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Try something new on the Olympic Peninsula MARCH FORKS/WEST END • March 21-22: 2020 Quillayute Valley Scholarship Auction, Forks High School, times vary.

• March 28: Seventh annual River & Ocean Film Festival, Rainforest Arts Center, 6 p.m. to 9 p.m., wsg. washington.edu/film-festival.

• March 28-29: Nate Crippen Memorial Basketball Tournament, Forks High School Gym, all day, $300.

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• March 6-7: Sequin Sunshine Festival, times and locations vary, visitsunnysequim.com.

• March 27-29: OTA’s Shakespearean Renaissance Faire!, Olympic Theatre Arts, times vary, olympictheatrearts.org.

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• March 21: JeffCo Community Garage Sale & Flea Market, Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., jeffcofarigrounds. com.

• March 20-22: Port Townsend Victorian Heritage Festival, downtown, $12-$60, vicfest.org.

• April 10-12: NW Cup Downhill Mountain Bike Series: Round 1, Dry Hill Mountain Bike Trails, nwcup. com.

• April 11: Second Weekend Artwalk, downtown, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., visitportangeles.com.

• April 18: OAT Run, Harbinger Winery, prices and times vary, oatrun.org.

• April 24: ArtBites: Art & the Environment, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., $20, pafac.org.

• April 25: Wine Cider and Cheese Tour, multiple locations on the Peninsula, $40-$45, olympicpeninsulawineries.org.

• March 13: ArtBites: Critical Perspectives on Art and Eroticism, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, SEQUIM April 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., $20, pafac.org.

• April 3: First Friday Art Walk, • March 14: Second Weekend FORKS/WEST END downtown, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Artwalk, downtown, 5 p.m.

• April 3: Welcoming the Whales sequimartwalk.com.

Ceremony, Quileute Nation: First to 9 p.m., visitportangeles.com.

• April 17-19: Olympic Peninsula • March 20: 50th anniversary Ballet Beach, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

BirdFest, locations, times and • April 11: Easter Egg Hunt, Tillicum prices vary, olympicbirdfest.org.

Gala featuring Ballet Workshop Park Baseball Fields, Forks, 1 p.m. dancers, guest artists and the Port • April 25: Run the Peninsula at • April 12: Easter Breakfast, Forks Angeles Symphony Orchestra, Railroad Bridge, 9:30 a.m., prices Elks Lodge, 8 a.m. to 11 a.m., free 7:30 p.m., Port Angeles High vary, runthepeninsula.com. to $8.

School Performing Arts Center, 304 • April 17-19: Fabric of the PORT TOWNSEND/ E. Park Ave. PortAngelesSymphony.

Forest Quilt Show, Forks JEFFERSON COUNTY org, 360-457-5579.

High School Gym, times vary, • April 4: Gallery Walk, downtown, • March 21-22: Salt Creek 24, Salt piecemakersquiltclub.org 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., ptguide.com.

Creek Recreation Area, 10 a.m.

• April 17-19: Rainfest: Celebration • April 24-26: Port Townsend Film to 10 a.m., $85, visitportangeles. of the Arts, Rainforest Arts Center, Festival Women & Film, locations com. times vary, forkswa.com/events vary, ptfilmfest.com.

• April 18: Free Entrance Day, • March 28: Port Angeles • April 25: Wine Cider and Olympic National Park, all day.

Symphony Orchestra with guest Cheese Tour, multiple locations • April 18: Washington Coast soloist Ko-Ichiro Yamamoto, on the Peninsula, $40-$45, Cleanup 2020, coastsavers.org. music of Brahms and more, olympicpeninsulawineries.org.

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May FORKS/WEST END

• May 2: Forks Lions Club White Cane Days Live Auction, Blakeslee’s Bar & Grill, 1 p.m., donations welcome, forkswa.com/events.

• May 3: Annual Fishing Day for Kids, Bogachiel Rearing Pond, Forks, 6 a.m. to noon, forkswa. com/events.

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• May 2: Open Day Boat Parade & Blessing of the Fleet, Northwest Maritime Center Pier, noon to 2 p.m., ptyc.net.

• May 9: Port Townsend Wearable Art Show, McCurdy Pavilion, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., $35, $55, $75, ptwearableart.com.

• May 13-17: Rhododendron Festival 2020, locations vary, rhodyfestival.org.

• May 17: Rhody Run, Fort Worden State Park, 11 a.m., rhodyfestival. org.

• May 23-24: Brinnon Shrimpfest, between Yelvik General Store and Cove RV Park, times vary, brinnonshrimpfest.com.

• May 1: First Friday Art Walk, downtown, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., sequimartwalk.com.

