Prime April/May #53

Having the time of your life in the Inland Northwest

april/May 2015 #53

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Golf Courses worth a day’s drive

Foodies: Fresh Twists on Fiesta Favorites

Health: The End of Ageism

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The Front Porch

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Wanderlust

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Golden Tee: Golf Courses Worth a Day’s Drive

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Foodies: Fresh Takes on Fiesta Favorites

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Health: Ageism

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Inspiration: Milky Way over the Palouse

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Women’s Golf Association | End of Life Care | Library Wellness Programs | Not Dead Yet

Your Third Life: Reading with Children Cheryl-Anne Millsap fondly remembers curling up beside her grandfather as he read aloud.

Now she shares the magic—and the love—with her granddaughter, as she pictures her, many years from now, curled up with Nancy Drew or a girl-and-her-horse story, or later when she is reading to her own child or, looking far into the future, a grandchild.

Those of us who live in the Northwest are especially fortunate. The natural wonders in our own backyard—the rivers, mountains and spectacular scenery—that draw travelers from around the world are, in most cases, not more than a few hours away. One remarkable trip is the weeklong cruise on the Columbia and Snake rivers with Un-Cruise Adventures.

Golf is more than a game. Especially in Washington, where outdoor activities abound, it’s a way of life. Teeing off around the state, you will find breathtaking and challenging holes, in the forest, on the coastline, and even perched on mountain cliffs. Golf can take you places— with that in mind, we bring you a scorecard of must-play courses. Think of them as the par-3 of Washington golf—each worth the trip, but only a chip shot from home.

Cinco de Mayo is the perfect opportunity to indulge in Mexican-inspired dishes, dips and drinks. This year, put a tangy twist on your festive favorites with a refreshing new flavor: watermelon.

In America—youth-worshipping, plastic-surgery-tweaked America—ageism stands as one of the last widely acceptable social prejudices. But with the fast approaching “silver tsunami,” America will experience a demographic upheaval of a scale not witnessed since the Baby Boom. During the next two decades, there will be approximately eighty million Boomers, and they’ll constitute about a fifth of the national population. Will minds change? Will acceptance reign? Let’s hope so.

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The beautiful rolling courses featured at Chambers Bay, on the west coast of Washington, home of this year’s U.S. Open.

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editor’s letter

Weaving the Community Quilt

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y kiddos and I have belonged to the A.P.P.L.E. program (a parent participation program through Spokane Public Schools) for the past ten years. The program had seemed like the perfect fit for Bella, Aubrey, Christopher and London’s education—and it seemed like a good fit for me, as well. The opportunity was ripe to build a safe village with like-minded parents and grandparents; while allowing me to keep my wings spread out over my brood as I took those first steps toward sending them out into the world.

After a long interview and application process, our family was chosen—by lottery—and the journey of building the dream community, with the other 74 elementary school families, began.

As a ‘young’ mom, I eagerly showed up to events and classroom activities with a smile on my face, ready to jump right in and build relationships with the other parents. Although the dads were always friendly, warm, and welcoming, the “seasoned” moms didn’t seem as open to new friendships, and a few even seemed distant and annoyed. Finding my way into the pack of moms proved to be a difficult process. Their “community quilt” of interwoven connections and established friendships appeared to have already been washed and dried and shrunken to a comfortable fit. Fortunately, I wasn’t the only “new” mom in the mix of things, so I quickly began bonding with the other mothers, also trying to find their way. As the seasoned families graduated out of the program, the group of “new” moms busily wove (and washed and dried and shrank) our own community quilt. We supported each other through divorces—there were five in one year, illnesses, parenting highs and lows, professional successes, and new relationships. Because we vowed to be more inclusive than the moms before us, we organized Moms’ Night Outs, scheduled weekly coffee breaks, and planned school-wide park (and lake) days during the summer months. We took turns hosting 20+ kiddos for sleepovers and swimming parties. And we were really good at all of this for a couple of years.

One Sunday as I volunteered for the school’s annual fundraising event, one of the new “new” moms slipped in so quietly and stood so still beside me, I didn’t realize she was present until some time had passed. I had been distracted by conversations with friends, thoughts of the workweek that lay ahead, and getting home to soak in the balance of the Sunday.

“How have you liked the program?” I asked, in an effort to fill up the awkward silence. Any answer would have done; I had asked the question with the same intent the everyday impersonal “how are you” is asked.

