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The cat problem
By C RA I G C L I N E
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ARE TOO MANY OF US MISLED BY MYTHS ABOUT FERAL CATS?
’M A CAT LOVER, AND WE’VE ALWAYS HAD A domestic cat in our lives. In fact, I’m an animal lover in general, a term that includes both domesticated “companion animals” and Mother Nature’s “other animals.” I believe most people will say they are animal lovers as well, which includes birds, small mammals and all wildlife. Naturally, most of us don’t want innocent wildlife to become victims of injury or death. But I need to address a myth that has been too long-standing — that their cat “needs to go outdoors — to just be a cat.” There is no such need. Cats are perfectly fine being indoors, and they should be kept that way. They like to look outside and, of course, can be allowed outdoors, but they should at least be on a leash or in the presence of their guardians. One great way to allow domesticated cats outside is through a catio. Not everyone is willing or able to provide a catio, but everyone should be willing to keep their cat out of potential danger. For example, they might get into a fight with another cat, a dog or some other creature. They might get hit by a car or hurt by a person who doesn’t like cats — especially if the cat is “doing his/her business” in a person’s yard or garden. An unspayed female cat may become pregnant, causing her guardian the problem of an unwanted litter and adding to the ever-existent issue of “too many kittens for too few homes.” It’s undeniably true that cats are at risk for injury, diseases like toxoplasmosis, and unplanned pregnancies when left out on their own. That scenario is obviously bad for the cats, but what about their natural predatory instincts — and the impact of those instincts on our wildlife? Adding to the “predatory problem” our domesticated cats can cause for wildlife is the fact that we have thousands upon thousands of community/feral cats in our area. So far, these multitudes of cats have been largely beyond effective community control. I applaud the efforts of trap-neuter-return (TNR) programs orchestrated by good-hearted people and organizations to 4 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS MARION POLK | NOVEMBER 2019
control the feral cat population. Once the necessary surgery has taken place, the cat is returned to its original location. Volunteers provide food and some minimal veterinary care at their own cost. While I give credit to these organizations, a simple math equation will show you they are doomed to fail. There is not nearly enough trapping and, therefore, not nearly enough spaying and neutering. As a result, we have an ever-increasing number of feral cats preying on wildlife, causing untold numbers of injuries, “orphan” situations, and death to the victims of their predation. Do the math and you’ll see the reality: A female cat can become pregnant at only 5 months of age and she can have up to three litters per year. According to the Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon, “one unaltered female and her offspring can produce 1.398 million cats over the span of 10 years.” The coalition, based in Portland, has already trapped over 100,000 cats and as laudable as that accomplishment is, I note that it took them 25 years to get there. It’s an average of just 4,000 a year. Considering that a mama cat and her offspring are capable of producing an average of 139,000 cats per year, there’s just no way any organization can keep up with the rate of increase in cat population. Our wildlife species are being diminished by cats. The loss is in the billions. In fact, cats have been responsible for an estimated range of between 33 and 40 avian extinctions worldwide. This profound and permanent loss of birds is indeed tragic, given the fact they are key to protecting ecosystems from the stresses of climate change. They save plants from marauding insects as the world warms up. Unfortunately, these feral cats will still prey on birds and other small mammals, because that’s what cats instinctively do. Our local Turtle Ridge Wildlife Center is one of only two full species rehabilitation center in the entire Western region. Its mission is to provide care to injured or orphaned Oregon wildlife — with the goal to release the victims back to their natural habitat. I concede there are other impacts to wildlife, include land development and government policies, but why do we irresponsibly allow our cats to be such a large part of the problem? Most people who love cats and other animals, including
me, don’t want to employ euthanasia to solve the cat problem. However, euthanasia would prevail as the most expeditious and effective cure for cat overpopulation and the manifold problems for which unrestrained cats are responsible. Most favor TNR as the more “humane,” and therefore more acceptable, cure. According to one study, to properly and effectively employ TNR means that every community must trap, neuter and return approximately 75% of its feral cats — every year. Presently, we are nowhere near that percentage. So a really bad situation will clearly continue to get even worse unless we change our modus operandi. In the big picture, we are stewards here on this earth. We need to take some dramatic measures to cure our community cat problems, which include community discussion and action to create public funding for TNR. I would like to see at least two full-time employees in our area — one for Salem/Keizer and one for Marion County. In addition to TNR, they would keep an eye out for animal abuse, cruelty, and neglect situations as part of their duties. We could replicate the efforts of the Oregon Humane Society, which has designated “humane officers” on staff to address animal abuse. We need to be self-reliant and that warrants more public discussion on this topic. To our state’s credit, the Legislature passed ORS 336.067, a state statute which requires “humane treatment of animals” be given special emphasis in instruction in public schools. Other states may have, or should have, a similar statute. To me, all life is equal. It’s unjust if we allow the life of the cat to be of greater value than the lives of our wildlife. We should remedy the injustice that presently exists. Don’t be led by myths. With a bit of personal action, we can work together to save our cats and our wildlife from fates we don’t want them to suffer. ☸
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ALDER HOUSE CRAFTSMAN TURNS MOLTEN GLASS INTO CHERISHED ITEMS
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LASS BLOWING IS A TALENT ONE COASTAL artist turned into a thriving business in Lincoln City.
