Cumberland County 50plus Senior News May 2013

When not on display in a gallery, much of Etta Schreiner’s abstract artwork is on displayin her apartment. Clockwise, from bottom left, Three Sisters, Cosmic Event, Fanned Out,

and, in Schreiner’s hands, Third Quartet.

By Lori Van Ingen

Eighty-nine-year-old Etta M. Schreiner’s most rewarding experience is tojust sit and paint.

“If there’s a dish of pears or grapes, instead of eating them, I’d paintthem,” Schreiner said.

Over the years, Schreiner has produced more than 200 paintings.In September, Schreiner’s lesser-known Back of the Canvas series will grace

the walls of Mulberry Art Studios’ Louise Gallery. Last summer, aretrospective of Schreiner’s work was exhibited.

Schreiner has always painted. When she was 2 years old, she would “crawlup to where Mom was working at the kitchen sink. To keep me out of herhair while she was cooking, she gave me a piece of paper and a pencil. That’swhat started the whole thing. I sat on the floor since I couldn’t walk yet, andI’d be painting away.”

While she enjoyed painting, Schreiner didn’t go into art as a career.Instead, she earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance fromLebanon Valley College and master’s degree from Penn State.

“I taught farm kids in a one- or two-room school. It was a greatexperience to teach,” she said.

After marrying her husband, Jack, in 1950, Schreiner didn’t go back to

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Seniors deserve specialrecognition if they have servedas remarkable examples of

achievement in their elderly years. Atitle, awarded by a prestigiousauthority such as state governors orthe president, would be fitting. Aproposed title is Senior-CitizenLaureate.

An example of recognition foroutstanding service is the BritishEmpire Medal for MeritoriousService, commonly called theB.E.M. Although it ranks as the fifthof six levels of UK medals, theB.E.M. nonetheless enjoys a proudstatus.

The Jan. 29, 1951,issue of LifeMagazine had afeature article onFanny Thorne, thenan 88-year-old great-grandmother. Shewas awarded theB.E.M. in 1951 byKing George VI tohonor her forcontinuing to toil onher farm, six days a week, from thetime her husband died in World WarI until 1951.

The award was for “her devotedservice to agriculture.” In 1943, atthe age of 80, Thorne demonstratedextraordinary stamina when,according to the magazine, she“shucked an 8-acre field of barley byherself in 11 hours and 30 minutes.”Her routine tasks included threshingwheat, sorting potatoes, and cuttingkale to feed the cattle. She livedalone in her four-room cottage.

This exceptional woman won hermedal by going far beyond whatmight be expected of the humanbody. Medals should be awarded aswell for those who renderoutstanding, if not Herculean,contributions.

Why not an American medalspecifically to recognize seniors whoaccomplish remarkable achievementsin their advanced years? Our countryhas several types of medals torecognize other exceptional civilians.They include the U.S. Presidential

Medal of Freedom, theCongressional Gold Medal, thePresidential Citizens Medal, theNational Medal of Arts, and theNational Medal of Technology andInnovation.

Young people have two types ofmedals awarded, both by the U.S.Department of Justice: the YoungAmerican Medal for Bravery and theYoung American Medal for Service.Seniors are deserving of recognitionfor their services as well.

To promote intergenerationalharmony, seniors able to do so maywish to volunteer for occasional

assignments with nonprofitorganizations, including local andcounty governments, social andfaith-based groups, and serviceorganizations. This would ease thefiscal burdens faced by nonprofitsand burnish the esteem to whichseniors are held.

The U.S. Census Bureau’s“Current Populations Survey” foundthat in 2010 approximately 26.3percent of Americans over the age of16 volunteered. The rate for menand women combined, ages 55–64,was 27.2 percent, dropping to 23.6percent for those 65 and older.Recognizing Senior-CitizenLaureates could encourage raisedlevels of participation.

A report by the Urban Institute,“Volunteer Transitions among OlderAmericans,” using 2002 data, found“the time that adults age 55 andolder devoted to formal volunteeractivities has been valued at $44billion, and this estimate is likely toincrease as the large Baby Boomgeneration grows older.”

What benefit is there to seniorswho volunteer? A study published inthe journal Social Science andMedicine (November 2010) findsthat elderly persons who volunteerlive longer and healthier. The dataare based on a study of 916 non-institutionalized American seniors,ages 65 or older, who are“cognitively functional.”Volunteering provided them a senseof purpose, the study concluded.

May is the appropriate month toannounce the names of perhaps adozen national honorees selectedannually as “Senior Laureates.” May

is designated as“Older AmericansMonth,” a programoriginated by theKennedyadministration. It iscelebrated across thecountry throughceremonies and eventsand is managed by theAdministration onAging of theDepartment of Health

and Human Services.According to the AOA, the theme

for Older Americans Month in 2013is “Unleash the Power of Age.” Thetheme was selected to recognizeseniors as “productive, active, andinfluential members of society,sharing essential talents, wisdom,and life experience with theirfamilies, friends, and neighbors.”

Honoring inspirational seniorswho are civically engaged could raisethe level of volunteerism amongolder Americans, enhance their senseof purpose, support deservingnonprofits, and raise the stature ofseniors among their own andyounger generations. Laureates, leadthe way!

Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research analyst, is the author of My 22Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinionof a Senior Citizen, A Musing Moment:Meditative Essays on Life and Learning,and Opinion Essays for Seasoned Citizensand Their Elders. Contact him [email protected].

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Iwas about 10 feet behind anotherwoman as we both headed into thenail salon at the mall early one

morning. I wasn’t paying attention tothe salon entry itself and apparentlyneither was she, as neither of us noticedthat their sliding glass doors were closed.

