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by Cassie KibensThe teacher heads over to an art table

stressing the importance of shadows to

emphasize the effect of the chin. A few mo-

ments later he is back at another table en-couraging the student’s work and showing

her how to hold a pencil to achieve a better

and easier sketch.

During the last session of the class a stu-

dent requests a nude model, so the teacher

complies with a 10-inch statuette made of

wood with moveable limbs that now sits on

the table.

A month after retirement David Swim-

mer, 67, decided to gure out what he

wanted to be when he grew up. A Clayton

attorney for most of his life, Swimmer nal-

ly retired at the end of 2014 and just a few

months later he decided to teach drawing

to senior citizens at adult daycare centers.

Swimmer had not taken a formal art

class until about four years ago, but enjoyedart from a young age, which contributed to

the after-retirement lifestyle. A museum

visit as a youngster was an inspiration.

“When I was a kid, I had this drunken

dentist,” Swimmer said. “He didn’t drink

when he practiced, but he had like a trem-

or and I did what any kid would do when I

had a tremor inside my face, I bit him. And

my mother told me that if I didn’t bite Dr.

Jolly, she would take me to the art museum

and show me ‘Hercules Battles the Hydra.’”

Swimmer grew up in University City,

attended University City High School and

eventually left to go to law school to avoid

being drafted during the Vietnam War. His

two children, Ghram, 38, and Hannah, 33,

both support his after-retirement lifestyle

and so does his second wife, Mary Pat, whobelieves her husband is happier now that

he is teaching instead of practicing law.

Swimmer does not know why he ended

up teaching to senior citizens, but he is

grateful that he has had the opportunity

to work with them. Some of the students

Swimmer instructs have dementia and oth-

er intellectual issues. Drawing seems to be

a positive outlet for them.

“People who do not have a lot of ver-

bal command of language anymore can be

wonderful, persuasive artists,” Swimmer

said. “They get to be young adults again.

They’re learning something. They get to

apply themselves, and then it’s real when

they’re through. They display it in their

room. They send it to their grandchildren.”It is not easels and special sketching

pencils Swimmer uses to teach the class, it

is printer paper and old-fashioned number

two pencils. The models? There are none.

They’re too expensive and they tend to take

breaks, said Swimmer. Instead, he uses

various statuettes, many no taller than 10

inches. Classes tend to last about an hour,

as to not go on for too long and lose the at-

tention of his pupils.

“These people don’t have an innite span

of attention,” Swimmer said. “They don’t

“I Love Watching The Art Grow”David Swimmer began teachingdrawing to senior citizens afterhe retired as an attorney

Instead of live models David Swimmer uses statuettes to teach drawing

to senior citizens at various locations, including the Cardinal Ritter Senior Services’ Adult Daycare Program in Shrewsbury.

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The sixth annual Prime Times Senior Expo will be

happening this year on Thursday, July 23, 9 a.m. to

noon. This year’s Resource Fair For Older Adults re-

turns with speakers and more exhibits designed with

senior adults in mind. The expo will also be held in

a new location at Holiday Inn South County Center,

6921 S. Lindbergh Blvd. Admission is free.

Vendors will be plentiful with 75 providing infor-

mation on a wide range of services from adult hous-

ing opportunities to health care tips and nancial ad-

vice. Free blood pressure and blood sugar screenings

will be available as well. Attendees will have the opportunity to sample

free samples from Oberweis Ice Cream and Dairy

Store, Costco Wholesale, as well as enter in rafes

and receive giveaways.

The Senior Expo is sponsored by the South Coun-

ty Times, Webster-Kirkwood Times and West End

Word.

As part of the expo, St. Anthony’s Medical Center,

SSM Health Care St. Louis and Cochlear are spon-

soring programs on of interest to seniors.

St. Anthony’s

• 9:15 a.m. St. Anthony’s of-

fers “Finding Balance Through

Strength” by Krysti Eckert, PT,

DPT, certMDT. Eckert is a phys-

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vices.

