Lancaster County 50plus LIFE March 2016

Complimentary | Lancaster County Edition | March 2016 • Vol. 22 No. 3

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Creativity in Later Years

By Dusty Reed As I listened to a friend share how she had adapted to changes in her life that did not match her earlier hopes and dreams, I was reminded of how this has happened in my life, as well.

I dreamed through several happy years of setting up a retreat where likeminded souls could come with a time set aside for stimulating discussions as well as ample time for quietude. I planned and practiced this concept each time we had house guests.

When we opted to move to a new geographical area, we chose a home suitable as a bed and breakfast and enjoyed nine years of preparing for and meeting guests from many parts of the United States and some from other countries, as well.

Life Now Retreat was in existence— partially. It did not contain the full structure I had envisioned, but it brought people to our home to enjoy their individual interests.

Later, upon semi-retirement, we moved to a smaller, alpine-type village (in the middle of Iowa!), with a lake and near a state park. We made friends within the community, but we no longer had accommodations to invite guests for overnight stays.

Our son quickly referred to this new home as our family retreat.

I now have my office for writing and, most importantly, making connection with others through the Internet. With my own site and the ability to communicate with others via email and other social media, I make contact with more people each month, sharing my Life Now philosophy— how to enjoy every moment to the fullest—than I could have ever reached with a geographical retreat.

Our home is our retreat center.

All have dreams of attaining a preferred lifestyle, a heartthrob, where solitude reigns, living simplistically,

pondering spiritual quests, being more sociable, delving into crafting, embracing a love of nature, being more attentive to personal health, appreciating and participating in fine arts, gaining a hold in the professional world, or traveling. Each dream is unique.

I often feel an obligation to myself to justify my time—to decide whether I put it to good use or not. Am I doing enough for others or am I being selfish with my time? Am I striving only to attain my goal without a balanced consideration of others?

One of the thrills of scheduling my activities is visualizing them with no waste of time. I make a daily list, doing certain projects on certain days.

If I let myself receive this type of renewal frequently, I can continue to find creative ways to feel I am making good use of my time.

What I have learned is the importance of holding a dream, not throwing it away, as the years slip by. Anyone can have this. As one modifies by expanding, trimming, bending, and fine-tuning his dream, it begins to transform into something real, something tangible that truly brings joy.

Do people know their heartthrob or have they pushed it back into the recesses of their minds, convincing themselves that it is not possible to attain this ideal way of living?

Self-talk may step to center stage, saying such things as, “You can’t afford to do that.” “This is too much of a risk.” “You are too old to pursue such a thing.”

What is each day of life if it does not include risk? Anyone can step out and take command of life. Each person can follow his heartthrob.

Commitment offers the key to attainment.

One can then look back and see how his dream has evolved, along with the circumstances in his life, to be “just right.” www.50plusLifePA.com

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

Coins & Currency Steinmetz Coins & Currency, Inc. 350 Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 299-1211 Dental Services American Dental Solutions 221 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster (717) 293-7822 Dental Health Associates 951 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster (717) 394-9231 Lancaster Denture Center 951 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster (717) 394-3773 Smoketown Family Dentistry 2433 C Old Philadelphia Pike Smoketown (717) 556-8239 Emergency Numbers Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110 Office of Aging (717) 299-7979 or (800) 801-3070 Employment Lancaster County Office of Aging (717) 299-7979 Entertainment Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre 510 Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 898-1900 Eye Care Services Campus Eye Center 2108 Harrisburg Pike, Suite 100 Lancaster (717) 544-3900 222 Willow Valley Lakes Drive Suite 1800, Willow Street (717) 464-4333 Financial Services Internal Revenue Service (717) 291-1994

Gastroenterology Regional Gastroenterology Associates of Lancaster (RGAL) 2104 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster 694 Good Drive, Suite 23, Lancaster 4140 Oregon Pike, Ephrata (717) 544-3400

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retirement Communities Colonial Lodge Community 2015 N. Reading Road, Denver (717) 336-5501

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Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services Hanover: (717) 630-0067 Lancaster: (717) 393-3450 York: (717) 751-2488 Home Improvement Bath Fitter/Kitchen Saver (877) 922-2250 Concrete Authority (717) 556-0077 Haldeman Mechanical Inc. 1148 Old Line Road, Manheim (717) 665-6910 Housing Marietta Senior Apartments 601 E. Market St., Marietta (717) 735-9590 Insurance Medicare (800) 633-4227 Medical Equipment & Supplies Hinkles Pharmacy 261 Locust St., Columbia (717) 684-2551

