Dauphin County 50plus Senior News January 2014 by On-Line Publishers, Inc.

Dauphin County Edition

January 2014

Vol. 16 No. 1

Wearable Memories Fabric Artist Creates Keepsakes from Belongings of Loved Ones By Lori Van Ingen Laurie Kolanko was just looking for a way to make some Christmas gifts while caring for her elderly mother. What she found was a new venture and a new way to help people honor their departed loved ones. “I knew someone who made purses out of placemats. I thought that sounded like fun,” Kolanko said. She also knew a lot of people used tote bags and wondered if she could make them using placemats. So Kolanko found some online tutorials, purchased some unusual-looking placemats and webbing, and she was set to go to work. “I enjoyed it so much,” Kolanko said, that she went back for more. “I fell in love with the whole process of shopping for them, mixing and matching colors and textures.” Kolanko said she has always liked sewing and making things with her hands. “I remember making clothes for my trolls out of felt when I was very young. I always had a needle of some sort in my hand when sitting down and relaxing.” She even made her daughters’ school clothes with matching clothes for their Cabbage Patch dolls. She also did counted cross stitch, embroidery, please see MEMORIES page 14 Laurie Kolanko with several of her handmade tote bags and tie pins.

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y now, most of us are back to our routine day to day. The Christmas tree stands lifeless in the corner of the room where, just days ago, it was imbued with a certain seasonal magic—a magic especially obvious at night when its lights glowed warmly, and the bright, shiny ornaments reflected the illumination in a colorful palette of red, green, blue, silver, and gold throughout the room. The electrical plug now droops over a bottom branch. Nobody notices; the lights remain cold. The tree has seen its best days, done its holiday duty, and will soon be stripped of its finery. The township mulch pile is the next stop for some trees. Others will be enclosed in giant bags and placed curbside on trashremoval day. There are tiring days ahead for those who must heave the woody remains onto a truck. In the meantime, some gifts remain under the tree. Sweater sleeves appear to slither over the shallow sides of their boxes to touch the floor, chain-store tags dangle from bathrobes and slippers, and returnable items are bagged up and ready to go back to the mall at the next convenient moment. The best gifts are already in use. That’s not to say that sweaters, slippers, and bathrobes aren’t great gifts. They are. It’s just that most people do not feel compelled to model slippers and robes when they’re outside the home. It would just be odd. There’s not much about those items that elicit admiration and approval, anyway. As for sweaters, I haven’t looked good in one since I was young and almost slim (maybe not slim, but a lot less bulgy). Stockings will be taken down, and not necessarily with the care in which they were hung; I yank, and tacks fly.

They land in places where only bare feet can find them. The small stuffers of pen sets, bottles of fragrance, candy bars, shaving razors, and all sorts of other knickknackery have been whisked away. I shook my stocking out several times. I’m convinced it was only hung to add symmetry to the lineup; I didn’t ask. Listen, it’s all good. I have little use for pen sets; the ink is nearly dried up in the ones I already own. My bottle of Old Spice is almost full. It’s obvious that I don’t need candy bars. I mostly use an electric razor, when I remember to charge it. And I certainly have no use for knickknacks and the dust they collect. It’s a new year. We embrace hope and the idea of a doover for mistakes, poor decisions, and bad habits that have hindered our aspirations and relationships. We vow to be better. We will lose weight, quit smoking, be more patient with our spouses and children, unselfishly serve mankind, and make other resolutions, numerous and diverse. We will invariably fail to follow through on some of our loftier aims. It happens because we are human. Being human is a good general excuse for why we often fall short of our grand schemes. But resilience of spirit is another aspect of being human. When we fail, we feel challenged. We back up, take a running start, and head for the goal, again and again. That’s when good things happen, and we become better human beings. Keep at it—you’ll see. Happy New Year. Mike Clark writes a regular column for The Globe Leader newspaper in New Wilmington, Pa. He has a Bachelor of Science degree in organizational behavior/applied psychology from Albright College. Mike lives outside Columbia, Pa., and can be contacted at mikemac429@aol.com.

