Cumberland County 50plus Senior News May 2012

By Alysa Poindexter

Dan Knaub may seem like an ordinary guy from Mechanicsburg, but

underneath that cap and behind that cheery disposition is a man with an

extraordinary job as a marine biologist, videographer, and activist birthed

from a fascination with some of the largest creatures on Earth: 50-ton

whales.

From full-time banker to full-time founder and president of the Whale

Video Company—amongst many other notable titles—Knaub’s zeal for

whales has allowed him to take a dive into a thriving career centered on these

gigantic yet mysterious ocean dwellers.

He has created more than 50 programs on humpback whales used by

some of the nation’s largest whale nonprofit organizations, including the

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), the International Fund

for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and the Cetacean Society International (CSI).

It was Knaub’s first deployment trip to Vietnam in 1959—only days after

officially gracing adulthood—that he had his first whale encounter.

“I was 18 years and 2 days,” said Knaub. “I figured it was a great time to

see some things and do some things before I went to college.”

He had no idea that some of those “things” would include witnessing a

pod of sperm whales between San Francisco and Hawaii on a journey that

Diving Into a50-Ton Passion

Dan Knaub has spent many hours on the open water

over the course of hundreds of whale-watching trips.

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William H. Lentz Jr., 92 (Lt.

Col., U.S. Army Retired),

gold-medal-winning tennis

player with Bill Nicolai, 90, of New

Cumberland, in the 2011 National

Senior Games, directed artillery fire in

Europe during World War II both from

the air and ground-forward observation

posts. His 76 air combat missions were as

an observer in a Piper Cub over hostile

territory.

“On one occasion I heard the scream

of German 88 guns on my radio. The

pilot made a diving turn, and in a few

minutes we were over the site of an

ambush of the 202nd Field Artillery

Advance Party lying on their bellies

beside their trucks, exchanging rifle fire

with the dug-in German troops.

“Two 88s were at an intersection less

than a half mile away. Luckily, one of our

155mm Howitzers in the advance party

had stopped just short of a slight rise in

the road, not in

view of the

Germans. I got

the crew to

unhook the gun,

turn it around,

and fire on the

88 positions.

After a few shells

from our

Howitzer, the

gun crews fled.

“Two days

later, the advance

party was again

ambushed. When we arrived, the

Germans had captured the group

commander, two battalion commanders,

and 29 others and had killed seven men.

I had to stop our artillery fire for our

prisoners were being held on the German

front lines. A few days later, we took the

airfield where our soldiers were being

held to find that

Col. Billings had

demanded the

Germans

surrender, and

they did!

“The Russians

were closing in

on Berlin. Their

Air Force was

roaming our area

and shot down

two Piper Cubs,

so we were

grounded. Gen.

Eisenhower decided not to cross the Elbe

at Sandau, for he was told the rest of the

German Army was in the south.”

On April 21, 1945, Lentz was

transferred to group headquarters and

sent to the 5th Armored Division Artillery

HQ as the 202nd group liaison officer

until the war ended. While his former

unit was shipped back to the States for

redeployment to the Far East, he was in

Ebensee, Austria, guarding German army

physicians in a prison camp who were

awaiting trial for war crimes. He received

treatment from one of the German

doctors for a previous knee injury.

In 1950 Lentz was recalled to active

duty.

“After two months waiting for orders,

I was notified the Army no longer

needed my military occupational

specialty.”

But he joined the Reserves in 1957

when the Army planned an artillery unit

near his home and was looking for

artillery officers. But the Army changed

its plans and made it an anti-aircraft

battalion.

Then, in the summer of 1961, when

the Russians were building the Berlin

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In early 1950s television, Richard

Carlson starred in I Led Three

Lives. Each episode started with a

dramatic voiceover: “This is the

fantastically true story of the Herbert

A. Philbrick, who, for nine

frightening years, did lead three

lives—average citizen, member of the

Communist Party, and counterspy

for the FBI.”

I always thought if we could

count “average citizen” as one of our

lives, we all could claim at least

two—for instance, average citizen

and housewife or average citizen and

pipe fitter.

It may be a stretch to call

celebrities average

citizens, but if we

do, several from

past and present

have led three

lives, just like

Herbert A.

Philbrick.

Take Dorothy

Rodgers, wife of

composer Richard

Rodgers, who

always fought

being summarized as “wife and

mother.” She wrote books on home

decorating and invented a toilet

cleaning “jonny mop,” which she

sold to Johnson & Johnson.

Jamie Leigh Curtis, daughter of

Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis, and a

movie star in her own right, holds

the patent on a disposable diaper

that comes with a moistened baby

wipe attached.

New Yorker writer Ian Frazier

often writes about fishing, but his

patent is for a different kind of

pole—one that removes debris stuck

in trees.

