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W ith the success of cable television shows like “American Pickers” and “Pawn Stars,” collecting has become an even bigger hobby — and business — for a growing number of

Americans. The same can be said right here at home, as it seems more and more people have started collecting things, sometimes without even truly realizing it. If we are honest with ourselves, we realize that most all of us col-

lect things, whether we want to or not. This becomes quite obvious when explor-ing most people’s homes or garages, as it is easy to find a theme with objects that they tend to compile. And once you start col-lecting, it becomes addictive. Others seem to like to add to your collections, too, and your stock continues to grow. Years ago, my wife started collecting Santa Claus figurines. A friend of hers collected angel figurines. Through holidays and birth-days, they purchased these items for each other until there simply wasn’t room to

display them all in either of our homes. Fortunately, that trend ended, but the Santas continue to provide the memories of that friendship and have become one of our collections that we bring out each holiday season. We also once purchased an antique Coca-Cola cooler at a rummage sale. We didn’t have a need for it, but simply thought it was unique. We added a few more Coca-Cola items, and — voila! — we suddenly became Coke collectors to the point where we had a room full of the stuff. The odd part was that we didn’t drink Coke products, and we never intended to start collecting the stuff. Somehow my wife’s family thought we did, and the collection grew each year until we finally sold off the pieces at a garage sale, providing materials to yet another collector. In this month’s cover story, we share the stories of a handful of local residents and their collections, explaining their passion for the “stuff” and how they became involved in gathering it. It’s a fun story for those of us who admit we collect and for those of us who don’t. Thanks for reading.

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Above: Barb Haskins holds the iron train that her father had as a child in 1900. The train is one of more than 75 antique toys that Haskins has in her toy collection. Below: Haskins’ toy collection includes many tin toys

including these soldiers from the 1950s.

B arb Haskins looks at the dozens of toys that line the shelves in her family room and is automatically reminded of the 10 years she

and her husband spent as foster parents. John and Barb Haskins were foster parents to 69 children, all younger than age 3 during the 1970s. The children were being put up for adoption and lived with the Haskins until they were placed in a permanent home. Barb Haskins kept the tin Victorian-style doll-houses, the tin tops and soldiers, the wooden ani-mals and dozens of other toys from the 1950s and 1960s long after the foster children were gone and her own were grown. “I’ve bought a few more over the years because I enjoy toys,” she says. Haskins’ favorite toy is her father’s iron train — an engine, coal car and a few other cars — from 1900. She also has an English touring car from the early 1900s that belonged to an uncle who had acquired it from a member of the Stanford family — as in Stanford University. The toys are no longer played with, and many have collected dust and cobwebs, but Haskins says she enjoys sitting in the den of her west-side home and looking at them. Haskins also has a collection of brass, glass and miniature candlesticks. “I didn’t set out to collect them, but I’ve col-lected them over the years,” she says. “I love them. I think they add warmth to the house.” Some of the candlesticks date back to the early 1900s. A few were part of her mother’s collection including those that came from a trip her parents took to Mexico. Haskins has between 35 and 40 candlesticks. Her favorite candlestick is one of her miniatures that was a salesman’s sample.

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The Force is with himR.J. Droll’s love for “Star Wars” is what led him to become a comic book collector. Droll’s mother bought and read to him a “Star Wars” trea-sury collection when he was a child because he was a big fan of the movies. Once he could read on his own, he started reading comics about Transformers, G.I. Joe and other licensed characters that he was interested in. One day he saw a comic book on a store shelf and bought it thinking the character on the front was Princess Leia from “Star Wars.” Instead, it was Rogue, a character from X-Men. “I was completely hooked and have been reading comics since I was like 8 years old,” Droll says. At first, Droll would go to the corner drug store or convenience station to purchase his comic books, but one day he discovered a comic book store that he had thought was a book store. “It was the first time I had ever been into a comic book store, and it was like full-time Christmas,” says Droll, who was 10 at the time. Droll’s comic book collection has grown to about 6,000. The pride and joy of his collection is that he has every X-Men comic from September 1963 to the pres-ent. He has two copies of X-Men, No. 1. “They’re not roll-off-the-press mint, but they’re in really, really decent condition,” he says. Droll also has a giant-size X-Men No. 1 from 1975, the year that new X-men stories started being published after a hiatus that began in 1968. His favorite series as an adult has been Morning Glories by Image Comics. “It’s got the adult me hooked the same way the X-Men had me as a kid,” Droll says. Droll keeps all of his comic books in plastic sleeves and stores most in boxes. A few of his dupli-cate copies have been framed. Each Wednesday is new comic book day, and he goes to a local comic book store to pick up his comic books before he heads to work. The one comic that Droll

