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Lifestyle

Buzz on in for Reynolds Honey Health

Digest the Potential Benefits of Probiotics

Car Tips Warning Signs a Tire Is About to Go Flat

Looking Back

Remembering the Army’s Fletcher General Hospital

Historical Kennedy Stone House At Salt Fork State Park In the Garden Fast-Growing Vegetables for The Impatient Gardener

Finance

Retirement Saving for Late Bloomers

Wellness

Simple Solutions for a Better Night’s Sleep

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10 Recipes 22 Games & Puzzles 24-25 Crossword & Sudoku Answers 30 Word Search 34 Events 40 The Last Word August is for Augustus

–THE FIRST WORD– “Fairest of the months! Ripe summer’s queen The hey-day of the year With robes that gleam with sunny sheen Sweet August doth appear.” – R. Combe Miller –

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Buzz On In FOR REYNOLDS HONEY Story and Photos by BEVERLY KERR

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... GEORGE HEARD ABOUT A BEE STING THERAPY THEY WERE EXPERIMENTING WITH I N C A N A D A , T H AT M I G H T C U R E ARTHRITIS. HE BOUGHT HIS FIRST HIVE TO SEE IF IT WOULD WORK.

uzzing bees sound like music to the ears of George and Marcia Reynolds. Since 1972, they’ve had hives of bees and their reason for starting this venture had nothing to do with pollination or honey. George suffered with arthritis after a childhood bout with polio. Doctors told him he would be in a wheelchair by the age of forty. However, George heard about a bee sting therapy they were experimenting with in Canada, that might cure arthritis. He bought his first hive to see if it would work. Obviously, it did, because forty-five years later, George has no signs of arthritis and is quite active as he cares for forty hives of bees. Not all are at his farm as he often places one or two colonies at friends’ houses as a favor to the landowner. Even he admits he blundered through that first colony and suffered some painful bee stings. A fellow beekeeper told him that bees shouldn’t be that nasty. What he needed was a new queen. It worked. With the new queen, the colony became much gentler. Most of the equipment he uses is economically homemade. After he puts on a long sleeve white shirt, he covers his head with a veiled hat. His smoker confuses the bees so he can more easily use a special tool to open the hive. In order to get close to the bees, George also provided a veil for me to wear and no stings were received. The story of honey production centers around the queen bee, who does nothing but lay eggs...500 to 2000 a day! She’s even able to decide which kind of egg she will lay – drone or worker bee. The worker bees gather pollen from a variety of blossoms to bring back to the hive to feed the queen,

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and store for their winter food. Then the housekeeper bee packs it into the cells. To remove most of the water from the nectar, they fan it with the rapid movement of their wings. Beekeepers only take a small portion of their food so we too can enjoy the honey. After George scrapes the honey off a frame, he breaks it into pieces by centrifugal force using an extractor. It flows to the bottom of the extractor and pours from the spigot through a strainer to get out the larger particles. He never touches the honey himself and it is never heated as that would remove helpful qualities. If you use honey for medicinal purposes, local honey created from local blossoms is your best bet. It can even be used to reduce scars after surgery. George doesn’t spray his bees or vegetation so Reynolds honey is chemical free. His wife, Marcia, isn’t eager to work closely with the bees. She helps with bottling and labeling after the honey is harvested. George remarked, “I learn something new each year.” That’s remarkable since he’s been working with bees a long time. When customers comment on how great his honey tastes, he tells them, “I have nothing to do with

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WHEN CUSTOMERS COMMENT ON H O W G R E AT H I S H O N E Y TA S T E S , H E T E L L S T H E M , “ I H AV E N O T H I N G T O D O W I T H T H AT. E V E R Y B AT C H TA S T E S D I F F E R E N T. I T A L L D E P E N D S O N W H AT B L O S S O M S T H E B E E S F I N D.” Photo Top: No surprise that you are greeted at the Reynolds’ home by a bed of flower blossoms for the bees. Photo Bottom: George has about forty bee hives scattered all around the farm. Photo Right: They frequently sell their honey at the local Farmers’ Market.

