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Robert Appelbaum
Onalaska’s canoe/kayak maker
Appelbaum tilts the canoe he built for a better view, the paddles he built to go with it actually are shaped more like a scull blade, with a slight curvature, to give more push with each stroke.
– Lew Vail photo
By: Lew Vail
Retirement is the time in life you revisit your bucket list and realize there are many, many things you need to do, want to do, should do and can do. Many of these things will require traveling, but there are a world of activities in your own backyard to make retirement active and enjoyable. Onalaska has a Senior Citizen Center, Lions and Lioness club, grandparents are invited to join in many activities at the elementary school, and the “highfalutin” school athletic activities welcome seniors on campus to en-
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hole’ and it is still confus- ing.
A good indicator of be- ing in the ‘donut hole’ is when your pharmacist tells you that your cost or co-payment is much high- er than what you normally pay.
Many of you have been with Medicare long enough to have experi- enced this.
However, it comes as a complete shock to those who have recently joined Medicare Part D prescrip- tion coverage. Those of you who are computer savvy can go online to ob- tain more information or call your Medicare Part D provider for your speci c situation.
Our beautiful county provides many opportuni- ties to water activities and an array of bene cial ser- vices to our senior com- munity, thus, attracting more and more seniors to retire here.
If you have questions concerning our program for those of you with Chronic Obstructive Pul- monary Disease (COPD), Congestive Heart Failure (CHF), and/or Diabetes, call us at Healthy Polk County, 936-646-7290, for more information or to see what services we offer.
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joy the games, both in the gymnasium and ball elds. There is the local proj- ect, Kids Free Clothing Exchange, that needs all sorts of volunteers to help process the used cloth- ing get items ready for the children, etc. Volunteers choose what they would like to work on. They need washing, sorting folding and placing on the shelves. On Friday and Saturday you can actually serve the children and their parents distributing the clothing.
The Onalaska Library, and many of the churches have volunteers doing sec- retarial work, while others volunteer at working out-
door activities like parks, playgrounds and of course with this lake there’s al- ways a relaxing day of shing or boating.
One such volunteer. Rob- ert Appelbaum, it turns out, began his retirement dream as a young child, while visiting his grand- mother in Michigan, dur- ing the summer. The small lake had a sailing club and Robert convinced his grandmother to take out a membership so he could participate in the activities of the group. That led to a lifetime love of sailing, and over the many years as he worked with Tenne- co Oil and Gas Company,
and as an electrical and technical specialist. He began building, refurbish- ing and sailing wherever they lived. When his work brought him to a facility in the Sam Houston Forest, he and wife Kathleen vis- ited Onalaska and decided this was a good place to live, because their other hobbies included birding, master naturalist, and re- lated outdoor activities.
Having built a canoe, a sailing Dory, Appelbaum then purchased a Cat Ketch rigged, 21 footer to sail on Lake Livingston. He calls it Blue Peter, a
reference to the maritime pennants one see’s ying from the mast, which is a single new wall, the return to the ship were ready to sail. He has played with Sun sh and other sailing boards and so a kayak was obviously going to be in the mix. He has one in the garage where he keeps his eet. But the last year or more, he has been building a 14’ version of a sea go- ing kayak. While some are constricted by the stitch and glue method, where you actually drill holes in the wood planks and wire them together while the
glue sets up, then you can remove the wire. He chose to use approximately one inch square Redwood strips the full length of the boat. This required build- ing forms that the strips wrap around, forming the shape of the boat and are later removed when the top and bottom of the boat are put together. Once the hull and the top section are built, sanded and sealed and joined together, they will be ber glassed in- side and out, the forms removed and the two units joined together perma- nently.
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