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GoldenJune 2, 2014 / Vol. 24, no. 6

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COORDINATOR: Peggy HaydenOn the cover: Can you guess who is who?

George and Louise LaVoie, Naomi Hall, Kit-ty Gamet, June Manring, Royce Cox and Au-drey Nisch are all 90-somethings who share

their longevity — PAGE 10.Photo by: Provided by those photographed.

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GOLDENTIMES INDEX:Social Security Q&A ................... Page 4

Meal site list ............................... Page 4

Briefs .......................................... Page 5

Meeting calendar ......................... Page 6

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

Dave Hudson update ..................Page 15

Reader poetry ............................. Page 16

Sudoku solution ..........................Page 17

Crossword solution .....................Page 18

Volunteer opportunities ..............Page 19

Volunteer of the Month ...............Page 21

House Call ..................................Page 23

Senior Talk ..................................Page 26

Sudoku ........................................Page 26

Crossword ...................................Page 27

WHO AM I?I was born, a long time ago, on June 2, 1731, in Virginia.

I was a political wife and lived to be 70 years old, dying on May 22, 1802.

My fi rst husband, Daniel Parke Custis, and I had four children. I married my second husband in January 1759, but we had no children together.

My second husband served in many political offi ces and was president for eight years.

Answer on Page 21

The next Golden Timeswill publish July 7

Thought for the month

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June senior nutrition menusmonday 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.

2 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/gravy/corn/salad/roll

3 Spaghetti/Jell-O/green beans/breadsticks/pudding

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

9 Baked ham/au gratin potatoes/mixed vegetables/applesauce/cornbread/cookie

10 Beef stroganoff/corn/salad/roll/fruit

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

16 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/country gravy/carrots/salad/roll

17 German sausage/kraut/potatoes/Jell-O salad/peas/biscuit

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

23 Hamburger steak/potatoes/salad/green beans/roll/cookie

24 Sweet and sour pork/rice/carrots/coleslaw/muffin

25 BUFFET (starts at 11:30 a.m.): Turkey

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. Soup and dessert is avail-able at each service.

10 Stuffed cabbage rolls/mashed potatoes/gravy/vegetables

5 Chicken sandwiches/sweet potato fries/vegetables

12 Cheese tortellini/meatballs/vegetables

17 Choice: Salmon or chicken cordon bleu/rice pilaf/vegetables

19 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/gravy/vegetables

3 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/gravy/vegetables

24 Sausage/biscuits/gravy

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senior round table nutrition Program

serves hot lunches at noon at the Valley Community Center, 549 Fifth St. No. F, Clarkston and the Asotin United Methodist Church, 313 Second St. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Cost is $7 for nonseniors.

3 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/gravy/peas/roll/Jell-O with fruit

6 Deluxe salad bar/fruit5 Sweet and sour chicken/rice/Oriental-blend vegetables/biscuit/fruit

13 Beef stew/corn muffin/salad bar/fruit

12 Baked, breaded fish/french fries/coleslaw/melon/pudding

24 Pork roast/mashed potatoes/gravy/carrots/fruit juice/roll/cake/ice cream

19 Tuna-noodle casserole/mixed vegetables/biscuit/Jell-O with fruit(no Clarkston delivery/Asotin closed)

20 Hot dog/salad bar/fruit

17 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/gravy/cucumber-tomato salad/roll/apple crisp

10 Spaghetti with meat sauce/Italian-blend vegetables/garlic bread/fruit/cookie

26 Baked chicken/gravy/stuffing/green beans/roll/fruit

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26 Pork chops/mashed potatoes/gravy/vegetables

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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 Fridays

Pomeroy 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 (509) 397-4305Valley Meals on Wheels (208) 799-5767

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A: Everyone born in 1929 or later needs 40 Social Security credits to be eligible for retire-ment benefits. You can earn up to four credits per year, so you will need at least 10 years of work to become eligible for retirement benefits. During your working years, earnings covered by Social Security are posted to your Social Security record. You earn credits based on those earnings. If you be-come disabled or die before

age 62, the number of credits needed to qualify for Social Security benefits depends on your age at the time you die or become disabled. A minimum of six credits is required to qualify for Social Security ben-efits regardless of your age. You can create a “my Social Security account” on the So-cial Security website to check and periodically monitor how many credits you have.

———Q: I have children at home,

and I plan to retire next fall. Will my children be eligible for monthly Social Security payments after I retire?

A: Your children may get monthly Social Security pay-ments if they are unmarried and under age 18; Age 19 and still in high school; or age 18 or older, and became severely disabled before age 22 and continue to be disabled.

More information is avail-able online or by calling the toll-free number.

———Q: Is there a time limit on

how long you can get Social Security disability benefits?

A: No. Your disability ben-

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Seniors will compete in Olympic style

The 16th annual Lewis-Clark Senior Games is a social, recre-ational and competitive expe-rience. The games encourage better health and fi tness for those age 50 or older, regard-less of residence.

The games will be held June 18-21 and include 13 events. All participants must be at least 50 years of age by Dec. 31, 2014.

There are three ways to reg-ister for the games: In person at The WA-ID Volunteer Center, 1424 Main St., Lewiston (Lo-cated in the Lewiston Commu-nity Center); By mail — print and complete the registration form, which can be found at www.lewisclarkgames.org, and mail the form with your pay-ment by June 10 to Lewis-Clark Senior Games, 1424 Main St., Lewiston, ID 83501; Or online at the website with payment made through paypal required upon completion of online reg-istration.

Registration deadline is June 11 and no registrations will be taken after June 16. Par-ticipants who register after the June 11 deadline may not receive a T-shirt. Individuals interested in participating in pickleball must register no lat-er than June 11; no extension of this date will be allowed.

More information is avail-able by calling Cathy Robinson at (208) 746-7787. All events and activities are coordinated by the WA-ID Volunteer Center

staff, the Lewiston Parks and Recreation, and many volun-teers.

Two Smart Driver classes being held

There will be two AARP Smart Driver classes in June.

The fi rst class will be an eight-hour class held from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with a one-hour lunch break, June 14 at St. Joseph Regional Medical Center, 415 Sixth St. in Lewiston. The class will be in conference room C on the second fl oor of the hospital.

In Pullman, there will be a two-day class from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. each day, June 17-18, and attendance of both class-es is needed to complete the course. It will be held at the Pullman Senior Center on the fi rst fl oor of the Pullman City Hall, 325 SE Paradise St.

Registration for these classes as well as more infor-mation is available by calling Arnie Lee at (208) 301-8844.

The cost for each class is $15 for AARP members and $20 for nonmembers. The classes are designed for those age 50 and older but are open to all ages and may result in a point reduction on drivers licenses and/or insurance dis-counts.

Lewiston Parks & Rec offering trips

An underground tour of Pend-leton, Ore., is being offered through the Lewiston Parks and Recreation Department.

The overnight trip is June 27-28 and cost is $100 per person.

The trip includes a stop at the Wildhorse Resort and Casino for lunch and visits to several win-eries. There is a $5 tasting fee at the wineries, which is not in-cluded in the trip fee. Deadline to sign up for this trip is June 18.

A day trip to Palouse Falls is scheduled to leave the Lewiston Community Center at 9 a.m. July 16. The trip will include a picnic lunch. The group will re-turn to the community center around 3 p.m. Cost is $45 and deadline to sign up for this class is July 7.

Sign up for these classes can be completed at the Lewiston Community Center, 1424 Main St.

Parks and Rec also provide regular activities at the commu-nity center for active seniors. A list of all activities can be found online at www.cityofl ewiston.org/parksandrec.

Free lunch for Moscow seniors being offered

MOSCOW — The Friendly Neighbors Senior Citizens will have a free lunch for area se-niors June 17.

The lunch will be held in the Great Room at the 1912 Center, 412 E. Third St.

Soup will start being served at 10:30 a.m. and the salad bar will open at 11 a.m. with the main meal starting at 11:30 a.m.

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SOCIAL SECURITY, continued from page 4

BRIEFSGroups and organizations can submit information, pertain-ing to seniors in the region, to be published in Golden Times monthly magazine. All submissions are subject to space avail-ability and editing.Submissions should be emailed to: goldentimes@lmtribune.comor mailed to:Target PublicationsP.O. Box 957Lewiston, ID 83501Information for July’s issue must be recieved by June 23 to be considered.More information is available by calling (208) 848-2243.

Briefs

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efi ts will continue as long as your medical condition has not improved, and you cannot work. We will periodically re-view your case to determine if you continue to be eligible. If you are still receiving disabil-ity benefi ts when you reach your full retirement age, your disability benefi ts will auto-matically be converted to re-tirement benefi ts. The amount you receive will remain the same. More information is available online or by calling the toll-free number.

