lebanon county 50plus senior news april 2012
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By Megan Joyce
As in years past, the contestants for the 2012 PA State Senior Idol
competition will celebrate their diversity: different musical styles, different
stage presentations, and—with ages ranging from 50 to 80 or better—a few
decades between them as well.
But the common thread woven amongst them all seems to be an essential,
cherished love for performance: for the joy it brings both them and their
audiences, for the thrill of connecting to strangers through something as
intangible and evanescent as a song, a dance, or a comedic routine.
It’s like that for Steve Albright of Jacobus, a retired Maryland native who
works part-time as a pharmacy delivery driver. Though he played the
trumpet for about 10 years during his school years, it wasn’t until his
daughter took up the French horn that his love for his own long-silent brass
instrument was rekindled.
And it wasn’t until a few years even later that his passion for performance
was reawakened as well. Albright was delivering medications to an area
retirement community when he observed a gentleman playing the accordion
for the community’s appreciative residents.
“This just struck a chord with me,” he said. “I remembered the
gratification that I used to get from doing that, because [seniors] are the best
For the Love ofthe Limelight
The Secrets of
San Francisco
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Special Feature: Living
Your Best Retirement
page 9
please see LIMELIGHT page 11
Inside:
Annual PA State Senior Idol
Competition Gears Up for 7th Year
This year’s hopefuls for
the PA State Senior Idol
competition include, from
top, Steven Albright,
Victoria Newcomer, and
Robert Long.
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Iam a firm believer in the ritual of
spring cleaning. When it comes to
the seasonal cleanup, many people
believe that the easiest thing to do is to
just throw everything away. However,
that’s not always smart.
On a regular basis, I visit homes of
people who are downsizing or people
who are cleaning out the home of a
deceased loved one.
I help evaluate what objects are worth
keeping and what objects are worth
selling, and I show people the
smartest way to get the
most money for
unwanted
objects—both
new and old. I
remind folks
that trashing
that unwanted
item may cost
you.
Today, those
objects represent
the much-needed
money for rising
healthcare costs
and other vital
needs.
Far too many
families make uninformed and costly
decisions about valuable objects without
unbiased professional help.
I visit thousands of homes every year
nationwide and share my sound advice
and expertise about the value of
unwanted objects. I show folks how to
identify the valuables and glean much-
needed cash for them.
Get the 411Consider this: Grandma passes away.
In order to put the house up for sale,
Grandma’s family members meet at her
vacant house to empty it.
The family works to throw away most
of Grandma’s stuff: beaded purses,
ceramic canister sets, silverware. Her
belongings—the same items that were
perfectly fine a few weeks ago before her
death—make their way from the house’s
empty rooms to the Dumpster in the
driveway.
Just because Grandma’s family doesn’t
want her belongings doesn’t magically
make these items worthless. Grandma
had been insuring her personal property
including art, antiques, and collectibles
for at least $100,000 under a typical
homeowner’s insurance policy for years,
yet suddenly her items have no value!
This is ridiculous. You wouldn’t set
fire to Grandma’s house because she’s not
using it anymore, would you?
Grandma’s 20-year-old grandson
probably won’t realize that Grandma’s set
of 1940s Blue Ridge dishes are valued at
$30 per plate as he Frisbee tosses them
into the Dumpster. Grandma’s
daughter doesn’t know
that her mother’s late
1880s Victorian
side chair is worth
$500. Grandma’s
nephew, an
accountant,
doesn’t
recognize an
old family
portrait painting
as a work by an
esteemed Colonial
artist with a $75,000
retail value.
Grandma’s family
unknowingly throws
away a significant
amount of money, just as if they opened
their wallets and threw the cash into the
street.
Some families host yard sales or house
sales to generate some funds; however,
be sure you know what you are putting
up for sale and be certain that your
prices are correct. I have seen many
items priced much too low when family
members are organizing a yard sale of
Grandma’s unwanted items.
For instance, I saw a $20,000
American Impressionist landscape
painting offered for $10 with a bright-
green yard sale sticker affixed to its
frame! Don’t let it go until you know
what it’s worth.
PhD antiques appraiser, author, award-
winning TV personality, and TV talk show
host, Dr. Lori presents antique appraisal
events nationwide. Dr. Lori is the star
appraiser on the hit TV show Auction Kingson Discovery channel, airing Tuesdays at 9
p.m. Visit www.DrLoriV.com,
www.Facebook.com/DoctorLori, or call
(888) 431-1010.
