Golden Times July 2011

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A: Anyone applying for benefits on or after May 1, 2011, will be required to receive their payments electronically, while those already receiving paper checks will need to switch by March 1, 2013. Paper checks will no longer be an option for most people. If you don’t have a bank account, you can get your benefits through the Direct Express debit Mastercard. Switching from checks to electronic payments is fast, easy, and free at www. godirect.org. You also can call the U.S. Treasury Processing Center’s toll-free helpline at (800) 333-1795 or speak with a bank or credit union representative or contact Social Security for help. ď ˇ This column was prepared by the Social Security Administration.

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Diabetic support group to meet July 11 The Valley Diabetic Support Group has set its annual picnic for 6 p.m. July 11 at Beachview Park in Clarkston.

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More information is available by calling Arlene Mansfield at (208) 743-6676.

Seniors can dance twice a week in Clarkston Dancers can cut a rug to the Street Senior Center.

Heustis Kountry Band from 7 The 6th Street Senior Center to 10 p.m. every Tuesday and Thursday in July at the 6th is at 832 Sixth St. in Clarkston.

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 Nanny B. Kelley Carrico Nanny B. Kelley Carrico of Orofino celebrated her 92nd birthday July 1 at the Clearwater County Senior Citizens meal site. She was born July 1, 1919, to Marshall and Nanny Gentry Kelly in Nobility, Texas.

Her family moved to idaho in 1925, and she attended Orofino schools.

Nanny married Fred Carrico in 1937 in Weiser and reared eight children. He died in 1991.

Nanny enjoys dancing and singing to

country music, going to jam sessions and playing bingo. She has been a member of the Bluebell Rebekah Lodge for 37 years and is a member of the Clearwater County Senior Citizens. She has been Noble Grand twice and is a member of the Past Noble Grand club. She is also a member of the Clearwater Valley Eagles. She has traveled through much of Idaho attending different Assembly of God churches.

In addition to her children, Nanny has 12 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

July 2  Don Polumsky Don Polumsky of Clarkston celebrated his 80th birthday July 2. He was born July 2, 1931, to William and Lena Polumsky in Peola. He joined four sisters and eight

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He lived eight years in Enterprise. Don married Maxine Berlinghoff in 1952 and they reared three sons. He served two years in the U.S. Marine Corps, returning home in 1964, when he bought his family’s farm. He worked

at the Asotin County Fair for 16 years and was a 4-H leader for eight years. Don rented the farm to Earl Fitzgerald in 2010, although he still keeps up the fences and works around the land.

Don is a great nurse to Maxine and a good housekeeper.

july 4  Helen (Trukositz) Nuxoll Helen (Trukositz) Nuxoll of Grangeville will celebrate her 99th birthday, and Independence Day, July 4 by sitting in her lawn with family and friends to watch the 100th annual Border Days Parade. She was born July 4, 1912, in Forest and grew up there. She graduated from Winchester High School and then graduated from Lewiston State Normal School in 1932. She taught in several one-room schoolhouses on the Camas Prairie.

Helen married Ralph L. Nuxoll in 1932 at St. Anthony’s Catholic Church in Greencreek; they moved to Grangeville, where they reared five children. Her husband died in 1986.

Helen enjoys crossword puzzles, reading, daily walks, playing cards, making music, working in her garden and being in the woods gathering mushrooms and huckleberries. In addition to her children, Helen has 20 grandchildren and 25 greatgrandchildren.

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birthdays july 5  John L. (Larry) Hauntz John L. (Larry) Hauntz of Grangeville will celebrate his 75th birthday over the Fourth of July holiday with family and friends. Larry was born July 5, 1936, in Warren to John W. and Leora Smith Hauntz; he was delivered by a nurse and an aunt while his father and an uncle were fishing. Babies were rare in Warren, so he was a welcome and popular addition to the town.

He lived in Warren, McCall and in Silver Valley mining towns, mostly Kingston,

Idaho, until moving to Grangeville in 1950. He graduated from Grangeville High School in 1955.

Larry married Carol Sue Ailor in the Ailor Funeral Chapel in 1957, and they reared three children. He owned the Grangeville Cleaners for 13 years and worked for the city sewage treatment plant for two years, but he made his living mostly as a carpenter. He retired in 1997 but he usually has some sort of project underway. In addition to his children, Larry has four grandchildren.

july 9  Dorothy M. Hayes Dorothy M. Hayes of Lewiston will celebrate her 80th birthday July 9.

