Jan/Feb 2016 Fort Worth

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Mayor
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Living Fit and Loving
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Mayor Betsy Price.
If, as the saying goes, home is
where the heart is, then Betsy
Price has found a home at Fort
Worth City Hall.“I love this town,”
said Price, who is currently
serving her third term as Mayor
of Fort Worth. “I was born here; I
grew up here,” she said. “I want
Fort Worth to continue to be the
best place in the world to live and
raise a family. That’s why I love
my job.”
By Pam Humphrey
7> Clifford Davis: Growing up in the segregated South,
L Clifford Davis’ personal experience with racism led to lifetime of
advocating for fairness and justice. Davis became an attorney to fight
for equality in education, housing and employment and to remove
barriers to any bus seat, lunch counter and restroom. At 91, he still
goes to work everyday at his office with the law firm of Johnson,
Vaughn & Heiskell. Davis continues to love the work that drew him to
Fort Worth more than six decades ago to provide legal counsel to an
underserved black community.
By Marice Richter
16> Siblings and the Aging Parent: Ultimately
one sibling seems to be the designated caregiver. In the first of two
parts, the author provides an intimate overview of how to share
responsibility, especially when geography is an issue. Journalist Harriet
Blake writes from her personal experience and contacted experts for
tips and helpful advice.
By Harriet Blake
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11> Between the Pages
by Harriet P. Gross
We trust the holidays were good to
you and your great expectations for
the new year come to pass.
Here at The Senior Voice, we are so
excited to expand to Tarrant County
with a separate edition beginning
with this first issue of 2016.
Our January–February edition brings
you covers on our local mayors:
Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings is
featured on the Dallas County
edition; Fort Worth Mayor Betsy
Price graces the cover of our Tarrant
County edition.
Mike Rawlings is in his second term
as Dallas mayor and as writer Harriet
Gross says, he is a big believer in
Dallas as the “City of Opportunity.”
After coming to town with $200 in
his pocket, he worked his way up
to become CEO of Pizza Hut. He a
vocal opponent of domestic violence
and sees seniors as a vital resource
in town.
Betsy Price is in her third term in
Fort Worth and is not only working
hard for FW, but as writer P.A.
Humphrey says, is keeping Fort
Worth on its toes, encouraging
residents to ride their bikes and be
“Fit Worth.” She is proud of Fort
Worth’s position as the 16th largest
city in the United States and at the
same time, proud of its small-town
feel.
an attorney to fight for equality and
at the age of 91 is still hard at work.
Writer Marice Richter chronicles Mr.
Davis’ lifetime of advocacy.
Caring for the aging parent,
especially long distance, is a
subject that many can relate to.
Author Harriet Blake discusses the
difficulties that ensue based on
personal experience as well as the
experiences of others. Professionals
weigh in with advice on the best
ways to manage.
The 120th Fort Worth Stock Show
and Rodeo takes place from Jan. 15
to Feb. 6. In addition to the usual
rodeo and stock show competitions,
this year’s event will take time
on various days to recognize the
military, breast cancer survivors and
Cowboys of Color.
Valentine’s Day is not far off and
Love is ON the air — Learn how
Barbara Eden still loves being Genie
and reminisce with Betty Lynn,
Barney Fife’s girlfriend on The Andy
Griffith Show, as she shares her
role at the Andy Griffin Museum in
Mount Airy, NC.
What a better way to celebrate
Valentines Day than with a healthy
aphrodisiac, chocolate. Dark
chocolate especially is good for your
heart — emotionally and physically.
Respectfully and in JOY,
As we honor the birthday of
Martin Luther King this month and
celebrate Black History month in
February, we recognize Tarrant
County civil rights pioneer, Clifford
Davis. Sixty years ago, he became
Carol
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The Tarrant Area Gerontological
Society (TAGS)
Advocacy at its finest
By Mike McGee
The Tarrant Area Gerontological Society (TAGS) was established in the
1990s as a way to educate professionals who were interested in industries
related to senior citizens’ care and other aging issues, says Matt Newton,
the organization’s president. TAGS also offers advocacy for the aging in the
county and provides networking opportunities. It is a mission that has grown
over the decades, says Newton, as the needs of those aging within society
changes and new knowledge becomes available.
“…If you had a referral that you needed help with, or you wanted to make a
referral to somebody that you built a relationship with, you could do that,” he
says. “Or, just to get the education.
“I think the most important thing that TAGS does is the education role and
being able to provide an all-encompassing place where we can provide good,
quality education to a broad spectrum of professionals,” he says. Joining the
society is simple and affordable, says Newton.
“We charge $30 for a year,” he says, pointing out that memberships are
available online at www.tagstarrant.org. Partnering with the society enables
members to participate in free or discounted TAGS events.
“That’s when you can really build relationships and hopefully see a return on
your investment; if nothing else, just to be plugged into an organization that
has hundreds of members across Tarrant County makes sense.”
We have a lot of professionals who aren’t into the networking; social workers,
case management, nursing. People all across the gerontological spectrum
who utilize us for the hours of education that we give away both free and the
ones that we do charge for.”
TAGS is also a great resource for non-members, Newton says. “If you’re
somebody from the outside looking for a particular service… we have our
website and we have an amazing virtual administrative assistant… who
keeps contact with all of our members and pretty much knows everybody
and everything they do and can really start to try to direct them, give them
multiple options of people that are plugged in…”
“Caring for these folks who are living longer and wanting to stay independent
longer — the more we are able to know about them, about their history,
about how to better take care of them, I think it’s just better for all of Tarrant
County.”
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Saturday, February 20
8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
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organizations that serve caregivers. There is no charge to attend but reservations are required.
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A Walk into Our Neighborhood
L. Clifford Davis Fought for Equality
Legal counsel to an underserved black community
By Marice Richter
Growing up in the segregated South, L Clifford Davis’ personal
experience with racism led to lifetime of advocating for fairness and
justice.
door for other blacks
to attend professional
schools.
Davis became an attorney to fight for equality in education, housing
and employment and to remove barriers to any bus seat, lunch
counter and restroom.
Among the many
honors and awards he
has received over the
years are the NAACP’s
William Robert
Ming Award and
the Tarrant County
Bar Association’s
Blackstone Award
and Silver Gavel
Award, the highest
honors given to an
attorney and a judge
respectively.
“All of this is good for the general public and benefits society as a
whole,” said Davis.
At 91, he still goes to work everyday at his office with the law firm of
Johnson, Vaughn & Heiskell. Davis continues to love the work that
drew him to Fort Worth more than six decades ago to provide legal
counsel to an underserved black community.
Now, he mostly handles probate work and helps pro bono clients.
“At my age, I don’t do contested work anymore,” he said.
Early in his career, Davis worked alongside others to challenge
segregation policies in the Mansfield and Fort Worth school districts
and filed education equality lawsuits similar to Brown v. Board of
Education of Topeka.
He also served for nearly 20 years as a district judge in Tarrant County.
Growing up in rural Arkansas, Davis experienced the injustice of
segregation and the degradation of bigotry. He recalled being stoned
by white children on his way to school as a youngster.
Davis said he was inspired to go to law school by his own experience
and the courageous civil rights work of Scipio Jones, a black attorney
who successfully led the appeals of 12 black sharecroppers sentenced
to death for participating in a race riot in the Arkansas Delta in 1919.
After graduating from historically black Philander Smith College in
Arkansas in 1945, Davis began law school at Howard University, also a
black school, in Washington, D.C.
Before finishing, he left Howard to attend graduate school at Atlanta
University. He then decided to return to law school and made a bold
decision to apply to the all-white University of Arkansas. In 1948, he
became the first black person to be admitted but chose to return to
Howard in 1949.
“There was a time
when I couldn’t belong
to the Tarrant County
Bar Association and
now I have received
their two highest
honors,” he said.
Davis was also
inducted into the
National Bar Association’s Hall of Fame and is a 2015 winner of a
Lifetime Achievement Award from Texas Lawyer. A 2015 recipient of
special recognition from Fort Worth Business, he also has a Fort Worth
ISD elementary school named in his honor.
“He is a real jewel and we have been fortunate to have had him in our
community for such a long time,” said Fort Worth attorney Roland
Johnson, a past president of the State Bar of Texas. “He has ruffled
some feathers over the years but he always does it with courage and
grace.”
Davis said serving the community and seeing fairness and justice
prevail have been a source of pride during the past 66 years.
“I’ve enjoyed my life,” he said. “I am a happy old man.”
His challenge of Arkansas’ segregated admission policies opened the
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Elva Roy and Ambassadors For Aging
Helping Arlington and the Mid-Cities civic community get
ready for the Silver Tsunami
By Amy Martin
With an Arlington senior center in motion, Roy and activists plan to focus
on transportation. “Arlington is the largest U.S. city without mass transit,”
says Roy, noting that current senior ride services focus mainly on doctor
visits and do little to counter elderly isolation.
Another focus is visitability standards that help those using mobility-assist
devices such as walkers, wheelchairs and scooters. Roy sites three easy
things that make a difference: having one no-step entrance (even on the
side or back), wider hallways and doors, and at least a half-bath on the
main floor.
“Be the kind of woman who when your feet hit the
floor in the morning the devil says ‘Oh no, she’s up!’ ”
In the case of Elva Roy, it’s not the devil but Arlington officials that feel the
tremor. The intrepid Roy, age 70, felt so inspired by the Summit in Grand
Prairie — ranked in the top ten of senior centers in the U.S. — that she
pressed the city of Arlington for its first senior center. A vote to approve a
quarter-cent sales tax increase for it and other civic improvements will now
happen next fall.
“Officials in places like Arlington have heard of the Silver Tsunami, know
that it’s coming, but don’t know what to do, what to change,” says Roy,
chief rabble-rouser for Ambassadors For Aging (AFA). “That’s where we
come in. We want to help them understand how to make life better for
older adults.”
Roy became interested in senior issues before she reached retirement
age. She struggled for several years being a caretaker for her mother, who
suffered from dementia and languished in an Arlington nursing home until
her passage.
“Wish I knew then what I know now,” says Roy, referring to her lack of
understanding of dementia treatment options and available support
services such as home health care. “After that experience I decided I
wanted to make things better for older people.”
Though Roy had lived and raised children in Arlington and the Mid-Cities,
“when I retired in 2011, I realized that I didn’t know anything about my
hometown, even though I’d been here for decades,” says Roy. “I decided
to get involved and engaged.”
