50plus LIFE York County May 2019

Complimentary | York County Edition

May 2019 • Vol. 20 No. 5

making your medical wishes known page 4

how to help a friend with depression

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veterans’ expo & job fair highlights page 11

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Older But Not Wiser

To Tell or Not to Tell Sy Rosen

I was having breakfast with my daughter Ann and my two granddaughters, Summer and Sienna.

There was a Sunday buffet at a neighborhood restaurant and my daughter was treating, which is great for two reasons: it shows she’s a mature, responsible grown-up, and secondly, I’m kind of cheap.

The bill came, and the waiter said he didn’t charge for Summer and Sienna because children under 5 get the buffet for free.

Ann quickly corrected the waiter, telling him that Sienna was 2 but Summer was already 5. And so the waiter added an additional $7.99 to the bill — the cost of a child’s buffet.

OK, it wasn’t my role to say anything, and I knew I shouldn’t overstep my boundaries as a grandfather.

However, the first words out of my mouth were, “Ann, why did you tell him?

Summer wouldn’t have been charged.”

“Dad, she’s 5 ½, and I can’t lie about that.”

My instinct was to give a very reasonable, logical response, and so I asked, “Why not?!”

“Because I want to teach Summer to be honest.”

At this point I lowered my voice so Summer wouldn’t hear me. She wasn’t really listening anyway because on her last trip to the buffet line she had discovered the pastry section, and she was now thoroughly engrossed in the messiest ways to eat a chocolate éclair.

“OK,” I whispered, “but 5 ½ is very close to being under 5. Your Aunt Esther is 70 and she tells everyone she’s 48.”

“Dad, that’s different.”

I decided not to go into how my parents acted when I was growing up. Back then, if I was under 12, I could get into the movies for a quarter, and therefore I was under 12 until I had to shave.

If we did go to a buffet, it wasn’t considered a success unless we went through the line four or five times. And the meal always ended with me being the lookout and my mom stuffing dinner rolls into her purse. We didn’t think of it as cheating or being dishonest. We thought of it as survival.

But my folks acted this way because they lived through the Depression … through bread lines and soup kitchens. Maybe it was time for me to change.

After all, I didn’t live through those hard times.

I decided to ask some of my friends how they would act if they were undercharged. A few of them quickly said they would tell. They were very proud of themselves, but I wasn’t sure if I believed them.

I then asked my buddy Larry. Larry and I have similar qualities (we are both very cheap).

“It depends,” he told me.

“On what?” I asked.

“Well, if it’s a small mom-and-pop store, I usually tell. But if it’s a large department store, I don’t tell.”

“Suppose it’s a large mom-and-pop store?” I asked. www.50plusLifePA.com

“Then I don’t tell, but I feel guilty about it.”

My cousin Carl said he doesn’t tell because people are always trying to take advantage of him, so it’s his way of getting even.

“It’s the way of the world,” he told me.

After listening to my cynical cousin Carl, I decided to let my daughter be my role model. It’s best to be honest. After all, these places are trying to make a living.

And from now on, if I am undercharged, I will always tell. I will usually tell. Sometimes I will tell. Once in a while I will tell. And I am very proud of my decision.

Sy Rosen has written for many TV shows, including The Bob Newhart Show, Taxi, M.A.S.H., Maude, The Jeffersons, Rhoda, Frasier, Northern Exposure, and The Wonder Years. He now spends much of his time telling jokes to his grandkids and trying to convince his wife that he’s funny.

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By Rochelle A. Shenk

a cardiac arrest but suffered massive brain damage and was in a coma. Eventually she was diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state.

Thinking about potential medical issues and The case pitted her husband, who wanted the end-of-life care can be a bit daunting, but it’s feeding tube removed, against her parents, who important. There are legal documents, such as an argued that she was conscious. The legal challenges advance healthcare directive, in which one can involved Florida courts, the state’s legislature, specify one’s preferences. then-Gov. Jeb Bush, the U.S. Congress, President “It’s not just for older people; it’s important for all of us no matter what the age to have an advance George W. Bush, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

In the event of death, the document also directive. In my view, it’s part of estate planning, includes preferences regarding organ donation. just like a financial power of attorney and a will,” If donation is chosen, limitations about specific explains David Mills, Esq., Blakey, Yost, Bupp & organs and tissues and uses for them may be Rausch LLP, York. included. It also addresses palliative or He says that an advance healthcare comfort care. directive includes both a living will It’s not Mills says that some preferences and a healthcare power of attorney, just for older may be affected by religious beliefs. or POA. This comprehensive legal He notes that there is a form for those document provides the medical people; it’s of the Catholic faith that allows the community with a clear path for important person to state his or her wishes in treatment. for all of us many areas but indicates that the When a patient is admitted for no matter healthcare agent is to presume in favor hospital care, asking if he or she has of providing nutrition and hydration, an advance medical directive is as what the including medically assisted nutrition much a part of the admissions process age to have and hydration if they are capable of as providing information about an advance sustaining the person’s life. healthcare insurance. directive.

“The decisions in the living will are A living will specifies treatments all very personal decisions — there’s no that one may want or not want to right or wrong,” Mills says. sustain life when in an end-stage Similar to a financial power of attorney, in medical condition or in a state of permanent which one appoints someone as their “agent” to act unconsciousness. Treatments include dialysis, on their behalf in financial matters, the healthcare mechanical ventilation, surgery, antibiotics, power of attorney appoints someone to act on their chemotherapy, and radiation treatment. behalf with regard to health and personal care “This makes your wishes known in the event decisions. that you’re in the hospital and are in a coma,” It is invoked if the person can no longer stressed Mills. “The importance of having a living will was demonstrated by the Karen Ann Quinlan speak for himself or herself. It’s used not only at end of life, but also in the event that someone case.” is unconscious or in a coma. The form allows Quinlan was a New Jersey woman who, in the someone to appoint both a healthcare agent and an mid-’70s, mixed an anti-anxiety medication with alternate. alcohol while on a crash diet and lapsed into a Mills says that a living will not only specifies coma and then a persistent vegetative state. one’s wishes for treatment, but it also directs After doctors refused her parents’ request to the agent to act either solely in accordance with disconnect her respirator — which her parents the preferences as set forth in the living will or considered an extraordinary means of prolonging to use the preferences as guidance, allowing the her life and contended that it caused her pain — healthcare agent to make the final decision. they filed suit to have the apparatus removed.

He encourages people to review the living will A legal battle ensued and eventually the and their preferences with both the healthcare respirator was removed. The family consented to a agent(s) they have chosen and family members. He feeding tube, and she eventually died in 1985. also said that like a will, it’s a document that can Another clause in the living will focuses on using a feeding tube to supply food and hydration. be changed as one’s preferences change.

Another document some may consider is a Mills says that this clause is often called the Terri POLST (Pennsylvania Orders for Life-Sustaining Schiavo clause — named after the landmark endTreatment) form, which is intended to give of-life care case of the 1990s.

Schiavo, a Florida resident, was resuscitated after an individual control over end-of-life care and

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includes a directive for resuscitation or non-resuscitation if the individual has no pulse and is not breathing.

If the patient has a pulse and/or is breathing, the form indicates if he or she wishes to have comfort measures only; limited interventions, such as cardiac monitor and IV fluids; or full treatment.

There are also sections to indicate the patient’s preferences regarding antibiotics and artificially administered hydration and/or nutrition.

This form is usually completed by individuals with chronic progressive illness and/or frailty or by anyone of an advanced age that feels strongly about designating their goals and preferences for care, said Regina Cabezas, social worker for Landis Homes in Lititz.

“POLST is a voluntary form for individuals throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,” Cabezas said, “and even though it is highly recommended, completion of the form is not required for admission to post-acute care areas or retirement communities, such as Landis Homes.”

