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• INSIDE: SAVVY SENIOR • MEALSITE MENUSWEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

PHOTO BY CAROL WAGNER

MEET SUE KIRAR • PAGE 3

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QUILTING WHILE COPING WITH LOSS

Sue Kirar uses sewing gift to comfort othersBy Carol WagnerLeader Correspondent

Sue Kirar has been sewing all her life. Then she took a class on ba-sic quilting 15 years ago, just before her sister died. Kirar said sewing and quilting have helped her through some tough times.

“I’ve used sewing to help get through a lot of tears,” she said. “It’s a good way to sit down at the sewing machine and find peace.”

When her son, Nick, died 11 years ago, she had a difficult time getting back into the rhythm of quilting.

Around the same time, she won a square of fabric in a contest. A good friend kept bringing her more blocks, hoping to help her in her grief. With a whole stack of fabric blocks, Kirar eventually began quilting again. Since then quilting has been a part of her life. She gives her creations to family and friends.

Last year, a friend lost her son and her church gave her a crocheted prayer shawl.

“I don’t knit or crochet, but I really liked the idea,” Kirar said.

So last October, she brought the idea of quilt-ing them to the prayer shawl group at Sacred

Heart Catholic Church, where she is a member. The members were a little unsure how it would work, as was Kirar, but that didn’t stop her.

“I experimented and

made the pattern,” she said.

When Kirar and her husband, Mike, went to their condo in Florida for the winter, she made blocks for three prayer

shawls. She worked on quilting the shawls when they returned to Shawano in the spring.

“I was busy all summer with them,” Kirar said. “It‘s a lot of piece work. From now on, I’ll only make one a year.”

She recently finished them and said everybody who saw them thought they were beautiful. She embroidered a cross on the back of each one.

“I like bright colors,” Kirar said. “The next ones will be more sedate.”

At the church she at-tends while in Florida, a group meets and makes rosaries. Kirar decided to make rosaries to go with her shawls, which have a pocket on the inside to hold a rosary or prayer book.

She has enjoyed look-ing online for different col-ors and shapes, making three of them to go with the prayer shawls.

“When you make them, you pray for people who are going to get them,” Ki-rar said.

Sue and Mike are both retired and live in Shawa-no. They have two other sons, and three grand-children. They have been married 46 years.

Mike is a retired tech ed teacher. Sue retired after 38 years in the ob-stetrics department at Shawano Medical Center.

Sue also is a member of the Shawano Area Quil-ters, who will be hosting a show from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 3 at Olga Brener Intermediate School in Shawano.

ON THE COVERSue Kirar makes rosaries to go along with the prayer shawls she quilts.

PHOTO BY CAROL WAGNER

Sue Kirar wears a prayer shawl that she makes for people who are ill or grieving. She is sitting on a wildflower quilt that will be on display at the Shawano Area Quilters show on Oct. 3.

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Old habits die hardBy Marcie LeitzkeLeader Columnist

My good friend and neighbor decided to cancel her Green Bay paper because of the cost. She shared it daily with me. I would solve the three puzzles, which gave me great satisfaction. A daily paper can be greatly missed.

Old-timers like me and my Down syn-drome son like a set routine. If I come to the senior center any other day than Wednesday for bingo, he gets confused.

A quote in our Daily Bread Devotional says, “First we make our habits, and then the habits make us.”

We don’t want anything to interfere with our M-W-F bingo days. Or we have a set time to walk or run or do any errands. The old saying Monday wash, Tuesday

iron, Wednesday bake, etc. kept us in line.There are good habits that we miss,

like my husband missing his cows when we quit farming. A bad habit can ensnare us for life, like smoking, thus making us a slave for life.

Lucky are we if we develop habits we can easily become free from. I didn’t miss the puzzles because they were getting too hard for me anyway. Often the freedom can give us a new lease on life and we can start something new. Freedom is a won-derful gift and I no longer have to solve those puzzles.

My addiction to words led me to write this column and one for Engineers bi-monthly magazine. That came about with my hubbies’ antique tractor collection. They wanted a ladies’ page and it became “Marcie’s Page” in 1981.

Medicare turns 50, big challenges awaitBy Mary Agnes CareyKaiser Health News

Medicare, the federal health insurance pro-gram for the elderly and disabled, has come a long way since its creation in 1965 when nearly half of all seniors were uninsured. Now the program covers

55 million people, provid-ing insurance to one in six Americans. With that in mind, Medicare faces a host of challenges in the decades to come. Here’s a look at some of them.