“I started the Alder House some 50 years ago after graduating from Portland State University with a degree in painting and drawing,” says Buzz Williams, owner of the studio next to an alder grove just three quarters of a mile east of Highway 101. “Here we practice the 2,000-year-old craft of turning molten glass into goblets, vases, bowls and other forms,” says Williams, who put aside his degree to open his studio. “The workshop that I had taken at PSU had hooked me and for the better part of my adult life has kept me happy and looking forward to the work day. I never have Mondays.” Williams moved to the coast in 1968 and built the first Alder House the next year, an A-frame built from logs taken from the beach. “We sawed the lumber for it from this wood and split cedar shakes to cover the entire thing,” he says. “It hung out over Drift Creek, had a dirt floor, and a very crude furnace and annealing oven. We blew glass until late in the year and then closed for the winter. But it was a start and was soon discovered by the media and we were on our way.” The start Williams had hoped for was short lived as the building burned down the following spring after being open that year only eight days. In 1970, a second studio was built and opened. “So, on July 5 our little geodesic dome saw the first piece of Above and at right, Alder House sells the many beautiful glass pieces created by Buzz and Ian Williams. (Top photo by Mary Owen.) 6 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS MARION POLK | NOVEMBER 2019
glass made at this site,” he says. “This was on the property that now houses the third iteration of the Alder House and was just a bit farther to the east of the current location. “We chose a geodesic dome for several reasons, one of them being that one could enclose the greatest amount of space with the least amount of material,” he says. “Cost was still an important factor for us. Up through 1998, we hosted a great number of visitors in this space before moving to higher ground as the dome flooded from time to time. So many fond memories of our little round workspace both for us and the folks who watched us work.” Alder House III opened on March 15, 1999 and continues to be the place where Williams “has fun” doing what he likes to do. “It is no longer a dome,” he says. “It is half again bigger than the 800 square feet of the dome and is as much taller. This provides better ventilation to rid the space of excess heat and therefore makes it more comfortable for the craftspeople and our guests. It also gives us a bit more room for some additional equipment allowing for greater creativity.”
Williams says several people have started their glassblowing ventures at the Alder House, and many have gone on to start studios of their own. “We are all proud of what we have brought to the community and hope to continue on into the future, vastly enjoying what we do and especially delighting at the looks of wonderment on the faces of both kids and adults as they watch the wonder of glassblowing,” he says. Like any craft, Williams says there are struggles learning the basics. However, after these are mastered, the process becomes “more of a matter of refinement and then letting the design creation evolve,” he says. “Since we not only blew glass, but also built the equipment,” he says, “studio glass being somewhat a new venture, we learned bit by bit the building and maintaining of this equipment. So, there was a lot of learning to do on getting it right — or close — so that we could concentrate on making pieces.” Guests are more than welcome to visit and watch as he and others at the studio draw glass with a blowing iron from a furnace heated to 2,000 degrees. “We’ll blow it hollow, add more glass, block it, jack it, dent it, add bubbles and do all sorts of things to get it into the shape we want,” Williams says. “Then onto a pontil it goes so we can work the top and then, finally, into the lehr for annealing.” Williams says each visitor has the process explained as the craftsperson executes the piece.
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Buzz Williams put aside his arts degree to take on a different project, and it’s kept him busy for 50 years.
