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Welcome to 2020! How would you describe the past decade? What changes did you experience? And what stability did you find — because I find some stability and sameness to have virtue. I’m excited about the upcoming decade and the opportunities ahead. Never in the history of the world have we been surrounded by as much wealth, technology, opportunity and information. What a blessed time to live, and to give.

I’d like to mention two perspectives in our issue this month. Read about “laughing yoga,” an activity that’s proving to have many health benefits. Find your own way to laugh and enjoy life. Then, read about The Klosets, find a way to help, and ponder on other ways you can be more active in your community this year. Please give of your time, talents and means. You will never be sorry.

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WO YEARS AGO, AUDREY Butler was cleaning out her closets and came across several gently-used jackets her son no longer was wearing. She called a counselor at McNary High School in Keizer and asked if the jackets could be donated to students who might need them.

She was told “yes,” and Butler brought them to the school.

“I took them over and witnessed a child who was very grateful for a jacket and a snack bar,” she says. “It was his birthday.”

While there, Butler discovered that other students were trash diving for food to take home on weekends, and she realized more could be done to help

students in need.

Through her efforts, some food and clothing were put in a closet for the students to “shop,” and The Klosets was born. That donation of a warm jacket on a cold day spurred an outreach to students at seven Keizer schools.

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“Kids now have snacks, shampoo and clean underwear,” Butler says. “Feeling accepted, they are more apt to focus on school. I recently had a child write a note to say ‘thank you.’ It’s made a difference in her getting through her last year of high school.”

Butler says the program has been very successful and is “pretty much self-sustaining with the help of peer groups in each school.” Feedback from students, teachers, staff and parents has been Audrey Butler “all positive.”

Something she learned was that many teachers were spending money out of their own paychecks to help students with food and clothing. “Now they can keep their paychecks,” she says.

With the success of The Klosets, other students in the Salem-Keizer School District are taking notice and asking questions about how to start the program at their school.

“Keizer is complete, but I’ve met with four other school advocates about starting one in their area,” Butler says.

“I was in charge of the Keizer Gift Basket Program for 12 years. I always wondered each year how I could help these kids during the other days of the year. This has been incredible, and the support has been amazing.”

An Emotional Growth Center teacher at one of the elementary schools says, “Many of my students have emotional disabilities. Thanks to all the donations that we have received, there have been several occasions where a snack has helped my students calm down or make it through the day.”

The Keizer Community Foundation has taken on The Klosets as a project and, Butler says, “the support and passion from that group has made it all possible.” ☸

Of note

The Klosets accepts gently used jackets, hoodies and clothing children might wear. Donations may be left at the Keizertimes or Copy Cats, both in Keizer. Cash donations should be made payable to The Keizer Community Foundation, PO Box 20221, Keizer, OR 97303.

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ODAY’S AUDIENCES ARE LOOKING FOR BIG shows – the bigger, the better – and local cultural establishments are responding.

“Waitress,” “Tootsie,” “Mean Girls,” “Beetlejuice,” “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” and soon “Mrs. Doubtfire,” which will have its world premiere at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Seattle.

Jukebox musicals also continue to entertain audiences on Broadway, including “Jersey Boys, “Rock of Ages,” “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical,” and “Ain’t Too Proud – The Life and Times of the Temptations.”

Broadway Rose has followed this trend by including a movie-based musical in its past seasons — “The Addams Family,” “Footloose” and “Once.” Two years ago, the theater did “Mamma Mia!” This year, it will include “Crazy for You” and

“Our big bombastic shows are often our most celebrated shows,” says Nate Hermanson, marketing director of The Majestic Theatre in Corvallis. In the next two years, this nonprofit theater will be presenting “Matilda,” “Elf the Musical” and “Legally Blonde,” among its many offerings.

Additionally, local groups such as Tart of the Valley Burlesque, Suggestions Only Improv and Majestic Aerial Medicare can be confusing Arts “all tend to bring in large audiences, due to their variety and their ability to showcase the talents of our local artists,” Hermanson says.

The nonprofit Elsinore Theatre in Salem “is more than a place to see live music events and movies,” says executive Publicly-funded resource director Tom Fohn. In 2019, The Elsinore started producing its Free and objective information own musicals in addition to the wide variety of entertainment and assistance brought to the local stage. “Disenchanted” runs Feb. 27-19 and “The Drowsy Chaperone” runs May 1-3.

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Cottage Theatre had to delay its 2019 plans to add 50 seats, but had already chosen big name shows that would draw a larger audience. Other shows this year include “Arsenic and Old Lace,” “Seeking Red,” “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” and “Hunchback of Notre Dame.”

