York County 50plus Senior News January 2013

Kidney transplant recipient Carole Fair is now an author as well as an active

organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania.

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By Lori Van Ingen

Chronic kidney disease affects one in nine Americans, and millions more

are at risk. More than 105,000 people are on the National Kidney Transplant

List in the United States.

“Every day, 18 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ,

such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or bone marrow,” said Carole

Fair, an organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central

Pennsylvania for nearly two years.

Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 4,573 kidney

patients, 1,506 liver patients, 371 heart patients, and 234 lung patients died

in 2008 while waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, Fair noted.

“I’m hoping that with more awareness of transplantation and the

generosity of others, these numbers could certainly decline,” said Fair, who

recently spoke at events at Holy Spirit Hospital and Hershey Antique Auto

Association.

Fair is a circuit speaker at civic clubs, women’s organizations, and

churches. She helps people become aware of transplantation, clears up

misconceptions, and promotes organ donation in general.

“I get asked the most basic questions, like, ‘Where is my kidney located?’

and ‘Is the old kidney removed during a transplant?’” said Fair, who also is a

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Food is trendy. It is no longer about

TV dinners and microwave

popcorn. The following chefs

began their journeys many years ago to

transform good eating into a fine art, a

nutritious experience, and big business.

Cecilia Chiang, 91, Chinese –

Raised in a very wealthy family in

Shanghai, she was not allowed in the

kitchen. As a young woman, Chiang

escaped occupied China and, years later,

traveled to San Francisco to visit her

sister.

Serendipitously, she met a friend there

who planned to open a restaurant and

then reneged, but Chiang went forward

with the lease since she had already

written a large, nonrefundable check to

the landlord on behalf of her friend. And

so her restaurant Mandarin began and

remained active for more than 40 years.

Chiang has taught Julia Child, James

Beard, Alice Waters, and Danny Kaye.

Madhur Jaffrey, 79, Indian – Born

in Delhi, India, she did not cook at

home when she was young and traveled

abroad to study in London at the Royal

Academy of Dramatic Art. After

marrying she moved to New York City

and, in 1973, she published her first

cookbook, An Invitation to Indian

Cooking.

Jaffrey has written numerous

cookbooks of Indian, Asian, and world

vegetarian cuisines, and has won James

Beard Foundation awards for some of

her books. As a result of the success,

Jaffrey also developed a unique line of

mass-marketed cooking sauces.

Diana Kennedy, 88, Mexican – Born

in the United Kingdom, she arrived in

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Alice Waters at dinner with friends.

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Mexico with her husband, who was a

New York Times correspondent. She

traveled throughout Mexico researching

cooking techniques as well as the history

of Mexican cuisine. Craig Claiborne

urged her to give Mexican cooking

lessons in New York City and then, in

1972, Kennedy published her first book,

The Cuisines of Mexico, and eight more

books would follow.

Jiro Ono, 86, Japanese – Born in

Japan, he is considered the world’s

greatest sushi chef. After his father left,

the 9-year-old Ono left home and never

returned. He has been mastering sushi

for the past 76 years and now is the

subject of a documentary, Jiro Dreams of

Sushi.

Ono’s tiny restaurant, Sukiyabashi

Jiro, is in Tokyo, where he holds the

Guinness Book of Records title for being

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Jacques Pépin, 76, French – Born in

France to restaurateurs, he learned to

appreciate food at an early age. In the

1950s he was the personal chef to

Charles DeGaulle and then moved to

the United States in 1959. He has

appeared on numerous television shows

and received a Daytime Emmy award in

2001 for his show Julia and Jacques

Cooking at Home with Julia Child.

Today he serves as dean of special

programs at the French Culinary

Institute, teaches an online class for

Boston University, and writes a quarterly

column for Food & Wine magazine.

Georges Perrier, 69, French – Born

in France and although not from a poor

family, he began working at 14 and then

moved to the United States when he was

21 years old. In 1970 he opened Le Bec

Fin (French colloquial translation: fine

palate) in Philadelphia, which gained a

five-star reputation and was known as

the leader of the “Philadelphia restaurant

revolution.”

In January 2009, the French

government awarded Perrier the Legion

d’Honneur. In February 2012, Perrier

announced his retirement from Le Bec

Fin by selling it to a former Le Bec

manager. Perrier still maintains

ownership/interest in other restaurant

venues.

Wolfgang Puck, 63, Austrian – Born

in Austria and trained in France, he

learned much of his cooking skills from

his mother, who had sometimes worked

as a pastry chef. At 25, he moved to Los

Angeles where, 15 years later, he opened

the award-winning Spago restaurant.

Now he has a gastronomic empire

under his name that includes more than

20 fine restaurants, catering services,

more than 80 Wolfgang Puck Express

operations, and kitchen and food

merchandise, including cookbooks and

convenience foods. He is the official

caterer for the Academy Awards and his

favorite food is macaroons.

