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35 Union St., Brunswick, ME 04011 729-0757 www.peopleplusmaine.org October 2016 Volume 16, No. 10 People Plus supports an engaged, healthy, and independent life for older adults, while joining others to build community for all ages Expo Extra! The People Plus Senior Health Expo opens at 9 a.m. on the heated, indoor concourse at Brunswick's Cook's Corner Shopping Mall on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Sponsors and vendors have filled the spaces, leaving all to antic- ipate another exciting event. See our pull- out “Preview”. Teen Center campaign building steadily Just two weeks into the 49 new members! “We depend on Brunswick Area Teen Center's contributions from our members, annual campaign, there is good friends and local businesses,” news to report. Office Manager she said, “we receive no state or Betsy White said the campaign federal funding.” total stands at $4,130, and dona- People Plus Executive Director tions are “coming in steadily.” Stacy V. Frizzle said the $10,000 Nearly 800 appeal letters were annual campaign goal is a number mailed last month, suggesting a that covers the Teen Center's food $25 donation to cover one youth budget. “It is gratifying to see the sponsorship, or $50 to buy a numbers increase quickly,” she week's worth of healthy food said, “no one ever seems to ques- snacks such as peanut butter, tion that line.” UNCOMMONLY GOOD! cheese, crackers, fruit, breads A team of Bowdoin College and more. As the Teen Center K of C hosts students came to People Plus enters its 11th season, coordinator last month and, after clearing Jordan Cardone has called enroll- lobster dinner the yard, repainted all of our ment numbers challenging. She parking striping, including said last season was the Center's at People Plus two handicapped parking busiest, with over 2,300 youth The Brunswick Lodge, Knights spaces! visits, and this season opened with of Columbus, will host their end Thanks, Bowdoin Students! of summer Lobster dinner at the From Spectrum Generations The Oregon Trail People Plus Center Saturday evening, Oct. 15th. The Menu includes a fresh Maine lobster, New Resource Counselors Mule driver to lead book talk homemade potato salads, cole slaw, plus drinks and dessert. Nicholas Buck, the “bois- 1840 pioneers from Missouri Cost is only $12 per person. The serve from People Plus terous brother” of Rinker to the west coast. In dedi- meal is by reservation and open Buck, who authored cating the book to to lodge members, People Plus Spectrum Generations Aging and Africa, where he has been stalked the New York Times his brother, Rinker members, and the general public. Disability Resource Counselors by leopards and faced 50 degree Bestselling book, The Buck said, “with Serving starts at 5 p.m., you Lynn Boardway and Joshua Rich below zero winters. Though he is Oregon Trail, will offer rare gumption and should purchase your ticket begin splitting consumer advice young yet, he says, he would like photos and “color skill, (my brother) before Wednesday, Oct. 13th, duties at the People Plus Center to tell those he serves that they from the trip” at the got us there.” Nick so chef Roland Levesque on October 1. should “not get hung up” on his People Plus Center has long been known knows how many lobsters to Boardway has been a licensed youthful appearance, that it is on Tuesday, Oct. 12, as one of the great New prepare. Tickets are available social worker in gerontology for “not the age that counts but the beginning at 2 p.m. England team drivers. at the People Plus Center, you 30 years. She mileage.” The Buck broth- His collection of photos, may purchase directly from a has worked R i c h er's book chroni- flair for the dramatic, lodge member, Monday thru in Maine and will normally cles their nearly 2,000 mile, and Maine sense of Friday between the hours of Hawaii as a have regular four month-long journey as they humor promises to make 12 noon and 2 p.m., or see Pat at director of office hours retraced the original trails of this an interesting afternoon. the People Plus information desk. social services on Tuesdays in a hospi- at People Plus; tal assisted Boardway Tour of Cowboy Country planned living and expects to be nursing home available on Want to wander the wild west very excited about it!” prairies, you'll enjoy your tour in set ting. A Lynn Boardway Joshua Rich Thursday. The and never worry about the details? This eight-day trip commences guided comfort. Maine native, two will plan The “next” Collette Travel experi- in Wyoming's Jackson Hole, and Tour includes roundtrip air fare she has been with Spectrum to share duties during the monthly ence being planned in conjunction ends Sept. 29, 2017, in Rapids from Boston's Logan airport, with Generations for nearly five years, Welcome to Medicare programs with People Plus goes to the heart City, South Dakota. You'll visit transfers, 11 meals and seven working as a help-line specialist, held at the Center once each month of America's Cowboy Country Yellowstone, Grand Teton and nights lodging. Come to our adult day care leader and Aging on the second Tuesday. To make from September 22-29, 2017, and Badlands national parks; see primer Nov. 1, to get all the details & Disability Specialist at the appointments with either coun- you get a sneak preview, with the Mount Rushmore and Crazy from our Collette representative, Muskie and Cohen centers. She selor, call the People Plus Center sign-on discounts, at the People Horse memorials; and experi- who'll happily share pictures, spe- also serves as the Senior Medicare at 729-0757 and ask for Pat. Plus Center on Nov. 1, 2016, ence Custer State Park, Buffalo cific information and costs, based Patrol Coordinator for Maine's For information anytime call the beginning at 4:30 p.m. “This will Bill Center of the West, the Black on single, double or triple occu- Sagadahoc, Lincoln, Waldo and Spectrum Generations Consumer be the first Collette travel expe- Hills, and the rowdy western town pancy. If you did not receive your Kennebec counties. HelpLine at 1-800-639-1553. rience we've planned within the of Deadwood. From America's six-page brochure in the mail, Rich has spent time living and United States,” said People Plus tallest mountains to the flatlands stop by the Center and we'll offer working in Mongolia and South Program director Jill Ellis, “we're and badlands of our country's you a brief description. See YOU at the Senior Health Expo! Page 2 People Plus News October 2016 October 2016 People Plus News Page 3 People Plus News Five years and counting! Barnes’ Leap revisited The monthly newspaper of People Plus, serving residents of the Brunswick- As of October 11, I will have worked at in our community, while also having such by Charlie Payne Topsham-Harpswell area. Editorial the People Plus Center and with all of you a positive impact on the youth in this area is From the The young locals of Cathance quite often submissions and advertising queries lovely folks for 1825 days! more than I could’ve hoped for. In fact, we referred to Barnes' Leap as “The Rips.” The should be e-mailed to: Or to put it differently, it’s been just over just sent out the back to school fundraising Executive important thing to keep in mind is that in [email protected] five years since Greg Shea and Gordon letter and it’s already brought in over $4000 those days, the Cathance was a river born Brigham offered me the position sitting at in quick responses! Our goal is $10,000 so if Director clear and pure, bubbling up from its source, Questions, comments and written contri- Tim Hortons in Topsham. you’d like to support our teens - they could Stacy V. Frizzle upstream. Thru the years a 40th anniversary feature butions should be sent by the 15th of the Five years sounds like a long time - but it’s really use the help! They eat a ton of food As youngster, we did not go very far from Oct 1983: The Walking Group has become a weekly