50plus LIFE Lancaster County July 2016

Complimentary | Lancaster County Edition | July 2016 • Vol. 22 No. 7

Dancing Boosts Body, Mind, and Soul page 4

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Book review: POLITICAL SUICIDE page 17

Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori

The Art of Storing China and Heirlooms Lori Verderame

If you have your heirloom china, crystal, porcelain, and knickknacks in a lighted china closet or display case with lamps inside, don’t position your collectibles too close to the lamps.

Once, during an in-home appraisal service call, I had to break some bad news to a Waterford crystal collector who had her entire collection on display in just such a cabinet. She told me that every Sunday she turned on the lights inside that cabinet so her dinner guests could admire her lovely collection.

Well, I found all of the damage that they were admiring. Every one of those Waterford pieces on the top shelf, the ones closest to the lights, were cracked from the heat trapped in that glass display cabinet.

My client had been unknowingly damaging her crystal with a weekly

Circa 1930s ceramic Mickey Mouse child’s tea set in original box.

dose of high-intensity heat.

And, like the hot china cabinet,

another poor locale for storing your art or antiques is the attic, where

temperature and humidity changes take place as often as the seasons change.

The basement has all the room in the world for the storage of your treasures, like china and crystal, yet it is usually too damp to store those precious pieces.

Now that you know where not to store your stuff, here’s a tip on how to store it. No cardboard boxes.

That’s right, no cardboard boxes.

They attract bugs, are high in acid content, and will stain your ceramics, photographs, and works on paper.

Cardboard boxes will soak up any water like a sponge. Water means moisture, moisture means mold, and then we have a recipe for disaster.

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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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Dear Pharmacist

Which Should You Take, Advil or Tylenol?

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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: Tylenol = acetaminophen Advil, Motrin = ibuprofen

Fever – You can use either one unless you’re giving it to a baby less than 6 months old.

Babies less than 6 months old should be given acetaminophen (Tylenol).

Pain – I’d choose ibuprofen because it directly reduces some pain-causing cytokines, whereas acetaminophen impacts the way you feel pain, essentially “numbing” you to the sensation. No one is 100 percent sure how it works; we just have clues. We know it works, though.

If you have severe pain, it’s

sometimes recommended to alternate between ibuprofen and acetaminophen every few hours.

Back pain and osteoarthritis respond better to ibuprofen, according to the British Medical Journal.

PMS or cramps – Definitely ibuprofen for this; it is a stronger anti-inflammatory. Just FYI, a combination of B complex and magnesium may help mood swings, water retention, tearfulness, and cramps.

If you are normally a wine drinker

at dinner, or you drink alcohol, stay 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 properly for a short term.

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Supplement with what the drug mugger stole.

Do you take blood thinners (warfarin) or anticoagulant medications? You’re better off with acetaminophen in this case because ibuprofen can further thin the blood.

Heart disease or hypertension?

You’re better off with acetaminophen.

A recent study suggests taking acetaminophen affects your ability to empathize with someone else during their own physical or emotional pain.

Does ibuprofen blunt your

emotional reactions too? While no study ever tested ibuprofen, I personally think it does. Whenever you reduce your own ability to feel pain, it’s certainly harder to feel pain for another.

Finally, you may be concerned about addiction, so let me reassure you, both medications are completely safe in this regard.

This information is not intended to diagnose, prevent, or treat your disease.

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Just because it came in a cardboard box doesn’t mean it has to stay in a cardboard box when you store it.

Of course, the original box should be kept and does have value, but to preserve the antique object, take it out of the cardboard box for longterm storage.

Depending on what your object is, store the object and the box separately wrapped in acid-free paper or in a plastic tub.

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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.

3. Wi-Fi Is Your New BFF – If the hotel or home you’re visiting has Wi-

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Jim Miller

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.

Yes, Medicare does pay for second opinions if your current doctor has recommended surgery or some other major diagnostic or therapeutic procedure.

If you’re enrolled in original Medicare, 80 percent of the costs for second medical opinions is covered under Part B (you or your Medicare supplemental policy are responsible for the other 20 percent), and you don’t need an order or referral from your doctor to get one.

Medicare will even pay 80 percent for a third opinion, if the first two differ.

Most Medicare Advantage plans

cover second opinions too, but you may need to follow certain steps to get it paid for.

For example, some plans will only help pay for a second opinion if you have a referral from your primary-care doctor, and/or they may require that you can only use a doctor in their network.