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Social Security News

Ring in the New Year with a COLA By John Johnston any people ring in the new year with champagne. People who receive Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) get to ring it in with a COLA. This year, more than 60 million Americans are receiving a 1.5 percent cost of living adjustment (COLA) in their monthly benefit payment. The 1.5 percent COLA begins with increased benefits for more than 57 million Social Security beneficiaries in January 2014. Payments to more than 8

million SSI recipients began in late December 2013. The estimated average monthly Social Security payment to a retired worker is $1,294 (in 2014), up from $1,275 (in 2013). The average monthly Social Security disability payment for an individual is $1,148 (in 2014), up from $1,131 (in 2013). The basic monthly federal payment for SSI is $721 (in 2014), up from $710 (in 2013). Some other changes that take effect in January of each year are based on the increase in average wages. For example,

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Strength-Training Tips for Seniors

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Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Can lifting weights help with agerelated health problems? At age 70, I have diabetes, arthritis, and osteoporosis and recently read that strength training could improve my conditions. What can you tell me? – Looking for Help

develop a safe and effective routine you can continue on your own. To find one, ask your healthcare provider or contact a good health club or fitness facility in your area. You can also search for one online at reputable sites like the American Council on Exercise

Dear Looking, A growing body of research shows that strength-training exercises can have a profound impact on a person’s health as they age—and you’re never too old to start. Regular strength training, done at least two nonconsecutive days a week, helps you build muscle strength, increases your bone density, and improves your balance, coordination, and stamina. It can also help reduce the signs and symptoms of many chronic conditions like arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure, back pain, depression, and obesity. And some studies even show that it helps improve cognitive function too. Safety First For the most part, strengthtraining exercises—especially if you start conservatively and progress slowly—are safe for most seniors, even those with serious health conditions. But, if you have health concerns or if you are currently inactive, you should talk to your doctor about what may be appropriate for you. A good self-help resource to help you find an appropriate, safe exercise program is the “Exercise and Screening for You” tool at EASY (Exercise and Screening for You, www.easyforyou.info). Getting Started If you’ve never done strengthtraining exercises before, you may want to work with a personal trainer for a few sessions to help you

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(www.acefitness.org) or the IDEA Health & Fitness Association (www.ideafit.com). If personal training isn’t an option, there are lots of great senior strength-training videos you can purchase to guide you through a wide variety of exercises that you can do at home. Collage Video (www.collagevideo.com, (800) 8197111) sells dozens of age- and fitness-appropriate DVDs. Also see Go4Life (www.go4life.nia.nih.gov), a resource created by the National Institute on Aging that offers a free exercise DVD and guide that provides illustrated examples of exercises you can do at home to strengthen your body. You can order your free copies online or by calling (800) 222-2225.

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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori

Collecting Colored Glass Lori Verderame oda lime glass is basically colorless. Metals and oxides can be added to glass to change its color during the glassblowing, molding, or machineproduction process. The following additives make the distinctive colors:

• Red glass: selenium • Ruby/cranberry glass: copper or gold, depending on the concentration • Amber glass: sulfur, carbon, iron salts • Yellow-green or Vaseline glass: uranium • Yellow glass: cadmium sulfide • Yellow-brown glass: titanium • Dark-green glass: iron oxide and chromium • Green-blue glass: iron oxide • Turquoise glass: copper oxide • Blue glass: cobalt with potash • Purple or amethyst glass: manganese

• Violet glass: nickel • Black glass: nickel depending on the concentration • White glass: fluorspar or zinc oxide • Milk glass: tin oxide, arsenic, antimony Why are wine bottles green? Why are beer bottles brown? Why are medicine bottles blue? The answers to these questions speak volumes about American culture and design. For instance, bottles for wine and beer were typically dark in color, such as green or brown, in order to protect the wine or beer from the light that could change its taste. Dark-colored wine bottles also hide the unsightly sediment that accumulates

at the bottom of a wine bottle. Often used for powder jars and bedroom vanity pieces, purple or amethyst glass has a long history. Purple or amethyst glass was first used in ancient Egypt and is a popular collectible today. In many 19th-century and early 20th-century general stores and early pharmacy or apothecary shops, blue bottles lined the shelves. Blue bottle glass was inexpensive to make, which was of interest to those who were trying to attract customers to new potions, tonics, and medicinal products. The cobalt-blue bottles were attractive and became connected with signs of good health.

