page 2 ...... Opinion Coming Up page 19...... SRDA Menu page 4...... Weird News May: - SoCo Senior Life/Health Festival page 20...... Community Update page 5...... Health Historic Preservation Month page 23...... Light for the Journey page 8...... Social Security & You National Stroke Awareness Month page 24...... Travel page 18...... Finances Mother’s Day - Older Americans Month page 25...... Fremont/Custer Menu

SeniorIF YOU ARE 50 OR OLDER YOUBeacon SHOULD READ IT!! SB May, 2007 Vol. 25: No. 10 Established Aug., 1982 298 Consecutive Months! Retired Broncos Sewell, Brunson, Thompson, Lang Highlight Event Southern Colorado Senior Life/Health Festival by James R. Grasso - Publisher 17 this issue). south to as far away as Trinidad and Ala- eon, which is free to the first 100 seniors. The 10th Annual, (has it been According to Kathilee Champ- mosa and the San Luis Valley urging one Of course the retired Bronocs will be on that long already?), Southern Colorado lin the name has been changed from the and all to come to Pueblo for this year’s hand. Meet LeLo, Steve, Billy Thompson S e n i o r Pueblo Seniors Life Festival to its present Festival,” she said. “It is our hope to make and Larry Life & name because “the Festival has been this a truly Southern Colorado happening Brunson. H e a l t h drawing seniors from all over Southern increasing the fun and information each Enjoy- Festival Colorado and we wanted to reflect that year to inlude the entire southeast quad- m u s i c , will take fact.” rant of the state.” magic, ice p l a c e “We have This year’s fare includes the cream so- at the sent invitations to Senior Citizen of the Year Award (see cial give- E v e n t s agencies, organiza- inside page 13), the Grandparent of the a w a y s , C e n t e r tions and facilities year (also on page 13) and the Commu- p r i z e s , in Pueb- throughout the Ar- nity Service Award (page 16). golf in- lo at the kansas Valley and Don’t forget the Senior Lunch- formation Colora- and oodles do State of booths F a i r - See The Southern Colorado Senior Life & Health with ex- grounds Festival Program Section On Pages 13-17 Inside cellent in- on May formation Steve Sewell will be there. 11, 2007. And Come And Enjoy The Fun, Plus Meet The you need. ( S e e So come Le-Lo Lang will be there. Will you? pages13- Broncos Of Yesteryear Up Close And In Person!! on out!!!! Will you? Event Helps Sustain The Boys & Girls Club Steak & Burger Event Takes Place At The Arts Center Pueblo, CO - - Boys & Girls Center. “Yes” to a healthy productive lifestyle. on the paseo area partygoers may enjoy Club/Girls Inc. of Pueblo County & Proceeds will go towards pre- Meet the Club’s Youth of the dancing to the music of “Little Ricky and Lower Arkansas Valley will host its an- vention, education and recreation pro- Year and enjoy dinner, cocktails and en- the Roosters.” nual Steak n’ Burger, Friday, May 18, grams that help our girls and boys, ages tertainment in the Bob Jackson Confer- For more information about 2007 from 6:30 p.m. – 11:00 p.m., at 5-18, gain the knowledge and skills they ence Center. Guests are invited to partic- Steak n’ Burger, please call Charleen the Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference need to say “No” to at risk behaviors and ipate in a live and silent auction. Outside Lamphear at (719) 564-0055. Pat Gash & The “2-1-1” Team Help Holly Victims by Trish Orman-Special to the Senior people could go for help.” nearly 24 hours, electricity and other Beacon 2-1-1 is an easy-to-remember services were unavailable. The 2-1-1 col- When Pat Gash went to work on telephone number that persons can call to laboration of agencies deployed volun- Friday, March 30, little did she know that reach a person trained to help them assess teers immediately. Four to six volunteers she and her staff of volunteers would han- their needs and put them in touch with maintained phone lines at the Holly vol- dle more than 200 telephone calls seek- the community services available to meet unteer center, and Gash’s crew handled ing supplies and services for the victims those needs. calls in the Pueblo center. of the Holly tornado. 2-1-1 for Southeast Colorado From Friday through Sunday Gash, director of 2-1-1 for is based at the Senior Resource Devel- following the storm, the Pueblo center Southeast Colorado, admitted that the opment Agency in Pueblo, but it serves fielded calls for supplies—nails and bolts tragic weather event of Mar. 28 put her and links to 11 counties in southeastern to tarps and lumber as well as food and staff into emergency mode for days as Colorado—including Prowers County clothing. Roofers were needed. Other Pat Gash (above) and the 211 for Southeast Colorado were an integral part they provided around the clock service to and Holly in particular. It is one of many agencies, such as the Pueblo Association in aiding the people of Holly during rgeir callers who needed help and to volunteers programs available to help seniors, and of Home Builders came on board to offer devastating tornado in late March. who wanted to provide labor and materi- others, work through the often complex assistance. als to the storm victims. maze of community service agencies and “Most of the calls were from had the evening and weekend calls trans- “The storm put us on call 24-7,” government programs. people who wanted to know ways they ferred to her cell phone so that she could Gash explained recently. “In that regard, Partly as a result of the emergen- could help,” said Gash. “At that point, we provide information and assistance out- it meant that a staff member was taking cy, 2-1-1 service volume increased to a were referring them to the Holly Volun- side of regular business hours. calls all day and night. Nevertheless, as new high of 1898 calls for the first quarter teer Center because we had to make sure “It quite an experience. A first long as we were in touch at the volunteer of 2007. the donation list was appropriate to their time experience for us. Positively, I think center (In Holly), we could provide up- The storm hit Holly at mid- needs.” we did a really good job of keeping on dates about what was needed and where evening on Wednesday, Mar. 28, but for Although Gash credits her volun- top of everyone’s needs—linking people teer team—Rose Teel, Lee Ann Van Del, with services and taking care of people’s and Shirley Harrison—for their skillful needs,” Gash said. WANTED: Volunteer Ombudsman handling of the emergency, Gash herself Wanted, Volunteer Ombudsmen to share their time, talents and car- ing hearts with the elderly residents of Long-Term Care and Assisted Living INTERESTED IN HELPING SENIORS MODIFY facilities. This would be a great opportunity for retired Nurses, Social Work- ers, and Individuals who love and want to work with some of the most vulner- THEIR HOMES TO THEIR CHANGING NEEDS? If you are interested in forming a group of people who would like to help able members of our society. In this capacity, you would advocate for these Seniors with building ramps, installing hand rails, modifying doors, etc. to fit residents and when necessary investigate and obtain proof of deviation from their changing needs, won’t you please contact us? nursing home care standards. If interested please call 583-6123. This Volun- Persons interested in forming this group to help Seniors should call 2-1- teer position is with the Pueblo County Long-term Care Ombudsman Program. 1 and give your name, address and phone number. YOU MUST BE ABLE TO PASS A CRIMINAL BACKGROUND CHECK This need is going unaddressed all over Pueblo County and Southern BEFORE BEING ACCEPTED. Colorado. Why not call us today? Page 2 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Just One Guy’s Opinion by James R. Grasso, Chief Cook & Bottle Washer of “Your” Senior Beacon! ficult to fleah out. The message can’t be any clearer and it’s not found ‘blowing in Life Fest 2007 - Don’t Miss This One! the wind” ala Bob Dylan. The answer is Love. Not peace and love like the hippies of Final chance for you all to mark your calendars for Friday, May 11, 2007. the ‘60s although that message was wonderful but the devil was in the details. Christ From 8:00am when the Health screenings begin to 4:00pm when the doors close the boiled it down to a simple Love God and Love your fellow human being as yourself. Tenth Annual Southern Colorado Seniors Life and Health Festival is really some- The message is wonderfully simplistic but those dang details bog us down every thing none of you should miss. Like to golf? Golf Tec is one of our sponsors and time. We lose ourselves in ourselves. We have no room for God. they’ll give you a swing assessment along with other tidbits to improve your game. Is So what does this have to do with algore, the inventor of the Internet, the geneaology your passion? Come to the Senior Beacon (Life Fest 2007) Booth where inspiration for Love Story, the “no controlling legal authority” narcissist? Think you can not only get started on your family tree but you can also pick up this year’s about it folks. Last week I read in the Pueblo Chieftain about a young lady who spoke Senior Housing’07 pamphlet and TheGuide’07 as well as purchase for a donation somewhere locally about the effects of “global warming” and how we are responsible something really neat canceled postage stamps already framed. The donations go and how by pulling the plug on a toaster will help you do your part to save the envi- directly to Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation of America (CCFA) for research. ronment. She received this vast knowledge and expertise from algore, well maybe Feted at the event will be the Grandparent of the Year and the Senior of the not from yoda himself, but from a few day seminar taught in his likeness. He is now Year. An ice cream and cake social, free lunch (limited to the first 100 people), prizes, brainwashing young people with a hands on theater of the absurd taught by the absurd. giveaways, booth presentations, health fair, magic show, beautiful and talented young He preaches to us that we are destroying God’s planet. That we are responsible, or ladies from the Pueblo Teen organization and so very much more awaits your arrival will be responsible for the devastation to come if we don’t immediately adhere to his to this Free event held at the Events Center on the Pueblo State Fair grounds. principles. Yet, he does nothing, absolutley nothing to practice what he preaches. He Check page one in this edition of Senior Beacon and read about some favor- jets all over the world in a prideful attempt to get accolades from Hollywood, Nobel, ite retired Broncos that are coming to Life Fest 2007 and then read pages 13-17 giv- our woeful leaders and the commonfolk spewing more carbon (his and his followers ing you all the information you need about this yearly happening and you’ll see why newest pretend “evil”) in a few weeks than any of us will in most of our lifetimes. I tell you, “Don’t Miss This One! Is he exempt from his own teachings? Who does he think he is that he can circumvent or belittle the Maker of all Things? algore Is Not A god..... This self-made trumped up god is now inviting myriads of Hollywood elite ...... on the contrary, algore is a huckster! People ask why a kid like Cho who to some sort of a shindig to raise awareness and money to stop global warming. And murdered all those innocent students and teachers at Virginia Tech would do such a how much is this little soiree going to hurt the environment? dastardly thing. Now, stay with me here. My belief is that we are a Christian nation When human beings put themselves ahead of God. When individuals shun that has lost its way. God or put God on the end of the bench for their own purposes, we then have trouble. Do you remember your Bible story about the Jews wandering aimlessly in When algore tells us that we are responsible for destroying what God made yet he is the dessert before they reached the Promised Land? Now I don’t know if this is actu- exempt because he is the messenger, even though the Earth is constantly changing ally accurate or if it is an allegory teaching us we must, as human beings, be tested with or without our participation, he is putting Him beneath us..... before we can reach our rewards or if it really happened to “the chosen people” ...... algore’s words and subsequent actionsare not unlike all that troubles the exactly the way it is stated in the Good Book but there is a point coming. Earth and has from the beginning. When there is no love of God, no understanding Myriads of polls and studies have been done showing the United States to of His wonder, no fear of His immenseness. Then there is chaos. be a super-majority Christian, God-fearing nation. The atheists, agnostics, satanists and Hollywood Left with their various “buzz-word” beliefs of the day notwithstand- Congress? Media? Throw The Bums Out ing, all of the Western world was founded on the teachings of the Bible. From its How is it that when Alberto Gonzales becomes Attorney General and throws adherence to the Ten Commandments to the Latin words prominent on cathedrals and out eight attorneys the boys and girls in Congress and the media go bonkers but when government buildings, our underpinnings are there for all to see. Bill Clinton and his minions threw out nearly a hundred such people in 1992 nary And, as in the Bible, when the Jews strayed from their Creator, the wander- a word was said? How is it Barack Obama (a black man) is treated like a superstar ing commenced. We are wandering ladies and gentleman. When we wonder how our while Coni Rice (a black woman), is vilified by the same bunch? society can spawn such creatures as Jeffrey Dahmer, Dylan & Kleibold, the newly And why is it that thugs like Castro and Che are worshipped while our minted Cho and on and on ad nauseum (speaking of Latin) it shouldn’t be a mystery. brave and decent armed services are left swinging in the breeze by Congress and Mankind has wandered for all recorded time. It is the nature of mankind. We are the media? Why is it that GWB’s economy which has been arguably better than the always looking for the next “messiah,” whether it be Caesar or Stalin or bin Laden, Clinton Administration’s, especially given the circumstances, is never trumpeted yet new diet fad, fashion or pet saying. We need someone or something to adulate ot the “good old days” of the Clintons is revered? gnosh over because there is something missing in our collective lives. Why is it that almost every day while in office Bill and Hillary Clinton lied The meaning of life, in other words “why are we here,” really isn’t that dif- about something, spoke half-truths about other things and waffled on all things, yet GWB is pilloried daily with “Bush Lied! People Died!” rhetoric for sixteen words he repeated about British intelligence and weapons of mass destruction? Why is it that our so-called “leaders” in Washington are willing dupes for the crazies all over the world and yet will sell us out in a heartbeat? Why is it that the majority of the scribes of our nation never, ever get to the bottom of news stories that will give us a clear picture of what is really going on in the world? You know, maybe we should start over with a different mindset. Maybe we should throw the bums out in Congress (all of them) who play us against each other and give no shrift to the media that won’t or can’t tell the whole story by no longer, watching, reading or listening to their drivel that is planned to pit us against one another. Ah, what a wonderful world it would be.... Godspeed! Senior Beacon Senior Beacon serves Pueblo & Fremont Counties and reaches the rest of Southeastern Colorado. It is a monthly newspaper dedicated to inform, serve, educate and entertain the Senior Community in these areas. Subscriptions are available, prepaid with order, at $15.00 for one 12-month period. Send your order to the mailing list below. Publication of advertising contained herein does not necessarily con- stitute endorsement. Signed columns are the opinions of the writers and not necessarily that of the publisher. Senior Beacon is locally owned and operated. Founded in August, 1982. MAILING ADDRESS Beacon Publishing/Senior Beacon -- website: www.seniorbeacon.info Mailing Address: P.O. Box 7215 -Pueblo West, CO 81007-0215 Ph: 719-647-1300 Fax: 719-647-1305 E-mail: [email protected] Physical address 44 E. Spaulding - Pueblo West Publisher/Sales/Production...... James R. Grasso Sales.... Jan McLaughlin, James R. Grasso Contributing writers.. B. J. Tucker, Universal Press Syndicate, Mature Market Editorial Services, Jan McLaughlin SUBMISSIONS: Senior Beacon welcomes reader contributions in the form of senior groups’ news, stories, poetry, recipes and happenings. Letter to the Editor must be typed and double spaced, signed with address and phone number submitted. Deadline is the 10th of the month prior to publication. Copyright© 2007-Beacon Publishing Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 3

On The Right: "Political Blockbuster Ahead” by William F. Buckley There’s a first-class political fight by trimming presidential power or by and 290 representatives? be: Do I vote looming. The repercussions of it will be limiting the sum of money allocated to Current thinking doubts to override very broad. It will decide major questions the enterprise. this. If things got so bad in Iraq as to the president’s of national strategy, critical allocations The pressing shortage of money enjoin two-thirds of the legislature to veto? And then, of authority and, almost certainly, the for the military requires that there should dismember the Constitution, removing Do I vote for immediate fate of the existing political be subdivisions. An appropriation to the supremacy over the military from the impeachment? parties. In the circumstances, a great deal maintain a military cadre and to finance executive, we’d have reached a point at hangs on getting things right. continuing refinements of our weapons which impeachment would be seriously Impeachment A recent poll hints at deep will not be thought, by a congressman considered. is an ugly word divisions. Nine percent of Americans are who is uncommitted, to be tantamount It would not be difficult, in American unambiguous: They want us out of Iraq. to a vote for more of the same in Iraq. if congressional tempers rose that history. Impeachment was voted in 1998 They do not want to send another dollar But it will all but defy the resources fiercely in opposition to Iraq, to reword against President Clinton, but for the there, and they want the troops home of legislative artisans to make clean opposition from particularities of concrete offenses of lying to a federal forthwith. distinctions that are able to cohabit (a) presidential conduct (Iraq) to generic grand jury and obstructing justice. And Well, that group of voters may with the Constitution of the United States delinquencies (official misconduct). when the articles of impeachment went be articulate, but they are a very small and (b) with pacifist passions that seek, Some members of Congress, faced with to the Senate, the vote fell far short of the minority, much smaller than the 29 even retroactively, dissociation from the the alternatives, would rather proceed to two-thirds necessary to convict. percent who are willing to back the effort Iraq war. argue that the president has violated his It is not inconceivable that in Iraq without imposing any conditions Senate Majority Leader Harry oath of office, than to argue that he made the power brokers in Washington in at all on presidential authority. So that Reid is a tough partisan, and he speaks wrong decisions in a particular theater of the present case would pause over the at the extremes, the vote is 3-to-1 for pretty plainly on the question ahead. operations. alternative of impeachment, but there are President Bush. “I think the American people have lost Imagine that you are a no means in this situation merely to settle Seeking something in between confidence in this administration. (So,) Republican legislator anticipating a run for the satisfaction of having impeached. are 58 percent, twice the permissive we’re going to send the president a bill for re-election next year. Your prospective The question of Iraq would continue, as segment. What they want is to set time that has a timetable in it.” opponent is arguing hard and noisily to also the question of the right of presidents limits and, one supposes, corresponding So, the president will veto that conclude the Iraq operation. He is taking to prescribe strategy. expenditure limits. An American replying bill. the lead from Senator Reid: Go for a bill Ugly challenges, but it’s an ugly to a pollster might find himself wanting Then we’ll have the great with a timetable. dilemma, and the question at the deep end to continue the struggle, but wanting confrontation. Can the Reid faction come Question No. 1 for the GOP is: Can democratic government handle also a perspective on that commitment up with the two-thirds vote necessary to candidate: Do I go along with the this thing smoothly, and live again? that would need to be expressed either override the veto? Sixty-seven senators timetable? Question No. 2 would then The Writer’s Art: Shrink, Shrunk And Sink, Sunk by James J. Kilpatrick “sank” or “sunk,” for one example, is en- injury, you’ll be glad you have it.” Alter- tions apply to the choice of “should” or Of the making of irregular verbs, tirely up to the writer. Would we write of natively, “If the rain holds off, there will “would.” Webster’s indispensable Dic- there shall be no end. So spake the mas- the battleship Arizona that it sank at Pearl be no refund.” tionary of English Usage quotes the mag- ters of English some centuries ago, and Harbor? Or sunk there? What about Ti- Everyone knows the conditional isterial Joseph Alsop: “I should not be having spoke, they began by conjugating ger Woods? He sank five birdie putts in a “if,” as in “If you have another drink, bothering you with this letter ...” Down on irregulars ending in “ink.” row. Or sunk them? In each instance, my you’ll fall down.” In these constructions the lower slopes of Olympus, E.B. White Some scholar doubtless has ear whispers “sank.” He may have sunk “if” presents no problems. It’s the aux- once wrote to a supplier, “We would be totted up the number of irregular verbs them in your ear. It seems an odd place- iliary “should” that troubles the careful glad to have three or four machines ...” in contemporary use. In his “Modern ment, but so it goes. writer. Is there a semantic difference be- Except in a few contexts, American Usage,” Bryan Garner lists Perversely, a writer’s ear could tween “Should you decide to go to Taco- “should” probably should be consigned 174 of these confounders. Among them well favor “stunk” over “stank.” Meta- ma, I’ll go with you” and “If you decide to a high shelf or a bottom drawer. Or- are sink/sank or sink/sunk; shrink/shrank phorically, an actor’s performance “stunk to go to Tacoma ...”? If there’s a differ- dinarily, “ought to” serves the same pur- or shrink/shrunk; and stink/stank or to high heaven.” But we might say of ence in meaning, it eludes me. Just pick a pose without the admonitory overtones. stink/stunk. Perversely, “slink” will not Monday’s fish that by Wednesday they sunny day. Thus, “you ought to raise with two pair” conform with nonconformity: It is slink/ stank. Is there a subtle distinction be- My impression is that the dis- is friendlier than “you should raise with slunk or slinked/slunk. tween the dress that shrank and the dress tinction between “should” and “if” is two pair.” Of course, there are times when What is the writer to do? The that shrunk? I asked my wife, the column- largely one of “tone,” as in, “Don’t speak “should” is not stuffy at all, e.g., “You re- several alternatives have identical mean- ist Marianne Means. After a long pause to me in that tone of voice!” The auxil- ally “should” try Marge’s eggnog.” ings. They take up the same amount of she voted for “the dress shrank.” I asked iary “should” has a kind of harmonic ef- Bob Stanton of Seattle asks for space. The choice finally comes down to why? “It just sounds better,” she said. fect, as if it were four octaves to the right a rule on “convince” and “persuade.” the writer’s ear. In a given context, what Susan Wilson in Seattle asks of middle C. It is black tie, Fifth Avenue, He cites a wire story in January: “Welles “sounds” better? if there is any rule on the deployment the good silver, a nice wine. Plain old “if” eventually convinced German officers to As every sensitive writer learns of “should” and “if.” She cites a sales is “take your shoes off and have another reveal his whereabouts.” It’s not exactly from the cradle, words have penumbras, promotion from an insurance company: beer.” a rule, but as a guideline: First we per- auras, remembered usage. The choice of “Should you or a loved one suffer severe The same fuzzy considera- suade, and if our persuasion is effective, then we convince. Every boy who ever asked a girl for a kiss knows the hopeful routine. (Readers are invited to send dated citations of usage to Mr. Kilpatrick in care of this newspaper. His e-mail ad- dress is kilpatjj(at)aol.com.) Colorado Springs McClave W S i h l e e r y i Emergency (Medical) d G We now offer Alerts a Alerts r with GPS tracking for Peace n a of Mind n L wherever you travel. a a 1-800-925-5007 d k Serving all of Southern Colorado a e 802 W. 1st St - La Junta www.keyalarms.com S H w u Securing your world i since 1980! g n o k Cheraw Canon City Pueblo Page 4 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info s h i n w o t e e r COMPILED BY CHUCK SHEPHERD e f w d FOR SENIOR BEACON

