Golden Times, March 2013

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

TIMES March 4, 2013 / Vol. 23, No. 3

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Senior lunch menus — Page 3

Volunteer of the Month — Page 15

House Call — Page 17

Senior Talk — Page 18

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Birthdays .................................... Page 6

EDITOR: Mary Tatko

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INDEX: Social Security Q&A................... Page 4

COORDINATOR: Peggy Hayden

Sudoku ........................................Page 11

Golden Times is inserted in the Tribune the first Monday of every month.

Reader poetry ............................. Page 11

On the cover: Roy Jolley spends three days a week doing the dishes at the Pautler Senior Center for the Senior Round Table meals somewhat out of necessity but also to have something to do.

Volunteer opportunities ..............Page 14 Sudoku solution ..........................Page 16 Crossword ...................................Page 23

Photo by: Steve Hanks of the Tribune

Thought for the month “The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.� — George Carlin

WHO AM I? My birthday is March 4, 1891.

I was the National League king for an amazing seven straight seasons.

In 1955, I was inducted into the MLB Hall of Fame.

One of my biggest accomplishments was pitching a no hitter

Crossword solution .....................Page 24

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Senior Round Table Nutrition Program serves hot lunches at Pautler Senior Center, 549 Fifth St. No. F, Clarkston; and Tuesdays and Thursdays (except the 3rd Thursday each month) in Asotin. A salad bar is available at 11:30 a.m. Fridays only.

Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Cost is $7 for nonseniors.

Lewiston Senior Nutrition Program serves hot lunchs 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.

Moscow Senior Nutrition Program 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.

TUESDAY

12 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/gravy/green beans/biscuit/pudding

14 Corned beef/cabbage/ baby-red potatoes/roll/ vegetable Jell-O/cookie

15 Hamburger on a bun/fruit (No Home Delivery)

19 Chicken-fried steak/ mashed potatoes/gravy/ mixed veggies/apple crisp

21 Barbecue chicken/ macaroni and cheese/winter-mix vegetables/pears

22 Vegetable beef soup/ roll/fruit

26 Beef roast/mashed potatoes/gravy/carrots/ roll/cake/ice cream

28 Spaghetti with meat sauce/Italian-blend vegetables/breadsticks/peaches

29 Baked breaded fish/ french fries/fruit

5 Chicken-fried steak/ potatoes/gravy/coleslaw/ peas/roll

11 Stuffed peppers/ salad/green beans/roll/ fruit

12 Barbecue pork sandwich/ 13 Corned beef/cabbage/ potatoes/carrots/cucumber coleslaw/tater tots/mixed vegetables/French bread/fruit and onion salad/muffin 19 Spaghetti/salad/ 20 Roast pork/potatoes/ green beans/French gravy/Jell-O salad/mixed bread/fruit vegetables/roll

25 Baked ham/parsley potato/applesauce/broccoli and carrots/cornbread/cookie

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Senior lunch menus — Page 3

Volunteer of the Month — Page 15

House Call — Page 17

Senior Talk — Page 18

FRIDAY 8 Chicken with wild rice soup/roll/peaches/salad bar

4 Lasagna/salad/mixed vegetables/breadsticks/ cookie

18 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/gravy/beet salad/corn/roll

THURSDAY 7 French toast/sausage/ hashbrown patty/mandarin oranges/fruit juice

26 Beef stroganoff/peas/ coleslaw/roll/fruit

6 Oven-fried chicken/ mashed potatoes/gravy/green beans/Jell-O salad/biscuit

27 Roast beef/mashed potatoes/gravy/green beans/salad/roll

5 Spaghetti and meatballs/vegetable/garlic bread

7 Salmon loaf/barley pilaf/vegetable

12 Barbecue riblet/potato/vegetable

14 Corned beef/cabbage/potato/vegetable

19 Ham/potato/vegetable

21 Meatloaf/potatoes/ gravy/vegetables

26 Polynesian fish/rice/ vegetable

28 Beef stew/buttered noodles/vegetable

serves meals at noon Wednesdays and Fridays at 104 South Sixth St., Kendrick.

Suggested donation is $3 for people age 60 and older, and $5 for those younger than 60; Children younger than 6 years eat for free.

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5 Pork chops in applesauce/scalloped potatoes/ broccoli/biscuit/fruit cocktail

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6 Beef with homemade noodles/green salad/roll/ fruit

8 Spaghetti/mixed veg-

13 Sweet and sour pork/

15 Corned beef/cabbage/potatoes and carrots/lime fruit Jell-O

20 Stuffed bell peppers/ corn/salad/fruit

22 Chicken ala king/ broccoli and carrots/coleslaw/fruit/biscuit 29 Tater-tot casserole/ tossed salad/fruit

rice/oriental vegetables/ fruit

27 roast beef/mashed potatoes/gravy/peas/roll/fruit

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Social Security

Q: In talking with my son, I found out he submitted incorrect information about my resources when he completed my Application for Help with Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Costs. How can I get my application changed now to show the correct amount?

A: You can call (800) 772-1213 and let us know. Or, you can contact your local Social Security office. Find it by going to www.socialsecurity/locator/. Data on your application will be matched with data from other federal agencies. If there is a discrepancy that requires verification, we will contact you. Learn more at www.socialsecurity.gov/extrahelp. benefits will be in different situations. A Spanish-language ——— Retirement Estimator is available at www.segurosocial.gov/ Q: What’s the easiest way to apply for retirement ben- calculador. In addition, you can obtain your online Social efits?

