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April 2017

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editor’s note Hello.

My name is Niki, and I’m the new editor of Lovin’ Life After 50, or LLAF, as we call it around the newsroom. This publication was founded as Arizona Senior World in 1979, and over the past 37 years, it has grown into the premier publication for active adults across Arizona, covering issues important to both Baby Boomers and seniors – like housing, health and fitness, food, family and travel – but also providing a fair dose of opinion columns, entertainment, and of course, the ever-popular puzzle page.

I was born in 1976, making me just three years older than LLAF. Over the past 40 years, I’ve graduated college; had a successful career in

editing newspapers and magazines; buried my grandparents, my father, several other family members and a few friends; and traveled the world, and I’ve grown into… well, I don’t know. I’m still growing and changing. I think we are all still growing and changing, no matter our ages.

Growing up, whenever I watched a movie or television show with my father and one of the characters reminisced about all the loves and losses of their lives, my dad admired and aspired to that, as if he too would be sitting around one day very, very far in the future, thinking about all his many days past. He never had the chance. He died of a heart attack at age 47.

Some people may disagree with me that we are all growing and changing regardless of age, but nobody can deny that not everybody gets to live a long life.

And certainly not everybody gets to live – regardless of age. That’s what lovin’ life is all about – making the most of this fleeting thing we’re experiencing in the blink of an eye, whether we live to be 18 or 80.

Lovin’ Life After 50 is changing and growing, as well. But it won’t be growing old. The idea is to give you more of what you already know and love about Lovin’ Life, and then to give you new things to love. We’ve added more features, expanded the entertainment section, and introduced a gardening column and a dining section.

There are more new, actionable elements to come in future issues, but I’ll let those be surprises. Please let us know what you think. We promise the puzzles aren’t going anywhere. In fact, you can count on them being on the same page every single issue – page 26. But there’s much more personality, color, flavor, fun, and just plain loving life to come.

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opinion The Curmudgeon

Business No Longer Just a Business

By Drew Alexander

S

ometime during the past hundred years, a gradual transformation occurred in the world of commerce as businesses morphed from being just workplaces to functioning as personal benefits providers.

From mom-and-pop establishments to multinational corporations, businesses today operate on a vastly different model than a century ago, or even as recently as the 1950s. There was a time when someone risked their capital to open a business, and in the process added employees as the venture experienced sales growth and turned a profit.

A pretty simple arrangement, actually, between employer and

employee: “An honest day’s work for an honest day’s pay,” goes the old adage.

Only now that “honest day’s work” has gone far beyond just a “day’s pay,” a minimum amount fixed by government, not by business management. A good portion of a business’ resources must now be devoted to providing employee group health care insurance, paid vacation time, paid so-called “sick days,” and applicable overtime pay.

For companies with more than 50 employees, the federal Family and Medical Leave Act requires unpaid, job-protected leave for medical reasons. This includes 12 workweeks

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Benefits voluntarily or involuntarily furnished by employers in addition to a salary are fixtures within the structure of the American business community. But it makes me wonder how far a business must go beyond paying for an honest day’s work.

Actually, the answer is already out there in plain view. A business today is no longer a commercial enterprise whose primary purpose is to produce a return on investment – in other words, to make a profit for the individual or group ownership.

“Profit” has become a dirty word, and the work part of employment is almost incidental to the elephant in the room of employee benefit packages. Whether it’s a restaurant or a research center, a car dealership or a clothing store, that business now exists to be mommy, daddy and nanny to its employees.

According to the U. S. Department of Labor, combined benefits are worth about 30 percent of a full-time employee’s compensation package.

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But in some leftist quarters, no matter how benevolent management is toward its employees, if you are a corporation, you are demonized as a greedy, evil entity, thriving on the labors of your downtrodden workers.

As they speak the word “corporation,” it rolls off their lips with the greatest disdain, depicting it as some disembodied creature functioning outside human control.

The same anti-capitalists who verbally pummel the manufacturers, distributors and retailers of goods and services regularly exhibit their hypocrisy by driving cars, flying in passenger aircraft, wearing shoes, eating food, using a credit card, operating a computer, dunking a doughnut, taking an aspirin, drinking a beer, and consuming hundreds of other things – all made readily available by giant corporations and mom-and-pop stores.

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By Bill Straus Okay, here’s a riddle for you: What do Jim Jones, Gandhi, Warren Beatty, Saddam Hussein, Liberace, Alec Baldwin, FDR, Pablo Picasso, Stalin and William Shatner have in common?

They are all considered narcissists by those specifically trained to identify that personality disorder. I’m fascinated by this and decided to devote my 500 words this month to what narcissism is and how we can identify it.

Narcissism is defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as “excessive interest in or admiration of oneself and one’s physical appearance.”

Psychology Today goes further, saying “it is more accurate to characterize the pathological narcissist as someone who’s in love with an idealized self-

image, which they project to avoid feeling like and being seen as the ‘ugly duckling,’ even if they painfully don’t want to admit it.” It is also interesting to note that narcissism is evident in gradations, from somewhat benign to extremely dangerous.

Narcissism has its origin in a 2,000-year-old Greek myth. Narcissus was a handsome young man who rejected all those who fell in love with him including the nymph, Echo. Echo wasted away in unrequited love so that all that remained of her was a voice that echoed her sadness. When Narcissus happened by a pool of water, he noticed his own reflected image.

Tragically, he fell deeply in love with his own image, and because even this

love was unrequited, he too withered away, and all that remained was the flower we call narcissus to this day.

So, how do we identify people with this disorder? Here are a few signs, also courtesy of Psychology Today: 1. Narcissists hoard and often interrupt conversations. If you do manage to get a word in, the narcissist will often either correct you or “one-up” what you had to say.

2. They are rule-breakers. They don’t conform to conventional rules or norms and often feel they are “above the law.”

3. They frequently violate boundaries, showing wanton disregard for other people’s thoughts, feelings and physical space.

4. They project a false image, trying to impress others by making themselves look better than they actually are.

This “trophy” complex can exhibit itself physically, romantically, sexually, socially, religiously, financially, materially, professionally, academically or culturally.

5. They feel entitled. After all, in their

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6. They portray grandiosity at any and every turn. They actually feel that they alone can solve problems and that others cannot live without their invaluable contributions.

7. Many narcissists enjoy arousing negative emotions to gain attention, feel powerful and keep you insecure and off-balance. They are easily upset at any real or perceived slights. They may throw a tantrum if you disagree with their views. They are extremely sensitive to criticism, and typically respond with heated words or even violence. Additionally, narcissists are often quick to judge, criticize, ridicule, and blame you. Some narcissists are emotionally abusive.

It certainly appears that avoiding this kind of person is beneficial, albeit impossible. But it does help to know who they are. Can you think of anyone fitting the profile whom I may have left off my list at the beginning of this column?

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Ask Gabby Gayle Advice Column for the Over-50 Crowd

By Gayle Lagman-Creswick Dear Gabby Gayle: I am a widow of two years and have been dating a guy who is a widower of three years.

I really like this guy, but it bothers me that he has so much criteria for his next choice as mate. Every once in a while, he brings up his criteria, such as looks, body size, sense of humor, and most recently, he doesn’t want anyone he might have to take care of financially. While I have enough to take care of myself and I have life insurance, I do not have investments that pay much, and I don’t have enough to travel the world. I told him the truth, and I haven’t heard a thing from him since then. Should I contact him or let him go?

Signed, Missing Him Dear Missing Him: I say let him go. He is looking for a good business deal and you are looking for love. In his case, the two will never meet. There are legal ways of doing a pre-nup that could spell out these details; however, it sounds like he is looking for a good horse to buy, and you are not it. Move on to find a true love. I am not saying money is not important; it is just not number one in my book. We all have criteria for a partner in our head.

And when dating, we are constantly weighing those criteria. One of my requirements is that the person values the relationship above all else. I believe if the relationship is solid, the rest will fall into place. Good luck. GG Dear Gabby: I am finding that you can be married to a guy for 50 years only to find out that you do not like him very much. It is a low blow to come to that realization at my ripe old age of 69. We have always agreed on most important things, but we have differed somewhat on politics and whether to interfere in our adult childrens’ lives. This year, his politics differ hugely from mine, to the point of making me walk out of the room when he gets started. Recently, he

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gave some advice to our married son that has our son and his wife not speaking to us. He has changed from a reasonable guy to a bully in a year’s time. I have considered leaving him.

What do you think? Signed, Wife Dear Wife: Marital problems are tough at any age, but especially hard after you have invested 50 years in it.

Here are some thoughts: It is possible there could be a medical reason for this, such as small stroke, medication reactions, other brain changes, etc. It is possible that this is part of his aging – they say you do not change a whole lot as you age, but you usually become more of what you are and have been.

So if you are a person who likes to advise your kids, you may want to advise them more as you grow older.

See what I mean? Get him in for a good medical checkup, including a mental health inventory. Talk to your doctor about the changes. Don’t give up on this 50-year relationship just yet. Good luck. GG Dear Gabby Gayle: I live in a second-stage retirement community in the independent section. I have a pet peeve. There are a few people here who flip out when some of the residents lose a few of their abilities.