———Q: Why is there a fi ve-month waiting period for Social Se-curity disability benefi ts?A: Social Security provides

only long-term disability, so we can only pay benefi ts after you have been disabled con-tinuously for a period of fi ve full calendar months. Social Security disability benefi ts be-gin with the sixth full month after the date your disability began. You are not entitled to benefi ts for any month dur-ing the waiting period. More information is available online or by calling the toll-free number.

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 [TTY: (800) 325-0778] or visit www.socialsecurity.gov.

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There will be a choice of grilled salmon or chicken cordon bleu with rice pilaf and a veg-etable.

More information about the lunch and the senior center is

available by calling (208) 882-1562 or online at users.moscow.com/srcenter.

Senior center offers foot care and dances

Twice a week, the Sixth Street Senior Center offers

Donna’s foot care by appoint-ment and evening dances. Both are on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Dances are from 7-10 p.m. and cost is $4 per person. There is also foot care offered by Dyna starting at 9:30 a.m. June 11.

The monthly pancake feed is at noon next Monday and the center’s potluck is at noon June 23. Cost is $4 per person for the pancake feed.

There is a weekly pinochle game at 1 p.m. on Thursdays.

Foot care now offered for Idaho residents

The foot care offered at Valley Community Center is now able to service Idaho resi-dents as well as Washington residents. Marcia’s foot care will be offered today and June 23 by appointment. Appoint-ments can be made by calling (509) 330-1857.

Each Monday in June there will be painting classes from 12:30-4 p.m. Fitness classes

are offered from 10:15-11:15 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thurs-days. Card games played at the center include pinochle from 12:45-3 p.m. each Tues-day and Friday, and bridge is from 12:30-4 p.m. Thursdays and from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturdays. Blood pressure checks are at 11:30 a.m. each Thursday.

Annual picnic being held in July

The annual Blue Mountain Pioneer Picnic is July 5 at Swallows Nest in Clarkston.

This is a potluck event and will include the drawing for a fundraiser raffle to benefit the Blue Mountain Pioneer Associa-tion and Asotin Museum.

The raffle is for a quilt and tickets are $1 each or six tick-ets for $5. Tickets can be pur-chased in advance at the mu-seum.

More information about the picnic and raffle is available by calling the museum at (509) 243-4659.

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Monthly meeting calendar

JUNE 9: Twin City Square and Round Dance Club, board meeting, 7 p.m., 2130 Fifth Ave., Clarkston.

JUNE 11: Valley Com-munity Center, general board meeting, 9 a.m., 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.

JUNE 17: Sixth Street Senior Center, board meeting, 9 a.m., 832 Sixth St., Clarkston.

JUNE 23: Seaport Quil-ters, 6 p.m., 549 Fifth St., Clarkston.

If you would like to have your group or club meet-ings included in this month-ly calendar send complete information to golden-times@Lmtribune.com or Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501. More information is available by calling (208) 848-2243.

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BIRTHDAYS

Audrey Nisch of Clarkston will be hon-ored from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at Sonary Crest Club House on Sixth Avenue in the Clarkston Heights. The occasion is her 90th birthday.

She was born June 4, 1924, in Grantham, England.

Nisch has two daughters, three grand-children, two great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.

Audrey NischBirthday submissions

Birthdays starting at 70, and every year after, will be accepted for publication in Golden Times in the month of the birthday only.

The limit for each submission is 200 words. Photographs are welcome.

Birthday submissions must include the name and phone number of the person submitting information. if you would like your photo returned, please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

If you have questions about submitting a birthday, please call (208) 848-2243.

Mailed information may be sent to: Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, id 83501; emailed submissions should be sent to goldentimes@lmtribune.com.

July birthdays must be received by 5 p.m. June 23.

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Nellie Chase of Orofino will celebrate her 85th birthday on Thursday.

She was born June 5, 1929, at Seminole, Okla. Chase moved to Idaho in 1930.

She married Levon Chase on June 4, 1950. The couple moved to Orofino in 1954 where they had three chil-dren. Her husband died Dec. 21, 2008.

Chase is a member of the P.E.O., Chapter AW and serves on the Area Aging Advisory Council. She also volunteers at the Orofino Senior Center and meal site, as well as vol-unteering for the Clearwater Senior Citizens and the WA-ID Volunteer Center’s RSVP program.

She also has four grandchil-dren and five great-grand-children.

NeLLie chAse

June 7

Corrie Shriver of Orofino will turn 86 Saturday.She was born June 7, 1927, in Orofino and grew up in

Grangemont.She and Wayne Shriver were married in 1947. Her husband died

in 2012.Shriver has three children, 12 grandchildren and numerous

great-grandchildren.

cOrrie shriver

June 8

Arlene Elizabeth McDole Scott of Lewiston will turn 84 on Sunday.

She was born June 8, 1929, in Eugene, Ore. She was the eldest of four children born to Elroy McDole and Myrtle Brownlee McDole.

When Scott was 4-years old, her family moved to Ontario, Ore., where she attended school. She graduated in 1947.

She and Dale Scott were married on Feb. 14, 1949. The couple made their home in Orofino. They have three chil-dren, five grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.

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JUNE 8

Barbara Thomas of Orofi no will be 84 on Saturday.

Thomas was born June 8, 1929, in Clarkston.

She and Stanley Cramer got married and had three

children. He died several years ago.

She later married Jim Thomas and added four step-children to her family.

BARBARA THOMAS

JUNE 9

Roy Kennedy of Clarkston will celebrate his 87th birth-day next Monday.

He was born, one of four c h i l d r e n , to Angus and Ethel Kennedy on June 9, 1927, at Canfi eld,

Idaho, a few miles southwest of White Bird on Doumecq Plains.

Kennedy married Ilene Carroll

on Jan. 17, 1947, and they had six children. All, except one son, live in Asotin County. They also have 12 grandchildren, 20 great-grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

His wife died June 10, 2001.Kennedy served in the U.S.

Army from 1945-46 in the 2nd Infantry Division. He retired from the Asotin County Housing Authority after 18 years, in 1989.

He has served for 15 years as the treasurer for the Lewiston-Clarkston Eagles Lodge No. 43936.

ROY KENNEDY

JUNE 10

Gordon Thiessen of Orofi no will celebrate his 88th birth-day June 10.

He was born in 1925, in Tillamook, Ore.

Thiessen married Lillie Snyder and they have two daughters. Their son died

while serving in the U.S. Air Force in Germany. They also have eight grandchildren and numerous great-grandchil-dren.

He loves working in the yard and growing fl owers.

GORDON THIESSEN

Jay K. McCann of Clarkston will cel-ebrate his 75th birth-day on June 10.

He was born in 1939 in N o r w a l k , Wis., to Ted and Leona M c C a n n . He was the

fifth of 10 children.McCann served four full

years in the U.S. Air Force and received a good conduct medal. He was honorably dis-charged from service.

In 1962, he came west to see the World’s Fair in Seattle, only making it as far as Lewiston.

McCann worked in the gold mines of Nevada, at the McCann mill in Weippe and Gleason Oil in Lewiston.

He married Dona Behler on Aug. 13, 1966, and they have three children and three grandchildren.

The couple’s family will host a celebration of 150 years of birthdays for them at their home in June.

JAY K. MCCANN

JUNE 12

Lydia A. Bublitz Thompson of Lewiston will be 90 on June

12.She was

born in 1924, one of 14 children, of Bill and Ida Bublitz on a farm in South Dakota.

S h e m a r r i e d Vincent L.

Thompson Aug. 21, 1948. In the beginning of their mar-riage, they moved all around the Northwest following work.

Thompson has three chil-dren, fi ve grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.

She and her husband were married for 64 years before he died in April.

Thompson enjoyed camp-ing, gardening and yard sale-ing in her younger years. She also enjoyed crocheting, cook-ing and playing pinochle with friends.

LYDIA A. THOMPSON

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Marvin Sieler will turn 83 on June 12.

He was born in 1931 at Plevna, Mont.

Sieler married Irene Dawson on May 3, 1952, in Billings, Mont.

He was an Assembly of God minister for more than 40 years.

The Sielers have two daugh-ters, six grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

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JUNE 14

Effi e Speer of Culdesac will be 79 on June 14.

She was born in 1935 in Vancouver, W a s h . , and grew up in the Lew i s ton -C l a r k s t o n Valley.

S p e e r was married to Don until he

died in 1994. The couple were married in Plains, Mont., but after he died Speer moved back to the valley.

She has worked at Seuberts for the last 14 years.

Speer enjoys reading and working crossword puzzles in the newspaper

She has six children, nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

EFFIE SPEER

JUNE 17

Barbara O’Brien of Lewiston will celebrate her 78th birth-

day on June 17.

In 1936, she was the first child born to Bill and Maggie Hash in Po t l a t c h . She went to elemen-tary school in Harvard

and Princeton, and graduated from Potlatch High School 50 years ago.

O’Brien attended Eastern Washington University and graduated from Lewis-Clark State College with a teaching degree.

