Golden Times, August 2016

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TIMES A monthly magazine for the region’s seniors

AUG. 1, 2016 / VOL. 27, NO. 8

Queen of Juliaetta Castle Museum founder Donna Cope: Life’s to celebrate / PAGES 10-15

SENIOR MEAL MENUS / Pages 21-22

HOUSE CALL: RAISING GRANDKIDS? NURSE PRACTITIONER SHARES TIPS / Page 4

WHAT’S THIS GIZMO? / Pages 14-15

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TIMES EDITOR: Julie Breslin

ON THE COVER: Donna Cole, cofounder of the Castle Museum in Juliaetta and her grandson, Justin Cole, who now manages the building. See the story / Pages 12-16 COVER PHOTO BY: Barry Kough of The Lewiston Tribune GOLDEN TIMES

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Index

Birthday index

Birthdays ...........................................Pages 5-7 Briefs ................................................... Page 19 Castle Museum founder Donna Cope ...Page 10-15 Crossword ............................................. Page 9 Crossword solution ............................. Page 23 Drug dangers to be aware of .......... Pages 8, 17 Housecall: Advice for raising grands ... Page 4 Long-distance biking at age 77 ........... Page 16 Meeting calendar ............................... Page 20 Meal site list ....................................... Page 20 Reader poetry...................................... Page 18 Share thoughts at our round table ....... Page 3 Social Security Q&A ............................. Page 3 Senior menus ................................Pages 21-22 Sudoku .................................................. Page 6 Sudoku solution .................................. Page 23 Volunteer opportunities .................... Page 20

Page 5 Billy White Hazel Germer Harod Olson Page 6 LaVon Behler Janene Berry Page 7 Skeeter Edwards Bart Hepburn Leonard O’Brien Merle Reale Ginger McKinister Darlene Hill Luella Clevenger

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S o c i a l S e c u ri t y Q &A:

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Q: My aunt is disabled as a result of a car accident. Does Social Security have a special program for people who are obviously physically or mentally disabled?

A: Social Security is committed to expediting the application process for people with severe disabilities.

Through our Compassionate Allowances program, we can quickly identify diseases and other medical conditions that qualify, based on minimal objective medical information, and that allows us to make payments much sooner than the usual review process allows. Compassionate Allowances is not a separate program from the Social Security disability insurance or Supplemental Security Income programs.

People who don’t meet the Compassionate Allowances criteria will still have their medical conditions reviewed by Social Security.

Learn more about our Compassionate Allowances at www.socialsecurity.gov/ compassionateallowances Q: How do I apply for disability benefits? And, how long does it take to get a decision after I apply for disability benefits?

A: You can apply for disability benefits online at www.ssa.gov/disabilityssi /apply.html. Getting a decision on your disability application usually takes three to five months. The time frame can vary depending on: l The nature of your disability l How quickly we can get your medical evidence from your doctor or other medical source l Whether it’s necessary to send you for a medical examination l Whether we review your application for quality purposes

Q: Is it true that if you have low income you can get help paying your Medicare premiums?

A: Yes, you can get help. l If your income and resources are limited, your state may be able to help with your Medicare Part B premium, deductibles, and coinsurance amounts.

State rules vary on the income and resources that apply. Contact your state or local medical assistance, social services, or health and human services office, or call the Medicare hotline, (800) MEDICARE ((800) 633-4227), and ask about the Medicare Savings Programs. l If you have limited income and resources, you also may be able to get Extra Help paying for prescription drug coverage under Medicare Part D. If you get the Extra Help, Social Security may contact you to review your status.

This reassessment will ensure you remain eligible for Extra Help and you are receiving all the benefits you deserve. Annually, usually at the end of August, we may send you a form to complete: Social Security Administration Review of Your Eligibility for Extra Help. You will have 30 days to complete and return this form. Any necessary adjustments to the Extra Help will be effective in January of the following year. Go to www.social security.gov/prescription help for more information.

Also, see our publication, Medicare (Publication 10043), at www. socialsecurity.gov/pubs.

For even more information, visit our website at www.socialsecurity.gov.

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For more information, visit www.socialsecurity.gov or call our toll-free number, (800) 772-1213 (TTY (800) 325-0778).

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R This column was prepared by the Social Security Administration. For fast answers to specific Social Security questions, contact Social Security toll-free at (800) 772-1213 or visit www.socialsecurity.gov

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If you have thoughts to share, you’re invited to join us at a round table discussion at noon on Wednesday, Aug. 10 in the Senior Lounge at the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St. For more information, contact Golden Times editor Julie Breslin at (208) 848-2241 or jbreslin @lmtribune.com.

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he latest statistics dren. For some grandparfrom the census buents this is a temporary reau report that 4 per- situation, and for others it is cent of all children younger a lifetime commitment. No than 17 in Idaho live with matter what the situation a grandparent. In is, all of the lives 2006, there were involved have been 10,000 households changed. with grandparents The people I raising grandchilsee in this situdren, which was a ation have their 21 percent increase own concerns. I from 2000. It is no don’t see people secret that this is a come in voicing the growing phenomconcern of “I am enon in our state raising my grandHouse Call and the country. children;” but it I see at least one usually comes up person in the office within the visit as each week who is part of another raising a grandconcern. Bringing child. The scenarichildren back into os that brought the your home can posgrandchild or grandchilsibly cause physical probdren into the grandparent’s lems, but that is not most home are as varied as the patients’ primary concern. number of people, but one More often, the stress of thing is constant: None of having responsibility for these grandparents planned the children is brought up. on raising their grandchilStresses that are often men-

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Raising children as a 50or 70-year-old has different challenges than a 20- or 30-year-old faces, and I see grandparents in these situations deal with them in a variety of ways. Some simply

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B i rt h days August 3  William James White William James “Billy” White will celebrate his 80th birthday from 2 to 4 p.m.