They want them immediately shipped off to the health center – out of their sight! What is wrong with people?

They act as if disability is catching.

My granddaughter is coming to visit, and she is in a wheelchair with M.S. I can just hear those yappers when I take my daughter in her wheelchair into the dining room. What happened to “There but for the grace of God go I?” Signed, Ticked Off Dear Ticked: I don’t think there is anything you can do to change those folks, except pray for them, if you are so inclined! Hold your head high and give thanks that you are not like that!

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Sound Off Just want to tell you I love reading Drew Alexander. He tells it like it is and he’s one of the few voices of reason in what seem to be mostly liberal magazines in this part of Arizona. Bill Straus is one of those liberals that just doesn’t get it. In light of what happened in London this week, he needs to rethink his remark about “Trump’s made-up problems, specifically with regard to terrorism.”

I used to enjoy reading the comics but I don’t anymore since they have become so political. Some of them criticize President Trump in a very despicable way. During the eight years that Obama was president, that did not happen because if any of them criticized Obama, they would be called racist. This is something that should not be going on. Comics are supposed to make people feel good and laugh and not be political. The media is so biased, it’s just unbelievable.

The FBI is investigating 300 people who were admitted into the United States as refugees. America, what are we doing to ourselves by admitting thousands upon thousands of Muslim refugees whose ideology is so against the Western world? We are setting ourselves up for disaster.

Shock and “Aw, shucks, I really did not mean it,” best describe the words and deeds of the new president.

Celebrating Tucson The Catholic Church is being given $91 million to resettle Muslim refugees, whose religion tells them you convert or you die. Other religious organizations are getting tax money. I resent this.

Paul Babeu: hear no evil. Joe Arpaio: see no evil. Donald Trump: evil.

In New York City, they have eliminated the literacy test for anyone applying to be a teacher. So you don’t have to pass a literacy test to teach our children. The dumbing down of America continues.

I just finished reading your Sound Off complaining about how the Democrats have opposed every decision that Trump has made. It doesn’t feel good when the shoe is on the other foot, does it? Seeing how the Republicans opposed every decision that Obama made. I’m just sayin’.

During his eight years of presidency, Obama filled our courts with activist judges who were making law rather than interpreting the law, which is their job.

For a judge in Hawaii to stop President Trump’s temporary ban on people from six Muslim nations, which by the way, Obama had picked, just doesn’t make sense. Since when does a judge in our constitution, in our law, have more authority than the duly elected president of the United States? What in the world is going on?

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Super volunteer Johnny Williams

By Barbara Russek

D

id you know that April is National Volunteer Month? It’s a great time to recognize the many dedicated folks who help those in need. One such tireless volunteer is Johnny Williams, 70, president of Assistance League of Tucson.

Hailing from Texas, Williams met and married his wife Georgia in Del Rio, Texas when he was 17 and she was 15. The couple, married 52 years, moved here for the weather and to be closer to their two adult children and five grandkids. “Would we think about allowing our children to marry that young?” quips Williams. “Heck no!”

Volunteering at ALT is actually Williams’ fourth career. He began his professional life working for the Immigration and Naturalization Service, later went on to become VP for a technology company and had his own professional consulting business before starting to volunteer at ALT about five years ago.

Hearing about the nonprofit from a talk given by a member of his speakers’ bureau, Williams was impressed by ALT’s work and accomplishments; he signed up with the program a few weeks later, was joined by his wife, and is presently completing a two-year term as president.

Williams is the first male president in any of the 120 national chapters of the Assistance League since its inception in 1919.

Although the Williamses live near Colossal Cave, they commute to ALT in midtown Tucson four to five days a week. Williams explains, “The distance is minor, compared with the satisfaction of our work.”

William and his wife still find time for fun activities outside of ALT, including going to the movies, trying new restaurants and exploring the area.

I wanted to know more about Williams’ thoughts on ALT. Why is it important for folks to volunteer?

In my opinion, we live in a country full of opportunities. Sometimes folks go through hard times and need a hand

up – someone to give them hope for a better tomorrow. Often a little time or money makes all the difference.

What are some responsibilities as president of ALT? I oversee the chapter, both the revenue-generating part and the philanthropic activities. I also manage the administrative division and stay connected with our thrift shop, the source of most of our funding.

Who benefits from funds taken in?

Our signature program is Operation School Bell. We provide new school clothing and more for nearly 4,000 underprivileged children in grades K-8 from over 30 area schools. Children also leave with a voucher for shoes they pick out at a local shoe store.

Our other programs include Starting Over Supplies, which provides new items for families struggling to start a household, the Teddy Bear program, which gives child-safe ALT bears to children in crisis and Assault Survivor Kits, containing essentials for assault victims.

Is everyone who works at ALT a volunteer?

Yes. We have over 250 adult volunteers and an auxiliary of over 100 teenagers, our Assisteens.

Can you tell us a little about your inventory?

We have a variety of items for sale: furniture, clothing, accessories, electronics and more. Funds from thrift shop sales help us achieve the mission of giving back to our community.

How can folks contact you?

ALT, located at 1307 N. Alvernon Way, is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Donations are accepted during shop hours and also on Monday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Free pick-up service is available for larger items. For further information, please call 520-326-8452.

Barbara Russek, a freelance writer in Tucson, welcomes comments at babette2@comcast.net

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Cosmetic Shift

Shed of its stigma, cosmetic surgery now offers a smorgasbord of targeted procedures — some even covered by insurance, if you know the right doc.

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t Profiles Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Care in Tucson, a regular stream of people come and go for elective procedures such as facelifts, liposuction and eyelid surgery. The flow at this elective surgery center seems as seamless as that of a nail or hair salon, but it wasn’t always so.

“Over the last ten years, it’s gotten more socially acceptable to have cosmetic surgery,” says Todd Case, M.D., medical director at Profiles Cosmetic Surgery and Skin Care.

“There used to be a stigma around just having cosmetic surgery done – nobody wanted anyone to know about it. Now everybody’s like, ‘Hey, look what I had done!’”

According to the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS), overall procedures have risen 115 percent since 2000, but surgeons are also seeing more variety in the areas of the body patients are choosing to address. While facelifts remain a popular option among patients, there’s also been considerable growth in buttock implants (up 252 percent since 2000), lower body lifts (up

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3,973 percent) and upper arm lifts (up 4,959 percent). Particularly popular among the 55-and-older set are Botox, or Botulinum Type A toxin injections; bariatric or weight loss surgery and varicose vein treatments.

Jean Tazioli has undergone many of those procedures. At times, tooling around Wickenburg with a face and figure she’s invested thousands of dollars into maintaining, Tazioli can feel like a glamorous Lisa Douglas trying to adapt to Hooterville in Green Acres – with all of the other like-aged women around town playing versions of dowdy handywoman Ralph Monroe.

“I’m really displaced up here,” admits Tazioli, who, at 72, says she’s often mistaken for being about 20 years younger, thanks to a combination of liposuction, Botox, Juvéderm and eyelid surgery she’s had performed over the past six years. “There’s nothing wrong with the women in Wickenburg; they’re very healthy. But,” she hesitates, “they all wear ponytails, you know what I mean? They’re all horseback

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riding or they’re in their Polaris ATVs going across the desert. I mean, this is a very outdoorsy town. I’m more of a Scottsdale woman that’s living in Wickenburg.”

Tazioli, a Chicagoan for her first 55 years who now has 15 horses herself on the 18-acre ranch she shares with partner Lew Sowards, says she sometimes catches a little side-eye shade from the other women in town.

“They’ll say, ‘Oh gee, you spend so much money on your appearance,’” she says. “I just smile and say, ‘Honey, if you can’t justify spending money on yourself, there’s something wrong.’

People spend money putting in a new roof or windows on their house. This is just more maintenance – only you’re doing it on yourself !”

Tazioli’s openness toward cosmetic surgery reflects a nationwide shift that has boosted not only the amounts of elective surgeries and procedures being performed each year, but also the types of procedures patients are choosing.

The demand for a wider variety of procedures that allows patients to focus

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on specific target areas of the body they want to improve has pushed surgeons to expand beyond their specialties to include more options.

“I do a ton of eyelid surgery, or blepharoplasty,” says Emilio Justo,

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“But over the last 20 years, I’ve expanded into other forms of cosmetic surgery to include liposuction, endoscopic brow lifts, face lifts and then a whole host of non-surgical procedures – from the injectables, such as your Botox and dermal tissue fillers, to chemical peels, microdermabrasion, sclerotherapy for spider veins and more.”

Thanks to advances in cosmetic surgery procedures and faster recovery times, patients are also able to have a variety of work done at once. Tazioli ordered a full menu of procedures that she had done on the same day.

“In June of 2011, I had a mini face lift, liposuction and my upper and lower eyelids done at the same time,” she says. “I just combined everything because I only wanted to be under the knife once.”

She says that, contrary to her fears, the overall experience (done under anesthesia) was largely painless.

