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Se(through Nov. 17) Northwest Benior Theatre: “Twas the Daze fore Christmas,” 2 p.m., Alpenrose Dairy Opera House, 6149 Shattuck door. the at cash Road, Portland. $5 503-227-2003.

Potluck, 4 Tuesday Night Dance and AARP Smart Driver, 9 a.m. to Senior 5 p.m. Tuesdays, Gresham p.m., Cedar Mill Library, 12505 Center, 600 NE 8th St. $5. NW Cornell Road, Portland. 503-871to 4:15 2816. AARP Smart Driver, 9 a.m. 7688 House, od Neighborho p.m., (through Nov. 5) The Oregon SW Capitol Hwy., Portland. 503-244Symphony, Symphony No. 103, 5204. Small fee. “Drumroll,” 7:30 p.m., Arlene Schnitzer y.org. Concert Hall. $24+. Orsymphon Vancouver Women’s ConnecAll tion: “Gift Shopping for 10 Stormwater Stars open house, 11:30 a.m., Royal School, Occasions,” 9:30 to a.m. to noon, Jackson Middle NE Fourth Free. Oaks Country Club, 8917 10625 SW 35th Ave., Portland. Brunch: Plain Road, Vancouver, Wash. Swni.org/stormwater. 360-892-5523 by Nov. 1. $21.

Film Night: “Frida,” (Rated R), 7 p.m., GHCL Annex, 7306 SW Oleson Road, Portland. Free. 4 to Give the Gift of Art reception, Third 8 p.m., Currents Gallery, 532 NE St., McMinnville.

to 4:30 AARP Smart Driver, 9 a.m. 600 NE p.m., Gresham Senior Center, 8th St. 503-789-2034. Small fee.

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thAARP Smart Driver, 9:30 a.m. An- Hall, Portland. $5+. Portlandyou Books and Brews, 7 p.m., GHCL to 4:30 p.m., Elsie Stuhr Cenphil.org. nex, 7306 SW Oleson Road. Gardenter, 5550 SW Hall Blvd., Beaverton. homelibrary.org for a list of books. St. Therese 37th annual Christmas 503-629-6342. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., 132nd and Bazaar, Tchaikovsky rist- Ukulele Jam, 11 a.m., GHCL Annex, The Oregon Symphony, NE Halsey, Portland. sttheresech Ukes vs. Drake, 7:30 p.m., Arlene Schnitzer 7306 SW Oleson Road, Portland. y.org. masbazaar@gmail.com. Concert Hall. $25+. Orsymphon available for checkout. Newberg Community Band, The Oregon Veteran Breakfast, 8 to 9:30 “An American Fanfare,” fea- (through Nov. 19) “Emperor,” a.m., Juanita Pohl Center, 8513 and Beethoven’s Williams John Symphony, of 503- turing music , Schnitzer Concert SW Tualatin Road, Tualatin. Free. more, 2:30 p.m., Bauman Auditorium 7:30 p.m., Arlene New- Hall. $24+. Orsymphony.org. 691-3061 to register. George Fox University. Free. Day bergcommunityband.com. Di(also Nov. 10) Special Veterans Baby Boomers Social Club, with Yamhill Display, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., 7 to 10 p.m., Gresham Metropolitan Youth Symphony, schord Band, SW 11275 Center, Ar- Elks, 3330 NE Division St. Valley Heritage “The Authentic Voice,” 7:30 p.m., Durham Lane, McMinnville. lene Schnitzer Concert Hall, Portland. GHCL Peregrine Literary Series, Crafternoon Tea, 2 to 4 p.m., WeekPlymys.org. Patriots Sea$11-$40. 11) (also Nov. Port“Words to Celebrate the Annex, 7306 SW Oleson Road, end Special, Chelatchie Prai“Pirates,” 2 son,” with Andrea Hollander, 3 p.m., land. p.m., The Oregon Symphony, Hall. Stickman’s Brew Pub, 40 N. State St., rie Railroad, noon and 2:30 p.m., Arlene Schnitzer Concert for Yacolt, Wash. $16/$15. Bycx.com. Prime Timers Dining Club, Lake Oswego. 503-344-4449. $11+. Orsymphony.org. Heisingles 50 and older, 6 p.m., to 8:30 Cleveland, NE AARP Smart Driver, 9 a.m. Driver, 1230 Smart AARP di’s Restaurant, to 4 p.m., Tuality Health Edu3:30 p.m., Juanita Pohl CenGresham. 503-936-5861.