At the time it’s completed, any

existing advance healthcare directive should be reviewed. The POLST also includes contact information for the healthcare professional preparing it and the individual’s designated emergency contact or healthcare POA. “I often say that having the POLST takes things ‘up a notch,’ as it moves from the wishes that someone expresses to becoming orders that must be followed,” Cabezas said.

Cabezas stressed that the advancecare planning process “should not be a two-minute task” but instead an honest, thoughtful conversation amongst all involved parties.

“This may make for some difficult and uncomfortable dialogue between the resident and family members, but ultimately it is the individual’s choice and one that ideally their healthcare power of attorney will follow in what can be a very emotionally charged crisis situation,” Cabezas said.

The key element with all of the documents is to ensure that an individual’s wishes for medical treatment measures — in the event they’re in a coma or facing end of life and cannot speak for themselves — are met.

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This event is FREE to attend.

Veterans (of all ages), the military community, and their families are invited to join us!

The Expo brings federal, state, and local agencies together with area businesses to provide information and resources to veterans and their families.

The Job Fair brings veterans and spouses who need jobs together with employers who can benefit from this rich source of talent to aid their organizations.

Veterans Urged to Enroll in DMVA Veterans Registry Last fall, the By connecting Pennsylvania with DMVA, Department of registrants can Military and also opt in to Veterans Affairs receive the weekly established the DMVA Digest, Pennsylvania filled with veteranVeterans Registry related news, job to help ensure that opportunities, and current veterans events. Registrants and service do not need to be members leaving veterans to receive the military receive the DMVA Digest. every benefit they The Veterans earned with their Registry is Memorial Day is service.

DMVA’s longMonday, May 27 The term strategy to Pennsylvania achieve a higher Veterans Registry is an online level of communication with the application that allows veterans, commonwealth’s veterans as well as family members, and veteran those who support them. advocates to connect with the Veterans can sign up for the Pennsylvania DMVA to request DMVA Veterans Registry by information related to valuable state computer or mobile device at www. benefits, programs, and services. dmva.pa.gov. www.50plusLifePA.com

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Fifties Flashback

It’s a Mad World After All Randal C. Hill

In Lewis Carroll’s 1865 classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice remarks to the Cheshire Cat, “I don’t want to go among mad people.”

The grinning cat responds, “Oh, you can’t help that.

We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.”

“How do you know I’m mad?” asks Alice.

“You must be,” explains the cat, “or you wouldn’t have come here.”

suffered the sting of Mad’s gleeful barbs, as did highly respected politicians and established world leaders.

Top-flight Mad caricaturists brought easily recognizable pop-culture celebrities to its pages, and recurring cartoon columns, such as the triangle-headed Spy vs. Spy characters, kept young readers amused — and on their toes — during the oppressive Cold War of the 1950s.

Mad first appeared as a 1952 horror comic book that was ••• a satire on (of all things) other horror comic books.

New York funsters and comic-book veterans William If something affected the national psyche, Mad magazine wanted to poke fun at it.

Gaines and Harvey Kurtzman were Mad ’s publisher and Impressionable adolescents who read Mad were warned editor, respectively, and what their eight-times-a-year periodical brought to the nation’s teenagers eventually constantly about society’s half-truths, double standards, morphed into a bible of juvenile-appearing blasphemy fine print, deceptive advertisements, and sneaky product placements. that took delight in flagrantly casting a wide satirical net Cover of first Mad magazine, 1955.

The world is out to get you, implied the messages, so be and laughing at just about every rock-solid institution in prepared.

America.

In 1954, Kurtzman adopted a forgotten and unnamed advertising image for Along the way, Mad’s clever and invaluable lessons undoubtedly helped avid Mad that had been around since the 1890s. He dubbed him Alfred E. Neuman, readers develop their critical-thinking skills. and Neuman rose to fame as a grinning, jug-eared, gap-toothed simpleton “If you were growing up lonely and isolated in a small town, Mad was a revelation,” said counterculture cartoonist R. Crumb. “Nothing I read anywhere whose motto was “What, me worry?”

As the Mad mascot, he came to symbolize everything vacuous about the else suggested there was any absurdity in the culture.” publication. Neuman’s iconic portrait often replaced the faces of celebrities who Everyone and everything were fair game. Superman. The Ku Klux Klan. were being lampooned in that particular issue.

For a while, Neuman had a lady companion, a cartoon character named Moxie Cowznofski. But Moxie made only a few appearances in the late 1950s, possibly because she looked too much like her “significant other.”

Mad kept the chuckles coming as it created a series of nonsensical words, such as furshlugginer (an adjective expressing contempt), blecch (a term synonymous with disgust), and potrzebie (a word with no meaning or definition whatsoever).

Unique in its controversial social satire, Mad would eventually influence such pop-cultural icons as National Lampoon, The Simpsons, and Saturday Night Live.

When the fun-loving William Gaines died at age 70 in June 1992, the New “Like” us on Facebook to receive a York Daily News headlined his obituary “What, Me Dead?”

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Wonder Woman. The Hell’s Angels. Howdy Doody. Barbie and Ken. All years of educating our community

Friday, June 7

Cross Keys Village, Nicarry Meetinghouse 2990 Carlisle Pike, New Oxford

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Registration 8:00–8:30 AM Presentation by Good News Consulting & Kenneth Brubaker, M.D.: 8:30–11:30 AM Panel Discussion: 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM Small Group Workshops: 1:30 – 3:30 PM

Kenneth Brubaker, M.D., Former Chief Medical Director for the Pennsylvania Dept. of Aging and the Office of Long Term Living, will be joining us at all locations as a speaker and a panelist.

Door Prizes • Light Refreshments • Light Lunch

Registration is required and seating is limited. Call today to reserve your seat.

Although Randal C. Hill’s heart lives in the past, the rest of him resides in Bandon, Ore. He can be reached at wryterhill@msn.com.

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How to Help a Friend with Depression you still care about them.

One in six people will experience serious depression during their lifetime, and knowing what to say and how to act around them can help them cope with the condition better.

From the HuffPost website come these suggestions for helping friends and family deal with their depression:

Send a quick text. A joke or cartoon can brighten your friend’s day and signal that you’re thinking of him or her.

Don’t take things personally. Depressed people sometimes resist efforts to help. They may withdraw into themselves and shut others out. Don’t abandon them. Remember that it’s the depression talking, not the person inside.

Listen. Don’t offer solutions or try to “fix” things. Most people with depression have heard suggestions. They mostly just want someone to listen to them.

Help out. Many people with depression find themselves unable to perform everyday, routine tasks. Offer to do some household chores that they can’t handle.

Offer reassurance. Don’t be a Pollyanna, but remind them that they’re good people and strong enough to get over this. Even if they don’t respond, hearing such reassuring words will help.

May is Mental Health Awareness Month

Make specific offers. Don’t just say, “Is there anything I can do?” Instead, volunteer with specific suggestions: “Can I do your laundry?” or, “Would you like me to take you grocery shopping?”

Be patient. Try to remember what they’re going through. If they’re sad, frustrated, or lethargic, don’t insist that they feel better. Reassure them that

Tell them it’s all right. Don’t blame them for their depression, nor let them blame themselves. Tell them that it’s OK not to feel OK all the time.

Share small gifts. Bring a treat or some flowers, or send a card letting them know you’re thinking of them. A small gesture can mean a lot to someone who’s depressed.