“You have the surgery done, go home and then the next day you go back in and they take out all the bandages,” she says. “You look like a mummy when you leave the first day, but about four or five days later, I was going out to restaurants. I had very little bruising.

You could see the stitches around my eyelids a little, but I just wore sunglasses for a few days.”

Tazioli admits that looking “Hot in Wickenburg” is a dubious honor.

“I’m always in makeup and $120 jeans mucking out stalls around the horse ranch,” she says, with a hearty laugh.

But she says the reason she decided to get all that work done had more to do with boosting her morale than looking like a Hollywood star.

“I had just buried my dad and my brother within six months of each other, and it took a toll on me,” she says. “People started saying to me, ‘Are you tired? Do you feel OK?’ And I think that was really just a polite way of saying, ‘Girl, you’re looking old!’”

After the surgery, Tazioli says she looked and felt “refreshed.”

“It makes you feel good, it really

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Jean Tazioli of Wickenburg, before and after cosmetic surgery.

does. It gives you more energy, because you feel better about yourself.”

“The biggest misconception about cosmetic surgery is that it’s only for the rich and famous,” Case says. “I can tell you that, at least in the community I serve, most of my clients are everyday

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kind of a whole cross-section of the community that gets plastic surgery now. It’s not like it was maybe 40 or 50 years ago, where it was only for the rich folks who came down into the city from up in the hills to get some work done.”

To be accurate, the cost of cosmetic surgery is still fairly out of reach for many city folk, particularly retired adults on a fixed income. According to the ASPS, the average physician’s fee for a full facelift is close to $7,000, a breast augmentation averages around $4,000 and popular procedures like liposuction and eyelid surgery each cost around $3,000. Average fees for less invasive procedures like laser treatment of varicose veins ($353) and Botox ($382) run considerably less, although each of those treatments may need to be repeated to avoid recurrence of the conditions they treat. Tazioli says she has to go in for repeat Botox injections about every three months. “Four, tops.

Or else people will start asking me, ‘When do you go back in for shots?’”

Since cosmetic surgery is considered an elective procedure, it’s typically not covered by health insurance. However, there are some ways to at least get insurance to pay for work around the eyes, a particular favorite among the 55-and-older crowd.

Justo, whose medical training at the University of Michigan was as an ophthalmologist, has the unique capability of getting upper eyelid surgery covered by many patients’ insurance, as he’s able to do visual field testing to measure the patient’s peripheral vision, thereby qualifying an improvement in that area as a legitimate medical expense.

“If we can document that their peripheral vision is impaired, or that they’re experiencing myriad other symptoms that people can have just from having heavy lids weighing down on their eyes – maybe the patient has eye fatigue, or brow strain causing headaches – we’re pretty adept at navigating the authorization process with each insurance company to get that approved,” he says.

If anything, today’s Dr. Lookgoods may have to caution patients not to make sampling from the wide buffet of cosmetic surgery procedures too much of a regular habit. Justo says most procedures cosmetic surgeons do today don’t need to be revisited for between 10 to 20 years, but often patients will come in much sooner than that for a “touch up.”

“Remember, what you’re doing in any cosmetic procedure is turning the clock back, but you’re not stopping the clock,” he says. “So it’s not really a question of how long will the surgery last, it’s how long will it be until the patient choses to do it again in order to get back to that point where they started from.”

Tazioli says she’s already looking forward to turning that clock back.

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A Hero Hangs ‘Em Up Stanley Kolodny Jr. spent his career in the air Story and photos by Aaron Kolodny

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captain for Southwest Airlines.

An accomplished career as an airline pilot is quite an achievement, but that’s actually just the finale to an incredible aerial calling.

Stan followed in his father’s footsteps, joining the U.S. Air Force after graduating from the University of North Texas.

Both Stan and his brother Carter became officers, but unlike Carter and their father, Stanley Sr., Stanley Jr. chose (Special to Lovin’ Life After 50) a throttle over a stethoscope. Kolodny (right) takes his final flight before retirement with another captain.

During his 20 years as an Air Force fighter pilot, Major Stanley Kolodny served as flight commander and earned Top Gun serve his country, the honors in 1986. He flew a variety of Air Force’s best offerings aircraft, from the swift and aggressive were the relationships F-4 to the more tranquil OV-10. But forged, many of them of all his time in the sky, he’d likely bettering four decades say his time piloting an A-10 Warthog and covering generations, was his favorite. with a handful enduring In addition to to this day. In fact, one flying multiple of Stan’s best friends and vessels, Stan and flying and riding buddy his family had from 30-plus years back, the opportunity RayJay, surprised him to live in various on his farewell flight. places stateside He hopped on a flight and abroad, from from Phoenix to Ontario Spain to New with the sole intention of Mexico, Hawaii to getting immediately back Texas, his favorite on a flight returning to abode being Phoenix, only this time Alaska, where, he’d accompany Stan c o i n c i d e n t a l l y, and First Officer Craig he lived down on Stan’s concluding the street (on flight. Though grounded, Elmendorf Air these “brothers” are still Force Base) when each other’s wing-man his own dad was as they continue their (Special to Lovin’ Life After 50) stationed there motorcycling traditions Yogi the Corgi will get more of Kolodny’s attention now that he’s retired. decades before, together, including long and during the trips across several states Great Alaskan and short ones to grab coffee or a pint.

There are definitely some my humble father Stan’s aeronautical Earthquake of career. accomplishments, noteworthy 1964.

Thanks, Pop, for serving the country and monumental Outside satisfying achievements as a fighter pilot, for schlepping entries that would fill in the above’s his love for flying (Special to Lovin’ Life After 50) countless people safely to their timeline – but even though his son, and his calling to Stanley Kolodny Jr. retired after 20 years flying incident-free for Southwest.

I’ll likely never know the full extent of destinations, and for being my hero.

y father, Stanley Kolodny Jr., is a simple guy. His life is outlined by the basics and inclined toward efficiency. His oil is changed, registration current and taxes paid. A normal day starts with a walk alongside Yogi (his Corgi) and coffee with his wife, Teresa, and maybe a trip to the stables or an errand to run – nothing too spectacular, but filled with time spent appreciating just what he wants: the simple stuff. Though his current schedule may lead one to consider him the missing fifth Golden Girl, don’t be fooled. This laid-back gent just finished spending his “typical” days soaring 30,000 feet in the air.

On March 15, Stan turned 65 years old, the government-mandated age ceiling for commercial pilots.

He hung up his wings the previous Sunday, gliding into Sky Harbor for the last time. He completed more than 20 years incident-free as a

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Lights, Camera, Aloha!

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he evening fog blanketed the Honolulu skyline, compliments of the volcanic ash that blew in from towering Mt. Pelée on the Big Island of Hawai’i. The textured haze was more a curiosity than a hindrance, having no ill effect on the screening of a largerthan-life Elvis, singing and strumming a ukulele on Waikiki Beach, projected on a mammoth screen right on the shore. This was a real Elvis sighting, thanks to the Hawaii International Film Festival (scheduled this year in November), where the film Blue Hawaii was shot. As patrons spread across the

The Kaua’i waterfalls used in the first Jurassic Park.

sand in rapt attention, it occurred to me that no personality had a greater effect on tourism to Hawaii than the King. Even today, movie-mad tourists and Elvis aficionados journey to Kauai’s’ Coconut Hotel (now closed for possible renovations), the King’s accommodation of choice, when staying on the islands. Movies resonate with people. I once asked a guest at the Turtle Bay Resort on the North Shore of O‘ahu why she chose this property for a vacation. Her answer was simple: She was introduced to the Turtle Bay Resort in the film Finding Sarah Marshall and had always wanted to stay there.

I’ve noticed that even when films are loosely based on facts, viewers often prefer the movie version’s take on historic events than the real thing.

So what to do? So many movie sights to see and so little time. O‘ahu has 600 square miles that can duplicate the looks of Africa, Central and South America, Southeast Asia, and the U.S. mainland. A trip to the 4,000acre Kualoa Ranch seemed in order.

With its wide open pristine location, surrounded by majestic mountains and native vegetation and nestled right on the ocean, it is known as the “Backlot of Hawaii.” Films shot on the ranch include Jurassic Park, Windtalkers, Pearl Harbor, 50 First Dates and the TV series Lost.

There has been much speculation if the George Clooney character, Matt King in The Descendants, was based on the ranch’s CEO and president, John Morgan. The most modest of men, Morgan would not confirm he was the role model for the character, but did say that director Alexander Payne and Clooney each spent a separate day with him to get a feeling for his character.

Morgan and his family regard themselves as stewards of the land, committed to preserving the natural beauty and cultural significance for future generations to enjoy.

The Kualoa Ranch also offers a Jungle Expedition Tour, Ancient Fishing Grounds & Tropical Gardens Tour, Legends & Legacy Tour, Hakipu’u Hike, Secret Island Beach, Ocean Voyage Tour, ATV or Horseback Tours, Dinner & Entertainment, and a cave used as a bunker during WWII which now serves as a museum for films made on O’ahu. Outside the ranch, the famous beach scenes used in From Here to Eternity, Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides, Mister Roberts and In Harm’s Way were also shot on O’ahu.

