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inside THIS ISSUE

8 New Year Wellness

Some handy tips on staying healthy long into your later years

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Opinion

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Leibo At Large

Sound Off Ask Gabby Gayle

Features 14

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In a Pickleball

Once an RV park perk, pickleball is sweeping the region

Entertainment Unplugged and Un-beached Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine premieres new storyteller’s show at MIM

20 Calendar of Events 25 Background Star

Darlene Love steps into the spotlight for headlining show

Travel

32 Ed Boitano

Macayo’s swaps tropical toucans for tasteful décor while keeping original flavor

Columns

44 Aging Today 45 Retirement Report 46 Medicare

Jay Sandrich directed classic sitcoms

Calendar Editor

Christina Fuoco-Karasinski

Lou Lagrave Gordon Wood

Editor’s Note

29 Puzzles 30 Humble Gratitude

The Duttons’ matriarch is grateful for family time

What’s Cooking?

5-Ingredient Dumpling Drop Soup

42 A Chance of Meatballs

The forecast for the Maggiore Group’s new Sicilian Butcher looks bright

47 Lovin’ Tech 48 Hospice Is Hope 52 Arizona Senior Olympics

Graphic Designer Executive Editor Tonya Mildenberg Niki D’Andrea Senior Account Executives Travel Editor

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26 Trivia Contest 28 Tinseltown Talks

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40 Birds of a Feather

Ed Boitano

Annie star Bronson Pinchot stays busy taking care of his mom

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Dining

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Hard-Knock Life

38 Traveltizers: Russia

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For many people, the new year is an abstract “reset” button, a time to take stock of the previous year’s trials, tribulations and triumphs, and set new goals for the following year. The problem is, sometimes our goals are too lofty (“I’m not eating one bite of a single cookie anytime next year!”; “I’m going to win every single pickleball match I play!”; “I’m not going to get annoyed with anyone about anything!”) and we wind up not keeping those resolutions and feeling bad about it. But I was watching a local news broadcast recently, and a life coach recommended that instead of making “resolutions,” people make “commitments” – and keep them reasonable (“I’m going to start drinking tea instead of coffee”; “I’m going to enter a pickleball tournament and be competitive”; “I’m going to try

to be a better listener”). One reasonable commitment, especially for Boomers and beyond, is to get regular medical checkups including any doctor-recommended shots and vaccines, eat a healthful diet, and stay active. That’s what this issue of LLAF is all about – “new year, new you.”

Our main feature outlines shots needed this year for those over 50, age-appropriate exercise and nutrition, and a timeline of needed annual check-ups. It really all comes down to preventive care. And of course, we had to throw some pickleball in the mix. Happy New Year! Be well.

Niki D’Andrea Executive Editor

Administrator Courtney Oldham

Contributors

Lin Sue Cooney, Jan D’Atri, Greg Dill, Justin Ferris, Christina Fuoco-Karasinski, Irv Green, Andrea Gross, Wynter Holden, Kenneth LaFave, Gayle Lagman-Creswick, David Leibowitz, Garry Madaline, Jimmy Magahern, Paul Maryniak, Bob Roth, Irene Stillwell, Nick Thomas

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Opinion Leibo At Large

1,500 degrees gives new respect for firefighters

BY DAVID LEIBOWITZ The first thing you notice is the weight of the steel-plated leather boots. Six, seven pounds apiece, safe against four-digit heat, the Haix firefighter boots force you to shuffle. Next, you tug on your turnouts, pants and a jacket, three heavy layers to protect you from chemicals, carcinogens and flame. You commence sweating even before you pull on the Nomex flameresistant hood and helmet.

By time you shoulder the oxygen tank – 40 pounds heavier than when you started on a recent December morning – you can sense the physical toll firefighting takes. And that’s hours before you visit the flashover chamber, where blasts of 1,500-degree flame roll over you.

Fire Operations 101, this half-day academy is called. Staffed by firefighters from Goodyear and Glendale – volunteering to give business leaders, elected officials and one perspiring newspaperman a taste of life on the front lines – the event reaffirms several things I’ve long suspected.

Firefighting is one part athleticism, one part Zen awareness under extreme conditions and one part service above self. It is a calling for those who don the gear. And fire, when you sense its killing ferocity through your turnouts, will leave you as vulnerable as a grown man can feel.

Oh. Also, firefighting isn’t only about fire. It’s about hustling to 10 or 20 calls across a 24- or 48-hour shift, the buzzer going off at 3 a.m. and hitting snooze never an option.

“One of the biggest misconceptions is that all we do is fire,” says Goodyear Capt.

Patrick Doyle, the father of four little blonde girls. “In the Valley, specifically in Goodyear, we’re your fire department, emergency medical department, hazardous materials department, paramedics. We do cats in a tree. … Unless someone has a gun, people call the fire department.”

Fire Ops 101 includes five stations.

“Search and rescue” involves using a Halligan bar and a sledgehammer to bust

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into a house. Then you tote in fire hose and carry out a victim overcome by smoke.

During extrication, you wield the “jaws of life” to rip the doors off an old Buick. The car crash station involves your four-person crew unleashing a massive jet of water on a vehicle shooting head-high flames.

At the EMS station, you do CPR chest compressions until your triceps scream.

Then there’s the flashover chamber, a pitch-black room the size of a doublewide full of claustrophobia and smoke.

For seven years, I’ve worked with Arizona’s firefighters, helping handle their communications needs. We’ve stood shoulder to shoulder in political hearings, interviews, funerals, charity events. They’re like family. But never have I respected these thousands of men and women more than I did experiencing 1,500 degrees up close.

Some politicians and journalists crusade against public safety pay and retirement benefits. They view firefighters and cops as dollars on a spreadsheet. The only other time they consider public servants like Pat Doyle is to request an endorsement or peddle some sensationalized “investigation.” Personally, I think public safety work taxes those who do it more than we can imagine – even after a day walking in their heavy boots. Because Fire Ops 101 is only pretend.

“I sometimes wish I could let the (critics) see what it’s like to hold a drowning baby being surrounded by their entire family,” says Goodyear Capt. Stephen Gilman. “Or to see some of their best friends get cancer at the age of 32. Or to see some of their friends come away with severe burns.”

Capt. Gilman looks you in the eye. “I think if they realized some of these things we go through … I don’t think they’d be as quick to judge that this job is easy or the pension is too big.”

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Every one of our Arizona cities, towns, villages and hamlets are served by our public schools.

From Page to Nogales, Teec Nos Pos to San Luis, and from Kingman to Douglas and everywhere in between, we have teachers, administrators, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, office personnel, and governing board members tending to the needs of our students.

Since our current governor and legislature seem to be reticent to fund public education at acceptable and needed levels, the time for public education supporters to band together to force change seems logical and timely.

If all of the paid personnel affiliated with our public schools banded together to vote for school funding improvements

unknown practice among hospitals is this: Often when a person’s death is imminent, within minutes or hours they are transported to a hospice unit to die so the hospital doesn’t have to record the death on their public record. Quite often they die in transport, depriving their loved ones of the opportunity to be with them at their passing for the sake of good publicity. You do have the right to refuse transport and allow the death to occur at the hospital.

I in no way want to discredit the local hospitals; they do a fantastic job.

I just want to make people aware of choices they may not know they have.

and against public school status quo lawmakers, a tidal wave of educational support would sweep across our beloved state.

Since many business and corporate leaders seem to understand that spending money on public education isn’t an expense but a prudent investment, the alliance of private and public people might be enough to overcome the “we aren’t going to spend any more money on public education” attitude that too many of our myopic lawmakers seem to espouse.

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Ask Gabby Gayle

Thanks for reading so closely

BY GAYLE LAGMAN-CRESWICK This letter was received from BW on email:

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I say, only you can decide which is more important to you…

In your first answer on page financial security or freedom. I think the 16, you wrote, “That said, I more years that go by, the harder it is to suspect there are many out there in make a decision to part company; even the same boat.” Out where? Redundant bad habits are hard to break. I could not words. Eliminated, the sentence says the live like that, but each of us is different. same thing but without the undefined, It is probably fear of the unknown that mushy and therefore useless “out there.” keeps us from acting. You know what From page 17 of The Elements of you face each day in your marriage. If Style, paragraph 13: “Omit needless you were to leave, there would be lots of words.” In your fifth answer, the same unknowns, right? Good luck. thing: “For all seniors out there...”

G.G. Out where? I hear or read this two to five times a day, and about once or twice a year Dear Gabby Gayle: when they it isn’t redundant. Of course, it You probably receive many you can tell me, concretely, where “out letters such as this, but I have there” is, I’ll retract my contention. decided that I have lived too long. I am BW only 65, but in many social ways, I feel 100 years old. On my computer, I receive Dear BW: hateful things about our president… I I could tell you that you left mean, hateful things that I would not out a word after “they” in the repeat. And over the weekend, my eighth line above. I could ask you, “Who granddaughter, age 18, was visiting are ‘they’?” I could tell you that “out there” from California. We were discussing the means “not in here with me.” However, I Pledge of Allegiance, and she said that think I will just thank you for reading the pledge was said every morning in my column so closely. I cannot promise her high school classroom, but very you that I will not use “out there” again. few stood up and said it… even she did I rather like the sound of it… like I am not. I was mortified. When she saw how broadcasting to the multitudes. Keep shocked I was, she said her mother said it reading and writing! was okay if she did not support it. Then I Thanks again, G.G. was really shocked. Can you imagine any 18 year old who lives free in this country Dear Gabby Gayle: that does not support the flag? Like I said, Here we are in a new year. I have lived too long!

There is nothing new about Signed, Mortified it. I am still here, living with a man I do not love or respect. I will not elaborate Dear Mort: on his transgressions, but believe me, I share your angst. At our age, it is something he could be prosecuted we have experienced war and for. He is very self-centered. Now that he losing loved ones who were fighting for is retired, he does nothing constructive our freedom. I suppose that an 18 year or interesting. He is a weird guy, to say old has not experienced war until now, the least. We have been married for 45 and she does not understand what that years. I have been going to leave him flag really means to us. I think this kind of for 20 years and cannot seem to get it thing needs to be taught at home, and done. It is mostly financial. At least, we obviously she did not receive that. I hope have a decent home and decent income you made an impression on her, and she together. If we split, both of us will be will think about the meaning of our flag. hard hit financially. All my friends say,“Get Note: I received several good suggestions on holiday out of there. You deserve happiness.” giving, which I will save for next year’s pre-holiday issue. Thank you for sending them.

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NEW YEAR

Wellness Some handy tips on staying healthy long into your later years

BY JIMMY MAGAHERN The ragtime pianist and composer Eubie Blake, when asked by the New York Times for a comment on the occasion of his 96th birthday, memorably quipped, “If I’d known I was going to live so long, I would have taken better care of myself.”

That aphorism is no longer a joke for many of us, who are now living longer than our grandparents’ and parents’ generations but are perhaps not preparing for those years as well as we should. As

we begin a new year, Lovin’ Life offers a few pointers on the basic things everyone over 50 should be doing in 2018 in preparation for all those years still ahead.

Shots seniors need in 2018

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As a general rule, however, most physicians swear by the following four shots for adults over 50: • Flu shot. The seasonal flu shot protecting against the most common influenza viruses is recommended annually by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for everyone over 6 months old, but for people age 65 and older, there is now a new three-component, or trivalent, shot formulated with an added ingredient (the adjuvant MF59) that helps create a stronger immune response to vaccination. This new flu vaccine, with the brand name FLUAD, was licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in late 2015. As an alternative, adults 65 and older can also go with the previous option, a high-dose vaccine containing four times the amount of antigen as the regular flu shot. The CDC says either formulation is good for this age group.

• Tetanus shot. Few people die from tetanus anymore (in 2015, only two deaths out of a total of 29 tetanus cases were reported in the U.S.), but that’s mainly because of the widespread use of tetanus vaccines since the late 1940s. It’s recommended that everyone from adolescents on up gets a routine tetanus booster vaccination every 10 years to protect against tetanus and diphtheria. On one of those visits, the booster shot should be replaced with a Tdap shot, which covers tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (more commonly known as whooping cough).

• Pneumonia shots. Adults 65 or older (and possibly younger, if your doctor recommends it) should be immunized against pneumococcal pneumonia an-

Dr. Amit Shah is associate dean of faculty affairs at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine. (Photos special to LLAF)

nually. Two vaccines are recommended, given on alternating years: one dose of PCV13 (conjugate vaccine) followed by one dose of PPSV23 (polysaccharide vaccine), each given one year apart.

• Shingles vaccine. One out of every three people aged 60 or older will get the painful, sometimes debilitating skin rash known as shingles, caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox. The basic rule of thumb is, if you’ve had chickenpox some time in your life, you are at risk of getting shingles. Getting the shingles shot just once after age 65 reduces the risk of getting shingles by about half.

However, doctors say you may want to wait a few months until a new vaccine that was just approved by the FDA and CDC is available. The new vaccine, called Shingrix, will be a two-part shot that has tested as more effective than the current single-dose shot.

There may be additional shots your doctor recommends, says Sarah Payne, DO, Banner Hospice medical director and a board-certified geriatric-medicine specialist. “You should also ask your health care provider if there are any disease-specific vaccines you should get,” she says.

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Wellness...continued from page 8 cise you can do,” says Amit Shah, MD, associate dean of faculty affairs at the Mayo Clinic School of Medicine. “Activities such as running can be hard on the joints. If arthritis is a problem, consider water aerobics or walking in a pool.”

Payne agrees. “If you like to do tai chi but you have severe arthritis, don’t worry,” she says. “There are a lot of places that offer ‘chair chi,’ a modified form of tai chi.

Just find the right program to suit your specific needs. The ideal thing is to keep moving!”