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

Animal Hospitals Community Animal Hospital Donald A. Sloat, D.V.M. 400 S. Pine St., York (717) 845-5669 Automobile Sales/Service Gordon’s Body Shop, Inc. 10 Mill St., Stewartstown (717) 993-2263 Energy Assistance Low-Income Energy Assistance (717) 787-8750 Entertainment Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre 510 Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 898-1900 financial services Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (302) 573-4027 Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (717) 651-5020 www.50plusLifePA.com

Alzheimer’s Information Clearinghouse (800) 367-5115 American Diabetes Association (800) 342-2383 CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400 The National Kidney Foundation (800) 697-7007 or (717) 757-0604 Social Security Information (800) 772-1213 Healthcare Information Pennsylvania HealthCare Cost Containment (717) 232-6787 Hearing Services Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY Home Care Services Homeland at Home Serving all of York County (717) 221-7892

Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services Hanover: (717) 630-0067 Lancaster: (717) 393-3450 York: (717) 751-2488 Hospice Services Homeland at Home Serving all of York County (717) 221-7890 Housing Assistance Housing Authority of York (717) 845-2601 Property Tax/Rent Rebate (888) 728-2937

PERSONAL CARE HOMES Family Care Personal Care Home (717) 373-5205 Pharmacies CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com real estate Berkshire Hathaway Paula Musselman (717) 793-9678 (Office) (717) 309-6921 (Cell) Services York County Area Agency on Aging (717) 771-9610

Insurance Medicare (800) 633-4227

Veterans Services Lebanon VA Medical Center 1700 S. Lincoln Ave., Lebanon (717) 228-6000 or (800) 409-8771

Vibra Health Plan (844) 660-2961 (TTY: 711) Insurance – Long-Term Care Apprise Insurance Counseling (717) 771-9610 or (800) 632-9073

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Better Hearing & Speech Month Savvy Senior

Jim Miller

Simplified Cellphones for Users with Hearing Problems

Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend some basic, simplified cellphones for seniors with hearing loss? My 82-year-old father needs to get a new cellphone for occasional calls or emergencies, but he needs something that’s easy to use and one that he can hear on.

– Looking Around Dear Looking, There are several simplified cellphones on the market today that are specifically designed for seniors — including those with hearing loss.

These are basic cellphones that come with big buttons, easy-to-navigate menus, SOS emergency buttons, and enhanced sound and are hearing aid compatible too.

Here are some top options.

Senior-Friendly Phones If your dad isn’t locked into a cellphone contract, there are three seniorfriendly options to consider, all from no-contract cellphone companies.

One of best is GreatCall’s Jitterbug Flip (www.greatcall.com, (800) 9188543). This custom-designed Samsung flip phone offers a backlit keypad with big buttons, large text on a brightly colored screen, and “yes” and “no” buttons to access the phone’s menu of options versus confusing icons.

It also offers voice dialing, a powerful speakerphone, a built-in camera, and a variety of optional health and safety features:

one preprogrammed number.

Another budget-friendly cellphone you should look into is the Snapfon ezTWO for seniors (www.snapfon.com, (800) 9371532).

This is a bar-style phone that provides big buttons, a color screen, enhanced volume with a speakerphone, and a speaking keypad.

There is also an SOS emergency alert button on the back of the phone that can sound an alert when pushed and held down for five seconds. It then sends a text message to as many as five emergency contacts and calls those contacts in order until the call is answered.

Or, for an additional monthly fee, you can subscribe to their sosPlus monitoring service, which will dispatch help as needed.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit www.savvysenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior book.

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• The 5Star medical alert button would let your dad call 24/7 for help and speak to a certified agent who could identify his location and dispatch help as needed.

• The Urgent Care service provides access to registered nurses and doctors for advice, diagnoses, and prescription refills.

• GreatCall Link is a free app for family members. If your dad calls 5Star from his Jitterbug, app users will receive an alert on their smartphone.

If your dad prefers a smartphone, Jitterbug’s Smart2 has a 5.5-inch screen, front-facing speaker, a simplified menu, a voice-typing option, and a 13megapixel camera with flash.

As with the flip phone, Smart2 includes the 5Star urgent response button and the safety features listed above.

Another excellent option is the Doro PhoneEasy 626 sold through Consumer Cellular (www.consumercellular.com, (888) 345-5509).

This flip phone offers a backlit, separated keypad that can speak the numbers as you push them, which is a nice feature for seniors with vision problems.

It also has a big, easy-to-read color display screen that offers large text with different color themes.

Other handy features include two speed-dial buttons; shortcut buttons to texting and the camera; a powerful, two-way speakerphone; and an ICE (in case of emergency) button on the back of the phone that will automatically dial www.50plusLifePA.com

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Melinda’s Garden

Growing Your Own Cut Flowers Melinda Myers

Keep your flower vases filled all summer long with beautiful blossoms picked right from your own garden and containers.

Growing seeds, plants, and tender bulbs that can double as cut flowers makes it easy to create casual, fresh-cut bouquets for your dinner table, guest room, or to share with family and friends.

For early spring flowers, look to spring-blooming bulbs like tulips and daffodils and cool-weather annuals like pansies and snapdragons. Clipping branches from trees and shrubs such as forsythia, quince, and daphne is another good way to bring spring into your home.

Your perennial garden can provide bleeding heart, iris, hellebores, peonies, and much more.

If the selection in your own spring garden is limited, strike up a trade with a friend. Pick some of theirs in the spring and share some of yours in the summer. Then make a note to add more springblooming bulbs and perennials to your landscape.

Gladiolas and dahlias add pizazz to summer and

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fall bouquets. These spring-planted bulbs Photo credit Longfield Gardens combine nicely with For easy bouquets, other summer flowers, plant a color-themed and they continue to blend such as the bloom well after other Sugar Plum Mix from flowers have faded in the Longfield Gardens. heat of late summer.

The flower-packed spikes of gladiolas are available in a rainbow of colors that will inspire your creativity. These inexpensive bulbs are easy to plant and take up very little space.

Pop them into containers, flowerbeds, or even your vegetable garden. Start planting in mid-spring and continue every two weeks until midsummer for months of colorful flower spikes.

With dahlias, you can choose from dozens of different flower sizes, styles, and colors. For easy, eye-catching bouquets, plant a color-themed blend. Another option is to select colors that will harmonize with flowers that are already in your gardens, such as phlox, sunflowers, asters, and lilies.

Hybrid lilies are perennial garden favorites as well as fabulous cut flowers.

Plant the bulbs of Asiatic lilies, Oriental lilies, and Oriental-trumpet lilies in spring for color and fragrance that lasts all summer long. To ensure months of flowers, be sure to plant a few bulbs of each type of lily.

Annuals play an essential role in any cut-flower garden. Extend your budget by starting zinnias, sunflowers, larkspur, and cosmos from seed, and supplement with greenhouse-grown transplants of snapdragons, celosia, amaranth, and statice.

Foliage can elevate an ordinary homegrown bouquet from good to great, and your garden can provide all sorts of interesting options. Incorporate the leaves of perennials such as hosta, baptisia, artemesia, and sage as well as flower farmer favorites such as bells of Ireland, bupleurum, and dusty miller.

Shrubs such as ninebark, boxwood, viburnum, and holly are another source of attractive foliage and some offer colorful berries as well.

Cutting and arranging flowers is a fun way to exercise your creativity and bring the beauty of your garden indoors. The more you do it, the easier it gets, and you’ll soon be sharing your flowers with friends, neighbors, family, coworkers, and everyone who stops by.

Melinda Myers has written more than 20 gardening books, including Small Space Gardening. She hosts The Great Courses’ How to Grow Anything DVD series and the nationally syndicated Melinda’s Garden Moment TV and radio program. www. melindamyers.com, www.longfield-gardens.com

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Hiring Employers, Job-Seeking Veterans Convene at Veterans’ Expo & Job fair

By Megan Joyce With declining U.S. unemployment rates, employers looking to fill positions are facing a more limited pool of candidates from which to bolster their ranks.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, the veteran unemployment rate was 2.7 percent in February 2019, down from 3.5 percent in February 2018. The non-veteran unemployment rate for February 2019 was 4 percent.

So for exhibitors like Stacie LeeSmith, senior HR generalist for Church & Dwight, ensuring the company had a presence at the recent Veterans’ Expo & Job Fair in York was a logical move.

“With the veterans that are just coming out of the service, a lot of them are technically trained as electricians and mechanics,” LeeSmith said.