that. Every batch tastes different. It all depends on what blossoms the bees find.” If you would like to be a beekeeper, talk to someone who has been doing it for years. It’s scary at first so you need someone to encourage you. The local Guernsey/ Noble Beekeepers Association would be the perfect place to begin. In their spare time, George and Marcia have a large garden and two 30 x 56 greenhouses. Heirloom varieties create some unusual plants for their garden. This year George is experimenting with sesame. The seeds came from plants at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. A White Heron cucumber also thrives in his garden. He shared with me a cucumber grown in a water bottle. George also carves wooden horses and has made each child in the family a small barn for their carved horses. Marcia relaxes with crocheting and adult coloring books. It’s easy to see that the Reynolds are busy as bees all year long. Contact Bev at GypsyBev@hotmail.com or follow her blog at www.GypsyRoadTrip.com

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WELLNESS

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s “probiotic” a marketing buzzword designed to boost sales, or is there really something to the trend of adding probiotics to food or encouraging consumers to take probiotic supplements? It might be hard to envision bacteria and yeast — which are often painted in a negative light and associated with various illnesses — being beneficial to health. However, it’s important to note that the body is full of bacteria, and some of it can be helpful, particularly to the digestive system. While probiotics, or those helpful bacteria and yeasts, occur naturally in the body, they also can be found in a growing number of foods and supplements. Yogurt, with its “live and active cultures,” is one source of probiotics. An panel of experts convened in October 2013 by the International Scientific Association for Probiotics and Prebiotics found that a growing body of evidence supports the notion that probiotics can promote a healthy balance of intestinal bacteria, which has been linked to a wide range of health benefits. Since the mid1990s, when probiotics first appeared on many people’s radars, clinical studies have suggested that probiotic therapy can help treat several gastrointestinal issues, delay the development of allergies in children and treat

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RECIPES

This delicious shrimp recipe is flavorful and simple, making it ideal for barbecue fans who enjoy making their own meals.

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Serves: 4 to 6

Ingredients: Garlic Barbecue Sauce 6 tablespoons unsalted butter, divided 1 teaspoon chopped garlic 1 cup mild barbecue sauce 2 tablespoons Virgil’s Dry Rub (see below) Shrimp 8 6-inch bamboo skewers 2 pounds fresh jumbo shrimp 1⁄2 cup olive oil 4 tablespoons Virgil’s Dry Rub (see below) 2 lemons, cut into wedges

Directions:

1. In a small pot over medium-high heat, combine 1 tablespoon of butter and the garlic for the garlic sauce. Sauté the garlic for 1 minute, add the mild barbecue sauce and Virgil’s Dry Rub, and heat to a boil. Remove from the heat, whisk in the remaining butter, and set aside to use as needed. 2. Soak the skewers in water overnight. 3. Peel and devein the shrimp, leaving the tails on. Lay 4 shrimp out on a flat surface. Align them so that they are coiled with the tails on the same side, facing in the same direction. 4. Slide a skewer through the shrimp. Run another skewer through the shrimp, parallel to the first

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5. 6. 7. 8. 9.

and about 1⁄2 inch apart. (This will prevent the shrimp from spinning on a skewer.) Repeat this process until all of the shrimp are skewered. Brush one side of the shrimp on the skewers with olive oil, then dust with the dry rub. Flip the skewers over the repeat the process. Place the seasoned skewered shrimp in a container, cover, and refrigerate overnight. Preheat the grill to high heat. Reduce to medium heat and position the skewers over direct heat. Grill for 2 minutes, then flip and grill for 1 to 2 minutes more. Remove the skewers from the grill and brush each with 2 tablespoons of the garlic sauce. Serve with lemon wedges.

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RECIPES

Picnics are often pot luck affairs. While standard picnic fare like potato salad and watermelon are always welcome, you can spice things up with these zesty deviled eggs.

