Golden Times, August 2014 by Lewiston Tribune

A monthly magazine for the region’s retirees by Target Publications

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INDEX: Social Security Q&A................... Page 5 Meal site list ............................... Page 5 Briefs .......................................... Page 6

COORDINATOR: Peggy Hayden

Birthdays .................................... Page 7

On the cover: A large variety of colorful plants dominate a large corner of Rose Mary Krueger’s back yard in Lewiston.

Reader poetry ............................. Page 14

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Thought for the month “There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.” — Christopher Morley WHO AM I?

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I was born Aug. 4, 1944, in Connecticut.

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I have portrayed the same character on TV in two shows for a total of 21 years. I began my career as the warm-up comedian for Saturday Night Live in the 1970s.

Crossword solution .....................Page 17 Prize ﬁghting memorabilia ......... Page 20 Hair loss with age ...................... Page 22 Sudoku ........................................Page 22 Crossword ...................................Page 23

I have been married three times: from 1966-72 to Gail Susan Ross; from 1976-78 to Dalia Danoch; and since 1985 to Harlee McBride.

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Senior nutrition menus for August meaLsite:

monday

tuesday

wednesday

4 Chicken-fried steak/

5 Spaghetti/green

6 BUFFET (starts at

Lewiston senior nutrition Program

potatoes/gravy/mixed vegetables/coleslaw/ biscuit

serves hot lunches at noon at the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St. and the United Methodist Church, 1213 Burrell Ave. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Cost is $5 for nonseniors.

11 Meatloaf/potatoes/

12 Barbecue sandwich/

13 BUFFET (starts at

18 German sausage/

19 Porcupine

20 BUFFET (starts at

25 Baked ham/potatoes

26 Beef stroganoff/

27 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Barbecue

gravy/vegetables/green salad/roll kraut/potatoes/broccoli normandy/coleslaw/roll/ cookie au gratin /carrots/ applesauce/cornbread

beans/salad/French bread/Jell-O

baked beans/macaroni salad/carrots/fruit

meatballs/rice pilaf/green beans/Jell-O salad/pudding/muffin mixed vegetables/salad/ roll/fruit

11:30 a.m.): Roast beef

11:30 a.m.): Chicken

11:30 a.m.): Roast turkey

7 Shepard’s pie/green

8 Baked fish/salad bar/ fruit

12 Chicken-fried steak/

14 Beef stroganoff/

15 Hamburger on a

19 Ham/scalloped

21 Spanish rice/mixed

22 Chicken strips/salad

senior round table nutrition Program serves hot lunches at noon at the Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St. No. F, Clarkston and the Asotin United Methodist Church, 313 Second St. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Cost is $7 for nonseniors.

mashed potatoes/gravy/ broccoli/apple crisp

beans/roll/fruit/ brownies

peas/beets/roll/fruit

potatoes/venetian-blend vegetables/biscuit/fruit/ cookie

vegetables/roll/fruit

bun/salad bar/fruit

bar/fruit

(no Clarkston delivery/Asotin closed) 29 Pulled-pork Italian-blend vegetables/ sandwich/salad bar/fruit salad/breadsticks/fruit

26 Beef roast/mashed

28 Chicken fettuccine/

5 Sausage/biscuits/

7 Spaghetti and

12 Chicken enchilada/

spanish rice/vegetables

14 Barbecue pork on a bun/jo-jo potatoes/ vegetables

19: Salisbury steak/

21 Tilapia/garden rice/

26 Maccaroni and

28 Oven-baked chicken/

potatoes/gravy/carrots/ fruit juice/roll/cake/ice cream gravy

serves lunch at noon in the Great Room of the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Cost is $6 for nonseniors. Salad bar is available at 11:30 a.m. a dessert bar is available at each service.

friday

5 Barbecue chicken/

jo-jo potatoes/squash/ corn muffin/fruit

moscow senior nutrition Program

thursday

meatballs/vegetables

mashed potatoes/gravy/ vegetables

vegetables

cheese/beef franks/ vegetables

potatoes au gratin/ vegetables

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sunday

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hot: Braised

10 beef/peas and

carrots/roasted red potatoes sack: Bologna and American Cheese sandwich hot: Teriaki chicken/ steamed brown rice/carrots sack: Egg salad sandwich

hot: Turkey pot

24 pie/broccoli

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tuesday hot: Beef pot roast/mashed potatoes/corn sack: Turkey and Swiss cheese sandwich

hot: Margharita hot: Meatloaf/ 12 mashed chicken pasta/ green beans potatoes/ broccoli and carrots sack: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich sack: Egg salad sandwich

hot: Tuna noodle casserole/corn sack: Chicken salad sandwich

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25 pineapple

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26 roast/mashed

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hot: Spaghetti and meatballs/ grilled vegetables sack: Chicken salad sandwich

hot: Chipotle

14 honey turkey/

mashed potatoes/roasted tomatoes sack: Turkey and cheddar cheese sandwich

hot: Barbecue

20 beef brisket/

roasted red potatoes/broccoli sack: Ham and Swiss Cheese sandwich

hot: Chicken pasta alfredo/ almond green

beans sack: Tuna salad sandwich

hot: Barbecue

hot: Chicken

27 chicken/rice

28 and sausage

pilaf/green beans sack: Bologna and cheese sandwich

jambalaya/ steamed cauliflower sack: Egg salad sandwich

friday hot: Beef lasagna/ steamed broccoli sack: Chicken salad sandwich

hot: Pork cutlet/artichoke penne/peas and carrots sack: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

hot: Asianspiced pork rice/dilled carrots sack: Tuna sandwich

hot: Chicken and broccoli casserole/ cauliflower sack: Roast beef and cheddar sandwich