Ever yearn to write, but say you

haven’t the time? Draw inspiration

from Edward Streeter. Streeter retired

from his 37-year banking career in

1956, a couple of years after his

novel, Mr. Hobbs’ Vacation, hit the

bookstores. Later it was transformed

into a hit movie starring Jimmy

Stewart and Maureen O’Hara.

But Streeter already knew about

Hollywood. You see, back in the

’40s, he made time to write Father of

the Bride despite his daily commute

to New York’s Fifth Avenue Bank.

Anyone with more LPs than CDs

remembers the choral harmony of

Fred Waring and His Pennsylvanians.

Waring played in orchestras to put

himself through Penn State, where he

studied architectural engineering, not

music.

His engineering knowledge stood

him in good stead as he helped work

out the kinks in another inventor’s

basic blender design. Voila! The

Waring Blender was born.

Hedy Lamarr shocked European

movie-goers by skinny dipping in the

1933 Austrian-Czech film Ecstasy. In

Hollywood she is remembered as

much for turning down what became

Ingrid Bergman roles in Gaslight and

Casablanca as for starring in such

pictures as Samson and Delilah and

The Strange Woman.

But the woman Louis B. Mayer

once called “the most beautiful girl

in the world” was not just another

pretty face. Back in 1942,

Lamarr shared a patent for a

“secret communication system”

that was designed as a guidance

device for U.S. torpedoes. The

invention, based on “frequency

hopping,” was so far ahead of

its time that the military

couldn’t use it until the 1960s.

In today’s digital age, it helps

keep cell phone calls secure.

Even ardent baseball fans

may have trouble recalling

journeyman catcher Moe Berg.

A defensive specialist, Berg got

in just 662 big-league games

during 15 seasons in the 1920s

and ’30s.

Berg’s I.Q. might have been

higher than his batting average. He

graduated from Princeton with

honors, and then earned a law degree

from Columbia while playing big-

league ball. Players used to joke,

“Moe Berg can speak seven

languages, but he can’t hit in any of

them.”

One of those languages was

Japanese, which might explain how a

ball player who hit only three

homeruns in his first 10 seasons got

selected, along with bona fide stars

like Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, for a

1934 traveling all-star team that

visited Japan. Berg

charmed his hosts

into letting him take

home movies from

the top of Tokyo’s

tallest building,

movies some say

were used to plan

Jimmy Doolittle’s

Tokyo bombing raid.

Once America

entered World War

II, Berg’s fluent

German led to missions for the

Office of Strategic Services,

predecessor to today’s CIA. One of

his greatest spy triumphs was

discovering that Nazi Germany’s

nuclear research lagged behind the

American atomic efforts.

In any language, Moe Berg would

have made Herbert A. Philbrick

proud.

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morning going to yard sales? The

signs are all around you, but you

don’t want to drive around aimlessly or

waste money buying

junk. Whether you

are buying or selling,

here are some tips for

making the most of

your time in the yard.

Don’t Forget theCash

Yard sales are not

like a quick trip to

the convenience

store. You will need

more than just your

keys, cell phone, and

credit card.

You need coins and small bills in order

to take home the best from a yard sale.

Don’t ask a yard sale seller to break a $50

bill; it could be the end of your

negotiations.

Don’t Sell Everything

Some things aren’t supposed to be sold

on the front lawn. Don’t sell original art

or jewelry at yard sales. There are not

enough people shopping at a local yard

sale to attract high prices. Yard sales are

not the place to get big bucks for your

heirlooms.

Don’t Get Up Early!

I have made it a lifelong rule that there

is no good reason, other than a house fire,

to get up before 8 a.m. Don’t get up at

the crack of dawn to try to beat everyone

to a yard sale. You won’t miss a thing.

In fact, you can get the best prices

around lunchtime as most yard sale hosts

are ready to call it quits. By noon, sellers

are exhausted, and they don’t care what

you pay for that Wedgewood cachet pot

as long as you take it with you. It is a

great time to negotiate or even get stuff

for free.

Don’t Buy Damage

Condition is a key to value. If you pick

up a tattered linen from a yard sale,

thinking that it is

some fabulous

antique Amish quilt,

you are probably

paying hard-earned

money for the same

rag that you might

use to wax the car.

Someone else’s

tattered piece isn’t

automatically a

wonderful antique.

Don’t fantasize about

a yard sale find. If it

is in poor condition,

leave it on the lawn.

Don’t Buy Parts

I always say that buying parts is for

auto mechanics, not yard sale shoppers.

Don’t buy incomplete sets or games with

missing pieces. Buy complete games in

their original boxes whenever possible.

Instruction booklets increase value by 15

percent.

Don’t Let it Go Until You Know …What it’s Worth!

