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November 2016 • Vol. 16 • Issue 11 • www.BerksEncore.org For information on advertising in berksencore news please contact 610-374-3195, ext. 227. Inside This Issue... Agency Happenings ...pgs 9~15 Anniversaries ....................pg 38 presents Berks Encore Programs ......pg 20 Center News ..............pgs 21, 24 Center Spotlight ................pg 17 Combat Veteran Remembers ..pg 34 Development Spotlight .....pg 19 Discount Program .............pg 16 Editorial .............................. pg 2 brought to you by Law & Order .............pgs 25~28 & On-Going Activities .. pgs 22 & 23 Your Community ........pg 33~43 Your Health ................pg 29~32 The 16th Annual Senior Expo: Volunteer Spotlight .........pg 18 All the Info & Services You Need, in One Convenient Location! This year’s Berks Encore Senior Expo takes place handicapped placards. For all other attendees, on Tuesday, October 25 at a NEW LOCATION: there is alternative parking at the VF Outlet the DoubleTree Hotel in Reading, 701 Penn Street. lot off Park Road, behind Willoughby’s. There This brand new hotel boasts amazing amenities all will be continuous shuttle bus service brought Ask Sheriff Weaknecht......pg 26 in the convenient location of downtown Reading: to you by sponsor Sight and Sound Theatres a state of the art, 100-seat amphitheater; world- running between the VF Outlet lot and the class restaurant, Cheers; a 12,000 square foot DoubleTree throughout the day. Unless you have a ballroom; secure parking garage attached directly handicapped placard, please do not attempt to park to the hotel; and meeting rooms to accommodate at the DoubleTree. presentations and groups of all sizes. Your possibilities for the day are endless: more HELP US SHARE THE LOVE WITH EMERGENCY FOOD than 140 vendors, Medicare counseling and COLLECTION FOR SENIORS IN NEED presentations, cooking demonstrations, flu shots, Help combat senior hunger during Berks Encore’s educational sessions, and entertainment. We’re Senior Expo! As part of Berks Encore and Meals Birdsboro Fitness & excited to welcome new vendors: Pretzel City on Wheels America’s Share the Love campaign, Splash Opens ...................pg 32 Chorus; InTouch by SAH; Bachman’s Roofing, we’ll be collecting emergency food supplies. Our Building, & Remodeling; Berks Prosthodontics; Meals on Wheels program and congregate lunches Esterbrook Pharmacy; Leaning on the Promises at all six centers help provide a hot, nutritious meal Custom Walking Sticks; and more! to local seniors. But fighting senior hunger is an Senior Expo will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. ongoing battle. We’ll be collecting nonperishable To keep the day running smoothly, Berks Encore food donations at Senior Expo, which will help has some logistical instructions and procedures centers create and maintain a food pantry for for all attendees. Parking at the DoubleTree seniors in need. Donations will be accepted Hotel is strictly limited to vendors and those with See Senior Expo Details on pages 4, 5, 6 & 7! 2 From the desk of . LUANN OATMAN EDITORIAL Dear Reader, Boomer tastes and boomer needs will dictate offerings from companies small to large. I hope you’ll think about your future Another year and another with confi dence, openness, and optimism as you plan your Senior Expo is right around encore years. the corner on October 25! But this year’s Expo is As always, Berks Encore is here to help you navigate what LuAnn Oatman, President anything but “same old.” is often called the “aging maze.” Our staff can help you ace The new location alone, the retirement, fi nd your benefi ts, and help you live a more beautiful DoubleTree Hotel in downtown Reading, is worth a fu lfi lling life. Call us today at 610-374-3195. visit. If you haven’t checked out this amazing new cornerstone Sincerely, of Reading, you’ll be amazed at its size, scale, and incredible LuAnn Oatman, President/CEO amenities. The DoubleTree Hotel and its staff are committed to improving the lives of Reading residents and upgrading the city of Reading. DoubleTree staff even deliver two Meals on Berks County: Wheels route each week! I’ve watched as Senior Expo has continued to grow and evolve Let’s Do into the premier expo for older adults and their families and caregivers. Whether you’re approaching retirement, retired and living in your home, or have moved into a retired Lunch! facility—or you’re caring for someone who’s retired—the Expo has something for you. I’m proud of this event, which Enjoy a drive with a friend