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Chitwood Bridge

Good Pasture Bridge Hoffman Bridge

Lowell Bridge

Get in your car and take a tour of these historic structures

By MARY OWEN BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS

The sun is out and you’re itching to go — but where?

Why not enjoy a driving tour of the “six sisters” on your outing?

Start in Stayton and loop around through Jordan, Scio, Larwood, Crabtree and Jefferson, stopping to see the sites, getting a bite to eat, shopping the local stores and, of course, visiting all

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six “sisters” – covered bridges that are a picturesque reminder of Oregon’s pioneer past.

A self-guided tour covers the Stayton-Jordan, Shimanek, Hannah, Larwood, Hoffman and Gilkey bridges and takes about two hours to travel, depending on the number of stops made along the way.

“People come from all over to see Oregon’s covered bridges,” says Bill Cockrell, president of the Covered

Bridge Society of Oregon. “This August, a group from Vermont, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania are coming to visit the McKee Bridge on the Applegate River in Jackson County, which turns 100 this year.”

Oregon has the largest collection of covered bridges in the West and one of the largest in the nation. Each bridge is unique, with Lane County’s Office Bridge, spanning a mill pond off the

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BRIDGES CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 North Fork of the Willamette River, as the longest at 180 feet. Lost Creek Bridge in Jackson County is the shortest at just 39 feet.

Lincoln City’s Upper Drift Creek Bridge was built in 1914, earning it the title of Oregon’s oldest bridge. The Chitwood Bridge by Lincoln City on the Oregon coast is the only bridge that was painted red instead of the standard white.

“Most bridges were used to get from one place to another,” Cockrell says.

“But they had other purposes, too.”

In the past, homemade moonshine was often hidden in the bridges. During Prohibition, Silverton residents walked from town across the Gallon House Bridge to buy “empty” gallon jugs at a small house at the north end of the bridge in Mount Angel. The spirits in the jugs was given away, bypassing the laws of the time.

Additionally, highwaymen used them for cover as they waited for victims. Political rallies, dances and church meetings often took place under the rafters.

And, even today, they remain an ideal meeting place for sweethearts.

“The Stayton-Jordan Bridge is one that has a lot of weddings on it, and it’s well used for other activities,” says Cockrell, who helped rebuild the popular Stayton bridge after it burned down on Dec. 20, 1994 when Christmas lights ignited the roof.

Local resident and advocate Curt Ward spearheaded the reconstruction of the bridge, which originally spanned Thomas Creek, east of Scio, and was moved to Pioneer Park in Stayton in 1988.

“The Covered Bridge Festival was held there for a few years,” Cockrell

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The Stayton-Jordan Bridge is a popular place for weddings and other community activities. It burned down in 1994 and was later rebuilt.

Covered Bridge Trivia ■ Oregon has the most covered bridges of any state west of the Mississippi.

■ Covered bridges provided shelter for families during a long winter.

■ Locals sometimes protected their mail boxes by installing them inside a covered bridge.

■ Covered bridges were used as mile posts on early maps and tour guides.

■ The roofs and sides of covered bridges are not for beauty, but to protect the large wooden trusses. says. “Then it moved to Cottage Grove.”

To ensure Oregon’s covered bridges would be preserved for future generations, Cockrell partnered in 1979 with Fred Kildow, a Portland advocate, to start the Covered Bridge Society of Oregon.

Today, the society has about 150 members of which a dozen, Cockrell says, are “actively involved” in promoting the study of history of the state’s 53

remaining covered bridges.

During the mid-1850s, rugged pioneers used “hand tools, sweat and ambition” to construct more than 300 covered bridges in Oregon, according to the CBSO website.

“They often camped out at remote sites, living off the land or contracting with local farmers for food,” CBSO reports. “Early covered bridge owners often financed construction by charging tolls: 3 cents for a sheep, 5 cents for a

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The only covered bridge society in the western United States, CBSO is an incorporated, nonprofit organization that has worked with citizen groups, local societies, and the State Historic Preservation Office on several restoration projects.

Membership is $7.50 a year, and offers newsletters, picnics, guest speakers, slide shows, historical bridge data, and memorabilia for sale. Donations are accepted and a tax receipt is provided.

For more information, visit coveredbridges.org.

horse and rider.”

In the early 20th century, the state provided standard bridge designs to each county, mainly incorporating the Howe truss. The wooden bridge was covered to keep the huge truss timbers dry, extending the life of the bridge from about nine years to some 80 years or more. In 1987, legislation was established to help fund preservation of the bridges.

“Oregon has been extremely fortunate to get federal grants and matching money,” Cockrell says. The funds are being used to restore and maintain the bridges, the majority of which are located in the Willamette Valley.

“Guilty Bridge out of Thomas Creek is supposed to be restored next year, but most of the bridges have been restored or worked on recently,” he adds. Two are in storage.

He also wrote the society’s newsletter for many years, and he and his brother, Nick Cockrell, put their amateur photography skills to work creating “Roof over Rivers,” a guide to Oregon’s covered bridges. ■

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Want to thrive? Lower cholesterol

By DR. PRIYA KANSAL

deposit inside arteries where it doesn’t belong.

So how can you maintain healthy cholesterol without becoming numbers-obsessed?

Take a holistic approach — it’s not just one thing or another, but a combination of good habits that will reduce your risk of high cholesterol and help you thrive.

Starting with your diet is a great first step.

Whether you’re at the grocery store or out to eat, steer toward fresh fruit and vegetables and avoid processed foods as they’re often loaded with sodium and preservatives. These additives increase blood pressure and cause issues for both the arteries and the heart. This goes for fast food as well.

Indulging once in a while is OK as long as the majority of your meals are largely made up of fruits and vegetables.

While foods labeled “low-fat” may seem like a compromise, they typically contain a lot of sugar and/or salt to make them palatable. Instead, reach for real foods with healthy fats that help your heart, including avocados, flax seeds, and dry fruits.

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For a long time, cholesterol was viewed as a numbers game. High cholesterol numbers warned of potential health problems, while low cholesterol numbers seemed to indicate good health.

We now know numbers don’t tell the whole story.

Even people with seemingly “healthy” cholesterol levels are at risk for heart problems if they subscribe to a lifestyle that leads bad cholesterol to

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While reading and gathering information can give you a good start and some ideas about which direction you want to go with your planning, it cannot substitute for the experience and advice of an attorney who can create a plan for you, specific to your situation and needs. You say you want to “tie up loose ends,” which means that you want to avoid anything that may be unreliable or unenforceable down the road.

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When you’re planning your healthy meals, be sure to schedule in time for exercise as well. The American Heart

Association recommends 30 minutes every day of moderate physical activity. If it’s been a while since you pursued exercising, try walking for 10 minutes three times a day. Not only is walking a full body exercise but it also helps maintain muscle mass and prevents falls later on in life.

If you have joint issues, try water exercises or take a stroll in the swimming pool.

The resistance from the water provides a great workout.

Taking a holistic approach to your cholesterol also means looking beyond your

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Knowing your numbers will help you and your doctor make a plan to keep them in a healthy range. Your doctor can also help you with proper diet, exercise, and medication plans.

Additionally, if you have chronic diseases such as diabetes, heart disease or had a procedure to treat blocked arteries in the heart, it’s especially important to have regular checkups.

In addition to checking in with your doctor, consider leaving the cigarettes behind. Smoking causes inflammation inside the blood vessels which in turn invites cholesterol deposits. This can happen even with a normal cholesterol level, so if you’re ready to quit smoking, talk with your doctor about how to make it happen and take steps toward lowering your risk of high cholesterol. ■ (Priya Kansal, MD, is a cardiologist with Kaiser Permanente Northwest.)

