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For example, changes in marital status that might require card updates do not count toward these limits. Also, you may not be affected by these limits if you can prove you need the card to prevent a significant hardship. Learn more at www. socialsecurity.gov/ssnumber.

Q: What can I do if I think someone has stolen my identity?

A: You should do several things, including: ď Ź File a report with the local police or the police department where the identity theft took place, and keep a copy of the police report as proof of the crime; ď Ź Notify the Federal Trade Commission (www.ftc.gov/bcp/ edu/microsites/idtheft) (1-877ID-THEFT or 1-877-438-4338); ď Ź File a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov; and contact the fraud units of the three major credit reporting bureaus: Equifax (www.equifax. com): (800-525-6285); Trans Union (www.transunion.com): (800-680-7289); and Experian (www.experian.com): (888-3973742).

If your Social Security card has been stolen, you can apply

for a replacement card. But you usually don’t need a new card as long as you know your number.

To protect yourself in the future, treat your Social Security number as confidential and avoid giving it out. Keep your Social Security card in a safe place with your other important papers. Do not carry it with you. Learn more by reading our publication, Identity Theft And Your Social Security Number, at www.socialsecurity. gov/pubs/10064.html.

enrolled and must opt out if you do not want it, with Part D you have to opt in by filling out a form and enrolling in an approved plan.

More information may be found in our publication Medicare at www.socialsecurity. gov/pubs/10043.html or by visiting www.medicare.gov.

Q: I get Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits.

I plan to move to a new apartment this summer, but I have direct deposit. Do I still need to notify Social Security of my Q: How many parts to new address?

Medicare are there?

A: Yes. Even though you A: There are four parts to have direct deposit, we may still Medicare: need to contact you by mail. ď Ź Part A (hospital insurance) Someone who receives SSI helps pay for inpatient hospital needs to report any change in care, skilled nursing care, hosliving arrangements, income, or pice care and other services; resources by calling our toll-free ď Ź Part B (doctor insurance) number, (800-772-1213 (TTY helps pay for doctors’ fees, out- 800-325-0778), or by visiting a patient hospital visits, and other local office within 10 days after medical services and supplies the month the change occurs. that are not covered by Part A; If you call, you can speak to a ď Ź Part C (Medicare representative from 7 a.m. to 7 Advantage) plans, available in p.m. on business days. If you some areas, allow you to choose don’t notify us in a timely manto receive all of your health ner, you could end up receiving care services through a proan incorrect payment and have vider organization. These plans to pay it back. To learn more may help lower your costs of about SSI and reporting responreceiving medical services, or sibilities, read our online fact you may get extra benefits for sheet, What You Need To Know an additional monthly fee. You When You Get Supplemental must have both Parts A and B to Security Income (SSI) at www. enroll in Part C; and socialsecurity.gov/pubs/11011. ď Ź Part D (prescription drug html. coverage) is voluntary and the costs are paid for by the ď ˇ This column was premonthly premiums of enrollees pared by the Social and Medicare. Unlike Part B Security Administration. in which you are automatically For fast answers to specific Social Security questions, contact Social Security tollfree at (800) 772-1213.

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Tuesday, June 15

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Monday, June 21

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Tuesday, June 22

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Thursday, June 24

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Thursday, July 1

wed., June 23

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Friday, June 25

Hamburgers / lettuce / tomatoes / onions / tater tots / juice / peaches / salad bar.

Tuesday, July 6

Monday, June 28

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Tuesday, June 29

Tuesday, June 29

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Thursday, July 1

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Thursday, June 17

Friday, July 2

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Pork sausage gravy / biscuit / green beans / carrots / apricots.

Chicken fried steak / gravy / mashed potatoes / peas / roll / orange slice / cake / ice cream. Birthday Dinner Meal information not yet available.

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Thursday, July 8

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Pork chops / mashed potatoes / gravy / beets / salad bar / dessert bar.

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Chicken cordon bleu / potatoes / gravy / corn / salad bar / dessert bar.

Cold plate: three meat plate / three cheese plate / beans / chips / salad bar / dessert bar.

BBQ beef on a bun / chips / corn / salad bar / dessert bar.

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june 1 ď ˇ Lila Zimbauer Lila Zimbauer celebrated her 89th birthday June 1.

She was born June 1, 1921, on Central Ridge above Peck.

She has lived in the area all her life.

