Theresa Gabriella Sonnen, Page 3 EDITOR: Dallas Marshall, (208) 848-2232/ dmarshall@lmtribune.com SUBMISSION DEADLINE for the May issue is 5 p.m. April 15. GOLDEN TIMES: P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501 goldentimes@lmtribune.com ON THE COVER: Marie Mitchell poses for a photo outside her home in Lewiston. Mitchell shares her story of the famous bite size steak recipe on Page 8.
> APRIL 20
Theresa Gabriella Sonnen, 95
Theresa Gabriella Sonnen, of Cottonwood, was born in Keuterville on April 20, Easter Sunday of 1930, to Herman and Mary Uptmor. She graduated from St. Gertrude’s Academy in Cottonwood and later graduated from Kinman Business School in Spokane.
She married Everett Sonnen on April 11, 1951. They were married for 65 years. He died on Jan. 10, 2017. They raised their ve children in Cottonwood and have 14 grandchildren, 28 great-grandchildren, and seven great-great-grandchildren. Theresa enjoys playing 500, bridge and pinochle, and she bowled when Cottonwood had a bowling alley. She
also enjoys traveling and visiting with family and friends.
Her birthday falls on Easter Sunday again this year. All who know her are welcome to come wish her a happy birthday from 2-5 p.m. April 26 in the basement of the community hall, 506 King St. in Cottonwood.
To submit birthdays: Birthday announcements starting at age 70 are accepted for free publication in the month of the birthday only. Length limit is 200 words. All submissions must include the name and contact information of the person submitting the announcement. Current photos are welcome — please no dated pictures. To have photos returned, please include a stamped, selfaddressed envelope. Submissions may be sent to goldentimes@lmtribune.com or Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501. Questions may be directed to editor Dallas Marshall at dmarshall@ lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2232. May birthday announcements must be received by 5 p.m. April 15.
Part 1: High school sweethearts for life
Did you go steady in high school? Did you marry your high school boyfriend or girlfriend? I did not. Did you and/ or do you know couples who dated in high school and married one another? This is about Lewiston High School couples who went steady and then married and stayed married for a lifetime. They each were married more than 50 years until death intervened. These couples graduated from LHS in the 1940s and 50s. These are the stories of couples who are and were people who had interesting work lives in
professions in civilian and military areas. Before I introduce you to them, I want to tell you a little about my two LHS Bengal girlfriends. From the last half of my sophomore year in 1949 until the middle of my senior year, I was in love with a very cute 1951 classmate named Mary. We enjoyed each other and went everywhere in town in my 1930 Model A Ford and then in my 1932 Plymouth Coupe. We went to the high school dances and proms, movies downtown (no TV yet), the Youth Activities Center and more. A er we broke up, she married Bob, a star athlete from
Clarkston and they both graduated from Washington State University in Pullman. They lived in Spokane, where she taught high school. Bob has died, but at 91 years old, Mary is still living.
The love of my life began in May 1960 when Bonita, the wife of my friend Mel Ruark, got me a date with Barbara Jean Wagner Shoemaker. She and Bonita were LHS 1955 classmates and they worked together at the First Security Bank in downtown Lewiston. We met and went to dinner and dancing with Mel and Bonita at the Stables in North Lewiston. At the time, I was 27 and had graduated from the University of Idaho, served two years in the Army as a lieutenant in postwar Korea and had been a junior high school teacher in my native Lewiston for two years. To make a long story short, I couldn’t have been happier because I was fascinated by talking with the beautiful young Barbara. Here I was, a 27-year-old bachelor, enjoying visiting with this divorced mother of a 1-year-old daughter. Three months later, we were married in the Grace Lutheran Church in the Lewiston Orchards and spent the next 63 happy years together being married and having Jolyn as a wonderful daughter.