About that time, United Way and the University of Texas at Arlington
organized focus groups on elderly issues. Roy jumped in. The determined
half-dozen left at the end of the process became Age-Friendly Arlington,
now Ambassadors For Aging, with over 200 members.
To join Roy in her quest for an age-friendly world, visit
AmbassadorsForAging.org. All are welcome, but those with graphic
design, MailChimp, and website skills fit a great need. For more on civic
efforts to empower the elderly, visit Age Friendly Initiatives at the World
Health Organization.
Bob Jones and His Legacy:
A freed slave became one the area’s largest landowners
PHOTO: Southlake Historical Society
By Marice Richter
The name Bob Jones is well-known in Southlake. The man whose name is
memorialized on a road, a sprawling park, a resplendent nature center and
preserve was a freed slave who became one of the area’s largest landowners.
The Jones family built a log house that was eventually expanded to an
impressive two-story structure with a balcony and wraparound porches.
John Dolford “Bob” Jones was born a slave in 1850, the son of white
slaveholder Leazer Alvis Jones and his slave Elizabeth. Leazer Jones left his wife
and four children in Arkansas before the Civil War and traveled with Elizabeth
and their mixed-race children to Texas, where he bought land in northern Tarrant
County.
A successful farmer and rancher, Jones hired black and white sharecroppers
and workers for his operation. He built a family church and the one-room
Walnut Grove School for his children and other nearby black children, who were
banned from attending white schools. The Carroll school district’s Walnut Grove
Elementary School, its newest school built in 2012, was named as a tribute to
the Jones schoolhouse.
A slave himself, Bob worked as a sheepherder on his father’s farm. At the end of
the Civil War, Bob, his brother and mother were set free and they bought the 60acre farm Leazer Jones left behind to return to his white family in Arkansas.
“He hired teachers from Dallas during the summer to come teach at the school,”
recalled his grandson, Bobby Jones, who grew up on the farm and grew up to
become an epidemiologist for Tarrant County.
In 1874, Bob Jones married Almeady Chisum, the mixed-race daughter of
legendary Texas cattleman John Chisum and his slave, Jensie. The couple and
their 10 children expanded the farm to nearly 2,000 acres, one of the largest
holdings in present day Southlake, according to the Southlake Historical Society.
After his death in 1936, his children planned to carry on the legacy of farming
and ranching the Jones family land. But misfortune fell upon Mount Carmel
Baptist Church and homestead, which burned down. Eventually, the school
closed and the building deteriorated and crumbled.
The Jones land was located near a tributary of the Elm Fork of the Trinity River
that was selected by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers as the site of Grapevine
Lake. Most of the Jones family land was acquired by the federal government in
the 1940s for the lake.
Some Jones family descendants held onto small plots until the 1990s, but most
of the heirs moved away to find work. Bobby Jones said his father, Emory Jones,
and uncle, Jinks Jones, opened an auction barn. Frequent auctions took place
at the dusty site at White’s Chapel Road and State Highway 114 from 1947 until
1984. The brothers’ wives — Lula and Elnora — ran a café to feed the auctiongoers, travelers and truckers who hauled rocks from Bridgeport to Grapevine for
the lake’s dam.
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A Jones family tradition that began in the 1800s and continued at the auction
barn site was an annual harvest picnic and barbecue. By the 1960s, it lasted
three days and included baseball games, music and dancing and a carnival,
which drew up to 1,000 people per day, according to a Southlake Historical
Society.
Bob Jones was so well known and respected that his funeral drew a crowd
of “500, which jammed the white people’s church” and was attended by as
many whites as blacks, according to the historical society account based on a
newspaper report.
“Bob Jones was truly an American success story,” said Debra Edmondson,
president of the board of the Bob Jones Nature Center and Preserve. “And I’m
proud to say that we continue to tell that story.”
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2016 Fort Worth Stock Show
We love our rodeo!
By Mike McGee
Visitors to the 2016 Fort Worth Stock Show and
Rodeo website are greeted with the grand tag
line “This thing is legendary.”
The event, celebrating 120 years of Western
tradition and pageantry, has the history and
modern attractions to back up such a claim, says
Matt Brockman, publicity manager of the FWSSR.
“When we put our Stock Show and Rodeo
together each year we try to put something
together in a format that has got broad appeal,”
he notes. The undertaking represents the culture
that put Fort Worth on the map and draws more
than one million visitors every year.
This year’s FWSSR events are almost too
numerous to mention, Brockman says. The
Junior Livestock Show. The Cowboy Mounted
Shooting exhibition. The famous indoor rodeo.
Brockman also points out that the Ranch Rodeo
program is something that will be unique for
visitors as it depicts historical activities that are
still used in modern ranching.
trail-driving days and the genesis of ranching of
Texas.” Brockman estimates that up to half of the
cowboys on cattle drives were African American
and Hispanic.
“Just for me, and I think just for thousands
of people who come through our doors… it’s
heartwarming to see events like that that tie
us back to our roots that connect us, I think, as
Texans to our identity,” Brockman says.
Stock Show Goes Pink takes place Jan. 26. On
that day 50% of general admission and rodeo
ticket sales will go to the Greater Fort Worth
Affiliate of Susan G. Komen for the Cure. And on
Feb. 1, active or retired military personnel can
present their military identification at the Rodeo
Ticket Box Office and receive free tickets for their
immediate family and themselves for the rodeo
performance at 2pm or 7:30pm.
Diversity and community causes are represented
as well. “… We go to our Best of Mexico
Celebracion… that’s held on Sunday the
seventeenth. After that on Monday is Martin
Luther King Day. We have more of a traditional
rodeo event called Cowboys of Color,” he says.
“History books and obviously Hollywood hasn’t
depicted reality when it comes to the early
The Fort Worth Stock Show and Rodeo runs from
Jan. 15 to Feb. 6. A full schedule of events can be
found at www.frssr.com.
Lunch for A Hundred? Piece of Cake
By Debra Goldie Jones
She’s not the mayor. Not the chief of
police. Not the city councilwoman.
She’s Bobbi Arthur, as important and
respected as those community partners
who make Haltom City a great place for
seniors.
And she can multitask like an octopus.
During our interview she gave me
a tour and plenty of attention while
doing phone PR, directing volunteers,
arranging next week’s meals, showing
off Thanksgiving photos on a Facebook
page she created, checking on someone’s health
and giving the ceramics and quilting groups a
big vote of approval.
As supervisor of the Haltom City Senior
Center for over two decades, Bobbi oversees
a facility that includes a professional kitchen,
large dining/event hall, classrooms, library,
poolroom, computer room, ceramics studio and
administrative area. Outside, one of only two
designated senior parks in the country features a
gazebo and walking trail.
Her goal is twofold: education and
independence. After 13 years as
a nurse’s aide, she knows what
happens in a nursing home. “You sit
down, you die. I believe you should
get dressed and go somewhere every
day.”
That’s why there’s always something
to do like learning the computer,
playing food bank bingo, quilting,
painting, taking trips or practicing
smart driving. She brings in experts
to discuss health, legal issues, tax
prep, voting, Medicare open enrollment and
housing opportunities. Currently the center
has about 400 members, with 155 new people
joining this year (each one got a handwritten
welcome from Bobbi). That’s 21,349 meals
served, but who’s counting.
And then there’s the scooter rodeo.
As we visit I notice that Bobbi the people person
moves seamlessly into Bobbi the business
manager, rattling off statistics, laws, budgets and
by-laws. She’s an industry insider with contacts
from AARP to Zoning (including Congress). No
wonder Haltom City was the recipient of the
Senior Citizen Services prestigious Senior Spirit
award. That same charisma gets lots of people
to come to her picnics, pool tournaments and
Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders events. There’s
even a pet food bank where volunteer Rodney
Greenlee delivers pet food to seniors in need.
She’s so excited to tell
me they’re gearing up
for September 2016 (it’s
National Senior Month)
and hosting the Tarrant
County Senior Jamboree
at YMCA Camp Carter
in Fort Worth. This free
event brings hundreds
of area seniors, leaders
and providers together
in a beautiful setting with
lakes, trails and nature sanctuary.
“Although my
father, a fire
chief, is gone,
I think I always
want to channel
that level of
service into
everything I do.”
Her parting thought, “Although my father, a fire
chief, is gone, I think I always want to channel
that level of service into everything I do.”
And that she does.
Getting Reel
By Larry Ratliff
Between The Covers
By Harriet P. Gross
Watching Joy
Eugene Burdick and William Lederer were very
smart when they wrote “The Ugly American.”
They first penned it as a real-time expose of
our country’s inept official representatives to
foreign countries. But when they realized that
no one would want to believe this, they rewrote
their book as fiction. After it was published in
1951, everyone took it seriously.
Watching Joy, the mesmerizing dysfunctional
family drama-with-comedy starring Jennifer
Lawrence, Robert De Niro and Bradley Cooper, this
thought kept running through my mind:
“Is there anything Jennifer Lawrence can’t do?”
The answer is apparently not, at least on a movie
screen. Lawrence is already a three-time Academy
Award nominee and a best actress winner for her performance as a troubled
young woman in Silver Linings Playbook in 2012. The 25-year-old actress
takes center stage in this based-on-real-life saga of Miracle Mop inventor Joy
Mangano.
Lawrence returns to the Oscar hunt with the same grim determination she
displayed so well in Winter’s Bone, her gritty breakout film of 2010.
Much of the movie-going world knows Lawrence
as Katniss Everdeen, the steely eyed champion
of the common people in the Hunger Games
fantasy action franchise. It is Lawrence’s ability
to alternate between mass appeal projects and
meaty acting challenges like Joy that could keep
Lawrence on top for the long run; a la Sandra
Bullock or even Meryl Streep.
At first I was slightly thrown off by the way director/co-screenwriter David
O. Russell opens this film with a darkly comic spoof of a TV soap opera
that serves as the bizarre Greek Chorus in this riveting four-generational
biography.
Joy is a 1980s young single New York mom so blitzed by the loser cards life
has dealt her that she barely reacts when her divorced dad (De Niro) moves
into her basement after yet another failed relationship. Joy’s ex Tony (Edgar
Ramirez), a lounge singer with dreams of becoming the next Tom Jones, is
already living down there. His words of welcome to his former father-in-law:
“You touch my microphone and I will kill you.”
Even though Joy appears stunned by her struggles, Lawrence is skilled
enough to show through her eyes that no matter how tough life gets, she will
eventually take charge.
