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Habitat for Humanity’s Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter work project is coming to St. Joseph County. With Carter coming the week of Aug. 26-31, volunteers are already busy getting the homes built.

The Carter work project provides assistance to residents of St. Joseph County who are employed but make less than 80 percent of the area median income. These residents then pay an affordable mortgage and provide “sweat equity” with so many hours of volunteer work put in building the homes. For many residents, they will be the first people in their family to own their own home.

At the corner of East Jefferson Boulevard and North Byrkit Avenue in Mishawaka, 21 new single-family homes are being built in a new subdivision. Each of the homes is in varying stages

of development from pouring the basement, building the floor to putting on siding. Other homes will then be built among the Carter work project homes and be put up for sale so it will be just like any other neighborhood. Four new homes, three rehabili-tated homes and 10 major home repairs will also take place in South Bend.

After volunteering with Habi-tat for Humanity in 1996, Lyle Bailey heard about the Carter work project on the news, went to the website and signed up to volunteer one day. He was hop-ing to be able to volunteer more but not many days appeared to be available. After discussing this with members of Habitat at the work site, they suggested he volunteer as part of the mid-week crew.

Six weeks ago Bailey began his volunteer work and volun-teers three days a week. He needed something to get out of the house. He had previously volunteered on mission trips

with different church groups, including a trip to Honduras. While he had previously done small amounts of construction at his job, the majority of his ex-perience with construction came from his work with the volunteer groups.

“I’ve done just about every-thing from putting in floors, putting in windows, putting doors in, to putting trusses up,” Bailey recalled. “Just general construction.” He enjoys the layout portion of building and figuring out where things are going to be. The social aspect of the volunteer work is enjoyable for Bailey while getting to know and talking with other members of the mid-week crew. He is registered to attend the Carter Week build.

Laurel Thomas started volun-teering on the Carter project last August. She and her husband were both teachers and after they retired they wanted to try something new. Since they have both been musicians their entire

lives, they wanted to learn some construction work. Thomas’ father had been an engineer and they have been working on small house projects so it would be a practical skill to learn.

Thomas volunteers one day a week as part of the mid-week crew. The days normally last from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Every day it is a surprise since she doesn’t find out what project she will be working on until she checks in that morning. “Habi-tat has you doing everything,” Thomas stated. She has helped to build walls and stairs and put in siding and windows. Her favorite project thus far has been putting in the floor joists because they hold the entire house up.

“I wanted to do something for the general good and it seemed like a really constructive and powerful thing,” Thomas commented. “A big part is just knowing you’ve made some sort of substantial contribution. The smaller part is driving away

and seeing what you’ve com-pleted physically.”

Thomas also has signed up and registered for Carter Week. She looks forward to helping with painting and landscaping later on.

To learn more about Habitat for Humanity and the Carter work project visit www.hfhsjc.org.

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Mishawaka woman is livingthe dream one day at a time

“I’ve always been into helping people,” stated Pat Bellovich of Mishawaka. “I was a Weight Watcher’s instructor for 13 years, help-ing individuals reach their goal weight. I love people and enjoy helping them achieve good results.”

For the past 14 years, Bel-lovich has worked for School

City of Mishawaka. She said, “I started out at Mishawaka High School, assisting Princi-pal George Marzotto.”

Eventually, Bellovich moved to the administration center and became the as-sistant to the superintendent, Dr. R. Steven Mills. After a few more superintendents, she ended her career assist-ing the current superinten-dent, Dr. A. Dean Speicher.

When asked how she ad-

justed, serving so many per-sonality styles, she remarked, “I can read people pretty well. I simply learned what they wanted and how they wanted me to do things. Then I worked accordingly.”

With a smile, she contin-ued, “My main job was to serve the school board. It was my responsibility to publish the board agenda twice a month. I had to gather busi-ness items, such as contracts, recognition items, curriculum items and various reports to put together for the agenda. Then I had to advertise the agenda to the media 48 hours before the meeting. With the board agenda and other proj-ects, I learned to work with constant deadlines.”

She was also the go-to person for staff members. “Whenever something was going on, teachers, princi-pals and other staff mem-bers would call my office. Questions, complaints and information came to me all day long. But I loved all the activity.”

Her biggest challenge was time pressure.

“I had to get everything together in a timely manner. That was not an unhappy thing to me. But there were evenings when I went home pretty exhausted. The only sad part of my job was see-ing families or students in distress.”

Bellovich knows what it’s like to hurt.

“Last June, we lost our daughter, Rachel, at 39. That’s one of the reasons I decided to retire this past April. I want to spend time with my two other daugh-ters: Alexis in Sarasota and Abigail in Mishawaka. My husband, Mike, retired in 2016.”

She still misses her friends at work. “When I had to be gone to Indianapolis where Rachel was hospitalized, my friends at School City were there for me. When I was in tears, they understood. They helped me get through some really tough times. I’ll always love them and be grateful for that.”

Retirement means different things to different people. “To Mike, it means serving on the city council, being president of the Homeowners Associa-tion and keeping his Marine Corps connections.”

