Dauphin 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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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. Thatis where the lies hide. We can shinesomething up or decorate a piece to make

it look great, but the truth is in theconstruction.

For instance, the late 19th-centuryletterbox that my friend Cindy Shook,the Gallery 63 office manager fromDiscovery’s Auction Kings, picked duringour season four premiere episode is agood example because it had many issues.

First, the interior of the box was notauthentic rosewood but rather woodpainted to look like the grain ofrosewood. When appraising the piece forthe TV episode, I broke the news toCindy that she purchased a lockingletterbox that was only partly from the1800s.

She asked me, “How can you tell?” Itold her to look at the contrasting,different types of wooden pieces used inthe marquetry work on the top of thebox—satinwood, walnut, rosewood, etc.The decorative motif of the marquetryinlay piece featured a recorder, trumpet,and flowers, and this piece was probablycut out of an early-1900s music box—hence the musical instruments—andreplaced on top of the letterbox.

If you look at the positioning of thedecorative marquetry forms, the flowerson the left and right sides are nearly cutoff, indicating that perhaps the damage tothe original music box was so significantthat the restorer had to cut the woodenreplacement piece so close to thedecorative flowers that there was no spaceleft on either side of the floral motif.

Typically, there would be an area ofblank space between the flowers at both

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19th-century letterbox withreplacement inlaid marquetry work on

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left 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.

Cindy has been in the auctionbusiness a long time and has experiencerestoring objects too. She knows herstuff. Her aim was to purchase an object

that would attract auction buyers. Shesucceeded, as this piece still did well atthe 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 hardwareand no floral element anywhere else on

this letterbox. The hardware isstraightforward and functional, and theframing around the box itself showsclean lines, which are both indicators ofa man’s functional object from circa1875–95.

When it comes to evaluating antiques,look at the object closely and let it revealits history to you. Remember, antiques

don’t lie—people do.

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“Do not ever give out personal,healthcare, or bank account informationover the phone, unless you initiated the

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Kane said if someone calls, offering tohelp you obtain this nonexistent nationalmedical card, you should call the AG’sHealth Care Hotline at (877) 888-4877.

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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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After the harrowing experience ofspending 34 days in a lifeboatduring World War II when his

Merchant Marine ship was sunk by aGerman u-boat in 1943, Alvin T. Kembledeserved to be discharged from the Navy,but it was wartime.

“After returning home for 22 days ofR&R (rest and recovery), I went back tothe Navy’s Armed Guard Center inBrooklyn. They put me aboard the S.S.Robert M. La Follette, a Liberty ship. Wewent to England. At night we watchedunmanned German ‘buzz bombs’ fly over.

“Our ship moved around and endedat Plymouth, England, when we gotword that a lot of ships were leavingport. It was June 6, 1944—D-Day. Welater learned about the invasion ofNormandy.

“Five days later, our ship crossed theEnglish Channel bound for Utah Beach,

but a storm came upand we could notunload our cargothere, so we waiteduntil our troops tookCherbourg, France,where we unloadedour supplies.

“Returning toEngland, we took onanother load of cargoand dropped it off atLe Havre. From therewe went back to theStates—RhodeIsland—got a loadthere and headed forthe South Pacific. Wewent through thePanama Canal toHawaii and from there to the invasion ofOkinawa.

“We lay there 35days, and thenreturned to New Yorkand I was dischargedfrom the Navy. Thewar was over by then.”

Kemble went towork in the carpentryshop of the HersheyFoods Corporation inHershey, doing mostlymasonry and concretework. He retired inJune 1982 after 43years with thecompany.

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In summary, Alvin T. Kemble ofsuburban Harrisburg, now 88, enlisted inthe Navy in 1942 and served as a gunnerin the USN’s Armed Guard, a little-known unit assigned to protect merchantships operating under the War ShippingAdministration. His first ship, the S.S.James W. Denver, on its maiden voyage,was hit by two torpedoes fired from aGerman u-boat and sunk on April 11,1943.

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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 wasunusable. 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 sailed

on 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.

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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. WhenJed returned fromthe lumber harvest inthe spring, she wouldfly into 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 the only man he felthe could 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.

