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HAPPY MAY DAYS

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n May, we pay tribute to our mothers and our nation’s war dead, but did you know that May is also Older American’s Month?

The theme for 2018, as announced by the Administration on Aging, is Engage at Every Age. The thought here is that you’re never too old (or too young) to take part in activities that can enrich your physical, mental and emotional well-being.

The U.S. life expectancy has lengthened significantly in the last few decades thanks to advances in medicine and technology, improved health care, an emphasis on diet and fitness, and reductions in smoking.

According to the American Psychological Association’s Office on Aging, today’s life expectancy is 84.3 years for men and 86.6 for women.

The number of Americans over age 85 is increasing faster than any other age group.

One out of every four 65-year-olds today will live past age 90; one in 10 will live past age 95.

Of course, the proportion of older adults living by themselves increases with advancing age. Among women aged 75 and over, almost half live alone.

Many folks believe that moving to a nursing facility is inevitable as we grow older but in reality, only about 13 percent of persons 85 and older reside in nursing homes. (apa.org/pi/aging/resources/guides/older. aspx) While the extension of life expectancy is great, we want to make sure those extra years are healthy ones, not ones spent in ill health.

So remember to exercise to maintain and improve strength, flexibility and cardiovascular fitness. Lead a healthy lifestyle and see a doctor for any changes or concerns about your physical and mental health.

Keep up with the news of the day as well as new technological advances. Take advantage of your community’s cultural events. Stay connected socially.

Share your wisdom with the next generation -- many of them are in great need of love and guidance.

Remain passionate about life.

Make the world a better place.

Blaze a trail.

Engage at every age.

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local events around town • May 2018 Date: Event: Time:

May 6, 10 – 12 & 13 A Raisin in the Sun (6th& 13th at 2 p.m.)

10 – 12 at 8 p.m.

Cost: Members - $22 Non – Members - $25 Building: Alliance for the Arts Address: 10091 McGregor Blvd.

Fort Myers, 33919 Phone: 239 – 939 - 2787 Website: artinlee.org

Date: Event: Time: Cost:

Every Saturday Parkinson’s Boxing Class 2 - 3 p.m. $10 per class/ $85 per session

Building: Morgan Family Comm. Center Address: 6207 W. Price Blvd.

North Port, 34291 Phone: 941-429-3555/941-429-7000 Website: cityofnorthport.com

Date: Event: Time: Cost:

May 12 Cape Coral’s Farmers Market Downtown 8 a.m. – 1 p.m.

Free Admission

Building: Club Square Address: SE 47th Terrace & SE 10th Place South Cape Coral, 33904 Website: capecoralfarmersmarket.com

Date: Event:

May 13 Mother’s Day Restorative Yoga and Healing Crystal Bowl Meditation 4 – 6 p.m. $25

Time: Cost: Building: Yoga Bird: Fort Myers Yoga Studio Address: 1400 Colonial Blvd. Unit 61 Fort Myers, 33907 Phone: 239-936-6940 Website: yogabirdstudio.com/events

Date: Event: Time: Cost:

May 23 Movie Day: Megan Leavey 2 - 4.m. free

Building: South County Regional Library Address: 21100 Three Oaks Pkwy Estero, 33928 Phone: 239-533-4400 Website: leegov.com

(go on website to sign up for class)

Date: Event: Time: Cost:

Every Monday Hatha Yoga (Beginners/Intermediate) 7 - 8 p.m.

Drop in $ 7

Building: Tringali Park Comm.Center Address: 3460 N. Access Rd Unit #1 Englewood, 34224 Phone: 941-681-3742 Website: charlottecountyfl.gov

Date: Event: Time: Cost:

May 17 Lifestyles After 50 Hurricane Preparedness Fun Fest Event 9:30 a.m. – 2 p. m.

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Building: St. Pete Museum of History Address: 335 2nd Ave. N.E. St. Pete, 33701 Phone: 813-653-1988 Website: lifestylesafter50.com/events

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May 12 6th Annual Key Lime Festival 10 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Free Admission

Building: Fisherman’s Village Address: 1200 W. Retta Esplanade, 57a Punta Gorda, 33950 Phone: 941-639-8721 Website: fishville.com

Date: Event: Time: Cost:

May 15 May Republican Women’s Luncheon 11:15 a.m. $20

Building: The Landing (The Helm Club) Address: South Fort Myers, 33919 Phone: 239-489-4701 (Reservations are required by May 10)

Website: landingsygtc.com

Date: May 28 Event: V intage Motor Car Club of America Car Show Time: 11 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Cost: free Building: Fishermen’s Village Address: 1200 W. Retta Esplanade Punta Gorda, 33950 Phone: 941-639-8721 Website: fishville.com

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Film

The Seagull

By RANDAL C. HILL

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t is life itself onstage, with all its tragic alliances, eloquent thoughtlessness and silent sufferings.”