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Senior Move Management Armstrong Relocation Services 1074 E. Main St., Mount Joy (717) 492-4155 Transition Solutions for Seniors Rocky Welkowitz (717) 615-6507 Travel AAA Central Penn (717) 657-2244 Conestoga Tours (717) 569-1111 Passport Information (877) 487-2778 Veterans Services Lebanon VA Medical Center 1700 S. Lincoln Ave., Lebanon (717) 228-6000 or (800) 409-8771 Volunteer opportunities RSVP of Capital Region, Inc. (717) 847-1539

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Nick Thomas

From I Love Lucy and All in the Family to Married … with Children and Seinfeld, structuring a sitcom around four lead characters often proved a successful formula.

“It was the perfect format for The Honeymooners,” said Joyce Randolph, who starred as Trixie in the popular 1950s series based on two tenement-dwelling couples: the Kramdens and the Nortons.

As the sole surviving member of the original series cast—which included Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Audrey Meadows— Randolph, who turned 91 last year, continues to be identified with the show.

“I worked mostly in theater and early TV, but people still recognize me as Trixie,” said Randolph. “I’m amazed by the show’s longevity.”

The Honeymooners was originally a series of short sketches on the DuMont Network’s Cavalcade of Stars and later featured regularly on The Jackie Gleason Show at CBS. “I had done a breath mint commercial and got a call that Jackie wanted ‘that serious actor’ to audition for a skit called ‘The Honeymooners’ and to play the sewer worker’s wife,” recalled Randolph. “It didn’t pay much and my character was less developed than the other three, but I was happy to have a job.”

Gleason soon recognized that the chemistry between himself, Carney, Meadows, and Randolph had sitcom potential and expanded The Honeymooners into a half-hour series that ran initially for 39 episodes during 1955-1956.

The show was filmed with a live audience at the Adelphi Theater in Manhattan and generally without full rehearsals.

“Jackie hated to rehearse and

wanted shows to be spontaneous, so Art, Audrey, and I would go over the script together on Saturday mornings,” said Randolph. “Jackie ran everything and nobody told him what to do.

“He was extremely talented, and for a big guy was incredibly

Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, and Joyce Randolph in The Honeymooners on CBS.

Recent Joyce Randoph photo provided by Randoph’s son, Randy Charles.

light on his feet doing physical comedy. For one roller-skating skit, I went with Art and Audrey to practice at a roller-skating palace here in New York. But we never saw Jackie practice. He just came out on the skates and amazed us.”

Gleason, however, was not the most convivial of coworkers.

“Jackie was a very strange man, not overly friendly and very moody,” said Randolph. “He just never sat around and talked.

Audrey was very professional

and would have the whole script memorized. If Jackie forgot a line, she got him back on track.

“Art was quiet, and it was well known he had a long history of problems with alcohol, but was a wonderful and talented guy.”

And while fans like to imagine their sitcom stars from a favorite show palling around after hours, that wasn’t the case with The Honeymooners’ foursome.

“We just didn’t hang out,” said Randolph. “At 9 o’clock, when we finished filming, we all went our own way.”

Randolph continued in the role when it once again became part of a new Jackie Gleason show. But when Gleason moved to Florida and revived The Honeymooners in several TV movies and in another show from 1966-1970, Randolph wasn’t invited.

“Years later I saw Audrey, and she said Jackie had looked for me, but couldn’t find me,” Randolph recalled. “Well, that was a lot of nonsense. Jackie wanted to use his longtime friend Jane Kean to play Trixie, and that’s what he did.

“But that was fine with me because I wasn’t going to move from New York where my husband had his job, and I was happily raising my son.”

Today, when she ventures from her New York apartment of 55 years, Randolph happily greets devoted Honeymooners fans.

“Strangers still come up and want to hug and kiss me and tell me how much they love the show,” she said. “You learn to accept it, but it’s fun and people are nice. The show continues to influence my life.”

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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Sadie’s previous owner fell on hard times and surrendered her to the Lancaster County SPCA in January. Sadie is spayed, house-trained, and cratetrained.