• May 1-9: Sequim Irrigation Festival, times and locations vary, irrigationfestival.com.

• May 1-17: Olympic Theatre Arts June presents “A Facility for Living,” times vary, olympictheatrearts.org. SEQUIM • June 5: First Friday Art Walk, PORT ANGELES downtown, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., • May 1-3: NW Cup Downhill sequimartwalk.com.

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• June-September: Concerts on • May 9: Second Weekend Artwalk, the Piers, City Pier, 6 p.m., bands downtown, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., TBA, portangeles.org. visitportangeles.com.

• June 7: North Olympic Discovery • May 9: Mother’s Day High Tea, Marathon, downtown, times and Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, prices vary, nodm.com.

9 a.m. to 10:30 a.m., ticket prices • June 13: Second Weekend TBA, pafac.org.

Artwalk, downtown, 5 p.m. to 9 p.m., visitportangeles.com.

• May 9-10: Art in Bloom, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, 11 a.m.

• June 20-21: Summer Solstice Art to 5 p.m., pafac.org.

Festival, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, times vary, pafac.org.

• May 22-25: Juan de Fuca Arts Festival, Vern Burton Community PORT TOWNSEND/ Center, prices and times vary, JEFFERSON COUNTY jffa.org.

• June 6: Gallery Walk, downtown, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., ptguide.com.

PORT TOWNSEND/ JEFFERSON COUNTY • June 4: Taste of Port Townsend, • May 2: Gallery Walk, downtown, details TBA, ptmainstreet.org.

5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m., ptguide.com.

• June 7: Annual Port Townsend • May 2: Port Townsend Rock Chili Cook-Off and Horseshoe Club Gemboree, Jefferson County Contest, Jefferson County Fairgrounds, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Fairgrounds, 12:30 p.m., ptguide. ptguide.com. com.

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All event information listed here is up to date as of press time. For future event submissions, email Shawna Dixson at sdixson@peninsuladailynews.com.

Please note that publication of submitted events is not guaranteed.

2020 FARMERS MARKETS Port Angeles Farmers Market Saturdays at the corner of Front and Lincoln streets, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., year-round, farmersmarketportangeles.com.

Sequim Farmers Market Saturdays at City Hall Plaza, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., May 16-Oct. 31, sequimmarket.com.

Forks Open Aire Market Saturdays at Umpqua Bank Parking Lot, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., May-October, 360-374-6918.

Port Townsend Saturday Farmers Market Saturdays on Tyler and Laurence streets, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., April 4-Dec. 19, jcfmarkets.org/ saturday.

Port Townsend Wednesday Farmers Market Wednesdays at the Jefferson Transit Haines Place Park and Ride, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., JuneSeptember, jcfmarkets.org/porttownsend-wednesdays.

Chimacum Farmers Market Sundays at 9122 Rhody Drive, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., June-October, jcfmarkets.org/sunday.

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Lifelong Journey February 2020 VOLUME 6 | ISSUE 1 Published by PENINSULA DAILY NEWS and SEQUIM GAZETTE peninsuladailynews.com | sequimgazette.com PENINSULA DAILY NEWS 305 W. First St., Port Angeles, WA 98362 360.452.2345 SEQUIM GAZETTE 147 W. Washington St., Sequim, WA 98382 360.683.3311

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COOKING: Easy ways to include veggies in winter meals

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LOCAL PEOPLE: There’s always another adventure

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Make a (simple) meal of it Easy ways to include vegetables in your winter cooking

by SHAWNA DIXSON, PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Even for avid gardeners, produce can be hard to come by in the dead of winter. Of course there’s always the stuff that gets shipped up from California, Mexico and other climates, but the shipping distance takes its toll on nutrient value and flavor, and fresh veggies can be more expensive in winter.

Then there’s also the trouble of prepping the veggies. If you’re not a whiz with the chef knife — or you struggle with arthritis — peeling, chopping and slicing every component can add a lot of time and hassle to getting dinner on the table.

Have you tried frozen vegetables?

Believe it or not, frozen vegetables are an excellent workaround.

According to a study done in 2015 by the University of California Davis, vegetables in the freezer section are often just as healthy as fresh produce.

Despite the fact that frozen vegetables offer slightly limited preparation options compared to fresh, they make up for this in convenience, price and storage life.

If you need a quick influx of greens for your evening meal and you are out of all your fresh food, you only have to reach into the freezer and grab what you’re in the mood for. Broccoli, green beans, peas and other single-variety bags are great for popping into the microwave for a quick steam to serve with a little salt and pepper or a dash of powdered garlic if you’re feeling adventurous. These pair well with roasted meats and a starch.

