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YOUR OLDTIME STYLE PUBLICATION WITH TODAY’S NEWS FOR SENIORS DECEMBER - 2019 FRASER VALLEY - LOWER MAINLAND EDITION Volume 25 - Number 1 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 FESTIVE PANTOS, PLAYS AND MOUNTAIN MAGIC By Ursula Maxwell-Lewis ..................................... 4 CINDY SHERMAN AT THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY. by Lenora A. Hayman ........................................... 5 FINANCIAL NEWS by Rick C. Singh ................................................... 6 THE PHARMACIST REVIEW ........................... 7 STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH by Mel Kositsky ..................................................... 8 WORD FIND PUZZLE ....................................... 13 HOME IMPROVEMENT by Shell Busey ..................................................... 15 COZY CORNER by Janet Isherwood .............................................. 15 WRITE AS I PLEASE by Mel Kositsky .................................................. 16 HERAKLION, CRETE: MEMORABLE MOMENTS by Chris Millikan ................................................. 17 EYE ON BLUE SKY CLOTHING - BUSINESS OF THE YEAR 2019 - Article page 12 FOR SENIORS - BY SENIORS WITH NEWS YOU CAN USE Andrew Karl Nemeth Dahan MASSAGE THERAPY Ø Decreases Chronic and Acute Pain Ø Increases Mobility and Circulation Ø Decreases Agitation and Anxiety Ø Improves Sleep and Emotional State Ø Encourages Movement/Physical Activity Ø Prolongs Physical Independence Ø 24 Years Experience working with Seniors FOOT CARE Ø Essential to Prevent Pain and Disease Ø Involves Reduction of Nail/Corns/Calluses Ø Footwear assessment/Communication with Care Staff and Family Ø Sterilization According To BC Health Best Practices Ø Patient Centered Approach to Care Ø Prolongs Physical Independence GERIATRIC THERAPY IN BC We Improve Quality of Life!! 604-728-5477 [email protected] 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 December, 2019 Medipac Travel Insurance Enrol and save more! YOU CAN SAVE UP TO 18% Save up to 10% with our claim-free discount. Save up to 8% with our loyalty credit. Claim-free discounts for new clients. 1-888-MEDIPAC 1-888-633-4722 • www.medipac.com Underwritten by Old Republic Insurance Company of Canada 2019MS Medipac ad Todays Senior 10.25x14.indd 1 24/07/2019 5:44:30 PM Today’s Senior Newsmagazine December, 2019 3 ACCORDION TO DAN Well, here we are Dog. There was so much almost in the year 2020. nostalgia to recall. Perhaps Can you believe it! some good memories Recently, while taking these words might jog. All a morning stroll, I saw those tapes and records a two-tone nineteen fif- Cullen played brought ties automobile. There back those times that once it was, shining like a diamond from the past, squished in were. For us listeners, the middle of a bunch of run of the mill current vehicles, such wonderful warm waiting for the green light. Madly, I fumbled about for memories his show made. my old yard sale digital camera and managed to capture How that music, mystery the image you see just in the nick of time. While having and comedy could stir. a coffee at a convenience store, a few minutes later, the All those great Jack following lyrics poured out. Benny shows and proba- IN THE BUSTLE OF RUSH HOUR MORNING bly his best line ever “I’m TRAFFIC still thinking it over”. Did In today’s bustle and rush, almost in the year 2020, you know that Benny wow, there’s nothing like going for a walk, seeing a helped save the nineteen fifties beauty waiting for a green light. Have Vancouver’s Orpheum lifestyles changed just a tad since, and how. The vehicles Theatre. He did a benefit shifted from yesterday’s standard transmissions, like here in Vancouver at the dude, totally out of sight. Seeing a vintage GM, age eighty or so. That Plymouth, or Ford that was new when we were just kids beautiful building sched- can evoke in us Bob Hope’s theme song, ‘Thanks For uled for demolition; it Seeing a nineteen fifties car in todays busy traffic is a vehicle to warm a The Memories’...or Tanks For The Memories. We can be would have been all over. senior’s heart. (Photo: Dan Propp) refuelled by those old days and for a few brief glorious There was everything moments back