Goldentime-Feb2010

GOLDEN A life writ large

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Lucille Magnuson of Moscow reflects on her love of music and poetry / PAGE 8

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Birthdays / PAGE 6 Poetry / PAGE 14 Ed Hayes / PAGE 20 A M O N T H LY M A G A Z I N E F O R T H E R E G I O N ’ S R E T I R E E S B Y T H E L E W I S T O N T R I B U N E

F E B R U A R Y 1 , 2010 / VOL. 19, NO. 2 / A Target Publication

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SOCIAL SECURITY Q&A MCCLATCHYTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE

Q: What is the difference between Social Security dis-

ability and Supplemental Security Income disability?

A: The Social Security Administration is responsible for two major programs that

provide benefits based on disabilities. They are Social Security Disability Insurance, which is based on prior work under Social Security, and Supplemental Security Income, which is based on need. SSDI is financed with Social Security taxes paid by workers, employers and self-employed persons.

SSI payments are paid from general revenues. For more information about Social Security and SSI, visit our Web site at www.socialsecurity.gov or call us toll-free at (800) 7721213 (TTY 800-325-0778).

First, you can apply online at www.socialsecurity.gov.

If you must visit an office, bring as many medical records as you can, but don’t wait to get your medical records before you come in.

Ask your treating sources to respond immediately to Social Q: I get Supplemental Security’s requests for inforSecurity Income, or SSI, for a mental disability. I would like to mation. Have the names and try going to work. Am I allowed addresses of all sources — doctors, hospitals, clinics — that to get a part-time job without have treated you. risking loss of benefits?

And notify us of changes, A: Yes. In fact, Social especially changes in contact Security encourages recipients with disabilities to try workinformation, like your address Q: How much will I receive ing. For example, if your and phone number. These things in Supplemental Security only income is Supplemental will help speed up the processIncome benefits?

Security Income (SSI) and you ing of your claim.

A: The amount of your SSI start to work, only a portion of benefit depends, in part, on your income is used in recalQ: I am trying to save up for where you live. The basic SSI culating your monthly benefit a station wagon. I have $900 check is the same nationwide. amount. Also, in most cases you in the bank now and need a However, many states add are able to keep your medical money to the basic check and coverage. Social Security has a little more. How much cash can I have in the bank without some offer other supplements. number of work incentives to For 2008, the maximum federal help you attempt working with- affecting my SSI eligibility?

A: The resource limit is SSI payment is $637 per month out taking away the security of for an individual and $956 for a your benefits. Learn more about $2,000. Unless you have other couple. Because SSI is a needs- them by visiting our Web site at valuable resources, this means you could save up to $2,000 based program, this amount www.socialsecurity.gov/work. before you would become inelimay be reduced due to other income. If you get SSI, you also Q: I have an appointment gible for SSI. may be able to get other help to apply for Social Security We generally do not count from your state or county. For disability benefits. Is there your primary car, the home example, you may be able to get anything I can do to make the you live in or certain amounts Medicaid, food stamps or some process go faster? set aside for burial expenses as other social services. For inforA: There are things you can resources. mation about all the services do to speed up the process.

In some cases, if the vehicle you’re saving for is part of a plan to return to work, you can have higher resources — but Social Security would need to approve your plan in order to exclude those resources.

For more information, you can visit our Web page about SSI at www.socialsecurity. gov/ssi. Or you can call Social Denny Security’s toll-free number at Bill Lewis Malcom (800) 772-1213 (TTY 800-325Serving the Lacyn 0778) and ask for the publicaLewiston-Clarkston Jordan Valley since 1925 tion, Supplemental Security Income.

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Chapter 515 of the National Active and Retired Federal Employees Association will hear from Ben Johnson, the Lewiston sanitation manager, at its meeting Feb. 27. The meeting will begin at noon at Macullen’s Restaurant at 1516 Main St. in Lewiston.

Johnson will discuss what is new in the Lewiston recycling program.

All retired and current federal employees are welcome. More information is available by calling (509) 751-8791.

Diabetic support group sets February meeting The Valley Diabetic Support Group will meet at 7 p.m. Feb. 8 at the Trinity Lutheran Church, 920 Eighth Ave. in Lewiston.

The focus of this month’s meeting is living with diabetes.

All diabetics and family members are welcome.

Informational handouts, magazines and samples of diabetic supplies are provided.

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The local chapter of AARP will meet at noon Feb. 3 at the Pautler Senior Center at 549 Fifth St. Clarkston. Entertainment will be provided by Leah Hagen on the piano. Kim Gates of the Public Transportation Benefit Area will explain Clarkston bus routes and schedules.

