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For Judy Lambert, passing on a family legacy became much too important not to pass on to her two daughters and grandchildren. Lambert was deeply inspired by what she discovered about her mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. Enough so to publish a book, “Party Lines, Prayers and Privies,” a historical fiction novel detailing the hardships and obstacles her mother Helen Steffen, grandmother Esther Phillips and great-grandmother Sarah Swihart dealt with. “I weaved the family stories all together and some of it is not true, but it is still true to our family story and how women’s lives were then,” she said. Lambert grew up on a farm along CR 21, north of CR 142 in Jackson Township, west of New Paris in Elkhart County. Her father, Walt Steffen, purchased the 125-acre farm when Lambert was in the third grade. The family had been living just outside of Goshen prior to moving to the farm. How this book came to be goes back several years. When Lambert was in her 40s and still working as a nurse, she took three days to interview grandma Phillips, who was in her 80s at the time. She also interviewed brothers and sisters of her grandma and transcribed all the tapes. Her grandma asked Lambert not to write anything until she died.

As so often happens, the busyness of life and raising a family puts everything else on hold. Several years later, she decided to “really research” and interviewed more than 20 people along with several visits to libraries and museums and reading through old newspapers. She discovered these family stories simply needed to be passed on to future generations. “I wanted my own two daughters to know they can do anything they want,” she said. Great-grandmother Swihart was born in Whitley County and also lived for a while in Noble County before marrying an Elkhart County man. They moved around a lot because they were small contract farmers, Lambert noted, and if a farmer decided he didn’t want them around any longer, he would simply kick them off the property. The three generations of women faced multiple hardships in life including, for just a few examples, Swihart losing her mother at age 8, Phillips being injured by a drunk driver before the birth of Helen Steffen, resulting in her right side being spastic and contractured, or the shortening and hardening of tissues. Lambert also discovered how restrictive society was concerning talking about certain things. Some things just were not spoken about including for a time the use of the word “pregnant.” The book covers nearly 130 years of history from 1875 to 2003, when Continued on page 5

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Finding satisfaction assisting seniors %\ 5$< %$/2*+ 6WDII :ULWHU For the past 6 1/2 years, Kenny Haack has been hauling his favorite type of cargo: senior citizens who need rides to doctors’ appointments, grocery stores, Kosciusko County Senior Services activity center and other destinations they might otherwise never get to. Haack, 61, drives one of the KCSS 12-passenger buses. He runs some scheduled routes and spends the rest of his 21-hour-a-week job on call at the activity center, waiting for phone calls requesting transportation. “I work Wednesday, Thursday and Friday,” he said. “It is a very satisfying job working with seniors and being the assistant to their needs. They are grateful to have that assistance and give me many verbal expressions of that gratitude.” The job has helped him, too. “I’ve learned about the daily needs of our seniors and it has made me more sensitive to those needs in general. I have always had a good relationship with seniors.” The driving job represents quite a departure from his previous line of work. “I was a chef at our own restaurant,

Wolfgang’s on South Buffalo Street in Warsaw,” he said. “We named the restaurant after my dad, who was the manager.” Haack’s signature dish was beef Stephanie, “a six-ounce beef tenderloin surrounded by veal farce, wrapped in puff pastry and topped with Hollandaise sauce.” He trained for three years as an apprentice at Petite Auberge in Atlanta before opening Wolfgang’s, which operated for more than 16 years (1981 to December 1997) before the business was sold and the building later burned down. A two-story BP gas station now stands on the property. Wolfgang’s, a noted area gourmet restaurant, also served leg of lamb, seafood crepes, fresh oysters, towering quiches, chocolate mousse and flaming baked Alaska. Diners came from Fort Wayne, South Bend, Indianapolis and Chicago. Haack also worked as a sous chef at the Barbee Hotel and Restaurant for 11 years and then worked for Chore Time Brock in Milford for another 11 years. “I still cook as a hobby, and I like to travel, but I don’t have much time now,” he said. Haack has been married to Amy for 25 years. They have

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Gifts for warming legs — and hearts %\ 5$< %$/2*+ 6WDII :ULWHU Gretta Wolff gives her fellow seniors a warm feeling — in more ways than one. First, there’s her personality: bright, amiable, goodnatured and kind. She carries with her a convivial joy for life that shaves a good portion off her 78-year calendar age. Then there are the lap robes she crochets with enthusiasm at her home in Warsaw. Made from nylon yarn, each robe is shaped like a long, narrow blanket and is designed to cover a person’s body from waist to toes. The robes are quite effective in keeping the lower body warm. “After about five minutes, you feel the warmth of about 100 degrees.” The inspiration for her charity came from observing nursing home residents. “We were invited to nursing homes and we would see all these people wheeled in. They can’t move their legs, so they get cold. The robes are 16 inches wide so they don’t get caught in the wheels of the wheelchair.” Wolff uses a popcorn stitch, which allows her to craft each robe without any space between stitches. The robes are a precise 191 stitches long, in 16 overlapping rows that take her an hour each to complete. She started crocheting the

robes about three years ago, and gave away 50 to Warsaw nursing homes last year and 40 the year before that. Her goal this year is to match last year’s total. “I give each nursing home 10 robes, usually around Thanksgiving, for them to give as gifts. So far this year I have made 37 of them.” She hopes this year to bring a supply to the Kosciusko County Senior Activity Center, where she goes for lunch, “and to nursing homes who donate meals” to the center. Wolff has always favored bright and variegated colors. “I try to make them really pretty, even for the men,” she said. “Sometimes I use bright iridescent colors.” Her grandmother taught her to crochet the summer after Wolff completed eighth grade. “I was getting ready to go to boarding school and we had to take our own bedding. I wanted to crochet edging on my washcloths and towels, using yellow and black, and I had a plaid yellow and black bedspread,” she recalled. Wolff was born and grew up in Sikeston, Mo., the daughter of a military man. “Dad was being trained to be a medic in the Army. When Mom was nursing me, she hopped a troop train and went to California where Dad was

training. He got stationed in England, doing electrocardiograms.” Though far away, her dad still held his baby daughter close to his heart. “He made me a dog tag, with my name and the words, ‘Dad’s Number 1 Baby,’ then my mother’s name and our home address.” She has kept Daddy close, too, after all these years. “I still have that dog tag and wear it sometimes as a necklace.” Wolff moved to Atwood in 1993 with her husband, Ronald, who passed away a decade ago after 48 years of marriage. “I still wear his ring,” she said. Ronald “always wanted a little farm, so we bought 65 acres. But he was not a farmer, and the neighbors, also named Wolf but with one f, had a son who did the farming — corn, soybeans and alfalfa.” Ronald hauled pontoons “all over the United States and Canada,” and handy with construction (his father owned lumberyard), built the pontoon transport trailer and a barn for the truck and trailer. Wolff has two grown children, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild with another to be born in October. She also crochets baby blankets, tree ornaments and bookmarks, selling many of her items at area craft shows.