activity, walking every Thursday, month to: gone by in a flash. while getting time to relax in a safe, struc- job is that we do lose a higher percentage of the falls because it was stony, and had no weather permitting, about a mile and a half. We leave the Brunswick Senior Citizen’s moss on it. Near to the lip of the falls, there Jill, Anita and Pat have all been here over tured environment. It couldn’t be better for people in this population then at other places Activity Center at 9 a.m., and are usually done by 10:30 a.m. The Editor, People Plus News was a good covering and we slid down over three years and Jenn has been working with them. I have worked. Dozens of friends whom I P.O. Box 766 that lip, screaming in delight till we landed Oct 20, 1983: Travel with us to Castle in us almost a year as well! Amy, our intern In the last five years we have seen hun- have come to love have moved on since I Brunswick, ME 04011-0766 in the roiling pool below. We drifted down- Old Oak Ringer Wall Phone the Clouds, Moultonboro, N.H., and enjoy has decided she’ll never leave, (and what dreds of teenagers use that program and (Short Story without the word “THE”) Office phone (207) 729-0757 started here and I will always remember stream several feet, then climbed up the lunch at the Wolfeboro Inn. Bus & castle would the Monday munchies be without we have fed them countless cheese sticks, their gentle souls, their generous spirits and her???) bagels, casseroles of mac & cheese and bank, back to the Rips, to do it all again! by Nonie Moody admission is $12, lunches range in price from People Plus their encouraging words about the People This was summer at its best, and for most $5.50-$8.50 Frank celebrated his 15 year anniversary lasagna as well as loads of home baked Plus Center and how important it is and was I do remember that old oak ringer wall phone Board of Trustees this year and Betsy is at 16 years! And we brownies and breads made by our senior of us, this was our only recreation. In our hanging just above my head at every meal. Oct 1984: Senior citizens are admitted free in their lives. innocence, it was enough. can’t forget Jordan upstairs in the Teen volunteer members. We are always looking Its metal cone shaped piece coming about to all Brunswick High School athletic events. Don L. Kniseley, Chair Brunswick I hope that you’ll come for a visit soon and Getting there was part of the experience. Stop by the high school for a season pass and Center. She has been around as long as that for more people to help bake and cook food center with a cord that hung along side with help me celebrate being here five years. Do We started across the bridge from the feld- the 1984-85 schedules. Carol S. Aderman, 1st Vice Chair Freeport program has been operating - which is now for our teens so if that’s something you’d a receiver one would enclose over your right Jack Hudson, 2nd Vice Chair Brunswick you have a People Plus memory to share? I’d spar mill, upstream, then cut inland behind ear. Politeness was to listen only when your Oct, 1985: During the month of Oct, the in it’s 11th year! like to get involved with, please let Jordan love to hear it as you stop by for a little visit the Willis house to a beaten path that went Evergreen Senior Citizens Club will be Chris Perry, Treasurer Portland I guess it says something about the orga- know. ring was heard. Our phone was put in for one David R. Forkey, Secretary Georgetown at this Center That Builds Community. to the Fisher farm. This was the part where reason. That being my Grandmother lived in leaving our center for their new clubhouse on nization when the turnover rate is so low. In the last five years we have seen some “boys will be boys.” (Sorry, no girls were Progress Road. We wish them success. Thomas Farrell, Ex-officio Brunswick Maybe it means that it’s a really fun place pretty serious growth in our senior popula- Charlie Payne enjoying Barnes’ Leap. town about three miles away and my parents allowed.) wanted to check on her daily. Oct 15, 1986: It’s official! Trustees approved Claudia L. Adams Brunswick to work? Maybe it’s nice that all the people tion as well. We routinely have about 1000 The Fisher farmhouse was deep in the be off as the exact location, but after all, “55-Plus Center” as the new name for our Mitchell W. Brown Brunswick who come here are interesting and full of senior members a year. We feed around 400 Hospice care woods, one of the female heirs lived there The Rips was the narrowest place to cross. That phone was a big concern for me as a multi-purpose center, serving all persons Robert Davis Harpswell great stories and genuinely happy to see people a month with all of the lunches and alone. To discourage anyone from break- Our parents didn't know we were swim- little girl. With my folk's large dining room over the age of 55 years, to take effect Third Tuesdays at the Orr¹s Island Charles S. Evans Topsham each other and be involved in the commu- breakfasts and we see about 35,000 people ing in when Hattie was away, she placed ming there, we always skinny dipped so we table in a small room, and chairs positioned January 1, 1987. Library continue with Chris Corriveau, O. Jeanne d’Arc Mayo Topsham nity.? Maybe the staff knows how intrinsi- visit our Center over the course of a year. a very convincing dummy in a chair, way wouldn't go home with wet clothes. around it, my chair landed underneath that Oct 2, 1988: Roaring 20’s Fashion & Jim Pierce Brunswick cally important the work we do is for our They come for fun, for social time, to play RN, CHPN, discussing how you know away from the window, in the shadows. Bathing suits? Be real, who had money to old oak wall phone. Below this metal cone Review: “An overwhelming success...filled when hospice care is needed, who to turn shaped piece was a little downward slanted Richard J. Rizzo Yarmouth senior population? games and get fit. They eat, they laugh and We would all whoop and dash around the waste on that? our hall to capacity and some had to be to for advice and assistance, what deci- oak shelf that protruded out about 3 inches Tony Sachs Brunswick I certainly find it to be incredibly reward- they love their companions. As I am typing house, as if the devil himself was ready That place still got to me on that July of excluded.” Ticket cost $1.50. sions need to be made, and when those with purpose to write a message or phone Dustin Slocum Brunswick ing. And, I’ll admit that I have never had this, I can hear Dottie out in the cafe’, laugh- to grab us. Story is that Hattie was alone 1955, when I came home on delayed orders Oct 17, 1988: Oil painting classes with Ruth decisions need to be made. from “Operation Caesar, and I revisited the number. After supper each evening my Annee Tara Brunswick more fun at any other job while being able ing and talking with her pals. because of a love that was lost to her sister Thiboutot begin. Join us if you’ve always in the Willis house; she never spoke to her Rips. This time I went in at the end of the Mother would say to me, “Watch your head wanted to “try it!” Kim Watson Topsham to do so much good for so many people. The only downside to loving this commu- Tuesday, October 18, 2016, 7:00 p.m. Naoma.” I heard her say this everyday. Being able to work with and hopefully nity so much is when we lose a member. Orr¹s Island Library, 1699 Harpswell sister again, as far as any of us knew. Tedford Road, turned right and parked just a Oct, 1992: Did you get your Annual Fund Kelsie M. West-Ezzo Topsham short distance from my old stomping grounds. Sometimes I would listen but more than likely improve the lives of thousands of seniors And I would say the worst part about this Islands Road (Route 24) You must realize that we were deep in Drive Letter? This year, because of a serious the woods, away from anyone except the Like her father, my daughter skipped school I would give my head a good whack. I never deficit our goal is $10,000...we will have to