My movie blood was on fire and I was ready for more cinematic delights.

ON TO KAUA’I Soaring through the air in an Island Helicopter, you could see why the

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An Indiana Jones remnant at Kualoa Ranch.

Thanks to Elvis and Blue Hawaii, many consider Waikiki Beach the essence of Hawaii.

tropical beauty of the island of Kaua’i proves the ideal setting for a movie shoot. Blessed with lush green valleys, waterfalls and sweeping mountain ranges, much of this rural, 552-squaremile Garden of Eden is inaccessible by car. Plus, 50 percent of the island’s 111 miles of coastline is beach. County law prohibits buildings from being taller than a coconut tree. More than 80 movies have used Kaua’i as a backdrop, including The Descendants, South Pacific, Donovan’s Reef, Tropic Thunder, all three Jurassic Park films, King Kong (1976) and even the pilot for the TV series Gilligan’s Island.

But once again, where to start? A helicopter stop at the waterfalls used in Jurassic Park was a high point. But there was so much more to see. Locals pointed to Roberts Hawaii Kaua‘i Movie Tour. Participants take a van ride to various movie locations on the island. A video monitor is synchronized in the van so that when you arrive at a film’s location, the monitor shows the scene from the movie. Another pivotal scene from The Descendants was shot on

Kaua’i, where the Clooney character and family bask out at the stunning inherited land for sale, which he ultimately declines to sell.

A tour of the stunning Allerton Garden, National Tropical Botanical Garden featured locations used in Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides and Jurassic Park. It rates a tour regardless of the reason.

The most popular stop: the beach and rental house in The Descendants where the Clooney character confronts his dying wife’s former lover. Walking on the soft sand with the alluring waves caressing the beach, I thought about not getting back in the van and staying there forever. But then I remembered if Clooney’s Matt King could soldier up to reality, then so could I. Besides, Elvis’ Coconut Hotel was the next stop on the tour.

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But for us, the draw is historical Old Salem. It’s not as well known as Williamsburg or Sturbridge, and while today’s Moravians blend into the dominant population in a way that the Amish with their distinctive dress do not, Old Salem provides visitors with a close-up view of colonial life in the upper South.

In the early 1700s, the Moravians, a religious group that traces its roots to Bohemia and Moravia (territories that are now part of the Czech Republic), began immigrating to America, seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity. After first settling in Georgia and Pennsylvania, they arrived in North Carolina, where in 1766 they founded the town of Salem. The residents soon became as well known for their hard work, fine craftsmanship and business ingenuity as for their religious beliefs.

Much later, in 1913, after the nearby secular city of Winston had also become a thriving industrial center, the two towns merged into a hyphenated whole, now known as Winston-Salem.

Today interpreters, clad in costumes that show how people dressed during the heyday of the community, explain that Moravian core beliefs are similar to those of other Protestant denominations, differing mostly in the details of specific rituals and practices.

Moravians always focus on simplicity, fellowship and service.

Although rife with gardens, Old Salem was more of a business community than an agricultural one, and small shops lined the streets.

Skilled craftsmen The Moravians love gardens for their beauty but also for their ability to provide produced items that food, medicinals and craft materials. were used for daily radition says Moravian cookies are “Christmas cookies,” mostly to be enjoyed during the holidays.

But these paper-thin cookies – tangy with spices and sweet with molasses – are good year-round. In fact, they’re so good that after we saw them being made during our recent trip to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, my husband and I filled our suitcase with the delectable goodies and can now enjoy the chocolate crisps at Easter, the lemon ones during the Fourth of July, and the sugar delights every night before we go to bed.

Winston-Salem, which is about 100 miles west of Raleigh, North Carolina, is one of the two largest Moravian communities in the United States, the other being Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

The town is both a thoroughly modern city with a population of approximately a quarter million people, and the site of Old Salem, a living history site that has been so well preserved that it’s been declared a National Historic Landmark.

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Moravians were — and still are — known for their culinary talents.

living as well as ones that could be sold to folks from surrounding communities.

Many of the shops had two doors, one that led into the store and the other that opened into another shop or into the owner’s home. After watching highly-trained volunteers engage in historical trades such as wood-working and gunsmithing, we walk outside and see a chalkboard near the left-side door of a nearby gift shop. It tells us that within the store we’ll find “unique gifts, tinware and Moravian cookies.” I nibble a sample and become an instant convert.

But before indulging, we proceed to the Moravian Log Church, built in 1823 to serve Salem’s African and African-American residents, most of whom were enslaved. The log church was replaced by a brick building in 1861, and it was from this new pulpit that a Union Army cavalry chaplain read the Emancipation Proclamation to the congregants.

Equally interesting is the Salem Tavern, a place to house “outsiders” as they passed through town on business.

When a new tavern was built in 1784 to replace the older one that had been destroyed by fire, it was deliberately constructed without windows on the

first floor. After all, it was best for townspeople who didn’t need to know what all those outsiders might be up to.

Today the Tavern is a museum, best known as a sleeping spot for George Washington, who stayed there for two nights while making good on his campaign promise to visit every state if elected.

Finally, we go to Mrs. Hanes’ HandMade Moravian Cookie Shop. It isn’t physically part of Old Salem – it’s ten miles away – but culturally it’s as authentic as it can be. Owner Evva Foltz Hanes learned to make Moravian cookies from her mother, who in turn traces cookie-making in her family back six generations.

Evva’s husband, Travis, shows us around. “Every cookie is mixed, rolled, baked, stamped and packed by a person, a real person,” he says. “The only thing better than the cookies are the people making them.”

Mrs. Hanes’ Cookies come in six flavors and are shipped worldwide, which is why people can happily enjoy Moravian “Christmas” cookies even in mid-July.

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inemaker Kief Manning noticed that every wine region in Arizona had its own festival – except his, in Sonoita. So six years ago, he founded the two-day Southeast Arizona Wine Growers Festival + Chili Cookoff to celebrate the state’s three major regions.

“We are once again bringing together winemakers from all across Arizona,” said Manning, who is hosting the event at his Kief-Joshua Vineyards in Elgin.

“This year we want to celebrate that on October 26, 1984, the Sonoita/ Elgin Wine Growing Region was granted AVA (American Viticultural Area) status, making it one of the oldest federal government-granted viticulture areas in the United States.”

The event includes new wine releases, 20 top Arizona wineries or acclaimed winemakers, award-winning wine, gourmet food, a professional two-day chili cook-off and hot salsa contest and live music.

People’s Choice competition, with proceeds benefiting the rotary for which Manning serves as president.

“Chili cooks from all over the Southwest compete,” he said. “The winner of the competition gets an automatic pass to the national championship in Terlingua, Texas.”

The Ohio-born Manning has worked with wine for some time in Arizona and Australia. He earned his undergrad and master’s degree in viticultural industry Down Under.

As for the festival, Manning promises a larger event, more art vendors and an added salsa competition and new bands, like Professor James and Dr. T, and onetime The Voice contestant Blaine Long.

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“We have representatives from three What: Southeast Arizona Wine Growers Festival major wine-growing regions,” he said. + Chili Cookoff “We have a good representation of all When: 10 a.m. Saturday, April 22, and Sunday, different regions. We bring them all April 23 here to our place. We’re the only wine Where: Kief-Joshua Vineyards, 370 Elgin Rd., festival in the state that’s actually Elgin thrown at a vineyard.”

Cost: $25 in advance; $30 at the door Beyond wine, there is the Info: 520-455-5582, kj-vineyards.com Chili Appreciation Society International (CASI) and its regional t w o - d a y p ro f e s s i o n a l chili cook-off.

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Calendar of events April 2017 April 1 Saturday

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Sunday and Friday, through April 19, J’s Fine Art Gallery, 3800 E. River Rd., free, 299-3000, tucsonjcc.org. The exhibit captures the distant land of monasteries, monks and the Himalayas in Nepal. Hart’s photos offer a glimpse of the inner light the artist encountered while traveling with his twin brother in Nepal.

Heirloom Farmers’ Market 8 a.m. to noon (summers), 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (otherwise) Saturdays, Steam Pump Ranch, 10901 N. Oracle Rd., Oro Valley, free admission, heirloomfm.org. The market provides a direct connection to more than 90 vendors with deep roots in Southwest Arizona, including farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and seafood providers, cheese makers, and specialty foods producers.

Birding Tucson Mountain Park 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Tucson Mountain Park, Ironwood Picnic Area, 1500 S. Kinney Rd., free for members, $5 for nonmembers, online registration required, pima. gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 615-7855. Join a local birding expert for a guided walk in the park to see rufous-winged sparrows, gilded flickers, phainopeplas and other desert birds.

Heart & Soul 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Tucson Premium Outlets, Mountain Court, 6401 Marana Center Blvd., free, saaca.org. The Heart & Soul Duo is Gary Roberts and EJ Loveres, whose voices have been compared to Bruno Mars and Michael Jackson.

