Golden Times, Tuesday, Aug. 3, 2021

Charlene & Richard Spooner, who met in junior high in Clarkston, are celebrating their 70th anniversary

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TIMES A monthly magazine for the region’s seniors

TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 2021 / VOL. 31, NO. 8

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Hazel Germer Harold Behler LaVon Behler Millie Jones

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Columns by local writers .......................................... 5, 6 Birthdays ....................................................................... 4 Briefs ............................................................................. 7 Reader Essays ......................................................... 3, 13 Senior meal site list, menus ....................................15-16 Scam stopper: Tips on staying safe ............................ 12 Spooners celebrate 70th anniversary ........................... 8 Tips on protecting lungs from smoke ..........................11 Volunteer Opportunities ............................................ 14

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TIMES ON THE COVER: This photo by Tribune photographer August Frank shows Charlene and Richard Spooner at their Clarkston home. The couple are celebrating 70 years of marriage this week. See the story, Pages 8-9.

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Reader essay: Lessons from a statue in the park

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arrived at the park wrapped in a canvas shroud. The unveiling was met with cheers from the joyful crowd. Children stood on nearby benches to catch the best glimpse of my bronze face and outstretched arms. Flowers seemed to nod their heads in approval as the heavy drapes were removed. The daylight hurt my eyes. A child picked a blossom and placed it in one of my palms. I suddenly felt alive.

That year, I was silent witness to picnics spread across the grass and fireworks that lit the night sky. Ladies wore bonnets as they displayed food.

Children competed in sack races, and men played horseshoes. The people rubbed my hands until

they felt warm. It was good to have company.

As years passed, I saw changes as subtle or violent as the weather that assaulted me. Rain fell like teardrops down my face.

Loving couples who once slipped onto the benches to watch the stars no longer linger here. The park became a gathering place for people organizing protests.

They chanted and made speeches. Women marched for rights. Union workers rallied and carried picket signs. War opponents protested. Those against gun ownership marched the paths toward government buildings after gathering here. Civil rights protesters rallied. Oh, yes, I’ve seen history taking place right under my nose.

An errant newspaper fell near my feet. It featured a story about city budgets being cut. Park maintenance suffered.

Trash cans overflowed.

Graffiti was sprayed on concrete barriers.

Once-neatly trimmed shrubbery became overgrown. Flower beds were bulldozed for parking lots.

Park benches now hold vagrants and the homeless, who huddle together or spread themselves to sleep.

Can you imagine: Someone even peed on my feet.

One day, the sun came out and crowds came again. I felt hope spring forth. My people are returning, I thought.

I was wrong. These weren’t joyous faces. The crowd was filled with an-

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waves. It may feel like the ship is sinking, but turbulence passes, and new routes are charted by the compass of the past. My hope is that this nation finds its true north.

— Hazel Christiansen, 77, of Lewiston Area readers 55 or older are invited to share essays of 600 or fewer words. Staff will choose the best for publication. Electronic submissions are preferred at goldentimes@ lmtribune.com. Essays also may be mailed to Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501. Entries must include the writer’s name, age, city of residence and contact information. Submissions are edited for grammar, factual errors and to conform to Associated Press style. Questions may be directed to editor Julie Breslin at jbreslin@ lmtribune.com or (208) 791-6635.

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gry voices. Tear this thing down. It’s an insult, an atrocity, a symbol of hate.

Me? Those people hacked parts of my finger as trophies. A truck arrived with a hoist that pulled me from above, and a torch burned me. I thudded into the bed of the truck.

I have seen unrest before, even heard similar voices. Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it. The past cannot be erased. Change comes in increments. Progress has been made, however slowly.

This country will move toward a different future, but I won’t be here to see it. It’s kind of a shame, because I look forward to what the people of the U.S. will do to improve their lives.

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she moved to Moscow to be near her sister. It was there that she met Elwin “Speed” Germer on St. Patrick’s Day in 1950. They were married three months later on June 10, 1950, and have been inseparable ever since.

Hazel drove a school bus for the Lewiston School

District for 27 years, retiring in 1993. She and her husband raised five children in Lewiston. They also have nine grandchildren, and 16 great-grandchildren. If you asked her what she likes to do, she would probably say, “be with my family.”

Her children will be the hosts for a birthday celebration.

Harold Behler will turn 96 on Aug. 13, and his wife, LaVon, will be 95 on Aug. 14. The Behlers live in Lewiston. A small family celebration will be held Aug. 14 at the family farm near Winchester.

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Barbara, in Lewiston, and went to work for C.C. Anderson Company and Washington Water Power.

