V3 Grand Winter 2018

Quarterly Senior Living Magazine by V3 Publications

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Columns

OW NE R + C EO Ian Griffin

M AGA Z INE D E S IGN Elizabeth Blount Ellie Borromeo

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Renaissance Marquis' 6th Annual Charlie Hyde Golf Tournament raised over $12,000 for the Alzheimer's Association this year, and hopefully the memories golfers make on the course will help seniors hold on to their past.

E XEC U TIV E PHOTO GRA PHE R Cameron Flaisch

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Nina Lovel takes us on a journey through her tech catastrophe and provides a few helpful hints meant to keep us from being hacked.

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C O NTRIBU TING P HOTO GRA PHE RS Andy Calvert Jason Huynh

H ELPING HANDS

E D ITO RIA L MA NAGE R Oliver Robbins

The friendly faces of Harbin Clinic’s volunteers are usually the first ones you see when walking through their doors, and serving others is how they choose to help heal their community.

C ONTRIBU TING E D ITO R McKenzie Todd

G ROWING GRAY IN GEORGIA

ComForCare Home Care wishes to thank our veterans for their service by showing them the path to paying for a little help on the front line.

W RITE RS Nina Lovel Rachel Reiff McKenzie Todd

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A D S A LE S Chris Forino

If you ask Jason Bailey to write down what he appreciates, the list would hit the floor.

However, having a team like the professionals at Rome Health and Rehab in his corner has made all the difference.

A D D E S IGN Elizabeth Blount Ellie Borromeo

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A local retired elected official, Timothy Pape, recalls his journey in becoming a respected advocate for the children of Rome and Floyd County and teaches us how to judge without being judgmental.

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Read the remarkable account of Captain Jim McCubbin, a U.S. Airman who was willing to give everything for his country.

Coin Work Racing: Father and Son Duo Combine Passion and Purpose while Spending Time Together

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AS THE RAINS CONTINUED to drench the region during the last week of September, Renaissance Marquis’ 6th Annual Charlie Hyde Memorial Golf Tournament looked like it might be a wash. But the showers let up as the week went on and, though the fairways were soggy, spirits were high as golfers of all levels scrambled their way to raising over $12,000 for the local chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association.

Participants were welcomed to Stonebridge Golf Club with a catered breakfast from Subway and raffle opportunities including authentic replica football helmets from the University of Georgia and Alabama, as well as a slew of other prizes.

After getting warmed up on the driving range and practice green, players gathered for a group picture and a quick briefing on the cause they were supporting. Ben Baker, Marketing Director at Renaissance Marquis, informed the crowd that the tournament 6

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had raised over $60,000 in the first five years, while Executive Director Renita Carnes touched on the impact Alzheimer’s has on both those with the disease and their loved ones.

“We see it every day in our memory care facility,” says Baker.

“It’s a terrible disease and it’s heartbreaking for everyone involved. Fortunately, our community has been unbelievably supportive of our local chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association and we are thrilled to be able to contribute through this tournament.

Any amount of money that can help find a cure is a win, but the golfers that came out to this year’s tournament and the five before it are making a direct impact in the fight against Alzheimer’s.”

That support was shown through an exciting day on one of Northwest Georgia’s finest courses, as four-man teams played in a best ball format in order to record the collective lowest score possible. Bellies were filled courtesy of Chick-fil-a and beverages, both alcoholic and non-alcoholic, were provided by Eagle Rock Distributors and Coca-Cola of Rome. All in all, breakfast, lunch snacks and drinks were included in the price of admission.

Prizes were awarded for long-drive and closest to the pin, while a Jeep Wrangler was up for grabs, courtesy of University Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Rome, if a player hit a hole in one on the Par 3 8th hole. The latter did not become a reality, but Baker and his team put forth every effort to make the tournament engaging beyond just simply a beautiful day on the course.

“We got great feedback from all the participants this year and were excited to partner with Stonebridge for the first time in the tournaments history,” says Baker. “The goal is to provide a good time for the golfers who come out and support our cause. While we are always looking for ways to improve the experience, the feedback we got this year was all positive. We look forward to continuing the tradition and will strive to make it better each and every year.”

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It’s Time We Have This Talk Here and Now with Nina Lovel

YOU KNOW HOW you know you’re not supposed to do something but you do it anyway and then that thing that you know will happen, happens?

Your first instinct is to keep anybody else from knowing it.

Especially your kids. They worry about you enough, and the last thing you want is for them to get you an Apple Watch Series 4 for Christmas (more on this later).

So, what was it I did? Well, I am not proud of this and only share it so that you, my treasured readers, may learn from my mistake. It cost me many hours of stress and life energy, and is especially embarrassing because I make my living as a web app developer and really should know better. It can happen to the best of us: I clicked on a bad link.

In September, I snorkeled the Conasauga River and wanted to post my amazing underwater photos to Instagram. They weren’t on my phone so the process required some extra steps; I found an app online to use, and I downloaded it. First mistake. It didn’t work.

