Cumberland County Edition
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Vol. 15 No. 8
For the Love of Felines Councilwoman Heads Successful Feral-Cat Program By Rebecca Hanlon Maria Romano Marcinko is severely allergic to cats. The itchy skin and shortened breaths would send most people running from these critters. But Marcinko can’t stay away. The 58-year-old energetic woman founded a community stray cat program in 2010 shortly after being appointed to a seat on the borough council. The first item on the agenda that was handed to her in September 2009 was for a municipal contract with the local Humane Society. Thousands of taxpayer dollars were being spent each year for the care of stray animals. More than 85 percent of those were feral cats. “I’ve always been an animal lover,” Marcinko said. “They hoped that because I had experience in dog rescue services that maybe I could help with the overwhelming cat population.” The challenge was “staying outside of the box,” Marcinko said. She tried to understand the concerns of residents who became attached to the cats, while at the same time relating to the frustrations of neighbors who wanted strays to stay off their lawns. Feisty feral cats can damage plants, outdoor furniture, and flowerbeds, she said. But there was a solution. please see FELINES page 11 Maria Romano Marcinko stands with a couple of feral cats that will be spayed/neutered and then released where they were found.
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Salute to a Veteran page 12
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Ergonomic Tools that Can Ease Gardening Pains Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some good ergonomic gardening gear for seniors? I am a 72-year-old who loves to work in the garden, but I have been plagued by various gardening injuries this year. – Looking for Solutions
Digging tools: There are ergonomic tools that can help Gloves: There are a protect your wrists by number of specially reducing the bending designed gloves that and twisting wrist can improve your grip movement that often and protect your comes with digging and hands while you weeding. work. Some good options Two of the best are include Radius Garden the “Atlas Nitrile tools (www.radius Touch Garden garden.com), which Gloves” (available at make a variety of A raised garden table is an option Amazon.com for less curved-handle hand for more ergonomic gardening than $6), which are tools (scooper, weeder, (Your Garden Solution). coated with a flexible, transplanter, cultivator, synthetic rubber. and trowel) and shovels And the “ReliefGrip Gardening” that run between $10 and $50. gloves (www.bionicgloves.com, $35) have And check out Corona tools extra padding in the palm and finger (www.coronatoolsusa.com), which makes joints, which can improve grip and cause the ComfortGEL and eGrip hand garden fewer calluses and blisters. tools. Here are several that can help.
Dear Looking, There’s no doubt that gardening can be tough on an aging body. Garden work often requires a lot of repetitive stooping, squatting, kneeling, gripping, and lifting, which can lead to back and knee pain, carpal tunnel syndrome, and various other injuries. To help make your gardening chores a little easier is a slew of new and improved gardening gear that’s lightweight, comfortable to use, and ergonomically designed to help protect your body from the physical strains of gardening.
Another excellent product is the “Cobrahead Weeder and Cultivator” (www.cobrahead.com), an all-purpose digging and weeding tool, available in a short-handle version for close-up work for $25 and a long handle for standing work for $60. Knee and back aids: Kneepads and garden seats can also protect your knees and save your back when working close to the ground. Some popular products sold today through the Gardener’s Supply Company (www.gardeners.com) are the “GardenEase Kneeler” ($70), which is a kneeling pad with support handles; the “Garden Kneeler” ($35) that’s a kneepad/garden bench combo; and the “Deluxe Tractor Scoot with Bucket Basket,” which is a height-adjustable, swivel garden seat on wheels ($90). please see GARDENING page 7
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Backyard Farming Walt Sonneville he safety of our purchased food, and the certainty of its supply, is likely to cause more of us to convert some or all of our backyard lawns into produce gardens. In the days of our agrarian grandparents, there was less concern about food safety. Unprofitable crop pricing was the main issue. In the 1930s, approximately 40 percent of the U.S. population lived on a farm. Today it is less than 2 percent. Thankfully, many city dwellers have not abandoned growing fruits and vegetables. Backyard farming was common during the two World Wars and the Great Depression. In 1917, the nation had a “war garden” campaign that resulted in the creation of more than 5 million gardens. In World War II, “victory gardens” were grown by 20 million Americans. “These [victory] gardens produced up to 41 percent of all the vegetable produce that was consumed by the nation,” wrote Laura Lawson in her book City Bountiful: A Century of Community Gardening in America. Historically, the White House has been the site of both produce gardening and resident livestock husbandry. First Lady Michelle Obama planted a 1,100-square-foot “kitchen garden” in 2009, following the earlier examples of Abigail Adams, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Hillary Clinton. Presidents Harrison, Hayes, and Wilson kept at least one goat on the White House lawn. Recent trends suggest growing numbers of city dwellers are becoming backyard farmers. Droughts; floods; heat waves; the high costs and contaminations of petroleum-based fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides; as well as concerns about pathogens residing in commercially raised food and the dearth of seed diversity prompt us to evaluate our food sourcing. The National Gardening Association reports the number of home gardeners growing vegetables
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increased 10 percent in 2008 and 19 percent in 2009. In 2012, at that time our nation’s hottest year, almost half the counties were certified as experiencing drought disasters. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, in the summer of 2013, reported southwestern states from Texas to California and eastward to Nebraska experienced drought that ranged individually from severe to extreme to exceptional.
