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Walking Washington’s Riverfronts …by Judy Bentley

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umors about “the mighty river of the West” drew early explorers from around the world, looking for a waterway across the North American continent.

When canoe-loads of furs were paddled down the river, more than a thousand people gathered at Fort Vancouver, making it the first real city in the Pacific Northwest in the 1820s.

A century and more later, thousands of workers streamed to shipyards in Vancouver during two world wars.

To celebrate its relationship to the river and transform an industrial waterfront into more friendly space, Vancouver has strung together more than five miles of the Columbia River Renaissance Trail. It begins From the Pacific Ocean, they found and named the Columbia River, at Waterfront Park, 115 Columbia Way. Sidewalks and paved trails lead but it did not go where they hoped it through parks, along beaches and past would. After 200 miles it turns north new housing developments on the rather than leading east. wide, placid but busy river.

Although the explorers were Right at the beginning, across disappointed, the rivers of Washington Columbia Way on a crosswalk, is a have boosted the growth and vitality spur trail under the railroad line to the of our state’s cities for centuries.

Land Bridge. At significant places Vancouver, Yakima, the Tri-Cities, along the lower Columbia River, artist Wenatchee, Spokane and Everett all Maya Lin has redesigned landmarks at flourished on the banks of powerful the confluence of Native American, rivers. Several cities have reclaimed European and American cultures. The these heavily used riverfronts for land bridge reconnects the river to the recreation. You can walk or bike for miles through urban history. The trails fort plain, now the Fort Vancouver National Historic Preserve, worth a are mostly paved and relatively flat. day’s rambling on its own.

One mile farther along is a bronze Vancouver statue of Ilchee, Begin in a member of Vancouver, the powerful on the lower Chinook tribe Columbia. who controlled the The lower Columbia American in the early 1800s.

Robert Gray A short distance named the beyond is Wendy river, but Rose, a stainlessit was an steel welder English sporting a jaunty explorer An archway of canoe paddles, designed by artist Lillian Pitt, forms the Welcome Gate to the Land red bandanna. At who put Bridge along the Columbia River in Vancouver three-and-a-half Vancouver miles is a sidePoint on a trail to the Kaiser Viewing Tower, map. A British fur-trading company overlooking the former shipyards chose this point for its headquarters.

rivers. Then the federal government chose Hanford as a site to produce plutonium during World War II. Transformed almost overnight, Richland became a nuclear city.

Tri-Cities The From Sacagawea Vancouver, Heritage Trail, follow the named after Columbia the one woman River in the Corps 200 miles of Discovery, upstream as connects the it flows over three cities rapids now with a 23buried by mile paved dams. Past loop. The trail the Cascade A concrete arch bridge carries I-82 over the follows both Mountains, Columbia River between Pasco and Richland, as sides of the seen from Columbia Point on the Sacagawea trail the hills Columbia from above the its confluence river are dry and brown. Where the with the Snake on the south to its Columbia turns north at the Tri-Cities confluence with the Yakima on the is where hope ended for a waterway north end. You may walk or bike the across the continent. trail in segments, one city at a time.

But two other rivers, the Snake Sacajawea State Park, on the Pasco and the Yakima, flow into the side at the confluence of the Snake Columbia here from the east and the and the Columbia, is a good starting west. Native Americans lived and point on the southern end of the trail. fished at the confluence for more The Hanford Reach Interpretive than 11,000 years. Tribes gathered Center is a good access spot on the in great numbers when the salmon Kennewick/Richland side at 1943 swam up the Columbia. Lewis and Columbia Park Trail.

Clark and their Corps of Discovery Other trails and spurs intersect canoed down the Snake and arrived and extend the trail, including the at the Columbia on October 16, 1805, Richland Riverfront Trail, which knowing they had found the last leg focuses on nuclear history. It may be of their journey across the continent. picked up at Howard Amon Park, The Indians invited the Corps to join 500 Amon Park Drive. them in a smoke and an exchange of Yakima food and gifts.

The Yakima River flows into the Three cities developed on the Columbia after a long journey from banks of the three rivers. Pasco and the Cascade Mountains through Kennewick grew along railroad the Yakima Valley. The federal routes and from farming irrigated Reclamation Act of 1902 authorized by the Columbia Irrigation Canal. thousands of miles of irrigation canals, Richland was a sleepy ranching and farming town, the commercial continued on page 8 center of rich land watered by the where more than 140 Victory ships were built during World War II, many welded by women. The trail continues another 1.5 miles to Wintler Park.

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Wheelchairs and Mountains Can Mix

Paul Jeganathan

New book explores wheelchair-friendly access in Washington’s National Parks

…by Jan Hancock

At first glance Mount Rainier might not appear to be the best vacation choice for wheelchair-users and slow walkers.

After all, the namesake mountain towers some 14,000 feet over the surrounding national park. On the other hand, a new book, Barrier-Free Travels: Washington National Parks for Wheelers and Slow Walkers, describes how all three of the Evergreen State’s national parks offer accessible options for folks who use wheelchairs, walkers, canes and crutches.

This handy guide includes information on accessible trails, attractions and lodging options in and near Olympic, Mount Rainier and North Cascades National Parks, including: • Access details of all park lodges • Information on accessible ranger-led tours • Special access passes and discounts • Details on accessible trails and attractions • Scenic drives and accessible viewpoints • Barrier-free camping • Locations of loaner wheelchairs • Accessible rental van information This new book also includes information on the progress of the Spruce Railroad Trail, located on the north shore of Lake Crescent. The trail follows the historic grade of the Spruce Railroad, which was abandoned in 1951. When completed, this nine-mile

for Cancer Lifeline, Seattle Meet Paul Jeganathan, Children’s Hospital, the UW RSVP (Retired & Senior Medical Center and Sound Volunteer Program) Generations. Currently he is member and ambassador an ambassador to the RSVP who has devoted his time to program, where he spends volunteering in numerous his time helping spread the capacities over the years. word about the benefits Helping people overcome Paul Jeganathan of volunteering. Paul overwhelming circumstances has characterized Paul’s life. It started with has a special interest in volunteering for disability-inclusion in community himself. Born in India, Paul contracted activities and places of worship. polio at the young age of four. Because Paul defines volunteering simply there was no treatment available, Paul as helping those in need and, as such, languished in the hospital for long considers himself a lifelong volunteer. months, recovering slowly.

“I love people,” he says, “all people When he left the hospital for home, – young or old, rich or poor.” People are he had braces on his legs and arms and attracted to Paul…it must be the warmth used crutches to get around. Today Paul of his smile. He is always ready to help. is without braces, chauffeurs himself Paul has certainly found a way to around town and zips about in an electric make a positive difference in the world. wheelchair. With his typical positive If you would like to explore ways to make attitude, Paul is grateful the polio didn’t a difference, contact RSVP at 206-694damage his heart, diaphragm and lungs.

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trail will connect the east and west trailheads with the entire length paved and wheelchairaccessible. “I’ve been following this project for years, and I’m looking forward to its completion in 2019. When complete, it will effectively triple the length of accessible trails in the park,” said author Candy Harrington.

Admittedly, Harrington had some doubts about the accessibility of these parks before she started her research. “For a long time, I listened to the naysayers who told me that North Cascades National Park wasn’t at all wheelchair-accessible,” explains Harrington. “But after I visited it, I discovered a veritable treasure trove of accessible trails along the North Cascades Highway and I’m extremely excited to share them, and information about access to all of Washington State’s National Parks, with my readers.”

Harrington’s series of books also features other national parks.

Although these books were written for wheelchair-users, moms with strolleraged kids or any slow walker will appreciate the access information in this guide. ❖ Known as the guru of accessible travel, Candy Harrington has researched her niche for over 20 years. More access resources for America’s national parks can be found at www.

BarrierFreeNationalParks.com, or check out www.BarrierFreeTravels.com for more accessible travel tips.

“The Klondike Fever, Willamette leaving Seattle with 800 Passengers” The Klondike Gold Rush began with the arrival of the Excelsior in San Francisco and the Portland in Seattle, carrying recently discovered gold from the Yukon Territory in Canada. On July 17, 1897, the day the ship, Portland, arrived in Seattle, a newspaper article was published exclaiming “Gold!

Gold! Gold” “Stacks of Yellow Metal!” About 5,000 excited people met the ship, crying: “Show us the gold!”