Alice Waters, 67, American – Born

in New Jersey, she moved to California

to attend college. It was during her study

abroad time in France that she began

purchasing fresh foods directly, and it

was this experience that resonated with

her and led to the development of her

food-fresh sustainable beliefs.

In 1971 she opened the Chez Panisse

restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., which

quickly became famous for its organic,

locally grown ingredients and is ranked

among the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.

Waters created the Chez Panisse

Foundation with a mission to transform

public education by using food to teach,

nurture, and empower young people.

In 1992, Waters was the first woman

to be awarded Best Chef in America by

the James Beard Foundation and has

received numerous other awards, written

about a dozen cookbooks, and is a board

member of relevant institutions. Waters

is an internationally acclaimed food

activist who has inspired the organic

food revolution.

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If you like vintage architecture

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The building was ultra-modern

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ramp (like the one designed by

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City), glass curtain wall (a nod to

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Canton, Ohio,

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the 1912 Olympic Games, signed

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with the Canton Bulldogs in 1915.

While the vintage building is

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football fans. The completion of the

museum expansion will coincide

with the Hall of Fame’s 50th

anniversary in 2013. The new

facilities will not only host a world

of football fans, but they will also

offer the Ralph Wilson Jr. Football

Research and Preservation Center,

the researchers’ reading room, an

event center, and a meeting room.

In addition, there will be

exhibition galleries focusing on the

history of the game dating back to

the early 1900s, state-of-the-art

interactive displays featuring game

footage and player videos, the

Lamar Hunt Super Bowl exhibition

gallery with the Vince Lombardi

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ring display (for the jewelry lover in

the family), and the popular Hall of

Fame gallery.

While the Super Bowl ring

display was one of my favorites

(who doesn’t like all those

diamonds?), the Hall of Fame

gallery speaks to the core of the Hall

of Fame. The gallery houses

interactive displays and an

impressive assemblage of fine-art

bronze portrait busts of the Hall of

Fame inductees through the years.

The bronze busts are the work of

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they capture the likeness of each

football great. As a display, the

gallery is awe inspiring as visitors

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At the Pro Football Hall of Fame,

exhibits trace the history of

professional football with unique

objects like the Baltimore Colts

marching band’s bass drum, press

wood posters announcing the 1962

AFL championship game between

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The exhibits highlight player

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made by Pittsburgh

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1972? The museum,

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the heart of the game

of football.

I discovered one last

interesting thing about

sports museums during

my visit to the Pro

Football Hall of Fame.

No matter how much

information is available

to a visitor in a sports

museum, fans always

search for more. I

noticed many visitors standing in

front of very good, informative

displays—even interactive

displays—who were still searching

for additional stats on their cell

phones. I even found myself doing

it.

As a former museum curator and

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Theodore Rickard

Ihate to admit it—or, at least, I

should be somewhat bashful about

admitting it—but there is a certain

smug satisfaction in being retired.

First of all, there is an inner

contentment, somewhat akin to a sense

of triumph, in not being awakened by

the clock radio. For years the little white

cube was set for the same time and the

same unctuous and annoyingly happy

voice told us what the local weather was.

This information was a loser either

way. If the weather was bad, it meant a

rush to leave early enough to allow for

the inevitable traffic snarls. If the

weather was good, the call to duty and

the reality of a second mortgage

engendered painful resentments.

In the first few months of not having

to go to work I’d call the bank to see if

the pension deposits had actually been

made. The patient lady (her name is

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the figures—the same numbers every

month. Something tells me I was not

the only one doing this just to make

sure. Alice never sounded surprised at

the request.

At our house the lifetime spousal

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none of this uncertainty. With sublime

confidence in the world of finance, she’d

go ahead and write the checks for the

condo assessment, telephone bill, and all

those essential etceteras of living. I

admire her faith in the banking system

even after all the bad press that bankers

have been getting.

And especially since our own local

financial institution is now in its fourth

name change, and we hear it’s been

acquired yet again, although neither of

us can remember either its last-year

name or its current name or this year’s

slogan.

Only Alice has remained the same

throughout the bank’s successive

identities. Her continued presence gives

us some sense of a stable housing for our

modest deposit balance. I keep

wondering what’s going to happen when

Alice retires, but I’ve stopped calling her

every month to see if the money is

actually there.

And we sleep later in the morning.

Or I do, anyway. Sometimes I awaken to

the scent of coffee freshly brewing. This

means we’re going shopping today.

“Shopping” entails me finding a place to

sit down while the lifetime spousal

purchasing agent provides whatever we

need to survive both the immediate and

the distant future.

These needs are heavily weighted

with grandchildren’s birthdays,

graduations (including play school), and

the next Yuletide, however many

months away it might be.

Occasionally I do the “guy thing.”

For some reason, this almost always

involves the car. For example, our

somewhat aged, mid-sized sedan gets a

regular oil change. This requires man-

to-man talk with “Angie” at the local

service station. Usually we decide that

the brakes are “good for another

20,000, but we better keep an eye on

the muffler” and “we’ll want to replace

all four tires before we get snow.”