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Ingredients:

Serves: 4 to 6

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1. Place the eggs in a medium pot and cover with cold water. Bring to a boil, cover the pot and remove from the heat. Keep covered for 11 minutes, then remove the eggs from the water and place in a bowl of ice water to stop the cooking process. 2. Preheat a sauté pan. Cut the chorizo into very small dice and sauté until crispy. Set aside to cool. 3. In a small bowl, combine the mayonnaise, mustard, hot sauce, cumin, salt, pepper, jalapeño, and jalapeño juice. 4. When the eggs have cooled, carefully crack the shells and peel under cold running water. Slice the eggs lengthwise and remove the yolks, being careful to leave the whites intact. 5. Combine the avocado and egg yolks in a small bowl, and mash together with a fork until smooth. 6. Add the avocado mixture to the mayonnaise mixture and blend thoroughly. Spoon the mixture into each half of egg white. Dust with the paprika, sprinkle with the cilantro and chorizo, and serve.

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Directions:

1. With the tip of a small, sharp knife, cut out the cores of the tomatoes. Cut each tomato in half crosswise and, with a fingertip, scoop out and discard the seeds. Cut the tomatoes into rough 1⁄2-inch dice.

Serves: 4 to 6

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CAR TIPS

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amount of wear as the other and the same goes for the back tires. Uneven tread on tires indicates that the tire with more wear could be about to go out.

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LOOKING BACK

REMEMBERING THE ARMY’S FLETCHER

GENERAL HOSPITAL “Rese m b l i n g t h e f u n g u s g row t h o f a m u shroom, a miniature cit y was springing up. A building h e re, o n e t h e re, a n d s o o n t h e g eneral outline of 131 buildings could be seen. ” — A rmy annual repor t description of the building of Fletcher G eneral Hospital in the winter of 1942-3.

n 1805, a young man named Isaac Oldham came wandering down Zane’s Trace in search of land on which to build a farm.At the Wills Creek bridge crossing, he encountered Jacob Gomber and Zaccheus Beatty, engaged in clearing land for what they hoped would become a town. He worked with Story by RICK BOOTH them for a while, helping to clear off lots for sale in what was soon to become Cambridge, but his main objective was to find really great farmland in the wilderness nearby – level land that wouldn’t flood. In the woods three miles north of Cambridge, he found exactly what he thought was the rarest of ideal spots – a 160-acre quarter section of land that

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was largely flat, yet set slightly higher than the valley’s floodplain. For just $200, he bought it. The early bird had gotten the worm! Little did he know then, however, that the same features that led him to snap up the land while Thomas Jefferson was President would, 137 years later, lead Franklin Roosevelt’s federal government to take it back from his Oldham descendants in time of war. In 1942, the U.S. Army desperately needed a good flat piece of land on which to build a city-sized regional hospital for the casualties of World War Two. The acres long-gone Isaac once found were perfect! A few short months after Pearl Harbor, the Army went searching for the ideal place in Southeastern Ohio to build a giant medical complex for its wounded soldiers. Several dozen such hospitals were to be built throughout the United States with the goal of treating both servicemen and servicewomen in facilities reasonably close to their hometowns so they could receive visitors and family support. They could also be allowed to recuperate staying with family while on furlough nearby. The complex the Army intended for this part of Ohio required about 200 acres of fairly level land so that corridors interconnecting the buildings could be easily navigated both on foot and by wheelchair. The Oldham farm, which had expanded its borders over the years, was the best site they could find in this part of the state. So they took it! The Army’s Fletcher General Hospital was actually built in the winter months of 1942-3.The Columbus-based construction company Haig A. Boyajohn and Associates broke ground on the project on November 3, 1942. The Army’s own internal report on site construction reads as follows:

A postcard view of Fletcher General Hospital.

