50plus Senior News - Lebanon, May 2011

By Beth Anne Heesen

Metal detectors have become almost as common on beaches as seagulls. Itis a popular hobby today, with thousands of people flocking to the sand eachyear to search for rings, coins, and other treasures. But for Bob Clark, 73,metal detecting is much more than a hobby. He started more than 40 yearsago and has been doing it ever since.

He began in the late ’60s. “Not many people had metal detectors at thattime,” he said, “but as a deputy wildlife conservation officer, I was one of thefew that did.” He was also a nature writer, and metal detecting turned out tobe a perfect activity for the outdoorsy, adventure-loving man.

Clark uses his metal detector extensively for community service, so thehobby has been a joy not only to him, but also to countless others who havebenefited from his findings.

“People take off rings [at the beach], put them in a shoe, and then comeback and throw the sand out of the shoe,” he said. Out with the sand go therings, much to their owners’ dismay. Clark said he is happy when he canreturn an item to someone and does not accept rewards.

In the early ’70s, Clark joined a ring recovery team. One time, he found aclass ring for a Gettysburg woman at Pine Grove Furnace State Park inCumberland County.

“She was very poor, and it was one of the thrills of her life,” he said. The

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Instead of a plaque or memorial thatlasts, some like to plant a mass ofperennials or a grove of native trees.These areallowed toreseed, so asthe originalplants die, newseedlings grow.This carriesthe plantingalong for manyyears, muchlonger than asingle plant.

Candidatesfor suchperennialsmight bemallows,garden phlox,and lupines, and for annuals try cosmosor spider flower. Just make sure theirreseeding won’t cause problems wheresited.

If a person was interested ingardening, their passions would be agood place to start in creating a memorialgarden. Perhaps they were fond of a plantsuch as rhododendron, phlox, orhollyhocks, which, by planting, willremind you of them.

Perhaps the person liked a food suchas applesauce or wines, so you mightplant an apple tree or grapes to triggermemories. My mother was fond of herbs,so I keep a small herb garden in hermemory. Others keep alive memories offriends through plants given to them bythat person.

If a person liked a particular season,focus your garden on this, either withbloom times as in spring bulbs or foliagecolors for fall. If a person liked aparticular color, focus on this withflowers and foliage if possible. A whitegarden is sometimes popular toremember a young child, with whitesymbolizing purity.

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A memorial garden for reflection isappropriate for persons that really had nointerest in plants. Instead, install someobject to remind you of them as a focalpoint. For an adult interested in music,you might choose wind chimes or amusical sculpture. For one interested inliterature, have their favorite poeminscribed. For children, this focus couldbe a sculpture of their favorite toy orimpressions in stepping stones. Perhapsyou would create a children’s play gardenfor other youth to enjoy.

Creating memorial gardens promoteshealing. Maintaining them is therapeutic.The gardens not only keep alive theirmemories, but also provide beauty tothose who see them even if they didn’tknow the person you are remembering.

Dr. Leonard P. Perry is an extension professorat the University of Vermont.

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ring had her husband’s initialsinscribed on it. “She was thrilled todeath when she found out,” he said.“It was unbelievable.”

Clark is a member and pastpresident of Pen Mar HistoricalRecovery Association, a metaldetecting club in Gettysburg withabout 50 members ranging in agefrom early teens to seniors.The team often goes to stateparks and other grounds tosearch for historical relics.They put the items they findin plastic bags, andarchaeologists analyze them.

The club donates itsfindings to museums all overthe country and has madehistorical discoveries. Once,Clark and seven othermembers found 3,500 itemson a 600-acre plot onGettysburg National Park thatproved the land had been abattlefield and prevented itfrom becoming a shoppingcenter.

Clark has even used his metaldetector for crime solving. In theearly ’70s, a conservationist officerwas shot in Adams County. Hesurvived but was seriously injured.Clark found three shell cases thatwere linked to the gun of the personwho shot the officer.

“The man [had] panicked,” hesaid. “He was hunting deer and [theofficer] caught him, so he shot theofficer between the eyes.” He hasalso found knives and other weaponslinked to crimes that occurred longago.

Another reason Clark metaldetects is for the health benefits. Thehobby requires walking, stretching,

and digging, and the exercise canrange from light to heavy, dependingon how much someone wants towork on it and where they go.

“You don’t have to be in thatgood of shape on sand at the beach,but it works you when you’re digging3 or 4 inches into dirt,” he said.

Clark and his wife of 52 years,

Thelma, travel all over America.Wherever they go, he never leaveshome without his metal detector. Heloves to go to the beach, where sandmakes metal detecting a lot easier.His wife is not as interested in metaldetecting as Clark, but she enjoysspending time on the beach.

Clark said that, for his purposes,the beach is best when it is not busy.Children get excited when they seepeople metal detecting and followthem around. “You have to becareful with children,” he said. “Askthem to stand back and show themwhat you found.”

Metal detecting can bring a profitif you work hard at it and are lucky.

One of Clark’s friends makes about$30,000 a year metal detecting inOcean City, Md., but that is not thenorm. Clark said it is not unusualfor him to find 10,000 to 12,000coins a year, but that is not a lot ofmoney when 90 percent of thosecoins are pennies.

One of the rarest items Clark everfound was an 1824 self-madecoin in the South. Anothergreat find was a 100-year-old,44-caliber Peacemakerrevolver he found under awooden floor in an old barnout West.

He said he finds a lot ofjunk too, which is why herecommends spending at least$300 for a metal detector.“You want to find a machinethat will discriminate againstaluminum,” he said.