She was born July 9, 1931, to Don and Olive Cable in Roberts, Idaho.

Her family moved to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, where she grew up.

Dorothy married Leonard L. Hayes in 1949 and they reared six children.

She retired from K-Mart after more than 20 years. She enjoys knitting, crocheting and cooking. In addition to her children, Dorothy has nine grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

july 11  Katherine (Kay) Elizabeth Jabbora Reilly Katherine (Kay) Elizabeth Jabbora Reilly will celebrate her 90th birthday with an open house from 1 to 3:30 p.m. July 10 at St. Stanislaus Parish Hall, 633 Fifth Ave. in Lewiston. She was born July 11, 1921, the third of 10 children to Tom and Effie Jabbora on their farm in Moscow.

She started school at St. Mary’s Catholic Academy at age four because her older sister refused to go to school without her.

The family later moved to Orofino and Kay graduated from Orofino High School in 1939.

She then enrolled at Lewiston State Normal School and rode the train from Orofino once a week and lived at the YWCA. She graduated with a degree in education in 1942.

She enlisted in the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps in 1943, and served in the U.S. and Japan.

She was discharged in 1953 as a Sgt. First Class; in 2004, Kay’s name was placed on the National Monument for World War II veterans in Washington, DC. Kay married Robert Reilly in 1951 at Fort Devens, Mass., and they reared three children. He died in 1996, shortly after their 45th anniversary.

Kay taught at Tammany Elementary School for 22 years. She enjoys spending time with her seven grandchildren, playing pinochle, oil painting, playing the organ and traveling to Las Vegas and Laughlin, Ariz.

She attends Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church

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july 10 Mattie I. Weiss in 1945, and they reared five children.

They moved to Deary in 1947 and lived there until 1951, when they moved to Moscow.

Elton worked for the Everett Will Tractor Co. from 1951 until 1956, when he began farming for McMillan Farms Inc. He retired in 1992 and moved to Clarkston. His wife died in 1997 after 52 years together.

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 Elton McMillan Elton McMillan of Clarkston will celebrate his 90th birthday with an open house from 2 to 5 p.m. July 10 at 1273 Libby St. in Clarkston. His three sons are serving as hosts for the celebration. All are welcome.

Elton was born July 10, 1921, in the Asotin Hospital and attended school in Cloverland. He married

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birthdays july 13  Glenette Otton Glenette Otton of Lewiston will celebrate her 95th birthday with family and friends from 12:30 until 2:30 p.m. July 17 at the Congregational-Presbyterian Church, 709 Sixth St. in Lewiston. No gifts, please.

Glenette was born July 13, 1916, in Council, Idaho, to William and Crystal Fouste, the eldest of five children. She graduated from Wasatch Academy in Mt. Pleasant, Utah, in 1934 and returned to Council.

Family friend Mamie McClure (aunt of Sen. James

McClure) encouraged her to become a teacher, so Glenette moved to Lewiston in 1935. She received her teaching certificate in 1937 from Lewiston State Normal School.

She married Edward Otton in 1937 and quit teaching in 1938 to concentrate on

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 Anna Marie Gortsema Anna Marie Gortsema of Grangeville celebrated her 80th birthday with an open house July 2 at the Grangeville Senior Center. Her family acted as hosts for the event.

Anna Marie was born July 14, 1931, in Sioux Center, Iowa, to Henry and Cornelia Jansen. While in Grangeville to visit a cousin, she met her future husband, Raymond Gortsema. They married in 1954 in Lebanon, Iowa,

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taught second grade until her retirement in 1978. Her husband Edward died in 1989.

Glenette is active in her church and enjoys visiting with family and friends. In addition to her children, she has seven grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

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and then moved to Grangeville, where they reared four children.

She worked for the Grangeville school lunch program as the baker for 34 years, retiring in 2004.

Her husband died in 1988 After 34 years of marriage.

Anna Marie is a lifelong member of the Christian Reformed Church and is a member of one of the Grangeville women’s bowling teams. She enjoys reading, crocheting and spending time with her family.

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 Orville E. Flerchinger Orville E. Flerchinger of Clarkston will celebrate his 106th birthday July 18. He was born July 18, 1905.

He likes to walk and stays active at his home at Evergreen Estates. He enjoys keeping up with his family and friends.

Orville has three children, 11 grandchildren, 15 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren.

july 19  Frances Norris Frances Norris of Lewiston will celebrate her 95th birthday July 19.