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■ Monte

Langford always wanted to be a cowboy

By MAGGI WHITE BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS

Sit down in a hair stylist’s chair and you’ll get peppered with the usual questions. But what happens when you turn it around and find out about the person behind the chair?

Meet Monte Langford, a 77-year-old cowboy from Keizer who grew up with a love for horses — and hair.

“I always wanted to be a cowboy,” says Langford, a Portland hair stylist who still boasts a full head of perfectly-groomed, snowy white hair, and a long list of clients.

He still remembers the first toy pistol, chaps and cowboy hat he received growing up on Cummings Lane in Keizer.

“We had a couple of horses, and my sister and I loved riding them,” he says. “I love horses. They calm your energy.”

He broke every horse he owned, including an Appaloosa and quarter horses.

They “broke” him as well, Langford says, chuckling about the number of broken bones he had. “It’s because I’m dumber than they are,” he says.

Langford showed his horses, eventually breeding

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Monte Langford, who grew up in Keizer, currently is working on this carving of an American Indian face. He works from his studio in Oregon City. Both the carvings and hair styling help satisfy his artistic leanings. and cutting them. He trained several young horses and entered many of his horses in shows across the country. At one point, he owned six acres for his horses to roam on.

At age 60, he became a team roper and continued for another 10 years.

Team roping requires good timing, he says, from the time you get hold of the rope, toss it around the head and swing it at the Mexican cows to pull them down. It requires two ropers, a header and a healer.

Much to his dismay, back problems forced Langford into cowboy retirement.

But his days on the ranch are only part of Langford’s story. When he graduated

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from high school and enlisted in the U.S. Navy, he was interested in doing hair, so he took a job at Boise Cascade to help pay for his schooling.

He says he was always drawn to art during his school years and saw hair styling as a form of art. Langford began his career at the well-known Salem salon of Harvey Lovell, who now lives in Arizona and will be feted for his 90th birthday next year.

Eventually, Langford opened his own salon, Monte’s Design, across from the iconic Helen Bernhard Bakery in northeast Portland. He owned that salon for 38 years until he decided he wanted to slow down and not manage

nine to 12 stylists anymore.

These days, he owns one chair at Studio One in southwest Portland, where he works part-time.

Another way Langford expresses his artistic side is through wood carving, where he meticulously carves the faces of American Indians into cottonwood. He says he became acquainted with woodcarving at Portland International Airport while gazing into some glass display cases.

He decided to learn the craft, and studied under Terry Kramer, who entered Langford’s work into a Pacific Northwest Carver’s Show. He won three awards, including

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Since then his work has sold in galleries in Oregon, Wyoming, Arizona and New Mexico.

Langford carves faces from his extensive collection of American Indian history and is drawn to “the haunted look of hopelessness in their eyes.”

He explains that “there used to be a thousand Indian tribes in California until they were slaughtered and humiliated.” Much of his work is drawn from the Edward Curtis documentation of American Indians.

Langford has an extensive book collection on this subject, as well as photos he has taken at the Pendleton Roundup, among others. He also does pencil sketches of Indians and horses.

In his home, his displays his artwork in the foyer and living room near the grand piano. In his downstairs studio, there is a large display of horses and cottonwood carvings.

Although Langford is slowing down a bit, he maintains a healthy regiment at a local gym, does yoga for its benefits of stretching and flexibility, stays away from coffee and alcohol, and maintains an extensive Englishtype garden that blooms year-round. Oh, and he rebuilt his deck last year.

His wife, Rebecca, asks him to work less, but Langford figures he’ll work another seven or eight years.

Too many interesting conversations to be had. ■

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It’s a demanding job with its stresses and rewards, but it can also be a labor of love.

Social Security is committed to you throughout life’s journey, helping secure today and tomorrow for every American. This is especially true for people who need help managing their benefits. We work closely with caregivers through our representative payee program. A representative payee is someone who receives and oversees the Social Security or Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits for anyone

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This can be a child or an adult incapable of managing their own funds. You can learn more about our representative payee program at socialsecurity.gov/payee.

A representative payee is usually a trusted family member or friend of the beneficiary, but when friends or family are not able to serve as representative payees, Social Security looks for qualified individuals or organizations to represent the beneficiary. You can learn about becoming a representative payee by watching our new series of videos on

the duties of a representative payee at socialsecurity.gov/payee.

It’s our hope that these videos will not only educate individuals about the roles and responsibilities of being a representative payee, but also provide further insight, broaden community awareness, and provide key resources to deal with the growing incidents of elder abuse, neglect, and financial exploitation.

Caregivers are valuable and irreplaceable assets to our great nation. Please join us in celebrating them for all they do for those who cannot do for themselves. ■

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DIGGIN’ IT!

By GRACE PETERSON MASTER GARDENER

Let me take you back to June 2005. I was reveling in my pretty garden, content with its assorted botanical treasures, resolute with the mantra: No more plants.

Then came Linda Beutler’s wonderful book, “Gardening with Clematis — Design and Cultivation.” Before finishing the first chapter, plant lust was again in full swing and I was mentally planning a trip to the nursery to indulge in my latest plant obsession — the estimable clematis.

I had always been drawn to the glossy photos of clematis growing vertically in finer gardens, but truth be told, I was a little intimidated by this vine.

For one thing, the largeflowered hybrids tend to have a floral display that is a bit gauche and out of proportion for my small garden. And be-

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Clematis are beautiful, but they do require some maintainance to keep them from turning into a massive tangle of brown stems. cause my first experience with clematis was taming the monster growing on my front fence when I moved here, I had every reason to be leery. The poor thing had been neglected for some time and had grown into a massive tangle of brown stems. I wasn’t sure what to do

or when to do it.

This quandary caused me to think twice about introducing more havoc into my garden.

As I read Beutler’s book, I became inspired by her enthusiasm and reassured by her thorough growing instructions.

Since that time, I’ve collected many clematis, mostly the smaller flowered species, such as texensis, viticella, viorna — and crispa, because they seem more harmonious with my garden.

I love the hundreds of little pink bells that clematis viticella “Confetti” puts out during the months of June and July, when my garden is at its peak.

And then there is clematis campaniflora with its tiny white bells dangling amid the burgundy foliage of Sambucus “Black Lace.”

And clematis texensis “Gravetye Beauty” with its rich, cherry-red blossoms scram-

bling through the upright bluegreen conifer, Lawson’s Cypress.

And clematis viticella “Venosa Violacea” with its innumerous purple and white flowers complementing the deep purple, fragrant blossoms of rose, “Rhapsody in Blue.”

The trick to keeping clematis vines happy, I’ve learned, is to make sure they have consistently moist, freely draining, fertile soil. This means that during our dry summer months, supplemental watering is critical.

Also, clematis are heavy feeders so regular applications of a balanced organic fertilizer or compost is essential, especially during the growing season. Plants deprived of their needs are more susceptible to pests such as aphids, spider mites and fungal diseases. I’ve learned this from experience. I won’t tell you how many plants I killed.

If you follow social media clematis sites, you can interact with hard-core clematis aficionados who grow some really unique and gorgeous species and hybrids. “Crazy About Clematis” on Facebook is one of my favorites.

I freely admit to many bouts of jealousy as I admire the clematis varieties available at nurseries in England and Japan. Fortunately for us living in the Willamette Valley, we have an inspiring resource: The Rogerson Clematis Garden, located in West Linn. This fantastic garden was started in 2005 by the nonprofit Friends of the Rogerson Clematis Collection in an effort to showcase the late Brewster Rogerson’s extensive clematis collection.

Mr. Rogerson was a leading clematis expert and past president of the International Clematis Society. For more information, visit rogersonclematiscollection.org. ■

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By MARY OWEN BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS

“I don’t get new clothes very often and when I do, I feel awesome.”

This child’s words give testimony to what the Assistance League of Salem provides local school children through its program, Operation School Bell.