De Niro is also magnificent as Rudy, a father with anger issues and no rudder
to navigate his own stormy life waters. Bradley plays it low-key as the
QVC television exec who sees the value in Joy’s revolutionary mop, taking
a backseat to his leading lady. That was not the case with Silver Linings
Playbook, also directed by Russell.
Joy (Rated PG-13), though a tough emotional ride, is 126 minutes well spent.
On my scale of 1-to-4 jalapeños, it earns an outstanding 3½.
Plano gastroenterologist Michael Weisberg has
shown the same wisdom with his novel, “The
Hospitalist.” It’s a fictionalized expose of what’s
become a trend in American medicine today:
specialists see patients until they need more than office visits can provide,
but upon admission to hospitals, they’re turned over to the new breed of
doctors now responsible for follow-up. The problem: these “hospitalists”
have never seen their new patients before and don’t know them as the
referring doctor does…but that doctor is no longer the caregiver.
Dr. Weisberg first introduces three characters who would
seem to have nothing in common: an incredibly racist
Klan member from backwater Florida; an incredibly
bright little boy from the slums of Mumbai, India; and
an incredibly dedicated medical student at Nashville’s
Vanderbilt University. Over the course of some 300 fastreading pages, these lives converge and interact. The
results — given today’s hospitalist system, which affects
them all — are not pretty. The inevitabilities include loss
of moral compass, valuation of money above humanity,
and even death.
This book’s characters are not highly nuanced; the reader has little difficulty
telling the bad guys from the good ones, although there are a few surprises.
There are also forays into events and situations that allow Dr. Weisberg to
include a fair amount of sex and blue language, along with a more-thanequal sprinkling of medical terminology; he invokes lots of procedures
without explanation, but you can make sense of them from context and
won’t have to look them up unless you’re extra-curious. And he’s not above
inserting a few bits of sly humor; for example, one of his main characters
is an Indian doctor whose last name, “Givagushrai,” bears a striking — and
certainly intended! — similarity to a Yiddish word loosely translated as “let
out a big scream”!
The author’s own medical credentials are beyond reproach; the book’s
back cover proudly proclaims that he’s been named to D Magazine’s “best
doctor” list eight times, and has also achieved recognition as one of Texas
Monthly’s “Super Doctors.” And he is serious about his concern for how
the hospitalist system reflects a change in U.S. medicine’s emphasis from
healing to business. Michael Weisberg’s “ugly Americans” are not overseas,
however; they are very much with us here at home!
The Hospitalist by Michael Weisberg, M.D., from Lulu Publishing Services, is
available on Amazon in paperback at $17.99 or for your Kindle at $1.99, or as
a Barnes and Noble Nook book, also at $1.99.
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RING IN THE NEW YEAR
WITH SECURITY
By Lori A. Leu
The New Year is a time for fresh starts and optimistic outlooks. Your
holiday to-do lists are complete; why not welcome 2016 with a checklist
that will provide peace of mind throughout this year, and the years to
come? Ensuring that the following items are in place and updated on a
regular basis will help protect you and your loved ones, no matter what the
future holds.
n Will — The primary purpose of a Will is to declare your intentions
regarding the distribution of your property after your death. The type
of Will that you need and the way in which your property should be
distributed depends upon your particular circumstances and desires.
n Durable Power of Attorney – A statutory durable power of attorney
is used to appoint an agent to act in your place regarding financial and
legal transactions and is arguably the most important document in your
planning portfolio.
n Medical Power of Attorney — A medical power of attorney enables
another person to make health care decisions that you would otherwise
make, if you were able. A doctor must declare you to be incapacitated
before this authority becomes effective.
n Directive to Physicians and Family or Surrogates (Living Will) —
A living will provides direction regarding your desires to administer,
withhold, or withdraw life-sustaining treatment if you have an
irreversible or terminal condition.
n Authorization to Release Medical Information — In 2003, the
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA)
took effect. HIPAA contains medical privacy rules that restrict disclosure
of health information by health care providers and plans. A HIPAA
Authorization allows the individuals that you specify to have access to
your health information so they can assist in decisions regarding your
care.
n Declaration of Guardian — Further protect your interests by declaring
the individuals that you would like to be appointed as guardian over you
and your estate (as well as individuals who should not be appointed).
n Long-term Care Insurance — Americans are living longer than ever,
and the cost of care in the final years of life has risen dramatically. A
long-term care insurance plan can help ensure that you have good
options for quality care, when the time comes.
This year, resolve to plan for your future, today. Check these items off your
New Year’s List and alleviate the stress that can occur when care issues turn
into a crisis, so that you can enjoy a fresh and optimistic start to your New
Year.
Lori Leu, Erin Peirce, Lauren Olson, and Laura Chavero are Elder Law
attorneys with Leu & Peirce, located in Plano, Texas. They can be reached at
972-996-2540
The Aging Hippie
Becoming a Crazy
Aunt
By Amy Martin
Hippiedom is superb training for being the crazy aunt.
A good hippie embraces each day as a unique gift
overflowing with creative potential and opportunities
to connect and serve. We are the keepers of the
carpe diem. My heart melts each time my grandnieces greet me at family
gatherings with the expectation of “What is our adventure today?”
My play with this trio of bright souls ages 4 to 10 started with make believe,
enacting characters and scenes from movies and plays they’d seen. The
conflations were great. Minions from Despicable Me invaded Frozen scenes,
with random ceramic bulldogs off the bookshelves joining with My Little
Ponies to save the day. I am in awe of their creativity.
Our great girl science period began when I showed up with kinetic sand,
the new generation of Play-Doh: sand with just enough plastic resin to stick
together under pressure. With tools, molds and tints we could build just
about anything. And make a glorious mess. Beach scenes and castles with
moats quickly ramped up to contests for making the most elaborate cupcake
ala The Great British Bakeoff.
But you have to keep up your cool quotient or risk losing the weird aunt title.
So I introduced them to the glories of InstaMorph, plastic granules that soften
in hot water to create gooey blobs. Through trial and error, we discovered
how hot the water had to be to soften the InstaMorph and for how long.
Much discussion of boogers arose at this point. We determined how to mix
the tint pellets into the soft plastic.
Roles naturally arose among the sisters, each taking the task that best
suited them. I found my niche among them and we transformed into an
InstaMorphing machine. We stretched, twisted, and shaped the soft plastic
into bracelets, bunnies, and magic rings. I stretched the InstaMorph to saranwrap thinness and made a cast of my nose and a macabre ghost finger that I
teased them with, assuring my weird aunt title for quite some time.
For Christmas, we went to Lone Star Circus, a local Cirque du Soliel outfit
with clowns, acrobats, and jugglers, even professional hula hoopers and
trained cats. Ideas were spinning out of their little blond heads afterward. The
family gathering at Easter this year will be very interesting.
Fortunate me, I am the one they’ll tell stories about to their friends when
they’re older, the one who made their life a little more colorful, who showed
them they could be forever young. To paraphrase Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.,
“Girls do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they
quit playing.”
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Bo Knows Sports
Gary Patterson
Football Intensity
Belies Unseen
Kindnesses
By Bo Carter
On the surface, TCU head football coach
Gary Patterson is one of the most intense
football minds and mentors in the collegiate
game.
Inside, Patterson has a kind heart and a wife
Kelsey who shares his love for people and
causes as diverse as student scholarships
and shelters for underserved women.
In the past 14 years, the Gary Patterson
Foundation (GPF) has assisted numerous
groups such as the Giving Back Team. The
team is comprised of children from Presbyterian Night Shelter, which has
raised area awareness about abused and neglected animals in East Fort Worth
and the downtown area.
The GPF also has worked with George C. Clarke Elementary School to help
support an anti-gang campaign, a campus beautification project and a pajama
drive for Safe Haven House. Twenty-two other area organizations have
benefitted from the work of the foundation and its generosity.
Patterson acknowledges his desire to help youngsters and the disadvantaged,
especially in the Tarrant County and metro DFW areas. While modest, he
realizes the impact it has made on thousands of lives.
“We want to reinforce that it takes a team effort to make a difference,”
Patterson said. “The team of volunteers and everyone who attends our annual
fundraising event are part of the Foundation family.”
As for the intense Patterson, it’s hard to ignore the driving and football-savvy
force that has helped the Horned Frogs win a school-record (for 15 years) 142
games since 2001 and prior to the post-2015 bowl season while also capturing
89 of 122 games in three different conferences – Conference USA, Mountain
West and Big 12 – over that same era: all school records.
The TCU taskmaster came through this year with possibly his best coaching
season (though he has 10-plus victories in five of the last seven years at the
helm) as he guided the squad to a 10-2 pre-bowl mark and 7-2 mark in the Big
12 to tie for second place. There were 23 players on the ’15 squad who missed
at least one game with injuries in an almost-surreal rash of physical maladies.
Still, Gary Patterson relies on that will to win and motivation of players (as well
as his coaching/teaching skills) to roll to the best individual coaching record
in TCU football annals. His penchant for calling sideline defensive signals and
getting the most out of players are almost unmatched nationally.
Mayor
Betsy Price
By P.A. Humphrey
If, as the saying goes, home is where the heart is,
then Betsy Price has found a home at Fort Worth
City Hall.
“I love this town,” said Price, who is currently serving her third term as
Mayor of Fort Worth.
“I was born here; I grew up here,” she said. “I want Fort Worth to continue
to be the best place in the world to live and raise a family. That’s why I love
my job.”
Price might be best known as “the mayor on wheels.” She is a cycling
enthusiast and under her leadership, the city has become a major biking
community, with riding groups, rallies and miles of new bike lanes and
trails. Price’s Walking and Rolling Town Halls have gotten press around the
nation. Once a month, the mayor and other city officials wheel into one
Fort Worth neighborhood or another to meet up with and answer questions
from residents, many of them on bicycles themselves.
“It’s absolutely the best office because you can impact people’s lives
on a daily basis,” she said. “You can get out and hear a lot about your
community, connecting with people, visiting with them. It’s a tremendous
place to help make a better future.”
Price’s baby is Fit Worth, the city’s initiative to ensure residents live
healthier, better-quality lives. That includes making the city a better place
for seniors, too, she said.
“Part of what we want to achieve is what we call “successful aging,”
Price said. “That’s the attitude that people don’t really retire, they remain
connected to their community and use their skills to make it a better place
to live. One of our objectives is to be a place where residents can “age in
place,” meaning they can stay in their own homes as long as possible.”
