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Postcard collector Bob Sallade preserves images
of days gone by in dozens of binders stored at his home.
Welcoming the
New Year
page 8
Vaccination Options
for Seniors
page 10
Inside:
By Chelsea Shank
Bob Sallade loves the thrill of the hunt.
And as a deltiologist—that is, someone who collects postcards—he takes
every opportunity that he can to hunt for postcards to add to his collection.
Sallade, 63, has a collection of between 4,000 and 5,000 postcards.
Collecting postcards is tied with coin collecting as the second most popular
hobby, next to collecting stamps, said Sallade.
He started his collection about six years ago.
“I went to flea markets for other reasons and I picked up five old
postcards … and that’s what started it,” Sallade said.
As a native of Central Pennsylvania, he takes a personal interest in the
history of the area and enjoys finding postcards featuring old buildings that
are no longer around and others that are still standing.
“My thrill is getting different scenes,” said Sallade.
He has postcards of a former recreational facility called Playland, which
had a roller skating rink and swimming pool where Sallade spent time as a
teenager. There are others in his collection of an old judicial center, the
Wrightsville Bridge, and hotels and motels that are no longer in operation.
“That’s the interesting part—seeing what your town used to look like,”
said Sallade.
please see MEMORIES page 12
Local History Preserved in
Vast Postcard Collection
Memoriesin the Mail
Chester County Edition December 2012 Vol. 9 No. 12
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Broccoli and Happy Endings
Such Is Life
Saralee Perel
My husband, Bob, attracts
lunatics. One is a stand-alone
screwball. Hey, I heard that!
It’s not me. It’s our 6-year-old cat,
Murphy. Of course we adore him, and
he’s the happiest being we’ve ever known.
Murphy’s not just dimwitted; he’s also
a thief. But he swipes things that no cat
with even half a brain would want. Well,
I’m not being fair. Murphy doesn’t have
half a brain.
There should be a sign over his head
that reads: “Vacancy.”
He’s lightning fast. One night, in a
flash, he jumped on the table, grabbed
an entire crown of broccoli that was
twice the size of his head, and raced away
with it, all the while scarfing it down so
that none of our other cats could have
what every cat dreams of (sarcastic):
broccoli.
His favorite food group? Dust balls.
Yes, we vacuum. They appear out of
nowhere like Bob’s ex-brother-in-law
who’s suddenly in our living room
wanting to
borrow
more cash.
Murphy
has an
incessant
desire to
rip tape off
UPS boxes.
When I
extract the
tape from
his throat,
he doesn’t
notice.
Can you
imagine
sticking your
fingers 3 inches down your cat’s throat
without him even caring you’re doing it?
Murphy’s race to eat everything
recently took a disastrous turn on a late
Sunday night. Bob put a pill on the
counter for
our dog,
Gracie. This
pill is so
bitter that no
pet will take
it unless
owners
disguise it in
something
tasteful. But
Murphy
made a
beeline to it
and ate it.
We called
a poison
hotline. We
were told he needed to get to a 24-hour
emergency veterinary hospital
immediately. I’m disabled and can’t move
late at night. Bob rushed Murphy to the
vet.
We figured they’d pump his stomach
and send him home. We were wrong.
Bob called me from his cell after the
vet saw Murphy.
“He has to stay here three days. They
made him vomit, but the toxin is still in
his system.” He was sobbing. “He could
lose all kidney function.”
“Did the vet say he could die?”
“Yes.”
I felt as much anguish for Bob as I did
for Murphy. He went on, “Murphy’s so
innocent,” he said, crying harder. “I hate
myself for letting this happen.”
“Oh, Sweets, you didn’t mean for this
to happen. I wish I was sitting next to
you.” We cried without speaking. Then I
said, “Don’t drive. Not when you’re like
this.”
Then I called the vet. I asked her for
emotional guidance for Bob.
Murphy
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She said, “This happens all the time.
It happened with me and my cat. He
needs to forgive himself. It’s impossible
to prevent these things 100 percent. Plus,
I’ve never heard of a cat who’d want to
eat a pill, especially one that tastes so
awful.”
“Bob’s in your parking lot. Would you
please go to him and tell him what you
told me?” And she did.
Three days later, Murphy came home
happy and healthy. When the vet called
and asked about him, I incorrectly
assumed she knew about Murphy’s
insane antics.
“He’s back to normal. He just
presented me with a dust ball the size of
a Burger King Triple Whopper! Isn’t that
great?”
“What?”