Security Statement, which provides estimates of future benA: The easiest way to apply for retirement benefits is efits as well as a record of your earnings to make sure your online at www.socialsecurity.gov/applyonline. It’s easy and past earnings are reported correctly. Find the online statesecure. You can complete it in as little as 15 minutes. In ment at www.socialsecurity.gov/statement. most cases, once your application is submitted electroni——— cally, you’re done. There are no forms to sign and usually Q: What is the difference between the disability applicano documentation is required. Social Security will process tion and the disability report? Do I have to complete both? your application and contact you if we need more informaA: The Disability Application is an application for Sotion. You also can apply by calling our toll-free number, cial Security disability benefits. To receive Social Security (800) 772-1213 (TTY [800] 325-0778), between 7 a.m. and disability or Supplemental Security Income disability ben7 p.m., Monday through Friday. Our representatives will efits, you must file an application. The Disability Report, make an appointment to take your application over the tele- meanwhile, is a form that provides Social Security with inphone or at a local Social Security office. formation about your current medical condition. We need ——— this information to process your disability application. To Q: How can I get an estimate of my retirement benefits? start a claim for disability benefits, you need to complete a A: Use our online Retirement Estimator at www.social disability application, a disability report and an authorizasecurity.gov/estimator. There, you can enter certain iden- tion release form that allows us to obtain your medical retifying information about yourself, including your name, cords. You can get the disability application process started date of birth, Social Security number, place of birth and at www.socialsecurity.gov/applyfordisability. mother’s maiden name. If the personal information you ——— provide matches our records, you can enter your expected Q: I’ve been turned down for disability benefits. How do retirement age and future wages. The online application will I appeal? combine your earnings data Social Security has and provide A: Visit www.socialsecurity.gov and click on the “Appeal you a quick and reliable online benefit estimate. You can a disability decision online” link in the left-hand column. even enter different “what if” scenarios to find out what your This is the starting point. There you can ask us to review our

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medical decision. There are two parts to the Internet appeal process: 1) An appeal request internet form.

2) An appeal disability report, which gives us more information about your condition.

You can complete both forms online. To appeal online, the only form you are required to submit is an appeal request (Part 1). However, we encourage you to submit an appeal disability report (Part 2) because it will give us more information about you and help us process your appeal more quickly. The place to start is www.socialsecurity.gov.

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Q: How do I report a change of address if I’m getting Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?

A: A person receiving SSI must report any change of address by calling our toll-free number, (800) 772-1213 (TTY [800] 325-0778), or by visiting a local office within 10 days after the month the change occurs. You cannot complete a change of address online. You should report your new address to Social Security so you can continue to get mail from Social Security when necessary, even if you get your benefits electronically by direct deposit or Direct Express. Learn more about SSI www.socialsecurity.gov/ssi.

——— Q: Is Supplemental Security Income (SSI) taxable?

A: No. SSI payments are not subject to federal taxes, so you will not get an annual form SSA-1099. To learn more about SSI, read our publication on the subject, What You Need To Know When You Get Supplemental Security Income (SSI) at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/11011.html.

If you receive Social Security benefits, they may be taxed.

To learn more, see our page on the subject at www.social security.gov/planners/taxes.htm.  This column was prepared by the Social Security Administration. For fast answers to specific Social Security questions, contact Social Security toll-free at (800) 772-1213.

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Monthly NARFE meeting The National Active and Retired Federal Employees Chapter 515 will meet at noon March 27 at Macullen’s restaurant.

The luncheon meeting will include a program on the Lewis-Clark State College continuing education program presented by Alison Oman.

The restaurant is located at 1516 Main St. in Lewiston. More information on the group and meeting is available by calling (509) 7518791.

Senior center will serve two holiday meals The Sixth Street Senior Center in Clarkston will serve a Saint Patrick’s Day corned beef and cabbage lunch at 1 p.m. March 17 and an Easter lunch at 1 p.m. March 31.

The two meals are free and open to the community.

There will be foot care offered at the center at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Pinochle is played at the center each Thursday at 1 p.m. and there are twice-weekly dances at 7 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays featuring Heustis Kountry Band. The cost is $4 per person.

Sixth Street Center’s singers practice each Saturday. Performances are at 10:30 a.m. today at the Idaho State Veterans Home in Lewiston; at 2:30 p.m. next Monday at Ever-

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green Estates in Clarkston; at 2:45 p.m. March 15 at Lewiston Care Center; and at 2:30 p.m. March 18 at Clarkston Care Center.

The Wednesday lunches for March are as follows: pancake feed at noon March 13; chili feed at noon March 20; and a potluck with meat furnished by Emeirtus Juniper Meadows at noon March 27.

The Sixth Street Senior Center board will meet at 9 a.m. March 19. The center is located at 832 Sixth St. in Clarkston.

Annual Scandinavian breakfast set The Sons of Norway Elvedalan Lodge No. 129 will have its annual breakfast from 8 to 11 a.m. March 16 at the Pautler Senior Center, 549 Fifth St. in Clarkston.

Cost for the meal is $7 for adults and $2 for children ages 6 and younger. The meal will feature a variety of Scandinavian dishes including Oslo egg and sausage casserole, pannkakors, Swedish tea ring, Danish puff, lefse, krumkaka, rosettes and risengrynagrot with raspberry sauce.

Proceeds from the meal will be divided among several charities in the region including the Snake River Community Clinic, Salvation Army, Willow Center, Shriners hospi-

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Groups and organizations can submit information pertaining to seniors in the region to be published in Golden Times monthly magazine. All submissions are subject to space availability and editing.