On the nutrition side, it’s important to make changes to our daily eating habits as our bodies get older. The USDA recommends making these small adjustments as we age: • Watch the salt. Look for low-sodium packaged foods and add flavor to foods with spices and herbs instead of salt; • Eat your veggies. Add sliced fruits and vegetables to your meals and snacks; • Got milk? Drink three cups of fat-free or low-fat milk throughout the day. If you cannot tolerate milk, try small amounts of yogurt, butter milk, hard cheese or lactose-free foods; • Water, water, water. Drink water in-

A timeline of needed annual checkups

stead of sugary drinks; • Check for vitamins. Consume foods fortified with vitamin B12, such as fortified cereals.

“Metabolism slows down with aging due to a variety of changes, including losing muscle mass, called sarcopenia,” Shah says. “Food intake must be reduced to

match this or a person will gain weight.”

Payne adds, “The same rules apply at any age – a healthy, Mediterranean diet is the best way to go for a variety of reasons, along with exercise that is appropriate for where you are at functionally.

Exercise helps with mood, depression, arthritis — any number of things.’’

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“Even if you are healthy, you should go to your health care provider at least once per year for your annual wellness visit and then a follow-up to go over lab results and any specific conditions,” Payne says. “Sometimes, depending on your health or your provider, these visits can be combined, although you may need to ask for a longer appointment or if your provider does this.’’

Follow-up appointments are particularly important if you have some chronic conditions that require monitoring. In such cases, Payne says, “your provider may want to see you every three to four months. These visits are not only for you but for the provider as well, to keep abreast of any changes that may have happened and to ensure you are still on the right path. Even if you are perfectly healthy but of a certain age, your provider may ask to see you at least twice a year just to ensure all is well.”

As for other recommended annual checkups beyond the wellness visit, Shah points to a 2011 report produced in conjunction with the CDC, Administration on Aging, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. The report, Enhancing Use of Clinical Preventive Services Among Older Adults (available at both cdc.gov/aging and aarp.org/healthpros), provides a list of seven important checkups older adults should commit to having annually — along with some alarming statistics on how few actually do: • Up-to-date vaccinations. More than 31 percent of adults ages 65 and older reported not receiving an influenza vaccination in the past year.

• Breast cancer screening. Nearly 17 percent of women ages 65 to 74 reported not receiving a mammogram within the past two years.

• Colorectal cancer screening. More than 36 percent of adults ages 65 to 74 reported not receiving colorectal cancer screening. Ideally, one of these three colon cancer screenings should be done for adults between the ages of 50 and 75, according to Banner Health: colonoscopy (every 10 years); CT colonography (every 5 years); sigmoidoscopy (every 5 years); fecal occult blood testing (yearly); or FIT DNA (every 3 years). Consult your doctor for the best personal option.

• Diabetes screening. 31 percent of adults ages 65 and older without diag-

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In a Pickleball

Once an RV park perk, pickleball is sweeping the region

BY PAUL MARYNIAK Whenever East Valley residents Susan and Steve Manolis plan a trip, their first question for an RV park is whether it has a pickleball court.

“If they say ‘no,’” I say ‘OK, thank you.

Click,” Susan says.

At least they and a growing legion of pickleball fans across Arizona are having an easier time closer to home.

Local municipalities have recognized that pickleball is hot and getting hotter – enough to warrant the same kind of public investment they make in Little League ball fields and tennis courts. School districts are not far behind.

Advocates are converting students of all ages to embrace a sport that once was associated with being old. “If you look at a year ago, there were virtually no public pickleball courts in the East Valley,” says Steve Manolis, the Central Arizona ambassador for the USA Pickleball Association and a pickleball instructor for both

Phoenix and Chandler.

Not so now. Mesa recently opened four pickleball courts at Kleinman Park. Chandler is building six at Arrowhead Park. Gilbert is planning 15 at the Regional Park it’s building at Higley and Queen Creek roads. There are upwards of 16 pickleball courts in the Phoenix Metro area and eight in Scottsdale. Tucson boasts more than two dozen pickleball courts.

The trend also is catching on in Gilbert Public Schools District, which not only is creating dual-purpose courts for tennis and pickleball, but also is starting to teach it in some high schools.

That echoes a move by Phoenix to increase pickleball courts in the city. It is installing 16 pickleball courts at Pecos Park in Ahwatukee alone – significantly expanding opportunities at a site frequented by players particularly from Tempe and Chandler.

“This is in response to public input we’ve received over the last several years regarding a need for more pickleball op-

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tions, and likewise, we’ve worked that need into existing facilities and taken it into consideration when doing renovations,” says Gregg Bach, spokesman for the Phoenix Parks & Recreation Department.

“It’s like many years ago, when a need developed for skate parks. I’d also liken it to the demand for dog parks, one of our most popular amenities,” he adds.

Notes Steve Manolis: “Pecos Park will be a regional draw as a home base for some of the top players and we anticipate having tournaments that will draw competitors from all over the U.S.” Pickleball is a combination of several racket sports – badminton, tennis and ping pong. It was invented in 1965 on Bainbridge Island, Washington, at the home of a former legislator and lieutenant governor who started using a wiffle ball when they couldn’t find a tennis ball to bat around.

Over time, the paddles evolved from an unwieldy solid wood into lightweight graphite, enhancing the sport’s popular-

ity because it doesn’t require the physical stamina demanded by tennis – a sport the Manolises played extensively and that Susan still does.

“Tennis players are one injury away from being pickleball players,” Steve says.

“I think everyone on my team has had knee surgery or shoulder surgery.”

Moreover, he adds, “It’s one of the few sports that is truly a gender equalizer” because “it’s more of a finesse sport” than a physical endurance test.

“Some people liken it to chess in that you have to stay three steps ahead,” Steve says, adding that a good part of the game requires watching the ball and relying on strategy.

That doesn’t necessarily mean it’s a cakewalk. “It’s a much quicker sport and the reaction time you need is much quicker than tennis,” Steve says.

On the other hand, he notes, “It’s quick to pick up.”

But while people can learn the basics in an hour, devotees hone their skills by tak-

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Pickleball...continued from page 14 ing intermediate and advanced classes at parks throughout the region – thanks to municipalities that have made pickleball classes a part of their recreational instruction programs.

“We set up two eight-hour classes and they were filled within a day – 32 people and there’s a waiting list,” Manolis says of a class he teaches at Pecos Park. “Those classes get filled in a matter of days. The demand is there. The city saw that.”

His experience has been the same in Chandler, where he teaches beginner and intermediate classes at Tumbleweed Rec center.

It’s not just the game’s ease that attracts people, he adds. Pickleball is also a very social activity.

“You play more doubles than singles,” Susan says. “It’s the complete opposite of tennis, which is predominantly a singles game. It’s a social sport. The games are much quicker and maybe last a half hour.

And when people are playing, everybody’s laughing and having a good time.”

Adds her husband: “You can hear their excitement.”

None of this is new to RV parks and retirement communities throughout

People can learn the basics of pickleball in an hour.

Arizona. Many recognized years ago that pickleball courts were almost as much a necessity as swimming pools.

Indeed, that’s how the Manolises discovered the game about five years ago.

As Susan recalls, they were at an RV park in Camp Verde, where “it’s hard to find people who play tennis.”

Suddenly, they heard a lot of noise and

laughter and discovered a group of people playing pickleball. “One thing about pickleball players is that they want you to learn how to play. They taught us how to play,” she says. “Pickleball players are so helpful.”

Many form clubs, though Steve notes, “There are a lot of people who are not in a club or association; they just go out and

play. But a lot of residents through the East Valley belong to a club.”

Pickleball’s simplicity and camaraderie have now caught the attention of students of all ages – and school officials from grade school through college. That’s a welcome development to the sport’s apostles. “The association recognizes that in order to grow the sport, you can’t wait for people to get old,” Steve says.

The Manolises saw that firsthand when about 150 students from Horizon Honors Secondary School watched some pickleball games at nearby Pecos Park. It didn’t take long before the school created a makeshift pickleball court.

Matt Mixer, Horizon’s physical education teacher, says he’s working to developing pickleball as part of the physical education program in schools from elementary to universities.

Dozens of PE teachers throughout the East Valley are learning the game as well, and, Steve says, “Now our various ambassadors are going to schools to teach pickleball.”

“ASU has a program in place and community colleges are getting interested,” he says. “My goal and my dream is to have pickleball become a NCAA sport.”

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Hard-Knock Life

Annie star Bronson Pinchot stays busy taking care of his mom

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Veteran actor Bronson Pinchot sees Scottsdale Musical Theater Company’s rendition of Annie as the perfect antidote for post-holiday boredom.

“I think it’s a great thing to do in that little moment after the holiday when you’re wondering if you should go back and eat that leftover fruitcake or what,” says Pinchot, who plays Daddy Warbucks in Annie at the Tempe Center for the Arts from Wednesday, January 3, to Sunday, January 7.

Pinchot is best known as Balki Bartokomous in the 1980s sitcom Perfect Strangers. These days, Pinchot focuses on a plethora of projects, ranging from regional theater and Broadway to running Bronson Pinchot Designs for the home. Recently, he moved back to his childhood home to help take care of his mother, who’s approaching 90.

“She has a deep and abiding distrust for the GPS lady,” Pinchot says with a laugh.

“She doesn’t think she has any business telling anybody how to get anywhere.

She talks about her like she’s a person—a very unwelcome person.”

Pinchot’s mother is curious about the iPhone.

“Instead of saying she’s going to send me a text, she says she’s going to send me an email from the iPhone machine,” he says. “She’s very grouchy about me being on the phone and texting.

I taught her to text; now she sends everybody pictures of her roses.

“One day, while she was in her bedroom, her thumb brushed the wrong button.

I heard this blood-curdling scream, ‘Make the machine stop taking pictures of

me!’ I was like spaghetti because I was laughing for two hours. That mean old machine kept taking pictures of you.”

Jokes aside, Pinchot is excited about playing Daddy Warbucks, a character who will defy tradition and have hair.

He arrived in the Valley shortly before Christmas to

prepare for the role, which he accepted after meeting executive producer David Hock.

“I was so taken with him,” Pinchot says. “I not only said I’ll do it; I said I’ll do anything you want.

“He doesn’t want to do a bald Daddy Warbucks, which I think is great. I asked

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Bronson...continued from page 16 him if I had to wear a bald cap because I sweat a lot when I sing and dance. David said he wanted him to be accessible and human. For one, he’s not old enough to be bald. And what’s a bald guy doing adopting a little girl? Not everyone has to look like the cartoon. Annie has blank eyes. Are we going to gouge the eyes out of every little girl who plays her?”

Annie runs in Tempe for about a week, after which Pinchot has a slew of projects. Pinchot, who also starred in The Addams Family on Broadway, records

audiobooks and filmed a pilot for a show about his relationship with his mom. As GPS interrupts the phone call, Pinchot is reminded of another iPhone story.

“Sometimes, I intentionally go past the exit just to hear her (Siri) say, ‘Make a U-turn. When possible make a U-turn,’” he says with a laugh.

“You get your blood pressure right up there, Siri. You have to learn who’s boss.

You get yourself worked up and maybe you’ll learn a valuable lesson.”

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Entertainment Unplugged and Un-beached Beach Boys co-founder Al Jardine premieres new storyteller’s show at MIM

BY JIMMY MAGAHERN It’s about a month away from the debut of Al Jardine’s acoustic show at Phoenix’s Musical Instrument Museum, and Jardine, a founding member of the Beach Boys with a special connection to Scottsdale, is just starting to sketch together his show, a Springsteen-onBroadway-style mix of songs and storytelling backed only by his son Matt and a media projectionist.

“I’m going to start with the first song we ever recorded, ‘Surfin’,’ and I’m hoping they can place a big double bass on stage for me, because that’s what I played on that song,” he says. “They should have one at the museum, I think.”

Obviously Jardine has never been to the MIM: One of the museum’s centerpieces is its 12-foot-tall bowed Octobasse, one of the largest string instruments ever made. But Jardine plans to rectify that situation before his concert by dropping in on pal Peter Asher’s MIM show prior to his gigs. For Jardine, who lived in Scottsdale during the ‘80s when he was a familiar face around the Lasma Arabians horse ranch (he and second wife Mary Ann bred some million-dollar mares there), debuting his unplugged show at the MIM will mark a kind of homecoming.

“We lived in Scottsdale for about ten years, and my wife’s parents and her brother still live there,” he says. “Our twins Robbie and Drew were born there. Those were great years, man.”

If Jardine’s show shapes up anything like his easygoing conversational style, the Beach Boys founding member Al Jardine plays the MIM on January 29 and 30.

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75-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer is guaranteed to deliver an intimate, freewheeling account of his life as the one non-family member of one of America’s most influential family bands.

It was a young Jardine, an early Kingston Trio aficionado, who first recognized in next door neighbor Brian Wilson’s tuneful odes to surf, bikinis and hot rods a rich mythology worthy of its own folk music, and encouraged the three Wilson brothers – Brian, Carl and Dennis – along with their cousin Mike Love, to sing about the Southern California life they knew best.

“The California that existed before we got here,” Jardine jokes, acknowledging that the Beach Boys created an indelible fantasy image of their Hawthorne surroundings that continues to draw hordes of Huarache sandals-wearing pleasure seekers down Doheny way (“I got pretty tired of the traffic in Los Angeles,” he grouses). Perhaps because of that, Jardine downplays the attractiveness of Northern California’s Big Sur, where he’s maintained an 80-acre ranch in an isolated canyon near Pfeiffer Beach since the early ‘70s and where he and Mary Ann narrowly survived a large wildfire in 2008.

“Big Sur is a gorgeous place, but it’s very difficult to live here,” he says, noting the massive round of fires that engulfed Northern California this past October — which at least cut down on vacationers.

“I’m not going to talk about Big Sur very much because we don’t want more traffic,” he adds, with a laugh. “There’s only one stoplight between me and Monterey!”

