Golden Times, June 2013

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

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Happy Birthday Friendly Neighbors in Moscow is celebrating 40 years of serving area seniors / Page 10

Senior lunch menus — Page 3 Senior Talk — Page 14 Volunteer of the Month — Page 15 House Call — Page 16

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INDEX: Social Security Q&A................... Page 4 Briefs .......................................... Page 5 Birthdays .................................... Page 6

EDITOR: Mary Tatko COORDINATOR: Peggy Hayden

Crossword solution ..................... Page 9

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

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

On the cover: Moscow area senior citizens have lunch in the great room of the 1912 Center. It’s just one of the services offered through the Friendly Neighbors senior center. Friendly Neighbors has been providing meals for 40 years.

Photo by: Barry Kough of the Tribune

Volunteer opportunities ...............Page 13 Many delaying retirement ...........Page 13 Sudoku ........................................Page 17

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Builders focus on seniors ............Page 18 Sudoku solution ..........................Page 18

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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. Soup is served year-round and a dessert bar is available at each service.

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Who am I? I was born June 3, 1925.

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Q: Are Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits taxable?

A: No, SSI payments are not subject to federal taxes. We will not send you an annual form SSA1099 to report your benefits to the Internal Revenue Service. However, Social Security beneficiaries may have to pay income tax. If so, you may ask Social Security to withhold your federal taxes from your Social Security benefit payments. For more information, visit our website at www.socialsecurity. gov.

——— Q: What can Social Security do to help me plan for retirement?

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GOLDEN TIMES ness, arthritis, chronic pain and more. ed by calling Arnold Lee at (208) 301-8844.

More information about the class is availThe cost for each class is $12 for AARP able by calling the Aging and Long Term members and $14 for nonmembers. The Care office at (509) 758-2355. classes are designed for those age 50 and older but are open to all ages and may result Blood drive being held in a point reduction on drivers licenses and/or insurance discounts.

Lewis-Clark Senior Games at senior center Pautler Senior Center will have a blood Free barbecue for seniors happening this month drive for the American Red Cross from 1 to 6 at Moscow Village The 15th annual Senior Games will take p.m. Wednesday. place June 19-22 at locations throughout the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley.

There are 14 events taking place this year.

They are: archery, bowling, cycling, pickleball, racquetball, shuffleboard, swimming, table tennis, target shooting, tennis, track and field, coed three-on-three volleyball, a 5K run/walk and the Idaho State Veterans Home walk and roll.

A full list of event times and locations can be found at lewisclarkseniorgames.org. More information about the games is also available by calling Cathy Robinson at (208) 7467787.

Class offered to seniors, realizing independence Aging and Long Term Care/Aging and Disability Resource Center is offering a free class to the public. “CHERISH” (Classes to Help Elderly Realize Independence and Stay Home) is an opportunity for caregivers and seniors to learn how to keep independence.

The class will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m.

June 26 in the conference room at Columbia Bank, 303 Bridge St., Clarkston.

Speakers for the class will be Sue Bancroft and Karen Henson. The presentation, “How to Manage a Chronic Condition,” will include information on managing diabetes, congestive heart failure, COPD, mental ill-

pancake feed June 12; soup and sandwiches on June 19; and a potluck will be held June 26 with Emeritus at Juniper Meadows supplying the meat. The pancake feed, and soup and sandwich meals cost $4 per person.

Foot care by Dayna is at 9 a.m. Wednesday and the Sixth Street Senior Center board will meet at 9 a.m. June 18.

The center’s singers practice from 10 a.m. to noon each Saturday.

MOSCOW — In celebration of National The 1912 Center will close Older American’s Month the Good Samaritan for floor maintenance Society Moscow Village will have a barbecue MOSCOW — Friendly Neighbors Sefrom 4 to 6 p.m. June 20. Moscow Village is nior Center will remain closed during the located at 640 N. Eisenhower St., here.

More information about the barbecue is maintenance on the center’s floors.

The closure will take place beginning available by calling Jan Ahles at (208) 882June 29 and continue through July 8 with 6560. the center reopening on July 9.

Senior center is looking During the closure the senior meal site will move to the Latah County Fairfor pinochle players grounds.

The Sixth Street Senior Center has room for more players at its weekly pinochle game. Senior fair is next week The game is played at 1 p.m. each Thursday MOSCOW — The annual Palouse Seat the center. nior Fair will be held from 10 a.m. to 4 The Heustis Kountry Band will perform Drivers safety class from 7 to 10 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday p.m. June 11 at the Palouse Mall.