•10:15 a.m. Carmen McCa-

rthy, a nurse practitioner with

The Heart Specialty Associates

at St. Anthony’s Medical Center,

presents “Hypertension: Silent

But Deadly.” A St. Louis native,

McCarthy graduated from Jewish

School of Nursing in 1994 and re-

ceived her master’s degree from

the University of Missouri-St

Louis in 2001. She is certified by

American Nurses Credentialing

Center. Her current affiliation is with St Anthony’s

Heart Specialty Associates with most of her nursingcareer focusing on cardiac care. A member of the

American Society of Hypertension, she also has ex-

perience in primary care with focus on HTN.

• 11:15 a.m. Theresa Jones,

nurse practitioner with St. An-

thony’s Medical Center, pres-

ents “Back to Basics: Healthy

Habits for Seniors.” Jones, RN,

MSN, FNP-C, has 19 years of

nursing experience, 13 years as

an advanced nurse practitioner.

She received her certification as

a family medicine nurse practi-

tioner in 2003. Born and raised in

the St. Louis area, Jones has dedicated her career to

improving the health and wellness of seniors in the

community. She focuses on preventative care, healthand wellness and improving overall health. Her goal

is to provide individualized care for her patients to

meet their health care needs and to assist in main-

taining the highest level of independence and quality

of life.

SSM Health Care

SSM Health Care is also sponsoring three pro-

grams.

• 9:15 a.m. Dr. James Smith, interventional car-

diologist, presents “Coronary Heart Disease and

How to Live to be 100.” Smith is a member of the

American Board of Internal Medicine, American

Society of Echocardiography (Adult Echocardiogra-

phy) and the Certification Board

of Nuclear Cardiology. He is alsoa member of the Gold Humanism

Honor Society. He takes special

interest in advanced intervention-

al cardiology with intracoronary

imaging and physiology, endo-

vascular therapies for peripheral

arterial and venous disease, and

radial artery catheterization.

• 10:15 a.m. Dr. Sushant

Kale, interventional neurologist,

presents a program on “Stroke

Treatment and Prevention.”

Kale, MD, MPH, is board certified

in neurology, vascular neurology

and neurocritical care. His inter-

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malformations and fistulas in

brain and spinal cord, intracrani-

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• 11:15 a.m. Orthopedic surgeons Dr. Matthew

Bradley and Dr. Corey Solman present “Shoulder

and Knee Pain in Aging Individuals.” Bradley

specializes in trauma, extremity, reconstruction

(joint replacement) and amputation surgery. While

a resident surgeon, he wrote the legislation that was

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Eckert

Marie Koehler of

Tesson Heights Senior Living browses through

information she gathered at last year’s

expo.

fle photo by

Diana Linsley

Sixth annual eventreturns July 23 with

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they’re exhausted. And I want to stop

when they still want to work.”

Swimmer teaches gesture drawing,

which involves a different grip of the

pencil, often almost parallel with the

table, and uses the person’s shoulderand entire body to draw, not just the

wrist. He learned this technique while

training with the St. Louis Artists

Guild. Swimmer teaches 25-30 ses-

sions a month at about two-dozen dif-

ferent places around St. Louis.

“I am so grateful that I am doing

what I’m doing,” Swimmer said. “In

old cartoons, when somebody would

have an idea, there would be a light

bulb that would turn on. I get to watch

that every week. I call it, an ‘ah-hah’

moment.”

When Swimmer is not teaching

drawing he is reading or cruising

around on his 1000cc Yamaha motor-

cycle. The motorcycle may have somepower, but Swimmer says he goes so

slow that bugs settle in the back of his

helmet, not just the front.

Seniors look forward to his arrival.

He is often the youngest one in the

room, which he gets a kick out of.

“I feel privileged that they look

forward to my showing up,” he said.

“Many of them can’t remember my

name, so I’m ‘the kid.’ And because I’m67, I love to be ‘the kid.’”

Swimmer said his older art stu-

dents are capable of learning, though

teaching new techniques can require

patience.

“I love watching the art grow,”

Swimmer said. “If a Higher Power is

light, and if everybody has a seed of

creativity, I’m the rusty watering can.

And if these people get watered, some-

thing will grow. And I love to see what

happens. I can literally watch God’s

actions when I see these people cre-

ate.”

