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TIMES A monthly magazine for the region’s seniors

JUNE 5, 2017 / VOL. 27, NO. 6

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EDITOR: Julie Breslin, (208) 848-2241 / jbreslin@lmtribune.com GOLDEN TIMES P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501 goldentimes@lmtribune.com

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Baseball: The game is still a hit for these seniors ...................17 Birthdays ...................................................................................6 Briefs ......................................................................................... 5 Crossword / solution ......................................................... 22/20 Cryptofun ................................................................................ 19 Drag-racers of the L-C Valley not ready to slow down ...... 12-16 Housecall: Local health care professionals’ help needed ....... 21 How many ways can a building project go wrong? ............... 19 Meal site list ............................................................................ 24 Meals on Wheels / Senior meals menus ........................... 23/24 Meetings calendar ................................................................... 24 Need a Hand | Lend a Hand ...................................................... 7 Reader Essay: Ruth Bosserman’s sweet summer day ................ 3 Safety first: Check your home for hidden hazards ................. 18 Social Security: Teach the grandkids how to save/invest ...... 21 Sudoku / solution ................................................................19/6 Word scramble ..........................................................................4 Word Search / solution ....................................................... 4/18 Write Here: Esther Goffinet honors dad’s labor sacrifice ... 8-11

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Fay Graham Betty Larsen Harold Hattan Ann Elder Barbara O’Brien Hank Dorion

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Sweetest summer day: June 18, 1950 I

vividly recall our wedding day, in my parents’ small home, on an ordinary street.

The day dawned mistily, uncertain as to what its mood would be. Slowly awakening, the smells of freshly brewed coffee and fragrant muffins, straight from the oven, stirred my senses. Muffled voices, drifting from the kitchen reminded me others already were at breakfast.

Sudden joy and awareness of what this significant day would bring sent me flying from under the soft covers and scurrying into the shower.

Returning to the bedroom, I brought from the closet a special housecoat I had purchased for my trousseau — a lovely soft thing in pale aqua, with ferns and roses strewn across it. Donning this, I went to breakfast feeling regal and feminine.

Later, seeing the sun had escaped from behind dark clouds, I walked around my parents’ yard, viewing the flowers and trees, knowing that never again would anything be the same and that I would not be returning to this place to live.

Going into the kitchen, I once again admired the threetiered wedding cake, topped with a silk gardenia. I had purchased this myself and felt great pride in knowing I’d also bought my wedding gown and going-away dress, hat, gloves, lingerie and the groom’s wedding band.

My mother had borrowed a silver tea service and placed it on the lace-covered dining table. We brought in the cake, centering it carefully as the focal point of the occasion.

In the kitchen, my aunt was brewing coffee and tea, making punch and finishing some sandwiches for a quick

Readers are invited to share essays of 600 or fewer words on monthly themes.

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The theme for July is “Sweet Summer Days,� and the deadline is 5 p.m. June 15.

Courtesy of Ruth Bosserman

From left are best man Ben Ward, newlyweds Lloyd J. and Ruth True Bosserman and matron of honor Wilma Denham Vail. lunch. Mother admonished me to eat, which I did without tasting, my mind only on the coming ceremony.

As I was carefully taking the covered gown from the closet, in came Mother, carrying the borrowed veil, which she had washed and starched some earlier day that week.

I put on makeup, combed my hair and slid into the exquisite floor-length gown.

The veil was perfect, and I gazed into the mirror delighted with what I saw.

In the living room, our church pianist played traditional wedding music beforehand and the wedding march as Father and I came from the kitchen to the archway, flanked by the best man and matron of honor. The ceremony went quickly and smooth-

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ly, and before we knew it, we were at the reception table, cutting bites of wedding cake and feeding each other for the camera buffs among us.

We were to go to the photographer’s studio for our formal pictures. It took an interminably long time, as we had unwittingly hired a perfectionist.

Returning to the house, I changed clothes, finished a little packing, and the groom carried my luggage to the car. Farewells were said, and we were on our way to our honeymoon about 5 p.m. We told no one where we were going — and I almost felt guilty, because a cardinal rule in my parents’ home was, “Always let us know where you will be.�

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close together as we drove, and recounted the events of this amazing and life-changing day. — Submitted by Ruth T. Bosserman, 88, Clarkston Ruth and Lloyd Bosserman were married June 18, 1950, in Clarkston. Lloyd graduated from Clarkston High School in 1941 and Ruth in 1947. They celebrated their 60th anniversary in 2010, and Lloyd died July 30, 2010. They have three daughters, June Litchfield (Doug) of Lewiston, Beth Shirley (Bill) of Clarkston, and Rena Blair (Tim) of College Place, Wash.; five grandchildren; nine greatgrandchilren; and one greatgreat-granddaughter.

Anyone 55 or older in the readership area may submit one essay per month. Electronic submissions are preferred at goldentimes@ lmtribune. com. Essays may also be directed to the Tribune office at 505 Capital St., Lewiston, ID 83501. Entries must include the writer’s name, age, city of residence and contact information. Golden Times edits submissions for grammar, factual errors and to conform with Associated Press style.

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Briefs tus as either Man-Ape or Myth. Attendees are encouraged to tell their The public is welcome at a free tales and share their experiences informational session, “Medicare with this mysterious creature.

101 & Updates,” from 11 a.m. to Activities are at the Downtown 1 p.m. June 14 in Lewiston.

Branch of the Asotin County The event will be held at the Library at 417 Sycamore St., Community Action Partnership Clarkston, (509) 758-5454. The Area Agency for Aging, 124 New Heights Branch is at 2036 Fourth Sixth St. Registration is available at Ave., Clarkston, (509) 758-4601; (800) 247-4422 or SHIBA.idaho.gov. and the Asotin Branch is at 215 Second St., Asotin, (509) 243-6010.

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Seniors welcome to take part in Asotin County Library activities

Lewiston Parks & Rec plans jaunts

The Asotin County Library has a handful of free adult events planned for this month: l Color Yourself Happy is at 6:30 p.m. June 13 at the Downtown Branch. l Wine & Wisdom is at 6:30 p.m.

June 13 at Basalt Cellars Winery, 906 Port Drive: “Cerebral Cinema: Movies on the Mind” — Lance Rhoades will lead a conversation about movies, intelligence and creativity. l Book Night @ your library is at 7 p.m. June 17 at the Downtown Branch: “The Egg and I” by Betty MacDonald will be discussed. l Wine & Wisdom is at 6:30 p.m.

June 27 at Basalt Cellars Winery, 906 Port Drive: “Sasquatch: ManApe or Myth” — author David George Gordon will evaluate data gathered about the legendary Northwest icon, discuss the rules of critical thinking and the workings of the scientific method, and explain how one can become an effective “citizen scientist” by gathering credible evidence that can be used to substantiate the Sasquatch’s sta-

Residents 50 and older are eligible to take part in trips being planned by the Lewiston Parks and Recreation Department.