Choose whole grain options, such as whole grain pasta, brown rices 8

(short and long grain, jasmine and basmati all taste slightly different), wild rice, quinoa or amaranth.

Even low-starch potatoes can be a good option (Yukon gold, purple, red, sweet potato and yams have a lower glycemic index than russets).

To prepare frozen vegetables with a little more pizazz, stir-fries are an excellent option.

Grocery stores usually include mixed vegetable packages in their frozen vegetables section. These are perfect for a quick stir-fry. Different mixes can provide a wide array of flavors with zero extra effort, so you don’t feel like you’re eating the same thing every day.

Cook your starch ahead of time so you don’t have to divide your attention. For pasta, drizzle with olive oil and toss so it doesn’t stick as badly while it’s waiting. (If you don’t mind multi-tasking, pasta is the one starch you might want to cook while the stir-fry is going.) Rice and other grains are easy to pop into a rice cooker and keep warm while the rest of the meal is completed.

For sweeter cuisines, look for mixes with bell pepper, carrots, corn, peas and onions.

Broccoli, cauliflower, green beans, mushrooms and Brussels sprouts work great with just about any flavor combination.

Celery, onions, zucchini (due to texture) and asparagus tend to dominate quickly, so mixes with these should be used with caution.

Snap peas, although commonly available in frozen mixes, do not tend to hold up to stir-frying very well. Pull these out of your mix and add at the end, cooking them just long enough to heat them up.

Cabbage and heavy-duty greens (kale, spinach, chard, collards, etc.) also should be added toward the end of your cook time and may have better texture if they’re fresh.

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Frozen stir-fry • Use a very hot nonstick skillet on medium-high (heat it up beforehand — it should sizzle when you flick a little water onto it). The heat will help evaporate the extra water frozen vegetables tend to give off.

• Put a tablespoon of oil in the skillet and wait a few seconds for it to heat through. Extra-virgin olive oil is arguably the healthiest option, but oils with higher smoking points (peanut, safflower and sunflower oil are very tolerant) will be easier to manage if you’re inexperienced.

• If you’re using meat in your dish, cube it and add it at this point. Season with salt and pepper to taste and sear (brown) all sides before continuing. If it starts to stick, use a little more oil or turn down the burner. Cook the meat to your desired doneness and set it aside in a bowl while you continue to the next step. Note: The following comment on crowding applies to your meat, as well as veggies.

• Put the still-frozen vegetables in your skillet. Don’t crowd them.

For a nice browned texture without overcooking the veggies, they should be spread out on the cooking surface (just like when you’re cooking mushrooms). If you have too many vegetables, it will act more like you’re steaming them. This is perfectly acceptable, but your end texture will be different.

• Cook the vegetables, stirring constantly, until they are just barely soft. This usually takes around three to seven minutes, depending on the vegetables you’re using and sizes they’re cut into.

You can test them by biting into a medium-sized piece.

• Turn off the heat when they’re just under where you actually want them; they will continue to cook slightly while they cool. Frozen veggies get limp and gross if you overcook them.

• If you used meat, mix it back into your vegetables now.

• If you want a sauce, add it just before you turn off the veggies, so it has just enough time in the skillet to heat up.

• Note: Store-bought sauces can contain extra preservatives, sugar, salt and fat. As an alternative, consider adding minced or finely chopped garlic, ginger or onion to your frozen veggie mix for extra flavor without an official sauce.

Be sure to scrape the bottom of your skillet frequently, so these smaller pieces don’t get burned.

However, stir-fried mixed vegetables often have enough of their own moisture and flavor that you won’t feel like a sauce is necessary.

• To finish your meal, toss your cooked vegetables (with or without sauce), meat (if using) and starch together. Garnish with grated parmesan, sesame seeds, fresh herbs or whatever else sounds good.

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that the big job is done, plenty of little jobs remain, however.

SEQUIM MUSEUM & ARTS In addition to the main location, The Sequim Museum and Arts the administration center and old recently built a new facility. With it Dungeness Schoolhouse offer volcomes new opportunities to volunteer. unteer opportunities. As a nonprofit “We are not only a museum,” the organization and an “all volunteer” website explains, “but a meeting staff, all jobs are dependent on those place for members of the commuwho want to give their time and nity to see and display art, view resources to keep everything runpermanent or changing exhibning. This means they can’t do it its and, most importantly, come without people from the community. together to learn the history of the The “Cowan Campus” on Sequim area that became Sequim.”

Avenue was named after John The new museum building at 544 Cowan, a West End pioneer who N. Sequim Avenue was built using has been the museum’s biggest only donated funds and labor. Now benefactor. The research library,

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“Makers Space,” photo archives, director, registrar and bookkeeper offices are located in the area behind the museum.