Ruby glass is associated with its additive, gold, making the collecting of ruby glass a high-society status symbol. Ruby glass is often featured in objects such as decanter sets, goblets, and vases. Milk glass was a Venetian invention, the site of a longstanding history of glassblowing and glassworks. Milk glass was commonly used for items at weddings, such as bride’s baskets to hold money for the newlyweds, since milk glass resembled porcelain. Color reveals a great deal about the chemistry and history of collecting glass. 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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Beyond the Battlefield

He Hobnobbed with the Rich and Famous Alvin S. Goodman Veteran profile of David Press continued from last month … Eddy Arnold in Harrisburg “I met country-and-western singer Eddy Arnold when he was just beginning his career as the ‘Tennessee Plowboy’ but had already made a few hit records. We kept in touch, and when he appeared in person at the State Farm Show, my wife, Sonny, and I had dinner with him that evening.” While recording at the RCA Studios in New York, Elvis Presley took a break and drove his white Cadillac to the Poconos. Press was asked to meet him there and was in his Caddy while Presley showed him the eight-track stereo tape cartridge player, which was just installed. “Later, my wife and I saw him on The Ed Sullivan Show.” Press met his manager, Col. Tom Parker, before he managed Presley. He

came to the Press had D&H arranged. Distributors’ “I met him new building in Stroudsburg, when it was where we had moved to its lunch. He present brought along location on his wife. After North lunch, we had Seventh Street a state police in Harrisburg. escort from Dave and Sonny Press had dinner with country-and“Elvis sent Stroudsburg to western singer Eddy Arnold, center, before he my two Scranton, performed in Harrisburg. daughters a where he was life-sized met by the stuffed camel from FAO Schwarz.” mayor at city hall and was given the key to the city.” Mario Lanza in Scranton From there, Lanza and Press went to a When Mario Lanza appeared for a hotel, where they had lunch with local performance in Scranton at the height of dignitaries. At the Globe Store, Lanza his career, he accepted a personal was escorted to the record department, appearance in the record department of located on the fifth floor, by a dozen the Globe Department Store, which police and firemen. Lanza told the crowd

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of about a thousand fans that if they would file in front of the counter in an orderly fashion, he would be happy to autograph any records or albums they had purchased. “At that point, the crowd surged forward, uprooted the counter, and I caught the cash register before it hit the floor. I told the police and firemen standing in awe nearby, ‘Let’s get him out of here.’ We formed a V and managed to get him back to his hotel room.” When he got there, Lanza said he would never do that again. “He took off his shirt and showed me where some women fans had actually scraped the skin off his chest through the clothes.” This incident made The New York Times and Time magazine, and Lanza kept his word: He never made another autograph signing like that again.

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“Mario they liked to eat expanded and drink, and opened having been two candy a truck driver stores named before being Chez discovered by Chocolat, Leopold one in Stokowski, Strawberry conductor of Square and the another in Philadelphia the Camp Symphony Hill Orchestra.” shopping Harry Belafonte, seated in center, pictured with He had mall. others (including Press, far right) after entertaining students and faculty at a Harrisburg Catholic just finished After high school assembly. making one another of his retirement, movies, The Student Prince. Press is working part time “Mario told me he had a for a candy and general weight problem and said merchandise broker. when you see the movie Press married Sondra you will see noticeable Goldman Oct. 16, 1966. differences in his weight.” They have four children and He said the movie studio six grandchildren. The sent him to Washington Presses enjoy playing tennis, state during the filming of golf, dancing, reading, the movie to work as a traveling, and spending time David Press today. lumberjack so that he with their grandchildren. could trim down. Editor’s Note: This concluding segment Harry Belafonte Entertains of the four-part series on David Press will High-School Students be the last one for freelance writer Al In 1957, Harry Belafonte was Goodman of Harrisburg. He has been appearing at The Forum in Harrisburg doing veterans’ profiles for 50plus Senior with dancers Marge and Gower News since 2001, and with his 81st Champion and actor James Whitmore. birthday coming up Feb. 3, has decided “I contacted Harry and asked him if to retire. he would make an appearance at a “It has been a tremendous pleasure Harrisburg Catholic high school writing these articles,” Goodman said. assembly. He agreed and spent about an “We commend all our servicemen and hour at the school, even having the nuns -women, past and present, living or join in singing ‘Day-O.’ I knew Harry deceased, in all branches of the armed was Catholic, and one of his college forces, plus those civilians in the roommates lived here.” Merchant Marine, for their service to our After 38 years of being associated with country during World War II, the the Harrisburg firm, Press retired. He Korean conflict, and Vietnam, in war and his wife then opened a record and and peace and ‘beyond the battlefield.’ video store in downtown Harrisburg’s Well done, thou good and faithful Strawberry Square. A few months later, servants!”