So lauded Russian theater critic Anatoly Koni in an 1896 note to playwright Anton Chekhov after Koni had seen the stage presentation of Chekhov’s new drama called The Seagull. In contrast to the popular melodramatic approach of the day, Chekhov’s groundbreaking dialogue approach featured his onstage characters delivering lines that tended to skirt around the issues being discussed rather than addressing them directly.

Sony Pictures Classics’ 2018 version of The Seagull offers Chekhov’s iconic drama for today’s audience, who will experience a classic-in-the-making movie that tells a heartbreaking yet often amusing tale of friends and lovers, all of whom fall in love with the wrong people. The focus is often on the character flaw of narcissism and its ultimate impact on young dreams and romantic love.

The story may be 122 years old now, but it is as contemporary as any modern soap opera. The May 11th release—which is already drawing early Oscar buzz—has Sony almost breathlessly enthusing: “Here finally is the definitive film version of the master storyteller’s play. It is fun and the cast is simply sublime.”

The top-notch ensemble plays a unique and often-quirky set of characters in Chekhov’s iconic work.

In the story, aging actress Irina (four-time Academy Award-nominated Annette Bening) pays a summer visit to her brother’s secluded lakeside estate, where she encounters her long-estranged son Konstantin (UK-born Prada model Billy Howle), as well as his adoring lady friend Masha (Mad Men and The Handmaid’s Tale’s Elisabeth Moss). The fun begins in earnest when a famous novelist named Boris (Netflix’s House of Cards’ Corey Stoll) arrives on the scene at Irina’s invitation and meets striking ingenue Nina (three-time Oscar nominated Irish star Saorise Ronan), a free-spirited but vulnerable beauty from a neighboring estate.

Annette Bening in The Seagull (2018) The Seagull has seen countless stage adaptations over the years, including operas and ballets, as well as a 1968 film adaptation by director Sidney Lumet.

Fresh from Broadway, Seagull director Michael Mayer says, “Chekhov didn’t live to see cinema emerge as an important art form. He would never know how significantly his contribution to writing and acting would be. I’d like to think that he would appreciate our intent on to capture forever, in Koni’s words, ‘the sort of everyday life that is accessible to everyone and understood in its cruel internal irony by almost no one.’”

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Extraordinary Moms, Then and Now

By KATHy MEGyERI Each of us treasure our own special mothers who gave us life and so much more, but there are some mothers who nurtured not only their own children, but the world’s.

On this Mother’s Day, 2018, we take a look at some of these remarkable ladies.

Ann Maria Jarvis is the First Mother of Mother’s Day. She bore between 11 and 13 children, but only four survived to adulthood.

In 1858, she began Mother’s Day Work Clubs to combat childhood diseases and improve sanitation. She also nursed soldiers on both sides of the Civil War as a symbol of neutrality. After the war, Jarvis organized a “Mother’s Friendship Day” to help curtail post-war hostilities. Following her death, her daughter, Anna Jarvis, made it her mission to get Mother’s Day recognized as a holiday. In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed the proclamation and made it official.

Irena Sendler, a mother of three, smuggled almost 2,500 Jewish children out of Warsaw’s ghetto during World War II, provided them with false identity papers, and sheltered them with adoptive Polish families or in care facilities. As a social worker, Sendler gained access to the Warsaw ghetto to check for typhus, a disease that the Germans feared would spread beyond the ghetto. Under the guise of inspecting sanitary conditions, she smuggled out babies and small children, hiding them in packages and suitcases. She once said, “Every child saved with my help is the justification of my existence on this Earth, and not a title to glory.”

Lou Xiaoying has been praised in China for saving more than 30 abandoned babies found in the trash. In 1972, she was making a meager living by recycling rubbish when she discovered the first child lying in garbage. She kept and raised some of the children she found over the years; others were passed on to relatives and friends.

Many of the babies abandoned on the streets by poor parents were the victims of China’s one child policy. She said, “I realized if we had strength enough to collect garbage, how could we not recycle something as important as human lives?”

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Julia Ward Howe wrote the first Mother’s Day proclamation in 1870 asking women everywhere to join for world peace, a pacifist reaction to the carnage of the Civil and the Franco-Prussian wars. Married to the founder of the Perkins School for the Blind, she bore six children. She was an abolitionist, feminist, poet and women’s suffrage activist but is best known for writing the Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Kathy Headlee Miner is the mother of 7 children, 2 stepchildren and founder of Mothers Without Borders. The nonprofit organization focuses on work in Africa where they care for orphaned and vulnerable children, provide safe shelter, food and clean water. Adult caregivers are offered literacy and business skills training.

Miner has also organized and implemented community development projects in Romania, Mexico, India, Indonesia and Bolivia.

Candy Lightner founded Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) in 1980 after a drunk driver killed her 13-year-old daughter, Cari.