She taught fi rst and sec-

ond graders for the Lewiston School District for 12 years. A career she dearly loved. Following that she was a phar-macy technician at Rosauers for six years.

On Jan. 4, 2003, she and Leonard O’Brien were married in Lewiston. The couple are enjoying their retirement by traveling as far and as often as possible.

O’Brien is an avid quilt maker. She also spends many hours volunteering every month at the Inland Northwest Blood Center, and making quilts of Valor for the founda-tion and for the local Veterans Home.

She has two children, fi ve grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

BARBARA O’BRIEN

JUNE 20

Don Schaff will be hon-ored at an open house from 1-4 p.m. June 21 at 1003 29th St., Lew i s ton . The occa-sion is his 80th birth-day. Friends are wel-come to

attend the event, which will be hosted by his children. They

request no gifts.He was born June 20, 1934,

in Rygate, Mont.Schaff moved from Montana

to Lewiston in 1965 and worked for Buttrey Food for 25 years. He also worked for A&B Foods for 10 years. Schaff also helped all of his children deliver three different Tribune routes for 14 years, until they all graduated from high school.

He and his wife Pat have been married for 53 years. They have fi ve children and fi ve grandchildren. One grand-

son died in 2012.Schaff has enjoyed running

and completing 14 marathons around the country, and in London. His loves include fam-ily, reading, history, geography and travel.

He volunteers for the Veterans Administration driving patients to their appointments in Spokane and Walla Walla. He also picks up food weekly for the Community Action Food Bank and transports cars for a local dealership and car rental agency.

DON SCHAFF

JUNE 21

K i t t y Gamet of L e w i s t o n will cel-ebrate her 98th birth-day June 21.

She was born in 1916 to Louie and

Maude Bolen in the Spalding area, where she grew up.

Gamet lived in Clarkston until moving to Liberty House at Guardian Angel Homes.

She and Ray Gamet were married on July 23, 1934. They owned and operated a gas sta-tion in Clarkston for about 60 years.

Gamet’s interests are her

children, reading the Tribune, bus rides, music (especially Country Western), and her spe-cial bond with Hayden.

She has two children and had a son who died. She also has fi ve grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.

KITTY GAMET

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once upon a time living to be 90 was a feat in itself. Today’s 90-somethings surely don’t feel much different about it — even if it is becoming more com-mon. The thing that isn’t common is the journey that got them there.

Taking the journey to 90 hand-in-handgeorge and louise laVoie have been married lon-

ger than some people live. They will celebrate their 66th wedding anniversary this year.

and to be fair louise is just a youngster, having just celebrated her 89th birthday in May.

The two of them went to school together, louise said, and at assemblies they sat in alphabetical order so she was always seated next to george. she said though george hadn’t paid much attention to her — she had noticed him. it was later, though, when they finally became a couple.

george needed a date for a picnic so he knocked on lousie’s door and invited her to go with him. That was the beginning of their story.

They said their secret to longevity is being togeth-er and it’s evident they are still very much in love.

louise advises, anyone wanting to make it to their 66th wedding anniversary, to break old habits of get-ting angry with one another.

“Tone of voice is important,” she said. “it’s all in how you handle things.”

The couple got a “late start” having children but ended up with six sons, and numerous grand- and great-grandchildren.

before 1957, when george took over largent’s after louise’s father died, he serviced telephones for Western electric. but most of his working career was spent operating largent’s and he passed the business on to three of their sons when he retired.

“it takes three of them to do what i did,” he quipped.

They spent years going to elder hostels, around 30 in all. and they were able to spend time getting to know their grandchildren by taking trips with them. The couple said they have lived a full and happy life together, and have a large family to enjoy now.

george has slowed down in his 90s and perhaps lousie will too next year, but for now she is still very active, doing numerous things in the community, going birding, and she and george still deliver Meals on Wheels together in her new sport utility vehicle. it’s an activity they have done together since george retired, and louise was doing it even before that.

He said for him the biggest difference about being in his 90s is he can’t get around to chase louise any more. but there is still things to look forward to, he said, like “being 91.”

george spends his days differently than he once did but he seems to still find enjoyment in life. He likes watching game shows and sitting in front of their house where there is a marvelous view of the river and a serene shaded area to enjoy.

He also keeps himself busy making sure louise has everything she needs before she leaves the house.

“He’s always making sure, ‘now do you have your hearing aid? Do you have your phone?’ ” louise said. and she makes sure he is all taken care of, too. she makes sure he has a snack by his chair in case he gets hungry while she is gone, and she calls to check in with him and to let him know if she is running late.

You never know what tomorrow will bring, but there is one thing for sure: louise’s mantra “pray, be happy, give thanks under all circumstances” from 1 Thessalonians will help them keep their positive attitudes.

A lot has changedin naomi Hall’s 91 years, it seems there’s only

been one thing that’s stayed the same — the place she attends church.

Hall has attended the Weslyan church in clarkston since her dad became the minister there when she was 20 years old. During the past 70 years, the people, the music, the ministers, even the build-ing has changed, but not Hall’s commitment to her church family.

because that’s what it is to her: it’s her family, it’s her people. and that’s something that doesn’t change even though the hymns, Missionary society, wood paneling and friends her age have disappeared.

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No generalizations to be made, each 90-something has a story that is as unique as they are, but they do have one thing in common — they lived to be 90 (plus)

Longevity to 90-somethings isn’t just another word

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Louise and George LaVoie have been married 66 years, which may seem like a long time but not when you consider he is 90 and she just turned 89 it’s believable.

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“The word ‘change’ is in bright, big, bold letters everywhere in my life,” Hall said.

Much has changed and not all of it has been to her liking. Fashion has changed: On a recent outing Hall couldn’t find a new dress that suited her tasteful, modest preference. TV has changed and if hers is on, it’s turned to time-tested shows of the past. And the addition of portable technology means everyone is staring at a gadget when the family gathers, she said.

But there are plenty of positive changes, too. Appliances, for example, are a huge help. She doesn’t miss the days when her electric washer required her to run the clothes through a ringer and hang things up to dry. And technology has its qualities. Her Kindle is well-stocked with plenty to read and her computer allows her to connect with family members who otherwise might not communicate as often.

One of Hall’s secrets to longevity seems to be adaptability. If her faith has influenced her opposi-tion to some of society’s changes, it has also influ-enced her ability to cope with them.

“I pray God will help me have the right attitude, and not get cranky and hard to get along with,” she said.

Accepting change is part of it, but Hall also knows how to take care of herself. She eats balanced meals and said that avoiding unhealthy lifestyle habits — drinking, smoking and the like — has kept her body from deteriorating more quickly. And she walks.

For the last 50 years or so, Hall has made it a goal to walk for about an hour a day, five days a week. She and a friend walk on the levee when the weather

is cooperating and down at the mall when it’s not. “I’ve got all the parts I came with,” Hall said. “Maybe walking has been part of that.”

She hasn’t had any major medical issues of which to speak. She’s got the arthritic aches and pains of most 90-year olds and her eyesight has deteriorated mildly. She’s never spent time in a hospital, Hall said, and doesn’t plan to anytime soon.

She views being 91 as an accomplishment. Maybe slow and steady does more than win the race — maybe it helps keep you alive and well.

Enjoying the freedom of being 90The story of spry soon-to-be-90-year-old Audrey

Nisch, began in Grantham, England, where she was born. And she still has a bit of an accent.

“Oh, you wouldn’t have known what I was saying when I first came here,” she muses.

Longevity isn’t something, she said, that neces-sarily runs in her family. Her mother died in her 40s and her father was 53 when he died. But, she said, her grandparents on both sides did live into their 90s and her older brother just turned 91.

“I feel like I’m living on borrowed time,” Nisch said. “I see all these other people, much younger than I am and can’t even walk.”

She said her secret is being an active person. Nisch still rides a bike around Sonary Crest where she lives in Clarkston and while she doesn’t drive she does have a busy schedule playing bingo and cards at the club house, and attending lunches at the Valley Senior Center with friends.

“When you retire you don’t just sit back,” she said. “Just get out there and go. And I like to gamble, too.”

Nisch is a World War II veteran of the British Royal Navy, which is how she met her husband, Larry, who was stationed in London, serving with the U.S. Navy.

She and Larry were married Jan. 25, 1945, in London, where their eldest daughter, linda, was born. After the war, she came with Linda to Ohio where Larry’s parents were. But, she said, she didn’t care for it too much so she went to Washington, D.C., where one of her friends was living. When Larry got to the U.S., he didn’t realize she had left Ohio, but he finally found her and their journey began. The couple’s sec-ond daughter, Beverly, was born in D.C. before they left for upstate New York. They moved west from there to California where they made their home for 42 years.

Nisch became an American citizen in Maryland in 1950.