About the AuthorWith a background

in art and educationwhile raising herfamily, award-winningauthor ElizabethWilder achieved herlifetime dream ofwriting a novel whenThe Spruce Gum Boxwas released on her

72nd birthday. Its sequel, Granite Hearts,was published at age 74 and, tocomplete the Maine historical fictiontrilogy, Beneath Mackerel Skies is due infall 2013.

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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A refreshing swim can help lowerblood pressure and cholesterol. Theseare vascular health bonuses for peoplewho are at risk for stroke, the leadingcause of disability and the fourthleading cause of death in the UnitedStates.

In 2010, 137,000Americans died ofstroke, according tothe Centers forDisease Control andPrevention (CDC).

“Swimming is avascular healthbonanza,” said DavidH. Stone, MD, amember of the Society for VascularSurgery. “Low-impact swimmingprovides a total cardiovascular workout.Regular exercise strengthens the heartmuscle, resulting in less effort [exerted]and a decrease in blood pressure.”

One in every three Americans over20 years old—74 million Americans—has high blood pressure, according to2010 statistics from the CDC. One inevery six American adults has highcholesterol (more than 250 mg/d L).More American women than men havehigh cholesterol.

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The Beauty in Nature

Clyde McMillan-Gamber

“Beauty is where you find it.”Two species of plants withpurple flowers and three

kinds of vegetation that have yellowblossoms live abundantly on many short-grass lawns in the Mid-Atlantic States.

And the lovely, cheery blooms onthese prostrate plants beautify lawns inApril and early May. This vegetationincludes common blue violets, groundivy, dandelions, Indian strawberries, andyellow wood sorrels. Violets are native toAmerica, but the rest are aliens fromEurasia.

These lawn plants grow close to theground, and most of their leaves andflowers 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 woodland

species adaptedto lawns. Theyhave purpleblooms thatare three-quarters of aninch across.Their blossomsand heart-shaped leavesare edible towhite-taileddeer, cottontailrabbits,woodchucks,and othercritters, as wellas people.

Ground ivyis a mint with a pungency that peoplesmell when cutting grass. This speciescreeps over the ground and through short

grass. It hashalf-inchpurple flowers;rounded,scallopedleaves; andprefers shaded,damp habitats.Its leaves wereonce used toferment andflavor beer.

Dandelionshave inch-wide, yellowblooms. Onlydandelionswith shortflower stems

produce seeds on regularly mowed lawnsbecause long-stemmed blossoms get cutby 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 yellow blooms.Tiny, erect seedpods form where thegolden blossoms were.

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

Purple and Yellow Lawn Flowers

Photo courtesy Olaf Leillinger

Creativity Matters

Judith Zausner

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, theymay not be able to sell enough

wheelchairs to sustain their business. Yet wild designs are important because

they break down the stereotypes, andthen innovativeelements startto appear inother models.Also, thereverse is true.Seeing thecapability of awheelchair in aspecial way cantriggerthoughts ofadvancing thatfeature with more functionality in a newmodel.

One of the most remarkablewheelchair innovations is a submersiblemodel. British artist Sue Austin, awheelchair user since 1996, pursued thisdevelopment with a team of engineers.

Adaptable for scuba diving, it usesdive thrusters, control surfaces, andflotation devices as well as fins attached

to Austin’s feet topropel underwater. Engaged inperformance art,the wheelchair ispart of herFreewheelingproject, whichaddresses theintersection of artand disability.

All-terrainwheelchairs are

attracting interest. From movinggracefully on a sandy beach to climbingup and down stairs, these wheelchairshave been designed with unique sets ofwheels.

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. Anothervery special practical design element

would eliminate the need to physicallytransfer to a toilet seat.

And there’s the social andpsychological aspect of being in awheelchair that the average mobileperson does not think about. Yet forAlexandre Pain, his design goal was“Designing for Social Stigma”; he wantedto create change with a dramatic andelegant design that does not resemble awheelchair.

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 have takenthe challenge to blend form and function.Leaving the classic stereotype behind hasgiven designers the freedom to bring moreversatility to the wheelchair and anenhanced quality of life 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.

Judith Zausner can be reached [email protected].

