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opinion Sound Off Is there anyone else out there who is fed up with the noise from aftermarket mufflers on these little cars running through the neighborhood at all hours of the night and morning? Well, if so, use this venue and others as much as you can to have your voices heard and let’s call for the police to get them off the streets.

Senate Bill 1440 transfers all assets of the once top-rated Arizona Mining and Mineral Museum from the Arizona Historical Society to the Arizona Geological Survey. The AHS gained control of the museum in 2010 and then locked the doors in 2011 for unknown reasons.

Since then, 40,000 children per year have been deprived of a lifetime learning experience. The Arizona Geological Survey, an extraordinarily efficient and effective state agency, will reopen the museum and restore the K-12 education programs if SB 1440 becomes law. Senators and representatives should vote yes on

SB 1440, and the governor should sign it.—Dick Zimmerman

No, blame the developers and don’t ever forget it. Now they’re taking their water.

I think cellphones are a good thing and a bad thing. I hate seeing people at restaurants glancing at their phones and not even barely talking to each other! Can anyone go out and just enjoy face-toface time with their family anymore?

Our society is becoming a bunch of slaves to technology. I’m not liking it one bit! And no, I do not have a cellphone. I have two landlines in my house—and that is it. I am still able to exist! Go figure!

Imagine this, if America elects Hillary in 2016, how high will the misery index get when you have Hillary, Bill and Obama serving as president for four more years. Whoa.

Lord have mercy.

British Prime Minister David Cameron and President Barack Obama are good friends and saving the rest of the world—at least until November. What are we going to do after you-know-who becomes president?

Oh boy, another chance to thank all the wonderful developers of the Valley of the Sun. Four out of five railroad accidents are their faults for pushing to be just like back east. Oh boy do we hate these developers, who ruin more than they develop. Blame the railroads, of course.

The Curmudgeon

Not the Democrats I used to know :: by Drew Alexander

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hen I was 10, I learned of a neighborhood man who was paying a nickel a name for registered voters who would sign a nominating petition for a Democrat running for an elective office.

After two weeks of door knocking, I had 100 signatures and collected the tidy sum of $5. This kept me in comic books and Eskimo Pies for a good long time, and feeling good about Democrats, whatever the heck they were.

I was a young adult the next time I worked for a Democrat, Ernest W. McFarland.

As a U.S. senator from Arizona, governor of Arizona, and finally sitting as chief justice of the Arizona Supreme Court, McFarland was the only man to

serve in the highest office of all three branches of state government.

In Congress, he was instrumental in securing major water rights for Arizona and was known as one of the “fathers” of the G.I. Bill, providing for a college education for returning World War II veterans.

In the mid-1950s, McFarland founded Phoenix TV station KTVK, Channel 3, then an ABC network affiliate. Fresh out of college and a newlywed, I was thrilled to get my big break in television as a copywriter and continuity director.

McFarland, whom we all addressed as “governor,” had his office at the station. Although not directly involved in running the operation, he was always wanting to learn how things were done within the then fledgling medium.

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Just a follow-up: So, you don’t agree with the crabby old lady’s comment about the ignorant people on TV. Remember,

this is the trash that’s being taught to your children. You’re as dumb as they are. Poor kids. No wonder they’re fighting for survival.

Well, it looks like some of the criminals are solving the gun problems. They’re switching to knives. They’re a little harder to trace that way.

Where are you? Stupid system.

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John Michael “Mike” Morris was a Phoenix native and a lifelong Democrat who didn’t preach consumer issues, he actually worked at them, vigorously and intelligently advocating for any citizen being shortchanged in some way by a collusion of business and government insiders.

A successful real estate broker and Civil Air Patrol pilot, Morris was a tireless volunteer in a number of community organizations. He was personally invited to the inauguration of President Harry S. Truman in January 1949, and in 1960 Morris was responsible for the logistics involved with presidential candidate John F. Kennedy’s visit to Phoenix.

The late McFarland and Morris— and those Democrats of that era I didn’t personally know—were not rabid ideologues. While being party stalwarts, the best interests of their respective families, community and country took precedent over political doctrine.

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Gone, too, from the Democratic ranks is anyone resembling Morris Udall, the late Arizona congressman who could fire off a funny one-liner or tell a hilarious homespun story with equal ease.

Quipping during the 1980 presidential race, Udall said, “If nominated, I will run to Mexico; if elected, I will fight extradition.”

New York’s Daniel Patrick Moynihan was described by Time magazine as an “elegant egghead.” The Democrat senator’s intellect and quick wit were legendary, a likable author-scholardiplomat who served four successive presidents of both parties.

The likes of Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are nothing like the Democrats I admired and respected.

Today’s Democrat Party has shifted so far to the socialist-communist left, that it would be unrecognizable by its bygone members and might just as well be headquartered in Cuba.

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The Up Side Don’t ever move!

:: by Michael Grady

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ast weekend, we finally found buyers for our sofa and loveseat. We were so excited! Friends of friends of friends came over—and lo and behold, they wanted our other sofa, too! We were so glad to check these things off our to-do list, we obligingly helped them tie down all our worldly goods to their flatbed and they wobbled away, “Grapes of Wrath”-like, into the far beyond.

“What a relief !” I said, as we waved our furniture goodbye. “We don’t have to worry about that anymore.” “...We have nowhere to sit now,” my wife said. “We’ll have to take turns on the coffee table.”

Don’t ever move. Just don’t do it. This column is supposed to be about what I’ve learned from our current move.

Know what Lesson No. 1 is? Don’t move. Mobility is overrated. It is the stuff of gypsies, drifters and flim-flam men. I’m sure, you think you have your reasons to move: Closet space. Better school district. Business opportunity.

Death squads. Whatever. It isn’t worth the decathlon of closet scraping, paper shredding, dust-inhaling, documentsigning stress that comes with a change of address.

Stay put. Follow tradition. Order in.

Die there.

You’ll thank me.

Our little dog is not thanking me at the moment. Crotchety even at the best of times, Bella slipped once on our wood floor and henceforth avoids it like it’s a treacherous brown sea. So with every throw rug we pack or give away, her habitat shrinks. And she has taken to barking at us, bitterly, from carpeted areas as my wife and I wave to her from atop the coffee table we share.

If you insist on moving, please remember that it is a two-step process: 1. Systematically stripping every furnishing, knickknack, wall hanging, accent piece and nuance from your existing domicile until it loses its warmth and resembles an abandoned warehouse.

2. Schlepping the aforementioned items to your new domicile, where they inevitably don’t fit, clash horribly,

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violate your HOA agreement or break in the transition.

If I seem unduly negative, it’s because I’ve been misled by those cable househunting shows that romanticize the process. They show couples holding hands, walking through pristine rooms and gushing excitedly about breakfast nooks and natural light.

Then they jump-cut, past the actual move, and show the couple and their children bristling with joy in their new environment.

Lies.

Jump-cutting past the move is like fast-forwarding through the birthing process. (“I wish we had a baby—and here he is!”) It skips the days or weeks you spend trying to make the packing tape dispenser work; squinting at the minutiae of offers and counter offers; scraping the walls of your outgoing home with the legs of the furniture you’re carrying out, then trying to erase the marks with saliva before your wife turns the corner.

Along the way, you learn certain things about yourself: • You’re a hoarder: If you live in the Western Hemisphere, and you’re not a Bedouin or a boxcar hobo, you have way more stuff than you need. Moving is the archeology of discovering this.

Closets and cubbies—nooks that you thought held “a thing or two”—are actually labyrinthine tunnels into your past lives, where you apparently spent a lot of time purchasing heavy, dusty items of no obvious value.

• You both have used storage as an avoidance tactic: I have written, in the past, about how I store stuff to avoid dealing with it. Apparently, my wife has the same problem. While I use storage to avoid my past, she uses it to avoid throwing away dried flower and foliage arrangements. Now we have to find a way to fit an entire, desiccated rainforest into a U-Haul van.

• You have things that defy description: I found a beautiful, sepia-toned photograph of my late mother on her wedding day. I don’t

know how or when I acquired this.

The problem is it’s the size of a houseboat. We have nowhere to put it! But I can’t throw it away, because it’s my mom! That’s when you realize: • You will face some very tough decisions: Which Christmas decorations—which happy Santas or whimsical elves—do we keep and which ones do we consign to the furnace? That’s a good day! And, of course...

• Your dog is barking again: OK, maybe that’s just me, but apparently she’s trapped on a bath mat that broke loose in the brown sea, and I have to go rescue her. Again.

The worst part of any move, I think, is the middle part: you live in two places, each place echoes, neither one looks like home, and you’re paying a mortgage on both of them. Ideally, you’d turn to your spouse for comfort.

But one look across the coffee table tells you your spouse is not in a warmand-fuzzy place. Well, she is fuzzy— from the dust bunny and dog hair tumbleweeds that jump on you from forgotten cabinets and shelves—but warmth is not on the menu, now. She looks like you: tape-flecked, holloweyed and sleep-deprived; lurching her way down the to-do list. If you handed every zombie in “The Walking Dead” a U-Haul box, it would look like your standard suburban move.

What do you do, then, when your back aches, your brain is fried and your

comfort zone just left on a flatbed?

You remember back to that romantic, house-hunter-show moment when all of this was just a lovely idea; when you sat in your house-to-be, imagining your favorite furniture around you and a new chapter ahead. You break the rest of the journey up into tiny, doable steps. Mark each one with a pylon.

Beer bottles work nicely.

I think I’m like my little dog: adrift on a shrinking comfort zone, barking at change. No one (except perhaps penitentiary inmates) likes change.

If you’re constantly changing, for change’s sake, you’re not grounded enough to engage the world. But if you avoid change—simply because it is change—that’s what makes you old.

“You’re not too old to make a big life change,” a friend told me, “you’re just too old to do it without complaining about it. So go ahead, complain. Then do what has to be done.”

The important thing—“What are you doing?”

It’s my wife, speaking beneath layers of dust and packing tape.

I tell her I’m contemplating the irony of change. She tells me she has fresh garbage to dump, three plant stands to stuff in the car, and the dog sounds like she’s marooned on a beach towel somewhere.

It’s time to get off the coffee table.

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Aging Today Technology challenged? :: by Bob Roth, Managing Partner of Cypress HomeCare Solutions

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hile attending the National Association of Home Care and Hospice’s annual meeting in 2009, I had the great privilege to attend a session led by the inspirational former Secretary of State and Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, Colin Powell.