Through a program called the Blue Zones Project® the city’s community
centers have begun offering social clubs, walking groups, healthy cooking
classes, and other social and educational offerings for seniors.
The city, itself, has added sidewalks, biking infrastructure and walking
trails. Schools, along with restaurants and businesses, have been
encouraged to join in the healthy community
initiative.
Fort Worth is one of 20 cities in the U.S.
selected to be part of the project. It is the
brainchild of author Dan Buettner, who, in
conjunction with the National Geographic
Society, studied communities around the globe
and designated some as “Blue Zones,” where
people age without suffering the common
illnesses of old age, because of their healthier
lifestyles.
Part of Price’s vision for a healthier Fort Worth
is turning it into a place where people can
ditch their cars and use alternative modes
of transportation, like buses and, ultimately,
an affordable, convenient light rail system.
Pedestrian-friendly urban villages, with closein shopping and generous walking lanes and
crosswalks are part of the plan, too, Price said.
“One of the worst things that older people face
is a limited transportation. When you lose your
ability to drive, you lose your freedom,” the
mayor said. “When my mother couldn’t drive
any more -- she was a fiercely independent
woman -- she got an MITS (Mobility-Impaired
Transportation Service) pass and went all over
town by herself. I’d like to see more of that.”
Fort Worth, which started out as an army
outpost on the Trinity River and grew into a
major cattle town, today, has a population
of almost 800,000. It is one of the fastest
growing and most diverse cities in the country,
according to the 2010 census.
Price said she’s dedicated to seeing the city
through growth and modernization, while
maintaining the small town character that she
remembers from growing up on the city’s west
side in the ’50 and ‘60s.
Price is a former rodeo club sweetheart, who,
as a teen, spent weekends cruising local driveins with her friends. It was an era of muscle
cars, rock ‘n’ roll, mini-skirts and bell-bottoms,
teen clubs and anti-Vietnam War protests in
Trinity Park.
“We hung out at Joe Vines on Camp Bowie; it
was a little hamburger joint,” said Price, who
graduated from Arlington Heights High School
in 1968. “Occasionally we’d go down Camp
Bowie to University and Carlson’s Drive-In,
where kids from all over town showed up to
cruise the parking lot. It was a fun time.”
Being a politician was not something she
planned on, however.
Price graduated from the University of Texas in
Arlington, married her high school boyfriend,
Tom, a real estate executive and had three
children. The daughter of a car dealer, she
opened a title service, doing title work and
property taxes for most the city’s auto lots. That
experience ultimately convinced her to run for
Tarrant County Tax Accessor/Collector.
“I always thought that office was not very well
done,” she said. “They weren’t really geared to
working with businesses and they were doing
$3 billion a year in tax collections. I kept saying,
‘Someone needs to straighten this office out,’
and my clients kept saying, ‘That someone
needs to be you.’”
Price won and served from 2000-2011, almost
four terms in office. The mayor’s job opened up
in the last year of her fourth.
“When [Mayor Mike Moncrief] left, people kept
telling me I needed to run for mayor and I was
like, ‘arrrgh,’ because that’s a lot more political
and a lot more responsibility.”
After some convincing, she decided to run and
won election in 2011.
By most accounts, Price has been a successful
one. She ran unopposed for her last term in
May.
Many community activists credit Price with
being the most open Fort Worth mayor, ever.
She has called for input from residents, set
up a website for suggestions, pushed through
initiatives to make city government friendlier to
the city’s increasingly diverse population. She
was the first Fort Worth mayor to ride in a gay
pride parade.
She may have reached “retirement age,” but
Price isn’t ready to hang up her gavel or her
bicycle helmet just yet.
“I plan on running for another term, barring
anything unforeseen happening” she said.
“I’ve still got work to do.”
Price has had the usual run-ins with the police
union over overtime pay, scrutiny over travel
expenses and criticism by some activists who
claim she’s a little too close to the downtown
big-money/developer crowd.
Price’s biggest obstacle, however, is in
convincing long-time residents that the nature
of the city won’t change under her watch.
The concern has focused on recent debates
over renovation of the historic North Side
stockyards district.
“It’s one of the things I hear most often from
the community,” she said. “Well, it’s not going
to change. The stockyards [area], is critical
to the tourist trade and the business trade of
this city, as well. Besides, it’s just one of our
jewels.”
The city council is committed to keeping Fort
Worth, Fort Worth, Price said.
“There has to be some rehabilitation because
if we don’t, we’re going to have demolition by
neglect if we’re not careful,” she said. “I mean
there are going to be changes, but changes for
the better. We’re not going to change the fabric
of the stockyards.
“People come here because Fort Worth is a
big city, 16th largest in the nation, but they
like it because it has that small-town feel” the
mayor said. “Keeping that, that’s our biggest
challenge.”
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Menopause Breakthrough Remedy!
Researchers at the University
of Texas Health Science
Center in Fort Worth have
discovered a breakthrough
remedy for hot flashes, mood
swings and other symptoms of
menopause without the safety
risks associated with hormone
replacement therapy.
The promising therapy known
as DHED is a departure from
hormone replacement therapy
that delivers estrogen throughout a woman’s body, increasing the risk of
cancer. Instead, DHED would target delivery straight to the brain.
“The chemical gets into the brain, where it is useful and metabolizes to
estrogen, but it doesn’t affect the rest of the body,” said Dr. Laszlo Prokai,
professor and Robert A. Welch Chair in biochemistry at the UNT Health
Science Center.
By Marice Richter
For decades the standard treating for symptoms of menopause has been
hormone replacement therapy, which provides relief by infusing estrogen
and progesterone into menopausal women to bolster the diminishing
hormones in their bodies,
Premarin, produced from estrogens found in the urine of pregnant horses,
was introduced in the United States in 1942 and continued to be la leader in
HRT therapy.
But in 2002, the Women’s Health Initiative of the National Institutes of
Health found increased incidence of breast cancer, heart attacks and stroke,
particularly in women over age 60.
Due to the findings, women are advised to take HRT in low dosage for a
short period of time.
Researchers have found that menopausal symptoms such as hot flashes,
depression and sleep deprivation last can last for a decade or more.
“That’s why it is important to develop a system to treat the symptoms and
improve quality of life without the health risks,” Prokai said.
The study of the experimental treatment led by Prokai was reported in the
July issue of the academic journal “Science Translational Medicine.”
DHED also holds promise for victims of some types of strokes and other
neurological conditions, he said.
DHED is still undergoing research and is years away from being available
on the market. But Prokai said serious effort is underway to find a drug
manufacturer willing to take the therapy to next step of clinical trials.
Prokai said it could take nearly a decade before the drug is widely available
for women. The process involves clinical trials and winning approval from
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Siblings And The Aging Parent African–Americans
Sharing Care Across the Miles at higher risk for
First of a two-Part Series
Alzheimer’s
By Harriet Blake
The cellphone beeps. It’s my sister, again. “Mom is having a bad day. She lost
one of her hearing aids and thinks the nurse took it.”
A few days earlier: “Mom’s checking account has been hacked. We need to close
her account and open a new one.”
And the week before that: “Mom is hallucinating. She told me she saw Dad in
her room but he wouldn’t speak to her.”
What can I say to alleviate the situation? I’m in Texas, my sister lives in New York
— about half a mile away from our mother’s assisted living facility. All I can do
is text, email and call back to let my sister vent. My next trip to see them is later
this month. I will try to spend a few days smoothing things over.
But it’s never enough. How do you care for an aging parent from a distance? And
how do you share the burden with the sibling who has become the designated
caregiver? A friend who’s been in the same position says, it is tough to weigh in
on decisions from a distance — whether they are medical, financial or emotional.
“Once my father reached the point of needing nursing home care, my siblings
and I met in person (the four of us live in three different cities) to discuss how
we could help. We made an agenda, appointed a leader and made a plan. It
was messy, and, in many ways, unpleasant, but far better than trying to do by
phone.”
Teresa Whittington, Vice President of Community Services at CC Young Senior
Living/Senior Care, says she has observed many families struggle with this
dilemma. “Most of the time,” she says, “one child ends up with the majority of
the responsibility.” She recommends the following for siblings caring for aging
parents.
1. Proactively have a family meeting — if possible while both parents are
cognitively intact, to discuss medical and financial power of attorney and
their specific wishes regarding end-of-life treatments. When families are in
crisis, it is difficult to have these discussions. A lot of emotions can lead to
poor conversations and outcomes.
2.If one sibling is going to be the primary caregiver, the other siblings need to
plan to give them a break (3-5 days) on a quarterly basis if not more. Siblings
should call their parent and siblings weekly. Send thank-you notes and/or
small gifts to the primary caregiver to make them feel appreciated.
3. Find out what resources are available in the community to assist the primary
caregiver.
4.Other siblings should educate themselves on the disease process so they
understand what the caregiver is dealing with.
5.If the family has not had any prior discussions and is in crisis mode, they
should contact a social worker who can facilitate the family conversation.
African–Americans are hard hit by
Alzheimer’s disease. The Alzheimer’s
Association reports that older African–
Americans are about twice as likely to
have Alzheimer’s and other dementias
as older whites. Health conditions
such as cardiovascular disease and
diabetes, which increase risk for
dementia, are believed to account for
these differences, as they are more
prevalent in African–American people.
The Association predicts that over the
next 30 years, the number of African–
Americans entering the age of risk
more than doubles to 6.9 million.
Ten percent of the 15 million
Americans providing unpaid care for
people with Alzheimer’s and other
dementias are African-American.
The National Alliance for Caregiving
indicates that this 10 percent spends
approximately 30 hours a week caring
for a loved one.
Ten percent of the 15 million
Americans providing unpaid
care for people with Alzheimer’s
and other dementias are AfricanAmerican. If you are caring for a
loved one, join us Saturday, Feb.
20, 2016 for Facing Dementia and
Taking Charge, a caregiver seminar
filled with tools and resources for
facing the challenge of dementia.
As an organization dedicated to assisting those caring for someone with
dementia, the Alzheimer’s Association–North Central Texas Chapter presents
a half-day seminar intended to help caregivers learn how to be confident,
educated and healthy. Facing Dementia and Taking Charge will be Saturday,
Feb. 20, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. in the Student Center of Tarrant County
College–South Campus.
“From knowing the signs and symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease to finding
help, coping with challenges, and managing stress, a confident caregiver
faces dementia and takes charge,” said North Central Texas Chapter Program
Manager Shelly Young. “Our goal is to support caregivers, whether they are
new to the role or if they’ve been caring for someone for years. We want to
give them tools and resources to help them care for themselves while caring
for someone they love.”
