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Jupiter Senior Softball Association Seeks Players

The Jupiter Senior Softball
Association (JSSA) is seeking
additional players to fill team rosters
for games the remainder of the year
and for the 2022 winter league that
opens next January and runs through
March.
Players 55 and older and of all skill
levels are welcome. Games are every
Monday, Wednesday and Friday
mornings at Jupiter Community Park
at 8:30 a.m. JSSA President Tom
Cosentino said, “We’ve finalized
the rules for the winter league Russell Perlman, 69, survivor of two heart attacks and open-heart surgery blasts a
and everything is going great.” In Ron Seely, 84, says playing softball helps him keep in shape. hit to right field.
addition to pickup games, a fall
season featuring four teams opens Oct. 18 and runs lifestyle saved bypass patient.” “My doctor said if I hadn’t profit corporation and the website has information on how
through Dec. 13. Besides being able to play a game they been playing and in such good shape I would have died on individuals and businesses can become “JSSA Patrons,”
love, players cite as benefits the camaraderie of teammates the table.” He began playing in the Jupiter Senior Softball whose financial support helps the organization to defray
and exercise that helps keep them in shape. Current League last year and is enjoying every day, he said. costs of softballs, other sports equipment, uniforms and
players include Russell Perlman, 69, who began playing Ron Seely, 84, another Jupiter senior softball insurance that go toward helping seniors remain active
ball in several different leagues after his wife Susan died enthusiast, has been playing since he retired in 2000 and and engaged in life.
of cancer in 2008. At first, he said he didn’t know what had to undergo aortic heart valve replacement surgery in
to do but friends urged him to get out and play, which he 2015. He credits softball with aiding his recovery from
finally did, sometimes four days a week. Then, in 2012 surgery and for helping him keep physically fit afterward.
he suffered two heart attacks and underwent open-heart He noted that on days when he plays ball he has lost 2
quintuple-bypass surgery in November of that year but pounds. “And if I get a hit or two and and make a play,
was able to resume playing the following January. that’s nice,” he said.
Perlman, a retired financial planner, was featured in a To register or for more information go to www.
February 2013 Palm Beach Post story headlined, “Active leaguelineup.com/jssa. The JSSA is a 501(c)(4) not-for-

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Dysgraphia Explained

By Jim Forgan, Ph.D., School Psychologist

Does your child communicators but don’t express themselves well in
have awful looking written form.
penmanship? D oes If your child has dysgraphia he or she might be eligible
she have an awkward for classroom accommodations on a 504 Plan. This is the
looking pencil grip? How public school document that recognizes your child has
about difficulty putting dysgraphia and prevents teachers from discriminating
thoughts onto paper? One against your child’s writing. Some children need to use
young child told me he technology whether voice to text or keyboarding. Other
felt like he was having children need extra time on writing tests. Some children
writing wars with his need a special writing utensil such as the Pen Again which
hand. A mom expressed is a wishbone looking pencil that helps children correct
her frustration when she an awkward pencil grasp.
explained her child’s writing was so slow and laborious Children with weak finger strength and control
that the writing process was painful for them both. These might need to participate in occupational therapy. An
are classic dysgraphia warning signs. occupational therapist works on fine motor activities
Dysgraphia is a writing learning disability that such as cutting, drawing, buttoning, and improving finger
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