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Harrisburg Couple Marks 66 Years Kenneth L. Dietrich and Ruth Elizabeth Pannebaker Dietrich of Harrisburg celebrated their 66th wedding anniversary Dec. 13. They were married in Harrisburg in 1947. Mr. Dietrich is a retired World War II veteran. Mrs. Dietrich worked for the state of Pennsylvania for 20 years. They are the parents of three daughters: Janice Brown, Gillette, Pa.; Nancy Jo Dietrich, Harrisburg; and Patti Lynn Robert, Pottstown, Pa. They have five grandchildren.

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Traveltizers

Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel

The Gone with the Wind Trail Trail that leads people to five sites that are in some way connected to the book, the film, or the author. allow three days to explore the Our first trail stop is in Clayton Gone with the Wind Trail in and County, where Mitchell’s relatives near Atlanta, but it takes me only had a rural home. As a child, one to become a Windie. A Windie Mitchell visited often and listened is a die-hard GWTW fan, a person intently as her family elders told who is immersed in the history, stories about their experiences legends, and legacy surrounding the during the Civil War. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and Many of these tales were enormously popular film. A Tudor Revival mansion had been transformed into scenes in her novel, Some dream of Rhett; others subdivided into small apartments leading her heirs to dub Clayton dream of Scarlett’s fancy clothes or by the time Mitchell and her Gone with the Wind has earned husband moved in. 17-inch waist. As for me, I dream of One of the most popular County the “Official Home of Gone more money than any other publishing a novel that wins one of pieces in The Road to Tara with the Wind.” (To Mitchell’s movie in box-office history, Museum is a replica of the dismay, Selznick upgraded the the world’s most prestigious awards adjusted for inflation. “drapery dress,” worn by comfortable farmhouse of Mitchell’s and is turned into a film that earns Vivian Leigh. memory into Tara, a much grander me millions. mansion that he thought would On the surface, GWTW is the better appeal to movie audiences.) wildly romantic tale of Scarlett story of the American South during and overnight sensation. David Selznick The Road to Tara Museum has a O’Hara, a headstrong Southern belle produced the movie, which is the immediately after the Civil War, a time painting of the old farmhouse, in (played by Vivian Leigh in the movie) when an entire society was challenged highest-grossing film in box-office and her love-hate relationship with Rhett and ultimately transformed. history, earning an estimated $3.3 billion addition to authentic Civil War items and reproductions of many of the Butler, a dashing, successful opportunist in today’s dollars. The book, written by first-time costumes worn in the film, including the (depicted by Clark Gable). To capitalize on the public’s interest, novelist Margaret Mitchell, was released green “drapery dress” that Leigh wears in But on a deeper level, GWTW is the the state of Georgia created a GWTW to the public in 1936 and became an By Andrea Gross