“Now, with the candidate pool, it’s harder to find those technical skills, so this is definitely a good area or format to try to find those skilled workers.”

Held at the Wyndham Garden York on Loucks Road, the fifth annual Veterans’ Expo & Job Fair invited current military personnel of all ages, veterans, and their families to connect with benefits information and job opportunities.

Composed of more than 70 local exhibitors, the day was a two-forone event presented by OLP Events; admission was free to the public.

At the Expo, attendees spoke with veterans’ organizations, such as Disabled American Veterans and Pennsylvania State Headquarters VFW, as well as representatives from educational institutions, veterans’ volunteer groups, and a range of businesses that offer discounts or services for military members.

Students from Barber Styling Institute also provided free haircuts during the event.

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administrative associate with Ricker Sweigart & Associates, said the company exhibits at the Veterans’ Expo to offer free retirement planning and benefits information to veterans.

Semanchick said the company acquired a focus on assisting veterans after founding partner Aaron Sweigart’s father, a Marine veteran, passed unexpectedly and Sweigart struggled to settle his father’s affairs.

“During the whole transition, he encountered a lot of things that he didn’t know, especially when it comes to veterans’ benefits and rights,” Semanchik said. “He said, ‘Listen, I guarantee you not a lot of veterans know about all of this, and we need to help them.’

“The way we look at it is that it’s our attempt to say thank you — giving [veterans] a second opinion with their retirement planning with no fee,” Semanchick said. “Any way we can help, we’re willing to do it.

The laws change quite frequently, so we try to stay on top of it as much as possible.”

In addition to access to benefits and resources information, the event’s Job Fair component enabled veterans and employers to meet faceto-face to discuss available positions.

Industries present included finance, warehouse, medical services, administrative/clerical, engineering, management, sales, manufacturing, retail, computer tech/IT, transportation, and others.

Army veteran Carol Chalfant, of Stewartstown, was seeking work partly to secure her own health insurance — her husband will soon retire. But she also wants work that will take her outdoors after many years at home caring for her children.

“I want to work. I’ve raised my kids; they’re all out of the house. It’s definitely an empty nest,” Chalfant said. “I just really want to use my gifts. I do have a lot to offer. I’m a people person, and I love physical work.”

In the Job Fair’s Resource Center, visitors could participate in mock interviews and receive financial services and planning assistance, resume reviews, and other helpful information for translating military careers to civilian opportunities.

Shrewsbury resident Paul Bentz, who served in the Army as an infantry officer, had taken early retirement but now misses being part of the workforce.

Though his multifaceted background includes human resources, manufacturing operations, and vendor management, Bentz was open to new career possibilities available to someone in his position. “[The Job Fair] is a great

opportunity to talk to people about what’s out there and also share that at this stage of my life, I’m flexible,” Bentz said. “My kids have graduated; I’m not tied down as much as I once was to making a certain amount of money or working at a certain location.

“So that’s why I’m here: to be able to have the face-to-face that you don’t get in today’s technical world.”

The Veterans Expo & Job Fair will return to central Pennsylvania Thursday, May 30, at the Crowne Plaza Reading Hotel in Wyomissing.

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The Bookworm Sez

The Lost Girls of Paris Terri Schlichenmeyer

The frame was beautiful.

The picture inside it was of a stranger.

Who would give away that lovely piece of workmanship with a loved one’s portrait displayed? Who didn’t cherish it enough to keep it?

And in the new novel, The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff, who were the women in the picture?

Grace was running late.

That was unusual, and so was the reason: She’d spent the night in a hotel room with her late husband’s best friend.

Head down, embarrassed at such uncharacteristic behavior, she was surprised to spot a suitcase that had obviously been abandoned beneath a bench in Grand Central Station. She’d opened the suitcase and, in yet another unordinary action, took a handful of pictures that were inside.

It was a morning filled with uniqueness: Grace then barely missed witnessing an accident in which a woman was killed — the same woman, as it happened, to whom the suitcase belonged.

Eleanor was very protective of her girls.

She’d hand-picked each one of them, some for their fluent French and others for their dexterity.

When they signed on with the British Special Operations Executive (SOE), it was she who made sure they were physically fit and highly trained for the jobs they’d do to help with the resistance in German-occupied France. She was

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the one responsible for bringing them home at the end of World War II. In the meantime, Eleanor’s girls would do dangerous work. They’d be as prepared as possible for their tasks. She’d personally see to that.

Marie wasn’t entirely sure why she stayed with the SOE. Eleanor had given her ample opportunity to quit. She knew how much Marie missed her daughter, how much she hated training, and how unconfident Marie was in herself.

And yet, despite Eleanor’s offers and the danger involved, Marie couldn’t bring herself to quit. When her deployment within the SOE placed her The Lost Girls of Paris in a flat above a tavern that was known

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If you’re looking for something to carry around with you every day this week, check this out: The Lost Girls of Paris is a novel as thrilling as every espionage story you’ve ever read, as soft as every war romance you’ve ever heard, and as brutal as every war movie you’ve ever seen. Yep, that good.

Set at the end of and just after World War II, this novel captures readers’ imaginations from the outset, with the death of one of its main characters.

Photo credit Mindy Schwartz Sorasky The intrigue never lets up from there, Author Pam Jenoff. as author Pam Jenoff takes a heroic true story from the war and novelizes it without prettifying it; indeed, people die in this book — a lot. Further small details make this story, and they’ll sometimes make you forget it’s fiction.

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The Beauty in Nature

Warblers I’ve Enjoyed Clyde McMillan-Gamber

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except they are slimmer and have thin beaks and a yellow rump.

During winter, they mostly ingest berries, the reason they can winter in the north.

These are a few of my favorite warblers. Their relatives, and all life, have something of interest as well.

Life on Earth is quite intriguing, more than anything else.

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Several kinds of his nesting territory. warblers, which Common are small, colorful yellowthroat birds that winter in warblers are olive Central and South brown on top America, nest in and yellow below. forests and woody Each male also thickets in North has a black mask America, including over his eyes. He in southeastern sings “witchety, Pennsylvania. witchety, witchety” Yellow warbler Often called to attract a mate to “feathered jewels,” his nesting territory many kinds of among shrubbery these lively little near ponds and birds migrate small waterways. through here early Blue-winged in May, and some warblers hatch species stay here to young in rows of raise young. multiflora rose All species bushes between Photo by Tony Castro of warblers eat fields. This species Blue-winged warbler invertebrates is olive above and during the warmer yellow underneath months and feed the same to their and has a little light blue on each offspring. wing. Males emit an interesting, All warblers are small, and most buzzy song that sounds like an elf of them are difficult to see. Use inhaling and exhaling, “beeee-buzzzz.” field guides or get online to see the Louisiana waterthrushes “dance beautiful colors and patterns that and bob” as they walk along identify each species. woodland streams in search of aquatic I have fond memories of seven invertebrates. Those extra motions kinds of favorite warblers that I resemble debris bouncing in the particularly enjoy in southeastern current of the stream, which is a form Pennsylvania. Each species has at of camouflage. least one characteristic that makes it Waterthrushes rear offspring in interesting. leaf-lined notches behind tree roots in Palm warblers migrate through here stream banks. early in April, which is before most Ovenbirds walk on dead-leaf warblers do. They inhabit woodland forest floors to get invertebrates for swamps where they walk, while themselves and their young. Brown pumping their tails, along edges of above and white with rows of dark shallow puddles on leafy forest floors spots below, ovenbirds blend into leafto get invertebrates. carpeted forest floors.

