Capital District Senior Spotlight - June 2019

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The 1s and 0s in Local History Commission of His Life Calendar and Events

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Editor’s desk

Grilling on the brain

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Summer is here and isn’t great?

ummer is here.

Now, let’s not get wrangled up in semantics. It’s June. Memorial Day has since passed, and that’s the unofficial start of summer for many of us. Science tells us it officially begins for us here on the Northern Hemisphere with the summer solstice on June 21. Something about the Earth’s tilt, the sun’s rays, cosmic mumbo jumbo, blah blah blah. Wait. Did someone say barbeque?

We’re a hardy breed, us Upstate New Yorkers.

Yes. Upstate is capitalized because it’s a proper noun identifying a specific name in our nomenclature. It falls under Homo sapien. You can look it up. You just have to know where, and scrutinizing over this is just taking us away from the meat of the matter. The succulent fact to all of this is that we can go outside. We can cook and not dress like Ernest Shackleton.

It’s a father’s way of providing for his family. We endure the buzzing flies. We sweat over the heat. We cough through the smoke. Why, this is a real man’s job.

By “real man,” I mean like cowboys coming in from wrestling steer, or ironworkers welding battleships together. Yes, I know women do this, too. I’m not saying.

No. I’m… wait. I was just. Whoa! The coals are flaring up, I’ve got to take that.

By now, you’ve already done this once or twice. I know I have. You know I have. It’s on my brain. You can tell, and can you blame me? Between you and me, you know it’s cheating, right? It’s a treat to be able to sit next to the grill after laboring over the yard. It’s not working. It’s not a chore. I’m one closed door and a roll of toilet paper away from it being my safe room. It’s a designated area where I claim ownership and no one is allowed in. The kids must stay away from the grill. It’s too hot. My wife needs to go sit down. I’ve got this, honey. It’s just me, the grill and some good music. Yeah.

Hey. Maybe we should turn this into a party. What do you think?

Sincerely, Michael Hallisey, Managing Editor Spotlight Newspapers

June 2019 Features Financial: Embrace Retirement

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Health: Can Tea Be Too Hot?

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Inside Feature: The 1s and 0s in Local History 10-11

Columnists Social Security Corner

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Retiring Retirement

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Veteran Next Door

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Senior Services Albany JCC

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Clifton Park Senior Community Center 14 Voorheesville Public Library

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Bethlehem Public Library

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Niskayuna Senior Center

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Advertising and the Design of the American Jewish Experience, presented by author Kerri Steinberg. Steinberg is also a professor at Otis College of Art and Design.

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Social Security Corner

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ffordable medical coverage is something everyone wants, especially as people age. Luckily, our nation has safeguards for workers as they get older. Millions of people rely on Medicare, and it can be part of your health insurance plan when you retire.

Medicare is available for people age 65 or older, as well as younger people who have received Social Security disability benefits for 24 months, and people with certain specific diseases. Two parts of Medicare are Part A (Hospital Insurance) and Part B (Medical Insurance).

You are eligible for premiumfree Part A if you are age 65 or older and you or your spouse

worked and paid Medicare taxes for at least 10 years. Part B usually requires a monthly premium payment.

You can apply online for Medicare even if you are not ready to retire. Use our online application to sign up. It takes less than 10 minutes. In most cases, once your application is submitted electronically, you’re done. There are no forms to sign and usually no documentation is required. Social Security will process your application and contact you if we need more information. Otherwise, you’ll receive your Medicare card in the mail.

You can sign up for Medicare at www.socialsecurity.gov/ benefits/medicare.

If you don’t sign up for Medicare during your initial enrollment window that begins three months before the birthday that you reach age 65 and ends three months after that birthday, you’ll face a 10 percent increase in your Part B premiums for every year-long period you’re eligible for coverage but don’t enroll. You may not have to pay the penalty if you qualify for a special enrollment period (SEP). If you are 65 or older and covered under a group health plan, either from your own or your spouse’s current employment, you may have a special enrollment period during which you can sign up for Medicare Part B. This means that you may delay enrolling in

Elizabeth Pivonka Part B without having to wait for a general enrollment period and without paying the lifetime penalty for late enrollment.

Additional rules and limits apply, so if you think a special enrollment period may apply to you, read our Medicare publication at www.socialsecurity.gov/ pubs/, and visit the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services at Medicare.gov for more information.

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Financial

Embrace Retirement

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It’s not a race to the finish line, make sure you plan properly

etirement is on the horizon for a significant number of people.

