BOOM!, The River Region’s 50+ Lifestage Magazine
Contents
October 2015
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” Carl Bard
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Thought Relationships Taste Inspiration
Humor Advice Health Community
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” C.S. Lewis
3 Jackson Hospital’s Health News 8 Publisher’s Letter 10 Exercise...The Happy Drug! Leigh Anne Richards 11 Riverwalk Wine Festival WIN TICKETS! 12 “A Toast to You!” with Brandt McDonald 15 Tavern Fest page 45
16 The Walk to End Alzheimer’s
Features
18 BOOM! Cover Profile
30 How’s SS Calculated? 32 Declutter Your Life 34 The Personalized Un-Cruise
22 Breast Cancer Awareness
Departments 14 This and That
26 Eating Smart with Tracy Bhalla: Pasta
Understand the math behind Social Security...kinda.
Now You’re “In the Know”
the perfect time to shed those behaviors, habits...
Un-Cruise tells you what they aren’t.
44 {12} Things
Solutions for Bored Boomers
38 Greg Budell
24 Beauty Buzz Super at 70
27 What Does Tannin Contribute to a Wine?
THE “O” WORD
28 When a Loved One Enters a Nursing Home? Ask an Elder Law Attorney
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COVER PROFILE page 18
31 BOOM! Ad Rates 33 MANE’s: Raise the Roof Seafood Celebration page 38 page 22
37 Remembering Barbara Gallagher 41 Ask Nancy: Protecting your parents from phone scammers 46 Why Grandparents are VIP’s
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BOOM! The River Regions 50+ Lifestage Magazine is published monthly by River Region Publications, 6398 Eastwood Glen Pl., Montgomery, AL 36117. The phone number is 334.324.3472. Copyright 2015 by River Region Publications. No part of this publication can be reproduced without written permission from the publisher. Opinions expressed in BOOM! The River Regions 50+ Lifestage Magazine are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the view of the owners, nor do they constitute an endorsement of products and services herein.
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