She married Paul Baugh in

1941, and they reared three children. Paul later died in a logging accident.

She latter married Tim Zimbauer and he died several years ago.

Lila enjoys working in her yard and garden.

june 2 ď ˇ Herman (Sonny) Schillings Sonny Schillings celebrated his 90th birthday June 2. He was born in DeKalb, Ill., June 2, 1920.

He moved to North Dakota in 1928, and he joined the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1936, which brought him to Idaho.

He married Annabell Pearsall in 1941.

During World War II, he worked for the U.S. Maritime Commission. After the war, he drove a gas truck and a bus for 20 years.

He was president of the Clearwater Senior Citizens and is still active in the organization.

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Levon died in 2008.

In addition to her children, Nellie has four grandchildren and three greatgrandchildren.

Corp. in the research department. He also attended classes at Lewis Clark Normal School in machine shop and welding.

He moved to Pullman in 1974 to work at Washington State University and to pastor at Full Gospel Lighthouse.

He retired from WSU after 28 years, but he still pastors at the church.

In addition to their children, Dallas and Mavis have four grandchildren.

He enjoys flying and working on airplanes, cars, tractors and driving his Jeep.

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ď ˇ Dallas Groseclose Dallas Groseclose celebrated his 70th birthday June 6 with family and friends at the Latah Fairgrounds.

He was born to Dal and Grace Groseclose June 7, 1940, in Juliaetta and attended schools in Juliaetta and Kendrick. He served in the U.S. Army from 1959 to 1961.

He married Connie Duff in 1961, and they reared two children.

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Fees are $12 for AARP members with their membership number, and $14 for non-members. Pre-registration is required.

Instructors Dave and Sharon Mudra can be reached at (509) 758-2871.

Seniors can dance twice a week in Clarkston Dancers can cut a rug to Moore Country from 7 to 10 p.m. every Tuesday at Asotin County Gerontology Center. On Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., they can dance to the Heustis Band.

The Asotin County Gerontology Center is at 832 Sixth St. in Clarkston.

Diabetic support group sets June meeting The Valley Diabetic Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. June 14 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 920 Eighth Ave., in Lewiston.

The group offers advice, support and information to those with diabetes, their family or anyone interested in the disease.

Diabetic supply samples, magazines and other information is available.

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june 7  Corrie Shriver

in the area all her life.

Corrie married Wayne Corrie Shriver will celeShriver in 1947 and they brate her 83rd birthday June reared three children. In 7. She was born June 7, addition to their children, 1927, in Orofino and grew up they have 12 grandchildren in Grangemont. She has lived and 20 great-grandchildren.

 Barbara Thomas Barbara Thomas will celebrate her 81st birthday June 8. She was born in Clarkston June 8, 1929.

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 Roy Kennedy Roy Kennedy of Clarkston will celebrate his 83rd birth Arlene Elizabeth three children. They have day June 9. He was born (McDole) Scott lived in Orofino for 56 years.

June 9, 1927, to Ethel and Arlene worked at Watkins Arlene Scott of Orofino Angus Kennedy at Canfield, will celebrate her 81st birth- Dry Goods and the Center for 17 years. She enjoys tak- Idaho, on the Doumecq day June 8. She was born ing care of Dale, quilting and Plains west of Whitebird.

June 8, 1929, in Eugene, Roy attended many small Ore., the eldest of four chil- baking cookies. In addition schools in the area before to their children, Arlene and dren born to Elroy McDole Dale have five grandchildren, and Myrtle Brownlee McDole. six great-grandchildren and Arlene graduated from several step-grandchildren school in Ontario, Ore., in and step-great-grandchil1947. She married Dale H. Scott in 1949, and they reared dren.

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She married Stanley Cramer, and they reared three children. Stanley later died, and Barbara married Jim Thomas, gaining four stepchildren.

his family moved to Lewiston in 1943. He graduated from Clarkston High School in 1945.

He served in the 2nd Infantry Division for two years.

Roy married Ilene Carroll in 1947, and they reared six children.

He retired as maintenance

supervisor at Asotin County Housing Authority in 1989.

Ilene died in 2001.

Roy has been chairman of the Brushy Flat School reunion for a number of years.

In addition to his children, Roy has 11 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

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 Edmund G. Ricard Ed Ricard will celebrate his 91st birthday June 8. He was born June 8, 1919, on a farm north of Uniontown. He entered the U.S. Army and served in the Field Artillery. He saw combat in France, survived the Battle of the Bulge and

met the Russians in Czechoslovakia. He was discharged as staff sergeant.

