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Arts and crafts entrepreneur creates memories with clay

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Cecile Haworth, 56, started making fired clay pins with animal faces 26 years ago. She now has a repertoire of hearts, stars, angels, teapots and several animal shapes, which she sells at Eugene’s Saturday Market. By VANESSA SALVIA BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS

Like she has done for many years, Cecile Plaisted Haworth sets up her booth, which she uses to sell her handcrafts at Eugene’s Saturday Market and at several other craft fairs and shows in the region. She brings out board after board of colorful, fired clay pins and earrings in heart, star and animal shapes, along with similar clay pieces framed in nice groupings. Haworth is 56 years old now, and it’s been 26 years since

she took a leap of faith to quit her job at a picture-frame shop and make art for a living. Haworth, a trim woman with short dark hair wearing jeans and a lavendar shirt, grew up in Eugene but went to college in Claremont, California. She graduated in 1982 with a psychology degree, only because her mother insisted that her dreams to be an artist were impractical. After traveling a bit, she returned to the Eugene area and found unsatisfying work in the field of cognitive training. Haworth happened on a job at a

Beard’s framing shop and within a year became a district supervisor, staying another four years and observing the work of other artists. “I ended up working with a lot of artists and it motivated me,” Haworth recalls. “It made me realize that there were all these people creating their art and selling it, and that I could do it too.” At the same time, Haworth had a friend from high school, potter Katie Swenson, who urged her to give clay a try. “I had been mostly focused on watercolor and but finally after years

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of her inviting me to come over and play in clay, I finally took her up on the invitation,” she says. “It was amazing how much I loved it. My fingers knew what they needed to do. I thought, ‘I can’t believe I haven’t been doing this. Katie is so right, I need to be doing this,’ so I quit my job. It was literally a leap of faith.” Stable career? Her parents, who had directed her to seek out a more stable career, thought she was crazy and wouldn’t

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make it. But at that point in time, imports from China weren’t as common as they are now, and big-time buyers were actively seeking contracts with artisans who were hand-making objects in the United States. Within three years, she was traveling the Northwest arts and crafts circuit with a fast-growing business. Haworth first set up her Saturday Market booth in November 1989. “I started with little cat and wild animal faces on pins,” she says. “It was a real high to make something and have somebody actually pay for it.” She called her initial foray Kindred Spirits. Week after week, visitors to her booth would ask for shapes or colors she didn’t have, so she kept adding to her repertoire. A few years later, when hearts were really popular, she changed her business name to Kindred Hearts and offered more heart-shaped objects in addition to other shapes. Now, her work is under the name Kindred Tokens, and it encompasses the flags, stars, hearts, teapots, angels, and animals such as chickens, fish, cats and horses that become pins, earrings and framed objects.

The process To make her items, Haworth begins by rolling out porcelain clay with a slab roller. She presses lace into many of her objects to get patterns, which she paints over for a relief look — the color is darker where the lace imprint is. She then cuts shapes using cookie cutters which she has collected, been given, or made herself. They are sanded to smooth them and then fired. After the first firing, Haworth paints on colored stains and glazes and adds a clear glaze. She then paints around the edges with liquid 24 karat gold and fires them again. “I did for a while try without the gold but they just didn’t sell,” she says. She met her husband Danny at the Saturday market where he’s also an artist and had his own booth selling etchings on artist’s conks. Kindred Tokens has become a family business, as Danny, and two of her brothers help out. At the height of

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her business, they were doing 40 to 60 shows a year and wholesaling to Made in Oregon and other stores across the country. But when trade with China became more commonplace, it became harder to make a living with hand-made goods and it significantly changed the arts and crafts market, Haworth says. She relates the story of some friends who were making a good living signing contracts worth $100,000 to $200,000 each year who found that a large retailer had stolen their designs and were having them mass produced in China.

Scaling back Haworth and another brother, Frank, a product-development specialist, considered whether mass-producing the objects or hiring employees made sense, because she couldn’t keep up with demand. Neither option was profitable or produced an object she was proud of, so she scaled back, traveled to select shows, and went back to work, first as an assistant manager, and then later manager, of another frame shop, Eugene’s Vistra Framing and Gallery. She continues to sell at Eugene’s Saturday and Holiday markets, as well as the Oregon Potter’s Association Showcase in Portland, which took place in early May. She travels to Crafts on the Coast in Yachats (late May), the Scandinavian Festival in Junction City (Aug. 6-9) and

locally at Clay Fest (October), put on by an organization called Local Clay. “Local Clay is an organization I helped start with some potter friends,” she says. “There was a group of us who met mostly through Saturday Market and half of us belonged to the Oregon Potters Association, which is based in Portland, and we decided it would be nice to have a group here. There were about 10 people at the first meeting, which was at my house.” Clay Fest, Oct. 9 to 11, is now in its 16th year. The group provides education through outreach and support for clay-based businesses. “Our mission has been to help the community become aware of clay and the clay process through events like Clay Fest, our annual show, and clay in education, where clay artists and potters go into schools and other venues, offering clay experiences to children and adults.” Haworth says. “We also provide mentoring, workshops, resources, and socializing events for our members.”

