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Car clubs are fonts of knowledge, camaraderie

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Carl Jensen jokes that the name of name of his car club — Loose Nuts — could be taken in a few different ways, but he’s OK with that. He founded it 12 years ago with five members, and it now has 40 members, and their cars. “It was originally just five or six guys hanging out together,” Jensen says of Loose Nuts. “I had just had my front end aligned and we went to a cruise in Roseburg. On the way home the passenger side front wheel started vibrating. It got worse and we pulled off to the side and some wheel stuff had broken. We borrowed some stuff off one of the other cars to patch me up so we could keep going. Later we got to thinking about a name for the club and we came up with Loose Nuts.” The only requirement to join the club is owning a car at least as old as 1948. Jensen is 84 years old now, and drives a car almost as old as he is. His yellow 1941 Chevy V-8 has racked up a lot of miles — and hot rod awards — throughout the decades. He’s always been into cars, and especially modifying them in hot rod- and street rod-style. “Everybody’s got to have something,” he says. “I don’t hunt, I don’t fish, I don’t play golf, I don’t bowl, so I might as well do something with cars.” For Jensen, his interest started in high school. He grew up in Los Angeles, but moved here in 1950 when his father retired and moved the family, finishing his last year of high school at Willamette. He was one of only a handful of guys who had cars at that time, and no one had one as nice as his. “There were other hot rods in town but not ones that were finished like mine,” he says. “The others were running the street but at that time mine was show quality. There wasn’t

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Carl Jensen’s 1941 Chevy is a top pick for People’s Choice or Best Rod in many car shows. anything around here any better.” In 1950, Eugene had a club called the Road Kings. Jensen then split off and formed the Gents Club. “I had a ’48 Plymouth in high school and at Willamette there was only about three or four guys that had cars so we were pretty popular,” he recalls. “We did some changes on the cars that were noticeable, they were lower in the back and had special wheels. Then I went to a ’52 Chevy. I’ve had numerous cars.” Loose Nuts has monthly meetings and puts on an annual slow drag race and poker run. They also bring the cars to make appearances at special events around town. The club makes overnight trips to Winchester and Yachats, and five years ago drove to Mount Rushmore in South Dakota. For Jensen, the fun of the club is doing things together

and hanging out with people he has things in common with. It’s also cool to be part of such a noticeable group when they’re all out on the road. “When we’re all driving together we’re just like a magnet,” he says. In years past, Jensen received a lot of notoriety for his cars. In 1958, he drove a ’28 Ford Roadster pick-up that won Best Street Rod in the prestigious Portland Roadster Show. In 1959, at the age of 26, he was featured in a two-page spread in Hot Rod magazine with that car. His yellow Chevy now gets a lot of attention. “Every place I go I get People’s Choice or Best Rod.”

For Mary Corrington, the appeal of joining the Emerald Empire Vintage Automobile Club was to have a source of knowledge and the camaraderie of a group.

Her interest isn’t in modifying cars to be the fastest, but instead restoring them to the original condition they were in when they left the factory line. Corrington is vice president of the Emerald Empire Auto Club, now in its 50th year. She joined about three years ago. “I wanted a group that wasn’t into hot rods,” she says. “A lot of people are into hot rods but I’m not. I’m into originality.” Corrington has had a life of many interests, including tending bonsai, racing cars and bicycles, and earning her pilots license and flying solo across the United States twice. She always wanted to experience Route 66 in an original vehicle, and two years ago she was able to do that with her fully restored 1949 Chevy pick-up and teardrop trailer to match. She caravanned with her brother, his 1952 car, and her son’s 1939 truck, all Chevys.

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Her son has an original 1930s teardrop, and spent 35 years restoring the truck and modifying it significantly enough that Hot Rod magazine did a three-page spread on it a couple of years ago. “It took me several years to restore the truck,” she says. “It was a farm truck that didn’t run, and didn’t have any brakes either. It was a mess.” She learned how to do the work by asking a lot of questions, and joined the car club so she wouldn’t have to go it alone. “When you’re all by yourself doing it, you don’t know who the good mechanics are, you don’t know who to buy from,” she says. “I was looking for sources of information and camaraderie.” Corrington went to high school in the late 1950s and early ’60s, and says there’s something special about that era of cars and the culture that

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Carl Jensen poses with the pride of his trophy collection — the Best Rod trophy he won in the 1958 Portland Roadster Show.

came along with it. “Life was so much cleaner than it is now,” she says, adding that she doesn’t like modern car designs. “There was something about the older cars. They had style. They were different. You could look at one and say, ‘That’s a Chevy, that’s a Ford.’ You can’t do that anymore.” The 162 members in the Emerald Empire Vintage Auto Club meet monthly, as well as weekly for breakfast. They also attend a lot of events, and focus the money they receive on charity. At a recent show at Valley River Center, her truck took Best in Show. “We make money and give it to charity,” she says. “We’re big on supporting the schools where they have the programs where kids learn how to fix cars. Those programs are grossly underfunded.” The club gives money to charities like Womenspace and the Mission, which just received a check for $250 from the club. “We don’t have a huge treasury,” Corrington says, “but we don’t need a huge treasury, so we support charity. The majority of the members aren’t young, although we do have some young people, but we’re all community oriented.” ■

