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Kidney transplant recipient Carole Fair is now an author as well as an active

organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central Pennsylvania.

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Chronic kidney disease affects one in nine Americans, and millions more

are at risk. More than 105,000 people are on the National Kidney Transplant

List in the United States.

“Every day, 18 people die while waiting for a transplant of a vital organ,

such as a heart, liver, kidney, pancreas, lung, or bone marrow,” said Carole

Fair, an organ-donation advocate with the Kidney Foundation of Central

Pennsylvania for nearly two years.

Because of the lack of available donors in this country, 4,573 kidney

patients, 1,506 liver patients, 371 heart patients, and 234 lung patients died

in 2008 while waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant, Fair noted.

“I’m hoping that with more awareness of transplantation and the

generosity of others, these numbers could certainly decline,” said Fair, who

recently spoke at events at Holy Spirit Hospital and Hershey Antique Auto

Association.

Fair is a circuit speaker at civic clubs, women’s organizations, and

churches. She helps people become aware of transplantation, clears up

misconceptions, and promotes organ donation in general.

“I get asked the most basic questions, like, ‘Where is my kidney located?’

and ‘Is the old kidney removed during a transplant?’” said Fair, who also is a

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The Beauty in Nature

Clyde McMillan-Gamber

While pulling out of a suburban

parking lot one January

afternoon, I saw a beautiful

red fox with thick fur running along a

nearby hedgerow of weeds, shrubbery,

and tall trees. And down the street a few

seconds later, I saw an immature

Cooper’s hawk zip in flight right in front

of my moving car.

I thought, “Wow, two predators of

different kinds seen within seconds of

each other in the same suburb in

daylight.” But upon reflection, I realized

both these adaptable and common

hunters had reason to be there. And I

knew they were part of different food

chains of who eats whom.

The fox was there because mice,

rabbits, squirrels, and other little

creatures live in the thickets of the

hedgerow. The fox was out in daylight

because January is red foxes’ time of

courting, when they throw caution to the

wind. The normally nocturnal foxes look

for mates in fields and woods around the

clock

during

January.

I’ve heard

the hoarse

barking of

courting

red foxes

day and

night

during that

month.

Cooper’s

hawks

specialize

in catching

birds from

sparrow- to

dove-sized.

Suburbs, with their berry-producing

shrubbery, wind-breaking coniferous

trees, and birdfeeders in winter, are

attractive to birds for food and shelter.

And

some of

those

birds are

prey for

the

predatory

Coops.

Most

people

who

maintain

feeders

don’t like

to see

“their”

birds

eaten by

hawks,

though that’s what predators do. But

birds concentrated at feeders are easy

pickings for hawks, cats, and other

predators. Feeders must be located near

sheltering bushes or evergreen trees so

the birds can easily dive into them to

escape predation.

Hawks, however, use those same

shrubs and trees to ambush victims. But

raptors are likely to catch infirm birds.

Healthy ones quickly retreat to safety

when threatened by predators.

Hawks and other predators eliminate

crippled, sick, or otherwise infirm birds

and other creatures, leaving only healthy

individuals of any species alive to

reproduce. Predators strengthen

populations of their prey species.

It was thrilling to see those predators

in a suburb within seconds of each other.

I happened to be in the right place at the

right time.

Clyde McMillan-Gamber is a Lancaster

County Parks naturalist.

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If you like vintage architecture

from the 1960s, you’ll like the

surroundings of the Pro Football

Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio.

The building was ultra-modern

in its day with its interior spiral

ramp (like the one designed by

Frank Lloyd Wright for the

Guggenheim Museum in New York

City), glass curtain wall (a nod to

the urban office-building

architecture of Mies van der Rohe

and Philip Johnson), and football-

shaped roofline

indicative of mid-

century modern

American

architecture.

Canton, Ohio,

was chosen as the

site for the Hall of

Fame for many

reasons. However,

we focus on

football’s legacy

there as opposed

to some other

locale because of

the Native

American athlete

named Jim

Thorpe, who

signed a football

contract there. Thorpe, the star of

the 1912 Olympic Games, signed

his first contract to play football

with the Canton Bulldogs in 1915.

While the vintage building is

good looking, the museum is in the

midst of completing a major

construction/

expansion project to host more

football fans. The completion of the

museum expansion will coincide

with the Hall of Fame’s 50th

anniversary in 2013. The new

facilities will not only host a world

of football fans, but they will also

offer the Ralph Wilson Jr. Football

Research and Preservation Center,

the researchers’ reading room, an

event center, and a meeting room.

In addition, there will be

exhibition galleries focusing on the

history of the game dating back to

the early 1900s, state-of-the-art

interactive displays featuring game

footage and player videos, the

Lamar Hunt Super Bowl exhibition

gallery with the Vince Lombardi

trophy on display, the Super Bowl

ring display (for the jewelry lover in

the family), and the popular Hall of

Fame gallery.

While the Super Bowl ring

display was one of my favorites

(who doesn’t like all those

diamonds?), the Hall of Fame

gallery speaks to the core of the Hall

of Fame. The gallery houses

interactive displays and an

impressive assemblage of fine-art

bronze portrait busts of the Hall of

Fame inductees through the years.

The bronze busts are the work of

Utah sculptor Blair Buswell and

they capture the likeness of each

football great. As a display, the

gallery is awe inspiring as visitors

search for their favorite Hall of

Famer.

At the Pro Football Hall of Fame,

exhibits trace the history of

professional football with unique

objects like the Baltimore Colts

marching band’s bass drum, press

wood posters announcing the 1962

AFL championship game between

the Houston Oilers and the Dallas

Texans, and early helmets worn by

various players.

The exhibits highlight player

uniforms from the Pro Bowl as well

as equipment and apparel worn by

Walter Payton, Joe Namath, and

Dan Marino, among others. The

exhibits also focus on the impact of

stars like O.J. Simpson and the

Buffalo Bills’ Electric Company.

