September 2012 Forever Young Lifestyle Magazine

FOREVER YOUNGFOREVER YOUNGLifestyle Magazine Celebra t ing the 50-Plus Communi ty o f the Pa lm Beaches

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Dr. Wesley BoughnerDr. Wesley BoughnerRotarian Peace Activist

Chiropractor Dr. Sabrina Morgen

Travel Planning Expert Valerie Dorsey

Celebrating Mother Angeline’s Legacy

The Wellington Seniors Quilters Bee

Dr. Wesley BoughnerDr. Wesley Boughner

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September 2012 • Forever Young Lifestyle Magazine •

‘Celebrating the50-Plus Community

of the Palm Beaches’

SePteMber 2012

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ContentSYour guide to this month’s issue

ColumnsSeptember Always reminds Me of Preparing For the First Day of School

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Kudos to the brits For the olympics! What Can We Do to one-up them?senior moments bY DeborAh WeLKY, PAge 30

on the CoverWellington Rotary World Peace Initiative founder Dr. Wesley Boughner (see page 8).

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8rotary Peace Activist Dr. Wesley boughnerDr. Wesley Boughner — a retired educator and globe-trotter devoted to intercultural understanding — is driven by a vision that small steps taken by ordinary people will multiply across time zones, cultural and religious divides, nations and continents to bring about peace on Earth. By chris felker

14Dr. Sabrina Morgen Specializes in neuropathyDr. Sabrina Morgen is one of only two chiropractors in Florida specializing in neuropathy — disorders of the peripheral nerves outside the spine and brain most com-monly manifested as numbness of the hands or feet. Her Lake Worth office, Physicians Wellness Care, blends different treatments to help patients. By ron Bukley

18Valerie Dorsey helps Plan the trip of A LifetimeWith an over-saturation of information, planning that perfect vacation getaway can be a tedious task. That’s where Cruise Planners comes in. Valerie Dorsey has more than 30 years of traveling experience throughout the world and can assist in making your planning expe-rience as pleasant as possible. By Jessica GreGoire

22Quilting group Meets Weekly in WellingtonThe ladies of the Wellington Seniors Quilters Bee sew up some real masterpieces during the quality time they spend weekly, hobbynobbing and working with their quilting friends. They earn the satisfaction that comes from making works of beauty that go to benefit their favorite charities. By chris felker

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Dr. Wesley Boughner, Founder Of The Wellington Rotary’s Peace Initiative

There’s a man in Wellington whose fondest hope is that, if the day ever comes when all the world’s coun-tries and peoples are at peace with each other, it will have come about partly because of his efforts.

Dr. Wesley Boughner — a retired educator and globetrotter devoted to intercultural understanding — is driven by a vision that small steps taken by ordinary people, projects of interna-tional goodwill done by individual communities and inspirational essays written by schoolchildren, among many other gestures, will multiply across time zones, cultural and religious divides, nations and continents to bring about peace on earth.

Boughner, 75, is the colorful char-acter behind the Wellington rotary Club’s annual, and growing, World Peace initiative. it’s a wide-ranging, nearly yearlong program of activities and projects that involves all 13 of the community’s schools, as well as churches, community leaders and other civic groups.

The initiative culminates this year on Friday, sept. 21, which is the United nations’ designated international Day of Peace, with a ceremony at the Wel-lington rotary Peace Park, also partly a product of Boughner’s activism.

“if we’re ever going to have world peace,” he asserted in an interview at his Wellington home, “it has got to start in the local communities. how it’s going to come about is through our younger generations. That’s why we are doing so much in this community in the schools.”

some of the events connected with the

ceremony are the awarding of cash priz-es and certificates to winners of a peace poster design contest in the elementary schools and middle school poetry and high school essay contests; awards to three winners in a photography contest open to the community with the theme “multicultural Understanding”; presen-tations of Boy scout peace merit badges; and bestowal of the annual Community Peace award to the person or group in Wellington that best exemplifies the concept of conflict resolution, or peace, within the community.

There are other projects too numerous to detail. Suffice it to say that the club has dozens of people working on vari-ous activities, and Boughner last year had to add a co-chairman to help with organizing things — Larry Kemp.

Boughner drew inspiration from his many years of living, working and traveling overseas with his late wife, Joan, and, acting on her encourage-ment, became the principal driver behind the Wellington rotary Club’s concentration on programs and proj-ects promoting international peace and understanding.

after she died of cancer in 2005, Boughner sought out a place in the village to plant a “peace pole” in her memory, and found one on some Wel-lington-owned wetlands at the corner of Birkdale and royal Fern drives, just south of elbridge Gale elementary school. There, on sept. 21, 2006, he and the Wellington rotary Club dedicated the community’s first peace pole.