The event will include numerous infor the center’s dances. Admission is $4 per being offered formation booths, vendors, games and person.

Meals are served at the center three times workshops for area senior citizens. Door In June, there is only one AARP Drivers each month. This month’s meals include a prizes will be given throughout the day.

Safety class being offered.

The class is a one-day, eight-hour class held from 8:30 a.m to 5:30 p.m. June 22 in conference room C at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. There will be a onehour lunch break.

Registration is encouraged and can be completThere will not be a foot care clinic at the center on June 19, but appointments can be made for every Monday and all other Wednesdays in June by calling (509) 758-2355. The Pautler Senior Center board will meet at 9 a.m. June 12.

Bridge is played at the center from 1 to 4 p.m. each Thursday, and pinochle is played from 12:45 to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays.

Seniors can have their blood pressure checked at 11:30 a.m. on Wednesdays for free. A fitness class is offered at the center from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. each Tuesday and Thursday, and a painting class is offered from 12:30 to 4 p.m. on Mondays.

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 PAT STIPE Pat Stipe of Lewiston celebrated her 80th birthday Sunday with friends and family.

She was born June 2, 1933, in Bozeman, Mont.

Stipe moved to Lewiston in 1965 and worked as the welcome hostess for 30 years welcoming newcomers to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. She founded the Newcomers Club, which is still an active group.

She and Dan Stipe were married in 1974. Her family includes three sons, four stepchildren, eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren with more on the way.

Stipe’s hobbies include traveling, playing bridge, doing crosswords, playing games of all kinds and staying in touch with old friends.

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 FAY GRAHAM Fay Graham of Lewiston turned 76 Sunday.

She was born June 2, 1937.

She and Ed Graham were married Nov. 13, 1959. The couple have four sons and seven grandchildren.

Graham served in the U.S. Navy as a librarian. She worked for Happy Day Corp. for 10 years.

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ď ˇ IZOLA FORSMANN Izola Forsmann of Clarkston was honored Sunday by her friends and family for her 95th birthday.

She was born June 4, 1918, to George and Alzada Dexter in Braddock, N.D. Forsmann enjoys living in Sonary Crest Mobile Home Park where she likes playing cards and bingo with her neighbors weekly. She attends exercise classes and meals at Pautler Senior Center in Clarkston.

Forsmann is also an active member of the Clarkston United Methodist Church and United Methodist women’s group activities.

She has six living children, 15 grandchildren and 24 great-grandchildren with additions expected.

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ď ˇ NELLIE CHASE

ď ˇ EDMUND RICARD

ď ˇ ARLENE E. SCOTT

Nellie Chase of OroďŹ no will celebrate her 84th birthday Wednesday.

She was born June 5, 1929, at Seminole, Okla. Chase moved to Idaho in 1930.

She married Levon Chase on June 4, 1950. The couple moved to OroďŹ no in 1954 where they had three children. Her husband died Dec. 21, 2008.

Chase is a member of the P.E.O. Chapter AW and serves on the Area Agency on Aging advisory council. She also volunteers at the OroďŹ no Senior Center and meal site, as well as volunteering for the Clearwater Senior Citizens and the WA-ID Volunteer Center’s RSVP program.

She has four grandchildren and ďŹ ve great-grandchildren.

Edmund Ricard of Lewiston will celebrate his 94th birthday Saturday.

He was born June 8, 1919, on a farm north of Uniontown and grew up there.

Ricard served in the U.S. Army during World War II. Upon his return from the military, he and Cecilia were married. The couple moved to Lewiston where they raised their four children. They enjoyed gardening and grew many different kinds of fruits and vegetables. They especially loved growing dahlias.

Ricard’s wife and a daughter died of cancer.

He continues to grow dahlias and is known to many as the “Dahlia Man.â€? His owers and garden treasures can be seen each year at the Nez Perce County Fair.

Arlene Elizabeth McDole Scott of OroďŹ no will turn 84 on Saturday.

She was born June 8, 1929, in Eugene, Ore. She was the eldest of four children born to Elroy McDole and Myrtle Brownlee McDole.

When Scott was 4years old, her family moved to Ontario, Ore., where she attended school. She graduated in 1947.