“Grim determination that nothing should be permitted to halt the building of this sorely needed institution The Fletcher train platform and chapel. made possible its completion in the face of weather obstacles that at times seemed unsurmountable. The was dedicated on Memorial Day, 1943. Col. Fletcher’s workers faced one of the worst winters that had been daughter even spoke at the dedication. The hospital experienced in years in this territory. They were stymied then received its first patients in June. By the end of the at every turn by cold, rain and snow. The hospital located Fletcher continues on pg 18. as it is, on the only flat piece of ground for many miles, in the valley between rolling hills, became a quagmire after the heavy rains and snows set in. Because of the intense cold and damp, wet weather, the men were forced to work under tents a great amount of the time. To see one of the large bulldozers mired down to the hubs was not an unfamiliar sight during the early construction days. “In spite of the elements, Major McGavock, Mr. Boyajohn and his associates soon began to show progress, and out of the maze of mud and building materials there began to appear the semblance of what in a few short months was to be Fletcher General Hospital.” In just four and a half months, 131 buildings arose from Find out if you are eligible the fields, not to mention the construction of the roads, for a good student discount with Auto-Owners. sidewalks, water lines, sewers, and electrical system that also had to fall into place. Three of the buildings served as steam heating plants for the others, fueled by up to 36 tons of coal a day. The construction cost was about 4.5 820 Wheeling Ave. million dollars. To get ready for hospital trains, a rail line Cambridge, OH 43725 spur to Fletcher was built off the nearby Pennsylvania Railroad’s north-south line between Cambridge and Newcomerstown. Trains would pull in and unload at the northwest corner of the hospital base, across the street from the chapel. Named in honor of Lt. Col. John Pierpont Fletcher, a career Army Medical Corps officer who had died shortly before the war, the 1,520-bed Fletcher General Hospital

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Fletcher continued from pg 17. war, the facility had grown to 2,000-bed capacity spread out within its then 168-building complex, five buildings of which served to house a German POW camp. The prisoners, brought in in early 1945, did work for the hospital. When peace finally arrived in September, 1945, preparations began for the facility’s ultimate closure. After serving an officially reported 17,608 patients during the war, Fletcher General Hospital shut its doors on March 31, 1946. A few months later, the buildings were reopened as the Cambridge State Hospital, which continued in operation (with its name later changed by merger to “Appalachian Behavioral Healthcare”) for 62 more years until its final shutdown in 2008. Today, only about a dozen of the original 168 buildings remain. The rectangular road grid of the old hospital is there, but where scores of long brick ward buildings once stood, there is now mostly well-tended grass. In newer buildings, the privately run Cambridge Behavioral Hospital occupies part of the northeast corner of the original site. Much of the rest of the north side of the campus is used by the Cambridge Developmental Center,

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a state-run facility which maintains mostly recentlybuilt residential buildings for about 70 individuals with developmental disabilities. The impact of Fletcher General Hospital and its State Hospital descendant has been long and large in Guernsey County’s history. Thousands have been employed there over the years. In wartime, the total staff peaked at roughly 1,400 people – not including the 238 POWs working on shoe repair, laundry, gardening, etc. – about equally split between civilian employees and members of the military. Hundreds of area residents also volunteered services, including the 66 Red Cross Gray Ladies who worked to make patients comfortable and brighten their days in 1945. Today we usually associate hospitals with extreme need for acute care. Insurance companies want people to leave as soon as they are able. But Fletcher General Hospital wasn’t like that. It was largely a place where soldiers could recover from wounds, regain their health, and usually go back to active duty. A 1944 newspaper article cited the statistic that more than 80% of patients returned to service. Those who couldn’t were given physical and occupational therapy to help make the most of their return to civilian life with handicaps. The mortality rate at Fletcher was low. Only 32 deaths were recorded there in three years, including five who came dead on arrival. Many of the other deaths had nothing to do with war wounds. Some were the result of local car crashes, workplace accidents, or other medical problems unrelated to war. If patients were well enough to be shipped back from Europe or the Pacific, they usually survived. Orthopedic rehabilitation and mental recuperation (from what has been called shellshock, battle fatigue, or PTSD through the years) were the main focus of the hospital. This is not to say that there wasn’t a lot of surgery going on, too. Declassified records state that 2,442 operations were performed at Fletcher in 1945, and 2,762 casts applied. Some 90 hospital trains brought in the wounded in 1944. That number increased to 165 in 1945. Besides supplying local employment directly, Fletcher provided a lot of business to Cambridge, to which it was connected by regular bus service. Both military employees and patients on leave would come into town, usually being dropped off or picked back up at the hospital-connected Cambridge Service Center, located in a large house that stood immediately behind today’s post office at 122 South Tenth Street. In April, 1944, John P. Sherby became the first Cambridge native to be

