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Jeffrey Kelly demonstrates one of the “qi” moves that he teaches in his movement and meditation classes. Below, Kelly studied at Chen Tai Chi Chuan in the Chen ancestral village. Courtesy photo
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Jeffrey Kelly is a teacher, Chinese medical practitioner and martial arts specialist, who at the ripe age of 14 became interested in martial arts. After college, and before Kelly became a police officer and 911 dispatcher, he spent two years in China soaking up that country’s centuries-old martial arts and medicine. Kelly grew up on the East Coast, but it was during his college years that he became more interested in China. During that time, he took a Chinese language arts class and received a teaching certificate from Wake Forest University. He also graduated cum laude from the University of North Carolina with a major in history and theater.
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Inner peace Jeffrey Kelly found an early interest in Chinese healing and now teaches qi gong In the late 1980s, he went to China and spent two years teaching English at a technical university, and learning Chinese, martial arts, meditation and Chinese medicine. “I lived in an ancestral village in the middle of nowhere for a month studying tai chi,” he says. “The buildings were made of mud bricks. There were no showers, no heat and no rice; we had noodles, but not much food and there were lots of mosquitoes. I ate a lot of bok choy and eggs.” Once, he was invited to a family’s home. They knew he was a vegetarian, but they weren’t sure how to cook that way so they made eggs. “They provided at least a dozen different types of egg dishes,” Kelly says. “We had scrambled, sugar, salt, 100-year old, duck eggs and (very)
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hot pepper eggs among others. In Chinese culture, if the dishes become low, the host makes more, and there was no way out. Almost everyone in China keeps chickens so there are always eggs. Outside the village, especially in the cities, there’s plenty to eat.” Early on, he says, he lived pretty much a solo existence, but that changed when he found a flier describing qi gong (pronounced chee-gong) classes at a local hospital. Qi gong covers all the Chinese martial arts including tai chi, he says. Nearby was the Shaolin temple, which he called “sort of the origin of Zen Buddhism, where martial arts were developed.” At one point, one of Kelly’s Chinese friends persuaded the abbot of the temple to take Kelly on as a student. Shi took only a few disciples on and was leery of taking on a foreigner. But he did and learned to respect Kelly as the student who worked hard to show his teacher his eagerness to learn and understand. Shi had been through a lot, Kelly explains, to become one of the best martial arts practitioners in the Shaolin Temple. For example, during a long famine, the vegetarian monks stayed at the temple and were unable to get the white steamed bread (like pork buns without the pork). They were forced to eat less desirable
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Top, Jeffrey Kelly stands with two monks, his “Dharma Brothers,” at the Shaolin Temple. Above, with his graduating class at Chen Tai Chi Chuan. Right, Kelly teaches at both Linn-Benton Community College, and First Alternative Co-op. black bread, Kelly says. During the Cultural Revolution, the temple was closed, Shi was arrested and the government treated him like an animal. “They made him do anything they wanted, much of it
demeaning, and they beat him,” Kelly says. “That resulted in his getting Parkinson’s disease later in life.” Shi encouraged Kelly to become a lay disciple. “He asked me to take the vows of enlightenment and I
did,” he says. “The weeklong rite included learning and following the five precepts, declining to kill, not to use alcohol or mind-numbing drugs, not to be promiscuous, and to not lie. My teacher later invited me to take the Bodhisattva Precepts, which include being a vegetarian. We also had to spend four hours on our knees, although we did have knee pads.” In 1989, after the Tiananmen Square massacre, he felt encouraged to leave. “Hundreds or maybe thousands of people were killed,” he says, and living in the country became scary for him and his Chinese friends who came to visit. On his return to the United States, Kelly spent a year living in Seattle and then moved to a Buddhist monastery in northern California where he spent two years teaching English at the private school there. In 2005, he began attending Five Branches University in San Jose, California, where he earned a master's degree in traditional Chinese medicine. He also completed a 322-hour program that earned him a specialty certificate that allows him to treat patients with medical qi gong. “When treating a patient, I examine the patient's vital energy or ‘qi,’ Kelly says. “When I feel a problem such as a deficiency or stagnation, I am able to treat it using my own qi. I use certain techniques to purge or remove the
