This month’s edition of The Best Times explores “Hobby Time”.
A Pew Research Center survey asked people 65 and older what they did in the last 24 hours. Ninety percent said they talked with family and friends; eighty-three percent said they read; and seventy-seven percent said they watched more than an hour of TV.
Studies have shown that being active in one’s retirement can improve one’s quality of life and health. Retirement means not having to work for a living, which is great. But 24/7 of not working can lead to boredom. That’s why many of baby boomers said they intend to have a hobby or a special interest to occupy their time when they retire.
In the August cover story host and producer Cris Hardaway will talk with a wide range of people about their hobbies – knitting, quilting, airplane building, woodworking, creative writing, motorcycling and more.
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One of the people being interviewed is Jim (Mr. ‘KNO) Eikner. Jim has been working at WKNO for 23 years in the marketing department. He’s also often the “face” of WKNO as he hosts many pledge drives, auctions and the occasional program. Though he has not yet retired, he has, in the last few years, become a painter and watercolorist. Cris will talk with Jim about his decision to learn watercolor technique and the joy that he derives from his creative pastime.
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