She was born July 19,1916, in English, Texas. Her mother died shortly after Frances was born, and she was raised mostly by her older sister.

Her six siblings have died.

She was living in Ft. Sumner, N.M., when she married Odis Norris in 1938; they reared two children.

 Clinton Wilson Clinton Wilson of Lewiston will celebrate his 80th birthday with a family reunion Aug. 23 to 30th at Wilderness Gateway Campground on the Lochsa River. His children will serve as hosts for the event.

Clint was born July 19, 1931, at home in Lakewood, Wisc. The family moved to

He died in 1964.

Frances lived in Pueblo, Colo., from 1944 until 1994, when she moved Roger Colgan to Clarkston. She moved to Lewiston Roger Colgan of Orofino will in 2008. She was a celebrate his 73rd birthday nurse before begin- July 21. He was born July 21, 1938, in Salem, Ore. He gradning a family. She enjoyed crafts and quilting for many years.

In addition to her children, Frances has four grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Oregon in 1936, to Weippe in 1937 and to Lewiston in 1938.

He has lived there ever since.

He married Joyce Schilling in 1950, and they reared four children before divorcing in 1970.

Clint worked in the woods and area sawmills before going to work for the Camas

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uated college with a degree in physics and served as an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1961 to 1964. He worked as an electrical engineer from 1964 to 1993.

Prairie Railroad as a switchman.

Clint enjoys riding fourwheelers and hunting: turkey near Grangemont, elk on Lean-To Ridge and deer at Three Bear with family and friends.

Clint and Louise, his companion of 40 years, have traveled and camped from Alaska to Mexico and have been snowbirds in Arizona.

Their favorite place to camp now is Elk River.

Roger married Dianne in 1965 and they reared two daughters. He was elected to the Clearwater County Commission and served from 1997 to 1999.

He is now enjoying retirement.

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birthdays july 24  Edna Johnston Edna Johnston of Ferdinand will celebrate her 95th birthday with an open house from 2 to 4 July 24th at her daughter’s home at 311 Church St. in Cottonwood.

Her daughter will serve as host for the celebration. Everyone is invited.

She was born July 24, 1916, to Reece and Lela Graham in Westlake, near Winchester, and attended school there.

Edna married Al Johnston in 1935 and moved to the

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family home west of Ferdinand, where they reared four children. He died in 1988.

Edna enjoys embroidery, reading, working the Jumble puzzle and writing in her journal during winter.

She looks forward to spring when she can get outside to rake pine needles, paint and mend fence and check on her cattle.

In addition to her children, Edna has 10 grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and seven great-greatgrandchildren.

reader poetry Pride I love to see our flag — When I see it I am filled With pride.

Some people want to hide It or even burn it.

What happened to their

pride?

Did they forget what our Flag means?

All of those who died to Keep us free — I am filled With such pride!

When I see our flag Sometimes I cry I think of all who died

to keep Us free — may God Bless

America!

— Yvonne Carrie, Lewiston

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 Rhoda Laughy Rhoda Laughy of Lewiston will celebrate her 97th birthday July 25. She was born July 25, 1914, in Drayton, N.D. She spent several years in California before returning to the valley. She and her husband John were

married 43 years before he died.

Rhoda is a certified handwriting analyst and is a life member of Women of the Moose, International Society of Graphoanalysts and the National Active and Retired Federal Employees.

Rhoda has five daughters, one of whom has died, seven grandchildren, 18 greatgrandchildren and one great-great-grandchild with two more on the way.

july 29  Mary Esther Lincoln Mary Esther Lincoln of Lapwai will celebrate her 89th birthday July 29.

She was born July 29, 1922, in Etty, Ky. She moved west at an early age and graduated from Lapwai High School in 1939. She took nurses training in Baltimore and became a first lieutenant in the Army Nurses Corps during World War II. Back in Idaho, Mary Esther married cattleman Jim Forsmann and lived on a cattle ranch for many years. After he died, she went to work for the Lapwai School District and later married Ivan Lincoln.

Mary Esther has four children who live nearby.

july 31  Patricia Ann Riddle Patricia Ann Riddle of Walla Walla will celebrate her 80th birthday with an open house at 12:30 p.m. July 31 at Assumption Catholic Church Parish Hall , 2098 E. Alder St. in Walla Walla.

A light luncheon will be

served. All are welcome. Pat’s five children will serve as hosts for the event.

