golden times, august 2014

GOLDENTIMES

A monthly magazine for the region’s retirees by Target Publications

Aug. 4, 2014 / Vol. 24, No. 8

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GOLDENTIMES INDEX:Social Security Q&A ................... Page 5

Meal site list ............................... Page 5

Briefs .......................................... Page 6

Birthdays .................................... Page 7

Reader poetry ............................. Page 14

Dementia care program works ....Page 15

Sudoku solution ..........................Page 15

Volunteer opportunities ..............Page 16

Crossword solution .....................Page 17

Prize fi ghting memorabilia ......... 0

Hair loss with age ...................... Page 22

Sudoku ........................................Page 22

Crossword ...................................Page 23

Thought for the month

“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way.”

— Christopher Morley

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WHO AM I?I was born Aug. 4, 1944, in Connecticut.

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Senior nutrition menuS for AuguStmonday tuesday wednesday thursday friday

Lewiston senior nutrition Program

serves hot lunches at noon at the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St. and the United Methodist Church, 1213 Burrell Ave. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Cost is $5 for nonseniors.

4 Chicken-fried steak/potatoes/gravy/mixed vegetables/coleslaw/biscuit

5 Spaghetti/green beans/salad/French bread/Jell-O

6 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Roast beef

11 Meatloaf/potatoes/gravy/vegetables/green salad/roll

12 Barbecue sandwich/baked beans/macaroni salad/carrots/fruit

13 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Chicken

18 German sausage/kraut/potatoes/broccoli normandy/coleslaw/roll/cookie

19 Porcupine meatballs/rice pilaf/green beans/Jell-O salad/pudding/muffin

20 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Roast turkey

25 Baked ham/potatoes au gratin /carrots/applesauce/cornbread

26 Beef stroganoff/mixed vegetables/salad/roll/fruit

27 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Barbecue

moscow senior nutrition Program

serves lunch at noon in the Great Room of the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Cost is $6 for nonseniors. Salad bar is available at 11:30 a.m. a dessert bar is available at each service.

12 Chicken enchilada/spanish rice/vegetables

14 Barbecue pork on a bun/jo-jo potatoes/vegetables

7 Spaghetti and meatballs/vegetables

19: Salisbury steak/mashed potatoes/gravy/vegetables

21 Tilapia/garden rice/vegetables

5 Sausage/biscuits/gravy

26 Maccaroni and cheese/beef franks/vegetables

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5 Barbecue chicken/jo-jo potatoes/squash/corn muffin/fruit

8 Baked fish/salad bar/fruit

7 Shepard’s pie/green beans/roll/fruit/brownies

15 Hamburger on a bun/salad bar/fruit

14 Beef stroganoff/peas/beets/roll/fruit

26 Beef roast/mashed potatoes/gravy/carrots/fruit juice/roll/cake/ice cream

21 Spanish rice/mixed vegetables/roll/fruit

(no Clarkston delivery/Asotin closed)

22 Chicken strips/salad bar/fruit

19 Ham/scalloped potatoes/venetian-blend vegetables/biscuit/fruit/cookie

12 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/gravy/broccoli/apple crisp

28 Chicken fettuccine/Italian-blend vegetables/salad/breadsticks/fruit

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Individuals can have a hot meal delivered to their residence for $3 per day or a hot meal and a sack lunch for $4 per day.More information is available by calling (208) 799-5767.

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sunday Monday tuesday wednesday thurday friday saturday

hot: ham with pineapple glaze/carrots

sack: ham salad sandwich

4hot: Beef pot roast/mashed potatoes/corn

sack: turkey and swiss cheese sandwich

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sack: Bologna and cheese sandwich

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steamed cauliflower

sack: Egg salad sandwich

7hot: Beef lasagna/steamed

broccoli

sack: chicken salad sandwich

8hot: Pork cutlet/artichoke penne/peas and

carrots

sack: Peanut butter and jelly sandwich

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hot: Braised beef/peas and carrots/roasted

red potatoes

sack: Bologna and american cheese sandwich

hot: Margharita chicken pasta/green beans


hot: Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/

broccoli and carrots


hot: spaghetti and meatballs/grilled

vegetables


hot: chipotle honey turkey/mashed

potatoes/roasted tomatoes

sack: turkey and cheddar cheese sandwich

hot: asian-spiced pork rice/dilled

carrots

sack: tuna sandwich

hot: chicken and broccoli casserole/

cauliflower

sack: Roast beef and cheddar sandwich

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hot: teriaki chicken/steamed brown

rice/carrots


hot: tuna noodle casserole/corn


hot: salsbury steak/mashed potatoes/peas

sack: turkey and american cheese sandwich

hot: Barbecue beef brisket/roasted red

potatoes/broccoli

sack: ham and swiss cheese sandwich

hot: chicken pasta alfredo/almond green

beans

sack: tuna salad sandwich

hot: herb-roasted chicken/brown

rice/roasted cauliflower

sack: Pastrami and swiss cheese sandwich

hot: Baked ziti with meat sauce/mixed

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hot: turkey pot pie/broccoli

sack: Roast beef and swiss cheese sandwich

hot: ham with pineapple glaze/ carrots

sack: ham salad sandwich

hot: Beef pot roast/mashed potatoes/corn

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Q: I pay my monthly pre-mium directly to my Medi-care prescription drug plan provider. Why can’t I also pay my income-related monthly adjustment amount directly to my Medicare prescription drug plan provider?

A: By law, we must deduct your income-related monthly adjustment amount from your Social Security payments. If the amount you owe is more than the amount of your payment, or you don’t get monthly payments, you will get a separate bill from an-other federal agency, such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or the Rail-road Retirement Board. Read our publication, “Medicare Premiums: Rules for Higher-Income Beneficiaries,” for an idea of what you can expect

to pay. You’ll find it on our website.

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Security card. How can I get a new one?

A: First, consider whether you really need a new card. You only need to apply for a replacement Social Security card if you don’t know your Social Security number or if you need to show your card to a new employer or other entity. If you decide you need a card, you can replace it for free in three easy steps.