Two years later, the park was dedi-cated after the village was persuaded to set aside several acres at that site,


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plus more than $150,000 to help build the amenities, which include an open gazebo and elevated boardwalk over the wetlands. The Wellington rotary Club, which had been working with the village to establish the park since 2004, pitched in more than $30,000.

The original peace pole, which is an international symbol of peace made of Western red cedar, with the slogan “may Peace Prevail on earth” inscribed in a different language on each of its eight sides, stands in the center of a semicircle of six flags — those of the United states, Florida, the United nations, Wellington and rotary inter-national, along with the specially de-signed banner of the Wellington rotary Peace Park. Wellington’s pole has the inscription in english, spanish, arabic, Chinese, hindi, hebrew, russian and Japanese. it has since been joined by at least four other peace poles erected at the park and around the community.

Boughner, who was born and raised in Trenton, mich., retired to the Palm Beaches in 1992 after a long career with several U.s. governmental agencies. he earned his bachelor’s degree in art from Bowling Green University in Ohio, then taught at michigan state University and eastern michigan University for a couple of years before taking a job teaching at an air Force school in Ber-muda, where he met Joan, who was a fourth-grade teacher there.

The couple married on the island, spending two or three years there, but Boughner had his sights set on a career working in overseas schools.

“To teach overseas for the state De-partment, you had to have two years of

The peace initiative culminates this year on Friday, Sept. 21, which is the United Nations’International Day of Peace, with a ceremony at the Wellington Rotary Peace Park. ‘If we’re ever

going to have world peace,it has got to start in the local communities. How it’s going to come about is through our younger generations. That’s why we are doing so much in the schools,’ Boughner said.


Wellington Rotary Club World Peace Initiativefounder Dr. Wesley Boughner at a memorial to his

late wife at the Wellington Rotary Peace Park.PHoTo By aBNeR PeDRaza


Forever Young ProFileexperience. so i waited two years after i got out of college [while teaching], then i was lucky enough to get that job in Bermuda. i met my wife there, and we both enjoyed travel-ing, so we started traveling a little there.”

after their stint in Bermuda, they returned to teach in the U.s. for a few years, but in the 1960s, Boughner got a Department of Defense job as a principal and curriculum director at the largest private american school in the world,

in Taiwan, where he stayed until 1970. his next job was with air america, the airline started by the Department of Defense to support the Central intelligence agency and other covert missions in Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War, which later expanded to support such missions worldwide. he was based in Thailand during 1970-72 while working for the Cia.

“When we got into asia, we started traveling a lot because we love asia. hong Kong is our very favorite city in the world. so we just traveled every vacation, every summer,” Boughner recalled.

Because of his job, he and Joan were able to fly almost anywhere they wanted in the world. “after that, i started taking principalships and curriculum coordinator [jobs], and then i became a superintendent,” he said

at that point, the agencies he was working for “allowed me to move around almost anywhere i wanted. Whenever they had problem schools, i would take the schools.”

He and Joan lived in at least five foreign countries over his career and took numerous adventure trips. Boughner said his hobby became traveling to the native lands of in-digenous tribes in many areas of the world, including the amazon, southeast asia, Borneo, the Philippines, india and new Guinea, and photographing everything he and Joan came across — mainly wildlife and the natives’ activities of daily living. all and all, he estimates that he has visited 145 countries.

Boughner surrounded by photos from around the world.PHoTo By cHRIS FelkeR

Boughner has been a licensed pilot and glider pilot; he’s also an accomplished diver. he headed up dive expeditions for the smithsonian institution for six years; made an under-water movie for nBC; and assisted during weightlessness training for the U.s. space program in Bermuda. he was a runner between the surface and a cell where scott Carpenter and other astronauts were living for a week, undergoing nasa training. also, he once turned down a job to dive for Jacques Cousteau, the famous underwater explorer and filmmaker, because he had a better offer.

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community-building projects overseas led to Boughner’s intense interest in guiding the Rotary to fulfill its mission of promoting goodwill between the world’s peoples from his adopted hometown in Wellington.

some of the Wellington rotary’s projects over the past decade have included hosting 12 Russian financiers for six weeks to learn the american banking system; a library project in Campinas, Brazil; a matching grant given for solar ovens and training of esther’s aids in rwanda; and many others. his latest project has been building a rotary World Peace District initiative, intended to “promote participation of more than 50 percent of the clubs in the district to imple-ment a minimum of two international projects that would raise community awareness for conflict resolution, cultural understanding or world peace.”

The local District 6930 became the first World Peace District, and Boughner hopes that after their successful pilot project last year, their recommendation will be adopted by rotary international to extend the initiative as a worldwide project in 2013.