“I studied all these books. I knew everything. All the state capitols, all about the government, every-thing,” she said. “Well anyway the very first thing the judge asked me, ‘Well, where were you born?’ I was very nervous and I couldn’t remember. We finally got around to all the other stuff and I knew it.”

In 2001, the couple moved to Clarkston and in 2003 her husband died.

She said her favorite part about being in her 90s is the freedom she has to do what she wants. Nisch talked about having a “really good friend.”

“Oh he’s way too old for me, he’s 88,” she said. “They say that’s the way it should be. … The women outlive them anyway.”

Nisch is in good health but feels like there is no reason to worry about going to doctors and having all the tests they put you through.

“When you’re 90, who cares?” she joked. If the doctors said she needed surgery she wouldn’t do it now, she said. “There’s no more of that for me. I’ve lived a good life and I’ve been healthy and every-thing. I don’t think I want to make 100 because I’ve seen people 100 and I don’t like the way they look.”

A can-do attitudeWhen it comes to getting old, June Kauffman

Manring seems to have neither the time nor the patience for that sort of thing. It seems it never occurred to her that now, a couple months shy of 100, she’s earned her right to sit around in a recliner all day.

But maybe it’s that can-do attitude that got her this far.

Manring was born in Grangeville and married Jim Kauffman at the age of 21. Their first home was at the Dixie Ranger Station.

If Grangeville seemed off the beaten path, the Dixie Ranger Station was even more so. The lack of electricity, absence of nearby neighbors, 20-below freezing temperatures and 5- to 8-foot snow depths were inconvenient but Manring was left undaunted. The couple — and in time, two of their three chil-dren — used gas lamps, danced to a battery-pow-ered radio, snowshoed for supplies and heated the house with wood. At least they had indoor plumbing — when the pipes weren’t frozen, anyway.

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Naomi Hall has seen a lot of things change in her 91 years, but one thing hasn’t changed for her and that’s her

commitment to her church family.

Target Publications/Peggy Hayden

Audrey Nisch will turn 90 on Wednes-day but her fun-loving nature keeps

her forever young.

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It was there that the couple learned their oldest daughter, Karol, had rheumatoid arthritis, a condi-tion that, besides being painful, meant a childhood in casts, hospitals and wheelchairs. Even with the chal-lenges of raising a child with unique limitations and needs, Manring refused to let a “poor me” attitude set in for either herself or her children.

The family moved to the Lewiston Orchards in 1946, a home June still occupies with her son, Jim Kauffman and his wife, Pam. The days were filled with gardening and feeding the chickens. Her daugh-ter, Linda, remembers both tasks providing plenty for her mom to can. There were five in the family and an additional two family members to care for.

“That made laundry day a sensation,” Manring said dryly. Undoubtedly that sense of humor has gotten her through a challenge or two.

Because of her husband’s worsening heart con-dition, Manring went to work at Potlatch in 1955, grading specialty cuts of lumber. It was monotonous, tedious work, she said, but it was a job.

“It paid better than clerical jobs. I could’ve worked at the post office, but it didn’t pay as well,” Manring said. “And I was out there for money, not for the fun.”

When illness eventually took her husband in 1963, Manring continued to work until retirement age, even after she married Virgil Manring in 1965.

She might not put out the same work load as she used to, but the geraniums, impatiens, pansies and

coleus in Manring’s container garden provides a clue as to what might be her secret to longevity. By focus-ing on what she can do — rather than what she can’t — she’s got a little further than she otherwise might have.

A man’s two lovesRoyce Cox is a love-at-first-sight kind of guy.He knew the first time he went into the forest as

a boy — he loved trees. He also knew the first time he saw that red-headed girl in the restaurant, where he was working as a waiter, that she was the one for him.

Cox wasn’t sure as a boy how his love of trees would develop, but he knew he wanted to work in the forest, and he wasn’t sure he would ever see that red-headed girl again either, but if he did he knew he would ask her out.

He was in college studying forestry when he met that red head. His roommate told him he knew a girl that Cox had to meet and much to his surprise it was the girl he had fallen for in the restaurant. Lu Ellen was her name and she would become his wife of 68 years.

His secret to longevity is something everyone can do.

“What got me to 98 is very simple — just keep breathing, keep walking and keep talking, that’s all there is to it,” Cox said.

He said his parents’ longevity gene and his wife’s tender-loving care also helped. Now, Cox said, he tries to eat right, exercise and keep his mind busy. He keeps his mind working by writing. He has been

writing his story in a trilogy, “The Tree and Me,” “The Tree and She” and “My Family Tree.”

The books aren’t quite done, but then again nei-ther is he. At 98, Cox still goes to lunch each Tuesday with men he had hired to work at Potlatch. Cox was in charge of the forestry department when he retired from the mill in 1980. Even though he was retired he continued to have a love affair with the forest and has kept records of the restoration projects Potlatch has been involved in since its inception.

Cox came west from his homeland of Iowa to find a job so that he could ask for Lu Ellen’s hand in marriage. He ended up in Headquarters working for Charles Weyerhaeuser at Potlatch mill where he began his lifelong dream of working with trees and being in the forest.

Once he had enough money, he and Lu Ellen were married, and she came west to be with him. The couple raised three children, two of whom are still living. A daughter was killed in a car accident when she was just 20 years old.

“This was the worst event,” Cox said. “I still grieve over that. She was a wonderful girl.”

At 98, he is starting to have a memory problem, he said, but his recall doesn’t seem to be very bad for someone who has lived almost 100 years. It may take him a tad bit longer on occasion to find a word but there are 40-year-olds who don’t have his memory capabilities.

Cox isn’t stuck in the past, either. He embraces technology and has owned a computer for at least 10 or 15 years, he said. He wishes he would have had a word processor when he was working because it would have made all of the reports he had to file back then easier. One thing is for sure: it is making writing three books a lot easier.

“It’s the greatest invention since toilet paper, I think,” Cox said of the word processor.

There are things from the past that he misses, mostly his wife, but his love for her is as real and big as it was when she was just a red-headed girl he waited on one day.

“I have her picture right by my bed,” Cox said. “And I stare into her eyes as I go to sleep.”

His favorite part about being 98 is having a won-derful family and a wide group of friends. Plus, Cox said, he really enjoys living at Royal Plaza Retirement Center.

“This is a wonderful place to live,” he said. “The staff, you know, they give me lots of tender-loving care. I’ve made lots of new, wonderful friends and I’m happy here. I couldn’t find a better place to live.”

Cox isn’t afraid of becoming a centenarian, either.“I’m shooting for it. I’m determined to make it,”

he said. “I just gotta live to 100, because it’s going to take me that long to clean up all of my messes,” he said.

Missing parts don’t stop herKitty Gamet is missing something. No, it’s not the

TV remote, a favorite earring or yesterday’s cross-word puzzle. Gamet is missing a hip.

That’s right, it’s completely gone. Her right hip is not there.

But despite that reality, here’s what Gamet is not missing: a playful spirit and a smile. She relies on her kids — Neva Morrow and Darrell Gamet — to tell the majority of her story, but as they talk, her eyes sparkle and she adds a cheerful “Woo-woo-woo!” to

Target Publications/Michelle Schmidt

Soon-to-be centenarian June Manring has no time for getting old. She is too

busy living life to its fullest.

Target Publications/Peggy Hayden

Royce Cox is writing a trilogy docu-menting his life — 98 years doesn’t fit

well into one book.

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the things she agrees heartily with. She claims she can’t remember much, but with her nods and occasional interjections, her memories clearly lay just beneath the surface.

“I’ve been here a day or two,” said Gamet, who will turn 98 this month.She was born Virginia Katherine Bolen in Spalding and married her high-

school sweetheart, Raymond Gamet, in 1934.In 1946, after living in Lapwai and then Portland, Ore., the couple bought the

service station located just below what is now the Southway Bridge in Clarkston. Gamet’s Riverview Service sold gas and later expanded to sell groceries. The couple lived there until Raymond died in 2000.

And during that time, a thing or two changed. Gamet remembers selling gas for 19 cents a gallon; patrons would come get $1 worth of gas, which would last for the week. Back then, before the upriver dam, the Snake River flowed differ-ently and even froze over on occasion. She remembers delivering her oldest two children at Lewiston’s White Hospital for $35.

When asked, Gamet speculates as to how she got this far: she got plenty of exercise working the garden and at the grocery store.

“You should work a little,” Gamet said. “A little work won’t hurt you.”Gamet didn’t smoke or drink, she attended the Church of God in Clarkston

regularly and she was married to her soul mate. She sunbathed regularly on the family boat, but now visits the dermatologist yearly to have cancerous growths

removed. Gamet square-danced every Saturday night and since 1946, she’s start-ed every day with a cup of coffee and the Lewiston Tribune.

After a lifetime of good health, things took a bad turn in 2007 and Gamet was in and out of the hospital with broken hips, brain surgery for a blood clot, hip replacement and then finally the removal of her right hip a couple years ago. Its absence is the main reason she sits in a wheelchair at the Liberty House resi-dence where she has lived for the past nine years.

