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My Three Lives

FORMER MY THREE SONS STAR RECALLS HER JOURNEY IN HOLLYWOOD

By Jeffrey Weidel

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he was once a household name, a wholesome, beautiful young blonde who came into the living rooms of American homes during an era when television was delivering an innocent brand of family entertainment that both children and adults devoured together on a nightly basis.

Although it’s been more than four decades since Americans were enamored with My Three Sons, Katie Cole can easily hit the replay button and recall the hit TV series where she played America’s sweetheart – Katie Miller Douglas.

Those Hollywood days provide great memories for Cole, who has called Sacramento home since 1982. My Three Sons began its long run in 1960 when TVs were black and white only. She joined the cast in 1967 and appeared in the show’s final episode in 1972. The 380 episodes of My Three Sons is second only to The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet as television's longest running live-action sitcom.

“I’m so grateful to have My Three Sons as my legacy,” Cole said. “It was a great wholesome show that delivered family entertainment. It’s amazing how many people still remember the show. I’ve had so many wonderful comments about it over the years. There are just so many dyed-in-the-wool fans out there.”

Although My Three Sons is clearly her legacy, there’s much more to the career of Cole than playing the wife of Robbie Douglas.

Her acting career began at age 15 when a screen test with Hollywood icon Gary Cooper was set up by the famed Warner Brothers Studio.

“Gary Cooper just happened to be there.

He was a friend of the director and they were leaving for a duck hunting trip that day,” recalls Cole. “He was an older man, a lanky guy in old Levis. It didn’t dawn on

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me that Gary Cooper was a big movie star.

I had no idea what I was even doing. But they liked me enough to ask me to study with their drama coach (which she did over the next four summers).”

Four years later at age 19, Cole got her first major break, taking over the female lead from Connie Stevens in Hawaiian Eye, a TV detective series shot in Hawaii that starred a couple of youthful Hollywood heartthrobs – Troy Donahue and Robert Conrad. That same year, Cole appeared with both Stevens and Donahue in the youthful party movie, Palm Springs Weekend.

GROWING UP IN A MUSICAL FAMILY Despite the credentials, acting was not Cole’s only talent. She grew up in a musical family – her mother was Yvonne King, an original member of The Kings Sisters, and her father was Buddy Cole, who was familiar on the Hollywood scene as a gifted jazz pianist, organist, and orchestra leader.

When her mother created The King Family Show, Cole and her younger sister (Cathy) were part of the entourage of family singers. Starting out as an hour-long variety series, The King Family Show aired for several years in the 1960s as the lead in to long-running Saturday evening staple, The Lawrence Welk Show. Tina was also part of a spinoff – The Four King Cousins – that had an ABC run as well.

Born in Hollywood and living in various homes in the shadow of tinsel town, Cole adapted to the unpredictable lifestyle that comes with performers. She grew accustomed to watching her mother sing and seeing her father playing piano for Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney and other notable singers.

Although her parents divorced when she was 10, she has many memories of a house full of celebrities at impromptu parties.

“My parents had the most amazing parties. A lot of their friends were show business people,” Cole said. “I never thought of it as anything but normal. In retrospect, I didn’t realize what an amazing childhood I really had.”

A favorite among her parents’ friends was Hoagy Carmichael, a multi-talented composure, pianist, singer, actor and bandleader. According to Cole, he was also a notable drinker. Occasionally after an evening of drinking, he would arrive unannounced at their home and eventually wake up Tina, who would serve as his musical sounding board.

“I was just a little kid, but he would audition his songs for me late at night in our music room,” Cole says with a laugh.

“It was a little unusual, but I loved it.

That was the kind of crazy, wonderful life that I had.”

THE MY THREE SONS YEARS When ratings took a significant dip for the first time in 1966-67 season, CBS decided to move My Three Sons to Saturday nights (8:30 p.m.). They also wanted a different look – hence the idea that oldest son Robbie should get married.

Despite having guest shots twice before, including once as Robbie’s girlfriend, when Cole went to audition for the new role of Katie, Don Grady (Robbie) objected. “He didn’t think I was right for the part,” Cole said.

Fortunately, director Fred de Cordova and several others had a different opinion regarding the fresh-faced Cole and offered her the role. Cole played Katie the final five seasons, but de Cordova departed much earlier. He directed 103 episodes of My Three Sons, but left in 1970 to become the Tonight Show producer for Johnny Carson.