The landmark two-story schoolhouse in Dungeness is a beautiful National Historic Site that requires a team to keep it going — the schoolhouse was built in 1892 and needs constant maintenance.

Among the positions the museum could always use help with, there is an opening for a new manager. Bob Stipe, who managed the place for six years, is retiring. One of the primary roles of the manager is scheduling events at the schoolhouse.

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“The school is rented frequently for classes, weddings, funerals, public events, senior meals, table tennis, music, theater and much more,” the website details. Contact the museum for application information.

Many new citizens with great skills have moved here recently and aren’t ready to sit around in retirement. Other available roles currently include: researchers, a curator, First Friday art director and docents to greet guests. The museum would like to add hours to its open schedule. The staff’s goal is to include another open day each week.

2020 is the “Year of the Woman” to celebrate the 100th anniversary

of women having the right to vote.

The Sequim Museum will host activities, changing displays and events for the celebration of an important time in history.

“Join us for the Heritage Walking Tour downtown during the Irrigation Festival in May,” the website invites. More information will be announced on the website, social media, radio and newspapers, along with the upcoming “History Lessons” at the Schoolhouse.

These include pioneer or other talks about historical events on the Sequim Prairie or down on the Dungeness Flat.

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the Manis Mastodon story with the 13,800-year-old bones and tusks on display. DNA tests have shown the human-made spear points that killed the huge animal are the oldest in North America. Manny and Clare Manis opened up an amazing discovery with the tusks and bones on their Happy Valley Farm. The display brings thousands of people, including scientists, from all over the world to the Sequim Museum.

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Always another adventure Local resident shares his stories

by SHAWNA DIXSON, PENINSULA DAILY NEWS Be open to the opportunities that come your way, ready or not, and don’t worry too much about where you’re going — what’s important is the story.

This rather common literary theme resonates with the life of Port Angeles local Rob Sorensen.

How appropriate, as he has just published a novel.

Sorensen was born and raised on the Olympic Peninsula. With a stint as a military kid early in life, Sorensen learned young to be flexible and embrace new experiences. His family lived all over the world as his father finished out his military duties following World War II. Rob attended kindergarten in Japan and first grade in D.C. Afterward, the family returned to Port Angeles.

As a graduate of the famous Port Angeles High School “Class of ’65,” Sorensen has many fond memories of life in Port Angeles.

“We lived in the best of times,” Sorensen said. “Everybody played sports — mostly all three sports [basketball, baseball and football].”

“We basically grew up, from the seventh grade on, at the YMCA,” Sorensen said. “They were open six days a week. There was a baseball park right beside it. There was a basketball court there. There was ping pong. There were trampolines.

And, more importantly, on every Friday night during our junior high school years, there was a [dance]. ” One of the likely spots for a young woman’s first introduction with the opposite sex, Sorensen continued, would have been dancing with some sweaty guys who had just been playing basketball.

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Rob and Alexis Sorensen, behind the counter of their sporting goods and apparel store, Sorensen Sports, in 1995

hurt anybody’s feelings.”

Aside from reading as many books as possible, Sorensen spent his days with his friends, playing outside, hitchhiking to the lake and spending Friday nights at the “Y dance.” Even today, he still spends time going out with the same group of friends.

Like many kids in the ’60s, Sorensen got his first job in his early teens.

“I went to work in the menswear business when I was a freshmen in junior high school — 14 years old,” Sorensen said. “At the time, you could buy a man’s suit in Port Angeles at five different locations.”

In true “follow life where it leads” fashion, Sorensen met his wife, Alexis, while working at Widsteen’s.

Alexis had moved to Port Angeles, her mother’s home town, with her family in late high school.

She spotted Sorensen through the store windows on her first day.

Apparently intrigued by Sorensen, she went in and had him help her buy a pair of socks for her brother.

“She was a complete stranger in town,” Sorensen said, remembering her as “prom queen pretty and cheerleader bubbly.”

Alexis returned to the store for

the next three days, buying just one pair of socks each day.

“I finally got the message and asked her out,” he said.

Three years later, they got married. Alexis was 19 and Sorensen was 22.

“From that point forward, it wasn’t about Rob — it was about Rob and Lex,” he said.

“After the honeymoon, we settled into a small house. I was reading Dumas’ “Count of Monte Cristo” … and I read it when we watched TV, ate dinner and even brushing my teeth.”

Alexis started reading “in self-defense.”

The couple made their way forward with their sales jobs: Rob ended up at Widsteen’s from 1960 to ’74 and Alexis worked at McLean’s shoe store from 1968 to ’73.

