Healthy Living 2020

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020 A special publication of the Lynden Tribune and Ferndale Record

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Lynden couple, grandparents, bike 4,000 miles across U.S.

Steve and Sherry Vanden Bos of Lynden raise their bicycles in triumph upon completion of their cross-country trek at Yorktown, Virginia, with the waters of Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean behind them. Their biking adventure took nine weeks from July to September 2019. (Courtesy photo/Sherry Vanden Bos)

From sea to shining sea, for nine weeks Steve and Sherry Vanden Bos saw America up close

By Elisa Claassen for the Lynden Tribune

“We believe that the human spirit thrives on adventure. Tales abound of the power of bicycle travel to immerse the ordinary person in the wonders of the world. We harness stories of those who take on an adventure in order to inspire the rest of us to take action.” — Adventure Cycling LYNDEN

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This was their cross-continent change of scenery: from the Pacific Ocean to the Continental Divide, through farmland and more farmland, into the South and the Appalachians, finally reaching the water of the Atlantic Ocean. And along the way, meeting the real people of America, lots of interesting and helpful people.

The idea of doing this started out innocently enough, during a chat with Lynden Christian School friends Dan and Kara Turner at a volleyball game.

The Turners, like Steve’s brother, had held a dream of biking across the country. Soon Steve was nodding his head in agreement, and later, after telling Sherry, she was on board as well. However, the Turners weren’t able to do it, meaning

that if this was to happen, it would be just Steve and Sherry doing it.

“That always looked good to us,” she said. One problem, though: “We’re not big bikers.”

Both Steve and Sherry Vanden Bos, both at age 60 this year, are lifetime runners. If there is a long-distance or roughterrain run to be conquered, they know how to do that. This pair met in eighth grade cross country at Lynden Christian and graduated together in 1978, and have kept up running and staying in good shape in the years since.

But biking? About a cross-country trip, “we would love to do it some day” had been a thought. Now they began to make plans.

Since they are both self-employed, they had the ability to be gone for nineplus weeks for such a big adventure as this.

A three-day test trip along Highway

20 in Skagit County with the little trailer they would pull gave them a better idea of what to expect.

They began assembling everything needed. Specialized brand bikes with fresh gator tires from Fairhaven Bicycles, check. A 50-pound BOB bike trailer laden with sleeping bags, pads, tent, Sherry’s running shoes and rain gear loaned

by Steve’s brother Roland, all check. One set of clothes for day wear and another for night, check.

Additional packs on the bikes had water, snacks and maps. A favorite Tshirt to be worn declared “Life’s Better with Grandkids.”

The Adventure Cycling Association, based in Missoula, Montana, produces detailed maps of established routes for bicyclists, including locations for camping and other helps along the way. AdSee VandenBos on C4

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Jodi Joyce named head of Unity Care NW She officially starts Feb. 1 at the new facility on Portal Way in Ferndale WHATCOM ­— Unity Care NW has chosen Jodi Joyce to be its next chief executive officer, and she is in a period of transition this month with 11-year retiring head Desmond Skubi.

Joyce, who is nearing completion of a PhD degree at the University of Illinois in Chicago, officially starts her new role locally on Feb. 1, Unity Care reports. Joyce also was serving as the associate vice chancellor for quality and patient safety and chief quality officer at the University of Illinois Hospital & Clinics.

“I am honored to accept this role and am inspired by the vision, passion and expertise of the individuals who make up Unity Care NW,” Joyce said at announcement of her selection in late 2019. “This organization has thrived under Mr. Skubi’s leadership, and I look forward to helping lead the next chapter as we continue to serve Whatcom County’s residents and communities in pursuing our healthiest possible lives.”

Unity Care NW went through a thorough succession planning and then

Jodi Joyce search process involving multiple community partners and staff, said Mel DeJong, board chair.

“Jodi has a proven track record and has helped transform health care across

the country. This, combined with her deep knowledge of health care and nursing background, makes Jodi uniquely qualified to lead UCNW successfully into the future,” DeJong said.

During her time at the University of Illinois since 2012, its hospital and network of 12 federally qualified health centers provided access and care for many of Chicago’s most underserved communities. Joyce and her colleagues led a large “improvement journey” that resulted in substantial improvements in quality and patient safety. She also taught courses on quality, safety, leadership and change management at several of UIC’s health sciences schools.