The Evolving Wheelchair:Innovation, Adaptability, Design

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The Green Mountain Gardener

Dr. Leonard Perry

Research done in the past by theUniversity of Arizona, incooperation with the United

States Department of Agriculture, foundthat on average families throw out up to aquarter of their fruits and vegetables dueto spoilage.

You can lessen this loss greatly bypurchasing or picking produce at theright stage, not storing certain fruits andvegetables together, storing them properly(not all like it cool), and using somebefore others.

In regards to purchasing, there are acouple mainpoints. Moststores have theproduce asyou enter, soyou buy itbefore all else,lengtheningthe time it isnot cool andmoist.

Instead,pick theproduce lastafter you’ve chosen the non-perishablegoods. Then get the produce home assoon as possible. Plan other errandsbefore this shopping, or carry a cooler(especially if warm outside) in yourvehicle if not going directly home.

Also, pick or purchase at the rightstage and in good condition. Apples orpeaches without bruises, firm oranges,dark-green spinach, bananas that areslightly green and not all the way yellowwith brown spots—these are all examplesof good-quality produce.

While it is tempting to store producein air-tight bags, don’t. As produce ripens,it respires, or breathes. Storing any intight plastic bags stops this, causing themto suffocate and speeding up decay.

As they ripen, some fruits andvegetables emit ethylene—a gas that isodorless and colorless but that can speedripening of other sensitive crops. That iswhy spinach will turn yellow in only acouple of days if in the refrigerator crisperalong with an apple. So keep suchethylene releasers—apples, cantaloupe,and honeydew—separate.

Don’t refrigerate other ethyleneproducers at all, including avocado,

unripe bananas, peaches and nectarines,pears, plums, and tomatoes. If fully ripe,you may store these cool, but return toroom temperature for best flavor.

Other crops not to refrigerate includepotatoes, onions, winter squash, andgarlic. Cold delays ripening and spoilingof many crops, but not these. These arecold sensitive and can lose flavor andmoisture when too cold, or their smellscan taint other produce. Keep in a cool,dry space that stays between 50 and 60degrees (F). They may store a month ormore with proper conditions.

A specialnote onpotatoes: Keepthem awayfrom light, asin a paper bag,to preventthem fromgreening andbecominginedible.

Finally,after you’vebought or

picked fruits and vegetables, use the onesfirst that spoil most quickly. But don’tbruise or break their skins, such as pullingstems off, before ready to use, as decaymicroorganisms will enter and begin theirwork.

In the first one to three days, eat or useasparagus, ripe avocados, ripe bananas,broccoli, cherries, corn, green beans,mushrooms, and strawberries.

Next, in days three to five frompurchase, use cucumbers, eggplant,grapes, lettuce and similar greens,pineapple, and summer squash, such aszucchini.

By five to seven days from purchase,plan to use many other crops, such as belland similar peppers, blueberries, Brusselssprouts, cauliflower, leeks, oranges,parsley, peaches, pears, plums, spinach,tomatoes, and watermelon.

Under proper conditions, several cropswill store and can be used much laterafter a week, including apples, beets,cabbage, carrots, celery, garlic, onions,potatoes, and winter squash.

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

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First-Aid Myths that Just Won’t Die

NurseNews

Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES

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.

Any blunt trauma can cause theblood vessels beneath the skin torupture and leak, causing a bruise or, in

medical-speak, a contusion. Theimmediate application of ice (althoughnot directly onto the skin) restricts theblood ooze and, by doing so, can staveoff some of the bruising.

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?

Cream as an appropriate preventivefor a bruise? That was a new one for me,but I do now and again run up against anumber of old, familiar first-aid mythsthat just don’t seem to ever die out.

Here are some first-aid myths you’veprobably heard:

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

cold running water.)

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.

Gloria May is a registered nurse with amaster’s degree in adult health educationand a Certified Health Education Specialistdesignation.

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PinnacleHealth offers a wide range of services, including family practice, imaging,outpatient surgery, and oncology, at multiple locations throughout the region.Through remarkable teamwork among physicians, nurses, and other healthprofessionals, we deliver the most advanced, compassionate care to our patients everyday.

Our community is changing. As people age, the demands for orthopedic, heart,cancer, and other services will increase.Mobility and transportation are challenges thatour region faces as our population ages. Weneed to be sure that our region has access tothe highest quality care and that care isconvenient, especially primary-care services thatfocus on prevention.