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Creating art that heals Local artist believes her project can heal hearts surrounding gun violence By MAGGI WHITE

On Oct. 1, 2017, Leslie Lee heard the news of a shooting in Las Vegas that killed 59 people and wounded hundreds more. “I ignored it,” she says. “I felt I couldn’t take one more piece of bad news.” When she went to the gym, everyone around her was talking about what had happened. Lee was appalled at her own indifferent reaction. “I had dismissed it for my own comfort,” she says. “I thought, ‘Is this the new normal, all day turning away from bad news? It can’t happen.’” Lee is an artist and used her experience to birth the Soul Box Project, a folded origami box COURTESY PHOTO representing every person killed Leslie Lee imagines a traveling exhibit made of Soul Boxes, much like the AIDS Memorial Quilt, that can be displayed by gun violence in the United in locations of national significance. Page 1: Leslie Lee stands among hundreds of Soul Boxes created by volunteers States. It is a national community art to raise awareness of gun violence.

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project raising awareness of the gunfire epidemic by counting and honoring victims. In the tradition of other national art projects, like the AIDS Memorial Quilt, the project is collecting a hand-folded paper Soul Box to represent every person killed or injured in gunfire in the United Sates since 2014. In her research, Lee discovered that since 2014, 168,000 people were killed by guns. “Add 22,000 a year of suicides by guns,” she says. “That is incomprehensible. I wanted to make this epidemic visible. Data is brain, but the heart is seeing and touching.” Tens of thousands of these boxes will be displayed together as massive art installations in public spaces around the country. The first large-scale exhibition will be on display Feb. 15 at the Oregon State Capitol, to commemorate the school shooting in Parkland, Florida. While the Legislature meets, Lee will display 74 huge clear bags in containing 500 Soul Boxes in the lobby. Community groups are gathering to make the boxes, much like an AIDS quilt, she says. Every Soul Box honors a single life. Since its launch in October 2017, thousands of boxes have been collected — each one made by a man, woman or child — many boxes bearing the words, “No more. We will not forget. We will not look away. You are loved.” The idea has gained traction in several states and even in Germany, but that’s what she wants. The idea is to make sense of the magnitude of the issue. “This is a ‘we the people,’ with people coming together building a community around this experience of making boxes,” she says. Art cannot change events, but it can change people, Lee says, hoping Soul Boxes will change people’s consciousness about guns, why people have them, how they are used and how they are stored. “Guns are too easily accessible for inappropriate use,” she says. “I would like to see a shift in people’s hearts and minds. I want deaths and injuries from guns to go down. I want to

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 change our national culture.” Lee envisions families gathering to make boxes, initiating conversations about guns. She hopes people can feel they are doing something about the epidemic, and that making boxes is a satisfying, gentle way to approach a horrible subject. Many decorate the boxes and put messages in them. One friend of a victim knew he loved to fish, so she put fish flies in a box. “It’s intimate and personal, how you approach this experience,” says Lee, who admits her one-woman crusade has become overwhelming. She secured a $10,000 grant from the Fetzer Institute, and she has other assistance, but to take Soul Boxes national, she says she needs “serious funding.” Marchers carry bags filled with Soul Boxes during a Multnomah Days parade earlier this year, hoping to raise awareness of gun violence. She also needs office space and staff to take the idea nationwide. Lee hopes someone might donate an empty building for her use. “We are so much in need of a workshop space,” she says. “We need significant funding for traveling exhibits throughout the country. ■

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Gardeners are eternal optimists By GRACE PETERSON

If you’re new to gardening, you probably think we who have been at it for a while have our skills perfected and gardens that look fabulous all the time. It’s not true. Although there are many areas of our gardens that we’re satisfied with, there are also challenging areas that require years to get right. I have one area in particular that I’ve been calling “the problem area.” It sits at the northeast corner of my rectangular garden. Thanks to a 15-foot lilac bush on its east side, it gets morning shade. But from noon on, blistering summer heat bakes the area until nearly sunset. During our early years of living here, our kids’ playhouse sat in this corner. It looked cute and the kids enjoyed making tea and mud pies until they grew old enough to undertake the real deal in the kitchen. About eight years ago, we razed the playhouse and the bare soil, rife with opportunity made me salivate. The first year I put up a trellis and grew squash and tomatoes. They did okay but nothing even close to a bumper crop. I’ve since moved all of my

is here, implementing the changes can take place. First, the lilac has a lot of old wood and needs a trim to get rid of the dead stuff and allow more light into the area. Then, I will move the roses and perennials to areas that get all-day sun and are easier to water. With the area a bit more open, I will transplant a few shrubs I’ve been keeping in pots, an Osmanthus delavayi and Azara microphylla, both with intensely fragrant spring blossoms and evergreen foliage. Back in September, I purchased a shrub manzanita that is a heat-lover and drought tolerant. It should also fit right in. And closer to the front of the border, I’ve got several low-growing rock garden plants PHOTO BY GRACE PETERSON that can take the heat in stride. Many plants can handle being moved around several times until they find that sweet spot, such as this corner of the For instance, long-blooming purple ornamental Oregano and yard that has been a problem for many years. a silver-silver leaved Germander. And closest to the front, I’ll it difficult to keep the soil vegetable gardening to the south morning shade forces all the plant some of my Hens and sun-loving perennials to lean watered. end of the garden where they Chicks, allowing them to spill toward the light. Consequently, Designing my garden is my can receive all day sunshine. over the rocks. favorite part of gardening so it Subsequent years have meant they flop all over their neighGardeners are eternal optitrial and error with wildflowers, bors and make the area look like has been really fun thinking mists. Right now, we’re looking about how I want to redo this perennials, daylilies, roses, even a hodge-podge mess. Also, there isn’t enough sunahead to next year, when our area once again. vines on the back fence. The gardens will be perfect. Or at I’ve spent the last several area has never looked the way I shine for the roses to bloom least a little closer. I’ll let you well. months looking at garden phowant and my current assessThe second issue is that the tos on Pinterest and other web- know how this plan works out. ment suggests two major rea(Find me at gracepete.blogarea is too far from the faucet so sites and writing down ideas. sons why. the hose barely reaches, making Finally, now that cooler weather spot.com.)■ First, the lighting. The

