Published by E.P. MASS MEDIA ADVERTISING INC. VOL.IV No. 29 JANUARY 2011 MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 2 Social Security’s Online Retirement Estimator Available in Spanish at www.segurosocial.gov Legendary TV Host Don Francisco Says Using the Estimator is “So Easy!”

Michael J. Astrue, Commissioner of Social Security, announced that the agency’s most popular online service – the Retirement Estimator – is now available in Spanish at www.segurosocial.gov/calculador.

The Retirement Estimator uses a person’s own Social Security earn - ings record to provide immediate and personalized benefit esti - mates. To publicize the website and the new Spanish-language service, Social Security has enlisted the help of the widely popular and well-respected host of Sabado Gigante , Don Francisco.

“The Spanish-language Retirement Estimator and the other informa - tion available on www.segurosocial.gov will help us provide a broader audience with important information they need to plan for a secure retirement,” Commissioner Astrue said. “I thank Don Fran - cisco for volunteering his services to help us get the word out to the Spanish-speaking community.” You can see Don Francisco’s Public Service Announcement by visiting www.segurosocial.gov/calculador.

“I ask my many friends to go to www.segurosocial.gov, not only for themselves but also to help their loved ones,” said Don Francisco. “There is a lot of great information there. Estimating your benefits and learning about Social Security online in Spanish is so easy.”

The Retirement Estimator is interactive and allows the user to com - pare different retirement options by changing retirement dates or expected future earnings. It protects the user’s personal information by providing only retirement benefit estimates -- it does not show the earnings information used to calculate the benefit estimate, nor does it reveal other identifying information. Almost four million people have used Social Security’s English-language Retirement Es - timator this year.

“The Retirement Estimator is the first of our online services avail - able in Spanish,” said Commissioner Astrue. “But we are not stop - ping there. We are working to make our online retirement application and Medicare Extra Help application available in Span - ish next year. Until then, visit www.segurosocial.gov to estimate your benefits and learn more about Social Security.” MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 3 101 Year Old Dr. John Johnstone was once General Eisenhower’s physician By Joe Olvera ©, 2010

Insisting that he’s not im - the war he decided to settle down 1953, serving two terms until here. “I liked the people, they were 1961. Before he became President, portant, Dr. John Johnstone of El very friendly and nice, plus I liked however, he successfully invaded Paso once served as a physician to the climate, so me and my wife, France and Germany in 1944- General of the Army (five-star Lady Ruth decided to move here 1945. And, despite Dr. Johnstone’s General) Dwight David Eisen - and open our clinic.” modesty, he was part of the med - hower from 1941 to 1946. “I’m Eisenhower, who was ical crew that was responsible for not important,” Dr. Johnstone said. Supreme Allied Commander of all removing a blackish nodule from “Other people are more important Allied Forces in Europe, became the trunk of Eisenhower’s body. than me.” Johnstone also worked President of the United States in Continues on page 7 as a physician in El Paso from 1947 to 1983, where he owned Johnstone Clinic on Snelson Drive.

At age 101, Dr. Johnstone said he’s still in good health, but, is a little hard of hearing. “I’m still here, ain’t I?” Dr. Johnstone said. “When I was one of General Eisenhower’s physicians, he was in very good health, so I just did small stuff for him. I just went through the war with him. My job was to see that nothing happened Southern Illinois, said he served to him.” two years at William Beaumont Army Hospital before he was part Dr. Johnstone, originally from of Eisenhower’s Advanced Com - mand Post as a Lt. Colonel. He liked El Paso so much, that after

Dr. John Johnstone and his wife Lady Ruth Johnstone MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 4 Department Offers the Gift of Social Security Column Good Health This Season YOUR RESOLUTIONS El Paso, Texas – The City of El FOR 2011 Paso Department of Public Health is offering free zoster/shingles By Ray Vigil paid Social Security taxes during vaccines to those 60 years and Social Security Public Affairs your working years and a sum - older, as well as a limited amount Specialist in El Paso, Texas mary of the estimated benefits you of TDAP vaccine for adults 64 and your family may receive in re - years and younger. The vaccines It’s that time of year: out with the tirement, survivors or disability will be provided at all of the city’s old and in with the new. You may benefits as a result of those earn - five Health Department clinics. be thinking about your list of New ings. There is a limited amount of vac - Year’s resolutions for 2011. There cines that will be offered free of velop shingles because VZV re - are many important things to con - 3.Visit the ballpark. Not that one; charge, so residents are urged to mains in the nerve cells of the sider. May we suggest a few? the Ballpark Estimator. It will call to make an appointment or body after the chickenpox infec - Each of these will take only a mat - help you do a better job of saving visit as a walk-in as soon as possi - tion clears and VZV can reappear ter of minutes. for your future. It’s true that times ble. years later causing shingles. Shin - have been tough lately. But no gles most commonly occurs in 1.Get an estimate of your future matter how much you earn, it’s a Shingles is a painful, localized people 50 years old or older, peo - Social Security benefit. In just a good idea to try to save. Check skin rash that often includes blis - ple who have medical conditions few minutes, you can have an in - out the Ballpark Estimator for a ters that is caused by the varicella that keep the immune system from stant, personalized estimate of projection of how much you zoster virus (VZV), the same virus working properly, or people who your future Social Security bene - should save for a comfortable re - that causes chickenpox. Anyone receive immunosuppressive drugs. fit. Our online Retirement Estima - tirement. Go to the ballpark at who has had chickenpox can de - Continues on page 8 tor gives estimates based on your www.choosetosave.org/ballpark. actual Social Security earnings record. This is valuable to know Deciding to diet, exercise, read when you’re making plans for more books, or watch less televi - your future. Check it out at sion are all good resolutions. But www.socialsecurity.gov/estimator. the ones we suggest don’t require nearly as much work and won’t 2. Read your mail. Be especially nag you all year long. Take a few careful about looking at mail that minutes now, and you could have arrives from Social Security. this list of resolutions knocked out About two to three months before in less time than it takes to put to - your birthday, you should receive gether a list of resolutions. your annual Social Security State - ment. Your Statement is a concise, Happy New Year from Social Se - easy-to-read personal record of curity. Feel free to visit us anytime the earnings on which you have at www.socialsecurity.gov. MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 5 MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 6 69th Charter Anniversary Ysleta Lions Club