“We deliberately provide variety and we want our season ticket holders to be exposed to a variety of styles and genres,” Goes says. “In our case, operating in Cottage Grove where there aren’t 22 theaters to choose from, we are consciously doing a lot of things, so people can have a little bit of comedy, drama and music.”

At the Hult Center for Performing Arts in Eugene, scheduled performances take in some of the country’s biggest names. Whether you’re looking for comedy — Jerry Seinfeld on Jan. 15, Brian Regan on Feb. 14, or Paula Poundstone on April 11 — or want a large-scale musical like “An American Paris” or “Les Miserables,” this year delivers.

The Hult Center continues traditional offerings from Eugene Symphony, Eugene Ballet and Eugene Opera, as well as documentaries from National Geographic, and touring speakers like Michael Pollan on March 5.

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Oregon Symphony will offer classics like Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, while expanding what it can do with movie showings like “Ghostbusters” and guest Jerry Seinfeld artist Itzhak Perlman.

If you want a more intimate theater experience, the Winningstad Theater brings “Mamma Mia!” to the stage Jan. 30 to Feb. 16. At the Newmark Theater, musical events range from “The Fab Four” to the Metropolitan Youth Symphony, BYU’s award-winning a capella group Vocal Point, and Bela Fleck. If you want to see dance, get tickets for Oregon Ballet’s “Beautiful Decay” or “The Americans 2.0.”

Keller Auditorium’s biggest shows in 2020 appear to be Shin Lim on Jan. 16, Shen Yun on April 8, and Dancing with the Stars on April 7.

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In 1919, with Woodrow Wilson as president and World War I finally over, the economy was looking up for more than 92 million Americans. Average home prices were $2,500, a gallon of milk was 32 cents, gas was 12 cents a gallon and bread cost just 6 cents a loaf. The average American’s yearly salary was $3,724.

Prohibition had started, driving many people into underground clubs where they listened to songs like “I’ll Say She Does” by Al Jolson and “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles” by Henry Burr and Albert Campbell.

Famous Americans born in 1919 include author J.D. Salinger, baseball player Jackie Robinson and crooner Nat King Cole.

The great filmmakers of the time were entertaining audiences, including “Broken Blossoms” by D.W. Griffith and “Male and Female” by Cecil B. DeMille.

It was a golden age to grow up for Rawlings, who excelled in school, even skipping a grade and graduating from St. Cecelia’s Academy in 1936 at the age of 16.

She graduated from college with an accounting degree and

Doris Rawlings is 100 years old and enjoying life.

later worked in the secretarial pool for the U.S. government before being selected as chief secretary for the head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture because of her excellent shorthand skills, says Alicia Cave, life enrichment director at Middlefield Oaks, where Rawlings currently resides.

Rawlings’s early years learning piano and organ may have helped her shorthand skills because she was talented at both, Cave says.

Rawlings met her husband when he was assigned to the U.S. Navy base in Washington, D.C., during World War II. They married on April 22, 1946 and moved west to Cleveland, Ohio.

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YOGA TEACHERS DEMONSTRATE THAT LAUGHTER REALLY IS THE BEST MEDICINE

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AUGHING YOGA CHANGES lives, and that’s no joke.

Take Laura Lou Pape’ McCarthy, who’s been teaching laughter yoga classes for older adults, including those with Parkinson’s disease, for 10 years.

She says she’s felt like an “oddball” for most of her life, but now feels comfortable in her own skin.

After graduating high school, McCarthy joined the circus, where she worked as a clown in big and small cities across the United States.

However, after suffering an injury, she had to quit the circus and found it difficult knowing what to do next.

She struggled with depression and life balance between her outgoing side and responsibility side.

In 2009, while studying gerontology and fitness at Portland Community College — and still searching for her life path — McCarthy discovered laughter yoga as a supplemental therapy. It was

the first time she had heard of it.

She decided to try it and it began to show “deep benefits” in her life. “At the end of the day, I was a lot more comfortable with my emotional ups and downs,” she says. “I was more comfortable with the choices I had made, and I didn’t end every day worrying.”

She missed being a clown and found this to fulfill part of that need.

“I found an outlet for my goofy side and it had a stabilizing effect,” McCarthy says. “I became comfortable with who I am, after feeling like an oddball.”

She teaches 10 classes a week working mostly with seniors and at

Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon. Those with Parkinson’s can suffer from body rigidness of movement and voice, she says, and laughing opens new neuron connections and muscles.

She has found that those who attend class have often become secluded; laughing helps them enjoy life.

“People’s lives open up with laughter,” McCarthy says. “It is amazing. Your whole being changes.”

Stephen Rosenstock, who is finishing up treatment for his second bout with cancer, says he’s still experiencing the benefits of laughter yoga.

“It has been relaxing for me,” he says, “and a distraction from cancer. I have

Gail Hand (opposite page) leads a laughter yoga class (above) with very positive results.