She hit full face on, bounced back(didn’t fall), immediately cried out, andput her hand up to the upper right sideof her face. The glass hadn’t broken, soher skin wasn’t cut, but it was obviousfrom the sickening thud that she wasgoing to have, at the least, a killer blackeye.

The salon owners slid open the doors,let us in, and the woman sat down. Isuggested we get some ice, wrap it in awet cloth, and let her put it on her face.

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But the woman didn’t want to use iceand she didn’t want to use even a cold,wet towel without ice. What she didwant to do was to retrieve a cream fromher purse and smear it on the side of herface. She’d be OK with just that, soeveryone can stop fussing, please?

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1. You should put butter on minorburns to reduce the pain. (Never. Use

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2. The best way to deal with a poisoningemergency is to induce vomiting. (Don’tdo this. Call 911 or Poison Control.)

3. Putting hydrogen peroxide on minorcuts and scrapes is the most effectiveway to prevent infection. (Soap andwater is a better choice.)

4. To stop a nosebleed, tilt your headback and pinch your nose. (Forget thetilt back; you might swallow blood, whichcan cause you to vomit.)

5. Tourniquets are the best first-linetreatment for any bleeding injuries. (Notunless the bleeding is life threatening.)

6. The best way to reduce a fever is toswab down with alcohol. (Swabbing

with towels soaked in tepid water isbetter.)

7. If you witness a seizure, you shouldrestrain the person and put somethingsolid between his teeth so he cannot bitehis tongue. (No. Get the furniture out ofthe way, let the seizure run its course, andcall 911.)

There are great websites devoted tofirst-aid myths and mistakes, and a one-evening first-aid class at your local RedCross or community center is always agood idea. If this subject interests you,pursue it. You may find yourself to be ahero someday.

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One of the questions that I oftenhear at my public appraisalevents is, “How can you tell?”

I draw upon my decades of appraisingand museum experience to gleanimportant information about yourantique pieces: works of art, antiques, orcollectibles. My stage shows are totallyunscripted, and I do not know whatantiques are going to be presented to meat my events beforehand.

So I appraise on the fly, and I spare nofeelings—you either have a gem or youhave a piece of junk!

When someone today asks me how Ican tell the age of something or if anobject is repaired or restored, I tell themto look beyond the beauty. Look at theworkmanship. Look at the construction.Look at the foundation of the piece.That is where the lies hide. We can shinesomething up or decorate a piece to

make it lookgreat, but thetruth is intheconstruction.

Forinstance, thelate 19th-centuryletterbox thatmy friendCindyShook, theGallery 63office managerfromDiscovery’s Auction Kings, picked duringour season four premiere episode is agood example because it had manyissues.

First, the interior of the box was notauthentic rosewood but rather wood

painted to looklike the grainof rosewood.Whenappraising thepiece for theTV episode, Ibroke the newsto Cindy thatshe purchaseda lockingletterbox thatwas only partly

from the 1800s. She asked me,

“How can youtell?” I told her to look at thecontrasting, different types of woodenpieces used in the marquetry work on thetop of the box—satinwood, walnut,rosewood, etc. The decorative motif ofthe marquetry inlay piece featured a

recorder, trumpet, and flowers, and thispiece was probably cut out of an early-1900s music box—hence the musicalinstruments—and replaced on top of theletterbox.

If you look at the positioning of thedecorative marquetry forms, the flowerson the left and right sides are nearly cutoff, indicating that perhaps the damageto the original music box was sosignificant that the restorer had to cutthe wooden replacement piece so close tothe decorative flowers that there was nospace left on either side of the floralmotif.

Typically, there would be an area ofblank space between the flowers at bothleft and right sides and the framing ofthe marquetry piece. But, that is not thecase on this box, which is a telltale signthat the box has been reworked and areplacement piece inserted into the top.

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19th-century letterbox with replacement inlaidmarquetry work on the top.


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Cindy has beenin the auctionbusiness a longtime and hasexperiencerestoring objectstoo. She knowsher stuff. Her aimwas to purchase anobject that wouldattract auctionbuyers. Shesucceeded, as thispiece still did wellat the Atlanta auction despite thereplacement.

The other issue I see with this box isthe highly feminine motif on a verymasculine writing lap desk or letterbox.There is no delicate keyhole hardware andno floral element anywhere else on thisletterbox. The hardware is straightforwardand functional, and the framing around

the box itself showsclean lines, whichare both indicatorsof a man’sfunctional objectfrom circa1875–95.

When it comesto evaluatingantiques, look atthe object closelyand let it reveal itshistory to you.Remember, antiques

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Addie loved to run along the river’sedge so the wind could blowthrough her long hair, released

from the strict bun her fatherdemanded. When Jed returned from thelumber harvest in thespring, she would flyinto his arms,releasing her pent-uppassion from itswinter prison.

Little did theyknow their forbiddenlove would set inmotion a series ofevents that wouldforever change theirlives and make Jed afugitive.

With a bounty onhis head and his infantson hidden beneath hiscoat, Jed sought out theonly man he felt hecould trust—a Native AmericanSagamore, the leader of a nearbyMicmac settlement.

The unlikely partnership defied allodds, overcoming bigotry, betrayal, andthe unforgiving 1820s Maine wilderness,to stake a claim on the primitive NewEngland landscape.

As the strife escalated between GreatBritain and the United States over theborder between Maine and NewBrunswick, Canada, and the rights to its

lucrative lumberindustry, determinationto survive and create alife for his young sondrove Jed intouncharted territory andperilous adventure.