Clark’s hobby carriesspectacular social benefits forhim. He enjoys metaldetecting with club membersand looks forward to the

treasure hunt they hold eachOctober, which he said is “sort oflike an Easter egg hunt for adults.”For a fee, anyone is welcome tosearch for Indian Head pennies,silver, and other items—including akey to a treasure chest.

He eagerly shares findings withothers who enjoy metal detecting,although most keep the sites wherethey found them secret, just as somepeople keep silent on the specialingredients of their most scrumptiousrecipes. “People love to share, butwon’t tell you where,” he said.

Clark said that metal detecting is agreat thing for a husband and wife todo together and that it provides a funactivity to do with kids and grandkidsat the beach, where it is easy to getbored.

Best of all, Clark said every day ofmetal detecting is an adventure. “Younever know what you’re going to findnext,” he said. “You never know whenyou’re going to find a gold coin.”

For more information on metaldetecting or the Pen Mar HistoricalRecovery Association, visitwww.gettysburgelectronics.com/penmar or contact Don Hinks at(717) 334-8634 [email protected]. The club meets onthe second Tuesday of every othermonth at the National AppleMuseum in Biglerville.

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The 26th annual Lebanon CountySenior Games are set to take place June 1-7 with a full schedule of events for countyresidents 50 and older. The games will beheld at different sites throughout thecounty.

The Lebanon County Senior Games,organized by the Lebanon YMCA,promote physical fitness and fellowshipthrough participation in competitive andnoncompetitive activities.

Participants are divided into several agedivisions and will compete for one ofthree top-place awards in each agedivision for every event. The games’ five-day span will include walking, golf,shuffleboard, bingo, billiards, and more.

Scheduled events for 2011 are asfollows:

Wednesday, June 1

8 a.m. – 1.5-mile walk or half-mile walk,Lions Lake, North Lebanon Township

9:30 a.m. – Miniature golf, WateringHole Golf Course

1:30 p.m. – Bowling, Cedar Lanes6 p.m. – 5K race, Cedar Lanes

Thursday, June 2

8 a.m. – Golf, Blue Mt. View GolfCourse

Friday, June 3

8:30 a.m. – Pinochle, Senior Center ofLebanon Valley

9 a.m. – Table tennis, Senior Center ofLebanon Valley

12:30 p.m. – Swimming, freestyle 50-meter, YMCA

1 p.m. – Bingo, Senior Center ofLebanon Valley

Monday, June 6

8 a.m. – Badminton, singles and doubles,Lebanon VA (YMCA)

10 a.m. – Basketball foul shooting,Lebanon VA (YMCA)

11 a.m. – Softball throw, Lebanon VA(YMCA)

12:30 p.m. – Pickleball, Lebanon VA(YMCA)

1 p.m. – Shuffleboard, Senior Center ofLebanon Valley

Tuesday, June 7

8:30 a.m. – Bocce ball, ages 70-79 and80+, YMCA

10 a.m. – Bocce ball, ages 50-59 and 60-69, YMCA

12:30 p.m. – Billiards, Senior Center ofLebanon Valley

The entry deadline is May 11, andofficial registration forms can be sent toLebanon YMCA (Mark Hubbard) at 201N. Seventh St., Lebanon, PA 17046.

There is a registration fee perindividual registration. For moreinformation, call the Lebanon YMCA at(717) 273-2691.

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Palmyra Couple Celebrates 62 Years

Benjamin G. and Alma (Longenecker)Shank of Palmyra will mark their 62nd

wedding anniversary on Friday, June 3.They were married in 1949 inElizabethtown.

Mr. Shank was a poultry farmer formany years before working as a farmlabor representative for the Pennsylvania

Bureau of Employment Security for 20years. Mrs. Shank helped her husbandrun their chicken business and thenbecame a USDA slaughter inspector for19 years.

They are the parents of two daughters:Vicki Shank, of Maryland, and TerriSunda, of Texas. They have one grandson.

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Kate Middleton and PrinceWilliam married at WestminsterAbbey in London on April 29,

2011. Royal watchers will be eyeing awide range of collectibles.

Which royal collectibles should youbuy? I always advise people to collectobjects that chronicle a historic event orrelate to historic figures. It has beenproven that in the market for art andantiques, these historic and genuineobjects will hold their value long term.Quality and authentic objects relating toa royal wedding, albeit the first of thiscentury, certainly fit the bill.

Collecting the Queen

Reports indicate that the LordChamberlain, Earl Peel, wrote in a staffmemo recently that “We want [royalwedding] items that are permanent andsignificant.” For the Kate/William royalwedding, Queen Elizabeth II and herstaff are proponents of such regal

wedding collectibles asporcelain pillboxes,monogrammed tea towels,and commemorative cupsthat highlight the futureking and his new bride.These are going to be, longterm, the sought-aftercollectibles, so these arethe objects to acquire now.

The history of royalcollectibles ranges fromQueen Victoria’s diamondtiara, George V’scoronation china, QueenElizabeth II’smonogrammed silver teaservice, and, of course,Prince Charles and Princess Diana’s royalwedding porcelain boxes.

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I wish congratulations to the royalcouple, and happy hunting to all the restof you royal collectors.

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In 2006, President George W. Bushproclaimed that May would be Jewish-American Heritage Month.

The announcement was the crowningachievement in an effort by the JewishMuseum of Florida and South FloridaJewish community leaders that resultedin resolutions introduced by Rep.Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Floridaand Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvaniaurging the president to proclaim amonth that would recognize the morethan 350-year historyof Jewishcontributions toAmerican culture.

The resolutionspassed unanimously,first in the House ofRepresentatives inDecember 2005 andlater in the Senate inFebruary 2006. Since2006, JAHMprograms have takenplace across thecountry.