Saturday with an open house at his home, 22583 S. Tom Beall Road in Lapwai. His children will be hosts for the celebration.

He was born Aug. 3, 1936, in Spalding to James O. and Eva White and went to Lapwai schools graduating from Lapwai High School in 1954. He also attended the University of Idaho for a year.

Billy married Mary M. Hanson in 1957 in Lewiston. The couple have made their home in Lapwai for the past 37 years.

Billy worked for the Spalding mill for five years and retired from the Idaho Department of Transportation after 35 years of service.

He was a member of the 49ers Saddle Club, and the Nez Perce County Sheriff ’s Posse and was also a 4-H leader for many years. Billy is also a member of the Nez Perce Tribe.

Billy and Mary have four children and nine grandchildren. The family requests no gifts for the celebration.

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guitar and sing country music. From the 1950s he trav Hazel Germer eled the Northwest with his group, the Hal Olson Band.

Hazel Germer of Lewiston Hal met the love of his life, will be honored with a family Genevieve Ahrens in Shelby, celebration on Sunday to comMont. They settled in Lewmemorate her 85th birthday.

She was born Aug. 3, 1931, iston; had three children, in Burns, Ore., to Walter and and were married 51 years Hazel Skiens. before she passed in 2010.

She married Elwin (Speed) Hal worked as a glazier for Inland Auto Germer June 10, 1950, in Glass. From the 1960s to 2005, you could Moscow. find Hal singing at the local dance halls.

Hazel has lived in this region for 67 years.

Hal’s band featured some of the best guitar She worked as a school bus driver for the Lewplayers around such as Hal’s good friend, iston School District for 25 years and retired Gene Capps. in 1993.

For more than 40 years, Hal and Genevieve, She enjoys reading, quilting, spending time spent summer weekends announcing rodeos. with family, vacationing and camping.

He has a love for rodeo and a deep respect for She and her husband have two sons, the cowboys and cowgirls who compete. He three daughters, nine grandchildren and announced his last rodeo in 2011.

12 great-grandchildren.

Her daughters will be hosts for the Hal continues to sing at local venues. celebration.

He enjoys spending time in his yard with his great-grandchildren.

Hal has two daughters, Sheri and Laurie; August 7 a son, Guy and daughter-in-law Maureen.

He has five grandchildren and three great Harold L. Olson grandchildren.

A celebration will be held from 2 to Harold Laverne Olson was born Aug. 7, 5 p.m. Saturday, at 2102 Grelle Ave., 1936, in Spokane, to Axel and Gladys Olson.

Hal spent his formative years learning to play in Lewiston.

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ď ˇ LaVON BEHLER, 90 A family gathering marked the 90th birthday for LaVon Behler of Lewiston.

She was born Aug. 14, 1926, to Roy and Gladys Chambers on the family homestead near Reubens.

She graduated from high school in Reubens and attended St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in Lewiston, receiving her registered nurse certificate in 1947.

She and Harold Behler were married Nov. 29, 1947, in Clarkston. They lived and farmed for many years on her family’s Reubens homestead.

She worked at St. Joseph’s and St. Mary’s hospitals in Lewiston and Cottonwood, respectively, in addition to being a farmer’s wife, homemaker and mother.

Her hobbies include golfing, gardening, baking, sewing and water aerobics. The couple spent many winters at their home in Arizona.

They have two daughters, one son, eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchilren.

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AUGUST 15 ď ˇ JANENE BERRY Janene was born Aug. 15, 1936, to Harold and Ruth Rose in San Bernardino, Calif. Brother Jack and sister Corinne welcomed her.

After graduating from high school in 1954, she went to work for Bank of America as a bookkeeper.

She met her husband, Ron at a Marine Corp. birthday party in Barstow, Calif. They were married in September 1955. Daughter Susan was born in 1956. They moved to Lewiston in 1957 where daughter, Sharilyn was born.

Janene was a stay-at-home mom for many years. She became church organist for two services at Trinity Lutheran Church for many years and accompanied the choir. She

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worked at C.C. Anderson’s as a sales clerk and eventually went to work at Medical Service Bureau for nine years, where she was a supervisor until a back condition made it necessary to retire.

In retirement, Janene and Ron have enjoyed motorcycling touring, spending summers in Canada, then venturing further north for several summers in Alaska. Now they don’t quite venture far away from home, but have lots of fun catching the “Wyly Kokanee” at Dworshak Lake during the summer. She and Ron enjoy visits to Seattle where their daughters and families live.

August 20  Donald Lee “Skeeter” Edwards Don (Skeeter) Edwards was born Aug. 20, 1934, in Centralia, Wash.

He worked as a timber cutter, millwright and hydraulic/pneumatic technician along the Pacific Northwest corridor. He served his country in the U.S. Army and three years in the National Guard.

He has two sons, Shawn in Olympia and Billy in Sacramento; one daughter, Cherie in Lewiston and grandchildren Ryan, Jourdan, Connor, Clayton, Doni and Micah.

Skeeter enjoys traveling to Mexico to see the Mayan ruins. Skeeter retired in Winchester along with his wife, Caroline, Greencreek (a female greencheek conure) and Guacamaya (a female Hahn’s macaw).

August 23  Charles Barton Hepburn Bart Hepburn of Lewiston will celebrate his 90th birthday Aug. 23.

He was born Aug. 23, 1926, in Lewiston to Delbert and May Hepburn.

He married Claudia York on Dec. 31, 1982. He has three sons, two daughters and four stepchildren.