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29 lasagna/

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30 cutlet/artichoke

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Meals at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays Potlatch Senior Citizens IOOF/Rebekah Hall, Pine St., Potlatch, (208) 875-1071 Meals at noon on Tuesdays and Fridays Pullman Senior Center 325 S.E. Paradise St., Pullman, (509) 338-3307 Meals at 11:45 a.m. on Mondays and Fridays Riggins Odd Fellows Building 121 S. Lodge St., Riggins, (208) 628-4147 Meals at noon on Tuesdays United Methodist Church 313 Second St., Asotin, (509) 758-3816 Meals at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays Valley Community Center 549 Fifth St., Clarkston, (509) 758-3816 Meals at noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays Weippe Hilltop Senior Citizens Center 115 First St. W., Weippe, (208) 435-4553 Meals at noon on Mondays and Thursdays Winchester Senior Citizens Center Nez Perce Ave., Winchester, (208) 924-6581 Meals at noon on Wednesdays Pullman Meals on Wheels (Whitman County Council on Aging) (509) 397-4305 Valley Meals on Wheels (208) 799-5767

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be scheduled by calling (509) 780-3810. Also on Tuesdays and Thursdays is Sandi’s chair massage between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. There is a signup sheet at the center for massages or appointments can be made by calling (360) 789-1956. Volunteer center needs yarn The twice-weekly dances at the center are from 7-10 p.m. on Tuesdays and The WA-ID Volunteer Center is in Wednesdays. Cost for dances is $5 per need of yarn for its Project Warm-up person. program. The monthly potluck lunch is at noon Volunteers will use the yarn to make Aug. 25. hats, scarves, mittens and lap robes, which will then be donated to various Valley Community Center nonprofit organizations in the area. Donated yarn can be taken to the offers array of activities WA-ID office between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. Besides being the location of the Asoweekdays. The office is located inside the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 tin County Senior Roundtable lunches, the center has daily activities for area Main St. seniors. Lunches are served at noon on TuesSenior center plans days, Thursdays and Fridays. Marcia’s foot care is offered on Monmonthly pancake feed days at the center by appointment. The Sixth Street Senior Center in Appointments can be made by calling Clarkston will have its monthly pancake (509) 330-1857. feed at noon next Monday. Cost is $4 Other activities at the center inper person. clude: Dayna’s foot care is at 9:30 a.m.  Tuesdays — fitness from 10:15Wednesday and Donna’s foot care is ev- 11:15 a.m.; and pinochle from 12:45-3 ery Tuesday and Thursday by appoint- p.m. ment. Appointments for foot care can  Thursdays — fitness from 10:15-

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11:15 a.m.; blood-pressure check at 11:30 a.m.; and bridge from 12:30-4 p.m.  Fridays — pinochle from 12:45-3 p.m.  Saturdays — bridge from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. The Valley Community Center board will meet at 9 a.m. Aug. 13 and Seaport Quilters will meet from 6-9 p.m. Aug. 25.

Senior activities offered at Lewiston Community Center The Lewiston Parks and Recreation Department offers several free activities for residents age 50 and older at the Lewiston Community Center. Line dancing is offered at 10 a.m. on Mondays and at 9 a.m. Thursdays. There is a game of pinochle played at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday and a bridge game at noon each Friday. There is also a painting club at noon each Thursday. Registration for all senior activities is required and can be completed at the Parks and Rec ofﬁce or online at www. cityoﬂewiston/parksandrec. A full list of activities and special events is also available on the website.

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Aug. 7

 Betty Chase

 Carol Bowlin

Betty Chase of Orofino celebrated her 88th birthday Saturday. She was born Aug. 2, 1926, in Dalhart, Texas, and moved to the Northwest in 1946. She married Palmer Chase. Chase taught school at Orofino Elementary School for 22 years and retired in 1988. She is a member of the Clearwater Citizens Organization, P.E.O. Chapter AW, and the Hit and Miss Club. Chase has four children, 12 grandchildren and five greatgrandchildren.

Carol Bowlin of Lewiston will be honored during a Hawaiian Luau Luncheon at noon Aug. 25 at Wedgewood Terrace for her 89th birthday. She was born Aug. 7, 1925, in Culdesac and graduated from high school and business college. She and Pete Bowlin were married in 1945. They were married for more than 40 years before he died in 1986. They have four children. Bowlin worked at Potlatch Forests Inc., in Lewiston. Bowlin enjoys country western music and playing bingo.

