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Thanks for your support I want to personally thank you for being a reader of Connecticut Prime Time. We’ve been working hard to bring this new publication to you each month, and hope that you are finding it enjoyable, educational and just plain fun.

We strive to serve the interests of seniors, their children and those planning for their retirement years and, with your help, we will meet your expectations.

Fortunately, Spring is upon us – finally! – and this month our writers are ready to offer suggestions on how to make the most of this special time of the year.

Community gardens, fruitful yet challenging, are the subject of Erica Schmitt’s cover story. We

find a lot of lifetime gardeners find their own lives revived as planting time comes around.

Meanwhile, author Lynn McPhelimy talks about getting our lives in order. And it’s not just tying up loose ends. She suggests there’s something we can do at every life stage to make things easier on ourselves and our loved ones.

Our bodies also need thought – and action – to give us our best days ahead. Lecturer Barbara Pond points out that nutrition is critical to a well-balanced life, and Kimberly DiBattista, our resident exercise guru, suggests some simple ways to keep fit even if you can’t do a lot.

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is critical in our own and our loved ones’ affairs, since it’s hard to recover from a major money mistake at this point in our lives. Erica interviews local experts about the latest scams that target seniors.

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By Erica Schmitt

four years, she was among the returning gardeners last week who were Having fresh vegetables all summer afforded the first opportunity to regislong is a store-bought ter for the 2014 season. luxury for some, but a “I just think it’s a Bristol’s labor of love for Bristol release for me; I don’t Community have a home anymore resident Joann Toscano.

Now that she’s living where I can go outside Gardens in a senior housing comand do my garden,” says opened in plex, Toscano, 65, doesn’t Toscano, who plants have access to a backyard 2009 on the flowers and vegetables, garden. A back injulatter which she north side of the ry also makes bending shares with family memdown to tend to plants bers. the Senior difficult. But she puts Her zinnias are a treat Center’s both these dilemmas to to herself. rest outside the Bristol property, “I have a bouquet on Senior Center and inside kitchen table. But where there my her raised garden bed. the vegetables are great Bristol’s Community are twenty- too. You just feel good Gardens opened in 2009 when you see the things four 16’x16’ on the north side of the growing and you get to ground plots. eat them and it’s nice Senior Center’s property, where there are twenwhen you know where ty-four 16’x16’ ground they come from.” plots. This year staff also added six Boy Scout Troop 17 spent a recent new 4’x8’ raised beds to accommodate Sunday clearing the garden a total of 12 handicapped beds of weeds, and the growers, including Toscano. Because she has maintained a spot there the last

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at the Community Gardens city’s parks department will till them before the season begins in May. Raised plots are $10 each and the ground beds, $20. A barrel system has been put in place to collect rain from the center’s rooftop to provide people with ready-to-use water for their plants. Staff also hope to have a perimeter installed around the garden area by the season’s end Oct 15, when people have to vacate.

“At the end of the season you see all the local farmers come down because they want leftover scraps for their pigs,” Jason Krueger, assistant senior center director, remembers of past years.

And it just so happens that more than half of those who participate are senior citizens.

“Some come every day, some once a week to take care of their gardens,” says Patricia Tomascak, executive director. “We enjoy seeing them, especially if they live in a place where they can’t keep a garden – we love giving them that opportunity.”

In addition to the gardens, there is also “pickle ball” outside the center on Monday and Fridays at 1 p.m. Tomascak

What looked to be a barren land at the Bristol Senior Center at the beginning of April will be flourishing mid-summer, when the city’s Community Gardens are in full-bloom.

A variety of flowers, fruits and vegetables are grown in the center’s garden beds and raised plots.

would like to add more warm-weather fun to seniors’ daily offerings in the future.

The gardens are such a big hit that a waiting

list usually forms after registration closes and growers get busy May 1.

By the first of June, staff will inspect each area to make sure no

plots remain unplanted or were left abandoned.

Any absent designers have seven days to improve their plot’s appearance or it will be

reassigned on a firstcome, first-served basis to the next green-thumb on the waiting list.

Come mid-summer, corn, tomatoes and Hungarian wax peppers will be in abundance on Lou Thibault’s kitchen table. The Bristol native turns 87 next month, but age isn’t keeping him away from his outdoor hobby.

“Since they opened it up for gardening I’ve had really good luck there,” says Thibault, whose wife has her own plot right beside his at the center, where she grows cucumbers, zucchini and squash.

“My wife does all the weeding,” he continued.