He retired from Potlatch Corp. September 1987, where he was a crane operator for 25 years.

He enjoys fishing, camping, reading and traveling. After retirement he spent many winters in Arizona. He also is a member of the Elks.

August 25  Leonard O’Brien Leonard O’Brien of Lewiston will celebrate his 90th birthday Aug. 25.

He was born Aug. 25, 1926, in Winchester to Ray and Marie O’Brien.

Leonard was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944 and served in the Philippines and in Japan. He was awarded the Battle Star medal, the Good Conduct medal and the Asiatic Pacific Campaign medal.

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His hobbies are golfing, walking and reading.

He and Barbara were married in 2003. They enjoy traveling and have recently gone on a cruise-tour to Norway, Iceland, Denmark, Sweden and Amsterdam. Hawaii is another favorite travel destination.

Leonard was a member of the Reubens Grange where he served as master for several years. He is a lifetime member of the Elks. He belongs to the American Legion, Wheat Growers Association, the Pea and Lentil Growers and the Farm Bureau.

He has five grandsons, two great-grandsons and one great-granddaughter. A family combination birthday celebration is planned at the Wallowa Methodist Church Camp in mid-August.

August 26  Merle Reale Merle Reale of Clarkston will celebrate her 90th birthday Friday, Aug. 26.

Merle was born and spent most of her early years in Kansas. Moving to Colorado to work after high school, she met and married her husband Frank in 1946. Merle and Frank raised six children while living and making homes in Colorado, Illinois, Kansas, Alaska and Oregon.

In their retirement, Merle and Frank made homes in New Mexico, Orofino, Peck and Clarkston. They traveled all over the United States and much of western Canada, visiting National Parks and extended family until 2000.

Frank suffered a stroke that year and passed away in 2003.

Merle was an avid bowler throughout her adulthood and continued to be active in leagues around the LewistonClarkston Valley until the last five to six years. Most of Merle’s six children, 20 plus grandchildren and more numerous greatgrands and great-great-grands struggled to best her at the bowling alley, playing Scrabble, cards or completing crossword puzzles during the many family celebrations over the years spent with “the Reale Grandma.”

August 28  Virginia “Ginger” McKinister Virginia “Ginger” McKinister of Lewiston will celebrate her 85th birthday.

She was born Aug. 28, 1931, in Spickard, Mo. She attended grade school and high school in Colorado.

She has two children, Debbie Thornton and Bruff Shea. She also has three granddaughters, two grandsons and many great-grandchildren.

For several years, Virginia worked as a school cook in schools in Colorado and Idaho where her children attended. Later on, she owned and operated a grocery store, restaurant and gas station.

For a while Virginia raised thoroughbred race horses. She enjoyed playing the piano, crocheting and baking. Her speciality was cinnamon rolls.

August 30  Darlene Fern Hill Darlene Fern Hill will celebrate her 84th birthday Aug. 30.

She was born Aug. 30, 1932, to Eugene and May Hoye at Sharon Spring, Kan., and was raised in Troy.

She married Wilton E. Hill Nov. 19, 1949, her husband passed away in 1995. Together they raised three children.

Darlene went to work at Potlatch Corp. in 1958 and retired in 1994.

Darlene is in the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary, serving as a Patriotic Constructor and as a trustee. She attends TOPS meetings every Tuesday and Lewis-Clark Union Retiree meetings once a month.

Darlene also likes to garden, both vegetables and flowers.

She has seven grandchildren, three stepgrandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and numerous step-great-grandchildren and stepgreat-great-grandchildren, who all refer to her as “Granma Great.”

August 31  Luella Clevenger Luella Clevenger of Lewiston will celebrate her 92nd birthday with her family during the week of her birthday.

She was born Aug. 31, 1924, to Gladys Smith and Coleman Meek of Orofino.

She grew up and attended school in Pierce, graduating from Pierce High School in 1940.

She was married for many years to Clyde Clevenger. They had a son together who died in 1979. She has two granddaughters and six great-grandchildren.

In Pierce, she worked as a waitress, but after moving to Lewiston in 1950 she worked in banking and later worked as a coder for the North-Central District Health Department in Lewiston. She retired from there in 1989.

She and her husband Clyde traveled the U.S. after retiring. He died in 2004.

Her interests through the years have included hunting, fishing, bowling and dancing.

She has also maintained a lifelong love of gardening.

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Medication mistakes like the one in Oyler’s case ithin two weeks — which, according to of Joyce Oyler’s court records, slipped past discharge from the both her pharmacist and hospital, sores developed home health nurses — are in her mouth and throat, in fact one of the most and blood began seeping common complications for from her nose and bowels. discharged patients. The Her daughter traced federal government views the source to the medicine them as “a major patient bottles in Oyler’s home in safety and public health St. Joseph, Mo. One drug issue,” and a Kaiser Health that keeps News analysis heart patients of inspection One problem is the like Oyler from records shows lack of organization such errors retaining fluids was missing. and communication are frequently In its place was by among various parts missed a toxic drug home health of the medical system. agencies. with a similar name but difOf the $30 billion Between ferent purpose, Congress appropriated January 2010 primarily to July 2015, to help shift the system and treat cancer the analysis to electronic medical found, inspecand severe arthritis. The tors identified records to reduce label said to 3,016 home errors across the take it daily. health agenboard, none went “I gathered cies — nearly all her medito nursing homes, a quarter cine, and as rehabilitation facilities of all those soon as I saw or providers working examined that bottle,