Smart SpringtimeCleanup
Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
Dr. Lori
Circa 1940s Blue Ridge dinner plate
worth $30 per plate
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Tri-Valley Contractors
(717) 277-7674
Poison Control Center
(800) 222-1222
Food & Clothing Bank
(717) 274-2490
Food Stamps
(800) 692-7462
Hope/Christian Ministries
(717) 272-4400
Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging
Meals on Wheels
(717) 273-9262
Salvation Army
(717) 273-2655
Alzheimer’s Association
(717) 651-5020
American Cancer Society
(717) 231-4582
American Diabetes Association
(717) 657-4310
American Heart Association/
American Stroke Association
(717) 207-4265
American Lung Association
(717) 541-5864
Arthritis Foundation
(717) 274-0754
Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services
(717) 787-7500
CONTACT Helpline
(717) 652-4400
Kidney Foundation
(717) 652-8123
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
(717) 652-6520
Lupus Foundation
(888) 215-8787
Dr. M. Nazeeri
(717) 270-9446
Hearing & Ear Care Center, LLC
(717) 274-3851
Melnick, Moffitt, and Mesaros
(717) 274-9775
Central Penn Nursing Care, Inc.
(717) 361-9777
(717) 569-0451
Good Samaritan Hospital
(717) 270-7500
Medical Society of Lebanon County
(717) 270-7500
The Reading Hospital
(610) 988-4357
Energy Assistance
(800) 692-7462
Environmental Protection Agency
Emergency Hotline
(800) 541-2050
IRS Income Tax Assistance
(800) 829-1040
Medicaid
(800) 692-7462
Medicare
(800) 382-1274
PA Crime Stoppers
(800) 472-8477
PennDOT
(800) 932-4600
Recycling
(800) 346-4242
Social Security Information
(800) 772-1213
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
(800) 827-1000
Hope (Helping Our People in
Emergencies)
(717) 272-4400
Housing Assistance & Resources Program
(HARP)
(717) 273-9328
Lebanon County Housing &
Redevelopment Authorities
(717) 274-1401
Medicare Hotline
(800) 638-6833
MidPenn Legal Services
(717) 274-2834
Pennsylvania Bar Association
(717) 238-6715
GSH Home Med Care, Inc.
(717) 272-2057
Lancaster NeuroScience &
Spine Associates
(717) 569-5331
(800) 628-2080
Spang Crest
(717) 274-1495
Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging
(717) 273-9262
CVS/pharmacy
www.cvs.com
Annville Senior Community Center
(717) 867-1796
Maple Street Senior Community Center
(717) 273-1048
Myerstown Senior Community Center
(717) 866-6786
Northern Lebanon County Senior
Community Center
(717) 865-0944
Palmyra Senior Community Center
(717) 838-8237
Senior Center of Lebanon Valley
(717) 274-3451
Southern Lebanon County Senior
Community Center
(717) 274-7541
Governor’s Veterans Outreach
(717) 234-1681
Veterans Services
Senior Centers
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Office of Aging
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Neurosurgery & Physiatry
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Dear Savvy Senior,
My 60-year-old husband has
become a terrible snorer, especially
over the past few years. It’s gotten to
the point I can’t stand to sleep in the
same room as him anymore. What can
help us?
– Sleepless Sandy
Dear Sandy,
Most people don’t think there’s
much they can do to fix their
snoring problems,
but that’s not true
anymore. Today,
there are number
of viable tips and
treatments that can
make a big
difference for
snorers and their
suffering spouses.
Here’s what you
should know.
Snoring is very
common. If fact,
it’s estimated that
nearly half of all
adults in the U.S. snore at least
occasionally, and 25 percent snore
habitually. But men are the ones
who tend to be loud problem
snorers, as well as people who are
overweight. And snoring often gets
worse with age.
Self-Help Remedies While there’s no surefire cure for
snoring, there are a variety of things
your husband can try to help reduce
or eliminate the problem, including:
• Slim down: If he’s overweight, a
10 percent loss of body weight can
help open up his airway and
reduce snoring.
• Stop smoking. If your husband’s a
smoker, quitting will help.
Smoking causes inflammation in
the upper airways that can make
snoring worse.
• Avoid alcohol and sedatives:
Sleeping pills, painkillers,
tranquilizers, and alcoholic
beverages all relax the muscles in
the throat, which makes snoring
more likely. He should avoid all
of these three to four hours before
bedtime.