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It took him 85 years, but even tycoon Warren Buffett finally decided it was time to defy his own aversion to investing in high technology. He took a risk by scooping up 10 million sagging shares of Apple, Inc., earlier this year. And it may be a lesson for the rest of us. Buffett had previously been quoted as saying, “I know about as much about semiconductors or integrated circuits as I do of the mating habits of the chrzaszcz (Polish word for beetle).” Therefore, Buffett’s mas-

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sive fortune was instead accumulated in his familiar territory, away from the realm of electronic media. Many of us can relate. We reside blissfully in the suburbs of computer innovation, looking quite nervously from the outside-in at social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, preferring to snuggle in our own comfort zones and reluctant to take a risk. We are the folks who prefer newspapers that you hold in your hands. And we consider mail to be something written on paper and stuffed into a stamped envelope. It’s true that many of us have at least sniffed around the vag-

aries of modern e-places like Facebook and Twitter. But that’s about it. So, is it finally our time to take a risk on social media? First of all, let’s give credit where credit is due. A good many seniors have, in fact, enthusiastically and admirably embraced today’s electronic wizardry. However, as a group we typically lag well behind the younger crowd. (PEW Research: 89 percent of 18-29 year olds use the internet. Forty-nine percent of those over 65 use the internet.) For those of us who may be electronically challenged — as our grandchildren are wont to

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Remember years ago when a heat wave occurred once or maybe twice a summer and wouldn’t last for more than a few days? Remember when we who live on the western side of the state could expect a comfortable, sunny summer from July 4th through the end of September? As of this writing, with comparatively few days over 90 degrees, it appears the old days have returned, at least for 2016. Isn’t it wonderful? But while the mild temperatures are ideal for humans, they’re not so peachy for the tomato crop. Those of us who’ve been

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Growing delicious tomatoes gardening since the 1970s also remember when it was a challenge to get ripe tomatoes before fall. Plant breeders responded by working tirelessly to market early-ripening varieties such as “Oregon Spring” and “Early Girl.” In more recent years, with our hot summers, it’s been relatively easy to grow delicious tomatoes since the plants thrive on heat. And contrarily, with the absence of that heat, cultivating the perfect tomato can be a bit more challenging. So here are a few tips. The best time to harvest tomatoes is when the outside temperature is between 70 and 90 degrees F. Temperatures above this will accelerate softening and retard color devel-

opment. If the unripe tomato shows spots of pink or red the fruit can be picked and brought indoors to a cool environment to finish ripening and retain its sweetness. Placing unripe tomatoes on your windowsill is not recommended since sunlight will overheat the fruit and cause it to ripen unevenly. Once ripe, tomatoes are best when stored at room temperature for a day or two. Beyond this, refrigerate in an area with good airflow. The blossom-end of the fruit is where ripening starts. Some varieties, especially large heirloom types, ripen before they reach full color. They should be picked when the skin is smooth and waxy even if the top hasn’t turned its

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OSU Extension Service Master Gardener volunteers as well as many other gardeners come together each year to learn, laugh and celebrate accomplishments during the annual Master Gardener MiniCollege. This year the Oregon Master Gardener Association (OMGA) Mini-College was held Aug. 4-6, at Linfield College in McMinnville. The OSU Extension Lane County Master Gardener program came home with several

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awards and recognitions including a statewide Search for Excellence award. The Lane County Master Gardener’s Adaptive Garden Committee was honored with a Search for Excellence award for their development of a fully accessible adaptive garden at the OSU Extension Service office. This statewide award is competitive and recognizes superior Master Gardener volunteer work that demonstrates that significant learning took place.

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Above left, Shirley Betournay and Pat Patterson with their Adaptive Garden Search for Excellence Award. Barbara Dumesnil (above right) holds her Lane County Master Gardener of the Year award. The Karl Carson Memorial Fund ($250 grant) was awarded to the Lane County Master Gardener Association to install educational signage in the OSU Extension Service demonstration gardens located at the Extension office. Lane County Master Gardener Barbara Dumesnil was chosen by her peers as the Lane County Master Gardener of the Year. She has served the OSU Extension Master Gardener Volunteer Program and the Lane County Master Gardener Association in many

capacities since 2007. Growing up, one of her mom’s commandments was “Thou shall not stay inside on a pretty day.” Barbara commits herself to that philosophy by gardening, hiking, camping and fly fishing. Robbin Spraitz (Master Gardener since 2012) was honored with the Lane County Behind the Scenes award. She is an original member of the Demonstration Gardens group that has spearheaded garden development on the 10th Street side of the

