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Mitzi Asai Loftus recalls her early years as a Japanese internee, and the tough times her family experienced when they came home
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Nine-year-old Mitsuko Asai was really excited for her first train ride. On May 13, 1942, she was lined up with her family and nearly 500 others from Hood River, headed to Pinedale, California. The trip, however, wasn’t all that exciting. The windows were shuttered, and the passengers weren’t allowed to open them to look at the scenery. It dulled her excitement, yet she maintained her expectations. Asai and her family were among the 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage who were moved into “assembly centers” shortly after World War II started, taking only what they could carry. Some of these families would lose everything else, including their homes and land. The assembly centers, located throughout the Western states, were the stepping-off point for the internment camps, after the U.S. government and many other citizens were concerned that these American citizens of Japanese descent would send signals to the Japanese army. So, the government decided to move these groups of people away from the West Coast to ascertain no harm would come from them. Within six months after the Dec. 7 Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, 120,000 people had been moved to the 16 assembly centers. Young Mitsuko celebrated her 10th birthday in Pinedale, a camp near Fresno, California. The sevenmember Asai family was held at two other camps during the war before they could return home to Hood River. Asai (now Mitzi Asai Loftus) and two of her sons, related all of this and more at presentations recently in Bend and Corvallis. The Bend presentation was part of McMenamin’s History Pub, and can be viewed on YouTube titled “Detained by my Country.” She spoke to the Academy of Lifelong Learning in Corvallis last November. She relates that after three months in Pinedale, her family moved to a camp in Tule Lake, near the California/Oregon border.
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Far left, Matsuko and her brother Itsu on the last day at Heart Mountain. Above, Matsuko Asai (front), with her mother, Matsu Asai, and two of her brothers, Gene and Itsu (Dick), at Heart Mountain internment camp. On page 1, Mitzi Loftus (second from right) on a trip to Japan with sons Toby and Ken, where they met a first cousin, once removed, named Mitsukosan, after Mitzi.
She remembers having a great time there, playing with other children her age and completing the fifth grade. None of them had any idea how long they would be interred, Loftus says. “It could have been days, weeks, months or, as it turned out, years.” After the year in Tule Lake they were moved to Heart Mountain, Wyoming, where they spent the next three years. Mitsuko still played with friends, and completed sixth- and seventh-grades.
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WAR CONTINUED FROM PAGE 2 At that camp, the male workers planted victory gardens, where her own father was a hard-working foreman. At the same time, the women’s chores included making jewelry from shells, some of which Loftus has saved all her life, and passes around for viewing at her presentations. “They grew so much that the vegetables were sent away for others,” she says of the victory gardens. Pictures taken of the camp workers were used for publicity by the U.S. government.
Many Japanese-American men spent the war as U.S. servicemen. Loftus’s two oldest brothers already were serving when the family was interred. Early on, those who had been placed in camps were not drafted into the war. But later, when they were asked to volunteer, it became a problem. “A chasm developed between men who volunteered and those called the no-nos,” Loftus says. “The volunteers felt they had allegiance to America, not to foreign any power. But the no-nos, who were angry about being interred, didn’t want to serve and were kept at Tule
Lake.” One of Loftus’s older sisters graduated from high school during their time in the camps. “It was a bleak existence for her,” Loftus says. “She couldn’t go to college and had no job. Toward the end of their stay, she was allowed to go to college in Utah.”
A different world at home When they were released from Heart Mountain, each received $25 and a bus ticket home. “We were lucky, there were four of us, so we got $100,” she quips. But coming home
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was a different story. Throughout American history there has been prejudice. While much of it has been exhibited toward African Americans, immigrants from China, Ireland and Italy, as well as various religious groups, also have felt that discrimination. When Mitsuko Asai was released from the camp and returned to her school, her old friends and former playmates treated her like a pariah. One boy, she says, spit in her face. Some of her neighbors also treated her and her family very badly. Signs placed in Hood River stores stated they would-
Mitzi Asai-Loftus’ father came to the United States in 1904 at age 24, because he was a second son and under Japanese law could not inherit his father’s property. He helped build railroads in San Francisco, saving up enough money to buy three parcels of land in Hood River where he planted apple, pear and cherry trees. His mother sent him pictures of marriageable women and he selected the one he wanted to marry. This “picture bride,” however, wasn’t as agreeable. It took much insistence from her future mother-in-law before Loftus’s mother wore down and agreed. The prospective bride spent two Courtesy photo weeks on a freighter to Seattle in Mitzi Loftus (center) with two of her sons,Toby and Ken Loftus. Mitzi 1911, where she finally met her still speaks to groups, including ALL in Corvallis, about her younger days. She currently lives in Medford.
