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ON THE COVER From branding to blooms and back again, Mark Addicks has led a full life — and he isn’t slowing down in the slightest.

Photos by Tracy Walsh

FROM THE EDITOR

MINNESOTA HISTORY

IN THE KITCHEN

6 Kathy Childers will take the reins at Good Age next month!

12 Minneapolis and St. Paul both committed census fraud in 1890.

22 Win breakfast with these granola-inspired cookies.

MY TURN

HOUSING FEATURE

8 Dave Nimmer shares his deep thoughts on turning the big 8-0.

14 RosePointe Senior Living has created its own innovative model for providing independent housing.

MEMORIES 10 Reading old letters reveals forgotten personal stories.

HOUSING SPOTLIGHT 18 Senior living communities are finding joy, despite the pandemic.

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FROM THE EDITOR Volume 39 / Issue 6

A new era!

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’ve been a journalist for about 20 years and, in my time, I’ve had some pretty amazing mentors at newspapers and magazines.

But one who truly stands out is Kathleen Childers.

As editor-in-chief of Gardening How-To magazine — where I worked before coming to Good Age — she hired me to be her second-incommand managing editor.

I quickly saw she was extremely talented and had high standards. I could scarcely believe she hired me to work at a 400,000-circulation national magazine!

Photo by Tracy Walsh But she had something special I hadn’t quite seen in a leader firsthand. She had a quiet grace.

She led by example. She didn’t get irritated or annoyed. She just got things done.

And she treated everyone with the deepest respect. She could give you feedback and you didn’t feel bad about it. You, oddly, felt better — nurtured, developed, groomed for something better.

She could also roll with anything. (And we rolled through some bizarre times indeed at that company, which gradually lost its way and had to close.)

Had I not met Kathy, I never would have been ready to take on a management role, like I did here. Thanks to her example of calm leadership — mixed with a standard of always striving for more — I was able to grow exponentially.

So imagine how it feels, eight years later, to have her taking over the helm of this magazine: Amazing!

Full disclosure: Although I started a different job a couple months ago, I stayed on as an interim editor to make sure we could get our next issue out smoothly — and find just the right editor to fill the role.

And that’s when Kathy stepped up to take Good Age into its next era!

Kathy is a true professional with 30-plus years of experience in writing and editing content for magazines, books, websites and videos. And she’s already working on a variety of terrific stories for the over-50 audience of Good Age. As a long-time residents of the Twin Cities, she and her husband enjoy biking, cooking, gardening, traveling, entertaining and hanging out with their children and grandchildren. Yes, she has grandchildren, which means she’s right in the wheelhouse of Good Age as an active, thoughtful senior.

So next month, please give a warm welcome to Kathy.

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MY TURN

The benefits of turning 80

BY DAVE NIMMER

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’ve never been big on celebrating my birthday, not even when I was a kid.

When I was working, I never got the day off and, frankly, it never seemed that important — at least compared to the Fishing Opener.

Last month, however, I turned 80 and I’m thinking this year ought to be special.

Call it mild cognitive impairment or a hardening of the arteries, but I’m feeling more respect from younger friends and strangers. Seventy-seven isn’t as impressive as 80, especially when they discover you can still walk to the store, get up out of a chair without a hand and drive to Brainerd without a pit stop.

During the worst of the COVID–19 outbreak, I got a lot of attention — texts, calls and online chats. A former student at the University of St. Thomas called me twice a week wanting to know how I was doing and whether I needed groceries.

My Northside nuns sent me a face mask from a Chinese sister who once lived with them. (She had mailed 20 of them to their Minneapolis monastery.)

The teenage son of an old friend came over to help me carry out a sailor’s chest.

Befitting an 80-year-old, I moved to a seniors’ apartment — more vets, some pets, no cigarettes. I decided it was time when the 7-foot stepladder I was standing on — while removing snow from my townhome roof — started wobbling.

Luckily, I wobbled as the ladder did and came to a soft landing rather than a hard fall. Now I’m in a place where the roof is

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above, the parking below and the garbage down the chute. Although it’s hard to tell because we’re all wearing masks, the residents seem friendly, lively and sprightly, more inclined to be in the game than on the sideline. I also encounter considerably more diversity in the hallways of the new place than the greenways around the old one.

When I’m finally settled in the new apartment, I should also get a new phone — a “smart” one. I believe I’m the only one in my area code with a flip-phone.

I’m actually embarrassed to pull it out in public. I find myself palming the phone, turning my back and finding a corner. I look like a high school kid lighting up a Lucky Strike. With the old flipper, it takes me five minutes to send

a five-word text. Yep, it’s time, and I could use the Uber app.

I also need a good cause, working toward a better future, rather than mourning the distant past. To prove I can do something besides siphon off Medicare dollars, I’ll continue to put out and speak up for Emerge and its North Four program.