Reservations for the lunch can be made by calling Ruth at (509) 758-2448. She can help find transportation to the meeting for those who need a ride.

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The tax help will begin Feb. 1 and continue through April 15.

No appointment is necessary.

The program provides free tax preparation and e-filing for taxpayers with low to moderate incomes in any age group.

Those seeking help will need to provide identification, social security cards for the filer and dependents, W-2 forms, SSA 1099 forms that show social security benefits, broker statements and any other documents showing income tax or withholding.

Birthdays starting at 70 and every year after that will be published in Golden Times. Photos will be published starting at 70 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 on submitting a birthday, please call Golden Times at (208) 848-243.

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IN BRIEF Beginning Feb. 1, tax filers have an additional place to go for assistance. The AARP Tax Aide program will have help available from 9 a.m. to noon Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays just inside the Lewiston Center Mall near the entrance to the JC Penny store.

Other Tax Aide sites are at the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St., which is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the Asotin County Library, 417 Sycamore St. in Clarkston.

It is open Mondays and Thursdays from 9 a.m. to noon

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AARP Drivers’ Safety classes offered in Moscow and Lewiston A one-day driver safety class is offered from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Feb. 20 at Gritman Hospital in Moscow. There will be a break for lunch. The course fee is $12 for AARP members and $14 for non-members. To register, call

Linda Shepard at (208) 883-1002 or Gritman Hospital at (208) 8824511.

A two-day driver safety class will be conducted from 1 to 5 p.m.

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The class will consist of workbooks, video and instruction. Those who complete the course will receive a Driver’s Safety Certification at the end of the second day.

Fees are $12 for AARP members and $14 for non-members. To register, call Carol Wise at (208) 746-9496.

AARP drivers class set for March in Orofino An AARP Driver Safety class is set for 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

March 2 in the Gold Dust Room at the Best Western Lodge at River’s Edge, 615 Main St. in Orofino. There will be a one hour break for lunch; attendees are responsible for their own food.

Tuition is $12 for AARP members and $14 for nonmembers.

The course is designed for people over 50, but is open to students of any age. Completion of the course may earn drivers a reduction in their auto insurance rates.

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BIRTHDAYS FEB. 2  FRED A. JABBORA Fred A. Jabbora will celebrate his 80th birthday with an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Feb. 7 at St. Stanislaus parish hall in Lewiston.

Fred was born Feb. 2, 1930, in Orofino to Thomas and Effie Jabbora. He graduated from Orofino High School in 1948. He is a veteran of the Korean War. He married Betty Drake in

Lewiston in 1955.

Fred worked as a telegraph operator for the Camas Prairie Railroad in Culdesac and Craigmont. He relocated to the Lewiston office and retired in 1992. He was the city clerk in Culdesac for many years. He is active in the American Legion and the Elks, both in Lewiston.

Fred has five children and eight grandchildren. One grandson died in 2006.

FEB. 4  ALLANE BALDRIDGE Allane Baldridge of Clarkston will celebrate her 80th birthday with an open house from 1 to 3:30 p.m. at United Methodist Church of Clarkston at 1242 Highland Ave. Feb. 14.

Allane was born Feb. 4, 1930, in Craighead County, Ark. to Mary Eliza Humphreys Richie and Claude Odell Richie.

She married Lewis Baldridge in 1947 in Black Oak, Ark. They reared four children. A son later died.

Allane supported Lewis throughout his career in the military, and they retired in 1973. He died in 2002.

She is a member of PEO Chapter DM and Wesleyan Fellowship of United Methodist Church, both in Clarkston.

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FEB. 5 ď ˇ MAHLON B. MATHISON Mahlon B. Mathison of Lewiston will celebrate his 78th birthday Feb. 5. Matt was born Feb. 5, 1932, in Potlatch and lived in the Deary area until 1937.

He lived in Clarkston until 1946, when he moved to

Scappoose, Ore. Matt served in the U.S. Army in Korea from 1952 to 1955.

He moved back to Lewiston in 1956 and worked for Potlatch Corp. for 32 years.

Matt has three children, four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

He enjoys riding his ATV.

FEB. 6 at the Nez Perce County Fair for her owers and vegetables. She has a beautiful rose garden.

In addition to her children, Sophia has 10 grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

ď ˇ ORVILLE AND JOHANNA Biggers Orville and Johanna Biggers of Grangeville will celebrate his 85th and her 80th birthday with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 6 at the Grangeville Senior Citizen’s in Grangeville.

Their daughters will be the hosts of the celebration.

Orville was born Feb. 6, 1925, in Sweet, Idaho, to Charles and Alice Biggers.

Johanna was born Feb. 6, 1930, in Everett, Wash., to George and Tina Vrieling.