“She’s very meticulous; she doesn’t leave any weeds untouched. We have separate plots, but when she’s down there if she sees any weeds in my garden she picks them out.”

Garden Applications are available on the city’s website, Bristolct.gov/ garden. People must come to the Bristol Senior Center, 240 Stafford Ave., in person to sign up for a plot. Proof of residency is required. For more information, call the center at (860) 584-7895 weekdays between 8:30 a.m. and 5:00 p.m.

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More than a half century has passed since Packy the elephant’s newsmaking birth at the Oregon Zoo in Portland. He’s now a sixton senior citizen and considered geriatric at age 52.

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day cake at a leisurely pace this month, but zoo officials say he wasted no time demolishing the 40-pound whole wheat offering that included carrots, bananas, apples and sweet potatoes. Zoo executive chef Paul Bosch says the cake was “pretty healthful” except for the five pounds of butter in the buttercream frosting. (The chef says that’s not really THAT much butter for a 12,000-pound elephant.)

Zoo spokesman Hova Najarian says zoo vets are working with U.S. Agriculture Department experts to plan a new course of treatment for Packy’s tuberculosis, discovered last July. He’s shown no signs of illness yet but is sensitive to one of the typically used drugs. Zoo vet Tim Storms says a new treatment regimen starts this week.

In 1962, the zoo says Packy became the first elephant to be born in the Western Hemisphere in 44 years.

Gas prices keep inflation at bay

Lower U.S. gasoline prices kept consumer inflation in check in March, helping to offset higher costs for food and clothing.

The Labor Department said that the consumer price index rose 0.2 percent in March, after scant 0.1 percent increases in the previous two months. Prices have risen just 1.5 percent year over year. That remains well below the Federal Reserve’s 2 percent target for inflation.

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Life checklist for seniors Helping make sure all your affairs are in order

By Erica Schmitt

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ould your children know what to do if you passed away suddenly? It sounds morbid, but nearing the end of days doesn’t have to be so.

Author Lynn McPhelimy and her parents, Ellyn and Joe Wolak, weren’t going to take any chances. When the couple was diagnosed with terminal cancer in the very same year, they began a quest to prepare their family for their impending departure.

What surfaced was a book written by their daughter that would eventually land her appearances on “Oprah” and “The Today Show.”

“You know when I’m gone, I don’t want the yard all dug up when you’re looking for the septic tank. So here is this little map,” McPhelimy remembers her father saying.

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And her mother? “I don’t want to leave with you with questions; I want to leave you with answers.”

That led McPhelimy to write “The Checklist of Life” — a useful workbook to help family members handle legal, personal and household affairs during hospital stays and after the passing of their kin.

Now the Middlefield resident will be at Bel-Air Manor Nursing & Rehabilitation Center in Newington a few times a year to talk with seniors. Next Wednesday, April 9 will be her first speaking engagement: “Spring Cleaning: Where do you begin?

De-cluttering your life once and for all.”

“Here if they’re in rehab, they probably didn’t plan on being, and someone needs to keep their life running,” she said during a recent visit to the stateof-the-art nursing home, which provides short-term and outpatient rehabilitation in addition to long-term care services.

“The Checklist” isn’t a novel or an advice column; its pages are meant to be completed by readers.

The first section is called “Just the Facts” and it prompts you to fill in your basic personal informa-

tion along with the names, phone numbers and addresses of other important contacts: your doctors, accountant and lawyer. The next 20 pages ask for banking account numbers, insurance policies, investments, pensions and Social Security benefits … what you owe and are owed. Then there’s room for recording information about all the real estate you might own or lease and how to take care of your home (who delivers the oil and when is the trash picked up?)

Next it’s the yard chores for each season and hiding places for your most valuable items. Once all this practical, commonsense stuff is in, it’s time for the “Remember When” section.

Here write your best memories of parents, grandparents, siblings,

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friends, spouses, and letters to each of your children; dates of their birthdays, anniversaries and where to find photographs and home videos, and how to take care of your pets.

There’s also room for recording unfulfilled dreams, things you’d still like to accomplish, and finally — your last wishes.

Preparing a last will and testament, your burial, ultimate resting place, obituary, the music to be played at your funeral and parting words to comfort family and friends.

“This is meant to be simple; it’s a map to your life and an opportunity to have courage and confidence to move forward,” McPhelimy explained.

Completing it with your children can be a good way to share your past, organize the present and offer peace of mind in the future.

“It gets interesting and fun and

it starts the conversation before the crisis happens,” McPhelimy added.