Step 1: Complete an Ap-plication for a Social Security Card (Form SS-5).

Step 2: Show us documents proving your identity and U.S. citizenship or immigra-tion status.

Step 3: Take your com-pleted application and origi-nal documents to your local Social Security office or your

local Social Security card center. You’ll receive your replacement card in the mail in about 10-15 days.

You can find all the infor-mation you need, including what documents you will need to submit on our web-site.

This column was pre-pared by the Social Security Administration. For fast answers to specific Social Security questions, contact Social Security toll-free at (800) 772-1213 or visit www.socialsecurity.gov.

Cottonwood Community Church 510 Gilmore, Cottonwood, (208) 962-7762 Meals at noon on TuesdaysGrangeville Senior Center County Road, Grangeville, (208) 983-2033 Meals at noon on Mondays and FridaysJuliaetta-Kendrick Senior Citizens Center 104 S. Sixth, Kendrick, (208) 289-5031 Meals at noon on Wednesdays and FridaysKamiah Senior Center 125 N. Maple St., Kamiah, (208) 935-0244 Meals at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and FridaysLewiston Community Center 1424 Main St., Lewiston, (208) 743-6983 Meals at noon on Mondays, Tuesdays and WednesdaysOrchards United Methodist Church 1213 Burrell Ave., Lewiston, (208) 743-9201 Meals at noon on Mondays, Tuesdays and WednesdaysMoscow Senior Center 412 Third St., Moscow, (208) 882-1562 Meals at noon on Tuesdays and ThursdaysNezperce Senior Citizens 501 Cedar St., Nezperce, (208) 937-2465 Meals at noon on Mondays and ThursdaysOrofino Senior Center 930 Michigan Ave., Orofino, (208) 476-4328 Meals at noon on Tuesdays and FridaysPomeroy Senior Center 695 Main St., Pomeroy, (509) 843-3308

Meals at noon on Mondays, Wednesdays and FridaysPotlatch Senior Citizens IOOF/Rebekah Hall, Pine St., Potlatch, (208) 875-1071 Meals at noon on Tuesdays and FridaysPullman Senior Center 325 S.E. Paradise St., Pullman, (509) 338-3307 Meals at 11:45 a.m. on Mondays and FridaysRiggins Odd Fellows Building 121 S. Lodge St., Riggins, (208) 628-4147 Meals at noon on TuesdaysUnited Methodist Church 313 Second St., Asotin, (509) 758-3816 Meals at 11:45 a.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and FridaysValley Community Center 549 Fifth St., Clarkston, (509) 758-3816 Meals at noon on Tuesdays, Thursdays and FridaysWeippe Hilltop Senior Citizens Center 115 First St. W., Weippe, (208) 435-4553 Meals at noon on Mondays and ThursdaysWinchester Senior Citizens Center Nez Perce Ave., Winchester, (208) 924-6581 Meals at noon on WednesdaysPullman Meals on Wheels (Whitman County Council on Aging) (509) 397-4305Valley Meals on Wheels (208) 799-5767

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Volunteers will use the yarn to make hats, scarves, mittens and lap robes, which will then be donated to various nonprofi t organizations in the area.

Donated yarn can be taken to the WA-ID offi ce between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays. The offi ce is located inside the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St.

Senior center plans monthly pancake feed

The Sixth Street Senior Center in Clarkston will have its monthly pancake feed at noon next Monday. Cost is $4 per person.

Dayna’s foot care is at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and Donna’s foot care is ev-ery Tuesday and Thursday by appoint-ment. Appointments for foot care can

be scheduled by calling (509) 780-3810. Also on Tuesdays and Thursdays is San-di’s chair massage between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. There is a signup sheet at the center for massages or appointments can be made by calling (360) 789-1956. The twice-weekly dances at the center are from 7-10 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Cost for dances is $5 per person.

The monthly potluck lunch is at noon Aug. 25.

Valley Community Center offers array of activities

Besides being the location of the Aso-tin County Senior Roundtable lunches, the center has daily activities for area seniors.

Lunches are served at noon on Tues-days, Thursdays and Fridays.

Marcia’s foot care is offered on Mon-days at the center by appointment. Appointments can be made by calling (509) 330-1857.

Other activities at the center in-clude:

Tuesdays — fitness from 10:15-11:15 a.m.; and pinochle from 12:45-3 p.m.

Thursdays — fitness from 10:15-

11:15 a.m.; blood-pressure check at 11:30 a.m.; and bridge from 12:30-4 p.m.

Fridays — pinochle from 12:45-3 p.m.

Saturdays — bridge from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

The Valley Community Center board will meet at 9 a.m. Aug. 13 and Seaport Quilters will meet from 6-9 p.m. Aug. 25.

Senior activities offered at Lewiston Community Center

The Lewiston Parks and Recreation Department offers several free activi-ties for residents age 50 and older at the Lewiston Community Center.

Line dancing is offered at 10 a.m. on Mondays and at 9 a.m. Thursdays. There is a game of pinochle played at 6:30 p.m. each Wednesday and a bridge game at noon each Friday. There is also a painting club at noon each Thursday.

Registration for all senior activities is required and can be completed at the Parks and Rec offi ce or online at www.cityofl ewiston/parksandrec. A full list of activities and special events is also available on the website.


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Mailed information may be sent to: Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501; emailed submissions should be sent to [email protected].

September birthdays must be received by 5 p.m. Aug. 18.

BIRTHDAYSAug. 2

Betty Chase of Orofino celebrated her 88th birthday Saturday.

She was born Aug. 2, 1926, in Dalhart, Texas, and moved to the Northwest in 1946.

She married Palmer Chase.Chase taught school at Orofino Elementary School for 22

years and retired in 1988.She is a member of the Clearwater Citizens Organization,

P.E.O. Chapter AW, and the Hit and Miss Club.Chase has four children, 12 grandchildren and five great-

grandchildren.

