Nugget's Focus on Health - Fall 2017

Wednesday, October 11, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon

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focus on health Fall 2017

• Eating for optimal performance

pg. 15

• Tai chi is beneficial for older adults Pg. 20

• Vitamin C: a beauty superfood

pg. 16

pg. 18

• A growing, inclusive community for Sisters seniors pg. 20 Pg. 15 This past summer was a tough one in Sisters Country. Weeks of smoky conditions took a toll on all of us — not just physically, but psychologically and emotionally, too.

Fortunately, the autumn season here is a beautiful, restorative time of year — and there are many practitioners here who can help us get back on track and feeling like ourselves again.

This is a lovely time of year to off load some stress, get outdoors in that crisp fall air and enjoy the beauties and challenges of the outdoor wonderland that is Sisters Country.

The winter sports season is just ahead. If you’re looking to get fitter and stronger than ever before,

Sisters’ fitness community is ready to serve you with expert training programs suitable for everybody. And if you are in need of recovery, there are folks who can help you with that, too.

Whether you are looking to be more healthconscious and active, or trying to avoid or recover from the strains of being too active, you can find the services you need in Sisters.

And if you just need to restore your sense of peace and well-being, Sisters’ practitioners in a variety of modalities are here to help — with deep knowledge, skill, and compassion.

Explore these pages for resources to help you make your life more healthful and fulfilling.

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By using our team-based care approach, we hope to ensure you receive the treatment you need based on your unique health circumstances.

This care team will partner with you as you pursue your healthcare goals both inside and outside of our clinic. Because the Sisters clinic is part of St. Charles Health System, our patients benefit from ready access to specialized services, including

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Stress and the immune system

By Dr. Kim Hapke Correspondent

As we head into cold and flu season, many of us do so with an increased level of stress. Whatever particular cocktail of events you find stressful, it is likely you have encountered at least some of the ingredients in the last few months. Stress can take a toll on sleep, mood — and the immune system.

Fortunately, there are ways to help the body recover from a period of stress that also benefit the immune system.

During an event we find acutely stressful, our brain puts out a small amount of adrenaline. Our adrenals pick up that signal and amplify it, providing us with the “flightor-fight response” of increased heart rate, blood pressure and blood to the muscles.

Longer-term stress is different. In response to longterm stress, our adrenals put out a hormone called cortisol. Rather than preparing us for flight, cortisol tells the body to hunker down for the long haul. Long-term stress for our ancestors was often a period of famine. As a result,

cortisol has some less-thanhelpful messages for our bodies under modern-day stresses.

It increases our appetite and helps us put on weight. It suppresses our immune system, leaving us vulnerable to infection.

Sleep is one of the top interventions to help the body recover from stress. When we sleep, our body puts out certain proteins that help us fight infection. Since rising cortisol is the signal that wakes up in the morning, raised cortisol from stress can take a toll on sleep patterns. If your sleep is disrupted, note that blue light from digital devices messes with melatonin, the hormone that induces us to sleep.

Turn off the TV and computer (and the stressful information on them!) at least two hours before bed to aid proper sleep induction. After a period of stress your body may temporarily need more sleep than normal to recover.

A balanced diet can help mitigate the effects of stress.

One of the roles of cortisol is to help the body deal with blood-sugar maintenance.

After insulin has dealt with the influx of glucose from a

meal, cortisol is released to pull sugar from cells to maintain blood glucose. If we are taking in meals with lots of sugar or simple carbohydrates our body puts out lots of insulin, then lots of cortisol when blood-sugar drops precipitously. This roller coaster takes a toll on already stressed adrenals. Include whole grains, fiber from fruits and vegetables, protein and good fats with each meal to balance out insulin and cortisol release and provide optimal nutrition for the immune system. (See related story, page 15.)

Certain nutrients help the body deal with stress. Vitamin C is used by the adrenals in greater amounts during stress and is also necessary for certain cells of the immune system to function. The B vitamins are also supportive to both the adrenals and the immune system.