When he returned home to the farm, he married Cecelia Richard and they reared four children. One child died at seven, and his wife died in 1989. Ed has an acre of garden and raises 200 dahlias.

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birthdays june 10  Gordon Thiessen Gordon Thiessen will celebrate his 85th birthday June 10. He was born June 10, 1925, in Tillamook, Ore. He married Lillie Snyder, and they reared three children. Their son died while

june 10  Orville (Buzz) Branson Orville Branson will celebrate his 90th birthday with family and friends from 2 to 5 p.m. June 13 at Nezperce Park in Nezperce. Guests are asked to bring a covered dish and folding chairs,

serving in the U.S. Air Force. In addition to their two daughters, they have eight grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

Gordon enjoys working in his yard and is known for his flowers.

but no gifts please.

Buzz was born June 10, 1920, in Lewiston.

He later lived in Boise and in Washington; he has lived in Lewiston since 2005. He spent four years in the U.S. Navy, and spent most of his working life in agriculture.

He has been married to Patsy Sumner for nearly 63 years. They have three sons and four grandsons.

Buzz enjoys golf and bridge.

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 Marvin Sieler Marvin Sieler will celebrate his 79th birthday June 12. He was born June 12, 1931, in Plevna, Mont.

He married Irene Dawson in 1952 in Billings, Mont.

june 14  Regina Hollandsworth Regina Hollandsworth of Cottonwood will celebrate her 90th birthday June 14.

She was born June 14, 1920, the eldest daughter of Clem and Maggie Riener.

Regina married Clarence Forsmann in 1939 and they reared nine children. He died in 1962. She married John Hollandsworth in 1965,

and he died in 2007. In addition to her children, Regina has 36 grandchildren and 50 great-grandchildren.

Regina enjoyed fishing for steelhead on the Salmon River. She now enjoys working in her yard and listening to old records and dancing. She is happiest when surrounded by her family.

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june 15  Faye Holcomb Faye Holcomb of Grangeville will celebrate her 95th birthday June 15. She was born Ferdilia Maldonado June 15, 1915, in Albuquerque, N.M., the youngest of seven children born to Simon and Catherine Maldonado. She was raised by a brother in Colorado and moved to California as a teen.

She loved to dance at the Palladium in Los Angeles and once danced with Jimmy Stewart.

Faye married Warren Holcomb in 1948, and they moved to Lewiston in 1961, where they owned Skip’s Fountain for the next 35 years. Faye enjoyed preparing the lunch specials and getting to know her customers. They reared four children.

Warren died in 2003. Faye later moved to Grangeville to be closer to a son and his family.

In addition to her children, Faye has 12 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

june 16  Alice A. (Hannaford) Pierce Alice A. (Hannaford) Pierce of Lewiston will celebrate her 90th birthday with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m.

June 19 at Calvary Chapel of the Lewis Clark Valley at 1015 Burrell Ave. in Lewiston.

Alice was born June 16, 1920, in Horden, England, a small coal-mining village on the northeast coast. She was working in London during World War II when she fell in love with an American soldier, Robert Hannaford, of Stites. When the war was over, Alice came to America on the Queen Mary and married Bob. They had two daughters. Alice worked in

the Silver Dollar restaurant and bar until the family moved to Lewiston in 1951.

Bob died in 1964.

Alice married Simon E. Pierce in 1964, and he died in 1988.

Alice is a member of Living Stones Fellowship in the Orchards. Until recently, she was an active member of the Lewis-Clark Valley Singers at the Asotin County Gerontology Center in Clarkston and RSVP. She enjoys watching TV and reading good books.

In addition to her daughters, Alice has three granddaughters and four greatgrandchildren. Another great-grandchild is expected soon.

 Melba Hodges Melba Hodges of Clarkston will celebrate her 94th birthday June 16.

She was born June 16, 1916, in Cloverland to Claude and Bessie Parsons.

She married John Hodges in 1937 and they farmed in Cloverland and reared three daughters.

They moved to Clarkston after they retired. John died in 1994.