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n’t allow Japanese into their stores. One woman would stand on her porch with her large dog, watching threateningly as Mitsuko Asai walked by on her way to school. When her brother and two friends first returned to Hood River, many people living there weren’t happy. At the Asai farm, people threw rocks through the windows and some would steal the gas from wells around the orchards. The principal at the high school later told her
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new husband. They eventually had eight children. Six of the eight children were born in a primitive shack built by Loftus’s father. “He had no carpentry skills,” she says. She and her brother were born in a newer home. After several years, the couple returned for a visit to Japan with their two oldest children, a boy and a girl. The mother-in-law insisted she keep the daughter and raise her in Japan. “My mother was afraid she would start yelling again so she didn’t speak up,” Loftus says. “That daughter and her two children were killed in the bombing during World War II. I never got to meet her.” Just after war was declared, her father put two parcels of his land in the names of two of his sons. He sold the third parcel while his family was in Pinedale after a nearby rancher wrote that the fruit was falling off the trees, bringing insects, weeds and animals onto that property and his. Because her father had no recourse, and even though he had money in the bank, he couldn’t afford to meet with attorneys. So that parcel was sold.
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Foliage plants just can’t be overrated. Sure, we love our flowers. They provide fragrance, food for the critters and lovely indoor floral arrangements. My garden would never be without them. But flowers are fleeting. Foliage, on the other hand, hangs around awhile. So, when we design our gardens, it’s good to incorporate both leaf and flower into the landscape. Designing with foliage can be both challenging and rewarding. Thanks to busy plant breeders, foliage can be found in so many lovely colors. Stroll the nursery aisles and you’ll see plants with alluring leaves in variations of red, maroon, purple, blue/gray, chartreuse/yellow, pink, and even silver. In fact, many of the common shrubs, from abelia to weigela, are available in variegated forms. These shrubs can do double duty. After their brief but beautiful flowers have faded, the foliage becomes a central element for complementing or contrasting neighboring plants. And if they’re evergreen — either conifer or broadleaf — the foliage serves as eye-catching winter interest as well. For example, Elaeganus x ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’ is a broadleaf evergreen shrub with green leaves edged with bright
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We all love flowers, but they don’t have the staying power of mixed foliages in your borders. Designing with foliage can be challenging, yet rewarding. Give it a try with some of these tips.
yellow. It produces tiny flowers in fall that have a wonderful fragrance. With these attributes, this is just one of an infinite number of plants that gives the gardener more bang for her buck. Looking for complementary plant partners is as easy as choosing more plants of the same or nearly the same color combination, and that require basically the same growing conditions — full sun, for example — to create a winning border design. For example, Eldorado Variegated Feather Reed Grass
(Calamagrostis x acutiflora) is an upright, ornamental grass with nearly identical coloring as the Elaeagnus. So, you’ve got an upright shrub and a grass nearby with the same coloring — an intentional color echo, not to mention captivating contrasting textures. Then, to bring it altogether, plant either bright yellow ‘Angelina’ sedum or golden oregano (Origanum vulgare ‘Aureum’). Either, or both, would make a perfect ground cover. Plants with green and white
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brother he shouldn’t go out for sports, even though he was quite athletic. “At church no one else would sit in my pew and most people wouldn’t talk to me,” Loftus says. “Finally, I moved to a short pew, so I wouldn’t take up so much space. Actually, Mrs. Cleve and Mrs. Granahan were the only ones who spoke to me.” Later, the Rev. Burgoyne, a minister at the local Methodist Church who treated everyone alike, was removed and sent to Shedd, she says. He later moved to Washington, and when Mitsuko’s brother wanted to marry his Caucasian fianceé, they
