Chester County Edition
March 2014
Vol. 11 No. 3
Dedication and Dance through the Ages Women’s Club Benefits from Program Director’s Arts Pedigree By Megan Joyce Our 21st-century dance styles would likely leave the ragtime-dancing, Edwardian-era female founders of The Iris Club confused at best. But those progressive-for-their-time ladies would be pleased by their modern club’s continuing dedication to community service, women’s empowerment, and artistic and enlightened entertainment—spearheaded by its current program director, Priscilla Kaufhold. “She is always full of great ideas,” said Carol Szutowicz, The Iris Club’s first vice president. “While many people have that talent, the difference is Priscilla works to make those ideas happen and sees projects through to the end.” The Iris Club formed in 1895 when Alice Nevin, daughter of Franklin & Marshall College President John Williamson Nevin, invited 70 women to her home to initiate a club to encourage women’s socialization and community involvement. The club’s downtown building was purchased in 1898 and still hosts the club’s twice-monthly meetings, where members enjoy lunch, entertainment, friendship, and high tea. In October 2013, the club celebrated its 115th please see DANCE page 12 Priscilla Kaufhold, program director for The Iris Club, on the club’s grand staircase. Over her shoulder is a portrait of Alice Nevin, who founded the women’s club in 1895.
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He Has a Bullet from the Rifle of the First Man He Killed in Combat Robert D. Wilcox hen Richard Lawrence me when one night I wasn’t able to pull graduated from high school in my duty of guarding the main gate of our 1967, he had already heard a camp, and the guy that replaced me got lot about the Marines. killed.” His father had been a Marine in Then his unit was moved north to World War II, and his older brother was help recapture Hue, the major city that a Marine corporal. So he had heard many was once the capital of Vietnam. war stories centered on what it meant to “The city was a shambles, and there be a Marine. was nothing but the most brutal, houseHe could to-house hardly wait to fighting,” share in some Lawrence says. of that glory He later was himself, so, as transferred to soon as he H Company, graduated 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marine from high Division for school, he frontline enlisted in fighting as a the Marine rifleman. Corps and “We had a headed for ton of boot camp at equipment,” he Parris Island, says, “and you S.C. He soon had to carry it found that all. Ammo for grinding Sgt. Richard G. Lawrence with South Vietnamese soldier and captured enemy flag. your rifle and toughness was for a machine fundamental gun, one mortar round, c-rations, plastic in becoming a Marine. poncho and liner, gas mask, and four Then it was to Camp Lejeune, N.C., canteens of water. Believe me, it was a to learn all there was to know about load! firing rifles, machine guns, and rockets. “I headed a five-man fire team that That was followed by a flight to Camp once got gassed. I don’t know what the Pendleton, Calif., for training specific to gas was, but I remember having seizures. warfare in Vietnam. Fortunately, I was able to get an atropine Ready for combat, in December 1967 shot, and that probably saved my life. he was flown to Da Nang, Vietnam, “Just about everybody got jungle rot, which was the site of the main U.S. an infection that came from the airbase in Vietnam, with U.S. Army, Air inevitable scratches we got. It was easy to Force, Navy, and Marine units. get cut up by the elephant grass that was What was it like to find yourself in just as sharp as a razor blade. And there Vietnam? With a thin grin, he says, “It told us it were bugs everywhere. Believe it or not, was going to be rough, since the base was there were centipedes that were a foot long. under rocket attack as we arrived. I “During the monsoon months, the remember that a single rocket killed everyone in two squads of Marines in one rain and the heat would rot the clothes right off you. So we had to get them of the barracks that night.” replaced all the time.” He was assigned to Headquarters In January of 1969, Lawrence got Company, Service Battalion, 1st Marine Division. And the job of his unit was to hepatitis and was med evacuated by Cprovide protection for military vehicles 141 from Saigon to Alaska and then to a moving back and forth on Highway One, hospital in Fort Dix, N.J. From there, he south of Da Nang. spent two months in the Philadelphia Was that dangerous work? Naval Hospital. “Well,” he says, “it got pretty close to When he recovered, he returned to
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Parris Island, where he worked in the brig. Then he was transferred to the Philippines, where he served for 18 months as a platoon sergeant with the responsibility of helping to secure the base. There, the rebel Huks would try to steal anything in sight. One night, he broke the arm and a leg of a Huk who was trying to steal copper wire. Then his hitch was up, and he was flown to a hospital in Treasure Island, San Francisco, where he was treated for cluster warts that were the result of an infection he got while serving in Vietnam. After two months, he was
discharged from the hospital and from the Marine Corps. He returned to Central Pennsylvania and worked in construction for a while, but he was suffering from post-traumatic stress and was having recurring nightmares. He received treatment at the Harrisburg Outpatient Center and then for four years at the Lebanon VA
Richard Lawrence recuperating in Philadelphia Naval Hospital in January 1969.