Lucky miners raised their gold-filled bags to the cheers of the crowd and the scene was chaotic. Soon after the Portland arrived, hopeful people from all walks of life abandoned their jobs and their homes and left for the Klondike. They crowded on any ship they could find. It was estimated that around 100,000 stampeders rushed to the gold fields. Of them, around 70,000 passed through Seattle, which was a boom for Seattle merchants as they sold millions in supplies, and provided housing, food and drink to the stampeders while they waited for transportation north. The irony of the gold rush was that after risking their lives and fortunes on the journey, most stampeders never struck it rich because most of the gold was claimed long before they arrived.

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Age-Friendly Discussion Groups Communication & Information …by Wendy Pender, KCLS Older Adults Program Coordinator

This is the second month of our exploration of the Age-Friendly Communities movement. This month’s topic for discussion is “communication and information.”

As this aspect of Age-Friendly Communities recognizes, “Not everyone has a smartphone or internet access and information needs to be disseminated through a variety of means.” That includes print, in person, computers, social media, video, flyers, newspapers, billboards, bookmarks, calendars… you get the drift. There are many ways to communicate and to find information!

Access to information is always provided FREE at your community library. Turn to us when you are seeking answers beyond Google, or your printer has died, or you are visiting another town or you need help digging into the world of the internet. When rating places to live, libraries are always listed among the most desirable community assets. Here in the Puget Sound, we have libraries in just about every community and neighborhood.

There are 48 libraries in the King County Library System, 27 in Seattle, 22 in the Sno-Isle System and 20 in Pierce County. We’ve got you covered!

Of course, there’s the postal service, telephones and good oldfashioned face-to-face interaction, but increasingly communication is done via keyboard, text and touch screens. Technology certainly has its plusses and minuses, but how does one “keep up” with it all?

Keeping up means different things to different people. Some people want to read everything on a new topic and own the latest and greatest device. Others eschew new or fancy in favor of tried and true. There’s no one way that works for everyone, and these days many people feel they are drowning in information. With 24/7 access to virtually anything in the world, it can be difficult to distinguish what’s important. On the other hand, technology makes so many tasks easier – sending messages in the blink of an eye, reformatting a newsletter (remember cutting and pasting when it was actually done with scissors and tape?), sharing pictures, making your pictures better (eliminating “red-eye” and even wrinkles). It can be miraculous!

One of the best things about libraries is human interaction. You can curl up in a corner with a book or your smartphone, but you can also connect with a library staff member and receive one-on-one Northwest Prime Time thanks the sponsors of the Age-Friendly Discussion Groups project

attention and help. On anything.

In person, by phone or email – chat with Ask KCLS (1-800-462-9600 and kcls.org/using-the-library/chat/).

We don’t care who you are or what you look like – all are welcome.

Our doors are open most evenings and weekends, with free and open access to not only books, magazines and online research databases like Consumer Reports and ancestry. com, but also to computers and classes of all sorts.

Libraries also have book groups of all kinds, meeting rooms where you can start your own discussion group or even your next big idea!

Speaking of big ideas, the Bellevue Library has been remodeled to feature KCLS’ first “ideaX Makerspace” where you can work with others to create all kinds of projects from sewing to 3D printing and more!

High speed internet helps keep people connected as we age, to people and the issues we care about.

With the internet we can research topics of interest, work from home (telecommute), engage in social media to keep up with friends and family, purchase items for delivery, or express our opinions to our senators and representatives. At KCLS, we provide many electronic newsletters so you can be informed about when your favorite author has something new, keep up with your favorite genre and see what bestsellers are hot this week. Sign up at kcls.org/newsletters/ for KCLS newsletters; see the genres and sign up for new book alerts at kcls.org/ nextreads-book-alerts/. KCLS has a Facebook page (www.facebook.com/ kingcountylibrarysystem). Some individual libraries have their own page.

AARP also has wonderful newsletters, resources and events targeting issues of interest to older adults. For example, this month there is a legislative initiative on

Age-Friendly Discussion Groups

Would you like to gather with others to discuss topics of interest to the 50+ crowd? Look for this feature in every issue of Northwest Prime Time, brought to you by AARP Washington, King County Library System, and Aging and Disability Services–the Area Agency on Aging for Seattle/King County.

Each month we will examine a “hot topic” of interest to older adults, along with suggested discussion points and resources. Perhaps you’re already part of a group that will add this to their monthly activities, or maybe you’d like to form a new group. Meetings can take place anywhere people may want to congregate on a regular basis.

Kitchen Table Talks: On June 19 from 1–2pm, Age Friendly Seattle will host another lively monthly Medicaid-funded hearing aids that conversation about age-friendly communities. This month’s topic is will affect many people. AARP’s “Communication & Information” timely news keeps constituents (please see related article to the left). posted on issues and what actions This discussion opportunity is open to take to promote legislation to all. You can call in from anywhere, supporting adults as they age.

AARP even hosts a free “tele-town 206-386-1200 or toll-free 1-844-386hall” each month so you can listen 1200 (when prompted, enter code 9293340) or visit bit.ly/2HlxFTm in to experts on various legislative issues and ask questions. It’s a great (when prompted, enter code 9293340).

For additional information, visit www. way to stay informed! seattle.gov/agefriendly/events or, if you As we’ve seen, there are have questions about this event ahead of numerous ways to interact time, call 206-386-1521. and find the information you Last month’s discussion focused need. Call, text, email, letters, on housing as it relates to older adults. newsletters, books, magazines, This month’s discussion is staying movies…the choices are endless, connected through communication but needn’t overwhelm. There’s help! Turn to us, the choices will & information. Upcoming discussion topics will include staying socially surprise you! active, respect & social inclusion Here are some questions to for older adults, options for civic prompt your discussion on this participation & employment, aspect of Age-Friendly cities: community & health services, and 1. How has communication changed over your lifetime? How do transportation.

We want your feedback! you feel about those changes?

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June Michel Honored In observance of Older Americans Month in May, Seattleite June Michel was proclaimed by the Seattle City Council and Mayor Jenny Durkin to be “a shining example of older adults who continue to make a difference in their communities.” June’s many accomplishments include her work as a civil rights attorney who focused on women’s rights, employment equality and the protection of older adults.

She continues her contributions to the community by volunteering for numerous organizations and serving on the Seattle-King County Advisory Council on Aging & Disability Services.

June learned about the Council through her SHAG residence, and now chairs the Advocacy committee to lobby on behalf of seniors. In April, she wanted to attend the Council’s national conference in Washington DC. Since she did not have the funds to go, she applied for and won an essay contest that funded the trip. While there she met with U.S. Senators Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell to advocate for the many needs of seniors. “Advocacy isn’t easy for most people, many seniors are afraid to speak out,” says June. But as a lawyer, she relishes the opportunity to stand up for those who can’t stand up for themselves.

Life Perspectives

Dad Makes a Difference …by Karen White-Walker

What can you say about fathers that the experts and writers haven’t already told us? Here’s my feeble attempt.

While growing up I can never remember a day when Dad wasn’t there. At the exact same time during the work week, he’d burst through the back door, never a second late.

Mom would pour him a hot cup of coffee and place warm homemade oatmeal cookies under his handsome face as he’d look up at her and ask, “Hey Ann, what came in the mail?”

“Gee Shel, never a hello, just what came in the mail?” she sighed.

I lived at home for the first 19 years of my life and this dialogue never once varied, and for us five kids it was a form of security. After Dad rummaged through the pile of bills, he’d go outside on our 10-acre farm and we’d never see him again until 7pm, when he’d burst through that same back door, look at my mom and ask, “Hey Ann, what’s for supper?”

“Gee Shel, never how you doing, honey, just what’s for supper?”

Again, such simple small talk,

June 2018 but that was like food for our souls because we were all together as a family around the supper table.

“Kids!” Dad would yell out just before sitting down to supper.

“Come to the table before your milk gets cold.” That’s about as witty as he would get and we’d roar with laughter, thinking he was the funniest card around.

Sometimes after supper and just before bedtime, Dad would sneak out into the kitchen, rattle those pots and pans around and come out with his famous fudge. This was a rare treat, so we could barely swallow the sweet confection for almost choking on our excitement. Now in my 70-something year, I down a bowl full of prunes before bedtime, and if I close my eyes, I pretend that it’s Dad’s candy delight.

