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July 2013 - Volume 2 - Number 3
A publication for older Arkansans, subscribe today!
July 2013 - Volume 2 - Number 3
KERN KENNEDY‘I’ve played with the very best and I’ve played with the very worst and I loved it all.’
One historian of rock ‘n’ roll said it lived less than a decade. It was born in the early 1950s out of rhythm and blues and jazz and died because Elvis was drafted, Buddy Holly was killed, Little Richard became a preacher and Jerry Lee Lewis married his 13-year-old cousin. [Full Text]
Private option: Does it have a ‘donut hole?’
The Arkansas Legislature in its last session passed the Private Option as an alternative to expanding the state’s Medicaid rolls. Rather than add approximately 250,000 Arkansans to Arkansas Medicaid, they will be enrolled in private insurance plans through the insurance exchange to be created. There has even been some talk of perhaps moving some current Medicaid recipients from Medicaid into these plans, since at least initially the federal government has agreed to pick up the tab. [Full Text]
Long-time agency client still going strong
Faye Randall is a woman with a history. The 88-year-old resident of Plainview has lived her entire life in Yell County and spent much of her time making her way through town on foot to visit friends and family and serve God at her church, Jesus Name Pentecostal Church. She has also been a client of the Area Agency on Aging of West Central Arkansas for 23 years. [Full Text]
Agency helps hosts tri-county health fair
Approximately 150 persons attended a Health Fair recently held at the Lee Senior High School in Marianna. Sponsors for the event were the East Arkansas Area Agency on Aging, Lee County Dept of Health, UAMS-East, Lee County Extension Office, East Arkansas Enterprise Community, Sisters United and the Lee County Cooperation Clinic. [Full Text]
Ain’t summer without watermelon
My summer diet usually consists of watermelon, grilled burgers, watermelon, sweet tea—and did I mention watermelon? By weight, watermelon is the most consumed melon in the U.S., with cantaloupe and honeydew a distant second and third. It is so popular that it has its own organization, the National Watermelon Promotion Board and its own website, www.watermelon.org. [Full Text]
Community is her mantra
Some seniors look forward to a retirement of travel and leisure but Judy Herring, a north Pulaski County resident, is immersed in her three acres of land at the Lonoke and Pulaski county lines where she grows vegetables, herbs and raises livestock. [Full Text]