Financing: While Medi-care spending growth has slowed in recent years — a trend that may continue

into the future — 10,000 people a day are becom-ing eligible for Medicare as the trend-setting baby boomers age. Yet the number of workers pay-ing taxes to help fund the program is decreasing. That means Medicare will consume a greater share of the federal budget and

beneficiaries’ share of the tab will likely climb. An abundance of proposals to curb federal expenditures on Medicare exist. They include increasing the eli-gibility age, restructuring benefits and cost-sharing, raising the current pay-roll tax rate and asking wealthier beneficiaries to pay more for coverage. Many Republicans have backed a “premium sup-port ” model — the gov-ernment would give ben-eficiaries a set amount of money to purchase coverage from a number of competing plans — as a way to limit Medicare spending. Democrats say premium support would undermine traditional Medicare and shift more of the program’s financial risk to beneficiaries. They favor other reforms in the program. By at least two-to-one margins, majorities of Democrats, Republi-cans and independents favor keeping Medicare as it is rather than chang-ing to a premium support program, according to a recent poll from the Kai-

ser Family Foundation. (KHN is an editorially in-dependent program of the foundation.)

Affordability: Most Medicare beneficiaries don’t have a lot of money and spend a large chunk of their finances on health care. Unlike many private health insurance plans, there is no cap on out-of-pocket expenditures in tra-ditional Medicare, and the program does not cover services that many benefi-ciaries need, such as den-tal care and eyeglasses. (Private insurers that par-ticipate in Medicare Ad-vantage may cover these and other items that tradi-tional Medicare does not.) In 2013, half of all people on Medicare had incomes be-low $23,500 per person, and premiums for Medicare and supplemental insur-ance accounted for 42 per-cent of average total out-of-pocket spending among beneficiaries in traditional Medicare in 2010, accord-ing to an analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Medicare does have some programs to help benefi-

ciaries pay their Medicare expenses but the income limits can be as low as $1,001 per month with sav-ings and other assets at or below $7,280 (limits are higher for couples).

Managing Chronic Disease: Illnesses such as heart disease or diabetes can ring up huge medical costs, so keeping benefi-ciaries with these condi-tions as healthy as possible helps not only the patients but also Medicare’s bot-tom line. An analysis from the Urban Institute finds that half of all Medicare beneficiaries will have dia-betes in 2030 and a third will be afflicted with heart disease. Nearly half of the people on Medicare have four or more chronic con-ditions and 10 percent of the Medicare population accounts for 58 percent of spending. Reducing the rate of chronic disease by just 5 percent would save Medicare and Medicaid $5.5 billion a year by 2030 and reducing it by 25 per-cent would save $26.2 bil-lion per year, the Urban Institute found.

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Social Security at 80: Modest changes could save programThe Associated Press

As Social Security celebrates its 80th birthday, the federal government’s largest benefit program stands at a piv-otal point in its history.

Relatively modest changes to taxes and benefits could still save it for gen-erations of Americans to come, but Congress must act quickly, and even limited changes are politically difficult.

The longer lawmakers wait, the harder it will become to maintain So-cial Security as a program that pays for itself, a key feature since President Franklin Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on Aug. 14, 1935.

“The more time that they take, the less acceptable the changes will be be-cause there needs to be adequate time for the public to prepare and to adjust to whatever changes Congress will make,” Carolyn Colvin, acting commissioner of the Social Security Administration, said in an interview.

Social Security’s long-term financial problems are largely a result of de-mographic changes. As baby boomers swell the ranks of retirees, relatively fewer workers are left to pay taxes.

In 1960, there were more than five workers for every person receiving Social Security. Today there are fewer than three. In 20 years, there will be about two workers for every person get-ting benefits.

“Remember, these are our most vulnerable population,” Colvin said. “These are the elderly who helped to build this country. These are the dis-abled who certainly did not wish to be-come disabled.”

The options fall into broad catego-ries: benefit cuts, tax increases or a combination of both.

None is popular.Nearly 60 million retirees, disabled

workers, spouses and children get monthly Social Security payments, a number that is projected to grow to 90 million over the next two decades.

About 168 million workers pay Social Security taxes.

Adding to the gridlock, policymakers are moving in opposite directions. Re-publicans are pushing to cut benefits while a growing number of Democrats is pulling to expand them. The debate is

playing out in Congress and the presi-dential campaign, increasing the like-lihood that Washington will deal with Social Security the same way it has so many other issues — not until it be-comes a crisis.