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Nursing homes are expensive, and without careful planning, an extended stay can easily bankrupt all but the most affluent families. Considering that the average cost of a nursing home in the U.S. is $8,365 a month, with costs increasing every year, you’re looking at a bill of over $500,000 for a family member with Alzheimer’s disease, whose nursing home stay typically is five years or more. What most people don’t realize is that, as a general rule, the government will only pay the nursing home bill if a single person has spent down to $2,000. Medicare will only cover you for a maximum of 100 days, if they cover you at all; Social Security won’t pay all these bills either. Only Medicaid will cover you, if you qualify. My new book, “How To Protect Your Family’s Assets From Devastating Nursing Home Costs,” explains in English what the rules are and how you can qualify for Medicaid coverage yet still protect your home and life savings. Receive a free copy when you do planning with Rice and Rice during the month of November. Once you have been approved for Medicaid, virtually all of your medical bills will be paid by the program. In most states, Medicaid will cover: • Ambulatory services for individuals entitled to institutional care. • Home health services for individuals entitled to nursing facility services. • Prescribed drug coverage. • In some cases, Medicaid will

almost as many valuable techniques for single persons. Legal help is available at Rice and Rice Attorneys, 1237 E. University Drive, Granger. Call (800)

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&/,))25' - 5,&( even cover the cost of care in the client’s own home. There are unique opportunities for married couples when it comes to protecting assets from nursing home spend downs. If advance planning is done with an attorney experienced in the field of Medicaid law, the assets of the first spouse to die can be placed in a special type of trust, sometimes referred to as a “safe harbor trust.” Assets passing to provide for the care of the surviving spouse in this way can be fully protected from nursing home spend downs. They are available for care and needs during the lifetime of the surviving spouse, and they may also be better protected from death taxes and probate fees when they pass to the children at the time the surviving spouse passes away. We can count almost 25 separate Medicaid-planning techniques that can be utilized to save money from the nursing home for married couples and

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Judy Lambert’s book Continued from page 1 Lambert’s mother died. It took Lambert four years to write the book and one year to publish it. It is available on Amazon. com and other online booksellers. Lambert is now retired and living in Florida. Book Signing Events Several gatherings and

book signing events are scheduled for the coming months. The first is 3 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, at the Greencroft Retirement Center in Goshen. That same evening Lambert will appear at the Fables Bookstore, 215 S. Main St., in downtown Goshen during First Friday. Next she will be at Olym-

pia Candy Kitchen, 136 N. Main St., downtown Goshen, 10 a.m. Wednesday, Sept. 15. Then there will be appearances at three libraries: 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 2, at Nappanee Public Library; 6:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 4, at Middlebury Public Library; and 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 5, at Goshen Public Library.

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ing Act of 2010 requires federal agencies to communicate information clearly in a way “the public can understand and use.” This can be particularly challenging when talking about complicated programs like Social Security, Supplemental Security Income and Medicare. If there’s a technical term or acronym that you don’t know, you can find the meaning in our online glossary at www.ssa.

gov/agency/glossary. Here are a few examples. If you’re considering retirement, you may want to know your full retirement age and your primary insurance amount. These terms determine your benefit amount based on when you start getting requirement benefits. The PIA is the amount payable for a retired worker who starts his or her benefits at full retirement age. If

you start your retirement benefits at your FRA, you’ll receive the full PIA. Most years, your benefit amount will get a cost-of-living adjustment, which usually means extra money in your monthly benefit. What about delayed retirement credits? DRCs are the gradual increases to your PIA that occur the longer you delay taking

retirement benefits after your full retirement age. Every month you delay taking benefits, up to age 70, your monthly benefit will increase. If one of these terms or acronyms comes up in conversation, you can be the one to help clarify the meaning, using our online glossary. Learning the terminology can deepen your understanding of how Social Security programs work for you.

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never envisioned just a couple of decades ago — rear view cameras to ease parking and warning systems when you veer out of your lane or get too close to other vehicles, for example. But the person behind the steering wheel still has to be alert out in traffic. A first step is to become totally familiar with the vehicle they’re

driving. Take a page out of the long-ago learning-to-drive manual and practice driving in a nearby mall or parking lot when it’s not busy. Get to know all the gadgets and how they work and the size of the vehicle so you’ll be comfortable in tight traffic situations. Oldsters who no longer are working should avoid heavy traffic

time, such as when commuters travel to or from work, to make their life in the lanes easier. It pays to walk around the car before getting behind the wheel. Check the condition of the headlights and taillights, all the tires and the windshield wipers. Keep your automobile in safe working condition. Have the brakes checked regularly. Make sure all

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the fluids are at their necessary levels. Regular maintenance is an important factor in being a safe driver. Once you leave the driveway, pay attention to your driving. A peril these days are car drivers with cell phones. Studies reveal that cell phone drivers are more than five times more likely to get into an accident than an undistracted driver. They’re no better than a drunk driver, whether the phone is hands-free or not. Adding to the pressure on older drives is the fact that their reaction time gets slower so they should keep extra space between them and cars in front of them. They should be able to keep up with traffic because a slow driver can become a danger to other motorists. Keeping yourself healthy is also important. Check your vision and hearing regularly. Make sure your seat is comfortable and you can reach the dashboard and foot pedals easily. Feeling nervous on the road is a sign that you might need to take a driving refreshers course. Or it might be time to hand in your keys. Mature Life Features Copyright 2021

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Many a deaf ear turned to hearing aids %\ &(&,/ 6&$*/,21( 0DWXUH /LIH )HDWXUHV Hang around seniors long enough and you’ll find yourself repeating yourself more and more. “I can hear OK,” the oldsters will explain. “It’s just the noise around me and people keep chattering while you’re talking to me,” is a common explanation. But they still keep staying “Huh?” and “What did you say?” and “Were you talking to me?” Those that do are among the more than 70% of adults