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She lives an active life at SimpsonMeadows in Downingtown with herhusband of 53 years and likes to talkabout age as attitude over number.

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On Aug. 27, 1896, a war wasfought between Great Britainand the East African nation of

Zanzibar. The war broke out after SultanHamad bin Thuwaini, who wassympathetic and friendly toward thecolonial British administration, died.

Two days later his nephew, Khalid binBargash, seized power. Because theBritish favored another candidate, theygave Bargash an ultimatum to abdicateimmediately. He refused and assembledan army of 2,800 men.

Bargash also seized the former sultan’sarmed yacht, the H.H.S. Glasgow, to useas a navy attack ship. British troopspromptly surrounded the palace whilethe Royal Navy assembled five warshipsin the harbor directly in front of thepalace.

Despite Bargash’s last-minute effortsto negotiate a peace via the U.S.

representative on the island, the RoyalNavy ships opened fire on the palace at 9a.m. on Aug. 27. The Glasgow waspromptly sunk; the palace beganfalling down around Bargashas casualties mounted.Bargash retreated to theGerman consulate,where he wasgranted asylum.

The war had aduration of 38minutes and holdsthe record of beingthe shortest war inhistory. Adding insultto injury, the Britishdemanded payment from theZanzibar government for the shellsfired on the country!

Here are a few other fascinatingmilitary facts.

World’s longest war. It started in 1651and didn’t end officially until 1986, a wardeclaration lasting 335 years. This was a

conflict between the Netherlandsand the Isles of Scilly,

located off the southwestcoast of the United

Kingdom. The origins of

the war go back tothe SecondEnglish Civil Warfought between

Cromwell’sParliamentarians and

Royalists, supportersof Britain’s monarchs.

Cromwell’s military pushedthe Royalists into retreat to the Isles

of Scilly. The Netherlands, allied withBritish monarchy, backed the Royalists,believing they would be victorious. Even

though the Royalists were defeated, atreaty of peace was never signed betweenthe Netherlands and Great Britain.

Finally, in 1985, Roy Duncan,historian and chair of the Isles of ScillyCouncil, wrote the Dutch embassy inLondon noting there was still an officialdeclaration of war. He invited the Dutchambassador to visit the islands and sign apeace treaty. This was done on April 17,1986.

The War of Jenkins’ Ear. Wheneverthere is a military conflict, it has to beidentified with a name. And, there aresome oddities here. There was The Warof Jenkins’ Ear. The war took its namefrom Robert Jenkins, captain of the shipRebecca, who claimed Spanish coastguards cut off his ear in 1731.

With full confidence that hismistreatment would not be tolerated by

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Great Britain, Jenkins sailed home withhis ear in a jar. He exhibited his ear inthe House of Commons and soaroused public opinion that thegovernment of the British PrimeMinister Robert Walpole declared waron Oct. 23, 1739.

The Spanish explained that Jenkinswas smuggling in their territorialproperties and was thus punished.Nevertheless, the War of Jenkins’ Earlasted until 1742.

“Neutral” nations of World WarII. The official stance of Switzerlandduring World War II is well known:The country was neutral during thisconflict. In that position, Switzerlandwas joined by Spain, Portugal, Sweden,Turkey, and Argentina.

However, a closer examinationrevealed that none of these countrieswas completely neutral. Swiss banksconverted Nazi gold to Swiss francs,allowing Germany to use that exchange

to buy desperately needed mineralsfrom Spain, Portugal, Sweden, andTurkey.

Furthermore, Sweden allowed250,000 Nazi troops to cross itscountry in order to reach neighboringFinland, where the Germans battledSoviet forces. Argentina permittedseveral high-ranking Nazi war criminalsto find shelter and relative safety insidetheir country when the war ended.

How guerrilla warfare came to benamed. Guerrilla warfare goes back asfar as recorded history but received itsname during the Peninsular War of1809-14 when Napoleon fought forcontrol of the Iberian Peninsula,controlled by Spain and Portugal.

In Spanish, guerilla means “smallwar.” The resistance to Napoleon’stroops employed tactics that are typicalof what we know as guerrilla warfare:fighting in small bands, sudden raids,ambushes, sabotage, and kidnappings.

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Devices and Gadgets to Help You HearHearing loss is one of the most

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Hearing problems can make it hard tounderstand and follow a doctor’s advice,to respond to warnings, and to heardoorbells and alarms. They can alsomake it hard to enjoy talking withfriends and family.

Your treatment will depend on yourhearing problem, so some treatments willwork better for you than others. Here arethe most common ones:

Hearing aids are tiny instruments youwear in or behind your ear. They makesounds louder. Things sound differentwhen you wear a hearing aid, but adoctor can help you get used to it.

To find the hearing aid that worksbest for you, you may have to try morethan one. Ask your doctor whether youcan have a trial period with a fewdifferent hearing aids. You and yourdoctor can work together until you arecomfortable.

Personal listening systems help youhear what you want to hear whileeliminating or lowering other noisesaround you.

Some, called auditory training systemsand loop systems, make it easier for youto hear someone in a crowded room orgroup setting. Others, such as FMsystems and personal amplifiers, arebetter for one-on-one conversations.

TV listening systems help you listento the television or the radio without

being bothered by other noises aroundyou. These systems can be used with orwithout hearing aids and do not requireyou to use a very high volume.

Direct audio input hearing aids arehearing aids that can be plugged intoTVs, stereos, microphones, auditorytrainers, and personal FM systems tohelp you hear better.