Aug. 5  Lillie Thiessen Lillie Thiessen of Orofino will celebrate her 86th birthday Tuesday. She was born Aug. 5, 1928, to Denver and Sylvia Snyder. Thiessen, and graduated from Weippe High School. She and Gordon Thiessen were married on April 8, 1945. The couple have two daughters, eight grandchildren and several great-grandchildren. Their son was killed in an airplane accident while serving in the U.S. Air Force in Germany.

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Birthdays starting at 70, and every year after, will be accepted for publication in Golden Times in the month of the birthday only. The limit for each submission is 200 words. Photographs are welcome. Birthday submissions must include the name and phone number of the person submitting 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 (208) 848-2243. Mailed information may be sent to: Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501; emailed submissions should be sent to goldentimes@lmtribune.com. September birthdays must be received by 5 p.m. Aug. 18.

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 MARGARET L. BOTTS Margaret Botts of Joseph, Ore., will be honored by family and friends with an open house in celebration of her 90th birthday at noon Saturday at her home. Margaret Louise Gowey was born Aug. 7, 1924, to Ray and Opal Gowey in McMiniville, Ore. They moved

to Troy, Ore., when she was 3 years old. She lived with her grandmother Shuman and graduated from Flora High School in 1941. She and Melvin Botts were married on April 2, 1945, in Pomeroy and lived in Flora until 1961. They have ﬁve children; their oldest daughter died in 1965. Botts worked at Wallowa Memorial Hospital from 1962-68 and later worked as a cook at Joseph Public School. She retired in 1984. She has traveled to Alaska and Belize, where she was

a Peace Corps volunteer. Botts worked at Yellowstone National Park; at an archeological dig at Pittsburg landing on the Snake River; and at Red’s Horse Ranch up the Minam River. Botts also traveled with one of her daughters to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. And two years ago they traveled to Brighton, Iowa, to attend the Gowey family reunion. She has four children, seven grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren.

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 BETTY JO BARNES

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Betty Jo Barnes of Lewiston will be honored during a Hawaiian Luau luncheon at noon Aug. 25 at Wedgewood Terrace for her 79th birthday. She was born Aug. 11, 1935, in Lewistown, Mont. She attended three years of college in Montana and Wyoming. She and Harlan Barnes were married May 26, 1956. They were married for more than 52 years before he died in 2008. Barnes has two children, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren. Barnes worked much of her life as a teacher and as a rancher. Her hobbies include ranching, rodeo, traveling and coin collecting.

Phil Lamm of Kamiah will celebrate his 82nd birthday Aug. 12. He was born in 1932. L a m m g r a d u ated from Northwest Nazarene College in 1954 and married Georgia the next day. They have three children and seven grandchildren. He served in the U.S. Army for two years. Following his service the couple moved to the Clearwater Valley in 1963 where he went to work as unit superintendent and high-school principal in 1968. In 1984, he moved to the Grangeville School District’s ofﬁce as the assistant superintendent. He retired in 1995. Lamm and his wife enjoy traveling to family activities. They have been to several countries in Europe on selfguided tours. In 2006, they traveled to Scandinavia, Russia and Iceland, and have visited Alaska three times.

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Aug. 17  Nancy Bergles

 John Neumayer John Neumayer of Lewiston will be celebrating his 90th birthday on Aug. 14. He was born in Bonners F e r r y , Idaho, in 1924 to Alois and Natalie Neumayer, the second of nine children. He graduated from Bonners Ferry High School. Upon graduation, Neumayer joined the U.S. Navy and served more than two years in the South Pacific during World War II on a destroyer, which was the only ship in its fleet to return home, after the

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war, under its own power. At the conclusion of the war, he chose a career as a meat cutter. He was employed by Safeway and Albertsons for 41 years. On Aug. 7, 1948, he married his high-school sweetheart, Donna Dawson. The couple have been married for 66 years and have two sons. They also had a daughter who died. The couple have seven grandchildren. Neumayer’s hobbies include hunting, fishing and picking huckleberries. He was able to go on one of the first honor flights to Washington, D.C. in 2010, which he feels was a great honor. A birthday celebration will be held at Priest Lake, Idaho, with his family.

N a n c y Bergles of Lewiston will be celebrated for becoming a centenarian from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 17 at Kindered Transitional and Rehabilitation Care Center in Lewiston. She was born Aug. 17, 1914, in St. Maries to William

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and Royena Warren. Bergles moved to the area 82 years ago. On June 10, 1932, she and Ray Johnson were married. He died in 1962. Bergles worked as the Postmaster in Harvard. She and Frank Bergles were married in 1967 at Coeur d’Alene. He died in 2008. Bergles was a member of the Harvard Ladies Aid and her hobbies include working puzzles, playing bingo and crocheting. She has one daughter, one grandchild and two greatgrandchildren.