Pat was born July 31, 1931, to Chester and Helen Kimball in Cascade, Idaho. In Pat’s early years, the family lived in wall tents in the Weiser, Elk River and Dent areas while her

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She attended schools in McCall, Smith’s Ferry, Cascade and Stibnite and graduated from Mountain Home High School.

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When We Go to Grandpa’s House When we go to grandpa’s house, we always have so much fun, He’s always glad to see us, and greets us on the run!

Grandma comes a running too, each one of us is kissed!

She sometimes cries a little, and tells us how we’re missed!

After we are all unpacked, and everything’s out of the car, She takes off all our coats, and we look around for her cookie jar.

Even though baby cannot talk, shes gets her message through.

She always gets a cookie, and sometimes we get two.

We play with all of grandma’s books and toys.

There’s a doll for girls and trucks for boys.

Now all of these things are fun, but you would have never guessed, To go help grandpa with his chickens is what we like the best.

Grandpa fills a bucket with water, takes some table scraps and then, We take a hold of hands and walk up to the chicken pen.

Grandpa opens up the door and much to our surprise, All the hens are watching us with their tiny eyes.

The one grandpa called Rooster, he leaned back and crowed.

Grandpa says he’s the boss; I guess it really shows.

Then we water chickens and feed them, like grandpa told us to do!

Eggs! Grandpa eggs! (the little one) Me too!

So grandpa lifted them one by one to reach into the nest.

So that they could pick out all the eggs they tried their very best.

But sometimes we have accidents and “perhaps” one dropped on the floor.

Grandpa said, “there’s fourteen” as we walked out the door.

When we get back to the house we tell our grandma, see!

She says, “Oh my goodness” and starts counting one-two-three.

So when we go to grandpa’s house, we have a lot of fun.

There are more little stories to tell, and this is only one!

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The poet and the soldier Howard Norskog of Lewiston put in his time in Korea; now he’s all about creating art and helping others

By Mary Tatko

Of Target Publications

Howard Norskog is a decorated veteran and a member of several cowboy poetry halls of fame. He’d love to tell you about the second part of that sentence.

The United States Navy would like you to know about the first.

Norskog, 78, served a year in Korea as a member of the 300th Armored Field Artillery, a battalion based in Wyoming and nicknamed the Cowboy Cannoneers.

He was wounded four times and captured once, none of which he’s eager to talk about. His wife of 20 years, Darleane, said he went 16 days as a prisoner with nothing to eat but a handful of rice. “I can imagine it was pretty tragic to be over there,” she said.

Norskog was 17 years old when his unit of the Wyoming National Guard was activated.

He spent his 18th birthday in Pusan Harbor, Korea. Most of his time in Korea was spent on a tank, though he contracted malaria and spent 31 days in a hospital, said to be the only 3-story building in Korea at the time. The unit was in combat for 805 days without coming off the line, he said, and fired 100,000 rounds in a 53-day period, “a record nobody’s ever quite touched.” In all, the unit fired more than 500,000 105mm rounds.

Last year, the 300th Armored Field Artillery Battalion was awarded a Navy and Marine Corps Presidential Unit Citation. the Army, the unit was recogTo the best of Norskog’s knowl- received a Navy commendation. where he received his medal.

According to official docu- nized “for extraordinary heroedge, the citation represents the In February, he and Darleane first time the Army has ever traveled to Thermopolis, Wyo., ments Norskog received from ism in action against enemy

ABOVE: Cpl. Howard Norskog LEFT: Korean War veteran Howard Norskog of Lewiston performs his poetry at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Lewiston.

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aggressor forces in Korea.” As he described it, the unit “went in to get Marines who were completely surrounded by the enemy.” His unit, “the most decorated National Guard outfit in the history of the United States,” he said, already had received Presidential Unit Citations from the Army and the Republic of Korea, among other honors.

As much as Norskog believes the unit deserves the awards it has received, he doesn’t consider himself a hero. “The heros didn’t come home,” he said. He initially declined to accept membership in the Order of Saint Barbara, a military honor society, agreeing only when he was urged to “take it for the outfit.”