“We are all about reaching out to help the community,” says Carol Marshall, president of the board of directors for the Salem-based, nonprofit organization.

Through Operation School Bell, the League provides clothing to children who are identified as needing assistance by counselors in the Salem-Keizer School District and at the Chemawa Indian School. This year, the program distributed new clothes and shoes to 2,777 students, pre-K through high school, in the

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“Children in Head Start through fifth grade get two complete sets of clothing, underwear and shoes,” Marshall says. “Middle school students get to shop at JC Penney and pick out their own clothes with assistance from our members.

We give them $100 and the store gives them an extra 20 percent off, so they actually get to spend about $120. High school students get a gift card to shop on their own.”

Children receive clothing and hygiene items once a year, but this year, those who are homeless — about 800 S-K students — will receive new clothing twice a year, Marshall

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Members of the Assistance League of Salem gathered for the Daue House porch sale.The league runs the consignment shop to help fund its many programs. says.

“They also are given extra hygiene supplies,” she adds.

“The older children are given laundry vouchers. It’s a really great service for Salem-Keizer, and a really hidden gem for the

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About 21 percent of district students live at or below the poverty level, which is $24,250 annually for a family of four.

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While age is the most significant risk factor for developing the disease, heredity, smoking, cardiovascular disease, and high blood pressure have also been identified as risk factors.

Macular degeneration accounts for 90% of new legal blindness in the U.S. While there is currently no cure, promising research is being done on many fronts. “My job is to figure out everything and anything possible to keep a person functioning, especially driving,” says Dr. Cusic.

A patient came to see Dr. Cusic; she wanted to keep her driver’s license and

was prescribed bioptic telescopic glasses to read signs and see traffic lights farther away. Dr. Cusic also prescribed microsope glasses for reading newspapers and menus in restaurants.

As the patient puts it, “My regular glasses didn’t help too much – it was like looking through a fog. These new telescopic glasses not only allow me to read signs from a farther distance, but make driving much easier. I’ve also used them to watch television so I don’t have to sit so close. I don’t know why I waited to do this; I should have come sooner.”

“Bioptic telescopes can cost over $2,000,” said Dr. Cusic, “especially if we build them with an automatic sunglass.”

“The major benefit of the bioptic telescope is that the lens automatically focuses on whatever you’re looking at,” said Dr. Cusic. “It’s like a self-focusing camera, but much more precise.”

To learn more about bioptic telescopes or to schedule a consultation with Dr. Cusic, give us a call at 1-877-823-2020. You can also visit our website at: www.seattlelowvision.com

For more information and a FREE telephone consultation, call us today: Offices in Vancouver, Bellingham and Kirkland, WA Ross Cusic, O.D. Low Vision Optometrist, IALVS Member

lunches, according to the Oregon Center for Public Policy and the 2104 Census Bureau.

The Assistance League also runs Puppets with Purpose, an outreach to some 2,600 elementary students on promoting healthy living and preventing bullying.

More than 7,000 students received backpacks and school supplies in 64 schools throughout the school year, all with a counselor’s referral.

Operation Art Adventures helped more than 11,300 elementary, middle and high school students participate in theater activities or receive art supplies for their schools.

“For some children, it’s the only time they see a live performance, an actual performance of a play,” Marshall says.

“With READ, we also work with the Salem Public Library to bring a bookmobile to all first-grade classrooms.”

The Assistance League, in partnership with the SalemKeizer Dental Health Solutions for Children program, helped screen 6,395 elementary students last year.

And the Assistance League helped monitor an auxiliary independent living program for 30 young adults leaving foster care to live in their own living quarters. Participants receive mentoring, transition assistance, and their own housekeeping items.

“One program dear to my heart is that once a month we take up to 30 books to seniors,” Marshall says. “We get to visit.

And we donate $5,000 to $6,000 a year to buy books for the program, often in large print or on CDs. It’s a really nice program.”

Operation Bookshelf, in conjunction with the Salem Public Library, served 100 homebound adult patrons with more than 1,200 deliveries of library materials last year.

To help fund the programs, the organization runs two consignment shops: the Daue House Gift Shop at 1095 Saginaw St. S., and Encore Furniture at 1198 Commercial St. S., both in Salem. The stores are open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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■ Unique store in Newport sells antique, vintage telephones

By MICHELLE TE BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS

It’s rare these days to see any teenager walking around without a mobile phone in their hands at all times.

The phone represents their connection to the outside world, an opportunity to talk, text and message a wide variety of people.

Most of us can understand that need and desire to connect through a phone — we’ve been doing it our whole lives for both personal and professional use.

What kind of phone did you use while growing up? What kind of phone did your grandma have? What kind of phone did you use at work?

How often did you sit in your room and talk on the phone with your friends? How about a life-changing phone call, or the chance to talk with long-lost relatives?

“Most of us have an emotional connection with a phone,” says George Valenzuela, owner of The Olde Telephone Company in Newport, who has been selling antique and vintage phones for 30 years in both California and Oregon.

A retired police officer, Valenzuela started collecting old phones in the late 1970s, and joined the Antique Telephone Collectors Association.

He’s now the president of more than 1,000 members in the United States, Canada, Europe and Australia.

He opened his first antique telephone store in Hermosa Beach, California, in 1979 and business was booming. After he retired in the mid-‘80s, Valenzuela moved to central California, where he re-opened his store. About 10 years later, he took a job with an aerospace corporation, putting his store on hiatus.

After 21 years there, he retired, moved to Oregon and reopened the store here. He bought the property on 9th Street, and set up shop with the

vision he’s been carrying with him.

The store’s walls are lined with antique telephones, starting with Post and Company’s 1878 “coffin” phone, the first commercial telephone produced for home or office use, and moving through the ages as phone designs improved and changed. Each phone in the store has been disassembled, cleaned and updated with enough modern parts to make it a completely usable phone.

The trick, Valenzuela says, is to use a special Bluetooth device that connects through your mobile phone and allows the antique phone to be used just like the old landline phones.

Even better, he adds, is the clarity of the call will probably be much improved over your mobile phone.

“There’s no other store like this in the United States,” he says of his store that allows customers to walk in and see and handle a wide variety of antique and vintage phones. He also has two vintage phone booths, an old switchboard, “gossip” tables, a desk vanity, vintage signs and an antique toy collection.

The “desk vanity,” Valenzuela explains, was used in hotel lobbies, or in the homes of the affluent. The phone was actually built in to a beautiful piece of furniture and placed in the lobby for those guests who needed to make calls in the early part of the 20th century.

The main phone booth on display in the store contains a pay phone that makes different bell sounds depending on the value of the coin deposited into the phone. “An operator listened and knew the sound each coin made,” Valenzuela says.

Everything in the store is for sale, and Valenzuela or one of his three employees delightfully explains the time period, design and inner workings of every phone in the store.

“You can invest in a real phone designed to last forever, or a cell phone that will be ob-

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541-272-5225, or theoldetelephonecompany.com solete in a few years,” he says.

“No two phones in the store are exactly alike. I just have a passion for restoring old phones and getting them back into service,” he says. “I love getting them back into service.” ■

Photos by NWBSN staff

Top left, an early-19th century rotary telephone.

Above left, a row of push-button touch-tone phones from the 1970s. Above, store owner George Valenzuela opens the door to his prized possession, an 1890s Gray phone booth with a Silver Dollar pay phone from Portland.

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Adult Coloring Group, 5:30 p.m., Stayton Public Library.

503-769-3313.

Vertically Challenged Car Club, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Powerland Heritage Park, 3995 Brooklake Road NE, Brooks. 503-393-2424.

Saturday Dance with Charles and the Angels, 7 p.m., Keizer/Salem Area Seniors, 930 Plymouth Dr. NE, Keizer.

Potluck snacks. $5.

Polk County Bounty Market, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Thursdays, 850 Main St., Dallas.