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Aug. 20  Donald L. Edwards

 Georgia Lamm Goergia Lamm of Kamiah will celebrate her 82nd birthday Aug. 17. She was born in 1932. L a m m g r a d u ated from Northwest Nazarene College in 1954 and married Phil a day later. She taught vocational home economics and child development at Melba High School and at Springford School District near Philadelphia

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 Norene Weaver Norene Weaver of Lewiston will celebrate her 80th birthday Aug. 21. She was born in 1934 in Meadowbrook, Wash., to Charlote and Nolan Bramlet. She graduated from Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie, Wash. She and Bill Weaver were married March 3, 1954,

in Norfolk, Va. He died in 2011. Weaver served in the U.S. Navy, after which she worked as a bookkeeper, and traveled through the western U.S. doing construction. She was also a camp host at Wendover for one year and at Wilderness Gateway for two years. She is retired. She is a member of the Seaport Quilters Guild, and enjoys bowling, knitting and quilting. Weaver has five children, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

Aug. 22  Wilma Howell Wilma Howell of Lewiston will celebrate her 75th birthday with her family on Aug. 23. She was born Aug. 22, 1939, in Stites to Edna and Ray Keehr. When she was very young her father died. Her mother later married Charlie Mercer, who raised her and her siblings as his own. She graduated from Riverside High School in

Chattaroy, Wash., in 1958. Howell worked at Kamiah Junior High School as the secretary for many years before moving to Lewiston in 1983. She then sold real estate for a time before going to work for the Lewiston Tribune, where she retired in 2002 after 19 years. She and David Howell were married in June 1989. Howell enjoys her retirement by spending time with family, reading, gardening and playing bridge with several different groups. She has three daughters, six grandchildren and one greatgrandchild.

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Marlene Hyde of Lewiston will be honored during a coffee hour at 10 a.m. Aug. 30 at the Orchards United Methodist Church, 1213 Burrell Ave., in Lewiston. The occasion is her 80th birthday. She was born Aug. 27, 1934, in Lewiston to Bud and Gladys Minded. She began school in Lewiston but spent eight years attending school in Pierce. She graduated in 1952 from Lewiston High School and attended Lewiston Business School. Hyde worked for AT&T, Lewiston Pre-Mix and was the secretary at Weippe Elementary

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Hugh Helpman Jr. of Lewiston will celebrate his 94th birthday on Aug. 30. He was born in 1920 in Mullan, Idaho, to Hugh and Jessie Helpman. He grew up in Lewiston and graduated from Lewiston High School in 1937. Helpman was an avid hunter, fisherman and golfer in his younger years. He currently enjoys reading, crossword puz-  Jerry Smith zles, playing cards and watching sporting Jerry Smith of Deary will be honored at events. an open house from 2-5 He and his wife, Mary Jane, enjoyed p.m. Aug. 23 at the home traveling and now reside at Royal Plaza of Shane and Alane Watkins Retirement Center. The couple have five with music. The occasion children, two granddaughters and five great-grandchildren. is his 80th birthday. They His family will gather for a birthday dinner to celebrate. request no gifts. He was born Aug. 27, 1934, in Kendrick to Ben and Eva Slatter Smith. He  Darlene Hill grew up in the family’s farmhouse at Park, southDarlene Hill of Lewiston will celebrate her 82nd birthday east of Deary, where he Aug. 30. and his wife still live. He She was born in 1932 in Sharon Springs, Kan., to Eugene and May Heye and was attended schools in Avon, Bovill and other country schools in the area. He completed raised in Troy. She and Wilton E. Hill were married Nov. the eighth grade at Park school and gradu19, 1949. Hill worked for Potlatch Corp. paper mill in Lewiston from 1953 until retiring When it’s in 1994. Her husband died in 1995. Hill is a member of T.O.P.S. and the Lewis-Clark Union Retirees. Her hobbies include gardening, both vegetable and flower, and travelComplete and compelling. ing. All the news you need. She has three children, seven grandchildren, six stepgrandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and numerous stepgreat- and great-great-grandchildren.

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The growing hobby of gardening is sustaining seniors Gardening is more than a hobby, it’s exercise for the mind, body and soul By Michelle Schmidt Target Publications

There are two types of people when it comes to gardens: those who cut back as they age and those who use their age as an excuse to get even more carried away. How some get bit by the gardening bug is anyone’s guess, but it comes with obvious symptoms: early rising, the slow and steady conversion of lawn and empty spaces into viable garden area, regular expenses at local plant nurseries and the delivery of freshgrown gifts to friends, family or neighbors. Unlike the rest of us, gardening for these people is not a chore or obligation: it’s a passion – it’s what gets them out of bed in the morning. The hobby also provides an undoubted contribution to their health and well-being. The Lewiston-Clarkston Valley has no shortage of older adults who can be found outside at 5 a.m. this time of year, deadheading flowers or getting ahead of the weeds. Four of them agreed to share their gardens and what the hobby does for them: yyy When you come upon the yard full of tomatoes, you can’t help but start counting plants. It is apparent Jack Knopes is the gardening sort as you approach his home in the Clarkston Heights. What appears to have once been a lawn is now row after row of tomato plants. A glance to the side yard reveals neat rows of peppers, followed by towering raspberry canes. “And that’s not even the start of it,” Avis Knopes said of her husband’s garden. She’s right. As she heads back into the house, 82year-old Knopes leads the way past the peppers and raspberries and rhubarb, through the corridor where the grapevines grow alongside the greenhouse and a small tractor, to the garden northwest of the house. There, surrounded by a chain-link fence to keep the deer out, is an entire field brimming with rows of corn, tomatoes, bush beans, cantaloupes, cucumbers and strawberries. With 20 tons of produce coming out of his garden each year, it’s obvious Knopes isn’t the only one eating it. He sells what the garden produces to those who stop by and at the Clarkston Farmers’ Market on Saturdays in the parking lot of Twin River National Bank on the corner of Fifth and Sycamore streets. So it’s a hobby that earns a little profit, right? Nope. “I’m just trying to cover my costs,” he said. The cost from the water, seeds and fertilizer add up, he explained, but he’d rather keep prices low for his customers than get paid for his work. And work he does. Most days he’s up at 5 a.m. and comes back inside around 1 p.m. That’s a lot of work for someone who’s no longer “working.”