At 67, Bellovich is still finding her way in retire-ment. “Although I was a little concerned about the lack of structure in my life after retirement, my recently widowed friend helped me gain perspective. She said, ‘You have a healthy husband. You are healthy. You have the resources so that you don’t have to work. Right now, you are living the dream. Enjoy it.’”

Bellovich is enjoying it. She and Mike just got back from a vacation trip to Arizona. “At the end of June, we’re go-

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Leeper Park Art Fair June 16-17

With over 50 years in the healthcare industry, Sprenger Health Care has redefined what it means to be in an assisted living com-munity. At Sprenger Health Care Mishawaka, we want our residents to feel like they are staying at a five-

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Care in Mishawaka, you will see the difference. The facility offers an open-concept layout that provides plenty of natural light, and inviting common areas for residents and their loved ones to enjoy. At Sprenger Health Care Mishawaka, we wanted to create a sense of community for our residents

The 51st annual Leeper Art Fair will be June 16-17. It will be held on the grounds of Leeper Park by the St. Joseph River in downtown South Bend.

The fair will feature 110 artists from all over the country. This juried fine arts fair will feature: acrylic, watercolor, pottery, photography, jewelry, glass, sculpture, print mak-ing and wood. “Sunshine Artist” magazine rated this fine arts show one of the top 200 shows in the country.

Food vendors will be available both days and light jazz will be presented throughout the fair. Stroll through the grounds and enjoy 51 years of art experience. Shuttles will be available. The show is sponsored by the St. Joseph Watercolor Society.

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Woodworking class keeps Alzheimer’s patients laughing

John Shirk, Mike Wirt and Ron Maier work together to teach a woodworking class to Alzheimer and dementia patients at Milton Adult Day Services, South Bend, for one hour on Wednesdays. All local residents, Wirt began the woodworking program at Milton 15 years ago while he was doing a similar program at Healthwin. Shirk had previously volunteered reading the newspa-

per to shut-ins over the phone. Once the program ended he was introduced to Wirt and has been in the woodworking program for 13 years. Maier was a friend of Shirk and was invited to help lead the program seven years ago.

Each of the men bring some-thing different to the table. Wirt was a carpenter for years and brings his expertise. After having a stroke, his preacher recom-mended teaching woodworking. Maier was a volunteer firefighter

and EMT for many years so he knows how to handle and work with people. Maier’s wife, Karen, also makes all of the aprons for the class members. Shirk pro-vides the labor. He comes up with all of the patterns for the differ-ent projects and spends hours in his garage cutting out all the pieces for each of the projects.

The most difficult part of the work is thinking up new projects for the clients to make. They have done bird houses, bird feed-ers, paper towel holders, small tool boxes and a door stop, just to name a few. Their next project

will be their very own Godzilla. A tree bird feeder was the largest project they have completed so far and it took approximately three months. “We do things you can use,” explained Wirt. They tend to do four to five projects a year.

There are normally between nine and 15 students in their class and Shirk ensures that they do not use having Alzheimer’s as an excuse. Each participant does as much of each project as they can by themselves including sanding, putting together and painting. Students are encour-

aged to be creative and use glitter and stencils and a variety of colors. After the project is com-pleted, each student gets to take one home.

Shirk describes how Al-zheimer’s and dementia patients struggle with their memory less. He always wants make them laugh and tries to have a joke of the week. “We treat them as if no one in here has a problem. We take off the kid gloves, pick on them, tease them and make sure they’re so busy they can’t worry bout what’s going on with them,” Continued on page 6

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Shirk continues. “We don’t do anything different except treat

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Woodworking classthem as people.”

Kelvin Stanford, an aide who has helped with the clients in

the woodworking class for the past four or five years, attests to seeing a visible difference in the clients. Wednesday is the most popular day where the clients are able to talk, laugh, make things and learn.

Each Tuesday they also have a special class for patients whose caregivers are attending a week-ly support group with a variety of projects. Since the woodworking class is completely volunteer and self-sustaining, the money for paint and supplies comes from extras of each project that Shirk makes which are then sold.

“When it comes to this, I’m not sure who is having more fun — the clients or us,” Shirk concludes. “This is what we do. This is what it’s all about.”

Get outside and get active with disc golf

Starting disc golf between 25 and 30 years ago, Greg Rogers once counted him-self as playing 400 rounds in a single year. One of his favorite disc golf courses is at Ox Bow Park in Goshen. He has played the sport in 26 states and two countries. In Switzerland he played on a golf course turned disc golf course.

For those who have never heard of or played disc golf, the rules are practically the same as regular golf. It sim-ply involves a disc and chain net instead of a club, ball and hole. The player stands on a platform and throws a disc toward a chain net similarly to how one would throw a frisbee. Wherever the disc

lands is where the player throws from next until they make it into the chain net. Just like in golf, each hole has a par and the goal is to be under par and get the low-est score possible.

A combination of luck and skill, Rogers’ personal rule is “Whoever has the most fun wins.” He also specified that each player needs a special disc that weighs a certain amount. He particularly emphasizes not to attempt to catch a disc. Although it may look like a frisbee, it is not and can hurt your arm.

