lancaster county 50plus senior news may 2012

By Alysa Poindexter

Dan Knaub may seem like an ordinary guy from Central Pennsylvania,

but underneath that cap and behind that cheery disposition is a man with an

extraordinary job as a marine biologist, videographer, and activist birthed

from a fascination with some of the largest creatures on Earth: 50-ton

whales.

From full-time banker to full-time founder and president of the Whale

Video Company—amongst many other notable titles—Knaub’s zeal for

whales has allowed him to take a dive into a thriving career centered on these

gigantic yet mysterious ocean dwellers.

He has created more than 50 programs on humpback whales used by

some of the nation’s largest whale nonprofit organizations, including the

Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society (WDCS), the International Fund

for Animal Welfare (IFAW), and the Cetacean Society International (CSI).

It was Knaub’s first deployment trip to Vietnam in 1959—only days after

officially gracing adulthood—that he had his first whale encounter.

“I was 18 years and 2 days,” said Knaub. “I figured it was a great time to

see some things and do some things before I went to college.”

He had no idea that some of those “things” would include witnessing a

pod of sperm whales between San Francisco and Hawaii on a journey that

Diving Into a50-Ton Passion

Dan Knaub has spent many hours on the open water

over the course of hundreds of whale-watching trips.

Local Olympian Becomes

Honorary Chairperson

Silver Threads:

They Led Three Lives

please see PASSION page 16

Inside:

Former Banker Now Dedicated toWhale Conservation, Videography

Lancaster County Edition May 2012 Vol. 18 No. 5

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Central PA Poison Center

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Have you ever spent a

Saturday morning going to

yard sales? The signs are all

around you, but you don’t want to

drive around aimlessly or waste

money buying junk. Whether you

are buying or selling, here are some

tips for making the most of your

time in the yard.

Don’t Forget the Cash

Yard sales are not like a quick trip

to the convenience store. You will

need more than just your keys, cell

phone, and credit card.

You need coins and small bills in

order to take home the best from a

yard sale. Don’t ask a yard sale seller

to break a $50 bill; it could be the

end of your negotiations.

Don’t Sell Everything

Some things aren’t supposed to be

sold on the front lawn. Don’t sell

original art or jewelry at yard sales.

There are not enough people

shopping at a local yard sale to

attract high prices. Yard sales are not

the place to get big bucks for your

heirlooms.

Don’t Get Up Early!

I have made it a lifelong rule that

there is no good reason, other than a

house fire, to get up before 8 a.m.

Don’t get up at the crack of dawn to

try to beat everyone to a yard sale.

You won’t miss a thing.

In fact, you can get the best prices

around lunchtime as most yard sale

hosts are ready to call it quits. By

noon, sellers are exhausted, and they

don’t care what you pay for that

Wedgewood cachet pot as long as

you take it with you. It is a great

time to negotiate or even get stuff

for free.

Don’t Buy Damage

Condition is a key to value. If you

pick up a tattered linen from a yard

sale, thinking that it is some

fabulous antique Amish quilt, you

are probably paying hard-earned

money for the same rag that you

might use to wax the car.

Someone else’s tattered piece isn’t

automatically a wonderful antique.

Don’t fantasize about a yard sale

find. If it is in poor condition, leave

it on the lawn.

Don’t Buy Parts

I always say that buying parts is

for auto mechanics, not yard sale

shoppers. Don’t buy incomplete sets

or games with missing pieces. Buy

complete games in their original

boxes whenever possible. Instruction

booklets increase value by 15

percent.

Don’t Let it Go Until You Know …What it’s Worth!

As an antiques appraiser with a

PhD and decades of market

experience, I know that most hosts

don’t bother to find out what their

objects are worth before they schlep

them from the attic out to the front

Do your homework and you can

go home with some great stuff from

your neighbors’ yard sale.

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County Watershed Needs Volunteer Retirees

The Lancaster County

Conservation District is looking to

expand its volunteer base for its

Water Quality Volunteer Coalition

(WQVC).

The WQVC is made up of

dedicated retired seniors throughout

Lancaster County. The goal of the

WQVC is to promote and educate

residents of the county on water

quality issues in local streams and

creeks.

Volunteers in the organization are

given training in monitoring their

local stream for chemical, physical,

and biological parameters. The

volunteers work in teams of three or

four individuals to sample local

water bodies on a monthly basis.