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OSU Extension Service office on the corner of 10th and Jefferson Streets. Robbin and two other MGs took on the design, planting, and maintenance for this Four-Season Low Maintenance Demo Garden. Robbin is also a founding member of what evolved into the Plant Clinic Committee during the past year. In 2015, she served as Alternate OMGA Rep on the Chapter Board and volunteered to revise the chapter bylaws and policies and procedures with the past president. And last but not least, Pat Patterson was honored for her 40 years of service to the OSU Extension Service Master Gardener program. She was in the first Master Gardener training held in Lane County in 1976. She is still going strong and can often be found volunteering at the OSU Extension Service office, teaching classes, and sharing her vast gardening knowledge. ■

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Forest seeks input on fee increase

Recreation managers at the Willamette National Forest are interested in hearing public comments on a proposal to add or increase fees at 28 recreation sites across the Forest. Developed sites such as campgrounds, day-use sites, lookouts, and cabins are often an important part of a recreational experience. These sites sometimes require recreation fees, which are reinvested back into the site for operations, maintenance, repairs and improvements. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We recognize how important these sites are to our local communities and those who visit them,â&#x20AC;? says Tracy Beck, Willamette National Forest supervisor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;These new fees and fee increases will help us maintain the sites to the level and quality people expect.â&#x20AC;? The proposed fees are generally consistent with inflation and costs to operate and maintain the facilities, and are comparable to similar public and private sites nearby. Fees at these sites have not changed since 2008 or earlier. The proposal includes fee increases at 11 campgrounds, three group campgrounds, and eight lookouts and cabins. Three day-use sites, two campgrounds and one shelter that have been free would now require a fee. These new fees are necessary to operate and maintain these facilities to a high standard.

Since the passage of the Recreation Enhancement Act in 2004, over 80 percent of all collected fees are used to operate, maintain and improve Willamette National Forest recreation sites. Depending on the site, this can include trash service, cleaning and stocking bathrooms, quality visitor information, safe drinking water, picnic tables, fire rings, facility maintenance and repairs. Public input on the proposed changes is welcome, and will be evaluated by the Forest Service and presented, along with the proposal, to a citizen advisory committee later this year. The advisory committee will make recommendations that will be subject to approval by the Regional Forester. Approved changes would go into effect for the 2017 recreation season. Written comments on the proposal should be mailed by Oct. 15 to Willamette National Forest, ATTN: Recreation Fees, 3106 Pierce Parkway, Suite D, Springfield, OR, 97477, or emailed to

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■ The Ramsey’s idea of a tiny house includes a pretty large ‘backyard’ By DEB ALLEN BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS

When it comes to the typical home, most Americans embrace the idea that bigger is better. Yet, there’s a countermovement for the “small house” or “tiny house,” where buyers are opting for homes between 400 and 1,000 square feet. But why would someone choose to live in such a small space? Obviously, financial benefits come to mind. Financial guru and radio host Dave Ramsey touches on these considerations in a recent blog post, where he refers to the most recent U.S. Census. The data says the average single-family home is nearly 2,700 square feet, which Ramsey compares to the average single-family home size in 1950 as less than 1,000 square feet, even though families were larger. But a smaller home means savings gained in taxes, utilities, insurance and repairs. AARP.org advises downsizing as soon as the kids leave the nest. But there are other practical reasons to downsize. Some people weed out their belongings in order to combine households with a new

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The 100-year-old Camp Halton (below), only accessible by a six-mile hike, is managed by Dennis and Marie Lund. It rests high in the Wallowa Mountains at the shore of Aneroid Lake. The Lunds stay in a small cabin they built. spouse or roommate. It’s also common for older adults to downsize into retirement communities that are considerably smaller than their previous homes. Others must downsize because of reduced income or a health crisis.

A conscious choice For Dennis and Marie Lund, downsizing was an easy option, and they’ve wholeheartedly embraced this lifestyle, “trying to make a life that we don’t need a vacation from,” says Dennis Lund. They actually started their life together living in tiny places – even a bus – in order

to build their homes and remain debt-free while raising their family of three girls. When health reasons required the family to relocate from the Willamette Valley to the drier climate of northeastern Oregon, the move was relatively easy. He was able to take a job managing a newspaper while the family built a log cabin. To meet zoning regulations, the cabin had to be at least 1,000 square feet, but they later sold that home and built a 500-square-foot cabin, complete with a magnificent rock fireplace and tongue-andgroove pine interior walls.

