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Senior Olympics
By Kate Sullivan Foley
Senior News Correspondent


QUINCY - Gus Diezemann and Ruth Tuffy are senior Olympic gold medalists. Both are in their eighties. For the past 19 years, Tuffy has been a regular at the Quincy Senior Olympic Games. She believes the events are a great way to motivate seniors to stay active.  A competitor in walking and in bocce, Tuffy, a Quincy resident, landed her first gold medal when she was in her early sixties. It was for the one mile run. “You feel good afterwards,” said Tuffy, now 83, and hoping to partake in the bocce event this spring. Diezemann, a resident of Linden Ponds in Hingham, participated a few years back. Last year, at age 80, he tried again. “I enjoy the competition,” said Diezemann.  Read More
 

A Sure Bet
for Fun

By Marie Fricker
Senior News
Correspondent


KINGSTON - Bus #108 drives past woods, a winding brook and a pasture filled with black and white Jersey cows. The road turns and the quiet Connecticut countryside gives way to the towering turquoise turrets of Foxwoods, a 4.7 million sq. ft. resort casino built by the Meshantuck Pequot Tribal Nation. The blue tour bus pulls into a bay next to six  Read More
 

Get Off The Diet
Roller Coaster

By Greg Porell
Senior News Staff


QUINCY - Wouldn’t it be great to have an exercise program that fits your busy lifestyle and still has many of the benefits of going to the gym multiple times per week?  Imagine, losing unwanted fat and gaining muscle with a simple strength training program that requires just 15 to 20 minutes per week. Sound impossible?  Well it’s not, and Dr. Wayne Westcott introduces Read More

 
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