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LEFT: Participants in the virtual dementia tour wore googles and other gear to simulate sensory impairments that the elderly may deal with. ABOVE: Participants in the virtual dementia tour were asked to perform a series of tasks while wearing gear that impaired sensory input. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison)

Dementia tour shows frustrations of memory issues Participants performed tasks with simulated sensory impairments

By Heath Harrison

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USSELL, Ky. — Those with dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease are faced with daily struggles in accomplishing basic tasks and a learning experience at The Lantern at Morning Pointe was aimed at educating the public on the frustrations they may face.

Beth Jennings and Leslie Clay, who work for River Park Hospital in Huntington, West Virginia, conducted a “virtual dementia tour” recently, which was open to the public, at the facility, which offers memory care services for its senior residents.

Participants in the tour wore gear to simulate physical impairments. Goggles inhibited vision, while headphones, which relayed static, lessened

auditory perception.

Mittens on the hands lessened tactile input, while inserts were put into shoes to cause slight pain.

“Pain can interrupt thought and focus,” Jennings said. “It’s hard to think and focus on tasks when you are in pain.”

The participants were then given a series of tasks, such folding clothes, writing out a list of meals, putting on a belt and buttoning up a shirt.

“Keep in mind how you’re feeling, physically and emotionally,” Clay said to one participant with a relative dealing with the condition. “You can kind of see how frustrating it is and helps you to identify with them.”

As they got to work, some of the participants complained of being hot, having been told to

put on a sweater at the beginning.

“We told you to put the sweater on,” Jennings said, pointing out many did not think to remove it. “And a lot of residents will do the same thing. After a while, they will ask ‘Why am I hot?’”

The room they worked in was dim and the participants had trouble doing the writing portion of the tasks, especially with the white paper against a white tablecloth.

As Jennings pointed out, what many consider simple tasks can be far more complicated to those with memory issues.

“You might think of it as one thing, but, if there are multiple tasks, it could be a longer list.”

After the participants expressed finding the 10-minute tasks difficult and having sympathy for those who face such

conditions, Jennings pointed out that “this is what a day looks like” for those with dementia.

“Imagine multiplying that,” she said. “What about two hours? What about four hours?”

She also pointed out that, due to memory issues, many will still

think in their heads that they are 40 or younger and find the physical impairments of old age frightening.

“Imagine not knowing you have those physical limitations,” she said.

“In their minds, they are not old.”

Jennings said they have done the tour hundreds of times, at no charge, offering it

to family members of patients, as well as for staff at nursing homes and hospice facilities.

River Park has paid for their presentation, which they hope to continue bringing to the public.

“It’s a good community thing,” she said. “It shows what this looks like and helps people to understand.”

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Diann Waggoner, owner of Merle Norman Cosmetics and Boutique, and 20-year employee, Gloria Hopper, stand in the shop’s new location in downtown Ironton. Waggoner has owned the store for 22 years. (The Ironton Tribune|Mark Shaffer)

Merle Norman returns to downtown New location has been open 8 weeks

By Heath Harrison

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iann Waggoner has been owner of Merle Norman Cosmetics and Boutique for 22 years, taking over a business that has been in Ironton for about 80 years.

“Altogether, there have been four or five owners,” she said.

Last month, she relocated to the former Consigned Books location, at the corner of South Third and Vernon streets in Ironton.

It was a homecoming of sorts, as the business had previously been on Pak Street before moving to The Hills shopping center.

Waggoner said she was inspired by the changes taking place downtown.

“I wanted to be back downtown,” she said. “I saw everything that is happening and wanted to be part of the revitalization.”

She said the owner of the building renovated the space, repainting the walls and ceilings and putting in a new floor. She hopes to add a new awning, in either maroon or burgundy in the near future.

“It’s been steady, she said of business since the move. “And we’re more visible now.”

Waggoner said she was inspired to buy the Merle Norman location after seeing a store in

Ashland’s Arcade building years ago.

“I loved to go in there,” she said. “I always wanted a Merle Norman and this one became available.”

She said they have the brick and mortar store has an advantage over online shopping in her business, as customers like to come in a sample the products.