• Change sleeping positions:
Snoring is more common when
you sleep on your back. To
prevent this, sew a tennis ball in
the back of a t-shirt or his pajama
top. This will make sleeping on
his back uncomfortable and teach
him to sleep in a more breathing-
friendly side position. Or, buy a
snoring pillow that’s designed to
promote side sleeping.
• Tilt the bed: Raising the head of
the bed by 4 inches can also help
reduce snoring by helping him
breathe easier. He can do this by
placing some bricks or boards
under the headboard legs, or
purchase some inexpensive bed
raisers. Or insert a foam wedge
under the head of the mattress.
• Clear nasal passages: If nasal
congestion is causing your
husband to snore, nasal strips
may help, or if allergies are the
cause, try steroid or saline nasal
sprays. Antihistamines can help
with allergies but can worsen
snoring. Also consider purchasing
a humidifier for the bedroom.
This can help to reduce
congestion and moisturize the
throat.
When to See a DoctorLoud snoring can be a sign of
obstructive sleep apnea (see
www.sleepapnea.org), a serious
condition in which the snorer stops
breathing many times a night. Left
untreated, it can cause high blood
pressure and can sharply increase
the risk for stroke and heart attack.
If your husband is frequently
sleepy during the day, stops
breathing during sleep, or snorts
awake, gasping for
breath, then it’s
time to see an
otolaryngologist or a
sleep specialist who
may recommend an
overnight study at a
sleep center. Even if
he doesn’t have
these symptoms,
these types of
doctors can help
ease his snoring if
the other remedies
have failed.
A common
treatment for sleep apnea and
severe snoring is a continuous
positive airway pressure (CPAP)
device. This involves sleeping with
a snorkel-like mask that’s hooked
up to a machine that gently blows
air up your nose to keep the
passages open.
Other treatment options include
an oral appliance that fits into the
mouth over the teeth like a
removable mouth guard or retainer,
as well as Provent therapy
(www.proventtherapy.com), which
involves small nasal devices that
attach over the nostrils to improve
airflow and breathing.
If these don’t work, surgery is an
option too. There are several
procedures that are offered today
that can help, including the new
minimally invasive pillar palatal
implant that has a 75 percent
success rate.
Jim Miller is a regular contributor to
the NBC Today show and author of TheSavvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org.
Tips and Treatment forSnoring Seniors
Savvy Senior
Jim Miller
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Lebanon County
Calendar of Events
Lebanon County Library Programs
Programs and Support Groups Free and open to the public
Lebanon County Department of Parks and Recreation
All events held at the Park at Governor Dick unless noted.
April 4, 6:30 to 8 p.m. – Mid-Week Meander
April 6, 7 to 9 p.m. – Spring Amphibian Walk
April 15, 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. – Wildflower Walk
Senior Center Activities
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What’s Happening?
Annville Free Library, 216 E. Main St., Annville, (717) 867-1802
Lebanon Community Library, 125 N. Seventh St., (717) 273-7624
Matthews Public Library, 102 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, (717) 865-5523
Myerstown Community Library, 199 N. College St., Myerstown, (717) 866-2800
Palmyra Public Library, 325 S. Railroad St., (717) 838-1347
Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939
April 12, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.
April 17, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m.
April 19, 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
April 23, 12:15 to 1:15 p.m.Oasis in Space Full Dome Show and Current Night Sky Lesson
Cedar Crest High School Planetarium
115 E. Evergreen Road, Lebanon
(717) 272-2033, ext. 5967
Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796200 S. White Oak St., AnnvilleApril 16, 10 a.m. – Planning Committee Meeting and Special Meal
April 19, 10:30 a.m. – Kindermusik with the Community Music Institute of
Lebanon Valley College
April 27, 9:30 a.m. – Calendar and Newsletter Distribution
Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048710 Maple St., LebanonApril 4, 10 a.m. – Tea Party and Center Goodwill Fashion Show
April 18, 11:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Bus Trip: Jonah at Sight & Sound Theatre
April 20, 8:45 a.m. – Spring Breakfast (Must Preregister)
Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-678651 W. Stoever Ave., Myerstown
Northern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 865-0944335 N. Lancaster St., Jonestown – www.jonestownpa.org/senior.htmlApril 3, 9:30 a.m. – Tai Chi
April 12, 4:30 p.m. – Supper Bunch at Infinito’s
April 26, 10 a.m. – Trooper Yount’s Presentation on Scams
Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237101 S. Railroad St., PalmyraApril 4, 10:30 a.m. – Birthday Social
April 10, 11:30 a.m. – Lunch Club at Olive Garden
April 23, 10:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. – In-County Bus Trip: Dutch Way and Farmers’
Market
Southern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 274-7541Midway Church of the Brethren, 13 Evergreen Road, LebanonApril 11 and 23, 10:15 a.m. – Shuffleboard
April 25, 10:30 a.m. – Bible Study
April 30, 12:15 p.m. – Make Your Sundae Event
Privately Owned Centers
Senior Center of Lebanon Valley, Inc. – (717) 274-3451710 Maple St., LebanonApril 21, 1:30 p.m. – Zembo Strings Program and Buffet
Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or visit their website for moreinformation.