Facing Dementia features several programs and vendors. Speakers include
Marshawn Brown who serves as national director of Facing Dementia features
several programs and vendor. Speakers include Marshawn Brown, who serves
as national director of diversity and inclusion for the Alzheimer’s Association,
and Tarrant County Commissioner Roy Brooks (Precinct 1).
The 2016 African-American Caregiver Seminar is open to the public at no
charge; however, registration is requested by calling 800.272.3900. Check-in
begins at 8:30am, and morning refreshments and lunch will be provided.
For more information about programs and services provided by the
Alzheimer’s Association–North Central Texas Chapter, visit
alz.org/northcentraltexas.
LIVING BRAIN HEALTHY
Improve Overall Health and Sharpen Memory
Dr. Diana Kerwin
As Chief of of Geriatric Medicine at Texas Health
Presbyterian Hospital Dallas, my goal for the
aging population is to promote a brain-healthy
diet and increase exercise. And as a specialist in
cognitive disorders and brain health, much
of my career has been spent researching about
how the brain changes as we age and what
steps we can take to keep it healthy. I am also
the medical director of Texas Alzheimer’s and
Memory Disorders, a Texas Health Physicians
Group practice in Dallas, and I serve on the
board of the Alzheimer’s Association.
Brain Healthy Diet
n Dark leafy greens— every day
nCold water fish for protein and Omega 3 source — two or more
times a week — sardines, anchovies and Atlantic salmon
nNuts — walnuts, almonds and peanuts
n Legumes — three to four times a week
nVitamin E and C rich foods — almonds, kale, pumpkin seeds
parsley, papaya
My practice is dedicated to promoting the health of my patients
through education on how to improve their brain health through food
choices — a nutrient-dense diet is a big part of the prescription for my
patients.
nHealthy fats, olive oil two tablespoons a day, no butter.
Brain-Healthy Food Choices and Exercise
As a treat add a bit of dark chocolate for a sweet indulgence and to up
your antioxidants.
I advocate for maintaining an ideal body weight by making brainhealthy food choices with a simple plan: choose fresh ingredients;
avoid simple sugars; consume lots of whole foods (nothing
processed); and avoid fast food. These steps are nothing new — but
it can be challenging at first to adopt this new approach to a brainhealthy diet.
Like the heart, the brain also needs the right balance of nutrients —
including protein and sugar — to function well. A brain-healthy diet is
most effective when combined with physical and mental activity and
social interaction.
Regular exercise throughout all stages of life is healthy, and it’s never
too late to start. The brain benefits are immediate. Begin by adding 30
minutes of exercises three times a week. Be sure to consult with your
doctor about how to safely increase your exercise.
Healthy Diet, Healthy You
Sure, it takes more effort to eat healthy. But a poor diet, eaten over
many years, increases our risk of cardiovascular disease, obesity, type
2 diabetes and even Alzheimer’s disease.
Research shows that a healthy diet can diminish these risks and
enhance our longevity. But we need to know what to eat, how much
to eat, and why it’s important that we make these decisions now.
Diet and nutrition are two of the first treatments I discuss with
patients who have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease. And to
their family members without memory loss, I offer the same advice.
All of the healthy-eating recommendations I make are based on
vitamins and minerals that support our minds and bodies in countless
ways.
nTurmeric — as often as possible
nStay hydrated
Food as Ultimate Protector, B Vitamins for Added Brain
Health
Think of food as the ultimate protector and as your medicine. Choose
foods that serve your individual needs and improve your brain health
and overall health as you age.
Think of B vitamins as brain food. Our bodies use B vitamins to keep
the nerves and the brain healthy, when B levels start to decline around
age 55, mental performance may suffer.
n For a good source of Vitamin B12 eat turkey, chicken, and seafood
(clams, mussels and mackerel)
nTo boost your B6 levels, choose potatoes, bananas, prunes, greens
and pinto and kidney beans
n Look for Vitamin E in your food sources (wheat germ, olive oil, nuts
and seeds).
With the growing knowledge around food choices, we now can make
good decisions and balance our scales to live the longest, healthiest
lives possible.
Texas Alzheimer’s and Memory Disorders is part of Texas Health
Physicians Group. Physicians employed by Texas Health Physicians
Group practice independently and are not employees of the hospital
or Texas Health Resources. For more information, all 214-345-4449 or
visit TexasAlzheimersandMemoryDisorders.com
A Sweet Romance
By Virginiae Blackmon
The human love of chocolate seems to exist since the beginning of time.
Did a Cacao tree grow in the Garden of Eden? Surely God and all of heaven
enjoyed chocolate before sharing with mere mortals. How and when man
first discovered cacao in the wild remains a mystery. The small evergreen
tree is native to the lower eastern slope of the Andes in South America.
The beans come from a tree whose botanical name is Theobroma Cacao,
which translates “food of the gods.” Aztecs considered cacao to be man’s
inheritance from Quetzalcoatl, god of the air. The ancient Aztecs and
Mayans made a very special drink they called chocolatl. Natives of Mexico,
South America and the West Indies enjoyed the beans of the Cacao tree
for food long before Columbus tested a new route to India. The Spaniard
Cortes was the first to bring the seeds back to Europe in 1519. Explorers
introduced chocolate to the Mediterranean region, and from there it spread
to Europe. Kings and other royalty made the drink fashionable. The subtle
richness appealed to the more sophisticated palates of those who could
afford it. Chocolatl was made by boiling crushed cacao beans mixed with
maize in water for about an hour, remove the beans and mix the liquor with
vanilla, sugar, cinnamon and chile peppers. The mixture, then whipped
into froth, was served hot in a golden cup. The drink became a favorite of
Emperor Montezuma.
The cacao beans, so precious in the early sixteenth century, were not only
used for making drinks, but also for currency.
In the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries, chocolate cured many illnesses
and also provided passion. It remained
affordable only to those of considerable
means. Charles Dickens, in A Tale of Two
Cities describes chocolate drinking as
a luxury of the idle upper class. About
1727, an Englishman and pub owner
named Nicholas Sanders first mixed milk
and sugar with cacao powder, creating
a thicker version of hot chocolate. As it
grew more and more popular, doctors
proclaimed the drink healthy for both
children and adults.
The first chocolate mill in the United
States, established in 1765 in Dorchester,
Massachusetts, and purchased in 1780 by
Dr. James Baker. He named the business Walter Baker and Company and
the mill is still in business today producing Baker’s Chocolate (the founder’s
name, not chocolate just for baking). Hershey Chocolate Company
marketed the first chocolate bar in Pennsylvania in 1894, and most of us
know how the story goes on.
Of all the foods around the world, chocolate remains the most widely
recognized. It is so much a part of our daily lives. Though now affordable
to everyone, this confection continues to represent something magically
enduring when coupled with special occasions and romance.
One historical account of a true love story associated with chocolate is of a
prince and a commoner. On a chilly winter day in 1760, Prince Ditrichstein
of Austria, vacationing in Vienna, decided to visit a newly opened Chocolate
Shop. He seated himself at a table. Babette Daldauf, the daughter of an
impoverished knight, waited on him. She took his order and served him
a cup of the new drink called “hot chocolate.” The Prince so enjoyed
the drink and the warmth and conviviality of the shop, he returned day
after day, not only to savor hot chocolate, but also to see Babette. The
lovely waitress enchanted him. Putting his social station aside, he wooed
Babette. They fell madly in love and soon married. The Prince made public
statements that he married the prettiest lady in Vienna.
As a wedding gift and a testament of his love for Babette, his La Belle
Chocolatiere, Prince Ditrichstein engaged a Swiss artist, Jean Liotard, to
paint his beloved in the simple costume she wore in the chocolate shop
when they first met. The original portrait hangs in the Dresden Museum
where it has been since 1761. The likeness of “La Belle Chocolatiere”
graces the labels of many Baker’s products used in kitchens all over the
world today.
The next time a morsel of chocolate is placed on your tongue and the
velvety sweetness excites taste buds as it melts and trickles down the
throat, allow yourself that mystical special feeling. Remember love stories
from all over the world such as the one of Babette, La Belle Chocolatiere,
who became a Princess.
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Love is ON the Air
Barbara Eden Still Loves Being the Genie
“I have the real bottle,”
announced Barbara Eden,
84, about the unique prop
that served as the home for
her supernatural character
“Jeannie” from the 1960s
television show I Dream Of
Jeannie.
The iconic actress revealed another fact about
the decanter during her visit with enthusiastic
fans at the Dallas Comic Con Fan Days event.
“[It was] a Jim Beam bottle,” she stated. “It was
a Christmas bottle for Jim Beam, and most of
those in-the-know go find them and have them
painted...”
Eden also shared how she won the most famous
role of her career. “I had been reading about
it in Variety…” she began. “They were testing
actresses for the part and they were all very tall
brunettes.
“And they were all like, Miss Greece, Miss
Israel, Miss Italy, you know — all these beauty
contest winners. And I said, ‘Okay, not for me,’”
she remembered. Still, Eden’s agent sent her a
script to read and she met with producer Sidney
Sheldon over an iced tea.
“….And that’s how I got it.”
In addition, the actress revealed some
sentimental thoughts on Larry Hagman (Tony
Nelson), who hailed from the Ft. Worth area.
“I miss Larry,” she said of her costar who later
gained fame on Dallas as J.R. Ewing.
“Over 500 people come through,” says Betty
of a typical day greeting fans, which she does
about once a month. They come from all over
the world to meet a former cast member of the
popular show and to see the large collection
of Andy Griffith memorabilia, assembled by
Griffith’s life-long friend Emmett Forrest (see
there would ever be a remake of Jeannie. Eden
mentioned that she might enjoy being a part of a
rebooted series. “I would. I would like to play her
grandmother,” said Eden, drawing laughter from
the crowd. Part of what made Jeannie a popular
character was her personality; “She really loved
life and she loved people,” the actress explained.
Along with her Jeannie work (including two
television movie sequels), Eden did extensive
USO service in the 1980s with Bob Hope. She
also appeared in the t.v. series Burke’s Law and
had roles in such films as The 7 Faces of Dr. Lao
and Ride The Wild Surf. The actress mentioned
the films Harper Valley P.T.A. and The Wonderful
World Of The Brothers Grimm as some of her
favorite roles.