They were married in Grangeville in 1953 and

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ď ˇ SOPHIA R. ELLIS Sophia R. Ellis of Lewiston will celebrate her 90th birthday Feb. 6 with family. She was born Feb. 6. 1920, in Kansas.

Sophia married Leonard Ellis in Kansas in 1940 and they moved to Idaho, where they reared four children.

Leonard was a retired Lewiston ďŹ re chief and died in 2005.

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They both enjoy going to garage sales.

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Lucille Magnuson of Moscow has a comfortable chair and good light where she starts her poetry writing.

Writing history’s song Throughout her life, Lucille Magnuson has found expression in music and poetry

Adelines, headed up rhythm bands, taught music lessons and played the organ at church on Sundays.

But a mild stroke and the loss of her right elbow to a bone infection have taken a toll on her

By Mary Tatko ability to make music.

Of Target Publications “I still play,” the 89-year-old Moscow resident said, glancing at Lucille Magnuson is a prolific the Baldwin electric organ that has poet whose first love is music. replaced her full-size piano. “But She has played piano and sometimes I put the earphones on accordion, sung with the Sweet so nobody can hear me.”

She might miss performing, but she does not complain.

Instead, she’s philosophical about the physical challenges aging has brought. Since the stroke and surgery, she said, she has more time to write.

Magnuson, who regularly contributes poems to Golden Times, has been a poet nearly as long as she’s been a musician.

“I’ve been writing poetry since high school,” she said. “I have the typical poet’s shoe boxes full

of poetry under the beds.” lll In high school, Magnuson played accordion in a band, entertaining upscale crowds at the Paradise Inn on Mount Rainier.

“It used to be very socially prominent in the 20s,” she said of the inn, which opened in 1917. “Society people went there not for the skiing so much but for the recreation and resorttype lodging.”

“I’ve been writing poetry since high school. I have the typical poet’s shoe boxes full of poetry under the beds.”

— Lucille Magnuson

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It was in 1937-1938 when, on Friday evenings, she would travel there by bus from her family’s home in Tacoma, to play her accordion for the guests.

“It was very popular at the time,” she said, of the now rarely-heard instrument.

“Everybody had a lot of fun, dancing in their ski boots and their moccasins after skiing,” she said. “It was a very young crowd.”

Last year, Magnuson’s youngest son, Lee, planned a trip to the newly refurbished lodge.

They spent a weekend there in September, the first time she’d been back since the lodge underwent extensive upgrades.

“It was beautiful,” she said.

“So that was a real pleasure.”

Nature always has inspired her writing, and returning to the mountain where she’d spent so much time as a youth led to a poem, “Majestic Mountain,” written as a thank-you to her son for arranging the visit. lll Growing up in Tacoma, Magnuson studied classical piano. Years later, she taught lessons in Kendrick where she and her husband, Robert, lived for 50 years.

News of her students’ recitals was published in the Kendrick Gazette, sometimes with photographs, and Magnuson made scrapbooks cataloging the names and accomplishments of all her students.

“I hear from all these kids that I taught piano quite often,” she said. “It makes me feel good when I know they’re busy with the music.”

She met Robert, who grew up on a family farm in Worley, Idaho, when he came to the Seattle area looking for work around 1940.

The two were married in Seattle in 1943, and he served in the Army for a time. They moved around, living in Idaho Falls for a few years, but preferred northern Idaho.

Settling in Kendrick, where he became postmaster, they reared five children, three boys and two girls.

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Lucille Magnuson produced several small volumes of her poetry for her family at Christmas. their home when the children were small and, once they were in school, went to work at the post office.

As the children approached school age, she also began what would become a lifelong commitment to volunteering. She

joined the PTA, which was working to introduce kindergarten in Kendrick.

Magnuson recalls the group hiring a retired teacher to conduct the first kindergarten class there. “Eventually it got worked right into the school system,”

she said.

Meanwhile, she continued to write, often submitting poetry to be published in the Kendrick Gazette, an activity that didn’t go unnoticed by her children.

“The Kendrick Gazette every once in a while would publish

some of the kids’ poems,” she said. “They would be interested when I was sending one to the Gazette, so they would write some also.”

To this day, she said, her children will compose a bit of verse to include with a Valentine. They wrote poems to help cheer her up when she had elbow surgery.

“They like to write; they’re good writers,” she said.

Indeed, a love of language, learning and music has followed her children throughout their lives.

“They were all avid readers,” she recalled. “Out of five kids, three were school teachers.”

Her oldest son is retired from the creative writing department at Washington State University, and her oldest daughter is set to receive an award this spring for her contributions to improving the youth symphony in Yakima.