As an antiques appraiser with a PhD

and decades of market experience, I know

that most hosts don’t bother to find out

what their objects are worth before they

schlep them from the attic out to the

front lawn.

Do your homework and you can go

home with some great stuff from your

neighbors’ yard sale.

PhD antiques appraiser, author, award-

winning TV personality, Dr. Lori presents

antique appraisal events nationwide. Dr. Lori

is the star appraiser on the hit TV show

Auction Kings on Discovery channel, airing

Tuesdays at 9 p.m. Visit www.DrLoriV.com,

www.Facebook.com/DoctorLori, or call (888)

431-1010.

Dr. Lori’sYard Sale Don’ts

Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori

Dr. Lori

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Cook’s Note: I use a lot of hard-cooked eggs to make egg salad sandwiches or as a convenient

healthy snack high in protein. Remove eggs from the refrigerator about 30 minutes

before cooking to avoid cracking. Place in a medium saucepan and add enough cold

water to cover by 1 inch. Bring to a boil. When water is boiling, remove the pan from

the heat and cover. Let stand 15 to 17 minutes. (I use 17 minutes, but most sources

say 15 minutes.) Drain the water and crack the shells. Peel while still warm and

refrigerate until needed, but no more than three days.

Copyright by Pat Sinclair. Pat Sinclair announces the publication of her second

cookbook, Scandinavian Classic Baking (Pelican Publishing), in February 2011. This

book has a color photo of every recipe. Her first cookbook, Baking Basics and Beyond(Surrey Books), won the 2007 Cordon d’Or from the Culinary Arts Academy.

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Makes 2 servings

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1/4 cup chopped onion

1/4 cup diced red pepper

1 1/2 cups refrigerated hash browns or frozen shredded

hash browns, thawed

8 spears asparagus, cut into

2- to 3-inch pieces

1 cup fresh baby spinach leaves

1 clove garlic, minced

4 eggs

1/4 cup milk

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

Hot pepper sauce, if desired

1/2 cup shredded Mexican blend cheese or cheddar cheese

Heat the butter and olive oil in a 9-inch nonstick skillet over medium

heat. Add the onion and red pepper and cook two to three minutes or

until softened. Add the potatoes and cook about five minutes or until the

potatoes begin to brown.

Add asparagus and continue cooking about three minutes until bright

green. Add the spinach and garlic and cover. Cook one minute until the

spinach is wilted.

Beat the eggs, milk, salt, pepper, and a few drops hot pepper sauce in a

medium bowl until smooth. Pour over potatoes. Cook five to eight

minutes, lifting edges and allowing uncooked egg to flow underneath.

Heat the broiler. Sprinkle frittata with cheese and broil two to four

minutes or until center is set. Cut into four wedges to serve.

Tip: For variations, include experiment with fresh vegetables. When I

use zucchini, I chop it and cook it with the onion. For leftover vegetables,

add them with the spinach.

Easy Vegetable FrittataBy Pat Sinclair

As summer approaches, I’m always looking for nutritious recipes that require

little effort.

An Italian frittata is a complete meal the way I prepare it. Fresh asparagus

celebrates spring and abundant zucchini heralds the end of the season. Try

topping it with sliced tomatoes before adding the cheese.

There are endless variations, and it’s a great way to use up small amounts of

leftover vegetables. Eggs provide healthy protein, and you can replace two eggs

with egg substitute or egg whites if you are limiting cholesterol.

Not all frittatas contain potatoes, but adding them makes the meal more

substantial. Just add some fresh fruit and dinner’s ready!


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Asparagus Tips – Grab a Spear, My Dear

Preventive Measures

Wendell Fowler

As the brown-gray mood of winter

melts, giving way to warmer

temperatures, crocus, and pudgy,

chirping robins, nature’s ultimate finger,

asparagus, begins poking its purple tips

through the warm soil.

I’ll never forget Mom cautioning my

brothers and me as we ran through the

family garden using asparagus spears as

swords in our swashbuckling fantasy.

“Don’t run while you have asparagus in

your hands. You’ll poke someone’s eye

out!

This low-calorie, luxurious member of

the lily family was historically reserved

for royalty and rulers and is derived from

the Greek word asparago, meaning to

“sprout” or “shoot up.”

History tells us that Roman emperors

were so fond of asparagus that they kept

a special fleet of ships solely to fetch it.

Ancient Romans hoarded it, since they

believed asparagus spears cured all

ailments, which is evidence of man’s

recognition of food as medicine. Ancient

Chinese herbalists have used asparagus

root for centuries.

The edible young shoots are one

of the most nutritional, well-

balanced veggies.

• 5 ounces provides 60

percent of the

recommended daily

allowance for folacin—

required for blood-cell

formation growth and the

prevention of liver disease,

cervical cancer, colon and rectal

cancer, and heart disease.