Some 72 members of Congress signed a letter to President Barack Obama in July, calling for Social Secu-rity benefits to be enhanced.

“In my view, given the fact that pov-erty among seniors is going up, that seniors are struggling, that people with disabilities are struggling, we have got to expand benefits, not cut them,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is run-ning for the Democratic nomination for president.

The poverty rate among those 65 and older has inched up in recent years. But it still is significantly lower than the poverty rate for younger age groups, in large part because of Social Security.

Sanders has proposed increasing So-cial Security’s annual cost-of-living ad-justment, or COLA, and increasing min-imum benefits for low-wage workers.

The average monthly payment is $1,221. That comes to about $14,700 a year.

Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, scoffs at the idea of expanding benefits.

“Where are they going to get the money?” asked Hatch, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, which has jurisdiction over Social Security. “They don’t ever seem to give any consider-ation to how deeply in debt our country is and how difficult it’s going to be to get out of it.”

For much of the past three decades, Social Security produced big surpluses, collecting more in taxes than it paid in benefits. Social Security’s combined trust funds are now valued at $2.8 trillion.

The retirement trust fund has enough money to pay full benefits until 2035. At that point, the program would collect enough payroll taxes to pay about 79 percent of benefits, triggering an automatic 21 percent cut.

The disability trust fund is projected to run out of reserves much sooner, in late 2016. If that happens, it would trigger an automatic 19 percent cut in benefits.

Obama and other Democrats want

to redirect tax revenue from the much bigger retirement fund to the disability fund, as Congress has done in the past. Republicans say that would be like rob-bing seniors to pay the disabled.

If the two funds were combined, they would have enough money to pay full benefits for both programs until 2034, according to the trustees.

Long before then, Social Security’s long-term financial problems could be-come too big to solve without painful

remedies or excessive borrowing.Once the surplus is gone, the gap be-

tween scheduled benefits and projected tax revenues starts off big and quickly becomes huge. In the first year, the gap would be $571 billion, according agency data. Over the first decade, the deficit would total more than $7 trillion.

Social Security uses a 75-year win-dow to forecast its finances, so the pro-jections cover the life expectancy of ev-ery worker paying into the system.

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There are other ways to plan an affordable funeralBy Jim Miller

Dear Savvy Senior,When my brother died

last year, my sister and I had a regular funeral for him and got stuck with a $12,000 bill. Can you rec-ommend some funeral cost cutting tips or cheap-er alternatives? I don’t want to stick my kids with a big funeral bill after I’m gone.

Looking Ahead

Dear Looking,With the average cost of

a full-service funeral run-ning over $10,000 today, many people are seek-ing alternative options to make their final farewell more affordable. Depend-ing on how you want to go, here are some money sav-ing options to consider.

Traditional funeral: If you’re interested in a tra-ditional funeral and burial, your first money saving step is to shop around and compare funeral provid-ers, because prices can vary.

If you want some help, contact your funeral con-sumer alliance program. These are volunteer groups that offer informa-tion and prices on local funeral providers. See fu-nerals.org/affiliates-direc-tory or call 802-865-8300 for contact information.

There are also free websites you can turn to, like funeralhomeindex.com that lets you compare prices, and funeraldeci-sions.com that will pro-vide estimates from local funeral homes based on what you want.

When comparing, make sure you take advantage of the “funeral rule.” This

is a federal law that re-quires funeral home direc-tors to provide you with an itemized price list of their products and services so you can choose exactly what you want. Be sure to ask for it.

Another way to lower your costs is to buy your own casket. You can save at least 50 percent by pur-chasing one from a store or online and having it delivered to the funeral home, and the funeral home providing the ser-vice must accept it. Two good casket-shopping re-sources that may surprise you are Walmart.com and Costco.com, which offer a variety of caskets and urns at discounted prices.

Direct burial: Another way to cut your funeral home bill is to get a direct burial. With this option your body would be buried shortly after death, skip-ping the embalming, view-ing and use of the funeral facilities. If your family wants a memorial service they can have it at the graveside or at your place of worship without the body. These services usu-ally cost between $1,000 and $2,000, not counting cemetery charges. All fu-neral homes offer direct burial.

Cremation: An increas-ingly popular and afford-able way to go, cremation can run anywhere from around $600 (for a direct cremation) up to $4,000 or higher depending on the provider and services you choose. To locate funeral homes that offer crema-tion or cremation provid-ers in your area, look in your local yellow pages under “cremation” or “fu-

neral” or visit cremation.com.