Subsequent generations — Magnuson has eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren — have continued in the same vein: Magnuson looks forward to attending the Spokane Symphony where a granddaughter plays the cello. lll Since her days with the PTA, Magnuson has made music, written poems, traveled internationally and nurtured friendships through myriad volunteer and social activities.

While living in Kendrick, she served on the Latah County Library board and the Latah County Museum board. In Moscow, she volunteered for United Way. When her arm was stronger, she played piano in a senior citizen rhythm band that included a washboard, kettle drum, bells and tambourine. The band played at kindergartens and senior centers, drawing the audience into the performances and revealing a funny truth about small children and the elderly: “Sometimes senior citizens are like the kindergartners,” she said of the bashful audiences that eventually warmed to the band’s music.

A charter member of the Lewis-Clark chapter of the Sweet Adelines (the name later was changed to Inland Harmony as it gained members from

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beyond Lewiston and Clarkston), Magnuson sang with the group for 29½ years, until her stroke in 1998 made participating too difficult.

She and Robert traveled to London for an international Sweet Adelines competition, where they listened but didn’t compete. They also visited cousins in Sweden, where Robert’s family had its roots, and where their youngest son was working for the Swedish Embassy at the time.

She has bittersweet memories of trips to Japan and Italy to visit a granddaughter whose husband is in the Navy. He later was injured in Iraq and currently is in a Navy hospital in San Diego, Magnuson said, his military career up in the air.

For several years in the 1970s, Magnuson put her skills to use professionally, writing a cooking column for the Lewiston Tribune.

She was a member and twice

Each morning as I crept out of my bed That huge white covered giant showed its head.

Sometimes a ring of lacy clouds hid snow, But sunrise soon made the highest peaks show.

Some rainy days here in the valley below, I could look up to watch high blizzards blow.

Brave hikers waited for fair weather’s climb, Ready for clearing days and a safe time.

My day was better if I looked up there To admire the beauty and try to share, Joys found in nature’s gift on highest peaks.

Our Mount Rainier stands proudly and speaks Of ancient rumblings and lasting glaciers; With Paradise Inn and Longmire pleasures.

Memories of youthful days linger long, With haunting whispers of history’s song.

— Lucille Magnuson was the president of the Gem State Writer’s Guild, and contributed to the guild’s bicentennial publication.

It was through the writer’s guild she became acquainted with the work of another Golden Times poet, Saxon WhiteKessinger, who died in January.

“I never got to meet her, but I always looked for her work,”

Magnuson said. “She was a good member, I remember, and her writing was good.”

She’s thankful, she said, for the Friendly Neighbors organization in Moscow, and for the Methodist church, where she was a substitute organ player in Kendrick and where she sang in the choir in both Kendrick and Moscow.

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“Sometimes you just see something so beautiful, you want to scribble something.” — Lucille Magnuson “I’m so grateful for my many friends through all those activities and especially my association with the church,” she said.

“The church has been a blessing and a good influence on me.”  After five years of driving back and forth from Kendrick to be with Robert, who was at Latah Care Center, Magnuson moved to an apartment in Moscow in 1996. He died later that year.

She now lives in a rented house across the street from her oldest son. It’s a home with enough space for her many collections, including various musical instruments and 140 bells, souvenirs from her travels and gifts from friends.

Though she doesn’t travel as much these days, she continues to make occasional trips with the Idaho Roadrunners travel club, including to Fairmont Hot Springs and the San Juan Islands.

The urge to write never has left her.

A couple of times, she said, she’s been ambitious and published poetry booklets for her family at Christmastime. One, titled “Idaho Gems, Poems Cut and Polished by Lucille Magnuson,” includes a collec-

tion of writings about her family and the natural wonders of her adopted home state.

“Sometimes you just see something so beautiful, you want to scribble something,” she said.

“I spend a lot of time in that chair,” she said, pointing to a plush recliner where she goes to “sit and scribble.”

Once she’s done her “scribbling,” Magnuson takes her notes to her computer room.

“I enjoy getting on the computer and fighting with it,” she said.

Beside her computer is a stationary bicycle she said gets plenty of use. She also swims twice a week at Gritman Medical Center’s Community Wellness Center.

“I couldn’t write at first after the surgery and stroke, but it came back,” she said. “I am a firm believer in physical therapy.”

Ever the optimist, she maintains her focus on the things she can do, refusing to be grumpy about what she can’t.

“Each day has been something new to learn and be thankful for,” she said. “I’m very grateful for such a full and rewarding life.”

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relaxes in one of his vintage barber chairs as he watches the passing parade outside the shop, tucked between a Mexican restaurant and an auto repair shop.

His favorite chair is a circa1927 model produced by Emil J. Paidar of Chicago, according to the emblem stamped on its stainless steel footrest. He acquired the antique, along with two similar ones, when he bought his shop.