Cole quickly became a beloved figure and

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helped boast the ratings of My Three Sons that first sewason. She really gained popularity a year later when Katie became pregnant and gave birth to triplets (Robert, Steven, and Charles). Her status on the show grew and Cole adapted to the sometimes confusing role.

“They wanted me to be sweet, but not super sweet. I was supposed to be feisty, but not in a bitchy way,” she says with a laugh. “I had to do a lot of different things to be accepted on this male-dominated show.”

She certainly won the acceptance of Grady, who nearly became her husband in real

life. After the 1970 divorce to first husband Volney Howard III, Cole and Grady began dating off an on for the next nine years.

Cole says they nearly got married twice, yet wound up going their separate ways.

“I was crazy about him. He was my best friend for years,” Cole said.

TRYING TIMES FOR ESTABLISHED ACTRESS When My Three Sons concluded its 12year run in 1972, Cole was relieved in a sense. The days (6 a.m. to often 9 p.m.) were long and often boring, with long stretches in between scenes. Her act-

ing career was put on hold, but Cole remained busy.

In the 1970s, her singing career ignited again on TV and she also traveled the U.S. and overseas with both The King Family and The King Family Sisters.

Despite the success, Cole longed to get back into acting. But the landscape of TV had changed drastically in the 1970s with ground-breaking shows like All in the Family, The Jeffersons, The Bob Newhart Show, Mash, and many others that had either had a quirky or edgy side. Gone were the innocent, family-friendly shows.

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TINA COLE PROFILE

RESIDENT: Sacramento AGE: 73 CAREER: Actress, singer, acting coach TV SHOWS: My Three Sons, Hawaiian Eye, The King Family Show, The Four King Cousins

AWARDS: Most Promising Actress, Photoplay Magazine; Vanguard Award, Sacramento International Film Festival; Lifetime Achievement Award, Golden Halo Award FAMILY: Four grown children (Volney, Pajeau, Chelsea and Samantha), six grandchildren

Jeffrey Weidel is a freelance writer from the Sacramento area. Visit his website: www.Tahoeskiworld.com

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Although she got occasional work in TV and film, to her dismay Cole discovered that her My Three Sons persona was damaging.

“TV had changed and I was being typecast as the clean-cut, all-American girl. No one wanted me,” Cole says with regret. “No one would give me a chance. And I wasn’t very business savvy and being aggressive wasn’t in my nature. It was hard for me to go out and push myself.”

THE SACRAMENTO YEARS A second marriage to the step son of actress Beverly Garland (who was also a My Three Sons regular) brought Cole to Sac8

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ramento in 1982 and she never left. Some trying times followed the break up of her marriage to Fillmore Pajeau Crank, but her stay in Sacramento has also included some of her favorite memories.

“My greatest joy has been raising my four children and being ‘Nana’ to four wonderful grandchildren,” Cole said.

Even though Cole’s television career subsided in the 1970s, she has remained in touch with her roots. She never drifted too far from acting, serving as director of the Sacramento Children’s Theatre for 18 years.

Cole has also been a longtime coach at the John Robert Powers acting schools in Roseville and Elk Grove.

She loves the stage enough to continue acting periodically in her golden years.

In fact, earlier this summer the energetic, 73-year-old Cole was playing a lead role in Chemical Imbalance: A Jekyll and Hyde Play. Among the cast at the amphitheatre in Jackson was her youngest son (Pajeau).

Cole has obviously led a fascinating life and anticipates her journey as a singer/ actress will be revealed in a book she’s writing – “My Three Lives.” She hopes the book will be coming out in a year and gives fans an interesting look at her lifelong passion.

“Acting is in my DNA, it’s what I do,” Cole said. “I’m having a ball. I’m still doing what I love to do.”

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aekwondo Grandmaster Clint Robinson has nearly 50 years of experience in the field of martial arts. After being

introduced to the discipline in 1966, he founded his own training school, Robinson’s Taekwondo, in 1975 and has since expanded to 17 locations throughout the Sacramento area. More recently, Robinson’s has expanded to include a senior demographic with their Silver Tigers program.

“Basically it came about because there’re a lot of people in my age bracket who indicate that, ‘I wish I had done that when I was younger, but now I’ve got all these physical ailments and health problems, and I can’t do high-impact exercise,’ explains Robinson.

“So I thought what if we modify this so that someone who’s older, or is not quite as athletic or flexible, could still participate. So we started experimenting with different exercises and modifying the techniques to the point that they could do it. Our oldest member is 80 years old, but most of the people are age 55 and up.”

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Silver Tiger instructor, Wayne Needham of Roseville, agrees.

