Molalla Community Advantage Magazine October 2023

The Molalla Adult Community Center is a non-profit organization created to promote recreational, educational, social, cultural, community health, and nutrition programs for senior citizens in Molalla and the surrounding area.

EXERCISE

EXERCISE

Better Bones and Balance -

SHOPPING

Monday: Safeway

ADDITIONAL SERVICES

Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9am-9:50am. (Last class June 30th)

Tai Chi

9:15 to 10am

Tai-Chi (Moving to Mon/Fri in July)

Tuesday: Bi-Mart

Foot Clinic

Ping Pong

9: I Sam -I 0:00am

Tuesdays

Thursday: Cascade Center

2:30–4pm

Dining Room

Suggested Donation $2

Ping PongTuesday's 2:30-4pm in the dining room.

Suggested Don ation $2

ART&CRAFTS

Quilting - Every Tuesday & Friday at I 0:00am. Learn to Quilt or show off your skills!

Knit & Crochet - Fridays I 0am

Craft Corner - 12 :45pm

2nd Wednesday - Personal Project

MAS Craft Hour - 12:45pm

4th Tuesday - Red, White & Blue Tie Dye, BRING YOUR OWN SHIRT

Suggested Donation $2

GAMES at the CENTER

Bunco - Every Monday after lunch!

Board Games! Pinochle!Tuesday's after lunch, starting at 12:45pm please join us for pinochle as well as other card and board games.

Cribbage - Every Thursday I :OOpm

Bingo! - Every Friday at I pm!

$2 Suggested donation to cover prizes!

Friday: Safeway

2nd Tuesday AND 3rd Wednesday of the month is foot clinic with a Registered Nurse (RN). The service is by appointment only, and the cost is $35, cash or check.

Call 503-829-4214 to schedule

*Please call 503-829-4214 morning of by 9:30am to get on bus list.

See outing page for more outing options!

SPECIAL INTERESTS

Legal Services - Andrew Kauffman, 2nd Tues of the month 9-1 I am by appointment only. 503-829-4214

Lunchtime MUSIC

2nd & 3rd Friday of each month at the Center.

Medical Equipment - LOVE INC is now loaning equipment for Clackamas County. 503-650-0153

Veteran Services - Clackamas County VSO office phone: 503-650-5631

Referral and AssistanceFor issues facing seniors. Calls are accepted on behalf of others as well. For mental health crises call County Crisis Service: 503-655-8585.

Lunch! - Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday's at 12pm. Suggested donation of $3.00 for those over 60, and for those under 60, there is a $5.00 charge.

We also deliver Meals on Wheels for homebound clients. **Volunteers are appreciated!**

TRP - Transportation Reaching People is a program designed to meet transportation needs for those 60 years or older, or an individual with a disability, who have limited practical transportation alternatives. Call TRP of Clackamas County at 503-655-8208 for enrollment. Once enrolled call the center and leave a message for scheduling a ride. **Rides are not guaranteed, as they are volunteer dependent.

Senior Companion - SCP volunteers are 55 years of age or older, no longer in the regular workforce, and are capable of serving adults with unique needs. If income eligible, volunteers may receive a non-taxable stipend plus mileage reimbursement. Call, 503-655-8875.

Bus Rides - Rides into the Center for lunch, activities and local shopping. Suggested donation is $1.50 round trip. Please call 503-829-4214 in the morning by 9:30am.

For any questions or to schedule an appointment, call the Center at 50�829-4214

For any questions or to schedule an appointment, call the Center at 503-829-4214

Fall Into Bargains

Building a relationship with the community

By Patti Jo Brooks, Contributing Writer

Photos by Andrew Sambuceto

WOW! Grocery Outlet has been serving the Molalla community for two years now. Your neighborhood bargain market has been steadily growing and that means even more bargains and greater selection for you! Stop by and check out the seasonal merchandise and take full advantage of the great buys this store has to offer. Shop at their “pumpkin patch” and take home just the right pumpkin for a little fall decorating or carving that perfect jack-o’-lantern. Whether you’re celebrating a religious holiday, Halloween, Veterans’ Day or Thanksgiving, let Grocery Outlet be your seasonal fall market.

