50plus LIFE Dauphin County July 2016

Complimentary | Dauphin County Edition | July 2016 • Vol. 18 No. 7

Dancing Boosts Body, Mind, and Soul page 4

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Is This Thing On?

6 Travel Tips for Smartphones Abby Stokes

Are you planning a trip out of the country this summer? Let’s talk about precautions you should take so you don’t come home to a smartphone bill that’ll ruin your vacation afterglow.

1. Call Your Cellphone Service Provider – Before traveling overseas, call the company you pay for your cellphone service and ask what packages they offer for international use.

Think about how you might use your phone (calling the U.S., calling within the country you’re visiting, texting, email …) and ask how each of those is billed under your provider’s international plan.

2. Turn Off Data Roaming – The moment you board the plane for your

international destination, go into the settings on your smartphone and turn off data roaming and the cellular data plan.

That’s the best way to prevent your phone from randomly using data to search for emails and texts throughout the day.

Better that you control specifically when the cellular data is used. You can turn the cellular data on and off as you need it so as not to exceed the plan you’ve chosen.

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You want to be careful when you’re outside of that Wi-Fi area. That’s when things can get pricey. Wi-Fi is a free zone where you can use almost all of the features of your phone without incurring additional charges.

The one exception is voice calling.

You may still be charged international fees for phone calls (in and out). You might have the option of turning on Wi-Fi calling, or better yet, use a service like Skype.

4. Skype Your Phone Calls – Skype is a free app that allows you to use your smartphone, tablet, or computer to call, text, or video chat internationally for free or at greatly reduced prices.

When you’re in a Wi-Fi area and communicating with another Skype user, your calls, video chats, or texts are free. Free!

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5. When in Doubt, Use Airplane Mode – If you arrive at your destination and can’t remember what your smartphone plan allows for, simply go to your settings and turn on airplane mode.

Airplane mode will stop all transmission to or from the phone.

So no emails, texts, phone calls, or visiting websites. No signal = no ugly phone bills. You can still take and view photos, read your notes, or listen

to any music saved on your phone.

Once back in the safety of a Wi-Fi area, you can turn off airplane mode and turn on Wi-Fi. 6. Document with Your Camera – Of course you’re going to take photos of everything you love about your visit. Why not also take a photo of your passport and

the back and front of your credit cards so you’ll have that information on your phone at all times?

When traveling, I even take a photo of my rental car and its license plate to make it easier to identify in a parking lot full of cars.

Remember that to put away your

smartphone for a day is a great vacation choice. Smell the roses, enjoy the sea breeze, and linger in a museum while your smartphone becomes your personal assistant taking all of your messages.

Bon voyage!

Abby Stokes, author of “Is This Thing On?” A Friendly Guide to Everything Digital for Newbies, Technophobes, and the Kicking & Screaming and its companion website, AskAbbyStokes.com, is the Johnny Appleseed of Technology, singlehandedly helping more than 300,000 people cross the digital divide.

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By Lori Van Ingen At age 65, Marian Condon wasn’t miserable or depressed, but she wasn’t joyous either.

She had been divorced for a number of years, but had a “wonderful job and good friends.”

Condon is an adjunct nursing professor and has two grown sons.

“I was not as happy as I could be,” Condon said. “It was not as much fun. It was like I was marching, not skipping, through life,” Condon said. “I could feel better if I exercised, but I hated exercise. I tried it all—running, lifting weights, machines, gyms, yoga studios. I was never a physical person.”

However, weighing over 200 pounds, Condon was a good 65 pounds overweight and the doctor was warning her about her blood pressure and blood sugar.

And as a registered nurse with a master’s degree in primary care from the University of Pennsylvania and a doctorate in adult education from Penn State, Condon knew she needed to make a “significant change in my life.”

Condon said she “felt bad being overweight. I was chubby by 11 years old. I went through the cycle of emotional eating, being ashamed of how I look [followed by] more eating,” she said.