Marlo Bish, a corporate liaison at Bel-Air Manor, completed her “Checklist” years ago and bought books for all of her children as well. Death is always uncertain, so it’s ideal for any age, she thought.

Upon a chance meeting with McPhelimy at a conference, Bish, who is also a registered nurse, decided to bring the opportunity to Bel-Air patients and local residents.

“I said, everybody needs this book,” she recalled. “What a wonderful message.”

Now McPhelimy is planning quarterly public speaking engagements at Bel-Air. Anyone is welcome to come to the first event this Wednesday, April, 9 at 1 p.m. To register, call (860) 6665689. Bel-Air Manor is located at 256 New Britain Avenue in Newington.

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Nutrition tips from Barbara Pond

By Erica Schmitt

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arbara Pond raised her family on an organic farm in Granby, where they ate fresh eggs and had chickens, geese, ducks, rabbits and a goat. Now at 74 years old she’s living on her own in Bristol, but that doesn’t mean she’s not still living a farm-to-table lifestyle.

“People are fed by the food industry, but the food industry does not pay attention to health,” Pond read from a presentation she prepared for a recent lecture at the Bristol Senior Center.

More than a dozen seniors attended her talk to learn about eating healthier as they get older. But the lecture soon evolved into a discussion, as people had tidbits to add from their own experiences with buying groceries and cooking meals.

“You have to be careful now that we’re getting older and starting to take some medications,” Pond said.

“You should ask the doctor, what can’t I eat with this?”

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Healthier substitutions for popular foods were another topic of discussion.

Pond advocated for using the granulated leaf of the stevia plant as a natural, calorie-free sweetening alternative to sugar or other artificial sweeteners. The same goes for coconut oil instead of butter or canola oil.

“If produce is grown in South America, they don’t have the same regulations on herbicides, pesticides, or fungicides that we do,” she added.

Barbara Pond gives a lecture on nutrition at the Bristol Senior Center.

Bristol resident Charlie Ricker, 81, the lone man who attended her lecthose taking the popular blood-thin- one woman called out lightheartedly, ture, spoke up towards the end of the ner ‘Cumadin.’ Pond cautioned these provoking laughter from all across the presentation. folks to be careful of consuming leafy room.

“I believe in eating natural foods, green vegetables, because they are “You are what you eat,” Pond nothing synthetic,” he said. “If they known to have the opposite affect on responded. have to process it to make it your the body as the medication and the She encouraged the group to drink body doesn’t know how to process it.” mixture can cause a bad reaction. eight glasses of water a day, suppleGood-food chatter trickled into the When she reached a slide in her ment their diets with vitamins, seek hallway of the senior center as people presentation on how vitamins and out packaging that guarantees food filed out of the room later on. minerals spur cell regeneration, Pond is “Certified Organic” and exercise “I’m into nutrition and I like her,” read aloud, “You end up with a new regularly.

Judith Payne said of her reason for body every seven years.”

“Your minerals are your spark plugs attending. “I had a stroke, so my body “If we get a new body every seven that make your vitamins work,” she rejects a lot of stuff. I like to find natural years than why are we getting so old?” continued. foods instead of taking medications.”

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SENIOR FITNESS

By Kimberly DiBattista

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egardless of your age, it is never too late to start exercising and improving your health.

Before you begin a new exercise program, it is recommended that you talk to your doctor for any restrictions. Once you get the go-ahead, a low-impact exercise routine can significantly benefit your health by increasing your energy, reducing stress, preventing injury, managing symptoms of illness or pain, and protecting against heart disease, diabetes and some cancers.

Staying active can help keep you feeling and looking your best for years to come. You can start by incorporating the following into your daily routine: Walking is one of the best low-impact endurance activities. It is very easy on the joints, and walking routines can be kept up until very late in life. You should buy a good pair of walking sneakers with cushioning and heel support. Comfortable footwear will make your walk safe and enjoyable.

The National Institute of Health recommends that you start with a short distance and increase your walks by a few minutes each time until you are able to walk for 30 to

Never too late to get in shape

60 minutes on most or all days of the week. After your walk, you may want to do a few stretches for your calves, hamstrings and ankles to help your muscles recover.

The illustration above is a basic resistance, balance and stretching routine that you can do in the comfort of your own home with just a chair and dumbbells. I recommend

that you start off slow for the first week and practice maintaining good form and control throughout all of the exercises. Select a weight that you can perform three sets of 10 to 15 repetitions of each of the exercises. If you do not have dumbbells, you can use cans of soup!