Two classes of herbs are especially beneficial in helping the body deal with and recover from stress. Nervines are nourishing to the nervous system and mildly calming rather than sedative. Examples that can be taken in tea or tincture are chamomile, oat straw

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Our adrenal glands release a hormone called cortisol in response to longterm stress, which suppresses our immune system. and lemon balm. Lemon balm has the added benefit of having anti-viral properties. Or, support a sense of calm by diffusing an essential oil like lavender in your environment.

The other group of herbs is known as adaptogens.

They help the body adapt to stress, often by helping to balance cortisol and bloodsugar response, and supporting the adrenals and immune system. Licorice is one of the best herbs to aid recovery of depleted adrenals. It is nourishing, with constituents similar in structure to adrenal hormones, and has a naturally sweet taste. Avoid licorice if you have high blood pressure.

Astragalus is another adaptogenic herb that balances cortisol and is especially known for supporting the immune system. Ashwaganda increases the body’s ability to adapt to stress and promotes stamina.

These interventions can aid in recovering from an unavoidable period of stress, but if you are reaching for them often it is time to examine your mind’s reaction to events.

“Stress” is a blanket word — its meaning differs from person to person. It encompasses a wide range of physical, mental and emotional reactions to the emotions, people and events that take their greatest toll on us. Though it is long-term work to cultivate mindfulness and change our way of reacting to events outside our control, such work also offers the greatest benefit. There are many roads to becoming aware of and changing our patterns, from seeking help from a practitioner who focuses on changing long-term patterns to practices such as yoga, martial arts and meditation.

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There are few bodily functions that exercise doesn’t improve. Mental health, heart and lung function, or skeletal integrity — exercise is integral to the healthcare equation. With a proactive approach, one can improve or defeat many conditions that plague our society. Heart disease, the number-one cause of death in the USA, can be improved with proper training. Diabetes can be maintained and prevented.

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Eating for optimal performance

By Ryan Hudson Correspondent

It is human nature to associate food with taste. Most people associate eating with recreation or pleasure. Many people turn to food for comfort, satisfaction and indulgence. And its common sense now, in this era of obesity we have found ourselves in, to associate food with weight loss or gain. Don’t eat this because it will make you fat and do eat this because it will help you lose weight.

But what if we looked at food as how it will make us feel ... and perform? What if we looked at food as the drug that it is? Like the fuel that it is?

This was the epiphany I had at my first nutrition certifications. How we feel and perform is not just about our body composition, even our health and fitness level, but very much about what we ate before our workout, this morning and last night. Did we fill up our tank with premium? Unleaded? Worse?

Our performance, mood, energy, and wellness are very much controlled by

hormones. Our food has a huge impact on our hormones. Insulin is impacted by each thing you put in your mouth. Did it stabilize, spike or crash your insulin level?

The problem with “carb-loading” or taking in highly glycemic foods is that it spikes your insulin level and eventually crashes it. You may feel good and perform well for a while — but what goes up must come down. This can put you on a rollercoaster and also cause you to gain and

We are also one meal away from feeling like garbage and performing like crap. retain fat.

The Zone Diet is all about staying in “the zone” of insulin balance and not riding this insulin rollercoaster. Eating balanced meals that do not contain highly glycemic foods keeps you in the zone.

Another diet that helps

keep you in this peak performance zone is the Paleo Diet.

Essentially it’s the “caveman” diet or “hunter-gather” diet that follows a basic rule of thumb of “if you can pick it or kill it you can eat it.”

The first few words of “World-class Fitness in 100 Words” written by CrossFit founder Greg Glassman, are: “Eat meat and vegetables, nuts and seeds, some fruit, little starch and no sugar.”

This is basically the Paleo Diet and the Zone Diet.

Now, since these diets have been widely accepted as great options for performance athletes, questions have arisen on how to approach pre- and post-nutrition for maximized performance.

This is where programs such as Eat to Perform and Renaissance Periodization (among others) have come into popularity; they address the timing and quantity of nutrition before and after training or sport.

What the majority agree on is that it maximizes performance and recovery to sandwich the majority of your carbohydrate intake around your workout or

competition. Some people who want to lean out have very low carb intake — around 20 percent — while others may be prescribed as much as 60 percent when they are trying to gain mass; others are more balanced, around 40 percent.