It is very difficult to stay away from sweet foods when you are “addicted” to them, she said.

“I know as a nurse what an addiction is. You can become dependent on sugary foods.

They elevate your mood almost instantly. You eat chocolate cake and it makes you feel better physiologically. (It’s made with sugar and flour) and the glucose, or the sugar, triggers the release of endorphins and dopamine, which raise your mood instantly.”

That’s the mechanism behind emotional eating and few educated people know that it’s unhealthy, she said. A lot of women can relate to it.

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Marian Condon and Arthur Murray instructor Tim Hippert competing at the 2015 Harrisburg Area Showcase ballroom dance event.

“I know how difficult it is to control when you are 60, 70, 80 pounds overweight. You think it’s an impossible challenge. ‘So what if I give up? I’ll just die a few years early,’” Condon said.

That’s when one day in her email she found a Groupon coupon for a dance studio.

“My parents liked to jitterbug and took me with them. I loved it,” she said.

But Condon thought she couldn’t learn to dance because she didn’t have a partner. She contacted the dance studio anyway and was told it didn’t matter that she didn’t have a partner because one of the instructors would dance with her at their dance parties.

She decided to give it a try and “it changed my life, absolutely,” Condon said.

She learned ballroom dancing, which encompasses many smooth dances like the foxtrot, waltz, tango, Latin dances (rumba, merengue, cha-cha), swing, hustle, and country-western.

“There’s something for everyone,” she said.

Dancing is “so much fun. I felt happier. I went almost every night after work. I got into better shape and became more attracted to

exercise. I’d go to the park to walk, then jog. I bought weights ... ” She finally could fit into the “sparkly” dresses the dancers wore.

Condon had a new motivation, a joy in the music and the positive people around her laughing and joking as they danced. She felt happier and able to control her eating. She was able to stick to a healthy diet and she lost 65 pounds in a year.

“I’m five years out now and have not regained any weight.”

Most people, she said, regain the weight they have lost over time.

Condon loved dancing so much that she decided she would write a book about how dancing can help people lose weight.

For her book, Thinner, Fitter, Happier: Dancing Will Change Your Life!, Condon interviewed 40 dancers around the country: Some are teachers and some are students, but all said dancing changed their lives.

Dancing affects your mind, spirit, soul, and relationships.

“It’s the best-kept health secret,” Condon said.

Some of the benefits of dancing are that it’s an aerobic activity, you get a mental lift from the music, you are with people having fun, and you make new friends.

“You don’t talk about politics or religion. There’s no negative conversation on the dance floor.

It’s a very positive, upbeat, happy place to be,” Condon said.

“Research shows the people you hang around affect your mood.

Debbie Downers suck your energy, but you don’t find that at dance studios. Music uplifts your soul.

You learn to move in sync with another person and it reminds us of being rocked in the womb. It’s sublime.

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phenomenal for the brain.”

Condon said dancing is not only for the young, slim, and athletic.

“If you can walk, you can dance”—even at age 98, like one of Condon’s new friends at her dance studio.

“I took up dancing late in life,” said Condon, who is now 71. “I did a lot of research. Dancing confers more protection against dementia than any other activity.”

According to a 20-year longitudinal study on people in their 70s, dancing had the highest degree of protection for their cognition. It was higher than chess, board games, walking, golf, or tennis.

“While dancing, the aerobic exercise is pumping blood to the

brain, and it keeps you thinking where your body is in space, processing the music and processing where your partner’s body is located.

Dancing puts a demand on your brain and you form new neurons.”

Dancing also could fit into anyone’s budget. You don’t have to dance at a franchise studio. There are dance clubs around the area that are inexpensive because they rent their studios from fire halls, she said.

Thinner, Fitter, Happier: Dancing Will Change Your Life! is available through http://thinnerfitterhappier. drmariancondon.com and Amazon. com.

Condon also can be contacted on her Facebook page or on her website (www.doctormariancondon.com).