Pulling himself out of the chair, Lewis steps slowly toward a shelf lined with bottles of hair tonic and scented after-shave lotions. He rifles through a pile of magazines stacked near an old-fashioned manual cash register and pulls out a worn barber supply magazine.

He flips through it until he comes to an ad for an antique chair of the same vintage.

It’s listed with a sale price of $5,000.

Although his shop has changed little since he took it over in 1952, the neighborhood has.

The once predominantly African American area now has a heavy Latino presence.

Younger men and boys are likely to seek out a spiffier-looking place rather than one with mid-century mirrors and sinks and ornate chairs. In fact, a

pristine, modern hair salon has just opened four doors south of Lewis’ shop.

“In the old days, all three chairs were busy. I had police, priests, businesspeople all coming in here. I’d tell them, ’If you’ve got the hair, I’ve got the time,’ ” Lewis says. “Now I only have another barber on Fridays and Saturdays.”

Troy Samwel has been the shop’s second barber for six years. “He’s a good man, the best. He’s like my daddy,” Samwel says of his boss as he gives a customer in his mid-20s a buzz cut on a recent Friday afternoon. “I’m blessed to work with him — I’ve learned so much. He always says to be yourself and mind your own business.”

As good barbers do, Lewis knows to listen and agree and not debate when customers begin ranting about things like politics, sports and red-light cameras at intersections.

Still, Lewis sometimes thinks hard about retiring, even if his customers aren’t eager for that to happen.

“I’m ready. When I do, I’m just going to stay home and sit down. I won’t be looking for any part-time job. If I wanted to do that, I’d keep working here,” he says.

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“Everybody I know who Customers said it’s his smile retires goes out and gets another and encouraging outlook on life job. I already have a job,” he — just as much as the haircut he says. “I’m not a ’honey do’

By Bob Pool gives — that keeps them comman, you know, ‘Honey do this, Of the Los Angeles Times ing back. honey do that.’ If I’m going to “He started doing this the work at home I may as well be LOS ANGELES — Past the iron-mesh security door and the same year that Jackie Robinson working here.” broke into the majors,” says Lewis’ wife of 56 years, empty, 20-foot-long long vinyl Derrick Blakey, 50, who has Mary, drives him to and from waiting bench, Elvie Lewis gives his ancient barber’s chair a frequented the shop for 22 years. the shop from their home on For much of that time, Lewis West 66th Street, about a mile slap with a striped towel to dust has allowed Blakey to sell Taway. off the last stray wisps of hair shirts embossed with uplifting “About the only places I go from the customer he has just sayings such as “Wealth Is Good are to church, this barbershop finished.

Health” and “Think Positive” and the VA hospital,” he says.

With a weary grin, Lewis in the shop. “Mr. Lewis is more “For 45 years, I went on vacaplops down in the ornate chair than a hairstylist. He’s an arttion all over the United States and tugs a lever to make it and to places like the Bahamas. recline. With his head back and ist,” Blakey says. “And he’s an encourager. He’s supported Now my favorite place is here.” his feet up, he closes his eyes.

Born in the Dallas area, “It isn’t like it used to be. You everything I’ve done.”

Luvert Pineset, a 73-yearLewis landed in Los Angeles couldn’t even sit down it was old retired high-rise mainteafter World War II, where he so busy. We kept this place full nance worker who travels from served “three years, six months when I was in my prime,” he Palmdale for his trims, appreci- and eight days” with the U.S. says softly. ates Lewis’ old-school, gentleArmy, primarily in the Persian If business is a bit slow, manly manner.

“He’s a nice Gulf region.

Lewis has earned a break. He man,” Pineset explains.

He had worked in Texas has been cutting hair for 62 “He’s still got a steady hand,” before the war as a busboy at a years. At the age of 94, he likes Woolworth’s lunch counter and to call himself Los Angeles’ old- adds Robert Hunter, 76, a former steelworker from South Los knew that he wanted to work for est barber.

Angeles who has been going to himself. A stint at a barbershop’s These days, he still has a Lewis for more than a decade. shoeshine stand persuaded him steady hand — and an even Lewis puts in a 7 a.m. to 5 that he could cut it as a barber. steadier clientele. Longtime p.m. workday Tuesdays through “So after the war I went customers trickle in Tuesdays Saturdays.

He’s on his feet to barbers’ school and then through Thursdays; a steady whenever he’s cutting hair, worked as an apprentice for 18 stream comes Fridays and despite the aches and pains that months in Long Beach. After Saturdays.