“So, in that sense there is some instruction on the process,” he says. “The Alder House does not do the ‘blow-your-own’ thing. Each piece is a new piece, and even though the changes from previous ones can be subtle, it is a new adventure,” Williams says. For more information, visit alderhouse.com or email questions to hotglass@alderhouse.com. ☸
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EUGENE-BASED ARCHAEOLOGICAL LEGACY INSTITUTE IS PLANNING WORLDWIDE HISTORICAL TOURS IN 2020
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Grab your favorite Indiana Jones outfit, folks, this is no riverboat cruise. He’ll be on tour in Oman, Malta, Peru, Britain megaliths, Iran and the Maya cities of the Yucatan, something he calls “an exciting year.” Pettigrew is executive director of Archaeological Legacy Institute (ALI), a nonprofit organization in Eugene that started offering tours in 2017 to complement its film festival. “As this is a totally noncommercial enterprise, our tour program is set apart from others by our commitment to storytelling and expert guidance,” he says. “We believe that a tour should be far more than a photo-op or checking off a bucket list.” While many international tours are worthy ventures, Pettigrew says he likes designing tours that are not like the others. A group from the Archaeological Legacy Institute visited Chichen Itza on one of its tours. 8 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS MARION POLK | NOVEMBER 2019
“Our goal is to inspire and excite people about the fascinating stories of the human past and thereby fulfill our nonprofit mission to raise awareness about our place in history,” he says. “And if we can have fun doing it, the tours are even more memorable.” He defines archaeology as “the study of the human past through examination of physical remains.”
Visiting Iran
So, Pettigrew chooses locations like Iran, which “sits in the cradle of civilization and has lots of amazing ancient sites and monuments,” he says. Unlike neighboring countries, where dictatorships like the Taliban blew up precious historical sites, the Iranian government is repairing and restoring ancient sites to make them more presentable for tourists, Pettigrew says. “They hate terrorists and revere ancient sites,” he says. “Iranians are very proud of their cultural heritage, which stretches back more than 5,000 years.” “The pleasure of traveling in Iran is very pleasant and warm,” Pettigrew says, “because the people there are very warm and welcoming, especially for Americans.” He says traveling in Iran is very safe, and other reputable organizations organize tours there, including the Stanford University Alumni Association, the Archaeological Institute of America and Road Scholar. P H OTOS CO U RT ESY O F R I C K P E T T I G R E W
“Unlike places like Italy, street crime is basically nonexistent and terrorist incidents are much rarer than they are in places like London and Paris,” Pettigrew says.
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Each tour has its own length and itinerary, but they typically last between eight and 16 days. The number of days depends on circumstances like the theme of the tour, the selection of sites to visit, the local geography, cost, and logistical opportunities and constraints. Most tour participants are near retirement or already retired. “These are people who have the interest, time and resources to go on guided tours,” Pettigrew says. “In our experience, these also are people with inquisitive minds and a sense of adventure. They often are fun to travel with.” In fact, he says that sharing the pleasure of the tours with fellow travelers is the best part of the trip for him, such as a birthday part in Yazd, Iran two years ago. But even better: Visitors arriving at a very cool site and standing in amazement with mouths agape. And the rest, they say, is history. ☸
ALI uses guides who are experts on their topics, “wellsprings of information and full of stories to tell our participants,” Pettigrew says. These guides include archaeologists, filmmakers with deep experience in the sites, and local guides with years of experience at the sites we visit. He says local tour guides provide a “special flavor” for tours because they “intimately know the local lore and the culture, beyond just the basic history of each site. “I’m often directly involved, too, to share my own background knowledge of the sites and the history,” he says. Don’t plan to bring your trowels and shaker screens on these tours, though. Instead, the tours are intended to “see the world through the lens of archaeology, so the sites are places that have significance in the human past,” Pettigrew says. “We don’t normally get involved with actual archaeological research beyond visiting some sites where archaeologists may be working. Those opportunities will be rare, but we are happy when we can find them.” Instead, tour participants see lots of artifacts at cultural heritage sites and in museums. “Our tours are opportunifor our participants get hands-on at real Atiesmemorial serviceto should be experience about memories,