On Jan. 10, 1943, Millie married Ronald F. Jones in Portland, Ore. He worked for the Camas Prairie Railroad Company in Headquarters, Grangeville and Lewiston. Millie worked for the Lewiston School District for 21 years, retiring in 1980.

After retirement, they toured Europe and spent many winters as “snowbirds.”

Millie’s community service included being the wife of Lewiston’s mayor (Ron served from 1970-74), past president of Chapter BL PEO, and a member of the Congregational Presbyterian Church, Tsceminicium Club and Daughters of The Nile, Malac Temple No. 55.

Millie is an avid bridge player, golfer and loves fishing with her family, which includes a daughter and three sons. She has enjoyed many trips camping and vacationing. She loves traveling and visiting old friends and family.

> AUG. 3 Hazel Germer, 90 Hazel L. Germer, of Lewiston, was born in 1931 to Walter and Pearl Skiens in Burns, Ore. She graduated from high school in Redding, Calif., in May of 1949. Shortly after that,

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> AUG. 28 Millie Jones, 100 Mildred “Millie” E. Jones, of Lewiston, was born in 1921 to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Michelbach, in Bynum, Mont.

Millie enjoyed farm life, with sisters Loraine, Barbara and Hilda. She worked for room and board to attend high school in Choteau, Mont.

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Striving to navigate through life in a hostile environment

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ummertime and the in it — a tiny finch, lying living is smoky. Our on its back, feet straight summers have been up in the air. Beth shut the increasingly smoke-filled, lid and placed it in a shady and this one has been the spot on the deck. worst so far. We live in the I was looking at her with Clarkston Heights and questioning eyes: What have been placed good did she think on level two evacthat would do? uation at times.

“The bird was Right now we are still breathing out of danger, but when I picked it my daughter, Beth, up,” Beth said. and I packed a bag “The dark box and discussed what will give it time to things would have recover and proto go with us. tects it from cats or MOVING In the event of FORWARD other predators. an evacuation, my “It will emerge daughter, June, has through the hole in offered to take us the side of the box into her home until when it is ready,” all is safe. Grandshe promised. “We daughter Holly has will check on it in offered to take our pets, about 20 minutes.” as she lives on an acreage Sure enough, when we with lots of room. What checked the box a bit later, a blessing to have caring the finch was gone! families.

I asked Beth how she We drove by to see knew to do that for a where the firefighters are stunned bird. Her kitchen living. There are hundreds window seems to be a tarof tents on the grounds get for birds, so she went at Lincoln Middle School online for an answer. She in the Heights. There are has saved several birds restrooms and shower with the shoe box method rooms, indoor resting for after learning that prothose needing it, mess cess. I am still amazed. tents and brown bags of food prepared for the ïïïïï firefighters to take with them. Lots of parking for I used to enjoy air travel all involved. It was an im- — flying was relaxing pressive sight, to be sure. once the plane was in the air. But since COVID-19 ïïïïï hit, the return from the pandemic has been far I was standing at the from normal for the airline kitchen sink when a bird industry. What once was hit the window. Beth heard an exciting adventure has it as well and went straight turned into the makings of to the garage and returned a bad movie. with a shoe box. She had Behavior has changed. cut a hole in the side of I now often read of unthe box and put the bird ruly passengers, and how

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difficult those flights are for all onboard. But the recent picture of a woman duct-taped to her seat during an American Airlines flight just seemed beyond belief. According to news reports, fellow passengers described the woman as having a breakdown and panicking during the flight. The airline said she tried to open a passenger door and assaulted staff.

We had unruly children when I was teaching, but to duct-tape any child would have been unthinkable and surely asking for a lawsuit. I don’t blame the attendants who have to deal with such situations without the training and resouces to deal with troubled passengers.

Maybe each flight will need a mental health person to assist in a humane way? It presents an entirely different challenge for the airlines, and staff have my deepest respect and sympathy.

Life has surely changed with the pandemic. It has changed people both physically and mentally.

More people seem to have mental health problems, and that is going to change the approach different groups will need to cope with them. We were put here to share our space and to find ways to help one another. Kindness and understanding are going to be the tools to get us through this difficult time.

Bosserman, 92, is a retired Clarkston first-grade teacher.

She may be reached by email at ruthboss20@gmail.com.

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stored my personal be- tiful and rustic. longings in the dorm’s We were certain the washroom cubbies in younger kids would love a June and headed home for camping trip. With three summer. It would be good carloads of kids and a pickto fall back into my old up truck filled with camproutine: Picking berries, ing equipment, we slowly working in the pea plant traversed the windy, gravand going to camp meeting. eled Rattlesnake Grade, Four of us students from stopped at Boggan’s Café Warner Pacific Colto get a milkshake, lege had returned to then wound back up the Lewiston-Clarkthe Oregon side of ston Valley. the canyon.