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brought back from the war to Fletcher, no doubt glad to find they had a local bus headed for home. He survived the war and lived to the ripe old age of 89, passing away in 2004, still a resident of Cambridge. There was no shortage of entertainment for the patients at Fletcher during the war. It had its own theater. Free movies were shown regularly, and Hollywood stars and famous big bands showed up at the hospital frequently. Tommy Dorsey and Gene Krupa were there, as was Sammy Kaye and his orchestra in 1945. Among others, film star Boris Karloff visited. So did child star Peggy Ann Garner, fresh off filming A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Besides the Hollywood stars who were famous at the time, there was at least one such unknown future celebrity at Fletcher before he gained national recognition. A young officer in the Army Medical Corps named Joe Flynn was, for a time, in charge of editing the hospital’s locally published newspaper, the Fletcher Features. He would also occasionally entertain patients with his ventriloquism act. Many, though, will better remember him today as the irascible, bumbling Captain Binghamton from the TV sitcom series McHale’s Navy, which ran from 1962 to 1966, back in the days when you could still safely make a sitcom about war. Fetcher’s Joe Flynn can still be found causing humor-filled angst for Ernest Borgnine and Tim Conway in various video

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archives on the Internet. As World War Two ended, the patient load at Fletcher shifted from battle casualties to returning American prisoners of war, liberated from both German and, especially, Japanese POW camps. Records appear to indicate that the hospital took in some of the malnourished survivors of the infamous 1942 Bataan Death March in the Philippines. Kept half-starved in jungle camps until 1945, many were freed in the daring Cabanatuan POW Camp raid of January, 1945. Fearing that the Japanese would execute prisoners rather than surrender them as American forces retook the island of Luzon, a force of about 120 Army Rangers slipped 30 miles behind enemy lines to stage the well-planned breakout raid. An American plane was sent over the camp at just the right time to distract guards’ eyes skyward as the Rangers crept within feet of their prey. The raid achieved total surprise with few American or POW casualties, an injury rate the opposite of the nearly 100% who fell on the Japanese side. The Rangers, 489 imprisoned Americans, and 30 more of other nationalities successfully made

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Fletcher continued from pg 19. the 30-mile trek back out to freedom, despite Japanese pursuit. Then they came home. In their flight from the camp, the former POWs took along a few of their most important personal items and mementos. Among these were the Nativity figures they had made for themselves in order to continue to celebrate three Christmases in captivity. Chaplain Kilian Dreiling rescued those figurines from the camp and brought them along as he accompanied recovering POWs back to Fletcher General Hospital. Carved half a world away in a spirit of hope, the Cabanatuan crèche adorned Fletcher Chapel at Christmastime, 1945. Three months later, Fletcher General Hospital closed its doors. The war was over. Old Isaac Oldham could never have foreseen the future use of the prime real estate he picked for his family in 1805, even as he helped clear the land for Cambridge, set to grow three miles to the south. The southeast corner of his property, known as Oldham’s Grove and located approximately where the Greystone Health and Rehabilitation Center is today, became a popular place

for community picnics and outdoor gatherings from the late 1800s until the 1930s. In the Roaring Twenties, the future hospital site itself was even used for playing polo. Teams of four mounted horsemen each faced off on level ground more than five times the size of a football field. In the summer of 1928, Cambridge and Somerset, for instance, clashed there. No word on who won, but the next year, the stock market crashed and may have taken the polo games with it. Then on December 7, 1941, came the war, and Isaac Oldham’s old land served again, and well. The Guernsey County Historical Society is currently leading the effort to acquire an official Ohio Historical Marker to be placed beside Old Twenty-One Road near the Fletcher site. With luck, it will be dedicated next Memorial Day, the 75th anniversary of the hospital’s original dedication. Fletcher General Hospital needs to be remembered.