“We are thinking of leaving the program,” she replied. “It has been hard.

The groups are really tight, and it feels impossible to integrate. I feel like an outsider.”

I realized I had done to her what had been done to me. I understood the “seasoned” mothers from so long ago. Our community quilts weren’t necessarily different entities, but perhaps layers upon layers of rungs woven as we went along.

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I went to work weaving the new mom into our community quilt and we learned a lot about each other in the couple of hours we spent together that day. And I’ll look forward to seeing her again, saying hello (and calling out to her by name), and chatting with her as we wait to pick up our children. And, I’ve come to believe, it won’t ever matter what life storms roll in or out when you have an understanding of a quilt like that.

What is the prime of your life? The prime of your life is the “someday” you’ve always referred to, maybe even dreamed of.

It’s today. I would love to hear a story of how you work to weave a community quilt.

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Women’s Golf Club The Executive Women’s Golf Association, THE Golf Community for Women, has been connecting women to the game of golf for more than 24 years. The EWGA invites and welcomes women to golf in a non-intimidating environment. The EWGA is headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida and has 108 chapters including a location in Spokane.

The EWGA Spokane/Inland Northwest Chapter offers many benefits to its members.

You will find access to seasonal golf on the weekends and after work and off-season social events like virtual golf outings, Bunco, dinners and movies. EWGA also provides fun, competitive

experiences with opportunities to participate in the local championship where winners advance to compete both regionally and nationally.

This year, the Spokane/Inland Northwest Chapter will kick off the golf season with their Annual Spring Event on Thursday, April 16 at the Spokane Convention Center.

The cost is $35 for members and nonmembers. Please register to attend the Spring Event at www.ewgainlandnw.com. Sign up today, find out how you can get involved in golf and take part in a fun event with lots of drawings for prizes!

For this year’s full schedule of events, visit www.ewgainlandnw.com.

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Wishes for

End-of-Life Care Wishes honored. Peace of mind. Family harmony. Quality care. These are the hallmarks of a new initiative launched this week. Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest’s vision is for everyone in Washington State to receive care that honors personal values and goals near the end of life.

Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest is releasing a comprehensive new website, www.HonoringChoicesPNW.org, designed to help people create end-of-life care plans and guide them through sharing those plans with loved ones and health care providers. The resources and tools on the website are free and available to anyone. Health care professionals can also find valuable resources on the site and participate in trainings to prepare them for conversations around end-of-life care, recording patient wishes and ultimately honoring those choices.

“There is a tremendous need for people to have early conversations with their families and physicians about the type of care they would want if faced with a life-threatening illness. Research shows about 60 percent of people don’t want to burden family with tough decisions, yet nearly as many haven’t discussed their end-of-life care wishes,” said Brian Seppi, MD, president of the Washington State Medical Association.

The website will include personal stories to help people understand the importance of making end-of-life care plans and an email tool to invite family and friends to join them in the important process of discussing and creating end-of-life care plans.

“Every patient has different ideas of how much, how little, or what kinds of treatment they want at the end of their life. It’s a personal decision and most don’t realize there are many choices for what their final days will look like,” said Dr. Seppi. “It takes a commitment from all areas of the health care community including physicians, health care organizations, health insurance companies, employers and foundations, to make sure those choices are honored and we are providing the best patient care possible.”

Learn more about the Honoring Choices Pacific Northwest program at www.

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Stimulate your Mind, Energize your Body, and Renew your Spirit with new Nourish classes through Spokane County Libraries

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pokane County Library District presents a spring series of programs providing wellness ideas and practices for everyday living. Programs in the Nourish series are free and are held at all ten of the District libraries. The line-up features exercise classes including yoga and discovering online tools for health and fitness; and programs that will entice you to explore the Inland Northwest outdoors.

Perhaps nothing nourishes us more than the food we eat. Explore the health benefits of fermented foods or the afternoon cup of tea. A local chef shares his experience with cooking locally and will give a cooking demonstration. The Library District has also created an easy guide to all the local farmer’s markets.

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Nourish programs begin in April and run through June. A complete description of the classes, along with dates and times, is available online at www.scld.org/nourish and in the program brochure that was mailed to all resident in the Library District’s service area in March.

For additional information on the libraries or programs, please visit www.scld.org or call (509) 893-8200.