I tried harder. I entered my Instagram user name and password and when it still didn’t work, I took a break and forgot about my fish pics for the moment. In a few days I received an email from Instagram saying that my email address had been “changed to rsiz0cpj@list.ru, per my request”. Since I had not made such a request (and also because I wasn’t thinking), I clicked the email link that said, “If you did not request this, click here to revert”.

Rutt-row. Second mistake, and I still wasn’t thinking. When prompted to enter my phone number to receive a reset link, I did, and then it hit me: my Instagram login credentials had been hacked *and* I had just forked over my phone number to go with them…what a dummy!

I was hacked and locked out of Instagram, probably not even by a real person. Most of these stunts are pulled by computer scripts called “bots.” Because my bot had “.ru” in its email address, I decided it was Russian (though it could have come from

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anywhere in the world) and now it had my email address, my phone number and my Instagram password. That same password I used on about 27 other sites.

No problem, I thought; I’ll just contact Instagram tech support to reset my account. Well, Instagram is too busy enjoying its one billion users to actually give them any support. I did manage to find one screen deep in their non-support area where I described my issue with fading hope that it would reach a human who cared.

I hit submit and I waited.

About 30 hours later I received the first of many automated replies and the next three weeks found me sending and re-sending the same information, having to create a new email address and forwarding a photo of myself (make sure your whole arm and hand are in the picture) holding a piece of paper with my identifying information. Maddening. Disquieting. All because I clicked a bad link.

Hard lesson, well learned. I immediately changed every password in my life, eventually got my Instagram back, and resolved to share all this with you, because I want you to be informed and enjoy your online wanderings.

Had I remembered the things below, I wouldn’t have this story to tell: 1. Be Email Smart!

• My techie friend at work says that 90 percent of his stepfather’s computer issues come from emails.

• Turn on your email provider’s spam filter but remember it will only catch about 90 percent (not all) of the junk.

• When you get an email from someone you don’t recognize, stop and think. The bad guys play on our fears. When an email has an alarming subject like “Your computer’s security is in danger,” they’re betting you’ll open that thing right up and click on the sketchy link in it.

Think! Resist! Delete!

• If you get an unexpected email from someone you know, confirm the sender’s identity by hovering your mouse

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pointer over the “from” name; the sender’s email address will display. If it looks strange, something like rsiz0cpj@ list..ru, it is not from your friend. Stop! Think! Delete!

• Never, ever, ever click on a link or attachment in any email until you hover over it first (as above) and check its name. If a link or attachment reads “Click to see cute kittens” and hovering over it displays “qrziwrns@ ehsone..xqwf ”, forget the kittens; they are not there.

Stop! Resist! Delete!

• While it’s fine to unsubscribe from catalog/marketing emails (the option is there by law), bad-guys and bots don’t obey that law. If you have a suspicious email, resist the urge to click “Report as Spam” or “Unsubscribe”.

Delete it, delete it, delete it. Use this logic: a nefarious email is going to contain nefarious links and attachments.

2. Be password smart!

• Do as I say, not as I did. If you use the same password on multiple sites, fix that, right now. Go change your passwords on every site you use, and don’t use the same one twice. Yes, I’ve quit preaching and gone to meddling, but only because I care.

• “But,” you say, “some websites don’t matter because they don’t have my financial information.” That may be the case today, but one day you’ll decide to subscribe to one and you’ll enter your credit card number. If that site’s password is the same one you’re using on thirty-eleven other sites, when it gets snatched from any of those sites, the proud new owner of your password can (and will) start messing with your other accounts faster than you can say “I should have listened to Nina!” Save time, do this now.

• “But I can’t remember all those passwords!”, you say.

Neither can I. I use a password-manager app and so should you. The top two are LastPass (my choice) and 1Password.

These are secure, they’ll keep all your passwords safe, and you’ll only need to remember the one password it takes to get into the app. Both apps are free to try, then have a low-cost monthly subscription, totally worth it.

3. Understand proving you are who you say you are.

• Two factor authentication (2FA) is the most efficient security practice available. It works with your online accounts like your key and your security system keypad work at your house. At home, you use your key to get in the door (factor one), then enter your security code on the keypad to prove it’s you who came in the door (factor two).

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• Online, think of your password as your house key, and a security code that the website sends to your phone as your security system keypad code. Even if someone gets your password, only you will have your cell phone in hand to receive that code. When you enter the code you receive into the screen form, you’re proving you are yourself.

• If an app asks you to turn on two factor authentication, be brave and turn it on. It just wants to be sure it’s really you signing on, and it is a best practice for online security.

Be enlightened, not frightened.

By understanding how things work, we are better equipped to enjoy the amazing online world. And we’re doing just that: PEW Research shows 65 percent of us over 50 use Facebook regularly, and 68 percent use YouTube. (Only 21 percent are using Instagram, but that doesn’t matter; they have lousy customer service anyway.)

Back to that Apple Watch. Consider this recent headline: “Apple Watch Series 4 review: It's time to give one to Grandma.”