The contributionsof Jewish-Americansare far-ranging andinclude scientists,entertainers, writers,and entrepreneurs.Some of these arelisted below:

Levi Strauss, 1829-1902. In 1873,Strauss and Nevadatailor Jacob Daviscreated the first bluejeans when theyreceived a U.S. patent to make men’sdenim work pants with copper rivets.With this patent, they began tomanufacture blue jeans, known today asthe Levi’s® brand.

Emma Lazarus, 1849-1887. Lazaruswas a writer and a scholar of literatureand languages whose poetry and essaysprotested the rise of anti-Semitism.“Give me your tired, your poor, / Yourhuddled masses yearning to breathe free”are two famous lines of her sonnet, “TheNew Colossus,” which was affixed to theStatue of Liberty in 1903.

Estée Lauder, 1906-2004. BornJosephine Esther Mentzer, Lauderfounded the Estée Lauder Company in

1946. Lauder was the only womanincluded in Time magazine’s 1998 list ofthe 20 most influential business geniusesof the 20th century. Devoted tophilanthropy, Lauder launched the pinkribbon symbol as the worldwide emblemof breast health.

Jonas Salk, 1914-1995. When news ofSalk’s discovery of a polio vaccine wasmade public in 1955, the virologist washailed as a miracle worker. In 1963, he

founded the SalkInstitute for BiologicalStudies in La Jolla,Calif. Salk spent hislast years searching fora vaccine against AIDS.

Ruth Mosko Handler,1916-2002. The LosAngeles Times’ Womanof the Year in Businessin 1967, Handlercreated the Barbie doll,named after herdaughter, in 1959. Thedoll rocketed theMattel company tonearly overnightsuccess and became anicon of Americanculture. Handler laterturned her attention tohelping other breastcancer survivors,creating a breastprosthesis called NearlyMe.

Ann Landers, 1918-2002. Esther Pauline

Friedman Lederer, writing as AnnLanders, had her first advice columnpublished in the Chicago Sun Times in1955. By the end of Lederer’s life, AnnLanders had become the world’s mostwidely syndicated column, published inmore than 1,200 publications and withmore than 90 million readers aroundthe world.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg, b. 1933. BaderGinsburg is the first Jewish woman toserve on the U.S. Supreme Court andthe first woman to make both theHarvard and Columbia law reviews. Sheserved on the U.S. Court of Appealsfrom 1980 until her appointment in1993 to the U.S. Supreme Court.

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Sandy Koufax, b. 1935. Koufax won18 games and struck out 269 batters forthe Brooklyn Dodgers, a league record.Koufax was the first major leaguer topitch four no-hitters, including aperfect game. He became the firstplayer to earn three Cy Young Awardsand the youngest player ever elected tothe Baseball Hall of Fame.

Barbra Streisand, b. 1942. Streisand isone of the most commercially successful

recording artists in history, having soldmore albums than any other femaleartist. Streisand is the only artist ever toreceive Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy,Directors Guild of America, GoldenGlobe, National Endowment for theArts, and Peabody awards, as well as theAmerican Film Institute’s LifetimeAchievement Award.

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Events• May 5, 1865 – Decoration Day was first observed

in the United States, with the tradition ofdecorating soldiers’ graves from the Civil War withflowers. The observance date was later moved toMay 30 and included American graves from WorldWar I and World War II. It then became betterknown as Memorial Day. In 1971, Congress movedMemorial Day to the last Monday in May, thuscreating a three-day holiday weekend.

• May 14, 1796 – Smallpox vaccine was developed byDr. Edward Jenner, a physician in rural England.He coined the term vaccination for the newprocedure of injecting a milder form of the diseaseinto healthy persons, resulting in immunity. Within18 months, 12,000 people in England had beenvaccinated and the number of smallpox deathsdropped by two-thirds.

• May 24, 1844 – Telegraph inventor Samuel Morsesent the first official telegraph message, “What hathGod wrought?” from the Capitol building inWashington, D.C., to Baltimore.

Birthdays• May 6 – Psychoanalysis founder Sigmund Freud

(1856-1939) was born in Freiberg, Moravia. Histheories became the foundation for treatingpsychiatric disorders by psychoanalysis and offeredsome of the first workable cures for mentaldisorders.

• May 12 – British nurse and public health activistFlorence Nightingale (1820-1910) was born inFlorence, Italy. She volunteered to aid British troopsin Turkey where she improved hospital sanitaryconditions and greatly reduced the death rate forwounded and sick soldiers. She received worldwideacclaim for her unselfish devotion to nursing,contributed to the development of modern nursingprocedures, and emphasized the dignity of nursingas a profession for women.

• May 29 – American revolutionary leader PatrickHenry (1736-1799) was born in Studley, Va. He isbest remembered for his speech in 1775 declaring,“I know not what course others may take, but as forme, give me liberty or give me death.”

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Mouse with ‘Golden Ears’ Yields Hearing-Loss InsightMost people lose some of their

hearing as they get older. That’s acommon part of aging. But for a smallnumber of seniors—roughly 5 percent—it’s not the ears that are the problem; it’sthe brain.

In new research published in theNeurobiology of Aging, scientists havecreated a mouse model that iscomparable to an older adult who hasthe ears of a healthy 20-year-old but thebrain of that 20-year-old’s great-grandmother.

They created the model when theycrossed two mouse strains commonlyused to study age-related hearing loss: theCBA mouse, which loses its hearinggradually, like most people, and the C57mouse, which loses its hearing rapidly inmiddle age and becomes deaf later in life.

“The CBAs don’t breed very well. TheC57s do. And so we thought, if we could

get an offspring that breeds well but stillhas pretty good hearing, we would get animproved animal model for studying age-related hearing loss,”said Robert Frisina,University ofRochester MedicalCenter, and principalinvestigator on thestudy. “But we actuallygot one that hadsignificantly betterhearing than eithermouse model. Andthat was a surprise.”