• Asparagus contains

potassium, which helps

regulate the electrolyte balance within

cells and helps maintain normal heart

function and blood pressure.

• It contains fiber, thiamin, and B6 and

is one of the richest sources of rutin,

which strengthens capillary walls.

• Asparagus is especially rich in the

antioxidant nutrients vitamin A,

vitamin C, and vitamin E.

• Asparagus is a diuretic

and a laxative; for those

who are sedentary and

suffer from gravel, it’s

been found beneficial, as

well as in cases of dropsy.

• Asparagus contains steroids

that mimic pheromones,

which purportedly make you

attractive to lovers.

This generous gift of

the universe contains more

glutathione than other

produce. It assists cells in breaking down

toxic peroxide and other oxygen-rich

compounds, preventing them from

destroying DNA. Glutathione repairs

damaged DNA, stimulates immune

function, recycles vitamins C and E back

to their active forms, and removes toxins.

In 1991, an Italian researcher reported

a compound found in asparagus that had

shown some antiviral activity in test-tube

studies. The root contains compounds

called steroidal glycosides, which may

have anti-inflammatory properties to ease

the pain of arthritic-related conditions.

Without getting busted by the grocery

cops, bend a stalk and select a bunch that

is firm with tightly closed buds. The

thickness of the stalks makes no

difference. The color should be bright

green with subtle purple hints.

Discoloration and fading can guarantee

it’s old.

After cooking, if your asparagus has

gone limp, you’ve blown it. All of

asparagus’s delicious cosmic healing

qualities are ruined by cooking too long;

please see TIPS page 14


Is Stigma Keeping You From Getting a Hearing Aid?

According to the National Institute on

Deafness and Other Communication

Disorders, only one out of five people

who could benefit from a hearing aid

wear one. Some simply don’t know that

they need one. Others associate hearing

aids with their grandparents and don’t

want to feel old.

But much of the stigma surrounding

hearing aids rings false.

“Hearing aids will make me look old.”Modern hearing aids are sleeker, better-

looking, and more effective than the

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“Hearing aids will make me hearscreeching noises.” This problem, called

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Look for hearing aids that offer a wide

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different listening situations.

“Hearing aids will make my hearingworse.” A properly fitted and

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Residents of The Bridges at Bent Creek in Mechanicsburg

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luncheon and graduation ceremony.

Sen. Pat Vance attended to offer her support and

congratulations. The training was taught by Cumberland County

Ombudsman Nancy Nemoyer and Russell Pierce.

PEER, which stands for “Pennsylvania’s Empowered Expert

Resident,” was developed by the PA Department of Aging Long-

Term Care Ombudsman Office and encourages a partnership

between residents and facility staff to work together to resolve

concerns.

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hy should seniors get

discounts?

The practice of senior

discounts is widespread. They are offered,

for example, at fast-food establishments,

museums, movie theaters, Amtrak,

Southwest and United airlines,

Disneyland, some colleges and

universities, and, thanks to the “Golden

Age Passport,” seniors receive free entry

into national parks.

From mid-life through the “Golden

Age,” median income declines as we get

older. The U.S. Census Bureau reported

that in 2007 the median income of

households headed by a person 45 to 54

years old was $65,476.

Median income for householders 55

to 64 years old declined to $57,386. For

those 65 years and older, it fell to

$28,305.

But don’t seniors have offsetting

“compensation” through paid-up

mortgages and minimal clothing and

transportation expenses? They do, but

they also have higher healthcare expenses.

The average annual expenditure for

healthcare in the period 2005-2007,

according

to the

Census

Bureau,

rose from

$2,792 for

individuals

45 to 54

years of age

to $4,967

for those 65 to 74 years of age

(prescription and nonprescription drugs

are included).

Poverty knows no age distinction, so

why not allow discounts to others? It

happens that discounts are offered to

easily recognizable groups—for example,

the military, children accompanying their

parents for lodging and meals (“kids eat

free”), and the aged.

Senior discounts can create an

awkward moment when patrons are

offered a discount at the cash register but

hesitate to

admit they

are in their

senior years.

They would

hope to be

carded when

purchasing

alcoholic

beverages—

an unlikely event—or asked if the adult

daughter “is your sister?”

Deference is extended to seniors in

considerations other than discounts

offered by retailers. Some electric utilities

will suspend turning off power to seniors

with past-due accounts during extremely

hot or cold periods. The IRS and AARP

have programs to assist low-income

seniors in tax preparation.

Meals on Wheels provides food to

seniors with limited mobility.

Interestingly, that organization, in its

2008 study, found that “seniors age 80

and over were less likely to be food

insecure compared to 60- to 64-year-

olds.”

One program that does not

discriminate by age is Medicare. It

provides benefits to needy children,

disabled individuals, and low-income

seniors.

Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research

analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth:The Higher-Valued Opinion of a SeniorCitizen, a book of personal-opinion essays,

free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints.

A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Lifeand Learning was released in January 2012.

Contact him at [email protected].

Should Seniors Get Discounts?

My 22 Cents’ Worth

Walt Sonneville

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raw is best. Steam it for one minute.

Pay attention; over-cooking deserves a

good flogging. “As quick as cooking

asparagus” was a Roman saying,

meaning something had to be

accomplished rapidly.

To steam: Place washed, whole,

trimmed asparagus on a steamer rack

over rapidly boiling water. Cover and

begin timing.

Serving suggestions:

• Try asparagus with minced, fresh garlic

and lemon juice squeezed over the top.

• Chop it up raw and toss it into a

salad.

• Drizzle it with soy sauce, toasted

sesame oil, and chopped green onions.

• Yogurt, low-fat mayonnaise, or non-fat

sour cream are easy toppings.

• Complement asparagus with a glass of

Chenin Blanc, Fume Blanc, or French

Colombard.

• Chives, chervil, parsley, savory, and

tarragon infused with olive oil are

delicious poured over asparagus.

After eating asparagus, somewhere

between 20 to 40 percent of the

population detect their urine smells foul.

This is caused by the sulfur and

methanethiol compounds in the

splendid spring vegetable.

Not a good-enough reason to avoid

this honorable rite of spring. Just don’t

poke someone’s eye out.

Chef Wendell is an inspirational food

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of his food essays and tasty recipes, contact

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TIPS from page 10

CHAMP from page 2

Wall, President Kennedy called up more

than 150,000 troops and the Pentagon

called his unit to active duty as a field

artillery battalion and ordered the unit

to Ft. Sill, Okla.

“Someone at the Pentagon forgot

about the change they had made three

years earlier,” Lentz said.

“Our unit became the Fifth Battalion

of the 43rd Artillery with 12 155mm

Howitzers. The new battalion

immediately went to Ft. Indiantown

Gap for two weeks. We had only three

officers trained in artillery during World

War II. The brand-new, untrained

battalion arrived in Ft. Sill with 500

Reserve soldiers in September 1961. The

Army post was shocked. Everybody

called us the ‘Christmas Help,’ but not

for long.”

After only six months of training, the

“Christmas Help” made a record-high

score on the Fourth Army Field Test.

“The previous high was 72 and our

Reserve Unit scored 82.2!”

At the insistence of someone up the

chain of command, the Fourth Army

gave the unit another test in the spring

of 1962.

On the second test, despite the more

difficult rolling terrain of the East

Range, the unit made 100 percent in

gunnery and 100 percent in survey.

“A few days later, the ‘Christmas

Help’ was selected as one of the Army’s

strategic battalions—a great honor.”

The unit returned to Pennsylvania in

August 1962 and was deactivated. Col.

Lentz completed the command and

general staff (C&GS) course at Ft.

Leavenworth, Kan.

“When I moved to Central

Pennsylvania, I became a C&GS

instructor at the Harrisburg Reserve

Center until retiring from the Army

Reserves in 1970.”

Near the end of his career in training,

Lentz was employed with the

Pennsylvania Department of Education’s

Executive Academy, conducting

conferences for school specialists and

administrators, retiring in 1982.

In 1943, Lentz married Kathleen

Friel while he was stationed in

Oklahoma. She died April 23, 2000,

after 57 years of marriage. He has three

children, William H. III, Kathleen, and

Robert; six grandchildren; and seven

great-grandchildren.

A lifetime tennis enthusiast and

ambassador for the game for more than

six decades, Lentz was inducted into the

Allegheny-Kiski Valley Sports Hall of

Fame May 9, 2009, in New Kensington,

Pa. He published a book, Tennis 202, on

doubles strategy and tactics.

In late August 2011 Bill Nicolai won

the singles tennis championship and he

and Lentz earned gold medals in doubles

at the USTA’s Mid-Atlantic States Senior

Games in Maryland. Lentz had carpal

tunnel surgery on his racquet hand

recently but hopes to be able to resume

playing tennis in the near future.

If you are a mature veteran and have

interesting or unusual experiences in your

military or civilian life, phone Al Goodman

at (717) 541-9889 or email him at

[email protected].


