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Talking trainsLarry Lefler worked 44 years on the Camas Prairie Railroad/ PAGE 8
A M O N T H LY M A G A Z I N E F O R T H E R E G I O N ’ S R E T I R E E S B Y T H E L E W I S T O N T R I B U N E
GOLDEN TIMES
JANUARY 4, 2010 / VOL. 19, NO. 1 / A Target Publication
InsideBirthdays / PAGE 4Poetry / PAGE 12Ed Hayes / PAGE 14
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The Sons of Norway Elvedalen Lodge No. 129 will install offi-cers at its Jan. 16 meeting at the Clarkston Country Club.
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birthdAyS
eArl d. beckEarl D. Beck of
Orofino celebrated his 85th birthday an open house Sunday at the Veterans of Foreign Wars Hall in Orofino.
He was born
Dec. 29, 1924, at Tamarak, Idaho, to James Ethmer Beck and Corles Leola Jones Beck, and has lived in the area all of his life.
He worked for the state highway
department in Moscow for 30 years and retired in 1979.
He has three sons, six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He is a World War II vet-eran, having served in the U.S. Army.
His hobbies include fish-ing, camping and spending time with family.
His children were hosts for the celebration.
ethel V. robertS
Ethel V. Roberts of Lewiston celebrated her 90th birthday with family Dec. 29.
She was born Dec. 29, 1919, at Uniontown to Tom and Dora Gooch.
She and Merla V. Roberts were married in 1941 at Clarkston.
The couple farmed in Uniontown until they retired
in 1982.They have two
sons, two grandchil-dren and two great-grandchildren.
Her hobbies include gardening, playing bridge, traveling, listening to recorded
books, crocheting and knitting.She is a member of the
Eastern Star in Genesee, the Owles in Clarkston and the Ladies of the Elk in Lewiston.
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welleRMyrtle Hackworth Weller
of Lewiston celebrated her 95th birthday Jan. 2. She was born Jan. 2, 1915, in Kremmling, Colo., the sev-enth of 12 children.
When she was 14, her family moved to a 160-acre farm near Winchester. She married Harold Weller in 1934.
Myrtle and Harold lived in the Orofino area for 25 years and reared seven children. They also lived in Elgin and Enterprise, Ore., where Myrtle became a CNA.
They returned to Orofino after Harold’s death in 1981. Myrtle then lived in Washington, Oregon and Colorado and returned to Orofino a few years ago to be near her sons.
Myrtle enjoys reading and crocheting; she crocheted more than 300 hundred scarves and gave them to members of the Clearwater Senior Citizens. She also made lap blankets and donated them to children. She attended the Senior Citizens and was active in her church.
She now lives at Juniper Meadows in Lewiston.
jan. 2FAY GIlkeY
Fay Gilkey celebrated her 87th birthday Jan. 2. She was born Jan. 2, 1923,
near Orofino and grew up on Gilbert Ridge.
She married Don Gilkey in 1940, and they reared two children.
jan. 4JeSSe
ellSwoRTH Jesse Ellsworth
celebrates his 70th birthday today.
He was born Jan. 4, 1940, in Winchester. He and his four brothers were reared in Boise.
He married Virginia in 1958 and they lived in Boise until 1968 when they moved to Lewiston. They moved to Orofino in 1992.
They have four children, 12 grand-
children and three great-grandchildren.
jan. 6eIleen kluSSEileen Kluss of
Lewiston will cel-ebrate her 88th birthday Jan. 6.
She was born Jan. 6, 1922, at Cottonwood, to Ed and Marguerite Funke.
After she graduated from high school, she moved to
Lewiston to attend Lewiston Business School. She then worked at Idaho First National Bank in Lewiston.
In 1946, Eileen married Ralph Kluss. In 1962, they opened
Kluss Appliance, and she helped Ralph at the store while they reared five sons.