If Jardine fears overcrowding in Big Sur, he’s only got himself to blame. His ambitious contribution to the Beach Boys’ 1973 album Holland, the threepart “California Saga,” put the NoCal paradise on the map, painting a vivid portrait of the coastline from Salinas to Morro Bay and name-dropping everyone from Steinbeck to local legend Penny Vieregge. On his 2010 first-ever solo

album, A Postcard from California, Jardine revisits the suite’s closing song with backing vocals from Neil Young, David Crosby and Stephen Stills, and elsewhere includes paeans to San Simeon, Carmel’s Hurricane Point and other sights along the region’s picturesque Highway 1.

“That’s an awesome drive,” he says. “It’s like the Nā Pali coast along the north side of Kauai. I’d better stop — I’ve said too much already!”

Interestingly, it’s Jardine’s mythologizing of Northern California and its eco-friendly counterculture, first captured on early ‘70s albums like Surf’s Up and Sunflower, that is now finding favor with new young Beach Boys fans.

“There was just such a richness in what they were doing in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s,” says Matt Jardine, who was featured as a kid on the Sunflower album cover and now, at 51, tours with his dad in Brian Wilson’s band (set to hit the road again in fall of 2018). “They were older. They weren’t kids anymore. They had families.

And the beauty of living along the Big Sur coastline and just the wildness of it all became a part of the tapestry of their lives. And I think younger generations are really tapping into that era now. We recently played at this festival in Brooklyn, and it was all, like, twentysomethings out there in the audience.”

The younger Jardine, who now lives in Flagstaff with his wife and three kids, admits even he’s not sure what songs and stories will find their way into the MIM show.

“He’s always telling stories that even I haven’t heard before,” Matt says. “There’s just so much history in that band that there’s always something new coming out. It’s like he’s peeling back the layers of an onion.”

Al says he hasn’t scripted anything.

“I’m just going to tell the stories behind the making of the songs — which I think is better than writing a book,” he adds, bucking the trend of rock star-penned memoirs, from Springsteen’s to Brian Wilson’s, currently saturating Amazon. “I can’t stand that idea. So I thought I’d just talk about it, between the songs. I think this will be more fun.”

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Calendar of Events

Merrymakers Ballroom Dance, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Las Palmas Grand, 2550 S. Ellsworth Road, Mesa, $7 members, $8 nonmembers, 480-654-1994, dancemm.com. Route 66 Trio performs.

Parkinson’s PWR! Circuit 3, noon to 1 p.m., repeats January 11, January 18 and January 25, Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, free for members, $5 nonmembers, registration required, 480-481-7090, healthandfitness@vosjcc. org.

January 1 Monday Happy New Year!

January 2 Tuesday

Parkinson’s PWR!Moves 1, noon to 1 p.m., repeats January 9, January 16, January 23 and January 30, Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, free for members, $5 nonmembers, registration required, 480-481-7090, healthandfitness@vosjcc.org.

Let’s Knit, 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., repeats January 9, January 16, January 23 and January 30, Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, free, 480-481-7033, harrietc@vosjcc.org.

January 3 Wednesday

East Valley Friends and Neighbors, 9:30 to 11 a.m., repeats first Wednesday each month, Grace United Methodist Church, 2024 E. University (at Gilbert Road), Mesa, 480-848-5146, evvfanaz. org, evfanaz@gmail.com. Nonreligious and nonpartisan, the group welcomes East Valley residents who wish to get better acquainted with others and to participate in social and charitable activities.

Let’s Talk Current Events Discussion Group, 2 to 3:30 p.m., Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, free, 480-481-7033, harrietc@ vosjcc.org. Bill Adler leads a discussion each month about current events. Bring ideas to share with the group.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) SC/WV Chapter Meeting, 1 p.m. UU Church, 17540 N. Avenue of the Arts, Surprise, free, 623-972-6273, aznow-scwv.org. The film White Like Me will be shown and discussed.

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January 4 Thursday

Let’s Be Strong and Single, 10 to 11 a.m., Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, free, reservations required, 480-4817033, harrietc@vosjcc.org. Recently widowed or divorced women are invited to these informative 60-minute workshops to help them find confidence again.

January 5 Friday

Valley Engineering, Science & Technology Club, 11:30 a.m., Briarwood Country Club, 20800 N. 135th Avenue, Sun City West, $20, reservations required, 623-544-0942. Lunch will be followed by a talk entitled “Chasing Gravitational Waves” by Nat Butler, PhD, assistant professor, ASU School of Earth and Space Exploration.

Gordy and Debbie Show, 7 p.m., Sunland Village Auditorium, 4601 E. Dolphin Avenue, Mesa, $15 reserved seating, 480-832-9003.

Puttin’ on the Ritz Winter Dance, 6 to 9 p.m. Buckeye Community Center, 201 E. Centre Avenue, Buckeye, $15, 623-349-6000, smeinders@ buckeyeaz.gov. This semiformal event includes dinner and dancing, and is open to anyone 18 years and older. Proceeds from the event benefit the city’s senior programs.

January 6 Saturday

Hillcrest Dance and Social Club Dance, 7 p.m., R.H. Johnson Social Hall, 19803 R.H. Johnson Boulevard, Sun City West, $25 members, $30 guests, 715-456-7705, hillcrest.scwclubs.com.

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Karaoke Night, 6 to 9 p.m., Sunland Village, 4601 E. Dolphin Avenue, Mesa, $2 at the door, 480-8329003.

Justice Clint Bolick presening “Our Constitutions and the Courts.”

Downtown Mesa Festival of the Arts, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., repeats January 20, Macdonald Street, near Main Street, downtown Mesa, free admission, dtmesafest.com. Formerly MACFest, the festival features the work of established and emerging artists. Woodworking, metal crafts, food items, jewelry, art, photography, handmade soaps and gift items are among the items sold.

The Great American Songbook Concert, 11 a.m. to noon, Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, $5 members, $8 guests, registration required, 480-481-7024, vosjcc.org/ songbook. Concert pianist James Correnti plays showtunes from the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s and legendary classical works.

January 7 Sunday

Saturday Night Fever: Bee Gees Tribute, 3 p.m., Wild Horse Pass Hotel and Casino, 5040 Wild Horse Pass Boulevard, Chandler, $15-$30, 800-946-4452, wingilariver.com.

January 8 Monday

Parkinson’s PWR!Moves 2, noon to 1 p.m., repeats January 15, January 22 and January 29, Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, free for members, $5 nonmembers, 480-481-7090, healthandfitness@vosjcc.org.

The Sun Lakes Democratic Club Meeting, 7 p.m., Sun Lakes Country Club’s Navajo Room, 25601 E. Sun Lakes Boulevard North, Sun Lakes, bring nonperishable, tax-deductible food items and cash for Matthew’s Crossing Food Bank, 480-2003322. Guest speakers are Sandra Kennedy and Bill Mundell, Democratic candidates for the Arizona Corporation Commission.

January 9 Tuesday

Senior Living 101 Workshop, 10 a.m., New Song United Methodist Church, 16303 West Bell Road, Surprise, free, reservations required, 623-792-9122.

Fellowship Square will host a workshop for guests to discover the differentiators, the terminology and what questions to ask when researching a community. The expert panel will be on hand to answer questions, dispel myths and be a resource.

Sun Lakes Republican Club, 6:30 p.m., Sun Lakes Country Club’s Arizona Room, 25601 S. Sun Lakes Boulevard, Sun Lakes, free, 480-802-0178, slgop. org. Guest speaker will be Arizona Supreme Court

January 10 Wednesday

January 11 Thursday

Merrymakers Ballroom Dance, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Las Palmas Grand, 2550 S. Ellsworth Road, Mesa, $7 members, $8 nonmembers, 480-654-1994, dancemm.com. Tuxedo Junction performs.

January 12 Friday

Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Palm Ridge Summit Hall, 13800 W. Deer Valley Drive, Sun City West, $6 members, $8 guests, 602-679-4220, rocknroll.scwclubs.com. DJ Kort Kurdi spins hits from the 1970s and 1980s.

Sun City Christian Women’s Club Brunch, 9 a.m., Sun City Country Club, 9433 N. 107th Avenue, Sun City, $15, reservations required, 623-414-1451, 623-776-6155, mwholick@gmail.com. Ms. Senior Arizona, Leta Sproule, will discuss her journey to her new role. The Hudson Harmony Family Band will perform.

January 13 Saturday

Hillcrest Dance and Social Club Dance, 7 p.m., R.H. Johnson Social Hall, 19803 R.H. Johnson Boulevard, Sun City West, $25 members, $30 guests, 715-456-7705, hillcrest.scwclubs.com Michael Carollo performs.

Citrus Gardens Country Store, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., Citrus Gardens Mobile Home Park, South Hall, 4065 E. University Drive, Mesa, free admission, 480-2184421.

Pancake Breakfast, 7 to 9:30 a.m., Sunland Village, 4601 E. Dolphin Avenue, Mesa, $5 at the door, 480832-9003.

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January 15 Monday

Jimmy Travis Comedy Music Show, 7 p.m., Sunland Village Auditorium, 4601 E. Dolphin Avenue, Mesa, $12-$18 reserved seating, 480-8329003.

January 16 Tuesday

Let’s Appreciate Art, 11 a.m. to noon, Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, free, 480-481-7033, harrietc@vosjcc.org. Share the world of art with docents from the Phoenix Art Museum. This month, explore Art Over Adversity.

January 17 Wednesday

Close Encounters with Music: Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, 7:30 p.m., Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, 7380 E. Second Street, Scottsdale, $19-$39, 480-499-8587, scottsdaleperformingarts.org. An enriching concert experience that brings together sublime chamber music, distinguished performers and insightful commentary. Artistic Director and cellist Yehuda Hanani introduces each program from the stage, placing the composers’ works and their times in perspective.

Russo and Steele Sports and Muscle Car Auction, through January 21, Salt River Fields at Talking Stick, 7555 N. Pima Road, Scottsdale, $20$30, russoandsteele.com. The event features 800 sports cars, muscle cars and hot rods.

January 18 Thursday

Merrymakers Ballroom Dance, 7 to 9:30 p.m., Las Palmas Grand, 2550 S. Ellsworth Road, Mesa, $7 members, $8 nonmembers, 480-6541994, dancemm.com. Swing Memories Big Band performs.

Tales on Saving Lives in Israel: The Inspiring Story of Kidney Donations, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, $18 suggested donation, registration required, vosjcc.org/singer. Hear the story of Judy Singer, who donated her kidney in 2013 and found it to be a life-changing experience. She shares how, over the past several years, Israel has been transformed from an environment of notorious organ trafficking to the world’s highest percentage of altruistic kidney donors.

2018 Greater Phoenix Economic Outlook featuring Elliott Pollack, 5:30 to 8 p.m., Biltmore Financial Center, 2398 E. Camelback Road,

Suite 180, Phoenix, $18 for professionals, $10 students, registration required, jewishphoenix. org/economicoutlook2018. Jewish business professionals network and learn about the state of business in the Valley and economic trends.

January 19 Friday

Shuffle, 7:30 p.m., Gold Canyon United Methodist Church, 6640 S. Kings Ranch Road, Gold Canyon, visit website for ticket information, gcac1.com.

Inspiring and energetic, New York-based ensemble Shuffle plays an eclectic repertoire – Broadway, classical, Latin and pop.

January 20 Saturday

Hillcrest Dance and Social Club Dance, 7 p.m., R.H. Johnson Social Hall, 19803 R.H. Johnson Boulevard, Sun City West, $25 members, $30 guests, 715-456-7705, hillcrest.scwclubs.com.

Bobby Freeman and Charlene perform.

Rock ‘n’ Roll Dance, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., Palm Ridge Summit Hall, 13800 W. Deer Valley Drive, Sun City West, $6 members, $8 guests, 602-679-4220, rocknroll.scwclubs.com. DJ Kort Kurdi spins hits from the rock ‘n’ roll era.

U.P. Club of Michigan Meeting, 12:30 p.m., Tivoli Gardens, 12555 W. Bell Road, Surprise, $17, reservations required by January 17, 623-9772002. New members and guests always welcome.

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Karaoke Night, 6 to 9 p.m., Sunland Village Auditorium, 4601 E. Dolphin Avenue, Mesa, $2 at the door, 480-832-9003.

Downtown Mesa Festival of the Arts, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Macdonald Street, near Main Street, downtown Mesa, free admission, dtmesafest.com.

Formerly MACFest, the festival features the work of established and emerging artists. Woodworking, metal crafts, food items, jewelry, art, photography, handmade soaps and gift items are among the items sold.

Hospice of the Valley Volunteer Training, 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., repeats January 27 and February 3, at the East Clinical Office, 2020 E. Woodside Court, Gilbert, hov.org/volunteer-opportunities, 602-6366336. Volunteers visit with patients, run errands and offer emotional support. Opportunities are also available for activities that do not involve patient care, including administrative duties, sewing and working at its thrift stores. Advance application is required.

January 21 Sunday

Lonny Lynn Orchestra Dance, 7 p.m., Sunland Village Auditorium, 4601 E. Dolphin Avenue, Mesa, $12.50 in advance, $15 at the door, 480-832-9003.

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January 24 Wednesday

It’s Only a Play, various times, through February 11, Phoenix Theatre, 100 E. McDowell Road, Phoenix, visit website for ticket prices, 602-2542151, phoenixtheatre.com. Written by Tony Award winner Terrence McNally, the play is a celebration of theater at its best and theater people at their not-so-best.

January 25 Thursday

Willowbrook United Methodist Church’s Rummage Sale, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., repeats 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. January 26 and 8 a.m. to noon January 27, at the church, 19390 N. 99th Avenue, Sun City, free admission, willowbrookumc.org. Wilson Fellowship Hall – the courtyard and parking lot will be filled with donated merchandise at reasonable prices.

Cinnamon rolls and lunch will be available on the patio.

