Golden Times, November 2013

A monthly magazine for the region’s retirees by Target Publications

GOLDENTIMES Nov. 4, 2013 / Vol. 23, No. 11

Forever Serving Many vets return from the military but never stop serving / Page 18

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Volunteer of the month — Page 24

House Call — Page 34

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INDEX: Social Security Q&A................... Page 4 Briefs .......................................... Page 5 Who am I? trivia .......................... Page 5 Meeting calendar......................... Page 6 Birthdays .................................... Page 9 Who am I? answer ......................Page 13 Sudoku ........................................Page 17 Sudoku solution ..........................Page 23 Volunteer opportunities .............. Page 24 Reader poetry ............................. Page 26 Crossword ...................................Page 30 Crossword solution .....................Page 31 Tri-State Hospital’s Diabetes Education Program

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november senior menus monday Senior Round Table Nutrition Program serves hot lunches at noon at the Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St. No. F, Clarkston and the Asotin United Methodist Church, 313 Second St. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older.

Cost is $7 for nonseniors.

Lewiston Senior Nutrition Program serves hot lunches at noon at the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St. and the United Methodist Church, 1213 Burrell Ave. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older.

Cost is $5 for nonseniors.

tuesday

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7 Beef stroganoff over noodles/capri-blend vegetables/biscuit/fruit

8 Soup bar/salad bar/fruit

12 Baked chicken/gravy/ chicken rice/peas and carrots/roll/peaches

14 Baked breaded fish/ oven-roasted potatoes/ carrots/roll/fruit

15 Deluxe salad bar/fruit

19 Pork chops in applesauce/potatoes/ cauliflower/roll/fruit

21 Spaghetti/mixed vegetables/garlic bread/pears

22 Hot dog/salad bar/ fruit

26 Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings

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5 Spaghetti/Jell-O salad/mixed vegetables/ breadsticks/pudding

6 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Old-fashioned fried chicken

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12 Chicken-fried steak/ mashed potatoes/gravy/ green beans/salad/biscuit

13 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Roast beef

18 German sausage/kraut/ potatoes/mixed vegetables/ salad/roll/cookie

19 Porcupine meatballs/ rice/corn/Jell-O salad/roll

20 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Italian foods

25 Baked ham/scalloped potato/applesauce/peas/ cornbread

26 Beef stroganoff/ carrots/coleslaw/ muffin/fruit

27 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Thanksgiving dinner

Moscow Senior Nutrition Program serves lunch at noon in the Great Room of the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older.

Cost is $6 for nonseniors.

Salad bar is available at 11:30 a.m. Soup and dessert is available at each service.

J-K Senior Meals serves meals at noon at 104 South Sixth St., Kendrick.

Dessert is served both days. Suggested donation is $3 for people age 60 and older, and $5 for those younger than 60; Children younger than 6 years eat for free.

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5 Chicken-fried steak/ mashed potatoes/gravy/ broccoli/roll/fruit

4 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/gravy/carrots/ salad/roll CLOSED FOR VETERANS DAY

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5 Homemade meatloaf/ mashed potatoes/ vegetable

7 Beef liver or peppersteak/grilled onions/ potato/vegetable

12 Pollack/potato/ vegetable

14 Hamburgers/french fries/vegetable

19 Sweet and sour meatballs/rice/vegetable

21 Roast Turkey/ dressing/vegetable

26 Fried chicken/ potatoes/gravy/vegetable

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6 Swedish meatballs/rice/ coleslaw/pears/cookies

8 Baked fish/garlic pota-

13 Hamburgers/french fries/macaroni salad/fruit cocktail/cupcakes

15 Chicken and dumplings/baked squash/fruit salad/chocolate mousse

20 Thanksgiving dinner with all the fixings

22 Barbecue pork on a hoagie/fresh baby carrots/green salad/German Chocolate cake

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Q: Are Social Security numbers reassigned after a person dies?

A: No. We do not reassign Social Security numbers. In all, we have assigned more than 460 million Social Security numbers. Each year we assign about 5.5 million new numbers. There are over one billion combinations of the nine-digit Social Security number. As a result, the current system has enough new numbers to last for several more generations.

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

A: Yes. 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 welfare office, or call the Medicare hotline, (800) 633-4227, and ask about the Medicare Savings Programs. 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. Learn more at www. socialsecurity.gov/prescriptionhelp. Also, see our publication, Medicare, at www. socialsecurity.gov/pubs. Type the title of the publication in the publication search box on the left side of the page.

——— Q: I know I am eligible to apply for disability benefits based on my earnings record.

But how does Social Security decide whether I am disabled?

A: Overall, we use a fivestep evaluation process to decide whether you are disabled. The process considers any current work activity you are doing. It also considers the severity of your medical condition and how it affects your ability to work. To be found disabled: l You must be unable to do work you did before you became disabled and we must decide you cannot adjust to other work because of your medical condition. l Your disability must last, or be expected to last, for at least one year or to result in death.

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Briefs

Drivers Safety classes being held

20 at Jawbone Flats Cafe, 902 Sixth St., Clarkston.

Fundraiser planned for J-K meal site A fundraiser for the JuliaettaKendrick Senior Meal Site is taking place from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Nov. 16 at the meal site.

The event is a spaghetti feed, pie and craft fair. There will be 11 tables available for rent by vendors. Cost is $10 per table.

There will also be a raffle with five drawings for three turkeys and two hams. Raffle tickets are $2 each or five for $8. Drawings will be at 4 p.m. and you do not have to be present to win.

The fair will have live entertainment from noon to 4 p.m. provided by Neal Stenerson, Steve Gleason and Bluegrass Friends.

Spaghetti feed cost is $5 per adult and $3 per child younger than 12. Menu includes spaghetti, green beans and garlic bread.

The center is also in need of donated pies.

Elvedalen Lodge will have potluck The heritage program given during the Sons of Norway Elvedalen Lodge No. 129 will be on Stave churches.

The meeting will begin with a potluck meal at noon followed by a short business meeting Nov. 16 at Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.

The group is for those of Scandinavian descent or those interested in the culture. More information about the group and its meetings is available by calling (208) 798-8617 or (208) 743-2626.

at noon Nov. 27.

Membership dues for 2014 are currently being accepted. The center’s board will meet at 9 a.m. Nov. 19.

Foot care is being offered at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the center.

The twice-weekly dances with live music provided by The Heustis Kountry Band is from 7 to 9 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday. Cost is $4 per person.

ter in Clarkston will be closed Nov. 28 and 29 for the Thanksgiving holiday.

The board for the center will meet at 9 a.m. Nov. 13.

Foot care is being offered Mondays at the center by appointment. Appointments can be made by calling (509) 7582355. Blood pressure checks are done at 11:30 a.m. each Center will close Thursday. Fitness classes are offered at the center from for holiday 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. each TuesThe Valley Community Cen- day and Thursday.

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Thanksgiving Day lunch being offered The Sixth Street Senior Center will have a free Thanksgiving meal at noon Nov. 28 at the center.

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There are two AARP Drivers Safety Classes in November.

In Lewiston there will be a two-day class from 1 to 5 p.m. Nov. 13 and from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Nov. 14 at CrossPoint Alliance Church, 1330 Powers Ave., Lewiston.

Registration for this class can be completed by calling Kay Gaines at (208) 816-3450.

A second class will also be a two-day class from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. Nov. 18 and 19 at Gritman Medical Center, 700 S. Main St., Moscow. Registration for this class can be completed by calling Elaine Broyles at (208) 883-8612.

The cost for each class is $12 for AARP members and $14 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.

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The meeting is at noon Nov.

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My wife died in 2005 after more than 60 years of marriage.

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NOV. 11: Twin City Square and Round Dance Club, board meeting, 7 p.m., 2130 Fifth Ave., Clarkston.

NOV. 13: Valley Community Center, general board meeting, 9 a.m., 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.

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: Target Publications P.O. Box 957 Lewiston, ID 83501 Information for December’s issue must be recieved

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Questions about submitting information can be sent via email or by calling (208) 848-2243.