keeps looking for is Detective Comics, issue 411, a Batman comic. He says it’s become the Holy Grail quest for him after a friend asked him to find it. “I’ll find one for him at some point, but I also want to find one for myself,” he says. “It’s eluded me every time.”

Memories of DadRosemary Olds was a child when her father, who was in the U.S. Army, was killed during World War II. But one of her great-est memories of her father is his interest in the Papuan people from New Guinea.

It was hearing stories about and seeing pictures of her father, Nelson Burns, visiting with the Papuan people that led to Olds starting a collection of Papuan art. She has done as much research as she can about the Papuan peo-ple, whom she describes as very mysterious with their own secret mythology that represents magical and powerful qualities. Olds acquired her first piece of Papuan art in the mid-1950s by accident. A neighbor’s husband was stationed at a naval base on Manus Island in northern Papua, New Guinea. He brought home a carving of a pregnant woman that the wife did not like, so she threw it in the garbage.

Rosemary Olds stands next to a mask and a shield that are from the Papuan culture in New Guinea. She has an extensive collection

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“I gathered it up because it was so fantastic,” Olds says. “I was immediately attracted to that figure even though other women were horrified: ‘You can’t put that in your house.’ ” About 25 years ago, Olds and her husband, John, visited New Guinea. They hired a taxi driver and went deep into the hilly region of New Guinea to experience the Papuan culture. “I like the people, so I didn’t consider it scary; I was like my father,” she says. “I wasn’t afraid of them even though a lot of west-erners were.” On that trip, Olds acquired several pieces including many of her favorites. They were shipped back to the United States. The pieces along with several more are displayed in Olds’ home office. Among Olds’ collection are a large, off-white colored mask made from coconut fiber and painted in shades of red and black. The mask was found after it had been discarded in the jungle after a Papuan ceremony. Olds eventu-ally purchased it through a deal-er. She says many of her pieces were found this way, and that her research has indicated the Papuans leave behind many of the pieces they use in their ceremonies. “I love this one because it’s a complete mystery to me,” she says about the mask. Her other pieces include a large canoe with two Papuan peo-ple inside of it that hangs from the ceiling; a revenge figure, which the village carver would have make after a war with another village to encourage the young men in the village to seek revenge for those who were killed or injured during the battle; a woman’s wed-ding apron; a woven pig; bags that women used to carry items; a shield; and a bat carving that serves as a warning to young men to leave women alone and respect them. Her favorite piece is a 5-foot-tall Madonna figure of a tribal woman nursing her baby. The woman is painted black with white and red designs. “She’s so powerful,” Olds says of the woman. Olds says she’s purchased

all of the items through repu-table dealers so she knows they’re authentic. She’s unsure of the age of some of the items.

Going primitiveA friend’s job as an arts and antiques dealer is what initially sparked Nancy Prizant’s interest in collecting primitive art pieces. “There are always interest-ing things crossing his desk,” says Prizant, who began her collection about 20 years ago. Her first piece was a 19th Century Coptic painting from Ethiopia of a saint. Coptic was an early Christian religion. Prizant, who also is a painter, says she was drawn to the paints and the pig-ments used in the piece. “It spoke to me,” she says. “I like icons, and I just liked it. It was very unusual. “Some of this sort of carries over into my work. A lot of it is


Rosemary Olds started collecting artifacts from the Papuan people in the 1950s. Her father’s service during World War