Around 10,000 people retire each day in the United States, according to a study by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave, a consultancy studying the cultural and economic impacts of aging. But many soon-to-be retirees are not fully prepared for life after their work life ends.

Shedding new light on this next chapter can make retirement something to look forward to even more.

How retired are you?

Around 10,000 people retire each day in the United States, according to a study by Merrill Lynch and Age Wave, a consultancy studying the cultural and economic impacts of aging. But many soon-to-be retirees are not fully prepared for life after their work life ends.

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Retirement may no longer mean what it once did. Some retirees remove themselves entirely from the active employment market, while others prefer to keep at least one toe in the professional water. Some retirees change fields and do part-time work. Others may volunteer their time without getting paid. Still, some choose to use retirement as an opportunity to spearhead a new business venture that may not have been possible beforehand. Retirees should reflect on their goals, as well as their finances, and make plans accordingly.

Don’t neglect health care Retiring may involve finding health insurance and preparing for other types of health care later in life. The U.S. Census Bureau says that employmentbased insurance covered 55.4 percent of the population in 2015, the most recent years for

figures, followed by Medicaid (19.5 percent) and Medicare (16 percent). Residents of other countries may be covered by government standardized health programs. It pays to know the rules of each plan to avoid unnecessary expenses that can eat into retirement dollars. For those Americans who will be relying solely on Medicare, find a counselor who can spell out the intricacies of the plan, or use the free tool on Medicare.gov.

It’s a start, not the end Quite often soon-to-be retirees focus on the end of a career or the end of a stage in life without putting enough focus on the possibilities ahead. This is a prime time to find a new social network, travel, join a ministry, and much more.

Choose your living space Retirement can be an opportunity to shed an old skin and try on a new one — especially as it pertains to housing. There are options to downsize for empty-nesters or even to secure resources to “age in place.”

According to United Income, a money management service, retirees should try out particular scenarios and locations prior to jumping in. Rent in a particular neighborhood, or house sit and try things on for size. Airbnb and other types of services can make this trial easy.

A new outlook on retirement can open up a world of opportunities.

Health

Can Tea Be Too Hot?

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Recent studies link hot beverages to cancer

piping hot cup of tea is a morning staple for millions of people across the globe. But can tea be so hot as to adversely affect tea drinkers’ overall health?

A 2019 study from researchers with the American Cancer Society found a link between drinking hot tea and esophageal cancer.

The study, published in the International Journal of Cancer, examined more than 50,000 people between the ages of 40 and 75 in the Iranian province of Golestan for an average of 10 years. Researchers determined that tea drinkers who consumed their tea at temperatures higher than 140 F (60 C) and consumed about two large cups per day had a 90 percent higher risk of esophageal cancer compared to people who consumed less tea at cooler temperatures.

The authors of the study acknowledged more research is necessary to determine exactly why hot tea is linked with a higher risk of esophageal cancer. But scientists responding to the study suspect it’s the temperature and not the tea that’s causing the elevated risk for cancer.

“This is valuable research but not a ground-breaking discovery,” Dr. James Doidge, Senior Research Associate, University College London, told the Science Media Centre.

“Hot drinks are an established risk factor for oesophageal

cancer and it doesn’t take a scientist to appreciate that repeated irritation of any body surface increases your risk of cancer.”

So should hot tea be avoided? It seems the answer is yes if the tea is 140 F or higher.

But that same rule should be applied to any hot beverage, not just tea.

“Tea is the only drink consumed in the area (where the study was conducted), so the data relate to this beverage,” Stephen Evans, a professor of pharmacoepidemiology at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, told the Science Media Centre. “It is also true that in this area of Iran, that tea is frequently drunk at high temperatures. They did not study any other drink, but other studies have, and it seems that it is the heat that is the issue rather than the actual beverage.”

Simply waiting until the tea cools down or adding a cooling agent like milk to make the tea cool down instantly can help people indulge their love of tea without necessarily increasing their risk for esophageal cancer.

“Hot drinks are an established risk factor for oesophageal cancer and it doesn’t take a scientist to appreciate that repeated irritation of any body surface increases your risk of cancer.”

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Retiring Retirement

Part II: Commission of His Life This artist’s eyes are getting better with age This is the second in a twopart series featuring Robert Whelan. His story continues from last month’s edition of Senior Spotlight.