Powell recalled a time when extended families lived in the same neighborhoods during a time when community members looked after one another. He reminisced and joked about his childhood growing up in the Bronx during the 1940s and the deterrent that kept the kids in line was referred to as, “The Auntie-Net.” He told the audience that he had more aunts and uncles than his mom and dad had sisters and brothers living on the same street.

Calling family friends Mr. or Mrs. was far too formal and referring to them by first names was too informal, so like many families from this era, they referred to close friends of the parents as aunts and uncles. This network of aunts would sit by the front windows of their homes or out on the steps in front of the house keeping an eye on the children playing in the streets.

The aunties would be ready and if needed to make sure the children stayed in line, and if not, they would report back to parents.

Powell said if you think the Internet is an information superhighway, there is no faster way of relaying

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information than the “Auntie-Net.” The bad news about one of us getting out of line would travel faster down the street than any of us kids could ever run. Powell’s central message was that we have no greater obligation than to take care of our fellow human beings.

I reflected on his speech when I began to think of how we can help our older adult population adapt to the digital age. For every kid who owns an iPhone, I wonder how many aging adults are trying to figure out how to use their smartphone. For every kid easily navigating iTunes, Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat, I wonder how many aging adults are frustrated when instructed to download forms from their doctor’s office. I have witnessed the frustration of aging seniors in the digital age and it occurred to me that we should tap one of our communities’ most valuable resources: grandchildren.

My wife, Susie, and I are parents to three daughters and often say jokingly, just go to the millennial school of technology, push every button and you will figure it out. The kids today are not intimidated by computers, tablets or smartphones.

They are not afraid they will break something or lose something or not be able to get out of something.

Computers today are much more user friendly. Let’s engage the children to forge this friendship. I can’t think of

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a better way to get a stubborn old dog to learn a few new tricks than to spend an afternoon with a grandchild.

Community centers, churches and synagogues are ideal places to pair those who live in different cities from their own families.

How about a field trip to the Apple genius bar or an IT class to take with a grandparent? Have you seen the kids today? Chances are you may have only seen them from the eyes up. The rest of their face is covered by their smartphone. Let’s get them from behind their phone and in front of grandpa. For the grandparents who are reading this and nodding your heads in agreement, pass this along to your children and ask for some help.

Using websites to research ancestry and create a family tree is a great way to introduce computer literacy.

How about making Grandma a song playlist, “Granny’s Favorite Songs of All Time?” Music is such a powerful emotional tool and the perfect anecdote to relieve frustration. Try searching for recipes, great moments

in sports, all the presidents in Grandpa’s lifetime. Many children of today have actively involved parents who sometimes walk a tightrope between helicopter and concierge.

We love our kids and cannot do enough for them. I think the time has come to return the love and task our children and grandchildren with helping their grandparents.

The younger generations have the tools and knowledge to share with their grandparents and the result all around is one great big win. The possibilities are endless and the time spent bridging generations is truly priceless.

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Ask Gabby Gayle Advice for the over-50 crowd

:: by Gayle M. Lagman-Creswick his is in response to the several-month exchange we had on sexuality and seniors...in which I got educated!

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ear Gabby Gayle: I do not think you are old-fashioned. I know plenty of people of all ages who feel sex is richer when it is part of a meaningful relationship. Sex can feel great, but when it is over, it is over. Love fills and enriches your life, and not just for the moment. Love stays with you forever, even after the person passes away. I so agree with your reader, “Wiser: “I learned that my ethic is not prevalent among the seniors who wrote:” That’s because the rest of us, who I believe are the majority, agreed with you and therefore, had no reason to write. Signed, Also Wiser

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ear Also Wiser: I hope you are right...after going over the many emails I got on the subject, I was beginning to wonder if I didn’t grasp this senior sexual revolution, especially among women. Not that I would change my mind, but it did open my eyes! Thank you for your letter. Signed, GG

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ear Gabby Gayle: I am a 60-year-old woman with an 87-year-old mother in independent living. Mom also suggested living with us—and she did for six months, when her house flooded beyond repair. We knew it could not last, and it created undue stress for all of us. Mom spoke to me, my husband and sister daily.

While she sometimes struggles with this life transition, she knows this is better in the long term. In her mind, she’s still 25—and quite sharp! Aging is not easy and the elder are not children, but rather adults who held jobs, responsibilities, raised children, fought in wars and made their own

decisions and life mistakes. As adult children of our aging parents, we must find ways to respect, understand and negotiate their life stage transitions.

Thanks, VM

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ear VM: Well-written and wellsaid! If you have been reading me for a while, you may remember that one of my greatest fears is that my children will begin treating me like I am their child. When I told them this, my daughter-in-law said, “What if you begin to act as a child like my mother is acting now.” I don’t really know the answer to that, but I would just say, “Try to remember the mother inside her that you used to know, and love her accordingly.” I know this won’t be easy, but it will help, if you constantly remind yourself of the strong person she was. Thanks for writing such a thoughtful letter. Signed, GG

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ear Gabby Gayle: I would like to join the others who have complained about loneliness. My husband died three years ago, and he was the event planner. Since he has been gone, I just sit here and read or watch TV. I don’t know where to start.

Help. Signed, Lonely

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ear Lonely: You are going to have to buck up and get some starch in your backbone. In this day and age there is no reason to be lonely unless you want to.

I will repeat these suggestions: 1. Volunteer.

2. Go to church and meet people.

3. Find a good friend.

4. Go to support groups for widows.

5. Run a friendship ad for a friend.

6. Go to the senior center.

Each city has a senior center with all kinds of activities and trips. Most of all: Reach out! Good luck! Signed, GG

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Retirement reality check: Boomer bust

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:: by Chad Winn, Financial Adviser, CRPC

ccording to an April 2014 study published by the Insured Retirement Institute, only 33% of Baby Boomers are confident they will have enough money to live with financial independence throughout their retirement years.

The report also states the solution proposed by 67% of people nearing retirement is to continue to work in retirement.

But, according to the Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies report published in December 2015, less than 10% of retirees actually earn income from working once they enter retirement.

A far better approach to increasing boomer confidence about their prospects of having an independent retirement may be to work with a financial adviser and have a written plan in place before retiring or as soon as possible. The Transamerica Center for Retirement Studies also points out just 33% of retirees work with a financial adviser. Could some of this 33% be the same as the 33% that indicated through the Insured Retirement Institute study they were confident their nest egg would get them to and through retirement? I’m not sure a direct correlation can be made between the groups highlighted by the two studies. But, I do think people that have a written financial plan including an income distribution strategy for retirement have a higher level of confidence that they will have enough money to get through retirement than their peers who have chosen to wing it.

What else can pre-retiree Baby Boomers and those early on in their retirement learn from those that have blazed the trail ahead of them? Getting back to the Transamerica report, this is what people in retirement said they “wished” they would have done: • Wish they had saved more (76%) • Wish they had learned more about retirement saving and investing while they were working (68%) • Would have liked to have received

more information and advice from their employers about retirement planning (53%) • Should have relied more on outside professionals to manage their retirement savings (41%) As the saying goes, “a goal without a plan is just a wish.” One of my good friends used to say, “If wishes were horses, we’d all be cowboys.” Because it is clear we are not all cowboys (although I certainly “wish” I was), it would appear to make some good common sense to work with a professional adviser and establish a written retirement and income distribution plan. It may increase your confidence and hopefully help you get to or through retirement with independence and dignity. If you would like more information on the subject, I’d be happy to send you the complimentary report, Financial Planning: Helping You See the Big Picture. Just send me an email cwinn@ wradvisors.com and I’ll get it right out to you.

Chad Winn is a chartered retirement planning counselor designee and financial adviser with Waddell & Reed Inc. If you have any questions or would like more information, he can be reached at 903-6807 or visit his website at www.chadwinn.wrfa.com This article is for informational purposes only and is not intended as an offer or solicitation for the sale of any financial product or service or as a determination that any investment strategy is suitable for a specific investor. Investing involves risk and the potential to lose principal. Investing does not ensure a profit nor guarantee against a loss in declining markets. Investors should seek financial advice regarding the suitability of any investment strategy based on their objectives, financial situations, and particular needs.

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Sound Off

... from page 6

The TV needs to start bleeping out all the foul language that’s allowed today.

It’s not funny when 2-year-olds learn to say “F you” to adults. “It’s so cute.”

No it’s not. It’s ignorant and it’s bleeding this nation of intelligence.

Clean up your crummy thoughts as well. The crummy nudity. Shame on all of you people.

The Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication needs to go back to teaching spelling and grammar to those who do not know the difference between picture and pitcher. Ban the word “got” while we’re at it!

Before voting on Proposition 123, which will fund public schools, voters, please investigate who is pushing this bill.

Always follow the money. Find out what people and what organizations are encouraging the “Yes” vote on this. Find out what they have coming to them after voting on this bill. Don’t believe the propaganda on television and in the newspaper.

During a recent interview with Chris Wallace, Obama stated that nobody is above the law. This comes from a guy who has consistently violated the Constitution of the United States.

When is someone of power going to do something about this annoying credit card company and Beverly and her daily calls that annoy people to death.

You’re waking up children. You’re waking up grandma. Stop calling this number. You have been told over and over again. There’s got to be something done with these people.

Beware of the scam of ripping off grandma by saying her grandchildren have been arrested. I think they must have a rotating file. That’s the second time grandma has been called.

They’re good actors and they’re begging for money. Just call the police and report it. Don’t let it go. I think they come with the snowbirds and it’s really sad.

Does anyone know if there are any decent radio stations with good old enjoyable American music of the 1940s through 1960s?

There’s nothing on commercial TV, either, except for Channel 8, thank goodness. Radio is even worse with the noise and jumping jazz. Even good old western American classics, they’re not on TV anymore. There’s nothing but junk on TV and radio. What’s happened to the best of America?

The world is changing and much of it has us in some form of consternation. When mail delivery was invented, people probably said the same, “Johnny used to go see his friends, now he just mails them.” Same with the telephone.

Somehow we didn’t instill our values in our kids, etc. So someone is to blame.

If the phone was not invented, they would be knocking on your door. Get an answering machine and mute the ringer. I can’t mute the ringer so set it for two rings. Guess what? They hang up.

Upset with your representatives? Then vote them out. Cleaning up Washington is the voter’s responsibility. Maybe someone woke up and realized it was a lost cause. It was better to fund everything and avoid another shutdown. I guess some think it is better to do harm to a philosophy than deal with the problem.