We added two sons and eventually their wives and four grandchildren to the family. They are Doug and Laurinda and their son Lane Riggs, and Matt and Leah and their children Moira, Shamus and Keely Riggs. Doug and Matt both graduated from Asotin High School and Matt was 1991’s salutatorian. Matt and Leah graduated from UI and now live in Bremerton, Wash., where Leah teaches and Matt is a brewmaster.
Doug has had a good job at Clearwater Paper for 30-some years. A er high school, Doug served three years in the U.S. Navy and then graduated from Lewis-Clark State College.
Jolyn graduated from UI, taught at Whitman Elementary school and married LHS Bengal graduate Ed Dahmen. Their sons are Zach, a Spokane resident who graduated from Whitworth University in Spokane, and Joel, a PGA professional golfer. Joel and his wife Lona live in Scottsdale, Ariz., with their 2-year-old son, Riggs Dahmen. He’s my only great-grandchild.
This week’s column will introduce two of the couples who were Bengal sweethearts forever.
Two girls in the LHS class of 1942 married their boyfriends from the class of ’41 and both saw much of the world as wives of
career military o cers. Camille Isaman was born at St. Joseph’s Hospital in 1925. She lived in North Lewiston and was valedictorian of her eighth grade year in 1938. As a girl, she remembered hiking on the Lewiston Hill and swimming. She also remembered the Lewiston rodeo and Roundup starting in 1935, and when the Pepsi-Cola soda pop building was built in 1938. She married Air Force pilot Warren Lame in Lewiston in 1945. He stayed in the Air Force until his 1971 discharge and then taught at Lewiston’s Sacajawea Junior High School. Camille and Warren have both passed away.
Doris Schroeder was an Orchards girl, and a er Dick Williams graduated from LHS in 1941 and she in 1942, they were married in 1945, a er he graduated from West Point. They have both since passed away in Virginia, where they retired a er a life in the military with three children and six grandchildren.
Meet the other couples in Part 2 of this column in the next issue of Golden Times.
Riggs is a lifelong Lewistonian. He’s an avid Warriors fan, a retired educator, coach and school superintendent and volunteers his time at the Nez Perce County Historical Society. He can be reached at bdriggo@gmail.com.
WA-ID Volunteer Center, in the Lewiston Community Center at 1424 Main St., strives to provide individualized volunteer opportunities for those wishing to serve in Lewiston, Clarkston, Asotin, Pomeroy, Moscow and the Oro no area. Information and other volunteer openings can be found at waidvolunteercenter.org or by calling (208) 7467787.
Volunteer needs include:
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES
Thri Store — Volunteers are needed to help clean merchandise and shelves and price tag items. Food bank help — Volunteers are needed to repack frozen and dry foods for distribution. Front counter volunteers and drivers for morning food pickups also are needed.
Tutors — Help students to be pro cient readers by the third grade. One-on-one reading tutoring in schools for students below reading grade level. Volunteers need to be able to commit to at least an hour a week for the school year. Background check required.
AARP tax preparer
— Do you feel comfortable with computers? Can you spare a couple of mornings a week? AARP Tax Aide Program needs volunteers to help prepare free basic tax returns for seniors and low-income individuals. No experience necessary. Training and materials are provided.
Project Warmup —
Cra ers are needed to make hats, scarves, mittens and lap blankets (yarn is provided). Completed items are donated to local nonpro t agencies. If you have yarn to donate, our volunteers will put it to good use.
Companions — The Senior Companion program provides companionship and respite care to the elderly and disabled. It allows low-income senior volunteers an opportunity to assist those who need minor help to continue living independently. Senior Companions visit clients in their homes, but it is not an in-home care program.
Medicare counselor —
The State Health Insurance Bene ts Advisors (SHIBA) program trains volunteers to assist local seniors with Medicare questions for Asotin, Gar eld and Whitman counties.
ular and substitute meal delivery drivers. A valid driver’s license and auto insurance are required.
Garden and parks — General lawn maintenance, weeding and sweeping, etc. Training provided. Community service approved.