Using technologiesthat are commonlyused to screen newborns for hearing loss,the researchers indeed found that theoffspring of this cross, called the F1generation—a.k.a. the golden ear mice—had significantly better hearing than the

C57 mice and the CBA mice as theyaged.

On the other hand, they also foundthat the F1 mouse brainwas less able tocompensate for sound inbackground noise thanthe CBA mice. This issimilar to an agingperson whose ears areworking fine but whostill has troubleunderstanding speechwhen there’s a lot ofbackground noise, suchas at restaurants anddinner parties.

The research team’s next step is tofigure out what molecular pathways arein place that may be protecting the F1mouse’s hearing.

“We definitely know why the F1’s

hearing is better than the C57’s. It’sbecause it doesn’t have two copies of therecessive genes that the C57 has. So that’sa slam dunk,” said Frisina. “Why it hasbetter hearing than the CBA, that’s stillopen.”

In addition, age-related hearing lossusually is the outcome of aging ears andan aging brain, and for this reason, it’sdifficult for scientists to untangle theroles the two systems play. Because F1’sears are still working well, the researchersplan to explore how the part of the brainthat processes the sounds we hear ages onits own—without the addedcomplication of processing distortedsounds from damaged ears.

If researchers can pinpoint keychanges occurring in the brain as a resultof aging, they may be able to developdrug or gene therapies to ward offhearing loss in some older adults.

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Unique Stories, Common Goal

By Beth Anne Heesen

Some came from local bands andtheaters. Others sang at church, croonedfor customers at the grocery store, orperformed karaoke for residents inretirement homes. Still others performedonly for spouses and grandchildren,danced only in kitchens, and sang only inshowers.

Whatever their backgrounds, morethan 100 people made it to the sixthannual PA STATE SENIOR IDOL auditions,held by On-Line Publishers, Inc., toprove that Pennsylvania’s seniors arebursting with talent. Most sang for thejudges, but others played the trumpet orguitar.

Everyone had their chance to shine,but only 15 outstanding performers aregoing on to next month’s finalscompetition to compete for the title ofPennsylvania’s next SENIOR IDOL.

Jose Angel Cruz of Ephrata arrivedearly for his audition and, fortunately, sodid his birthday. Cruz wanted to enterthe competition last year but could notbecause he was still under 50. The first-timer nailed his audition when he sang“Butterfly Kisses” by Bob Carlisle withenergy and passion.

Philadelphia resident Dan Kelly wasworried when he walked into the auditionroom because the song on the CD heused was in a different key than he hadpracticed. Imagine the judges’ surprisewhen he belted out a deep, confidentperformance of “Why God, Why” fromMiss Saigon. While contestants in thewaiting room could not see his dramaticbody language and the emotion on hisface, every one of them could hear hispowerful voice.

Judges felt like they found a pot ofgold when Patty Price of York took theirbreaths away singing Judy Garland’s“Over the Rainbow.” Price’s stunningvoice and poise earned her a place as asemifinalist for the second year in a row.

Constance Kuba Fisher ofMechanicsburg’s animated expressionsand gestures also delighted her audienceas she sang “Don’t Rain on My Parade”from Funny Girl. The elegant, sequinedshirt that she made herself matched hershimmering talent beautifully.

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Steve Reuben of Harrisburg was a littlenervous about singing “Some EnchantedEvening” from South Pacific at hisaudition because he was a little under theweather. Fortunately, he showed upanyway because no one else would havehad a clue. His compelling voice wasapparently sturdy enough to withstandthe attack on his sinuses.

Margie Sheaffer of New Providencewas another contestant who hadbutterflies in her stomach. She had beenpart of a late-’60s rock band and hasconsiderable theater experience, but after15 years off-stage, Sheaffer was outsideher comfort box. Last year she applied foran audition but then backed out of it.

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Before she went in for her audition, shejoked with Joyce that she was mad at herfor “making” her do this. But after asizzling performance of “Fever” by PeggyLee, she gave Joyce a hug and said she washappy that she went through with it. Thenext day, she got a call congratulating herfor making it to the finals.

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Trenton (1776). George Washingtondefeated Hessian forces by crossing theDelaware for the first major victory inthe Revolutionary War.

The Alamo (1836). Approximately 150Texas settlers held off a Mexican forceof 1,500 troops, enduring a 13-day

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Earth’s 4.5 billion-year-old sun, theaxis of our magnificent universe,altruistically fathers all life.

Sunbeams provide nutrition forvegetation eaten by omnivores, who arethen consumed by other animals, whoare ultimately consumed by humans,and so on and so forth.

Since the creationof Earth, the infinitecycle of life hasobtained power andenergy from the sun.Without sol’s warmrays, Earth could notsupport the gift of life.

Cheerful sunlight isconsidered the bestsource for vitamin D.When aging kicks in,we spend more timeindoors. Outdoors, weslather on sunscreen,blocking wavelengthsthat manufacturevitamin D.Subsequently, theArchives of InternalMedicine report that77 percent ofAmericans are vitamin “D-ficient,”which has links to high blood pressure,depression, weak immune system,diabetes, poor lung function, autism,fibromyalgia, schizophrenia, MS,osteoarthritis, and RA. Not a sunlitpicture.

The major biological function of D isto maintain normal blood levels ofcalcium and phosphorus. It also

supports all organs, plus 2,000 genes,and, in concert with a number of othervitamins, minerals, and hormones,promotes bone mineralization. WithoutD, bones become thin, brittle, soft, ormisshapen. Positively, D diminishes riskof cancers, autoimmune diseases,infectious diseases, cardiovascular

disease, and early age-related maculardegeneration, especiallyvitamin D-3.