Helping others Twice now, Haworth has conducted workshops through Willamette SCORE, which provides free business counseling for a startup or growing business, on how to start and grow an arts and crafts business. “Through the workshops I’ve found that there are a lot of people who are retired or

are about to retire and they are considering going into the arts and crafts industry for additional revenue to supplement their retirement income and as a way to stay active, to be part of society, to be involved,” she says. “I think there is a growing population of seniors who are thinking about retirement and saying, ‘OK, I’m retired but what do I want to do in my retirement?’ And arts and crafts has been a wonderful life for me because I love the culture — it’s almost like being gypsies — because you go to shows and you see the same people over and over. You develop this group of friends who meet up with you in other cities. It is a traveling community.” Since Haworth has been selling for so many years, she has customers dating back decades. She still sees people wearing the pins she first made. Often these customers talk to her about how much it meant to have given a pin or earrings to their mother, sister or friend at a time in their life when they wanted to share joy or comfort. Haworth was at an art show shortly after the 9/11 disaster happened and she recalls nearly every attendee coming up to her asking if she had American flag pins, which she didn’t. She thinks back on how strong their need was to have something that conveyed their emotions. “They really wanted something to help them be able to share with others how they

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felt and also help them personally deal with the emotions they were feeling,” she recalls. “And I think that’s what’s been the most gratifying is that I’ve been so fortunate that I’ve been able to give people something that helps them share their feelings of love. That’s what it comes down to, and how blessed am I that I get to be a part of that?” ■

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Cecile Haworth’s Kindred Tokens booth is generally at Saturday Market along Oak Street on the West (Fountain) Block, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturdays through Nov. 14. Haworth may take the rest of this season off so check at the market’s information booth to find out if she’s there. Saturday Market’s Holiday Market runs weekends, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Nov. 21 to Dec. 20, as well as Dec. 22 to 24, Lane Events Center at 13th and Jefferson in Eugene. Haworth will be at the Holiday Market for the whole season. Clay Fest clayfest.org, Oct 9 to 11, Lane County Fairgrounds The show and sale include work by dozens of local and regional clay artists, demonstrations, and a supervised Clay Discovery area for kids.

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This remote building is a unique Oregon experience offering history, hospitality

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The Frenchglen Hotel offers comfortable and unique lodging for anyone desiring a quiet place to get away. Located 60 miles south of Burns on Highway 205, this historic site was purchased in 1973 by Oregon State Parks and Recreation in order to preserve the historic hotel and outbuildings. Originally, the hotel was established in 1916 by Swift and Company Meat Packers, who then owned the P Ranch. The present hotel was built in 1923 with five rooms to accommodate travelers who came to do business with Swift and Company as well as other ranchers in the region. Kerosene lamps provided lighting until the 1930s. The town acquired its name from the French-Glenn Livestock Company, founded by Dr. Hugh J. Glenn and his sonin-law, Peter French. The company built its headquarters there in 1872. During the 1930’s, Frenchglen School teachers were given room and board (three meals each day) at the hotel for $30 per month, paid by the school district. The hotel manager brought lunch across the

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The Frenchglen Hotel is one of only two historic hotels owned by Oregon State Parks. Concessionaire John Ross (above) has managed operations since 1990. He opens the hotel from March 15 to Nov. 1, serving breakfast and lunch, with a family-style dinner by reservation.

road to the teachers each school day. In 1934 the Department of Fish and Wildlife bought the P

Ranch, which included the hotel, and an area covering much of the Blitzen Valley, which then became part of the

Malheur Wildlife Refuge. During that time a gasoline power plant brought lighting to the hotel which replaced the

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kerosene lamps. Bathrooms were added as well. In 1959 Harney County Electric Cooperative brought electric power to the area, replacing the somewhat unreliable gasoline powered plant. “Whoever’s run (the hotel) has either leased it from Swift and Company or leased it from the Malheur Refuge, or like me, I lease it from state parks,” says John Ross, the current concessionaire. “So, nobody who has run the hotel has ever owned it – so it’s kind of a different thing.” Ross came through Frenchglen in 1989 when then managers Jerry and Judy Santille told Ross they were leaving in 1990. The seasonal work, which includes long days seven days a week, seemed a likely fit for Ross. He had spent the previous six seasons (each one being six to seven months long) working on a processing ship in Alaska, only coming to shore on occasion for supplies. “I close up Nov. 1 to March 15 ... it’s real quiet at that point,” Ross says about the seasonal workload at the hotel. “There’s literally hardly anybody down here.”

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Ross measures the number of visitors by the number of rolls of toilet paper he puts in the public outhouse next to the hotel. “I just had somebody come get toilet paper for the outhouse and I’d just put some in there two days ago,” Ross says of his early summer experience. “During the winter, I’ll put some in there at Thanksgiving and then I don’t have to put anymore out there until I open in March. It’s only two rolls of toilet paper. There are not many people.” However, he says it’s actually the most photographed outhouse in Harney County, most likely because of its distinctive, yet primitive facility, covered by hop vines. “A guy actually came and collected a bunch of hops off the outhouse ‘cause he harvested right at the perfect time, then he got a bunch of rhizomes off the bottom and he’s growing some of these hops over in Burns,” Ross says. “So, he can use those hops and call it ‘Outhouse Oatmeal Stout.’” When available, Ross sells the special brews in the hotel restaurant crafted by Rick Roy of Steens Mountain Brewing. But what really draws visitors to the area in the spring and early summer are birds. Birders flock to the area, which is teeming with our

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Facing east with a view of the southern end of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, this rustic public restroom adorned with flourishing hops, is one of the most photographed outhouses in Oregon, according to Frenchglen Hotel concessionaire John Ross.