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How Medicare Handles Second Medical Opinions

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Does Medicare cover second medical opinions? The doctor I currently see thinks I need back surgery, but I would like to get some other treatment options before I proceed. What can you tell me?

– Searching Senior Dear Searching, Getting a second medical opinion from another doctor is a smart idea that may offer you a fresh perspective and additional options for treating your back condition so you can make a more informed decision.

Or, if the second doctor agrees with your current one, it can give you some reassurance.

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by calling Medicare at (800) 6334227. Or, if you’re enrolled in a Medicare Advantage plan, call or visit your plan’s website for a list of candidates.

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For Him, His Time in the Navy Was a Life-Changer Robert D. Wilcox

hated school, didn’t study, and who When George T. Heidig says, “The ran the streets with all the wrong kind Navy saved my life,” he doesn’t mean it saved him from death. He means it of people.”

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S.C., in 1957.

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accepted, because I for a 10-cent increase, missed my mother he impetuously joined and brother so the Navy in order to much, and this leave. touch of family At 18 he was on meant a lot to me.” his way to “boot At one point, camp” training at the that radar training U.S. Naval Training became very Center, Bainbridge, important, when the Navy base at Port Deposit, Maryland.

The USS Tills, the Navy destroyer the radarman 1st There, recruits escort on which George Heidig class became ill and served in the 1950s. were given a battery couldn’t make the of tests to determine cruise. The ship’s their educational and skill levels. And captain then questioned Heidig at with his spotty school experience, length before deciding Heidig could Heidig did not do well. All recruits well fill the berth, and the captain were then trained in ordnance and permitted the cruise to go on. gunnery, seamanship, firefighting, Although his Navy hitch was for physical training, and military drill. only two years, it gave Heidig the Upon graduation, Heidig was structure and discipline he needed to shipped to Charleston, South straighten out his life.

Carolina, where he was assigned to Leaving active duty in 1958 as a the destroyer escort USS Tills. She radarman 3rd class, he found that his high school would not accept him to made two-week training cruises to make up the high school years he had the Caribbean with naval reservists missed, so he used his G.I. Bill to get undertaking refresher and reserve training cruises, and she also used her his high school credits during two years at a trade school. radar to perform a host of tasks.

He then worked his way through Heidig fondly recalls the day when Millersville State College, earning a he was lingering near the “off-limits” B.A. in industrial arts. radar room, and the older radarman st He taught at a junior high school 1 class in charge invited him in and visited with him over a cup of coffee. for 30 years before he retired in “I don’t know exactly why he did 1988 and went to work for a funeral home. Since his retirement from their that,” Heidig says, “but he became support staff in 1996, he has kept in much like the father figure I never had. He invited me to come back shape by swimming, playing golf, and whenever I had time. And, over time, riding his bicycle. he taught me all about the radar …

Does he think often of his Navy days? doing navigation, recommending “All the time,” he says quietly. “It courses to avoid a collision course absolutely laid the solid foundation for with other ships, how to make emergency entrance to ports, spotting everything I did with my life.” subs, etc.

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Singer Toni Tennille’s Brush with Hollywood Nick Thomas

She put the “Tennille” in the popular ’70s music duo of the Captain and Tennille and enjoyed two huge No. 1 Billboard hits: “Love Will Keep Us Together” and “Do That to Me One More Time.”

But Toni Tennille also brushed shoulders with Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Born and raised in Montgomery, Alabama, Tennille recently left five decades of West Coast life behind her, as well as nearly 40 years of marriage to musical partner Daryl “the Captain” Dragon, and returned to the South.

“I’m now living just northeast of Orlando near my sister,” said Tennille, who released her April autobiography Toni Tennille: A Memoir, written with niece Caroline Tennille St. Clair (see www.tonitennille.net).

The Captain and Tennille in early years.

“It took two years to write and looks back at my childhood growing up in the segregated South,” she said.