Melba enjoys reading and working puzzles. In addition to her daughters, Melba has 10 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

june 17  June A. McCollum June McCollum of Lewiston will celebrate her 82nd birthday June 17. She was one of three children born June 17, 1928, to Margaret A. Nette and Elmer M. Edmonson on Upper Fords Creek. They were the first

set of triplets born in Clearwater County.

They were born prematurely and arrived in time for Father’s Day. June was born first and weighed 4 pounds. She graduated from Pierce High School.

June married Vernard McCollum, and they reared four children, including a set of twins. Her husband later died. In addition to her children, June has five grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and four greatgreat-grandchildren.

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 Omer Jesse Harvey JUNE 19 Omer Jesse Harvey of Lewiston No gifts please.  Thomas will celebrate his (Tommy) I. He was born June 95th birthday with Femreite 19, 1920, on Texas an open house from Ridge, six miles 2 to 5 p.m. June Tommy Femreite south of Deary, and 19 at Clarkston of Moscow will graduated from Gerontology Center celebrate his 90th Deary High School. 832 Sixth St. birthday with an In 1982, Tommy He was born June 20, open house from retired from 1915, in Harrisburg, near 1 to 4 p.m. June Potlatch Forests Kamiah, to Ora and Lillie 19 at the Deary Inc. after 42 years Harvey, one of eight children.

Community Center. in the woods department.

He graduated from Kamiah His three sons and their He moved to Moscow in High School in 1933. families will serve as hosts.

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Peer English in 1978 and gained a daughter. Eileen died in 2001. Omer now keeps company with Rose Davidson. They attend Our Lady of Lourdes and are avid Mariner fans. Omer is a member of the Moose and the Eagles.

Omer is known for his ways with conduit, and he never goes camping unprepared.

In addition to his children, Omer has four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

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 Bill Beck Bill Beck of Lewiston will celebrate his 85th birthday June 20 at home with his family.

He was born June 20, 1925, in Danube, Minn.

He married Mavis Mortenson in 1949 and they reared three children.

Bill retired from Lewiston Grain Growers in 1990. He enjoys golf and computers.

In addition to their children, Bill and Mavis have three grandchildren.

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BIRTHDAY

 Birthday policy revision

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.

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

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.

If you have questions about submitting a birthday, please call Golden Times at (208) 848-2243.

Send information to: Golden Times P.O. Box 957 Lewiston, ID 83501 The deadline to submit July birthdays is June 20.

The Mighty Mushroom Chase The month of May is known for

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Cauliflowers — (Mushrooms, that is) Most everywhere you drive in the Blues People are camping who’ve gotten the

news of the elusive mushroom.

Armed with pocketknives, whistles

and plastic sacks We try to catch them with sneak attacks.

Sometimes we’re real lucky,

sometimes we’re not, But with even a handful we’re happy

 Elmoetta Floch Elmoetta Floch will celebrate her 100th birthday from 2 to 4 p.m. July 3rd at Royal Plaza Retirement Center at 2870 Juniper Dr. in Lewiston. Her two sons will serve as hosts for the party.

Elmoetta was born July 4, 1910, to Charles and Minnie Haryman at her grandmother’s home in Asotin. The fam-

ily later moved to Red Bird, near the Waha area, and she attended schools in Red Bird, Tammany and Lewiston High School.

She has lived in Asotin County and Nez Perce County all her life.

Elmoetta married Forrest Floch in Asotin in 1928, and they farmed on Weissenfels Ridge in Asotin County and retired in 1970. Forrest died in 1989.

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with our lot.

Back at camp we proudly display What we hope is the catch of the day.

Everyone has great recipes old and new

to try — Some fried, some steamed, and we all

have a taste that ends with a sigh.

But, better than those mushrooms

that are like pure gold Are the friends to share a weekend

with, to have and to hold So, till next year same time same place, With the Good Lord willing we’ll again

come face to face.

— Maxine Mock, 78, Pomeroy

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The searchers

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With the help of handheld GPS devices, Dale and Debbie Bashaw zero in on a cache at Hells Canyon Resort in Clarkston.

Clarkston couple find fulfillment in hi-tech treasure hunt

By Mary Tatko

Of Target Publications

A global positioning system receiver, or GPS, can tell you where to find a restaurant in an unfamiliar city, how to get back

to camp after a hike or how much ground you’ve covered during a jog.

Or it can lead you to hidden treasure.