Anza Trail Hike 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Rd., Green Valley, free for members, $5 for nonmembers, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 6157855. Explore a 2- to 3-mile section of the Anza Trail during an easy-level interpretive hike and discover the cultural and natural history of the Santa Cruz River Valley.

Exploring Aquatic Life 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., online registration required, free for children and adults, $5 for nonmember adults, pima. gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 615-7855. Discover the diversity of life that inhabits the ponds at Agua Caliente Park. Use nets, skimmers and buckets to collect water samples and then watch the water come to life under the microscope.

Tour of Historical Canoa Ranch 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Rd., Green Valley, free, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, canoaranch@pima.gov, 724-5220. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters.

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Heirloom Farmers Market 8 a.m. to noon (summers), 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (otherwise) Sundays, Rillito Park, 4502 N. First Ave., free admission, heirloomfm. org. The market provides a direct connection to more than 90 vendors with deep roots in Southwest Arizona, including farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and seafood providers, cheese makers, and specialty foods producers.

April 3 Monday

Meet Me at Maynards 5:15 p.m. Mondays, Maynards Market, 400 E. Toole, free, meetmeatmaynards.com. The mission is to bring active adults and families to downtown Tucson to exercise and enjoy history and architecture of the neighborhoods.

April 4 Tuesday

Tour of Historical Canoa Ranch 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Rd., Green Valley, free, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, canoaranch@pima.gov, 724-5220. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters. Visit the historical buildings and corrals and enjoy the special exhibits of the people of Canoa.

April 5 Wednesday

Trio Solisti 7:30 p.m., Leo Rich Theater, 260 S. Church Ave., $30, arizonachambermusic.org. This ensemble returns to Tucson with one of the first truly great piano trios (by Haydn), the first (and undeniably great) piano trio of Brahms, and a new Arizona Friends of Chamber Music commission from Jennifer Higdon, one of America’s most-performed living composers.

April 6 Thursday

“Art of Devotion” 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., CasaBella Fine Art Gallery, 4425 N. Campbell, free admission, casabellafineart.com, 207-4544. The exhibit features the work of Virginia Maria Romero, who has been called a “visionary artist with works in public and museum permanent collections.”

Tucson Cactus & Succulent Society Meeting 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., Sky Islands Public High School, 6000 E. 14th St., free, 256-2447, tucsoncactus.org. Rob Skillin will discuss “Pediocactus and Sclerocactus: A Tour of the Colorado Plateau.” He is a member of the Central Coast Cactus & Succulent Society, San Luis Obispo, California.

Laurie and Lisa Designs/First Thursdays Party 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Madaras Gallery, 3035 N. Swan Rd., free, 615-3001, madaras.com. Enjoy this special Trunk Show with statement jewelry and genuine pearls.

April 7 Friday

Helping with Hope 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., repeats April 8, First Assembly of God Church’s Gym, 1749 E. Broadway Blvd., free admission, tucsonhope.org. Hope of Glory Ministries is hosting an artisan and craft bazaar to raise funds for Medical Respite Center in Tucson.

Heirloom Farmers’ Market 8 a.m. to noon (summers), 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (otherwise) Fridays, Trail Dust Town, 6541 E. Tanque Verde Rd., free admission, heirloomfm.org. The market provides a direct connection to more than 90 vendors with deep roots in Southwest Arizona, including farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and seafood providers, cheese makers, and specialty foods producers.

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Tucson Area Iris Society’s Annual Iris Exhibit 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Kirk Bear Canyon Library, 8959 E. Tanque Verde Rd., free admission, 594-5275, tucsoniris.org.

Living River Celebration 9 a.m. to noon, Wheeler Taft Abbett Sr. Branch Library, 7800 N. Schisler Dr., free, pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 6157855. View the award-winning “Living River of Words: Youth Poetry and Art Exhibition 2017.” Take a close-up look at life in the river walk under the microscope, enjoy family fun activities with the grandkids and take a nature walk along the riverbank.

Little House of Funk 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Tucson Premium Outlets, Mountain Court, 6401 Marana Center Blvd., free, saaca.org. Little House of Funk performs a high-spirited blend of R&B, jazz and soul.

AAUW Luncheon Meeting 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Poco & Mom’s Cantina, 7000 E. Tanque Verde Rd., $20 to AAUW-Tucson Branch, P.O. Box 40822, Tucson, 85717, nonmembers should e-mail programaauwtucson@ gmail.com for luncheon cost, 622-0905.

April 9 Sunday

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April 10 Monday

Meet Me at Maynards 5:15 p.m. Mondays, Maynards Market, 400 E. Toole, free, meetmeatmaynards.com. The mission is to bring active adults and families to downtown Tucson to enjoy exercise and to experience the beauty, history and architecture of the neighborhoods.

April 11 Tuesday

Tour of Historical Canoa Ranch 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Rd., Green Valley, free, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, canoaranch@pima.gov, 724-5220. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters. Visit the historical buildings and corrals and enjoy the special exhibits of the people of Canoa.

April 12 Wednesday

Restoration Tour 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Rd., Green Valley, free, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, canoaranch@pima. gov, 724-5220. From deteriorating ruins to functional buildings, take a behind-the-scenes tour with architectural preservationist Simon Herbert to examine the processes and materials used in the restoration of the structures at Historic Canoa Ranch.

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“Evita” 7:30 p.m., Marroney Theatre, The University of Arizona, 1025 N. Olive Rd., 520-621-1162, theatre.arizona.edu/shows/Evita.

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Heirloom Farmers’ Market 8 a.m. to noon (summers), 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (otherwise) Fridays, Trail Dust Town, 6541 E. Tanque Verde Rd., free admission, heirloomfm.org. The market provides a direct connection to more than 90 vendors with deep roots in Southwest Arizona, including farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and seafood providers, cheese makers, and specialty foods producers.

April 15 Saturday

Cactus Hike 7 a.m. to 10 a.m., Pima County Sweetwater Preserve, 4000 N. Tortolita Rd., free for members, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 615-7855. Enjoy the showy flowers of the local cactus and learn about their ecology and uses on a 2- to 3-mile hike in Sweetwater Preserve.

East2West 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Tucson Premium Outlets, Mountain Court, 6401 Marana Center Blvd., free, saaca.org. The band is a “classic rhythm rockin’ Motown blues band.”

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April 16 Sunday

Heirloom Farmers’ Market 8 a.m. to noon (summers), 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (otherwise) Sundays, Rillito Park, 4502 N. First Ave., free admission, heirloomfm. org. The market provides a direct connection to more than 90 vendors with deep roots in Southwest Arizona, including farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and seafood providers, cheese makers, and specialty foods producers.

April 17 Monday

Meet Me at Maynards 5:15 p.m. Mondays, Maynards Market, 400 E. Toole, free, meetmeatmaynards.com. The mission is to bring active adults and families to downtown Tucson to enjoy exercise and to experience the beauty, history and architecture of the neighborhoods.

April 18 Tuesday

Birding Cienega Creek 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Gabe Zimmerman Davidson Canyon Trailhead at Cienega Creek Natural Preserve, 16000 E. Marsh Station Rd., free for members, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 615-7855. Join birding expert Jeff Babson on this guided walk to observe the rich bird life in the diverse habitats of Cienega Creek Natural Preserve as the group searches for raptors, warblers, sparrows and others.

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April 22 Saturday

Birding Sweetwater Wetlands 3 p.m. to 5 p.m., Sweetwater Wetlands, 2667 W. Sweetwater Dr., free, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 615-7855. Explore this urban birding hotspot with a naturalist to look for wetland and desert birds as well as other wildlife.

Blue Monsoon 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., Tucson Premium Outlets, Mountain Court, 6401 Marana Center Blvd., free, saaca.org. The high-energy band fuses rock into pop-country hits.

A Night Under the Stars 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free, pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 615-7855. Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association volunteers provide an introduction to the night sky and set up telescopes for celestial viewing.

Meet Me at Maynards 5:15 p.m. Mondays, Maynards Market, 400 E. Toole, free, meetmeatmaynards.com. The mission is to bring active adults and families to downtown Tucson to enjoy exercise and to experience the beauty, history and architecture of the neighborhoods.

April 25 Tuesday

Tour of Historical Canoa Ranch 9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. Interstate 19 Frontage Rd., Green Valley, free, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, canoaranch@pima.gov, 724-5220. Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters. Visit the historical buildings and corrals and enjoy the special exhibits of the people of Canoa.

April 26 Wednesday

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Stargazing at Historic Canoa Ranch 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. (self-guided tour), 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. (stargazing), Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S. Interstate Frontage Rd., Green Valley, $5 suggested donation, pima.gov/nrpr, canoaranch@pima.gov, 724-5220.

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An Art of Paying Attention Workshop 9 a.m. to noon, Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers, online registration required, pima.gov/nrpr, eeducation@pima.gov, 615-7855. Come explore your integrated place in nature with award-winning wildlife artist and writer Beth Surdut, creator of the illustrated “Listening to Raven” stories and The Art of Paying Attention NPR radio series.