Habitat for Humanity
— Help with home construction/renovation, remote grant writing/ research and helping at the Habitat store.
Local hospital auxiliary — Volunteers are needed to greet people, deliver owers, sta the courtesy cart, deliver mail, assist in the gi shop, create baby and child items, do clerical work, provide hospital tours and more.
Lewiston City Library
Interlink Inc. is a nonpro t organization in Clarkston that matches community volunteers to people needing assistance to remain independent in their own homes. For information about becoming a volunteer and volunteer opportunities, call (509) 751-9143. Volunteer applications and additional information also can be found online at interlinkvolunteers.org. Volunteer needs include:
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Museum docents —
Skills include meet-andgreet abilities, friendly personality and the ability to answer questions about the displays at the center. Training is provided.
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Taking lessons from our feathered friends
“It’s for the birds”: I looked this phrase up in my idiom dictionary. It means worthless, useless, stupid. This American slang was popular among soldiers during the rst half of the 1900s. Think of bits of food le on the ground a er a picnic. They’re not worth anything, except, of course to the birds looking for crumbs. In the same way, we say that anything or anyone bad or silly is “for the birds.”
Birds are intelligent. They know how to hunt, nd food, build a home, escape a predator, protect their young and interact with humans. There’s nothing silly or bad about a bird.
to a warmer climate for the winter. Some stick around, weathering the cold. Geese congregate and can’t resist making a noisy V-formation overhead to be sure we’re aware of them.
early morning driver’s education, each time the student drove around the block he straddled what we thought was a big rock in the road. The third time, the rock moved. It was a mourning dove.
I watch these two-legged creatures with wings every day in my yard. They have tenacity, perseverance and total faith their needs will be taken care of. My ock of sparrows, wrens, nch and juncos know I will ll my feeder with seeds. As I walk to it, there’s not a bird in sight. When I return it to the hook, I hear chirp, chirp, chirp from the sentinel giving the high sign to the rest of the gang, “She’s lled it. Come and get it.” They y to the feeder and out to a nearby bush, taking turns in groups. They grab a bite and retreat. Each feathered friend has unique qualities that add character to our outdoors. Many go
The crows’ loud voices shout to the whole world they’ve found a treasured food. They and gulls scavenge the nut trees, the parking lots, the fast-food places and garbage dump for tasty meals. Crows are comfortable in crowds; gulls prefer only one or two others for company. Robins don’t usually stick around for the cold. Typically, Papa goes south and returns in late winter to build a new nest before Mama makes her trip back north. How thoughtful. They’re the rst bird up in the morning, chirping at the tops of their lungs so everyone will know it’s time to get up and get the day underway. They’re the ones responsible for the saying: “The early bird gets the worm.” It means a person who gets up early and starts on his project will accomplish his goals, according to the dictionary of Idioms.
Mourning doves are not the smartest bird in the air. They’re not high yers, they nd forage and make their nest on the ground and sometimes sleep in the middle of the street. When I was teaching
quack to their babies to make sure everyone is swimming in line.
Quail set a guard on a high perch while the rest of the family is eating on the ground close by.
Doves usually take a dust bath. I watched one learn to take a water bath from a robin. He sat on the edge of the bird bath, watching a robin make the water y. A er the robin le , the dove carefully waded into the now almost empty bowl and gave tentative utters and wiggles. He became brave and emptied the rest of the water with his awkward bathing.
Ducks constantly
Eagles and owls hunt their small animal dinner as they glide on silent wings and move with lightening speed.
Starlings space themselves on telephone wires equal distance apart, looking like they’re composing a new song.
Hummingbirds are tiny, have small bird syndrome and aggressively get in our face if we invade their territory.
The pelicans who’ve moved into our
neighborhood are fascinating to watch as they go shing. Local shermen are not too happy with these newcomers who gorge themselves on our precious steelhead and salmon.