“He was wonderful. For me in particular his
timing was so good and so wonderful,” she
asserted. The actress worked with Hagman
throughout her career — a connection which
included a role on Dallas.
“At the end of his life we did Love Letters
together — completely different characters —
and he just fell right into it,” she remarked upon
their theatrical pairing. “He was a delight to work
with.”
“I think I had an angel on my shoulder,”
Eden said as she looked back on the positive
experiences in her career.
“I loved being a genie,” Eden exclaimed.
“I still do — look out!”
At one point an audience member wondered if
Betty Lynn Keeping Mayberry Alive
It’s just after noon on the
third Friday of the month,
and 89-year-old Betty
Lynn is preparing to take
her seat behind a small
brown table in the main
room of the Andy Griffith
Museum in Mount Airy,
NC. Visitors are already beginning to flood into
the 2,500-square-feet building to meet the actress
best known to ‘60s TV fans as Barney Fife’s
girlfriend, Thelma Lou, from “The Andy Griffith
Show” set in the fictional town of Mayberry.
By Mike McGee
By Nick Thomas
www.andygriffithmuseum.com).
In 2007, after being twice robbed in her Los
Angeles home, Lynn left Hollywood for the quiet,
secure life in Mount Airy, which was also Andy
Griffith’s hometown. “I’d been coming here
for the Mayberry Days festival for ages, so it
seemed like the perfect place to settle,” she said.
“Everyone has been so kind since I moved here.
It didn’t take long for me to feel like a local rather
than a visitor.”
“The Andy Griffith Show” ran for eight seasons,
throughout most of the 1960s. It won six Emmys,
including five for Don Knotts. “Andy was fun and
a bit of a tease off camera, while Don was sweet
but very quiet and nothing like his Barney Fife
character. But that just illustrates what a good
actor he was.”
Lynn also appeared in some 20 films and over 40
other TV shows, including many westerns.
“My first film, ‘Sitting
Pretty,’ and then
later ‘Cheaper by the
Dozen,’ were with
Clifton Webb, a sweet man with a good sense of
humor,” she recalled. “I also did two films with
Bette Davis who got everyone to call me Boo,
after one of my characters, so it wouldn’t be
confusing when they called ‘Betty on the set!’
As she does on each of her visits to the museum,
Betty braces for a long afternoon as enthusiastic
fans are already forming the meet-and-greet line.
“It’s a little tiring by the end of the day, but it’s the
least I can do since people may stand for hours to
take a picture, get an autograph and a hug,” she
says. “There’s a lot of love coming my way.”
Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at
Montgomery, Ala., and has written features,
columns, and interviews for over 600 magazines
and newspapers.
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Take A “Closer Walk
With Patsy Cline”
Granbury Opera House
Julie Johnson stars as America’s favorite
country music sweetheart in Dean Regan’s
musical tribute, “A Closer Walk with
Patsy Cline,” co-starring Steve Barcus, and
presented by Granbury Theatre Company
and Mark Bell at the Granbury Opera
House Jan. 8–31.
A loving tribute to country music’s most
enduring superstar, the musical journey traces the legendary singer’s rise from
her hometown in Winchester, Virginia to the Grand Ole Opry, Las Vegas and
Carnegie Hall. Patsy Cline defined the term “crossover hit” by dominating
country, blues, pop and gospel charts simultaneously in the 1950s and early
‘60s.
Featuring 21 of Patsy’s greatest hits, the musical tribute includes Walkin’ After
Midnight, Sweet Dreams, I Fall to Pieces, Crazy, She’s Got You, Seven Lonely
Days and the title song, A Closer Walk with Thee.
Tickets are priced from $25-$40, and are available by calling 817-579-0952
or may be purchased online at www.GranburyTheatreCompany.org. Show
performances will be Friday and Saturday nights at 7pm, with matinees
Saturday and Sunday at 2pm.
Winter Snooze
By Dianne Hackett
Mmmmm. A warm bed; being nestled in safe and cozy
while the cold, blustery weather is locked outside. What
a blessing is the feeling of waking refreshed and relaxed
and renewed from a good night’s rest. And how illusive
are these wonderful feelings for so many folks these
days — and for so many reasons.
Sleep is critical to the proper functioning of the mind and body, and thus the
spirit. Without proper rest, we do know that we feel irritable, emotionally
more sensitive, less alert, and just less mentally functional. Physically, sleep
is necessary in order to allow for many functions of the body to occur. Our
immune systems are at their peak while deeply asleep. Our waste processing
systems in the liver, kidneys and blood are also at peak activity during deep
sleep. While we are asleep, our body’s repair mechanisms at the deepest
cellular level are busy fixing mistakes and repairing cell and thus tissue
damage — even to the DNA within the cells. Neurotransmitters are being
balanced along with hormones and other chemical processes. In fact, it’s
amazing to realize just how busy our bodies are during sleep. And, just how
much energy is required for us to sleep properly.
The answer to a good night’s sleep is often quite complex. Sometimes we
have to start with good sleep hygiene. This might mean disciplining yourself
to going to bed not only at the same time each night, but also not so late
into the night that you interfere with cyclical activities of the body. Activities
leading up to sleep time need to encourage sleep rather than the opposite. This
means turning off the TV about an hour before sleep time in order to decrease
sympathetic nervous system activity of the brain which is the “go” side of the
brain. That would include computer time and electronic game time as well.
Many herbs can help the process of sleep. Some bitter, detoxifying herbs
are helpful in that they aid the body’s attempts at housekeeping which can
further promote restful sleep since the body isn’t working so hard to clean
up. Some herbs for this kind of help would include: Dandelion (Taraxacum
officinalis) leaf or root, Nettle leaf (Urtica dioica ), Yellow Dock Root (Rumex
crispus), Red Root(Ceanothus americanus), and Yarrow (Achillea millefolium).
Other herbs help us reduce gas and that full, stuffy feeling from having eaten
too much or rich food, too late. These herbs include Cardamom (Elettaria
cardamomum), Ginger ( Zingiber officinalis), Fennel (Foeniculum vulgare),
or Peppermint (Mentha piperita). Finally, there are herbs that can help us
relax and sleep more deeply when taken during the evening and just before
bed. These would include such herbs as Chamomile (Matricaria chamomile)
(try mixing Chamomile with Peppermint and/or Rose petals for a delicious,
aromatic tea that looks pretty as well); Lavender (Lavendula spp.), Lemon Balm
(Melissa officinalis), Scullcap (Scutellaria lateriflora), Passionflower (Passiflora
incarnata), and Hops (Humulus lupulus). And for muscle or other body aches
and pains, try relaxing, antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory herbs such as
White Willow (Salix spp.), Ginger Root (Zingiber officinalis), or Meadowsweet
(Fillipendula ulmaria).
Many herbs interact with some medications so checking with your pharmacist
or doctor, or better still, a qualified herbalist, can help you avoid herb/drug
train wrecks. Many times a single med isn’t the culprit, but the combination
of meds that you might be taking can be the problem. You might have to be a
tad persistent in getting help with this one, but it is definitely worth the extra
effort when it comes to getting a good night’s rest. So, make yourself a warm,
soothing cup of tea; get comfy in your old sweats or flannel jammies; and have
sweet dreams this winter.
GRAND TIMES
Activities To Enjoy With Your GrandKids
By Heidi Frankel
FORT WORTH
Aviation MUSEUM
BUREAU OF ENGRAVING AND PRINTING
U.S. Department of the Treasury
The Bureau of Engraving and Printing is a great place to learn about U.S.
currency. You and your grandkids can see where billions of dollars are
printed from an enclosed walkway, suspended above the production floor.
You can watch an informative film, and walk through two floors of interactive
exhibits and displays showcasing currency history and the intricate art of
currency manufacturing. Here’s a fun fact: half of the nation’s currency order
is produced in Fort Worth!
Where: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Western Currency Facility Tour and Visitor Center
9000 Blue Mound Road, Fort Worth
When: Tuesday through Friday 8:30am to 5:30pm, beginning Jan 5
Self-guided tours are available from 8:30am to 4:30pm
Cost:
Admission is FREE
Phone: 817.231.4000
Website: www.moneyfactory.com
Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo
The legendary Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo is a 23-day extravaganza at
the Will Rogers Memorial Center. It presents a unique atmosphere rich in
tradition and history. In addition to the livestock shows and professional rodeo
thrills, the whole family will enjoy interactive kid-friendly exhibits, a unique
“Moo-seum Experience” nearly four acres of fun shopping, live music, an
exciting carnival, great food and much more!
Where: Fort Worth Stock Show & Rodeo
3400 Burnett–Tandy Dr., Fort Worth
When: January 15 – February 6
Cost:
General Admission Ticket — Adults $10 | Children (6–16) $5 |
Children (5 & Under) FREE
Phone: 817-877-2400
Website: www.fwssr.com for more specific rodeo ticket information
The Fort Worth Aviation Museum
tells the story of the aviation heritage
and accomplishments in North
Texas since 1911. Share your love of
airplanes while you stroll the museums
collection of 24 war birds from 1943
to the present and a US Navy Blue
Angel F/A-18 Hornet in the outdoor
area. The museum’s indoor display
includes the B-36 Peacemaker, a T-38
cockpit simulator and computer flight
simulators. Friendly guides will assist
with personalized tours.
Where: The Fort Worth Aviation Museum
3300 Ross Avenue, Fort Worth
Hours: Wednesdays — 9am to 4pm; Saturdays — 9am to 5pm;
Sundays — 11am to 5pm
When: Permanent Exhibit
Cost:
Adults $5 | Kids (6 to 16) $1 | Under 6 FREE | Families $10
Active duty military and their families visit FREE
Phone: 855.733.8627
Website: www.fortworthaviationmuseum.com
CR SMITH MUSEUM
Coast To Coast In 48 Hours
FORT WORTH CHILDREN’S MUSEUM
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
The Children’s Museum is geared for ages birth to 8 – and all who care
for them. This wonderful museum encourage opportunities for children to
learn through play. Inside the Children’s Museum is a healthy kids clinic, an
infant/toddler developmental space and more. In the natural science area a
Galapagos turtle, is placed in a large dome so that your ones can see it from
all angles plus there are reptiles and amphibians. The museum also features
more fun play in their indoor block-building site.
