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2O<strong>18</strong><br />
June<br />
For your Health, Wealth,<br />
and Good Times!<br />
FOR TODAY’S ACTIVE SENIORS<br />
We love ya’ Dad!<br />
Happy Father’s Day!
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Volume 15, Issue 4<br />
OUR FANTASTIC COLUMNISTS<br />
Adrea Barrera<br />
Howard Beckerman<br />
John Bielun<br />
Victoria Boyd<br />
Yvonne Cloutier<br />
Dianne Davis<br />
Chuck Dean<br />
Jan Fair<br />
Howard Galin<br />
Linda Gomez<br />
Ali Guggenheim<br />
Dan Hyde<br />
Mike Landry<br />
Heather Latimer<br />
BJ Killeen<br />
Kathy Manney<br />
Kyo Mitchell<br />
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Rana Goodman<br />
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Evan Davis<br />
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Stu Cooper<br />
Rich Natole<br />
Ary Mirochnik<br />
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Bill Caserta<br />
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Mary Richard<br />
Wayne Root<br />
Crystal Sarbacker<br />
Victoria Seaman<br />
Jim Valkenburg<br />
Beverly Washburn<br />
Devon Wickens<br />
Vicki Wentz<br />
James White<br />
Totally Useless<br />
By: Dan Roberts / Roberts Rules<br />
“<br />
Are you that totally useless?” my Rana<br />
ranted.<br />
You know those people that can read<br />
instructions or figure out any mechanical or technical issues? Those<br />
individuals that can recognize where the problem lies and methodically<br />
work their way to a successful conclusion?<br />
I am not one of those guys.<br />
In fact, if left on my own, I would probably still have a flip-phone and<br />
need to get out of my recliner and change the TV channels manually.<br />
I concede (without any shame or embarrassment) that I am a<br />
“mechanical idiot.” To be labelled as “technology-challenged” would<br />
be an understatement.<br />
My “do-it-yourself” abilities consist solely of changing a light bulb,<br />
or perhaps hanging a picture on a wall. My work tools consist of a<br />
hammer and a screwdriver (and who the hell is Phillips?). That’s it.<br />
Placing anything else in my hands is a danger to anyone near me - and<br />
especially to yours truly.<br />
Water or pipe issues? Call a plumber I tell Rana. Need to hang up<br />
shelfs or hook up a television? Find a dependable handyman.<br />
Have a problem with the computer? Smack it a few times and if that<br />
does not work (it never does, by the way) find an IT (whatever that<br />
means) genius.<br />
But don’t rely on me I constantly warn Rana. And if (more like,<br />
when) she does, the fault and consequences are all hers.<br />
Thankfully for this publisher, I have an “Ace-in-the-Hole”, a “Mr.<br />
Fix-It.” A guy who I bow down and thank every chance I get for keeping<br />
my computer connected to the internet or making sure my big-screen<br />
television can get ESPN.<br />
He is our <strong>Vegas</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> Bill Blurb columnist, my “Bronx Brother” and<br />
best buddy, Bill Caserta. No doubt about it, he is my savoir and hero.<br />
How he has the patience to put up with my “life-threatening” issues<br />
and my unconditional lack of<br />
basic “manly” skills is a testament<br />
as to what a great friend he is.<br />
I cannot begin to tell you how<br />
many times he saved me from<br />
throwing stuff against the walls<br />
or smashing equipment on the<br />
floor (It’s definitely broken now<br />
I “correctly” scream). And, luckily<br />
for me, he understands that my<br />
Bronx language is NOT directed at him.<br />
“No need to get upset” Bill will calmly explain. It’s really quite<br />
simple. Think logically, Dan. You just need to…”<br />
“Fix it.” I scream. “Just fix the @$&*# thing before I heave it out<br />
the damn window!”<br />
“All you needed to do was plug it in… or double click…” Bill will<br />
politely say as my temper tantrum goes on and on. No question, I (and<br />
Rana) are very lucky to depend on him.<br />
So, yes, I admit that if I ever appeared on the TV show “Survivor”<br />
I’d be dead in 20 minutes. But I do disagree with Rana’s exasperated<br />
claim that her PILL (partner in love & life) is “totally useless.” After all,<br />
I know Bill’s phone number.<br />
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PROUD<br />
MEMBERS OF:<br />
Who We Are<br />
We’ve very proud that in 2017,<br />
The <strong>Vegas</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> received a total<br />
of 8 state & federal awards for<br />
our publication; including the<br />
Nevada Press Association’s “Best<br />
Investigative Story” and its<br />
“Freedom of the Press Award” for<br />
upholding the principles of the<br />
First Amendment and protecting<br />
the public’s right in exposing<br />
the Clark County guardianship<br />
scandal.<br />
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One Last Thought<br />
By: Rana Goodman / On My Soapbox<br />
Before we begin celebrating Father’s Day,<br />
please allow me one final word about<br />
Mother’s Day. It was another season of getting<br />
past that day without the woman who was such an integral part of my<br />
life - my mom who taught me so much.<br />
A woman I wanted to emulate to the extent that I was constantly<br />
in hot water each time I walked into my Home Economics class. I<br />
couldn’t resist telling the teacher that “my mother said custom made<br />
garments were not stitched that way.”<br />
Or that, “I would prefer to cook dishes the way my mother<br />
does.” Suffice to say, the teacher, Mrs. Schroeder, would have loved to<br />
see me vanish from her sight each day.<br />
My mother was a 4’10” power house. She was funny and smart;<br />
smart enough to make my dad believe he was the head of our family<br />
for the 50 years they were together.<br />
However, when that one eyebrow of hers went higher than the other,<br />
and when her jaw set firmly into a deadpan glare, my dad and I both<br />
knew to shut up and give her whatever she wanted.<br />
My mother was a dress maker to titled ladies in her younger days.<br />
When she tired of that, she opened one small shop in the heart of<br />
London. The shop grew over the years into a small chain of shops<br />
across England.<br />
She was an astute business woman with an uncanny knack for<br />
picking the right location and making it work. I remember as a kid<br />
watching her argue with my dad over a lease she signed for a shop in<br />
the English town of Peckham without talking to him about it first.<br />
I was with her the day she signed that lease. My mom kept raving<br />
about the location being in front of a busy bus stop and how wonderful<br />
that was.<br />
I have a photograph of that shop in my bedroom. It turned out to<br />
be a true money-maker because she created a window display that<br />
revolved with one of her dress creations. Anyone waiting for the bus<br />
couldn’t help but stare at what my mom made.<br />
Inside the shop was a selection of affordable copies of “that gown”<br />
that any working lady could purchase. My wonderful mom “knocked it<br />
out of the ball park” with that shop.<br />
Not much changed after they immigrated to the United States.<br />
When my dad decided to open a Las <strong>Vegas</strong> shop in the late 50s, it<br />
was my mother who picked the location - right across the street from<br />
Woolworths.<br />
It was 4 th and Fremont Street. They opened the first credit jewelry<br />
shop in this city, Gee’s Jewelers. It thrived until the late 1990’s when<br />
they both retired.<br />
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Gosh, how I miss them!<br />
If you want to know what prompted me to get so involved with<br />
guardianship, look no further than my parents. If anyone had tried to<br />
touch either of them - well, I would most likely be sitting in jail now.<br />
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Heather’s Self-Help Tips<br />
By: Heather Latimer / Helpful Hints<br />
My Josef is totally blind and 98. I’m<br />
delighted to reveal some simple ideas to<br />
motivate partners, caregivers and organizations<br />
to copy our handiwork for the benefit of other<br />
low-vision persons.<br />
I dreamed up a simple guide.<br />
(1) Purchased red parachute cord from Michaels and heavy-duty<br />
Palmguard tape from the post office<br />
(2) Gently marked the walls along Josef’s customary route between<br />
his chair and the bathroom.<br />
Do this at same height as the<br />
handlebar of his walker<br />
(3) Taped cord to the wall at<br />
intervals and firmly attached<br />
the cord to immovable objects<br />
at each end.<br />
By still holding onto his<br />
walker, Josef stretches out his<br />
fingers to touch the cord and<br />
follow it.<br />
Heather Latimer is a nationally recognized specialist in making<br />
difficult subjects easy and author of 17 books. Her biography,<br />
and latest book “How to Overcome Once-Easy Tasks That Are Now<br />
Pains in The You-Know-What,” are accessible on www.amazon.<br />
com/heatherlatimer/howtoovercomeonceeasy.<br />
June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
You Gotta Laugh<br />
By: Bill Caserta / Bill’s Blurbs<br />
Those Darn Kids: Their three kids, all<br />
successful, agreed to a Sunday dinner in<br />
their honor.<br />
“Happy Anniversary Mom and Dad,” gushed<br />
Son No. 1. “Sorry I’m running late. I had an<br />
emergency at the hospital with a patient and I didn’t have time to get<br />
you a gift.<br />
“Not to worry,” said the father. “The important thing is we’re all<br />
together today.”<br />
Son No. 2 arrived. “You and Mom look great. I just flew in from<br />
Washington between depositions and didn’t have time to shop for you.”<br />