Yayyy Boomers! We are still a market force—the tech companies want us! They know we are active and independent, that some of us care for our elderly parents, and that we’re embracing wearable technology like Fitbits and Apple Watches. And they are enhancing these things just for us! A stylish wrist accessory can already monitor our heart rate and know where we are, but soon it will also produce an actual electrocardiogram; blood pressure and glucose monitoring won’t be far behind. So, you can put an Apple Watch Series 4 on Grandpa, track his whereabouts (handy if he’s prone to sneaking out at night), monitor his heart rate and because the watch has “advanced fall detection,” even be notified if he falls down. This Apple Watch Series 4 is so smart it can tell whether Grandpa just plopped down in his favorite chair or hit the floor in his workshop!

Friends, are you ready for this? I mean, ready for your kids to put one on you? I’m not. My Garmin uploads my steps, runs and rides for all to admire (ha-ha), but I’m not sharing anything more intimate than that! If I fall, it’s probably from climbing over a tree in the river. If my heart rate exceeds 140 it’s because I’m running down the road. I’m not ready to broadcast every time I hit the sofa, especially to some sleazy Russian bot.

So Lovel kids, you’re off the “Apple 4 Watch for Grandma” hook for this year; just put me down for another hula hoop and some nice warm socks.

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All Around Me are Familiar Faces Helping Hands with Harbin Clinic

ON A RAINY WEDNESDAY MORNING, Nellie Tew sits at the information desk located at the entrance of Harbin Clinic (1825 Martha Berry Boulevard, Rome).

People regularly approach her desk, asking the usual questions: ‘Where is the office of Dr. Gonzalez of Internal Medicine Rome located?’ etc... but Tew doesn’t miss a beat to explain, ‘On the second floor. When you get off the elevator, turn left and go straight.’

Tew also doesn’t hesitate when a patient mistakenly shows up to the wrong Harbin Clinic location. First, asking where the patient is parked, she explains the quickest way to get from one building to the other, including how many traffic lights they’ll go through as well as all the turns.

Handing them a map and circling their route, it’s obvious that Tew not only knows the nooks and crannies of the 1825 building by heart, but also every other Harbin Clinic building throughout Rome.

At eighty-nine years young, she has been volunteering at Harbin for around 12 years.

“I make friends with so many people,” says Tew. “I try to make eye contact with everybody and speak to them when they walk in, to help them have a more positive experience at Harbin.”

The act of volunteering, she says, impacts her own health in a positive way.

“It keeps me alert and motivated,” she says. “I’m a people person; I have been all my life.”

Nellie Tew is one of more than 60 volunteers at Harbin Clinic.

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always eager to assist patients in any way they can.

Sue Ingram, 74, also volunteers at Harbin Clinic and says getting out, helping others and being social helps her mentally and physically.

“It keeps you going,” says Ingram. “I don’t know what I would do if I had to stay home all of the time.”

The truth is, there are proven health benefits to volunteering, especially for senior citizens. It can increase self-esteem, expand your social life, increase physical activity, help lower stress and contribute to brain health.

“Being social and continuing to work keeps your mind healthy and can serve as prevention for dementia and Alzheimer's disease,” says Dr. John-Scott Carroll, a physician at Harbin Clinic Family Medicine Rome. “It’s also a great protective factor against depression and loneliness.”

Dr. Carroll also mentions that volunteering can give senior citizens more energy and physical activity, which in turn eases stiffness and helps to keep the body moving.

“There’s also a sense of feeling young and able, and it’s healthy to keep being active in the community. That goes a long way towards overall wellness,” says Dr. Carroll.

Harbin’s Top Priority

After retiring from her 23-year career as a branch manager with the Coosa Valley Credit Union, Helen Clonts didn’t want to sit idle. So, she began volunteering at the Harbin Clinic Cancer Center, where she has been volunteering for five years.

“In my old job, I was constantly involved with the public, and I didn’t want to stop being useful and helpful,” explains Clonts.

“I decided there were other ways I could serve people.”

Clonts, who is 72, describes herself as the “Wednesday Girl” at the Cancer Center. She works on the second floor in medical oncology on Wednesday mornings and downstairs at the information desk on Wednesday afternoons.

“I absolutely love what I do,” she raves. “It’s such a caring and compassionate environment; the doctors, nurses and the whole staff are just great. When I’m working at the front desk, I want people to know the moment they walk through that door that they are Harbin’s top priority. They’ll receive the best care in Northwest Georgia, as far as I’m concerned.”

Clonts also encourages other people her age to try their hand at volunteering, for their heart and their health.

“It does you so much good,” she smiles. “A lot of people who pass through might not have had a smile in days, and we can change that. If you have spare time and want to try volunteering, there’s a place for you at Harbin.”

If you’re interested in volunteering at Harbin Clinic, please visit harbinclinic.com/volunteer-opportunities.

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COMFORCARE

Signs of the Times Growing Gray in Georgia with ComForCare Home Care DID YOU KNOW THAT 68 percent of seniors admitted to nursing home facilities had a serious fall prior to entering the facility?

