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Finding fulfillment in retirement takes work By SARAH BROWN
CNA staff reporter sbrown@crestonnews.com
What would you do if you had the time? Whether it is because they are following a lifelong passion or in search of supplemental income, more seniors are becoming entrepreneurs in retirement. Reasons for retirees starting their own business vary. Some retirees find they have the time
or the funds to pursue entrepreneurial endeavors, some fear they may outlive their retirement plan and others find it difficult to become employed parttime in an already competitive workforce. Whatever the reason, three locals found a new, different and fulfilling path to self sufficiency in retirement. Please see INDIVIDUAL STORIES, inside
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Junking is awesome Sheila O’Riley turns ‘trash’ into ‘treasures’ By SARAH BROWN
CNA staff reporter sbrown@crestonnews.com
Sheila O’Riley, 55, of Lenox, who retired from the Adams County Soil and Water Conservation District after 36 years of service, didn’t stray far from her passion for conservation when diving in to starting her own businesses. O’Riley planned for retirement but didn’t plan to open her own business. It was through a mutual friend that O’Riley met her now business partner René Foster. O’Riley said she had often entertained the idea of opening a store for her upcycled and repurposed garden art and home decor, but acquiring a storefront or building seemed daunting — until she was introduced to Foster. O’Riley and Foster quickly became friends and within months of meeting, their shared interest in art and conservation became a
business. O’Riley now spends her time creating upcycled garden art and home decor — a business she calls JunkAwesome out of her home. O’Riley and her business partner also opened SheNae’s Rescued and Renewed, 311 W. Montgomery St., in the spring of 2013, which serves as a storefront for O’Riley’s creations and upcycled and repurposed CNA file photos items made by local con- Sheila O’Riley, above, spreads caulk on a glass dish to signers from Iowa. create garden totem which she sells at local craft fairs and “It’s so much more physi- at her shop She-Nae’s, 311 W. Montgomery St. cal labor than I imagined,” said O’Riley, who is often sourcing, sanding and Want to keep it? painting furniture for the store. Protect your valuable clippings and documents with lamination. Now available at However, O’Riley isn’t complaining. Whereas, her In by noon, ready by 4 p.m.! former position with the water district didn’t offer much variety in the day to 503 W. Adams • 782-2141 day activities, O’Riley said now she is having more fun. “I’m doing things I enjoy,” said O’Riley. “I still have to do paperwork, but not as much.
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Still growing Personal growth is one perk found in retirement for Janice Warren By SARAH BROWN
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After 29 years of service, Janice Warren, 63, of Afton retired from East Union Community School where she worked as a paraprofessional, secretary and technology assistant. If you ask Warren if she ever envisioned opening a greenhouse, she will chuckle and say “not at all.” It was at a master gardening class where Warren met fellow gardening enthusiast Angela Coke of Creston. “When I met Angela, we just clicked,” said Warren. “We both have a love of plants, flowers and gardening.”
According to Warren, it wasn’t long after they met before Coke’s husband Chris asked, “So when you opening a greenhouse?” “I thought it was a joke,” said Warren. After Warren retired in 2011, the planning began. Less than one year later, Savta’s Greenhouse, 1433 Highway 34, was established. Warren said the greenhouse is more work than she thought, but more fun than a traditional job. “We sell what we like and know will sell,” said Warren. Planning happens yeararound. In November, Warren and Coke begin to thumb through catalogs to decide what plants to sell.
Once everything is planted, Warren said she spends a lot of time watering, which she said takes time and careful planning as not to over-water neighboring plants. To others thinking about starting their own business in retirement, Warren said to look around and see if there’s a need. Warren, who said she can be somewhat shy, said the business has been good for her. CNA file photo “I’m forced to talk with and Savta’s Greenhouse, 1433 Highway 34, features a variety of flowers and plants handmeet people,” said War- planted by co-owners Janice Warren and Angela Coke. Savta’s will re-open in spring ren. “It’s a good thing.” 2014. Despite being uncomfortable at times, Warren really enjoys what she does. “It’s more fun now than when I was young and working a job because I had to.”
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Building a retirement Custom furniture draws the attention of customers from ‘coast to coast’ for Darius Boone
By SARAH BROWN
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Darius Boone of Afton spent almost a year searching for the right opportunity before he decided to take the skills he learned as a child and start his own custom furniture business. Prior to his search for employment, Boone and his wife Elane owned and operated family-run Rusk Food and Fuel in Afton for 25 years. Once the Boones sold the family business, he managed Terrible’s Casino gas station in Osceola for five years and thought about retirement after it sold to Pilot in 2010. “You’ve got to do something,” said Boone. “You can’t just sit around the house. When you get to be 66 or 67 years old, no one is going to hire you. So you’ve got to come up with something to do.”
Creating custom furniture is a skill Boone said he learned as a child while helping his father Gordon Boone, who ran an upholstery business in Red Oak. “It’s like riding a bicycle,” said Boone. “You never forget. You just jump right back in.” Boone began his custom furniture business by making live-edge furniture using local sources of maple, oak and walnut. Live-edge or natural-edge is a style of furniture where a carpenter incorporates the natural edge of the wood into the design. His live-edge pieces range from smaller items, such as mixed-media wall art, to large items, such as dining tables and sofas. Boone used to take his furniture to art and craft shows in Des Moines, but that was becoming costly to transport and display items, especially if he didn’t make
many sales. Now, Boone sells mostly through a website, www.custommade.com, where he is able to bid on projects and feature a gallery of his past work. As Boone tells his story, he is tufting a cream-colored velvet chaise lounge chair for an interior designer in Arizona — each button painstakingly covered in coordinating fabric, threaded, measured and stitched into place about every six inches. Despite how meticulous the request, it is a process he enjoys. Boone has designed, built and shipped furniture to California, New Jersey and handfuls of states inbetween. “I’ve basically done coast to coast,” said Boone. Boone hasn’t built furniture for anyone famous, yet, but a woman in Oklahoma hired him to custom make an ottoman replicating one
belonging to Maroon 5 singer Adam Levine she saw in a magazine. “If you buy lumber on the east or west coast, by the time you get it shipped here, you have so much money wrapped up in it you can’t be competitive,” said Boone.