When there was a disc golf league, Rogers enjoyed being a member and traveling with the other league members around the area. While he has a few friends he plays against frequently, he also en-joys just going out to courses

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Rogers enjoys finding new courses to try out. Many of the various courses he plays he finds through a book with a list of different disc golf courses. He normally plays three days a week. While most people carry multiple discs, he only carries one. He boasts that he can almost always get it right down the center or make it go to the left or the right if he wants. “Keep it simple,” he empha-sizes.

Disc golf can also be an adventure according to Rog-ers. He has gotten to see many animals while walking the courses including birds, hawks, eagles and turtles. He once played a course in Denver where he accidentally threw his disc right into a prairie dog village.

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people receive.By law, federal benefit rates

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Angel of the Morning

Hubbard Hill breaks the memory care mold

Merilee Rush and the TurnaboutsJune 1968

By 1967 songwriter Chip Taylor had one hit tune to his credit: the Troggs’ “Wild Thing” from the previous year. Now he was summoning his muse again in hopes of hitting pay dirt for a second time. In Behind the Hits Taylor explains: “The day I wrote ‘Angel’ I was fooling around with some chords for three or four hours. Then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, came ‘There’ll be no strings to bind your hands, not if my love can’t bind your heart.’ I said, ‘That is beautiful!’… Within 10 minutes I’d written the whole song, including the chorus.”

Then there was the matter of what fol-lowed those opening lines.

Sex had to be soft-pedaled during rock’s early days; “Angel of the Morning” changed all that. As its story unfolded listen-ers heard such eyebrow-lifting lyrics as I see no need to take me home/I’m old enough to face the dawn, as well as If morning’s echo says we’ve sinned/Well, it was what I wanted now.

Hubbard Hill Living Wisdom Community recently embarked on a revolutionary journey in memory care excellence at a “Breaking the Mold” ceremony at the Hubbard Hill campus in Elkhart. The purpose of the event was to transcend typical ground breaking events, signifying the revolution in memory care, which will occur following completion of the new Memory Care Center slated to open in spring 2019.

“This is the culmination of a four-year exploration and plan-ning process seeking to identify and develop a better way to serve

the needs of persons living with dementia/Alzheimer’s disease,” stated Hubbard Hill CEO Patrick

Continued on page 9

Pingel. “It was our belief current approaches to memory care were indicative of a healthcare system, which has failed those living with the disease. At the same time, this is the beginning of a remark-able journey leading to what we also believe to be a ‘better way of living.’ Every element of this project has received rigorous review and scrutiny to ensure the innovation and excellence Hubbard Hill strives to maintain each and every day with our residents.”

The Memory Care Center at Hubbard Hill is the only Tier 1 memory care facility in this re-gion. Tier 1 memory care centers are uniquely characterized by three design and programmatic care elements:

• A dedicated and exclusively designed ground-up facility built for memory care.

• A facility which fully inte-grates the necessary biophilic environmental design elements critical to residents’ well-being and overall health.

• The leading proprietary person-centered care program developed by one of the foremost authorities in dementia care in Indiana.

Executive Director of Memory Care and Program Creator Deb-bie Carriveau summed it up this way: “This is an opportunity of a lifetime. I have worked in de-mentia/Alzheimer’s care for over 38 years and to be given a blank slate to help design and see the culmination of the ultimate memory care facility is truly a gift. I have visited and consulted with over 300 facilities across the region in my career. I have never seen a facility so fully integrated with hundreds of details enabling residents to have a better qual-ity of life and thrive. We believe that a diagnosis of dementia is a ‘life changing — not life end-ing’ process and we are able to provide individuals a quality of life and sense of purpose others don’t think is possible. Too often, people living with dementia are discounted once they get the diagnosis and seen as incapable of engagement in life any longer.

We have chosen to focus on rela-tionships with those living with us and their story, and provide care accordingly. This facility is a game changer in our industry and the community at large.”

Pingel shared the longer range vision, which includes expansion well beyond the new memory care facility to include a resource center, Caring for the Caregiver center, training center, research and additional memory care facilities. The long term goal is to make Hubbard Hill the epicenter for elder care in the community at large in much the same way the Mayo Clinic has impacted Rochester, Minn.

“There is no end to the need for excellence in our community as the emerging tidal wave of this disease is nearly upon us and we want to do our part to provide the necessary resources to help our community and those we serve,” Pingel concluded.

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Rather than a preview of next season’s fashions,

we’re taking a stroll down memory lane. Join us for an amazing afternoon of fun and style.

The Village at Arborwood will be hosting a vintage

fashion show. People will see beautiful dresses, purses, hats, and accessories that perhaps you, or parents or grandparents, may have worn. The Reenders fam-

ily, owners of The Village at Arborwood, own and care-fully store the pieces of this amazing collection. The fashions are collected from many sources, including es-tate sales, antique shops as well as personal items from many of our residents.

Jeanne is the curator of this vintage collection and the emcee of this special event. The public is invited to come listen as the mod-

els walk the runway, while Jeanne tells the special stories behind these one-of-a-kind fashion pieces that span 100 years from the 1880s to the 1980s. The show is both entertaining and informative.