After arriving in California in 1961, Tennille worked in repertory theater, wrote music, and eventually met and married musician Daryl Dragon.

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exploded onto the pop music scene in 1975, they were given their own primetime weekly TV variety show on ABC also called The Captain and Tennille.

Tennille says working with the weekly guests was a highlight.

“I was so excited about meeting all

those fabulous stars like George Burns and Bob Hope.”

A reoccurring skit throughout the series was Masterjoke Theater, where a guest would perform a short monologue and close by tossing a pie in his own face.

“Big stars like Vincent Price, Raymond Burr, Bob Hope, and Tony Randall were all game to be silly.”

The show, however, only lasted one season. But with her cheerful and engaging personality, Tennille was back on television again in 1980 starring in her own program, The Toni Tennille Show, a nationally syndicated series featuring musical numbers and her interviews with special guests.

She also drew on advice her mother had offered years before.

“She once told me: ‘Toni, always be really nice to your lighting guys,

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Toni Tennille today with niece and book co-author Caroline Tennille St. Clair.

because they can make you look like an old hag if they want!’ So that’s what I did.”

The show only lasted a year, too, but the parade of stars was once again stellar and included Ginger Rogers, Ernest Borgnine, and Charlton Heston. However, one of her most memorable encounters occurred offscreen at Dodger Stadium in 1978.

“I used to sing the national anthem there,” she recalled. “I was sitting at a table during one of the events and a man came up to me and said, ‘Miss Tennille, I’m Cary Grant. I just wanted to tell you that I have never heard the national anthem sung more beautifully.’

“Wow, such high praise from Cary Grant. And I found it so endearing that he felt the need to introduce himself to me!”

Her glitzy entertainment career now in the distant past, Tennille, 75, says she found the perfect house

Tennille and Dragon with George Burns on The Captain and Tennille Show.

last summer after moving to Florida and easily slipped back into Southern living.

But her decision to divorce Dragon in 2014 took many fans by surprise, as the duo was publicly perceived as a devoted couple performing their string of love songs for years.

However, says Tennille, throughout the marriage there were problems that became overwhelming, so it was time to move on.

“We were not the lovebirds that the public saw,” she said. “We still talk regularly and care for each other. But my message for people who are in a bad relationship is to get all the help you can to remove yourself from the situation. We all deserve happiness.”

Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns, and interviews for more than 600 magazines and newspapers. Follow @TinseltownTalks

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Exercise, Education, and Entertainment Enliven 50plus EXPO

By Sam Peeples Hershey offered more than chocolate on May 31 as the Hershey Lodge welcomed the 17th annual Dauphin County 50plus EXPO. Seniors from Dauphin and surrounding counties were invited to partake in booths, demonstrations, seminars, and health examinations. This year’s expo included guests from all over Dauphin County and even beyond. “[Gean] invited me; I had never been to an EXPO before,” said Marilyn Ostermayer, of Harrisburg.

“I’m loving it, absolutely loving it.”

Her friend, Gean Martell, had first heard about the EXPO through a poster at the Friendship Senior Center.

“I’ve been here several times and I love it,” Martell said. “I come every year.”

A big draw for many of the guests is the array of free health screenings offered by various organizations throughout Pennsylvania, such as Central Penn College, Madden Physical Therapy, and the Orthopedic Institute of Pennsylvania. Attendees could receive screenings for blood pressure, glucose, spinal arthritis, bone density, and hearing. “[The health screenings] are always good because they’re free.

You might not be paying as much attention to these things as you should,” said Patricia Stringer,

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another attendee from Harrisburg.

“You should always concentrate on your health. It’s good that they include that in the EXPO.” Not all attendees arrive for a specific reason, however. Some merely happen to be in the area or visit out of general curiosity. “[I came] just to participate, to see what they have,” said Edward Rogowicz, a Hershey local and visitor to several EXPOs in the past.

In addition to the booths filling the conference hall, a small stage hosted a variety of demonstrations and seminars.