“It’s nothing,” said the father. “We’re glad you were able to come.”<br />
Just then the daughter arrived. “Happy anniversary! Sorry, but my<br />
boss is sending me out of town and I was really busy packing, so I didn’t<br />
have time to get you anything.”<br />
After they had finished dessert, the father said, “There’s something<br />
your mother and I have wanted to tell you for a long time. You see,<br />
we were really poor, but we managed to send each of you to college.<br />
Through the years your mother and I knew we loved each other very<br />
much, but we just never found the time to get married.”<br />
The three children gasped and said, “What? You mean we’re<br />
bastards?”<br />
“Yep”, said the father. “Cheap ones, too.”<br />
Bill Caserta is the Project Director for The <strong>Vegas</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> and<br />
has a very “unique” sense of humor. He welcomes all funny<br />
submissions at: bill@thevegasvoice.net.<br />
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By: Beverly Washburn / Hollywood Memories<br />
thought I’d write this month about a dear<br />
I friend of mine - Jeannie Russell.<br />
I’m sure you will remember the popular TV<br />
series “Dennis The Menace” which ran from 1959 - 1963 on CBS. The<br />
TV show was based on the Hank Ketchum comic strip.<br />
Jeannie played the role of “Margaret”, Dennis’s playmate. You’ll<br />
remember her as the little girl with the horn-rimmed glasses and<br />
pigtails.<br />
Jeannie auditioned for the role and of course was hoping to get the<br />
part. In the casting business, they have what is known as a “call back.”<br />
These are the actors who are narrowed down as the producer’s<br />
favorites. Often you will have a “call back” (more than once) and have<br />
to “audition” again; sometimes reading with the main star of the show.<br />
This was an important role and there were countless girls all vying<br />
for the part. At her last call back, she (along with the others) had to read<br />
with Jay North, who played the part of Dennis.<br />
Jeannie always credits Jay with the reason she got picked because<br />
after reading with her, he turned to the producers and said, “I like<br />
Jeannie!” It was important that Dennis and Margaret had a connection<br />
working together, so Jeannie got the part.<br />
She probably would have anyway, as Jeannie was perfect in the role,<br />
but having Jay on her side helped them make their final decision. To<br />
this day and after all these years, she and Jay are good friends.<br />
Jeannie and I didn’t know each other as children as I am 7 years<br />
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older than she. We<br />
never really ran in<br />
the same circle.<br />
Over the years<br />
however, Jeannie<br />
and I met at<br />
various autograph<br />
conventions,<br />
party’s etc. I was impressed with her from the very beginning. She is<br />
truly one of the nicest people in the business and I feel blessed to call<br />
her my friend.<br />
We now do radio re-enactments together and she too is an animal<br />
lover like I am. Jeannie is also a very well-respected chiropractor.<br />
I also met Jay at one of the autograph shows. He too was as warm as<br />
he could be. Jay is retired from show business and wants nothing more<br />
to do with being an actor, because for him, some of his memories were<br />
not his favorite.<br />
As for Jeannie and myself, we both LOVE the business and I am<br />
grateful that I can now call her my friend.<br />
Until next time, remember: A smile is an inexpensive way to improve<br />
your looks.<br />
Beverly Washburn graced the silver screen as a child actress and<br />
is the author of Reel Tears. You can contact Beverly at: bjradell@<br />
hotmail.com. Check out her awesome, new <strong>web</strong>site: www.<br />
beverlywashburn.com.<br />
The Destination Isn’t Important - Just Enjoy the Trip<br />
By: Vicki Wentz / Vicki’s <strong>Voice</strong><br />
To those of you who know me, it will come as<br />
no surprise to hear that I fell down the steps<br />
to my garage yesterday.<br />
For some people, living in the physical world is<br />
no problem. These are people with whom I have nothing in common.<br />
Then, there are those of us who throw ourselves into life - or traffic<br />
- without a second thought. We are the ones who can’t run or throw a<br />
ball - and certainly not at the same time.<br />
When I was just three, I wanted to see if any birds were in our<br />
birdbath, but I was too short to see over the edge, so I reached up to feel<br />
around, hoping I could catch one. Not only were there no birds, but the<br />
heavy stone bowl of the birdbath fell on my head.<br />
My mother rushed me to the emergency room, where I met doctors<br />
and nurses I would come to know well over the years. Broken arms<br />
and legs, broken or almost-severed fingers, falling out of trees, down<br />
stairs, monkey bars, roller skating into folding chairs, dropping a pot<br />
of boiling water, and gripping an exploding glass hurricane - my life<br />
has been full.<br />
Then, recently, I fell down the garage steps. I was trying to carry<br />
a large box containing a new, semi-heavy juicer, which I’ve moved<br />
around the house for weeks before realizing I have no room for a juicer<br />
in my life. I’d rather just eat the carrot… I’m just saying.<br />
I held the box<br />
with one hand<br />
because I intended<br />
to hold the railing<br />
with the other. So,<br />
I stepped down<br />
onto the first step,<br />
reaching for the<br />
railing, but the<br />
box knocked me<br />
off balance and I fell, watching the cement floor rise up to meet me.<br />
When the crashing and cussing was over, I was on the floor of the<br />
garage, having slammed my head so hard that I definitely saw birdies<br />
this time.<br />
The dogs came running, never wanting to be left out of sensational<br />
home accidents and barked appreciatively at me as I laid there<br />
inventorying body parts. Today I’m covered with so much gorgeous<br />
bluish-purple that I’m thinking of dyeing a purse and shoes to match.<br />
On the upside, this serves as a timely reminder to all that most<br />
accidents occur in the home. That is, most accidents occur in MY home<br />
- so if I were you, I wouldn’t visit.<br />
Vicki Wentz is a writer, teacher and speaker living in North<br />
Carolina. Readers may contact her - and order her new children’s<br />
book! - by visiting her <strong>web</strong>site at www.vickiwentz.com.<br />
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The Star Spangled Banner<br />
By: Yvonne Cloutier / Musical Moments<br />
have been intrigued by the origin of the Star<br />
I Spangled Banner and how it became our<br />
national anthem. Who was Francis Scott Key, the<br />
writer of this descriptive poetry?<br />
Legend claims he was a young poet watching the <strong>18</strong>14 battle at Fort<br />
McHenry; a fort built on the Baltimore Harbor. In fact, Key watched<br />
from a British ship, on which he was held for political reasons. He was<br />
with his mulatto friend, Beverly Randolph Snow, and a 19 year old<br />
slave, John Arthur Bowen.<br />
To his surprise, despite the continual bombing, the next morning the<br />
fort remained, with the American flag flowing above it. The British left.<br />
Thus, his inspiration for the poem, which he excitedly, quickly wrote<br />
on the back of an envelope, continuing his composition at an inn the<br />
next day. He named it, Defense of Fort McHenry.<br />
The popular poem was eventually renamed The Star Spangled<br />
Banner (SSB). It was later set to music of a British men’s social club,<br />
written by John Stafford Smith.<br />
The SSB was officially used by the Navy in <strong>18</strong>89. In 1910, President<br />
Woodrow Wilson declared it should be played at official events. In 1931,<br />
Congress made it the national anthem.<br />
It took precedence over American the Beautiful and later, God<br />
Bless America. And the 3 rd verse of the SSB is rarely sung due to its civil<br />
rights concerns.<br />
Interestingly, Key was not a<br />
poet and he never wrote another<br />
published poem. He was a<br />
conflicted and contradictory<br />
lawyer; a product of the times.<br />
Francis Scott Key was born<br />
August 1, 1779 to a wealthy<br />
plantation clan. He was home<br />
educated until ten and then on to<br />
public school and college, returning to practice law.<br />
He married, had 11 children, and set up his legal practice in<br />
Georgetown in <strong>18</strong>02. Key later became District Attorney of Washington<br />
D.C.<br />
He prided himself as a humanitarian and was often called “the<br />
black’s” lawyer. Yet he was the scion of Maryland’s slave-holding<br />
aristocracy.<br />
He believed in the abolition of slavery, saying that slavery was full of<br />
sin and a “bed of torture” however, he advocated to protect the white<br />
man’s right to own property in people. He claimed it was a constitutional<br />
requirement.<br />
He died in <strong>18</strong>43 never knowing his impact on American history.<br />
Yvonne Cloutier, a former teacher/principal, with a music<br />
background, specializes in ragtime piano. She reports about<br />
music on SCA-TV.com/Anthem Alive! You can contact her at www.<br />
mytimeisragtime.com.<br />
Rotary Club Of Las <strong>Vegas</strong> SW: Anthem<br />
Satellite Club<br />
Please join us for a meet and greet to<br />
see if there is an interest to form a<br />
satellite group in the Anthem area.<br />
We will also have light refreshments.<br />
The details are as follows:<br />
DATE: Thursday, June 28, 20<strong>18</strong><br />