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one of the movie’s items on display most memorable at the Marietta scenes. But it’s not GWTW until I see the Museum, Scarlett display of foreignon the Square, edition books that which holds a I begin to morph treasure-trove of from casual tourist photos and to possible ephemera. I Windie. examine the film The apartment where Mitchell lived when GWTW has contracts. Gable she began her novel has been reproduced been translated got $160,000 as accurately as possible in the into more than 40 plus a bonus that Margaret Mitchell House. languages and sold enabled him to in more than 50 divorce his wife countries, from and marry Carole Albania and Lombard, the Burma to North love of his real Korea and Serbia. life. Why are people all On the other over the world so hand, his co-star intrigued by a Vivian Leigh got story about a war a mere $30,000. that took place in Yes, Gable was a America so long mega-star, but ago? still, I can’t help We learn the but wonder what answer the next Mitchell, who day when we visit was quite the the Margaret feminist for her Mitchell House, time, thought of where the author that. Stately Oaks is an 1839 home in lived when she Finally, we Clayton County. Although it bears some began her novel. It double back to resemblance to Tara, the plantation takes only a few Atlanta to visit home depicted in the movie, it is minutes to see the Oakland much more elegant than the home small apartment Cemetery, where that Mitchell described in her book. but much longer Mitchell is buried to peruse the next to her exhibits in the husband. Her nearby hallway. tombstone is There, on a large small compared signboard, is a to many and quote by Margaret gives no hint of Mitchell: “If the her fame. It’s novel has a theme, simply inscribed it is that of with her married survival.” name, Margaret Why, of course. Mitchell Marsh. Windies from all over the world visit GWTW addresses Someone, a Margaret Mitchell’s grave, which is in a basic concern: If Windie no Oakland Cemetery. their old world is doubt, has “gone with the decorated the wind,” how do grave with pink people create a new one that will work in flowers, reputedly Mitchell’s favorite their new circumstances? This is a color. question asked by everyone who has ever I want to extend my stay in Georgia, suffered a hardship, be whatever the to delve more deeply into the GWTW cause. When seen in this light, it’s easy to phenomenon and to learn more about understand the story’s universal and the era in which the novel is set. But we enduring appeal. have a plane to catch, so I console myself Our next stop is Atlanta’s Public by remembering Scarlett’s words, Library, where there are more than 1,500 “Tomorrow is another day.” I’ll be back. of Mitchell’s personal items, including www.gwtwtrail.com her old Remington typewriter and 1937 Pulitzer Prize certificate. Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; We’re even more fascinated by the story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com). www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

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Book Review

Unpacking Memories: The Story of a Suitcase, a Country Doctor, & a Community By Deborah Sweaney

npacking Memories: The Story of a Suitcase, a Country Doctor, & a Community is the story of life in the 1950s in a tiny town in Missouri where Deborah Sweaney, her siblings, her mother, and her countrydoctor father lived. She was inspired to write Unpacking Memories when she opened an old, forgotten suitcase stored in her basement. It was filled with newspaper clippings, photographs, cards, and notes packed away in the summer of 1960. Frank Sweaney was a doctor in the rural community of Oregon, Mo. His welcome to town on the day he arrived was an office packed with patients. It remained that way until Doc Sweaney got sick and died. He made house calls late into the night and on weekends, took time to talk with and listen to his patients, and, as his daughter writes, believed that healthcare

was far more about care than about medicine. But he worked too hard, ignored his own health, and died a young man. Towns like Oregon, Mo., dotted the American landscape in the years following World War II. Unpacking Memories portrays life before the interstate highway system, strip malls, and technology changed America. The book returns the reader to a time and place that is no more, back to the days of black-and-white television, the March of Dimes, and doctors who administered care in place of drugs. Sweaney writes of a community that nurtured its youth through scouting, 4H, and county fairs. It was a world where kids had the freedom to run and play unsupervised—climbing trees, playing cowboys and dress-up, and creating their own games. Unpacking Memories is available from www.deborahsweaney.com and other

online sources and can be purchased at Whistlestop Bookshop at 129 W. High St. in Carlisle. About the Author Deborah Sweaney lives in Cumberland County. After residing in

Washington, D.C. for 30 years, she and her husband left the Washington area for Pennsylvania in 2006. She is a frequent lecturer at the Cumberland County Historical Society, a former adjunct instructor at Messiah College, and a consultant for National History Day.