Looking for great deals? All NEW email signups will get a $3 coupon towards a $25 purchase. You’ll find brand-name groceries, beer and wine, plus gifts, toys and sundries. Inventory includes regularly stocked items as well as a rotation of overstock, close-out deals and seasonal merchandise. “We have a ton of organics,” says store owner Brandon Donnelly. “We opened with integrating NOSH (Natural Organic Specialty and Healthy) items in with likeproducts,” he explains. He also points out that as the store grows, they’re able to bring in more fresh-food options for fruits and vegetables, meats and deli.

Brandon and his wife, Racheal, are proud of their staff who make running the store easier. Many of their employees have been on board since the opening two years ago. A handful started at the Donnellys’ previous store then

moved over to the Molalla location with them. “I want to take the best care of my team as possible, because they take good care of me,” expresses Brandon.

“It’s been an awesome couple of years,” he acknowledges. “We feel like Molalla really has accepted us and we feel like we’ve done what we said we’d do.” Passionate about their role in the community, the Donnellys partner with O’Reilly’s in town, as well as sponsor a number of local events to raise money for folks in the community. A participating store in Grocery Outlet’s Independence from Hunger campaign, the Donnellys helped raise around $12,000 for this cause over the last two years. Grocery Outlet also donates regularly to Foothills Community Church, providing hundreds of dollars of food from the store each month.

As the holidays approach, let your local Grocery Outlet host and hostess, Brandon and Racheal, take care of all your customer needs for this fall season!

Grocery Outlet is located at 120 Leroy Ave. in Molalla. Call (503)600-0055 or email molalla@groceryoutlet.com. To visit the website search Grocery Outlet Molalla Oregon.

Estate Planning

For your college student or young adult

Your child turns 18 and is getting ready to go to college or to move into an apartment with some friends... Congratulations! But, since your child has turned 18 — generally considered the age of majority or officially considered an adult — your rights as a parent are essentially cut off. What if they are in a car accident and cannot handle their financial affairs? What happens if they pass away? These are terrible things to consider but they happen. Just because you are a parent does NOT mean that you have any legal right to your adult child’s financial or medical decision making.

What types of estate planning and documents should your college student / your adult child have in place?

Power of Attorney

A POA will allow an “agent” to deal with your adult child’s insurance, banks, college, and other institutions if they are unable to do so. If your adult child is injured or otherwise unable to finish a college semester or apartment lease term, a parent has no inherent right to intercede with the college or landlord. If you have a power of attorney, you will have the authority to do those things.

Advance Directive

If your child is in the hospital and unable to make medical decisions, who has the right to make those medical decisions? Oregon statutes provide for a list of individuals who can make these medical decisions in the event that no Advance Directive has been signed, but what happens if there is dispute between these individuals, or your adult child wants one parent to have priority over the other parent? What happens if your adult child is in a different state? Now what?

HIPAA Authorization

In an effort to protect our medical records, HIPAA limits who can access our medical records. A young adult should carefully consider providing a HIPAA Release / Authorization to a parent or other trusted party to ensure someone has the complete picture to help make medical decisions if they cannot.

Beneficiary Designations

Your adult child will have bank accounts and maybe even retirement or investment accounts. They should carefully consider adding individuals as beneficiaries on these various accounts. If they pass away, those designations could prevent the need to probate their estate or, at a minimum, provide some immediately accessible funds to address the expenses related to the adult child’s passing.

Will

While your adult child may not own much, they will own some things. A will allows them to determine who will get their bank accounts, car, motorcycle, tools, and other items. Further, a will allows them to determine who will handle their estate — be the personal representative / executor. They can choose a parent or a sibling or a friend or a significant other. But, without a will, there will be some uncertainty as to who will fill this role. The information provided in this article does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice; instead, it is for general informational purposes only. If you have specific legal questions, you should seek advice from an attorney.

The information provided in this article does not, and is not intended to, constitute legal advice; instead, it is for general informational purposes only. If you have specific legal questions, you should seek the advice of an attorney.