People Plus Staff miners working the Fisher mine, still a and with a gal pal, snuck through the woods saw anyone ever use that shelf and thought it limit our services if we cannot afford them. was useless. It was there for only one reason Stacy V. Frizzle distance inland. to that place of wonderful memories. Oct 6 & 20, 1992: Movies at the Towers, to give one small child a headache. Executive director From Red Cabbage with Apples There was a bridge across the river at one on Water St. feature “Mary Poppins” and [email protected] time. You got to it from Cathance Road, Autumnal Sign “The Out-of Towners.” Free showing starts Ingredients Directions by the edge of the Roger's Cemetery. I may SONG OF THE WHITE- at 2 p.m. Jill Ellis Anita’s by Patty L. Sparks Program and outreach coordinator • 2 Tb. vegetable oil 1. Heat oil in a medium size saucepan. Stir THROATED SPARROW Oct, 1998: Florence Call resigns as in cabbage and onion; fry until wilted. [email protected] Plate • 8 cups shredded red cabbage Oldness of summer (A Brunswick Golf Course welcome) Bookkeeper for Center after 11 years. Pat Stir in apple, water and pepper. Cover Dawson, our custodian will take over as Elizabeth White Anita Huey • 1 onion, chopped and simmer about 25 minutes. The Lighthouse cricket chant at shut-of-day Office manager single red leaf...falls. By Charlotte Hart bookkeeper. • 2 tart apples - peeled, cored and sliced 2. Pour vinegar and sugar into the mixture [email protected] by Sally Hartikka In seasons warm we marched our fairways green Oct 1, 1999: Trudy Catlin named a paid • 2 Tb. water while tasting for desired sweet and sour part-time AARP employee, center will be Frank Connors 207-504-6439, [email protected] I have saved many a seaman Storms there were that bashed my shore From apple blossom time through brilliant fall. • Ground black pepper, to taste taste. Cook another 5 to 6 minutes. open Monday-Thursday p.m., 4-8:30 and Member services Coming home in dark and drear. One gentle slope—always the fairest scene With waves rolling oe’r this rock, Saturday mornings, 9 a.m.-noon. [email protected] • 1½ Tb. white sugar The rough-hewn rock on which I stand Was graced with sounds and scents. Oh do recall! Nutrition is in the news a lot and often Wiping out the buildings and Oct 04, 1999: Center member Walter Cucci Jennifer Felkay people are following something that has a • 3 Tb. distilled white vinegar Formerly would bring fear. Tearing out the dock. Beside our walk an ancient apple tree Would blossom white and pink one May week long. named one of “Maine’s 100,” by Governor’s VTN and marketing coordinator lot of rules and may be very restricted. Most Once my light could pierce the night It took a courageous man Through every season—welcome sound for me— Conference on Volunteerism; members Bill [email protected] of these rules and plans have never been And foghorn warn of danger, To run my remote light enough to eat but are not stuffed. Sitting down something we are born with. Infants know Eleventh green harbinger’s lovely song. Smith, Trudy Catlin and Catherine Britting Amy Feeley researched. They have everyone doing the I brought comfort to those who sailed, Which now is run by solar power to eat is a good start without distractions like when they have had enough and stop feeding. From scenic tee with spruce and pine in view were named to “Maine’s Roll of Honor.” VTN and programming assistant same thing without any thoughts as to what Both local man and stranger. But still lights up the night. Oct, 2000: Jean Mims leads her last trip for a person would like to eat and how often. All driving, the TV, a book or on the computer. Over time we can lose this skill if we are given White-throated sparrow song is faint and pure. Jordan Cardone Savor the food that you are eating and take larger portions and asked to finish our meal. Named for my location Here’s to the lighthouse keepers We near the green. Bird song is clearer, true. 55 Plus Center, Bob & Barbara Sawyer of this information can be overwhelming and Harpswell take over as trip planners. Teen Center coordinator can lead people to be confused about what to the time to enjoy it. Sound nutrition becomes Mindful eating is an opportunity to return to In the middle of Casco Bay, Who for so many years Observing ancient Scottish contest sure? Oct, 2000: “Anything Goes” craft group [email protected] eat. Researchers are always finding out new the guideline for food selection but if we the concept of stopping when we have had I have watched whales spouting Provided help for sailors No matter why, white-throated sparrow song Patricia Naberezny choose something that is high in fat, sugar or enough to eat and listen to our internal cues And dolphins at their play. And helped allay their fears. Is warm and sweet and sure, remembered long. earns $664 for Center with raffle of beautiful things about the foods we eat. Just this week I Puff quilt. Receptionist received an email about anthocyanins! These sodium, the portion and frequency becomes for eating. Use sound nutrition to guide your [email protected] that biggest factor. food choices and stay away from all of the Oct, 2001: Debra Fitts of Lyman hired as are water-soluble pigments that have been Center’s part time Director of Development. shown to reduce the risk of diabetes, in high- Mindful eating does take practice but it is food rules. It’s The Little Things That I’ll Miss Most Oct 2002: ”Unprofitable” bingo games Spectrum Generations Staff risk groups, by 15-18%! Blackberries, blue- by Nancy Sohl feeders. the water at Estes. suspended at Center. berries, grapes, raspberries and red cabbage Casey Henson I will miss my flowers and the bloom- I will also miss having an afternoon Oct 08, 2002: Activities of Veteran’s are all excellent sources. Why would we want The summer of 2016 is almost over. Meals on Wheels coordinator ing hydrangea tree outside my kitchen beer on the deck at Gritty’s in Freeport. History Project outlined at Center. to restrict any food that my offer huge health Soon the sun will set before 7:00 and then [email protected] window. Its blooms go from white to Nothing says summer like a beer in the Oct 1, 2005: Senior Spectrum designates benefits. Memorial Donation in Memory of it’s a downhill rush from there. We often Lynn Boardway pink as the summer lengthens and then sunshine on the deck at Gritty’s. People Plus as the “Community Focal Let’s think a bit differently and apply a mark our summers by holidays, visits Aging & Disability Resource counselor shortens. It’s a beautiful little tree and I will miss those Sea Dog Biscuits at a Point.” for services to older adults in the concept called “mindful eating.” Mindful from friends and relatives, and trips we [email protected] June E. Wilson I’m so glad we planted it in just the right Sea Dog baseball game. I will miss the Brunswick, Topsham & Harpswell area. eating happens when a person consumes food take by car or plane. spot for viewing. The other flowers come “fests” and fairs. I will miss the farmers’ Joshua Rich June 2, 1938 – Aug. 27, 2016 For me it’s not the big things that make Oct 2009: Jordan Cardon rehired to lead while staying aware of their hunger and not and go – the lilacs, the iris, the daisies, markets in Brunswick. And I will miss Teen Center as Coordinator. Aging & Disability Resource counselor passing judgment on the food. When prac- my summer memorable. It’s the little the lupines, the hydrangeas, the cone the smell of fresh cut grass. Oct 14, 2009: 32 people join excursion [email protected] ticing mindful eating a person listens to their things that, as summer turns to fall, I will flowers, and now the mums. So little There’s a lot to love about summer, but to Rockland aboard the Maine Eastern internal hunger and feeling of fullness. We miss the most. Here’s what I will miss Virginia F. Gay work for such a show of color. I will miss the little things the most. Railroad, cost only $32. need to identify if are really