We are geographically overdependent on much of our food provisioning. Salinas Valley, a 90mile stretch of land in California, for example, raises more than 90 percent of the lettuce we consume. About 42 percent of our fresh tomatoes (not canned) are produced in Florida, with California producing 30 percent. Almost all the fresh tomatoes we purchase from our grocers between October and June come from Florida. As much as 80 percent of our oranges are grown in Florida. In cities where the law allows, some home residents raise chickens, miniature goats, ducks, and rabbits. That provides eggs, meat, and specialty milk that satisfies the quality and freshness standards of these urban farmers. More cities are considering and permitting poultry on municipal home lots. Seattle, Wash.; Portland,
Ore.; Portland, Maine; and Richmond, Va., are municipalities that allow a specified number of hens. Richmond, for example, allows up to four hens if one procures a $60 permit. While hens do not crow, they do produce significant manure and are subject to diseases that are not well understood. When they stop producing eggs they may be released by their owners, becoming feral fowl. Some cities have an existing population of feral chickens, including Key West and St. Augustine in Florida and Houston, Texas. For those unwilling to commit the requisite time, and wishing to avoid the anxiety related to homeraised produce and farm animals, preferred alternatives include patronizing farmers markets and community-service agriculture. USA Today reported there are “nearly 8,000 farmers markets in the USA.” To that one might add an unknown, but sizable, number of roadside vendors offering what purport to be locally raised products. Community-service agriculture, commonly called CSAs, are small farms in which consumers prepay a fixed sum to obtain shared amounts of vegetables, fruits, and eggs. According to Space Daily, “more than 12,000 CSAs operate across the U.S.” (To find a CSA near you, go to http://www.localharvest.org.) If increasing numbers of city dwellers raise produce and harbor farm animals, homeland-security issues may require protection from predatory foxes and coyotes; herbivorous rabbits, deer, and raccoons; scavenging crows; and confiscatory neighbors. Walt Sonneville, a retired marketresearch analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen and A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, books of personalopinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. Contact him at waltsonneville@earthlink.net.
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The Search for Our Ancestry
DNA Revisited Angelo Coniglio egular readers will recall that several months ago I sent a sample of my DNA to AncestryDNA, an offshoot of the subscription genealogy site Ancestry.com. My hope was that I could use my experience to inform readers about the use of DNA analysis in genealogical research. Alas, after sending three separate saliva samples, all were rejected for “insufficient genetic material.” That had me wondering if I was really a robot with no DNA, but I asked for and received a refund of the charges (about $100). Last November, I decided to try again, with another vendor, 23andMe, also at a cost of about $100. This was not without its obstacles, since when I received my test kit, it came with a warning that due to New York state law, my sample could not be accepted if it was taken and/or mailed
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back from New York state. This is because 23andMe not only analyzes genealogical connections, but also addresses medical and health conditions of its participants, and New York requires such laboratories to involve a physician in the sample-taking. Luckily, I had a planned trip to Philadelphia at the time, so I prepared the sample while there and mailed it in from Pennsylvania, which had no such restrictions. But that wasn’t the end of the problems, because shortly after I got acknowledgement of receipt of my
sample by 23andMe, stories began circulating that the firm was at odds with the U.S. Federal Drug Administration (FDA) over the same concerns expressed by New York state. That concern still exists, but 23andMe has received temporary FDA approval of its operations as long as new customers have access only to their ancestry information, without health results. Customers who purchase 23andMe now must do so with the understanding that health results are not available to them. Since I was never interested in the medical or health results, I am satisfied
with that ruling. About three months after sending in my sample, I received an email from 23andMe stating that my genealogical results were available online. Before I get into the details of the 23andMe testing and what it can show in a genealogical sense, consider the various reasons for having a DNA test: • To determine a close familial relationship between two specific individuals (for example, a paternity test). This requires that DNA from both individuals be tested. • To determine whether a person is susceptible to a certain disease, a potential carrier of a disease, etc. This can be determined by comparing one’s DNA with databases of DNA that show similar tendencies.