Medical Center, where he was deemed to have a 100 percent disability. It was then he turned to his lifelong interest in art. As a teenager, he had won a Gold Key in the Scholastic Art Show in high school. And even during his days in Vietnam, he had continued sketching, as he had time. Now he was able to pursue his art in
earnest, and he became an established artist, with 20 of his pieces exhibited in the National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum in Chicago. His work has been displayed at the art museums of several states, and he also provided the art for the book, Soldier’s Heart, which told the story of survivors’ views of combat trauma. He says that his time in Vietnam has led to the use of the very strong colors he uses in his artwork. So those years, as difficult as they were at the time, are very much with him today. Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.
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Medicare Manuals Updated to Rule Out Suspected ‘Improvement Standard’ The Center for Medicare Advocacy recently announced that the Medicare policy manuals have been revised as a result of December’s Jimmo vs. Sebelius settlement. Published by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) in December, the manual revisions clarify that improvement is not required to obtain Medicare coverage for skilled nursing facilities (SNF), home healthcare (HH), or outpatient therapies (OPT). The manual revisions also improve coverage for people who require intense rehabilitation in inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRF). Medicare determinations for skilled nursing facilities, home health, and outpatient therapy turn on the need for skilled care—not on the ability of an individual to improve. For patients in inpatient rehabilitation facilities, the manual revisions and CMS education campaign clarify that coverage should never be denied because a patient cannot be expected to achieve complete independence in self-care
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The Real Rod Serling Nick Thomas t’s been called one of the most influential programs in the history of television drama. The Twilight Zone, an anthology series that aired in the early 1960s, was created by Rod Serling (1924-1975), a veteran of radio and World War II. Both influenced his career as a writer. “When he returned from war in the Philippines, he went to college and wrote for the campus radio station,” daughter Anne Serling recently recalled to me. “He later wrote plays for commercial radio, then television. He said writing was a way to get the war trauma ‘out of his gut.’” During the show’s five-year run, Serling was executive producer and chief writer, penning more than half the approximately 150 episodes. But he is best remembered as the program’s stonefaced host, whose foreboding narrations introduced the show each week. In biographies after his death, the master storyteller of chilling sci-fi and fantasy tales was often described as dark and depressed, inaccuracies that led Anne “to set the record straight” in her own book about her father. “He was described as a tortured soul, but that wasn’t my father at all,” said Anne, who published As I Knew Him: My Dad, Rod Serling in 2013. “Although the war left scars, he was also a very positive, fun, down-to-earth person. My friends adored him, and any apprehension they had about meeting him would instantly dissolve because he could make anyone feel at ease. He was brilliantly funny at home, a great
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Anne Serling with her father, Rod Serling, in the early 1970s.