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care and hospital services; restrictions on doctors, hospitals and pharmacies; expected costs of prescription drugs used regularly; and maximum out-ofpocket amounts. “In Marion/Polk counties, 15 Medicare Advantage plans are available,” Bredimus says. “Costs range from $0 premium to $209 per month. There are 21 companies that sell Medigap plans, and premiums are based on age, so it’s not easy to give a generic rate.” Medigap plans are categorized by letter — A, B, C, D, F, G, K, L, M and N — and plans of the same letter offer the same beneFILE PHOTO fits, Bredimus says.

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Choosing a Medicare plan can be confusing, but help is available. “The criteria seniors should look at depends on the plan they choose,” says Jason Stubbs, principal agent/owner of Oregon Insurance Company in Springfield. “If it’s a Medicare Advantage plan, then they need to look at network and benefits, not so much the cost. If it’s a Medigap plan, the lowest premium is better.” Medigap is a secondary insurance to Original Medicare, and subscribers only must know if the health provider accepts Original Medicare, Stubbs says. “Medigap plans are standardized so the coverage for Plan F is the same with all carriers,” he adds. Medicare Advantage plans directly bill health providers, who are subsidized by Medicare monthly. Subscribers must use doctors within the plan’s network, and only medically-necessary health visits and procedures are covered.

Don’t let your 65th birthday pass you by without signing up for Medicare, and don’t pass up an opportunity to get the help you need in choosing a specific Medicare plan.

“Medicare Advantage plans can opt to cover vision, dental and alternative care, but coverage is plan-specific,” Stubbs says. Seniors turning 65 can get a comprehensive plan around $170 a month that will pay all their medical expenses with limited copays for medications, Stubbs says. “Or they can get one for $0 with a cost share in the form of a copay or co-insurance when they use the plan,” he says. “If they had individual coverage and not Medicare, they would

pay over $1,000 for a $2,500 deductible plan where they pay 30 percent of the bill.” Michael Bredimus, owner of Bredimus Insurance Agency in Salem, says that Medicare Advantage plans, also called Medicare Part C, can include prescription drug coverage as well as other options. Seniors with end-stage renal disease generally do not qualify for this type of plan, he says. His list of key factors in choosing a plan include: deductibles; monthly premiums; anticipated costs of routine health

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Permanente. Jody Meyer, the manager in Medicare sales for Kaiser Permanente, says seniors should consider what is most important to them when looking at options. Considerations include: ■ The ability to choose your doctor, and whether all doctors and specialists accept Medicare patients. ■ Predictable and easy to understand out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles and copays. ■ Extra coverage for fitness, dental, vision and hearing benefits. ■ How coordinated and convenient is the care you receive? Are many services under one roof, which lowers costs and adds convenience? “There are many Medicare Advantage plans in the market and premium ranges will vary,” Meyer says. “There are also considerations regarding prescription coverage. An easy way to review the number of plans and compare premiums is to visit the Medicare.gov plan finder.”

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“However, insurance companies can offer plans at different prices,” he says. “Therefore, you may have different out-of-pocket costs, even if the standardized plan benefits are the same. These plans do not provide prescription drug coverage. This means that you will have to enroll in a stand-alone Medicare Prescription Drug Plan for medication coverage.” Medigap plans help with deductibles and other expenses not paid by Original Medicare, but don’t cover services not covered by Original Medicare, Bredimus says. “For example, they do not cover long-term care, dental care or eyeglasses,” he says. Both options, he adds, “limit the amount that a senior would pay in the event of a major surgery or hospitalization.” Seniors may opt for a Preferred Provider Organization, a type of managed care health insurance plan that provides maximum benefits if visits are to an in-network physician or provider. A PPO, such as Providence, still provides some coverage for out-of-network providers. Seniors may also choose a health maintenance organization, or HMO, such as Kaiser

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Meyer says Medicare Advantage plans, health care options that are approved by and contracted with Medicare, must provide benefits that are as good as or better than Original Medicare. “Medicare Advantage plans must cover all the services Medicare covers, including emergency and urgent care services,” Meyer says. “Originally, Medicare was not designed to pay for all medical services and has no maximum out-of-pocket protection. Medicare Advantage plans generally offer enhanced, more predictable coverage with out-of-pocket protection.” Meyer says Kaiser Permanente offers Medicare Advantage plans that “focus on high quality care, including choice of

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Stay active as you age At age 76, Elaine Graziani of Salem says she makes staying fit a priority, taking advantage of local programs and her natural surroundings. “I’ve been doing yoga for about 15 years, and right now I take about two classes per week,” she says. “I also live on a big hill and love to walk up and down it about three times a week.” Kaiser Permanente Dr. Anneliis Juurma explains that walking and yoga are great exercises for the aging adult, and important for joints and overall health.

