Mountain Views News          Saturday, December 18, 2010

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THE GOOD LIFE

 Mountain Views-News Saturday, December 18, 2010 

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

Cranberry Apple Cake

Submitted by Mrs. Bonnie Landsberg

Toward A Deeper Model of Healing

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: 

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 

3rd Tuesday of each month FREE 
financial consulting; 10 -12 noon call 
355-7394 for an appointment

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

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:

1:00 to 3:30 pm: Game Day. Join us for 
UNO and 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 355-5278 for more 
information

Friday: 

1:00 pm: Ping Pong

Saturday: 

11:30 am: Senior Club brown bag lunch 
and BINGO at 12:30 pm

INGREDIENTS:

1 yellow cake mix

16 oz. apple cranberry pie filling 

 (found at Trader Joe’s)

3 eggs

1/2 stick margarine, cut into small cubes

2 tsp cinnamon

1/4 cup sugar

1/3 cup dried sweetened cranberries, 

 chopped fine

DIRECTIONS:

Heat oven to 350 degrees.

Mix first four ingredients in large bowl with 
mixer on

med•high. Blend well.

Pour half the batter into greased and floured 13 
x 9x 2

pan. Combine cinnamon and sugar and sprinkle 
over

batter. Sprinkle with chopped cranberries. Pour 
the

rest of the batter over the top.

Bake for 35•40 minutes, until cake tests done.

Moist and yummy! Serve with whipped cream 
or ice cream.

 
As our old year wanes and we are 
presented with a new year of possibilities, 
it may be beneficial to look at a couple of 
things. As medical leaders such as Ahmet 
Oz, Deepak Chopra, Bernie Siegel, Dean 
Ornish, Elson Haas and many others 
assert, the emotional life of the patient 
is essential to well being and longevity. 
Research has demonstrated time and again 
how the presence of negative emotions 
causes physiological changes that promote 
chronic inflammation and, ultimately, 
diseases such as cardiovascular conditions 
and cancer. So, what can be done about it? 
After all, we can’t avoid being rubbed the 
wrong way. It’s just a part of life.

 What all of these outstanding physicians 
are saying is: Your attitude can kill you. 
Once we accept this observation as a very 
real factor in our health and longevity, 
then we can start to shape our experiences 
differently. The first step might be 
something as simple as acknowledging the 
negative feelings that we have and committing to the practice of releasing them for our own 
good and for the sake of others.

 While this sounds like a moral equation, it is more like a workout at the gym. As we 
develop an awareness of thoughts and feelings - as we shed light on them - we begin to release 
the attachment that has gone largely unnoticed. We may have been gloating in our rightness, 
not realizing that we are harming ourselves. One succinct way of viewing this is to consider 
that anger, hostility and resentment are like drinking poison to kill someone else!

 So, here are two things that can be done to balance the emotional equation:

1. Forgive ourselves. Sounds easy, doesn’t it? But think about this: If someone said to us 
what we often think and say to ourselves, we would be shocked and hurt. Think back to the 
last time you looked in the mirror: Did you have anything pleasant to say to yourself? 

2. Forgive others. Yeah, I know, they don’t deserve it. Consider this: These grudges are 
like dust on the windshield - all we have to do is turn on the wipers with an acknowledgment 
that, yes, I can do that, I can forgive - and practice it.

 Finally, write down all the people that you’re “on it” with and do a ritual fire by yourself 
and with friends: Burn up those thoughts. Be careful, though, that you don’t go overboard 
and burn the house down!


Have a great week! Dr. John

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. 

December Birthdays

Rose Fafach, Bonnie Garner, Pat McGuire, 
Helen Reese, Levon Yapoujian, Shirley Anhalt, 
Mary Alice Cervera, Sylvia A. Curl, Lucile Flanders, 
Arlie Hahn, Eleanor Hensel, Carole Horejsi, Joan 
Hufnagel, Elizabeth Levie, Gayle Licher, Nan Beverly 
Murphy, Marie Pederson,


LifeWorks! Chiropractic Center

Individually Tailored Wellness Programs

31 S. Baldwin Avenue Sierra Madre, Ca. 91024

626-355-4710


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. 


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.

Meals-On-Wheels

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.

SIERRA MADRE 

CHURCH OF THE ASCENSION 

(Episcopal)

Christmas Services

Sunday, December 19: Regular services at 
8 and 10:15 a.m. 

Friday, December 24: Family service at 
5:00 p.m., Hymns and Carols at 10:30 p.m., 
Solemn Christ Mass, 11:00 p.m. 

Saturday, December 25: Eucharist at 11:00 
a.m. 

25 E. Laurel - Corner of Baldwin

(626) 355-1133. 


DIAL - A - RIDE 
TICKETS

Tickets can now be purchased 
at:

Sierra Madre City Hall

Hart Park House / Senior 
Center

Sierra Madre Library


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