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KOKQMO TRIBUNE INSIDE TODAY advice Rev. Carson .82 B3 B7 Kokomo, Ind. SENIOR DINING Area 5 menus for the week Editor's note: These are sites or the Area 5 Agency on Aging and Community Services Nutrition Council meals Carver Community Center, First United Methodist Church of Greentown, Terrace Towers and Kokomo Senior Center. Here is the menu for the week of Nov. 10: Monday: Beef stew, seasoned jreen beans, apple salad, butterscotch pudding, wheat bread and milk.

Tuesday: 3otdog, jroccoli soup, baked fruit cocktail, bun and milk. Wednesday: Chicken filet, baked potato, creamed corn, cinnamon applesauce, bun and milk. Thursday: Beef 'n' noodles, mashed potatoes, toss salad with tomato, seasonal fruit, muffin and milk. Friday: Meat loaf with gravy, cheesy potatoes, spinach with 3acon, peaches, rye bread and milk. ACTIVITIES Senior center calendar is listed Editor's note: Ail activities listed in the calendar take place at the Kokomo Senior Center, 721 W.

Superior unless otherwise indicated. For more information, call the center at 456-7SS7. For information about the center's bus transportation, call 4S6-7SSS. Today: Watercolor workshop, 10:30 a.m.; dance, 7 p.m., with music by Bill Tandy (snack m'ght)f Sunday: Dance, 2-5 p.m., with music by Bill Tandy. Monday: Party bridge, 8 a.m.; pool tournament, 12:30 p.m.; pinochle, 12:30 p.m.; bridge, 7 p.m.

Tuesday: Exercise class, 9 a.m.; Bearcreek Farms trip, 9:15 a.m.; sing-along, 10 a.m.; bridge, 1 p.m.; euchre, 6 p.m. Wednesday: Party bridge, 8 a.m.; AARP luncheon, 11:30 a.m.; attorney Otterman free legal advice, 2-3 p.m.; ballroomx dance class, 34 p.m.; bridge, 7 p.m. Thursday: Exercise class, 9 a.m.; Medicare assistance, 2-3 p.m.; bingo, 6 p.m. Friday: Western dance class, 9 a.m.; carry-in lunch and dance with Rick Carson; KOFF bingo, 2p.m. ARMED FORCES Marine, Army news is noted The following Army and Marine personnel are noted for their accomplishments: Army Reserve Pvt.

Benjamin Richardson has graduated from basic military training at Fort Leonard Wood, Waynesville, Mo. Richardson is the son of Jerry Richardson of 769 Dreeze Wood Drive, Russiaville. He is a student at Western High School, Russiaville. Army National Guard Pfc. Benjamin Donaldson has graduated from the wheeled vehicle repairer course at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Aberdeen, Md.

Donaldson is the son of Bruce Donaldson, 115 Conradt and Janet Morgan, Reading, Ohio. He is a 1997 graduate of Kokomo High School. Marine Pfc. Brandon Farmer, son of Larry and Paula Farmer, Kokomo, recently completed basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego. Farmer is a graduate of Taylor High School.

If you have an item or photo for the Style updates please send it to: Tom Carey Kokomo Tribune, P.O. Box 9014; Kokomo. IN 46904-9014. Or E-mail: LIFESTYLE call us Saturday Goodfellows gave his family Christmas. By SCOTT SLADE Tribune assistant Lifestyle editor hen Roscoe Woodring was young his family didn't have a lot of money.

So when Christmas time came they often got help from a local charity. "Goodfellows helped my family when I was little," the 76- year-old Kokomo resident said of the Kokomo Tribune-sponsored charity. It "bought us toys, food and stuff, for Christmas." "That was the only way we had Christmas was having Goodfellows help out." With those memories, Woodring said he has volunteered his time for the past seven years to give something back. "I thought I'd help put someone else," he said while taking a break at the Fraternal Order of Eagles 255 where he is treasurer. It's important "to help the less unfortunate," he said.

Woodring got involved with We Care because his daughter was working on the charity's annual cookbook. "My daughter was up there working on it, and I said 'If you need any help, And needed help and they whistled," Woodring explained. But since then the retired machinist has given his tune every year to help with the charity, the proceeds of which go to the Salvation Army, the Kokomo Rescue Mission, Bona Vista Rehabilitation Services and Goodfel- lows. "I've been working at the auction every year, Friday and Saturday nights," he said. "I've worked every auction weekend." He sits in the basement of the WWKI building during the annual We Care Telethon, scheduled for the first weekend in December, and records auctioned items and their prices after they've been sold.

"I'll probably be there Friday at midnight and Saturday at midnight that's what I usually work." Woodring has also bowled "all the marathons for We Care except this year's. I didn't do that this year." A recent bout with pneumonia and an irregular heart beat has limited him to helping with only the less-physically demanding activities. Woodring has also volunteered for charities other than We Care, and for other organizations. "I used to work for the Salvation Army on a kettle," he said. "I'd done that every year for about five years." He also helps at the Eagles Home, he said: "I do a lot of work around here all volunteer." While his health is limiting his participation in the Eagles We Care activities "It may stop me from doing the manual labor part of right now I can't do too much, except push a pencil" he said he's determined to work the WWKI We Care auction again this year.

"I'm going to be there that Friday and Saturday night." Tom Lifestyle editor, 454-8560 or (800) 382-0696 Monday-Friday between 7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Nov. 8.1997 A loser on battlefield, Lee was a winner in retirement gives back to We Care fffHATTH CENTER We Care organizers look at drives' history. Monday Soup, Stuff and other foods are synonymous with We Care. Local athletes get active for We Care.