The show will be at 2 p.m. June 21. The Village at Ar-borwood is located at 820 E. Cleveland Road in Granger. RSVP, as seating is limited, by calling (574) 247-4680.

More than 400 species of birds can be found in Indi-ana, including the state bird, which is the northern car-dinal. Steve Sass, field trip chairman of the South Bend-Elkhart Audubon Society, will describe some of these birds at “Insights in History,” tak-ing place at 1:30 p.m. June 6, at The History Museum.

Admission is $3 or $1 for members. Reservations are required by June 4.

A guided tour of the His-toric Oliver Gardens, which surround the 38-room Oliver Mansion, will be offered. The fragrant gardens surround-ing Copshaholm provide a lush backdrop to the 38-room Victorian mansion that was

once home to the J.D. Oli-ver family. Tulips, daffodils, peonies, roses, lilies-of-the-valley, irises and mums are just some of the flowers that can be found in the 2 and ½ acres of the historic Oliver Gardens. A formal Italianate garden is part of the area, along with a lovely grassy expanse where a tennis court

was once situated. One of the earliest pieces of garden architecture in the historic Oliver Gardens is the pergola, a grapevine-covered walkway, which extends from Copsha-holm to the sunken garden. The pergola, along with the sunken garden, tennis court, teahouse, and fountain house were added in 1907-1908.

Within the sunken garden are a rose garden and peren-nial garden. The gardens are beautifully maintained by volunteers of The History Museum.

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Continued from page 8Wow. But, after all, this was

the “progressive” ‘60s.Taylor and a partner recorded

the song — which featured a simple “Louie Louie” chord pro-gression — with a young singer named Evie Sands. Released on Cameo Records, “Angel” quickly caught fire and won airplay in several key radio markets. But, two weeks after Sands’ 45 was released, Cameo unexpectedly went bankrupt, and Evie’s rising star fizzled out.

Later, Taylor received a phone call from Seattle that another artist, Merilee Rush and the Turnabouts, had cut his song. Taylor: “I was looking forward to hearing it. It came out and I had a copy sent to me. But I took one listen and said, ‘Uh-uh, I don’t think so.”

Taylor spoke too soon; Rush’s disc went Top Five in Seattle, then spread rapidly across the country.

Merrilee Rush began her life as Merrilee Gunst in Seattle in 1944. At age 16 she became the lead singer of a local rock outfit called the Amazing Aztecs. She eventually married the band’s sax player, Tom Rush, and the two formed Merrilee and Her Men, which later disbanded. For a while the Rushes worked in an integrated Seattle rhythm-and-blues collective called Tiny Tony and the Statics (Tony being a

300-pound soul belter).In 1965 the Rushes created

Merrilee Rush and the Turn-abouts, a rock/R & B group that soon became a top draw on the local club circuit. In time they signed on as the opening act for Paul Revere and the Raid-ers’ 1967 tour. While in Mem-phis, Raiders lead singer Mark Lindsay introduced Rush to record producer Chips Moman, who had recorded the Box Tops’ megahit of “The Letter.”

Moman had Rush cut a breathy rendition of “Angel of the Morning,” a haunting future Top Ten winner. Released on Bell Records, Rush’s version became a million-seller and even earned her a Grammy nomina-tion.

In 1981 country singer Juice Newton breathed new life into Merrilee’s song that some rock historians now cite as being a forerunner of the women’s liberation movement.

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“I became a Christian at a young age,” stated Carole Streeter, South Bend. “My fami-ly and I attended a church that was a nurturing community for me and many others. Being a Christian has made a differ-ence in every part of my life, in motivation, goals and personal experience.”

Streeter’s family moved to Wheaton, Ill., when she was 6.

“I attended the Wheaton school and then Wheaton College where I majored in English in preparation to be a secondary English teacher,” she said.

She married a young man she met in college. She added, “I taught school for a few years before our first child was born. Our daughter was followed by

a son.”A few years later, she and

her husband became part of HCJB, a radio and television ministry in Quito, Ecuador.

“We lived there four years and then spent one year at a missionary radio station in Glennallen, Alaska.”

Returning to Wheaton, Streeter soon began working part-time at Scripture Press in its newly formed book division.

“This soon became full time, and I spent many years there as a senior acquisitions editor,” she added. “This involved find-ing new authors for our pro-gram, through phone contact and considerable travel, mostly in the U.S.”

With a smile, she remarked, “I found the work challenging and enjoyable, especially since I had the opportunity to meet such interesting people. Some

of the authors I worked with were Dr. Ross Campbell, Dr. Tony Campolo, Dr. David Sea-mands, Dr. John Oswalt and Dr. Brian Stiller.”

Streeter is also an author.“Unfortunately, I had to go

through a divorce, and I fin-ished raising the two children by myself. One positive out-come was a book I wrote titled ‘Finding Your Place after Di-vorce,’ followed by ‘Reflections for Women Alone.’ I have also written poetry over the years and many of my poems have been published in magazines.”

After 15 years with Victor Books, Streeter left to return to school. This involved a move to Wilmore, Ky., where she received a Master of Arts in theological studies at Asbury Theological Seminary.