hunger or is it about summer. Aug. 17, 1929 – Sept. 13, 2016 I will miss lobster dinners at Estes here Oct 16, 2009: Apple A Day celebration, Check out past newspapers at boredom or the fact that food is around us. I will miss open windows. Open in Harpswell. There are lots of places for PROMISE windows let in fresh air, the sound of the serves fresh apples, local cider and a chance www.peopleplusmaine.org A feeling of fullness means that we have had lobster in Maine, but few have this view to win an apple pie, baked by our own Jane wind chime, and the soothing sound of a and are so easy to get to. And nowhere by Virginia Sabin gentle rain. Connors. will you find a waitress friendlier than After a bitter winter Oct 19, 2009: First of the season flu shots I will miss my hummingbirds of course. Dawn. Through the winter I will be I love how they zoom and dart around the Lacking snow cover offered at Union Street location. thinking of Dawn and lobster dinners by Discerning signs of burgeoning life Oct 28, 2010: Susan Cole retires as People Nursing and Rehabilitative Care Where purple sage once appeared Plus executive director. Faithfully spring after spring Oct 11, 2011: Stacy V. Frizzle begins work Hospice Care Fail to show as Executive Director. A healing herb with greyish green leaves Oct 12, 2011: Excursion to Rockland on the And blissful aroma Maine Eastern Railroad. Most enjoyed a Private Duty Care To season a baking chicken free tour of the Farnsworth Museum. Cost is From its cavity only $35 for members. (207) 729-6782 Oct 17, 2012: From Maine and Away, the Curiously, neighboring lavender and thyme latest collaboration printed and offered for 60 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick, Maine 04011 Do not invade this seemingly empty space sale by the Center’s Write On group offered Discerning a healthy plant www.chanshomehealthcare.com at Author’s Chat. Surviving a bitter winter Oct 27, 2012: First ever People Plus Seasonal flu shots to be offered at People Plus this fall! Only needed more time Antiques Road Show, with auctioneer John To show itself back in Edeni Bottero doing appraisals and live auction. Page 4 People Plus News October 2016 October 2016 People Plus News Page 5 What’s happening in October Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday October at People Plus... 3 4 5 6 7 1 Lunch & Connections 9:00 Mah-Jongg 8:30 Table Tennis 8:30 'Easy Riders' Biking Club 8:30 WOMEN'S BREAKFAST 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 KOC “Aging Well” Lunch and Learn: 9:00 Crafters 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 8:45 Cribbage 8:30 Table Tennis 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Bridge 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 10:00 Beginner's Tai Chi Fall Veggies take Center Stage 10:00 Zumba 10:00 Apple Club 9:00 Loosen Up 11:00 Balance & Falls Workshop 10:30 Meals on Wheels Can’t Sleep and Tired of Counting Sheep? The fall harvest is in and our October Lunch and variety, and a CHANS home-health care 11:00 Monday Munchies 10:30 Yoga with Ann 10:00 Meals On Wheels 11:00 Yoga 11:00 Qigong 8 Monday, will talk about Insomnia and Anxiety in & Connections meal will feature many local professional is on hand to offer and record a 11:00 Table Tennis 12:30pm Aerobics Lite 10:00 Table Tennis 6:00pm Beginning Line Dancing 11:00 World Affairs Talk 9:00 KOC October 24 Older Adults. Come learn more about why and tasty vegetables. “It’s fall and its time to free blood pressure check. Mary Marino from 12:00pm Bridge 1:00pm Quilters 12:30pm Tai Chi - Advanced 7:15pm Advanced Line Dancing 12:30pm Table Tennis 10:00 Bridge 12:00 pm sleeping pills may not be the best solution and celebrate the harvest,” chef Frank Connors Mary’s Affordable Hearing Aids is also avail- 6:00pm Belly Dancing 3:00pm Books a la Carte 1:00pm Write On Writers 6:30pm Folk Dance Brunswick discover low-risk alternatives. Bring your said, “it is going to be another great time.” able to offer a free hearing check from 11 a.m. 6:00pm Knights of Columbus 5:30pm Knights of Columbus Scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 20, the lun- until noon. Do you think you are getting unnecessary lunch (or grab take-out from our Monday 10 11 12 13 14 15 Munchies), we provide chips, drinks and cheon will feature Maine-raised potatoes, Join us at 11:30 a.m., to select your favorite Center Closed 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 8:30 'Easy Riders' Biking Club 8:00 MEN'S BREAKFAST 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 KOC health care tests and procedures? Do you ever yellow squash, beets and carrots. “We’re roast- seat and purchase your 50/50 raffle ticket. (last wonder why you need a test or a procedure, but dessert. Call to register. Free, open to the 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 8:45 Cribbage 8:30 Table Tennis 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Bridge public. ing pork with brown gravy,” Connors added, month’s raffle winner took home $47) and 10:30 Retired Educators Potluck 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 10:00 Beginner's Tai Chi were afraid to ask? Some medical tests, treat- “and we’re making a batch of my applesauce everyone is automatically registered to win 11:30 LUNCH OUT 9:00 Loosen Up 9:30 Exploring the Great Religions 10:30 Meals on Wheels ments, and procedures provide little benefit. as a side treat.” one of our several free door prizes. Seating 12:30pm Welcome to Medicare 10:00 Meals On Wheels 11:00 Yoga 11:00 Qigong On Monday, October 24th at 12pm, Maine There will be a lightly-dressed, tossed green is limited to 68 people, so reservations are 3:00pm Kaffeestunde! German Club 10:00 Table Tennis 6:00pm Beginning Line Dancing 11:00 World Affairs Talk Quality Counts and Spectrum Generations garden salad for all; plus fresh cider, hot coffee, encouraged, and obtained by calling the People 4:30pm TCAC Meeting 12:30pm Tai Chi - Advanced 7:15pm Advanced Line Dancing 12:30pm Table Tennis tea, iced-water and milk available for drinks. Plus information desk at 729-0757. 6:00pm Knights of Columbus 1:00pm Write On Writers 6:30pm Folk Dance Brunswick Dessert this month will be another of our fall Meals are always open to the public; 2:00pm Book Talk Bus to Christmas favorites, deep-dish apple crisp, smothered by members still pay only $6, and people who 6:30pm Brunswick Coin/Stamp Viva la France!! vanilla ice cream. aren’t members yet pay $8.50. Take out orders 17 18 19 20 21 22 It’s French Fest Tree shops Each monthly Lunch & Connections meal is may be picked up after 11:30, lunch is always 9:00 Mah-Jongg 8:30 Table Tennis 8:30 'Easy Riders' Biking Club 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 KOC underwritten by Spectrum Generations, and served, beginning at noon. 9:00 Crafters 9:00 Senior Health Expo 8:45 Cribbage 11:00 Hearing Screenings 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Bridge at the Center! Join our friends from the Bath Senior designed to focus on nutrition, information 9:00 Loosen Up 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Mah-Jongg 11:30 CHANS BP Clinic 10:00 Beginner's Tai Chi Thursday, October 27, 1:00 pm Center on a shopping spree at the Christmas 10:00 Zumba 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 9:00 Loosen Up 12:00pm LUNCH&CONNECTIONS 10:30 Meals on Wheels Join us for a French Octoberfest! Enjoy Tree Shops on Tuesday, Oct. 11. The Yoga for Seniors - Balance & Falls Workshop 10:00 Tech Time 10:30 Yoga with Ann 10:00 Meals On Wheels 6:00pm Beginning Line Dancing 11:00 Qigong day includes lunch on your own at the Now Tuesdays and Thursdays 11:00 Monday Munchies 12:30pm Aerobics Lite 10:00 Table Tennis 7:15pm Advanced Line Dancing 11:00 World Affairs Talk French food and music as we take a tour of with Head to Toe Physical Paris with Director Stacy Simpson-Frizzle Hometown Buffet, in South Portland, 11:00 Table Tennis 1:00pm Quilters 12:30pm Tai Chi - Advanced 