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For those who returned, a white Christmas, at last.

Today, other than its empty streets, most of Fletcher General Hospital has disappeared. Only one of the old long corridors connecting ward buildings, 860 feet in length, still exists. Though the rail line beside it is gone now, old Fletcher Chapel still stands sentry on Isaac Oldham’s pioneer field of dreams, one last reminder of a long-ago war, and of those whose faith, hope, and service brought it to an end.

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HISTORICAL KENNEDY STONE HOUSE AT S A LT F O R K S TAT E PA R K Story & Photos by BEVERLY KERR

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BENJAMIN [KENNEDY], HIS WIFE AND SIX CHILDREN SETTLED ON THEIR EIGHTY ACRE FARM ALONG SUGAR CREEK WHERE THEY MADE A LIVING RAISING SHEEP.

Photo Top Left: Left over blocks from the Stone House summer kitchen were used for this entrance sign. Photo Top Right: Sisters Elaine Lipps and Jane Ransom greet visitors and tell the Kennedy history. Photo Bottom Left: The Kennedy Stone House Museum is located at Salt Fork State Park. Photo Bottom Right: Today the view from the Kennedy’s bedroom shows a peaceful lake. Photo Above: The oxen yoke used in building the house hangs above the summer kitchen fireplace.

use those means or if you prefer, drive down a short country lane and park very near the house. Restoration on the old house began in 2000 by Friends of the Kennedy Stone House under the leadership of Pauli Cornish. While the basic structure remains the same, there are few original furnishings or items. Stones left over from the summer kitchen were used to create the entrance sign for Salt Fork State Park. Little did they dream at that time that the house would someday be restored. Above the sandstone fireplace in the summer kitchen hangs an oxen yoke used by the oxen that hauled the sandstone to the site for the Irish masons, who built this beautiful house. All the blocks for the house came from their property. The summer kitchen was an important addition as it kept the main house cooler during the warmer months. Upstairs is an ornate old chest that was used by Vietta, the wife of son Matthew, to bring two pine saplings from her home in Maine to be planted in front of the Kennedy

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COMMUNITY EVENTS AUGUST 10 | Old Washington Farmers & Flea Market Every Thursday in August at 8am, vendors welcome! Located under the grandstand at Old Washington Fairgrounds. 740-439-5432 | 335 Old National Rd, Lore City AUGUST 11-13 | Salt Fork Festival 2017 Friday, 3-8pm, Saturday, 10am-7pm and Sunday 10am-4pm The Salt Fork Arts & Crafts Festival (also known as The Salt Fork Festival) is one of the longest-running and most widely anticipated events in Guernsey County each year. Join us in the beautiful Cambridge City Park as we celebrate our 48th year! Something for everyone, including high-quality and original artwork, live music and performing arts, with special art classes conducted for young visitors, Heritage Arts and demonstrations, and concessionaires offer a wide variety of refreshment. 740-705-6866 | Cambridge City Park, Cambridge | www.saltforkfestival.org AUGUST 26 | Rock The Block Starts at 4pm - Enjoy a variety of live music, demonstrating artists, creative hands-on opportunities, food and extended shopping hours. People of all ages are invited to stroll historic Wheeling Avenue (Old National Road/ Route 40) This is a FREE event. 740-432-8789/866-334-6446 | Downtown Cambridge, Wheeling Ave | OhioMadeGetaways.com SEPTEMBER 11-16 | 170th Guernsey County Fair Old Washington Fairgrounds at 8 a.m. Come out and enjoy the fair. 740-489-5888 | 335 Old National Rd, Lore City | GuernseyCountyFair.org