His regulars travel from as far come from living nine decades. that I opened my first shop near He walks with a cane now, the corner of Long Beach and as Palmdale, Calif., to the threeVernon avenues. Then I came chair shop on South Normandie and four years ago he turned in his driver’s license, swapping here,” Lewis says. “This is a Avenue in Los Angeles that it for a simple ID card from the good location.”

Lewis has operated since 1952. state.

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reader poetry The Rodeo Clown

Have You

You are an impossible dream but she can dream of the rodeo clown.

He puts himself in harm’s way to distract the bull. So the cowboys can run free and be safely out of harm’s way.

Have you milked a cow, pitched hay, or ridden a horse all day?

I have!

Have you watched a deer, branded a calf, or listened to a magpie laugh?

I have!

Have you lived in a city with a nation’s hum, where affairs of the world begun?

I have!

Have you given birth or tilled the earth?

Caught a fish, fixed a favorite dish?

I have!

Has your world crumbled about your ears?

And just when you were on the brink, you stooped to heavy drink?

I have!

— Verla Wisdom, 82, Grangeville

The rodeo clown has come to town when he is done and the rodeo is over for tonight he will have some late night shots. He will forget for the night that he has been hurt. He will forget for a time then he will think about tomorrow.

Tonight his cowboy friends gather to tell him how great he is.

The fun for cowboys the run for life the young rodeo clown he is full of fun his bones have been broken he looks forward to another bull He looks into the eyes of the bull and he knows what will come his life is shaken and he wonders why? Why do I love this?

Then in the night and the soft lights of the bar he takes more shots.

A woman looks into his eyes, she feels his pain, he is so handsome, a fantasy and a dream she will never forget!

The rodeo clown.

— Yvonne Carrie, Clarkston

Hearts in Harmony Lucky hearts with Cupid’s touch Thrill to love songs very much.

Broken hearts heal, and soon mend If new tunes someone shall send.

Who knows what tomorrow brings?

When a handsome tenor sings?

Melodies may melt the heart, Harmony, new love to start.

Listen to heart beats of love, Sweet rhythm sent from above.

— Lucille Magnuson, 89, Moscow

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FEB. 6  LORENA SHINN Lorena (Neumayer) Shinn of Lewiston will celebrate her 90th birthday Feb. 6. She was born Feb. 6, 1920, in Bonners Ferry.

After graduating high school, Lorena moved to Lewiston to attend Lewiston State Normal School. After graduation from LCNS she taught at White Bird and Teakan. She started teaching second grade in Lewiston in 1943.

She married Marion Shinn in 1945. They reared two children.

She and her family loved to travel and spent 10 summers in Glacier National Park while Marion worked there as a seasonal park ranger.

After Marion retired in 1981, they traveled to more

than 60 countries.  PEARL They have presented ADAMS numerous travelPearl Adams ogues. of Lewiston Lorena loves her will celgarden. She has proebrate her vided floral decora90th birthday tions for the Senior Feb. 10. She Nutrition Program was born Feb. 10, 1920, in at the Orchards United Mohler, Idaho.

Methodist Church for the last Pearl married Harold Adams, 27 years. She also enjoys reading, sewing and cooking. and they reared five children.

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reader poetry Father of Global Warming

The Venture

He blew the flute and plucked the strings.

He spouted knowledge, myth and lore.

Gor was smart. He knew these things.

Let me take you on a venture, where you’ve never been before, see the suffering pain and courage of men who went to war.

They fought with all their energy, through the fire, snow and rain, they faced the deadly enemy who had so much to gain.

The training always started with how to use a gun, keep it clean, protect it, until the killing’s done.

You become a master as you fight a war each day; you keep on fighting even though your blood drips away.

You just have time to dress your wound, put in another clip, here comes two Huns on the run, you fire from the hip.

Bayonets are fixed, we may be fighting hand to hand, this is where you find out who is really in command.

Your blood turns to ice, your heart wants to explode, fear burns in your gut but you fire and reload.

Hand grenades and Tommy guns tear bodies all to hell, screams of dying men and the exploding artillery shells.

Your face and clothes are splattered with your buddy’s blood and flesh, orders are to fall back, we have replacements who are fresh.

While walking to the rear, listening to the guns, sleep, hot food, clean clothes, then back to killing Huns.

We still have thousands of miles to go, hundreds of battles in mud and snow.

Death camps, work camps and the country raped to death, the stench of dead bodies, you try to hold your breath.

Dear friend, your venture is over, see why brave men cry? They have lived in hell so many years, peace comes only when they die.

— Mel Meisner, 86, Lewiston

He sang the song the red bird sings, While Ogg and Ugg grunt like a boar.

He blew the flute and plucked the strings.

Global warming gave them early springs.

It made the glacial rivers roar.

Gor was smart. He knew these things.