To the writer about ammunition: I have a more aggressive stance on that. I think not selling or making it illegal to possess manufactured ammunition is the key. If you want to limit ammo, then have the gun owner load their own. If you read about the frontiersman, they melted lead into balls and used a powder horn to load their guns. I feel the same about cigarettes. Stop making them. If smokers want to smoke they can roll their own. Give them a bag or can of tobacco and rolling papers, no machines, and have them go at it.

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It’s really very simple. The subconscious is very impressionable and it will accept whatever you or another puts into it. What thoughts are in your mind? Are they thoughts of fear, hate, anger and violence? Whose thoughts are they? How did they get in your mind? It’s really very simple. The subconscious will accept what you accept. Whose word do you accept?

I don’t understand why people think the only liar in Washington is Obama. The economy is not good but it is better than when he took office. The writer thinks terrorists are behind every tree and bush and is ready to pounce. There have been “lone wolves” who were inspired by whatever terror organization you choose. A workplace shooting does not measure up to a terror incident. A person in Muslim garb, whatever that looks like, and shooting seals the deal on being a terrorist. If I picked up a gun and ran into a building wearing white tie and tails, I guess that could be seen as a white collar crime. The same for a hooded sweatshirt. Everyone who wears one is wearing a thug label.

To the writer about Hillary Clinton considering appointing Obama to the Supreme Court.

Considering is not the same as doing.

What is your source about his trampling the Constitution? Be specific. Be specific as to what he has done. I guess you are upset because he did something because the Congress hasn’t. Flash, we elected these people to work for us.

Instead, they block and name call.

Obama has issued less executive orders than Bush. Sorry, them’s the facts, people.

To the writer who quoted the poll, thank you. Congress is corrupt and did become more so under Obama. You missed one point largely because of the conservative court at the time sided with Citizens United. Civics lesson: Three branches of government check and balance each other. Each is separate from the other.

Special interests funnel in huge amounts of money to influence votes.

Get rid of that and maybe, just maybe, the Congress will listen to their hearts and not the lovely sound of money

falling into their pockets or off shore accounts.

RE: Religion in public schools.

Just Christianity and just one form of Christianity.

Discounting science and teaching of creationism. I respect religion and the adherents. Just don’t go into the school that is publicly funded and force everyone to learn what I say is a fairytale. There are schools for that.

Religious schools. There you can teach whatever you want to from your Bible.

Religion is a belief system not something to be sold door to door or forced onto everyone to “save” them. I hear people say they talk to God, then the ones who have broadcast quite literally and get completely different information. I am a fan of the late George Carlin. I think like he did: we

can live very well with three of the Ten Commandments. The golden rule is not in the Bible as quoted. We just need to respect, if not love, each other. Be kind to each other. Don’t covet your neighbor’s wife, etc. Don’t kill each other or steal from each other. Just be a good person. I think your God would be happy with you.

It’s really very simple. The subconscious is very impressionable and it will accept whatever you or another puts into it. What thoughts are in your mind? Are they thoughts of fear, hate, anger and violence? Whose thoughts are they? How did they get in your mind? It’s really very simple. The subconscious will accept what you accept. Whose word do you accept?

What do you think?

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Celebrating Tucson

Ask the Expert

:: by Barbara Russek

:: by Melissa Ritchey, RN, MSN, director of patient care services, emergency services

One person...Six questions

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ne person, six questions” is a continuing series of columns about Tucson-area residents who have made an impact on the community. This month, Lovin’ Life After 50 focuses on 53-year-old Jay Brosky, a senior real estate specialist and the founder of Senior Support Alliance (SSA).

Brosky founded SSA in 2015 after his parents died in his home state of Texas several years ago.

“There wasn’t any one-stop resource for a variety of services that were needed, from the business side of the estate to the grieving process,” said Brosky, who earned an MBA from California State University and moved to Tucson five years ago.

“I selected Tucson to grow my real estate business and also as a retirement destination,” he said.

“My primary focus is helping seniors ‘rightsize.’”

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Jay Brosky

1

Tucson has the Pima Council on Aging. Why did you feel the need to start another organization to provide senior services?

Both organizations provide referral services. The SSA, in addition, organizes social gatherings and offers educational seminars. We want to be a “one-stop senior resource.” Social events and seminars that we organize ourselves are all open to the senior community free of charge.

2

Who are your business partners within SSA? We have a variety of business partners, whose day jobs are all within Tucson’s senior community.

3

When should I go to the emergency room?

Your business partners offer services in many different areas—home maintenance and elder care law to name two. Is there a charge for those services?

Some of our business partners offer an initial free consultation, but most charge a fee for services.

4

Are there any upcoming events you would like to mention?

In May we are presenting a seminar in partnership with the Pima County Public Library and Social Security Administration, entitled “Understanding Your Social Security Benefits.” We also have a mixer and other social events, all listed on our website.

5

Why is working with seniors gratifying to you?

When a senior doesn’t know where to turn for a needed service and we can point him/her in the right direction, it gives us a good feeling.

6

If folks want to contact SSA, what should they do?

They can visit www. seniorsupportalliance.org for further information. The name of our Meetup is Tucson’s Social Seniors 60+. We can be reached at 314-1011.

A local freelance writer, Barbara Russek continues to be fascinated by people’s life stories. She welcomes comments at babette2@ comcast.net.

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ometimes, it’s very clear-cut when you need to go to an emergency department.

If you are experiencing signs of a heart attack—including pressure in your chest, pain in areas such as the jaw or arms, shortness of breath or nausea—then you need to be seen right away.

The same is true if you are experiencing symptoms of a stroke, including drooping on one side of the face, weakness on one side, slurred speech, or sudden onset of paralysis. The sooner you are treated, the better your chances of survival or mitigating the long-term effects of a stroke.

There are other times when you just aren’t sure whether a less-acute setting might be more appropriate.

Your primary care doctor is wellequipped to handle colds, flu symptoms, chronic conditions and prescription refills. Other situations that should start with your physician include ear infections, sprains, urinary tract infections, and fevers.

Urgent care centers are often a convenient alternative after hours or on weekends.

Medical conditions aside from cardiac and stroke risk that may warrant seeing an emergency physician include, but are not limited to: • Accidents or falls with neck, spine or head injury • Severe abdominal pain, especially after an injury • Uncontrollable bleeding • Blunt head trauma or a penetrating wound to the head • Confusion or loss of consciousness, especially after a head injury • Neck injury • Poisoning or suspected drug overdose • Venomous bites, including reptiles, scorpion stings or poisonous spiders • Serious burns or cuts • Seizure • Broken bones If you do go to the emergency room, please consider the following tips: • Please do not attempt to drive yourself or anyone else to the

hospital in the case of a lifethreatening emergency. Call 9-11 right away. Paramedics are trained to stabilize emergency patients and coordinate their care while en route to the emergency department.

• Bring an up-to-date medication list with you so physicians and pharmacists can head off the potential for adverse interactions with any other prescriptions. No one wants to try to remember a list when they’re not feeling well, so it’s best to be prepared.

Take a few minutes to write down your current medications, including supplements, vitamins and over-thecounter medications and dosage.

Writing down your known medication, allergies and contact information for your primary care doctor is helpful as well. Keep the information in your wallet in a visible place, so if you cannot communicate, emergency responders will have access to the information.

• Understand there may be a wait.

Nobody likes to wait, but emergency rooms are designed to treat patients with the highest acuity first. Your injuries and condition will be triaged upon arrival, but bring concerns to the nurse if you feel your condition is getting worse.

• Bring an advocate. When you’re experiencing discomfort, pain or fear, you aren’t as likely to retain information. If you can, bring a loved one or friend with you who can help ask and answer questions and remember instructions.

• You may leave with a sheaf of paperwork, but don’t leave with unanswered questions. Be sure you understand the side effects of any medications and whether it’s OK to take them with any current medications you may be taking. Find out who you need to follow up with, if additional care is needed. Tucson Medical Center offers online access to your health record, so check and see if that is available to you from any hospital you may attend.

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Straus’ Place

Dead air needed in conversations :: by Bill Straus

W

hen I hosted my first radio talk show in 1992, I was aware of one cardinal rule of broadcasting: No dead air.

I’m guessing that broadcasters always felt that even a moment of silence might lead listeners to believe their radio had stopped working, or even worse, that the station had gone off the air. It didn’t take me long to break that rule—and I was quickly confronted by my program director about it. I defended my dead air thusly: I wanted my program to be conversational, and I felt strongly that to engender a truly productive conversation, dead air is a necessity.

After all, conversation consists of two parts, talking and listening.

I quickly discovered that to host the kind of dialogue I desired, I needed time to digest what callers said before I could respond effectively. I needed to become a better listener than I had ever been before, or risk sounding like a fool when responding to something a caller had said. And I hoped the callers would act correspondingly with me. I concluded that there is a place for dead air in radio—and the same holds true for our personal conversations as well.

Moments of dead air are every bit as important in conversation as the words that are spoken. That’s much like the world of music, where professional musicians will tell you that moments of dead air in any musical piece are as significant as the notes that precede and follow them.

Unfortunately, dead air is lacking in our conversations these days. We interrupt each other before a thought is even fully expressed. Our dialogues consist of mere snippets of thought rather than complete ones. I suppose it’s always been that way. I’m just more conscious of it these days because I find myself interrupting others and being interrupted myself on a more regular basis all the time, particularly if the conversation is political or in any way heated. Here’s a little test: When you’re on the phone with someone and you make a statement, followed by a moment of silence, what’s your immediate reaction? Mine is to ask, “Are you still there?” We are so used to “run-on-dialogues,” that any moment of dead air is interpreted as a problem.

So, what’s the answer to this problem? It’s simple: We all need to become better listeners. I do know that awareness is the key. When I become aware of my own tendency to interrupt someone, I become a better listener.

Oh, I can always improve on that, but only if I continually work at it.

You can help. If we’re ever talking and I interrupt you, I hope you’ll call my attention to it...and I’ll do the same for you.

If we all did that...

Bill Straus is a retired native Phoenician.

He spent 21 years in the radio business and the last 13 years of his career as the Arizona director of the Anti-Defamation League. He can be reached at strausplace@cox.net.

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Entertainment Justin Hayward hits the stage door at Fox Theatre

Calendar of events May 2016

::by Marshall Terrill

I

n his wildest dreams, Justin Hayward didn’t think he’d be so busy as he rapidly approaches 70. But when you’re a legend, opportunities tend to find you.

“I’m surprised by all of this as well but what happens is that people ask and I usually say yes,” said the velvetvoiced lead singer of the Moody Blues, whose Stage Door Tour comes to the Fox Theatre in Tucson on Tuesday, June 7.

“Once you make the commitment, things tend to work out.”