The idea is to take young men off the streets, out of gangs, into school and onto jobs. My friend Will Wallace, who runs Minneapolis’ North Four, says in the past eight years, two of his 300 grads have been shot and killed.

A handful are in prison, but most are now working — getting a leg up because someone offered a hand up. To me at 80,

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Finally, to convince myself I’m not on a slide to “the home,” I’ll take a hike to the bottom of Utah’s Bryce Canyon, with its hoodoos (columns of rock) that stick straight up from the canyon floor.

I’ve asked the son of my best friend, who died of pancreatic cancer, to accompany me. He’s a retired Air Force colonel, and if he can command a squadron, he can follow me down and, if needed, push an old boy uphill. I believe his father would be proud of both of us.

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MEMORIES

Looking back on life through letters

BY CAROL HALL

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ear Carol, Guess how I’ll spend New Year’s? Flying home from Goose Bay, Newfoundland.

Isn’t that great?”

So began a Christmas note from Richard.

While “staying in place” during the COVID-19 pandemic, I’ve begun re-reading — before throwing all of it out — correspondence from men I’d dated during my 1960s airline stewardess days.

Richard was an Air Force KC-135 Tanker pilot based in Minot, North Dakota, who had been a passenger on one of my flights. After a short chat, Richard amazingly invited me to a special officers’ formal dining-in at Minot, beginning our dating and our corresponding, which saw Richard deployed to Vietnam in the dangerous job of forward air controller.

Meanwhile, several business envelopes stamped “Par Avion” bore the return address of 60 Rue Pauline Borghese, Paris, France. They were of course from Bob, who was a claims attorney for Pan American Airlines — and based in Paris.

We’d met on a ski vacation in Norway.

A true bon vivant, Bob wrote letters that often mentioned dining at Maxim’s and attending various elegant events: “In July, I was in Bayreuth, Germany, to attend the opening of the Wagner Festival.”

But, alas, Bob and I were only pen pals.

We were never able to arrange a rendezvous in Paris.

A thick packet of Air Mail letters from Jerry in Salina, Kansas, would take more time to go through.

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Jerry and I met under extraordinary circumstances. My flight schedule for October 1962 called for weekly overnight layovers in Detroit. Nothing unusual about that, except our airline crew was lodged at the same motel — the Travelodge Sleepy Bear — as a U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command B-52 bomber crew.

The Cuban Missile Crisis was underway.

The Soviet Union had placed mediumrange ballistic missiles in Cuba, just 90 miles off the Florida coast. The deployment represented a serious escalation in the ongoing confrontation between the two countries and their allies.

This was one of the most dangerous moments in human history. The SAC pilots, who’d been flown in from Schil-

ling Air Force base in Salina, were on full combat alert and confined to the motel awaiting the call to launch a retaliatory mission should President Kennedy declare war with the Soviet Union. Their nuclear-armed bomber was parked at the airport, 15 minutes away.

With nothing to do but wait, they milled around the motel lobby. Whenever our crew arrived, we found them waiting for us, eager for company.

Jerry was the co-pilot. We hit it off immediately. And so, as the world teetered on the brink of WWIII, I found myself in the bizarre position of sitting in the funky old Sleepy Bear lobby getting acquainted with a warrior who was waiting to be called into action — action that could

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With a fate too horrendous to imagine, denial set in. Jerry and I talked about his youth in Oklahoma and mine in Minnesota, our hobbies and the movies we both liked, as though nothing was wrong. We even promised to write each other in the future.

Once the crisis had passed, Jerry and I began a long-distance romance between Salina and Minneapolis that was chronicled in the letters I’d saved.

I may not be able to throw them out, after all.

Carol Hall lives in Woodbury. She’s a longtime freelance writer, a University of Minnesota graduate and a former Northwest Airlines stewardess.

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MINNESOTA HISTORY

A dramatic feud — fueled by fraud

BY HANNAH CATLIN

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n a Tuesday evening in mid-June 1890, a group of seven census takers from Minneapolis huddled together in the Vanderburgh Building, counting names. For the past several weeks, they’d been tasked with knocking on every door in the city and tallying each and every Minneapolis citizen.

Counting was a grueling task that year. The St. Paul Daily Globe reported numerous instances of doors slamming in census workers’ faces and citizens refusing to partake in the count in both Minneapolis and St. Paul. Because of this reluctant local participation, there was widespread fear that the final tally would significantly underrepresent the cities’ populations.

And then, that night — June 17, 1890 — U.S. Marshal W.S. Daggett burst into the Vanderburgh Building room, arrested all seven men and detained six sacks of Minneapolis census papers.

He was acting on a complaint from St. Paul census official William Pitt Murray.

Based on the testimony of a private investigator who had infiltrated the ranks of the Minneapolis census takers, Murray claimed that Minneapolis had inflated their census count and added thousands of fake names to their list.