Some displays show a player’s

love of the game by focusing on

great plays made by Chicago Bears

running back Brian Piccolo or

Dallas Cowboy Troy Aikman. And,

who could forget the famous

Immaculate Reception

made by Pittsburgh

Steelers fullback Franco

Harris (a fellow Penn

Stater) on Dec. 23,

1972? The museum,

through its diverse

exhibits, shows visitors

the heart of the game

of football.

I discovered one last

interesting thing about

sports museums during

my visit to the Pro

Football Hall of Fame.

No matter how much

information is available

to a visitor in a sports

museum, fans always

search for more. I

noticed many visitors standing in

front of very good, informative

displays—even interactive

displays—who were still searching

for additional stats on their cell

phones. I even found myself doing

it.

As a former museum curator and

director, I bet you think I’d be

appalled by this but, in fact, I think

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Collect, clutter, or hoard. Which

best describes your habits

relating to storing your “stuff ”

(to use the descriptor popularized in a

monologue by satirist George Carlin)?

If you collect,

you probably are

normal if you do

not clutter

excessively. If

you clutter

within reason,

you may be near

average in

orderliness. If

you admit to

hoarding, medical professionals

recommend you promptly seek

psychological help.

In his skit, Carlin said: “A house is a

place to keep your stuff while you go

out and get more stuff.” It’s true. We do

keep adding to our stuff. That may help

explain why the average house in our

nation is larger than the average three

decades ago, while the number of

dwellers per average household declined

slightly.

The median

square footage

per household

increased from

1,488 in 1980 to

1,769 in 2007,

according to the

U.S. Census

Bureau. At the

same time the

mean average of

persons per household fell from 2.76 to

2.56.

Bigger homes have not solved our

storage needs. The Self-Storage

Association, which represents 46,500

self-storage facilities, claims that 10

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ho has a stronger sense of

tradition than the Amish?

In Amish Folk Tales and

Other Stories of the Pennsylvania Dutch,

we find anecdotes that have been passed

down in families. In the retelling of these

stories we find that each has been given a

special patina as it has been lovingly

handed down from generation to

generation.

“Amos Trades Up” follows the comical

misadventures of a young Amishman.

Paid off after his year of indentured

service, Amos starts walking home. But

along the way he meets temptation after

temptation—and he pursues them all.

“Eilenshpiggel and His Shenanigans”

tells of the willful, mischievous rogue

who’s a legend among the Pennsylvania

Dutch people.

In “John the Blacksmith,” we learn of

the native intelligence of this character

and of how he manages to outwit an

emissary from the devil himself.

“Tales Tall and Taller” is a collection

of exaggerations that make for wonderful

reminiscences. For

example, what happened

to the man from Ephrata

whose dentist pulled his

tooth, then somehow let it

slip off the tongs and

travel down the patient’s

throat?

Read “Graven Images

and the Legends that

Grow Around Them” to

find out about burial

customs among the

Pennsylvania Dutch and to

learn what the emblems

on grave markers signify.

“Pennsylvania German Humor” is

filled with traditional stories that bring

laughter to the people of southeastern

Pennsylvania.

The book even offers “A True Ghost

Story.” This is a fast-moving tale of

murder and its eerie consequences. It

asks you to explain what happened, if

you can.

An appendix,

“Forearmed in Bilaspur,”

tells of two Lancaster

County men who link up

to hunt tigers in India. This

is all we’ll tell you about

this story, which has a

surprise twist at the end.

The book is richly

illustrated with color

photographs depicting

items made by

Pennsylvania Dutch

craftsmen: tall clocks,

furniture, Conestoga wagon

hardware, quilts, guns, and Amish toys.

Amish Folk Tales and Other Stories of

the Pennsylvania Dutch is available at

local bookstores or from Schiffer

Publishing, 4880 Lower Valley Road,

Atglen, Pa. 19310 or (610) 593-1777.

About the AuthorGene Moore, a former navy officer, is

a graduate of Auburn University who

earned a master’s degree from Florida

State University. He retired as director of

public relations from Armstrong World

Industries, Inc. A previous book, How

Armstrong Floored America: The People

Who Made It Happen, 1945-1995, was

published by the Lancaster County

Historical Society. He and his wife, Jan,

make their home in Lancaster.

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percent of U.S. households rent a self-

storage unit, up from 6 percent in 1995.

These units, at December 2009, had a

combined space of 2.22 billion square

feet, seven times as much as existed at the

end of 1995. For comparison, the square

footage of the island of Manhattan is

only 20 percent as large.

After reading the examples that follow,

you may conclude that, by comparison,

you are a moderate collector or moderate

hoarder.

Collectors acquire a category of items,

such as Barbie dolls, old beer cans, or

baseball cards. Comedian Jay Leno

reportedly has a collection of

approximately 200 automobiles. Should

this be regarded as an example of a

normal collector or of a private-museum

curator? His automobile-insurance

premiums alone must cost a fortune.

Sigmund Freud was a collector of

antiquities—items older than mere

antiques—cluttering his office with an

overabundance of them.

Some of the very rich may be

compulsive collectors of money if their

life experience is virtually limited to

acquiring more and more wealth.

Ida Mayfield Wood was wealthy, but

miserly. She did not seek more wealth.

Her objective was to hoard money. She

lived as a recluse in a New York City

hotel from 1907, at which time she

withdrew her fortune from banks, until

1931.

When authorities examined her

apartment, they found approximately

$900,000 in cash. Bills of high

denominations were stored on the floors

of the bathroom and living room,

substantial cash was kept in pots and

pans, and stock certificates were

squirreled away in her bed.

Clutter is a common indulgence. It

occurs when items “prevent any part of

the inside or outside of a dwelling to be

used for its intended purpose,” according

to the Department of Health and

Human Services in Montgomery

County, Md. (Fibber McGee’s stuffed

closet is an example.)

Beethoven cluttered his living quarters

to the point he could be said to have

lived slovenly. Keeping a neat household,

while writing some of the world’s

greatest music, apparently were mutually

exclusive capabilities for this genius.

Will Cuppy, a writer of articles for the

New Yorker magazine and author of

several zany books, including his best-

known work, The Decline and Fall of

Practically Everybody, can be regarded as a

collector who severely cluttered, not a

hoarder. His apartment was filled with

books stored for his research. Any space

in the bathroom, kitchen, even the

refrigerator, was subject to book storage.