It is important to know that you are safe at home if something were to happen. Here are several questions to ask yourself when deciding on long term care: • Do you worry about falling while performing daily tasks in and around your home and ending up in a nursing home?

• Do you or your spouse need some extra help at home with things like taking out the trash, driving, meal preparation, laundry, dressing, light house-keeping and pet care?

• Do you feel safe driving?

• Do you have a balanced diet with tasty, well prepared meals?

• Do you miss doing things you used to do a few years ago?

• Is help available?

Trained Caregivers Can Assist You with Staying Safe in Your Home Having a Personal Assistant visit a few times a week can help prevent many seniors from being prematurely admitted to a nursing home.

How Will I Pay for This?

Funds are available to Veterans and surviving spouses of Veterans to assist them with paying for a caregiver to come to their home.

ComForCare Home Care of Northwest Georgia has resources to help veterans and their family through the process of obtaining benefits that will allow the veteran to stay in their home.

Introducing: VA Pension with Aid & Attendance Benefit Wartime veterans or surviving spouses of veterans may be eligible for up to $2,100 per month via the Veterans Affairs (VA) Pension with Aid & Attendance Benefit – that can pay for a personal assistant to come into their home part-time.

Estimates show that millions of seniors in the U.S. could qualify

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for this benefit, however, only half a million are currently getting the benefit. Why? Challenges to Getting the Benefit Most people simply don’t know the benefit exists. Our goal is to educate our local community about the benefit so they can choose whether or not they want to take advantage of it.

Local VSO offices (where Veterans usually go to apply for benefits) often have long lines and waits. In addition, many Veterans are told they “don’t qualify” or that they only qualify for a “partial benefit.” Also, multiple trips to a VSO are usually required for most seniors to successfully complete all parts of the benefit application. This can be hard for seniors who may be afraid of falling in unknown environments.

We Can Help!

The good news is that help is available.

ComForCare Home Care of Northwest Georgia has partnered with a company named Care Planning Institute (CPI) to assist Veterans and their surviving spouses with successfully getting approved for the VA Pension with Aid & Attendance Benefit without ever having to leave their homes.

CPI has Accredited VA Benefits Agents who are independent of the VA and work on behalf of Veterans and their spouses to help ensure the VA awards them the full benefit they are entitled.

How Do I Qualify for The Benefit?

Service Requirements • Wartime Service (or widow of wartime Veteran) • Served at least 90 days of active duty • Served at least one day during a war period • Honorable discharge Age & Medical Condition • Over age 65 • Need assistance with activities of daily living Limit on Assets • Approximately $123,000 in assets.

Assets VA Does Not Count Exempt Assets: • Home (must live in it) • Vehicles • Personal property Keeping the VA Benefit The VA randomly audits Pension with Aid & Attendance Benefit recipients and requires detailed documentation to verify the recipient has stayed compliant with the benefit requirements.

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Non-compliant benefit recipients will lose their benefit.

Solution: CPI Accredited VA Benefits Agents will work with you and your family to ensure appropriate documentation is kept and adequate communication with the VA occurs to maintain benefit eligibility ongoing.

Steps To Get Started Call ComForCare Home Care of Northwest Georgia today at (706) 622-3065. Our trained staff will be able to speak with you about your need over the phone and then we can follow up with a home visit where we can complete all the paperwork in the comfort of your home.

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ROME HEALTH AND REHAB

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with Rome Health and Rehab JANUARY 24, 2018… a day I will never forget.

That day started as a typical work day for me. I woke up, took a shower, drove to work, drank my coffee, attended meetings all day, ate lunch, hung out with friends playing trivia and lastly said goodbye by shaking hands or giving a friendly hug.

These are all very little things that we all, including myself, take for granted on a daily basis. However, that day was different.

That day was the last day I would do these every day, routine, and even mundane activities independently for a long time… if ever again.

It started out as just a little weakness in my left arm after work. I went to bed that night thinking my hand was just tired from a full day’s work; however, when I woke up the next day and could not move either hand at all and had trouble walking, I knew there was something wrong.

After arriving in the Emergency Room, I went through a sequence of tests including: three MRIs, two CAT scans, numerous X-rays and a spinal tap. The neurologist finally came in and told us I had Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) and that I had to be admitted to the hospital as soon as possible.

GBS is a rare autoimmune disease where your immune system goes a little haywire and decides to attack one’s peripheral nervous system, which is essentially all your nerves except your spinal cord and brain. In other words, it’s similar to when a power line goes down. The power is still there, it just can’t get to your house because the line isn’t fully connected.

GBS is a very rare disorder, affecting one in 100,000 people.

No one knows the exact cause of GBS, either. It sometimes appears as a result from exposure to a virus (like the flu), the flu shot and even food poisoning has been associated with it, but the exact cause is completely unknown.

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GBS can cause anything from just minor tingling and numbness in fingers and toes, to complete paralysis and even death. In my case, within 24 hours of having the first tingling in my hands, I became completely paralyzed from the neck down.