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no pain and laughing has calmed me down. The rest of my family was very triggered by the cancer.”

Rosenstock adapted so well to this form of fitness that he began teaching classes, which, he says, give him hours of release from cancer and he feels the positive effects for several days. His blood levels have improved and he feels more relaxed.

“Life is not as overwhelming,” he says.

Rosenstock, an electrical engineer who teaches yoga at the Hawthorne Club in Portland and the Beaverton Police Station, finds his background helps him apply techniques through yoga. He also worked for the U.S. Department of Defense and served in the U.S. Marines.

Andrea Crisp, born into a “family of pessimists,” has become a major leader and organizer of laughter yoga classes in Portland. She says she fought depression for many years, especially during the winter months, and believes laughter yoga has helped her condition because it is a “contagion of group interaction.”

Crisp also practices tapping, works as a life coach, and is active in an organization called World Peace through Laughter.

“Laughter yoga has helped me become way less self-conscious,” she says. “I am more open. I am an introvert personally and was closed off with a pattern of worrying.” She also tended to cry under stressful circumstances. Now, she doesn’t react to stress in the way she used to.

Crisp says science has shown in the past 50 years what humans have known for thousands of years: Laughter truly is the best medicine.

“It can lower blood pressure, boost the immune system and hearty laughter counts as exercise for your cardiopulmonary system,” she says.

Crisp, who has been teaching at the Hawthorne Laughter Club since 2011, now offers the classes in her home.

Gail Hand, who moved from Portland to Seaside, says a good laugh can brighten your day when life throws you curveballs.

Laughter, she says, has physical, mental and social benefits, and reduces symptoms of chronic conditions like arthritis and insomnia.

The social benefit is feeling connected with others.

Hand and Crisp both studied with Dr. Madan Kataria of Mumbai, India, who created laughter yoga.

Hand previously worked in corporate leadership, sales and customer services. She’s also a stand-up comedian and author of several books, including “Seven Secrets to Living and Laughing in a Stressful World.”

For the past decade, she has dedicated herself to teaching others about the power of laughter in their personal and professional lives. She now focuses her classes on older adults, teaching in retirement communities in Oregon, Washington and California.

She’s also presented yoga to nonprofits and other organization, including Coffee Creek Correctional Facility and the Washington School for the Blind.

Laughter yoga incorporates the breathing and stretching components of yoga, but Hand admits it’s not for everyone.

“Some don’t care for the silliness,” she says.

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One of my newest plant acquisitions is a California native monkeyflower (Mimulus x aurantiacus ‘Cherry’) purchased online last spring from Annie’s Annuals and Perennials. I was immediately swooning over photos of the raspberry-red flowers and, because it is easy to grow and winter-hardy here in the Pacific Northwest, it flew right into my cart. I wasn’t exactly sure where to plant it in my garden, so I grew it in a pot. Would you believe it still had blooms at the end of the year? It’s supposed to get 2 to 3 feet tall and wide but it stayed about 12 inches or so in the pot. I’m anxious to see how it will do in the ground this coming season since I think I’ve found just the right spot for it. Annie’s website also lists an orange and a white flowered variety.

Another newbie for me is Erodium manescavi, a hardy Geranium relative with sweet, violet-purple flowers blooming in clusters atop wiry stems. While many hardy Geraniums like to spread and sprawl, this Erodium stays comparatively compact and low growing, making it perfect for a rock garden or front of the border edging plant. Again, by year’s end my plant still sported a few blossoms, despite several nights with temps dipping below freezing. Another bonus is that this plant will mildly reseed. I bought my plant at Geraniacaea.com, a fantastic nursery in California specializing

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Several years ago I bought what I thought was Clematis “Alionushka” — a bush (integrifolia) clematis with bright pink, bell-shaped flowers. I’ve since learned that mislabeled clematis plants are common because, until they bloom, they all look basically the same. When my ‘Alionushka’ bloomed, it was clearly not what it was supposed to be. Rather than the expected pink flowers, this plant had deeper pinkish-magenta colored flowers that faced upward.

Once I positively identified it as Clematis integrifolia ‘Inspiration’ I read up on its attributes, got it situated in the

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garden and let it do its thing. It starts flowering in May, then continues to push out flowers until late October, without much deadheading and no cutting back.

I’ve since purchased a correctly identified ‘Alionushka’ that I love but I’m so glad my first attempt turned out to be a winner. Both clematis can be purchased at Joy Creek Nursery. (joycreek.com) While the fancy-leaved Coral Bells continues to impress with new additions being added yearly to the already huge assortment of offerings, my favorite Coral Bells, (heuchera) came to me years ago when my garden buddy Carol and I attended a presentation at Garland Nursery.