Breckenridge Cartwright breck@canbylaw.com

James M. Hunsaker jim@canbylaw.com

Alex Redmond alex@canbylaw.com

SEASONAL HISTORY OF THE JACK-O’-LANTERN

The Irish Legend of Stingy Jack

Old myth illuminates Halloween icon

By Donovan Darling, Staff Writer

Long ago in a small Irish town, a drunkard named Stingy Jack earned his nickname after tricking the Devil himself. Jack was notorious in his little town, and Satan had heard of his mischievous deeds. Jack may have been known for being a drunken scoundrel — “scuttered and bollocksed,” so to speak — but he was also a clever lad, so he convinced the Devil to take him to his favorite pub as a last request and to pay for the bill. When the tab came due, Jack convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin so Jack could pay for the drinks, then they could leave for the underworld.

The Devil was fooled. And instead of paying up, Jack dropped the coin into his pocket alongside a silver crucifix, trapping the fiery foe in the form of a coin. The Devil begged Stingy Jack to release him. And so Jack released him, but only on the condition that the Devil would not bother him for another year, and should Jack die, Satan could not claim his soul.

True to his word, the Devil didn’t return for a whole year. When the Devil finally reappeared to claim his soul, Jack tricked the Devil into climbing a fruit tree and picking him a last meal to eat before traveling to Hell. Once the Devil reached the top of the tree, Jack carved a cross into the bark of the tree trunk, trapping the Devil high among the branches. Again, Satan begged Jack for freedom, but this time Jack made the Devil promise to not bother him for another 10 years. Of course, the Devil agreed to his terms and was freed.

Jack died soon thereafter. Because of his mischief and sins, he was denied entrance to Heaven. Upset by the trickery and scheming, and true to his word of not claiming his soul, Satan denied Jack entrance into Hell, too. As a parting gift, the Devil gifted Jack a lump of burning coal to light his way and sent him off wandering in the night. Jack placed the burning coal in a hollowed out turnip, and he has roamed the earth ever since. The Irish began calling this eerie creature “Jack of the Lantern,” or “Jack O’Lantern” for short.

In Ireland and Scotland, people began carving their own unique versions of Jack-o’-lanterns, cutting terrifying faces into turnips, potatoes, beets or rutabagas, and lighting and displaying them near doors or windows to frighten away Stingy Jack and other evil spirits. In the

mid-1800s, Irish and Scottish immigrants brought the jack-o’lantern tradition with them when they moved to the United States. And they soon found that pumpkins, a large fruit native to America, made for perfect jack-o’-lanterns.

Since then, there have been many attempts in popular culture to revive this long-forgotten tradition of carving jack o’lanterns from turnips. In 2015, due to a severe pumpkin shortage caused by severe rain, the charity English Heritage called for the British people to rekindle their love for turnip carving and return to the original tradition of turnip jack-o’lanterns. English Heritage even went so far as to install many ghoulish turnip jack-o’-lanterns at Dover Castle to inspire others to do the same.

Whether turnip carving will become popular again is still unknown. But for now, Americans, Irish, Scottish and others keep carving pumpkins to frighten away the lost soul of Stingy Jack.

CASTOFFS, ROGUES AND WINNERS

Play ball! During the 1970s, umpires called out the famous phrase to launch Portland Mavericks baseball games at Civic Stadium (Providence Park) in one of the most colorful chapters in the history of Portland baseball.

Although the renegade Portland Mavericks existed for only five summers, this uniquely memorable team will forever be etched in the history of minor league baseball. The Mavericks emerged onto the Portland baseball scene in 1973 with the departure of the Portland Beavers — the city’s long-time triple-A club — moving to Spokane. The Mavericks were owned by ex-minor league baseball player and former actor, Bing Russell, best known for his role as Deputy Clem Foster on the TV Western Bonanza. Bing was the father of well-known actor Kurt Russell, who unbeknownst to many, played for the Portland Mavericks their inaugural season — batting .229 in 23 games.