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nd out more information about his

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David Swimmer

explains adrawing

technique to a participant at

the adult day care center at

Cardinal Ritter Senior Services

in Shrewsbury.

photo byDiana Linsley

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by Linda JarrettFor most of her 84 years, Barbara

Perry Lawton has delved into the

world of owers and plants, and

shared her expertise.

As an award-winning writer,

author, speaker and photographer,

she has written extensively on

gardening and horticulture.

Now, she can add beekeeping to

her resume.

Lawton, a long-time Kirkwood

resident who now resides at Cape

Albeon retirement community in

Valley Park, thought the expansive

grounds would be the perfect placefor an herb garden.

She brought the idea to Food

Service Director David Gomes and

Head Chef Mark DuBro who agreed,

and Lawton started planting basil,

fennel, rosemary and a host of other

herbs.

From there, Lawton said the

progression to beekeeping seemed a

“natural” thing to do.

“We’ve got a great chef who likes

to use honey, and I just felt that this

was an ideal spot,” she said.

After convincing many of the

residents that there would not be

swarms of bees disturbing them, they

found beekeeper Spring Shutt.Shutt, who had been keeping

bees at Principia High School for

two years, said her mentor, Sandy

Brooks, set up hives at Cape Albeon.

Brooks asked Shutt if she would like

to take them over.

Cape Albeon paid for the bees and

the two hives, each of which contain

70,000 bees. During the rst year

bees produced four gallons of honey.

“Usually you don’t get much the

rst year,” Shutt said. “Our bees did

extremely well, so we had a bumper

crop and expect more this year. “

“Ideally you get two harvests,”

Lawton said. “One in July and one in

September.”

Head Chef DuBro said he didn’tknow anything about bees until the

operation got started.

“We were buying honey for our

cooking and thought it would be great

to have our own honey,” he said.

The benets of eating local honey

are well-documented.

“It has to do with the plants in the

area,” Shutt said. “The pollen is in

the honey, and if you eat the honey,

you’re building up an immunity

against the pollen in your area. So,

not only is it good for you, it supports

local businesses.”

Bees travel in a two-mile radius

to nd owers and plants to gather

pollen and pollinate,” Shutt said.

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“They get pollen on their legs,

put in pollen sacks and carry

it back to the hive.

“As they y, they create

static electricity and pollen

literally jumps on theirlegs into these little yellow

bags,” she said. “They get all

different colors of pollen, and

that creates different avors

of honey.”

DuBro calls Lawton an

inspiration.

“We work together, and

we realized that, with the

shortage of honey bees, what

a good way to incorporate

something here, help the bee

population and use the honey

for cooking,” DuBro said.

Much research is being

done on the causes behind

the signicant drop in thehoneybee population.

“Pesticides are a factor,” Shutt said.

“Home gardeners use more pesticides than

the big growers, and some lawn services

spray in the middle of the day when bees

are out foraging,” she said.

“They get pesticides on them

and carry it back to the box

where they communicate by

touch, and spread pesticides

throughout the hive.”

DuBro said the hives have

been “wonderfully received”

and residents are enjoying the

delicious dishes prepared by

DuBro.

The lush herb garden sitsnext to the hives, surrounded

by bushes to give the bees

privacy as they go about their busy work

making honey and keeping the Queen happy.

“Most of the residents don’t even notice

them now,” DuBro said. “They are not like

yellow jackets that go after your food. They’re

only interested in owers. If you don’t bother

them, they won’t bother you.”

Shutt became interested in bees when she

was a child, after her family moved to an old

farm house.

“There were bees living in the attic and

between the inside and outside wall of abedroom,” she said. “The room would heat

up and my whole room smelled like honey.

I would put my ear to the wall and I could

hear them working.”

Shutt said Barbara Lawton keeps

everyone on their toes, calling her regularly

to ask when she will be coming out to take

care of the bees.

When not watching over the bees, Lawton

writes for Gateway Gardener and Outdoor

Guide, and volunteers at Chip Tynan’s

Horticultural Answer Service at the Missouri

Botanical Garden. For nearly 20 years she

contributed a weekly column to the St. LouisPost-Dispatch.