BeTTy ChASe

Aug. 5

Lillie Thiessen of Orofino will celebrate her 86th birthday Tuesday.

She was born Aug. 5, 1928, to Denver and Sylvia Snyder. Thiessen, and graduated from Weippe High School.

She and Gordon Thiessen were married on April 8, 1945.

The couple have two daughters, eight grandchildren and several great-grandchil-dren. Their son was killed in an airplane accident while serving in the U.S. Air Force in Germany.

LILLIe ThIeSSen

Aug. 7

Carol Bowlin of Lewiston will be honored during a Hawaiian Luau Luncheon at noon Aug. 25 at Wedgewood Terrace for her 89th birth-day.

She was born Aug. 7, 1925, in Culdesac and graduated from high school and busi-ness college.

She and Pete Bowlin were married in 1945. They were married for more than 40 years before he died in 1986. They have four children.

Bowlin worked at Potlatch Forests Inc., in Lewiston.

Bowlin enjoys country western music and playing bingo.

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Margaret Botts of J o s e p h , Ore., will be honored by family and friends with an open house in celebra-tion of her 90th birth-

day at noon Saturday at her home.

Margaret Louise Gowey was born Aug. 7, 1924, to Ray and Opal Gowey in McMiniville, Ore. They moved

to Troy, Ore., when she was 3 years old. She lived with her grandmother Shuman and graduated from Flora High School in 1941.

She and Melvin Botts were married on April 2, 1945, in Pomeroy and lived in Flora until 1961. They have fi ve children; their oldest daugh-ter died in 1965.

Botts worked at Wallowa Memorial Hospital from 1962-68 and later worked as a cook at Joseph Public School. She retired in 1984.

She has traveled to Alaska and Belize, where she was

a Peace Corps volunteer. Botts worked at Yellowstone National Park; at an archeo-logical dig at Pittsburg land-ing on the Snake River; and at Red’s Horse Ranch up the Minam River.

Botts also traveled with one of her daughters to Australia, New Zealand and Fiji. And two years ago they traveled to Brighton, Iowa, to attend the Gowey family reunion.

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Betty Jo Barnes of Lewiston will be honored during a Hawaiian Luau luncheon at noon Aug. 25 at Wedgewood Terrace for her 79th birth-day.

She was born Aug. 11, 1935, in Lewistown, Mont. She attended three years of college in Montana and Wyoming.

She and Harlan Barnes were married May 26, 1956. They were married for more than 52 years before he died in 2008.

Barnes has two children, four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

Barnes worked much of her life as a teacher and as a rancher.

Her hobbies include ranch-ing, rodeo, traveling and coin collecting.

BETTY JO BARNES

AUG. 12

Phil Lamm of Kamiah will cel-ebrate his 82nd birth-day Aug. 12. He was born in 1932.

L a m m g r a d u -ated from Northwest N a z a r e n e College in 1954 and m a r r i e d

Georgia the next day. They have three children and seven grandchildren.

He served in the U.S. Army for two years.

Following his service the cou-ple moved to the Clearwater Valley in 1963 where he went to work as unit superintendent and high-school principal in 1968. In 1984, he moved to the Grangeville School District’s offi ce as the assistant superin-tendent. He retired in 1995.

Lamm and his wife enjoy traveling to family activities. They have been to several countries in Europe on self-guided tours. In 2006, they traveled to Scandinavia, Russia and Iceland, and have visited Alaska three times.

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Aug. 14

John Neumayer of Lewiston will be cel-ebrating his 90th birth-day on Aug. 14.

He was born in B o n n e r s F e r r y , Idaho, in 1924 to Alois and N a t a l i e

Neumayer, the second of nine children. He graduated from Bonners Ferry High School.

Upon graduation, Neumayer joined the U.S. Navy and served more than two years in the South Pacific during World War II on a destroyer, which was the only ship in its fleet to return home, after the

war, under its own power.At the conclusion of the

war, he chose a career as a meat cutter. He was employed by Safeway and Albertsons for 41 years.

On Aug. 7, 1948, he mar-ried his high-school sweet-heart, Donna Dawson. The couple have been married for 66 years and have two sons. They also had a daughter who died. The couple have seven grandchildren.

Neumayer’s hobbies include hunting, fishing and picking huckleberries. He was able to go on one of the first honor flights to Washington, D.C. in 2010, which he feels was a great honor.

A birthday celebration will be held at Priest Lake, Idaho, with his family.

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Aug. 17

N a n c y Bergles of L e w i s t o n will be

celebrated for becoming a centenarian from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Aug. 17 at Kindered Transitional and Rehabilitation Care Center in Lewiston.

She was born Aug. 17, 1914, in St. Maries to William

and Royena Warren.Bergles moved to the

area 82 years ago.On June 10, 1932,

she and Ray Johnson were married. He

died in 1962.Bergles worked as the

Postmaster in Harvard.She and Frank Bergles were

married in 1967 at Coeur d’Alene. He died in 2008.

Bergles was a member of the Harvard Ladies Aid and her hobbies include working puzzles, playing bingo and crocheting.

She has one daughter, one grandchild and two great-grandchildren.

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Goergia Lamm of Kamiah will cel-ebrate her 82nd birth-day Aug. 17.

She was born in 1932.

L a m m g r a d u -ated from Northwest N a z a r e n e

College in 1954 and married Phil a day later.

She taught vocational home economics and child devel-opment at Melba High School and at Springford School District near Philadelphia

while he was in the U.S. Navy.

Following his service, the couple moved to the Clearwater Valley in 1963 where she was hired to teach in the Clearwater Valley Schools. She retired in 1993.

In retirement, the couple have spent their time travel-ing to family activities and have been to the British Isles and several countries in Europe on self-guided tours. They took their first guided tour in 2006 of Scandinavia, Russia and Iceland. They also visited Alaska three times to fish and sightsee.

They have three children and seven grandchildren.

GeorGia Lamm

Aug. 20

Donald Lee (Skeeter) Edwards of Winchester will cel-ebrate his 80th birth-day on Aug. 20.