Either way, about 50 percent of your carb intake should occur within one hour prior to and within one hour after your workout or competition. This PHOTO PROVIDED will accompany a Ryan Hudson used pre-planned nutrition to balanced serving of recover from a tough weigh-in and win his first protein and fat, but World Championship in Denmark in 2014. the extra carbs will help you fuel and recover around those times. from your performance.

Off days should contain They should be low-gly- similar carb content but more cemic carbs like sweet pota- balanced throughout the day. toes or yams so insulin levels To find the magic “pre-workare not spiked and it should out meal” for you it may take be noted that the rest of the some experimentation and meals throughout the day trial and error. It may require should be lower-carb. You are weighing and measuring not necessarily intaking more foods to determine the opticarbs on training or competi- mum blend of macros that tion days (except for extreme See EATING on page 18 cases) but just taking more in

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Tai chi is beneficial for older adults

By Andrew Loscutoff Correspondent

Tai chi is a form of exercise transcending many generations as a martial art, meditation, and choreography of movement, which has many pronounced effects on the body. Now, thanks to a better understanding of neurological processes through exercise and movement, tai chi stands as an exercise modality that anyone can enjoy and gain exceptional results.

While its origins are uncertain, itʼs speculated that tai chi has been practiced for at least 700 years.

Originating in ancient China, modern tai chi follows a pattern of movements in a meditative, controlled, and precise fashion. Itʼs also referred to as “movement meditation.”

This integrates a strong mind-body connection with movement and foci on relaxation, coordination, and helps someone overcome a clouded or convoluted headspace by asking them to focus on solely the movement and breathing associated.

Tai chi can be an effective exercise program for

older adults who might not be suited to the contemporary exercise programs many gyms offer as classes. The gentle movements are easy on the joints, they require no equipment, and provide a wide variety of benefits to many bodily systems.

The mindfulness, relaxation, and the restorative nature of tai chi is backed by ample research showing its brain-boosting benefit. A recent study from Massachusetts General Hospital used eight weeks of meditative practice coupled with MRI exams to look at how it affected the brain.

Comparisons of the beforeand-after imaging revealed stark adaptations. The graymatter density improved in the hippocampus, showing better learning and memory formation. Also the amygdala, which when overstimulated can cause anxiety and powerful stress responses, was decreased.

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and pains many experience in day-to-day life. The controlled breathing, relaxed movement, and mobility requirements can promote the pain transponders to reset and relax. Think of it like adjusting the knob on those old televisions to get a clearer picture. The restorative movement in tai chi establishes a more clear relationship between body and mind, reducing pain, and promoting a less-tense, more-relaxed body.

Restoring the body to a relaxed state can also help relieve hypertensive states, inflammation, and cortisol stress hormones. Chronic stress may be the most dangerous thing to our body, and if no intervention is taken, it can fester into heart disease, strokes, obesity, fatigue, etc.

(See related story, page 14.)

Tai chi is an excellent way to combat these effects, without pharmaceuticals or psychotherapy, by up-regulating the function of the parasympathetic nervous systems and hampering the sympathetic system, which is often overactive in stressful times.

Movement patterns which

cross the centerline, and use coordination, are effective in older adults because of the left-brain-right-brain connections. As one moves a limb from one side to another, the brain needs to process these movements. This complexity stimulates areas which otherwise wouldnʼt be used. It can be effective for problemsolving, balance, coordination, and cognition.

M o v i n g o n e ʼs b o d y through a full range of motion, using many joints and muscles is a great approach to staying mobile and functional.

Tai chi uses coordinated movement patterns, full ranges of motion, restorative and meditative practice, all of which provide many benefits. Those who are not currently exercising, need some mind-body work, or just desire to change their fitness program up can benefit from Tai chi. Look for a beginnerfriendly, experienced leader, and donʼt be afraid to ask questions. Check out different styles, and try different techniques. The body, mind, and spirit will be happy!

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Dr. Malone is also grateful for the healthcare now available in Sisters. “Once I was the only physician in town. A physical therapy clinic was the only other healthcare provider here. We are privileged

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Warding off the disease of ‘constant partial attention’

By Jim Cornelius News Editor

You’re in the middle of a project, fully absorbed.