She also knows several commands, including sit, stay, shake, and speak. This adorable dog learns quickly and is eager to please.

Sadie has previously lived with young children and larger dogs. However, while at the shelter, we’ve discovered that she does not care for cats or other small dogs and is selective about the large dogs she likes. Ideally, Sadie needs a cat-free home in which she is the only dog.

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Terri Schlichenmeyer

NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football

Three points! That’s all your team needs to win. Can they make it?

You’re doing your part: You’re wearing your lucky shirt and hat. A stuffed mascot is nearby, the team logo hangs on the wall, and you had coffee this morning in the official team mug.

You’re doing everything you can for a win but, as in the new book NFL Confidential by Johnny Anonymous, other forces are afield.

Johnny Anonymous came to football later than most boys.

Looking to fill a void after his mother died, he joined his high school team as a freshman. Neither he nor his father knew a thing about football, but Anonymous learned quickly, just as he learned that he had talent for the game.

“Back in high school, football was

fun,” he says, but in college, “it was a fulltime job.”

College ball was serious, both mentally and physically; it was also where Anonymous began to understand what football would do to his brain and body.

He suffered injuries playing college ball and he considered quitting, but going pro was a chance to “make a … ton of money.”

He was cut from his first pro team, through no fault of his own. He started

NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football

By Johnny Anonymous c. 2016, Dey St. 241 pages

as third-string at his second team and soon decided that standing on the sidelines was an easy way to make a living—but then his teammates started getting injured.

They were out.

Anonymous was in, at least for awhile.

He tried to bring fun back into the game.

He tried to remember that it was a game, “not World War III,” and he endured hassle from his coach and from fans.

He repeatedly lost, then found, the anger that made him good at playing offense, and he

ate constantly to maintain the weight the coaches unofficially said he had to have.

He hurt everywhere, often, until his teammates returned from their injuries and Anonymous stepped back because that’s what players do. “… This isn’t a fairytale,” he says.

“This isn’t a Hollywood story. This isn’t a happy ending.

“This is the NFL.” There’s a reason why author Johnny Anonymous has changed “names, timeline, details, the usual” in this book. “Go ahead, try” to figure out who he is. I’m sure the league would like to know, too, because NFL Confidential is TNT on paper.

But here’s the rub: It’s easy to wonder if Anonymous is hiding behind a pseudonym in order to embellish the truth—because this

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book is funny, very entertaining, and more than a little smart-alecky, readers may be tempted to dismiss his words.

It would be likewise easy to say that it’s just a profanity-laced, updated North Dallas Forty, until you consider that what Anonymous describes seems to be on display, to a greater or lesser degree, each August through February: injuries, mental abuse, domestic issues, substance abuse, and more.

So … truth? Or just a good story?

You’ll have your theories, but either way, I think you’ll love this book. For die-hard fans of the ol’ pigskin, NFL Confidential is a big win.

The Bookworm is Terri Schlichenmeyer.

Terri has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives on a hill in Wisconsin with two dogs and 14,000 books.

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5 Truly Effective Ways to Fight Cold and Flu Suzy Cohen

I think I am a real germaphobe because I get very conscious when someone sitting next to me starts coughing, especially when they don’t cover their mouth.

I’ll let the first one slide, but if it happens again, I am apt to leave or hand them a tissue. Cover it! Is it just me, or are you that way too?

If you feel like you’re coming down with something, here are five considerations: 1. Oil of oregano is a super-strong germ fighter—the essential oil of oregano sold at health-food stores and online in a little dropper bottle.

Pour one or two drops in your own “medicinal herb tea� (wink) and then drink it.

It will not taste pleasant. You will probably curse me. But it’s going to

help you.

Squeeze some lemon and honey into it.

The key ingredients in oregano are carvacrol and thymol, both of which inhibit the growth of hundreds of microorganisms.

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Some strains will even induce IL-10-producing regulatory T cells, which is a scientific way of saying they reduce inflammation and can help immune function as well as inflammatory disorders of the gut like painful Crohn’s.

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in my purse, you will find teabags of flavored green tea.

It is common for me to ask the waitress at a restaurant for a little cup of hot water “because I have my own medicinal herbs.”

My husband affectionately scolded me once, saying, “Do you realize we live in Colorado? She thinks your little ‘medicinal herbs’ are a different kind of ‘green’ tea!”

