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Solving the Medicare Puzzle

Are you, or someone you know, feeling overwhelmed with your Medicare choices?  Is your mailbox overflowing with flyers and invitations?

Are you more confused now than you were a couple of months ago? What do all of the letters of the alphabet have to do with healthcare? Well, look no further.  Sign up today so you can be in the know!

 

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

5:30 pm

Seniormark

2551 Michigan Street

Sidney, OH 45365

To sign up, call 937-492-8800, send an e-mail to seniormark@earthlink.net, or put yes the in the “sign me up for the workshop!” box below (along with your name and e-mail address, of course!).

Hope to see you there!

 

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Look who turns 65 in June! A Moochie, but not a Gucci!

Kevin June 10- Kevin “Moochie” Corcoran, is a director, producer and former child actor who appeared in numerous Disney projects between 1957 and 1963. Between 1956 and 1960, Corcoran played several different (but similar) irrepressible characters, each bearing the nickname Moochie. Although he was never a Mouseketeer, Corcoran appeared in three Mickey Mouse Club serials, beginning with Adventure in Dairyland. He also co-starred in many films, including Old Yeller (1957), The Shaggy Dog (1959) and Swiss Family Robinson (1960).

After he retired from acting, he attended college and then returned to Disney, this time working behind the camera as an assistant director and producer. His credits from this era include Superdad (1973), The Island at the Top of the World (1974) and Pete’s Dragon (1977). He has also produced numerous projects and served as first assistant director on several non-Disney television series, including Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Quantum Leap, Profiler and Karen Sisco. Over the course of his tenure on the Angela Lansbury series Murder She Wrote, he was credited as first assistant director, assistant producer and director.

 

Meryl StreepJune 22 Meryl Streep, is widely regarded as the greatest U.S. living actress, as well as one of the greatest actresses of all time. She made her professional stage debut in The Playboy of Seville (1971), before her screen debut in the television movie The Deadliest Season (1977). In that same year, she made her film debut in Julia (1977). Both critical and commercial success came quickly with roles in The Deer Hunter (1978) and Kramer vs. Kramer (1979), the first of which brought her an Academy Award nomination, and the second, her first win, for best supporting actress. She later won the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roles in Sophie’s Choice (1982) and The Iron Lady (2011). With 18 Academy Award nominations in 35 years, Streep holds the record for the most nominated actor (male or female) in film history.

Streep has also received 28 Golden Globe nominations, winning eight—more nominations and more competitive (non-honorary) wins than any other actress or actor. Further, her work has earned her two Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, a Cannes Film Festival award, five New York Film Critics Circle Awards, two British Academy of Film and Television Arts awards, two Australian Film Institute awards, five Grammy Award nominations and a Tony Award nomination, among several others. In 2004, Streep was awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award and in 2011 the Kennedy Center Honor for her contribution to American culture through performing arts, the youngest actor in each award’s history. In 2010, President Barack Obama awarded her the National Medal of Arts. In 2003, the government of France made her a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters. Her latest film, in 2013, was August: Osage County, for which Streep received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations.
Phyllis GeorgeJune 25 – Phyllis George is a former Miss Texas 1970 and Miss America 1971 and was First Lady of Kentucky from 1979 to 1983. She later became a businesswoman, actress and sportscaster. As a cohost in 1974 for The NFL Today, the pregame shows for the National Football League, she was one of the first females to have a nationally prominent role in television sports coverage. She also covered horse racing events for CBS, including the Preakness Stakes and the Belmont Stakes. Additionally, George had a brief stint on a television news version of People in 1978 and a job as a morning television talk show host as co-anchor of the CBS Morning News in 1985. Since that time, she has sporadically returned to the media spotlight, hosting her own prime-time talk show, 1994’s A Phyllis George Special, on which she interviewed then-president Bill Clinton, and a 1998 talk show called Women’s Day on the cable network Pax. George also appeared as a guest star on The Muppet Show in 1979.

George founded two companies in her business career: By George chicken fillets, which she later sold to Hormel Foods, and Phyllis George Beauty, which markets a line of cosmetics and skincare through television shopping network HSN. She has also written or co-authored five books—three about crafts, one on dieting and her most recent, Never Say Never (2002), a self-help book.

 

Vera Ellen WangJune 27 – Vera Ellen Wang, a fashion designer and former figure skater, is known for her wide range of haute couture bridesmaid gowns and wedding gown collections, as well as for her clientele of elite female figure skaters. Her works have been mentioned in several television shows, including Sex and the City, The West Wing, Ugly Betty and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and in the movie Bride Wars. Wang began figure skating at the age of eight and competed at the 1968 U.S. Figure Skating Championships. That year she was featured in Sports Illustrated’s Faces in the Crowd. When she failed to make the U.S. Olympics team, she entered the fashion industry, although Wang continues to enjoy skating.

Wang has made gowns for many well-known public figures, such as Chelsea Clinton, Ivanka Trump, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Sharon Stone, Uma Thurman, Sandra Bullock and Michelle Obama. She has designed costumes for figure skaters, including Nancy Kerrigan and Michelle Kwan. In 1990, she opened her own design salon in New York and has since opened bridal boutiques in New York, London, Tokyo and Sydney. Wang has also expanded her brand name through her fragrance, jewelry, eyewear, shoe and houseware collections. In 2011, she launched a store that sells bridal gowns at more affordable prices.