If you’re an easy markfor flu, colds, sinus andbronchial infections, orpneumonia, vitamin D-3regulates T-cells, whichare absolutelyindispensable for aprotective immunesystem. Put this incontext with winter colds,sniffles, flu, anddepression, and … sigh… it’s all too clear whywe’re a sickly bunch. Mydear family, including 93-year-old Mom, took2,000 IU D-3 daily thiswinter and nary one got

as much as a sniffle. The RDA for D established 60 years

ago is an insignificant 400 IU when itshould’ve been 10 times higher, but ourleaders failed miserably in researchingbasic human nutrition standards. RDAstands for Recommended DietaryAllowances, a “norm” established by theFDA during World War II that wasintended to provide educated guidelines

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for how much of particular nutrients anormal, healthy person required to stayfit and healthy.

The Canadian Cancer Society hasresponsibly upped its advice to 1,000IUs a day. Others believe northernclimates should consume at least 2,000IUs a day.

“The first thing we’d see is areduction by 80 percent in the incidenceof type-1 diabetes,” said Cedric Garland,a professor of family and preventivemedicine at the University of Californiaat San Diego. “The next thing we’d seeis a reduction by about 75 percent of allinvasive cancers combined, as well assimilar reductions in colon cancer andbreast cancer, and probably about a 25percent reduction in ovarian cancer.”

Salmon, tuna, mackerel, and fish liveroils are among the best dietary sourcesof D. Cows moo that their milk isfortified with D, but it’s synthetic, ergo,rubbish. Minute amounts of D exist ingrass-fed beef liver, cheese, and organic,free-range egg yolks. Vitamin D in thesefoods is primarily in the form of vitaminD-3.

During the warm parts of the year,our magnificent Holy Temple producesthe “sunshine vitamin” from 10 minutesof daily rays, but ol’ sol dips lower onthe fall horizon, not returning until latespring to bathe Earth’s needy northernhemisphere. The northern United Statesis so dark in winter that D synthesisshuts down completely.

If, for some reason, you’re unable toeat foods with D or to get enoughsunlight, Dr. Chuck Landon, PhD, ND,DaHOM of Indianapolis, suggeststaking 2,000 to 5,000 IU daily. Checkwith your own doctor and see what heor she recommends. No adverse effectshave been seen with supplemental

vitamin D-3 intakes up to 10,000 IUdaily. Skip the counterfeit, synthesizedgrocery versions and support yourcommunity vitamin store for a truesource.

For most Caucasians, a half hour inthe summer sun in a bathing suit caninitiate the release of 50,000 IU vitaminD into the circulation within 24 hoursof exposure; this same amount ofexposure yields 20,000–30,000 IU intanned individuals and 8,000–10,000IU in dark-skinned people. While thestudy focused on white Americans, thesame geographical trend affects blackAmericans, whose overall cancer ratesare significantly higher. Darker-skinnedpeople require more sunlight tosynthesize the vitamin.

Americans assume more is better ofanything, hence the skin cancerparadox. While it’s true the sun isn’t awonder drug, it’s elemental in sustaininghuman health. The benevolent giver hasbeen worshiped by many culturesthroughout history because of its vasthealing and therapeutic powers. At theturn of the century, people consideredthe sun good for health and touted it asa cure for major disease. It was a timewhen “recuperating in the sun” grewpopular, with claims that extensiveexposure, preferably by the seaside, wasa magical cure-all for plague, old age,and TB.

So it’s true that there’s nothing newunder the sun. Ditch the gooey whitestuff and then go out and let thesunshine bathe your beautiful skin—butfor only 10 minutes, OK?

Wendell Fowler is a retired chef turnedmotivational speaker and the author of EatRight, Now! Contact him [email protected].

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During WWII, Otis Harrison wasworking in a shipyard inNewport News, Va. And what

he saw of ships there convinced him thatthe Navy was where he ought to be.

The Navy was glad to have him;although, after boot camp, they did their

best to interest him in submarines. “Nota chance,” he explains. “I wanted to beable to see the sky over my head.”

And he wound up picking PT boats.These boats used the planing-type hullform developed for racing boats andcould reach speeds as fast as 40 knots.

The “PT” stood for “Patrol Torpedo,”and they were designed to use their speedto get close to enemy surface ships andtheir small size to avoid being spottedand hit by gunfire.

Harrison shipped to Melville, R.I.,where he spent 16 weeks learning allabout PT boats. Thenit was to New Orleansto be assigned to acrew. They picked uptheir new “Higgins”boat at LakePontchartrain and,with five other PTboats, proceeded toMiami for shakedownof the new vessels.They then sailed tothe Brooklyn NavyYard, where the sixcrews and their boatswere placed aboard a Navy tanker for thetrip to Swansea, Wales.

They had arrived in Wales barely intime for the D-Day invasion ofNormandy. Two days later, they were partof the vast armada of ships making theinvasion. Harrison says, “The number ofships was simply unbelievable. There wasa solid canopy of ships. It seemed likeyou could just walk from ship to ship,there were so many of them.

“We were being fired on constantly.LSTs loaded with troops were beingblown up all around us. The Germanshad planted ‘hedgehogs’ all along theapproach to the beach. They were steelrails that formed a V that LSTs could

clear at the height of the 40-foot tide butwould snare them as the tide receded.Then they were sitting ducks. Many mentried to jump off and wade in, only to beweighed down by all their gear and sinkto their deaths. It was hell on earth,” hesays.

