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By Alysa Poindexter
Dan Knaub may seem like an ordinary guy from Central Pennsylvania,
but underneath that cap and behind that cheery disposition is a man with an
extraordinary job as a marine biologist, videographer, and activist birthed
from a fascination with some of the largest creatures on Earth: 50-ton
whales.
From full-time banker to full-time founder and president of the Whale
Video Company—amongst many other notable titles—Knaub’s zeal for
whales has allowed him to take a dive into a thriving career centered on these
gigantic yet mysterious ocean dwellers.
He has created more than 50 programs on humpback whales used by
some of the nation’s largest whale nonprofit organizations, including the
Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), the International Fund
for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and the Cetacean Society International (CSI).
It was Knaub’s first deployment trip to Vietnam in 1959—only days after
officially gracing adulthood—that he had his first whale encounter.
“I was 18 years and 2 days,” said Knaub. “I figured it was a great time to
see some things and do some things before I went to college.”
He had no idea that some of those “things” would include witnessing a
pod of sperm whales between San Francisco and Hawaii on a journey that
Diving Into a50-Ton Passion
Dan Knaub has spent many hours on the open water
over the course of hundreds of whale-watching trips.
Special Focus: Better
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Silver Threads:
They Led Three Lives
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please see PASSION page 18
Inside:
Former Banker Now Dedicated toWhale Conservation, Videography
Lebanon County Edition May 2012 Vol. 7 No. 5
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Tri-Valley Contractors
(717) 277-7674
Poison Control Center
(800) 222-1222
Food & Clothing Bank
(717) 274-2490
Food Stamps
(800) 692-7462
Hope/Christian Ministries
(717) 272-4400
Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging
Meals on Wheels
(717) 273-9262
Salvation Army
(717) 273-2655
Alzheimer’s Association
(717) 651-5020
American Cancer Society
(717) 231-4582
American Diabetes Association
(717) 657-4310
American Heart Association/
American Stroke Association
(717) 207-4265
American Lung Association
(717) 541-5864
Arthritis Foundation
(717) 274-0754
Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services
(717) 787-7500
CONTACT Helpline
(717) 652-4400
Kidney Foundation
(717) 652-8123
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
(717) 652-6520
Lupus Foundation
(888) 215-8787
Dr. M. Nazeeri
(717) 270-9446
Hearing & Ear Care Center, LLC
(717) 274-3851
Melnick, Moffitt, and Mesaros
(717) 274-9775
Central Penn Nursing Care, Inc.
(717) 361-9777
(717) 569-0451
Good Samaritan Hospital
(717) 270-7500
Medical Society of Lebanon County
(717) 270-7500
The Reading Hospital
(610) 988-4357
Energy Assistance
(800) 692-7462
Environmental Protection Agency
Emergency Hotline
(800) 541-2050
IRS Income Tax Assistance
(800) 829-1040
Medicaid
(800) 692-7462
Medicare
(800) 382-1274
PA Crime Stoppers
(800) 472-8477
PennDOT
(800) 932-4600
Recycling
(800) 346-4242
Social Security Information
(800) 772-1213
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
(800) 827-1000
Hope (Helping Our People in
Emergencies)
(717) 272-4400
Housing Assistance & Resources Program
(HARP)
(717) 273-9328
Lebanon County Housing &
Redevelopment Authorities
(717) 274-1401
Medicare Hotline
(800) 638-6833
MidPenn Legal Services
(717) 274-2834
Pennsylvania Bar Association
(717) 238-6715
GSH Home Med Care, Inc.
(717) 272-2057
Lancaster NeuroScience &
Spine Associates
(717) 569-5331
(800) 628-2080
Spang Crest
(717) 274-1495
Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging
(717) 273-9262
CVS/pharmacy
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Annville Senior Community Center
(717) 867-1796
Maple Street Senior Community Center
(717) 273-1048
Myerstown Senior Community Center
(717) 866-6786
Northern Lebanon County Senior
Community Center
(717) 865-0944
Palmyra Senior Community Center
(717) 838-8237
Senior Center of Lebanon Valley
(717) 274-3451
Southern Lebanon County Senior
Community Center
(717) 274-7541
Governor’s Veterans Outreach
(717) 234-1681
Veterans Services
Senior Centers
Pharmacies
Office of Aging
Nursing Homes/Rehab
Neurosurgery & Physiatry
Medical Equipment & Supplies
Legal Services
Insurance
Housing Assistance
Hotlines
Hospitals
Home Care Services
Hearing Aid Services
Health & Medical Services
Food Resources
Emergency Numbers
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Have you ever spent a
Saturday morning going to
yard sales? The signs are all
around you, but you don’t want to
drive around aimlessly or waste
money buying junk. Whether you
are buying or selling, here are some
tips for making the most of your
time in the yard.
Don’t Forget the Cash
Yard sales are not like a quick trip
to the convenience store. You will
need more than just your keys, cell
phone, and credit card.
You need coins and small bills in
order to take home the best from a
yard sale. Don’t ask a yard sale seller
to break a $50 bill; it could be the
end of your negotiations.
Don’t Sell Everything
Some things aren’t supposed to be
sold on the front lawn. Don’t sell
original art or jewelry at yard sales.
There are not enough people
shopping at a local yard sale to
attract high prices. Yard sales are not
the place to get big bucks for your
heirlooms.
Don’t Get Up Early!
I have made it a lifelong rule that
there is no good reason, other than a
house fire, to get up before 8 a.m.
Don’t get up at the crack of dawn to
try to beat everyone to a yard sale.
You won’t miss a thing.