We decided since The camping we were the older, was primitive. We more mature colpitched tents — two lege students, we’d big tents and one take some kids from small to sleep eight our church youth girls and five guys THINKING — at the base of the group to Wallowa OUT LOUD steep mountain. We Lake in Oregon for three days. It’s a rolled out beds and three-hour drive headed for the wafrom Clarkston. ter. Well, everyone In past summers except me. I have a when we worked great fear of water. I nights at Seabook’s made the excuse of pea-processing organizing the food plant, we sometimes and starting lunch. got off early at the beginThere were canoes and ning or end of pea harvest. paddleboats on the lake, We’d hop in cars and go to go-carts on an oval track, the lake, rent horses, ride horses, gift and snack up to Ice Lake, fish, eat shops, a skating rink and sack lunches and laze on an archery range. Plenty the glacier in the summer to do. We sat around the sun. Then we’d make a mad campfire after dinner and dash back to get to work sang and sang. We shared in time that night. Known stories, laughed and cried. as the little Swiss Alps of We were worn out by the America, Wallowa is beau- time the deep darkness of the mountain hit. We crawled into our beds, unmindful of the sharp rocks poking into our backs.

On the last night, a loud “kaboom” startled us awake. The thunder echoed off the mountain, across the lake and back to us two times before it stopped. Two girls in my tent began to cry. One screamed, but it was imPUZZLE, Page 5 mediately drowned out by

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a second “Ka-BOOM.” The heavens opened, and a torrent of water hit our tent like someone throwing out the wash water.

“Don’t worry,” I tried to calm them. “This is a good tent. We’re okay.” I wasn’t sure I believed my own words. I prayed for the tent not to collapse. The third “KABOOM!” deafened all of us as we lay in the pitch black, afraid to move.

Water poured away from our door. Thank goodness we pitched on a slope.

The lightning and thunder moved away as quickly as it had arrived, but the deluge continued. I could hear rocks rolling down the hill. Not one hit our tent. One by one the girls went back to sleep and I finally drifted off too.

We slept late. When I opened the tent flap, I was greeted by the side of a car.

“What in the world?” I questioned. I looked at the girls. Sleep was still heavy on their faces.

“What’s wrong?” one asked as she stretched.

I opened the flap further. “We seem to have made a float trip in the night. Look.”

Our tent was intact.

We were snug and dry in our sleeping bags, but our tent had floated 15 feet down the hillside — stopped only by one of our cars at the road. We could have floated right on out to the lake.

Chase Hoseley is a freelance writer and retired kindergarten teacher who lives in Clarkston.

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Keskinen, wrote in an Artists can apply online email. “Some may have at beautifuldowntown been hesitant with the lewiston.org/events, where pandemic. And it’s a a link to an application is chance just to celebrate available. A fee of $20 is being together.” required to reserve a spot.

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As part of the Wine and Wisdom: a Hosted ConverAlzheimer’s Association to sation Series, the Asotin host two webinars this month County Library, Basalt Cellars and Humanities The Alzheimer’s AssoWashington will present ciation and University of a variety of conversations Washington Memory and this month. The speakBrain Wellness Center are ers, all from the 2021-23 offering Wellness WednesHumanities Washington days, a webinar series for Speakers Bureau, will people with memory loss discuss a variety of topics and their families. This via Zoom. All sessions will month’s classes include: begin at 6:30 p.m. ï The Eye-Brain Partnerï Aug. 10: “One Second ship, 1-1:45 p.m. Aug. 11 of Hate: A Story of Forgive- — This talk by Kate Fewel ness” with Rais Bhuiyan. will discuss the aging eye ï Aug. 17: “Why Deny and how some types of Science?” with Michael dementias affect eyesight Goldsby. and offer practical tips on ï Aug. 24: “Understand- adapting to these changes. ing Israel” with Nancy Koppelman.

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Senior activities planned in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley Mondays ï Coffee hours, 9 a.m. to noon, Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston. ï Line dancing, 10 a.m., Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St., Lewiston. ï Fit For Life, 10-11 a.m., Grange Hall, 2220 Reservoir Road, Clarkston. ï Coffee and cookies, 10 a.m. to noon, Sixth Street Senior Center, 832 Sixth St., Clarkston. ï Senior citizens nutrition program meal 11-11:30 a.m. for pickup, or noon to 1 p.m. for dine-in eating, Lewiston Community Center.