If you have a Medicare Advantage plan, you’ll need to call it to find out their rules.

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Finding another Doctor To find another doctor for a second opinion, you can either ask your current doctor for a name or two, or you can ask another doctor you trust for a referral, or you can find one on your own.

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There are two specialized volunteer positions available at Lancaster County Office of Aging.

One is the volunteer ombudsman position. Trained volunteers investigate and assist to resolve concerns related to residents’ rights and care provided in licensed long-term living facilities and other community settings.

A training session is tentatively scheduled for August. For more information, contact Sheri Snyder at (717) 299-7979 or aging@co.lancaster. pa.us.

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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.

After you’ve gotten a few doctors’ names, there are a number of free online resources to help you research them, like Healthgrades (www. healthgrades.com) and Vitals (www. vitals.com).

Or, consider Angie’s List (www. angieslist.com, (888) 888-5478), which is a membership service that currently offers doctor ratings and reviews from other members in your area for $3.50 for one month or $11.32 for the year, but the site will be offering free reviews this summer.

After you find another doctor,

before you get a second opinion you’ll need to have your current doctor’s office send your medical records ahead to the second doctor, or you may have to pick them up and deliver them yourself.

That way, you won’t have to repeat the tests you already had. But, if the second doctor wants you to have additional tests performed as a result of your visit, Medicare will help pay for these tests too.

For more information, see the Medicare publication Getting a Second Opinion Before Surgery (www. medicare.gov/pubs/pdf/02173.pdf).

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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.

When the Captain and Tennille

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.”

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Support Groups Free and open to the public

Senior Center Activities

July 6, 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

Cocalico Senior Association – (717) 336-7489 July 1, 9 a.m. – Program on Fire Safety July 15, 9 a.m. – Farmers Market Vouchers Distributed July 21, 10 a.m. – Shopping at Dollar Tree, Big Lots, and Weis

July 11, 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 July 18, 2 p.m.

Lancaster County Parkinson’s Support Group Landis Homes 1001 E. Oregon Road, Lititz (717) 509-5494

July 21, noon Brain Tumor Support Group Lancaster General Health Campus Wellness Center 2100 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster (717) 626-2894 July 25, 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 July 27, 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

Community Programs Free and open to the public Through Oct. 15 except Sundays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Seasonal Opening: Mascot Roller Mills and Ressler Family Home Ressler Mill Foundation 443 W. Newport Road, Ronks (717) 656-7616 resslermill@gmail.com July 3, 7 p.m.

Singspiration – 14th Annual Community Hymn Sings Series Historic Old Leacock Presbyterian Church 3181 Lincoln Highway East, Paradise (717) 687-6619 www.leacockpres.org

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Korean War Veterans Association Meeting Oak Leaf Manor North 2901 Harrisburg Pike, Landisville (717) 299-1990 pcunningham1841@verizon.net July 11, 6 p.m.

Red Rose Singles Meeting Centerville Diner 100 S. Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 406-6098 July 15, 6 to 9 p.m.

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Library Programs Adamstown Area Library, 3000 N. Reading Road, Adamstown, (717) 484-4200 Columbia Public Library, 24 S. Sixth St., Columbia, (717) 684-2255 Eastern Lancaster County Library, 11 Chestnut Drive, New Holland, (717) 354-0525 Elizabethtown Public Library, 10 S. Market St., Elizabethtown, (717) 367-7467 Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, (717) 626-2255 July 13, 1 p.m. – Memoirs of a Ping Jockey July 14, 7 p.m. – Matthew Brady, Civil War Photographer July 18, 7 p.m. – Introduction to Craft Beer

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Around Town Student Artwork Selected

by Landis Homes In May, Landis Homes announced SuYoun Na as their 2016 Art Student Scholarship Award recipient. Na, a Lancaster Mennonite High School senior, was chosen for her watercolor Two Faces, One Natural.

Na is an international student who lives with a host family, Willie and Caroline Sierra, in Lancaster. Her family who live in South Korea include her father, KangJu Na, her mother, SanMi Lee, and her sister, EunE Na. Each year since 1995, Landis Homes selects a piece of artwork SuYoun Na holds her winning piece from the Lancaster Mennonite High with Landis Homes residents Connie Stauffer, left, and Carole Symonds, School Spring Fine Arts Festival who served on the art jury this year. to become part of a permanent The piece of art will be placed in art collection on the retirement the Landis Homes permanent art community campus. collection.