Besides the basic weekly exercise routines, Graziani says she is all about adventure. When traveling across the United States, and throughout Oregon, Graziani says she loves hiking the trails and kayaking. “Because I’ve been active for so long, I can honestly say I don’t have lower back pain or any chronic pain,” Graziani says. “I feel exercise keeps my energy levels high and keeps my weight under control. I feel like I can keep up with anything. I do miss cross-country skiing, but feel like I could still do it.” Juurma says the important

thing with regular exercise routines is not getting bored or complacent, and that patients like Graziani are a great example of how staying active can prevent conditions including chronic pain, arthritis and other chronic illness. Graziani admits day-to-day routines can become boring. “Sometimes I really lose enthusiasm for lifting weights,” she says. “I can get bored, but I always look for other methods. As I am getting older, I know that exercise is helping me with balance issues. I am disappointed that it happens as you get

sist with questions,” she says. Bredimus offers Medicare Advantage plans and Medigap CONTINUED FROM PAGE 6 plans, the most popular plans his agency offers, from a variety physicians, preventative care of insurance companies includand coordination of team-based ing HealthNet, Atrio, Moda, care through one organization. United Healthcare and Providence. You can often see your doctor, “It is best to work with somevisit a lab, and pick up prescripone who is contracted with multions, all in one trip. tiple companies as opposed to “We have convenient online services to help you manage someone who can only assist your health, and we offer phone, you with one product or company,” Bredimus says. “I believe it video or in-person appointments,” she continues. “We also is also important to work with have convenient urgent care lo- someone local who is educated cations, coverage when travelon our local networks and how ing, and the option to add denthat relates to access to care. For tal, vision and hearing benefits.” example, in our area many peoBecause of eligibility rules ple will pay more for a plan if it and the contract with Medicare, grants them access to OHSU. If a all beneficiaries on these plans senior were working with a 1-800 agent, they might not be must have Part A and Part B Medicare and continue to pay their Part B premium to remain on the Medicare Advantage plan they choose, Meyer says. “There are lots of options available, and we’re here to as-

aware of this.” Bredimus offers to assist seniors with choosing and purchasing one of the many plans available in the area. “Helping seniors find the plan that best meets their needs is our highest honor,” says Bredimus, who can be reached by calling 503-540-0042. Serving Linn-Benton and Lane counties, Stubbs is an independent broker whose most popular plans include: Regence Blue Cross, United Health Care, Mutual of Omaha, ANTEX, Providence and Health Net. He can be reached at 541-538-2700. For more information, and local assistance to help with choosing and purchasing an insurance plan, see the Medicare Guide 2019 insert inside this issue. ■

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older but I will do what I need to improve it.” If you’re looking for programs or exercise groups that will sustain your interest in keeping healthy, try looking for local walking groups in your area or check out exercise videos at your local library. YouTube has a variety of yoga and other exercise videos and there are often affordable gym memberships offered at local gyms and your community’s YMCA. (Dr. Anneliis Juurma is a physician with Kaiser Permanente Northwest.) ■

Of note Getting ready to turn 65? Retiring? Medicare. gov provides seniors with steps to take to learn about Medicare and their options. Medicare Part A covers inpatient hospital stays, care in a skilled nursing facility, hospice care, and some home health care. Medicare Part B covers certain doctors’ services, outpatient care, medical supplies, and prevention services. Enrollment begins three months before turning 65, includes the month you

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Coming together in faith The leader of Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon relies on our goodwill to address serious issues of homelessness, hunger By MAGGI WHITE