Green burial: An eco-friendly green burial is another affordable option that costs anywhere from $1,000 to several thousand depending on the pro-vider. With a green cem-etery burial, the body is buried in a biodegradable coffin or just wrapped in a shroud, without embalm-ing chemicals or a burial vault. The Green Burial Council (greenburialcoun-cil.org, 888-966-3330) has a state listing of cemetery operators who accommo-date green burials, as well as funeral professionals who provide the services.

Veteran’s burial: If you are a veteran, you’re entitled to a free burial at a national cemetery and a free grave marker. This benefit also extends to spouses and dependent children. Some veterans may even be eligible for funeral expense allow-ances too. To learn more, visit www.cem.va.gov or call the VA at 800-827-1000.

Body donation: Donat-ing your body to a medical facility for research is an-other popular way to go, and it’s completely free. After using your body, your remains will be cre-mated and your ashes will be buried or scattered in a local cemetery or re-turned to your family. To locate body donation pro-grams in your state, see anatbd.acb.med.ufl.edu/usprograms.

Send your senior questions to Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

Savvy Senior

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Savvy Senior

Plenty of ways to hang up on robocalls permanentlyBy Jim Miller

Dear Savvy Senior,What can I do to stop the perpetual

prerecorded robocalls I keep getting? I’m signed up with the National Do Not Call Registry, but it seems like I still get three or four robo telemarketing calls a day of-fering lower credit card interest rates, medical alert devices and more.

Fed Up Senior

Dear Fed Up,Millions of Americans on the Nation-

al Do Not Call Registry (donotcall.gov) complain they still receive unwanted calls from robocallers. Why? Because most robocalls are scams run by con art-ists who are only trying to trick you out of your money, and they simply ignore the law.

There’s good news on the horizon. A few months ago, the Federal Communi-cations Commission passed a rule giving telecommunication companies more lee-way to block robocalls. Before this ruling, the FCC has always required phone com-panies to complete all calls, much in the same way the postal service is required to deliver all your mail, even the junk. So, look for your phone service provider to start offering call-blocking tools in the future. But in the meantime, here are some things you can do to reduce those unwanted calls.

Set up “anonymous call rejection” option: This is a free landline-calling fea-ture available from most telephone com-panies. It lets you screen out calls from callers who have blocked their caller ID information — a favorite tactic of tele-

marketers. To set it up, you usually have to dial *77 from your landline, though dif-ferent phone services may have different procedures to set it up. Call your tele-phone service provider to find out if they offer this feature, and if so, what you need to do to enable it.

Sign up for Nomorobo: This is a free service and works only if you have an Internet-based VoIP phone service. It does not work on traditional analog landlines or wireless phones. Nomorobo uses a “simultaneous ring” service that detects and blocks robocalls on a black list of known offender numbers. It isn’t 100 percent foolproof, but it is an extra layer of protection. To sign up, or see if Nomorobo works with your phone ser-vice provider, visit Nomorobo.com.

Buy a robocall-blocking device: If you don’t mind spending a little money, purchase a call-blocking device like the Sentry 2 ($59) or Digitone Call Blocker Plus ($100), sold at Amazon.com. These small devices, which plug into your phone line allow you to blacklist numbers you no longer wish to receive, and set up a whitelist, or manually program the phone to recognize and accept a certain number of safe numbers. Both devices are very effective.

Don’t pick up: If you have a caller ID, another tip is to simply not answer the phone unless you recognize the number. But if you do answer and it’s a robocall, you should just hang up the phone. Don’t press 1 to speak to a live operator and don’t press any other number to com-plain about the call or get your number off the list. If you respond by pressing any number, you’re signaling that the autodi-

aler has reached a live number and will probably lead to more robocalls.

Get a cellphone app: To help with robo telemarketing calls and robo spam texts to your cellphone, get a call-screen-ing app like Truecaller (truecaller.com) or PrivacyStar (privacystar.com) that screens and blocks them.

It’s also important that you report ille-

gal robocalls to consumercomplaints.fcc.gov or call 888-225-5322, and sign the Con-sumer Union petition at EndRobocalls.org to pressure phone companies to start offering free call-blocking technology.

Send your senior questions to Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to the NBC Today show and author of “The Savvy Senior” book.