More than 45 percent of the

streams in Lancaster County are

impaired or polluted from past land

use decisions, and continual

monitoring of these streams is

needed to see if improvements are

being made by state-mandated

regulations, local volunteer efforts,

or other groups working within the

watershed.

The data collected by these

dedicated volunteers is used by the

state, the county, local volunteer

watershed organizations, and even

the federal government. This

information is of tremendous value

to not only the state, but the

community as well.

If you are interested in finding

out more about the program or

attending one of their monthly

meetings, please check out the

Lancaster County Watershed website

(www.lancasterwatersheds.org) or

contact Matthew Kofroth, watershed

coordinator for the Lancaster

County Conservation District

(mattkofroth@lancasterconservation.

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George Hershey, 55, of Blue Bell, Pa., recently won the Garden Spot

Village Marathon’s Men’s Grand Masters Division for runners 50 years

old and better, with a time of 3:24:49. Susan Rouse, 54, of Conroe,

Texas, was the Women’s Grand Masters winner, finishing in 3:41:59.

John Wallace, 20, of Denver, Pa., finished in overall first place with a

time of 2:40:41.

“We are thrilled to see so many runners and walkers of all ages

participate in the marathon, the half marathon, and the marathon

relay,” said race director Scott Miller, himself a marathoner, who is

also marketing director of the retirement community.

The oldest finisher in the full marathon was Eugene DeFronzo,

76, of Cheshire, Conn.

The Garden Spot Village Marathon is believed to be the first

marathon hosted by a retirement community. Beginning and ending

on the community’s campus, the USA Track & Field-certified course

runs along rural roads through Lancaster County.

To encourage a broad range of participation, the event recognizes

individual achievement in five-year age categories to ages 80-plus, and

the course remains open until the last participant has finished.

The event is a qualifier for the Boston Marathon.

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The throng of runners at the Garden Spot Village Marathontakes off from the starting line.

Local Olympian Becomes

Honorary Chairperson

By Alysa D. Poindexter

With the 2012 London Olympics

quickly approaching, it only seems right

that local Olympian Sam Bigler would

become honorary chairperson of this

year’s Lancaster Senior Games.

Annually, the Lancaster Senior Games

honors a new chairperson, and Bigler’s

background in sports

and his support of the

local community give

him plenty of

credibility.

“I look at it as an

honor,” said a

humbled Bigler, of

Millersville.

Nominated by a

former athletic

director from his alma

mater, Millersville

University, Bigler is

not a stranger to the

athletic spotlight. The Columbia native

has dozens of awards and titles under his

competitive weightlifting belt—many

acquired abroad—yet he remains modest.

Competing in the 1976 Montreal

Olympics Games in Canada, Bigler

attempted to break the national record

for weightlifting, placing eighth in the

world.

“It’s better to have tried than not at

all,” said Bigler.

Our first local Olympian—Barney

Ewell of Harrisburg—competed in the

summer 1948 London Olympic Games.

Bigler is the first resident of Lancaster to

achieve Olympian status.

His weightlifting career began within

the walls of Columbia Junior/Senior

High School, where he worked his way

up from the bottom.

“I competed at a very low level in high

school,” he explained.

Bigler would go on to enroll at

Millersville, never stopping his pursuit of

weightlifting. Once his college career

began, Bigler bulked up on many

distinctive titles, becoming four-time

NCAA weightlifting champion, All-

American in his weight class, and five-

time PA State AAU Champion, among

others.

After a successful athletic college

career, he received his B.A. in elementary

education in 1973. But

Bigler’s athletic

passions continued to

“When I graduated

from Millersville

University, I still

wanted to keep

competing,” said

Bigler.

With help from the

university, Bigler was

able to obtain a

scholarship for

graduate school and

serve as a strength coach for various

athletic teams at the school as well. He

completed his M.S. in elementary

education with a reading specialist

certification in 1976 and continued

coaching until 1980.

Currently, Bigler works at the

Thaddeus Stevens College of Technology

as a reading specialist, preparing students

with technical vocabulary for their tech

careers, and is co-owner of CBS

Properties. He has been inducted into

many halls of fame and participates in

the Millersville Zoning Hearing Board

and serves on the Millersville Republican

Committee.