Merrymakers Ballroom Dance, 7 to 9:30 p.m.,

Las Palmas Grand, 2550 S. Ellsworth Road, Mesa, $7 members, $8 nonmembers, 480-654-1994, dancemm.com. DK Orchestra performs.

Tu B’Shevat Backward Dinner, 5:30 to 7 p.m., Valley of the Sun, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, $35 members, $50 guests, $5 additional person, 480-634-4949 or youth@vosjcc.org. Celebrate the holiday as a family by starting with dessert and eating your way to tasty appetizers. Price per family of up to four members.

January 26 Friday

Friday Night Dance, 7 to 10 p.m., Sunland Village Auditorium, 4601 E. Dolphin Avenue, Mesa, $7 in advance, $8 at the door. That Kool Band performs.

The Arizona Balloon Classic, various times, through Sunday, January 28, Goodyear Ballpark, 1933 S. Ballpark Way, Goodyear, $15, abcfest.com, info@abcfest.com. The Arizona Balloon Classic is floating on over to Goodyear Ballpark for its seventh annual festival. Featuring hot air balloon races at dawn, delicious food all day, and the enchanting evening glow, the festival offers a weekend full of family-friendly fun.

Gold Canyon Arts Festival, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Gold Canyon United Methodist Church, 6640 S. Kings Ranch Road, Gold Canyon, free admission, gcac1.com. The one-day festival, with an average attendance of 5,000, features juried artists, a food court and all-day entertainment.

January 28 Sunday

Adam Ant, 7:30 p.m., Celebrity Theatre, 440 N. 32nd Street, Phoenix, $35-$75, 602-267-1600, celebritytheatre.com. Adam Ant has gone from post-punk artist to a cult-like following. He’s best known for his songs “Goody Two Shoes” and “Strip.”

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January 31 Wednesday

Alzheimer’s Prevention: Pipe Dream or Possibility, 1 to 3 p.m., Valley of the Sun JCC, 12701 N. Scottsdale Road, Scottsdale, free, registration required, vosjcc.org/alzheimers. Join Dr. Pierre N. Tariot, director of Banner Alzheimer’s Institute, as he shares what he has learned in his investigations into the diagnosis, therapy and prevention of Alzheimer’s.

January 29 Monday

Waste Management Phoenix Open, various times, through February 4, Tournament Players Club of Scottsdale, 17020 N. Hayden Road Scottsdale, tickets start at $20, 602-870-0163, wmphoenixopen. com.

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Hillcrest Dance and Social Club’s Black and White Ball, 5:30 p.m., R.H. Johnson Social Hall, 19803 R.H. Johnson Boulevard, Sun City West, $25 members, $30 guests, 715-456-7705, hillcrest. scwclubs.com. Danny Kealey Orchestra performs.

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Background Star Darlene Love steps into the spotlight for headlining show

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Renowned background singer Darlene Love has encountered her fair share of hurdles, but she doesn’t see them as barriers to success, but quite the opposite.

“Hurdles are to get over, not to bar you,” Love says. “Producers are my biggest hurdles. Some don’t realize that Darlene Love is alive and well and puts on a great show.

“It’s not their fault. Darlene Love was behind the scenes for so many years.”

That’s not to say she hasn’t made her mark. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer starred in the Lethal Weapon series as Danny Glover’s wife, and the documentary Twenty Feet from Stardom, which shined a spotlight on backup singers like Love and Merry Clayton, won an Oscar. Love appeared on Broadway in Hairspray and Grease. As part of Phil Spector’s wall of sound hit factory, her Billboard hits include “He’s a Rebel,” “The Boy I’m Gonna Marry,” “Wait Until My Bobby Gets Home” and “He’s a Fine, Fine Boy.” She took a brief break in the 1970s to raise her family, only to return in the early 1980s. Steven Van Zandt persuaded her to move from California to New York to continue her career.

“My response was, ‘And to do what?’” she says with a laugh. “His response was, ‘Listen, if I get you some shows, will you come?’ That was 35 years ago. My career took on a life of its own.”

While she was starring in Leader of the Pack, she met David Letterman’s band leader Paul Shaffer. Impressed with her performance of “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home),” Shaffer invited Letterman to a show. The talk show legend expressed his love of the performer on his series.

“He said on his show that it was one of the greatest Christmas songs he ever heard,” she recalls, adding he crowned her the “Queen of Christmas.”

During the winter, the song is the centerpiece of her tour. When she headlines the Mesa Arts Center on Wednesday, February 7, the tone will change.

“Oh, that’s our Valentine’s Day show,” she says. “We add a few love songs to our Valentine’s Day shows. We do special things during those shows.”

At 76 years old, Love stays active to keep her body and voice in check. She

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Along with her health, she relishes the friendships she has made over the years. With the Blossoms, Love provided background vocals for some of the 1960s’ biggest hits, like the Ronettes’ “Be My Baby,” Shelley Fabares’ “Johnny Angel,” Bobby “Boris” Pickett’s “Monster Mash,” Frank Sinatra’s version of “That’s Life” and the Crystals’“Da Doo Ron Ron.” “I look back at my career and I cherish the thought of people who helped me along the way,” Love says. “Nobody can make it by themselves. These are superstars, too – Bruce Springsteen, Bette Midler, Stevie Wonder, Dionne Warwick, Tom Jones and even Nancy Sinatra. I was just their background singer, but I was just as important to them as anyone else.”

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January’s status as the first month of the year has gone back and forth throughout history. The ancient Romans celebrated spring equinox as the New Year until the 4th century B.C., when it switched to January, giving the month a name that means “door,” as in a door to the new year. But modern European countries reverted to the idea of March 25 or so as a true beginning (spring and blossoms and all that) until 1752, when January once again took the honors.

Why the change? Nobody knows. January is an enigma.

January is National Soup Month, which may be just about the least exciting national-anything for any month, except perhaps for National Oatmeal Month – which is also January. At least you don’t live in California, where January is “Dried Plum Digestive Health Month.” Go ahead, look it up.

January is when all those resolutions you made at the end of the previous year get tested. You resolved to drive to the gym three times a week, and you do it.

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chocolate, and you do. But no one said anything about caramel, now did they?

Famous people born in January include Al Capone, Muhammad Ali, Benjamin Franklin, Oprah Winfrey, Elvis Presley, Mel Gibson, Dolly Parton, Martin Luther King, Jr. and four presidents: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Richard Nixon, William McKinley and Millard Fillmore.

In the world of TV, All in the Family, Happy Days, King of the Hill, The Sopranos, Malcolm in the Middle and Family Guy all debuted in January, and something called “Wikipedia” first appeared on the Internet in January of 2001.

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January 27 is the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. What other composer, a songwriter of the 1920s and 1930s, shares that birthday with him?

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BY NICK THOMAS Starting out as an assistant director on I love Lucy in the late ‘50s probably wasn’t a bad introduction to Jay Sandrich’s television career behind the camera.

“I wrote a letter to Lucy’s company (Desilu) and was invited for an interview,” recalls Sandrich from Los Angeles. He was immediately offered the job despite possessing only a film degree from UCLA and a couple of years’ experience working on army documentaries.

“It was my first real job in the business,” he says. “The only reason I got it was because the man who hired me had been my father’s assistant, so I got that job thanks to my father.”

But by then, there was no way for Jay to thank his dad. Sandrich senior had died a decade earlier when his son was just 13.

Mark Sandrich had been a respected film director in the 1930s and 1940s who worked on five Fred Astaire and Ginger

Rogers films as well as the classic seasonal musical Holiday Inn. As the rookie second assistant director on Lucy, young Jay’s duties included a lot of paperwork and making sure actors were on time for rehearsals. “Then I got the job of first assistant director the next season. I knew very little, but the previous assistant director, Jack Aldworth – now the associate producer – taught me so much.”

Also filming at Desilu Studios was Make Room for Daddy. Director/producer Sheldon Leonard invited Sandrich to work on the series as assistant director for over 160 episodes.

“That’s where I really learned a lot,” he says. “Not necessarily working with actors but with the cameras.”

Throughout the ‘60s, Sandrich worked on other hit series such as The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Andy Griffith Show.

Jay Sandrich (right) on the set of Make Room for Daddy with producer Sheldon Leonard (center). (Photo courtesy ABC)

When executive producer Leonard Stern began planning Get Smart, he invited Sandrich to produce the first season.

“But I really didn’t enjoy producing too many worries,” admits Sandrich, who went on to direct a half-dozen episodes.

In the ‘70s, Sandrich guest-directed multiple episodes of numerous popular series. He especially left his directorial mark on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and The Cosby Show in the ‘80s and ‘90s, directing over 100 episodes of each and winning two Emmys for each series.

Despite spending a career surrounded by actors, Sandrich says emphatically he had no desire to act himself. “I knew how bad I would have been!”

“I’m 85 now and my wife and I have been spending summers in Aspen and I’ve directed a few plays,” he says. “But television comedy has changed so much that I don’t think I’d be good directing

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it today. I’ve had a great career being involved with some of the best comedy shows ever produced.”

Jay Sandrich’s father Mark, seated at right, working on Holiday Inn with Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby.

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Humble Gratitude

The Duttons’ matriarch is grateful for family time

BY CHRISTINA FUOCO-KARASINSKI Sheila Dutton never expected she would become a musician.

Her husband, Dean, was a tenured economics professor, and she saw music as a “true weakness.” Now the couple

lead The Duttons, a multigenerational family of musicians who found fame thanks, in part, to appearances on the second season of America’s Got Talent.

“I never imagined I’d be in music, period,” she says with a laugh. “I am the most unlikely person in the world to be

The Duttons perform in Mesa through March 31. (Photos courtesy The Duttons)

doing what we’re doing. I was slow to come around to the idea. I thought it was maybe a frivolous activity, going around performing for people.

“I had a series of experiences that really opened my eyes to the effect music has on people,” she adds without elaborating. “Then, after several of those experiences in the 1980s and 1990s, I supported what the kids wanted to do. My husband took an early retirement to do this full time.”

The Branson, M issour i-based band is currently in Mesa for its winter residency at the Dutton Theater Mesa at East Valley High School. The family

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Dean and Sheila Dutton lead a multigenerational family of musicians.

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Duttons...continued from page 30 has performed there since 2005, and in 2010, it partnered with EVHS to renovate and update its auditorium.

The Duttons have five shows during their time here, which began December 9 and wraps March 31. Christmas with the Duttons spread seasonal cheer from Saturday, December 9, to Saturday, December 23. This month, a variety show comes to EVHS from Thursday, January 18, to Saturday, January 27.

Pickin’ and Grinnin’ showcases The Duttons’ favorite bluegrass and country tunes from Thursday, February 1, to Saturday, February 24. The band will “Duttonize” rock songs from Thursday, March 1, to Saturday, March 17, and it performs its most requested tracks from Thursday, March 22, to Saturday, March 31, during End the Season in Style.

The Duttons are skipping their New Year’s Eve shows this year because it falls on a Sunday, the day they do not perform.

“We feel honored to be able to do this because of the sweet experiences and the joy we feel, and the happiness that so many people experience when they come to our show,” she says.

“It leaves me with this feeling of humble gratitude, like how can anything so good happen? There’s something about the family that resonates with a lot of people. This has done so much for our relationship with our children.

They knew they were loved because we practiced with them every day. It’s not the material things you do for your children. It’s the time we spent with the kids that has made a huge difference in our family.”

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Polar bears are a symbol of the town of Svalbard, Norway. (Photo courtesy

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of Asgeir Helgestad/Arctic Light AS/ VisitNorway.com)

Islands In My Life, Part 3

BY ED BOITANO

Soothing trade winds caress the landscape. Palm trees sway in the breeze.

Gentle waves cover the golden sand.

Please forgive this stilted attempt to be descriptive – but I’m feeling the postholiday doldrums, and I thought it was fitting to begin 2018 with an escape to some of my favorite island destinations.

Tahiti & Her Islands – Cuisine The first thing you notice is the fragrance. The intoxicating perfume of the tiara flower announces to your senses that you are in a tropical world, overflowing with island vegetation and soothing trade winds. Indigenous Tahitian cuisine features what’s available from the land and sea. With such a plethora of fresh fruit and fish, it is virtually impossible to starve on the islands. Due to the presence of the French (Tahiti is part of French Polynesia), there is a delectable hybrid of French and Polynesian creations. Coconut milk and vanilla – much stronger than the vanilla found in Mexico – are incorporated into many of the dishes. Poisson Cru, tuna cured in lime juice with chopped green onions, cucumbers and tomatoes; and Fife, a chicken stew with spinach-

like taro leaves, are among my favorites.

The taro root (more flavorful than Hawaiian poi) is boiled like potatoes and not pounded. Breadfruit, sweet potatoes, and plantains also offer typical island starch fare. Mangoes, bananas, watermelon, pineapple, papaya, guava, soursop and pomelo are in abundance.

From the lagoons come parrotfish, perch, and mullet; from the open sea, the freshest of tuna, bonito, wahoo, scad and mahi mahi. For an insightful overview of these gastronomic delights, visit the main market in downtown Papeete, the capital of French Polynesia. Bon appétit!

For further information, logon to TahitiTourisme.com.

Corfu, Greece – Literature In Homer’s epic poem, The Odyssey, the mythical Greek character Odysseus builds a raft and attempts to return to his home island of Ithaca. But Odysseus’ enemy, Poseidon, the Greek god of the sea, unleashes a storm and the raft is destroyed.

Half-drowned, Odysseus washes ashore on the island of Corfu. He staggers into an olive grove and collapses. My arrival on Corfu was a slightly different experience.

The people of Tahiti are warm and welcoming.