Older Americans Forsaking ‘Until Death Do Us Part’ More older Americans are getting divorced. The divorce rate for Americans 50 and older has doubled since 1990, according to a Bowling Green University analysis of census data. The U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey tracks an upward trend as well: In the mid-20th century,

only 2.8 percent of Americans over age 50 were divorced, a figure that rose to 11.8 percent in 2000. By 2011, 15.4 percent were divorced, with another 2.1 percent separated. This makes 2011 the first time the number of divorced older Americans exceeded the number of widows and widowers (13.5 percent).

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The Beauty in Nature

Blue Spruces and American Hollies Clyde McMillan-Gamber aturing blue spruce and American holly trees have pyramidal forms, drooping limbs like half-collapsed umbrellas, and densely packed needles, or leaves, the year around. Blue spruces are native to the Rocky Mountains, and wild American hollies are barely established in southeastern Pennsylvania. But both species are commonly planted on local lawns, as elsewhere, because of their beauties, including shapes, evergreen leaves, and decorative cones on the spruces and strikingly red berries on the hollies. And both offer year-round shelter, and seasonal food, to the wildlife that add their beauties to those of the trees.

Heaps of snow push the limbs of those trees down tighter than normal. The snow and foliage together protect squirrels, hawks, owls, and small birds nestled under them from cold, winter winds and the keen vision of predators. Through that leaf and snow insulation, and their own fur or feathers, much body heat of those mammals and

birds is retained, keeping them warm. In winter, owls shelter in the spruces and hollies during the day, while redtailed hawks, Cooper’s hawks, mourning doves, dark-eyed juncos, American crows, blue jays, and other kinds of birds snuggle in them at night. Those trees are good nursery sites in early spring because their

evergreen foliage conceals eggs and young. The hawks also hide in those trees to ambush squirrels and birds. Squirrels, mice, and wintering American goldfinches, pine siskins, chickadees, and other bird species eat seeds in the spruce cones. The small birds cling to the cones to pull seeds from between the scales. Flocks of American robins, cedar waxwings, and other kinds of birds consume berries on the hollies during winter. And robins also do so in March when migrating north. Look closer at blue spruces and American hollies on lawns. You will enjoy the beauties of those trees and the animals that benefit from them.

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Through Jan. 18, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Photography Contest Display, Wildwood Park

Mohler Senior Center – (717) 533-2002, www.hersheyseniorcenter.com Jan. 20, noon – Soup Cook-off

Jan. 14, 7 to 8:30 p.m. – Peregrine Falcons – The Saga of Recovery, Wildwood Park Jan. 28, 7 to 8:30 p.m. – Small-mouth Bass and the Susquehanna River, Wildwood Park

Programs and Support Groups Free and open to the public. Jan. 14, 6 to 7 p.m. Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Graysonview Personal Care Community 150 Kempton Ave., Harrisburg (717) 561-8010

Jan. 21, 6 to 8 p.m. Electric Choice Public Forum HACC Midtown 2 Building, Room 204 1500 N. Third St., Harrisburg (717) 232-2937

Jan. 15, 1:30 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group on East Shore Jewish Home of Harrisburg 4004 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 441-8627

Jan. 22, 7 p.m. Piecemakers Quilt Guild of Middletown St. Peter’s Evangelical Lutheran Church Spring and Union streets, Middletown (717) 915-5555 gsk1308@gmail.com

Jan. 16, 1:30 p.m. Hershey Area AARP Meeting Spring Creek Church of the Brethren 335 E. Areba Ave., Hershey (717) 832-3282

Jan. 28, 6 p.m. Susquehanna Rovers Volksmarch Walking Club Gander Mountain 5005 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 991-5232

Rutherford House – (717) 564-5682, www.rutherfordhouse.org Mondays, 10 a.m. – Quilting Tuesdays and Fridays, 11 a.m. – Zumba Wednesdays, 9 a.m. – Computer Assistance Please contact your local center for scheduled activities.