Gondola Rides in Wallowa: A day trip to Wallowa and Joseph, Ore., begins at 8 a.m. July 13. Cost: $90 covers transportation and tours.

Registration deadline: June 30.

Discover South Dakota: A May 18-24, 2018, trip to Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse is planned. An informational meeting will be held at 1 p.m. June 26 at the Lewiston Community Center.

Regular activities planned this month by the Lewiston Parks and Recreation Department include: l Line dancing: 10 a.m. Mondays and 9 a.m. Thursdays l Pinochle: 6:30 p.m.

Wednesdays l Painting group: noon Thursdays l Bridge: noon Fridays l Senior lunches: Noon Mondays and Tuesdays, and 11:30 a.m.

Wednesdays. Suggested donation: $4 per senior and $5 per nonsenior guest. Senior Nutrition

Program home-delivery meal options are available seven days a week: (208) 743-6983.

All activities are held at the community center at the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St. Registration for activities and trips is required and can be completed at the Parks and Rec office between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays; by calling (208) 746-2313; or online at www.cityoflewiston. org/parksandrec.

Valley Community Center offers activities Activities offered at the Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston, include: l Senior meals: Noon Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays at VCC and Asotin Methodist Church, 313 Second St., Asotin l Foot care: By appointment Mondays, (509) 330-1857, and Wednesdays, (208) 743-1459; call for cost l Painting class: Noon to 3:30 p.m. Mondays l Fitness class: 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays l Pinochle: 12:30 to 3 p.m.

Tuesdays and Fridays l Blood pressure checks: 11:30 a.m. Thursdays l Bridge: 12:30 to 4 p.m. Thursdays; 10:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturdays

Sixth Street Senior Center plans activities Activities planned at the center, 832 Sixth St. in Clarkston, (509)

758-6872, include: l Coffee and cookies: 10 a.m. to noon Monday through Friday l Foot care: 9:30 a.m. June 7, by appointment, (509) 552-0545 l Music: 10 to 11:30 a.m.

Wednesdays l Dancing: 7 to 10 p.m. Thursdays and Saturdays, $5

Lewiston library invites seniors to activities The Lewiston City Library will be closed June 5 and 6 and will be open from 1 to 5 p.m. June 7 through 9.

Normal hours will resume June 12.

A handful of free adult events are planned for this month. l Grand opening: A celebration to debut the newly remodeled second floor is at 11 a.m. l “Green Living”: 6:30 p.m.

June 28; Shanna Saldecke with LC Recyclers will discuss recycling and green living. l Local History: The Local History & Genealogy collection is available by appointment for perusal.

The library, 411 D St., www. lewistonlibrary.org, may be contacted at (208) 798-2525 or library@cityoflewiston.org.

——— TO SUBMIT BRIEFS: Groups and organizations may submit event information pertaining to seniors in the region for free publication in the monthly Golden Times magazine. All submissions are subject to editing and space restraints and must include the name and phone number of the person submitting the information. Questions may be directed to editor Julie Breslin at jbreslin@lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2241. Submissions may be sent to goldentimes@lmtribune.com or Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501. Information for the July issue must be received by 5 p.m. June 15.

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Fay Graham, 80

Harold Hattan, 83

Barbara O’Brien, 81

Margaret Fay Graham of Lewiston was born in 1937 to Doug and Lillian (Midge) Colvin in Jeffersonville, Ind. She was born on the tail-end of the Great Depression, grew up during World War II and, when she was old enough, joined the U.S. Navy. She served from 1956 to ’58.

Fay married Edwin Graham on Friday the 13th in November 1959 in Seattle.

Fay ran a successful childcare business, “Mom’s Daycare,” in Lewiston from 1970 to ’85, in addition to working early mornings at the Lewiston Arby’s, starting in 1982. She accepted a hostess position at Arby’s, from which she retired in 2002.

Fay and Edwin have four sons: Doug, Quentin, Mickey and Brian; six grandchildren: Cody, Chris, Tyler, Nickolas, Thomas and Anthony; and a greatgrandchild, Kaylee.

Harold Hattan of Lewiston was born in 1934 in Moscow.

He graduated from Genesee High School and attended the University of Idaho for 2 years with coursework in economics and pre-veterinary studies. He also completed a year of coursework through a correspondence school in Chicago.

Harold was drafted into the U.S. Army, and after his service he farmed wheat, peas, hay and livestock north of Genesee and west of Troy. He has family in Utah.

In his younger years, Harold served as a volunteer at a local food bank and with the 4-H group, especially in the livestock division. He enjoyed working on mechanical equipment and playing golf. He also enjoys following the stock market.

Harold will be honored at a celebration at 2:30 p.m. June 19 at Wedgewood Terrace, 2114 Vineyard Ave., along with other June birthday celebrants. The public is welcome to attend; reservations are requested by calling (208) 743-4545.

Barbara O’Brien of Lewiston will celebrate her birthday with a helicopter trip from Clarkston north toward where she was raised in the Princeton area.

She was born in 1936 in Potlatch, the first child of Bill and Maggie Hash. She went to elementary school in Harvard and Princeton, and graduated from Potlatch High School in 1954. She attended Eastern Washington University and graduated from Lewis-Clark State College, with a teaching degree.

On Jan. 4, 2003, she and Leonard O’Brien were married in Lewiston. They are enjoying retirement together. They like to travel and watch their grandsons’ sporting events.

Barbara is an avid quilt maker. She sews baby quilts and Quilts of Valor for local veterans. She participates in the Methodist Church book club and recently was recognized for her 11 years of volunteer service with the Inland Northwest Blood Center in Lewiston.

> June 12 Betty Larsen, 86 Betty L. Larsen of Anatone was born to Lee and Amy Herin in 1931 at her grandparents’ Maple Street home in Clarkston.

She married her high school sweetheart, Robert Larsen (now deceased), in 1951. Their family includes three sons, three grandsons, three granddaughters and seven great-grandchildren.

Betty was a licensed practical nurse at TriState Memorial Hospital for 20 years and worked two years at Evergreen Estates. Bob was a welder for Potlatch Corp.

Betty and Bob traveled on cruises to Alaska, Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and the Caribbean. For many years, they were members of the Blue Mountain Sams, where they met and enjoyed many friends. They retired on their Summit Ranch at Anatone in 1994.

Betty joined the little Methodist Church and the Anatone Friendship Club, which she still enjoys. She also quilts, crochets and embroiders to pass the time.