Actually, it is not “we” doing any

deciding here. Angie’s voice may be

muffled coming as it does from

someplace deep underneath the chassis,

but his diagnosis is unmistakable. This

might be because it’s the same thing he

said the last time we changed the oil.

I know it sounds somewhat mean-

spirited of me, but the best retirement

days are those when the dawn brings a

downpour—a rainstorm enough to

frighten Noah. I don’t need that

artificially cheerful radio voice to tell me

about it. I can hear the water lashing

against the windows even though the

blinds are drawn tight.

All that I have to do about it is to

roll over and go back to sleep. I’m

somewhat ashamed to admit I do so

with barely a twinge of sympathy for

those wage earners, including our own

offspring, who have to slog through the

day to earn their daily bread and cough

up their Social Security taxes.

Selfishly sleepy as I may be, I hope

they are successful. And I make a

mental note to call Alice just to make

sure.

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By Andrea Gross

“There it is!” The child who is

standing next to me jumps up and

down, accompanying each jump with

an ear-splitting shriek. I look in the

direction he is pointing. It is indeed a

scream-worthy sight.

There, sailing toward us, in a slow

but steady manner, is a giant pirate

ship, with masts that pierce the sky

and bright flags that wave in the

breeze. The name of the ship is

emblazoned on its side: José

Gasparilla.

The deck is crowded with

hundreds of men, some with black

triangular hats adorned with a skull-

and crossbones insignia, others with

colorful rag-wrapped turbans. The

men blast cannons, brandish swords,

and whoop and holler as the ship,

surrounded by a flotilla of small

boats, prepares to invade the city of

Tampa.

The ship docks and the pirate

captain disembarks and approaches the

mayor, demanding the key to the city of

Tampa. The mayor complies; the party

can begin.

Tampa’s annual pirate fest, which will

take place this year on Jan. 26, honors

José Gaspar, the bold buccaneer who, in

the late 1700s and early 1800s,

captured hundreds of ships off the coast

of Florida.

Today the Gasparilla Festival has

become a major event, and the stolen

treasure is being returned in the form of

tourist dollars.

Gasparilla combines the legend of

Gaspar with the magic of Mardi Gras.

Following their successful takeover of

the city, the merry pirates (a.k.a., civic

leaders who are members of Ye Mystic

Krewe of Gasparilla) strut through

downtown in true swashbuckling style,

accompanied by more than 100 floats

and marching bands.

At the same time, merrymakers fill

the streets, where there’s nonstop

entertainment and an abundance of

Pirates and More in Tampa

The pirate ship José

Gasparilla approaches

the city of Tampa.

Tampa residents get into

the spirit of Gasparilla.

After the invasion, the

pirates parade through

town, tossing treasures to

the waiting crowd.


food stands. The partying continues until

10 p.m., at which time the victorious

pirates retreat, letting Tampa return to

the 21st century.

Of course, Tampa is more than

pirates. Its attractions include great

beaches (nearby St. Pete Beach was voted

No. 1 by TripAdvisor), a temperate

climate (average summer temps are in the

low 80s; average winter ones are in the

low 60s), and a historic district that

reflects the city’s Latin heritage.

We start our exploration in Ybor City

(pronounced EE-bore), the historic

neighborhood named after the Cuban

cigar manufacturer who made the region

a mecca for hardworking immigrants.

Less than 100 years after Gaspar pillaged

the region, workers from Cuba were

joined by workers of other nationalities,

and together they produced

approximately 700 million hand-rolled

cigars a year.

Today the area is filled with eclectic

shops and trendy nightclubs, but traces

of the past remain. Old, red-brick

buildings with wrought-iron grillwork

line streets bordered with spindly palms;

master cigar rollers continue to practice

their craft; and the Columbia Restaurant,

Florida’s oldest and the world’s largest

Spanish restaurant, features a full array of

Cuban food, as well as the “original

Cuban sandwich” (a long loaf of soft,

white bread filled with layers of ham,

roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and

mustard).

Walking through the restaurant is

almost as interesting as tasting its food.

Amidst the wrought iron and bright tiles,

there’s a royal dining room, a Spanish

courtyard, and a flamenco nightclub.

The Tampa Bay History Center, a

60,000-square-foot facility that opened

in January 2009, tells us more about

Ybor City and the entire Tampa Bay

region. Various exhibits highlight people

from the Seminole Indians and Spanish

conquistadors to the “cowmen and

crackers” who were part of Florida’s

cattle-ranching past.

To see a bit of Tampa’s natural history,

we go to the 240-acre Lettuce Lake Park,

so named because the surrounding

greenery reminded folks of a lunchtime

salad. Rather than renting a canoe or

kayak, we pick up a map and brochure at

the visitors center and explore on foot.