“Our PT boat didpicket duty, and wewere constantlypicking up woundedand dead soldiers. Wewould carry them tothe first large vessel,leave them, thencontinue picking upmore. All this time,we were being shot atfrom the Germanpillboxes, and theshells from our heavycruisers and

battleships were whistling over us.”Harrison stops to ask, “Have you ever

heard shells from those 14- and 16-inchrifles go overhead? They sound like aboxcar going over. I don’t know howbadly it scared the Germans, but it suresobered me.”

In the two weeks following D-Day,Harrison’s boat was given the job ofdrawing fire from German shore batteriesalong the length of the CherbourgPeninsula, so they would reveal theirpositions to our heavier ships who couldthen aim at the flares they saw from theGerman guns.

Harrison remembers when they onceactually entered the Le Havre harbor at


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night … and set off the most awesomedisplay of tracers from left and right. Hesays, “There was a solid wall of tracerscoming at us.” He still wonders howthey got out of that unscathed.

Their next assignment was to patrolthe Channel Islands in the EnglishChannel. The islands had been taken bythe Germans, and the job of Harrison’sboat was tohelp keep theGermans onthose islandsbottled up. Itwas therethat a shelllanded justbeyond thestern of hisboat andactually liftedthe boat outof the water.And that’swhere partsof theexplodedshell created a crease in his scalp.

When it was their time to go home,their boat was hauled aboard an LST atPortsmouth, England, and they were offto New York. But is an LST equipped tohandle a crossing of the North Atlantic?

“I would have said no,” Harrisonadmits. “They were built to deliversoldiers to a beach. They had no keel,and they slid around alarming in the 20-to 30-foot swells. But somehow they gotus there.”

Harrison was scheduled to go to thePacific, but he had a leave that took himback to his family home in Petersburg,Va. It was on the train when he learned

of the surrender of the Japanese. And ina few more weeks, he was discharged.

He worked in sales for many years forUnion Camp and retired in 1985. In1954, the company had sent him toCentral Pennsylvania, and he liked it somuch he never left.

He was not able to go when a groupof veterans returned to France in the

1970s to adedicationceremony atOmaha Beach.Those veteranswere honoredby the Frenchgovernment fortheir serviceduring theinvasion andwere givenspecial LibertyMedals mintedby the Frenchfor theoccasion.Harrison and

40 or so others got that same medal inFebruary 1985 in the office of U.S.Representative Joe Pitts, who hadworked hard to find the veterans andpresent them with the medal in theirhonor.

Today, Harrison plays golf seven daysa week, works with Meals on Wheels,and busies himself with work of hischurch. But he says he’ll never forgetthose days of excitement and perilaboard his PT boat in the greatest warthe world has ever seen.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber inEurope in WWII.

Radioman 2nd Class Otis Harrison, right, in London in October 1944, with his cousin,

Joseph Barnes, left, who was in the 8th Air Force.

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Calendar of EventsAnnville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796200 S. White Oak St., AnnvilleMay 6, 10:30 a.m. – “Flowers for Mom” with Bonnie GornickMay 26, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Bus Trip to Shade Mountain Winery, Slifer House

MuseumMay 31, 10 a.m. – Share Time and Lunch at Quittie Park

Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048710 Maple St., LebanonMay 2, 11:15 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Bus Trip: Trolley Ride and Museum in HersheyMay 6, noon – Mother’s Day Breakfast and Movie: It’s Complicated

Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-678651 W. Stoever Ave., MyerstownMay 12, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. – Bus Trip: Light’s Victorian House – Mother’s Day

BrunchMay 24, 1:30 p.m. – Spring TeaMay 26, 4 p.m. – Dinner and Mini Golf at Kauffman’s Chicken Barbecue

Northern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 865-0944335 N. Lancaster St., Jonestown – www.jonestownpa.org/senior.htmlMay 12, 4:30 p.m. – Supper Club at Marabelle’s RestaurantMay 17, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Bus Trip: Dandy Cruise on the PotomacMay 26, noon – Bingo and Lunch at Hoss’s

Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237101 S. Railroad St., PalmyraMay 9, 10:45 a.m. – ’50s Fashion Fun Day and Hula Hoop ContestMay 10, 9:30 a.m. – Spring Fling Senior Day at Gretna GlenMay 16, 11 a.m. – Presentation on Palmyra Neighborhood & Community Watch

Southern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 274-7541Midway Church of the Brethren, 13 Evergreen Road, LebanonMay 10, 9 a.m. – Gretna Glen FlingMay 17, 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. – Bus Trip: Dandy Cruise on the PotomacMay 25, 10:30 a.m. – Bible Study

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Senior Center of Lebanon Valley, Inc. – (717) 274-3451710 Maple St., Lebanon

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May 4, 2 to 3 p.m.Live Music: The Gentlemen of Jazz Concertand Sing-alongLebanon Valley Mall22nd and Cumberland streets, Lebanon(717) 867-1000

May 6, 4:30 to 6:30 p.m.Live Music: The Gentlemen of Jazz Harrisburg Area Community College –Lebanon Campus735 Cumberland St., Lebanon(717) 867-1000

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Annville Free Library, 216 E. Main St., Annville, (717) 867-1802

Lebanon Community Library, 125 N. Seventh St., (717) 273-7624

Matthews Public Library, 102 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, (717) 865-5523

Myerstown Community Library, 199 N. College St., Myerstown, (717) 866-2800

Palmyra Public Library, 325 S. Railroad St., (717) 838-1347

Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939

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Q: My grandmother’s tombstone says shewas born Dec. 26, 1893, in Germany. Shewas married in the United States. Hermarriage certificate gives her marriagedate as Nov. 30, 1912, and her birth dateas Dec. 26, 1894. After I sent to herbirthplace for a birth certificate, I receiveda document in German that is headed“EXTRAKT” and gives her birth date asDec. 28, 1893. Which birth date is right?– S.L.