Going off to bed in the winter meant retiring to frigid rooms that you could sometimes see your breath in. You weren’t snuggled up very long under thin blankets before you’d feel an extra warmth settle over you. Dad had gotten our heavy winter coats and covered us up with them. We were now safe and secure from the cold outside world.

Tears in my eyes, but make those happy tears remembering my 91-year-old dad as he used to be.

For all those dads who played with their kids, worked for their families, loved their partners and took only those few moments left for themselves – may every day be your day. ❖

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Health Matters

and evidence from Asian populations is limited. As vitamin D concentrations and metabolism can vary by ethnicity, it is important to find out whether similar effects would be seen in non-Caucasian populations. So, an international research team based in Japan set out to assess whether vitamin D was associated with the risk of total and site-specific make connections.” cancer.

The researchers from Columbia They analyzed data from the Japan University and New York State Public Health Center-based Prospective Psychiatric Institute found that even (JPHC) Study, involving 33,736 male the oldest brains they studied produced and female participants aged between new brain cells. Boldrini surmised that 40 to 69 years. Participants were then reduced cognitive-emotional resilience monitored for an average of 16 years, in old age may be caused by the during which time 3,301 new cases of decline in vascularization and reduced cancer were recorded. After adjusting cell-to-cell connectivity within the hippocampus rather than an inability to for several known cancer risk factors, such as age, weight, physical activity generate new brain cells. levels, smoking, alcohol intake and Vitamin D May Protect against dietary factors, the researchers found Cancer that a higher level of vitamin D was High levels of vitamin D may be associated with a lower risk of developing associated with a lower (around 20%) relative risk of overall cancer in both cancer, including liver cancer. At least that is what Japanese researchers are now men and women. Higher vitamin D levels were also associated with a lower reporting. They conducted a study and (30-50%) relative risk of liver cancer, found that higher levels of vitamin D and the association was more evident are linked with an overall lower risk of in men than in women. The authors cancer. say their findings support the theory Vitamin D is made by the skin that vitamin D may protect against the in response to sunlight. It helps to risk of cancer, but that there may be a maintain calcium levels in the body to ceiling effect, which may suggest that keep bones, teeth and muscles healthy.

While the benefits of vitamin D on bone there are no additional benefits beyond diseases are well known, there is growing a certain level of vitamin D. The researchers write that further studies evidence that vitamin D may benefit are warranted to clarify the optimal other chronic diseases, including some concentrations of vitamin D for cancer cancers. prevention.

Most studies have been carried out in European or American populations, continued on page 14

Medical Minutes ...by John Schieszer

Hidden Brain Benefits Found in Older Adults A new study suggests that healthy older men and women can generate just as many new brain cells as younger John Schieszer people. Former research said the adult brain is hard-wired and that adults do not grow new neurons.

However, that does not seem to be the case.

A study just published in the journal Cell Stem Cell suggests that many older adults remain more cognitively and emotionally intact than commonly believed. Lead study author Maura Boldrini, associate professor of neurobiology at Columbia University, said new brain imaging studies provide updated understanding of the brain in older adults.

“We found that older people have similar ability to make thousands of hippocampal new neurons from progenitor cells as younger people do,” said Boldrini. “We also found equivalent volumes of the hippocampus (a brain structure used for emotion and cognition) across ages. Nevertheless, older individuals had less vascularization and maybe less ability of new neurons to

Senior Fitness Tip

Exercise for COPD …by Mark Bryant, Senior Fitness Specialist

COPD means Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Types of COPD include bronchitis, emphysema and asthma.

Bronchitis is an increase in mucous and inflammation; Mark Bryant on emphysema is a destructive the radio enlargement of air spaces; asthma is caused by swollen and narrowed bronchial tubes. Seniors with COPD need specialized exercises; some people with COPD will need to exercise with oxygen.

Safe exercises can include walking, dancing, biking, jogging, swimming, chair aerobics, tai-chi and breathing exercises. People with COPD can also exercise with very light weights, doing high repetitions (12 to 15 reps). If you feel any discomfort from exercising – feeling lightheaded, coughing up mucous or dizziness – stop right away.

Always get your doctor’s approval before starting any exercise program. ❖ Mark Bryant is a Certified Senior Fitness Instructor and offers senior fitness classes at Columbia City Fitness. He’s certified by the American Council on Exercise as a specialist in orthopedic exercise, weight management and fitness nutrition. Mark is now the host of a new radio show, “Fitness Corner” – www. rainieravenueradio.world.

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A few years ago, my husband couldn’t roll out of bed without feeling dizzy.

Our family doctor referred him to an otolaryngologist who sent him home with a motion sickness prescription. Worse than dizziness, the meds made him groggy.

Still looking for relief from revolving-room syndrome and nausea, he consulted another doctor who put him in a special chair and tipped it at an uncomfortable angle.

Called the Epley maneuver, the doctor timed abrupt changes of Paul’s position from side to side.

“I’m cured,” Paul said returning home after the chair tipping rearranged the tiny crystals of the inner ear.

Every six months he’d need a tune-up, so he’d jump back in the tipping chair and come home with properly positioned inner ear crystals, and no more dizziness.

An inveterate do-it-yourself-er, Paul googled his diagnosis, “positional vertigo,” and discovered the BrantDaroff exercise for vertigo. Now he does the exercises at home, alleviating the vertigo and wooziness.

A true believer, he proselytizes to our dizzy friends. Lately he whisked Judy, a positional vertigo sufferer, away from our book group. He took her downstairs to our bedroom, where he put her on our bed, and demonstrated the Brant-Daroff maneuver.

My friends guffawed about my husband in the master bedroom with our friend. However, they missed my real embarrassment: we hadn’t made the bed.

What both my husband, Paul, and friend, Judy, suffered from is described in Mayoclinic.org as benign

paroxysmal positional vertigo, (BPPV.) There are three loop-shaped semicircular canals containing fluid and fine, hair-like sensors that monitor the rotation of the head. Against the walls of the inner ear between the semicircular ducts and the cochlea, lie patches of hair cells topped by small calcium carbonate crystals. These crystals monitor all head movements related to gravity. Due to trauma, whiplash, aging, ear diseases or unknown causes, these crystals become dislodged and move into one of the semicircular canals.

WHOA! Rolling over or sitting up causes destabilizing disequilibrium.

The Vestibular Disorders Association says the Brandt-Daroff exercises have been reported to reduce dizziness in 95% of the cases.

At his next ear appointment my husband handed the doctor a copy of the Brant-Daroff exercises he’d copied from the internet. “Why do doctors write prescriptions for motion sickness meds instead of handing out copies of Brandt-Daroff?” he asked his doctor.

“My patients won’t do the exercises,” the doctor answered.

Feelings of dizziness and nausea deserve a visit to the doctor.

However, if benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is the diagnosis, googling the Brandt-Daroff exercises, following the directions, and careful timing may put the BPPV sufferer in the 95% who can cure their symptoms at home.

Paul and Judy are proof that the home remedy works. ❖ Carrie Luger Slayback, an award-winning teacher and champion marathoner, shares personal experience and careful research.

Contact her at carriemisc@icloud.com.

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Healthy Aging Scholarship

& It’s impact on the older adult community …by Christine Fleming, University of Washington School of Nursing de Tornyay Center for Healthy Aging

Each year, I continue in the University my career as of Washington an advanced School of practice nurse, Nursing de I am devoted Tornyay Center to providing for Healthy healthcare Aging awards in rural and scholarships (l-r) Anita Souza, PhD; Liesl Henthorn; Hilarie underserved to nursing Thompson, PhD, RN, ACNP-BC, CNRN, areas. With my FAAN; Inthira Roopsawang; Chelsea Miller students with experience as an an interest in adult-gerontology older adults. This year, the de Tornyay acute care nurse, this scholarship will Center awarded three scholarships allow me to carry out my research which will be used to help carry out the project, enabling older adults to remain recipients’ research projects. As part of within their communities and support the scholarship, the students presented system during the acute phase of their the results of their research at the annual illness.”