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The speaker generously gifted each participant with two heuchera ‘Paris’ plugs. We each took our plants home and every year since have been blessed with not only pretty scalloped-edged leaves in variegated green colors but with continuous bright rosy-red flowering spikes. I have divided my plant several times now and each division starts blooming in April or May and continues until heavy frost. Supposedly, this plant performs best with part shade but I’ve had some of mine in full sun with continuously moist soil and they thrive. A bonus is watching hummingbirds delight on the nectar.

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GRAB SOME FRIENDS AND TRY THIS POPULAR OUTING T’S HARD TO EXPLAIN, BUT THERE’S A REAL rush when you hold an axe in your hands, prepare your swing and then hurl the axe at the target.

Life becomes a slow-motion film as you watch the axe sail toward its destination, the blade catches the wood and it sticks. Victory.

There are other games where we throw things at targets, like darts or even bowling. Hitting the mark on those is satisfying, but it’s not throwing an axe. No, this is more primal and real. It somehow connects us to our hunter-gatherer ancestors and allows us to feel like we can accomplish anything we determine to do.

The axe as a weapon has been used for centuries, but we’re more likely to associate it with farm life, wood stoves and chopping down our own Christmas tree in the woods.

So why the sweeping popularity of axe throwing? Oregon Axe owners Timothy and

Jenny Stemmerman say it’s because most people are amazed at how quickly they can pick it up.

“We like to say it’s like darts, but fun,” Timothy Stemmerman says. “All kinds of people come axe throwing, from kids as young as 12 years old to people in their 80s.”

Axe throwing is all about that “sweet release,” he says.

“There is something primal in all of us that when we hear the sound of the axe sticking in the wood, it makes you excited.

That ‘I just stuck it’ feeling is addictive.”

Oregon Axe features three “cubes,” each with two throwing lanes. Before you even pick up an axe, “axperts” review the rules and guidelines, as well as some throwing techniques. The axperts then recommend several games to play with the axes, either individually or in groups up to 10 members.

Oregon Axe opened its first location in Springfield in 2018, along with an escape room. The Salem location is just north of downtown, less than a half-block from the Marion Street Parkade. Business hours are 4 to 10 p.m.

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☐ 3-5 ☐ 6 or more ▶ Where do you pick up Northwest 50 Plus: ☐ Grocery store ☐ Senior Center ☐ Library ☐ Hospital ☐ Restaurant ☐ Retirement Community ☐ Doctor’s Office ☐ Bank ☐ Other _______________________ ▶ Please check the types of articles that interest you (check all that apply): ☐ Health ☐ Fitness ☐ Travel ☐ Local personalities ☐ History ☐ Products/services ☐ Entertainment ☐ Hobbies ☐ Other ___________________________________________ ▶ What type of advertising is most relevant to you (check all that apply): ☐ Retirement communities ☐ Products ☐ Services ☐ Travel ☐ Sporting Events ☐ Casinos ☐ Medical ☐ Prescription Drugs

☐ Entertainment ☐ Restaurants ☐ Other____________________________ ▶ Do you use coupons: ☐ Yes ☐ No ▶ Do you often use senior discounts: ☐ Yes ☐ No ▶ Favorite way to travel: ☐ Car ☐ Bus tours ☐ Camping ☐ Cruises ☐ Adventure Travel ☐ RVs ☐ Package Tours ☐ Destination Resorts ▶ Are you a full or part time caregiver: ☐ Full ☐ Part ☐ I receive caregiving services ▶ How often do you visit a senior center: ☐ Daily ☐ 1-3 times a week ☐ Occasionally ☐ Never ▶ What hobbies do you regularly engage in? (check all that apply): ☐ Books ☐ TV ☐ Collecting ☐ Restoring ☐ Arts/Crafts ☐ Investing ☐ Sports ☐ Travel ☐ Eating Out ☐ Movies ☐ Clubs/organizations ☐ Church ☐ Gardening ☐ Other ________________________________________ ▶ What’s on your bucket list (check all that apply): ☐ Destination Travel ☐ Adventure Travel ☐ Big purchase ☐ Sporting Event ☐ Entertainment ☐ Other _____________________________________ ▶ Do you have a financial advisor: ☐ Yes Name of company ____________________________________ ☐ No ▶ Are you living with a chronic condition: ☐ Yes, Please indicate _______________________________ ☐ No ▶ How likely are you to visit a retirement community in the next 6 months, either for yourself or someone else:

☐ Definitely ☐ Likely ☐ Not likely ☐ I live in a retirement community ▶ I plan to make a car purchase: ☐ Next 6 months ☐ Next 2 years ☐ Next 5 years ☐ Never

Please return this survey as soon as possible to Northwest50Plus, PO Box 12008, Salem, OR 97309 or take a picture and email it to mte@northwest50plus.com

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