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Tech-Savvy Seniors, “Bring your questions,” 2 p.m., Woodburn Public Library, 280 Garfield St.

Parenting a Second Time Around support group, 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., NorthWest Senior and Disability Services, 3410 Cherry Ave., Salem. 503-304-3429 or suzy.deeds@nwsds.org.

Writers Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow, 12:30 to 3:30 p.m., Plaza Room, Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St. SE.

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Senior Book Club: “Flight Behavior”

by Barbara Kingsolver, 10 a.m., Woodburn Public Library, 280 Garfield St.

Silvertones, 1 p.m., Silverton Senior Center, 115 Westfield St. Free.

Jubilate! The Women’s Choir of Corvallis, “Knowing She Has Wings,” 7 p.m., First Presbyterian Church, 227 NE 12th St., Newport. Donations taken.

Pancake Breakfast/Cruise In, 8 to 10 a.m., Keizer/Salem Area Seniors, 930 Plymouth Dr. NE, Keizer. $4. 503-3907441.

Saturday Dance with Lee Nicholas and Diane, 7 p.m., Keizer/Salem Area Seniors, 930 Plymouth Dr. NE, Keizer.

Potluck snacks. $5.

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WillaMutt Strut 5K Fun Run/ Walk, 9 a.m., Salem’s Riverfront Park, 200 Water St. NE. 503-585-5900, ext. 30 or whs4pets. org. (through June 26) “Leading Ladies,” 7:30 p.m., Pentacle Theatre, 324 52nd Ave. NW, Salem. $23-$25. Pentacletheatre.org.

p.m., Rice Auditorium, Western Oregon University, Monmouth. $25. Smithfinearts.org.

Silverton Senior Center trip: Japanese Garden and International Rose Test Gardens, 8:45 a.m. $18.

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NW Financial Group presentation (1:30 p.m.), United Health Care presentation (2:30 p.m.), South Salem Senior Center, 6450 Fairway Ave. SE. 503-588-0748.

Holocaust survivor Dr. Jacob Eisenbach, “Where You Go, I Go,” 6:30 p.m., Salem Convention Center, 200 Commercial St. $15/$20. Eisenbach.eventbrite.com.

Watercolor class, 10:30 a.m. Thursdays, for eight weeks, Monmouth Senior Center, 180 S. Warren St. $60. 503-838-5678.

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Willamette Valley Genealogical Society, “Processing and Organizing Photos for Genealogy,” 10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Anderson Room A/B, Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St. SE. 503-363-0880.

The Salem Spanish Language Group, 6 p.m., Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St. SE. 503-5886315.

Sons of Norway Thor Lodge 2-042, “The Life and Music of Norwegian Composer Edvard Grieg,” 6:30 p.m., Salem Masonic Temple, 1625 Brush College Road NW, Salem. 503-302-7973.

Books for Dessert, 7 p.m., Anderson Room A, Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St. SE. 503-588-6315.

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Stayton Red Hat Strutters, noon, Almost Home Restaurant, 3310 Market St. NE, Salem. Valorie Baxter, 503-900-0051, or Jeannie Brundidge, 503-999-2262.

Salem First Wednesday and Street Fair, 5 to 9 p.m., Downtown Salem.

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Gambling Prevention Program, 2 p.m., Silverton Senior Center, 115 Westfield St. Free.

(also June 11) Rickreall Gun Show, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Polk County Fairgrounds, Rickreall.

Danilo Perez with The Western Hemisphere Orchestra, 7:30 to 9

“Encore has furniture, home décor, paintings and other offerings,” Marshall says. “The gift shop is a potpourri of gift and boutique items — just about anything in the home you can think of. Both stores take

(also June 13) AARP Driver Safety, 9 a.m. to noon, South Salem Senior Center, 6450 Fairway Ave. SE. 503-588-0748.

Science Night for Adults, 6:30 to 10 p.m., Gilbert House Children’s Museum, 116 Marion St. NE, Salem. $8/$10. 503-371-3631.

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Scrabble Club, 6 p.m., Plaza Room, Salem Public Library, 585 Liberty St. SE. 503-588-6315.

Monmouth Senior Center tour: Dogs for the Blind in Boring. $14. 503838-5678.

Caregivers class, 2 to 4 p.m., Silverton Senior Center, 115 Westfield St. Free.

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Fish Tales: Traditions and Challenges of Seafood in Oregon, by Jennifer Burns Bright, 3:30 p.m., OSU Guin Library, 2030 SE Marine Science Dr., Newport. Free.

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(through June 15) Cherry City Music Festival, 5 to 11 p.m., various venues in downtown Salem. 503-364-1403 or cherrycitymusic.com.

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Silverton Senior Center trip: Oregon Olive Mill and Heirloom Roses Garden, 8:30 a.m. $15. 503-873-3093.

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Oregon Garden Brewfest, 3 to 6 p.m., 879 W. Main St., Silverton. $15.

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Pancake or biscuit-andgravy breakfast, 8 to 10 a.m., South Salem Senior Center, 6450 Fairway Ave. SE. 503-588-0748.

American Cetacean Society hosts activities in honor of Orca Awareness Month, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Hatfield Marine Science Center, 2030 S. Marine Science Dr., Newport.

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items on consignment, and the proceeds go toward buying clothes for the kids.”

People can donate knitted hats and scarves, provide new and unused hygiene items, shop at the stores, or donate money

Early Day Gas Engine and Tractor Association Branch 15 Swap Meet, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., Powerland Heritage park, 3995 Brooklake Road NE, Brooks. $6. 503-363-2424.

Albany Stamp Show, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Phoenix Inn, 3410 Spicer Dr., Albany.

Community pancake breakfast, 8 to 10:30 a.m., Silverton Senior Center, 115 Westfield St. $5/$3.

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47th Annual Strawberry Social, noon to 4 p.m., Old Aurora Colony Museum.

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Senior Trivia, 2 p.m., Country Meadows, 155 Evergreen Road, Woodburn.

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or in-kind items to assist the League in their community outreach, Marshall says.

“And we’d love to have new members,” she adds. “We all volunteer, and anyone can join.”

Marshall, who joined the Assistance League in 2001, says simply go to the Daue House Gift Shop to get information on the ways to volunteer. Community volunteers do not pay dues or serve a required number of hours.

Members of the Assistance League’s auxiliary pay annual dues of $70, which are tax deductible and help with the League’s philanthropic programs. Meetings are on the second Thursday of each month from September to May. “I’ve gotten way more out of this than I’ve given to it,” she says of her 16 years of service.

“I’ve made so many good friends. It’s a real pleasure to volunteer with people who care.” ■

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VOLUNTEER FAIR

If you are thinking of vo lunteering, but not sure what you want to do and ho w much time you want to devote, save this date MONDAY , JUNE 12, 2 TO 4 P.M. at Center 50+, 2615 Portlan d Rd. NE., Salem.

Numerous non-profit or ganizations from throug hout the Salem area will be here to answer questions an d share their purpose. Th ey all have a need for vo lunteers, so this is the place to co me! If you are thinking of one event at a time or a co mmitment to a regular sc hedule, YOU should come and se e what is out there.

If you have a particular passion for helping child ren, the theater, fun runs fo r finding a cure, pets, ga rdening, feeding the hungry, any type of fund raising even t, you should come. See many non-profits in one plac e an d at your own leisure. SAVE THE DATE.

RED WHITE & BLUE LINEDANCE FUNDRAISER Dual celebrations on Flag Day: The freedoms we have and supporting Center 50+. Wednesday, June 14th ✭ 5:30-7:30 p.m. $5 per person upon entry All are welcome. Instructor: Colleen Roberts-Witt A fun time of line dancing, no partner required, a table of wonderful garage sale treasures that you decide value, silent auction items, and snacks upon paid entry. One hundred percent of the proceeds will go towards Center 50+. Whether you dance or observe, wear your patriotic colors and support Center 50+.