Dauphin County Library Programs Elizabethville Area Library, 80 N. Market St., Elizabethville, (717) 362-9825 Jan. 2, 6:30 p.m. – Friends of the Elizabethville Library Meeting William H. & Marion C. Alexander Family Library, 200 W. Second St., Hummelstown, (717) 566-0949 Jan. 7, 6:30 p.m. – Novel Thoughts Book Club Jan. 14, 1 p.m. – Novel Thoughts, Too! Book Club

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Tinseltown Talks

Elly May Offers Up Some Vittles Nick Thomas

f ever an actor was recognized by one career role, it was Donna Douglas with her portrayal of Elly May in the highly popular CBS ’60s comedy The Beverly Hillbillies. In the four decades since the series ended its nine-season run in 1971, the drop-dead gorgeous blonde, a native of Pride, La., is still strongly identified with the show wherever she goes. Rather than distancing herself from the connection to Jed, Granny, Jethro, and the Clampett clam, Douglas has embraced her sitcom heritage and still makes public appearances as a real-life Southern belle. “Elly was a slice out of my life,” says Douglas, whose official website (www.donnadouglasofficialwebsite.com) was launched in 2012. “I was raised a tomboy, with one older brother and all male cousins. So I grew up swinging from vines and playing

The cast of The Beverly Hillbillies

The cover of Douglas’ cookbook, Southern Favorites with a Taste of Hollywood

softball. I was getting ready for Jethro long before we ever met! I still adore Elly and we have a lot in common, with the same interests and values.” After Hillbillies ended, Douglas was offered many roles but accepted just a handful that she felt wouldn’t compromise her standards. “I’ve got no regrets about anything I turned down. I sold real estate for a while, made a couple of record albums, and speak at churches, ladies groups, and schools around the country. My days are full and I’m very happy!” This year, she also published a nostalgic cookbook, Southern Favorites with a Taste of Hollywood, a collection of recipes gathered over the years, many from friends including Debbie Reynolds, Buddy Ebsen, Phyllis Diller, and Valerie Harper. “The cookbook came about as a way to share my favorite recipes,” said

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Public Vote Selects Book for 2014 Reading Campaign Representatives from libraries in Berks, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lancaster, Perry, and York counties recently announced the selection of The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan as the 2014 One Book, One Community selection. As part of the campaign’s 10th anniversary, organizers wanted to promote community involvement in the selection of the title, rather than handing over a single title for the 2014 campaign. A public vote in October selected a book from a narrowed-down list of three titles. The vote also established a new timeline for the community read project, which previously took place in the fall. The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan is a non-fiction book that tells the www.50plusSeniorNewsPA.com

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Douglas, who recalls Not a big fan of today’s homecooked meals television programming, prepared in the rich, Douglas says she likes to Southern tradition that watch the classics in many will also remember reruns, such as Touched by from their childhood. an Angel as well as the “Homemade dishes are occasional Hillbillies almost unheard of today,” episode, which brings she lamented. “They’re all back memories. premade in a box or from a “Elly may not have drive-thru. That’s today’s kissed many fellows Donna Douglas today way. But there was during the show’s run, something about the way but she sure did kiss a your mom made dishes with a special heap of animals. Somewhere around touch—with a bit of this and a pinch of 500 were used during the series, that.” provided by Hollywood animal trainer Although her own mother never used Frank Inn.” Granny’s “possum fat,” her childhood Today, she shows little sign of meals weren’t exactly lean. slowing down. “Lard and bacon grease, especially in “I seldom really rest,” admits the South, were cooking essentials!” Douglas, who turned 80 in September. Interspersed between the book’s “I travel all over the U.S. and Canada recipes are delightful personal anecdotes and have a very busy schedule. But I from her Hollywood days. have to turn down a lot of requests. I “I thought fans would enjoy a few also garden, spend time with family and remembrances from my life, along with friends, and still get quite a bit of fan some photos from my scrapbook.” mail. In an effort to remind readers of the “My days are full and then some, so long-lost art of good manners, there’s I’m always playing catch-up. Life has also a quaint section called “Hollywood been very good to me and full of Social Graces.” Advice includes never blessings for a little backwoods girl from using your fork as a toothpick, chewing Louisiana who never had any thoughts gum in someone else’s home, or of a career in showbiz.” answering a cell phone while a dinner Thomas’ features and columns have guest. appeared in more than 300 magazines and “Etiquette was taught in the South, newspapers, and he is the author of Raised but I’m afraid it’s a thing of the past now. Social graces are lacking all around by the Stars, published by McFarland. He can be reached at his blog: us, people are rushing all the time, and http://getnickt.blogspot.com no one sits and visits any longer.”