Animal Awesomeness ends with their teeth, and murderously We Must Never Offend Anyone customer’s walking out on a dinner check, -- In April, two Labrador jab them into deep tree hollows where According to a report the staff of an O’Charley’s restaurant retrievers (Lucky and Flo) sniffed out delicious bush babies may be nesting. commissioned by Britain’s Department in Bloomington, Ind., caught him. The another shipment of pirated DVDs (worth Writing in the journal Current Biology, the of Education and Skills, some history diner had appeared on four consecutive about $435,000) in a building in Petaling team even reported observing the chimps teachers have dropped references to Wednesdays nights, ordered two gin and Jaya, Malaysia. It was at least the second tasting the tips after the stabs, to ascertain the Holocaust (and the 11th-century tonics each time, then eaten a rib-eye such bust since mid-March, when the whether they had actually located a prey. Crusades) out of fear that the regular steak each time, then asked to use the rest U.S. Motion Picture Association of (One of the researchers said the ferocity history curriculum might confuse or anger room each time, and then walked out on America loaned the dogs to Malaysian of the jabbing reminded her of the shower Muslim students who have been taught the same $25.96 tab each time. On March authorities because they can detect the scene in Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho.”) differently in local mosques (according to 28, the staff finally wised up and waited polycarbonate and unique chemicals in -- Researchers at the Second an April story in London’s Daily Mail). for him outside as he again tried to sneak the discs. So successful are Lucky and University of Naples (Caserta, Italy) And London’s Daily Telegraph reported out, and he was arrested. Flo that an unspecified crime gang has recently reported the case of a 65-year- in March that the head teacher at a school Update reportedly put out a contract on them. old man who, because of damage to in Huddersfield had changed the June As a result of a 2003 traffic stop -- (1) Ada Barak’s spa in the the fronto-temporal region of his brain, student festival production of Roald in Ohio, Catherine Donkers was convicted northern Israeli town of Talmey El’Azar habitually assumes an identity appropriate Dahl’s “The Three Little Pigs” to “The of a child-seat-restraint violation features a “snake massage” for the to whatever setting he finds himself in Three Little Puppies,” out of fear that (specifically, holding her baby in her lap equivalent of $70, for which six king (e.g., a doctor when he’s around doctors, Muslim children would be uncomfortable for breast-feeding while driving), but she snakes or milk snakes slither over the a bartender when in a bar), a behavior singing “pig” references. (A local Muslim appealed, and in April 2007, a court ruled client’s body (a therapy said not to be reminiscent of the Woody Allen character spokesman immediately condemned the in her favor. The story made News of the stress-increasing, but stress-reducing, Zelig. The researchers said the man lacks change as unnecessary, and the school Weird in 2003 because Donkers’ husband, according to a January Reuters dispatch). awareness about his tendency to switch overruled the teacher.) Brad Barnhill, who was not in the car, -- Veterinarians in Tallahassee, roles and in fact suffers from amnesia Can’t Stop the Greed demanded that he be charged instead Fla., were enthralled in January when a about his life since the brain damage, The three Kentucky lawyers because his First Christian Fellowship for duck, “killed” by a hunter and placed in according to a March report by the British who won $200 million for their clients in Eternal Sovereignty religion teaches that his freezer for two days, suddenly sprang Psychological Society. a 2001 settlement with the manufacturer the husband must take responsibility for to life and was rushed into surgery at New Product Launches of the diet drug phen-fen, and whose all of his wife’s public actions (especially Goose Creek Wildlife Sanctuary to repair (1) A $60,000 mattress from contract called for a maximum of one- when the “public action” involves “the its leg and wing. Then, on the operating the Swedish manufacturer Hastens, third commission (about $67 million) Beast,” which is what the religion calls table, the duck (named “Perky” by that introduced to the United States recently for actually took $59 million more than that, “government”). time) once again flat-lined, only to spring people who (according to the advertising) according to clients who testified before No Longer Weird back to life a second time. might believe that they’re so special a federal grand jury in March, which is Adding to the list of stories that Science on the Cutting Edge that they’re entitled to a luxuriously expected to indict the lawyers soon for were formerly weird but which now occur -- American researchers in rejuvenating night’s sleep; and (2) Holy fraud, according to a New York Times with such frequency that they must be West Africa believe they’ve found the Drinking Water in half-liter bottles, from dispatch. The lawyers had explained that retired from circulation: (81) Preschoolers first instance of an animal (other than Wayne Enterprises of Linden, Calif., they were taking an extra $20 million and first-graders who happen to find their humans) building a multi-step weapon, which supposedly obtained blessings because they had decided to create a parents’ drug stashes and innocently after observing wild chimpanzees grab from Catholic and Anglican priests for “charity” and were simply entitled to bring them to school, sometimes even for sticks from 1 to 4 feet long, sharpen the the ordinary purified water. the other $39 million because they had show-and-tell-type sessions, as happened to work extra hard. The Kentucky bar in March in Shreveport, La., when a first- association has suspended the lawyers. grader brought in crack cocaine that might Least Competent Restaurant have been his 20-year-old mother’s. And Management (82) people who call in fake bomb threats Finally, after four weeks of one SEE ‘MORE WEIRD’ PAGE 11. Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 5 For A Healthier You From Upper Arkansas AAA On Older Americans Month Making Choices For A Healthier Future Never has it been more evident of current and future generations. Older provide an array of choices about how cation and Exercise program has a vari- that one of the biggest challenges facing persons are entitled to live lives of dig- and where to live. ety of program activities such as swim the United States is how we will care for nity and independence through: We urge people of all ages to passes, strength training and stretching our grandparents, parents and loved ones • Streamlined access to informa- seize upon the occasion of Older Ameri- classes available to first time participants, as they age. Views may vary on how to tion as well as to home and community cans Month to plan, promote and par- targeting economically and socially dis- prepare for what will be a diverse wave services, including information that will ticipate in activities during May and advantaged seniors in Chaffee, Lake, of seniors, whose ranks are growing due enable people to plan ahead for long term throughout the year that reflect the tenets Custer and Fremont Counties. to the aging of 78 million baby boomers care. of the national theme. We must all work For more information visit our who will beginning to turn 65 in 2011. • Information about cost-effec- together to ensure that every older person website @www.upperarkansasareaagen- But all agree that this shift in our na- tive prevention practices and activities in this great country is treated with digni- cyonaging.org or contact us @ 719-539- tion’s demographics will have profound that will improve health and quality of ty and respect and moreover, has the op- 3341 or toll free @ 877-610-3341. implications for our economic and social life and reduce risk of disease, disability portunity to make the choices they desire The Upper Arkansas Area Agen- landscapes at the national, state and com- and injury, and to enjoy a healthy and rewarding future. cy on Aging is an equal opportunity pro- munity level. • Innovative, affordable and flex- The Upper Arkansas Area Agen- vider. Federal, state and community ible options of care and support that will cy on Aging, Well Over 60, Health, Edu- leaders are witnessing sweeping funda- mental transformations in the way we think about and deliver health and long Pueblo Communtiy Blood Drives For May 2007 term care in this country. More and more by Julie Scott Bonfils’ Appointment Center at 1-800- Center wants you to live your life and we hear that the overwhelming prefer- 10th Judicial District Community 365-0006, ext. 2 enjoy all the great activities that summer ence of the American people is to remain Blood Drive “4th and Main” Community brings. Whether indulging in cool waves, at home for as long as possible and to Friday, May 4 from 10:30 a.m. Blood Drive hot sand and sunny weather of a tropical have choice and control over how and to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 9 from 1:30 to vacation or backpacking down a winding where they live as they age. Donations inside Bonfils’ mobile 4 p.m. trail into the depths of a Colorado forest, The nation’s national aging bus located in front of the building at 320 Donations inside Bonfils’ -mo don’t forget to take a little time to make services network, led by the U.S. Ad- W. 10th Street, Pueblo bile bus located in the parking lot at 317 a big difference in the lives of patients by ministration on Aging and comprised of For more information or to N. Main Street, Pueblo giving blood this summer. State, tribal and area agencies on aging, schedule an appointment please contact For more information or to As a thank you for making blood as well as more than 29,000 community Bonfils’ Appointment Center at 1-800- schedule an appointment please contact donation part of your summer plans, all service providers, care givers and volun- 365-0006, ext. 2 Bonfils’ Appointment Center at 1-800- donors who give between Sunday, May teers, know this and have worked hard to carry out their mission under the Older Colorado Technical University 365-0006, ext. 2 20 and Saturday, July 14 will receive a Americans Act to provide for and protect Community Blood Drive First Presbyterian Church of Pueblo Bonfils t-shirt and between Sunday, July the independence and dignity of our older Tuesday, May 8 from 2 to 6 Community Blood Drive 15 and Saturday, Sept. 8 will receive a citizens. p.m. Sunday, May 27 from 9 a.m. to 1 Bonfils water bottle. Donors who make For 44 years, our nation has Located in Nurse Training Room p.m. two blood donations between May 20 paused to honor older Americans during at 1025 W. 6th Street, Pueblo Donations inside Bonfils’ mobile and Sept. 8, will not only receive both May. During this special month, the on- For more information or to bus located next to the church at 220 W. gifts, but they will also be automatically going contributions of our older citizens schedule an appointment please contact 10th Street, Pueblo entered into a drawing to win a six-night are highlighted with a special month, the Bonfils’ Appointment Center at 1-800- For more information or to trip for two adults to Paraiso Del Mar in ongoing contributions of our older citi- 365-0006, ext. 2 schedule an appointment please contact Riviera Maya, Mexico, generously pro- zens are highlighted with a national proc- “5th and Court” Community the church office at (719) 542-7322 vided by Apple Vacations. Whole blood lamation issued by the President of the United States, and activities and events Blood Drive CSU-Pueblo Community Blood Drive donors are eligible to donate every 56 planned in communities across America. Wednesday, May 9 from 8:30 to Wednesday, May 30 from 10:30 days. The theme for Older Americans 11 a.m. a.m. to 3 p.m. Bonfils Blood Center provides Month 2007 is Older Americans: Mak- Donations inside Bonfils’ mobile Located inside the Occhiato blood and blood products to more than ing Choices for a Healthier Future.” This bus parked in the parking lot at the Pue- Center in the Hearthwell Lounge, Pueblo 200 hospitals and healthcare facilities theme encourages us to think differently blo Bank and Trust at 301 W. 5th Street, For more information or to throughout Colorado. Bonfils needs about health and long term care, and Pueblo schedule an appointment please contact 4,350 people to donate blood every week work together to rebalance and modern- For more information or to Bonfils’ Appointment Center at 1-800- to meet the needs of the community and ize our current systems so that we may schedule an appointment please contact 365-0006, ext. 2. be prepared for any unforeseen events. adequately plan for and address the needs For more information about DETAILS: Bonfils Blood Center, please visit www. This summer Bonfils Blood bonfils.org or call (800) 365-0006. Yesterday’s soldiers...... Today’s HEROES

Bruce McCandless Colorado State Veterans Nursing Home • Spacious rooms with spectacular mountain views • Skilled nursing and rehabilitation • Financial benefits to qualifying veterans • Special Care Alzheimer’s Unit • Private pay and Medicaid welcome • All-inclusive daily rate. Call today for a free information packet (800) 283-2668 0903 Moore Drive Florence, CO 81226 Page 6 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info Fashion: Looooking Gooood! by Patricia McLaughlin - Mature Market Media Services I should’ve given the industry ranging from Lilly-ish to Pucci-ish, to the Kneel On These credit for, at least, attending to the gardener’s sweatshirt equivalent of those The demands of even a small presumed clothing wants of gardeners notorious Christmas sweaters bedizened garden will bring you to your knees over -- or some gardeners, anyway. The with reindeer and wreaths and trees and and over again. Here’s everything you Marketplace at this year’s Philadelphia Santas. Not to mention about 8 million need to know about kneepads. Flower Show was abloom with all sorts earrings with at least distant botanical I may have spoken too soon a of floral-themed apparel and accessories, associations. couple of weeks ago, when I accused the from pretty summer shawls embroidered When it comes to clothing that apparel industry of totally ignoring the with vines and blossoms, to echt-garden- responds to gardeners’ needs -- actual, clothing needs of American gardeners. club-lady hats and aprons in pastel prints practical, functional stuff that you can get dirty with a clear conscience -- there’s a lot less. I still haven’t found a shirt or jacket or coverall that would save the skin "What A Great Place To Live" of a person bent on pruning a large, thorny Life Care Center of Pueblo is the premier facility shrub rose. (Though a New Hampshire serving all of Southern Colorado since October 1989. Life Care reader reports that she relies on a leather Center of Pueblo's (LCCP) strong on-staff therapists are avail- jacket she bought at a thrift shop for 10 able to provide a continuum of therapy needs. Through individ- A Washington State farmer named Dan ual treatment plans, the resident receives physical, occupational, cents and a $4 pair of thrift shop suede Vorhis invented GreenJeans farm and speech and/or respiratory therapies per their physician's orders. pants for protection when she picks wild Our Wellness Program is unique in that we work with blackberries, “which have pretty fierce garden chaps to save his knees without each resident to give them the best lifestyle that they are able to have. brambles.” Definitely worth a try.) restricting circulation. Because they Please plan a tour soon to Life Care Center of Pueblo, 2118 Chatalet Meanwhile, I’ve tracked down hang from the waist, like an apron, you Lane. You are also invited to just drop by, view LCCP at your convenience, or a couple of things designed to save can leave the knee straps loose. $50 from phone 719-564-2000. Someone will be very happy to assist you. gardeners’ knees -- and a couple more www.muscleandarmfarm.com and other that, while not meant for gardeners in gardening suppliers. photo courtesy of Dan Vorhis WELLNESS PROGRAM particular, ought to work just the same. Smith & Hawken’s customer • Relaxation Room • Tai Chi Classes Smith & Hawken used to sell what they service staff now refers customers in • Massage Therapy • Fun Activities: called Japanese Farmer’s Pants, roomy search of the pants to their manufacturer, Fishing Trips, Pumpkin Patch visit, State Fair Day, Senior Fair cotton trousers with drawstring waists and Shady Grove Inc., in Emeryville, Calif., Day, day trips, more cuffs and pockets to hold foam kneepads. but the people at Shady Grove say they • Restorative Aides and staff are trained to keep each resident at I could never bring myself to pay the $45 have only a few pairs left: They only their optimal level of functioning. to $55 they charged for pants meant to made Japanese Farmer Pants for Smith • Dietitian • Extended Meal Service get muddy. I figured it’d be so easy to & Hawken, and quit making them when sew kneepad pockets onto a pair of pants S&H quit ordering them. A Web search Just Some Of Our Many Amenities I already owned -- not that I ever did it. turned up Japanese Gardening Pants on • 24-Hour Fully Skilled Nursing Services • Indoor/Outdoor Recreational Areas Enough people must’ve felt the same way sale for $44.99 from Sloggers Garden • Individual Heat/Cool Unit In Each Room that S&H quit selling the pants -- to the Outfitters, www.sloggerstore.com, but • Private & Semi-Private Rooms Only considerable displeasure of a couple of the folks at Sloggers say they, too, are • Low Traffic Area • Private Dining Area posters to www.GardenWeb.com. planning to discontinue the pants when • Large, Comfortable Rooms • Cable Available One respondent recommended they sell out the ones they have in stock. • Mini-Mall including: making your own with Stretch & Sew (Sloggers also sells aprons, smocks and Unique library, gift shop, ice cream parlor & beauty shop vests for gardeners.) • Beautiful Patio Areas • State-of-the-Art Bathing Equipment Pattern No. 198: “International Vest and Japanese Garden Pants,” which Those are the only purpose-built unfortunately seems to be out of print. gardening pants I could find anywhere, Life Care Center of Pueblo (Though it probably turns up occasionally and they’re on the cusp of nonexistence. 2118 Chatalet Lane - Pueblo, CO 81005 719-564-2000 on eBay and/or other sites that sell discontinued sewing patterns.) SEE ‘KNEEL’ PAGE 12.

ou’ve worked hard for what you have, Yand you deserve to enjoy a comfortable retirement. But in order to maintain your current lifestyle, it’s important that you take steps now to preserve your retirement assets. Humana MarketPOINT can help. We represent top-rated companies that offer a wide range of insurance and financial products to suit your individual needs. Don’t take chances with your future. To learn more about protecting your assets, call us today at 1-800-336-6719 7HYGAMBLEWITHYOUR 8 a.m – 8 p.m., 7 days a week RETIREMENT 0EACEOFMIND

GH_22723 ©2007 Humana MarketPOINT Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 7 Covering The Courts: A Hula At The High Court by James Kilpatrick They defend their position: Hawaiian princess, is the largest private Hawaiian descent by teaching Native The hula, according to the New “Many Native Hawaiians face land owner in Hawaii. The princess left Hawaiian culture, heritage, language and World Dictionary, is “a Hawaiian dance significant risk factors even before they are her estate, now estimated at $6.8 billion, tradition.” In recent years the preference marked by flowing, pantomimic gestures.” born, as the Native Hawaiian community to the education and upbringing of native policy has relaxed a bit. In the summer of The Supreme Court this week is deciding endures high rates of teenage pregnancy Hawaiians. Toward that end, her residual 2003, for example, six of 133 admissions in chambers whether to hear Case No. and late or no prenatal care. These risk trustees today operate a private school to the Performing Arts Academy were 06-1202. The case offers a legalistic hula factors manifest themselves in low system consisting of three K-12 campuses, non-native Hawaiians. of truly remarkable dimensions. educational achievement later in life, with one each on the islands of Oahu, Maui In 2003 a white child, having For the record, the case is "John Native Hawaiians being underrepresented and Hawaii. Together, the schools have been rejected for enrollment, sued Doe, a minor, v. Kamehameha Schools." in institutions of higher education and an enrollment of nearly 5,000 students. under the same Civil Rights Act of In flowing, pantomimic gestures, such among college graduates, while being Evidently, these are first-class 1864 that figured in "Brown v. Board eminences as Sens. Daniel Inouye and disproportionately overrepresented in schools. The district court noted that their of Education" half a century ago. Last Daniel Akaka seek to preserve in Hawaii a negative social statistics indicative of senior students “outperform both national December he lost in the 9th Circuit. system of racially separate schools. They special educational needs.” norms and state averages on the SAT Sitting en banc, the court held that the have filed a friend-of-the-court brief in The two senators, joined by their verbal and math tests.” In 2004, every Kamehameha schools are “a wholly support of “the continuing special needs colleagues in the House, are among the graduate of the Oahu high school was private K-12 educational establishment of the Native Hawaiian community.” interested bystanders in the pending case. accepted for two- or four-year colleges. whose preferential admissions policy is There is a remarkable irony here, First the facts: The alumni include “U.S. senators, state designed to counteract the significant, to find two certified liberal Democrats on The Kamehameha Trust, appellate judges, Olympic athletes, three- current educational deficits of Native a brief in support of segregated schools. established in 1884 by a wealthy star admirals and university professors.” Hawaiian children.” Seven members of Understandably, competition for the court strongly dissented. They termed The Tumbleweed And Me admission is fierce. Some 70,000 school- the majority’s opinion “a classic violation aged children meet the schools’ racial of the Civil Rights Act.” I find my life is so much like the lowly tumbleweed. requirements. For the 2002 academic Among the friend-of-the-court Sometimes it grows so wild and free; year, 4,518 applicants sought the 450 briefs at the Supreme Court is a brief from Sometimes some help is needs. slots available on the Oahu campus. nine Hawaiian resident citizens. They say: Just like the young tumbleweed The schools’ publicly stated policy on “Along with many other Hawaii residents, that is attached to mother earth so tight; admissions “is to give preference to (we) are weary, and wary, of Hawaiian I was secure in my mother’s arms and it made everything seem right. children of Hawaiian ancestry.” Over activists ... demanding superiority. (We) a period of 40 years, from 1962 until seek to reinstate in Hawaii the idea that, Then cares of earth begin to creep in, and now I hang on even more. 2002, Kamehameha admitted exactly one in the eyes of the government, we are just As worries dry out carefree days, Some days can become a chore. student who was not of native Hawaiian one race here. We are Americans.” descent -– and as the district court noted, If the circuit court is affirmed, they Then comes high winds that tear out the roots that was by accident. For this slip-up, predict: “Explicit racial discrimination from the earth that held me so close. the trustees “repeatedly apologized to by a huge, tax-subsidized charity with a ‘Twas the beginning of being tossed many ways, and I could not follow the paths that I chose. the Native Hawaiian community.” They virtual monopoly on political power in promised “to prevent such a ‘situation’ Hawaii ... will continue unabated with the It really wasn’t too bad ‘til I hit a snag that wouldn’t move. from ever happening again.” blessing of the federal judiciary.” No matter how I’d try and try, I couldn’t get back in the groove. As the 9th Circuit Court found, Maybe yes, maybe no. I hope the schools’ curriculum “is meant to the Supremes take the case and reverse. At times there was someone to help me and I was quickly on my way. foster the self-esteem and self-identity Sometimes nothing fits so comfortably as Other times, I was just stuck there and I knew it was time to pray. of students as individuals of Native a shoe upon another foot. by Mary Himes January, 2007

Hrs: Mon.-Thurs. 11:00-8:00 Fri. & Sat. 11:00-9:00 Sun. 11:00 - 3:00 OWNERS: Mike & Helen Wood

Dave Anderson,CRS Certified Residential Specialist Your Seniors’ Real Estate Specialist

CHECK THIS OUT!