Before that, drunk drivers injured her two other children in separate accidents; her son suffered permanent brain damage. She rallied mothers across the country to help lobby for legislation that would prevent drunk driving deaths and injuries and curb underage drinking.

Theresa Kachindamoto, the paramount chief to over 900,000 Malawian people and mother of five boys, has greatly improved the lives of Malawi’s youth. Malawi is one of the poorest countries in the world with an HIV infection rate of 10 percent. A United Nations study found that more than half of the country’s women are married before the age of 18, and girls as young as 7 were sent to sexual initiation camps. In just three years, the chief annulled over 850 child marriages, encouraged girls to go to school, and made the community healthier in the process.

Happy Birthday to those born in May!

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’m currently in a downsizing phase. My fantasy is to live the rest of my days ready for a trip to Paris – or an emergency hurricane evacuation – and not have to choose what to take with me. If I’m successful, everything I own

Cher 72 on May 20

Billy Joel 69 on May 29

May’s flower is: Lily of the Valley May’s birthstone is: Emerald, a symbol of success and love

Clint Eastwood 88 on May 31

Timothy Olyphant hits the Big Five-Oh! on May 20

Susan Goldfein holds a doctorate in Communication Disorders from Teachers College, Columbia University, and enjoyed a successful career as a clinician, teacher, and consultant. For more essays filled with wit, wisdom and irony, visit Susan’s blog, www.susansunfilteredwit.com. Her book, How Old Am I in Dog Years? may be purchased on Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com

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FORGETFULNESS: Normal or Not? Many people become more forgetful as they age. How can you tell the difference between mild forgetfulness and serious memory problems like Alzheimer’s disease?

Talk with your doctor if you notice you have more serious memory problems than normal. – National Institute on Aging

What’s typical and what’s not: NORMAL AGING • Making a bad decision once in a while • Missing a monthly payment • Forgetting which day it is and remembering later • Sometimes forgetting which word to use • Losing things from time to time ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE • Making poor judgements and decisions a lot of the time • Problems taking care of monthly bills • Losing track of the date or time of year • Trouble having a conversation • Misplacing things often and being unable to find them

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Paperclip: Don’t Leave Home Without It I do not have an American Express card so in my case, “don’t leave home without it,” applies to a paperclip, one of the most amazing tools ever invented.

I always have one in my pocket.

Originally intended to clip together papers, it has proven to be a versatile little implement, capable of being transformed into an impromptu tie clip, hem holder or small slingshot for shooting spit-wads at a cute little gal in a classroom.

(They don’t call me Mr. Debonair for nothing!)

Developed in the 19th century, the paperclip’s machine aesthetic, low cost and utilitarian nature have made it withstand the test of time.

So much so, that May 29th has been coronated National Paperclip Day. A paperclip can be used for picking locks, picking teeth, opening handcuffs and as an emergency roach clip holder for hippies – not that I have any personal knowledge of such things.

It can keep you from getting lost, too. Straighten one out, magnetize it, stick it through a cork and float on water – it becomes a compass, always pointing north.

Of course, if you are lost, what are the chances you have a cork on

hand?

I have found them useful to clip notes to my shirt to remind me of important things such as meeting the deadline for this column or to feed the dog.

In my younger years, I formed them into going-steady, engagement and wedding rings. This is how I knew that my bride married me for me and not for any presumed wealth.

I know too that one day, should I be called upon to perform an emergency tracheotomy, I can quickly save a life and be a hero like MacGyver.

By now, you must be wondering how you can get involved and celebrate National Paperclip Day. Well, you can festively decorate a tree or your own hair with an assortment of the colorful clips. It’s also a tradition on this day to return all the paperclips you’ve inadvertently stolen from your workplace. You’ll find them in the little piles on your dresser where you’ve emptied your pants pockets or purse of coins, gum wrappers, McDonald’s receipts and other assorted items.

I’m wondering if there is a National Gum Wrapper Day?

If you’ve enjoyed this story, please paperclip a thank you card to an email and forward it to me at micwrighthamo@gmail.com It will make my day and I promise to reuse the paperclip in the future.

Florida’s Beauteous Botanicals Marie Selby botanical GardenS, SaraSota This tropical oasis filled with rare and beautiful plants is so inspirational, USA Today recently ranked it the top travel-worthy garden in the nation.

On 15 acres facing Sarasota Bay, the Gardens showcase epiphytes (plants that grow on other plants), along with orchids, bromeliads, gesneriads and other tropicals; butterfly, edible and fragrance gardens; a koi pond, an interactive children’s rainforest, an herbarium and a research library.

Now through June 30, visitors can enjoy the Andy Warhol silk screen exhibition, “Warhol: Flowers in the Factory.”

The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, 900 S. Palm Ave. in Sarasota, is open daily from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. For admission prices and other info, call (941) 366-5731 or visit selby.org.