“I close up Nov. 1 to March 15 ... it’s real quiet at that point. There’s literally hardly anybody down here.” ~ John Ross, Frenchglen Hotel concessionaire

feathered friends at every turn. In fact, the 2015 Migratory Bird Festival last April observed 141 species of birds. “There’s bird watching on the refuge and then there’s all sorts of other hot birding spots,” Ross says. “Like Paige Springs is a really good birding spot. And then a lot of

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times they’ll go over around the Alvord side and right around Fields there’s a place called Fields Oasis and that’s a hot birding spot. And then there’re some canyons that come out of the Pueblos for the hard-core birder.” Fields, Oregon is about an hour’s drive south of French-

glen. Fields Station, a café/ store/gas station is famous for its homemade milkshakes, which truly rank a scoop above the rest. “Our milkshakes don’t suck” reads a message on the apron of the waitress delivering your shake with a spoon. As the mountain snows melt and the mountain roads open up, Ross sees more fishermen, sight-seers and hikers coming to the area. “They’ll just drive the Loop Road (Steens Mountain Loop) and they have overlooks that are only a couple-hundred yard walk to see all those

things,” says Ross of sightseers who will take one day to drive the loop. “And they’ll say, ‘Wow, that’s the most spectacular thing ever,’ and then they’re gone. Then there’re other folks who will spend a week up there hiking. There are not a lot of designated trails, but there’s a lot of old roads and places to hike or go mountain-biking.” A number of quiet and delightful campgrounds can also be found throughout the area. Steens Mountain Wilderness Resort on a hillside, three miles east of Frenchglen, offers cabins, camping, showers and laundry facilities with a gorgeous view. “The Steens are totally spectacular just by how massive everything is up there,” Ross says. “And with all the hot springs, it’s kind of like a mini-Yellowstone.” Off the beaten path, yet accessed by excellent roadways, Frenchglen lies in the center of some of Oregon’s most diverse and wide-open wonderlands, thus providing the perfect base-camp for daily excursions of exploration, including but not limited to “The Seven Wonders of Harney County.” ■

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Highway Blues By Carl Falsgraf (Available at Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle editions, and at Tsunami, Black Sun and J Michaels bookstores in Eugene; The Book Nest in Springfield; Mari’s in Yachats)

At the solid boomer age of 55, Carl Falsgraf left his long standing “dream job” at the University of Oregon in Eugene, grabbed a guitar, hopped in his newly-bought used pickup and took off on a month-plus journey across backroads America. Then, as a beginning author, he wrote “Highway Blues” as a memoir for his “great-grandchildren” about where he went, and what happened along the way. For the holder of a doctoral degree with 30-plus years of experience as an educator and administrator of a program he created, the precipitous break with a long routine and taking off with “no destination, no companion, and no plan to speak of” was a major challenge. It is a transition he generously shares in the book, and explaining the reason for doing what he did can resonate with boomer readers: “Hitting the road after 30 years of professional striving seemed like a good way to jump-start the last third of my life.” This was a minimalist adventure to be sure. Taking along no companion (his wife did not want to go, plus “she knew this was my journey, and so did I”), nor cooking gear, his truck simply contained a

raised sleeping platform beneath its canopy. Falsgraf did take along his guitar, continuing a musical love affair with the blues that accompanied him through life and dates back to a Boston jazz club where, as an 18-year-old, he heard B.B. King and later other Blues greats. As a nod to readers, he provides links to his website, booksnblues.com, so readers can hear the songs he both played and composed along the road. Falsgraf explains that two songs in the latter category, “Poor Boy” and “Dark Road,” are the ones that evoke “the journey’s smells, sounds, and emotional landscape.” And so the book follows Falsgraf and his guitar through nights of restaurant finding, camping and guitar playing in places as disparate as Wal-Mart parking lots and desolate Nevada desert sites. Then there are dinners in Chinese restaurants (“They are often the only place serving vegetables, at least vegetables that have been in the ground recently”), and