Submissions should be emailed to: goldentimes@lmtribune.com or mailed to: Target Publications P.O. Box 957 Lewiston, ID 83501 Information for April’s issue must be recieved by March 18 to be considered.

Questions about submitting information can be sent via email or by calling (208) 848-2243.

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(208) 798-8617 or (208) 743-2626.  Lewiston Community Center — from 9 a.m. to noon, Wednesdays only.

AARP drivers safety Taxpayers should bring Social Security cards for them and all of their dependants, class offered along with all income documentation. SerMOSCOW — A two-day class will be of- vice is provided on a first-come first-served fered from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. March 18-19 at basis at all three locations.

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The cost for each class is $12 for AARP Pautler Senior Center has members and $14 for nonmembers. The class is designed for those age 50 and older but is many activities planned open to all ages and may result in a point reFoot care is offered at the Pautler center in duction on drivers licenses and/or insurance Clarkston from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays discounts. Registration for classes is required and Wednesdays by appointment. Appointand can be completed by calling Claudine ments can be made by calling (509) 758-2355.

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There will be no foot care offered March 25.

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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.

April birthdays must be received by 5 p.m. March 18.

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BIRTHDAYS March 1  Betty Dahl Betty Dahl of Moscow celebrated her 80th birthday Friday with her family.

She was born March 1, 1933, at home in Salem Township, Minn., to Donald and Illa Trott.

Her early childhood was spent in the Bruce-Ladysmith, Wis., area. She moved to Idaho in 1944 and to Elk River in 1945. She

graduated from high school in Elk River.

She married Bernie Dahl Nov. 23, 1951. The couple had four children together. Her husband died April 21, 1996.

She worked as a caregiver, cook and was the Elk River city clerk for 10 years.

Her hobbies include crossword puzzles, playing scrabble, reading, watching the news and socializing at the Deary senior meal site.

She also has eight grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

March 3  Bob Arleth Bob Arleth of Lewiston turned 70 Sunday.

He was born March 3, 1943.

He and his wife, Jan, moved to Lewiston from Tacoma in 2004 after they retired. They have enjoyed living in the Lewiston-Clarkston

Valley. They also enjoy good friends, country and western music, dancing and all the other many good things the valley offers that make living here great.

They have two children and 12 grandchildren.

The couple will celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary this year.

March 4  Roy Elliott Sr. Roy Elliott Sr. of Clarkston turns 83 today.

He was born the seventh of eight children to Walter and Elva Elliott on March 4, 1930.

He graduated from high school in 1948.

He married Faye King in 1950.

He worked as a heavy equipment operator building roads, leveling land and on

oil well locations. In 1961, he joined the iron workers union and worked jobs in most of the states located west of the Mississippi River, including Alaska. He moved to Clarkston in 1965 where two of his sons finished school.

He retired in 1996.

His wife died in 1997.

His hobbies include gardening, traveling with his companion, Vi Stewart, and visiting family and friends.

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March 8  Wally Rugg Wally Rugg of Lewiston will be 90 on Friday.

He was honored Sunday by friends and family for his birthday.

He was born March 8, 1923, in Cabri, Saskatchewan, Canada. The third of seven children born to Clarence and Ella Mae (Humphrey) Rugg.

His family moved to Peck when he was 4 years old and he graduated from Peck High School in 1942.

He served in the U.S. Army from 1942 to 1945, two years of which were spent in the South Pacific Theater.

He married Louise Conard

in 1946 and they made their home in Orofino. They later divorced.

He retired from the Clearwater Tribune in Orofino as a printer, after 27 years of service.

He was past commander of the Orofino Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3296 and is a lifetime member. He is also a member of the Odd Fellows Lodge.

He moved to Lewiston in 1993 to be close to his children. He currently resides at the Highlander Apartments in Lewiston.

His hobbies include fishing, baseball, playing cribbage and a dance or two.

March 9  Ben Seubert B e n Seubert of Cottonwood will celebrate his 90th birthday Friday.

He was born March 8, 1923, in Cottonwood.

He served in World War II and the Korean Conflict.

He and Florance Beckman were married June 1953.

The couple raised five sons.

He owned and operated a Hotel, Bar and Cafe in Cottonwood. He also worked for Potlatch Corp. for 20 years.

 Midge Wilson Midge Wilson of Orofino will turn 90 on Saturday.

She was born March 9, 1923, at Arrow Junction and has lived in the area all of her life.

She married Barney Wilson

 Clifford Zierlein Clifford Zierlein of Orofino will turn 88 Saturday.

He was born March 9, 1925, in Emmett, Idaho. The house he was born in is still standing. He attended schools in many places including New Meadows, Idaho.

In 1943, he was drafted into the U.S. Navy and served in the South Pacific and the Philippines.

March 11  Evalona M. Woerman Evalona M. Moser Woerman of Moscow will celebrate her 95th birthday next Monday.

She was born March 11, 1918, near Orofino, to Charles and Mary McGee. Her father died during the flu epidemic of 1918, when she was only 9-months old.

She was raised by her mother and stepfather, August Kopf, on a farm near Colton.

She married Roy Moser June 18, 1940, and they raised four children.

She worked many years as a cook at the Colton public school.

After she and her husband retired, they enjoyed camping and fishing with their children and grandchildren. Her husband died in 1982.

In 1990, she married Elray Woerman. The couple were active in the Idaho Old Time Fiddlers and enjoyed traveling to Nebraska and to fiddle exhibitions in their motorhome. Her second husband died in 2005.

