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April 2, 2012 / VOL. 22, NO. 4

Puppy Power

Suzie Heflin attributes her still being alive to her Chinese pug, Murphy / Page 8

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Senior lunch menus — Page 3

Volunteer of the month — Page 14

House Call — Page 15

Senior Talk — Page 16

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Security could result in incorrect payments that may have to be paid back or a penalty deducted from SSI benefits.

You can get more information in the booklet Understanding SSI, at www.socialsecurity. gov/ssi.

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A: No. Medicare benefits based on retirement do not begin until a person is age 65.

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Q: My dad, who is receiving Supplemental Security Income (SSI), will be coming to live with me. Does he have to report the move to Social Security?

A: Yes. An SSI beneficiary must report any change in living arrangements within 10 days after the change occurs. If the change is not reported, your dad could receive an incorrect payment or he may not receive all the money that is due. Also, your dad needs to report his new address to Social Security so that he can receive mail from us. Even if benefits are paid by direct deposit, we need to be able to get in touch with him. He can report the change by telephone, mail or in person at any Social Security office. Keep in mind failing to report a change to Social

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On the cover: Suzie Heflin tells the story of how her Chinese pug Murphy saved her life and the bond they share.

Photos by: Kyle Mills of the Tribune

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Baked breaded fish / oven-browned potatoes / coleslaw with carrots / peaches

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Split pea and ham soup / crackers / cook’s choice salad / pears Beef stroganoff over noodles / broccoli / spinach / biscuit / bread pudding with apple

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Workshop on health risks being offered

The community center is located at 1424 Main St.

The “Eat Smart — Move More” seminar will address ways to improve health through lifestyle changes. It will be held from 1 to 3 p.m. April 11 at the Lewiston Community Center and is open to all ages.

Registration will begin at 12:45 p.m. Topics will include physical activity and food labels. The workshop is free but space is limited. To reserve a spot call the University of Idaho Nez Perce County Extension office at (208) 799-3096 or email your request to nezperce@ui daho.edu.

Sons of Norway will meet April 21 The meeting will begin with a covered-dish dinner at noon at the Pautler Senior Center in Clarkston.

A short business meeting will follow the meal and the program for the month will be on two books with stories of Norwegian culture during the 1200s and 1300s. Visitors are always welcome.

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Briefs New pinochle game starting The Sixth Street Senior Center has organized a new pinochle group.

Games will be at 1 p.m. Thursdays at the center in Clarkston.

The first game is this Thursday.

The center will host an Easter dinner from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Easter Sunday, a pancake feed with ham will be held at noon April 11, a taco feed is planned for April 18 at noon and a covered-dish dinner with meat provided by Emeritus at Juniper Meadows will take place at noon April 25.

Other activites at the center include a center clean-up day today at noon, and bi-weekly dances from 7 to 10 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday featuring the Heustis Kountry Band.

The band plays everything from country to waltzes to pop music.

A membership meeting is planned for 9 a.m. April 10 and the board meeting will be held at 9 a.m. April 17.

The center is open for coffee, NARFE meeting will tea and cookies, a social time, from 10 a.m. to noon Monday be held April 25 through Friday.

Robert Turner, Lewiston-Nez The center is located at 832 Perce County Regional Airport Sixth St. manager, will present the program at the April meeting of National and Retired Federal EmAARP Driver Safety Active ployees, Chapter 515. classes being offered The monthly meeting will begin at noon April 25 at Macullen’s The Lewiston chapter of the Restaurant, 1516 Main St., LewisAARP will have a driver safe- ton. The program will cover projty class beginning at 8:30 a.m. ects at the airport and the scope of April 14 at St. Joseph Regional services offered.

Medical Center, 415 Sixth St., Updates on current legislation Lewiston, in Conference Room affecting members will be given C on the second floor of the hos- during the meeting. pital.

The eight-hour class will break for lunch and will conHearing tests clude around 5:30 p.m.

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BIRTHDAYS April 1

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ď ˇ Bennie Wolfe Bennie Wolfe of Orofino celebrated his 94th birthday Sunday.

He was born April 1, 1918, in Glenwood, Idaho.

He and his late wife Edna White have three children.

The couple lived in Weippe until moving to Orofino.