Performing the above exercise routine two to three nonconsecutive days

Maryann Madey, 78, lifts weights at Power House Gym.

per week for 20 to 30 minutes can have many benefits. As we age there tends to be a loss of muscle mass and bone density.

Resistance-training exercises will help build muscle and preserve bone density.

Having increased strength and balance can make a difference in your ability to perform everyday activities like carrying groceries, walking up the stairs, carrying your grandchild and even getting up from sitting down for a period of time.

Having good balance also can help prevent falls by improving your ability to control and maintain your body’s position. Fall-related injuries can seriously impact on an older person’s life and can cause you to lose your independence.

Maryann Madey, pictured here, is 78 years old and in amazing shape. She believes that exercising has helped her to look younger and feel great. She is very energetic and still continues traveling to Europe for long vacations. Maryann enjoys attending several strength training and Zumba classes with her friends at Power House Gym. “Grab a friend and head out for a walk or meet up at the gym and take a class, you will feel great,” she says.

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The power of potato pancakes Old Augie was a tough minded 93 year old with a very frail body. He had been living alone for nearly two decades after the death of his wife, and had no children or close family. His entire life he had been independent and self sufficient. When he fell, went to the hospital, and then spent two months rehabbing in a nursing home, he was determined to get out and never go back to an institution. Like many such people, he wanted to die in his own home.

The problem he faced was that he could barely ambulate, certainly could no longer do housekeeping or cooking, and could not survive at home without help. That meant a 24 hour live-in

caretaker, and Augie emphatically said he did not want anyone else living in his house. As he so succinctly put it, “I want to go home, but I want to do it on my terms.”

After explaining to Augie that the only way to get out of the nursing home was to at least start out with care, and then cut it back over time, you could see the wheels turning and he agreed, but added, “I’ll cut out the care right after I get out of here.”

After interviewing potential caregivers, my staff had him hire Sophie.

Unbeknownst to us, Sophie was a better than decent cook, and near the end of the first week, made Augie some potato pancakes. He hadn’t had pota-

to pancakes since his wife, who was Polish, had died twenty years earlier.

After one bite, all grumblings about having someone in his house disappeared, and for his last few months, life was as good as it could be, and Augie got his wish to die in his own home.

So where is the lesson in this story?

Simply, it is that good care providers can make all the difference in spending your last years at home. Finding the right caretaker is especially critical for a live in caretaker, as there is another person in a close living situation.

A second lesson is that if you cannot afford to pay, there are at least three Connecticut programs, and Veterans Administration benefits that may go

By Attorney Stephen O. Allaire toward the cost. In Connecticut, you can own your own house and still get care with $32,868 of countable assets.

Medicaid can pay up to $5,680 per month for home care, plus all your medical expenses. That is quite a bit of care, and the VA can pay up to $23,396 per year to a qualified married veteran. To qualify for these programs is not always easy, so it is advisable to get advice early and develop a care plan with an experienced Elder Law Attorney.

Whether it’s the power of potato pancakes that make the difference, or the government benefits that make it financially possible, there may very well be a solution to keeping your loved ones at home.

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Winter’s over, but joints may still be in pain Robert J. Carangelo, M.D. It’s been a long winter with lots of snow and freezing temperatures, and that can lead to problems with arthritis. Repeated snow shoveling can wear on the knees and hips and hands, and the bitter cold only makes the pain from arthritis more pronounced.

In general, arthritis is caused when the cartilage that connects bones at the joints begins to erode or harden, resulting in stiffness or swelling. Cold weather does little to ease that swelling, which is why many people with arthritis try to get away to warmer climates during the winter months.

Depending on the severity of the pain, winter-exacerbated arthritis can be treated any number of ways. If the pain is mild and only occasional, I would recommend a common-sense regimen in which you try to avoid overdoing it with the snow shovel and keep inside when the temperatures drop. You may also find relief from some over-the-counter pain medication. In many cases, patients find that moderate exercise helps keep their joints limber in the colder months.

If the pain is more significant and persistent, however, you would do well to consult with a qualified orthopedic specialist to get a confirmed arthritis diagnosis and determine the extent. For moderate to severe cases, many patients can find relief through prescription anti-inflammatories or through

cortisone injections, which work to directly alleviate the swelling caused by arthritis. Another option is Viscoelastic supplementations such as Synvisc, Orthovisc, Euflexxa and Hyalgan, which are made from hyaluronan, a substance found in healthy joint fluid, which helps cushion or lubricate the joint.