Earlier in her career, Joyce was vice president for quality and patient safety at Legacy Health, a six-hospital system based in Portland, Oregon, and she was a co-founder and chief operating officer for Kaiser Permanente’s Care Management Institute.

She had prior experience in health care consulting and hospital management and began her career as a neonatal ICU nurse. She earned a bachelor’s degree at Wheaton College in Illinois, a nursing degree at Northwestern University and her MBA at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.

In the search process, Unity Care worked with Corporate Strategies and Development, an executive search firm. A new strategic five-year plan was also developed for this transition.

Jodi and her husband live in Bellingham with their Australian shepherd dog and two mischievous cats. They are extremely proud of their two sons and first grandchild, all of whom also live in Bellingham.

The new 23,000-square-foot North Whatcom Health Center was opened to patients at 6060 Portal Way in Ferndale on July 1, 2019, and operations are off to a great start, Unity Care says. Thousands of people are being served, and hundreds are using the new pharmacy service at the Ferndale location.

The mission of Unity Care NW is to increase the years of healthy life for the people and communities served. UCNW is a federally qualified health center with sites in Bellingham and Ferndale. Established in 1982, the nonprofit provides medical, dental and behavioral health, and now also pharmacy services, to over 22,000 Whatcom County residents who consider Unity Care NW their medical home. Services are available to all people regardless of their ability to pay.

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Along stream and in forest, the scenery could be right at hand in many places, such as Montana, where friend Glenn Williams joined the Vanden Boses and could take pictures of them on the road. (Photo courtesy/Sherry VandenBos)

ditional routes have been established since founding in 1976. See https:// www.adventurecycling.org/.

Today, sitting at their dining room table after a morning in which Sherry is again working with piano students, the Vanden Bos pair can described the pitfalls and joys of this trip — in retrospect.

While they certainly had their primary route established to take them from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic, they managed to involve family members and take a side trip or two for the change of pace needed.

The trip, primarily known for going through much of America’s farmland, had its ups and downs — literally, of course. The route they chose crossed the Continental Divide about four times, Steve said. “It (the road) kept getting higher and higher.”

HEALTHY LIVING That is a characteristic of Yellowstone National Park, through which they passed, seeing Lynden’s 47-year park ranger there, Harlan Kredit, as well.

“It wasn’t the shortest route,” Steve said.

Averaging 70 miles a day, they directly experienced the range of the weather. Some days brought 100-degree heat, others hailstorms.

Harder days of terrain were maybe 40 or 50 miles, but they still “had the wind in our faces,” often compounded by heat.

They weren’t always alone. Nor did they start in Whatcom County.

Sherry’s sister Debbie Maberry drove them to oceanside Florence, Oregon, on July 13, 2019, and then continued across Oregon taking the trailer; she would meet them for meals. Later, Debbie and husband Marty met up with the Vanden Boses again to explore the Ark Encounter in Kentucky and to delve into Maberry family roots in Missouri.

Also, a 1978 Nooksack Valley High School graduate and longtime friend, Glenn Williams, now living in Spokane, joined them for an-

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Kredit was both Steve and Sherry’s LCHS biology teacher, and he was in the class of 1957 with Sherry’s parents. The couple had encountered Kredit at the Lynden Dairy Queen months before, and they kept in touch calculating when they might arrive at Yellowstone.

When they in fact did, he put them up in a trailer and they were able to listen to his standard park talk at 9 p.m. as well. He was going strong, while they were tired out from the day, as they remember it, but they managed to take some pictures with him in front of the Visitor Center.

“He just goes, goes and goes,” Steve said of Kredit.

What were highlights of this adventure trip? After starting to say the scenery in the parks and overall — “It was beautiful”— on which they agreed, then they both said, “It was the people.”

When they left, they knew no one who would be on the road, but

“pretty soon you meet people.” In mid-America, especially Kansas, they met so many people displaying kindness upon kindness day after day. They met them as they stayed in tents in city parks, campgrounds, bike hostels and even churches.

Some of the parks posted notices for the cyclists to call the police department to unlock the bathrooms for them. One bike shop in Hutchison, Kansas, gave them a key to a local church, set up for travelers like them. They had instructions to turn on and off the air-conditioning and where to leave the key when they left. Beds and showers were available.

“We were the only ones there.”