ď ˇ Jacqueline Rose Malone Jacqueline Rose Malone of Colfax is celebrating her 91st birthday today with her family in Colfax.

She was born into a large Irish family April 2, 1921. She spent most of her childhood at the Shriners Hospital in St.

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Louis, recovering from polio.

Against all odds she not only walked again but trained as a swimmer on the U.S. Olympic team.

She and Erwin (Lee) Schmidt were married, and he served in Wold War II , being stationed in Europe for more than three years. Once he returned, his career as a civil engineer for the government made it necessary for the couple to move several times. She worked as a consultant for the University of Kansas. Her husband died in 1993.

She enjoys traveling, and her family camped throughout the U.S. and Mexico. She is well known for her needle work and crafts. In her younger days, she bowled and was a member of some gardening clubs.

Her favorite foods include Kentucky Fried Chicken and licorice.

She has five daughters , two sons, 15 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

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ď ˇ Betty Jean Golla Betty Jean Golla of Lewiston will celebrate her 90th birthday Tuesday.

The second of three children, she was born April 3 1922, to Fay and Marcia Myers in Lewiston. Her early childhood years were spent in Gifford until her family moved to Lewiston where her father helped open the Montgomery Ward store.

She graduated from Lewiston High School in 1939 and from Lewiston Normal School.

In 1947, she married Robert Golla of Lewiston and they

had one son.

She worked as an accountant for Adams Auto Sales, and later for Kelly Roberts and Company. Her husband died in 2005.

She continues to live in the home that she and her husband built.

Her interests include bridge, bunco, reading, watching sports on TV and rooting for the Atlanta Braves.

She has a son, two grandsons and two great-grandchildren.

She will celebrate with her family.

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APRIL 4  EILEEN WASSMUTH Eileen Wassmuth of Grangeville was honored Sunday for her 85th birthday.

She was born April 4, 1927, in Portland, Ore., to Joseph and Ruby Gleason Sherman. She was raised in California where she met and married George Remington.

After his death, she moved to Grangeville where she worked at Asker’s Thrift grocery store. She later managed

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the kitchen at Grangeville Elementary School.

She and Anthony Wassmuth were married April 5, 1961, and together they raised seven children. She also has 17 grandchildren, 21 greatgrandchildren and five great-greatgrandchildren.

She enjoys listening to books on tape, watching the Seattle Mariners on TV, playing with her dog Felix and spending time with her family.

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 PALMER CHASE Palmer Chase of Orofino will celebrate his 87th birthday Thursday.

He was born, the third of four sons, April 5, 1925, to Charles Irvin and Agnes Joanne Chase.

After his father became ill the family moved to the Lewiston Orchards. He attended the old Orchards school through the eighth grade and graduated from

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Lewiston High School.

He served in the U.S. Navy and Army during World War II. He received his post high school education at what is now Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston and then from University of Idaho where he got his bachelor’s and master’s degrees.

He retired from teaching and administration in 1988.

He has two daughters and two stepsons.

APRIL 6  GERALD (JERRY) RIDDLE Gerald (Jerry) L. Riddle of Lewiston willl celebrate his 80th birthday Saturday in Lewiston.

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He was born April 6, 1932, in Lewiston, to Charles and Elsie Riddle.

He received his education from Lewiston High School and Lewis-Clark State College.

He worked at Potlatch Corp. in Lewiston for 42 years.

His hobbies include spending time with family and bowling.

He and his wife, Virginia, have one son, four daughters, 12 grandchildren and 13 greatgrandchildren.

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 KENNETH A. WILLOUGHBY Kenneth A. Willoughby of Lewiston will celebrate his 76th birthday Friday.

He was born April 6, 1936, in Sanders, Idaho.

H e attended school in Oaksdale, Wash., before moving to Lewiston.

He and Tootie Harrington married in 1955.

The couple will celebrate their 57th wedding anniversary in June.

The couple have two children, one grandchild and one great-grandchild.

He retired from Potlatch Corp. in Lewiston after 34 years.

In his younger years he enjoyed hunting, fishing, camping, and four-wheeling with family and friends.

His current hobbies include cards and coffee with friends.

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ď ˇ WILLIAM (BILL) BROWN

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William (Bill) Brown of Uniontown will celebrate his 75th birthday Friday.