12:30pm Table Tennis and costs only $7 if you are a member of Tuesdays, 10:30 am, Thursdays, 11:00 am Therapy of Topsham 12:00pm Bridge 3:00pm Books a la Carte 1:00pm Write On Writers 6:30pm Folk Dance Brunswick and Jonathan Edgerton as they share photos, Stretch, flex, breathe and relax for optimum memories and adventures from Paris. And People Plus or the Bath Area Senior Center. Thursday, October 6, 11:00 am 6:00pm Belly Dancing 6:00pm Knights of Columbus 2:30pm Center Stage Players Show The bus leaves Bath at 9 a.m., and picks well being with instructors Ann Kimmage 6:30pm Civil War Book Club 5:30pm Knights of Columbus meet Michael Sanders, Brunswick author (Tuesdays) and Leslie Ballin (Thursdays). Come join Dr. Christina Levesque, PT, of “From Here, You Can’t See Paris” and up at the Topsham Fair Mall's Home Depot DPT for the second in a series of Head to 24 25 26 27 28 29 Park and Ride at approximately 9:20 a.m. Designed for older bodies, this yoga is 9:00 Mah-Jongg 8:30 Table Tennis 8:30 'Easy Riders' Biking Club 8:30 Table Tennis 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:00 KOC “Families of the Vine” - he’s an enthusiast Toe Physical Therapy of Topsham quarterly The bus returns to Topsham and then Bath a wonderful way to re-balance and feel 9:00 Crafters 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 8:45 Cribbage 9:30 Beg/Intermediate Bridge 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Bridge of all things French and will guide us on an Balance & Falls presentations! Learn what by mid-afternoon. Cost of the trip for grounded. $5 per class members/$10 balance truly means, how to obtain good 9:00 Loosen Up 10:00 Art with Connie Bailey 9:00 Mah-Jongg 9:30 Exploring the Great Religions 10:00 Beginner's Tai Chi introduction to French wines provided by non-members per class. 10:00 Zumba 10:30 Yoga with Ann 9:00 Loosen Up 11:00 Yoga 10:30 Meals on Wheels Tess’s market. Our very own French club non-members is $8. If you want to register balance, how to prevent a fall, how to properly 11:00 Monday Munchies 12:30pm Aerobics Lite 10:00 Meals On Wheels 1:00pm Viva la French Fest 11:00 Qigong will entertain with songs and homemade for this trip, please contact the Bath Center handle a fall if one occurs and much more! In Exploring the Worlds Religions addition to the lecture, Dr. Levesque will offer 12:00pm LUNCH & LEARN 2:30pm Café en Français 10:00 Table Tennis 6:00pm Beginning Line Dancing 11:00 World Affairs Talk delicacies and much more! For Members at 443-4937. Can't Sleep? 6:00pm Knights of Columbus 12:30pm Tai Chi - Advanced 7:15pm Advanced Line Dancing 12:30pm Table Tennis – New Conversation Series! free fall risk screenings to all who attend along Only! Registration required!! with coupons for a free, 15 minute screening 12:00pm Bridge 1:00pm Write On Writers 6:30pm Folk Dance Brunswick 2nd and 4th Thursdays of every month, at Head to Toe PT in Topsham if you feel 6:00pm Belly Dancing 6:30pm Brunswick Coin/Stamp Home to Home 9:30-11 am. 31 Welcome to Medicare physical therapy could benefit you! Free, open On Tuesday, October 11 the Mid-Coast How is religion defined? What was mankind to the public. Registration appreciated! 9:00 Mah-Jongg with Spectrum Generations Retired Educators Association will gather looking? What has he found? Using the 9:00 Crafters People Plus Hours at 10:30 am at People Plus located at 35 book God Is Not One, former Harvard 9:00 Loosen Up This session is designed to provide you with Union Street in Brunswick. The program chaplain and Bath resident Reginald Smart 10:00 Zumba knowledge about Medicare and its many Technology Clubs Mon-Thu: 8:30-4 pm “Parts” so that you can make an informed will be about People Plus and also Home facilitates the group. For members only. 11:00 Monday Munchies Apple Club meets on Tuesday decision about health care coverage. This to Home which will be presented fol- 11:00 Table Tennis Aerobics Lite – New Class! October 4 at 10 am. Bring your Apple Fri: 8:30-1 pm class is held the 2nd Tuesday of each month lowing the business meeting. Following 12:00pm Bridge device and questions and Stacy will help from 12:30 – 2:00 pm. Free and open to the the program, a pot-luck luncheon will Tuesdays, 12:30 pm 6:00pm Belly Dancing be held. The fundraiser for local high answer your questions. public. Registration is required. Suzanne Neveux introduces this new school scholarships will be a Trick or weekly class. A combination of sitting and Tech Time (for non-Apple devices) meets Treat Bags Sale. Any retired educator in on Monday, October 17 at 10 am. Same as the area is welcome to become part of standing movements gradually work to Please call 729-0757 to register goal of standing for the whole hour while the Apple Club but for non-Apple devices. Linda’s Home Care for classes and events. this Association. For more information, please contact the president, Ed Nunery moving to music with low impact steps. $5 Beth from All Thumbs Computer Care will at 272-0847 or ednunery@gmail.com members/$10 non-members per class. Try help answer your questions! Both clubs are Planning & Staffi ng Reminder – All People Plus free and for members only. Clubs are for Members Only! it once for free! A dedicated, caring and compassionate team of caregivers to assist your elderly loved one Center Stage Players Present: LindaL Adams Owner [email protected] “A Dark and Phone/Text 207-607-9083 Healthy Ounce of Fax 207-666-1134 Stormy Night” Prevention Bonded/Insured Pager 580-5747 SERIES Ghosts, ghosts, ghosts. Join us for Aging our pre-Halloween show and meet all Changing your perception on health care sorts of ghosts: friendly ones, angry Monday, Oct. 3 • 11 a.m.–NOON ones, sad ones. The program includes Community Room at MID COAST SENIOR HEALTH CENTER Medical definition of health care: The maintaining and restoration of "The Halloween Lunch", written by 58 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick health by the treatment and prevention of disease especially by trained and our cast member, Sybil Baker. Sybil licensed professionals (as in medicine, dentistry, clinical psychology, and introduces us to a group of New York Join public health). What is your definition of health? theatrical agents reminiscing about Paul Gerrard, MD WHO definition of health:Health is a state of complete physical, mental their worst clients, including, believe Physiatrist & Associate Medical Director at and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. it or not, a ghost. The story takes a New England Rehabilitation Hospital of Portland Health care vs Sick care – We live in a nation that focuses on trying to turn that will surprise you. You will learn about— In “Till Death Do Us Part” written fix problems rather than preventing them. We live in a “Sick Care” world. What is normal aging WhenWhen youyou are are contemplating contemplating a move… a move… Dr. Tim Coffin by a former cast member, Earl Inman • Symptoms vs Cause - Are we just chasing symptoms or treating the cause? The influence of physical activity on changes that occur with age toto a a Retirement Community, Community, enjoy a visit enjoy to the a newvisit COASTAL to the new LANDING COASTAL LANDING and Al Miller, our director, we meet • Simply look at the drug commercials; we are chasing one symptom after another covering up one Dietary modifications for good physical and mental health in older age inin Brunswick Brunswick to see to allsee we all offer we in independentoffer in independent retirement living. retirement living. a man confessing a long held secret • (Assisted Living available on the same campus.) with a drug to have to cover another caused by the same drug. I use a metaphor all the time that (Assisted Living available on the same campus.) I think makes it easy to understand. Think of your problem as a burning fire, the smoke alarm is to his dead wife. Be prepared to be Included in your monthly rent: shocked! A retelling of the Saki (H. For more