Wednesday Eagles plan to raise funds for the philanthropic organization. Local group creates song for annual fund-raiser. Friday We Care can become a family tradition. Today Seniors get involved in Christmas drive. Residents have crafty ways to raise money.

By SCOTT SLADE Tribune assistant Lifestyle editor ycamore Village Health Care residents will be doing their part to contribute to We Care coffers. On Friday the residents hosted a sale, featuring baked goods and ceramic crafts. The group holds a sale every Friday through Dec. 5. "I know the bake sales alone raised over $1,000," said Debbie Blu, activities director at Sycamore Village, of last year's results.

"We don't mess around." The ceramic items available will include an angel, a music box Bible and an angel hurricane lamp. Last year residents and staff also purchased more than 200 We Care hearts from resident Fred Shook, who has led the $1 heart effort since the center started supporting We Care more than five years ago. Blu said the residents chose to support the charity after a group discussion. "We talked as a group. They wanted to be affiliated with something outside of the facility so they could feel they were part of the community," Blu explained.

"They wanted to go with We Care because they thought it was the most honest and up front charity they'd seen in a while." Also "they knew that the money was going to stay in the community, and that it was going to help. "We Care is a Kokomo thing, and when you're from Kokomo We Care is a big thing. And most of these people are from Kokomo." Resident Chariene Swope helped bake goods Thursday for Friday's sale. photo by Tim Bath fund-raiser is really cookin It was one of his favorite charities. By SCOTT SLADE Tribune assistant Lifestyle editor alveston's Norma Marschand said started helping with We Care three years ago because her husband, Don, had helped with the charity for a number of years.

He had donated two or three knives a year to be auctioned, one of which sold for around $800, she said: "They were homemade Stellite knives. "Plus he always bought a lot of things," she added. This year, a year after Don's death, Norma continues to work hard at the charity her husband loved. "That was just one of his favorite charities," she said Thursday evening after a hectic day of work- ing at the We Care store in Kokomo Mall, where model John Deere tractors were on sale for the first day. Norma started working at the store several days before it opened Monday, "helping sort shirts" and putting labels on cans of soup.

This week she has worked between eight and 12 hours a day; she will continue to wor 1 ihere until Nov. 16 when the store closes. Then begin- Nov. 24 she'll be at WWKI downtown, where the store will open and remain in operation through the We Care Telethon weekend (Dec. 57) and beyond.

"It is a rewarding you meet a lot of you make a lot of friends, and all the while you're helping someone else," Norma said. "This is like a mission locally you're helping people in your own area," she continued. She said she will continue in coming years to commit her time to We Care. "As long as I'm able and have the time and I'm sure I'll have both," she said. She added that while she's helping, others give more than she does.

"There are many more people that do a lot more than I do and have been involved a lot longer than I have and they all deserve credit for what they do. Without all of them together they couldn't get it done. And because of the Don Marschand memorial fund, established by her husband's former colleague Bill Manly, of Cabot she said her husband will continue to help. "That way he still contributes to We Care even though he isn't here." photo by Cindy Brown When I was growing up and things went wrong, my father usually gave me the following advice: Soldier on and keep a stiff upper lip. At the time, I didn't find it helpful.

My father was born in England right before the first World War. His father was SYNDICATED COLUMNIST remembers husband through We Care gassed in the trenches. During World War II, his mother lived through the blitz, and his brothers fought in North Africa and India. He came to America as part of the Lend-Lease program, to work at Remington Arms. It isn't surprising that he advised me to keep going when the going gets tough and keep a tight rein on my emotions.

And it isn't surprising, either, that I thought his advice was useless. What did it have to do with my life as a perpetual civilian? As Veterans Day 1997 approaches, and I approach the age of 50,1 wonder if my dad's advice was wiser than I used to think, or if it's a relic of battles that are already over. According to Andy Achenbaum, a professor of history at the University of Michigan with a special interest in aging, longevity may be presenting American veterans with some problems not faced by most of the rest of us. The average career military person retires before the age of 43, notes Achenbaum. For some veterans, the decades after retirement will be filled with productive activities.

For others, those extra years will seem like a bane, not a blessing. As one aging veteran put it, "I wish I had known I was going to live as long as I have. I would have lived smarter." Along with several colleagues, Achenbaum analyzed the last years of one famous veteran whose world was in shambles when he retired from active service but who still managed to live an exemplary life into old age. The later life of General Robert E. Lee had six elements that contribute to successful aging: Vocational Flexibility.

Lee established a college. Just finding something to do after we retire from our regular jobs is tough enough for most of the rest of us. Domestic Growth. Lee became a prototype of inter-generational caregiving, helping his sick wife and several other family members. Today, retirees have all kinds of similar opportunities.

Emotional Growth. He survived the traumas of war, while maintaining a sense of personal control over his life. Financial Stability. Lee set his own house back in order, serving as an example of frugal living in the defeated South. Physical Function.

Even though he had several chronic health problems, Lee maintained an exercise regime that helped to maximize his independence and functioning. Spiritual Growth. Lee allowed the small voice of his conscience to have an uncommon influence in all aspects of his life and all his decision-making. Each person's life history is unique, says Achenbaum. But the story of one person's life has the potential power to move us deeply in exploring legitimate questions about ourselves, particularly at times of major transitions.

Older Americans of all kinds, including those of us who are not veterans, may find inspiration in the life of Lee. If we don't, I guess we can always solider on and keep our upper lips as stiff as possible. (Swanbrovv writes a weekly column on aging issues for Thomson News Service.).