In 1975, the couple decided to put their combined retail experience to the test and opened their own store, Sorensen’s Sports. Over time, it grew from a sporting goods store with snow skis, bicycles and traditional sports gear, to a boutique, mini department store with menswear, womenswear and sporting goods over three different levels.

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Left: Sorensen was especially happy with the book’s cover art, done by local artist Kelsey Redlin.

Right: Rob and Alexis bought the Hellroaring Saloon along the Yaak River in Montana for conversion to a home. Hooked on its fly-fishing qualities, the scenic setting served as Rob’s inspiration for his book, “Arrow in Paradise,” published in 2019.

“We were the first store [in Port Angeles] to have Nike. We were the first store, I think, to have Adidas,” Sorensen said. “We had North Face and Patagonia and those kinds of things very early on.

“We hired the late Steve Baxter, and the store became a three-legged stool.” Baxter ran the sports department, Rob ran menswear and Alexis ran womenswear.

“We hired dozens of kids, initiated major sporting events — first 10K run, triathlon and century-long bicycle ride — sponsored dozens of youth league and adult sports, clinics and tournaments,” Sorensen said. “Lex was co-coordinator of every event and also served as the head of the Hurricane Ridge Ski School for over 20 years.”

As each new sports craze appeared — running, biking, aerobics, tennis, roller-blading, soccer and slow-pitch — Sorensen Sports supplied the equipment and related apparel.

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at least, not for specialty footwear.

As the nature of shopping changed to more self-serve stores, malls and shopping from home, it got harder to compete, Sorensen explained.

In 2000, they closed Sorensen Sports.

“Both my wife and I loved what we did for the 25 years that we did it. My thought was always, if I got to the point where I was taking a shower in the morning and not looking forward to going to work, then I was going to do something else.”

After closing the store, Sorensen went to work at Peninsula College as the program director and professor of a new entrepreneurial training program.

“It was the best job in the college,” he said.

He loved the autonomy and getting to share his passion for business with students who were truly engaged.

“People who took my class really wanted to take it,” Sorensen said.

Alexis went to work in the marketing department for the International Festival & Events Association (a trade association for festivals and events) under

Bruce Skinner.

“When Bruce gave up being the head, the new guy worked in Boise, Idaho. So Lex and I said, ‘You know what, we’ve never been out of town in all the years we’ve been together, so let’s see what’s out there.’ ” Just like that, the couple moved to Boise and Rob found a job as director of operations for the Boise River Festival.

“Now I was doing something else that you have to love — spend a year putting together a three-day party for 300,000 people, spend a couple days doing the party, and then you have to do it all over again. I did that for three years.”

During that time, the couple spent their free time camping and fly-fishing in the northern Rockies.

According to Sorensen, it was the fly-fishing that inspired their buying a place in Yaak, Montana.

While living in Boise, they bought the Hellroaring Saloon, an old bar situated 15 feet from one of the best fly-fishing rivers in Montana.

They planned to convert it to a home. It was this location that later provided Sorensen with the inspiration for writing his novel, “Arrow in Paradise.”

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Rob and Alexis kayaking at the mouth of the Pysht River at Pillar Point

There are only four buildings in the town of Yaak: two bars, one laundromat and the other permanently closed. The whole setting [of the book] is based around that — it’s fictionalized.

“It’s a ‘truth is stranger than fiction’ deal. We would go up there on a three-day weekend, throw our sleeping bags on the floor of the bar and, inevitably, around 10 or 11 o’clock, someone would knock on the door and ask if we were open.”

When the River Festival “folded their tent,” Rob and Alexis ended up moving to Seattle, where Alexis got a job working with Teatro Zinzanni and Rob went to work for the Issaquah Salmon Days Festival.

Now much farther from their fly-fishing paradise, they soon abandoned Seattle life for the lure of the river’s remote valley.

The couple spent the next five years or so living in Yaak full time.

Around 2004, Rob got a phone call from Bruce Skinner.

“I’ve got the perfect job for you,” Skinner said, calling Sorensen’s attention to a position at the Port Angeles Fine Arts Center (PAFAC) as the marketing and events director.

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He did that until after 2008, when everything “went in the tank,” as Sorensen put it, referring to the 18-month recession during that time.

Funding cutbacks at the PAFAC led him to his final retirement.

“Then I ‘retired, retired’ in 2009,” Sorensen said with a chuckle. “I’ve retired four times and I’ve never had a job I didn’t love.”

With nothing else on his plate, Sorensen began compiling notes and research for his book, which was published last year.

Far from feeling like this was a non sequitur to the precedents of his earlier life, Sorensen feels the book is a perfect culmination of his transition to full-fledged “bibliophile.”