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> June 16 Ann Elder, 82 Alice “Ann” (Rankin) Elder of Lewiston was born in 1935 in Stevenson, Wash., where she attended Stevenson High School.

Ann is the mother of nine children and was a homemaker for much of her adult life. She also worked for the State of Washington Department of Social and Health Services.

In her earlier years, Ann enjoyed going out dancing with her girlfriends. She also participated in roller skating, reading and horseback riding. She very much enjoyed cooking and all Christmas festivities.

Ann will be honored at a celebration at 2:30 p.m. June 19 at Wedgewood Terrace, 2114 Vineyard Ave., along with other June birthday celebrants. The public is welcome to attend; reservations are requested by calling (208) 743-4545.

Hank Dorion, 90 Henry (Hank) John Dorion was born in 1927 to Edward and Emma Dorion in St. Vincent, Minn.

He served in the U.S. Army Air Force from 1945 to ’47, after which he relocated to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, where he has lived since.

Henry married Thelma E. Stelljes on June 12, 1948. They will celebrate their 69th anniversary this year.

He owned and operated Dorion’s Electronics for 17 years and then went to work for Clark Communications, where he still occasionally is called in to help with electronic repairs.

The couple have one son, three daughters, five grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Friends and family are invited to an open house celebration June 24 at the clubhouse located at the end of the cul-de-sac at 3428 15th St. in Lewiston.

——— To submit birthdays: Birthday announcements starting at age 70 and every year after will be accepted for free publication in the month of the birthday only. Length limit is 200 words. All submissions must include the name and phone number of the person submitting information.

Photos are welcome. To have photos returned, please include a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Submissions may be sent to goldentimes@ lmtribune.com or Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501. Questions may be directed to editor Julie Breslin at jbreslin@lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2241. July birthdays must be received by 5 p.m. June 15.

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N eed a h an d | L end a h an d Lend a hand The WA-ID Volunteer Center, located in the Lewiston Community Center at 1424 Main St., provides individualized volunteer opportunities for those wishing to serve in Lewiston, Clarkston, Asotin, Pomeroy, Moscow and the Orofino area. Information and other volunteer openings are available www.waidvolunteercenter.org or (208) 746-7787. Pressing volunteer needs this month include: l Volunteers to set up for the June 7 Health and Fitness Fair. l The Lewis-Clark Summer Games needs help carrying out 14 sporting events June 17-24. Volunteers are needed for timing, scorekeeping, supplying water, directing traffic and more. l Quilters group needs volunteers to help tie quilts on Tuesdays and Thursdays. l Senior meal providers need regular and substitute meal delivery drivers. A valid driver’s license and auto insurance are required. l America Reads needs reading tutors to help students become proficient readers. Volunteers need to be able to commit to at least an

hour a week for the school year.

Need a hand– l A local hospital has volunteer Lend a hand was positions available at the front formerly published as lobby information desk, in admisVolunteer Opportunities. sions, day surgery waiting rooms This monthly feature is a free public service. Its and the hospital gift shop. goal is to connect area l Disaster Action Team (DAT) volunteers with folks in member: First responders proour communities who vide comfort and direct assisneed their services. tance to help those affected by disaster as they begin the recovery process. Training is provided. vided. The regional office can be l Pillowcase Project Presenter is a contacted at jlouisecasa@gmail. preparedness education program com or (208) 746-3378. for the third through fifth grades that teaches students about perDisability Action Center-NW Inc. is sonal and family preparedness a nonprofit organization that asand safety skills, local hazards sists people with disabilities to live and basic coping skills. Training independently. It offers a variety of services from peer-to-peer inis provided. dependent living support, medical l A food bank needs a team leader equipment exchange and durable to oversee groups of volunteers. medical goods exchanges, help with The leader will work with food self-advocacy and access to assisbank staff, provide orientation tive technology. Contact person is and supervise projects.

Mellowdee Brooks at (208) 746Lend a hand 9033 or mbrooks@dacnw.org.

CASA (Court Appointed Special AdNeed a hand? vocate) is a national association Area residents with disabilities who in need of volunteers. CASA adcould benefit from the services vocates help abused or neglected listed above are invited to contact children who have been removed from their homes. Training is prothe Disability Action Center-NW.

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Lend a hand The Disability Action Center-NW Inc. needs a volunteer receptionist in its Lewiston office to answer phones, greet and direct visitors and perform various clerical duties. Hours are flexible.

Lend a hand Interlink provides volunteers to enable elders and those with disabilities to live independently in their own homes. The office is located at 817A Sixth St., Clarkston; office hours are 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Monday through Thursday. The phone number is (509) 751-9143.

Volunteer applications are online at www.interlinkvolunteers.org.

——— To submit Need a hand | Lend a Hand items: Golden Times publishes Lend-A-Hand volunteer opportunities in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley monthly as a free public service. Area agencies who wish to take part may send information to goldentimes@lmtribune or Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501.

All submissions are edited for brevity and clarity, and will run as space allows. Questions may be directed to editor Julie Breslin at jbreslin@lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2241.

Deadline for the July edition is 5 p.m. June 15.

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Nov. 11, 1919: A bloody turning point in the labor war As unions fought back, Idaho Co. man was swept up in the horror

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T Signed copies of “Ripples of a Lie” are available by contacting Lewiston author Esther Barnett Goffinet at P.O. Box 414, Lewiston, ID 83501. The book also is available at And Books Too in Clarkston, St. Gertrude’s Historical Museum in Cottonwood and at Amazon.com.

Goffinet describes the book as the only one about the Centralia Massacre of 1919 written by a family member, and it tells the story from the perspective of the prisoners and includes numerous footnotes for historical fact-checking.

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Write Here will run periodically, highlighting the work of regional writers. Those interested in contributing excerpts from their published book(s) may contact Golden Times editor Julie Breslin at (208) 848-2241 or jbreslin@lmtribune.com.

he timing of this article was perfect for Lewiston author and retired nurse Esther Barnett Goffinet. It was fitting, she felt, to share her dad’s remarkable story of the start of a parade when the peace courage in the run-up to Father’s Day. celebration takes a nasty ironic turn.

This excerpt from her book, Soldiers marching in the parade “Ripples of a Lie,” (see Pages 9-11) halt in the town festivities to begin is a terse narrative of the fall day a planned raid on the union hall. in 1919 when simmering What follows is Barnett’s labor tensions boiled first-hand account of the over in Centralia, Wash., raid and the deadly storm leaving four soldiers it unleashed. It became dead and Goffinet’s known as the Centralia father, Eugene Barnett, a Massacre of 1919. hunted man.