Do You Know America’s
Outstanding Oldest Worker?
The search for America’s
Outstanding Oldest Worker for 2012
has begun.
The annual recognition, now in its
14th year, is conducted by Experience
Works, which serves older workers
through its Senior Community
Service Program. The award is part of
a national effort to raise awareness of
the contributions older individuals
make in today’s workplace and
provide inspiration to older workers
seeking employment.
Nominees must be 100 years of
age or older and working at least 20
hours each week in paid
employment. The nomination form
is available at
www.experienceworks.org. Deadline
for nominations is April 15, 2012.
Last year’s honorees were 102-year-
old Dr. Hedda Bolgar, a practicing
psychoanalyst from Los Angeles,
Calif., and 101-year-old Mazerine
Wingate, a postal worker from
Lexington Park, Md.
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1. Measure
4. Belt the ___
9. Iota
14. Old NOW cause
15. Come from behind
16. Certain student
17. Deck (out)
18. Succeed
19. Bad loan
20. “Audition,” et al.
23. Jack
24. Thumbs down
25. The __ of Night (old soap)
26. Ever, old-style
30. Start of a giggle
33. Echo
35. Thirst
37. Gardner tomes
41. Monastic officer
42. Apprehensive
43. Econ. figure
44. Scratch
45. Some auction bids
49. Enzyme ending
51. Acquiesce
52. Angela’s Ashes, et al.
59. 1935 Triple Crown
winner
60. Capital of Ecuador
61. Make a lap
62. Clemson athlete
63. Of an arm bone
64. Catullus composition
65. Great balls of fire
66. Roll top?
67. Surfing site
1. Move
2. Roughly
3. Disheveled
4. Cousin of a loon
5. Doctor Who villainess,
with “the”
6. Not to mention
7. Ballyhoo
8. Ogler
9. Tope
10. Like some mothers-in-law
11. Needle holder
12. Wrap up
13. Florida has them
21. Wear oneself out
22. Whichever
26. Visa statement, abbr.
27. Long-tailed primate
28. Detroit’s county
29. Befuddled
30. Skater Babilonia
31. “___ Time
transfigured me”: Yeats
32. Dash widths
34. Suffix with pamphlet
35. Survey choice
36. Decorative plant
37. Car ad abbr.
38. Samovar
39. Van Winkle
40. Little ’un
44. Vereen
46. Prayer
47. Mock
48. Sonnet section
49. Son of Jacob
50. Takes off
51. Lifeless, old-style
52. Cookers
53. Utter
54. Eastern music
55. Prefix with plane
56. Break in the action
57. Series opener?
58. Greek letters
Across
Down
By Myles Mellor and Sally York
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By Andrea Gross
Ilived in California for many years,
but it wasn’t until last year that I
began to learn the secrets of one of its
greatest cities—San Francisco. Oh, I’d
walked the Golden Gate, noodled
around Chinatown, and shopped in
Union Square, but I’d never heard the
gossip.
Then I took three neighborhood
tours, each led by residents who showed
me the hidden places and told me the
scandalous stories. Finally, I feel like a
native.
North BeachThe American Planning Association
calls North Beach one of 10 “great
neighborhoods in America,” and it’s easy
to see why. It’s a community in every
sense of the word—a place where people
walk, talk, and eat.
That’s exactly what my husband and I
do during our award-winning Local
Tastes of the City Tour. Tom Medin,
owner and guide, begins by giving us the
history of the area. It was, he says, settled
by Italians, and then became a hangout
for members of the Beat Generation and
a risqué nightclub district. But now it’s
relaxed into an area of small shops,
eateries, bakeries, and delicatessens.
