Our Generation's Magazine - February 2012

February 2012 Volume 10, Issue 2

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VALENTINE SPECIALVan Wert residents use love to

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GLOBETROTTERS Columnist reminisces about a

local appearance in 1964

FIT FOR A CHEFServe up sauerkraut and

sausages Super Bowl Sunday

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On The Cover:Wayne and Linda Taylor, of Van Wert, share a passion to help others grieving the loss of a loved one.

— Christine Ryan Claypool

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FEaturEsValentine’s special . . . . . . . . . . . 6By Christina Ryan Claypool

Old fashioned delivery . . . . . . . 10 By Jeanne Porreca

Thriving through touch . . . . . 12By Alexia Elejaide-Ruiz

dEpartmEntsSports Spot . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Travel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6At Our Age Q&A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8Seasonings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Your Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20Events calendar . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 CommEntaryOn My Mind . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3By Adrienne McGee

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February means hearts and roses or football and beer.

It’s pretty much the opposite ends of the spectrum, huh?

First comes the testosterone feast of the Super Bowl, a smorgasbord of all the good things the NFL has to offer — huge men demonstrating feats of strength and athleticism for all the world to admire, second only to beautiful buxom cheerleaders jumping on the sidelines.

But the visual isn’t enough. With this extravaganza comes food and beverages on such scale and with such nutritional abandon that it’s shameful. Simple tortilla chips? Pshaw. Load them with hamburger and sausage and cheese and salsa and peppers and sour cream. Don’t you dare set out the potato chips without the sour cream and onion dip. (That’s what the ridges are for, after all. It’s engineering.)

The Super Bowl is like Christmas — there are certain foods that you just have to have. Christmas is for Grandma’s cookies. Foot-ball is for chicken wings. Deep fried. With the hottest sauce you can stand, the kind of sauce that you really just eat around your friends so you look tougher than you actually are.

And beer. (Lest I forget.) Beer is key, really. Even if your crowd leans more toward only-having-two friends versus we’ll-have-to-go-on-a-beer-run friends, Super Bowl parties require beer. Cheap beer, fancy beer — doesn’t matter.

These ingredients combine to make for a noisy environment. There will be yelling at the TV. It’s just a matter of how often.

And on the other hand, February also has Valentine’s Day. Roses. Chocolates. A nice, quiet dinner out. A glass of wine. Dressing up. Cards with heart-felt sayings that start on the front ... and keep going. Cuddly stuffed animals.

There is nary a chicken wing in sight on Valentine’s Day. Bless your heart if you try. (Email me and let me know how that went.)

But why? Why can’t these two equally fun parts of American cul-ture co-exist? Is it so hard to bridge the gap? No, it is not.

Last year about this time, while on a shopping trip to my friendly neighborhood grocer, I was browsing the area dedicated to seasonal flower bouquets and gift baskets. Valentine’s Day was in full force, with red hearts fairly blocking the progress of my cart. That’s when I saw it, nestled among the pretties.

There was a rack of gift baskets, each packaged with pink plas-tic film and decorated with a big, red bow. Most baskets held chocolates or teddy bears. But somebody at the store was think-ing that day and decided to package ... and I am not kidding ... a six-pack of Bud Light, a pack of Juicy Fruit, a tube of Pringles and a jar of dry-roasted peanuts.

Man romance. It does exist!Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone, and may your Super Bowl

party be a success. Drink a beer for Valentine’s and offer your buddies a box of chocolates at the football party. Why not?

On my mindAdrienne McGee

Lifestyle/SpecialSectionsEditor


As a life-long sports fan, I tend to fall along the old-school lines. It’s difficult for me to

embrace anything I don’t remember as always being a part of my life, which is why I tend to leave all that mixed-martial-arts business and the X Games to others.

One sports institution I was fortu-nate enough to see in 1964 here in Lima in person, was, quoting from the front of the yearbook I still have, “Abe Saperstein’s Fabulous Harlem Globetrotters, Magicians of Basket-ball.”

When I saw them in the Lima Senior Gym, the team was hardly in its infancy. Even as a St. Charles eighth-grader walking in with my dad, I knew that.

Abe M. Saperstein was the founder and original coach of the Harlem Glo-betrotters. Born July 4, 1902, in Lon-don into a Jewish family, Saperstein moved shortly after with his family to Chicago, where he grew up.

Eventually, he became a promoter after his high school graduation, and that’s when his career path inter-sected with that of a fledgling bas-ketball team which had a manager who wanted Saperstein’s help in put-ting together a tour of Wisconsin and Michigan. The name of the team was

the Brookins’ Globe Trotters, and it is in that name that begins the actual history of the team.

Tommy Brookins was one of the founding members of the team formed in January 1928, a team origi-nally called the Savoy Big Five before Brookins decided to put his own personal stamp on the team name. The team was loaded with fancy ball handlers and deft shooters and was named after Chicago’s Savoy Ball-room, an iconic jazz club which had just opened on Thanksgiving Eve 1927. The club featured over a half an acre of dance floor and had a capac-ity of around 4,000 patrons.

With Saperstein’s talents for finding venues and handling bookings, the Brookins’ Globe Trotters eventually were barnstorming all over the Mid-west. And, while one squad was play-ing its way through Michigan, Saper-stein formed a second unit he called the Harlem Globetrotters to work Wisconsin.