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“It’s where early diagnosis makes sense,” says Scott Lusk, PhD, a clinical and neuropsychologist who has been studying Alzheimer’s through clinical trials for more than 30 years. Nov. 16 is designated as National Memory Screening Day, and it’s a good reminder that if you have concerns about memory loss, there is no obligation to participate in a screening and review the test results. “If a person does have some concerns, or a family member does, reach out and get checked,” Losk says. “Come to our office at Memory Health Center or visit your primary care physician. If there’s no issue, you’ll be reassured, but if there is an issue knowing about it as early as possible gives you the longest likelihood to do something about it.” A memory screening involves a series of cognitive tests evaluating memory, attention, concentration, language skills and visual-spatial skills. “We are identifying the kinds of deficits we would see in early progressive memory loss disorders,” he says. “It’s about thinking and cognition.” A typical patient in his office might be a 65-year-old person whose mother and grandmother had some form of dementia, and this person is concerned that family history might have continued on. They take the evaluation, get the feedback and meet with the clinicians about whether more evaluation is needed. “Typically, it’s someone who has a family history, or has had some concerns about their own memory,” Losk says. “But it could also be someone who has had several concussions, suffered a mild stroke, or dealt with severe depression for 12 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS MARION POLK | NOVEMBER 2019
The impact of Alzheimer’s on Americans continues to grow as we live longer. It’s estimated that 5.5 million Americans have Alzheimer’s, he says, and the economic impact among medical expenses, care facilities and opportunity costs for caregivers is about $250 billion. Even more, about 40 to 50 percent of adults ages 85 and older have some form of dementia. “It’s a big problem in terms of economic impact, and a big problem in terms of what it does to families,” Losk says. “After a certain level of memory loss, awareness starts to go away, and that affects the families even more so than the actual person. It’s a high burden.” He sees many patients who once were high functioning in their professional and personal lives whose minds now have been lost to Alzheimer’s. Their spouses, used to this high-functioning partner, now must deal with the changes. “It rocks the relationship and the family,” Losk says. “It’s a huge, huge thing. The disease becomes a disease that also affects the family, it’s a disease of the family. Some diseases like this rob your life away but don’t kill you right away.” It’s part of the reason Losk became involved in research in the mid-1980s. At the time, he says, there was absolutely nothing available for treating the symptoms of Alzheimer’s and related dementias. “But we’ve been getting better and better about addressing Alzheimer’s and normal aging symptoms,” he says. “I was at Huntington Hospital in Pasadena, Calif. It was our first foray into medications that treated the symptoms.” He finished his training there, followed by post-doctoral work at OHSU. He joined Memory Health Center at Summit Research Center and took on his first Alzheimer’s study in 1990.
“This will be my 30th year, and in the time I’ve been doing it, the good news is that we now have four medications to treat Alzheimer’s symptoms,” Losk says. “They help memory a little bit, but don’t address the causes, what’s going on in the brain. We are working on medications that go after the plaque in the brain. We’ve yet to hit our mark, but we’ve hit on a compound that’s going to be really beneficial.” Although several of the studies with trial medications haven’t worked, that’s actually encouraging news for researchers because it allows them to eliminate specific paths that prove unproductive. “It’s taught us a lot about where not to go,” Losk says. “Now we have a bunch of new arenas, and in the next five to 10 years, we should have some positive results.” It’s why he’s excited about a new study, a “radical” approach to looking at an underlying cause — using a medication to kill bacteria that’s entered the central nervous system through the mouth. “It’s really new, and a departure from the conventional approach,” he says. “We’re really hopeful.”
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“If a person does have concerns, it’s best to reach out and get it checked, early diagnosis really does make sense.” SCOTT LUSK, PHD
express concern about your memory, “that’s probably a time to pay attention,” Losk says. “It’s not necessarily a sign of dementia, it could be other things. Memory issues should significantly affect your ability to conduct your daily life. If a person does have concerns, it’s best to reach out and get
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To schedule a screening at Memory Health Center in Portland, call 503-228CARE, send an email to oregon@summitnetwork.com, or visit memoryhealthcenter. com. For more information about the National Memory Screening program, visit alzfdn. org/memory-screening/what-is-memory-screening To find nationwide sites for memory screening, visit alzfdn.org/memory-screening/find-a-site.
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YNDI AND GREG ROMINE were on a canoe trip in the late 1980s near a picturesque waterfall in the Philippines, where they had been working as missionaries. Near the waterfall, Cyndi saw a man talking to a young couple with a child, but did a double-take when she saw the man hand some money to the couple and then walk away with their child.