“This cause is very important to me. We have 33,000 ro-tary clubs throughout the world. if each of them every year had a peace ceremony with only 200 people, that’s 6,600,000 people they would reach. That’s 66 million in 10 years. That’s how world peace can come about,” Boughner said.

For more information about the Wellington Rotary Club, visit www.wellingtonrotary.org.

The Wellington Rotary Peace Park is located at the cornerof Birkdale and Royal Fern drives. PHoTo By aBNeR PeDRaza

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Chiropractor Dr. Sabrina Morgen Specializes In Treating Neuropathy

Dr. Sabrina Morgen is one of only two chiropractors in Florida spe-cializing in neuropathy — disorders of the peripheral nerves outside the spine and brain most commonly manifested as numbness of the hands or feet.

“i’m a neuropathy specialist by the american College of Physical Medi-cine,” Morgen said. “There’s only two in Florida and less than 10 in the United States. We have people who come here from all over the state.”

Her Lake Worth office, Physicians Wellness Care, blends several different treatments to help patients. “We use a combination of progressive modalities, which is electrical medicine, cold laser therapy, high-intensity focus ultra-sound, proprioceptive rehabilitation and nutritional intervention,” she said. “it’s a combination approach.”

Morgen said any of the modalities alone will not effectively treat neuropa-thy, so they are used in combination. “You need somebody to focus on the different levels,” she said. “That’s why we use light, sound, electrical medi-cine, physical therapy and nutritional intervention. it requires a multifaceted approach to really get a good result. We try to reverse the neuropathy as much as possible. it’s not a total cure, but it usually helps anywhere between 50 to 80 percent, depending on what causes the neuropathy. it’s kind of a unique niche, and it yields results.”

Many people go to a neurologist to treat neuropathy, but Morgen said neu-rological treatments are limited. “They only have one or two drugs available, and they have very bad side effects,” she said. “When patients are on it, it’s not a cure. it just helps take the edge

off, but they still have quality of life issues.”

Diabetic neuropathy has become more commonplace with the increase of diabetes in the United States. “it’s been said that at least 60 percent of diabetics will get neuropathy,” she said. “our treatment works really well to stop the progression and arrest the condition, and also try to reverse it.”

The treatment is more desirable than allopathic drug remedies that can have harmful side effects, Morgen said. “The nice thing is it is also non-invasive, so the best-case scenario is it will help you and worst case is there will be no change,” she said. “There are no side effects with the treatment, so there is re-ally no risk in trying the treatment to see if it will help with the neuropathy.”

neuropathy is caused by damage to the nerves. “You can get it either from being a diabetic, or you can get it from chemotherapy cancer treatments — that’s very common,” she said.

it can also be brought on by statin drugs used to reduce high cholesterol, Morgen added. “it also can come from the spine, which is where chiropractors come in as well, some type of entrap-ment or spinal stenosis,” she said. “it might also be idiopathic, [in which case] they don’t know what’s causing it. i personally feel there are a lot of nutritional deficiencies, so we help to address those, as well.”

Morgen said many patients come to her after traditional pharmaceuti-cal therapy treatment has not helped or perhaps even made things worse. Most of her neuropathy patients are 65 or older.

“The neurologists don’t really have


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any answers,” she said. “i’ve treated patients who have said literally, ‘i’ve been to 30 neurologists, i’ve been to the Cleveland Clinic three times, and this is the only place that i actually got results.’ The reason is we think outside the box. Typically, the medical doctor is trained to do pharmaceutical, which is oK, but if the pharmaceutical doesn’t help you, then that’s all they have. You need someone who has other types of healing modalities.”

Morgen said she became interested in chiropractic when she was in col-lege and had a shoulder injury and did not want to take medications. “i used to work out a lot, and when i would go to the gym, they would say, ‘Why don’t you see a chiropractor? They can get you quick results without medica-tion.’ That was very attractive to me,” she said.

Morgen said the chiropractor she visited took an X-ray and showed her exactly what her problem was, and focused more on the cause rather than treating the symptom, and also how to prevent it from reoccurring.

“To me, chiropractic is very biome-chanical, and i love that because i’m kind of a numbers person,” she said. “i think of mechanics, just like if you’re an engineer and you’re building a building. To build a structure, you need to have a good foundation. it’s the same thing with the human body.”

Morgen said she gets great personal satisfaction in seeing her patients have good results from her treatment, espe-cially when they tell her they had been everywhere and given up hope.

“To give them that sense of hope and some type of solution that will help

‘Chiropractic is very biomechanical, and I love that because I’m kind of a numbers person,’ Dr.Morgen said. ‘I think of mechanics, just like if you’re an engineer and you’re building a building.