Telephone amplifying devices. Sometelephones are made to work with certainhearing aids.

If your hearing aid has a “T” switch,you can ask your telephone companyabout getting a phone with anamplifying coil (T-coil). If your hearingaid is in the “T” position, this coil isactivated when you pick up the phone. Itallows you to listen at a comfortable

volume and helps lessen backgroundnoise.

You can also buy a special type oftelephone receiver and other devices tomake sounds louder on the phone.

Mobile phone amplifying devices.To help people who use a T-coil hearbetter on mobile phones, an amplifyingdevice called a loopset is available.

The wire loop goes around your neckand connects to the mobile phone. Theloop transmits speech from the phone tothe hearing aid in your ear. It also helpsget rid of background noise to make iteasier to talk in a noisy environment.

Auditorium-type assistive listeningsystems. Many auditoriums, movietheaters, churches, synagogues, and otherpublic places are equipped with special


sound systems for people with hearingloss.

These systems send sounds directlyto your ears to help you hear better.Some can be used with a hearing aidand others without.

Cochlear (COKE-lee-ur) implantshave three parts: a headpiece, a speechprocessor, and a receiver. The headpieceincludes a microphone and atransmitter. It is worn just behind theear where it picks up sound and sends itto the speech processor, a beeper-sizeddevice that can fit in your pocket or ona belt.

The speech processor converts thesound into a special signal that is sentto the receiver. The receiver, a smallround disc about the size of a quarter

that a surgeon places under the skinbehind one ear, sends a sound signal tothe brain.

Cochlear implants are most oftenused with young children born withhearing loss. However, older adults withprofound or severe hearing loss arebeginning to receive these implantsmore often.

Lip reading or speech reading isanother option. People who do this payclose attention to others when they talk.They watch how the mouth and thebody move when someone is talking.Special trainers can help you learn howto lip read or speech read.

Source: National Institute on Deafness andOther Communication Disorders

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The findings areconsistent with theresearchers’ earlierdiscovery thatyounger adults arehearing much betterthan theirgrandparents did attheir age.

The new studyanalyzed audiometricdata (hearing tests)collected in1999–2006 andcompared them to similar data foradults 65–74 years of age collected 40years earlier in 1959–1962. Hearingimpairment in adults in this age groupdropped from 48 percent in 1959–1962to 36 percent in 1999–2006.

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“It’s difficult to explain why thisdecrease in hearing impairmentoccurred, since the two age groups welooked at were born in the decades circa

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“They became adults before thegeneral availability of antibiotics to treatchildhood ear infections or the

widespreadintroduction ofvaccines, which havesince greatly reducedthe incidence ofcommon childhooddiseases, such as measlesand mumps, that mayresult in permanenthearing loss.”

The researcherssuggest instead that theimprovement in hearingmay owe less toadvances in medicaltreatments and more toincremental advances

made in public health (for example,sanitation and safer and healthierfoods), education, and transportation inthe first half of the 20th century.

More specific reasons for theimprovement may include safer workingconditions, fewer noisy jobs and moreuse of hearing protection, less smoking,better control of infectious diseases,and, more recently, improved control ofdiabetes and other cardiovascular riskfactors.

Source: National Institute on Deafness andOther Communication Disorders

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After the harrowing experience ofspending 34 days in a lifeboatduring World

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“After returninghome for 22 days ofR&R (rest andrecovery), I went backto the Navy’s ArmedGuard Center inBrooklyn. They put meaboard the S.S. RobertM. La Follette, a Libertyship. We went to England. At night wewatched unmanned German ‘buzz

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“Five days later, ourship crossed the EnglishChannel bound for UtahBeach, but a storm cameup and we could notunload our cargo there, sowe waited until our troopstook Cherbourg, France,where we unloaded oursupplies.

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we went back to the States—RhodeIsland—got a load there and headed forthe South Pacific. We went through thePanama Canal to Hawaii and from thereto the invasion of Okinawa.

“We lay there 35 days, and thenreturned to New York and I wasdischarged from the Navy. The war wasover by then.”

Kemble went to work in the carpentryshop of the Hershey Foods Corporationin Hershey, doing mostly masonry andconcrete work. He retired in June 1982after 43 years with the company.

On Oct. 6, 1943, Kemble marriedThelma Garrett. She died Dec. 7, 2010,after 67 years of marriage. Kemble hastwo sons, Gary Lee and Roy EdwardKemble, and two grandsons, Cody andTrey.

In summary, Alvin T. Kemble ofsuburban Harrisburg, now 88, enlistedin the Navy in 1942 and served as agunner in the USN’s Armed Guard, alittle-known unit assigned to protectmerchant ships operating under the WarShipping Administration. His first ship,the S.S. James W. Denver, on its maidenvoyage, was hit by two torpedoes firedfrom a German u-boat and sunk onApril 11, 1943.

Kemble and 18 other men werecrammed into a lifeboat adrift for 1,400miles and 34 days before being rescuedby a Spanish fisherman near the CanaryIslands. All 19 seamen barely survivedthe ordeal at sea, but one man was fatallyinjured in Spain when hit in the head bya tree branch while riding in an opentruck.

Occupants of four other lifeboatsfrom the Denver were rescued bydifferent ships after shorter periods oftime. A sixth lifeboat on the ship wasdamaged in the torpedo attack and was

unusable. Sixteen of the 85 crewmembers were listed as missing in action(MIA).

Kemble was later assigned to anotherLiberty ship, the La Follette, whichbrought cargo to France after theinvasion of Normandy in June 1944,and he was involved in the invasion ofOkinawa near the end of World War II.