faith showing hate and not living up to integrity, love, compassion and peace.” The new executive director of It’s an “untold story,” she says, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon wants to do something she because churches reaching out believes has never been done to the vulnerable populations before. don’t tend to get much media Under the title “The Common attention. Table,” director Jan Musgrove “We are out there,” Elfers says. Elfers has invited people of all “People of faith in the state are faiths to work together to reoffering affordable housing, solve the critical issues of homefeeding the hungry, providing lessness and hunger. shelter and space for drug and She’s fiercely determined to alcohol meetings. In every city make it happen. in the state we are doing things, “The antidote to fear is friendhelping refugees, providing legal assistance to immigrants, ship,” she says. “That’s why we helping victims of domestic viomust come together, respectfully and with humility.” lence. Every day churches are Thirty-five church leaders touching people wherever they from around the state will gathare.” er in Pacific City on Nov. 7 to Among its many programs are COURTESY PHOTO create a narrative of their curthree that focus on affordable Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon director Jan Musgrove Elfers visits with children during a Journey of Peace event. rent efforts to serve the most housing — Metro Home, Second vulnerable. Home and Patton House. The event will be called Inter- early next year. She hopes to Oregonian, raised by “highly With Metro Home, those who hopes to form “hubs” in all arfaith Advocacy Day. have a voice in the Salem religious” parents who owned a eas of the state, where EMO need more income to stay in They will represent 15 Chris- capitol. funeral home in Eugene. Since members can collaborate and their homes are matched with tian churches, nondenominashare ideas about what they are those who are risk of losing she was a child, she has been tional churches, and those rep- A history of faith involved in activities that served doing to fight hunger and their housing. Elfers has been with Ecumeni- her community. resenting beliefs of Jewish, Mushomelessness. Many of those are 55 and oldcal Ministries of Oregon (EMO) er who live on fixed incomes. lim, Hindu, Sikh, Native “We are living in a critical She remains passionate about American and Buddhist beliefs. for several years, working on creating a more peaceful culture time and we must sit down with Metro Home creates community Elfers will take the results of public policy, member relations where people of differing faiths each other, something we are and benefits all involved, Elfers that initiative before the Oregon and peace programs. get to know one another, rather not doing,” Elfers says. “The Legislature when it reconvenes She’s a third-generation than fear one another. She also most tragic thing is people of See FAITH page 9

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Oregon Humane Society celebrates its history New book, exhibit highlight 150 years of programs The Oregon Humane Society’s 150-year history comes to life in a new book, “Pioneering Compassion,” and an exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society. “Pioneering Compassion” is a beautiful coffee-table book,

co-authored by Mary Henry, OHS associate director of major gifts, and journalist Elizabeth Mehren. The book is laid out as a series of short sections, each highlighting a different program or period in OHS’s history. The exhibit at the “other OHS” — the Oregon Historical Society — is an interactive tour through the Oregon Humane Society’s 150-year history. It complements the “Pioneering Compassion” book and features original docuCOURTESY PHOTOS ments, photographs, quick facts The mode of transportation may have changed a bit over the years for the and the OHS humane education staff of Oregon Humane Society. The book “Pioneering Compassion,” is film from the 1940s, “A Home for available in several locations. Butch.”

“The research for the book formed the backbone of the exhibit,” says Mary Henry. “We hope school groups and other members of the community enjoy learning about our history and take pride in our state’s leadership in animal welfare.” The “Pioneering Compassion” exhibit runs through February. Admission is free for Multnomah County residents. The book is available at Best Friends’ Corner pet supply at the Oregon Humane Society, the Oregon Historical Society, Powell’s and powells.com. Visit ohs.org/museum. ■

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Youa Her named Caregiver of the Year Youa Her was recognized in September as Oregon’s Caregiver of the Year at the OHCA Annual Convention awards ceremony in Portland. Her is a resident assistant and caregiver at Edgewood Point Assisted Living and Memory Care in Beaverton, where she has worked for the past 17 years. Long-time residents were overjoyed that she is receiving

this recognition, says Anne Ashley, community marketer at Edgewood. “One person actually teared up with joy,” she says. “Residents have the most respect for Youa for all the care she has given. They look forward to her coming to them with a very warm smile and greeting.” Ashley says Her often helps her residents through difficult situations.

“She sits with them and holds their hands and lets them cry,” she says. “She is respected by all the employees she works with because of her beautiful personality. She is always nice and kind to everyone she is helping.” Her, who was born in Laos, is married with six children and nine grandchildren. She enjoys cooking, sewing, fishing and crabbing. She loves to cook rice, chicken

and mixed vegetables, but her favorite dish is sweet rice with steamed fish. She enjoys watching movies, especially love stories in Thai or Korean. “She is one of the hardest-working and kindest caregivers ever,” Ashley says. “Her experience, knowledge of care, compassion, commitment and cheerful gentle personality make her the best.” ■

In 1952, President Harry Truman announced he would not seek re-election, and the post of president was now open. Both political parties courted Ike to run for the top seat. Finally, he accepted and ran as a progressive Republican, winning in a landslide. In those days, the Korean War and combatting Communism were the top news stories. Ike, the icon of World War II, became By B. LEE COYNE, MSW the focal point. and returned home intact. With another election day on I voraciously followed the Gen. Dwight “Ike” D. Eisenthe horizon, I’ve been musing hower was my World War II hero news and became immersed in over my own interests in politics and June 6, 1944 — D-Day — was the political arena. In short order, as a young teen I began writa turning point in the war. and how I got involved in the Hitler and Mussolini were the ing letters to the White House fight for civil rights. It really started as a young boy bad guys. The Allied Forces had and members of Congress. It actually helped me launch a growing up in the 1940s, closely been pushed off the European mainland, with only Britain left career in journalism. following the war-time news. While other kids my age were for them to conquer. But the sucMy father served in Italy, playing stickball on Brooklyn’s while my uncles Barney, Sammy cessful invasion at Normandy turned the tide in our favor, at streets, I was bitten by the politiand Julius were fighting over in cal bug. Even then, I focused my the Pacific. All of them survived last.