The collection represented a readily

accessible research resource, not a

pathological compulsion.

When he died, they found more than

15,000 note cards comprising his

reference file. He differs from the

hoarding compulsion of Ida Mayfield

Wood, who used the cash she stored only

to maintain her impoverished lifestyle.

Herb Block, the famed political

cartoonist for the Washington Post who

went by the penname “Herblock,” had

an office that an assistant once described

as “an organized disaster.” He was not

considered a slob but, rather, “an

information hoarder” (Washington Post,

Oct. 19, 2011).

Hoarders take collections past the

threshold of eccentricity and into the

realm of psychosis. Susan Hoskins,

executive director of the Princeton (N.J.)

Senior Resource Center and its hoarding

task force, was quoted in the AARP

Bulletin (Feb. 4, 2011) stating: “As a

therapist I have found very few things

that are as difficult to treat, and so hard

for people to give up.”

The behavior of hoarders is so bizarre

it is frequently detailed in the press. The

two most publicized types of hoarders

are the reclusive wealthy and animal

hoarders. The former have been found in

mansions filled with debris while the

latter have an insatiable compulsion to

keep dozens of cats or dogs.

The Collyer brothers, Homer and

Langley, lived in a New York City

mansion filled with 136 tons of junk

and trash. In 1947 Langley was fatally

crushed as one of the piles collapsed.

Homer, trapped by the fall and unable

to move, died of starvation. The hoarded

items included 10 grand pianos, kept

because the brothers believed “they all

have such different tonal effects.”

In 1971 Jackie Kennedy’s aunt Edith

Beale, and Edith’s daughter Edie, were

found living in a 28-room mansion filled

with junk and debris. Kennedy came to

their rescue, paying $32,000 to remove

more than 1,000 bags of garbage, clean

with 40 gallons of germicide, and install

a new furnace and plumbing. There

seems to be a lesson here to not

patronize all relatives residing in

mansions.

Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research

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Lancaster County

Calendar of EventsCocalico Senior Association – (717) 336-7489Jan. 3, 6 p.m. – Cocalico Jam at Reamstown Community Center

Jan. 11, 10 a.m. – Music with Sterling Lamm

Jan. 29, 6 p.m. – Senior Social with the Cocalico Middle

School Jazz Band

Columbia Senior Center – (717) 684-4850Jan. 4, 10 a.m. – History of the Columbia and Reading Railroad

Jan. 15, 10 a.m. – Create a Snowman Pin

Jan. 17, 10 a.m. – Medicare Bingo

Elizabethtown Area Senior Center – (717) 367-7984 Jan. 9, 10:30 a.m. – Program on Arthritis and Cold Weather

Jan. 15, 10:15 a.m. – Penn State Nutrition Program with Donna

Jan. 16, 10 a.m. – Medication Take Back Drop-Off

Lancaster House North – (717) 299-1278Thursdays, noon to 3 p.m. – Happy Hearts Club Pinochle

Lancaster Neighborhood Senior Center(717) 299-3943Jan. 2, 10:30 a.m. – Learning Spanish and English

Jan. 10, 9:30 a.m. – Health Program by ManorCare

Jan. 22, 10:30 a.m. – Exercise with Lucy

Lancaster Rec. Center – (717) 392-2115, ext. 147Fridays, 12:30 to 3 p.m. – Happy Hearts Club Bridge

Lititz Senior Center – (717) 626-2800Jan. 3, 10 a.m. – Learning Easy Ways to Use Computers

and Cell Phones

Jan. 17, 10:30 a.m. – Motivational Speaker and

Ballroom Dancer Eleanor Isaacson

Jan. 28, 10:15 a.m. – Music and Dancing: “Return to

Happy Days” by Tony Gro

LRC Senior Center – (717) 399-7671Jan. 8, 9:15 a.m. – Healthy Steps in Motion Exercise Class

Jan. 18, 10 a.m. – Learn and Play Mahjong

Jan. 23, 10 a.m. – Play Indoor Shuffleboard

Luis Munoz Marin Senior Center – (717) 295-7989Wednesdays, 9:30 a.m. – Arts & Crafts with Teresa Rivera

Jan. 3, 10:30 a.m. – Three Kings Celebration

Jan. 8, 9 a.m. – Blood Pressure Checks

Millersville Senior Center – (717) 871-9600Jan. 14, 10 a.m. – Music by Glenn’s One-Man Band

Jan. 25, 10 a.m. – Town Meeting

Jan. 28, 10 a.m. – Penn State Nutrition Program with Donna

Next Gen Senior Center – (717) 786-4770Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – Chorus Practice

Jan. 14, 10:30 a.m. – Senior Spotlight: Charlotte Cozzone

Jan. 24, 9:30 a.m. – Laura’s Coupon Club

Rodney Park Center – (717) 393-7786 Tuesdays, 1 to 3 p.m. – Happy Hearts Club Pinochle and Bingo

Please call or visit the centers’ websites for additional activities.

Library Programs

Lancaster County Department of Parks and Recreation

Pre-registration is required for these programs. All activities are held at the Environmental

Center in Central Park unless otherwise noted. To register or to find out more about these

activities or any additional scheduled activities, call (717) 295-2055 or visit

www.lancastercountyparks.org.