Dave is your Seniors Real Estate Specialist, call him for all your real estate needs. Go to (lakepueblocam.com) for live pictures of Lake Pueblo and current weather. Call Dave at 547-1708 or 250-1506.

New rancher unfinished basement, LIBERTY POINT 3 bedrooms, 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, large finished 2 1/2 baths, GREAT VIEWS! 3 car garage, main level laundry, Hardwood floors. Pueblo West - natural gas, on 1 acre in Pueblo 1259 Skyline Lane. $374,900. Call West. 977 Cienaga $219,900. today. Dave Anderson, GRI, CRS, SRES RE/MAX Pueblo West, Inc. Page 8 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info Social Security & You by David Cardinali, Social Security Public Affairs Specialist for Southern Colorado This Mother’s Day, include if they or their spouse: SOCIAL SECURITY 1-800-772-1213. For more information Show Someone —Support other family OFFERS AUTOMATED about Social Security, you may call the members who live with them; PHONE SERVICES number above, or visit our website at —Have earnings from work; www.socialsecurity.gov. You Love How Much Millions of Americans know You Care or how easy it is to use Social Security’s QUESTIONS AND On Mother’s Day, we cele- —Live in Alaska or Hawaii; website to obtain services online. But did ANSWERS and brate the special people in our lives. you know that you don’t need a computer GENERAL • Resources limited to There are a number of ways you can or Internet access to get the ease and con- Question: show someone you love how much $11,710 for an individual or $23,410 venience of Social Security’s automated There’s a lot of talk about online services. you care. So consider doing some- for a married couple living together. services? There are a number of things But what about people like me who don’t thing for them that can really make Resources include such things as you can do right from the convenience have Internet access? a difference. Show them how to get bank accounts, stocks and bonds. of your home — over the telephone — at Answer: extra help with their Medicare pre- We do not count their house and car Social Security’s toll-free number, 1-800- We realize that not everyone has scription drug costs. as resources. 772-1213. access to the Internet, which is why many The high cost of medicine Social Security has an easy- Social Security’s automated tel- of our automated services are available can be a burden on your loved ones to-use online application that any- ephone services allow you to take care over the phone as well. You can use our who have limited income and re- one — family members, friends and of your Social Security business quick- automated phone services, at 1-800-772- sources. Extra help — available caregivers — can complete. You ly, efficiently, easily and whenever it is 1213, to request publications and infor- through Social Security — can pay can find it at www.socialsecurity. convenient for you. The automated tel- mation, get a replacement Medicare card, part of their monthly premiums, gov. To apply by phone or get an ephone services are available 24 hours a ask for a Social Security card application annual deductibles and prescription application, call Social Security at day, seven days a week. (Form SS-5) or get an Earnings and Ben- Using our automated system, co-payments. The extra help could 1-800-772-1213 (TTY 1-800-325- efit Estimate Statement (SSA-7004). If you can request Social Security booklets, be worth an average of $3,700 per 0778) and ask for the Application you already receive benefits, you can also pamphlets, publications and information- year. for Help with Medicare Prescrip- use the phone services to change your al material, ask for a Social Security card To figure out if they’re eligi- tion Drug Plan Costs (SSA-1020). mailing address and direct deposit in- application (SS-5) to be mailed to you, formation. To use our automated phone ble, Social Security needs to know Or go to the nearest Social Security request an Earnings and Benefit Estimate services, call our toll-free number at 1- your loved one’s income and the office. Statement (SSA-7004) or even have a re- 800-772-1213. value of their savings, investments To learn more about the placement Medicare card mailed to your Question: and real estate (other than the home Medicare prescription drug plans and special enrollment periods, visit address on record. Does my baby really need a So- they live in). To qualify for the ex- If you are already receiving ben- cial Security number? tra help, your loved one must be re- www.medicare.gov or call 1-800- MEDICARE (1-800-633-4227; TTY efits, you also can change your personal Answer: ceiving Medicare and have: information over the phone using our 1-877-486-2048). In most cases, yes, as you will • Income limited to $15,315 automated services, such as your mail- So this Mother’s Day, give need the child’s number in order to claim for an individual or $20,535 for ing address or direct deposit information. someone you love something spe- your child as a dependent on your federal a married couple living together. And if you plan to visit Social Security, cial: the peace of mind that comes tax return. We encourage all parents to Even if their annual income is high- you can ask for the location of the closest apply for a Social Security card for their with knowing extra help is available er, your loved ones still may be able office using our automated phone- serv children. In fact, nine out of 10 parents with Medicare prescription drug to get some help with monthly pre- ice. apply for a Social Security card while costs. Then go one step further — miums, annual deductibles and pre- Although these automated serv- still in the hospital. In addition to need- scription co-payments. Some exam- help them apply. There is no better ices are easy to use and can be accessed ing your child’s number for a federal tax ples where income may be higher way to show how much you care. around the clock, you still have the option deduction, the number is also needed to ask for a customer service representa- when filing for certain government ben- tive during our normal business hours of efits. To learn more, visit our website 7 a.m. to 7 p.m., Monday through Friday. at www.socialsecurity.gov. You can get more information, or apply for the card, Take advantage of Social Secu- by calling us toll-free at 1-800-772-1213 rity’s automated services now by calling (TTY 1-800-325-0778). Belmont Lodge Health Care Center Now Provides Outpatient Therapy Our experienced Rehab Team provides Physical, Occupational and Speech Therapies

• Free transportation to and from appointments for those who are not able to drive themselves • We accept Medicare, most insurance and private pay For information, please call 562-7200 and ask for the Rehab Department Reasons to seek Outpatient Therapy • Recovery from Surgery (including Hip/Knee Replacement • Falling at Home • Sports Injuries • Stroke & Cardiac Rehabilitation • Motor Vehicle Accident

Belmont Lodge Health Care Center Ask for Judy!! 1601 Constitution Rd Near East High Pueblo, CO 81001 719-562-7200 Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 9 Grandparenting: ....."On Losing Some Teeth” Dear Grandparenting: We’re always on what we could….” mendations depending on the child’s age; like Grandpa has!’” From Fran in Pue- the lookout for Grand Remarks our read- COPING WITH CALAMITY check its web site at www.nasponline. blo, CO. ers send. So please, keep them coming! Dear Grandparenting: Will there be no org. One final bit of advice – turn off that Dee and Tom, married more than Dorothy Leyendecker of Lady Lake, end to the massacre at that college in Vir- TV. 50 years, have eight grandchildren. Florida, says she recently received this ginia? Whenever I walk past the TV, my Grand Remark of the Month Together with Key, they welcome ques- tions, suggestions and Grand Remarks email from granddaughter Bridget, aged grandkids are watching some show about “We visited my daughter, who is a seven, who lives in North Carolina: of the Week. Send to 830 W. 40th St., the slaughter, or the earlier school killings beautician. She highlighted my hair and Ste. 304, Baltimore, MD 21211. Call “Hi Grandma: My piano teacher at Columbine in Colorado. My grandkids, then gave my husband a haircut. I asked 410-828-6529. pulled out two teeth for me. They were like others all across America, are being my grandson Mike, who was watching, COPYRIGHT 2007 Dee and Tom one of my top teeth and one of my bottom bombarded with graphic images and gory if he wanted a haircut too. Mike said, Hardie and Key Kidder, 830 W. 40th St., teeth. It was very exciting for me to lose details about the twisted people who do ‘Nope. I don’t want a big hole in my hair Ste. 304, Baltimore, MD 21211. 410- them. Love and Kisses” these awful things. It’s becoming pretty 828-6529. So Dorothy rose to the occasion and obvious there is no safe place anymore. dashed off this splendid piece of poetic You would provide a very valuable humor to little Bridget: service to tell me how to help my grand- ON LOSING SOME TEETH kids deal with such tragedy. This sense- Where Are They Now? Dear Love and Kisses, less violence is enough to really put the by Marshall Jay Kaplan I heard you lost a tooth today, fear into impressionable young children. TINA LOUISE That’s not all bad is what I say Louise, Bloomingdale, Tenn. Best known as sexy Ginger Grant on Gilligan’s If you just look at it this way Dear Louise: Helping children cope Island, this stunning redhead may be in her 70’s, but you When you’re late for school with the aftershocks of high profile acts would never know it, when seeing her attending movie and And in a rush of violence is the business of the Nation- theatre premieres in her hometown of New York City. That’s fewer teeth al Association of School Psychologists Tina Louise was born Tina Blacker on February 11, You’ll have to brush (NASP)— mental health professionals 1934 in New York, New York. She attended Miami Universi- Dorothy has three other grandchil- who provide a range of counseling and ty where she studied acting. Upon graduation, Tina returned dren: Bridget’s brother Michael, aged coping skills for elementary and second- to New York, where she studied acting at the famed Actor’s 10, and nine and five-year old Katie and ary school populations. Studio. Although Tina’s goal was to be a serious actress, her Kara, in Austin, TX. When tragedy strikes, says NASP, re- striking sexy looks worked against her, as she became a star- Dorothy’s hometown of Lady Lake assure children they are safe. Take time to let and cover girl for 1950’s TV programs and magazines. was devastated in early February when let them talk about their feelings, and help She was also a nightclub singer. predawn tornadoes rampaged through them keep things in perspective. Some In 1957, Tina (along with Julie Newmar) received The Villages area of central Florida. children may internalize their reactions; her big break in the Broadway musical Li’l Abner. That same year, she released here Dorothy says “things are moving along. watch for changes in behavior, appetite album, Time for Tina. The following year she made her Hollywood film debut in Everyone here offered to help with the and sleep. It’s important they maintain a God’s Little Acre. Although she was appearing with major leading men, her roles had cleanup, and donations. The Villagers re- normal routine. not real ’oomph’ to them, and in turn, she never really reached the heights of a full acted like one large family, and we did NASP has more specific recom- fledged movie star. Why Not Donate To By 1964, Tina regrettably signed on as the movie star, Ginger Grant, in the Sherwood Schwartz sitcom, Gilligan’s Island (with Bob Denver and Alan Hale). Al- Crohn's & Colitis Research c/o Robin Lynn Grasso though Louise was concerned that she would be typecast, she really had no other Beacon Publishing acting offers or choices. Her career was at a standstill and at the very least, the role P. O. Box 7215 - Pueblo West, CO 81007-0215 offered continuous work and pay. Gilligan’s Island became a classic TV sitcom. In turn, Tina became a pop TV Make Checks Payable To CCFA icon – known as the movie star. Tina really grew to resent the role that made her fa- They'll send you a receipt for your taxes. mous. ’People walk up to me and say – ’Are you Ginger?’, and I say, ’No, I am Tina.’ (Crohns & Colitis Foundation of America) I do that to keep my sanity’. YOU CAN NOW READ SENIOR BEACON ONLINE AT Louise refused to appear in any Gilligan’s Island reunion specials, except for www.seniorbeacon.info. one, but was turned down as she asked for too much money. Instituted with the Aug., 2006 edition. You can also read After the series ended, Tina tried to move on and re-establish her career as a serious actress. She achieved this to some degree in films such as The Stepford Wives the new Senior Housing 2007 magazine. Join Us! 91975) and a slew of made-for-TV movies and dramatic TV appearances for the remainder of the 1970’s and 1980’s. She even had a recurring role on Dallas. Ironically, after years of trying to be a serious actress, Tina let down her guard and made guest appearances on the 1990’s sitcoms, Married with Children and Senior Beacon Is FREE Roseanne. As well, she appeared on a TV Land award show in the early 2000’s along with her fellow TV Castaways. Although Tina is not close with her surviving cast members, she no longer resent them or the show. On The Internet In the mid-1990’s, Tina moved back to New York City where she currently GO TO resides. She is a lifetime member of the Actors Studio and volunteer as a reading teacher in the New York City school system. Asked about what was her best movie/ www.seniorbeacon.info role, Tina has this to say ’The best movie you’ll ever be in is your own life, because click on "beacon online" that is what really matters in the end.’ Great advice from a real life and fictional movie click on the month you'd like star! to read and read it! Give it a few minutes to come Assisted Living up on the computer. What could be easier? Belmont Senior Care Senior Beacon is also available at approximately 100 locations “A Home-Like Assisted Living Community” throughout Pueblo & Fremont Counties also at no charge! • 5 ranch-style homes in • Designated To follow are a few locations for you to pick-up Senior Beacon: cul-de-sac Alzheimer’s Home (all one level) • K-Mart (No) & (So) in Pueblo • Grocery Warehouse Available • More personal • Delicious home- • Pueblo West P.O. • Colorado City/Rye P.O. • King Soopers (S) assistance due to one cooked meals, • Albertson's • Wal-Mart (No) & (So) in Pueblo & also Canon City staff caring for only 10 laundry & • Most Little Caesar's Pizza locations • Capt. D's • Golden Corral residents housekeeping • Pueblo Mall (W. entrance) • Canon City - Walden Books • Big D • Private bedrooms for provided private pay & Medicaid Superfoods-Florence • Pueblo Memorial Airport • Country Kitchen • Medication certified Management • Southwest Grill • Parkview Medical Center • St. Mary-Corwin residents • Exceptional Activity Medical Center • St. Thomas More Medical Center • Penrose Senior • 19 years Program Center • Golden Age Center - Canon City • Florence Senior Center experience offering • Costs much less than • Southern Colorado Clinic • St. Mary-Corwin Medical Building excellent care nursing home care • FREE assessments • All Nursing Homes (Pueblo) • Big R Store • SRDA • Country Kitchen • LaGree’s Market • SCNB-Pueblo West • Southwest Grill • Senior Housing Centers and much more (719) 544-3999 Adult Day AND Services & Respite If you'd like Senior Beacon delivered by mail each and every month 3 Douglas Ct., Pueblo www.belmontseniorcare.com Care also available! ($19.95 for 15 mos.) just contact us at 719-647-1300 or check out how to subscribe by looking on the website: http://www.seniorbeacon.info Call Julie Today for a Tour & Information Packet Page 10 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Pueblo Celebrates Colorado Historical Society’s Archaeology And Historic Preservation Month Denver - Eighteen events are Pueblo County Historic Society Pioneer Cemetery Clean Up Day The tour cost $10 and reserva- scheduled throughout Pueblo celebrating Annual recognition dinner hon- Pioneer Cemetery tions are required. North end of Mineral Archaeology and Historic Preservation oring local Historic Preservationist. Res- Clean up of historic Pioneer Palace Park, 19th St and Court. Sunday, Month (AHPM), sponsored by the Colo- ervations are required. Cemetery. Coffee and doughnuts will May 13, 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. rado Historical Society. This year the Elks Club, 426 N. Santa Fe - be provided. Bring your own yard tools. For More Information: Susan Colorado Historical Society celebrates Thursday, May 10, 7:00 p.m. Pioneer Cemetery, 20th and Montezuma. Adamich 719-406-0785 Archaeology and Historic Preservation For More Information: Bob Saturday, May 12, 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 Historic Pueblo Interpretive Bike Tour- Month (AHPM) with the theme “Share Strader 719-542-5150 p.m. Historic Pueblo, Inc. Colorado’s Past.” Heritage Days Festival Southern For More Information: Marge An interpretive bike tour of the With support from the Colorado Colorado Heritage Center and Museum Patterson Phone 719-561-1072 north loop of the Historic Pueblo Loop Archaeological Society and other gov- This free family oriented street Thatcher’s Historic North Side Neigh- Tour. Bikes will be furnished to those ernment agencies, the Colorado Histori- festival, celebrating the diverse heritage borhood Walking Tour - Historic Pue- without and water will be provided. cal Society helped to offset the cost of the of Pueblo and Southeastern Colorado, blo, Inc There is a $15 fee and registra- 106 events in 52 Colorado cities sched- will include local non-profit organiza- A walking tour of the historic tion is required. Tour groups will be lim- uled across the state during May, includ- tions selling ethnic foods, free museum north side neighborhoods starting at the ited to 25 people. ing exhibits, lectures, tours, preservation tours, train rides, beer garden, living former Mineral Palace on the north end Historic Pueblo, Inc, 201 W “B” awards, competitions and light-hearted history, live music and cultural dance of Mineral Palace Park. Refreshments Street. Sunday, May 13, 9:30 a.m. festivities. entertainment, face painting, children’s will be served in the park following the For more information: Donna A complete listing of cities, bounce park, arts and crafts vendors and tour. Tour Guides will be Susan Adamich Alber 719-543-7401 or email dalber@ sponsors and events taking place across the “Kid’s Stick Horse Rodeo”. and David Cockrell. cs.com the state is available by calling 303-866- Admission is free and all events 3395 or visiting our web site at www. are open to the public. coloradohistory-oahp.org. Southeastern Colorado Heritage PUEBLO Center, 201 W. “B” St. - Friday, May 11, ON YOUR TOES The Wetherills: Friends of Mesa Verde 5:00 p.m. to 11:00 p.m., May 12, 10:00 by Charles E. Schneider, M.D. Pueblo Archaeological and Historical a.m. to 11:00 p.m., May 13, 10:00 a.m. to ANKLE SPRAINS care is instituted Society 4:00 p.m. Spring-like weather gets us all regardless of the This public lecture by the knowl- For more information: Chris Ball out and more active. Increased activity severity of the edgeable and entertaining Fred Black- 719-295-1517 or chris@theheritagecent- also increases our chances for injury. The injury. To dif- burn will inform about the early archae- er.us most frequent injury to the ankle is an ferentiate a sim- ology and history of Mesa Verde while Bessemer Historical Societies Presenta- ankle sprain. Because this is a common ple strain from a highlighting the importance of record tion of Newly Restored Films - Bessemer injury one would assume that the treat- sprain with some degree of dislocation, keeping and documentation in ongoing Historical Society ment plan would be consistent and the an x-ray must be taken. Best diagnosis assessment would be easy. This is not of the injury is often made immediately scientific research. A presentation of films explor- true. after the injury - details become more Robert Hoag Rawling Public Li- ing the Colorado Fuel and Iron Compa- A fracture or break of the ankle vague later and the pain is less localized. brary, 100 East Abriendo Avenue. Thurs- nies history. The presentation will be fol- is the most severe injury to the ankle. The podiatrist will have to examine the day, May 3, 7:00 p.m. lowed by a lecture by local Archivist Jay A sprain is worse than a break if it is ankle and palpate the area which may be For more information: Kathryn Trask. not properly treated. The ankle suffers most tender. Adams 719-543-3741 or email kathryne- Free event no reservations are a sprain when the ligaments are over- Control of swelling needs to be a [email protected] required. Bessemer Historical Society, stretched. This occurs most frequently first consideartion. Three important treat- Hose House Company #3 Open House 1612 E. Abreindo Ave. - Saturday, May when stress is applied to the ankle which ments for this are: Hose Company #3 12 & 26, 11:00 a.m., 1:00 p.m.and 3:00p. is an unstable position. 1). Immediate wrapping of the Fire Station #3 will be open for m. A differentiation should be made ankle from the toes to the lower one-half the public to view the building, which For More Information: Besse- between a sprain and a strain. A strain is of the leg. was the first stand alone fire station in mer Historic Society 719-564-7742 an overstretching of the ligament without 2). Apply a cold compress pueblo, and a horse drawn hose appara- Celebrating Preservation at Rosemount disruption of the integrity of its fibers or 3). Elevate the leg tus. Learn about the past and present of - Rosemount Museum avulsion from its bony attachment. This An anti-inflammatory medica- Pueblo firefighters. Half price admission to the mu- is considered a minor injury and recovery tion may be prescribed at this time. Even The event is free but donations seum. Visitors will receive a packet of occurs within a few weeks. If the stress if the ankle is only strained as opposed to are accepted. historical information. is more severe, the fibers may tear and a sprained the foot should be rebandaged Fire Station #3, 116 Broadway- Adults $3 Seniors $2.50 Chil- severe sprain has occurred. daily and ice packs used for several more Saturday, May 5, 6, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 dren (6-18yrs) $2. Rosemount Museum, In a simple strain the ankle days. p.m. 419 W. 14th Street Saturday, May 12, retains its normal joint stability. In a After three to four days the ice is severe strain with tear of the ligament or replaced by hot soaks. If the bandage is For More Information: Mark 10:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. avulsion of the bony attachment instabili- removed too soon the swelling will begin Pickerel via email firemark63@hotmail. For more information: Deb Dar- ty of the ankle will result. The ankle joint again . At a week to ten days the bandage com row 719-545-5290 or email ddarrow@ may dislocate. Dislocation means com- may be removed. Pueblo County Historic Society Dinner- aculink.net plete separation of the adjacent bones. For ankle strains, active exer- Another term SUBLAXATION means cises and hot soaks along with other partial separation of the bones with large supportive devices are generally all that Havens FAMILY CLINIC areas remaining in contact. is necessary for further treatment. For Specific treatment after establish- severe strains a short leg walking cast or Walk-Ins Welcome ing a more precise diagnosis will be pos- in most severe cases surgical ankle repair Comprehensive Primary Care sible and more effective if IMMEDIATE may be necessary. for the Whole Family • Accepting New Patients Daily Minnequa Medicenter... • 24-48 Hour Turn-Around for Appointment Whether your need is for short-term, skilled, respite or long-term care, we provide: • Sport Physicals • Compassionate 24-hour nursing care • Professional, Confident Providers • Daily in-house physical, occupational • Medicare Friendly & speech therapies • Convenient Location & Easy Access • Daily life-enhancing programs • Intergenerational activities with our • Most Major Insurance Welcome on-site children’s Day Care • We Make House Calls • All female secured Alzheimer’s unit with all female staff • Monthly community events • On-Site Child Day Care Providing High Quality Compassionate Care • Hospice/Palliative care • Secured Alzheimer's Unit • Free medical transportation • Balance Master • Resident Pet Program In Your Time Of Need! • One block W. of Lake on Elko & California 109 Latigo Lane, Suite C - Cañon City, CO Medicare/Medicaid, Managed Care and VA contracted. For additional information/directions please call: 719-276-3211 719-561-1300 and ask for Niki Garcia, Admissons Manager Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 11 SMC-025MORE Imaging_7.5x15 WEIRD 3/15/07 10:36 AM Page NEWS 1 from page 4. employer First National Omaha. drove onto the lake and broke through other topics, world hunger), street kids for the most selfish of reasons, such as Ironies the ice, ruining the expensive vehicle. who normally beg for food money to delay an airline takeoff that they’re -- (1) In January, a news crew for (2) At a fancy, catered-food affair for the downtown raided the facility and picked running late for, or to postpone a school the Milwaukee station WDJT-TV, which World Social Forum meeting at the five- the tables clean. exam they’re not prepared for, or to get was reporting a story on the danger of thin star Windsor Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya, -- Mario Sims, 21, had his bail off work, as Brandy Killin, 26, allegedly ice covering Big Muskego Lake, watched in January (where participants munched revoked, for a second time, by a judge in did in Kearney, Neb., in March, to her as their high-tech van’s driver mistakenly between discussion sessions on, among Racine, Wis., in March, after he cut off his electronic monitoring device and hopped into a limousine to be driven to Chicago in order to be a guest on “The Jerry Springer Show,” where he announced that he will marry his soon-to-arrive baby’s mother, who is Sims’ half-sister. Sims was also a guest on the show last year, defending his affair with the woman. News That Sounds Like a Joke (1) Students from rival campus organizations at the Dawood Engineering College in Karachi, Pakistan, had fistfights and threw furniture at each other in a January confrontation over which group THE AREA’S MOST should get credit for putting up posters urging students not to fight on campus. ADVANCED IMAGING DEPARTMENT (2) A condominium on New York City’s Upper East Side filed a $500,000 lawsuit IS CLEAR. in February against a Subway sandwich shop on the building’s first floor, complaining about “nauseating” food When choosing an imaging department, it’s critical to select one with advanced odors, but according to a New York Sun reporter, the dominant “smell” involved technology and the most highly trained radiologists and specialty registered is a scent highly valued by many clear- technologists. At St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, our Imaging Department nosed, non-New Yorkers: fresh-baked bread. prides itself on offering the very latest in diagnostic care. In fact, the most Are We Safe? comprehensive in southern Colorado. Here, we recognize that better imaging, -- (1) The Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general combined with better diagnosis, leads to better results. Our highly skilled revealed in March that, although 52 teams diagnostic team uses state-of-the-art technology for the most precise diagnosis. are at work tracking down foreigners who remain in the country even after being Our experienced team of highly-trained radiologists brings an unprecedented ordered out, the agency still has a backlog level of talent and professionalism to the entire imaging team. And we’re home to the of 620,000 of these fugitive aliens. (However, the inspector general also region’s newest 64-slice CT Scan, plus we offer PET/CT technology—and much admitted that there are not enough cells more.With amazing technology and expertise behind them, it’s no wonder to detain that many fugitives, anyway.) (2) In February, after a three-month court our imaging staff is equipped to administer, review and formulate the most accurate battle, Indian national Mohammed Yousuf results for all our patients. In an environment where treating the body— Mullawala, 28, was ordered deported for submitting false documents to authorities as well as the human spirit—truly is second nature. after his visa expired. He originally attracted attention at a truck-driving school in Smithfield, R.I., where he was allegedly curious about buying dangerous Learn more about our unrivalled imaging services by calling 719-557-5070. chemicals. Also, while seemingly intent on learning to drive a big rig, he was Or visit smcimaging.org. reportedly uninterested in learning how to back one up. Least Competent Criminals (1) Two Bulgarian nationals were arrested in San Marcos, Texas, in January after being caught allegedly robbing coin-change machines at an apartment complex, and police subsequently found apartment guides for several cities in their van, along with a half-ton of quarters ($18,700). (2) Kevin Russell, 21, was arrested in Hobart, Ind., in February when he went to a Chase Bank and tried to cash a Bank One check for $50,000. The check was signed, “King Savior, King of Kings, Lord of Lords, Servant.” Compelling Explanations -- “(Death row) is the calmest place I’ve ever been in,” said convicted murderer Paul John Fitzpatrick in March to a judge in Largo, Fla., hoping to avoid a mere life sentence, which would place him in the general prison population. “I probably found the most peace I’ve ever had in my whole life (in his previous experience) on death row,” he said. “It’s just a hell of a lot easier ... doing time with murderers than it is with fools.” (A decision was still pending at press time.) (Visit Chuck Shepherd daily at http:// NewsoftheWeird.blogspot.com or www. NewsoftheWeird.com. Send your Weird News to [email protected] or P.O. Box 18737, Tampa, FL 33679.) Page 12 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us At http://www.seniorbeacon.info “Can-Do” Spirit Keeps Crafting Alive/Chic by Claire Whitcomb cery bags into a very chic crocheted tote. front of the TV. If you remember the “Whole The project, which involves cutting the When you have a party, you can Earth Catalog” and the “Foxfire” books, bags into strips and working them with set martinis on top and your guests will you’ll understand why Tsia Carson con- a size K crochet hook, “turned out to be never know you’ve stashed bills and siders the 1970s as the golden age of do- fairly labor intensive, but very, very satis- newspapers inside. it-yourself projects. fying,” reports Bromberg in “Craftivity.” Lampshades draw crafters like Never mind that the ‘70s also A more accessible rags-to-riches a moth to the proverbial flame. Carson produced lamps made from coffee per- idea is felted pillows made from old has covered hers with flowers made from colators and crocheted covers for toilet sweaters. Felting, it turns out, is an easy fabric. She’s created a string shade and paper rolls. It’s the can-do spirit of the process. There are a few rules to follow even knit a slipcover, which she deco- times that inspires Carson to keep on -- watch out for yarns that bleed -- but rated with an old brooch. crafting -- with a little help from her the basic idea is to toss your old sweat- Faced with a bare bulb in his friends. ers in the washing machine. Use the bathroom, “Craftivity” contributor Scott She has tapped art school chums hot or warm cycle with a cold rinse and Bodenner decided to go shade-free. He and colleagues from her design firm, the fibers become dense, tangled -- and dressed his light in a hula skirt of chande- Flat, to create an alternative DIY Web felted. Voila! You can cut these knits and lier crystals, which he says can be found Turn old suitcases into coffee tables with site, SuperNaturale.com. Now her quirky they won’t fray. in odd lots at flea markets. the simple addition of casters. Stylish Internet hit has led to a book, “Craftivity: As for ways to use your felted A cross between glitz and garret, and practical, they have plenty of storage 40 Projects for the DIY Lifestyle” ($19.95 sweaters, the ideas are limitless. Cut Bodenner’s lighting solution actually has for out-of-season sweaters. The how-to is HarperCollins). them into strips and create striped pil- its roots in beaded Victorian bulb jackets, contained at SuperNaturale.com and in a As you might expect, Carson’s lows. Stitch them into patchwork or which were used when electric lighting new book, “Craftivity.” photo: c. Svend Lindback world is full of funky, fun projects, some appliqued throws. Or use them to cover was in its infancy. You can etch glass, make a graf- of which you’ll probably never make. cushions, whether on an armchair or the “Fixtures still used bulbs like fiti doormat or design your own cut-paper Underwear out of old t-shirts? Baskets seat of a wooden dining chair. Tea cozies, candles and just left them exposed,” mobile. woven from those indestructible FedEx potholders, throw rugs -- as Carson’s Bodenner explains. Whether you actually make a and UPS mailers? crowd likes to say, you get the idea. There are lots of other good deftly wired chandelier out of broken The point of “Craftivity” isn’t Also worth rescuing from flea- ideas in “Craftivity.” For example, you vintage glass or just admire the fact that practicality. It’s ingenuity. In the world market obscurity are those sturdy, hard- can learn to embroider a screen door. it’s possible to do, “Craftivity” will help according to Carson, it’s a crime to buy sided suitcases designed for train and (You’ll need embroidery floss and a tap- you get in touch with an I-can-do-that something new when there are so many propeller-plane travel. estry needle.) state of mind. thrift-store and cast-off items waiting to Collect a graduated set and stack You can stud natural-colored As Carson says, “We make things be given a new, artistic life. them as a side table. Or think like a linen napkins with a random scattering for two reasons: pleasure and because we Consider, for instance, the lowly crafter and add three-inch casters so of crystals, the kind backed with short can. The pleasure is in the process and plastic bag. Carson’s fellow crafter Diane you’ll have a small, chic table that you prongs, for a look that’s both homespun the end result is just a byproduct of this Bromberg figured out how to turn gro- roll away when you want to do yoga in and glamorous. joy.” Kneel In Green Jeans To Protect Your Gardening Health from page 6. kneepads, I found lots of “tactical pants” Web sites like www.LAPoliceGear.com they’re down around your ankles. The But gardeners aren’t the only and “stealth pants.” These seem to be and www.CopQuest.com, often illustrated elastic straps meant to hold them up lose people who need kneepads. When intended for various sorts of police and by pictures of men with very large guns. their elasticity and, if you tighten the I searched the Web for pants with commando functions, and show up on Some have features the average gardener straps enough to keep the pads up, they rarely needs, like a special pocket for cut off all circulation. handcuffs. They all seem to have pockets The Kneelon knee pads on Cañon City's Senior Center for articulated kneepads, though you view at the Wildflower Seed Company’s have to order the pads separately. You outpost at the Flower Show also looked Enhancing the could stuff the magazine pockets with promising. Unlike my old kneepads, seeds or bulbs instead of bullets, and you which were chunks of rubber strung on Quality of Life can always use a tool pocket for a pruner two (briefly) elastic straps, the body of or weeder. Some Web sites have them in each Kneelon pad is cut from a sheet of women’s sizes, and some have sales on stretch fabric that wraps around the leg for those over 50 them. Last time I checked, the Magnum and fastens with Velcro above and below Stealth Spec pants at www.botac.com the knee, much like the kneepads made Golden Age Center in our community. were marked down to $24.95. Just the for inline skating, which tend to stay put. thing for stealing into the garden under Kneelons are $28 from www.wildflower- 728 Main St. Cañon City, CO 81212 cover of night to ambush some vicious seed.com. 719-275-5177 Fax 719-275-7146 weeds. P.S.: When I wrote about Meanwhile, a Whidbey Island, gardening gloves recently, I neglected to Wash., farmer and inventor named mention other ways to avoid wrecking Dan Vorhis concluded that he didn’t your hands in the garden. Lee Valley Come Celebrate need a whole pair of pants dedicated to Tools (www.leevalley.com) sells the gardening. He sells GreenJeans Farm nylon nail brushes that surgeons scrub and Garden Chaps, which are essentially their hands with ($7.50 for a dozen), Mother’s Day at the front half of a pair of gardening Gardener’s Clay Soap ($13.50), Bag pants, with generously sized built-in Balm heavy-duty skin softener ($8.95), kneepads. On Vorhis’ Web site (www. and Gloves in a Bottle ($12.95 for 8 The Gooseberry Patch muscleandarmfarm.com), one satisfied ounces), a lotion said to create a one-way customer attests: “I typically plant about barrier that protects skin from all sorts of Breakfast Buffet 8:00 am - 11:30am 20,000 to 25,000 plants a year. I end irritants as well as dirt. It’s also a good Scrambled Eggs, Quiche, Ham, Bacon, A Variety of Sausages, Corned Beef Hash, up spending a great deal of time on my idea to run your fingernails over a cake of Biscuits and Homemade Sausage Gravy, Tortillas, Green Chili for Burritos, knees, so it’s nice to have knee pads that soap before going out to the garden; you Fried Potatoes And Onions, Pancakes, French Toast, Fresh Fruit, Pastries, don’t pinch your legs behind the knees .” can’t get much dirt under your fingernails Yogurt Granola Parfaits, Juice, Coffee or Tea That’s the trouble with standard if you’ve already got soap under them. $10.95 Adults - Seniors $8.95 Kids 5-11, 85 cents per year kneepads: By the time you need them, (Write to Patricia McLaughlin c/ Children 4 and under - FREE o Universal Press Syndicate, 4520 Main If You Found Out St., Kansas City, MO 64111 or patsy. Dinner Buffet 11:45am - 5:00pm Tomorrow You Had Cancer, [email protected].) Salad Bar, Fresh Fruits, Variety of Breads, Honey Glazed Ham w/Cherry Sauce, Would You Have The Best Carved Baron of Beef, Fried Chicken, Peel and Eat Shrimp, Fried Cod and Shrimp, BIG BURGER Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Yams with Orange Sauce, Corn on the Cob, Options Available To You? Fettuccine, Red Sauce and Meatballs, Roasted Turkey, Green Beans A Combined Insurance cancer policy will give you the options that you want & need.... WORLD Dessert Choices, Coffee, Tea, or Lemonade Best Burgers In The Business And the only qualification to receive benefits Adults $15.95 - Seniors $12.95 Kids 5-11, 85 cents per year is that you are diagnosed with Cancer! Come See Us For A Kids Under 4 - FREE Find out how to receive a policy that will pro- vide a lump-sum benefit of up to $50,000 tax- Great Taste Sensation!! Some items may be substituted throughout the day. free, for as little as $13.76 per month upon the initial diagnosis of Cancer. Ages 18-74. Closed Reservation Line is 719-372-3910 FREE INFO Sun & Mon Call 1205 S. 9th St. Cindy Cañon City, The Gooseberry Patch Restaurant Wright Strength 660 State Highway 115 - Penrose, CO 81240 888-709-7023 Security CO 81212 [email protected] toll-free Stability FOR YOUR FREE NO OBLIGATION CONSULTATION 275-8079 Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 13