“It’s all gorgeous,” Lund says. “We don’t have any white walls inside our house. We actually started kind of a tiny house movement. It was already on its way, but were kind of the ‘poster children’ for Joseph and everyone was talking about how we kind of started this move of tiny house people.” Ten years ago, the Lunds were given the opportunity to manage a very remote wilderness camp for six months of the year deep in the Wallowa Mountain Wilderness. This meant leaving behind his newspaper job and pondering whether the economic gain was worth the time required. The new job sounded very appealing and, because their simpler lifestyle had left them debt-free, they were able to leave the demands of the 40hour plus work week while only in their 40s. They began a life they had dreamed would only happen in their retirement years. “Simplifying our lives opened up the possibilities to make life choices that we were happy with,” Lund says. “Downsizing is one of the many steps that allows us to stay debt-free, which is a must if one wants to have abundant choices.” For example, they pay all their bills once a year, with the exception of the electric bill, which last month was just $14. They credit the solar panels they installed for drastically reducing that expense. The Lunds feel fortunate to be living the life of their dreams. They continue to “play wilderness guide” by managing the wilderness camp and hiking an average of 300 miles or more per sea-

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Dennis Lund recommends the following books for more views on downsizing: ■ “Your Money or Your Life” by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez ■ “Living More with Less” by Doris Janzen Longacre ■ “How to Survive without a Salary” by Charles Long ■ “Simplify Your Life” by Elaine St. James

son. When they aren’t at the camp, “we play in the desert in the winter and are hot springs hoppers,” Lund says. He’s also finishing a book titled “Off the Well-Worn Path,” in which he writes about their life choices and adventures. “There’s also crazy, funny little stories about being up in the mountains, about things that have happened up there,” he says. “It’s odd, you think you’re out in the middle of nowhere and nothing would happen out there. And there’s just odd, strange, little quirky stories I put in there.” And by no means does he believe he knows everything about living small and simple, explaining that different authors have their own ideas and approaches to the tiny house movement. “One thing I explained in my book is that your story is going to be different than mine,” Lund says. “But you can take some of the basics and plug them into your own life.” ■

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â&#x2013; From sitting around the samovar to the Lucky Lizzie, Bill Sarnoff has a lot of stories to tell ing and psychology, which he earned after World War II with the GI Bill, and had a successful career in marketing. Not ready to be retired with nothing to do, he contacted the Eugene Chamber of Commerce only days after he moved to Eugene, and joined its team as a marketing consultant helping small businesses get off the ground. Stephanie worked as a psychotherapist and also wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ready to quit, so they opened a center and ran that for 10 years. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I got involved with the Chamber a week after I arrived here and Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been there ever since,â&#x20AC;? he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I liked marketing and I

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William (Bill) Sarnoff is 91, with a halo of soft, curly gray hair and a big smile. He moves quickly, and itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s obvious he doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t like to be idle. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a can-do sort of guy, with a positive attitude and a thirst for learning and spending time with creative people. After retiring to Eugene about 25 years ago with his wife Stephanie, Sarnoff discovered a writing group, wrote 106 stories and published them in two books. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s now working on a novel. He came into writing through degrees in market-

knew it I was good at it and I couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t see giving it up. So when I decided to come to Eugene I decided I would work hard at whatever it was I wanted to do but not for money.â&#x20AC;? Sarnoff discovered the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and about three years ago attended a meeting led by a writing instructor. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I said, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;I can do that,â&#x20AC;&#x2122;â&#x20AC;? he recalls. â&#x20AC;&#x153;So I went home and scribbled up a story and, at the following meeting, they read it and liked it. So, I kept going.â&#x20AC;? He gathered 52 stories together for a book called â&#x20AC;&#x153;Around the Samovarâ&#x20AC;? and is selling it on Amazon. The

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Bill Sarnoff, a 91-year-old Eugene writer, holds up two of his books containing 106 short stories that are memoirs of his childhood and adult life.

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name comes from his family’s tradition of drinking tea from a samovar, a name for a tea urn. “You fill the center with water and light candles around it to keep the water hot,” he explains. “On top is a teapot that holds a concentrated tea and you pour the tea out and put in a little hot water.” His grandparents came from Russia and, as a child in Chicago, Sarnoff spent many hours sitting around a large round table with a samovar in the middle of it, listening to his relatives laugh, joke and tell stories. “Samovars are very popular because the winters are cold,” he says. “They would put charcoal in and it would warm the table and they could drink hot tea. When I was a kid growing up my grandmother had a samovar and a big round oak table. The relatives would come over every Wednesday night, and Sunday afternoon into the evening, and they would sit around the samovar and tell stories. I remember some of the stories from when I was 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 years old. I remember those stories so well.” Sarnoff says he had an idyllic childhood, and he has “no animosity, no axe to grind,” so his goal is to be humorous in all his stories. The cover of his second book, “This Is What I Remember,” shows Sarnoff dressed in EMT garb. “I’m not an EMT and I never was,” he says, laughing. “But I was a marketing