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practical joker, and was always at the dinner table each night.” As a child, Anne had little knowledge of her father’s career. “I knew he was a writer but didn’t know what he wrote about until I was about 7. Some mean boy on the school playground asked if I was ‘something out of The Twilight Zone,’ but I had no idea what that meant because I wasn’t allowed to watch much TV during the week— my mother’s rule! “A few years later, we watched ‘Nightmare at 20,000 Feet’ together, the episode where William Shatner sees a gremlin on an airplane wing. I remember
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Mariette Hartley and Robert Lansing in the Twilight Zone episode, “The Long Morrow.”
looking at my father and thinking, ‘This is what you write?’ It was a bit scary.” Praised for his original fiction writing, Serling was also highly respected for raising social issues in some episodes, although controversial topics were subject to the censors’ whim. So he frequently concealed his intent in fantasy. “He famously once said he could have aliens say things that Democrats and Republicans couldn’t,” Anne recalled. Several Twilight Zone actors also shared vivid memories of Serling. Theodore Bikel is well known to fans of My Fair Lady as Henry Higgins’ rival linguist, the nosey Zoltan Karpathy. In July 1960, Austrian-born Bikel appeared on a Hollywood TV talk show, Caucus with Backus, and was verbally assailed by fellow guests: glamorous silent-film actress Corinne Griffith and beloved character-actor Adolphe Menjou.
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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
Collecting Glass Canning Jars Lori Verderame he method of using glass jars to preserve food came about when Napoleon Bonaparte's French military sponsored a contest. The French military offered a cash prize of 12,000 francs to the person who devised a method to preserve food for long periods of time. French inventor Nicolas Appert was responsible for introducing the heat-seal process of canning in the early 1800s. He won the prize! Later, glass jars came of age. In the late 1850s—1858 to be exact—when the Mason fruit jar was patented by tin smith John Mason, everything changed in the world of canning. The Mason jar solved the food-preservation problem with the use of a lid and rubber seal. Mason’s patent was for the machine that cut tin into threads, making it easy to manufacture a jar with a reusable screwtop lid. Mason’s sealing mechanism, comprised of a glass container with a thread-molded top and a zinc lid with a rubber-seal ring, was patented on Nov. 30, 1858.
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fruit-canning jar sold recently for $600 at auction. While both Mason and Ball took great strides in the arena of glass canning jars, Alexander Kerr made canning easier for those working in the kitchen with his introduction of wide-mouth/easy-to-fill self-sealing canning jars. His jars allowed a threaded metal ring to stay in place during the heating process. These jars could be quickly filled and reused, too. When it comes to valuable glass canning jars, look for embossed pattern decoration and lettering advertising the origin and maker of the jar, clear condition, no cracks or chips, and the original accessory lid, seal ring, or clamp. Happy canning and collecting! Celebrity Ph.D. antiques appraiser, author, and award-winning TV personality, Dr. Lori hosts antiques appraisal events worldwide. Dr. Lori is the star appraiser on Discovery channel’s Auction Kings. To learn about your antiques: www.DrLoriV.com, www.Facebook.com/DoctorLori, @DrLori on Twitter, and (888) 431-1010.
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“We were talking politics and they said I had no right to open my mouth because I wasn’t born in this country,” recalled Bikel. Appalled, Serling appeared on a later program defending Bikel’s right to freedom of speech. “I will never forget how Rod came to my defense. I later appeared in The Twilight Zone episode ‘Four O’Clock’ in 1962.” Ann Jillian and Mariette Hartley were teenagers when they first met Serling. “I was 13 when I starred in the episode ‘Mute,’” Jillian recalled. “I was very excited about doing the popular show. Mr. Serling made me feel at ease and didn’t talk down to me.” And after seeing him on TV, a gutsy 14-year-old Mariette Hartley telephoned Serling and asked him to speak to her Connecticut high school drama club. “He said he would be delighted, and I can still see him sitting in the teacher’s desk at the front of the classroom talking to us,” Hartley said.
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Bacteria were could be opened in a killed by heating the flash, the glass lids jars in hot water and were popular because sealing the jar while they did not present still hot. The heatas many seal process gave glass contamination jars an important problems as did the place in the common zinc lids. collectibles realm. Many companies Today, collectors produced glass look for glass canning canning jars: Lustre, jars, also called fruit Climax, Atlas, jars, for canning and Swayzee, Samco, etc. for kitchen The Buffalo, N.Y., Photo courtesy of staff of www.DrLoriV.com decoration in the family named Ball A 19th-century half-pint glass antiques market. (the Ball jar), headed fruit-canning jar worth $60. If you think one by William Charles canning jar is no Ball and his five different from another canning jar, then, brothers, produced paint-and-oil storage think again … cans. From a new factory in Muncie, Ind., following a fire at their Buffalo Clamped Glass Jars facility, the Ball Company began In 1882, Henry Putnam of producing glass storage jars. Bennington, Vt., invented a glass Like Mason jars, soon Ball jars became canning jar that used a glass lid and a a household name. While the majority of metal-clamp closure. glass canning jars sell in the $10 to $75 Called lightning jars because they range, a Ball Perfection half-pint glass
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Rod Serling chats with Charlton Heston on the set of Planet of the Apes with director Franklin Schaffner.