Things have worked out nice for Hayward since he joined the Moody Blues, which reformed in November . His first effort with the group, the classic “Days of Future Passed” in tandem with the Beatles’ “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” has often been credited with creating a sonic revolution in 1967.

The album, a fusion of classical and rock music, produced the Haywardpenned “Nights in White Satin,” which was an instant classic. The album, he admits, was a bit of a fluke. ecca, the label that produced the first stereophonic album, used the format to sell stereo units, not to promote the group.

In the following years, the Englishborn rocker’s contribution to the group was significant, writing of the groups post-1967 singles, including “Tuesday Afternoon,” “Question,” “The Story in Your Eyes,” “Your Wildest Dreams” and “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere.”

Despite the fact the group has sold approximately 70 million records worldwide and have been awarded 18 platinum and gold discs, Hayward said he views their success as a slow burn.

“It took me until about 1980 to realize that perhaps we’ve had some

success,” Hayward said. “We never own lives and personalities. It’s just an topped anybody’s favorite list and we extension of an ‘I wanna be me!’ kind were never known as celebrities or of shout.”

These days, the shouts are mostly personalities, so we didn’t get stopped coming from Hayward’s fans, who are in the middle of the street, sadly.” enjoying his intimate That all changed performances, which with “Long Distance consists of Moody Voyager,” which Blues classics, solo yielded two Top 40 numbers and much singles (“Gemini savored music biz Dream” and anecdotes and is “The Voice”) and captured on his topped Billboard’s release, “Spirits… album charts for Live–Live at the three weeks in the Buckhead Theatre, summer of 1981.

Atlanta.”

It still remains his His current band favorite decade. consists of Mike “We had great Dawes on guitar and commercial success multi-instrumentalist with singles, which Julie Ragin, who we had never Hayward said “has experienced before. the voice of an angel.”

That was a real Hayward’s voice is joy and a decade Justin Hayward hopes his voice will also holding up quite I really enjoyed take care of him and help him to pay well, who still possesses starting with “Long the rent.

Distance Voyager” those trademark silkyall the way to “Sur La Mer,” Hayward smooth pipes, boyish looks and is fit said. and trim. That said, he insists he has He’s also immensely enjoying the healthy lifestyle tips to dispense. present, striking a balance between the “I can give no one any advice. I’m Moodies and a solo career, which he afraid I take no precautions on those commenced in the 1970s. He says both sorts of measures,” Hayward said. are necessary in fueling his creativity.

“I’m just hoping that my voice will “One depends on the other and that take care of me and help me to pay doors swing both ways,” Hayward the rent.” said. “When I was 19 we (The Moody Blues) were all living What: Justin Hayward presents “The Stage in the same house, Door Tour” the same room, When: 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 7 but with a little Where: Fox Tucson Theatre, 17 W. Congress St., bit of success you Tucson become separated Cost: $29 to $78 and that’s needed. Information: 547-3040 or www.foxtucson.com People develop their

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If you go:

May 1 Sunday Dr. Gann’s Diet of Hope Cinco de Mayo 10K Fitness Fiesta, 7 a.m., Cholla High School, 2001 W. Starr Pass Blvd., $27 to $37, www.azroadrunners.org/ races/detail/cinco. Tucson’s largest and most scenic 10K winds through Starr Pass in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains.

May 2 Monday Art Talk with Sandy Cord, 1:30 p.m., The Forum at Tucson, 2500 N. Rosemont Blvd., free, registration required, 325-4800. She will discuss George Wesley Bellows who was known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City.

May 3 Tuesday Birding for the Birds, 7 a.m. to noon, Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free, donations accepted, 209-1812, www.tucsonaudubon. org. Join this fun morning of bird watching to raise funds as part of Tucson Audubon’s Birdathon.

May 4 Wednesday Nuts about Nature Preschool Hour, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free with membership or $5 per family, registration required, 615-7855, www. pima.gov/nrpr. Take the grandkids to learn about nature through stories, crafts and games.

May 5 Thursday Wake Up with the Birds, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free for members, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855. Enjoy a ...continues on page 16

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Protect your ears for Better Hearing and Speech Month Make your hearing health a priority by understanding what causes hearing loss ::by the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing and Arizona Relay Service

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ith more than 1 million people in Arizona experiencing some degree of hearing loss, many of us can relate to or know someone who is deaf or hard of hearing. This month, Better Hearing and Speech Month, is the perfect time to remind people of the importance of hearing health, the signs of hearing loss and resources available.

So what causes hearing loss?

According to the Better Hearing Institute (BHI) the primary causes of hearing loss are aging and previous exposure to loud noise, or noise-induced hearing loss.

This can be due to different types of occupational and recreational noise exposure: military service, construction workers, bartenders, dentists, landscapers or even things like attending concerts, riding motorcycles, and listening to music through headphones.

People often dismiss signs of hearing loss as “no big deal.” In reality, hearing loss is a very big deal. Hearing loss can affect any-

one at any time in all the areas of your life, including your relationships, your health and your safety.

How is hearing loss identified?

If hearing loss goes undiagnosed, one might encounter more misunderstandings in their relationships; earn less money at work and experience other health issues, such as dementia. Making phone calls becomes more challenging and isolation and depression are common, especially in the senior population.

Some major indicators that you may be losing your hearing include: • Frequently ask people to repeat themselves; • Often turn your ear toward a sound to hear it better; • Understand people better when you wear your glasses or look directly at their faces; • Have trouble following group conversations;

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For some, hearing loss may be inevitable. However, for most people hearing loss is completely preventable. Here are some tips on how to protect your hearing: • Keep the volume on televisions, music, radios and cellphones turned down to a moderate level.

• Smoking toxins can negatively affect a person’s hearing ability. Don’t smoke.

• Wear ear plugs and other protective gear when operating noisy equipment.

• Take regular breaks from loud noise— at least a 10-minute break every hour.

• Avoid unhealthy eating. A poor diet increases the chances of being diagnosed with diabetes and thus puts an individual at a greater risk of developing hearing loss.

If you are experiencing any of the signs above or if you think you have hearing loss, see your doctor or a licensed audiologist to assess the degree of hearing loss, to treat it and to determine a plan to prevent further loss. There are many assistive technologies, available through Arizona Relay Service or the Arizona Telecommunications Equipment Distribution Program, that can help sharpen your hearing, keeping you connected to your surroundings.

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Established in 1977 to improve the quality of life for deaf and hard of hearing residents, Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing serves as a statewide information referral center for issues related to people with hearing loss and aspires to be a national leader in communication access, support services and community empowerment throughout the state.

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May 18 Wednesday

Calendar of events... from page 14 guided birding walk in the desert oasis of Agua Caliente Park to spot wetland birds, hummingbirds, songbirds and raptors.

May 6 Friday Birding at Sweetwater Wetlands, 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m., Sweetwater Wetlands, 2667 W. Sweetwater Dr., free, online registration required, www.pima.gov/ nrpr, 615-7855. Explore this urban birding hotspot with a naturalist.

May 7 Saturday “I Ought to Be in Pictures,” 7:30 p.m., repeats 3 p.m. Sunday, May 8, Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Ave., $30, 882-9721, www.invisibletheatre.com. The heartfelt comedy tells the story of Herb, a Hollywood scriptwriter who is surprised when his forgotten past appears in the form of his teenage daughter.

Welsh Festival and Pet Food Drive, 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., Flanagan’s Celtic Corner, 2719 E. Broadway Blvd., $2, tucsoncelticfestival@hotmail.com. This eisteddfod— Welsh for “party”—honors St. Melangell, the patron saint of small animals, and celebrates the deep history and tradition of Wales. Brought to you by the Tucson Celtic Festival and Scottish Highland Games.

May 8 Sunday “I Ought to Be in Pictures,” 3 p.m., Invisible Theatre, 1400 N. First Ave., $30, 882-9721, www. invisibletheatre.com. The heartfelt comedy tells the story of Herb, a Hollywood scriptwriter who is surprised when his forgotten past appears in the form of his teenage daughter.

May 9 Monday

May 11 Wednesday Heritage Area Structures Rehabilitation 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, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 724-5520.

May 12 Thursday National Association of Retired and Veteran Railroad Employees Meeting, 11 a.m., Golden Corral, 4380 E. 22nd St., $11, 288-8221, 296-4576. This month’s speaker is a senior living consultant who will discuss independent living and life attendance.

Ronstadt Generations, 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Oro Valley Marketplace, 12115 N. Oracle Rd., Oro Valley, free, saaca.org. The Oro Valley Concert Series brings free live music at the base of the Pusch View mountains.

May 13 Friday Cactus Hike, 7 a.m. to 8:30 a.m., Tucson Mountain Park, Camino de Oeste Trailhead, 400 N. Caino de Oeste, free for members, $5 others, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7844. Enjoy the showy flowers of the local cacti.

May 14 Saturday Many Hands Artist Cooperative, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., Many Hands Courtyard, 3054 N. First Ave., free, 3312908, mhartistcoop@gmail.com.

May 15 Sunday

May 10 Tuesday Birding at Cienega Creek, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Gabe Zimmerman Davidson Canyon Trailhead, Cienega Creek Natural Preserve, 16000 E. Marsh Station Rd, free for members, $5 others, online registration required, www. pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855. Observe the rich bird life in the diverse habitats of Cienega Creek Natural Preserve on a guided walk.

May 19 Thursday Memory Care Support Group, 4:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., The Forum at Tucson, 2500 N. Rosemont Blvd., free, registration required, 325-4800. The topic is “Learning to deal with your loved one’s memory loss.”

Paint Your Pet Pawtrait, 2 p.m., Borderlands Brewing Company, 119 E. Toole Ave., $40, 261-8773. Only 30 seats are available for this two-hour class during which an artist will hand sketch your pet and lead you through how to colorfully paint your pawtrait.

May 16 Monday Enjoy the spring!

May 17 Tuesday Birding Along the Santa Cruz River, 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Wheeler Taft Abbett Senior Branch Library, 7800 N. Schisler Dr., free for members, $5 others, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr 615-7855.

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May 25 Wednesday Sonoran Desert Weedwackers, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., Pima County Tucson Mountain Park, exact location given upon registration, free, 615-7855, eeducation@pima.gov.

May 26 Thursday Wake Up with the Birds, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free for members, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855. Enjoy a guided birding walk in the desert oasis of Agua Caliente Park to spot wetland birds, hummingbirds, songbirds and raptors.

Wake Up with the Birds, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free for members, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855. Enjoy a guided birding walk in the desert oasis of Agua Caliente Park to spot wetland birds, hummingbirds, songbirds and raptors.