I spent a total of 92 days in the intensive care unit (ICU).

During most of this time I was completely awake and aware of what was going on around me and had sensations everywhere in my body. I thought I could feel, but I couldn’t move at all.

Within 48 hours of going to the ER, I lost the ability to breathe on my own as those muscles were affected as well.

Here I was, for three months in ICU unable to move my body or communicate in anyway other than lip reading (I found out the hard way that everyone is terrible at lip reading).

The good news from all of this, however, is that over time GBS is reversible… even sometimes completely.

It was during these dark days of being trapped in your own body that I learned the first lesson of GBS: patience. You have

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to have patience, and just when you think you have no more patience, you have to be even more patient. It’s all waiting game… waiting for those nerves to heal, and unfortunately that takes time, lots and lots of time.

Finally, 92 days after being admitted to the hospital I reached my first recovery milestone.

I could breathe on my own!!!

Breathing seems so easy, but out of everything I’ve ever had to do in my life, learning to breathe again was by far the hardest.

At this point I could breathe on my own, but I had very little movement in any parts of my body. This is where I learned the second lesson about GBS. No matter how hard you may have worked for something in the past, to overcome GBS you’re going to have to work harder than you ever thought was possible.

On June 14, 2018, I arrived at Rome Health and Rehab.

Most of my therapy prior to arriving at Rome Health and Rehab revolved around stretching and trying to move all of my extremities. I needed help with all my activities including: getting up into my wheelchair, pushing my wheelchair, using the restroom, showering, getting dressed and even eating.

As we began our therapy, something amazing happened… I started getting better!

I worked two hours a day in therapy: one hour with my physical therapist Mike, and one hour with my occupational therapist. This is where I started applying the second lesson I learned from GBS. Not only did I do the work with the therapist, but I did extra work on my own to push myself even further.

While I still have a long way to go on my road to recovery, I am much closer now than I was before, and I have the folks at Rome Health and Rehab to thank.

While this may sound like a horrible disease, it’s actually been amazing to experience this.

How many of you remember your first steps, the first time you fed yourself, the first time you put on your shirt or the first time you’ve got yourself out of bed by yourself? I know I certainly didn’t remember those things, but I’ve gotten a second chance to witness these aspects of life that we take for granted in a way that most people don’t get to experience.

Walking is hard. Watch any baby try to do it and they fall, but they always get up and do it again. Now imagine a 175 pound, 44-year-old man do the same thing (no falling though, because I have spotters!) I’m going to tell you it’s not pretty… but the smile on my face when I accomplish things like walking on a walker for the first time or feeding myself a meal for the first time is worth it.

These are all things that I’ve been able to do for the first time with the help of the staff at Rome Health and Rehab, and it’s not just the therapists, but the entire staff who has gone out of their way to take care of me and all the residents in order to make us feel like a member of the community. It doesn’t matter

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if it’s the administrator of the building or the person doing the laundry, they all treat you with respect.

I would also be remiss to not mention my numerous friends and family that have helped me along this journey as well with their love and support. I don’t think I’d be as far along in my recovery as I am today without them.

As I’ve said before, there is still a long way to go, but as you can see from the things I can do now, but couldn’t do just a few weeks ago, I am well along the road to recovery.

Thanks to all the great folks at Rome Health and Rehab!

Denise Champagne, Jennifer Haislip-Lynn, Lisa Thomas

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Courage Under Fire Veteran Profile Photography Jason Huynh

Text McKenzie Todd

CAPTAIN JIM MCCUBBIN, a Veteran of the U.S. Air Force, holds 97 years of memories in his mind—a spectacle only few can say they have tucked away. That’s 97 years of indescribable moments… a story so compelling, it seems as if it has leapt from the pages of a best-selling novel.

This is Jim McCubbin’s story.

Jim McCubbin is currently a resident at Renaissance Marquis (3126 Cedartown Hwy, Rome, GA) and has lived there for around eight years.

McCubbin was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and later moved to Columbia, Missouri to attend college at the University of Missouri. For as long as he could remember, his dream was to fly airplanes, which perhaps encouraged his career choices throughout the rest of his life.

Little did he know, his chance to serve his country would see his dream realized.

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“I was actually in my very last semester of college at the University of Missouri when I was drafted. That was in February…

I would have graduated that following June,” recalls McCubbin.

“After they drafted me, I was then sent over to a base in San Antonio, Texas where I went through training. I was put into pilot training fairly quickly, as I already had my pilot license as a student,” says McCubbin.

During World War II, he was a P51 Mustang fighter pilot and Prisoner of War (POW) in Frankfurt, Germany.

When asked what his most vivid memory of his time in uniform was, Jim quickly spit out perhaps one of the most interesting stories I had ever heard in my life.

“The thing I remember the most is flying a P51 in combat.

That was very interesting,” chuckles McCubbin.