In return for the work, Landis Homes makes contributions to the Lancaster Mennonite School art department and to the student to help further their education. Na is the 22nd student to receive this award.

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Community Celebrates National Senior Health & Fitness Day Pleasant View Retirement Community staff and residents, together with Manheim community members, recently celebrated health and wellness as a part of National Senior Health and Fitness Day. Pleasant View’s Town Square Health Club offered three free classes and organized a wellness fair, featuring several local organizations and businesses.

National Senior Health & Fitness Day is a nationwide health and fitness event for older adults, always held the last Wednesday in May during Older Americans Month.

2016 marked the 23rd year Town Square Health Club instructor of the program, and more Malin Morrison led a group of seniors than 100,000 older adults in an advanced senior fitness class in Pleasant View’s Hoffer Auditorium. participated at local events at more than 1,000 locations across the country on the same day.

The event’s goals are to promote the importance of regular physical activity and to showcase what local organizations are doing to improve the health and fitness of older adults in their communities.

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Older But Not Wiser

Early-Morning Greatness Sy Rosen

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

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.

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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.

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

I could go to the Middle East and help destroy ISIS. However, I am afraid to fly. I therefore decided to do something locally.

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 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.

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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Salute to a Veteran

Robert D. Wilcox

For Him, His Time in the Navy Was a Life-Changer

When George T. Heidig says, “The Navy saved my life,� he doesn’t mean it saved him from death. He means it saved him from the worse-thanhopeless path his life had taken to that point.

He was a Lancaster lad whose father had trouble holding a job and was away from home a lot. His mother, on the other hand, “was a saint� who spent much of her time working a low-paying job so she would be home when the youngsters got there and so she could provide food for the family.

Eventually, the parents separated, and, without ever having had the father figure he needed, Heidig grew up as a “cocky kid who hated school, didn’t study, and who ran the streets with all the wrong kind of people.�

He says, “If there was a way to go

wrong, I found that age could it and took it.� expect, making no more than He asked his a dollar a day. mother to sign When his a note with her permission for last employer turned down his him to leave request for a 10school after the cent increase, ninth grade. he impetuously Of course, she joined the Navy wouldn’t, and in order to she begged him to stay on leave.

At 18 he and do well in was on his school. So he way to “boot asked his father, camp� training and no problem. rd He got the note Radarman 3 Class George T. Heidig at at the U.S. Charleston Naval Base, S.C., in 1957.

Naval Training he needed, and at age 16 left Center, Bainbridge, the Navy base at Port school.

Deposit, Maryland.

He got the kind of jobs a kid

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Upon graduation, Heidig was shipped to Charleston, South Carolina, where he was assigned to the destroyer escort USS Tills. She made two-week training cruises to the Caribbean with naval reservists undertaking refresher and reserve training cruises, and she also used her radar to perform a host of tasks.

Heidig fondly recalls the day when he was lingering near the “off-limits� radar room, and the older radarman 1st class in charge invited him in and visited with him over a cup of coffee.

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“I don’t He then worked his know exactly why he did way through that,” Heidig Millersville says, “but he State became much College, like the father earning figure I never a B.A. in had. He invited industrial me to come arts. back whenever He taught I had time. at Lincoln And, over time, Junior High he taught me School in all about the The USS Tills, the Navy destroyer escort on Lancaster radar … doing which George Heidig served in the 1950s. for 30 years navigation, before he recommending courses to avoid a retired in 1988 and went to work for collision course with other ships, how a Lancaster funeral home. Since his to make emergency entrance to ports, retirement from their support staff spotting subs, etc. in 1996, he has kept in shape by “Once, he also invited me for swimming, playing golf, and riding dinner with his family. I gladly his bicycle. accepted, because I missed my mother Does he think often of his Navy and brother so much, and this touch days? of family meant a lot to me.”

“All the time,” he says quietly. “It At one point, that radar training absolutely laid the solid foundation became very important, when the for everything I did with my life.” radarman 1st class became ill and Col. Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in couldn’t make the cruise. The ship’s Europe in World War II. captain then questioned Heidig at length before deciding Heidig could well fill the berth, and the captain permitted the cruise to go on.