variegated leaves are the perfect companion plants for white flowers. In my backyard stands a tall ornamental grass (Miscanthus sinensis ‘Cosmopolitan’) with white-and-green striped leaves. Next to this stately specimen are perennials with white flowers such as feverfew, phlox and iris. At the end of the border sits a shrub dogwood with green-and-white variegated leaves named Cornus alba argenteo-marginata. The white color is echoed throughout this border and the height of the ornamental grass creates a focal point to bring it all together. Space prohibits an all-inclusive list of the plant possibilities; however, I’ve included a listing of some plants for consideration. In the red/maroon family, consider: lace leaf Japanese maple cvs., purple smokebush (Cotinus coggygria cvs.), weigela Wine & Roses, barberry (Berberis thunbergii cvs.), New Zealand Flax (Phormium tenax ‘Atopurpureum’), red castor plant, (Ricinus commmunis), bronze fennel (Foeniculum vulgare ‘Purpurascens’), canna (‘Tropicana’ and others) elephant ears, and the annual Amaranthus Early Splendor. For a cool, blue or gray look, consider: Blue Star juniper and other blue-hued conifers, blue fescue, Rue, (Ruta graveolens
eloped and were married by Burgoyne because Oregon law prohibited mixed marriages. “These people had no moral courage,” Loftus says of her Hood River community. “Some would speak to us but only when no one else was around. I’ve tried to live my life with moral courage — the courage to do what’s right.” Others, like Carl and Hazel Smith, who ran The League for Liberty and Justice, also suffered because they were friendly to those of Japanese descent. Families like the Smiths weren’t served, Loftus says, while others had the courage to treat them right. “In fact, Mrs. Moller, who was German, called people out for their racist behavior,” Loftus says. The Asai parents refused to
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‘Jackman’s Blue’), various eucalyptus cvs., Artemesia cvs., Melianthus major, lavender dotton (Santolina chamaecyparissus), lavender cvs., Blue Willow (Salix purpurea ‘Nana’), Cerinthe major, and various hostas. To brighten a specific area, consider these chartreuse colored plants: Bleeding Heart (Dicentra spectabilis ‘Gold Heart’), geranium ‘Ann Folkard,’ golden creeping Jenny, golden feverfew, golden oregano, Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii ‘Aurea’), mock orange (Philadelphus coronarius ‘Aureus’) and box honeysuckle (Lonicera nitida ‘Baggesen’s Gold’). Although nature doesn’t supply us with pink-foliaged plants, the following plants have pink markings on their foliage, rivaling any self-respecting flower: St. Johnswort Hypericum x moserianum ‘TriColor,’ Phormium ‘Flamingo’ and ‘Sundowner’ among others, kiwi vine, (Actinidia kolomikta), dappled willow (Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’) caladium cvs., and chameleon plant (Houttuynia cordata ‘Chameleon’) — but be careful, this one tends to be invasive. Do you have a nice plant combination you’d like to show off? My blog has my email and photos of my garden, gracepete.blogspot. com. ■
go to town because of the poor treatment they received. Loftus remembers that she and her brother found a mechanic who could fix their farm’s machinery, but the gas station owner told them the mechanic wouldn’t work on their cars or tractor. He asked them to come back at night, and the leave the broken part behind a shrub. A few days later, the part was fixed. Loftus’s parents, who had immigrated to the United States in the early 1900s, were finally allowed to become citizens in the 1950s. For Mitsuko, who had been born in Hood River as the youngest of eight children, found it easier to assimilate by changing her name to Mitzi, hoping to eliminate the discrimination against her. Her parents understood, she says. She attended college in Corvallis and became a teacher. She was nominated for a scholarship her senior year to teach French abroad, but believes she missed out because she was a woman and Japanese, she says. However, she later became a Fulbright teacher and spent a year in Japan. She got engaged before leaving for Japan, and halfway through her Fulbright, her fiancé got tired of waiting and they were married. They eventually had three sons, David James, Kenneth Allen and Toby Asai. David and Toby accompanied their mother on her lecture in Bend. ■
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deems as “definitely unattractive orange aprons,” and often get stunned looks from shoppers who discover books are priced at just $2 — from the stunning table books, to a $125 accounting book. “The fact that everyone seems to be having a good time and constantly saying ‘thank you’ also keeps us going,” she says.