The U.S. Navy Armed Guard, ofwhich Kemble was a gunner, also staffedLiberty ships with signal men, radio andradar operators, officers, and othermilitary support personnel—even someNavy nurses in the WAVES—on cargoand troop ships operated by civilians inthe Merchant Marines.

Approximately 145,000 enlisted menand officers served in the USN ArmedGuard during World War II. They sailedon 6,236 merchant ships, includingAllied vessels, of which more than 700ships were sunk and many more weredamaged.

Armed Guard casualties numberedmore than 2,000 killed or missing inaction, and many were wounded, acasualty rate that grimly rivals the rate ofany of the Armed Forces during WWII.The AG was disbanded following theend of the war.

Kemble still meets with some AG andother World War II vets on the firstThursday of the month at the OldCountry Buffet on Jonestown Road(Route 22) in Lower Paxton Township.Other senior veterans of all servicebranches are welcome to join the group,starting about 11 a.m.

If you are a mature veteran and haveinteresting or unusual experiences in yourmilitary or civilian life, phone Al Goodmanat (717) 541-9889 or email him [email protected].

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rue or false?

1. All wheelchairs look alike.

2. All wheelchairs have a gray ordark-colored surface.

3. All wheelchairs cost only a smallfraction of the cost of a car.

4. No wheelchair can climb stairs.

5. Wheelchairs can never be used onsand, mud, or other exceptional terrain.

The answer to all of the above is false.Wheelchairs have come a long way

since their first debut in 1595 as an“invalid’s chair” for Phillip II of Spain.

Recently industrial designersworldwide have taken the challenge tocreate the exceptional merger of form,function, and uniqueness. Someprototypes are so unusual that they maynever get to market or, if they did, they

may not be able to sell enoughwheelchairs to sustain their business.

Yet wild designs are important becausethey breakdown thestereotypes,and theninnovativeelements startto appear inother models.Also, thereverse is true.Seeing thecapability of awheelchair in aspecial way can trigger thoughts ofadvancing that feature with morefunctionality in a new model.

One of the most remarkablewheelchair innovations is a submersiblemodel. British artist Sue Austin, a

wheelchair user since 1996, pursued thisdevelopment with a team of engineers.

Adaptable for scuba diving, it usesdive thrusters,control surfaces,and flotationdevices as well asfins attached toAustin’s feet topropel underwater. Engaged inperformance art,the wheelchair ispart of herFreewheelingproject, which

addresses the intersection of art anddisability.

All-terrain wheelchairs are attractinginterest. From moving gracefully on asandy beach to climbing up and downstairs, these wheelchairs have beendesigned with unique sets of wheels.

HEROes Series of Sport Wheelchairs,inspired by Mark Zupan, a quadriplegicand captain of the United Stateswheelchair rugby team, built awheelchair not just for the beach, butpredictably also for beach rugby.

And a team of designers, JuliaKaisinger, Mathias Mayrhofer, andBenesch Xiulian, worked together todevelop the CARRIER Wheelchair,which can provide completeindependence for the user traveling overany terrain.

Its functions include traction to climbthe stairs as well as a standing position sothe user can be at eye level with otherpeople and have the potential to reachthings that previously could not bereached from a seated position. Another

very special practical design elementwould eliminate the need to physicallytransfer to a toilet seat.

And there’s the social and psychologicalaspect of being in a wheelchair that theaverage mobile person does not thinkabout. Yet for Alexandre Pain, his designgoal was “Designing for Social Stigma”;he wanted to create change with adramatic and elegant design that does notresemble a wheelchair.

To fully understand the dynamics of awheelchair with respect to both itsfunction and challenges of the user, Pain,though himself mobile, spent time in thewheelchair. He found that the mostdifficult aspect was the stigma associatedwith it, and so his goal was to reinventthe wheelchair and morph it into anentity that did not resemble its formerlife.

The result is the electric Tandemscooter, which is quite beautiful and, likea scooter, comes with additional seatingfor another person in the back.

There will always be people withdisabilities and there will always bewheelchairs, but now designers havetaken the challenge to blend form andfunction. Leaving the classic stereotypebehind has given designers the freedomto bring more versatility to thewheelchair and an enhanced quality oflife to the user.

For the disabled, it will provide moremobility and independence and thereforeenhance their social interactions, theiroptions for leisure time, and their self-esteem.

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Dear Savvy Senior,Can exercise help seniors with arthritis?

I have osteoarthritis and have read thatcertain exercises can help ease the pain, butI don’t know where to start, and I certainlydon’t want to make it any worse than italready is. What can you tell me?

– Sedentary Sally

Dear Sally,Lots of seniors who have arthritis

believe that exercise will worsen theircondition, but that’s not true. Study afterstudy has shown that exercise is actuallyone of the best treatments forosteoarthritis.

Proper and careful exercises can helpreduce joint pain and stiffness,strengthen muscles around the joints,and increase flexibility. It also helpsmanage other chronic conditions that arecommon among seniors with arthritis,such as diabetes, heart disease, andobesity.

Here are some tips to help you getmoving.

Exercises for ArthritisDetermining exactly which types of

exercises are best for you depends on theform and severity of your arthritis andwhich joints are involved. It’s best towork with your doctor or a physicaltherapist to help you develop an exerciseprogram that works for you.

The different types of exercises thatare most often recommended to seniorswith arthritis include:

Range-of-motionexercises:These aregentlestretchingexercises thatcan relievestiffness as wellas improveyour ability tomove yourjoints throughtheir normalrange ofmotion. Theseexercisesshould bedone daily.