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breakfasts in roadside diners, sharing space with sometimes grumpy and suspicious regulars, and served by the usualsuspect waitresses. There are the surprises that can be met on such a journey, such as finding an independent bookstore tucked away in an otherwise down-and-out small Nevada town. He also chronicles the indeed down-and-out conditions he finds in many of the tiny towns through which he travels. Also along the way: Some spiritual/philosophical nibblings (Jesus, Buddha, Lao Tzu, Martin Buber) present themselves as Falsgraf has only himself to confront when things go very right, or marginally wrong. As he finds, traveling alone indeed makes it easier to philosophize about the second-by-second unfolding of life experienced along the way. Then there is the business of having to go into town now and then. Wandering into civilization after a few days on lonely roads, he feels “unplugged, disoriented, wandering.” Falsgraf’s route wanders east across rural and smalltown country, with a few stops along the way in larger cities, including Chicago. He finally ends up visiting his brother in Vermont. There, having come across the continent, he comes

to realize what the trip was all about: “I now understood that the journey was fundamentally internal, the changing external landscape a backdrop to the main story unfolding within.” Having reached the Atlantic Ocean, Falsgraf turns around, and at a much quicker pace travels back across the country to his Pacific Northwest home in Eugene, having put 11,273

miles on the truck. Arriving at the end of his 49-day journey, Falsgraf faces the next part of his life with “no job, no plan, no place in the world.” Yet still he has a wife and a house, a place he knew would be “where I would sleep and eat tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. Forever.” Reviewed by DAVID R. NEWMAN

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Nancie Fadeley is 85, but she doesn’t look or act it. Her decade as an Oregon state representative and other years as a charter member and national board member of the Older Women’s League (OWL) are still right at the surface. Although she’s not as active in the many causes she supports as she used to be, Fadeley still finds the time and energy to volunteer, keep herself aware of the issues, and take care of her sidekick, a rescue dog named Dexter who’s part Pomeranian and part Corgi. “I feel very, very blessed,” she says, “And a lot of that is due to this,” she says, sweeping her arms over the table in her Eugene home, laden with papers, cards, reports and articles from her time with OWL, the only national organization that focuses on issues affecting the nation’s estimated 78 million women over 40 years of age. “My work with OWL made me aware of what I needed to think about for my future, and I was able to make some valuable, educated choices. And my kids sure know about the issues of women as they age because they have heard me talk about

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■ Nancie Fadeley’s career supported women and the environment them for so many years.” Nancie Peacocke was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of a Methodist preacher. She married Ed Fadeley in 1953 and they came to Eugene in 1954 so Ed could pursue law school. They are divorced, but had two children — Charles, who also practices law, and Shira, a band teacher at Kelly Middle School. Fadeley studied English as an undergraduate and earned a master’s degree in journalism at the University of Oregon. She taught at the old Lincoln School while Ed was in law school. Before her election to the Oregon House of Representatives in 1970, she served for 10 years as legislative staff.

Legislative action She took cues from the burgeoning environmental awareness movement and is proud of her legacy of environmental legislation. “The first Earth Day was in 1970,” she recalls. “Field burning was a huge issue back then. We had doctors testify, and Bill Bowerman and Steve Prefontaine (Oregon’s celebrated track coach and runner) told how field burning was making it hard for them to breathe when they ran, even though they were very healthy athletes.”

Her legislation helped scale down the amount of open field burning smoke that was getting trapped in the Willamette Valley, which she called the “dirty toe of the sock.” In 1973, she chaired the House Environment and Land Use Committee, which voted in the pioneering, statewide land use planning legislation known as SB 100, or The Oregon Land Conservation and Development Act of 1973. SB 100 prompted the formation of 1000 Friends of Oregon, a watchdog organization committed to defending and advocating responsible land-use. Later, she served on the Board of 1000 Friends. In 1975, 1977 and 1979, Fadeley chaired both the House Environment and Energy committees. “Along the way, I developed a friendship with OWL co-founders Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields, and older women’s rights became a significant concern to me,” she says. “The OWL founders coined the phrase ‘displaced homemakers,’ and I introduced the bill signed by Gov. Robert Straub which established displaced homemaker programs in Oregon.” Displaced homemakers are women — or sometimes men

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â&#x20AC;&#x201D; whose family responsibilities have limited their participation in the paid world of work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Widowhood, divorce or the failing health of the family wage earner can make it necessary for the displaced homemaker to go back to work, but re-entering the paid workforce can be extremely difficult,â&#x20AC;? she says. After years of being out of the workplace, regardless of how skilled they were before, displaced homemakers may face poverty and lack of selfconfidence due to their inability to get a job. Fadeleyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legislation, which passed in 1977, provided funding and services to help these displaced homemakers escape poverty and prepare for a new life. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was positively the easiest bill I ever sponsored,â&#x20AC;? Fadeley says. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d ask other legislators to support it, they would interrupt me and say something like, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;My mother is a wonderful woman, but ever since Dad died, she seems lost ...â&#x20AC;&#x2122; They immediately knew what I was talking about.â&#x20AC;? Fadeley also has wonderful memories of working for Oregonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s landmark bottle bill, which passed in 1971 and requires refunds on returnable beverage containers. Her work with displaced homemakers sensitized her to their fears about medical bills. So she shepherded through the Oregon legislature a bill allowing former wives or dependent children to continue their health insurance coverage in a group plan for a limited time if they paid the premiums. â&#x20AC;&#x153;That was about 35 years before â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Obamacare,â&#x20AC;&#x2122; so it was extremely important to women and children who needed some time to continue being insured while they tried to work something else out,â&#x20AC;? she says. OWLâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s co-founder Sommers was successful in enab-

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Nancie Fadeley sits at her table and looks through papers, cards, reports and articles from her time with OWL, the only national organization that focuses on issues affecting the nationâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s estimated 78 million women aged 40 and older.

