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YOUR OLDTIME STYLE PUBLICATION WITH TODAY’S NEWS FOR SENIORS March - 2019 FRASER VALLEY - LOWER MAINLAND EDITION Volume 23 - Number 4 FREE - Please take a copy or by SUBSCRIPTION see page three CANADIAN PUBLICATIONS MAIL PRODUCT SALES AGREEMENT #40025695 Inside This Issue ACCORDION TO DAN by Dan Propp ......................................................... 3 FINANCIAL NEWS by Rick C. Singh ................................................... 6 THE PHARMACIST REVIEW ........................... 7 HOME IMPROVEMENT by Shell Busey ....................................................... 7 IRISH VIBES AT HOME AND ABROAD By Ursula Maxwell-Lewis ................................... 10 DINE OUT VANCOUVER-ALWAYS A DELIGHT. by Lenora A. Hayman ......................................... 12 LET'S TALK ABOUT IT! by Dr. Michelle Willis ND ................................... 13 STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH by Mel Kositsky ................................................... 14 WORD FIND PUZZLE ....................................... 15 COZY CORNER by Janet Isherwood .............................................. 16 WORLD HERITAGE RHODES: by Rick Millikan .................................................. 17 WRITE AS I PLEASE by Mel Kositsky .................................................. 18 FOR SENIORS - BY SENIORS Photo By Dan Propp Article Page 3 WITH NEWS YOU CAN USE If you would like to ADVERTISE in Today’s Senior Newsmagazine DETAILS ARE ON PAGE 3 Get the latest from Dan Propp Please visit www.Nostalgicroads.Weebly.com Search for Song CD’s by Dan Propp via cdbaby.com and also www.soundcloud.com plus books via www.amazon.ca 2 Today’s Senior Newsmagazine March, 2019 You Smile...We Smile Ask for our patient preferred “Sullivan Signature Dentures” Great Fit, Great Comfort and Great Looking Tricia Thobaben is certified in Dr Abe’s suction SEMCD technique, is an advanced set up practitioner for lingualized Bring this ad in for occlusion and runs a full service BPS Denture Clinic. Any$250 new scooter orOFF power chair Limited time offer. 20 Years Experience! “Denture & Implant Solutions” Read our Great Reviews at SullivanDentures.com! Tricia Thobaben Registered Denturist (formerly practiced in Langley) #110 5450 152 Street Surrey, BC V3S 5J9 604-577-0007 [email protected] www.sullivandentures.com University hearing study seeks participants. Connect Hearing, with hearing researcher It is estimated that 46% of people aged Professor Kathy Pichora-Fuller at the 45 to 87 have some degree of hearing loss1, University of Toronto, seeks participants but most do not seek treatment right away. who are over 50 years of age and have In fact, the average person with hearing never worn hearing aids for a hearing study loss will wait ten years before seeking help2. investigating factors that can influence This is because at the beginning stages of better hearing. All participants will have hearing loss people often find they can “get a hearing test provided at no charge and by” without help, however as the problem if appropriate, the clinician may discuss worsens this becomes increasingly harder hearing rehabilitation options including to do. For some people this loss of clarity is hearing aids. Qualifying participants may trying to understand the biology behind only a problem at noisy restaurants or in the also receive a demo of the latest hearing hearing loss. More importantly, researchers car, but for others it makes listening a struggle technology. The data collected from this study now realize the need to better understand how throughout the entire day. By studying will be used to further our understanding hearing loss affects your everyday life*. In this people who have difficulty hearing in noise of hearing loss and improve life-changing new hearing study, Professor Pichora-Fuller or with television, we hope to identify key hearing healthcare across Canada. and her team are trying to find out how factors impacting these difficulties and Why participate in the hearing study? people learn to live with hearing loss and further understand their influence on the Hearing problems typically result from damage how new solutions could help these people treatment process. to the ear and researchers have spent decades take action sooner and live life more fully. If you are over 50 years of age and have never worn hearing aids, you can register to be a part of this new hearing study† by calling: 1.888.242.4892 or visiting connecthearing.ca/hearing-study. * Pichora-Fuller, M. K. (2016). How social psychological factors may modulate auditory and cognitive functioning during listening. Ear and Hearing, 37, 92S-100S. † Study participants must be over 50 years of age and have never worn hearing aids. No fees and no purchase necessary. Registered under the College of Speech and Hearing Health Professionals of BC. VAC, WCB accepted. 