Your phone beeps with that special tone you chose for text notifications. Without a second’s thought, you drop what you’re doing and reach for that ever-present device, concentration broken, project derailed.

The music’s great at the concert, a band you’ve loved for years. But you can’t just be in the moment and experience the music — you have to Snapchat it to your friends, over and over and over again.

We’ve all seen this; most all of us have done this or something like it. Frequently.

We’re in the grip of a compulsion that’s no less powerful than a drug addiction.

And, while it’s not anything like as pervasively destructive as drug addiction, it’s not good for us — and we know it.

The Guardian newspaper recently ran an article on the addictive and distractive power of our smart phones and social media. The piece quotes technology writer Nir

Eyal: “The technologies we use have turned into compulsions, if not full-fledged addictions,” Eyal writes. “It’s the impulse to check a message notification. It’s the pull to visit YouTube, Facebook, or Twitter for just a few minutes, only to find yourself still tapping and scrolling an hour later.” None of this is an accident, he writes. It is all “just as their designers intended.”

Any maker of any product wants to make you crave it.

As my co-workers can attest, I can stand in one spot and eat a whole bag of peanut butter cups. Even as I’m enjoying that sublime combination of peanut butter and chocolate, I feel disgusted with myself, knowing full well I’m going to feel slightly sick and loggy for the rest of the afternoon because of it. I feel exactly the same way when I realize that I’ve just lost an hour to mindless scrolling through Facebook.

It’s not that I don’t value social media and the connectivity it provides. As a student of history, it’s helped me discover new information, led to new paths of inquiry, and I

love sharing discoveries with like-minded folks, some of whom I know only through “virtual” interaction. That’s good stuff. I try really hard to stay in that lane. But the pull of the mindless scrolland-click is strong as a rip current.

When the people who invented this stuff start unplugging, it’s probably a sign that there’s a problem.

As The Guardian notes, Justin Rosenstein, who invented the Facebook “Like” button, is trying to curtail his own smartphone and social media use.

There is growing concern that as well as addicting users, technology is contributing toward so-called “continuous partial attention,” severely limiting people’s ability to focus, and possibly lowering IQ. One recent study showed that the mere presence of smartphones damages cognitive capacity — even when the device is turned off.

“Everyone is distracted,” Rosenstein says. “All of the time.”

It is revealing that many of these younger technologists

are weaning themselves off their own products, sending their children to elite Silicon Valley schools where iPhones, iPads and even laptops are banned. They appear to be abiding by a Biggie Smalls lyric from their own youth about the perils of dealing crack cocaine: never get high on your own supply.

It was Rosenstein’s colleague, Leah Pearlman, then a product manager at Facebook and on the team that created the Facebook “like,” who announced the feature in a 2009 blogpost.

Now 35 and an illustrator, Pearlman confirmed via email that she, too, has grown disaffected with Facebook “likes” and other addictive feedback loops. She has installed a web browser plugin to eradicate her Facebook news feed, and hired a social media manager to monitor her Facebook page so that she doesn’t have to.

Since I’m hardly in a position to hire a social media manager, I guess I’m on my own in trying to master the technology instead of letting it master me.

I try to set the phone aside

entirely when I go home, and resist the impulse to grab it instantaneously, mindlessly, when a text notification or a Facebook message pings. It can bide a while. I turn the thing off when I’m in the woods. I’ve revived an old habit, one that I established in my childhood: I carry a book with me everywhere. That way, when I have a down “waiting for a train” moment, I have something more productive to do than whip out the phone and start scrolling. It’s amazing how much reading I can do in those odd moments I’ve been spending swept up in the social media current. And I’m filling my head and heart with something I actually want there, instead of a lot of useless noise, angst and negativity that I don’t want but can’t seem to avoid.

The thought that I’m living in a state of self-inflicted “continuous partial attention” horrifies me — especially when I can feel it happening.

I am assembling an arsenal of techniques to ward it off. If you’ve got a trick or two, I’d love to hear them. Message me.