The cover of Anne Serling’s book, As I Knew Him, which she wrote to set the record straight about her father.
“Years later, when I started working in Hollywood, I met him again when his limousine pulled up as I was walking out the studio. He remembered coming to my class. I told him I was looking for work, and within a couple of months he gave me the wonderful gift of working in ‘The Long Morrow’ episode.” Today, Serling continues to inspire other moviemakers. J.J. Abrams, director of the new Star Trek films, has called The Twilight Zone a big influence on his career and reportedly has secured the rights to adapt Serling’s last, neverproduced script, The Stops Along the Way. Until then, Rod Serling’s work is still available for your viewing pleasure, almost nightly, on classic TV cable channels … in The Twilight Zone. Thomas’ features and columns have appeared in more than 300 magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of Raised by the Stars, published by McFarland. He can be reached at his blog: http://getnickt.blogspot.com
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Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
Agritourism and Adventure in ‘The Valley of the World’ By Andrea Gross ’m perched atop a bench of hay, which in turn is sitting atop a flatbed wagon. Our guide, Chris Bunn, owner of The Farm, hitches a tractor to the wagon, and we begin our ride along dirt roads bordered by fields of romaine lettuce on one side and rows of strawberries on the other. This is the fertile landscape of central California’s Salinas Valley. In this area, just two hours south of San Francisco, farmers grow the majority of the nation’s greens, including 80 percent of the lettuce and most of the spinach, broccoli, and artichokes. Over the next several days, as we wander through the fields, roadside stands, and farmers markets, I salivate over gargantuan heads of lettuce, delicate bunches of broccolini, and artichokes that range from 1-pound jumbos to 2-ounce minis. Per acre, Salinas Valley has the most
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Ana Melissa, owner of The Bakery Station, makes it a point to buy strawberries and other produce from local farmers.
A sea otter plays with a clamshell in Elkhorn Slough, one of California’s largest areas of undisturbed wetlands.
valuable agricultural land on the planet. Evan Oakes takes us on an Ag Venture Tour, which helps us understand how this produce gets to market. At one large farm
we watch men and women cleanse the produce for packaging. A few miles down the road, we see them crate the packages for distribution.
They move quickly, as the greens must reach their destination before the lettuce wilts or the artichoke leaves brown. Oakes explains that the Salinas Valley is lucky. Much of the Salinas River, which runs north-northwest through the valley, flows underground, thus providing abundant water to an area that gets less than an inch of rainfall between May and September. The river empties into a spot near Monterey Bay, a few miles north of Salinas, and it’s here, where the fresh water of the river meets the salt water of the bay, that we begin our ride through Elkhorn Slough. Captain Yohn Gideon greets us as we board the 27-foot pontoon and explains that we’re about to embark on a dual mission. First, we’re going to enjoy ourselves (no problem!), and second, we’re going to collect data for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, the Audubon Society, and other respected institutions. please see VALLEY page 10
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Colorectal Cancer Screening Rates Remain Low About one in three adults aged 50 to 75 years have not been tested for colorectal cancer as recommended by the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), according to a new Vital Signs report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Despite research that shows colorectal cancer screening tests save lives, screening rates remain too low. “There are more than 20 million adults in this country who haven’t had any recommended screening for colorectal cancer and who may therefore get cancer and die from a preventable tragedy,” said CDC Director Tom Frieden, M.D., M.P.H. “Screening for colorectal cancer is effective and can save your life.” Colorectal cancer is the secondleading cancer killer among men and women in the United States, after lung cancer. Screening tests can prevent cancer or detect it at an early stage, when treatment can be highly effective. Adults aged 50 years and older should get tested with one or a combination of these screening tests: • Fecal occult blood test (FOBT) or fecal