Jimenez, Burner Will Be Feted At Life Fest On May 11 Patti Gallagher To Perform At The 10th Annual Life Fest Ed. Note: Patti Gallagher, Pueblo na- Doctorate at the University of Missouri. tive, will kick-off the 10th Annual South- And, then, on to Los Angeles where she ern Colorado Life & Health Festival by combined careers in teaching at Santa singing the Star Spangled Banner. Monica College along with performing on the stage and on television. She was Patti Gallagher was born and credited as “Also Starring” on the nation- grew up in Pueblo as Patty Mramor. From ally televised series, “There is Someone age seven she loved singing and dancing Out There.” all over the city. After attending Central Before moving to Rye a year High School she won the Young Artists ago, She and Ed lived in Palm Springs. Competition receiving a full scholarship California, where she was a “regular” at to Denver University. Later, she trans- Mario’s Opera Restaurant. In addition, ferred to Indiana University and gradu- she sang in many “Musical Chairs” con- From the left, Lori Burner, Grandparent of the Year, Lupe Jaquez, Senior Citi- ated with a Bachelor Degree in Opera. certs, the inspiration for “Patti Gallagh- zen of the Year and singer entertainer and Pueblo native Patti Gallgher will be hand at Also, she married her teacher, Ed er’s Musical Notes.” this year’s Life Fest. Galla-gher. She launched her career tour- In 2000 Patti was crowned “Ms. Advisory Council on Aging has honored makes their grandmother so special is not ing the country singing the leading role in Senior America” and made appearances in a senior citizen from Pueblo County who the many accomplishments she has made Gian-Carlo Menotti’s “The Telephone.” many cities throughout the United States has made an outstanding contribution to in her life, but the accomplishment she While living in Indianapolis and had the honor of singing Christmas the community of Pueblo through volun- has been in her grandchildren’s lives. Patti performed regularly with Starlight songs in the East Room of the White teer services. “No matter what we do in life, Musicals, had her own television show House. Patti just won the Pueblo Chief- This year we are pleased to an- we will always know that it was our gran- and appeared weekly with a young David tain’s Critics’ Award for Best Female Per- nounce that Ms. Lupe Jaquez will be dother who was a key person in getting Letterman.Late Night Show.” After re- former 2005-2006 for “Musical Notes.” honored as the 2007 Senior Citizen of us there. Her motivation and inspiration covering from thyroid cancer, Patti ap- Lupe Jaquez Named the Year at the Senior Life Festival on has helped us live our dreams in hopes peared often with the Indianapolis Sym- May 11, 2007 at the Colorado State Fair of someday being as great as our grand- phony. Patti, then,moved to Columbia, Senior Citizen of the Year Grounds Event Center. mother.” Missouri, where she taught at Stephens For the past 12 years, the Pueblo Ms. Jaquez is an outstanding “Though she has touched many College while she gained her Masters and Area Agency on Aging and the Pueblo woman who for the past 55 years has lives throulgh her work, her biggest fans dedicated her life to helping individuals are her grandchildren. Our many memo- who could not help themselves. Lupe, an ries include dressing up in her nightgowns LPN, has traveled to many areas of the and costume jewelry, playing ping-pong, City and County of Pueblo to provide and eating lots and lots of ice-cream. She medical services and advice to those in has played an important role in each of need. She is well known for her willing- our lives and has been a key moitivator ness to give so for many of our new experiences. She has always been there for our many con- Lori Burner Named certs, games, or shows, and brags to an Grandparent of the Year extent about how her grandchildren are Lori Burner of Pueblo West has the best. She never knows that they say been selected as Grandparent of the year. the same thing about her.” She was nominated by two of her grand- She will be honored at the Senior aughters, Lisa and Jennifer Brown. Life Festival on May 11th. They stated that the thing that Assisted Living At Its Best!

The Legacy Commons 170 Dacona Drive, Pueblo West, CO 81007 719-547-2538 PageSMC-027 14SeniorBook10x15.5 - Senior Beacon 4/18/07 - May,11:24 AM2007 Page 1 Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info

PROVIDING SENIORS A LEVEL OF CARE BEYOND COMPARE.

As the state’s largest health care provider, Centura Health offers you Colorado’s most complete range of services to keep you living well and independent. From leading cancer, orthopedic and heart care, to innovative in-home health options and exceptional senior communities, no one does more to help you enjoy the most out of life.

St. Mary-Corwin Medical Center, Pueblo Villa Pueblo Senior Living Community, Pueblo 719.557.4000 719.545.5911 • Southern Colorado’s leading cancer center • Full continuum of care: independent living, assisted • Renowned heart and stroke care living, skilled nursing • Comprehensive diabetes and neurosciences services • Friendly neighbors; many amenties and services

Centura Health at Home Progressive Care Center, Cañon City One call delivers Colorado’s most complete range of 719.285.2540 in-home health care and personal assistance solutions • Skilled nursing, Alzheimer’s care, Senior day program, from skilled nursing to therapy, home infusion to respite care medical equipment. • Located adjacent to St.Thomas More Hospital

St. Thomas More Hospital, Cañon City 719.285.2000 • State-of-the-art rehabilitation and occupational center To learn more about our exceptional • Dedicated Sleep Center services, call ASK-A-NURSE® at • Medically based health and fitness center 1-800-327-6877. Or visit centura.org. Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 15 Life Fest 2007 Has Something For Everyone So Come On Down!! Man oh Man! Kathilee Cham- lo/Pueblo County award winners, awards a wowser!), a senior luncheon free to the plin has outdone herself this time! To for Senior Citizen of the Year, Grandpar- first one hundred ticker holders, Tiffany celebrate the Tenth Annual Southern ent of the Year, first-ever Community Magic, musical favorites from Genera- Colorado Life & Health Festival she Service Award (awarded by the Life Fest tion Journey, a free ice cream and cake has retired Broncos coming, nationally and Senior Beacon, healthy cooking with ice cream social, the BOCC Older Ameri- known singer/entertainer Patti Gallagher, Chef Ramon, a high school color guard, can Proclamation, prizes, giveaways and beautiful young ladies who are all Pueb- swing motion demo from Golftec (that’s some neat surprises from the businesses and organizations that will be manning FREE RIDE COUPON - FREE RIDE COUPON the booths throughout the festivities. Southern Colorado Seniors Life & Health Festival - 2007 And let’s not forget the Health May 11, 2007 Pueblo Event Center-State Fair Grounds portion of the event that takes place from Coupon Good For One (1) Frre Ride On Pueblo Transit Bus System To Event. 8am to 1pm and also bring in your ex- Stop At Pueblo Transit Booth At Life Fest-2007 For FREE RIDE Ticket Home! pired medications and we’ll discrad them Call 553-2727 For Information On Transportation To The Event for you so you won’t risk taking meds that are not good for you by mistake. Sponsors for the event include LIFE FEST 2007 PROGRAM Senior Beacon, CastAways Inn, Suites & Restaurant, Pueblo Regent, Humana, Ashley Baayen - Miss Pueblo County Health Fair ...... 8:00am - 1:00pm Parkview Medical Center, Centura 2007. Meet her at the May 11 Life Fest. Expired Medicine Drive...... 10:00am - 12:00pm Health, Pueblo Chieftain, News Channel Color Guard...... 9:15am FM105.5 AM1240, Pueblo County Com- missioners, AARP and Interim Health- Healthy Cooking...... 10:00am care. Meet The Denver Broncos!!...... 11:00am So my dear ladies and gentleman Senior Luncheon of the Senior Community of Southern Colorado you should make no excuse to (First 100 Seniors FREE miss this important event. It’s free with -closes 1:00pm sharp!)...... 12:00 Noon- 1:00pm free parking and in some cases, free trans- Miss Pueblo Teen Contestants...... 12:00 Noon-12:30pm portation. This Tenth year celebration of Community Service Award...... 12:15pm the Golden Years should not be soemth- Tiffany Magic...... 12:30pm - 1:30 pm ing you should miss. Ice Cream & Cake Social (FREE).... 2:00pm Come on down and enjoy the fun and festivities. Meet some old Brono BOCC Older favorites including Le-Lo Lang, Larry Americans Proclamation Act...... 2:00pm - 2:15pm Brunson, Steve Sewell and Billy Thomp- Clockwise Top Right: Ashley Reichert-Miss Senior Citizen of the Year - 2007...... 2:15pm - 2:30pm son. Meet our young teen pageant win- Teen Pueblo - 2007, Cheyeene Carlsson - Miss ners, meet the winners of the Grandparent Teen Talent Winner - 2007 Dancer (Ballet), Grandparent of the Year - 2007...... 2:30pm - 2:45pm of the Year and Senior of the Year and en- Kaylan Zamarripa, Miss Pre-Teen Pueblo and Prizes & Giveaways...... 3:00pm joy the food, entertainment and non-stop Miss Pre-Teen Talent Winner (vocalist), Mag- Doors Close...... 4:00pm activities this year’s fare has to offer. gie Gardner, Miss Teen Pueblo - 2007 and Miss DON’T MISS THIS ONE! Pueblo County Talent Winner (Dancer).