This attractive species is brown on The usually invisible males ring out top, which camouflages it, and yellow “teacher, teacher, teacher” to attract below with a rusty cap. females to them for raising youngsters Yellow warblers are yellow all over, on woodland floors. making them striking among the Little flocks of yellow-rumped leaves of willow trees and bushes, warblers winter in southeastern where they nest by ponds and streams. Pennsylvania and through much Each male yellow warbler sings lively of the eastern United States. They ditties that attract a female to him in resemble sparrows to some extent,

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Traveltizers

By Andrea Gross

United by Passion: Baltimore’s Unique Museums

One minute exist were it not I’m outside the for the passion American Visionary and dedication of Art Museum, some extraordinary gazing at a 55-footfolks. tall whirligig. It spins, it whirls, it An Idealist’s catches light and Determination: splatters it onto a The American nearby wall covered Visionary Art with fragments of Museum mirror and tile.

It took Rebecca Inside the Hoffberger 10 museum there’s a years to open a The mosaic wall of the AVAM was built with the help Art at the AVAM ranges from a most unusual auto giant “Bra Ball,” of at-risk students as a means of helping them learn to a giant ball created from the bras of breast cancer museum honoring created from the “outsider art,” a valuable job skills. survivors. bras of nearly 2,000 term that’s often breast cancer survivors. used by those on the inside to describe As you can tell, the AVAM is an works they don’t understand. extremely unusual place, one that celebrates This is art that owes nothing to the intuition and ingenuity of self-taught tradition (as does folk art) and little to the artists. surrounding environment (as does most A few hours later I’m at the Baltimore art). Rather it seems to burst forth from the Museum of Art, reveling in the bright colors creator’s soul — thoroughly original, often and exuberant style of paintings by French quixotic or quirky. In short, visionary. artist Henri Matisse. In addition to an Most works — like the haunting figure internationally acclaimed collection of art, carved by a tuberculosis patient — are the BMA is the proud owner of the world’s accompanied by a story, bringing voice to largest holding of Matisse paintings. the oft-anonymous and usually uncelebrated Finally, I find myself in front of the Flag artist. Some elicit tears, other bring laughs, House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum, all provoke thought. staring at a giant glass replica of the banner Today the museum, which has been Pickersgill’s home has been restored with furniture that inspired our national anthem. Behind designated America’s “official national reminiscent of the early 1800s. it is the home of the woman who stitched education center, repository, and museum the original flag, now a National Historic for self-taught, intuitive artistry,” is spread Landmark. over more than an acre that contains three Here, an overview of three truly unique museums, none of which would buildings as well as several outdoor exhibition areas.

Yet despite its newfound respectability, it is, says Hoffberger, “a most unmuseumy place” — and this is just the way she likes it. www.avam.org

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The Sisters’ Fervor: The Baltimore Museum of Art The building that houses the BMA is replete with a portico and classical Greek columns, just the sort of place where you’d expect to find 90,000 pieces of art and artifacts that span continents as well as centuries.

But it’s the Cone collection that has brought worldwide fame to the museum. Claribel and Etta Cone were Golden Girls from the Gilded Age, rich socialites with an eye for art and the money to indulge.

They traveled the world, and their “souvenirs” were works by some of the greatest late 19th- and early 20th-century artists, from Matisse and Picasso to Cézanne, Gauguin, and van Gogh.

Over the years, their collection reached approximately 3,000 objects, and in 1949 it was donated to the BMA, a gift that catapulted the already excellent museum to even higher levels. www.50plusLifePA.com

The Flag Museum features a life-size glass rendition of the giant flag sewn by Mary Pickersgill and her helpers.

Pickersgill’s home features a replica of the flag that became the known as the Star-Spangled Banner.

There’s no way we can see everything at the BMA in one visit. We feast on the works of Matisse and then go outside to the sculpture gardens, where more than 30 works by acclaimed artists, such as Auguste Rodin and Alexander Calder, are spread across nearly 3 acres. www. artbma.org

In Fell’s Point, near the home where Mary Pickersgill stitched the famous flag, a costumed interpreter relates the events of the War of 1812.

The Patriots’ Passion: The Flag House and Star-Spangled Banner Museum When, during the War of 1812, Commander George Armistead asked seamstress Mary Pickersgill to create a flag to fly above Baltimore’s Fort McHenry, she may have gulped, but she didn’t hesitate.

Instead she enlisted the help of five women and together, working near round-the-clock, they produced a large garrison flag that could be seen for miles around as well as a smaller flag that could be used in inclement weather.

As the British pummeled the fort during the Battle of Baltimore, a young lawyer named Francis Scott Key watched from aboard a small ship. The following morning, “in the dawn’s early light,” he saw the giant flag and knew that Baltimore was safe.

Thus inspired, he wrote the poem that later became the national anthem of the United States, and the giant flag that Mary Pickersgill and her helpers had made became known as the Star-Spangled Banner.

We visit Pickersgill’s home and the adjacent Flag Museum. The museum is filled with exhibits relating to the War of 1812, but it’s Pickersgill’s home — restored with period furniture — that gives me a tingly feeling. This is where history was made, one stitch at a time. www.flaghouse.org

Photos ©Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (andreagross.com).

Agency Seeks Volunteers for Visitor Programs The York County Area Agency on Aging is seeking volunteers for its friendly visitor and financial counselor programs.

A volunteer friendly visitor is someone who is willing to share an hour or two each week with a homebound older adult.

Many of these older adults have very limited social contact. These visits are often the high point of their week, whether spent reading, writing letters, playing card or board games, or just chatting.

Financial counselors visit older adults on a regular basis and assist them with budgeting, balancing a checkbook, paying bills, and other financial functions. Financial counselors work closely with the consumer’s care manager.

These are perfect volunteer opportunities for both men and women of all ages (18 or older) who like to help others. No experience is needed; YCAAA provides training for both programs.

For more information, contact Hope Eberly, volunteer coordinator, at (717) 771-9610, (800) 632-9073, or at hceberly@yorkcountypa.gov.

Volunteer applications can be downloaded from the “Forms and Documents” page of www.ycaaa.org.

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MAY 9 - JUNE 22 An idealistic young King Arthur hopes to create a kingdom with the Knights of the Round Table who fight for justice and right. His ideals however are tested when his lovely queen, Guenevere, falls in love with his favorite knight, Lancelot and the fate of the kingdom hangs in the balance.

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Nursing & Rehabilitation Centers The listings with a shaded background have additional information about their center in a display advertisement in this edition.

Bethany Village – The Oaks

325 Wesley Drive • Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 (717) 766-0279 • www.bethanyvillage.org Number of Beds: 69 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes

Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Accreditations/Affiliations: CARF; Eagle, LeadingAge PA Comments: Maplewood Assisted Living also available.

Conestoga View

900 East King Street • Lancaster, PA 17602 (717) 299-7850 • www.conestogaviewnursing.com Number of Beds: 436 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Respiratory, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes

24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes

Homestead Village

1800 Village Circle • Lancaster, PA 17603 (717) 397-4831 • www.homesteadvillage.org Number of Beds: 60 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Short-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: No 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes

Scheduled Entertainment: Yes Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Comments: CARF-CCAC accredited, five-star rating. Small-care households make our community very attractive.

Convenient location and quality care.

Pleasant View Communities

544 North Pennryn Road • Manheim, PA 17545 (717) 665-2445 • www.pleasantviewrc.org Number of Beds: 133 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Short-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes

Scheduled Entertainment: Yes Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: No Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Comments: Delivering compassionate care that encompasses physical, emotional, social, and spiritual needs since 1955.

Claremont Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 1000 Claremont Road • Carlisle, PA 17013 (717) 243-2031 • www.ccpa.net/cnrc Number of Beds: 282 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes

Private Rooms Available: No Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Comments: Featuring Transitions at Claremont, a dedicated, 39-bed, shortterm rehab unit. Claremont provides quality skilled nursing and secured dementia care.

Homeland Center

1901 North Fifth Street • Harrisburg, PA 17102-1598 (717) 221-7902 • www.homelandcenter.org Number of Beds: 95 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Short-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes

Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Accreditations/Affiliations: AAHSA, LeadingAge PA (PANPHA), NHPCO, PHN, HPNA Comments: A beautiful, full-service continuing care retirement community with a history of more than 150 years of exemplary care.