Jerry Mitchell, an education and outreach specialist from the Office of the Attorney General, discussed the scams most commonly used to trick seniors, such as false sweepstakes, lying charities, and attempts at identity theft. He emphasized the need for proper skepticism and research whenever asked for money or personal information.

At least one attendee found Mitchell’s words informative.

Patricia Stringer referred to it as a highlight of the EXPO. “I like the seminars,” Stringer said. “The Attorney General’s seminar on scams, identity theft, power of attorney, and how [people] try to rip you off, I think it’s very informative.”

Other demonstrations included a presentation by Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre cast members

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singing songs from their upcoming productions such as Anything Goes, The Phantom of the Opera, and Million Dollar Quartet.

Messiah Lifeways led the audience in an exercise routine that can be done seated or standing as a way to get seniors active and moving. The series of stretches set to music can be done with nothing more than a small ball or balloon.

Christopher & Banks Outlet turned the stage into a runway, showing off their new lines for the summer season.

Kraig Herman, Christine Williams, and Scott Steffen from the office of the State Fire Commissioner warned about the dangers of both fire and falls. They discussed the need for regularly tested smoke alarms on every floor

and in every bedroom, making an escape plan based around your own abilities, and how to properly describe the situation to the dispatcher.

They also expressed the importance of proper exercise to improve balance and hand-eye coordination in preventing injury from falls.

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Dear Pharmacist

Suzy Cohen

Which Should You Take, Advil or Tylenol?

When you’re in pain, what do you reach for, Tylenol or Advil?

What about fever or body aches from the flu?

How about if your precious grandbaby is teething or gets an earache—which do you give?

These are questions that you might be asking yourself today, and I’m going to help you.

There are some primary differences between these two medications, both blockbusters sold worldwide under various brand names. The ingredients themselves are included in thousands of multitasking formulas.

If you read labels, you’ll see the generic names as follows:

away from Tylenol because it could exacerbate the liver damage caused by the alcohol.

Ibuprofen is a drug mugger of folate, whereas acetaminophen is a drug mugger of glutathione.

If you run out of folate, you could develop high homocysteine (increases risk of heart disease), cervical dysplasia, depression, chronic diarrhea, gray hair, and mouth sores.

If you run low on glutathione, fatigue, general pain, and liver problems occur.

There are dozens of other symptoms that I don’t have space to list, and also, these depletions take time. You don’t run out of the nutrients with normal dosages, taken Tylenol = acetaminophen properly for a short term.

Advil, Motrin = ibuprofen Don’t live in pain because you are worried about this; just keep it Fever – You can use either one in mind if you take them every day. unless you’re giving it to a baby Supplement with what the drug less than 6 months old. Babies less mugger stole. than 6 months old should be given Do you take blood thinners acetaminophen (Tylenol). (warfarin) or anticoagulant medications? You’re better off with Pain – I’d choose ibuprofen because acetaminophen in this case because it directly reduces some pain-causing ibuprofen can further thin the blood. cytokines, whereas acetaminophen Heart disease or hypertension? impacts the way you feel pain, You’re better off with acetaminophen. essentially “numbing” you to the A recent study suggests taking sensation. No one is 100 percent sure acetaminophen affects your ability to how it works; we just have clues. We empathize with someone else during know it works, though. their own physical or emotional pain.

If you have severe pain, it’s Does ibuprofen blunt your sometimes recommended to emotional reactions too? While alternate between ibuprofen and no study ever tested ibuprofen, I acetaminophen every few hours. Back personally think it does. Whenever pain and osteoarthritis respond better you reduce your own ability to feel to ibuprofen, according to the British pain, it’s certainly harder to feel pain Medical Journal. for another.

Finally, you may be concerned PMS or cramps – Definitely about addiction, so let me reassure ibuprofen for this; it is a stronger anti- you, both medications are completely inflammatory. Just FYI, a combination safe in this regard. of B complex and magnesium may help mood swings, water retention, This information is not intended to tearfulness, and cramps. diagnose, prevent, or treat your disease.