He was born in 1934 in Centralia, Wash.

Edwards worked as

a timber cutter, millwright and hydraulic/pneumatic technician along the Pacific Northwest corridor.

He served in the U.S. Army for three years in the National Guard.

Edwards has three children and six grandchildren.

He enjoys traveling to Mexico to see the Mayan ruins.

Edwards, his wife Caroline and their parrot Guacamayo are retired.

DonaLD L. eDwarDs

Aug. 21

N o r e n e Weaver of L e w i s t o n will cel-ebrate her 80th birth-day Aug. 21.

She was born in 1934 in

Meadowbrook, Wash., to Charlote and Nolan Bramlet. She graduated from Mount Si High School in Snoqualmie, Wash.

She and Bill Weaver were married March 3, 1954,

in Norfolk, Va. He died in 2011.

Weaver served in the U.S. Navy, after which she worked as a bookkeeper, and trav-eled through the western U.S. doing construction. She was also a camp host at Wendover for one year and at Wilderness Gateway for two years. She is retired.

She is a member of the Seaport Quilters Guild, and enjoys bowling, knitting and quilting.

Weaver has five children, nine grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.

norene weaver

Aug. 22

Wilma Howell of Lewiston will cel-ebrate her 75th birth-day with her family on Aug. 23.

She was born Aug. 22, 1939, in Stites to Edna and Ray Keehr. When she

was very young her father died. Her mother later married Charlie Mercer, who raised her and her siblings as his own.

She graduated from Riverside High School in

Chattaroy, Wash., in 1958.Howell worked at Kamiah

Junior High School as the sec-retary for many years before moving to Lewiston in 1983. She then sold real estate for a time before going to work for the Lewiston Tribune, where she retired in 2002 after 19 years.

She and David Howell were married in June 1989.

Howell enjoys her retire-ment by spending time with family, reading, gardening and playing bridge with several different groups.

She has three daughters, six grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

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Marge Zierlein of Orofino will be 84 on Aug. 23.She was born in 1930 in Parma, Idaho.Zierlein lived in California for a short time but moved

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Aug. 27

Marlene Hyde of Lewiston will be hon-ored during a coffee hour at 10 a.m. Aug. 30 at the Orchards United Methodist Church, 1213 Burrell Ave., in Lewiston. The occasion is her 80th birthday.

She was born Aug. 27, 1934, in Lewiston to Bud and Gladys Minded. She began school in Lewiston but spent eight years attending school in Pierce. She gradu-ated in 1952 from Lewiston

High School and attended Lewiston Business School.

Hyde worked for AT&T, Lewiston Pre-Mix and was the secretary at Weippe Elementary

School for 27 years.In 1956, she married the love of her life,

Bob Hyde.The couple have four children, seven grand-

children and three great-grandchildren.Through the years they have also lived

in Grangeville, Kooskia and Wyoming, while following Bob’s job as a logger. The couple settled in Lewiston following their retirement eight years ago. While living in Weippe, the couple were very involved in the community and she served on the city council as well as heading the Gem Community. The couple was instrumental in forming the Hilltop Drug and Alcohol Coalition. She has also been involved in Camp Fire Girls, Cub Scouts, 4-H and the PTA. She currently volunteers at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center.

Marlene Hyde

Jerry Smith of Deary will be honored at an open house from 2-5 p.m. Aug. 23 at the home of Shane and Alane Watkins with music. The occasion is his 80th birthday. They request no gifts.

He was born Aug. 27, 1934, in Kendrick to Ben and Eva Slatter Smith. He grew up in the family’s farmhouse at Park, south-east of Deary, where he and his wife still live. He

attended schools in Avon, Bovill and other country schools in the area. He completed the eighth grade at Park school and gradu-

ated from Kendrick High School in 1952.Smith only lived away from the farmhouse

for about five years to be near work. He worked for Potlatch Forests Inc. in Lewiston before choosing to farm full time in 1970.

He married Betty Jo Stone July 8, 1956, in Bovill. They have three children, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

Smith enjoys church and community func-tions. He is a lifetime member of the National Rifle Association and in the past was an active member of the Deary Gun Club for 40 years. His hobbies include hunting, farming, mechanic work, his animals, play-ing his harmonica, and visiting with family and friends.

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Aug. 30

Hugh Helpman Jr. of Lewiston will celebrate his 94th birthday on Aug. 30.

He was born in 1920 in Mullan, Idaho, to Hugh and Jessie Helpman. He grew up in Lewiston and graduated from Lewiston High School in 1937.

Helpman was an avid hunter, fisher-man and golfer in his younger years. He currently enjoys reading, crossword puz-zles, playing cards and watching sporting events.

He and his wife, Mary Jane, enjoyed traveling and now reside at Royal Plaza Retirement Center. The couple have five

children, two granddaughters and five great-grandchildren.His family will gather for a birthday dinner to celebrate.

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Darlene Hill of Lewiston will celebrate her 82nd birthday Aug. 30.

She was born in 1932 in Sharon Springs, Kan., to Eugene and May Heye and was raised in Troy.

She and Wilton E. Hill were married Nov. 19, 1949.

Hill worked for Potlatch Corp. paper mill in Lewiston from 1953 until retiring in 1994.

Her husband died in 1995.Hill is a member of T.O.P.S. and the

Lewis-Clark Union Retirees. Her hobbies include gardening, both vegetable and flower, and travel-ing.

She has three children, seven grandchildren, six step-grandchildren, 13 great-grandchildren and numerous step-great- and great-great-grandchildren.

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There are two types of people when it comes to gardens: those who cut back as they age and those who use their age as an excuse to get even more car-ried away.

How some get bit by the gardening bug is anyone’s guess, but it comes with obvious symptoms: early rising, the slow and steady conversion of lawn and empty spaces into viable garden area, regular expens-es at local plant nurseries and the delivery of fresh-grown gifts to friends, family or neighbors.

unlike the rest of us, gardening for these people is not a chore or obligation: it’s a passion – it’s what gets them out of bed in the morning. The hobby also provides an undoubted contribution to their health and well-being.