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Older But Not Wiser
There’s a New Heartthrob in Town Sy Rosen his story begins on a Sunday afternoon in my mom’s assisted living facility. An accordion player, Ramon, comes every week. He is 50, good looking, and Latin and is the heartthrob of the facility—and he definitely knows it. He struts, he prances, he winks, and the ladies all put on an extra dab of rouge when Ramon is there. Lately, however, Ramon seems bored and is just going through the motions, like he would rather be somewhere else. When he played his half-hearted version of “You Send Me,” he was really sending everyone to sleep. I was sitting next to my mom, and I could see that half of the seniors in the lobby were dozing, but Ramon didn’t seem to care. He knew he was the only game in town. And then the game changed! My daughter Ann arrived with her 8-monthold baby, Summer. My granddaughter looked gorgeous. Even at 8 months she was making a real fashion statement with her bow matching her outfit. Ann put my granddaughter in my mom’s lap. And there they sat, both of them smiling away. And then a strange thing happened. All 60 gray heads in the lobby turned in unison and watched my granddaughter with her great-grandmother. Ramon was momentarily forgotten. The heartthrob had been replaced. So what could the accordion player do? Of course he stepped up his game to recapture the audience. Nobody was going to steal his thunder. He started to play faster and louder as he bounced around the room, desperately trying to get everyone’s attention. He played “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and “Great Balls of Fire.” Both songs were crowd pleasers and the seniors turned toward him, but then Summer would giggle and audience turned back to her. It was like the
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seniors were watching a championship pingpong match, their heads turning right and left. Ramon played his accordion faster and faster. He would crescendo and decrescendo. Everyone stared at him. Summer would answer with a coo and a gurgle, and everyone would then stare at her. Ramon’s fingers were now flying across the accordion. And then he did something he hadn’t done in years: a quadruple bellow shake. In the space of one beat, he hit a note four times. It was breathtaking, and everyone watched him. Summer then made a sound, “boeleebboobbaa,” and everyone turned toward her. Finally, Ramon decided it was time to stop fooling around. He had to establish his superiority. He had to squash Summer and once again become the King of Assisted Living. And he tried to do it by playing “Bolero.” That’s right—he was going for the tango! And he didn’t just play “Bolero.” He also grabbed one of the ladies from her seat and somehow danced with her while keeping his accordion at full blast. Everyone was watching. And then Summer did something miraculous. She yelped, “Whoooo, whooooo” and wiggled her body as though she were dancing. Game. Set. Match. Summer had defeated Ramon. She had clearly become the Queen of Assisted Living. And Ramon had no choice but to acknowledge her superiority and decided, “If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” He danced over to Summer while playing “You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby.” All eyes were now on Summer and Ramon. But really, they were just looking at Summer. All hail the queen. www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
GARDENING
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Pruning tools: Fiskars (www.fiskars. com) makes some of the finest ergonomic pruning tools that have also earned the Arthritis Foundation’s Ease of Use Commendation because of their patented PowerGear mechanisms that increase leverage to make cutting three times easier than traditional pruners. The Fiskars PowerGear hand pruners, loppers, and hedge shears all run between $25 and $48. Bahco and Corona also make a nice line of ergonomic pruning tools and handsaws that you can see at www.bahcostore.com or www.coronatools usa.com. Watering: To help make your watering chores a little easier, there are lightweight garden hoses, soaker or drip hoses that can be snaked throughout the garden, and hose chests that can automatically rewind themselves. Some good companies that make these products include Water Right Inc. (www.waterrightinc.com), which makes a
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variety of super lightweight garden and coil hoses; the DIG Corp. (www.digcorp. com), which makes convenient dripirrigation kits and micro sprinkler kits; and Suncast (www.suncast. com), the leading maker of self-winding hose reels and hose carts. Container gardening: Raised garden beds, trellises, and container gardening are also easier ways to grow plants and flowers because it brings the garden to you, eliminating most stooping, squatting, and kneeling. The Gardener’s Supply Company (www.gardeners.com) offers a wide range of raised beds and garden containers at prices ranging anywhere between $10 up to $350. Locally, Your Garden Solution (www.yourgardensolution.org, (717) 9191010) offers raised beds and garden tables in a similar price range.