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Fridays ï Coffee hours, 9 a.m. to noon, Valley Community Center. ï Fit For Life, 10-11 a.m., Grange Hall, Clarkston. ï Coffee and cookies, 10 a.m. to noon, Sixth Street Senior Center. ï Bridge, noon, Lewiston Community Center. ï Senior Round Table meal (pickup), noon, Valley Community Center.

Saturdays ï Dance with music by Heustis Kountry Band, 7-10 p.m., $5 donation, Sixth Street Senior Center.

Those seeking information about senior meals may call the Senior Round Table at (509) 758-3816, or Lewiston Senior Nutrition Program at (208) 743-6983. August menus are on Pages 15 and 16.

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Richard and Charlene Spooner clasp hands next to photos of their family earlier this month at their home in Clarkston.

The couple has been together for more than 70 years.

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Long dance Clarkston couple — and local square dancing royalty — will celebrate their 70th anniversary this week

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began with a flower.

They’ve been together ever since.

In her final year of junior They will celebrate their 70th anniverhigh in Clarkston, Charlene sary Thursday.

(Ewing) Spooner plucked a He would ride his bike to see her. rose and pinned it to a cute boy’s hair.

They went on small dates to the movie “We’ve been kind of making eyes theater and bigger ones like formal at each other,” Charlene reschool dances, where Charlene membered. “And he left it in said she “felt like a queen.” story by all day long.”

They married in 1951 JAYCE CARRAL Richard “Dick” Spooner, and had three children photos by who was in seventh grade by 1959. Charlene and AUGUST FRANK and a newcomer from Richard said they grew up Alberta, Canada, said he in loving households and GOLDEN TIMES wanted to emulate that for got teased a little but didn’t their own children. mind at all because Charlene “They were pretty lovey was a beautiful “sweater girl.”

“We wore tight sweaters,” Charlene dovey,” said Linda Bailey, their eldest child, who retired as director of develexplained, laughing at a slightly flusopment of Washington State Univertered Richard. sity’s College of Agricultural, Human “She was outstanding, in my view,” and Natural Resource Sciences. If her Richard said.

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parents ever fought, Bailey said, she never saw it.

Charlene was a stay-athome mom, and Richard spent his days working with his father, then later at his own business, Early Bird Supply Inc. On weekends, they would all spend time together during family dinners and picnics. They did a lot of camping, an activity Bailey said she now does with her own family.

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addition to their family ties, the couple discovered a second passion in 1962.

They were visiting Charlene’s sister in California, when they were invited to a square dance.

Charlene’s sister pulled Richard onto the floor and made him dance.

He adapted to the steps quickly, which was surprising for a first-timer, Charlene said.

“I learned to dance with my mom,” Richard said. “I stepped on her feet, and she taught me the waltz.”

Charlene sat out that first event, but she didn’t stay on the sidelines long.

When they arrived back in Clarkston, they put on some old records and practiced steps they’d picked up from other dancers. Charlene found her own rhythm in the dance, and within a year, Richard took it a step further and began taking lessons to become a caller.

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back, and they still continue to dance and enjoy time with their longtime community.

In 2017, the Washington State Square and Folk Dance Federation awarded the Spooners the Almon F. Parker Inspirational Award. It honors people who have “done an outstanding job of teaching and promoting” square dancing, according to the federation’s website. ïïïïï

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quare dancing took a backseat during the COVID-19 pandemic. Since they couldn’t hold events, they spent their time doing puzzles and talking to family over August Frank/Golden Times video calls.

Richard and Charlene Spooner stand for a photo at their home in Clarkston. They have been Richard and Charlene together for more than 70 years. enjoyed the time together much as they have for the majority of their lives — home visibly upset. music before the dance. time,” Richard said. and they’re finally back “He came in, he had Richard’s family was In 1988, Richard deto square dancing. They tears in his eyes, and he musical: His mother signed and built a dance reopened their hall July 17 said, ‘I don’t know what’s danced and played piahall, Twin City Square happened … there’s some- and danced all night long. no; his sister could pick and Round Dance, near “She’s supported me thing wrong,’ ” Charlene up any string instrument the home he built in through all these square said. and play by ear. So his Clarkston. The couple dance years — and, also, She took him to the informal music training would host dances, occashe can cook like you can’t hospital, where he got an melded well with square sionally invite guest callbelieve,” Richard laughed.

MRI. They learned the dancing. ers, and dance and dance “I’ve loved her, and I’ve episode in Canada was a Soon, he was regularly and dance. loved her every minute ministroke, also called a leading dances with an “I just love to get them transient ischemic attack. since I’ve seen her.” average of 40-50 particidancers out on the floor Charlene, who struggles The injury caused Richpants. He began receiving and get them going,” Richwith some hearing loss, calling contracts, so he ard said. “I could just feel ard to “lose his music,” missed the comment, so he he said. “Putting the calls and Charlene traveled the the energy.“ together with the music, it turned toward her so she country to events. could read his lips. wasn’t fitting.