to the years of standard gears. Compared from Our Miss Brooks to Only The Shadow Knows. We How they could take us away. to what’s manufactured today to make driving such a could visualize her school principal Conklin’s looks. Maybe those times of Maypole dancing took us breeze. I guess those have been the ‘brakes’ over all What great classics Jack Cullen chose, from Al Jolson back to around nineteen fifty-one. In school where there these years. Creating a way of life that’s a real gas, truly and Eddy Cantor to Doris Day and Patty Page. His were ink wells, blotter roles, straight nibbed pens. high octane and supreme. Some of us can be really nightly easy going banter rekindled many a very special Playing marbles at recess and at lunch, it was so much pumped by those nineteen fifties which can automati- age. fun. The vision of Canadian life was viewed perhaps cally create a warm smile. By all the improvements As the New Year approaches, it might be a good with a different lens. The school bell was still rung by we’ve seen, the thrill of spotting a fifty-seven Pontiac, time to honour a great local TV show that was broadcast hand. We, with our parents, still listened to the CBC – on Buick or Chevy in today’s traffic can make strolling, for by CBUT, Channel Two, Vancouver - Lolly-Too Dum tube radios - to the farm broad cast. Wow, things sure this retiree, on a rush hour morning, oh so worthwhile. with Betty Phillips and Ernie Prentice. have changed since those years, eh, but FAST. The following is a pun-ishing vehicle for greater A GREAT LOCAL TV PROGRAM Best wishes for the season and Happy New Year! pun-ishment. Do you recall Betty Phillips and Ernie Prentice in A VEHICLE FOR EVEN MORE PUNNERY Lolly Two Dumb? We used to watch it on CBUT, Please visit www.Nostalgicroads.Weebly.com Well, folks, guess that’s the way the Mercedes bends Channel Two as we watched on an old seventeen-inch Search for Song CD’s by Dan Propp via cdbaby.com because the Cadillac days of yesterday sure have lost TV – Admiral or RCA to name a few, with antennas on and also www.soundcloud.com their nineteen fifties fins. Today’s roads can’t a-ford rooftops or rabbit ears. All those great traditional songs. Plus books via www.amazon.ca rambling along. I suppose it depends. Like some in Windsor and Detroit, some you lose and some you win. Those times of the Pontiac Laurentian, Strato Chief, and Parisienne have changed life’s highways, fueled by NEWS & ADVERTISING DEADLINE ever changing political and environmental climates; now so distant from the nineteen fifty nine Malibu for BY THE 20th OF EACH MONTH goodness sakes, its just like some of us seniors keep Next Publication Date: clutching the standard messages of Sinatra singing ‘My TODAY’S SENIOR NEWSMAGAZINE LTD. Monday, December 23rd 2019 Way’. The only mileage left, perhaps, to today’s greater Fraser Valley / Lower Mainland Edition Box 61533 - Brookswood P.O. Langley, B. C. - V3A 8C8 conformity to computerization is to tuner up and help E-Mail: [email protected] many of yesterdays standard transmissions to help Telephone Contact Numbers renew. Publications Mail Registration #40025695 PRODUCTION / DISTRIBUTION There are probably more than a few of us who long Printed in Canada, Blackpress for the old non digital days in Vancouver. Perhaps the Main Office / Distribution 778-751-4188 following bit of rhyme might reprise another time. Publishers / Copyright Disclaimer: Main Office (previous) 604-574-1964 VANCOUVER BACK A FEW DECADES AGO No part of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transferred OFFICE HOURS: 9:00am-Noon Do you remember the studios of the CBC located at without first obtaining written permission from the Publisher, but we Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday do welcome requests. the Hotel Vancouver? How about CJOR in the basement The opinions expressed herein are those of the writers and do not Online: todaysseniornewsmagazine.com of the Grosvenor those days that used to be. Just a bit of necessarily reflect the opinions or views of the publishers, staff or nostalgia, for today’s consumer. Musicians like Monty employees of Today’s Senior. Emergency 604-992-0721 McFarlane, his sense of humour, so delightfully dry. 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