We are always working to meet the ever-changing needs of patients. Fromadvancements in technologies to establishing trusted relationships between providersand patients, we continually evolve and grow to ensure we deliver the best care in thebest setting. We call this strategy “Vision 2017.”

That strategic vision includes major improvements to many of our facilities andthe expansion of the hospital from two to three acute-care campuses. The West ShoreHospital in Mechanicsburg will open in 2014. The five-story hospital will include108 beds with an emergency department, medical/surgical care, cardiology,orthopedics, chronic disease management, and private patient rooms.

One of our current hospitals, Community General Osteopathic Hospital in LowerPaxton Township, offers a full range of services from emergency to surgical care.Recently, three floors were added for additional operating rooms and to facilitate the

transition to all private patient rooms. These changes are designed to provide the bestpatient experience.

PinnacleHealth’s other hospital, Harrisburg Hospital, is a leading acute-carehospital where more than 14,500 surgical procedures, 70 kidney transplants, and 588open-heart surgeries are performed. Almost 5,000 babies are born at HarrisburgHospital each year.

As an anchor in the community, PinnacleHealth has continued to invest in theHarrisburg area, including the expansion of emergency and cardiac services atHarrisburg Hospital and the addition of the Medical Sciences Building.

PinnacleHealth’s focuses on patientsatisfaction, credentials (including Magnetrecognition for nursing excellence), experience,range of services, research, education, andoutcomes are a strong testament to our qualityof care.

We receive national and statewide recognitionfor our excellence in care of heart attack, heart failure, diabetes, and transplantpatients. PinnacleHealth was given the maximum reward possible throughHighmark’s Quality Blue hospital program, which focuses on quality and ultimatelyhelping improve health outcomes for people.

By focusing on the “big picture,” such as demographic changes and the futurehealthcare needs of Central Pennsylvanians, we ensure that all aspects of thecommunity’s needs are addressed-including easier access to services and simplifiedtransition from inpatient to outpatient care.

The best care is about more than buildings and equipment-it’s about compassion,concern, and promoting wellness and healing. These principles are at the core of ourlong-term vision for the next century of healthcare in our region.

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Cocoa Suite #311 a.m. – RetireSafe What’s Next in Washington? What Does it Mean for You?Presented by: Thair Phillips, President, RetireSafe

RetireSafe President Thair Phillips will discuss the latest news from Washington,DC, including the CPI for Seniors Act, Social Security, Medicare, taxes, and debt.RetireSafe will cover issues and topics that can save your life or your retirement.

Come learn and share your thoughts and concerns—RetireSafe will be listening!RetireSafe is a nonprofit, nonpartisan bronze EXPO sponsor representing 400,000seniors nationwide and more than 15,000 in Pennsylvania. Learn more atwww.retiresafe.org.

Cocoa Suite #4PinnacleHealth10 a.m. – Why Advanced Directives? Decide for YourselfPresented by: Christian Caicedo, MD, PinnacleHealth, Administrative Director ofEmergency Departments, and Christopher Markley, Esq., PinnacleHealth, SeniorVice President of Strategic Services and General Counsel

There may be times in your life when you cannot make your own healthcarechoices. An advance healthcare directive helps you plan for your care in thesesituations. By stating your wishes in advance, you can have a voice in your care whenyou cannot speak for yourself. You also can choose who may speak for you. Hearadvantages explained and myths refuted.

11 a.m. – Leaky Plumbing and Rusted Pipes: Common Heart Conditions and theLatest TreatmentsPresented by: Mubashir Mumtaz, MD, FACS, PinnacleHealth, Chief ofCardiothoracic Surgery

Learn more about heart conditions such as atrial fibrillation, coronary arterydisease, valve disease, and leading-edge treatments.

Noon – Oh, My Aching Back!Presented by: Mark Smith, PinnacleHealth, Physical Therapist, Cert. MDT

We depend on our backs for a lifetime, so supporting and strengthening them areimportant. Learn causes, diagnosis, and treatments for lower back pain, including theMcKenzie Method.

1 p.m. – Men … It’s Your Prostate and Your ConcernPresented by: Scott Owens, MD, Urology of Central Pennsylvania

An informal discussion for men only with a time for questions and answers.