A legal battle begins Minneapolis, a booming manufacturing city whose population had been growing steadily, had already surpassed its older neighbor in size. In 1880, it had already accrued about 5,000 more citizens than 12 | July/August 2020 | Minnesota Good Age

⊳ The Minnesota Transfer Board of Trade made a map of Minneapolis and St. Paul in 1891.

St. Paul. But, being a proud city, St. Paul refused to accept defeat, and in 1890, they were determined to stop Minneapolis from surpassing them again.

This was the beginning of the Twin Cities Census War, a legal battle that stretched throughout that summer, eventually escalating to the national stage.

The seven accused census workers were thrown in jail, and a $500 bond was placed on their heads. By the time their attorneys posted bail that night, news had spread. In a headline, The Minneapolis Journal declared, “It Means War!” According to an American Heritage article by Jack El-Hai, the St. Paul Pioneer Press lost $15,000 as angry Minneapolis residents and businesses cancelled their subscriptions and advertisements.

Town meetings filled with enraged Minneapolis residents calling for a total boycott of St. Paul businesses and politicians. At one public meeting, a committee of citizens appointed to censure St. Paul

drafted a resolution to strip the city of its status as state capital.

“These resolutions created unbounded enthusiasm,” wrote The Minneapolis Tribune on June 19, 1890. “When they were read, storms of applause arose, and when they were put to a vote, the vast audience jumped upon the chairs and shouted until the rafters of the old Armory Hall shook. There wasn’t a single dissenting voice — had there been it would have been drowned in the avalanche of cheers.”

Guns drawn?

Tensions rose on the other side of the river as well.

“Arrested!” cried the St. Paul Daily News the following day. “Scheme to Swell the Population of the Flour City Knocked in the Head.”

When a delegation from Minneapolis attempted to reclaim the census papers confiscated during the raid, several

⊳ A cartoon from the Minneapolis Tribune played off the Twin Cities census battle.

Photos courtesy Minnesota Historical Society

St. Paul police officers allegedly drew their guns on the group, which included Minneapolis police officers.

According to one of the Minneapolitans, when a physical altercation broke out, the St. Paul police kicked a man with disabilities 16 times. The St. Paul officers denied the charge.

The embattled cities eventually caught the eye of the national media.

On June 21, 1890, The New York Times ran a story about the feud, stating that St. Paul and Minneapolis had “locked horns.”

On July 23, another New York Times story claimed that St. Paul was “jealous” of Minneapolis, and that “the matter is regarded here [in Minneapolis] as a great game of bluff.”

Eventually the ruckus caught the ears of the U.S. Census Bureau in Washington, D.C. When a census investigator travelled to the cities to interview officials and evaluate documents, he found evidence of widespread and premeditated fraud on behalf of the Minneapolis government.

Census workers had added approximately 20,000 fraudulent names to their count.

The investigator found that St. Paul had also committed comparatively low-level fraud. Among the inventions were people reportedly living in Union Depot and a barber shop. One residence in St. Paul supposedly housed 120 individuals.

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No reason to cheat Eventually, the U.S. Attorney General stepped in to end the skirmish and administer a census recount. As it turned out, Minneapolis had absolutely no reason to cheat; they emerged victorious with 183,000 citizens to St. Paul’s 143,000.

Not only did Minneapolis come out the bigger city, but the following decades also would see the decline of St. Paul, as its role as a transportation hub on the Mississippi River slowly became obsolete and the city’s economy fell into relative disrepair.

The power imbalance only fueled the cities’ rivalry further. It manifested in a bitter baseball rivalry between the St. Paul Saints and Minneapolis Millers during the first half of the 20th century.

The feud even reared its head in 1965 when the two cities refused to start daylight saving time on the same day, leaving Minneapolis an hour behind St. Paul for two weeks.

Now, united by shared baseball and football teams and a sprawling metro area of suburbs, the two cities maintain a tenuous truce.

Sibling rivalries never truly die, though, and who knows when another spark will reignite the famous Twin Cities feud.

Hannah Catlin is a public relations intern with the Minnesota Historical Society.

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Pandemic success stories In a rapidly changing world, administrators, residents and families must adapt to a new normal

BY JULIE KENDRICK

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n early March, Suzanne Howes had a pretty good idea about the way she’d celebrate her 81st birthday the following month: She’d spend time with family and friends, hug her grandchildren and have everyone gather in closely to sing Happy Birthday while she blew out the candles on her cake.

Instead, by the time her big day rolled around in April, Howes found herself sitting in a lawn chair outside her apartment at The Legends of Woodbury, an independent senior living complex. As she fought off the early spring chill and pulled her coat a little tighter, she waved gamely as cars of well-wishers drove slowly by. There were homemade signs, bags of birthday gifts to hand over and plenty of enthusiastic honking.