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Poseidon must have been smiling, for the seas were calm and shimmering. And my mode of transportation was the 360-footlong luxury sailing vessel, the Star Clipper – but my thoughts were colored by Homer in preparation for my arrival. In the story, Odysseus is found by a local family who nurses him back to health. Soon he tells the family of his 20-year odyssey, which began with his departure for the Trojan War. Homer, a traveling blind minstrel, articulates the narrative orally in “heroic hexameter” – known as a form of meter in poetry or rhythmic scheme. His approach to the story is considered by many a landmark in literature as the firsttime most of a story is told in flashback.

Today, odyssey means “an extended adventurous voyage or spiritual quest.”

I’ve often wondered how Odysseus was pronounced in Greek. So with a look of a surprise when the question was proposed to a number of local residents, I was told, ‘O-da-Say-us,’ of course!” For further information, logon to starclippers.com.

Venice - Romance

way to do it is to walk a few blocks off the Grand Canal and look for a gondolier who is anxious to please. At that point, you can choose what neighborhood you want to explore. A standard gondola ride is 40 minutes – and yes, to my surprise, it was romantic. For further information, logon to venice-tourism.com.

Svalbard, Norway - Wildlife As late as 1990, there was virtually no tourism to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard. Located between the Norwegian mainland and the North Pole, Svalbard was first the place for explorers, then whalers and coal miners. But thanks to companies like Hurtigruten - the Norwegian Coastal Voyage, it is now on the tourist map for the whole world to see. My adventure began aboard the coastal steamer MS Nordstjernen from Longyearbyen - the most northern city in the world. Heading northwest, I experienced breathtaking fjords, calving glaciers, unique animal and plant life, and a midnight sun that refused to go down. Over 60 percent of the archipelago consists of national parks, nature reserves, and bird or plant sanctuaries.

Only four land mammals can survive on this barren tundra: the Svalbard reindeer, the Arctic fox, the Svalbard mouse and

Arriving in Venice on a sweltering summer morning is similar to negotiating Disneyland on opening day. Hordes of day-tripping tourists pour into the city in search of Venice’s seemingly endless attractions that include San Marco, the Rialto Bridge, the Bridge of Sighs, Doge’s Palace, fish market, various boat excursions on the Grand Canal, and a sampling of Venice’s famed seafood and risotto.

With a dwindling population of 90,570 designated as An island off an island – Corfu, Greece. (Photo by Deb Roskamp) permanent “lagoon city” residents, it has been said that every the polar bear - which has become the door in Venice now leads to a shop. But very symbol of Svalbard. The largest living who was I to complain – after all, I was a land carnivore, they are considered the tourist too, and Venice now belongs to only animal that actively hunts humans. the world. For many, the centerpiece of a Actual encounters with this mighty trip to Venice is taking a gondola ride on species are rare, but their presence is one of its many canals. It is touristic, can felt all around. Visitors cannot leave be expensive and you’ll find a plethora settlements without a weapon or armed of hungry gondoliers anxious to take guide, and instructions are given on what you on a short trip. My advice is to wait to do with an unexpected encounter. until the sun goes down, when most From the deck of the vessel, I spotted tourists have left the island, and taking a mother and her cub sleeping on an a gondola ride on the quiet, back canals, iceberg. After a couple of restless nights avoiding bumper to bumper gondolas of my own, I would have liked to have during the daytime. Riding on canals in asked them how they managed to sleep less touristic areas allows you to see a through the midnight sun. For further different perspective of the city. The best information, log on to hurtigruten.us.

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complimentary Wi-Fi and cable TV, on 26 grassy, tree-lined acres. Enjoy a general store, children’s arcade, restaurant, Laundromat, heated pool, bicycle rentals and miniature golf course. The resort offers the ideal location for wineries, golf or Hearst Castle. Pismo Coast Village RV Resort was awarded the 2007/2008 National RV Park of the Year. (888) RV-BEACH or www.PismoCoastVillage.com BIG SUR LODGE is located in ancient groves of redwood and oak trees in Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Big Sur. Guests are invited to step back in time to an earlier, more peaceful era. Our 62 recently renovated cottage-style guest rooms, each with its own deck or porch, are located on a hillside, within walking distance of our restaurant, gift shop, and grocery store. Your stay at the Big Sur Lodge includes free access to Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Andrew Molera State Park and Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park. (800) 424-4787 or www.BigSurLodge.com DOLPHIN BAY RESORT & SPA— Escape the ordinary and visit Dolphin Bay Resort & Spa in beautiful Pismo Beach. With 60 spacious suites featuring all the amenities of home, The Spa, Lido Restaurant and an array of activities on the Central Coast, it’s the perfect fall getaway. (800) 5160112 or www.thedolphinbay.com HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS & SUITES OF ATASCADERO — Stay, explore, savor the best of the Central Coast. Experience our award-winning wine country hotel featuring full hot breakfast, Wi-Fi, refrigerators/ microwaves/ Keurig coffeemakers in each room, and an outdoor heated pool & spa. Conveniently situated in the heart of the Central Coast – minutes to Hearst Castle and historic Atascadero City Hall. Marston’s 101 Restaurant & Cocktails, and Caladero Event Room – NOW OPEN! (805) 462-0200 or www.hieatascadero.com

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HAWAI’I BANYAN HARBOR RESORT, Managed by OLS Hotels & Resorts, is exceptionally suited to accommodate couples, groups and families for your Kauai vacation. Each tropical vacation rental offers separate living, dining, and sleeping areas, plus fully-equipped kitchen. With amenities that include a salt heated pool, barbecue grills, tennis court, and shuffleboard, the Banyan Harbor Resort offers your perfect central island location for your next Kauai vacation. Ask about our $139 special for two-bedroom, fully-equipped condominiums. Add a car rental for only $28 per day. (800) 422-6926 or www.Vacation-Kauai.com CONDOMINIUM RENTALS HAWAII has been managing quality vacation condos on or across the best beaches for 35 years. Choose from the best Maui and Kauai locations. Also ask for promo code MB20 & get a 20% disc at our new Maui Banyan property for Fall and Winter stays! Call (800) 367-5242 or select your fabulous condo online at www.crhmai.com MAUI CONDO AND HOME, LLC features over 250 studio, one-, twoand three-bedroom condos in more than 20 oceanfront, beachfront and golf course locations in Kihei, Wailea, and Kahana and Kapalua in West Maui.

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UTAH LOGAN, UTAH boasts four seasons of fun off the beaten path. This beautiful high mountain valley offers stunning fall colors mid-September through mid-October. Book now for winter fun. Ski at two resorts, rent snowmobiles or take a wagon ride through a herd of elk. It’s only a 10 minute drive from downtown to hiking and fishing in the Wasatch Cache National Forest. Check out our Signature Products and Foodie Trek, world-class performing arts, Utah State University sports, living history and so much more. Just 90 minutes north of Salt Lake City and 4.5 hours from Yellowstone. (800) 882-4433 or www.explorelogan.com Lodging specials available throughout the year

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SEDONA BEST WESTERN PLUS INN OF SEDONA — The award-winning design of this hotel, nestled in the famous red rocks of Sedona, echoes the natural features of the surrounding desert terrain, showcasing the panoramic views from the hilltop location with four large terraced balcony walks, and quintessential desert-inspired style complete with an outdoor pool and fire pit seating. The complimentary ‘About Town’ shuttle will get you to and from your Sedona adventures. www.

InnofSedona.com; 928.282.3072 or 800.292.6344 SEDONA REAL INN & SUITES — Find the perfect balance between relaxation and adventure at Sedona Real Inn! Early risers greet the sun with a warming hike and frame-worthy photo opportunities. Try something new like a red rock balloon ride or check ‘scenic helicopter ride’ off your bucket list. We’re known as Sedona’s friendliest hotel. With spacious rooms and suites, complimentary breakfast and on-site concierge, you’ll have everything you need for a wonderful getaway! (800) 353-1239 or www.sedonareal.com SKY RANCH LODGE — Surrounded by Sedona’s magical beauty, Sky Ranch Lodge invites you to linger at our ‘Oasis in the Sky.’ Here, you can enjoy our horizon-to-horizon view of an endless blue sky. From Sky Ranch Lodge,

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Russia: Cruising the waterways of the tsars

BY ANDREA GROSS

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“Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” said Winston Churchill in a 1939 radio broadcast. Things haven’t changed much in the ensuing years. The world’s largest country is still a land of gilded domes and golden spires as well as grand art, great music and blue waterways.

But it’s also a land that’s been ruled by those who win revolutions as well as by those who win elections; is sometimes officially Communistic and other times casually capitalistic; and whose relationship with the United States has ranged from somewhat cooperative to outright confrontational. An enigma indeed — which is, of course, exactly why my husband and I want to go there.

The first thing we learn is that Russia isn’t a particularly easy place for American tourists. Most find the language unintelligible, the alphabet indecipherable and the regulations innumerable. For example,

individual travelers need an “invitation” from an authorized Russian travel agency verifying exactly where they’ll be staying each night during their visit. Spontaneity is not allowed.

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Russia...continued from page 38 these dolls were painted in intricate designs; today many have more contemporary, and sometimes controversial, motifs.

One set, for example, depicts the largest doll as Putin and the smaller ones as former leaders of the Soviet Union from Lenin to Yeltsin. Other sets are in the reverse, with Lenin outsizing Putin. We opt for one that features the Disney characters Anna and Elsa. All things considered, it seems a safer choice than the one that portrays Putin and Trump.

We visit a school, lunch with a typical middle-class family, and tour churches filled with outstanding art. Before we leave, I decide to be purified in a banya, which involves taking a steam bath and birch broom massage before plunging into the cold river.

Back aboard the ship, we sit in the Panorama Bar and enjoy the river views as we listen to presentations on all things Russian, from the Volga to the vodka. Finally, after we’re sated with knowledge and food, the Viking Akun docks at Moscow.

Like St. Petersburg, Moscow is gilded with domes, but while St. Petersburg is magical, Moscow is muscular. The cars are flashier, the streets more crowded, the

Matryoshka dolls, also called nesting or stacking dolls, were first carved in Russia in 1890; Swan Lake was first performed in St. Petersburg in 1895; St. Petersburg is a city of islands connected by nearly 400 bridges and canals.

malls larger. There’s even a toy store that covers more than a block.

We tour the Kremlin, where we hear stories of Romanov tsars and Communist leaders, enjoy the festive ambience of Red Square, and lunch at the enormous GUM Department store, where any thoughts of Russia as a country devoid of luxury goods

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But of course, Moscow isn’t Russia. Nearly 80 percent of Russia’s people live west of the Ural Mountains, where traditions may be stronger but life may be harder. “But in Moscow there are more billionaires than babushkas,” our guide says.

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Dining

Birds of a Feather

Macayo’s swaps tropical toucans for tasteful décor while keeping its original flavor

BY WYNTER HOLDEN Woody’s Macayo has a cool history, even if some of its claims to fame are disputed.

The first Macayo was founded in 1952 by Woody and Victoria Johnson, owners of Valle del Sol and El Nido Mexican restaurants. Woody is rumored to have invented the chimichanga during an early experiment, though Tucson’s El Charro Café says it originated the dish. Macayo expanded over the years to include a dozen locations in the Southwest, later changing its name to Macayo’s Mexican Table in celebration of the Johnson family restaurant chain’s 70th anniversary. President Barack Obama even dined at the flagship Central Avenue Macayo’s with his family during a 2009 visit to Phoenix.

That Macayo’s closed in March of 2017,

but its memory still lives on in the new Woody’s Macayo. The original Aztec-inspired building gave way to trendier digs in the former Fez space just north of Osborn Road. Gone are the thatched tiki awnings, bamboo and tropical rainforest bird statues, replaced by exposed ductwork, sleek wood tables and a vibrant wall mural by local artists Mata Ruda and Lucinda Yrene (aka La Morena). The earlier restaurant was reminiscent of Disneyland’s Enchanted Tiki Room.

This one looks more like a trendy SoCal taco shop.

Macayo’s regulars can rest easy. The grub’s just as appetizing – and loaded with gooey cheeses – as it was 50 years ago.

There are even a few modern takes on Mexican classics, such as the green corn tamale bites. Served with the eatery’s “famous” Baja

The interior features a wall mural by local artists Mata Ruda and Lucinda Yrene (aka La Morena).

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gluttonous dish. Macayo doesn’t skimp on the white meat chicken either, stuffing the fat burro until it is three inches thick.

The same tender bird is used in the Sonoran enchilada trio and tres rellenos platters. Both do the Mexican flag proud with red, white and green sauces respectively paired with cheese, chicken and beef or pork. The verdant flavor of green chile elevates the rellenos dish, and pork seems a better match for bright, piquant tomatillo salsa. The cheese-stuffed pepper is stringy and satisfying, like a giant mozzarella stick topped with chili-spiked tomato sauce. It’s hands down the best of the three, with the tender pollo a close second.

The carne asada torta features a generous Unfortunately, dinner ended on a sour heap of avocado; Michelada is a staple of the drink menu. (Photos courtesy Macayo’s note. Though intriguing, the deconstructed Mexican Restaurants) margarita cheesecake is more of a pudding sauce, the fried round balls of corn masa perched atop a bed of fine graham cracker are infused with green chilies and cheese. crumbs. Served in a petite mason jar, it’s While even the most prodigious Mexican crowned with watery citrus curd that overchef’s green corn tamales can be a bit dry, whelms the velvety filling and veers into this version is moist and velvety. They’re uncomfortably sour territory. My advice to better than tamales in the same way that Macayo’s? Firm up the filling and use a deliraw chocolate chip cookie dough trumps cate hand with the topping. In the meanbaked cookies. I can’t rave about them time, I’ll stick with the churros (or even betenough. ter, end with those amazing fried tamale Another new standout is the Fried Egg Burger. It seems like a travesty to order a bites).