The EGCG in green tea was shown in numerous studies, including a 2005 “Antiviral Research” article, to

have antiviral effects by unraveling the viral membrane.

5. Vitamin D is a strong immune modulator and reduces susceptibility to all sorts of infections. Also, D controls the expression of more than 900 genes involved in hundreds of physiological functions.

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Culture Club President Helps Blend Central PA’s Melting Pot

By Lori Van Ingen Ukrainian-born Vlada Prymak moved to the United States more than 20 years ago looking for better opportunities for her young family.

Living in a democracy was very important to her, she said.

Prymak lived in Kyiv, only 30 miles from Chernobyl when it had its nuclear disaster in 1986.

“I saw so many terrible things happen. A lot were dead because of radiation and the aftermath of the tragedy … I wanted my life better than that.”

So after she had earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and engineering from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design, she and her husband moved to start their own American dream.

Prymak—who had been a straight-A student in an English boarding school as a young child— was fluent in Ukrainian, Russian, and English, but not in American English, so she pushed herself to learn American English from the time she arrived in the U.S. Prymak held numerous positions after arriving in this area; she was a manager for Estee Lauder Cosmetics and Lord & Taylor. She also worked at a Volvo dealership, getting great experiences interacting with affluent people, who know how to achieve.

“It opens your mind to what they do,” she said.

Prymak is now a certified licensed insurance professional and member of her local rotary club.

“The more you put into life, the more you get. Learn always and be

an example for others. If you just sit at the computer and look at someone else’s life, you will not get a better education or life,” she said.

The mother of two children, a 24-year-old son and a 14-yearold daughter, Prymak had gotten involved in the Swarthmore Parents Council when her son attended college there. But after he graduated, she wanted to do something to help her own community that she could be passionate about.

That something came along when she found World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania.

According to its website, the World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania strives “to foster education, understanding, and tolerance; to build a community that welcomes people of different cultures and

traditions; and to promote a shared humanity and a better society.”

The club—which formed in March 2001 as the Cultural Community Club and became a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization when it changed its name in 2009—presents free programs the first Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Penn State Hershey Medical Center.

Approximately 60 to 110 people attend each program to learn about traditions and culture.

Five years ago, Prymak and her daughter, then aged 10, did a presentation on the Ukraine for World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania. From that point on, then-president Diana CarelDiaz came alongside Prymak and mentored her.

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Prymak said. “She prepped me a long time to be more active (in the club).”

Prymak held several positions in the club, and little by little she became ready to take over as president when Carel-Diaz retired two years ago.

“All of the board members were supportive of me through the transition,” she said.

Celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, the World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania has been built on the traditions of “embracing diversity and overcoming intolerance, ignorance, and prejudice against other cultures, races, and traditions through educational programs,” Prymak said.

The Central Pennsylvania area—from Lancaster to Hershey, Harrisburg to Carlisle—is such a diverse place, she said.

“There is so much diversity in culture and countries. We want them to feel more welcome.”

The club initially began as a place where people from other countries could feel more comfortable and welcome and adjust to a new environment. But it evolved to become increasingly centered on the educational aspect of their programs to “help alleviate the tension and cultural divide among world communities,” according to its website.

The World Culture Club of Central Pennsylvania received the 2011 Penn State Hershey Milton S. Hershey Medical Center Community Service Award. And in May 2015, it received a certificate of appreciation from the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg as its founding institution.

In December, Prymak received the Diversity Champion Award for

2015 from the Campus Council on Diversity at Penn State Hershey Medical Center for her “outstanding efforts, passion, and dedication to diversity.”

“I’m not a shy girl, but I am humbled to receive such recognition,” Prymak said.

Among her duties as president, Prymak works with sponsors and donors of the club and does a lot of networking.

But she also spends a great deal of time trying to find great speakers for each meeting. She meets with potential speakers and listens to their presentations elsewhere to be sure she finds just the right speakers who would be interesting for the World Culture Club members to hear.

She doesn’t look for “boring college lectures” but presentations that are exciting, hold your attention, and open your mind.

Among the prominent speakers at the World Culture Club were Pennsylvania Secretary of State Pedro Cortes and Dr. Hector Ortiz, an assistant professor at Central Penn College.

But the speakers she is most proud of are two students who spent a year in Romania and Croatia as part of a study abroad program. Their presentation, “Youth Around the World: Realities and Possibilities,” was “stellar,” she said.