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Neither of the above reasons are typically genealogical in nature, and neither are appropriate for this column.The genealogical reasons for DNA testing include: • The desire to know one’s broad ethnic or national origins. Tests can determine the regions where our ancestors lived from 5,000 to 25,000 years ago, again by comparison to databases collected from thousands of donors and to the genetic characteristics of various races, etc. • Determination of pedigrees, or family trees of direct ancestors, from one’s self to several generations back.
DNA testing in and of itself cannot do this. However, used in conjunction with family trees developed by conventional paper research methods, DNA analysis can fill in information, help confirm assumed relationships, or help find living relatives. More to come. Coniglio is the author of a novella inspired by his Sicilian research entitled The Lady of the Wheel, available in paperback at amzn.to/racalmuto or in an e-book at bit.ly/LadyOfTheWheelKindle. For more information, check out his webpage at bit.ly/AFCGen or email him at genealogytips@aol.com.
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Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
The Beach at the End of the Trail well as pedal the Promenade, a 1.5-mile concrete path that runs parallel to the sea. ewis and Clark traveled There, at the point where the more than 4,000 miles Prom intersects Broadway, is the searching for a water bronze statue of the two route that would span the explorers. It’s larger than life, as American West. Where did they befits the men it depicts, and is end up? On a small stretch of backed with a sign that reads, sand near Seaside, Ore., 80 “the END of the LEWIS & miles west of Portland. CLARK trail, 1805-1806.” Today Seaside is a popular The next morning we set out recreational community, to learn why and how Seaside attracting visitors who want A bronze statue of Lewis and People relax on the bench near the Men from the Lewis and Clark surf-perfect waves, abundant Clark stands near the beach in Promenade, the 1.5-mile concrete expedition first spotted the Pacific became the last stop of the tide pools, good hiking, and the Seaside, Ore. walkway that parallels the beach. Ocean near Cape Disappointment. Lewis and Clark expedition. We begin at Cape chance to follow the Lewis and Disappointment, 30 miles Clark Corps of Discovery dubbed “one of America’s top 10 soups” stores, many of which are arranged northwest of Seaside. during the last days of their journey to at Norma’s. around an old-fashioned merry-go“Since this is one of the foggiest the Pacific. To work off the calories, we go to round in the aptly named Carousel My husband and I walk through places in the country, it’s almost certain Wheel Fun Rentals, where we debate Mall. town, heading toward a bronze statue that you’re having the same weather as Of course, we intersperse our whether to rent a surrey (elegant), a that immortalizes the area’s flirt with did the Lewis and Clark team,” says a meanderings with food—a fish taco at tandem bike (easy, especially for me), or fame. The streets are filled with people. ranger. “But they were too elated to Firehouse Grill, homemade root beer a regular bicycle (exercise for both of us). Some are simply strolling, enjoying worry about the weather; they had and ice cream at Flashback’s, and a cup We finally opt for bikes so we can the sea-fresh air, while others are finally reached the Pacific Ocean.” of the clam chowder that Bon Appétit explore areas on the outskirts of town as shopping in an eclectic assortment of We forego the beachcombing for By Andrea Gross
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which the 1,900-acre park is famous, instead spending our time at the interpretive center and hiking a trail that was used by the corpsmen as they explored the area. Although the men were eager to return home after achieving their goal, many a snow-covered mountain stood between the Pacific Ocean and their starting point in St. Louis. They needed a hunkering place for the winter, and they found a suitable spot on the Oregon side of the Columbia River, midway between the Cape and Seaside. Today that spot, Fort Clatsop, is a National Historical Park that features a full-size replica of the original fort, ranger-led programs, an exhibit area, and a bookstore that will please even the most devoted Lewis and Clark fans. As we walk through the fort, a costumed interpreter explains what life was like during the winter of 1805-06. In short, it was hard. The men were almost out of food, and they spent much of their time hunting elk, deer, and small game. On one occasion, hearing that a whale had washed ashore, they hiked over Tillamook Head to the beach in what is now Ecola State Park. To their dismay, by the time they arrived, the American Indians had picked the whale clean.