719-545-5321 Page 16 - Senior Beacon - May,, 2007 Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Chieftain’s Rawlings To Be Honored Community Service Award 2007 LISTENING TO YOUR NEEDS.... To help celebrate the Tenth Anniversary of Caring for you AT HOME! the Southern Colorado Seniors Life & Health Festi- val, Kathilee Champlin (the Life Fest’s Director) and Senior Beacon decided to honor a deserving South- ern Colorado member of the Senior Community as its Community Service Award winner for 2007. This is the first Community Service Award given by the Life Fest and Senior Beacon. The first recipient of this award is Robert H. Rawlings, publisher and editor of the Pueblo Chief- tain. Mr. Rawlings is the molding force behind the HOME CARE SERVICES Pueblo Chieftain. The Pueblo Chieftain has and con- tinues to sponsor so many events throughout the years that there isn’t enough room to print them all and the • Skilled Nursing benefits to the entire southern Colorado community have been immeasurable. Robert H. Rawlings, Pub- • Rehabilitation Throughout Mr. Rawlings stewardship, the lisher & Editor of the Pue- blo Chieftain, will receive the • Home Health Aides Pueblo Chieftain has been the “keeper of the flame” in first-ever Community Service reporting and disseminating information. What better Award presented by Life Fest community service than that? & Senior Beacon on May 11th • Homemakingand Personal Care The award will be given to Mr. Rawlings at the noon hour during the Life Fest 2007 at the Events around Noon at the Life Fest on May 11th. Come on Center - State Fair Ground in • Wound Care down and join in the festivities. Pueblo. Life Fest Health Fair Information • Diabetic Table One: Registration and consents. • TeachingCardiac/Pulmonary Care Table Two: Blood sugar and Diabetes screening. Table Three: Lipid Profile Screening • Pediatrics Table Four: Bone Density Screening Table Five: Body Mass Index • Home Phototherapy Table Six: Medications Table Because of new tests, the old lipid (cholesterol) has changed. 41 Montebello Rd. Ste 222 The Full Lipid profile is being offered at a cost of $20 per person. It Pueblo, CO 81001 Fax 719-546-2615 requires a 12 hour fast, but participants can drink black coffee or tea and water. Precription meds should be taken as directed. The profile requires a or fingerstick and results will be given to the participants within ten minutes. These 303 N. 7th St. - # 202 will be done on a first come - first served basis. Canon City, CO 81212 - 269-1195 For attendees that would like to participate in the lipid screening but have not fasted, we will have an alternate date for this screening at 719-546-2610 Parkview Medical Center. We accept cash, credit card and personal check made payable to Parkview Medical Center. Sharmar Village 1201 W. Abriendo Avenue - Pueblo - 719-544-1173 Sharmar Village is located in the quiet Aberdeen neighborhood and offers a wide array of services from assisted living in the Chateau to skilled nursing at the Care Center. The Chateau features spacious apartments ranging in size from 340 to 840 sq. ft. Each unit has individual climate controls, emergency call system, an equipped kitchenette, and a safety designed bathroom. Pets are welcome in the facility. The Care Center is one of Pueblo’s most respected health care facilities offer- ing quality skilled nursing, physical, occupational, and speech therapy in a warm, loving environment. The entire campus offers three delicious meals and snacks each day, land- scaped yards and walking paths in a secured setting for those who need this spe- cial feature. We have a dynamic activity program and transportation to doctor’s appointments, etc. Chateau Connections Day Program is a wonderful program Monday - Friday from 7:00am - 6:00pm that offers a full day of activities, fun and enjoyment for our loved ones living at home or with caregivers. Most of all we pride ourselves in our caring staff. We feel that special needs are met by special people. Our skilled nursing center is Medicare and Medicaid certified. Strikingly Historically Elegant Respected

Homelike Peaceful Charm Surroundings

Safe & Secure

Caring Beauty Staff Abounds

"Special Needs Are Met By Special People" Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 17 Broncos, Health Screens, Medication Drive, Thank You’s! EXPIRED MEDICATION DRIVE complete line up of exhibits and activi- football and track. Finished his college Bring your old unused medica- ties from 9 am – 5 pm. Health screenings career at Colorado University also play- tion to the Parkview Health Screening provided by Centura during the festival ing football and competing in track. Table between the hours of 10:00am and include blood pressure, body and bal- Married to wife Susan and has 12:00pm. A pharmacist will be on hand ance, pulse oximetry and depression. three grown children. to answer any questions. The Medication MIRACLE EAR Le-Lo Lang - Broncos second pick in the Drive has collected 40 tons of medication Miracle Ear will do hearing fifth round of the 1990 draft. He wasa over the years. screenings. defensive back for the Broncos. He spent Retired Broncos Larry Brunson (l) and cooking demonstration rocky mountain eye center four years with the Broncos. He was a Billy Thompson will be on hand for the Chef Ramon will be cooking The folks at Rocky Mountain standout football player at the University Life Fest 2007. Get your picture taken a wonderful Breakfast Burrito for all to Eye Center will do visual and glaucoma of Washington. with them. taste. This will include eggs, spinach and screenings. Le-Lo is single and lives in Au- work on ensuring that the Show is a suc- cheese with special seasoning in a wheat proclamation BY Chostner rora. cess and each year she accepts the praise tortilla. Pueblo County Commissioner Steve Sewell - Spent nine seasons with but then immediately shines the light on PICTURES WITH THE BRONCOS Retired Colonel Jeff Chostner, USAF, the Broncos. He was an outstanding all- the sponsors, booth manners and all of The Denver Broncos will be on will make the official presentation mark- purpose back and specialized in making you that come to the festivities. hand to teach you some stretching exer- ing the BOCC Older American Procla- third down conversions when the Bron- Special thanks to all of you and cises and have lunch with us. Everyone mation Act at 2:00pm. cos needed them most. especially to the Show’s sponsors: wear your Bronco colors in support of Chostner was elected to his post He was a versatile athlete for the • Parkview Medical center them. LBJ Photography will be on hand in November of 2006 and was seated on Oklahoma Sooners. • Senior Beacon from 11:30am - 12:00 pm to take your the County Commission on January 1, Billy Thompson - Thompson was a • News Channel FM 105.5/AM 1240 picture with the Broncos at a fee of $15, 2007 after serving on the Pueblo City standout defensive back out of Maryland • AARP of Colorado this includes the photo and shipping. Council since 2003 State he played 13 years with the Broncos • Centura Health CENTURA HEALTH SCREENINGS THE BRONCOS ARE COMING and was the Broncos defensive captain. • Pueblo County Commissioners Centura Health will be repre- Scheduled to be in attendance for He was a 12-letter man at Ster- Without your yearly sponsorship sented by associates from St. Mary-Cor- this year’s Life Fest show are four retired ling High School in Gainesville, S.C., we could not have this fine show. win Medical Center, St. Thomas More members of the Denver Broncos. was student body president and gradu- Event sponsors who are: Hospital, Centura Health at Home, Villa Larry Brunson - Receiver and ated with a phys ed degree from college. • Humana Pueblo and Progressive Care Center. return man for the Broncos. Attended thank-you, thank-you!! • Golf Tec The festival features health Mesa College after graduating from Each year it is our privilege to • Pueblo Regent screenings from 8 am to 1 pm, and a Cortez High School where he starred in thank Kathilee Champlin for her tireless • Interim Care Center Senior Life Festival Exhibitor Floor Plan AARP...... 23 Canon Lodge Care/TLC Rehab. 28 Humana...... 37 Rocky Mountain Health Care.... 3 All Care...... 45 Centura Health...... 64 Interim Health Care...... 38 Senior Blue Book...... 24 Apria Health Care...... 41 Cingular - Job Fair...... 25 Life Care Center of Pueblo...... 7 Sangre De Cristo Hospice...... 16 Belmont Lodge Senior Care...... 13 Complete Home Health Care.... 33 Lincare...... 4 Sharmar Village...... 8 Belmont Senior Care...... 63 Golf Tec...... 18 Macular Degeneration Center.. 15A Social Security...... 14A Caring Plus...... 60 Home Instead...... 2 McCandless Nursing Home...... 42 SRDA/Lifeline...... 35 Minnequa MediCenter...... 29 Senior Beacon...... 1 18 Miracle Ear...... 26 Spanish Peaks Nursing Home..... 32 17 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 60 Parkview Medical Center...... 43 Thornton Wheelchairs Plus...... 17 Physicians Choice Medical...... 20 University Park Care Center...... 6 16 34 33 32 31 30 29 28 27 61 Physicians Home Health Care.... 21 Visiting Angels...... 36 15 62 Praxair Healthcare Services...... 34 Westwind Campus of Care...... 62 Preferred Hospice...... 44 14 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 63 Professional Hearing Services.... 15B NON-PROFIT TABLES Pueblo Bank & Trust...... 30 Pueblo Step-Up 13 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 64 Pueblo Chemical Depot...... 27 SRDA 12 65 Pueblo Extended Care Center.... 40 Alzheimer’s Association Pueblo Goodwill Home Care...... 5 Senior Owl 11 43 44 45 66 Pueblo Regent...... 39 PACA/Senior Housing 10 Health Area Rapid Medical...... 66 Pueblo Senior Safety TRIAD Rocky Mountain Eye Care...... 19 One out of three seniors falls at least once a year source: webmd.com All too often referrals for non-medical home care come after the fall has occurred. Instead of reacting to these situations, let us help prevent them. Referring Home Instead Senior Care® makes a difference. As the world's trusted non-medical source of companionship and home care for seniors, we're help- ing ensure the safety of the seniors we care for. Through our services, we may: • Conduct safety checks to minimize slips and falls • Monitor special diet needs and nutrition to help build appetite and strength • Provide reliable transportation and escorts on er- rands for increased confidence and mobility • Provide medication reminders to support continu- ity of care Home Instead Senior Care is the low-cost, pre- ventive alternative that can save thousands of dollars in medical bills and unexpected expenses. Our preventive care techniques allow more seniors to be in the enviable position of living in their own homes, enjojoying their favorit activities and benefiting from a level of compan- ionship and care that's second to none. Learn how just a few hours of preventive care a week can make a difference in the life of a senior - talk to a local representative. or visit a homeinstead.com Visit us at: 503 N. Main St. Pueblo or Call us at: 545-0293 for Pueblo & Cañon City Page 18 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Finances: Wealth Creation Middle Of The Road: Mid Cap Stocks Offer Potential by Robert Valentine, CSA (714) 962- of the potential growth of a small cap In the search for the proverbial see in them. Frequently the companies 1800 and some of the stability of a large cap, “Goldilocks” choice of the investment are primed for potential growth, at the Middle of the Road which could be a welcomed addition to world, mid-cap stocks may be about same time they’ve already gone through Mid cap stocks offer a mix your portfolio. as close as some investors get when some of the growing pains which small- looking at market capitalization. And cap stocks have yet to experience. Tax Refund Available For while they may not be “just right” for Experts say that by the time a everyone, mid-cap stocks certainly offer company has ventured through life as a Long Distance Telephone Users a unique, balanced mix of qualities from small cap, they’re often better prepared large and small-caps. to handle the market’s woes. They’ve by Eileen Doherty fore this date. Since the refund is stand- The definition of a mid cap also usually had a chance to put quality Denver, CO. Individuals who ard on the Form 1040, individuals who varies greatly depending upon who you management in place, and better refine had long-distance telephone service be- have already filed their federal income ask. Some define mid-caps as being their product and their message. Thus, tween February 28, 2003 and August 1, taxes for 2006 have most likely filed the companies with a market capitalization room for growth, but with less growing 2006 may be entitled to a $30 ($40 for proper forms. Individuals who are not re- between $1.5 billion and $5 billion. pains. couples) refund of excise taxes, accord- quired to file federal tax forms can claim Others bump that number up a bit and The size of the market capi- ing to a federal settlement with long dis- the standard refund of $30 for a single define them being between $2 billion talization you choose to invest in, has tance carriers. person and $40 for two persons, by com- and $10 billion. In the end, it depends a great deal to do with your current This is a one time only refund, pleting FORM 1040EZ-T. on exactly who you ask. Market capi- financial situation and the amount of for this tax season only. Although indi- To file for the standard refund, talization, simply put, is the price of risk you’re willing to tolerate. Meeting viduals can file after April 15, 2007, it individuals need to fill out the Name and the company’s stock, multiplied by the with a financial professional to assess is suggested that filing be completed be- Address section, read the “Before You number of shares outstanding. It’s basi- your needs and goals, is one of the first Begin” section, and Sign and Date the cally the value the market places on a steps towards establishing a plan for form. Mail the form to Internal Revenue “Pueblo’s Only company. So what makes mid caps so the future. While no one investment is Services, Fresno, California, 93888- middle of the road? perfect for everyone, certain investments 0014. Shuttle Service” Large caps are generally more do fit well for people in particular situa- For assistance with filing the If you’re planning a trip, special glamorous to some experts because they tions. forms or to obtain copies, please call event or excursion CALL US! are perceived to be the safest and most 303-333-3482. Colorado Springs Airport Service reliable. The prevailing assumption is Robert Valentine is a Certified Senior Eileen Doherty, M.S. is the Execu- ADA approved blue chip stocks are strong and steady. Advisor in Huntington Beach, CA. He tive Director of Senior Answers and But as Enron and others have shown, can be reached at (877) 732-2637. 719 Services and the Colorado Geronto- that isn’t always the case. Risk exists 545-9444 logical Society. She has more than 30 throughout the market, and in some This article was submitted by Robert years of experience in gerontology in 1-877 cases, with reduced risk, comes reduced Valentine of Financial and Retirement administration, research, training and 545-9435 growth. Management. Robert (CA Insurance education, and clinical practice. She 24 hr Meanwhile, some small caps Lic #0C23496) is a Registered can be reached at 303-333-3482 or at service can be a bit too bumpy of a ride for Representative of and offers securi- [email protected]. many investors. Smaller, less-estab- ties through Securities America, Inc., lished companies mean there may be a a Registered Broker/Dealer, Member Plan For Your Life’s Next Move bigger chance for growth but also more NASD/SIPC. Advisory services offered “As an active 50+ adult myself, I understand the ever- volatility. Many investors can’t handle through Financial and Retirement changing needs of our generation. Whether you are seek- the ups and downs that small caps offer. Management, a Registered Investment ing a vacation home, would like to down-size or prefer a Small caps are often ignored by many Advisory firm. Robert is a Certified townhome, I can help you find the home that will make analysts and thus, don’t receive as much Senior Advisor in Huntington Beach, living easier and more enjoyable.” attention. Meanwhile, many large cap CA. Nancy Kattnig Call (719)276-7688 stocks are frequently highlighted. Mid Century 21 caps, once again, fall into the middle Several of his articles on financial or (719)269-2838 child category. planning matters that concern inves- web: www.nancykattnig.com Mid cap stocks have become a tors have been published. Robert can e-mail: [email protected] popular investment of late because of the be reached at (877) 732-2637. 1025 Royal Gorge Blvd Cañon City, CO 81212 719-269-2838 attractive qualities that many investors Got Pain???!!! backs, knees, feet? Sharmar Village 1201 W. Abriendo Avenue - Pueblo Q: I get a sore back now and again, and I've spent a lot of money trying many so-called, "solutions," without success. Often, I have wondered if there was • Sharmar Village Care Center: A Skilled Nursing Facility offering anything I can do to get long lasting relief. My chiropractor fixes me for a few days specialized care and programs that provide quality solutions for the but before long I'm right back where I started. I feel that surgery should be a last special needs of the elderly. resort. Now, I'm wondering if those GOOD FEET ARCH SUPPORTS I've been • Chateau at Sharmar Village: An elegant Assisted Living Residence hearing about really work. with an array of services and amenities for quality living A: Based on Clinical Studies and rave reports from our customers them- • Chateau Connections Day Program: A wonderful program Monday selves, GOOD FEET ARCH SUPPORTS are extremely effective! Skeptics have - Friday from 7:00 - 6:00pm that offers a full day of activities, fun and become enthusiastic fans from the moment they try them. enjoyment for our loved ones living at home or with caregivers.. Your feet (about two percent of your body mass) support the other 98% of your body's weight. And if your feet are out of whack, you'll feel it in your back, knees, neck, and of course, your feet themselves. GOOD FEET ARCH SUPPORTS get your feet and your body into proper alignment and posture. It's that simple! When you visit The GOOD FEET STORE, a trained representative will take a COMPLEMENTARY footprint to demonstrate just how our supports work. There is no obligation to buy but, chances are, we have what you need. In about half an hour you'll be walking out the door with your new arch supports on your feet and a smile on your face. Don't be fooled. There is only one arch support store, The GOOD FEET STORE. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery but, it has no place in your shoes. Sharmar Village Care Center “The Chateau” at Sharmar Village THE GOOD FEET STORE “Special Needs Are Met by Special People” In PUEBLO: 4602 N. Elizabeth St. - Ste 150 (719)404-0740 In Colo. Spgs: 5327 N. Academy Blvd. (719)599-9033 719-544-1173 -ADVERTISEMENT- Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 19 The Improvisitional Cook: Humble Banana Is Deliciously Reliable by Sally Schneider out the usual quantities of cream and egg plus 2 tablespoons for the filling When the availability of vibrantly yolks. The only preparation is to peel 2 tablespoons sugar flavored fruits takes a dip in early spring, the bananas, slice them into chunks and 1 1/2 pounds (3 medium) ripe bananas or when the supermarket is lacking in freeze them on a sheet pan. Once frozen 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice inspiration, I turn to the humble banana, they’re ready to puree in a food proces- 1 vanilla extract whose presence in markets year-round of- sor with coconut milk, cream or creme 1 teaspoon dark rum fers endless, delicious possibilities. fraiche to transform into the kind of lush, 1 teaspoon unsalted butter Cooking bananas intensifies intensely flavored ice cream you’d find in About 1 teaspoon confectioner’s sugar their flavor and renders their sweet flesh the tropics. Preheat the oven to 400 degrees. silky and meltingly tender. For an instant, As is, frozen banana slices are a On a lightly floured surface, roll the over-the-top parfait or sundae, caramelize great sweet treat for kids and grown-ups dough into a rough circle about 14 inches Pureed frozen ripe bananas make an in- bananas briefly in a skillet and pile them on a diet. Puree the frozen slices with in diameter. Transfer the dough to a bak- stant ice cream that is so creamy you won’t miss the traditional egg-and-cream into bowls with vanilla ice cream, warm lime or orange juice and a drizzle of dark ing sheet and refrigerate 10 minutes. custard. Top with toasted coconut. photo: (c) caramel sauce and toasted pecans. Since rum for a refreshing fat-free sorbet. In a small bowl, combine the 2 Maria Robledo bananas have affinities with many flavors, BANANA AND COCONUT ICE tablespoons flour with 1 tablespoon of flour, sugar, salt and baking powder. Add this basic theme invites improvisations. CREAM the sugar; reserve. Peel the bananas and the butter and cut it into the flour with a For a sauce, use warm choco- 1/4 to 1/2 cup shredded sweetened coco- slice on a diagonal into 1/4-inch thick pastry cutter or two knives until it makes late, dulce de leche (the South American nut slices. Toss gently with the remaining ta- a very coarse meal. Alternatively, using milk caramel) or a puree of raspberries, 2 very ripe large bananas blespoon sugar, lemon juice, vanilla and a pinching motion with your fingers, mix strawberries or blackberries (the strained 1/2 cup unsweetened coconut milk rum. the butter into the flour; rub the butter and puree-like pulp of passion fruit is mar- 1 tablespoon superfine sugar or to taste Remove the dough from the re- flour between the palms of both hands to velous) and, of course, whipped cream Squeeze of fresh lime juice frigerator and sprinkle the reserved flour/ further blend it, until the mixture is the or creme fraiche. For toppings, bananas A few drops of dark rum, if desired sugar mixture evenly over the dough to texture of coarse meal. love all kinds of toasted nuts, including Preheat the oven to 375 de- within 2 inches of the edges (leaving a 2- Chill the dough in the refrigera- walnuts, almonds, hazelnuts, macadami- grees. Place the coconut on a sheet pan inch border uncovered). Arrange the ba- tor for 15 minutes. Add the sour cream as, pistachios, crushed toffee or nut brit- and bake, tossing occasionally, until it is nanas evenly over the flour mixture. Fold and blend it in with a pastry cutter or fork. tles and toasted coconut. Arrange baby golden, about 4 minutes. Watch carefully the rim of the dough over the bananas. With your hands, knead and squeeze the marshmallows on top of caramelized so it does not burn. Set aside to cool. Moisten your fingers lightly with water dough 7 or 8 times to incorporate the bananas and broil them until toasted and Peel the bananas. Slice into 1/2- and gently press the creases together so loose bits and gather the dough together molten. inch slices and place them on a cookie they hold their shape. Shave the butter into a rough ball. The dough will be a The same caramelized bananas sheet. Freeze until solid, at least 1 hour. over the fruit. coarse mass. Flatten the dough into a 1- can be sandwiched between sheets of Blend the frozen banana slices in Bake the tart about 30 minutes, inch-thick disk, wrap in plastic wrap and baked puff or butter pastry -- or thin but- a food processor until roughly chopped. covering halfway through if the crust is refrigerate at least 1/2 hour before roll- ter cookies, for that matter -- along with Add the coconut milk, sugar, lime juice browning too rapidly. The tart should be ing. some whipped cream for a surprising and rum, if desired, and continue process- golden brown. Let cool 10 minutes be- Alternatively, make the dough in free-form Napoleon. ing, scraping the sides down occasionally fore sliding the tart onto a serving plat- a food processor, processing flour, sugar, For a charmingly rustic pastry until it is the consistency of ice cream, 1 to ter. salt, baking powder and butter to a coarse that is a cross between an open-faced 2 minutes. (Although at first the mixture Just before serving, sift the con- meal. Chill if desired. Add the sour cream tart and two-crusted pie, pile sliced fresh will seem granular, as the bananas thaw fectioner’s sugar evenly over the crust. and process to texture of coarse sand. bananas onto a rolled-out circle of pie slightly, it will become very creamy.) Makes 6 servings. Makes 8 ounces dough, enough dough, sprinkle with sugar, fold the edges Serve at once or freeze up to 1/2 FOOLPROOF BUTTER PASTRY for one tart. up and bake. This method eliminates the hour before serving. Scatter toasted coco- 1 cup all-purpose flour These caramelized bananas are time-consuming task of crimping dough nut over each serving. 1 teaspoon sugar also great sandwiched between slabs of into a tart tin or pie plate and is the quick- Makes 4 servings (about 2 1/2 teaspoon salt baked pie pastry with whipped cream. est method I know to create a great fruit cups). 1/4 teaspoon baking powder tart. FREE-FORM BANANA TART 4 tablespoons cold unsalted butter, cut (Sally Schneider is the author of “The Very ripe bananas have a creamy 1/2 pound Foolproof Butter Pastry (recipe into 1/2-inch bits Improvisational Cook” (William Mor- texture when pureed and make fine in- below) or your favorite pie dough 3 1/2 tablespoons sour cream row, 2006) and “A New Way to Cook” stant ice creams and frozen desserts with- All-purpose flour for rolling the dough, In a medium bowl, combine the (Artisan, 2001).)