Though much has changed since Woody burger at a Mexican joint when there are and Victoburros, enria Johnson chiladas and opened their street tacos to be eaten. first Macayo, Trust me, this the spirit of one’s worth the original a try. Made remains. Their with certified sons Gary Angus beef and Stephen, topped with and daughoven-cooked ter Sharisse, short ribs, it’s continue to a meaty mon- The chimichanga is rumored to have originated at Macayo’s. run the comster. The short ribs are fall-off-the-bone tender, with spicy- pany, “carrying on their father’s legacy and sweet sauce that’s balanced by a dollop of dreams.” Furniture and accessories from savory chipotle cream. The menu specifies the Aztec building – including the iconic a fried egg, which is often cooked hard, but toucans and parachuting clown statues – the chefs here wisely leave the yolk golden sold via auction earlier this year, carrying and runny. This is the kind of sturdy, rib- off a portion of the chain’s extensive hissticking burger that’s best left open-faced tory. Luckily for Phoenicians who’ve been and eaten with a fork. Even the accompa- around a while, the chimichanga and handnying fries are crisped to perfection. dipped cheese rellenos are still made fresh Woody’s infamous chimichanga, on the from original recipes. They’re also just as other hand, is left with its flour shell slightly tasty as you remember. soft rather than fried crunchy. The chewy wrapper envelops tender green chile chickWoody’s Macayo en like a doughy baby blanket, providing 3815 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix just enough toothsome texture to comple602-264-6141 ment soft refried beans. Try it Baja style with macayo.com/woodysmacayo creamy sauce and jack cheese for a gooey,

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What’s Cooking?

5-Ingredient Dumpling Drop Soup

BY JAN D’ATRI

(Photo courtesy Jan D’Atri)

I love recipes that kids can make with as much success as adults, and this soup scores big in that department. Plus, leave it to the “Make Do” generation of the 1930s to leave us with simple, delicious dishes of sustenance. This tummy-warming dumpling drop soup is the perfect example of turning a little flour and a few eggs into magical dumplings bobbing in chicken broth.

The recipe was given to me a few years ago by a reader named Barbara Hauck, and honestly, it took longer for me to find her email than to make the soup! It has become a favorite in our family (the kids can make it as easily as the adults) and I wanted to make sure I gave her all the credit. Here’s part of Barbara’s original

Five Ingredient Dumpling Drop Soup Ingredients: - 3 eggs - 3/4 cup flour - 1/4 teaspoon salt - 1 tablespoon water - 2 quarts of chicken broth Directions: In a bowl, beat eggs by hand. Add in 3/4 cup flour and 1/4 teaspoon salt.

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email to me: “When I was growing up in Frankenmuth, Michigan, German or Bayrish was the first language, not English. When the war broke out in Germany, the language was not spoken in public but still at home. The dumplings have a German name – spatzele or spotzum (sparrow, like the bird, because the dumplings were small like sparrows!). Our community was very thrifty in their meals, never throwing away leftovers. This was used when there wasn’t meat for a meal.”

Barbara’s comfort food dumpling drop soup is a reminder that simple can often be sensational! (Watch Jan’s How-To Video of dumpling drop soup at https:// www.facebook.com/jandatri1/) at a time and drop in broth until all the batter is gone.

Simmer 30 minutes. Enjoy with hard crusted bread.

Barbara’s Technique: Barbara’s technique for dropping the dumplings into the soup is to take a small spoon, dip it in the hot broth, then scoop out a spoonful of batter and put the spoon back into the broth so the batter drops into the soup. This creates a gnocchi-like dumpling.

Jan’s Technique: The kids in my family love to take more of the spatzele approach by dipping the spoon into the batter and then drizzling the batter over the hot broth to create long strips of dumplings.

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A full bar serves a slew of craft cocktails, most notably the Milan Margarita (tequila, pineapple rosemary agave, lime juice and Campari) and the Pepe Pepe (tequila, red pepper agave, lime juice and grapefruit juice).

If tequila isn’t your taste, The Italiano brings the brawn with bourbon, Averna, amaretto syrup and a dash of orange bitters.

Of course wine is prime here, and the all-Italian Bucket of Tomaso’s Sicilian Meatballs. vino list features Maggiore family This Italian foodie family knows its fla- Monte Olimpo varietals (a Chardonnay vors. Every concept that’s opened under and a Nero D’Avola) and several Sicilian the Maggiore umbrella so far has been white and red blends. Beer options are a success, and The Sicilian Butcher is no far fewer, but you can never go wrong exception – but it is exceptional, starting with Peroni. But considering how fantaswith the set-up. tic the food here is, you might want to The interior design is stylish and food- steer clear of filling beer. forward. There’s a little Italy in everything, Let’s start with the appetizers, and a from the mobster-figure murals painted bowl of slick and flavorful Sicilian olives above the bar and the artsy cascade of with a warm basket of ciabatta bread. A butcher axes hanging between chain- good way to sample a few different startlink curtains to the colossal glass-en- ers is via a charcuterie board. The Sicilian closed display of hanging meats and the Street Board (two-person minimum) inblack-and-white wall-size photo of To- cludes cazzilli (fried potato sticks stuffed maso Maggiore with a cigarette dangling with mozzarella, crispy pancetta, and from the corner of his mouth. The interior tomato herb sauce), panelle (chickpea space is big and bright, with views of the French fries with lemon aioli), arancini open kitchen, and there’s also an expan- (saffron rice balls packed with melty mozzarella, meat ragu and English peas), and sive (and perpetually packed) patio. crispy cuttlefish, which our server likened to calamari but which is actually more rubbery in texture and briny in taste.

Excellent bruschetta boards, flatbread, panini and salads abound on the menu, but the stars of this show are really the pastas (crafted in-house) and handmade meatballs. There are ten kinds of craft meatballs on the menu, ranging from more traditional (Tomaso’s Sicilian Meatballs, made with veal, pork and beef ) to completely unexpected (Sicilian Tuna Fresh, made with ahi tuna, raisins, pine nuts, pecorino, garlic, lemon and herb bread crumbs). Lamb meatballs satisfy, and lump crab and shrimp meatballs are surprisingly savory with whipped Boursin cheese, but far and away my favorite Mozzarella board. meatball on the menu is the turkey meat-

A Chance of Meatballs The forecast for the Maggiore Group’s new Sicilian Butcher looks bright

BY NIKI D’ANDREA

Photos by Debby Wolvos

“This is sooo good! It’s sooo good!”

The woman at the table across from us is talking to her male dining companion, pointing emphatically with her fork at the dish in front of her. I don’t know what she’s eating, but that doesn’t matter, because we are at The Sicilian Butcher, and everything on the menu is “sooo good!”

Branded as a “craft meatballs and charcuterie bar,” The Sicilian Butcher is the latest restaurant concept from Chef Joey Maggiore of The Maggiore Group. Chef Joey also owns and operates Hash Kitchen, and his father Tomaso is the founder of Tomaso’s Italian Restaurant and Tomaso’s When in Rome (Tommy V’s is also part of the family business).

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ball – the best iteration I’ve ever had, and a huge hit at the grand opening in late November, when groups of people were literally stalking the servers for samples of them and hanging around the kitchen counter waiting. Cut into a turkey meatball with your fork, and a pillow of fragrant steam rises to greet you.

Pasta and meatball orders work like this: You pick your meatball, then your sauce and your pasta, so you can more or less completely customize your order.

There are nine sauces to choose from, including basil-tinged marinara, vodka cream sauce and a decadent truffle mushroom cream. Pastas are masterfully made with not a bad “bottom” among them. The mafalde (wide ribbon pasta) is one of the most popular, with the paccheri (large tube pasta) a close second.

Spaghetti is of the long square variety, and ever al dente.

If you manage to make room for dessert, you won’t be sorry. Olive oil cake with mascarpone cream and housemade honeycomb is spongy and sweet – but in a comforting, not cloying, sense.

The espresso caramel budino is a bed of vanilla custard covered in an eye-opening espresso caramel. The “Deconstructed Cannoli” is decent and adorned with crushed pistachio, candied lemon wheel and pizzel cookies, but if you’re Italian and grew up with an auntie who made magnificent cannoli, you should know right now that nothing will ever be as good – but The Sicilian Butcher’s version isn’t bad.

The restaurant’s location in a strip mall near Tatum Boulevard and Greenway Road puts it smack-dab in the middle of my neighborhood, and it’s quickly become my new favorite neighborhood restaurant. Chef Joey is usually there greeting guests, along with restaurant manager Luigi. And the place is almost always packed, inside and out, which is pretty impressive considering it’s only been open for a few months. Some of that has to do with the Maggiore reputation for creating superlative Italian dining experiences, but I’m convinced it’s mostly because of the mind-blowing meatballs.

They’re the kind of food experience that make you loudly enthuse “It’s sooo good!”

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Columns Aging Today

Let’s Sleep on it

BY BOB ROTH

Managing Partner of Cypress Homecare Solutions

My Aunt Viv of blessed memory had a unique way of passing on the news from Baltimore. She would give a quick rundown of the facts and then completely and at first unexpectedly proclaim, “There, I have now given you dinner conversation, goodbye.” In tribute to my loving Aunt Viv, I offer you an option to steer away from the same tired conversations of 3 a.m. tweet storms, the national debt and health care. Instead, acknowledge the debt incurred by interrupted slumber, its serious health consequences and its subsequent drain on our health care dollars and other economic factors. Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you your dinner party conversation.

So just how important is sleep? It is troubling that conversations regarding sleep center around the question, “How important is sleep to you?” Many Americans wear their sleep deprivation as a badge of honor and glamorize their ability to survive on a few hours of sleep.

Sleep as a vital component to good health, mental clarity and happiness are conversations we should be having.

The story of Randy Gardner is an excellent illustration of all the aforementioned points and scintillating dinner party repartee. For a high school science fair project, Gardner set a Guinness Record for staying awake 11 straight days while allowing scientists to study the effects of

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extreme sleep deprivation. To no one’s surprise, Gardner became irritable, forgetful, nauseous, and of course, unbelievably tired. However, five days into the experiment, he began to display symptoms that could pass for Alzheimer’s disease.

He was hallucinating, severely disoriented and paranoid.

Gardner’s record still stands because Guinness World Records has eliminated the category, citing the health dangers of severe sleep loss. It’s important to keep in mind, by the way, that Guinness does seem to deem it acceptable for a man to hold 13 live rattlesnakes in his mouth. It looks like skipping out on sleep is much more problematic than most realize. Interestingly, while Guinness rightfully recognized the disease-related risk that is associated with insufficient sleep, Gardner’s subsequent health issues are not even mentioned in a Google search. I learned about his paralyzing decade of insomnia in his 60s from an NPR podcast. Scientists point to his 11-day stint with sleeplessness as permanent damage to his brain.

What are the symptoms of a brain deprived of sleep? John Medina put it this way in his book Brain Rules: Sleep well, think well. Sleep loss cripples thinking in just about every way you can measure thinking: attention, executive function, immediate memory, working memory, mood, quantitative skills, logical reasoning ability and manual dexterity.

So what happens when we sleep? Surprisingly, rest is not part of the equation for the sleeping brain. Sleep is intimately involved in learning. Neural firing patterns present during the learning phase are replayed during sleep, strengthening the connections between the neurons that represent these newly formed memories, skill and habit learning.

Our brains act as the hazmat team during sleep. During our waking hours, our brains are busy using up the day’s energy

sources, which get broken down into various byproducts. Without enough sleep time, these waste byproducts build up in the brain, and if they are not cleared away, they collectively overload the brain and are thought to lead to the many negative symptoms of sleep deprivation.

What happens when we don’t give our brains enough time to dispose of the unnecessary waste? Perhaps that is when the build-up of proteins that are associated with neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer’s disease, occur. There is a strong relationship between disordered sleep and neurodegenerative diseases; we just don’t know which is the cause and which is the effect. If we can enhance the sanitation engineering for a brain at risk for neurodegeneration, perhaps we can reverse the course of the disease or even prevent it from happening altogether.

It is our job to get the word out to be sleep ambassadors. Remember the days when our kids didn’t sleep and we were all busy reading up and Ferberizing our babies? We Boomers need to take our sleep just as seriously. Avoid coffee in the afternoon; don’t go to bed too hungry or too full. Create a sleep space, dedicated to sleep-only that is cooler than the rest of the house. Get rid of the blue lights in your bedroom, such as smartphones, tablets, televisions and computers. The blue light suppresses the production of melatonin, which is the hormone that brings on sleep. Read a book or listen to an audio book. Nothing on television or the twittersphere is as important as maintaining our health and our sanity.

My New Year’s resolution: cleaning house, decluttering, reorganizing, resetting, consolidating and preparing well for each day. I am doing this with both hands under my cheek and with my eyes wide closed.

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The New Tax Bill

BY GARRY MADALINE

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Is it a really big deal? It is – but most of us will miss this window of opportunity.

Let’s be realistic, the new tax bill passed

by Congress recently was designed to give corporations, business owners and wealthy individuals substantial tax breaks. Yes, even the middle class gets some tax relief but the relief is only temporary. Tax cuts for the middle class have a sunset provision built in which means they will revert back 2017 tax rates, or worse, by 2025. The new corporate tax rates are permanent.

However, there is one positive unintended consequence for the middle class that can be made permanent if you take advantage of this opportunity. Tax brackets for most taxpayers have not only been lowered but each bracket has higher limits as well. This means you can earn more money and pay less taxes – that’s a good thing. However, the real advantage will come after you retire if you use this time to lower your future retirement tax liability. In other words, this is a green light for those of you considering starting or contributing into a Roth IRA or Roth 401(k). Money contributed to a Roth 401(k) or converted into Roth IRA’s will grow tax-free and all the interest earned on this money will forever be tax-free to both you and your heirs. In addition, no Required Minimum Distributions are required in a Roth IRA/Roth 401(k) account.

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This is important since the No. 1 cause of Social Security benefits being taxed is too much tax-deferred income (RMDs) from retirement accounts during retirement.

Reducing or even eliminating this tax liability all together may actually increase the amount of Social Security you keep for the rest of your life.