Beside her was a gift from her daughter, Sherilyn — a jumbo package of toilet tissue. It was a present that would have seemed ridiculous just a few weeks ago, but which was very welcome now.

“It was a beautiful day, and my wonderful daughter planned it and surprised me, for which I’m so glad,” Howes said.

Still, there’s no denying that a “driveby” birthday has its drawbacks.

“An elbow bump isn’t nearly as good as a hug,” Howes said.

These days, Howes is experiencing many “new normal” substitutions that aren’t nearly as nice as the real thing.

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▲ Catholic Eldercare resident Ellen Schneider meets with a visitor through a window. Photo courtesy of Catholic Eldercare

Instead of chatting with friends in the now closed-off common areas of her community, she spends more time alone in her apartment. Instead of participating in large group events, she takes a daily, socially distanced, walk with a neighbor.

“The days are long and it can get lonely,” she said. “But there are people who have it much worse.”

As challenging as the cancellation of group activities within the community has been, her daughter said it’s a huge improvement over what could be happening if her mother were still living alone.

“She’s a joiner, a real Suzy Social, and while she’s missing lots of things, at least she can see other people’s faces and talk at a safe distance,” Sherilyn Howes said. “If she were by herself during a pandemic, she’d be cut off so much more.”

How to balance the risks and benefits of senior living in a congregate community is a topic that’s on the minds of many families in the Twin Cities these days.

As concerned as they might be about seniors living together in close proximity, they also value many things about the arrangement, including the psychosocial benefits of interaction with other people.

We spoke with leaders from some of these facilities to find out how they’re balancing the hard reality of a new virus with the softer side of our need for oldfashioned human interaction.

Moving quickly, changing forever “Unprecedented” seems like an understatement for the times we’re living in, but registered nurse Marilyn DuBay has seen something like it before.

“I was a new nurse when the HIV/ AIDS epidemic began,” she said. “It changed how we worked forever afterward, and I think this pandemic will have a similar lasting impact.”

DuBay is an infection control preventionist at Catholic Eldercare, a senior community with five locations in Northeast Minneapolis. Like senior communities across the state, they closed to all but nonessential staff members in March.

In response, Catholic Eldercare increased its use of telehealth visits with physicians, specialists and nurse practitioners.

“We quickly ramped up our capacity, and we now have a dedicated team to conduct telehealth visits,” DuBay said.

“It’s safer for everyone, and it’s so much better for the patient to be literally ‘seen’ by someone, instead of having to describe a condition to their doctor over the phone.”

Responding to psychological needs has required creativity.

“We’ve set up schedules with families for video conferencing and window visits,” said Marie Barta, the organization’s director of operations for skilled services.

“We’ve developed additional programming for our internal television station, Channel 6, and we do daily live broadcasts with updates, church services, entertainment and even recurring segments with characters our staff have created. Residents really look forward to it.”

▲ Estie and Jim Sherman celebrate at a social distant happy hour at Sholom’s Knollwood Place Apartments in St. Louis Park. Photo courtesy of Sholom Senior Housing

Hallway car races Other communities across the state also have been ramping up to keep residents safe and informed.

Jamie Maddeaux is vice president of sales and marketing for Sholom, which has senior living facilities throughout the metro area. Sharing as much information as possible, as quickly as possible, has been a key goal for her organization.

“The landing page of the website contains a dashboard of all our relevant data,” she said. “We added a telephone hotline for those who aren’t comfortable

with the computer.”

Sholom’s therapeutic recreational staff have found new ways to keep residents connected despite social distancing.

“We’ve been holding hallway bingo with people spaced 6 feet apart, and we’ve been doing remote control car races in the hallway, too,” she said.

There also are reasons to celebrate, especially when someone “graduates” from the COVID-19 treatment area.

“We had a resident who is 101 who got the virus — and then got better,” Maddeaux said. “We all applauded her when she moved out of isolation.”

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▲ During COVID-19, Sholom residents worked on crafts with hearts to keep up spirits. Photos courtesy of Sholom Senior Housing

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Anne O’Connor is a nursing home administrator who is supporting statewide response efforts for long-term care.

She applauded the work of her colleagues who care for seniors.

“The staff working in senior living communities are incredibly resilient and creative,” she said. “The commitment of those working on the front lines is crucial.”

Even in the face of serious challenges, O’Connor is confident about the level of care and concern.

“There are constantly moments of joy in senior living communities,” she said.

“These bonds cannot be broken, even during a pandemic.”

As an example, she shared a story about a nurse who was helping in a facility on a temporary basis.

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There are constantly moments of joy in senior living communities. These bonds cannot be broken, even during a pandemic.

— Anne O’Connor, a nursing home administrator

also a French speaker,” O’Connor said.