While this second unit didn’t begin play until early 1929, the officially recognized date of the Globetrotters has always been considered 1927 when the Savoy Big Five began prac-ticing and taking on Chicago-area teams. One misconception some still hold today is that the Globetrotters

Sports spot

Since the roaring twenties:Globetrotters have been a slam dunk

By John Grindrod

A souvenir program from the Harlem Globetrotters when they were in Lima in 1964.

courtesy of John Grindrod


had anything to do with Harlem, one of New York’s five boroughs. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Saperstein selected the word “Harlem” just to convey the fact that the players were of African-American descent. The original players actually were, by and large Chicagoans.

The nickname “Globetrotters,” is credited to Saperstein although there is some disagreement over whether he actually coined, arguably, the most famous sports moniker in the world. While the nickname suggests world travels, in the early days this certainly wasn’t true.

Ultimately, Saperstein took full control of the team and coached them as well. As the years rolled by, the team did indeed begin traveling worldwide to show off a unique style of show-man basketball, extraordinary ability and come-dic flair. By 1961, Czechoslovakia became the 81st country played by the Globetrotters when they played six games in three days. They con-tinued adding countries, and now the count is 120 countries on six different continents.

While you may know of the Globetrotters’ usual opponents, the Washington Generals and their player-coach, set-shooting Red Klotz, you may not know that Klotz was actually a player on a team that beat the Globetrotters in an exhibition, that is, before he would lose to them over 13,000 times with the Generals before crowds that included, at various times, four Popes.

However, the Globetrotters also had other fre-quent opponents. On the team’s European tours, the opponent was a group of players called the Cherokee Indians of North America, who had no

problem posing for a team pictures in full head-dresses.

The list of players over the years has certainly changed, and several have become legendary, not only for their basketball talent but their abil-ity to make people laugh.

During my time growing up in the 1960s, the undisputed star was Meadowlark Lemon. By 1964, he was in his ninth season on a roster of 23 players, which were divided among two or three teams touring simultaneously. The roster included the likes of Bob “Showboat” Hall; J.C. Gipson; Charles “Tex” Harrison; spectacular drib-bler Tom Mitchell, who was the ‘60s version of Marques Haynes, who played for the Globetrot-ters in the late 1940s and early 1950s before leaving to form his own traveling team known as the Harlem Magicians; and Connie Hawkins, who’d just joined the Globetrotters in 1963 after the American Basketball Association folded.

While I’m sure dad and I didn’t get the real stars in Lima that night, I do remember enjoying the game immensely and getting the autograph of Hallie Bryant, the former Indiana University star who’d attended the same Indianapolis high school, Crispus Attucks, as the great Oscar Robertson.

And, while Saperstein died at 64 two years after I saw the ‘Trotters, in 1966, he gained even more fame posthumously when he became the shortest member of the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970, going in as a contributor.

And, what a contributor he was! It might even be said that, despite his being only 5-feet 3-inches, he was a big part of basketball history.

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The 1964 Harlem Globetrotters Galaxy of stars included (from top left): Meadowlark lemon, Clarence Wilson, Bob "Showboat" Hall, Bobby Milton, Norman Lee, J.C. Gipson, Charles "Tex" Harrison, Ernest Wagner, Murphy Summons, Tony Wilcox, Tom Mitchell, Jim Doughty, Hubert Ausbie, Hallie Bryant, James Robinson, Bill "The Orbit" Garner, Connie Hawkins, David Hicks, Bobby Joe Mason, Coach Ermer Robinson, Grady McCollum, Coach Inman Jackson, Leroy Gibson and Mel Davis.

Valentine’s Day is all about romance. Cards, flowers and Cupid’s arrows seem to be everywhere. Love really

can find you when you least expect it, no matter your age.

Just look at Wayne and Linda Taylor of Van Wert, a couple in their mid-60s who were married only two and a half years ago. They had both experienced the dev-astating loss of a spouse after decades of marriage.

Wayne Taylor, a former Michigan resident, was married for almost 40 years to his first wife, Elaine, who died in 2007 after a battle with colon cancer. The couple had

a vibrant marriage, four children, three of whom were adopted, and nine grand-children. Wayne works in ministry, and has also been involved in real estate and investing.

Linda Taylor was also widowed. The Van Wert woman’s late husband, Michael Knodel, suffered with Multiple Sclerosis and spent more than 26 years in a wheel-chair. She had been not only his devoted wife, but also his compassionate caregiver until his death in 2003.

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Following her husband’s death, 64-year-old Linda Taylor took several years exploring who she was without him.

“Mike was my identity, and I had to work through that ... and find out God had a plan for me,” said the grandmother of two. “God led me into being my own person with Him. I went on an Emmaus Walk and led a grief support group. That helped me with my own grief journey.”

Wayne Taylor, who is the general director of Partners of Evan-gelism, a volunteer organization that has caused him to travel the globe, knew that he wanted to remarry almost immediately.

“I had a really good marriage the first time around, and I was hoping to have a second opportunity,” he said. He has a master’s degree in missions from Grace Theological Seminary.

After his first wife died, Wayne Taylor registered at the Internet dating site eHarmony. In the months following, he met seven pro-spective matches from the website in person, and even dated a woman that a friend recommended, but no one seemed right for him.

Then Jan. 2, 2009, Wayne Taylor met Linda, his eighth eHarmony match. She was the first match who had also lost a mate.

Wayne Taylor found this fact, “refreshing,” since like him, she had a deep love and respect for her late spouse and extended family.

Linda Taylor had dated a bit, but Wayne was the first person she encountered through eHarmony.

“I just wanted to date. He wanted a mate,” said Linda Taylor of her original reason for registering with the website. Yet when she met Wayne, she realized immediately that he truly was her match made in heaven. “I kept saying, ‘Are you the real deal?’”

