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YOUR OLDTIME STYLE PUBLICATION WITH TODAY’S NEWS FOR SENIORS February - 2019 FRASER VALLEY - LOWER MAINLAND EDITION Volume 23 - Number 3 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 NEVADA: EXPLORING CARSON VALLEY by Lenora A. Hayman ......................................... 10 DANA CLAXTON AT VANCOUVER ART GALLERY By Ursula Maxwell-Lewis ................................... 11 WORD FIND PUZZLE ....................................... 13 STRAIGHT FROM THE HORSES MOUTH by Mel Kositsky ................................................... 14 COZY CORNER by Janet Isherwood .............................................. 15 LET'S TALK ABOUT IT! by Dr. Michelle Willis ND ................................... 16 ACROPOLIS OF LINDOS by Chris Millikan ................................................. 17 WRITE AS I PLEASE by Mel Kositsky .................................................. 18 Gibsons Landing captured many years ago. The home of Molly’s Reach and many a memory. (Photo: Dan Propp) FOR SENIORS - BY SENIORS WITH NEWS YOU CAN USE Your friendly neighbourhood grocery store! SHOP ‘N' SAVE Senior’s Day Every Wednesday By Presenting Your Pharmacare 10%OFF Card Store Hours: Mon.-Sun. 8am to 9pm SHOP BY PHONE for seniors and Disabled Persons BROOKSWOOD 200th Street & 41st Avenue, Langley, B.C. Phone 604-533-1823 FOR DETAILS 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 February, 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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Today’s Senior Newsmagazine February, 2019 3 ACCORDION TO DAN For many of us I hope the following bit of a rhyme and/or song Old Cecil came from the interior, proud Maritime seniors who grew up will reprise a fond memory or two of growing up. roots. He ran a hardware store business selling every- in BC villages and WHEN MOLLY’S WAS STILL THE LIQUOR thing from frying pans to rubber boots. He never had towns there must be STORE quite the charisma of a Bill Vander Zalm but had the plenty of nostalgic Now, Fladigers owned the toy store and Marshall good fortune to make something special of this land. memories that drift did the plumbing, Don Hauka was still testing vacu- He believed in the PGE - the ‘Prince George back to those days. um tubes to keep our radios running. Jimmy owned Eventually’, he engineered BC Rail, improved the Everybody knew the butcher shop and Smitty was still renting wooden track record essentially. He took great pride in this everybody, the grocery store owner, the butcher, the boats and old man Connor sold us licorice sticks province. No problems to invest. On both sides of the Ma and Pa couple who ran the hardware store, the while the cobbler next door fixed our boots. political spectrum he tried to balance his very best. electrician who replaced the vacuum tubes for our When Molly’s Reach was still the liquor store and I miss Davie Barrett's NDP and Social Credit’s plug-in radios, the doctor who still made house calls playing the Irish Sweepstakes was a sin, us kids Phil Gaglardi and all that political rivalry, so colourful and the undertaker. In Gibsons Landing, where we would be down by the Gibsons wharf watching the to watch even on black and white tv. We’ve had moved to in the early nineteen fifties up on Seaview tide come in to the beautiful Sunshine Coast. Of Harcourt Campbell, Clarke Dosanjh, Vander Zalm, Road, for a while there was the sole RCMP member’s course, it never rained. It was just a bit of Scottish Johnson, they’ve all been in charge but the only admi- home, the doctor, the undertaker, and the money mist and a Squamish blowing in again. Then we’d go ral of Beautiful BC was good old premier WAC. Give lender, in case the local bank was not willing to pro- down by the beach listening to the put-put boats us back the good old days of Beautiful BC when this vide a loan. In fact, our house was situated between wheeze, looking for treasure, at our leisure and life province in so many ways still belonged to you and the doctor and the funeral parlour – between hope and was but a breeze. When Molly’s Reach was still the me and BC Ferries was our own navy. Give us back none whatsoever. To make an extra living, when times liquor store and playing the Irish Sweepstakes a sin, the good old days of Beautiful BC and WAC, a con- were slow, he also ran a barber shop upstairs. I used us kids would be down by the Gibsons Wharf, watch- scientious person and a great premier. One of the to get my crew cut up there for 75 cents. Seaview ing the tide come in. greatest in British Columbia’s history, WAC! Road was famous. Apparently, many years before we LIFE STYLE MEMORIES THAT SHOULD arrived in the village, the Reverend Woodsworth NOT VANISH Please visit www.Nostalgicroads.Weebly.com resided on Seaview as well. He was the founder of the Do you remember the Columbian and Star Weekly. Search for Song CD’s by Dan Propp via cdbaby. CCF Party, now the NDP. A few years later Tommy How about the United Cigar Stores, Woodwards, and com and also www.soundcloud.com Douglas in Saskatchewan came along and the concept Wosks, guess for some of us seniors we now just Plus books via www.amazon.ca of Canadian National Medicare evolved.

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