“She spent time at the woman’s bedside, reading French poetry and singing to her in French. That’s the kind of thing that happens every day in long-term care.”

O’Connor is proud of her colleagues’ response to the pandemic.

“The dedication of caregivers is the reason that so many residents have been

▲ Video chatting has increased exponentially during the pandemic to keep Sholom residents connected to family in lieu of in-person visits.

kept safe and protected,” she said. “The facilities that are doing well, either by avoiding a COVID case or by quickly and effectively containing cases in their building, are not the ones that are making the news, but they are putting forward enormous effort to follow the guidelines to keep our elderly safe.”

In a moment when everything is uncertain, O’Connor said one thing will remain the same — the need for adequate staffing levels.

“There are thousands of dedicated caregivers in the state, but we need more,” she said. “Senior care is a stable industry that needs committed individuals who want to form lasting relationships in their daily work.”

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ROSEPOINTE SENIOR LIVING

HOUSING SPOTLIGHT

WHERE: 2555 Hamline Ave. N., Roseville OPENING DATE: Feb. 14, 1988 with

a floor-to-ceiling remodel in 2017

AGES WELCOME: 62 and up NUMBER OF UNITS: Six-story high-rise with 146 units and 11 floor plans

COST RANGE FOR A SINGLE RESIDENT:

$1,500 a month for a 1-bedroom (600 square feet) to $2,435 for a 2-bedroom, 2-bath (1,350 square feet), plus many other options in between.

AMENITIES (rental rate includes):

A ‘forever home’ RosePointe Senior Living offers independent living that can last a lifetime popular type of senior housing these days is a “continuum of care community” that offers a range of housing styles, typically progressing from independent living to assisted living to memory care to skilled nursing.

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BY SARAH JACKSON

It’s a huge innovation, compared to the nursing homes of the old days.

But it’s not for everyone.

In fact, the senior housing industry has recently rebranded such communities as Life Plan Communities to move away from the idea of senior housing as health care, especially when so many folks don’t even know if /when they’ll need health services.

• Sound-proof apartment homes with at least one half-bay window • Weekly housekeeping • Utilities (including heating and AC), except electric, land-line telephone and Internet • Digital starter cable TV package, including approximately 90 channels • 10 chef-prepared dinners per resident per month • Daily on-going beverage bar • Scheduled van transportation for shopping, medical appointments, religious services and excursions • Fitness center with scheduled exercise classes • Extensive selection of social, cultural and educational activities • 24-hour staffed front desk • Emergency call system monitored 24 hours a day • Complimentary laundry facilities on each floor

Another model is to “age in place” in one’s single-family home, and then if/when health care is needed, hire in-home care.

The problem with that arrangement is that seniors are still faced with isolation, the tasks of constant home maintenance and the price of in-home health care, which typically requires hourly minimums that can be unaffordable for many families.

• Convenience store and bistro • Private family dining room • Guest rooms • Library and community room • Card room and billiards • Garden plots and a walking path

OPTIONAL ON-SITE FEE-BASED SERVICES: • Underground heated parking ($55) • Second resident fee, if applicable ($165) • Guest rooms • Hair salon • Additional dinner meals • Lunch service and convenience store open Monday-Friday • Additional housekeeping and laundry services • Private-pay home health-care agency services on-site for four hours in the a.m. and four hours in the p.m., seven days a week.

PROPERTY OWNER: Curtis Squire, Inc.,

of Eden Prairie, a privately held company with investments in fine art, TV broadcasting, senior living, commercial real estate, Internet publishing and retailing and electronics manufacturing; other facilities include RosePointe II in Roseville; RidgePointe and Sunset Ridge in Minnetonka; and RiverPointe in Denver, Colorado

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NOTE: Some services will be modified or temporarily suspended due to the pandemic.

People want to live into their 90s and 100s — and not be in assisted living. They want a more affordable approach to home health care.

— Jana Mazie, RosePointe Senior Living Marketing Director

Another way But what if there could be an arrangement that offered both the true independence of independent living, but also in-home health care costs that could be shared by the residents who needed it?

If a resident needed, say, just 15 minutes of help with getting on a leg brace at the beginning of the day, that doesn’t mean that resident needs assisted

living or even a full hour of care.

That same home-health care worker can spend short periods of time with a variety of other residents, assisting with important, but not lengthy tasks, all the while keeping costs down per resident and making the visits sustainable for the in-home health-care company.

At RosePointe Senior Living in Roseville that idea isn’t a “what if.”

Thanks to pilot program started in 2018 — called Optimizing Aging in Place — residents at RosePointe are striking that balance in terms of health care and many other issues, said the community’s marketing director Jana Mazie.

“People want to live into their 90s and 100s — and not be in assisted living,” Mazie said. “They want a more affordable approach to home health care.”