To build a structure, you need to have a good foundation. It’s the same thing with the human body.’


Dr. Sabrina Morgen, shown here ather Lake Worth office, uses a varietyof treatment options to help patients.

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Forever Young Featurethem with their physical health problems without the use of dangerous interventions is very rewarding. especially as people get older, i think they believe there’s no cure,” she said, explaining that when she cannot cure a patient’s malady, she can often help with quality of life. “We can help you to walk longer. We can help you so you can get out of that wheelchair. We can help you sleep better when you wake up screaming with pains in your legs. Just because you’re over 65 doesn’t mean you don’t deserve quality of life. You do.”

Morgen not only receives referrals, she also gives them. “i

have given referrals for almost every specialty — endocri-nologists, neurologists, orthopedic surgeons, dermatologists. We get over a third of our referrals from medical physicians,” she said.

The office also offers acupuncture and has a medical doctor and physical therapist on staff. “We have a lot of different tools to work with,” Morgen stressed.

She recommends that people visit her web site at www.drmorgen.com to learn more about what she and her office have to offer.

Services include chiropractic care, physical therapy, massage therapy, laser light therapy, spinal decompression therapy, diagnostic testing, manipulation under anesthesia, trigger point injections, acupuncture, diathermy, neuropathy care, functional capacity evaluations, TenS (transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation) units, nutritional counseling, weight loss/detox programs, integrative cancer care and orthotics.

Morgen is a 1997 graduate of the Los angeles College of Chiropractic. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Florida. While in chiropractic school, she volunteered her time to work with Junior achievement, Habitat for Humanity and the California aiDS riders for three consecutive years.

Physicians Wellness Care is located at 6894 Lake Worth Road, Suite 104. For more information, call (561) 964-9191 or visit www.drmorgen.com. FYDr. Sabrina Morgen (center) with some of her staff members.


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Valerie Dorsey Of Cruise Planners Can Help You Arrange The Trip Of A Lifetime

When planning for that perfect vacation getaway, Cruise planners can help make your dreams come true.

With an over-saturation of information on the internet, planning that perfect vacation getaway can be a tedious task. The time-consuming process of filtering out what fits your needs, especially when it’s for a large group, can sometimes make people settle on an unsatisfac-tory trip. That’s where Cruise planners comes in.

Valerie Dorsey has more than 30 years of traveling experience throughout the world and can assist in making your planning experience as pleasant as pos-sible.

Dorsey, a former pharmaceutical representative and nurse, retired in 2010 and decided to pursue her love of traveling and vacation planning. She opened her Cruise planners franchise in June 2011.

“i always loved to travel, so i decided to look around and find a travel job,” Dorsey said. “Someone suggested Cruise planners, and i looked into it and really liked them because they’re an American Express company.”

Dorsey is based at her home in Royal palm Beach and runs the business by herself. “This is like living your dream,” she said. “It’s a job because I have a lot of studying and learning to do about tours and various cruise lines, but it’s a pleasure because i interact with people all day and help them fulfill their dreams, so that makes it a lot of fun.”

Dorsey’s job is to get her clients the best value for their dollar. She does this by employing a planning method that first focuses on figuring out the vaca-

tion destination, and then how the client wants to get there.

“Putting price first is not always the best way. You might miss out on the value you are trying to achieve,” she said. “any money spent toward a vaca-tion is valuable money, and you want that money to go toward having a good time.”

After finding out all the particulars of a client’s desired vacation, Dorsey researches, compiles and presents two to three trip options. “Then we narrow it down, and focus on the one they would really like to do,” she said.

as an experienced world traveler, Dorsey provides her clients with detailed information about many of the popular destinations. Some of Dorsey’s travels include most of europe, the Caribbean, Singapore, Thailand, greenland, iceland and hong Kong numerous times.

“Many years ago, I was a flight nurse in the Air Force Reserve,” she said. “I got to fly all around the world picking patients up, but while we were there, we got to enjoy our time on the ground.”

That experience back in the 1970s is what sparked her desire to travel. “ever since then, i’ve been traveling, and i re-ally have a love for it,” she said.

Most of the planning is done over the phone. if a client wants to meet with Dorsey, she arranges a meeting place and time. “Many agents are now home-based because of the overhead of having a building,” she said. “What you want to do is talk to people and understand what they want, and you can do that by being a home-based agent.”

When initially speaking with a client, Dorsey asks questions to find out what


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their needs are. “Sometimes people don’t know they can achieve things sooner rather than later,” she said. “So I like to help them find out whether they can actually achieve a vacation dream.”