Initially, trading the triple-A Beavers for the single-A Mavericks seemed like a raw deal for Portland baseball fans; however, the Portland Mavericks became a surprise success. Bing Russell’s motto for the Mavericks — that it should be “fun” — rendered the game-time atmosphere at Civic Stadium circus-like and light-hearted. Russell was a trendsetter, being one of the first to promote minor league baseball with a focus on fun and entertainment.

As an independent team, unaffiliated with a major league franchise, the Mavericks recruited ex-minor leaguers and ex-big leaguers who were looking for an opportunity to revive fading careers. At the time, Mavericks were the only independent professional baseball team in the country, and despite the fact that they could pay players only $300 a month, hopefuls continued to arrive from across the United States each June to participate in Bing Russell’s tryouts.

Unlike many independent teams, the Mavericks were competitive in their single-A Northwest League. For five seasons straight, the Mavericks were not only competitive, but won a number of league titles. In 1973, this rag-tag collection of baseball castoffs ended the season with a 45-35 record, and won the NWL south division title.

year, the Mavericks went 50-34, finishing second place in the newly formatted NWL west division. In 1975 and 1976, the Mavericks won the NWL title, but in 1977 (their last year), despite earning the best record in franchise history (44-22), they lost in the championship game to Bellingham. It was a remarkable run for an independent team of baseball rejects and has-beens who, during the course of their short but memorable existence, faced major league prospects such as Ozzie Smith, Dave Steward, Rickey Henderson, Mike Scioscia, Pedro Guerrero, and Dave Henderson—all of whom went on to become big-time stars in the MLB.

Contrary to the Portland Beavers who struggled with attendance in the early 1970s, the Mavericks packed the stands. In three out of five seasons, the Mavericks’ attendance exceeded 100,000 fans. In 1977, the Mavericks attracted 125,300 fans in only 33 games, which remains the attendance record in the minor leagues for short-season single-A level.

By Robert Matsumura, Contributing Writer

Despite the Portland Mavericks’ short existence, their seasons were distinguished by crazy hijinks, creativity, and historic firsts. Among the memorable moments in Mavericks history was the banning of manager Hank Robinson from the NWL for assaulting an umpire. Another was the 1975 game in which player/manager Frank Peters rotated all nine players in the Mavs lineup to a new position each inning. Also, when Peters wasn’t playing or managing the Mavs, he was busy operating several local nightclubs.

off field while playing for the Seattle Pilots (a former MLB team who eventually became the Milwaukee Brewers). Despite negative reaction from the MLB commissioner who felt the book painted a picture detrimental to the sport, Ball Four was a massive commercial success, selling millions of copies worldwide. As a Maverick, Bouton, along with the Mavericks pitching coach Rob Nelson, came up with the idea of Big League Chew — a shredded bubble gum alternative to chewing tobacco—that was initially picked up and produced by Wrigley gum.

The Portland Mavericks came to an end in 1977 when the Pacific Coast League decided to return to Portland. Organized baseball at the time operated under the authority of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues. In order for the PCL to return to Portland, a deal had to be negotiated between Bing Russell and the PCL for rights to the Portland market. After months of hard bargaining, Russell ended up receiving his asking price of $206,000 — far more than the standard $25,000 compensation rate to relinquish rights to a city.

So remarkable were the Portland Mavericks during their colorful five-year run that Netflix produced the documentary The Battered Bastards of Baseball, which not only recounted their amazing history, but also the Mavericks’ influence on independent baseball in the ensuing years.

consisting of the Volcanoes, Mavericks, Salem Senators, and the Campesinos de Salem-Keizer.

So, when you’re driving down I-5 near Keizer, you may notice a baseball game in progress at Volcanoes Stadium, and it just might be the newly revived Portland Mavericks. And if you’re in the mood for some good old-fashioned entertainment, stop by for a game and cheer on the storied Portland Mavericks!

BATGIRL PENNY CLEMO

The Mavericks also made history by hiring Lanny Moss and Jon Yoshiwara as General Managers. Moss, hired in 1975, was the first woman to hold the GM position in professional baseball. Yoshiwara, hired in 1977, was the first Asian-American GM in baseball at the professional level. At the same time, the 22-year old Yoshiwara was an active player on the roster as well.