NOV. 16: Sons of Norway Elvedalen Lodge No. 129, noon, Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.

NOV. 19: Sixth Street Senior Center, board meeting, 9 a.m., 832 Sixth St., Clarkston.

NOV. 19: Retired Educators of North Central Idaho, 11:30 a.m., Red Lion, 621 21st St., Lewiston.

NOV. 20: National Active and Retired Federal Employees, noon, Jawbone Flats Cafe, 902 Sixth St., Clarkston.

NOV. 25: Seaport Quilters, 6 p.m., 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.  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. You can call (208) 848-2243 with any questions.

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By Susan Reimer

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About 5.4 million Americans — 1 in 9 older than age 65 — are affected by Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia, and because we are living longer and there are a lot of baby boomers, that number was expected to double or triple by 2050, according to various estimates.

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4 Alzheimer’s, continued from page 7 expected to retreat as people adopt healthier lifestyles and acquire more education.

And another study, in France, suggests those who delay retirement — staying socially engaged and mentally

sharp longer — are also at less risk of dementia. Proof that if you don’t use it, you will lose it, perhaps.

There are some skeptics, of course. Maybe we need to move to France or the British Isles if we want to avoid dementia, because obesity is epidemic in this country, and the research suggested controlling blood pressure and choles-

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terol — two of the casualties of unhealthy eating — were instrumental in lowering the risk by reducing the incidence of mini-strokes or vascular disease in the brain. The same kinds of studies are needed in America to test the trend, experts say.

But it seems the assumption that each generation would be at the same risk of dementia may not hold up.

It was a study by the RAND Corp., based on the calculation the same percentage of the population would continue to be affected, that concluded the number of dementia patients would double in the next 30 years as boomers aged.

However, a study of people older than 65 in England and Wales, published this week in The Lancet, showed the rates of dementia had dropped by

MOND A Y, NO V EM B E R 4 , 2 0 1 3 an astonishing 25 percent during the past two decades, from 8.3 percent to 6.2 percent.

And in Denmark, people in their 90s who were given a standardized test in 2010 scored much better than those 90-year-olds who had been tested a decade ago, and the percentage of those showing signs of severe impairment dropped, too.

It may be too late for those of us who came late to the game of healthy eating, exercise and mental gymnastics as a way to keep the brain healthy, but it bodes well for future generations, who can learn from our poor example.

Those principles are taking better hold among our children and their children.

Meanwhile, the French study — so credible because the French keep meticulous

health records, and the sample was of more than 420,000 people — found that for each additional year of work, the risk of getting dementia was reduced by 3.2 percent. For example, someone who retired at 65 had about a 15 percent lower risk of dementia than someone who retired at 60.

This research adds credence to the new notion of retirement — one spent in a kind of second career that includes mental challenges, social engagement and physical activity.

This is heartening news because the specter of dementia is particularly harrowing. That we could, in effect, forget ourselves is a cruel last trick played by the mysterious and powerful brain.

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BIRTHDAYS NOV. 6  ELDORA WEEKS

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 IRENE UPTMOR

Eldora Weeks of Moscow will celebrate her 88th birthday on Wednesday.

She was born Nov. 6, 1925, on Little Bear Ridge, near Troy, to Ernest and Anna Bovencamp. Weeks was the only girl, with three brothers. She attended school at Yellow Rose Schoolhouse on Little Bear Ridge before going to school in Troy.

She and Myrel Weeks were married June 3, 1944, and raised two sons.

In their retirement, they

enjoyed spending time with their children and grandchildren, as well as traveling the western states from Alaska to Arizona.

They were married for nearly 65 years when her husband died in 2009.

Weeks has seven grandchildren, 12 great-grandchildren and two great-greatgrandchildren.

She enjoys visiting with family and friends. Weeks also likes to listen to the Old Time Fiddlers and other visitors at Good Samaritan Village.

 JOHN Q. MOXLEY

Irene Uptmor of Lewiston will turn 99 years old on Wednesday.

She was born Nov. 6, 1914, to Herman and Mary Uptmor at Keuterville.

Uptmor attended elementary school in Keuterville and high school at St. Gertrude’s Academy in Cottonwood.

She and William (Bill) Uptmor were married on Sept. 4, 1934. The couple

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Uptmor has seven children, 16 grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.

She used to enjoy playing cards, and continues to enjoy visiting with family and friends.

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John Q. Moxley of Peck will turn 87 on Thursday.

Moxley lived in Lewiston for 44 years before marrying Carolyn Fuhrman in 1971 and moving to the Clearwater Valley.

He did many things before he retired as a beekeeper in 1999.

Moxley’s hobby is playing pinochle evey Saturday evening at the Orofino Senior Center.

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The couple went to most of the school sporting events while their children and grandchildren competed.

They also played golf for a number of years.

They have two children and four grandchildren.

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Schlottman on Nov. Schlottman 9, 1933. worked for the Schlottman gradFarmers Home uated from high Administration for school in Fruitland, 32 years.

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Anna J. Layes of Culdesac will turn 96 on Nov. 12.

She was born in 1917 at Park Hill Hospital (now Providence Sacred Heart Hospital) in Spokane to Joseph and Myrtle Hall.

Layes was raised on a small farm outside of Nezperce and attended Mount Vale, a oneroom schoolhouse, through the eighth grade. She graduated from Nezperce High School in 1936.

Her and Edward Layes were married in 1940, and lived in Spalding for nearly 20 years before moving to Mission Creek Valley, near Culdesac, in 1960. The couple had six

sons, one of whom died. The couple were married nearly 60 years when her husband died in 1998.

Layes has 11 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

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Layes has devoted her life to God and thanks him every day for all of her blessings — long life and great health.

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 JOSEPH A. SCHMIDT

Gertrude White Ring of Orofino will turn 94 on Nov. 12.

She was born Nov. 12, 1919, at Teaken, Idaho, and received her schooling at Cavendish.

Ring moved to Orofino in 1939 and had various jobs before going to work at the Corner Store (now the Glenwood IGA), where she continued to work for 24 years.

She and Sturlie White of Fraser were married in 1943.

The couple had one daughter.

In 1969, she married Carl Ring. He died in 1973.

Ring enjoys going to the Orofino Senior Center meal site twice a week and visiting with friends.

John Lagerquist of Orofino will turn 81 on Nov. 13.

He was born in Asheville, N.C., in 1932 and moved to Redlands, Calif., in 1945.

Lagerquist married his wife Bobbi in 1955 and they have two children.

He served three tours overseas with the Department of Defense; fi rst in Vietnam, then in Saudia Arabia and finally in Italy.

Lagerquist and his wife moved to Orofino in 1990.

He’s a member of National Active and Retired Federal Employees, the hospital auxiliary, Ascension Lutheran Church and volunteers whenever needed.

Joseph A. Schmidt of Clarkston will turn 94 on Nov. 16.

He was born on the family farm in Greencreek in 1919.

Schmidt was raised by his grandparents after the death of his parents.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army on Dec. 5, 1942, and served in the 14th Armored Division.

Schmidt and Agnes Lustig were married on Feb. 17, 1944, while he was on furlough. After receiving a Bronze Star, he was discharged in 1945.

The couple moved to Clarkston and he worked as a general contractor until

 RUTH BOSSERMAN Ruth Bosserman of Clarkston will celebrate her 85th birthday on Nov. 20.

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Helen Vernon of Orofino will turn 79 on Nov. 27.

She was born in 1934 at Orofino to Beulah and Iver Pederson.

She married Jim Vernon.

He died June 12, 1983.

In July, she received her 50-year jewel from the Bluebell Rebekah Lodge No. 72 and serves as noble grand of her lodge.

Vernon volunteers twice a week at the Orofino Senior Center meal site and helps at the Clearwater Health and Rehabilitation Center.

She enjoys playing bingo and visiting Brookside Landing. Her hobbies include music and dancing.

Pauline (Polly) Brosa of Clarkston will celebrate her 80th birthday on Thanksgiving Day with her family.