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Calendar of Events

Dauphin County

Support Groups Free and open to the public

Senior Center Activities

Mondays, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Grief Support Group Mohler Senior Center 25 Hope Drive, Hershey (717) 732-1000

July 20, 1:30 p.m.

Parkinson’s Support Group on East Shore Jewish Home of Harrisburg 4004 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 441-8627

July 6 and 20, 7 to 8:30 p.m.

ANAD Eating Disorders Support Group PinnacleHealth Polyclinic Landis Building, Sixth Floor, Classroom 1 2501 N. Third St., Harrisburg (717) 712-9535

July 21, 6 to 8 p.m.

Harrisburg Area Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver Support Group Giant Food Stores – Second Floor 2300 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 580-7772

Mohler Senior Center – (717) 533-2002 www.hersheyseniorcenter.com July 15, 11 a.m. – Movies and Munchies at Mohler July 25, noon – Christmas in July Potluck Luncheon July 28, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Ice Cream Social

July 12, 6 to 7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Greenfield Senior Living at Graysonview 150 Kempton Ave., Harrisburg (717) 561-8010

July 27, 7 to 8 p.m.

Connections Support Group: Families of Memory Impaired Ecumenical Retirement Community Building 3, Second Floor 3525 Canby St., Harrisburg (717) 561-2590

July 13, 6 to 7 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Emeritus at Harrisburg 3560 N. Progress Ave., Harrisburg (717) 671-4700 July 18, 6:30 p.m.

Support Group for Families of Those with MemoryRelated Illnesses Frey Village 1020 N. Union St., Middletown (717) 930-1218

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Community Programs Free and open to the public July 6, 7 p.m.

World Culture Club of Central PA Meeting Penn State Hershey Medical Center Fifth Floor, Lecture Room B 500 University Drive, Hershey www.worldcultureclubpa.org

July 26, 6 p.m.

Susquehanna Rovers Volksmarch Walking Club Bass Pro Shop – Hunt Room Harrisburg Mall 3501 Paxton St., Harrisburg (717) 805-9540

July 7, 7 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania World War II Roundtable Meeting Grace United Methodist Church 433 E. Main St., Hummelstown (717) 503-2862 charlie.centralpaww2rt@gmail.com www.centralpaww2roundtable.org

July 27, 7 p.m.

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

July 14, 7:30 p.m.

Central Pennsylvania Vietnam Roundtable Meeting Vietnam Veterans of America, Michael Novosel MOH Chapter 542 8000 Derry St., Harrisburg (717) 545-2336 centralpavietnamrt@verizon.net www.centralpavietnamroundtable.org

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Rutherford House – (717) 564-5682 www.rutherfordcenter.org Mondays, 10 a.m. – Line Dancing Tuesdays, noon – Circuit Exercise with Personal Training Fridays, 11 a.m. – Chair Yoga Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or visit their website for more information.

PARKS & RECREATION July 3, 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Beginner’s Yoga and Walk, Wildwood Park July 10, 10:30 a.m . to noon – Flower Walk: Still More Blooms, Wildwood Park July 10, 6 to 8 p.m. – Sunday Evening Bird Walk, Wildwood Park

Library Programs East Shore Area Library, 4501 Ethel St., Harrisburg, (717) 652-9380 July 26, 9:30 a.m. – Friends of the East Shore Area Library Meeting Elizabethville Area Library, 80 N. Market St., Elizabethville, (717) 362-9825 July 7, 6:30 p.m. – Friends of Elizabethville Area Library Meeting July 12, 6:30 p.m. – History of Elizabethville: Lively Minds Workshop July 14, 6 p.m. – Thursday Theater Harrisburg Downtown Library, 101 Walnut St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-4976 Johnson Memorial Library, 799 E. Center St., Millersburg, (717) 692-2658 Kline Branch, 530 S. 29th St., Harrisburg (717) 234-3934 William H. & Marion C. Alexander Family Library, 200 W. Second St., Hummelstown, (717) 566-0949 July 5, 6:30 p.m. – Novel Thoughts Book Club July 12, 6 p.m. – Friends of the Alexander Family Library Meeting July 13, 6 p.m. – Second Wednesday Cinema www.50plusLifePA.com

As I’ve gotten older, I’ve been sleeping less. I’m now waking up at 4:30 in the morning.