negative or stagnant qi and then nourish the area that I just purged. I then regulate the flow of it in their body which will return them to a state of good health.” It’s not really a religion, he says. It is based on the Chinese theory of qi as the foundation of life. “We all have qi, unless we are dead,” Kelly says. “It’s not magic, but a proven concept that has been used thousands of years in China. As a form of treatment, medical qi gong is effective for treating many types of illness and disease. It is very safe. At its best, it will cure the patient, and at its very worst, it will do nothing.” While at the monastery, Kelly met and married his wife Margaret, a fencing master teaching at San Jose State University. “I was studying fencing in Ukiah, and San Jose State had a fencing program — every weekend we’d drive to San Jose to study fencing,” he says. “It’s one of the weapons arts that Bruce Lee recommended.” Today Kelly works as a doctor who makes house calls and teaches a variety of qi gong classes in the Corvallis area. He has two classes starting at Linn-Benton Community College, starting on Sept. 29. For more information, contact Linn-Benton Community College. For more information, contact Kelly at docneedlestcm @gmail.com. ■
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There’s a definite art to growing giant vegetables
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There are giant pumpkins and then there are the motherof-all-pumpkins. Ask Steve Daletas which ones he prefers. He’ll tell you about a pumpkin that weighed nearly 2,000 pounds and won him almost $12,000 in competition. In fact, Daletas, a commercial pilot, has been growing pumpkins as a hobby for more than 30 years, and entering competitions for many of those years. Two years ago, his hobby reaped an impressive win at the Safeway World Championship Pumpkin Weigh-Off in Half Moon Bay, California. With first prize getting $6 a pound, Daletas’s victory pumpkin weighed 1,969 pounds and won him $11,814. It sounds like quite a bit of money, but does it actually cover the cost of his investment? Daletas just smiles. His operation is a capital investment — irrigation, feeding
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systems, greenhouses, fans, thermostats, and more. It’s a system that can be used year after year. “It costs as much as you want it to cost,” he says. “Money isn’t going to grow you a big pumpkin. You gotta put in the work.” Truly, the biggest investment is the time this hobby requires. For Daletas, the competitive motivation to put in that kind of time rests not just in beating other growers, but in the challenge to beat himself year after year. It’s because of this time factor that Daletas doesn’t grow competitively consecutive years. He takes off every second or third season. He’s found that there are segments of the growing season when he spends more time in the field than he would in a 40hour work week. Because of his work as a commercial pilot, Daletas can have an erratic work schedule
and may be gone for a few days at a time. That’s when his family helps out with the pumpkins. When his children were younger, they helped out dad. Now, his wife and his parents contribute to the effort. “So, my folks come to the patch in the morning and will sit down and have coffee by the river and then do some work,” Daletas says. “They love helping, and so it’s really kind of a family thing.” He’s also used timers and thermostats to monitor weather conditions when he’s out of town and to take care of his pumpkins. While many of us start thinking about a garden in the early spring, Daletas has made this a full-time commitment. “It’s almost a year-round hobby,” he says. “You acquire a seed and a lot of people think that’s where the hobby starts, but there’s a whole lot of prep that goes into the ground.” As soon as the pumpkins are harvested and removed in the fall, Daletas tills the ground. Then he completes a soil test and makes any necessary pH and nutrient adjustments. After that, he plants a cover crop, something that will benefit the soil composition for the coming season.
“So really (the next growing) season starts the day we pick the (current season’s) pumpkins,” he says. Following ground preparation, giant vegetable growers in western Oregon hope for a dry and early spring. To provide a good start, Daletas has built four portable greenhouses to help begin drying out and warming up the soil. Without the greenhouses, Daletas says our local climate will not provide the growing season required to grow pumpkins large enough for competition. Inside the greenhouses, he plants the seeds at just the right time. The greenhouses are removed in early June. “As plants grow, then comes the micromanagement,” Daletas says, “choosing which vines get to grow, which pumpkins get pollinated, which ones don’t.” Every vine he chooses to keep then gets buried beneath the rich soil — and for each giant pumpkin, countless vines spread out for yards and yards. “Everywhere a leaf comes up, it will send a couple roots out, if you bury the vine,” he says. “So, all those vines have been trenched and special
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nutrients, or biologicals, are placed where those new roots will come down. To get something that size, you need thousands of root systems, not just the main one. So, by doing this we create many, many root systems.” There’s even more science behind growing healthy pumpkins, including watching out for insects and disease. “Anything can take the plant out and then your work’s done,” Daletas says of the risks involved in working with nature. Every giant pumpkin is protected during the night with a large comforter, and then removed in the morning. It’s a great idea, but Daletas has to be careful — covering the pumpkins also increases the chances of too much moisture on the stem. The health of the stem, it turns out, is crucial. So Daletas strategically attaches a small fan to each stem and applies a special treatment once each week. “If the stem rots, the pump-
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Scott Holub of Eugene broke the world record for green squash at 1,844 pounds.