Jan. 12, 10 to 11 a.m. – Owls of Lancaster County

Jan. 13, 1:30 to 3 p.m. – Wildlife in Winter

Jan. 24, 1 to 2 p.m. – Let’s Go Tracking

Community Programs Free and open to the public

Jan. 18, 6 to 9 p.m. – Music Fridays, 200 and 300 Blocks of North Queen Street, 24 W. Walnut St., Lancaster,

(717) 341-0028

Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, (717) 626-2255

Jan. 2, 6:30 p.m. – Astronomy Enthusiasts of Lancaster County: Eyepieces and Filters Part II

Jan. 10, 7 p.m. – Lancaster Civil War Roundtable: Virtual Antietam

Jan. 15, 6:30 p.m. – Jane Austen Society

Senior Center Activities

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Support Groups Free and open to the public

Jan. 2, 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.Parents/Grandparents with Special

Cares Support Group

Garden Spot Village

Village Square Board Room

433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland

(717) 355-6010

[email protected]

Jan. 2, 7 to 8:15 p.m.Alzheimer’s Caregivers SupportGroup

Willow Lakes Outpatient Center

212 Willow Valley Lakes Drive

Willow Street

(717) 464-9365

Jan. 14, 10 to 11 a.m.Alzheimer’s Caregiver’s Support

Group

Garden Spot Village

Concord Room


(717) 355-6076

[email protected]

Jan. 17, noonBrain Tumor Support GroupLancaster General Health Campus

Wellness Center

2100 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster

(717) 626-2894

Jan. 23, 6 to 8 p.m.Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern

Pennsylvania Support Group

Lancaster General Hospital

Stager Room 5

555 N. Duke St., Lancaster

(800) 887-7165, ext. 104

Jan. 28, 2 to 3 p.m.Parkinson’s Support Group

Garden Spot Village

Concord Room


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The Rat Pack Is Back in TownThe sound of The Rat Pack’s music

has become a classic, with stars like

Michael Bublé bringing it back to the

charts.

Now you can

relive the heyday of

Las Vegas and

Dean Martin,

Frank Sinatra, and

Sammy Davis Jr. in

the musical The Rat

Pack Lounge, now

playing through

Feb. 9 at the Dutch

Apple Dinner

Theatre, 510

Centerville Road,

Lancaster.

It’s heaven on

Earth as Frank,

Dean, and Sammy

are sent back from

heaven to fulfill a

promise that was

made to a local bar

owner to make his kid a star. The son has

now taken over The Rat Pack Lounge,

and things aren’t going so well.

You’ll hear more than 30 hit songs

that you know by heart in this show that

was sold out at the Broadway Palm in

Florida two months ago. The songs

include: “My Way,” “High Hopes,”

“Volare,” “Come Fly

With Me,” “Young

at Heart,” “Ain’t

That a Kick in the

Head,” “Bye Bye

Blackbird,” “That’s

Amore,” “You Make

Me Feel So Young,”

“Everybody Loves

Somebody

Sometime,” “What

Kind of Fool Am

I?,” “I’ve Got the

World on a String,”

and more.

Don’t miss The

Rat Pack Lounge at

the Dutch Apple

Dinner Theatre in

Lancaster through

Feb. 9. There’s a

special season

opener price of just $39 for all matinees

and $42 for all evenings; prices include

both dinner and show. Travel back to the

time of high rollers and highballs with

The Rat Pack Lounge!

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By Andrea Gross

“There it is!” The child who is

standing next to me jumps up and

down, accompanying each jump with

an ear-splitting shriek. I look in the

direction he is pointing. It is indeed a

scream-worthy sight.

There, sailing toward us, in a slow

but steady manner, is a giant pirate

ship, with masts that pierce the sky

and bright flags that wave in the

breeze. The name of the ship is

emblazoned on its side: José

Gasparilla.

The deck is crowded with

hundreds of men, some with black

triangular hats adorned with a skull-

and crossbones insignia, others with

colorful rag-wrapped turbans. The

men blast cannons, brandish swords,

and whoop and holler as the ship,

surrounded by a flotilla of small

boats, prepares to invade the city of

Tampa.

The ship docks and the pirate

captain disembarks and approaches the

mayor, demanding the key to the city of

Tampa. The mayor complies; the party

can begin.

Tampa’s annual pirate fest, which will

take place this year on Jan. 26, honors

José Gaspar, the bold buccaneer who, in

the late 1700s and early 1800s,

captured hundreds of ships off the coast

of Florida.

Today the Gasparilla Festival has

become a major event, and the stolen

treasure is being returned in the form of

tourist dollars.

Gasparilla combines the legend of

Gaspar with the magic of Mardi Gras.

Following their successful takeover of

the city, the merry pirates (a.k.a., civic

leaders who are members of Ye Mystic

Krewe of Gasparilla) strut through

downtown in true swashbuckling style,

accompanied by more than 100 floats

and marching bands.

At the same time, merrymakers fill

the streets, where there’s nonstop

entertainment and an abundance of

Pirates and More in Tampa

The pirate ship José

Gasparilla approaches

the city of Tampa.

Tampa residents get into

the spirit of Gasparilla.

After the invasion, the

pirates parade through

town, tossing treasures to

the waiting crowd.


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food stands. The partying continues until

10 p.m., at which time the victorious

pirates retreat, letting Tampa return to

the 21st century.

Of course, Tampa is more than

pirates. Its attractions include great

beaches (nearby St. Pete Beach was voted

No. 1 by TripAdvisor), a temperate

climate (average summer temps are in the

low 80s; average winter ones are in the

low 60s), and a historic district that

reflects the city’s Latin heritage.

We start our exploration in Ybor City

(pronounced EE-bore), the historic

neighborhood named after the Cuban

cigar manufacturer who made the region

a mecca for hardworking immigrants.

Less than 100 years after Gaspar pillaged

the region, workers from Cuba were

joined by workers of other nationalities,

and together they produced

approximately 700 million hand-rolled

cigars a year.

Today the area is filled with eclectic

shops and trendy nightclubs, but traces

of the past remain. Old, red-brick

buildings with wrought-iron grillwork

line streets bordered with spindly palms;

master cigar rollers continue to practice

their craft; and the Columbia Restaurant,

Florida’s oldest and the world’s largest

Spanish restaurant, features a full array of

Cuban food, as well as the “original

Cuban sandwich” (a long loaf of soft,

white bread filled with layers of ham,

roast pork, Swiss cheese, pickles, and

mustard).

Walking through the restaurant is

almost as interesting as tasting its food.

Amidst the wrought iron and bright tiles,

there’s a royal dining room, a Spanish

courtyard, and a flamenco nightclub.