immunochemical test (FIT) done at home every year • Flexible sigmoidoscopy, done every five years, with FOBT/FIT done every three years • Colonoscopy done every 10 years A colonoscopy can detect cancer early, and it can find precancerous polyps so they can be removed before they turn into cancer. An FOBT/FIT is a simple at-home test that can detect cancer early by identifying blood in the stool, a possible sign of cancer. People are not always offered a choice of colorectal cancer tests, but studies
have shown that people who are able to choose the test they prefer are more likely to get the test done. CDC researchers reviewed colorectal cancer screening data from CDC’s 2012 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System to estimate the percentage of people aged 50 to 75 years who reported getting screened as recommended by type of test. Major findings:
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• Among adults who were screened as recommended, colonoscopy was by far the most common screening test (62 percent). Use of the other USPSTFrecommended tests was much lower:
fecal occult blood test, 10 percent, and flexible sigmoidoscopy in combination with FOBT/FIT, less than 1 percent. • The highest percentage of adults who were up to date with colorectal cancer screening was in Massachusetts (76 percent). • Blacks and whites had similar screening rates, but a higher percentage of blacks across all income and education levels used FOBT. The authors noted that increasing use of all tests may increase screening rates. Furthermore, research shows that more people may get tested if healthcare providers use an organized approach to identify people who need to be screened; contact them at their home or community setting; advise them of each test; and carefully monitor to make sure they complete their test. For more information about preventing colorectal cancer, please visit www.cdc.gov/cancer/colorectal. Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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He hands out counters and asks me to keep track of otters and other passengers to count sea lions, seals, and a variety of birds. We’ve been out less than five minutes when Laura, the on-board naturalist, spies an otter. Click. A minute later we see an entire raft of the creatures lounging on a rock. Click, click, click, click. At the end of our tour, he reads our totals. In less than two hours, we’ve seen 68 otters, 24 sea lions, 181 harbor seals, and hundreds of birds, including loons, herons, pelicans, cormorants, and shorebirds galore. “Good job,” says Gideon, and I puff with pride. Now I can add “research scientist” to my resume. We’re equally fortunate the next day when we go on a whale-watching expedition. By the time our 45-foot boat is 10 miles from shore, we’re surrounded—literally surrounded—by whales that are as long as, or even longer than, our boat. We see the blow, the tail, and the breach—all at close range. One whale breaks off from its buddies and dives deep on the left side of our boat, only to surface a minute later on the right. He’s so close I can see the sheen of his skin, which is marred by scars and has a patch
More than 300 species of birds, 400 species of invertebrates, and 100 species of fish have been spotted in Elkhorn Slough.
Whale watching is a favorite activity in Monterey Bay, where folks can spot humpback whales, gray whales, blue whales, and sometimes even killer whales.
Produce is crated and shipped to destinations throughout the United States.
The National Steinbeck Center features a large display on East of Eden, one of Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Steinbeck’s most renowned books. The book is set in Salinas Valley, where the author was born and grew up.
covered with barnacles. Finally, back on dry land, we delve into the history of Salinas Valley, a place that’s
been well documented, albeit in a “novel” way, by renowned author John Steinbeck. Steinbeck, who was born and grew up
in the area, told a friend that his goal was “to write the story of this whole valley, of all the little towns and all the farms and the ranches in the wilder hills … I would like to do it so that it would be the valley of the world.” To see how Steinbeck achieved his goal, we visit the National Steinbeck Center, where a variety of exhibits explore the relationship between the author’s life and writings. One of his books, the Pulitzer Prizewinning Grapes of Wrath, depicts the plight of migrant farmers who, like the grandparents of many of today’s most successful producers, came to California in the ’30s. Another, East of Eden, was written for his sons, partly to teach them about good and evil but also to show them the land in which their father grew up. It is, he said, “a sort of autobiography of the Salinas Valley.” The Valley has come a long way since Steinbeck’s time. But as he wished, it can, at least agriculturally speaking, be called “The Valley of the World.” www.destinationsalinas.com Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).