The awards are complicated by another, more immediate legacy of his war experience with which Norskog grapples every day: post-traumatic stress disorder. Described on the United

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Sex

The Devil

She came a bouncing out the door I was setting out in my chair She gave me a kiss and hugged my neck And then she tossed her hair

Into a church in an Idaho town One night at seven the devil stepped down He ranted and roared neath the old church bell He said I’ve come to carry your souls to hell

Grandpa she said with a little grin And then the part that was next I wanna know and you tell me now What is that thing they call sex

The people started to run for their lives Get away quick while they were still alive And it was only a matter of a moment or two There was nothing but empty pews

I have to say I was sure impressed What an honor she had brought it to me The one she revered above all the rest That’s why I’m so proud you see I told her about families and foreign lands And a mother’s love for her child The promise of generations yet unborn And of people who are meek and mild And all about man’s inhumanity to man And also the birds and the bees The love of a family held together And the truth of the flowers and trees And after my lecture I must admit I had pretty well covered the text But still I said to my seven year old Now where did you hear about sex Well grandma said and you surely know I always do what I’m told Tell grandpa to be in here seven “secs” Or his dinner’s a gonna get cold Howard Norskog States Department of Veterans Affairs website as “an anxiety disorder that can occur after you have been through a traumatic event,” PTSD results in symptoms as diverse as feeling numb and feeling keyed up, either of which can make it hard just to get through the day. Norskog attends a PTSD support group meeting twice a month at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Lewiston, with 20 or so other veterans of the Korean War, Vietnam and Desert Storm.

Since he and Darleane married 20 years ago, Norskog has “calmed down and straightened out,” in large part thanks to a jam-packed schedule. “You

really need to stay busy with this PTSD thing,” Norskog said.

“You can’t sit around and watch TV with it.”

He and Darleane started the Christian Cowboy Balladeers with friend Jim Bullard and his wife Anita after moving to Lewiston from Wyoming nine years ago. They came at the urging of a friend and fellow veteran — and to get out of the snow, Darleane said. “Now I wouldn’t move.”

“Lewiston has really been good to us,” Norskog agreed.

After helping start cowboy churches in Texas and Wyoming, seven total, he’s satisfied to stay in Lewiston where

Norskog has created many CDs of music. the Cowboy Balladeers conduct services in the Guardian Angel Barn the first Sunday and third Wednesday of each month and at the Idaho State Veteran’s Home the third Thursday.

The beauty of the Cowboy Church the Balladeers run is its simplicity, Norskog said.

“There’s no sermons, no theology,” he explained, just Christian cowboy music and poetry and a prayer to open and close the proceedings. They’ll do a service for any congregation that asks, he said, and have filled in at many valley churches. The group specializes in benefits for people in need, putting together programs to raise money for an individual’s medical bills, for example. “Everything that comes in goes back out in donations to the community,” Darleane said.

Norskog performs cowboy poetry, both ballads he’s written and classics from the genre’s cannon, at cowboy poetry conventions and on albums, such as “Ghosts of the Family,” recorded with poet and singer Dean Wadsworth. He has about two hour’s worth of his work committed to memory, and he delivers the ballads in a deep voice that conjures the Old West.

Cowboy poetry has taken Norskog to every part of the U.S. except the East Coast and into parts of Canada. He’s been on tour eight times with Wadsworth, and Darleane recently began performing as well. They’ve cut back the past couple years, he said. Until then, they were on the road at poetry events more than they were home.

In 1998, he won a cowboy poetry national championship

Except for the devil standing there And a little old man with snow white hair Who set across the room’s one aisle Upon his face a wizened smile The devil said son you better hunt your hole Cause I’ve come to take your worthless soul The man said sir, I see nothing to fear I been married to your sister for the last ten years Howard Norskog in Cedar City, Utah, in the serious division. His work is mostly ballads that fall in the serious category, though he pens the occasional whimsical piece. But nothing crude or off-color. “All my stuff is family stuff,” he said.

He doesn’t often write about his war experiences, and he’s not likely to share those poems with others. “The ones from the service, I don’t do those on stage,” he said.

Norskog’s ballads are influenced by his ancestry, which, although mostly Scandinavian, includes Native American greatgreat grandmothers, one from the Shoshone tribe, the other a Shawnee medicine woman.

His album “The Women Who Walked with the Wind,” includes Indian ballads passed down through his family.

Making necklaces and bracelets, another art form influenced by his ancestry, started as a hobby and “got out of hand,” Norskog said. He designs and creates jewelry using bone, horn and glass beads, many of them hand-carved, accented with elk teeth and bear claws.

His main diversion, though, is cowboy poetry and the Cowboy Balladeers. “It keeps me calmed

Post-Traumatic Stress The PTSD support group meets the first and third Tuesday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Idaho State Veteran’s Home in Lewiston.