A: Each of the records you describe is asecondary record. That is, they were notmade at the actual time and place of yourgrandmother’s birth. Any of them mightbe correct, but all of them could be inerror. A primary record is an official recordmade at the time and place of the event,and as such takes precedence over anyother records.

First, the gravestone: Unless stones arepreplanned, the dates on grave markersare usually given to the stone carver by arelative or friend of the deceased. That is,the date is hearsay, not supported by anactual document, so it could be, and oftenis, incorrect.

That may not be of much importanceto survivors, if they are not interested intracing the family heritage back in time.But if they are, the most accurate recordsare needed, since there may have beenmore than one person with the same orsimilar names and birth dates, and youwant to be sure you’re findinginformation on your ancestors, not thoseof someone else!

The marriage certificate: The marriagecertificate is a primary record of themarriage, and that date can be consideredofficial. But often in those days, whenimmigrants had few official records withthem, they were simply asked their birthdate (and other pertinent information),which was entered on the marriagecertificate as a secondary record of theperson’s birth.

Your grandmother may simply havenot remembered her exact birth date. InGermany in the 1890s, “birth certificates”were not issued to a child’s parents;instead, the birth was recorded in anannual ledger with all other births fromthat year, either in a civil register, a

church register, or both. The family hadno “certificate” that they could readily orfrequently refer to, and exact dates ofbirth may not have been very importantto them.

Since Grandmama was evidently bornnear the end of the year, her family mayhave remembered her birthday inassociation with “the winter of 1893-1894” and forgotten the exact year.

The German document: Extrakt isGerman for “extract”; that is, a documenton which pertinent information is hand-copied from an original. It is not aphotocopy of the original, and while it isan official document, it is still a secondaryrecord. The clerk or official who copied itdown may have made a mistake intranscribing the information.

For example, your grandmother’sofficial, primary birth record might verywell say that she was born on Dec. 26,1893. However, births were notnecessarily recorded on the day theyhappened. The first date appearing on theoriginal birth record is the date the birthwas reported. In this case, the baby couldhave been born on Dec. 26, but notbrought in to be registered until the 28th.The modern clerk who answered yourrequest may have read the record date inthe register, assumed it was the birth date,and entered the wrong date on theextract.

So, how do you find yourgrandmother’s correct birth date? You needa primary record. That is, visualinspection of the original official registerin Germany or a photocopy of thatrecord. Since you wrote to and received aresponse from her town of origin, youknow that town’s name.

While we can’t traipse over the worldat will to look at original records, we cansearch for the town using the Mormonwebsite www.familysearch.org todetermine whether microfilms exist of itsbirth registers for the late 1890s. If theydo, the films can be ordered at a MormonFamily History Center, and after theyarrive, they can be viewed at the center.

Search the films for the years inquestion, and when you find the primaryrecord, you’ll know your grandmother’scorrect birth date. Be open-minded. Don’t

say, “That can’t be her; that’s not what hergravestone says.” The gravestone may bewrong. The primary record takesprecedence.

Further, the original record will oftencontain much more than was transcribedonto the extract—for example, the father’sage, occupation, and address, and possiblythe mother’s maiden name and age. Theirages can then be used to determine theirapproximate birth years, so that you cansearch for their birth records, extendingyour family tree.

Now that I’ve explained primaryrecords, to be strictly correct, I must add apoint. In many cases, in many countries,duplicate records were required to be sentto jurisdictions higher than the town ofbirth—for example, a provincial orcounty seat, or a special tribunal thatmaintained archives of the records.

Prior to the 20th century, the only wayto produce duplicate records was to have

the clerk draw up handwritten copies tobe sent to the other jurisdictions. Whilethe same clerk made all the copies, eachcopy after the original is technically asecondary record. The clerk may haveerred on the copies.

When the Mormons microfilmeddocuments, for convenience it wasgenerally at a place where records frommore than one town were stored, such asa tribunal or provincial archive. Mostgenealogists accept the information fromthese higher jurisdictions as primaryrecords, but if a serious discrepancy issuspected, it may be necessary for you ora representative to examine the town’soriginal register.

Angelo Coniglio encourages readers to contacthim by writing to 438 Maynard Drive,Amherst, NY 14226; by email [email protected]; or by visitingwww.conigliofamily.com/ConiglioGenealogyTips.htm.


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January 2, 1961: Dear Diary, My sledhit a tree and cracked my head open. Mystupid brother said I didn’t crack my head.But I certainly did! Mommy took us out forbutterscotch sundays. Goodbye! Saralee Perel

I was 10. My brother, Michael, was 14.My poor mother. How could she let us

out of her sight?Michael loved terrifying me. He said,

“If you hiccup and burp at the same time,you die.” Instantly, I hiccupped. I raced tomy parents’ bedroom and cried, “I’ll die ifI burp!” Mom patted the bed. Our armssurrounded each other as we fell asleep.

January 7: Dear Diary, I have a sorethroat. Mommy officially said No SchoolFor You. She let me try on her jewelry. Evenher GENUINE diamonds. Goodbye! SaraleePerel

I have her clip-on earrings, brooches,and “genuine” (costume) diamonds.

When I’m sick, I stillplay with them attimes. Sometimes Icry.

January 9: Mommythinks I’m faking myVERY sore throat. ITOLD her mytempeture. Onehundred twenty!Goodbye! Saralee PerelP.S. Mommy’s agrevatedwith me.

January 10: DearDiary, One of our fishesdied. They are Frankieand Johnny. Frankie isthe dead one. Mommywon’t get another fish because she is mad Iforget to feed them. We had a dog namedFriskie. He died because he stoppedbreathing. Well, that’s all! Except I wish I

had a nicer Mommy.Goodbye! Saralee PerelP.S. I really did not meanthat.