“One union man was Chapter 15 opens mistakenly identified serenely with Barnett, as the union secretary, a miner, timber camp beaten severely, castratworker and union memed, and hung twice that ber, departing his rented night, then they shot him home at the coal mine full of holes,” Goffinet on an errand to get some said in an email. “Eleven Esther Goffinet land documents notarized union men were taken in town. His wife, Effie, from the jail that night, stays behind to finish sewing a dress, beaten and burned alive in the inbut sends Barnett with a package of cinerator at the nearby mill. Dozgeranium slips and candy to mail to ens of other union men were beaten her mother in Cottonwood. then and for many days later.”

He arrives in Centralia to find The planned attack was a comthe post office closed for the holimon tactic used to try and stamp day — the first-ever celebration of out unions, Goffinet said. “This Armistice Day — and learns the behavior was common across notary public has stepped away from America in those years to keep his office. While awaiting his return, slave labor. The Centralia raid Barnett walks to the hotel next door ended differently. For the first time to the IWW Union Hall. Here, he is in history the union men fought chatting with others and watching back, and four soldiers were killed.

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My father was an eye witness who couldn’t be allowed to talk or be a witness for the defense, so in a very illegal trial he was framed and buried in prison along with seven other innocent union men.”

The eldest of eight children born in the mountains of North Carolina to poor share croppers, Barnett was not quite eight when he started work in the coal mines, Goffinet said. At age 14 he joined the union, and at age 19 he worked his way west and homesteaded on Joseph Plains behind Cottonwood in 1912. The family settled near Lewiston in 1917 and is still here.

When President Woodrow Wilson put out an edict that all coal miners return to the mines for the war effort in 1918, Goffinet said, Barnett leased his Idaho County homestead and moved to the mines near Centralia, which is how he came to be there that fateful autumn day.

Barnett was in the process of taking an adjoining homestead to increase his grazing land when he moved; those were the homestead papers he was getting signed at the time of the raid.

Effie died after 12 years of misery while Barnett was in prison in Walla Walla. After his release, he returned to Lewiston, later married Neva Morey, from Anatone and had four more children, including Goffinet. He died at age 81.

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By ESTHER BARNETT GOFFINET SPECIAL TO GOLDEN TIMES

Chapter 15: Eyewitness to the Raid Excerpted from “Ripples of a Lie,” Pages 127-134

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he following is a recorded eyewitness account by Eugene Barnett: I saw the parade come up the opposite side of the street. I saw them park two Army trucks out there, which they planned to load the men that they took out of the hall, as they had done on a previous occasion some months before, when they raided another hall about two blocks from there.

The businessmen started calling the attention of the men in uniform to the hall by pointing and making signs. Some of them made faces at the hall and with their thumbs to their noses wiggled their fingers in the direction of the hall. Then they cheered the men in uniform and passed on down the street.

I saw men in the ranks of this parade with ropes and guns and gas pipes. So I knew it was coming, you could feel it in the air; you didn’t even have to see it.

There was an intensity that you could absolutely feel.

They marched on up to the next corner above the hall and came back on the side next to it. The soldiers came back, and the last half of them stopped in front of the hall. A man on a brown horse, Lieutenant Fred Cormier, gave the order “Bunch up, men!” then rode to the rear of the line.

The men in the front of the line of this contingent turned around and faced the hall, some of them in a crouched position like a runner waiting for the signal to make his start.

I noticed one man, in the front, in what I took to be a soldier’s uniform, in a crouching position as a man on second base when he’s waiting for a hit to go home on. Every time the man on horseback gave an order, he would make a false start just as the man on base does on a strike or a foul.

Fred Cormier, the marshal of the day, blew a whistle, and they converged on the door of the hall from both ends of this contingent that had stopped there. Came in a wedge shape right for the door, and they smashed the doors and windows, and the first man that stepped inside that door was shot.

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Eugene Barnett When I saw them attack the place, I thought there was going to be a fight, I didn’t know anyone in the hall had guns, I’d been in there a short time before, and I hadn’t seen any guns, there were only four or five men in the hall; so it was as much a surprise to me as anyone when the shooting started.

When the rush was made, I

pulled my coat, threw it on a sewing machine near the stove and started for the door. I was going to take my beating with the rest of the boys; but before I got there, the shooting started.

I saw the surprised look on the faces of the soldiers, and some of them stopped with one foot in the air, not even finishing the step they were taking. I knew it was someone in the hall doing the shooting, and I knew I had no business out in the mob. I walked to the machine where I threw my coat and stood there. The soldiers scattered in front of the hall.

Mrs. McAllister had been at the door during the shooting, and now she tried to get the mob to stop.

She pointed to the United States flags she had on the front of her windows and to the Red Cross signs in the windows and asked them not to destroy her property.

She was insulted for her trouble.

Then they started coming into the hotel, going through into the back to break through a partition door back there, to come into the back of the hall, and try to get behind the boys and surround them.

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FRAMED > Continued from PAGE 9 hotel and went to a room in the back of the lobby. One of them came out again, and as he came out, he met a tall man in uniform with a large-caliber revolver leveled ahead of him and said “they are back there.”

He was Bill Scales who owned a local grocery store. I was acquainted with him because I had traded at his store at one time. So I told him to warn these fellows to be careful with the guns, because the proprietor’s wife had gone into the back and the way they were coming in there, their mouths drawn like horse hairs and everything, you could see that they were scared, and I figured if even a chipmunk moved they would be apt to shoot.

So I told him to tell them to be careful with those guns.

He looked at me, but he didn’t make any reply. So the next fellow come in, a big strapping young fellow in a sailor’s uniform with a big Navy coat.

I told him myself to be careful, that there’s a lady back there.

He looked at me, made no reply and went on through. So when they broke through there, they found the boys had run out the back of the hall.

All this time, the stranger in the hotel with us had stood between me and the window and had not said a word. Now he walked out

Courtesy Esther Barnett Goffinet

A young Eugene Barnett stands in the right side of the doorway in 1918 while his 2-year-old son, Clifford, plays on the tracks in this photo taken at the Monarch mine in the former town of Kopiah, 11 miles east of Centralia. the front door, and I thought I had better get out too. I had my red (union membership) card in my pocket, and I was afraid I might be searched. So I put on my mackinaw coat and asked Mr. McAllister to put my dress coat, with the card in the pocket, in back of his desk or counter, where he kept the register. I told him I had better get out while I could.

I walked down to Second Street a few yards south of the hall. I crossed it and walked west, on the south side of Second to the alley, and stood there in the crowd and watched the mob bring the fellows out of the alley back of the hall. Then I walked back

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to the southwest corner of Second and Tower and stood there watching the mob carry the benches and so forth out of the hall and pile it on a fire in the street. …

Then I started uptown to get my horse. On the way, I walked a short way with a man named Hand. He mentioned the shooting, but I had heard he didn’t like Wobblies so I didn’t talk much. All I said was “Oh, it’s awful.”