Strengtheningexercise:Calisthenics,weighttraining, and working with resistancebands are recommended (two or moredays a week) to maintain and improveyour muscle strength, which helpssupport and protect your joints.

Aerobic exercises: Low-impact activitieslike walking, cycling, swimming, orwater aerobics are all recommended threeto five times per week to help improvecardiovascular health, control weight,and improve your overall function.

It’s also important to keep in mindthat when you first start exercising, you

need to go slowto give yourbody time toadjust. If youpush yourselftoo hard, youcan aggravateyour joint pain;however, somemuscle sorenessor jointachiness in thebeginning isnormal.

To help youmanage yourpain, start bywarming upwith somesimple stretchesor range-of-motionexercises forfive to 10

minutes before you move on tostrengthening or aerobic exercises.

Another tip is to apply heat to thejoints you’ll be working before youexercise, and use cold packs afterexercising to reduce inflammation.

If you’re experiencing a lot of painwhile you exercise, you may need tomodify the frequency, duration, orintensity of your exercises until the painimproves. Or you may need to try adifferent activity—for example, switchingfrom walking to water aerobics.

But it you’re having severe, sharp, orconstant pain; large increases in swelling;

or your joints feel hot or red, you needto stop and see your doctor.

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a number arthritis exercise DVDs you canpurchase to guide you through a widevariety of activities. Collage Video, atwww.collagevideo.com and (800) 819-7111, sells several, as does the ArthritisFoundation Store at www.afstore.org or(800) 283-7800.

Also see Go4Life (http://go4life.nia.nih.gov), a resource created by theNational Institute on Aging that offers afree exercise DVD and book that providesillustrated examples of exercises you cando to improve your condition. You canorder your free copies online or by calling(800) 222-2225.

If you need some motivation or don’tlike exercising alone, ask your doctorabout exercise programs in your area forpeople with arthritis. Hospitals and clinicssometimes offer special programs, as dolocal health clubs and senior centers.

The Arthritis Foundation alsoconducts exercise and aquatic programsfor people with arthritis in manycommunities throughout the U.S.Contact your local branch (seewww.arthritis.org/chaptermap.php or call(800) 283-7800 for contact information)to find out what may be available nearyou.

Jim Miller is a regular contributor to theNBC Today show and author of The SavvySenior Book. www.savvysenior.org.

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Every day of the year, Americansacross the nation remember friends andfamily members who have served andsacrificed for their country.

May is National Military AppreciationMonth. As we observe Memorial Dayand Military Appreciation Month, wewould like to let members of our militaryknow how much we value what they dofor our nation.

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and flowers are missed by mower blades,allowing them to complete their lifecycles. Mowing actually helps thisvegetation grow because it removes grassthat would shade it.

Common blue violets are a woodlandspecies adapted to lawns. They havepurple blooms that are three-quarters ofan inch across. Their blossoms andheart-shaped leaves are edible to white-tailed deer, cottontail rabbits,woodchucks, and other critters, as wellas people.

Ground ivy is a mint with apungency that people smell whencutting grass. This species creeps overthe ground and through short grass. Ithas half-inch purple flowers; rounded,scalloped leaves; and prefers shaded,damp habitats. Its leaves were once usedto ferment and flavor beer.

Dandelions have inch-wide, yellowblooms. Only dandelions with shortflower stems produce seeds on regularly

mowed lawns because long-stemmedblossoms get cut by mowing.

Pretty, seed-eating birds, includinghouse finches, cardinals, goldfinches,indigo buntings, and various sparrows,eat dandelion seeds in May when fewother seeds are available. And dandelionleaves and flowers are edible to people,rabbits, and chucks.

Indian strawberries trail across theground and through short grass like tinyvines. They have three-quarter-inchyellow blooms and tasteless, butattractive, strawberry-like berries withseeds on their surfaces. Squirrels, birds,and other creatures eat those red berries.

Yellow wood sorrels have clover-likeleaflets and one-half-inch yellowblooms. Tiny, erect seedpods formwhere the golden blossoms were.

Plants with purple or yellow flowershelp make lawns attractive andinteresting during April and early May.Enjoy their beauties.

FLOWERS from page 11

Email, texting, and tweeting allmake communication quicker andeasier. But some worry that electroniccommunication tools are eroding ourability to write the old-fashioned way:by hand.

A study conducted by Doc-mail, anonline stationer, found that theaverage adult (out of 2,000participants) goes about 40 dayswithout writing anything by hand,and one in three haven’t written a

note on paper for more than sixmonths.

In addition, 50 percent feel thattheir handwriting has significantlydeclined, with one in seven being“ashamed” of their writing.

Spelling may be another casualty,with four in 10 of the participantsreporting that they depend onautocorrect for the right words. Manywriters may find themselves helplesswithout a keyboard in the near future.

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Cumberland County

Calendar of EventsBig Spring Senior Center – (717) 776-447891 Doubling Gap Road, Suite 1, NewvilleMay 3 – Doubling Gap Day TripMay 15, 9 a.m. – Chocolate Chip Cookie Bake-OffMay 17, noon to 3 p.m. – Watercolor Painting Art Show

Carlisle Senior Action Center – (717) 249-500720 E. Pomfret St., Carlisle

Mary Schaner Senior Citizens Center – (717) 732-391598 S. Enola Drive, Enola

Mechanicsburg Place – (717) 697-594797 W. Portland St., Mechanicsburg

Southampton Place – (717) 530-8217,www.seniors.southamptontwp.com56 Cleversburg Road, ShippensburgMay 7, 12:30 p.m. – Blanket and Quilt-Making PartyMay 8, 10:30 a.m. – Carpool to Senators Baseball GameMay 31, 10 a.m. – Walk About Event

West Shore Senior Citizens Center – (717) 774-0409122 Geary St., New Cumberland

Please call or visit the centers’ websites for additionalactivities.