SAVE THE DATES for these FUN SUMMER EVENTS Come enjoy Strawberry Shortcake on Wednesday, June 7, 1 p.m. cost $2.

Center 50+ is having an Ice Cream Social on Monday, July 3, 1 p.m. FREE. Center 50+ will be hosting a Neighborhood Block Party on Tuesday, August 1, 3-7 p.m. Come enjoy food, music, and family fun!

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How to retire and Live the Life you Want Presented by Center 50+, Helping People Reinvent Retirement Since 1976!

This event will take place in Newport, Oregon at the Hallmark Resort. Are you ready for the “next chapter” in your life? Now more than any other time when we leave our career the sky is the limit. Will you volunteer, seek an encore career, take up all the hobbies you have been missing, spend time with family and friends, travel, learn a new language, or join a band?

The possibilities are endless. But, sometimes lack of planning keeps us from fully achieving our ideal retirement years. If you are planning on retiring in five years or less we have the event for you. Where can you go to get all the “nitty gritty” details of retirement taken care of in a matter of a few days?

At the end of the retreat you will have a binder filled with the necessary forms, plans, and details to retire. ie: Medicare options, Social Security, a Will, a Financial Plan, a Health and Fitness Plan, and a Life Map focused on Passion and Purpose. During this retreat experts will offer break- out sessions on Marriage and Retirement Adjustments, and being Single and Retired, Traveling on a dime or with a Plan and Purpose, Leisure, Brain Health, Caregiving to Aging Parents, How to Snowbird, Preventing The Need For Joint Replacements, Fighting Gravity and more! Everyone will have the chance to schedule one-on-one consultations with an attorney, financial planner, Medicare SHIBA counselor, or caregiver coordinator expert, and receive a brain health evaluation.

All this information is to help you assess how you spend your time NOW and determine how you want to spend this valuable time THEN, and create a plan to make it HAPPEN. But, because you are using vacation time to attend we want you to feel like you are on VACATION! Every day you will enjoy great food, NW wines, and activities including: Bay Cruise, Glass Blowing Class, 6-course Culinary experience, beach front motel rooms and amenities of the Hallmark Resort, Tai chi on the Beach, Cruise-Ship themed dinner, dance with JT and the Tourists, and casino night, discounted Golf, door prizes and giveaways. This isn’t your typical “conference” and it isn’t just about taking care of

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It Takes a Lifetime to Get This Fit!

June Featured Fitness Class: Evening Yoga

Many people think that Yoga focuses primarily on stretching, while stretching is certainly involved, Yoga is really about creating balance in the body through developing both strength and flexibility.

Join experienced Yoga Instructor Kaye Floyd Monday evenings and start experiencing the many physical and mental benefits of Yoga. All fitness levels are welcome and encouraged to try this wonderful class. Cost: $60/12 sessions or $6 per class drop-in fee. Evening Yoga utilizes a separate punchcard than our weekday Yoga class. Class times: Mondays 5:30-6:30 p.m. Your first Evening Yoga class is complimentary.

Evening Fitness Class: Zumba

Are you looking to change up your workout?

Zumba is perfect for everybody and every body!

Each Zumba® class is designed to bring people together for a dance fitness party infused with Latin and World rhythms. We take the “work” out of the workout, by mixing modifiable moves for “exercise in disguise.” The total body benefits include increased cardiovascular fitness, muscle conditioning,

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balance, flexibility, boosted energy and stress-free happiness each time you leave class. You don’t have to know how to dance. Just move your body and follow our Certified and experienced Zumba Instructor Mai Dotran. It’s easy! Come try it! We guarantee you will have a blast! Class times: Wednesdays 5:30-6:30 p.m. Cost: $6 drop in fee or $50/10 classes, no experience necessary; your first class is complimentary.

Nail Care & Haircuts at Center 50+

Licensed Cosmetologist Ana Correa provides foot care and haircuts at an affordable price. Foot care treatments begin with a foot soak in warm water, followed by a toe nail trim, file and nail polish if you like, all for just $22. If you have a hard time doing your own foot care, this is the perfect option for you, enjoy stress free happy feet. If a haircut is what you need Men’s haircuts start at just $12 and Woman’s haircuts start at just $15. Ana is available every Monday 9-4 by appointment only. Call to make your appointment today 503-588-6303.

apist Kathleen Hauptman (LMT #5531) Kathleen brings to Center 50+ over 20 years of massage experience and provides a wonderfully relaxing table massage experience. In addition to the obvious benefits of stress reduction, massage also helps to increase circulation and joint mobility, enhance immunity and alleviate low back pain, and leaves you with an overall feeling of relief. Kathleen offers Swedish massage, a relaxing spa massage and reflexology. Kathleen is available: Mondays & Thursday- 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m., Tuesdays- 1-4 p.m., Wednesdays- 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Cost: $1 per minute or $40/hour (Spa & Swedish Massage). Reflexology Cost: $20/30 min. or $30/45 min.

Make an appointment today, 503-588-6303.

Living Well with Diabetes

Please help us welcome our new Massage Ther-

This researched and proven workshop is designed to help adults with type 2 diabetes or pre-diabetes learn skills and increase their confidence in managing their diabetes. The workshop meets for 2 ½ hours once a week for six weeks. Workshops take place at Center 50+, June 14-July 19, 9:30 a.m.–12 p.m. Contact Information: Elaine at 503-967-1834 or health.promotion@nwsds.org.

very life you want. Conference fee begins at $525 per person and includes full conference, accommodations and most meals and activities. Call Center 50+ for more information. Or contact me

at mdaily@cityofsalem.net to receive a reservation form. Five years goes by fast, and there are steps you should be taking now, and plans to be made. Won’t you join us?

lar clear tape, glue stick and scissors. Class cost: $5. Additional $3 supply cost.

habits, attitudes and even our tastes were conditioned by our environment, from our family to the country where we were raised. Explore with your fellow students how your life experiences have been shaped, and how you can take charge of shaping your own dynamic future. Class dates: Fridays, June 9 & 23. Class time: 10–11 a.m. Class fee each: $7 Writing Your Life Story. Have your children ever said to you—you tell such great stories, you should write them down! This is the class for you to do that very thing. Please come and join us. Meet people doing the same thing you are. Share your stories. Listen to others tell theirs. It is an easy way to get ideas, and it is lots of fun. Please come and check us out. Every Wednesday, Time: 1-3 p.m. Cost: $3 drop-in fee

Massage Therapy at Center 50+

It Takes a Lifetime to Get This Smart!

Come by Center 50+ to sign up for Life Long Learning classes or call 503-588-6303. Class Fee Payment required at beginning of class registration.

ARTS AND ARTS AND CRAFTS Carving duck decoys from wood the Oregon Decoy and Wildfowl Guild. The Guild is a group of individuals dedicated to promoting the traditional history of decoy making and its development as an art form. Participants of all ages and skill levels are welcome. Saturday, June 24, 9 a.m.–3 p.m. Cost $3 per session plus any cost for wood.

Evening Woodcarving conducted by Dave Disselbrett. This ongoing class offers carvers the chance to work on existing projects or do a scheduled project, or carver’s choice. Every Monday, 6:45–8:45 p.m. Cost $5 per class.

Intermediate Acrylic Painting I. Wed, June 7 & 21.

Class time: 1–3:30 p.m. Class fee: $28 Intermediate Acrylic Painting II. Thurs, June 8 & 22. Class time: 1-3:30 p.m. Class fee: $28 Jewelry Techniques. “Show and Tell” style presentations will initially consist of basics such as: jewelry making tools, materials and metals, and torch & metal cutting techniques. Later presentations will be based on the most popular topics from participant surveys and group interests. Class date: Every Wednesday starting May 17. Class time: 5:30–8:30 p.m. Drop in fee: $3.