The Lancaster Senior Games will be

held June 11-15 at Franklin & Marshall’s

Alumni Sports & Fitness Center, Leisure

Lanes of Lancaster, Willow Valley

Cultural Center, Overlook Golf Course,

and Evergreen Golf Course. For more

information, call (717) 392-2115, ext.

128, or visit www.lancseniorgames.org.

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hy should seniors get

discounts?

The practice of senior

discounts is widespread. They are offered,

for example, at fast-food establishments,

museums, movie theaters, Amtrak,

Southwest and United airlines,

Disneyland, some colleges and

universities, and, thanks to the “Golden

Age Passport,” seniors receive free entry

into national parks.

From mid-life through the “Golden

Age,” median income declines as we get

older. The U.S. Census Bureau reported

that in 2007 the median income of

households headed by a person 45 to 54

years old was $65,476.

Median income for householders 55

to 64 years old declined to $57,386. For

those 65 years and older, it fell to

$28,305.

But don’t seniors have offsetting

“compensation” through paid-up

mortgages and minimal clothing and

transportation expenses? They do, but

they also have higher healthcare expenses.

The average annual expenditure for

healthcare in the period 2005-2007,

according

to the

Census

Bureau,

rose from

$2,792 for

individuals

45 to 54

years of age

to $4,967

for those 65 to 74 years of age

(prescription and nonprescription drugs

are included).

Poverty knows no age distinction, so

why not allow discounts to others? It

happens that discounts are offered to

easily recognizable groups—for example,

the military, children accompanying their

parents for lodging and meals (“kids eat

free”), and the aged.

Senior discounts can create an

awkward moment when patrons are

offered a discount at the cash register but

hesitate to

admit they

are in their

senior years.

They would

hope to be

carded when

purchasing

alcoholic

beverages—

an unlikely event—or asked if the adult

daughter “is your sister?”

Deference is extended to seniors in

considerations other than discounts

offered by retailers. Some electric utilities

will suspend turning off power to seniors

with past-due accounts during extremely

hot or cold periods. The IRS and AARP

have programs to assist low-income

seniors in tax preparation.

Meals on Wheels provides food to

seniors with limited mobility.

Interestingly, that organization, in its

2008 study, found that “seniors age 80

and over were less likely to be food

insecure compared to 60- to 64-year-

olds.”

One program that does not

discriminate by age is Medicare. It

provides benefits to needy children,

disabled individuals, and low-income

seniors.

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Three Under a TreeBy John Kildea

“It couldn’t have been a more

beautiful spring day … There we

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From the creative mind of John

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into the minds of the last soldier killed in

the Civil War and the last American

soldiers killed in World War I and

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The entire book is a

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It is thoroughly

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one another by sharing

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during their military

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Kildea provides a voice

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The Church of Latter-Day Saints’

free site FamilySearch (now at

https://www.familysearch.org) is a

valuable resource for genealogical

researchers. It is undergoing design

changes that are almost complete.

The old site, in many ways more user

friendly, is now at http://www.family

search.org/eng/default.asp. As explained

on the old site, most of the records and

indexes on that site have been added to

the new one, and other features of the

old website have been or will be moved

in coming weeks. Unless I state

differently here, I refer to the new site.

It permits, but doesn’t require, free

registration with a username, password,

and email address. However, registration

is required for a very important feature

on the new site.

LDS work goes on continuously to

digitally index records and make them

available online, but still, many are

available only on microfilms (reels of

miniaturized photocopies of records) or

microfiche (small, flat sheets of

miniaturized images).

A widely used service of the LDS

church is the rental of these

microfilms/fiche containing varied

historical records: land dealings; civil

birth, marriage, and death records; and

church baptisms, etc., from widespread

sources. At the new site, you’ll see a page

with the main heading “Discover Your

Family History.” Select the link

“Catalog” just below the title. Click the

drop-down tab for “Search” and select

one of the options: Place-names, Titles,

I’ll give an example, searching for

records from Columbia, Pa.

Select “Place-names” and type

“Columbia” in the form. As you start to

type, a list of possible matches will appear.

Here I find trouble with the new site,

because the town of Columbia, Pa., won’t

appear as a choice unless you type

“Lancaster, Columbia.” On the old site, as

soon as you

searched for

“Columbia,” it

would give a list of

all Columbias with

records, from

which you could

choose

“Pennsylvania,

Lancaster,

Columbia.”

