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Simple Steps to Protect Yourself from Melanoma

Jim Miller

Dear Savvy Senior, Does skin cancer run in families? My 63-year-old brother died of melanoma last year, and I’m wondering about my risks of getting this. What can you tell me?

– Younger Sibling Dear Sibling, While long-term sun exposure and sunburns are the biggest risk factors for melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—having a sibling or parent with melanoma does indeed increase your risk of getting it two to three times.

Each year, about 75,000 Americans are diagnosed with melanoma, and around 10,000 people will die from it.

While anyone can get it, those most often diagnosed are Caucasians, age 50 and older.

And those with the highest risk are people with red or blond hair, blue or green eyes, fair skin, freckles, moles, and a family history of skin cancer and those who had blistering sunburns in their youth.

Skin Exams The best way you can guard against melanoma and other skin cancers (basal and squamous cell carcinomas) is to protect yourself from the sun, and if you’re over age 50, get a full-body skin exam done by a dermatologist every year, especially if you’re high risk.

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or so are also a smart way to detect early problems. Using mirrors, check the front and back side of your entire body, including the tops and undersides of your arms and hands, between your toes, the soles of your feet, your neck, your scalp, and your buttocks.

Be on the lookout for new growths, moles that have changed, or sores that don’t heal. Follow the ABCDE rule when examining suspicious moles.

• A symmetry: One half of a mole doesn’t match the other.

• Border: The border is blurred or ragged.

• Color: The mole has uneven colors, often shades of brown, tan, or black, with patches of pink, red, white, or blue.

• Diameter: The lesion is new or at least a quarter-inch in diameter.

• Evolving: The mole is changing in size, shape, or color.

For more self-examination tips and actual pictures of what to look for, see the websites of the Skin Cancer Foundation (www.skincancer.org) or the Melanoma Research Foundation (www.melanoma.org).

In the spring and summer, there are a variety of places that offer free skin cancer screenings. Check with the American Academy of Dermatology (www.aad.org/public/spot-skin-cancer or (888) 462-3376), which offers screenings done by hundreds of

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Sun Protection Even though you can’t change your skin or family history, there are some proven strategies that can help you protect yourself.

For starters, avoid tanning beds, and when you go outside, slather on broad-spectrum SPF 30, waterresistant sunscreen on both sunny

and cloudy days. If you don’t like the rub-on lotions, try the continuous spray-on sunscreens, which are easier to apply and reapply and less messy.

Also, seek the shade when rays are most intense—between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

You can also protect your skin by wearing a wide-brimmed hat and long sleeves and pants when possible.

The best clothing options are tightly woven fabrics that help prevent the sun’s rays from reaching your skin, or you can wash an invisible-shield

sun protection into your clothes with SunGuard laundry additive (see www. sunguardsunprotection.com).

You can even buy a variety of lightweight clothing and hats that offer maximum UV protection in their fabric. Coolibar (www.coolibar. com) and Sun Precautions (www. sunprecautions.com) are two sites that offer these products.

Treatments If melanoma is caught and treated early, it’s nearly 100 percent curable.

But if it’s not, the cancer can advance and spread to other parts of the body, where it becomes hard to treat and can be fatal.

Standard treatment for melanoma is surgical removal. In advanced cases, however, chemotherapy or radiation may also be used, along with a variety of new drug treatments.

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At Your Fingertips Helpful numbers, hotlines, and local businesses and organizations eager to serve you—all just a phone call away.

Continuing Care Retirement Communities Moravian Manor 300 W. Lemon St., Lititz (717) 626-0214

Arthritis Foundation (215) 665-9200

JEWELERS American Gold & Estate Buyers, Inc. 363 E. Lincoln Highway, Exton (484) 872-8216

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (800) 232-4636

Legal Services Lawyer Referral Service (610) 429-1500

Coatesville VA Medical Center (610) 383-7711

Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (610) 436-4510

Chester County Emergency Services (610) 344-5000

Kennett Square (610) 444-4819

Domestic Violence (800) 799-7233

Salvation Army Coatesville (610) 384-2954

Oxford (610) 932-5244

National Osteoporosis Foundation (800) 223-9994

Pine and Pine Law Offices 104 S. Church St., West Chester (610) 344-7100

Salvation Army West Chester (610) 696-8746

PACE (800) 225-7223

Nutrition Meals on Wheels Chester County Inc. (610) 430-8500

Emergency Numbers Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110

Senior Healthlink (610) 431-1852

Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center (800) 366-3997

Social Security Administration (800) 772-1213

Office of Aging Chester County Department of Aging Services (610) 344-6350

Disasters American Red Cross Greater Brandywine (610) 692-1200

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American Heart Association (610) 940-9540

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visit, we liked it more and more.