In fact, you can get the best prices
around lunchtime as most yard sale
hosts are ready to call it quits. By
noon, sellers are exhausted, and they
don’t care what you pay for that
Wedgewood cachet pot as long as
you take it with you. It is a great
time to negotiate or even get stuff
for free.
Don’t Buy Damage
Condition is a key to value. If you
pick up a tattered linen from a yard
sale, thinking that it is some
fabulous antique Amish quilt, you
are probably paying hard-earned
money for the same rag that you
might use to wax the car.
Someone else’s tattered piece isn’t
automatically a wonderful antique.
Don’t fantasize about a yard sale
find. If it is in poor condition, leave
it on the lawn.
Don’t Buy Parts
I always say that buying parts is
for auto mechanics, not yard sale
shoppers. Don’t buy incomplete sets
or games with missing pieces. Buy
complete games in their original
boxes whenever possible. Instruction
booklets increase value by 15
percent.
Don’t Let it Go Until You Know …What it’s Worth!
As an antiques appraiser with a
PhD and decades of market
experience, I know that most hosts
don’t bother to find out what their
objects are worth before they schlep
them from the attic out to the front
lawn.
Do your homework and you can
go home with some great stuff from
your neighbors’ yard sale.
PhD antiques appraiser, author, award-
winning TV personality, Dr. Lori
presents antique appraisal events
nationwide. Dr. Lori is the star appraiser
on the hit TV show Auction Kings on
Discovery channel, airing Tuesdays at 9
p.m. Visit www.DrLoriV.com,
www.Facebook.com/DoctorLori, or call
(888) 431-1010.
Dr. Lori’s Yard Sale Don’ts
Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
Dr. Lori
Take Time to RememberA few solemn thoughts to
ponder and share this Memorial
Day:
“Although no sculptured
marble should rise to their
memory, nor engraved stone bear
record of their deeds, yet will their
remembrance be as lasting as the
land they honored.” – Daniel
Webster
“Perform, then, this one act of
remembrance before this day passes:
Remember there is an army of
defense and advance that never dies
and never surrenders, but is
increasingly recruited from the
eternal sources of the American
spirit and from the generations of
American youth.” – W.J. Cameron
“I have never been able to think
of the day as one of mourning; I
have never quite been able to feel
that half-masted flags were
appropriate on Decoration Day. I
have rather felt that the flag should
be at the peak, because those whose
dying we commemorate rejoiced in
seeing it where their valor placed it.
We honor them in a joyous,
thankful, triumphant commem-
oration of what they did.” –
Benjamin Harrison
“These heroes are dead. They
died for liberty—they died for us.
They are at rest. They sleep in the
land they made free, under the flag
they rendered stainless, under the
solemn pines, the sad hemlocks, the
tearful willows, and the embracing
vines. They sleep beneath the
shadows of the clouds, careless alike
of sunshine or of storm, each in the
windowless place of rest. Earth may
run red with other wars—they are at
peace. In the midst of battle, in the
roar of conflict, they found the
serenity of death. I have one
sentiment for soldiers living and
dead: cheers for the living; tears for
the dead.” – Robert G. Ingersoll
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The Pennsylvania Lottery generated more than $960 million last year for programs
that benefit older Pennsylvanians.
Funding more than 31,200 prescriptions. Every day.
Sponsoring more than 108,500 free transit and reduced-fare shared rides. Every day.
Supporting more than 22,800 hot meals. Every day.
Providing more than $768,000 in property tax and rent rebates. Every day.
Contributing more than $488,000 in long-term living services. Every day.
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Person-centered care
with reputation for
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in 1903.
Spring Creek Rehabilitation
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A charming campus
offering sub-acute
rehab, long-term skilled
nursing care, respiratory
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memory care.
StoneRidge Retirement Living
440 East Lincoln Avenue
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Berks, and Lancaster
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Transitions Healthcare – Gettysburg
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Ancient peoples weren’t watching
movies, but archaeologists have
determined that folks were munching
popcorn in Peru some 6,700 years ago.
Researchers from Vanderbilt
University and Peru’s Academia Nacional
de la Historia discovered the remains of
ancient corncobs, husks, stalks, and
tassels at two mound
sites on Peru’s northern
coast, providing
important insight into
understanding how corn
developed into the crop
we’re familiar with
today.
Corn was first
cultivated as a crop in
Mexico about 9,000
years ago, and it spread
to South America
within a few thousand
years, where it evolved
into different varieties
over time.
Ancient Peruvians apparently ate their
corn in several ways, and although it
wasn’t a big component of their everyday
diet, the researchers say they did eat corn
flour and popcorn, even before the
development of ceramic pottery (and the
microwave oven).
Popcorn Popular Long Ago
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hy should seniors get
discounts?
The practice of senior
discounts is widespread. They are offered,
for example, at fast-food establishments,
museums, movie theaters, Amtrak,
Southwest and United airlines,
Disneyland, some colleges and
universities, and, thanks to the “Golden
Age Passport,” seniors receive free entry
into national parks.
From mid-life through the “Golden
Age,” median income declines as we get
older. The U.S. Census Bureau reported
that in 2007 the median income of
households headed by a person 45 to 54
years old was $65,476.
Median income for householders 55
to 64 years old declined to $57,386. For
those 65 years and older, it fell to
$28,305.
But don’t seniors have offsetting
“compensation” through paid-up
mortgages and minimal clothing and
transportation expenses? They do, but
they also have higher healthcare expenses.
The average annual expenditure for
healthcare in the period 2005-2007,
according
to the
Census
Bureau,
rose from
$2,792 for
individuals
45 to 54
years of age
to $4,967
for those 65 to 74 years of age
(prescription and nonprescription drugs
are included).