Cumberland County

Calendar of EventsBig Spring Senior Center – (717) 776-447891 Doubling Gap Road, Suite 1, Newville

Carlisle Senior Action Center – (717) 249-500720 E. Pomfret St., Carlisle

Mary Schaner Senior Citizens Center (717) 732-391598 S. Enola Drive, Enola

Mechanicsburg Area Senior Adult Center(717) 697-594797 W. Portland St., Mechanicsburg

Southampton Place – (717) 530-8217www.seniors.southamptontwp.com56 Cleversburg Road, ShippensburgMay 9, 10:30 a.m. – Carpool to Senators Baseball game

May 11, 9:30 a.m. – Wii Competition at Enola Senior

Center

May 23, 1 p.m. – 2012 Cumberland County Older

Adults Spelling Bee

West Shore Senior Citizens Center – (717) 774-0409122 Geary St., New Cumberland

Just a snippet of what you may be missing …

please call or visit their website for more information.

AARP Driver Safety Programs

Cumberland County Library Programs

Programs and Support Groups Free and open to the public.

Amelia Givin Library, 114 N. Baltimore Ave., Mt.Holly Springs, (717) 486-3688

Bosler Memorial Library, 158 W. High St., Carlisle,(717) 243-4642May 16, 1 p.m. – Afternoon Classic Movies at Bosler

Cleve J. Fredricksen Library, 100 N. 19th St., CampHill, (717) 761-3900

East Pennsboro Branch Library, 98 S. Enola Drive,Enola, (717) 732-4274

John Graham Public Library, 9 Parsonage St.,Newville, (717) 776-5900

Joseph T. Simpson Public Library, 16 N. Walnut St.,Mechanicsburg, (717) 766-0171

New Cumberland Public Library, 1 Benjamin Plaza,New Cumberland, (717) 774-7820May 5, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Perennial Plant and

Community Yard Sale

May 8, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Book Review: The Woman

I Was Born to Be by Susan Boyle

May 23, 6 to 9 p.m. – Pennwriters Writing Group

Shippensburg Public Library, 73 W. King St.,Shippensburg, (717) 532-4508

May 8, 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Golden Trails: More Talk, Less Walk, Kings Gap Environmental Education Center

May 20, 1 to 2 p.m. – Walking Tour of Camp Michaux POW Camp, Pine Grove Furnace State Park

May 20, 3 to 4 p.m. – Collecting Geology and Human History, Pine Grove Furnace State Park

For a Safe Driving Class near you, call toll-free (888) 227-7669 or visit www.aarp.org/findacourse.

May 8, 9 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. – Our Lady of Lourdes Parish Center, 225 Salt Road, Enola, (717) 761-4822

May 19, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. – Silver Spring Township Building, 6475 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg,

(717) 766-0178

May 23, 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. – Big Spring Senior Center, 91 Doubling Gap Road, Newville, (717) 776-4478

Senior Center Activities

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What’s Happening?

Cumberland County Department of Parks and Recreation

Thursdays through May, 9:30 a.m.Free Zumba Gold Classes

Prosser Hall

2145 Walnut St., Camp Hill

(717) 737-3456

[email protected]

May 3, 6:30 p.m.Too Sweet: Diabetes Support Group

Chapel Hill United Church of Christ

701 Poplar Church Road, Camp Hill

(717) 557-9041

May 4, 6 p.m.Slideshow and Open Forum: J. Avonelle Whitaker’s

Architectural PaintingsHistory on High – The Shop

Cumberland County Historical Society

21 N. Pitt St., Carlisle

(717) 249-7610

May 9, 11:30 a.m.National Active and Retired Federal Employees,

West Shore Chapter 1465

VFW Post 6704

4907 Carlisle Pike, Mechanicsburg

(717) 737-1486

www.narfe1465.org

Visitors welcome; meeting is free but fee for food.

May 9, 6:30 p.m.Amputee Support Team Meeting

HealthSouth Rehabilitation Center

175 Lancaster Blvd., Mechanicsburg

(717) 944-2250

[email protected]

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May 12, 3 p.m.New Cumberland Town Band Performance

Shiremanstown Park

(717) 737-8779

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It’s an American tradition to pay

tribute to the men and women of

the Armed Forces each Memorial

Day—especially honoring those who

have made the ultimate sacrifice while

serving our country.

If you are a military service member

who was wounded and needs to apply

for disability benefits, it’s important to

know that you will receive expedited

processing. Our wounded warriors

initiative is for military service members

who become disabled while on active

duty on or after Oct. 1, 2001, regardless

of where the disability occurs.

Depending on the situation, some

family members of military personnel,

including dependent children and, in

some cases, spouses, may be able to

receive benefits. Learn more about it at

www.socialsecurity.gov/wounded

warriors.

Did you know that May is also

National Military Appreciation Month?

Even more reason to let members of our

military know how much we value what

they do for us and our nation.

To learn more about the Social

Security benefits for those who have

served in the military, read the

publication Military Service and Social

Security. You can find it online at

www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10017.html;

send an email to [email protected];

or call (800) 772-1213 (TTY (800)325-

0778) to ask for a free copy to be mailed

to you.