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So many changes have taken place since we had our children! Some of the thingswe were taught have since been revised or proven incorrect. It is important for us tobe up to date with current recommendations and researched guidelines. Grandparentshave the opportunity to love unconditionally and positively impact the lives of theirgrandchildren.

10 a.m. – Dutch Apple Dinner TheatreDutch Apple Dinner Theatre is thrilled to entertain the audience with hits from

their current season! You’ll enjoy a preview of Andrew Lloyd-Webber’s spectacularmusical CATS, you’ll be tapping your toes with hits from South Pacific, and get aglimpse of the international phenomenon that is Menopause, The Musical!

11 a.m. – Vickie Kissinger, 2012 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL WinnerVickie Kissinger of Gap holds a B.S. in music education and is a classically trained

mezzo-soprano, pianist, and organist. She is also a student of internationallyrecognized master voice teacher Dr. Thomas Houser. With more than 25 years’teaching experience, Vickie runs a fulltime private voice studio from her home.

1 p.m. – Barry Surran, 2008 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL Winner, and Peggy Keller,2011 PA STATE SENIOR IDOL Winner

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Barry performed a three-hour concert at Delaware Water Gap Country Club andwas a guest soloist with the Reading Pops Orchestra. He continues to perform atDeLorenzo’s Restaurant in Easton, Pa.

A nurse, teacher, wife, and mother from Ephrata, Peggy Kurtz Keller has sung thenational anthem for the Lancaster Barnstormers. Peggy enjoys singing at the VAHospital in Lebanon, for community and civic organizations, and in local theater.

Barry and Peggy will be performing jointly at the EXPO, alternating betweenindividual performances and duets.

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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.

Exercise ResourcesTo help you exercise at home, there are

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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Tips to Avoid New Scams Targeting Seniors

While we are all taught to use goodmanners when answering the telephone,not everyone who calls you necessarilyhas good intentions.

According to the U.S. Department ofHomeland Security, a recent spate oflottery scams or advance-fee fraudsoriginating in Jamaica are targetingseniors and other Americans bytelephone.

While the Jamaican and U.S.governments have teamed to tighten lawsand combat the problem, it’s importantto guard against becoming the nextvictim.

Knowing the difference betweenlegitimate telemarketers and scammers iscrucial. Protect yourself by taking thefollowing precautions:

• Never pay money to collect supposedsweepstakes winnings. Legitimateoperations won’t require you to pay tocollect winnings. It’s against U.S. law toplay foreign lotteries. If you get a callsaying you’ve won one, it’s probably ascam.

• Never wire money to anyone you don’tknow.

• Ignoreunsolicited callsfrom anyone,even charitiesand companieswith whom youalready dobusiness. Youhave no way toconfirm thecaller islegitimate.Even caller IDcan be faked.When indoubt, justhang up.

• Place your telephone number on theNational Do Not Call Registry. It’s fastand free. Visit www.DoNotCall.gov oradd your number to the registry bycalling (888) 382-1222 from the phoneyou wish to register.

• Check unfamiliar area codes beforereturning calls. Be aware that there aremany three-digit area codes that connectcallers to international telephonenumbers.

• If you don’tmakeinternational calls,ask yourtelephoneprovider to blockincoming andoutgoinginternational calls.

• Never provideanyone withpersonalinformation, suchas bank accounts,PINs, or SocialSecurity numbers.

• Prevent criminals from accessing yourmoney. Contact your bank, brokerages,and the Social Security Administration toadd a password to your accounts.

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• Help others from falling victim toscammers by warning friends and family.If you’ve received a call, mail, or emailyou think might be from a scammer,report it to the Federal TradeCommission by calling (877) FTC-HELP—(877) 382-4357—or contactlocal authorities.

“The Jamaican government is resolvedto successfully combat this scourge. Wehave put in place both legislative andoperational measures that will ensure thatpersons who prey on vulnerable seniorsare held accountable,” said PeterBunting, Jamaica’s minister of nationalsecurity, who is working with U.S.officials to stop new Jamaican lotteryscams.