Where: The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History
1600 Gendy St., Fort Worth
Cost:
Adult $21 | Junior (2-12) $16 | Senior (65+) $18
Phone: 817. 255.9300
Website: www.fwmuseum.org
Take a trip back in time with your grandkids and experience what it was
like to go on Coast to Coast journey in 48 hours! This exhibit, set in 1929, will
travel from Grand Central Terminal in Glendale, California to New York’s Penn
Station and set the stage for the revolution of transcontinental transportation.
Guests will journey through the different stops and stations, scaled models of
trains and aircraft used and view period posters and photographs.
Where: CR Smith Museum
4601 Texas HWY 360 at FAA Rd., Fort Worth
When: Through May 7, 2016
Cost:
Advanced Tickets: Adult $7 | Children $4 | Seniors $4
Phone: 817-967-1560
Website: www.crsmithmuseum.org for more information
Video Game Museum
Calling all video game enthusiasts — Visit the ONLY museum dedicated to the
history of the videogame industry. Share your memories with your grandkids
of such classics as Asteroids, Centipede, Donkey Kong, Space Invaders
and more — Play the timeless game Pong on the worlds largest home pong
console in a giant 15-foot TV replica from the 1970’s. Your eyes will widen as
you experience a hall full of gaming stations.
Learn the stories behind the games and see rare artifacts. You may even
notice a few game systems you have never seen before!
Where: The National Videogame Museum
8004 N. Dallas Parkway, Frisco (inside the Frisco Discovery Center)
Cost:
$12 Adult | ages 13–65 | $10 Children 12 and under, military,
educators and seniors. Valid ID required for military, educators
and seniors ticket.
Phone: 972.668.8400
Website: www.nvmusa.com
GRAND TIMES
Reading With Your GrandKids
By Heidi Frankel
The weather outside is getting colder; make a cuppa hot chocolate and spend time with your grandkids. Find out
about a Yeti, what’s that? Learn of Buzz Aldrin’s vision of the planet Mars and all about our fabulous 50 states, then
cuddle up and teach your grandkids how to crochet a Star Wars character.
My Heritage Book
Angelina Ballerina
Written by: Deanna Bufo Novak
Age: 5 years and up
My Heritage Book is truly a one-of-a-kind keepsake that the whole family will enjoy reading
together. It is a personalized children’s book that takes families on a wonderful journey into
their past while exploring their own special origins. Children can find out who they are and
where they come from. It is a special book to bond with your grandkids. See more at:
www.myheritagebook.com.
A Dance of Friendship
Age 3-5 years
Angelina is excited when her friend Anya comes to stay with her from another country. But
when Anya begins to get all of the attention Angelina feels a little unhappy and resentful.
Will Angelina overcome her feelings of jealousy and save her friendship? This is a great
story to help your grandkids learn about friendship and life lessons.
Smithsonian Sticker Creations:
Edible Science
UNDER the SEA
Written by: Jodi Wheeler-Toppin
Age: 8-12 years
Grab a beaker, pick up your whisk, and get ready to cook up some solid science with your
grandkids. Using food as your tools (or ingredients!) curious kids become spicy scientists
that measure, weigh, combine, and craft their way through the kitchen. Discover dozens of
thoroughly tested, fun, edible and educational experiments, like purple cookies (yum) where
you test pH indicators or mix up salad dressing and learn about emulsifiers. Edible Science
is sprinkled with helpful photos, diagrams, scientific facts and more. The best news is, when
you and your grandkids are done with your mad-science cooking; you can grab a spoon and
eat all that you have learned!
Age: 6 and up
Engage young readers with an innovative, hands-on approach to learning. You and your
grandkids will embark on a fun underwater adventure to learn about life beneath the waves.
Each book presents kid-friendly facts and lets your grandkids explore the amazing diversity
of the sea with more than 175 reusable stickers and 5 oversized deluxe stickers, creating
their own underwater scene by placing stickers in the removable framed ocean scene. The
beautifully illustrated activity book gives young ocean explorers a creative opportunity to
learn about all types of incredible sea creatures!
As a special treat here are a few games your grandkids will enjoy with YOU!
Monkeys Up™
Ages: 6 to adult
Players: 1-6
Monkeys Up™ will have you going bananas! Players compete to get the best score by flipping,
switching, and stealing monkeys. Each monkey has a value hidden under its feet that is only
revealed when flipped. Victory will come to the player who switches, steals, and flips the best. This
is a great game to enhance memory and strategy.
GRAND TIMES
Chef Travis Wick
Cooking With
Your GrandKids
Crazy Legs Board Game
Ages: 8 to adult
CRAZY LEGS gets players up and moving. Each space on the game board represents a new
physical challenge for you, your grandkids and the whole family to jump, twist, shake and exercise
their way to victory! What a great way to get your exercise in a fun way with your family.
Lemon (or Lime) Kissed
Broiled Asparagus Spears
Purchase fresh asparagus (or broccoli) from your local grocer. I
like the medium sized kind, about the width of a pencil. Once home,
set your broiler to low. Remove the band that holds the veggies
together.
Wash asparagus in cold water then remove the bottom 25% of the
stalk. You can do this one of two ways—By grabbing the bottom of
the stalk with both hands and bending the stalk till it snaps, which is
my preferred method, or by taking a sharp knife and cutting off the
bottom half of the stalk.
The New Year is here and one of my goals is to eat more vegetables.
We all should, and hopefully our example will influence our kiddos
and grandkids.
How we prepare our vegetables can reduce how healthy they are for
us. The minute a vegetable is picked it starts losing its vitamins. And
then depending on how we cook them they could lose some or most
of their healthy qualities. Frozen vegetables can sometimes be better
than fresh. Frozen vegetables are usually processed within 18 hours
of being picked, allowing them to retain their nutritional value. But
fresh is always best if they are truly fresh and have not been lying
around for a week.
The more water used to cook a vegetable, such as boiling, the more
of the “good” nutrients will be washed away. Try grilling, sautéing
or broiling in an oven for best results to keep them the healthiest for
your family.
Ingredients:
1 pound asparagus, fresh
1 lemon, fresh
1 tablespoon lemon zest
¼ cup olive oil
As needed—cracked pepper
As needed—sea salt
Next, line a baking sheet with aluminum foil and fan the asparagus
in a neat row on the pan. Take each half of the lemon and squeeze
the juice onto the asparagus.
Drizzle olive oil over the asparagus. Season as desired with the
fresh cracked pepper and sea salt. Broil asparagus for 7-10 minutes
to reach preferred doneness. When done sprinkle with lemon zest
and serve.
E vents
of
C alendar
January
Fort Worth:
Stage West
Studio — Sexy
Laundry
Michele Riml’s
romantic comedy
comes to Stage
West fresh from
a smashing run
at WaterTower.
Henry and Alice,
married for 25-years, endeavor to spice up their
stale marriage with a romantic weekend in a
swanky hotel and a lot of help from a sexy title
in the “Dummies” how-to series.
When: Dec. 31, 2015 – Jan. 30, 2016
Where: Stage West
821 W Vickery Blvd., Fort Worth
Time: Thursday 7:30pm, Fri-Sat 8pm,
Sunday 3pm
Cost: $35 Fri-Sat; Seniors 65+ $29;
$31 Thurs and Sun
Phone: 817.784.9378
GRANBURY: Ghosts and Legends
Tours
The renowned Ghosts and Legends tour will
walk you through the Historic Square where
you will be told about the famous and infamous
characters of Granbury’s past….and maybe
the present? Stories about the Lady in Red, The
Faceless Girl, John Wilkes Booth, outlaw Jesse
James and many others. The Granbury Ghosts
and Legends Tour was started April 23, 2010 by
mother-daughter team Coletta Henderson and
Brandy Herr. They combined their interest in
history with their love of the supernatural to
form an interesting and fun experience for the
residents and visitors of Granbury, Texas.
When:
Where:
Time:
Cost:
Phone:
Every Friday and Saturday
Historic Square – Meet in front
of the Nutt House Hotel on Bridge
Street, Granbury
7pm and 9:15pm
$10 per person, $7 for children 12
and under.
Reservations, please call 817.559.0849
FORT WORTH: “FOCUS:
Joyce Pensato”
Since the early 1970s, Joyce Pensato has
utilized some of the most iconic American
cartoons and comic book characters — such
as Mickey Mouse, Felix the Cat, and Kyle and
Stan from South Park — as starting points for
her drawings and paintings. Pensato transforms
these characters into portraits that vacillate
between menacing and amusing, fretful and
enthusiastic.
When: Through January 31
Where: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
3200 Darnell Street, Fort Worth
Phone: 817.738.9215
Web: www.themodern.org
ARLINGTON:
Arlington Museum
of Art
This exhibition will feature
work by 60 artists including
Andy Warhol, Robert
Rauschenberg, Jackson
Pollock, Roy Lichtenstein, Willem de Kooning,
and Robert Motherwell. Modern art has
brought a fresh and unconventional approach
to the creative community, expressing the
loves, hates, ideas, beliefs, interests, passions,
strengths, and weaknesses of a generation
emerging in the mid-Twentieth Century.
This exhibit will explore traditional mediums
of art, outside the box, and how the art
world embraced the work that represents a
movement that changed the face of fine art in
America.
When: January 22 – January 24
Where: Bass Performance Hall
4th and Calhoun Streets
Fort Worth Phone 817.212.4325
Web: www.basshall.com
When: Through February 21
Where: Arlington Museum of Art.
201 W. Main St., Arlington
Phone: 817.275.4600
Web: www.arlingtonmuseum.org
FORT WORTH:
Elvis Lives. Presented by
Performing Arts Fort Worth
Elvis Lives is an unforgettable multi-media
and live musical journey across Elvis’ life. His
iconic style, embraced by many of today’s
artists, continues to intrigue audiences of all
generations. The show features finalists from
Elvis Presley Enterprises’ worldwide Ultimate
Elvis Tribute Artist Contest, as well as a tribute
to Ann-Margret. Audiences “Can’t Help Falling
In Love” with this phenomenal theatrical
concert experience
ARLINGTON: Dallas Cowboys vs
Washington Redskins
When: January 3
Where: One AT&T Way, AT&T Stadium
Arlington
Time:Noon
Phone: 877.632.2697
Web: www.dallascowboys.com
GRANBURY: Music, Massage
and Merlot D’Vine Wine of the
Square.
When: January 8 & 29
Where: On the Square
Time: 6:30pm – 11pm
Phone: 817.573.7200
Web: www.dvinewineusa.com/
locations/texas/granbury
FORT WORTH: Cowboys of
Color Rodeo
This rodeo on Martin Luther King Day
highlights the diversity and culture that
exists in rodeo and the Western way of
life. This rodeo features the Pony Express
Relay Races that have become one of the
most talked about specialty events in Stock
Show history. You have to see it believe it!