A caller’s wife sacrifices ïïïïï “I said, I’ve loved you “That was just his life, a lot, Charlene said. Richever since I met you,” he heir dancing faltered and he loved it,” Charard couldn’t dance while repeated, drawing a laugh in 2005 after a visit lene said. “It was just calling, so she lost her to their youngest heartbreaking because he from his bride of seven favorite partner. But she decades. daughter, Alisa, in Canacouldn’t do it.” said enjoyed his calling “We’ve had a wonderful da. Richard got a horrible He spent the next three more than anyone else’s. life,” she said. years practicing his calls They had a 28-year con- headache, so he went to to batches of records on tract at a lodge in Oregon, rest while Charlene and Alisa went shopping. the turntable. Through so they would frequently “We left him alone, hard work, he was able to go there for events. They > IF YOU GO which was stupid,” Charcall dances again. But he joined and built commulene said. didn’t regain all his ability, nities revolving around WHAT: Square dancing.

When they arrived back and after leading a few a shared love of square WHERE: Twin City Square and in Clarkston a few days more events, he decided to Round Dance, 2130 Fifth Ave., dancing. later, Richard went to retire.

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One trick to traveling cheaply: flexibility fare from Atlanta to … somewhere, and jump on it when it becomes available.

By SAM KEMMIS NERDWALLET

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you want to travel on a budget. Who doesn’t? Yet it’s easy to get overwhelmed by all the cheap travel tips, hacks and strategies out there that promise unbelievable deals on airfare and hotels.

In reality, there’s only one important tactic for traveling cheaply: being flexible with your travel dates, destination and plans. It might sound simple — or even simplistic — but you would be surprised how few travelers are willing to take this piece of advice to heart.

To be fair, this flexibility-first mindset requires a paradigm shift for many in terms of how they start planning vacations. It requires moving from this type of planning: “I want to go to Amsterdam from Sept. 5 through 13.”

To this: “I want to go somewhere fun in September.”

For some, this degree of flexibility is simply impossible. Yet for those who can loosen their preconceptions about how to plan travel, it can lead to big savings — and maybe even more fun — whether you’re paying with cash or using points.

WHY RIGIDITY IS SO EXPENSIVE The cost of travel depends on the interplay between many factors, including: ï Demand. ï Supply. ï Randomness. ï Number of options.

When you make specific plans from the get-go, you essentially constrain the last variable — you give yourself fewer options. This means that the cost of your trip will depend entirely on the first three variables, which are completely outside of your control.

This economic interplay will sometimes fall in your favor, and

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GOOGLE FLIGHTS EXPLORE Many travel search engines, like Kayak or Orbitz, have highly flexible search tools. Google Flights offers a feature called “Explore” that allows you to search in a totally wide-open way.

You enter your departure city, the length of trip you’re looking for and your price range, and Google returns a handful of deals to a bunch of destinations at random times within your date range.

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Travelers make their way out of the main terminal to the pickup zone for rental car agencies last month at Denver International Airport. To fly for the lowest price on your next trip, try searching without a specific destination or date in mind. You can save money and points if you’re willing to be flexible with your travel dates and locations. you’ll score a good deal on the exact destination and dates you wanted. But more often than not, you’ll end up paying more than average simply by starting with a severely limited set of options.

Think about how many times you (or someone you know) have gone about it the other way — by starting with dates and a destination, then accepting whatever costs come up.

HOW TO PLAN TRAVELS WITH FLEXIBILITY You can still set some boundaries around your search. Example parameters might include: ï I want to travel in the fall. ï I want to sit on the beach. ï I don’t want to spend more than $X. From here, you can begin weighing different destinations and dates to see which could maximize your preferences. For example, you might start with flights to Hawaii, but notice that airfare is through the roof. So you switch to the Caribbean, narrow your interest to a few destinations with cheap flights, then start researching hotel prices.

Finally, you can find the dates and destinations that offer the best combination of price and features, then book your travel.

THE RIGHT TOOLS As this flexible travel approach gains in popularity, travel booking sites and services have begun offering helpful tools specifically designed for the task.

AIRFARE DEAL ALERTS Airfare deal newsletters, like Scott’s Cheap Flights and Dollar Flight Club, are how many travelers start thinking in terms of flexibility. These newsletters send a blast to subscribers whenever they discover a low-cost airfare deal.

But there’s usually a catch: These airfare deals are available only on certain dates, or to very specific destinations. You can’t sit around waiting for a great deal from Atlanta to Sydney, because that may not come around in time.

