Mountain Views News          Saturday, May 21, 2011

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THE GOOD LIFE

 Mountain Views-News Saturday, May 21, 2011 

SENIOR HAPPENINGS

YOUR HEALTH MATTERS

Today’s Subject: 

Recipe of the Week:

Activities: 

Unless listed differently, all activities are at the 
Hart Memorial Park (Senior Center) 222 W. Sierra 
Madre Blvd., Sierra Madre

THE GIFT OF PAIN 

Lemon Tea Bread

Lunch Program: Monday- Friday at the Intervale 
Café -12:00 Noon-Call (626) 355-0256 to make 
your daily reservation. Suggested donation $2.00 
for seniors (60+) and $3.75 for visitors.

MENU BELOW

Monday: 

• 12 noon: Intervale Lunch Café: Come enjoy a 
hot meal with others. Donation for seniors (60+) 
of $2.00; visitors $3.75. Please call 355-0256 to 
make your daily reservation. 

• 1:00 pm to 1:45 pm: Strength training with 
Lisa Brandley. FREE class of stretching with light 
hand weights while you sit. 

Tuesday: 

• 2nd Tuesday of each month FREE blood 
pressure checks by Methodist Hospital; 11 am 
to 12 noon 

• 12 noon: Intervale Lunch Café; daily 
reservations needed 355-0256 

• 1:30 pm to 3:30 pm: BINGO; cards are only 25 
cents each so stop by & play 

• 5:30 pm to 7 pm: Yoga; $7.00 - 50 & over. Please 
call 355-5278 for more information 

Wednesday: 

• 11 –11:45 am: Balance Class with Teryl. FREE 
class designed to improve balance & refresh the 
joints 

• 12 noon: Intervale Lunch Café; daily 
reservations needed 355-0256 

• Free Income Tax assistance - 1 pm to 2 pm. For 
an appointment, please call 355-7394 

• 2nd Wednesday of the month: FREE Legal 
Consultations: 10-11:30 am. Appointments call 
355-7394 

• Wii Wednesday - 1:00 pm or call the senior 
desk at 355-7394 to arrange another time & day 
to learn how to play. No previous experience or 
skills required and it is great exercise. 

Thursday: 

• 12 noon: Intervale Lunch Café; daily 
reservations needed 355-0256 

• 1:00 to 3:30 pm: Game Day. Join us for Poker 
with Bridge on the 2nd & 4th Thursdays; so 
please call for more information. 

• 5:00 pm to 6:30 pm: Yoga; $7.00 - 50 & over. 
Please call 355-52 

Friday: City Hall Closed on April 8th & 22nd

12 noon: Intervale Lunch Café; daily reservations 
needed 355-0256 

Saturday: 

11:30 am: Senior Club brown bag lunch and 
BINGO at 12:30 pm. The Senior Club always 
welcomes new members ($5 membership dues 
per year) so please stop by to learn more.


INGREDIENTS: 

Ingredients

1/2 cup butter, softened

1 cup granulated sugar

2 large eggs

1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

1/2 cup milk

2 tablespoons lemon rind, divided

1 cup powdered sugar

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

1 tablespoon granulated sugar

The best thing about pain is when it goes away. 
There is that blessed amnesia wherein if you’re 
not in pain, it’s hard to remember what it felt 
like when you were! Most of us think of pain as 
something that is rather black and white, we are 
either in it or out of it. What about the actual 
process that takes place when pain arises? How 
do we go about the experience of being in pain?

In my thirty-plus years of practice, I have witnessed 
a common thread in the experience of 
pain and disease: ownership. A patient is most 
likely to say, “My arthritis is acting up today, or 
my headaches are really severe lately.” While this 
seems innocuous, it suggests something entirely 
different. By taking pain personally, we can be 
missing out on an opportunity to reshape the experience 
to our benefit. What if we realized 
that pain is not something that is happening 
to us, but is something that is occurring 
within us as a natural process? Could we then 
encompass the pain, rather than have it envelope 
us?

You may know someone who knows how 
to be sick. The one who can surrender to the 
discomfort, be still and go deep. The one who 
may even eschew the use of pain medicine 
and diversions like television. When asked 
how it’s done, the answer may simply be, “I 
open myself to the discomfort. I move into 
and breathe and relax.” This may be the easiest 
way to get better, the best way out by going 
through. It can also be that extending care 
and compassion to oneself is greatly powerful, 
much as a parent toward the child.