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▲ RosePointe Senior Living, 146-unit, six-story high-rise, was built in a wooded area off Hamline Avenue in 1988 when brick, concrete and steel were more common building materials. RosePointe was remodeled top to bottom with contemporary furnishings in 2017. Photos courtesy of RosePointe

Though a variety of in-home care services are allowed at RosePointe, such as Home Instead and Visiting Angels, the community has partnered with Comfort Keepers (a national provider of in-home senior care and companion care) to provide four hours of care in the morning and four hours in the evening spread out across participating residents.

“They’re doing a marvelous job,” Mazie said. “Residents now have an affordable shared-cost model where home healthcare services can be delivered across multiple residents seven days per week.”

Contracts for residents can be as short as 30 minutes for less than $20, Mazie said, adding that only residents who need the services need to pay for them.

“We’re putting a lot of programs in place that make independent living at RosePointe a forever-home, one-time move,” Mazie said.

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neighboring senior living communities to share best practices and care-delivery choices for residents who require transitional care, advanced assisted living, memory care or skilled nursing services,” Mazie said.

Mazie said there are many other reasons to love RosePointe: First of all, the marketrate apartments feel like homes. Built in 1988 when steel, brick and concrete were more common building materials, the 146-unit, six-story high-rise community is tucked into a wooded area off Hamline Avenue east of Rosedale Center.

Each sound-proof apartment in the community, updated dramatically in 2017, features at least one half-bay window that overlooks greenspace.

During COVID-19 RosePointe, meanwhile, has pivoted quickly to make residents as well as their loved ones comfortable during the COVID-19 lockdowns with frequent updates for family and loved ones about goings-on and safety measures, plus creatively redesigned resident-engagement activities.

During April, for example, the commu-

nity’s full-time resident services director introduced all kinds of new activities residents could appreciate from the comfort of their own apartments throughout the month, including doors-open apartment music and singing; apartment door signcreation projects; YouTube/Ted Talk videos followed by videoconferencing discussions; virtual scavenger hunts, including education on how to do videoconferencing; ice cream truck goodie deliveries in the hallways; a gosling hatching countdown; and bagpipe music outside the building.

Focused on wellness Long before COVID was a thing, RosePointe’s Optimizing Aging in Place programming began, including “Driving Your Wellbeing” classes on topics related to life’s “intersections,” such as being mortal, loss of dreams / rebuilding dreams, grief and hope, hospice and palliative care.

Another feature included the introduction of easy-to-use GrandPad technology to improve resident social outreach and engagement.

Residents were also offered education

▲ Socializing doesn’t look like this anymore with COVID-19, but residents are still able to gather at a safe distance.

on in-home INR lab testing to help them reduce the need for repetitive off-site clinic visits for simple bloodwork.

During non-pandemic times, community groups include the RosePointe Singers, a gardening team, a women’s writing group, a Grand Friends Program that visits grade schools, educational courses, Ted Talks and more.

“When visiting or becoming part of our community, you should feel warmth, unpretentiousness and an early sense of trust — a culture you can feel walking in the door,” Mazie said.

With more than 30 years in the industry, staff have learned, Mazie said, what it’s like to “walk in our residents’ shoes” — whether that’s a recently retired baby boomer or a member of the Greatest Generation.

“I think we have a real opportunity for independent living to spread around our progressive Minnesota community,” she said. “Let’s have residents drive what’s important to their well-being.”

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FULL SPEED AHEAD

Retirement life is full and busy for Mark Addicks, especially when the garden’s in bloom

BY JULIE KENDRICK et’s say that on Friday, you retired from a 26-year career at General Mills. Come Monday, would you plan on sleeping late, puttering around and enjoying some much-deserved down time? Not if you’re Mark Addicks.

As one of the longest-tenured chief marketing officers in the food industry, he might be forgiven for a bit of slothfulness when beginning retirement.

But on the first Monday after leaving General Mills, he drove out to Chanhassen and took his place in a 200-person classroom at the Minnesota Landscape Arboretum, beginning the coursework that would earn him a Master Gardener certification.

“It was something I’d always wanted to do, so I started right away,” he said.

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Mark Addicks doesn’t just maintain his own garden (pictured).

He volunteers to take care of 10 community gardens in the city of Minneapolis.

Photos by Tracy Walsh Photography

Addicks, 65, ended his climb up the General Mills’ career ladder with a 10-year stint as chief marketing officer, which ended with his retirement in 2015.

He was responsible for the brand-building of such wellknown names as Betty Crocker, Cheerios, Gold Medal Flour, Häagen-Dazs, Lucky Charms, Old El Paso, Pillsbury and Yoplait.

“I loved the culture and the variety at General Mills,” he said. “I love marketing — the psychology of it especially.

Every day was a new challenge. I had eight different titles before becoming CMO, so it was like being able to change jobs every few years, but still know where the restroom and cafeteria were.”