“I’ve always been addicted to reading,” he said. “Writing a book was a ‘bucket list’ must. I’m 72 years old. I’ve wanted to write a book all my life … so I did, and I’m really glad that I did.

“My goal was always to do a ‘great American novel.’ ” But he admits that his book wouldn’t be classified as such, mostly because of recent trends in reading styles.

“I’ve gotten to the point with my own reading that I’m not reading to appreciate the prose; I just want

to read a good story. The styles have changed. Not only that, it’s a competition if you’re a professional writer, you know?” Writers have to compete with more entertainment options than ever before.

“You have to get the reader’s attention quickly and then you better keep it,” Sorensen said.

“Entertain people by telling a good story.”

As for his wife, Alexis is still there beside him through every move, career change and novel.

“Nothing I did she didn’t do with me,” Sorensen said. And he wouldn’t have it any other way.

“It’s absolutely never too late to try something new. I think it’s been proved by my life. I think our most daunting challenge was creating and building our store. Along the way, we’ve been lucky to travel in Europe, live in a dive bar in the most remote part of Montana, ride a bicycle across the United States and now write and publish a novel that tells a great story.

“Our whole lives have been an adventure.”

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Physically speaking, aging is rough on the body, and it often results in pain in places we never knew could hurt. As our bodies change and require more care and keeping, a lot of us find ourselves with healthcare choices we never believed would be part of our reality.

In today’s constant stream of media, the news has been bustling with talk of different forms of pain medication, with pros and cons for each one.

As a chronic pain patient myself, at 47 I am entering the age group the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reports as having experienced the highest instance of overdose deaths from prescription medications.

People ages 45-54 are faced with life-changing illnesses and injuries, or the injuries of our youth are less-than-gentle reminders of our past.

People in this age group, with similar trends for folks ages 55-65, are usually taking combinations of various classifications of medications versus younger counterparts, which is part of what puts older adults at a higher risk for overdosing.

Another CDC statistic reported that states allowing safe access to cannabis had a 23 percent decrease in opiate overdose. When people have safe, clean choices for discomfort control, things can change for the better.

Cannabis is uniquely suited to addressing pain while being much safer than more popular treatments such as opiates. It can provide relief from many challenging conditions, including arthritis, old injuries, cancer and its treatments, 16

neuropathy, HIV/AIDS, dementia, Crohn’s disease or any wasting syndrome, to name a few.

When a patient is curious about what cannabis can do to alleviate persistent pain and other problems, as well as minimize negative side effects, their questions tend to revolve around fear: “I don’t want to get high.”

“I don’t want to lose control.”

“I don’t want to harm myself.”

Patients want to be able to use cannabis medicinally, but are afraid of the stereotyped behaviors of habitual cannabis users, such as not speaking clearly, suffering a loss of motivation or memory, getting “munchy,” acting too silly, etc.

However, the reality of cannabis use is much like that of any other medication: You must find the proper dose and type to match your needs.

What is cannabis?

Cannabis is a plant that contains hundreds of active compounds, including various terpenes and cannabinoids, such as THC, CBD, CBN and THCa. Each compound plays a different role in the plant’s use as a medication and the mix of compounds changes from strain to strain.

Anandamide

Commonly referred to as the “bliss molecule,” anandamide is produced by the body’s endocannabinoid system, which maintains homeostasis in the body regardless of internal stressors, such as viruses, bacteria or cancer cells, and external stressors, such as predators or mass shootings.

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Most people conflate all forms of cannabis with the impacts of THC, the primary psychoactive component responsible for feeling “high.”

But other cannabis compounds are far less incapacitating and can be very effective at relieving pain. For example, CBD is valued for calming the mind and reducing inflammation. THCa has been shown to decrease spasms without euphoria.

The terpene linalool, which gives lavender its scent, can be found in relaxing cannabis cultivars.

Selective breeding can produce an end product with highly specialized attributes, much like farmers select for flavor, seed size or hardiness.

Currently available varieties go from extreme concentrations of THC with very little CBD, to balanced concentrations of both cannabinoids or a focus on terpene composition, to extreme CBD with “no” THC. Used wisely, any cannabis product can be effective for pain relief, nausea suppression, anxiety modulation, mood elevation, muscle relaxation and improving appetite.

One of its most common side effects, dry mouth, is helpful in increasing fluid intake.

Despite these benefits, cannabis is not known to present fatal complications.

down to where receptors for the drugs are housed in the body.

Our bodies make their very own drugs — anandamide, responsible for maintaining balance in your body, is nearly identical to the THC molecule found in cannabis.