Mom rarely sleptwell. When I’d need thebathroom at night, I’dsneak past Michael’sdark door. He’d lungeout screaming,“SURPRISE!” I’d goflying 3 feet in the air,then land on all fours.

“Mommy!” I alwaysran to her side. “Michaeldid it again!” Withoutopening her eyes, she’d

pat the bed, then wrap me in her arms. Once Michael said, “If you sleep on

your back, you turn into a corpse in acoffin, and Mom and Dad will bury youalive.” To sleep on my stomach, I’d putpieces of my china tea set against myshoulders, so I’d feel them if I turned.Sometimes they’d break.

Mom found out. She cried, holding adelicate teacup with a broken handle.“Please don’t cry, Mommy.”

“Grandma gave me this for my batmitzvah. We had tea parties, like you andI do.”

I loved tea parties. We’d have TetleyTea and Keebler cookies. We sang, “Teafor Two,” emphasizing words by singingthem loudly. “Just ME for YOU, andYOU for ME.”

“There’s some I haven’t broken,Mommy.” It broke my heart then and itdoes now.

February 9: Dear Diary, It’s mybirthday!!!! I got Frankie THE SECOND. Itold Mommy one hundred times JohnnyTHE FIRST is lonely. Goodbye! SaraleePerel

Can you imagine how irritating it was,hearing me kvetching all day about a fish?

October 23: Dear Diary, Jamie and Ibicycled downhill. With NO hands. I fell.The kick stand stuck in my leg. It waspouring red blood. Let me just say it wasagony. Mommy took me to my uncle, theFAMOUS Doctor Louis Sachs. Uncle Loupicked out many hundred pebbles under mynose and sewed black stitches on my leg. Ialmost died. Mommy stopped and boughtchocolate cake. Goodbye! Saralee Perel

My mother loved me—unconditionally. I wish I could tell herthat I know that … now. I want to say, “Iadored the shelter of your arms. You mademy world safe.” Sometimes I think I’llnever find solace again.

“And Mom? I am so sorry I broke ourtreasured tea set.”

My last entry says, “Dear Diary.”However, I’m changing it for this story, asa final thank-you to my mother.

December 31: Dear Mommy, Well, well,well. Our time together is coming to a sadending. It’s been SO wonderful having youto talk to. You are my very best friend. I willmiss you SO much. I will love and cherishyou forever. Love, love, love, love, love,Goodbye. Saralee Perel.

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Edward Kean, the head writer forThe Howdy Doody Show, died lastsummer. I remember being glued

to the TV watching Howdy, Phineas T.Bluster, Dilly Dally, ChiefThunderthud, Clarabell, and Flub-a-Dub.

And, of course, there was PrincessSummerfall Winterspring, whom I hada major crush on and dreamed ofmarrying. It probably wouldn’t haveworked out because it’s kind of hard fora 10-year-old to support a family.

The obituary talked about EdwardKean’s many accomplishments, but itparticularly emphasized the word hecreated for Chief Thunderthud,“kowabonga.” That word swept thecountry and is still used by surfers, onlythey spell it “cowabunga.”

My question is, if you wereremembered for one thing, would youwant it to be “kowabonga”? And my

answer is, absolutely! It was popular,creative, and made people smile.

I started wondering what otherpeople wanted to be remembered for,what they considertheir majoraccomplishment in life.I did some research byasking my friends andfamily. That may havebeen a mistake.

The first person Italked to was my AuntEsther. She is a feistyand dramatic lady, andas soon as I asked what she wanted to beremembered for, she replied, “Why? AmI going to die soon?!”

Me: “No, I’m just doing someresearch.”

Esther: “Do you know something?Am I sick?”

Me: “No, you’re very healthy.”

Esther: “I ate some salmon last week;maybe it was no good. I’m going to mydoctor right now!”

From then on, I made sure thateveryone knew that thequestion had nothingto do with their currenthealth. I went to lunchwith my best friend,Larry, who happens tobe a schoolteacher.

Larry said, “I’d liketo be remembered forreaching, really reachinga few of my students.”

We then finished our meal and, asusual, Larry looked away and I paid thebill. Just once I’d like Larry to “reach”for the check.

My cousin, Carl, who has a prettygood sense of humor, wanted to beremembered for being the oldest man inthe world.

Aunt Flora wanted to be rememberedfor being a great dancer … “In 1958 Iwon the Coney Island Cha-Cha Contest.I still have the trophy.” She then did thecha-cha for me and was actually quitegood. She asked me to do the cha-chawith her, and I’m glad nobodyvideotaped it.

Cousin Arnie, who is a dentist, said,“I’d like to be remembered for makingthe perfect crown, a crown so perfectthat people wouldn’t realize it was acrown and would think it was a realtooth. I guess if they thought it was areal tooth, it wouldn’t be remembered asa perfect crown, so I guess I would liketo be remembered as the man whowasn’t remembered for making theperfect crown but he did make it.” Mycousin will be remembered as a manwho talked too much.

I then went to see my Uncle Mortand Aunt Sylvia, who were sitting next

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to each other on their sofa. Uncle Mortanswered first and, unfortunately, didn’tgive much thought to what he wassaying.

“I want to be remembered as a greatlover, if you know what I mean. In myyounger days, before I settled down withmy wonderful wife, I knew a lot ofwomen, and I’m pretty sure they’d allagree with my assessment, if you know

what I mean.”Aunt Sylvia then quickly said, “I want

to be remembered for killing myhusband Mort, if you know what Imean.”

After talking to all these people, Idecided I wanted to be remembered forbeing a great father and husband. Iknow it’s a little trite, but we all can’tcome up with … “kowabonga!!!”

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