She was born Nov. 28, 1933, in Fairfield, I d a h o , where she grew up and attended school.

She married Harlan Brosa in 1954 at Pullman.

Brosa worked for the Pullman School District and Washington State University until she retired in 1990, and moved to Clarkston.

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Nov. 28  Jeanette McConnell Jeanette McConnell of Clarkston will turn 94 on Nov. 28.

She was born in 1919 to Bert and Ella Lewis in the Yakima Valley.

After high school, McConnell worked for Reeds Millenary in Yakima and later in California.

She met Carl McConnell in spring 1940. He was a pitcher for the Yakima Pippins and worked for UPRR in Pocatello. It was love at first sight and they married a year later.

They made their home in Pocatello where they raised their two daughters.

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McConnell began oil painting in her 50s and became quite accomplished. In her younger years, she played golf and never turned down a chance to play bridge.

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She has a beautiful attitude about life, and shares love and wisdom with all who know her.

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Caring for a chronically ill or disabled family member has long been associated with stress, but a new study suggests the practice gives those caregivers a survival advantage.

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Home sharing becomes an option for seniors

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dential neighborhoods. What began as a one-house experiment in Lombard has grown to include houses in Naperville, Downers Grove and Elmhurst, Ill., where the seniors get three prepared meals a day and medicine reminders from a live-in house manager.

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It’s a living arrangement none of the seniors imagined for themselves when they were young, married and raising families in their own suburban homes. But time, age and circumstances led the five roommates — two men, three women ranging from ages 64 to 98 years old — to the red brick house in suburban Lombard, Ill. There, next door to a young family with a swing set and

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home-share residents are completely independent and typical roommates, sharing living spaces, granola bars and, in Lombard, even a vegetable garden in the backyard. “I grew up in a family of seven and two parents, and this is like home again,� said Bill Kelly, 64, who moved into the Lombard home a year ago and takes daily walks to pick up litter and greet the rest of the residents on the block. “I’m getting to know the neighborhood. I meet their children. I pet their dogs.�

Advocates for the aging say the housing shares, which officials hope to expand to other parts of the Chicago area in

upcoming years, offer a novel and important option for the elderly. “People are getting older in communities that were never really meant for older people,� said Kathleen Cagney, an associate professor of sociology and health studies at the University of Chicago. “Anything that is innovative from a design standpoint would be most welcome.�

After Jackie Kindl’s husband died, her five children worried about her. She had moved in with one of her daughters but spent much of her time alone.

So when a family friend shared information about the home shares, Kindl’s children knew it would be a good fit. “She was turned off by a lot of places because they were filled with wheelchairs and

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Claudia Taylor, who has been the house manager at the Lombard home for 30 years, said outside of scheduling designated days for the washer and dryer, the seniors don’t need many rules to keep the house running smoothly.

Each resident’s room has a TV, but the seniors gather on their own in the living area to watch “All in the Family� reruns together. They set and clear the table for meals, and know to pick up their own mess around common areas. “It’s voluntary and I have a democracy here,� Taylor said.

Residents live in the housing shares an average of 3½ years.

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Some residents are still working, some are gone all day playing golf, others stay home and keep mostly to themselves. Residents come and go as they please and can have overnight guests with approval from housemates.

The organization’s managers try to take personalities into account when they interview and place the seniors into the shares. But they note that it’s easier to navigate disagreements as they happen rather than to plan for them in advance. “We’ve got some night owls who stay up to all hours. At one house, two people sleep until mid-afternoon,�

Gustafson said. “There’s the good times and there’s the bumpy times.

But overall it’s a great place to get to know new people and have great social interactions.�

Rents in the housing shares range from $1,090 to $1,900 and cover a private bedroom in the house, food, utilities and cleaning. The live-in house manager does all the grocery shopping and makes a resident’s favorite meal on his or her birthday — if the resident isn’t keeping age a secret.

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Today, Kindl, 85, occupies the master bedroom of the Lombard house, where her dresser is lined with framed family photos. At mealtime, fellow resident, Mary Duprey, instinctively leans over to cut Kindl’s beef ribs before the seniors dig into the meat, corn, peas and cod.

Duprey, 80, tells her housemates about the time she met “Rat Pack� members Joey Bishop, Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin at The Sands in Las Vegas. She refused Martin’s autograph because she didn’t like his reputation with women. “I was a young girl at the time. I was stupid,� Duprey said, over her roommates’ laughs. “You didn’t know any better,� Kindl said.

Jessie Joniak, 98, talks about her favorite soap opera, which she’s been watching for decades: “The Young and the Restless.� “We’re the old and the restless,� Kelly shoots back, prompting laughs again.

These types of interactions are precisely what Senior Home Sharing founder Mary Eleanor Wall had in mind when she and a board of directors used Community Development Block Grant funds to begin the nonprofit organization and purchase the first home, said Wendell Gustafson, the organization’s executive director.

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The older we get, the greater our risk of developing osteoporosis becomes. The fragile bone disease affects about 9 million Americans.

Experts from the National Osteoporosis Foundation predict it will be responsible for approximately 3 million fractures by 2025. The good news is there are several innovative options aimed at improving the effects of osteoporosis and one treatment that may someday prevent the disease.

Integrated outcomes network: After watching his grandmother struggle for years with osteoporosis, Dr. Christopher Recknor decided to dedicate his career to the disease. As medical director of United Osteoporosis Centers

in Gainesville, Ga., he has tracked patients’ fractures since 2007 and, combining that information with other data, created the Integrated Outcomes Network, or ION, a computer software program that assesses each patient’s risk of fracture.

“There are lots of seniors who are trying to be very functional and active,” Recknor said. “The issue for the physician is to establish whether or not the patient is safe in being functional and active. We’ve shown that we can measure safety and predict fracture based upon that.”

Since launching ION three years ago, Recknor said the refracture rate under his care has dropped from 14 percent to 3 percent, well below the national average.

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A life of service: first to country, then community For many veterans service is a lifetime commitment “I feel the guy deserves it,” Gray said.

The Marine Corps League provides this free service for any veteran, not just those who have served in the Marines. They are one of a few organizations to offer a graveside service that honors veterans and their families.

“It’s kind of hard when we do someTribune/Steve Hanks one we know. We’ve A dedication ceremony for a new flag and pole at the Lewiston got some tough men, Red Lobster. The colors were unfurled, hoisted up the pole and but we see a lot of saluted by members of the American Legion and Auxiliary, Veter- damp eyes,” Gray ans of Foreign Wars, the Disabled American Veterans and Auxil- said.

Volunteering with iary, the Fleet Reserve, the Marine Corps League, the retirees of the Marine Corps the 148th National Guard, Scottish American Military Society, the League is not all Nez Perce Tribe veterans, the Idaho State Veterans Home and the somber. Through volunteering, Gray Boy Scouts of America. has become good at blackjack — a group

By Michelle Schmidt of Marine Corps League volunteers play regularly at Target Publications the Idaho State Veterans Home.

The men at the home enjoy it so much that, more often than not, they are sitting at the tables, ready to Veterans have done their part to serve our counplay before volunteers even arrive. And their enthusitry. But for many area vets, serving doesn’t end with asm for the game doesn’t end there. retirement.

“It’s kind of comical sometimes,” Gray said, with a A good number of them serve in one or more of laugh. the several area organizations that exist to support Gray joined the Marine Corps League 10 years ago. veterans and their famiHe has served as detachment commandant for five lies. Their impact — both years and is in his first year as commandant for the on fellow veterans and the state of Idaho. His time in the service has influenced community as a whole — is his time serving outside of it. diverse and widespread.

“I’m a Vietnam vet,” he said. Then he paused. What Ron Gray sat at his kitchen table when trumpets was unspoken in that moment communicated what words could not. “I always thought a vet deserved suddenly sounded Reveille.

It was his cellphone ringing. better than that.”

And by serving local veterans, he’s been able to “It’s probably for a funeral,” he said, excusing himself give them something better.

Service is a word veterans take seriously, as is while he took the call. evident at organizations like the Veterans of Foreign After he returned to the Wars. conversation, he explained It was just before noon at the VFW Hall in when he first joined the Ron Gray Clarkston and the coffee had just been put away.