But most of these options provide for only temporary relief as the underlying erosion of the joint continues to spread. For more permanent relief, I often recommend partial or total joint replacement surgery, a procedure which is becoming increasingly simple and effective.

Advances in minimally invasive technology and procedures mean patients often are able to recover within weeks instead of months. I particularly recommend the partial joint replacement procedure for the knee, as it allows the patient to retain the portions of the joint that continue to function well while replacing only the impacted areas. Recovery is quick. In some cases, patients can go home the same day of the procedure.

With steady rehabilitation, many patients who undergo partial knee replacement are able to fully recover in a very short time, and I expect that further advances in these procedures will continue to be offered in the future.

Robert J. Carangelo, M.D., is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon with more than 15 years experience in total joint reconstructive surgery. He is medical director of the Center for Joint Care at The Hospital of Central Connecticut.

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diabetes, high blood pressure and depression. All of these burden our healthcare system and ultimately our economy. With this in mind, I urge you to consider making some of these simple changes.

Minimize processed foods. Look for foods in their original form (fruits, vegetables, nuts, fish).

Discover appetizing recipes. Look for dishes using fruits, vegetables, beans or whole grains. You should sugar and salt-laden foods, as well as nutrition information, cheap and enjoy food. dealing with a lifestyle which does available fast food, escalating grocery Don’t drink your calories. Water, not support prevention. store prices, and who has time to decafenated tea or coffee, and seltzers But that doesn’t mean I’m throwexercise or cook? Furthermore, where are great calorie free beverages. ing in the towel, and neither should is the incentive to make changes to Never skip meals. Learn to listen to you. I understand many of the pres- your diet when you can take a pill for your body’s hunger and full signals. sures people in this day and age face. what ails you?

Be patient. It takes time to learn Working a hectic job, supporting a Experts claim that our environment new habits, and you don’t need to be home, family and battling a chronic and heath care approach need to perfect to eat well. medical condition, I am no stranger change to impact this crisis. However, Find support. Your doctors and to stress. But this does not stop me it will take years for this to happen. medical team are great resources. from buying nutrition or selling it to Meanwhile obesity rates remain They are your partner in wellness. you. The question is; will you buy it? astronomically high in both children I know it’s not easy to buy nutrition. and adults. Obesity is a precursor to Tricia Erickson MS RD CD-N is a Confusing food labels, contradictory chronic diseases such as heart disease, registered dietitian at Bristol Hospital.

Don’t wait for society to fix your eating habits Tricia Erickson MS RD CD-N Has healthy eating become next big thing yet? I long for that day, though my job as a registered dietitian may become obsolete. The National Nutrition month campaign — which took place in March — was launched more than 40 years ago. The original theme, “Invest in You – Buy Nutrition,” was highly insightful, as RDs spend much of their time selling nutrition. Unfortunately, we are competing with companies that sell us fat,

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DATEBOOK 17 | Thursday Fafnir Retirees: The next meeting of Fafnir Local 133 UAW will be held on Thursday, April 17 at 1 p.m. at the UAW Region 9A Office,111 South Road, Farmington, CT 06032. All Fafnir retirees are invited and please bring your spouse,significant other or a former co-worker.

We will have a brief meeting, coffee, soda and a light snack. In case the weather is bad, call (860) 674-0143 to see if the meeting is still on.

Mexican Train will now be offered at the Plainville Senior Center on Thursday at 10 a.m. beginning April 17. Call the center, (860) 747-5728 to sign up.

Sit and Knit: Do you know how to knit, but following a pattern is difficult for you? Are you a beginner who can barely cast on? Would you like to meet

some new people and sit and knit? Join leader Gina Kahn at the Berlin-Peck Memorial Library, 234 Kensington Road for a relaxing knitting session.

No registration necessary.

Lunch & Learn features Dine with a Dentist: The Connecticut Center for Healthy Aging’s next Lunch & Learn event, Dine with a Dentist, will be held Thursday, April 17, from noon to 1 p.m., at The Hospital of Central Connecticut, Bradley Memorial campus, 81 Meriden Ave., Southington.

Special guests will be Dr. Sunita Kalluri, graduate of New York University, and Maegan Connolly, RDH, graduate of Lincoln College of New England.

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18 | Friday The Friends Helping Friends group is made up of single, divorced and widowed seniors. They meet for lunch at a local restaurant on the third Friday of each month at 11:30 a.m.

Call the Plainville Senior Center to register for the lunch.