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benefits. I had opted for “early” benefits which at that time were available for those at age 62. I sat in front of a Social Security worker who seemed to be only perfunctorily doing her job. I thought her disinterested and preoccupied until she viewed my work history and its consequent benefit to me in my retirement. She animatedly said, “Wow, you really

worked hard and you are entitled to quite a monthly sum starting after your next birthday.” Her impression of my work history immediately brought tears to my eyes. I thought, “Yeah, I did work hard and made untold sacrifices to my health and family for the sake of a work ethic.” That moment of self-pity passed and a sense of knowing that a monthly check would soon be delivered to me and that Medicare benefits would follow made me smile with relief and joy. The prospect of losing or having that Social Security/ Medicare benefit reduced terrifies me. Since then, I have learned that nearly 70 percent of Social Security beneficiaries depend on Social Security for at least half of their income (I fall into this category) and it is the sole source of income

for 15 percent of its recipients. Presently, there is talk in Congress of cutting back on Medicare and Social Security and food stamps. My ears perk up when I listen to the various candidates vying for the presidency in 2016 and their stance on what is so meaningful to me and millions of others. However, there is one candidate I trust to make sure that these benefits will not be cut. In Bernie Sanders’ 12-point economic program, he commits to expanding Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and nutrition programs; and a Medicare-for-all health care system that provides better care at less cost. This reassurance is comforting and ameliorates the only thing I fear these days. JOYCE CURTIS Eugene

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stick of Wrigley’s gum spearmint from Uncle Wiggly Wings recently kindled memories of post-World War II Germany for two local women. “I chewed mine for two months every day and put it on the bedpost every night,” says Regine Lovely, who was 3 years old at the time of the Berlin Airlift of 194849. “I put it in my mouth one day and it just disintegrated.” Christel Jonge Vos took the bus to Tempelhof Airport where Col. Gail Halvorsen, one of the many American pilots to fly the USAF C-54 Skymaster during the airlift, also called “Operation Vittles,” delivered supplies. While approaching the runway, Halvorsen would wiggle the wings of his plane before dropping candy to the eagerly waiting children. As others joined the effort, candy was donated, handkerchief parachutes were made by volunteers, and the tiny parcels began to fall all over Berlin. Thousands of pounds of candy continued to arrive from the United States to support the airdrops, earning Halvorsen his nickname, the Candy Bomber. Since that time, Lovely and Jonge Vos have met with Halvorsen, a high point in both their lives. “When I was a little girl, I went to the ruins where I

picked flowers to make a wreath to give to him, but I couldn’t get close enough,” says Jonge Vos, who met with Halvorsen last November. “I went home and cried, and then gave it to my mother. Now 65 years later, I was able to give it to him. I made it with dried flowers in American colors and attached a toy w o o d e n b e a r. H e w a s thrilled.” In 2012, Lovely met with Halvorsen, who hails from Provo, Utah, when the two were filming their part in the documentary, “Meet the Mormons,” in Berlin. She still stays in touch with the man she remembers treating children with kindness during a time when many in the world thought of the Germans as enemies. “The man is incredible,” she says. “At 95, he still flies a plane, and sometimes still does candy drops. Every May, he goes to Berlin and Frankfurt to celebrate.” For Lovely, the fear, hunger and cold she felt in post-war Germany was replaced with a yearning to come to Uncle Wiggly Wing’s country. “I thought if I lived in America, I would never have to go hungry,” she reminisces. “We would pick up the cigarette butts dropped by the soldiers and eat them to kill our hunger pains.” The hardships of war were simply a way of life for a child, Lovely says. “It is not until you get older that one realizes how horrid

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Col. Gail Halvorsen was part of the Berlin Airlift and, feeling compassion for the children on the ground, dropped candy in little parachutes from his plane. Courtesy photo

the conditions were,” she says. “I remember my mother collecting bricks by the buckets. My job was to separate the broken bricks from the ones that still could be used to rebuild the city. I was only 2 years old at the time. We worked all day, every day for a certificate to receive a pound of butter or flour once a month.” Endless, gut-wrenching hunger haunted Lovely, and she and her brothers learned to steal food and run fast from the Russian soldiers to avoid being whipped for stealing. Their “fun” consisted of scouring the ruins to find “treasures” — a tablecloth, a usable pot — to take home to their mother. “Most people think that the war was over when the treaty was signed, but the ‘after the war years’ were much harder than the actual war, at least for the survivors,” she says.

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“No food, water or any kind of utilities. I remember rats — rats and disease.” Her mother part-Jewish, and her father a first lieutenant in the German army, Jonge Vos’ family was forced to evacuate twice during the war. Her first childhood memory was of people jumping out of windows because their houses were on fire. “My mother, sister and I had left Berlin to live on my uncle’s farm in north Germany in early 1943, and later moved to live with my grandmother in Marburg in the western part of Germany,” Jonge Vos says. “Although we were bombed days and nights, it must have been much, much worse in Berlin and explained the city’s appearance when we moved back there in 1947. “If there was still a house standing, it was badly damaged and unsafe,” she adds. “Many streets were barred by colossal piles of rubble and rubbish, covered with flies. The fire storms had blackened the whole city.” Jonge Vos was 10 years old at the time of the Berlin Airlift, and for the first time since the bombing raids of the war, the humming of the airplanes was a welcomed sound. Even with the airlift, food remained scarce, and often dinner was herring —

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Christel Jonge Vos and Regine Lovely are two local post World War II survivors who remember the candy drops by Col. Gail Halvorsen to starving children in Berlin after the Soviets blocked access to food and supplies.

