home Health aide services, services ordered by a doctor

Hospitals Mercy Medical Center: 801 Fifth St., 279-2010 UnityPoint Health-St. Luke’s Medical Center: 2720 Stone Park, 279-3500 Siouxland Surgery Center: 600 Sioux Point Road, 605-232-3332

Housing Sioux City Bickford Senior Living, Assisted Living & Memory Care: 4020/4022 Indian Hills Drive, 239-2065 or 2396851. Family owned and operated, individualized “level of care”, respite (short stay) welcomed.

Community Action Agency of Siouxland: 2700 Leech Ave., 2741610. Carnegie Place Apartments, Sixth and Jackson sts.

Connections Area Agency on Aging: 2301 Pierce St., 279-6900.

This is subsidized housing, rent based on income. Evergreen Terrace, 2430 West St., 258-0508; Riverside Gardens, 715 Bruner Ave., 277-2083; Fairmount Park Apartments, 210 Fairmount St. Countryside Retirement

Apartments: Lilac Lane, 276-3000 Floyd House: 403 C Street, Sergeant Bluff, Iowa, (712) 943-7025, Affordable, multiple levels of care, studio, one-bedroom, respite Holy Spirit Retirement Apartments: 1701 West 25th St., 252-2726 Maple Heights: 5300 Stone Ave., 276-3821, contact Jennifer Turner.

This is subsidized low-income housing with rent based on income NorthPark Senior Living Community: 2562 Pierce St., 255-1200. 48 independent living apartments, 57 supervised living apartments and three respite apartments Northern Hills Retirement Community: 4000 Teton Trace, 239-9400. Studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments Northern Hills Assisted Living: 4002 Teton Trace, 239-9402. Studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments Oakleaf Property Management: 1309 Nebraska St., 255-3665, contact leasing department. Martin Towers, 410 Pierce St.; Shire Apartments, 4236 Hickory Lane; Centennial Manor, 441 W. Third St. This is subsidized housing, rent is based on income.

Prime Assisted Living: 725 Pearl St., 226-6300. Affordable, spacious one-bedroom assisted living apartments for persons 65 and older.

Income guidelines apply. Accept all sources of payment including Title 19 and private pay.

River Heights: 2201 Gibson St., 202-2733. This is subsidized housing that is not handicapped accessible.

Sunrise Retirement Community: 5501 Gordon Drive, 276-3821; 64 one- and two-bedroom ground level homes with attached garage, some with den and sunroom.

War Eagle Village Apartments: 2800 W. Fourth St., 258-0801, subsidized housing based on income South Sioux City Autumn Park Apartments: 320 East 12th St., 402-494-5393 Dacotah House: 316 East 16th St., 712-274-9125. Subsidized housing, you must be over 62 or handicapped.

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If you have glaucoma and are considering cataract surgery, you may be eligible to participate in the COMPASS Clinical Study. The study is evaluating an investigational treatment designed to reduce pressure buildup inside the eye, which may help reduce or eliminate the need for glaucoma medications.

If you participate, you will receive all study-related eye exams at no cost.

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Updated Apartments • Community Lounges • Exercise Room Laundry Facilities • Safe, Quiet Neighborhood Eligible applicants must be age 55+ & have gross income at or below $35,500.

5501 Gordon Drive • Sioux City, Iowa www.sunriseretirement.com

712.276.3821 ext. 3100 Federally subsidized housing program (HUD 202) for elderly & handicapped. Rent is calculated at 30% of monthly income (I.E. $1000 monthly income would be $300 monthly rent.)

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