“I moved to South Bend in 1994, a year after I finished my

degree,” she shared. “I wanted to be near my children and grandchildren.”

In 2012, she and her family experienced a great sadness, when said Streeter, “I lost my son to eye cancer.”

She’s glad to be in the area. “It’s been wonderful to see my five grandchildren grow up here and to be involved in their lives. I now have several great-grandchildren, and I have the joy of being part of this new generation in our family.”

Her service in many church-es in various places has been widely varied, including teach-ing, music, compassionate care, board membership and more.

Her hobbies include garden-ing, mostly flowers and shrubs. She looks forward to seeing her perennials bloom each summer.

In November 2017, she published a book titled “Need-

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ing Isaiah’s God in Troubled Times.”

“This was a result of inten-sive study in the book of Isaiah on 12 of the words the prophet used most often. I found it to be the richest study I’ve ever done,” she noted. “I’m now working on the Gospel of John in the same style.

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ASC setting new standards for residents’ meals

Meals made from scratch with fresh Indiana-grownproduce on the menu

Homemade mashed pota-toes, not the flakes from a box, Indiana-grown vegetables and a variety of tasty seafood favorites, such as salmon and shrimp, are now part of the ev-eryday menu being offered at American Senior Communities senior living and senior health communities statewide.

The change ensures that residents will have the highest quality of food necessary for recovering from an illness or injury.

“We heard what residents have said, and we are respond-ing,” said Dave Kahn, director of culinary Services for Ameri-can Senior Communities.

As Hippocrates once said, “Let food be thy medicine …” In his day, around 400 B.C., he believed that eating well included a nutrient-filled diet and prevented and treated disease. ASC holds that same belief.

Food plays a key role in an array of body functions. It helps in balancing sugar levels, plays a key role in the cardiovascular system, helps the digestive organs, controls inflammation, affects energy and body weight and more, said Kahn.

While eliminating every canned product is not possible, a drastic reduction in the use of canned and frozen products is ASC’s goal.

Kahn, who is also a chef, said ASC is purchasing, as much as possible, from Indi-ana farms within a 200-mile radius of the community.

“Meals will be made with love from scratch: real mashed potatoes, freshly cut vegeta-bles, seasonal fruit, homemade meatballs, lots of fish,” said Kahn.

Residents select what they want to eat from a menu. An example of a meal is delicious salmon with real mashed pota-toes and Indiana-grown green beans. Meatballs are huge and homemade. Less salt, more fla-vor and improved presentation are key components of ASC’s healthy meal menu.

Prospective residents and their family members are encouraged to try meals before deciding about their loved one’s health community. ASC operates about 90 communi-ties statewide. To learn more, visit www.ASCCare.com to find the community closest to you.

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At Saint Joseph Health Sys-tem St. Paul’s Life Plan Com-munity, residents Vincent and Barbara O’Connor discovered firsthand the convenience of living at a facility with rehabili-tation and wellness under the same roof when Barbara fell and fractured her pelvis.

Luckily, she did not require surgery. But time and therapy would be necessary for her to heal.

While recovering, Barbara experienced more than just physical healing. She enjoyed a bed and breakfast setting at The Inn at St. Paul’s, which pro-vides guests with the comforts of home and amenities, such as massage, reflexology, acupunc-ture, a salon and spa and a full calendar of social activities,

while they are recovering from surgery, an injury or illness.

The integrated rehabilitation and wellness team provides high-quality, short-term care for seniors following hospitalization. The rehabilitation profession-als, which include occupational, physical and speech therapists, create comprehensive plans to address individual needs.

“Besides being at home, it’s the most comfortable I could have been in that position,” said Barbara. “The therapists were wonderful and the staff was very attentive to my needs, always there to help no matter how many times I called on them.”

Residents of St. Paul’s have these services at their fingertips. They find it a great comfort to know that should they need to spend time in rehabilitation and wellness, it’s within the same facility.

The couple have been married for 67 years. They have lived at St. Paul’s for more than five years, were grateful that they were able to continue enjoying activities together, such as the hand bell choir, during Barbara’s three-week stay. As her therapy time neared its end, Barbara was also grateful and relieved that the therapists could teach her in her own apartment, before she was discharged, such as making sure she was comfort-able getting in and out of her favorite chair.

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In each of the nearly 18,000 Pea-nuts comic strips that Charles Schulz produced, he is omni-present in each of his pen-and-ink charac-ters. He once told Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes: “If you were to read the strip, oh, for just a few months, you would know me…All of my fears, my anxi-eties, my joys, and almost, even, all of my experiences go into that strip.”

The arc of Charles Monroe Schulz’s life was established two days after his birth in Minneapolis in November 1922. An uncle gave him the nickname “Sparky,” the term being inspired by the cartoon horse Spark Plug, a character from the comic strip Barney Google.

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In his off-hours he created Li’l Folks, which became a locally popular comic strip in the St. Paul Pioneer Press before United Feature Syndi-cate changed the name and debuted Peanuts nationally in October 1950.