Coffee worth the break %\ &(&,/ 6&$*/,21( 0DWXUH /LIH )HDWXUHV Coffee breaks are being recognized as more than just a brief respite from work. Caffeine can be good for you. Moderation matters in all corners of our lives but up to three cups a day can be healthy. Critics warn that caffeine dehydrates your system, increases hypertension and the risk of heart attack, cuts down on your ability to sleep, is linked to gout attacks, raises blood pressure, and brings on anxiety, heartburn and stomach problems. While coffee fans admit much of this may be true, there’s a growing list of benefits for those who drink coffee. Surprisingly, it’s been discovered that an 8-ounce cup of java contains more disease-fighting antioxidants than a regular serving of oranges or blueberries. Coffee drinkers reportedly have a lower risk of such chronic conditions as diabetes and heart disease as well as less cognitive decline as they age. Researchers have found that seniors who have as many as four cups of coffee a day cut in half their risk of heart disease compared with those who take in less caffeine. Medical experts point out caffeine interacts with many medications so go over your list of prescriptions and supplements with your primary care physician to make sure coffee is compatible. Among the benefits being attributed to coffee is the ability to relieve a headache as well as protecting the liver and offering defense against strokes and cancer of the mouth and throat. Coffee drinkers who get agitated or jittery after too many cups of coffee have found that drinking decaf soothes the nerves while providing the same benefits. Cutting back on the milk and sugar also limits your calorie intake. If coffee straight doesn’t suit your taste, try adding such flavor enhancers as cinnamon that not only improve the taste but adds healthy benefits of their own. Mature Life Features Copyright 2021

who could use hearing aids but refuse to acknowledge the fact that they would be of benefit. Or, in plain language, that they really can’t hear very well. One reason is a false sense of pride, that by getting hearing aids they’re showing their age and infirmities that accompany aging. Another reason for not getting these tiny devices is their cost and discomfort. More than 10% of people who do acquire hearing aids toss them in a drawer for a variety of reason, including the vanity and discomfort mentioned earlier. And many more don’t wear them around the house, wear them for only part of the day or just plain forget to put them on. Hearing aids can be an important safety factor if you still drive. While vision is vital in traffic, hearing is just as important in detecting motor-

ists’ movement, trucking activity, sirens and other activity around your vehicle to help avoid accidents. A common complaint among new hearing aid owners is that they are uncomfortable and they amplify strange noises. The latter is a result of not hearing these sounds as you hearing diminished. And the former takes time, and can be eased by working closely with your doctor and hearing aid supplier, both of whom want

your experience to be comfortable and rewarding. They also will see to it that your ears and your hearing

aids are kept clean and wax free. Work with them until the devices become more comfortable and the sounds around you become more normal. For added comfort, you can

get hearing aids molded to fit your ear. There’s more to hearing aids than just amplifying sound so you can keep up with conversations and hubbub around you. Hearing aids can be adjusted to lower the volume. When you’re in any noisy situation, such as a construction zone or sports event, you can tuck your hearing aids in your pocket or purse and avoid the noise. Medical research has revealed that even mild hearing loss doubles our risk of dementia. The more severe your hearing loss, the higher the risk of sliding into dementia. Mature Life Features Copyright 2021

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tomatoes, can be done indoors on a table or windowsill. • Board games — Playing games is a fun at-home activity for seniors and it also helps keep our minds sharp. Classics like Yahtzee, dominos and Scrabble are great options. Learning new games is a good cognitive exercise for seniors. • Yoga — More and more seniors are embracing the benefits of yoga. In addition to keeping bodies flexible, practicing yoga can be calming and help improve overall wellbeing. • Book club — Reading a good book is a great escape for seniors and with today’s technology, anyone can do it. To make it fun, start a family book club with your loved one. We hope these indoor activities seniors can enjoy, will keep your loved one busy and happy. If your parent is withdrawing from regular activities or needs assistance, it might be time to consider senior living options.

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serve in the war? To raise a family way back when? How much was a gallon of milk? Better yet, have them pen ‘An Open Letter to My Grandchildren/Great Grandchildren’ themselves, including Gift a bouquet. Forget-Me-Nots 10 things they’d want them to know. Bond over food. Chances are your are the official flower of Grandparents Day. This delicate blue flower makes for grandparents have a tried and true dish a beautiful gift - or container gardening or secret family recipe. Ask about family recipes, write them down, learn about activity! Conduct an interview. Grandparents the history, and try making it yourself. What senior grandparents will value have likely lived long, storied lives. most is time with loved ones. Take this Whether by phone, Zoom, or window opportunity to make them feel loved and visit, document some of their incredspecial this Grandparents Day. ible experiences. What was it like to

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effective asset protection plan with respect to nursing home planning, but beware of the pitfalls. A “life estate” can be created in real estate, like your home. The home owner transfers the home by a deed that is recorded in the county recorder’s office where the home is located. Most commonly, the parent(s) will transfer the home to their children and the deed must expressly reserve to the parent(s) a “life estate.” The parents then own a “life estate” while the children own the “remainder interest.” This means that the parents retain the right to own the property for the rest of their lives, which, in turn, entitles them to live in the home for as long as they are able. Upon the death of the parent(s), the children will then automatically become owners of the home, without the home going through the slow, expensive court process known as “probate.” Sounds great, right? However, beware of the pitfalls. First, with a “life estate,” the parents are still obligated to pay all of the costs of house ownership: real estate taxes and assessments, utilities, insurance and maintenance. Second, the parents can only sell their “life estate.” They cannot sell the children’s “remainder interest” unless the children also agree to sell their “remainder

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interest,” and then, the sale proceeds should be divided between the parents and the children according to their interests. Creditors of the children can obtain judgment liens against the children’s “remainder interest.” The parents will lack the ability to re-finance the home because of the children’s “remainder interest.” Finally, a transfer creating a life estate can present problems if a parent needs nursing home care and seeks Medicaid benefits to pay for that care. Medicaid treats a transfer of a remainder interest as a gift, which causes a Medicaid penalty, if a Medicaid application is filed within five (5) years of the transfer. Although there can be benefits from creating a “life estate,” you need to be cautious and consider all of the ramifications before doing so. I recommend consulting with an attorney experienced in estate planning and Medicaid planning before making the decision.

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NorthWood Middle School athletic director/educator thrives in both roles %\ .(,7+ .1(33 (GLWRU Nearly everyone has been to a scholastic sporting event. Whether it was to watch a son play football, a granddaughter play volleyball, a nephew play baseball or a daughter play basketball, it’s always fun to go out and watch kids compete in a game they enjoy. Behind the scenes, however, a great deal of planning, preparation and effort goes in to making the athletic event even possible, sometimes taking place months before the umpire yells “play ball” or the referee tosses the ball for the opening tip-off. A great deal of that pregame preparation falls on the shoulders of a school’s athletic director. While that title is often associated with high school and college athletics, events at the junior high school level also take a tremendous amount of planning in order to allow the future weekend sports stars to begin to hone their skills. For the past two years at NorthWood Middle School in Wakarusa, that responsibility has fallen on the shoulders of Kim Moore. On top of her responsibilities as the school’s athletic director, Moore also teaches a full schedule of math classes each day to the school’s seventh graders. A resident of Elkhart, Moore has spent the past 18 years educating students in WaNee Community Schools, first at Woodview Elementary in Nappanee and for the past eight years at the middle school. Additionally, she has coached volleyball for