THE TAXI TOUR

Photos by Tracy Walsh Photography

As successful as his career eventually proved to be, General Mills came close to being a no-go for Addicks. After completing his MBA from Harvard Business School — and before that an undergrad degree at University of Texas at Austin — he was recruited by General Mills and flew to the Twin Cities for an interview.

“Everything was perfectly fine, but all I’d seen was my hotel room, the Interstate 394 corridor, the General Mills campus and the airport,” he said. “I’d had offers from companies with headquarters in San Francisco and New York, so I was thinking I probably wouldn’t take the job here.”

On his taxi ride back to the airport, the driver asked if he’d seen anything of Minnesota.

“I said ‘no,’” Addicks said. “He took me on a tour around the Chain of Lakes and to Minnehaha Falls. It was a beautiful spring day. I was so impressed with what I saw, that I took the job. And if that taxi ride hadn’t happened, I wouldn’t have ended up in the Twin Cities.”

One of the projects he’s proudest of leading is the heart-healthy marketing campaign for Cheerios.

“We worked with different organizations, like the FDA, to communicate our message about oat bran being proven to lower cholesterol,” he said.

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Cheerios, was engaging and didn’t overpromise. We focused on nurturing, and on demonstrating the way that Cheerios, which is often a first finger food, is a brand that nurtures. We told our stories within the architecture of someone nurturing someone else.”

AN INNOVATOR EXTRAORDINAIRE Now comes the big question faced by every retiree: What’s next?

“It comes down to a question of editing as to how I want to spend my time,” he said.

Using his marketing smarts and endless connections, Addicks has been the perfect person to spearhead the annual Manova Summit, which brings together innovations and ideas on the frontier of health and wellness — plus some famous speakers, including Katie Couric and Jane Fonda, to name a few.

He’s the CEO of 2023 Partners LLC, the business group for the international summit, showcasing the future of health in Minnesota, long an epicenter of

medical innovation or “Medical Alley.”

It doesn’t sound like much of a retirement, does it?

The Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal recently named Addicks a 2020 Business of Pride Career Achievement Honoree for his many accomplishments, board memberships (Artspace, St. Paul Academy, Walker Art Center, Planned Parenthood) and community contributions.

He’s also the guy behind the Minneapolis Good Chair Project: In 2016, Addicks founded the nonprofit, which equips Minneapolis parks with 200 custom wooden benches spring through fall.

The goal? Fostering community connections and personal reflection.

At the moment, placement of the beloved chairs is on hold until the Minneapolis Park Board gives him the go-ahead to put them out with pandemic safety in mind.

Unlike typical park benches, which are usually cemented in place, the good chair benches can be picked up, moved and rotated.

“They apparently have gotten pushback from people looking for our chairs,” Addick said of the MPB.

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A TEACHER, TOO Addicks is also a professor at the University of St. Thomas, where he teaches in the Executive MBA program. He taught in the night MBA program before he retired from General Mills.

“I come from a family with a number of teachers in it, and I love teaching,” he said. “Having that teaching background was the single most important thing that prepared me to be a CMO.” Family also has been a major focus.

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▲ Mark Addicks and his husband Tom Hoch bought and renovated the Schutt House, one of the first homes built on Lake of the Isles. They also renovated its extensive gardens and added 1,800 perennials. Before the pandemic, they frequently used the home and garden to host fundraisers. Photos by Tracy Walsh Photography

I was able to be with them all the way.”

The deeper meaning of that experience is still with him.

“As a society, we celebrate so much when someone comes into the world, but we do so little in helping them leave,” he said. “People who are dying need all the same things that infants do — looking in their eyes, talking to them, singing to them, soothing and comforting them.”

He recalled that in the last days of his mother’s life, she would express concern about completing household chores or about attending to the duties of one of her volunteer jobs.

“I was there to reassure her that I would handle it, and she would relax.

It was such a profound thing,” he said.

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ways, too.

Addicks’ son, John, 20, is on a gap year teaching English in his native Vietnam.

Addicks was single when he and a good friend, Kate O’Toole, adopted John.

“We weren’t married, but we operated like a family,” Addicks said. “We had family dinner together every night.

I coached his sports teams, and I spent every day with him."

MASTER GARDENER Another friend, Kathy Culley, met Addicks through the Vietnamese adoption community and Vietnamese culture camps and events.

“We also share a love of gardening, so when he became involved in city gardens, I wanted to work with him,” she said.

When asked to describe what makes him such a good friend, she said: “His heart. His endless enthusiasm. His smarts. It’s hard to choose one, because they are so entwined,” she said.

Culley said she hoped that more people would learn about Addicks’ contributions in building and maintaining Minneapolis community gardens. In fact, he built and now maintains 10 community gardens — one on Lake of the Isles; one on the corner of Fremont Avenue and Mount Curve; and eight along the mall between Hennepin Avenue and the lakes.