Barbershop Quartet: Sky’s the Limit, 2 p.m. to 3 p.m., The Forum at Tucson, 2500 N. Rosemont Blvd., free, registration required, 325-4800. Join the group for an ice cream social featuring the sounds of Sky’s the Limit.

Solar Viewing Spectacular, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m., Brandi Fenton Memorial Park, 3482 E. River Rd., free, 615-7855, www.pima.gov/nrpr. Explore the sun with volunteers from the Tucson Amateur Astronomy Association.

Nuts about Nature Preschool Hour, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free for members, $5 per family otherwise, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 6157855.

Interstate 19 Frontage Rd., Green Valley, free, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 724-5520.

Join a walking tour of the Canoa Ranch headquarters to gain insights into the fascinating stories of the people who lived and worked on the ranch.

May 27 Friday Enjoy the spring!

Wake Up with the Birds, 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m., Pima County Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Rd., free for members, $5 nonmembers, online registration required, www.pima.gov/nrpr, 615-7855. Enjoy a guided birding walk in the desert oasis of Agua Caliente Park to spot wetland birds, hummingbirds, songbirds and raptors.

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

Chef’s Demo, 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., The Forum at Tucson, 2500 N. Rosemont Blvd., free, registration required, 325-4800. Join the executive chef as he surprises and delights with this month’s special cooking demo and sampling. Occurs the third Friday of each month.

Friends of Library Book Sale, various times through May 30, Book Barn, 2230 N. Country Club, free admission, 795-3763. Check out thousands of great used books/media at great prices. Themes of the month Father’s Day/DIY and sports/games.

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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, 5746628.

Swing: A Retro Celebration of the Arts, 6 p.m., Hilton El Conquistador Resort and Spa, 10000 N. Oracle Rd., $45, https://saaca.thundertix.com. Admission includes menu samplings from more than 12 local restaurants, live music from the University of Arizona Jazz Quartet, dancing and a live auction.

Friends of Library Book Sale, various times through May 30, Book Barn, 2230 N. Country Club, free admission, 795-3763. Check out thousands of great used books/media at great prices. Themes of the month Father’s Day/DIY and sports/games.

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May 22 Sunday Enjoy the spring!

May 23 Monday Better Breather Club, 1 p.m. to 2 p.m., The Forum at Tucson, 2500 N. Rosemont Blvd., free, registration required, 325-4800. David Schlotz, director of neurology at TMC, will discuss sleep apnea.

May 24 Tuesday Tour of Hacienda de la Canoa, 8:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., Historic Hacienda de la Canoa, 5375 S.

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rammy-nominated True Concord Voices & Orchestra’s new season promises a “magical” array of music with different themes presented each month.

The season kicks off in October with a musical celebration of the four elements earth, water, air and fire . The concert series also offers an additional performance at Tohono Chul Park in the Alice Y. Holsclaw Performance Garden. Performances are set for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 13, at the Scottish Rite Temple, 160 S. Scott Ave., Tucson; 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 14, at Desert Hills utheran Church, S. Camino el Sol, Green Valley; 1 p.m. Saturday, Oct. , at Tohono Chul Alice Y Holsclaw Performance Garden, 7366 N. Paseo Del Norte, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 16, at Grace St. aul’s piscopal Church, 33 E. Adams St. November highlights Bach’s “ agnificat” with performances scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 17, at St.

Alban’s Episcopal Church, 3738 Old Sabino Canyon Rd.; 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, Lutheran Church of the Risen Savior, S. a Ca ada rive, Green alley 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 19, Catalina Foothills High School, 4300 E. Sunrise r., and 3 p.m. Sunday, ov. , Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

The popular Christmas Lessons and Carols by Candlelight with music of the Mother Mary is scheduled at 7:30 p.m.

Thursday, Dec. 8, Episcopal Church of the Apostles, a Cholla Blvd., Oro Valley; 7 p.m. Friday, Dec. 9, St. Francis in the Valley Episcopal Church, 600 S. La Ca ada rive, Green alley :3 p.m.

Saturday, Dec. 10, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, St. Philip’s in the Hills Episcopal Church, 4440 N. Campbell Ave., and 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 11, at St. Alban’s Episcopal Church.

In January, True Concord will present Felix Mendelssohn’s oratorio, “Elijah,” featuring Grammy artist Richard Paul

Fink in the title role. This concert will be presented in partnership with the University of Arizona Choral Department as part of the Tucson esert Song Festival. Times, dates and locations are :3 p.m. Friday, an. , at Catalina Foothills High School; 7 p.m. Saturday, an. , alley resbyterian Church, S. Camino Del Sol, Green Valley and 3 p.m. Sunday, an. , at Catalina nited ethodist Church, . Speedway Blvd.

In February, the ensemble will present Monteverdi’s Vespers of 1610. A partnership with the Arizona Early Music Society, the concert will utilize instruments from the Baroque period. Performances are set for p.m. Friday, Feb. , alley Presbyterian Church, 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Feb. , Catalina Foothills High School, and 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. , Grace St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

The ensemble concludes its season with Mesmerizing Moscow, the choral

music of Russian masters Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky and Gretchaninov at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, arch 3, at Christ the ing piscopal Church, W. Ina d. p.m. Friday, arch , St. Francis in the Valley Episcopal Church, 600 S. La Ca ada rive, Green alley :3 p.m.

Saturday, arch , Holy esurrection Orthodox Church, . Fifth St., and 3 p.m. Sunday arch , at Grace St. aul’s Episcopal Church.

“We have a blockbuster season with rare performances of not-to-be-missed masterworks and exciting collaborations that should make True Concord’s 13th year truly magical,” said founding music director Eric Holtan. “Not since our 10th anniversary season have we planned such an ambitious lineup of concerts. I can’t wait to share this emotionally packed and sublime music with southern Arizona.”

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Eahba McMahon enjoys sisterhood of Celtic Woman ::by Alan Sculley T

he first performance ahba McMahon did as the newest member of Celtic Woman was when the Irish group filmed the that has been released in tandem with the group’s new studio album, “Destiny.”

McMahon was understandably nervous about her live debut, but when she did one of her solo songs in the show, “Walk Beside Me,” she found herself experiencing a whole different feeling.

“We did ‘Walk Beside Me,’ and at the end, the girls came on and held my hand for the last chorus and we hadn’t really planned that,” McMahon recalled in an early March phone interview.

“I just remember feeling these girls are so nice. I just felt really content and that I was going to be OK and it wasn’t as scary as I thought. And they looked at me, and you see it in the DVD, (singer) Máiréad Carlin kind of gives me a wink like it’s going to be OK. So I have that memory etched in my head. And every night now when we do it in the show, it’s just a lovely feeling. It’s great. That’s probably one of my favorite solo moments in the show, when they come out and join me.”

McMahon joined singers Carlin and Susan cFaddon and fiddle player Máiréad Nesbitt just as the group was

recording the “Destiny” album, replacing Lisa Lambe in the lineup.

The opportunity to audition for the group came as very much of a surprise for McMahon, but the timing couldn’t have been better.

The -year-old native of ublin had spent the previous year writing a solo album, but was unsure what she would do next in music. Then last March, Celtic Woman called, and McMahon jumped at the chance to audition.

“I always felt like wouldn’t that be the dream to end up somewhere like that (in Celtic Woman) or to end up singing Irish music on a world stage? That was always my dream,” she said. “So as soon as I got the call, I was totally gobsmacked.”

McMahon joined a group in Celtic Woman that had gained worldwide popularity for its blend of Irish music and adult contemporary pop in its first decade, selling more than nine million copies of its albums and concert DVDs. She quickly was in the studio singing her parts on the “Destiny” album, including the lead vocal on “How Can I Keep from Singing” (an Irish hymn made famous by Enya) and “Walk Beside Me,” a song written for the group by long-time producer Robert John “Mutt” Lange

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The centennial of the Easter Rising is a and Shania Twain).

Then came rehearsals for the “Destiny” huge event across Ireland—a celebration McMahon said will be , which was filmed on par with America’s in the Round Room at Bicentennial of 1976. the Mansion House, It was only fitting, she the historic home of the said, for Celtic Woman Lord Mayor of Dublin, to make an album that and featured the group reflected the occasion. performing the songs “Celtic Woman is from the CD. Celtic Woman performs on Saturreally an ambassador The setting for the day, May 14. for Ireland musically DVD makes perfect sense considering “Destiny” is intended and I think they just wanted to have to celebrate this year’s 100th anniversary something, a body of work that shows of the Irish aster ising of , an how proud Ireland is this year and that uprising against the British Empire that it would go across the seas to places like triggered the Irish War of Independence America where a lot of people had to and a truce in that established emigrate to and never got to go home again,” she said.

Ireland as an independent state.

The “Destiny” live show echoes the While there are a good number of contemporary songs (such as “The Whole themes of the album, incorporating of the Moon,” originally done by the nearly all of the “Destiny” songs into the Irish band the Waterboys, Ed Sheeran’s show, while featuring more traditional “I See Fire” and Abba’s “Like An Angel Irish elements than recent Celtic Woman Passing Through My Room”), “Destiny” shows. features several traditional Irish songs, including “Oro Se Do Bheatha ‘Bhaile,” Celtic Woman performs at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, “Siuil a Run” and “Bean Phaidin,” as May 14, at the Tucson Music Hall, 260 S. Church well as songs like “My Land” and “The Ave. Tickets are $45 to $105. For more information, Hills Of Ireland” that relate to the call (800) 745-3000 or visit www.ticketmaster.com.

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The hottest temperature in the Valley during the month of May was recorded at 114 degrees, only 44 degrees off from the temperature needed to fry to an egg on the sidewalk.

Speaking of the sun, May is also Skin Cancer Awareness Month, and living in a state with 300 days of sunshine a year, it’s not something we should ignore. According to skincancer.org, we should always seek shade during the hotter hours, prevent burns with sunscreen, avoid tanning and see your physician every year.

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ecognized for hundreds of television roles dating back to the s, Peter Mark Richman broke into film alongside Gary Cooper in the Civil War western, “Friendly ersuasion,” in .

“But I’m not only an actor, I’m also a playwright,” noted Richman, who turned 89 in April, from his home in Los Angeles. “‘A Medal for urray’ just finished a two-year run in Israel and Peter Mark Richman early and current publicity photos. it toured Tel Aviv, Jerusalem Studio before finding his way onto the and Haifa.” ast Coast stages in the early s.