Jewelry Beading Class. This class time is set up to help beginners with the basics and work with intermediate and advanced students on individualized projects. It’s easy to do and you can go at your own pace, making beautiful pieces of jewelry: bracelets, necklaces, and earrings. You will learn bead stringing, wire wrapping and chaining. Class dates: Second and fourth Tuesdays of the month. Starting back June 13 & 27. Class time: 9–11:30 a.m. Class fee: $5.

Card Making with Joan Cowley. Make and take three adorable cards. This is a fun class for beginners and more advanced crafters. Space is limited and signup sheets available. Class dates: Second Thursdays of the month. Class time: 1-3 p.m. Students need to bring markers, colored pencils, 2-sided adhesive tape, regu-

PERSONAL ENRICHMENT Meditation Class with Mary Hall. Mondays, June 12 & 26; 1-3 p.m. $15/one class, $25/both classes.

Beginning Meditation with Mary Hall. Monday, June 19; 1-3 p.m. $15/ Birding Basics. A two-part bird watching class with our new City of Salem Park Ranger Mike Zieker who has been an avid birder for nearly a decade. Mike has been a Park Ranger since 2005, including 3 years at Barr Lake State Park in Brighton, Colorado, a world renowned birders’ paradise. He has over 100 birds on his life list and looks forward to preparing you to start your list today. The first class takes place at Center 50+ and includes a PowerPoint presentation to help you learn why birding is important as both a healthy hobby and as an aspect of citizen science; you will also learn how to use binoculars; and some tricks for knowing what to look for when ID’ing birds. Center 50+ class date: Tuesdays, June 27. Class time: 10-11:30 a.m. For second class, meet Park Ranger Mike at Cascades Gateway Park on Thursday, June 27 from 8 a.m. for a guided bird walk to practice your new skills. Binoculars are strongly encouraged and recommended size is 8x42. Class fee: $3.

Ki Breathing Course for Cancer Patients and Their Caregivers. Ki Breathing is a complimentary therapy that provides a foundation for overcoming the psychological and emotional challenges presented by cancer and cancer treatment, and a return to a positive life.

Caregivers, who can experience challenges of their own, are encouraged to attend with their loved one.

This is a participatory class, where attendees help each other to learn. Classes will be taught by Oregon Ki Society instructor, Bob Jones, who is a cancer survivor.

Four class dates: Mondays, June 5, 12, 19, & 26. Class time: 9–10 a.m. Class fee: $30 for the four-week session.

How Did I Get Where I Am Now? Instructor Mary Hall MA, LPC. May class focus: What Makes You Think the Way You Do? Why do you like some foods, colors, places, animals, and not others? Very often our

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If you’re looking for more things to do in June, check out the NWBSN calendar on p. 10.

HISTORY If you love history, join the “History Drop in Group” here at Center 50+ This group of folks love to learn about interesting points in history, while watching hour long lectures on DVD. Each week a new topic is presented. Drop in fee: $3, no prior registration required. Meets every Tuesday, from 10 a.m.–12 noon.

Oregon Coast Lighthouses. In this class, retired history professor, Dr. Doug Kroll, will share the fascinating stories of the lighthouses on the Oregon Coast, which were built on prominent headlands or near major estuaries supporting commercial fishing and shipping in the late 19th century. Class dates: Monday, June 5, 6-8 p.m. or Tuesday, June 6, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

Class fee: $5 MUSIC Private Guitar Lessons with Carl Treski. Learn to play like the pro’s. 40 years of experience are behind you when you learn note reading, chord strumming, and music theory, bar chords, position playing, and improvising. A song library of over 400 songs are available from the ‘40s, ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s. Pick up that guitar and start now! Lessons are scaled to your personal abilities. All music and charts are free. Private lessons are $20 per ½ hour. Call Bonnie Katich at Center 50+, 503-588-6303 for session arrangements.

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Community Services

Understanding Alzheimer’s disease:

Virtual Dementia Tour

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June Volunteer of the Month:

LINDA SCHELLENBERG

Join us for this interactive opportunity for family caregivers to experience what it may be like to live with dementia on Monday, June 19, 2 to 4 p.m. at Center 50+. During a Virtual Dementia Tour experience, trained facilitators guide participants outfitted with patented devices that alter their senses while they try to complete common everyday tasks and exercises. The Tour enables caregivers to experience the physical and mental challenges their loved ones live with every day.

By increasing our understanding, we can offer more kindness, increased empathy, and better care to those living with dementia. This free educational seminar is for unpaid family caregivers caring for loved ones with Alzheimer’s disease or related dementia and those interested in learning more about dementia. Presenter: Andrew Mullin, Director of Community Relations, Senior Helpers. Presented in partnership with Among Friends Adult Day Respite Program, Time With Friends Program and NorthWest Senior & Disability Services. Please call 503-588-6303 to register.

Thank you to our sponsors: Pacific Living Centers, Inc. – Hawthorne House and Harmony House of Salem, WindSong at Eola Hills, Senior Helpers, Senior One Source, and Visiting Angels.

Among Friends “A Great Place to Be”

“For the past 11 years, I have been a Respite Volunteer at Center 50+ with the Among Friends Program.

The spontaneous smiles, hugs, and ‘thank yous’ expressing appreciation are heartwarming. It is rewarding to know I play a small part in the program’s ability to lighten the load, just a bit, for the participants’ caregivers for a few hours each week. The participants are and will be etched in my memory. It is an honor to be their friend.” ~ Cindy Respite Volunteers share friendship, patience, love, and understanding every day as they work in the Respite Program. Their dedication and individual contributions make the program day special for participants and help to make every moment count! Among Friends Adult Day Respite Program is for individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. The program provides a caring, supportive, and safe environment for participants. At the same time, caregivers receive a five-hour break from their caregiving responsibilities. The program meets on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Please call the Respite Coordinator at 503-588-6303 for more information.

Thank you to our sponsors: Pacific Living Centers, Inc. – Hawthorne House and Harmony House of Salem, WindSong at Eola Hills, Senior One Source, Senior Helpers, and Visiting Angels.

Tech 50+

Facebook class is finally here!

If you have children or grandchildren who are difficult to connect with due to their fast-paced lives Facebook is a great tool to staying connected and knowing what is happening in their lives on a daily basis and keep them up to date with whatever you would like to share about your life.

You can access Facebook from your Smartphone, Tablet or home computer. This allows you to keep up with family even if you’re on the go.

Over the years the computer lab at Center 50+ has had numerous requests for a Facebook class.

Finding someone with enough knowledge on the topic and a desire to teach this class has been difficult. We have offered Facebook as a part of our 1-hour workshop series. That workshop has grown into a 2-day workshop with a total of 4 hours of instructional time. This June we will be expanding Facebook even further. We will be offering it as a 3-day Facebook class.

In addition to offering such a valuable class we have found a well-respected instructor to teach it. You may have heard of our popular Smartphones and Tablets class. We have recruited the same instructor to teach the Facebook class. For those of you who are concerned. There is no need to worry she is still teaching smartphones and tablets for both beginners and intermediate users, as well as her various other workshops. Remember her classes fill up fast so make sure to come by early and register. Classes start early June.

You may not be into learning about computers., or you may already have a strong knowledge base. If this is you and you would like to share your knowledge, come by and we could look into our various volunteer opportunities in the Tech 50+ Computer Learning Center.

Summer Day Camps at Center 50+ ● Wednesdays during July ● ● ●

10 a.m. - 2 p.m., for adults 50+. Come enjoy some fun activities! $10 per session day.

Call 503-588-6303 for more information! ●●

ITS WARMING UP OUTSIDE!

Applicants must be at least 62 years of age with an annual net income below $19,800 for one person or $22,600 for two people.