But you can wait for an exciting

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POINTS AND MILES Travel bloggers love to rave about how they scored a firstclass ticket using miles, but they don’t often describe their true secret: extreme flexibility.

Redeeming points and miles for reward travel all but requires a high degree of flexibility to get the most value from them.

For one thing, the availability of these awards can be spotty.

Before you can even determine if an award booking is a good deal or not, you need to actually find an available award booking option. For another, airlines often double the price or more during high-demand dates.

In short: If you’re looking to use miles on a specific flight on a specific day, you might either pay too much — or not be able to score a ticket at all.

To make things easier, many airlines offer award calendars that let you see which dates and prices are available by month, which can be especially helpful when rooting out hard-to-find premium cabin tickets.

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The lungs begin to heal and increase their capacity after one month, and circulation continues to improve as well. Nine months later, the lungs have healed substantially.

This includes the cilia, which are structures that help push mucus out of the lungs and are integral in fighting lung infections.

This one is especially important if you smoke indoors — improve your indoor air quality. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there can be around 2 to 5 times the amount of pollutants inside homes than outside regardless whether the home is near an industrial or rural area .

To improve indoor air quality, make sure to regularly change filters for air systems, keep on top of regular cleaning to remove dust and dander from the home, keep household cleaners and other chemicals to a minimum, and consider investing in an air purifier. Avoid poor outdoor air quality as it arises.

The lungs will greatly

benefit from exercise, as it not only helps improve oxygen and blood circulation throughout the lungs and the rest of the body, but it also strengthens the muscles within the respiratory system. Both aerobic and muscle-strengthening activities can improve lung health.

Breathing exercises can particularly target and strengthen the diaphragm. Practice focusing on expanding your belly when you breath and keep a posture that allows the lungs room to expand as you breathe deeply. Breathing doesn’t always have to be so

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serious — laughing also is a great way to work the abdominal muscles and diaphragm, as well as clearing stale air out of the lungs.

Keeping hydrated is also essential for lung health, especially during poor air conditions. Fluid intake keeps the lung’s mucosal linings thin and maintains efficient gas exchange and helps the lungs more easily expel particulate matter.

Prevention is also key in lung health. Getting vaccinated against respiratory diseases can prevent infections and subsequent damage to the lung tissue.

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> IF YOU SUSPECT YOU’RE BEING TARGETED BY A SCAMMER: DON’T  share any personal information  send money DO  hang up the phone  delete the email or  shred the letter  Check legitimacy of claims if desired, but not using a number supplied by the caller. Instead, look the company up in the phone book or online.  Report the scam (more information follows).

> THINK YOU’VE BEEN TAKEN? It’s a good idea to pay attention to details on bills and other financial transactions; discrepancies can be a red flag for identity theft. But many fraudulent schemes currently circulating are sophisticated and able to trick even the most savvy. Anyone who believes they’ve been contacted by a scam artist and/or fallen victim to a fraudulent scheme may …  Report it to local police at (208) 7460171 in Lewiston, (509) 758-2331 in Clarkston, (208) 883-7054 in Moscow or (509) 334-0802 in Pullman. Police can alert the community to new scams and help victims

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take steps to minimize damage and protect themselves.  Report it to their bank or credit institution if money was taken or information was shared.  Report it to the business or organization involved.  Report it to the Better Business Bureau at www.bbb.org/scamtracker/us.  Report it to the Federal Trade Commission at ftc.gov/complaint or by calling (877) FTC-HELP.  Find a list of current known scams and more information on avoiding scams, at www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/scam-alert.  Find information on scams circulating locally on the Lewiston Police Department’s Facebook page, where citizens also may sign up for news alerts.  Ask door-to-door solicitors to show their licenses, and call the police if they don’t.

> BEWARE OF CATFISHERS LOOKING FOR “LOVE” Catfishing is when someone fakes an online identity to scam victims for money, romance or physical harm. These predatory online relationships can last for months or even years. It’s catfishing if ...  They ask for money: An online friend or romantic interest whom you’ve never met asks you to send money or provide your bank information.  They won’t meet. Beware if the contact strings you along but avoids meeting in person. Some catfishers agree to meet but have an “emergency” — such as a canceled flight or a medical issue — that prevents it.

Catfishers often claim to be stationed abroad or working on an oil rig as an excuse for not meeting.  Skyping is off limits, too. Catfishers refuse to video chat.  They seem too good to be true. Some people who catfish feel bad about themselves and often assume the online persona of a fashion model, actor, successful businessperson, etc.