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Jack Knopes isn’t big on lawn mowing so 70 Goliath tomato plants cover his front yard, a large production that mostly ends up at the Clarkston Farmers’ Market. yyy Sally Desimone knew exactly what she wanted to do when she grew up. At least, if “grown up” means “after retirement.” As the great-granddaughter of Lee Morris — the same Lee Morris who founded the long-standing retail establishment in downtown Clarkston — it was perhaps inevitable she and her husband, John, would run the family business. But a lifelong gardener, Sally had her post-retirement dream job picked out — she wanted seasonal work in a plant nursery. She was so certain of it that several years ago when she learned two of the seasonal workers at Patt’s Garden Center wouldn’t be returning, she took the job on the spot — even though she was still working. She did the buying and weekly bookkeeping for Lee Morris Co. for a time, but retired early so she could do the work she most wanted to do. After the store closed in 2010, John joined her. Together, the two transplant, stock, seed and clean up full-time from March until June. John joked they are paid in flowers, which is halfway believable when looking at their yard. Even with the seasonal work, the two still find time to plant their own garden. Sally handles the flowers while John tends to the vegetables. The rows of tomatoes, eggplant, kohlrabi, cucumbers, raspberries and more occupy the next-door lot they purchased several years ago. Their own lot simply wasn’t big

enough to handle all the plants they wanted to grow. Sally’s got a bit of everything: perennial lilies and hosta, annual lobelia and petunias, rows of dahlia bulbs and plenty of whimsy. A fairy garden, for example, has popped up in the eastern section of the shade garden where tiny figurines sit amongst creeping jenny, miniature shrubs and broken pots. Opposite the fairy garden is a literal flower bed — a wooden bed-shaped planter full of flowers — built by her son. To one side sits a rusted-out roasting pan which serves as a pot for some annuals and to the other side a ladder that once belonged to her grandfather leans against the fence, holding several birdhouses. “I’m a junk collector,” Sally said with a laugh. Her preference for “different and unique” means there are surprises tucked away in every part of the garden. The variety in her garden means there is something blooming all yearlong. yyy While gardening for some is a dream come true, for others it’s a vision of time gone by. With cheerful flower blooms and an inviting shade garden, Rose Mary Kruegar’s backyard is more than just a beautiful place to be — it’s a living memory book. As she wanders through the yard, it seems most everything has a story — the antique wagon pulled off her daughter-in-law’s family farm near Anatone,

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the day lillies she picked up at a yard sale, the two dogwoods that sit together near the house where the family’s two dogs, Benji and Ralph, would spend their days when they were alive. Kruegar has lived at her Lewiston Orchards home for nearly 50 years. The weeping cherry tree in the corner of the average-sized lot is at least that old and towers over the shade garden underneath. The Scarlett Hawthorne tree, which sits in another corner, was among the first Mother’s Day gifts she received. Kruegar always loved flowers, and simply followed in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother, who both kept gardens. The fenced-in cottage garden in the back holds only a few vegetable plants. “I don’t grow vegetables, probably because I’d rather look at flowers than eat vegetables,” Kruegar said with a laugh. Instead the “vegetable garden” is full of blooms. The gladiolus are planted for her 96-year-old mother, who always kept some in her garden and which Kruegar takes to her residence at Royal Plaza. Some Bells of Ireland flourish in the shade, a flower she became enchanted with as a child in her grandmother’s garden near Canada. And then there is the flower that grew in Mary Bolick’s yard, the Orchards woman who hired Kruegar to pick raspberries when she was young. Bolick called it snow on the mountain, though Kruegar is unsure what it’s officially named. “It’s neat, I think of them when I’m out there,” Kruegar said. And she’s out there most days from February to November, some days all day and others just part of the day. yyy No matter how their hobby presents itself, gardening is physically demanding work, which means those who do it are getting some exercise. Of course, that’s not why they do it, but the regular movement has a positive effect on their health and quality of life. “I don’t have to go to the gym for exercise,” Knopes said with a grin. And it’s not just a warm weather workout he gets. Like many who garden for pleasure, the work begins in February and ends in November, with long days in between. Kruegar agreed gardening keeps her young. So young, in fact, that she’s taken up tree climbing. “I’m braver now than I used to be,” Kruegar said. Walking by the Hawthorne tree, she spoke about her intent to clean out some of the branches that have sprouted nearly 10 feet off the ground. “You get stupid with age, I guess,” she said. As a form of exercise, Kruegar also points out gardening produces something at the end. She’s got plenty of flowers to prove it. Not only that, but it does more for a person than just benefit their body. “You can go to the gym — and that’s good — but gardening is for the soul, too,” she said. Perhaps one motivating aspect of gardening is it can’t be fully mastered. There is always more to learn and new things to try. Whether it’s new varieties or new techniques, each gardening season brings with it plenty of changes for gardeners. “I try new things all the time,” Kruegar said. Her garden is dominated by perennials, but there are new plants to try and there are problems to be solved — like an area in the front yard where trees refuse to grow or a section of the garden where weeds need to