Poverty knows no age distinction, so
why not allow discounts to others? It
happens that discounts are offered to
easily recognizable groups—for example,
the military, children accompanying their
parents for lodging and meals (“kids eat
free”), and the aged.
Senior discounts can create an
awkward moment when patrons are
offered a discount at the cash register but
hesitate to
admit they
are in their
senior years.
They would
hope to be
carded when
purchasing
alcoholic
beverages—
an unlikely event—or asked if the adult
daughter “is your sister?”
Deference is extended to seniors in
considerations other than discounts
offered by retailers. Some electric utilities
will suspend turning off power to seniors
with past-due accounts during extremely
hot or cold periods. The IRS and AARP
have programs to assist low-income
seniors in tax preparation.
Meals on Wheels provides food to
seniors with limited mobility.
Interestingly, that organization, in its
2008 study, found that “seniors age 80
and over were less likely to be food
insecure compared to 60- to 64-year-
olds.”
One program that does not
discriminate by age is Medicare. It
provides benefits to needy children,
disabled individuals, and low-income
seniors.
Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research
analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth:The Higher-Valued Opinion of a SeniorCitizen, a book of personal-opinion essays,
free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints.
A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Lifeand Learning, was released in January 2012.
Contact him at [email protected].
Should Seniors Get Discounts?
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Is Stigma Keeping You From Getting a Hearing Aid?
According to the National Institute on
Deafness and Other Communication
Disorders, only one out of five people
who could benefit from a hearing aid
wear one. Some simply don’t know that
they need one. Others associate hearing
aids with their grandparents and don’t
want to feel old.
But much of the stigma surrounding
hearing aids rings false.
“Hearing aids will make me look old.”Modern hearing aids are sleeker, better-
looking, and more effective than the
clunkers you remember your grandparents
wearing. And nothing makes you seem
old like constantly asking people to repeat
themselves or speak louder.
“Hearing aids will make me hearscreeching noises.” This problem, called
“feedback,” is caused when the
microphones in the hearing aid amplifyone another. Some hearing aids offer
features that prevent feedback.
“My hearing’s not bad enough forhearing aids.” Actually, it’s better to start
wearing hearing aids at the first sign of
hearing loss. If your brain gets used to
not processing sounds, you will have a
harder time adjusting when you do get a
hearing aid.
“Hearing aids won’t work for me.” You
may have heard friends say that they gave
up on hearing aids, but that doesn’t
mean the devices won’t work for you.
Look for hearing aids that offer a wide
range of features that might be right for
different listening situations.
“Hearing aids will make my hearingworse.” A properly fitted and
maintained hearing aid will not damage
your hearing. Visit an audiologist to
make sure you purchase a hearing aid
that will work for you.
(NewsUSA)
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Good Samaritan Helps You Connect With Your World
Hearing and speech are vital to
communicating with the world around
us. The effects of age, illness, or injury
can cause losses to hearing and speech
that are either slow and progressive or
sudden. It is hard to put a value on
hearing and speech until you experience
a loss of ability. When that loss is slow,
you may find yourself beginning to
withdraw from your normal activities
without even realizing it because you are
struggling to communicate. The Good
Samaritan Hospital in Lebanon offers
evaluation and treatment options for
hearing loss, speech issues, and even
swallowing problems to help you connect
with your world.
If you or a loved one are missing
conversation or avoiding activities you
once enjoyed, hearing loss may be to
blame. Trust the expert Good Samaritan
audiology team to evaluate your hearing
and determine if a hearing aid can
reconnect you with the people and world
around you.
Hearing evaluations are conducted at
The Good Samaritan Hospital and can
be conveniently scheduled by physician
referral or by calling (717) 270-7812. If
it is determined that your hearing loss
requires a hearing aid, Good Samaritan
prescribes nationally recognized, current-
model hearing devices from the leaders in
hearing aid research. And you will get a
fair deal, because our staff doesn’t earn
commission and all discounts are passed
on to you.
Unlike many others who sell hearing
aids, our state-licensed audiologist, Dr.
Carla Pielmeier, AuD, has both a master’s
and doctorate in audiology, so she
understands what causes hearing loss and
prescribes the right hearing aid for your
condition. She then ensures the
customized settings are performing
properly for you with computerized
verification of the hearing aid fitting.
The clinic also offers assisted listening
devices, customized hearing protection,
and swim plugs as well as repair of
hearing aids.
In addition to comprehensive
diagnostic audiological evaluations, The
Good Samaritan Hospital Audiology
Clinic provides other services such as
speech/cognition therapy following a
stroke or accident, treatment for
swallowing difficulties including
VitalStim® Therapy, and voice therapy to
improve weak voice or sound of your
voice. Our speech/language pathologists
at Good Samaritan are licensed by the
state of Pennsylvania to treat speech,
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If hearing or speech problems are
keeping you from doing the things you
love or communicating with the world
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If you or a loved one are missing conversation or avoiding activities you onceenjoyed, trust the expert Good Samaritan Audiology team to evaluate yourhearing and determine if a hearing aid could reconnect you to the people andworld around you.
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The 27th annual Lebanon County
Senior Games are
set to take place
May 30 to June 5
with a full schedule
of events for county
residents 50 and
older. The games
will be held at
different sites
throughout the
county.
The Lebanon County Senior Games,
organized by the
Lebanon YMCA,
promote physical
fitness and fellowship
through participation
in competitive and
noncompetitive
activities.
Participants are
divided into several age
divisions and will
compete for one of three top-place
awards in each age division for every
event. The games’ five-day span will
include walking, golf, shuffleboard,
bingo, billiards, and more.