Hone your perception through workshop exercises and sharing of stories in the classroom and outdoors in Agua Caliente Park.

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Society of Military Widows’ Luncheon and Meeting Noon, Ironwood Club at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, 2720 S. Craycroft Rd., charge for meal, reservations required, 574-6628.

Green Valley Genealogical Society Meeting 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Valley Presbyterian Church, 2800 S. Camino del Sol, Green Valley, free, 396-4630, azgvgs.org. ASU’s Suzanne Young Brayer will discuss “Timelines: A Valuable Tool in Genealogical Research.” The short program is about “Good German Websites” by Laura Hughes.

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April 30 Sunday

Heirloom Farmers Market 8 a.m. to noon (summers), 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (otherwise) Sundays, Rillito Park, 4502 N. First Ave., free admission, heirloomfm. org. The market provides a direct connection to more than 90 vendors with deep roots in Southwest Arizona, including farms, nurseries, bakeries, meat and seafood providers, cheese makers, and specialty foods producers.

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EVEN EXCHANGE by Donna Pettman

Each numbered row contains two clues and two answers. The two answers differ from each other by only one letter, which has already been inserted. For example, if you exchange the A from MASTER for an I, you get MISTER. Do not change the order of the letters.

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Place a number in the empty boxes in such a way that each row across, each column down and each small 9-box square contains all of the numbers from one to nine.

The idea of Go Figure is to arrive at the figures given at the bottom and right-hand columns of the diagram by following the arithmetic signs in the order they are given (that is, from left to right and top to bottom).

Use only the numbers below the diagram to complete its blank quares and use each of the nine numbers only once.

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Unscramble the letters within each rectangle to form four ordinary words. Then rearrange the boxed letters to form the mystery word, which will complete the gag!

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By Nick Thomas

couple years ago, visitors to Carol Burnett’s home might have observed the comedy legend glued to the TV set, binge-watching every episode of her old variety show. But it wasn’t a case of extreme celebrity vanity sweeping through the Burnett household.

“I’d been getting calls from writers wanting to interview me about the show,” Burnett says from Los Angeles.

“So I thought, maybe I should write a definitive history of the 11 years I worked on The Carol Burnett Show because, after all, I was there!”

Her timing was perfect. Her book, In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox, was published late last year as a prelude to this year’s 50th anniversary of the show, first broadcast in September 1967. Scrutinizing the episodes, Burnett jotted down notes to help with the book preparation.

“I watched all the episodes – over 270 of them – in a period of several weeks. I fast-forwarded through the sketches that I remembered, but really wanted to jog my memory about the ones I’d forgotten. Watching also

helped me remember behind-thescenes stories and the great variety of guests that appeared each week.”

As she progressed through the viewing marathon, Burnett says it was fascinating to watch the cast evolve.

“We all improved over the first 3 or 4 years. Harvey (Korman) was brilliant from the beginning, but even he honed his craft. Vicki (Lawrence) was 18 and right out of high school at the start, so Harvey took her under his wing teaching her accents and giving her acting tips. She absorbed everything like a sponge and millions of viewers watched her evolve into a brilliant comedienne.”

Audiences were also treated to a parade of weekly special guests throughout the series, which collectively could be considered a history of Hollywood from the period.

“We might have had more famous guest stars than any other TV show,” Burnett says. “My husband (the late Joe Hamilton) was producing the show and we would say, ‘Let’s call so-and-so and ask him or her on the show.’”

But their guest wish list wasn’t always

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Tim Conway, Harvey Korman, Carol Burnett, Lyle Waggoner and Vicki Lawrence in 1992.

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fulfilled.

“We wanted Bette Davis and had a standard fee for all our guest stars, but she asked for too much money,” Burnett recalls. “I wanted to pay her more but we couldn’t because everyone would have wanted more.”

In addition to its impressive guest list, the show is legendary for the cast “breaking up” during filming.

“People remember those sketches and think we did it all the time but we really didn’t,” she says with a laugh.

“Nor did we ever do it on purpose and it was mostly when Tim (Conway) was on. We’d tape two shows on Fridays with different audiences. Tim would do it the way we rehearsed for the first taping, then go crazy for the second without telling anyone what he would be doing.”

For all her television work, Burnett amassed an incredible collection of honors, including three personal Emmys for The Carol Burnett Show alone.

“Of course, I’m proud of the awards and they’re sitting on a shelf – but I don’t go and polish them every day!” she says with a laugh.

Already an author of several other popular books on her life and career, Burnett’s latest 320-page memoir on the show has been warmly received by critics and fans. She says she wasn’t too concerned about finding an audience for a book about a 50-year-old TV show.

“It still airs on cable and there are old and new fans watching it. But I really just wanted to get the memories down on paper for myself and if others enjoy it, that’s the cherry on top of the sundae.”

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Hello April, named after a Latin verb meaning “to open,” as when spring flowers open and the heart opens to the coming of spring. Of course, in Arizona, spring – generally about 15 days in late February and early March – is already history by the time April rolls around.

There are more songs about April than any other month, “April in Paris,” “April Come She Will,” “April Showers” and “April Love” among them. There are three songs just about the month’s first day: “April Fool” by Soul Asylum, and two different songs named “April Fools,” one

by Rufus Wainwright and another originally sung by Dionne Warwick.

This year, April sees both Passover and Easter, the latter in all three dispensations: Roman Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant. Woven in and around these most serious of high holy days are such goodies as National Chocolate Mousse Day, April 3; National Beer Day, April 7; National Cheese Fondue Day, April 11; National Garlic Day, April 19; National Prime Rib Day, April 27; and National Shrimp Scampi Day, April 29. Perhaps April 30 should be National Indigestion Day. Historical April isn’t all flowers and sunshine. Martin Luther King, Jr., was assassinated April 4, 1968. On April 5, 1994, Nirvana lead singer Kurt Cobain committed suicide. On April 15, 1865, Pres. Lincoln was assassinated. The Titanic struck an iceberg and sank on April 15, 1912.

On the other hand, Disney’s The Love Bug was released in April of 1969, pretty much evening things out.

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What disaster befell music on April 10, 1970?

Two U.S. vice presidents became president in April of different years when their predecessors died in office.

What were their names?

What historical figure committed suicide on April 30?

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The highest April temperature in Phoenix was 105 degrees Fahrenheit.

What day and year?

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What songwriting team penned Dionne Warwick’s “April Fools”?

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What famous youth organization was founded March 12, 1912? (The Girl Scouts of America, or Girl Scouts)

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The Tucson Top 5

Entertaining events around the Old Pueblo in April

By Niki D’Andrea

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“Holmes & Watson” by Arizona Theatre Company

Playwright Jeffery Hatcher, who penned the Sherlock Holmes play “Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Suicide Club,” revisits the legendary fictional detective in “Holmes & Watson.”This story takes place after Holmes’ supposed death at Reichenbach Falls, when Dr. Watson is asked to visit three men in a mental asylum – each of whom professes to be Holmes – and disprove their identity claims. $25-$45 for preview performances (April 1520); $41-$63 for regular performances (April 21-May 6). Call for show times. Temple of Music and Art, 330 S. Scott Avenue, 622-2823, arizonatheatre.org

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Playwright Jeffrey Hatcher’s “Holmes & Watson” opens at the Temple of Music and Art on April 21.

Tanya Tucker

Country music legend Tanya Tucker spent her childhood in Willcox, Arizona, and has often said some of her fondest memories involve attending the annual Rex Allen Days in that town. Tucker comes close to home this month when she performs at the Pima County Fair.

Fans could hear such Tucker hits as “Delta Dawn,” “Blood Red and Goin’ Down” and “Strong Enough to Bend,” along with (Photo by Jeremy West, courtesy Webster PR) covers of country standards like “Crazy Tanya Tucker’s 2017 North American tour includes a Arms” and “Wine Me Up.” Included with stop at the Pima County Fair on April 29 fair admission ($8); upgraded tickets available for $15. 8 p.m. Saturday, April 29. Pima County Fairgrounds, 11300 S. Houghton Rd., 762-9100, pimacountyfair.com

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The Art & Science of Portrait Miniatures

Peek into the past with this exhibit of 44 diminutive portraits painted between the 1700s and early 1900s. Scientific analysis of the portraits and art history research augment the displays. Visitors to the exhibit will learn about the array of materials used to create portrait miniatures, beginning with watercolor on stretched vellum, evolving to enamel, and peaking with ivory. They will also find out what scientists learned about these sentimental keepsake pieces using various radiographies and spectroscopies. $9, general; $8, senior and military. 9 a.m.4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday through Sunday, April 16. Mini Time Museum of Miniatures, 4455 E. Camp Lowell Drive, 881-0606, theminitimemachine.org.

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Tucson Presidio: Living History Days

Every second Saturday, the Tucson Presidio (a recreation of the original Tucson fortress built in 1775; its last original wall fell in 1919) lets guests experience life in the late 1700s. See soldiers doing drills, watch women spinning cotton, pump the bellows at a blacksmith’s forge, and enjoy food both period-accurate and modern (including handmade tortillas and artisanal breads). $5. 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Saturday, April 8. Tucson Presidio, 196 N. Court Ave., 837-8119, tucsonpresidio.com

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U.S. National Synchronized Swimming Championship

Team U.S.A. takes to the water in displays of a combination of swimming, dance and gymnastics.