“When you work out as a senior, you’ve got a lot of restrictions that younger people don’t have. You’ve got arthritis, stiffness of joints, you’re not as flexible as you used to be, your balance may not be as good, but taekwondo, when you take out the fighting, is just about what you need,” he explains. “It’s good exercise, improves balance, and builds up the core so you have a little more endurance.”

“Taekwondo is the reason I’m still moving around and I’m flexible and strong,” explains retired teacher Sheri Michaels, age 65, who credits taekwondo with keeping her mobile through several major health set-backs. “I think everybody should know that being involved in something like this is one of the best forms of exercise, because you’re not thinking of it as exercise. Your mind is on what you’re doing, trying to learn something new, trying to get better at something, and before you know it you’re sweating, and your muscles are tired, and you’re getting in shape. It’s much better than just going to the gym and lifting weights.”

Taekwondo is also a mental workout, challenging practitioners with learning new moves and traditions. “By learning a new technique, on a regular basis, learning something new every single class, it helps the mind as well. So it’s a complete work out,” says Needham.

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Admittedly the thought of taking up martial arts can be intimidating for seniors, but with Robinson’s Silver Tiger’s program, the secret is taking it one slow step at a time. “[Seniors may] come in and see all these teenagers and adults out there kicking and they think, ‘I could never do that.’ You can’t, but if you come into the Silver Tigers class, in six months from now, you’ll be doing some of that,” assures Needham. “We’d like to have people come and check us out. The biggest step is just coming into our school.” ”I think we have to take some responsibility and do our part [to keep fit] and exercise to be an important ingredient in health,” adds Robinson. “You get busy with your career or raising kids and sometimes you forget to make an investment in yourself. If you’re not here, and you’re not healthy, you’re not going to be too beneficial to anyone else.”

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IN THE MOTHER LODE

HISTORY LESSONS ON THIS VISIT TO HISTORIC CALIFORNIA TOWNS

By Jeffrey Weidel

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hat started out as a golf vacation quickly turned into an outstanding history lesson. Not that the golf was bad, it was just that the California history became much more intriguing.

While there are certainly many more picturesque vacations to undertake throughout California, a trip into Mother Lode country provides a serene visit into yesteryear – seeing towns that ooze with character, tradition, and an abundance of friendly people.

Due to accommodating weather, spring and fall are ideal times to visit the iconic cities that make up Calaveras, Tuolumne and Mariposa counties. There are tons of things to do, depending on your interests.

If one of those interests happens to be soaking up the history, be ready for a treat.

Officially, the Mother Lode region is a 150-mile vicinity that includes Mariposa, Tuolumne and Calaveras, but it also stretches into parts of Amador, El Dorado, Placer, and Nevada counties.

The California Gold Rush began in 1848

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with the discovery by James Marshall. If you don’t know how the San Francisco 49ers name originated, it’s due to the crazed gold rush that descended upon Northern California in 1849. Panning for gold became a national and international obsession.

Following are some highlights of an April trip into the Mother Lode that didn’t result in any gold being located, but certainly more than a few valuable nuggets of history were uncovered.

COPPEROPOLIS: The history dates

back to the 1860s when an estimated 19 million pounds of copper ore were mined in the region, hence the name.

What was mined from the rolling hills in then Copper Canyon provided much of the metal needs for the Union Army during the Civil War. Although mining continued into the two world wars, one’s imagination is needed these days to recreate a region rich in copper off Highway 49. The mines have mostly disappeared. However, there is a very cool Town Center that features his-

toric buildings that embraces the proud heritage and way of life as a once thriving 1800’s mining town.

If you want to squeeze in a round of golf, check out Saddle Creek Golf Course, which features dramatic elevation changes that make it both a scenic and challenging track.

ANGELS CAMP: Another town that was booming during the Gold Rush, today Angels Camp is a place to visit and experience a fairly laidback town. There are plenty of antique shops to explore and reminders of its mining past in the quaint, historic downtown area. Other places to visit are Angels Camp Museum and New Melones Lake, where the fishing is pretty darn good.

Angels Camp was made famous by Mark Twain’s endearing short story – “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” An annual frog jump event takes place each year in Angels Camp, which is the only incorporated city in Calaveras County.

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Town Hall in Copperopolis

time at Greenhorn Golf Resort, a course that was redesigned by Robert Trent Jones. Jr. It’s a friendly track that can be played well by ever the average golfer, assuming the right tees are chosen.

Greenhorn also features some great lodging options, including cottages and villas that are conveniently close to the course.