Florida botanical GardenS, larGo This serene 100-acre wetlands park in Pinellas County is the largest free garden in Florida. It features 25 individual garden zones including an herb garden, fruit garden, wedding garden, rose garden, and a butterfly garden, which is soon to be the largest in the nation. Home to 1,500 species of native and exotic plants and more than 150 types of birds and mammals, it is a vast and beautiful educational classroom.

The Gardens are adjacent to Heritage Village, where visitors can step back in time and learn about Florida’s pioneering roots.

The Florida Botanical Gardens, 12520 Ulmerton Road in Largo, welcome well-behaved pets on a leash. Admission is free; donations accepted. Open daily from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. (727) 582-2100 or visit flbg.org.

By KATHy MEGyERI

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ecause of our long and varied growing season, horticulturalists are obsessed with collecting plants from near and far that flourish in our climate. The result? Florida boasts some of the most stunning botanical gardens in the U.S. Here, we highlight four of Florida’s finest and encourage you to hit the road and enjoy these glorious gardens while the colorful spring blooms and last few breaths of spring air are still with us.

bok tower GardenS, lake waleS The grandmother of Edward Bok, a Dutch immigrant who published the Ladies Home Journal, told him to “make the world a bit better or more beautiful because you have lived in it,” so he set out to build “a beauty spot second to none in the country.” In 1929, the 250-acre Bok Tower Gardens was dedicated by President Calvin Coolidge and presented to the nation.

A sanctuary for native wildlife, the historic Olmsted Gardens, Wild Garden and Hammock Hollow children’s garden provide acres of beautiful gardens spaces. The Singing Tower houses a 60bell carillon that plays concerts at 1 and 3 p.m. The tower is built on Iron Mountain, one of the highest points in Florida and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Bok Tower Gardens, 1151 Tower Blvd. in Lake Wales, is open daily from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. For admission prices and other info, call (863) 676-1408 or visit boktowergardens.org.

napleS botanical Garden, napleS This 170-acre world-class paradise is so beautiful it has won the 2017 Garden of Excellence Award from the American Public Gardens Association.

The Garden is comprised of seven distinct natural habitats and ecosystems, which yield a treasure trove of flora and fauna right in the heart of Naples. Besides Florida’s native plants, the garden showcases the exotic plants and cultures from places like Brazil, the Caribbean, and Southeast Asia.

Naples Botanical Garden, 4820 Bayshore Dr., is open daily from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. except on Tuesday when it opens at 8 a.m. Call (239) 643-7275 or visit naplesgarden.org for details.

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Social Security

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Honoring our nation’s heroes

n Memorial Day, we honor service members who have given their lives for our nation. One way our nation pays respect to these heroes is though Social Security benefits.

The loss of a family member can be very difficult in many ways and widows, widowers, and dependent children of service members may be eligible for Social Security survivors’ benefits. Learn more at socialsecurity.gov/survivors.

Social Security also protects wounded veterans when an injury prevents them from returning to active duty or performing other work. Wounded military service members can also receive expedited processing of their Social Security disability claims. Depending on the situation, some family members of military personnel may be eligible to receive Social Security benefits too. You can get answers to commonly asked questions at socialsecurity.gov/woundedwarriors.

Service members can also receive Social Security in addition to military retirement benefits. Generally, these military retirement benefits do not reduce your Social Security retirement benefit. Learn more about retirement benefits at socialsecurity. gov/retirement.

You may also want to visit the Military Service page of the Retirement Planner, available at socialsecurity.gov/planners/retire/veterans.html.

Service members are also eligible for Medicare at age 65. If you have health insurance from the VA or under the TRICARE or CHAMPVA programs, your health benefits may change, or end, when you become eligible for Medicare. Learn more about Medicare benefits at socialsecurity.gov/medicare.

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omer Beauty Mother’s Day Gluten-Free Banana Beauty Bread

BY Jess ArnAudin

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his month, celebrate and thank the mamas in your life by whipping up a batch of this simple and healthy Gluten-Free Beauty Bread that’s filled with vitamins B6, B12, magnesium and potassium. Wrap loaf in parchment paper and tie with ribbon for gorgeous gifting.

Ingredients: 2 c. gluten-free flour 5 very ripe bananas, mashed 1/2 c. organic sugar 3 Tbsp. coconut oil 2 eggs 2 Tbsp. unsweetened dairy-free milk 1/2 tsp. pure vanilla extract 1 tsp. baking powder 1 tsp. baking soda ½ tsp. ground cinnamon 1/4 tsp. salt Optional: Add walnuts pieces or sliced almonds

Directions Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease a 9 by 5-inch loaf pan; set aside.

In a large bowl, combine flour, baking soda, baking powder, cinnamon and salt; set aside. In a separate bowl, mix together coconut oil and sugar.