There are 3,500 feet of boardwalk, more

than a mile of paved pathways, and an

abundance of well-maintained nature

trails that lead us though groves of

cypress and ferns and past two alligators,

a few turtles, and an untold number of

birds.

That evening we arrive early for our

flight home and are relaxing at the

mojito bar when a gentleman tells us that

the best place to see a Florida sunset is

from the top of the airport parking

garage. We take the elevator to the top

floor and there, against a red sky, we can

almost see a fully rigged pirate ship

sailing into the bay.

With a smile and a toast to José

Gaspar, we go down to catch our plane.

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Photos © Irv Green; story by Andrea Gross

(www.andreagross.com).

Columbia Restaurant, established in

1905, is Florida’s oldest restaurant.

Hand-rolled cigars are still

made in Ybor City.

Ybor City is a National

Historic District that

commemorates the city’s

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As he grew up in Corning, N.Y.,

Bill Landis saw a future for

himself as an electrical engineer.

So after he graduated from high school in

1967, he went to work at a Central

Pennsylvania RCA plant, working on jobs

as technically complex as creating the

camera used on the Apollo missions to the

moon.

He had a low number in the military

draft, however, and he knew that he

would soon be called into the military. So

he decided to join the Navy, where he

could hope to be part of the Navy’s

program of rapidly converting to nuclear

propulsion for its submarines. He didn’t

know at the time how difficult that

would be. But he was soon to find out.

Upon enlisting, he was called to active

duty in 1970 and took boot camp at

Great Lakes Training Center. He then

learned of the rigid requirements of those

who were selected for submarine service.

They were all volunteers. No one could

be taller than 6 feet, and they must have

perfect color vision and

perfect physical condition,

including sound teeth.

Those meeting those

requirements then faced a

number of mental and

psychological tests, from

which only those in the

top 10 percent had any

chance of being selected.

Having passed all those

hurdles, Landis was sent

to the Navy’s Mare Island

Nuclear Power School in

California, and then to

Idaho at an operating

atomic reactor for six

months. There, he studied math,

chemistry, metallurgy, and nuclear

physics. A special board was sent from

Washington, D.C., to grade the tests

faced by those who completed those jam-

packed months of training.

Landis and the others

who had qualified were

sent to assignments in the

fleet. Landis was sent to

Pearl Harbor, where he

was assigned to the Puffer,

an SSN-652 nuclear

attack submarine.

The mission of the

Puffer was to find and

destroy enemy submarines

and surface vessels, using

its torpedoes and the

Tomahawk cruise missiles

it carried aboard. The sub

also was able to carry

Navy Seals and offload

them underwater to perform a mission,

and then recover them after the mission,

without an enemy’s knowing from where

they came or where they went after

completing the mission.

An important asset of the Puffer was

its ability to descend to great depths at

sea. Where previous diesel-powered subs

had been able to go as deep as 500 feet,

the nuclear-powered subs like the Puffer

were able to dive far deeper.

The sub itself was about the length of

a football field … and carried all the food

the crew of some 120 men would need

on a typical patrol of two months. It had

its own water-purification and waste-

disposal systems, and the nuclear power

plant would propel the vessel indefinitely.

Where diesel-powered subs had been

essentially surface craft that could

submerge, nuclear-powered subs like the

Puffer were truly underwater craft that

needed to come to land only at the end

of a mission.

What was life like aboard the sub?

“Well,” Landis says, “they fed us four

times a day, and the food was

He Spent Many 2-Month Tours Under the Sea

Robert D. Wilcox

Salute to a Veteran

William C. Landis, aboard the

attack submarine Puffer, with

his submarine qualification

certificate.


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outstanding. And they kept us so busy

that there was little time to think of the

diversions we might be missing. Meals

were served continuously, so you had to

fit them in between your other duties.

There were only four tables in the enlisted

mess, so meals took some planning. But

every man aboard—even the cooks—were

submarine qualified to know all the sub’s

basic systems.

“Big as the Puffer was, every inch of

space was used to carry essential food and

gear. It was so crowded that you had

virtually no privacy. Since water was at

such a premium, you had a ‘Navy shower’

once a week. You turned the water on to

get yourself wet, then turned it off to get

soaped up, and then turned it back on to

rinse off. If the guy after you thought you

were taking a minute more than necessary,

he simply turned the faucet to cold, and

you hopped out in a hurry. There were

only two shower stalls for the 100 or so

enlisted men aboard, and each was so

small that you couldn’t turn around.

“The Puffer often did escort duty,

where we shadowed our carriers, for

example, and protected them from enemy

subs. We used passive sonar that listened

for the electronic imprint of enemy subs,

but wouldn’t lead them to us. Our

torpedoes could be steered from our sub

to go exactly where we wanted them to

go.”

Other jobs of the Puffer were to

participate in war games, where they gave

surface ships a chance to try to locate

threatening subs. Also, to keep tabs on

Soviet subs, often trailing them for days,

reporting on their movements and

recording noise signatures.