Scheduled events for 2012 are as
follows:
Wednesday, May 30
8 a.m. – 1.5-mile walk or half-mile walk,
Lions Lake
9:30 a.m. – Miniature golf, Watering
Hole Golf Course
1:30 p.m. – Bowling, Cedar Lanes
Thursday, May 31
8 a.m. – Golf, Blue Mt. View Golf
Course
Friday, June 1
8:30 a.m. – Pinochle, Senior Center of
Lebanon Valley
9 a.m. – Table tennis, Senior Center of
Lebanon Valley
12:30 p.m. – Swimming, freestyle;
100-meter free/fly/breast,
Lebanon VA (YMCA)
1 p.m. – Bingo, Senior Center of
Lebanon Valley
Monday, June 4
8 a.m. – Badminton, singles and doubles,
Lebanon VA (YMCA)
10 a.m. – Basketball foul shooting,
Lebanon VA (YMCA)
11 a.m. – Softball throw, Lebanon VA
(YMCA)
12:30 p.m. – Bocce ball, age 70-79 and
80+, Lebanon VA
(YMCA)
2 p.m. – Bocce ball, age 50-59 and 60-
69, Lebanon VA (YMCA)
Tuesday, June 5
8:30 a.m. – Billiards, Senior Center of
Lebanon Valley
12:30 p.m. – Shuffleboard, Senior
Center of Lebanon Valley
The entry deadline is May 11, and
official registration forms can be sent to
Lebanon YMCA (Mark Hubbard) at 201
N. Seventh St., Lebanon, PA 17046.
There is a registration fee per
individual registration. For more
information, call the Lebanon YMCA at
(717) 273-2691.
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This Month in History: MayEvents• May 9, 1862 – During the American Civil War,
General David Hunter, Union commander of the
Department of the South, issued orders freeing the
slaves in South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia
without congressional or presidential approval.
The orders were countermanded by President
Abraham Lincoln 10 days later.
• May 14, 1804 – Meriwether Lewis and William
Clark departed St. Louis on their expedition to
explore the Northwest. They arrived at the Pacific
coast of Oregon in November of 1805 and
returned to St. Louis in September of 1806,
completing a journey of about 6,000 miles.
• May 31, 1889 – More than 2,300 people were
killed in the Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania.
Heavy rains throughout May caused the
Conemaugh River Dam to burst, sending a 75-
foot-tall wall of water pouring down upon the city.
Birthdays• May 1 – American labor leader Mary “Mother”
Jones (1830-1930) was born in County Cork,
Ireland. She endured misfortune early in life as her
husband and four children died during the yellow
fever epidemic of 1867. She also lost all of her
belongings in the Chicago Fire of 1871. She then
devoted herself to organizing and advancing the
cause of labor, using the slogan, “Join the union,
boys!” She also sought to prohibit child labor. She
remained active until the very end, giving her last
speech on her 100th birthday.
• May 8 – International Red Cross founder and
Nobel Prize winner Henri Dunant (1828-1910)
was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a
founder of the YMCA and organized the Geneva
Conventions of 1863 and 1864.
• May 19 – African-American playwright Lorraine
Hansberry (1930-1965) was born in Chicago, Ill.
She is best known for A Raisin in the Sun (1959) a
play dealing with prejudice and black pride. The
play was the first stage production written by a
black woman to appear on Broadway. She died of
cancer at the age of 34. A book of her writings,
entitled To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, was
published posthumously.
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Cook’s Note: I use a lot of hard-cooked eggs to make egg salad sandwiches or as a convenient
healthy snack high in protein. Remove eggs from the refrigerator about 30 minutes
before cooking to avoid cracking. Place in a medium saucepan and add enough cold
water to cover by 1 inch. Bring to a boil. When water is boiling, remove the pan from
the heat and cover. Let stand 15 to 17 minutes. (I use 17 minutes, but most sources
say 15 minutes.) Drain the water and crack the shells. Peel while still warm and
refrigerate until needed, but no more than three days.
Copyright by Pat Sinclair. Pat Sinclair announces the publication of her second
cookbook, Scandinavian Classic Baking (Pelican Publishing), in February 2011. This
book has a color photo of every recipe. Her first cookbook, Baking Basics and Beyond(Surrey Books), won the 2007 Cordon d’Or from the Culinary Arts Academy.
Contact her at http://PatCooksandBakes.blogspot.com
Makes 2 servings
1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
1/4 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup diced red pepper
1 1/2 cups refrigerated hash browns or frozen shredded
hash browns, thawed
8 spears asparagus, cut into
2- to 3-inch pieces
1 cup fresh baby spinach leaves
1 clove garlic, minced
4 eggs
1/4 cup milk
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon pepper
Hot pepper sauce, if desired
1/2 cup shredded Mexican blend cheese or cheddar cheese
Heat the butter and olive oil in a 9-inch nonstick skillet over medium
heat. Add the onion and red pepper and cook two to three minutes or
until softened. Add the potatoes and cook about five minutes or until the
potatoes begin to brown.
Add asparagus and continue cooking about three minutes until bright
green. Add the spinach and garlic and cover. Cook one minute until the
spinach is wilted.
Beat the eggs, milk, salt, pepper, and a few drops hot pepper sauce in a
medium bowl until smooth. Pour over potatoes. Cook five to eight
minutes, lifting edges and allowing uncooked egg to flow underneath.
Heat the broiler. Sprinkle frittata with cheese and broil two to four
minutes or until center is set. Cut into four wedges to serve.