She currently resides at Good Samaritan Village and enjoys visiting with family, setting up and completing jigsaw puzzles with her friends and listening to the Old Time Fiddlers.

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She worked at the bowling alley for many years and retired several years ago.

He met his first wife in 1946 and they were married in 1948. Their marriage lasted 53 years and nine months before his wife died.

He was a baker for 20 years and worked for Potlatch for 19 years. He retired in 1985 for health reasons.

He and his current wife met and were married in 2003.

He has three children.

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 LOIS GALLOWAY Lois Galloway of Orofino will be 77 on March 13.

She was born in 1936 at Shelton, Wash.

She attended Walla Walla College.

She married Pete Galloway Sept. 2, 1959, and they moved to Freeman Creek.

The couple later moved to Orofino.

They have two sons and a granddaughter.

Her hobbies include collecting dolls, playing pinochle and traveling.

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 MARGARET (PEGGY) HOLLOWAY Margaret (Peggy) Holloway of Clarkston will celebrate her 99th birthday with family March 14.

She was born in 1914 at Enterprise, Ore., to Walt and Ida Teel.

She attended schools in Eden Beach, Troy and Flora, Ore., as well as Asotin.

She and Marvin Holloway were married Jan. 1, 1935, and they ranched in Oregon until 1948, when they moved to Asotin. In 1958, they moved to Pomeroy, where she operated a laundromat and

her husband worked for the Forest Service. They retired in 1971 and moved to Clarkston.

Her husband died in 1983.

Her hobbies include gardening, flowers, crocheting and working the crossword puzzle in the paper.

She also enjoys visiting with her many friends.

She is an active member of the Asotin Methodist Church.

She volunteered at the Asotin County Food Bank until this last year.

She has four children, 14 grandchildren, 26 greatgrandchildren and 19 greatgreat-grandchildren.

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 JESSE BLY Jesse Bly of Lewiston will turn 85 on March 15.

He was born in 1928 and is a longtime area resident.

He retired from Potlatch Corp. after

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He and his wife Audrey have been married for nearly 64 years.

In retirement, he splits his time between his wife and family, and a variety of hobbies, including bowling, fishing, and being a much-loved grandpa and great-grandpa.

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D a v i d Haight of Lewiston will be honored at an open house from 2 to 4 p.m.

March 16 at 825 Juniper Court in Lewiston.

The occasion is his 80th birthday.

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Jan Arleth of Lewiston will celebrate her 70th birthday March 14.

She was born in 1943.

She and her husband, Bob Arleth, moved to Lewiston from Tacoma in 2004 after retiring. They enjoy living in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, with good friends, country and western music, dancing and the many good things offered here that make it so great. They have two children and 12 grandchildren.

They will celebrate their 43rd wedding anniversary this year.

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Fire Insurance for 40 years. ď ˇ Marjorie Merrill He married Lorraine Uptmor Jan. 3, 1953, in Marjorie Merrill of Princeton will celKeuterville. They raised seven children and have ebrate her 89th birthday March 25.

17 grandchildren.

She was born in 1924 at Boone, Iowa, to Forest and Eunice Jones. She grew up in While raising his family, he helped provide Boone and graduated from high school in activities to area children for 15 years by buying 1942.

140 pairs of roller skates and offering Sunday After graduation, she worked in a muniafternoon and evening roller skating at the tions plant, preparing and loading ammo for Greencreek Hall. the war effort. In 1942, the family moved He is a member of St. Anthony’s Parish, St. to Chelan, Wash., where she worked as a Anthony’s Society, and the Elks and Lions. telephone operator for GTE. He enjoys dancing in his spare time.

She married Edward Merrill April 2, 1949, in Coeur d’Alene.

They traveled around the country following his work as a March 21 journeyman lineman. The couple moved to Princeton in 1964 and raised their five children.

In Indiana, she and her husband were bee ď ˇ Ruth Berkheiser Her husband died in 1972.

She was employed as a clerk at Wason’s grocery in Ruth Berkheiser of Orofino will celebrate her keepers. She also was a ribbon-winning canoe Princeton for a number of years and as a secretary for 91st birthday March 21. racer in her younger years.

Culligan Water in Moscow. Since 1983, she has been the She was born in 1922 at Fort Wayne, Ind. The couple moved to Idaho in 1989.

She married Warren Berkheiser in 1941.

The couple have four children and seven owner/operator of Princeton Trailer Court.

She has 12 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and two She was a stay-at-home mom, but volungreat-great-grandchildren. teered as a trail guide at a state preserve. For grandchildren.

They enjoyed traveling and have participated Her hobbies include reading, gardening and spending time many years, she was also a Girl Scout leader and with her family. trainer of camping skills. in many elder hostel programs.

Bart Nuxoll of Greencreek will celebrate his 85th birthday on March 18.

He was born in 1928 on the family farm in Greencreek and was the fifth of 10 children born to Frank and Anna Koepl Nuxoll.

Upon his father’s death in 1949, he took over the family farm where he continues to farm today. He also worked as a director for Idaho County Mutual

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MARCH 27  JEROME SCHREMPP Jerome Schrempp of Lewiston will celebrate his 87th birthday March 27 at a family gathering.

He was born in 1926 to Otto and Theresa Schrempp in Eagle Butte, S.D. He was one of six sons whom all worked on the family farm.

His father died in 1942 when he was 16 and the family moved to Clarkston to be near relatives. He was drafted into the U.S. Army at age 18 and experienced many memorable events and jobs while in the service, including being a chauffeur to Gen. Douglas MacArthur and other military personnel in Tokyo.