From left: Barbara Perry Lawton, Beekeeper Spring Shutt and Executive Chef Mark DuBro at

Cape Albeon are pleased with the results of the beehives.photos by Victoria Caswell

Cape Albeon Residents Reap Bees’ Bounty from page 8-PT

The yellow-colored honey combsare flled with collected pollen.

Beekeeper Spring Shutt pulls

out a frame covered in honeybees.

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OASIS, whose mission is to pro-mote successful aging through lifelonglearning, healthy living and social en-gagement, offers a variety of programsfor older adults. Programs are held at

numerous locations throughout the St.Louis area including Clayton, Kirk-wood and Crestwood. Two upcomingclasses are:

• Explore thewriting, the wordsand the worldof W.E.B. DuBois in a ve-

part class onTuesdays, Aug.4-Sept. 1 from1 to 3 p.m., atClayton OASIS, located at50 Gay Ave. Cost for the session is $42.

The writings of William EdwardBurghardt Du Bois (1868-1963) con-

tinue to inspire people from all racialand ethnic backgrounds. Besides be-ing the rst African American to grad-uate from Harvard University with aPh.D. in history, he was co-founder ofthe Niagra Movement and the Nation-al Association for the Advancement ofColored People (NAACP) in 1909.

• Fantastic Photos with Picasa willbe held on Mondays, July 27-Aug. 31,from 10 a.m. to noon, at Crestview Se-nior Living, 8660 Grant Road in Crest-wood. Learn how to enhance, organizeand share digital photos through edit-ing and cropping and organizing them.Plus, attendees will learn how to sharedigital photos via email and the Inter-

net. The class costs $50 for the session.To register or for more information

about OASIS, visit www.oasisnet.org.

OASIS ClassesFor Older Adults

St. Louis County Library’s History& Genealogy department will open itsstaff-only area to the public the thirdweekend of each month beginning Sat-urday and Sunday, July 18 and 19.

The area is located on Tier 4 of Li-

brary Headquarters at 1640 S. Lind-bergh. The staff-only area housesmore than 13,000 family histories,

school yearbooks and informationabout many states west of the Missis-sippi. Researchers are encouraged tobrowse and use the materials duringthe “Explore Tier 4” weekends. Histo-ry and genealogy staff will also offer

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available only upon request and are

retrieved by a librarian for use in thelibrary. “Explore Tier 4” weekends willallow researchers and genealogists toaccess this area and browse its hold-ings independently. Library head-quarters is open from 9 a.m. until 5p.m. on Saturday; and from 1 to 5 p.m.on Sunday.

For more information, call the his-tory and genealogy department at

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Athletes are used to pushingthemselves and stretching theirlimits, but some limits are best notpushed. Such is the case with thelimits posed by aging. While athletesdon’t have to completely hang uptheir athletic equipment as they

approach senior citizen status, thereare steps senior athletes can taketo ensure they aren’t pushing theirbodies too far as they grow older.

Senior athletes must recognizetheir new recovery time. Where asprained ankle might once have beenas good as new after a few days ofrest, aging athletes must recognizethat the same ankle sprain nowmight require more recovery time.Returning too quickly from an injurycan only make things worse.

Gradually increasing warm uptime with age is a good idea, asit helps ready the body for morestrenuous exercise.

As the body ages, it becomes lessexible, which makes it less capable

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movements common to exercise.Focus on exibility and stretch

muscles before and after a workout.

Activities such as yoga can alsoimprove exibility for athletes of all

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feel they have nothing to gain bylifting weights now that they are nolonger as concerned about building

muscle. But the body gradually losesmuscle mass as it ages, and that lossputs the joints under greater stresswhen other exercises are performed.That stress can put people at greaterrisk for arthritis, tendinitis andligament sprains. While maxing outon the bench press or challengingoneself on the biceps curl might beoverkill, strength training shouldcontinue to be a part of any tness

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River City Pops: A Singing Ensem-

ble presents its latest program, “I’ll

Be Seeing You: Songs of the Greatest

Generation,” on Sunday, July 19, 6

to 7:30 p.m., at South County Baptist

Church, 12995 Tesson Ferry Road.