For a little diversion into wine country, Ironstone Vineyards is a great location for some sampling. There are also 23 wine tasting rooms in historic downtown Murphys.

JAMESTOWN: The first town you encounter entering Tuolumne County from the west, Jamestown is a walk back into the past. It features a very cool State Historic Railroad Park that dates back to 1897.

On the weekends you can even ride a steam-engine train.

Main Street has some vintage balcony buildings, including the Jamestown and National hotels, two real classics that will deliver you back into the 1870s. Shoppers can stroll down the Street and drop into a number of unusual shops.

GOLF COURSES Saddle Creek Golf Course: Copperopolis Greenhorn Golf Course: Angels Camp Sierra Meadows Golf Course: Ahwahnee

For some Gold Rush history, don’t’ miss the Columbia State Historic Park, a living tribute to those days that’s a 15-minute drive from Jamestown. People are in period dress and visitors can experience a bygone era that brings the business district of the 1850s to life. A 100-year-old stagecoach ride can be part of the fun.

MARIPOSA: You’ve got to love a town

that has no street lights. In fact, the downtown streets still follow the original grid laid out by city founder John C. Fremont in 1850. Due to fires, some of the original buildings have been restored or rebuilt, but Mariposa still possesses the charm of an Old West town that was the southern-most link to the Gold Rush.

Speaking of historic buildings, there are certainly some cool ones to see in Mariposa. The most unique building is the Mariposa County Jail, a granite structure above Bullion Street that features 24-inch thick block walls and small, iron-barred windows. It was quite the bleak setting for its occupants.

sa County Courthouse, the oldest county courthouse in continuous use west of the Rockies. The St. Joseph’s Catholic Church was erected in 1861 and the Mariposa Museum and History Center has a great collection of historical artifacts.

Mariposa County includes 42 percent and the popular valley floor of Yosemite National Park, which is about a 75-minute drive from downtown Mariposa, assuming one can avoid the traffic. Mariposa provides a great alternate to staying in Yosemite, where lodging can be difficult to book in the summer months.

Tuolumne County, and Highway 120 to Yosemite via Groveland, is the most direct route from the San Francisco Bay Area.

This route provides the most immediate “wow factor” – with Half Dome scenery about 15 minutes from the park entrance.

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Volunteer of the Month HELPS THE SACRAMENTO SCPA CARE FOR THOSE IN NEED SPCA Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 6201 Florin-Perkins Rd. Sacramento CA 95828 (916) 383-7387, sspca.org

After retiring 10 years ago from the State of California’s Controller’s Office, Kluender, who has been an animal lover since her youth growing up in the Midwest, initially sought out a volunteer position with the SSPCA while in-between pets.

“I actually was looking for volunteer work after I retired, and I didn't have a cat at the time,” she says. “I heard about the cat socializing here and I thought this would be a good thing to do.

So I came in just starting to socialize cats, and that evolved into doing these other things.”

Predictably however, she did not stay pet-free for long.

Barbara Kluender volunteers her time to help animals and their owners

By Anne Stokes

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e call her Saint Barbara because she does everything!” says Marnie Musser, Volunteer Program Manager with the Sacramento Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. “We always put her in strategic positions that need a lot of organization skills.”

Barbara Kluender, or “Saint Barbara” to SSPCA staff and her fellow volunteers, has worked with the shelter for the past five years, doing a little bit of just about everything. Every week, Kluender can be found socializing animals, staffing a mobile adoption event, helping to organize fundraising events, or even opening her home to foster kittens.

“She's kind of the brains behind getting events to have a good flow,” says Musser. “She's been very, very integral in getting the [monthly] vaccine clinic organized. It's like herding cat sometimes - literally!”

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“I was a foster failure,” she admits. After adopting a kitten, Kluender and her husband also adopted a 14-year-old Australian Sheppard mix, “who we felt just couldn't live her life in a shelter.

We brought her home and she's been with us for the last year.

She's a wonderful dog.”

According to Musser, the SSPCA wouldn’t be able to operate without the over 2,000 volunteers, such as Kluender, who work with animals, behind the scenes, and in the shelter administration.

“They save us, literally, over a million dollars a year in their inkind time donations,” said Musser. “They also do things that staff just doesn't have a lot of time for. Not only do they compliment the staff, but sometimes we’re are able to do things because the volunteers are able to put in the time. Like the [free] senior vaccine clinics, we could not do it with staff alone.”