He married Jeanne Zellerhoff in

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1950 and they raised four daughters in the Lewiston home they have resided in for more than 60 years. They also have seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

He worked in the grocery business for many years before retiring from Lewiston Grain Growers in 1989. He then did maintenance for Our Lady of Lourdes, where he is a member, and was also an active volunteer for many years.

His hobbies include reading, military history, gardening, socializing and keeping up with his children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren’s lives.

 RAY C. FREI Ray C. Frei of Lewiston will celebrate his 93rd birthday March 28.

He was born in 1920 at Ferdinand to Clement C. Frei and Philmonea Uhlorn Frei, the 10th of 15 children.

He graduated from Ferdinand High School and enlisted in the U.S. Air Force in 1942. He spent his time in the service in aircraft maintenance, largely in California, during which time he was able to take furloughs to help on the farm. He was discharged from service Jan. 26, 1946.

Following his service, he returned to Ferdinand where he enjoyed his years witnessing the transition from

horse farming to modern tractors, balers and combines.

He married Carolyn Jones Morris March 12, 1978. He instantly became part of a sizable family as he took on the roles of husband, father, grandfather and eventually great-grandfather. The couple moved from Grangeville to Lewiston after retiring in 1995, but he continues his interest in the family farm now run by his nephews.

He and his wife have traveled to many places including Europe, the Holy Land, China, Russia, Mexico, through the Panama Canal and to his father’s homeland, Widnau, Switzerland.

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Dish-pan hands don’t scare this 80-year-old man For Roy Jolley, working into his 80s isn’t just a financial necessity, it provides him with comaraderie and a way to give back

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It’s not exactly a second career — or in this case a third career — but washing dishes at the Pautler Senior Center in Clarkston offers 80-year-old Roy Jolley income, companionship and a chance to give back.

Jolley, of Lewiston, started his job at the Pautler Center about six years ago. He gets paid for 12 hours a week, but spends much more time than that in the center’s kitchen, where Asotin County Senior Round Table meals are served Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.

“He works at least 20 (hours a week),” kitchen assistant Mike Mills said.

“Actually, I get paid from 9 (a.m.) to 1 (p.m.), but I probably work from 8 (a.m.) to 2 (p.m.),” Jolley said.

“He volunteers his time, and we really appreciate that, because it’s so important to have volunteers to keep this running,” said Janice Reed, who manages the Pautler center office and the meal site, said. “I just find it amazing that he both works and volunteers at his age — and he works hard.”

Jolley, who has a head for dates, retired Dec. 31, 1986, from the United States Bureau of Reclamation.

He said he receives a pension from the federal government, but continues to work both out of necessity and desire.

“I need the income,” he said. “But I think I would work here if I didn’t need the income.”

Never married, Jolley was born in Orofino, attended school for several years in Forest, Idaho, and graduated from high school in Winchester.

He was drafted by the U.S. Army two years out of high school and was sent to Korea, where the war had just ended. He worked in the PX, stocking shelves and doing inventory.

“I was in Korea for one year, 10 months and 25 days,” he said.

In the early 1960s, Jolley’s job with the USBR took him to Montana, then California.

After he retired in 1986, he managed a roller rink in California for two years, drawing on a love of skating that began when he was a young man.

“I started roller skating after I got out of the Army,” he said.

He was an avid roller skater, taking his cousin’s kids to the Rollaway when he visited Lewiston. “Generation after generation, I took them skating,” he said.

“Taught most of them how to skate.”

Jolley returned to the Northwest in 1988, and in the early 1990s managed a skating rink in the Tri-Cities.

The last time he skated, he said, was in 1995.

When asked what he does for exercise now that his roller-rink days are over, Jolley didn’t miss a beat: “Wash dishes,” he said, laughing.

Tribune/Steve Hanks These days, he is involved with the Fraternal Order of Eagles. He’s a trustee at the Lewiston Eagles and a Roy Jolley, 80, who washes dishes for the Senior Round Table nutrition program member of the Clarkston lodge.

“I’ve been everything but president for the Eagles,” at the Pautler Senior Center in Clarkston, lives up to his last name, sporting an he said. infectious smile as he does his job.

Last month, two days after turning 80 on Valentine’s Day, he was honored at the Eagles Sweetheart

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“You know, I am amazed with Roy because, at his age, coming in here every day and standing in the kitchen doing dishes for six hours … he’s always got a smile and he likes to joke around.”

— Janice Reed, Pautler Senior Center office manager

Dance in Lewiston. “They voted me king,” he said, chuckling.

People like Jolley are the reason the Pautler center meal site is so popular, according to 82-year-old Rose Perdew.

“Everybody loves him,” she said.

She has been coming to the center for lunches and camaraderie for about five years.

“I live in Lewiston and come up every Tuesday, Thursday, Friday for lunch. If I don’t like the lunch, I’m here for the people I always talk with,” she said.

“It’s just really, really great. I love it over here.”

Jolley said he enjoys the social atmosphere at the meal site, too, visiting with diners as they return their plates to the kitchen when lunch is over.

“It’s when they come up to the window is when I get to know them,” he said.

Coming in early and staying past quitting time comes naturally to Jolley, a work ethic that awes Reed.

— Roy Jolley “You know, I am amazed with Roy because, at his age, coming in here every day and standing in the kitchen doing dishes for six hours … he’s always got a smile and he likes to joke around,” she said. “He’s fun to be with. I can count on him teasing me every day, and I tease him right back.”