Why the name change? UFS felt that the title Li’l Folks came too close to Al Capp’s popular comic strip Li’l Abner. At the time, kids in TV’s Howdy Doody Show audience who sat on studio bleachers were called Pea-nuts, their name derived from a vaudeville term describ-ing patrons who sat in the cheaper balcony seats—the Peanut Gallery—and some-times tossed goobers onto the stage below to show displea-sure. UFS executives liked Peanuts as a title and over-

When you “achoo” during snow-and-ice-time, it’s attrib-uted to a winter cold. Come spring, you blame it on aller-gies. In summer, it’s the dust. And fall is flu time.

But there’s much more to a cough, especially if it’s persistent.

Coughing is a simple mechanism. It’s meant to ex-pel anything that might block your breathing.

A persistent cough can be serious. Any sign of a cough that won’t quit should be ad-dressed with your doctor.

Allergies and sinus prob-lems can cause postnasal drip, which will trigger coughing.

Nasal sprays can help, but again: check with your doctor.

Acid reflux — when food you eat backs up into your esophagus — also causes coughing. A major lifestyle change may help: quit eating three or four hours before ly-ing down, suggests the Mayo Clinic.

You might also review the foods you eat. Less spicy food, for example, is not as irritat-ing as exotically spiced dishes.

Pay attention to when the coughing seems to happen, and under what conditions. Then talk to your doctor. He or she can make a diagnosis and offer further tips for man-aging your condition — and that pesky cough.Mature Life Features, copyright 2018

ruled Sparky. Schulz despised the name

that made him famous and was determined that his concession to United Features Syndicate people would be the only one where he let anyone or anything influence his work. For nearly 50 years he maintained an iron-fisted control of a comic strip that he alone laboriously wrote, drew and lettered by hand seven days a week.

During the 1950s Schulz developed a (deceptively) simply drawn group of oddly proportioned, balloon-headed kid characters that included Charlie Brown, Patty, Shermy, Violet, Schroeder, Lucy, Linus, Pig-Pen and the dog Snoopy, who he based on a bizarre family pet who sometimes devoured pins and tacks.

Peanuts often focused on

the bumbling, insecure wor-rywart Charlie Brown, who, along with his sometimes-cruel gang of neighborhood peers, spent his days stum-bling through the minefield of childhood social interac-tions. Through his characters Schulz offered themes never before addressed in a main-stream cartoon strip: isola-tion, loneliness, melancholia, unrequited love—all stem-

ming from his interior life.The most famous, revered

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South Bend, Mishawaka and Elkhart, in fact the whole state, have a rich history of boys and girls who grew up to become famous in one way or another in the entertainment world.

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It’s not known at this writing if George went to college in Indiana, but records reveal that “Seaton moved to Detroit after graduating from college to work as an actor on radio station WXYZ.”

Sometime in his early life, George “grew up in a Detroit Jewish neighborhood” … and “he went on to learn Hebrew in an Orthodox Jewish Yeshiva and was even bar mitzvahed.” Quite an event for a boy baptized as a Roman Catholic.

In early January 1933, “John L. Barrett played The Lone Ranger on a test broadcast of the series.” A short time later, “when

the program became part of the regular schedule, Seaton was cast in the title role. In later years, he claimed to have devised the cry ‘Hi-yo, Silver’ because he couldn’t whistle for his horse as the script required.”

In 1933, as a contract writer, Seaton and Robert Pirosh, a fellow writer and friend, joined MGM studios. George’s first major screen credit was the Marx

Brothers comedy, ‘A Day at the Races’ in 1937.”

George then went to 20th Cen-tury Fox in the early 1940s where he remained until the end of the decade. His time was spent doing scripts for such movies as “Moon Over Miami,” “Coney Island,” “Song of Bernadette” and many others.

After 1945, George was recog-nized as both a screenwriter and director, and later as a producer. Some of his film-director credits included “The Shocking Miss Pilgram,” “Miracle on 34th Street” (a Christmas classic), “Chicken Every Sunday” and “The Continued on page 15

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The Lone RangerCountry Girl.”

“Seaton won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screen-play twice, for ‘Miracle on 34th Street.’” He also won the “Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay” for the same movie. George was

Continued from page 14 also a director for the 1970 movie hit, “Airport,” which garnered 10 Oscar nominations, one of which was for his screenplay. It’s not known if one of the 10 won the Oscar.

George Seaton died in Los An-geles on July 28, 1979, at age 68.

He was still active at his death. His wife, Phyllis Loughton, sur-vived him, however, it’s unknown if they had any children.

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Travel

Travel Talk —

Riding on the Willamette RiverOn our last day in Portland

we decided to take a two-hour boat ride on the Willamette River. Our ship was the Port-land Spirit. Our cruise director was Travis and the captain of the ship was Bob. Both treated us royally.

We learned that Willamette (pronounced ‘wi-LAH-mut) means green water and comes from a Clackamas American Indian village.

The river is 187 miles long and is the largest river con-tained wholly in the state of

Oregon. It flows from south to north, rare in the northern hemisphere.

It originates in Eugene, Oreg., and ends at the Colum-bia River, some 11 miles down-stream from Portland.