TIME: 6 – 8 pm<br />
PLACE: Buckman’s Grille<br />
There are many of us living in Anthem, Seven Hills, Green Valley and<br />
the surrounding areas who have been involved in Rotary or other service<br />
organizations who would like to be involved again in some capacity.<br />
Rotary members find great satisfaction in working with charitable<br />
groups, including the homeless, underprivileged children and working<br />
internationally with Rotary Clubs in other countries.<br />
June 28th will be our first get together. Please join us, renew your<br />
interest in a community service group that’s connected to countries<br />
throughout the world.<br />
We would love to meet you and answer any questions you may have.<br />
For additional information and to RSVP, please contact: Cliff Silverstein<br />
at 808-375-7287 or email: cliffsilverstein@yahoo.com<br />
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started producing shows for The <strong>Vegas</strong> <strong>Voice</strong><br />
I about 3 years ago. It’s been a true learning<br />
experience. Just about anything that can go<br />
wrong has.<br />
I’ve learned to expect the unexpected. Lights and sound not working,<br />
room locked, stage not set up, band late, performers lost, no time to<br />
sound check and… the bar out of Vodka.<br />
No matter what the obstacle “The Show Must Go On.” And it always<br />
does. I have learned it always works out.<br />
After putting the first couple of shows together, Publisher Dan<br />
realized my passion for producing quality entertainment. He gave me<br />
(pretty much) carte blanche to put together future shows.<br />
This includes Big Band, one-man and variety shows giving<br />
newcomers some exposure in <strong>Vegas</strong>. I’ve produced Holiday shows<br />
and Benefits. I’ve hosted some of the shows and had some top named<br />
performers host as well.<br />
I created a solo piano concert for the acclaimed Philip Fortenberry<br />
and a Veteran’s Benefit, hosted by Bob Anderson. We had guests like<br />
Clint Holmes, Frankie Scinta and other top performers from <strong>Vegas</strong>.<br />
We’ve had top-notch musical directors; including Ned Mills, Bruce<br />
Ewing, Kenny Davidsen and Grammy Award winner Gary Anderson.<br />
We’ve had shows in every “age qualified community” plus Station<br />
Casinos and Silverton’s Veil Pavilion. We now have a benefit coming<br />
By: Adrea Nairne-Barrera / 60s to 60<br />
On a different note this month, I am thinking<br />
about this home stretch we’re running and<br />
what is possible versus unfulfilled dreams. We all<br />
have them and the most fortunate of us have found ways to accomplish<br />
many of the bucket list events, while others have been shoved into a<br />
new reality.<br />
I mention this because I have always been a dreamer. I want to go<br />
places, visit people, take on new challenges and even buy stuff! But I<br />
can’t.<br />
Life took me in directions I never considered so I spend a lot of time<br />
recalculating my options. Sometimes I feel like the lady who lives in my<br />
GPS system when I miss a turn.<br />
Staying positive can be hard work when you look back at all the<br />
things you’ve postponed or cancelled. Then you watch the news and<br />
you’re probably lucky you didn’t take the trip to Paris or Barcelona<br />
that week.<br />
The world and I are on different schedules. When all my thoughts of<br />
adventures first came to mind, no one had ever feared travel advisories<br />
because of terrorists or drug cartels.<br />
It’s hard for me to accept that reality today. And everything required<br />
just a phone call and a check.<br />
It also doesn’t make sense to me that entertainment is now about<br />
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My Role as Producer<br />
By: Evan Davis / Entertainment Editor<br />
Dreams, Progress, Reality & 20<strong>18</strong><br />
June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
up August 19th<br />
at a new venue,<br />
the Adelson<br />
Campus in<br />
Summerlin<br />
(See page 23).<br />
There have<br />
been afternoon<br />
and evening<br />
shows held just<br />
about every day<br />
Randall Keith was outstanding at our Sun City<br />
MacDonald Ranch show.<br />
of the week over the last three years, with deadlines that are sometimes<br />
absurd. If I have a show in June, I usually need to have it all set 3<br />
months in advance.<br />
The musical director must be available, and performers need to be<br />
in town. I must coordinate them as well as making sure the sound and<br />
lighting people are available.<br />
Coordinating load in times (that’s when the band gets there to set<br />
up) and set up for sound checks, and performers’ rehearsal on show<br />
day. Who’s singing what, when and where!<br />
There’s a lot involved, but I wouldn’t change a thing.<br />
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violent movies and mechanical monsters<br />
taking over the world. I love the old TV shows<br />
on cable when nothing was real, but it was fun<br />
to watch. I didn’t have to be afraid the next<br />
scene would show someone’s arm blown off.<br />
I think it would have been OK for Lucy and Ricky to sleep in the same<br />
bed and June Cleaver could have had a bad hair day once in a while.<br />
Mr. Ed was, and probably still is, the smartest character on TV dispelling<br />
his wisdom between carrots to Wilbur.<br />
Calgon does not take me away, primarily because no one has a<br />
bathtub anymore. The world is filled with walk-in showers made for<br />
efficiency and speed, so you can go do a million things every day that<br />
were never particularly important before.<br />
I want to check my mailbox once a day rather than 50 times<br />
electronically. If I wasn’t home, you would call me again since they<br />
hadn’t invented answering machines.<br />
On weekends I can go through time on the TCM channel and pretend<br />
I don’t have a computer. And then I get a spurt of energy or curiosity<br />
about something and I’m back in the race, on the computer looking<br />
things up.<br />
I wonder what Mr. Ed would say about all this progress.<br />
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Golf Course Rating<br />
By: Mike Landry / Golf Fore Ever<br />
What does a “Golf Course Rating” mean<br />
and how is it done? Let me provide a<br />
quick overview of the system. Golf courses are<br />
rated when new and not to exceed ten years.<br />
What is a slope? The simple answer is that it<br />
represents the difficulty of a golf course to a bogey golfer.<br />
The number tells the golfer how difficult the golf course is for a<br />
bogey player (17.5-22.4) relative to the difficulty of the course for the<br />
scratch player. Courses in the US are rated from 55-155 with an average<br />
slop of 120.<br />
How is a course rated? People in every locale that have been trained<br />
under the USGA course rating system volunteer in their respective area<br />
to perform these tasks. I know one such person at MacDonald Ranch<br />
who is such a volunteer.<br />
What is taken into consideration for rating a golf course: the length<br />
of the tees to the center of the green, dog legs, narrow fairways, hard<br />
pan, deep roughs, gulley’s, speed of greens, trees, water hazards and so<br />
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Do Affirmations Really Work?<br />
By: Ali Guggenheim / Psychic Phenomenon<br />
There are many different approaches to using<br />
affirmations. Some disciplines tell you to<br />
stand in front of a mirror and repeat your positive<br />
affirmation a hundred times a day, for a minimum of six months.<br />
Others tell you to repeat them three times a day for five minutes each<br />
time, or to journal them twice daily. Others tell you to hang post-it<br />
notes all over as reminders.<br />
It seems that the point that’s being missed here is that, although<br />
every desire begins with a vision, it is not the parroting of them. Rather<br />
it’s our core beliefs that run our lives.<br />
You can state your desires until you are blue in the face, but they<br />
will never come to fruition so long as your inner voice retorts negative<br />
responses to the topics that you are desperately trying to affirm.<br />
Nothing Yet, But...<br />
By: Linda Bateman-Gomez / Timeless Beauty<br />
So as promised in last month’s article, I<br />
shelled out the money to try the new, gonnamake-me-look-20-again,<br />
Hanacure mask. It<br />
received a ton of hype after Drew Barrymore<br />
posted her mid-mask treatment pictures.<br />
I admit, I was drawn in by the claims. I gave it a whirl.<br />
There are of course many face masks on the market, from the $2.00<br />
drugstore treatments to those like the Hanacure which set me back<br />
$110.00 for 4 treatments.<br />
Before using the Hanacure however, I first wanted something to<br />
compare it to. I was originally going to test the old egg white treatment<br />
I used in the 70s, but with all the recent salmonella warnings, I<br />
wondered if that was still a good idea. I opted instead for a peel off<br />
mask I purchased at Walgreens for $2.25.<br />
I did the treatments a week apart, starting with my drugstore mask.<br />
It certainly made my skin feel nice, but I didn’t look any younger. I<br />
eagerly moved onto the Hanacure with high hopes!<br />
Drew swore it took 10 years off her face and at 43 years young I’m not<br />
sure she needs such a miracle. But I was excited to try it in case it would<br />
do it for me. I must report however, it did not.<br />
I will admit it was easy and fun to use. I mixed and applied as<br />
directed and did achieve the similar mid-mask, selfie worthy results I<br />
see all over Instagram.<br />
As it dries, it become<br />