kin’s done,” he says. “So, it’s just one of those things that we work really hard to try to keep healthy.” As the summer days pass by, the excitement for giant pumpkins builds, especially when a pumpkin grows 40 to 45 pounds a day. “To see something grow that
fast is just fascinating,” says Daletas, a member of the Pacific Giant Vegetable Growers (PGVG). “I like just watching them grow 40-50 pounds a day, to really see them take off, that’s exciting,” says Scott Holub of Eugene, also a PGVG member. “Add a little competition into it
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and it keeps you motivated to get out there and do the work you need to do.” He began his first competitive year growing giant vegetables in 2009, and says his motivation and hard work paid off when he broke the world record for a green squash last fall. PGVG hosts two events in Oregon — the one at Bauman Farm and Garden, where Holub took home a top prize; and The Terminator Weigh-Off and West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta in Tualatin. “We weigh pumpkins in the morning,” Daletas says of the Bauman Farm event. “Then there’s a big crane that comes in and we drop a few pumpkins on a car.” The Terminator Weigh-Off has earned quite a reputation, earning numerous awards in itself. “People from everywhere come to watch,” Daletas says. “It’s in downtown Tualatin at the Lake of the Commons. We put all the pumpkins in the lake. We’ve carved a hole in them and we race them. It’s a good way for us to end the season.” What is the attraction to
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growing giant vegetables? “Some people are extremely competitive and that’s what they do it for; but I think the hobby is bigger than that,” Daletas says. “It’s really so much more than growing pumpkins once you’ve done it for a while. I’m competitive, I want to grow something big, but it’s all the other things.” He’s referring to meeting growers from around the world, all because of pumpkins. There’s value in the friendships he’s formed. “There’s a yearly get-together seminar,” he says. “Two years ago, it was in England. We flew out to England and half the people there, we knew. We maybe hadn’t met them, but we knew them, they knew us, from trading seeds, from corresponding throughout the years.” This coming year the seminar is in Portland and growers worldwide will be coming to Oregon. ■
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Sept. 29 (through Oct. 7) “His Girl Friday,” 7:30 p.m., Majestic Theatre, 115 SW 2nd St., Corvallis. $12-$14.
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We Are the Changemakers: A Conference for Women and Their Allies, CH2M Hill Alumni Center, OSU. $20/$40. Corvallischangemakers.com. Corvallis Repertory Singers, 3 p.m., First United Methodist Church, 1165 NW Monroe Ave., Corvallis. RepSing.org.
OSU Music Faculty Recital: Rachelle McCabe, 4 to 6 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 114 SW 8th St., Corvallis. 541-737-4671.
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Durable Goods: Appreciations of Oregon Poets,” 7 to 8:30 p.m., Grass Roots Books and Music, 227 SW 2nd St., Corvallis.
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Oktoberfest, 5:30 p.m., Brookdale Senior Living, Albany. $8.
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How to Write a Nonfiction Book Proposal with Maggie Stuckey, 2 to 3:30 p.m., Corvallis-Benton County Public Library.
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“The Big Sick,” 12:30 p.m., Albany Senior Center, 489 Water Ave. NW. Free.
Magic Show: Imagine Unleashed, 7:30 p.m., LaSells Stewart Center, OSU, 875 SW 26th St., Corvallis. $25-$50. Imagine.ticketleap.com.
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OCWCOG/SHIBA Medicare Class, 10 a.m. to noon, Good Samaritan Cancer Center, 501 NW Elks Dr., Corvallis. Free. 541-812-0849. Runaway Pumpkin Half Marathon and 8K, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., Cheadle Lake Park, 37919 Weirich Dr., Lebanon. RunawayPumpkinHalf.org.
The Galleria, a holiday craft sale, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., First Congregational Church, 4515 SW West Hills Road, Corvallis. Alcorvallis.org.
Hell of the Northwest Trail Run, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., Alsea Falls Recreational Site, Monroe. Oregontrailruns.com.
Meet author Susan Sokol Blosser, 1 to 2:30 p.m., Grass Roots Books and Music, 227 SW 2nd St., Corvallis.
Wine Dinner, 6:30 p.m., Gathering Together Farm, 25159 Grange Hall Road, Philomath. $72. GatheringTogetherFarm.com. National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Plot Planning Party, 2 to 3:30 p.m., CorvallisBenton County Public Library.
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Celtic Concert Series: Tannahill Weavers, 7 p.m., Whiteside Theatre, 361 SW Madison Ave., Corvallis. Corvallisfolklore.org.