There’re a lot of scientific explanations for this, but I like to think it’s because I want to boldly face the world and can’t wait to get started each morning (it may also be because I have to go to the bathroom).

The question is, what should I do with myself in these early-morning hours?

Just recently I’ve read a few articles saying that before you die, you should achieve what you really want to achieve. That’s a lot of pressure. I mean, why can’t we just be happy with what we’ve already done?!

However, since I am getting up at 4:30, I decided to use these early hours to accomplish my real goal in life.

I just have to figure out what that is. Here are a few things I’ve tried in my attempt to leave my mark on the world:

American novel. I then decided that it didn’t have to be that great; there’s nothing wrong with a mediocre novel.

I then decided that a novel is a lot of words—maybe it should be a novella. After another week I decided I should write a short story.

I now have decided to write the great American letter to the editor.

I’m still working on it.

Write the great American novel – For a week I awoke at 4:30 and faced the blank page of my great

Do something heroic – I would love to be a hero. I could go to

Invent something – I figured I just had to identify a need and fill it. In the early-morning hours I walked around the house barefoot and noticed that my feet were picking up dust and crumbs—my feet were like human Swiffers.

Greatness awaited me—I just needed to invent something that would do a better job of cleaning.

I designed, I sketched, I edited, I redesigned, and then after several days of perfecting my work, I looked at my drawings and realized I had invented … the broom.

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REPLACEMENT from page 7 plus the District of Columbia, where this option is initially available.

Throughout 2016, the agency will continue to expand the service option to other states and plans to offer this to half of the nation’s population by the end of the year.

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U.S. citizens age 18 or older and who are residents of Pennsylvania can obtain a replacement SSN card online by creating a my Social Security account. They must also have a U.S. domestic mailing address, not require a change to their record (such as a name change), and have a valid driver’s license. my Social Security is a secure online hub for doing business with

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In addition to Pennsylvania residents replacing their SSN card through the portal, current Social Security beneficiaries can manage their account—change an address, adjust direct deposit, obtain a benefit verification letter, or request a replacement SSA-1099.

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nervous (and a cramp in my leg), and went home.

Write a song – 4:30 a.m. is a good time to write the lyrics of a hit song that would pave my way to greatness.

By 6 a.m. I had written, “me and you, you and me.”

By 7 a.m. I had written, “me and you, you and me, we is we.”

By 8 a.m. I had decided to give up

on writing a song.

a replacement Medicare card without waiting for a replacement form in the mail. Account holders still in the workforce can verify their earnings and obtain estimates of future benefits.

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I got dressed at 5 a.m. and, with my trusty flashlight in hand, started to patrol the neighborhood. Maybe I’d see a coyote and rescue a small dog or kitten.

I walked about a block, got a little

Run for political office – In the early-morning hours, I hatched my plan. I would run for the mayor of my small city, and then after one successful term I would run for president. It was a very exciting plan and I would certainly be doing something important with my life.

However, I then looked at the map

on my wall and realized I couldn’t locate Pakistan, Afghanistan, Syria, or Utah. I decided I wasn’t qualified to be president. Now if only some of the other candidates would also come to that conclusion.

I have now decided to concentrate all of my efforts on a way to sleep later so I won’t have to go through this craziness.