increasingly tighter on the skin,<br />
resulting in a wrinkled, facial<br />
distorting look. When I rinsed it<br />
off however, while my skin did<br />
look nice and smooth, it certainly<br />
did not appear 10 years younger<br />
- or much different from the<br />
drugstore mask results.<br />
The Hanacure reviews claim it improves with each use, so I continued<br />
to use the remaining 3 treatments.<br />
Oddly, I do like it every time I use it, but honestly, I’m not sure my<br />
face looks any better or different. Based on their claims, I may buy<br />
this one more time to see if the continued use really does result in any<br />
changes.<br />
If after a $220 investment I still look the same, I will go back to<br />
my drugstore peel off mask. Admittedly, I am a sucker for trying new<br />
things, but I’m also practical and realize I have yet to find anything<br />
that was truly a miracle.<br />
It doesn’t stop me from looking though - hope springs eternal!<br />
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Feelings of unworthiness, loser qualities, underlying fears, etc., will<br />
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One of the quickest ways to identify your sabotaging beliefs is by<br />
folding a sheet of paper in half to create two columns. On one side<br />
write your desired affirmation.<br />
In the second column write every thought that pops up in response.<br />
Repeat this over and over until your mind stops spewing responses.<br />
Once you can identify and silence your mind, you can choose to<br />
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Affirmations however, don’t work since in conjunction with any<br />
affirmation, commitment and actions are needed to manifest your<br />
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Ask yourself if this is really what you want. Imagine yourself stepping<br />
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Is this right for you? Write your goals. The more details and emotions<br />
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Can you commit to this? Commit to your list of actions, including<br />
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Car Subscription: Is it for You?<br />
By: BJ Killeen / Down the Road<br />
The future is all about subscriptions. From<br />
television channels to cell phones to vacations,<br />
the trend is to reduce the shock of a large, onetime<br />
charge for services and products by breaking them into monthly<br />
payments.<br />
For example, a cellphone that can cost $1,000 up front is a lot more<br />
palatable when it’s only $39 a month. Automotive manufacturers are<br />
catching on to this way of doing business.<br />
Although it mostly applies to luxury automotive manufacturers<br />
because car prices for high-end rides are steadily climbing, it may not be<br />
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Just think: No more rental cars. Just head to your hotel and a Cadillac<br />
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Maybe you’ve always wanted<br />
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To find out more details, or if<br />
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When you factor in the costs of maintenance and insurance, then<br />
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By: Rana Goodman Formerly the Nevada<br />
Association to Stop Guardian<br />
& Elder Abuse we found we had a bigger purpose and wanted to serve<br />
on a wider scale. We wanted to be the Hub of information, provide<br />
access to resources, advocate for seniors, and impact the quality of life<br />
for every senior in the community.<br />
Our Mission & Purpose is to:<br />
1. Be the HUB and anchor of senior information and resources.<br />
2. Stop guardian & elder abuse by providing information, resources<br />
and awareness of any senior abuse – including financial exploitation.<br />
3. Help every senior enjoy life to the fullest and to: Live, Laugh &<br />
Learn together.<br />
As for our guardianship efforts, last month, Project Director Bill<br />
Caserta, Dan and I held our 15 th guardianship seminar – this time at<br />
Solera. As the photo shows, over 50 seniors completed and submitted<br />
their guardianship forms to us for filing with the Nevada Secretary of<br />
State.<br />
Photo courtesy: Jules M. Schreider<br />
Going forward, please understand that we<br />
are in the formative stages and are working<br />
purely on a volunteer basis until we can raise<br />
funds and/or receive funding to produce a<br />
separate resource directory. Until then, we will be<br />
publishing information in The <strong>Vegas</strong> <strong>Voice</strong>, The Elder Hub Newsletter<br />
and on both The <strong>Vegas</strong> <strong>Voice</strong> (www.thevegasvoice.net) and Elder Hub<br />
(vegasvoiceelderhub.org) <strong>web</strong> sites.<br />
Of course, please contact me if you need referrals or if you have one<br />
that our senior community should know about. Word-of-mouth has<br />
always been the best reference and I welcome yours.<br />
As our volunteer force grows, so do our lists. Sharing is the whole<br />
idea. Keep in mind the profound words of Dr. Margaret Mead: “Never<br />
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can<br />
change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.”<br />
Also, please remember, neither Dan nor I are attorneys and we cannot<br />
give legal advice. We can however recommend those on our “good list.”<br />
And conversely, we have no hesitancy in naming those that “we would<br />
not touch with a ten-foot pole.”<br />
Yes, it is our opinion(s), but after getting involved in the legal process<br />
concerning the guardianship scandal, we’ve seen first-hand what<br />
attorneys (both good and evil) have done (or tried to do) to individuals<br />
and families caught in the system.<br />
Our first list on Attorneys. The “Good Guys”<br />
Rena McDonald - mcdonaldlawgroup.com 702/448-4962<br />
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Those We Do Not Recommend:<br />
David Bindrup - Henderson<br />
Ethan Cutler – Las <strong>Vegas</strong><br />
If you would like more information on these recommendations,<br />
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River Boat Cruising<br />
By: Stu Cooper / Happy Destinations<br />
have often said the getting to and from your<br />
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experience from my mind.<br />
I don’t dwell on those “difficulties.” I choose to remember the<br />
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world we live in.<br />
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Is there a difference? The short answer – YES. There is quite the<br />
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In fact, the only similarity is that you’re on a moving water vessel.<br />
Ocean going ships hold thousands of passengers. Riverboat vessels hold<br />
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Cruise ships can be a thousand feet long and two hundred feet wide.<br />
Riverboats are typically 400 feet long and 38 feet wide. Intimate would<br />
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Service on a riverboat is more personal. The kitchen is only cooking<br />
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Tucson Encompasses Diversity<br />
By: Kathy Manney / Around Our World<br />
Many refer to it as the “Old Pueblo.” Its<br />
indigenous heritage brings a wonderful<br />
richness to the culture. The scenery defines the<br />
Southwest, though Tucson is more than an<br />
historic Southwestern town.<br />
Home to Saguaro National Park, Tucson is honored with Arizona’s<br />
signature plant. It is the largest cactus species in the United States, with<br />
mature plants reaching 40-feet.<br />
Saguaro’s can weigh 8-tons and live more than 150-years. Slow<br />
to grow, plants develop 2-feet in 30-years, sometimes taking 50 to<br />
100-years to grow the first arm. More than 1.5 million saguaros inhabit<br />
the park.<br />
Seventy-miles from Nogales, Tucson is a gateway to Mexico. It’s<br />
located in Pima County which is named for its Native American<br />
Indians, Pima.<br />
Not Another California<br />
By: Victoria Seaman / Victoria’s Corner<br />
At least that blue state has a beach.<br />
Like so many of us here, my family and I<br />
escaped California. I loved the beauty of the state<br />
- from Redwood forests of the North to the beautiful beaches in the<br />
South. California had it all.<br />
The only problem was the liberal dominated government of California<br />
wanted it all, and by all I mean our income through endless and higher<br />
taxes, and our freedoms through endless laws and regulations.<br />
It got to the point where I realized as a small business owner, I was no<br />
longer working to feed my family. I was working to feed the government<br />
with whatever scraps they allowed me going to my family.<br />
We made the decision to sell our business and move to Nevada.<br />
And while the move was just across the border, it might as well have<br />
been across the universe. Taxes were low, government was limited, and<br />
freedom was high.<br />
Which allowed my family and most Nevadans to prosper. We settled<br />
down and got busy building an amazing life in Nevada.<br />
Then slowly things started to change. Too many of the people coming<br />
here from California were for voting for the same types of laws and<br />
the same style of politician. That created the nightmare in California<br />
which we escaped from.<br />
I watched as taxes were raised, regulations were piled on businesses,<br />
and freedoms slowly chipped away at. The place my family loved to call<br />