by Medicare with individuals in I knew she — that had couldn’t come inadequately their homes. back from reviewed this,” said or tracked the daughter, medications Kristin Sigg, an oncology for new patients. In some nurse. “There were many cases, nurses failed to layers and mistakes made realize that patients were after she left the hospital. taking potentially dangerIt should have been caught ous combinations of drugs, about five different ways.” risking abnormal heart Oyler’s death occurred rhythms, bleeding, kidney at one of the most danger- damage and seizures. ous junctures in medical The variety of providers care: when patients leave that patients may use after the hospital. Bad coordina- a hospitalization — includtion often plagues patients’ ing pharmacies, urgent transitions to the care of care clinics and a range home health agencies, as of specialists — creates well as to nursing homes fertile ground for error, and other professionals said Don Goldmann, chief charged with helping them medical and scientific offirecuperate, studies show. cer at the nonprofit Insti“Poor transitional care tute for Healthcare Imis a huge, huge issue for ev- provement. “This episodic erybody, but especially for care at different places older people with complex at different times is not needs,” said Alicia Arbaje, designed to keep the overan assistant professor at all safety of the patient in the Johns Hopkins School mind,” Goldmann said. of Medicine in Baltimore.

One factor is the lack “The most risky transition of organization and comis from hospital to home munication among these with the additional need other parts of the medical for home care services, system. Of the $30 billion and that’s the one we know that Congress appropriBy Jordan Rau

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“In retrospect, that might have been a mistake,” said Robert Wachter, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco who studies patient safety. “The systems are not adequately connected.”

At any point, problems can occur: l At hospitals, where federal data show that fewer than half of patients say they confidently understood the instructions of how to care for themselves after discharge. l In nursing homes, where case management frequently comes up short.

A 2013 government report found more than a third of facilities did not properly assess patients’ needs, devise a plan for their care and then follow it through. l At pharmacies, where counseling and reviewing drugs with patients are often pro forma, and better exertions do not always help. A 2012 study in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine found that half of patients had a clinically significant medication error within a month of discharge from two highly regarded academic medical centers. The study found that these errors persisted even when pharmacists took a more active role in counseling the patient and reviewing the prescription. l And at home health agencies, where failures to create and execute a care plan are the most common issues government inspectors identify, followed by deficient medication review, according to KHN’s analysis. Over the first half of this decade, 1,591 agencies — one in eight — had a defect inspectors considered so substantial that it warranted the agencies’

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Precious relics of a rare life Juliaetta’s Cope Cope has made an art of showcasing the extraordinary in Castle Museum

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ULIAETTA — It’s birthday season right now.

That’s what Donna Cope is eager to talk about as she sits in a recliner at her Juliaetta home. There’s a spate of family birthdays all within a month’s time, and the coming weekend they’re celebrating all of them right there in her home. She has ordered meats for the party from the grocery store, and some are traveling a fair distance to come. Her hands pat her lap in anticipation as she talks about it. This is a big event.

Of course, not everyone is coming.

But Cope doesn’t fuss; that’s their problem, she says.

At nearly 90 years old, Cope doesn’t get around like she used to. It’s not from a lack of spirit, though. As she sits, smiling and chatting in her chair, she looks around at those in the room, tells stories that make her laugh and throws her hands up in merriment from time to time. She’s got wit and enthusiasm to spare.

It’s not what you might expect from someone who has lost as much as she has in life. Both parents died when she was 16, and she lost a brother in World War II around the same time. As a young mom, health problems kept her from pursuing a teaching career. And years later, she lost one of her children in a car accident. He was an adult and had two children at the time.

But Cope measures life not in what she’s lost in this world, but in what she’s added to it, it seems. Her family, the one gathering to celebrate, is one of those things. Another is the Castle Museum. More than four decades ago, she and her late husband, Onal, along with another local family, established the historical home and collection it

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Rare Life > Continued from Page 11 houses. It’s now managed by her grandson. She contributed both love and order as she influenced young lives as a school secretary for her working years; they still recognize her at the grocery store and say hello. Those things, and cornbread. She’s added a lot of that to her corner of the world as well.

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“Everyone was so good to me,” Cope said.

“They were always there if I needed someone.”

When the war was over, her brother returned home. She was 19 by that time. Living with him wasn’t much less frightening than living alone; he had been traumatized by the war and would relive those moments in his sleep.

About that time, a young man from Missouri came to town to visit relatives who owned a shop.

Cope was the cook at the restaurant next door, and the shop owner kept trying to set the two up.

His efforts eventually succeeded, and she married Onal Cope.

“I only knew him for three months when I married him. I remember I overheard my sisters talking in the next room and they said, ‘That marriage is not going to work,’ ” she said, with a twinkle in her eye. “Well, theirs didn’t work, and mine did.”

ope was born in 1926 and grew up in Juliaetta, the youngest of the seven children of Fred and Edna Nye. When she was 16 years old, her father died — of what exactly they never knew, only that his blood pressure had been extremely high. After her father’s death, her mother got a job at the local post office. Months later, her dress caught fire after she leaned up against the wood stove that was heating the room. Those in was right after they married in 1948 that the the room reacted immediately by trying to beat two began going to auctions to buy antiques out the flame with mail carrier sacks. But instead — why, she can’t say. It just happened. of suppressing the flame, the oil-coated sacks only “People would laugh at us,” Cope said. “But fed it. She died by the time she got to the hospital. that’s what we did. That was our entertainment At 16 years old, Cope was alone. Her older siblings had families of their own, and two broth- on weekends.”

The basement of their home began to fill with ers were fighting in World War II. One of them, their findings. Their family also grew.

Ernest Nye, died as a result of friendly fire in “After I lost my family, I wanted a 1944. The older siblings wanted her to family so bad, so we started right sell the house, but Cope refused. away,” Cope said.