U.S. Marine Corps League, The cups were stacked nicely alongside the packets they were performing an of sugar and creamer and there was no trace of the honor guard ceremony at a doughnuts that were out earlier. graveside service once a month. Now, 10 years later, The hall is open Monday, Wednesday and Friday they’re doing about two ceremonies a week.

The increase, he believes, is due to the reputation the mornings from 8 a.m. until noon. Some days there are several members who gather for coffee, other group has garnered for being professional. Gray and days are quieter. Some days the conversation is light his colleagues take their service seriously and refuse to and other times it takes a more serious turn. carry out the ceremony in a casual or sloppy manner.

With a listening ear and gentle demeanor, Gus Budach has earned the confidence of his peers.

He’s made several friends through the organization and it’s not uncommon for one of them to come in some morning and talk through problems or frustrations. And it goes both ways.

“It’s helped me too,” Budach said. “We’ve been through the same thing.”

And that may be, more than anything, what draws them together. Veterans come to the hall because Gus Budach it is a place where they are understood.

Budach served in the Vietnam War; his return home was far from pleasant.

“I was just like all the other vets,” he said. “I was down in the dumps.”

So when Budach retired at the age of 62 and he again found himself in a low place he joined the VFW. With its mission of supporting veterans, it was something he wanted to be part of.

“I felt like it was a way of giving back to what I’ve been through,” he said.

Budach didn’t participate much when he first joined. But through the years, he became more active in the organization and has been the post commander for four years.

“I find it very rewarding,” he said. “It’s one of the best things I’ve done in my life.”

And those low feelings? They’re not there anymore. Service and creativity — he’s created a portable Fallen Soldier display that he shows around town — leave no room for them.

Elsewhere in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley vets can find help in those low times at the local American Legion Post 27 as well.

There are days when the door at American Legion Post 27 is a rotating one.

As he sat in his office at the hall in East Lewiston, Vernon Serber described helping a local veteran fill out paperwork earlier that morning. Though the man had long been eligible for veteran’s medical assistance, he simply didn’t know it was available. what our job is.

Vernon Serber We“That’s try to provide services for vets and guide them in the right direction,” Serber said.

As post commander, Serber tries to spend one day every week checking in on various members to see how they are doing. On a recent visit to one of the newer members, he learned the man was having

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Volunteers work to unload food donated to the Idaho State Veterans Home in Lewiston. Food is collected by members of American Legion posts 13 and 27, the Marine Corps League, Disabled American Veterans, Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Fleet Reserve. medical issues and needed help — which is how the man ended up in his office filling out paperwork earlier that day.

And with that, one more veteran was given access to assistance they are eligible to receive.

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“I’m at the vet’s disposal,” Serber said.

“I put the vet first — and when I say vet, I include the family.”

That’s why the hall is open from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. At those times, Serber and his wife, Elaine, who is president of the

Veterans Day parade in downtown Lewiston.

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American Legion Post 27 Commander and army veteran Vernon Surber Jr. surveys the new heroes wall at the post quarters on East Main Street in Lewiston, where plaques will be placed for military veterans, police and firefighters.

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4 Osteoporosis, continued from page 17 Cryotherapy: Cold therapy has gained popularity in recent years as a treatment to reduce the pain of athletes’ sore muscles, among other uses.

According to Lauren Polivka, a licensed physical therapist and wellness coach at Icebox Cryotherapy Center, it’s helpful to osteoporosis patients, too.

“Pain for most osteoporosis patients is due to compression in the joints, lack of mobility and the inflammation that has resulted,” she said. “Cryotherapy is a safe, short, effective treatment that will affect the entire system.”

The treatment involves applying nitrogen gas to the client’s skin for 30 seconds or less, which dramatically reduces the body temperature for a few minutes. The theory is the skin reacts by sending messages to the brain, which stimulates the

regulatory functions of the body.

“Osteoporosis generally doesn’t cause discomfort in just one area,” Polivka said.

“So with the cryotherapy being systemic, it’s teaching the body how to combat pain and inflammation. The body goes into a healing state with the constant blood flow to the muscles, ligaments and tendons, and that is what is so beneficial with osteoporosis pain management.”

Nanotechnology: There are plenty of medications on the market that treat osteoporosis, such as Fosamax and Miacalcin.

Dr. M. Neale Weitzmann and Dr. George R. Beck, associate professors at the Emory University Department of Medicine, hope in 10 years or so, they will have developed a nanotechnology treatment that changes the way the disease is treated and could possibly prevent it entirely.

It is in the patent stage now and is still being tested on lab mice.

“The hope is that this drug

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This promising drug works on the molecular level by reducing bone breakdown and promoting bone formation. Most drugs only focus on bone reabsorption, Weitzmann said.

“If everything goes as we plan, we could provide preventative measures, rather than just treatment after the fact,” Weitzmann said.

“The standard of care for osteoporosis could change completely.”

Osteoporosis resources: United Osteoporosis Center for Gainesville, www. uochs.org/UOC/home.html Ice Box Cryotherapy, www. iceboxtherapy.com National Osteoporosis Foundation, www.nof.org.

Arnold Palmer’s legacy — from golf course to hospitals It’s all about brand marketing with athletes.

LeBron James and Tiger Woods embrace the mighty power of the Nike $woosh. Carl Edwards loves Subway subs.

Aaron Rodgers will do the discount double-check honoring State Farm Insurance.

Arnold Palmer — who turned 84 recently — lends his name to something a tad more precious than sneakers and subs.

Babies. Kids. Children in distress. Children who are in danger of dying.

Two fabulous Central Florida icons celebrated a birthday on Sept. 10: Mr. Palmer turned 84 and The Arnold Palmer Medical Center — two adjoining hospitals just south of downtown Orlando, Fla., — turned 24.

Fittingly so, it opened Sept.

10, 1989, on Arnie’s birthday.

Why not? It’s his baby.

Way back when, in 1984, Palmer was approached to see if he would lend his name to

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George Diaz a local hospital looking to expand its care for infants. He landed in a helicopter on the roof of the Orlando Regional Medical Center, with his late wife Winnie, to take a tour with a few folks, including John Bozard.

They looked around and saw a place about the size of a large bus, with only six beds

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4 Diaz, continued from page 21 in the neo-natal unit. “Great people and love what I saw,� Arnie told Bozard. “But we can do better than this for our kids.�

That they have.

The hospitals are now among the nation’s best.

Since 1987, the Arnold Palmer Invitational has raised more than $18 million for the two facilities under the AP brand — The Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies. And that’s just the tournament kitty.

On the eve of Arnie’s birthday, a plane full of local golfers loaded up on a tarmac and headed to Latrobe, Pa., Arnie’s hometown, for the inaugural Latrobe Classic. For $2,500 each, they got to spend the day at Arnie’s old playground for a round of golf and a few throwback memories. This was the place where Mrs. Fritz once asked Arnie to hit a tee-shot across a drainage

ditch at the No. 6 hole when he was 6 years old. “She said, ‘Arnie, if you hit my ball over that ditch, I’ll give you a nickel,’ �

Palmer said. “I was there every time she was.�

By the end of the day, during a reception, a big check was presented to the Arnold Palmer Medical Center Foundation for $200,000 — with a commitment from JetBlue, The Golf Channel and Bay Hill, which will raise that amount to $1 million in the next five years for the neo-natal unit. “That pleases the hell out of me,â€? Palmer said. “I’m not a nurse, I’m not a doctor, but I can at least attract attention sometimes. ‌ To see those kids who are sick and have them come up to you and tell you how great they are doing, and have the opportunity to be there and be taken care of, is wonderful.â€?

Madeleine Davis was one of those babies. Madeleine suffered two collapsed lungs right after birth but was treated and saved at Arnie’s place. Her father

Brian, a PGA tour pro, came along for the ride Monday and auctioned himself off to the highest bidding foursome. It added to a hectic work-week, but he gladly accommodated Arnie’s request.