It may sound

trivial, but when

searching for

records from a

foreign town, you may not know the

name or correct spelling of that town’s

region, county, or province. FamilySearch

would do well to upgrade the site with a

more inclusive search engine. Be advised:

When searching by place-name, enter the

state, county, or province, if known, and

then the name of the town.

Anyway, once you click on “Search” for

“Pennsylvania, Lancaster, Columbia,” a

list of microfilms/fiche will appear.

Clicking on “Church Records,” for

example, gives a list of such records.

Selecting one—say, Saint John Evangelical

Lutheran Church, Columbia, Lancaster

County, Pennsylvania; parish registers,

1881-1935—gives a page describing

available records and the film number

they are on (in this case, film 1723649).

Often the records are available online

at the FamilySearch site, and a link will

direct you to them. If not, go to or

contact your closest Family History

Center (FHC) to determine if the film is

there.

If the film you

want is not on

hand, it can be

ordered for viewing

at an FHC. A

change in

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microfilms/fiche to

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They’re no longer

to be ordered and

paid for in person

at the FHCs. You

need a working

email account and must be willing to pay

for film rentals by credit card or by using

the online PayPal system.

Online ordering requires registration.

Go to FamilySearch and, in the upper

right-hand corner, click on “Sign In.” If

you’re not yet registered, this will take you

to a page that has a button entitled

“Create New Account.” Click there and

select “FamilySearch Account” for the

general public or “LDS FamilySearch

Account” for LDS church members. Fill

in the information blocks and then click

“Register.” You’ll be directed to open your

email to complete the registration.

Once registered, to order a film, go to

https://www.familysearch.org/films. You’ll

see a page headed “Online Film

Ordering” where you can sign in. You

must assure that the film is delivered to

your “default” FHC, the center where you

wish to research the film. On the right is

a little “house” icon (for “Home”). Click

there, and follow directions to select a

default FHC.

Select the FHC and return to the film-

ordering page. Enter the desired film

number and click the “Search” button. If

the film is already available at your FHC,

you will be so informed. If not, you can

order it for a short term (60 days) for

$7.50 or as extended loan (indefinite) for

$18.75.

Then proceed as in a typical online

purchase. You will be given an order

number and will receive emails telling you

the progress of your order and when it has

arrived at your FHC. Once there, it will

be filed numerically by film number.

Make a note of that so that you can locate

the film in the FHC’s files.

If the film is short term, it will have a

due date associated with it. The patron

who ordered the film, as well as others

who may use it, must recognize that if the

film is not renewed online before that

date, it may be returned without further

notification.

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healthy snack high in protein. Remove eggs from the refrigerator about 30 minutes

before cooking to avoid cracking. Place in a medium saucepan and add enough cold

water to cover by 1 inch. Bring to a boil. When water is boiling, remove the pan from

the heat and cover. Let stand 15 to 17 minutes. (I use 17 minutes, but most sources

say 15 minutes.) Drain the water and crack the shells. Peel while still warm and

refrigerate until needed, but no more than three days.

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Makes 2 servings

1 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil

1/4 cup chopped onion

1/4 cup diced red pepper

1 1/2 cups refrigerated hash browns or frozen shredded

hash browns, thawed

8 spears asparagus, cut into

2- to 3-inch pieces

1 cup fresh baby spinach leaves

1 clove garlic, minced

4 eggs

1/4 cup milk

1/4 teaspoon salt

1/8 teaspoon pepper

Hot pepper sauce, if desired

1/2 cup shredded Mexican blend cheese or cheddar cheese

Heat the butter and olive oil in a 9-inch nonstick skillet over medium

heat. Add the onion and red pepper and cook two to three minutes or

until softened. Add the potatoes and cook about five minutes or until the

potatoes begin to brown.

Add asparagus and continue cooking about three minutes until bright

green. Add the spinach and garlic and cover. Cook one minute until the

spinach is wilted.

Beat the eggs, milk, salt, pepper, and a few drops hot pepper sauce in a

medium bowl until smooth. Pour over potatoes. Cook five to eight

minutes, lifting edges and allowing uncooked egg to flow underneath.

Heat the broiler. Sprinkle frittata with cheese and broil two to four

minutes or until center is set. Cut into four wedges to serve.

Tip: For variations, include experiment with fresh vegetables. When I

use zucchini, I chop it and cook it with the onion. For leftover vegetables,

add them with the spinach.