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In the past, I’ve used this space to make wisecracks about getting older. I’m always on the lookout for a joke, a way to lighten the load as I move into the later stages of my life. (On a recent drive down to Boise, a restaurant with this sign had the tone about right: “We tried childproofing our house, but they keep getting in.”)

The title of this column should give a hint to my philosophy, about aging as well as other aspects of our lives: our best response to the inevitable losses we experience as we get older might lie in black humor, or “gallows humor,” which acknowledges the fact that the human condition provides plenty of pain and heartache to the average thinking, feeling person’s life, and the best way to carry on with our dignity intact is to smile at the ridiculousness of it all and keep moving forward with as much humility and grace as we can muster.

What are our choices in the matter?

We could allow ourselves to become embittered, focussing on the negative, taking it personally and responding to every bit of bad news with a crabby “I told you so,” and a surly self-satisfied sneer. No thanks: I grew up around Grumpy Old Men, the real deal, the Upper Midwestern type, quietly angry all the time and given to violent, unpredictable outbursts. And while I can be prone to taking up the Cudgel of Bleakness myself, especially in the dead of winter, I try to fight these tendencies with vitamin D, exercise, long walks with friends, and good books.

Yes, books. If nothing else, the work of great writers quietly reminds us that we are not alone in our struggles. A novelist I know keeps this quote by James Baldwin taped to his computer screen: “You think your pain and heartache are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the

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things that tormented me most are the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or had been alive.”

The books themselves don’t have to be tormenting, or even difficult to read. One of my go-to writers is Mark Twain, whose greatest work emphasizes the common humanity in all of our suffering. One of the reasons we keep reading Twain is his ability to keep us laughing, even when things look darkest.

The key moment in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn happens when Huck decides not to turn over to authorities the escaped slave, Jim, he’s been traveling with.

On the raft, after listening to Jim talk about his love for his daughter, and how much he misses her, Huck realizes that they share a bond of humanity more powerful than the bondage of slavery, and he can’t do what society tells him is right.

It’s an act of empathy, not sympathy, and the difference is worth noting.

Sympathy only requires us to feel sorry for the victim; empathy asks more.

Empathy requires us to feel what the other person feels, to put ourselves in another’s position. Once Huck has felt Jim’s pain, he can no longer turn him in, even though the church has taught him that to help a slave escape will lead to his eternal damnation. “All right then,” he thinks, “I’ll go to hell!”

Of course, by helping Jim escape, Huck is doing the right thing. As readers, we get to laugh at the naive boy who comes to the right conclusion by wrong thinking, and the book goes on to romp its way to other adventures. Like Huck, we’ve been changed.

Some of my favorite moments in literature come from these odd conjunctions of the serious and the comic—and some of my favorite moments in life. If you haven’t yet read Spokane’s Jess Walter, you should. At his best, he’s as simultaneously funny and heartbreaking as Twain, and he writes with empathy—not sympathy—for all of his characters, especially the least among us. Some rainy spring day, treat yourself to one of his books, and laugh until you can’t stop crying. Like a spring shower, it’s good for the flowers of the soul.

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Reading with Children As

a mother, and now a grandmother, one of my favorite stages of childhood has always been the time when a child moves from simple picture books—sturdy pages of easily recognizable images and objects—to beautifully crafted and illustrated story books. Now that my granddaughter is willing to sit and listen to me read for longer stretches of time, I’ve brought out boxes of family favorites and put them on the shelves in the den so she can have access to them whenever she is here with me.

A few of the books I’ve kept were my favorite stories when I was a child. Others were the stories my children requested and that we read together time after time, the rhymes of Dr. Seuss or the vintage copies of Little Golden Books I’ve collected over the years.

And then there are the new discoveries, books purchased on my travels or those she picked out when we stopped by Auntie’s bookstore on our trips to the carousel downtown.

When we snuggle on the sofa or in my favorite chair and open one of these books, turning each page is like watching an old home movie. I can recall my own love of the book or of reading in general and it rekindles the sweet memories of similar moments with my children. Now, layered on these recollections is the pleasure of experiencing it all again with a grandchild.

One of the ways I learned to read was by sitting beside my grandfather each evening after dinner as he read out loud to me. We read the same Little Golden Books but my grandfather brought out his own favorites. We read poetry and Tom Sawyer and even the big book that held the complete works of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas.

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The rumble of his voice vibrating through his body and into mine as we sat close together on the sofa became a part of the experience. But as much as I liked the books, I liked the solid warmth of my grandfather.