The people are nicer, the cost of “When I teach, watching the joy living is way less, no traffic, and of kids, women, and beginners hit the schools are way better out here that good golf shot that brings a so we made the move after I got a big smile, it’s very rewarding,” says job as golf pro at Carlisle Country Dan Baker, owner and golf pro at Club,” he says.

Waynesboro Municipal Golf Club.

While working at there, Baker A lifelong career in golf brought learned that the Waynesboro Baker, 58, far and wide across the Golf Club was up for lease by the country before settling in Central borough. After years of neglect, the Pennsylvania in 2001 and later nine-hole course, built in 1958, taking ownership of the public was in bad shape and on the verge course in Waynesboro. of closing, overgrown with brush As a native of Southern and weeds, with grass growing California, he developed a passion in the sand traps and greens that for the sport at a young age when hadn’t been aerated in years. not surfing the waves at Newport Baker, however, saw a diamond Beach, where he would meet his in the rough. wife of 36 years, Vicki.

“The property was really nice.

Born into a family of golf I liked the layout of the course enthusiasts, Baker seemed destined and I thought, ‘Hey, I can do to make the sport his own. something with this.’ So I turned “My grandparents played golf. in a proposal. The city liked it and My uncle was a pro at Huntington called me, and I negotiated with Beach Golf Club, and my dad was them to lease the course for $1 a a really good amateur player—he year,” he says. played on the Navy golf team Baker took ownership of and played in the U.S. Amateur Waynesboro Golf Club in 2014 [Championship] in 1956,” he says. and has been working hard to Baker played on his high school revitalize the course, renovating the golf team, and after graduating clubhouse and parking lot while began the process of becoming reinvigorating the local golfing pro, traveling and playing on community as well. mini-tours before passing the The course has quadrupled its PGA’s Playing Ability Test and number of players since he took completing coursework at the over, and when not managing Florida School of Business, both the course, Baker gives lessons to of which are required to become a golfers of all skill levels.

Class A PGA pro.

“The most rewarding thing for In the early ’80s, he played me is watching people improve,” on the PGA tour, including the says Baker. “It’s a passion. I’ve Bob Hope Desert Classic, Andy been involved in golf, one way Williams San Diego Open, and the or another, my whole life. It Glen Campbell Los Angeles Open. has to be a passion to own your After his stint on the PGA tour, own course. I love people and Baker decided to make a change kids, running golf events and in his career trajectory, becoming tournaments, teaching, building a golf pro and working at courses [upon their] play, and mentoring and country clubs in Arizona, young people who want to become Hawaii, and California before professionals.” moving to Central Pennsylvania in Baker manages to stay active 2001. with golf even when he’s not on Baker and his wife were first the golf course itself. In 2014 he introduced to the area when began hosting a morning talk friends of theirs relocated here. radio show on WIOO 97.9 called “Every time we came out to The Morning Tee Box, where he

and co-host Jeff Goyette discuss all things links-related, from local high school golf matches to the game’s rules and history. He hopes to catch the ear of people who may not be golfers to get them interested in the game.

Baker has even invented a golf training aid that has been featured on Inside Golf on Comcast SportsNet and at the 2016 PGA Merchandise Show, broadcast on The Golf Channel.

The Laser Golf Cap is a baseball cap with a red laser attached that is designed to keep golfers’ heads down on the ball through their golf swing, one of the most important mechanics for a swing that doesn’t result in a slice, hook, or shanked ball.

“I was giving a lesson and noticed that the student’s head was moving during the putting stroke.

As his eyes were following the movement of the putter, his head was moving with it,” he says.

After taping a laser pointer to the brim of a golf cap, Baker was able to keep his student focused on the red dot on the ball and not move his head during the swing.