Tour available. Stop by or call

503-363-9640 For an application, call or write

Providence Place 3524 Fisher Rd. NE, Salem, OR 97305 providenceplace@rhf.org

If your pet(s) stay outside most of the time, remember they can get overheated. Provide plenty of fresh water and adequate shade for your 4-legged friend(s). The ground & pavement can reach temperatures well over 100 degrees, creating a potential health risk in a matter of minutes.

Linda is a dedicated volunteer on a regular schedule in the Respite Program, very active in the ACT program, and coordinates the Friendly Caller Program. She has been volunteering for a year in these programs and in our community.

In Linda’s words, “Being busy doing things you love, is what life is all about. I always believe you get back what you give.” What started Linda coming to Center 50+ was to take an acrylic painting class. She has continued with this class not only because she enjoys it, but she enjoys meeting people and hopefully making those she meets and works with a little happier.

Linda worked for 18 years for the Oregon Cherry Growers in quality control. She has a vast background in previous volunteering. She was with the Dallas D.A.’s office in the area of Domestic Violence and Sexual Assaults. Then the Citizens Review Board in Marion County, and most recently, The Willamette Valley Hospice as a visitor for folks confined to their homes.

Linda’s family is from Canada and she obtained her U.S. citizenship in 2000. She and her husband, Lyle, have been married for 39 years and they have a son and a daughter who both live in Oregon. Linda loves orchids and has 23 of them.

If you know the success of orchids, it takes the care of a special person. There is a lot to know about Linda as she is definitely a dedicated, knowledgeable, and caring individual, one it would be worth your while to meet. Linda, we at Center 50+ are proud to recognize you as Volunteer of the Month for June.

SAVE-THE-DATE for these special seminars ■ Tuesday, June 13, 10 a.m. Kaiser Permanente ■ Thursday, June 8, 1 p.m. Atrio, sponsored by Ed Clark Insurance ■ Thursday, June 15, 10 a.m. Medicare 101, sponsored by Ed Clark Insurance ■ Thursday, June 15, 1 p.m. Regence, sponsored by Ed Clark Insurance

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ONGOING WEEKLY PROGRAMS a JUNE 2017

Monday 8:30 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 9:00 am 9:00 am

Tuesday

Woodshop Lapidary Jewelry Pool/Billiards Pine Needle Baskets Silversmithing/ Jewelry Workshop 9:15 am Yoga 10:00 am SilverSneakers 11:30 am Lunch 6:45 pm Woodcarving

8:30 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 10:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 11:00 am 11:30 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 1:15 pm 2:30 pm 6:30 pm

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Wednesday

Woodshop Lapidary Ladies Pool/Billiards Pilates Line Dancing - Int. History Discussion Group SilverSneakers Yoga Respite Care Tone Your Bones Lunch Tai Chi Line Dancing - Beg. Tai Chi Irish Dance Table Tennis

7:00 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 9:00 am 9:00 am 9:15 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 11:30 am 1:00 pm 5;30 pm

Thursday

Sunrise Rotary Woodshop Lapidary Pool/ Billiards Woodcarving Class SHIBA (by appt) Yoga SilverSneakers Respite Care Lunch Writing Life Story Jewelry Techniques

Club Meetings in June Thurs, June 1: Fri, June 2 & 16:

WAMS, 6:30 p.m.

Mon, June 5: Wed, June 7, 14, 21 & 28: Thurs, June 8:

Four Seasons, 6 p.m.

Tues, June 13: Fri, June 9:

Angler’s Club, 6:30 p.m.

ACBO meeting, 1 p.m.

Book Club, 1:30 p.m.

Tues, June 20:

Needlepoint 12:30 p.m.

Garden Club, 7 p.m.

Tues, June 27: Wed, June 28:

Woodcarvers, 7 p.m.

SREA Meeting, 2 p.m.

Woodshop Lapidary, Sewing Pool/Billiards Line Dancing - Int. Pilates SilverSneakers Yoga Line Dancing - Beg. Tone Your Bones Time With Friends Lunch Tai Chi Bingo Ladies Pool/Billiards Tai Chi Table Tennis

8:30 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 9:00 am 9:15 am 11:00 am 11:30 am 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

Woodshop Lapidary Pool/Billiards Watercolor Studio Yoga Respite Care Lunch Cards/Games Woodcarving

HOW TO GET MORE INFORMATION

8:30 am Lapidary ● Call your newcomers 8:30 amfor Pool/Billiards

packet 503-588-6303 ● Tune in to KBZY Radio 1490 AM, Fridays at 8:10 a.m. ● Visit our Web site at: www.cityofsalem/Center 50+ ● Stop by the Center for a tour ● You may pick up a FREE copy of the NW Boomer & Senior News at Center 50+ or at many local merchants.

✤ JUNE LUNCH MENU ✤

Spanish Club, 2 p.m.

Sunrise Rotary, 7 a.m.

Woodturners, 6 p.m.

Lapidary Club, 9 a.m.

8:30 am 8:30 am 8:30 am 8:45 am 9:00 am 10:00 am 10:00 am 11:00 am 11:00 am 11:30 am 12:00 pm 1:00 pm 1:00 pm 1:15 pm 6:30 pm

Friday

Garden Club Board, 7 p.m.

Thursday 1: Friday 2:

Chicken Stir-Fry Baked Fish or Chicken

Monday 5: Tuesday 6: Wednesday 7: Thursday 8: Friday 9:

Cheese Manicotti Chicken Enchiladas Swedish Meatballs BBQ Chicken Hungarian Goulash

Monday 12: Tuesday 13: Wednesday 14: Thursday 15: Friday 16:

Chicken Salad Meatloaf Herb Roasted Chicken Lasagna Baked Fish or Chicken

It takes a Lifetime to get this Young!

TRIPS AHOY! TRAVEL PRESENTATION: June7, 10 a.m. Western Frontiers featuring Mt. Rushmore, Yellowstone & the Badlands June 20-28, 2018; Cape Cod & the Islands featuring Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, Nantucket & Newport Sept 9-15, 2018; Philadelphia, the Poconos & the Brandywine Valley featuring Amish Country & 5 nights at one hotel Oct 21-26, 2018; and New Orleans Holiday featuring 4 nights in the French Quarter Dec 2-6, 2018. Come view these great trips planned in 2018.

June 28: Sternwheeler – Landmarks of the Gorge, $140 (includes transportation, driver gratuity, 5 hour boat trip and 2 meals). Waiting list only!

July 13: Oregon Coast Aquarium with a stop in Old Town, cost $99 (includes transportation, driver gratuity, admission, and catered lunch in the Gleason Room with viewing window into a tank with Sharks & Rays).

Aug 16: Chinese & Japanese Gardens, Portland, cost $55 (includes transportation, driver gratuity, admissions & tours). Filling fast!

Aug 27: Cirque Du Soleil, Portland Expo Center, Cost $130 waiting list only!

NEW TRIP ADDED: Oct 29 - Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra, Portland Moda Center, Cost $115 (includes transportation, driver gratuity, and admission) $65 deposit due when signing up. Limited tickets!

EXTENDED TRIPS FOR 2017 & 2018 Canada’s Winter Wonderland, Dec. 2-8, (after June 2 if space is available) Spotlight on New York City, April 19-23, 2018 Western Frontiers, June 20-28, 2018 Cape Cod & the Islands, Sept 9-15, 2018 Philadelphia, the Poconos & the Brandywine Valley, Oct 21-26, 2018 Tropical Costa Rica, Nov 8-16, 2018 New Orleans Holiday, Dec 2-6, 2018 Stop by and pick-up a flier for these extended trips (full Itinerary and pricing).