After a whirlwind courtship, the Michigan man knew that he had

found his future life companion. On May 13, 2009, Wayne Taylor took out an ad in the Van Wert Times Bulletin which read, “I found the one whom my soul loves,” quoted from the Bible. The ad also contained Linda’s photo and name with the tra-ditional proposal, “Will you marry me?”

Folks all over Van Wert County saw the ad, and Linda Taylor received about 20 phone messages won-dering what her answer was. In the meantime, Wayne Taylor surprised her with a visit that same day and for-mally proposed.

“I got down on my knee, and she just grabbed me and gave me a big kiss, so I took that as a big, ‘Yes!’ Wayne said. Three months later, the couple married in a private ceremony at Calvary Evan-gelical Church, Van Wert.

After a living in Michigan briefly, the couple moved back to Van Wert to allow Linda the opportunity to assist her aging parents, Jerry and Helen Spoon. The newlyweds have tried diligently to be supportive of their children and grandchildren through this time of transition, as well.

Besides, finding a mate, the Taylors have also embraced a new ministry. Wayne is now the director of community groups at Life House Community Church in Van Wert, where they attend. He and Linda will co-facilitate a GriefShare recovery group in March for others struggling with the loss of a loved one.

“He’s very good at leading groups, I’m good at loving on people and connecting with hurt,” Linda Taylor said. “We feel this is what the Lord has given us, and we can use it for good.”

Christina Ryan Claypool is a freelance journalist and inspirational speaker. Her book “Seeds of Hope for Survivors” is available through her Website

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Of all the woes and sighs heard around the county this year, the one that seems to rise to the top is complaints about the postal service. But, I wonder how many of us

would be willing to go back to “the good old days” and receive a letter guaranteed to be a week or more late.

Joseph Russell was the son of Isabelle Sunderland Russell, the first white woman who lived in Allen County. She and her husband had moved into the abandoned Fort Amanda, and her husband died of the flu a short time later. She opened a grocery store at the fort after her husband’s death and raised her family.

Son Joseph wrote of his experience delivering the mail in a diary he kept for many years thereafter:

“The only time we ever got any mail was when someone went to Dayton or Fort Defiance. In 1826, Dye Sunderland (Joseph’s uncle) took a route on contract to carry mail over a route from Piqua to Fort Defiance. He hired me to carry this route. I had to make the round trip over a week on horseback. It took the entire week to do this, and for this I received the large sum of $6 a month. I left the mail for the surrounding county with Mother and she acted as Post-Mistress. I changed horses every trip so each horse had a week’s rest. I carried this route for two years, never missing a trip. In the spring of the year I often had to swim streams and carry the mail on my shoulders. After I quit the mail contract I went to Fort Defiance to school on the great wealth I

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Patrons arrived on horseback or horse-drawn wagons to pick up their mail from the downtown

Lima Post Office in downtown Lima in 1865.• photos courtesy of the Allen

County Historical Society


had saved in the work.”Remember, there were no roads during this time and for a

long period afterward. The trails used by these men were those the pioneers enter-

ing our area had cleared by hard labor, cutting down trees and clearing away brush to make room for their wagons to pass. As more and more travelers used these same routes, they became hard packed dirt in the summer, and deep muddy ruts during the winter and spring months. It was not an easy ride on horseback or in the wagon.

When Joseph gave up the route, it was taken over by a father-and-son team, Samuel Marshall and his son, Charles C. An interesting note is Charles Marshall would later become Russell’s brother in law. He married Joseph’s sister Susannah, the first white child born in what was to be Allen County. Russell later became mayor of Delphos.

The Marshalls were carriers from Piqua to Defiance for three years, making regular stops at Fort Amanda. The distance they covered was 95 miles on horseback, and they provided twice-a-week service. Soon after, part of the mail stemmed from areas close to a canal and was carried by canal boat from place to place. There are no records telling us how long this took, but it was surely a little faster than horseback.

The first post office opened in Lima in February 1832, but it couldn’t have been too lucrative. Between that time and 1860, the mail was handled by a post master either in his home or in a nearby small business he owned. And we had a total of 12 post masters, serving an average of two years each.

Want to know if you had mail during this period? Then you got in your carriage and went downtown and asked. Carriers still had a long way to go to complete a route, and home delivery was yet to come, with the mail arriv-ing about twice a week.

Slowly, the system evolved. One of the major happenings was the numbering of the houses and businesses — the same as it is today, with even numbers on one side of the street and odd num-bers on the other. The addition of more carriers on foot made it easier for these men to do their job. Of course, the railroads sped up this process even more.

Today, the post office is facing another crisis. Who could foresee that email, faxing and social media would cause the postal service to be on the verge of bankruptcy?

How very sad that no one wants to take the time to write a long newsy letter to a close friend or family member. You know me, I am old fashioned in a way. There is still nothing more pleasing than to know someone cared enough to write. On the other hand, I did just receive an email that told me my friend was alive and well. I guess that is news better received sooner than later.

Mail carriers from 1884

The Lima Post Office at the corner around

1895.

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By Alexia Elejalde-RuizChicago Tribune

The woman — in her 80s — hadn’t spoken in months. The nursing home staff figured she had lost the ability. But after six silent months of regular massage sessions, mas-

sage therapist Dawn Nelson heard a soft voice utter: “That feels good.”

Nelson, author of “From the Heart Through the Hands” and cre-ator of the program “Compassionate Touch For Those in Later Life Stages,” says massage has improved quality of life for many older, not-so-mobile clients.