Don & Irene Peppard

Henry & Rachel Gonzalez

Orlando & Gabriela Rodriguez Mr. & Mrs. Daniel Lucas

Cecil Roark, Jim, Charlie Black

Mr. & Mrs. Frank Leroux

Dr. John Johnstone & Esther Lujan

Joe Rodriguez Willie & Tobie Tobie & Dr. Johnstone

Governor Orlando Rodriguez & Dr. John Johnstone Gilbert Blancas & Patsy Achim Esther & Armando Lujan Francis & Aubrey Cherry MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 7

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The belief was that he had a ma - lignant melanoma. Following his tour of duty, Eisenhower was re - cruited to run for President as a Republican. He died of a heart problem in 1969. Being part of the medical crew for the General was part of

Dr. Johnstone’s job, and he’s not particularly proud of having served the President-to-be. “I knew what I was doing, and I knew what my job was,” Dr. Johnstone said. “I was just lucky to be at the right place at the right time.” Dr. John Johnstone and his wife Lady Ruth Johnstone

RapidArc ® radiotherapy technology , a revolutionary breakthrough in cancer treatment that delivers powerful tumor-destroying radiation with remarkable precision, is now available at Cancer Radiation and Specialty Clinics of El Paso.

Varian RapidArc radiotherapy technology is an effective cancer treatment representing an advanced new form of image-guided IMRT (intensity modulated radiation therapy). This technology enables the radiation oncologist to program a linear accelerator to deliver precise forms of IMRT up to eight times faster than other IMRT systems. It does this by delivering the complete IMRT treatment to the patient in fewer rotations than traditional IMRT. As a result, the tumor will receive the full radiation dose within less than two minutes compared with 10 minutes or longer for conventional IMRT.

Treatment speed is important because it reduces the time that the patient must lie still and avoid any movement. As treatment time is reduced, Varian RapidArc has the potential to improve both the quality of care and Dr. Stephanie Han comfort of the patients. Dr. Stephanie Han 7812 Gateway Blvd East, Ste 120 . 915-598-3888 MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 8 fREE zostER/shiNGlEs vAcciNEs..... Continued from page 4 weeks. It can lead to pneumonia, seizures, brain damage, and death. Shingles vaccine was recently rec - ommended by the Advisory Com - For an appointment, residents can Farmers promote alpaca fiber mittee on Immunization Practices call (915) 771-5822 or visit one of By Wanda Combs room sit two large looms, (ACIP) to reduce the risk of shingles the following locations: MEDIA GENERAL NEWS SERVICE where Joanie works on and its associated pain in people 60 BENT MOUNTAIN, Va. some of her projects. When years old or older. Henderson Clinic A small farming opera - she is not weaving, she 721 S. Mesa tion in Bent Mountain is knits and crochets. The “Shingles is often initiated by stress, setting a unique example. fiber she uses comes from so this is the perfect time of the year Northeast Clinic Ed and Joanie Kinser be - the alpacas. to take some time for yourself and 5587 Transmountain came alpaca farmers after get vaccinated. In addition to the their retirement from After they shear the al - pain and discomfort, it can take a Tigua Clinic other careers, but their pacas every year, the Kin - person months before they recover 7862 San Jose Enchanted Hill Farm goes sers send off the fiber to from shingles,” said Roxann Parks, beyond just raising the be washed and carded and Nursing Program Manger, Depart - Ysleta Clinic majestic creatures. ready to spin. They use ment of Public Health. 110 Candelaria “He works with the ani - one of the mini-mills, a mals,” Joanie explains. “I cottage industry, that will Meanwhile, diphtheria, tetanus, and Westside Clinic like to play with fiber.” do small batches of fiber. pertussis are serious diseases caused 5195 Mace In the couple’s family Continues on page 10 by bacteria. Diphtheria and pertus - sis are spread from person to person. For more information on the variety Tetanus enters the body through cuts of programs and services offered by or wounds. the City of El Paso Department of Public Health, please visit: Diptheria causes a thick covering in www.elpasotexas.gov/health the back of the throat. It can lead to breathing problems, paralysis, heart failure, and even death. Tetanus causes painful tightening of the mus - cles, usually all over the body. It can lead to “locking” of the jaw so the victim cannot open their mouth or swallow. Tetanus leads to death in up to 2 out of 10 cases. Pertussis (also known as whooping cough) causes coughing spells so bad that it is hard for infants to eat, drink, or breathe. These spells can last for