interests on the quest to regain peace. When the Supreme Court ended school segregation in 1956, it awakened within me a passion for civil rights. In those days, my only contact with people of color was when my mother hired a black housekeeper, but I knew there was a movement on the horizon and I wanted to be a part of it. I began expressing my views in writing, particularly as letters to the editor. Often, I would draft my thoughts on the cardboard that came with laundered shirts. My correspondence covered both political parties, including Vice-President Richard Nixon and Sen. John F. Kennedy. That early writing actually launched me into a career in journalism. In 1957, U.S. Sen. Alexander

Wiley of Wisconsin died suddenly and thus a special election was needed to fill his seat. The threeterm GOP Gov. Walter Kohler Jr., was the odds-on favorite over a certain Democrat who had lost twice in earlier races. It was summer and Republicans were over-confident of victory, but the young upstart Bill Proxmire pulled off the upset. I decided to analyze that election and shared my findings with Nixon — who gave me a glowing reply, and which I’ve saved to this day. Today I view politics as a virtual chess game of seeking and/or regaining power over policies. I’ve learned that, all too often, it is the public that can wind up as pawns if we remain mute. ■ (B. Lee Coyne now serves as an officer for the U.N. Association of Salem. He can be reached at luckycoyne@yahoo.com.)

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Why we lead a vegan lifestyle

Retired Eugene couple enjoys spreading their message By VANESSA SALVIA

Two Eugene residents have dedicated themselves to fighting for animals in unexpected ways. Lin Silvan, 69, and her husband Robert Jacobucci, 76, are devoted to creating awareness of a vegan diet for a variety of reasons — personal health, the health of the planet, and because they believe animals deserve it. Silvan and Jacobucci met in South Jersey, and moved to Eugene in 2002 after living in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. Both had retired from corporate jobs, and they wanted to give back. They started Eugene Veg Education Network (EVEN) in 2005, initially to distribute vegan literature at a University of Oregon street fair for Earth Day. They had originally planned on EVEN being a short-term effort but following that day they continued to receive hundreds of phone calls and emails from people wanting more information. Now, EVEN is their fulltime job. Silvan is executive director and Jacobucci is webmaster. “People often ask us why we’re not on a tennis court or basking in the sun in some retirement community,” Silvan says. “Of all of the very worthy causes that

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Lin Silvan and Robert Jacobucci enjoy the opportunity to share the reasons why they live a vegan lifestyle, and often set up tables at public events to share information, including this Eugene Sunday Streets event.

we could have pursued this seemed like one that was crying out to be represented. We had the skills and the know-how and we ourselves saw that when you know better you do better, so we wanted to share that with other people.” Both Silvan and Jacobucci turned to a vegetarian diet in 1991, in large part after reading a book by John Robbins, published in 1987, called “Diet for a New America.” Robbins, the son of the founders of Baskin-Robbins ice cream parlors, shocked the world with a book that exposed the inhumane treatment of animals on factory farms. The couple began to question things like why people keep cats as pets but don’t feel bad about eating pigs. “I was raised to think that eating meat was necessary,” Silvan says. “Whatever was put on the

table in the 1950s you ate it and you were grateful for it and you didn’t question it.” But by her early 40s, she did question it. “I now know that meat is not only not necessary but is actually damaging to people’s health,” she says. “At first I cut out meat but still ate dairy. But then it doesn’t take long before you realize that the horrors of the dairy industry are just as bad as the horrors of the meat industry, so you want to cut that out, too.” For Silvan and Jacobucci, when they went vegan they were surprised that some physical issues improved. That’s a happy side effect, she says. “Everybody’s looking for health and quality of life and although I love to see people get healthy, which they do, we didn’t establish this group for people’s health,” she says. “We did it for the animals. They have no voice

of their own. We dominate them. We slaughter them. In EVEN we emphasize non-violence and the fact that we have a choice to be kind. Animals are sentient creatures that have their own lives to be lived. We’re not entitled to take those lives from them any more than we would want someone to take ours.” EVEN sponsors events locally and nationally, hosts a lecture series, speaks at high schools and colleges, organizes potlucks, plans farm tours and more, all to inspire others to try veganism. A large part of their outreach is based on the notion that when people have better information they make better decisions. Silvan says many people just aren’t aware of how animals are treated in factory farms, so when they find out, it is often enough to get them to make