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12 years, including a two-year stint as the varsity coach at Elkhart Christian Academy along with 10 at NWMS. When the athletic director’s position became available following the 2019-20 school year, Moore knew it was a role she wanted to add to her distinguished resumé. “I love all sports,” beamed Moore, “I’ve probably either played it or I’ve watched my brothers play it. It’s what we did growing up.” Moore said her responsibilities are extensive when it comes to the school’s athletic programs, although she emphasized she couldn’t do the job without the assistance of the athletic secretary, Karleia Parker. “She helps me out and keeps me in line,” Moore said of her right-hand woman. Not only does she interview and recommend for hiring the coaches and assistant coaches for the teams, she also schedules the games, hires the referees and officials, orders the uniforms, arranges for transportation to away games, makes sure the concessions stands are stocked and staffed and ensures there are people to take tickets, time runners and operate the scoreboard, just to name some of her tasks. Each May, she meets with her counterparts at the other

schools in the Big 11 Conference, which includes schools in Elkhart and St. Joseph counties. Together they hash out the schedules in all the sports for the following school year. Her first year on the job was extraordinary, as she had to deal with all the challenges presented by COVID. Several contests had to be cancelled, often at the last minute, due to the pandemic. She added that the students and parents were terrific in adjusting to all the changes that had to me made, even when they were disappointed “Being the AD also allows me to get to know some of the kids outside of the classroom,” she said. “I go to all of the home events and have a chance to connect with the kids on a different level. They’ll come up to me at school and want to talk to me about the game.” Moore also is passionate about teaching math. “If I had to choose between the two, I’m not sure what I’d do,” Moore admitted. “Fans from NorthWood are very kind of supportive of their students and the athletic programs.” Fortunately for the students and athletes at NWMS, Moore has the ability and energy to do both jobs and to do them both very well.

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Don’t you dare call them ‘dolls’ Beginning in 1959, Barbie dolls captured the hearts of young girls everywhere, as well as the wallets of their %\ 5$1'$/ parents. & +,// Competing toy outfits soon sought to offer a male rival — possibly a macho soldier — but how could boys ever be convinced to buy dolls? Rhode Island-based toy maker Hasbro came up with a simple solution: Never refer to them as dolls but as (one’s

voice drops a bit lower here) “action figures.” Early on, the Hasbro outfit — owned by three brothers named Hassenfeld — had made headway into the highly lucrative toy field with such moneymakers as Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head. As with other companies, though, the trio was always on the lookout for profitable new endeavors. Inventor Stanley Weston had sold the basic G. I. (for Government Issue) Joe idea to Hasbro. In 1962, company president Merrill Hassenfeld and Don Levine, the head of research and development and a Korean War veteran, refined the toy-soldier idea by creating

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a foot-high flexible plastic man with 21 “points of movement.” The proposed figures would be offered in the uniforms of the Army, Navy, Marines and Air Force, along with accessories such as weapons (grenade launchers and bayonets were particularly popular), helmets and miniature vehicles. The soldier’s name would come from the 1945 movie, “The Story of G. I. Joe,” which focused on war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Hasbro’s plastic Joe arrived in fatigues, with an M-1 carbine cradled in his arms and a jagged battle scar across one cheek. To boys, the toy man tacitly signified a chest-thumping patriotism. “The concept of doing a doll for boys in the early 1960s was a big risk,” Hasbro executive Kirk Bozigian admitted. “What parent would let his son play with a doll?” This was when Hasbro decided to market Joe as an action figure. Bozigian explained further, “The sales force was forbidden to use the term ‘doll.’ If anyone referred to it as a doll, they were fined.” Joe was introduced in August 1964 at several New York City stores, most of which were skeptical about its success. But, even at a lofty retail price of $4 (about $25 now), Hasbro’s offering sold out within a week. In 1964 and 1965, sales of G. I. Joes accounted for two-thirds of Hasbro’s total sales as their military miniature became the most successful boy’s toy of all time. Changes came and went dur-

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ing Joe’s time as a hot commodity. In 1967, he was provided with a female companion — G. I. Nurse Action Girl. But toybuying boys weren’t interested, and the plastic lady soon vanished — only to become collectible years later. As the decade wound down, resistance to the Vietnam War eroded Joe’s popularity. In

1970, Hasbro recast him as a tree-hugging peacenik. “Adventure Team” Joe featured gear for hunting safaris, scuba-diving and working archeological digs. Patriotic purists balked at the changes, but G. I. Joe would eventually live on through comic books, cartoons, films, TV shows, video games and even a breakfast cereal.

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A longtime neighbor swore she would never be admitted to a hospital because that’s where people go to die. Her five children were born at home and her only trips to the hospital were to visit sick friends or relatives. At her 99th birthday party, she contracted a cold from one of the guests that developed into pneumonia and was taken to the hospital, where she died. Reports of the number of patients who die in a hospital range widely. Johns Hopkins University researchers estimated in 2016 that some 250,000 people die unnecessarily in the hospital every year. An Institute of Medicine report a few years earlier set the top figure at just under 100,000. Whatever the figure, the medical community is aware that hospitals can be perilous places. The risks you face when you are hospitalized vary. A Massachusetts General Hospital study in 2015 revealed that mistakes occur in half of all surgical procedures. You also may receive the wrong treatment for your condition, which may be misdiagnosed in the first place.

If you’ve been confined to the hospital for some time, you can develop bed sores and face the possibility of falling while getting in and out of bed. Almost half of hospital falls occur while trying to do so without help. Taking care of yourself becomes just as important as letting the medical staff take care of you. Always ask questions. Don’t complain, ask. If the answer doesn’t make sense, keep asking until you understand the answer. If the bedside nurse can’t explain things clearly, ask for the nursing supervisor. If you’re still confused, ask to talk to your doctor. Should complications develop, ask to have a specialist brought in. Take a notebook with you and write down the names of all the nurses and doctors that mill around your bedside. Also write down the names of medications and dosages administered and the times you take them. Log the time you ring the buzzer and how long it took for someone to answer. Keep in mind, you’re the customer. It’s your body, mind and health that are at stake and that you have to protect. Mature Life Features Copyright 2021

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Statewide event to support the Indiana 9/11 Memorial expansion The American Legion Department of Indiana is hosting a 9/11 Remembrance event that will honor the 20th anniversary of 9/11 and help raise funds for the

Indiana 9/11 Memorial expansion to include the lives lost at the Pentagon. Open to all, the event will consist of a vehicle motorcade that welcomes motorcy-

Cheers Those having friends who are senior citizens 65 years or older who will be celebrating birthdays or anniversaries soon may send their names and addresses to include them in the Cheers Report. Also, know people listed in this column? Then send them cards to remember them on their special day. SEPTEMBER Elkhart County 7 — Patricia Woods, East Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Elkhart 14 — Wilma Joy Banicki, East Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Elkhart 19 — Violet Cory, East Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Elkhart 23 — Robert Wagoner, East Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Elkhart 25 — Jeanne Grove, Kathy Howie, East Lake Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Elkhart Kosciusko County 1 — Donna Lee, Grace Village Retirement Community 3 — Richard Anderson,

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cles, jeeps, trucks, cars, vans and buses that will ride as a group to honor all lives lost on 9/11. The event will occur rain or shine and start from all four corners of the state, with start times that vary based on location. The four motorcades will convene at the Indiana Legion Head-

quarters located on the ground of the former Fort Benjamin Harrison located in Lawrence, before departing at 12:30 p.m. as a group, and travel together to the Indiana 9/11 Memorial site. A remembrance ceremony featuring dignitaries, first responders and military veterans will start at 2 p.m.