SRDA MONTHLY MENU Call SRDA at 545-8900 for congregate meal site and Meals-On-Wheels Info! /marg., orange. MAY 21: Burrito/Green Chili, span- MAY 1: Burrito/Green Chili, spanish ish rice, basil green beans, wheat rice, let/tom garnish, apricots. bread/marg., fruit blend juice. MAY 2: Breaded Fish/Tartar Sauce, MAY 22: Pot Roast-potatoes/carrots/ au gratin potatoes, carrots, spiced onions, mixed green salad/Itlaian fruit mold, wheat bread/marg., cher- drsg., wheat bread/marg., banana ry crisp. cake. MAY 3: Roast Beef/Au Jus, baked MAY 23: Cream Veggie Soup, roast potato, california blend, orange, beef sandwich, mixed green salad/ wheat bread/marg., diced peaches. ranch drsg., wheat bread/marg., MAY 4: Lasagna, peas, orange car- banana. rot gelatin, wheat bread/marg., diced MAY 24: Sweet/Sour Pork over Rice, peaches. zucchini/tomatoes, pickled beets, MAY 7: BBQ Beef Sandwich, baked wheat bread/marg., cranberry fluff. beans, spiced fruit mold, blush pear MAY 25: Roast Beef /Gravy, mashed dessert. potatoes, peas/carrots, wheat bread/ MAY 8: Roast Turkey/Gravy, mashed marg., spiced fruit mold. potatoes, broccoli, wheat bread/ MAY 28: Baked Ham, confetti rice, marg., cranberry/orange mold. peas, pineapple slaw, wheat bread/ MAY 9:Roast Beef Sandwich, wash- marg., plums. ington chowder, pickled beets, straw- MAY 29: Salisbury Steak, mashed berries/PA. potatoes, carrots, waldorf salad, MAY 10: Enchilada Casserole, peas, wheat bread/marg., watermelon. mexican coleslaw, wheat bread/marg., MAY 30: Hot Turkey Sandwich, oatmeal cookie, applesauce. mashed potatoes, harvard beets, MAY 11: Macaroni/Cheese, lima wheat bread/marg., cranberry/ beans, veggie salad medley, wheat orange mold. bread/marg., chilled plums. MAY 31: Spicy Sausage Patty, MAY 14: Green Pepper Steak, garlic MAY 16: Roast Beef/Gravy, mashed bage, mixed veggie, wheat bread/ parslied noodles, cabbage, carrot rai- mashed potatoes, broccoli, pickled potatoes, stewed tomatoes, mixed marg., lime carrot gelatin. sin salad, wheat bread/marg., cherry beets, wheat bread/marg., apricots. green salad/Italian drsg., wheat MAY 18: Turkey/Rice/Cheese Cas- crisp. MAY 15: Sloppy Joe/Bun, peas, car- bread/marg., ambrosia. serole, cornbread, pickled beets, PA rots, blush pear dessert. MAY 17: Stuffed Bell Pepper, cab- upside down cake. 2% MILK With ALL Meals! Page 20 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Community Update SRDA NEWS Caroline Luellen 545-3787. purchased at the door. Tickets cost $7 10th 9-11:30 am Nature & Science Trip, Friday, PROGRESSIVE STRENGTH for those 13 years and older, and $3 for Memorial Recreation Center - Pueblo May 18th. • Transportation, • IMAX TRAINING PROGRAM OFFERED children 12 years and younger. Tickets West - Thursday, May 10th 8:45-10:45 Movie and • Benjamin Franklin: In BY CSU COOPERATIVE can be purchased over the phone by call- am Search of a Better World Exhibit, $27.00 EXTENSION ing the box office at (719) 295-7200. McHarg Park Community Center - Contact: SRDA, 545-8900, 230 Strong Women, Strong Bones is The Pueblo Children’s Chorale Avondale - Monday, May 14th 9:00- N. Union Ave the title of a training offered by Colorado consists of two choirs, and both will per- 11:30 am FREMONT ORCHESTRAS State University Cooperative Extension. form at the concert. The Concert Choir Minnequa Park Apts. - Tuesday, May The Fremont Youth and Adult This progressive strength train- features fifth through eighth graders and 15th 9:00-11:30 am Chamber Orchestras, under the direc- ing program is designed for sedentary is under the direction of Jennifer Shadle- Mesa Towers Apt. - Wednesday , May tion of Jean Whitmore, will present an and active women of all ages. Research Peters. The Apprentice Choir, directed 16th 9:00 – 11:30 am entire concert dedicated to the works of shows strength training improves bone by Betsy Barto, features second through Ogden Apartments - Thursday, May Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The concert density, prevents falls and improves fourth grade singers. 17th 9:00-10:30 am will include excerpts from Symphonys arthritis symptoms. Use your own hand The Pueblo Children’s Chorale Fulton Heights Community Center - 25, 12 & 39, overture from the opera Don and leg weights to improve flexibil- has delighted local and national audi- Thursday, May 17th 1:00-2:30 pm Giovanni and much, much more. ity, balance and to gain muscle strength. ences through its musical talent and dis- Park Hill Christian Church - Monday, Young opera singers, Megan Sessions will be held on Tuesdays and ciplined ensemble during its 11 years of May 21st 10:00-Noon Mahlberg and Mathew Whitmore, both Thursdays, 5:00-6:30 p.m. starting April operation. *All locations are open to the general juniors at CU Boulder, a cello quartet 12 through July 19. DR. JANISE DENTON CERTIFIED public for these clinics. and the Fremont Civic Choir will also To register call 583-6566. Space IN HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE Please call Pueblo StepUp @ perform! Join us for this monumental is limited. The cost is $50.00 for the 24 MEDICINE 557-5886 if you have any questions. tribute to one of classical musics great- sessions. Pueblo Physician, Janise T. StepUp Exercise Programs est composers. Concert will begin at Stroke Awareness Denton, a hospice and palliative medicine Please call Jo Stinchcomb @ 3:15 pm, on May 13th, at Washington Thank you so much for get- physician at Sangre de Cristo Hospice 557-3883 for question about any of Elementary School. Admission is free. ting back with me. I spoke with Chuck and Palliative Care, was recently certi- Arthritis Foundation Exercise Program Donations are welcome. For Couchman & we thought since next fied by the American Board of Hospice Hyde Park Community Center , Mondays more information, please contact the month is stroke awareness month we and Palliative Medicine. & Wednesdays 9:30-10:30 am Fremont School of the Arts at 784-3400. would have the stroke support group Dr. Denton is a graduate of the Tai Chi from the Arthritis Foundation, savvy seniors meet at Parkview Hospital on the inpa- University of Arizona and the Kirksville Tai Chi I - George Memorial Recreation Every Staurday Morning at tient rehab unit. We will invite the stroke College of Osteopathic Medicine. She Center, Mondays & Wednesdays 1:00- 8:00am on 590am KCSJ Radio the Savvy support group & their families. We also completed a residency at the Kirksville 2:00 pm Senior airs. invited the Fremont stroke support group Osteopathic Medical Center and an Tai Chi II, George Memorial Recreation May schedule: & their families. We are located on the Internship at Tucson General Hospital. Center, Mondays & Wednesdays 2:15- May 5th - American Storykeepers with 3rd floor & we will have signs directing She has also served on the faculty of 3:15 pm Dennis Stack - Capturing life stories of those who will be attending. the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Tai Chi II, AARP Center, Tuesdays & our seniors. I appreciate you putting the info Medicine and has taught at the Southern Thursdays 9:00-10:00 am May 12th Reverse Mortgages with into the Senior Beacon. I’ll look forward Colorado Family Medicine Residency Tai Chi I, AARP Center, Tuesdays & Barry Scoles to talking with you soon. Please call me program in Pueblo. Thursdays 10:10-11:00 am May 19th - Stroke Awareness with Vera if you have any questions. Denton is also board certified in Carpenter from Parkview Hospital Terri Tibbs, Community Family Practice. She has been practicing AARP #173 NEWS May 26th - Recreation after an Illness Education Manager , Parkview Center in Pueblo since 1996, including Urgent Cripple Creek tip: AARP #173 with Miranda Lewis-Barkley from for Rehabilitation , 719-584-4677. Care, Family Practice Medicine, and will sponsor a fundraiser bus to Cripple Parkview Hospital. Premier Back Rehabilitation Center. She Creek, Tuesday, May 8 leaving Southside OWLS NEWS Pueblo Children’s Chorale joined Sangre de Cristo three years ago. Wal-Mart. Cost is $22.00. Non-members Join the OWLS. We're a HOOT! Announces Final Concert Prior to moving to Pueblo she was in welcome. Call Rosann - 566-0199 & Bridge: Party Bridge 547 1822. Duplicate of its 11th Season Family Practice in Illinois and Missouri. Lorena - 545-3524. Bridge 562-0937. Christian Singles PUEBLO — The Pueblo For more information please call 542- General Meeting: Monday May (PW): 547-9787. Creative Writing 547- Children’s Chorale will hold its final 6670. 14. 1:30pm. Joseph Edwards Senior 0250 or 583-2885. Creature Comforts concert of its 11th season, “Merrily We Center (SRDA), 230 N. Union. Non- 671-2030 or 543-4750. Day Trips 547- Roll Along- a season of music and mis- Pueblo StepUp members welcome. 566-0199 or 545- 8181. Dominoes 543-6926. Dream chief,” at 3 p.m. on Saturday, May 12th, We want to keep you healthy! 3524. Appreciation 583-2885. Fine Dining 2007 in Hoag Hall at Colorado State Come check us out and let us check you 546-6189. Genealogical Society 545- University – Pueblo. out. HEALING WORKSHOP 6326. Theater...Music 545-2803. Movies The spring concert is sure to Free blood pressure, blood sugar, The first Healing Art workshop 543-6657. please those of all ages with a variety oxygen screening and more. at the Dorcy Cancer Center at St. Mary- OVER THE HILL GANG of mischievous animal songs. Selections Vail Hotel - Tuesday, May 8th 9:00- Corwin Medical Center was a smashing Don't Think of Us as Being Over the will include: “Basil the Cat”, “Monkeys 10:30 am success with 44 people in attendance. Hill.. Think of Us as Picking Up Speed! in the House”, “The Little Birch Tree” Hyde Park Community Center - The Healing Arts program began Camping, 545-3787; Cycling, 545-3787; and “Prayer for Today”. Tuesday, May 8th 1:00-2:30 pm in mid-2006 with the idea that the cancer Fishing, 545-2803 or 647-6479; Hiking Tickets for the concert will go on Joseph Edwards Senior Center (SRDA) center wanted to offer services above and 545-3787 or 547-8181; Riverwalking, sale at the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center - Wednesday, May 9th 9:45-Noon beyond the clinical setting. In early 2007, 545-3787; Trail Cleaning 545-3787; Call box office on May 1st, or they may be Mineral Palace Towers - Thursday, May Lynn Spencer-Tafoya, coordinator of the Cancer Survivorship Program, funded by the Lance Armstrong Foundation, met an incredible survivor in the Pueblo com- munity, Cindy Davis. May’s workshop series: Healing Through Movement - Tuesday evenings in May, from 5:30 - 7:00pm. Participants will focus on creative fun through music with Christine Reed, learn health ben- efits of Tai Chi with Jo Stinchcomb, Alice Wingert will guide them through the basic postures of yoga and finally laughter for the health of it with certified laughter leader Janice Funk. June’s workshop series: A Journey through My Many Colored Days based off a Dr. Seuss book. Wednesday evenings in June from 6:00pm - 7:30pm; participants will tap into ultimate joyful- ness and play through Christine Reed’s exploring moods in music, Jan Lata’s abstract watercolor painting, bringing life stories to paper with Lori Burner, (Senior Grandparent of the Year from the Southern Colorado Seniors Life and Health Festival - 2007) and in the end producing a personal, handmade book to take home and share. Seating is truly limited, so please call and RSVP now, Christine Reed (719) 547-7635. Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 21 SENIOR CLASSIFIEDS alternative to nursing DENTURES $500 upper or lower. home Personal care in my home or SENIOR CLASSIFIED AD REQUEST Full dental services available. FREE yours long/short term. Hospice care. CONSULTATION. Evening appoint- This classified ad section of the Senior Beacon carries advertising of all Lots of TLC. Meals. 16 years experi- ments possible. Dan Smith, DDS. sorts. The cost is $7.00 for the first 25 words or less and $.25 for each word over ence. References. 545-1448. #0607 1319 N. Elizabeth St. Pueblo, CO 25. TO PLACE AN AD here’s all you need to do: Write your ad in the space pro- burial plot at Imperial Memorial 81003. 719-546-1515. #0407 Gardens. Last Supper area/ Lot 883, vided below. THREE CEMETERY plots (torether) space 4. $600.00 OBO. Original pur- ______for sale at Mountain View Cemetery chase price, $1029. 303-750-3203 or ______for $1500. Call 542-4339. #0407 e-mail [email protected]. #0607 CLEAN TWO BEDROOM mobile TWO mobility scooters for ______in Penrose Mobile Home Park, fenced easy access home or away, with bas- ______yard, storage shed, pets ok. $425/mo kets, 3 wheels, $650.00 each. 719- + deposit. Discount with lease. 671- ______547-4654 or 719-671-3560.#0607 6340. #0407 Burial Plot at Imperial Please print clearly. Deadline is the 20th of the month. CEMETERY PLOT located in Memorial Gardens Last Phone:______Your Name:______Roselawn Cemetery - $900. Call 719- Supper Area, Lot 883, Space 4, $600 583-2042. #0307 OBO. Original purchase price $1029. Mail ad & Check (send no cash) to: WILL ASSIST the elderly in the 303-750-3203 or email billcordsen@ Senior Beacon P.O. Box 7215 Pueblo West, CO 81007. home. Experienced. Reasonable. aol.com#0607 Quality Care. Help with shopping, caregiver / companion lawn crypts. $1600 each or $3000 for news! We’re not a nursing home. cleaning, cooking and etc. Call Private care part-time. Have experi- both. 948-3159 or 671-7476. #0607 Make it your move, a home for a Lorraine at 369-1168. #0207 ence with recommendation letters. special purchase for sale! loved one, or a friend. Call Now! 1- WINTER ENJOYMENT Over 100 Just moved into town. South area. Attends and Depends pads and briefs 719-542-3496. #0507 jigsaw puzzles. Call 948-9621 or see Call Carmen, 564-2157. #0607 sold by the case. $20.00 - $25.00 per semi-retired cabinet at 2280 40th Lane. $2.00 each.#0207 IMPERIAL GARDENS Two cem- case. Call Now! 719-334-0150 or 719- maker. 35 years experience. LAND FOR SALE BY OWNER etery plots in Singing Tower area 372-3010. #0607 Refacing cabinet, European face Ideal for walk-out basement. 719- - with liners installed. $1800. Call wanted! Stair-lift chair complete frame, entertainment centers. Call 545-0732 or 719-289-0727.#0207 542-8940. “0807 for 14 step risers. Can relocate. Call for FREE Estimates. Decks. Senior DEPENDABLE Christian lady will Books Wanted. I pay cash for 547-2882. #0507 Discount. Call, 719-784-6179. #0607 clean your home. AFFORDABLE, good books and estate libraries. Call collector Looking to purchase NURSING HOME PRICES TOO with Lots of Experience. Sara - 561- Jim at 719-634-2367. #0907 your good condition clothing from HIGH? Qualified CNA will provide 9801. #0207 experienced typist. Will do the 1960’s and earlier. CASH paid 24-hour care in my Christian fam- RUSTIC VILLA APARTMENTS 1 typing for you in my home. Call on the spot. Call Amanda @ 719-369- ily home. Single or couple welcome. bdrm-rent $380+ dep. $200; 2 bdrms- Sherry at 545-3146. #0607 2892. #0507. Discount for couple. Hot meals, rent $450+ dep. $250. Quiet southside for sale. O2 concentrator - 24/7 total (live-in our home) transportation and more. Pets O.K. complex near bus stop, post office, used one year. $350. Call 719-562- health care. We offer over 25 On the Mesa - Pueblo Area. 719-778- shopping. 564-8899. #0407 0627.#0607 years experience with Seniors. Good 9194. #0607 Imperial memorial gar- dens. Last Supper. Two lots with Dr. Schottstaedt Appointed Medical Director VILLA PUEBLO SENIOR LIVING Dr. Schottstaedt provides input on resi- Medical Center. Natural COMMUNITY ANNOUNCES NEW dent care programs and helps assure qual- Dr. Schottstaedt received her doc- MEDICAL DIRECTOR ity care in the facility. torate of medicine from Baylor College Images PUEBLO, COLO. (April 10, “We are excited to have some- of Medicine in Houston. She received 2007) - Villa Pueblo Senior Living Com- one of Dr. Schottstaedt’s experience and her master’s degree from the University Post Mastectomy munity announces the appointment of Dr. expertise on board,” said Linda Garner, of Colorado. A native of Oklahoma, Dr. Bras & Breast Forms Louise Schottstaedt as medical director of nursing home administrator at Villa Pue- Schottstaedt is married with four children OPEN BY APPOINTMENT ONLY the skilled nursing unit at Centura Health blo. “She is a wonderful addition to the and enjoys gardening, reading, and mu- PLEASE CALL 719-276-0231 –The Pavilion at Villa Pueblo. team at Villa Pueblo.” sic. OR 719-369-4609 Medical director since January, A Pueblo resident for 22 years, About Villa Pueblo Senior Living FOR APPOINTMENTS. Dr. Schottstaedt is also the director of Community You Are In A Trance! Touchstone Health. From 1995 to 2004, A continuing care retirement PRIVATE FITTINGS IN Go To The Life Fest 2007 she was in private practice at Compre- community, Villa Pueblo offers inde- COMFORTABLE, hensive Family Care Center and a faculty pendent living, assisted living and skilled Go To The Life Fest 2007 member of Southern Colorado Family nursing to area seniors. The community FEMININE ATMOSPHERE. Medicine. Dr. Schottstaedt was also the is part of Centura Health, Colorado’s Are you a Vet, a Vet’s Spouse or a chief of medical staff at St. Mary-Corwin largest healthcare system. Vet’s Widow? You are eligible for Nursing Home Care......