Richman was doing a scene from his “I was touring in a play called ‘The play in Los Angeles several years ago with Sean Penn’s mother, Eileen Ryan. Rainmaker’ with Eva Marie Saint in Afterward, he was approached by New England when my agent called noted Israeli actress Efrat Lavie during to say producer/director William Wyler wanted me to do a screen test her visit to the United States. for ‘Friendly Persuasion.’ I “She loved the play but caught a private plane out was heading back to Israel west and got the role.” and wanted to take a copy Richman said working of the script back home with Cooper, a living legend with her,” said Richman. in , was a joy. “He “The next thing I knew, it was just terrific, a hell of a was translated into Hebrew guy, and very learned—far and became a smash hit from the ‘yup’ character he over there.”

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However, the attraction of the stage background in the mechanics of faces proved more enticing than dispensing and figures.”

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“I managed a drugstore for a year, but in the works, too. “I also finished my always wanted to act,” said Richman, autobiography and have high hopes who studied at New York’s Actors for its publication. It’s called ‘I Saw a

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Peter Mark Richman, left, meets Gary Cooper in “Friendly Persuasion” (1956) along with Anthony Perkins, Dorothy McGuire and Phyllis Love.

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English Trifle (Zuppa Inglese) :: by Jan D’Atri

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call this dish my “made-for-TV dessert.”

I’m sharing one of my own family’s recipes that’s one of the simplest, most beautiful desserts you can present to the table. It is the sensational English trifle or “ uppa Inglese,” a favorite in the D’Atri family for decades. What I really love about it is it looks like a “bowl of extravagance,” yet it’s literally a piece of cake to put together. From the top, our nglish trifle looks like a giant bowl of whipped cream finished off with fresh fruit. But from the sides you can see all the layers of cake, vanilla pudding and sliced strawberries,

kiwi and boysenberries. Sometimes what you don’t see is the best part— a subtle brushing of Grand Marnier over the cake layers.

By the way, how did the English Trifle get an Italian nickname?

The stories are as varied as the recipes you’ll find for this elegant dessert.

But I’m sure it came about because when you dive your spoon into the layers, the consistency of the trifle is more like a sweet, rich soup or “zuppa.”

This is our “Sunday Brunch on the patio” time of year and the English Trifle is the perfect edible center piece.

English Trifle (Zuppa Inglese) 1 box of yellow cake mix 1 box of pudding and pie filling (do not use instant) 2-3 pints of ripe strawberries 1/4 cup granulated sugar 6-8 fresh ripe kiwi, peeled and sliced 2 pints of fresh blueberries or boysenberries 1 pint whipping cream 1/2 cup powdered sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/2 cup Grand Marnier Bake cake mix as directed and pour into three 8-inch pie tins. If you only have one pie pan, bake each for about - minutes or until done.

Prepare vanilla pudding as directed, and set aside. Chop one pint of strawberries and combine with granulated sugar. Slice second pint of strawberries thin. Slice kiwi fruit. lace the first cake disc in a trifle or clear glass bowl. Brush on one third of the Grand Marnier. Around the edge of the trifle bowl, alternate slices of kiwi and strawberries, laying fruit flat against the bowl. With a spoon, spread strawberries and sugar combination over cake layer.

Drop spoonfuls of one half of the pudding over strawberry mixture.

Add second cake disc and brush with Grand Marnier. Line the edge of the bowl with fresh blueberries or boysenberries. Add third cake disc. Brush with liquor and

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You can ‘Like’ but you better not comment! Learning the rules to interacting with grandkids on social media can be a challenging—and often rewarding—lesson in making short but meaningful connections.

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r. Lisa Strohman worries our youngest generation and our oldest generation are drifting apart, becoming more and more separated by technology.

In her practice as a clinical psychologist and founder of the Technology Wellness Center, an Arizona clinic that specializes in helping children and adolescents kick “technology overuse,” Strohman often sees kids who can’t find the time or “bandwidth,” as the most tech-obsessed put it to call grandma or grandpa and actually talk on the phone.

“They don’t like to call,” says Strohman, a -something mom herself with two elementary school-aged children in the house who are adept at using every gizmo on their mobile devices except the phone app. “And some grandparents can be intimidated by new technology. As a result, I think that we have the greatest generational gap, technologically, that we’ve ever had. The biggest challenge I see facing grandparents is, how do you learn how to communicate with your grandchildren on their terms?”

That can be especially challenging, Strohman notes, when the preferred method of communication for young people changes with each new social media phenomenon. Grandparents who finally learned how to text to keep up with their grandkids who belong to the millennial generation may now have to learn how to navigate Snapchat, Vine and Instagram to stay in touch with the young ‘uns from Generation Z, the name given to the kids born after the millennials.

“The millennial generation were easier in the sense that they would use a lot of text messaging, which many grandparents have actually become pretty savvy with,” she says. “The younger kids coming up those in th or th grade, or junior high school they kind of live on Skype or one of the other video platforms, and they’ll be on it for seven hours a night, mostly with their peer groups. But that time excludes the grandparents, because that age group doesn’t want to ‘waste time’ on talking with parents or grandparents, since the peer group becomes so central to them at that stage.”

It’s not surprising, then, that some grandparents can come to resent the little digital devices their grandkids become so glued to. ...continues on page 26

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Connecting with grandkids... from page 24 “Grandparents, particularly those on their first grandkids, will enjoy a lot of face-to-face time with the kids when they’re little and will become superconnected with them,” Strohman observes. “And then when the kids go off to elementary school and start to use technology more, all of a sudden their grandparents become obsolete and unimportant. It’s almost as if this castaway action occurs, and that can create an unspoken resentment between the grandparents and the technology. They can begin to feel very purposeless, like they no longer have a role in their grandchildren’s lives because they’ve been replaced.”

Or...they can embrace the technology the grandkids use, and actually begin to enjoy staying connected through tweets, posts, pictures and videos.

“I feel like social media was invented for grandparents!” counters Sun City Grand resident Cleo Ness, 79, whose

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seven grandchildren and nine greatgrandchildren all live far away from her in Texas. “What I like is that they video everything. One of them might be having a birthday party, and I can’t be there. But they’ll video it and I can watch it here on my i hone, just a few minutes later.”

Ness says she uploads her own share of videos, some starring her dog, Lilly Pearl, dressed up in various costumes.

In return, she sees almost daily videos from her grandkids.

“I get to see them jumping on the trampoline or going fishing or whatever. It makes me feel like they’re not so far away.”

Roger Borland, 87, a retired clergyman and one of Ness’ neighbors at The Colonnade retirement community, likes using the Hangouts app on his smartphone to do live video chatting

I feel like social media was invented for grandparents!

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with his six grandkids, who are spread out around the country from California to Wisconsin to Massachusetts.

“I like the instantaneous connection,” he says. “The kids aren’t oriented toward talking on the telephone anymore like we were in my day. But they’ll do the video calling which is even better, because you can both see each other on the screen.”

Borland admits it took him a little while to get up to speed on things like Hangout and Facebook Messenger, which most Cleo Ness of his grandkids use to chat. But now he says he hears from his three sons and their kids more than he ever did back in the days when only the telephone connected family members.

“It’s a really a good way of keeping in touch,” he says. “It’s like the kids

and grandkids are never further away than your pocket.”

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“I was into it right from the start,” says the Colonnade resident, who often helps out in the monthly iPhone and iPad classes led by Sun Health Senior Living manager Paula Sikes. “As soon as cellphones got texting capabilities, I couldn’t wait to do that!”

Moore acknowledges that some of her peers in the retirement community feel intimidated by the new technologies. “They’re scared of it,” she says. “I remember one day a lady here was nervous about getting a new phone, and so me and another resident who had an iPhone did a FaceTime video call sitting right across from each other at lunch.

And she was sold on it immediately. She went right out and got an iPhone and started FaceTiming with her family.

Once you see how it’s done and you try it, it’s easy.”

Learning the rules of communicating Peggy Moore with the grandkids through social media can be another matter. Moore says as a grandma on Facebook, she’s learned not to butt into comment threads between her grandkids and their friends to stay in her lane, so to speak. “Oh yeah, they can put you out of that really fast!” she says, laughing.

Julie Treinen, who directs the kinship program at Arizona’s Children Association in Tucson that facilitates grandparents caring for their grandchildren, says there are some steadfast rules for grandparents diving into social media relationships with their grands.

“On Facebook, you can’t comment on stuff if you’re grandma, you can only ‘Like’ stuff !” says Treinen, reciting the line virtually all grandparents hear from their teenaged granddaughter soon after starting an account. “If you have a comment, you have to put that in a private message. So there are relational rules to how you’re allowed to respond. And the grandchildren are real open to teaching you!”

Moore says her grandkids will happily shout out specific photo usage rights whenever she snaps a photo of something potentially embarrassing.

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“They’ll say, ‘No Facebook, Grandma!’

And you’d better listen!”

Strohman says there’s even a delicate psychology behind timing your “likes” on your grandchildren’s Facebook or Twitter pages. “If a kid is anywhere from high school age to their 20s, and they post something and somebody doesn’t like’ it within the first five minutes, they get stressed,” she says.

“But if you’re the only one who ‘likes’ it and nobody else clicks that button, that could impact their feelings, too.”

Moore is enough of a power user that she figured out how to start an invitationonly family Facebook page, and recommends the practice to other grandparents. “That keeps us up on family things, and only our family can get into it,” she says. “It’s great for the things your grandkids don’t want shared on their pages.”

She and her husband learned to group message, too, which now becomes their center of entertainment whenever a big sports event comes on TV. “My husband will be watching a hockey game with our sons, one in Michigan and one in Boston, and they’ll go back and forth, round and round in the messages, one joke after another,” she says.

“It’s made it a lot more fun than waiting on that Sunday afternoon phone call.”

Going viral If that “castaway” grandparent feeling replaced by technology had a face, it would probably belong to Oklahoma’s Kenny Harmon, or “Sad Papaw,” as he quickly became known on Twitter.

In a post by Harmon’s granddaughter Kelsey effectively throwing shade on all her siblings, the Northeastern State University student tweeted a photo of her grandfather looking sadly at a home-cooked burger and a small plate of fries with the caption, “Dinner with Papaw tonight. He made 12 burgers for all six grandkids and I’m the only one who showed. Love him,” she closed, with a crying emoji. ...continues on page 28

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Connecting with grandkids... from page 27 The tweet went viral (2,000 retweets within the first 3 minutes , “Sad Papaw” became an Internet meme, and in the end Harmon won the attention of all his grandkids not to mention thousands of their Gen- and millennial peers by ironically becoming an accidental star on the little screens they’d come to prefer watching over him across a dinner table. His next barbecue was announced on Twitter and hundreds of people showed up, along with his suddenly appreciative grandkids.