A little further up, I met Charlie Roy, a coal miner.

He asked what was going on, and I said “Oh, the soldiers raided the hall, and the Wobblies shot some of them.”

I started to take a cross street to go down Pearl Street where my horse was at the city park, but when

I got to the corner I saw a mob around a man at a telephone pole. I thought they were going to tie him to the pole to beat him up, and I wished for a gun. Up to this time I had thought there must be some real men among the soldiers who would be man enough to see that nothing like that occurred. But I saw then that I had been mistaken.

(End of eye witness account.)

Gene got to Main Street when he remembered he had left his land papers in his coat pocket at the hotel.

He stopped at White & Gabel’s store and had them weigh and post the package of geranium slips and candy to Effie’s mother, then dropped it in the package drop at the post office.

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an automobile full of armed men stopped to pick up a friend on the sidewalk. As he ran to get in, one fellow inside said “We are going to clean up those Wobblies.

Have you got a gun?” He said “You bet I have.”

Gene didn’t know what to do. There was no one to go to for help. No one you could trust. He decided the mob was gone, so he should go get his coat. He was afraid they might burn the building with his land papers in his coat pocket.

There was a crowd standing around the front of the Roderick Hotel and the hall.

The front was torn out of the hall, the doors between the hall and the hotel were torn off the hinges, and one of them was on edge. The windows were all broken out.

Mrs. McAllister was standing in the doorway telling a crowd how it had all happened and how Gene had been there with her. Gene asked if Mr. McAllister was there and she said, “Yes,” so Gene stepped over the broken door and went inside.

He found McAllister in the back patching a door that had been broken out. “It was no use saying anything and get killed,” he said.

Gene got his coat, put his red card in his sock, and went out. On the way back to get his horse, Gene heard a boy about twelve telling a group of other boys how he had climbed a telephone pole with the end of a rope to hang a Wobbly, but he said a woman had stopped it. He learned that one of the fellows shot was named Hubbard.

There were all kinds of people passing with guns, going toward the Logan district where nearly all the houses were occupied by working people. Gene saw kids 10- or 12-yearsold hunting Wobblies with shotguns and rifles. He saw an automobile with a man on the running board shouting, “we got two more of the son-of-a-____!” The driver was Oliver, of the Oliver Hardware Company of Centralia. They had John Lamb and his son, Dewey.

In the vicinity of O.C. Bland’s house, between 40 and 50 automobiles were standing, and men were searching from house to house.

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home, thinking.

About three miles out a fellow named Johnson, caught up with Gene on horseback. They met a farmer named Jones whom Gene knew had a car, and Gene thought if he knew what had happened, he might go to town and keep the mob from lynching the rest of the boys in jail, so Gene told him what he had seen. Gene told him that he had heard two men were shot, one was dead, and one named Hubbard had been shot three times, but was still alive.

Gene told him, “They should have killed the whole damn bunch, for they had no business raiding them.”

Jones told Gene that he had a nephew in the Legion. Gene would later learn that it was that nephew who showed everyone his fist and bragged that he had punched Wobbly Wesley Everest in the face with it, while he had a rope around his neck and three men held him.

When Gene got home, he turned the horse loose and planned to get someone in the camp with a car to take him back to town, to try to help the boys in jail, and try to keep them from being lynched. He told Effie to get his rifle, and he ran to a neighbor to see if he could get a ride to town.

All the cars in camp were gone, and Effie was crying and begging him not to go. Gene knew it would take too long to walk, so he stayed home.

He knew they had his name in the books they had taken from the hall and they would be coming. He leaned the loaded gun beside the bed but did not sleep. He could not forget all that he had seen that day.

About two-thirty the next day, Gene was in the yard with his dogs when he saw the mob of about 30 men coming. Gene ran into the house and got his rifle. He told Effie they were coming, and she said, “Go up on the hill.” Gene went out the back door and up the hill, keeping to the ravine until he topped out on an old logging road and sat down to watch what

happened in camp.

The soldiers were running from house to house in the camp, then finally surrounded Gene’s house. He couldn’t see them go inside.

Effie opened the door holding her two-year-old son in her arms. The men asked if Gene was there, and she said, “No.” One soldier picked up the axe Gene had left lying on the porch from chopping wood, smashing it into the porch railing while another soldier slammed Effie backwards into the door with the back of his arm, knocking the door and her into the wall.

The soldiers rushed inside, guns drawn and crouching against the walls as they ran from room to room searching for Gene.

When they didn’t find him, they began destroying the house.

The soldier with the axe brought it down hard on the wooden table as another man slammed a chair on top, sending splinters and chair legs flying through the air. They used their sabers to slash through the pillows and curtains and continued through every room breaking, slashing and yelling that they were looking for IWW propaganda.

Effie stayed smashed against the wall, holding her crying, frightened child, and trembling with fear while tears ran down her face.

The soldiers went out the back door and untied Gene’s dog, thinking it would follow him. It didn’t.

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there was an officer in the bunch, and Preston McDonald said he was a deputy sheriff. Gene told McDonald to come and get him.

They started over, but two young pups that had followed Gene from the house, raised up behind the log where Gene had told them to lay down.

The soldiers yelled, “Look out, there’s another one” and made a wild rush to hide behind stumps.

Gene called the pups out and asked them not to shoot his dogs.

Pale and shaking, Preston McDonald showed Gene his little game warden’s badge as authority to arrest him. Months later in court, McDonald would brag that he hunted Wobblies for two weeks, and that he was a deputy in five counties.

Gene admitted he was a member of the IWW and that he had been in town at the Roderick Hotel and seen the raid the day before. As they left, he kissed Effie and Clifford goodbye in the yard and gave her all the money he had, $3, and told her he might be gone a month.

In fact Gene would not be coming home for 12 years.

