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 | As they age, many seniors are faced with a dilemma. Getting around becomes increasingly difficult and often they find that their homes are too big, not senior friendly, too isolated or too expensive for their fixed incomes.
“There is a need; it can be as simple as ‘I can’t do these stairs any longer,’” said Robert Kramer, president of the National Investment Center for Seniors Housing and Care Industry in a recent Reuters article. “It’s not like the decision to add a sun room to your house.”
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 | “We have such a rich heritage in El Paso,” says devoted volunteer Carolyn Breck. “The Historical Society is one of a few organizations that nurtures and explains our history.”
Breck has been a El Paso County Historical Society volunteer since the 1980s. She’s served a two-year term as president, having already caught the vision of preserving history while majoring in history at Texas Western (now UTEP).
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 | When spring training begins in late April, professional baseball players across the country are hooked up with host families that provide them with room and board for the four-month season. The El Paso Diablos are expecting 15 players from the U.S., Venezuela, Puerto Rico and Australia who also need a place to stay. Requirements for a host family are to provide a private room and access to a washer and dryer for the player.
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 | Becky Martinez, 62, remembers easily the first time she heard the terms “Facebook” and “MySpace.”
“My daughter was talking about how she found an old high school friend through Facebook,” she said. “I just couldn’t grasp the concept. I was like: why not just pick up the phone or send an e-mail?
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 | I was out of touch for a while last month and had fallen behind on my columns because I got so busy visiting my 80-something-year-old parents.
Mom fell and fractured her pelvis in three places and was living at the White Acres Skilled Nursing Center for rehab, while Dad was living at White Acres Assisted Living Center.
Spending so much time there had a benefit: I met the most interesting seniors! One of them was Myrth Rollins, who I reconnected with, since she had been a customer of Tres Mariposas in years past.
She was also an English teacher at Austin High School, and I enjoyed digging out my husband’s high school annual to take to show off her picture.
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 | While the politicos in Washington debate and argue over health care reform, Eleanor Poe, the “Angel” of South El Paso, quietly goes about her business providing free care and treatment to those people who need it desperately, without any government money at all.
Poe, 81, is a quiet and totally focused woman who founded the Baptist Clinic nearly 37 years ago. She built it out of a crying need, literally.
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 | “Mom can I keep it?” is a question typically heard in reference to some type of wild animal such as a turtle or a lizard, especially by a child who is on the lookout for a pet. There is often controversy between reptile pet owners over whether people should buy wild caught or captive bred reptiles.
A wild caught reptile is obtained much less expensively than one that is captive bred. But maybe expense should not be the main concern when considering the adoption of a reptilian pet.
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Q. Can eating oatmeal really lower your cholesterol or are the cereal companies selling us a story?
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 | The smell of fresh bread and the sound of classic oldies on the satellite radio emanate from El Paso’s Bakery, at 3300 Fort Blvd. and 5901 Ybarra Ct. Inside, the bakers are hard at work producing hundreds of pounds of the dessert of the season - capirotada, or Mexican bread pudding. Capirotada is traditionally eaten as a dessert during the Lenten season, which ends with Easter Sunday on April 4.
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 | When it comes to seniors living the good life … sometimes it takes a village. Or at least a painted village.
Buena Vida Adult Day Centers in El Paso rely on their annual fundraiser “Celebre La Buena Vida,” beautiful painted houses by El Paso’s artists, and the support of the community to help meet the needs of El Paso’s seniors and disabled adults.
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 | Despite being in the midst of an age of high-tech gadgets and modern technology, the popularity of the ages- old hobby of sewing, knitting and quilting is on the rise.
“I always used to say that sewing was a lost art,” said 58-year-old Grace Morales. “My mother taught me how to do the basics like sew a button on a shirt, hem pants. She tried to teach me how to do more – but I wasn’t very interested in learning. I always regretted that.”
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