“Don’t worry,” I said, and then
cemented myself as a bonehead.
“Nobody’s getting near my broccoli
again!”
She asked to speak to Bob. I said,
“He’s busy. UPS came. Bob’s racing like a
cyclone, ripping tape off the boxes before
disaster hits. You know what he’s like
around UPS tape.”
She sounded confused. “Bob?”
I laughed, “Not Bob—”
Before I could explain she interrupted,
“Please have him call me.”
Bob’s role as a caregiver is not a role
he asked for, but one he feels blessed to
have.
He takes care of me with my spinal
cord issues, our old pet duck who’s
arthritic, our young border collie who
can never run again because of a genetic
spinal problem, and our very sick cat,
Josie, to whom Bob administers IV fluids
daily.
“How could I be so lucky?” Bob says,
every single day of his life.
Yesterday at dawn, as the light gently
filled our bedroom, I slowly turned over
to see which of Bob’s brood was in the
protection of his arms. He was cradling
beautiful Murphy, who was sound asleep
on his back in the crook of Bob’s armpit.
Bob’s eyes were open but I didn’t say a
word. I knew he was preserving the
precious moments for as long as he could
before Murphy would wake up.
I watched as Murphy opened his eyes
then curled his paw under his chin. I
heard him purr when he closed his eyes
again, preferring to remain in the safety
of Bob’s arm for just a little while longer.
And so, snuggling next to Bob, I
closed my eyes again too.
Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally
syndicated columnist. Her new book is
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What he didn’t know was
that the first raid against
this critical target had
been one of the costliest for the
USAAF in the European Theater,
with 53 aircraft and 660 aircrewmen
lost. It had been the worst loss ever
suffered by the USAAF in a single
mission.
Ploesti was a cluster of nine oil
refineries around Ploesti, Romania,
that produced one-third of the oil
that powered the German war
machine. It was so critically
important to the German war effort
that it was guarded by 50,000
German troops and, literally,
hundreds of anti-aircraft guns.
It had been bombed many times
by American bombers from Libya,
then from Italy, by the time Fred
Lowery and his B-17 crew arrived in
their base at Foggia, Italy, and found
that Ploesti was to be their first
mission. Did they realize how
hazardous that mission would be?
“I guess the officers might have
learned that in their briefing,” he says.
“But the other enlisted men and I
had no idea.
“We were being checked out on
our first mission, and we all flew on
different crews, to give us some
experience before flying in combat
together as a crew. I learned after the
mission that our navigator and
bombardier had been shot down and
had become prisoners of war. Worse
still, our waist gunner had been killed
by flak.
“We were then all split up and sent
to different crews, as needed. Only
once did I ever fly again with any of
our original crew, and that was on my
17th and final mission. My original
copilot had become a first pilot, and
he flew the mission to bomb an oil
refinery near Vienna.
“Strangely enough,” he explains, “I
came closer to buying the farm on
that mission than on any other. For
the first time, we had with us a guy
who was operating a ‘flak jammer.’
This was a device that confused the
radar that guided the German ack-ack
guns.
“While we were flying at 28,000
feet, he kicked me and pointed to my
main oxygen line. It had been severed
by flak, so, although I was breathing,
what I didn’t realize was that I wasn’t
getting any oxygen. I was able to
quickly uncouple my oxygen line and
couple it to his. If it hadn’t been for
him, I surely would have died.”
Lowery wouldn’t have been there
at all if he hadn’t been called by the
draft board when he was 18 years old
and still a senior in high school. His
father was a minister, and Lowery had
grown up in a strictly religious home.
So he says he was rather looking
forward to striking out on his own.
The Army sent him to Miami for
basic training, then to Sioux Falls,
S.D., for radio school. It was then to
Yuma, Ariz., for gunnery school, and
to Salt Lake City to join a B-17 crew.
After combat training at Biloxi, Miss.,
the crew flew to Newfoundland and
the Azores on their way to their base
in Foggia, Italy.
Thinking back to the missions he
flew, he says, “We were really lucky.
We really had to worry only about
flak. The German fighter planes had
been decimated by the time we got
there. We never saw a one. Once, flak
knocked out one of our engines and
we fell behind the group until we
were all alone. Our tail gunner then
found a fighter coming at us. But,
when it got closer, we found it was
one of ours. So I never got to fire a
gun.”
Lowery returned to the U.S. in late
1944 and served at several bases
before being discharged as a tech
sergeant at Fort Indiantown Gap in
1948. He returned home, entered
Franklin and Marshall College, and
earned a B.A. in history in January
1950. He then entered seminary at
the Dallas Theological Seminary,
earning a Master of Theology degree
in 1954.