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EATING: Performance is enhanced by mindful eating Continued from page 15

are best for you. It may be 50 grams of carbs, 20 grams of protein and 10 grams of fat.

It may just require trying different super foods to determine the best carb source, protein source and fat source for pre-workout and make that your routine.

It could be sweet potato, avocado and steak. Or it may just be a protein shake with a banana and almond butter.

Either way, it is always eye-opening to me that we are all just one meal away from feeling good and performing our best. We are also one meal away from feeling like garbage and performing like crap.

I have learned this the hard way through the sport of weightlifting. In weightlifting you cut weight to get down to the lowest weight class you can, while still maintaining strength, to be at your most competitive. After you weigh-in, you have exactly two hours to refuel before your competition.

You can literally go from death’s door at weigh-in to

world champion on the platform within a couple hours by fueling your body with the exact right quantity of macros, vitamins, minerals, electrolytes and water in one sitting.

My best example of optimizing performance nutrition was at the World Championships in 2014 in Denmark. After cutting 20 pounds down to 4 percent body fat and traveling halfway around the world, I made my toughest weigh-in ever, and three hours later achieved a lifetime-best lift in the clean and jerk at 215 percent bodyweight or 322 pounds, weighing 150 — and won my first world championship. I could not have done so without the carry-on bag of pre-packed nutrition and hydration for that two-hour window I packed days in advance to be my best. Imagine if we approached every workout with even a fraction of that planning and purpose. If we fueled the machine we live in with premium fuel instead of unleaded or worse, we might actually run like race-cars instead of go-carts.

Think before you eat. It won’t just help you look better, but feel and perform better, too.

Vitamin C: a beauty superfood

By Karen Keady Correspondent

Over two decades after his death at age 93, Linus Pauling’s claims regarding the health benefits of vitamin C are being confirmed by study after study. Vitamin C plays a vital role in maintaining skin, hair and nail health and has been touted as a beauty “superfood” that can keep skin young, supple and healthy.

Pauling, a native Oregonian, graduated from Oregon State with a chemical engineering degree in 1922. He became a leading chemist, possibly the greatest American scientist, and has been rated the 16th most important scientist in history. Pauling twice won the Nobel Prize, the first in 1954 for chemistry, the second for peace, in 1962.

Pauling’s claims that vitamin C in large doses can cure or prevent heart disease, cancer, infection, remission of AIDS, and even the recovery of children at the point of death from septic shock, were scoffed at by the medical establishment. Some went so far as to brand him a quack.

Pauling was undaunted, as he believed through his research

and studies that vitamin C could overcome major killers and premature death from myriad diseases.

Pauling’s studies are wellpublicized; much of his literature translated into nine languages.

As a potent antioxidant, vitamin C slows free radicals, unstable molecules that promote dryness, fine lines and wrinkles in the skin.

Most animals make their own vitamin C, but in humans, the gene to manufacture this essential substance no longer works properly. Vitamin C contributes to collagen production, a protein found in every part of the body. After age 30, we lose 1 percent of collagen a year.

Oxidative stress contributes to this loss via sun damage, pollution, smoking, poor diet, processed foods, dehydration and other stressors.

If too much vitamin C is taken, our bodies will eliminate it. One study, called the “Dynamic Flow Model,” suggests we should ingest more vitamin C than we need, in the form of divided dose supplements. The extra ascorbate flows through the body and is excreted; however it

is not wasted, as any excess acts as a reservoir for when extra vitamin C is needed.

This is described in the book “Ascorbate: The Science of Vitamin C” (www.lulu.com/ ascorbate).

In the mid-1990s, while I was taking post-graduate nursing classes at OHSU, one of my instructors was a close relative of Linus Pauling. She was a proponent of topical vitamin C and vitamin E to slow oxidative aging of skin.

Try this experiment: Our bodies are 65 to 70 percent water. Fill a glass with water, add to that a hospital-grade Betadine solution. Betadine kills every living organism on the skin. The Betadine represents oxidative stress. Add a few drops at a time until the solution is a dark color, representing 20 or 30 years of damage.

Then, take a good quality vitamin C serum, with a dropper, drop in 7 to 9 drops.

Stir and watch as the water becomes clear and clean again.