Stir in eggs, almond milk, vanilla and mashed bananas until well blended.

Stir wet ingredients into dry just to moisten. Pour batter into prepared loaf pan. Bake for 55 minutes; it should feel firm and golden brown. Let cool completely before slicing.

Jess Arnaudin is a licensed esthetician at The Beauty Bungalow in St. Petersburg, FL, a boutique spa specializing in organic facial treatments for simply beautiful skin. Learn more at www.beautybungalowspa.com or (727) 656-9096.

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Dental Health

By Dr. ABigAil TuBio

Oral cancer

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ral cancer affects the human papillomavirus thousands of Americans (HPV). Infection with each year, yet few are aware certain types of HPV of the signs to detect it and can cause some forms of the steps that can be taken cancer, including cancers to prevent it. The older you of the mouth and throat. get, the more susceptible The type linked to throat cancer is HPV16. Most you may become to oral people with HPV infections cancer. According to the of the mouth and throat American Cancer Society, have no symptoms, which most cases develop over the age of 50 and the risks is why it’s so important increase with age. In 2018, to get regular checkan estimated 51,500 people ups. Other causes of oral will be diagnosed with oral The older you get, the more susceptible cancer include heavy use of cancer and more than 10,000 tobacco and alcohol. Those you may become to oral cancer. will die of the disease. The who smoke and drink daily average age of people diagnosed with oral cancer is 62 are at the greatest risk. Sun damage also takes part in and men are more likely than women to develop the the development of oral cancer. Dentists recommend disease at a ratio of six to one. wearing at least SPF 30 or higher on lips.

Like most cancers, early detection is key, however Proactive prevention is the best way to stay ahead of oral cancer. The number one risk factor stems from early indicators of oral cancer may be hidden. Signs

to watch out for include pain in facial areas and ears while swallowing or coughing. Other signs may include enlarged lymph nodes, ulcers, or red and white patchy spots in the back of the throat and constant bad breath.

The medical treatments available for oral cancer include surgery, radiation or chemotherapy.

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“It’s time for someone to stand on his or her record, and if you had a record like mine, you’d want to cover it firmly with both feet,” said Kelly, whose third book, I’d Have to Be an Idiot to Write Another Book, is selling like cold cakes.

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Basic Ingredients: oil fish salt and pepper sliced oranges fresh herbs such as cilantro, basil or mint flavored butter (see below) Orange-Herb Butter Mash together one stick unsalted butter 1/2 tsp. grated orange zest 2 tsp. fresh orange juice 1/4 tsp. cayenne pepper 1 clove garlic, minced 2 Tbsp. chopped cilantro 1/2 tsp. coarse salt

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Older Americans Month

The Heroic Adventures of Alder Allensworth

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ay is Older American’s and social scars, she rallied her Month, a time to spiritual energies and went back celebrate seniors who live to work as a music therapist, life to the fullest, and what pondering her future as a woman a more perfect example with an eye patch. than Tampa`s intrepid Alder She moved from Tampa Allensworth, who lives life to Key Largo to become a dive as one big adventure. instructor. She also taught music To date, the 60-year-old to young students and facilitated female cancer survivor has dolphin therapy groups. sailed 1,200 miles solo on After two years, Allensworth once again returned to the Tampa a small boat, backpacked Bay area where she continued to 500 miles alone on an provide music therapy to at-risk internationally known children. pilgrimage from France to A life-altering moment came Spain, become a registered when Allensworth was helping nurse, authored an awardwinning book and continues a student in crisis deal with his to be part of a sailing scars. foundation for the disabled.

“I will not be ashamed of my Alder Allensworth, a sailor, hiker, and cancer scars, if you take off the eye patch “Having had cancer survivor graduated from nursing school at the and not be ashamed of yours,” he makes each day I am given age of 59 said. a gift,” she said. “I want to She boldly accepted the challenge and only make the most of the gifts by sharing my life with wears the patch during festive events like Tampa`s others.”

Born into a military family at Camp LeJeune, Gasparilla invasion parade.

N.C., Allensworth’s father was a Navy dentist who served the White House during the Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson administrations. Her mother was a coal miner’s daughter who rose from poverty to receive her college degree.

“I want to make the most of the gifts by sharing my life with others.”

The military family moved continually from city to city and from country to country. She graduated from high school in Scotland, completed her bachelor’s degree at Stephens College in Columbia, Mo., and earned her master’s in music at the University of Miami.

In 1990, when she was 33, Allensworth was unexpectedly diagnosed with a rare cancer – Adenoid Cystic Carcinoma of her left tear gland. After extensive surgery to remove the left eye, socket and tear gland, the tumor was successfully eradicated, making her the first person ever to survive this form of deadly cancer.