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ABOVE: John and Sally Desimone have populated most of their large Clarkston Heights lot with her many bright flowers and a wide production of vegetables in his garden. BELOW: Rose Mary Kruegar created a very cool shade garden, much of it under a 46-year-old weeping cherry tree, along with many other plants and an old farm plow.

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makes it fun.” When it comes down to it gardening is their thing — it’s what they do. be stopped. “A lot of people think its work, Even though he’s been garden- but for us it’s a joy,” Sally said. ing for around 60 years, Knopes “You can come out here and also made a few changes in the think. I solve a lot of problems in garden this year. For one, he took the yard.” out the remaining bit of ealawn The thought of being unable to on his property and converted it spend their days out in the garden to garden space — a bold declara- isn’t something any of these tion he has no intent of slowing people want to think about. But down anytime soon. it’s something Sally got a recent He also tried a new growtaste of with a back problem that ing technique this year. He cut laid her up for a while. Even now, the bottom out of black, plastic her movement is limited, but at landscaping pots and placed them least she can get outside and get over his tomato plants. The pot something done. protects the plant from frost, “If I couldn’t be out here it’d be which allowed him to pick his first awful,” Sally said. “I’m going to do ripe tomato by the end of June. it as long as I can.” The Desimones also took out Kruegar agreed: “I can’t imagsome lawn recently — their front ine not doing it. It’s your little yard is now a cobblestone patio piece of heaven on earth.” that is surrounded by blooming flowers and a tri-color beech tree.  Schmidt can be reached at “I like to try new things,” Sally themichelleschmidt@gmail. said. “It keeps my interest up and com or (208) 305-4578.

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Sweet as a morning dove and the sound is a mournful sound yet sweet. Wonderful to see when we give love it is a treat for one another. A gift from above. But when you hate, hate, hate your brother or sister with greed and lust you are headed for a real bust. Like it or not you send it out; you get it back. Just like no other. Bang! You ask for it! The universe has spoken for you. Be careful, it’s not a gift from above if it’s not love. Yvonne Carrie, 70, Lewiston

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Volunteer opportunities The WA-ID Volunteer Center located in the Lewiston Community Center at 1424 Main St. provides individualized volunteer opportunities for those wishing to serve in Lewiston, Clarkston, Asotin, Pomeroy, Moscow and the Orofino area. The phone number is (208) 746-7787. The center can also be found online at www.waidvolunteer center.org. The following are a few of the volunteer opportunities available in August.  America Reads has an immediate need for tutors to help students with their reading skills. Volunteers for this program must be able to commit at least one hour, one day per week for the school year. No teaching experience is necessary. Background check is required for this opportunity.  Asotin County Food Bank is in need of a volunteer to head up the “Backpack

for Kids” program. Duties will include helping fill backpacks, working with area stores to negotiate food donations and area schools to identify students in need. Fundraising will also be a part of this opportunity.  St. Vincent de Paul Social Services is in need of volunteers to assist families in need, help with food pantry, clothing, household items and furniture. There is also a need for volunteers at both thrift stores to sort clothing.  The Nez Perce County Historical Society and Museum has several volunteer opportunities available. They include, but are not limited to, artifact and document preservation, library research, docent, and assisting with installation of new exhibits and special projects.  The Lewiston city Library is in need of a volunteer who can teach adult technology in

a one-on-one or small-group setting. Those with excellent computer skills and the ability to demonstrate technology while respecting different learning abilities and styles. Those interested in this would need to commit to 2-3 hours per week.  The Center for Arts and History is in need for volunteers to greet visitors to the center and show them around the exhibits. Volunteers would also be expected to help with clerical duties and some light cleaning. There is also a need to help with a special children’s workshop. This opportunity would involve gathering and preparing supplies, help with hands-on activities and assist with set up and clean up. More information on any of these or other volunteer opportunities offered through the WA-ID Volunteer Center is available by calling Cathy Rob-