Trip Desk is open Mondays - Fridays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Monday 19: Tuesday 20: Wednesday 21: Thursday 22: Friday 23:

Swedish Meatballs Pineapple Chicken Salisbury Steak Chicken Casserole Chile Con Carne

Monday 26: Tuesday 27: Wednesday28: Thursday 29: Friday 30:

Chicken Salad Roasted Pork or Chicken Beef Burgundy BBQ Chicken Chicken Parmesan

All meals are subject to change

DRIVER SAFETY PROGRAM

Driver Safety Program is a two-session class sponsored by AARP to improve your driving skills. Upon completion of this course, your auto insurance premium may be reduced.

Call Center 50+ at 503-588-6303 to register. * June 12 & 15, 5 p.m. * July 10 & 13, 1 p.m. * Aug 7 & 10, 1 p.m.

June Birthday Party!

Mark your calendars and join us in celebrating the monthly birthdays on the third Friday of each month. Immediately following lunch on Friday, June 16 we will begin serving cake. If it is your birthday in June, be sure to come and have lunch, get a special birthday gift. Everyone is welcome to join in on the fun!

Thank you WindSong Memory Care for sponsoring our Monthly Birthday Party.

JOIN US AT THE MOVIES!

Center 50+ provides a movie and popcorn the 2nd & 4th Wednesday of each month. Is there a movie you’ve wanted to see?

We take movie requests! Movies will be shown at 1:15 p.m.

Monthly Movie- Wednesday, June 14: “A Dog’s Purpose” A dog is reincarnated several time and in each lifetime he tries to understand his purpose in life, staring Denise Quaid.

Classic Movie Day – Wednesday, June 28: “Crocodile Dundee” starring Paul Hogan.

All movies are subject to change, check with Center 50+ front desk on Tuesday before movie for movie title.

Thanks to our sponsor: Atrio Health Plan Center 50+ meets the legal requirement set forth by the Motion Picture Industry. As a licensed organization the senior center has permission from the Motion Picture Licensing Corporation (MPLC) to provide public showings of movies/videos.

For more information about anything you see in this UPDATE and activities at Center 50+ call 503-588-6303 or visit: www.cityofsalem.net/center50

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503-371-9636 1-800-542-4320 694 High Street NE SALEM

www.mcginty-belcher.com

McGinty & Belcher, Attorneys

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Very comfortable. 503843-3157.

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LINCOLN CITY OCEAN VIEW. Historic Wecoma neighborhood. 3 blocks to beach. 2bdrm, 2ba.

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Private patios • Pet friendly On-site laundry • Close to all shopping Water/sewer/garbage Paid

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PET/HOUSE SITTING! 10 years experience. Lane County only. Marguerite, HUD SUBSIDIZED UNITS 541-543-1079. for senior citizens 62 or older, disabled and/or Cemetery Plots handicapped. Accepting applications at this time. BELCREST MEMORIAL We are committed to PARK. Section D, Row A, providing equal housing Crypt two (2). $3500, opportunities. All utilities transfer fee $295. Call paid. Millwood Manor, 503-390-7932.

2550 14th Ave SE, Albany. 541-928-2545.

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EQUAL HOUSING OPPORTUNITY All real estate advertising in this newspaper is subject to the Fair Housing Act which makes it illegal to advertise “any preference limitation or discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or an intention, to make any such preference, limitation or discrimination.” Familial status includes children under the age of 18 living with parents or legal custodians; pregnant women and people securing custody of children under 18.

This newspaper will not knowlingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. Our readers are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised in this newspaper are available on an equal opportunity basis. To complain of discrimination call HUD Toll-free at 1-800-669-9777. The Toll-free telephone number for the hearing impaired is 1-800-927-9275.

32 YEARS REPUTABLE BUYER! CASH PAID for old magazines, brochures, catalogs, greeting cards, letters, manuals, books, slides.

Photos thru 1970’s, buttons, perfume, etc.

Please call 503-422BASEBALL & SPORTS 8478.

MEMORABILIA wanted.

CADILLAC Buying old cards, pen- VINTAGE nants, autographs, pho- WANTED, 1949 to 1979. tographs, tickets, Rust free, nice cars only! programs, Pacific Coast No major projects. Prefer League, etc. Alan, 503- Fleetwood Sedan. jlp120k@hotmail.com/503481-0719.

538-8096.

HIGHEST CASH PAID TODAY FOR DIABETIC DIABETIC TEST STRIPS TEST STRIPS GUARAN- WANTED. Paying top TEED! Free local pickup dollar! Free local pickup. since 2010. We will beat Call Sharon, 503-679anyone local by 20%! 3605.

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MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS WANTED. Port- MILITARY ITEMS WANland Music Co. always TED by collector. WWI, buying! Reputable since WWII-present. War sou1927. Free appraisals. venirs, trench art, med531 SE M.L.K. Blvd. Ask als, helmets, swords. for Doug. 503-226-3719. Mike 707-338-0477.

● GARAGE SALES ●

COMMUNITY GARAGE SALE at King City Highlands. 16 families, June 16-17, 9-3.

Something for everyone!

Beef Bend Rd to 131st.

It’s that time of year...

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HUD SUBSIDIZED UNITS for senior citizens 62 or older, disabled and/or handicapped. Accepting applications at this time.

We are committed to providing equal housing opportunities. All utilities paid. Surfwood Manor, 4545 SW Hwy 101, Lincoln City, 541-996-3477.

HUD SUBSIDIZED UNITS for senior citizens 62 or older, disabled and/or handicapped, available at this time. We are committed to providing equal housing opportunities.

All utilities paid. Briarwood Manor, 643 Manbrin, Keizer, OR 97303, 503-981-8614.

HUD SUBSIDIZED UNITS for senior citizens 62 or older, disabled and/or handicapped. Accepting applications at this time. CASH FOR PRE 1980 We are committed to sport & non-sport gum providing equal housing opportunities. All utilities paid. Glenwood Manor, 1687 NW Division St., Corvallis. 541-753-3408.

27 Services NW Boomer & Senior News is seeking full-time advertising sales representatives in Marion-Polk & coastal counties areas.

Great opportunity for experienced self-starters who prefer setting their own schedule.

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Mennonite Village

Picture yourself living at Mennonite Village...

A 275-acre community in a rural setting, Mennonite Village provides living spaces for all levels of retirement just a short drive from Corvallis, Salem, or Eugene. With award-winning health care and beautifully landscaped grounds, Mennonite Village is an inclusive community of amazing people.

The wellness program at Mennonite Village encompasses the physical, emotional, spiritual, and intellectual well-being of each resident. In addition to daily activities and classes offered by fitness instructors, residents enjoy Pickle Ball and Pétanque, gardening, a putting green, an indoor pool, massage therapy, and miles of scenic walking paths.

Mennonite Village offers regularly scheduled transportation at no cost to its Village and Quail Run residents. Transportation can be arranged for a group of residents to attend special events, such as college athletic events or a symphony concert. Additionally, personal transportation can be hired by the hour through our In-Home Care Services.

Mennonite Village is subject to the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibits any preference, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make such a preference, limitation, or discrimination.

Mennonite Village is a fee-for-service community that offers a continuum of residential and healthcare options. It’s an “open campus” that welcomes new residents to all areas of the Village—you are not required to start in independent living. Should a need arise for additional health care or support, they’re available on campus, and you’ll pay only for the services you use.

Independent Living Homes in the Village (including NEW CONSTRUCTION) Independent Living Apartments at Ashwood Courts I & II Assisted Living Apartments at Quail Run Adult Foster Memory Care Home at Mary's Place Memory Care at Lydia's House Long Term Nursing Care at Mennonite Home Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation Services at Mennonite Home In-Home Care to Residents of Linn, Benton, and Southern Marion Counties 541-928-7232 www.mennonitevillage.org www.facebook.com/mennonitevillage 5353 Columbus St SE, Albany, OR 97322