“We give free makeovers,” she said. “They like to see what things look like and feel the products. And we guarantee if they don’t like their makeup, they can bring it back.”

It’s more personal for them,” Gloria Hopper, who has worked for the company more than 20

years, said. He is one of three employees at the location. While the cosmetics are their main business, Waggoner said they also sell Brighton jewelry and handbags, as well as Simply Southern and Vera Bradley items.

“And other miscellaneous items,” she said.

She says they draw customers from all over, including from Ashland, Wheelersburg and Portsmouth.

She says the biggest change in the company has been updates in the

products they carry.

“They’re always brining out new products and colors,” she said.

“They’re going for the younger person also.”

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Taping the Tigers

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Sam Heighton spent nearly 6 decades filming IHS football

By Mark Shaffer

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am Heighton has been a fixture in Ironton for decades. Some know him for his work with Ironton aLive, where he is the executive director and farmers market manager. He has run an upholstery business and a video business. And if you’ve been to an Ironton Tigers football game in the past 35 years, you’ve probably seen him taping the action.

Heighton was born in Ironton and grew up in Cloyerville before moving into town in the second grade.

He met his future wife, Penny, when they were in the band at Ironton High School. They didn’t date in school.

“She dated a football player,” Sam said. “And I dated around a little bit.”

They happened to meet at a restaurant about a year after Penny graduated.

“I ran into at the Big Boy, when it was where the hospital is now on Route 141,” Sam said. “She was sitting there and I got to talking to her and found she had broke up with her football player boyfriend that had gone to college. Then a couple months later, we got married.”

“We’ve been together for 61 years,” Penny said.

They married in 1957 and moved to Columbus for a couple of years.

“We missed Ironton,” Heighton said.

“We saw a couple of Ironton ball games that were close to Columbus.”

They moved back to Ironton in 1961 and started going every game regularly.

“We didn’t miss a game until 2018,” Heighton said. “Home, away, play offs, we went to all of them.”

After the Tigers went to the playoffs in 1979, Heighton got a camera and started taping the games to make highlight tapes.

“The one-piece camcorder came out in 1985 and I saw the convenience in that,” he said. “So I switched to making videos.”

The pair wanted to make the game videos and started a video taping service called HeighTone to tape weddings, birthdays and other family events to pay for the video equipment.

One of the more unusual ones they taped was a funeral. There was family in California that couldn’t attend, so they had the Heightons tape it.

Although the Heightons were tap-

ing for their own use, it didn’t go unnoticed by the coaching staff.

“Coach Bob Lutz saw what I was doing and asked if I could do that for the team,” Heighton said. “So, we did every game of them, up until 2018.”

Traveling to all the away games lead to some interesting times.

One in particular involved a flat tire and convincing a stranger to give them a ride to the game in Cincinnati.

“The car in front of us threw up a piece of tire that was on the highway.

We were on the interstate, probably doing 80 miles an hour, and it came up under my car and tore the fuel line loose,” Heighton said. “The lady that kicked it up stopped in front of us and came back to make sure we were okay.”

Heighton convinced the lady, a real estate agent on the way to show a house, to give them a ride.

“So, we loaded up our equipment and she dropped us off at the ball game and we got there in time to set up,” he said. He left his daughter and her husband with the car, which was towed to a garage for repair the next morning. “They got a cab and got to the ball game just in time for kick off.”

In 2014, they started riding on the bus with the team.

Heighton said he always had a good time at the games and was happy to help out.

“It was eventful and I think helped a lot of boys get scholarships. We did highlight tapes to send to colleges,” he said. “It was a good experience.”

Heighton said they gave up taping the games because of his age and health.

“We just decided climbing up and down those ladders to get to the roof tops to shoot film was getting to be a little too much for us,” Heighton said.

And technology has continued to evolve with live streaming and other options.

“The technology has changed quite a bit it recent years, so we saw it as time to just bow out and end our 57 year achievement,” he said.

As for why the have spent the better part of seven decades watching Tiger football, he said it was just something he caught and never shook.

“It’s just the football fever that is Ironton,” Heighton said. “You just catch it.”