Tip: For variations, include experiment with fresh vegetables. When I
use zucchini, I chop it and cook it with the onion. For leftover vegetables,
add them with the spinach.
Easy Vegetable FrittataBy Pat Sinclair
As summer approaches, I’m always looking for nutritious recipes that require
little effort.
An Italian frittata is a complete meal the way I prepare it. Fresh asparagus
celebrates spring and abundant zucchini heralds the end of the season. Try
topping it with sliced tomatoes before adding the cheese.
There are endless variations, and it’s a great way to use up small amounts of
leftover vegetables. Eggs provide healthy protein, and you can replace two eggs
with egg substitute or egg whites if you are limiting cholesterol.
Not all frittatas contain potatoes, but adding them makes the meal more
substantial. Just add some fresh fruit and dinner’s ready!
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Preventive Measures
As the brown-gray mood of winter
melts, giving way to warmer
temperatures, crocus, and pudgy,
chirping robins, nature’s ultimate finger,
asparagus, begins poking its purple tips
through the warm soil.
I’ll never forget Mom cautioning my
brothers and me as we ran through the
family garden using asparagus spears as
swords in our swashbuckling fantasy.
“Don’t run while you have asparagus in
your hands. You’ll poke someone’s eye
out!
This low-calorie,
luxurious member of the
lily family was
historically reserved for
royalty and rulers and is
derived from the Greek
word asparago, meaning to
“sprout” or “shoot up.”
History tells us that Roman
emperors were so fond of
asparagus that they kept a
special fleet of ships solely to
fetch it. Ancient Romans
hoarded it, since they believed
asparagus spears cured all ailments, which
is evidence of man’s recognition of food
as medicine. Ancient Chinese herbalists
have used asparagus root for centuries.
The edible young shoots are one of
the most nutritional, well-balanced
veggies.
• 5 ounces provides 60 percent of the
recommended daily allowance for
folacin—required for blood-cell
formation growth and the prevention of
liver disease, cervical cancer, colon and
rectal cancer, and heart disease.
• Asparagus contains potassium, which
helps regulate the electrolyte balance
within cells and helps maintain normal
heart function and blood pressure.
• It contains fiber, thiamin, and B6 and
is one of the richest sources of rutin,
which strengthens capillary walls.
• Asparagus is especially rich in the
antioxidant nutrients vitamin A,
vitamin C, and vitamin E.
• Asparagus is a diuretic and a laxative;
for those who are sedentary and suffer
from gravel, it’s been found beneficial,
as well as in cases of dropsy.
• Asparagus contains steroids that mimic
pheromones, which purportedly make
you attractive to lovers.
This generous gift of the universe
contains more glutathione than other
produce. It assists cells in breaking down
toxic peroxide and other oxygen-rich
compounds, preventing them from
destroying DNA. Glutathione repairs
damaged DNA, stimulates immune
function, recycles vitamins C and E back
to their active forms, and removes toxins.
In 1991, an Italian researcher reported
a compound found in asparagus
that had shown some antiviral
activity in test-tube studies.
The root contains
compounds called steroidal
glycosides, which may have
anti-inflammatory properties to
ease the pain of arthritic-related
conditions.
Without getting busted by the
grocery cops, bend a stalk and
select a bunch that is firm
with tightly closed buds. The
thickness of the stalks makes
no difference. The color should be bright
green with subtle purple hints.
Discoloration and fading can guarantee
it’s old.
After cooking, if your asparagus has
gone limp, you’ve blown it. All of
asparagus’s delicious cosmic healing
qualities are ruined by cooking too long;
raw is best. Steam it for one minute.
Pay attention; over-cooking deserves a
good flogging. “As quick as cooking
asparagus” was a Roman saying, meaning
something had to be accomplished
rapidly.
To steam: Place washed, whole,
trimmed asparagus on a steamer rack
over rapidly boiling water. Cover and
begin timing.
Serving suggestions:
• Try asparagus with minced, fresh garlic
and lemon juice squeezed over the top.
• Chop it up raw and toss it into a salad.
• Drizzle it with soy sauce, toasted
sesame oil, and chopped green onions.
• Yogurt, low-fat mayonnaise, or non-fat
sour cream are easy toppings.
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Asparagus Tips – Grab a Spear, My Dear
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10. Luxury home features
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15. Regrettably
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19. Part of WATS
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54. Updating a kitchen,
e.g. (Brit.)
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68. Engine parts
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48. “Johnny Armstrong,”
for one
49. Maltreat
51. Insect stage
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American
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On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese carrier
planes, without warning,
dropped the bombs on Pearl
Harbor that were to involve the United
States in the largest war the world had
ever seen.
Two days later, Donald B. Wren went
to the recruiting station in Chicago to
enlist. He says he’ll never forget that day.
The freezing-cold wind blew strongly
down the several-block-long line of men
waiting to enlist.
Then, for Wren, it was off to Santa
Ana, Calif., on a troop train for basic
training. For many of them, who had
never been farther than Chicago, that
was a life-changing experience. And after
five days and nights, they arrived at
Santa Ana.
After much training, Wren was chosen
on May 19, 1942, to become an aviation
cadet. That was followed by months of
flying training, after which he won his
wings as a pilot and was assigned a crew
of five other men and shipped to
Baltimore, where he picked up a brand-
new B-26 Marauder twin-engine bomber
from the factory.
The B-26 was already called the
“Widowmaker” due to its high rate of
accidents during takeoff and landings. It
had to be flown at exact airspeeds,
particularly on final approach and when
one engine was out. Its usual approach
airspeed of 150 miles per hour then had
to be strictly maintained or it would stall
out and crash.