Easy Vegetable FrittataBy Pat Sinclair

As summer approaches, I’m always looking for nutritious recipes that require

little effort.

An Italian frittata is a complete meal the way I prepare it. Fresh asparagus

celebrates spring and abundant zucchini heralds the end of the season. Try

topping it with sliced tomatoes before adding the cheese.

There are endless variations, and it’s a great way to use up small amounts of

leftover vegetables. Eggs provide healthy protein, and you can replace two eggs

with egg substitute or egg whites if you are limiting cholesterol.

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Some True Frogs inNorth America

The Beauty in Nature

Clyde McMillan-Gamber

Several species of true frogs in the

Ranidae family live in northeastern

North America. These related frogs

are wood frogs, mink frogs, carpenter

frogs, northern leopard frogs, southern

leopard frogs, pickerel frogs, green frogs,

and bullfrogs.

These frogs eat invertebrates and are

camouflaged to avoid being eaten. But

snakes, turtles, mink, raccoons, herons,

fish, and other critters ingest some frogs

and tadpoles.

True frogs spawn in

water in spring, starting

with wood frogs in

March and ending with

bullfrogs in June. Males

of each kind vocalize to

draw females to them

for spawning. Each

female lays hundreds of

eggs in a mass on the

water’s surface, while

her mate fertilizes them

externally.

Tadpoles hatch in a couple of weeks,

depending on water temperature, and eat

algae and decaying vegetation. Polliwogs

change to small frogs in one summer,

except green frogs and bullfrogs, which

metamorphose in two summers.

Wood frogs live farther north than

other kinds of North American true

frogs, ranging deep into Canada. This

handsome species is tan with a dark mask

around each eye, camouflage for life on

forest floors.

Wood frogs spawn in temporary

woodland pools within a few days, before

cold weather returns. Males float on the

water and croak, sounding like quacking

ducks being strangled. After spawning,

adult woodies crawl under protective

leaves on forest floors.

Skins of mink frogs smell like mink

musk. They inhabit eastern Canada and

the northeastern United States. They are

light green with brown markings. They

spawn among emergent and floating

vegetation in ponds, where males call

“kuk, kuk, kuk,” like hammers hitting

Carpenter frogs live in acidic,

sphagnum moss bogs on the Delmarva

Peninsula and down the Atlantic Coast.

Their nuptial vocalizations are series of

two-syllable hammering

notes.

In April, the males of

the closely related

leopard frogs and

pickerel frogs utter

growling snores from

the shallow edges of the

ponds they spawn in.

Leopards choose grassy

habitats while pickerels

live in woodsy ones.

Leopards are greenish

with dusky circles,

while pickerels are brownish with darker

rectangles.

Green frogs are the most widespread

and abundant of true frogs, inhabiting

most waterways and impoundments.

They are dull green, with males having

yellow throats during the breeding

season. Males utter notes that sound like

loose strings on a banjo.

The brownish-green bullfrogs are the

largest of true frogs and live in most

impoundments. Males utter deep,

quavering bellows that resemble the

lowing of cattle.

During spring and summer, listen for

true frogs. Their calling is an interesting

part of nature.

Clyde McMillan-Gamber is a Lancaster

County Parks naturalist.

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“Although no sculptured marble should

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American spirit and from the generations

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conflict, they found the serenity of death.

I have one sentiment for soldiers living

and dead: cheers for the living; tears for

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trend seems to be traveling in reverse.

The University of Michigan’s

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among 17-year-olds the percentage

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18-year-olds, the rate fell from 80.4 to

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Asparagus Tips – Grab a Spear, My Dear

Preventive Measures

Wendell Fowler

As the brown-gray mood of winter

melts, giving way to warmer

temperatures, crocus, and pudgy,

chirping robins, nature’s ultimate finger,

asparagus, begins poking its purple tips

through the warm soil.

I’ll never forget Mom cautioning my

brothers and me as we ran through the

family garden using asparagus spears as

swords in our swashbuckling fantasy.

“Don’t run while you have asparagus in

your hands. You’ll poke someone’s eye

This low-calorie, luxurious member of

the lily family was historically reserved

for royalty and rulers and is derived from

the Greek word asparago, meaning to

“sprout” or “shoot up.”

History tells us that Roman emperors

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a special fleet of ships solely to fetch it.