The concert will feature Big Band

and popular standards from the 1930s,

1940s and early 1950s. Songs featured

include “Take the A Train,” “At Last,”

“Mack the Knife,” Tuxedo Junction,”

“Fly Me to the Moon” and more.

Hear Big Band Favorites July 19At South County Baptist Church

Free Family Caregiver Training

will be offered on Thursday, July 23,

2 to 5 p.m., at Seniors Home Care, 504

Marshall Ave. in Webster Groves.

This training opportunity provides

tools to use when caring for a parent or

loved one in multiple settings.

Whether a seasoned caregiver or

planning care for a family member,

spouse or friend, this free class will

teach topics including:

• Incontinence care;

• Monitoring and handling medica-

tions;

• Home safety;

• Proper body mechanics to protect

yourself against injury;

• Alzheimer’s Disease/Dementia

awareness;

• Handling caregiver stress.

The class is taught by a Seniors

Home Care registered nurse. Seating

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Seniors face many changes as

they move into their golden years

including how to scale back in the

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family may nd it difcult. The

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• Divide and store. Supermarkets

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packages of food products as well

as “family size” offerings to compete

with warehouse clubs. If buying in

bulk, invest in a food vacuum sealer

or freezer storage bags. Immediately

separate meats and poultry into

smaller portions before storing them

in the freezer. Otherwise, look for

bulk items that are individually

wrapped to maintain freshness.Many canned and jarred items

can be covered and stored in the

refrigerator after containers are

opened.

• Plan meals with similar

ingredients. To reduce food waste,

use leftovers to create casseroles

or mix them in with new meals.

Broiled or grilled chicken can be

used to make soups, stir-fry dishes,

fajitas and sandwiches. The fewer

ingredients you have to buy, the

smaller the risk of spoilage.

• Cut recipes in half. Recipes

can be cut down depending on how

many mouths need to be fed. When

baking, cutting back on proportions

of ingredients can be challenging.Search online for recipe-scaling

programs that can make the work

easier.

• Cook on the weekend. Use a

weekend day to prepare food and

package it into small containers in

the refrigerator or freezer. Then

the containers can be taken out as

needed and heated quickly in the

microwave for fast meals.

• Organize a meal-sharing club.

Get together with a few friends and

split cooking duties. If accustomed

to cooking larger portion sizes, do

so and then spread the wealth with

others in the group.

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Whether it’s for a lingering illness or a major operation, the nurses

and caregivers at SSM St. Clare Health Center do all they can to make

being in the hospital feel less like “being in the hospital.” You can

check in from your private room instead of the lobby. And the focus is

on your health and wellness, not just your present condition.

It’s what we do every day. To make your stay as personalized as

possible. And provide expert, compassionate care to the community

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The expertise you seek. The care you deserve.

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Fenton, MO 63026

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Serving The Senior Community

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At St. Anthony’s, our heart program has

rapidly become one of the area’s nest: With

new technologies. New procedures. And

outstanding new physicians. Physicians,

like Dr. Umraan Ahmad, a nationally

recognized heart surgeon - a native St.

Louisan, who recently joined St. Anthony’s.

Dr. Ahmad has been a clinical instructor at

Tulane University School of Medicine and

Northwestern Memorial Hospital’s Center

for Heart Failure. He trained at Northwestern

University, University of Kansas, The

Mayo Clinic Foundation and is skilled in

the latest techniques for treating valvular

heart disease. As the area’s top community

hospital, quality physicians are critical to

St. Anthony’s growth. In many ways, at

its very heart. Patient care, personalized

for the needs of our community. World-

class heart surgery – here, in the heart of

South County. The Heart and Vascular

Institute at St. Anthony’s. One more part

of our brand new story. To learn more, visit

SOUTHCOUNTYHEART.COM.

(The New)

WHERE WILL YOU FIND SOME OF THE

WORLD’S BEST HEART SURGEONS?

SOUTH COUNTY, OF COURSE.

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