Wren and his new crew then flew to
Miami. The next day was Christmas,
when they were awakened at 6 a.m.,
given a bag of oranges
and a pat on the back,
and sent off on the
long flight to Europe
via South America;
Ascension Island, a tiny
dot halfway across the
Atlantic; Africa; and
finally to England,
where they were
assigned to the 554th
Bomb Squadron, 386th
Bomb Group.
There Wren was to
fly 97 combat hours
on 29 combat
missions, participating
in the Normandy and
Air Offensive European campaigns.
Many of those missions were knocking
out bridges in preparation for the D-Day
invasion. Did his crew suffer any
casualties?
“Yes,” he says quietly, “we sure did.
My co-pilot was killed, our bombardier
suffered flak damage to his right eye and
was removed from the crew, our flight
engineer ‘went to pieces’ and was
grounded, and a flak burst below the
belly of the plane put enough metal in
our waist gunner’s butt to land him in
the hospital.
“Then, on my 29th mission, on May
31, 1943, we were shot down and had to
bail out over France. My radio operator
and I had had ‘double E’ training (escape
and evasion), so we made it to the trees,
where I spent the next 13 days hiding
out in the countryside under fir trees
whose branches swept the ground, in
hedgerows, and in
haystacks.
“Food consisted of
the carrots, green beans,
peas, and radishes that
could be ‘liberated’ at
night from local
gardens, but my weight
went down to 137
pounds.
“I awakened one
morning with a French
milkmaid standing over
me. She turned out to
have family in the
French underground, so
she ran off to get her
father. And from then
on, the underground took care of me.”
Wren buried his uniform clothes and
was given appropriate civilian clothes, a
French beret, a work card, and even
wooden-soled shoes. The only thing he
kept was his dog tags. He and other
evadees were transferred from one
farmhouse to another. Once, after
spending 30 days in one room, alone
with nothing to occupy his time or
mind, he climbed out of a window and
was on his own.
While walking down a dirt path, he
heard a motorcycle with two Germans
aboard approaching. There was no time
to hide, so he kept walking. The
motorcycle stopped in front of him, and
the Germans looked him up and down.
“I felt sure that they could read a sign
on my chest saying, ‘I am an American,’”
he says. “They asked the way to a nearby
town. I couldn’t understand more than
the name of the town and had no idea
where it lay, but I kept my mouth shut
and pointed straight ahead. When they
left, I scampered back to the room I had
left. Somehow, the room no longer
seemed boring or confining.”
There were other close scrapes. Once
he was eating in a small restaurant with
the underground when some German
officers came in and shook hands all
around. “I just shook hands and
grinned,” he says, “and my rescuers got
me out of the place quickly.”
After 93 days behind enemy lines, the
Allied troops went by, and Wren was safe
at last. He met up with his radio
operator, and they got an old German
motorcycle operating again. They drove
from one American camp to another,
gathering up food supplies that they
could take to the people who had cared
for them.
They finally reached an American
airfield, and a flight took them back to
England. Since they had been behind the
lines, they were promptly flown to the
U.S. for intelligence debriefing.
Later, he was a flight instructor and
saw combat in Korea and Vietnam.
“But that,” he says, “is another story.”
Wren retired from the Air Force as a
colonel in 1976, and later he and his
wife, Mariann, came to Central
Pennsylvania to enjoy life in a retirement
community, never far from thinking of
the hazards he faced as a B-26 pilot in
Europe in our nation’s greatest war.
Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in
Europe in WWII.
He Spent 93 Days as an EvadeeBehind Enemy Lines
Robert D. Wilcox
Salute to a Veteran
Captain Donald B. Wren in 1950.
In early 1950s television, Richard
Carlson starred in I Led Three Lives.
Each episode started with a dramatic
voiceover: “This is the fantastically true
story of the Herbert A. Philbrick, who,
for nine frightening years, did lead three
lives—average citizen, member of the
Communist Party, and counterspy for
the FBI.”
I always thought if we could count
“average citizen” as one of our lives, we
all could claim at least two—for instance,
average citizen and
housewife or average
citizen and pipe
fitter.
It may be a
stretch to call
celebrities average
citizens, but if we
do, several from past
and present have led
three lives, just like
Herbert A.
Philbrick.
Take Dorothy
Rodgers, wife of composer Richard
Rodgers, who always fought being
summarized as “wife and mother.” She
wrote books on home decorating and
invented a toilet cleaning “jonny mop,”
which she sold to Johnson & Johnson.
Jamie Leigh Curtis, daughter of Janet
Leigh and Tony Curtis, and a movie star
in her own right, holds the patent on a
disposable diaper that comes with a
moistened baby wipe attached.
New Yorker writer Ian Frazier often
writes about fishing, but his patent is for
a different kind of pole—one that
removes debris stuck in trees.
Ever yearn to write, but say you
haven’t the time? Draw inspiration from
Edward Streeter. Streeter retired from his
37-year banking career in 1956, a couple
of years after his novel, Mr. Hobbs’
Vacation, hit the bookstores. Later it was
transformed into a hit movie starring
Jimmy Stewart and Maureen O’Hara.
But Streeter already knew about
Hollywood. You see, back in the ’40s, he
made time to write Father of the Bride
despite his daily commute to New York’s
Fifth Avenue Bank.
Anyone with more LPs than CDs
remembers the choral harmony of Fred
Waring and His Pennsylvanians. Waring
played in orchestras to put himself
through Penn State, where he studied
architectural engineering, not music.
His engineering knowledge stood him
in good stead as he helped work out the
kinks in another inventor’s basic blender
design. Voila! The Waring Blender was
born.