The fact that her injuries inflicted damage to her body — but not her spirit — speaks to the strength of her character. For her, the wheelchair is not a limita-tion, but just another place to enjoy friendships in her home, visit with her kids who come by frequently, and play with her great-granddaughter and the stuffed animals she brings with her.

Maybe, in the end, it’s that playful, positive spirit that has been her secret to longevity.

“She just counts every day as a blessing,” Morrow said.

Schmidt can be reached at themichellescmidt@gmail.com or (208) 305-4578. Hayden can be reached at phayden@lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2243.

Target Publications/Michelle Schmidt

Kitty Gamet will celebrate her 98th birthday June 21. She is pictured here with her daughter Neva Morrow and son Darrell Gamet.

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June 24

Robert Loeffelbein of C l a r k s t o n will cel-ebrate his 90th birth-day on June 24 during table ten-nis club time from 1-3 p.m. at the Lewis-Clark State

College Student Union Building.

He was born in 1924 at Wenatchee to Roy and Mae Loeffelbein.

Loeffelbein served with the U.S. Navy during World War II with the Amphibious Landing Forces delivering troops to Iwo Jima, Okinawa and Tokyo Bay. He also served during the Korean War.

After the military, he attend-ed and/or taught at Lewiston State Normal School; obtained

his bachelor’s degree in jour-nalism from Washington State University in Pullman; was a graduate assistant instructor at Stanford (Calif.); received a bachelor’s degree in health, physical education and recre-ation from Central Washington University in Ellensburg; earned a master’s degree in recreation management from the University of Oregon in Eugene; was a graduate assis-tant at University of Southern California in Los Angeles; stud-ied for his doctorate degree at the University of Maryland in College Park; was an assistant professor and assistant dean of men for the University of the Seven Seas (a shipboard college sailing around the world); and was an assistant professor and director of pub-lic information at St. Mary’s College of Maryland.

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J u n e Moulton of L e w i s t o n will be cel-e b r a t i n g her 90th b i r t h d a y at an open house from 1-3 p.m. June 21 at O r c h a r d s

United Methodist Church, 1213 Burrell Ave., Lewiston. They request no gifts.

She was born on June 24, 1924, on her grandparent’s farm near Marysville, Kan., to John and Helen Harvey. She was the second of eight chil-dren. She attended schools in Kansas and Missouri through the seventh grade. The fam-ily then moved to Amarillo, Texas, where she graduated from Amarillo High School in 1941. She attended West Texas State College (now Texas A&M)

and while there she met cadet Russell L. Moulton.

They were married on Nov. 22, 1945, following which they moved to Colton and in 1956 they moved to Lewiston.

Moulton taught school for one year in Texas, two years in Colton and two years at Orchards Elementary in Lewiston. She then went on to teach at Sacajawea Junior High School for 28 years as the girls physical education teacher.

Following her husband’s death in 1995, she began vol-unteering for Lewiston Senior Nutrition, the WA-ID Volunteer program and Tammany View Baptist Church vacation Bible school.

Moulton has four children, five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

June MouLton

June 25

Grace Chapman Jesse will be hono red d u r i n g an open h o u s e f r o m 1 : 3 0 - 4 p.m. June 22 at St. Stanislaus P a r i s h C e n t e r, 633 Fifth

Ave., Lewiston. The occa-sion is her 80th birthday.

She was born June 25, 1934, in a log cabin in Fromberg, Mont. Her family moved to Wyoming when she was 4 years old. She attend-ed school in Thermopolis, Wyo. Her senior year they moved to Clarkston where she graduated in 1952.

She married John Jesse on June 20, 1954, and the couple were married nearly 60 years. He died Jan. 30.

In 1957, they moved to Lewiston.

Jesse has two children. Her youngest daughter died at age 26.

She was very active with the Jaycettes and church activities. She also worked on the March of Dimes fund-raisers before leaving the area.

In 1964, They moved to Kellogg, Idaho, followed by moves to Mountain Home, Idaho, Pocatello, Boise and back to Lewiston.

Upon their return, Jesse was active in St. Mary’s League, P.E.O., Chapter BL and the Lewiston Country Club Ladies Association.

Jesse enjoys playing bridge and going to lunch with her friends.

GRace Jesse

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S h e was born D o n a b e l Behler, in 1939, the ninth child of Herman a n d Katheryn Behler of Clarkston.

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After getting off to a shaky start a day late, Dave Hudson began his trek along the Lewis-Clark Trail.

A short detour was needed because the Katy trail was muddy because of storms from the days before, so Hudson had to take a path more traveled, adding several miles to his ride.

His entry on his blog dated May 17 began by thanking all those who have followed his journey and went on: “I started out yesterday a little tired, but that is kind of the way most of my rides go that are more than a day ride. Anyway the first 10 miles or so went OK then things started to unravel. Fatigue, then dizziness so bad I felt like I was drunk. We finally got back off of surface streets and back on the KATY Trail (when) things really started to get serious. I called my doctor at home and his advice was to get to a hospital as quickly as I could.”

In his blog he wrote that on the way to the hospital he happened across a bar and the staff was able to call 911 for him. An ambulance, he reported, picked him up and chauffeured him the rest of the way to the hospi-tal. After several hours of tests and care, it was determined his condition was not life-threatening and he was

released with the advice that he dis-continue his ride and see his primary doctor as soon as possible.

Hudson made it home May 20 and

made an appointment to see his doctor.No word on whether he will try

the ride again at some point in the future.

Taken from Dave Hudson’s blog

Dave Hudson stands at the beginning of the Lewis-clark Trail in Missouri before heading out on what would be a short-lived bi-

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Golden Times prints original short poetry from seniors on a space-available basis. Submissions must include the

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Send poetry submissions to: Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501; Deadline for poetry to be included in July’s

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READER POETRYHer PrayerA silver haired lady stood by the shore,

looking over the waves.Thinking of her love

of many years had been called away.

The days passed slowly, this was their special day.

Seventy years ago their vows were said,

life was joyous and free.Their faith in God

kept their years blessed as they raised their family.

Why — she thought, did God take my love,

he was life to me.All the memories she relived,

of times at work and play, she could almost see.

Strong and tall, his smiles he shared,

his arms held her close, when home from work,

he would be hugging each child, was vivid in her memory.

Please, dear God, come soon she whispered,

let me join my love, he was more than life to me.

Soon after sitting in his old rocking chair,

they found her with a smile, she had gone away,

God had heard her prayer.Eve Herring, 84, Lewiston

A Little WalkAs I take my morning walk,

I pause to enjoy the view, and admire a sky of azure blue.

Flaunting the beauty of gorgeous white clouds, it takes my breath away,

a wondrous display.And looking downward are the greening hills.

Showing off their velvety dips and dives.

Oh, what a beautiful day.How blessed I am to be, welcoming birthday 93!

June Giard, 92, Clarkston

Sunlit ShadowsWhen mom began to fail,

I saw you meet her in the shadowed valley.

You walked with her each step of the way,

giving her joy and quiet dignity.

She longed to see your face, and then dad’s ~

you were her grace and sufficiency,

as her foot touched Heaven’s shore ~

Thank you for green pasture, still waters, perfect peace

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for holding her hand along the way ~

Thank you for holding mine ~

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Finding Shangri-LaMy love and I spent 30 years

in Southern California, through laughs and tears.

When work years were gone, we had to move on.

Leaving L.A. had caused no fears.

For retirement, we sought the best.

Shangri-La, was always our quest.New England’s OK,

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The results counter earlier studies and defy stereotypes of older people as weak and tired, said Laura Kudrna, a re-searcher at the London School of Economics and Political Sci-ence.

What’s even more surprising, she said, is the unexpected re-sults can’t be explained away by elderly people sleeping lon-ger or doing fewer activities they find tiring.

“There’s something else go-ing on here,” Kudrna wrote in an email to the Los Angeles Times.

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Volunteer opportunitiesThe WA-ID Volunteer Center

located in the Lewiston Com-munity Center at 1424 Main St. provides individualized vol-unteer opportunities for those wishing to serve in Lewiston, Clarkston, Asotin, Pomeroy, Moscow and the Orofi no area. The phone number is (208) 746-7787.

The center can also be found online at www.waidvolunteercenter.org.