He was born April 6, 1937, in Omak, Wash., to Bill and Genevieve Brown. The oldest of six and the only boy.

He attended school in Omak and graduated from Curlew High School in 1955. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy after graduating and served until 1959.

He worked running heavy equipment in road construction for several years then went to work at Excell Trucking in Lewiston until he retired in 1999.

He and Sharon Becker were married in 1993.

He has two children and four stepchildren. He also has several grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Lois Jean Myers of OroďŹ no will celebrate her 85th birthday Saturday.

She was born April 7, 1927, to Floyd and Minnie Mundt Myers. The family lived in the Weippe area until moving to OroďŹ no where she graduated from high school in 1945.

She and Earl Bird were married June 23, 1945, and had three children. The couple farmed in Fraser with her husbandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s brother until 1952 when they purchased their own farm on Eureka Ridge.

She served as secretary at the Wells Bench Grange No. 378. From 1963 through 1968, she worked during hunting season at a meat cutting and locker business in OroďŹ no. Later,

Vernis Helen Persoon of Clarkston will be honored from 2 to 4 p.m. April 15 at the First C h u r c h of the Nazarene.

She was born April 10, 1922, in Madison, S.D., to William and Helen Helling.

She and Larry Persoon were married June 17, 1941, in Madison.

She and her husband owned and operated Persoon Trucking where she was the bookkeeper. They retired in 1985.

She is a member of the Nazarene church, KRLC quilters, a poetry club and volunteers for the WA-ID Volunteer Center. She also attends painting groups at the Pautler Senior Center and the Lewiston Community Center.

Other hobbies include quilting, gardening, reading, digital pictures, and using email and Facebook.

She has ďŹ ve children, nine grandchildren and 10 greatgrandchildren with one on the way.

ď ˇ VIOLET MINO OPDAHL Violet Mino Opdahl of Lewiston will celebrate her 82nd birthday Saturday.

She was born on a farm in northern Iowa April 7, 1930.

She attended Grant Township School, graduating in 1947. She received an associates in education degree from Waldorf Junior College in Forest City, Iowa.

She and Duane Opdahl were married in 1950 and they farmed in Emmons, Minn., for several years. The couple moved to Pierce in 1976, where she continued working in the banking industry. From 1980 to 1995, she was secretary bookkeeper at Timberline High School.

Her husband died in 2006 and the next year she moved to Lewiston.

Her hobbies include patchwork, quilting, writing, music and cooking.

She is active in her church.

She has ďŹ ve children, 10 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

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she served as secretary for the Clearwater County Fair Board and then worked as secretary in the Clearwater County Extension ofďŹ ce until 1982.

She was a sewing leader for 4-H for 25 years. She also enjoys fabric painting, embroidery, crocheting, crossword puzzles, and tending to her ďŹ&#x201A;ower and vegetable gardens.

Her husband died July 1973.

She and Kenneth Moore were married December 1982. He died November 1996.

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He graduated from Clatskanie (Ore.) High School and Multnomah School of George Parkins the Bible in Portland, Ore., where he of Lewiston will met Lin Little. He also went on to celebrate his 75th graduate from Seattle Pacific College.

He and Little were married in 1968. birthday April 11.

He worked with Child Evangelism He was born April 11, 1937, in Fellowship (CEF) in Colfax for five Bremerton, Wash., years. They then moved to Lynchburg, to Eugene and Vera Va., where he worked with CEF for seven years. He then graduated from Parkins.

Liberty University there.

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Vernon Agee of Kooskia will be honored at an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. April 14 at the Kooskia IOOF Hall, for his 80th birthday.

He was born April 16, 1932, to Eldon and Mayme Agee at the family ranch near Kooskia, and was the oldest of four children. He attended Enterprise School, a one-room school on Kidder Ridge, through eighth grade, and graduated from Kooskia High School.

He and Kathryn (Kitty) Weld were married Jan. 12, 1951, at Kooskia.

They moved to a ranch on Harris Ridge

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near Kooskia where they still live. They have two daughters, three sons, nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.

He enjoys working with cattle, carpentry, fishing and traveling. The couple enjoy visiting with family and friends, and attending local dances.

He is active in the local and state cattlemenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s associations. He served on the Idaho County Fair board for many years and is a member of the Kooskia and Grangeville Masonic lodges.