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Traveltizers Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel

By Andrea Gross

The scenes drift by—castlesperched on hills, towns withmulticolored buildings, fields

with checkerboard patterns. Then, as ifa shade has been drawn, all I see isdark, gray stone.

The Viking Njord, a new vessel that’slarger and more environmentallyfriendly than most riverboats, hasentered a lock. A few minutes later, itexits, having been gently raised morethan 20 feet.

Thus we cruise from Amsterdam toBudapest, stair-stepping up and downalong three rivers (the Rhine, Main,and Danube), two canals (theAmsterdam and the Main-DanubeCanal), and 69 locks.

It takes us 13 leisurely days to traverse1,200 miles, visit five countries, and timetravel through 10 centuries of Europeanhistory.

Our first stop is Kinderdijk, wherewe’re greeted by 19 windmills, all starklyoutlined against a somber sky. The sceneis so perfect in its simplicity, sostereotypically Dutch, that it could bethe cover of a tourist brochure for theNetherlands.

The mills, which were built in themid-1700s and are still in workingcondition, are reminiscent of ones usedin the Middle Ages, when the Dutchrealized that in addition to grindingcorn, wind-powered mills also could helpdrain wetlands and reclaim land from thesea.

Feudal reality again melds withfairytale fantasy as we enter Germany.

Because rivers were once the mainmeans of transportation, towns and cities

were built on their shores, and we’renever very far from land. I step out onthe veranda of my stateroom, and as wesail eastward along the Rhine, I see onecastle after another.

Each is special in its own way—atower here, a drawbridge there, ivy-covered walls everywhere—but they areall also startlingly similar. They werehomes for feudal lords as well asfortresses that defended their fiefdoms,which, I figure, makes them a medievalversion of a governor’s mansionsurrounded by armed guards.

Many days we wander through smallvillages filled with cobblestoned streets,half-timbered houses, and narrowbuildings in rainbow colors. Other timeswe explore big cities where the buildingsare more stately and the ambience moreharried.

But wherever we are, we overdose onchocolate, pretzels, and beer beforereturning to the ship for a white-

tablecloth dinner. The days, as well asour stomachs, are full.

It’s in Nuremberg that we bridge thecenturies, moving from the Middle Ages,when the city was the unofficial capitalof the Holy Roman Empire, to the 1930sand ’40s, when it was the unofficialcapital of the Nazis’ Third Reich.

“Hitler dreamed of an empire thatwould be as large as the ancient Romanone,” says our guide, as we pass theparade grounds where Hitler staged partyrallies. I notice that the nearby building,the massive Kongresshalle, bears astartling resemblance to the RomanColosseum.

We’re still munching on Lebkuchen,the traditional gingerbread cookies thatwe bought in Nuremberg, when the shipenters the lock that takes us to awatershed 1,332 feet above sea level, thehighest point on any European waterway.From here our trip is literally downhill,but each stop gives us another high.

We sail through Austria’s wine countrybefore spending a day in Vienna, wherewe attend a classical concert featuring themusic of Mozart and Strauss. Aboard theship, we learn how to make strudel andlisten to rollicking music as we’re served abuffet of Austrian specialties.

It’s fitting that the river cruise ends inBudapest, a city that is divided physicallyas well as metaphorically by a river.“Buda,” on the west side of the Danube,is the old part of the city, replete with acastle, fortress, and several museums.

Eight bridges join it to “Pest,” themore modern area that, although stillhome to sites of historic and culturalsignificance, is characterized by expansiveboulevards, fine restaurants, and goodshopping.

That night during our last dinneraboard the ship, we sit with friends andreflect on our trip. In less than two weekswe’ve traveled from the hip atmosphereof Amsterdam to the more restrainedelegance of Budapest, walked throughthe winding alleys of ancient towns aswell as the wide aisles of upscaledepartment stores, and learned aboutevents both tragic and heroic.

“It’s been a crash course in Europeanculture and history as well as a relaxingvacation,” says one fellow.

Just then the pianist begins playing afamiliar Gershwin tune, “I GotRhythm,” with the line, “Who could askfor anything more?” and we all startlaughing. It’s as if the pianist has read ourthoughts.