Mennonite Home Communities

1520 Harrisburg Pike • Lancaster, PA 17601 (717) 393-1301 • www.mennonitehome.org Number of Beds: 188 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes Scheduled Entertainment: Yes

Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Accreditations/Affiliations: Equal Housing, LeadingAge PA Comments: Person-centered care with reputation for compassion and excellence. Established in 1903. Respite care available w/minimum stay.

Transitions Healthcare – Gettysburg

595 Biglerville Road • Gettysburg, PA 17325 (717) 334-6249 • www.transitionshealthcarellc.com Number of Beds: 135 Rehabilitation Unit: Yes Alzheimer’s Unit: Yes Skilled Licensed Nursing: Yes Therapy: Speech, Occupational, Respiratory, Physical Long-Term Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes 24-Hour Medical Care: Yes Recreational Activities: Yes

Scheduled Entertainment: Yes Private Rooms Available: Yes Semi-Private Rooms Available: Yes Pet Visitation Allowed: Yes Beauty/Barber Shop: Yes Medicare: Yes Medicaid: Yes Accreditations/Affiliations: PHCA, PACA Comments: Fully staffed Transitions Healthcare employees in skilled nursing and sub-acute rehab. Tours are encouraged!

This is not an all-inclusive list of agencies and providers. These advertisers are eager to provide additional information about their services.

York County

Calendar of Events

Community Programs/Support Groups Free and open to the public

Senior Center Activities

May 3, 10:30 a.m.

Partners in Thyme Herb Club of Southern York County Glenview Alliance Church 10037 Susquehanna Trail, Glen Rock (717) 428-2210

May 7, 7 p.m.

Surviving Spouse Socials of York County Faith United Church of Christ 509 Pacific Ave., York (717) 266-2784

Crispus Attucks Active Living Center (717) 848-3610, www.crispusattucks.org

May 6, 9:30 a.m.

Green Thumb Garden Club Meeting Emmanuel Lutheran Church 2650 Freysville Road, Red Lion (717) 235-2823

May 21, 7-8 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Support Group Providence Place 3377 Fox Run Road, Dover (717) 767-4500

parks and recreation May 7, 14, 21, 28, 6:30-9 p.m. – Sunset Scramble Bike Ride, Heritage Rail Trail County Park May 18, 8:30 p.m. – Moonlight Bike Ride, Heritage Rail Trail County Park

Library Programs Arthur Hufnagel Public Library of Glen Rock, 32 Main St., Glen Rock, (717) 235-1127 Collinsville Community Library, 2632 Delta Road, Brogue, (717) 927-9014 Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m. – Purls of Brogue Knitting Club Dillsburg Area Public Library, 17 S. Baltimore St., Dillsburg, (717) 432-5613 May 3, 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Give Local York: Food Trucks May 6, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Health and Wellness – Natural Summer Prep May 11, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Pickle Fest (Booth on Greenbriar Lane) Dover Area Community Library, 3700-3 Davidsburg Road, Dover, (717) 292-6814 Wednesdays, 6-7 p.m. – Knitting Group May 3, 10:3 0-11 a.m. – Healthy Mind, Healthy Me Storytime and Vision Screening (Family) May 23, 7-8 p.m. – Community Conversation Glatfelter Memorial Library, 101 Glenview Road, Spring Grove, (717) 225-3220 May 3, 6-8 p.m. – Give Local York: Spring Grove Community Event May 8, 5:30-7 p.m. – Board Game Night May 14, 6 -8 p.m. – America and Other Cultures: Experiences of a Retired American Diplomat Guthrie Memorial Library, 2 Library Place, Hanover, (717) 632-5183 May 7, 6:30-8 p.m. – Mystery Book Club May 11, noon to 3 p.m. – Guthrie’s Day for Book Lovers: Meet Pam Jenoff May 16, 6-8 p.m. – Cookbook Club Kaltreider-Benfer Library, 147 S. Charles St., Red Lion, (717) 244-2032 Thursdays, 6-8 p.m. – Knit Wits

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May 7, 6-8 p.m. – Greeting Card Workshop May 23, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – G reen Thumb Garden Club Lecture Series Kreutz Creek Valley Library Center, 66 Walnut Springs Road, Hellam, (717) 252-4080 May 28, 6:30-7:30 p.m. – C ookbook Discussion Group Martin Library, 159 E. Market St., York, (717) 846-5300 May 5, 2-3 p.m. – Murder in the Stacks: Penn State, Betsy Aardsma, and the Killer Who Got Away May 18, 10 a.m. to noon – Using Facebook May 18, 10:30-11:30 a.m. – Used-Car Buying Mason-Dixon Public Library, 250 Bailey Drive, Stewartstown, (717) 993-2404 May 6, 6-7:30 p.m. – Coin Club May 20, 1:30-2:30 p.m. – Writing Support Group Paul Smith Library of Southern York County, 80 Constitution Ave., Shrewsbury, (717) 235-4313 May 3, 2-3 p.m. – Tools to Protect User Privacy May 6, 6-8 p.m. – Gourd Workshop May 29, 7-8:30 p.m. – Human Library Red Land Community Library, 48 Robin Hood Drive, Etters, (717) 938-5599 May 8, 6:30-8 p.m. – Our Covered Bridges May 16, noon to 1 p.m. – Lunch and Learn May 31, 7-10 p.m. – Trivia Night Village Library, 35-C N. Main St., Jacobus, (717) 428-1034 Tuesdays, noon to 2 p.m. – Village Knitters Thursdays, 5-8 p.m. – Village Knitters May 16, 7:30-8:30 p.m. – Rowdy Readers

Delta Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 456-5753 Dillsburg Senior Activity Center – (717) 432-2216 Eastern Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 252-1641 Golden Connections Community Center (717) 244-7229, www.gcccenter.com Weekdays, 9 a.m. – Games Tuesdays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – Pinochle Fridays, 9:15 a.m. – Computers 101 South Central Senior Community Center (717) 235-6060 https://southcentralyorkcountysrctr.webs.com Wednesdays, 9:15 a.m. – Ceramics Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – Line Dancing Fridays, 9 a.m. – Weights Class Susquehanna Senior Center – (717) 244-0340 www.susquehannaseniorcenter.org Mondays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. – Chorus Practice Tuesdays, 6-10 p.m. – Bluegrass/Country Music Jam Session Windy Hill On the Campus – (717) 225-0733 https://windyhillonthecampus.org Tuesdays, 1-2 p.m. – Ballroom Dancing Classes Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. – Exercise Class for Parkinson’s Patients and Caregivers May 21, 12:30 p.m. – Monthly Book Club Submit senior center events to mjoyce@onlinepub.com.

Math and Reading Tutors Needed RSVP – York County seeks volunteer tutors 55 and over for Southeastern School District. Tutors would begin serving in September.

Volunteer tutors are needed in math or reading for Stewartstown Elementary School, Fawn Area Elementary School, and Delta-Peach Bottom Elementary School. Volunteers may choose in which school they prefer to tutor.

Volunteer benefits include: free supplemental liability insurance, recognition and appreciation events, paid assistance with clearances, and free two-hour tutoring training.

For more information, contact Scott Hunsinger at (717) 893-8474 or email yorkrsvp@rsvpcapreg.org.

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York County Senior Games Begin June 17 More than 500 seniors from across York County are expected to come together in late June for the 18th annual York County Senior Games.

The York County Senior Games began in 2002 as a one-day program featuring approximately 20 events. It now extends for five days and offers participants the chance to test their skills in 48 events.

The goal is to promote healthy lifestyles and fitness for York County men and women aged 50 and older. Registration is now open for this year’s games, which will take place June 17–21.

Events will include annual favorites such as cornhole, horseshoes, shuffleboard, throws, basketball hot shots, pinochle, Wii bowling, and the seventh year of the triathlon. A new event for 2019 is pickleball.