After getting great results from his students, he patented the idea and retails the cap online. Baker’s instructional video can be found on YouTube by searching for “Laser Golf Cap.” Baker is reflective about the ways that golf has enriched his life.

“I grew up playing golf and just love everything about it,” he says.

“Everything I do, I can relate to golf. I adore my grandchildren and love being with them. I’m teaching my 5-year-old granddaughter Khloe now how to swing the golf club.

“Go play,” he says. “Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to have 10 lessons before you can go on the course. We all started at the beginning, and we were all terrible at one time, but this is one of very few games that you can play all your life, so go out and play and enjoy the outdoors.” www.50plusLifePA.com

Such is Life

Saralee Perel

Oh No! It’s Growing Season

My husband, Bob, has unearthed his torture chamber—the garden.

Each summer he tosses dead vegetables (they all die) into a charming, humungous compost pile, the rotting of which is the only thing that’s productive in poor Bob’s garden.

At first, he’s best friends with his plants. He coos, “Hello, tomatoes.

You’ll have fruit in no time.”

Then, “in no time,” I’ll hear him shouting, “I hate you, you little good-for-nothing pieces of crap.”

This year, he’s added bird feeders.

“Saralee,” he says a billion times a day, “come see! There’s a bird!”

After I schlep outside for the thousandth time, I respond politely, “Bob, if you call me out again, I will kill you.”

The birdseed sends out invitations to darling little things, like vermin.

I’ll tell you. Even the seedlings Bob plants indoors drop dead.

“Sweets,” I said, “the beauty is in the process, not the results.”

“Oh, really.” He picked up a tiny, dead plant that was supposed to grow peas. “I’m growing death.”

Then one day I noticed our indoor cats staring out the window. I said, “Bob? Come see this.”

What he saw powerfully changed him.

There were seven baby rabbits, no bigger than 4 inches long, suckling on their mother. In an instant, all of them began hopping around the garden like goofy jumping beans.

They hopped in all directions, then seemingly feeling lost, spun around and regrouped as one fuzzy ball of baby bunnies with tiny noses and ears the size of pennies.

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his hand and led him outside near our shell-shaped birdbath. We watched a cardinal splashing away before he spread his bright-red wings in the air to dry.

“Bob, my love, it’s better to focus on what you have, rather than what you don’t have.”

In a moment of glittering clarity, he declared he would not grow a vegetable garden.

Instead he would plant glorious flowers. He would fill raised beds with impatiens, butterfly weed, blue salvia, marigolds, and begonias.

Bob has feeders for chickadees and other common birds. He has specialty feeders for goldfinches, hummingbirds, and woodpeckers. He has seen a mother sparrow bring her babies to the feeder so that her young could learn to eat.

He’s seen a baby blue jay spiraling his way down a tree. Too innocent to be scared, he hopped over to Bob, only to be scolded by his mother who arrived to put him back in the nest.

He has seen a mallard protectively sitting on her perfect nest filled with 11 eggs.

And so, he’s rejoicing along with the birds that find food and shelter because of his tender, nurturing hands. He’s rejoicing along with the wildlife, who have reminded him that our yard is their land.

He is rejoicing because our backyard has been awarded the status of a National Wildlife Federation Mini Refuge.

And he’s rejoicing in his splendorous no-veggies, only flowers, garden.

Nationally syndicated, award-winning columnist Saralee Perel can be reached at sperel@saraleeperel.com or via her website: www.saraleeperel.com.

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By Andrea Gross

Sea, Sand, and Ships: 12 Days on the North Carolina Coast

A few days before my husband and I leave for a beach vacation on the North Carolina coast, I happen across a news article written by Adam Wagner of the region’s StarNews: “Researchers are calling an ironhulled Civil War-era steamer found near Caswell Beach one of the bestpreserved blockade runners they’ve ever seen …”

It’s been decades since one of these ships was discovered, so this is a very big deal.

No, we won’t be able to see the wreck—it’s still buried under 18 to 20 feet of ocean—but as we read more, we realize how important the sea was to the growth of America.

The United States was settled by seafaring people during the 16th century, blockaded and bombarded from the sea during the 19th, and a

In the 16th century vessels like Elizabeth II sailed the Atlantic to lay claim to the New World.

major port during the 20th.