Clarkston residents Dale and Debbie Bashaw are geocachers, participants in a worldwide game of hiding and seeking objects, known as caches, using GPS. After more than 30 years at Clearwater Paper, Dale, 59, offi-

cially will be retired at the end of July, and he hasn’t had to spend any time wondering what he will do during his retirement.

He and Debbie, 52, began geocaching in 2004 and since then each has found more than 3,000 geocaches.

That means, more than 3,000 times, they have sought and found hidden objects, some as small as a pencil eraser, oth-

ers larger than a shoe box, and reported their finds on the official geocaching website, geocaching.com.

They’ve also hidden dozens of caches for other participants (there are an estimated 3 million to 4 million worldwide) to find.

The Bashaws bought their first GPS to use for hunting, but once they tried geocaching they were hooked. Now, four GPS units

later, Dale said he’s still never used one on a hunting trip.

What started out as a hobby, Debbie said, has become more of a lifestyle.

Her favorites are puzzle caches, which, as the name implies, involve more problem-solving than just zeroing in on a set of coordinates. Some require code-

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“It’s not about the numbers (although it is).” — Debbie Bashaw, about the quest to find geocaches

SEARCHERs From page 10 cracking or multiple steps to access the cache.

Seeking caches in nine different states so far has introduced the Bashaws to elements of the Western United States they’d never known existed.

“Did you know there’s an alligator farm in Idaho?” Dale asked.

They’ve explored Victoria and Vancouver, B.C., Whidbey Island and Vancouver, Wash., thanks to geocaching events, and rediscovered areas closer to home when caching has inspired them to take a new look at familiar terrain.

As experienced as they are, the Bashaws still get stumped by the occasional hide.

“Some of them frustrate us, and we have to go back again,” Dale said.

They’ve also climbed 40 feet up a tree, scaled a cliff and dived under several feet of water to retrieve caches.

“We get a little exercise,” Debbie said.

Geocachers choose a user name when they join the game.

Debbie and Dale are ogeo and isplash, names Lewis-Clark Valley residents can spot on the Bashaws’ license plates.

Debbie’s came after trying several names that turned out already to have been taken. She said “Oh” out loud the same time Dale said “Geo,” typed in the name “ogeo,” and found her nickname.

People often asked what the name meant, so Debbie came up with an after-the-fact acronym, deciding ogeo would stand for “Obsessive Geocacher’s Escape Odyssey.”

Her elderly father was living with them at the time, and getting away occasionally to geocache was therapeutic.

The couple geocached together as ogeo for about a year before Dale created a user name of his

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ABOVE: Debbie and Dale Bashaw of Clarkston have traveled around the West finding caches.

BELOW: Debbie Bashaw holds the Garmin GPS she uses for geocaching. own.

He recently had fallen in while placing a geocache behind a waterfall, not the first time he’d gotten wet while hiding or finding a cache, so the name isplash seemed appropriate. Since then, he has taken to creating caches that, if not hidden in or near water, at least have something to do with it.

Choosing distinctive names and hiding caches with a theme are fun ways to participate in the greater geocaching community, they said.

Geocachers might meet each other online, in the field or at geocaching events, such as cache machines, where participants converge in a cache-dense area to make as many finds as possible from sunup to sundown, then gather for dinner and fellowship.

“It’s not about the numbers (although it is),” Debbie said, laughing. “But we have met some of the nicest people.”

In fact, some of their closest friends are people they met through geocaching.

Many of their outings are

with Brad and Nichole Jordan, of Uniontown, who participate under the name quadsinthemudd.

The Jordans cache with their twin 5-year-old sons, Angus and Wyatt, and 7-year-old daughter, Emily, who recently chose her own nickname, Dutchess of Dirt.

Most recently, Brad Jordan accompanied the Bashaws to Utah over Memorial Day on a quest to find 300 caches in two days. The weekend ended with closer to 500 finds, including more than 50 on Friday, 320 on Saturday and more than 100 on Sunday.

“It doesn’t get more extreme than this,” Brad Jordan said, marveling at how Dale, at nearly 60 years old, was able to outpace several younger cachers as they drove day and night to get to Utah and back.

Marathon outings like their Memorial Day trek keep hardcore cachers engaged, but Debbie points out it’s a hobby anyone can enjoy.

Indeed, the diversity among

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SERVING YOUR COMMUNITY The WA-ID Volunteer Center in the Lewiston Community Center at 1424 Main Street 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 volunteer. clearwire.net, 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 June.