Later in the day, when Arnie thanked him in front of a few folks, Davis said, “How could I not do this?

You saved my daughter’s life.�

Davis had a sister who died 40-some-odd years ago of the same problems as his daughter. Madeleine is now 5. “The tour is built on what he did when he was younger,â€? Davis said later. “Obviously Tiger took on the next mantle of bringing the tour on, but the reason we have what we have is because of people like Mr. Palmer. “From a players standpoint we owe him a great deal. From a family standpoint, well, we have a joke about it ‌ ‘I’ll always owe you.’ â€?

ď ˇ Diaz is a columnist for the Orlando Sentinel.

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Video game boosts mental abilities in older folks

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NEW YORK — It probably won’t become as popular as “Grand Theft Auto,� but a specialized video game may help older people boost mental skills like handling multiple tasks at once.

In a preliminary study, healthy volunteers ages 60 to 85 showed gains in their ability to multitask, to stay focused on a boring activity and to keep information in mind — the kind of memory you use to remember a phone number long enough to write it down.

All those powers normally decline with age, Dr. Adam Gazzaley, of the University of California-San Francisco, and colleagues noted in a study released by the journal Nature.

The study was small, with only 16 volunteers training on the specially designed game.

Gazzaley and other brain experts said bigger studies were

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He didn’t rule out, however, that some caregivers might not be in manageable situations and may have an increased risk of death. More research is needed particularly on those caring for parents because it’s a growing population.

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Lynn Jarvis of Asotin is Golden Times’ Senior Volunteer of the Month for November.

Nominated by: Rozella Van Pelt, wrote this in an email about Jarvis: “Lynn has worked hard to improve the city of Asotin, and I don’t believe, the people know what an asset she is to the city. … She has been involved in so many things with the Asotin city improvements, she has devoted a lot of time and a lot of the of hard work. … I believe the community needs to know what a wonderful person and hard worker she is.”

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Green, Vikki Bonfield and Jarvis were instrumental in getting the old mileage sign heading up Asotin Creek restored, bringing back a piece of the town’s history. She has also worked with the Asotin-Anatone school on educating the youth about litter.

What she wants people to know is volunteering is more than just working with organizations to improve the community, there are ways people can help on their own, she said.

Career: She retired in 2008 from being an attorney in Bend, Ore., where she practiced law for 30 years.

Family: She is married to Jim Jarvis, and the couple has four children and nine grandchildren. Jarvis met her husband while they were students at the University of Idaho and they raised their family in Bend.

When asked her favorite part of volunteering, Jarvis said: “The people you get to know and the difference you see you make for the community.”

“I would really encourage people not to be shy,” Jarvis advises anyone interested in volunteering. “Say ‘can I help?’ ”

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nity in the “traditional” way — when she sees a need she figures out how to fill it, she said.

She does serve on the Library board and helped start an informal group called Asotin Tomorrow. The group meets weekly on Wednesday mornings.

“I want to emphasise how easy it is for someone, not just in Asotin, to make a difference,” she said.

The first project Jarvis undertook in Asotin was getting a pet waste dispensers installed and signage to leash and pick up after dogs.

She saw a need and looked for ways to go about getting that need met, which is what she encourages others to do.

“These are all things people can do,” Jarvis said. “There isn’t anything special about me.”

She also helped with getting the new “Welcome to Asotin” sign on Highway 129 as you enter Asotin. Along with numerous other Asotin residents she helped spruce up the new curbs in town after the street project was done. Jarvis also put together a cleanup day for the Asotin cemetery and has worked to get the cemetery included in the Cemetery District for longterm care of the site. Elaine

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No teaching experience is necessary. l The Jack O’Connor Hunting Heritage and Education Center at Hells Gate State Park is in need of hosts.

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The ability to lift is needed for these positions. There are weekday and weekend times available. The food bank is also in need of volunteers to help at the front counter and in the warehouse. This posi-

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For more information on any of these or other volunteer opportunities offered through the WA-ID Volunteer Center call Cathy Robinson at (208) 746-7787.

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We see the forests with many shades of green.

We see God’s creatures wild and running free.

Miles and miles of golden grain that covers the countryside.

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Family came from near and far.

We all gathered ’round the large table to pray and to see the star of the dinner — a great big turkey gobbler.

My mommy spent days preparing lots of food.

Some of the things were: peach cobbler and huckleberry pie.

You can bet, I always had my eye on the treats.

Time has passed and things have changed — and I wish so much that things could be the same!

And it is my hope that everyone could have a happy Thanksgiving!

Pray, love and laugh!

And have fun with family and friends!

Then one day you will remember the good old days!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Enjoy making memories.

Yvonne Carrie, 69, Lewiston

Perfectly Rounded Our turkey is displayed surrounded by steaming foods, appetites respond in prayerful mood.

Help us give thanks today and all year long, while we show God’s love to all with song.

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The Republican My baby face, sure, that’s what done it.

Also my clever story and how I spun it — raisin cookies

spilled on a bakery shelf, who’s to know I cracked the bag myself?

I remember how one old lady cried when I caught her with her hand inside, then blubbered and hiccupped all the more when the manager banned her from the store.

He shook my hand for turning the old thief in; for sure, said he, I’d preserved his faith in men; Pilfering was a thing no business could afford, and gave me a bag of Oreos for reward.

My political life started right there.

It revealed people are gullible everywhere.

So guard your cookies, you voting resident.

I’m on my way to becoming president.

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62-year-old Californian continues quest for slalom skateboarding awards

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Jamie Hart clutches his skateboard and walks up the hill for the third time this recent morning always back up the hill, like the myth of Sisyphus with a wooden deck and wheels.

An SUV slows down to take stock of Hart, whose long, graying ponytail peeks from the back of his helmet. Hart has set up dozens of cones in a zigzag pattern on a steep grade of Estates Drive, a makeshift slalom

course in this otherwise upscale Wilhaggin neighborhood.

At the top, Hart, 62, places his skateboard on the ground, slides pads over his knees and pushes with his right foot. He takes flight, weaving between the cones with arms outstretched, hitting speeds close to 25 miles per hour, just like he did as a young man in the 1970s.

At the end of his run, Hart drags a foot on the pavement to avoid launching into traffic on American River Drive.

Then it’s back up the hill.

“I can do this all day long,”

said Hart, as sweat trickled down his cheek. “There aren’t too many people my age that do this. I’m proud of it.”

Sacramento may be home to cliques of aging skaters, but few riders put their bodies at risk the way Hart does with downhill skateboarding, a sport that’s seen a resurgence in popularity over the past decade. This Sacramentan was one of the top competitors of slalom skateboarding in the 1970s and considered a legend of the sport.

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Earlier this month, Jamie Hart, a Hart traveled to Tex62-year-old skate- as to compete in the World Championships boarder, takes of Slalom Skateboarda break after a ing, where he placed training session.

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4 Gaming, continued from page 22 cial video game can help mental performance. His game was designed to exercise specific abilities.

The game, called NeuroRacer, involves doing two things simultaneously. A player uses a joystick to guide a car along a hilly, twisting road, steering it and controlling its speed. At the same time, a series of signs — actually colored shapes — appear on the screen. The player is supposed to push a button only when a particular kind of sign appears. Players were scored on how quickly and accurately they reacted to the right signs.

The game progresses to harder levels as a player improves, to keep it challenging.

“You really had to focus,” said one study participant, Ann Linsley, 65, of Berkeley, Calif. “I went through 22 levels. By the end, we were really cooking along.”

In a separate experiment with 174 volunteers, between the ages of 20 and 79, the researchers found as people age, driving the car interferes more and more with performance on reacting to the signs.

But for 14 of the 16 participants

who played the game at home for a total of 12 hours, in a one-month period, the training decreased the amount of interference. In fact, on this measure they did better than a group of 20-year-olds who played the game for the first time.

The improvements were still apparent six months after the training stopped.

Researchers also found changes in brain wave activity that correlated with how well the improvement persisted at six months, as well as performance on a test of sustained attention for a boring task.