He leads us from one to another,
feeding us fascinating facts to digest
along with the food. By the end of the
tour, when we go into Café Trieste, a
coffeehouse frequented by the likes of
Steve Allen, Woody Allen, Pavarotti, and
Bill Cosby, I’m feeling like I am an in-
the-loop San Franciscan.
That night, to solidify our city-wise
credentials, we go to Beach Blanket
Babylon, a San Francisco staple since
1974. We sip wine and watch
performers, who wear outrageous hats
that are 4 or 5 feet tall as they spoof all
things political and most things sacred.
The man next to me laughs so hard that
he spills his wine into my lap. I barely
notice because I’m laughing equally hard.
ChinatownWe’re walking through San Francisco’s
Chinatown, but the bustling crowds of
Grant Avenue seem far away. On the
back streets men are playing mah jong,
women are folding disks of dough into
fortune-cookie packets, and a man is
weighing medicinal herbs for a customer
who has a hacking cough.
“Nee haw, hello,” I say, trying out my
one phrase of Chinese. Our leader—she
doesn’t like to be called a “guide”—
laughs. “No, no, no,” she says. “That’s
Mandarin Chinese. Here in San
Francisco, most of the Chinese speak
Cantonese. It’s nay ho.”
That’s only the first of many things we
learn as we follow Shirley Fong-Torres,
a.k.a., the Wok-Wiz, through the part of
Chinatown where, as she says, “real
people live, work, and play.”
She points to a mural on an alley wall
and explains the custom it depicts.
“That’s not just a pretty painting,” she
says. “It’s a picture of one of our Chinese
New Year activities.”
Next we go into a store filled with
imitation cell phones, television sets,
food, and clothing, all made out of
paper. The Chinese, we learn, want to
make sure their relatives have all the
comforts of this world when they
journey to the next one.
Again, without Shirley, we’d have
missed the real meaning of what we were
seeing. We’d have thought the items were
simply cute children’s toys.
Nob HillWe take a cable car to the Fairmont,
the grand dame of hotels atop San
Francisco’s Nob Hill. It seems apropos
since the cable car is what allowed the
19th century’s most privileged folks to live
in rarefied hilltop air, far above the “low-
life” who frequented the docks. The
street was simply too steep for horse-
drawn carriages.
Valerie Huff, owner of Hobnob Tours,
meets us and leads us first through the
public rooms of the grand hotel, then on
a two-hour, flat-ground tour of the
neighborhood. Before the earthquake of
1906, the area was filled with grand
mansions and luxury hotels, all but two
of which were destroyed by the post-
quake fires. Today the area is again filled
with homes of the affluent.
Valerie laughs as she dispenses gossipy
tidbits. I learn, for example, that two
feuding barons each hired bodyguards to
protect one from the other, and that a
rich widow disinherited her son when he
opposed her marriage to a younger man.
By the time the tour ends, I know
why Nob Hill is sometimes called “snob
hill,” and I’m reveling in my insider
status.
We’ve only begun to explore the
neighborhoods in depth, but for now my
mind is full and my feet are sore!
For more information:
North Beach –
www.localtastesofthecitytours.com,
www.beachblanketbabylon.com
Chinatown – www.wokwiz.com
Nob Hill – www.hobnobtours.com
Photos © Irv Green except where noted;
story by Andrea Gross
(www.andreagross.com)
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Traveltizers Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
The Secrets of San Francisco
Left: The best way to
understand San Francisco is to
visit its neighborhoods.
Right: Café
Trieste is an
iconic North
Beach
coffee shop.Above: A visitor who
wanders the back
streets of Chinatown
gets a much
different perspective
than one who stays
on Grant Avenue.
Left: The cable car always
has been—and still is—
the best way to get to
Nob Hill. (Photo courtesy
of Hobnob Tours)
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When Dennis Benchoff was
accepted as a cadet at West
Point in 1962, he could
scarcely imagine that he would one day
become a three-star general. Or that he
would have under his command the
weapons that could kill hundreds of
thousands of enemy troops.
But in 1988, when he was a brigadier
general and commanding general of the
59th Ordnance Brigade in Europe, he got
the order that was to present him with
one of the most monumental challenges
of his 36-year military career.
At a depot in Clausen, Germany, we
had amassed 100,000 artillery shells
filled with deadly VX and GD nerve
agents capable of killing hundreds of
thousands of enemy troops.