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SEARCHERs From page 11

The global positioning system, or GPS, is a space-based navigation system begun in 1973 by the U.S. Department of Defense with the launch of 24 satellites, each of which orbits the earth two times a day. Today, anyone with a GPS receiver can use the device to determine precise location, as well as speed, distance to a destination, total trip distance and more. The system is used not only by the U.S. and other militaries, but for civil, commercial and scientific purposes. Hobbyists, such as geocachers, also use the system for recreation.

Geocaching is a hightech worldwide treasure hunt, which began in 2000. Participants use GPS units to locate hidden containers, or caches, then record their finds online at geocach ing.com. A basic membership is free.

Most caches contain a log for the finder to sign, and many contain trinkets such as coins and small toys, which can be taken if the finder has another object to leave in its place. According to geocaching.com, there are more than 1 million active caches worldwide and an estimated 3 millioin to 4 million geocachers hunting for them.

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Other retirement plans include moving to Dale’s parents’ old home in Grangemont, near Orofino, where he and Debbie will have as much work as they want updating the place that has been vacant for several years.

They also have eight grandchildren, ages 1 to 9 years old, “scattered across the country,” Debbie said.

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“It’s not just one group of people,” Debbie said, noting they’ve met fellow cachers of many ages, backgrounds and economic levels. “All walks of life.”

There are caches along paved routes accessible by wheelchair, and there are others that require hiking over challenging terrain.

Those who choose to can spend quite a bit of money on premium online memberships (a basic membership is free), high-quality GPS units, laptop computers for logging on in the field and custom coins or other treasures for leaving in caches.

But it can just as easily be a low-budget activity, with a simple GPS and an Internet connection being the only prerequisites.

Debbie said she’s even heard of people who dabble in the sport without a GPS, using online maps and clues to locate caches.

Being geocachers brings fresh meaning to the cliche “Getting there is half the fun.”

“One thing we like about it is if you get tired, you can stop and cache,” Dale said.

Having thoroughly covered Idaho and found caches in many Western states, the Bashaws are excited about a July trip to South Carolina to visit a daughter. Their hope is to add not just South Carolina, but possibly a couple of neighboring states to their list.

“I think sometime we’d like to do all 50 states,” Dale said.

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Spring Time They must have been as busy as a bee bringing the stuff from the tree, and putting it in the patio, high above; it must have been a labor of love.

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We do not have to change or feed, for these babies there is no need.

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But alas, come time to roam, with feathers they will leave this home.

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Them critters have built a nest.

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As all birds they will take to the air, a nest where once babies were there. — Mel Oglesby, 73, Clarkston

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reader poetry

hey days

The high cost of talking before thinking

Remembering Sarah Happy birthday to you, gentle Sarah Jean, Fellow teacher, shareholder of my birthday.

The paper told of how you’d gone away.

You softly slipped the bonds of life to flee the scene, Of the violent betrayal of your love and trust, As your earthly dreams were turned to dust.

the word subtle itself or one of its acceptable variations, which appear eight times in my short, opening two paragraphs. Or nine times if you include this

Your students built a garden in your name, A little place where they could think or pray, And recall your gentle spirit gone away.

I have a larger garden but much the same.

At night I walk the path and study every star, And wonder in my heart which one you are.

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If you picked up this newspaper vaguely wondering about the subject of today’s column, the answer obviously is simple.

It’s subtle. The word subtle, that is.

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As Tuesday’s child, the one who’s filled with grace, Joy and hope would dance with you everywhere

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I wonder, lovely lady I never knew, Will I ever have a birthday that I do not think of you?

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Age is just a number for longtime senior volunteers JEREMIAH STETTLER

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SALT LAKE CITY — White hair, walking sticks and weary limbs aren’t enough to keep hundreds of senior citizens out of Salt Lake County’s volunteer corps.

The county’s oldest citizens — some just several years shy of the century mark — donate thousands of hours a year as foster grandparents, grade-school tutors, food-pantry workers and even senior chauffeurs as members of a service organization known as the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program.

They have every reason to sit back and be served. And, yet, these seniors have distinguished themselves as some of the county’s most stalwart public servants.

Last year, volunteers logged 990,000 hours in Utah’s mostpopulous county, cleaning community parks, mentoring troubled youths, serving on planning commissions and more.

healthy and keep their minds busy. They want to be of service to the community. That’s why they still volunteer.”