Prymak was excited about bringing in the younger generation and getting them involved.

“It all starts with the children,” she said. “By understanding others’ traditions and how others live their lives, we can better accept what differences there are ... and how to solve conflicts peacefully.”

For more information on the World Culture Club of Pennsylvania, visit www.worldcultureclubpa.org.

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Dear Savvy Senior, Can you help me calculate about how much my wife and I need to save for retirement? We are both in our late 50s and want to see where we stand.

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This Marine’s World War II Service Took Him 15,000 Miles through the Pacific

In the first 17 years of his life, Carrol G. Smith had scarcely been outside New Jersey, where he lived in Cranford.

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was when we anchored off the Admiralty Islands, and everyone piled off to get a beer or two at Duffy’s Tavern. I’ll never forget how wonderful that beer tasted after weeks at sea,” Smith adds.

“Our next stop and destination was the Palau Island group, where we assaulted Angaur, one of the islands of the group.”

How did that go?

Wagging his head slowly, Smith says, “It was a terrible experience.

I was 19 at the time and found out quickly that it made men out of boys.

Throughout the island, the Japanese had built pillboxes, bunkers, dugouts, and antitank trenches.

“Our battleship, Tennessee; four cruisers; and 40 Douglas SBD dive bombers had been thoroughly lambasting the island, but to conquer it took 36 days of fighting and blasting the Japanese from their caves with explosives, tanks, artillery, and flamethrowers.”

Smith says, “Two things about that ordeal that I’ll never forget were the first sight of tracer bullets coming at me … and nights in the jungle, before the island was secured, when we didn’t know where the [Japanese] were. We also learned to live with land crabs that were 6 to 8 inches in diameter.”

After Angaur, Smith was ordered to another anti-aircraft battalion

on Guam, where he learned that he had been accepted for the Merchant Marine Academy in King’s Point, N.Y. By that time, he had lost interest in that, however, and his next stop was to Saipan, where he trained for the dangerous job of shore observer.

Doing that, he would sneak ashore, hide, and observe where the big shells from the naval armada off shore were landing and then report by radio to the Navy ships the corrections they should make in azimuth or range.

After the atomic bombs were dropped and Japan surrendered, Smith sailed for Nagasaki, where he did occupation duty and had a chance to see the “total and absolute destruction” of the city caused by the atomic bomb.

A point system was set up to decide the order in which men would be brought home. Since Smith had been overseas for about 22 months, he was high on the list.

So he soon boarded a Liberty ship in Sasebo and sailed to San Diego. From there it was by train to Bainbridge, Md., where he was discharged as a sergeant on Jan. 7, 1946.

Summing up his wartime service, he now says simply, “It was the most tremendous experience of my life.”

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Support Groups Free and open to the public March 2, 7 to 8:15 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Willow Lakes Outpatient Center 212 Willow Valley Lakes Drive, Willow Street (717) 464-9365 March 14, 10 to 11 a.m.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Garden Spot Village Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6076 jmorton@gardenspotvillage.org March 16, 7 p.m.

Memory Loss Support Group Pleasant View Retirement Community The Gathering Place 544 N. Penryn Road, Manheim (717) 664-6641 March 17, noon Brain Tumor Support Group Lancaster General Health Campus Wellness Center 2100 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster (717) 626-2894

March 21, 2 p.m.

New Ways to Deliver Medications for Parkinson’s Disease Lancaster County Parkinson’s Support Group Landis Homes 1001 E. Oregon Road, Lititz (717) 509-5494 March 23, 6 to 8 p.m.

Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania Support Group Lancaster General Hospital – Stager Room 5 555 N. Duke St., Lancaster (800) 887-7165, ext. 104 March 28, 2 to 3 p.m.

Parkinson’s Support Group Garden Spot Village Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6259 jshaffer@gardenspotvillage.org If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.

Community Programs Free and open to the public March 2, 2 p.m.

Korean War Veterans Association Meeting Oak Leaf Manor North 2901 Harrisburg Pike, Landisville (717) 299-1990 pcunningham1841@verizon.net March 7, 6 p.m.

Red Rose Singles Meeting Hoss’s Steak & Sea House 100 W. Airport Road, Lititz (717) 406-6098

March 15, 2 to 3:30 p.m.