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We consider following the explorers’ footsteps until we read that Clark called Tillamook Head “the steepest, worst &
Fort Clatsop consisted of two rows of huts separated by a central gathering spot.
Tillamook Head is at the southern end of Seaside Beach.
highest mountain I ever ascended.” Figuring that he was undoubtedly in better shape than we are, we hop in the
car for a 15-minute drive to Ecola. From there it’s a comparatively easy trek to the beached whale site. But the men not only had to get food, they also had to preserve it; and to do that, they had to extract salt from the ocean. Therefore, five corpsmen established a small outpost on a nearby beach. They made ovens from rocks, found branches for fuel, and boiled seawater for two months, collecting enough preservative to safeguard their food for the rest of their trip. A month later the corps headed east, and the abandoned salt works thus became the expedition’s westernmost campsite. Today the reconstructed site is just a few blocks from the statue that proclaims Seaside as the end of the Lewis and Clark trail. We sit on the Prom, the ocean in front of us, the statue behind us. While I suspect Lewis and Clark were happy to return home, they couldn’t have found a more beautiful place to end their journey. As for us, we’d like to stay forever. www.seasideor.com Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).
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Hospital emergency rooms are stretched thin by almost 130 million visits a year. Many of these visits are triggered by complaints that could be handled more efficiently at same-day clinics or pharmacy care centers. How do you know which to choose? Go to the emergency room (or call an ambulance) if you or a friend experience any of these serious symptoms:
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• Severe pain, especially in the abdomen or the lower back • Loss of balance or fainting
• Sudden, severe headache On the other hand, most sameday clinics are able to treat these routine health problems: • Fever (except in the case of a newborn infant) • Minor trauma such as cuts and sprains • Urinary tract infections • Severe sore throat
A clinic will also be able to advise you to go to the emergency room if your condition is more serious than you realize.
More Seniors Documenting End-of-Life Wishes Vacations When a person has a job That he works at every day: Hot summer makes it boring So he needs to get away. A trip to cooling mountains, Or a lake with sandy shores, Happy days on a distant trip, Living in the great outdoors.
The percentage of senior citizens with living wills was 72 percent in 2010, a record number and a substantial increase from 47 percent in 2000. The figures come from a study published in the Journal of the American
Geriatrics Society, examining data from the Health and Retirement Study conducted by the University of Michigan Institute for Social Research on behalf of the U.S. National Institute on Aging.
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Away from his humdrum job, It renews his spirit so; Back to his work with vigor Refreshed and ready to go. The 50plus EXPO committee is looking for volunteers to help at our 15th annual Cumberland County 50plus EXPO on October 22, 2014, at the Carlisle Expo Center, 100 K Street, Carlisle, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Though, years after he retires, He still likes from his home to skip; But now when it’s all over, He must rest up from the trip. Written and submitted by John McGrath
If you could help greet visitors, stuff EXPO bags, or work at the registration desk, we would be glad to have you for all or just part of the day. Please call On-Line Publishers at (717) 770-0140..