They were so dangerous that a mere
drop of the VX or whiff of the GD could
kill a person, blocking the nerves
between the brain and the lungs and
preventing the lungs
from functioning.
Anyone who came
anywhere near those
shells always wore
protective equipment.
But hadn’t the
Geneva Convention
outlawed the use of
such chemical
weapons?
“Yes,” Benchoff
says, “but not the
ability to have them,
should the need to
use them ever arise.”
He adds, “We, of
course, had no
thought of starting a conflict with
chemical weapons. But, on the other
hand, we had to be able to respond if the
Soviets ever used chemical weapons to
attack us.”
By the summer of
1988, however,
President Bush had
decided that the other
weapons we had at
our disposal provided
more than enough
deterrent to any such
move by the Soviets.
So he took the bold
step of deciding to
destroy the entire
cache of chemical
weapons.
The only facility
equipped to destroy
such weapons was
Johnston Atoll in the
Pacific. Therefore, the first question to be
answered was whether the weapons
should be shipped there to be incinerated
or whether a new such facility should be
built in Europe.
Johnston Atoll is a 1-square-mile atoll
that is about 750 nautical miles west of
Hawaii. It had no indigenous
inhabitants, and in the mid-1980s, it
became our facility for chemical weapons
disposal. It housed what was essentially a
huge furnace that was used to incinerate
such weapons.
For considerations of time, money,
and geography, it was selected as the
place to dispose of the chemical weapons
we had at the Clausen Depot. That
choice of Johnston Atoll was rather easy,
and even sending the weapons by ship
from Germany was rather
straightforward.
The problem was how to get the huge
stockpile of weapons from Clausen to
Nordenham, the German port from
which the vessel would leave on its trip
to deep in the Pacific.
His Assignment: Move Tons of Nerve Gas
to Be Destroyed in the PacificRobert D. Wilcox
Salute to a Veteran
LTG Benchoff at his retirement
ceremony in 1998.
please see ASSIGNMENT page 14
Not long ago I met a
gentleman who proudly
announced that at age 71,
he had just passed his state’s bar
exam. He said he recognized that
having his law license would greatly
enhance his business, so he went to
law school. Obviously, how others
might define retirement isn’t how he
defines it.
And apparently it wasn’t how
Harland Sanders defined it either, as
I understand that his little fried
chicken business was inspired by a
family recipe but funded by his
Social Security checks.
Why do retirees keep working?
Sure, the extra income, but research
indicates that continuing to work,
even part-time paid or volunteer, is
the way many choose to stay
physically active, engaged in social
interactions, and challenged. (It is
said that the three M’s of successful
aging are moving, mingling, and
mastery.)
After all, retirement at 65
sounded reasonable back when we
didn’t live another 20 or 30 years
afterward, but now? Decades of
pursuing only leisure activities may
sound terrific to some, but certainly
not to all.
Sociologist William Sadler coined
the term “Third Age” to refer to the
time in life when, after the “First
Age” (our youth, when we are
dependent on others and pursuing
our education and careers) and after
the “Second
Age” (the
parenting and
working
years), we can
stay involved
in our careers
or we can
explore
different
opportunities
and learn new
skills. The
Third Age is
the time when
we can actively
work toward
making the
most of the
life we have left.
But are we physically and
emotionally up to this challenge?
After all, half of us have at least one
chronic health concern, and three-
quarters of us have two or more.
Can we actually do this?
Well, just as the stereotypes of
retirement are changing, so is the
approach to healthcare for those
who are of retirement age. There’s
an increased emphasis on what’s
called “self-management healthcare,”
and for those who are
enthusiastically taking on their
Third Age, it seems a good fit. After
all, if we are going to take charge of
our Third Age life, why not take
charge of our Third Age health?
Of course, in truth, our entire
adult lives we
have self-
managed our
health; this is
really nothing
new. Ever since
we moved out
on our own,
we have chosen
and controlled
what we ate or
drank, whether
or not we
smoked, if we
exercised,
fastened our
seatbelts, or
saw the dentist
twice a year.
So, the issue is not how to start
self-managing our health in this
Third Age, but how to get better at
it.
You may find that your doctor is
shifting away from telling you what
to do and leaning more toward
asking you how he or she can help
and suggesting ways you can take
on more responsibility. Be it how to
prevent or how to manage, your
doctor might be eliciting more of
your active participation in the
pursuit of better health.