The lewiston-clarkston Valley has no shortage of older adults who can be found outside at 5 a.m. this time of year, deadheading flowers or getting ahead of the weeds. Four of them agreed to share their gardens and what the hobby does for them:

yyyWhen you come upon the yard full of tomatoes,

you can’t help but start counting plants. it is apparent Jack Knopes is the gardening sort as you approach his home in the clarkston Heights. What appears to have once been a lawn is now row after row of tomato plants. a glance to the side yard reveals neat rows of peppers, followed by towering raspberry canes.

“and that’s not even the start of it,” avis Knopes said of her husband’s garden.

she’s right. as she heads back into the house, 82-year-old Knopes leads the way past the peppers and raspberries and rhubarb, through the corridor where the grapevines grow alongside the greenhouse and a small tractor, to the garden northwest of the house.

There, surrounded by a chain-link fence to keep the deer out, is an entire field brimming with rows of corn, tomatoes, bush beans, cantaloupes, cucumbers and strawberries.

With 20 tons of produce coming out of his gar-den each year, it’s obvious Knopes isn’t the only one eating it. He sells what the garden produces to those who stop by and at the clarkston Farmers’ Market on saturdays in the parking lot of Twin river national bank on the corner of Fifth and sycamore streets.

so it’s a hobby that earns a little profit, right? nope.

“i’m just trying to cover my costs,” he said.The cost from the water, seeds and fertilizer add

up, he explained, but he’d rather keep prices low for his customers than get paid for his work.

and work he does. Most days he’s up at 5 a.m. and comes back inside around 1 p.m. That’s a lot of work for someone who’s no longer “working.”

yyysally Desimone knew exactly what she wanted to

do when she grew up. at least, if “grown up” means “after retirement.”

as the great-granddaughter of lee Morris — the same lee Morris who founded the long-standing retail establishment in downtown clarkston — it was perhaps inevitable she and her husband, John, would run the family business. but a lifelong gardener, sally had her post-retirement dream job picked out — she wanted seasonal work in a plant nursery.

she was so certain of it that several years ago when she learned two of the seasonal workers at Patt’s garden center wouldn’t be returning, she took the job on the spot — even though she was still working. she did the buying and weekly bookkeeping for lee Morris co. for a time, but retired early so she could do the work she most wanted to do.

after the store closed in 2010, John joined her. Together, the two transplant, stock, seed and clean up full-time from March until June. John joked they are paid in flowers, which is halfway believable when looking at their yard.

even with the seasonal work, the two still find time to plant their own garden. sally handles the flow-ers while John tends to the vegetables. The rows of tomatoes, eggplant, kohlrabi, cucumbers, raspberries and more occupy the next-door lot they purchased several years ago. Their own lot simply wasn’t big

enough to handle all the plants they wanted to grow.sally’s got a bit of everything: perennial lilies and

hosta, annual lobelia and petunias, rows of dahlia bulbs and plenty of whimsy. a fairy garden, for example, has popped up in the eastern section of the shade garden where tiny figurines sit amongst creep-ing jenny, miniature shrubs and broken pots.

opposite the fairy garden is a literal flower bed — a wooden bed-shaped planter full of flowers — built by her son. To one side sits a rusted-out roasting pan which serves as a pot for some annu-als and to the other side a ladder that once belonged to her grandfather leans against the fence, holding several birdhouses.

“i’m a junk collector,” sally said with a laugh.Her preference for “different and unique” means

there are surprises tucked away in every part of the garden. The variety in her garden means there is something blooming all yearlong.

yyyWhile gardening for some is a dream come true,

for others it’s a vision of time gone by.With cheerful flower blooms and an inviting shade

garden, rose Mary Kruegar’s backyard is more than just a beautiful place to be — it’s a living memory book.

as she wanders through the yard, it seems most everything has a story — the antique wagon pulled off her daughter-in-law’s family farm near anatone,

Gardening is more than a hobby, it’s exercise for the mind, body and soul

The growing hobby of gardening is sustaining seniors

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Jack Knopes isn’t big on lawn mowing so 70 Goliath tomato plants cover his front yard, a large production that mostly ends up at the Clarkston Farmers’ Market.

the day lillies she picked up at a yard sale, the two dogwoods that sit together near the house where the family’s two dogs, Benji and Ralph, would spend their days when they were alive.

Kruegar has lived at her Lewiston Orchards home for nearly 50 years. The weeping cherry tree in the corner of the average-sized lot is at least that old and towers over the shade garden underneath. The Scar-lett Hawthorne tree, which sits in another corner, was among the first Mother’s Day gifts she received.

Kruegar always loved flowers, and simply followed in the footsteps of her mother and grandmother, who both kept gardens. The fenced-in cottage garden in the back holds only a few vegetable plants.

“I don’t grow vegetables, probably because I’d rather look at flowers than eat vegetables,” Kruegar said with a laugh.

Instead the “vegetable garden” is full of blooms. The gladiolus are planted for her 96-year-old mother, who always kept some in her garden and which Kruegar takes to her residence at Royal Plaza. Some Bells of Ireland flourish in the shade, a flower she be-came enchanted with as a child in her grandmother’s garden near Canada. And then there is the flower that grew in Mary Bolick’s yard, the Orchards woman who hired Kruegar to pick raspberries when she was young. Bolick called it snow on the mountain, though Kruegar is unsure what it’s officially named.

“It’s neat, I think of them when I’m out there,” Kruegar said. And she’s out there most days from February to November, some days all day and others just part of the day.

yyyNo matter how their hobby presents itself, garden-

ing is physically demanding work, which means those who do it are getting some exercise. Of course, that’s not why they do it, but the regular movement has a positive effect on their health and quality of life.

“I don’t have to go to the gym for exercise,” Knopes said with a grin. And it’s not just a warm weather workout he gets. Like many who garden for pleasure, the work begins in February and ends in November, with long days in between.