In addition to boosting circulation, easing stress and relieving aches and pains, all important physiologically for people who

don’t move around much, massage bestows a basic human need the elderly often go without: touch.

“Just like at the beginning of life, when you’re not touched, you don’t thrive,” said Nelson, who works with older people who are isolated in their homes or living in institutionalized care.

While extensive research has shown that massaging infants benefits their development, particularly in premature babies, few studies have explored the impact of massage on the elderly.

One study, published in 1998 in the Journal of Applied Geron-tology, found that elderly people who massaged infants experi-enced less stress, improved mood and fewer trips to the doctor.

Researchers believe massage, and touch generally, can strengthen the immune system by stimulating pressure receptors under the skin, which in turn reduces the stress hormone cortisol, the chief culprit in killing natural disease-fighting cells, said Tif-fany Field, director of the Touch Research Institute at the Univer-sity of Miami School of Medicine. Without touch, studies on mon-keys have shown, there’s a rise in aggression.

But elderly people, who could use the immune-boosting benefits of touch the most, are getting it the least.

“There’s a lot of isolation involved when you’re no longer work-ing or driving,” said Sharon Puszko, owner and educator at Day-Break Geriatric Massage Institute, which teaches health profes-sionals safe massage techniques for elderly clients. “There are lots of people who are alone, whose grandchildren are grown and aren’t in town to give kisses.”

Some assisted living facilities arrange for massage therapists for their residents, but it’s “not something that’s being incorporated as much as it should be or could be,” said Tara Cortes, execu-tive director of the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing at New York University.

Family members and friends can provide the touch that’s lack-ing. Because aged skin gets thin and bruises easily, any massage administered to the elderly must be gentle; sometimes all it takes is barely caressing a person’s skin, Cortes said.

“We do know that just the touching of a person to another per-son, just the warmness, creates a sense of calmness and security,” Cortes said.

More than just chatting, playing games or even holding hands, giving focused, attentive touch establishes an intimate, nurturing bond that expresses caring, Nelson said. She has seen it ease the symptoms of touch deprivation, such as grouchiness, irritability, and a lack of interest in life and people. In people with dementia, she said, it helps ground them in physical reality.

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shell,” Nelson said. “Because otherwise they just curl into a little ball, and their skin dries up, their mind dries up.”

Licensed massage therapist Sharon Puszko offered four exercises a lay person can do on an older, not-so-mobile loved one.

Arms and legs: Wrap both hands around the person’s wrist, and gently compress and release. Work your way up the arm with the same compress-and-release motion. Do the same for the legs, starting at the ankle and moving upward. Always massage toward the heart.

Hands: Using your thumbs, massage the palms of the hands with circular strokes. Work your way up each finger with the squeeze-and-release motion mentioned above. Don’t massage the top of the hand, as that skin is particularly thin. And don’t pull the fingers, as that can hurt people with osteoporosis.

Feet: Using your thumbs, massage the soles of the feet in an outward circular motion. This helps loosen up the connective tissue and widen the plantar sur-face, which can tighten when people don’t walk much.

Back and shoulders: Place the palm of your hand in the sacrum area at the base of the spine, and make circles on the muscles on either side of the spine (don’t massage bone), working your way up to the shoulders. If your loved one is seated, have them lean forward slightly, with a pillow in his lap.

You’re not aiming to give the knot-grinding, tension-relieving massage younger people seek. Aging skin is thin and prone to tearing and bruising, so err on the side of very gentle. A 20- to 30-minute session one to three times a week is sufficient.

Use a nonsticky massage lotion.Know your loved one’s medications and health issues.

People on blood thinners may bruise more easily. People with diabetes might have neuropathy and might not know if their feet hurt from pressure. Peo-ple with osteoporosis may have more sensitive bones. If you have concerns, ask the doctor.

Get permission. If your loved one is resistant, put lotion on your own hands and ask if they’d like some on their own. Lotioning hands, gently, is a good first step.

Avoid massaging around open wounds. If there’s pain, stop.

Breakfast on my first Sunday ever in London reminded me a lot of the Irish breakfasts I enjoyed a year earlier during my first European trek. I suppose that’s not too surprising

given the fact that Ireland is just a short ferry ride away from Eng-land. Served buffet-style, besides the common staples like eggs, toast and bacon (called rashers and served limp, not crispy), a wide array of foods included blood pudding (a type of sausage thusly named because of its dark color resulting from a high blood content), baked beans, grilled tomatoes and scones (rolls).

After breakfast, my travel mate Jane and I had enough time for a morning stroll from our Kensington High Street Hilton down for a look at Kensington Palace, Princess Diana’s home until her 1997 death. The palace, enclosed by an iron fence, is set in Kensington Gardens, one of the eight Royal Parks that the Crown makes avail-able to the public for such activities as walking, jogging and kicking the soccer ball.

There were roses at my feet in front of the gate, what I assumed was a continuing tribute someone had left to the beloved Diana.

Kensington Gardens is 265 acres and is contiguous to the more well known Hyde Park, larger at 360 acres. No doubt, for me, the

most impressive sight I saw in Hyde was The Albert Memorial, in honor of Queen Victoria’s Prince Albert. One the monarchy’s great love stories ended with his early death in 1861 at the age of 42, sending Victoria, who outlived her husband by four decades, into a prolonged state of mourning that historians feel lasted the rest of her life. The two produced nine children before his passing, including future king, Edward VII.

The Royal Parks of London are collectively still called by some “The Lungs of London,” a throwback term to a time when London wasn’t very clean.

Directly across the street from the Albert Memorial is The Royal Albert Hall, since its opening in 1871, one of the finest performance theatres in the world.