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iconic and sort of in your face.” She likes to paint people’s faces and distort their propor-tions. Her collection also includes a long-haired leather mask from the Chokwe tribe in Africa that would have been used for in ceremonial dances; a Chinese wooden hand fragment from the 16th or 17th Century that would have been part of a female goddess figure that was likely destroyed; an African mug-clay figure that was possibly created for good luck; a Tibetan “singing-healing bowl” from the 19th or 20th Century that would have been used during a prayer ceremony; and a wooden gold leaf painted goddess figure from 18th Century China. “I like the story of how these are all handmade and had real meaning in people’s lives,” Prizant

says. She says she doesn’t have a favorite piece, but one holds very special meaning to her. She received an Nkisi fetish nail figure from the African Bakongo tribe in the Congo region that once belonged to a friend who died from breast cancer. The friend told Prizant to pick anything from her collection to have as a mem-ory. The fetish was a protective figure that would have been used to destroy or weaken evil spir-its, cure illness, decide an argu-ment, repel a bad deed or sym-bolize a contract. The fetish has cloth packets with herbs in them attached to it, which are thought to give it more power. The fetish is covered with nails, which would have been hammered into it to provoke it into action.

Nancy Prizant looks at the African Bakongo tribe Nkisi nail fetish that she received from a friend who died from breast cancer. The fetish was created to be a protective figure.

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our web page at www.dmpl.org. The new system will allow you to quickly search for library events at the branch of your choice and transfer events to your own calen-dar to remember storytimes, book discussion groups and more.

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have to do is head out back to the family’s new garage. Ian and his wife, Dani, recently completed a new three-car garage, where the family parks their vehicles and Ian stores his kayak. But walk through the garage and there’s a back staircase that leads to a surprise loft space. What was initially meant to be storage has been converted into a place to do everything from kick soccer balls to throw dodgeballs to hit base-balls in a retractable batting cage. “This is sort of our playroom,” Ian Lin says. He uses the space to perfect his golf swing and hits plastic golf balls. Lin has coached his sons through Raccoon Valley Little League and USSA baseball, a local competitive team. He played base-ball himself, first as a youngster in Urbandale and then college baseball at Grinnell College. Youngest son Kanoa, 5, will start peewee Little League this April, so Lin will once again be helping coach at Raccoon Valley. His older sons, a 13-year-old and 16-year-old twins, also play baseball. The older two are on the baseball team at Roosevelt High

School. His daughter plays soccer. “The goal is to have a place in the winter and during bad weather to hit,” Lin says. Lin says when he and Dani realized the loft space, which was originally planned for storage, was so large, they decided it would be the perfect place for a batting cage instead of on the main level of the garage. The family also had bathroom installed in the garage. Before the new garage was com-plete, the family hit baseballs and played other sports in the base-ment of their west-side home. The family uses the garage playroom about two or three times a week. The older Lin boys use a pitching machine to hit balls, while Lin sits on a bucket and pitches to Kanoa. Once baseball season starts in April, Lin says the boys and their teammates will use the room up to three times a day. “This would be a great place for (Kanoa’s) Little League team more than anything because we don’t lose any baseballs or break any windows,” he says. Up next, Lin says he wants to install a zip line from the new garage to the large playhouse the family has in its backyard.

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Mental, physical exercise are important

L ost your car keys? Forgotten the reason you walked into a room?

Don’t fret — you haven’t lost your mind. You just need to fine-tune your brain. An unhealthy brain impacts your memory, caus-ing you to forget that those keys are in your coat pocket or that you entered the office to grab a pen. To stay as sharp as a tack, you need a regular routine of both mental and physical exercise. Physical activity can help con-trol your weight, boost your ener-gy and improve your self-esteem. But physical exercise isn’t just for increasing endurance and building

muscle; it also bulks up your brain. “Physical exercise increases the quantity and connection of neurons in your brain, which can help improve memory,” says Yogesh Shah, M.D., associate dean of global affairs and director of the Memory Clinic at Des Moines University. “It acts as a growth hormone for your entire body. Whatever’s good for the biceps is good for the brain.” The prescription for a healthy body and brain is 30 minutes of exercise a day, five days a week. Varying your workouts is key. By performing a different routine, not only will you work different