research person and my client was a person who made emergency medical products.” In order to fully understand the marketplace he had to “become” an EMT, and that experience is his opening story. It’s not just about a scenic drive, though; they responded to actual emergency calls, with one forming the humorous basis for the story. While in Escondido, California, the ambulance got a call of a woman in childbirth in a red Camaro on the far side of a ball field. They parked where they could, ran over a gully and toward the red car. “The head EMT says to the other helper, ‘Ellen, run over and we’ll find a way to bring the wheelchair over and we’ll follow you.’ Well, when we showed up the woman was screaming, clutching her clothes. They had snipped her clothes to get to the birthing process. But …,” and here Sarnoff pauses for dramatic effect, “it was the wrong car.” His stories all have what he describes as “a takeaway,” some lesson or humorous insight that goes beyond just telling a story about your memories of the past. He never really viewed himself as an author, although before college he tried his hand at being a playwright. “I wrote a couple of musical plays,” he says. “One seemed to hit it and made it to off-Broadway for two nights and died. I came home dead broke and decided I was not gonna be a writer so I got into marketing.”

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“When I was a kid growing up, my grandmother had a samovar and a big oak table. The relatives ... would sit around the samovar and tell stories ... I remember those stories so well.” Bill Sarnoff While in Chicago, Sarnoff worked as a consultant, and was transferred to Southern California where worked in the music business. But for a time, he worked as a consultant for Admiral, an appliance company. He and an assistant, Marilyn Novak — a woman who Sarnoff actually had gone to grammar school with — traveled cross-country to give refrigerator demonstrations at trade shows. This Ms. Novak made it clear that she would be leaving the demonstration caravan when they got to Los Angeles; she wanted to pursue an acting career. “Well, Marilyn did leave us in Los Angeles,” Sarnoff says. “And she changed her

name from Marilyn to Kim. And the rest is history.” Kim Novak was discovered by an agent while standing in line to be an extra in the film “The French Line.” She went on to star in a number of films, including Alfred Hitchcock’s “Vertigo.” Sarnoff says that being in marketing kept him surrounded by creative, fun people throughout his life, and that’s what he still seeks out today. To stay active, he has created a couple of clubs to make it easy for his pals to get together. “It’s important for seniors to remain active, so I have a Tuesday Good For Nothing Club,” he says, giving another of his edge-of-your-seat pauses before continuing with, “We never meet on Tuesday. We meet on Thursdays.” He also has a group that meets for lunch on the first Friday of each month and another called CABS—for Coffee and Bull Sh—, a group that meets weekly for chit chat. “Each group is a different genre, so to speak,” he says. “I keep that pot boiling all the time.” While in the Navy, from 1943 to 1946, Sarnoff served aboard the transport ship Elizabeth Cady Stanton. “We called her the Lucky Lizzie because she didn’t sustain any damage throughout the war,” Sarnoff says. Out of the crew of 472 men, Sarnoff is the only one still living. However, when the ship was decommissioned in 1946 the crew decided to continue meeting up each year. “We did that for 60

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After having finished two books containing 106 short stories in the memoir vein, he’s now ready to tackle fiction. His novel is called “The Gypsy Ring.” “The story is about a ring that travels from owner to owner and it takes into consideration their lives, their careers, their passings, their travails,” Sarnoff says. “But always with humor.”

years,” he says. “The first year we all drank a lot of beer and had a lot of laughs. The second year a lot of the crew brought their wives. In subsequent years they brought their wives and their children, and then their children and their grandchildren. In 60 years of being together we almost became a family.” Sarnoff has so many stories to tell — such as getting high in Mexico. But wait, it’s not what you think. As he tells the story, he was invited to go hydroplaning in Mexico, and apparently his Spanish was not as good as he thought it was. “When they asked how much I weighed I told them,” he laughs, “except that it came out as 182 instead of 128. They had planned for a much heavier man, so when we took off I just kept floating. I got airborne. I got high and I stayed high in Mexico, and that’s one of my stories.” ■

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■ A Corvallis couple spent four months biking east to west