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Paying for Nursing-Home Care with Medicaid Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, What are the eligibility requirements to get Medicaid coverage for nursing-home care? – Looking Ahead Dear Looking, The rules and requirements for Medicaid eligibility for nursing-home care are somewhat complicated and will vary according to the state you live in. With that said, here’s a general, simplified rundown of what it takes to qualify, along with some resources you can turn to for help. Medicaid Rules Medicaid, the federal and state joint program that covers healthcare for the poor, is also the largest single payer of America’s nursing-home bills for seniors who don’t have the resources to pay for their own care. Most people who enter nursing homes don’t qualify for Medicaid at first but pay for care either through long-term care insurance or out of pocket until they deplete their savings and become eligible for Medicaid. To qualify for Medicaid, your income and assets will need to be under a certain level that’s determined by your state. Most states require that a person have no more than about $2,000 in countable assets that include cash, savings, investments, or other financial resources that can be turned into cash. Assets that aren’t counted for eligibility include your home if it’s valued under $543,000 (this limit is higher—up to $814,000—in some states), your
personal possessions and household goods, one vehicle, prepaid funeral plans, and a small amount of life insurance. But be aware that while your home is not considered a countable asset to determine your eligibility, if you can’t return to your home, Medicaid can go after the proceeds of your house to help reimburse your nursing-home costs, unless your spouse or other dependent relative lives there. (There are some other exceptions to this rule.) After qualifying, all sources of your income, such as Social Security and pension checks, must be turned over to Medicaid to pay for your care, except for a small personal-needs allowance— usually between $30 and $90. You also need to be aware that you can’t give away your assets to qualify for Medicaid faster. Medicaid officials will look at your financial records going back five years to root out suspicious asset transfers. If they find one, your Medicaid coverage will be delayed a certain length of time, according to a formula that divides the transfer amount by the average monthly cost of nursing-home care in your state. So if, for example, you live in a state where the average monthly nursing-home cost is $5,000 and you gave away cash or
other assets worth $100,000, you would be ineligible for benefits for 20 months ($100,000 divided by $5,000 = 20). Spousal Protection Medicaid also has special rules for married couples when one spouse enters a nursing home and the other spouse remains at home. In these cases, the healthy spouse can keep one half of the couple’s assets up to $117,240 (this amount varies by state), the family home, all the furniture and household goods, and one automobile. The healthy spouse is also entitled to keep a portion of the couple’s monthly income—between $1,938 and $2,931. Any income above that goes toward the cost of the nursing-home recipient’s care.
What about Medicare? Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors 65 and older and some younger people with disabilities, does not pay for long-term care. It only helps pay up to 100 days of “rehabilitative” nursing-home care, which must occur after a hospital stay. Get Help Again, Medicaid rules are complicated and vary by state, so contact the local Medicaid office (call (800) 633-4227 for contact information) for eligibility details. You can also get help from your State Health Insurance Assistance Program (SHIP), which provides free counseling on all Medicare and Medicaid issues. To find a local SHIP counselor, visit www.shiptalk.org or call (800) 677-1116. Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org
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Club four years meeting other Scenes from “Fashion and Dance through the Ages”: ago when a artists through member invited their programs Kaufhold to and events,” she perform one of said. her dance shows, At its height “Dancing in the ’50s, the through the club had about Decades,” at a 600 members. club luncheon. Today, the Originally her number is closer written thesis to 90, but it is Feathered and fringed flappers from the 1920s project that still a dedicated compared and productive women’s fashion group of women. with concurrent “It makes me dance styles feel good to have through the first the chance to half of the 20th work with ladies century, the show who care about has since been their community expanded to and give back to Two dancers truckin’ in the 1940s include additional the community,” decades and said Kaufhold. renamed “Fashion “They have and Dance knowledge that I through the can grow from.” Ages.” Now in her “It’s turned out second year as to be an program entertaining director, history lesson Kaufhold’s main through music, duty is to find dance, and and schedule costumes,” said interesting