She wanted Lloyd Nye, the After two kids, Fred and brother still at war, to have Debbie, Cope decided to a place to come home to attend what is now Lewand didn’t like the idea is-Clark State College of moving in with other to become a teacher. family. So she stayed.

But the stress of Cope was attendschool and family ing high school at was too much, and the time, but she she began to have also needed to eat. health problems.

She accomplished Her doctor told her both by going to she would make school for half of “the best teacher the day and workthere ever was” but ing at a grocery her body couldn’t store for the other keep up with the half. Not only did pressure. she get money to live Instead, Cope off of, but she used watched kids in her the opportunity wisely. home. Among those she “I ate a lot of lunch baby sat were children meat at the store, anyof the school principal. thing that was loose that you He got in a bind one day and could eat,” Cope said with a asked her if she could help enroll laugh. The proprietor didn’t know, students. or if he did, he never “I said, ‘Well, I guess stopped her.

“When you’re 16 and on your own, you have to I can’ … and I never Living alone presentleft,” she said. ed challenges beyond stop and think, ‘Now, is this right or wrong?’

Cope worked as the earning her dinner. because I’m the one who would have to pay school’s secretary until She remembers being her retirement, after scared at night and for it. The other kids, they had their parents three or four carrying extra responstanding behind them, but I didn’t have anyone.” which people were hired to sibilities that other replace her, she said. kids her age didn’t Donna Cope Her days were filled have to worry about. not only with admin“When you’re 16 and istrative duties like taking attendance, counting on your own, you have to stop and think, ‘Now, school lunches and keeping financial records, is this right or wrong?’ because I’m the one who but also caring for kids. She remembers holding would have to pay for it,” Cope said. “The other countless crying children on her lap, whether kids, they had their parents standing behind it was from playground slivers or first-day-ofthem, but I didn’t have anyone.” school worries.

Her parents had been well loved in the com“I felt like they were my own kids,” munity and known for helping others. When they she said. were gone, community members offered what

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She laughed as she recalled a grandmother who left a sobbing girl on her lap. As soon as the woman was out of the building, the girl hopped up and danced around chanting, “I got another dollar, I got another dollar.” Her woeful act was earning her a dollar bribe every day she went and stayed at school.

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1970, Cope and her husband, Onal, along with the Noble family, went in together to buy what is now the Castle Museum and the 6 acres around it. By then, the Scottish castle-style home, built in 1905, had been empty for more than 10 years. It was dirty, ivy was growing throughout the house, and many of the items inside had been vandalized.

From the beginning, their vision for the property was to establish and display a collection of items that would tell the history of the Potlatch River valley.

The privately owned museum is still free and open to the public and is now managed by her grandson, Justin Cope, who lives just down the street from her (read more about the museum in Thursday’s Inland360). He now spends his weekends and evenings much as his grandR More mother once did, giving tours, fixing things up and adding to the collection.

What’s this “I loved working in it; it was just like playing gizmo? Check house,” Dona Cope said. out these When they were finally ready to open the home oddities from to the public, the Copes asked for donations to fill the Castle out the collection, and the community responded Musem by donating or loaning numerous pieces of the — Pages 14-15 area’s history. Even as the home filled, the Copes continued to go to auctions and sales. Justin Cope Coming remembers joining them often.

Thursday: “I loved it because I could always find someMake it a day thing I wanted,” he said. trip to visit He got more than the odd trinket in those the Castle years. He would frequently accompany his Museum grandparents as they gave tours of the home — Inland360 and in so doing, absorbed their knowledge of what it contained. He moved back to the area in 2004 when his grandparents were ready to slow down and let the next generation take over.

“It was part of my life,” Cope said. “I couldn’t bear to let it go.

None of us could.”

The responsibility might have gone to his father, Fred, but he was killed in a car accident when Justin was just 7 years old. The loss is a pain that lingers to this day.

“When you lose a child, you never get over it,” Donna Cope said.

D The ornate wood staircase of the Juliaetta Castle Museum turns steeply up to the second floor, and it creaks a little.

The museum (right) was founded

by Donna Cope (left), her late husband Onal and another couple.

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espite the loss in her life, or maybe because of it, Cope is known for her generosity. That’s where the cornbread comes in. Her friends and neighbors couldn’t be sick or stuck at home without a fresh supply of Cope’s cornbread. How it came to be a signature staple seems unlikely, given that she didn’t care for it herself.

“But when I married my husband and he was from Missouri — well, they ate a lot of cornbread,” Cope said.

The brown crust on her cornbread is what makes it superior to the soft pale cornbreads known by most, she said. Her secret is the pan: a heavy, cast iron pan that bakes individual portions. Given its popularity, the pan gets a lot of use.

It’s just cornbread, but it’s one way that Cope adds goodness to a world that hasn’t always been good to her. Whatever challenges she has faced, she stood up to them and didn’t allow them to sour her.

“You gotta make the best of life, because it’s not going to make the best for you,” she said.

——— Schmidt may be contacted at (208) 305-4578.

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INNEAPOLIS — Hauling down the California coast on a Trek 400 bike, Lin Bruce tried to forget the pain pounding in her 60-year-old body.

She had never ridden a bike more than 10 miles before, and here she was, cycling across the United States with a group of strangers in 1999. No cellphones.

No end in sight.

So, to the tune of “Down in the Valley,” she began to sing in her head: “I’m out here riding, riding my bike/And at this moment I’d rather hitchhike … There is question, a question for me./Why I do this? It sets my soul free.”

Never an athlete, Lin was born in Cheyenne, Wyo., “way before Title IX.” Women usually held important, but limited roles — secretary, nurse, teacher or mom. It was easy to feel small, Bruce said.