The summer I was 9 years old my mother read Kipling’s Mowgli Stories to us and I remember being filled with contentment as I stretched out on a blanket, my head on a pillow, luxuriating in the exotic images painted by the sound of my mother’s voice.

We make much of the value of reading to a child as a way to stimulate brain development and awaken what we hope will be a lifelong love of reading and it’s all true. But I think the most important element is the love. When someone you love, and who loves you, reads to you it forever imbues the act of reading with warmth and comfort and pleasure. And for the rest of your life books become more than just words on pages.

That’s what I tell myself each time we sit down with a book. I know that many years from now, when she is curled up with Nancy Drew or a girland-her-horse story, or later when she is reading to her own child or, looking far into the future, a grandchild, she will pass along more than words. She will share the love.

By Cheryl-Anne Millsap

Cheryl-Anne Millsap is the author of Home Planet: A Life in Four Seasons which is available on Amazon and at Auntie’s Bookstore.

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Un-Cruise

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hose of us who live in the Northwest are especially fortunate. The natural wonders in our own backyard—the rivers, mountains and spectacular scenery—that draw travelers from around the world are, in most cases, not more than a few hours away.

One of the most memorable regional trips I’ve ever taken was a weeklong cruise on the Columbia and Snake rivers with Un-Cruise Adventures. The S.S. Legacy is an 88-guest replica coastal steamer, the type that traveled rivers in the early 20th Century.

The round-trip excursion from Portland focused on the culture, cuisine and history of the Northwest, from Native American culture, to the Lewis and Clark Voyage of Discovery and up the region’s contemporary wine industry.

This year, celebrating those world-class vineyards and wines, Un-Cruise Adventures has added a new itinerary with Ameritage! Four Rivers of Wine and History.

The seasonally inspired menu will feature fresh, local ingredients from the Northwest. Wines from Washington and Oregon will be paired with meals and a seven-course wine-paired dinner will be held one evening. Itineraries also include guided tours, premium wine, beer and spirits and a complimentary massage.

Tastings at wineries Springhouse Cellars, Maryhill Winery, AniChe Cellars, Bergevin Lane, Dunham Cellars, Terra Blanca, Sunshine Mill Winery and others will be included. (All winery tasting fees are included in the cruise package.)

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Four noted wine experts will accompany travelers aboard the S.S. Legacy on the new itinerary.

The lineup includes: August 15: Steven (a certified sommelier) and MaryAnn Sinkler, winemakers and owners of the Wine Shack in Cannon Beach, Oregon.

August 22: Kevin Correll, winemaker and owner of Barrage Cellars, a boutique winery in Washington State, will offer insight into the industry.

August 29: Jameson Fink, currently the wine editor at MSN. com who is a wine expert with a decade of experience in the retail industry and an award-winning blogger.

September 5: Joel Butler, one of the first two American Masters of Wine (1990) and owner of World of Wine in Redmond, Washington.

Un-Cruise Adventures CEO Captain Dan Blanchard, says, “With a wine expert on board, tastings, food pairings and visits with winemakers, guests can expect a well-rounded week of Northwest wines along with the striking scenery found on the Columbia and Snake rivers.”

For more information about UnCruise adventures, including the new Ameritage! Four Rivers of Wine and History itineraries go to www. un-cruise.com or see your travel agent.

Cheryl-Anne Millsap writes about travel for Spokesman.com. You can read more of her work at www. spokesman.com/blogs/homeplanet

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Planning for a Long Life?

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any of my clients live full and satisfying lives. They take care of themselves, exercise, watch their diets and listen to the advice of their doctors. They enjoy a lifestyle that is funded through their retirement nest egg, and guard it carefully.

Unfortunately, the longer we live, the more likely we will need some sort of long term care for the future. Many people are uncomfortable with this subject, but I must stress the importance of addressing the concern. Ignoring long-term care planning will put your family’s financial stability at peril, as well as your family’s health and wellbeing. The odds of needing care is a reasonable question, and easily answered. People 65 and older have a 45 percent chance of needing care. Those odds are a lot more likely than other risks we plan for, such as market risk, interest rate risk or insurances such as homeowner’s insurance.

My experience has taught me that many people are not aware of how important the planning process is for this life expense. There are several ways to plan, including setting assets aside for the sole benefit of paying for care, or the purchase of insurance.