Remember there is no limitations to how much IRA or 401(k) money you can convert to a Roth. This is vital since old tax rates could be coming back in a few years and I believe they could be much higher as experts are predicting that our debt could reach $25 trillion by 2025. Eventually this is something the country will have to deal with and you know who really pays – yep, the middle class.

Take advantage of this tremendous option currently available to you before it disappears. If your financial advisor or accountant isn’t excited about this Roth opportunity or even sneers at it, you may be dealing with someone who is uninformed or more interested in their future than yours. Either way you should consider searching for someone who puts your interests first. Remember, at the end of the day, Roth dollars are more valuable to you than any tax deferred account dollars.

Garry Madaline is the creator of CORE Retirement Engineering Workshops. Having done hundreds of seminars across the country over the past 40 years, he is considered a premier retirement consultant in the Valley.

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Your Medicare costs in 2018 How much will your Medicare cost in the coming year? The numbers just came out, so let’s go over them.

We’ll start with the Medicare Part B premium. Part B covers doctor services, outpatient hospital services, certain home health services, durable medical equipment and other items.

The standard monthly premium for people with Part B will be $134 for 2018, the same amount as in 2017.

Under the law, people with Part B pay 25 percent of the costs of running the program, with the government picking up 75 percent.

A statutory “hold harmless” provision applies each year to about 70 percent of Part B enrollees. For these enrollees, any increase in Part B premiums must be lower than any cost-of-living increase in their Social Security benefits.

After several years of no or very small increases, Social Security benefits will increase by 2 percent in 2018 due to a costof-living adjustment. Therefore, some beneficiaries who were held harmless against Part B premium increases in prior years will see a higher premium in 2018.

Part B enrollees held harmless in 2016 and 2017 will see an increase in their Part B premiums from the roughly $109, on average, they paid in 2017. An estimated 42 percent of Part B enrollees are subject to the hold harmless provision in 2018 but will pay the full premium of $134, because the increase in their Social Security benefit will be greater than or equal to an increase in their Part B premiums up to the full 2018 amount.

About 28 percent of Part B enrollees are subject to the hold harmless provision in 2018 but will pay less than the full $134 premium. That’s because the increase in their Social Security benefit isn’t big enough to cover the full Part B premium increase.

The remaining 30 percent of Part B enrollees aren’t subject to the hold harmless provision and will pay the full $134 per month in 2018. This group includes beneficiaries who don’t receive Social Security benefits; enroll in Part B for the first time in 2018; are directly billed for their Part B premium; are eligible for both Medicare

and Medicaid and have their premiums paid by state Medicaid agencies; and pay higher premiums because their incomes are higher.

Since 2007, beneficiaries with higher incomes have paid higher Part B premiums.

These higher premiums apply to about 5 percent of people with Part B. For a chart showing premiums at higher income levels, go to: https://www. cms.gov/Newsroom/MediaReleaseDatabase/Fact-sheets/2017-Fact-Sheetitems/2017-11-17.html The annual deductible for Part B will be $183 in 2018, the same amount as in 2017.

Now let’s take a look at Medicare Part A, which covers inpatient hospital care, skilled nursing services and some home health services.

About 99 percent of Medicare beneficiaries don’t pay any Part A premium since they’ve worked for at least 40 quarters in Medicare-covered jobs.

The Part A deductible that beneficiaries pay when admitted to the hospital in 2018 will be $1,340 per benefit period, a rise of $24 from 2017. The Part A deductible covers beneficiaries’ share of costs for the first 60 days of Medicare-covered inpatient hospital care in a benefit period.

Beneficiaries must pay a coinsurance amount of $335 per day for the 61st through 90th day of a hospitalization (versus $329 in 2017) in a benefit period, and $670 per day for lifetime reserve days ($658 in 2017).

For beneficiaries in skilled nursing facilities, the daily coinsurance for days 21 through 100 of extended care services in a benefit period will be $167.50 in 2018 ($164.50 in 2017).

You can find an explanation of benefit periods (and lots of other valuable information) in the “Medicare & You” handbook, at https://www.medicare.gov/ medicare-and-you/medicare-and-you. html Happy holidays to you and your loved ones!

Greg Dill is Medicare’s regional administrator for Arizona, California, Nevada, Hawaii, and the Pacific Territories. You can always get answers to your Medicare questions by calling 1-800-MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227).

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Hospice Is Hope

Medicaring

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Hospice of the Valley’s Medicaring program is covered 100 percent by Medicare. (Photo courtesy Hospice of the Valley)

In the time I’ve been privileged to serve with Hospice of the Valley, I’ve had countless conversations with patients and family members. It’s not uncommon to hear how reluctant they were to sign up for hospice. Yet in the next breath, they confide they would have done it sooner, had they known how wonderful the care was.

Here’s the dilemma: In order to receive beautiful care from your hospice team, you must forgo more aggressive treatments such as chemo and radiation and, in some cases, rehab services.

But what if you didn’t have to choose?

What if you could have BOTH curative care and hospice care at the same time? Imagine having a team of compassionate caregivers supporting you and your family physically, emotionally and spiritually – while you are going through the rigors of aggressive cancer treatment.

It’s not a hypothetical anymore – it’s reality.

Hospice of the Valley is the only hospice in Arizona to be chosen to take part in a new project called the Medicare Care Choices Model. It allows people who are seriously ill and still undergoing curative treatments – to have a hospice team care for them at the same time.

“We are excited to participate in this national model that we believe will show

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the advantages of supporting patients who are eligible for hospice and are still seeking curative treatments,” said Debbie Shumway, executive director, Hospice of the Valley. “This is what patients and families want.”

Starting January 1, Hospice of the Valley will begin accepting patients for hospice care, who are also continuing with chemotherapy or radiation, dialysis or rehabilitation.

We call our program "Medicaring." Patients have to meet a few criteria, such as live in a traditional home setting (not a group home or care facility), have Medicare as their primary coverage and have had at least one hospital or emergency room visit in the last year.

If eligible, these Medicaring patients will demonstrate the benefits of receiving both curative and comfort care simultaneously. We will learn if it enhances quality of care, lengthens patients’ lives and reduces expense by eliminating costly emergency room visits and hospital stays.

The best part of all: This program is 100 percent covered by Medicare with no out-of-pocket expense for the patient.

Patients interested in Medicaring may call Hospice of the Valley for more information at (602) 530-6900.

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Tech to be healthy and happy in the New Year

BY JUSTIN FERRIS A growing amount of medical research confirms what PE teachers have been saying for decades: Exercise is good for you. However, many of the benefits go beyond weight loss or improved strength and flexibility.

According to The Washington Post, two new studies from Harvard University and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm both confirm that several hours of light activity each day can decrease mortality up to 70 percent. “Light activity” in this case is any movement, including housework or walking a dog.

They also reconfirmed that “30 minutes or more of moderate-to-vigorous activity daily can reduce risk of death by 50 percent,” according to Ing-Mari Dohrn, the lead author of the Swedish study.

A glance through other recent studies shows that even minimal daily exercise

reduces symptoms of anxiety and depression (both in the short term and long term), improves energy levels, helps chronic illness and many more positive results.

In other words, you don’t need to make a grand New Year’s resolution to spend three hours a day at the gym – which you probably won’t keep – to see improved health and wellness. You just need to find something you enjoy doing or give yourself a bit of incentive. Of course, if you want a little help, technology offers some solutions.

Meetups One surefire way to keep up with an activity is to share it with other people.

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This free service connects you with like-minded groups in your area. You can find groups to go hiking, running, swimming, sailing, climbing, dancing, play sports, tour museums or anything else that gives you a bit of movement. If you don’t find a group that offers your preferred activity, then start your own.

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For those who don’t like group activities, prefer more structured exercise or need ideas for nontraditional exercises – say for low-mobility The Garmin Vivosports ($200) gets top marks as a high-end fitness tracker.

(Special to LLAF) situations – check out sparkpeople. com. This long-running website offers whistles, Sweethome gives the Garmin multiple tools for health and wellness, Vivosport ($200) top marks.

Most smartwatches, such as the popular plus expert advice and plenty of community encouragement to help you Apple Watch ($249-$599), include builtin fitness tracker features and even heartreach your goals.

You can also download SparkPeople rate monitoring. However, they’re more apps for your mobile gadgets and the expensive, include a lot of additional site links up with most fitness trackers features you may or may not need, and and smartwatches to make goal-tracking will be more complicated to use. If your much easier. The site costs nothing to only concern is exercise, then stick with a join, but there are paid levels that unlock dedicated tracker. more advanced features.

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Watch-like fitness trackers burst onto the scene half a decade ago and people quickly learned that they either love them or hate them. Early hardware problems and poor accuracy when measuring heart rates don’t help. However, if you want a way to remind yourself to keep moving, you won’t do much better than a wearable. And if you tried one in the past and had trouble, just know that the technology is much improved.

For a basic tracker to count your steps and measure activity levels, review site Sweethome recommends the Fitbit Flex 2 ($60). It’s slim, sleek, simple and connects to most smartphones and computers to show your progress over time.

If you want to add heart-rate monitoring, stress checking, a strength training mode, activity-detecting GPS and some smartwatch-style bells and

Geocaching remains a niche activity despite its long history, but for a combination of fun, light activity and incentives, it’s hard to beat. In essence, it is a worldwide scavenger hunt where you use GPS and cryptic clues to find “caches” hidden by fellow players.

Caches can be in the city or wilderness, and they can be easy to find or difficult, so you get to choose how much exercise you want. You can also travel around, hiding your own caches for others to find.

To get started, go to geocaching.com. If you want more action, you can check out geo-location game apps like Pokémon Go (Android, Apple; free) and Ingress (Android, Apple; free).

If you need any more fun ideas for a bit of movement, check out Phoenix.org for continually updated events, activities and attractions around the Valley.

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Be heart healthy!

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eart disease is one of the most common conditions affecting older Americans. Heart disease is defined as narrowing or blockage of the arteries which can lead to a heart attack. Fortunately, there are many steps that you can take to prevent heart disease from occurring. Below are some ways that you can be heart healthy!

Eat healthy: A diet that consists of fruits, fiber, omega-3s, whole grains and vegetables can protect your heart. Omega-3s are a healthy source of fat that reduces your cholesterol. It is found in many fish, including salmon. Eating foods that are high in fiber can help you feel full throughout the day. Examples of high-fiber food include beans, whole wheat foods and carrots.

There are certain types of food that you want to limit to ensure heart health. These foods include sodium (salt), sweets, canned foods, deep fried foods and alcohol.

Limiting your salt intake will help decrease your risk for heart disease.

Salt intake should be less than 3/4 of a teaspoonful per day for most individuals. If you do choose to drink alcoholic beverages limit your servings to one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men.

Exercise: Exercising on a regular basis can help lower the risk for heart disease. By increasing your physical activity, you will decrease your risk for high blood pressure, cholesterol and diabetes. The American Heart Association recommends exercising for 40 minute sessions, three to four times per week. It is important to slowly increase your activity levels until you feel like you can reach this goal. Try to find an activity that you enjoy. Whether it’s riding a bike, swimming or jogging make sure to get your heart pumping!

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blood pressure as well. In addition, it is very important to take your medications for blood pressure, if you are on any. Make sure that you are aware of what blood pressure medications you are on, how often you are supposed to be taking them and your blood pressure goal. By monitoring your blood pressure daily you can ensure that your

readings are staying within goal. In fact, Walgreens has a service where you can receive a blood pressure test and consultation from your pharmacist at no charge.

See your doctor regularly: It’s always better to prevent a problem before it starts. Going to regular checkups ensures that you do not

have any undiagnosed conditions.

By getting the right health services, screenings and treatments, you are taking steps that help your chances for living a longer, healthier life.

Try to see your doctor at least once a year for a checkup.

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T HE F INISH L INE Arizona’s Leader in Senior Fitness

The Magic of Friendship Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down. – Oprah Winfrey Arizona Senior Olympics is looking for friends. Our limo has broken down.

In 2008, the City of Phoenix had to cut its budget so profoundly that Arizona Senior Olympics was completely cut.

Rather than see the ASO Games come to a stop, the board decided to become a free standing nonprofit organization.

Of course, there was no money for staffing or an office, or telephones or computers, or any of those things without which the program could not go on.

Since that disaster in 2008, the volunteers of Arizona Senior Olympics have kept the program alive. However, each year the games become more expensive to produce. The cost of facilities, equipment, insurance, awards, computer software and all the other various things needed have increased.

You may think, why do they need money when the games happen only a few weeks of the year? The answer is simple. The planning of 30-plus events takes an entire

year to plan. Facilities must be found and reserved. Sports Commissioners must be replaced due to ill health, moving and other life circumstances. A wide variety of equipment must be inventoried, repaired or replaced. Customer service continues with requests from individuals, groups and agencies for information and presentations. The Finish Line is written every month. Many meetings are held to determine dates, times and places of events. Promotion must begin in support of the next games. There is much to do and not many people to do it!

Phoenix is the largest metropolitan area in the United States where senior games are held. The competition for facilities, for volunteers and for sponsors is highly competitive, making them scarce and therefore more expensive.

The income derived from registration for the games does not cover the cost of keeping Arizona Senior Olympics functioning. We are dependent upon our friends. 100 percent of money earned or given to ASO goes directly into the work of preparing for and conducting the games.

ASO Awards First Commissioner of the Year This year, Arizona Senior Olympics awarded its first Commissioner of the Year Award. The award is based on quality, promotion, event growth, dedication and overall excellence.

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They are an outstanding group of men and women without whom the games would not be possible. The first to win this award is Shuffleboard Commissioner Rob Robinson.

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If you are already a friend, thank you.

We hope you will continue to give so that we might continue to serve Arizona seniors.

Thank you for reading this and for “riding the bus with us.”

sport for many years and is looked to not only as a champion of the sport, but as an effective leader. His skill in tournament management has given him a national reputation for excellence.