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She is a member of the Lapwai Valley Presbyterian Church and was a Sunday school teacher for many years.

Some of her favorite pastimes include spending time with her grandchildren, playing with her cat Kee Kee and her dog Sam, sewing, cooking new recipes, creating art, reading, working crosswords, and visiting family and friends. She has been entering her quilts, art work and cooking at the Nez Perce County Fair, and has won many ribbons and awards.

She has three daughters, seven grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

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april 20  Gertrude Schmidt Gertrude Schmidt of Asotin will be honored with an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. April 15 at the Asotin Lions Hall. The occasion is her 90th birthday. She was born April 20, 1922, in Fort Benton, Mont., to Fred and Christina Funke. She was raised on a ranch in Cottonwood with four brothers and three sisters. She graduated from Cottonwood High School in 1940.

She and Richard Schmidt were married Nov. 10, 1943, in Cottonwood.

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In the early years they operated a cattle ranch in Kamiah. In 1952, they purchased 13 acres in the Clemans addition of Asotin. It was there that they built a home and raised three daughters.

She was employed at Adams Pharmacy and Wasem’s Drug in the 1970s and retired from there in the 1980s.

Her husband died in 1987.

She also has six grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

She is a lifetime member of the Ladies of the Elks.

She knows no strangers and enjoys meeting new people, having lunch with her friends and spending time with her family.

Her children will be hosts for the celebration.

april 21  Thelma Caroline Alfrey Thelma Caroline Alfrey of Lewiston and formerly of Sweetwater will celebrate her 101st birthday with an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. April 21 at Orchards Rehabilitation and Care Center in Lewiston. Her family will host the event.

She was born April 21, 1911, in Kippen (now called Ruebens) to Carl Koontz and Jessie Yardley Koontz.

She had three siblings. She attended school through the fourth grade at

Pilot Rock, Ore. Her mother died when she was age 13 and she attended school until eighth grade.

She married JR Dick Alfrey in Asotin in 1927 and they had three sons.

She worked at the post office from 1940 to 1966 and then the couple operated a store in Sweetwater.

Her husband died in 1997 and she moved to Lewiston in the spring of 2010.

She has 14 grandchildren, 41 great-grandchildren and 40 great-greatgrandchildren.

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He worked at Schmidt’s mill in Weippe and drove a team of horses skidding logs on the Pierce divide in 1936. The family then moved to Woodland where he still resides on the family farm. He started farming 150 3 3 7 6 5 6 D B _ 1 2

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He and Anna Altmiller were married June 26, 1948, in Kamiah and they raised three children. They have eight grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren.

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Suzie Heflin of Lewiston has her pug Murphy to thank for being alive today. He saved her life about a year ago.

Also pictured is Duffy, Heflin’s newest addition to the family.

Tribune/ Kyle Mills

Something to live for

By Mary Tatko

Of Target Publications

Suzie Heflin’s dogs are purebred pugs, but they’re a mix, too. The two little animals are part clown, part sentry — a combination Heflin said has saved her life.

Sometimes called Chinese pug, the breed is known for its squashed, wrinkled face, but Heflin’s animals are notable for their tongues. Both 11-year-old Murphy and 3-year-old Duffy tend toward an unusual tongue-lollingout-the-side expression that melts Heflin’s heart.

“It’s as if the Lord knew I needed something to make me smile,” she said.

Those tongues have another significant feature: they’re rough, like a cat’s. Heflin, 69, a diabetic who also suffers from congestive heart failure and kidney disease, said she’s here today to enjoy her dogs and the silly faces they make because of Murphy’s sandpaper tongue.

It was more than a year ago, but, perhaps because it was so harrowing, Heflin remembers the incident like it was yesterday. Because of breathing difficulties, she

transport her to the hospital, Heflin refused.

“No, I’m not going,” she said she told them.

“I’m not leaving Murphy here.

“I didn’t Murphy continued to lick. sleeps in a recliner in her know how far I’d been gone “He revived me enough Lewiston Orchards living until the next morning,” she that I could push the butroom, hooked to an oxysaid. “It turns out that my ton on this alarm,” she said, gen tank. At around 3 a.m., (blood) sugar had dropped indicating the emergency Murphy, who had been dozing beside her, sprang into alert device she wears around clear to 26.”