Though most people would prefer to “self insure” for this risk, many find that the amount of money needed to do that will cut their retirement income, affecting their lifestyle dramatically. Using insurance to fund all or part of the risk is often the easiest way to protect our income and our families.

If you or your spouse hope to live a long life, I encourage you to plan well for it now. It will be a gift to you and your family.

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Your Life. Your Home.

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inco de Mayo is the perfect opportunity to indulge in Mexican-inspired dishes, dips and drinks. This year, put a tangy twist on your festive favorites with a refreshing new flavor.

Watermelon is a versatile fruit with a flavor profile that pairs perfectly with many of the ingredients in traditional Mexican dishes. Sweet and juicy watermelon is a great way to cut the heat of spicier foods, and its texture lends an unexpected, satisfying crunch in dips such as chunky salsas.

Whether you’re hosting a Cinco de Mayo themed party or simply looking forward to an inspired meal at home, get an early jump on summer and let watermelon be your star ingredient.

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2 medium avocados, peeled and chopped 2 tablespoons lime juice 2 teaspoons diced jalapeno pepper (or to taste) 1/3 cup chopped cilantro 2 medium garlic cloves, minced 1 can (4 ounces) diced green chilies, drained

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2 1/2 cups diced watermelon, divided Salt, to taste Cooking spray 1 1/2 pounds cod Chili powder 12-16 corn tortillas 3-4 cups commercial coleslaw mix (shredded cabbage and carrots) 1/2-1 cup commercial salsa

For guacamole, mash avocados to mix of smooth and chunky in medium bowl. Add lime, jalapeno, cilantro, garlic and chilies and mix thoroughly. Add 1 1/2 cups diced watermelon and salt (if desired) and toss. Cover and refrigerate to let flavors blend.

Heat oven to 350 degrees. Spray cookie sheet with cooking spray.

Place cod on sheet and sprinkle with chili powder and salt. Bake for 12-20 minutes (depending on thickness of fish) or until cooked through. Remove from oven and cut into pieces.

Heat tortillas on grill or griddle. Top each with few pieces of fish, 1/4 cup coleslaw mix, heaping spoonful of guacamole, tablespoon of salsa and few pieces of remaining diced watermelon.

Servings: 12-16 tacos

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recipes

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1 1/2 ounces tequila 3/4 ounce Triple Sec 3/4 ounce Midori 2 ounces sour mix

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6 ounces cubed, seeded watermelon 8 ounces ice

Blend all ingredients. Serve in 14-ounce glass. Garnish with lime and watermelon wedge.

Watermelon Cilantro Salsa Tropical Servings: 8-12 2 cups chopped seedless watermelon 1 cup chopped fresh pineapple 1 cup chopped fresh mango 4 limes (juice only) 1 cup trimmed and chopped scallions 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro Salt and pepper, to taste Toss all ingredients in mixing bowl and season with salt and pepper just before serving.

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1 round, seedless watermelon Dry erase marker Utility knife or carving knife Ice cream scoop or other large spoon Fire and Ice Salsa Chips, jalapenos, cilantro and lime, for garnish 1. Choose round seedless watermelon.

2. Wash watermelon and pat dry.

3. Use dry erase marker to trace design around middle of watermelon.

4. Use utility knife to carve design.

5. Split watermelon in half, and use scoop to carve out flesh.

6. Choose flat area of rind on other watermelon half to trace and carve out lizard design.

7. Fill bowl with salsa.

8. Garnish with lizard, chips, jalapenos, cilantro and lime.

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3 cups seeded and chopped watermelon 1/2 cup green peppers 2 tablespoons lime juice 1 tablespoon chopped cilantro 1 tablespoon green onion 1-2 tablespoons jalapeno peppers

Combine ingredients; mix well and cover. Refrigerate one hour or more.

For more recipes featuring low-calorie, no-fat watermelon, visit www.watermelon.org.

Servings: 3 Cups

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olf is more than a game.

Especially in Washington, where outdoor activities abound, it’s a way of life. While other sports, like football and baseball, are played on a set field, each golf course is unique. Teeing off around the state, you will find breathtaking and challenging holes, in the forest, on the coastline, and even perched on mountain cliffs.

Golf can take you places—and we don’t just mean into the deep grass when you hit your ball into the rough. With that in mind, we bring you a scorecard of must-play courses. Think of them as the par-3 of Washington golf—each worth the trip, but only a chip shot from home.