muscles groups, but also different parts of the brain. When it comes to health, most people focus on physi-cal exercise and nutrition. But it’s equally important to keep an active mind. Mental exercise increases blood circulation to the areas of the brain where memo-ries are formed and stored. Any form of new learning will do the trick, but Shah recommends a form of cognitive exercises called neurobics. “Neurobics encourage the growth of new neurons in the brain,” explains Shah. “It’s using all of your senses whenever possible

and doing things slightly different than what the brain is used to.” Routine actions become auto-matic, requiring little effort from the brain. Neurobics help create new associations between differ-ent parts of the mind by engaging it in an unexpected way. Activities as simple as driving a different way home, getting dressed with your eyes closed or using your left hand instead of your right stimulate the brain and improve mental health. The next time you get in an aerobic workout, don’t forget the neurobics. A double dose of exer-cise will keep your brain healthy and your memory sharp.

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Library, 10 a.m.

Iowa High School Boys State

Basketball Tournament, Wells Fargo

Arena

Black Maria Film Festival, DM Art

Center

Saturday, March 10 Immigration in America, Central

Library, 9:15 a.m.

St. Patrick’s Day Craft, Central

Library, 11 a.m.

Indoor Canoeing Class, Central

Campus, noon

Iowa High School Boys State

Basketball Tournament, Wells Fargo

Arena

DM Symphony Orchestra:

Masterworks 5: Barber &

Tchaikovsky, Civic Center, 7:30 p.m.

Black Maria Film Festival, DM Art

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Art Crazy Drop Off Day, help

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home to benefit DM Art Center,

1717 Ingersoll Ave., all day

Sunday, March 11 Daylight-saving time begins, set

clocks ahead one hour

Sunday Bridge Club, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

Benefit Concert for Relief and

Aid to Citizens of Japan, Drake

University String Ensemble performs,

St. John’s Lutheran Church, free will

offering, 4 p.m.

Jeff Dunham, Wells Fargo Arena,

5 p.m.

DM Symphony Orchestra:

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Tchaikovsky, Civic Center, 2:30 p.m.

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George Flagg Pkwy., $5, 1 - 4:30 p.m.

Monday, March 12 Job Assistance Program, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

DM City Council meeting, City

Hall, 4:30 p.m.

RHS girls track at ISU Indoor,

4 p.m.

Tuesday, March 13 Read and Romp, Central Library,

1:30 p.m.

DM School Board meeting,

Central Campus, 2nd floor, 1800

Grand Ave., 6 p.m.

RHS boys track at ISU, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, March 14 Toddler Storytime, Central

Library, 10 or 10:30 a.m.

Teen Gaming, Central Library,

2 p.m.

Evening Bridge Club, Central

Library, 6 p.m.

Thursday, March 15 Dancing for Joy: Liturgical Dancer

and Local Actress Donna Scarfe dem-

onstrates dance movements that tell

a story and add depth to a worship

experience, The Cathedral Church of

St. Paul, free, 5:15 p.m.

Nutrition Workshop, Adio

Chiropractic, 2925 Ingersoll Ave.,

RSVP to 255-3021, free, 6 p.m.

Preschool Storytime, Central


Tech Talks 4 Anyone: The Cloud,

Central Library, noon

Franklin Toastmasters meeting,

Northwest Community Center,

5110 Franklin Ave., http://franklinclub.

freetoasthost.com, 6 p.m.

Friday, March 16 DMPS no classes

Baby Rhyme Time, Central

Library, 10 a.m.

Board Game Bonanza, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

Iowa Energy Basketball vs.

Canton, Wells Fargo Arena, 7 p.m.

Chamber Music, Salisbury House,

$15 - $25, 8 p.m.

RHS boys track at Central

College, 2 p.m.

Saturday, March 17 St. Patrick’s Day

Furry Tales, ages 3 - 11, Central

Library, 11 a.m.

Good Luck Frogs! Craft, ages

3 - 8, Central Library, 11 a.m.