You, after all, are your own
primary health provider and now, in
this Third Age, it’s time to get fully
involved.
Gloria May is a registered nurse with a
master’s degree in adult health
education and a Certified Health
Education Specialist designation.
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audiences—they really are.”
In fact, in his youth, Albright had
once been a member of a band that used
to play at facilities and hospitals in
Baltimore County, Md.
And so, two years ago, he dusted off
his trumpet, warmed up his vocal chords,
and began assembling his “Songs of the
’60s” program, which he now performs
regularly for thankful crowds at York
County assisted living facilities, nursing
homes, and retirement communities.
“One time an elderly woman and her
husband came up to me and said how
much they enjoyed [my program] and
said it reminded them of years ago,
listening to their old Bert Kaempfert
Christmas album,” Albright said.
As for Senior Idol, Albright hopes to
make some connections with other local
performers who might be interested in
joining him to produce a Christmas
album of their own—its proceeds
benefiting cancer and Alzheimer’s disease
research, which afflicted his father and
mother, respectively.
“It gives me satisfaction to know that
at least I can do something: I can provide
pleasure for folks that definitely are
much less fortunate than I am,” he said.
“I’m fortunate to be healthy and have a
healthy family … They say laughter is
the best medicine, but I think music is
awfully good medicine too for the soul.”
Victoria Newcomer would likely agree
to music’s soul-stirring capabilities. The
Mount Joy resident has been a nursery
school teacher for almost 20 years but
also has a “weekend job” as the singer in
a small classic-rock band.
Her parents started cultivating their
daughter’s vocal chops early on, calling
on her to perform for their guests
whenever they entertained at their
Pittsburgh home.
“From the time I was 4—whether [the
guests] wanted to hear it or not—my
parents actually had me sing,” she
laughed. “People seemed to enjoy it.”
In her teens she participated in her
high school’s choruses and musicals as
well as a top 40 band she formed with
five friends. At age 16 she started to sing
at weddings, a practice she continued for
the next 25 years. Then, five years ago,
she and a friend began singing in
restaurants, bars, and local
establishments around Lancaster County
on weekends.
“I pretty much stick to classic rock
and blues, but I enjoy all music,”
Newcomer said. “I have an appreciation
for everything.”
She is eager to satisfy her performance
bug at this year’s Senior Idol
competition, hoping her “non-
conformist” and “a little edgy” style and
song choice help her stand out from her
fellow competitors.
“I am a little bit of a ham,” she
admitted. “It’s just an exciting time when
you actually perform and people are
responding to what you’re doing.”
Describing herself as “truly a people
person,” Newcomer is also looking
forward to meeting new people and
anticipates a fun overall experience at PA
State Senior Idol.
“It’s a cool way to showcase those of
us who have made it to the half-century
mark,” she said, then added with an
audible smile: “And my younger son
convinced me to do it.”
Robert Long of Reading, on the other
hand, will be reviving the standards at
Senior Idol, much like he revived his
musicality after a 17-year hiatus. Long
started out with the acoustic guitar at age
11 and took lessons for 12 years,
switching to the steel guitar after being
told his “fingers were too short for a
regular guitar.” But the change paid off
unexpectedly in 1959.
“The steel guitar came in handy
because, when Hawaii joined the Union,
then they had Hawaiian parties and
people would call me to play Hawaiian
music,” Long remembered.
Through his early adulthood and
beyond, Long played with different
musical groups, including one formation
where he took up electric bass and
another where he sang harmony behind
the band’s female vocalist. After marrying
his wife, a pianist, the Longs set out as a
duo with the accompaniment of a drum
machine, playing cocktail music in area
restaurants.
When, at age 63, Long retired after a
45-year career at a pretzel plant, he
retired from his music as well. Fast-
forward 17 years, and Long suddenly
rediscovered his vocal gifts while singing
along to some jazz records. Soon, a
friend helped him record 20 songs—
classics like Sinatra—against prerecorded
background music.
“It sort of amazes me with my voice,”
he said. “I haven’t sung in 17 years and
all of a sudden—I’m amazing myself, the
way it sounds. I’m just having such a
good time with it.”
The end result was a complete CD as
well as three sets of 20 practiced songs
that Long now rotates between two
steady, monthly gigs at assisted living
and nursing homes.
“I like to sing for the seniors because
they really enjoy it,” he said. “It makes
you feel good, to see them tapping their
toes and their mouths are going; they’re
humming along with you. It just gives
me a lot of pleasure.”