Here in Arizona, he has worked tirelessly to offer an event that is well organized, attractive, fun, fair and enjoyable. His sport has seen consistent growth through his years of service because he begins working months before the games to spread the word and attract participants.

You need only spend a few minutes at

his events to know the time and care that has gone into making them a success.

The hanging of almost 100 international flags above the courts brings a feeling of celebration, and the camaraderie he inspires is evident in the laughter and smiles seen throughout the area of competition.

Rob Robinson’s dedication and service to Arizona Senior Olympics is extraordinary, and his habit of going “above and beyond” is a shining example of true volunteerism and leadership.

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Dancing Is Good for Your Brain According to a study in Frontiers In Aging Neuroscience, dancing can actually reverse brain changes that occur due to aging.

People in the study who did a variety of dancing styles for an hour three days per week had healthier white matter in a part of the brain linked with

memory. Oddly enough, those who walked did not receive the same improvement.

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Scientists believe that the combination of exercise, mental stimulation and social engagement make dancing a good choice for holding off the effects of aging.

Oh No! Not another email!

It seems like year after year, we get more and more emails. Some may be something that we want while others are like white noise – just an annoying intrusion on our lives.

So how do we learn to use our computers so that the information is something that we want? There are, of course, ways to handle email so that it’s less intrusive, and a good class or a training session with a grandchild can show ways to make email manageable.

Email can be as much a boon as it is a pain in the neck. It enables us to stay in touch with far-away relatives and friends.

It helps us to purchase things we need in the comfort of our homes. It provides information quickly that long ago would have taken great time and effort to find and it keeps us in touch with people and organizations that mean something to us.

Arizona Senior Olympics uses email as little as we can and still be in communication with our athletes.

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participants each month, we work hard at keeping other emails to a minimum.

What if it pours rain and we have to cancel an event? Email lets us communicate that to the participants, saving them a trip to an event that won’t happen. If there is important information about the games that needs to be conveyed to the athletes right away, email is the answer.

If we have an urgent need for funding, we can ask for help through email. It’s our hope that you will realize that ASO uses email with restraint and consideration and that when you do hear from us, you will open it and read.

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GLASS SERVICES AUTOS 1980 MERCEDES Benz, 450SL drive anywhere. $5,000 or trade for small pickup truck.

Buckeye, 847-863-4421

ANNOUCEMENTS GENERAL This is my father, Alex.

He is an amazing man, an amazing husband and father.

He has Polycystic Kidney Disease and is only 56. He still has many long and beautiful years ahead, but his two failing kidneys will not take him there. Our family hopes of getting his story out and reaching someone who has it on their heart to donate a kidney. He is O+ blood type.

Please contact me at 623-692-6314 or email: sandysimon@live.com

MISCELLANEOUS “Mark your Calendar!”

TRAIL RIDERS RANCH ANNUAL WHITE ELEPHANT SALE 2512 E. Main St., Mesa Saturday, February 3rd 8:30 -12:30 Public Welcome Furniture, appliances, electronics, household, hardware, antiques & GIANT RAFFLE Lunch begins at 10 am

WANTED TO BUY WANT TO PURCHASE Minerals and other oil & gas interests Send Details to: PO Box 13557 Denver, CO 80201

COMPUTER/ I.T. SERVICES NEED COMPUTER HELP? Professional IT person with 30+ years of experience will come to your home or office.

Computers, smart phones, tablets, networking, etc., etc.

Serving the greater East Valley area.

Chuck Bryant 602-826-8557 See my ad in the Biz Box Section

ELECTRICAL ANYTHING ELECTRICAL, AIR CONDITIONING, PLUMBING Free Service Call with Repair Same Day Service Guaranteed 24/7 - 2 Hours or Less Troubleshooting Experts Minuteman Home Service SRP APS Certified Licensed/Bonded/Insured ROC 242804 BBB A+ Valleywide Code T11 602-279- 0942

EVENT SERVICES Having A Party? We sing and play the music of Gene Autry, Roy Rogers, and Sons of the Pioneers. Available Jan-Mar. Check us out on Facebook: Cowboy Serenade or call 720-618-8672.

Giddyap!

FENCING/GATES ALL YOUR FENCING NEEDS *Block Fencing *Pool Fencing *Chain-Link & Wood Fencing *Concrete Work *Pavers Work Free Estimates Call John Villaverde 602-435-4869

GLASS, MIRRORS, SHOWER DOORS Family Owned with 50 years' EXPERIENCE. Shower and tub enclosures Framed, Frameless or Custom Doors We also install insulated glass, mirrored closet doors, window glass, mirrors, patio doors, glass table protectors.

If it’s glass, we can help you.

QUALITY SERVICE at Competitive Prices.

FREE Estimates WESLEY'S GLASS & MIRROR Call 480-306-5113 wesleysglass.com SERVICING THE ENTIRE VALLEY

HANDYMAN IS YOUR "HONEY DO" LIST GETTING TOO BIG FOR YOU? Did you buy something that needs to be put together?

Give John the Handyman a call! He can help you get things done.

Anything that takes your time I can do & have the tools to do it!

John the Handyman: 760-668-0681

HAULING RUBBISH WORKS OF SCOTTSDALE / N. PHOENIX YOUR LOCAL JUNK HAULER Labor, Hauling, Junk Removal, Old Furniture, Appliances, Electronics, Moving Boxes, Construction & Yard Debris.

Garage & House Cleanouts We Donate & Recycle Visit: www.rubbishworks.com/phoenix

Call: 480-545-1220 Email Rita at: rbrady@rubbishworks.com

HAULING DAVE'S DUMPING & HAULING I haul it all!

Yard/construction debris, junk, furniture, appliances, clean-outs, etc., etc., etc., Jobs both big & small I’m a 6th grade Mesa teacher working his 2nd job.

Phone Estimates Dave 480-360-5865 or 480-360-JUNK See my ad in the Biz Box Section

HOME IMPROVEMENT HOLTZMAN HOME IMPROVEMENT People do business with people they trust Home Remodeling & Additions *Kitchens or Baths *Painting/Drywall/Stucco *Plumbing/Electrical *Tile/Flooring *Decks/Garages We Do It All! 24 Hour Emergency Services Licensed/Bonded/Insured ROC#242008 WINTER SPECIAL 15% off labor on any job over $1,000 Must mention this ad for discount Can't combine with any other offer Call for a Free Estimate!

602-628-8735 602-323-6574 Holtzmanhomeimprovement.com

HOME REMODELING

PERSONAL SERVICES

ALL AMERICAN REMODELING AND HANDYMAN SERVICE Need some help around the house?

Please call, I do it all! *Design *Carpentry *Paint *Flooring *Electric *Plumbing *Drywall And More!

Small projects to full remodels & hydrotherapy tubs Todd 480-388-5335

PERSONAL ASSISTING & PET SITTING SERVICES Organize Home/Office Packing/Unpacking for Move In-Home Pet Sitting 602-228-8413

HOME & BUSINESS REMODELING & REPAIRS

BY MY FATHER'S TOOLBOX Honest, Dependable, Quality Workmanship Upgrade your plumbing or electrical fixtures.

Carpentry, Drywall & Painting Concierge & Computer Services Available For free consultation call 480-600-0958 We accept Major Credit Cards ROC258814

MEDICARE ASSISTANCE AND DIRECTION THROUGH YOUR TRUSTED MEDICARE COMMUNITY ADVOCATE Supplements, Advantage, Entitlements, Eligibilities Medicaid Help Rx and Part B Cost Assistance No cost, Complete, Accurate Medicare Guidance Jim Schmidt 480-296-3900 JimSchmidt@SignatureSenior.Solutions

christinahelps2012@gmail.com

ROOFING Tim KLINE Roofing, LLC The Most Detailed Roofer in the State. Roofs Done Right..The FIRST Time.

15-Year Workmanship Warranty on All Complete Roof Systems. FREE Estimate and Written Proposal.

480-357-2463 www.timklineroofing.com R.O.C #156979 K-42 Licensed, Bonded and Insured

SENIOR SERVICES AND ASSISTANCE DON'T FRET OVER NOT GETTING AROUND I provide meal prep, light house cleaning, laundry, errands & shopping but most of all, companion care with a fun & friendly personality.

Call Linda 602-410-4076 PRIVATE CAREGIVER Certified Caregiver with 15 years experience. I provide: Personal Care, Bathing & Dressing, Meal Preparation, Medication, Doctor Visits, Errands & Shopping, Transportation.

Call Sorin 602-354-0240

WE BUY ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES SILVER, GOLD, Jewelry, Watches, Paintings, Indian art & Jewelry We come to you!

602-989-1323

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WHO SAYS YOU CAN’T BE FIT OVER FIFTY! Place a Friendship Ad! Send us the following information to LLAF 1620 W. Fountainhead Parkway #219, Tempe AZ 85282 or email to Tracey@times publications.com or call 480-898-5611 Your Name, Address, Phone, Email and payment.

Payments can be Check/Money Order, Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or Discover.

Account # of your credit card, CVV code and expiration.

Include your 30 word ad ($15). $.25 per word thereafter.

DRAWER 9792P DIVERSITY SINGLES CLUB (AGE 60 PLUS) Meets EVERY Monday 8:00am at JB's Restaurant, 6810 E. Main St. in Mesa for breakfast Prospective Members Welcome!

DRAWER LL1354 Happy New Year! I live in Sun City. Looking for companionship. I hope to travel some, but not alone.

Take a chance, it's a new year.

5'5", a woman's figure, blue eyes, light hair, WWF. DRAWER LL1478 Me woman, you man, me like man, you like woman? If so, you write letter, me call. We like, we be happy.

Please hurry, sunset coming!

(ISO non-smoking widowed man 70+) DRAWER LL1538 This woman would like a friend, companion, someone to call when I get home late (make sure I'm safe), flexible, friendly, and enjoy living each and every day. A companion that wants a companion like me. Lunch, movie, cards.

SOLUTIONS TO HELP YOU LIVE A HEALTHY LIFESTYLE

DRAWER LL1631 SWM, 65, fit, attractive guy seeks N/S SWF (55-65) who enjoys movies, concerts, hiking/walks, travel & sports.

Please include a photo.

Northeast Phoenix.

DRAWER LL1632 Attractive, young-looking, SWM 71 looking for an outgoing, fun-loving lady to share our favorite activities and to experience some new ones too.

DRAWER LL1615 WWF, 69 - very outgoing, patient, and fun to be with.

Would like to meet a nice gentleman for companionship and travel.

Please include phone number - no email.

I live in the Tucson area.

FRIENDSHIP AD ABBREVIATION KEY SWM = Single White Male SWF = Single White Female SHM = Single Hispanic Male SHF = Single Hispanic Female WWM = White Widowed Male WWF = White Widowed Female

ISO = In Search Of

LTR = Long Term Relationship

N/S = Non-Smoking N/D = Non-Drinking

Safely Build Lean Muscle, Increase Energy, Lose Pounds, Improve Mental Clarity & Age Healthier Racquel Miller • Isagenix Independent Associate • Lifestyle Coach

602-625-1181

racquelmiller.isagenix@gmail.com www.racquelmiller.com

Farnsworth Hall Event Venue Available 480-415-9572 • www.dreamlandvilla.org Receptions, Anniversaries, Special Parties, Banquets, Company Seminars Up to 500 people capacity 320 N. 55th Place, Mesa, AZ 85205

Minuteman Home Services ELECTRICAL, HEATING, AIR CONDITIONING, PLUMBING, BATHROOM/KITCHEN REMODELS

Free Service Call with Repairs

10% OFF

Same Day Service Guaranteed 24/7 any total work performed www.minuteman247.com ROC 242804, 257474, 290005 APS/SRP Certified Contractor BBB A+ • Licensed, bonded, and fully insured for your protection.

Best Virtual Office Package Hourly - Daily - Weekly Office - Conference & Mediation Rooms High Tech & Furnished 480-200-7127 8989 E. Via Linda - Scottsdale Wind ows/D o ors Is your house ready for a makeover?

Building your dream house?

We can help!

• Replacement windows • New Construction windows • Multi-Slide – Bi-folding doors • Entry, French and Patio doors • Barn doors & Hardware • Interior Doors and Trim • Window coverings and shutters Stop by our showroom: 3545 E. Indian School Road RoC #179513

Code T09

HOW DO I ANSWER A FRIENDSHIP AD? Compose your response and address it to: Drawer #________ Lovin’ Life After 50 Newspapers 1620 W. Fountainhead Pkwy, Ste. 219 Tempe, AZ 85282

602-667-3667 Phoenix www.liwindow.com

602-279-0942

Need Computer Help?

Professional IT person with 30+ yrs of experience will come to your home or office.

4COMPUTERS 4SMART PHONES 4TABLETS 4NETWORKING ETC. Serving the Greater East Valley

Chuck Bryant - 602.826.8557

DRAWER LL1633 Hey good lookin', are you a female 60-70 & want to be with me in a guarded & patrolled RV Resort in North Peoria? Live in a model home. Property has a pool, spa & other amenities.

www.LovinLifeAfter50.com

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AREA AGENCY ON AGING

Embracing the BEST YOU. PRESENTING

Healthy Living Classes Chronic Disease Self-Management – 6 weeks Self-managment education program for those with chronic health conditions.

Diabetes Self-Management – 6 weeks Managing your type 2 diabetes.

The Area Agency on Aging offers a variety of classes to help you live and be your best you! Classes include workbook and Elder Resource Guide.

Beginning

Early 2018

Ongoing – Valley Wide

Living Life with Chronic Pain – 6 weeks Tips, techniques, and tools for everyone.

Matter of Balance – 8 weeks Strategies to reduce falls and increase activity levels.

Aging Mastery Program – 10 weeks, $95 for the course Develop behaviors for improved health, stronger economic security, greater well-being, and increased social participation.

More information at:

aaaphx.org 602-264-4357

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