She and Dale Scott were married on Feb. 14, 1949. The couple made their home in OroďŹ no.

They have three children, ďŹ ve grandchildren and several greatgrandchildren.

Scott worked at Watkins Dry Goods. Her hobbies are quilting, baking cookies and taking care of her husband.

JUNE 7 ď ˇ CORRIE SHRIVER Corrie Shriver of OroďŹ no will turn 86 Friday.

She was born June 7, 1927, in OroďŹ no and grew up in Grangemont.

She and Wayne Shriver were married in 1947. Her husband died in 2012.

Shriver has three children, 12 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren.

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ď ˇ BARBARA THOMAS

ď ˇ GORDON THIESSEN

Gordon Thiessen of OroďŹ no Barbara Thomas of OroďŹ no will be 84 Saturday. will celebrate his 88th birthShe was born June 8, 1929, in Clarkston.

She and Stanley Cramer got married and had three chil- day next Monday.

He was born June 10, 1925, dren. He died several years ago.

She later married Jim Thomas and added four stepchildren in Tillamook, Ore. Thiessen married Lillie to her family.

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JUNE 11 ď ˇ DERRILL L. EDGAR Derrill Lewis Edgar of Lewiston will be honored at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars hall in the Lewiston Orchards.

The occasion is his 80th birthday.

He was born June 11, 1933, in Denver and was raised in Troy where he graduated from high school.

After high school, Edgar worked for Potlatch Corp. until he retired.

ď ˇ MARVIN SIELER Marvin Sieler will turn 82 on June 12. He was born in 1931 at Plevna, Mont.

Sieler married Irene Dawson on May 3, 1952, in Billings, Mont. The Sielers have two daughters, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

For more than 40 years, he was an Assembly of God minister.

He has lived in Craigmont and Lewiston.

Edgar enjoys gardening, growing tomatoes, peppers, onion and garlic. He also enjoys making and canning salsa and tomato juice, which he shares with family and friends. In the fall, Edgar enjoys hunting on Mason Butte with his family and friends.

He has two children, ďŹ ve grandchildren and is expecting his ďŹ rst great-grandchild in September.

JUNE 20 ď ˇ OMER J. HARVEY Omer Jesse Harvey of Lewiston will be honored at an open house from 2 to 4 p.m.

June 22 at Royal Plaza in Lewiston. The occasion is his 98th birthday.

He was born June 20, 1915, in Harrisburg, near Kamiah, to Ora and Lillie Harvey.

As a teenager he played basketball for Kamiah High School, where he graduated in 1933. He worked at a pole yard during high school.

Harvey worked in a logging camp and helped ďŹ ght forest ďŹ res in the Weippe area as a young man. In 1945, he moved to Lewiston and worked in motor freight and as a truck

driver for RichďŹ eld Oil Company. He worked as a custodian for the Lewiston School District for eight years, retiring in 1980.

He married Ruby Johnson in February 1939 and reared two sons, one of whom died at age 12. His wife died in 1975.

Harvey married Eileen English in June 1978 and gained a daughter. His second wife died in 2001.

He found another dance partner in Rose Davidson. She died in 2012.

Harvey enjoys playing pinochle and watching the Seattle Mariners.

He also has four grandchildren and ďŹ ve great-grandchildren, with another due in July.

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ď ˇ ED GRAHAM

ď ˇ BOB LOEFFELBEIN

Ed Graham of Lewiston will celebrate his 75th birthday on June 22.

He was born in 1938.

He and Fay were married on Nov. 13, 1959. The couple have four sons and seven grandchildren.

Graham served in the U.S. Coast Guard. He worked for the Lewiston School District for 27 years as a custodian.

He also worked for 10 years at the U.S. Forest Service as Smokey Bear’s helper during school tours, parades and at the rodeo in Lewiston, before retiring.

Bob Loeffelbein of Clarkston will turn 89 on June 24.

He was born in 1924 at Wenatchee to Roy and Mae Loeffelbein.

Loeffelbein had his ďŹ rst byline in the Wenatchee World at age 12, which earned him the Boy Scout’s Golden Quill Award.

He graduated from Lewiston State Normal School in 1943.

He served with the U.S. Navy during World War II with the Amphibious Landing Forces delivering troops to Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Tokyo Bay. He also served during the Korean Conict.