home was turning in to the place we had just escaped from.<br />
But this time I chose to stand up and fight. Running for office for the<br />
first time and getting elected to the Assembly where I fought against<br />
the liberal effort to turn us into California East. Now I need you to join<br />
me in that fight.<br />
The first battle is the June 12 primary. It isn’t enough to simply<br />
elect Republicans in November. We need to elect true conservative<br />
Republicans who will stand with us in stopping the liberals from<br />
turning Nevada into a blue state without a beach.<br />
Victoria Seaman is a former Nevada Assemblywoman,<br />
businesswoman and currently a Realtor in Las <strong>Vegas</strong>. You can<br />
contact Victoria at: victoria@victoriaseaman.com.<br />
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The often-photographed San Xavier Mission is an active native<br />
parish. Much of the reservation borders Mexico. “Controversy swirls<br />
around the Southern Arizona border fence like a dust devil.”<br />
A 1972 law passed to conserve energy and preserve the crystal clarity<br />
of the dry desert air, Tucson is an astronomer’s dream and home to<br />
the International Dark-Sky Association. Tucson’s night skies are the<br />
darkest of any city its size in the United States, making Tucson a center<br />
for the dark-sky movement, aimed at reducing the creeping deluge of<br />
light pollution.<br />
High above the Sonoran Desert on the Tohono O’odham nation is<br />
world-renowned Kitt Peak National Observatory an “experience like no<br />
other.” Its many large telescopes are among the world’s finest.<br />
Tucson has no pro-sports team but is home to the University of<br />
Arizona’s Wildcats; hence Tucson is a college town. Home to Davis-<br />
Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson is also a military town. And home<br />
to nearby Mt. Lemon, as Tucson professes to be the United States<br />
southernmost ski area.<br />
Whatever your interest, Tucson encompasses diversity and cordiality.<br />
Kathy Manney enjoys visiting interesting places and being an<br />
Adventure Diva. Her “Must See” travel journeys continue - always<br />
with enthusiasm.<br />
www.matt4nevada.com<br />
Matt4Nevada@gmail.com<br />
702-635-2992 | 410 South Rampart Blvd., Suite 390 | Las <strong>Vegas</strong>, NV 89145<br />
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Democrats for the People<br />
By: Howard Beckerman / Nevada Democrats<br />
Seniors throughout Clark County are<br />
coming out in large numbers to support the<br />
Democratic candidates in the June Primary. Early<br />
Voting began May 26 th with Primary Day June 12 th .<br />
Even if you are registered “Non-Partisan” or “Independent” there<br />
are several important votes that you can make in the Primary. All<br />
the Judicial races, including the Nevada Supreme Court, are “nonpartisan”<br />
and thus every registered voter is eligible to cast their vote<br />
in these races.<br />
Paul Aizley, an experienced former legislator is campaigning for State<br />
Senate. The district was formerly represented by Michael Roberson, who<br />
led the effort to recall State Senator Joyce Woodhouse (also a senior<br />
citizen). Paul knows firsthand the difficulties of being a senior citizen<br />
in today’s environment where senior’s needs are ignored by many in<br />
government.<br />
In Sun City Summerlin, Rick Cornstuble (also a senior), is running<br />
to represent Assembly District 37. Rick, a military veteran, and retired<br />
teacher, has been advocating for seniors for many years.<br />
Nationally, Senator Dean Heller and the leading Republicans are<br />
touting ways to reduce the size of Medicare and Social Security benefits,<br />
while Jacky Rosen and the Democratic leadership want to prevent any<br />
cuts to Social Security and to expand Medicare and Medicaid.<br />
Republicans refer to these programs as “entitlements” while<br />
Democrats know<br />
that our seniors<br />
have put their hardearned<br />
dollars into the<br />
system and rely on these<br />
investments to help them<br />
through their retirement<br />
years.<br />
Now that the fraudulent attempted<br />
recall of our duly elected State<br />
Senators is over, the Democratic<br />
Party is ramping up its voter<br />
registration drive. Volunteers will<br />
be needed for all the campaigns. If<br />
you would like to volunteer for any<br />
of the campaigns you can contact the campaign directly or myself at<br />
howard@thevegasvoice.net.<br />
As for our meetings: Sun City Anthem Democrats: 2 nd Wednesday<br />
of the month (contact David Hatten: djhatton9@gmail.com) and/or<br />
Southwest Democratic Club: 3 rd Monday of the month (contact Steve<br />
Horner: sjhorner51@aol.com)<br />
Howard Beckerman serves on the Nevada State Democratic<br />
Central Committee, the Clark County Central Committee, and is Vice<br />
President of the Red Rock Democratic Club. He has been active in the<br />
political scene for over 40 years.<br />
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Last month, my article addressed the<br />
continuing “lip service specialist” (LSP)<br />
a/k/a your elected politicians. They were<br />
continuing word games of “fixing” the growing mentally ill problem<br />
by saying something but doing nothing.<br />
Low and behold, one of those LSP’s took issue contacting me saying:<br />
“Don’t you (I) feel we need a dialogue with the powers to be so that we<br />
can come up with a thoroughly thought out and workable solution?”<br />
I replied, “Don’t you think that years of talking about the problem<br />
and not once coming up with any legislative action plan is nothing<br />
more than a political word game that does NOTHING to solve the<br />
problem?”<br />
I told this LSP that his job is DO SOMETHING. That is what we<br />
hired him to do, and if he isn’t willing to ACT, perhaps he should<br />
leave the political stage and be replaced with someone who will!<br />
Of course he didn’t like my response and subsequently hung up the<br />
phone! I guess I hit a nerve that just made too much sense to him.<br />
The nonsense just seems to be getting worse every election cycle!<br />
VOTE for ONLY those who have an ACTION PLAN. All others need<br />
not apply!<br />
Dan Hyde is a passionate and effective advocate for the senior<br />
community. He served as Chair of the City of Henderson’s Senior<br />
Advisory Commission. He can be reached at: dhyde9@cox.net.<br />
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What Nonsense!<br />
June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
Two Dreams, One Goal<br />
By: Dan Hyde / Call to Action By: Michelle Mortensen OUR SHERIFF. KEEPING US SAFE.<br />
When I was a child, I had two dreams; to<br />
work in television as a journalist and to<br />
work in politics. For the last <strong>18</strong> years, I’ve worked<br />
for TV stations in Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, New York, Vermont and<br />
of course, Nevada.<br />
I was brought to 8 News Now in 2011 to solve problems for Southern<br />
Nevadans, running the “On Your Side” division. The first problem I<br />
solved was getting residents out of a dilapidated building, with no<br />
electricity.<br />
Then I took on squatters, pharmaceutical companies, big banks,<br />
hospitals, scammers, frauds, saved people’s homes from foreclosure,<br />
got people necessary medical procedures and refunded folks more than<br />
$1.4 million.<br />
We needed someone who could cut through the bureaucracy and red<br />
tape. That’s why I sacrificed everything to serve you.<br />
In Congress, I will crush corruption, expose fraud and end<br />
dysfunction. It’s time for real results.<br />
I know you’ve been disappointed by politicians who broke promises<br />
and lied to you. I know you are tired of candidates who keep running<br />
for office over and over but losing in the general.<br />
Please check out my platform here: www.michellemortensen.com/<br />
issues and I thank you for your support.<br />
Siena Resident Runs for Public Office<br />
Linda Cannon, a resident of the<br />
Siena age-restricted community<br />
has become its first person ever to run for<br />
public office. A fundraiser was held last<br />
month which was attended by seventy<br />
people. Featured guest Wayne Allyn<br />
Root spoke in support of Linda and her<br />
candidacy for State Legislature Assembly<br />
District 9.<br />
As a former business owner, Linda<br />
wants to support building a better business environment to attract and<br />
sustain entrepreneurship in Nevada. She believes it is largely through<br />
free market capitalism that more jobs and a broader tax base are<br />
created resulting in a stronger economy—much like President Trump<br />
has done nationally.<br />
As a community activist and leader, Linda has spent the last several<br />
years researching and writing about issues facing Nevada. Through<br />
her work with the grassroots organization, NevadansCAN, she co-chairs<br />
the Immigration Committee and is on the executive committee. With<br />
that citizens action network, she has been working with legislators in<br />
developing workable policy proposals to issues facing our state and our<br />
country.<br />
Linda would like to use the District 9 legislative seat as a platform<br />
to continue proposing workable solutions for issues facing Nevada<br />
and to ensure that taxpayer monies are used for the benefit of Nevada<br />
taxpayers. For more information, visit www.electlindacannon.com.<br />
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Crystal Czerkas-<br />
Sarbacker<br />
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aos, New Mexico is one of the most<br />
