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MEET THE ST317-440-9376AFF 4 Indy BOOMER July/August 2017 July/August 2017 Indy BOOMER 5 Indy BOOMER For the best years of your life TABLE OF CONTENTS FEATURES TOPICS 20 HEALTH 16 Meet The Indianapolis Women of Radio Make It a Safe Summer By Amanda Evans-Clark 21 APPEARANCE Cosmetic Surgery Not Just for Women Anymore 22 LEGAL Alternatives to Guardianship 24 FINANCE Maximizing Your Assets in Retirement 25 TRAVEL Terryi Stacy, Kristi Lee & Julie Patterson Just Beachin’ 26 COOKING 8 Pete Dye: An 13 Indians Baseball Summer Food Inspiration Indiana Legend A Multigenerational 27 HOUSING By Todd Outcalt Treasure Renovations for the Ages By Audrey Coots 9 Discover the Best 28 GARDENING Golf Courses in 14 Rupert’s Kids Getting into the Summer Indiana to Hit on the Grow Garden Groove By Joanna Notivio By Cassie Knudsen 29 FITNESS Boomer Changes His 10 Time To Enhance 15 Giving to the Routine – and His Life Your Relationship Next Generation By Carol Juergensen Sheets BOOMER 23 Reinventing Yourself Resource for Older Hoosiers+ In this issue: 11 Get Carried – Going Home Again + Nursing Home Benefits Are Still Available! + Downsizing Help is Available Away with By Brenda Johnson + Alternatives to Guardianship Civic Theatre PULL-OUT This Special Section to Read & Save JULY / AUGUST 2017 [email protected] MITCH IndyBoomer.com 317-440-9376 Cover photo courtesy BOOMER+ Amy Pauszek DANIELS Coming in September Pull Out Section Photo courtesy Purdue Univ for Boomers helping parents 4 Indy BOOMER July/August 2017 July/August 2017 Indy BOOMER 5 Noteworthy: The Music of Our Lives With the passing of able), Conway Twitty Southern Rock’s king, (greeted me with “Hello, Gregg Allman, on May Darlin’”), Merle Hag- 27, 2017, I was hit by an gard (kissing bandit), unexpected flood of emo- Wayne Newton (huge tions and reflections. I flirt!), Marvin Hamlisch don’t like to live in the (eager to perform for past, always trying to you) and even Frank look and move forward. Sinatra (unexpectedly But … somehow ... this somber). death of a music legend Some of the bands I triggered some longings loved included The All- and, yes, depression. As man Brothers Band. I Patty was one of the first female disc Boomers, we are seeing remember buying the jockeys in the country, including WTUE many of our celebrity Radio in Dayton, Ohio, in the late 1970s “Eat a Peach” album contemporaries pass when this billboard hovered over the and playing that vinyl away. It’s heartbreaking downtown skyline. Photo courtesy WTUE over and over again. but, sadly, a part of life. “Ramblin’ Man,” “Whip- As a TV reporter the last 35 years, I’ve ping Post” and “Midnight Rider” were the met and interviewed a lot of movie and TV songs of my formative years. Now the kids actors, but in the ’70s, the musical acts were listen to lots of different groups and sounds, my passion. but back then we all listened to the same Back in da day, as we say, I was really songs. It wasn’t just the songs we shared, it Patty’s Page Patty’s into rock ’n’ roll. As one of this country’s was the times of our lives, literally. first female DJs, I started my media ca- I never personally met Gregg Allman, but reer in radio, at the University of Dayton, he was part of my growing years. I know Ohio, campus station WVUD in 1973. Upon he’s “No Angel” as he admittedly pro- graduation I was hired by the competition, claimed, but I felt he gave me a little bit of WTUE, from ’76 to’78. nerve and a little bit In the next few years, of toughness with his I traveled around to raspy, weathered voice various stations and and unapologetic at- cities. I was a country titude when I needed music DJ in Cincin- it most. nati at WSAI and in And even though Pittsburgh at WWSW I have severe hear- and one of the first fe- ing loss now (no, not male radio talk show caused by too-loud hosts in Richmond, Gregg Allman and his Allman’s toughness rock ’n’ roll, ha!), I still Va., for WRNL. It was band had their main- was a great inspiration carry all the tunes of stream success in the for Patty. Photo cour- a wild and wonderful my youth in my head. 1970s. tesy Rounder Records time. Gregg Allman will Part of my job as a DJ was to attend and never die. He lives inside his fans. often introduce the music acts of the day at So celebrate the music of your lives, play the local venues. Sometimes I’d get to meet those tunes inside your soul, and smile. them backstage, other times I’d just thank the crowd for coming out, plug the radio sta- Patty tion hosting the event and introduce the act. By Patty Spitler As I try to remember now ... I’ve had the To see more of Patty and great stories on Host/Producer of pleasure and honor of meeting diverse BOOMER TV, make sure to tune in every BOOMER TV musical legends: B.B. King (what a sweet Sunday at 10:30 a.m. on WISH TV … for man), Gordon Lightfoot (strangely aloof), the best years of your life! Melissa Etheridge (pleasant and person- 6 Indy BOOMER July/August 2017 Sundays at 10:30 a.m. on WISH TV BROWN COUNTY BROWN 62 MILES SOUTH-THEN LEFT LEFT SOUTH-THEN MILES 62 See Indiana in an RV! “Oh, give me a home where the buffalo roam, Where the deer and antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day.” Hoosiers have our own “Home on the Range” in the Brown County hills and hollers.