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sometimes all that was left after standing in food lines — and radishes from the family’s garden. “But it was not all that good,” Jonge Vos says. “Often there was only socalled ‘larke’ left, the salt water in which the herring was stored. Larke with radishes was almost inedible.” Her one comfort was her doll, Peter, a Christmas gift from her father during one of his furloughs home in 1941. “Peter was always with me,” she says. “He is a senior citizen now at 72 years old. He lost his eyes when the bombs fell, and my mom painted them.” When expecting her first child, Jonge Vos hoped for a boy she could name Peter. “But I had a girl,” she says, smiling. “I named her Petra.” Meeting their hero is not all these women have in common. Both women left Berlin and became U.S. immigrants — Lovely in 1965 and Jonge Vos in 1972. Lovely now lives in Gervais, just a few miles from Keizer where Jonge Vos now lives. Both women taught German, became translators, and opened their own language centers. They married and raised families. Lovely has three children and three grandchildren, and Jonge Vos, a daughter and a son as well as four grandsons. Both have a story to tell to

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I love early morning walks in the garden when the air is cool and the birds are singing. Breathing in the fresh scent of roses and honeysuckle makes me smile and as I walk over to my raspberry plants, I can’t help but pluck a few in my mouth. It’s moments like these that make all the toiling and sore muscles worth it. Although I’m not much of a vegetable gardener, I love my fruits. Compared to vegetables, I have found that berries are much easier to grow. For instance, they don’t seem as susceptible to bug infestations and they really don’t take up much room in my garden. And once they’re established, they come back year after year, reliably producing abundant crops. Years ago I relegated two

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from the ground the following spring and summer will bear the later crop — August until hard frost. There is never a huge yield all at once but enough for daily munching. Raspberries are self-fertile meaning only a single variety is required to produce fruit. It seems plant breeders are constantly introducing improved varieties and now you can even get dwarf varieties to grow in containers. This way, even those without garden space can have home-grown fruit. There are several everbearing or “day-neutral” strawberries on the market. Currently, the two most popular varieties are “Seascape” and “Tri-Star.” Because strawberry plants are very shallow-rooted, providing several inches of organic topdressing is really important for keeping the soil moist

which will increase yields. Blueberries produce higher yields when at least two different varieties are planted a few feet apart. Fortunately it’s easy to find early, mid-season and late varieties to extend the harvest season. I’ve got an early variety, “Duke,” a midseason variety, “Sunshine Blue,” and a late variety called “Chandler” although this year Chandler finished before Sunshine Blue. These little idiosyncrasies are what make gardening fun.

measured by the Consumer Price Index. Your TIPS pay interest twice a year, at a fixed rate; this rate is applied to the adjusted principal, so your interest payments will rise with inflation and fall with deflation. When your TIPS matures, you will receive adjusted principal or original principal, whichever is greater. As is the case with other bonds, though, you could choose to sell your TIPS before it matures*. Work with your financial advisor to help decide what moves are right for you to help protect your retirement income from inflation. It may be a “hidden” threat, but you don’t want to ignore it. * Yield to maturity cannot be predetermined, due to

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Enhance your summer with some Lane Community College Successful Aging Institute classes. Contact SAI at 541-463-6262 or lanecc.edu/sai for registration, costs, location and other information. September Class Highlights: ABC’s of Home-buying: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. 12. Arboretum Volunteer Training: 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sept. 1. Arthritis Exercise Program: 1:15 to 2 p.m. Sept. 15 to Nov. 19. Beginning Yoga: 6 to 7 p.m. Sept. 28 to Nov. 2. Flower Power 1: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15 to Oct. 13. Hospice Volunteer Training: 1 to 6 p.m. Sept. 15 to Nov. 19.

Living Well with Chronic Conditions: 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sept. 10 to Oct. 15. More Legal Decisions: Parents and Families: 6 to 8 p.m. Sept. 29 to Oct. 13. Protect Yourself and Others: 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 15. Recreating Your Life: Transitions: 2:30 to 4 p.m. Sept. 30 to Nov. 4. Urban Homesteading 101: 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 23 to Dec. 2. Yoga and the Pelvic Floor: 1:15 to 2:45 p.m. Sept. 28 to Oct. 26. Ongoing: AARP Driver Safety Program. Visit lanecc.edu/sai/ course-descriptions for dates, times and locations. ■

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According to an investigation by WHTR–TV in Indianapolis, Indiana, senior citizens are being targeted by harassing phone calls from companies trying to sell medical devices. The Federal Communications Commission is considering new rules as U.S. senators focus on ways to address concerns with how companies use the federal Do Not Call list. The Senate’s Special Committee on Aging focused on a number of issues related to the federal Do Not Call list and the increase in complaints about harassing calls. Myrtle Harper, 84, says she gets calls day after day from companies trying to get her to order back braces and knee braces she does not need. Even though she declines the equipment, Harper’s doctor says he gets order forms from various medical device companies say-

ing Myrtle ordered the devices. At the hearing on Capitol Hill, Indiana Sen. Joe Donnelly (D) sits on the committee and told the group such calls have to stop. “We’ve heard about these calls from seniors’ organizations, physicians, from folks in Indiana who’ve been on the receiving end of harassing phone calls from medical equipment companies offering equipment like back braces that