Teasing him is one thing; treating him like he’s old is quite another, Reed said.

“I was unloading something out of my car one day that was kind of heavy, and you know, you just want to be nice and helpful and not make somebody his age try to carry something — and he was offended.

He goes, ‘I am stronger than I look.’ And I let him carry it.”

“Just because they say I’m 80 … I don’t feel 80,” Jolley said.

Maybe because he feels so young, working into his ninth decade of life doesn’t bother him.

“It wouldn’t matter,” he said. “Even if I didn’t need the money, I’d still work.”

“Just because they say I’m … I don’t feel 80.”

 Tatko can be reached at mtatko@lmtribune. com or (208) 848-2244.

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Roy Jolley, 80, eats his lunch before the crowd shows up and he has to get back to work washing dishes for the Senior Round Table meal served three days a week at the Pautler Senior Center in Clarkston.

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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.

The center can also be found online at www.waidvolunteercenter.org.

The following are a few of the volunteer opportunities available in March.  America Reads is in need of volunteers to work with children on their reading skills for the remainder of the school year. No teaching experience is necessary. Those interesed in this volunteer opportunity must be able to devote one hour once a week to a student.  Community Action food bank is in need of a volunteer driver to be a substitute on regular routes as well as a helper to ride with a driver on Fridays. Both positions require the ability to do some lifting. There is also a need for a volunteer at the front counter. This position does require some computer skills.  The American Red Cross is looking for an instructor for the Reconnection Workshops, which are dedicated to military service personnel and their families. The program goal is to support and ease the transition home. The focus is on individual and small-group discussion that enhances a positive connection among family members and helps service men and women adjust to civilian life. Training is provided.  There is an immediate need for meal delivery drivers

out the area. The office is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and can be reached at (509) 751-9143. Interlink’s office is located at 817 Sixth St.  Handymen are needed for a variety of volunteer projects, including installation of grab bars in bathrooms, gutter cleaning and more. Volunteers must use their own tools. Materials are provided by Interlink.  Volunteers with some carpentry skills are needed to help build entry steps and wheelchair ramps, as well as construct and place of outdoor handrails. Volunteers must have their own tools but materials are provided by Interlink.  Volunteers are needed to provide transportation to and from appointments Monday through Friday. This requires a valid drivers license, insurance and own vehicle. Mileage is reimbursed.

Volunteers interested in any of these projects must complete an application. More information about the organization, volunteer opportunities and the application is available online at www.interlinkvolunteers.org.

——— St. Joseph Regional Medical Center’s Family Hospice program is looking for volunteers in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley and the Orofino area. Family Hospice offers support and care to those living with a terminal illness. Volunteers help with a variety of tasks, from office assistance to giving respite care so a tired caregiver can take a break.

More information on volunteering for the hospice program is available by calling Betty Weeks at (208) 799-5275 or emailing her at Betty.Weeks@sjrmc.org.

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out a home and foster them until they can be placed in a “forever home.� At present there are approximately eight foster homes in the area. Blair and Kunze estimate they help 350 dogs per year and numerous cats. Neither of them foster animals themselves anymore, because they have a hard time letting them go once they have them in their homes, but they do take new animals to the veterinarian and clean them up before they place them in foster homes. Blair currently has four dogs, three were foster dogs and one is her son’s dog, that she has taken in.

They have made use of the “doggie railroad� and have placed dogs as far away as Maine. The “doggie railroad� is a group of people who work together to move pets from town to town, transporting them across the country.

And as many as eight of the dogs they have rescued have been placed with the hearing dog program. They work with many groups and organizations to get animals placed in just the right situation. One that will fit with a dog’s Sandy Blair and Eleanor (Ellie) Kunze abilities and personalities.

The two main goals for Helping Hands is to place animals Sandy Blair and where they will be able to stay for the reEleanor (Ellie) Kunze mainder of their lives, and to spay and neuSandy Blair and Ellie Kunze are the March Senior ter every animal they can.

Blair and Kunze are also working with Volunteers of the Month for the WA-ID Volunteer Cathy Robinson at the WA-ID Volunteer Center.

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How it all began: They got started caring for animals in the early 1970s with the idea to spay and neuter as many animals as they could. They would go to the animal shelters and take dogs that were having trouble being adopted because of their appearance.

They would take the dogs to their houses and groom them before taking them back to the shelter, increasing the chance the animal would go home with someone instead of being euthanized.

Kunze moved to St. Maries for a time and while there she worked to get funding to help people with limited incomes be able to afford to get their animals fixed. During that time she received calls from people who lived here in the valley. She wasn’t able to help them at the time, because the funding was for Benewah County residents only. Kunze was surprised to learn there wasn’t any help in this area for getting animals fixed.

When she returned to the valley, she contacted Blair to see if she would be interested in starting a program to help get animals fixed, and it grew from there.

Foster homes and pets: The program has some foster homes that are specific for dogs, some that are just for cats and some that will foster either. Blair and Kunze take the animals in foster care to PetCo on Saturdays and also publish ads in the Tribune to help get them permanent homes. They are very careful about who provides foster homes as well as permanent homes to these animals, and there is an application process to do either.

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A lesson in having fun with friends has just seen me out around town may have an idea that I love hats and Commentary being a Red Hat lady is something I definitely see in my future. Now, I have a reason to look forward to being 50.

This particular group began in 2002 or 2003 (they’re not quite sure) and has an array of women as members.

On the day I joined them for their monthly luncheon there were about a dozen women in attendance at Daily’s Bakery in Clarkston.