To keep his cost low, Boone uses locally-sourced items. He said he also uses the same upholstery-supply house in Des Moines his father used “years and years and years” ago. Money aside, Boone said his choice of work is person-
ally fulfilling. “It’s a lot of fun,” said Boone. “It’s fun to have people have something in their mind and be able to talk to them and find out what it is, create it and have them like what you’ve created.”
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Millions of boomers may suffer from chronic Hepatitis C without knowing it (BPT) — Did you know that Hepatitis C is a leading cause of liver cancer and the number one reason for liver transplants in America? Between 1999 and 2007, more people died from Hepatitis C related complications than HIV. Despite this, many people live with the Hepatitis C virus for years, without experiencing any symptoms, while it silently causes liver damage. At particular risk is the growing population of baby boomers - adults born between 1945 and 1965. Baby boomers account for over 75 percent of Hepatitis C cases and are five times more likely to be infected than those in other age groups. As a result, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommend that all baby boomers get tested
for Hepatitis C, regardless of whether they think they are at risk. Dr. Donald M. Jensen, Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Liver Diseases at the University of Chicago Medical Center, explains, “Most boomers may have been infected in the 1970s and 1980s when Hepatitis C virus rates were the highest. Since chronic Hepatitis C can go unnoticed for decades, many baby boomers may not even know they are infected. Universal screening of blood wasn’t in place until 1992, so many boomers may have been infected from receiving contaminated blood products without being aware. I encourage all baby boomers to speak to their doctor about getting tested.”
As baby boomers with Hepatitis C age, it becomes more likely that they will suffer serious complications. Since many baby boomers don’t realize they are at risk and aren’t getting tested, the number of Hepatitis C related deaths is increasing. However, once those infected are diagnosed through a blood test, they can speak to their doctor and take the necessary steps to manage their condition. It’s important that those who have Hepatitis C realize that they shouldn’t feel ashamed. Dr. Jensen and the CDC would like to see all boomers get tested for Hepatitis C and if positive, seek follow-up care. Speak to your doctor or visit www.cdc.gov for more information about Hepatitis C.
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Delta Dental supports healthy aging month JOHNSTON – During National Healthy Aging Month in September, Delta Dental of Iowa cautions older adults to guard against a dangerous side effect of more than 400 prescribed and over-thecounter medications – dry mouth. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports about four out of five older adults suffer from a chronic condition, and half have at least two. Oftentimes, chronic conditions are treated with a variety of prescription medications that could lead to dry mouth. Dry mouth occurs when salivary glands are unable to
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Avoid learned helplessness through empowerment By AMY EDMUNSONBONEBRAKE Prairie View Assisted Living administrator
Aging is just as much a psychological process as it is a physical process. We, as professionals in the caring profession, need to use the good judgment and awareness to help others and to help others remain independent and able to help themselves. Let’s take a look at the concept of learned helplessness. Learned helplessness is a psychological theory introduced in the mid-1960s by Martin Seligman. It has been used to help understand many animal and human behaviors. This theory explores a psychological condition in which a human being or an animal has learned to act or behave helplessly in a particular situation — usually because of a perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation. Researchers have applied this theory to different situations over the years, such as sports, unemployement and addiction. Those in the gerontology field apply this with aging. This is how. As professionals in a caregiving field, we like to help others. This is why many of us chose this profession. We could do anything we wanted to, but we chose to be trained to care for people. We have an inert benevolent “something” that makes us want to not just care for
our own families, because we do that, too, we care for others who are not related to us. That very internal special something can inadvertently do more harm than good at times, because sometimes, the more we do for others, the less folks have opportunities to do for themselves. The less the available opportunities people have to do things for themselves, the less people will do for themselves. This can result in loss of independence. Before you know it, the caregiver doesn’t realize they are not encouraging independence, but rather promoting dependence. This process doesn’t happen on purpose, or overnight. Sometimes, it may just be more convenient for the caregiver to just do the care themselves than to allow extra time for the recipient of the care to participate. Sometimes there are negative stereotypes of older adults – that they are incapable, unable, “too old.”. The recipient of care becomes less engaged in daily life and becomes less able beyond the “normal aging” process. We become dependent on others for tasks that we sometimes are very capable of doing ourselves. This can also create lack of confidence, depression, anxiety, fear and resentment. We need to continue to be engaged in life and daily activities and grab those opportunities to safely do what we can for ourselves.
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This way, we can maintain our functional mobility and physical ability. The recipient of care should be afforded choices. If someone has a low perceived personal control, this can cause them to feel completely powerless to change their circumstances for the better. As a caregiver, we should be aware not to take those meaningful opportunities away. Provide time for the recipeint of care to accomplish a task. Ask the recipient of care “Would you like to give it (the task) a shot?” (if it can be done so safely) Provide encouragement and praise!
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