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with

the Foy School of Irish Dance, Central

Library, 1:45 p.m.

Sunday, March 18 Sunday Bridge Club, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

Monday, March 19 DMPS Spring Break

Job Assistance Program, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

Literacy in a Different Way: Share

Your Thoughts on a Book, Central

Library, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, March 20 First day of spring

DMPS Spring Break

Sabotage at the Science Fair, ages

8 - 12, Central Library, 3 p.m.

RHS varsity girls track at UNI,

11 a.m.

Wednesday, March 21 DMPS Spring Break

Teen DIY Craft: Duct Tape,

Central Library, 2 p.m.


Library, 6 p.m.

Thursday, March 22 DMPS Spring Break

Greater Des Moines Garden

Club meeting: England’s Castles and

Gardens, Westminster Presbyterian

Church, 1 p.m.

Preschool Storytime, Central


The Bobcat and the Lynx in Iowa,

ages 3 - 11, Central Library, 2 p.m.

Friday, March 23 DMPS Spring Break


Library, 10 a.m.

Opening Reception: Chris Vance,

Moberg Gallery, 2921 Ingersoll Ave.,

5 - 8 p.m.

Saturday, March 24 Furry Tales, ages 3 - 11, Central

Library, 11 a.m.

Sock Toys Craft, ages 6 - 11,

Central Library, 11 a.m.

Sunday, March 25 Sunday Bridge Club, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

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Monday, March 26 Job Assistance Program, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

Tuesday, March 27 Read and Romp, Central Library,

1:30 p.m.

RHS varsity girls and boys track

at Simpson College, 4 p.m.

Wednesday, March 28 Teen Anime Club, Central

Library, 2 p.m.


Library, 6 p.m.

RHS Spring Sports Parent meet-

ing, 6:30 p.m.

Thursday, March 29 Tech Talks 4 Anyone: New

Technology, Central Library, noon

RHS varsity girls track at Ankeny,

4:30 p.m.

RHS JV/V boys track at Johnston,

4:30 p.m.

Friday, March 30 Baby Rhyme Time, Central

Library, 10 a.m.

Saturday, March 31 Windy Storytime and Craft, ages

3 - 11, Central Library, 10:30 a.m.

RHS varsity boys track at East,

10 a.m.

Sunday, April 1 Palm Sunday

April Fool’s Day

Sunday Bridge Club, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

Dart Bus: Poetry Reading, Central

Library, 2 p.m.

Monday, April 2 Job Assistance Program, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

Writer’s Workshop, Central

Library, 6 p.m.

RHS JV/V girls soccer vs. Harlan,

4:45 p.m.

Tuesday, April 3 DM School Board meeting,

Central Campus, 2nd floor, 1800

Grand Ave., 6 p.m.

RHS varsity girls track at

Waukee, 4:30 p.m.

Wednesday, April 4 Free Bridge Lessons, Central

Library, 5:45 p.m.


Library, 6 p.m.

Toddler Storytime, Central

Library, 10 and 10:30 a.m.

Mixed Media: Teen Fine Arts

Club, Central Library, 2 p.m.

Crafty Readers, ages 3 - 8,

Central Library, 2:30 p.m.

Thursday, April 5 Preschool Storytime, Central


Gallery Talk: Sideshow, DM Art

Center, 6:30 p.m.

RHS 9/JV/V boys soccer at

Johnston, 4:45 p.m.

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Saturday, April 7 Passover

Furry Tales, ages 3 - 11, Central

Library, 11 a.m.

The Chicken or the Egg? Craft,

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RHS varsity boys soccer

Roughrider Classic, TBD

RHS JV/V boys and girls track at

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Sunday, April 8 Easter

Monday, April 9 Job Assistance Program, Central

Library, 1 p.m.

RHS JV boys track at Valley,

4:30 p.m.

RHS JV/V boys soccer at Fort

Dodge, 6 p.m.

Tuesday, April 10 RHS JV/V boys track at Fort

Dodge, 5 p.m.

Wednesday, April 11 Free Bridge Lessons, Central

Library, 5:45 p.m.


Library, 6 p.m.