MGNS PHOTO Ed Kinser interacts with an alpaca named Groucho Marx. MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 9 Full Moons By: “Doppler” Dave speelman I received saying calling the back side of the an email moon (the side we never see) the from a "dark side of the moon", but that's reader ask - not really true. The next time you ing about see a "new moon", remember the Full dark side of the moon is getting all Moons of the light, we just don't see it and how from earth. we get them. We The moon is more than just a re - had our last full moon Tuesday, ally cool night light for the sky. December 21 – called the “Cold The gravitational pull of the moon Moon” because of the long, cold actually bulges the water in the nights in December. oceans out from the earth's surface toward the moon. The gravitational Full moons are really neat. Why pull on the side of the earth oppo - can't we have them site the moon is not as all the time? Why is strong so the oceans the moon never the don’t bulge on that side. same? The four dif - This constant push and ferent phases of the pull tug-of-war with the moon - first quarter, oceans by the moon is full, last quarter, and what causes the tides at "new" moon - have the beach. So the next to do with the rela - time you find yourself tive positions of the standing on a full, sun, the moon and moonlight night on the the earth in the moon's monthly beach, think about the moon trying orbit of the earth. It can get pretty to pull the water out of the ocean. confusing because of all the differ - ent orbits and rotations; the moon Here are the traditional names orbiting around the rotating earth, given to each month's full moon: the earth and moon orbiting around the sun. But remember; the light of the moon is actually the light of the sun reflecting off the face of the moon. The reason we don't see any light on the moon during a Wheater Trivia: new moon is because the far side of the moon is getting all the light, If we could take a 747 jet and fly to the moon, how while the side we see is cast com - long would it take? pletely in shadow. When we have a full moon it's because the moon is A. 10 Days C. 26 Days facing us AND the sun, so we see B. 14 Days

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0 0 0 , 0 5 2 t u o b a s i n o o m e h T . s y a d 6 2 e k a t d l u o w t I . C : r e w s n We always see the same side of the A moon. The moon rotates on its axis while orbiting the earth; it just “Doppler" Dave Speelman is the chief meteorologist at KVIA-TV in does one rotation on its axis for El Paso. You can watch his forecasts at 4, 5, 6 and 10 pm on ABC-7 each revolution it makes around (channel 6 cable). If you would like Doppler Dave to address the earth, so it keeps the same side (explain) any weather issues you can email him at facing the earth. There's an old [email protected] MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 10 alpaca fiber Continued from page 8 shorter hair.” Ed does the shearing. Joanie The Kinsers know exactly assists. Sometimes a neighbor which alpaca the fiber comes is called upon to help lay down from. They also have the op - the animals. Shearing starts in tion, Joanie notes, of using the morning when it is not too fiber from two animals and hot, and the Kinsers can shear getting it drafted in a certain about 5–7 alpacas a day. It way. In addition to using takes 10 days to two weeks, fiber from their alpacas, the depending on the weather, to Kinsers are doing what they shear the whole herd. can to promote the use of it Joanie, a retired nurse, came on a broader scale, and up with the idea of raising al - Joanie adds, with the green pacas. She just wanted one for movement, there is a wide - the fiber. They soon found out spread interest in knitting you cannot have just one, and and weaving with natural the herd grew. Ed adds alpacas fiber. are companion animals and dent. An alpaca from Alpaca babies are born with owners need to have at least Canada, Celestia has gone fuzzy fiber, Joanie explains. But it all ties back to the two of the animals, and if through two surgeries and is Everything sticks to it. “It’s joy of raising the gentle and you’re considering just two (for an amputee. Following her like Velcro.” The spring ba - beautiful alpacas. The ani - fiber), males are the better medical emergencies, she bies at Enchanted Hill get mal’s needs are simple and picks. also gave birth to a daughter, sheared within a couple of include fenced pasture land which the Kinsers named and protection from preda - It’s like Christmas at the Gift. tors. The Kinsers started Kinser house when a shipment their farm with goats and the of yarn arrives back from the There are names for all of needed fences for them, so mill, says Ed. Joanie says the the alpacas, and since the the alpacas were a good fit. ability to choose the animal or Kinsers know they will al - To guard their alpaca herd animals she wants for the ways have babies in the pas - from stray dogs and coyotes, yarn and also the way she ture, they keep a list of they added two Great Pyre - wants it blended, from 2–8 ply, prospective names on sticky nees. is important. The couple also notes in the kitchen cabinet. In the summer, the alpacas has a personal attachment The names often carry family eat the grasses in the fields. with the alpacas through the significance, for instance In the winter, the Kinsers things she makes with the feed them hay (from finer fiber. second cuttings) and alpaca Before she weaves, Ed also months to avoid getting so food pellets. “They are most helps her set up the loom, much debris in their fiber and efficient for converting food which is laborious process, she also to get them in good into energy,” Ed comments. says. “Setting up in weaving shape by the time hot days “Two to three pounds of hay takes longer than weaving it - arrive. a day for one alpaca, plus self.” some pellets.” The alpacas are pets, and The alpaca fiber is fine and when some must be sold, it is has no lanolin. The fiber from One of the farm’s favorite sad making decisions, Joanie Izzy, the mother of Isabella, young animals, one to three alpaca families began with says. “We put it off as long as who in turn had Izbo. Since years, is best. Ed points to Maria from Chile. Maria had we can. The hardest thing is all the alpacas must be regis - Groucho Marx waiting in the Oh Be Joyful, who in turn trying to decide who leaves.” tered, names with family pen before being released to had Appalucy and Groucho connection make the process the pasture. “His hair is 6–7 Marx (named for his bushy Wanda Combs is a writer for easier. inches long when sheared. eyebrows). Celestia will also the Floyd Press in Virginia. Older females tend to have always be a permanent resi - MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 11 Home remedies from the old days often find new converts

By Jacqueline Baylon SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE In a shop in Sacramento, Calif., Valentin Curiel stands in a corner near the meat counter, waiting for customers who need his help — the mothers whose babies have colic, the insomniacs, people with skin infec - tions. Curiel, in his 60s, grew up in Mex - ico when most families did not visit the doctor if they got sick. Instead, they relied on herbs, minerals and botanicals — and the advice of elders on how to use them. Residents in his neighborhood — many of them Mexican immigrants who’ve heard of Curiel from friends or relatives — tell him about their ailments and get his suggestions for cures. “Some of the home remedies I know SHNS PHOTO about really work,” Curiel said. Maria Dorais looks at some of the different herbs for sale at La Mexicana Bakery. Dorais, who has Continues on next page medical insurance, said that she grew up never going to a doctor; her grandmother knew about many plants to use for remedies. MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 12 Home remedies...