Our morning coach tour, narrated by a local guide named Paul and a part of our Trafalgar package price, started shortly after our return to the hotel.

We saw some of London’s most famous sections. Trafalgar Square reminded me a lot of New York’s Times Square in terms of its teem-ing pedestrian traffic. What sets it apart visually is what is at its cen-ter (or, centre, if you’re a Londoner), Nelson’s Column, a monument honoring Admiral Nelson, who died at the Battle of Trafalgar.

Nearby was Piccadilly Circus, where five of London’s busiest streets converge. In the nearby theater district, we saw Her Majesty’s The-

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More London:Royal parks, palaces, towers and more

Travel Part 2

By John Grindrod

The famous dome of St. Paul's Cathedral in London.• photos by John Grindrod

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atre, the perfect place to see “The Phantom of the Opera,” as many, no doubt have. The show has been running at the theater continu-ously since 1986.

No doubt, the best part of our morning tour was when we disem-barked and spent two hours getting an up-close look at Buckingham Palace and the beautiful grounds that surround the palace and Victo-ria Memorial, the large iconic fountain not far from the gates to the inner grounds and palace.

I saw the arrival of the Queen’s Guard to perform the changing of the guard, a ceremony of great pomp and circumstance. Our guide, Paul, pointed out that the flag flying above the palace was that of Union Jack, not the Royal Flag, which only is presented when the Queen is home. Since this was a Sunday, the queen and Prince Phil-lip were gone, since she spends weekends at another royal abode, Windsor Castle.

Jane and I also decided to spend the 44 pounds apiece for the after-noon tour, again guided by Paul, not covered in our package price. Remember, I told you last month 1 pound is about $2 American, so our tickets were close to $90 each. We adopted the philosophy so many tourists have as well, which is summed up with a question like, “When will we get this chance again to see St. Paul’s Cathedral (where Prince Charles and Diana wed), gain entry into The Tower of London too see centuries of history and The Crown Jewels and take a boat ride on the Thames?”

St. Paul’s has a very different look than Westminster Abbey, which we visited the day before, because it’s a domed cathedral, not one featuring spires.

The Tower of London, which sits right on the Thames and is actu-ally another official royal residence although no longer used as such, boasts 900 years of English history. I especially found interesting Bloody Tower, where so many awaited their executions and the Jewel House, where the Crown Jewels are. Many of the precious stones are embedded in former monarchs’ crowns, swords, scepters and other ceremonial accoutrements.

In the courtyards, the famous tower ravens lined many of the tree branches. There was a certain eeriness at the memorial and its center-piece, a glass pillow marking the execution site on Tower Green. This was were many enemies of the crown were executed, among them, two of Henry VIII’s six wives, Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard.

The famous Yeoman Warders, called Beefeaters, were all around the compound in their distinctive garb, looking exactly as the model on the Beefeater bottle of gin. The primarily ex-military men with their booming voices are there to provide history lessons and also point folks to the restrooms.

There is also a changing of the guard at the tower, since it is offi-cially a royal residence, and I was able to stand just a few feet away from the impressive ceremony. This was a much closer look than I got at Buckingham, where the actual guard change took place behind the gate.

After our time at the tower, Jane and I checked out the famous Tower Bridge above the Thames and then used our passes to take a boat cruise on the famous river down to Westminster Bridge.

We saw a lot of wonderful sights lining this section of the Thames. The London Eye, at 135 meters, is the world’s tallest cantilevered observation wheel. We saw the re-created Globe Theatre, where Shakespearean plays are still performed. The Shard, still under con-struction, is a skyscraper destined to be the tallest building in Europe and will look like a huge shard of glass.

After our cruise, it was back to the hotel for dinner and rest. Join

me next month when we load up and leave London, bound for Salis-bury, Stonehenge, Bath and Bristol, our overnight stay as I show you up close England and Wales.

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In the mid ‘80s, Kathy Stinson and her husband, Kurt, left the hustle and bustle of New Jersey to settle in the country northwest of Ottawa.

“My aunt was here,” Stinson said. “We wanted to bring our chil-dren up in the country. The peace and quiet we found in Ottawa was much more than we expected.”

“I’m actually from Hackettstown, New Jersey, home of the M&M candy factory,” said Stinson, who was born March 29, 1960. “I graduated from a high school in Warren, New Jersey.”

When the Stinsons first arrived in Ottawa, they appreciated the morals, high standards and strong faith-based community.

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While chili, ribs, and seven-layer dips are Super Bowl standbys, why not consider impressing your fellow fans with something different this year: Choucroute

Garni. It might sound complicated, but don’t let the fancy French name scare you away from trying something deliciously differ-ent on Super Bowl Sunday. Pronounced shoo-KROUT gahr-NEE, this dish is a combination of smoked pork, sausage, frankfurters, sauerkraut and potatoes. Easy to prepare, the recipe can be made ahead of time, then either packed up for tailgating or put out in a slow cooker to keep warm on a buffet table.

Choucroute translates into “cabbage crust,” and this German-inspired dish was born along the country’s border with France. Garni refers to the variety of garnishes that are served alongside the dish. Consisting of any combination of pickled cabbage and meat, the feast typically features a variety of sausages, including Frankfurt sausage which served as the predecessor to the mod-ern day frankfurter. Boiled potatoes are the starch of choice, and the dish is seasoned with black pepper, cloves and juniper ber-ries, along with onions and white wine to sweeten the deal and brighten the flavors.