Dorsey advises her clients to start planning for their trip from nine months to a year in advance. “The only thing about going out too far is that airfare isn’t available until 330 days prior to your travel,” she noted.

But for cruises, the rules are differ-ent. “Many cruise lines post their prices early, so you could go out a year if you would like,” Dorsey said.

in Florida, cruising is one of the most popular vacationing trips.

“i do my fair amount of talking to people to find out what would be the right ship to put them on for their per-sonality,” she said. “Each ship, although they might sail to the same places, their personalities are quite different.”

Dorsey also gives her clients a few pointers to make cruise vacations as smooth as possible. “i usually advise them to spend their first few hours on the ship taking a walk through the entire ship to see where things are located,” she said.

Dorsey is also knowledgeable about river cruises. “Recently, i’ve also gone on some river cruises both in europe and America,” she said. “So those are experiences i’ve become very passionate about and want to share with people for their next trip.”

if a client is traveling outside the country, Dorsey also informs them on locations to exchange money.

“Many clients want to know whether they should take traveler’s checks or

Some of Dorsey’s travels include most of Europe, the Caribbean, Singapore, Thailand,Greenland, Iceland and Hong Kong numerous times. ‘Many years ago, I was a flight nurse

in the Air Force Reserve,’ Valerie Dorsey said. ‘I got to fly all around the world pickingpatients up, but while we were there, we got to enjoy our time on the ground.’

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Valerie Dorsey of Cruise Planners looks through travel magazines at her home in Royal Palm Beach.PhoTo by JESSiCa GrEGoirE/FyLM STaFF

cash, or if they should exchange a lot of money in each country they go to,” she said. “i usually advise them to exchange no more than $200 at a time so that they don’t have a lot of money left over at the end.”

Dorsey recommends that her clients primarily use credit cards when making purchases outside the country, and not take a lot of cash with them. “The credit cards are safe, can be registered, and copies left at home with loved ones,” she said. “They’re certainly much easier to manage than use of cash or traveler’s checks.”

Some popular destinations among the Baby Boomers are alaska, europe,

iceland, asia and the Caribbean. “There are also many other possibilities opening up for different types of vacations, like river cruises, which make it easier for persons with disabilities to travel,” she said. “With my help and good planning, they can pretty much go anywhere they want to in the world.”

When speaking with Dorsey, clients learn that she can find vacations and tours matching any physical ability or limitation.

“That is why it’s good for people to talk to me so i know the right tours to put them on,” she said. “Some tours are for adventure types, and some are mildly active, so it pays to know and discuss

what you are able to do and book ac-cordingly.”

Dorsey is also experienced in organiz-ing groups, from collecting payments to insuring the group gets extra amenities. “i work with different types of groups, some that i would lead, and some that i help people put together,” she said.

Dorsey can help clients with almost every type of vacation package from cruises to vacation home rentals. “The only thing we can’t do is individual air-line tickets, but other than that, the sky is the limit,” she said.

For more information about Cruise Planners, visit www.charmedvacations.com or call (561) 383-7774.


Bishop Celebrates At Lourdes-Noreen McKeen Retirement Community In WPB

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It was a day of joy on aug. 9 for the staff and residents of Lourdes-Noreen McKeen in west Palm Beach. the retirement community’s foundress, Mother Mary angeline teresa McCrory, was recently declared venerable by the Catholic Church — the first major step toward sainthood. Bishop Gerald Barbarito of the diocese of Palm Beach made a visit to the home to celebrate the news. He led a special Mass in our Lady of Lourdes Chapel, followed by a reception in the waterview Room to pay tribute to the woman who had devoted her life to serving the elderly.

Mother angeline was born in Ireland in 1893 and entered the Little sisters of the Poor in 1912. while stationed in New york in 1929, she formed a new religious congregation — the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm — based on the principle that the needs and care of the aged should be met with the utmost dignity in a genuine, homelike setting.

Mother angeline and six like-minded companions began their mission and opened st. Elizabeth’s to the elderly in need in New York City, just one month before the stock market crash that ushered in the Great depression. Her innovative approach was rare and instantly popular, and soon the order found themselves unable to keep pace with the demand.

the sisters now conduct 18 homes for the elderly in the U.s. and Ireland, including Lourdes-Noreen McKeen in downtown west Palm Beach.

the sisters came to the Palm Beaches in 1960 and opened Lourdes Residence inside the former Lake Court apartment Hotel located along flagler drive. Later rebuilt and renamed the Lourdes-Noreen McKeen Residence, the facility was the first of its kind in the area to provide


The sisters came to the Palm Beaches in 1960 and opened Lourdes Residence inside theformer Lake Court Apartment Hotel located along Flagler Drive. The facility was the firstof its kind in the area to provide nursing, long-term and seasonal housing for the elderly,all with the signature type of care that distinguished the order’s approach from others.