The following are a few of the volunteer opportunities available in June. The Lewis-Clark Senior

Games is in need of many volunteers for the 13 sporting events. Positions that need to be fi lled include, but are not limited to, timers, scorekeep-ers, hydration support, traffi c fl ow, ball retrieval and fl yer distribution. The games are June 18-21. The Jack O’Connor Hunt-

ing Heritage and Education Center at Hells Gate State Park is in need of hosts. Indi-viduals should have meet-and-greet abilities, a friendly per-sonality and be able to answer questions about the displays at the center. Some sales of mer-chandise may also be needed and training is provided. The Idaho Food Bank is

beginning a “Cooking Matters” class and is in need of volun-teers to help teach others how to prepare nutritious meals on a budget. Classes start soon. The American Red Cross

Disaster Services is in need of volunteers to help with ad-ministrative duties, which in-clude, but are not limited to, answering phones, processing mail, data entry and the abil-ity to prepare general corre-spondence. Moscow Mentors is in

need of male volunteers for the 2014-15 school year to mentor school-aged boys dur-ing school hours at one of the four Moscow elementary schools. An orientation and background check are manda-tory for this position.

More information on any of these or other volunteer op-portunities offered through the WA-ID Volunteer Center is available by calling Cathy Rob-

inson at (208) 746-7787.———

Interlink Volunteers — Faith in Action in Clarkston of-fers volunteer opportunities throughout the area. The of-fi ce, located at 817 Sixth St., is open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays. The phone number is (509) 751-9143. Handymen — volunteers

able to do minor home main-tenance such as installation of grab bars in bathrooms, gutter cleaning and minor roof repairs are needed. Volunteers must use their own tools. Materials are provided by Interlink. Carpentry — volunteers

with the skills to help build entry steps and wheelchair ramps, and construct and place outdoor handrails are needed. Volunteers must have their own tools, but materials are provided by Interlink. Transportation — volun-

teers are needed to drive cli-ents to and from appointments Monday through Friday. This re-quires a valid driver’s license, insurance and own vehicle. Mileage is reimbursed. Mover — volunteers are

needed to help clients move. There is a need for those with and also those without a truck, to help pack, load and move household items. Painting — volunteers are

needed to paint new wheel-chair ramps. All paint is provid-ed but volunteers need their own brushes, rollers and rags. Yard work — volunteers

are needed to help with any-thing from cleaning yard debris to mowing lawns and pulling weeds. Volunteers need their own mower and tools. Van — There is a continued

need for a volunteer with a lift van, capable of transporting wheelchair-bound individuals.

Volunteers interested in any of these projects must com-plete an application. The ap-plication as well as more infor-mation about the organization and volunteer opportunities are available online at www.interlinkvolunteers.org.

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ciety serves meals at the Val-ley Meal Site in Kamiah and

delivers meals to homebound individuals in the Kamiah area. The meal site is located at 125 Maple St., Kamiah. The phone number is (208) 935-0244.

The center has the follow-ing volunteer opportunities: Delivery drivers — vol-

unteers are needed to deliver meals for the Kamiah route on Fridays. The route takes approximately 45 minutes to complete. Kitchen help — volun-

teers are needed to help with the preparation and serving of meals at the senior meal site. Individuals interested in this opportunity can volunteer Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and/or Friday.

More information on either of these volunteer opportu-nities is available by calling meal site Manager Joe Kolar at (208) 935-0244.

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nonprofi t that serves seniors, has the following volunteer opportunities. General home cleaning —

volunteers are needed to help seniors with light to moderate household cleaning such as vacuuming, dusting and wash-ing dishes. Companionship — volun-

teers are needed to visit se-niors at their home. Yard maintenance — vol-

unteers are needed to help with cleaning yard debris, mowing lawns and pulling weeds. Home maintenance

— volunteers are needed to do small home repairs and im-provements such as installing grab bars. Transportation — volun-

teers are needed to drive cli-ents to and from weekday ap-pointments. Event planning — There

is a need for someone to help plan events for seniors.

More information about these and other volunteer op-portunities offered through My Own Home is available by calling Chelsey Fanara at (208) 882-4100 or via email, myownhomemoscow@gmail.com.

NOT TIRED, continued from page 16

Kudrna and a fellow re-searcher analyzed answers from the 2010 American Time Use Survey, a nation-ally representative survey sponsored by the Bureau of Labor Statistics that includ-ed nearly 13,000 U.S. resi-dents. Earlier rounds of the survey explored how Ameri-cans spent their time, but the 2010 survey was the fi rst to ask how people felt during different activities.

Each person fi lled out a di-ary of what they did the pre-vious day and how they felt about some of their activi-ties. They rated how tired they felt while doing those activities on a scale of zero to six.

Remarkably, Americans ages 65 and older reported being less tired than older teens and young 20-some-

things, pegging themselves almost one point lower on the tiredness scale. Tired-ness dropped off after the age of 40 and continued to decrease with age, Kudrna said.

The results were con-trolled for how healthy peo-ple thought they were and other background character-istics, such as gender, eth-nicity, number of children and how much people slept. Researchers also factored in how much of the day was spent doing tiring activities.

So why might older people report feeling less tired than teens, 20-somethings and other adults? Kudrna won-ders if technology might be making younger people feel more tired, or if other, un-tracked health factors are infl uencing the results.

The bottom line, however, is that “we don’t know,” Ku-drna said. “And I’d love to fi nd out.”

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By Don MarkusThe BalTimore Sun

Peter Chen spent all of his childhood in Trinidad, playing cricket and soccer. After he came to the U.S. at age 19 to attend Howard University in Washington, D.C., where he helped start the men’s soccer team, Chen worked as a bellboy at Columbia Country Club in nearby Chevy Chase, Md.

It was there that Chen was introduced to a new game — golf.

“(Fred) ‘Scotty’ McLeod gave me my first set of clubs in 1949,” Chen said, referring to the longtime pro at Columbia and the 1908 U.S. Open cham-pion. “I’ve been hacking around

since then.”Chen, whose parents were

both athletes in Trinidad and whose paternal grandfather served as foreign minister of China under Chiang Kai-shek, was not immediately taken by the new sport.

“I thought it was an old man’s game,” Chen said. “I was used to playing cricket and I was fas-cinated by people hitting balls 150 yards when you could only hit a cricket ball not even half that distance. I said, ‘This looks like fun.’ ”

Chen has come to realize it’s a game old men can play well. While it’s difficult for the game’s current stars such as Tiger Woods and Phil Mickel-

son to shoot their age, the now 87-year-old Chen does it all the time.

At the National Senior Games in Cleveland last summer, Chen shot rounds of 85-86-87 to win his age group (85-89) by eight strokes. It was his second gold medal to go along with three silver medals earned in the dozen times he qualified for the nationals since turning 50.

Though he has not shot his age as many times as Frank Bai-ley of Abilene, Texas, who holds the Guinness World Record by shooting his age more than T. Edison Smith’s previous mark of 2,663 times (the Moorhead, Minn., resident did it first at age 71 and did it for the last time at age 98), Chen does it with great regularity.

In fact, when Chen recently won the gold medal for his age group at the Maryland Senior Games at Compass Pointe Golf Club in Pasadena, Md., the former 30-year government employee who worked in “per-sonnel management and civil rights” was not happy with his performance.

“Today is a bad day because I shot one over my age,” Chen said. “Usually I shoot in the 70s.”

Chen spent much of his early years playing golf on public

courses around Washington, D.C. He said he kicked in “$5 to help Lee Elder get to his first professional tournament” and also beat legendary boxing champion Joe Louis in a tourna-ment in 1960.

“He took his golf clubs and threw them in the Anacostia River,” Chen said with a smile. “He said, ‘I will not let that lit-tle shrimp beat me.’ ”

Chen said he became serious about golf when he was posted in Panama for six years. He won his first significant tournament at Rodman Naval Base and shot better than his age for the first time at age 70, when he shot a 69 at his home course, Wicom-ico Shores, in Mechanicsville, Va.

“I was little, but I could al-ways hit the ball a long way,” he said. “I hit the ball 50 yards longer than I do now.”

According to About.com, the youngest player ever to shoot his age was 1944 PGA champion Bob Hamilton, who shot 59 at age 59 in 1975. The PGA Tour record is held by the legendary Sam Snead, who shot 67 in the 1979 Quad-Cities Open at age 67.

Chen, who typically plays three times a week, said when he plays in competition, partic-ularly against younger players,

“the juices flow.” He considers golf a “very cerebral sport, you have to connect the mind with the body and then you deal with the conditions regardless of what they are.”

Admittedly, Chen enjoys the game more than he did years ago “because I feel like I am on borrowed time.”

Jim Sherwood, a 76-year-old retired dentist who lives in East-port, Maine, doesn’t quite feel the same way. After shooting an 84 to win his age group (75-79) at Compass Pointe, the former scratch golfer was scratching his head about the number of putts he didn’t make.

“I had 20 putts on the front nine, to 23 other strokes,” Sherwood said.

Asked if he enjoys the game as much as he once did, Sher-wood is blunt.

“Not at all, because I play so poorly,” he said. “It’s not fun when you hack around. Many people are happy. I play golf with guys who shoot 95 or 100 and they’re so happy just to be outside. I want to play good and I can’t seem to do it anymore.”