Ancient Romans hoarded it, since they

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The edible young shoots are one of

the most nutritional, well-balanced

veggies.

• 5 ounces provides 60 percent of the

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• Asparagus contains potassium, which

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within cells and helps maintain normal

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• It contains fiber, thiamin, and B6 and

is one of the richest sources of rutin,

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• Asparagus is especially rich in the

antioxidant nutrients vitamin A,

vitamin C, and vitamin E.

• Asparagus is a diuretic and a laxative;

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as well as in cases of dropsy.

• Asparagus contains steroids that mimic

pheromones, which purportedly make

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This generous gift of the universe

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produce. It assists cells in breaking down

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studies. The root contains compounds

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Without getting busted by the grocery

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would be the beginning of his military career as well as

the spark for an infatuation that would evolve to greatly

influence his life.

“They just fascinated me,” Knaub said of the whales.

He always believed he would be in the banking

industry, having pursued it very early on. After he

attended the US Naval Academy, Knaub acquired a BS

in accounting from Elizabethtown College and his

MBA in banking from Shippensburg University. He

was able to work in Harrisburg with two large banking

institutions.

However, Knaub’s interests began to float back into

the world of whales after discovering whale watching—

a practice of observing whales in their natural

environment—in Provincetown, Mass., during a 1985

trip with a group of friends.

It was not until the very last day of their three-day

journey that they were able to witness their first whale.

“It was foggy,” Knaub recalled, “and then someone

[on the boat] with the microphone announced, ‘There’s

a whale!’” What he witnessed that day was the tail—

also known as the fluke—of the whale, which would

become a notable symbol in his company’s logo. “After

eight hours on the boat we thought it was the most

amazing thing.”

The following year, he brought his wife along to

whale watch and they both witnessed two humpback

whales that came directly up to their boat, slapping

their flukes in the water—an action called lobtailing.

“They really excited me and fueled my passion to be

a marine biologist,” Knaub said.

Having brought along his personal camera, many

other whale watchers would ask Knaub for copies of his

videotapes.

“That was the light-bulb moment for me,” said

Knaub. It would also be the beginning of his Whale

Video Company.

During six months in 1988, he took 175 whale-

watching trips, recording everything he saw. According

to Knaub, a lot of planning goes into a whale-watching

trip and capturing video, including anticipation of bad

weather, being prepared for seasickness, preparing

backup equipment, and knowing how to spot a whale.

In Knaub’s videos, there is a distinct enthusiasm not

only from the whale watchers, but from the whales as

well. The videos show whales blowing ring bubbles and

breeching, which is when whales launch themselves out

of the water in an incredible display.

“Humpback whales are 50 tons of fun,” he laughed.

Knaub’s videos—digitized and annotated by him—

have become known as the world’s largest video

documentation archive of dolphin and whale behaviors.

They serve as some of the first notations of certain

whale behaviors.

“We have about 500 [whales] identified on video,”

Knaub said. “[The] whales have names and personalities

and an interest in us.”

His vast collection of videos caught the attention of

Google, making Knaub one of the official contributors

to Google Earth and Google Ocean. Knaub also has

videos posted to YouTube that have accumulated

thousands of views.

Knaub said that it simply takes one trip to excite

individuals about whales. “You would think someone

who went on tens of thousands of trips would be

immune, but it’s as if it is their first time—there is

something magical about a whale,” he said.

That magic seems to have Knaub completely

captivated as he has made several connections with the

whales he has videotaped, knowing about 100 on sight.

“It was their amazing stories that got me away from

banking,” Knaub said.

Quite a few of these whales have become celebrities

amongst whale watchers and fanatics. The most notable

are Salt and Colt.

Salt, a humpback whale, was the first whale to be

treated as an individual and given a name. She is the

most sighted whale in the whale world, being spotted

every year. Marine biologists estimate that she is 43 to

44 years old (most humpback whales live to be about

Salt is also a mother of 12 calves and eight known

grand-calves. Scientists are able to keep track of whales

by their markings and scars. Many are even named after

such markings.

Colt is a 30-year-old humpback whale who is well

known for his singing talents; he has been dubbed “the

Frank Sinatra of the whale world.”

“Colt has a little black mark that looks like a

handgun,” laughed Knaub. When it comes to selecting

names, “you have to use your imagination.”

Both Colt and Salt are whales that are available for

adoption through a CSI program that Knaub helped to

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