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they neither want nor need, and the suppliers use aggressive tactics to persuade seniors into ordering unnecessary items at Medicare’s expense,” Donnelly says. “We have an obligation to protect the privacy seniors have and to protect taxpayer dollars.” Sen. Claire McCaskill (DMo.) related her family’s experience. “I watched my mother get victimized when she thought she was being called by Medicare, and it was really a company called Medicare,” she said. Senators heard testimony from consumers and technical experts saying the nation’s Do Not Call list has not kept up with technology, allowing scammers to repeatedly call consumers who thought they would no longer receive solicitations. The committee is pledging

to study new strategies and technology to help consumers fight back, and senators are now proposing legislation that puts more pressure on phone companies to stop scam artists that make harassing phone calls. “We have to stay on this issue because spammers, spoofers and robocallers will continue to use whatever tools are available to them to defraud American consumers and America’s seniors. We must give them the flexibility to fight the fraudsters,” McCaskill told the committee. The Federal Trade Commission also appeared during the hearing, and urged the approval of new rules that will give consumers more options to block harassing phone calls. The Federal Communications Commission will vote on that proposal. ■

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regon’s Willamette Valley is home to some of the best agricultural land in the Northwest, a gift from our state to the north. During the last Ice Age of 10,000-15,000 years ago, an ice dam holding back the enormous waters of Lake Missoula repeatedly melted, sending rushing waters across eastern Washington and down the path of the Columbia River to the Pacific. A narrow choke point in the area of present-day Kalama, Wash., forced the water to back up into the flat lands along the Willamette River creating a large lake. When the waters receded, the rich volcanic soil they were carrying (thank you, Washington) remained behind, leaving nearly 200 feet of fertile alluvial top soil in some areas. Over the years, this land has created a feast of abundance for native tribes, early fur traders, Oregon Trail settlers and farmers, both large and small. The valley produces more than 170 different crops and livestock items including grass and legume seeds, tree fruits and nuts, wine grapes, berries, hops, wheat, hay, nursery plants and field crops. It is the country’s number one provider of blackberries, hazelnuts, loganberries, boysenberries and grass seed. Farm market stores are scat-

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Bauman Farms, located in Gervais, has become a year-round farm stand that really hits it big in the fall with the area’s largest pumpkin patch. There’s also mazes, an animal barn, hayrides, apple tastings, cider-making demos and more. tered throughout the area, but largely concentrated near the two major metropolitan areas of Portland and Salem. They are a great source of locallygrown fruits and vegetables, nursery stock, and most offer a wide range of special harvest events starting in late Sept-

ember and running through October. On the east side of Interstate-5, just south of Woodburn, off Oregon 99E, on Howell Prairie Road is the red barn of Bauman Farms (baumanfarms.com). If there is such a term as

agri-destination, this place fits the bill. Not only is it a yearround farm stand, but a bakery, gourmet goodie shop, and nursery. Don’t miss a stroll through the greenhouses where aisles of hanging baskets and other floral displays fill the room with brilliant

color. At harvest time, their festival is the area’s largest with a pumpkin patch, mazes, animal barn, hayrides, apple tastings, cider-making demos and tons of fun activities for the grandkids. Now, continue south on Howell Prairie to Hazel Green Road and turn west toward Brooks. EZ Orchards (ezorchards.com), operated for years by the Zielinski family at the corner of Hazel Green and Cordon roads, also offers fresh produce, baked goods (including yummy donut samples as you walk in the front door), a good selection of packaged gourmet foods, and colorful gardens. Next to the main store is the Shortcake Stand with a menu of seasonal fruit desserts and ice cream treats and a pretty, shaded picnic area nearby. Like Bauman’s, they do a bang-up harvest festival with corn maze, petting zoo, pie-eating contest, pony rides, bluegrass music … a complete country experience for all ages. From here travel south on Cordon Road to Sunnyview and turn east to 82nd Ave. You can’t miss the big sign on the left side enquiring, “Got Pie?” The family-owned Willamette Pie Company (wvpie. com) was started by the Roths, third-generation berry farmers,when they purchased a local pie maker in 2001. They pro-cess about 12 million pounds of berries and fruit

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each summer, and while most of the fruit is flash frozen, much of it ends up in the fillings of their delicious pies and cobblers. In the retail store, one side features windows providing a view of the pie “assembly line,” and the other side is a wall of freezers stuffed with a wide variety of pies, cobblers and bags of frozen fruit. There’s a small café offering bakery treats, coffee and ice cream, and both indoor and outdoor dining areas. If you prefer home-baked pies and goodies, check out Fordyce

Farms (fordycefarm.com) on Sunnyview Road where you’ll also find produce, u-pick berries and currants; but if sweet corn is your thing, don’t miss a stop at Schlechter Farms (schlechterfarms.com) on 86th. Another popular farm stand on the west side of I-5 near the town of St. Paul is French Prairie Gardens (fpgardens. com) on French Prairie Road. In addition to having fruits and vegetables for sale, they offer a full range of events from monthly grilling dinners, barbecues, and an activity-filled fall festival. Be sure to check websites in advance for directions, hours, and event calendars; and enjoy the bounty of the Willamette Valley. ■

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The bakery counter at Willamette Pie Co., in Salem, offers tempting turnovers and slices of pie. It’s just one of several farm stores in the area.