Toddler Storytime, Central

Library, 10 and 10:30 a.m.

Teen Gaming, Central Library,

2 p.m.

Thursday, April 12 Preschool Storytime, Central


RHS 9/JV/V boys soccer vs.

Waukee, 4:45 p.m.

RHS varsity girls track at Simpson

College, 5 p.m.

Friday, April 13 Baby Rhyme Time, Central

Library, 10 a.m.

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S helley and Mike Broderick knew shortly after they moved into their house at

22 Glenview Drive that they had picked the right home for their family. The Brodericks moved into the house, built in 1922, about six years ago with their three children. Soon after they moved in, neighborhood children were knocking on their door wanting the Broderick chil-dren to play with them. “I thought ‘This is home,’ ” Shelley Broderick recalls. The Brodericks have always been drawn to older houses. They had previously lived in other Des Moines neighborhoods but want-ed to move to an area where there were more young children. Their Linden Heights neighbor-hood had lots of families, and the house was close enough that their children could walk to nearby St. Augustin School. The Brodericks’ prior two houses had been “fixer-uppers” and they knew they didn’t want to have to do that level of work to a third house, Mike Broderick says. “We were pretty much done with that and old enough that I didn’t want to do that anymore,” he says. Shelley says the Glenview Drive house fit what the family wanted: It had an open kitchen with an attached family room that

works well for large family gather-ings. It also had hardwood floors, crown molding and other inter-esting features. There are doors along the upstairs wall that act as a sort of secret passage system among the upstairs rooms. A small office space/reading area in the front of the house has exposed brick because it was once an open porch. That room also features unique Pella roll screen windows. A family room, which was added onto the house in the 1970s, has a mantel that came from a farm sale. “We’ve always gravitated toward older homes, and it is because of the character,” Shelley Broderick says. The Brodericks made a few changes to the house to make it their own. They refinished the hardwood floors, renovated the kitchen, had landscaping installed, and had a new back deck and stone patio constructed. There are still a few more projects on their to-do lists. Shelley wants to update the bathrooms; while Mike wants to finish the base-ment. “But Shelley has a different priority list,” he says with a laugh. While they love their house, the Brodericks say the biggest surprise was how close knit the neighborhood is. Each year there’s a neighborhood Iowa Cubs out-ing. They also have an annual Christmas caroling party.

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Johnson. The second-year science and math teacher at Bergman Academy got his undergraduate degree in engineering from Iowa State University. “But I just couldn’t see myself sitting behind a computer eight hours a day,” says Johnson. “I like to interact with people.” So Johnson went back to ISU and earned his master’s in science education. He graduated in May, and in September he was standing before sixth, seventh and eighth graders preparing lesson plans. “I am thrilled to be in this position and feel very fortunate,” says Johnson. “My search for a teaching job was limited because I wanted to stay in the Des Moines - Ames area because my wife is still attending Iowa State. “And then to teach for a fine institution like Bergman Academy is just icing on the cake.” Johnson says there are sev-eral reasons why he likes being a teacher at The Academy. “First, the class size is ter-rific,” he says. “We have about 15 students per class. This allows me to give each student the individual-ized attention they deserve.” The administration and staff at

Bergman are more reasons why Johnson likes showing up for work each day. “Everyone is supportive of each other,” he says. “And I think one of the reasons why we get along so well as a staff is that we all understand that providing our students with the best education possible is our top priority.” Johnson also cites support from the families of the students as another reason why he enjoys his job. “Our principal calls it a perfect trifecta for learning — small class sizes, great family involvement and students eager to learn,” he says. And being primarily a science instructor, Johnson couldn’t have asked for a better location to teach his craft then where The Academy is located. It is in the old Science Center Building just off Grand in the heart of Greenwood Park. “We can just take a few steps outside the building and be in the best science lab ever,” he says.