An interesting sidelight was that prior

to the filming of The Hunt for Red

October, Sean Connery was on board the

Puffer preparing for his role as Capt.

Marko Ramius. He was given the status

of a commander and was allowed (while

the captain was next to him) to give

orders while the boat was underway.

Just after Christmas in 1976, Landis

was discharged from the Navy at Pearl

Harbor as an E-5 2nd class petty officer.

He returned to Central Pennsylvania to

again work for RCA in engineering,

gaining several patents for his work in

fiber optics. At the same time, he

attended Franklin & Marshall College, in

the evening division, and earned an

associate degree in business

administration.

Landis retired in 2009 and now

spends much of his time talking with

groups and individuals about his having

served for so many years under the seas

in the Pacific.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in

Europe in World War II.


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Beating Bunions: Shoe Choice and Foot Type

NurseNews

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

Bunions (those swollen, painful

bumps on the inside of the foot at

the base of the big toe) are so

closely associated in our minds with

women, and with fashionable but often

ill-fitting shoes, that the question I was

asked last week as to whether or not men

even get bunions was not at all

unreasonable.

While it’s true that 90 percent of

bunions occur in women and that more

than 50 percent of women in America

have them, gender and shoe choice are

not entirely to blame. Yes, men do get

bunions, but children can also develop

bunions and even folks who live in

mostly shoeless societies have bunions, so

there’s obviously more to bunions than

just women’s ill-fitting shoes.

In medical lingo, a bunion is a hallux

valgus. It’s an enlargement of the bone or

the tissue around the base of the big toe,

which, in turn, pushes the big toe out of

alignment and causes it to slant toward

the second toe.

The underlying cause of bunions,

according to Dr. Zachary Chattler of

Johns Hopkins University, is the foot’s

genetic structure and how it causes us to

walk. Bunions do run in families, but it

is the foot type we inherit (low arches, for

example) that causes the foot to turn

outward (“pronate”) when we walk and

that encourages the formation of

bunions; we do not inherit the bunions

themselves.

However, shoe choice does play a large

role. Narrow, pointed-toe, sky-high heels

can cause a bunion to develop more

quickly and even play a role in its

recurrence after surgery.

How do you know if your shoes fit

properly? Seems many folks believe that

their feet haven’t grown since their teen

years (is that similar to the belief that our

belt sizes haven’t changed?), but in truth,

as our foot ligaments loosen and our

arches flatten over time, our feet do get

bigger.

One source I read suggests that in

order to tell if you are buying the correct

size shoe, you should stand barefoot on

paper, have a friend trace the outline of

your feet, and then place your shoes on

top of each outline to see if your foot is

wider than the shoe. The idea seems

reasonable, given that we no longer

(thankfully) have those shoe-fit x-ray

machines prevalent in shoe stores in the

’50s. Remember those?

If you have bunions, you may require

surgery, but there are solutions to try

first:

• Make sure your shoes are the right size.

• Ask your doctor if either over-the-

counter or custom-made orthotics—

inserts that prevent your feet from “over-

pronating”—are for you.

• Consider taking an anti-inflammatory

medication, such as ibuprofen, but ask

how much you can safely take in one day.

• Inquire if steroid injections might help

with the pain.

• Stick to low-impact exercises (walking,

swimming) as they are kinder on your

feet.

If surgery is your only option, there

are a number of procedures available to

correct the misaligned joint and remove

the bump. Bunion surgery

(bunionectomy) is usually done on an

outpatient basis, but understand that

healing can take months and yes,

bunions can come back, especially if you

just cannot resist those Manolo Blahniks.

Gloria May is a registered nurse with a

master’s degree in health education and a

certified health education specialist

designation.


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Copyright by Pat Sinclair. Pat Sinclair announces the publication of her second

cookbook, Scandinavian Classic Baking (Pelican Publishing), in February 2011. This

book has a color photo of every recipe. Her first cookbook, Baking Basics and Beyond(Surrey Books), won the 2007 Cordon d’Or from the Culinary Arts Academy.

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Makes 4 servings

2 teaspoons canola or vegetable oil

1/2 cup chopped onion

1/2 cup chopped carrot

2 cloves garlic, minced

2 (15 3/4 ounces) cans vegetable broth

2 (15 ounces) cans black beans, drained and rinsed

1 (14 ounces) can diced tomatoes

1 teaspoon chili powder

1 teaspoon sugar

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon cinnamon

1 chipotle chile en adobo, chopped

1 bay leaf

1/4 cup dry sherry, if desired

1/2 cup reduced fat sour cream

1 tablespoon chopped cilantro

Sliced avocado

Heat the oil over medium heat in a medium saucepan. Add the onion

and carrot and cook until softened, five to six minutes. Add the garlic and

cook 30 seconds, stirring constantly.

Stir in the broth, beans, tomatoes, chili powder, sugar, salt, cinnamon,

chipotle chile, and bay leaf. Bring the soup to a boil. Reduce the heat to

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Remove about 2 cups of the soup. Using an immersion blender or

blender, puree the remaining soup. Add the reserved soup to the puree. Stir

in a little water if the soup is too thick.