After the military, he obtained his bachelor’s degree in journalism from Washington State University in Pullman; was a graduate assistant instructor at Stanford (Calif.); received a bachelor’s degree in

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Friendly Neighbors has really grown up in the last 40 years It began as a meal site, but after four decades it’s a whole lot more

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ABOVE LEFT: Seniors utilize the game room in the 1912 Center to play card games, use computers, put together puzzles and read books. RIGHT: Donna DeBolt, a Moscow transplant, enjoys the meals and the camaraderie at the Friendly Neighbors senior center.

By Mary Tatko

“We lived from San Francisco to New York, Cincinnati, Milwaukee …” she said.

MOSCOW — Near the sign-in desk One place they hadn’t lived was at the meal site in the 1912 Center is a Idaho, but DeBolt and her husband small table covered with rows of name were so won over by Moscow after badges — one for each of the more than visiting their daughter, who had settled 100 members of Friendly Neighbors here after college, they bought a house Senior Citizens Inc. and put down roots.

On a recent Tuesday, Donna DeBolt “She did a job on us,” DeBolt said, was already wearing her badge as she recalling her daughter’s invitation for approached the salad bar in the center’s them to visit Moscow. “She said, ‘You great room. have to come here, it’s the best place in DeBolt, 74, has lived in Moscow the world to live.’ ” for 20 years but only recently joined It has proved to be a good place to Friendly Neighbors. spend her senior years, DeBolt said as Her late husband was an executive she navigated the salad bar — and disfor Chrysler Corp. and they moved covering Friendly Neighbors has made frequently during his career. it even more so.

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“They really are friendly, you know,” she said. “We have a good time together.”

“Look how early it is,” Friendly Neighbors Treasurer Kay Keskinen said, looking around the high-ceilinged great room, which at 11:30 a.m. had attracted a sizeable crowd for the noon lunch.

“They’re here — this is their outing.”

This year, Keskinen, 64, president Bill Terrio, 73, and other volunteers are helping Friendly Neighbors celebrate four decades of serving Moscow retirees.

“We’re 40 years old,” Keskinen said of the organization which began as an informal meal program in 1973. “We’re not quite seniors yet.”

To mark the 40-year milestone, Friendly Neighbors will offer a free lunch to the public at noon Aug. 1 with entertainment by guitarist Brian Gill. The menu is tentatively planned as a choice of salmon fillet or chicken cordon bleu, Keskinen said.

Though not many of the volunteers who were involved at the start are living today, at least one is still around:

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Friendly Neighbors Senior Citizens Inc. 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St., Moscow, (208) 882-1562.

Membership for those 55 and older is $2 per year.

The drop-in senior center is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays.

Lunch is served at noon each Tuesday and Thursday — for those 60 and older, the suggested cost is $4 (no one is turned away for inability to pay); for those younger than 60, the cost is $6.

Seniors can be referred to the Friendly Neighbors meal delivery program by calling Area Agency on Aging at (800) 877-3206.

More information about volunteering is available through the WAID Volunteer Center at (208) 746-7787.

Ernie Bunch, who helped lead the efnen said, as Terrio laughed. fort to make the program a nonprofit “It is rewarding,” Keskinen said. “We organization in 1978, is still a member, all volunteer our time — the only paid Keskinen said. people we have are our cook staff and, Through the years, the meal site oper- believe me, we don’t overpay them. All ated out of different locations, includof us volunteer through the Washingtoning the old post office Idaho Volunteer Center building. in Lewiston.”

It was the work of the “And our cook even late Scotte Hecht, a fordonates half her time,” mer Friendly Neighbors Terrio said. “She only president, that got the gets paid for half the time program into the 1912 she works.”

Center, Keskinen said.

Helen Roskovich, who “He knew how to operated Gambino’s write feasibility studies Italian Restaurant and assessments,” she in Moscow with her said. “And he convinced husband Don, heads up the city that the seniors the Friendly Neighbors’ needed to have more kitchen. than a meal site — we “We’re really lucky, actually needed a senior because we have somecenter. Scotte was instruone who really knows mental in getting grants how to run a professional to get us there.” kitchen,” Keskinen said.

Bill Terrio Friendly Neighbors “I’ve got them flimmoved into the 1912 flammed,” Roskovich building in 2002. said, stopping by the “Before that, we were just the meal table where Keskinen and Terrio were site,” Keskinen said. singing her praises.