> DON’T GET HOOKED Before meeting in person or providing any information about yourself, fact-check claims and verify online identities using Google and SocialCatfish.com.

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he “Housepapa” I speak about here is my son-in-law, Larry Dahlberg. I live with him and my daughter, Debby.

An added plus for an old lady is being wanted by someone in your family when you reach an age or level of infirmity where you just don’t want to be alone when you die.

I used to envision my body lying dead for days before being discovered by someone. That’s when I was living alone in my own apartment before coming here — where my wishes are respected.

For instance, the other night at 11 p.m., I fell seriously ill and I called up Housepapa on my cellphone.

In a minute, he was by

my side.

“No doctor, no hospital,” I said.

“If you were my mama, you would find yourself in an ambulance,” he said, “but you are Debby’s mama.”

I know my body, and an inner voice said, “This incident is over now.”

There has been no recurrence of that episode; but if there ever is, I know how to handle it. You don’t have to worry about this old lady. This old lady has taken care of hundreds of serious illnesses.

I am almost 95. That will be a milestone for me. I really have an inner knowing that I will be 103 when I pass, and that will be exciting for me. I know that this life is only an infinitesimal

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In addition, I have a caregiver with a loving heart and knowing hands that are magic. When she rubs your back with lotion, you know you are cherished.

Housepapa just fixed me lunch, and it was yummy. I am blessed.

— Helen Jonutz, 94, of Lewiston

part of our total existence.

God would not create the human body just to exist for a short while. No. We are eternal. With every fiber of my being, I know this. And I know that what is truly wonderful is the spirit that lives within us.

I know that we were created as spirits before this world was formed, and that we wanted a place where we could go have children — human children of our own. This all makes sense to me, and I always search for knowledge, above all else. Yes, I have a couple of degrees, but that isn’t how I know these things. The Holy Ghost is what teaches me.

And Housepapa and my daughter help to take care of my aging body. I take

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VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES INTERLINK, INC. is a nonprofit organization in Clarkston that matches community volunteers to people needing assistance to remain independent in their own homes. For information about becoming a volunteer, call (509) 751-9143. Volunteer applications and addition information also can be found online at www.interlinkvolunteers.org. ï The Lewiston-Clarkston Valley has an urgent need for summertime drivers to transport senior citizen and disabled people to medical and other appointments.

Drivers may choose how many hours they’re able to work. Need is for Monday through Saturday. Training is provided, and drivers are compensated 56 cents per mile for each trip provided.

ï Drivers also are needed to do grocery shopping and delivery for homebound people.

ï Tutors — America Reads needs tutors to help K-third-grade students become proficient readers. Volunteers need to be The WA-ID VOLUNable to commit to at least TEER CENTER, in the an hour a week for the Lewiston Community Cen- school year. Background ter at 1424 Main St., strives check required. to provide individualized ï Companions — The volunteer opportunities for Senior Companion prothose wishing to serve in gram provides companLewiston, Clarkston, Asoionship and respite care to tin, Pomeroy, Moscow and the elderly and disabled. It the Orofino area. Informa- allows low-income senior tion and other volunteer volunteers an opportunity openings can be found at to assist those who need waidvolunteercenter.org or minor help to continue livby calling (208) 746-7787. ing independently. Senior Volunteer needs include: Companions visit clients ï Museum docents — in their homes, but it is not Skills include meet-andan in-home care program. greet abilities, friendly ï Food bank help — Volpersonality and the ability unteers are needed to reto answer questions about pack frozen and dry foods the displays at the center. for distribution. Front Training is provided. counter volunteers and

The State Health Insurance Benefits Advisors (SHIBA) program trains volunteers to assist local seniors with Medicare questions. ï Lewiston City Library — Volunteers needs include book shelving, gardening, homebound delivery, photography, technology tutoring, genealogy, tech lab, youth services and helping students with homework. ï Mobile Blood Drive Canteen — Volunteers serve refreshments to donors immediately following donations, help maintain a comfortable atmosphere, talk with donors and answer questions while observing the donors for possible adverse reactions. ï Disaster services — As the first responders of the American Red Cross, the Disaster Action Team (DAT) volunteers provide comfort and direct assistance to those affected by disaster as they begin the recovery process.

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salad/fruit/bread

24 Chicken-fried steak/hot veggie/salad/fruit/bread

25 Roast beef/hot veggie/ salad/fruit/bread

30 Baked fish/hot veggie/ salad/fruit/bread

31 Hot dog/hot veggie/ salad/fruit/bread

SENIOR ROUND TABLE NUTRITION PROGRAM — When: Noon, Tues./Thurs./Fri. • Where: Pickup is available at the Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St. No. F, Clarkston, or call for delivery at (509) 758-3816. • Cost: $4 suggested for seniors 60 and older; $7 for nonseniors • Note: Menu is subject to change.