1. Cruickshanks, K. L., Wiley, T. L., Tweed, T. S., Klein, B. E. K., Klein, R, Mares-Perlman, J. A., & Nondahl, D. M. (1998). Prevalence of Hearing Loss in Older Adults in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin: The Epidemiology of Hearing Loss Study. Am. J. Epidemiol. 148 (9), 879-886. 2. National Institutes of Health. (2010). 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By a time warp it feels like we are caught. thing to whimsically study with awe. Similarly, showers may come Who would have ‘thunk it’, who would have had a tomorrow’s driverless car will evolve from the role of your way, ‘yahoo’, hunch. Do you still remember songs like ‘How Much wow, what will they think of next, to ho hum and 2019 is March-ing is That Doggy in the Window’? How about that clas- eventually back down the collectible road and regain along. The darkness is sic building - still standing - that housed the offices of the same novelty stature as a cassette tape. lifting, we’re seeing a The Vancouver Sun. Where did those times go? The HOW THE LATEST INNOVATION CAN lot more daylight, hur- shrine Circus at the PNE. The shoot the shoots splash CHANGE STATURE rah. Anybody still filled ride. The original parade that began on Burrard, From Gene Autry, Hop-a-long Cassidy and Roy remember that Al Jolson song about the red, red robin oh me, oh my. There are so many good memories Rogers. Comic books like Little Lulu, Bugs Bunny or comes bob, bob, bobbin’ along? It’s time to hopefully floating inside! The old flag and those days after the Dick Tracy. The good old days of the Brooklyn wave goodbye to the winds of last December, the war. The Austins, Vauxhalls and how everything used Dodgers. Sponsors, slogans such as ‘look sharp, feel furnace working overtime, and perhaps recalling to be. So many more ma and pa corner run stores. All sharp’. Those old-time memories can drive us crazy. other happy time lyrics such as ‘the flowers that those waves of many yesterdays today keep reflecting From Joe Lewis to Rocky Marciano, when we were bloom in the spring, tra-la’, thanks to Gilbert and on our shores. glued to our tube radio or hand-made crystal set. Sullivan. Back around nineteen fifty, Teresa Brewer had a Today they can bring back many nostalgic appetites. For seniors, memories are very important. As huge hit out called ‘Put Another Nickel In’. I was Put us into a state of bliss at collectible sales some technology keeps moving so fast these days it’s a bit thinking about that song one morning while slurping seniors can get, recalling long time gone champion- of a challenge sometimes to keep up. Cleaning up the a coffee at a convenience store. Many of the regulars ship fights. garage recently it was a real discovery to find a few were showing up and buying lottery tickets. That’s a We might see a genuine Marconi radio receiver or precious home-made cassette tape recordings of Jack huge business today in BC, what a difference from the wind up record machine. Listening to a record of Cullens old Owl Prowl on CKNW. Fortunately, there days old WAC Bennett. The only lottery then was still Toscanini conducting or to Caruso can be powerful was also a cassette recorder kicking around that still ‘hush hush’ and ‘illegal’, The Irish Sweepstakes. With stuff. Hearing the New York Philharmonic can take us works perfectly. Teresa Brewers famous song still revolving, one felt way back to how things once had been. We might be Recently, at a thrift store I picked up a treasure, a compelled to bang out the following, while sitting at amused seeing an original 1949 TV by RCA. book that everyone who enjoys local nostalgia should their counter with a coffee. Now, close your eyes and try to imagine a col- read—'Red Robinson–The Last Deejay’, by Robin PUT ANOTHER LOONIE IN lectible sale fifty years from now. Folks might be Brunet. All of us remember Red way back starting in Put a few more loonies in that government lottery, going ‘bananas’ viewing a green screen computer the 1950s. It was Jack Cullen who inspired him. What so we can win. All we want from you is winning, win- called a 64 Commodore, ‘iphones’, eight track record- a great read! ning, winning.