He joined the Army Reserve in
1957 as a first lieutenant and served
as chaplain at many bases and
hospitals before retiring from the
Reserve as a lieutenant colonel in
1995.
In civilian life, he served as
minister of a United Brethren Church
for 27 years. In retirement, he was
asked if he would be interested in
serving as minister for his father’s
church. He readily accepted the call
and served there for 16 more years
before settling in a retirement
community with his wife, Cora Jean.
Lowery says that, despite his years
since then, he still thinks of those
exciting, dangerous months of
missions over Europe as if they were
yesterday.
Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in
Europe in World War II.
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He Flew in 3 Raids on theDreaded Oil Fields at Ploesti
Robert D. Wilcox
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Chester County
Calendar of EventsCoatesville Area Senior Center – (610) 383-690022 N. Fifth Ave., Coatesville – www.cascweb.org
Downingtown Senior Center – (610) 269-3939983 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtownhttp://home.ccil.org/~dasc
Great Valley Senior Center – (610) 889-2121 47 Church Road, Malvern
Kennett Area Senior Center – (610) 444-4819427 S. Walnut St., Kennett Squarewww.kennettseniorcenter.org
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Screening
Dec. 13, 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. – Country Christmas
Show
Dec. 16, 1 to 3:15 p.m. – Sunday Dinner with Friends
Oxford Senior Center – (610) 932-524412 E. Locust St., Oxford – www.oxfordseniors.org
Phoenixville Area Senior Center – (610) 935-1515153 Church St., Phoenixvillewww.phoenixvilleseniorcenter.org
West Chester Area Senior Center – (610) 431-4242 530 E. Union St., West Chester – www.wcseniors.org
Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or
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Chester County Department of Parks and Recreation Senior Center Activities
www.chesco.org/ccparks
Wednesdays in December, 9 to 10 a.m. – Warwick Walkers, Warwick County Park
Wednesday and Saturdays in December, 9 to 10 a.m. – Hibernia Hiking Club, Hibernia County Park
Support Groups Free and open to the public
Tuesdays, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.The Wellness Community of
Philadelphia: Support Group for
People with Cancer
The Cancer Center at Paoli
Hospital
255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli
(215) 879-7733
Dec. 4, 2 p.m.Grief Support Group
Phoenixville Senior Center
153 Church St., Phoenixville
(610) 327-7216
Dec. 5, 6 p.m.Memory Loss and Dementia Support
Group
Sunrise Assisted Living of Paoli
324 W. Lancaster Ave., Malvern
(610) 251-9994
Dec. 10, 7 to 8 p.m.Cancer Support Group: Double
Hope of Chester County
Calvary Fellowship Church
95 W. Devon Drive,
Downingtown
(484) 319-8167
Dec. 10 and 24, 10:30 a.m. to12:30 p.m.Caregiver Support Group
Adult Care of Chester County
201 Sharp Lane, Exton
(610) 363-8044
Dec. 12, noonFamily Caregiver Support Group
Sarah Care
425 Technology Drive, Suite 200,
Malvern
(610) 251-0801
Dec. 18, 6 p.m.Family Caregiver Support Group
Sunrise of Westtown
501 Skiles Blvd., West Chester
(610) 399-4464
Community Programs Free and open to the public
Dec. 1 and 2, 1 to 5 p.m.Model Railroad Open HouseSchuylkill Valley Model Railroad
Club
400 S. Main St., Phoenixville
(610) 935-1126
www.svmrrc.com
Dec. 1 and 15, 5 to 10 p.m.Bingo Nights
Marine Corps League Detachment
430 Chestnut St., Downingtown
(610) 431-2234
Dec. 3, 6:30 p.m.Exton PC Club – Open House
Chester County Library Struble
Room
450 Exton Square Parkway, Exton
(484) 876-1221
www.extonpc.org
Dec. 4, 11:30 a.m.West Chester University Retirees
LuncheonFor restaurant location, please
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Dec. 11, 11 a.m.New Century Club Meeting
(Women’s Charity Club)
Days Hotel
943 S. High St., West Chester
(610) 436-9158
Dec. 14, 7:30 p.m.Holiday Concert: Keystone Brass
QuintetTel Hai Retirement Community
Chapel
1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey Brook
(610) 273-9333
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What’s Happening?
Clean Your Air with theRight Houseplants
Clean air is essential to good health at home and in
the workplace.