Continued from page 11 people it can heal the heart and calm the nerves just by Manzanilla, or chamomile, holding it while in the shower. can soothe stomachache or in - For people who have skin in - somnia when drunk as tea, he fections or gastritis, he sug - tells them. If the manzanilla gests a plant called doesn’t work, he recommends cuachalalate that can be hierba buena, or mint tea. soaked in water and be rubbed Dr. Hillary Campbell of on the skin. He also tells them Kaiser Permanente Medical to drink the leftover water as a Center in Sacramento said tea. she found a survey from the World Health Organization Curiel treats his own dia - while researching alternative betes with nopalitos, a cactus. medicine. It suggested that 80 He said it also can be used to percent of developing coun - But she doesn’t use all the “It is important that we as lower the need for cholesterol tries use herbal medicine. handed-down remedies, doctors ask if they are using al - medication and treat gastroin - “And now most people using among them softening the ternative medications and pay testinal disorders, skin ail - alternative medicine in West - pain of tonsillitis by swallow - attention to these forms of ments and viral infections. He ern society are those who have ing an egg yolk sprinkled with medications,” Wolfe said. tells people to cook the nopali - immigrated from developing sugar. Or warming a banana Too much of an herb can be - tos and eat them on their own countries,” she said. peel and placing it on the bot - come toxic, and it can be un - or drink them in a smoothie. tom of her foot to soothe a sore safe to take some of them with A couple of doors down from Many combine the home throat. prescribed medications. where Curiel dispenses his ad - remedies with modern medi - “I am more cautious now vice, many of the herbs he rec - cine, working with doctors and I probably would take the But alternative medicine can ommends are for sale at La who teach them to avoid bad kids to the doctor for things also complement prescribed Mexicana Bakery. combinations or overuse of al - that may seem more serious,” medicines, Wolfe said. ternative treatments. Gonzalez said. Miguel Campos and his A 2007 National Health In - mother, Gloria Campos, said Like Curiel, Rebecca Gonza - Dr. Ashby Wolfe of the de - terview Survey found that 38 that, in a good day, 10 to 15 lez’s grandmother was known partment of family and com - percent of adults reported customers will buy herbs for in her town in Mexico as the munity medicine at the using complementary and al - various treatments. woman with the remedies and University of California, Davis, ternative medicine in the pre - “Our store is known to be the knowledge. Gonzalez said that Medical Center, said a lot of vious months. place to go for these remedies,” back then, in the rural town, her patients are Latino and Wolfe and Campbell both Miguel Campos said. even if people wanted to go to many have used some kind of said they believe doctors don’t a doctor it was impossible to alternative medication. get enough training in comple - These days, many of them find one. It’s her routine to ask every mentary and alternative medi - come in cellophane packages “So part of it may have been patient. cines. with labels marked in Spanish necessity, but part of it may and English. have been a way of life,” she Curiel’s training has come Gonzales said she believes said. from experience. And the suc - her children will continue the cess of his advice relies partly home-remedy tradition. Gonzalez said she still relies on faith. on teas to help with a sore “Not all the home remedies “These remedies are part of throat or insomnia before that I know of work for every - their culture and they come she’ll go to a doctor or take a one, but staying hopeful and with the story of ‘This is what pill. And in the winter, to positive definitely helps,” he my grandmother did,’ so avoid getting sick, she said, said. maybe it will work,” Gonzalez she always has cinnamon or For depression, Curiel sug - said. mint tea brewing. gests showering with palo de Brazil, or Brazilwood. He tells MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 13 My summer adventure: Hip-replacement surgery

By Tom Zucco gets increasingly painful and, watched an entire 90-minute SCRIPPS HOWARD NEWS SERVICE in some people, you can even hip operation. With narration. Today’s topic is the rebirth hear a clicking sound, a I did learn this: Hip-replace - of the hippie movement. bizarre Morse-code message ment surgery is like advanced The number of Americans your body is sending. shop class. There’s sawing, who have hip-replacement Translation: “This is bad. hammering and dust. surgery is expected to jump Get the checkbook.” WARNING: Here comes the from about 250,000 this year pound of metal in you that There are other, less radical gory part. A 6-inch incision is to more than 500,000 in 2030. wasn’t there before, and that’s procedures like resurfacing made toward the back of your To be clear, no Americans if you only had one hip done. the joint. But mine was too far hip, the head of your femur is with hip replacements will Here’s a myth that needs to gone. I bought the whole pack - sawed off and a metal ball jump. They can’t. The num - be debunked: It’s not always age. and stem are hammered into bers will. elderly or overweight people, However, before that could place. The socket is reamed Unlike the 1960s, for this or those who injured their hip, happen, the surgeon and the and fitted with a metal cup, movement you’ll need serious who need a replacement. I’m hospital wanted about $6,500 with a smaller, plastic cup in - cash and/or really good health 58, I exercise daily, I’ve never as a down payment. Like I side, and the new ball joint is insurance. The cost of a hip been overweight, and I’ve was buying a Buick. The anes - attached. replacement is about $50,000. never been seriously trauma - thesiologists hit me up later Then a guy with “Ned” on And it’s not like you can buy a tized. for another grand, and then his shirt wakes you up and discount hip and upgrade But I developed osteoarthri - there were the home-health- tells you your car is ready. later. tis, which is a Latin term care people who had to come Total time: about 90 min - I know. I checked. meaning “there goes any to my house and change my utes. But hot, new social trends thought of a vacation.” dressing the first week. When will someone who’s should not be missed, and It can happen to anybody, Even with health insurance, had a hip replaced be com - pain can be ignored only so and this is how it starts: my out-of-pocket cost was pletely better? I asked my long. So I had the procedure I It keeps getting harder to about $8,500. surgeon, Dr. Robert Swiggett, done in late June. run or walk short distances. Important tip: DO NOT log that question. The surgery went fine and I Getting in and out of low onto YouTube and watch an It depends on your age, gen - the people at the hospital seats takes longer and longer. operation you plan to have. der, weight, physical condition were wonderful. I have less I People keep asking why It’s not like you can assist in and the type of procedure, he pain and more range of mo - you “walk funny.” the surgery, and it’s only going said. “It could be three tion than before. But the re - What’s happened is that to make you want to drive to months. Maybe four or five.” covery is not as easy as you there is little or no cushion Wyoming and live under an “Patience,” I said. may have heard. You’re walk - left between the ball of your assumed name. “Is a virtue,” he said. ing around with about a hip joint and the socket. This I broke this rule and Right on. MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 14