In periodic climate swings, When glaciers grew in days of yore, He blew the flute and plucked the strings.

Why all this snow and ice that clings?

“Glow bull warming,” uttered Gor. Gor was smart. He knew these things.

He won the Nobel, dined with kings, Threw bones to compost on the floor.

He blew the flute and plucked the strings.

Gor was smart. He knew these things.

— Mary Ann Pavel, 67, Clarkston

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After so long on the run I’d almost forgotten how to have fun I decided to find a mate And have fun in groups of eight You don’t have to have ants

in your pants To get a partner and go dance Only trouble that comes up now I have almost forgotten how I’m taking lessons and now I see Some of it is coming back to me Maybe it will do the trick If I listen to caller Dick The music is a glorious sound As with my partner we go round The beautiful girls are all so fair As sounds of laughter fill the air

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FEB. 13  EFFIE COOPER MCALLISTER Effie Cooper McAllister of Orofino will celebrate her 86th birthday Feb. 13. She was born Feb. 13, 1924, near Orofino and has spent most of her life there, except during World War II when she worked in Portland as

a welder. She worked as a flunky in a logging camp and worked in housekeeping at the Greer Nursing Home and the Orofino Convalescent Center.

Effie married Jesse McAllister and they reared two children. She now has three grandchildren.

FEB. 13  EVA L. HERRING Eva L. Herring will celebrate her 80th birthday with an open

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involved with her church. She enjoys baking and sharing the results with friends and family. She is a noted poet.

Eva has five children and two grandchildren, who will serve as hosts for the celebration.

FEB. 16  ROSELLA SNYDER Rosella Snyder of Orofino will celebrate her 102nd birthday Feb. 16. She was born Feb. 16, 1908, to Carrol and Minnie Erickson Parkins on a farm near Reubens and Winchester.

She married Eldon Snyder in Orofino in 1927 and they reared two sons. Rosella and Eldon owned a mens clothing and sporting goods store for 47 years. Eldon died in 1989.

Rosella was a member of

the Eastern Star, Daughters of the Nile and is a charter member of the Orofino Golf Club. She enjoyed bridge and crossword puzzles. She now lives at the Orofino Care Center.

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FEB. 19 High School in 1948 and married Don Bennett in 1955.

They have lived in the Bay area and Genesee. In 1981, they retired and sold the Corner Bar in Genesee.

Betty is a member of

the Genesee Community Church, the Genesee Legion Auxiliary, the Bridge Club and the Genesee Boosters.

She enjoys playing bridge, visiting with her friends and attending her grandchildren’s sports and activities.

Betty and Don have five children, 15 grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild.

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FEB. 19  BONNIE LONG Bonnie Long of Lewiston will celebrate her 80th birthday Feb. 27 with her twin sister, Betty Bennett, with an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. at the Genesee Senior Center. Everyone is invited, and no gifts are desired.

Bonnie was born Feb. 19, 1930, in Lewiston to Charles and Nina Herman, one of

five children.

She grew up in Lewiston.

She was a stay-at-home mom until 1974, when she went to work as a lunchroom aide at Jenifer Junior High. She stayed there three years and then went to work at Lewiston Care Center

as activities director. She retired after 17 years.

Bonnie enjoyed 30 years in various bowling leagues, and she still enjoys dancing. She loves watching her grandchildren play sports. Her favorite teams are the Seattle Mariners, Gonzaga Bulldogs and the Atlanta Braves.

Bonnie has six children, 11 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

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Betty was born Feb. 19, 1930, in Lewiston to Charles and Nina Herman. She graduated from Lewiston

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feb. 21  LaVerne Emmett LaVerne Emmett of Moscow will celebrate her 85th birth-

day with an open house from 2 She was born Feb. 21, 1925, to 5 p.m. March 6 at Fairview in Elk River to Ted and Betty Village Estates in Moscow.

Thompson Rugg. Her father was a lumber grader, and LaVerne lived in Oregon and Northern California while growing up.

She and her husband Roy farmed on Big Bear Ridge until they retired and moved to Kendrick. Roy died in 1986.

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birthdays feb. 21  Robert R. Dudley Robert R. Dudley will celebrate his 80th birthday Feb. 21 with a family dinner.

He was born Feb. 21, 1930, to Howard and Mary Gillogly Dudley near Detroit, Mich., one of seven children. Bob attended junior and senior high school in California.

He married Phyllis Verret in 1950 and moved to Idaho.

They spent their honeymoon in a lookout tower. They moved to Moscow and reared four children while Bob pursued a degree in forestry at the UI. He later opened a cedar pole business. He and Phyllis enjoyed playing tennis and bridge. She died in 1982 and he semi-retired from his business.