Memorial Day is also a good time to

remind families of fallen military heroes

that we may be able to pay Social

Security survivors benefits. If the person

you depended on for income has died,

you should apply for survivors benefits.

Learn more about Social Security

survivors benefits at www.socialsecurity.

gov/pgm/survivors.htm.

The men and women of the Armed

Forces serve us each and every day. At

Social Security, we’re here to serve them

too.

Doris Brookens is the Social Security office

manager in Harrisburg.

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Take Time to RememberA few solemn thoughts to ponder and

share this Memorial Day:

“Although no sculptured marble should

rise to their memory, nor engraved stone

bear record of their deeds, yet will their

remembrance be as

lasting as the land they

honored.” – Daniel

Webster

“Perform, then, this

one act of

remembrance before

this day passes:

Remember there is an

army of defense and

advance that never dies

and never surrenders, but is increasingly

recruited from the eternal sources of the

American spirit and from the generations

of American youth.” – W.J. Cameron

“I have never been able to think of the

day as one of mourning; I have never quite

been able to feel that half-masted flags

were appropriate on Decoration Day. I

have rather felt that the flag should be at

the peak, because those whose dying we

commemorate rejoiced in seeing it where

their valor placed it. We honor them in a

joyous, thankful, triumphant commem-

oration of what they did.” – Benjamin

Harrison

“These heroes are

dead. They died for

liberty—they died for

us. They are at rest.

They sleep in the land

they made free, under

the flag they rendered

stainless, under the

solemn pines, the sad

hemlocks, the tearful

willows, and the

embracing vines. They sleep beneath the

shadows of the clouds, careless alike of

sunshine or of storm, each in the

windowless place of rest. Earth may run

red with other wars—they are at peace. In

the midst of battle, in the roar of conflict,

they found the serenity of death. I have

one sentiment for soldiers living and dead:

cheers for the living; tears for the dead.” –

Robert G. Ingersoll

This Month in History: MayEvents• May 9, 1862 – During the American Civil War,

General David Hunter, Union commander of the

Department of the South, issued orders freeing the

slaves in South Carolina, Florida, and Georgia

without congressional or presidential approval.

The orders were countermanded by President

Abraham Lincoln 10 days later.

• May 14, 1804 – Meriwether Lewis and William

Clark departed St. Louis on their expedition to

explore the Northwest. They arrived at the Pacific

coast of Oregon in November of 1805 and

returned to St. Louis in September of 1806,

completing a journey of about 6,000 miles.

• May 31, 1889 – More than 2,300 people were

killed in the Johnstown flood in Pennsylvania.

Heavy rains throughout May caused the

Conemaugh River Dam to burst, sending a 75-

foot-tall wall of water pouring down upon the city.

Birthdays• May 1 – American labor leader Mary “Mother”

Jones (1830-1930) was born in County Cork,

Ireland. She endured misfortune early in life as her

husband and four children died during the yellow

fever epidemic of 1867. She also lost all of her

belongings in the Chicago Fire of 1871. She then

devoted herself to organizing and advancing the

cause of labor, using the slogan, “Join the union,

boys!” She also sought to prohibit child labor. She

remained active until the very end, giving her last

speech on her 100th birthday.

• May 8 – International Red Cross founder and

Nobel Prize winner Henri Dunant (1828-1910)

was born in Geneva, Switzerland. He was also a

founder of the YMCA and organized the Geneva

Conventions of 1863 and 1864.

• May 19 – African-American playwright Lorraine

Hansberry (1930-1965) was born in Chicago, Ill.

She is best known for A Raisin in the Sun (1959) a

play dealing with prejudice and black pride. The

play was the first stage production written by a

black woman to appear on Broadway. She died of

cancer at the age of 34. A book of her writings,

entitled To Be Young, Gifted, and Black, was

published posthumously.


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would be the beginning of his military

career as well as the spark for an

infatuation that would evolve to greatly

influence his life.

“They just fascinated me,” Knaub said

of the whales.

He always believed he would be in the

banking industry, having pursued it very

early on. After he attended the US Naval

Academy, Knaub acquired a BS in

accounting from Elizabethtown College

and his MBA in banking from

Shippensburg University. He was able to

work in Harrisburg with two large

banking institutions.

However, Knaub’s interests began to

float back into the world of whales after

discovering whale watching—a practice

of observing whales in their natural

environment—in Provincetown, Mass.,

during a 1985 trip with a group of

friends.

It was not until the very last day of

their three-day journey that they were

able to witness their first whale.

“It was foggy,” Knaub recalled, “and

then someone [on the boat] with the

microphone announced, ‘There’s a

whale!’” What he witnessed that day was

the tail—also known as the fluke—of the

whale, which would become a notable

symbol in his company’s logo. “After

eight hours on the boat we thought it

was the most amazing thing.”