“They bring joy, beautify our city and create a sense of pride,” she said. She noted that giant purple alliums are something of a trademark for Addicks, so when you see them blooming in

one of the 10 community gardens he supports, you have him to thank.

THE LAKE HOUSE Addicks is married to Tom Hoch, former president and CEO of the Hennepin Theatre Trust and a notable candidate for Minneapolis mayor in 2017.

“We were introduced by our city council person, Lisa Goodman, who thought we might be a good couple,” Addicks said. “We went on a blind date at Lucia’s Restaurant and Wine Bar, and it kept going from there.”

The couple bought and renovated the Schutt House, one of the first homes built on Lake of the Isles. Before the purchase, it had been in the same family for 100 years, ever since Mr. Schutt presented it to his new bride as a wedding gift.

“We did a serious rehab, down to the studs, and we also revived and renovated

the original garden,” Addicks said. “The original gardeners were friends of Eloise Butler, but then it fell into disrepair.”

Showing the kind of horticultural enthusiasm that would later help him earn that Master Gardener certification, Addicks, with Hoch, planned and planted a garden with 1,800 perennials.

Hoch and Addicks host as many as 20 fundraising events a year at their home, for everything from political causes to the Eloise Butler Wildflower Garden & Bird Sanctuary.

“This ability to use the garden as a welcoming spot for fundraisers was one of the reasons we purchased the house,” Addicks said. “It’s historically significant, and it has views of the garden and Lake of the Isles.”

Between their gardens at home and in the community, Addicks and Hoch do much of their own work, versus hiring out.

“When we were working on the house and garden, people would be snooping around the garden, and when they’d see us, they’d say, ‘Don’t worry, we know the owners,’” he said. “I guess we looked like a couple of workmen, so they never imagined we were the owners. We would always just wave and smile.”

With the garden in full bloom, this is a great time to admire the Schutt House garden during your next walk around Lake of the Isles, where you might see a bench or two this summer, too.

And when you see the chairs or the Schutt House, if you’ve read this profile, you can feel confident in telling your walking partner, “I know the owner.”

Julie Kendrick is a contributing writer for many local and national publications.

She lives in Minneapolis. Follow her on Twitter @KendrickWorks.

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BETTER ANGELS OUTDOOR ART INSTALLATION → Several hundred pinwheels in shades of blue and white, re-engineered to resemble angel wings, have been strung on horizontal steel wires for movement in the wind. Visitors can enter the arched structure, which creates a “cloud tunnel,” to experience the moving wings.

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Shoppers will need to wear masks and observe social distancing.

→ The latest in a new monthly series of outdoor films, Fantastic Fungi is a descriptive time-lapse look at mushrooms and other fungi. The art of Franconia Sculpture Park is also open to visitors. Masks are mandatory and social distancing is encouraged.

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When: 9 p.m. July 18 Where: Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer Cost: Parking is $5 per car; the film and sculpture park are free.

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WORD SCRAMBLE Motive, Poirot, Weapon

1. Perhaps Arthur Conan Doyle’s most celebrated Sherlock Holmes story is The Hound of the … what?

CRYTPOGRAM I married an archaeologist because the older I grow, the more he appreciates me.

Another of Life’s Great Mysteries

2. Tony Shalhoub plays a detective with obsessive-compulsive disorder in what 2002-2009 TV series?

3. What film legend directed the mysteries Rear Window, Vertigo, The 39 Steps and many more?

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1 Really easy task 6 Serious cut 10 Sect. on a concert ticket 14 In flames 15 Brink 16 Dodgers or Cubs 17 Chicago-based improv group, with “The” 19 Semester 20 Bit of memorabilia 21 Bee secretion 22 Camera type, for short 23 Imagined barrier between actor and audience 28 Old fast fliers 30 Dallas region inset on a Texas atlas page, e.g.

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33 Fingers in a lineup 34 Beethoven’s “Pastoral” or Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” 38 Philip of “Kung Fu” 39 Regrets 40 Barely make, with “out” 41 Pool stick protector 43 Lat. and Ukr., formerly 45 Musical symbol also called a quaver 47 Hoopla 50 Fairway position 51 Mattress you can “float” on 54 Fellow, to a Brit 56 When Buster Douglas knocked out Mike Tyson, in a classic 1990 bout 58 Fastening device 59 “Not a __”: “No idea” 60 Pasta sauce herb 61 Online craft shop

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10 Canada’s capital 11 Check out again, as a patient 12 Train unit 13 “I’m thinking” 18 Bonkers 21 If 24 Obama chief of staff Emanuel 25 Stadium in St. Pete, with “The” 26 Gaga or Godiva 27 Record albums, briefly 28 Census datum 29 Unvarying fee 31 Cabernet holder 32 NES part: Abbr.

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