We have a lot to explore between beach outings.

We time-travel back more than 400 years by going to the Outer Banks near the North Carolina-Virginia state line. Here, not far from the Bodie Island Lighthouse, is Roanoke Island Festival Park, which features a

Roanoke Island Festival Park features an English village of the late 1500s.

full-size replica of a British merchant vessel.

In 1585 seven of these vessels sailed to the New World in order to claim territory for England. The waters were so hazardous that the area is often called “The Graveyard of the Atlantic.”

“A big part of navigating is going the direction the wind wants you

to go,” says a sailor, authentically outfitted in 16th-century garb.

A man standing next to me grins.

“Seems that the history of America was written by the wind,” he says.

Point well taken.

Near the ship is a small Algonquian town, replete with longhouse and dugout canoe, that shows what the mariners found when they followed the wind across the ocean. A few steps farther and we see a representative English village, where a blacksmith and woodworker explain how the first settlers lived.

Life on coastal Carolina had improved considerably by the 18th century, as is evidenced in Beaufort, 175 miles south. Today costumed docents give tours of nine historic buildings and discuss daily life during the Colonial period.

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Of course, living on water’s edge is nearly a half day to see the exhibits, both a blessing and a curse. Beautiful? explore the decks, and listen to the Absolutely. Dangerous? Definitely. recorded stories of the men who lived Having learned during the War of in the cramped quarters, worked in the 1812 that their young country was engine room, and fired the giant guns. vulnerable to attacks by sea, the United We’re still in a sober frame of States government rushed to build forts mind as we head toward Southport, a along the Eastern seaboard. charming community not too far from But for North Carolina, the enemy the North Carolina-South Carolina came not from across the Atlantic but state line. from across the During the Potomac.

1500s when the When the Civil British were War broke out, settling Carolina’s the Confederates northern shore, quickly occupied the Spanish Fort Macon, which were exploring is surrounded the future state’s on three sides by southern coast.

The North Carolina coast water. They held encourages folks to enjoy the sun as Today the area is the fort for nearly equally well known well as the historic sites. a year, until April as the filming 1862 when they location for the were forced to Nicholas Sparks surrender. movie Safe Haven.

We fast-forward How times have through a century changed! and a half during Finally we get to the two-hour drive Caswell Beach. Off to Wilmington, Fort Macon is one of several forts built to the left is Old the largest city along the Eastern Seaboard to protect Baldy, the oldest along the coast. existing lighthouse the country from attacks by sea.

While in North Carolina.

Wilmington has a Right behind 230-block historic us is the Oak district filled with Island lighthouse, buildings that are the newest and both imposing and most southern funky, it also has a lighthouse in the vibrant downtown state. filled with And in front of Wilmington’s Riverwalk links shops, thoroughly modern us, in the Atlantic restaurants, and small parks. attractions.

Ocean, is the spot There’s top-notch theater (much of it where the historic blockade runner was produced in a 150-year-old building), discovered. cutting-edge restaurants, and an We’ve traveled nearly 400 miles, eclectic assortment of shops that, learned about more than 400 years, among other things, offer bookshelves and slathered ourselves with more laden with 2 miles of books and than four tubes of sunscreen. It’s been cupcakes infused with cherry compote. a varied, stimulating, and yet relaxing After ensconcing ourselves in the vacation. historic French House B&B, we take By our standards, that means it’s a Walk & Talk Tour that covers topics been a perfect vacation. ranging from the town’s early days and For an expanded version of this article, the importance of the city’s waterfront as well as information on how film lovers location to the role of North Carolina can “follow the stars” along the North during World War II. Carolina coast, go to www.traveltizers.com.

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When Clarence Arthur Edward After four years, he graduated as an (Cricket) Johnson grew up in ensign in the spring of 1953 and spent Minneapolis, there were so many the summer helping to indoctrinate Swedes in Minnesota that the the incoming class.

Minneapolis phone directory once In September, he shipped to had 22 pages of nothing but Johnsons Pensacola, Florida, where he started … which may help explain his rather flight training in the SNJ singlelong name—or his engine trainer. nickname.