“A P51 is a mustang single engine fighter plane, which was very popular during WWII,” explains McCubbin. “I flew the P51 for

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about eight months in Europe until I made a mistake and was hit by ground fire during a mission. The bullet put a large hole in my right wing. Fortunately, the large caliber bullet that hit the wing went right on through, not exploding the entire plane.

I wouldn’t be here if it had done what it was supposed to do.

“After that, my airplane wouldn’t fly. I had to jump out at a low altitude, but I hit the ground with no broken bones,” continues McCubbin.

“There I was, in the middle of Germany. No one was around.

I eventually found a farm house, so I went over, knocked on the door and a young lady answered. I asked her for food and she handed something through the crack. I then asked her if I could stay in her barn for the night, which she obliged.

“I wandered all over Germany for around two weeks before, finally, the Germans caught up with me. Then, I was taken to a prison camp in Frankfurt with hundreds of other prisoners, a lot of whom were from the Air Force as well,” says McCubbin.

Here is an account written by Mr. McCubbin on April 5, 1995 about his POW experience: “We entered the POW camp on March 5, my 24th birthday.

The good news was that the soup had more peas. The bad news was that over half of the peas had worms in them. We

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slept in groups on the floor to conserve body heat and to share the one five-by-five blanket they had provided us.

We became so weak that we rationed trips to the latrine. I remember that you had to be careful when you stood up to avoid blacking out. This was the place for the best and most unusual war stories.

After hearing one, I promised myself to keep a journal.”

Just imagine, he saved us from the rest of the gory details, but one can only fathom some of the things he went through during his time in internment.

“I remember meeting several men who had been in the prison for six years. Fortunately, I was only held for four months. I don’t remember how I got out, but I did.”

World War II ended in June of 1945. McCubbin left Europe and went back to the University of Missouri to finish his degree in Mechanical Engineering. Once finishing his degree, he and his family spent the next 12 years in Mexico. The war hero went to work for a company that built cooling towers.

He married the love of his life, Bettye, in 1947. Bettye was a writer who used her craft to build a career throughout their 70 years together. Bettye wasn’t the only one who loved to write, however, as Jim has an entire binder full of written accounts from his time during the war.

One section written on April 15, 1995 reads: “On this typical damp English morning of September 23, 1944, as I sat in the cockpit of my beautiful “D” model P51 waiting for the start engines command, I could hardly believe that I was finally going on my first combat mission. I think this dream, which was about to be fulfilled, started at the age of 12, a long time to wait.

“Then came the long-awaited radio call, ‘Gentleman, start your engines!’ The memory of the emotions at that particular moment, even after these 50 years, is still strong enough to bring tears to my eyes. The thrill of 50 Rolls Royce, 12 cylinder, 1600 horse power engines coughing and struggling to catch enough fuel to start. These feelings never diminished, even after 44 missions that equated to almost 200 combat hours.”

This is one small section of a book full of interesting stories and recounts of history, all witnessed and lived through by one man. Rome and Renaissance Marquis is very lucky to have Mr. McCubbin call it home, and anyone you ask would most likely agree. Grand is honored to have been able to retell these cherished memories for him, and to personally thank him for his service.

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Clearing the Bench A beloved Juvenile Court Judge tells us of his good fight for the youth of Rome and Floyd County, and teaches us all how to judge without being judgmental.

Photography Jason Huynh

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JUDGE TIMOTHY PAPE s GRAND FEATURE

IF YOU ARE A NATIVE OF ROME, chances are, you have heard the name Judge Timothy Pape.

Judge Pape is most known for his dedication to the children of Rome, as well as receiving the honor of serving as the first elected Juvenile Court judge in Georgia and Floyd County. If you ask anyone who has dealt with Pape on a professional level the overwhelming opinion is simply, “Judge Pape was fair. He always looked out for others.”

His love for the law and fighting for the rights of the ill-informed is still very much alive.

When I contacted Judge Pape to set up our interview, I actually interrupted his vacation. He graciously told me that he was on a cruise ship in Alaska and wondered if we could meet for our interview after he had docked at home.

Of course, I agreed.

But to be honest, after we had secured an interview time and place, I was quite nervous. Interviewing a man respected by so many was a daunting task and I certainly did not want to take it for lightly.

Rome because my father took a job managing the plant,” explains Pape. “This was when I was about five years old and I have been a Roman ever since.”

After graduating from high school as an East Rome Gladiator, Pape completed his undergraduate degree at Mercer University with the intention of going to law school. For many young scholars predicting career paths is like predicting Georgia winters, and Pape left Mercer with a degree in Political Science and Philosophy.

“After I graduated from Mercer, I was thinking, at the time, of becoming a university professor. I loved Berry College and Rome, so that is where I was hoping to end up after graduate school,” says Pape. “I applied and was accepted into the University of Georgia in their philosophy graduate program.

“I completed a research and teaching assistantship at UGA and found out that I was not as cut out for the job as I thought I needed to be. So, I went back to my original idea of attending law school. After taking a year-long hiatus to work and save up money, I was accepted to the University of Georgia School of Law,” remembers Pape.