When she saw her doctor, action. her neck.

Kay Rusche, the next day, He“He evidently knew there Lewiston Fire Departflin learned how close she’d was something wrong with ment paramedics arrived come to slipping into a posme. He moved from the quickly and revived her. As sibly deadly diabetic coma. side to on top of me. I felt she became aware of her “She said ‘Murphy absolutely the weight of him there; he surroundings, Heflin could saved your life,’ ” Heflin said moved closer, put a little arm see the emergency workthe doctor told her. around each side of my neck,” ers silhouetted before the But Heflin’s savior was she said. “And took that glow of her television. “They nearly as sick as she was. rough tongue and began to looked like aliens from ‘Star wash on my face. I could feel Trek’ standing in front of the “Murphy doesn’t have diahim, but I couldn’t respond betes as far as we know, but TV,” she said.

Though they wanted to at all.” he’s got everything else I’ve

A “kiss” from her Chinese pug saved her life, says Suzie Heflin

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A pug and its human: a lifesaving bond

Susan Heflin

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got,” Heflin said. “It’s a toss-up of who’s going to go first, myself or Murphy.”

Murphy’s veterinarian, John Hoch, of Lewiston Veterinary Clinic, knew of Heflin’s special bond with Murphy. He also knew Murphy, in addition to other health issues, was obese and needed to lose weight and become more active.

The solution came in the form of Duffy, a younger pug adopted by Heflin a little less than a year ago. The dog is an adult male, larger than Murphy, but there’s never been any hostility or territoriality between them, Heflin said.

Both dogs are as much a part of her family as any human. A digital picture frame in Heflin’s kitchen displays photo after photo of Murphy, Duffy and Heflin’s family members, including grandchildren and greatgrandchildren. In one, a small great-grandchild sits on the floor, reaching delightedly for one of the dogs.

“They’re the gentlest, sweetest dogs in the whole world with children,” Heflin said.

Though Murphy hasn’t had to repeat the heroics of the night of Heflin’s low-blood sugar episode, both dogs perform a different sort of lifesaving service every day.

Brenda Corder, Heflin’s caregiver five days a week, said the dogs’ central role in Heflin’s life is impossible to miss.

“I’ve seen how dogs can really bring people back to life,” she said. “They’re the reason she gets up in the morning, there’s no doubt about that. And they love her. She can’t even go to the bathroom without them going to the door and standing there waiting for her.”

Heflin said her health is failing and seems resigned to that.

“Murphy and I are gonna go together, and we’re going to be buried over there where my husband’s at,” she said, gesturing toward the cemetery across the street from her house where her husband was buried 18 years ago.

But while Murphy ails alongside her, Duffy is a reminder that life goes on — even hers, for now.

“With Duffy here, I have to try to stick around just for him,” Heflin said. “If it wasn’t for these two dogs, I’d have gave up a long time ago.”  Tatko can be reached at mtatko@lmtribune. com or (208) 848-2244.

Editor’s note: When Suzie Heflin bought her first pug, Murphy, 11 years ago after being a Boston terrier breeder, her first stop on the way home with the puppy was at Lewiston Veterinary Clinic with Dr. John Hoch. In the years since, Hoch has treated Murphy and witnessed firsthand the remarkable bond between Heflin and her dogs, at once unique while at the same time representative of many other pet/owner relationships he has seen — especially among seniors. Here, he shares the history of that relationship, including tough decisions he and Heflin have made together about end-of-life issues.

Sue’s first dog treated at Lewiston Vet Clinic tion and gastroenteritis. We were able to successwas a Boston terrier named Sparkle, and her fully treat Murphy and get him through the crisis. personality matched her name. Sue Sue and I sat down and had a discusthought Sparkle was lonely, so she sion about Murphy, his health and his brought home a pug puppy and weight and decided another dog might named him Murphy. Murphy soon be what he needed. Sue could not give took over the household, and his inhim the exercise or the activity and fectious energy had the entire housestimulation he needed to stay healthy. hold hopping.