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Detweiler encourages the incarcerated through correspondence program %\ 7,0 $6+/(< 6WDII :ULWHU Those incarcerated have often hit rock bottom and need encouragement. Some realize they need help and make a sincere effort to turn their lives around and walk on the path leading away from breaking the law. Prisoners can find help and encouragement through the Bible, but need someone to guide them and answer questions. Gospel Echoes Team Prison Ministry Association, based in Goshen, has a Bible correspondence program connecting inmates with volunteers. Jerry Detweiler, who lives just outside of Goshen and is a retired Fairfield High School math teacher, has been a volunteer with Gospel Echoes since about 2004. “A friend had traveled with them and suggested it to me,” he said. Detweiler came to Gospel Echoes and was told they needed a Bible study correspondent. Since then he has corresponded with literally thousands of prisoners in six states. “I go through their lessons (and grades them) and answer their questions about the Bible,” he said, noting a lot of questions are asked about forgiveness. “They want to know how they can forgive others.”

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Curriculum for the Bible studies was originally developed by the Mennonite Church but was later sold to Gospel Echoes. There are eight courses total and if at least four of them are completed, the prisoner is given a Bible. “The last one (course) is the hardest on the book of Acts,” Detweiler said. “It is a very detailed study of Acts.” The course on marriage is a favorite one of prisoners. “So many of them have had difficulty with their marriage,” he said. He noted the courses would even be good for any Christian to take. “There are a lot of pertinent questions asked that would be good for everyone,” he commented, on topics such as salvation, serving others and more. A few prisoners will finish all eight courses in as little as two or three months, but many will take longer or never finish all eight. Everything is done by hand and Detweiler has never met any of the prisoners he has corresponded with. Correspondence is sent to the Gospel Echoes office and he picks it up there. A few of the prisoners have contacted him by letter even after they were released. He said being a correspondent has made a definite

impact on his own life and has made his faith stronger. He recalled a time when prisoners he was corresponding with said they were praying for him when his granddaughter was dealing with cancer at a very young age. They also prayed for Detweiler when he was battling prostate cancer. Correspondence starts with Bible studies, he said, but leads to many questions including several about relationships. Prisoners often are dealing with broken relationships whether it is a wife, husband, girlfriend or boyfriend or others. “It is very challenging, but also very rewarding,” he commented. Studies have shown Bible courses do reduce the rate of return to prison, Detweiler said. He volunteers in other ways including helping his wife, Jane, package shoeboxes used in the Operation Christmas Child ministry. The two work on this year round. And after Detweiler graduated from Goshen College in 1963, he spent two years in Mennonite Voluntary Service in Pennsylvania working with children who couldn’t speak properly. Jerry and Jane attend Wawasee Lakeside Chapel.

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I am amazed by a networking friend, Sherina Gonzalez, who loves a challenge so much she has a new 30-day challenge every 30 days, and not just one, but a series of challenges. That. Is. Commitment. Her daily challenge list this month includes things like: • Walk a mile outside. • Read 10 pages. • Contact 10 people about business. • No fried or junk food. • Drink 98 ounces of water. • No booze. Using an app on her phone, Gonzalez ticks off each item as she completes it each and every day. I admire that her goals cover different aspects of her life, including faith, physical movement, healthy eating and work; it’s well rounded to cover all the facets of life. In her last post Gonzalez said, “These seemingly small tasks have helped to move me in the direction I want to grow physically, emotionally, spiritually, intellectually and financially … just a little bit each day. But wow, I’m excited with how far I’ve come already! I love that it’s starting

to feel not like a ‘challenge,’ but more like my new lifestyle.” I have done quite a few single 30-day challenges like 50 squats a day, an arm workout for 30 days, walking everyday for a summer, but not to the extent Gonzalez is doing. One I found very intriguing is completed the first hour you are awake: pray or meditate for 15 minutes, stretch for 15 minutes, read for 15 minutes and plan for the day either physically or mentally for 15 minutes. Doesn’t that sound like a peaceful way to start the day? One constant I have been doing for close to three years now is a “100-chart” where I note if I was 100% plant-based each day, my weight every Monday, and I mark when I am out of town and any special event I went to. At the end of the 100 days I do a quick calculation of how I did overall and move on to the next 100 days. The obvious reason for challenging ourselves is that it holds us accountable for the day, the week, the month and, in the end, hopefully we have created a habit and the habit becomes a way of life we just do without second thought — a lifestyle. If you are even a little bit competitive, draw up your own challenges for the upcoming month and you will see that ticking them off each day is gratifying and getting to day 30 is your win. I’d love to know how you did. Cat Wilson lives in South Bend and transitioned from a vegetarian diet to eating a plant-based diet over two years ago. She may be contacted at cwilson@thepapers.com.

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‘Maggie May’ first international winner for singer Rod Stewart Rod Stewart One has to wonder: Somewhere in England in 1971, was there a woman in her mid-40s — and possibly wearing a Mona Lisa $ %RRPHU %ODVW 7R 7KH 3DVW smile — %\ 5$1'$/ who heard & +,// “Maggie May” and realized that she might have been the inspiration for Rod Stewart’s breakthrough rock tune? We’ll probably never know. Roderick David Stewart was born in London in 1945, the youngest of five children of a construction foreman and a stay-

at-home mother. He quit school at age 15 to work a variety of menial jobs, including that of gravedigger. Music became Stewart’s free-time obsession, and he took up the guitar, the banjo and the harmonica, although he always preferred singing. Later, mimicking such American soul stars as Sam Cooke and Otis Redding, Stewart sang with numerous bands before ending up in the iconic UK outfit Small Faces. He recorded both as the Small Faces front man and a solo artist. The first two Rod Stewart albums didn’t bring him fame or fortune, but his third effort — “Every Picture Tells a Story” — made Stewart’s name known throughout the music world, thanks to a hit single based on an event from his adolescence. Years before America’s Woodstock and Monterey Pop concerts,