Those volunteers aren’t always young retirees. RSVP has only 33 members younger than 60.

Most are at least a decade older, according to data compiled by Aging Services.

Its volunteer ranks are thickest among people in their 70s.

There are 423 in that age group.

But RSVP also has 278 octogenarians and 26 in their 90s.

Their combined efforts — if the county tried to hire people to Associated Press fill those positions — would cost Olive Partridge, 95, plays the violin for the resi- about $4.1 million, according to county estimates. dents at Holladay Health Care, in Salt Lake City.

“It is amazing to think of the impact these volunteers have Seniors were responsible for Seniors “don’t want to roll one out of five of those hours over and do nothing the rest of in the community,” said RSVP through RSVP, which acts as a their lives,” said Mayor Peter coordinator Vicki Hansen, who county-run volunteer brokerage Corroon just moments after for older adults age 55 and up encouraging a roomful of them at who want to donate their time. the Sunrise Senior Living center Spring is Here That group, numbering more in Holladay to join the county’s than 1,000, performed 196,000 charitable corps if they are able. service hours in 2009.

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“It makes our community a much more positive place.”

That impact appears on a volunteer sign-up sheet at Indian Hills Elementary in Salt Lake City, where people such as E.J. Kerikas, 83, have donated a combined average of 522 volunteer hours a month.

It appears in the clapping hands and tapping toes of residents at the Holladay Healthcare Center, where musicians such as Olive Partridge, 95, are making their fellow seniors come alive with tunes such as “Let Me Call You Sweetheart.”

“Volunteering is of the heart,” said Virginia Lee, the county’s now-retiring volunteer coordinator. “It feels so good to give.”

Let us all cheer.

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Finches, sparrows and robbins are building their nests I wonder — when do they rest?

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reader poetry

Independence Day Glorious this day arose! Make way. Make way for the cheers, the flags, the bands.

All hail this day above others. Oh glory to this day, this day of remembrance.

Take up again arms borne at yesterday’s calling, wear again those faded uniforms.

Shine anew those hard-won medals. Raise hands, have you forgotten how to salute?

Make loud the roll from Bunker Hill, from New Orleans, the Alamo. Who intones those lost from Anteitam, from San Juan Hill? Who calls out the roster of Belleau Wood?

Who now counts the pebbles at Anzio or sifts the sands of Algeria for precious bones?

What smoke fills the day at 459 or Chosin or clouds the night of Kosovo, or Kirkuk or Kabul?

Listen. Yes, listen, faint now but growing ever strong those words, “We hold these truths to be ... “ Do we not still hold them dearly? Are they not heard in the laughter of free children?

Do we not see them written in the rockets’ glare?

Are they not felt in vibrant drumbeat?

Do we not sing an anthem to this day, this wondrous, joy-filled day of declaration?

Make way. Make way. In every hamlet, in every home, let the joyous sounds of freedom ring.

Celebrate. This is Independence Day!

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The Visitor I saw this disc land on the ground, Then a ladder came swinging down And then appeared a little guy in blue.

“Hello, I’ve come to visit you.

Take me to your leader, introduce me as your friend, I’ll shake his hand And smile, then we’ll both understand.

We are not very different though we are from worlds far apart, Understanding one another can only come from the heart.

You don’t look a bit like me, and I don’t look like you; Getting to know each other, we can learn a thing or two.”

Tell me where you came from and did you travel very far; Show me your flying saucer and I’ll show you my car.

You speak perfect English, how brilliant you must be, And so understanding, to stop and visit me.

I feel so very honored. You say your name is Dop? You live behind the sun and potatoes is your crop?

Since this is Idaho, spud is our middle name; We found our niche without a hitch in the potato hall of fame.

Thank you for the visit, do come back again.

Our friendship will last forever, forever till the end.

— Mel Meisner, 87, Lewiston

— Ole D. Spaulding Jr., 78, Clarkston

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For elderly, a different kind of ‘make a wish’ grants dreams STEPHANIE REITZ

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WATERBURY, Conn. — Josephine Mastroianni has played piano by ear since she was 7 but never had formal training until a charitable group learned of her wish and made it happen.

Now 86 and taking weekly piano lessons, the Waterbury woman is among a growing number of senior citizens nationwide getting their wishes granted by grass-roots groups inspired by the Make-A-Wish Foundation for sick children.