The river is around 40 feet deep. It is the 13th largest river by volume in the United States and drains 12,000 square miles of land.

Not long after we boarded the ship, which holds 340 pas-sengers, it was underway and slowly made its way down the river and under the first bridge, the Hawthorne, opened in 1910. Next came the Marquam,

opened in 1966 carrying Inter-state 5 across the river.

The city of bridges lives up to its name. While on the river we also went under the Tilikum Crossing Bridge, opened in 2014; the Sellwood Bridge, opened in 2016; and later the Burnside Bridge, opened in 1926: and the Morrison Bridge, opened in 1958.

Ross Island, named for Oregon pioneer Sherry Ross, is a large island in the middle of the river. It features sand and trees with sailboats dotting the shoreline. We learned there are three other smaller islands in the cluster with Ross Island being the largest. All four were stripped of sand and gravel between 1926 and 2001. Today Ross Island is owned by the city and is a natural area with some 50 species of birds.

As we travelled we saw many boats making their way from here to there and a group of people in long boats plying the waters.

Once the boat turned around we saw houses, both large and

small, nestled on the hill high above the river. Farther up stream were smaller homes dotting the river’s edge.

A seaplane was docked at one of the homes and many boats were found docked along the shore, at the marina and at the Oregon Yacht Club, which was established in 1900.

All to soon our two-hour jour-ney was over and we returned

to the dock. Soon our time in Portland would be over and we would find ourselves back on a plane winging our way back to O’Hare, South Bend and home.

Jeri Seely is editor in chief of Senior Life and has done extensive traveling with her husband, D. G. “Bud” Seely, not only in Indiana and Ohio but throughout the United States and in a number of foreign countries.

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Travel

Signal Travel is hosting‘Branson Your Way’ tour

TravelStarz hosts theater trips

Chicago BotanicGarden trip July 31

Signal Travel and Tours of Granger, Niles and St. Joseph, Mich., is going to Branson, Mo., this October. The six-day, five-night “Branson Your Way” tour is when people get to pick a choice of shows or free time.

Included in this tour are: six

shows in Branson, Mo., “The Great Passion Play” in Eureka Springs, Ark.; a guided tour,; and the “Legends and Lan-terns” festival in St. Charles, Mo.; a tour of the Anheuser-Busch Brewery, including the Clydesdales, in St. Louis. Mo.; and much more.

Signal Travel has something for everyone and takes the worry out of travel. People

may board in two convenient locations: the Notre Dame Toll Road exit 77 commuter park-ing lot, on the right-hand side, just before the toll booths, and a parking lot, located at the northwest corner of Third and Sycamore streets in Niles.

Visit www.signaltravel.com for a brochure and a full schedule of tours or call (800) 944-6025.

Do you like to attend plays? We certainly have a list of plays for you in 2018 at various theatres. All theatre day trips include lunch prior to the matinee perfor-mances.

At the lovely Drury Lane, “South Pacific” is scheduled for June 6, and “Beauty and the Beast” is Nov. 29. Lunch is served on premises at Drury Lane The-atre, Oakbrook Terrace, Ill.

“Gator Grove” is on the agenda at Cornwell Theatre/Turkeyville July 27. Cornwell Theatre/Turkeyville is a small intimate theatre featuring area talent and serves a super traditional turkey dinner prior to the performance. It has a wonderful gift shop and bakery that you can browse, while the tables are being cleared.

At Paramount Theatre, we will see “Legally Blonde” Sept. 26, and “Wizard of Oz” Dec. 12. Paramount Theatre is a beauti-ful ornate theatre in Aurora, Ill.

We enjoy lunch off premises for “Legally Blonde” and on premises for “Wizard of Oz.”

“Hello Dolly” with Betty Buckley is Nov. 7, at the Oriental Theatre in downtown Chicago. We enjoy all-you-can-eat pizza at Connie’s Pizza prior to the per-formance.

The theatre trips sell out quickly, so don’t hesitate to call Becky at (574) 291-1731.

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American Dream Tours is hosting a one-day trip to Chi-cago Botanic Garden July 31.

Upon arrival, enjoy a spe-cial summer program at the Botanic Garden, called Tues-day Morning Music. On the day of the visit, the Chicago Harp Quartet is scheduled to perform.

The Chicago Harp Quartet was founded in 2012 and has quickly established itself as the leading harp ensemble in the United States. Widely re-garded as a Chicago treasure, the quartet has dedicated itself to presenting innovative, char-ismatic, and forward thinking programs that include original transcriptions, as well as new commissions from composers across the globe.

After the entertainment, enjoy a hot lunch buffet in a private dining area. Then all aboard for the 2.6-mile Grand Tram Tour showing the entire garden grounds. The tour high-lights 81 acres of lakes, nine gardens, plus panoramic views of these incredibly beautiful gardens.

Learn the history and science of the garden, while viewing features including: the McDonald Woods, Eliza-beth Hubert Malott Japanese Garden, and the new Learning Campus.

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‘Take Us Along’ Contest

Bodil and Johni Rasmussen are this month’s Take Us Along winners. They are shown with a copy of Senior Life at the Grand Canyon in Arizona.