Gamble Sands

Brewster, Washington, 130 miles/2.5 hours | Greens Fees: $70-$160

Gamble Sands, which opened in August 2014, is the newest course in the state, but is quickly earning a reputation as a destination for golfers seeking a world-class experience.

Designed by David McLay Kidd, known for crafting the original course at world-famous Bandon Dunes on the Oregon Coast, Gamble Sands is set on sweeping sand dunes overlooking the Colombia River. The course is an easy walk and enjoyably playable as there are no homes, no roads, and no cart paths—just 18 holes of true links golf with traditional fine fescue grasses, wide fairways and massive greens.

The scenery isn’t bad either. No matter the direction, views include the snowcovered Cascades, thousands of acres of apple and cherry orchards, river vistas and mountains of black basalt.

It’s no wonder that the editors of Golf Digest named Gamble Sands as the best new course to open in America in 2014.

Kidd’s intention was to design the layout of Gamble Sands to allow a player to determine a strategy, pick a line and swing with confidence and play their best.

Some of the fairways are as wide as a football field is long. The greens range from 6,000 to 16,000 square feet, so if you swing in that direction you’re likely to get on. Three of the holes are driveable par 4s that offer daring golfers the chance for an eagle, birdie or double.

“What’s really fun is that we’re in an area with more than 300 days of sunshine a year,” says Gamble Sands General Manager David Christenson.

“The reward is that you don’t have to travel over to the Westside or down the coast to play this style of course.”

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Wine Valley Golf Club

Walla Walla, Washington, 170 miles, 2.5 hours Greens Fees: $80-$105 ($10 60+ discount)

Wine Valley Golf Club is what is referred to as a “minimalist course,” but it unfolds on a grand scale over rolling hills in the shadow of the Blue Mountains. Each hole affords multiple lines of play, ensuring a pleasant round for every golfer and a true challenge for those who seek it.

Created by noted Northwest golf course architect Dan Hixon, Wine Valley has been included among the top 100 modern designs in the country, ahead of courses like Hazeltine and Valhalla, former sites of major championships.

Wine Valley excites the golfer from the opening tee shot with broad fairways to accommodate changing conditions and hole locations, dramatic bunkers that intimidate, and bold, undulating putting surfaces.

Measuring up to 7,600 yards, the course plays fast and firm—in the style of the great links courses—rolling atop rich soils deposited by the ancient Missoula Floods.

“Conditions change every day, or more often than that.

You can’t just come out here and play it the same way over and over. You’ve got to think and adapt,” Hixon says. “And to me, that is what makes golf fun.”

As the name suggests, no trip to Wine Valley would be complete without visiting a tasting room or two in Walla Walla, named by Sunset Magazine as the Best Wine Destination in its Western Wine Awards. It’s the perfect opportunity to loosen up before your first swing or celebrate a hole-in-one.

Apple Tree Golf Course

Yakima, Washington, 200 miles, 3 hours | Greens Fees: $60-$99

An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but it certainly will attract golfers to the Apple Tree Golf Course, in Yakima, with its island green in the shape of Washington’s favorite fruit.

The signature hole, the seventeenth, that concludes on a green in the shape of an apple, has been named “Best Par Three” by the Seattle Times, and “One of Washington’s Top 18 Holes” by Washington CEO. And while the unique green has been featured in countless golf publications, calendars and travel guides, the rest of this championship course plays over 6,900 yards and features a variety of scenic challenges including lakes, fountains, and a beautiful cascading waterfall.

Carved from the beautiful rolling terrain of 100 year-old apple orchards, Apple Tree features a premier golf course and an award-winning dining experience (start your early morning tee time with the delicious garden omelet with jalapeños and bacon), and a prestigious community of golf-front homes and condominiums should you decide to stay for a few more rounds.

Circling Raven Golf Club

Worley, Idaho, 50 miles, 45 minutes Greens Fees: $65-$95

Highlander Golf Course,

East Wenatchee, Washington, 170 miles, 2.5 hours | 18 holes $59-$65

Play may be a bit leisurely at the Highlander Golf Course, but that’s understandable as you’ll want to pause and take in the breathtaking views afforded by this classic Scottish Highlandsstyle course high above the Columbia River.