By CAROL ROSEN BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS

Mark and Kim Thackray didn’t just imagine riding a tandem bike across the United States; they did it. During their 35-year marriage the Corvallis couple has always ridden bikes, with their two sons or by themselves. In mid-June they biked to Seattle to visit relatives, stopping in Astoria on their way back home. They also recently spent 11 days touring southern Spain. Last year, the retired couple took about four months to ride a bit more than 4,000 miles from Virginia to Oregon, allowing them to more intimately view their travels. “Riding bikes allows us more flexibility in our journey,” Mark says. The flexibility lets the couple see more of an area. “If it’s cold and rainy we can just hang out. We can find a coffee shop and hang out meeting people and experiencing the atmosphere. It’s more of an adventure cycling. It allows us to smell the flowers and suffer from the heat. We meet more people and get a different perspective of the culture,” of each area. “It makes it easier to stop and see an amazing butterfly or wildlife or wildflowers,” Kim adds. “We don’t have to look around to find a place to park,” allowing us to experience nature and the sights more easily. “Once we were climbing a hill and a lady offered us water. It allowed us to get to know her and provided us with a delightful interaction.” The couple has biked all over Oregon and parts of Washington. Early in their married life, before kids, they biked the west coast of New Zealand’s South Island. Before they retired, they took vacations on bikes, often with their sons. Mark says riding a tandem allows them easy communication and the ability to ride together. “Tandem allows us to question and/or comment and provides better communication,” Mark says. “Kim can point things out to me and we are together so we don’t have to wait for the other one to catch up.” Their 4,000-mile U.S. trek began in May when they disassembled their tandem bike removing the rear rack, fenders and some pedals. They lowered the seats and twisted the handlebars in order to fit the bike into a box to ship it to Williamsburg, Virginia. They had decided to ride from east to west. This allowed them to start each journey early when the weather is cooler and to finish in early afternoon keeping the sun from blaring into their eyes.

Top, Kim and Mark Thackray stopped for a photo at one of two points in the Continental Divide, this time at Hoosier Pass, with an elevation of 11,542. Above, the Thackrays take their bikes overseas, including this recent trip to Spain. Right, traveling 4,000 miles across the United States means riding many rural, rolling hills like these in Missouri. Courtesy photos

After planning, packing and shipping, the couple began their trip in Virginia with “the traditional dip of the real (tandem) wheel in the water.” Their first stop was on June 20 at the Grace Episcopal Church guesthouse. The first 50 miles took the Thackrays from Revolutionary War scenes to the Civil War period moving

through Virginia. Their trip led them to farm and fruit stands. They were biking through 90-degree temperatures. Their route took them through 10 states using 12 maps. Each map offers panels covering 30 miles. They rode about 45 miles daily allowing them to cross into Kentucky in early July. There they saw Lincoln’s birthplace and met

a number of friendly people, including cyclists. By mid-July, the couple crossed the Ohio River into Illinois and did a few housekeeping chores such as bike maintenance and laundry. They had ridden 1,100 miles and completed about onefourth of their journey. In Chester, Ill., they crossed the Mississippi and moved west toward Missouri.

The couple had crossed five states by Aug. 4 taking them through 2,206 miles and one tornado warning. Riding through the Ozark Mountains kept them on a roller coaster: riding up steep hills and sharply down the other side only to climb steeply again. Along the way they met a number of cyclists from various other states as well as Italy and Australia. In Kansas they passed through oil wells, soybean and wheat farms along with fields of cattle. They also toured an exotic animal farm with giraffes, kangaroos and ostriches. Plus, they went through Dodge City and toured Boot Hill Cemetery. In Colorado, the Thackrays crossed their third mountain range, the Rockies, after the Appalachians and the Ozarks, hitting the highest point of their journey at Hoosier Pass at 11,542 feet. They crossed the Continental Divide twice at Hoosier Pass and again at the 9,683-foot Willow Creek Pass. Moving on, they reached Wyoming, which was the seventh of the 10 states they would ride through. They viewed the Grand Tetons and lots of prairies going over the same ground as pioneers taking the Oregon, Mormon Pioneer and California trails as well as Pony Express riders. Traveling into Montana they encountered heavy smoke from forest fires in Idaho. They even viewed the back roads of Wyoming’s Yellowstone Park. Another cycling couple told them they could rent a small car allowed on the park’s roads. On Sept. 3, Mark and Kim rode into eastern Oregon on the Oregon Trail near Baker City where they took some time off due to frigid rain. On Sept. 12, they met their son Grant in Eugene for dinner. They finally reached the Pacific Ocean for a ceremonial dip of the front tire. Mark then lifted the bike over his head for tradition. Although they used their tandem for the cross-country trip, the couple has seven other bikes. They used to have two tandems, one for their sons to ride with them. Mark and Kim have lived in the Northwest most of their lives. Their married life began in Vancouver, Wash., where he worked for Hewlett-Packard. They moved to Barcelona, Spain, again working for HP, finally moving to Corvallis about 15 years ago. Kim worked part time in the chemistry department at Oregon State University. She also has worked at the Soup Cycle where she organized soups and salads for delivery and managed a Thursday delivery route. ■

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Approximately 80 Northwest authors (plus a few from California and other states) are signed up to participate in the sixth annual Florence Festival of Books, Sept. 24 at the Florence Events Center. Between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m., chat with any of these authors, see and buy their books, and have them signed and personalized. Admission is free. “This year will see about 30 new authors participating,” says Judy Fleagle, organizer. “And among the returning authors, many have new books.” Because this is a book fair for publishers as well, there are nine publishers participating in the book festival. “If you have a book idea or a manuscript finished or in progress, this is your chance to pitch to a publisher,” Fleagle says. The authors and publishers represent many genres — fiction, nonfiction, memoir, children’s books, young adult, western, mystery, humor, poetry and more.