inson at (208) 746-7787. ——— Interlink Volunteers — Faith in Action in Clarkston offers volunteer opportunities throughout the area. The office, located at 817 Sixth St., is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. The phone number is (509) 751-9143.  Handymen — volunteers able to do minor home maintenance such as installation of grab bars in bathrooms, repairing latches on screen doors and gutter cleaning. Volunteers must use their own tools. Materials are provided by Interlink.  Carpentry — volunteers with the skills to help build entry steps and wheelchair ramps, and construct and place outdoor handrails are needed. Volunteers must have their own tools, but materials are provided by Interlink.  Transportation — volunteers are needed to drive clients to and from care appointments Monday through Friday. This requires a volunteer application to be completed, along with a copy of your valid driver’s license, insurance and own vehicle. Mileage is reimbursed.  Mover — volunteers are needed to help clients move. There is a need for those with and also those without a truck, to help pack, load and move household items.

 Painting — volunteers are needed to paint wheelchair ramps. All paint is provided but volunteers need their own brushes, rollers and rags.  Yard work — volunteers are needed to help with anything from cleaning yard debris to mowing lawns and pulling weeds. Volunteers need their own mower and tools.  Van — There is a continued need for a volunteer with a lift van, capable of transporting wheelchair-bound individuals.  Interlink booth — There is a need for individuals to staff information booths at community events. Shifts will be 1-2 hours in length. Volunteers will need to engage the public and handout brochures. Training is required to learn the specifics of Interlink. The volunteer application as well as more information about the organization and volunteer opportunities are available online at www. interlinkvolunteers.org.  Does your group or organization have a need for volunteers? Email the details of the need to goldentimes@Lmtribune.com to be included in Volunteer Opportunities.

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Pat Havens of Clarkston is Golden Times’ Senior Volunteer of the Month for August. Volunteer work: Havens said she began volunteering about 50 years ago. In that time she has done a little bit of everything and earned several pins, certificates and other awards for her service, including the Presidential Award in November 2013. In 1964, she began her volunteer work with the Asotin County unit of the American Heart Association, serving as the memorial chairwoman for 28 Golden years. She also served as the heart fund drive chairwoman for a few Times’ years and as treasurer of the local Volunteer unit until county units were disof the banded. After retirement, Havens volunteered for the Lewiston PoMonth lice Department setting up equipment weekly for about a year and has also assisted with National Night Out. For the last few years, she has helped make quilt tops for the Quilts of Valor Foundation and has helped with awarding the quilts to veterans. And

she has also volunteered at the Lewiston Civic Theater through the years, ushering and doing other various jobs during productions. Her main priority in recent years has been the Tri-State Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, which she has been doing for 14 years. She also sews comfort pillows for the hospital auxiliary. Havens has served as a treasurer for many boards, including the Washington State Association of Hospital Auxiliaries. Career: She was an elementary school teacher beginning in 1963 and retiring in 1997. During her years of teaching she taught second through fourth grades in Clarkston. She graduated from the University of Idaho. Family: Havens is a Cameron native. She and Chuck Havens were married 50 years ago this month, and have two children and two grandchildren. Hobbies: She enjoys quilting, reading, and traveling as long as it’s by boat or car. With the exception of traveling to Scotland and Ireland. She and her husband were able to extend their anniversary to more than the normal 24 hours during that trip. “We had a 32-hour wedding anniversary two years ago. We woke up in Dublin, which is eight hours ahead, on our anniversary so as we traveled home we had 32 hours,” she said. When asked her favorite part of volunteering, Havens said, “Keeping busy. … I like to handle money, keeping busy and giving something back, I guess.” She said she has been approached by individuals about volunteering and she is only too happy to give them a hand in becoming a member of the Tri-State Memorial Auxiliary.

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4dEMENTIA CARE, continued from page 15 Nori Graham, an Alzheimer’s disease expert in England. From 2001 to 2010, Graham was mental health adviser to Nightingale House, a residential and nursing home in London. She was national chairman of England’s Alzheimer’s Society from 1987 to 1994 and chairman of Alzheimer’s Disease International from 1996 to 2002. She is currently vice president of both organizations. Graham is a member of the executive committee of the faculty of old age psychiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, of which she is an honorary fellow. Graham will speak on the global impact of the Best Friends method. Best Friends pairs an individual with dementia with a trained volunteer who becomes a “best friend” for a specific time. A key to the program is the volunteer knowing the other person’s life story by reading his or her biography, which is on file wherever the philosophy is employed. The volunteer then uses that information as a basis of communication, Graham said. Another essential element is the weekly discussion topic using items to see, hear, touch, smell and taste. “People are asked to give an opinion, or an idea, and they respond in amazing ways,” said Tanya Byrne, assistant director of the Best Friends Day Center in Jessamine County, Ky. Recently, the group talked about visiting Italy, and many people could remember experiences there, regardless of how many years ago they’d visited, Byrne said. After 20 years at Second Presbyterian Church, the Lexington Best Friends Day Center moved in 2013 to Bridgepointe at Ashgrove Woods, an assisted living facility. About 22 people come to the center each day; it is open from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The cost is a sliding scale based on income. Linda Rector has volunteered at Best Friends for 29 years. “We are totally in the present with the participant while they are here,” she said. “We don’t stop. We walk, dance, sing, do crafts, talk. It takes a lot of energy.” For that reason, volunteers work only fourhour shifts. The enriched environment pays off, Byrne said. “We see people able to function longer who are in the program,” she said. “They smile