Ralph died in January 1997.Eileen still helps out at
the family business. She also plays bridge once a week at the Eagles Lodge. She volunteers at the St. Joseph Regional Medical Center gift shop and is a member of Our Lady of Lourdes Parish and the Catholic Daughters. In addition to her children, she has six grandchildren.
jan. 7leSTeR cHAMBeRSLester Chambers of
Lewiston celebrated his 80th birthday with an open house Saturday at the Life Care Center in Lewiston.
He was born Jan. 7, 1930, at Lewiston, to Guy and Odessa Chambers. He grew up and attended school in Reubens.
He and Helen Beckner were married June 26, 1955, at Clarkston.
He was a farmer in Reubens before going to
work at the Winchester and Spalding mills. He then went to work for the Channel Lumber Co. Mill at Craigmont in 1972, where
he retired in 1992. He and his family lived in Reubens before moving to Lenore. In 1993, they moved to Lewiston.
The couple have three children and three grandchil-dren.
His hobbies include fishing and hunting.
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BIRTHDAYSJAN. 8VIRGINIA
ELLSWORTHVirginia Ellsworth
of Orofino will cele-brate her 70th birth-day Jan. 8. She was born Jan. 8, 1940, in Keeline, Wyo. Her family moved to Pocatello when she was in the third grade, and they moved to Boise when she was in the 10th grade.
Virginia met Jesse Ellsworth there, and they married in 1958. They had four children.
They moved to Lewiston in 1968 and to Orofino in 1992.
Along with their four children, Virginia and Jesse have 12 grandchildren and three great-grandchil-dren.
Marie VanderpoolMarie Vanderpool of
Orofino will celebrate her 84th birthday Jan. 11. She was born Jan. 11, 1926, in Weippe to Denver and Sylvia Snyder.
She attended school in Weippe and graduated from Weippe High School in 1943. She married Floyd Vanderpool that same spring. Floyd was in the Army Air
Forces, stationed in Chico, Calif., and they spent three and a half years there and then returned to Weippe. They reared two daughters.
Marie worked for First Security Bank of Idaho in Pierce for 17 years, the last six as manager, before tak-ing early retirement in 1986. She was also the first trea-surer for the city of Weippe after it became incorpo-rated.
Marie and Floyd spent 56 years together before Floyd’s death in 1999.
Marie moved to Orofino and married Deane Arndt in 2002. They lived in Seattle until his death in 2004.
Marie returned to Orofino and enjoys bowling, dancing and activities at the Senior Citizens Center. Along with her daughters, Marie has four grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
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HELEN OGAN OWENHelen Owens of Princeton
will celebrate her 90th birth-day Jan. 11. She was born Jan. 11, 1920, in the Crane Creek area and grew up in the Potlatch area.
She attended the upper Crane Creek and Potlatch
schools. She has
lived in Princeton for the past 43 years, but she lived and worked in the Potlatch area most of her life.
Helen has three children, seven grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchil-dren.
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BIRTHDAYS
JAN. 15N. ELAINE
MATHISONN. Elaine
Mathison will cel-ebrate her 82nd birthday Jan. 15. She was born Jan. 15, 1928, at Cavendish, to Fred and Anna Daniels.
She has two sons, four
grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
She worked as a cosmetologist in Arkansas and at Tri-State Memorial Hospital in Clarkston. She has done vol-unteer work at the
Clarkston Gerontology Center. She enjoys dancing.
JAN. 18LEONA NUTTMANLeona Nuttman will
celebrate her 87th birthday Jan. 18.
She was born Jan. 18, 1923, at Ferdinand, to Joe and Mary Von Tersch. She graduated from Ferdinand High School.
She married Leo Nuttman in 1943 and moved to Keuterville, where they ranched.
Leo died in 2008.Leona has three
children, nine grand-children and 15 great-grandchildren.
She worked on the family ranch and at St. Mary’s Hospital in Cottonwood for 20
years before retiring. She enjoys helping out
at the Cottonwood Senior Center, playing cards and traveling with her family.