Kruegar agreed gardening keeps her young. So young, in fact, that she’s taken up tree climbing.

“I’m braver now than I used to be,” Kruegar said. Walking by the Hawthorne tree, she spoke about her intent to clean out some of the branches that have sprouted nearly 10 feet off the ground.

“You get stupid with age, I guess,” she said.As a form of exercise, Kruegar also points out

gardening produces something at the end. She’s got plenty of flowers to prove it. Not only that, but it does more for a person than just benefit their body.

“You can go to the gym — and that’s good — but gardening is for the soul, too,” she said.

Perhaps one motivating aspect of gardening is it can’t be fully mastered. There is always more to learn and new things to try. Whether it’s new varieties or new techniques, each gardening season brings with it plenty of changes for gardeners.

“I try new things all the time,” Kruegar said. Her garden is dominated by perennials, but there are new plants to try and there are problems to be solved — like an area in the front yard where trees refuse to grow or a section of the garden where weeds need to


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ABOVE: John and Sally Desimone have populated most of their large Clarkston Heights lot with her many bright flowers and a wide production of

vegetables in his garden.BELOW: Rose Mary Kruegar created a very cool shade garden, much of it

under a 46-year-old weeping cherry tree, along with many other plants and an old farm plow.

4 See gardening, page 14


be stopped. Even though he’s been garden-

ing for around 60 years, Knopes also made a few changes in the garden this year. For one, he took out the remaining bit of ealawn on his property and converted it to garden space — a bold declara-tion he has no intent of slowing down anytime soon.

He also tried a new grow-ing technique this year. He cut the bottom out of black, plastic landscaping pots and placed them over his tomato plants. The pot protects the plant from frost, which allowed him to pick his first ripe tomato by the end of June.

The Desimones also took out some lawn recently — their front yard is now a cobblestone patio that is surrounded by blooming flowers and a tri-color beech tree.

“I like to try new things,” Sally said. “It keeps my interest up and

makes it fun.”When it comes down to it gar-

dening is their thing — it’s what they do.

“A lot of people think its work, but for us it’s a joy,” Sally said. “You can come out here and think. I solve a lot of problems in the yard.”

The thought of being unable to spend their days out in the garden isn’t something any of these people want to think about. But it’s something Sally got a recent taste of with a back problem that laid her up for a while. Even now, her movement is limited, but at least she can get outside and get something done.

“If I couldn’t be out here it’d be awful,” Sally said. “I’m going to do it as long as I can.”

Kruegar agreed: “I can’t imag-ine not doing it. It’s your little piece of heaven on earth.”

Schmidt can be reached at [email protected] or (208) 305-4578.

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Aug. 31

Luella Clevenger of L e w i s t o n will be hon-ored with an open house from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 31 at G u a r d i a n A n g e l Home, 2421 V i n e y a r d Ave., in

Lewiston. The occasion his her 90th birthday.

She was born in 1924 to Gladys Smith and Coleman Meek of Orofino. She grew up and attended school in Orofino and Pierce. She also attended Kinman Business School in Spokane.

Clevenger has lived most of her life in Lewiston and raised her son in the Lewiston Orchards. She also has two granddaughters and six great-grandchildren.

She worked in banking from 1958 to 1979 before going to work for the health department in Lewiston. She retired from there in 1989.

Clevenger and her husband Clyde traveled the U.S. after retiring. He died in 2004.

She loves to travel, fish, dance, and enjoys growing and canning her own fruit and vegetables. She also enjoys cooking, especially for her family and friends.

LueLLa CLevenger READER POETRYOld Barn

While riding in the country I spied a lonely old barn.

It looked as if it had weathered a lifetime of storms.

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hanging on.I tried to recall how it used to be … standing tall with paint

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Pat HavensPat Havens of Clarkston is Golden Times’ Senior Vol-

unteer of the Month for August.Volunteer work: Havens said she began volunteering

about 50 years ago. In that time she has done a little bit of everything and earned several pins, certificates and other awards for her service, including the Presidential Award in November 2013.

In 1964, she began her volunteer work with the Asotin County unit of the

American Heart Association, serving as the memorial chairwoman for 28 years. She also served as the heart fund drive chairwoman for a few years and as treasurer of the local unit until county units were dis-banded. After retirement, Havens volunteered for the Lewiston Po-

lice Department setting up equip-ment weekly for about a year and has

also assisted with National Night Out. For the last few years, she has helped make quilt tops for the Quilts of Val-or Foundation and has helped with awarding the quilts to veterans. And

she has also volunteered at the Lewiston Civic Theater through the years, ushering and doing other various jobs during produc-tions. Her main priority in recent years has been the Tri-State Memorial Hospital Auxiliary, which she has been doing for 14 years. She also sews comfort pillows for the hospital auxiliary.

Havens has served as a treasurer for many boards, including the Washington State Association of Hospital Auxiliaries.

Career: She was an elementary school teacher beginning in 1963 and retiring in 1997. During her years of teaching she taught second through fourth grades in Clarkston. She graduated from the University of Idaho.

Family: Havens is a Cameron native. She and Chuck Havens were married 50 years ago this month, and have two children and two grandchildren.

Hobbies: She enjoys quilting, reading, and traveling as long as it’s by boat or car. With the exception of traveling to Scotland and Ireland. She and her husband were able to extend their anniver-sary to more than the normal 24 hours during that trip.

“We had a 32-hour wedding anniversary two years ago. We woke up in Dublin, which is eight hours ahead, on our anniver-sary so as we traveled home we had 32 hours,” she said.

When asked her favorite part of volunteering, Havens said, “Keeping busy. … I like to handle money, keeping busy and giving something back, I guess.”

She said she has been approached by individuals about volun-teering and she is only too happy to give them a hand in becoming a member of the Tri-State Memorial Auxiliary.

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Nori Graham, an Alzheimer’s disease expert in England.