Dressing for the Photographer: Dating Old Photographs Willow Valley Genealogy Club Willow Valley Communities – Orr Auditorium 211 Willow Valley Square, Lancaster www.genealogyclubwv.com (717) 397-0439 March 18, 6 to 9 p.m.

Music Fridays Downtown Lancaster (717) 341-0028

March 12, 7:30 p.m.

Gettysburg College Choir in Concert Grace Lutheran Church 517 N. Queen St., Lancaster (717) 397-2748

March 24, 7 p.m.

Centerville AARP Chapter 4221 Meeting Centerville Middle School 865 Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 786-4714

Department of Parks and Recreation Pre-registration is required for these programs. All activities are held at the Environmental Center in Central Park unless otherwise noted. To register or to find out more about these activities or any additional scheduled activities, call (717) 295-2055 or visit www.lancastercountyparks.org.

Senior Center Activities Cocalico Senior Association – (717) 336-7489 March 14, 10 a.m. – “Is It Worth the Gamble?” with Maricelle Sheldon March 22, 10 a.m. – Outside Shopping at Dollar General March 30, 9:30 a.m. – Town Meeting Columbia Senior Center – (717) 684-4850 March 2, 10:15 a.m. – Senior Defense Class with Ernest Peterson March 9, 11 a.m. – The Benefits of Drinking Water March 24, 10:15 a.m. – Scavenger Hunt Elizabethtown Area Senior Center – (717) 367-7984 March 8, 10 a.m. – Bingo Buddies with Preschool Class March 10, 10:30 a.m. – ’50s Rock ’n’ Roll Party March 31, 10:30 a.m. – Trivia with Bob Lancaster House North Happy Hearts Club Senior Center – (717) 299-1278 Tuesdays, 1 p.m. – Varied Activities Thursdays, noon – Pinochle Lancaster Neighborhood Senior Center – (717) 299-3943 March 23, 10 a. m. – Haircuts and Manicures by Lancaster School of Cosmetology March 25, 9:30 a.m. – Yoga with Campus Mark March 31, 10:30 a.m. – When We Were Younger Lancaster Rec. Senior Center – (717) 392-2115, ext. 147 March 4, 9:30 a.m. – “Is It Worth the Gamble?” by Caremark March 7, 9:30 a.m. – Senior Exercise Class by Instructor Will March 24, 9:30 a.m. – Chi-Gung Class by Phyllis Kreider Lititz Senior Center – (717) 626-2800 March 10, 10 a.m. – Music and Dancing with Bill and Carol Lee March 24, 10 a.m. – Music and Dancing with Lost & Found March 31, 10 a.m. – Music and Dancing with Sandy Heisey Luis Munoz Marin Senior Center – (717) 295-7989 Every Day, 9 a.m. – Morning Exercise Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. – A rts and Crafts with Teresa Rivera March 2, 10 a.m. – Town Meeting Millersville Senior Center – (717) 871-9600 March 4, 10:30 a.m. – Music with Betty Simora March 9, 10 a. m. – Haircuts and Manicures by Lancaster School of Cosmetology March 14, 10:30 a.m. – Music with Sandy Heisey

Library Programs

Next Gen Senior Center – (717) 786-4770 Mondays and Fridays, 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. – Income Tax Preparation Tuesdays, 9:30 a.m. – Exercise with Vickie March 30, 10:30 a.m. – Trivia with Bob Reigh

Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, (717) 626-2255 March 10, 7 p.m. – Lancaster Civil War Roundtable: The Sinking of the Hunley March 19, 1:30 p.m. – Lititz Historical Foundation Program: Letterpress Printing March 23, 7 p.m. – Newspaper Basket Class

Rodney Park Happy Hearts Club Senior Center – (717) 393-7786 Tuesdays, noon – Pinochle Wednesdays, 1 p.m. – Varied Activities Thursdays, noon – Bingo

March 4, 7 to 9 p.m. – Star Watch by Astronomy Enthusiasts of Lancaster County

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Combating Colon Cancer

By Claire Yezbak Fadden It’s your first physical since you turned 50, and instead of wishing you a happy birthday, your doctor hands you a referral for a colonoscopy. Not the gift you had in mind, but quite possibility the best present you can give yourself.

Excluding skin cancers, colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer diagnosed in both men and women in the United States. It is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the United States, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), and is expected to cause about 49,190 deaths this year.