JAN. 21JEANNE SCHREMPPJeanne Schrempp of Lewiston will celebrate her 82 birthday Jan. 21. She
was born Jan. 21, 1928, in Colton to Henry and Agnes Zellerhoff.She married Jerome Schrempp in 1950, and they reared four daughters.Jeanne is active in Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic church; she and her
sister’s, The Singing Zs, entertain at local nursing homes and churches. She enjoys piano, needlepoint, writing, photo collages and keeping up
with her children and seven grandchildren.
JAN. 28PENNY TITUSPenny Titus of Lewiston will celebrate her
82nd birthday Jan. 28. She was born Jan. 28, 1928, in Woodland to Arthur and Myrtle
Anderson and grew up in Orofino.She married Jim Titus, and they have two
sons living in Alaska. Jim died in 2003.
KEN PETERSONKen Peterson will cel-
ebrate his 81st birthday Jan. 29. He was born Jan. 29, 1929, in Lackawana, NY.
He and Claire moved to Orofino in 2002.
Ken has four children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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Larry Lefler saw many changes during his years with Camas Prairie Railroad, and he still watches trains
By Mary TaTkoof TargeT PublicaTions
Larry Lefler doesn’t use his cell phone much, and he has little interest in the latest craze in communications, the text mes-sage.
But the abbreviations used for sending text messages are noth-ing new to Lefler, 74, a retired railroad telegrapher.
Typing “u r” instead of “you are” is just one example of the shortcuts he and his co-workers used on the Camas Prairie Railroad 40 years ago.
That’s not to say he equates railroad teleg-raphy with the cell-phone messaging his grand-children do today.
“We had codes we used,” he said. “But we had finesse. There’s no finesse to that.”
Born in Kamiah, Lefler and his twin brother, Lee, graduated from Lewiston High School in 1953. Lefler spent the next 2½ years in the Army in Germany, then returned to Idaho where he worked on and off for Potlatch Forests Inc.
He’d been interested in rail-roads since childhood, though, and in 1956 he attended telegra-phy school in Spokane where he prepared to be a dispatcher.
He began as an agent teleg-rapher in Headquarters and Reubens and within two years had progressed to dispatcher on the Camas Prairie Railroad,
which was owned jointly by Northern Pacific Railroad and Union Pacific.
Over the years, he lost much of his hearing, in part from the effects of lightning strikes on the line while he was wearing his headset as a telegrapher. It wasn’t uncommon for the lines to be struck, he said, since they actually attracted the lightning. When that happened, he could feel the pressure on his ears as the line “exploded.”
Ultimately, hearing loss would spell the end of his career, but he spent 44 years with the railroad before retiring.
Lefler saw plenty of changes during his career, some more
welcome than others.
In the 1960s and ’70s, jobs that once were strictly for men suddenly were being filled by women, a situation Lefler remembers as something of a shock to skep-tical railroad
workers.“But the women did good,” he
said. “They took to it like a duck on water.”
Lefler’s open-mindedness about women in the workforce perhaps was influenced by his family history. His mother, Hazel Kyle, was the first woman to be sworn in as a deputy sheriff in the state of Idaho, he said.
Hazel Kyle was active politi-cally as well. A loyal member of the Democratic party, she had a signed letter from former President John F. Kennedy she always treasured, Lefler said.
“We had a political life through my mother.”
His own politics evolved from
railroad days
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Larry Lefler of Lewiston began his career with Camas Prairie Railroad as an agent telegrapher in Headquarters and Reubens.
“We had codes we used. But we had finesse. There’s no finesse in that.” — Larry Lefler, on where the similarities end between telegraphy and texting
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left-wing to something hard-er to define, he said. He feels Democrats have abandoned the working person, but he’ll never be a Republican.
Lefler calls himself an Independent, and though he’s laid down his pen, for several years he was a frequent contributor to the Tribune’s Letters to the Editor.
Of all the changes, personal and professional, though, the toughest to accept was the end not only of his own career but of the railroad culture.
Lefler saw jobs evaporat-ing behind him as the agency in Reubens was discontinued, telegraphers were let go, and by the early 1990s, most dispatch-ing jobs were gone.
Technology made many rail-road jobs obsolete, spelling the death of the railroad life he knew.