The lesson? If you want to get on your grandkids’ bandwidth, you’ve got to become a bit of an internet sensation.

“I don’t expect grandparents to

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immediately get on SnapChat or Instagram so that they remain relevant to their grandchildren’s generation.

Because, quite frankly, no kids want to see that!” says Strohman, with a laugh. “But they do have to learn how to communicate using social media.

Because that’s where their grandchildren are.”

Tucson’s Treinen says there are some hidden benefits to grandparents learning the new technology from their grandchildren, beyond just increasing communications.

“The good thing is, there’s research that shows that if you’re constantly learning complex things, you’re staving off dementia,” she says. “That’s what I see in the inter-generational work that I do. I’ve got grandchildren that are keeping

(Grandparents) have to learn how to communicate using social media. Because that’s where their grandchildren are.

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grandparents very young and alive. They’re constantly teaching them new stuff, and they enjoy it, it gives them a real sense of competency.

And the grandparents are open to it. It’s really nice to watch.”

Treinen says those purposeful interactions between the generations in learning the new ways to stay connected can cement a stronger bond than that weekly check-in on the phone.

“If the grandparents’ generation is not resistant to learning, and the younger generation is open to teaching, that gives such a perfect opportunity to Dr. Lisa Strohman grow the relationship that the grandparents crave so much. While that’s going on in their lives on their having the grandchildren stopping phones,” she adds. “And grandma gets by and visiting may be what grandma to ‘Like!’” wants, this provides constant contact.

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Here She Comes Ms. Senior Arizona Jeanne Martin to represent state in national pageant ::by Christina Fuoco-Karasinski

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hen Jeanne Martin, the s. Senior Arizona winner, strides into a meet and greet with her court, all heads turn. Martin is a vision in her snug cobalt blue sequined dress.

Despite her beauty, Martin had never participated in a pageant, but this one inspired her.

“I just got to a point in my life, where I said, ‘I’m really tired. I’m not going to be a couch potato.

I’m not going to let go of life.’

“When this came as an opportunity, I thought why not?

I’m going to step out of the box and have fun.”

Martin will travel to Atlantic City in October to represent Arizona as she competes for the s. Senior America title.

Her court includes Ava Genung from Scottsdale as first runner-up Nancy Howe from Scottsdale as second runner up inda Allbright of Sun City as third runner-up and Gena Soileau from Prescott as fourth runner-up.

The 21 contestants presented an array of talent that included singing, dancing, comedy monologues and, for the first time, a tai chi demonstration.

Held annually in March, the pageant is a program of the Cameo Foundation, a c 3 charity that benefits women and children of abuse.

Celebrating its 27th year, the pageant is open to seniors statewide. (For more information on entering the 2017 pageant, call . First and foremost, the pageant honors the “age of elegance.” The contestants, all of whom are ages or older, compete in

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Ms. Senior Arizona Jeanne Martin attended a meet and greet with other pageant winners—some from other states. four categories: philosophy of life, interview with the judges, evening gown presentation, and talent.

Martin’s talent was singing and yodeling.

“I’ve been doing music for years,” she said. “My husband and I have been doing music most of that time. I’m selftaught. I just listen to tapes and C s of other people and worked that into what we do.” artin was able to quit her fulltime job as a neonatal nurse in 3 to pursue music full time. A resident of Cottonwood, Martin moved west in 3 from ivonia, ichigan, where her mother taught her the finer points of being a lady.

“I was raised by a mother who was clearly a lady of elegance,” Martin said.

“I was very blessed. She was always an educator, reading and teaching. She supported me in just about anything I

wanted to do: where the forks go, how to set the table, how to sit in the chair properly as a lady. All of those things are important to her. At the time, I probably didn’t appreciate it. I probably rebelled a little. I’m really glad I have those things on board.”

She wants to share those feelings with younger women as she tours the state as Ms. Senior Arizona.

“I just want to let everybody know that the senior contingent is made up of people who are wise and have so much to share,” she said. “I want to pass onto the younger generation the importance of morals and of being classy and of sharing and educating.

“There are so many beautiful ladies out there. Being a lady is always something you can use, especially when you go into a job.

Classiness and elegance definitely push you forward.”

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hen Herme Sherry was named Ms. Senior Arizona in 2004, she was asked what she planned to do during her reigning year.

“I said, ‘I want to help somebody,’” Sherry said. “So I’d like to start a black-tie ball.”

She, in turn, created the Cameo Foundation, the beneficiary of the s.

Senior Arizona Pageant. The Cameo Foundation originally raised funds for Alzheimer’s disease associations, but Sherry has since changed her focus to domestic violence shelters because, she said, the need is greater there.

“We felt that cancer and heart disease and Alzheimer’s get national help, but domestic violence does not,” Sherry said.

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Sherry said now is the time to start talking openly about domestic violence.

“When I grew up, it was a secret,” she said. “You didn’t talk about it. It still is, to a certain degree. Ladies need to know that they do have an option. They don’t have to stay. The children are frozen in fear. The shelters are struggling for funds to keep the doors open.”

The Cameo Foundation holds fundraisers throughout the year to raise monies for those shelters. The fifth annual Dancing Musical Fashion Show is scheduled for ov. , while the date of the Cameo Ball is to be determined.

Next year’s Ms. Senior Arizona Pageant is on March 19. For more information about the organization or its events, visit www.cameofoundation.org.

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The tall ship Star Clipper is one of the largest and fastest-sailing ships on the sea today.

In 1979, the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia, founded in the 16th century, joined the UNESCO list of World Heritage sites.

An Eastern Mediterranean odyssey A voyage on the Star Clipper

:: by Ed Boitano | Photos by Deb Roskamp

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n 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. Odysseus washes ashore on the island of Corfu. He staggers into an olive grove and collapses.

My arrival on Corfu was slightly less dramatic. Poseidon must have been smiling for the seas were calm and shimmering. My mode of transportation was the 360-feet luxury sailing vessel the Star Clipper, whose Tropical Bar was always open.

Star Clipper The tall ship Star Clipper is one of the largest and fastest-sailing ships on the sea. ike the Star Clipper’s fleet of two other vessels, the Star Flyer and the Royal Clipper, it is modeled after the iconic clipper ships of the past, which seamlessly blend the best traditions of that legendary era with the state-of-the-art amenities.

It’s easy to get to know fellow traveling companions as the Star Clipper, because it’s the smallest vessel of the fleet, with a maximum of just 170 guests. Accommodations are spacious and life aboard is relaxed.

Morning begins with the hoisting of the sails to the accompaniment of the

title theme from the film “ aster and Commander.” It is a moment that most passengers don’t miss. Passengers can climb the mast to one of the crow’s nests for panoramic views, or quite literally hang on one of the two widow’s nets, a blanket-like braided net that hangs over the side of the vessel.

Creature comforts include an elegant dining room, tropical and piano bar, and swimming pools. If you’ve already sailed on all three vessels, stay tuned for another Star Clipper ship is in the works.

Ports of Call Venice The embarkation city for the Star Clipper, Venice was sweltering and frenzied, similar to that of Disneyland on opening day. But who was I to complain? After all, I was a tourist too, and Venice belongs to the world.

Highlights included San Marco; the Rialto Bridge; the Bridge of Sighs, the bridge where convicts would get their last glimpse of Venice on their way to prison; the palace of the Doge, the chief-of-state ruler when Venice was a republic the morning fish market a Vaporetto water taxi ride down the Grand Canal; a sampling of Venice’s famed seafood and risotto; and, of course, a romantic gondola tour of the city’s pristine canals. Yes, it is touristic.

But after all, it is Venice.

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Mali Lošinj, Croatia The first stop of my -day odyssey was the island of ali o inj. The most low-key of all the ports, it was a good place to stretch your legs and take a swim among local Croat families and feel like a local.

Hvar, Croatia The idyllic island of Hvar is an oasis of lavender fields and ancient olive trees, once a getaway for the Romans.

My guide said it’s still popular for the rich and famous, with some American computer billionaire named Bill recently vacationing there.

Boka Fjord, Montenegro Charming villages rested along the shore as we sailed deep into the heart of Boka Fjord, the largest fjord of the Mediterranean Sea. Four hours were not enough for the medieval town of Kotor, but long enough for me to know that I will return. Montenegro means “black mountain.”

Corfu, Greece The lushest of all the Greek Islands, essential stops are the Fortress of Saint Mark and a glass of local wine overlooking the village of Paleokastritsa, where Odysseus washed ashore.

port of Sparta, where mythical Paris and Helen of Troy fled to gypt, to the Byzantine frescoes of the 14th century churches of Mystra—but well worth the journey. As we passed through Sparta, once a dominant military city-state in ancient Greece, I was surprised to find that most of the ancient structures are buried a mile or so beneath an array of tacky souvenir shops and restaurants.

Santorini, Greece Santorini is rife with villages built on tall cliffs, white-washed churches and cobblestone streets leading to charming tavernas. Santorini is the archetypical Greek picture-postcard island. In 1500 B.C., a volcanic eruption destroyed the center of the island, leaving a crescent-shaped rim of cliffs around the harbor. It is one of the most spectacular landscapes in the world.

Mykonos, Greece Someone on the vessel had clearly upset Poseidon, for the trip to Mykonos was canceled due to rough seas. Many were disappointed, but we had been warned that this was the price one might pay when sailing a smaller vessel.

The good news was, however, that I was able to spend another day with my new friends. I think I read where Odysseus made a few friends on his odyssey, too.

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The hot springs originate in the nearby Ouachita Mountain Range.

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come to Hot Springs, Arkansas, with an agenda.

I want to relax in the curative waters, find a diamond and go home refreshed and rich.

After all, one of the world’s greatest baseball players as well as many of the world’s most notorious gangsters have found the waters restorative, and as for diamonds, just last year a man found a 6.19-carat jewel in a nearby park. Here, I figure, all is possible.

Of course, there’s a close relationship between possibility and luck, and Hot Springs is undeniably President Bill Clinton lived in Hot Springs from 1954 to lucky. Located on the eastern 1961. The home is now a private residence. edge of Ouachita National Forest, 50 miles from Little Rock, it’s water into its fountains, and indirectly surrounded by such natural beauty that fill its coffers as well. This is the real in 1832 Andrew Jackson designated it source of the town’s luck. a “special reservation.” As a result, Hot During its heyday in the twenties Springs claims the title of the country’s and thirties, bathhouses promising oldest national park. therapeutic soaks that could cure ills It’s also the smallest, only seven times from bunions to syphilis attracted the the size of New York City’s Central rich, the famous and the infamous.