Brain experts unconnected with the study said previous research has shown older people can improve on mental skills such as multitasking if they are trained. But the training in past multitasking studies was “boring as all get-go,” said Elizabeth Zelinski, a professor of gerontology and psychology at the University of Southern California. Presenting an appealing game like NeuroRacer instead could help people stick with it, she said.

Linsley certainly enjoyed the game.

“I looked forward to doing it,” she said. When she had to give the laptop with the game back to the researchers, “I kind of missed it,” Linsley said.

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A fish story as told by a 94-year-old

By Lee Williams

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Moses Lopez spent his early days hunting with a slingshot. He mostly bagged rabbits and squirrels and was handy with a rod and reel as well.

“I’d tag along with my brother,” Lopez said. “That’s where I learned to hunt and fish.”

It was during the Depression in the 1930s, Lopez lived in Winnie, Texas, just east of Galveston Bay, Texas, with his mother, four brothers and two sisters.

Besides hunting and fishing, he found odd jobs and worked in the fields, planting and harvesting crops, doing whatever he could to help out.

“My father had passed away when I was 12,” Lopez said. “And we had a family to feed.”

Now a spry 94 years old, Lopez doesn’t hunt anymore — “that’s too much work” — but he still loves to fish.

“I’ll fish whenever I can find someone to go with me,” Lopez said.

He’s put away a few stories during his 80-plus years of dropping

lines, but few rival the one he told recently.

Fishing Aug. 22 with grandson Nicholas Griffin near Harbor One Marina at Eagle Mountain Lake in Texas, Lopez said it had been an uneventful day as he cast his line toward the docks.

He felt a little tug.

“I thought it was stuck on a stump but then it took off,” Lopez said. “It was fast!”

The black bass was a fighter and shot out of the water, giving them a glimpse of its size.

“He was big,” Lopez said. “Both me and my grandson knew that. He said, ‘That’s a big fish!’ ” As he maneuvered the fish near the boat, it spit out the Bandit lure — but Nicholas had a net in position and grabbed the largemouth bass, Lopez said.

Lopez had an electronic scale, but the batteries were low, so after measuring it — 23½ inches long — and taking a few photos, he turned

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MINNEAPOLIS — Chris inherited her family’s farm, but has no interest in farming. So Chris, an artist, decided to transform the rural property into studio and housing space for artists, featuring a kiln, looms, painting areas and a metalworking shop, surrounded by nature trails decorated with her partner’s original metal sculptures.

Jim, a retired engineer, had a longtime hobby of testing home energy-saving devices, applying his engineer’s skills to sort the valuable from the junk. He decided to start a website giving consumers access to the information he had collected, so they could put it to use in their own homes.

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Though pursuing very different types of projects, Jim, Chris and Lynn have something in common.

They’re all navigating midlife transitions, keeping engaged and productive through work that gives them a sense of purpose.

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Kronholm has firsthand experience with that kind of transition. In

2008, she retired from the AnokaHennepin, Minn., school district, where she’d worked as a careerdevelopment teacher.

She’d long been hearing about the coming flood of retiring boomers. With her heart still in teaching and her skills centered on career development, she decided to switch from high-school seniors to the other kind of seniors — the ones who have 30 or 40 or 50 years of job experience behind them but are ready to do something else in the next stage of life.

Kronholm began teaching “encore careers” through a number of organizations, including the St. Paul, Minn.based Vital Aging Network, which offers a program called “Evolve: Reigniting Self & Community.”

Kronholm teaches the eight-month course, which guides people from identifying interests and goals to launching their projects.

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“People underestimate what work gives them,” including a sense of accomplishment, a social life, even a form of identity, Schaefers said.

“It pays the bills, but it also gives a sense of structure to our lives. When that structure goes away, people really struggle. For a lot of people, they feel rudderless.”

Kronholm recalled a man who retired and moved to Arizona, planning to golf. “He said, ‘I golfed for two years. Then I thought, well, that was fun, but I have all this time left

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A mother and child reunion, 71 years in the making

By Tonya Strickland The Tribune (San Luis Obispo, Calif.)

SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Brooke Mayo, 89, sat at a small kitchen table in her Paso Robles, Calif., home on a recent afternoon as she carefully adjusted her eyeglasses and began telling a story of the daughter she gave up for adoption in the summer of 1942.

She reunited with that daughter for the first time this summer — a remarkable 71 years later.

“In 1941, near Christmas, a young girl got pregnant,” she began in a somber tone. “She was raped and she got pregnant.”

That young girl was Mayo, back when she was just 17 years old and walking to her car after a dinner party in the Hollywood Hills. She never knew her attacker. Nine months later, she gave birth to a little girl she named Delphine, a character in a film she liked, the 1940 mo-

tion picture, “Kitty Foyle.”

“They aren’t supposed to let you see the child, but I had a night nurse who was the nicest lady.

“And she let me hold the baby, who had the cutest, round rosy cheeks. I remembered those always,” Mayo said, a rare falter in her voice.

“In those days, having a baby as a single person. I just decided (adoption) was better for her.”

With support from her mother, she made the adoption arrangements at the same hospital in Glendale, Calif., where she had the baby.

“Then war broke out and I signed up to go overseas,” she said.

When Mayo arrived back home in 1945, she called the hospital to ask about her little girl.

“I thought about her an awful lot,” Mayo said. “I just wanted to let her know she wasn’t adopted because I didn’t care about her, because I did.”

“And she let me hold the baby, who had the cutest, round rosy cheeks. I remembered those always.”

— Brooke Mayo

But the woman on the phone told her that her daughter had died, she said. Mayo, heartbroken, trusted that this was true.

In reality, the baby wasn’t dead. The girl, renamed Patricia, was living with her adopted parents and a brother in the neighboring city of Burbank, Calif.

“We think they told her she died so she’d stop looking,” said Robin Barris, Mayo’s friend and caregiver.

From that day until Patricia was nearly 8 years old, mother and daughter lived mere minutes from each other — neither one ever knowing the other existed.

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In fact, Patricia never knew she was adopted until 20 years ago.

“I still lived on Fairview Street in Burbank when they told her I was dead — 3 or 4 miles away,” Patricia said by phone from her Kansas home.

“I’m just glad I was able to find her. That’s the bright side of it.

It’s been a long deal, and I’ve been upset over what my mom and dad have done. But that’s OK now because I found her.”

After the adoption, Mayo, one of two sisters in a family of no boys, served in World War II as a civilian administrator for the U.S. Army.

Her father died in 1938 and he, “Would have wanted someone from the family to serve their country,” she said. She worked in London and arranged housing placements for other American civilians there, such as the wives of generals.

Back home, after being told her baby had died, Mayo went on to become a showgirl and

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Instead, she traveled as a dancer, performing in stage shows across the country. She danced with movie star Gene Kelly and gave a ride to entertainer Sammy Davis Jr., stranded at a bus stop before he was famous, after recognizing him from a performance the night before.

She pursued college during the day, studying at places such as New York University, Northwestern University and Cal State-Northridge in math, psychology and Egyptian studies — the latter inspired by something she saw in a newspaper one day.

“My father always said, ‘Honey, you can do anything you put your mind to,’ ” Mayo recalled.

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She lived life. But her first daughter always lingered in her thoughts.

Since she learned her baby had supposedly died, Mayo lit a candle for her each year.

“There’s not a year I never thought of her,” she said.

Patricia, whose last name is being withheld because of Mayo’s concern for her daughter’s privacy, was almost 8 years old when her family moved from Burbank to Wichita, Kan., where her father took a new job.

Patricia’s father died when she was 14 and her mother continued to live in Kansas. She said her parents were good to her. Her father, a soft-spoken man, would do anything for his family, Patricia said. And she appreciated her mother’s sense of humor.

Patricia married, raised three boys and led a life rooted in helping others. When her kids were in school, she did corporate work for American Airlines and Pizza Hut. Today, at 71 years old, she volunteers with the American Red Cross national disaster response team, the Kansas Humane Society and the Wichita Children’s Home.