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It may be difficult to fathom the number of books and other media donated to the Friends of the Eugene Public Library – until you visit the annual spring used book sale. Row after row, table after table, and dozens of boxes teeming with print media — somewhere around 30,000 to 40,000 pieces — delight shoppers who look forward to this annual event. “We keep expecting a decrease in sales, but the truth is that while numbers vary a bit every year, they are holding pretty steady,” says Linda Ague, a volunteer with the Friends of the Library who previously chaired the event. For 40 years, the Friends of the Eugene Public Library has been accepting donations of gently-used books, magazines and other materials. It sells these donations at Second Hand Prose, through seasonal sales, online through an Amazon storefront, and at the giant annual spring sale. Since it started in 1978, the group has raised more than $2 million to help with library programs and the purchase of new materials. For the past number of years, the Friends has donated $100,000 annually.
The early days The Friends group formed in 1976 and conceived of a large used book sale soon after it was organized, Ague says. President Sue Riemer tasked Sherrill Kirchhoff as the first chair of the book sale with these words, “We are holding our breath, crossing our fingers, and adopting all sorts of mystic rites in the hope that the ball we have started rolling is going to result in our at long last embarking upon consistent used book sales as fund raisers.” Kirchhoff credited Riemer’s attitude and organization as “the driving force behind accomplishing such a large and successful event its very first year,” Ague says. They started from scratch, but Kirchhoff’s vision has held up over the years. In fact, her initial organization is still used today: finding storage, recruiting volunteers, marketing, and moving a massive number of boxes of books to the sale. In the beginning, volunteers like Kirchhoff’s husband pitched in by painting and stenciling barrels, and drawing table layouts for the venue. In the first year, Ague says, Kirchhoff organized 48 dedicated volunteers who sorted books in a portable classroom without restrooms or water. The first sale took place April 20-21, 1979 at the Valley River Center. “The Friends were able to have the local National Guard assist with moving the books into the Valley River Center,” Ague says, “where they could drive trucks directly into the
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For 40 years, thousands of book lovers have shopped at the Friends of the Eugene Public Library annual spring sale. Most items are priced at $2.
building to unload.” They set up 12,000 books – and sold 10,000 of them. Kirchhoff reflects on the sale, as “having a lot of momentum and excitement, where everyone sought to ‘just shoot for the moon,’ and not even consider failure as an option.” All their work paid off, Ague says, and the success of the first sale led to continued improvements and expansions made by successive Friends volunteers and members. “We look forward to the 40th Friends used book sale,” Ague says, “with great thanks to the vision and hard work of the sale’s founders.”
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Volunteers are “die-hard book lovers who love the idea of putting books in the hands of everyone,” she says. “The April sale is like a giant literary party.” She especially enjoys stopping by tables that hold fiction, mystery and history books, and then asking shoppers if they have read a certain book she’ll pick up. “Inevitably, I will get a response that leads to another comment and pretty soon, suggestions and trades flow around the table,” Ague says. “The same thing happens over and over.” Volunteers wear what Ague
Where the money goes One of the Friends’ major projects is to provide funds for Summer Reading at the Library. “Each child and teen who signs up gets to choose a brandnew book to keep as their own, for free,” says Laura Philips, community relations, Eugene Public Library. “The purchase of those thousands of brandnew books each year are made possible by the Friends’ monetary donation. Friends’ support also goes toward educational and entertaining events for kids and teens. The Friends also
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Annual Benefit Book Sale, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. April 14, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 15, Lane Events Center (Fairgrounds), Performance Hall, Eugene. Free admission and parking. Visa/Mastercard accepted. help promote library services in the community.” Those who work inside the library certainly take notice of the efforts by Friends of the Eugene Public Library. “For decades, Friends volunteers have worked tirelessly to support and enhance their local library to benefit the whole community through fundraising, advocacy, and more,” says LaVena Nohrenberg, customer experience manager. ■
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■ How does technology impact, improve our day-to-day lives? SOUTH VALLEY EDITION
By VANESSA SALVIA BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS
Some people feel they simply can’t learn technology, from finding something online to sending photos via email. Some try and struggle. Others don’t try at all. For those older adults who persevere and learn – either by teaching themselves or taking a community class – find they still struggle with the learning curve. But they are finding information quickly, enjoying their hobbies more, and recognize a revitalized curiosity about life.