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Sam Heighton, the executive director of Ironton aLive, has spent over five decades attending and taping Ironton Tigers football games, simply because of his love of the team and sport. (The Ironton Tribune|Heath Harrison)

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Ken Massie listens as Mike Love, the information officer for Southern Ohio Amateur Radio Association, presents him with a certificate on Aug. 8 for years of being with the group and helping in numerous ways. It was Massie’s 90th birthday and friends, family and members of SOARA gathered at Frisch’s Big Boy to celebrate. (The Ironton Tribune | Mark Shaffer)

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n Aug. 8, friends and family gathered at Frisch’s Big Boy restaurant to celebrate Ken Massie turning 90 years old.

He wasn’t exactly surprised by the event.

“Well, I was tipped,” he said. “I didn’t think there would be this many people though.”

The back dining room of the restaurant was filled with family, friends and a lot of members of the Southern Ohio Amateur Radio Association (SOARA), which Massie has been a part of for decades.

Massie has been a lot of things in his life, an insurance agent, and a Marine sergeant for eight years during the Korean War era.

When he got out of the Marines, he came back to the area and got a job at the Allied Chemical plant and then spent 30 years at Dow Chemical.

He started doing ham radio 55 years ago.

He said he likes the

hobby part of it, but prefers the helping out first responders during emergencies and at events like the annual Ironton-Lawrence County Memorial Day parade.

“We have done a lot for the county during emergencies,” Massie said.

His friends in SORA arranged the event and got him a giant cake.

Massie also got proclamations from U.S. Rep. Bill Johnson, Ohio State Treasurer Robert Sprague and Ironton Mayor Katrina Keith.

Keith read off some of Massie’s accomplishments including being an incident commander for communication events, a staffer during emergency events and being the net controller for the Memorial Day parade.

“So, we want to thank you for everything you’ve done in Lawrence County and the entire area,” Keith said.

Massie thanked everyone for showing up.

“I have had a really good time being a ham radio operator,” he said.

“There have been so many different events take place here and all over the country.”

He said that one of his favorite things to do was help personnel at an Antarctic base connect up with their loved ones. He explained that there are no telephone lines to the Antarctic, so the only way to

communicate was getting a ham operator to connect them to a telephone so they could talk to their loved ones.

When asked if there was any secret to living to the age of 90, Massie didn’t give any advice but he said that he was born in 1929 in the midst of the Depression.

“That’s why I am so skinny,” he said, with a laugh.

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Gilberta Ferguson, right, has lived in the independent living building at the Wyngate at RiversEdge in Rome Township since January. She joined her sister, Sally lester, left, who moved there in October 2018. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison)

Wyngate residents enjoy first year at facility Cites activities, staff as benefits at senior living community

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OME TOWNSHIP — Beatrice Day is one of the newest residents at the Wyngate at RiversEdge, having just moved to the senior living community on Aug. 10.

“It’s a lovely place,” she said of her experience so far on the assisted living side of the apartment complex.

She is originally from Lawrence County, but moved to Melbourne, Florida, where she lived for 38 years.

She is retired as a quality control inspector for Westinghouse Electric Corporation, having served 28 years with the company.

She said she was inspired to move to the Wyngate after visiting her brother a few years ago and credits her nephew, Larry Day, and his wife with the process of helping her move.

She said she is active in the activities offered at the location.

She said she plays bingo and stays fit by taking part in exercise options.

A Baptist, she said she also attends the religious offerings, such as Bible study and church services.

“I enjoy what they have here,” she

said. “And the food is delicious.”

While over on the independent living side of the Wyngate, Gilberta Ferguson has been staying there since January.

She knew what to expect when she arrived, as her sister, Sally Lester, had already been staying at the Wyngate since October 2018 and she liked what she saw on visits. Her sister-in-law also resides in the same building.

Beatrice Day has been a resident at the Wyngate at RiversEdge in Rome Township since In addition to her sister, who lives Aug. 10. (The Ironton Tribune | Heath Harrison) across the hall, Ferguson said she came form a large family.

“There were six of altogether,” Ferguson says of her siblings.

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