Effie walked through the eerily quiet house, carCourtesy Esther Barnett Goffinet rying her baby son in her Eugene Barnett holds his daughter Esther, age 5 months. arms, looking at the total destruction of her home and possessions. As she left the house because he Instead three-fourths of walked into the bedroom, was no match for 30 men. the mob followed the dog. feathers fluttered up into Gene sat and watched Five soldiers started up the air from the shredded the hill. Gene saw them and them try to track him, and mattress ticking, amid the had plenty of time to go into felt sure they would never broken splinters of the find him; but this would go the heavy timber 50 yards away. Gene thought he had on every day, so he stood up treasured carved wooden bed. The world was falling and called to them. done nothing wrong and They pulled their guns and apart as a sobbing Effie had no reason to hide or covered him. Gene asked if slumped to the floor. fear just five men. He had

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drag race is short and sweet. Two cars line RACING ROOTS up side-by-side, then burn up a straight The sport has been around since cars track to the finish line. A respectable have been on the road, but it grew in eighth-mile run is around 7 seconds. popularity in 1960s. Everyone was drag Race weekends pit two racing then, said WiBy MICHELLE SCHMIDT drivers against each other ford, 70, of Clarkston. until a winner is estabTHEMICHELLESCHMIDT@GMAIL.COM He lived in Ohio at the time and did plenty of lished. The more you win, racing himself during the more you get to race. his teen years. But life took him off the And more racing is the goal for Lewiston-Clarkston racetrack and into the world of career Valley speed junkies Jim Wiford and Ken Eldred, who and family. It was the furthest thing from bond with friends and family over the smell of hot rubhis mind until 10 years ago, when his son ber and the deep rumble of a race car motor. got him to a race track. Now, most warm-

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weather weekends find him there. The track is also where you’ll find Eldred, a Lewiston mechanic at K & F Automotive.

Eldred, 69, never raced as a teenager, but it wasn’t for lack of interest. He went to his first drag race at Deer Park in the early 1960s. When the lights counted down and the cars launched forward, something sparked inside him.

“I’d wanted to race ever since,” Eldred said.

It wasn’t until 44 years later that he made his first run down the track. The > See FULL-THROTTLE, page 14

> Continued from Page 13 interim was filled with work and other responsibilities. He bought a race car, a 1967 Chevrolet Camaro RS/SS, but it sat idle for years. Finally, in 2006, Eldred put in an engine and started fixing it up.

Two years later, it debuted on the race strip, and it has made an appearance every season since.

“It’s a riot — I have a ball,” Eldred said. “I’m not a good racer, but I have a lot of fun doing it.”

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Drivers at the starting line watch the Christmas tree — a column of red, yellow and green lights coupled with two light beam sensors for the competitors’ front tires — for the signal to go. When the cars are in place, the lights count down one red light and three yellow lights before going to the green light. The goal is to accelerate when the light turns green, but not a moment before.

The winner is determined in a couple ways, depending on category or class. In class racing — the type of drag racing you’ll see on TV — the first one to cross the finish line wins. But most of the racing at Walla Walla is bracket racing.

In a bracket race, drivers estimate the time it will take them to cross the finish line. This estimate is called a “dial-in.” The Christmas tree is adjusted so that the slower car gets a head-start equal to the difference between the two dial-ins. In theory, that means both cars would cross the finish line at the same time.

If a driver goes faster than the dial-in, it’s called a “breakout” and the driver is disqualified. Drivers have to manage going fast enough to beat the car next to them without going over their dial-in.

The dial-in is designed to equalize the race so the competition is more about a driver’s reaction time and skill and not who can afford the fastest car. It doesn’t matter what you’re driving, Eldred said, because you’re just racing your side of the track.

“The driver is 99 percent of it. If the car is consistent and you’re consistent in your reaction times, you’re goTribune/Kyle Mills ing to win a lot of races,” Eldred said.

“And that’s why I don’t win a lot of races,” he When he isn’t working or drag-racing, Jim Wiford of Clarkston is building a Ford Falcon for added in jest. his daughter to race.

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Winning races Eldred and Wiford do most of their racing in Walla Walla, where Wiford is one of the winningest drivers. In the decade since his return to racing, he has been named the track champion two years in a row in the pro class and took second place for the five years before that.

Wiford returned to his teen sport after his adult son started racing and got him down to the track in Boise.

He got a taste of racing using one of the vehicles that towed the race car down and returned home deciding it was finally time to fix up the 1965 Corvette that was sitting in his barn.

The following year, he started racing it. But things got serious the next year, when he bought a 1967 Chevrolet Nova.

“That’s where the addiction started,” Wiford said.

Unlike the Corvette, the Nova was built for racing and was faster as a result.

But having a fast car is just part of what it takes to win. His first time down the track, Wiford was nervous, and it took him a couple of seconds to remember the right sequence of release brakes and buttons to get off the starting line. He laughs at the moment now, but it goes to show that there’s a learning curve to racing, and it takes time to build skill.

“Everytime you go down the track you get a little more consistent until it just becomes automatic,” Wiford said.

After a few races, the release sequence for acceleration started coming automatically.

Then Wiford had to work on his reaction time, perfect his dial-in and get the hang of jockeying the vehicle for a good run. He learned to adjust his driving for track conditions and for the drivers he races against. The mental aspect of putting all these little pieces together to get a win is a challenge, Wiford said, and a big part of the fun.

“The first few years, I didn’t do very good,” Wiford said. “I was just learning how to get off the line. But as I got more and more into it, I got to where I was doing more and more winning.”

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Even grandkids get in on a family feel.” the fun. Wiford’s wife, Race weekends are Judy, runs the Jr. Dragheld once or twice a ster competition that month from the end of April through the begin- allows kids older than 5 to compete in specialized ning of October. These two-day events are filled vehicles that are race safe. Wiford bought into with races, cheering the track as a part owner fans, hamburgers, maka few years ago, just to ing new friends, catchdo his part to keep the ing up with old ones and place open. checking out some cool cars. Around 80 vehicles will race on any given Getting started weekend.

Drag racers take difEldred and Wiford invite their families out and ferent paths to the track.

Eldred always wanted make a weekend of it. to, it was just a matter of Eldred has gotten sev> Continued from Page 15

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on the track as long as they can pass a set of technical inspections for safety. Race cars — the ones that race at higher speeds — all have safety requirements to meet.

“The faster you run, the more you have to do,” Eldred said.

The safety features he has implemented are more than what is required for his racing category. His car has a roll bar and a five-point Tribune/Kyle Mills safety harness, and he A few of Jim Wiford’s trophies are on display in his shop at always wears a helmet.

his home in Clarkston.

time. Wiford returned to the sport after retiring from Bonneville Power (he still works some).

But for some, getting started as a racer can be baffling.

Eldred said he knows there are plenty of racing cars tucked away in garages around town that have never made it to the track. That’s why he’s big on getting more people out for a race weekend.

He’ll often reserve an extra parking spot so there’s one less excuse for a newby to decline his invitation. Once they’re at the track, Eldred walks them through the entire process to get them some track time.

From getting a vehicle race-ready to explaining what to do when, he’s prepared to make a racer

out of just about anyone.

“I’m after anyone and everyone in this valley to come down, bring your car and have some fun,” Eldred said.

Don’t have a race car?

That’s no excuse.

One of the best drivers at the Walla Walla track drove a four-door Pontiac Grand Prix, Eldred said.

“You don’t have to have a race car to race.”

But you do have to be smart about racing, he said.

Safe cars and driving practices are a given on the track. “You’re not going to get away with unsafe things,” Eldred said.