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“She, without knowing it, has led to the rescue of so many others.” CYNDI ROMINE
In a developing nation such as the Philippines, the strategy can be different. Trafficked children, a situation often driven by poverty, are rescued through orchestrated undercover operations involving local law enforcement and social services. Called to Rescue partners with groups there and in other countries that run safe houses so that the rescued children have a secure place to stay. Romine says she is incredibly passionate about her work, but acknowledges little headway is being made to stop child trafficking or to make a major dent in the number of missing children. In the United States alone, 2018 statistics from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children show 424,066 entries in the FBI’s National Crime Information Center for missing children, compared with 464,324 in 2017. One in seven of the more than 23,500 runaways reported to the center in 2018 were likely victims of child sex trafficking, the organization reports. Romine says public awareness of abused and trafficked children is greater today than ever, but the ugliness and complexity that surrounds it — gun and drug running typically are intertwined with child sex trafficking — makes its large scope difficult for many people to grasp. She calls it a multibillion-dollar problem. Called to Rescue’s offices are adorned with photos of youngsters the organization has saved from dangerous situations. Romine gestures to the images, recalling the various circumstances of a rescue and smiling as she talks about the children. Born and raised in Nebraska, she was the oldest of three kids. She grew up on a farm, growing corn, cattle and pumping their own water. “If you’re a kid on a farm you work hard,” she says. “It’s part of who you are, and you don’t even think about it.” Both Cyndi and Greg attended Northwest Christian University in Eugene, then went into the ministry, leading various churches and serving as missionaries. Romine also earned a doctorate at Covington Theological Seminary in Georgia. Farm life — its accompanying work ethic and need 16 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS MARION POLK | NOVEMBER 2019
for adaptability — was great training for missionary work, she says. “We are used to adapting.” Romine describes herself as made for advocacy. She is as comfortable speaking to groups about child trafficking and abuse as she is pounding the pavement to prevent it, and says her disarming presence and appearance allows her to interact well with those on the streets. She has been held at gunpoint, and chased down a street by a pimp, an incident that prompted her to learn krav maga, a martial art form originating in Israel. Called to Rescue operates with three paid staff members, more than 100 volunteers in Portland and Vancouver, and many others who assist overseas. The organization partners with various organizations domestically and abroad, including Hope Ranch Ministries, a Eugene nonprofit that, according to its website, conducts awareness training, helps survivors through counseling and education, and runs a safe house for sex trafficking victims. Romine serves on the board and says such partnerships have helped more youth. Diana Janz of Hope Ranch Ministries says Romine brings expertise and focus to her organization’s board. Janz describes her as the driving force in helping Hope Ranch Ministries start a local citizen task force, and says she is encouraging, outgoing and passionate about her work. “She is so comfortable with who she is. It shines through in what she does,” Janz says. ☸
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LTHOUGH IT WAS MANY YEARS AGO, I REmember it well. It was a Saturday in June and I was with my gardening friends meandering through the gorgeous gardens of Dancing Oaks Nursery outside of Monmouth. At the west edge of the garden, a large grassy field stretched gently upward toward the home of owners Fred Weisensee and Leonard Foltz. Sprinkled randomly throughout this field were hundreds of small, purple-lavender spheres waving gently in the breeze. I must not have had my camera with me because my search for a photo to accompany this article was fruitless. A few more years passed before I got serious about researching this sweet plant; however, a gentle reminder tugged at me the following year when I found a clump blooming in one of their raised beds, amid the rock roses, cowslips and evening primroses. A subsequent June and I spied the little lavender spheres for sale with a tag that read Dichelostemma congesta, or field cluster lily. “A charming native with tall, narrow, waving stems topped with rounded clusters of purple-blue flowers.
Mid-summer blooming, it is found in open grassy fields. You might also know it as ‘Ookow.’ This is the only species in the genus pollinated by birds.” There you go; mystery solved and plants purchased. Daffodil, tulip, hyacinth and crocus are the familiar fall planted bulbs and now is the time to purchase and get them in the ground so they’ll receive the winter chill they need to perform well next spring. While these more common beauties serve to cheer us with their dashing color and easy demeanor, there are a lot of other bulbs to consider for the task. The aforementioned lily is one example but there are many more. If you search “minor bulbs” you’ll discover a plethora of unsung heroes of the bulb clan. Goodies like snowdrops, winter aconites, glory of the snow, Grecian windflower, Muscari and Fritillaria to name a few. But there are still more minor bulbs that deserve our devotion. For instance, there are two more Dichelostemma species worth growing, however they look nothing like the cluster lily. Dichelostemma ida-maia sports a cluster of tubes in either red or pink with a green tip that opens white, beckoning hummingbirds. My biggest fear is that I’ll mistakenly spear the buried and forgotten bulbs with my shovel. Happy bulb planting. ☸
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