Today, a drop-in senior center “She really watches the pennies, too,” — where seniors can play bridge or Terrio said. pinochle, get computer help, work jigsaw “I do,” Roskovich said. “My hero as a puzzles, watch TV, browse the library kid was Scrooge McDuck.” and attend support groups — operates There are three goals, Keskinen said, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. that guide the efforts of the Friendly “And no senior center is complete Neighbors board and volunteers: Deliverwithout bingo,” Keskinen said, noting it’s ing meals to homebound seniors, serving on the schedule for Friday mornings. meals at the meal site and providing a Lunch is served at noon Tuesdays and social setting, through the drop-in center, Thursdays. for senior activities.

Officially Friendly Neighbors Senior “Our top priority is to deliver meals to Citizens Inc., the organization is known seniors who cannot get out to shop and simply as Friendly Neighbors to most cook for themselves,” she said. of its members, many of whom also “And that’s really, really important volunteer. because there is no Meals on Wheels any “Bill and I both started as volunteers in longer in Moscow,” Roskovich added. the senior center,” Keskinen said.

The program currently has four Terrio, originally from Massachusetts, volunteer drivers, plus a few back-ups, moved to Moscow just two years ago. delivering to about a dozen seniors in the “See, that’s how fast we get ’em,” Keski- Moscow area. Roskovich said she hopes

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Lou Stevens sometimes entertains the lunch bunch with a CD of her own music. to see that number grow, because she knows there are more seniors in Moscow who could benefit from meal delivery.

“Our contract is with Community Action Partnership, CAP, from Lewiston,” Keskinen said. “(Through CAP) we work through the Area Agency on Aging, so the home deliveries have to be referrals from the Area Agency on Aging. They’ll get a hot meal on Tuesday/Thursdays, and then they’ll get frozens to hold them through ’til we deliver again.”

The meal site averages between 50 and 65 attendees, Terrio said. During a snow storm last winter, they thought about cancelling lunch but were glad they decided not to, he said, when 70 people showed up to eat that day.

Seniors 60 and older are asked to contribute $4 per meal, but Terrio said no one should stay away because of inability to pay.

“We’ll take whatever they can afford,” he said.

In addition to a small reimbursement for each meal through the Community Action Partnership, funding comes from grants, donations, Moscow/Latah County United Way, Latah County and local businesses, Keskinen said.

The dining area continued to fill with people and also with light as the great room’s tall windows let in the sun.

Someone approached Terrio to see about opening a door — the day was turning into a warm one and it seemed a little fresh air would be welcomed.

As that was being taken care of, Keskinen pointed out another detail adding to the ambience that day: A mix of big band, old-time country and soft instrumental music played in the background, emanating from a member-donated stereo strategically placed above the kitchen on the room’s second level.

The recording playing just then, she said, was of a performance by one of the Friendly Neighbors members.

Lou Stevens, 90, was sitting near the front of the room, waiting for the announcements and invocation. Stevens plays piano and sings with the Old Time Fiddlers, performing about 10 times a month, she said, as Terrio approached the podium.

When the music stopped he welcomed everyone, and lunch began.  Tatko can be reached at mtatko@ lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2244.

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I wondered if they would have just the hat for me.

Walking down one aisle I spied a dark brown fedora.

I asked the clerk to please take it down.

It was just the type I wanted with a three-colored braid around the band and a pretty pheasant feather there to see.

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M O N D A Y, J U N E 3 , 2 0 1 3 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.waidvol unteercenter.org.

The following are a few of the volunteer opportunities available in June. l The Lewis-Clark Senior Games is looking for volunteers to assist in any of the 14 sporting events that are held throughout the valley. The event is June 19-22.

Volunteer positions include, but are not limited to, timing, score keeping, hydration support, traffic flow, ball retrieval and flyer distribution. l The Lewiston Community Center is looking for volunteers to keep coffee made, wipe down counters and keep the senior lounge picked up from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays. l Idaho Legal Aid is looking for a few good volunteers to help in the office with reception duties. Office attire and a professional demeanor are needed, as well as the ability to answer phones efficiently. Confidentiality is mandatory. l Community Action food bank is in need of a volunteer driver to be a backup 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. l The Hells Canyon Visitor Bureau is looking for volunteers to assist visitors by answering questions and supplying literature about all the activities available in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley. The ability to get along with various personalities, acquire knowledge of area