England had the Beaulieu Jazz Festival. Held annually since 1956 in the town of Hampshire, the outdoor gathering offered music as well as a chance for hip young Brits to dress in bizarre outfits and “get wild” away from their own neighborhoods. In July 1961, Stewart and some pals snuck onto the festival grounds and headed for the beer tent. There Stewart met a woman about twice his age. “One thing led to the next, and we ended up nearby on a secluded patch of lawn,” he recalled years later. Stewart admitted that his “going all the way” for the first time lasted mere seconds. But that experience, brief as it may have been, would provide his ticket to superstardom a decade later. Inspired by his introduction to manhood, Stewart eventu-

ally filled about 20 notebook pages with a fantasy yarn about a complicated and erratic relationship. He later developed that tale into a story-song about the trials and tribulations of a life shared with an older lady. “I feel I’m being used” gives way to “I love you anyway” before the ultimate proclamation, “I wish I’d never seen your face.” Stewart and guitarist pal Martin Quittenton created “Maggie May,” the slightly tweaked title being gleaned from “Maggie Mae,” an old Liverpool folk song the Beatles

had included as a snippet on their “Let It Be” album. Curiously, Stewart’s multimillion-selling “Maggie May” had almost been left off his “Every Picture Tells a Story” LP, as the tune had no chorus and no hook, just a bunch of rambling verses. The future smash — recorded in just two takes — was released as the Bside of Stewart’s 45 “Reason to Believe,” a Tim Hardin ballad. But disc jockeys soon flipped the single and seemingly overnight “Maggie May” handed the sandpaper-voiced rock ‘n’ roller his first international winner.

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Former Blue Sox player throws out first pitch Shirley Salisbury Hilbish, a 1953 South Bend Blue Sox player, threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the South Bend Cubs game Thursday, Aug. 5. The opportunity was made possible through the Waterford Crossing Senior Living Senior Living’s “Live A Dream” program. Hilbish is a resident at the Goshen retirement center. A special section was reserved for Hilbish, her family, other residents and staff to cheer her on and enjoy food and fun during the game. “When you decide to live at a Trilogy campus, we make a promise to you — that it’s never too late to go on a new adventure,

and there’s no adventure too great or too small,” said Waterford Crossing Life Enrichment Director Jenna Barghahn. “That’s why, thanks to our ‘Live a Dream’ program, we have residents who have touched the clouds in a hot air balloon, taken a motorcycle ride on the back of a police cycle, tilled the soil in a combine one last time and had lunch with their 99-year-old sister. “Every resident is asked upon admit and periodically throughout their stay if there is something special they would like to do that they used to do or something on their bucket list that they have never done. After that, our life

enrichment staff, with funding from home office, gets to work making sure we make that dream come true!” During a discussion with a life enrichment staff member about Hilbish, it came to light she had played on the 1953 South Bend Blue Sox team. After several calls back and forth with the South Bend Cubs, the event was set up. Special T-shirts for residents and family members were made and a contingent of staff, residents and family were in attendance in a special section at Four Winds Field to fulfill Hilbish’s “Live a Dream” to throw out the ceremonial first pitch.

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Threatened butterflies in spotlight at Monarch Festival Sunday, Sept. 12 Traveling over 2,800 miles from Mexican forests to Canada every year, monarch butterflies’ annual migration has been called one of the greatest natural phenomena in the insect world. This long-distance, multigeneration migration— and the part area gardens and preserves play in reducing the threats to monarchs—is the focus of the 2021 Monarch Festival at Eagle Marsh, 6801 Engle Road, Fort Wayne. Highlighting monarchs’ life cycle and their incredible transformation, the Monarch Festival includes a variety of programs and activities: • Displays of live monarchs at different stages of their life cycle, from caterpillars to adults. • Monarch butterfly tagging prior to release. • Educational presentations, learning stations and hands-on activities for all ages. • Hikes on interpretive trails lined with tall native wildflowers to watch these iconic butterflies nectaring or roosting almost close enough to touch. • Plant giveaways. Visitors will be offered varieties of milkweed, the only plant on which monarchs lay their eggs, to plant either at Eagle Marsh or take home. • Farmers market, offering pollinator-friendly products

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ist in Your Own Hometown event. Be sure to bring your passport to get your stamp if you’re participating in other “tourist” events that day. A nonprofit land trust, Little River Wetlands Project restores and protects wetlands in the watershed of the Little River, a tributary of the Wabash River. LRWP’s project area encompasses more than 140,000 acres in Allen and Huntington counties. The organization manages several preserves, including Eagle Marsh, the largest inland urban wetland restoration in the U.S.

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Coffee keeps you going %\ &(&,/ 6&$*/,21( 0DWXUH /LIH )HDWXUHV Sit down to a relaxing cup of coffee and you’ll feel better. Drink too much and you’re liable to get anxious and irritable. A regular intake of the brew can help you live a little longer while lowering your risk of stroke, diabetes and several other ailments. Overdo it and it can become addictive and wreck your digestive system. At the moment, it appears that the coffee-can-be-good-foryou school outweighs the naysayers so you can relax with a cup — decaf or regular — while reading this. Legend has it that a goat herder in Ethiopia discovered the benefits of the coffee when he noticed his goats’ excitable and energetic behavior after eating the beans. The earliest substantiated evidence of coffee drinking is from the early 15th century in the Sufi monasteries of Yemen. About the same time, a Venetian botanist imported some to Italy and it spread throughout Europe. Coffee houses became popular gathering places fomenting revolutionary thoughts and movements. Police tracked down Prussians who preferred the black brew over beer. England’s rulers sought to ban coffee houses because their riotous gatherings were disturbing the peace of the realm. It was introduced to the New World by the mid-17th century but it wasn’t until the British tea was dumped into Boston harbor in the revolt against King George III that the colonists switched firmly from tea to coffee. Through all this, coffee has emerged as a disease fighter

because it’s loaded with antioxidants. Drinking a couple or three cups a day has become part of most folks’ day as medical researchers report the liquid lowers the risk of chronic heart disease and age-related cognitive decline. A cautionary note: coffee intake tends to boost blood pressure so it’s wise to space coffee consumption. At the same time, a recent medical study indicated that seniors 65 and older who drink as many as four and more servings of caffeine a day, whether in coffee or soft drinks, have less than half the risk of dying of heart disease then those who consume less than that. The benefits of coffee reportedly are its ability to relieve pain, fight mouth cancer, battle depression, aid digestion, protect the liver and reduce the risk of breast and prostate cancer. And meeting old friends to socialize over a cup of coffee also is good for your health. As with anything that affects your health, discuss your coffee intake with your family doctor. Mature Life Features Copyright 2021