Resident Josephine Scienzowith Sister Mary Annedennehy,and Bishop Gerald Barbarito.

nursing, long-term and seasonal housing for the elderly, all with the signature type of care that distinguished the order’s ap-proach from others.

the fast-growing population in the Palm Beach area and the popularity of their approach prompted a major expan-sion in 1964 with the purchase of the neighboring Pennsylvania Hotel, affec-tionately referred to at that time as the “Little Breakers of west Palm Beach.” today, Lourdes-Noreen McKeen offers 132 beds for skilled nursing care and short-term rehab, 69 independent living and 34 assisted-living apartments.

For more information about Lourdes-Noreen McKeen, call (561) 655-8544 or visit www.lnmr.org.

Mother Mary Angeline Teresa McCrory, who started the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm, was recently declared

venerable by the Catholic Church.


Quilters Gather Weekly For Camaraderie And To Support Their Charitable Causes

The ladies of The Wellington seniors Quilters Bee sew up some real masterpieces during the quality time they spend weekly, hobbynobbing and working with their quilting friends. They earn the satisfaction that comes from making works of beauty that go to benefit their favorite charities.

The Wellington quilters group was founded in 1998 by Marietta Bowie, who is still active in the group at age 73. She led the group for its first 13 years and just last year gave way to a new chief, shirley siegel, 62.

Bowie has been quilting since 1976, when she lived in Potomac, Md. “I was associated with three groups there, and we always did a little bit of char-ity work,” she recalled. “When I came

to florida, i met a lady named Ruth Carlton at the fair, and she asked if i was a quilter, i said yes, and she said, ‘Come and join me.’ We were the loose Threads at that time.”

They formed a small group, but over the years, it lost members until it finally came down to just the two of them.

“So then we came to the Wellington seniors Club, where we could get un-der their umbrella and get the room for free,” Bowie recalled. “Ruth and I sat in a little room in the back corner, and eventually we started getting people coming in. We advertised and begged for material, and people gave us mate-rial.”

The group is now up to almost 30 members, who pay yearly dues of $20


By Chris Felker | Forever young staff report

to the Wellington seniors Club, which gives the quilters a yearly stipend to support its charity work and secures them space in the Wellington Com-munity Center.

Not quite that many show up regu-larly, but the group manages to turn out a trove of quilts that go toward good causes. “We ended up giving quilts to the abused women’s shelter, the Chil-dren’s home society, and to a group of ladies who filled a suitcase for women who left, and we’ve just done charity work right along,” Bowie said. “And now, since Shirley took over last year, we’ve started doing pillowcases for the Palms West Hospital pediatric oncology unit, and quilts for the st. Mary’s Medi-cal Center oncology department.”

one request from st. Mary’s was a real challenge, Bowie recalled. “I personally made the incubator covers; they wanted six, and i ended up making three, and that was enough,” she said. “There was no pattern, so I had to go in there where the very sick babies are, and i had brown paper and made my own pattern.”

Bowie said her husband is a cancer survivor and she has had other family members battle the disease, “so we feel very strongly about doing for the young people.”

Siegel is also a cancer survivor, and she said that the Palms West project was rewarding for her. “We also do quilts for the veterans; Louise Connolly does those, and they’re given to patients at the VA Medical Center in Riviera Beach.”

for members of the Wellington seniors Quilters Bee, if it’s Thursday morning, it’s time to get to work. They meet at 9:30 a.m. every Thursday year-round in the Wellington Community Center’s lower level. “We do take a little rest during the summer, though, and don’t quilt as heavy for charity; we

Louise Connolly, Marietta Bowie and Peggy Houck worked on this quilt together.photo by Denise Fleischman/Fylm staFF


Wellington Seniors Quilters Bee members with the quilts presented last year to the Children’s Home Society.photo by Denise Fleischman/Fylm staFF

(Above) Doris Rickles, Louise Connolly, Shirley Siegel and Mildred Pitchon show pillowcases they made. In the Pillowcase Project, quilters made brightly colored, kid-themed pillowcases to donate to Harmony House. (Inset) Wellington Seniors Quilters Bee President Shirley Siegel at her sewing machine.

photos by Denise Fleischman/Fylm staFF


Forever Young Featurestart back usually in the fall,” Bowie said.