Sue kept her antenna out and found Murphy quickly grew, but his a perfect friend for Murphy. She tongue grew faster, and soon there agonized over whether she should was not enough room in his mouth bring in a new dog. I told her to go for his huge tongue. His tongue is so for it, that they would work things out big that it always hangs out and gives even though the dog she found was him quite a lot of personality. Murphy another pug, a 2-year-old neutered continued to grow wider, but not bigmale named Duffy. Duffy and Murphy ger, and soon he was very overweight. hit it off famously from the beginning.

Sue lost Sparkle when she got too sick Murphy was like a new dog. He lost commentary to save and had to be put to sleep. It four pounds and became much more broke Sue’s heart, but she and Muractive. He was engaging and happy phy continued on with just the two of again, and healthier. them.

Duffy is happy too with his new Sue began having some health isfamily, but as the pounds have come sues, and Murphy could tell when she off of Murphy they have gone on to was sick or when she needed help and Duffy. Now Sue and her two dogs are would get very fussy over her when a regular attraction at the vet clinic she had problems. One day, Sue was so sick that when they come in and hold court. Sue and her Murphy revived her by licking her face and she caretaker come in every three weeks or so for nail called for help, saving her life. Murphy and Sue trims, and the whole staff and clients are focused were a team, but it was obvious that Murphy was on the trio. Murphy, Duffy and Sue are in a very getting too heavy and could start having health good place right now and are a great team. problems of his own. Sue learned that her health Sue’s health has improved somewhat, and we was precarious and that she could die at any time. are optimistic that all will be going strong for She came to me and said that she wanted Murphy many years. Murphy and Sue will be together to be put to sleep when her time had come, and when the time comes, but Sue and I have talked his ashes were to be with her when she died. We and if Duffy is still healthy we may try to find a made the necessary arrangements. home for him. We will see what the future brings.

One night Murphy started having irregular Right now, we are focused on and grateful for the breathing, coughing and vomiting. He was rushed positive impact a couple of dogs can have on an to Lewiston Vet Clinic, and we gave him injectable older person’s life and the love that a senior can antibiotics and medicine to stop the vomiting. He give to a couple of overweight, eccentric pugs that had a swollen throat, an upper respiratory infechave such a wonderful life.

John M. Hoch, DVM

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April 28

 Barbara J. Cuddy Barbara J. Cuddy of Kendrick will celebrate her 81st birthday April 27.

She was born April 27, 1931, in Southwick to Comodore and Clara Perry.

She and Dave Clayton were married in 1950 and had three sons.

They owned the Rexall Drug store for many years, which is now operated by one of their sons.

Her husband died in 1993.

She is a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.

In her younger years, she enjoyed flower gardening, traveling and fishing.

She and Jim Cuddy were married Nov. 16, 1996, in Juliaetta.

She and her husband have six children, 10 grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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She was born in Seattle April 28, 1922, to Robert and Ora Barney Griffin, the second of three children.

She attended school in Seattle until her family moved to Vashon Island, Wash., where she graduated from high school.

She moved back to Seattle, where she was employed until her marriage to Graham C. Boulton Dec. 9, 1944. While her husband served in the U.S. Marine Corps in the South Pacific and later occupying Japan, she worked for Pacific Northwest Bell as a service representative in Seattle until he was discharged in 1946. They later moved to Vashon Island and then to Lewiston in 1958 with their two children. As a stay-athome mom, she enjoyed taking part in school and community activities and taught piano in her home for 40 years.

Her husband died March 11, 2004.

The greatest joy of her life is time spent with her two children, five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

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Dorothy Anderson of Lewiston will be honored from 2 to 7 p.m. April 28 at the Elks Temple in Lewiston for her 80th birthday.

She was born April 28, 1932, to Amma and Corbet Smith in Reno, Nev. She moved to Clarkston in 1944 and graduated from Clarkston High School in 1949.

She and Jim Anderson were married in 1950. They have five children, 15 grandchildren, 17 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.

Her husband died in 1996 after 45 years of marriage.

They purchased the Lewiston Speedway in 1964 and ran it until it closed in 1975. She worked at Orchard Lanes and then moved on to manage The Strike and Spare for a combined total of 40 years.

Her happiest times are when she is with her family, dancing or playing pinochle with friends, attending the Scarlet O’Hatters Red Hat Society functions, volunteering at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, going to Cougars’ basketball games, and watching or going to NASCAR races. She also enjoys entering her ’68 T-Bird in car shows and attending Orchards Community Church.

april 29  Lois Hillman Fuchs Lois Hillman Fuchs of Clarkston will celebrate her 95th birthday April 29.