Why not just take a handful of painkillers, 
flip on the television or computer and ride 
it out? Fact it, most of us do just that, and for 
some there is no escaping discomfort. We may 
relate to each other when we think of that miserable 
cold or horrendous flu, and it is at times like 
these that an opportunity to experience our lives 
in a different way presents itself. An opportunity 
to witness a deeper, more vulnerable level of being 
that is always there, but largely avoided. It is 
in this space that we visit the fears, self-pity and 
underlying grief that are common to all. When 
we pass through the dark night and back into the 
light of well-being, we experience a deep sense 
of gratitude and renewal. Such is the gift of pain.

Have a wonderful week ~

Dr. John

DIRECTIONS:

Beat softened butter at medium speed with an electric 
mixer until creamy. Gradually add 1 cup granulated 
sugar, beating until light and fluffy. Add eggs, 1 at a 
time, beating just until blended after each addition.

Stir together flour, baking powder, and salt; add to 
butter mixture alternately with milk, beating at low 
speed just until blended, beginning and ending with 
flour mixture. Stir in 1 tablespoon lemon rind. Spoon 
batter into greased and floured 8- x 4-inch loafpan.

Bake at 350° for 1 hour or until a wooden pick inserted 
in center of bread comes out clean. Let cool in pan 10 
minutes. Remove bread from pan, and cool completely 
on a wire rack.

Stir together powdered sugar and lemon juice until 
smooth; spoon evenly over top of bread, letting excess 
drip down sides. Stir together remaining 1 tablespoon 
lemon rind and 1 tablespoon granulated sugar; sprinkle 
on top of bread.

Dr. John Talevich, D.C. has practiced in Sierra Madre 
for thirty years. His clinic, LifeWorks! Chiropractic, 
offers patient-specific approaches to the alleviation of 
pain and individually tailored wellness programs. 

May Birthdays

Juanita Loera, JoAnn Serrato-Chi, Barbara 
Soulanille, Joanne Anthony, Carole Axline, 
Kika Downey, Shirley Hall, Dorothy 
Murphy, Annie Scalzo, Janet Ten Eyck, Jayne 
Thomas,


John M. Talevich, D.C. 

CHIROPRACTIC: Simple, Elegant, Effective

31 S. Baldwin Avenue Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

626-355-4710

Senior Powerlifters Inspire!

Meals-On-Wheels


EXCURSIONS

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8TH — The Rose Story 
Farm. Join us as we take a deluxe coach bus to 
Carpentaria to see this beautiful 15 acre rose 
farm and see over 18,000 rose plants including 
150 varieties of roses. 

Cost per person is $46 - which includes 
transportation, driver’s tip, and a catered 
lunch in the garden. This is a walking tour 
so you are encouraged to wear comfortable 
walking shoes and to wear a shade hat. 

This excursion will leave & return from the 
Hart Park House Senior Center, 222 W. Sierra 
Madre Blvd. (Memorial Park) 9:30 am to 3:30 
pm

To register for the excursion, please visit the 
Senior Center or go online to: 

www.cityofsierramadre.com/
onlineregistration

To register for the excursion, please visit 
the Senior Center or go online to www.
cityofsierramadre.com/onlineregistration.

Save the Date: FRIDAY, JULY 8th —The 
Pageant of the Masters - Laguna Beach. 
Registration will open online and at the Senior 
Center starting May 1st

Meals are delivered to home-bound 
seniors by volunteer drivers through the 
YWCA Intervale Lunch Program M-F 
(with frozen meals for the weekend.) Call the YWCA 
at (626) 214-9460 or Darlene Traxler at (626) 355-
0256 for more information.

Harry and Sarah Sneider hosted the 19th 
Annual Pasadena Senior Games Powerlifting 
Championship in Arcadia. Twenty enthusiastic 
seniors ages 50 to 82 lifted more than barbells 
off their chests! Many have struggled with 
health issues like Louise Jones who overcame 
breast cancer. She lifted 125 lbs at age 67. She 
credited weight lifting plus cardio exercise for 
helping her recover from this very debilitating 
disease. She made the comment to an audience 
of about 90 people that weightlifting combined 
with good nutrition plus as strong spiritual life 
gave her victory over cancer. Louise is now a 
national champion in powerlifting. She will 
also represent Pasadena in the National Senior 
Games in Houston in basketball this summer.