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83'$7(6 +$33(1,1*6 ,1 7+( $5($ Send listings hosted by non-profit organizations and Senior Life advertisers to Senior Life, P.O. Box 188, 206 S. Main St., Milford, IN 46526, or to kknepp@the-papers. com by Sept. 13 for October listings. With listing, include a contact name and phone number with area code. Nappanee Market on Market — The market is open Saturdays until 1 p.m. in the downtown pavilion, located on the southwest corner of Market and Clark streets. Stop by and pick up fresh fruits and vegetables and check out the works of several crafts vendors. Harvest Market — Fresh produce is available from 306 p.m. Mondays and Wednesdays at 207 N. Higbee St., Milford. The cost is a $25 cent per item donation, with proceeds going to the buyer’s choice of one of four Milford nonprofit organizations. First Friday — First Fridays has returned to Goshen. Come downtown to celebrate with friends and family in

the downtown you know and love. Broken Wanderer will be performing on at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, on the First Fridays stage on Main Street. Broken Wanderer is a sister duo from Goshen who have a passion for expression through music. They have been performing since 2016 though they have been musical since they were young, growing up in a very musical family. They are inspired by many pop-folk and acoustic musicians however to stay true to their hearts, don’t subscribe to any one style of music and let it speak for itself. Your senses will be tantalized with heartfelt lyrics, inspirational vocals and catchy, oftentimes soulful melodies. Friday Fest in Nappanee — Hike up your lederhosen and join in for the last Friday Fest of the 2021 season as they celebrate with some brews and bikes in October. Adults can enjoy a brewfest hosted by Ruhe 152, and all ages can take in the motor-

cycle show. Mark Gaut will provide music on guitar, and visitors can enjoy a variety of meals and treats from food trucks and local food vendors. As always, shopping booths and children’s activities will round out the family fun. Mark your calendars and plan on joining in at Friday Fest in downtown Nappanee. Most activities and booths will be located along East Lincoln Street between Main and Summit streets. Sculpture art in downtown Nappanee — The new batch of sculptures, commissioned by the Nappanee Arts Council, has hit the streets. Make the trip to come see all of the public art they have to share downtown, in the new Doug Grant Family Gallery inside the Nappanee Center, inside the Nappanee Arts Center across the street and along the Art Paths in the park system. Visit www. visitnappanee.com for details on all of these sites. Primitive Gardens Fall Fest — Come to Mentone

to be part of the annual Fall Fest Friday, to be held from noon to 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4, and noon to 4 p.m.

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Minding money tricks %\ &(&,/ 6&$*/,21( 0DWXUH /LIH )HDWXUHV A long time ago in a town far away, a wise man told a young lad to always pay himself first. Whether the amount received was a paycheck or payment for a product or service or just a plain gift, the idea was to sock a portion away into what would be a retirement fund before paying off any debt — mortgage, credit card, automobile loan, taxes, anything. The idea was not only to build a comfortable nest egg for one’s golden years but it was also establishing a saving money mindset that became a routine. Over the years, the young man who received this advice began devising a few mental money exercises of his own.

Instead of buying popcorn at the movies, he’d tuck that money into his savings account. As he grew older, he would pick out three T-shirts, toss one back on the store rack and add the price of the garment to his senior-years stash. As an added fillip, when spoiling himself with an occasional round of golf or picking up a gallon of his favorite ice cream, he’d match that price with a contribution to his fund. He never missed the money he kept funneling into his savings plan and was rewarded as he enjoyed his financially worry-free golden years. Money management requires mental discipline but it doesn’t have to be restrictive if you employ a few tricks like those cited above. Mature Life Features Copyright 2021

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Animal house at the Wolfsie home I recently divulged that we had a mouse problem at the Wolfsies’. The little vermin were somehow getting into the house. ,1 $ Not wanting 1876+(// to hurt the %\ ',&. invaders, :2/)6,( Mary Ellen opted to purchase several no kill traps. We did catch a couple and released them. Here is how I envision a conversation in the woods behind our house… Mouse 1: Hey, Myron, have you been in the Wolfsie home recently? Mouse 2: I have not. Is it worth the trip? Mouse 1: It’s awesome. First, you go into the pantry and then you walk into a container and this little door closes right behind you. Inside, there is a delicious mountain of peanut butter. After you feast on it, you hear the Wolfsies walking into the kitchen before they open the pantry door. Then they pick up the container and give you a free ride back to the woods. MOUSE 2: Cool! So, you’ve been going back for more peanut butter every day? How dumb can they be?

The Wolfsies have a new deer predicament. We love to see them in our back yard, but they were eating our hydrangeas. First, we tried a product called Deer Out, which was well named because after trying it for a month, we threw it OUT. Mary Ellen read that deer like lettuce so she thought we could convince them to dine on something other than our plants. I nailed some lettuce leaves to a tree. Mary Ellen laughed out loud watching me do this. Then she told me she read that deer really like lime jello, too. Very funny. Mary Ellen noticed that rabbits were chewing on her new plants in the rock garden. She loved watching the little bunnies, but they were destructive. If she wanted me to help her deal with this, I told her she had to dress like Elmer Fudd and say, “Wichard, you have to do something about those was wascawy wabbits!” Mary Ellen found ideas online for how to discourage rabbits from nibbling on vegetable plants. The three items suggested were vinegar, eggs and garlic. We carefully placed that on all the leaves and in the soil. This kept the rabbits away, but we caught our vegetarian neighbors snacking on our garden. They said our homemade salad dressing was superb. We also had a squirrel issue. The rodents were eating from our

bird feeder. Mary Ellen’s brother, Tom, bought us a high-tech feeding apparatus that spins the squirrels around when the device registers excess weight. Now the squirrels are bringing their pups to the feeder for a free amusement park ride. We have racoons in our yard every night around dusk,

although lately they have been coming out much later in the evening. Since our county has lifted the mask mandate, the little bandits must be feeling a bit self-conscious. We think we have a chipmunk in our air duct that runs right under the bed. This is keeping my wife up at night. Not the scratch-

ing noises, but I keep yelling “ALVIN!” when she is trying to get to sleep. We are proud to report that no harm has come to any animals that have ventured onto our property. I am concerned, however, for the neighborhood kids who are climbing up the trees to snack on the jello.

Mediterranean diet a way of life %\ &(&,/ 6&$*/,21( 0DWXUH /LIH )HDWXUHV The tongue and tummy pleasing Mediterranean diet has climbed high on the list of ways to improve your heart health. Visions of Italian pasta and pizza and Greek goodies dance through our minds when most of us consider our choices of Mediterranean menus. But there are 22 countries in Europe, Asia and Africa encircling that sea, so just where does this diet originate? And what foods are we talking about? First of all, the World Health Association reports the Mediterranean death rate from cardiovascular disease is half that of Americans. And while the term “Mediterranean diet” is rather loose, it refers to meals rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, legumes and olive oil that are low in saturated

fats and high in lean sources of protein, like fish. Red wine in moderation is a bonus inclusion. The diets of Mediterranean countries differ in the amount of total fat, olive oil, type of meat and wine intake, milk vs. cheese, and fruits and vegetables, and the rates of coronary heart disease and cancer. It’s generally accepted that the first scientific probe of this food regimen was launched shortly after World War II in Greece by the Rockefeller Foundation in an attempt to improve the population’s health. Researchers learned quickly that plant-based food made up almost 75% of the people’s diet. Later studies revealed that the origins of this food focus was lost in time. Archaeological evidence revealed that cereals and legumes were favored dietary items in the Middle East more than 10,000

years ago. More recently, Arabic peoples introduced new foods into the European diet, bringing eggplant, rice and some spices from India. The key elements of the Mediterranean diet — bread, olive oil and wine — were spread throughout continental Europe by monastic orders that migrated there to evangelize those peoples. Bread, oil and wine were central elements of the Christian liturgy that was being spread throughout Europe. The Mediterranean diet encompasses more than food. It also embraces a lifestyle that includes physical activity and gatherings of family and friends to enjoy such foods as garlic, olive oil and tomatoes that promote good health. Think of life and living in Spain, Italy or Greece, and the music and menus in each of these countries. That will get you started on the Mediterranean diet. Mature Life Features Copyright 2021