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“It’s a great opportunity to shop for that perfect gift or to add to your own collection,” she says. The festival includes two other opportunities beyond perusing the authors and publishers. From 3 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 23, there will be a panel discussion featuring a variety of prominent Northwest authors who will share details about their individual paths to publication. It’s titled “The Path: Idea to Book.” Come early to get a good seat. The event is free. At 7 p.m., the Festival of Books welcomes Phillip Margolin, former Portland criminal defense attorney and author of several award-winning best-sellers, as the keynote speaker. Tickets are $8 in advance, or $10 at the door. Visitors are encouraged to buy tickets early, as this event may sell out. Visit florencefestivalofbooks.org, for more information about the event. To buy Margolin tickets or for more information about the events center, call 541997-1994, 888-968-4086, or visit eventcenter.org. ■

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Retired Senior Providers of Lane County, 2 p.m., Sheldon Oaks Retirement Center, 2525 Cal Young Road, Eugene. 541-342-1983.

Diabetes Support and Information Group, 10 a.m. to noon, Campbell Center, 155 High St., Eugene. 541-6825318.

Aimees, 7:30 p.m., 755 River 1scaleThe Road, Eugene. $10 to $20 sliding at the door. mmeyer@efn.org.

Make a Book, 2 p.m., Sheldon 17 Branch of Eugene Public Library. Also 6 p.m. Sept. 19, Downtown

The Amazing Calvin Smith, 7 and 9 p.m., The Jazz Station, 124 W. Broadway, Eugene. See thejazzstation.org for more shows.

First 2Concert: Friday

Eugene Opera, 6 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541-6825450. First Friday Art Walk, live jazz, wine tasting, The Jazz Station, 124 W. Broadway, Eugene.

Risotto 101, 3 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541-682-5450.

Mossbacks Volkssport Club, 7 a.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. Carpool to the Portland Fountains, Bubblers and More walk. Mossbacks.org. Veterans in Need country jam and dance, 7 p.m., Central Grange, 87228 Central Road, Eugene. 541-935-5061.

Mossbacks Volkssport Club, 8 a.m., Valley River Inn, 1000 Valley River Way, Eugene. Carpool to Florence for Three Lakes walk. Mossbacks.org.

Chair Fitness, 11 a.m. Wednesdays, Campbell Center, 155 High St., Eugene. 541-682-5318.

Eugene Public Library. 541-682-5450.

Sept. 22) One-on-One Job Coloring Party for Adults, 10 8ment,(also Hunt Help, 4 to 6 p.m. by appoint- 12 a.m. to noon by drop-in, Downtown Eugene Public Downtown Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541-6825450.

Mossbacks Volkssport Club, 7:30 a.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. Carpool to Canby for dahlia walk. Mossbacks.org.

Memory and More, “Travel Tips for Memory Loss,” 10 a.m., First Baptist Church, 3550 Fox Meadow Dr., Eugene. 541-345-0341. Mutual Funds, 1:30 p.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. “Stand by Me,” 6:30 p.m., Wildish Community Theater, 630 Main St., Springfield. 541736-4444.

Petersen Barn Art Show and Reception, 6 to 8 p.m., Eugene.

AAUW: Lessons from My Mother: How to Empower Young Women, by Bree Nicolello, 10:30 a.m., Westminster Presbyterian Church, 777 Coburg Road, Eugene. 541-344-4267.

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Grandparents’ Pioneer Tea, 3 to 5 p.m., Pioneer Schoolhouse at Hunton’s Farm, 91949 Purkerson Road, Junction City. Benefits Singing Creek Educational Center. Singingcreekcenter.org.

(also 6:30 p.m. Sept. 18) Auditions for “A Christmas Story,” 1 p.m., Cottage Theatre, Cottage Grove. 541-942-8001. Jack Ohman, political cartoon18 ist and writer, 2 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541-682-5450.

Introduction to Conscious Aging Workshop for Women 55+, 1:30 p.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center. Free. 541-736-4444.

American Rhododendron Download Books, Music and 20 Society, Siuslaw Chapter, fea13 More – Free, 5:30 p.m., turing Steve Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541-682-5450.

Party, 10 a.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. 541-736-4444.

Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive, and Bethel and Sheldon branches. Free. 541-682-5450.

Middle Eastern Folk and Belly Dancing, 3 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541682-5450.

Open microphone musical benefit for Habitat for Humanity, 6:30 p.m., Axe and Fiddle Music Pub, 657 E. Main St., Cottage Grove. 541-942-3878.

The Hootenanny jam and dance, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., with 12:30 p.m. potluck, Central Grange, 87228 Central Road, Eugene. 541-935-2235.

Creating Your Personal Ident14 ity Book, 6 p.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center. Free. 541-736-4444. Jake Joliff Trio, 7:30 p.m., Tsu15 nami Books, Eugene. $13.50/$15.