Perched on a cliff nearly 900 feet above the water, Highlander is a par-70 that takes full advantage of its spectacular location with a trio of “canyon-carry” holes ingeniously carved into the sheer cliffside, with other unique features to test your best shots, including lakes, a waterfall, stonework bridge, and trees by the hundreds—500 on the front nine to be exact.

Highlander boasts plenty of challenges for golfers of all abilities, but when you reach the signature ninth, you’d better be on your game. Don’t be fooled into thinking it’s an easy par3—a shot from the black tees takes a 185-yard shot over a 350-foot canyon to land on a sloping green. Come up short or pull to the left and your ball disappears into the ravine.

Circling Raven Golf Club, at the Coeur d’Alene Casino Resort Hotel, is challenging for a variety of reasons. Sure, there are the typical sand traps and water hazards, but hit your ball into the rough and you might find yourself face to face with friendly wildlife including deer and moose.

Circling Raven was conceived by famed golf course architect Gene Bates, and designed to blend with scenic wetlands, grasslands and woodlands. At 7,189 yards, the par 72 championship layout meanders through 620 acres, only 100 representing cultivated ground. Great care has been taken to preserve the natural surroundings—in fact, the 2003 opening was delayed while migrating elk were allowed to play through.

Circling Raven has scored recognition from Golf Magazine and others as a “Top Ten” in courses you can play and best new upscale course.

It has also been named a best-of course by Golf Digest, Golf Magazine, Zagat Survey, Men’s Health, The Golf Insider, Golf for Women, and Golfweek Magazine.

The course also boasts unique practice facilities, including a driving range just for wedges hit to various practice greens. The 25-acre practice facility also offers a full driving range, as well as chipping and putting greens.

Regarded as the top tribal golf experience in the country, the pro shop pays homage to the spirit of the Coeur d’Alene Indians with Native American jewelry and art.

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Chambers Bay

University Place, Washington, 300 miles, 4.5 hours Greens Fees: $80-$299

With the pristine water of the Puget Sound providing a serene backdrop, Chambers Bay is a picture postcard representing one of the most amazing golf courses in the country.

Winding through a coastal setting, among windswept dunes and native fescue grasses, the walkingonly course, a public facility just outside of Tacoma, seems to have been there forever. Yet underneath, Chambers Bay is the former site of a sand and gravel quarry, requiring more than 1.5 million cubic feet of earth to be moved in and sculpted into a challenging course that plays over 7,500 yards.

With massive, rolling fairways, towering dunes, undulating greens and unpredictable coastal winds, Chambers Bay is the perfect site to host the top professional and amateur golfers playing in the 2015 U.S. Open, one of the sport’s four major annual championships.

Scheduled for June 15-21, the tournament will be the first Open played in the Pacific Northwest since it began in 1895.

Sure to make the highlight reel is the signature fifteenth hole, a short dropshot par 3 that plays from an elevated tee and is fully exposed to the prevailing wind, making club selection critical.

Standing watch in the distance, the Lone Fir is the only tree on the course.

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Ageism and Its

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By Brendan Hare

Until I turned sixty-six, retired, and officially joined the ranks of “the olds,” I

lived for decades as an unreflecting and unapologetic ageist. I’m not a mean-spirited person. I pride myself on being open-minded and progressive. I’ve always tried to guard against bias in my thoughts and actions, and to fight bigotry wherever it cast its sulphurous gloom. But somehow, my prejudices about old people seemed to be natural, to reflect the facts of life, to share in the universal consensus. Being old was simply bad, wasn’t it? This felt like a solid fact, an incontrovertible position and, in the U.S. of A., also a basically uncontroversial one. In America—youth-worshipping, plastic-surgerytweaked America—ageism stands as one of the last widely acceptable social prejudices.

Everyone, it seems, indulges in it, even the most conscientious among us. It’s reflected in our workplaces, courts, laws, and public policies. In movies, on television shows, on the nightly news, and in pharmaceutical commercial after pharmaceutical commercial, we chuckle and grin to see seniors portrayed as cute, helpless, and feeble, stumbling through what’s left of their lives in a fog of befuddlement. We’ve developed a whole vocabulary to express such prejudices: Uh oh, are you having a senior moment?

Can you hear me? Where are your keys? Do they still allow you to drive? Maybe just in the slow lane, with one turn signal flashing for no reason? Well, be careful. Are you sure you can handle all this by yourself ? Wow, you’re so capable and independent.