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It’s a skill she has pursued throughout her adult life and in 2000, she accepted a challenge to sail solo on the 12-foot dinghy, Prevail, in order to raise money and awareness for sailors with disabilities. Her remarkable 1,200-mile journey down the Gulf of Mexico, through the Everglades and up the Atlantic to Moorhead, N.C. was chronicled by cable TV giant, CNN. When she returned home she joined a group of likeminded friends and, in 2001, formed the non-profit, Sailability Greater Tampa Bay, which empowers people with disabilities to learn to sail on their own.

At the time, the type of special boats needed were made in Australia and would cost $5,000 each. So, Allensworth took the CNN video to the city of Clearwater and received approval to use the Clearwater Community Sailing Center on Sand Key. She approached local organizations and cobbled together enough donations to pay for the first six boats.

During this time, Allensworth met and married disabilities advocate, Ben Ritter, who commented, “There’s never a boring moment when living with Alder.”

Life took a twist in 2003 when her mother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. She and her father became the caregivers. Then, a few years after her mother’s death, Allensworth became her father’s fulltime caregiver until he died in 2017.

During that time, she studied nursing and wrote her memoirs. At age 59, she became a registered nurse.

After her father’s death, Allensworth needed time for healing and reflection so decided to tackle the Camino de Santiago, or the Way of St. James. It’s a 500-mile religious pilgrimage that begins in Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port in France, crosses the Pyrenees, and continues westward across to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain.

She also submitted her memoir, Prevail: Celebrate the Journey, to the Richter Publishing 2017 Writing Contest and won a book contract. The book was published in February and is available on Amazon.

Her friend, noted sailor and former News Channel 8 anchor, Bob Hite, said: “Alder`s a remarkable woman that has taken on many challenges and still remains one of the most modest and humble individuals I`ve ever known.”

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Cotton, now 53, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in 2013, following the onset of a tremor in his right hand. The Port Charlotte resident continued as a community relations officer until a minor car accident and a failed physical abilities test ended his career.

He felt depressed and unsure about what to do next.

Support groups helped until a year-and-a-half ago, when new non-motor symptoms caught him by surprise.

He began seeing shadows of cats and dogs, responding to questions his wife never asked, and once, Cotton’s brother appeared in the passenger seat of his truck and attempted to give him driving instructions.

“He lives up north and is terrible at directions,” said Cotton. “I felt there was something mentally wrong with me. I didn’t know it was part of Parkinson’s.”

“I felt there was something mentally wrong with me. I didn’t know it was part of Parkinson’s.”

Dan Cotton Approximately one million Americans live with PD, but the onset of hallucinations and delusions (false beliefs) often comes as a surprise to patients and caregivers.

These symptoms will affect more than half of people with PD, yet only 10 to 20 percent of caregivers or patients ever report these symptoms to their doctor, pos-

sibly because they are embarrassed and/or do not realize that non-motor symptoms are part of the disease.

This spring, a survey of people with PD and PD caregivers conducted by the PMDAlliance found that nearly all respondents (90 percent) have experienced (or reported their loved one experienced) non-motor symptoms associated with PD. Nearly half felt these types of symptoms were harder to live with than physical symptoms of PD. Cotton talked to his PD specialist (a neurologist with special training) about his hallucinations and the doctor prescribed a fairly new drug treatment specifically approved by the FDA for his symptoms.

“After about three weeks, I noticed the hallucinations started to disappear,” he said.

Today, Cotton volunteers his time with his local PD support group and speaks to groups about his disease.

He encourages patients and caregivers to visit their doctor and discuss their symptoms openly so they can receive proper treatment.

“I’m sharing my story so others know,” he said.

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1. Give careful thought and consideration to the type of pet you select, making sure it is compatible with your home, lifestyle and budget.

Consider adopting an older shelter pet. Once you’ve chosen your new best friend, commit for life.

2. When you welcome a pet into your home, schedule a visit to the veterinarian for a wellness check, required vaccinations, and flea and tick control products. Continue with regular checkups.Make sure to get a sick or injured pet the care it needs as soon as possible.

3. Keep your pet at a healthy weight and avoid table scraps – many foods humans enjoy can be unhealthy or toxic for animals.

4. Always keep a collar on your pet with its name and your phone number.

Consider microchipping. Keep your pet safely confined to its own yard with available shade and water.

5. Spay or neuter so as to not contribute to the pet overpopulation problem. If you choose to breed your pet, do it through managed breeding practices.

6. Give your pet plenty of love, attention and opportunities to exercise their minds and body.

If you are gone all day, consider adopting a companion for your pet. Playhouses, indoor climbing “trees,” and laser pointers will help keep cats active. Most dogs love a trip to the dog beach or dog park, obedience and agility classes, frisbee and ball games, and swimming in a pool.

Both dogs and cats enjoy learning new tricks

and playing “hide and seek” with healthy treats.

7. Dogs should be walked at least 30 minutes a day, and only in the early morning or evening hours during hot summer weather. Consider an enclosed outdoor run for your feline friends – the internet has a host of creative ideas.