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start painting. At my age, I sit and think and agonize. Finally I just put paint anywhere on the canvas and before I know it, it’s four o’clock and I missed lunch.”

“At 84,” he says, “friends tell me that I don’t have any dust on me. They don’t know my age and I don’t want them to.

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obert Whelan’s eyes are improving with age.

He said of his new work of two sisters suffering with Chiari Malformation that it was “the best painting I’ve ever done!”

“As an older artist,” Whelan said, “you always gain. Your insights are extremely advanced later in life. You consider life in a different category. You don’t have time when you are younger to sit and contemplate.

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Feature

The 1s and 0s in Local History Andrew Ward, Voorheesville Public Library’s digital services librarian, goes through one of 130 boxes in the library’s archives, all of which need to be scanned for preservation.

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Local library takes steps to preserve history digitally

By DIEGO CAGARA cagarad@spotlightnews.com VOORHEESVILLE — Andrew Ward, the village public library’s digital services librarian, delicately unearthed a petite beige and wornout diary from the library’s archives boxes. Placing it on the cold, grey table, it appeared unassuming and modest but its cover alone already indicated why it’s been safely kept in storage.

Titled “Latent Self Closing Diary for 1871,” the diarist’s identity was not jotted down although the library believed it belonged to a New Scotland farmer at the time named Derrick Van Schaick Raynsford, based on its contents. The diary contained numerous pages of handwritten notes and numerical calculations which Ward assumed that “it was keeping a notation of the money he had, what he bought and sold, and it pretty much showed what a day-in-dayout life was like in the area.”

Ward observed that much of the diary dealt with his farm work, what products he sold in Albany like veal and pork, when he attended funerals throughout the year, and mentions of enjoying county fairs.

From its contents, Ward learned that Raynsford grew hay, potatoes and carrots; owned an apple and pear orchard; had at least two farm workers, one of whom was his son, Albert; he and his crew worked on Christmas Day; and he attended the Reformed Church in Guilderland Center and the New Scotland Presbyterian Church. The diary also included an 1871 calendar

which noted the moon’s phases, when the moon rose, and the times the sun would rise and set — this was all organized in a tightly-organized serif typeface.

Once Ward gently returned the fragile diary into its folder and box, he returned it to the library’s archives which he said comprised of at least 130 boxes of collected historical photographs, documents, postcards, yearbooks, letters, business records, church and family history, receipts and more. These items were mainly focused on Voorheesville and New Scotland’s past, and mostly dated from the 1920s to 1990s.

Ward mentioned that the aforementioned 1871 diary and a photograph of a Civil War-era soldier are probably the library’s oldest collected items. He also noted how the Voorheesville railroad station and trains passing by were among the most documented items in the library’s archives, including an old photograph of engineers standing in front of a train, one of a train crash, and one that emphasized the railroads themselves.

“We have a lot of documented information about the trains because they were so central to the village, and we also learned that many people were hit by trains in the first half of the 20th century,” he said. “This is a very rural area so people and even animals did not realize when there was an incoming train and it became a big thing to properly put up warning signals and lights for crossing.”

While these items have been safely stored here, the library has begun digitizing them since 2015 in order to make them more accessible to the public who may want to view it out of curiosity, for research or to reminisce about the past.

Ward said a program called New York Heritage was developed then which works with many statewide libraries to have digitized collections of photographs, documents, maps and more, to give people easy access to them for free.

The New York Heritage is a combination of seven Empire State Library Network members, one of which is the Capital District Library Council which oversees the Voorheesville library. “I think that having free access in a searchable, indexable way online is great and that’s how digitization helps us,” he said.

“With younger generations, quickly looking up items is what they can expect.”

Ward explained the digitization process: placing the historical item on a flatbed scanner to develop highresolution scans, crop the file and/or make any needed color corrections, preserve the master digital file, transfer it into a JPG file and put them in a reasonable resolution for people to view.

For now, the library has only the flatbed scanner for the process but Ward said it may not always be the ideal digitization mode, especially when handling more threedimensional items like books, diaries and even an old Smith Tavern’s cup. “You obviously shouldn’t take a book and put it on a flatbed scanner because you could damage its spine, unless there are loose individual pages to scan easily,” he said. “What I could do is instead maybe place the book on a table and have a camera on a tripod above that’s far enough to take a picture of one page. Then, I can crop it and manipulate it for a digital scan.”