Most health experts consider colorectal cancer highly preventable, pointing to early detection and routine checkups to save lives. In fact, according to the ACS, the death rate from colorectal cancer has been dropping for more than 20 years. Doctors credit the decreased numbers, in part, to screenings that detect colorectal cancer at its earliest stages when it is easier to treat and possibly cure.

Evaluating the Risk “While discussing bowel movements and following through with an invasive procedure may be uncomfortable,” said Quan Ly, M.D., “finding colon cancers at an early stage often reduces the length, severity, and cost of cancer treatment.”

Ly, a surgical oncologist at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, acknowledges that the topic is difficult to broach because many people are uncomfortable talking about changes in their bowel movements, constipation, or diarrhea with their physician.

“It may take a patient some time to realize there is blood in their stool, if the initial amount is small,” said Ly. “There are some cases where a patient may not recognize the symptom or diagnose themselves as having hemorrhoids and purchase over-thecounter products as a treatment.”

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Get a colon cancer screening if:

March is Colon Cancer Awareness Month most important thing you can do to combat colorectal cancer is to be screened.

“And to follow through to make a colonoscopy appointment when one is recommended,” reminded Ly. A colonoscopy lets a doctor closely look at the inside of the entire colon and rectum by using a thin, flexible, hollow, lighted tube that has a tiny video camera on the end. The doctor is looking for polyps or signs of cancer. Polyps are small growths that, over time, can become cancer.

The exam itself takes about 30 minutes. This test is recommended once every 10 years. However, depending on your individual risk factors, your physician will determine how frequently you need to repeat it.

A sigmoidoscopy is similar to a colonoscopy; however, a doctor examines only the lower part of the colon and the rectum for signs of cancer or polyps. The scope used is about 2 feet long, enabling the doctor to see the entire rectum but less than half of the colon. This test takes between 10 and 20 minutes and is recommended once every five years, depending on your personal risk for colon cancer.

For individuals over the age of 50 with no symptoms and no family history of colon cancer, some doctors recommend using a fecal occult blood test (FOBT) screening kit. This is a non-invasive test, which can be done at home by collecting three stool samples on three different days. The test can detect blood in the stool and some cancers; however, it doesn’t typically notice any pre-cancerous cells that may be present.

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themselves at risk for this disease,” added Dr. Ece Mutlu, a boardcertified gastroenterologist in Chicago, Ill. “The truth is everyone is at risk. Some groups are just at a higher risk. Early detection and routine checkups for colon cancer can save lives.”

Just the Facts The most recent estimates for the number of colorectal cancer cases in the United States: • 93,090 new cases of colon cancer

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Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori

Tips for Home Decorating Lori Verderame

At my recent appraisal stage show in Tulsa, Okla., an audience member presented me with a six-page-long list of the tips that I had provided during my appraisal show.

I was a little taken aback by the volume of paper sheets filled with scribbled notes.

I was also pretty impressed by her interest and dedication to take down each smidgen of wisdom that I imparted as I appraised, critiqued, and evaluated objects brought to me.

I just didn’t know there was so much info to go around.

During my shows, I appraise objects and as they come to mind, using them to offer some tips about researching an object’s history, selling antiques, and museum-based preservation methods.

At that particular appraisal show,

I was talking with residential realtors and staging professionals. I discussed how to clean out a house and put money in your client’s pocket.

I talked about how staging a home for sale and integrating a clean design aesthetic can help make a home more livable as well as more marketable.

Whether you are trying to sell your home or just enjoying it for the long term, here are some of my favorite tips about managing your time and making your home warm and cozy.

Room by Room Don’t bite off more than you can chew. For instance, give yourself an entire afternoon to clean out the guest room. By contrast, you probably need to set aside an entire weekend to tackle the attic.

Remember that closets filled with

items always take longer than you think. Get organized, devote time to your project, and ask family and friends for help.

When it comes to collecting antiques, museum professionals like me always stick to categories and try to collect in categories.

If you are decorating using items that you already have and are in storage, try to group them by category. This will provide decorative groupings that are seasonably appropriate.

When you put these items away after the season passes, consider using plastic bags (for smaller items) and plastic tubs (for larger items).

Mark the bags or tubs by category, like toys and games, china, glass, etc.

It will make it much easier to find what you are looking for later.