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their homes as retirement nears, and doing so can help you save a substantial amount of money. If the kids no longer live at home or if you simply have more space than you will need after retirement, downsize to a smaller, less expensive home. Monitor the real estate market before you decide to downsize so you can be sure to get the best deal on your current home. Downsizing saves on monthly utility bills, property taxes and a host of additional expenses. Downsizing also means less maintenance, which gives you more time to pursue your hobbies upon retiring. • Take on some additional work. While you may have long felt you would slowly wind down in the years immediately preceding retirement, taking on some additional work outside of your current job is a great way to save more for retirement and perhaps even lay the foundation for a post-retirement career. Workers over the age of 50 can be invaluable resources to startups or other businesses looking for executives who have been there, done that. Look for part-time jobs that seek such experience. Even if the initial jobs don’t bowl you over financially, part-time consultant work in retirement can make up for lost retirement savings and may even make your retirement years more fulfilling. Men and women on the verge of retirement can take many steps to grow their retirement savings and make their golden years that much more enjoyable. What may have not been saved before financially, can be made-up for now by being penny-wise and responsible. So it’s never too late, unless you never start at all.

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Ohio’s only Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist AND Functional Neurologist. I have performed hundreds of exams on Knee pain patients, and we have yet to have one that doesn’t say something like, “WOW, I’ve never had an exam explained like that before.” A word of warning. If you are happy with your current treatment, or if you are unwilling to do all that it takes to have the life you want, then this program is not for you.

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There is a simple reason that most treatments fail, because at best they only cover up your symptoms and do not heal your damaged nerves. We all know that there is a difference between Do you have any of the following symptoms… no sleep due to… • Chronic Knee Pain • Knee Pain with “Stairs & Chairs” • Knees that are starting to become Bow-legged or Knock Together • Bone-on-bone on an Xray • A diagnosis of Knee Arthritis or Degeneration of the carilage If so, you can have benefit from the CTX Method for Knee Pain covering up your symptoms, and actually fixing the underlying problem. So why settle for “bandaid” care when the CTX Method for Knee Pain is available? What if you could tap into your body’s natural healing abilities by using scientific principles to restore the knee cushion? I asked myself that very same question. What do knees need to stay healthy? What causes knee damage? How can I naturally “tip the balance” toward repairing and restoring sick cartilage while also removing what was stimulating the pain nerves? After 15 years of research… A frustrated Doctor Discovers The single Most Important Solution To Your Knee Pain… Are you tired of pleading with doctor after doctor for more help, only to get the ‘pat answer’… let’s try another pill, injection, or surgery..” You don’t have to be frustrated any more, or spend tens of thousands of dollars and countless hours away from your family…hopelessly looking for hidden answers.

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You will also receive our latest Avoiding Knee Surgery Report detailing every aspect of this unique, clinically proven treatment program. If you are a candidate for our program, we’ll review the reasons why, and give you a written treatment plan. If you are not a candidate, we’ll explain why we feel that we cannot help you. If you’re fed up with the status quo, and tired of the medical merry-go-round of cover-up care, then you must try this program. You have nothing to lose and everything to gain. You may be wondering, “Why hasn’t my doctor told me about this approach?” Because the techniques in the CTX Method are only starting to be taught in medical schools. Plus, a recent study found the average MD is 17 years behind in the research. The vast majority of our patients have been to 3-5 specialists BEFORE they visit us! This is a functional approach to correct the problem, not just temporarily cover up your symptoms. Here’s What You Need To Do Now… Call 740-454-1747 today and we will schedule you for a consultation & exam as soon as there is an opening. This offer is good for the next 2 weeks. We are conveniently located on the corner of 3rd and Main Streets in downtown Zanesville. When you call, just mention that you would like to come in for the Knee Pain Evaluation and we’ll get you scheduled to take advantage of this special offer. Dr. Russ Schroder, DC, DACNB, FACFN Board Certified Chiropractic Neurologist & Functional Neurologist, Chiropractic Physician