One simple way to keep the air you breathe fresh and
free of odors and chemicals is to keep a few houseplants
around. They’ll clean the atmosphere and make your
surroundings more pleasant and relaxing.
Pick up some of these:
English ivy. This climbing vine grows in hanging
baskets and low planters, and it helps clear away
formaldehyde. (Be aware that it requires regular misting,
especially during the winter months.)
Peace lily. A flowering plant, the peace lily will
eradicate toxins like acetone, benzene, and ammonia
from the air. Remember to wash the leaves every one in
awhile.
Rubber plant. This plant is hardy enough to survive
cool temperatures and low light, making it ideal even if
you’re not particularly good with plants. Like the
English ivy, it acts to reduce formaldehyde in the air as
long as it gets plenty of water.
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Who Do I Look Like?
Older But Not Wiser
During the past year I have been
told several times by people
younger than me that I look like
someone.
No, not the same someone, many
different someones. I’ve been told I look
like Billy Graham, Billy Crystal, Hugh
Hefner (even though I don’t wear
pajamas in public), Bob Dylan, Tony
Bennett, and Ed Koch (the former mayor
of New York).
In addition, just the other day I had
an extremely weird conversation with a
middle-aged guy at the checkout line at
the supermarket.
“You look like that actor,” he told me.
“What actor?” I asked.
“You know, that actor.”
“Oh, him.” At this point I just wanted
to get out of the supermarket and away
from this guy. However, he was
relentless.
“He’s in a lot of comedies but he also
does serious pictures, you know, with
heart.”
“So he has a lot of range,” I said.
“Exactly. You look like the actor with
a lot of range.”
“OK, great,” I replied. “I’ll make sure
I see the next picture he’s in.”
“I’m pretty sure he’s dead.”
“So I looked like him before he passed
away?” I asked.
“Yeah, he probably doesn’t look too
good now.”
At first this whole series of “lookalike”
events was kind of amusing to me, and
then I realized what might be happening.
It’s not that I look like a celebrity, even
though I’d love to go on tour as Bob
Dylan.
It’s that people younger than us think
that we seniors all look alike. All they see
is the gray hair and the wrinkles. They
probably also see the turkey neck, but
let’s not dwell on that.
Or maybe, and this is even worse, as
we get older we do all start to look alike.
We become kind of … a generic version
of what we once were. I guess if this is
true, there’s one semi-positive side
effect—all the cool guys I envied in high
school now look like me.
Ironically, when I was a teenager I
desperately wanted to look like
everybody else. I just wanted to blend in.
However, now I wanted to fight this
anonymity.
I started to think of ways to make
myself stand out. I was thinking of
wearing something all the time, like a
scarf, that would become my trademark.
But then I would be known as “the guy
with the scarf ” and I don’t want to take
second billing to an article of clothing.
Then I thought of maybe getting a
tattoo. I’ve seen guys with Chinese
lettering tattooed on their arms or neck. I
could have a have tattoo that says AARP.
I have a feeling no one’s ever done that.
And then, all of the sudden, the
insanity stopped. I’d like to think that it
was a sudden burst of maturity on my
part, but actually it was the fear of the
tattoo needle that brought me to my
senses. I realized that if some younger
people can’t tell us apart, that’s their
problem. We seniors are definitely
unique individuals with unique looks.
I, for example, am just a regular guy
who happens to look like Cary Grant.
Hey, the guy at the supermarket couldn’t
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The 1.7 percent cost-of-living
adjustment (COLA) will begin with
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2013. Increased payments to more than
8 million SSI beneficiaries will begin on
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Some other changes that take effect in
January of each
year are based on
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average wages.
Based on that
increase, the
maximum
amount of
earnings subject
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maximum) will increase to $113,700
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million workers
who will pay
Social Security
taxes in 2013,
nearly 10 million
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taxes as a result of
the increase in the taxable maximum.
Information about Medicare changes
for 2013, when announced, will be
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beneficiaries, their Social Security
increase may be partially or completely
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Effective Nov. 19, all Social Security
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reduction of 30 minutes each weekday.
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the cost of overtime.
The significantly reduced funding
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months of the fiscal year makes it
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overtime needed to handle service to the
public as it has done in the past.
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People who are deaf or hard-of-
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The clock strikes midnight.
Fireworks explode. Confetti fills the
air. And I get a chance to make a
whole new set of resolutions, some of
which I may even keep. How can I
not like New Year’s Eve and New
Year’s Day? What’s more, if
celebrating once is nice, wouldn’t
twice be even better?