Three Distinct Programs on One Campus Westwind Village • Subacute/Skilled Nursing Care • Rehab & Respiratory Therapy • Ventilator Care Colorado State Veterans Nursing Home Medicare & Medicaid Certified Private Pay & Insurance Welcome VA Contracted Walsenburg, Colorado Horizon Heights • Bright, Comfortable and Modern Facility • Caring, Professional Staff • Skilled Nursing Care for Alzheimer’s • Floor-to-ceiling picture windows offer beautiful views Disease & Related Disorders • Special Care Unit (SCU) providing services for Alzheimer’s, Dementias, • Secured Environment with Spacious Huntington’s and Parkinson’s Grounds • Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech Therapy included in • Behavior Management Specialty daily rate. Medicare & Medicaid Certified Private Pay & Insurance • Our nursing home is physically connected to Spanish Peaks Health Center, a Welcome VA Contracted community hospital. Living Center & Casa de Vida • Dialysis Center/Specialty Clinics available on campus • Affordable daily rate and an all-inclusive pricing policy that eliminates addi- • Assisted Living tional charges • Single & Double Occupancy • VA benefits for those who qualify • Colorado residency not required • Residential & Assisted Living • Private Pay and Medicaid Residents welcome • Affordable Monthly Rate Including Amenities Call Today For A Medicaid Certified Private Pay & Insurance Welcome FREE Video/CD Information Packet 2515 Pitman Place • Pueblo, Colorado 81004 1-800-645-8387 719-564-0550 Page 22 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info SENIOR SAFETY Pueblo Police Dept.- 549-1200 • Pueblo County Sheriff’s Dept. - 583-6125 Fremont County Sheriff’s Dept. - 275-2000 • Canon City Police Dept. - 269-9000 Reading Contracts Prevents Home Improvement Ills Before starting any major home prints unless you understand them; improvement project, you need to begin Never sign a contract with any Southern Colorado National Bank is proud to be a with a well written contract. A thorough- blanks. ly detailed contract will go a long way Questions about Consumer Protection? 1- sponsor of this important Senior Safety feature. Call us in ensuring that you and your contractor 800-222-4444, Denver Metro Area, 303- for all your banking needs at 719-253-2265. understand what work is to be done and 222-4444, www.aarpelderwatch.org We are located at 7 East Spaulding in Pueblo West and what it will cost. WARNING: 3595 Spaulding just off Pueblo Boulevard and Highway Your detailed contract should specify: ADVANCE FEE 50 West. Call us today for rate quotes. All the work you expect the con- LOAN SCAM tractor to complete and all the materi- not plan to stick around. ends. als the contractor will use, including the The Better Business Bureau of Advanced fee loan scams abound A company based in North Caro- quality, grade and brand of all materials; Southern Colorado is receiving com- and this is one of the latest to hit. lina under the name Equity 1st Mortgage • When the work will begin and plaints from consumers across the country “It’s just good businesses.” has been receiving many complaints end; about a company called Belcrest Lending Penny Pinching because victims are linking them to the • Who is in charge of getting any Services. scam due to the similarity in the company necessary permits from the city or county Belcrest is offering loans for any Twist on an Old name. However, Equity 1st Mortgage is (Most people prefer the contractor to do amount of money, for any type of pur- Scam NOT the Equity First that has been mak- this part); chase, as long as consumers wire vari- The Better Business Bureau of ing the withdrawals. • How and when you will pay for ous amounts of money to a contact at the Southern Colorado has learned that a A representative from Equity 1st the work; company, which is based in Colbert, On- company by the name of Equity First is Mortgage stated that they have handled • How much the work will cost. tario, Canada. defrauding people of their money through approximately 100 phone calls, includ- Be sure that everything you’ve agreed to The company lists a Colorado a simple tactic. ing five phone calls in April 2007. The is written down, including any guarantees Springs address – 2860 S. Circle Drive, Here’s how the scam works. amount is always the same - $124.90. on the quality of work. If you don’t under- Suite 700. A BBB of SC staff member The scammers at Equity First generate However, our local victim’s account was stand any sections, ask a knowledgeable went to that location and no company random routing and account numbers struck more than once, totaling $600. friend, relative or legal representative to by that name is there; Suite 700 does not into which they try to deposit one penny. Here are some tips from the BBB review the contract. even exist. If the one cent deposit clears the “made of SC: Also, before you sign any home Although we have not yet re- up” account, the perpetrators then know • Check your account balances improvement contract, it’s smart to find ceived any calls from local consumers, the account in fact exists and continue to frequently. out what legal protections you have. Both those who have been approached in Ohio, withdraw funds from the account. • Be suspicious of unusual de- you and the contractor must sign the con- South Dakota, Kentucky, South Carolina An airman at Schreiver Air Force posit or withdrawal amounts. tract. Be sure to get a copy of everything and Louisiana have almost been duped. Base has been affected by the scam. When • Make sure you know who is ac- you sign and recognize that your signa- Our investigation shows that the the airman noticed the odd withdrawal in cessing your account. ture is binding. company’s Web site www.belcrestlend- the amount of $124.90, he tried to con- • Never give out your account in- What You Don’t Want ing.com was just opened on March 2 and tact Equity First. He called the toll-free formation to anyone you do not know. Don’t approve any plans or blue- only has a 90-day contract with the site number that was listed on his transaction • Shred your banking documents host. This, of course, implies that they do statement, only to find that the number to protect yourself from identity theft. listed led him through automated dead Keynote Luncheon: Nonprofit Assn. There are more than 18,000 nonprofit organizations in Colorado and more than 1,200 in the south central region of the state* The nonprofit sector directly represents five percent of Colorado’s econo- my, spending more than $15 billion annually. Nonprofits keep Colorado economi- cally strong and culturally robust, which helps create an environment where your business can thrive. The Colorado Nonprofit Association’s Pueblo Conference is May 10 and more than 200 nonprofit leaders and community supporters will attend this invalu- able event. For only $20, you can join us for the conference’s keynote luncheon and have the chance to network with these leaders. Date & Time: May 10, 2007 12:00 Noon - Luncheon and Networking 12:30 pm -1:15pm - Charley Shimanski, Pres. & CEO, Colorado Nonprofit Assn.- Luncheon keynote: Generosity Project - Creating a Giving Community Sangre de Cristo Arts & Conference Center - 210 N. Santa Fe Ave. - Pueblo, CO 81003 “open to the public” To Register:http://www.ColoradoNonprofits.org *Information taken from the National Center for Charitable Statistics (NCCS) on the number of 501(c)3 organizations that report gross receipts of more than $25,000 in a fiscal year are generally required to file a Form 990 with the IRS in those counties.

If you need medical care after office hours or on the weekend, our Board Certi- fied Physicians can meet 3937 Ivywood your needs in a convenient Pueblo, CO and timely manner. 553-0111 3676 Parker Blvd opening in 2007 Pueblo, CO 553-2208

Two Convenient Locations To Serve You Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon -May, 2007 - Page - 23 “Light For The Journey” By Jan McLaughlin - Director of Prayer Warriors For Prisoners

besides, there were always more impor- we arrived, Sandy was unsure why we way before. tant things to do than spend time on what were going to Denver. I anticipated her seemed a frivolity. However, knowing joy at discovering my surprise because I Sandy, total- “THE UNEXPECTED GIFT” Sandy’s love for theater and especially knew The Sound of Music was one of her ly perplexed Excitement welled as I made musicals, this was a perfect gift. The favorites. at my tears reservations at the Country Dinner production was The Sound of Music so We arrived just before the pro- said, “Jan, Playhouse for a surprise birthday gift I might enjoy it too. Little did I realize gram began. It was my first time at the this isn’t one you cry through.” My for my friend, Sandy. Although, I have what the Lord had in store. Country Dinner Playhouse, a barn-like voice broke as I answered, “But you occasionally attended plays or musicals, We were just outside Colorado theater. Unknowing of what to expect I don’t understand.” I was speechless to they never have been on my list of favor- Springs on our way to the theater in was fascinated by red lanterns on every explain the overwhelming sense of love I ite sources of entertainment. In fact, I Denver when my car over heated and table and delighted when they dimmed felt. This was truly a “hug from heaven” wasn’t excited about the expense and died on the freeway. Because the tickets around the barn at once. Then the “Barn and the most wonderful birthday gift I’ve were non-refundable, I nearly panicked, Stormers” performed a delightful pre- ever known. Jesus’ words, “It is more but instead phoned my sister whose hus- show and I drank it in like an enchanted blessed to give than to receive” took on HOURS band owns a mechanic shop. He sent wide-eyed child. an entirely new meaning. By giving free- WEEKDAYS 8:00-5:30 a wrecker and when we arrived at his When the play started I was ly and expecting nothing in return except SAT. 8:00-3:00 shop my sister was waiting for us. She the one who was surprised, much more the joy of seeing Sandy’s face light up • ALL TYPES OF MIXED GRAINS offered us her car to go on to Denver and than Sandy. Every familiar song sank with delight, I received more than I could not miss the show. I was rather shocked deep into my heart and joy overflowed. have dreamed. Every good and perfect • PET FOODS & HEALTH that she would allow the use of her car. When I made these plans, I completely gift is from above, coming down from PRODUCTS It was much like the miracle of the man forgot how much I liked The Sound of the Father of the heavenly lights, who • SCIENCE DIET who gave Jesus the donkey colt to ride Music. Suddenly it dawned on me what does not change like shifting shadows. • PRO PLAN into Jerusalem! This flashy Trans-AM my heavenly Father had done. He used James 1:17 NIV was my sister’s prize possession and she Sandy’s birthday to prompt me to plan 8 2007 Jan McLaughlin All rights 719-275-7557 allowed NO ONE drive it. I knew God her surprise so He could surprise me. His reserved 3275 E. Hwy 50 - Canon City, CO 81212 (Across from McKenzie) was working in her heart and was grate- love enveloped me in an indescribable Jan McLaughlin is the director of Prayer ful for this miracle and Sandy and I were way and this gift left me speechless. His Warriors for Prisoners and may be soon on our way again. love surrounded me like a warm cloak reached by e-mail, PrayerForPrisoners@ Gary Graves, DDS We had to rush to get to the and I began to cry. I couldn’t stop. I msn.com or phone 719-275-6971 or theater before the show began. Until have never experienced His love in this www.PrayerForPrisoners.org Medical Alarms Become More Discreet Submitted by Nicky Nicholas, SRDA ton can remind some people of their ag- waterproof to 98 feet. Lifeline Development Director ing and sense of helplessness. The response to the watch but- That is why SRDA Lifeline is ton has been extremely positive; Lifeline GET A NEW SMILE SRDA Lifeline introduces a Timex happy to introduce the Philips Lifeline subscribers have been purchasing them Cosmetic Dentistry watch with a personal HelpButton.. Tempo watch; which was designed with at the introductory offer of $85 steadily Accepting New Patients SRDA Lifeline has offered help senior’s needs in mind. The Tempo watch since its availability. It is an attractive Medicaid/CHP at the press of a button to elders for 17 is an easy-to-read Timex watch with the watch that is used daily and comes in two Friendly Caring Staff Accept Most Insurances/Discount Plans years. One challenge that has been en- Lifeline built into it. The button is easy sizes and styles to meet the needs of the $25.00 Off Next Vist With Ad countered is the stigma some elders feel to press yet not so easy that it is set off by Lifeline subscribers. 2099 Hwy 50 West Ste #120 that is associated with a medical alert accident. The watch can be worn in the It is a great gift idea for family Pueblo, CO 81008 542-3595 service. Wearing a traditional help but- bath or shower with no worries, as it is members who are interested in getting a medial alarm service for their loved ones. The introductory offer for the watch ends May31st and the cost will increase in June. Also, for Mother/Father’s Day, SRDA Lifeline is conducting a FREE Activation promotion ($55 value) for the months of May and June to help inter- ested parties get started with the medical alarm service. For more information call the Lifeline office at 545-1212. May The Clouds Never Burst And The Son Always Find You!

Panoramic views from this hillside west of Florence. 1972 mobile MOTHER”S DAY with add on, 2 bedrooms, 1.5 baths. Other amenities include 2 car garage SPECIAL and shop, goldfish pond and root cel- FREE INSTALLATION lar. Property is 2.76 acres. $75,000 Ex: 5/31/07 Call Lynn at Prime Realty, 784-6100 or 250-4531. Page 24 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http://www.seniorbeacon.info Traveling: There's Nothing Like A Holiday! By The Way: Sylvan Setting In North Carolina by Jay Clarke and perhaps a train whistle will break DILLSBORO, N.C. -- In the valley silence. The whistle belongs the morning, billows of mist blur the to the Great Smoky Mountains Railroad, mountainsides. A coverlet of quiet a colorful tourist train that winds along drapes the town. Windows are dark in the scenic Tuckaseegee River from its white clapboard houses set amid leafy Dillsboro base. hardwoods, and the highway through The train is only one reason town is unnaturally still. visitors come to Dillsboro and neighboring Dillsboro, population 230, is just Sylva in summertime. The two towns, waking up on a summer day. only two miles apart, lie in the heart of Soon, though, breakfast aromas some of the most attractive mountain will spill onto the sidewalks, shops will country in America. unshutter their doors and windows, cars In summertime, thousands of will start streaming along the highway, vacationers come here to enjoy the cool air and simple ways of North Carolina’s mountain country. They go river rafting Pueblo Senior and tubing, take hikes, browse the shops and galleries for local arts and crafts, go on scenic drives and dine on Safety Triad Southern specialties like country ham Safety for seniors is our goal. and collards. Bikers wheel in for the Tour de • Information & Referral Tuck over 102-mile and 60-mile routes with plenty of elevation gain. This Dillsboro’s Enloe Marketplace occupies the former home of William Alfred Enloe, a • Senior Resource Directory year’s bike challenge, named for the merchant in the Civil War era. photo: Jay Clarke Tuckaseegee River, is Sept. 22. Other • Senior Safety Kits visitors simply relax in their mountain And Dillsboro is a town with from Western Carolina University in cabins, enjoying their stay in a sylvan plans, including a theater. “We’ve bought Cullowhee, Sylva also attracts college • Senior Advocates setting. 16 acres and hope to build a $2.8 million students, particularly on weekend nights. • Provides Educational Summer is a busy season, but playhouse on it,” says Jean Hartbarger, You’ll find them often in O’Malley’s or Programs peak visitation comes in the fall, when mayor of the town and also owner of the Main Street Bar and Grill. • Assists Senior Victims & the hillsides burst into brilliant autumn Jarrett House. Sylva’s and Dillsboro’s proximity colors. From Dillsboro, the Great Smoky to other popular sites in western North Seniors At Risk Dillsboro’s downtown is only Mountains Railroad makes a variety of Carolina is another plus. Ten scenic • Promotes Safety To Reduce two blocks long, but there’s a lot packed trips, following the Tuckaseegee River waterfalls are situated nearby. It is only Fear Of Crime into that space -- more than 60 shops, to Bryson City. In summer, the train runs nine miles to the Blue Ridge Parkway and a post office, the train station and four daily at 1 p.m. On the way, passengers 15 miles to the entrance of Great Smoky restaurants, including the town’s most can spot the remains of the locomotive Mountains National Park, the nation’s Senior Helpline famous eatery, the Jarrett House. Nearly used in a spectacular train wreck that was most visited park. And it’s just 12 miles every visitor to Dillsboro dines at staged here for the Harrison Ford movie to a Harrah’s casino. least once in the family-style hotel and “The Fugitive.” The train also runs dinner Western North Carolina’s 583-6611 restaurant, which has been a fixture here excursions on Friday and Saturday nights, mountains teem with vacation houses, so since 1884. and for six weeks in winter, its Polar 80 percent of visitors to this area stay in Express delivers children daily from their own or rental cabins, according to Bryson City to the “North Pole.” Julie Spiro of the Jackson County Travel Your Trusted Source of Neighboring Sylva, population and Tourism Authority. Only four chain 5,000, is much bigger than Dillsboro motels operate in the county. Companionship and Home Care for but has fewer shops. It’s a pretty town Vacation cabins rent for $85 to with a traditional main street, and as a $150 per night, depending on size, usually Tree City USA, it has 44 species of trees with a minimum-stay requirement. Lists Seniors lining its streets. Its much-photographed of lodging possibilities, as well as dining courthouse, built in 1914, looks down on and activities, are available from the the city from an impressive position atop tourism authority. the highest point in the city. INFORMATION As it is only a few miles Jackson County Travel and Tourism Authority, 773 W. Main St., Sylva, NC 28779, (800) 962-1911 or www.mountainlovers.com.

SENIOR guests These feature smaller portions *Country Fried Steak..... $5.89 Senior Cheeseburger... $4.99 Each Dinner Served With Your Choice of soup or salad! Country Fried Steak...... $5.99 Liver & Onions...... $5.99 Choppe Steak Dinner.... $5.99 Being able to live at home can be one of the most important Pork Chop...... $5.99 comforts in a senior's life. Our carefully selected Roast Turkey Dinner..... $5.99 CAREGiversTM help make that possible, with a wide range of Cod Dinner...... $5.99 5 Star Lawn Care non-medical services, welcome companionship and a ready s e n i o r c a r e Roast Beef Dinner...... $5.99 smile. At Home Instead Senior Care, we treat each senior as we With a little help TWO SENIOR Pre-emergent, would a member of our own family. from a friend. non-lawN weed control DINNERS (dO before April 1st) WE PROVIDE

• Wide variety of services, including meal preparation, light housekeeping Call for a free, Just $10.99 medication reminders, shopping, errands and incidental transportation. no-obligation appointment soil sterilization Pueblo: 719-545-0293 present ad - expires: 5/31/07 • Bonded, insured CAREGivers who completea stringent background check. Canon City free estimates • Short-notice staffing, including 24-hour, long-term and weekends. 719-545-0293 4137 N. Elizabeth St. Toll Free 866-945-0293 • Regular quality control checks to ensure prepared resporative care. Pueblo, CO - 545-3179 Major Credit Cards Accepted 543-7910 homeinstead.com Each Home Instead Senior Care franchise office is independently owned & operated. COUPON-COUPON-COUPON Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 25 Cookbook Nook: “Scream For Ice Cream!” by Peter D. Franklin goat cheese. The variety goes on and on, Whisk together the cream, cocoa Pinch of salt If you are one of those people serving up recipes that make you think, powder and sugar in a large saucepan. Zest the lemons directly into a who “scream for ice cream,” then you will “No way.” One of these in particular Heat the mixture, whisking frequently, food processor or blender. Add the sugar whoop for “The Perfect Scoop” by David is Olive Oil Ice Cream, but the author until it comes to a full, rolling boil (it will and blend until the lemon zest is very fine. Lebovitz (Ten Speed Press, $24.95). insists that the oil “pairs remarkably well start to foam up). Remove from the heat Add the lemon juice and blend until the At the outset, the author would with summer fruits, such as strawberries and add the raspberries. Cover and let sugar is completely dissolved. Blend in have the reader believe that as a child he and apricots.” stand for 10 minutes. the half-and-half and salt until smooth. spent lazy afternoons churning ice cream Chapters devoted to sorbets, Puree the mixture in a food Chill for 1 hour, then freeze the on Grandpa’s back porch. He is just sherbets and granitas follow with a processor or blender. If you wish, press mixture in your ice cream maker according having fun with the image; he actually profusion of unusual flavorings. The the mixture through a mesh strainer to to the manufacturer’s instructions. was a soda jerk at a busy emporium. He chapter on sauces and toppings begins remove the seeds. Makes about 1 quart. and his friends “ate almost as much of the with a traditional hot fudge but quickly Chill the mixture thoroughly, “Don’t expect this to taste like the frozen ice cream as our customers did!” Since moves on to recipes for marshmallow, then freeze it in your ice cream maker yogurt that squirts out of the machine at then he has been exploring the “fabulous” caramel, nuts and other delights. The according to the manufacturer’s the mall,” says the author. “That kind world of ice creams, sherbets, sorbets, author also is a big fan of “mix-ins” to instructions. is loaded with so much other stuff that granitas, gelatos and frozen yogurts. provide more texture or crunch. Makes about 3 cups. any similarity to real yogurt is purely “The Perfect Scoop” is a nice Ice cream aficionados should be This recipe is attributed to the coincidental.VANILLA FROZEN package -- innovative and fun to read -- delighted with “The Perfect Scoop.” It is late Barbara Tropp, author and teacher YOGURT and if you get off on the right foot with delicious. of Chinese cooking. The ice cream is 3 cups plain whole-milk yogurt the proper equipment and techniques, Here are three easy recipes from “superbly lemony and clean ... and as 1 cup sugar delicious treats await. “The Perfect Scoop.” zesty as was Barbara herself,” says author 1 teaspoon vanilla extract The recipes begin with the CHOCOLATE-RASPBERRY ICE Lebovitz. Mix together the yogurt, sugar and basics -- vanilla and chocolate, of CREAM SUPER LEMON ICE CREAM vanilla. Stir until the sugar is completely course -- and then move on to the more 1 1/2 cups heavy cream 2 lemons, preferably unsprayed dissolved. Refrigerate for 1 hour. unusual, such as green tea, coffee, milk 5 tablespoons unsweetened Dutch- 1/2 cup sugar Freeze in your ice cream chocolate, ginger and Guinness stout ice process cocoa powder 1/2 cup freshly squeezed lemon juice maker according to the manufacturer’s creams. Other flavorings include eggnog, 2/3 cup sugar (from about 3 lemons) instructions. roasted banana, sweet potato, honey and 2 cups raspberries, fresh or frozen 2 cups half-and-half Makes about 1 quart.