Anandamide’s CB1 and CB2 receptors (the ones cannabis uses) are in your brain, immune cells, gastro-intestinal tract, skin — nearly everywhere but your brainstem, the part of your brain that breathes air, digests food and pumps blood automatically. There are sparse cannabis receptor sites in the brainstem, which is why you are unlikely to experience respiratory or other critical system failures on cannabis.

By contrast, the receptor sites that work with opiates are prolific in the brainstem. This means that an opioid overdose can impact critical functions like breathing, while a cannabis overdose usually makes you sleepy. More extreme side effects, such as nausea, vomiting and anxiety are possible, but unsteadiness or loss of balance is the major concern for improperly instructed senior users.

What is the key to using cannabis?

It all comes down to finding the right dose. After all, Paracelsus — a Swiss physician, alchemist The difference between cannabis and astrologer of the German Renaissance — said, “It is only the and more popular drugs for pain dose which makes a thing poison.” relief, especially opioids, comes

How is cannabis different?

As the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) administrative judge Francis L. Young put it, “Marijuana in its natural form is one of the safest therapeutically active substances known to man.”

Although he assessed the toxicity of cannabis as less than that of a raw potato in 1988 and things have changed since then, the sentiment remains accurate: Cannabis is forgiving.

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Topicals react with the CB1 and CB2 receptors present in all skin cells and can provide immediate relief from a variety of aches and pains, such as arthritis, migraines, spasm and muscle strain. The beauty of topicals and bath additives, like cannabis-infused epsom salt, is that cannabis does not cross the blood-brain barrier, so you don’t get any euphoric effect — just pain control.

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Despite the spin, these diluents are unregulated across the country and vary state by state in cannabis and tobacco products.

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Ingesting cannabis-infused edibles is much harder to fine-tune than tinctures, since there are many variables that impact absorption. Take wait time recommendations on the package seriously. Once cannabis is ingested, there’s no way to counteract the effects.

Typically, novice patients often are started at 1-2.5 milligrams per dose. (In seven years I have had only one patient tell me that dose was too much for them, but the patient was unharmed.)

It is your metabolism that decides the appropriate dose. You might react to the same dose and strain differently from the person next to you, and that’s OK! Don’t apologize if you are a “one drop at a time until you are happy with where you’re at”-type of person.

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If you clean out the garage, it’s no big deal. Now you know how long it takes to kick in, what it does, how long it lasts and if it is useful to you. If you’re not satisfied with the results, wait a couple days (so you’re not combining effects from your first trial) and adjust as necessary.

Again, test your medication when you have some free time.

While this may make finding the perfect strain and dosage time-consuming, you will be rewarded with an effective yet unobtrusive medication.

Cannabis is a fantastic tool, but just like all the other medications out there your body will grow a tolerance to it. A bonus of Cannabis tolerance is that you do not need to taper yourself off of it like many pharmaceuticals. If you need to

take a break for a few days to reset your body, there is no “detox” period with adverse physical effects (though the addictiveness of cannabis is disputed and many factors impact dependency).

Be kind to yourself and use the relief you find to cultivate other methods to deal with your stress and pain, like talk therapy, acupuncture, shiatsu, yin restorative yoga, massage, swimming …

Explore your options and take your health seriously.

Wendy Buck-Benge is an alumnus of Peninsula College Nursing School and an owner of Sparket/ Origins Cannabis. She has 26 years of experience in emergency medicine with an emphasis on neurology, neonatology, labor and delivery and cannabis. Buck-Benge has traveled the country taking care of patients from the cradle to the grave.

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Give traveling a try

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Seniors may have the capacity to Seniors are perhaps the most devote more time to travel and not be likely demographic to indulge their caged in by strict time constraints. love of traveling. Retirement leaves These can include long-term rentlots of time for recreation, and many als in distant locales, several-week choose to spend that time on the sightseeing cruises or guided tours road. Travel also can improve adult overseas that touch on several longevity, according to geriatricians different countries or cities during at the University of Arkansas. the trip.

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Active men and women older than GENEALOGICAL TOURISM 50 are charting their own vacation This is one of the fastest-growing courses with bucket list-style vacamarkets in vacation travel. tions that may be off the beaten path.

Genealogical tourism involves Travelers who have always aspired to people traveling to areas of histori- climb a mountain or see a rain forest cal significance for their families, may be inclined to realize these goals such as churches where past relaas they get older. Nontraditional tives may have married and villages tours can include living like indigwhere grandparents or cousins once enous peoples or following the resided or were employed. footsteps of early explorers.

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It’s never too late to try something new Opinion by MARK HARVEY

What then?