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FELINES
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In just months, Marcinko would “You can’t just take one or two at a become closer to the felines that caused time,” Marcinko said. “It doesn’t work to her to sniffle. let everyone else stay behind to have fun To solve the problem of wasted tax and make more cats.” dollars and control the growing cat They are then spayed or neutered by a colonies, Marcinko adopted a popular volunteer veterinarian, kept for several track, spay/neuter, and return program. days to recover, and released where they Marcinko and a crew of volunteers took were found. a personal approach. They develop Grant money and donations pay for relationships with those who feed and the medical care, while volunteers shell come to love the stray cats. out hundreds of hours a month to keep Their first case was a woman pleading the program running. PetSmart Charities for help with the 50 cats who had has been a big supporter, allowing them congregated in her yard. It started when to renovate an old bank for the surgeries. her little boy didn’t like the crust on his In about four years, the town saved peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. enough money to hire two police Tossing the scraps out in the yard for officers. Marcinko, who retired from the birds ended up attracting a stray cat. county parole and probation, is able to The family continued to feed it but soon get 200 community service hours a found they had month from attracted an entire people going colony of hungry through the system felines. for non-violent What seemed crimes. like a cute way to Some of them help one feral cat have been doctors, turned into an lawyers, and even overwhelming veterinarians who population of return to help even hungry felines. after completing While they their required In a single midsummer day, more than 70 feral cats await care from volunteer want the problem community service veterinarians inside the program’s facility. fixed, the last hours. thing on their And even minds was hurting the animals. though the program primarily caters to “Most of these people are older and controlling the population, Marcinko they don’t have anything else,” she said. can’t resist helping a hurt cat. “I used to take my business card and Sometimes the cats come to the clinic throw it in a mailbox and run, hoping with broken tails or missing eyes from that they would call me. It’s a program fights within the colonies. Pregnant cats that requires a lot of patience and might also be sent to the Humane understanding.” Society, so the kittens have a chance at Marcinko learned to pour out avoiding the feral life. compassion for the people who longed to More than 3,300 cats have been help the animals but didn’t want to lose spayed or neutered since 2010, causing them. the local population to drop by about 75 Entire colonies are taken to the percent in that time. designated clinic at the caretaker’s “I feel really alive when I do this,” she permission. said. “None of us is getting younger, but
I hope I can continue to do this, continue to help the community, even as I age.” While the program avoids adopting the cats (most wouldn’t be happy in a home anyway, Marcinko said), the love for these animals is evident. “The reason why this program keeps going is because people love it,” Marcinko said. “Even when I’m in there with my mask on, trying not to handle them, there is love.” Not the type to sit at home in her
retirement, Marcinko hopes she can continue to keep busy with the cat program and maybe watch it be adopted by other municipalities. “My mother is 94 years old and lives by herself, and we travel together,” Marcinko said. “I’m just hoping I have her blood and can keep doing this as long as she keeps running circles around me.” For more information about Marcinko’s stray cat program, please call (717) 877-4146.
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CCRCs offer a tiered approach to the aging process, accommodating residents’ unique and often changing needs.
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Healthy adults entering a CRCC are able to live independently in a home, apartment, or condominium of their own within the community. When assistance with everyday activities becomes necessary, they can move into personal care, assisted living, rehabilitation, or nursing care facilities. Some CCRCs have designated dementia areas within the community. These units address the progressing needs of people who have any form of dementia. With a wealth of available resources, these communities give older adults the option to live in one location for the duration of their lives, with much of their future care already figured out — which equals both comfort and peace of mind.
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Salute to a Veteran
In WWII in the Pacific, There Was a Lot of Water to Fly Over Between Islands Robert D. Wilcox harles Wilson grew up in a small town near Bel Air, Md. Though he didn’t know it then, he was to spend a lot of time over the broad Pacific on the opposite side of the world from his home. In January of 1943, he enlisted in the Army Air Corps and entered the aviation cadet program. After basic, he went to classified, where he passed all the requirements to become either a pilot, a navigator, or a bombardier. He chose to become a pilot and started pilot training at Albany, Ga. He soon discovered that there were
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lots of ways to “wash out” of pilot training, and he then went to navigator training at Selma, Ala. There, in December 1943, he won his navigator wings and a commission as second lieutenant. The Air Corps was looking for navigators who had also qualified to be bombardiers, so he volunteered to attend bombardier school at
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2LT Charles A. Wilson in 1943 as he earned his navigator wings and commission.