Penrose(372-0892) - Canon City(275-5524) FREMONT/CUSTER County Menus Florence(784-6493) - Silvercliffe (783-9508) CUSTER SENIOR CTR Cole Slaw, Grapes. Call 719-783-9508 for reservations before MAY 10: HAM AND BEANS, Cut 9:30am Mon, Tues & Thurs-Noon Meal Broccoli, Parslied Carrots, Orange Juice, Cornbread. may 1: SPINACH LASAGNA, Tossed MAY 15: TACO SALAD With Salsa, Veggie Salad, Green Beans, Tangerine. Tomato and Lettuce Garnish, Strawberry MAY 3: CHICKEN CORDON BLEU, Applesauce, Cantaloupe. Steamed Brown Rice, Asparagus, Apricots MAY 17: BAKED HAM With Raisin MAY 7: COMBINATION BURRITO, Sauce, Candied Sweet Potatoes, Green Lettuce, Tomato, & Salsa, Seasoned Beans Amandine, Cranberry Mold. Green Beans, Cilantro Lime Rice, Sliced MAY 22: SPAGHETTI With Meat Sauce, Peaches. Seasoned Green Beans, Tossed Salad, MAY 8: TURKEY SANDWICH, Provolone Orange. Cheese, Sliced Tomato on Lettuce, Waldorf MAY 24: BEEF & SWEET PEPPERS, Salad, Orange. WE HAVE ALL YOUR SPRINGTIME NEEDS Steamed Brown Rice, Orange Spiced MAY 10: BBQ PORK RIBS, Corn on • Caulking & Weather Stripping Materials • Sprinkler Parts • Tools Carrots, Grapefruit Half. the Cob, Seasoned Greens, Potato Salad, MAY 29: PUEBLO BEEF STEW, Whole Watermelon. • Lawn & Garden • Nails • Screws• Rental Equipment • Hardware • Bug Wheat Crackers, Sliced Yellow Squash, MAY 14: BAKED POTATO, Broccoli and Sprays • Rodent Control • Cooler/A.C. Products • Flooring Products Cooked Cabbage with Red Pepper, Fig Cheese Sauce, Tossed Salad, Fresh Plum, We carry Penofin Brand Penetrating Oil Finish! Cookie. Fruit Cocktail. MAY 31: CHICKEN FRIED STEAK With MAY 15: TATER TOT CASSEROLE, Open: Mon. - Fri. 7:30am-5:30pm Sat 8:00am - 5:00pm Country Gravy, Roasted Garlic Mashed Tossed Salad, Baked Acorn Squash, Pear. Potatoes, Cauliflower Broccoli Mix, Apple MAY 17: CHICKEN FAJITAS, Tomato, 222 S. McCulloch Blvd - Pueblo West Lettuce Garnish, Cilantro Rice, Cooked Cabbage with Red Pepper, Red Grapes. 547-0608 (ask about our senior discount) SALIDA CENTER MAY 21: SWEET & SOUR PORK, (Tues/Thu) - 539-3341 Steamed Brown Rice, California Vegetable Potatoes with Gravy, California Vegetable MAY 11: ROAST BEEF, Mashed Potatoes Medley, Seasoned Greens, Nectarine. with Gravy, Green Bean Amandine, Apricot MAY 1: SMOTHERED CHICKEN, Corn- Medley, Diced Pears. bread Stuffing, Seasoned Cauliflower Broc- MAY 22: SLOPPY JOE ON A BUN, MAY 17: SPAGHETTI With Meat Sauce, Peach Compote. Green Beans, Tossed Salad, Orange. MAY 14: SWEET & SOUR PORK, coli Mix, Applesauce Waldorf Salad. Scalloped Potatoes, Broccoli and Carrots, MAY 3: SWEET & SOUR PORK, Steamed Apple. MAY 18: SWEET & SOUR PORK, Steamed Brown Rice, California Vegetable Steamed Brown Rice, California Vegetable Medley, Diced Pears. Brown Rice, California Vegetable Medley, MAY 24: CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICH, Diced Pears. On Whole Wheat Bread, Sliced Tomato Medley, Diced Pears. MAY 16: BBQ BEEF BRISKET, Ranch MAY 22: ENCHILADA PIE, Sliced Style Beans, Carrifruit Salad, Honeydew MAY 8: HONEY BBQ CHICKEN, Scal- on Lettuce, Orange Juice (4 oz), Sliced loped Potatoes, Mexicali Corn, Creamy Peaches. Tomato on Lettuce, Sliced Yellow Squash, Cilantro Lime Salad. Mixed Fruit. MAY 18: SPAGHETTI, Italian Sausage w/ Cole Slaw, Grapes. MAY 28: No Lunch Served Today MAY 10: HAM AND BEANS, Cut Broc- MAY 29: PORCUPINE MEATBALLS, MAY 24: SWEET & SOUR CHICKEN, Marinara Sauce, Baked Acorn Squash and Steamed Brown Rice, Chinese Vegetables, Salad, Pizzelle & Fresh Pear. coli, Parslied Carrots, Orange Juice, Corn- Whipped Potatoes with Gravy, California bread. Vegetable Medley, Banana . Strawberry Applesauce. MAY 21: HAM AND BEANS, Cut MAY 25: TUNA NOODLE CASSEROLE, Broccoli, Parslied Carrots, Orange Juice, MAY 15: TACO SALAD With Salsa, To- MAY 31: KIELBASA, Parsley Buttered mato and Lettuce Garnish, Strawberry Ap- New Potatoes, Mixed Vegetables, Baked Italian Green Beans, Pineapple Tidbits. Cornbread. MAY 29: CHICKEN SALAD SANDWICH MAY 23: COMBINATION BURRITO plesauce, Cantaloupe. Acorn Squash, Pineapple Mandarin Orange MAY 17: BAKED HAM With Raisin Compote. On Whole Wheat Bread, Sliced Tomato on Smothered with Chicken Green Chili, Lettuce, Orange Juice, Sliced Peaches. Lettuce & Tomato & Salsa, Black Beans Sauce, Candied Sweet Potatoes, Green MAY 31: POTATO SOUP With Tuna Salad with Cilantro, Diced Pears . Beans Amandine, Cranberry Mold. FLORENCE CENTER Wrap, Shredded Lettuce & Tomato, Hard MAY 25: HAMBURGER, Catsup, Mustard, MAY 22: SPAGHETTI With Meat Sauce, 100 Railroad St. - Florence Tue/Th/Fri Boiled Egg, Grapefruit Half. & Onion, Sliced Tomato on Lettuce, Baked Seasoned Green Beans, Tossed Salad, Or- Beans, Potato Salad, Watermelon. ange. MAY 1: HAM AND BEANS, Cut Broccoli, MAY 28: No Lunch Served Today MAY 24:BEEF & SWEET PEPPERS, Parslied Carrots, Orange Juice, Cornbread. GOLDEN AGE CENTER MAY 30: BEEF STROGANOFF, Orange Steamed Brown Rice, Orange Spiced Car- MAY 3: ROAST TURKEY With Gravy 728 N. Main St.-Canon City M-W-F Spiced Carrots, Ruby Beet Salad, Mixed rots, Grapefruit Half. Whipped Potatoes, California Vegetable Fruit. MAY 29: PUEBLO BEEF STEW, Whole Medley, Raisin Nut Cup. MAY 2: BEEF & SWEET PEPPERS, Wheat Crackers, Sliced Yellow Squash, MAY 4: TATOR TOT CASSEROLE, Steamed Brown Rice, Orange Spiced PENROSE CENTER Cooked Cabbage with Red Pepper, Fig Tossed Salad, Baked Acorn Squash, Pear. Carrots, Grapefruit Half. 1405 Broadway-Penrose (Tues/Thur) Cookie. MAY 8: TURKEY POT PIE, Tossed Salad, MAY 4: TACO SALAD With Salsa, MAY 31: CHICKEN FRIED STEAK With Orange Juice, Apple. Tomato and Lettuce Garnish, Strawberry MAY 1: SMOTHERED CHICKEN, Country Gravy, Roasted Garlic Mashed Po- MAY 10: FRENCH DIP SANDWICH Applesauce, Cantaloupe. Cornbread Stuffing, Seasoned Cauliflower tatoes, Cauliflower Broccoli Mix, Apple. MAY 7: SWISS STEAK With Mushroom Broccoli Mix, Applesauce Waldorf Salad. With Au Jus, Oven Browned Potatoes, ALL MEALS SERVED Mixed Vegetables, Strawberry Applesauce. Sauce, Whipped Potatoes, Seasoned Greens, MAY 3: SWEET & SOUR PORK, Steamed MAY 11: BRATWURST ON A BUN, Cantaloupe. Brown Rice, California Vegetable Medley WITH MILK Sauerkraut, Mustard, & Onion, Pickled MAY 9: DIJON CHICKEN, Steamed Diced Pears. (Coffee or Tea optional). Beets, Sliced Peaches. Brown Rice w/Parsley, Shredded Green MAY 8: HONEY BBQ CHICKEN, Most meals served with bread MAY 15: SALISBURY STEAK, Whipped Salad, Cut Broccoli, Strawberries. Scalloped Potatoes, Mexicali Corn, Creamy and margarine. Page 26 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us At http://www.seniorbeacon.info Make Blood Donations Part Of Your Summer Plans by Julie Scott - 303.361.2873 – This summer Bonfils Blood Center Center. “Unfortunately, as we experience at one of our nine Front Range community [email protected] wants you to live your life and enjoy all this decrease in donations, the need donor centers or daily community Live. Give. the great activities that summer brings. for blood can increase due to accidents blood drives by calling 303.363.2300 or Make blood donation part of Whether indulging in cool waves, hot and emergencies as members of our 800.365.0006, opt. 2 or online at www. your summer plans sand and sunny weather of a tropical community become more active.” bonfils.org. DENVER (March 29, 2007) vacation or backpacking down a winding As a thank you for making blood For more than 60 years, trail into the depths of a Colorado forest, donation part of your summer plans, all Bonfils Blood Center has supported help wanted! don’t forget to take a little time to make donors who give between Sunday, May the community blood supply and has Home Instead Senior Care a big difference in the lives of patients by 20 and Saturday, July 14 will receive a played an instrumental role in the lives of We’re a non-medical com- giving blood this summer. Bonfils t-shirt and between Sunday, July patients in need throughout Colorado and pany with a need for caring, compas- From June through August, blood 15 and Saturday, Sept. 8 will receive a beyond. Bonfils Blood Center supplies sionate and honest people to provide donations can drop as much as 20 percent Bonfils water bottle. Donors who make blood to more than 200 healthcare companionship/homecare services to despite the increased need for blood. By two blood donations between May 20 and facilities and needs to collect 4,350 blood seniors. Make a difference by help- donating, you can give the gift of blood Sept. 8, will not only receive both gifts, donations weekly to meet the needs of the ing us keep our elderly happy and at so that others in need can continue to live but will also be automatically entered into community and to be prepared for any home. healthier and happier lives. Just one unit a drawing to win a getaway to Cancun, unexpected events. For more information We are looking for people of whole blood can save or enhance up to Mexico. Whole blood donors are eligible about Bonfils Blood Center, please visit that can work short shifts, 12 hour three lives in Colorado and beyond. to donate every 56 days. www.bonfils.org or call 303.341.4000 or shifts days or nights, or 24 hour shifts. “Summertime typically Schedule a donation appointment 800.365.0006. Whatever you are available for please brings a decrease in blood donations let us know. We do require that you as donors become busy with activities Read Senior Beacon on the Internet at pass a background check. and vacations,” said Jessica Maitland, We are located at: senior vice president of marketing and www.seniorbeacon.info 503 N. Main St. - Ste 700 Pueblo, CO community operations for Bonfils Blood 81003 - Please apply in person! FREE!!! TAP’s Small Engine Repair Fast - Friendly - Reliable Big D Superfoods Your Friendly Independent Supermarket Nearby& Neighborly Hwy 115 & Frazier in Florence - 784-9898 Featuring: * Fast Friendly Check Out We Service * Butcher Cut Meats All Types * Fresh Produce * In Store Bakery Of * Hot French Bread Small Engine * In Store Deli Equipment * Fried Chicken * Salads AVOID THE WAIT!!! SAVE $3.00 off your spring tune-up on *Competitive Prices any lawn equipment with this coupon. (not good with any other offer) Present this coupon when you bring your equipment in for service. Big D Superfoods Good only from 5/1/07 - 5/31/07 100 E. Main St. - Florence, CO - 719-784-3066 ©8#%,%.%2'9 ).#

/52"),, 9/52#/.6%.)%.#%

7ITH0AY3MARTFROM8CEL%NERGY3- PAYINGYOURBILLSWONTGETINTHEWAYOFLIVINGYOURLIFE7HETHERYOUCHOOSE/NLINE6IEW0AY !UTO0AY !VERAGED-ONTHLY0AYMENT 0AYBY0HONE #REDIT$EBIT#ARD0AYMENT OR#USTOM$UE$ATE YOULLSPENDMORETIMEONWHATS IMPORTANTANDLESSTIMEWORRYINGABOUTYOURBILL&ORMOREINFORMATIONORTOSIGNUPTODAY CALL   ORVISITXCELENERGYCOM 7EREHAPPYTOHELPSIMPLIFYYOURLIFEANDCLARIFYANYQUESTIONSABOUTYOURBILL 9OUR,IFE/UR%NERGY XCELENERGYCOM

8,"20/?#/?"ILL?X?3"0?!PRIL?&.,INDD !-

-i˜ˆœÀÊ i>Vœ˜]Ê*ÕiLœÊ
«ÀˆÉÓääÇ

£ä»ÊÝÊÇ°x»Ê Ê 8Ê Ê ÊÊ Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Senior Beacon - May, 2007 - Page - 27 Adventuring: Going Wild In New Foundland by Jeremy Schmidt They find a rugged landscape of There’s a place in Newfound- mountains, glacier-polished fjords, ice- land where the wild is surprisingly close bergs, caribou, moose, whales, thousands at hand. It’s Cape Quirpon, way out on of coldwater lakes, seabirds by the mil- the tip of Newfoundland Island, where lions and abundant coastline. the Gulf of St. Lawrence meets the At- The island is about 250 miles lantic. Icebergs sail past on the Labrador across but so ragged that its coast meas- Current like Viking ships of a thousand ures some 7,000 miles, not including years ago, and humpback whales brush smaller islands clustered around it. That’s the cliffs. twice the coastline of California. Every- “You can nearly walk on their thing from climate to vegetation to wild- backs, it’s that close,” says Kevin Vin- life is affected by the ocean. cent, a Newfoundlander. He’s not sug- It’s a wild place, to be sure, but gesting that anyone actually try it. He’s wild on a sliding scale. You can have it just pointing out that to stand on solid rugged or extreme, or even luxuriously rock and have great whales come to you comfortable, but you’ll never be far from is a huge experience. wild. The island is not so remote (500 Topping the marquee is Gros miles east of Maine) or as far north as Morne National Park, a UNESCO World Sea kayaking among icebergs -– and often whales -– is among the experiences that you might think. St. John’s, the capital, Heritage site famous for a granite-walled Newfoundland offers. photo: Explore Newfoundland is the same latitude as Seattle. Recently, freshwater fjord called Western Brook air service has picked up and fares have Pond. Visitors take a scenic boat cruise rugged part begins. An old hunters’ trail Place. dropped. There are two international air- traversing the 10-mile gorge beneath climbs some 2,000 vertical feet to a wide- Kayak or hike by day; live like ports. deep-shadowed, ice-scabbed cliffs. open tableland reminiscent of the far a pampered retired fisherman by night. Adventure-minded travelers, There’s no road to the pond. You have to north, home to caribou, black bears, arc- If that verges on the comfortable side if not exactly beating a path, are begin- walk a mile through moose meadows just tic hare, moose and occasional ferocious of wild, then surely so does the Quirpon ning to set their compasses toward North to reach the dock. weather. lighthouse. On the far northeastern tip of America’s easternmost point. Where the boat trip ends, the Here begins the Callahan Trail, Newfoundland Island, perched like some- the “jewel of the park,” according to Jer- thing from gothic imagination braving the ry Kovalenko, a photographer and writer tragedy and beauty of the North Atlantic, who has spent decades exploring the Ca- the lighthouse still operates, but the keep- nadian Arctic. er’s home is now an inn. While calling Gros Morne one The whales come here because of the most spectacular of national parks the nearby Gulf of St. Lawrence acts as a on the continent, Kovalenko warns that conveyor, bringing abundant sea life, par- the highlands can present a significant ticularly a fish called capelin. The water navigation challenge. is deep enough below the lighthouse that MEMBER FDIC “It’s dotted with low ridges and whales can herd the capelin against the Where Service and Banking Come Together! lakes that look much the same,” Kova- cliffs and gorge themselves, to the delight lenko says. “Intermittent trails made by of shore-bound watchers. 3 Convenient Pueblo Locations moose and other wildlife branch off and To Ed English, this is the sort peter out. People get lost in the tuck- of experience he treasures about New- To Serve You! amore.” foundland -- the unexpected closeness of Tuckamore refers to impenetra- nature. Asked to describe the single most ble stunted forests of spruce and fir. The rewarding thing an adventure-minded Newest Location Callahan Trail is well-marked by rock traveler should do in Newfoundland, he Pueblo South cairns, but other routes can be risky. The points out that 90 percent of the island is 1219 S. Prairie Ave. park provides hikers on trails like the public land. 719-561-5000 Long Range Traverse with transmitters “Go where you want, camp where to help wardens find them if they get lost you want,” he says. “Find the smallest or weathered in. Up here, the rugged wild road and follow it to its end. It probably can quickly become extreme. ends at the sea. Maybe a little village by Pueblo Pueblo West For those who would prefer the water, or just some wild place noisy 1515 Fortino Blvd. 94 S. Tiffany Dr. a guide, Ed English is happy to oblige. with seabirds, and there you’ll be.” 719-584-2000 719-547-4488 Owner of Explore Newfoundland, he de- INFORMATION lights in showing people the highlands, -- Newfoundland tourism, www. www.coloeast.com but he also offers something quite dif- newfoundlandlabrador.com. ferent: Drive to Round Harbor, a classic -- Gros Morne National Park, old-time fishing village on the Baie Verte www.pc.gc.ca/index_E.asp. 719-276-3220 peninsula, where he will put you up in a -- Explore Newfoundland, www. 313 Main St renovated fisherman’s house overlooking explorenewfoundland.com. Cañon City, CO the water. -- Newfoundland Coastal Walk- 81212 This is base camp for sea kayak- ing, www.newfoundlandcoastalwalking. No Bull - Just Sales [email protected] ing ventures among icebergs and whales, com. in and out of fjords beneath pine-clad -- Gros Morne Hostel offers headlands, and to an evocative aban- budget accommodations and adventure doned fishing village called Indian Burial tours, www.grosmornehostel.com

At Steers Real Estate, buying and selling houses is ALWAYS fun. Come do your next deal with us!!! Page 28 - Senior Beacon - May, 2007 Visit Us at http:// www.seniorbeacon.info Reeling "Secrets & Sins” by Film Critic Betty Jo Tucker, Pueblo SECRETS AND SINS Liberato, who plays Cadi, is a real find. -- and excruciating -- glimpse into the Why would a 10-year-old girl be Because of the intensity and vulnerability tragedy of losing a child. Although the obsessed with finding redemption? “The she projects, I worried about what would Welsh accents of most cast members are Last Sin Eater,” a fascinating drama set happen to her character throughout most sometimes difficult to understand, their in 1850s Appalachia, tells the story of a of the movie. And, in the role of Cady’s emotions ring true. youngster like this. She’s Cadi Forbes, protective teenage friend, Soren Fulton During the first half of the movie, who harbors deep feelings of guilt over excels at displaying concern and eager- “The Last Sin Eater” focuses on Cadi’s the death of her little sister. Cadi’s search ness to help. search for the Sin Eater. After witnessing for forgiveness takes her on a perilous Among the adults, Henry the ritual he performed to take away her journey and brings her face-to-face with Thomas and Stewart Finlay-McLennan grandmother’s sins during the woman’s a fearful creature called the Sin Eater stand out. Thomas portrays the man of funeral, she wants to him to do the same as well as with a dedicated man of God God who offers Cadi the key to redemp- for her – but while she’s still alive. who helps her discover the truth about tion. He’s quite convincing here, and my Unexpectedly, when these two meet, portrays a Man of God who goes to redemption. Along the way, Cadi also heart went out to his character in a brutal we wonder who bears the most torment, a small Appalachian community in the learns a disturbing secret about the Sin turn-the-other-cheek sequence. Finlay- and we can’t help feeling sympathy for mid-1800s, hoping to bring the Truth Eater – one with powerful implications McLennan offers a ferocious performance each of them. The rest of the film deals to the Welsh immigrants there. He soon for the Welsh-oriented community in as Brogan Kai, a hard-nosed man with an with Cadi’s changed beliefs as a result of meets a 10-year-old girl searching for which she lives. uncontrollable temper. Surprisingly, he’s meeting a dedicated man of God and the the Sin Eater in order to gain redemption This extremely well-photo- much more frightening than the Sin Eater revelation of a dark secret involving the for her sins. Being a former child actor, graphed film (scheduled for DVD (Peter Wingfield)! As a helpful elderly Sin Eater’s origin. Thomas has empathy for youngsters in release on May 15) establishes a com- neighbor, veteran actress Louise Fletcher Based on the award-winning showbiz. “It’s fun to work with kids who pelling “you are there” atmosphere. It steals her few scenes. Last but not least, novel by Francine Rivers and directed are good, and the kids in this movie were also boasts impressive performances by playing Cadi’s parents, A.J. Buckley and with great care by Michael Landon Jr., really good,” he said. “Director Michael children and adult actors alike. Liana Elizabeth Lackey give us a believable “The Last Sin Eater” doesn’t hold back Landon Jr. knew how to help them. He on either inspiration or suspense. I found didn’t let anyone slip into a false perfor- it an unusual and highly satisfying movie mance. This entire movie is a testament experience. (Released by Fox Faith and to his skill as a director.” rated “PG-13” for thematic elements and When asked about his biggest some intense sequences of violence.) challenge while working on this film, CHATTING WITH ACTOR Thomas replied, “All of my scenes took place next to a river, and I was afraid HENRY THOMAS I’d have to return to the soundstage Back in the early 1980s, mov- later to do a lot of dubbing. That was iegoers fell in love with Elliott, the the only thing I felt any stress about,” wide-eyed little boy in “E.T. the Extra- he explained. Luckily, the microphones Terrestrial.” Henry Thomas, who played picked up everything, so later dubbing this delightful role, has matured into a was unnecessary. fine adult actor with performances in Thomas believes The Last Sin such films as “Gangs of New York,” Eater delivers a valuable message about “Legends of the Fall,” and “All the Pretty the importance of looking at everyone’s Horses.” Counting television films, he’s beliefs in a changing world because “the made over 40 movies. world is shrinking, and we should be During a recent interview, open-minded to new challenges.” Thomas talked about his work in “The Last Sin Eater.” Attracted to this project Read Betty Jo’s movie reviews at www. because of the opportunity to play a ReelTalkReviews.com. Autographed type of character he hasn’t done before, copies of her books, CONFESSIONS Thomas said he simply had to do it. “I OF A MOVIE ADDICT and SUSAN fell in love with this firebrand out to SARANDON: A TRUE MAVERICK, are convert the masses, and I couldn’t resist available at Barnes & Noble and online the long speeches that speak to an actor’s at Amazon.com. Listen to her weekly ego,” he declared. radio show at www.ReelTalkRadio.com. In “The Last Sin Eater,” Thomas