Programs and Support Groups Free and open to the public.

May 4, 9 a.m. to noon – Volunteer Work Day, Kings Gap Environmental Education CenterMay 5, 2 to 3 p.m. – “Rugged Beauty of the South” Trail History Program, Pine Grove Furnace State ParkMay 11, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Spring Garden Day, Kings Gap Environmental Education Center

AARP Driver Safety Programs

For a Safe Driving Class near you, call toll-free (888)227-7669 or visit www.aarp.org/findacourse.

May 7 and 8, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.Camp Hill Borough Building2125 Walnut St., Camp Hill(717) 737-4548

May 14, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m.Big Spring Senior Center91 Doubling Gap Road, Newville(717) 776-4478

May 15, 8:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.Hampden Township Recreation Building1005 Park St. Extended, Mechanicsburg(717) 761-4951

Senior Center ActivitiesPA State Parks in Cumberland County

Mondays and Wednesdays, noonto 12:45 p.m.Silver Sneakers Class: MuscularStrength and Range of MovementLiving Well Fitness Center207 House Ave., Suite 107Camp Hill(717) 439-4070

May 2, 6:30 p.m.Too Sweet: Diabetes Support GroupChapel Hill United Church ofChrist701 Poplar Church RoadCamp Hill(717) 557-9041

May 7, 7 p.m.CanSurmount Cancer Support GroupHealthSouth Acute RehabHospital175 Lancaster Blvd.Mechanicsburg(717) 691-6786

May 8, 11:30 a.m.NARFE West Shore Chapter 1465VFW Post 67044907 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg(717) 737-1486www.narfe1465.orgVisitors welcome; meeting is free butfee for food.

May 8, 1:30 p.m.Parkinson’s Support GroupHealthSouth Rehab Hospital175 Lancaster Blvd.Mechanicsburg(717) 877-0624

May 8, 6:30 p.m.Amputee Support Team MeetingHealthSouth Rehab Hospital175 Lancaster Blvd.Mechanicsburg(717) [email protected]

May 21, 1 p.m.Caregiver Support GroupMechanicsburg Church of theBrethren501 Gale St., Mechanicsburg(717) 766-8880

May 22, 6 p.m.Introduction to Medicare SessionCumberland County Aging &Community Services1100 Claremont Road, Carlisle(717) 240-6110

May 24, 7 p.m.New Cumberland Town BandPerformanceRed Land High School560 Fishing Creek RoadLewisberrywww.nctownband.org

May 27, 11 a.m.New Cumberland Town BandPerformanceNew Cumberland Memorial DayParadeBridge Street and Park AvenueNew Cumberlandwww.nctownband.org

Cumberland County Library Programs

Amelia Givin Library, 114 N. Baltimore Ave., Mt. Holly Springs, (717) 486-3688

Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W. High St., Carlisle, (717) 243-4642May 15, 1 p.m. – Afternoon Classic Movies at Bosler

Cleve J. Fredricksen Library, 100 N. 19th St., Camp Hill, (717) 761-3900

East Pennsboro Branch Library, 98 S. Enola Drive, Enola, (717) 732-4274

John Graham Public Library, 9 Parsonage St., Newville, (717) 776-5900

Joseph T. Simpson Public Library, 16 N. Walnut St., Mechanicsburg, (717) 766-0171

New Cumberland Public Library, 1 Benjamin Plaza, New Cumberland, (717) 774-7820May 4, 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. – Perennial Plants and Yard SaleMay 6 and 20, 6 to 8 p.m. – Great Books Discussion GroupMay 22, 6 to 9 p.m. – Pennwriters Writing Group

Shippensburg Public Library, 73 W. King St., Shippensburg, (717) 532-4508

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teaching. Instead, she began a family.The Schreiners moved around, living inWashington, D.C.; Ohio; andPennsylvania; and they toured a numberof countries. They retired toAlbuquerque, N.M., before moving to aCentral Pennsylvania retirementcommunity 10 years ago.

The Southwest was a big influence onSchreiner, with Aztec colors and tonescreeping into her artwork.

“That’s where I started paintingseriously. My son was raised and I hadmore time,” she said.

Schreiner studied watercolors at PennState and acrylics at Syracuse University.

But Schreiner’s passion for abstracts wasfueled by her studies with Robin Bolton,a nationally recognized abstract artist.

Schreiner also has taught a couple ofart classes for amateurs who wanted tolearn to paint or paint better. Schreiner’swork was accepted on three occasions bythe prestigious New York State Fair ArtShows and received a ribbon.

Nature has been Schreiner’s greatestinspiration.

“It gives me the opportunity to bereally original,” she said.

Although she has painted realistic stilllifes, portraits, and landscapes, abstractsare Schreiner’s favorite style.

Schreiner’s “pride and joy” among herabstracts doesn’t have a title.

“It speaks for itself,” she said, addingthat the purple colors are grapes and thewhites are trees, and various designscompose the rest of it.

Cosmic Event and Cosmos are twoother favorite abstracts. For Cosmos, she“flicked” paint onto the canvas and thenbegan outlining three parts to thepainting as land, water, and sky. InCosmic Event, orange colors weavethrough land, river, and trees.