historic art centers in the nation and it<br />
was the home of Nicolai Fechin, one of<br />
America’s adopted artists and most famous<br />
impressionists. Plus Taos’ beauty and charm<br />
was a driving force in my Dad’s development<br />
as the artist, who signed his name Czerkas.<br />
My Dad was a Californian, but his fascination with the Southwest<br />
came from his private teacher, Nicolai Fechin, who loved<br />
the area and insisted my Dad spend time there. Fechin (b. <strong>18</strong>81<br />
- d. 1955) had already established an extraordinary reputation<br />
as an impressionistic artist before he fled from Russia to the US.<br />
He traveled through many of the States, but only one area stole<br />
his heart with its rural beauty and that was Taos, a village sixty<br />
miles from Santa Fe. He along with several other well known<br />
artists, including Georgia O’Keefe, settled in that region and<br />
built a reputation for their community in the art world that has<br />
lasted over a hundred years. Each of these artists had their own<br />
style and interests but many of them like Fechin were especially<br />
drawn to the Native Americans who resided nearby. The unique<br />
customs, ceremonies, and habitats of the tribes really intrigued<br />
Fechin and likewise my Dad, Victor Czerkas.<br />
For more<br />
information,<br />
Call Ray at:<br />
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June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
Taos is calling...<br />
Pueblo Gathering Watercolor / 22” x 28”<br />
The Mystical Pueblos series of paintings and giclees by Czerkas<br />
focuses on the spirituality of our Native American populations.<br />
Like Fechin, my Dad sought to preserve the heritage and beauty<br />
of the Southwest. And the result is an ethereal quality in this art<br />
collection that tells us these are scenes from bygone days, when<br />
pueblos dominated tribal communities with an ageless, almost<br />
surreal appearance. Original oils, watercolors and limited edition<br />
giclees are available.<br />
COLLECTION<br />
702/463-0966<br />
The paintings shown here are by Crystal’s Dad, the award<br />
winning artist Victor Czerkas, the only known private student of<br />
the great Russian impressionist, Nicolai Fechin. Want more info?<br />
We’d be delighted to arrange a private showing...<br />
Common Insurance<br />
Myths - Part 2<br />
By: Jim Valkenburg / Insurance Insight<br />
Last month I presented some common<br />
myths in the insurance industry. Below are<br />
a few more which will hopefully enlighten and help you with insurance<br />
decision-making.<br />
My zip code does not affect my car insurance rates. FACT: Yes, it<br />
does! Insurance companies evaluate their losses by many factors and a<br />
prime factor is where you live and drive.<br />
You can move across the street to another zip code and your rates<br />
could go either up or down. In Las <strong>Vegas</strong> there is a gated guarded<br />
country club in the middle of one of the higher rated zip codes! It may<br />
not seem fair, but it is based solely on loss statistics in that zip code.<br />
My jewelry is covered under my home insurance policy as part<br />
of my contents. FACT: Only partially. Every preferred insurance policy<br />
limits several categories for loss by THEFT and these categories include,<br />
in part, jewelry, watches, furs, silver, firearms and money.<br />
The companies vary by amount they allow, but it is typically $2,500<br />
- $5,000 for “unscheduled” jewelry. If you have “high ticket” jewelry<br />
items, you should get them appraised and “schedule” them specifically<br />
on your policy. The premium is usually between $1 - $1.40 per $100<br />
value.<br />
If my car is stolen, my insurance will also pay for the personal<br />
items that were in my vehicle. FACT: NO. If your vehicle is stolen and<br />
recovered, your auto insurance company will pay for any damage done<br />
to your car (if you have appropriate coverage).<br />
However, your personal items would be covered by your home or<br />
renter’s policy. That usually means two different deductibles – bummer!<br />
As my car gets older my rates should go down and conversely a<br />
new car will cost more to insure than an old car. FACT: Maybe yes,<br />
maybe no. Many people are under the impression that newer cars are<br />
more expensive to insure because the parts are costlier.<br />
However, new cars come with many safety features to prevent<br />
collisions, protect occupants and prevent damage to the car. Certainly,<br />
a brand new Mercedes will cost more than your 1978 Ford, however<br />
many people lease, and when they trade in their 2-3 year old vehicle<br />
for a new one, I’ve seen the rate decrease.<br />
More next month.<br />
Jim Valkenburg is a retired military officer and insurance executive.<br />
He and his wife owned and operated their own insurance agency for<br />
over 16 years. His primary purpose is to give out real information<br />
that can be used to make intelligent insurance decisions.<br />
Insect Infestation<br />
By: Howard Galin / Happy Gardening<br />
e are now into our growing season.<br />
WIt is time to take steps to protect our<br />
landscaping from insect infestation.<br />
My defensive approach is two-pronged:<br />
Mechanical and Chemical.<br />
The mechanical approach utilizes your “eyes.” You should make a<br />
daily visual inspection to ascertain what “invaders” are lurking in your<br />
garden.<br />
Look at the leaves, stems, flowers and branches. If you see infestation,<br />
the quickest and environmentally friendly method of removal is to<br />
spray the plants with a stream of water from your hose.<br />
This method works well in removing spittle bugs and cochineal scale<br />
that invade rosemary bushes and cactus as well as thrips on flowers.<br />
Many unwanted visitors will be washed off.<br />
If a more stubborn situation exists, take an empty spray bottle and<br />
fill it with water. Add a ¼ teaspoon of dishwashing detergent and mix<br />
thoroughly.<br />
Spray the entire plant with the solution. Insects that feast on flowers<br />
and tender plants will fall off like a “one-way water slide for insects!”<br />
This solution can be used as much as needed with no fear of hurting<br />
the plants. Larger insects can be safely removed by using a pair of<br />
tweezers and dropping them into a bag for quick disposal.<br />
Some flowers can act as deterrents to insects. Marigolds can ward<br />
off the horned tomato caterpillars and root-eating nematodes.<br />
Chrysanthemums contain Pyrethrum which repeal insects.<br />
With serious insect infestation, you want to use a chemical approach.<br />
Note: There are two categories of chemicals: Contact and Systemic.<br />
Contacts are sprayed directly onto plants for immediate results.<br />
Systemics are mixed into the soil where the root system absorbs these<br />
chemical and act as a “vaccine.”<br />
When insects try to eat the plant, they are killed off by the insecticide<br />
which is part of the plant makeup. Systemics, however, should not be<br />
used on edible plants or fruiting plants since these chemicals will be<br />
present in the food itself.<br />
Using a combination of mechanical and chemical approaches will<br />
help to protect your landscape and keep away unwarranted insect<br />
visitors.<br />
Howard Galin, a/k/a: “The Plant Whisperer” is a retired NYC<br />
school administrator, transplanted in Las <strong>Vegas</strong> who devotes his<br />
time to communicating with and lecturing about our native<br />
plants.<br />
PAUL AIZLEY<br />
FOR SENATE 20<br />
Seniors<br />
Protecting<br />
Seniors!<br />
Education and your<br />
Retirement!<br />
www.paulaizley.com<br />
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Understanding Dental Insurance<br />
By: James J. White, D.D.S. / Your Dentist<br />
Dental Insurance? An oxymoron if ever there<br />
was one.<br />
In my experience, senior citizens do not have<br />
dental insurance. Not having dental insurance has become an excuse<br />
for not seeking dental care.<br />
What a flimsy excuse. If one is concerned about keeping and/or<br />
replacing missing teeth, then not having dental insurance may be a<br />
benefit.<br />
When one has dental insurance, they tend to go only to the offices<br />
that accept their insurance. If a person has very poor dental coverage,<br />
then that office will provide work and services in keeping with what that<br />
insurance pays.<br />
Dental insurance amounts to an annual credit coupon - and no<br />
more. If one determines their care based on the value of this coupon,<br />
then one must accept what that particular plan thinks is good enough<br />
for you.<br />
There are issues with insurance that patients often think are the fault<br />
of the dental office. For example, very often when an office submits for<br />
payment for a covered expense, the office and the patient, will receive<br />
an EOB (estimate of benefits) by mail that denies the claim.<br />
The decision to approve or to deny, either the payment or the<br />
procedure itself is made at some random, remote location. We have<br />
found that the individual who is making this decision on your behalf<br />
is only in this position for a few months (at best) - so continuity is an<br />
issue.<br />
Someday is<br />
TODAY!<br />
What are you waiting for?<br />
• Trouble eating the foods you want?<br />
• Discomfort when chewing?<br />
• Tmj problems /Jaw joint noises are not normal<br />
• Sensitivity/pain with sweets?<br />
• Gums bleeding?<br />
• Tooth loss without replacement?<br />
• Dentures making sores or not fitting anymore?<br />
(Turbyfill dentures)<br />
• Ugly smiles?<br />
• why not look your youngest?<br />