“People like me, they consid-ered us mastodons,” he said.
Today, Lefler lives in a manu-factured home just yards from the tracks, on land leased from the railroad.
It’s part of the deal he struck when he took disability in 1991, he said: He retired with the understanding he could live there until he dies since he won’t pur-sue damages against the railroad for the conditions that caused his hearing loss.
“I watch out that kids don’t get on the equipment,” he said. “I help them, they help me is the what it amounts to.”
With his damaged hearing, he said he doesn’t hear the specific sound of the trains like others might, but after a career with the railroad he knows when one is coming.
He rarely gets out, but “it doesn’t bother me a bit,” he said. “I don’t feel like a recluse or anything like that.”
What he did object to was
feeling “terrified” of falling in his own home. Health problems, including weakness from a mini-stroke, made him unsteady. After holding out for years, he is using a wheelchair.
Lefler knew he needed help to make modifications to his trailer, but help was not forthcoming.
He made too much on his railroad pension to get help from any government agency, he said.
But as he called around from agency to agency, someone he spoke with gave his name to Ray Rosch, executive director of Interlink, a Clarkston nonprofit that matches volunteers with valley residents in need.
“Ray, oh man he’s a super guy,” Lefler said. “I explained my situation to Ray, and he lined me up.”
What Rosch arranged was for a volunteer to come to Lefler’s home and install grab bars in the bathroom. It’s made a tremen-dous difference, Lefler said. And he’s waiting to hear if Interlink
volunteers will install a wheel-chair ramp outside his home.
“What I’m trying to do is avoid going to a nursing home,” he said.
In addition to railroads, Lefler’s other loves are family and fishing. There’s a photo of a train on the living room wall behind his recliner, a giant col-lage of family photos on the next wall and a collection of fishing photos on another.
Steelhead fishing was a pas-sion for many years, one that nearly cost him his life on more than one occasion. He came close to drowning three different times, he said, once each on the Snake, Salmon and Clearwater rivers.
“Most people would quit fish-ing after maybe one dunk,” he said, laughing. But he looked at it as more fun than dangerous, despite his mishaps.
One of the fishing photos is of his son, Larry Jr., holding up an enormous steelhead. Today,
Larry Jr. works for Burlington Northern in Pasco, switching boxcars.
“He did like I did,” Lefler said. “He started railroading, and he’s railroaded his whole life.”
Lefler’s daughter, Barb, is a physician in western Washington.
And he has three grandchil-dren and four great-grandchil-dren.
Railroads may never have the romance for those great-grand-children that they did for Lefler. Then again, his love of all things railroad — at least the railroads of his past — may be conta-gious.
He calls himself and other retired workers from that era “the dregs of the railroad.”
But when he tells stories about his railroad days he does so with an air of satisfaction, not regret. And he does it with a smile.
“I’ve not had what I consider a lucky life,” he said. “I have had a happy life, really.”
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Larry Lefler may have left the railroad, but he hasn’t left trains. This freight rumbles past his house.
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Dr. Richard Allen of Lewiston will discuss foot care with the Valley Diabetic Support Group at 7 p.m. Jan. 11 at Trinity Lutheran Church, 920 Eighth Ave. in Lewiston.
All diabetics, their family mem-bers and anyone interested in the subject are welcome to attend.
More information is available by calling (208) 743-6676.
lewiston podiatrist to address diabetes group
Dancers can cut a rug to Moore Country from 7 to 10 p.m. every Tuesday at Asotin County Gerontology Center. On Thursdays from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.,
people can dance the night away to the Heustis Band.
The Asotin County Gerontology Center is at 832 Sixth St. in Clarkston.
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evelYn MooeRSEvelyn Mooers will celebrate her 100th
birthday at 2 p.m. Jan. 30 at the Lewiston Elks Temple.
She was born Jan. 31, 1910, in Roy, Minn. She graduated from Colville (Wash.) High School in 1928, and Cheney Normal School in 1930. She taught school in Grangemont for two years.
She married Harold Mooers in 1935. They
have two children, two grandchildren and three great-grandsons.