And, judging by the grateful welcome
he has received from his peers already, his
reception at PA State Senior Idol
promises to be just as friendly.
“I had a lady in a wheelchair last
month come up to me,” Long recalled,
“and she says, ‘You can sing for me
anytime.’”
For more information on the 2012 PA
State Senior Idol competition, call (717)
285-1350 or check out
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previous years or to download an
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Telephone/Website
YearEst.
CountiesServed
RNs LPNs CNAsHomeAides
MedicareCertified?
Other Certificationsand Services
Alliance Home Help
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1984Cumberland, Dauphin,
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Providing all levels of care (PCAs, CNAs, LPNs, RNs), in the home, hospital, or
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that is Medicare certified and Joint Commission accredited. We work with your
physician to provide nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech
therapy, wound care, and specialized care as needed.
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2009Cumberland, Dauphin,
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CountiesServed
RNs LPNs CNAsHomeAides
MedicareCertified?
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Keystone In-Home Care, Inc.
(717) 898-2825
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2004 Lancaster, Lebanon, York � � No
Two- to 24-hour non-medical assistance provided by caregivers who care.
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1997
Adams, Berks, Chester,
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2005Cumberland, Dauphin,
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Senior Advisors. We have contracts with the VA and the Area Agency on Aging.
Private insurance and self-payment are also accepted. Friendly faces, helping
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Seniors Helping Seniors
(717) 933-2077
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2010 Dauphin, Lebanon � No
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Visiting Angels
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2001 Lancaster, York � � No
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ASSIGNMENT from page 8
That’s where Benchoff and his staff
came in. The 59th Ordnance Brigade was
responsible for security and maintenance
of our nuclear and chemical weapons in
Northern Europe, so it was their
challenge to figure out how the move
could be made and then to make it
happen. Above
all, they had to
make sure that
all went safely.
Their plan
became to move
the weapons by
truck to a
railhead near
Kaiserslautern
and then carry
them by rail to
Nordenham,
where they
would be
loaded on a ship
that would take them to the Pacific.
Cost of the move? Some $100 million.
For six months the planning for the
entire operation had been on a need-to-
know basis … highly secret. Then it was
decided that it was about time for us to
take credit for this delicate but highly
important mission.
From the time the decision was made
public, criticism was rampant. Germans
who lived along the route the weapons
would take protested loudly about being
put in grave peril. And peace groups like
Greenpeace protested moving such
potentially deadly cargo through
Germany and to the Pacific.
At Clausen, the weapons had been
stored deep in bunkers, with guards and
motion-sensing radar to prevent
saboteurs from taking any action against
them. In making the move, there were
guards everywhere, even helicopters
overhead—everything that was needed
to keep the shipment secure.
Were there any accidents during the
move?
“Well, just one,” Benchoff says, “when
some canisters fell off a pallet being
loaded by forklift. We had been using
four teams working in six-hour shifts.
We quickly formed a fifth team, which
was to instantly
replace any shift
that had
another such
accident. This
wasn’t training;
it was a real
mission. So
every soldier
considered it a
high honor to
be part of the
operation.
And, with the
possibility of
their being
replaced on the mission, we never had
another accident of any kind occur
during the whole operation.
“My responsibility ended when the
last pallet was loaded and the ship sailed
beyond the 12-mile limit and entered
international water space.”
The Federal Republic of Germany
recognized the significance of the
mission by awarding Benchoff the
Distinguished Service Cross with Gold
Star, the highest award it gave to a
person who was not German.
Benchoff went on to hold increasingly
important positions until his retirement
from the army in July 1998 as a
lieutenant general. He and his wife,
Barbara, now live in Central
Pennsylvania, where he is an adjunct
professor of mathematics for Harrisburg
Area Community College.
Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in
Europe in WWII.
Brigadier General Dennis L. Benchoff with the
signs marking the end of the moving of nerve
gas canisters from Germany in 1990.
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Overlook Activities CenterOverlook Park • 2040 Lititz Pike, Lancaster
May 30, 2012 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.Hershey Lodge
West Chocolate Avenue & University Drive, Hershey
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Oct. 23, 2012 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.Carlisle Expo Center
100 K Street, Carlisle
Nov. 6, 2012 9 a.m. – 2 p.m.Lancaster Host Resort
2300 Lincoln Highway East, Lancaster