Jim Bouton, ex-New York Yankee pitcher who played for the Mavericks twice, may have been the most notorious of all the team’s players. His famous book Ball Four detailed Burton’s wild experiences on and

After a forty-five year hiatus, Portland Mavericks emerged again as a member of the four-team Mavericks Independent Baseball League of the Salem Metro Area, which plays at Volcanoes Stadium in Keizer. The league was formed by the Salem-Keizer Volcanoes, a previous minor league team in the San Francisco Giants’ system. After the Giants chose to sever their relationship with the Volcanoes, the latter chose to form an independent league of their own. The Volcanoes organization bought rights to the former Portland Mavericks and made them one of the four teams in their new league,

Let’s not forget the Mavericks’ bat girl, Penny Clemo, hired in 1975. The 12-year-old sixth grader from Portland was among some of the first girls to participate in Little League, as a lawsuit in June 1974 (for Maria Pepe and Kim Green) forced them to accept girls into their ranks. She played with fellow seventh and eighth graders and gained a reputation for being the toughest pitcher in the South Powell Little League, as well as hitting three grand slams in 1975. This set a precedent and proved that women belonged on the baseball field, not just in the stands.

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Fall Upkeep

Avoid major problems while saving time, money and stress with quality maintenance

Remove Garden Hoses from Faucets

Leaving hoses attached can cause water to back up in the faucets and the pipes inside your exterior walls. If freezing temps hit, that water could freeze, expand and crack the faucet or pipes. Turn off any shutoff valves on water supply lines that lead to exterior faucets, and drain garden hoses and store them in a shed or garage. Your sprinkler system needs to be drained as well.

Seal Air Leaks Around Your Home

ALEX TRINIDAD

Meet Alex, Long Bros. Building Supply’s newest associate. He can assist you in finding exactly what you are seeking, as well as ring you up and load your purchases into your car. You can also find him restocking and organizing products in the store. When Alex is not working, he enjoys playing chess in downtown Salem and hanging out with friends, new and old. His favorite store items include snacks and cleaning supplies, and his bucket-list trip is Dubai. What a fun guy! Long Bros. is pleased to welcome him into the store family.

Grab a couple tubes of exterior caulk and make a journey around your home’s exterior, sealing up cracks between trim and siding, around window and door frames, and where pipes and wires enter your house. Preventing moisture from getting inside your walls is one of the least expensive and most important of your fall maintenance tasks. You’ll also seal air leaks that waste energy.

Clean Your Gutters

Clogged rain gutters can cause ice dams, which can lead to expensive repairs. After the leaves have fallen, clean your gutters to remove leaves, twigs and gunk. Make sure gutters aren’t sagging and trapping water; tighten gutter hangers and downspout brackets. Replace any worn or damaged gutters and downspouts.

Check Your Roof

Look for warning signs: shingles that are buckled, cracked or missing, and rust spots on flashing. Any loose, damaged or missing shingles should be replaced immediately. Black algae stains are just cosmetic, but masses of moss and lichen could signal roofing that’s decayed underneath.

Direct Your Drainage

Take a close look at the soil around your foundation, making sure it slopes away from your house at least six vertical inches over 10 feet. That way, you’ll keep water from soaking the soils around your foundation, which could lead to cracks and leaks.

Check Your Furnace

Schedule an appointment with a heating and cooling pro to get your heating system checked and tuned up for the coming heating season. Change your furnace filters, too. This is a job you should do every two months anyway, but if you haven’t, now’s the time.

Prune Your Plants

Late fall is the best time to prune plants and trees, when the summer growth cycle is over. Your goal is to keep limbs and branches at least three feet from your house so moisture doesn’t drip onto roofing and siding, and to prevent damage to your house exterior during high winds.

Check Your Fireplace

Using a flashlight, look up inside your fireplace flue to make sure the damper opens and closes properly. Open the damper and make sure it’s free of bird nests, branches and leaves, or other obstructions. You should see daylight at the top of the chimney. Check the firebox for cracked or missing bricks and mortar. If you spot any damage, order a professional fireplace and chimney inspection.