Park. To see how this compares to the They came for the baths, but they larger countryside, we climb 306 steps stayed for the fun. to the third level of the Hot Springs Gambling and prostitution became Tower. There, below us, is a smattering major industries. Sports stars like Babe of buildings surrounded by miles and Ruth frequented the casinos and bars at miles of green forest and sparkling night and sought hangover relief in the lakes. The town is special—and small. baths in the morning. Gangsters like Al But while many places are Capone made deals with bootleggers surrounded by beauty, Hot Springs who had stills in the nearby forests. is also home to 47 springs that send By the time the feds cracked down in 700,000 gallons a day of mineral-rich the ’60s, Hot Springs had the largest

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Top: Babe Ruth and other baseball greats worked out in the Arlington Hotel gym when they were in town for Spring Training.

Right: Clinton’s favorite meal at McClard’s is a beef sandwich accompanied by a side of beans. illegal gambling operation in the United States.

We stop at the Arlington Hotel to see the room where Ruth worked out when he wasn’t sweating out and where Capone stayed when he was hanging out. A stop at the Gangster Museum, which is filled with an old roulette table, vintage slot machines and other tools of the trade, provides us with gossipy tidbits on Capone and his fellow mobsters, including Charles “Lucky” Luciano.

Frank Costello, and Owney “The Killer” Madden. A quote by Mae West, who The Killer bankrolled, protected and romanced, tells us he was really a sweet guy but could be “oh so vicious.”

I’m not sure if Ruth and Capone bathed at the Arlington or at the Buckstaff, which is the only one of the eight original bathhouses that is still operational, but my husband isn’t interested in following the footsteps of Capone anyway. Thus, I opt for the Buckstaff, which is right across the street.

The attendant asks me what kind of treatment I’d like. “I’ll have what Mae had,” I say. She tells me to disrobe.

Nudity isn’t on my agenda, but I meekly follow her instructions, and she spends the next 90 minutes making sure that I’m thoroughly rubbed, pummeled and pampered. A long soak in 100-degree water is followed by a loofah rub, hot blanket wrap, sitz bath, vapor cabinet experience and needle shower. I emerge feeling more like a survivor than a star.

A great big diamond might help me feel, or at least look, more like a star, so we head to Crater of the Diamonds State Park. More than

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The rules state that visitors can walk around and hope they spot a glittering rock, rent a small tool and search through the loose surface soil, or use special equipment and dig deep, an activity that is best for those who have previous experience.

Because we have no previous experience, I stroll and search, my husband digs and hopes, and after an hour we both come up empty-handed, dusty and in need of cleansing, if not restorative, baths. n route back to our motel, we stop at McClard’s, the local barbecue joint that Bill Clinton, who grew up in Hot Springs, claims is one of the best restaurants in the world.

The waitress tells us that Bill favored the chopped beef sandwich with a side of beans. “ ven when he was a devout vegan, he’d come in and sneak a bite of our barbecued beef,” she said.

Bill’s beef-and-beans sets us each back $10.13, including tax.

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Wear light clothing Heavy clothing tends to trap body heat, causing you to sweat and become dehydrated. Consider wearing lightweight, loose and comfortable clothing to stay cool this summer.

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in with you at least twice a day to make sure you are doing well. This is especially important when there is a heat wave expected to pass through your area.

Protect yourself with sunscreen Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer in the United States.

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T HE F INISH L INE Arizona’s Leader in Senior Fitness Thank you to ASO Arizona Senior Olympics would not exist without the dedicated service of hundreds of volunteers. Thanks to those who served to make the 2016 games a success. The people listed below are those who have volunteered “above and beyond” by giving hundreds of hours of their time and effort to ASO. To them we also offer our heartfelt thanks.

UPS (unpaid staff) Roxie Allen Paul Harvey Robin Stillwell-Harvey fi e assistants and ga es anage ent tea Debera German Ellie Kallal Nancy Jackson Gloria Tolaro Phil Hershkowitz

ort o issioners and i e o issioners Richard Alexander Bruce Alleman Ray Bierner Sharon Billeter Dee Borendame Tony Cheung Chuck Crouse Michael Cullumber Charles Eckman Robert Elston Lynda Fleischer Judy Gillies John Hardy Paul Harvey Dianne Henrickson Kay Hussar Tom Jackson Dennis Johnson Sam Ortega Robert Oyster Kenny Perez

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2017 National Senior Games will be a winner

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irmingham, Alabama, is ready for the 2017 National Senior Games.

Even though the games are still in the planning stages, the city is ready to welcome thousands of seniors on June 2, 2017.

Starting with this month, The Finish Line will feature shorts about Birmingham. It’s a city rich in history, landmarks, great Southern food and friendly people.

This month, we focus on the Alabama Theatre, which was built in 1927 by Paramount Studios. It was used primarily as a movie palace for 55 years, with the exception of the annual Miss Alabama pageant and the weekly Mickey Mouse Club.

In 1998, the theater underwent a complete restoration by EverGreene Studios in New York City. In eight

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months, the theater went from its look of faded grandeur to a sparkling 1927 landmark, down to the gold leaf paint. In addition to the restoration, new carpet was installed in the ladies lounge and new drapes were hung on stage and in the organ chambers.

While you’re in town for the games, enjoy a tour of the historic Alabama Theatre that begins in the ticket lobby.

Patrons walk up to the balcony and the tour concludes in the auditorium with a demonstration of Big Bertha, the

in partnership with the cities of Chandler, Glendale, Mesa, Peoria, Scottsdale, Tempe and the communities of Sun City, Sun City West and Sun City Grand

Alabama’s prized Mighty Wurlitzer Organ.

The tour lasts approximately one hour and costs $10. The Alabama Theatre does not have an elevator and stairs are involved in this tour.

Arizona Senior Olympics P.O. Box 33278 Phoenix, AZ 85067-3278

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ASO featured in Phoenix Magazine THEY’RE HERE! In the April “Top Docs” issue of and cyclist Ann Chadwick.

Our beautiful 35th anniversary shirts! Phoenix “Arizona Senior Olympics is proud Magazine, four Arizona Senior Olympians were dubbed “Super of our athletes and these four are Don’t miss out on this special shirt Seniors” who exemplify the active representative of the spirit and courage lifestyle even in the fact of some of that we see in all of our senior athletes,” celebrating 35 years of Arizona said Irene Stillwell, ASO executive life’s greatest challenges.

Senior Olympics The four Senior Olympians director. whose stories are told are champion powerlifter Gayle Clawson, runner Jorge Magana, swimmer Dan Tajajcak

Positioned on pages 212 through 215, the article is a major promotion for Arizona Senior Olympics.

Harvard Medical says ‘exercise’

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In a recent blog by Dr. Robert Schmerling, faculty editor of the Harvard Health Publications, the importance of exercise was linked to a list of benefits that everyone should strive to gain.

“If exercise were a medication, it would be a blockbuster,” Schmerling stated.

Here are the improvements you can make in your health by exercising: • Loss of excess weight • Improved energy and stamina • Lower cholesterol and blood pressure • Lower average blood sugar • Increased muscle mass, strength and balance

• Increased bone strength • A lower risk of certain cancers • Improved mood and sleep The cost benefit ratio of exercise is amazing because exercise does not have to cost a cent and the benefits are significant.

Volunteers sought for 2017 ASO games Planning has begun for the 2017 Arizona Senior Olympic Games and you can be a part of the excitement!

The games are scheduled for Feb. 18 to March 12 and help is needed on the games management team.

We are looking for volunteers who can serve as liaisons between the sports planners and the sports commissioners. GMT members are responsible for helping with all aspects of planning the event and assisting with their implementation.

Anyone who’s interested in volunteering for this position can call (602) 274-7742.

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Snapshots of the 2016 Arizona Games

yclists sprint to the finish line.

Missed qualifying? Take a trip!

If you missed out on qualifying for the National Senior Games at the 2016 Arizona Senior Olympics, don’t worry!

You may still be able to qualify at one of the other states’ senior games listed below.

Every state on the list is open to outof-state athletes except New Mexico and North Carolina.

For detailed information about the games go to www.nationalseniorgames. com.

Alabama: April 13 to May 4 Alaska: Aug. 12 to Aug. 21 Arizona: Feb. 18 to March 12, 2017 Arkansas: Sept. 28 to Oct. 2 California: May 27 to June 26 Colorado: June 8 to June 12 Connecticut: May 14 to May 15 Delaware: August through November Florida: Dec. 3 to Dec. 11 Georgia: Sept. 21 to Sept. 24 Hawaii: November Idaho: Aug. 6 to Aug. 28 Illinois: Sept. 17 to Sept. 26 Indiana: May 19 to May 27 Iowa: June 8 to June 12 Kansas: Sept. 8 to Sept. 18 Kentucky: September Louisiana: August to November Maine: June to October

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Maryland: August to September Massachusetts: June 1 to Sept. 30 Michigan: Aug. 12 to Aug. 21 Minnesota: May 19 to May 22 Mississippi: April 9 to May 22 Missouri: June 9 to June 12 Montana: June 16 to June 18 Nebraska: Aug. 4 to Aug. 7 Nevada: April 7 to April 17 New Hampshire: July 31 to Sept. 5 New Jersey: Sept. 9 to Sept. 11 New Mexico: Aug. 19 to Sept. 11 New York: June 13 to June 18 North Carolina: Sept. 26 to Oct. 2 North Dakota: No games Ohio: June 10 to June 26 Oklahoma: No games Oregon: June 9 to June 12 Pennsylvania: July 27 to July 31 Rhode Island: June South Carolina: May 18 to May 21 South Dakota: Aug. 25 to Aug. 28 Tennessee: June 24 to June 30 Texas: April 7 to April 17 Utah: Oct. 2 to Oct. 15 Vermont: February and March Virginia: May 17 to May 21 Washington: July 20 to July 24 Washington, D.C.: May 2 to May 13 West Virginia: July 7 to July 9 Wisconsin: Aug. 19 to Sept. 11 Wyoming: Aug. 3 to Aug. 6

These participants in the shooting events s ile after receiving their edals.

A Senior Olympian sets himself up for a edal winning shot put.

his pole vaulter literally sets the bar high.

Table tennis players wait for a chance to return a shot.

These shooters also receive medals in their respective events.

This tennis player displays his form during a atch.

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