Hedy Lamarr shocked European
movie-goers by skinny dipping in the
1933 Austrian-Czech film Ecstasy. In
Hollywood she is remembered as much
for turning down
what became Ingrid
Bergman roles in
Gaslight and
Casablanca as for
starring in such
pictures as Samson
and Delilah and
The Strange Woman.
But the woman
Louis B. Mayer
once called “the
most beautiful girl
in the world” was
not just another pretty face. Back in
1942, Lamarr shared a patent for a
“secret communication system” that was
designed as a guidance device for U.S.
torpedoes. The invention, based on
“frequency hopping,” was so far ahead of
its time that the military couldn’t use it
until the 1960s. In today’s digital age, it
helps keep cell phone calls secure.
Even ardent baseball fans may have
trouble recalling journeyman catcher
Moe Berg. A defensive specialist, Berg
got in just 662 big-league games during
15 seasons in the 1920s and ’30s.
Berg’s I.Q. might have been higher
than his batting average. He graduated
from Princeton with honors, and then
earned a law degree from Columbia
while playing big-league ball. Players
used to joke, “Moe Berg can speak seven
languages, but he can’t hit in any of
them.”
One of those languages was Japanese,
which might explain how a ball player
who hit only three homeruns in his first
10 seasons got selected, along with bona
fide stars like Babe Ruth and Lou
Gehrig, for a 1934 traveling all-star team
that visited Japan. Berg charmed his
hosts into letting him take home movies
from the top of Tokyo’s tallest building,
movies some say were used to plan
Jimmy Doolittle’s Tokyo bombing raid.
Once America entered World War II,
Berg’s fluent German led to missions for
the Office of Strategic Services,
predecessor to today’s CIA. One of his
greatest spy triumphs was discovering
that Nazi Germany’s nuclear research
lagged behind the American atomic
efforts.
In any language, Moe Berg would
have made Herbert A. Philbrick proud.
They Led Three Lives
Silver Threads
W.E. Reinka
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Calendar of EventsLebanon County Department of Parks and Recreation
All events held at the Park at Governor Dick unless noted.
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Lebanon Community Library, 125 N. Seventh St., (717) 273-7624May 7, 2 to 6 p.m. – Blood Drive
Matthews Public Library, 102 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, (717) 865-5523May 22, 5 p.m. – Monthly Book Club
Myerstown Community Library, 199 N. College St., Myerstown, (717) 866-2800May 17, 7 to 8:30 p.m. – Book Discussion: A History of the World in 6 Glasses by
Tom Standage
Palmyra Public Library, 325 S. Railroad St., (717) 838-1347May 14, 6:45 to 7:45 p.m. – Book Club Meeting: The Blue Orchard by Jackson Taylor
Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939
Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796200 S. White Oak St., Annville
Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048710 Maple St., Lebanon
May 14, 11:30 a.m. – Tai Chi Level One
May 15, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Bus Trip: Bucks County
May 17, 12:15 p.m. – Lebanon Middle School Singers
Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-678651 W. Stoever Ave., Myerstown
May 8, 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Bus Trip: Mother’s Day Outing at Shady Maple
May 10, 10:30 a.m. – Myerstown Center Open House
May 24, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. – “Do the Twist Backward” Luncheon
Northern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 865-0944335 N. Lancaster St., Jonestown – www.jonestownpa.org/senior.html
May 3, 11 a.m. – Breakfast Brunch at Hilltop Café
May 8, 9:30 a.m. – Gretna Spring Fling
May 17, 7:45 a.m. – Breakfast Bunch at Dutchway
Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237101 S. Railroad St., Palmyra
Southern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 274-7541Midway Church of the Brethren, 13 Evergreen Road, Lebanon
Mondays and Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – Walkers Club
Privately Owned Centers
Senior Center of Lebanon Valley, Inc. – (717) 274-3451710 Maple St., Lebanon
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By Doris Brookens
It’s an American tradition to pay
tribute to the men and women of the
Armed Forces each Memorial Day—
especially honoring those who have made
the ultimate sacrifice while serving our
country.
If you are a military service member
who was wounded and needs to apply for
disability benefits, it’s important to know
that you will receive expedited
processing. Our wounded warriors
initiative is for military service members
who become disabled while on active
duty on or after Oct. 1, 2001, regardless
of where the disability occurs.
Depending on the situation, some
family members of military personnel,
including dependent children and, in
some cases, spouses, may be able to
receive benefits. Learn more about it at
www.socialsecurity.gov/wounded
warriors.
Did you know that May is also
National Military Appreciation Month?
Even more reason to let members of our
military know how much we value what
they do for us and our nation.
To learn more about the Social
Security benefits for those who have
served in the military, read the
publication Military Service and Social
Security. You can find it online at
www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10017.html;
send an email to [email protected];
or call (800) 772-1213 (TTY (800)325-
0778) to ask for a free copy to be mailed
to you.
Memorial Day is also a good time to
remind families of fallen military heroes
that we may be able to pay Social
Security survivors benefits. If the person
you depended on for income has died,
you should apply for survivors benefits.
Learn more about Social Security
survivors benefits at www.socialsecurity.
gov/pgm/survivors.htm.
The men and women of the Armed
Forces serve us each and every day. At
Social Security, we’re here to serve them
too.
Doris Brookens is the Social Security office
manager in Harrisburg.
Serving Wounded Warriors and Survivors of Fallen Heroes
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Book Review
“It couldn’t have been a more
beautiful spring day … There
we were, the three of us, sittin’
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would be the beginning of his military career as well as
the spark for an infatuation that would evolve to greatly
influence his life.