Hank Lepley
Hank and Sue Lepley, both age 68, are learning how to use their new Amazon Echo. They play music, ask it questions, play soothing sounds for falling asleep, and set alarms while cooking.
What do you want to learn more about? I want to learn how to use Alexa. From what I’m researching now you can have smart homes where you can tell Alexa to set the temperature in your house, turn on lights, turn on the television.
What are your favorite things to use the computer for? One of my favorite websites is Astronomy Picture of the Day (https://apod.nasa. gov/apod/ astropix.html). They have a short abstract about the picture and blue letter things which are links to tons of info, an almost infinite amount of information. I have a bunch of games. I do Brain Yoga (a smart phone app) usually in the morning with games about shapes, patterns, memory and words, logic and planning. I also read the news. We Facetime with our seven grandkids. For the 12and 8-year-old who live in North Carolina, we Facetime at least once a month. It helps a little because we’re not be able to see them in person. I also have a big library of saved recipes on YouTube and Facebook. And I’m coming up on my 50th wedding anniversary so I’m using a fitness app called
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Hank Lepley (left) has embraced technology, from playing games to doing Facetime with his grandchildren. Dale Haynes (right) uses technology to pay bills, find new recipes and read book reviews. MyFitnessPal that tracks activity and the food you eat.
What do you worry about? I worry about the privacy issues but it’s no big deal. As long as you’re careful and don’t respond to scammers you’re pretty much OK.
What do you like about computers? One of the things I like about computers is, if you don’t know it, google it. I broke the screen on my laptop and I found a YouTube video about how to replace it and I fixed it because I had step-bystep instructions. I’ve fixed other things, too.
Bryan Haynes
Bryan Haynes, 56, has been teaching technology classes at Campbell Community Center in Eugene for the past several years. He has some advice for overcoming the challenges that seniors face.
What are the physical challenges? Eyesight is a big one. I don’t mean blindness. There’s so much information, so many icons to click on, that they just don’t see everything. Even if it’s a big blue button that says “Next,” it’s not easy to see that as something that would help
them go to the next screen. They want to check their email, and on a phone the email apps are not as easy to work with. It’s a lot easier to see a tablet or a laptop than it is a phone. Hearing — they don’t hear the right words. Manual dexterity is a problem. You have to know ahead of time that you left-click, or rightclick or double-click to make it do something. I tell all my students to buy a mouse and plug it into their computer rather than use the touch screen. They think with the touch screens they’re going to break something.
classes everybody helps each other out and that helps a lot too — the camaraderie.
Dale Haynes
Bryan Haynes’s mother Dale Haynes, 77, was a teacher. Early in her career, she learned how to use the DOS operating system, then didn’t keep up with technology post-retirement. She has now found many things that
she enjoys doing on her desktop computer.
What do you enjoy about computers? Google is my friend. I enjoy researching things and I find it very easy to use.
What do you use it for? I enjoy politics, movies and books. I’m in a book club and I look up my book reviews on
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What do people want to learn how to do? File management is a big one. How to attach photos to email or download photos and then be able to find them later.
How do you approach the learning? Rather than focus on what they can’t do, I add to their toolbox of what they can do. After two hours they’ve had some fun and then they come back the next week and they can do more. Individual tutoring works out better than the classes, especially if somebody’s afraid. In a class you can feel isolated but in most of the
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SAFE ROUTES to SCHOOL
■ Your volunteer efforts can help students walk safely to school By DEB ALLEN BOOMER & SENIOR NEWS
Drive by a school in the morning or afternoon, and you’ll see the major influx of traffic as students are being dropped off or picked up. It can get pretty crazy with all those cars. You may even think back to how you or your children got to school. Did it seem like more students were walking or riding bikes? In fact, that’s true. “In 1969, 42 percent of students walked or biked to school,” says Bob Beals, coordinator of Bethel School District’s Safe Routes to School program. “But by 2001, the number was down to 16 percent, and the movement to encourage more walking and ‘rolling’ was begun.” Beals’s team understands that while many families live close enough to walk or ride bicycles to school, most parents are busy with jobs and families, and that it’s difficult to find time to walk or ride along with bicycles before and after school. Parents also have safety concerns for their children.