Schreiner prefers to work inwatercolors instead of oils.

“It spreads more, so I can do a lotmore with it,” she said. “You also canblend colors better.”

Schreiner said she is now allergic tosome ingredients in her paints, so shehas to paint with a mask covering herface.

“I developed this allergy over a periodof time within the last three years,” shesaid.

Because of this allergy, Schreiner hasbegun using watercolor markers thatApril Koppenhaver, Mulberry ArtStudios’ gallery owner, gave her.

“It was time to retire my regularpainting and start working in a differentmedium.”

She also is enjoying making abstractcut-out pictures from items like bubblewrap, fabrics, and calendars.

“I cut things of interest to me,” shesaid, and “create shapes and colors thatcome out of my head. I intend tocontinue creating. It’s part of my nature.”

“She’s always experimenting, pushingthe envelope. Not what others want herto paint,” said Koppenhaver.

“I paint something because I want topaint it,” Schreiner said.

When Koppenhaver first sawSchreiner’s artwork three years ago, shewanted to be sure it was maintained forposterity.

“She’s a serious artist with an eye anda flair,” Koppenhaver said. “It was a thrillto see her art collection, and I’mthankful for the opportunity to showthem.”

Unlike most painters, Schreiner hasutilized both the front and back sides ofher canvases over the years. She wouldget an idea but didn’t have a new canvascut, so she’d just turn over one of herpaintings and get started, she said.

Because her paintings are on bothsides, figuring out how to exhibit them isa challenge, Koppenhaver said.

For more information on Schreiner’sBack of the Canvas exhibit in September,call (717) 295-1949 or visitwww.mulberryartstudios.com.


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Up until I was 11 years old, Ilived right across the street fromthe dusty entryway to a

playground—the most imposingplayground that God, railroads, andrivers could ever devise. It wasn’tnecessarily safe. But isn’t that the essenceof adventure?

A rocky field stretched from thebackyard walkway of a small row houseto an obsolete railroad reservoir. This

field was our baseball diamond. It wasroughly configured, and it was in usedaily, as weather permitted.

The designated pitcher was mostalways Shorty Lehman, a small, middle-aged man who worked for the localtelephone company. Shorty not onlypitched, but he also coached andencouraged each child who stepped up tothe plate. He never berated or ridiculed,but his good-natured razzing was

constant. Shorty was the positiveinfluence that helped to turn childreninto good men and good women.

The railroad reservoir sat atop a lowhill, and a circular concrete wall toppedwith a pointed iron fence kept us out ofharm’s way. The stagnant water withinthe small basin was covered with algaeand was polluted with old tires, discardedwood, tree limbs, baseballs, and otherunidentifiable debris.

Fish, caught in the SusquehannaRiver, mysteriously found their way intothe filthy stew, along with some snappingturtles and snakes. We actually triedcatching those creatures with a fishingrod and dough balls made from wetbread. We caught a lot of foul carp inthat mess.

At the base of the reservoir, a largecellar door led to a dark and dankearthen floor where an intake pipe and

The Best Playground

The Way I See It

Mike Clark


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Who Was Robert?She was a sweet, old lady,Whose memory was beginning to fail;But she was my dear grandmotherAnd had many stories to tell.

She spoke mostly of Robert,The love of her long life.Of their childhood together as neighbors,And the joy of becoming his wife.

Each memory included Robert,And were mostly about their youth.I listened with fascinationAnd took each tale for truth.

But one thing always puzzled me,My grandfather’s name was Lee!

Written and submitted by Wilma Musser

valve that fed the reservoir stooddormant. It had been locked off formany years as there was no longer aneed to pump water; steam engineshadn’t run this line in ages. But wefound enough toads down there toamuse ourselves for hours.

The back hill of the reservoirdescended farther into the railroadbeds, making a decent grade forsledding and rolling to the bottom inlarge cardboarddrums thathad beendiscarded by ametal smeltingplant a blockaway. I don’tknow thatthese drumswere as muchdiscarded asthey werepilfered.

Also, theback hill was like the dark side of themoon; we were hidden from thewatchful eyes of parents.

But the best part of this playgroundlay beyond The Rezzie, as we called thereservoir. The tracks of The ReadingRailroad, once the Columbia &Reading, often presented boxcars andflatbeds at rest. These marvelouscarriages hauled the most interestingfreight. Our favorite cargo was themilitary equipment that sat proudlyabove the tracks on the flatbed cars.

My brother and I have a black-and-white photo of us standing on top of atank while sporting boat shirts andclam diggers, the fashion rage in thelate 1950s.

Not too far over the tracks, justbefore the actual banks of the mightyand treacherous Susquehanna River,lay a shallow, timeworn channel of thePennsylvania Canal system, a part oflocal history that began in 1832. Wenever gave history a thought, though,as we played on the banks and in themuddy water of that ancient waterway.

My last adventure there was the daywe “found” a canoe and paddled our

way toward asmall inlet. Weall went into thedrink when thecanoe becameunstable fromall themovementwithin, which Ithought wasdubious. Mydoubt was inorder as I justfound out this

week, after over 50 years, that mybrother intentionally overturned theboat. He now owes me a brand-newpair of sneakers.

These adventures, and more, wenton day after day in the best playgroundever. Each of us has a story of ouradventurous childhood. Think about itwhenever you see a bunch of kidsmilling about a large screen, playingvideo games. You’ll feel kind of sorryfor them, I’ll bet.

Mike Clark writes a regular column forThe Globe Leader newspaper in NewWilmington, Pa. He lives outsideColumbia, Pa., and can be contacted [email protected].

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