The Tampa Bay History Center, a

60,000-square-foot facility that opened

in January 2009, tells us more about

Ybor City and the entire Tampa Bay

region. Various exhibits highlight people

from the Seminole Indians and Spanish

conquistadors to the “cowmen and

crackers” who were part of Florida’s

cattle-ranching past.

To see a bit of Tampa’s natural history,

we go to the 240-acre Lettuce Lake Park,

so named because the surrounding

greenery reminded folks of a lunchtime

salad. Rather than renting a canoe or

kayak, we pick up a map and brochure at

the visitors center and explore on foot.

There are 3,500 feet of boardwalk, more

than a mile of paved pathways, and an

abundance of well-maintained nature

trails that lead us though groves of

cypress and ferns and past two alligators,

a few turtles, and an untold number of

birds.

That evening we arrive early for our

flight home and are relaxing at the

mojito bar when a gentleman tells us that

the best place to see a Florida sunset is

from the top of the airport parking

garage. We take the elevator to the top

floor and there, against a red sky, we can

almost see a fully rigged pirate ship

sailing into the bay.

With a smile and a toast to José

Gaspar, we go down to catch our plane.

www.visittampabay.com

Photos © Irv Green; story by Andrea Gross

(www.andreagross.com).

Columbia Restaurant, established in

1905, is Florida’s oldest restaurant.

Hand-rolled cigars are still

made in Ybor City.

Ybor City is a National

Historic District that

commemorates the city’s

Latin heritage.


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Choices and Decisions

by Carl Nilsen

As he grew up in Corning, N.Y.,

Bill Landis saw a future for

himself as an electrical engineer.

So after he graduated from high school

in 1967, he went to work at RCA’s

Lancaster, Pa., plant, working on jobs as

technically complex as creating the

camera used on the Apollo missions to

the moon.

He had a low number in the military

draft, however, and he knew that he

would soon be called into the military.

So he decided to join the Navy, where he

could hope to be part of the Navy’s

program of rapidly converting to nuclear

propulsion for its submarines. He didn’t

know at the time how difficult that

would be. But he was soon to find out.

Upon enlisting, he was called to active

duty in 1970 and took boot camp at

Great Lakes Training Center. He then

learned of the rigid requirements of those

who were selected for submarine service.

They were all volunteers. No one could

be taller than 6 feet, and

they must have perfect

color vision and perfect

physical condition,

including sound teeth.

Those meeting those

requirements then faced a

number of mental and

psychological tests, from

which only those in the

top 10 percent had any

chance of being selected.

Having passed all

those hurdles, Landis was

sent to the Navy’s Mare

Island Nuclear Power

School in California, and

then to Idaho at an operating atomic

reactor for six months. There, he studied

math, chemistry, metallurgy, and nuclear

physics. A special board was sent from

Washington, D.C., to grade the tests

faced by those who

completed those jam-

packed months of

training.

Landis and the others

who had qualified were

sent to assignments in the

fleet. Landis was sent to

Pearl Harbor, where he

was assigned to the Puffer,

an SSN-652 nuclear

attack submarine.

The mission of the

Puffer was to find and

destroy enemy

submarines and surface

vessels, using its

torpedoes and the Tomahawk cruise

missiles it carried aboard. The sub also

was able to carry Navy Seals and offload

them underwater to perform a mission,

and then recover them after the mission,

without an enemy’s knowing from where

they came or where they went after

completing the mission.

An important asset of the Puffer was

its ability to descend to great depths at

sea. Where previous diesel-powered subs

had been able to go as deep as 500 feet,

the nuclear-powered subs like the Puffer

were able to dive far deeper.

The sub itself was about the length of

a football field … and carried all the

food the crew of some 120 men would

need on a typical patrol of two months.

It had its own water-purification and

waste-disposal systems, and the nuclear

power plant would propel the vessel

indefinitely. Where diesel-powered subs

had been essentially surface craft that

could submerge, nuclear-powered subs

like the Puffer were truly underwater

He Spent Many 2-Month Tours Under the Sea

Robert D. Wilcox

Salute to a Veteran

William C. Landis, aboard the

attack submarine Puffer, with

his submarine qualification

certificate.


craft that needed to come to land only at

the end of a mission.

What was life like aboard the sub?

“Well,” Landis says, “they fed us four

times a day, and the food was

outstanding. And they kept us so busy

that there was little time to think of the

diversions we might be missing. Meals

were served continuously, so you had to

fit them

in

between

your

other

duties.

There

were only

four

tables in

the

enlisted

mess, so

meals

took

some

planning.

But every

man aboard—even the cooks—were

submarine qualified to know all the sub’s

basic systems.

“Big as the Puffer was, every inch of

space was used to carry essential food

and gear. It was so crowded that you had

virtually no privacy. Since water was at

such a premium, you had a ‘Navy

shower’ once a week. You turned the

water on to get yourself wet, then turned

it off to get soaped up, and then turned

it back on to rinse off. If the guy after

you thought you were taking a minute

more than necessary, he simply turned

the faucet to cold, and you hopped out

in a hurry. There were only two shower

stalls for the 100 or so enlisted men

aboard, and each was so small that you

couldn’t turn around.

“The Puffer often did escort duty,

where we shadowed our carriers, for

example, and protected them from

enemy subs. We used passive sonar that

listened for the electronic imprint of

enemy subs, but wouldn’t lead them to

us. Our torpedoes could be steered from

our sub to go exactly where we wanted

them to go.”

Other jobs of the Puffer were to

participate in war games, where they gave

surface ships a chance to try to locate

threatening subs. Also, to keep tabs on

Soviet subs, often trailing them for days,

reporting

on their

movements

and

recording

noise

signatures.

An

interesting

sidelight

was that

prior to the

filming of

The Hunt

for Red

October,

Sean

Connery

was on board the Puffer preparing for his

role as Capt. Marko Ramius. He was

given the status of a commander and was

allowed (while the captain was next to

him) to give orders while the boat was

underway.

Just after Christmas in 1976, Landis

was discharged from the Navy at Pearl

Harbor as an E-5 2nd class petty officer.