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Walking with students to school provides a way for volunteers to keep fit while helping their communities, not to mention enhancing their lives through valuable relationships.
Three school districts in Lane County — Bethel, 4J and Springfield — have adopted the national Safe Routes to School program as a way to improve transportation options to and from school. Working together, these districts comprise the regional SRTS program. “The primary goal is to increase the percentage of students walking, biking (or) skating to school while decreasing the number of single cars with single students in them,” Beals says. This effort relieves pressure on roads and parking lots around the schools,
TECH CONTINUED FROM PAGE 7 the computer. I’ve almost quit using recipe books — if I want to make something I get on the computer. I love my books, too, but the computer is very handy. I don’t like the ads on Facebook, but I enjoy keeping track of friends I haven’t seen for years and years.
while also adding more physical activity for students. Part of the SRTS coordinator’s job is to bring the community together on alternative transportation methods to school. They do this through education, various events, and reaching out to volunteers. There is a variety of opportunities for community members to contribute their time through SRTS activities. Volunteers can accompany students in their neighborhood, learn about what it means to create a “human school bus,” or work as crossing guards. Ed-
I use it for my gardening to look up plants. Right now, I’m in a rose group for the old heirloom roses. There’s about 12 of us and we did a spreadsheet of all of our roses in Google Docs.
Do you have a smartphone? Yes, I have a Huawai android phone through Consumer Cellular and it’s sponsored by AARP and relatively inexpensive.
How do you use the phone? I use the
ucation is also a primary focus of the SRTS program and is an easy way to lend a hand. “Education can be a onetime place for people to (volunteer),” says Sarah Mazze, Eugene 4J SRTS coordinator. “Our Bike Safety Class is a really intensive, effective, twoweek class where students in their PE class actually get on bikes and practice in the school parking lot or on the outdoor basketball court. They practice drills and then they go out to an intersection and practice rightof-way and learn all the rules of the road. And by the last two days they’re doing neighborhood rides for the entire class. So, we like to have a lot of volunteers. They don’t need to have experience.” Schools are also encouraged to hold a “Walk and Roll Challenge” each October and May where students are inspired to walk or ride their bikes, scooters or skateboards to school. A volunteer will simply check the children in when they arrive at school, noting what “alternative method” got them there that day. Children’s names can then be entered into raffles and other prize incentives. Many people routinely take a walk every day for physical fitness, so it may be a natural fit to walk a school route with children. “We see people out walking after school starts,” Beals, “so, it seems there’s a natural link there.” Consider adding an element
phone as a phone and to read my email or messages. I do a little texting although I don’t really like to because I make a lot of errors in the little print if I don’t have my reading glasses. Email is probably my favorite thing. I’m not a game player.
What else do you use your computer for? Banking and bill paying is easier. I had to do a little payroll for my garden help and I couldn’t find the checks for one month. Bryan had to show me
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By SARAH REDFERN, RN SAMARITAN WILEY CREEK COMMUNITY
Spring is coming, and it makes me want to get outside. But after a long winter inside, I often overdo it. When you are achy and painful and want to avoid medications, what should you use? Heat and ice are good options, but which should you use, and when? This depends on what is causing the pain. Heat is used to bring the blood to a muscle and help it relax and heal. Ice brings down painful inflammation. With heat, it is important to be sure to use warm heat, not extreme heat that may cause burns. Use it from 30 minutes to two hours. This helps the muscles relax and decreases pain. There are two types of
heat treatments: One comes from dry heat, such as a heating pad or pack. Be sure not to put it directly on the skin, and only leave it on for a set time to avoid burns. The other is moist heat, such as steam towels or hot bath. These can be more effective and take less time than dry heat. Cold treatment can be in the form of ice or chemical pack. These reduce blood flow, decrease inflammation, and can deaden nerve endings to decrease pain. Ice should be used soon after an injury or for chronic swollen joints from arthritis, bursitis, tendinitis, or other inflation-causing conditions. It is important to only use ice therapy for 10 to 15 minutes at a time, multiple times a day. Knowing when to use heat
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