University of Washington School of Inthira Roopsawang: “Some people Nursing Recognition Banquet in May. think that nursing is a job; but that is The scholarships provide not my definition. The only way to unrestricted funds to nursing students do great work is to love what you do; to support and nurture interest in older consequently, I value nursing because it adults. The intention of the Center’s humanizes care. Changing the attitude scholarship awards is to foster nursing towards older adults is a pivotal concern students to further conduct research in in gerontology. This scholarship will give the field of aging. me the opportunity to devote and focus “The de Tornyay Center Healthy my efforts in removing the stigma that Aging Scholarship program has been aging is a disease.” instrumental in developing students as Liesl Henthorn: “The School of researchers, enhancing their knowledge Nursing and undergraduate program of older adults and building skills to have offered me so many amazing provide quality care,” said Basia Belza, opportunities for advocacy and PhD, RN, FAAN, de Tornyay Center community outreach. This scholarship for Healthy Aging director and the will allow me to expand my knowledge Aljoya Endowed Professor. “The of vulnerable populations and the program also provides professional medically underserved, which will in development through presenting at the turn give me the opportunity to better annual Nurses of Influence banquet by serve the public and patients.” v learning presentation skills that they will The first de Tornyay Center undergraduate use throughout their career.” scholarships were awarded in 1999 to The students receiving this year’s undergraduate nursing students. In 2001, scholarships are: the scholarship expanded to include Master’s Chelsea Miller: “I am continually nursing students and, in 2003, Doctoral nursing amazed at the opportunities that UW students. To date, 138 scholarships have been School of Nursing has provided me awarded. throughout my nursing education. As

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Walking Washington’s Riverfronts

Woods was a relentless promoter of dams on the Columbia. As Franklin Delano Roosevelt made campaign ...continued from page 1 promises in 1932, he included building the Grand Coulee Dam but it took turning all the political and publicity power the valley Woods and others could muster to into the counter arguments they were “coulee “fruit bowl communists” for advocating publiclyof the owned power. The Grand Coulee nation.” opened some 99 miles upstream in The Wenatchee 1942, in time to power aluminum city of On his production Yakima, ambitious for WWII. at the The Yakima Greenway crosses beneath the Naches exploration The Rock confluence River railroad bridge where hobos once camped before hopping a passing freight train to the next job of the Island and of the length Rocky Yakima of the Columbia River Reach dams and Naches rivers, is the fruit bowl’s for the Northwest turned market hub. From Fruit Row on the Fur Company, David the midrailroad lines downtown, fruit and Thompson canoed Columbia vegetables were stored, dried, canned past the mouth of the into a or packed, and shipped to the nation Coyote Leads the Salmon up the River Wenatchee River on July in a Richard Beyer sculpture on the powerhouse. and the world.

7, 1811.

Eighty years later The The Yakima Greenway parallels Apple Capital Loop in Wenatchee a city grew where the two Apple the two rivers for more than twenty rivers converge.

Capital Loop borders the now placid miles with ten access points. The Wenatchee had both water river. The multi-use trail stretches trailhead on the west end is at Myron transportation and a railway line, the five miles on the west and another Lake. The Century Landing is on the Great Northern, going through town, five miles on the east. On the east south end. but the river was hard to navigate. side, there is access and parking at the Midway through the trail is the Thompson had to portage his canoes 19th Street trailhead. On the west Naches River railroad bridge. Hobos around rapids.

The land on narrow side, access the loop at Confluence gathered beneath it in the days when benches above the river was dry Park, Walla Walla Point Park it was possible to hop a passing freight with poor soil.

Not until large-scale and the Riverfront Park. The loop train to the next job. Twelve-year-old irrigation diverted water from the crosses the river on the north end William O. Douglas, the Supreme Wenatchee River starting in 1904 over the Odabashian Bridge and on a Court justice-to-be, camped and footbridge on the southern end. Best talked with the hobos when he headed did the land produce fruit and launch Wenatchee as the self-proclaimed walking parts are between the parks on out of Yakima on his periodic rambles Apple Capital of the World. the west side or along the less urban into the mountains.

Rufus Woods moved to town a east side.

Rotary Lake, near the junction year later and started a newspaper. of rivers, is the former millpond for the Cascade Lumber Company. A thousand logs from upriver logging would float down the Yakima River and arrive each day during the spring log drives. Since the mill closed in 2006, private efforts have reclaimed the riverfront for walking, biking and fishing.

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Spokane abused the river in its midst until the city undertook a world’s fair, Expo 74, with an environmental theme. Riverfront Park in the heart of downtown would be the centerpiece. Power grabs were reduced to increase the river’s flow; railroad tracks were pried from its islands and water pollution was abated.

The Centennial Trail runs through the park, part of a 36-mile trail along the river from Spokane House, an 1800s fur trading post, to Horse Slaughter Camp, site of a military conflict near the Idaho border. Access the trail in Spokane at Riverfront Park and walk or bike to your heart’s content in either direction.

Leaving the Columbia River and the east side of the state, head west to Puget Sound where multiple rivers flow down from the Cascade Mountains.

North of Wenatchee, the Columbia curves east again through the Grand Coulee Dam, pooling in Lake Roosevelt.

The Spokane River flows in The clock tower of the Great from the east, Northern depot, built in 1901, still a 111-mile graces Riverfront Park in Spokane

Everett

Everett’s wealth began at a bend of the Snohomish River. In 1863, Eugene D. Smith set up the first logging operation in a community he named Lowell. Because the water was deep and the undercurrent strong at this bend, the river held logs against the bank until they could be driven downriver to a mill on Gardner Bay. By 1910, the city of Everett was a mill-town of lumber and shingle mills—its growth

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powered by Peninsula the river, (West the Great Seattle) to Northern the rest of Railway and the city. The thousands paved hiking/ of acres of biking trail timbered land. extends more The than ten miles Lowell to the spot Riverfront where the Trail begins Green, White On the Lowell Riverfront Trail, the old Getchell Farm at the bend of is visible across the Snohomish River and Black the Snohomish Rivers once River in a parking area just west of joined to form the Duwamish.

Rotary Park, 3505 Lowell Snohomish The first several miles are lined River Road. The wide, paved trail with industry, but a park at T-107 (a winds north for two miles on the Port of Seattle terminal site) reveals west side of the river, with glimpses of the human-scale history of the river. pilings from abandoned docks. A spur Across the street is the Duwamish trail leads to a high pedestrian bridge Longhouse and Cultural Center, over railroad tracks that separate the 4705 West Marginal Way SW. After trail from the community of Lowell on passing through the community of the west. Across the river to the east South Park, the trail crosses the river is the Getchell Farm, at North Wind’s dating from the 1880s.

Fish Weir, an The second mile ancient cultural of the trail curves site. From there away from the river, the trail follows the bordered on the east natural winding by wetlands and course of the on the west by new river and ends at housing. It stops Fort Dent Park, Carved by Roger Fernandes, a where the Snohomish petroglyph rock on the Duwamish 6800 Fort Dent River trail tells the story of North continues north and Way. The name then west to Gardner Wind’s Fish Weir comes from a fort Bay and the busy bayfront of Everett. and blockhouse, which were never needed, near the site of a Duwamish Seattle village.

Seattle’s river, the Duwamish, was A good place to access the trail is an impediment rather than a spur to from the Tukwila Community Center growth because of the wide, shallow at 12424 42nd Ave S. From there you tide flats at its mouth and its winding can walk north a mile-and-a-half to course through the south end of the the fish weir or south four miles to Fort city. “The way in” to the Puget Sound Dent. v Lowlands was best traveled by canoe and then shallow draft riverboats. But Judy Bentley wrote a book on the historical role of rivers in Vancouver, in the 19-teens, the Port of Seattle dredged and straightened the northern Everett, Yakima and Spokane, “Walking five miles of the meandering river and Washington’s History: Ten Cities.” Her filled its tide flats to create a navigable book “Hiking Washington’s History” includes the Duwamish River trail in waterway and flat industrial land.

Seattle and other Washington State The Duwamish River Trail locations. For more information, visit begins at the mouth of the river where bridges connect the Duwamish www.judybentley.com.

Who is Your Community Hero? …by Christina Clem, AARP Washington

AARP is now accepting nominations for its 2018 Washington Andrus Award for Community Service, which honors Christina Clem Washingtonians 50 and better who are sharing their experience, talent and skills to enrich the lives of their community members.

We know that you have seen and experienced the impact that a dedicated, caring and experienced volunteer can have on lives, programs, communities and society. This is an opportunity to recognize that impact and to let an outstanding volunteer know their service is valued.