Birds have a special place in our world. Their food keeps us from being overrun by weeds, insects and rodents. They clean up our garbage, they sing to us, they add beauty to the world and they entertain us. Take good care of our feathered friends.
Chase Hoseley is a freelance writer and retired kindergarten teacher who lives in Clarkston. She can be reached at shoseley8@gmail.com.
Beyond bitesize
Marie Mitchell dishes on her connection with the man who claims to have introduced the area to its favorite steak entree
By ELAINE WILLIAMS LEWISTON TRIBUNE
Ashort recipe in a cookbook sitting on a shelf at Marie Mitchell’s Lewiston home reveals shockingly simple secrets behind one of the most authentic versions of bite size steak, arguably the region’s most famous dish.
Mitchell’s take is derived from the supposedly patented recipe of Jack Frost, who claimed his one-time wife invented bite size steak at the Chicken Roost in McCall.
Frost opened another Chicken Roost in 1955, serving bite size steak 1 mile up the Lewiston Hill. In about 1968, Mitchell and her then-husband,
Charles Mitchell, acquired it with a partner.
The recipe, paired with that stake in the Chicken Roost Supper Club, could make Mitchell the person with the closest ties to the origin of bite size steak.
“If anyone cooked more bite size steak than I did, I don’t know where they’re at,” she said.
As proud as Mitchell, now 91, is of her bite size, the dish is just a part of her legacy. It was among a large repertoire of trend-setting, crowd-pleasing specialties she spotted and duplicated.
Those talents made her one of the region’s most sought-a er cooks for decades in the o en ckle hospitality industry.
She gravitated toward positions at country clubs, which gave her ready access to her favorite hobby — golf.
She started at the Lewiston Country Club
in high school and then followed her mom to the Clarkston Country Club where she met her husband, who bartended and maintained slot machines. Their romance blossomed in spite of an age di erence. She was 18, he was 32.
With no formal training as a chef, Mitchell said she learned techniques watching other cooks, and made a point to identify what her customers were craving.
When some women couldn’t stop talking about an open-faced crab sandwich they loved eating on a trip, Mitchell spotted an opportunity.
She was always seeking alternatives to tuna and cheese for Catholics who limit themselves to sh on
An ad for the opening of the Chicken Roost Supper — and their bite size steak — published in the Sept. 10, 1955, Lewiston Tribune.
by putting revenue into buying more ingredients.
“Like a lot of guys, he always wanted a bar,” Mitchell said of her husband. “We were in the Centre Restaurant. That was pretty much what I did. But he liked to dri away. The Chicken Roost was for sale and he made arrangements to get it.”
Mitchell remembers Frost pointing to a framed piece of paper on the wall and telling her it was a patent for bite size steak.
“He said his wife was the one that started it in McCall,” Mitchell said. “She cut her own steaks and used the le over pieces for bite size.”
An ad that ran in the Lewiston Tribune when the Chicken Roost debuted in September 1955 mirrors what Mitchell described.
The beef dish is, according to the ad, “tender, tasty, bite-size chunks of french-fried tenderloin
steak.”
Mitchell’s a ection for bite size steak originated about the time the Chicken Roost opened.
“We used to go there a er work when we still worked at the Clarkston Country Club,” Mitchell said. “It was a good place
to have a drink and a little bite to eat and unwind a little bit.”
Part of what made bite size steak such a novelty was its presentation on a long toothpick in a wicker basket. The sides were simple — french fries with two carrot sticks, two celery sticks, two green
onion stalks and a pair of hot peppers, Mitchell said.
“It was tasty,” she said. “The way they served it was cute.”
The restaurant space was impressive, too, Mitchell said.
“It was just a big open area,” she said. “The
Mitchell slices a tomato for a grilled cheese sandwich at her home.
August Frank/ Golden Times
tables were along the windows because the view was fantastic. … You could see the lights from Lewiston.”
The Mitchells ran the Chicken Roost for a number of years.