inFormation, Included in your monthly rent: going off letting you know that there is a problem (symptom). Does it make more sense to take U Choice of Two Meals Daily U Scheduled Local Transportation the battery out of the smoke alarm so the sound stops and go about your business (drugs) or to H. Munro) story, "The Wolves of call 373-3646. U Activities and Social Events U Heat and Electricity put out the fire (take care of the cause)? We tend to cover up issues rather than putting the fire out. Cernogratz” has a twist that only * ChoiceU Light of two Housekeeping meals daily U* Maintenance Scheduled Service Local Transportation Where do you think the US ranks within the world in terms of health? Saki could write. And finally, LC Van * ActivitiesU Private and Bathroom Social andEvents Kitchenette U* Free H Laundryeat and Room Electricity Savage, Brunswick poet and colum- * LightU Housekeeping Other services available for a reasonable *monthly Maintenance fee. Service • US spends more on healthcare than the next 3 countries combined nist for the Coastal Journal, makes a * PrivateFind Bathroom your way to and Kitchenette * Free Laundry Room • Spends over $8,000 per person per year guest appearance reading her poem * Other services available for a reasonable monthly fee. • US ranks 37th in world health care through studies done by world health organization “My Ghost.” Bring tissues! • Neighbors to the north have not figured it out either they rank 30th This show is always free and open to MID COAST Center for • Better living through pharmacology?- How is this working out for us. the public, see it at Thornton Oaks on Find your way to 142 Neptune Drive, Brunswick Prevention is the key. It is easier to maintain a healthy body than it is to regain one. Proper health Tuesday, Oct. 12, at 2:30 p.m.; at The Community Health 837-6560 starts day 1 of life. Healthy kids make healthy adults. Highlands in Topsham on Thursday, 142 Neptune Drive, Brunswick www.coastallanding.comwww.coastallandi U 837-6560 ng.com The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patients in the care of the human Oct. 14 at 2 p.m.; or at The People & Wellness frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease. - Thomas Edison Plus Center on Wednesday, Oct. 19, www.midcoasthealth.com/wellness at 2:30 p.m. Registration appreciated. Page 6 People Plus News October 2016 October 2016 People Plus News Page 7

JOB WELL DONE, Brunswick’s Dr. Richard Guistra (center) was among 23 Maine Physicians honored at the 163rd annual session of the Maine Medical Association.(MMA) Katahdin Wilderness experienced. Dr. Guistra is an active member and presenter at The People Plus Center, he was feted by the Members of the Thursday hikers traveled to “the Katahdin area” recently to experience first-hand the new MMA for 50 years service. Pictured with him (right) is Pat Bergeron, Secretary of the MMA, Katahdin Woods and Water National Monument. and Dr. Gordon Smith (left) of the MMA. Brunswick’s Dr. Peter McGuire was also recognized, Spectacular falls of water mark portions of the Penobscot River in America’s newest but not photographed. Bergeron is a life member at People Plus and wanted us to know the very Good Shepherd Lutheran Church National Monument. first meeting of the Maine Medical Assoc. was held in Brunswick in 1853 at the old Tontine Hotel. welcomes you to join us for What the Ala Carte Book Club has been reading. Archangel by Robert Harris Sunday morning worship, 9:00 am Present-day Russia is the setting. It tells the story of four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dis- Account Executive Pot Roast Supper Celtic Evening Prayer, Sun. 5:30 pm sipated, middle-aged former Oxford historian, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the Full and/or part-time for Benefits the Harpswell Scouting Thurs. Evening Prayer, 6:30 pm newly opened Soviet archives. One night, Kelso is visited in his hotel room by an old NKVD Radio 9 WCME\-900AM and officer, a former bodyguard of the secret police chief Lavrenty Beria and claims to have been at Radio9WCME.com Assistance Association Free Community Breakfast, 2nd Sat, 9:00-10:30 Stalin’s dacha on the night Stalin had his fatal stroke, and to have helped Beria steal the dicta- tor’s private papers. His inquiry in the Lenin Library soon turns into a murderous chase across • Sales experience desired Saturday, October 15th, 5-7- p.m. Moscow and up to the vast forests near the White Sea port of Archangel, where the final secret • Confidence mandatory of Josef Stalin has been hidden for almost half a century. Elijah Kellogg Church, Good Shepherd Lutheran Church • 330 Maine St, Brunswick • 725-6561 • Commissions generous 917 Harpswell Neck Road Silence of the Sea by Yrsa Sigurdardottir Resumes to Jim CLIP & SAVE The queen of Icelandic crime fiction. $9 per person, children under 12 $5 ✁ The book opens with a luxury yacht at [email protected] crashes into a Reykjavik pier. But the Menu: Pot roast, potatoes, carrots, onions, boat is empty; no one is on board. What salad, brownie sundae Your best shot at avoiding the flu is to get your flu shot! has happened to the crew and the family OCTOBER Seasonal Community who were very much present when on CHANS will hold a free flu clinic FLU SHOT FRIDAYS the yacht when it left Lisbon? MID COAST SENIOR HEALTH CENTER Black Widow by Daniel Silva Flu Shot Clinics 58 Baribeau Drive, Brunswick A continuance of the author’s Gabriel The October meeting of the Pejepscot Genealogical Society (PGS) will be held in the Morrell All CHANS Home Health Care clinics are first-come, Allen series, a secret Masad assassin Meeting Room of the Curtis Memorial Library, Brunswick, Maine on Sunday, October 9, 2016 at 2 pm. Guest first-served. Vaccine is for anyone 6-months-of-age 9:00 a.m. to NOON Fridays using the cover of an art restorer. A speaker PGS President John Webster will reprise his Jordan Family program "The Family History" related to or older. Insurance or donations accepted. September 16 through December 2 lady doctor is recruited to penetrate his being a Vice President of the "Rev. Robert and Sarah (Winter) Jordan Foundation". ISIS with the objective of killing its Join us on October 9th as we learn more about the Jordan Family! Everyone is invited to join to the group, leader. Along the way the story gives beginning with a brief social period before and after the speaker. A business meeting will follow. Oct. 01–Brunswick Public Schools, Stowe Elementary, 44 McKeen Street, Brunswick 8 a.m.-1 p.m. a realistic narrative on how ISIS grew For more information contact John Webster, PGS President at (207) 833-5430. and its objectives. Oct. 04–FHC Cathance Fitness Center, 1201 Main Street, Bowdoin 10:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure Oct. 04–RSU 5, Freeport High School, 30 Holbrook Street, Freeport 3-7 p.m. In 1942 Paris, gifted architect Lucien Bernard accepts a commission to design Oct. 06–Harpswell Town Office, 263 Mountain Road, Harpswell 9-NOON and 5-7 p.m. a secret hiding place for a wealthy Oct. 08–Bath Citizen Involvement Day, Bath Waterfront Park, Bath 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Jewish man, a space so invisible that Avoid the flu and you could be... even the most determined German Oct. 11–Maine Senior Guide Expo, Hilton Garden Inn, 5 Park Street, Freeport 9 a.m.-3 p.m. officer won’t find it. Last Bus to Wisdom by Ivan Doig Oct. 12–Richmond Golden Oldies, 314 Front Street, Richmond 9 a.m.-NOON Donal Cameron is being raised in “Monday Munchies” Oct. 12–The Highlands, Maine Lodge, 30 Governor’s Way, Topsham 10:30 a.m.