Welcome to the Friends and Neighbors website, a companion to our quarterly, full-color magazine devoted to seniors, Boomers and their families in California's Sierra Nevada foothills.
Dedicated FAN fans, of course, will want to read the magazine fresh off the presses for the full roster of stories, photos and community resources it provides. We now distribute 14,000 copies quarterly in Tuolumne and Calaveras counties and by mail to subscribers, who enjoy easy and early access to each new issue for just $20 a year.
But our magazine runneth over. So here you'll find even more information: upcoming events, links to senior resources, and a rich archive of key stories from each issue dating back to the magazine's June 2008 launch. New stories are posted three months after publication in FAN.
Here also you can submit advertising requests, calendar items, FAN mail, story ideas, or "volunteers needed" notices to run in the next issue. In the meantime, enjoy exploring our new site!
Recent Articles
Be sure to browse through all the categories to read more from Friends and Neighbors!
- The Greener Senior: Composting
- Triumphant End of a 40-Year Genealogical Journey
- The View from 98: Camille ‘Mickey’ Nichols
- Welcome Home, Vietnam Veterans
- Volunteers, Support Sought for WWII Project
- Combat Zone: A Tale of Two Aces and One Lucky Number
- Fitness First: Nutrition, Exercise Go Hand in Hand
- Sex and the Savvy Senior
- At 78, He Sets the Pace for Healthy Living
Questions? Call us at 209.536.1755 or email us at subscribe@SeniorFan.com
or send a check to 171 North Washington St., Suite A, Sonora, CA 95370. Please note which quarterly issue you'd like to start with: Current Issue or Upcoming Issue.
Community
Volunteers Keep the Railtown Magic Rolling
Historically accurate and often-complicated restoration work, engineering, public relations, helping film crews, coordinating school programs, computer data entry, meal preparation, fundraising and, yes, sometimes cleaning bathrooms. Those services and more are provided by an impressively dedicated group of volunteers – most of whom are seniors – at Railtown 1897 State Historic Park in Jamestown. Thanks
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Love After 50: Stories of the Heart
For Judd and Jan Mangin, it started with the gift of carrot salad. For old friends Pat Dean and Paul Girard, a shared lunch opened the door to something deeper. Mary and Lee Heinen found each other online, and Frank and Marylin Martin met in more of an old-fashioned way – through an ad in
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Fitness and Health
Fitness First: Nutrition, Exercise Go Hand in Hand “Hara hachi bu” is an Okinawan phrase that means “eat only until 80 percent full.” It’s also a focal point of a book I’ve just
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Pets
Animal Advocate: Loose Dogs The foothills are beautiful. No wonder so many choose to retire here to get away from the urban lifestyle and out into the country. So what’s the harm in letting Fido and Rover free to enjoy rural living as well? The truth is, the consequences of letting dogs run at large can be deadly serious.
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Fanfare
Firm, polished and pricey, implants revive his smile In keeping with my specialty of Adventures in Aging, and inasmuch as our Friends and Neighbors theme this time is Love After 50, which of course translates to Sex After 50, which is naughty, I’ll tell you about my nasty teeth. They’re rattling around in a jar in my bathroom, all 16 of them, discolored,
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