Then it was to As long as he Kingsville, Texas, could remember, where he flew he had “a passion the TBM, which to fly.” And in was the heaviest his senior year single-engine of high school in aircraft of World 1947, when he War II. had to give a book Next it was report on Man to Norfolk for of Annapolis, he learning to land became enthralled aboard a carrier. with the prospect They decided to of a career as a try to set a record Navy pilot. So, for the number of as soon as he landings aboard a graduated, he Rear Adm. C.A.E. Johnson Jr. when carrier in a single enlisted in a local day, and he was he was commander, Naval Base, Philadelphia.

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for a couple of years, and then was called to Norfolk to help set up a school for teaching a highly classified new form of anti-sub chasing.

After that he taught at Annapolis for a few years and then began a 10-year posting of Pentagon assignments, where he worked in the Navy’s Aviation Section on advanced strategies for tracking and countering Soviet submarines.

After being promoted to commander, he served as executive officer at Naval Air Station Glenview in Michigan for a couple of years before he was called back to the Pentagon for two more years, where he planned the acquisition of new equipment to enter the fleet.

Leaving there as a captain, he then became commanding officer of NAS New Orleans.

There he learned that the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Philip, husband of the queen of England, was in Saskatchewan, Canada, and was planning a stopover at NAS New Orleans on his way to the Caribbean.

Apparently, Prince Philip, aware of New Orleans’ fame as a tourist mecca,

had decided “Is it good?” that it was the prince close enough asked. to his intended “Ah … yes,” route that it the admiral deserved a replied. short visit.

“Covered with When lots of butter he arrived, and with plenty Johnson of salt and invited him pepper, it’s quite and several of good.”

Photo courtesy Willow Valley Communities his own key The prince Rear Adm. Cricket Johnson in retirement staff officers then helped doing his favorite thing: gardening. to come to himself to Johnson’s a plentiful home for a five-course dinner, serving; piled on the butter, salt, with Johnson’s wife, Liz, doing the and pepper; and ate it with much cooking. The filet mignon entree was appreciation. Then it was back for an especially big hit, and Prince Philip seconds of this mysterious Southern spent the night in the distinguished dish he had never heard of until that visitors section of the bachelor officer moment. quarters.

He had many more commands Next morning, as Prince Philip was with increasing responsibilities, going through the breakfast line, he becoming deputy of the Naval saw some food he didn’t recognize.

Reserve, reporting directly to the chief Pointing to it, he asked the admiral of naval operations before he retired as inquiringly, “What is that?” a two-star rear admiral in a Pentagon Johnson said, “Oh, that’s Southern ceremony in 1983. food. It’s called grits.”

He then declined the chance

to become what he referred to as a “Broadway Bandit,” a fulltime lobbyist.

Instead, he bought 12 acres along the beautiful Rappahannock River in Virginia and for 10 years became a farmer, supplying a food stand with vegetables he had grown and fruit from his 170 fruit trees.

Over the years, he had kept close notice of literally dozens of retirement communities. But when his daughter, who lived in Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, suggested one in Central Pennsylvania, he and Liz visited it and decided it was just what they wanted.

“In fact,” Johnson says, “it had plenty of space to permit me to farm again, growing the raspberries, strawberries, and fruit that I seem to have a green thumb for. So, I’m a lucky man … continuing to farm, as I love to do … and surrounded by warm memories of all those wonderful years serving my country in our Navy.”

Col. Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.

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Assisted Living Residences/Personal Care Homes Bethany Village — MapleWood

325 Wesley Drive • Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 717-766-0279 • www.BethanyVillage.org Total AL and/or PC Beds: 100 Assisted Living Residence: Yes Private: 100 Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes

Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: One-bedroom suites; secured memory support neighborhood; skilled nursing – The Oaks.

The Bridges at Bent Creek

2100 Bent Creek Blvd. • Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 717-795-1100 • www.thebridgesatbentcreek.com Total AL and/or PC Beds: 100 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: No

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Home-like setting, personalized, tailored care and healthcare, secured memory supports, peace of mind. Call today!

Colonial Lodge Community

2015 North Reading Road • Denver, PA 17519 717-336-5501 • www.coloniallodgepa.com Total AL and/or PC Beds: 70 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes* Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: No Alzheimer’s Care: No Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: *SSI depends on availability. A veteran-approved “home for heroes” facility, all in a beautiful, rural setting.