or gathers together a wide array of vendors there to offer you their family member and make an services. Expo also offers new features this year—you’ll read impact on the community. about them in the pages of this issue—that you’ll be sure to love. Volunteers needed in the Laureldale, Temple, and Pricetown Road areas Senior Expo is a great reminder to any of us in or approaching to deliver meals to homebound seniors. our encore years that we have the ability to make thoughtful choices to age well. As boomers retire, we’re becoming a large Contact Lori at 610-374-3195, x220 segment of the population that is a force to be reckoned with! for more information. OUR MISSION berksencore news is published monthly by berksencore 40 N. 9th Street, Reading, PA 19601 • Phone 610-374-3195 Chairperson, Board of Directors Carl W. Staples President LuAnn Oatman 2016 Editor Sarah Hunter-Lascoskie 2014 Pennsylvania Association of School Retirees Outstanding Media Recognition Award Recipient Printed by the Reading Eagle Company VEMBER VEMBER The mission of berksencore is to engage the community berksencore news Advertising Policy: to enable older adults to news • NO 1. All ads submitted to berksencore news for publication will be reviewed by staff for suitability. 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Limit 1 per shopping family. ©2016 Abbott Laboratories Coupon expires 12/31/16. 161292/July 2016 LITHO IN USA Clip and use this coupon. berks encore news • NO VEMBER VEMBER 2016 4 2016 Senior Expo 2016 continued from front page Berks Encore welcomes throughout the day on October 25 at the VF Outlet parking lot Jeff Krick, on Park Road, Wyomissing. Donations can also be dropped off Elvis Tribute at The DoubleTree the day of the event. SENIOR EXPO EXPO SENIOR Artist, for two shows PROGRAMS, PRODUCTS, FLU SHOTS, AND MORE in the Title sponsors Ensure, Glucerna, and Redner’s Warehouse White Star Markets will provide product samples and tastings throughout Cabaret/ Jeff Krick, as Elvis the day in the hallway leading to the main expo floor. In amphitheater. addition, flu shots will be provided by Walgreens A Berks County throughout the day in the Boscov favorite, Krick is an award-winning performer who Board Room. Be sure to bring your has traveled across the county bringing his unbelievable voice insurance information. and authenticity of bring Elvis to the stage! Join him as he Redner’s Warehouse Markets recreates Elvis concerts with the charisma, look, and stage Corporate Dietitian, Meredith presence you’d expect from the king himself. McGrath, will be presenting Looking for lunch? Cheers’ Restaurant will be providing a “Cooking More…With Less!” Join variety of special deals for Expo patrons. Lunch specials will Meredith as she walks you through be available in the restaurant itself and special $5 brown bag planning, purchasing and preparing lunches will be available for purchase for all attendees of any for everyday cooking. You will learn Lunch & Learn Program (all sessions between 11 a.m. and 1 how to get full, satisfied and nourished Meredith McGrath, p.m. as marked with an asterisk on the Expo schedule). Bottles with less time, less money, and a lot Registered Dietitian of of water will be available courtesy of Redner’s Warehouse less sugar, calories and fat! Redner’s Warehouse Markets Markets. In response to the overwhelming success of last year’s Live radio broadcasts by WEEU personalities Mike Keller and Medicare sessions, Berks Encore’s staff will facilitate additional Mike Faust will include special guests. Mike Keller kicks off the information sessions and will be available to answer questions. morning with a special interview with Robert Bean, founder of Dot Hartman, Berks Encore vice president of community-based Bean Funeral Home. Later, Mike Faust will interview a variety aging services, will present Medicare Changes 2017 throughout of Senior Expo vendors and Berks Encore staff. the day. The presentations are sponsored by Marrella Financial Our slate of Group. In addition, APPRISE counselors will be available to programs include assist with Medicare Annual Enrollment. Both counselors and presentations by the Medicare presentations will be available on the second local physicians floor directly adjacent to the elevators. If you would like to on the latest meet with a counselor, please bring along your Medicare card trending health topics for people over 50, including the and list of medications. There is no fee for this service. Council on Chemical Abuse, Berks Hearing Professionals, and Progressive Vision Institute.