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The Beauty in Nature

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Some people are afraid of those Females of both species, after large, fast-flying insects, but there is being fertilized, spawn by hovering no reason for fear because dragonflies just above the water and repeatedly are harmless to us. In fact, they are dipping the end of their abdomens beneficial in eating mosquitoes and into it, dropping an egg on a water other kinds of plant at the pesky insects. surface with And each dip. dragonflies are When they entertaining to hatch, the tiny, watch, zipping brown naiads low on their sink to the four stiff wings bottom of the over water after impoundment flying-insect where they prey and mates. blend into the Whitemud, which tailed and makes them twelve-spotted invisible to Twelve-spotted skimmer. skimmers are fish and other two kinds predators. of attractive There they dragonflies catch and commonly consume aquatic seen around invertebrates impoundments until grown in and sluggish a year’s time. streams in this And there they area. have gills to take Like all their oxygen from the kind, they water. are fast flyers, When grown, Harum Koh the naiads climb skimming White-tailed skimmer. swiftly and low plant stems out over water and of the water, land alike after food and mates. Both emerge from their larval shells, and, these species have 2-inch-long bodies eventually, fly away to look for food and 3-inch wingspans and live around and mates. Only empty shells on water in much of the United States. emergent plants silently testify to the White-tailed skimmers have brown dragonflies’ past in the water. heads and gray-brown thoraxes.

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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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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.

Brainteasers Game Shows that Started in the ’50s 1. Beat the Clock 6. Queen for a Day 2. G.E. College Bowl 7. The $64,000 Question 3. I’ve Got a Secret 8. Tic Tac Dough 4. Name That Tune 9. To Tell the Truth 5. The Price is Right 10. You Bet Your Life

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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

Jobs of the ’50s and ’60s 1. Stenographer 6. Soda Jerk 2. Stevedore 7. Elevator Operator 3. Haberdasher 8. Service Station Attendant 4. Iceman 9. Milkman 5. Nursemaid 10. Switchboard Operator

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BOOKWORM from page 17 was not.” Questionable loans are altogether too common.

And imagine the shock when one small town discovered that its comptroller-treasurer “stole $53 million … money right out of the pockets of her friends and neighbors.”

There have been sex scandals aplenty in politics, words that went awry, and a lot of big mouths.

Racism has reared its terrible head, as has double-crossing and blamelaying.

History repeats itself in contentious elections and Supreme Court nominations. And at least one political “man among men” wasn’t a man at all …

Looking for a little levity in the wreckage of this political year?

You’ll find some between the lines in Political Suicide, but don’t expect belly laughs or goofy stories. No, author Erin McHugh gives readers lots of true (and outrageous!) tales,

but the humor comes from the situations themselves more than from the author.

McHugh is quick to point out the ridiculousness of what happened, but she also puts things into historical and cultural perspective; what’s more, her accounts seem sympathetic now and then, especially when naiveté is involved.

That gives readers a nice balance of silly, sad, and scandalous. What’s not to like about that?

Nothing, that’s what—so, White House watchers, voters, fed-up folks, and historians should want to read this book. If you need a hint of disgracefully laden lightheartedness between now and Nov. 8, Political Suicide is just the ticket.

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.

Share Some Independence Day Trivia Here are some fun facts to share with your family and friends on the Fourth of July while waiting for the hot dogs to cook on the grill:

• Three presidents died on July Fourth: Thomas Jefferson and John Adams in 1826 and James Monroe in 1831. Calvin Coolidge was the only president born on July Fourth, in 1872.

• The Massachusetts General Court was the first state legislature to recognize July Fourth as a state celebration, in 1781.

• The first recorded use of the name “Independence Day” occurred in 1791.

• The U.S. Congress established Independence Day as an unpaid holiday for federal employees in 1870. It became a federal paid holiday in 1931.

Who Has the Best Bites in Central PA? 50plus LIFE readers have spoken!

Here are the Lancaster County dining favorites for 2016!

Breakfast: George’s Kendig Square Restaurant

Fast Food: Arby’s

Lunch: Isaac’s Famous Grilled Sandwiches

Seafood: Red Lobster

Dinner: Gus’s Keystone Family Restaurant

Steak: Outback Steakhouse

Ethnic Cuisine: La Cocina Restaurant

Outdoor Dining: T.J. Rockwell’s American Grill & Tavern

Celebrating: The Olde Greenfield Inn

Romantic Setting: The Belvedere Inn

Bakery: Achenbach’s Pastries

Smorgasbord/Buffet: Shady Maple Smorgasboard

Coffeehouse: Square One Coffee

Caterer: Enck’s Catering

Winner of $50 Giant Food Stores Gift Card: Linda S. Peters Congratulations!

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