“Any combination of your favorite sausages from either your local butcher or your favorite supermarket will work perfectly in this dish,” explains CIA Chef-Instructor Cynthia Keller. “I try to find a nice assortment that includes well-spiced knockwursts and bratwursts. If you’d like to lighten up the dish, you can also select a variety of sausages made with leaner meats like chicken.”

The chefs of The Culinary Institute of America have enthusiasti-cally embraced this dish for game day, and thanks to their recipe, you too can enjoy this stick-to-your-ribs combination. Serve all the components of this dish on a big platter with slices of French bread, spicy mustard, and your favorite ice-cold beer — and let the game begin!


Choucroute GarniServes 105 pounds sauerkraut1 clove garlic8 juniper berries2 cloves1 bay leaf1 sprig thyme8 to 12 black peppercorns1 carrot1 leek2 branches of celery1 parsnip4 ounces vegetable oil2 medium sliced onions

(approximately 2 cups)2 teaspoons minced garlic1 cup dry white wine3 cups chicken stock1 smoked ham hock2 pounds smoked pork loin1-pound, 4-ounce slab of

bacon, cut into thick slices4 pounds waxy potatoes,

peeled1-pound, 4-ounce garlic sau-

sage10 beef frankfurters10 weisswurst (veal and pork

sausage)

Drain the sauerkraut and rinse well in several changes of cold water. Drain and squeeze out water.

Place the garlic clove and spices in a small square of cheesecloth and tie with butcher’s twine to create a spice “sachet” bag. Tie the carrot, leek, celery, and parsnip with butcher’s twine to create a “bouquet garni.”

Heat half the vegetable oil in a large “Dutch oven” over medium heat. Add the onions and sweat until tender without browning. Add the garlic and sweat briefly to release aroma. Add the sauer-kraut to the onion mixture.

Add the wine and chicken stock. Bury the spice sachet, vegeta-ble bouquet, and ham hock under the sauerkraut. Bring the liquid to a simmer.

Place the pork and the bacon on top of the sauerkraut. Cover tightly and braise in a 325-degree oven for approximately 45 minutes. Add the potatoes, garlic sausage and frankfurters to the pan, return the cover, and continue to cook approximately 15 to 20 minutes until the potatoes are tender and the frankfurters are heated through. Add more liquid if needed.

While the potatoes and frankfurters are cooking, place a sauté pan on medium heat. Add the remaining oil. Place the weisswurst in the pan and gently brown on all sides while heating the sau-sage through.

Remove the meats from the sauerkraut and keep warm. Slice the pork loin and garlic sausage.

Spoon the sauerkraut onto a warm platter, and garnish with

sliced pork loin, garlic sausage, sliced bacon, frankfurters, weiss-wurst and potatoes.

Serve with mustard and a loaf of crusty French bread. Accom-pany with a dry Riesling wine from Alsace or your favorite artisan-brewed beer.

Nutrition analysis per 6-ounce ounce: 270 calories, 12g protein, 5g carbohydrate, 21g fat, 1,050mg sodium, 50mg cholesterol, 2g fiber.

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By Mitch Adel

Every Valentine’s Day, we take time to remember that spe-cial person in our lives. This year, take time to make sure they are taken care of financially. Traditional retirement

and estate planning focuses on building up assets and passing them to the next generation, but there is more couples need to consider to ensure that they are both protected — and that the wealth they have built together is available for them if and when it’s needed.

The most important step is to create a comprehensive plan, bringing together lawyers, accountants, financial planners and your children to ensure that everyone’s advice works in harmony. During this process, pay attention to the impact each decision will have on a surviving spouse. To illustrate some of the potential problems and solutions, here are several typical situations couples may face:

Problem: Maintaining HomeownershipSolution: Survivorship Deeds, TrustsYou would expect a surviving spouse to easily be able to take

full ownership of a jointly owned home, right? Wrong. It can be a complicated process, as a standard, jointly signed deed needs to go through the probate court, taking months and potentially accruing thousands of dollars in expenses along the way. Depend-ing on the situation, creating a special survivorship deed or a trust alleviates the need to go through probate — a slow, costly and public process — and ensures that a spouse has quick and complete ownership of their home.

Problem: Long Term Care Costs for a Surviving SpouseSolution: Early PlanningLong-term care can be extremely costly and Ohio state laws

make it difficult to receive state aid without first sapping assets and retirement income. Often, the costs for one spouse who becomes ill are manageable — their husband or wife can help care for them and their savings can cover extra expenses — but a surviving spouse in need of care can drain the resources of even the most well-prepared families. There is no silver bullet to paying for long-term care, but by planning early there are steps families can take to make the best use of their assets. Options include cre-ating specific income streams to offset the costs or special trusts to protect assets from Medicaid spend-downs, so that spouses and children aren’t left holding the bill.

Problem: Income for Surviving Military SpousesSolution: Aid & Attendance BenefitThere are many state and federal programs that can help cover

the costs of prescription drugs, long-term in-home care or nurs-ing home care — seniors just don’t know that they’re eligible. For example, more than 600,000 veterans and their spouses in Ohio may be eligible to take advantage of the VA’s Aid & Attendance Benefit. This particular benefit, worth up to $2,000 per month, can pay for help seniors may need in doing everyday household tasks or go toward nursing home care. This is just one of many programs that can help seniors, including widowed spouses, to cover expenses without draining their savings.

Proper planning can anticipate the potential financial problems couples may face as they age. Whether it’s taxes, lengthy court battles or catastrophic health care costs, having a plan gives seniors the chance to face their problems and come up with the best solutions — together.