Although Ward said the current flatbed scanner gets the job mostly done for now, he said it is slow — he could not recall how old the scanner is

— and it wouldn’t hurt to get a new and faster scanner perhaps one day. “It’s something that I’ve definitely thought about,” he said.

Regardless, he said that while the library is “nowhere near close to being done with scanning all the twodimensional items,” people interested in accessing the physical archives should make an appointment with the library — he warned that not every librarian here is equipped to handle the archived materials though — and he would be able to present items to them. People would need to fill out some forms first so that the library can record who has been accessing the archives and upon arrival, Ward would be able to help them out.

“I would just remind people that these are our history and they could make the most out of them if they want to learn about their past or the village’s history, if they find it interesting,” he said. “It’s partially why the library safely keeps them and why I do what I do here.”

Reflecting back on the 1871 diary, Ward brought up how the writer most likely did not realize that his diary would become important decades later to showcase what local everyday life in 1871 was like, which is another reason why the library continues to digitize its archives.

“These things are irreplaceable and although they might not be copies of the Gideon Bible or the Magna Carta, they’re things that we have very little knowledge about and we’re certainly not taught about the history of everyday life then,” he concluded. “We also don’t really get to learn what everyday people thought in various periods of history, so it’s stuff that will get lost if we forget or don’t care about it.”

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Mondays, June 17–July 29 (No classes on July 1) MVP Zumba Gold® Saratoga Senior Center, Saratoga Springs

10:00–10:45 am

518-584-1621 Program Code: 5300

MVP Chair Moves Village of Colonie Senior Center, Albany

10:45–11:30 am

518-869-7172 Program Code: 5308

MVP Tai Chi Moves Guilderland Senior Center, Altamont

1:15–2:00 pm

518-280-7607 Program Code: 5309

Tuesdays, June 18–July 30 (No classes on July 2) MVP Striders Walking Club Central Park, Schenectady

8:30–9:30 am

1-800-665-7924 Program Code: 5317

MVP Chair Moves Niskayuna Senior Center, Schenectady

1:00–1:45 pm

1-800-665-7924 Program Code: 5298

Wednesdays, June 19–July 31 (No classes on July 3) MVP Striders Walking Club 9–10 am The Crossings of Colonie Park, Loudenville

1-800-665-7924 Program Code: 5299

MVP Tai Chi Moves Glenville Senior Center, Schenectady

1-800-665-7924 Program Code: 5310

1:00–1:45 pm

Thursdays, June 20–August 1 (No class July 4) MVP Chair Moves 9:15–10:00 am New Time Hibernian Hall Banquet Room, Schenectady

1-800-665-7924 Program Code: 5301

Fridays, June 21–August 2 (No class July 5 or July 19) MVP Gentle Yoga Moves Sunnyview Wellness Center, Schenectady

9:45–10:30 am

1-800-665-7924 Program Code: 5311

Questions? Call MVP Medicare Community Health Promotion at 518-386-7936 (TTY: 1-800-662-1220).

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Organizing & Downsizing

Wednesday, June 12, at 12:30 p.m.

Learn to play Bridge Mondays, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

Whether moving to a new home or just wanting to pare down, choosing what to keep with a lifetime’s worth of possessions can feel overwhelming. Some alternative ways of thinking can help. Learn the stress-free way of downsizing or preparing to move with Michelle Kavanaugh of Organize Senior Moves. She will provide great tips on how to get started on your journey today!

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Learn to play Bridge FREE – members only – registration required.

Periodic Activities

Investment Group, Social Bridge, Memories to Memoirs, Hand & Foot (cards), Dice 6-5-4, Rummikub, Crochet & Knitting, Poker, Osteo Exercise

Call or go online for dates and times. See our newsletter at http://cliftonpark.org/services/seniorservices/senior-center.html.

Reservations are required. Call ahead.

Exercise to Tapes Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Thursdays from 8:45 to 9:45 a.m.

Jack be nimble. Jack be quick. We get together to move and get the heart pumping by exercising.

FREE – members only.

Thursdays

Exercise to Tape, Pool/ Billiards, Chorus, Yoga, Mondays Watercolor & Sketch, Legal Tap Intermediate, Jazz Assistance by appointment, Dance, Chair Yoga, Discussion Group, Clogging, Quilt- Seton Health Seniorcize, Duplicate Bridge, Mahing, Osteo Exercise, Soul Jongg, Pinochle, Bunco or Line Dancing.