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The Fanged Fishosaurus: Oregon’s Sabertooth Salmon, 6 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. 541-6825450.

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Fall Nature Guide orientation, 6:30 to 8 p.m., Wayne Morse Family Farm, 595 Crest Dr., Eugene. 541-747-1504.

Music Therapy for Wellness and Beyond, 1:30 p.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. Free. 541-735-4444.

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Forest Ecology Walk, 10 a.m. to noon, Mount Pisgah Arboretum. $5. 541-7471504. Parkinson’s Disease Support Group of Lane County, 10:30 a.m. to noon, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 777 Coburg Road, Eugene. 541-345-2988 or libby@parkinsonsresources.org.

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Crazy 8s Oregon Author Tour, 3 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. 541-682-5450.

AAUW: Rep. Val Hoyle, majority leader, Oregon House of Representatives, 10:30 a.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 777 Coburg Road, Eugene. 541-344-4572.

Retired Senior Providers of Lane County, “End of life choices,” 2 p.m., Sheldon Oaks Retirement Community, 2525 Cal Young Road, Eugene. 541-342-1983.

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Memory and More, support group for family, friends and care partners of those with memory loss, “What no one told us about memory,” 10 to 11 a.m., First Baptist Church, 3550 Fox Meadow Dr., Eugene. 541-3450341. Oldtime Music Afternoon with Bruce McLennan, noon to 1:30 p.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. Free. 541-735-4444.

Sumi Ink Surface Designs, 1:30 to 4 p.m., Mount Pisgah Arboretum, Eugene. $20/$25. 541-7473817.

Introduction to Windows 10, 6 p.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. Free. 541735-4444.

Open Jam, 7 to 9 p.m., Sonrise Christian Church, 1300 Irvington Dr., Eugene. 541-689-3335. Early Fall Bird Walk, 8 to 10:30 a.m., Mount Pisgah Arboretum, Eugene. $5. 541-7473817.

+55 Support Group, 10 to 11:30 a.m., Garden Way Retirement Community, 175 S. Garden Way, Eugene. Chrz.redmond55@gmail.com.

Balance, Strength, Flexibility!, 5:30 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. 541-682-5450.

Grimms’ Fairy Tales, 6 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. 541-6825450.

Make it: Paper Boxes, 6 p.m., Sheldon Branch Library, 1566 Coburg Road,

Eugene. 541-682-5450.

See CALENDAR p. 19

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The Sharing Community, 6 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. 541682-5450.

(through Sept. 27) Florence Festival of Books, with book fair, speaker Jane

Dan Piraro: “Bizarro” Cartoonist, 2 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. 541-6825450.

27 Kirkpatrick, publisher’s panel, Florence Events Center, 715 Quince St. Introduction to Chinese Medicine with Nathan Schulman, 1:30 p.m., Willamalane

Make it: Paper Boxes, 6 p.m., Bethel Branch Library, 1990 Echo Hollow Road, Eugene.

Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. Free. 541-735-4444.

CALENDAR Support group for partners of people with Parkinson’s disease, 1:30 p.m., Parkinson’s Resources office, 207 E. 5th Ave., Suite 241, Eugene. 541-345-2988.

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Send your calendar items to: Calendar, 4159 Cherry Ave. NE Keizer, OR 97303 or email mte@nwseniornews.com by the 6th of the month for the following month’s publication.

NARFE, Lane County chapter, noon, Sizzler Restaurant, 1010 Postal Way, Springfield. Pete Peterson, “Hard Way to the Valley,” the lost wagon train of 1853.

Garden Way Retirement Community 175 South Garden Way Eugene, OR 97401 541-393-2797 Terrie & Jim Powell

Mennonite Village 5353 Columbus St. SE Albany, OR 97322 541-928-7232 Whitney Olsen, Marketing info@mennonitevillage.org www.mennonitevillage.org www.facebook.com/ mennonitevillage

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If qualified, rent as low as $25 per month, including electricity.

3400 Hawthorne Ave. Eugene, OR 97402 541-689-4451 TTY: 711

Terpening Terrace Resort Style Retirement 50 Ruby Avenue Eugene, OR 97404 541-689-0619 800-818-7518 Donna www.terpeningterrace.com

Waterford Grand

600 Waterford Way Eugene, OR 97401 541-636-3329 Dorian Arcuri www.waterfordgrand.com

YA-PO-AH TERRACE Retirement Apartments 350 Pearl Street Eugene, OR 97401 541-342-5329 TDD 541-342-5329

“No Buy In” Studio 1 BR/1 BA 2 BR/2 BA Call for more information.

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