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Cruising through 10 Centuries of European History

The Cologne Cathedral dates back to the1200s and is a masterful example of

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Dauphin County

Calendar of EventsDauphin County Library Programs

Dauphin County Department of Parks and Recreation

May 5, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Garden Faire, Fort Hunter ParkMay 12, 1:30 to 3 p.m. – Flower Walk: Jack-in-the-Pulpits and Other Spring Flowers, Wildwood ParkMay 19, noon to 4:30 p.m. – Classic Music and Classic Cars, Fort Hunter Mansion

Programs and Support Groups

East Shore Area Library, 4501 Ethel St., Harrisburg, (717) 652-9380

Elizabethville Area Library, 80 N. Market St., Elizabethville, (717) 362-9825May 2, 6:30 p.m. – Friends of Elizabethville Area Library Meeting

Harrisburg Downtown Library, 101 Walnut St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-4976

Johnson Memorial Library, 799 E. Center St., Millersburg, (717) 692-2658

Kline Branch, 530 S. 29th St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-3934May 23, 6:30 p.m. – Friends of the Kline Library Meeting

Madeline L. Olewine Memorial Library, 2410 N. Third St., Harrisburg, (717) 232-7286

McCormick Riverfront Library, 101 Walnut St., Harrisburg, (717) 234-4976

Northern Dauphin Library, 683 Main St., Lykens, (717) 453-9315

William H. & Marion C. Alexander Family Library, 200 W. Second St., Hummelstown, (717) 566-0949May 2 and 16, 6 p.m. – Friends of Alexander Family Library Knitting ClubMay 7, 6:30 p.m. – Novel Thoughts Book ClubMay 21, 1 p.m. – Novel Thoughts, Too! Book Club

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May 14, 6 to 7 p.m.Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support GroupGraysonview Personal Care Community150 Kempton Ave., Harrisburg(717) 561-8010

May 15, 1:30 p.m.Parkinson’s Support Group on East ShoreJewish Home of Harrisburg4004 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg(717) 441-8627

May 16, 1:30 p.m.Hershey Area AARP MeetingSpring Creek Church of the Brethren335 E. Areba Ave., Hershey(717) 832-3282

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May 28, 6 p.m.Susquehanna Rovers Volksmarch Walking Club Gander Mountain5005 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg(717) 991-5232

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May is Better Hearing& Speech Month

Hearing loss is one of the mostcommon conditions affecting older adults.One in three people older than 60 andhalf of those older than 85 have hearingloss.

Hearing problems can make it hard tounderstand and follow a doctor’s advice, torespond to warnings, and to hear doorbellsand alarms. They can also make it hard toenjoy talking with friends 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 a doctorcan help you get used to it.

To find the hearing aid that works bestfor you, you may have to try more thanone. Ask your doctor whether you canhave a trial period with a few differenthearing aids. You and your doctor canwork together until you are comfortable.

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 you tohear someone in a crowded room or groupsetting. Others, such as FM systems andpersonal amplifiers, are better for one-on-one conversations.

TV listening systems help you listen tothe television or the radio without beingbothered by other noises around you.These systems can be used with or withouthearing aids and do not require you to usea very high volume.

Direct audio input hearing aids arehearing aids that can be plugged into TVs,stereos, microphones, auditory trainers,and personal FM systems to help you hearbetter.

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 an amplifyingcoil (T-coil). If your hearing aid is in the“T” position, this coil is activated when

you pick up the phone. It allows you tolisten at a comfortable volume and helpslessen background noise.

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

Mobile phone amplifying devices. Tohelp people who use a T-coil hear betteron mobile phones, an amplifying devicecalled 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 specialsound systems for people with hearingloss.

These systems send sounds directly toyour ears to help you hear better. Somecan be used with a hearing aid and otherswithout.

Cochlear (COKE-lee-ur) implantshave three parts: a headpiece, a speechprocessor, and a receiver. The headpieceincludes a microphone and a transmitter.It is worn just behind the ear where itpicks up sound and sends it to the speechprocessor, a beeper-sized device that can fitin your pocket or on a belt.

The speech processor converts thesound into a special signal that is sent tothe receiver. The receiver, a small rounddisc about the size of a quarter that asurgeon places under the skin behind oneear, sends a sound signal to the brain.