They wrote they took a copy of Northwest Senior Life along as they celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary hiking down the Grand Canyon, one of the seven modern Wonders of the World. They camped on the Colorado River for two nights before hiking back up.

The Grand Canyon was developed about 17 million years ago and is a geological masterpiece with layer after layer of different rock. The canyon is the result of erosion, which exposed one of the most complete geologic columns on the planet. Some exposures range in age of billions of years.

The canyon is 277 miles long and up to 18 miles wide. It is over a mile deep. The hike down for the Rasmussens was 8.5 miles and a different trail of 9.5 miles took them back to the top in eight hours.

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Vacationing with a loved one that has dementia

Lunch Club meets June 14 in South Bend

Summer is quickly ap-proaching and many of us are starting to plan a vacation. Vacations are a time to relax, enjoy a break and set out on new adventures. If you are planning on taking a family member with dementia on your vacation, it is important to be aware of, and know, your limitations. Here are a few things to consider as you plan your trip:

• Control the trip. Look for

vacation experiences that give you control over the envi-ronment. Try to limit noise, crowds, and fast-paced agen-das.

• Planning is crucial. Avoid unnecessary anxiety while traveling. Try not to travel during busy days of the week or holidays.

• Keep anxiety to a mini-mum. People with dementia can be easily stressed. They can become focused on things out of their control and worry endlessly about any task. It is

Looking for a way to stay connected with former class-mates and long-time friends? Consider attending Lunch Club, sponsored by the South Bend Alumni Association.

Lunch Club is an opportu-nity to reconnect on a regular basis with old friends and classmates and to make new ones, according to Bill Przy-bysz, club chairman. Past students from any school are welcome to attend, and most of the attendees are past retire-ment age.

Przybysz is the retired, long-

time principal of Adams High School.

“I look forward to the South Bend Alumni lunch at the Elks each and every month,” said Cyd Maravolo of South Bend.

Although she graduated from high school in Chicago, the Lunch Club “keeps me up to date with all the new friends I have made. That they are around my age is price-less, because they speak my language.”

The gatherings take place on the second Thursday of every month, except January, at the

best not to talk about the trip with them in advance.

• Allow plenty of time. Plan extra time into every part of the trip. Traveling with a fam-ily member with dementia will always take longer.

• Utilize all the help you can get. It is great if you have a paid caregiver traveling with

you to help. Keep in mind there is also plenty of other help available to you. If you are flying, utilize airport and airline personnel. When stay-ing at a hotel or resort, make sure you notify the staff of any special needs or concerns you may have.

• Go with the flow. Expect

the unexpected and don’t get frustrated when things change. Stay flexible and enjoy the moment.

• Enjoy the experience. Remember chances to travel and make new memories with your loved one is one of the reasons you are taking them on vacation.

Elks Lodge 235, 3535 McKin-ley Ave., South Bend. The lodge has a spacious parking lot and is handicapped accessible. Doors open at 11 a.m. for so-cializing, with a brief welcome at noon, then a meal is served.

Entertainment is provided after the meal. During the school year, student groups from South Bend’s public schools perform. For four months during summer break, speakers or outside entertain-ers are invited.

For example, the June 14 lunch will feature a talk by Randy Przybysz, director of St. Joseph County’s Solid Waste Management District. He will talk about the benefits of re-cycling and the recent move of the hazardous waste recycling center from the east side of Mishawaka to the west side of South Bend.

On July 11, students from the “Summerfly” cast will perform selections from the production, “We Will Rock You,’’ featuring the music of Queen and Ben Elton. “Summerfly” involves students from all over the area, and is directed by Candace Butler, a retired fine arts director for South Bend schools. “Summerfly” grew out of the annual product ion of a musical play as part of the former Firefly Festival.

The lunches also includes a 50/50 drawing and door prizes.

Cost to attend the Lunch Club is $13 for members, $15 for non-members. First-time attendees are charged half price. Reservations are required. To reserve a meal, contact the alumni associa-tion office at (574) 393-6004 or register online at the alumni association’s website, www.southbendalumni.com. Find Lunch Club under the events tab.

Deadline for the June lunch is June 12. Deadline for the July lunch is July 10.

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We Feature:• Three secure, homelike neighborhoods & beautiful courtyard with walking paths, raised gardens and gazebo• State-of-the-art motion sensing technology in all resident suites

• “New Directions”®

activities and programming customized for each resident• Chef prepared meals and snacks tailored to individual tastes and diets

Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limitedfor these FREE events. RSVP to (574) 247-1866

or online at NorthWoodsMemoryCare.com.

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Please join us to learn about a first-of-its-kind effective form of physical ex-ercise for those who are living with Parkinson’s. This non-contact boxing-inspired fitness routine, appears to help improve the ability of loved ones with Parkinson’s to live independent lives longer.

Please join our North Woods Village team, “NW Village People” as we walk to support our residents and local families who are affected by Alzheimer’s disease and other related dementia.

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PARKINSON’S DISEASEThurs., June 7 from 6-7 p.m.

Presented by: Phil Miller, Co-Founder Rock Steady Boxing of Michiana

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