The best antioxidant just neutralized the damaged skin.

Pauling was brilliant, a man ahead of his time, as new studies are proving that vitamin C truly IS a superfood!

Central Oregon Eyecare Doc, I’ve got crusty irritated eyelids, can you help?

The crustiness you see on the lashes in the above picture isn’t a critter, but the byproduct of one. Demodex is a mite that lives on most of us. It tends to be most prevalent in our eyelash follicles and eyebrows. If it multiples uncontrolled, symptoms may start such as itchy, red eyelids or crusty eyelashes.

At Central Oregon Eyecare, we employ the latest research and products to successfully cure this common problem.

The products and procedures we use are formulated to kill the Demodex. Controlling the Demodex living in the eyelash follicles greatly improves eye comfort and appearance.

For all your eyecare needs — from immediate concerns to regular eye exams, for children and for adults — contact Central Oregon Eyecare.

Therapeutic Associates Ski season is right around the corner, and Matt Kirchoff of Therapeutic Associates is partnering with ace trainer Andrew Loscutoff of Sisters Athletic Club to help you make sure it’s the best one yet.

An eight-session ski fitness clinic is set for November 28 through December 21 at Sisters Athletic Club. Free to SAC members, the clinic is $5 per session for the public. Come to all sessions or just a couple and work on skiing-specific exercises that will get you fit for the slopes.

A physically prepared skier is not only less likely to get injured, he or she is also well-positioned to get the most out of a day on the slopes!

Therapeutic Associates is conveniently located on the FivePine Campus next to Sisters Athletic

Club, which allows them to use the SAC pool for aquatics and offer “step-down” rehab from full-on physical therapy to recovery and strengthening work at the club with a trainer.

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OUTDOOR: Kids spend time at Camp Tamarack near Sisters

here, and share what you’ve learned with your friends and family back home.”

Instead of the old Outdoor School technique of the students going to various staContinued from page 12 tions set up in the forest to with this statement beneath learn about trees, water, soils it: “This is an outdoor school and wildlife, the new techwhere people, plants, and nique is to form “partners” animals live together and within the group of students learn from each other. This is and they progress into the your book to help you learn outdoor classroom to discuss about the outdoors, remem- various aspects of the forest ber your unique experience that covers trees, water, soil and wildlife.

Mo s t o f t h e forest surrounding Tamarack was burned over by the B&B Complex Fire of 2003. The blackened trees were used to teach students about the nature of fire.

As a group of 10 students, divided into partner groups, began their trek into the wildlfire zone, they stopped often to discuss various aspects of fire and the recovering ecosystem.

“I notice…” one partner would PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON say to the other, A student received the “Purple Bead Award” for and then describe his house keeping and cooperative excellence. a particular part of

PHOTO BY JIM ANDERSON

Charlie “Peanuts” Anderson (center) watching over his flock studying in the B&B Burn on an Outdoor School day at Camp Tamarack. the burned forest that caught his or her attention. Once one aspect of the forest was covered the group would change partners and move on to another viewpoint.

In this way, the instructors would guide the students into discussing fire, forest, water, geology, wildlife and the methods that were used to bring the fire into eventual control. At one point, one of the high school instructors asked why, if fire had

destroyed so much of the surrounding forest, the buildings at Camp Tamarack were not burned.

That discussion went on for almost an hour on the firefighting methods that saved the camp, the firefighters’ tools and procedures, money spent on fighting the fire, the impact not only on the forest itself, but on the native wildlife and ecosystem.

As the students continued on through burned and

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Spa guests can enjoy full access to the indoor pool, fitness center, steam room and hot tub. You can also enjoy the wonderful selections inside our sports and gift shop, featuring a variety of organic skin-treatment products, apparel, shoes and accessories. Visit BlackButteRanch.com/spa for monthly specials and information or call 541-595-5878.

unburned parts of the forest, the instructors were able to inject the ideas of scientific discovery and use it to go deeper into aspects of biology and understanding the complexities of the ecosystem impacted by fire.

Instructor Ariel Clark, known by her “camp name” Orion, expressed a common sentiment: “I just love working with students in this outdoor setting.”