From 2001 to 2010, Graham was mental health adviser to Nightingale House, a resi-dential and nursing home in London. She was national chairman of England’s Alzheimer’s Society from 1987 to 1994 and chairman of Alzheimer’s Disease International from 1996 to 2002. She is currently vice president of both organizations.

Graham is a member of the executive committee of the faculty of old age psy-chiatry at the Royal College of Psychiatrists, of which she is an honorary fellow. Graham will speak on the global impact of the Best Friends method.

Best Friends pairs an individual with demen-tia with a trained volunteer who becomes a “best friend” for a specific time. A key to the program is the volunteer knowing the other person’s life story by reading his or her biogra-phy, which is on file wherever the philosophy is employed. The volunteer then uses that infor-mation as a basis of communication, Graham said.

Another essential element is the weekly dis-cussion topic using items to see, hear, touch, smell and taste.

“People are asked to give an opinion, or an idea, and they respond in amazing ways,” said Tanya Byrne, assistant director of the Best Friends Day Center in Jessamine County, Ky. Recently, the group talked about visiting Italy, and many people could remember experiences there, regardless of how many years ago they’d visited, Byrne said.

After 20 years at Second Presbyterian Church, the Lexington Best Friends Day Center moved in 2013 to Bridgepointe at Ashgrove Woods, an assisted living facility. About 22 people come to the center each day; it is open from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The cost is a sliding scale based on income.

Linda Rector has volunteered at Best Friends for 29 years.

“We are totally in the present with the par-ticipant while they are here,” she said. “We don’t stop. We walk, dance, sing, do crafts, talk. It takes a lot of energy.”

For that reason, volunteers work only four-hour shifts.

The enriched environment pays off, Byrne said.

“We see people able to function longer who are in the program,” she said. “They smile

more, talk more, have better self-esteem, are more upbeat. It lifts depression.”

And long-term memory stays intact longer, Byrne added.

In her travels throughout the world as chair-woman for two terms of Alzheimer’s Disease In-ternational, Graham has seen similar results.

“From my perspective, it is the most effec-tive approach in caring for people with demen-tia,” she said.

Thirty years ago, the prevailing attitude was people with dementia couldn’t be engaged mentally, said Virginia Bell, founder of Best Friends.

“The focus was all on how to help the family caregiver cope,” Bell said.

As for the patient, “The goal was just to keep the person warm, safe and dry,” she said, adding, “Now we know so much remains. They can still tell a joke, garden, engage with chil-dren.”

Once families see how loved ones thrive in a Best Friends setting, “It’s almost like magic. It works. People see that, and they never go back to any other kind of care,” said Bell, the author with David Troxel of seven books on the Best Friends approach.

Bell conceived the idea for Best Friends while working on a master’s degree at the Uni-versity of Kentucky’s Multidisciplinary Center of Gerontology, now the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.

She recalled a participant in the first Best Friends Day Center who wrote in her journal that her greatest fear, now that she had Al-zheimer’s, was she would no longer be treated as a real person.

“That became one of Best Friends’ guide-lines,” Bell said. “To treat people with respect and dignity, even though they may not know what day it is.”

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By Dale RoeAustin AmericAn-stAtesmAn

AUSTIN, Texas — Prizefighting mem-orabilia collector Donald Scott called this portrait of Young Peter Jackson, with his arms folded, left eye closed and ear half chewed off, the per-fect boxing photo. “It says pride and determination, and makes a visual statement about the sport that none other I have seen can,” Scott said. He believes the portrait was taken in 1900 after Jackson’s fight with Mysterious Billy Smith and, like many such pho-tos, probably wound up on the wall of a bar.

One could excuse Scott for handling his collection with kid gloves.

Scott, a retired official with the Federal Job Corps program who col-lects prizefight memorabilia, lives in the Austin, Texas, area with his wife,

Rachel, and two dogs, Gans (named after lightweight champion Joe Gans) and Gypsy. If you guessed the dogs are boxers, ding! ding! ding! — you win this round.

His living room walls are filled with historic photos of prizefight-ers and events, many of them signed. A large coffee table in the room has multiple drawers full of pins, programs and other memorabilia. A nearby cupboard holds binder after binder of boxing artifacts.

“What you see here is just scratching the surface of the collec-tion,” said Scott, a contagiously friendly man with salt-and-pepper hair, a close-cropped beard and glasses. With a few

more years and a few extra pounds, he could pass for Santa Claus (if Santa enjoyed watching guys pummel the tar out of each other for cash and glory).

When he’s not smiling or laughing, Scott is doling out interesting facts, anecdotes and frank observations.

“That’s John L. Sullivan in later years,” he said, pointing to a photo he’s placed in a shrine of sorts to three early heavyweight champions — Sul-livan, “Gentleman” Jim Corbett and “Ruby” Robert Fitzsimmons. “He didn’t live much past about 1915, I think. He really porked up.”

Scott began collecting prizefight memorabilia in 1978 and claims to have one of the largest such collec-tions in the world. A lifelong collector, Scott obtained his first pieces of box-ing memorabilia by trading away his extensive baseball card collection.

“I just got caught up,” he said. “I mean, I’m out of control. My wife is a saint.”

His fondness for prizefighting stems from his childhood, when he and his father would watch boxing matches on television. One of Scott’s prized pos-sessions is a pair of gloves worn by Rocky Marciano while the fighter de-fended his heavyweight title at New York City’s Polo Grounds stadium on Sept. 24, 1953. In his youth, Scott idolized Marciano and he remembers watching this particular televised fight with his father.

Ninety-nine percent of Scott’s col-lection is pre-1964, and the bulk of it dates to before the 1920s. It includes souvenir fight scarves, trading cards that used to come in packs of ciga-rettes, tickets, robes, championship belts and practically any other type of boxing artifact imaginable.

In addition to collecting, Scott has published Boxing Collectors’ News, a newsletter and website for collectors, since 1988 (www.boxingcollectors.com). He has attended every Interna-tional Boxing Hall of Fame induction ceremony since the Canastota, New York, facility opened and presents a collectors’ lecture during that week-end. Finally, Scott’s expertise comes in handy as he conducts appraisals of material donated to the IBHOF.