Roswell, N.M. He there earned his bombardier wings before being assigned to a B-25 crew at Greenville, S.C. The standard B-25 crew was made up of eight men: pilot, copilot, navigator, bombardier, radio man, two waist gunners, and a tail gunner. In his case, however, it was only seven men, since he served as both navigator
and bombardier. Their route to combat took them to California, Hawaii, and New Guinea. How did they find their way across those great expanses of the Pacific? “That’s where I came in,” he grins. “By looking down through the Norden bombsight, I could see the waves, and that helped me estimate the direction and force of the wind.” And where did he learn to do that? “In Selma,” he says, “right out of the textbook.” But without any real waves to see? “Yeah,” he says airily, “but it worked www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
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out just fine when you had real waves to look at. And,” he adds, “I was able to ‘shoot the sun’ to judge our speed over the water.” With a smile, he says, “It had to work, because I didn’t even know how to swim.” After bombing the Japanese on New Guinea and nearby islands, he and his crew were relocated to Morotai Island, where it rained for a solid month. Everything—their clothing, their bedding, everything they had—was continually soaked. Although they flew missions through the weather, everybody got “jungle rot.” Their hands swelled up with the tropical infection so that they couldn’t even write. Fortunately, the medics had an ointment to treat it, but it was an experience that Wilson would prefer to forget. The crew moved again, this time to Palawan Island in the Philippines, where www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com
they bombed Luzon and nearby islands. Wilson says all the island settlements were on the edge of islands, close to the water. So they would circle over the land, then, at treetop height, drop bombs on the facilities on their way toward the water so that, if they were hit, they’d be able to ditch in the water rather than crash on the land in Japanese hands. Not all missions involved bombs, though. The Japanese planted crops on some of the islands they captured. The food they produced was needed, because re-supply from Japan was so precarious. Wilson remembers flying missions to spray those crops with oil and destroy them. On another kind of mission entirely, their B-25s were fitted with auxiliary fuel tanks, and they flew a 16-hour mission, leading P-38s to a rendezvous with B-24s off the coast of China,
aircraft that went on to bomb Japanese bases in China. On one other key mission, they were to fly to Leyte Island to cover General MacArthur’s return to the Philippines. They ran into a huge monsoon they tried to climb over, but every time they neared the top of the clouds, they found that the clouds were climbing faster than they were. So they had to abort their shot at history being made. Did he ever get shot up in combat? “No,” he says. “The closest we came was when we were supporting the invasion of Borneo. I saw the B-25 to the left of us go down in flames. Then the same thing happened to the plane to the right of us. But we came through it without a scratch. “Then, after I had flown 53 missions, my tour was over, and I returned to the U.S. on a converted ocean liner. Just before we reached California, we got
news that the A-bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima. And the news that the Japanese had surrendered reached us on the day that I mustered out of the Air Corps at Fort Meade.” Wilson then entered the University of Maryland on the G.I. Bill and in 1950 graduated with a B.A. in mathematics. He taught high school mathematics for a couple of years, and then worked for three years at Aberdeen Proving Grounds using wind tunnels to study the effect of wind on missiles. For many years thereafter, he wrote computer programs for a major finance company. He often thinks of—but rarely discusses—all those hours he flew in the Pacific with nothing below him but water. Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.
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Calendar of Events
Cumberland County
Support Groups
Free and open to the public.
Senior Center Activities
Aug. 5, 7 p.m. CanSurmount Cancer Support Group HealthSouth Acute Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd., Mechanicsburg (717) 691-6786
Aug. 12, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Carlisle Area Men’s Cancer Support Group The Live Well Center 3 Alexandria Court, Carlisle (717) 877-7561 sirbrady12@gmail.com
Aug. 19, 1 p.m. Caregiver Support Group Mechanicsburg Church of the Brethren 501 Gale St., Mechanicsburg (717) 766-8880
Big Spring Senior Center – (717) 776-4478 91 Doubling Gap Road, Suite 1, Newville Mondays in August, 9:30 a.m. – Technology Classes Aug. 12, 1 p.m. – Renew Your Dues Party/Become a Member Party Aug. 29, 11:30 a.m. – Zingy Zucchini Dinner
Aug. 7, 6:30 p.m. Too Sweet: Diabetes Support Group Chapel Hill United Church of Christ 701 Poplar Church Road, Camp Hill (717) 557-9041
Aug. 13, 1 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group HealthSouth Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd. Mechanicsburg (717) 877-0624
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Shippensburg Area Senior Center – (717) 300-3563 Christ United Methodist Church, 47 E. King St., Shippensburg Aug. 5, 10 a.m. – Hymn Sing Aug. 20, 9 a.m. – Hand and Foot Tourney in Mechanicsburg
Community Programs
Free and open to the public.
Mondays and Wednesdays, noon to 12:45 p.m. Silver Sneakers Class: Muscular Strength and Range of Movement Living Well Fitness Center 207 House Ave., Suite 107, Camp Hill (717) 439-4070 Aug. 1, 5 to 8 p.m. Book Signing and Walk: “Murder in Carlisle’s East End – Unintended Consequences” History on High – The Shop 33 W. High St., Carlisle (717) 249-1626
Please contact your local center for scheduled activities.