Please take a few moments to think about the exceptional people in your life – the neighborhood hero; the dedicated volunteer who is a consistent helping presence in your community; or the person who saw a problem and found a workable solution. Show your appreciation by nominating them for the 2018 AARP Washington Andrus Award for Community Service.

“AARP Washington is excited to shine a light on Washingtonians who are using what they’ve learned in life to make a difference in the lives around them,” said AARP State Director Doug Shadel.

Prior Winners Kirkland resident Art Mussman was

recognized for a lifetime of community service. His contributions include serving as a software developer for the Boeing Bluebills Heritage chapter; being a founding member of the Kirkland Senior Council and championing aging in place, better housing and health care at the community level and in Olympia.

John Braasch has dedicated himself to helping homeless veterans who live on the Olympic Peninsula by founding the non-profit Voice for Veterans. The organization produces Stand Down events that offer veterans hot meals, medical and dental services, clothing and legal aid. Those that attend are also connected to VA benefits, housing assistance, employment services, haircuts and veterinary supplies for their pets, all in a welcome, judgement-free zone.

In 2016, Leon Brauner was named the recipient of the Andrus Award for his commitment to helping those facing food disparities through the Ocean Shores Food Bank. In 2011, Brauner stepped in to fill the shoes of the former director. Since that time, he has significantly increased the number of volunteers, created a grocery store atmosphere at the food bank, and instituted a “Good Nutrition Policy” plan led by volunteers who have completed a university-based online training. continued on page 14

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The ongoing life-affirming adventures of Rose and Dawn

The Funny Side of Life

Antiques Roadshow – What Am I Worth? …by Sy Rosen

Like most avid Antiques Roadshow viewers, I often look around my house trying to find some old hidden treasures. We have slightly Sy Rosen cracked teacups, slightly cracked vases and a slightly cracked coffee table (a lot of things in our house are slightly cracked, including me).

I finally settled on a 47-yearold empty Pepsi bottle that I had put a flower in and gave to my wife Wanda on our first date. I told Wanda that I was thinking of selling it.

“How could you do that?!” she angrily asked. “I kept this Pepsi bottle because it was one of your few romantic gestures.”

I ignored the word “few” and just felt lucky that Wanda didn’t use the word “only.” Like a dutiful husband I nodded my head in agreement. I then secretly went on the internet to find the value of this rare Pepsi bottle. It must be worth a fortune, I kept thinking to myself. Unfortunately, I discovered it was worth somewhere between $6.99 and $8.99. I then went to Wanda, and not mentioning my disappointing research, told her I wouldn’t sell the Pepsi bottle if it was worth a $1,000,000.

For some reason I then started wondering what I would be appraised at if I went on the Antiques Roadshow – not furniture, not art work – me. I told you I was slightly cracked. Anyway, this is how it might go as an expert looked me over: “When we saw you walk in we were all very excited,” the expert tells me.

“Thank you,” I reply.

“You have a natural grayish patina. It appears that nothing artificial has been done to enhance or alter it.”

“I’ve never been to a spa,” I

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proudly tell him.

“Collectors really like that,” the expert says. “And I can see by the roundness of your body that it, too, is in its natural state.”

“I’ve never been to a gym,” I brag.

“And it looks like your body has mostly avoided direct sunlight.

Where do you usually keep it?” he then asks.

“On the couch in front of the television,” I boast.

“Unfortunately,” he says, “there is some wear and tear. You’re missing some hair, and you’ve lost a couple of inches of height, and there are wrinkles, liver spots, bad eyesight, cracked teeth, hearing loss, memory loss and some significant sagging.”

“Yes, it’s called life,” I tell him.

“On the positive side, you have all of your original parts, except for your hip.”

“Yes, I had a hip replacement.”

“You don’t happen to have your original hip?” he asks.

“No there wasn’t room in the refrigerator,” I joke.

He doesn’t laugh as he says, “That’s a pity. A collector would really like it.”

“How much am I worth?” I ask, cutting to the chase.

“Well, as I said, you’re not in mint condition, but your body is not that bad,” he says.

“Not that bad is a goal of mine,” I jokingly reply.

He again doesn’t laugh as he asks, “How much do you think you’re worth?

“I don’t know, maybe $250,000,” I reply.

He finally laughs as he says, “I admire your optimism but since nobody would really want your organs…”

“I want them,” I interrupt.

He continues on, “I’d say you’re worth more in the neighborhood of… $480. Are you disappointed?”

“Actually, I’m not,” I reply.

“The important thing is that I’m worth more than 50 Pepsi bottles.”

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The Perfect Condo …by Diana Couture

What a day!

What a day! When the sun shines in Seattle there is just no prettier place to be, Dawn thought as she waited outside of her Wallingford home for Rose and Deidre to pick her up.

They were going to look at condos for Rose to buy.

What a whirlwind couple of months. Rose’s home had sold just 3 days after listing. She was so completely surprised by the quickness of the sale that she wasn’t ready with a new place to live and had to negotiate with the new owners of her 1940s Craftsmantype house for a few more weeks to live there.

How strange, thought Dawn, to have to pay rent to live in a home that you’ve owned since 1950. Oh well, with Rose’s niece Deidre helping, Rose was in good hands and all they had to do now was find the perfect condo, make an offer, wait for acceptance, set up a moving company and get Rose packed and moved out of her home of 68 years. Phew! That’s a lot to get done.

Dawn had a worried look on her face when Deidre’s car pulled in front of her house.

“What’s up, Dawnie?” Rose shouted from the car window. “Are you squinting at the bright sun or scowling?” Dawn stowed her cane in the trunk of the car and got into the passenger side back seat of Deidre’s luxurious Lexus sedan. “I’m worried about all the things we have to get done in a very short time, Rose. How can you be so calm about all of this?”

Rose smiled and patted Deidre’s knee as her niece turned the car to reenter the flow of traffic. “Well, Deidre has put things into perspective for me.

All I have to do is find a condo, make an offer, wait for acceptance and then get moved out of my home of 68 years.”

Dawn laughed and said that was very the same list she had made in her head while waiting for their arrival. Except, her list had an extra step in finding a moving company. “We’ve been friends for so long, Rose, that we think almost exactly alike.”

The mood in the car was decidedly upbeat as the girls, in the capable hands of Deidre, wandered from one end of the city to the other in search of the perfect condo. On each of their stops,

there was a very nice real estate agent at the property to greet them and show them around. This wasn’t so hard.

Dawn didn’t want to apply any pressure to the home search, but she sincerely hoped Rose wouldn’t choose a location that was too far away. Driving in the city was a challenge and Dawn preferred not to stray too far from the familiar territory of her home turf.

The girls were getting tired after a day of searching when they arrived at their final stop, which was close to Rose’s current home of 68 years. “I thought you might like to see if there’s something in your neighborhood, Aunty. So I scheduled one last stop for today right close to the old homestead.”

The realtor welcomed the women to the first-floor condo with absolutely NO steps involved in entering the abode.

The soft pastel colors on the walls and the sunlight allowed in by large windows was very appealing.

Two bedrooms and a full, but compact kitchen interested the women. “Look at this, Dawnie. I could do some gardening right outside of this patio door. And what a lovely view of the condo complex garden…are those rose bushes surrounding the friendly seating area?”

There were tears in the eyes of both women. Deidre noticed and understood that THIS was the place. She took the realtor aside and made an appointment to make an offer as her aunt had authorized her to do. Deidre gathered up her tired but happy passengers and headed toward Rose’s current home.

Tea was prepared and a price was discussed and set for the offer. Rose kissed Deidre goodbye and asked her to call with the results of the negotiations as soon as she could after the meeting with the realtor.

Rose looked at Dawn and said, “Thank goodness Deidre had agreed to be my representative in the negotiations. I’m afraid I’ve committed the capitol sin of the buying process by picturing us, you and I, sitting in the rose garden of the new place enjoying a sunny day. v To Be Continued…

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Just Follow 54-Across ...by Len Elliott

49. “____ Torino” (2008 Eastwood film) Across 50. Espy 1. Timber wolf 53. Author Sarah ____ Jewett 5. Alligator relative, briefly (anagram of RENO) 9. Mop 54. Each of the longest answers 13. Former Mariner, Ranger, Yankee contains ten of these slugger, familiarly 57. “____ girl!”: 2 wds.