Meets include a Senior Tech Solo Competition on April 5, and Senior Free Duet and Senior Free Solo Competitions on April 7. The National Team for this Summer Olympic Sport will be presented on April 9.

Free admission. Times vary. Tuesday, April 4 through Sunday, April 9. Oro Valley Aquatic Center, 23 W. Calle Concordia, 297-7946, orovalleyaz.gov/ aquatics.

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Café Poca Cosa keeps it classy at classic Mexican diner Story and photos by Edie Jarolim

(Special to Lovin’ Life After 50)

Mole at Cafe Poca Cosa

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afe Poca Cosa has always been ahead of the culinary curve, thanks to the talents – and tirelessness – of Suzana Davila.

It’s been 34 years since the stylish chef opened a tiny breakfast and lunch nook called Poca Cosa (“little thing”) in the city center – long before downtown’s dining renaissance. In 1989, bowing to popular demand to expand, Davila debuted a larger lunch and dinner restaurant across the street.

At the wildly colorful cafe in the former Santa Rita Hotel, Davila introduced gourmet regional Mexican cuisine to a town primarily familiar with down home Sonoran fare. Her twice-daily changing chalkboard menu might include a central Mexico-inspired chiles en nogada (battered chiles stuffed with pork and fruit and topped with an almond sauce) and at least one mole, a category of labor-intensive, seedladen dishes whose name comes from the verb molar, to grind.

Davila also used olive oil, never lard, in her cooking before it was trendy, and combed farmers’

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markets for fresh produce when the city’s pickings were still thin.

She often drove – or flew – down to Mexico to get the ingredients she wanted, especially Oaxacan chiles for her moles. Nor was the artful arrangement of food on the plate very common when Cafe Poca Cosa was in its infancy.

As a result of all these innovations – Davila would say adherence to the finest Mexican cooking traditions – Cafe Poca Cosa helped put Tucson on the national culinary map, garnering praise in many of the top food magazines. Indeed, the sleeker, more sophisticated downtown space that the restaurant moved into in 2006 reflected its status as a worldclass dining room.

Media attention might have moved on to newer places but the restaurant remains as popular and critically acclaimed as ever (reservations are essential). Davila is devoted to quality and to personalized customer attention.

She still works the room, talking to old customers and new, asking how everything is. And she’s still in

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charge of every detail of the menu, deciding at the last minute what fresh fruit she might use to top the pastel de elote (green tamale pie).

Davila’s daughter Shanali is the pastry chef, responsible for the restaurant’s famed chocolate ancho chile ganache cake – so deliciously rich that four people can share one (admittedly large) piece and still be full. It’s vegan, as are the 150 varieties of Cup Quequitos cupcakes that Shanali creates for Poca Cosa and for her separate catering business.

The likelihood of Davila slowing down? Slim to none. Asked if she ever considers retiring, Davila says, “I love what I do. Why would I want to stop?”

And then she rushes off.

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April is National Soft Pretzel Month, according to nationaldaycalendar.com, and I’m not about to dispute it. I will use any excuse possible to indulge, especially when they’re pretzel bites.

See, pretzels and I go way back. I can’t tell you how many times pretzels got me through a stressful situation.

I remember having a bag of pretzels at my desk daily as I was starting my television anchoring career. Rush hour traffic? A bag of pretzels helped me munch away the tension. I was such a pretzel addict that when Rold Gold Pretzels changed their recipe from the regular size to a thinner version, I penned a letter to the president of the company begging him to reconsider.

Now that’s an addiction gone too far.

I’d gone off the deep end.

Then, there’s the soft pretzel. Those are a much harder habit to break, so I just quit trying. Instead, I decided to

Soft Pretzel Bites Ingredients: – 1-1/2 cups warm water – 1 teaspoon honey or sugar – 1 package active dry yeast – 2 cups all-purpose flour – 2-1/2 cups bread flour – 1 tablespoon kosher salt – 6 tablespoons melted butter – 5 cups water – 1/3 cup baking soda – 1 egg yolk – 1 tablespoon water – Pretzel salt

Directions: Step #1: Make the dough. Place warm water in a small bowl. Add honey or sugar and stir. Sprinkle in yeast and let stand until foamy, about 5 minutes. In a large mixing bowl, combine 2 cups allpurpose flour, 2 cups bread flour, melted butter and salt. Add yeast and knead, using a dough hook attachment. If dough is sticky, add additional 1/2 cup of bread flour. Knead for 5 minutes or until the dough forms a smooth ball.

Step #2: Place dough in a large bowl coated with butter. Cover with plastic

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hunt for a great recipe because driving to the mall every few days for a soft pretzel was just not an option. I think I finally found a bite-sized bonanza. wrap or towel and let rise until double in size, about one hour. When ready to bake, preheat oven to 420 degrees.

Step #3: Place dough onto a clean work surface. (Do not flour surface.) Cut dough into six to eight sections and roll the dough and form long ropes. Using a knife, cut the ropes into 1-1/2 inch pieces.

Step #4: Make the egg wash by mixing together water and egg yolk. Have pastry brush, slotted spoon, pretzel salt, kitchen scissors, and baking sheet ready. Bring 5 cups of water to boil. Add baking soda.

(Do not skip the baking soda step. This is what gives the pretzel its unique taste and appearance.)

Step #5: Put about six or seven pieces of pretzel dough into the simmering solution and let cook for 30 seconds. Remove pieces with slotted spoon and place them on baking sheet. Continue with remaining dough. Brush each piece with egg wash, sprinkle with salt and using scissors, cut a cross into the top of each pretzel piece.

Gently transfer pieces onto a clean baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Bake at 420 degrees for 9-10 minutes or until golden brown.

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Seven items to bring with you when going to the emergency department

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ife happens and at one time or another, we may experience the need for emergency care. Hospitals recognize these situations can happen quickly and unexpectedly – if possible, it is important to bring certain items that will be helpful for the ED medical team and for you, the patient.

4: A list of your chronic conditions and any recent test results.

5: Your insurance card. Federal law requires anyone coming to an emergency department to be stabilized and treated, regardless of their insurance status or financial condition.

But if you do have an insurance card, it helps smooth out billing later on.

1: An updated medication list, including the name of the medicine, the dosage 6: If the visit is for your and the number of times child or grandchild, a day you take it. The grab your child’s list should include any favorite toy, blanket (Special to Lovin’ Life After 50) known allergies, as well Be prepared for the unexpected. or other item that as supplements such as can serve as a vitamins or over-thedistraction or a comfort. If you counter medicines. Having a list of forget, ask if the hospital has a childall medications you are taking helps life specialist who can assist. your ED provider double-check for interactions between drugs and know 7: Your questions – and don’t leave the best dose for your condition. Tell until they are answered. Make sure your family members about it and you understand the side effects of any keep the information in your wallet medications and whether it’s OK to in a visible place, so if you cannot take them with any current medications communicate, emergency responders you are taking. Be sure you receive will have access to the information. contact information if follow-up care is needed.

2: A list of your providers, including your primary care provider Please understand that it is not and any specialists you might be required to bring this information with seeing, as well as contact information you to the emergency department, and for your pharmacy. Medical conditions that it will not affect the treatment and can sometimes be complex to manage. care you receive.

Sharing the list makes sure the While we hope that you and your emergency department can connect family do not need emergency with the provider who best knows your department services, we want situation, and also helps make sure community members to be informed your provider is ready for your follow- and prepared for medical emergencies. up care after you leave the hospital.

Making preparations to have these items and information readily available 3: An advocate. When you’re can help patients avoid additional stress experiencing discomfort, pain or fear, during and after an ED visit. you aren’t as likely to retain information.

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Master gardeners share planting and pruning tips T

he time to plant spring tomatoes has passed. But don’t despair – you live in the low desert, and there is always something growing here. There are plenty of timely gardening projects for April, according to University of Arizona Master Gardener Bill Felton, with whom I recently spent some time, picking up tips to share with you.

If you’re planting in early April, some good choices include green beans, lima beans, summer squash and eggplant.

If you have never had the pleasure of seeing eggplant grow, do yourself a favor and plant some. It is pure delight to watch their progress, as a delicate lilac blossom gives way to shiny, purple fruit.

Eggplant is good for you and delicious.

Think ratatouille.

As the days get longer and the temperatures climb higher, geraniums and pansies struggle to stay fresh; however, there are still plenty of pleasant days left to plant flowers. You can catch a kaleidoscope of colors with coleus, or choose some hearty desert marigolds.

Another option is the lovely Mexican sunflower, a favorite of Monarch butterflies.

For best results when planting vegetables or flowers, always prepare your soil. This step is especially important here in the desert. Mix organic compounds with the soil and add a fertilizer that contains nitrogen and phosphorous (you may have to add some phosphorous if your drainage is poor). For a raised bed, use a mix that’s half garden soil and half artificial soil mix, course sand, perlite or vermiculite.