I will provide unparalleled dental care.<br />
702/562-8833<br />
www.JamesWhiteDDS.com<br />
WHITE SMILES ARE FOR EVERYONE!<br />
June 20<strong>18</strong><br />
A consultation is complementary<br />
There are very few supervisors with whom one can intelligently<br />
communicate on the patient’s behalf. And there are only so many hours<br />
in a day to do so.<br />
The fact that the EOB is returned to the patient as denied carries the<br />
implication that the proposed dental procedure was not needed. In fact,<br />
we have found that at the first submission, there is denial of benefit<br />
80% of the time.<br />
Naturally the patient’s perception is that the office is trying to do<br />
something unnecessary. Denying the claim works in the favor of the<br />
insurance company in two ways: (1) It achieves the desired perception<br />
of unnecessary work so that the patient often puts off having the needed<br />
dental work done, and/or (2) At the very least, there will be more time<br />
taken up in going back and forth with the insurance company which<br />
helps to delay their financial output.<br />
I have found that the initial denial of an office’s submission is a<br />
common business strategy of the insurance industry. The longer that<br />
the insurance company holds onto its money, the more they make prior<br />
to finally having to tender the payment.<br />
Until next month, keep smiling.<br />
1140 N. Town Center Drive suite #170<br />
L.D. Pankey Institute alumnus, Dawson Academy alumnus,<br />
Fellow Academy of General Dentistry,<br />
Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry International,<br />
Northwestern University Dental School,<br />
Turbyfill Dentures, etc.<br />
Community Conventions<br />
By: Judy Polumbaum / Our View<br />
It’s taking me awhile to get used to this<br />
homeowners’ association thing.<br />
Granted, I’ve spent a good deal of time in China,<br />
where the walled community is a traditional fixture – courtyards,<br />
housing compounds, villages, and entire towns and cities have long<br />
been surrounded by walls. But the U.S. brand of enclosed community<br />
that emerged in the latter half of the 20 th century and became a familiar<br />
fixture of residential living in Las <strong>Vegas</strong> is new to this newcomer.<br />
By some estimates, half of <strong>Vegas</strong> residents live in HOA-governed<br />
enclaves. I once associated such configurations with wealth and status,<br />
but now know they run the gamut, from modest apartment complexes<br />
to cozy houses, condos and mansions.<br />
HOAs unfolded from the rapid growth of suburbs after World War<br />
II, as developers and municipalities sought to reduce construction and<br />
infrastructure costs. Planning experts offer numerous rationales for the<br />
model’s success, most obviously the ability to fund collective services<br />
and amenities.<br />
HOAs have assumed many expenses previously borne by governments<br />
and taxpayers, and fancier ones go further - providing for club houses,<br />
golf courses, swimming pools and the like. Other identified functions<br />
include separation and privacy, surveillance and social control, status<br />
and identity, and safety and security.<br />
Although the police announce daily notices of home break-ins, carjackings<br />
and lurking strangers, I don’t feel the least scared in my <strong>Vegas</strong><br />
neighborhood. Yet safety and security seem to loom foremost in the<br />
minds of our HOA board members and management company. A recent<br />
letter announced that three of the four pedestrian gates in the perimeter<br />
fence will be welded shut to deter non-residents from strolling through.<br />
Many of the strollers are high school students taking a shortcut.<br />
Neighbors complain about kids huddling to smoke dope, and some<br />
have experienced vandalism or theft.<br />
Yet overall the teen presence seems innocuous. Be they sullen or<br />
boisterous, these young interlopers belong to the landscape of mundane<br />
human activity – along with dogs walking and children playing that<br />
drew me to this neighborhood in the first place.<br />
The HOA letter bemoaned that when the pedestrian gates had locks,<br />
people jammed or broke them, and when the locks were removed, the<br />
poor gates still got body-slammed. The letter laments that intruders<br />
climb over walls or tag along at the auto entry.<br />
Won’t welding the walking gates shut (including the one my<br />
dogs and I pass through on our daily jaunts) merely exacerbate the<br />
problems? I’ve no objection to privacy barriers, but what’s wrong with<br />
walking passages?<br />
When we wall the world out, after all, we are walling ourselves in.<br />
Judy Polumbaum is a professor emerita of journalism and a<br />
recent transplant to Las <strong>Vegas</strong> from the Midwest. Her father Ted<br />
was a professional photographer who thoroughly documented her<br />
childhood.<br />
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Oh No - Summer’s Here!<br />
By: Mary Richard / Health Fitness<br />
OK it’s summer already! OUCH! For those<br />
who have not exercised or felt that we<br />
certainly have “plenty of time” to get into that<br />
“bathing suit” physique – here it is!<br />
You can change into your slimmer summer physique very quickly<br />
if you follow a few simple rules and do it consistently for 4-6 weeks.<br />
During my ride to work each morning, I see many of my neighbors<br />
walking.<br />
They have developed camaraderie with other neighbors and pass the<br />
time on their walks. This is also barbeque season and you know how<br />
tempting all those hamburgers, hotdogs, beer and other goodies can<br />
add on pounds!<br />
Start by walking for 20 minutes at a moderate pace, increasing your<br />
speed every five minutes or so. Gradually increase it to a little more<br />
each day (or by the end of each week).<br />
Walk early in the morning or later in the evening now that the<br />
warmer weather is upon us. Keep a steady, moderate-to-strong pace for<br />
the entire walk.<br />
Start off by walking in a safe area – perhaps a park or if your<br />
neighborhood is safe, just around a few blocks. I’m fortunate to<br />
have not only a safe neighborhood, but also a walking track at my<br />
community center.<br />
Put on sun block lotion (no matter what time of day it is). Carry a<br />
bottle of water, wear sunglasses, a hat, comfortable shoes and ID.<br />
Remember to eat a little something before you begin your walk.<br />
Dehydration can set in very quickly and lack of some “fuel” in your<br />
body can add to dizziness and lack of energy to finish your walk.<br />
If you have an iPod or MP3 – load in some of your favorite music. It<br />
helps to pass the time away and before you know it, you have completed<br />
your walk without even thinking about it.<br />
Walking will burn off plenty of calories so that you can have that<br />
hamburger, hotdog or nice cold beer without feeling guilty. Isn’t<br />
summer food just yummy?<br />
With all this said – walk to your heart’s desire! You’ll feel better, burn<br />
off calories, meet new friends and enjoy some fresh air!<br />
POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND HAPPY HEALTH TO ALL!<br />
Headaches<br />
By: Kyo Mitchell / A Healthier You<br />
Headaches are one of the most common<br />
reasons people seek medical help. A 2017<br />
survey reported that 17% of adults suffer from<br />
multiple headaches per month. The problem with treating persistent<br />
headaches is that there are many potential causes for the headache.<br />
Your brain has no pain receptors which is one of the reasons a<br />
patient can be awake during brain surgery. Pain cannot come from<br />
brain tissue. The blood vessels that feed your brain tissue however, are<br />
a completely different story.<br />
These blood vessels are many times the cause of the headache. As an<br />
example, migraine headaches are believed to be due to irritation of the<br />
blood vessels.<br />
Migraines have multiple causes, including hormone imbalances,<br />
food sensitivities, and stress. These headaches differ from other types<br />
of headaches in that the person is unusually sensitive to light, sound<br />
and even smells. Nausea and vomiting can also accompany migraines.<br />
Sinus headaches are found on the forehead or at the cheekbones.<br />
In this instance, there is local inflammation of the sinuses. The<br />
inflammation plus increased mucous production puts pressure on the<br />
walls of the sinuses, eventually resulting in a sinus headache<br />
Tension headaches are usually felt as pain in the neck and the head.<br />
The head feels like there is a tight band around it.<br />
Tension headaches are due to stress. The stress causes the neck and<br />
scalp muscles to chronically contract and become painful.<br />
Another form or headache is called a cervicogenic headache. Here<br />
the headache is a non-throbbing pain in the neck and back of the skull.<br />
It can be felt around and behind the eyes.<br />
A cervicogenic headache is due to a problem in the bones or soft<br />
tissue in your neck that is irritating the local nerves. The pain is felt<br />
along the trajectory of these nerves.<br />
Differentiating the cause of the headache helps doctors understand<br />
their underlying pathophysiology so that treatment is specific to the<br />
cause.<br />
Dr. Kyo Mitchell served as faculty at Bastyr University in Seattle<br />
and Wongu University in Las <strong>Vegas</strong> for over a decade. Dr. Mitchell<br />
practices in Summerlin and can be reached at 702-481-6216 or<br />
rkyomitchell@gmail.com.<br />
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Let’s Clarify Numbers<br />