14. Sports venue 58. ____ of burglaries (local crime 15. Guy who saves the day wave): 2 wds.

16. The latest/Nor. neighbor/ 59. Landed certain MIT grads 60. Salamander 18. “Happy Motoring” company 61. Thanksgiving tubers 19. Balaam’s beast 62. Lymph ____ 20. Item on a to-do list 21. Fastens with a string Down 23. Spanish artist 1. Actress Turner 24. Bouncy tunes 2. Metal sources 25. Hung in there 3. Acknowledges applause 28. Ripped (open) 4. ____ on (ingests too much of): 29. Ambassador’s residence: abbr. abbr.

32. ____ apnea 5. Colgate rival 33. Energy 6. Offend olfactorily 34. Barbara Bush ____ Pierce 7. Late lunch time 35. Cuts the grass 8. Cookware alloy: 2 wds.

36. ____ von Munchausen 9. 1/500th of a ream 37. Rocker Joan 10. Body bumps/Murray or 38. Type of wetland Cantwell of WA/USN officer 39. A cube has six 11. Shell competitor 40. Columbus’ birthplace 12. Timely benefit 41. “The Waste Land” writer, 14. Oscar or Tony, e.g. initially 17. Precipitous 42. Very dry 22. “The Sopranos” actor Robert 43. Deep-voiced ones 23. French holy women: abbr.

44. Sailors, slangily 24. Corporate symbols 46. Book after Numbers: abbr.

25. One-time acronymic phrase for 47. Section of Algiers a cigarette brand

Starting Points

1. Airplane attendant 2. 1977 Colleen McCullough novel set in Australia (with “The”) 3. Classroom arrangement diagram 4. Noisy verbal disagreement answers on page 14

26. Soothing succulents 27. Stitched/Twisty curve/ Sydney’s state 28. All in 30. “As am I”: 2 wds.

31. ____ tests (software reviews) 33. “Quo ____” (1951 film) 36. Occasion for an annual party 37. Joke around 39. Section of a casa: Sp. 40. Unhealthily thin

43. The ____ Boys (rock band) 45. Walk ____ (patrol): 2 wds.

46. Attire 47. Quarter, e.g.

48. Funny man Johnson 49. Metric mass measurement 50. Aria, e.g.

51. Writer Bagnold 52. Toward the dawn, in Durango 55. Nest egg option: abbr.

56. Actor Holm or Richardson

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Scenes from Childhood

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Baptism: Death of a Language …by Frieda Kirk

bible story of Noah’s Ark, we could relate In church the to the lessons told. other day, we were I never learned asked to think back the names of the to our own baptism. places in Klamath Of course, I don’t because every effort “remember” it had been made with because I was a baby. my dad’s generation But having witnessed to stamp out the other baptisms as use of our Klamath I grew up, I knew language and religion. how it all went.

The threat was that Remembering that if the government old church brings people heard any of lots of nostalgia. the children speaking It was the Indian Klamath they took mission established them away and sent on the reservation them to boarding Frieda Kirk with a drum that was a gift by the Methodist school. My dad’s from Delbert Miller, a spiritual leader of church. My family generation, of course, the Skokomish tribe was directly involved learned to understand on the board, in the building, in the the language heard all around them preaching. It’s one of those things that and could speak it at will. But never are taken for granted but that history being able to openly use it in daily passes by. The building sits there now, community situations took its toll. By deserted, empty. It was given over to my generation, the language was not the tribe by the church, but at this heard much, and it was judged better time—2018—it is not valued as the for us not to learn it so we could make strong part of the tribal history that it is our way better in the life that was now for our family and others. all around us.

I see it as the choice for spiritual I used to hear Grandma talking continuation of our tribal beliefs at it sometimes, especially if she was that time. I always heard that the bible mad at Grandpa. And sometimes stories were the same as our tribal when we were camped way up in the stories, just with different words and mountains, somebody would answer names. So it was a way to hold on to my questions about what some words spiritual connections using English meant. Then, as kids do, we’d run words. The easiest example was of the around playing, practicing saying great flood, the top of the mountain them. that was the first to reappear, now This year I turned 82. ❖ called Pelican Butte, and the name of the rocky point where the people first Frieda Kirk is a longtime Washington resident stepped off the boat. In hearing the with Klamath roots and memories.

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Dad …by Ariele M. Huff

Last month’s column, about Mom, has some distinct differences from this one about Dad. Sadly, some people don’t Ariele M. Huff have great relationships with their fathers— even in this time, fathers are often more engaged in activities outside the home than are their female partners.

In forty years of leading writing groups and classes, I’ve frequently heard of fathers who are judgmental, overly strict or abusive.

While some mothers share these negative behaviors, it seems that roughly 85 to 90 percent of people in my writing classes express some negative feelings around writing about their fathers, compared to only maybe ten percent of people who don’t want to write about their mothers for negative reasons.

More explanations for this: Women bear/birth babies—a powerful bond. More women are the caretakers. Also, many men have been trained that their roles with children should be disciplinary, that fathers should be “tough.”

Whatever the cause, dads are a harder topic to tackle, unless you are in the smaller percentage with a dad who transcended societal norms and was a loving and involved caretaker. People who fall into this category usually recognize they are among a fortunate smaller group.

Their writing about their fathers often includes a nod to that fact.

Many folks are generous despite flaws…always a good plan when writing about anyone. They

Poetry Corner A VISIT WITH DAD

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Editor’s Note – and here’s a nod to all of the wonderful fathers out there, too!

Go to a gym and awake faded muscles?

Maybe study the moon or the universe?

Assemble a stamp collection Buy a new set of Goodwill clothes Chase some women Maybe even propose to one?!

I’m just a shell, son something in clothing eats and sleeps walks about wondering.

Well, I’ll be all right by and by.

Might have it figured out before I die.

Was good to see you, son.

Good bye.

Yes, your mother made the difference.

She was more me than me!

They tend to rule, you know.

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mention the hardships their fathers underwent to support the family or with personal struggles.

In my writing class experiences, some people only want to focus on how difficult/awful their fathers were/are. My advice is to allow yourself any kind of writing that works for you, recognizing that really negative stuff shouldn’t be shared. Beware circular writing, too. To record feelings and experiences once may be helpful, even transformational. To continuously dwell on past hurts— even on a currently challenging person or situation—is usually a poor decision. It locks you into a negative cycle—certainly not a good outcome and often a way to continue suffering. Don’t you deserve better than that?

Some ways to write about an imperfect person without ignoring problems or succumbing to looking worse than they do: 1. Stick to events, situations that show a spectrum of traits— the time s/he was generous or a humorous moment or a time s/he had to be hospitalized.

2. Without denying that Dad was angry, a heavy drinker or emotionally distant, refuse to dwell on those. One sentence can admit the problem. “Dad’s bipolar episodes were tough for all of us.”

3. In a story-by-story manner, share—without blame— information briefly as required for the segment. For example: if you are doing a family history in which you wish to include a person with issues like addictive problems or mental illness, you might name those, avoiding your personal opinions and invective. So “Dad’s daily drinking factored into his ability to hold jobs” is appropriate sharing and facilitates a storyline. “Dad was a stinking drunk” will turn a negative spotlight more on the writer than his/her subject.

4. Give more words to people who were positive in your life. ❖

Someday, he said, I expect to see no one in the mirror.

Maybe, like Alice, it’ll take me in where reality lives, waiting.

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Senior Events

Retirement Reinvention June 1, 11am, local author Robin Ryan discusses practical ways modern retirees are seeking fun and meaningful ways to spend their time, Shoreline Library, Free, 345 NE 175th St, 206-362-7550.

Aging Mastery Program June 4-July 2, 9-11:30am, join cutting-edge wellness program designed by National Council on Aging exploring longer, healthier lives through small changes, Edmonds Senior Center, $20-$25 includes breakfast, 425774-5555.

Caregiver Training Conference June 4, speakers, 16 workshops offer practical information & resources, Tukwila Community Center in Tukwila, RSVP required, space limited, 1-800-422-3263 or 360-725-2544 or http://tinyurl.com/ GivingCareTakingCare Northshore Senior Center June 8, 6-9pm World Dance Party, bring potluck item; June 14, 10am-2:30pm Line Dance Hoedown, $6 plus potluck dish 10201 E Riverside Dr, Bothell, 425-2861029.