“The people were happy to share their stories and hear ours,” Steve said. He pulled out a paperback memoir by a man they met, as one example. He referred them to a restaurant to eat, drove home to get the book, and brought it to them there. “Dick’s Book” tells of his life farming. A woman named Greta, in Kentucky, became a Facebook friend.

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Steve uses an old-fashioned map to make sure of the next route they should take. The pair took selfies at key points such as entering a new state or a national park orat the Appalachian Trail.

(Courtesy photo/ Sherry Vanden Bos)

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Sherry’s sister Debbie and husband Marty Maberry from Lynden joined the Vanden Boses at The Ark Experience in Williamstown, Kentucky, and Debbie had also gotten the pair started on the trip across Oregon. (Courtesy photo/Sherry Vanden Bos)

In the middle of the high plains they were looking for a place to stay and were getting worried about how isolated the scene was. “It was deserted. No cars,” they said. Then a big white pickup truck pulled up out of nowhere. The big man introduced himself as a pastor and showed them a church they could stay in, which was actually part of the route’s hospitality.

They saw fields of corn, soybeans and round bales of hay, and large ranches. “We felt at home,” Sherry said, referring to their life and upbringing on farms of Abbott and Van Dyk roads.

Their family could follow their progress and location via Find My Friend app on iPhone. By the time they got to the Mississippi River, Steve and Sherry’s four adult children finally acknowledged that their parents might just complete this wild goal. Sherry made sure to post pictures and stories to Facebook at least once a week. Facetime on their phones kept them connected with their small grandchildren.

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“We were learning our geography,” they said of charting their trip point by point, week by week.

By the end, their tires were worn “down to nothing.” They enjoyed a bit of rest with Williams and then paid $75 to have their bikes disassembled, and another $75 to be packed and shipped back home from Yorktown, Virginia. They went home via plane and within a week Sherry ran a half-marathon as a legacy runner —someone who participates annually — in the Bellingham Bay Marathon on Sept. 29, 2019. While thinking she would easily be in good shape, she found that muscles used in running are different than those in cycling. (Afterward, she switched back to her bike to support Julie Vanden Bos in doing her first full marathon at age 60.)

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The couple records their progress, entering Virginia, the last state on their itinerary. And Yorktown was the endpoint, historic also for being the most important battle in the American War for Independence. (Courtesy photos/Sherry Vanden Bos)

HEALTHY LIVING more about each other, including different food needs. Sherry needed food every two hours. Grocery stores weren’t located necessarily at those intervals, so they stocked up on more snacks. Each small town did have a United Methodist church, which reminded them of Lynden, where Sherry plays piano.

What is next? In their interview, they raised their eyes and took a minute to respond. On this trip they became aware of other off-road gravel trails such as the Katy Trail, the New River Trail and the Creeper Trail. Those might be worth a further visit. They also are looking at some opportunities in nearby British Columbia. On a recent vacation in Palm Springs, they met a man from Kelowna, B.C., who talked of special bicycles that are easily disassembled and put into suitcases. He had gone to Croatia, China and elsewhere that way.

“The world’s the limit,” he told them.

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HEALTHY LIVING what is provided, restoring both body and spirit. At such hosts, some travelers stay inside and others simply want a place to pitch a tent.

In retrospect, they say, “We are blessed with health. ... It was a oncein-a-lifetime trip and we would recommend it to anyone.”

Their Progress Week 1: Sister Debbie Maberry with them from Florence to Baker City, Oregon.

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At Yellowstone National Park Steve and Sherry connected with Harlan Kredit, of Lynden, their biology teacher years ago at Lynden Christian High School and now 47 years into being a Yellowstone summer park ranger. (Courtesy photo/Sherry Vanden Bos)

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Upcoming course teaches seniors strength training Ferndale center members must take class before using strength training equipment

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FERNDALE — The Ferndale Senior Activity Center touts an exercise facility for members to use, and an upcoming program will teach them exactly how to get the most out of the equipment.

Center manager Karma Wells said the center’s Senior Strength Training Program kicks off Feb. 11 with strength trainer Donald Boose.

The program, which costs $60 per person, lasts six weeks and teaches seniors how to make use of the various weight apparatus pieces in the training room at the senior center. Boose and the center work with doctors to obtain physicians’ releases in order to tailor the training to each user.