Hootman, Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden, 6:30 p.m., Presbyterian Church of the Siuslaw, 3996 Hwy. 101, Florence. 541-997-3082. Campbell Center trip: Fall Foliage and a Little Bit More, a visit to Sweet Home, 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. $23. 541682-5318. Willamalane trip: Senior Safari at the Oregon Zoo, 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. $39/$47. 541-736-4444.

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Finding the Humor in Everyday 21 Life, by Diane Rogers, 5 to 6 p.m., Market of Choice, 67 W. 29th

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Medicare and You, 2 p.m., Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541-682-5450.

Tannahill Weavers, 8 p.m., Tsunami Books, Eugene. $18.50/ $20.

Walking Tour of the East Skinner Butte Historic Area, 10 a.m. to noon,

Ellis Paul with Ben Bochner, 8 p.m., 755 River Road, Eugene. $20. mmeyer@efn.org. (through Oct. 14) Optimal Core Alignment, 11:30 a.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center. $49/$58. 541736-4444.

“Whose Live Anyway?” 8 p.m., Hult Center, Eugene. $35/$45. Hultcenter.org.

Maker Expo: See and Do, 2 to 24 4 p.m. drop-in, Downtown Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541-682-5450.

Mossbacks Volkssport Club, 9 a.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center, 215 W. C St., Springfield. Carpool to Cottage Grove. Mossbacks.org. Steve Forbert, 8 p.m., 755 River Road, Eugene. $20. mmeyer@efn.org

Campbell Center, 155 High St., Eugene. $8. 541-682-5318.

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Activity Center. Free. 541-736-4444.

4 p.m., Florence Events Center, 715 Quince St. Sept. 23: Panel discussion, 3 p.m.; keynote speaker Phillip Margolin, 7 p.m. ($8-$10). 541-997-1994 or eventcenter.org.

Separating Fact from Fiction, 11 a.m. to noon, Campbell Center, 155 High St., Eugene.

Death Café, 2 p.m., Downtown 25 Eugene Public Library, 10th and Olive. Free. 541-682-5450. Using Animal Communication to Connect with Animals, a workshop with Jai Jamison, hosted by Cascade Center for Spiritual Living. $20. Info@cascadecsl.org or 541-747-3887.

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Learn to Play Craps, 2 to 4 p.m., Willamalane Adult Activity Center. $10/$13. 541-736-4444.

NARFE, Lane County chapter, 26 “Hearing Loss and Dementia,” noon, Sizzler Restaurant, 1010 Postal

Eugene Symphony, Schumann and Brahms, Hult Center. 541-682-5000.

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The Eugene Abbey apartments are uniquely beautiful, completely secure, with fine dining for adults 55 & older. Contains 48 elegant living units of one- & two-bedrooms, within easy walking distance of business and cultural districts downtown. You’ll find plenty of common living area and 12,000 sq. ft. of landscaped rooftop decks and terraces. Free wifi and many other amenities. Closed circuit TV security & parking garage.

Centrally located near the University of Oregon in Eugene, Garden Way is an ideal retirement community for seniors with a zest for life and an active lifestyle. We offer many amenities to simplify your life, including our state-of-the-art movie theater and wellness center, so you can focus on enjoying each and every day. Onsite managers, 24/7/365; safety call system in every apartment.

A 275-acre community in a rural setting, Mennonite Village provides living spaces for all levels of retirement - close to Corvallis, Eugene, or Salem. With an award-winning chef and beautifully landscaped grounds Mennonite Village is an inclusive, all-faith community of amazing people. Services include: independent living, assisted living, nursing & rehab, memory care, foster care, respite care, and in-home care.

River Run Place is an assisted living community enriching resident lives with independence & choices in a onestory, home-like setting. Featuring a 24-hr. on-site care team for residents, three daily meals & snacks, activities, transportation & more. Keypad entry/ exit. A quiet residential neighborhood makes River Run Place a great environment for you.

All ground floor garden apartments. Paid utilities except phone & cable TV. 24-hr. maintenance for emergencies. Residents’ Association plans activities. Near city bus line and bank.

Enjoy an active, independent retirement lifestyle with luxurious surroundings & unparalleled resident services. Amenities include flexible restaurant-style ALL-DAY dining, stimulating activity & social programs, weekly housekeeping & linen service, private dining room, gift shop, library, community kitchens, TV theater, fitness center, computer room, card/game rooms, beauty & barber shop, recreation room, interior courtyard w/walking paths, secured underground parking, & 24-hr. staffing for your peace of mind.

Located on 3.5 acres in downtown Eugene, gardens, dining room, grocery store, beauty/barber shop, social activities, YaPoAh bus trips, 24-hour on-site staff. Pets OK. *3rd Floor has special services: 2 meals daily, weekly housekeeping, personal laundry, transportation to scheduled doctors appointments.

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