changes in their diet. The group offers free Veg Starter Kits, which contain information and recipes to help people make the transition. Silvan says people often are interested in being vegan but have basic questions about what they can eat and what the facts about nutrition really are. “We try to meet people wherever they are along their path and provide them with the tools and the resources and the answers to their questions, whatever those questions are,” she says. “We have a library and we work with many national nonprofits that provide us with nutritional information, recipes and other resources and we pass them on.” There are many reasons why people omit animal products from their diet, ranging from their own health issues to their concern for animal rights and their views regarding the environmental impact of the meat industry as a whole. EVEN’s starter kits address these issues, as well as including recipes, where to eat when traveling, and how to explain to your family what your choice to be vegan is all about. “We provide resources,” Silvan says. “Whatever people need. But people themselves have to make the changes and necessary choices. If we can play some small role in that, that’s what we are happy to do. I can’t think of anything else that I would want to be doing in my retirement.” ■

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place to be,” he says. When he was 22 — motivated by his love of the outdoors and community service — Oxford began volunteering with Silver Star Search and Rescue, a nonprofit organization in southwest Washington. He was attracted by the opportunity to learn new skills, help individuals and families find loved ones, and enjoy the camaraderie among the other volunteers. “There’s a great bond between people who’re motivated to volBy BARRY FINNEMORE unteer for the same reasons,” he As a youth, Wade Oxford loved says. the outdoors. Nearly 30 years later, Oxford With his father, they would remains part of Silver Star, recamp, hike, fish, hunt and even sponding day or night to research for rocks and Native quests for finding groups and American arrowheads. individuals lost or hurt in both wilderness and urban areas. “Being in the Pacific Northwest, close to mountains and Silver Star, an organization rivers — to me it was always the comprised entirely of volunteers

on call 24 hours a day, has operated for more than 50 years. According to its website, the group got its start in 1963, when CB radio operators came together as a search-and-rescue unit to help a sheriff’s department. Its operations are funded by grants and donations. The organization today has four teams. The first team carries out wilderness search and rescue, helping county sheriff’s departments search for missing hikers, climbers, hunters, or mushroom and berry pickers who are reported overdue and potentially lost or injured. The second team focuses on urban search and rescue, supporting law enforcement in searches for lost children, people with cognitive difficulties and other at-risk individuals.

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closure to families, whatever the outcome. “I love the idea of reuniting families,” says Wise, a longtime high school teacher and track coach. “Even if it’s a tragic reuniting, at least it’s closure. I can’t imagine losing a loved one and not having that closure. I get emotional just talking about it. When we don’t have success — when we’re not able to find the people we need to find — I take it personally and I hurt for the families.” But Wise, a marathon runner, triathlete and skier, relishes the successes, being the “legs and lungs” of families awaiting word

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CONTINUED FROM PAGE 14 of their lost loved ones. She recalls her first “call out,” when she and fellow team members worked their way up Dog Mountain, a challenging hiking trail on the north side of the Columbia River Gorge, to bring down a man experiencing a medical emergency. When the reached him, they attended to his medical needs and painstakingly guided him down the trail to safety. A call that started at 9 p.m. didn’t end until 3:30 a.m. and the fact that Wise had to teach the next day was immaterial to her. “I was on a high,” she says. “It was so rewarding. It’s hard to explain, but I feel like this is something I’m good at where I can give back and serve the community I love so much. I see myself doing this for a long time.” Oxford, who became an emergency medical technician several years ago while volunteering with an area fire department, says one of the major challenges of search-and-rescue work is that volunteers typically are called out in inclement weather and at night, in moments when “people depend on me to do a good job and make it back safely.”

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Alisa Wise (above) helped look for a man missing during the winter. Right, she trains on a ropes course with fellow searcher Brian Pace.

Volunteers operate with a mantra that no one on the search-and-rescue team “goes home until everybody makes it out of the woods,” he says. Oxford has always been comfortable being part of a team and taking instruction, but he eventually rose to become a Silver Star team leader. Though he doesn’t serve in that capacity during every operation, he enjoys it when he has that opportunity. Being a search-and-rescue leader “has helped me grow in the workplace, too,” he says of

his role as an engineering manager for a company that designs equipment for paper mills. He recalls having butterflies in his stomach participating in one of his first searches for a hunter in the forest around Mount St. Helens. They started the search just before dawn, and the hunter eventually made it onto a logging road and was found. The search-and-rescue team emerged from the woods in the early afternoon, except for a team of five or six, prompting Oxford and another volunteer to

go back out into the woods and find them. Because he was new to searching, Oxford borrowed some gear and, combined with his own, searched until 2 a.m. alongside the fellow volunteer in a drenching rainstorm, made even more daunting because the mountain’s lava field wreaked havoc with their compasses. Shivering, they bedded down in the wilderness for the night and waited until light. Fortunately, the lost team members eventually emerged from the woods the next day, and Oxford returned home.