He returned to Lancaster to again work

for RCA in engineering, gaining several

patents for his work in fiber optics. At

the same time, he attended Franklin &

Marshall College, in the evening division,

and earned an associate degree in

business administration.

Landis, who now lives in Lancaster,

retired in 2009 and now spends much of

his time talking with groups and

individuals about his having served for so

many years under the seas in the Pacific.

Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in

Europe in World War II.

The Puffer attack submarine on which

Bill Landis served in the Pacific.

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EMPLOYERS NEED YOU!!

For more job listings, call theLancaster County Office of Aging

at (717) 299-7979or visit

www.co.lancaster.pa.us/lanco_aging

Lancaster County Office of Aging150 N. Queen Street, Suite 415

Lancaster, PA

Job

OpportunitiesACCOUNT CLERK – PT

Local government office is seeking a person to provide assistance during peak periods to issue licenses,

process applications/payments, file, open mail, verify information, and submit reports. HS diploma/GED

plus accounting/bookkeeping or one year related experience.

Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? How about making a resolution that will enrich your life and the life of anolder person in your community?

The volunteer opportunities available at Lancaster County Office of Aging are diverse, offer flexibility, and require aminimal time commitment. As a volunteer, you can choose to provide a consumer with hands-on help with laundry,grocery shopping, or cleaning. You can also provide socialization as a Phone Pal or Friendly Visitor.

There are also several specialized programs for volunteers through our agency. They include the Volunteer Ombudsmenand APPRISE volunteer programs. Volunteers are also invited to participate in several special events during the year, suchas distribution of donated chicken barbecue dinners and the Christmas holiday program.

For more information about any of these opportunities and others, contact Bev Via, volunteer coordinator, at (717) 299-7979 or by emailing [email protected]. Becoming an Office of Aging volunteer is one resolution you’ll enjoy keeping!

MERCHANDISE ASSOCIATE – PT

Retail clothing/furnishings store

seeking candidates to assist in the

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processing goods, merchandise

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The other services available through the Office of Aging arethe Senior Community Service Employment Program (SCSEP)and the regularly scheduled Job Search Workshops.

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Creativity Matters

Judith Zausner

Food is trendy. It is no longer about

TV dinners and microwave

popcorn. The following chefs

began their journeys many years ago to

transform good eating into a fine art, a

nutritious experience, and big business.

Cecilia Chiang, 91, Chinese –

Raised in a very wealthy family in

Shanghai, she was not allowed in the

kitchen. As a young woman, Chiang

escaped occupied China and, years later,

traveled to San Francisco to visit her

sister.

Serendipitously, she met a friend there

who planned to open a restaurant and

then reneged, but Chiang went forward

with the lease since she had already

written a large, nonrefundable check to

the landlord on behalf of her friend. And

so her restaurant Mandarin began and

remained active for more than 40 years.

Chiang has taught Julia Child, James

Beard, Alice Waters, and Danny Kaye.

MadhurJaffrey, 79,Indian – Born

in Delhi, India,

she did not cook

at home when

she was young

and traveled

abroad to study

in London at

the Royal

Academy of

Dramatic Art.

After marrying

she moved to

New York City

and, in 1973,

she published

her first cookbook, An Invitation to

Indian Cooking.

Jaffrey has written numerous

cookbooks of

Indian, Asian,

and world

vegetarian

cuisines, and

has won James

Beard

Foundation

awards for some

of her books. As

a result of the

success, Jaffrey

also developed a

unique line of

mass-marketed

cooking sauces.

DianaKennedy, 88,

Mexican – Born in the United

Kingdom, she arrived in Mexico with

her husband, who was a New York

Times correspondent. She traveled

throughout Mexico researching cooking

techniques as well as the history of

Mexican cuisine. Craig Claiborne urged

her to give Mexican cooking lessons in

New York City and then, in 1972,

Kennedy published her first book, The

Cuisines of Mexico, and eight more books

would follow.

Jiro Ono, 86, Japanese – Born in

Japan, he is considered the world’s

greatest sushi chef. After his father left,

the 9-year-old Ono left home and never

returned. He has been mastering sushi

for the past 76 years and now is the

subject of a documentary, Jiro Dreams of

Sushi.

Legendary Chefs at Age 60+

Photo courtesy of David Sifry

Alice Waters at dinner with friends.

please see CHEFS page 19


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Theodore Rickard

Ihate to admit it—or, at least, I

should be somewhat bashful about

admitting it—but there is a certain

smug satisfaction in being retired.

First of all, there is an inner

contentment, somewhat akin to a sense

of triumph, in not being awakened by

the clock radio. For years the little white

cube was set for the same time and the

same unctuous and annoyingly happy

voice told us what the local weather was.

This information was a loser either

way. If the weather was bad, it meant a

rush to leave early enough to allow for

the inevitable traffic snarls. If the weather

was good, the call to duty and the reality

of a second mortgage engendered painful

resentments.

In the first few months of not having

to go to work I’d call the bank to see if

the pension deposits had actually been

made. The patient lady (her name is

Alice) at the local branch would recite

the figures—the same numbers every

month. Something tells me I was not the

only one doing this just to make sure.

Alice never sounded surprised at the

request.

At our house the lifetime spousal

comptroller and treasurer dealt with

none of this uncertainty. With sublime

confidence in the world of finance, she’d

go ahead and write the checks for the

condo assessment, telephone bill, and all

those essential etceteras of living. I

admire her faith in the banking system

even after all

the bad

press that

bankers have

been getting.

And

especially

since our

own local

financial

institution is

now in its

fourth name

change, and

we hear it’s

been

acquired yet again, although neither of us

can remember either its last-year name or

its current name or this year’s slogan.

Only Alice has remained the same

throughout the bank’s successive

identities. Her continued presence gives

us some sense of a stable housing for our

modest deposit balance. I keep

wondering what’s going to happen when

Alice retires, but I’ve stopped calling her

every month to see if the money is

actually there.

And we sleep later in the morning. Or

I do, anyway. Sometimes I awaken to the

scent of coffee freshly brewing. This

means we’re going shopping today.