Those interested in more information can call: Rocky Davis, Office of Veterans Advocacy, (208) 799-5084 Online information: U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs, PTSD: http:// www.ptsd.va.gov/ Folks’ Cowboy Poetry: http://www.cowboy poetry.com/howard norskog.htm

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Technology keeps them close Grandparents maintain contact with family through video chats on Skype

By Kim Hone-McMahan Akron Beacon Journal

AKRON, Ohio — Baby boomers grew up in a time of outlandish predictions. They were promised that during their lifetime they would witness time travel, flying cars and telephones that showed who was on the other end.

The idea of time travel, albeit potentially dangerous, seemed pretty cool. It could be fun to go back and relive a first kiss or a child’s birth. Certainly, flying cars would help during rushhour traffic. But computers and phones with live images? Surely that prediction was nothing more than bunk. Who would want a caller to catch her with disheveled hair and torn jammies?

Fast-forward a few decades.

Kent, Ohio’s Barb and Bruce Vasbinder say their relationship with their grandchildren, who live on the West Coast, just wouldn’t be the same if it

weren’t for Skype. With the free software application, a webcam and a high-speed Internet connection, users can talk to and see each other live via the Internet.

“It allows us to be a part of their lives and share special moments with them even though many miles separate us,” said Barb, 60.

The Nielsen Wire, the website for the measurement and information company Nielsen, reports: “Conventional wisdom that boomers spend little, resist technology and are slow to adopt new products needs to be reassessed. Boomers are an afflu-

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“Aaron had a number of job offers before graduation from Virginia Tech in mining engineering, but none in Ohio,” Barb said. “So following graduation, he felt the California offer was his best opportunity.

“The time difference is an issue, but we make it work, even if it is a quick story before we go to bed.”

Facebook Pros And Cons In 1977, the late Ken Olson, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., manufacturer of big business mainframe computers, argued against the personal computer, saying, “There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.”

Now it’s hard to find a home without one. And even many anti-technology boomers are making their way to social networks like Facebook to stay connected and be hip.

“The baby-boomer generation is one of the fastest growing users of social media,” said Erin E. Hollenbaugh, assistant pro-

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ent group who adopt technology with enthusiasm.”

The Vasbinders’ son, Aaron, his wife, Meghan Burke Vasbinder, and their children, Caitlin, 4, and Lindsay, almost 2, Skype at least once every couple of weeks from Tracy, Calif. And they get far more out of it than they would a simple telephone call.

On one recent call, the couple gleefully watched as Caitlin showed them how she stretches before soccer games, and celebrated when seeing Lindsay learning to walk. They also play games with the kids.

“Caitlin will draw the cards, or roll the dice and move my player around the board,” Barb said.

The couple showed the girls what the first snowfall of the season looked like in Ohio. Her son has given them tours of his house.

“Recently, Caitlin showed us her newly painted bedroom,” Barb said. “And one night, as we were ready to sign off Skype, Lindsay blew us a kiss.”

Grandpa, 61, who works for Larry Kannal State Farm, and Grammie, who is a physical education teacher for Kent schools, even help babysit, Barb said. “Sometimes we read a few books so Meghan and Aaron can clean up in the kitchen and talk without interruption.”

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“While it’s great to increase your social network, researchers have found that the vast majority of these relationships tend to be weak-tie relationships,” Hollenbaugh said. “In other words, they are fairly superfi-

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fessor of communication studies at Kent State University’s Stark Campus.

But beware of limiting yourself to written messages, such as Facebook messages or emails, as the only way to communicate.

“One nice thing about the Internet is that we sometimes feel more confident when talking with others online. The fact that you don’t have to see the other person’s reactions when you tell them something makes it easier to share things that may upset them. On the other hand, that same quality can backfire on us,” Hollenbaugh said.

“For example, plenty of people post nasty things on another person’s Facebook profile. This is likely because they didn’t consider how it might hurt the other person or how that person’s reaction would cause them to feel. Similarly, sometimes people share secrets online or are overly disclosive, and that can lead to problems with friends, teachers or employers.”

Social media, especially

cial, distant friendships.

“As I look at my friend list on Facebook, I know that’s the case because most of the people I’m friends with online I would not call on the phone and chat, nor do I even have their phone number. So while quantity is increased, quality may be decreased.”