Squeezing two such festivities into
one year takes planning, but it can be
done. First, welcome the new year on
Dec. 31 and Jan. 1, the dates set by
the internationally accepted
Gregorian calendar.
Then, several weeks later, partake
in a traditional Chinese New Year’s
celebration, the date of which is set
according to the age-old Chinese
calendar. (In 2013, Chinese New
Year will fall on Feb. 10.)
Here, two places that celebrate the
new year in very different ways.
Savannah, Ga.As midnight approaches, people
make their way to the upper deck of the
three-tiered riverboat. They’ve been
partying for more than three hours—
dancing to live music, feasting on hors
d’oeuvres and a buffet of elegant
offerings. Now, as fireworks from
nearby Tybee Island color the sky, it’s
time to welcome the new year.
On shore, Savannah’s famed City
Market, a four-block area of restored
buildings, is filled with landlubbers who
are enjoying the city’s biggest street
party. Some are dining in one of the
many restaurants; others are enjoying
the free entertainment outside.
Then the countdown begins, and a
man lifts his son to his shoulders for a
better view of the fireworks. Another
man lifts his drink as the band strikes
up “Auld Lang Syne.” The new year has
officially begun.
The next day, more than 2,000
people, presumably recovered from the
previous night’s revelry, gather on Tybee
Welcoming the New Year with Double the Fun
Photo courtesy of tybeevisit.com
More than 2,000 people partake in a
New Year’s Day Polar Plunge near
Savannah.
Lion dancers provide
entertainment during
New Year’s Day festivities.
Photo courtesy of Savannah Riverboat Cruises
Traditional stern-wheel
riverboats offer a unique
party spot for New Year’s Eve
revelers in Savannah.
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At noon they race for the water,
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Richmond, British ColumbiaThree thousand miles away, people in
Richmond, British Columbia, have just
finished packing away the piney boughs
and glass ornaments that represent the
Western holiday season when they begin
preparing for the traditional Chinese
New Year’s celebration.
In Richmond, this second welcoming
of the new year is a very, very big deal.
This isn’t surprising, given that the city
boasts North America’s highest
percentage of people of Chinese heritage
outside of China.
Walking the streets of the area known
as the Golden Village—a four-square-
block enclave that is home to more than
400 Asian restaurants and three Asian-
themed malls—it’s easy to believe you’re
in China, except that there’s no smog,
the water is safe to drink, and most
people understand English.
Festivities begin approximately two
weeks before New Year’s Day, as malls set
up special booths where vendors hawk
elaborate flower arrangements and
special holiday treats. At Landsdowne
Mall, women make paper fish and
lanterns; children perform dances and
demonstrate their skill in martial arts;
and expert calligraphers make banners
that are used to decorate homes and
public places.
On New Year’s Eve, restaurants serve
multicourse feasts where each food has a
special meaning. Since pork symbolizes
good luck, Shanghai River Restaurant
prepares bamboo baskets filled with xiao
long bao (steamed dumplings filled with
minced pork and jellied broth).
“These are packages of good fortune,”
says the waiter.
Seafood dishes are supposed to bring
prosperity because in ancient times only
the wealthy could afford such treats,
while eating long, uncut noodles foretells
a long life. Sweet, sticky rice is served as
a reminder that families should “stick
together” and support one another.
After dinner, many folks go to the
Aberdeen Mall, where the new year is
welcomed with speeches, lion dancing,
and lots and lots of confetti. Others go
to the Kuan Yin Temple of the
International Buddhist Society, which is
modeled in part after the Forbidden City
in Beijing. It is considered by many to
be one of the most magnificent Buddhist
temples in North America.
There, they greet the new year with
prayer, many even staying overnight in
order to be among the first to receive
blessings in the new year. By noon on
New Year’s Day, thousands of folks have
congregated at the temple for a prayer
ceremony and vegetarian lunch.
“Yes,” I say to myself as I munch on
some bamboo shoots, “it’s definitely nice
to celebrate twice.”
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throughout the year.
Elaborate flower booths
are set up in malls.
Young dancers prepare to
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at a Richmond mall.
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Are there any new or different types of
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Dear Carol,
There are actually several different
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Flu ShotsJust as they do every year, the CDC
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At the Trinity House in Berwyn,
something unexpected has been
transpiring since they were introduced
to the Nintendo Wii gaming console,
by Suma Home Care Inc. These
residents, most of whom have never
picked up a video game controller in
their life, suddenly can’t put the
controller down.