Somehow, I don’t think that In the course of the taking on you’re going to be surprised to this last opportunity to write for hear that I have a suggestion: Lifelong Journey, I learned that the We could try being kind. Or, if we’re theme is, “It’s never too late to try already kind, we could try being something new.” kinder — more patient, more I thought, “Perfect! Here I am forgiving, quicker to seize an oppor(as of this writing) teetering on the tunity to help. verge of retirement, so I’m We could try being more all about trying sometolerant, less apt to tear thing new!” the metaphorical head off And I am. I just don’t another human being who know what it is … yet. is so seismically stupid that Certainly, most of us who they don’t giddily concur are at least semi-conscious with whatever it is that we are aware of the stories happen to believe. of elders who have gotten Be less inclined to decide Mark Harvey advanced degrees in their that we know who somebody 80s, graduated from law school is because of some demographic or in their early 90s or taken some impudently imposed descriptor. hobby or craft and turned it into Be less willing to adopt as a multi-million dollar enterprise, “gospel” some bumper sticker thriving outside the shadow of sound-bite, promulgated by some Social Security. talking head on some “news” outlet.

We also hear about the more And refuse to do or say anyadventurous “bucket list” types who thing that puts other people ignore their age while hang-gliding down, regardless of who we over the Himalayas or diving for think they are. treasure while surrounded by Pretty words, huh? Well, it isn’t predatory fish who are roughly the always easy. We’re trying somesize of outbuildings. And, I supthing new, remember? pose, there are some among us who We’re making a conscious deciwould throw caution (and sanity) sion to step outside of the crowd, to the wind as they tube down the or the mob or the clique or the club, Amazon River. and simply “do the right thing.”

The point is, of course, that in the And most of us usually know vast majority of cases, the thing what that is, when we think for that keeps us from trying new ourselves instead of listening to things isn’t our chronological age; someone else. it’s us. It’s what we tell ourselves We can observe without judging we can’t do: We’re too tired or too or imagining what goes on in somesick or too poor or too dumb or one’s mind, heart or soul, based too … old. solely on a thin slice of “evidence.”

“It’s too late.”

We can embrace a reasonable doubt No, it isn’t. Unless you’re already and decide to err on the side of dead, which may limit your simple human decency. choices somewhat.

We can take them, them and But the objective truth is that them and make them all into a some of us do have limitations that huge “us” if we want to. might complicate our ability to leap If we choose to ... small buildings in single bounds.

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something new.

Warning: Don’t expect to be popular if you do this. Making a decision (and a genuine effort) to be kind isn’t always met with universal glee and acceptance because it makes people uncomfortable. Somebody is different from somebody else, and that makes some people nervous.

But then, we didn’t get to this age (whatever “this age” is) by being wimpy, right?

What if you’d decided to go get that law degree? Don’t you suppose that would’ve made some people nervous? Right.

But what if you stick your neck out to be kind and somebody decides to be kind back? What then? What would this country come to?

A whole bunch of weird, old people being kind! That’s … disturbing.

That’s … lovely.

So, sure: You could take up chess, checkers or Chesapeake Bay retrievers. You could learn to play the flute or the flugelhorn, or enter an international cha-cha-cha tournament.

You could read the “great books of the Western World,” or the “great books of the Eastern World” or, for that matter, Marvel comics (you never know what you might be missing).

Or you could blow-up an inner tube from a 1958 Ford Edsel and float lazily down the Amazon posing as lunch.

Personally, I think I’d prefer to try being kind. It’s ageless.

Mark Harvey has been the director of Olympic Area Agency on Aging’s “Information & Assistance.” He can be reached by emailing harvemb@ dshs.wa.gov.

Editor's note: Harvey is retiring from Lifelong Journey. Thank you for all your years of contributing to this section. Good luck on your next adventure!

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Lifelong Journey • FEBRUARY 2020

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The health of our community is fueled by the health of our people.

The health of our community is fueled by the health of our people.

That’s why delivering excellent care drives everything we do.

With nine locations throughout the region, Jefferson Healthcare is your community healthcare provider. Our state-of-the-art facilities, experienced care providers and advanced medical technology give you access to the best care. Right here at home.

CANCER CARE

HOME HEALTH

PRIMARY CARE

CARDIOLOGY

HOSPICE

RADIOLOGY

DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING

INTERNAL MEDICINE

REHAB SERVICES

EMERGENCY MEDICINE

LAB SERVICES

RESPIRATORY SERVICES

ENDOSCOPY

MENTAL HEALTH

SLEEP MEDICINE

FAMILY BIRTH CENTER

OBSTETRICS

UROLOGY

FAMILY MEDICINE

ORTHOPEDICS

WOUND CARE

GENERAL SURGERY

PEDIATRICS

WOMEN’S HEALTH