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tourist attractions and events, put together welcome bags and help with an occasional mailer is needed. l The National Guard is in need of a civilian volunteer to lead and build up the youth program. Qualifications include event planning, organizational skills, and the ability to communicate and work with children. l The American Red Cross is looking for an instructor for the Reconnection Workshops, which are dedicated to military personnel and their families. The program goal is to support and ease the transition home by focusing on individual and small-group discussion that enhances a positive reconnection among family members and into civilian life. A degree in social work is required and training is provided. l The Idaho State Veterans Home has many volunteer opportunities available. There is a need for a special-events planner, help with gift wrapping, one-on-one reading and other activity assistance. l The Disability Action Center in Lewiston is seeking one or two volunteers to help with receptionist duties, mailings, phones, shredding papers, etc. Volunteers can set their own hours.

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One in 10 people expect to toil into their 80s, while 32 percent expect to be on the job into their 70s, according to the report by insurer Northwestern Mutual.

On average, those surveyed expect to leave work at age 68.

However, the report points out, that doesn’t jibe with reality. The mean age of those already retired is 59, the study said. An increasing number of people figure they’ll simply work longer to make up for inadequate nest-egg savings these days, not realizing how layoffs, poor health or other forces pushed their forebears out of the workforce far sooner than they wanted.

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time in her yard and has all these gadgets she has created to do Commentary things like knock snow and ice off her roof. She isn’t the sit-in-thehouse-and-grow-old type.

Doing what I do and having so much knowledge about the different opportunities and services offered to seniors here, I assumed I am proud to say we here in the in a place like Fort Collins, Colo., Lewis-Clark region take care of our sethere would be even more organiors. We have numerous programs and nizations geared toward helping activities for them throughout the year seniors stay active as well as getting simple chores done to keep them active and participating in the community. around their homes — things that seniors may be able This all became very clear to me while I was in Colorado for my mother’s 80th birthday. My mom is an active, to do but for safety reasons perhaps shouldn’t do — like go-get ’em kind of 80-year-old. She spends a great deal of knocking snow and ice off their roofs.

I was amazed at just how little help there is in that town and even more astonished to find that with a population of almost 144,000 (according to the 2010 census) there is one senior center. Yes, that’s what I said — one. In Clarkston alone there are two senior centers and throughout the region there are numerous locations for seniors to gather.

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Where my mom lives the one senior center charges $3.25 per day to get through the door.

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There are two main reasons this deserves more than just a short article. For one, in the 10 years the Lewiston Parks and Recreation Department has been offering classes to seniors they have tried many things, actively trying to offer classes they believed people, young and old alike, would be interested in taking. A few classes are what I would call staples. They include fit and fall proof, yoga and t’ai chi. Many of the classes offered are taken off the list because of a lack of interest, which brings me to the second reason for this column.

The people at the parks and rec department want your input. Welch believes if people have a say in what types of classes and activities are offered, those classes and activities will have a better turnout. Welch would also like to hear from seniors who have an interesting hobby or talent they would like to teach to others in the community. It doesn’t have to be geared toward seniors; the department offers classes to all ages. The important thing is to get people using the Lewiston Community Center and to offer classes through the department that people want to take. “We’re looking for feedback. What do they want?

We’ve tried different things and nobody signs up so it’s obvious we need to get in touch with our population,�

Welch told me. She said they would like to know what people are interested in doing through the department and community center. Even those people who want to teach a class but don’t know how to go about it or get the word out can contact Welch and she will work with them.

Welch wants people to know the community center is there and the parks and rec department wants to be in tune with its community. “There are the people like me,� Welch said. “I’m 57 and I don’t want to admit that I’m a senior. I want to know what the newly retired, active seniors want to do.�

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Mont. He is currently engaged to Tracy Haselip. The couple will be married on July 13. He has three children and seven grandchildren.

Hobbies: He enjoys driving and keeping track of all the places in the world he has visited, but his favorite hobby is cooking. He enjoys making dinners for his fiancee and family. He passed along his love for cooking to one of his sons, who is a chef in Salt Lake City. Barnes said he just enjoys doing whatever keeps him moving.

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Volunteer work: Barnes start- per week at the Community community.

Family: Barnes was born in ed volunteering in the late 1990s Action Partnership food bank, and has increased the number where he drives a van picking up Great Falls, Mont., and spent of hours he volunteers through- and delivering donations. During much of his youth in Kalispell, out the years. For him it all be- theater season, he gives his time gan with delivering Meals on as an usher at the Lewiston Civic Wheels in Kooskia. In the Lew- Theater as well, and still finds iston-Clarkston Valley he volun- time to volunteer at the soup teers for the Lewis-Clark Senior kitchen in the Roxy Theater and Games each year (taking place help out at his church.