Today’s seniors are taking over a
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multiple cognitive functions by playing
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common complaint among seniors, has
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Seniors that regularly play Wii
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The CDC currently recommends all
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Talk to your doctor to determine
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Prevnar 13 is also covered by most
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Many people he shows his collection
to do not know that when Milton
Hershey first started manufacturing
Hershey’s chocolate bars, he included
postcards with them as a way to
advertise, Sallade said.
“There are a total of 78 different ones
and I have 77,” he said. “I’m missing one
but it is hard to locate.”
Besides finding the last of the
postcards from Hershey’s chocolate bars,
Sallade said that he has no set goal or
finish line in sight for his postcard
collection. Selling postcards is a popular
way to regroup collections and make
room for more, or to simply make a
profit, but for now his collection remains
a hobby that he enjoys.
Sallade has been retired for five years
from his job as a florist. His grandfather
started the business in 1898 and Sallade
said he worked there since he could hold
a broom in his hand. He majored in
horticulture at Ohio State University
before returning to the family business.
Since retiring, Sallade and his wife,
Caryn, have had more time to travel to
places like Canada and Ireland, and he
purchases postcards everywhere that he
goes.
He has paid as little as 10 cents for a
postcard and as much as $250, he said.
Looking for them at flea markets is more
fun and the price is usually better as well,
said Sallade.
But sometimes postcards he finds for
sale online are only a few dollars.
“It is something that varies
considerably,” Sallade said.
While the bulk of his postcard
collection is from what Sallade calls “the
golden age of postcards,” between 1900
and 1915, he certainly does not shy away
from new postcards.
“I buy new ones too, because some
day they are going to be old,” he said.
He stores the postcards in notebooks
that have plastic liners to protect each
card and has the chance to display the
cards at his postcard club’s monthly
meetings.
Sallade is president of the club. He is
also one of the youngest members, with
the average age of the 45 club members
being between 65 and 70 years.
The club has been around for more
than 30 years and meets monthly at a
local church.
“We welcome anybody to come to
visit,” said Sallade. “We have a speaker
every month or sometimes we do a
display. This month everyone will be
displaying their Thanksgiving or
Christmas postcards.”
Sometimes the club holds events
where vendors come to purchase
postcards from the club members. He
said there are postcard clubs that meet in
York, Lancaster, and Carlisle.
And although so much of the world is
switching to digital, postcard collectors
like Sallade say that the postcard is
something that will always be around.
“I think there is always an interest in a
postcard of some place where someone
went to visit,” said Sallade.
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Book Review
Afascinating psycho-biography,
Jackie O: On the Couch takes
readers into the mind of
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
through a first-person, autobiographical
narrative. The book delves into Jackie’s
childhood and helps the reader
understand how and why she became the
person she was. It also explores JFK’s
background and the ways it affected his
marriage.
Jackie’s deep love for Jack, the cat-and-
mouse game he played before their
engagement, his early inattentiveness, the
difficult years they spent together, along
with details of his outrageous
womanizing and their happier times at
the White House late in the marriage—
all are viewed through her
eyes. A poignant
description of Jack’s
assassination and funeral
is recounted.
The book also looks
into the widow Jackie’s
need for Aristotle
Onassis. She debunks the
idea that she married Ari
purely for his money. The
joyful early years and the
gradual collapse of the
marriage are described, as
is Ari’s death.
Jackie’s successful entry into the
publishing world, and how the work
helped to define her, follows. A new
Jackie emerges, who is
probably closer to the one
she would have become
had she not been first
lady.
Her new persona allows
her to form the best
relationship of her life,
with the elderly, stout,
and adoring Maurice
Tempelsman, who gave
her the love, devotion,
and constancy she never
received from her two
husbands.
The book also carefully follows the
progress of the non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma
disease that led to Jackie’s death at age
63—from her fierce denial to the gradual
acceptance that she would not survive.
Jackie O: On the Couch is available
from Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and
directly from Bancroft Press at
www.bancroftpress.com.
About the AuthorAlma H. Bond received her Ph.D.
from Columbia University and became a
highly successful psychoanalyst for 37
years in New York City. Jackie O: On the
Couch, the first of her On the Couch
series to be published, received a
Pinnacle Book Achievement Award and
Finalist International Book Award. She
has also had 19 other books published.
She lives in Carlisle, Pa.
Jackie O: On the CouchInside the Mind and Life of Jackie Kennedy Onassis
By Alma H. Bond, Ph.D.
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