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Women’s Group, 4 p.m., SAFY’s Lima Behavioral Health Office, 658 W. Market St., Suite 101, Lima.

Feb. 2Peaceful Parenting, 5 p.m.,

SAFY’s Lima Behavioral Health Office, 658 W. Market St., Suite 101, Lima.

Bluegrass Cafe, 7 p.m., Famous Old Time Music Com-pany, 20322 State Route 33, Wapakoneta. $5.

Dean’s Distinguished Lecture Series, 7 p.m., Ohio Northern University, 525 S. Main St., Ada. (419) 772-2000. Robert D. Ker-scher on “It All Started in Ada: The Entrepreneurial Journey of Lexi-Comp Inc.”

Feb. 3Chicken/Fish Fry, 5 p.m., VFW

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American Legion Fish Fry, 5 p.m., American Legion Post 96, 711 S. Shore Dr., Lima. $6.

Fish Fry, 5 p.m., American Legion, 412 Plum St., Columbus Grove.

Friday Nights in the City Club, 5:30 p.m., City Club, 144 S. Main St., Lima.

Monte Carlo Night, 6 p.m., Eagles Lodge, 800 W. Robb Ave., Lima.

Friday Night Singles Dance, 9 p.m., The Palazzo, 309 S. Main St., Botkins. (937) 693-6325. With “Triple Play.” Free line dance lessons at 8 p.m.

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Chili Cook-Off, 6 p.m., West-side United Methodist Church, 604 Gloria Ave., Lima. $7 at the door.

Feb. 5Big Breakfast, 8 a.m., St. John

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Pastor Richard Hilton Preach-ing, 10 a.m., Calvary Chapel of Praise, 1601 Rebecca Dr., Lima.

Feb. 6 Lima Rotary, 12 p.m., Veter-

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Cridersville Lions, 6:30 p.m., Otterbein Cridersville, Red Oak Dr, Cridersville.

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ans/Gays, 6 p.m., OSU Lima/Rhodes State, 4240 Campus Dr., Lima. In Public Service Build-ing.

Soup and Salad Lectures Series, 6 p.m., ArtSpace/Lima, 67 Town Sq, Lima. (419) 222-1721. “The Art in Your Life,” a practical guide to buying, fram-ing, hanging, talking about, and living with art. Illustrated lec-ture at 7 p.m.

Financial Aid Assistance, 6 p.m., YMCA Annex, 136 S. West St., Lima.

Lima Westside Lions, 6:30 p.m., Western Sizzlin, 2721 Elida Rd., Lima.

Bath Township Trustees, 7 p.m., Bath Township Adminis-tration Building, 2880 Ada Rd., Lima.

Bach Festival Chorus Rehears-als, 7 p.m., Bluffton University, One University Dr., Bluffton. (419) 358-3000. In Gilliom Room at Mosiman Hall.

Perry Township Trustees, 7:30 p.m., Perry Township Adminis-

tration Building, 2408 E. Breese Rd., Lima.

Feb. 8Women’s Group, 4 p.m.,


Lima Area Civil War Study Club, 7 p.m., New Creation Church, 2701 Allentown Rd., Lima.

Trinity Chapter Order of The Eastern Star, 7:30 p.m., Lima Masonic Center, 2165 N. Cole St., Lima.



Bluegrass Cafe, 7 p.m., Famous Old Time Music Com-pany, 20322 State Route 33, Wapakoneta. $5.

Inspirational Night with Coach Bobby Bowden, 7 p.m., UNOH Event Center, 1450 N. Cable Rd., Lima. $25. Kick off for Trans-forming Lives Capital Campaign.

Grand Lake Patriots, 7 p.m., Mercer County Fairgrounds, 1001 W. Market St., Celina. With Jason King on U.S. Constitution. In blue community building at main gate.

American Legion Post 96 Legionnaires, 8 p.m., American Legion Post 96, 711 S. Shore Dr., Lima. Executive board at 7 p.m.

Feb. 10Fish Fry, 5 p.m., American

Legion, 412 Plum St., Columbus Grove.



Friday Night Singles Dance, 9 p.m., The Palazzo, 309 S. Main St., Botkins. (937) 693-6325.

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Valentine’s Dance with Dave Liles. Line dance lessons 8 p.m.

Feb. 11Restless Heart, 7:30 p.m., Nis-

wonger Performing Arts Center, 10700 Oh 118, Van Wert.

Elvis Lives, 8 p.m., Veterans Memorial Civic Center, 7 Town Sq, Lima. (419) 224-1552.

Friday Night Singles Dance, 9 p.m., The Palazzo, 309 S. Main St., Botkins. (937) 693-6325. Charity League benefit with Sta-ples. Line dance lessons 8 p.m.

Feb. 12Chicken Noodle Dinner, 11:30

a.m., Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, 101 E. Main St., Lafay-ette.

College Goal Sunday, 2 p.m., YMCA Annex, 136 S. West St., Lima. Computers available to fill out FAFSA. Bring tax docu-ments.

Feb. 13Lima Rotary, 12 p.m., Veterans

Memorial Civic Center, 7 Town Sq, Lima. (419) 224-1552. Chris Hoeffel on “American Cancer Society: Creating More Birth-days.”

Look Good Feel Better, 6 p.m., St. Rita’s Putnam County Ambulatory Care, 601 US 224, Glandorf.

Ottawa Country Music Jam, 6 p.m., Highwater Building, 210 S. Oak St., Ottawa. No electric instruments.

Feb. 14Community Garden Workshop,

9:45 a.m., Southside Christian church, 500 Southside Dr., Lima. $10, or $15 for workshop and lunch. (419) 225-1606.