He’s only seen one car flip — as a result of a fluke malfunction — and the driver was fine.

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Wiford and Eldred are some of the older racers on the Walla Walla track. The place draws all ages, all types of racing experience and all levels of income.

“It’s an obsession.

Once you start, you just keep going,” Wiford said. “It’s like getting on a roller coaster — you just want to get on it again.”

It’s just about having a good time.

“My car is pretty consistent, but I’m not. But I always got a smile on my face. Win, lose or draw, it doesn’t matter,” Eldred said. “I’m just down there to have fun.”

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RESNO, Calif. — As Bob Nicklason sprints around a softball field, a teammate watches in awe.

“That’s an 80-year-old man!

I hope to be just like him when I grow up,” 73-year-old Carl Waxman says.

Nicklason’s batting and sprinting is rewarded with an endless string of home runs during a recent game at Quigley Field in central Fresno.

After one of these runs, I ask Nicklason what keeps him playing at the age of 80. His response is quick and lighthearted.

“Whiskey, wine and wild women! No, don’t put that down!” Nicklason adds with a laugh as he watches me scribble his words into a notebook.

“Too late now, Bob!” exclaims one of his many teammates now laughing alongside him. Nicklason’s playboy reply appears to be an act shared for their amusement.

“Scratch (that): I wouldn’t be here if it was that,” Nicklason says of his three fabled Ws. The semi-retired raisin farmer and veteran was married for more than 50 years. His wife died three years ago.

Nicklason’s teammates surprised him with a birthday muffin and the singing of “Happy Birthday” on the softball field before the start of a game last month. It’s a milestone year for both Nicklason and the league he plays for, the Fresno Senior Softball League, celebrating its 25th anniversary.

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A couple teenage boys recently stopped to watch part of a game from the sidewalk during a walk home from school. They left feeling inspired.

“It’s cool that they are older and still playing, having fun,” says Steven Suarez, a 19-yearold basketball and football player who plans to keep playing sports when he’s several decades older.

Adam Omar, 18, says the softball games at Quigley Field have reduced crime in his central Fresno neighborhood.

The senior league players have noticed that change, too.

“When we first started playing here, there were gunshots every night,” Pursell recalls.

Fresno Bee/Eric Paul Zamora it’s maybe once a year Bob Nicklason (right) a shortstop in the Fresno Senior Softball League, holds “Now, you hear gunshots.” the muffin he was presented on the mound for his coming 80th birthday The league has made a lot of before the start of a game on Thursday in Fresno, Calif. improvements to the field, adding an electronic scoreboard, shoulder and knee replace“He’s like a bowl full of backstops, fencing, concession jelly — happy, easygoing,” says ments can’t keep many away stand, portable bathrooms and from the game they love. Part league secretary Ike Pursell … storage facilities. of the draw for Nicklason: “The “I’ve never heard a bad word The camaraderie and exercise out of him or anything in all the thrill of victory!” are among the biggest reasons “You get to smell Bengay out years he’s been out here.”

Nicklason keeps playing. The here a lot,” Pursell says as he Nicklason — who has played starting shortstop remains mans a well-stocked concesfor the league for 21 years — is strong and quick. sion stand selling pain relievers one of just four players in their The secrets to his off-field and heat pads alongside Angus 80s of the league’s 248 players, training: “I just keep my legs in Pursell says. The league has 28 burgers, teriyaki chicken bowls shape I think — I’m a farmer.” and snack-stand staples such as (Nicklason says that although teams divided into three age candy and hot dogs. divisions, starting at age 50. he turned his raisin farm in The 69-year-old Pursell plans Rolinda, west of Fresno, over to Pursell estimates the average to keep playing softball as long age of players is 60. his son, he’s “still the boss.”) as he can.

Players get competitive, but Raisins are another secret to “We have a saying,” he exthey don’t take the games too success, he adds with a smile. plains, “you don’t quit playing seriously. Some joke about “Eat lots of raisins, they’re because you get old. You get old good for you.” keeping canes and walkers because you quit playing.” stashed nearby — just in case.

As for a winning mentality, All are welcome to the se“What I want to do at our Nicklason has some sweet and nior league, Pursell says, from Christmas party is give out simple advice. people with disabilities in a walker with flames,” says “Live day-to-day. You never player Bruce Blau with a laugh. wheelchairs to “young guys” know what’s going to happen in their 50s who he says are so Open-heart surgeries and tomorrow.”

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As we age, even a house that has been l A chair or small table near your ena home for decades can become an obsta- trance door is a great place to put packcle course or pose unexpected problems. ages, mail or your purse while you lock AARP suggests these modifications for or unlock the door. your home: l Those larger rocker-style light switches are easier to VISION use than traditional l Make sure lighting toggle-style switches. is adequate on exterior pathways, porches and The National Asdoorways. sociation of Home l Improve lighting Builders offers these on stairs, such as with suggestions if you have night lights or installa senior temporarily in ing overhead fixtures your house, such as a or wall sconces. visiting older relative: l Add lighting to l Clear pathways: closets.

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Nancy refused to put her clothes in the closet because she was worried they’d smell like … well … use your imagination.

A few days later, I found myself taking a tour of Nancy’s home, which she shares with her husband, Lee. It’s in an age-restricted community for people 55 and older.

When they put in a bid to buy the lot, the developer told them he’d only sell it to them if they hired him to build their house. So they agreed, assuming they’d get a home that would allow them to age in place.

On the tour, the couple pointed out things they didn’t like: The sink is not next to the stove. The kitchen island is too tall and wide. Light switches in the kitchen are too high for Nancy, who barely tops 5 feet. A shelf near the ceiling in the foyer is too high to clean. The open stairs to the basement are a fall hazard at night. Lee can barely fit his new pick-up truck inside the shallow garage.

Let me stop here and explain something about Nancy and Lee. First, those are not their real names. They don’t want to publicly shame their contractor. Second, they are not jerks. They’re very warm, charming people.

Yes, they admit, they were in on the design and building process from the beginning. But they had no idea how to read blueprints.

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something they didn’t like.

Sometimes he changed it.

Sometimes he didn’t.

And while Nancy and Lee might seem a tad nit-picky, there are some features missing from a home in an age-restricted community.

For instance, the entrance to their walk-in shower has a thick threshold, making it impossible for a wheelchair to access.

“I’ve had two back surgeries and was in a wheelchair both times,” Nancy said, adding that she expects to be in one again some day.

There’s also no bench or handrail in the shower.

A second bathroom in the home has a tub with a wall so high that someone a lot younger would struggle to step over.

The builder promised a back deck but poured a patio instead. Getting to it requires going down several steps, which means it’s also not wheelchair accessible.