“They just fascinated me,” Knaub said of the whales.
He always believed he would be in the banking
industry, having pursued it very early on. After he
attended the US Naval Academy, Knaub acquired a BS
in accounting from Elizabethtown College and his
MBA in banking from Shippensburg University. He
was able to work in Harrisburg with two large banking
institutions.
However, Knaub’s interests began to float back into
the world of whales after discovering whale watching—
a practice of observing whales in their natural
environment—in Provincetown, Mass., during a 1985
trip with a group of friends.
It was not until the very last day of their three-day
journey that they were able to witness their first whale.
“It was foggy,” Knaub recalled, “and then someone
[on the boat] with the microphone announced, ‘There’s
a whale!’” What he witnessed that day was the tail—
also known as the fluke—of the whale, which would
become a notable symbol in his company’s logo. “After
eight hours on the boat we thought it was the most
amazing thing.”
The following year, he brought his wife along to
whale watch and they both witnessed two humpback
whales that came directly up to their boat, slapping
their flukes in the water—an action called lobtailing.
“They really excited me and fueled my passion to be
a marine biologist,” Knaub said.
Having brought along his personal camera, many
other whale watchers would ask Knaub for copies of his
videotapes.
“That was the light-bulb moment for me,” said
Knaub. It would also be the beginning of his Whale
Video Company.
During six months in 1988, he took 175 whale-
watching trips, recording everything he saw. According
to Knaub, a lot of planning goes into a whale-watching
trip and capturing video, including anticipation of bad
weather, being prepared for seasickness, preparing
backup equipment, and knowing how to spot a whale.
In Knaub’s videos, there is a distinct enthusiasm not
only from the whale watchers, but from the whales as
well. The videos show whales blowing ring bubbles and
breeching, which is when whales launch themselves out
of the water in an incredible display.
“Humpback whales are 50 tons of fun,” he laughed.
Knaub’s videos—digitized and annotated by him—
have become known as the world’s largest video
documentation archive of dolphin and whale behaviors.
They serve as some of the first notations of certain
whale behaviors.
“We have about 500 [whales] identified on video,”
Knaub said. “[The] whales have names and personalities
and an interest in us.”
His vast collection of videos caught the attention of
Google, making Knaub one of the official contributors
to Google Earth and Google Ocean. Knaub also has
videos posted to YouTube that have accumulated
thousands of views.
Knaub said that it simply takes one trip to excite
individuals about whales. “You would think someone
who went on tens of thousands of trips would be
immune, but it’s as if it is their first time—there is
something magical about a whale,” he said.
That magic seems to have Knaub completely
captivated as he has made several connections with the
whales he has videotaped, knowing about 100 on sight.
“It was their amazing stories that got me away from
banking,” Knaub said.
Quite a few of these whales have become celebrities
amongst whale watchers and fanatics. The most notable
are Salt and Colt.
Salt, a humpback whale, was the first whale to be
treated as an individual and given a name. She is the
most sighted whale in the whale world, being spotted
every year. Marine biologists estimate that she is 43 to
44 years old (most humpback whales live to be about
75).
Salt is also a mother of 12 calves and eight known
grand-calves. Scientists are able to keep track of whales
by their markings and scars. Many are even named after
such markings.
Colt is a 30-year-old humpback whale who is well
known for his singing talents; he has been dubbed “the
Frank Sinatra of the whale world.”
“Colt has a little black mark that looks like a
handgun,” laughed Knaub. When it comes to selecting
names, “you have to use your imagination.”
Both Colt and Salt are whales that are available for
adoption through a CSI program that Knaub helped to
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“If we tell you
about them and
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personalities, it’s like they become
friends,” Knaub explained.
Knaub also takes his vast knowledge to
senior communities and elementary
schools across the nation, giving lectures
that drown out the negative stereotypes
whales are often given: that they are
dangerous creatures responsible for the
decline in fish and other ocean life.
“My company wants to show the
beautiful side of whales,” he emphasized.
Knaub remembered an example of such a
side when a mother whale briefly left her
calf by his boat for a few hours. “Why
would a mother want to bring its calf to
us even when they are treated badly? They
are more trusting than most people will
be.
“They deserve
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Whale adoption
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them at (202) 296-3860.
Salt blows near a calf.
EXPO to Feature Tech TutorialsFor the 13th year, the 50plus EXPO will
be coming to Lititz, but this time the
event will highlight a new and decidedly
tech-friendly element.
In addition to free health screenings
and door
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exhibitors—
the Northern
Lancaster
County 50plus
EXPO on
May 8 will
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some of the latest home-entertainment
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hhgregg will have on display three flat-
screen televisions, including a 55-inch
Samsung TV with voice and guest
controls. Staff will demonstrate its built-
in webcam and Skype capabilities.
In addition, hhgregg staff members
will be conducting demonstrations of
Xbox Kinect, a gaming system that
detects the user’s body movements and
responds to voice commands.
Also on-hand will be live computer-
basics demonstrations by The Digital
Workshop, teaching EXPO goers how to
connect with friends and family via
Facebook, email, and Skype.
Plus,
Digital
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staff will be
leading a
photo editing
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every 15
minutes at the
bottom of the
hour to show
you how to get
rid of red eye,
crop, and
clean up the
background in your photos.
Held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., the 50plus
EXPO will be presented by On-Line
Publishers, Inc., publishers of 50plus
Senior News, and the Lancaster County
Office of Aging. This free, one-day event
will feature more than 80 exhibitors
displaying products and services in the
areas of travel, housing, medical services,
nutrition, home improvements, finances,
healthcare, and more.
For more information, call (717) 285-
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