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NoRThEAST/ days (private readings not included day and Saturday, and 5:30 p.m. with admission). Free admission Sunday. Tickets: $5 general admis - CENTRAl with active duty military I.D. In - sion; $10, $15 and $20 reserved. formation: 345-6245 or elpasopsy - Information: 479-PUCK (7825) or ‘Parallel Lives’ - El Paso Com - chicfair.com. elpasorhinos.com. munity College's Performers Stu - • Jan. 7-8 — Fresno Monsters dio present comic montage by Mo Monster Truck Spectacular • Jan. 21-23 — Tulsa Rampage Gaffney and Kathy Najimy based — The “Thunder Slam “ monster on the “Kathy and Mo Show” 7:30 truck show is 7:30 p.m. Friday and WESTSIdE p.m. Jan. 28-29 and Feb. 4-5 , at EASTSIdE Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, the EPCC Transmountain Campus Jan. 14-16 , at the El Paso County doWNToWN Forum. Directed by Lisa McNiel. EPSYOs Winter Concert — Sunland Park Race Track Tickets: $10 ($5 students/se - The El Paso Symphony Youth Or - niors/military). Information: 637- chestras, under the direction of — The 2010-2011 live horse rac - 4029, 831-5056 or epcc.edu. Andres Moran, presents its winter ing season runs through April 10 . concert 3 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30 , at Race days are Tuesdays, Fridays, Beauty and the Beast — the Plaza Theatre. Ticket informa - Kids-N-Co. presents its version of tion: 532-3776 or epsyos.org. the classic fairy tale Jan. 22- Coliseum, 4100 Paisano. Tickets: Tejanos — The Te - $17.50-$22.50, plus service janos of El Paso Community Col - charge. (Ticketmaster). lege take on Scottsdale Community College Jan. 28-30 , at An Evening with the Stars – the Valle Verde Campus Baseball Field. Game time is 2 p.m. Friday, El Paso Chapter, The Links Inc. noon Saturday (doubleheader) and hosts its 4th annual elegant 11 a.m. Sunday. Admission is free. evening of dinner, dancing and Information: 831-2275. awards beginning 6 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 8 , at the Wyndham Airport Saturdays and Sundays, except Hotel, 2027 Airway. Tickets $50). during the Christmas/New Year’s El Paso Psychic Fair — The Proceeds help benefit the youth holiday season. Races begin at fair is 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday and elderly in El Paso. Informa - 12:15 p.m. each race day. General Feb.13 , at Kids-N-Co. Perform - and Sunday, Jan. 15-16 , at the tion: Joyce Snead, 598-9499 or admission is free to the track and ance Center. Showtime is 7:30 Hawthorn Inn, 1700 Airway (at Sandra Reid, 877-3647. casino. Turf Club seating is $5. In - p.m. Fridays and Saturdays and Boeing). Admission: $5 for both 2:30 p.m. Sundays. Ticket infor - formation: (575) 874-5200. mation: 351-1455 or kidsnco.org. MISSIoN EPSO with Elena Urioste ‘The Unexpected Guest — VAllEY and Carter Brey — The guest The Agatha Christie mystery is violinst and cellist joins conductor Jan 7-29 at El Paso Playhouse — El Paso’s Sarah Ioannides and the El Paso 2501 Montana. Directed by Junior League team Symphony Orchestra at 7:30 p.m. Melissa Spalding. Showtime is 8 home games are at the Sierra Prov - Jan. 28-29 at The Plaza Theatre. p.m. Friday and Saturday and 2 idence Events Center, next to the Tickets: $11-$37. Information: p.m. Sunday. Ticket information: Coliseum, 4100 E. Paisano. Regu - 532-3776. 532-1317, elpasoplayhouse.com. lar games times are 7:30 p.m. Fri - MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 15