In 1986, he married Loris Jones of Genesee. He was a member of the parks and recreation commission and served a four-year term on the Moscow City Council.

Bob still enjoys tennis.

feb. 23  Elisa K. Perkins Elisa K. Perkins will celebrate her 93rd birthday Feb. 23. She was born Feb. 23, 1917, and married in 1935. She lives at Brookside Landing in Orofino.

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feb. 24  Bob F. Hyde Bob F. Hyde of Lewiston will celebrate his 80th birthday with an open house from 2 to 4 p.m. Feb. 20 at an open house in the fellowship room of the Orchards United Methodist Church at 1212 Burrell Ave. in Lewiston.

Bob was born Feb. 24, 1930, the fourth of seven children in Memphis, Mo. After graduating high school, Bob moved to Idaho and went to work as a logger for Potlatch near Headquarters.

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He spent his working life in the woods and retired in Weippe.

Bob married Marlene Minden in 1957 and reared four children in Weippe, where they lived for 41 years. In 2006, they moved to Lewiston. Bob enjoys gardening and sharing his harvest with neighbors.

He is a dedicated walker and likes reading, crossword puzzles, fishing, sports and his family.

Bob and Marlene enjoy traveling, both in the United States and abroad.

feb. 26  Tom Reilly Tom Reilly of Orofino will celebrate his 83rd birthday Feb. 26. He was born Feb. 26, 1927, in Grand Forks, N.D. He served as a Navy cook on a troop ship. He obtained

his pilot license in 1947 and flew an air mail route. In 1951, he married Rosemary Shoemaker and they reared six children. The family moved to Orofino in 1966, and he continued his mail routes from there. Rosemary died in 1993.

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Elsie A. McAlister Elsie has two sons, of Lewiston will both of Lewiston, celebrate her 90th and 19 grandchilbirthday Feb. 27 dren, 24 greatwith family. grandchildren and She and her twin one great-greatbrother Robert were granddaughter. born Feb. 29, 1920, a leap She enjoys her family, year, in Arkansas to John and reading, fancy work and Daisy Slater. playing cards.

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feb. 29  Leonard (Pete) Galloway Leonard (Pete) Galloway will celebrate his 79th birthday Feb. 29. He was born Feb. 29, 1931, in Juliaetta.

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I like the pigskin, but the horsehide wins I sat here last week musing aloud about the true, red-whiteand-blue baseball fan.

You might’ve overheard me.

I mourned about how the hardball devotee was going to manage amusing himself — or herself — recreationally through the long cold winter.

Herself? That’s right. Some women are more overboard in this category than the fanatic fellas. Possibly you’re one of them.

Once, proudly, my sister-inlaw informed me that she read every word in the sports section of our daily newspaper.

Of course, that happened in the days when I was, ahem, cleanup hitter back in the sports department.

At all events, there’s apparently been some murmuring out there in the end-zone seats, critical of my piece last week, claims that the grand old game of football was given the royal brush-off.

Aw, no. Untrue. I like football as much as — well, maybe not that much — but you see, my birthtown, St. Louis, is one of the world’s truly epic baseball cities. I didn’t even know there was a game called football until 5 years old.

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front of my boyhood house? By no means contests for sissies.

You could say it’s the one sport in which contestants are compelled to hit the opponent below the belt.

Saturday evenings, my two brothers and I would sit crosslegged by the Majestic radio commentary in the living room to catch the college-grid scores from across the nation.

I bet there wasn’t a college nickname we lads didn’t know. crackerjack baseball pitcher, but Fighting Irish, Fighting Illini, he could also fire a football with Mizzou, Trojans, Buckeyes, the accuracy of Richard Boone. Razorbacks, Rebels, Spartans, Confidentially, I made a mark Longhorns, magical names all.

Did any other kid on our or two myself on the gridiron — block know that the LSU until discovering that whether Fighting Tigers had a handy or not I had the ball, there was second nickname? Do you? always somebody on the other Bayou Bengals, of course. side determined to knock my Know who the Horned Frogs helmet off with his funny bone.

That’s when I moved into the are? How’s about Crusaders, Green Wave, Owls? Answer: press box.

Listen. Some of my important TCU, Holy Cross, Tulane, Rice, respectively. As if you didn’t know. friends were football figures, Ah, football. Despite its Don Shula, Perry Moss, Lou Ross, Don Jonas, Deacon Jones. acceptable brutality, there’s Larry Czonka, Elmer Cook, Lou something irresistible about the sport.

Holtz.

But let me be brutally honest.

And how can I not remember I can’t wait till the ump struts those annual “touch” football matchups on Thanksgiving Day up to home plate and declares, mornings on the brick street in “Play ball!”

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