The following year, he brought his

wife along to whale watch and they both

witnessed two humpback whales that

came directly up to their boat, slapping

their flukes in the water—an action

called lobtailing.

“They really excited me and fueled

my passion to be a marine biologist,”

Knaub said.

Having brought along his personal

camera, many other whale watchers

would ask Knaub for copies of his

videotapes.

“That was the light-bulb moment for

me,” said Knaub. It would also be the

beginning of his Whale Video Company.

During six months in 1988, he took

175 whale-watching trips, recording

everything he saw. According to Knaub,

a lot of planning goes into a whale-

watching trip and capturing video,

including anticipation of bad weather,

being prepared for seasickness, preparing

backup equipment, and knowing how to

spot a whale.

In Knaub’s videos, there is a distinct

enthusiasm not only from the whale

watchers, but from the whales as well.

The videos show whales blowing ring

bubbles and

breeching, which

is when whales

launch

themselves out of

the water in an

incredible

display.

“Humpback

whales are 50

tons of fun,” he

laughed.

Knaub’s

videos—digitized

and annotated by him—have become

known as the world’s largest video

documentation archive of dolphin and

whale behaviors. They serve as some of

the first notations of certain whale

behaviors.

“We have about 500 [whales]

identified on video,” Knaub said. “[The]

whales have names and personalities and

an interest in us.”

His vast collection of videos caught

the attention of Google, making Knaub

one of the official contributors to Google

Earth and Google Ocean. Knaub also

has videos posted to YouTube that have

accumulated thousands of views.

Knaub said that it simply takes one

trip to excite individuals about whales.

“You would think someone who went on

tens of thousands of trips would be

immune, but it’s as if it is their first

time—there is something magical about

a whale,” he said.

That magic seems to have Knaub

completely captivated as he has made

several connections with the whales he

has videotaped, knowing about 100 on

sight.

“It was their amazing stories that got

me away from banking,” Knaub said.

Quite a few of these whales have

become celebrities amongst whale

watchers and fanatics. The most notable

are Salt and Colt.

Salt, a

humpback whale,

was the first

whale to be

treated as an

individual and

given a name.

She is the most

sighted whale in

the whale world,

being spotted

every year.

Marine biologists

estimate that she

is 43 to 44 years old (most humpback

whales live to be about 75).

Salt is also a mother of 12 calves and

eight known grand-calves. Scientists are

able to keep track of whales by their

markings and scars. Many are even

named after such markings.

Colt is a 30-year-old humpback whale

who is well known for his singing

talents; he has been dubbed “the Frank

Sinatra of the whale world.”

“Colt has a little black mark that

looks like a handgun,” laughed Knaub.

When it comes to selecting names, “you

have to use your imagination.”

Both Colt and Salt are whales that are

available for adoption through a CSI

program that Knaub helped to establish.

Through this organization, your

donation goes toward protecting whales

against inhumane hunting, known as

whaling, and toward environmental

conservation.

Those who choose to adopt are sent a

package that includes a DVD of the

adopted whale that displays Knaub’s

fascinating whale videos. Whale fans are

also able to take direct action by signing

petitions against the hunting and

consumption of whales or by contacting

state legislatures on the CSI website.

“If we tell you about them and show

you stories about their personalities, it’s

like they become friends,” Knaub

explained.

Knaub also takes his vast knowledge

to senior communities and elementary

schools across the nation, giving lectures

that drown out the negative stereotypes

whales are often given: that they are

dangerous creatures responsible for the

decline in fish and other ocean life.

“My company wants to show the

beautiful side of whales,” he emphasized.

Knaub remembered an example of such

a side when a mother whale briefly left

her calf by his boat for a few hours.

“Why would a mother want to bring its

calf to us even when they are treated

badly? They are more trusting than most

people will be.

“They deserve our protection.”

Interested in getting involved with a

few of Knaub’s non-profit organizations?

Whale adoption and cetacean

preservation information can be found

on the CSI website at

www.csiwhalesalive.org or by calling

(203) 770-8615.

To donate to a whale and dolphin

charity, visit the WDCS International

Charity page at www.wdcs.org or call

their toll-free number, (888) 699-4253.

For more information on the

preservation of all animals, visit

www.ifaw.org or reach them at (202)

296-3860.

Salt blows near a calf.


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MayMay is the month like no others,

When we take a day to honor our mothers,

It’s May’s second Sunday, called Mother’s Day,

We choose to bless Mother in some special way.

A phone call, a dinner, or just a card,

It really isn’t so very hard,

To find our own special ways

To say, “I love you, Mother,” today and always.

At the end of the month is Memorial Day,

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Vets who have died so we can be free,

Family and friends we no longer see.

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Cumberland County 50plus Senior News May 2012