Kaufhold, also a artists, poets, The polyester and disco dance fever talented craftspeople, of the 1970s seamstress. “[The musicians, show] is popular historians, and at retirement villages as well as schools.” dancers for the club, which offers its After her first Iris Club performance, members opportunities for community Kaufhold said she was flattered to be service by promoting educational asked to become a member. (Unlike a pursuits and creativity. century ago, however, membership is no In addition to its internal longer by invitation only.) Since then, programming, which Kaufhold the highly popular show returned in coordinates, The Iris Club hosts events spring 2013 as an Iris Club fundraiser. and fundraisers open to the local public. “The people are great, the building is “I also help plan special weekend a lovely mansion, and I really enjoy events throughout the year, such as
Pancakes with Santa, Pancakes with the Easter Bunny, the Fairytale Ball, themed dinners, and dance concert fundraisers,” Kaufhold said. Kaufhold is also a board member of The Iris Club and promotes the arts and volunteerism through partnerships with other community organizations. In 2012, while teaching at the local school of ballet, Kaufhold learned that the tenants of the old armory building, which included the ballet school, would have to relocate as the building was going up for sale. “I knew The Iris Club had lovely wooden floors, and the club was looking for rental income,” she said. “I thought the ballet company and The Iris Club would be a great fit and benefit mutually.” The ballet company now splits its class time between its nearby studio and The Iris Club. Kaufhold is grateful for the support of her husband, Jeffrey, and their three children, who have followed in their mother’s volunteer path. “All three have helped out with costumes backstage, crafts with camps, and Pancakes with Santa and the Easter Bunny over the years,” said Kaufhold. “Other children love them, and I just like having my kids around while I’m working on a show or project.” She also enjoys being around the other members of The Iris Club and is thankful that the women have entrusted her with bringing in entertaining and educational programming. “Their energy seems endless, and I realize I can’t complain around them,” she laughed. “I’m constantly in awe of these ladies. I’d be happy to accomplish half of what most of these Iris Club ladies have accomplished in their life!” For more information, contact The Iris Club at (717) 394-7811 or visit www.irisclublancasterpa.com.
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anniversary at the same location, greater than any other club in the state. Kaufhold has an extensive career in dance, theater, and performance direction. She runs the Millersville Costume Shop, where she began working shortly after graduating from American University in 1984 with a degree in performance/dance. She earned a graduate degree in dance and design at George Washington University while starting her family and continued to manage the costume shop during the 15 years she worked as professional company director of Kinetics Dance Theatre in Ellicott City, Md. “The Costume Shop combines all of my interests in crafts, sewing, design, theater, dance, etc.,” Kaufhold said. In 2013, Kaufhold expanded her creative foothold further when she started the Barefoot Dance Company, which includes dancers ranging in age from 13 to 55. Born in Boulder, Colo., with a childhood spent in Williamstown, Mass., Kaufhold’s family moved to Central Pennsylvania in 1968 when her father accepted a geography-professor position at Millersville University. Kaufhold’s artistic genes come honestly. Her mother directed and choreographed high-school musicals, operas, Girl Scout jamborees, and shows at the Fulton Opera House. She also taught modern dance at the YMCA and as a dance professor at Franklin & Marshall College. “I grew up going to my mom’s shows with my brothers and father to support my mother’s work,” Kaufhold said. “This has shaped my goal to create dances and shows that are entertaining—not just to people who want to attend, but their brothers, fathers, sisters, and other relations who come to shows because they have to.” Kaufhold connected with The Iris
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March 1, 8 to 9:30 a.m. – Who is “King of the Marsh”?, Chester Valley Trail March 29, 5 to 6:30 p.m. – First Peep of Spring, Warwick County Park March 29, 6 to 7:30 p.m. – Photographing Nottingham, Nottingham County Park
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Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The Wellness Community of Philadelphia: Support Group for People with Cancer The Cancer Center at Paoli Hospital 255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli (215) 879-7733 March 4, 2 p.m. Grief Support Group Phoenixville Senior Center 153 Church St., Phoenixville (610) 327-7216 March 4 and 18, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Bereavement Support Group Main Line Unitarian Church 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon (610) 585-6604 phoenixbereavement@yahoo.com Nondenominational; all are welcome.