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THE COLUMBUS DAY STORM
The Columbus Day Storm also known as the Big Blow, and originally as Typhoon Freda) was a Pacific Northwest windstorm, that struck the west coast of Canada and the Pacific Northwest coast of the United States on Oct. 12, 1962. It is considered the benchmark of extratropical wind storms. The storm ranks among the most intense to strike the region since at least 1948, likely since the Jan. 9, 1880 “Great Gale” and snowstorm. The storm is a contender for the title of most powerful extratropical cyclone recorded in the United States in the 20th century; with respect to wind velocity. The storm began as a tropical storm named Freda near Wake Island in the central Pacific Ocean. It moved east toward the west coast of the United States at 40 miles per hour, bringing winds the strength of a category 3 hurricane. At Cape Blanco on the southern Oregon coast, winds reached an estimated 180 miles per hour.
Farther up the coast, wind gusts of at least 170 miles per hour damaged an Air Force radar station. Inland winds were unprecedented as well. Portland’s Morrison Street Bridge anemometer recorded a gust of 116 miles per hour. Wind gusts in northern Washington were reported to reach 100 miles per hour. As a result of the storm 46 people died and hundreds were injured, making it the fourth deadliest natural disaster in the history of Oregon and Washington. It’s estimated that 15 billion board feet of timber was blown down in California, Oregon and Washington, which was more than the annual timber harvest for Washington and Oregon at that time. Total damage from the Columbus Day Storm was estimated at $280 million, the equivalent of $2.2 billion today.
Homes and property in the Pacific Northwest received incredible damage due to the “Big Blow” on Oct. 12, 1962. Roads were blocked and power lines were down for days; service companies scrambled to restore power and remove debris that blocked thousands of miles of roadways.
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Patience in my lily garden
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NW BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS • OCTOBER 2017
DIGGIN’ IT!
By GRACE PETERSON MASTER GARDENER
I can’t remember where I saw my first martagon lily. It might have been a photograph because they aren’t very common in gardens, perhaps due to their cost, or the fact that they’re smaller and demurer — not at all like their showy lily cousins which are very common in gardens. But I do remember that I was immediately intrigued by the tower of small flowers with reflexed petals and prominent downward-facing stamens. I knew I needed to grow them. But as I said, they’re not very common. And their price reflects this. Two years ago, I found “Claude Shride” martagon lily bulbs at a local nursery. I grabbed two packages containing three bulbs each and didn’t mind paying the hefty price because I knew it was still cheaper than buying them online. I planted them in fall, and in spring saw signs of life on four of them. Two grew tall and bloomed, wowing me with their burgundy blossoms. The others went dormant and I puzzled over what I did wrong, trying not to be too
Photo by Grace Peterson
The “Claude Shride” martagon lily blooms in this deep burgundy with reflexed petals and downwardfacing stamens. disappointed. This past spring, only two stems came up and they didn’t get more than a few inches tall before retreating back underground. With the overly wet spring, I regretted planting them in the ground with such wet soil. I feared that the bulbs rot-
ted, despite my having no trouble growing the more common lily types. I thought about digging and replanting them in a container but I never got around to it. Now, here it is, bulb-planting time again and I’m thinking that rather than dig up the in-ground bulbs which I
learned resent disturbance, I’d like to buy more martagon bulbs and grow them in a container with fertile potting soil to assure good drainage and success. Perhaps even more challenging than growing them successfully will be finding them for sale at an affordable price. Why so pricy? I learned through research that it has to do with the length of time it takes to propagate martagon lilies. Seven years from seed to blossom is not uncommon, and it can take five years for a clump to be ready to divide. Somehow this makes them all the more alluring, kind of like that diamond locked behind the cabinet for safe keeping. Martagon lilies (or Turk’s cap), according to the North American Lily Society, are the first lilies to bloom in the garden, usually in June, before summer’s heat kicks in. They can grow 3 to 6 feet high and begin blooming from the bottom up, slowly opening their oval, dangling buds — cute in their own right. The leaves are star-shaped whorls growing along the upright stem, continue to look
nice after the flowers are done, and should be left in place until they fade, at which time they can be cut at ground level. Martagons do best with morning sun and afternoon shade so they’re the perfect flower to light up a semiwooded area, perhaps complementing rhododendrons, azaleas or other late-spring blooming woodland shrubs. Sporting a musky fragrance, they come in pink, maroon, mahogany, yellow, white and almost black, many with speckles and spots. Apparently, it’s not uncommon for martagons to take a few years to settle in and often they will come up, and show a little green to tease the gardener before dying back. The little rascals. Maybe my martagons will be back next June. Maybe this is the start of their long-lived existence in my garden since they’re known to live 80 years, forming large clumps with up to 50 buds on multiple stems. Wouldn’t that be something? Look for martagon lilies at nurseries in the bulb section or Google them to find retailers online. But hurry. They sell out fast. ■