It wasn’t until 1993, years after her parents died, that she learned she was adopted. She was 51 years old.

“To start with, I was shocked and then really angry,” Patricia said, adding she’s had lifelong kidney issues that always baffled her because such problems didn’t run in the family.

She might never have known the truth had her brother not misplaced his birth certificate and called her up one day look-

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“I said that’s impossible. And he (the clerk) said, ‘Well, then you must be adopted,’ ” Patricia recalled.

It was that moment on the phone with a stranger that prompted what became her 20year quest to track pieces of the adoption puzzle, while her brother continues his search today.

“I knew nothing because everything my folks told me was a lie,” she recalled.

Research eventually led her to discover that she and her brother, Ron Rodney, had been adopted from different families in closed adoptions that were likely illegal at the time. The circumstances also meant getting a judge to re-

lease their adoption paperwork would be difficult.

Patricia started by phoning a family friend who lived next door to her parents in Burbank.

“I asked her, ‘What do you know about Ron and I being adopted?’ And she said she didn’t know.”

Frustrated, Patricia said goodbye and pondered her next move.

But that same day, Patricia said the woman called her back and, emotionally torn, unloaded the bombshell: “I promised your mom I wouldn’t tell.”

News of the long-kept secret rattled Patricia to the core.

“I don’t know why (they hid it),” Patricia said of her parents’ decisions. “I just wish (they) would have told us the truth.”

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4 Reunion, continued from page 31 After many attempts and few breakthroughs during the years that followed, Patricia finally learned the name of her birth mother this summer.

Her search was lengthy; leading Patricia to two states and many roadblocks as she resolved to find her birth mother without hiring a private investigator.

The long and frustrating search came to an end when Courtney Storck, a friend’s daughter with a keen interest in genealogy, found out about Patricia’s search and offered to help last year.

Through her efforts and Patricia’s determination, they received the long-sought documents in early July.

And, when Storck looked up Mayo’s Paso Robles address, she told Patricia that it looked like Mayo was still alive.

“I was floored,” Patricia said.

“After all this looking and then — bang — just right out of the blue there she was.”

It was a typical Thursday in July when Barris, Mayo’s caregiver, was going through Mayo’s mail. A large cardboard envelope caught her eye and she tore it open.

“I started reading it to myself and then said, ‘Hey, what do you think of this?’ ” Barris said as she re-enacted the bewildered look on her face that day.

The envelope contained a letter and several photocopies of adoption documents. The letter was from Storck, saying she had done research and be-

“I was floored.

After all this looking and then — bang — just right out of the blue there she was.”

— Patricia lieved Mayo was the biological mother of a dear friend.

And the daughter wanted to meet her.

“I was numb,” Mayo said. “I told Robin, ‘This can’t be. They told me she was dead.’ But they had all these papers.”

Among the documents was another letter from Storck’s mother, Renae Storck, who volunteers with Patricia at the Red Cross. She described her friend, the type of life she’s led and a

MOND A Y, NO V EM B E R 4 , 2 0 1 3 little about her personality. “ ‘She has a sarcastic wit and doesn’t have a problem voicing her opinion,’ ” Mayo excitedly read aloud from the letter.

With a pause, she looked up and smiled broadly, then added: “And that’s me!”

The next morning, Barris and Mayo crafted an email to Patricia, saying Mayo would love to meet. Then they left for a doctor’s appointment, hoping to have a response by the time they returned home. But the inbox was empty.

Robin left for a bit and “she was not out of the house 10 minutes when the phone rang,” Mayo said.

“I didn’t recognize the number. I picked it up and said ‘Hello?’ and a woman said, ‘Is this Brooke Mayo?’ And I said, ‘Oh my God.’ ” Patricia asked Mayo if she was all right and if she was sitting down.

“I wanted to email her (first) because you don’t call up someone who is (almost) 90 years old and say, ‘Hey, guess who I am?’ ” Patricia joked.

The pair talked for two hours.

Less than two weeks later, Patricia and her husband, Dick, were on their way to Paso Robles. They met Mayo in person on July 22. “I stood up and I just wanted to hold her. She looked

so good to me,” Mayo said, remembering Patricia walking through the front door for the first time.

“When she came here, Brooke was grabbing her hands and kissing her,” Barris said of the touching scene. “It took all I had not to just fall apart.”

When Patricia first saw her birth mother, she said, “I looked at her and thought, ‘Holy cow.

That looks like me.’ ” The pair shared pictures of the past and chatted about their lives. They both said they instantly knew they were family.

Several people have brought up genetic testing to them, the women said, but they don’t care for the idea. For now, they’re enjoying learning more about each other.

“I’ve got fine hair just like she does,” Patricia said. “I’m left-handed just like she is.”

The women plan to visit again this winter and they talk at least twice a week by phone.

“I was in a daze,” Mayo said of the whirlwind meeting. “I’m still in a daze. I can’t believe this. The people I talk to say it’s like a book or a movie or something, it’s just so amazing.”

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4 Leisure, continued from page 29 and I’ve got to do something.’ ” She helps students figure out what to do next by helping them define their talents and skills, list activities they enjoy, identify values and goals that stir their passions. Do they like to work with fabric or wood? Do they enjoy tutoring children?

“It has to come from that place of self-interest,” she said. “I’ll ask them, ‘What were you doing the last time you lost track of time?’ ” Some come into the classes with plans already in mind, sometimes goals they had postponed for the decades while they worked to support their families. Others have no idea what they want to do and may even take the course multiple times before inspiration strikes.

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g o l den t i me s Kronholm helps the students figure out how to turn these ideas into meaningful, productive work. Each case is individual, of course, although there are some common patterns: students evaluate their own leadership styles, identify communities to help with their projects, start working through the practical steps to achieving their goals.

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Would you want to live to be 120?

By Jeff Kunerth

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Otis Cliatt is 73 and hopes to make it to 100. Ginger Hallowell is 81 and thinks 90 will be long enough on this earth.

“I’ve done what I need to, and I’ve had a long and productive life,” said Hallowell, a former model and Weeki Wachee mermaid.

Neither has any desire to live to 120. Both belong to the majority of Americans who, given the chance, would rather not live to the endline of human existence, according to a recent study by the Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project.

Fifty-six percent said if they had a choice to undergo a medical treatment that would allow them to live to 120, they would decline. More than half said extending longevity to such a degree would be bad for society.

“We saw a number of people mention over-population as a concern,” said Cary Funk, the study’s senior researcher.

Proponents of “radical life extension” — the science, technology and theory of living to the extreme

limits of human life — boldly predict that by the year 2050, the average American will live 120 years. So far, the oldest verifiable person was Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.

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Retirement at 65 would become obsolete.

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Jamie Hart, a 62-year-old skateboarder during one of his training sessions goes down a small hill on Estate Drive near American River Parkway in Sacramento, Calif.

international circuit. It’s not to the level of the 1970s, but it’s a growing thing and most importantly there are a lot of great athletes.”

Hart keeps a room dedicated to the mementos collected over a life of skateboarding.

Vintage issues of Skateboarder magazine that mention him are stacked on a small table. His Santa Cruz Skateboards team T-shirt hangs on a wall inside a frame. There’s enough vintage skateboard decks to make the room look like a mini museum.

Hart’s win at the Catalina Classic event netted his own bubblegum card from General Mills, which was capitalizing on the 1970s skateboarding craze via trading cards.

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the sport’s coverage, downhill skateboarding was once among the sport’s key attractions. The Signal Hill Speed Run and other contests drew thousands, and were sometimes covered by such TV networks as ABC and CBS. Modern street and vertical skateboarding might show off plenty of technical tricks, but no-frills speed and slalom contests, where competitors race for time, still provide plenty of thrills.

“Downhill skateboarding was supposed to be the next big thing, until people were crashing and it started to die out,” Horelick said. “It’s gained a lot of traction for many years. All ages compete and there’s an

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the co-director of “The Signal Hill Speed Run” film. “Jamie Hart, Cliff Coleman, John Hutson — anyone who knows who these guys are respects them as icons. Jamie might be the last guy from Signal Hill who’s still competing.”