“Be more prepared, and not so gung-ho,” he says of lessons learned from the experience. Volunteers often leave family behind when called out on an operation. Oxford is married with three children. Wise is also married, with four children and five grandchildren. But they find themselves energized by the challenge and opportunity to help others. “I love it,” Wise says. “Team members show up and work together. It’s an amazing group of people, and a great feeling to be so exhausted (after a search) but have so much satisfaction.” ■

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Testing how well people remember past events in their lives could help medical professionals make early predictions about who is at risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease, according to a new study from the University of Arizona. Researchers administered an “autobiographical memory” test to a group of 35 healthy adults, about half of whom carry the gene variant APOE e4 — a known genetic risk factor that nearly doubles the chances of developing Alzheimer’s disease. As a group, those with the genetic risk described memories with much less detail than those without it. Sometimes called a disease with a clinically silent beginning, Alzheimer’s is difficult to detect early even though changes in the brain related to the disease may begin to happen years or even decades before an individual starts to exhibit memory difficulties, says UA neuropsychologist Matthew Grilli, lead author of the new research, which is published in the Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society. “This raises a huge challenge for developing effective treatments,” says Grilli, an assistant professor and director of the Human Memory Laboratory in the UA Department of Psychology. “The hope is that in the near future we will have drugs and other treatments that could

risk factor for Alzheimer’s — recorded and scored participants’ responses, evaluating which details added to the richness and vividness of the memories and which did not. Those with the genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease, as a group, described memories with much less vivid detail than those without the risk factor, despite the fact that all study participants performed normally and comparably on a battery of other, standard neuropsychology tests. “None of these individuals would be diagnosed with depotentially slow down, stop and complex types of memories that mentia or mild cognitive impaireven reverse some of these have multimodal details, they’re ment,” Grilli says. “They are brain changes that we think are highly vivid or rich; they come clinically normal, they are cognitively normal, but there’s this the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s with narratives, context and disease. The problem is that if backstories,” Grilli says. “We’ve subtle difficulty one group has with retrieving real-world memwe can’t detect who has these learned through cognitive neuroscience that the ability to rec- ories, which we think is because hallmarks early enough, these reate these memories in your there are more people in the treatments may not be fully effective, if at all.” mind’s eye depends on a widely group who are at a preclinical Grilli’s goal is to help pick up distributed network in the stage of Alzheimer’s disease.” on brain changes much earlier, brain, and it critically depends Not everyone with the gene before they begin to have an ob- on regions of the brain that we variant APOE e4, which is presvious effect on cognition and know are compromised early on ent in about 25 percent of the memory. in Alzheimer’s disease population, will develop AlzheiHe and his UA colleagues Au- pathology.” mer’s disease, and not everyone brey Wank, John Bercel and Lee who develops Alzheimer’s has In autobiographical interthe gene. Ryan decided to focus on autobi- views, study participants, who ographical memory, or people’s ranged in age from early-50s to “From this study, we can’t 80, were asked to recall recent recollection of past events in identify one person and say for their lives, because this type of memories, memories from their sure this person is in the prememory depends on areas of childhood and memories from clinical phase of Alzheimer’s the brain that are vulnerable to early adulthood with as much disease. That’s the next stage of work that we need to do,” Grilli early changes from Alzheimer’s detail as possible. The interviewers — who did not know says. “But we know that as a disease. which participants had a genetic group there probably are more “When we retrieve these

people in the e4 carrier group that are in the preclinical phase of Alzheimer’s disease, and we think this is why they had a harder time generating these memories.” Grilli says the next step is to study brain activity in the people who struggle to generate vivid autobiographical memories to see if they have observable changes in brain structure or activation of the regions of the brain affected early on by Alzheimer’s. The hope is the work could lead to the development of a clinical test sensitive enough to the preclinical brain changes of Alzheimer’s disease that could be used to identify people who should undergo more extensive testing for early Alzheimer’s disease pathology. “The tests for early signs of Alzheimer’s disease pathology are invasive and expensive, so this new cognitive test potentially could be used as a screen,” Grilli says. “It also could be used to help clinical trials. At the moment, it’s very difficult and expensive to conduct clinical trials of new drugs because it takes a very long time to determine whether that drug has had an impact on memory. If we have more sensitive measures, we might get answers sooner, especially if we’re trying to administer drugs before obvious signs of memory impairment are detectable.” ■

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Four Points Sheraton 1919 NE 181st Ave, Portland Friday, Oct ober 19, 2 p.m .

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Holiday Inn Express - Hillsboro 5900 NE Ray Circle, Hillsboro Tuesday, Oct ober 23, 1 p.m .

Cedar Mills Library 12505 NW Cornell Rd, #13, Portland Tuesday, Oct ober 23, 7 p.m .

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Providence Medicare Advantage Plans is an HMO, HMO-POS and HMO SNP with Medicare and Oregon Health Plan contracts. Enrollment in Providence Medicare Advantage Plans depends on contract renewal. For accommodations of persons with special needs at meetings call 1-800-457-6064 or 503-574-5551 (TTY: 711). H9047_2019PHA94_M