“I wanted to be a lawyer, so I could win it for the little guy...

Being an assistant DA, your job was to help people who were victimized, which is exactly what I wanted to do.”

After meeting him and shaking his hand, the man in front of me and the stories I had heard of the judge did seem not the same.

From his friendly banter with Judge Greg Price who currently presides over Floyd County’s Juvenile Court, to his quick wit and playful way with his ex-colleagues, it is easy to see how he was able to relate to the public he was tasked with serving for more than 30 years.

On the day of our interview, Judge Pape strolled into the Courthouse sporting khaki cargo pants and a Columbia Performance Fishing Gear (PFG) shirt. His laidback choice in clothing matched his demeanor, as before he even entered the courtroom, he could be heard cracking jokes down the hall.

My nerves subsided, and I began an interview with a man hell bent on making the most out of what matters to him.

FROM GAVEL TO GRANDPA Pape was born in Pittsville, Massachusetts, comically labeling himself a “good Yankee”.

When General Electric (GE) built a plant here in Rome in 1952, Pape’s dad (who worked for GE in Pittsville) was promoted to maintenance foreman of the new location. The soon-to-be lawyer and his family got on the road and made the long trek down to Northwest Georgia. “We transferred from Pittsville to

Pape graduated from UGA Law in 1977 at the age of 29—holding about ten combined years of education after high school with four years of undergraduate studies, a year of intermission, three years of graduate study and a few life lessons along the way.

“I started my career as an assistant defense attorney here in Rome, where I worked for a few years before transitioning into private practice,” says Pape.

He then explains how it was his true calling to be a lawyer, mostly because he hated seeing people being taken advantage of.

“I wanted to be a lawyer, so I could win it for the little guy. I can remember in law school, one of my professors saying, ‘You want to do criminal law? That’s dirty law. You need to be in business law.’ I said, ‘No, I want to do something that has good results and to help others.’ Being an assistant DA, your job was to help people who were victimized, which is exactly what I wanted to do,” says Pape.

After two years of serving as assistant DA, Pape decided that in an effort to understand all aspects of the law, he needed to experience the other side as well. “I enjoyed being an assistant DA, but there are people who get accused of things they are not guilty of. This is really what pushed me to a private practice,” explains Pape.

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“This is history right here,” he laughs as he and his friend Judge Price share a chuckle from across the room.

Then the retired voice of reason and authority opens his mind, and recalls the defining moment of a legacy. The way he speaks about this experience lets listeners know that this sparked a flame that still burns inside a man meant for service. This case was essentially what led Pape to serve in the juvenile system here in Rome.

“Way back when, there was a place called Ruth’s Home of Compassion in Rosedale, Georgia that was purely a churchorganized institution. A group of churches would pay to have troubled girls sent to this group home in order to ‘redeem them,’” says Pape.

“A couple of the girls ran and accused them of abuse. Not anything terrible, but I ended up being appointed as an attorney Guardian ad Litem, or a person the court appoints to investigate what solutions would be in the best interests of a child. That is how I ended up in juvenile justice, and this case was my first work with juvenile court, which eventually led to me becoming a judge,” says Pape.

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Pape was the first elected Juvenile Court Judge in Georgia and served in that post full time starting in 1990 after serving part time beginning in 1982. He is currently recorded as the longest serving elected representative in the State of Georgia.

Juvenile Court judges are appointed by a Supreme Court judge, as directed in the Constitution of the State of Georgia.

As an amendment to the Constitution of Floyd County, Juvenile Court judges within the county are elected instead of appointed.

“Being elected made me feel more responsible for the children that I was sitting in front of each day. It also gave me more support from the community because it was almost as if they had asked me to do the job,” says Pape.

Pape explains his time serving in Floyd County as a judge parttime, which was not cutting it, as the caseload was consistently heavy with families and children in need.

“It was a job that needed someone on hand 24/7 in order to learn the psychology of children’s behavior, how Division of Family and Children Services (DFCS) and the Department of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) operates, what the available resources were and more,” explains Pape. “This is not a practice where a jury decides things. It is not a practice where you hand it off to someone else.

There is an awful lot in the law that requires the judge themselves to supervise what is being handled.”

When asked about the challenges of helping families and children in crisis, his answer is surprising. After spending time with him, it is easy to see that his approach to helping it is consistent with how he sees people and world around him.

“I have never found parents who wanted to be bad and wanted to do bad things to their children. It simply stems from how they have been raised, or their ruminations,” explains Pape.

“The folks who you end up dealing with here are the ones who have very serious complications in their lives, and it is not always their fault. I live by the mantra to ‘judge without being judgmental.’ You do not treat people as less than yourself and you have to understand that they are not seeing their world as you would. As a judge, you are challenged to encourage them to look at themselves differently and to treat their kids differently, which is so important,” says Pape.

It’s as simple as that… according to Pape. Being an effective and fair judge is just “how you treat people.”