She was born April 29, 1917, at the family home, near the Pine Grove area of Genesee, to Mabel and Arthur Hillman.

She spent her childhood in Palouse with her parents and six siblings. She graduated from Palouse High School in 1937.

She spent more than 48 years in the Tri-Cities area with her first husband, Brick Standley. Their farm “The Gold Dust” was a place all the family enjoyed visiting. They then moved to Rocky Point, in Heyburn State Park. Many memories were made at the cabin, which is still family owned.

She and her second husband spent 11 years in Mississippi.

She and Gus Fuchs were married from 2002 until his death in 2010. They enjoyed their time traveling, playing cards, family get togethers, and watching flowers and plants bloom.

She is a member of Holy Family Parish and P.E.O. She enjoys activities at the Pautler Senior Center and playing pinochle Two of her nieces will host a celebration at the Coeur d’Alene Resort.

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APRIL 30  JO HERRING Jo Herring of Lewiston will celebrate her 85th birthday April 30.

She was born in Manzanola, Colo., April 30, 1927.

Her family moved to Nyssa, Ore., where she graduated from high school and met the love of her life, Delbert Herring.

They were married in 1945 and had four children. The family moved to Lewiston in 1955. Family vacations were always a priority and one highlight came when they traveled across the country to the New York World’s Fair, then toured Washington, D.C., and visited 26 states.

After retirement, their love of travel took them to Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Hawaii, Guatemala, Switzerland and Israel.

She is active in her church and enjoys playing the organ each Sunday.

She loves to garden in her flower beds and always has them in impeccable order.

This brings to her yard the beautiful birds that she loves to watch and listen to.

She volunteers at McGhee Elementary in her daughter’s fourth-grade class.

She is the number one supporter of her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Her hobbies include reading and taking walks.

She and her daughters will celebrate her birthday with a trip to Maui, Hawaii.

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Volunteer opportunities 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.

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For more information about this opportunity, ask for Cathy when calling the center.

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Donor Ambassador: Volunteers are needed to assist the Red Cross in its mission to provide life-saving blood to the community. Tasks include welcoming donors, escorting first-time donors through the process, monitoring donors and offering them assistance. For more information about this opportunity, ask for Adrienne when calling the center.

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Volunteer work: Kudronowicz has been volunteering since the mid-1990s and became an RSVP Volunteer April 15, 2000. In that time she has volunteered at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Lewiston, the Inland Northwest Blood Center and more than 40 activities for the WA-ID Volunteer Center. Since becoming an RSVP volunteer, Kudronowicz has reported more than 7,000 hours of volunteer work, but has done many more hours than that in the last 12 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I say â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;reportedâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; because much of the time she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t even realize sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s serving,â&#x20AC;? said Adrienne Bennett of the WA-ID Volunteer Center. Kudronowicz spent her first five years with RSVP working with the AARP Tax Aid program and serving dinner at the Salvation Army. She also quilted for the needy and picked up litter with the Good Samâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Club. She knits for Project Warm-up project but admits that her wares also go to anyone who asks for a hat or scarf she has knitted. Another of her favorite programs to volunteer for is Christmas Connection.

Career: Before she was married, she began studying to be a nurse so she could join the military, but she got married and had children before she could finish her education. However, she did finally finish nursing school and worked as a nurse at Potlatch in Lewiston for 27 years, from 1969 through 1996, when she retired.

Family: Kudronowicz is a widow and has six children, with one of her daughters living here in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. She has lived in the area most of her life, having been born and raised in the Culdesac area. She and her husband moved to Lewiston in 1962.

Hobbies: She is an active member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and has taken on many leadership roles in the state organization as well as her local chapter. She enjoys making things with her hands like crocheting pot holders, dishrags, hats and scarves for those who need them, and making rosaries for missions in places like India and Africa. Kudronowicz says she also enjoys traveling.

Kudronowicz told the Tribune she feels like she volunteers for selfish reasons. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I do it to keep from being lonely.â&#x20AC;?

When asked her favorite part of volunteering, Kudronowicz said: â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think probably when I run the PX cart here (at the veterans home) every other week on Wednesdays I hit all the rooms and check their supplies to make sure they all have enough toiletries to last until I get back again. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the time I make personal contact with them and get to know them.â&#x20AC;?