Harrison House of Chester County

300 Strode Avenue (Rt. 82) • East Fallowfield, PA 19320 610-384-6310 • www.harrisonseniorliving.com Total AL and/or PC Beds: 80 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Excellent arts and entertainment programs. Affordable rates and professional staff. Call to schedule a tour.

Homeland Center

1901 North Fifth Street • Harrisburg, PA 17102 717-221-7727 • www.homelandcenter.org Total AL and/or PC Beds: 56 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes

Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Providing exemplary care in a beautiful environment for more than 149 years. Our continuum includes a hospice program, therapy services, and 24-hour medical staffing. All-private rooms with full baths and kitchenettes.

Homewood at Plum Creek

425 Westminster Avenue • Hanover, PA 17331 717-637-4166 • www.homewood.com Total AL and/or PC Beds: 92 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Excellent care in a lovely environment. Call to schedule a visit.

Mennonite Home Communities

1520 Harrisburg Pike • Lancaster, PA 17601 717-393-1301 • www.mennonitehome.org Total AL and/or PC Beds: 145 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Supportive, encouraging environment. Various room types and suites available. Secure memory care offered.

The Middletown Home

999 West Harrisburg Pike • Middletown, PA 17057 717-944-3351 • www.middletownhome.org Total AL and/or PC Beds: 64 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

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Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes* Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Minimal Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

544 North Penryn Road • Manheim, PA 17545 717-665-2445 • www.pleasantviewrc.org Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: *Three-year private pay spending. Maintain independence in an enriching and supportive environment; now offering respite stays.

3952 Columbia Avenue West Hempfield Township, PA 17512 717-285-6112 • www.stannesrc.org

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: No Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Pending Approval Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: *Only after resident spenddown. Plan ahead by joining our waiting list. Call for details.

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today

‘Paperback Writer’ Randal Hill

It’s the spring of 1966. You’re a creative Beatle, and you know that whatever your band releases next will undoubtedly rocket to No. 1 overnight on the hit charts. So you know that it’s OK for you to sometimes try something different, maybe push the envelope a bit.

Maybe even to the point of putting a letter inside that envelope.

It all started one day when Paul McCartney was driving to John Lennon’s estate. McCartney began thinking about, of all things, books.

Books? Hmm. Paperbacks from England’s Penguin Books had become wildly popular there after World War II. They seemed to be everywhere during the 1950s and 1960s. Could there be a song idea here? McCartney began imagining lyrics in the form of a business letter …

Dear Sir or Madam, would you read my book? It took me years to write. Will you take a look?

McCartney’s convoluted story, “Paperback Writer,” told, among other things, of a desperate writer www.50plusLifePA.com

“Paperback promising that his book would Writer,” John Lennon sell millions of and George copies, while Harrison also offering decided to have to do anything to please the a bit of fun.

In the song’s potential second chorus, publisher, The Beatles with producer George Martin the two don’t including in the studio at Abbey Road, 1966. sing “paperback lengthening the work or writer” in the “Paperback Writer” background but changing the The Beatles, June 1966 manuscript’s “Frere Jacques” instead. Why? Who knows? style.

The future smash would be different Paperback books in England at that from prior winners in another way. time were usually cheaply produced, Lennon had been complaining that slim volumes and not the “thousand pages” that McCartney describes in the Beatles’ bass lines were never strong enough to suit him. his song.

Also a bit strange was his line, “It’s According to Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, based on a novel by a man named this was remedied by recording Lear.” This is an obvious reference to one of Lennon’s favorite authors, poet engineer Geoff Emerick, who explained, “First of all, Paul played and humorist Edward Lear (18121888); however, Lear never actually a different bass, a Rickenbacker.

Then we boosted it further by using wrote a novel. a loudspeaker as a microphone. We When it came time to record

positioned it directly in front of the bass speaker.”

Another engineer, Tony Clark, cut the master for “Paperback Writer,” which became the loudest Beatles release to date. To do this, Clark used a new piece of recording equipment called the Automatic Transient Overload Control for the volume increase.

“It was a huge box with flashing lights and what looked like the eye of a Cyclops staring at you,” he said. “But it did the trick.”