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Poking into the Past:

Will Rogers, our most beloved humorist %\ 720 02552: 0DWXUH /LIH )HDWXUHV Today’s humorless woke culture makes it almost impossible for anyone to poke fun at anyone in the political spectrum without being shouted down by some portion of the population. That is to say, it’s a good thing Will Rogers isn’t tossing off his incisive barbs these days when so many folks search for reasons to be offended. He was born Nov. 4, 1879, in the Cherokee Nation of Indian Territory, now Oklahoma, and fashioned a life as a cowboy, vaudeville performer, stage and film actor, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist and social commentator. Rogers often quipped his ancestors did not come over on the Mayflower, but they “met the boat.” As an entertainer and humorist, he traveled around the world three times, made 71 films (50 silent films and 21 talkies) and wrote more than 4,000 nationally syndicated newspaper columns. By the mid-1930s, Rogers was among the highest paid Hollywood film stars.

He poked fun at prohibition, politicians, gangsters, government programs and a host of other controversial topics in a way that found general acclaim from a national audience. He often proclaimed, “I am not a member of an organized political party. I am a Democrat.” In 1901 he and a friend went to work for a spell as gauchos (cowboys) in Argentina before setting sail for South Africa, where he was hired at a ranch. It was there he started his show business career as a trick lariat roper in the Texas Jack’s Wild West Circus. That’s where “I learned the great secret of show business — knowing when to get off the stage. It’s the fellow who knows when to quit that the audience wants more of.” He took his roping act to Australia and returned to the United States in 1904, appearing at the St. Louis World’s Fair before joining the vaudeville circuit, which led him to New York’s Ziegfeld Follies on Broadway. In 1918, Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn gave him a three-year contract at triple his Broadway salary. At the same time, Rogers

:,// 52*(56 was on his lecture circuit and wrote his New York Times syndicated column, “Will Rogers Says,” that reached 40 million readers daily. His newspaper column expressed his traditional morality and belief that political problems were not as serious as they sounded. He urged isolationism for the U.S. During his lectures Rogers quipped, “A humorist entertains, and a lecturer annoys.” From 1929 to 1935, Rogers’ radio broadcast, sponsored by the Gulf Oil Company was ranked among the nation’s top programs. He was an aviation enthusiast and promoted a

military air force along with his friend, Army Gen. Billy Mitchell. Although he supported President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, he easily joked about it, saying, “Lord, the money we do spend on government. It’s not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money 20 years ago.” Rogers increasingly expressed the views of the common man and downplayed academic credentials, noting, “Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.” In 1935 Rogers asked his friend, famed aviator Wiley Post, to fly him to Alaska to search for new material for his newspaper column. On Aug. 15, they left Fairbanks for Point Barrow. About 20 miles southwest of their destination they landed to ask directions. Upon takeoff, the engine failed and they plunged into a lagoon. Both men died instantly. Before his death, Oklahoma commissioned a statue of Rogers, representing the state in Statuary Hall of the U.S. Capitol. Rogers insisted his image be placed facing the House Chamber so he could “keep an eye on Con-

gress.” Capitol tour guides say each president traditionally rubs the statue’s left shoe for good luck before entering the House Chamber to give the annual State of the Union address. Many landmarks are named in the humorist’s honor: Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, the Will Rogers Turnpike between Tulsa and Joplin, Mo., and 13 Oklahoma public schools. U.S. 66 is known as The Will Rogers Highway with a dedication plaque at the roadway’s western terminus in Santa Monica. There have been two U.S. postage stamps dedicated in his honor and the U.S. Navy’s Benjamin Franklin class submarine, USS Will Rogers, was launched in 1966. Among his more widely known sayings are, “All I know is what I read in the newspapers,” and “When I make a joke no one gets hurt; when Congress makes a joke it becomes law.” Probably his most famous quote is the epitaph in his Clairmont, Okla., tombstone: “I never met a man I didn’t like.” Mature Life Features Copyright 2021

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which was designated a National Memorial in 2002, hosts a beautifully designed visitor’s center that captures the events of that fateful day. That plane was thought to be headed to the Capitol in Washington, D.C. until passengers banded together and fought the hijackers. Rather than let them take over the plane, the terrorists nosed it into the ground killing the crew, 40 passengers and themselves. Marble inserts in the walkway to the visitor’s center provide a vivid timeline of the events of the day and chronicles when each of the four hijacked planes took off. The memorial is not a flashy hands-on Disney-style facility. There are lots of photos, memorabilia found at the crash site and phones with which to listen to calls made by passengers to their loved ones detailing what was happening.

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Please Join Our Team In The Fight Against Alzheimer’s Disease Team Name: North Woods Village

Please join the staff and residents of North Woods Village as we release live butterflies as a symbol of hope for a world without Alzheimer’s. Butterflies available for purchase through a $10 donation to benefit the Alzheimer’s Association of Northern IN.

Central Park 235 E. Mishawaka Ave. Mishawaka, IN 46545

Registration at 1 p.m. Ceremony at 2 p.m. Walk at 2.15 p.m.

A light meal and beverages will be provided. Space is limited for this complimentary event.

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RSVP to these complimentary events at (574) 247-1866 & view all upcoming events online at NorthWoodsMemoryCare.com.

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• “New Directions”® activities and programming customized for each resident • Chef prepared meals and snacks tailored to individual tastes and diets

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• Three secure, homelike neighborhoods & beautiful courtyard with walking paths, raised gardens and gazebo • State-of-the-art motion sensing technology in all resident suites

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Nunemaker’s Coin Shop A Family Business Since 1962

Call Toll Free 1-877-510-9785 • Buying all gold coins & silver coins • Old U.S. currency and old U.S. coins • Gold & diamond jewelry • All sterling silver items

We Buy • Sell • Trade Gold & Diamond Jewelry 2516 Lincolnway West Mishawaka, IN 46544 www.nunemakers.com Open: Mon.-Sat. Free In Store Appraisals!

574-288-7464