8. Consult a trained professional if your dog exhibits aggression, anxiety or other behavioral problems.

9. Always have a plan for a loving caretaker to look after your pet should something happen to you.

10.When the end of life is near, consult your veterinarian about quality of life issues so you can make the best decision at the right time.

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Hollingshead had been concerned about his mother, who was a rather large lady.

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One year later, and with three other investors, Hollingshead bought 400 nearby acres and terraced 336 parking spaces in gentle front-wheel inclines, so that vehicles directly in front of carcocooned viewers wouldn’t block the screen.

On opening night, visiting movie patrons handed over 25 cents apiece to see a British comedy on a 40-by-50-foot screen. Customers instantly embraced Hollingshead’s brainchild—they could relax in their vehicles, smoke cigarettes, bring their kids, chat without being shushed.

Thanks to a prosperous economy and a growing car culture, drive-in theaters mushroomed in popularity after World War II. By 1958 the number of such sites— featuring about 25percent of all movie screens in America at the time—reached its peak with 4,063 locations.

The largest such venue was the All-Weather Drive-In in Copiague, N.Y., which boasted 2,500 parking spaces, an additional indoor sitting area, a playground, a shuttle and a full-service restaurant that offered rooftop dining.

The unavoidable passage of time brought unwelcome changes in the form of soaring land values and competition from increasing technology, especially with the development of popular home video systems.

While most former sites have morphed into housing developments or shopping centers, the remaining weedinfested lots and flea-market locales now stand as sentinels to still-vivid memories of silver-screen stories once told under nighttime skies.

Randal C. Hill, a former disc jockey, English teacher, record collector and author, confesses to being hopelessly stuck in the past. He lives on the Oregon coast and can be reached at wryterhill@msn.com.

Seniors Getting Together WomEn SEEKinG mEn 4813 - SEEKinG HonEST Wm, 65-80 yrs., compassionate, caring.

FF, ND, NDrg, NS. I am easy going, enjoy walks, beach, cooking, dining out. Let’s enjoy life together. Send phone number. Riverview/ Apollo Beach area.

4809 - LiFE iS SHoRT. ISO friendship with widower, early 80’s, SOH, HONEST, NEAT, LT, SD & sports fan. I am W, WW, honest, well dressed, 5’5”, HWP, attractive. Reply with telephone number or email. Bonita/ Ft Myers.

4793 - LooKinG FoR A mATE. I am 68, widow, W, LTR, NS, ND. I am a country girl, likes country music, slow dancing, gospel, folk, music of the 50s and 60s, eat out, wild life, travel, artwork, exercises, 68-73.

Please write, send pictures. Duette.

4790 - iSo bSm. 60-65 yo, long term relationship. Interested in traveling, theater, music and quiet times. HWP, at least 5’9” and up to 200 lbs. give or take.

FF and TLC. 4786 - WSF SEEKS SPiRiTUALLy SECURED WSm. nS, nD, clean cut, honest, FF, companionship for enjoying life’s casual socials, travel, theatre, dancing, dining, cards and walks with a love of life.

Please send photo and phone number.

Port Charlotte area.

4757 - my nAmE iS CHARiTy. I’m mature, single, cuddly with short blonde hair, blue eyes, 5’7”, 654kg, and very attractive. I’m a nurse and have been for 7 yrs. I am very caring, honest & trustworthy. I live alone and care very much about other people’s feelings. I enjoy gardening, cinema, cozy nights in with a bottle of wine, swimming, watching some sport and good movies.

I am looking for a guy aged from 50 and above and good looking, honest and trustworthy. I am in need of tender loving and care. Write soon.

4738 - i Am SinGLE, CUDDLy with long blonde hair, blue eyes, 5’7”. I’m very attractive. I am a nurse and have been for 21 years. I am very much about other people’s feelings. I am very loving, enjoy gardening, cinema, cozy nights in with a bottle of wine, swimming, watching some sport and good movies. I seek a serious marriage minded matured guy. Someone good looking, honest and trustworthy.

I am in need of tender loving care. Write

me a letter now with your contact and arrange to meet for a cup of coffee.

Fort Myers, Cape Coral. Please send photo & phone.

4746 - iSo LovinG FRiEnDSHiP. 79 yy, W, HWP, R, C, SOH, NS, ND, NDrg. Happy, healthy, secure, easy going, dancing, music, conversation, reading. ISO FF gentleman with like interests, to love me, share are years. Send phone number.

Ellenton Area.

4744 - SWm SEEKS SLim FEmALE. Affectionate, romantic, fun, non-smoking to share my home, life. I am 5’7”, 150, easy going, loving, sober. Life’s short. All answered with photo, phone. Venice area.

4737 - GoLDEn GAL - no GoLD. Mild disability. ISO 62 plus church going Gentleman. Friendship and Possible future. NS, NDrg. Please be respectful. No jail birds. 34287 area. Northport.