For Kluender, her time spent volunteering has been a win-win for all around. “Once I got here, it was just a really good place to be, the staff is really appreciative of everything that you do, the volunteers are really fun to work with, it's just a really great environment. When you go home, you feel happy, that you've done something good,” explains Kluender. “If anybody's looking for a place to volunteer and have a good time, this would be the place to be.”

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ADVICE JAMEE HORNING | Executive director, Seniors First HERE’S TO YOUR HEALTH Local Produce is Good for the Body and Soul

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e are fortunate to be surrounded by fertile farmland – approximately 8,000 acres of it in the Sacramento Valley - teeming with world-class produce that thrives in our climate of hot summer days and mild evenings.

Think heirloom tomatoes from Capay Valley, cucumbers and bell peppers from Sacramento Valley, and berries and stone fruits from Placer County.

offer. “Our river climates produce amazing greens like endive. The Wheatland area has amazing soil.

I find beets, radishes and other root vegetables taste better from that area. And, believe it or not, some of the best rice ever grown is grown in our region.”

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incurred usually resulting in a price comparable to items that are trucked in. And because fruits and vegetables have fewer miles to travel, they usually make the shorter trip without having to endure the effects of extreme temperatures and preservatives.

As a rule, the shorter the timeframe between picking and eating, the better.

If you want to cut the transportation time to an absolute minimum – grow your own!

You can’t get closer to your kitchen than your own backyard.

Gardening at home is a healthy

hobby and a sure-fire way to have fresh, quality produce always on hand. Don’t have a large backyard? Don’t fret! Our local nurseries offer patio-specific varieties that are meant to be grown in small containers. Even apartment dwellers are sure to have enough space to grow a few basic salad ingredients.

What to do with those fresh ingredients once you have them?

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By Art Garcia

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inding the right assisted living facility for a loved one or yourself is one of the most important decisions you can make, and perhaps one of the most difficult. Your search for a safe and affordable facility involves wading through a jumbled system of licensing, inspection and staff training standards that differ state-to-state. There is no federal oversight of the industry.

But there’s a vast amount of assisted living aid through the web sites of numerous nonprofit consumer advocacy and education organizations to help you find the right assisted living facility or community. They help you whittle your way through local-area experts and operations, offering incisive and helpful online tips, lists of questions to ask, evaluation checklists, referral services and ratings:

AMONG THEM ARE: • The Assisted Living Federation of America, alfa.org; • The American Association of Retired Persons, aarp.org; • The Consumer Consortium on Assisted Living, ccal.org; • The Aging Life Care Association, aginglifecare.org; • aplaceformom.com; • senioradvisor.com • helpguide.org.

Here are some of the suggestions, tips, advice and questions to ask these sites offer: Observe the level of cleanliness of the facility and “follow your nose.” Does the community feel fresh and clean? Be sure to look past the furnishings and into corners, baseboards and windows.

Ask how often housekeeping is provided. Tour the facility and try to schedule your visit with community events. Ask if you can watch the activities or even participate. Are the activities and events well attended and enjoyed?

Pay attention to staff attitude and friendliness. Eat a meal at the facility. Discuss dining hours, options and procedures. How do residents contact staff if there’s an emergency in their living area?

Are there registered nurses on site? How does the facility assist or manage residents’ medication needs? Ask residents and families for honest opinions about the facility. Make several visits at various times of day to each community you’re considering.

Is the facility in compliance with state and local licensing requirements? Each state has its own standards so check with your local regulatory agency. In California, start with the California Department of Social Services at www.cdss.ca.gov advises Myrlys Stockdale, an El Dorado Hills attorney and certified family law specialist.

If she were shopping for an assisted living community for herself or one of her loved ones she would begin with a licensing agency to

make sure the facility is qualified.

“I would be concerned about staffing and medical assistance available,” she said. “But first be certain the facility’s licenses are up to date and there are no issues with licensing agencies, no abuse issues and no claims with regulatory agencies.” Stockdale also recommends checking with Medicare to learn what financial support it may offer.

“There’s been a lot of publicity about nursing homes and assisted living operations. They’ve been put under the microscope, which

they should be,” commented Peter Vlautin, an El Dorado Hills attorney who lists elder abuse as one of his areas of specialty.

“You have to do a lot of research yourself to determine which places are good. Visit frequently to be sure the elder person is being cared for properly.

“One of the first things to do when you walk into a care home is smell,” he said. You can tell the nice ones when you walk into them.” Finally, he said, “Ask yourself, Is this is a place where I would want to live?