“Shopping” entails me finding a place to

sit down

while the

lifetime

spousal

purchasing

agent provides

whatever we

need to

survive both

the immediate

and the

distant future.

These

needs are

heavily

weighted with

grandchildren’s birthdays, graduations

(including play school), and the next

Yuletide, however many months away it

might be.

Occasionally I do the “guy thing.” For

some reason, this almost always involves

the car. For example, our somewhat aged,

mid-sized sedan gets a regular oil change.

This requires man-to-man talk with

“Angie” at the local service station.

Usually we decide that the brakes are

“good for another 20,000, but we better

keep an eye on the muffler” and “we’ll

want to replace all four tires before we

get snow.”

Actually, it is not “we” doing any

deciding here. Angie’s voice may be

muffled coming as it does from

someplace deep underneath the chassis,

but his diagnosis is unmistakable. This

might be because it’s the same thing he

said the last time we changed the oil.

I know it sounds somewhat mean-

spirited of me, but the best retirement

days are those when the dawn brings a

downpour—a rainstorm enough to

frighten Noah. I don’t need that

artificially cheerful radio voice to tell me

about it. I can hear the water lashing

against the windows even though the

blinds are drawn tight.

All that I have to do about it is to roll

over and go back to sleep. I’m somewhat

ashamed to admit I do so with barely a

twinge of sympathy for those wage

earners, including our own offspring,

who have to slog through the day to earn

their daily bread and cough up their

Social Security taxes.

Selfishly sleepy as I may be, I hope

they are successful. And I make a mental

note to call Alice just to make sure.

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kidney transplant recipient. Fair said her

new kidney is in the right lower quadrant

of her stomach, attached to the artery in

the leg and bladder.

“If you have uncontrollable

hypertension, they will remove the (old)

kidney, but I only had mild hypertension,

so mine wasn’t removed,” she said.

She also gets asked how it feels to have

someone else’s kidney. But Fair doesn’t

think of it that way, she said. She only

thinks about how good it is to no longer

be on dialysis, 10 hours every night, seven

days a week.

“I’m so glad to be rid of it because of

the donation,” Fair said. “Many think of it

as their new birth date. Mine was Feb. 21,

2011. It’s a new life.”

Organ transplants are based on supply

and demand and, currently, the demand is

far greater than the available supply, Fair

said. When there were no airbags in cars

and fewer people were saved from

accidents, there were more cadavers

available. But because airbags are saving

lives, those cadavers are no longer an

option for transplantations.

Therefore, organ donors are needed

more than ever before. In 1987, those in

need of a kidney transplant only had to

wait seven months after first being placed

on the transplant list, Fair said.

But by 2012, the wait had lengthened

to four to six years.

Twelve thousand people meet the

criteria for needing a kidney transplant,

but fewer than half get donors.

“That statistic really struck home,” Fair

said.

Transplant recipients are looking more

and more to living donors since people can

live with only one of their two kidneys. At

Harrisburg Hospital, more than 50 percent

of kidney transplants are due to living

donors, Fair said, quoting Dr. Harold

Yang, a hospital surgeon who helped save

her life.

While kidney disease can be from

hypertension, diabetes, or polycystic

kidney disease, Fair’s kidney problem

stemmed from a birth defect in her

sphincter muscle.

“There was a surgery that could be

done by age 5,” she said, but her diagnosis

at age 21 put her well beyond that point,

and her kidneys slowly deteriorated over

the years.

Fair began journaling about her

experiences with kidney disease in

September 2007. By the fall of 2010, she

needed to go on dialysis, and she

continued writing.

“I had no idea if I would even receive a

kidney, and if I did, how would I get

through the surgery? The recovery period?

Would there be a happy ending? All these

questions remained unanswered,” Fair

said.

“Although I had excellent medical care

... I could not have gotten through this

time in my life without my faith,” Fair

said. “Faith is a choice—it comes from the

heart. You either want to believe or you

don’t. I so believed in God and knew that

he would see me through this most

difficult time. After all, (God) is the

physician of all physicians.”

Fair’s earlier kindness to a young girl

reaped benefits to not only herself, but

another kidney transplant recipient as well.

Because Fair had sponsored Janette

“Jay” Diaz into Milton Hershey School,

Diaz wanted to repay her kindness by

donating her kidney to Fair. But after

testing, the two weren’t a match.

Instead, they were put on the Paired

Donor List for a live match. Diaz matched

a woman in Pittsburgh, and that woman’s

friend, Marlane, matched Fair for a four-

way swap.

“So exciting!” Fair said.

On Feb. 21, 2011, Marlane’s kidney

was flown from the Thomas E. Starzl

Transplant Institute of the University of

Pittsburgh Medical Center to Harrisburg

Hospital, where Fair was waiting for the

lifesaving surgery.

After an excellent recovery, Fair decided

to compile her journal entries and craft

them into a book, Transplanted to Better

Health.

“I wanted to offer hope and

encouragement to patients who were

suffering from kidney failure, or anyone

suffering from a serious illness in general,”

Fair said.

In her memoir, Fair describes the good

and bad days, the ups and downs of

dialysis treatment, waiting for a lifesaving

kidney transplant, and the road to

recovery.

“My story will be familiar for anyone

who has been down the road with kidney

failure, and will uplift and empower those

who are just setting foot on that path,” she

said. “My book is like one patient talking

to another patient.”

But what sets Fair’s book apart from

others is the details in her journals that

only a person with a medical background

would include. Fair is a medical technician

who worked in a doctor’s office.

A signed copy of Fair’s book may be

purchased from Fair by emailing her at

[email protected] or through

Amazon.com as a book or an e-book. To

receive a signed copy, send a check payable

to Fair Book Publishing for $18, which

includes shipping, to: FBP, 1522

Collingdale Circle, Mechanicsburg, PA

17050. To engage Fair as a speaker, contact

her at the above email address.

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Dear Savvy Senior,

Does Medicare cover eye care? I had

excellent vision insurance through my

employer for many years but lost it when I

retired, and now I am confused as to what

Medicare actually covers. What can you tell

me?