And not just competing, but still winning, and still staying relevant. At 59, Hart won a giant slalom contest in San Luis Obispo, Calif. Concrete Wave, a skateboard magazine that covered the event, said: “a historic figure re-emerged,” in describing Hart’s win.

In the darkened guest room of his Sierra Oaks, Calif., home, Hart slides a tape into a videocassette recorder. He fixates on the screen as the grainy footage unspools.

The year is 1977. Hart is 26, sporting a bushy mustache that’s straight from the “Me Decade” and some thigh-hugging shorts.

He steps to the starting line at the Catalina Classic skateboard contest as cameras from ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” capture the action. Host Jim Lampley narrates as Hart powers down the hill toward the finish line.

“As you watch Hart, see how smooth his style is,” Lampley said. “He is the leader after two runs. He needs a time of 27.170 in order to better his overall time. As he comes through the finish, he ends up with a good run but I don’t think his time will be quick enough.”

Hart hits the “stop” button and smiles. He came in second place that day, losing by just a few tenths of a second to Hutson, another downhill skateboarding icon. Hart netted $1,800 — half of that prize winnings, and the other $900 matched by his sponsor, Santa Cruz Skateboards. The money was nice, but the “Wide World of Sports” appearance, which included pre- and post-race interviews with him, counts as one of Hart’s greatest treasures.

“I was such a dark horse and it was so unexpected,” Hart said. “It was like a dream.”

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Baby boomers are flocking to church ministry MINNEAPOLIS — MaryAnne Korsch is still in her first month of classes at United Theological Seminary, but she hardly could be described as a tenderfoot. The retired school principal intends to become a chaplain at a hospital or hospice.

“I wanted to stay active and figure out a way to make a contribution to society,” the Duluth, Minn., resident said.

“I loved being an educator, but it’s time for a new path.

I’m not done being productive, I’m not done making a contribution and I’m not done learning myself.”

She’s one of a growing number of baby boomers — from handymen to business executives, from physicians to athletes — who are launching careers as ministers. They’re

As a basketball star in the 1970s, Janet Karvonen led the New York Mills to three straight state championships. Now KarvonenMontgomery is serving a one-year internship at Living Waters Lutheran Church in Lino Lakes, Minn., which will end with her being ordained as a Lutheran minister.

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part of a generation that grew up talking about making a difference in the world, but then got sidetracked by more pragmatic matters like raising children and paying their mortgages.

Now they’ve reached a stage in life where they’re able to refocus their energies.

“I’m a different person with a new life and a new calling,” said Janet KarvonenMontgomery, a record-setting basketball player who recently started a yearlong intern-

ship that will result in her being ordained as a Lutheran minister. “When I was in my 20s, I thought everyone was there to serve me. Now I realize how humbling it is for me to serve others. And how exhilarating. This feels a lot better to me.”

Although many industries are intent on attracting a young workforce, churches have realized the benefits of also recruiting people with real-life seasoning, “The life experience they bring with

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Nearly one-third of the students enrolled in Minneapolisarea seminaries are considered baby boomers, defined as those born between 1946 and 1964. Not only is that above the national average — which is pegged at 25 percent — but the state has been ahead of the curve of what’s been a relatively recent phenomenon in many places.

“I think it started here 10, if not 15 years ago,” said Glen Herrington-Hall, director of admissions at United Theological Seminary in New Brighton, Minn.

The seminaries have reached out to older students with innovative formats. United has a program in which classroom training is concentrated in two back-to-back days a week; there are even motellike dorms on campus for students who drive in from out of town. At Luther, there’s a program offering intensive training on campus twice a year — January and June — while everything else can be done online.

Nonetheless, the decision to enter the seminary is not made lightly, said Jo Bauman, a Luther graduate who was ordained Oct. 20 and installed as a pastor at Bethany Lutheran Church in Minneapolis a week later.

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It’s lenge our fundamental under- decades to the human lifeswhen everlasting standing of what it means to pan. life begins, he be human, religious leaders “Humanity would become said. told Pew researchers. extraordinarily old, there “ W i t h “Our mortality defines would be no more room for Christians, we us. It influences virtually youth,” he said. “Capacity think Heaven all of our decisions,” said sounds pretty David Masci, a senior Pew for innovation would die, good to us. It researcher who dealt with and endless life would be no has to be worth the religious implications of paradise, if anything a condemnation.” avoiding Heaven,” radical life extension.

Nearly 70 percent of said Hunter, 65. “I Masci said leaders from all think I am at my different faiths questioned adults in the Pew study prime in terms of whether extreme longevity said they would like to live wisdom and the would upend the concept somewhere between 79 and best use of my of marriage for life, the 100 years. That includes time and leaderdefinition of family and the Beardall Senior Center manship. But I have relationships between gen- ager Cheryl Rainsberger, who no desire to live is 53. beyond the age erations.

“I think 90,” she said. “I Pope Benedict XVI when I can constill see 90-year-olds dancaddressed those concerns tribute to somein 2010 when he preached ing.”

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Paul Cyr, at 84, Otis Cliatt, 73, throws horeshoes at the Beardall Senior Center in Orlando, Fla. Some people predict the average also has no desire to live to 120.

American will live to the age of 120 by the year 2050.

“The amount of money it takes to survive, I don’t “It’s easy to say I want to have the facilities to sup4 120 years old, live forever, but we better port myself,” said Cyr, who continued from page 33 think of all the ramifications,” was pitching horseshoes at said Rabbi Rick Sherwin, 62, Orlando’s Beardall Senior head of Congregation Beth Center on Monday with his Kayla Arocho, a 20-year- Am in Longwood, Fla. “If two buddies. “If they don’t old Hispanic student, said I don’t retire until I’m 90, have horseshoes in Heaven, she would like to live to be what about all those graduI’m not going.”

135: “How the world is now, ates of the rabbinical semiLife shouldn’t be measured everybody thinks it’s so bad. naries? They don’t get jobs in years, but in fulfilling the So I’d like to see how much because I’m holding onto my purpose of being here in the the world would change.” job forever.” first place, said 62-year-old Blacks and Hispanics are Those least enamored most likely to hope they with extending life anoth- Orlando Catholic Diocese • Private Rooms with Bath, Home Cooked Meals reach 100 and have a more er couple of decades are Bishop John Noonan. More decades added to an empty, • Personal Care Assistance, Medication Management positive view of the future the old and the evangelical. sad or disappointing life is no the study found.

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“That was a thrill, but it’s time to turn him loose,” Lopez said.

“I figure it was about 9½ or 10 pounds,” Lopez said.

“That’s the biggest fish I’ve caught that wasn’t a striper or catfish.”

About the only time he didn’t fish much was while he

was in the military, Lopez said.

He joined the U.S. Army in May 1941. He soon transferred to the U.S. Army Air Forces, his son Ray said, and ended up retiring as a master sergeant from the U.S. Air Force in 1963. He worked primarily as an aircraft mechanic and flew combat missions in World War II and the Korean War, according to an email from Ray. He married Beatrice in 1952, and they moved to the Fort Worth area in 1967, where they raised a family of two boys and three girls. When he wasn’t fishing, Lopez worked as an automotive machinist and later with the General Services Administration, before retiring in 1985.

His family moved to North Richland Hills, Texas, in 1977, where Lopez still lives today, not too far from Eagle Mountain and Grapevine lakes.

“I’ve always loved fishing,” Lopez said, “but I liked hunting. My first gun was a .22. … I traded a bicycle I found and fixed up (for the gun). … Then I later traded another bicycle for a 12-gauge shotgun. I could take ducks, geese … anything I wanted with that gun.

“I get around pretty good,” he said, proudly saying he still drives on Northeast Loop 820 and Airport Freeway when necessary.

He’s a regular at Saint John the Apostle Catholic Church in North Richland Hills, and still does his own cooking and cleaning at home. Beatrice, his wife of 60 years,

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He owns a cellphone — “it’s only for emergencies” — but don’t dare ask him to text. “I don’t know nothing about that.”

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