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It was a gray and rainy Monday when I sat down with Joann, Sally and Lucille during lunch at the Lewiston Community Center.

The three widows come for more than just the food â&#x20AC;&#x201D; they come for the company.

Each of the three ladies told me a little about themselves.

Joann came to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley in 1980 and volunteers at the Senior Roundtable. She is the mother of three sons but none of them live nearby. One is in Caldwell, one is in Portland, Ore., and

the other lives in Texas. So getting out is important to her.

Joann doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t find much use for the card games offered at the different places in the valley and says she doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do crafts anymore, so these meals and her volunteer work are big parts of her life.

Lucille came to the valley in 1975 and attends the Monday lunches most weeks.

She also plays pinochle on Wednesdays at the community center and on Fridays at the Pautler Senior Center, where she also goes for meals. â&#x20AC;&#x153;You get to know quite a few people,â&#x20AC;?

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Before lunch is served everyone stands to pledge allegiance to the flag, and then the group lines up to get that dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hot meal.

While I spoke to one of the ladies the other two conversed about people they knew and the food â&#x20AC;&#x201D; comparing the meals served at the Senior Roundtable to the ones served at the community center.

They each had things they prefered at one place or the other and compared notes on the meal in front of them. All the while the loneliness seemed to fade from these three women, if only for the short duration

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Vacationing on their waters, life is really great where the Clearwater meets the Snake.

Looking back through the years, recalling the lives of the pioneers who settled this place, they also made history, where the Clearwater meets the Snake.

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Just to see where the Clearwater meets the Snake.

Thinking of miners and Indians who traveled along their banks.

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Dandelions spring up, pale leaves we taste.

Golden blooms follow, soon white fluff to waste.

Grandma says hollyhocks go by the barn.

She copies their colors for sweater yarn.

Snowdrops were brave in snowy early night.

Violets erupt in lawn, happy sight.

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Treadle Singer sewing machine.

As she sewed my dress, she smiled.

She was happy to make my flour sack dress.

After she was done sewing, she washed it.

Starched and ironed it, and hung it up.

I looked at it and thought how beautiful.

I could hardly wait to wear it to school!

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I pranced in front of the mirror and then took the bus to school.

The teacher said “Your dress is beautiful, did your mom make it?”

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And some grandmothers, like Gregory of Southfield, Mich., are even abandoning the traditional moniker for names that better fit their personalities and lifestyles, such as Grand, GiGi or Nana.

“Not only is today’s grandma young, vital and vibrant, she’s is likely to be a grandmother at least 50 percent of her life,” Witkin says.

“She’s dating, dancing, playing tennis, shopping like crazy, very involved in charities and most are still working.”

Metro Detroit doctor Stephanie Lucas attributes the new thinking about grandmothers to the healthier lifestyles of baby boomers.

“I tell my patients 60 is the new 40, and they really are amazing in the sense that they have overcome medical conditions and are living life to the fullest,” says Lucas, a grandmother of two.

“People are living much better and thus are able to be more active. I can’t imagine my grandmother doing Zumba, yoga or riding a bicycle 60 or 70 miles, yet many grandmothers are doing those things today.”

Even values have changed with current generations.

“Some of our grandparents never got divorced and would be horrified when their children got divorced.

Now grandparents are getting divorced and many are remarrying,” says Witkin, a grandmother of three.

Witkin and Lucas, an internal medicine specialist at both Beaumont and St. John hospitals, say the role of grandmothers in today’s society varies tremendously. Some are the primary caregivers, while others swoop in, spend some time, and then swoop out. Others have lots of free time to spend on themselves or their grandchildren.

“I have to tell my daughter sometimes, ‘The key word is grand, not mother,’ ” says Gregory, 58, a retired Ford Motor Co. executive assistant who’s Nana to Patrick, 19, Kaelan, 14, and Moya, 7 .

Michele Bradley, 57, of Oak Park, Mich., doesn’t mind being called grandma, but she might mind if one of her three children called her about baby-sitting any of her eight grandchildren when she’s getting ready to go bike riding.

“I can out bike and out swim my children and my grandchildren,” says Bradley.

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