Benefit SpecialistsThe Shawano County

Benefit Specialist Program is available to advise and assist Shawano County older adults in securing various public benefits and entitlements. To be eligible, you must be 60 years of age or older. To obtain the benefit specialist services, call the Aging Unit at 715-526-4700 to arrange an appointment or call 866-526-2130 toll free from rural areas of Shawano County. Program participants are requested to

meet with the benefit special-ist at the Aging Unit office. Home visits are made for homebound older adults. Ad-ditionally, the benefit special-ist makes monthly outreach contacts at the county meal sites. There is no charge for this service, but participants may give a contribution to assist with the costs of the program.

Tigerton Community Hall: Thursday, Sept. 24, 11 a.m.

Shawano Civic Center: Monday, Oct. 5, 10 a.m.

Bonduel Hillside Apart-ments: Tuesday, Oct. 6, 11 a.m.

Wittenberg Community Hall: Wednesday, Oct. 7, 11 a.m.

Tigerton Community Hall: Thursday, Oct. 15, 11 a.m.

Birnamwood Mapleview Apartments: Tuesday, Oct. 20, 11 a.m.

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Senior MealsCongregate meal sites

provide a group dining set-ting for people age 60 or older and their spouses to enjoy a hot, nutritious meal. Planned social activities are enjoyed at each meal site and informational programming is regularly provided. Attending the meal sites also offer the opportunity to visit and social-ize with other senior citizens. Reservations are required and can be made by calling the meal site you wish to attend one day in advance. A dona-tion of $3 is requested for each meal. There are currently eight nutrition meal sites throughout Shawano County.

Wednesday, Sept. 23: Chili, cheese slice, crackers, mixed fruit, apple sticksThursday, Sept. 24: Ham on a bun, baked beans, potato salad, tropical fruit, puddingFriday, Sept. 25: Turkey a la king, biscuit, fresh fruit,

Oreo torteMonday, Sept. 28: Barbecue pork on a bun, tater tots, green beans, applesauce, JelloTuesday, Sept. 29: Egg bake with ham, onions, green peppers and cheese, hash browns, fresh fruit, muffinWednesday, Sept. 30: Chicken and gravy, whipped potatoes, cream corn, pine-apple, Jello cakeThursday, Oct. 1: Ham-burger on a bun with lettuce, tomato, onion and pickle, seasoned wedges, mixed fruit, puddingFriday, Oct. 2: Pork cutlet, whipped potatoes, California blend, Mandarin oranges, cherry sticksMonday, Oct. 5: Salisbury steak, au gratin potatoes, carrots, pineapple, cookieTuesday, Oct. 6: Spaghetti bake, garlic bread, salad, fresh fruit, JelloWednesday, Oct. 7: Swedish

meatballs, wide noodles, beets, tropical fruit, pistachio torteThursday, Oct. 8: Chicken, Spanish rice, green beans, garlic bread, pears, spice cakeFriday, Oct. 9: Fish nuggets, tater tots, peas, fruit salad, puddingMonday, Oct. 12: Beef stro-ganoff with noodles, mixed vegetables, applesauce, puddingTuesday, Oct. 13: Beef vegetable soup, crackers, cheese slice, fresh fruit, apple sticksWednesday, Oct. 14: Bar-becue chicken, potato salad, baked beans, Mandarin oranges, cheesecakeThursday, Oct. 15: Pepper patty, whipped potatoes, car-rots, plums, cookieFriday, Oct. 16: Tuna casse-role, peas, peaches, JelloMonday, Oct. 19: Brat on a bun, seasoned wedges, green

beans, peaches, puddingTuesday, Oct. 20: Ham, scal-loped potatoes, California blend, mixed fruit, lemon barWednesday, Oct. 21: Ring bologna, red potatoes, creamed peas, tropical fruit, JelloThursday, Oct. 22: Chicken a la king with peas, biscuit, applesauce, cookieFriday, Oct. 23: Cream of broccoli soup, meat sand-wich, crackers, pineapple, Jello cakeMonday, Oct. 26: Country fried steak, whipped pota-toes, creamed corn, tropical fruit, puddingTuesday, Oct. 27: Grouper, German potato salad, car-rots, pineapple, fudge nut barWednesday, Oct. 28: Italian meatballs, wide noodles, mixed vegetables, mixed fruit, JelloThursday, Oct. 29: Barbecue on a bun, tater tots, baked beans, pineapple, cookie

Friday, Oct. 30: Meatloaf, au gratin potatoes, creamed

corn, pineapple, chocolate cake