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A: Looking at the statistics, the average lifespan in 1900 was 49 years of age. Today? Nearly 78 years of age. The average lifespan is continuing to grow, and quickly. A report done by the University of Texas estimated that by the year 2050, 800,000 Americans will be older than 100. They also estimated that we would have people living to 150 years of age. One of the things that stands out as we look at the aging popu-lation is how much we neglect the structural system of our body. This includes the muscles, ten-dons, ligaments, bones and the ever- important spinal column. Facts show that the most com-mon cause of functional disability in persons older than 50 years of age is a spinal disorder. In simple terms, if something is going to keep you from living an active life-style past the age of 50, then most likely it will be an issue related to the health of your spine. Estimates show that nearly 85 percent of people will experience significant low back pain during their life and 33 percent will have to deal with neck pain at some point. Why is this the case? Typically, this is because most people wait until they are in pain or their “back goes out” before they do anything about it. Imagine if this approach was how we dealt with our dental health. We would wait to brush our teeth until we already had a toothache or cavity. This sounds crazy but that is exactly the same concept. Our spine is a very important, delicate structure and unlike teeth, it isn’t replaceable. Statistics have shown that only about a third of all spinal surgeries can be deemed successful upon completion. A lit-

tle preventative chiropractic care early in life can go a long way in maintaining your spinal health for years to come. Chiropractors treat a con-dition within the spine called a subluxation. A subluxation in simplest terms is a misalignment within spine that causes pinch-ing on the nerves that exit the spine. Through the use of specific exams, muscle testing and X-ray examination the chiropractor is able to identify exactly the areas of the spine where the sublux-ations are taking place and gradu-ally move the bones back to their normal alignment through the use of chiropractic adjustments. Over a series of adjustments, the align-ment can be corrected and in many cases more serious spinal issues can be avoided. Statistics show that we are being given extra years to our life. Take the time to invest in preventative chiropractic care and we will be able to give you extra life to those years. Call Dr. Blum at 515-277-2300 to schedule your preventative chiropractic visit.

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Y our 401(k) offers tax-deductible contributions, tax-deferred growth of

earnings potential and a variety of investment options, so it’s a great tool for building retirement savings. Yet, like all tools, your 401(k) must be used properly to get the best results. That’s why you should review your 401(k) at least annual-ly and make whatever adjustments are needed. As you begin to review your 401(k), your first question should probably be this: How much should I contribute? At the very least, try to put in enough to receive your employer’s matching contribution, if one is offered. If you don’t earn this match, you are essentially walking away from free money. Beyond this, though, the amount you put in to your 401(k) might depend on what other retirement savings vehicles you have available. For instance, if you’re eligible, you may also want to contribute to a Roth IRA, which offers tax-free growth potential, provided you’ve had your account for five years and don’t start taking with-drawals until you’re 59-1/2. Of course, it’s not only how much you put into your 401(k) that determines its success; it’s also how you choose to allocate your investment dollars. (Keep in mind that asset allocation does not ensure a profit or protect against loss.) Your 401(k) may have a dozen or more investment choices, such as stock funds, bond funds and money market funds. To choose the right investment mix, you’ll need to consider a variety of factors, including these: Generally speak-

ing, the younger you are, the more aggressive you can afford to be with your 401(k) investments, because you’ll have decades in which to overcome the inevitable down periods of the market. As you get older, you may wish to invest somewhat more conservatively, but you’ll still need some growth potential in your 401(k) portfolio. Everyone has different goals for retirement. You might want to retire early and travel the world, while your co-worker desires to work as long as possible and then, upon retire-ment, stay close to home and pursue hobbies. Because you each have different goals, with different income needs, you also may need to follow different investment strategies within your 401(k).

If you have a vari-ety of retirement income sources a pension from another job, an IRA, a spouse with generous retirement benefits you may need to invest differently, perhaps less aggressive-ly, than if you had fewer options for retirement income. Apart from putting away as much as you can in your 401(k) and choosing the right investment mix, what else can you do to get the most out of your plan? Here’s a sugges-tion: If you have worked at various jobs and you have multiple 401(k)s, consider rolling them over them into one account. You might save money on fees and reduce paperwork, but, more importantly, you’ll be able to concentrate your resources and pur-sue a unified investment approach, with all your investment dollars working together toward your ulti-mate retirement goals.

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