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By Jean Cole | Living 50 Plus Watch them practice for only a few minutes and you can see the Soulful Shakers dance troupe is full of women who have always been good dancers. They show off smooth, in-sync and sometimes sexy moves. Every now and again they snap open their hand fans to a beat of some jazzy blues
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By Jean Cole | Living 50 Plus Never underestimate an old man who knows tai chi. That was the message printed on Sid Braunstien’s optic orange T-shirt one recent Tuesday as he was teaching a class on tai chi at the Decatur Public Library. The slogan nails down Braunstien pretty well. He’s a big guy with a big voice. He
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By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Every time Carol Montgomery hears about a local student with art hanging in the Huntsville Museum of Art, at the capitol in Montgomery and in Washington, D.C., a twinge of pride fills her heart. “I like to think that maybe I had a little something to do with that,” the 85-year-old Priceville woman
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By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus When Karen Woldahl moved to Decatur from Indiana in 2002 as a member of Nucor Steel — the city’s newest industrial mill at the time — she searched for ways to get involved with the community. Relay for Life, a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society, caught the attention of Woldahl and other
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By Deborah Storey | Living 50 Plus Have a brown thumb when it comes to growing plants? Morgan County Master Gardeners training can help. Most of the members come to the group after retirement or as a late-in-life hobby. “If you have any kind of interest in gardening, it’ll make you a better gardener,” said group member Darryle Waldron. Cecilia
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By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus One Sunday morning six years ago, while watching hunting videos on YouTube with his wife, Scotty Kelsoe clicked on a post by Hands of a Sportsman. “We had never heard of Hands of a Sportsman before. They had a video of a little disabled kid hunting,” the 56-year-old Kelsoe said. “I looked at
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By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus A football gathering and enthusiastic recruiter for the Sophisticated Swingers triggered Kathy Silvestri’s return to music after years of playing only once a year with Auburn University’s alumni band. “I was at a football party at a friend’s house and Jon Sedlak said, ‘Does anybody know anyone who plays saxophone?’ I said, ‘I
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