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• Sorting out pain medication for the week • In one single traffic jam on the way to the doctor’s office • Picking out a walking cane • NOT playing with your kids or grandchildren • NOT playing the sports you used to enjoy Here’s how you COULD spend that time, after you spend one hour at our Back Pain and Sciatica Workshop: • Walking along a sunny beach • Running errands pain-free • Taking your spouse out on a spontaneous date • Impressing your boss on the golf course • Lifting weights, jogging, and keeping your physical health in check • Playing on the floor with your grandkids Here at Madden Physical Therapy, our expert team of physical therapists have successfully treated HUNDREDS of patients with back pain and sciatica, all of whom let their back pain ruin their lives by slowing down and moving less, making their back pain WORSE, and triggering many other health problems a sedentary lifestyle brings.

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The Way I See It

Another One Gone?

Mike Clark

The character in Larkin’s poem is a bicycle traveler who stops at one of the archaic churches that dot the bucolic English countryside.

Attendance at these churches is dwindling, as it is here.

The tone of the poem is reflective and a bit melancholy.

Although the traveler lacks strength of conviction regarding his personal faith, he laments the emptiness and deterioration of what he calls a serious house on serious earth.

The tentative and indifferent visitor enters the church after he determines the place is inactive; he peruses the surroundings and surveys the contents. From all appearances, this could be any one of a number of forlorn holy structures that were once filled to capacity with the faithful.

The traveler is acutely aware of the present stillness but is also aware that a caretaker or worshippers have recently been there.

Mats, seats, books, and the organ are neatly in their proper place, offering a sense of hope, but the fading flowers reveal the subtle truth of the “tense, musty, unignorable silence.”

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There’s a church for sale in a town near here. It has been there as a Sunday school since 1897. The present structure has been there since 1937.

It’s a beautiful building, with all the traditional stained-glass windows, bronze plaques, and wooden pews that have been burnished to a glassy smoothness over the years by wool suits, cotton dresses, and the restless limbs of small children.

I am concerned when churches go up for sale. I worry that they will be converted to secular use when they are sold. It happens. I’ve visited a few of these altered structures on candlelight tours and other occasions. Instead of being uplifting and spiritual, they were eerie and devoid of atmosphere, in spite of the creative use of space and contemporary décor.

Americans used to be some of the most churchgoing people in the world. That has changed in recent years, though. There is a growing number of people who, although they say they are spiritual and believe in God, are not members of any particular church.

Consequently, many churches are struggling to meet financial obligations through tithing. That is what is happening to this church.

The notion of the declining church reminds me of a poem by English poet Philip Larkin called “Church Going.”

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every structure—the stones will crumble and fall, and the wood will rot away as they become “a shape less recognizable each week, with a purpose more obscure.”

There will be those who remember why these sacred places existed. They will take their children in the hope that just the touch of a single stone will steel them against harm; the sick, out of desperation, will still seek relief; and those in grief will look for some sort of resurrection of familial souls.

And finally, when faith and superstition are no longer a compelling force, the earth will reclaim the elements of each structure, altar by altar and stone by stone.

The traveler finds solace and feels the spiritual power of this holy ground.

“It pleases me to stand here,” he says.

And if, in all his cynicism, he still feels the power of this place, then the truly faithful must remain vigilant in preserving the church—not just for themselves, but especially for those in doubt.

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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The traveler wanders about the church and ponders the whole experience. Before leaving, he chucks a worthless coin in the offering plate and determines the place wasn’t worth the stop.

In spite of his disdain, the traveler always stops at these places, never certain of what he is seeking. Of course, like all of us, he is looking for existential answers. And if the answers are in these holy places, what will we do when they are gone?

We can only imagine.

Will these marvelous structures, devoid of their spiritual essence, be relegated to nothing more than pastoral scenery? Will architects and preservationists go about their routine business of interpretation, uninterrupted by those who once sought the grace that could be found there?

And will all the books of instruction, Bibles, collection plates, and holy vessels lie with other relics at a museum somewhere while the curious guess at their former purpose and value?

As time passes, the elements of weather, human neglect, and vandalism will take their toll on

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