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A growing, inclusive community for Sisters seniors

By Joann Power Guest Columnist

The Earth shook a bit Monday, September 25, under the Rainwater Café when a group of 10 enthusiastic “shakers and movers” got together for the first time as a steering committee for the emerging Senior Alliance.

The steering committee will provide the Sisters community with a picture of the needs of our aging community. The emphasis is that Senior Alliance is inclusive.

Conversations and collaboration are key to its direction for assisting seniors in the community to have and to easily access the many services present and needed. Anyone interested in participating in the future conversations are urged to contact Joann Power with their name, contact and specific interest. Email: lulok3@hotmail.com (They will then be sent invitations and information.)

Maybe another volcano is emerging to join the Cascades’ Three Sisters Mountains to attract admiring attention to keep this “age-friendly” community’s spirit active.

The term “age-friendly city” is used by Dr. Margaret B. Neal, director of the Institute on Aging, an outstanding promoter of such communities world-wide. She will be visiting Sisters on November 3, probably because she has already heard how Sisters is the model of a caring, friendly little city.

A coined word, “agers” describes anyone from conception to age 110. Yet each stage and age has its unique needs, and a healthy community meets them. Sisters now does an outstanding job of meeting educational needs.

From preschool through high school are growth experiences and educational opportunities that are exemplary. But then jobs for the graduates are scarce in Sisters.

People hear about their welleducated, talented youth serving well in other communities.

Senior citizens approach situations where they are tempted to leave for places that have better transportation or more accessible services for them.

Often they are unaware of the services that are here. Thus Sisters loses two groups of its loved and talented agers.

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Senior Alliance seeks to incorporate the talents of all “agers” into a model community.

Perhaps there are ways to 85-year-olds still comfortable When an assisted-living facilkeep both young and old here but needing some help in their ity is built here as planned, it to the economic benefit of the own homes. will employ many younger community. Senior Alliance Either here or in another people, helping all agers to invites each citizen to analyze community senior citizens continue to live in their home all answers to that. will pay for such services. town.

Sisters attracts retired Seniors mean profitable This newly formed group, people as residents. They are industry. Their needs are Senior Alliance, invites everya large part of the population potentials for businesses and one to think and talk about here. Services for these people part-time work for many incorporating the talents and as they age can employ many. young people. Youth saving kindnesses of each age group Doctors, nurses, counselors, to go to university, or young to continue to coordinate the financial advisers, bankers, parents who need part- or full- model community for all its food services, grocery stores, time jobs to raise their young agers. Senior Alliance will landscapers, home services families need a fair wage. give out and collect informasuch as cleaning, animal care, Most seniors can afford to tion at the Senior Health Fair yard care, transportation, gro- pay that. To make the many being held from 10 a.m. to 2 cery delivery, food prepara- services already existing p.m. October 20, at Sisters tion. Handy men and women more easily known and more Park & Recreation District, are needed daily by the 65- to accessible could be a goal. 1750 W. McKinney Butte Rd.

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Sisters Park & 60+SENIOR HEALTH Recreation District FAIR IN SISTERS

Friday, Oct. 20, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at SPRD (next to High School) FREE

Over 60? Free education & screening for: • Functional Strength, Movement, Posture & Balance • Bone Density Testing • Blood Glucose Testing • Hearing • Blood Pressure • Tire Checks • Orthotics • Dental Check • Cholesterol • More!

541-549-2091 1750 W. Mckinney Butte Rd. www.SistersRecreation.com

Sisters Park & Recreation District and the Sisters-Camp Sherman Fire District have partnered together to bring a 60+ Senior Health Fair to Sisters Country.

The fair will showcase the health services currently being offered in Sisters Country, and to provide free screenings and education for those who attend.

The 60+ Senior Health Fair has been set for October 20, at Sisters Park & Recreation District at 1750 W. McKinney Butte Rd. (next to Sisters High School).

This event will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and is free to everyone. The fair will include: Bone

density testing; lower extremity functional strength and balance screening; blood glucose testing; hearing screening; blood pressure safety information; tire checks; orthotics; functional movement and posture screening; dental check; and cholesterol assessment.