-NOON Montana by his grandmother. When she becomes ill he is sent to her sister Join us Mondays (11-12:30) at People Oct. 12–The Highlands, Cadigan Lodge, 54 Governor’s Way, Topsham 3:30-4:30 p.m. in Wisconsin. Aunt Kate is mean to Plus for our weekly meal program him…and her husband Herman. Finally providing a healthy and low-cost Oct. 13–Brunswick Landing, L.L. Bean Learning Commons, 29 Sewell Street, Brunswick 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Kate sends him on a Greyhound back lunch for seniors. A $3-4 donation is Oct. 15–Elijah Kellogg Church, Public Supper, 917 Harpswell Neck Road, Harpswell 5-7 p.m. to Montana. The husband joins the boy. appreciated but not required! Come The pair meet a classic Doigian ensem- eat with your friends or take it home Oct. 18–People Plus Senior Health Expo, Cook’s Corner Mall, 172 Bath Road, Brunswick 9 a.m.-1 p.m. ble of characters and have rollicking or both! Check our calendar for misadventures along the way. This was weekly menu! Oct. 19–Horizons Living and Rehab Center, 29 Maurice Drive, Brunswick 1 p.m.-3 p.m. his last novel. www.peopleplusmaine.org Oct. 19–Wiscasset Community Center, 242 Gardiner Road, Wiscasset 4:30-5:30 p.m. Last of the President’s Men by Bob Woodward Oct. 20–Lisbon Schools, Lisbon High School, 2 Sugg Drive, Lisbon Falls 2-5 p.m. The untold story of Alexander Monday Munchies Menu Butterfield, the man who disclosed the Oct. 22–RSU 75, Mt. Ararat Middle School, 66 Republic Avenue, Topsham 9 a.m.-NOON secret taping system in the Nixon White October 3: House, its impact on history. Split pea & ham soup Oct. 22–Bath Area Senior Citizens, 56 Floral Street, Bath 3:30-6:30 p.m. Now You See Me by S.J Bolton October 10: Oct. 26–Bowdoinham Town Office, 13 School Street, Bowdoinham 3-6 p.m. A suspense thriller as a young local center closed Bobbie tries to solve a series of “Jack October 17: Making beautiful Oct. 29–Bowdoinham Fire Department, 57 Post Road, Bowdoinham 4-6 p.m. the Ripper type” murders. You will not guess the ending! Chicken corn chowder Secret Rooms by Catherine Bailey. October 24: memories together. Visit www.midcoasthealth.com/flu for a complete list of free local clinics provided by CHANS Home Health Care. A true story of family secrets and Grilled cheese aristocratic intrigue in the days before sandwich w/tomato soup Get your flu shot! Visit www.midcoasthealth.com/flu for a list of free local clinics provided by CHANS Home Health Care. Because you have better things to do than come down with the flu! WWI. After more than 60 years the October 31: author became the first historian given Black& Orange access to the sealed rooms. What she discovered was a mystery: The Duke Halloween Surprise! MID COAST–PARKVIEW HEALTH had painstakingly erased three periods (Black bean soup w/ MID COAST–PARKVIEW HEALTH Our Community. Our Health. of his life from all family records—but sausage & carrots) Our Community. Our Health. why? Therein lies the read. October 2016 SENIOR HEALTH EXPO • Tuesday, October 18th • Cook’s Corner Mall • 9-1 pm EXPO EXTRA

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Events not to miss! FREE Swag bag for the first 200 attendees! FREE coffee and treats! Chance to win Amtrak Downeaster train tickets! FREE massages and Reiki treatments The People Plus Senior Health Expo, presented FREE flu shots by Spectrum Generations, is a premier event in our community; providing a link to local and regional FREE Hearing video-scope screenings resources for older adults. FREE Technology help Visit www.peopleplusmaine.org for more information. FREE Yellow Dot registration • Medical Services • Community Services FREE Good Morning Call • Fitness and Health • Housing/Respite Care program registration • Technology • Financial/Banking • Legal • Insurance FREE Volunteer Transportation Network (VTN) program registration (This Expo preview is accurate as of the date of printing.) Book signings, sales and author chats with Write On! Writers EXPO EXTRA SENIOR HEALTH EXPO • Tuesday, October 18th • Cook’s Corner Mall • 9-1 pm October 2016 October 2016 SENIOR HEALTH EXPO • Tuesday, October 18th • Cook’s Corner Mall • 9-1 pm EXPO EXTRA 2016 Senior Health Expo Exhibitors 2016 Senior Health Expo Exhibitors Aging Excellence Beltone Hearing Aid Center CHANS Home Health Care Head to Toe Physical Therapy of Maine Estate Services, LLC Mary’s Affordable Hearing Aids Sexual Assualt Support Services of The McLellan Our mission: Keep adults active and indepen- The most trusted brand in the hearing care CHANS Home Health Care is a full service, non- Topsham Maine Estate Services (MES) helps homeown- Hearing evaluations and hearing aid fittings in Midcoast Maine (SASSMM) The McLellan will be 18 creatively designed dent in their own home/community. We are industry among adults 50 and older. 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NICELY DONE! Steve Winter, one of our most Membership dedicated table tennis players, applies the third and Speaking finish coat to a drywall patch in the hall. He primed Frankly Benefits and repainted the area when it was completely dry. On NOT being “inactive” “We bust ‘em,” he said of the hall walls, “we fix ‘em!” My computer just told me that the latest Last Christmas, a buddy whose doctor had I’m surprised more of you didn’t notice my Frank The following businesses offer discounts for Thanks Steve! weekly Morbidity and Mortality Report just called him “pre-diabetic,” looked at me weight loss. Connors People Plus members. (MMR) from the Center for Disease Control with a critical eye and suggested I might be By July first, I’d reacquired maybe half of Arby’s, 729-8244, 10% off, excluding combos/ (CDC) shows that 28% of American adults healthier if I was a little lighter! What are that weight back to my waistline. But a subtle back there. I don’t want to go back there! I coupons aged 50 years old or older are classified as friends for? Maybe he just wanted to deflect mind change had been made. I realized I can point to a calendar from 1967 and tell Attorney N. Seth Levy, 319-4431, inactive. “INACTIVE!” some of his pain. We discussed our situation honestly WAS feeling better, being lighter. I you the date I swore I’d NEVER do another Discounted legal services/documents including What, you didn’t see the report? over a couple beers and decided a compe- had started checking my weight ever week... push-up. wills, living wills and estates The Internet is a wonderful thing, is it not? tition was in order. First guy to loose ten every Sunday, just as regular as Church! I But I had another landmark birthday this Augat Chiropractic, 725-7177, Free consul- I find it hard to believe, first of all, that the pounds had to treat the other to a dinner at was drinking less beer, more water. (I drink year, and want to keep having them, so this tation and cursory exam CDC has a weekly report that focuses on the restaurant of the winner’s choice. Jane water out of an empty beer bottle, I find is my plan. Bad knees tell me not to run, but Autometrics, 729-0842, 10% off parts, morbidity and mortality, and I’m thinking muttered something about male logic, but I that it tastes better) I was eating more sen- good sense tells me to walk places where I anytime that only someone already wickedly “inac- told her this was serious business. We sat the sibly, cutting back on seconds, reducing my might normally ride. Little men Silas and tive” would have the means, and take the deadline for ourselves of April Fool’s Day, impulse snacking. I was consciously exercis- Berrie’s Opticians, 725-5111, 20% off Providing free rides for medical appointments and Zander seem to be willing companions, so time, to read such a report. But honestly, why not? ing just a little bit more, and these minor, if complete pair of glasses, 10% off retail price for grocery shopping, as well as personal needs such this winter, we’ll visit the track at the Rec hearing aides as trips to the bank, post office, and hair salon. when I take a few minutes to think about So all last spring, we competed. I’m think- subtly changes HAD made a difference. Center, walk the driveway and field when it’s it, why not? We have become a society of ing he actually did some exercises on a Now I’m looking at fall, the season of Big Top Deli, 721-8900, 10% off, anytime For more information call 729-0757. nice, the shopping