more, talk more, have better self-esteem, are more upbeat. It lifts depression.” And long-term memory stays intact longer, Byrne added. In her travels throughout the world as chairwoman for two terms of Alzheimer’s Disease International, Graham has seen similar results. “From my perspective, it is the most effective approach in caring for people with dementia,” she said. Thirty years ago, the prevailing attitude was people with dementia couldn’t be engaged mentally, said Virginia Bell, founder of Best Friends. “The focus was all on how to help the family caregiver cope,” Bell said. As for the patient, “The goal was just to keep the person warm, safe and dry,” she said, adding, “Now we know so much remains. They can still tell a joke, garden, engage with children.” Once families see how loved ones thrive in a Best Friends setting, “It’s almost like magic. It works. People see that, and they never go back to any other kind of care,” said Bell, the author with David Troxel of seven books on the Best Friends approach. Bell conceived the idea for Best Friends while working on a master’s degree at the University of Kentucky’s Multidisciplinary Center of Gerontology, now the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. She recalled a participant in the first Best Friends Day Center who wrote in her journal that her greatest fear, now that she had Alzheimer’s, was she would no longer be treated as a real person. “That became one of Best Friends’ guidelines,” Bell said. “To treat people with respect and dignity, even though they may not know what day it is.”

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Arctic veteran and cancer survivor continues fitness regimen at 82 By Martha Ross

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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Eileen Birdsong has faced cancer three times in the past two decades, but she has never let it slow her down. During eight months of radiation treatment for breast cancer in the mid-1990s, the Pleasanton, Calif., woman walked the 6-mile round trip to her doctor’s appointments five days a week. Two years ago, back home following surgery from esophageal cancer, she was walking as soon as she could, if only to the end of the block and back. “It’s not how much you do or how far you walk, doing some form of exercise is better than doing nothing,” said Birdsong, 82. “My doctors told me I survived because I had taken such good care of myself all my life through exercise and diet.” Birdsong’s can-do spirit revealed itself when she was a young woman in the 1950s, living and working in the Canadian Arctic with that country’s Department of Defense. Birdsong, a native of Manitoba, Canada, was a dental assistant, supporting multinational military exercises at a base in Churchill, Canada, a town on the shore of Hudson Bay. At the time, Canada and the United States feared a Soviet invasion via an Arctic route, so from September to May, the allies trained soldiers and pilots to fight in extreme weather conditions. Churchill is known for its autumn migration of polar bears and stunningly stark landscape of tundra and icebergs. “We were above the tree line,” Birdsong said. She initially signed a one-year contract. For the six months of winter, she lived without sun. For the other six months, the sun shone all the time. And it was cold, with average January temperatures falling into the double digits below zero. “It was the coldest place I’ve ever been in.” But Birdsong loved the place and the work and stayed for five years. When she wasn’t providing dental services to soldiers,

she was dispatched to take care of the teeth of Inuit and other natives. In the 1950s, Birdsong said, people didn’t think about going out to exercise just for the sake of exercise, but Birdsong couldn’t help but get fit. “You were always walking outdoors in cold weather,” she said. “You could eat like a horse because you burned a lot of calories just surviving.” Her Arctic adventure ended after she met her first husband, U.S. Army Col. William Trapp, who had accompanied Wernher von Braun, considered the German father of rocket science, to the Canadian north to test rockets. Birdsong became a military wife. She maintained her sense of adventure while finding something to enjoy in every place they were posted, from Leavenworth, Kan., to Taiwan and Bangkok. After Trapp died, Birdsong met her second husband, U.S. Air Force Col. George “Buzz” Birdsong, a famed World War II pilot, at a cocktail party in Washington, D.C., in 1967. Col. Birdsong participated in the first daylight raids over Germany, and his plane, the Delta Rebel, was the first to complete 25 missions in Europe. After the colonel retired, they married in 1970 and eventually settled in Pleasanton to be closer to three of his four children from an earlier marriage. Eileen Birdsong stayed active by working as a receptionist at a Pleasanton law firm and volunteering at the Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area in Dublin and the Livermore Veterans Administration Hospital. She joined wildlife and birding groups that had her trooping all over the East Bay hills, and played after-work rounds of golf with her husband. Col. Birdsong died in 2004. Birdsong began her six-mile walks after she retired from the law firm. Since her cancer surgery two years ago, she reduced walking from six miles to three but is satisfied with that distance because she maintains a pace that has her done in an hour.

These days, she also stretches every morning. Four times a week, she uses eight-pound weights to do a series of lifts to strengthen her upper body and to “get my blood going first thing in the morning.” Not only does the exercise make her feel better, she knows it’s key to maintaining her independence. “I am thankful every day that I am able to be active,” she said. “And hopefully, in the process, encourage other seniors to get moving.”

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