While it was Paul McCartney who composed the fictional scenario, it was John Lennon who had actually been a paperback writer before the song came about. Lennon’s 1964 book In His Own Write became a popular UK publication, as did A Spaniard in the Works a year later. And both had been done in the whimsical style of—yes— that legendary “novelist” Edward Lear.

Randal C. Hill is a rock ’n’ roll historian who lives at the Oregon coast. He may be reached at wryterhill@msn.com.

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Calendar of Events

Chester County

Support Groups Free and open to the public

Senior Center Activities

June 1, 6 p.m.

Memory Loss and Dementia Support Group Sunrise Assisted Living of Paoli 324 W. Lancaster Ave., Malvern (610) 251-9994

June 13 and 27, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Caregiver Support Group Adult Care of Chester County 201 Sharp Lane, Exton (610) 363-8044

Coatesville Area Senior Center – (610) 383-6900 22 N. Fifth Ave., Coatesville – www.coatesvilleseniorcenter.org Monthly Veterans Coffee Hour – Call for date and time

June 7, 1:30 p.m.

Grief Support Group Phoenixville Senior Center 153 Church St., Phoenixville (610) 327-7216

June 14, 7 p.m.

Hearing Loss Support Group Christ Community Church 1190 Phoenixville Pike, West Chester (610) 444-445 www.hearinglosschesco.com

Downingtown Senior Center – (610) 269-3939 983 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown – www.downingtownseniors.org June 2, 1 p.m. – Pet Therapy June 8, 11 a.m. – Calligraphy June 20, 1 p.m. – Presentation: “Dehydration is a Bummer – Stay Hydrated This Summer”

June 14 and 28, 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

Great Valley Senior Center – (610) 889-2121 47 Church Road, Malvern Tuesdays, 2 p.m. – Games and Coloring June 8, 11 a.m. – Meal & a Message: AARP Discussion of Theft and Fraud June 15 – Senior Supper

June 21, 6 p.m.

Family Caregiver Support Group Sunrise of Westtown 501 Skiles Blvd., West Chester (610) 399-4464

Kennett Area Senior Center – (610) 444-4819 427 S. Walnut St., Kennett Square – www.kennettseniorcenter.org

June 29, 6 p.m.

Living with Cancer Support Group Paoli Hospital Cancer Center 255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli (484) 565-1253

Phoenixville Area Senior Center – (610) 935-1515 153 Church St., Phoenixville – www.phoenixvilleseniorcenter.org

June 7 and 21, 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.

June 7 and 21, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Bereavement Support Group Brandywine Hospital Conference Room 2N 201 Reeceville Road, Coatesville (610) 998-1700, ext. 226 June 8, 1:30 p.m.

Family Caregiver Support Group Sarah Care 425 Technology Drive, Suite 200, Malvern (610) 251-0801 June 8, 6 p.m.

Caregiver Support Group Coatesville Area Senior Center 22 N. Fifth Ave., Coatesville (610) 383-6900

If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.

Community Programs Free and open to the public June 1, 11:30 a.m.

West Chester University Retirees Luncheon For restaurant location, please email darsie@verizon.net June 2, 7:30 p.m.

Compassionate Friends Valley Forge Chapter Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 132 E. Valley Forge Road, King of Prussia (484) 919-0820 www.tcfvalleyforge.org June 4 and 18, 5 to 10 p.m.

Bingo Night Marine Corps League Detachment 430 Chestnut St., Downingtown (610) 429-8174

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June 8, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Chester County 50plus EXPO Church Farm School 1001 E. Lincoln Highway, Exton (717) 285-1350 www.50plusexpopa.com June 17, 7:30 p.m.

Youth Choir Concert Grove United Methodist Church 490 W. Boot Road, West Chester (610) 696-2663 www.grovechurch.org

Oxford Senior Center – (610) 932-5244 12 E. Locust St., Oxford – www.oxfordseniors.org

West Chester Area Senior Center – (610) 431-4242 530 E. Union St., West Chester – www.wcseniors.org Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or visit their website for more information.