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Tuesdays

Chess, Checkers & Backgammon. Exercise to Tape, LCR or Dice 3000-learn to play, Pinochle, Pool/Billiards, Duplicate Bridge, Tai Chi, Scrabble

Wednesday

Exercise to Tape, Senior

Fridays Orchestra on the Common, Woodcarving, Tap Advanced, Ballet, Dominoes, Center Big Band, Diabetes Support Group, BINGO, Lunch and a Movie, Beading Buddies, Scrabble, Osteo Exercise.

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Senior calendars Second Sunday Film

Voorheesville Public Library 51 School Road, Voorheesville (518) 765-2791 www.voorheesvillelibrary.org

Thursday Afternoon Movie

Thursday, June 6, 13, 20, & 27

Join us Thursday at 1:30 p.m. to watch a classic movie on our giant screen. Check our website calendar or call for movie titles and descriptions.

Light refreshments served.

Nimblefingers Craft Group

Tuesday, June 4, 11, 18, & 25

Bring your projects, socialize, and connect with other crafters every Tuesday at 1 p.m. Share your own special talents or learn a new knit-

cat. No experience necessary, supplies will be provided.

Program will run from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Please register.

Sunday, June 9

ting, crocheting, embroidery or quilting skill. All crafters are welcome to join the group.

3D Printing and Modeling Friday, June 7

Join us at 3 p.m. for this introductory class of how the Library’s Lulzbot Mini2 3D Printer works. Then we will start personalizing our own designs using Tinkercad, a free and easy 3D design tool. The Library will print your design, and you will be able to take it home.

Open to everyone 13 years of age and older. Please register.

Join us at 2 p.m. for a contemporary film. This month our film is based on the #1 New York Times Bestseller by Kevin Kwan. “While on a summer vacation in the Singapore home of the man she hopes to marry, Chinese-American Rachel Chu is unexpectedly introduced to a rich and scheming clan that strongly opposes its member’s relationship with an American girl”.

(IMDB) Light refreshments will be served.

Needle Felting For Beginners Tuesday, June 11

Allison Swanson will guide beginners in a wool needle felting project to create a cute

Building Your Personal and Professional Brand Wednesday, June 12

Your brand is the unique image or perception someone has when thinking about you or something associated with you. During this 6:30 to 8 p.m. session, you will learn how to build your own particular brand using an elevator speech, business cards, working a room and unlocking your three Circles of Influence. You will also learn how to integrate social media into a comprehensive networking strategy. Please register. This program is part of the NYS Adult Literacy Grant

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Senior calendars Bethlehem Public Library 451 Delaware Ave., Delmar (518) 439-9314 www.bethlehempubliclibrary.org

Adobe Premiere Elements 2018 Training Monday, June 3

Learn how to edit videos, create titles, insert transitions, add special effects, adjust audio and more to create a professional looking video suitable for a variety of media, 2 p.m. Sign up online or call.

Sew It Yourself: Basic Embroidery Monday, June 3

Learn basic stitches that can be used for a variety of designs, 7 p.m. For teens and adults.

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Coffee and Conversation

Friday, June 7: Broadway’s Music Men Listen as storyteller Kate Dudding shares the stories behind some of Broadway’s greatest composers, and join her in singing their hits, 1-2 p.m. program; 2-3 p.m. coffee hour.

Co-sponsored by Bethlehem Senior Projects, Inc. Friday, June 14: Crailo State Historic Site Sam Huntington will talk about the early Dutch inhabitants of the upper Hudson Valley and the heritage of the 18th century site built by Hendrick Van Rensselaer, 1-2 p.m. pro-

gram; 2-3 p.m. Co-sponsored

by Bethlehem Senior Projects.

Knit One Purl One

Open Sewing Monday, June 17

Sewing machines will be available for independent Sunday, June 9 projects, 6 p.m. Bring your own If you’re an experienced supplies. Volunteers may be on knitter, bring your current hand to assist you. Register for project, 2-3 p.m. If you’re a up to two sessions. Bethlehem beginner, bring size 8 knitting needles; we’ll provide yarn and Public Library, 451 Delaware get you started. For adults, teens Ave., Delmar. For more information, call (518) 439-9314 or and kids age 9 and up. visit bethlehempubliclibrary. org.

Support and Guidance for Dementia Caregivers

Wednesday, June 12

Social workers from Eddy Alzheimer’s Services will be available to speak with caregivers of individuals with dementia. Funded by a grant from NYS Department of Health, 10 a.m.