Cochlear implants are most often usedwith young children born with hearingloss. However, older adults with profoundor severe hearing loss are beginning toreceive these implants more 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 the bodymove when someone is talking. Specialtrainers can help you learn how to lip reador speech read.

Source: National Institute on Deafness andOther Communication Disorders

Devices to Help You Hear

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

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The Way I See It

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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].

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


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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 andassembled an army of2,800 men.

Bargash alsoseized the formersultan’s armedyacht, theH.H.S.Glasgow, to useas a navyattack ship.British troopspromptlysurrounded thepalace while the RoyalNavy assembled fivewarships in the harbor directlyin front of the palace.

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 at9 a.m. on Aug. 27. The Glasgow waspromptly sunk; the palace began fallingdown around Bargash as casualtiesmounted. Bargash retreated to theGerman consulate, where he was grantedasylum.

The war had a duration of 38minutes and holds the record of beingthe shortest war in history. Adding insultto injury, the British demanded paymentfrom the Zanzibar government for theshells fired on the country!

Here are a few other fascinatingmilitary facts.

World’s longest war. It started in1651 and didn’t end officially until1986, a war declaration lasting 335years. This was a conflict between theNetherlands and the Isles of Scilly,located off the southwest coast of theUnited Kingdom.

The origins of the war go back to the

Second English Civil War foughtbetween Cromwell’s Parliamentariansand Royalists, supporters of Britain’smonarchs. Cromwell’s military pushedthe Royalists into retreat to the Isles ofScilly. The Netherlands, allied withBritish monarchy, backed the Royalists,believing they would be victorious. Eventhough 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 Scilly Council,wrote the Dutch

embassy in Londonnoting there wasstill an officialdeclaration ofwar. He invitedthe Dutchambassador to

visit the islandsand sign a peace

treaty. This was doneon April 17, 1986.

The War of Jenkins’ Ear.Whenever there is a military conflict, ithas to be identified with a name. And,there are some oddities here. There wasThe War of Jenkins’ Ear. The war tookits name from Robert Jenkins, captain ofthe ship Rebecca, who claimed Spanishcoast guards cut off his ear in 1731.

With full confidence that hismistreatment would not be tolerated byGreat Britain, Jenkins sailed home withhis ear in a jar. He exhibited his ear inthe House of Commons and so arousedpublic opinion that the government ofthe British Prime Minister RobertWalpole declared war on 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 War II.The official stance of Switzerland duringWorld War II is well known: Thecountry was neutral during this conflict.In that position, Switzerland was joinedby Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, andArgentina.

The World’sShortest War

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

their 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.

Social Security HonorsAll Who Serve

Social Security News

By John Johnston

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

May is National MilitaryAppreciation Month. As we observeMemorial Day and MilitaryAppreciation Month, we would like tolet membersof ourmilitary knowhow much wevalue whatthey do forour nation.

At SocialSecurity, weoffer a widerange ofservices forour servicemembers.

Families of fallen military heroes maybe eligible for Social Security survivorsbenefits. Learn more about SocialSecurity survivors benefits at www.socialsecurity.gov/pgm/survivors.htm.

For service members who returnhome with injuries, Social Security ishere to help. Visit our WoundedWarriors website (www.socialsecurity.gov/woundedwarriors). We use an expedited processfor military service members whobecome disabled while on active militaryservice, regardless of where the disabilityoccurs.

It is important to note that benefits

available through Social Security aredifferent than those from theDepartment of Veterans Affairs andrequire a separate application.

Even active-duty military whocontinue to receive pay while in ahospital or on medical leave shouldconsider applying for disability benefitsif they are unable to work due to adisabling condition.

Active-dutystatus and receiptof military paydoes notnecessarilyprevent paymentof Social Securitydisabilitybenefits. Receiptof militarypayments shouldnever stopsomeone fromapplying for

disability benefits from Social Security.If you’ve served in the Armed Forces

and you’re planning your retirement,you’ll want to read our publication,Military Service and Social Security, atwww.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10017.pdf.

You also may want to visit theMilitary Service page of our RetirementPlanner (www.socialsecurity.gov/retire2/veterans.htm).

At Social Security, we honor all thosewho served in the military and weremember those who died for theircountry.

John Johnston is a Social Security publicaffairs specialist.


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