Cumberland County Library Programs
Aug. 3, 7 p.m. New Cumberland Town Band Performance Anna and Bailey Streets Pak New Cumberland www.nctownband.org Aug. 13, 11:30 a.m. NARFE West Shore Chapter 1465 VFW Post 6704 4907 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg (717) 737-1486 www.narfe1465.org Visitors welcome; meeting is free but fee for food.
AARP Driver Safety Programs For a Safe Driving Class near you, call toll-free (888) 227-7669 or visit www.aarp.org/findacourse. Aug. 13-14, 8 a.m. to noon – Township of Southampton Municipal Building, 705 Municipal Drive, Shippensburg, (717) 532-1707
PA State Parks in Cumberland County Aug. 1, 6 to 7 p.m. – Emerald Ash Borer Campfire Program, Colonel Denning State Park Aug. 3, 3 to 7:30 p.m. – Music on the Mountain Concert, Kings Gap Environmental Education Center Aug. 16, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. – Shippensburg Swing Band, Colonel Denning State Park
Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W. High St., Carlisle, (717) 243-4642 Aug. 4, 7:30 to 8:45 p.m. – Monday Bosler Book Discussion Group Aug. 13, 1 to 2 p.m. – Wicked Wednesday Book Discussion Group Aug. 22, 1 to 2 p.m. – Just Mysteries! Book Club Cleve J. Fredricksen Library, 100 N. 19th St., Camp Hill, (717) 761-3900 Thursdays, 9:15 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Blood Pressure Screenings Aug. 11, 6:30 p.m. – Twisted Stitchers Aug. 14, 7 p.m. – Shea Quinn & Friends – Woodstock Tribute New Cumberland Public Library, 1 Benjamin Plaza, New Cumberland, (717) 774-7820 Aug. 7, 10:30 a.m. – Ruth’s Mystery Group: Bizarre Titles Aug. 9, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Write-On Writers Workshop Aug. 27, 6 to 9 p.m. – Pennwriters Writing Group
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Dick Dedrick ll I have to do to get my grandkids’ eyes rolling is talk about the good old days. No, I don’t tell ’em how far I walked to school (school was only a block away). But I might say I remember when, if you wanted to change channels on the TV, you had to get up, walk over, and turn a knob. Then I’ll tell them how you had to adjust the rabbit ears to get a better picture. They’re not curious enough to ask me what rabbit ears were, or how great The Colgate Comedy Hour was. They don’t care. They don’t care if I never had a telephone that took pictures. Or how we’d send film into Kodak and get prints back in a week. They’re too busy texting. And they never heard of Kodak. I
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remember when text was not a verb and texting was not a word. Yes, I have a cell phone. I’m not a Luddite. “Does it have a crank on it?” you’re probably asking. No, it doesn’t. It’s a TracFone. No, it’s not smart, but it only costs me $7 a month. When you’re on a fixed income (a euphemism for being broke), things like that matter. I have given up on getting my grandkids to join me in a game of checkers, dominos, or pickup sticks. But I’ve learned to get their attention by asking them to show me their latest video game—a game that interests me about as much as my games interest them. We do have that in common. Visit www.nostalgiaroad.com
Bibliophile Directory (after a villanelle form) The books on my shelves are reflections of me Grouped as my files, by their subjects, loosely— Not just their arrangement or what you can see Japan, Holland, more of our geography Fiction: two rows, fact: a full twenty-three The shelves of my books all reflections of me Of women, of aging, of primers and bees Of teaching or writing philosophy Not just by arrangement or what you can see Everyday objects, art, birds, poetry; Biblical, ethical, medical, leaves The books on my shelves reflect something of me Suffering, healing, personality Church history, old hymnals, theology Not their arrangement or just what can be seen Frayed covers, mute colors, worn dictionaries Kids’ classics, thin cookbooks, biography. My books, and my files, reveal glimpses of me By more than arrangement of what you can see Written and submitted by Evelyn Merriam
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They served us — now let us serve them! Reserve your space today! The Expo brings federal, state, and local agencies together with area businesses to provide information and resources to veterans and their families. The Job Fair brings veterans and spouses who need jobs together with employers who can benefit from this rich source of talent to aid their organizations.
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