So youthful! How inspiring. I mean, for someone your age. But you know what they say, “eighty is the new forty.” What are your plans for the time you have left? A little bingo? A few laps around the old mall? Or maybe you’ll stay in, catch up on your programs? Wait! Did you remember to take your meds? Are you sure? Good for you.

The term “ageism” is an abstraction. It strains to capture a varied and complex phenomenon. As used here, ageism comprises systematic neglect, segregation, isolation, and bigotry. Like other prejudices, it works by constructing artificial barriers. On one side of the wall, older people languish, mistreated and misunderstood, viewed less as persons than as ready-made types. On the other side, younger people lose access to a vast store of wisdom and experience, and are tempted to adopt a false vision of life—to

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live as if old age were something that only happened to other people. In this way, ageism acts like an environmental toxin. As it spreads, it imperils us all, old and young alike.

It is probably impossible to measure how much society loses by tolerating prejudice against the old. But for seniors, the consequences of ageism are troublingly apparent. First, it sets up a dangerous loop: Age discrimination tells seniors, Time has made you infirm, obsolete, and worthless. In response—as is natural—seniors feel pressure to accept and internalize this view of themselves, with disastrous consequences for their mental and physical health. Studies have correlated experiences of ageism with memory loss, cardiovascular sickness, and low self-esteem. One study suggested that experiencing age discrimination diminished older people’s will to live.

Another reported that seniors who harbored negative views about old age faced life expectancies that were, on average, seven and a half years shorter than those of their peers. All of this is staggering when we consider how ubiquitous ageism is: In one study, seventy percent of seniors surveyed reported that they had been insulted or mistreated on the basis of their age.

Ageism, again like other forms of prejudice, is rooted in ignorance, lack of experience, and countless failures to exercise curiosity, imagination, and empathy. A couple of years ago, I began conducting research for a project about aging in America. One of the people I interviewed, a resident in an assistedliving facility for seniors, asked the facility to arrange to put me up in a spare room for a night. He thought that spending a full twenty-four hours there would help my research. I declined as politely and as firmly as I could.

Brendan Hare is a retired attorney and the author of From Working to Wisdom: The Adventures and Dreams of Older Americans, available at Amazon. For more information, visit www. fromworkingtowisdom.com.

To be honest, the prospect made me deeply uncomfortable, as if old age were contagious—as if I might lose twenty years in one night. I got over this eventually. But it made me realize that, for much of my life, I’d had relatively little exposure to the old. In this regard, I’m not alone. Our society has tacitly segregated ourselves on the basis of age. We are educated alongside people who share our birth year. We spend our working lives with people who are, in most cases, about our own age, or within a decade or two of it.

When it comes time to retire—and there’s a socially acceptable age for that too—many of us flee to sunny places, to be close to other retirees, lest we get caught lingering in the noisy world of the whippersnappers. Consider: If you are young, do you have a friend or acquaintance outside your family who is over seventy? If you are old, who do you know under thirty?

Life teaches us that nothing stays the same for long. I’m happy to predict that ageism, too, must change. I think it will be washed away, or at least significantly eroded, by the fast approaching “silver tsunami.” America will soon experience a demographic upheaval of a scale not witnessed since the Baby Boom.

During the next two decades, as these Boomers age, the number of Americans over sixty-five will double. There will be approximately eighty million of us, and we’ll constitute about a fifth of the national population.

Thanks to remarkable advances in medicine and technology, we can look forward to better health and longer average life expectancies. We will also, on average, be wealthier than many of our younger cohorts. In short, we are primed to live long and live well, and to serve as the standard-bearers of an idea whose time has come: ageism, in all its forms, is unacceptable. More than this, we’ll be able to demonstrate that it is possible, even natural, to lead a vibrant, engaged life well into old age. Indeed, it is our responsibility to do so, and not only for ourselves. We owe it to the youngsters to show them how it’s done.

After all, with any luck, one day they’ll get to be old too.

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The Milky Way over Steptoe James Richardson captured the Milky Way in early June 2014 at about 1:30 a.m., just outside the town of Oakesdale. This beautiful old and abandoned Palouse homestead is popular with area photographers. This was his second attempt trying to photograph the Milky Way. The first was at Palouse Falls. “It is amazing how many stars you can see when you get away from the light pollution of the big city,” he says. “The Milky Way was very visible as it slowly passed over the house, but as this picture shows, the camera sensor picks up far more detail than is visible with the eye.”

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