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he importance of a good night’s sleep is welldocumented. Numerous studies have found that the effects of a good night’s sleep go beyond boosting energy levels and improving alertness. A better sex life, less chronic pain and an improved mood are just a handful of the documented benefits that a good night’s sleep can provide. As important and beneficial as sleep is, many adults in the United States simply aren’t getting enough rest. A 2016 study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that more than one-third of American adults are not getting enough sleep on a regular basis. Those findings are based on guidelines from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine and the Sleep Research Society that recommend adults between the ages of 18 and 60 sleep at least seven hours each night. Getting a more restful night’s sleep requires concerted efforts on the part of adults who are falling short of seven hours each night. But the following are some simple ways for adults to start getting more rest. • Stick to a routine seven days a week. People tend to alter their sleep routines based on the day of the week, with many going to bed later at night and sleeping in later in the morning on weekends. But the National Sleep Foundation notes that going to

bed at the same time each day, including weekends, helps people feel more sleepy at bedtime and fall asleep quickly. • Avoid alcohol in the hours before going to bed. Alcohol can make people feel sleepy, but that effect is short-lived. The sleepiness many people feel after consuming alcohol wears off quickly, and that can lead to interruptions in sleep. • Avoid stimulants in the late afternoon and at night. Alcohol is a depressant that can affect the quality of sleep a person gets. But stimulants can also make it hard to get a good night’s sleep. Nicotine acts as a stimulant in small doses, so smokers should stop smoking that last cigarette before bedtime if they’re not getting decent or adequate sleep. Caffeinated beverages also should be avoided in the late afternoon and at night because caffeine stimulates the nervous system and can make it difficult to fall asleep, even if it’s been several hours since that last cup of coffee. • Take short daytime naps. Some people find that daytime naps improve the quality of their nighttime sleep. That might be due to the link between naps and stress. A 2015 study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism found that short naps can reduce stress. Reduced stress levels can make it easier to fall asleep at night. Limit naps to between 20 and 30 minutes, as naps that stretch on too long may interfere with nighttime sleep. Sufficient sleep can have a dramatic, positive impact on a person’s quality of life. Developing a good sleep routine and employing additional strategies can help sleep-deprived men and women get more restful nights’ sleep.

SLEEP TIPS FOR FOODIEZz z According to the National Sleep Foundation, changes in sleep patterns are a part of the aging process. Many people experience difficulty falling asleep and then staying asleep as they age, and that difficulty can make men and women over 50 feel more tired during the day. But even though difficulty sleeping may be a part of aging, that does not mean men and women over 50 cannot take steps to improve their sleeping patterns. For example, certain snack foods may help to improve quality of sleep, especially when these foods replace less healthy snacking options. While men and women over

50 should always consult with their physicians before making any changes to their diets, the AARP notes that the following are a handful of snack foods that promote better sleep. • Almonds: Magnesium is a mineral with musclerelaxing properties, and almonds contain enough magnesium to help men and women get a better night’s sleep. A small amount of almonds before bed might be enough to make falling and staying asleep easier. • Bananas: Much like almonds, bananas provide a substantial amount of magnesium. Bananas also contain the amino acid tryptophan, which many people associate with Thanksgiving turkey. While tryptophan might be most often associated with the sleepiness people feel after eating a holiday meal, it also has been linked to better sleep quality, so a banana shortly before bed might be just what you need to fall and stay asleep. • Cheese and crackers: One more traditional snack may just help you get a better night’s sleep. Cheese and crackers contain tryptophan and carbohydrates, which can induce a better night’s sleep and help you fall asleep sooner. • Cherries: Cherries contain the sleep hormone melatonin, and the AARP notes that recent studies indicated that participants who drank tart cherry juice on a daily basis fell asleep more quickly and slept longer and better than participants who did not. • Hummus: The primary ingredient in hummus is chickpeas, which are loaded with tryptophan, folate and vitamin B6. Folate has proven especially beneficial to older men and women who need help regulating their sleep patterns, while vitamin B6 helps the body regulate its clock. • Peanut butter: Peanut butter is another snacking item loaded with tryptophan. Spread some peanut butter on a carbohydrate, whether it’s a slice of toast or some crackers, before going to bed, and you may enjoy a better, longer sleep. • Walnuts: Like cherries, walnuts contain melatonin, which can contribute to a longer, more restful night’s sleep. Walnuts also can help regulate stress, which is a leading cause of sleeping difficulty. Many men and women experience difficulty sleeping as they age. But the right foods may just help combat such problems and help men and women get a more adequate night’s sleep.

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