She had spent her life raising four kids, moving from city to city, country to country, to follow her husband’s career. She had just watched her sister-in-law commemorate her 60th birthday with only a lunch date with her mother.

Bruce, then 59, felt stuck.

“I wanted to pop out bigger, before I was too old to pop out bigger,” Bruce said. To burst out of the feeling that she couldn’t grow as a person anymore.

She shifted gears and sought out a challenge. Bruce came across a newspaper ad for WomanTours, promoting a bike tour

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It’s satisfying “to get there at my own steam,” Bruce said.

Since they traveled more than 800 miles to Cheyenne on two wheels to Bruce’s 50th class reunion in 2006, Bob often bikes and drives alongside Bruce, carrying the supplies. They left their home on June 24 to bike to her 60th class reunion, arriving healthy but tired on July 7.

She didn’t tell most of her former classmates about her mode of travel last time. “I didn’t want to be taking on something grandiose that I would be embarrassed about if I fell on my face.”

Minneapolis Star Tribune/David Joles Now, Bruce is a motivational Lin Bruce smiles earlier this summer outside her Northfield, Minn., home. speaker for audiences of mostly Bruce began long-distance biking at age 60 and hasn’t stopped since. older, female Rotary Club members. Her mantras are simple: ing. “Is this fun?” she wondered. from California to Florida for Make the commitment. Power “I’m doing this for my birthday?” women older than 50. The trip through. Find humor. Ask for Eventually, though, the voices started on Lin’s 60th birthday. help. Work with others. fell away. Her muscles strength“Oh, that’s it,” she thought.

A stranger recently overheard ened, and she rolled up in St. AuThe winter before the trip, her discussing one of her trips gustine, Fla., as a woman truer to Bruce mounted a stationary and approached Bruce. She herself, her husband, Bob, noticed. said she was a survivor of a past bike in her Northfield home and “I don’t shut myself off as pedaled without a formal training trauma, and thanked Bruce for quickly or as finally as I did plan. On the eve of the trip, her making her realize “it’s not over momentum flagging, Bruce broke earlier in my life,” Bruce said. until it’s over.”

“Somehow it translates if you can down and cried in a San Diego “If my story touches even one hotel room. Then, for two months, ride 3,000 miles, you can probperson with a sense of possibility, ably do something else.” she rode. then I want to tell my story,” Bruce Bruce, now 77, has since Two weeks into it, chapped from said, as she began to cry softly. pedaling against Texan headwinds, cruised through the country: the So this class reunion, “I’m not steamy South and the dewy Pacif- being quiet,” Bruce said. she lost faith in what she was doOver , 00 uninsured, medically needy patients served!

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had another pharmacy of Kaiser Health News claim for an opioid painkiller at least 90 days later.

It’s a common scenario: “Presumably they were Someone checks into a prescribed it and continhospital for surgery or an ued on it because of some illness and leaves with a sort of chronic pain,� said prescription for an opioid Dr. Anupam Jena, associpainkiller, openate professor of ing the door to Drug overdoses health care pollong-term use icy at Harvard involving and dependence.

Medical School opioids nearly and the study’s A recent study examined this lead author. Still, quadrupled pattern and found there are many between the prescriptions ways to treat 1999 and 2013, pain, Jena noted, are used and according to renewed more and hospitals often than you the Centers for are supposed to might imagine. at other apDisease Control look Researchers proaches. and Prevention. analyzed the In 2013, nearly pharmacy claims 44,000 people of a random samdied from drug ple of more than 623,000 overdoses, including more Medicare beneficiaries than 16,000 from opioid who were hospitalized in painkillers such as hy2011. They only included drocodone and morphine, people who did not have according to the Centers a prescription claim for for Disease Control and opioids for at least 60 days Prevention. Drug overdoses before being hospitalized. involving opioids nearly The results, first pubquadrupled between 1999 lished online in JAMA and 2013.

Internal Medicine in June, As part of a federal inishowed that 14.9 percent tiative to improve opioid of the hospitalized benefiprescribing practices, the ciaries filled a prescription Centers for Medicare and for an opioid within a week Medicaid Services recentafter being discharged. Of ly proposed to stop incorthose who filled the first porating patient satisfacprescription, 42.5 percent tion responses regarding

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In addition, hospitals that were ranked higher by patients for inpatient pain control had modestly higher rates of opioid use after discharge. “For patients who are similar across a broad range of characteristics ‌ there appears to be a large range in the propensity of hospitals to prescribe opioids,â€? Jena said. “The variation is alarming because it means some hospitals are doing it too much and some too little.â€? More research is needed to determine what the appropriate opioid prescribing standards should be, he said.

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1. Fire extinguisher.

Because wood-burning stoves could present a fire hazard, kitchens of yesteryear often contained a wall-mounted glass fire extinguisher. Depending on the style and contents, it could be thrown on a fire or was designed to automatically explode when exposed to heat.

The chemicals used in earlier fire extinguishers are now known to present a significant health risk.

2. Hat rim iron. Unlike a clothing iron, a hat rim iron had a small width and textured bottom to better straighten the rim of a hat.

3. Shoes of Chinese miners. Though they look like Dutch shoes, these wooden shoes were used by Chinese miners in the area.

or other types of readily available oils would be poured into this device and as pigs rubbed against it, it would apply a thin, even coat to their skin. The oil would help keep insects from bothering the pigs.

6. Hand-pumped vacuum cleaner. This “cordless� vacuum relied on hand-pumping action, which would create a mild suction when the pump was drawn up. The small vacuum head would be dragged across the floor’s surface for cleaning.