When: January 18
Where: Will Rogers Memorial Center
Fort Worth
Time: 2pm
Phone: 817/877-2420
Web: www.fwssr.com
FORT WORTH: A Night at the
Oscars, Presented by Fort Worth
Symphony Orchestra
Lights! Camera! Action! It’s all about music
from the silver screen when conductor/
host Damon Gupton leads the FWSO in
a program fit for the red carpet. Enjoy
musical selections from The Godfather,
Captain Blood, The Magnificent Seven,
Pink Panther and much more. Hooray for
Hollywood!
Time: 7:30pm
Phone: 817.212.4325
Cleburne: “Beauty and the
Beast” Musical
This classic story tells of Belle, a young woman
in a provincial town, and the Beast, who is
really a young prince trapped under the spell
of an enchantress. If the Beast can learn to
love and be loved, the curse will end and he
will be transformed to his former self. But if the
Beast does not learn his lesson soon, he and
his household will be doomed for all eternity.
The “Tale as old as time” that the whole family
will love.
When: January 29 – February 27
Where: Plaza Theatre Company
1111 S. Main Street, Cleburne
Time: Thursdays–Saturdays at 7:30pm
with a matinee on Saturdays
Cost: Adults — $15; Seniors (65+) — $14;
Students (HS and College) — $14;
Children (12 and under) — $13
Phone: 817.202.0600
Web: www.plaza-theatre.com
When: January 26
Where: Bass Performance Hall.
4th and Calhoun Streets, Fort Worth
First United
New Horizon Singles
Methodist Church • Fort Worth, TX
invites you to the 3rd Annual
Crystal Ball
January 23, 2016 • 6:30 pm – 10:30pm
Diamond Oaks Country Club — Grand Ballroom
5821 Diamond Oaks Drive North — Haltom City, TX 76117
Dinner and Dancing • Music by “Now & Then”
After 5 Attire
$40 per person
Paid Reservation required by January 12, 2016
Send a check or money order
Payable to NHS Singles to:
Craig Young
2212 Mountainview Drive
Hurst, TX 76054
817-788-4652
Kare Shultz
2712 River Foret Ct.
Bedford TX 76021
817-975-2865
ARLINGTON: Mavericks are bold,
unique, visionary differencemakers whose ideas need to be
heard
The University of Texas at Arlington Maverick
Speakers Series provides a forum for today’s
brightest minds to examine the people, ideas,
actions, and solutions that impact the world
around us.
Featuring some of the leading voices of our
time, the series is more than just speeches
on current events or timely issues. These
are thought-provoking conversations led
by renowned innovators who make change
happen. Because such important discussions
need a variety of perspectives, the Maverick
Speakers Series invites opinions from all
sides, with topics as diverse as the people
who present them. And because unrestricted
access to such exchanges encourages insight
and enrichment beyond the UT Arlington
campus, all lectures are free and open to
everyone.
Now in its eighth season, the Maverick
Speakers Series has attracted tens of
thousands of people throughout North Texas
and featured Ken Burns, Emmitt Smith, Doris
Kearns Goodwin, Thomas Friedman, Magic
Johnson, Cokie Roberts, Bill Nye, Soledad
O’Brien, Anderson Cooper, Sanjay Gupta, Henry
Cisneros, Michio Kaku, Bob Costas, and many
others.
ARLINGTON: Mavericks Speaker
Series: Donna Brazile
Donna Brazile: Politics and Beyond
Political strategist and commentator Donna
Brazile is also an adjunct professor, author,
syndicated columnist, and vice chair of voter
registration and participation at the Democratic
National Committee. Her work as campaign
manager for Al Gore made her the first AfricanAmerican woman to manage a presidential
campaign. Her many accolades include the
Congressional Black Caucus Foundation’s
highest award for political achievement.
When: February 2 :
Ron Paul
February 25:
Donna Brazile
March 31: Jane Goodall
Where: The University of Texas at Arlington –
Texas Hall
701 S. Nedderman, Arlington
Price: Free — Tickets available at www.utatickets.com.
Time: 7:30pm
Audience Q&A to follow lecture.
GRAPEVINE: Sweetheart Wine Trail
Romance the day away with your someone
special along the Sweetheart Wine Trail in
Grapevine. Featuring three tastings and food
samples at each participating Grapevine winery
tasting room and a large souvenir wine glass,
this is a unique and festive way to celebrate
Cupid’s arrow. When: February 13–14
Where: Historic Downtown Grapevine
Phone: 800.457.6338
FORT WORTH: Arlo Guthrie:
The Alice’s Restaurant 50th
Anniversary Tour
Legendary folk music icon Arlo Guthrie has
embarked on an 18-month tour to celebrate the
50th anniversary of the event that inspired his
seminal song, Alice’s Restaurant Massacree.
A musical monologue running more than
18 minutes, Alice’s Restaurant has become
a Thanksgiving holiday anthem to families
across the globe. Guthrie will perform his most
prominent work in its entirety each night on the
tour, as well as selections from every full-length
studio album he’s released since his debut,
Alice’s Restaurant (1967). Each show is also
curated with a special multi-media presentation
featuring previously unseen images from the
Guthrie archives. More than 75,000 photos have
recently been digitized, and selections will be
projected along with Peter Star’s claymation
film depicting Arlo’s “Motorcycle Song.”
When:
Where:
Time:
Phone:
Web:
February 18
Bass Hall. 525 Commerce Street
Fort Worth
7:30pm
817.212.4325
www.basshall.com
GRAPEVINE: Divine Consign
Children’s Consignment Show
Divine Consign, the Dallas Metroplex’s favorite
twice-yearly consignment sale specializing
in the highest quality gently worn children’s,
junior’s and maternity clothing, toys, books,
games, DVDs, baby equipment (strollers
and more) and baby/children’s furniture.
Early shopping on Saturday is available to
consignors, volunteers and Registering First
Time Moms.
When: February 21 - February 22
Where: Venue: Grapevine Convention Center
1209 S. Main St., Grapevine
Cost:Free
Time: Sunday, February 21st — 11am–4pm
6pm–9 pm; 50% off select items
Monday, February 22nd — 8am–12pm;
75% off select items
GRAPEVINE: AKS Gem Show
AKS Gem Shows has been managing and
promoting gem, jewelry, and bead shows
for over 35 years. Our shows are wholesale
shows that are open to the public, featuring
fine jewelry, fashion jewelry, beads, beading
supplies, findings, gold, silver, charms, designer
cabochons, gemstones, pearls, and more.
When: Where:
Time: Cost: Time:
February 26 – 28
Grapevine Convention Center
1209 S. Main St., Grapevine
Fri–Sat — 10am–6pm;
Sun — 10am–4pm
$5.00
Friday, February 26 — 10am–6pm;
Saturday, February 27 — 10am–6pm;
Sunday, February 28 — 10am–4pm
Swiss Pastry Shop
Arlington Heights
3936 W Vickery Blvd | Fort Worth 76107
(817) 732-5661
Yelibelly Chocolates
Yeli Marshall
2364 E. Northwest Parkway | Southlake 76092
817-789-5563
Leah’s Sweet Treats
Arlington Heights
4910 Camp Bowie Blvd | Fort Worth 76107
(817) 731-5223
The Black Rooster Bakery
TCU/West Cliff
2430 Forest Park Blvd | Fort Worth 76110
(817) 924-1600
Oak St. Pie & Candy Co.
110 N Oak St | Roanoke 76262
(817) 490-0994
Le Chat Noir — Cupcake Bordello and Bakery
1208 W Magnolia Ave | Fort Worth 76104
(817) 393-1733
Stir Crazy Baked Goods
106 E Daggett Ave | Fort Worth 76104
(682) 710-2253
Dude, Sweet Chocolate
Arlington Heights
2925 Crockett St | Fort Worth 76107
(817) 945-2234
E vents
Dr. Sue’s Chocolates
Dr. Sue Williams
520 S. Main #200 | Grapevine 76051
817-527-4424
of
Valentine Lovers Delight
Specialties for that Special Someone
Cupcake Loco
900 S Main | Keller 76248
(682) 593-0630
C alendar
February
Three new
things for
the New
Year
By Durhl Caussey
Get up and move!
Before you go to sleep and before you get up, do some low energy exercise
while still in bed. Takes only about five minutes. Then as you go through
your day, when sitting, take a few minutes and repeat. Start with your toes
and wiggle and crunch. Wag your feet from side to side. Do some leg raises
and hold a few seconds. Raise your arms above your head and swing them
over your head back and forth, stretching your fingers. Turn your neck slowly
from side to side as you do this. Conclude with 5-10 sit-ups. Sit only when
necessary; a body in motion is good for the body. However, this should not
hinder a short afternoon nap.
Learn to say “No!”
Most of my life has been spent trying to please others. Sometimes at my
own expense. It is a shame I had to get old before discovering it is okay
to say “No.” My answer now is predicated on what is best for me. That
includes my friends, kids and spouse. Even my grandchildren. And when I
do say “No” I have no regrets, without even a tiny teaspoon of guilt. I have
to protect myself, even if it means disappointing someone I care deeply
about. I’m not going to agree to something that compromises my values,
requires undue physical or financial burden, or eats up my precious time
unnecessarily. Only agree to do what you feel you can do comfortably,
without undue loss. Ask yourself before you say “Yes,” is this good for me,
leaving me stress free? Sometimes telling someone “No” is best for both of
us. Don’t let pity drip into your free will.
Find a quiet place or time for quiet.
Below my house is an isolated, quiet, small lake. Sometimes around sunup
or near darkness I journey down to the lake called Emerald. I sit on a bench
near the water listening to it ripple against the shore. No one is ever around.
As the wind walks through the tall cottonwoods nearby, restless birds make
friendly noises. Beavers splash as they prepare their meal. My soul becomes
quiet. My mouth is shut, and mind at rest. I dream the dreams of a child. I
pray to my Heavenly Father. Heart becomes open to suggestions helping to
enrich my being. All is forgiven, mistakes are erased, and pardon is granted.
I invite you to find such a place. Your Emerald Lake can be in your bedroom,
office, car, on an afternoon walk. Fill your bucket, excite your mind, and open
your heart.
Durhl Caussey is a syndicated columnist who writes for papers across
America. He may be reached at this publication or [email protected].
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