center when it’s not. I’m sitters. Inactivity seems to be encouraged! machine. Both of us increased our walking comfort foods, less ideal weather, fewer Become a Registered Rider or Driver Today! going to get even better about what I eat, and Bill Dodge Auto Group, 800-652-6118, 10% We have machines doing so many senseless schedules, skipped hot dogs, paid more opportunities, and reasons, to get out and off parts and service every week, I’ll keep checking my weight things for us, from brushing our teeth to attention to not doing snacks. When April exercise. Sensible mammals are thinking and adding it to my journal. Brunswick Ford, 725-1228, 10% off parts and driving our cars! I’m thinking we could lose first came and went, I had shed nine useless about hibernation, right? The big goal will be to stay active, to service our upper body strength before we lose our pounds, enough to beat my buddy and earn Perhaps you remember I was a paratrooper engage my friends and family in activities Eveningstar Cinema, 729-5486, Discount minds! me that free supper. in my much younger days. In those days we’d that keep me from being inactive. Feel free bag of popcorn at evening shows ($1 shuffle five miles before breakfast, we’d do ask me how I’m doing if you like, but I’d small,$1.50 medium) push-ups and sit ups by the hour. I was in the prefer if you’d tell me how YOU are doing Fairground Café, 729-5366, 10% off, anytime New or renewing members for September shape of my life, and probably fifty pounds on YOUR plan....we’re all in this together, Indrani’s, 729-6448, 10% off non-sale items, * indicates new membership Doris Howes Wanda Smith * lighter than I am now. I know I’ll never go you know. Mondays • indicates donation made Paula Kappel Sue Stableford J&J Cleaners, 729-0176, 10% off pickups: with membership Laura Katz Judith Stoy Wednesdays (customers over 55) Mary Kelley George Tetu Memory Walk team assembling Lee’s Tire & Service, 729-4131, 10% off Brunswick Nancy Kenney Joann Thompson • parts (excludes tires) Tom Alley Members and staff at People Plus are in Maine, and walking is our opportunity Richard Kezer again planning to participate in the to do something about it. Money raised in Maine Optometry, 729-8474, $30 off com- Lenore Armellino Topsham plete pair of glasses Leon Laffely Midcoast Area Walk to end Alzheimer's the walk stays right here in Maine. If you Evelyn Bryant Susan T. Law Denise Deshaies Disease, scheduled this year for want to sponsor your own team, register Maine State Music Theatre, 725-8769, Mariette Bulger Gerald Deshaies Senior discount (60+) on matinée tickets Deb Lepkowski • October 15. Open registration for walkers today at alz.org/maine/walk, if you want Donna Burch Marcy McGuire • Barbara P. Hutchinson • begins at 8:30 a.m. on the Brunswick Mall to support the People Plus effort, send your McDonald’s, 729-4416, Free dessert with purchase Elizabeth Callan Calvin Morgan Harold B. Hutchinson • the morning of the walk, and the three- check made out to Maine Alzheimer's Miriam Charette * Delma Patenaude * Carla Rensenbrink mile walk commences at approximately Association, we'll forward it for you. Last Pauline’s Bloomers, 725-5952, 10% off, 10 a.m. season the Center's team raised nearly anytime (within normal delivery range) Lillian Connors Caroline C. Payson * Margaret Sanfasin • Robert Cressey Colleen Petrin A press release from the Alzheimer's $500. Please contact Frank Connors at the Portland Glass, 729-9971, 10% off materials Harpswell Association reports there are some 26,000 Center, 729-0757, if you want to walk or ($50 max) Carolyn Dalphin Selma Powers Nancy C. Dorian • people living with the disease right here would like to donate. Reflections (Salon), 729-8028, 10% off, The Great Impasta, 729-5858, 15% off Hillard Devereux Margaret Reiss Monday and Friday Wednesday lunch (food only) Sara Fogler Joanne Rioux Other places Robert S. Galen Valerie Robbins Senior Real Estate Specialist, SRES • Accredited Staging Professional, ASP Sam’s Italian Foods, 725-4444, 10% off, Thomas Point Beach, 725-6009, $1 weekday Pat Hix, Lisbon Falls excluding specials (patrons over 60) admission Howard Gould Rik Sandelin Joni Larlee, Lisbon Studio 119 Hair & Nail Design, 729-6119, , 725-7020, 20% off labor Janet Gould Ann Schroeder • I love selling homes along the Midcoast. Military Tire Warehouse Karleen O’Connor, FREE haircut with color or perm; services by Dorothy Hassfeld Suzanne Shanahan Retired Spouse with a lot of moving experience! Wilbur’s of Maine, 729-4462, 10% off, Richmond * Missy Stockford anytime Ann Hillis Georgette Sisto Kelley Rollins, Tavern at Brunswick Hotel, 837-6556, Buy Yankee Lanes, 725-2963, $1.85 per string Patricia Holmes Rudi Smith Nancy Beal, Realtor one entrée, get one half off (7 days, 9-5) Bowdoinham * (207)751-0752 Uncle Andy’s [email protected] Digest Assisted Home Care II www.midcoastmainehomes.com Now expanding “Our Family our services to the Century 21 Baribeau Agency, 51 Pleasant Street, Brunswick ME 04011 Learn how you can meet your September 2014 Assisting Your Family” Midcoast Region! future with confidence. 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Spring in Bowdoin Pines. Connie Bailey, Paper Batik. Can YOU share Bailey’s work is Gallery feature Selected works created by Consuelo the Park, in South Portland, Maine. a teddy bear? (Connie) G. Bailey are being exhibited in the Bailey has taught mixed media art classes at The Teddy Bear Club was started in an Union Street Gallery of People Plus during the People Plus for at least 20 years, and continues effort to offer comfort to children and month of October. Bailey, an Art Instructor to take part in area shows. She is a member elderly patients that come to Mid Coast at the People Plus Center and a resident of and past Curator/Manager of Harpswell’s Hospital’s Emergency Department, Brunswick, has won many awards for her Sebascodegan Summer Gallery; she is Medical/Surgical Unit, or those coming work. She is an accomplished artist who spe- Gallery Coordinator for Topsham’s public Lunch out! in for lab testing and other medical proce- cializes in the difficult medium of Batik, but Library; a member of the Merrymeeting Art dures. Coming to the hospital can be such enjoys working in other mediums, such as Association and of Designing Women. October 11th at 11:30 a.m. a scary time, our teddy bears offer a tre- scratchboard and colored pencil. Many of the pieces on exhibit are for sale. mendous amount of comfort and security Bailey was born in northern Michigan, and This exceptional collection can be seen during for little ones that need to come in for visits. holds a degree in Art Education from Eastern normal business hours at the People Plus The Teddy Bear Club is currently run by Michigan University. Early in her career she Center, 35 Union Street, Brunswick. the Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary and began taking Botanical and Natural History depends of donations from local individuals classes at the Morton Arboretum, in Lisle, and businesses. We ask that all donations of The Harpswell Garden Club Ill, and today she is a charter member of the will meet Thursday October 20, 2016 teddy bears (or any stuffed animals) be new Nature Artist’s Guild at that Arboretum. She at 12:30 p.m. at the Kellogg Church, with tags. Currently, we give out about 200 moved to Maine in 1989, she first exhibited rte. 123 Harpswell. After a brief busi- bears per month! We greatly appreciate any her Batiks in the summer of 1991. She has 193 Lower Main Street, Freeport ness meeting, Susan Betz of Bouquet donations made on received 115 technical awards since 1983, of Blooms, Cape Elizabeth will present b e h a l f of the mostly for her work in Batik or watercolor, “Fall Floral Designs.” Free and open to Teddy and this past summer she earned the presti- the public. FMI call Becky 833-6159. Be sure to sign up for B e a r gious Best of Show award for the 2016 Art in the car pool! Club!!