7. Toaster. Bread could be toasted by placing this object on top of the kitchen stove burner. A piece of bread would be placed against each of the four sides to be browned and flipped manually.

8. Milk centrifuge.

Dairy farmers could measure the amount of milkfat in their cows’ milk by placing small amounts of it into glass tubes that would be spun in the centrifuge. By measuring the separation of the milkfat, farmers could then alter the animals’ diets to achieve the desired ratio.

4. Cast iron cornbread pan. This pan bakes up individually portioned cornbread to a crispy golden brown; Donna Cope has used it for most of her life to bake the cornbread she has become well-known for among her friends and neighbors.

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It’s time! Pack the car.

Bait all wiggery, inside the jar.

Fish poles leaning, left and right.

Batteries in flashlights, ready for the night.

Buckets, boots, tent and axe.

And most of all, lots of Laughs!

— Doreen Broyles, 78, Pullman

Neighbors looked out for each other, giving a helping hand.

They tilled the soil they loved so well, always giving back to the land.

It’s great to hear how they were called, by the Father who loved them so.

All the wisdom they have gained, will surely help us grow.

Each time they tell a story, they get better every time.

They color them with joy and peace, we love them — oh so fine.

Treasured memories are to them, the gateway to their past.

They are so very grateful, we took the time to ask.

— Rebecca Whited, 70, Clarkston

“Time Marches On” Oh, how time flies when you wish it to go slower. Why don’t we understand about time? Where does it go?

Time lifts us up high, or drops us low. Time is never ending. As time marches on, sometimes we wish a moment in time would stand still, as it feels so good to be in the moment. But that moment can last a lifetime in a beautiful memory, kept in your heart for only you, as time marches on.

Time sometimes is an answer to a prayer. You have waited so long for that time to come, so you can get your wish, whatever it may be.

Sometimes time lets it happen, and happiness has come your way, and so it is for all of us: time marches on.

— Yvonne Carrie, 72, Lewiston

READER POETRY Golden Times prints original short poetry from seniors on a space-available basis for free. Submissions must include the name, age, address and phone number of author to be considered for publication. Send poetry submissions to: Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501. The deadline for poetry to be included in September’s edition is Aug. 22.

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removal from the Medicare program unless the lapses were remedied.

Oyler’s death in October 2013 shows how a fatal mistake can slip by multiple checkpoints. The 66-year-old retired safety manager left Heartland Regional Medical Center in St. Joseph after being treated for congestive heart failure, in which the heart fails to pump effectively, causing fluid build-up in the lungs, shortness of breath and swelling in the feet. She returned home as a hospital nurse telephoned the local Hy-Vee Pharmacy with eight new prescriptions.

One was for the diuretic metolazone.

But the medications a pharmacy technician wrote down did not include metolazone. Instead it listed methotrexate, which can damage blood cell counts, organs and the lining of the mouth, stomach and intestines.

Oyler’s prescription included daily dosage instructions for the diuretic.

Methotrexate is never supposed to be taken more than once or twice a week for patients not being treated for cancer, and almost always at a much lower dose.

In a court deposition taken as part of the lawsuit the family brought, Hy-Vee’s pharmacist blamed himself for not catching the error.

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that certain day, that didn’t trigger with me,” he said.

The family’s attorney, Leland Dempsey, said court evidence suggested the drug mix-up was made by the pharmacy technician who transcribed the prescription orders. “The pharmacy tech made numerous spelling errors on the drugs,” he said.

“She had a dosage off on another drug.”

In February, a jury awarded Oyler’s family $2 million in damages from the pharmacy. The judge lowered the award to $125,000 because of Missouri’s cap for non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. Hy-Vee declined to comment.

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B r i efs AARP driving class is set for September

Groups and organizations can submit information, pertaining to seniors in the region, to be published in Golden Times monthly magazine. All submissions are subject to space availability and editing.

Submissions should be emailed to: goldentimes@lmtribune.com or mailed to: Golden Times P.O. Box 957 Lewiston, ID 83501 Information for the Sept. 5 issue must be recieved by Aug. 22 to be considered. More information is available by calling (208) 848-2241.

l Bridge, noon, Fridays.

All activities are located at the community center, 1424 Main St. in Lewiston.

Registration is required for all activities and can be completed in person at the Parks and Rec office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m.

Seniors invited to dance, weekdays, by calling (208) paint, play cards 746-2313 or online at www. cityoflewiston.org/parks Lewiston Community Center activities offered in andrec, where the summer programs brochure can be September include: downloaded. l Line dancing, 10 a.m., Mondays and 9 a.m., Learn to use your laptop Thursdays. l Pinochle, 6:30 p.m., Lewiston Parks and RecWednesdays. reation will have a laptop l Painting club, noon, class for seniors this month.

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Fitness class, card games, medical checks available Activities offered at the Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston, include: l Fitness class, 10:1511:15, Tuesdays and Thursdays. l Pinochle, 12:45-3 p.m., Tuesdays and Fridays. l Blood-pressure checks, 11:30 a.m., Thursdays. l Bridge, 12:30-4 p.m., Thursdays; and 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays.

Wedgewood Terrace offers Alzheimer’s University class An Alzheimer’s University class will be held at Wedgewood Terrace Assisted Living this month.

The class will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Aug. 17 at Wedgewood Terrace, 2114 Vineyard Ave. Cost for the class is $20. Advanced registration is required and dinner is included.

To register call (208) 743-4545.

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There will be an AARP Smart Driver class in early September in Orofino.

The class is from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with a break for lunch Sept. 9 at the U.S. Forest Service building in Orofino.

Contact Kay Gaines, instructor at (208) 816-3450 for more information or to register for the class.