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and pillowcases. “I would sit and watch TV with a needle in my hand. I liked to do that even as a child. It was my time to relax. It was very calming,” she said. Creating tote bags gave her that same feeling, so she kept making them to give to family and friends. Because everyone loved the tote bags she made, her husband and daughter thought she could sell them. They brainstormed name ideas and came up with Totelly Unique. “No two tote bags I make are alike. I now make three different sizes: a small, purse-type tote; a medium-size tote that would carry a laptop; and a large one to carry more items,” Kolanko said. She sold her first tote bags to the store where she gets her glasses. “They said, ‘You should bring some in and people will buy them,’” she said. “The first time I walked away with being paid for something I made was really exciting.” The 58-year-old was a full-time physical therapist for VNA for 30 years before her mother needed her care. She now takes her Totelly Unique bags to area craft shows and would like to expand the territory she has attended.

“I enjoy embellish the meeting people totes, my best and making friend’s father contacts. It’s a passed away, and I really enjoyable wanted to make business.” something for her Besides using as a keepsake for “beautiful and her dad,” Kolanko unusual” said. “He was a placemats, pastor and had Several memorial tie pins made from neckties. Kolanko now many ties, and I adds handmade thought I could flowers and probably make other some lovely embellishments flowers out of his to her tote bags. ties. So I asked her “I’d sit at for some and night with my made her and her mom and make mom some flower flowers” for the brooches. tote bags, she “That brought Tie pins, also created from an oxford shirt. said. She’d make such joy to my a “poofy” flower heart that I began and put something in it like costume to do the same for family and friends, jewelry or a button. and it spread from there.” The tie flowers are 99.9 percent hand Then on other tote bags she’d just use sewn with only a tiny bead of hot glue jewelry, like retro pins, from old on the back that can’t be seen, she said. fashioned to contemporary. She also uses the tag that comes on the Kolanko also has added a side branch back of the tie, adding beauty to the to her business, Tie Flowers. “When I had begun making flowers to flower.

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“I try to make the back as beautiful as the front,” she said. Kolanko also makes flowers out of fabrics other than ties. “If a mom or grandma had a special dress or scarf, or even a tablecloth around which the family had dinner, I could make flowers from these,” she said. She has made pocket squares out of shirts for a man to remember his dad, hairclips using ties for little girls, and tote bags using pockets, buttons, and belt loops from a man’s jeans as pockets on the bag. It gives Kolanko the most pleasure when customers see a flower for the first time and tears come to their eyes, or when the tie is from a very special occasion. She recently worked on a tie flower pin from a tie that a man wore to his daughter’s wedding, and her mom gave it to her for Christmas. Also, in the future when she is able to travel, Kolanko would like to teach women in other countries to make tote bags and flowers to help them earn money. “A lady from Nicaragua likes to wear bright and colorful flowers in her hair, and she said she would like me to teach her to make them,” Kolanko said.

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Early Warning for Alzheimer’s: Peanut Butter? The sense of smell may be an important clue in a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease. Researchers at the University of Florida ran an experiment designed to test the ability of Alzheimer’s patients to detect odors, based on the fact that impaired smell is often one of the first effects of cognitive decline. The main ingredient in the test: peanut butter. The scientists capped subjects’ nostrils one at a time and observed the distance at which each participant could smell a teaspoon of peanut butter, which was used because

its odor doesn’t include any secondary effects like stinging or burning (as other smells generally do). They found that in patients who had been previously diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the left nostril’s sense of smell was significantly more impaired than the right. Control subjects who either didn’t suffer from cognitive decline, or who had different kinds of cognitive disability, didn’t exhibit the same discrepancy. The finding could serve as a vital early warning of Alzheimer’s, a disease that’s difficult to detect in its early stages.

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