SE Seattle Senior Center June 10, 3-6pm, national performing artist Eugenie Jones performs at the senior center’s summer jazz series, $20-$25, 4655 South Holly St, Seattle, 206-722-0317, www. sessc.org Lunch at Wesley June 13, 11:30am “Lunch on us while you learn how Wesley is revolutionizing senior living” 815 S. 216th St, Des Moines, RSVP 206-824-5000 or DesMoines.

WesleyChoice.org Wisdom Cafés Free small group discussions for seniors, June 15, 1-2:30pm “Staying Connected” Issaquah Senior Center 75 NE Creek Way 425-392-2381; June 19, 2pm “Discussing End of Life Issues” free small group discussion, Richmond Beach Library 19601 21st Ave NW, Shoreline, 206-546-3522.

Summer Shorts for Seniors June 15, 1pm, listen to excerpts from short stories focused on local history “Mail Order Brides” Shoreline-Lake Forest Park Senior Center, 18560 1st Ave NE, Shoreline.

Senior Dance Workshops June 15, 1:30-3pm join professional dancers to learn Broadway style performances designed for seniors (but open to anyone over age 14), Kent Senior Activity Center, $5, RSVP 253-856-5150.

Reverse Mortgage Seminar June 16, 1-2:30pm, Everett PUD, 2320 California St, Everett, FREE, for info or to RSVP 425-891-6644.

Kitchen Table Talks June 19, 1-2pm, join lively monthly conversation about age-friendly communities.

This month’s topic is Communication & Information (see page 3 for info & discussion questions), open to all, call in from anywhere on day & time of event, 206-386-1200 or toll-free 1-844-386-1200 (when prompted, enter code 6785562).

For additional info, visit www.seattle.gov/ agefriendly/events, or if you have questions about this event ahead of time, call 206386-1521.

Help for Seniors & Family June 19, 7pm, elder attorney discusses steps seniors and their families should take to stay in home as long as possible, including info about downsizing & moving when the time comes, Richmond Beach Library, 19601 21st Ave NW, Shoreline, 206-546-3522.

Free Downsizing Workshop June 21, 11am-noon, Kirk Vaux of Windermere and guest speaker present ins & outs of downsizing from long-time family home, tips on sorting, packing & liquidation of possessions, Renton Highlands Library, 2801 NE 10th St, Renton, FREE but RSVP 206-850-4570.

Seniors Learn about Cannabis June 26, 1-2pm, join other seniors for a talk on cannabis, health and happiness, Wallingford Community Senior Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Suite 140, Seattle, $3-$5, 206-461-7825.

Free Downsizing Seminar June 26, 2-3pm, coffee & conversation on what to do with all your stuff (sorting, packing, reducing) presented by Move Manager Christy Urdal of Next Step Transitions, refreshments served, Northgate Community Center, 10510 5th Ave NE, Seattle, FREE but RSVP 206-914-9989.

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Music & Art Showcase June 28, 4:30-8pm, free event includes concerts (Danny Vernon as Elvis 7-8pm; Richard Dean 4:30 & 6:15pm), dessert, door prizes, info booths, art show, Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith, 253856-5164.

Rock ‘n Roll Bingo July 11, 11:30-1pm, music & games lunch available, fundraiser for Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith, 253-856-5164.

Creative Aging at the Frye 2nd Tuesdays those with dementia and care partners enjoy music in a relaxed atmosphere free & more programs “Meet Me at the Movies” 206-432-8208, www. fryemuseum.org Senior Farmer’s Market Voucher Sat’s thru Sept, 10am-2pm, $10 senior voucher for fresh foods at Des Moines Farmers Market, 22307 Dock Ave, www.

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Health Education

CPR/Stroke Workshop for Seniors June 4, 2pm, free workshop for seniors, come dressed to be on the floor working with CPR manikin, Lake Forest Park Library, 17171 Bothell Way NE, 206-362-8860; June 15, 2pm Richmond Beach Library, 19601 21st Ave NW, Shoreline 206-5463522.

Seniors Learn about Cannabis June 26, 1-2pm, join other seniors for a talk on cannabis, health and happiness, Wallingford Community Senior Center, 4649 Sunnyside Ave N, Suite 140, Seattle, $3-$5, 206-461-7825.

Community Events

Travel Photo Presentation June 6, 7-8:30pm, University Place librarian shares her photo journal and discusses how to travel to exotic locales including Marrakech, Casablanca, Fez by camel and to a seaside village, University Place Library, 253-548-3599.

Free Woodworking Classes June 9, throughout day, make Father’s day gift, Seattle & Tukwila 206-634-3222, 206244-9161.

Summer Outdoor Market June 16, 10am-5pm, arts & crafts, petting farm, 5634 South Park Ave, Tacoma Olympic Air Show June 16-17, 9am-5pm, air show, heritage aircraft from WWII, Korean and Vietnam era, $12-$15, Olympic Flight Museum in Olympia, www.olympicairshow.com Shirley MacLaine June 18, 7:30pm a conversation with the Academy Award-Winning actress including her years with the “Rat Pack,” her stage and screen experiences, her spiritual journey, McCaw Hall, Seattle, 844 827-8118, www.

McCawHall.com Make Music Day June 21, FREE day to gather with others from professional musicians to those who’ve never picked up an instrument, www. makemusicday.org/porttownsend Midsommarfest June 24, 11am-6pm, music & dance performance, flower crowns, craft & food booths, dance lessons, pole raising ceremony. FREE, St Edward State Park, 14445 Juanita Dr, Kenmore, 425-9545262.

President Bill Clinton June 30, the president discusses working with best-selling author James Patterson to write a novel, Seattle’s McCaw Hall, 1-844827-8118, www.mccawhall.com Methow Arts Festival July 4th, bicycle-inspired art festival including art, dance, music, performance, Twisp River Park, www.methowarts.org/ methow-arts-festival-2018 Polish Festival July 12, 8pm, live music & dance, workshops, exhibits, activities, authentic Polish food, Seattle Center Armory, Seattle Center, www.polishfestivalseattle.org 75th Anniversary of USS Intrepid Attn: Former crew members of legendary aircraft carrier are called back to the ship for the 75th anniversary August 16-29. The Intrepid is now a Sea, Air & Space Museum in NYC. The museum is also seeking artifacts and memorabilia, learn more at www. intrepidmuseum.org/75.

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Exhibits

America’s Car Museum 7 days a week, 10am-5pm, “Heroes of Bavaria: 75 years of BMW Motorsport” rare & legendary examples on West Coast for first time ever, 2702 East D Street, Tacoma. daily senior discounts, 253-779-8490, americascarmuseum.org.

Free Museum Passes Contact your local library to learn about free museum passes!

Museum of Flight New Vietnam Air War Exhibit opens Memorial Day weekend, 9404 E. Marginal Way S, Seattle, 206-764-5720, www. museumofflight.org Washington State History Museum Thru June 10, blockbuster nationally touring exhibit of toys include opportunity to play with them, 1-888-238-4373, www. washingtonhistory.org MOHAI thru June 17, “Seattle on the Spot” photos of Al Smith chronicles African American community in the NW, 206-324-1126, mohai.org.

Seattle Art Museum June 14-Sept 9, major exhibition features Edward S. Curtis and Marianne Nicolson in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of Curtis’ birth, 206-654-3100, www. seattleartmuseum.org White River Valley Museum Thru June 17 “Corsets Bras and Bustles…

Oh My!” eye-popping exhibit looking at undergarments entitled “Suffer for Beauty” explores each decade from 1890 to 1970, 918 “H” St SE, Auburn, 253-288-7433, www.wrvmuseum.org

Dance & Performance

Seattle Intern’l Dance Festival June 7-23, various Seattle-area locations, www.seattleidf.org Pacific Northwest Ballet June 1-10, Seattle’s McCaw Hall, www. mccawhall.org

Theater

Seattle Shakespeare Company Thru June 3, “Shakespeare in Love” based on the Oscar winning film, Cornish Playhouse at Seattle Center, 206-733-8222, www.seattleshakespeare.org Women’s Playwrights Festival June 3, 4pm Whidbey Center for the Arts, Langley & June 4, 7pm Seattle Repertory Theatre, www.hedgebrook.org Tacoma Little Theatre June 1-17th “Macbeth”; June 7, 7:30pm, politically-charged Pulitzer Prize-winning “Off the Shelf” 253-272-2281, www. tacomalittletheatre.com Edmonds Driftwood Players June 8-24 “Sabrina” based on movie, Wade James Theatre, 950 Main St. Edmonds, $25-$28, 425-774-9600, www. edmondsdriftwoodplayers.org

Musical Theater

Centerstage Thru June 3 “The Pajama Game” brims with songs & dance, 3200 SW Dash Point Rd, Federal Way, 253-661-1444, www. centerstagetheatre.com

Les Miserables June 6-17, “direct from Broadway” production at Seattle’s Paramount Theatre, 1-800-982-2787, www.STGPresents.org Seattle Musical Theatre Thru June 17, “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” 206-363-2809, www. seattlemusicaltheatre.org Broadway at the Paramount June 27-July 1 “The Color Purple” www.