Sherwood said he has long been bothered by a case of the “yips” — the inability to calm oneself down while putting, causing your heart to race and your hands to shake. Some of the world’s best players, most notably Tom Watson, saw their careers take a nosedive when it happened.

“It’s great to be playing golf all these years and it’s still fun when you’re clowning around like we did today, but when you’re trying to play well and you miss a 1- or 2-foot putt two or three times like I did today, that’s not fun. It takes away your heart and when that hap-pens — it’s hard to play that way.”

Like Chen, Sherwood didn’t get started in golf until late, when he too was stationed in Panama while serving in the U.S. Air Force. He shot his age for the first time when he was 68, while playing golf on vaca-tion in North Carolina.

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Garry Bush, 67, of Lewiston, is Golden Times’ Senior Volunteer of the Month for June.

Nominated by: Cathy Robinson, who wrote in an email: “I would very much like to nominate Garry Bush for this distinction.

“… Garry has been our Track & Field coordinator for the (Senior) Games for many years. He works hard to make it a fun and successful event. He also helps us set up the walk for the 5K run/walk event. In addition, he does anything and everything else we ask of him — includ-ing helping us do the ‘heavy lifting’ for the celebration banquet on the last day of the Games!

“Those are just a few of the things he does to help with the Games. He is also a very active volunteer in the commu-nity and is heavily involved in the First Territorial Capital and anything related to history.”

Volunteer work: Besides the volunteer work listed in his nomination, Bush was on the Lewiston, Idaho, Sesquicentennial

P l a n n i n g C o m m i t t e e and served as president of the First Te r r i t o r i a l C a p i t o l

of Idaho R e v i t a l i z at i o n

Project Inc. He is on the board of the Nez Perce County Historical Society and the Modie

Park Conservancy. B u s h is also co-director for

the “Chinese Remembering Project,” and was on the planning committees for the “Exploring Sgt. Ordway’s trip to Hells Canyon” and the Lewis & Clark Bicentennial “Summer of Peace.” Bush also served on the local Habitat for Humanity board and the Lewiston Civic Theatre board. He served as Lewiston Historic Preservation commissioner, and Lewiston Parks and Recreation com-missioner.

Years ago, he made a promise to care for the remaining grapes from the vineyard that was once located in Lewiston on the hillside where the Idaho State Veterans Home is now.

“So I see something and I go, ‘why can’t we do that?’ I see some-thing that is great for the community and would be a neat thing — then because of the contacts I have through volunteering — that allows for a bigger cir-cle, it’s a network,” Bush said.

He said that he then can go to those people he knows and get things done.

Career: Bush was, for more than 40 years, a teacher in the public

school system in Idaho, Washington, California and Oregon. Ranging from kindergarten to graduate students. He retired from Lewiston High School in 2002, after 30 years.

He has degrees in geography, his-tory and photography. In 2004, Bush completed the National Park Service’s Camp of Instruction at Fort Clatsop and is certified as a first-person living history presenter, which he uses in his business Idahohistorytours.com where he conducts historic walking and trol-ley tours of downtown Lewiston. He is a past mayor pro-tem for Lewiston and is an adjunct faculty member of Lewis-Clark State College.

Family: He moved to the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley 40 years ago from Los Angeles. Bush and wife Barbara met playing tennis, and have been married almost 22 years. The couple blended their families, giving them five chil-dren.

Hobbies: Bush enjoys the arts and

“dabbles” in photography, painting and refers to himself as a “fledgling” writer. He also thinks of his “Ghost Tours” business as a hobby. Bush also lists vol-unteering as one of his hobbies.

“That’s what you get out of it. Like I said, you meet that circle , that circle gets bigger and pretty soon you can walk down the street, in a smaller com-munity and you know people,” Bush said.

One of his favorite things about being a volunteer is the feeling it gives him.

“It’s uplifting — being a volunteer. It lifts you out of where you’re at, because your sense of whatever troubles you have are minute,” Bush said. “That’s what volunteerism gives you, is a sense of place.”

He advises new volunteers that help-ing others is a pay-it-forward activity that makes you feel like you’re part of the human race.

Do you know someone who is age 60 or olderand gives tirelessly of their time? Help Golden Times recognize their service toour community by nominating them forVolunteer of the Month.

Give a brief description of why you think they should be Volunteer of the Month. Nominations must also include the person’s name, phone number and age, as well as what type of volunteer work they do. And be sure to include your name as well.

Send nominations to: Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston ID 83501.

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By Nicole BrochuSun Sentinel

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Take South Florida’s entic-ing tropical climate, add an improving economy and throw in the booming popularity of high-intensity workouts like Insanity, CrossFit and Zumba, and what do you get?

A whole lot of injuries, or-thopedic surgeons say.

The perfect storm of fun, sun, fitness and torn liga-ments has a season in South Florida, and it peaks about now, when year-round resi-dents and snowbirds alike get out to enjoy the cooler temps.

“With the temperature dropping here in South Flori-da, people are jumping head-first into a range of outdoor activities without adequate-ly preparing,” said Dr. Eric

Lloyd, Boca Raton orthopedic surgeon.

The “weekend warrior” in-juries — named for, but not exclusive to, the fitness buffs who cram their workouts into the end of the work week — span the demographic spec-trum, doctors say. But they are becoming increasingly common in people in their 50s and 60s — the years when exercise enthusiasts are be-ginning to come face to face with the realities of age.

“There’s no question I am seeing more people who are older in years, but they’re maintaining the same level of activity they did in their younger years,” said Dr. Jon-athan Levy, chief of orthope-dics at Fort Lauderdale’s Holy Cross Hospital. “Their bodies are not keeping up with their desire to play.”

Craig Romer can attest to that. At 51, the Delray Beach commercial mortgage broker has had to come to terms with the effects of age after

suffering a separated shoul-der and two meniscus tears in the past few years. Though he sustained some cracked ribs and tweaked ankles playing ice hockey most of his life, the shoulder injury was the first time he required surgery.

“I fully recognize that my age is a factor in the activi-ties I’m doing,” Romer said, adding that he’s pared back his ice hockey playing from three nights to once a week. “I can’t compete at the level I used to compete at.”

Dr. Marc Bergman, an or-thopedic surgeon and sports medicine specialist in Boca Raton, thinks the increase in such injuries is rooted in America’s improving econ-omy, which has encouraged more people to retire early to South Florida. Many of them are relishing the area’s pro-fitness climate, to their own peril.

“A lot of these people, 55- to 65-year-olds, are getting

into Zumba, they’re getting into CrossFit, and they’re just going crazy,” Bergman said.

The high-intensity pro-grams are “great workouts,” said Dr. Johannes Blom, Hol-lywood, Fla., orthopedic surgeon, but a lot of them require jumping, heavy lift-ing and lots of fast, uncon-ventional movements, often with inadequate warmup preparation or training in proper techniques. “The old-er population doesn’t handle that well.”

The typical injuries doc-tors are seeing are the re-sult of overuse, often over time — knee ligament tears, sprained ankles, torn rotator cuffs, pulled muscles.

“As you get older, the col-lagen in your tissue changes,” said Dr. Daniel B. Chan, an orthopedic surgeon at Memo-rial Regional Hospital in Hol-lywood. “It doesn’t have as much elasticity as when you were younger.”

So you could be perform-ing the same move you have for years, and that last swing of the racket or step of the foot can lead to what Levy calls “the straw that broke the camel’s back kind of the thing” — a sudden tear in a tendon or ligament.

There was a time such in-juries were uncommon in people in their retirement years, said Dr. Erol Yoldas, an orthopedic surgeon at Bro-ward Health Medical Center and Broward Health Impe-rial Point in Fort Lauderdale. Now, though, people in their 60s, 70s and older are enjoy-ing an active lifestyle.

“We have a generation of people who are really into fit-ness, and they see no reason to go quietly into the night, so to speak,” Yoldas said. “So that’s parlaying itself into a situation where we’re seeing more of these injuries.”

‘Weekend warrior’ injuries hobble 50-plus crowd

By MiMi Whitefieldthe MiaMi herald

MIAMI — Astrid Flaherty nimbly hops off a low plat-form and then swoops from side to side touching orange

plastic cones.Though she is 70 years old

and a breast cancer survivor, she seems barely winded. Her secret: lifelong exercise and healthy eating.

“Exercise is the best anti-aging pill you can take,” said Dawn Davis, a fitness instruc-tor at Shula’s Athletic Club in Miami Lakes, Fla.

And Flaherty has discov-

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The Miami Lakes resident still hits the gym three times a week and plays tennis on Saturdays. And her diet empha-sizes fresh, natural foods.

Being in good shape also helped when she was diag-nosed with breast cancer in 2007. “My doctors were amazed that I was able to come back from my chemo sessions so quickly,” she said.

“People need to think about the aging process throughout their lives. I know it’s hard when you’re 20 years old,” said Dr. Sara Czaja, professor

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That’s because it’s geared to the refined tastes of an older customer like mom and dad, aunt and uncle, and grand-mother and grandfather.