Pape retired as Juvenile Court Judge in 2013, just two months short of 31 years. His friends, Gregory Price and Judge Pro-Temp Hal Duffy, took his place and have run with the baton without missing a stride.

Pape currently lives on the lake in Big Canoe, but he and his wife, Jackie, are making the move back to Rome next year, as they purchased a Loft on Broad Street.

“I have an absolutely wonderful wife who is laid back and we love lots of the same things,” says Pape. “We have so much fun together.”

Pape still hangs out with a group of old juvenile court judges

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and their families on the weekends. “We go to the club every Friday and just have a good time,” jokes Pape. “Seriously though, we go out on the pontoon boat and fish, tour winery’s, travel together and more.”

“Yeah, the grandbaby is waiting on me at home, so I’m gonna have to go soon.”

Spoken like a man who has seen a few things from the bench and appreciates the value of family.

“The folks that you end up dealing with here are the ones who have very serious complications in their lives, and it is not always their fault. I lived by the mantra to ‘judge without being judgmental.’

In the first year of his retirement, he and Jackie jumped in the car and drove all the way to California and back. When I tried to set up our interview, he and his wife were in the process of marking off an eagerly awaited bucket-list trip to Alaska. Laying down the gavel and picking up a really nice camera has been good for the long-time advocate for many, and now he enjoys photographing and spending time with his children and grandchildren.

“I’m in an interview with this magazine, honey…can I call you back?” he says to his bride after answering an unexpected call.

Pape is most definitely making use of his time during retirement, which after a long career of service is well-deserved. The effect that Judge Timothy Pape has had on Rome and Floyd County residents will far exceed his time on the bench and his fight was one for good and understanding.

From gavel to grandpa, it seems like he’s got this life thing licked.

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Coin Work Racing: Father and Son Duo Combine Passion and Purpose while Spending Time Together

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dwin B. “Catfish” Scott and his son, Donnie Scott, share more than the same DNA in their blood; they also share their love for cars and drag racing.

Catfish learned to work on cars from his older brother, Herbert Don Elbert Scott, for whom his son Donnie is named for. “When momma needed a babysitter, she’d send me to him….

That was it. I always was into music and cars.

When Donnie came along, well, next thing I know, every time I was out there in the shop trying to make a little bit of extra money, he’s there hanging out with me. And next thing I know, he’s welding and working. He picked it up too and ran with it,” Catfish explains.

Donnie nodded in agreement. “He was always busy working, so the only time I could spend time with him was when he was working on cars. Seeing him face those challenges inspired me.”

When young Donnie was just 12, he saved up his money from helping his mother work at a Dodge dealership and bought himself his very first car. That first fixer-upper lead Donnie and his father to continue tinkering on cars and their engines for the next few decades.

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In 2012, after taking a back road home to Georgia from Alabama, the father and son saw an older Honda CRX sitting up on cinder blocks by the road, which would soon become their first official racing car.

“We put a motor in it, took it to the track, and it went faster than we thought it was going to go. And that’s when we realized that we had something special,” smiles Donnie.

At first the duo took their new racing car to local Georgia drag racing events. As they got it to go faster and faster, they began taking it to a national scale, traveling to places like New Jersey and Florida.

After deciding to put a bigger motor in the car, they progressed to 9.82 seconds and 140 mph in one quarter mile, breaking the 8 series motor record in 2015.

After that success, Catfish and Donnie decided they were ready for a new car and a new challenge. They are now working on rebuilding a 1993 Honda Civic to take to races such as the OGS 1320, H Day, Import Showdown and Import Face Off Races. Most notably, they’re also scheduled to compete at the World Cup Finals, an elite drag race boasting of over 30,000 international

and national spectators at the Maryland International Raceway from October 31 to November 4.

While father and son are equally proud of each other and all they have accomplished, Catfish could not help but smile as he bragged on his son: “Donnie is the baddest mechanic, he is the most awesome dude that there ever was. When you see the passion this guy has, how much he does; you want to help and support those kinds of people, because they have passion like you wouldn’t believe,” says Catfish.

It is this passion and love that makes the Scott men winners in not only car racing, but also family.

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Silver Bells Text McKenzie Todd Photography Jason Huynh The Bells of St. Mary Handbell Choir are a local mainstay for the musically inclined as a unique way to contribute to the worship experience offered by the parish at St. Mary’s Catholic Church.

Performances vary based on choir ability and are set at the beginning of each season. The choir plays one mass per month plus Christmas Eve before mass (at 5:30pm) and Easter with an occasional off-site performance like at nursing homes and Floyd Hospital.

For more information about joining the Bells of St. Mary's or booking the group to play for an event, contact Kenneth Moyers at 706-506-7978.

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At Parker Center, Activity room

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FRIDAYS Sittercise • 9 - 10am

At Parker Center, Activity room

Pickleball + Cards • 9:30am - 12pm At Gilbreath Center *$1 to play

Line Dancing • 10am - 12pm

At Parker Center, Banquet room *$2 per class

Line Dancing • 1 - 3pm

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Bridge Club • 1 - 4pm At Parker Center

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