“Everyone has different needs,” Wells said. “Sometimes the only thing you can do is build muscle.”

For one hour twice each week, Boose will teach seniors how to use the strength training gym at the center in ways that specifically serve each user’s needs.

“He develops a program for them,” Wells said.

Everyone who wants to use the strength training gym must take the course, and Wells said there are good reasons for this requirement.

“Anyone who might come in and complain that they have to take a class, by the end, they aren’t complaining that they had to take a class,” Wells said.

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After taking the upcoming course, seniors can make use of the weight training apparatus in the Ferndale Senior Activity Center gym to work toward meeting their fitness goals. (Brent Lindquist/Ferndale Record) cific to each user’s needs, she said. These routines are specialized, and they help each senior reach whatever goals they

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5:30 a.m. is just fine for early exercisers at Lynden YMCA

Left-handed Scott Korthuis positions to return a racquetball volley from the morning's partner, Rob Read. The routine of a loose group of racquetball enthusiasts is to be playing in the Lynden YMCA courts at 6 a.m. every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)

Lynden mayor Korthuis is part of a group loyal to invigorating racquetball

By Calvin Bratt editor@lyndentribune.com

LYNDEN ­— The early crowd at the Lynden YMCA most weekdays is a batch of true believers in the value of staying physically fit.

Most of them are here soon after 5:30 a.m. opening and they get to know each other’s face, physique and routine pretty well, if not name. But they aren’t claiming to be super-athletic — they have just built the visit for exercise here into their routine.

And the camaraderie to go with it.

Straight ahead in the Wellness Center, on cardio and weight equipment, could be anywhere from six to 10 folks moving their muscles at this hour.

In one of the two racquetball courts are a threesome that knows each other

well: Scott Korthuis, who happens to be Lynden’s mayor; his pastor at United Reformed Church, Mark VanderPol; and Rob Read, businessman and friend.

Then, farther on in the gym, alone at this point to do her chosen stretching exercises, is Cheryl Thornton, a Nooksack Valley School Board member who with her husband Tom are the co-operators of Cloud Mountain Farm Center east of Everson.

If she didn’t come here faithfully pre-dawn to work out, she wouldn’t find

another time in her busy day to do it, says Thornton, 68.

Korthuis likewise says that he likes the invigorating effect of several games of competitive racquetball with friends as a best way to get “mentally sharp” for the day.

Korthuis believes he has been playing early-morning racquetball at the Lynden Y since 1989, and Thornton surmises that she has been coming there about that long as well.

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They are working out early on a weekday morning — the Martin Luther King holiday at that — while also enjoying the camaraderie of a familiar group. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune) Korthuis, at 60 older than his two court mates, considers it a good deal when he can beat them — especially Read, in his 40s — in a game to 15 points in the fast, tight reflex action of racquetball.

He is also keeping up another personal physical and mental challenge. Using a boat launch from family property on Lake

Whatcom, Korthuis is now to his 21st year of water-skiing each month on the lake, no matter the season of the year.

It is 250 straight months now.

Depending on time of the year, he gets into either a wet or dry suit to do this.

He will coordinate with a relative or friend to do the honors of running the boat, al-

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Korthuis is recently retired from his product manager role with agricultural harvester company Oxbo International in Lynden, which often took him to other countries, especially Brazil. That means he can more fully devote himself to mayor du-

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There is a larger group than these core three who arrange among themselves to have at least one partner playing racquetball by 6 a.m. typically every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Their desire to get a few games in might be stymied by winter weather closures at the Y — as was true in mid-January — but it’s never totally stopped.

“It is a good way to get some running in,” Korthuis said. “It is great exercise, great camaraderie, and we enjoy each other’s company.”

What does his wife, Ellen, think of this physical fitness routine he keeps up? “She is glad that I am a man of habit,” Scott said.

Some of the rest of the Y crew that is up and at it at 6 a.m. are willing to admit they are “the crazy people,” although others emphasize this is the best part of their day.

A frequent one present, Gary Small, fits right in with his string of latest puns or jokes to share. “I was going to get a brain transplant, but I changed my mind” is his offering on this particular day, Ruth Norman, one of the receptionists for the early shift, said those who come now develop a bond that sometimes becomes solid friendship.

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The court threesome on this day includes Rob Read, Mark Vander Pol and Scott Korthuis.

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