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any people “disinherit” a child or beneficiary from their estate plan because:

a) they don’t want the inheritance to interfere with their current disability benefits such as Medi-Cal and ... b) they don’t want the Medi-Cal to recover against their inheritance upon their passing.

Some parents even give the disabled beneficiary’s share of their inheritance to another brother or sister to hold onto to it for them. However, the non-disabled sibling holding assets for the benefit of a disabled sibling could die before the disable person does, or, be subject to such liabilities such as judgments from automobile accidents, a bankruptcy, or a divorce and therefore, the assets being held for the disabled person could be lost under circumstances such as the ones detailed above.

What you should do is to distribute the disabled beneficiary’s share of your trust and estate into a 3rd Party Special Needs Trust for their benefit.

A Special Needs Trust, also known as a Supplemental Needs Trust, is created to ensure that beneficiaries who are disabled or mentally ill can enjoy the use of property which is given to them as a “gift” or by “inheritance” by a third party, will be held in trust and used for their benefit during their lifetime. Such trusts may also avoid beneficiaries losing access to essential government benefits such as Medi-Cal and/or their disablity benefits.

A Special Needs Trust enables a person under a physical or mental disability, or an individual with a chronic or acquired illness to have, held in Trust for his or her benefit, their fair share of their inheritance from your estate. In a properly-drafted Special Needs Trust, the assets held in the name of the trust are not considered countable assets for purposes of qualification or maintaining certain governmental benefits. Such benefits may include Supplemental Security Income (SSI), Medi-Cal, vocational rehabilitation, subsidized housing, and other benefits based upon need. A Special Needs Trust provides for supplemental and extra care over and above that which the government provides.

Under the current rules and regulations a Special Needs Trust must be irrevocable.

A properly-drafted Trust will include provisions for Trust termination or dissolution under certain circumstances and will include explicit directions for amendment when necessary.

Other types of Spendthrift or Family Trusts aren’t appropriate for Special Needs persons because they don’t address the specific needs of the disabled beneficiary or his future lifestyle. Even in situations where a family may have significant resources to help a disabled family member, a Special Needs Trust should be established to address these issues.

eligibility for available benefits and programs. Why sacrifice services that might be available to your relative now and in the future?

Just as importantly, Trust funds are not subject to creditors or seizure. Therefore, if the disabled beneficiary should ever be sued in a personal injury or other type of lawsuit, the beneficiary is not a “deep pocket” because monies placed in the Trust are not subject to a judgment. In such circumstances the assets meant to benefit the disabled or chronically ill person could go to pay the judgment creditors or the estranged spouse of the non-disabled sibling. Using a Special Needs Trust guarantees that the funds will be held only for the benefit of the person under the disability or chronic illness, and not for any other purpose whatsoever.

A family or person that wishes to benefit an individual under a disability or chronic illness will be well advised to utilize the services of an attorney that understands both how to create a 3rd Party Special Needs Trust and how to insure that your beneficiary and loved one will not lose their current benefits due to improper estate planning.

Monies placed in the Trust remain non-countable assets and allow the beneficiary to qualify and maintain their

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RECIPE

Dan Zahra

fooddudedan@gmail.com

SAUSAGE AND RADICCHIO ORECCHIETTE

Ingredients: • 3 tablespoons olive oil • 1/2 red onion, chopped fine • 1 handful fresh mint • 2 fresh bay leaves • 4 (6-ounce) pork sausage links, casings removed • 3/4 cup dry white wine (Add more if needed) • 1 handful walnuts, hand crushed • 2 cups orecchiette • 1/2 head radicchio, thinly sliced • freshly ground black pepper (the original called for Kosher salt here, I found it did not need salt due to the salt from the sausage) • Freshly grated Parmesan cheese, for seasoning (I also added lemon zest to brighten the dish)

Directions: Heat a pan over medium-high heat. Add the olive oil. Once hot, add the onion and the sausages and using a wooden spoon, break up the sausages into small pieces as you brown them. Add the mint and bay leaves and continue to cook.

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Once the sausage is golden brown, add the wine to the pan, and stir away, let the alcohol evaporate, then lower the flame and season with salt and pepper. Add the walnuts and let the sauce slowly simmer for about 5 to 10 minutes.

Cook the pasta in a large pot of salted boiling water according to package directions for al dente.

When ready to serve, add the radicchio to the sauce, and stir well.

Cook's Note: You want to wait until the last minute to make sure that it stays crunchy, as opposed to wilted and cooked down.

Add the cooked pasta and toss. Add some grated Parmesan, to taste. Finish with lemon zest and serve immediately.

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