— Living on a Budget

Dear Living,

Many retirees are confused with what

Medicare will and won’t cover when it

comes to eye care. Here’s a breakdown of

how Medicare handles different types of

vision care services, along with some

additional tips that can help you get

affordable care when needed.

Medicare Coverage If you have original Medicare (Part A

and B), it’s important to know that

“routine” vision care like eye exams, eye

refractions, eyeglasses, or contact lenses

are generally not covered. But, “medically

necessary” eye care usually is. Here’s a list

of what is covered:

• Eye surgeries: any surgical procedure

that helps repair the function of the eye

like cataract removal, cornea transplant,

glaucoma surgery, etc.

• Eyeglasses or contacts: only if you’ve

had cataract surgery.

• Medical eye exams: only if you’re having

vision problems

that indicate a

serious eye

condition like

macular

degeneration,

retinopathy,

glaucoma, or dry

eye syndrome.

• Glaucoma

screenings:

annual screenings

for those at high

risk (diabetics,

those with a

family history of

glaucoma, or

those who are

African-American

or Hispanic).

• Diabetic eye

exams: if you have

diabetes, yearly exams for diabetic

retinopathy.

• Macular degeneration: certain

treatments are covered.

You also need to be aware that of the

eye care services that are covered by

Medicare, you’re still responsible for 20

percent of the cost—Medicare pays the

other 80 percent.

To help with this out-of-pocket

expense, some

Medigap

supplemental

policies provide gap

coverage. Or, if you

have Medicare

Advantage, some

plans provide eye

care benefits. Be sure

you check with your

plan administrator.

Ways to SaveIf you find your

eye care needs aren’t

covered, or you can’t

afford the 20

percent out-of-

pocket that

Medicare doesn’t

cover, there are other

ways to save.

For starters, if

you need a refractive

eye exam or a new pair of eyeglasses,

many optometrists and eyeglass dealers

offer discounts—usually between 10 and

30 percent—to seniors who request it.

Memberships in groups like AAA and

AARP can also provide lower rates.

Another way to get low-cost eye care is

at an optometry school. Many offer

affordable care provided by students that

are overseen by their professors. See

www.opted.org for a directory of schools

and their contact information.

Assistance ProgramsDepending on where you live, there

may also be some local clinics or

charitable organizations that provide free

or discounted eye care or eyeglasses.

Put in a call to your local Lions Club

to see what’s available in your area. To

reach your local club, visit

www.directory.lionsclubs.org or call (800)

747-4448 to get the number to your state

Lions Club office, which can refer you to

your community representative.

Or, if you need medical eye care,

check into EyeCare America. This is a

national program that provides

comprehensive medical eye examinations

to seniors age 65 and older and up to one

year of treatment at no cost. They accept

Medicare or other insurance as full

payment. And if you don’t have

insurance, care is free. To learn more or

to find out if you qualify, visit

www.eyecareamerica.org.

If you’re under age 65, some other

services that can help include Mission

Cataract USA (www.missioncataract

usa.org), which provides free cataract

surgery to low-income people who don’t

have insurance. And Vision USA

(www.optometryscharity.org/vision-usa,

(800) 766-4466) provides free vision care

to uninsured and low-income workers

and their families.

Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the

NBC Today show and author of The SavvySenior Book. www.savvysenior.org.


Eye Care Coverage and Services for Retirees

Savvy Senior

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Water leaks. Any water

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Dim lights. If your lights flicker or dim

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Ono’s tiny restaurant, Sukiyabashi

Jiro, is in Tokyo, where he holds the

Guinness Book of Records title for being

the oldest three-star Michelin chef.

Reservations are not easy; you are

encouraged to book up to a year in

advance with a cash deposit of about

$368.

Jacques Pépin, 76, French – Born

in France to restaurateurs, he learned to

appreciate food at an early age. In the

1950s he was the personal chef to

Charles DeGaulle and then moved to

the United States in 1959. He has

appeared on numerous television shows

and received a Daytime Emmy award in

2001 for his show Julia and Jacques

Cooking at Home with Julia Child.

Today he serves as dean of special

programs at the French Culinary

Institute, teaches an online class for

Boston University, and writes a

quarterly column for Food & Wine

magazine.

Georges Perrier, 69, French – Born

in France and although not from a poor

family, he began working at 14 and

then moved to the United States when

he was 21 years old. In 1970 he opened

Le Bec Fin (French colloquial

translation: fine palate) in Philadelphia,

which gained a five-star reputation and

was known as the leader of the

“Philadelphia restaurant revolution.”

In January 2009, the French

government awarded Perrier the Legion

d’Honneur. In February 2012, Perrier

announced his retirement from Le Bec

Fin by selling it to a former Le Bec

manager. Perrier still maintains

ownership/interest in other restaurant

venues.

Wolfgang Puck, 63, Austrian –

Born in Austria and trained in France,

he learned much of his cooking skills

from his mother, who had sometimes

worked as a pastry chef. At 25, he

moved to Los Angeles where, 15 years

later, he opened the award-winning

Spago restaurant.

Now he has a gastronomic empire

under his name that includes more than

20 fine restaurants, catering services,

more than 80 Wolfgang Puck Express

operations, and kitchen and food

merchandise, including cookbooks and

convenience foods. He is the official

caterer for the Academy Awards and his

favorite food is macaroons.

Alice Waters, 67, American – Born

in New Jersey, she moved to California

to attend college. It was during her

study abroad time in France that she

began purchasing fresh foods directly,

and it was this experience that

resonated with her and led to the

development of her food-fresh

sustainable beliefs.

In 1971 she opened the Chez Panisse

restaurant in Berkeley, Calif., which

quickly became famous for its organic,

locally grown ingredients and is ranked

among the World’s 50 Best Restaurants.

Waters created the Chez Panisse

Foundation with a mission to transform

public education by using food to

teach, nurture, and empower young

people.

In 1992, Waters was the first woman

to be awarded Best Chef in America by

the James Beard Foundation and has

received numerous other awards,

written about a dozen cookbooks, and

is a board member of relevant

institutions. Waters is an internationally

acclaimed food activist who has inspired

the organic food revolution.

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[email protected].

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