Sometimes written messages are perceived differently from what was intended. Perhaps that is why people invented emoticons — the faces made with symbols like :).

Emoticons give us a chance to replicate what we do face-toface, Hollenbaugh said. But a text-only email is less rich than a Skype call, which includes nonverbal and verbal cues.

The Vasbinders believe that without Skype, their grandchildren may not be as comfortable around them when they get the chance to visit in person.

“They run to us in an airport without hesitation. They know us, not just pictures of us,” Barb Vasbinder said. “We have all this technology at our fingertips to improve the way we can communicate. Why not use it?”

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serving your community The WA-ID Volunteer Center 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. The phone number is (208) 746-7787 or toll free at (888) 546-7787.

The WA-ID Volunteer Center is on the Internet at www.handsonidaho.org or www.waidvolunteercenter.org, www.myspace. com/yourvolunteercenter, twitter.com/wa_id_volunteer or www.facebook.com/pages/WAID-Volunteer-Center-Inc. The following are a few of the volunteer opportunities available in July. ď ˇ If you play the piano and love old-time music, the Valley Singers would love for you to join them.

Valley Singers perform at assisted living facilities every Monday and practice every Saturday. Call Adrienne at (208) 746-7787 to be put in touch with a Valley Singer. ď ˇ Volunteer from home.

Project Warm Up volunteers make hats, scarves, mittens and lap robes and our office distributes them to the local community. If you don’t know how to knit or crochet, come and check out the loom group at the Lewiston Community Center on Tuesday afternoons from 2:30 to 4. They will teach you how to knit with a loom. Yarn is provided for your use. Call (208) 7467787 and ask for Adrienne or Cathy for more information. ď ˇ There is an immediate opening for meal delivery drivers in Lewiston and Clarkston. This is a great volunteer job if you’ve been looking for something meaningful to do and can commit to one day a week.

You must be a licensed and insured driver and be able to use your own car. New volunteers will be partnered with existing volunteers to learn routes and may qualify for mileage reimburse-

ment. Call Cathy at (208) 746-7787 or stop by our office for more information. ď ˇ The Community Action Partnership Food Bank needs volunteers to act as back-ups during the summer months while regular volunteers vacation. There are warehouse positions (fun — it’s like shopping!), drivers and counter people.

This is a great way to help your community help its people. Give Adrienne a call at (208) 746-7787 to learn more. ď ˇ The Hells Canyon Visitor Bureau will be opening a new visitor information center in Lewiston in the very near future. The new visitor center will be located in the front of the Lewiston Community Center at 1422 Main Street. They will need volunteers, and you can be the catalyst for great visitor experiences.

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ď ˇ Volunteer hosts at the Lewis-Clark State College Center for Arts and History support art and culture in our area while meeting visitors from all over the country. Museum hosts this month will be enjoying the Chinese Remembering Exhibition and, beginning July 15, Schott Schuldt’s The Wilderness Within. Inquiries can be directed to Adrienne at (208) 746-7787. “Don’t talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.â€? — Thomas Jefferson

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June 7, 2011 In a dream, I knocked upon your compound

door, To wish you a happy birthday and much,

much more.

But when there was no answer back, I peered in through the widest crack.

In the courtyard, NATO bombs were crashing, And like fireworks, were booming

and flashing.

Next month I celebrate my own birthday, Please don’t send greetings this NATO way.

Fireworks at 69 may seem prescriptive But, Qaddafi, my country is quite restrictive Of fireworks with a revolutionary flair Unlike yours, where they are now such

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We often worry about protecting our children from the dangers of drug poisoning, but may need to worry about our aging parents just as much.

The Maryland Poison Center is encouraging people to talk to the elderly people in their lives about medicine safety.

The group collected data from the American Association of Poison Centers that found that adults age 40 and older account for 16 percent of poisoning exposure calls to the nation’s 57 poison centers. But they make up 56 percent of deaths from

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The calls come from adults who have taken too much of their medicine, took someone else’s medicine or are concerned about a drug interaction.

The Maryland Poison Center offers these tips to pass on to the elderly in your life:

1. Know about each medicine you take (name, color, markings, dosage, etc.).

2. Read the label to make sure you are taking the right dose.

3. Follow the instructions to take your medicine the right way. Some medicines interact with food or alcohol, and some

should not be taken with other medications.