By: Dr. Victoria Boyd / Hempworx<br />
What does potency really mean? What is<br />
bioavailability? We get questions related<br />
to these terms so hopefully I can shed some light<br />
on understanding CBD lingo.<br />
Potency refers to the levels of CBD and/or THC in a product.<br />
Cannabinoid potency data quantifies levels of plant cannabinoids<br />
present in hemp/cannabis products.<br />
Producers are required to obtain potency data for THC and CBD,<br />
the two most common cannabinoids. It’s important for consumers to<br />
know THC and CBD levels because these will have a strong influence<br />
on the effects of the product.<br />
For example, some medical patients may want a strain with a<br />
high CBD-THC ratio, while other consumers may request the opposite.<br />
The best companies use a third party testing lab that conducts an<br />
analysis verifying the stated levels, concentration of, or presence of<br />
compounds.<br />
Potency can also refer to whether the CBD product is full spectrum<br />
or an isolate. A full spectrum product produced from the entire plant<br />
with no modifications will have minute traces of THC (at -.03% FDA<br />
ranks a product as zero, but not FREE). However, some desire a totally<br />
THC free product which means the other CBD compounds have been<br />
isolated.<br />
Bioavailability is a complex subject, but simply put, it is the<br />
measure of how much of any substance (whether ingested or inhaled)<br />
Sal Parisi<br />
By: Sam Wagmeister / People & Places<br />
For nearly four decades, Sal Parisi and his<br />
bass guitar danced across stages with gusto<br />
to the beat of the jazz, Latin and dance music he<br />
loved before the wear and tear took its toll. He was particularly fond of<br />
“romantic Latin jazz, the kind you could dance to.”<br />
In bygone days, he created the high energy group Dance <strong>Vegas</strong> who<br />
counted Las <strong>Vegas</strong> treasure Mark Giovi (pictured with Parisi in the<br />
background) as the lone male among their trio of vocalists. Hitting<br />
sevens and eights on the pain scale, Sal traded his music for a walking<br />
cane and his steady income for disability checks.<br />
At its worst, with prospects of a return to the stage bleak, the pain<br />
caused the Detroit native to sell his collection musical instruments<br />
fearing a return to the stage was impossible. “My spine is so far gone<br />
they can’t operate,” he said of his six herniated discs, three bone-onbone<br />
vertebrae and advanced arthritis.<br />
“Emotionally, he drops,” said wife Susie. “His whole demeanor is so<br />
wrong.”<br />
Parisi was born into a family in the carpet business and pitched in at<br />
an early age. He feels that the heavy lifting and physical responsibilities<br />
of the business contributed to his ailments.<br />
is used by the body or makes it into the bloodstream. If you’re trying<br />
to figure out which method of taking CBD is the best “bang for your<br />
buck,” there’s honestly no real clear option or “winner.”<br />
The decision should come down to what benefits you’re trying to<br />
achieve. If you take CBD every day for chronic symptoms, and want<br />
long-lasting effects, taking it sublingual (oil drops under the tongue)<br />
may suit you well.<br />
If you’re looking for a heavy-hitting, fast-acting benefit that you<br />
might not need every day (such as for a migraine or a bout of high<br />
anxiety) then vaping CBD may be the better option because of its<br />
quick entry into bloodstream, however its impact has a much shorter<br />
duration.<br />
The oil can also be applied directly on the affected area for great<br />
and quick results. This information does not include capsules and<br />
edibles, because their bioavailability drops dramatically due to the<br />
digestion process.<br />
Wish my article could include more details but space is limited so<br />
keep the questions coming! Just email: DrVictoriaBoyd@gmail.com<br />
Order full spectrum or THC Free Hempworx CBD oil at: www.<br />
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As an author and trainer Dr. Victoria Boyd loves sharing<br />
knowledge in diverse areas such as nonprofit development<br />
and research on the medical benefits of CBD as an affiliate of<br />
Hempworx. Email her at: DrVictoriaBoyd@gmail.com.<br />
After picking up the<br />
bass guitar as an 8-year<br />
old, Parisi began touring<br />
nine years later playing<br />
in Top 40 bands. The<br />
meager paying night<br />
gigs in small towns gave<br />
him an opportunity to<br />
“door knock” during<br />
the days, carpet cleaning<br />
machine in tow. “I<br />
could pick up an extra<br />
hundred bucks a day<br />
cleaning carpets,” he<br />
remembers. That hard<br />
driving mindset sustains<br />
him today.<br />
Parisi found relief when a friend recommended CBD, a hemp derived<br />
product available in health food stores. And more encouraging is that<br />
he’s reconnected with some former musician buddies with dreams of<br />
returning to a local stage.<br />
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Paying for Toxic Duty<br />
By: Chuck Dean / Vet 2 Vet<br />
The enemy is not always who, what, and<br />
where we think it is. All that stuff falling like<br />
rain on us in Vietnam was not mist or insecticide,<br />
it was deadly dioxin (Agent Orange) that our government used.<br />
Dioxin is one the most toxic substances known to man, and many of<br />
us were exposed to it during our tours of duty. Short-term exposure of<br />
humans to high levels of this stuff may result in skin lesions, such as<br />
chloracne and patchy darkening of the skin, altered liver function, and<br />
cancer…just to name a few.<br />
Long-term exposure is linked to impairment of the immune system,<br />
the developing nervous system, and the endocrine system. That was<br />
the unseen and unsuspected enemy that has taken down many good<br />
warriors since coming home.<br />
Even at home, our troops have been toxically exposed. The<br />
contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, is one of the few instances in<br />
which former military personnel who weren’t deployed could become<br />
eligible for cash payouts.<br />
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has published regulations<br />
to establish presumptions for the service connection of eight diseases<br />
associated with exposure to contaminants in the water supply at Camp<br />
Lejeune. The presumption of service connection applies to active duty,<br />
reserve and National Guard members who served at Camp Lejeune for<br />
a minimum of 30 days between August 1, 1953 and December 31, 1987.<br />
If they are<br />
diagnosed with any<br />
of the following<br />
conditions: Adult<br />
leukemia, Aplastic<br />
anemia and other<br />
myelodysplastic<br />
syndromes, bladder, kidney & liver cancer, multiple myeloma, Non-<br />
Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and Parkinson’s disease, they need to begin the<br />
process for benefits designed for them.<br />
For a long time, it was thought that Agent Orange only effected<br />
ground troops. However the VA has produced a list of all the ships and<br />
aircraft used by the Navy and Coast Guard that was associated with<br />
spraying the toxins in and around all the inland waterways, and off the<br />
coasts of Vietnam. If one’s military record can verify duty in these areas,<br />
they are eligible to submit a claim for damages to their health.<br />
The good news (if there is any) is that the Department of Veterans<br />
Affairs is now confessing and divulging the truth. After recognizing and<br />
owning up to the use of deadly chemicals in Vietnam, it has named and<br />
declared many presumptive diseases and conditions in ailing veterans.<br />
Many eligible and suffering veterans are filing claims, getting rated,<br />
and receiving the needed treatment. I encourage all veterans to get<br />
boned up on what those presumptive conditions are, and if any apply,<br />
then take action and begin the process. You will be amazed at how fast<br />
that process can go now.<br />
Chuck Dean served as an Army paratrooper in Vietnam and<br />
through that experience was led to address the many transitional<br />
issues veterans struggle with. He is the author of several important<br />
books for veterans. All can be found on Amazon at: http://www.<br />
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Smart Buyers Look Below the Surface!<br />
A good stager can minimize a multitude of flaws in a home, from an awkward traffic flow<br />
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couch. As home sellers increasingly use "staging" to get their homes ready to sell,<br />
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The natural assumption is that a well-presented home is also a well-maintained<br />
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than on how the home is decorated or the furniture is arranged.<br />
Common items to watch for:<br />
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Don’t be dazzled by the light. Halogen lights, for instance, can make a room seem<br />
larger, as can torchiere-style lamps that reflect light up to ceilings.<br />
Don’t let shimmer hide the reality of the space. Items such as mirrors and glass<br />
tabletops can make rooms appear larger. Measure each room to see how big it<br />
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Beware of tight spaces. Think about whether or not the furniture in a room is<br />
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Staging puts a house’s best face forward (so I do recommend that if you are selling your<br />
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