Parks And Recreation June 4, 4 to 8 p.m. – Community & Trails Celebration Day, Exton County Park June 5, 10 to 11 a.m. – Hike for the Physically Challenged, Black Rock Sanctuary June 16, 6 to 7:30 p.m. – Coventryville Town Tour, Warwick County Park

LIBRARY PROGRAMS Downingtown Library, 330 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, (610) 269-2741 June 7 and 21, 6 p.m. – Knitters Club June 13, 6:30 p.m. – Fantasy Book Club June 14, 6:30 p.m. – Film Forum Paoli Library, 18 Darby Road, Paoli, (610) 296-7996 Mystery Book Club – Call for dates/times www.50plusLifePA.com

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On Life and Love after 50

The 14 G’s of Dating for Mature Adults Tom Blake

Men and women over age 50 often ask me for dating tips. What can they do as they grow older to meet a prospective mate? Here are my 14 G’s for 50-plus dating.

1. Get off the couch and out of the house. This advice is always the first

I mention. It’s so simple and yet so important.

2. Get involved in activities you enjoy where you will meet new people. Unsure of where to go? Check out Meetup (www.meetup.com) for a list of clubs and activities in your area.

Please join us for these FREE events!

FREE PARKING! 13th Annual

June 8, 2016 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

CHESTER COUNTY

Church Farm School 1001 East Lincoln Highway Exton

20th Annual

Sept. 21, 2016 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

LANCASTER COUNTY

Spooky Nook Sports 2913 Spooky Nook Road Manheim

14th Annual

Sept. 28, 2016 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

YORK COUNTY

York Expo Center Memorial Hall East 334 Carlisle Avenue, York

17th Annual

Oct. 19, 2016 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.

CUMBERLAND COUNTY

Carlisle Expo Center 100 K Street Carlisle

Exhibitors • Health Screenings • Seminars Demonstrations • Entertainment • Door Prizes

Limited Sponsorship Opportunities Available

(717) 285-1350 (717) 770-0140 (610) 675-6240

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There are thousands of activities across the U.S. Granted, some are for the younger set; simply weed out those choices. And the site is free!

3. Go alone to these activities if you have to, if you can’t find a friend or group of friends. Granted, this isn’t the easiest thing in the world to do, but it still beats sitting home alone wishing you were somewhere else.

4. Get organized. Don’t wait to plan for upcoming holidays. If you have nowhere to go for July 4, for example, consider volunteering. Try an activity that makes you feel good; nothing is better than helping others.

Plan ahead for other holidays as well. Invite others who have nothing planned to your home for a small potluck dinner party. Start rounding up your single friends now.

5. Go out to enrich your life, but not with the sole purpose of seeking a mate. If the only reason you go out is to find someone, you will become discouraged and frustrated because meeting someone may not happen

right away. It might not happen at all.

But if you go out to broaden your horizons and enjoy new experiences, just getting out is a great accomplishment.

6. Get it in gear. Meeting new people, making new friends, and finding a mate at this stage in our lives require energy and making a concerted effort.

It’s like seeking a job in the current economy, which is difficult. The people who are successful work the hardest at networking and putting resumes out there.

The same goes for meeting a mate: Make the process as important as you would if you were seeking a job.

7. Get assertive. Note: I am not saying aggressive, but assertive. There is a big difference.

Start conversations with strangers—on a plane, standing in line at the post office or at the bank, waiting for your car to be washed, in line at Starbucks—anywhere there are people waiting and biding time.

Flag Day Facts about Old Glory Union: The upper The U.S. flag brings out the patriotism in inner corner of the flag most Americans. How

much do you know about your flag?

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8. Gain flexibility. Open your mind to new avenues, new cultures, and new thinking.

9. Gain efficiency. Don’t waste time by playing games. Either people are interested in a relationship or they aren’t. If you meet someone you think

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Present a positive attitude. A smile is the ticket to making yourself approachable and likeable, both necessary when you are seeking a new mate.

11. Grieve and heal before you begin looking for a new mate. If you’ve recently lost a spouse or partner, give it all the time you need.

But that doesn’t mean you don’t go out to enrich your life and be involved with new people. That helps to overcome loneliness. Your life is not over; it has just changed.

13. Go gray. Remind yourself that being single later in life isn’t so bad. In fact, it’s pretty darned good.

It gives you the freedom to do and pursue whatever you want.

12. Gain knowledge and insight through learning and enjoying new experiences. Go back to school. Take an acting class. Travel.

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