One Christmas Eve, the Mitchells let the sta go home early.
Somehow word got around that Chicken Roost was one of the few restaurants open on Christmas Eve in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. Instead of calling back the sta , Mitchell cooked. Her husband tended bar. Their son, 14 years old at the time, made salads. Their daughter, just a year younger, waited tables.
“You cannot believe the people who showed up,” she said. “They just swarmed in there.”
In spite of its famous bite size steak and scenic location, the Chicken Roost didn’t always perform well nancially. The Mitchells sold it, then had to take it back.
They tried relaunching it with a di erent format as the Windjammer, before choosing to focus on other ventures.
“You can only do so much,” Mitchell said.
Decades a er the Chicken Roost closed, the
recipe for bite size steak continued to be valuable. Among other things, it fueled her success at the Lewiston Country Club where she ran the dining room essentially as a
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Mitchell poses for a photo outside of her home.
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contractor. She hired her own employees, paid for food and earned wages based on the pro ts.
At the club, she had bite size steak, shrimp and chicken on the menu along with a rotating weekly special, something like lasagna or baked ham.
“One time I had a lady complain to me,” Mitchell said. “She said, ‘Is that all you can do is cook bite size?’ So I did a little survey. I kept track of what people ordered; 75% or more was bite size.”
That job was lucrative enough for her to purchase her own home in Lewiston a er her divorce.
Decades into retirement
now, Mitchell’s pace has slowed. Reluctantly she gave up golf. But she still cooks. Cookies and grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato slices are some of her favorites.
Occasionally, she makes bite size steak, Mitchell said, but it seems to turn out di erently than she remembers it.
“It was a very important part (of my career),” Mitchell said. “It was always part of our cooking. It was not the only thing. I had a good reputation.”
Williams may be contacted at ewilliam@lmtribune. com or (208) 848-2261.
An ad for bite size steak is pictured in a 1960s telephone book.
August Frank/ Golden Times
For the LewistonClarkston Valley
> Monday-Friday
Co ee, 9:30-11:30 a.m. to noon, Valley Community Center, 549 Fi h St., Clarkston.
> Monday, Wednesday, Friday
Co ee, 10 a.m. to noon, $1 donation, Sixth Street Senior Center, 832 Sixth St., Clarkston. Fit and Fall Proof, 9-9:45 a.m., Congregational Presbyterian Church, 709 Sixth St., Lewiston.
Fit and Fall Proof, 10:45-11:30 a.m., Orchards United Methodist Church, 1213 Burrell Ave., Lewiston.
> Mondays and Wednesdays
Yoga/low-impact exercise, 9-10 a.m., Valley Community Center.
> Mondays and Thursdays
S.A.I.L. (Fit & Fall Prevention) class, 10:30-11:30 a.m., Valley Community Center.
> Mondays and Fridays
Fit and Fall Proof, 10-11 a.m., Emmanuel Baptist Church, 2200 11th Ave., Lewiston.
> Mondays
Painting group, noon to 4 p.m., Valley Community Center.
Dance practice, 6-7:30 p.m., Sixth Street Senior Center.
> Tuesdays
SENIOR CALENDAR
Blood pressure checks, 11 a.m.12:30 p.m., Valley Community Center.
Bingo, 2-4 p.m., Valley Community Center.
> Tuesdays and Thursdays
Fit and Fall Proof, 8:15-9:15 a.m., Elks Lodge, 3444 Country Club Drive, Lewiston.
> Wednesdays
Bingo 10-10:45 a.m., 11 a.m.-1 p.m., Sixth Street Senior Center.
Bridge, 12:30-4 p.m., Valley Community Center.
Line dancing, 2 p.m. and 3:15 p.m., Sixth Street Senior Center. Zumba, 5:30 p.m., Sixth Street Senior Center.
> Thursdays
Footcare, Valley Community Center. By appointment only: (253) 218-7091.
