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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

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

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

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

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Lucy McCain wakes up each morning and goes through each day with one goal — “Do something to glorify God.” In her 40s and 50s, McCain achieved that goal by writing books. In her 50s and 60s, the Decatur woman sent uplifting handcrafted newsletters around the world and operated a radio program, which

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Get ready to say goodbye to winter and hello to spring with its sweet smell of flowers, sound of birds and feel of warm sunshine filtered through canopies of trees. Now, this sweet spot between the frigid days of winter and sweltering heat of summer, represents the perfect time to explore the nature

By Catherine Godbey | Living 50 Plus Historians encourage society to turn to the past in order to be inspired and to be prepared for the future. “We need to learn about history so we can learn about ourselves,” historian David Breland said. “I hate to plow the same ground twice. I want to be moving forward all the time.