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Support Group meetings are held the fourth Tuesday of every month Tuesday at 3:30 p.m. at Andrew House Healthcare, 66 Dinner with the Doc Clinic Drive. Questions, focuses on diabetes com- call Kathy Mulrooney plications: A special Dinner (860) 826-2812. with the Doc focusing on AARP Driver Safety the complications of diabetes will be held Tuesday, Class: An AARP driver April 22, from 5 to 7 p.m., safety class will be held at Arbor Rose at Jerome at the Plainville Senior Home, 975 Corbin Ave. Center, 200 East St., on Tuesday, April 22 from The guest speaker will be 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Dr. Anthony Babigian, who This course covers the is board certified by the effects of aging and medAmerican Board of Podiatric ication on driving, local Orthopedics and Primary hazards, accident prePodiatric Medicine as well vention measures and as the American Board of more.

Films and discussions Podiatric Surgery, and is will be presented and a a Fellow of the American driver’s manual provided.

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Plainville Senior Center will offer an afternoon of

fun — play cards, enjoy Center members who are refreshments, participate residents of Plainville. Call in the 50-50 raffle and the senior center, (860) maybe win a door prize. 747-5728, for informaTickets are $4 per person. tion.

Advance tickets are available at the senior center. Senior wellness clinic: Tickets will also be avail- The New Britain Health 82. Cuts entity able at the front door. 105.

TheIndivisible Department conducts 83. — of London 106. Come about event is sponsored by107. thePavilion a senior wellness clinic 85. Sacred bird Committee on Aging. All Monday through Friday 86. Septs 87. Any Christmas proceeds will benefit Dial- from 8:30 a.m. to noon carol A-Ride. at the New Britain Senior 88. Weedy grass Center, 55 Pearl St. 91. Hockey event 92. Bad guys Services include blood 95. ResilienceMonday pressure and blood 97. Suppleness glucose monitoring, med100.

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Center on the lower level of the Peck Library building on Kensington Road. The class provides a certificate that entitles a discount on car insurance premium.

Pre-registration is required. Contact Barbara Dixon at (860) 828-6295.

The Berlin AARP newsletters are available at the senior center, the town library, and at the monthly chapter meetings. To have the newsletter mailed, contact Anne Gamelin at (860) 828-6700.

30 | Wednesday “Caring for Your Loved One with Dementia, Lessons in Behavior and Communication,”Dinner: A dinner-time discussion about “Caring for Your Loved One with Dementia, Lessons in Behavior and Communication,” will be held Wednesday, April 30, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., at Mulberry Gardens at Marian Heights, 314 Osgood Ave., New Britain.

Featured speaker will be Patty O’Brian, regional

director of the Alzheimer’s Association Connecticut Chapter — North Central Region. A light supper will be served. Care can be provided for your loved one during the presentation.

RSVP by Friday, April 25 for dinner and if care is needed by calling (860) 357-4264(860) 357-4264. Entrance to the Adult Day Center is at the rear of the building. Mulberry Gardens at Marian Heights is a not for profit adult day center and Hartford HealthCare Partner.

1 | Thursday Understanding the Differences With Dr. Harry Morgan: Thursday, May 1st from 5:00 pm to 7:00 pm at Arden Courts of Avon, 100 Fisher Drive Avon. Seating is limited, call 860-6787500 or e-mail avon@ arden-courts.com for reservations.

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polonia business association

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3 Annual Little Poland

This year’s Festival is dedicated to the beloved Polish Pope

John Paul II

on the day of his canonization.

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on broad street in new britain, connecticut

Sunday, April 27th, 2014 from 11am to 7pm

Go Polish for the Day!

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Non-Stop Entertainment for the Whole Family!

From Across the Tri-State Area  Folklore Dancers, Bands and Shows  Arts & Crafts, Polish Imported Products, Children Attractions r and Rides o n r ai ine  Delicious Polish Food, sh Food and More Food!

Festival Grand Marshal erin e. stewart Mayor of new britain

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 More Than 60 Vendors

For additional information call: 860-670-4955. To become a vendor or official sponsor call: 860-919-8385

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Joint Health program do you build for someone who doesn’t take life sitting down?

An extraordinary one.

Center for Orthopedic and Spine Health Advanced level joint care is available right here at Bristol Hospital. Our highly trained team specializes in today’s most progressive shoulder, hip and knee revision and replacement procedures, including Direct Anterior Hip Replacement, which means less pain, faster recovery and increased mobility. Add that to our exceptional patient outcomes and personalized care experience, and we’ll have you back to living an active life as quickly and safely as possible.

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