Stir 1 tablespoon sherry into each serving. Garnish each with sour cream

and cilantro and a few avocado slices, if desired.

Vegetarian Black Bean SoupBy Pat Sinclair

Every year I resolve to eat healthier food in the new year, along with at least

half of the population.

An easy change to make is to serve one meatless meal a week, and using

canned beans simplifies prep. Rinsing the beans thoroughly removes a

significant amount of sodium. Using low-sodium chicken broth instead of the

vegetable broth also reduces sodium.

For a second meal, I like to serve the soup over rice instead of adding the

sherry, but I still garnish with sour cream and cilantro. This soup also freezes

well, but the spiciness intensifies.

Cook’s Note: Chipotle chiles are smoked jalapeno chiles. They are pickled

and canned and keep well in the refrigerator after they are

opened. Use them to add a smoky flavor to meats and stews.

Remove the seeds and the ribs to reduce the heat, if desired.

Or add another pepper if you like it smokin’ hot.


York County

Calendar of EventsDelta Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 456-5753

Eastern Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 252-1641

Golden Visions Senior Community Center(717) 633-5072

Heritage Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 292-7471

Northeastern Senior Community Center(717) 266-1400

Red Land Senior Citizen Center – (717) 938-4649

South Central Senior Community Center(717) 235-6060Weekdays, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Wii Games

Thursdays, 9:30 a.m. – Zumba Gold for Seniors

Fridays, 9 a.m. – This & That Stitchers Class

Stewartstown Senior Center – (717) 993-3488Jan. 8, 9:30 – Chair Massages

Jan. 15, 10 a.m. – Show & Tell

Jan. 16, 9 a.m. – Ceramics

Susquehanna Senior Center – (717) 244-0340

White Rose Senior Center – (717) 843-9704www.whiteroseseniorcenter.org

Windy Hill Senior Center – (717) 225-0733

Yorktown Senior Center – (717) 854-0693

Please call or visit the centers’ websites for additionalactivities.

York County Library Programs

York County Department of Parks and Recreation

Pre-registration is required for these programs. To register or find out more about these activities or anyadditional scheduled activities, call (717) 428-1961.

Jan. 1, 2, 8, 9, 15, 16, 22, 23, 29, 30, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Project Feederwatch, Nixon Park

Jan. 11, 7 to 9:30 p.m. – Owl Walk, Nixon Park

Jan. 13, 2:30 to 4 p.m. – Wildlife Forensics, Nixon Park

Programs and Support Groups Free and open to the public

Jan. 8, 7 p.m.Surviving Spouse Socials of York County

Faith United Church of Christ

509 Pacific Ave., York

(717) 266-2784

Jan. 15, 3 p.m.Caregiver Support Group

Golden Visions Senior Community Center

250 Fame Ave., #125, Hanover

(717) 633-5072

Jan. 17, 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.Alzheimer’s Support Group

Senior Commons at Powder Mill

1775 Powder Mill Road, York

(717) 741-0961

Arthur Hufnagel Public Library of Glen Rock, 32 Main St., Glen Rock, (717) 235-1127

Collinsville Community Library, 2632 Delta Road, Brogue, (717) 927-9014Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m. – Purls of Brogue Knitting Club

Dillsburg Area Public Library, 17 S. Baltimore St., Dillsburg, (717) 432-5613Jan. 5, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Free Drop-In Tech Instruction Session

Dover Area Community Library, 3700-3 Davidsburg Road, Dover, (717) 292-6814

Glatfelter Memorial Library, 101 Glenview Road, Spring Grove, (717) 225-3220Mondays, 6 to 8 p.m. – Knitting Group

Saturdays, 1 p.m. – Chess Club

Jan. 31, 6:30 p.m. – Adult Book Discussion

Guthrie Memorial Library, 2 Library Place, Hanover, (717) 632-5183

Kaltreider-Benfer Library, 147 S. Charles St., Red Lion, (717) 244-2032

Kreutz Creek Valley Library Center, 66 Walnut Springs Road, Hellam, (717) 252-4080

Martin Library, 159 E. Market St., York, (717) 846-5300

Mason-Dixon Public Library, 250 Bailey Drive, Stewartstown, (717) 993-2404

Paul Smith Library of Southern York County, 80 Constitution Ave., Shrewsbury, (717) 235-4313

Red Land Community Library, 48 Robin Hood Drive, Etters, (717) 938-5599

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Dear Savvy Senior,

Does Medicare cover eye care? I had

excellent vision insurance through my

employer for many years but lost it when I

retired, and now I am confused as to what

Medicare actually covers. What can you tell

me?

— Living on a Budget

Dear Living,

Many retirees are confused with what

Medicare will and won’t cover when it

comes to eye

care. Here’s a

breakdown of

how Medicare

handles

different types

of vision care

services, along

with some

additional tips

that can help

you get

affordable care

when needed.