‘Spamalot’ — Broadway El presented by Elegant Penguin Pro - Bach’s lunch events and film se - Paso presents the Monty Python ductions. The event gathers ex - Binational Independent ries. Information: 833-9400 or musical Jan. 25 at The Plaza The - perts in all aspects of weddings Film Festival — The 11th an - eppm.org. atre. Ticket information: 544-8444 and quinceañeras, and features nual binational festival is Jan. 7- or ticketmaster.com. three fahion. Grand prizes include 15 , at El Paso Public Library’s UTEP Men’s - two 4-day honeymoons. Admis - Main Branch, 501 N. Oregon. Home games are at the Don Hask - sion: $5 (free for children under Movies begin at 5:15 p.m. Infor - ins Center. Game time is 7:05 age 10). Information: 592-8897 or mation: binationalfilmfestival.org. p.m., unless otherwise listed. Indi - eptuxs.com. Admission fees bene - Independent and documentary vidual tickets: $14-$50, plus serv - fit the El Paso Child Crisis Center. screenings also planned at the ice charge. Information: 747-5234 UTEP Uion Cinema. Other venues or utepathletics.com. Gabriel Iglesias — The in El Paso and Juarez will be an - • 7 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 15 — Rice nounced. • 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26 — Tulane. El Paso Chamber Music Festival – El Paso Pro-Musica’s UTEP Women’s Basketball 22nd annual festival presents — Home games are in the Don — The El Spring Home Show world-class chamber musicians Haskins Center. Information: 747- Paso Association of Builders pres - Jan. 5-31 . Concerts, recitals and 5234 or utepathletics.com ents the 2011 show Jan. 21-23 in other special events will be of - • 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 6 — East the El Paso Convention Center. fered at various venues. Guests in - Carolina. The show features booths provid - clude Rubens String Quartet, • 2 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16 — Hous - ing exhibits, demonstrations and violinist Joseph Silverstein and ton seminars aimed at the needs of a Harlem String Quartet. Tickets: • 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20 — Rice “fluffy” comedian and El Paso fa - homeowner, whether building a $25 per performance; $25; $20 • 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 27 — vorite performs at 7:30 p.m. Fri - home or remodeling Information: seniors; $5 students; free for Tulsa. 1-800-756-4788 or HomeShowEl - day, Jan. 14 , and 8 p.m. Saturday, Paso.com. Jan. 15 , at the Plaza Theatre. Igle - sias’s second one-hour special and Days of Remembrance DVD “I’m Not Fat…I’m Fluffy: Bridal & Quinceañera Live from El Paso” premiered on Comedy Central in 2009 after — The 20th annual event is Faire being filmed in front of two sold- 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 16 , out crowds earlier that year. Tick - at the El Paso Convention Center, ets: $42.10, includes service charge (Ticketmaster).

Tango Buenos Aires — The tango dance troupe performs Sun - day, Jan. 9 , at the UTEP’s Magof - fin Auditorium. Tickets available

through Ticketmaster. Informa - tion: 747-5234. MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 16 SoUThERN at Opera House in Pinos Altos, N.M. as part of the Mimbres Re - The El Paso Museum of Art is NEW MExICo gion Arts Council's Folk Series. Tickets: $5-$20. accepting applicants ‘One-Act Play Festival’ – Information/showtime: (575) 538- Las Cruces Community Theatre, 2505, 1-888-758-7289 or mimbre - for the volunteer tour guide 313 N. Downtown Mall, presents sarts.org. its annual evening of short plays program. Jan 7-16 . Directors and titles to be Fishtank Ensemble - Mimbres Looking for something new to do in 2011? The El Paso Museum of announced. Performances are at 8 Region Arts Council presents the Art is looking for volunteers, from college students to retirees, to be - p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 2 eclectic gypsy jazz band Saturday, come tour guides, also known as docents. Classes are free, and no p.m. Sunday. Tickets: $5. Informa - Jan. 29 at WNMU's Fine Arts previous knowledge of art is necessary. Docents have a desire to tion: (575) 523-1200 or Center Theatre in Silver City, learn and share information about the arts and humanities, enjoy lcctnm.org. N.M. Tickets: $5-$20. Informa - working with youth and adults, can devote four months to training tion/showtime: (575) 538-2505, 1- sessions now, and commit to giving tours after training is success - Slaid Cleaves - The Austin 888-758-7289 or mimbresarts.org. fully completed. Bilingual skills are welcome but not required. singer/songwriter performs Jan. 7 ‘Lord of The Dance’ — Classes are on Mondays, 9:00-11:00 a.m., Michael Flatley’s international from February 7 through May 16, 2011. dance sensation is 7 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 30 , at NMSU’s Pan American Center. Tickets: $29, $45 and $55, plus service charge. (Ticketmaster) Information: (575) 646-1420.

Learn about: • The El Paso Museum of Art’s permanent collection • Early Italian Renaissance to High Renaissance Art • Spanish Viceroyal Art and Retablos • Early American Art and American Modernism • El Paso, Santa Fe, and Regional Art • Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Art, Cubism, and Minimalism • Sculpture and Contemporary Art

Join a fun and creative group of museum support - ers while helping area stu - dents appreciate and look at art in new ways. Trained docents receive a compli - mentary membership to the museum as well as free parking during trainings and tour visits.

For more information and to apply, please call (915) 532-1707 ext. 23 or email Laura Zamarripa, Assistant Education Curator at [email protected]. MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 17