There’s also a pocket of space just outside the master bedroom that would require a wheelchair to make an awkward multipoint turn to get into the living room.

And to top it off, the builder wasn’t going to put a door on the extra-wide entrance to the master bathroom, offering a clear view of the toilet from the master bedroom. Nancy and Lee won that argument; there’s a door.

“Why am I (telling you) this? Not for me. There’s nothing we can do about it now,” Nancy said. “I love this neighborhood, the people are great. But I want to tell other people to get their own architect. They might have to pay more for it, but it’s well worth it. Bring the guy in and explain what you want.”

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Date: Saturday, June 10 Time: 1:00 pm - 3:00 pm Location: Lewis Clark State College Library Lawn

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leWiSTon Senior nuTriTion Program — When: Noon, Mon./Tues./Wed. • Where: Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St. and the United Methodist Church, 1213 Burrell Ave. • Cost: $4 suggested for seniors age 60 and older; $5 for nonseniors • note: Menu is subject to change 5 Sweet-and-sour meatballs/rice/ broccoli/salad/fruit/bread stick

6 Spaghetti/green beans/carrot

salad/garlic bread/fruit

7 BUFFET: (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Turkey

12 Chicken parmesan/rice/

13 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/

14 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.):

green beans/pea salad/fruit/bread

Roast beef

19 Beef stroganoff/corn/green

20 Spaghetti/carrots/green

21 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.):

beans/garlic bread/fruit

Ham

26 Hamburgers/tater tots/

27 Stuffed peppers/green

28 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.):

M

coleslaw/veggies/fruit/roll

salad/fruit/whole-wheat roll

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beans/salad/wheat roll/fruit

carrots/coleslaw/fruit

W

Barbecue chicken

Senior meal TH F menus for June

Senior round Table nuTriTion Program — When: Noon, Tues./Thurs./Fri. • When: Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St. No. F, Clarkston; and the Asotin United Methodist Church, 313 Second St. • Cost: $4 suggested for seniors age 60 and older; $7 for nonseniors • note: Menu is subject to change 6 Spaghetti/winter mix veggies/beets/

M

8 Tuna casserole/peas/carrots/

fruit with gelatin/Texas toast 13 Beef stroganoff/corn/veggie gelatin/applesauce/cookie

T

W

20 Chicken fettuccine alfredo/peas-

and-onions/peaches/Texas toast/juice

27 Roast beef/mashed potatoes/

carrots/juice/roll/cake/ice cream

pears/biscuit 15 Chili dog/cucumbers/strawberry-rhubarb poke cake *no ClarKSTon Home deliVerY, aSoTin CloSed*

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22 Baked fish/mashed potato

9 Chicken-noodle soup/salad

bar/Texas toast

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16 Hamburgers/salad bar 23 Cauliflower-cheddar soup/ salad bar/Texas toast 30 Hot dog/salad bar

casserole/carrots/pears/pudding

29 Biscuits with sausage gravy/

hash browns/fruit salad/juice

moSCoW Senior nuTriTion Program — When: Noon Tues./Thurs. • Where: Great Room of the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. • Cost: $5 Suggested for seniors 60 and older; $7 for nonseniors. • details: Salad bar is available at 11:30 a.m.; soup/dessert available at each service. • note: Menu is subject to change • online: http://users.moscow.com/srcenter

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6 Pork chops/scalloped potatoes/veggies

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W

13 Hamburger stroganoff/veggies/biscuits 20 German sausage from Moscow

Co-op/roasted reds/veggies 27 Salisbury steak/mashed potatoes/ veggies/bread

MEETINGS CALENDAR THURSDAYS: Weight Watchers, 5-7 p.m., Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston FRIDAYS AND SATURDAYS: Weight Watchers, 8-10 a.m., VCC JUNE 14: Valley Community Center board meeting, 9 a.m., VCC JUNE 20: Sixth Street Senior Center board and membership meeting, 9 a.m. at the center, 832 Sixth St., Clarkston JUNE 21: Lewiston City Library board meeting, 5 p.m., June 11 at the library, 411 D. St., Lewiston

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8 Barbecue chicken/au gratin potatoes/

veggies

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15 Hot open-faced turkey sandwich/

mashed potatoes/veggies

22 Pulled barbecue chicken sliders/

cabbage-and-fruit slaw/potato wedges

29 Fishwich/tater tots/veggies

REGIONAL SENIOR MEAL SITES Deary Shared Council

401 Line St., Deary, (208) 877-1717, meals at noon on Tuesdays

Cottonwood Community Church

510 Gilmore St., Cottonwood, (208) 962-7762, meals at noon on Tuesdays 413 Nezperce St., Winchester, (208) 924-6581, meals at noon on Wednesdays

Grangeville Senior Center

108 Truck Route, Grangeville, (208) 983-2033, meals at noon on Mondays and Fridays

Juliaetta-Kendrick Senior Citizens Center 104 S. Sixth St., Kendrick, (208) 289-5031, meals from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays 125 N. Maple St., Kamiah, (208) 935-0244, meals at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Lewiston Community Center

1424 Main St., Lewiston, (208) 743-6983, meals at noon on

Moscow Senior Center

412 E. Third St., Moscow, (208) 882-1562, meals at noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays

Nezperce Senior Citizens

Craigmountain Senior Center

Kamiah Senior Center

Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays

501 Cedar St., Nezperce, (208) 9372465, meals at noon on Mondays and Thursdays

Street, Potlatch, (208) 8751071, meals at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays

Pullman Senior Center

325 S.E. Paradise St., Pullman, (509) 338-3307, meals at 11:45 a.m. on Mondays and Fridays

Riggins Odd Fellows Building

Orchards United Methodist Church

121 S. Lodge St., Riggins, (208) 6284147, meals at noon on Tuesdays

Orofino Senior Center

313 Second St., Asotin, (509) 758-3816, meals at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays

Palouse Senior Meals

549 Fifth St., Clarkston, (509) 7583816, meals at noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays

1213 Burrell Ave., Lewiston, (208) 743-9201, meals at noon on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays

930 Michigan Ave., Orofino, (208) 476-4328, meals at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays 220 E. Main St., Palouse, (509) 878-2301, meals at noon on Wednesdays

Pomeroy Senior Center

695 Main St., Pomeroy, (509) 8433308, meals at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays

Potlatch Senior Citizens

IOOF/Rebekah Hall on Pine GOLDEN TIMES

United Methodist Church

Valley Community Center

Weippe Hilltop Senior Citizens Center

115 First St. W., Weippe, (208) 435-4553, meals at noon on Mondays and Thursdays

Pullman Meals on Wheels (509) 397-4305

Valley Meals on Wheels (208) 799-5767

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