There is a $15 registration fee for an unlimited number of events. All registrations must be postmarked by the June 7 registration deadline.

The Senior Games are organized by the York County Area Agency on Aging in conjunction with the Senior Games Planning Committee.

Any York County resident 50 years of age or older as of Dec. 31, 2019, may participate.

Registration booklets are available at many locations throughout the county or can be obtained by contacting the York County Area Agency on Aging at (717) 771-9001 or (800) 632-9073.

Register Now! 18th Annual

June 17–21 For York County Residents Age 50+ Participants compete for gold, silver, and bronze medals in their age groups.

Compete in favorites such as cornhole, horseshoes, pinochle, swimming, and new this year — pickleball!

Join us for the opening ceremony on June 18 at 8:15 a.m. in the cafeteria of Central York High School!

Registration Deadline: June 7

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Registration booklets and forms are also available at www.yorkcountypa.gov/health-humanservices/agency-on-aging.html on the Forms and Documents page.

Monday, June 17 • Bowling: Singles – 9 a.m. at Hanover Bowling Centre • A Walk in the Park – 9 a.m. at John Rudy Park • Pickleball: Men’s – 9 a.m. at Roll ‘R’ Way Skating Center • Pickleball: Women’s – 11 a.m. at Roll ‘R’ Way Skating Center • Bowling: Doubles – Noon at Hanover Bowling Centre • Pickleball: Mixed – 1:30 p.m. at Roll ‘R’ Way Skating Center • Table Tennis – 2 p.m. at Hopewell Area Recreation & Parks Tuesday, June 18 All events at Central York High School (except mini golf).

• Opening Ceremony – 8:15 a.m.

• Bocce – Begins at 9 a.m.; specific times for age groups will be listed in registration booklet.

• Ladder Golf – Drop in between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.

• Soccer Kick – Drop in between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.

• Washers – Drop in between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.

• Wii Archery – Drop in between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m.

• Mini Golf – Drop in 1–5:30 p.m. at Heritage Hills Wednesday, June 19 All events at Central York High School (except shooting).

• Running Events – 5K Walk/Run, 8 a.m.; 50-meter, 9:15 a.m.; 100-meter, 9:45 a.m.; 4x100 relay, 10:15 a.m.; 400-meter, 10:45 a.m.; Sprint Medley, 11:15 a.m.; 1600-meter, 11:45 a.m.

• Shuffleboard – Begins at 10 a.m.; specific times for age groups will be listed in registration booklet.

• Throws – Drop in between 9 a.m. and 2 p.m.

• Basketball Hoops – Drop in 3–5 p.m.

• Target Shooting – 1 p.m. at Izaak Walton League • Trap Shooting – 6 p.m. at Izaak Walton League Thursday, June 20 All events at Central York High School (except golf and horseshoes).

• 9-Hole Golf – 8 a.m. at Little Creek Golf Course • Horseshoes: Singles – 8 a.m. at John Rudy Park • Horseshoes: Doubles – immediately following singles at John Rudy Park • Darts – Drop in between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m.

• Wii Bowling – Drop in 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

• 500-Bid Card Game – 9:30 a.m.

• Basketball Hoops – Drop in 3–5 p.m.

• Three-on-Three Basketball – 6 p.m. please see SENIOR GAMES page 21

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Fruit and Vegetable Vouchers Available The York County Area Agency on Aging, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, is again offering the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program to eligible York County seniors.

This program provides $20 in vouchers to eligible seniors to buy fresh fruit and vegetables from participating local farm markets.

York County residents are eligible to participate if they are 60 years of age or older by Dec. 31, 2019, and have a 2019 total gross annual household income at or below $23,107 for a single person or $31,284 for a couple.

All income is included when calculating total gross income. Proof of age and York County residency must be presented to obtain vouchers. A couple may each receive a voucher if their combined total income is within the income requirements.

2019 proxy forms are required for those eligible seniors authorizing someone else to pick up the vouchers for them. Powers of attorney and spouses must also use a proxy form. ID for the senior and the proxy is required.

The 2019 proxy form is available at most senior centers and the York County Area Agency on Aging, 100 W. Market St., York; it can also be downloaded from the Forms & Documents page of the agency’s website at www.ycaaa.org.

One individual may not pick up vouchers for more than four people.

Individuals are eligible to receive the vouchers only once per calendar year. The vouchers can be redeemed between June 1 and Nov. 30 on fruits and vegetables grown in Pennsylvania.

Residents of nursing homes, personal care homes, or any residential facility where meals are provided are not eligible to receive vouchers.

Vouchers will be distributed from 9:30–11:30 a.m. (unless otherwise noted) at the following York County locations, for as long as supplies last:

Crispus Attucks Association 605 S. Duke St., York Friday, May 31

Susquehanna Area Senior Center 2427 Craley Road, Wrightsville Monday, June 3

Hanover Council of Churches 136 Carlisle St., Hanover Tuesday, July 9 Red Land Senior Center 736 Wyndamere Road, Lewisberry Thursday, July 11

Whitecomb’s Farm Market 2410 Roosevelt Ave., York Monday, July 15 Brown’s Orchards (Pavilion) 8892 Susquehanna Trail South, Loganville Tuesday, July 16

Flinchbaugh’s Orchards (Pavilion) 110 Ducktown Road, York (Hellam) Thursday, July 18

Dillsburg Senior Center 1 N. Second St., Dillsburg Tuesday, July 23

York Central Market 34 W. Philadelphia St., York

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Calvary United Methodist Church 11 N. Richland Ave., York Monday, May 20

Northeastern Senior Community Center 131 Center St., Mount Wolf Tuesday, May 21

South Central York County Senior Center 150 E. Main St., New Freedom Thursday, May 23

Yorktown Senior Center 509 Pacific Ave., York Tuesday, May 28

Stewartstown Senior Center 26 S. Main St., Stewartstown Wednesday, May 29

Heritage Senior Center 3700 Davidsburg Road, Dover Thursday, May 30

Delta Area Senior Center 5 Pendyrus St., Suite 1, Delta Tuesday, June 4

Windy Hill on the Campus 1472 Roth’s Church Road, Spring Grove Wednesday, June 5

Golden Connections Community Center 20-C Gotham Place, Red Lion Thursday, June 6

White Rose Senior Center 27 S. Broad St., York Tuesday, June 25 Note: 9–11:30 a.m.

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(Corner of Philadelphia and Beaver streets) Thursday, July 25 Note: 9–11 a.m.

Calvary Bible Church 603 Wilson Ave., Hanover Monday, July 29

Aldersgate United Methodist Church 397 Tyler Run Road, York Tuesday, July 30

Golden Connections Community Center 20-C Gotham Place, Red Lion Thursday, Aug. 1

Manchester Township Municipal Office 3200 Farmtrail Road, York Thursday, Aug. 8

White Rose Senior Center 27 S. Broad St., York Tuesday, Aug. 13

Brown’s Orchards (Pavilion) 8892 Susquehanna Trail South, Loganville Tuesday, Aug. 20 Springettsbury Township Municipal Office 1501 Mount Zion Road, York Wednesday, Aug. 21

West Manchester Township Municipal Office 380 E. Berlin Road, York Wednesday, Aug. 28

York County Area Agency on Aging Booth 50plus EXPO York Expo Center, Memorial Hall East 334 Carlisle Ave., York Wednesday, Sept. 25 Note: 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Anyone requiring further information should contact Cindy at the York County Area Agency on Aging at (717) 771-9610.

Free Classes Address Concerns about Falling The York County Area Agency on Aging will host free fall-risk management classes for York County residents age 60 and older this spring.

The award-winning series A Matter of Balance will be held Mondays and Wednesdays, May 8–June 5, from 10 a.m. to noon at York Township Park Building, 25 Oak St., York Township.

A Matter of Balance targets older adults who have concerns about falling, have fallen in the past, have restricted their activities because of falling concerns, or are interested in improving balance, flexibility, and strength.