Listening Parties: David Bowie’s Space Oddity Thursday, June 20 Mark the 50th anniversary of Bowie’s breakthrough single by taking a closer look at his decades-long career, 7 p.m.

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Ongoing activities Mondays

10 to 10:45 a.m. — Zumba Gold ( June 24 - No class) 11 a.m. to noon — Motion & Fitness ( June 24 - No class)

Tuesdays

9:15 to 9:45 a.m. — Tai Chi 9 a.m. to noon — Tom’s computer class (first and third Tuesdays each month) 10 a.m. to noon — cards, bridge, Mah Jongg, and Wii Bowling 10:30 a.m. — Line Dancing Noon — Lunch 12:30 to 2 p.m. — Lectures, trivia, games or Bingo 1 to 1:45 p.m. — MVP Chair Moves ( June 4, 11 - No class)

Thursdays

9:15 to 9:45 a.m. — Tai Chi 10 a.m. — Cards, Wii Bowling, and Bridge 10:30 a.m. — Bocce and Pickle Ball Noon — Lunch 12:45 to 2 p.m. — Lectures, trivia, games or Bingo

Fridays

10 a.m. to noon — Beginner Mahjong 10 a.m. to noon — Open Art Studio 10:30 a.m. — Alzheimer’s Support Group (first Friday of each month).

11 a.m. to noon — CDPHP Chair Pilates ( June 7 - No class)

Upcoming Events Planting w/Matt — Tuesday, June 4, at 10 a.m.

Croissant Day Trivia — Tuesday, June 4, at 12:30 p.m.

Birthday celebration — Thursday, June 6, at 12:30 p.m.

U.S. Golf Day — Tuesday, June 11, 12:30 p.m.

Walking Club — Tuesday, June 11, at 1 p.m.

LG Outlets — Wednesday, June 12, at 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Father’s Day — Thursday, June 13, at 12 p.m.

Painting w/ Peggy — Thursday, June 13, 7 p.m.

Men’s Group —Friday, June 14 & 28, 10 to 11 a.m.

Defensive Driving — Saturday, June 15, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Alz Assoc. Speaker — Tuesday, June 18, at 1 p.m.

Ed Sullivan trivia — Thursday, June 20, at 12:30 p.m.

Color TV trivia — Tuesday, June 25, at 12:30 p.m.

Summer Camp Day — Thursday, June 27, at 12:30 p.m.

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Veteran Next Door

Stories from World War II, Korea and Vietnam

History, Admiration and Quotes

W

e will finally approach the warmth and thoughts of Summer. We reminisce about some popular dates of our American history. Memorial Day, a national holiday, we memorialize our great Veterans who have done so much to make and keep the United States the greatest country in the world. There are so many words to describe our history, our people, our events.

About five years ago I attended a high school event and the students placed on a poster a variety words to recognize and honor our Veterans. The teacher at the table said there were about 75 words on the poster. I stood staring at the poster and read every word. The

teacher said if we missed one tell us and they would add it.

I said this is very nice for the students to think of this but I see a very important one that is not there. She said that they believed they had them all. I responded, “missing is a very very important one - ‘Sacrifice.’

A word that has deep roots with Veterans and no matter what they did in the service, they sacrificed a portion of their life. “Some sacrificed all.”

As time passes, we think back of the many Veterans who have millions of stories and memories. I recall Harold Williams, an Army Veteran who was at Normandy on June 6, 1944 at 8:30 am, telling me that war was about one word – ‘Survival.’ Over the years he imparted to me some of the

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Frank DeSorbo view of the world would have been very different. Some of his brief quotes carry some very strong messages. “A nation that forgets its past, has no future.”

“Fear is a reaction. Courage is a decision.” “Never in the field of human conflict has so much been owed by so many to so few.”

On June 6, we celebrate the 75th Anniversary of DDay – The Normandy Invasion.

General Dwight Eisenhower inspired troops involved in Operation Overlord with this: “I have full confidence in your courage, devotion to duty and skill in battle. We will accept nothing less than full victory.”

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My close friend, Angelo, an Italian immigrant at 10 years old who participated at Normandy on day 3, tells me his language barrier did not impede him in the Army.

He said there is not much to understand about “move out.”

As we review and honor our history, there are many great quotes that I admire. Recently I found a quote and it definitely fits all Veterans – “We don’t know them all but we owe them all.”

Great people of history were quoted; they inspired the masses. Winston Churchill led his country through the horrors and misery of war. If Britain fell during WWII the

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