“It’s too hot to be schlepping ma-chines,” siegel added.

at their meeting one Thursday in august, the group met for a short show-and-tell time about projects they’re working on, and then a guest speaker from the Mary Rubloff YWCa Harmony House visited the group for a second time to collect items donated by members and friends of the Quilters Bee for the use of the women and chil-dren who have suffered spousal or other domestic abuse. she also presented a list of baby items, children’s clothing, household items, small kitchen appli-ances, linens, food, personal hygiene necessities and furniture that would be welcomed.

“We also have a potluck luncheon once a month here,” Siegel said. “Ev-erybody brings their own little specialty dish, and it works out very nicely,” Bowie added.

during fall through winter, Bowie ex-plained, “the first Thursday was always charity day,” the quilters would each bring in their sewing machines, “and we would all work on something together,

but now it’s sort of splintered off into different groups where everybody’s doing something a little bit different, so we’re not just doing it for one group; they’ve split it up and are doing it for several groups.”

Bowie and siegel explained that the quilters don’t do any formal fundrais-ing because the group does not have an official status; it’s a very informal organization. But they do accept any donations of materials. “We gave 67 quilts to the Children’s home society last year, and we had a nice luncheon,” Bowie said. “We try to do something special like that every year.”

The group does not sell any of their creations, except for ones that might be auctioned for one charity or another. “You can’t make one for what people want to pay,” siegel said.

she noted that prices for material are “up between $10 and $12 a yard, and that’s for regular run-of-the-mill, 100 percent cotton, mostly not even made in the United states.”

For beneficiaries, the group looks “for the people who are the most needy,” Bowie said. This has included return-ing U.S. combat veterans who have FY

no families and may even be in care because of serious injuries.

Siegel said she and several other Quilters Bee members are looking for-ward to the World Quilt show-florida at the Palm Beach County Convention Center Nov. 8-10. “Six of us are going, and we’re all making name tags for ourselves,” she said, showing the item she was working on.

She added that “a lot of us are members of the Palm Beach County Quilters Guild, and we’re doing a quilt show March 8-9 next year, ‘Quilting of Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow,’ at Palm Beach Atlantic University’s Greene Sports Complex in West Palm Beach.”

siegel also noted that two of the Wel-lington group’s members are president and vice president of the county orga-nization, Susan Freudenthal and Peggy houck.

For information about joining or do-nating to the Wellington Seniors Quil-ters Bee, call Siegel at (248) 761-8347 or e-mail her at [email protected]. Information about the county guild is available at www.palmbeach quilters.com.

(Left) Wellington Seniors Quilters Bee leader Shirley Siegel holds up the name tag she’s making for the World Quilt Show-Florida in West Palm Beach this November. (Right) Quilters Bee founder Marietta Bowie with a piece she has recently finished.

photos by chris Felker/Fylm staFF


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Joe Nasuti is an entertainment columnist for the Town-Crier newspaper. His monthly Memory Lane columns feature memories from bygone days. FY

Why Would I WrITe an article titled “First day of School” in September when school started in August? Be-cause, back in my day, the first day of school was the Tuesday or Wednesday after labor day! The biggest bummer back then was when labor day fell on Sept. 1, and the best thing was when labor day was Sept. 7, which meant another week of summer at the South Jersey shore.

I thought the start of school in August was exclusive to Florida until I had a rude awaking last year when I went on my annual family visit, only to find Sea Isle City a ghost town the week before labor day since school up north also started early … is anything sacred?

My very first day of school would have been in 1948. damn, that’s 64 years ago. The good news is that I can still remember that … the bad news is, I can’t remember what I did 64 seconds ago!

There I was, walking into Saint Monica’s Catholic School in South Philadelphia, with 20 nice, loving nuns and one really mean-looking lay teacher (Mrs. Neil) standing outside their respective rooms. you guessed it, with 21-to-1 odds, I lost. Talk about fear striking the heart of a 6-year-old!

There she stood, with her god-forsaken clicker and her 15-inch ruler that somehow managed to strike my hands daily. Since I spoke mostly Italian, it seemed to make things worse! like a lot of second-generation Italian-Americans, we were told speaking Italian in school in America was a sin. So I lost and never fully regained my knowledge of the Italian language because dealing with Mrs. Neil was bad enough … taking on God — no way!

Another thing that puzzled me for years was the ear-to-ear smile on my mother’s face as she said goodbye. Why wasn’t she crying? Twenty years later, I had that same smile when I took my son Tom to experience his First day at School. It’s called the Freedom Smile!

As a child, the first day at school each year is exciting. As parents, it is costly. As teachers, it is very rewarding. That is a common bond between all of us: the beauty of education,

the social development and, above all, the knowledge that Mrs. Neil with her clicker and ruler have long been retired.

As I climbed the ladder of edu-cation, the first day of high school also stands out, because after being the Big Man on Campus during my eighth and final year at Saint Monica’s, now I was a lowly freshman at Bishop Neumann … so degrading!