MedicareCoverage If you have

original

Medicare (Part

A and B), it’s

important to

know that

“routine”

vision care like

eye exams, eye

refractions,

eyeglasses, or

contact lenses

are generally

not covered. But, “medically necessary”

eye care usually is. Here’s a list of what is

covered:

• Eye surgeries: any surgical procedure

that helps repair the function of the eye

like cataract removal, cornea transplant,

glaucoma surgery, etc.

• Eyeglasses or contacts: only if you’ve

had cataract surgery.

• Medical eye exams: only if you’re

having vision problems that indicate a

serious eye condition like macular

degeneration, retinopathy, glaucoma, or

dry eye syndrome.

• Glaucoma screenings: annual screenings

for those at high risk (diabetics, those

with a family history of glaucoma, or

those who are African-American or

Hispanic).

• Diabetic eye exams: if you have

diabetes, yearly exams for diabetic

retinopathy.

• Macular

degeneration:

certain

treatments are

covered.

You also

need to be

aware that of

the eye care

services that are

covered by

Medicare, you’re

still responsible

for 20 percent

of the cost—

Medicare pays

the other 80

percent.

To help with

this out-of-

pocket expense,

some Medigap

supplemental

policies provide

gap coverage.

Or, if you have

Medicare

Advantage, some

plans provide eye care benefits. Be sure

you check with your plan administrator.

Ways to SaveIf you find your eye care needs aren’t

covered, or you can’t afford the 20

percent out-of-pocket that Medicare

doesn’t cover, there are other ways to

save.

For starters, if you need a refractive

eye exam or a new pair of eyeglasses,

many optometrists and eyeglass dealers

offer discounts—usually between 10 and

30 percent—to seniors who request it.

Memberships in groups like AAA and

AARP can also provide lower rates.

Another way to get low-cost eye care

is at an optometry school. Many offer

affordable care provided by students that

are overseen by their professors. See

www.opted.org for a directory of schools

and their contact information.

Assistance ProgramsDepending on where you live, there

may also be some local clinics or

charitable organizations that provide free

or discounted eye care or eyeglasses.

Put in a call to your local Lions Club

to see what’s available in your area. To

reach your local club, visit

www.directory.

lionsclubs.org or call (800) 747-4448 to

get the number to your state Lions Club

office, which can refer you to your

community representative.

Or, if you need medical eye care,

check into EyeCare America. This is a

national program that provides

comprehensive medical eye examinations

to seniors age 65 and older and up to

one year of treatment at no cost. They

accept Medicare or other insurance as

full payment. And if you don’t have

insurance, care is free. To learn more or

to find out if you qualify, visit

www.eyecareamerica.org.

If you’re under age 65, some other

services that can help include Mission

Cataract USA (www.missioncataract

usa.org), which provides free cataract

surgery to low-income people who don’t

have insurance. And Vision USA

(www.optometryscharity.org/vision-usa,

(800) 766-4466) provides free vision care

to uninsured and low-income workers

and their families.

Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the

NBC Today show and author of The SavvySenior Book. www.savvysenior.org.

Eye Care Coverage and Services for Retirees

Savvy Senior

Jim Miller

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Book Review

ho has a stronger sense of

tradition than the Amish?

In Amish Folk Tales and

Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch,

we find anecdotes that have been passed

down in families. In the retelling of these

stories we find that each has been given a

special patina as it has been lovingly

handed down from generation to

generation.

“Amos Trades Up” follows the comical

misadventures of a young Amishman.

Paid off after his year of indentured

service, Amos starts walking home. But

along the way he meets temptation after

temptation—and he pursues them all.

“Eilenshpiggel and His Shenanigans”

tells of the willful, mischievous rogue

who’s a legend among the Pennsylvania

Dutch people.

In “John the Blacksmith,” we learn of

the native intelligence of this character

and of how he manages to outwit an

emissary from the devil himself.

“Tales Tall and Taller” is a collection

of exaggerations that make for wonderful

reminiscences. For

example, what happened

to the man from Ephrata

whose dentist pulled his

tooth, then somehow let it

slip off the tongs and

travel down the patient’s

throat?

Read “Graven Images

and the Legends that

Grow Around Them” to

find out about burial

customs among the

Pennsylvania Dutch and to

learn what the emblems

on grave markers signify.

“Pennsylvania German Humor” is

filled with traditional stories that bring

laughter to the people of southeastern

Pennsylvania.

The book even offers “A True Ghost

Story.” This is a fast-moving tale of

murder and its eerie consequences. It

asks you to explain what happened, if

you can.

An appendix,

“Forearmed in Bilaspur,”

tells of two Lancaster

County men who link up

to hunt tigers in India. This

is all we’ll tell you about

this story, which has a

surprise twist at the end.

The book is richly

illustrated with color

photographs depicting

items made by

Pennsylvania Dutch

craftsmen: tall clocks,

furniture, Conestoga wagon

hardware, quilts, guns, and Amish toys.

Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of

the Pennsylvania Dutch is available at

local bookstores or from Schiffer

Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley Road,

Atglen, Pa. 19310 or (610) 593-1777.

About the AuthorGene Moore, a former navy officer, is

a graduate of Auburn University who

earned a master’s degree from Florida

State University. He retired as director of

public relations from Armstrong World

Industries, Inc. A previous book, How

Armstrong Floored America: The People

Who Made It Happen, 1945-1995, was

published by the Lancaster County

Historical Society. He and his wife, Jan,

make their home in Lancaster.

Amish Folk Tales and Other Storiesof the Pennsylvania Dutch

By C. Eugene Moore

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of her stomach, attached to the artery in

the leg and bladder.

“If you have uncontrollable

hypertension, they will remove the (old)

kidney, but I only had mild hypertension,

so mine wasn’t removed,” she said.

She also gets asked how it feels to have

someone else’s kidney. But Fair doesn’t

think of it that way, she said. She only

thinks about how good it is to no longer

be on dialysis, 10 hours every night, seven

days a week.

“I’m so glad to be rid of it because of

the donation,” Fair said. “Many think of it

as their new birth date. Mine was Feb. 21,

2011. It’s a new life.”

Organ transplants are based on supply

and demand and, currently, the demand is

far greater than the available supply, Fair

said. When there were no airbags in cars

and fewer people were saved from

accidents, there were more cadavers

available. But because airbags are saving

lives, those cadavers are no longer an

option for transplantations.

Therefore, organ donors are needed

more than ever before. In 1987, those in

need of a kidney transplant only had to

wait seven months after first being placed

on the transplant list, Fair said.

But by 2012, the wait had lengthened

to four to six years.

Twelve thousand people meet the

criteria for needing a kidney transplant,

but fewer than half get donors.

“That statistic really struck home,” Fair

said.

Transplant recipients are looking more

and more to living donors since people can

live with only one of their two kidneys. At

Harrisburg Hospital, more than 50 percent

of kidney transplants are due to living

donors, Fair said, quoting Dr. Harold

Yang, a hospital surgeon who helped save

her life.

While kidney disease can be from

hypertension, diabetes, or polycystic

kidney disease, Fair’s kidney problem

stemmed from a birth defect in her

sphincter muscle.

“There was a surgery that could be

done by age 5,” she said, but her diagnosis

at age 21 put her well beyond that point,

and her kidneys slowly deteriorated over

the years.

Fair began journaling about her

experiences with kidney disease in

September 2007. By the fall of 2010, she

needed to go on dialysis, and she

continued writing.

“I had no idea if I would even receive a

kidney, and if I did, how would I get

through the surgery? The recovery period?

Would there be a happy ending? All these

questions remained unanswered,” Fair

said.

“Although I had excellent medical care

... I could not have gotten through this

time in my life without my faith,” Fair

said. “Faith is a choice—it comes from the

heart. You either want to believe or you

don’t. I so believed in God and knew that

he would see me through this most

difficult time. After all, (God) is the

physician of all physicians.”

Fair’s earlier kindness to a young girl

reaped benefits to not only herself, but

another kidney transplant recipient as well.

Because Fair had sponsored Janette

“Jay” Diaz into Milton Hershey School,

Diaz wanted to repay her kindness by

donating her kidney to Fair. But after

testing, the two weren’t a match.

Instead, they were put on the Paired

Donor List for a live match. Diaz matched

a woman in Pittsburgh, and that woman’s

friend, Marlane, matched Fair for a four-

way swap.

“So exciting!” Fair said.

On Feb. 21, 2011, Marlane’s kidney

was flown from the Thomas E. Starzl

Transplant Institute of the University of

Pittsburgh Medical Center to Harrisburg

Hospital, where Fair was waiting for the

lifesaving surgery.

After an excellent recovery, Fair decided

to compile her journal entries and craft

them into a book, Transplanted to Better

Health.

“I wanted to offer hope and

encouragement to patients who were

suffering from kidney failure, or anyone

suffering from a serious illness in general,”

Fair said.

In her memoir, Fair describes the good

and bad days, the ups and downs of

dialysis treatment, waiting for a lifesaving

kidney transplant, and the road to

recovery.

“My story will be familiar for anyone

who has been down the road with kidney

failure, and will uplift and empower those

who are just setting foot on that path,” she

said. “My book is like one patient talking

to another patient.”

But what sets Fair’s book apart from

others is the details in her journals that

only a person with a medical background

would include. Fair is a medical technician

who worked in a doctor’s office.

A signed copy of Fair’s book may be

purchased from Fair by emailing her at

[email protected] or through

Amazon.com as a book or an e-book. To

receive a signed copy, send a check payable

to Fair Book Publishing for $18, which

includes shipping, to: FBP, 1522

Collingdale Circle, Mechanicsburg, PA

17050. To engage Fair as a speaker, contact

her at the above email address.

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