4. Never take someone else’s medicine.

5. Put on your glasses and turn on the lights before taking medicine, especially at night.

6. Keep a list of all your medications and share the list with your doctor at each visit.

7. If more than one doctor prescribes medicine for you, talk to each doctor and your pharmacist so they can check for drug interactions.

8. Talk to your doctor before you take a natural or herbal supplement.

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Birthdays starting at 70 and every year after that will be published in Golden Times.

Because of the volume of birthdays we’ve been receiving, we have decided to limit the length of each submission to no more than 200 words. Photographs are still welcome. We hope that by limiting the length of each birthday, we will have room for the crossword puzzle, more reader poetry and other reader favorites.

Birthday information should be submitted before the 20th of the month preceding publication and should include the name and phone number of the person to contact for more information. If you would like your photo returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

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Florida Marlins interim manager Jack McKeon speaks during a news conference in Miami.

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he can tell deep into the night.

Jack McKeon himself is quite a fascinating story, a living symbol of pluck and perseverance, of sacrifice and reward, of succeeding and failing with principles intact.

He’s back in a Florida Marlins uniform, his second tour managing the franchise. He was at church — he goes every day

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It’s late afternoon, the ballpark is empty and constant rain threatens the first pitch, scheduled for 7:05 p.m., not that any of this matters to the man standing in the dugout.

He’s once again a big-league manager. He’s 80 years old. He’s holding a cigar and he has stories

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Yet McKeon says it took “about 17 seconds” to decide he would get back into uniform, onto planes and into dugouts across the country.

He willingly explains why he’s doing this, but he’d rather re-create moments from the late 1970s, when he spent two seasons in Oakland working for firebrand A’s owner Charles O. Finley, whose energies by then had turned from promoting quality baseball to tormenting and belittling those employees outside his personal spy network.

McKeon delights in telling of Finley addressing the team in Anaheim, using physical demonstration to augment a corny speech about taking advantage of opportunity.

“I have to go over to the door to show you what he did,” says Jack, who skips to the dugout restroom door and knocks.

“Hello,” he says to an imaginary voice on the other side.

“Who is it?” he adds.

“Oh, it’s you Mr. Opportunity.

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“Charlie was a pain in the ass. But I had a great experience here. I learned a lot. Figured if I could do OK here, I could do the job anywhere.”

McKeon has managed five teams: Kansas City, Oakland twice, San Diego, Cincinnati and Florida twice. “Trader Jack” was the general manager who assembled the Padres’ pennantwinning team in 1984.

Jack is a baseball lifer who has written two books and hosted a sports-talk show. He’s a husband who says he has smoked for 60 years yet still tries to hide cigars from his wife.

In the age of superficiality, when plastic surgeons are busier and wealthier than those who treat cancer, McKeon is a

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Jack laughs. Everybody in the dugout laughs. The late George Burns couldn’t have done it better. And Burns was not a baseball manager but a comedian.

McKeon pauses. The TV cameras are gone now. It’s just the old baseball man, puffing on his cigar and regaling an audience of five. He’s comfortable, in his element.

“He fired me in ’77 and brought me back in ’78,” McKeon says of Finley. “When the press asked him about it, he said, ‘Well, he’s smarter now than he was then.’ That was Charlie. He was a pistol.”

Jack recalls the routine 6 a.m. phone calls during which it was evident Finley, who lived in Indiana, had seen the box score and wanted details. More specifically, he checked to see if his manager’s details matched those provided by broadcaster Monte Moore or “special assistant” Stanley Burrell (later

MC Hammer), both of whom were considered Finley’s inside sources.

Finley’s penny-pinching and his unwillingness to trust his baseball people may have cost them a chance to acquire Ron Guidry, who was in the Yankees

organization. “(Yankees manager) Billy Martin didn’t like him,” McKeon says, “but I’d seen him in the minors and thought, ‘Wow, this kid is special.’ We could’ve had Guidry for Mike Torrez, but Charlie didn’t want

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Ask about his age, Jack flicks away the question like ashes from his stogie.

“I work out, two or three hours a day,” he says. “I had a new hip put in at 60, or else I’d be jogging. I do the treadmill three or four miles. I lift weight, do cardio work. I have 15 acres at home that I mow on a tractor.”

He’ll concede he’s an inspiration to America’s elderly, but he’d rather laugh at the memories that come back with a visit to this ballpark.

Ask him if he minds the travel, McKeon says it’s not a factor.

“You know what I don’t like?

Hanging around the hotel,” he says. “I just want to get up and eat, go to church and get to the ballpark.”

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