Finally, after my best year of my life, senior year of high school (you must admit, nothing compares to senior year), once again I was a freshman, at drexel university. There, I was reduced to wearing a beanie for the first month. It was so humiliating, but Mom thought it was cute and had that same ear-to-ear smile. In fact, she never stopped smiling since that first day of school in 1948!

Now it is time for me to watch my grandson Nathan go through eighth grade at Saint Clare’s and my granddaughter Abbie enter her freshman year at Indian river Community College. By the way, I have a beanie she can borrow. Finally, what helps make life so much fun for me is, I have my

mother’s big smile!Well, that takes care of this month’s stroll down Memory

lane. once again, I hope I jogged your memory and brought a smile or two to your face. until next month, remember: We can’t help growing older, but we don’t have to grow up … so stay Forever young!


another thing that puzzled me for years was the ear-to-ear smile on my mother’s face as she said goodbye. Why wasn’t she crying? years later, i had that same smile when i took my

son tom to experience his First Day at school. it’s called the Freedom smile!


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Kudos To Britain For A Great Olympics! What Can America Do To One-Up Them?

Deborah Welky’s humor column The Sonic Boomer is published weekly in the Town-Crier. Follow her on Twitter at www.twitter.com/TheSonicBoomer and visit The Sonic Boomer page on Facebook. FY

DiD you waTCh the olympics last month? i did. and, just like you, i marveled at the perfection that it is possible to attain when it comes to the human body. Except for the weightlifters (who had achieved their own brand of perfec-tion), there wasn’t one muscle out of tone anywhere.

i marveled at this as i reached into my bag of potato chips. wow, i crunched, how do they do it?

i also marveled at the athletes’ back stories (some of whom had overcome unbelievable adversity to get there), the talking heads (who seemed to be enjoying their time in London, both in and out of the arena) and the sheer ability of little old London to pull the whole thing off.

First, a royal wedding; now this. Their Tourist Development Council over there is doing one heck of a great job!

and what about america, land of the free, home of the brave? our manufacturing dollars are going to China, and our tourist dollars are going to England. we need to get on the stick around here!

But i am not one to complain without a solution to offer. and, in this case, i have plenty. By follow-ing my simple advice (which i am selflessly providing at no charge as my contribution to america’s comeback), we should be rolling in dough within a year.

here are my suggestions:1. Tax the heck out of imports.2. Cut all taxes on exports.3. Legalize marijuana and tax it

to high heaven.4. Marry off someone famous,

like oprah.5. Make the wedding into an

international spectacle.6. Manufacture all commemo-

rative schlock associated with said spectacle here, in america.

7. Charge people when this schlock is inevitably taken to the dump.

8. Give cash rewards for recycling, even curbside.

9. Give cash rewards to businesses who hire high school students or the homeless.

10. Give cash rewards annually to anyone who’s worked 12 months in a row.

Now, about our morale. as i see it, citizen morale in the united States is at an all-time low, and i know why: bad press. Let me clarify that i am a staunch believer in freedom of speech, freedom of the press and all those associated freedoms. Freedom is good. But use some common sense, people! when our politicians are spending millions of ad campaign dollars to denigrate the existing government — and

each other — how are we common people supposed to hold our heads up high?

and i don’t want to hear any of that poppycock about fighting fire with fire. If you’re the target of a smear campaign, do what holly-wood does: hire a spin doctor. The perfect example is Charlie Sheen. Left to his own devices, he’s a train wreck. But he’s also a cash cow. So, thanks to spin doctors, brilliant agents and a host of other highly paid professionals, it now seems totally logical that he’s the star of a show called Anger Management. Fight fire with logic!

and what about the next genera-tion? we need to teach our children (and grandchildren) that america rocks! The “poor boy makes good” newscasts, movies and TV shows are a start. But maybe we need to expand that concept to include the whole country — sort of a “Look, we know we’ve got problems, but here’s what we’re doing about them” mentality. inspire the kids to want to come up with solutions because, believe me, they will. if

anybody can, they can. and, the younger they are, the more creative they are.

when they offer a half-baked suggestion, don’t laugh it off. Finish baking it! you’re the adult! you’re the one with the tools and connections to make it happen! Then, when this meager little idea actually does solve a problem — even if it’s only a tiny problem — remember where the idea germinated and reward the kid! Toys are good; cash is better.

after all, we are a capitalistic society.Right now, we just need more capital.


but I am not one to complain without a solution to offer. and, in this case, I have plenty. by following my simple

advice (which I am selflessly providing at no charge as my contribution to

america’s comeback), we should be rolling in dough within a year.

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