Here a hat, there a hat, everywhere a hat. No, I The group has 31 members, which includes a French didn’t get lost in my closet — I had lunch with the Vivacious Vagabonds. It is just one of the several Red Hat war bride who came to the country in 1946 and whose accent is still very thick. A red barrette adorned her Society groups located here in the Lewiston-Clarkston head. Many in the valley know the name Shirley HenValley. nigan, if not from her time teaching theater at LewisAnd what a group it is. Anyone who knows me, or Clark State College then from her work with the Lewiston Civic Theater. She, too, dons a red hat and enjoys membership in this group. Another member whose name may be recognizable to many is Betty Lou Gano, who is part of the Friends of the Library.

Gano told me the purpose of this group is for women to gather for lunch and have fun while wearing red and purple. There is even a poem, which Gano was kind enough to provide me with and I have included with this column. Anyone who knows me will •Natural Sound likely think after reading it that I have been practicing for membership in this group •Directional most of my life.

Hearing These women get together the first Thursday of the month for lunch at different •Noise Cancellation restaurants and locations throughout the re•Auto Environment gion. They range in age from their mid-50s to their mid-80s.

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Really, this is me now but I will continue to look for the perfect red hat while I await my 50th birthday.

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By Lisa M. Krieger

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ing older. People 85 and older — those most in need of long-term care — are the nation’s fastest growing population group, climbing to about 8.9 million by 2030.

Yet the modern health care system - which rewards cures, not caregiving - hasn’t adapted to these trends, said John Schall, president of the Family Caregiver Alliance.

“Family caregiving is the backbone of the long-term care system in this country,” Schall said. “As chronic conditions continue to increase, and we live longer, the burden will increase.”

As Pleasanton resident Orland Silva stayed at home dying of cancer, his five adult children took around-the-clock shifts so that their 71-year-old father stayed clean and comfortable under hospice care. One, with a leave of absence from work, covered mornings; another attended to late afternoons and evenings; a third spent the night. Two others helped run errands and supported their mother.

Their gift of time made it possible for Silva to enjoy afternoon reruns of “Gunsmoke” with his grandson and chat with friends from his beloved Bible study fellowship.

“I have a household of people here just about every day,” said Silva, before his death in May. “I am just experiencing the love being poured out from family and friends.”

More than two-thirds of people older than 65 will require long-term services at some point in their lives, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

But such care is not just for the old and frail. About 40 percent of care goes to people younger than 65, like Valor, who need help due to disease, injury, developmental disabilities or severe mental illness.

“Caregiving is hard. But it doesn’t have to be this hard,” said Dr. Ira Byock of Dartmouth Medical School and author of “Dying Well.”

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The day she brought a hospital bed into her den, Susan Meyers’ role in life changed dramatically, from adoring mate to devoted caregiver.

Like one of every six Californians, she was taking on a job that doesn’t pay, but costs sleep, savings and sometimes physical wellbeing.

Her beloved, John, the charismatic flight surgeon and avid tennis player who had wooed her with song and dance, was dying of neurodegenerative disease. Not only was she losing a partner, she was shouldering new responsibilities, from running their San Mateo household to managing his medications, disinfecting urine bags and tucking in his blankets to keep him safe and warm in bed.

“At least,” she said, “he is here at home.”

Caregiving can be immensely rewarding, driven by love and dedication. It is also exhausting, expensive and poorly supported by a medical system that delivers life-prolonging miracles, but little help for loving care MCT at home in life’s fragile years. Caregiving bankrupts families, isolates loving spouses, Susan Meyers, 71, shaves her husband, John, who was sufdelays retirement or forces us to pass up profering from neurodegenerative disease, at their San Mateo, motions.

Calif., home on Oct. 6.

The challenges of caregiving are a reality of daily life for more than 6 million CaliforSusan Meyers sought to keep John, 84, at nians who help parents, partners, children or home so they could savor some final private 4 See caregivers, page 20 friends — with everything from meal prepamoments during his decline. ration to taking care of medical needs — even She treasured as they worry about their own futures. their quiet time Such dedicated families provide most of together in their the long-term care in California, often at great living room. financial, physical and emotional sacrifice, “Some eveaccording to the Family Caregiver Alliance nings, we’ll in San Francisco. Their unpaid service has an put on some estimated market value of $45 billion annually.

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It is one of the really precious things about him being here.â&#x20AC;?

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But caring for loved ones exacts a heavy toll on families, even though it can be a source of great personal satisfaction.

They sacriďŹ ce jobs and careers. One national study found that a third of caregivers cut back their work hours to devote more time to loved ones. Others pass up promotions or job opportunities.

Working caregivers ďŹ nd few resources, such as eighthour day care. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t leave my husband alone,â&#x20AC;? said 59-year-old Barbara Gruenwald, a San Francisco ďŹ nancial consultant who struggled to ďŹ nd all-day care for her husband, John, who suffers from Lewy body dementia. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t need skilled nursing. He doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong in a facility. And it would be devastating to him.â&#x20AC;?

Some must quit work altogether; Joan Valor gave up her real estate job. When Ericâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s caregivers sickened, she took over the job â&#x20AC;&#x201D; for four days straight. And when a caregiver quits, it can take months to ďŹ nd a suitable replacement.

Caregiving can also strain retirement income, because time off work reduces pensions and Social Security beneďŹ ts.

And the costs of care are stratospheric.

Families pay out of their own pockets: Savings. Social Security. Reverse mortgages. Pensions.

Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s because Medicare pays only for treatment, not in-home â&#x20AC;&#x153;custodial care.â&#x20AC;? Hospice can help, but its patients must be judged to be within six months of death and even then, its beneďŹ ts donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cover prolonged aroundthe-clock care. Private insurance doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t cover care, unless the patient has a long-term care policy that comes with premiums ranging from $2,200 to $7,700 a year for 65-year-olds.

Home care, an experience seared into the minds of survivors, brings its own grace.

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Raising grandchildren can be hard on grandparents’ health years. Among the reasons: an illness, death, addiction, mental illness, incarceration or military deployment on the part of one or both of the child’s parents. The prolonged economic downturn also has taken a toll on some families.

Of course, not all grandparents wind up caring for children under such difficult circumstances.

“With some families, what you see is shared parenting across the generations and a family adapting in a very positive way, such as helping a young parent going to school care for the child until the parent can assume more of the responsibilities,” said James Gleeson, an associate professor at the Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

And some grandparents say their grandkids help them stay active.

Grandparent caregiving crosses income, racial and other demographic categories, Gleeson said, though African-Americans are two to three times as likely to be raised by a relative other than a parent, compared with other racial and ethnic groups. About a third of grandparents caring for grandchildren are single.

Nationwide in 2011, about 7 million grandparents lived MCT with a grandchild younger than 18, and about 39 percent of them were primarily responsible for meeting their grandkids’ other health problems at higher basic needs. rates than their peers who are not raising children.

In Illinois, grandparents were living with their minor grand“Considering the changes related to aging — hearing loss, children in more than 270,000 households. In 99,000 of them, vision impairment, gait abnormalities, cognitive decline, an older adult had taken on primary responsibility for meeting among many others — grandparents face significant emotional and physical challenges as they try to ’keep up’ with  See GRANDPARENTS, page 22 toddlers, tweens, teenagers and pre-adults,” said Dr. June McKoy, a Northwestern University geriatrician.

Most people assume that their full-time childDED rearing responsibilities will end once their chil- EXTEN ORE dren are grown and out of the house, but millions ONE M AY! D of grandparents across the country find themTUES selves nurturing another generation.

Their numbers have risen steadily over the

Suzanne Kowalski, right, wraps presents with her granddaughter Raven Berry, 13, Dec. 10, in Mount Prospect, Ill. Kowalski was previously raising two of her other grandchildren while their mother was incarcerated, but she had to stop when her health began to suffer.

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After her stroke, the three oldest children moved in with their grandmother in Rockford, Ill., and Maxey focused on raising the other three, including her two grandchildren, whose mother had died of complications from childbirth.

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 GRANDPARENTS, continued from page 21 Suzanne Kowalski is just one of the millions of grandparents faced with rasing their children’s children.

the basic needs of at least one grandchild.

Daxa Sanghvi, caregiver specialist at the Kenneth Young Center in Elk Grove Village, said participants in a support group she facilitates for grandparents raising grandchildren often share concerns about the impact of caregiving on their health.

Sanghvi said many of the grandparents say they are stressed out and that conflicts MCT about the grandchildren sometimes arise between them and their spouses.

“They have no time, no energy, and emotionally they are really deflated,” she said. “They are not even thinking about themselves because they are going, going, going.”

Many of the grandparents she works with are sleep-deprived and “trying to do so much it affects their emotional state as well as their physical state,” Sanghvi said. “Sometimes they don’t even realize how much it is affecting them.”

One of those grandparents, Suzanne Kowalski, was so absorbed with taking care of two of her grandchildren that she ignored a dimple on her left breast that turned out to be a sign of cancer. By the time she sought medical care and got diagnosed a year later, in September 2011, it had spread to her lymph nodes.

“Had I not been raising the grandkids, I would have gone to the doctor at least a year earlier because I wouldn’t have been so financially strapped,” she said. “My energy level would not have been so low. I was giving all my attention to them.”

Kowalski, like other grandparents interviewed by the Chcago Tribune, said she doesn’t regret taking the children in.

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would do it again,” said Kowalski, who lives in Mount Prospect. “I believed they didn’t deserve any less than my full attention. In hindsight, I could have taken better care of myself so I could be better for them. But you live and you learn and sometimes you learn when it’s too late.”

In March, after eight years, she decided to turn over custody of the children to their father, her son-in-law.

Without the kids, Kowalski says, she is paying more attention to her health.

“I’m living and eating differently now,” she said. “If they were living here, I wouldn’t be doing that because I always put the kids first. Now I’m first.”

Many grandparents living on a fixed income can’t afford health care for themselves because they spend what they have on their grandchildren, McKoy said. This is especially true for AfricanAmericans and Latinos, who tend to have lower incomes to start with.

McKoy said some of her grandparent-patients ask for less expensive medications because they can’t afford the ones she would usually prescribe.

Resources are available to help, said Sarah Stein, manager of community programs at AgeOptions, a nonprofit Area Agency on Aging. AgeOptions and other agencies offer services to support older adults raising children, including counseling, support groups, resource referrals, limited financial assistance, and help with legal matters such as guardianship and adoption.

Despite the challenges, most grandparents feel a sense of reward raising their grandchildren and report high levels of satisfaction for keeping the family together, said Gleeson, who has conducted research on grandparents who are raising their grandchildren.

And most studies report that the children do well socially, academically and in other ways, he said.

Maxey, who lives in south suburban Dolton, Ill., said families must do whatever they can to stick together and support each other.

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be raising my grandchildren,” she said. “(But) what else would I do? They are here and I love them. They are truly a blessing.”

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