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Mastroianni says she never would have thought to take piano lessons at her Waterbury nursing home and was shocked when Seniors Have Dreams Too, a nonprofit based in Wallingford, set up the free weekly sessions.

Mastroianni’s goal is to play “I Did It My Way” for her fellow residents, many of whom gather in their wheelchairs to watch her lessons.

A number of the wish-granting groups, including Seniors Have Dreams Too, are run by volunteers who pay for the expenses with donations and focus mainly on nursing home residents or homebound seniors.

“People need something to look forward to, especially at an older age,” said Sally Smith, who founded Seniors Have Dreams Too in 2007 and is a recre-

ation director at Cheshire House, Mastroianni’s nursing home.

“I can’t imagine being older, being alert and oriented, and yet feeling that there’s something I wanted to do and couldn’t or that there’s nothing to look forward to,” Smith said. “That would be just heartbreaking.”

The Seniors Have Dreams Too group has counterparts in several other states. They include the Indianapolis-based Never Too Late group, the Forever Young Senior Wish Organization of Collierville, Tenn., and Second Wind Dreams of Marietta, Ga. One of the largest such groups, the Twilight Wish Foundation, has granted about 1,300 wishes in 35 states since it was founded in 2003. It has chapters in Arizona, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York, Virginia, New Jersey, Georgia, Washington and Idaho.

Its wish recipients must be at least 68 and unable to make the wish come true for themselves because of their low incomes or the complexity of the wish.

Twilight Wish divides the dreams into two categories: simple needs such as replacing a broken appliance or getting new dentures, and “living life to the fullest” wishes, which have included riding in a fighter plane and meeting a favorite baseball player.

Seniors Have Dreams Too has limited its criteria a bit more for cost and safety reasons, focusing

on quality-of-life wishes.

They’ve included a surprise tuneup for a blind man’s guitar, a champagne reception and art show for a woman who wanted to display her paintings and a special delivery of New York Yankees gear for a dying fan whose husband’s biggest wish was to see her smile again.

For Mastroianni, piano lessons were out of the question when she was a child with seven siblings, and the obligations of family and working life pushed the dream to the back burner in later years.

She learned to plink-plunk her way through her father’s favorite Italian songs when she was young, then developed a righthand-only style that sufficed for decades on the Casio keyboard her husband gave her as a gift.

“I thought about lessons all of my life, but you know, it just never came about,” she said on a recent morning as she practiced on the nursing home’s baby grand with teacher Jack Tyrrell, who volunteered his time for the Seniors Have Dreams Too group’s request. “I wasn’t sure if I was going to be too old to learn, but I think I’m doing OK,” she said. “I’m really getting it.”  www.seniorshavedreams.org  www.twilightwishfoun dation.org

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Anyway, let me tell you about this painter — a journeyman specializing in dwellings, barns, dog houses, that kind of artistry. He learned my wife and I were considering having our place painted, and he stopped by to bid.

Clean shaven, wearing formfitting, paint-speckled coveralls, soft cap, and carrying a white enameled briefcase. He seemed competent, an outdoorsman who doesn’t require a boom box full of ear-cracking music to keep himself wound up while up there on a ladder or slanted roof.

Unfortunately, for him, early on, he lobbed a subtlety at us and it backfired.

Well, see, soon enough and unavoidably, we were talking cost. A figure was mentioned.

My spouse whistled. Actually, she never did get the hang of whistling, although she did puff her cheeks and out came a shocked gust with “Highway robbery!” written all over it.

Say this for the painter. He was good-natured about our avid reaction. We chattered on.

Ultimately he chimed in with this show-stopper: “Ain’t cheap to paint your house, but look at it this way, amigos,” giving us the onceover once more, “this’ll probably be the last time you’ll have to have it done.”

Gosh, thanks a mil, pal.

Who elected this guy grand master? The nerve! Who’s calling the shots around here? The cheek! He has inside info? Do I look like a shriveled, grand, grand-pappy tottering on his last wooden leg?

Why bother painting the house at all? Eh? What’s that,

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He should’ve come right out and told us oldtimers we’d not be around to ever hitch a ride on our phantom, long-proposed light-rail train. And so on.

I like subtleties when they create fine-spun moments, but you gotta be careful.

Can’t blame the painter too much. He didn’t get the job, but I think this is a good, learning example of people yapping too much before thinking.

Somebody should tip off our

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