This free program emphasizes practical strategies to manage falls. Participants will learn to: view falls as controllable; set goals for increasing activity; make changes to reduce fall risks at home; and exercise to increase strength and balance.

Class will not be held Memorial Day, May 27.

For more information or to register for A Matter of Balance, call Faye Kinard at (717) 771-9610.

Participants learn about exercise basics The York County Area Agency on Aging also welcomes the return of Healthy Steps in Motion, and safety, setting goals, aerobic walking, and more. In addition, they will be assessed a falls-prevention exercise program for adults 60 for fall risk and given a free textbook and and older, to be held Mondays and Wednesdays, resources.

May 13–June 10, from 1–2 p.m. at the East York The East York YMCA is located at 4075 E. YMCA. This evidence-based series is designed Market St., Hellam Township. There will be no class on Memorial Day, May 27. especially for older adults who have concerns To preregister for Healthy Steps in Motion, call about falling and are interested in exercisethe East York YMCA at (717) 650-1270. focused strength training, as well as balance improvement.

This free program starts with a warmup, followed Tom & Randi LaNasa “MEMORY MUSIC” by strength and balance exercises, and ends with a cool-down stretch. There are three levels of exercise, which enables participants to continue HSIM for as long as they like.

SENIOR GAMES from page 18 Friday, June 21 All events at Central York High School.

• Cornhole – Drop in between 8:30 a.m. and noon • Darts – Drop in between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

• Wii Bowling – Drop in between 9 a.m. and 1 p.m.

• Pinochle – 9 a.m.

• Swimming Events – Begin at 9:45 a.m. (all events follow immediately after each other): Freestyle 50-yard, Backstroke 50-yard, Breaststroke 50yard, Freestyle 100-yard, Backstroke 100-yard, Breaststroke 100-yard, Individual Medley, Freestyle Relay 200-yard, Medley Relay 200-yard • Poker – 12:30 p.m. www.50plusLifePA.com

• Closing Celebration – 4 p.m. in Central York Cafeteria

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We have many variety shows featuring the music from the 1930s to the 60s.

Songs by legendary artists like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, Kay Starr, Dean Martin, Patsy Cline, and the Mills Brothers.

Specialty shows include …

Songs from the WWII Years • The Post WWII Years: 1945 – 1955 AMERICA: From Sea to Shining Sea Salute to the Rat Pack (or if you prefer, just Sinatra) Elvis & Patsy • Classic Country Please contact Memory Music to book your next event!

Phone: (717) 846-6126

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How to Make Philanthropy Fit into Your Financial Plans

By John Hagensen One of the universal truths is that, while money can help meet your needs and provide you with the basic necessities of life, it can’t make you happy.

However, it can be a powerful weapon of selfsatisfaction when used the right way — such as through philanthropic endeavors.

“Money can be an incredible tool when you align it with your values,” says John Hagensen, founder and managing director of Keystone Wealth Partners.

“It enables you to feel a sense of contentment that your money is working hard for you to help you accomplish goals that match your values.”

And if you value giving back to others — to your community, to your favorite cause, or to planet Earth — then money will enable you to accomplish that goal.

But as you look at your budget for 2019, you may not know where the money will come from to give to your favorite charity or cause.

The answer is that it is probably sitting right underneath your nose, Hagensen says. But it will take discipline to find it.

Hagensen practices what he preaches; his company has made a commitment to donate up to $10,000 to help create clean-water projects in Africa. That aligns with his values because he adopted two children from Ethiopia and wanted to give something back to their native homeland.

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Hagensen has three tips for those who want to give to their favorite charities in 2019 but aren’t sure where the money will come from: Write down your values. Spend a few minutes to really examine what is important to you. Make sure all your monetary decisions support your values.

If you have older children or grandchildren, include them in the discussion so you can create a teachable moment for them.

Write down your long-term and short-term goals. Compare those goals to how you are spending your money.

Spend intentionally. If you value traveling, then cut down your expenses at home so you can travel more. Align your expenses with what you value in life and your wants and needs.

Cut out all of the expenses that don’t align with your values. There is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to what is important to people.

Most people think that a house is a necessity, but some people would rather live in a tent and travel all the time than own a home. It just depends on what you value, so make the most of your money.

“It usually does not take a major financial overhaul to give more to philanthropic causes,” Hagensen says. “It just takes a consistent approach that aligns with your values.”

John Hagensen is the founder and managing director of Keystone Wealth Partners (www.keystonewealthpartners.com) in Chandler, Ariz. He holds the financial designations of CFS, CAS, CIS, CTS, and CES. Hagensen is passionate about coaching his clients to remain disciplined and committed to a long-term financial strategy.

3P Ride Receives $50,000 Veterans’ Transportation Grant 3P Ride, Inc. received a $50,000 Veterans Trust Fund grant for veterans’ transportation to medical care for a total of five central Pennsylvania counties, including York County.

3P Ride is the 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed by rabbittransit.

While some veterans’ transportation exists, the grant allows for an expansion into Adams, Dauphin, Cumberland, and Columbia counties.

“3P Ride and rabbittransit have provided nearly 10,000 trips for veterans to the Lebanon VA Hospital,” Richard Farr, 3P ride director, said.

“To be able to offer connections to veterans is a privilege, and these funds help make that possible. Financial support allows us the opportunity to meet the medical-travel needs of many of our residents who served our country.”

The Veterans’ Trust Fund grant, administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, was awarded to 29 Pennsylvania organizations that support veterans’ programs throughout the commonwealth.

For more information, call (800) 632-9063 or visit https://3p-ride.org/ product/rides-local-veterans. www.50plusLifePA.com

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Easy Art Terms

Reach Active, Affluent Boomers & Seniors!

Dr. Lori Verderame

The art world can be a mysterious one. If you learn a little bit about the various media and materials used, you can take some of the mystery out of collecting art.

Here are some easy art terms to aid the novice: Oil: Paint made with natural oils (linseed, walnut, etc.) used as a binder with the color or pigment. Oil paint can be applied onto canvas, paper, wood panel, or linen support.

Acrylic: A synthetic (not natural) resin that dries faster than oil paint and binds the resin with the color or pigment.

Tempera: An age-old water-based paint using egg yolks as a binding agent. American master Andrew Wyeth was best known for reviving this Renaissance technique during the 1900s.

Watercolor: Similar to gouache but without the addition of gum. Water is mixed with ground color or pigment.

The result is a lighter-weight surface texture on paper.

Gouache: Similar to watercolor but with the addition of gum and water to the ground color or pigment. The result is a heavier surface texture on paper.

When it comes to collecting works of art, the material or medium matters, but it is not the only aspect that will affect market interest, collectability, and value. A watercolor can be as costly and as sought-after www.50plusLifePA.com

as an oil on canvas, depending on the work’s artist, age, condition, subject matter, quality, and other factors.

While oil paintings are most traditional and oil paint is one of the oldest methods used by studio artists, acrylic has become widely accepted by collectors of 20thcentury paintings and contemporary artists.

Acrylic paint enjoyed widespread use in the late 1900s and continues to be used today by artists internationally. Oil paints were introduced in the early 1500s and were used with impressive results by the northern European artists of the time.

Tempera paint dates back to the Renaissance period (1400s) and beforehand. It was commonly applied to wooden panels and board and later on canvas and linen supports too.

Watercolors and gouaches are difficult to master and attract many artists and collectors. The delicacy with which these compositions are executed remains of interest to many collectors in various subjects.

Whatever medium you collect, be sure to review the artist’s credentials, sales records, condition, exhibition record (museum status), and subject matter as you build your collection.

Dr. Lori Verderame is an author and award-winning TV personality who appears on History channel’s The Curse of Oak Island. With a Ph.D. from Penn State University and experience appraising 20,000 antiques every year, Dr. Lori presents antique appraisal events nationwide. Visit www.drloriv.com or call (888) 431-1010.

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