Scott’s favorite item: The portrait of Young Peter Jackson.

“It’s the perfect boxing photo,” he said.

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Eight to nine is the number of hours of sleep an adult needs for optimal health every night.

While this list is certainly not all inclusive, it does include many of the biggest health risk factors. It may seem difficult in our fast-paced, stress-filled culture to aim for optimal health numbers, but your health — your life — depends greatly on it. So, I encourage you to take charge of your life and get rid of some commitments, schedule regular rest periods, find healthy ways to manage stress and re-energize your spirit, schedule regular exercise and eat healthy, to keep your weight at an optimal level, and schedule regular checkups. As a wise person once shared with me, learn to say no to some good things, so you can say yes to the best things. While it takes effort at what has been phrased “intentional living,” improving your health and your life is possible.

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MIAMI — When Mercedes Lopez fi rst noticed her hair was falling out in the shower, she didn’t pay much attention to it.

Increasingly, however, entire clumps would fall out as Lopez ran her hands through her hair.

“It was getting worse and worse,” she said.Lopez, 76, purchased some over-the-counter creams

and pills. They didn’t work, and her hairline was reced-ing — a dramatic change from the fi ne hair she loved to style herself.

“When you lose your hair, you feel ashamed,” Lopez said. “I lost a lot of hair in my front, and it was notice-able. That made me feel very uncomfortable.”

Last June, almost six months after the hair loss start-ed, Lopez decided to seek treatment. After consulting several doctors, she received a diagnosis: frontal fi bros-ing alopecia, a condition in which infl ammation destroys the hair follicles around the hairline.

The rare disorder is a form of alopecia areata, a hair-loss disease that the North American Hair Research So-ciety reports affects more than 4.6 million individuals in the United States. Hair falls out in patches, and in some cases completely.

While alopecia affects men and women of all ages, Lopez’s condition — frontal fi brosing alopecia — is usu-ally diagnosed in postmenopausal women. It was fi rst described in 1994.

The cause of the infl ammation that leads to the hair loss is unknown, although many researchers believe it to be an autoimmune disorder. Because solid evidence is scant, the condition is a challenge for physicians to treat.

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The treatment, which involves low-power lasers, uses light energy to stimulate blood fl ow to the follicles, which can result in hair growth for some patients.

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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — Eileen Birdsong has faced can-cer three times in the past two decades, but she has never let it slow her down.

During eight months of radia-tion treatment for breast can-cer in the mid-1990s, the Pleas-anton, Calif., woman walked the 6-mile round trip to her doctor’s appointments five days a week.

Two years ago, back home following surgery from esopha-geal cancer, she was walking as soon as she could, if only to the end of the block and back.

“It’s not how much you do or how far you walk, doing some form of exercise is better than doing nothing,” said Birdsong, 82. “My doctors told me I sur-vived because I had taken such good care of myself all my life through exercise and diet.”

Birdsong’s can-do spirit re-vealed itself when she was a young woman in the 1950s, liv-ing and working in the Canadian Arctic with that country’s De-partment of Defense. Birdsong, a native of Manitoba, Canada, was a dental assistant, sup-porting multinational military exercises at a base in Churchill, Canada, a town on the shore of Hudson Bay.

At the time, Canada and the United States feared a Soviet invasion via an Arctic route, so from September to May, the al-lies trained soldiers and pilots to fight in extreme weather conditions.

Churchill is known for its au-tumn migration of polar bears and stunningly stark landscape of tundra and icebergs.

“We were above the tree line,” Birdsong said. She initially signed a one-year contract. For the six months of winter, she lived without sun. For the other six months, the sun shone all the time. And it was cold, with average January temperatures falling into the double digits below zero. “It was the coldest place I’ve ever been in.”

But Birdsong loved the place and the work and stayed for five years. When she wasn’t provid-ing dental services to soldiers,

she was dispatched to take care of the teeth of Inuit and other natives.

In the 1950s, Birdsong said, people didn’t think about go-ing out to exercise just for the sake of exercise, but Birdsong couldn’t help but get fit.

“You were always walking outdoors in cold weather,” she said. “You could eat like a horse because you burned a lot of calories just surviving.”

Her Arctic adventure ended after she met her first husband, U.S. Army Col. William Trapp, who had accompanied Wernher von Braun, considered the Ger-man father of rocket science, to the Canadian north to test rockets.

Birdsong became a mili-tary wife. She maintained her sense of adventure while find-ing something to enjoy in every place they were posted, from Leavenworth, Kan., to Taiwan and Bangkok.

After Trapp died, Birdsong met her second husband, U.S. Air Force Col. George “Buzz” Birdsong, a famed World War II pilot, at a cocktail party in Washington, D.C., in 1967. Col. Birdsong participated in the first daylight raids over Ger-many, and his plane, the Delta Rebel, was the first to complete 25 missions in Europe. After the colonel retired, they married in 1970 and eventually settled in Pleasanton to be closer to three of his four children from an ear-lier marriage.

Eileen Birdsong stayed active by working as a receptionist at a Pleasanton law firm and vol-unteering at the Camp Parks Reserve Forces Training Area in Dublin and the Livermore Vet-erans Administration Hospital. She joined wildlife and birding groups that had her trooping all over the East Bay hills, and played after-work rounds of golf with her husband. Col. Birdsong died in 2004.

Birdsong began her six-mile walks after she retired from the law firm. Since her cancer surgery two years ago, she re-duced walking from six miles to three but is satisfied with that distance because she maintains a pace that has her done in an hour.

These days, she also stretches every morn-ing. Four times a week, she uses eight-pound weights to do a series of lifts to strengthen her upper body and to “get my blood going first thing in the morn-ing.”

Not only does the exercise make her feel better, she knows it’s key to maintaining her independence.

“I am thankful every day that I am able to be active,” she said. “And hopefully, in the pro-cess, encourage other seniors to get moving.”

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