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The Beauty in Nature

Birds in Plowed Fields Clyde McMillan-Gamber

One March afternoon last year as I was driving in local farmland, I spotted three white objects that moved in a freshly plowed field.

I stopped to look at them with 16-power binoculars and saw they were ring-billed gulls walking about and eating earthworms and other invertebrates turned up by a plow.

Flocks of ring-bills often drop into the furrows behind plows to grab earthworms and other little critters just turned up and vulnerable.

As I watched the gulls with my binoculars, several more of their kind landed on the bare soil to dine, and I noticed many sparrow-sized, brownhorned larks walking about and consuming seeds and bits of grain.

I could not have seen those camouflaged larks without my field glasses. Some of the male larks, with

their blackIn fact, only and-yellow face horned larks and killdeer patterns, sang plovers, relying their tinkling on blending songs from perches on clods into their environment, nest of soil. in such habitats, Suddenly those A ring-billed gull in flight. including barescores and scores ground fields. of larks took to But the adaptable crows and starlings the air, circled low in bounding flight probably only recently adjusted to over the lumpy ground, and landed again across the field like grain tossed open niches to obtain food.

I stopped at another newly plowed across the soil. field near the first one and saw While watching the feeding gulls six American robins, two eastern and larks, a few American crows and bluebirds, and a killdeer. The robins half a dozen starlings landed on the bare-ground field to eat grain and and killdeer trotted over the soil to get earthworms, but the bluebirds perched invertebrates. The gulls and larks have long been adapted to beaches, on cut-off cornstalks and mounds of mudflats, and other habitats with little soil to watch for tiny invertebrates in the air and on the ground. or no vegetation to get food.

And in still another newly plowed field, a male American kestrel—a small, peregrine falcon relative—was eating earthworms.

There are many plowed fields in southeastern Pennsylvania in March.

And every year I look for birds that take advantage of them to get food.

Migrant hordes of purple grackles and red-winged blackbirds can also be seen on bare ground feeding on whatever grains, seeds, and invertebrates are available.

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Pa. Couple Met Online Years Ago, Still Going Strong

Nearly every Friday for 15 years, I’ve published and emailed a newsletter called On Life and Love After 50. One of my longtime subscribers is Pat, who became a widow shortly after the newsletter started and lived in Shickshinny, Pa. In 2005, Pat sent me an email saying she had met a wonderful man named Len on a website called BikerKiss.com.

She wrote, “I had not heard of that website until a girlfriend, who had just bought a motorcycle, told me about it. I went on it as sort of a joke. Len is also from Pennsylvania; however, he lives 85 miles away.”

Pat stated that Len had not dated since his wife had died two years before. She had dated, but “not very successfully,” in the 3.5 years since she had lost her husband.

how 50 couples “Why was he had met later in on BikerKiss. com?” I asked. life and to give hope to singles She said, that finding a “Although he’s mate is possible. not a biker type, he has a Honda Pat and Len’s story had motorcycle.

After a few two important lessons: longdates, we knew distance there was relationships no turning back. Love Pat and Len in Lone Butte, British Columbia. can work, and is wonderful when people venture out of the second time around. We are like two their comfort zones, positive results can occur. kids—holding hands, laughing, motorcycling, and enjoying the From time to time, I follow up simple things.” with the couples featured in the book In 2009, I included Pat and Len’s to see how they are doing and to get story in How 50 Couples Found Love an update on their lives. Last month, I After 50, a book I wrote that revealed checked in with Pat and Len.

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She wrote, “Len and I are still together, into our 12th year now and still going strong. And we’re still riding. Since 2005, we’ve covered close to 175,000 miles across the U.S. and Canada.

“Our life as a couple is one of great contentment; we spend a lot of time together but we also do things apart from each other. I’m busy with volunteering at our library. And yoga takes up a few mornings each week.

“We both love music and go to many concerts; we have eclectic musical tastes, so there is always something new and fun to listen to.

“We are truly blessed,” Pat said.

“We found the right person at the right time, and life is good. The most important thing to me as I have

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Make checks payable to Lancaster County Office of Aging. Registration and payment can be delivered to the Lancaster County Office of the Aging at 150 N. Queen St, Lancaster or The Groffs Family Funeral Home & Cremation Services, Inc. at 528 W. Orange St, Lancaster from 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m., Mon.–Fri.

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