She has been a volun-teer at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston for 35 years, and has been a member of the Lewiston Methodist Church for 60 years.
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BRIAn McGolDRIckBrian McGoldrick of Orofino will celebrate his 90th birthday Jan. 31. He
was born Jan. 31, 1920, in Fallon, Nev.During World War II, he was in the Army Air Forces stationed in England. Brian married Marie in 1951 and they had three boys. They owned a
heating and sheet metal shop in Orofino for 29 years. Brian enjoys music, dancing, fishing and bowling.
Birthday policies Birthdays starting at 70 and every year after that will be published in Golden Times. Photos will be published starting at 70.
Birthday information should be submitted before the 20th of the month preceding publication and should include the name and phone number of the person to contact for more information. If you would like your photo returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.
If you have questions on submitting a birthday, please call Golden Times at (208) 848-2243.
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SERVING YOUR COMMUNITYThe WA-ID Volunteer Center
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Beginning this month, when you sign up here to volunteer a day of service (and your service is completed and verified) you’ll get one day admission to a Walt Disney World or Disneyland theme park, FREE! Give us a call and see what you can do to earn a free day at a Disney theme park.
Following are a few of the numerous volunteer opportuni-ties available in January.
THE YWCA HAS plenty to do in January and February. Help get newsletters out, or drop by to paint a soup bowl for the 2010 SOUPport Our Shelter fundraiser. Call Adrienne for more informa-tion at (208) 746-7787.
DID YOU KNOW the WA-ID Volunteer center has vol-unteers who provide free, unbiased health care cover-age counseling? They can help consumers save money on health care, make sense of confusing information and make better choices about their coverage. If you are interested in becoming one of these volunteers and making a huge difference in the lives of others, call Mike at (208) 746-7787.
VOLUNTEER FROM HOME. Project Warm Up volunteers make hats, scarves, mit-tens and lap robes and our office distributes them to the local community. Yarn is provided if you need it. Call (208) 746-7787 or toll free at (888)546-7787 for more information.
HELP THE ASOTIN County Aquatic Center and earn a monthly pass. The Asotin County Family Aquatic Center is looking for volun-teers to help keep the facil-ity clean. Inside and out-side jobs are available and include lawn maintenance and keeping fitness machines clean. Minor maintenance on an as-needed basis is also needed. Individuals who work 10 hours can earn a monthly pass. Flexible schedule, six to 12 month commitment wanted, two to three hours per week.
DO YOU BELIEVE in empowering our youth to ensure their greatest future? Reading buddies sit with stu-dents who struggle to read and provide an opportunity to improve those reading skills. Ninety percent of the children who received help in the 2008-09 school year were brought up to their reading level, and 100 percent showed improve-ment. No teaching experi-ence is necessary to join the America Reads team. Call Cathy at (208) 746-7787 or toll free at (888) 546-7787
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ROLL UP YOUR sleeves and lend a hand in the kitchen for the Head Start in Clarkston. If you’d be inter-ested in joining the crew, call (208) 746-7787.
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serving Your communitY poetrYopen the door to new YearTwenty ten opens wide the fresh new doorShowing us challenges not seen before.We see the broad expanse of future days,With endless methods and better good waysTo improve our daily activities.Look ahead at great possibilitiesFor watching the world’s best times now unfold.As nature heals with wondrous gifts we’re told.We have closed the exhausted old worn doorAnd now rejoice at life’s blessings once more.
— Lucille Magnuson, 89, Moscow
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poetrythe Final exitDon’t take me awayOn a bad hair dayI’d hate to go looking like hellI’ve nothing to wearAnd loathe to go bareA gown please by Coco Chanel
One more thing I askA smooth facial maskSuggesting the Lisa’s coy smileAll else that entailsLike clean fingernailsEnsure a chic exiting style
I want to departA rare work of artAnd worthy of public displayA well-contured faceRenown for my graceLike primas in Degas’ ballet
Cremation I yearnIt’s here that I’ll burnEluding procedures in hellSo when it’s my turnI’ll dwell in an urnBut still it’s a pretty hard sell
Now as to the urnI have one concernIt must be artistic’ly doneKiln-bake ceramicWith panoramicDepicting my life as a nun
Let my epitaph Be one paragraphExtolling this aulde ingenueA dollop of spiceAll else must be niceAnd not necessarily true
— Edith Agnew, 90, Moscow
Junkyard DogIn California I went to the Dump to take some junk.