The cost for each class is $15 for AARP members and $20 for nonmembers.

The classes are designed for those age 50 and older but are open to all ages and may result in a point reduction on driver’s licenses and/or insurance discounts.

For those unable to attend any of the listed classes and who have a reasonably high-speed Internet connection there is an online class offered through AARP at www.aarpdriversafety.org.

The fee for AARP members to take the online class is $17.95; nonmembers fee is $21.95. Payment is required at time of starting online class and is payable by debit or credit card.

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Vo lu n t eer o p p ort u n i t i es The WA-ID Volunteer Center located in the Lewiston Community Center at 1424 Main St. provides individualized volunteer opportunities for those wishing to serve in Lewiston, Clarkston, Asotin, Pomeroy, Moscow and the Orofino area.

The center’s website is www.waidvolunteercenter.org.

The following are a few of the volunteer opportunities available in August: l America Reads needs tutors to help students become proficient readers. Volunteers need to commit to at least an hour a week, once a week for the school year. No teaching experience in necessary, and background checks are required. l Moscow Mentors Program is in need of adult mentors to meet one hour per week, on school grounds, during the school day with Moscow School District students.

Mentors provide guidance and support and mentor training is provided. There is a specific need for male mentors for boys on the waiting list. l The State Health Insurance Benefit Advisors Program provides volunteers to assist local seniors who rely on trained volunteers to help them with Medicare questions. Training and resources are provided by the Office of the Insurance Commissioner. l A local food bank needs a volunteer team leader to

oversee groups of volunteers and facilitate projects. The person will work with food bank staff, provide orientation and manage a safe environment during projects. l Local senior meal sites and food banks are in need of volunteers to help stock shelves, box food, deliver meals as well as other duties. Hours and tasks vary depending on location and need. There is also a need for meal delivery drivers with a weekly scheduled commitment and a valid driver’s license and auto insurance.

More information on these and other volunteer opportunities, offered through the WAID Volunteer Center, is available by calling (208) 746-7787.

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Interlink Volunteers — Faith in Action in Clarkston offers volunteer opportunities throughout the area.

The office, 817 Sixth St., is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday-Thursday. The phone number is (509) 751-9143. l There is a need for volunteers with the skills to help build a wheelchair ramp, hand rail and fence. Volunteers must have their own tools, but materials are provided by Interlink. l There is a need for volunteers who can help with painting projects. All paint is provided, but volunteers need their own brushes, rollers and rags. l Volunteers are needed to

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help with yard maintenance with raking leaves, trimming bushes, fertilizing, mowing grass and cleaning gutters. l A volunteer is needed to help with a move in Lewiston.

The volunteer application as well as more information about the organization and volunteer opportunities are available online at www. interlinkvolunteers.org.

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Wedgewood Terrace, a nonprofit assisted living facility, has several volunteer opportunities available. l An art docent is needed to provide monthly art appreciation talks. l An education assistant is needed to help with monthly programs. l A librarian is needed to organize and loan out the facility’s collection of books and movies. l An office assistant is needed to help with general clerical duties. l One-on-one assistant as a conversation companion for residents with dementia. l Pet therapist is needed with a volunteer bringing well-behaved pets to visit residents.

Other volunteer positions can be designed depending on your interests, abilities and schedule. More information is available by calling Mark Havens at (208) 743-4545.

Over Age 65 Health Plans with or without RX?

AUG. 10: Valley Community Center, general board meeting, 9 a.m., 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.

AUG. 16: Sixth Street Senior Center, board meeting, 9 a.m., 832 Sixth St., Clarkston.

AUG. 20: Sons of Norway Elvedalen Lodge No. 129, noon, Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.

AUG. 22: Seaport Quilters, 7 p.m., Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.

R If you would like to have your group or club meetings included in this monthly calendar, send complete information to goldentimes@Lmtribune. com or Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501.

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Roast beef and much more

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Senior round Table nuTriTion Program — When: Noon, Tues./Thurs./Fri. • When: Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St. No. F, Clarkston; and the Asotin United Methodist Church, 313 Second St. • Cost: $4 suggested for seniors age 60 and older; $7 for nonseniors 2 Tuna casserole/peas/carrots/Jell-O

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> Continued from Page 18 Yet the error could have been caught right away as Oyler began getting care from Heartland’s home health care agency. Medicare requires home health agencies to examine details of a patient’s medications to ensure all the drugs match the prescriptions ordered, are being taken in the right dose and frequency, and don’t have negative interactions.

Less than a year before, Missouri state inspectors had cited the agency for inadequately reviewing medications for three patients, and the agency had pledged to make improvements, records show. Still, neither of two agency nurses who visited Oyler at home stopped her from taking the wrong drug.

“Why they didn’t catch it was beyond me,” her husband, Carl, said recently.

“They had a printout from the hospital,” with every medication correctly listed.

“It was all there,” he said.

After 18 days, her family took her to North

Kansas City Hospital, where doctors determined that the methotrexate had irreparably damaged her bone marrow’s ability to create blood cells. She died three days later of multiple organ failure.

“By the time we got her into the emergency room, essentially she had no blood cell count,” her husband recounted. “It was irreversible. It was a gruesome, slow, painful way to die.”

Heartland Regional Medical Center paid Oyler’s family $225,000 in a settlement, court records show. Mosaic Life Care, the name by which Heartland now operates, said in a statement that it is “consistently improving processes and adopting new technologies to further reduce risks of errors and to improve communication.”

Nonetheless, last November inspectors again cited Heartland for failing to properly review medications for two patients.

“Most people don’t know this is a problem,” Sigg said. “They assume doctors are talking to each other, until they experience it, and it’s not the case.”

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