IT’S GOOD FOR YOUR GAME When to cock your wrists Levers are multipliers of power, and the human body’s leverage system can be an integral part of your golf swing if you know how to use it efficiently. Leverage, i.e. the angle that wrist-cocking produces, lit - erally multiples your strength when the angle is unleashed through impact. You’ll notice a huge increase in distance when you add this lever to your swing. At what point in the back - swing should you add this power-producing wrist cock to your swing? The answer is, it depends. Some good golfers cock their wrists late in their backswing (Juli Inkster and Jack Nicklaus), while others like to cock them earlier (Ernie Els and Anthony Kim). But be it late or early, the wrists must hinge to create an angle between your lead forearm (the left for right- handed players) and the club shaft. This angle gives you the power of leverage, an essential ingredient in adding force to the motion of your swing. Continues on next page MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 18 DON’T MISS IT cock YoUR WRists... Continued Fan for power from page 17 The Power Fan creates Generally, the resistance and allows the momentum of golfer to feel a delayed re - a swing will lease. It is also beneficial cause the for building strength in wrists to cock the golf muscles. without a con - Swinging it 20 to 25 times scious attempt a day should be enough to to make it hap - develop power. pen, but if this A fin decal provides the isn’t occurring player with an easy refer - naturally in Waiting too long to cock the wrists can increase the ence while swinging. Set up tendency to lift the club with the arms, producing your swing, use so the fin with the decals is limited coil and minimum leverage — and that spells South Florida long-driving the following as loss of power. If you lift too much with your arms, try square to the target. You championship, played in the a guideline for cocking your wrists earlier. shouldn’t be able to see the USGA Senior Open and the the “when” and decal clearly, just the edge of PGA Senior Championship. “how” of wrist the fin. At 75, Wiren still hits it a long cock. The golfer demonstrating way — length he attributes in the Power Fan here is teach - part to swinging the fan every Assuming ing professional Gary Wiren, day. normal flexi - who is also an expert in fit - The Power Fan costs $55 at bility and an ness. He has won the South www.golfaroundtheworld.co average body Florida Seniors PGA title, the m. build, when your hands BIRDIES AND BOGEYS reach waist high in the takeaway, the Gillette cuts Tiger lead arm and Setting the club (cocking her wrists) by the time the lead wrist should re - arm is parallel to the ground allows this player the leverage A team at the Tepper eral major sponsors cut ties tain the she needs to make a powerful swing, but if your swing is too handsy, experiment with a later set. School of Business at with Tiger Woods,” reports straight-line re - Carnegie Mellon recently Timothy Derdenger, an eco - lationship they had at address. Since the wrists have yet to used the saga of Tiger Woods nomics professor who helped elevate the clubhead, the shaft at this point is parallel to as a case study to measure conduct the research, “Nike the ground. Additionally, you should check that the shaft is the effects of celebrity en - did not. So we examined the directly above your toe line — an imaginary line formed by dorsement on product sales net effect on Nike’s sales and the tips of your toes that is parallel to the target line. From when the celebrity generates market share. What we found here, you cock your wrists, creating a 90-degree angle be - bad publicity. “Although sev - is that by maintaining their tween your lead arm and the club shaft. relationship with Tiger Woods, Nike’s overall profit Remember that this wrist cock should happen in response in golf ball sales was $1.6 mil - to the momentum of the swinging clubhead. If your current lion greater than it would wrist cock isn’t working, there are two ways to proceed: have been without him.” First, relax your grip pressure ABOUT THE WRITER Despite the research, Tiger and focus on relaxing both your was dropped from yet anoth - Dr. T.J. Tomasi hands and your forearms. Then, er sponsor this week. Gillette is a teaching experiment with a different set, professional in has decided to end its nation - or cock, of the wrists. You may al campaign with the Gillette Port St. Lucie, Fla. Visit his have to make it happen in prac - Champions and cut Tiger and tice until you can train yourself dozens of other athletes. Web site at tjtomasi.com. to let it happen. MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 19

Tips for keeping seniors warm, pain-free in winter By Dr. Marty Becker and Gina the frequency and diminish the in - household adjustments, don’t for - cleaned under anesthesia, because Spadafori tensity of his exercise. Instead of get to make an appointment for a gum infections and mouth pain Universal Uclick taking your dog to the park once a senior dog checkup, ideally twice a will affect his comfort and health. week to chase tennis balls until year, to improve your odds of The senior dog checkup is People flip over puppies, but to he’s exhausted, take him for a long catching little problems before also a good time to determine if me, a well-loved older dog is one walk daily. If your dog is having they become big ones. Your veteri - your dog’s slowing down means of the most beautiful creatures on problems with physical activity, narian will likely recommend some his diet will need to change to take earth. An older dog has a nobleness talk to your veterinarian. Non- diagnostic tests in addition to a excess weight off his joints. about him, a look in the eyes that steroidal anti-inflammatory med - physical examination — typically Helping to keep your older speaks of years of the special love ications may help, as may blood work and an X-ray — to dog healthy and fit will mean his that only a pet can give — trusting, supplements such as glucosamine spot problems early, or to establish senior years will be happier and nonjudgmental and unwaveringly and Omega 3 oils, or complemen - a baseline of what’s normal for more comfortable. And that will be true. tary treatments such as acupunc - your dog. You should also discuss good news for you both. ture. Your veterinarian can also having your dog’s teeth treated and prescribe medications that may ad - dress the confusion and anxiety some old dogs experience.

Your dog has no real sense of shame or embarrassment, so he suffers no loss of face if you come up with some ideas to make his life A soft, thick bed is a godsend to an a little easier. Here are a few tips to older dog with stiff joints. get you thinking: • Beds. Think soft. Think Your dog’s health as he cushioned. Think low. Think ages is not entirely in your control, heated. Your dog will thank you but you can have a real impact on for all of these thoughts, especially his attitude. Your dog doesn’t at this time of year. know he’s getting older. His gray • Clothes. Older dogs, like hairs concern him not, nor does he older people, have a more difficult worry about the other visible ef - time maintaining their body tem - fects of time — the thickening of perature. This problem is even his body, the thinning of his limbs. more pronounced in slender, short- He doesn’t count the number of coated breeds like the greyhound times he can fetch a ball before tir - or whippet, or in tiny dogs. So ing and compare that to his per - check out the sweater selection at formance when he was a young your local pet supply store. dog in his prime. • Ramps and steps. If your A dog lives in the now. Just dogs are allowed on the couch and as he doesn’t reflect on his past, he the bed, consider buying or build - can’t imagine his future. Your dog ing steps to help the dog who can takes his cues from you. When no longer make it in one jump. You you’re upbeat, encouraging and wouldn’t want to watch TV with - loving, he’ll be at his best, no mat - out your dog at your side, would ter his age. you? A permanent ramp going This time can be a special down the back-porch step or a col - one for both of you, and it’s up to lapsible one to help your dog into you to make the most of it. the car will also be appreciated. As your dog ages, increase • While you’re making MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 20 MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 21