4119 SEEKinG HonEST GEnTLEmAn. Former airline stewardess and model, 5’4”, 104 lbs., slender, white with Ph.D. in healthcare. Fulbright scholar, eats healthy and exercises. Likes sports and animals.

WW. Loves the Lord. Florida.

mEn SEEKinG WomEn 4800 - SinGLE WHiTE mALE. My name is Edward. I am a retired dairy farmer seeking a companion between 67 & 70 years of age. Someone who likes to go out to dinner, music, travel, talking, being happy.

4797 - SinGLE WHiTE mALE. Slim, young 70. Non smoker, many interests. 5’10” tall.

Seeks slim female, 60 to 70. Fort Myers, Cape Coral? Dancing. Send photo and phone number. No smoker.

4787 - mALE, W, WW, C, 77 yy, 5’5”, nS, nD, nDrg, HWP, R, absolute gentleman.

Love golf, movies, day and short trips, dancing. ISO attractive, W, lady, C, 65-75 YY, SOH, NS, NDrg, SD, LTR, FF, TLC. Send photo and phone. Lee, Charlotte area.

4771 - FUn LovinG DWm, 69YY, 6’, ISO 59YY+, NS, SOH, HWP, secure female who likes travel, tennis, bicycling, dancing, for possible life partner, NS only. Send recent picture with contact information. Fort Myers area.

4763 - SinGLE, mALE, WHiTE, CHRiSTiAn. 78, ISO SOH, Non-smoker, light drinker, LTR, WGT proportional. TLC LOTS AND LOTS!! Venice 4756 - mAn, 72YY, 5’5”, 145, seeking a non smoker, 65+ for caring, romantic, quiet times. Kind, gentle, church, most sports.

4740 - WiDoWED GEnTLEmAn in Venice looking for a lady around 80 to enjoy the “golden years”. I am a clean cut, honest, stable and loving gentleman. Please send your phone number. I’ll call you.

4715 - SEEKinG LovE & mARRiAGE. 72 yR, SWm, nS, nD, disease and drug free. Easy & out going. Easy to please.

Looking for love & marriage. Only sincere need reply. No game players, druggies or convicts. Age & looks unimportant. Photo, phone please.

4716 - SWm, 58, 5”8”, 160., I’m attractive, active, honest and sincere. Like outdoor activities plus music, theatre, dancing, dining out and travel. You are attractive, SWF, 40-50s, Let’s talk, laugh, begin a friendship. North Port area.

To PLACE An AD: Send your ad, stating what edition(s) you would like it placed in, along with a $6 fee for 30 words (25¢ for each additional word, abbreviations not charged) to the News Connection USA, Inc. address listed below. Ads received by the 15th of the month will appear in the following issue.

To RESPonD To An AD: Write a letter to the person you want to contact. Place that letter in a stamped envelope and write the ad # on the bottom left hand side of the envelope. Place your stamped, numbered envelope(s), along with $2 for each letter enclosed, into another envelope and address it to: News Connection USA Seniors Getting Together P.O. Box 638, Seffner, FL 33583 CommonLy USED AbbREviATionS: F-Female, M-Male, S-Single, D-Divorced, WWWidow, A-Asian, B-Black, H-Hispanic, I-Indian, W-White, C-Christian, J-Jewish, YO-Years Old, YY-Years Young, ISO-In Search Of, SOH-Sense Of Humor, SM-Smokes, S-Light Smoker, NSNon Smoker, ND-Non Drinker, SD-Social (Light) Drinker, DR-Drinks, NDrg- No Drugs, LTR-Long Term Relationship, HWP-Height & Weight Proportional, R-Retired, P-Professional, FF-Friendship First, TLC-Tender Loving Care.

Seniors Getting Together

Personal Ad Placement only $6 per month!

Deadline for ads is the 15th of the month prior to placement.

MArk The edITIOn(s) YOu WOuLd LIke TO run YOur Ad In: ❍ Tampa Bay & Suncoast (Hillsborough/Pinellas/Pasco) ❍ Lake/Marion/Sumter ❍ Southwest & Sarasota (Lee, Charlotte/Manatee)

Ad Copy ••• PLeAse PrInT neATLY ••• 30 Word Limit TITLE:

(First 4 Words)

CITY:

(No Charge)

If more room is needed, please use separate sheet. Mail this form along with $6 for each ad per month (add $4 for each additional edition/market in the same month).

We cannot accept your ad without it. This information is confidential.

Name: Address: City: Phone:

State:

Zip:

Email:

MAIL TO: ATTN. / SENIORS GETTING TOGETHER NEWS CONNECTION, USA, INC. • PO BOX 638, SEFFNER, FL 33583 Lifestyles After 50 • Southwest • May 2018 • page 23

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