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Seniors exercising to stay sharp mentally, physically
bad like that,” Jones said.
Doctors and his wife recommend-
ed he start exercising again nearly five
years ago, and he’s stuck to it. He said
the exercise has greatly improved his
health; he no longer uses a walker to
get around, and his wife no longer talks
about selling their home in Sanger.
He even claims he has treated “99
percent” of his arthritis by eliminating
caffeine and regularly massaging his
joints. Beyond these improvements,
Jones said his active lifestyle saved his
fife this past February, when a heart at-
tack put him in the hospital.
“The cardiologist said my prognoses
was practically a death sentence,” Jones
wrote in an essay to the Denton Re-
cord-Chronicle. “I know it was both God
and exercise that created this miracle.”
Jones’ doctor was not available for
comment.
A 2013 article, published in Popu-
lation Health Management, a peer-re-
viewed journal, looked into the impact
of regular exercise for seniors enrolled
in SilverSneakers.
SilverSneakers is one of many pro-
grams that works with insurance com-
panies to provide gym memberships,
classes and nutrition information for
senior citizens.
The article gets dense pretty quick-
ly, but the gist is simple: most seniors
(91 percent) have at least one chronic
illness, and about a quarter of people
with a chronic illness are detrimentally
affected in at least one aspect of their
daily fives, but exercise helps improve
seniors’ ability to perform simple tasks,
such as bathing, walking and dressing
themselves.
By Marshall Reid
For the Denton Record-Chronicle
marshall.reid@dentonrc.com
Jerry Jones goes to the gym five days
per week, a routine that includes a lita-
ny of high-intensity weight training. He
is 75 years old.
Jones, who is a Sanger resident and
does not own the Dallas Cowboys, has
led a fairly active fife by his reckoning.
Many of his jobs included some form
of manual labor outside, which he sup-
plemented with regular exercise. This
trend ended nearly 10 years ago.
Jones said he entered a deep depres-
sion that lasted five years. His health
deteriorated, he was forced to use a
walker to get around his house and his
wife was considering selling their house
because of his ailing health.
“I don’t think there’s anything much
worse than depression when it gets real
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Linnie McAdams, right, exercises as part of Barbara Greene’s class Mon-
day at the Denton Senior Center.
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Denton couple back after mountaintop engagement ends in rescue
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By Julie Pace
AP Washington Bureau Chief
WASHINGTON - The bitter battle
over Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to
the Supreme Court has exacerbated the
nation’s political divide and left many
Americans emotionally raw.
It’s also given new definition to the
high stakes of No-
vember’s election.
Until now, the
fight for control of
Congress has largely
been viewed as a ref-
erendum on President Donald Trump’s
first two years in office.
But the turmoil surrounding Kava-
naugh has transformed the midterms
into something bigger than Trump,
with implications that could endure
long after his presidency.
The election is suddenly layered
with charged cultural questions about
the scarcity of women in political
power, the handling of sexual assault
allegations, and shifting power dy-
namics that have left some white men
uneasy about their place in American
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Denton residents Joshua Mason, right, and Katie Davis, shown Friday in their residence, flew to Colorado for a romantic adventure at the end of
September that ended with them making national headlines.
Perilous proposal
life.
Both parties contend the new con-
tours of the race will energize their
supporters in the election’s final stretch.
Both maybe right.
Republicans, however, may bene-
fit most in the short term. Until now,
party leaders, Trump included, have
struggled to rev up GOP voters, even
with a strong economy to campaign
By Dalton LaFerney I Staff Writer I dalton.laferney@dentonrc.com
atie Davis and Joshua Mason arrived back in Den-
But they had to be rescued when Davis
experienced altitude sickness. The rescue
wasn’t an ordeal because Davis said she
felt a lot better after she got some rest and
drank a lot of water. She was able to walk
down the mountain herself. A stretcher
wasn’t needed.
But the rescue caught the attention of
the Boulder County sheriff, who was among
the authorities waiting for the new couple as
firefighters guided them back to the park-
ing lot. And he shared the 18-hour hike and
marriage proposal with the world.
Davis and Mason got back to their AirB-
nB around 7:30 a.m. Sunday.
“At 11 o’clock, we got the first phone call
from a reporter,” Mason said. It was from a
Denver-based TV news outlet.
They thought if they declined an interview
with the station, there wouldn’t be a story.
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ton last week engaged and a national news item.
Mason proposed to Davis on the top of a moun-
tain 40 miles southwest of Denver on Sept. 29. Davis
said yes, and Mason captured it all on his drone, hover-
ing above.
“I don’t think it gets more romantic than that,” Davis
on.
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20 dead in limousine crash, deadliest US wreck in nearly a decade
said at a news conference in Latham,
New York.
It went across the road and hit an
unoccupied SUV parked at the Apple
Barrel Country Store, killing the limou-
sine driver, the 17 passengers, and two
people outside the vehicle.
The crash “sounded like an explo-
sion,” said Linda Riley, of nearby Sche-
nectady, who was on a shopping trip
with her sisters. She had been in anoth-
er car parked at the store, saw a body
on the ground and heard people start
screaming.
By Michael Hill and Bob Salsberg
Associated Press
SCHOHARIE, N.Y. - A limousine
loaded with revelers bound for a 30th
birthday celebration blew through a
stop sign at the end of a highway and
slammed into a parked SUV outside a
store, killing all 18 people in the fimo
and two pedestrians in the deadliest
U.S. transportation crash in nearly a
decade, officials and victims’ relatives
said Sunday.
The collision turned a relaxed Satur-
day afternoon into chaos at an upstate
New York spot popular with tourists
taking in the fall foliage. Relatives said
the limousine was carrying four sisters
and their friends to a birthday celebra-
tion for the youngest.
“They did the responsible thing
getting a fimo so they wouldn’t have
to drive anywhere,” their aunt, Barba-
ra Douglas, told reporters Sunday. She
said three of the sisters were with their
husbands and identified them as Amy
and Axel Steenburg, Abigail and Adam
Jackson, Mary and Rob Dyson and Al-
lison King.
Douglas said the couples had several
children between them who they left at
home.
The store manager, Jessica Kirby, told
The New York Times the fimo was coming
down a hill at “probably over 60 mph.”
In an email to The Associated Press,
she complained the junction where the
crashed occurred is crash-prone.
“We have had 3 tractor trailer type
trucks run through the stop through
our driveway and into a field behind
the business,” Kirby wrote. “All of these
occurred during business hours and
could’ve killed someone then.”
“They were wonderful girls,” Doug-
las said. “They’d do anything for you
and they were very close to each other
and they loved their family.”
The 2001 Ford Excursion limousine
was traveling southwest on Route 30
in Schoharie, about 170 miles north of
New York City, when it failed to stop
at 2 p.m. Saturday at a T-junction with
state Route 30A, State Police First Dep-
uty Superintendent Christopher Fiore
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