Westinghouse Sundstrand Group, 11:30 a.m., Western Siz-zlin, 2721 Elida Rd., Lima. (419) 331-6644.

Lima Area Watercolor Society, 7 p.m., Immanuel United Meth-odist Church, 699 Sunnydale St., Elida. David Cordas on sea-scapes.

Bach Festival Chorus Rehears-als, 7 p.m., Bluffton University,

One University Dr., Bluffton. (419) 358-3000. In Gilliom Room at Mosiman Hall.

Feb. 15Korean War Veterans, 3 p.m.,

Memorial Hall, 130 W. Elm St., Lima.

Women’s Group, 4 p.m., SAFY’s Lima Behavioral Health Office, 658 W. Market St., Suite 101, Lima.

Community Fellowship Meal, 5 p.m., St. John United Methodist Church, 205 N. High St., Colum-bus Grove.

Amanda Township Trustees, 7 p.m., Amanda Township House, Agerter Rd and S Conant Rd, Spencerville.

Feb. 16Allen County PERI, 12 p.m.,

Eagles Lodge, 800 W. Robb Ave., Lima.

UAW 1765 Retirees, 12:30 p.m., Golden Corral, 2620 Elida Road, Lima.

Peaceful Parenting, 5 p.m., SAFY’s Lima Behavioral Health Office, 658 W. Market St., Suite 101, Lima.

Amputees in Motion, 7 p.m., Bethel Baptist Church, 630 Pow-ers Ave., Lima. Support group for amputees and their families.

Feb. 17Fish Fry, 5 p.m., American

Legion, 412 Plum St., Columbus Grove.



Friday Night Singles Dance, 9 p.m., The Palazzo, 309 S. Main St., Botkins. (937) 693-6325. With Hidden Assets. Free line dance lessons at 8 p.m.

Feb. 18Mom 2 Mom Sale, 9 a.m., Trin-

ity United Methodist Church, 301 W. Market St., Lima. $1. (419) 227-0800. In Trinity Center for Creative Child Care.

Lima Symphony Orchestra pres-

ents The Romance of Spring, 7:30 p.m., Lima Civic Center, 7 Town Square, Lima.


Memorial Civic Center, 7 Town Sq, Lima. (419) 224-1552. Mike Felix on Ford Motor Co. Lima Engine Plant.

National Alliance on Mental Ill-ness, 6 p.m., Challenged Higher Club’s Drop-In Center, 407 N. Franklin St., Van Wert.

Cridersville Lions, 6:30 p.m., Otterbein Cridersville, Red Oak Dr, Cridersville.

Auglaize Township Trustees, 7:30 p.m., Auglaize Township Administration Building, 7726 Bellefontaine Rd., Harrod.

Fort Shawnee Village Council, 8 p.m., Fort Shawnee Municipal Building, 2050 W. Breese Rd., Lima.

Feb. 21Lima Shrine Club, 11:30 a.m.,

Eagles Lodge, 800 W. Robb Ave., Lima.

Financial Aid Assistance, 6 p.m., YMCA Annex, 136 S. West St., Lima.

Lima Westside Lions, 6:30 p.m., Western Sizzlin, 2721 Elida Rd., Lima.

Shawnee School Board, 7 p.m., Shawnee Middle School, Zurme-hly Rd, Lima.

Bath Township Trustees, 7 p.m., Bath Township Adminis-tration Building, 2880 Ada Rd., Lima.

Elida School Board, 7 p.m., Elida Senior High School, 401 E. North St., Lima.

West Central Ohio Chapter of Compassionate Friends, 7 p.m., Lima First Assembly of God, 1575 E. High St., Lima. In annex.

Bach Festival Chorus Rehears-als, 7 p.m., Bluffton University, One University Dr., Bluffton. (419) 358-3000. In Gilliom Room at Mosiman Hall.

Lima Beane Chorus Rehears-als, 7 p.m., Marimor School, 2500 Ada Rd., Lima.

Perry Township Trustees, 7:30 p.m., Perry Township Adminis-

tration Building, 2408 E. Breese Rd., Lima.

Feb. 22Women’s Group, 4 p.m., SAFY’s

Lima Behavioral Health Office, 658 W. Market St., Suite 101, Lima.

Trinity Chapter Order of The Eastern Star, 7:30 p.m., Lima Masonic Center, 2165 N. Cole St., Lima.



American Legion Post 96 Legionnaires, 8 p.m., American Legion Post 96, 711 S. Shore Dr., Lima. Executive board meets at 7 p.m.

Feb. 24Friday Nights in the City Club,

5:30 p.m., City Club, 144 S. Main St., Lima.

Friday Night Singles Dance, 9 p.m., The Palazzo, 309 S. Main St., Botkins. (937) 693-6325. With “Decades.” Free line dance lessons at 8 p.m.

Feb. 25Women Of Ireland, 7:30 p.m.,

Niswonger Performing Arts Cen-ter, 10700 Oh 118, Van Wert.


Memorial Civic Center, 7 Town Sq, Lima. (419) 224-1552. Jim Shine on The Lima News.

Look Good Feel Better, 4 p.m., St. Rita’s Regional Cancer Cen-ter, 803 W. Market St., Lima.

Ottawa Country Music Jam, 6 p.m., Highwater Building, 210 S. Oak St., Ottawa. No electric instruments.

Feb. 28Bach Festival Chorus Rehears-

als, 7 p.m., Bluffton University, One University Dr., Bluffton. (419) 358-3000. In Gilliom Room at Mosiman Hall.


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