April is also an excellent time to shape up your trees for the coming months and Arbor Day which is celebrated on Friday, April 28, this year.

Trees anchor our landscapes and ask very little in return. Incorrect pruning can damage trees and in our “survival of the fittest” landscape, that can spell trouble. There is an old saying among professional arborists when it comes to pruning: “If in doubt, don’t prune.” If a tree is improperly pruned, it can reduce its lifespan, so proceed with caution. It’s

important to remember you are shaping the tree from the bottom up, not giving it a haircut.

I recently attended a two-hour class about pruning trees and shrubs at the Desert Institute of Gardening. The class was presented by Master Gardener and arborist John Eisenhower. In a twohour session, we received an excellent overview and a hands-on demonstration of pruning. Eisenhower advised, “Have a clear objective, justify every cut and no recreational pruning.”

You should never take away more than 25 percent of a tree’s canopy. The circumference of a tree’s root system is slightly larger than its canopy so it needs those leaves to manufacture food.

Arborists refer to this as your “root to shoot” balance. Some trees are more sensitive than others to pruning. Olive and mesquite trees do a good job of compartmentalizing damage, but fruit trees are not as hardy. Pruning trees is an art and a science, so some hands-on instruction is a good idea.

Thanks to Bill Felton for his help and expertise, and to John Eisenhower for an informative presentation. Both experts enrich the great resources at University of Arizona’s Cooperative Extension, which offers classes on various gardening subjects for a small fee. There is also an on-call service to handle your questions, free gardening publications specific to the low desert, and even a Master Gardener course, which gives in-depth training through a series of classes. Find it all at extesion.arizona.edu/maricopamg.

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handling, and privacy. Entities or providers that are in non-compliance with these requirements are subject to criminal and/ or civil penalties.

The HIPAA Privacy Rule sets limits and conditions on the uses and disclosures

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just the office or hospital where you signed the document – is an important tool to include in your estate plan for several reasons.

First, a HIPAA release form allows your healthcare power of attorney to access your medical records so that they may make informed decisions regarding your healthcare needs.

For example, when my father-in-law Matt fell ill, my mother-in-law Carol began making his healthcare decisions per his Healthcare Power of Attorney.

Unfortunately, Matt did not have a HIPAA release form. When it came to the end of his life, Carol was making medical decisions for Matt without fully knowing his medical history. This is because Matt – a private man – did not share with his wife or family that he had been diagnosed with a disease several years earlier. This information could have helped Carol make some extremely tough decisions near the end of his life.

Second, a HIPAA release form allows your loved ones to call the medical facility you are in to see how you are doing.

Several years ago, my friend Mike helped his sister register and move into a hospice facility in Scottsdale. He called the next day to see how she was doing. The following conversation ensued.

Nurse: I’m sorry, we do not have a HIPAA authorization form on file so we cannot disclose any information.

Mike: That’s OK. Just transfer me to her room and I’ll speak with her.

Nurse: I’m sorry. We cannot do that. She is no longer at this facility.

Mike: Where is she?

Nurse: I’m sorry. We cannot disclose any information to you.

Mike spent the next few hours calling around to hospitals, other hospice facilities, and even the morgue to find his sister. After failing, he called the hospice facility back. A very nice nurse told him, “Hypothetically, Mike, if we were going to move a hypothetical patient, we hypothetically would transfer them to the hypothetical facility at this hypothetical address.”

Third, a HIPAA release form can restrict individuals you do not want to get access to your medical information.

My mom experienced heart problems while on vacation a few years ago, and we had to life-flight her to a Denver-area hospital. Before we could present any documents to the hospital, a very nosy cousin called the hospital and started getting access to my mom’s medical information and status. We were able to stop this flow of information by showing the hospital that this person did not have any legal authority to access this information.

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Blood pressure too high? Remember to DATE—diet, adhere, tobacco and exercise

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igh-blood pressure, or hypertension, affects over 30 percent of Americans. Having uncontrolled high-blood pressure severely increases the risk for having a heart attack or stroke. Some of the common risk factors for high blood pressure include age, family history, race, tobacco use, high-sodium diet, physical inactivity, obesity and underlying health conditions such as diabetes. There are many ways to manage blood pressure, and so here is an acronym to help remember them: D.A.T.E.—diet, adherence, tobacco, exercise

Diet: Sodium, or salt, adds flavor to foods we eat, but it also causes our bodies to hold excess fluid, which raises blood pressure. Sodium is commonly found in packaged and frozen foods. Fast foods and even food from restaurants are often heavy in sodium. Most Americans consume twice the recommended amount of sodium per day!

Here are a few suggestions to help lower your blood pressure through your diet: • Limit your sodium intake to less than 2 grams per day.

• Avoid eating out, cook most of your meals and remove the saltshaker from the dining table.

• Flavor your food with fresh herbs and spices as an alternative to salt.

Adherence: Re membering to take your blood pressure medications every day is important in managing your blood pressure. Patients often forget to take their medications because they don’t “feel” that their blood pressure is high. Keep in mind that high blood pressure is a health condition that we are not necessarily able to feel, but we need to take our medications on a regular basis in order to keep it under control. There are many tools we can use to help us remember to take medications, such as pill organizers. Feel free to visit your local Walgreens pharmacy to ask for additional tips on how to remember to take medications.

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immediately, and over time, tobacco causes our blood vessels to narrow, which then increases blood pressure even more. The short pleasures obtained from using tobacco do not outweigh the lifelong complications that are associated with tobacco. So see your local Walgreens pharmacist for more information on how to quit tobacco for good.

Exercise: Aerobic and resistancetraining exercise have beneficial effects on blood pressure. Performing about 120 to 150 minutes of exercise per week is recommended, and it is most effective to divide that amount to five 30-minute sessions per week. It is important to start slow and work your way up to becoming more physically active. Regular exercise may help

patients lose weight, and weight loss also helps to reduce blood pressure.

If you have high blood pressure, remember to DATE—diet adherence, (quit) tobacco and exercise. Keep these tips in mind to better manage your overall health and wellness. Feel free to stop by any Walgreens pharmacy to ask for more information on how to lower your blood pressure.

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California teams sweep 2017 tourney but Arizonans hit home Fourteen enthusiastic women’s softball teams descended on Peoria’s Rio Vista Sports Complex on March 4th and 5th for what turned out to be one of the most exciting tournaments in Arizona Senior Olympics history. The teams represented three age groups, and each of those groups included a team from the California Spirit organization.

The first day of competition involved round robin play, with some of the younger teams mixing it up with older teams to provide the smaller bracket with some variety in their competitors. Sportsmanship (or it would it be sportswomanship?) abounded as players appreciated the opportunity to not only play, but to also watch others and cheer.

The record of the teams from the first day were used to place them in a double-elimination bracket on the second day. The smallest bracket, 70plus, was decided early, with the gold medal going to California Spirit 70.

In the 60 bracket, the California Spirit team cruised through the winners’ side of the bracket to the championship game, but was trailing by four runs in the bottom of the final, seventh inning. The lead had changed three times throughout the game, and California Spirit started a comeback of two runs. Then, with two runners on base, a walk-off run completed the come back and secured the gold medals for the outof-state team. As is always the case at Arizona Senior Olympics events,

huge smiles and great sportsmanship were in abundance as congratulations were exchanged for a well-fought tournament.

The event was a challenge for Arizona Senior Olympics, as it was our tournament director’s first weekend on the job. In a wonderful show of helpfulness, a group of players from Arizona met with him and ASO’s executive director a couple weeks later to provide constructive suggestions and concrete offers of assistance for growing the softball tournament in the future. New dates, a larger facility, and some discount hotel arrangements for teams are all being explored.

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The 2017 Arizona Senior Olympic Games are over, but not quite The 2017 Arizona Senior Olympic Games ended with the Triathlon on March 26th, with only one event incomplete. The Annual Fall Pickleball Tournament will once again be in October.

This year’s games were, as always, filled with wonderful stories. Everywhere you looked seniors were smiling, greeting old friends, and working to perform at their “personal best.” They have learned through the years that the motivation of competition helps them to stay active, fit and strong.

It is hoped that the pictures in this issue will inspire you to follow their example and begin an exercise program or go back to a sport that you once loved. Either way, you will be healthier for the effort.

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Give a triathlon a try The Arizona Senior Olympics Triathlon will be the last sport in the games until the Pickleball Tournament in October.

Triathlons have been a part of American amateur sports for many years.

It’s an opportunity for senior athletes to test themselves in swimming, cycling and running. The ASO Tri is a sprint with distances of a 400-meter swim, 12-mile cycling course and 3-mile run.

The event is held in conjunction with the Anteater Tri-Family Racing Tri held each year in Goodyear. The facility is beautiful, the course is challenging and the people are friendly. This is a great tri to “try” if you are a first-timer.

It’s a multi-generational triathlon with a place for everyone. Awards for Senior Olympians are given separately and the fee includes a T-shirt.

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