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Regular tuneups are key to keeping your body chugging along when we neglect our vehicles. But so many people don’t take time for their own screening and maintenance. So often I have heard patients state: “I feel fine so I don’t need to come in to the clinic regularly.”

Unfortunately, this is not a very reliable method for managing health care. It is important to understand “feeling fine” is not always an accurate reflection of what is going on inside the body.

There are several disease processes that may be present without any obvious Commentary symptoms. For example, very common diseases such as hypertension, diabetes and high cholesterol may not cause noticeable symptoms but can lead to serious health Three months or 3,000 miles — the majorconsequences. ity of people automatically relate this to their Routine physical examinations and blood auto maintenance. Yes, time for an oil change. work can reveal these problems. Remedies can be initiWe understand the importance of routine car mainte- ated, thereby reducing an individual’s health risks. nance and understand the consequences that may occur It is my intention to help readers understand the importance of health maintenance and feel by comparing the human body to a vehicle it may be more relatable.

The life of an over-inflated car tire, for example, will be decreased due to damage caused by the excessive pressure. Similarly, elevated blood pressure or hypertension

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Utah builder, said recently at the housing industry’s annual meeting in Las Vegas.

“We are seeing the traffic from these buyers is up and shoppers are coming around looking at Seniors who have been itching to trade the old houses again,” he said. home place for some new digs may get the chance The National Association of Home Builders is now that the housing market is recovering. predicting an almost 25 percent increase in home At least that’s what builders hope. starts this year for properties targeted at 55-plus They are ready to build a new generation of buyers. And next year, construction for this marhousing aimed at seniors and aging baby boomers ket will jump almost a third.

— not the huge retirement golf course develop“This is a growing share of the market, just in ments of yesteryear, but smaller, age-restricted terms of the underlying demographics,” said Paul suburban subdivisions.

Emrath, an economics researcher with the buildDuring the economic crash, many of these po- ers association. tential buyers put their plans on hold when their Currently, about 42 percent of U.S. households houses wouldn’t sell or they lost equity. are made up of 55-plus residents. By 2020, that But with housing values on the rebound, home- number is forecast to grow to almost 47 percent. builders are sharpening their marketing efforts John Sheleimer, a housing researcher from aimed at buyers 55 and older.

Northern California, said there are 79 million U.S. “We think this is the housing segment that is baby boomers, and almost 80 percent already own going to lead us out of recession,” Don Whyte, a a home.

“We are the wealthiest consumer segment in the housing market,” Have old photos you’d like to share? Send them to Sheleimer said. “We have money to buy homes if we can sell our home blasts@lmtribune.com at what we think it is worth and that is also improving.”

“We are starting to see the home You have our Promise equities come back,” he said. “We starting to see people feel they Best price on simple are can sell their home and move equity cremation. to buy a new home.”

Home starts for 55-plus buyers should total about 150,000 units this year, the builders predict.

The recession froze sales of homes to seniors in many areas of the country, builders and economists say, and there is pent-up demand.

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offering classes, and what those seniors enjoyed may be very different from what today’s active seniors would enjoy. As life expectancy increases more seniors are working, exercising and participating in community activities later in life than ever before. They aren’t just sitting on the porch whittling or in a rocking chair knitting anymore. So what are they doing? Welch would like to hear from you. Let her know what interests you and she will do her best to see the classes offered fit into the community’s desires.

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Instead, the 55-plus buyers are looking at smaller age-restricted subdivisions close to traditional housing.

Most of those buyers aren’t interested in drastically downscaled housing, Sheleimer said.

“Many 50-plus buyers do not want to downsize to 1,500-square-foot or 1,200-square-foot homes,” he said. “We have lots of stuff.”

While aging buyers may not want golf courses, that doesn’t mean they aren’t interested in community amenities.

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“We’re seeing the average retirement age being pushed further out, due, in large part, to widespread feelings of long-term financial insecurity,” Oberland said. “That adds up to people feeling squeezed during a period of their lives when their financial obligations really should be easing.”

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Wong said Pulte’s homes aimed at boomers and seniors are as large as 3,000 square feet.

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