STPresents.org/Broadway/ Village Theatre Thru July 1, HAIRSPRAY; June 1-10, hysterical musical featuring zombies, 303 Front St, Issaquah, 425-392-2202, www. villagetheatre.org

Choral Music

Medieval Women’s Choir June 2, 8pm, Saint James Cathedral, 804 9th Ave, Seattle, $15-$30, www. medievalwomenschoir.org Orchestra Seattle/Chamber Singers June 3, 3pm, Mendelssohn & Dvorak, First Free Methodist Church, 3200 3rd Ave W, Queen Anne in Seattle, 1-800-838-3006.

Sno-King Community Chorale June 9, 3pm & 7pm, concert version of “Bye Bye Birdie” $15-$25, special discounts for senior groups of 10 or more, Edmonds Center for the Arts, 410 Fourth Ave N, 425275-9595, ec4arts.org Seattle Choral Company June 9, 2 & 8pm, Songs of the Danube, Seattle First Baptist Church, 1111 Harvard Ave, Seattle, www.seattlechoralecompany. org Northwest Chamber Chorus June 9, 7:30pm Phinney Ridge Lutheran Church 7500 Greenwood Ave N Seattle; June 10, 3pm Plymouth Congregational Church, 217 6th Ave Seattle, old favorites and new gems, $20-$25, 206-523-1196, www.northwestchamberchorus.org Seattle Men’s Chorus June 22-23, Seattle’s McCaw Hall, www. mccawhall.org Master Chorus Eastside July 1, 3pm, “Celebrate America” featuring patriotic songs and sing-alongs, Issaquah’s Pickering Barn, 1730 10th Ave NW, 425392-8446, www.masterchoruseastside.org

Pop, Jazz, Folk, Country

Jazz Vespers June 3, 6pm, “Paula Byrne Quartet” Seattle First Baptist on corner of Harvard & Seneca, “free will” offering, www.SeattleJazzVespers. org Music of the Caribbean June 9, 4-8pm. Free family-oriented outdoor concert at Centro de la Raza, 2524 16th Ave S, Seattle.

SE Seattle Senior Center June 10, 3-6pm, national performing artist Eugenie Jones performs at the senior center’s summer jazz series, $20-$25, 4655 South Holly St, Seattle, 206-722-0317, www. sessc.org Music & Art Showcase June 28, 4:30-8pm, free event includes concerts (Danny Vernon as Elvis 7-8pm; Richard Dean 4:30 & 6:15pm), dessert, door prizes, senior info booths, art show, Kent Senior Activity Center, 600 E. Smith, 253-856-5164.

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Flying Fortress of WWII …by Lillian Claunch

You are invited to hear the exciting adventures of the bombing raids over Germany by Richard Nelms at the Des Moines Activity Center, 2045 S. 216th, on June 7 at 7pm.

I had the privilege of interviewing Richard by telephone and was immediately impressed with his strong, authoritative voice. “I flew 35 missions between April and September bombing oil refineries, railroad yards, industrial factories, air fields and military targets.

Anti-aircraft guns constantly attacked us. I had a narrow escape, which I will tell you about at the presentation,” said Richard.

The 13,000 B-17s, called the “Flying Fortresses,” were considered a linchpin in the Allied forces strategy. 5,000 of the Fortresses were lost in combat.

“I don’t know how we would have won WWII had we not been able to

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Higher Dairy Intake Associated with Greater Bone Density in Men over Age 50 It may be a good idea to make sure you eat your yogurt and cheese when it comes to bone strength and men over the age of 50. Researchers from Hebrew SeniorLife’s Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) have discovered that higher intake of dairy foods, such as milk, yogurt and cheese, is associated with higher volumetric bone mineral density and vertebral strength in men’s spines. Dairy intake seems to be most beneficial for men

damage and destroy their industrial base,” Richard said. He piloted his B-17 bomber over Berlin and was attacked. By the end of the flight, his plane had 300 holes in it. “2,000 cannons had shot at us,” added Richard. Berlin was the only city he bombed, but with immense satisfaction as Hitler’s new auditorium was turned to rubble.

In 2013, Richard had a reunion with other former crewmen who flew B-17 bombers. Filling all the positions in one of the still-operational planes, nine of them flew over West Seattle and Puget Sound. “It was a thrill, I hadn’t been in one for 60 years.”

Richard Nelms, who is 95-years-old, is from Mercer Island. He worked as a graphic designer; he and his wife had one son.

Don’t miss Richard Nelms’ presentation – he has many interesting adventures to relate. For more information, call 206-878-1642. ❖ over age 50, and continued to have positive associations irrespective of serum vitamin D status.

In women, researchers found no significant results except for a positive association of cream intake in the cross-sectional area of the bone.

The study included 1,522 men and 1,104 women, aged 32-81 years. The researchers published their findings in the Journal of Bone and Mineral Density. ❖ John Schieszer is an award-winning national journalist and radio and podcast broadcaster of The Medical Minute. He can be reached at medicalminutes@gmail.com.

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The researchers on the AARP project are generating the largest and most comprehensive senior driver database in existence. This critical information will support in-depth research to better understand the risks and transportation needs of our aging population. nomination is based must have been performed on a volunteer basis (without pay), and must reflect AARP’s vision and mission.

• Couples or partners who perform service together are also eligible; however, teams are not eligible.

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“This award is a reminder that we can all work together for positive social change,” says AARP Washington State Director Doug Shadel. “AARP has long valued the spirit of volunteerism and the important contributions volunteers make to their communities, neighbors and the programs they serve.”

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The Great Outdoors

Lost Wild Places ...by Roger Urbaniak

Open fields dotted our neighborhood during my gradeschool years.

Summertime meant being outdoors back then and the fields were my personal choice for play area and discovery.

Hawks swooped Prairies and other wild lands are quickly disappearing to capture field mice hidden from my view, ants were seen carrying Urban streams are now so bits of food much heavier than polluted or altered that salmon themselves. Milkweed pods cannot return to many streams ripened, and I would bust them near Seattle. Second growth open and release their seeds on forests where chanterelle tiny parachutes into swirling mushroom flourished have been wind just to watch their journey logged off. Fields that provided with glee. Grasshoppers would good habitat for both local and flee my step as if they knew of my migrating birds are transformed intention to take them fishing by developers into warehouses with me. A male pheasant once or office buildings. Eventually, startled me as it erupted from with increasing property taxes, tall grass and scolded me with its almost every property near a city cackle. After I recovered from or town becomes too valuable the surprise, I stood in silence to for their owners to leave fallow admire its amazing color while or undeveloped.

I watched it sail into a nearby Development, new oil field. I have replayed this scene pipelines or mining coal in in my mind many times over the pristine areas just to make a years, and thoroughly enjoy the profit rapes the land, impacts memory each time. the wildlife, interferes with My self-selected playfields did animal migration routes, impacts not last even through my grade clean air and water, and destroys school years. Home after home the scenery. was built, with manicured lawns Chief Seattle was once replacing my treasured trees and quoted as saying, “We do not wild grasses. When television own the land. We borrow it drew me indoors more often, I still from our grandchildren.” As I knew that I missed those fields get older, I better understand and all that I saw and learned the wisdom of his statement and there. the value of our treasured public Over time, the pattern of lost lands. favorite places has continued, Sometimes I feel it’s useless even escalated. Developments to try to reverse this loss of the and freeways with their gaudy heritage of our natural lands, but billboards began to riddle our land. I will speak up for my values. If Open spaces, forests and freeothers do, too, we may find that running rivers were lost, masking our opinions matter. our unobstructed view of nature.

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