Line dancing, 10:30 a.m., Sixth Street Senior Center.
Card games, 1-3 p.m., Valley Community Center.
> Fridays
Country jam, 10 a.m. to noon, Sixth Street Senior Center.
> Sundays
Dance lessons, 2 p.m. and 5 p.m., Sixth Street Senior Center.
> April 17
Dance and covereddish dinner, 6 p.m., Sixth Street Senior Center.
> April 8 and 22
Foot care, Valley Community Center. By appointment only: (253) 218-7091.
Karaoke, 6:309 p.m., Valley Community Center.
> April 19
Sons of Norway, 12:30-3 p.m., Valley Community Center.
> April 28
Seaport Quilters, 6-9 p.m., Valley Community Center.
To submit your event for the senior calendar, email goldentimes@lmtribune.com. For more information about events at the Sixth Street Senior Center, see the calendar at sixthstreetsrcenter.com.
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Pomeroy Senior Center
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Potlatch Senior Citizens
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Pullman Senior Center
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Riggins Odd Fellows Building
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Spud Hill Seniors
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Senior Round Table
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Weippe Hilltop Senior Citizens Center
115 First St. W., Weippe, (208) 435-4553, meals noon Mondays and Thursdays.
Pullman Meals on Wheels (509) 397-4305.
Valley Meals on Wheels (208) 799-5767.
Seeing the world more clearly
It may be hard to pick any one of the senses as more important than another, but I enjoy looking for the beauty in the world and in people. Clues to what someone doesn’t say is found in body language and I’ve depended on an ability to notice the little things in my relationships. When my eyesight began to diminish, it was frightening but perhaps not as much as surgery to x it. It began with di culty with bright lights when driving at night. By the time I decided it was time to have surgery, I almost had to come to a stop in tra c to read a street sign in diminished light.
Regular eye exams are highly recommended for people who value their vision. They’ll check eye pressure and can detect cataracts at an earlier stage. Delaying cataract surgery can make for a more di cult procedure or create permanent damage to your vision. Those who are diabetic need to be especially proactive when it comes to regular eye exams.
Despite reassurance of others who have had cataracts removed, I was still terri ed, but not as much as I was of being a menace on the road or a danger to others. I chose Paci c Cataract and Lazer Institute in Lewiston. The friendly sta patiently answered every question and provided detailed information and instructions.
There are choices to be made regarding the type of lens that will be inserted when the cloudy ones are removed. Some allow better vision at distance, others for seeing up close and yet another type that allows one to see at both distance and close up without the need for glasses. Medicare doesn’t cover the more expensive type.
You choose the method to numb and dilate the eye before surgery. My choice
was to just have eye drops without an injection to immobilize the eye. For me, this was su cient. I also was given an oral medication to relax my anxiety. The entire process for the rst eye took less than two hours from start to nish, though the surgery itself takes only about 10 minutes. I felt only mild pressure during the surgery, but no pain. Even a erward, there was little discomfort.
For a few days I had sensitivity to light and wore sunglasses. Eye drops prescribed and purchased before the surgery were administered four times a day.
The rst two days my vision with the new lens was blurry. By the fourth day I was amazed at how much brighter and clearer my television picture appeared. By covering the eye that had not had surgery and comparing it to the one that had, the eye yet to have a new lens viewed the world with a more butter color than the one that had been replaced. The whites were brighter with the new lens and I could read street signs at a distance.
For a few days, the instructions to apply drops, avoid li ing or bending with the head below the waist were easy. In the past, I’d developed a habit of rubbing my eyes. Applying the drops as directed helped me avoid repeating this.
A er cataract removal on my other eye, I was able to see much more clearly. I can read with reading glasses, though some may need a new prescription.
My advice is to keep your eye exam appointments and if you need this surgery, just do it. It’s probably going to be much easier than you might imagine to see the world with clearer view. Get a new lens and a brighter look on life.
Christiansen
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