3 Meatloaf/roasted reds/veggies/peaches/roll/cookie

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10 Chicken bacon ranch casserole/broccoli/veggie gelatin/pears/Texas toast 17 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/corn/gelatin

with fruit/roll

24 Biscuit-n-gravy/hash browns/apple rings/juice

5 Sweet-n-sour pork/rice/carrots/

W

31 Roast pork/mashed potatoes/carrots/juice/roll/

pickled beets/applesauce/roll

TH

tomato salad/pasta salad/fresh fruit

F

12 Baked ham/sweet potatoes/green

13 Tuna salad sandwich/green salad/hawaiian

19 Mushroom meatballs/rice/car-

20 Club sandwich/green salad/strawberry

beans/fruit salad/roll/cookie

tortellini salad/bean-n-carrot salad/fresh fruit

rots/peaches/cook’s choice dessert

spinach pasta salad/fresh fruit

26 Salisbury steak/mashed pota-

27 Chicken salad sandwich/green salad/pea salad/cowboy pasta/fresh fruit

toes/peas/applesauce/roll

cake-n-ice cream

6 Chicken burger/green salad/bacon-corn-

MOSCOW SENIOR NUTRITION PROGRAM — When: Noon, Tues./Thurs. • Where: On site at the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St., or call for delivery (208) 310-3779. • Cost: $5 suggested for seniors 60 and older; $7 for nonseniors. • Notes: Menu is subject to change. • Online: users.moscow.com/srcenter.

3 Chicken zucchini casserole/pasta salad/fruit/dessert

M

5 Taco salad casserole/broccoli/corn tortilla/fruit/dessert

T

10 FREE LUNCH WITH TWO MEAL CHOICES: 1. Oven-fried fish/mashed potatoes/veggies or 2. Roasted chicken/veggies/ pita. Both meals come with fruit salad and dessert 17 Tuna casserole/peas-n-carrots/fruit salad/dessert 24 Lemon pepper cod/rice/cauliflower/fruit salad/dessert

W

TH

12 Burrito bake/Mexican rice/fruit salad/dessert 19 Goulash/roasted potatoes/fruit/dessert 26 Potato salad with ham/broccoli/couscous/fruit/dessert

F

31 Chili/pineapple coleslaw/cornbread/fruit salad/dessert

REGIONAL SENIOR MEAL SITES Readers are advised to Kamiah Senior Center call to check if their local 125 N. Maple St., meal providers are offering Kamiah, (208) 935-0244, congregate meals or pickmeals at noon on Mondays, up options as states contin- Wednesdays and Fridays. ue working to contain the Juliaetta-Kendrick Senior coronavirus pandemic.

Cottonwood Community Hall 506 King St., basement, Cottonwood, (208) 792-2465, meals at noon Tuesdays.

Craig Mountain Senior Center 413 Nezperce St., Winchester, (208) 924-6581, noon Wednesdays.

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

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Citizens Center

104 S. Sixth St., Kendrick, (208) 2895031, meals from noon to 1 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Lewiston Community Center 1424 Main St., Lewiston, (208) 743-6983, meals at noon on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays.

Moscow Senior Center 412 E. Third St., Moscow, (208) 882-1562, noon Tues-

days and Thursdays.

Potlatch Senior Citizens

Nezperce Senior Citizens

313 Second St., Asotin, Potlatch Senior Citizens Meal Site, 645 Pine St., (509) 758-3816, meals at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesdays, Potlatch, (208) 875-1071, Thursdays and Fridays. meals at noon Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Valley Community Center

501 Cedar St., Nezperce, (208) 937-2465, noon on Mondays and Thursdays.

Orofino Senior Center 930 Michigan Ave., Orofino, (208) 476-4238, meals at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays.

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

United Methodist Church

549 Fifth St., Clarkston, (509) 758-3816, noon Tuesdays, Thursdays, Fridays.

695 Main St., Pomeroy, (509) 843-3308, meals at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Riggins Odd Fellows Building

Weippe Hilltop Senior Citizens Center

Palouse Senior Meals

Spud Hill Seniors

Pullman Meals on Wheels

220 E. Main St., Palouse, (509) 878-2301, meals at noon on Wednesdays.

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

Pomeroy Senior Center

GOLDEN TIMES

115 First St. W., Weippe, 121 S. Lodge St., Riggins, (208) 435-4553, meals noon (208) 628-4147, noon on Mondays and Thursdays.

Tuesdays.

(509) 397-4305.

Valley Meals on Wheels (208) 799-5767.

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