 Other inspiring performances were two 82 
year old women, Ruth Saenz and Louise Martin 
who battled for the gold medal and have come 
through life’s challenges in a positive way by 
working out and attempting new exciting 
experiences in their lives. As Ruth said, “One 
of her goals on her bucket list is to win the gold 
medal in this lifetime, which she did with a 
magnificent 70 lb lift!”

 Westside Barbell Club legend Joel DiMarco 
lifted a world record 255 lbs at age 81. Joel in his 
youth lifted mighty big poundage’s with world 
champion powerlifters and bodybuilders in Santa 
Monica. The most weight lifted was by Andrew 
Harvey who grew up in South Pasadena. He put 
up 435 lbs. 

Anyone that’s interested in the Senior 
Games which will continue thru June 12 
can contact Cynthia Rosedale at CynthiaR@
pasadenaseniorcenter.org. The Sneiders are 
professional fitness trainers and coaches who 
have been working in their Arcadia fitness studio 
since 1977. Contact them at 626-355-8964 or 
harrysneider@earthlink.net.

MEALS-ON-WHEELS NEEDS VOLUNTEERS 
TO DELIVER MEALS TO OUR HOMEBOUND 
NEIGHBORS 

**ONCE A MONTH OR WEEKLY** 

Please contact Darlene Traxler at 

626.355.6220 or (626) 355-0256.


MEDITATION FOR RELAXATION, 

CLEAR MIND AND KIND HEART

Description: The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our 
mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort and experience true 
happiness and relaxation. These classes provide an opportunity to learn how to meditate 
and how to use our experience of meditation to positively affect all aspects of our daily life.

Join at any Time & Everyone welcome! Cost: $10


Sponsor Bingo Prize

Pasadena Highlands, an independent 
and assisted living community, 
is proud to provide a special gift 
basket on the first Tuesday of each 
month. Accredited In-Home nursing 
care will provide a special prize 
on the 4th Tuesday of each month. 
Bingo takes place every Tuesday 
at 1:30 pm in the Hart Park House 
/ Senior Center in Memorial Park. 
The game begins at 1:30 pm but 
those wishing to play must arrive 
10 minutes before to secure your 
Bingo cards. Join us on the 1st & 
4th Tuesday of each month for your 
chance to win these special prizes. 

Thursday Evenings 7-8 pm

9 Weeks: May 5 - June 30 

Center for Wellbeing

31 W. Sierra Madre Blvd.

Sierra Madre, CA 91024

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Dunsmore Park

(first building to the left as you pull into 
the parking lot)

4700 Dunsmore Ave.

La Crescenta, CA 91214

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Sundays morning 10:15-11:15 am

8 weeks: May 1 - 22, June 5 – 26 (No class 
on May 29th)

 Brand Park: Whispering Pine Teahouse

1601 West Mountain Street

Glendale, CA 91201

(upper parking lot in Brand Park)

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Monday Evenings 7-8 pm

 8 Weeks: May 2, 9, 16, 23, June 6, 13, 20, 
27 (No class on May 30th)

Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist 
Church

301 N. Orange Grove Blvd

Pasadena, CA 91103

LUNCH & LEARN 

Join the Senior Community Commission at the 

Sierra Madre Hart Park House / Senior Center for a 
FREE presentation. Lunch is available for a $2 

donation by calling (626) 355-0256 by 12 noon the 
day before. 

DIAL - A - RIDE TICKETS

Tickets can now be purchased at:

Sierra Madre City Hall

Hart Park House / 

Senior Center

Sierra Madre Library

San Marino Community Church 
1750 Virginia Road, San Marino, CA 91108For more information call: (626) 282-4181 
Connect with us online: www.smccpby.comFor Saturday, May 21San Marino Community Church welcomes 
you to Sunday worship! Pastor, Rev. Jeffrey 
V. O’Grady preaches at both the 9:15 
traditional service and “The Gathering” at 
11:15 am using John 14:1-14 as his text.
San Marino Community Church offers two 
ongoing grief groups. They meet the 2nd 
and 4th Tuesdays at 7:00 pm in the church library and every 
Wednesday at 4:00 pm in the church lounge. Led by trained 
Stephen Ministers, participants can experience the empathy 
and encouragement of those who are traveling a similar path. 
Contact (626) 282-4181 x 20 or KBerns@smccpby.com“A New Lease On Life”
9:15 am Traditional & Student Worship ServicesSunday school (K-5) and childcare provided10:30 am Adult Spiritual Formation11:15 am “The Gathering” worship serviceCasual worship, multi-voice ensemble, childcare provided
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