There I met a junkyard dogHe seemed to be a sweet dogThough a little unkempt.
I thought a poor dog he needsA home and a bath, I will takeHim home and he will be mine forever!
He will smell goodJust like a groomed dog should.
But when I left him aloneHe started to destroy my happy home!
He found my beautiful trunkAnd ripped it to shreds, nothingLeft in the trunk.All the good stuff is gone.
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— Yvonne Carrie, Lewiston
When I Was a Little BoyI had curly blond locksa matching little pretty shirtand short pants and halfway socks.The pride and joy of mother Rosefrom the top of my head to my turned up toes — but now I’m old and gray.My siblings, before they left, saidHa, ha, Billy, you’re no longer mother’s pet, but we like you, because it won’t be long til you’re with usand on that you can bet.
— Bill Eimers, 88, Grangeville
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Did you ever ride the Super Chief?
If perchance you’re befuddled by that question, the Super Chief was a railroad train. Run by the Santa Fe folks, Chicago to Los
Angeles, with a few fanciful, promising pauses between.
Looking back after eight decades, I’d have to say that riding the rails has been my preferred means of transporta-
tion across the good old U.S.A. Followed by the Greyhound bus. Honest. Next, grudgingly, the jetliner.
And I’ve lived to regret that I never had the chance to go places on one of those storied stage-coaches.
Come to that, sorry to say, I never did tour the USA, either, in an empty boxcar.
Ironically, I didn’t find much to cheer about on my initial railroad outing, carrying me, a homesick teenager, from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., to a for-tified, glorified infiltration course out east. Six months later, a troop train whistled me out West for an ocean cruise to World War II.
As a civilian I slept overnight in Pullman berths and coach chairs, and savored the privacy of a roomette — each providing the
means to a pulsating end.The Super Chief, of course,
is no longer active, complet-ing its 35-year sprint in 1971. Essentially, the Chief served as the second half of a mercurial, coast-to-coast rail ride, starting on the New York Central’s dearly departed 20th Century Limited out of Grand Central Station.
Dining menus on these two streamlined locomotives were world class, and no diner showed up wearing a baseball cap.
Ah, what blazing, manmade feats of a lamented bygone age, eh?
Speaking of choo-choos, remember those toy, tin, windup trains discovered under
Christmas trees? Or maybe your family had a fancy electric train. You could spend whole days with one of those darbs.
In fact, my two brothers and I often did so, up at the home of a cousin, an only child. His mother would oft’ surprise us with baloney sandwiches lath-ered with mayonnaise on Wonder bread for lunch, washed down by shot glasses of Grade A milk. Obviously, Aunt Mary ran a world-class diner.
Road games were simple mat-ters when I answered the call to be a sportswriter, traveling in my car or on the local prep team’s bus.
Then came my frequent-flyer years when shadowing and reporting on college and pro clubs. Half the time I didn’t know where I was.
But most of all, I remember the train and every whistle stop on the way home to Christmas.
Retired Orlando Sentinel staffer Ed Hayes, 85, wel-comes comments. Write him c/o the Orlando Sentinel, MP-72, P.O. Box 2833, Orlando, FL 3802-2833.
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Don’t KnowNow if you will try to recallWhen you were 18 you knew it allFrom the birds that flyTo the bees that stingIn your mind you knew everythingFor some it may be funTo find adults are really dumbThey cannot see the wayThat things are todayIn a few years you will findThat your parents improved their mindTo find it is a blastThat they learned so much so fastAs years go by it is a sad blowTo find so much that you didn’t knowAs years go by you find it takesWe learn the most by our mistakesAs my mistakes uncurledI should be the smartest person in the world
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