Various Travel Authors SUNDANCE OGDEN/

Sundance is Robert Redford's re - POWDER sort valley utopia and unofficial Wild West museum. The famous MOUNTAIN actor who won't cave into a Holly - wood-requisite facelift hasn't let Ogden is a historic railway town his ski resort suffer one, either. that's no stranger to sinful enter - The Sundance arts campus and ski tainment. In the 1940s 126 trains paradise inhabits a spectacular rolled through daily, including rock valley nook sprinkled with 92 troop trains taking breaks at the woody cottages and 10 mountain local bars and brothels. Epitomiz - rental homes. It has the feel of a ing a stopover town, this was the national park but with attractions. terminus (and link-up site) of the The 440 skiable acres feel like Central Pacific and Union Pacific 2,000, especially at night. lines. Uncharacteristic for a state that's 60 percent Mormon, Al Redford initially bought two acres Capone noted that Ogden was too here in 1961 for $500 —- he now wild for his taste. owns 6,000 Wasatch Mountain Continues on page 23 Range acres, with only 500 of those acres developed. He contin - ues to evolve the noble task of si - multaneously promoting nature, sports and the arts.

The Tree Room restaurant and sur - rounding buildings double as American history archives with classic movie-shoot photos, Native American blankets and Kachina dolls on display. The waiters in The Tree Room wear B-52s-style cowboy shirts, which seem more suited to a San Francisco-themed nightclub, but everything else rings faithful to the mountain A skier plows through Utah's legendary waist-deep powder. West. The freestanding Owl Bar, Photo courtesy of Ski Utah. once the original Butch Cassidy and Sundance Kid hangout in By Bruce Northam can't help but run across one even Thermopolis, Wyo., has been if they get lost. Utah's steep-and- transported here and remains an Eeny, meeny, miny, snow. When it deep myth has merit, but every re - archetypal merriment den. comes to high-altitude recreating sort can also accommodate skiing in Utah, the only bad choice is not and boarding beginners. Here are Perhaps most significant, Sun - making one. three outstanding options to ride dance pays recurring homage to the heart of the Rocky Mountains the great American hearth. This Utahans calibrate snow in feet, not blanketed by the greatest snow on place belongs in the Fireplace Hall inches. With 10 ski resorts within Earth. of Fame. an hour of Salt Lake City, skiers MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 22

41 Mediterranean 21 The Red, and others island 25 Fire remains 43 Actress Garr 26 Our father 44 Fourth of July 27 Pocket bread sound 28 Shapely space, at 19 45 Shots Across 47 Activities 29 Tax percentages 49 White water fan 30 Of the U.S. 51 Hebrew month 33 Noble Italian house 52 TV alien 35 Phone 53 Beauty spot at 36 Hen’s pride 19 Across 38 More lucid 58 Footnote ab - 39 Noons breviation 42 Word of disapproval 60 Board game 44 Trail closely 61 Tear 46 La ___, Wis. 63 Art ___ 48 Crewman 64 Wise ones 49 Forays 65 Stare rudely 50 Dramatist Edward 66 Viewed 51 Assent 67 Gaelic 54 Fly high 68 Hired gun 55 Work units 56 Therefore DOWN 57 ___ contendere 59 Put on 1 Police call, for 62 Write short 2 Highway advi - sory 3 Winnie the ___ 4 Nurse’s instrument ACROSS 22 Big head 5 Hilo hello 23 One of Columbus’ trio 1 Nile snakes 6 Saint’s aura 24 Board cleaner 5 Attention getter 7 “___, Brute!” 26 Top of the orbit 9 Partly open 8 Was sloppy 29 Edible red root 13 Gambit 9 Nabokov novel 31 Airplane maneuver 14 Candidate list 10 Designer of 19 32 Paper measure 15 Wall decoration Across 34 Task 16 Clod 11 Old saw 37 One ___ time 17 Young horses 12 Helicopter part 38 Orderly methods 18 One of a Latin trio 14 Play background 40 Large 19 Candidate’s goal 20 Even score MY MATURE TIMES JANUARY 2011 PAGE 23

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Today, Ogden's legendary 25th Street is lined with bars, shops and international restaurants. A few Prohibition-era tunnels still exist, too.

Ogden is 30 minutes from Powder Mountain, which boasts the most skiable terrain in the United States — 7,000 acres. Its 135 runs are all accessed from only seven lifts. It snows enough here to bury a man - sion, creating a perfect combina - tion of groomed runs, untracked powder and backcountry touring.

SOLITUDE Several Utah ski resorts are just a short drive out of stunning Salt Lake City. Photo courtesy of Ski Utah. MOUNTAIN in Utah: www.skiutah.com drive-thru bank: www.monaco- saltlakecity.com. Solitude Mountain: www.skisoli - Solitude Mountain is close to wel - Salt Lake City's Hotel Monaco, the tude.com coming Salt Lake City's interna - swankest place in town, drips with Sundance: tional airport —- just 25 minutes history. The 225-room beacon is www.sundanceresort.com Bruce Northam is a freelance from baggage claim to a white- the place to indulge guilty pleas - travel writer. peak paradise. Sol is the root word ures — and ponder life when the Powder Mountain: COPYRIGHT 2010 CREATORS.COM here because the sun certainly does 14-story landmark was a classic www.powdermountain.com shine. There are nifty night op - tions, as well. The Yurt Experi - ence, hosted by winter leisure guru Packy, is a deluxe five-course din - ner inside a humongous Mongo - lian-style tent. Part of this cozy culinary adventure is snowshoeing or cross-country skiing to and from the yurt in the dark. Back on cam - pus there's also an option for re - fined fireside dining.

Redefining the alpine retreat, these slopes invite every skill level to a crowd-free experience. For those hoping to avoid surgery, there's an endless array of wide groomed runs yielding options to ride the mountain instead of hunting for the leg-burning chop of moguls. WHEN YOU GO

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