March 5, 6 p.m. Memory Loss and Dementia Support Group Sunrise Assisted Living of Paoli 324 W. Lancaster Ave., Malvern (610) 251-9994
March 12, noon Family Caregiver Support Group Sarah Care 425 Technology Drive, Suite 200 Malvern (610) 251-0801
March 6 and 20, 7 p.m. Alzheimer’s Support Group The Solana Willistown 1713 West Chester Pike, Willistown (610) 725-1713
March 13 and 27, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Bereavement Support Group Brandywine Hospital Conference Room 1 West 201 Reeceville Road, Coatesville (610) 998-1700, ext. 226
March 10 and 24, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Caregiver Support Group Adult Care of Chester County 201 Sharp Lane, Exton (610) 363-8044 March 11 and 25, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Bereavement Support Group Jennersville Hospital Conference Room B 1015 W. Baltimore Pike, West Grove (610) 998-1700, ext. 226
March 18, 6 p.m. Family Caregiver Support Group Sunrise of Westtown 501 Skiles Blvd., West Chester (610) 399-4464 If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.
Chester County Library Programs Downingtown Library, 330 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, (610) 269-2741 March 11, 6:30 p.m. – Film Forum March 27, 1 p.m. – Senior Book Club March 27, 6:30 p.m. – Reading the Classics
Paoli Library, 18 Darby Road, Paoli, (610) 296-7996 Mystery Book Club – Call for dates/times
Have Money to Burn? Quality may be priceless, but it’s sometimes quite expensive. Take a look at some of the most costly luxury items available these days: Cars. The world’s most expensive automobile is the Lamborghini Aventador LP 700-4, made with gold and jewels. Price tag: 4.6 million British pounds (about $7.4 million). No word on the gas mileage.
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Cocktails. The Winston, named for Winston Churchill, is made with Grand Marnier Quintessence, Angostura bitters, and a shot of 1858 Croizet cognac ($157,000 a bottle). The Australian bartender who mixed it up charged $12,916. Home offices. Your typical telecommuter probably couldn’t afford this: The Lehman Mansion, a five-story commercial townhouse in New York City, sold
for $40 million last fall, a price of $2,410 per square foot. Sporting events. Tickets to Game Six of the World Series, in which the Boston Red Sox faced the St. Louis Cardinals in Boston with the prospect of winning the World Series at home, cost anywhere from $900 for standing-room-only to $10,000 for actual seats close to the plate, making them the most expensive baseball tickets in sports history.
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March 1 and 15, 5 to 10 p.m. Bingo Nights Marine Corps League Detachment 430 Chestnut St., Downingtown (610) 431-2234 March 4, 11:30 a.m. West Chester University Retirees Luncheon For restaurant location, please email darsie@verizon.net March 6, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Safety Expo Tel Hai Retirement Community Chapel 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook (610) 273-9333 March 7 and 14, 1 p.m. Amish and Mennonite Traditions Tel Hai Retirement Community – Gathering Room 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook (610) 273-9333 March 12, 12:10 p.m. Steps to Fulfilling and Achieving Your Dream at Any Age Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Widener University Exton Campus 825 Springdale Drive, West Whiteland Township (484) 713-0088 March 19, 12:10 p.m. The Civil War – A 150-Year Retrospective Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Widener University Exton Campus 825 Springdale Drive, West Whiteland Township (484) 713-0088 March 26, 12:10 p.m. Ella Fitzgerald: A Portrait Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Widener University Exton Campus 825 Springdale Drive, West Whiteland Township (484) 713-0088
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At the Coatesville Veterans Affairs Medical Center, VA leadership and employees, veterans, community members, and representatives of elected officials recently gathered for a ribboncutting ceremony to mark the opening of the new, world-class Hospice Unit addition. “Some of the most important work we do at the VA happens in hospice,”
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