Yet most of the customers inside the Akron, Ohio, McDon-ald’s restaurant are as delight-ed as little children with what’s being served with their early morning fast-food selections.

Not only that, it’s free.It’s the music of Diana Ander-

son, the part-time hostess there for the last five years, who in addition to a myriad of predict-able duties, shares her operatic singing voice with customers. Inarguably, a much more pleas-ing idea than “whistling while you work.”

Some insist they’re regulars because of her singing. A great way to start their day, they say.

The Akron woman — a hard-to-believe 71-year-old dressed

in a navy ball cap with the Mc-Donald’s “I’m lovin’ it” logo, co-ordinating red/white/blue polo shirt and dark trousers — has a classically trained voice.

“God has blessed me all of my life. There were three times when I almost died, and each time God pulled me through,” she said with an I-sing-because-I’m-happy tone to her words.

“The first was when I was 5 and living with an abusive fos-ter family,” she said. “Because nobody believed me, I stepped in front of a semi and waited for

it to run over me. But it didn’t happen. The woman next door who was the mother of my fos-ter mother called my dad and I went to live with another fam-ily, the Schultzes, who were re-ally an awesome match, with daughters Linda, Sissy and an-other one close to my age.”

In those days during World War II, Anderson explained, it wasn’t uncommon for working

last weekend, I had the first really good spring ride on my horse and I fi-nally made some time for major spring cleaning.

By Sunday night, I was concerned as I went to bed, tired and hurting, that I may have overdone it and injured myself. It occurred to me that if I was more fit this would not have been such a concern.

This may sound familiar to many of you. Many injuries that lead to chronic pain and disability start with poor muscular conditioning or simply not think-ing about how we move and perform routine activi-

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Inactivity increases risk for injury as muscles weaken or develop unevenly in contrast to muscles we regularly use. These things may go unnoticed during day-to-day activities, but less frequent activities like travel, moving or spring cleaning can result in long-lasting pain and injury. Fit and active people may also be at risk from improper exercise techniques as dangerous habits can also develop during healthy activities.

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regular stretching is a great way to recon-dition underused muscles. It also helps with recovery between periods of more intense physical activity, preserves range of motion

in joints, and maintains the connection between the brain and the body that can prevent injury from ac-cidents, such as falls.

Activities like yoga or tai chi are good exercise and help build the kind of body awareness and mindful-ness that can improve your overall health. research-ers are beginning to find many benefits to these activities beyond just muscle development and flex-ibility. I believe that injuries are not just of the body, they are also of the mind and heart. As one of my favorite teachers of medicine, Dr. Paul lyons, said: “no pain, no pain!”

I would like to thank my friend and experienced former personal trainer, Shelly rocheleau, for her help in writing this column.

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of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and the scientific director of the Center on Aging at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine.

“It’s really important to take advantage of what we know,” Czaja said, “and we do know

a lot about how to age health-ily.”

That includes staying socially engaged throughout life and being mindful at a young age of the dangers of smoking, the links between skin cancer and overexposure to the sun, and having recommended preven-tive screenings, Czaja said.

“A lot of chronic disease — diabetes, high-blood pres-

sure, cardiovascular disease, obesity — may be prevented by maintaining a healthy lifestyle throughout life too,” she said.

“What we’re also learning more and more is the impor-tance of engaging in physical exercise. That leads to not only better cardiovascular health but also better cognitive health,” Czaja said. “There is suggested evidence that being obese can

cause cognitive problems.”But the reality is what ini-

tially motivates many people to exercise is concern about their appearance — not their health, said Rickie Ali, a fitness/well-ness specialist and personal trainer at Shula’s Athletic Club.

“The fitness business knows this — with the ads about six-pack abs and all that,” he said. You can get lean following some of the programs now in vogue, he said, but they are not com-plete and some also put people at risk of injury by trying to do too much, too fast.

“My main goal for people is for them to have the fit-ness they need to get through their everyday activities,” he said. “By default, the body gets leaner. But that is not my moti-vation.”

Anyone who wants health for life needs to address lifestyle habits, nutrition, wellness and fitness at every phase of their lives, Ali said.

A basic mantra for anyone who wants to age well is move, move, move.

In the 20s and early 30s that means building strong muscles,

bone density and as healthy a cardiovascular system as pos-sible, Ali said. “It’s like when you build a house. You need to build a solid foundation.”

And anyone who embarks on a fitness program needs to improve their nutrition as well. “Think of food as a fuel like gas for a car,” Ali said. “You might want to drive that car five days a week, but if the gas isn’t there, you can’t do it.”

As people head toward mid-dle age, their metabolism may slow and a more sedentary life-style and chronic ailments may begin to take a toll.

Ali said the exercise move-ments for those at mid-life are basically the same as for a younger person but the number of repetitions and intensity may vary.

For older people, it’s impor-tant to work on movements that encourage better balance, flex-ibility and stability, Ali said.

“If you have strong muscles and core, it’s easier to stop yourself from falling and risking injury,” Davis said.

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The group is made up of retirees from Potlatch mill. Most, or all, of whom worked in the forestry department where they were responsible for gathering seeds, growing saplings, and maintaining and replanting the forests.

Among the group was Bill Ringo, who, if you don’t know him, is always pointing out the good deeds and amazing things others are doing. I am not sure if he is shy, but he deserves some of the accolades he always wants others to be given.

Ringo and I met first on the phone, shortly after I took over Golden Times from Bob Johnson, when he called to ask if I would be the speaker at a meet-

ing of the Lewis-Clark Retirees. I agreed and had the pleasure of meeting him in person on Jan. 11, 2012.

Since that time I have been only too happy to talk to Ringo many times on the phone. The conversation is always something like this: “Hi Peggy, this is Bill Ringo. I don’t know if you remember me … ” and he goes on to tell me about something good that someone has done or something of note a person is doing. I smile each time I hear his voice on the other end of the phone and think to myself, probably out

loud, “Of course I remember you, Bill.”Isn’t it funny how the people who

you absolutely remember are usually the people who always say “I don’t know if you remember me.” I learned a long time ago that there are not a great many truly genuine people in

this world so when you meet one you remember them and Ringo is as genu-ine as they come.

As I sat down at the table with them, he pointed to each person and introduced them by saying at least one amazing thing about each of them. It was astounding — what a gift — to be able to retain all that information about each person he knows. I admire this quality. It’s just one of the many great qualities he has.

First he introduced me to Willard Teel, a southerner who grows okra right here in Lewiston.

“That’s a story in itself,” he said. “A guy who grows okra right here in the L-C Valley.”

Teel told me he is growing around 52 plants in a “garden” and he said it takes about two months until you can harvest the tasty treat. He also told me that it will keep producing until the first freeze.

Ringo also introduced me to Dave Weisel, who he said had traveled to … and he began naming countries. I

asked Weisel which was his favorite place out of all he had been to and he replied instantly: “Auckland, New Zealand. It’s really pretty. A third of the population of New Zealand lives there.”

A late comer, Bill Davis, was intro-duced to me by Ringo as he found a place to sit. “This is Peggy from the Tribune and you can tell her what you did at the mill.”

Davis replied, “I wasn’t at the mill,” with laughter. “I was in the Forestry Department for the last 20 years. I was a land specialist.”

Just by the lunchtime conversations, if no one had ever mentioned the mill, you would know their lives were spent with a natural respect for the forest and its trees. They spoke about trees and each other the way many talk about family, with respect and fond-ness.

Hayden may be contacted at phayden@ lmtribune.com or (208) 848-2243.

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Business for Newtown, Pa.-based Bell Elevator Co. Inc. is up 25 percent over the last year, said Tom Reavy, owner of the six-year-old residential-el-evator firm.

The aging U.S. population and the lower cost of installa-tion — about $25,000 now com-pared with nearly $60,000 two decades ago — are two factors driving elevators’ growing pop-ularity, Reavy said.

In real estate, targeting the over-55 demographic once meant single-story ranchers.

But today, the lifts — which are still popular in suburban man-sions — are becoming more common in townhouse develop-ments, he said.

The National Association of Elevator Contractors did not have figures on the increasing presence of elevators in the home, but local industry ob-servers agreed the demand for them has grown.

Of the 27 completed Artisan Townhouses along the 1400 blocks of Bainbridge, Pember-ton and Kater Streets in Phila-delphia, 13 have elevators, said Scott Neifel, sales manager of Philadelphia-based Plumer & Associates Inc. Realtors.

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“We are seeing them in just about any new development over a certain height,” said Matt Pincus, owner of West Chester, Pa.-based Pincus Elevator Co.

Elevators are a feature often expected in newly constructed homes of four stories or more, Pincus said.

An elevator can serve as a “glorified dumbwaiter” for carting luggage or groceries be-tween floors, Neifel said. Still, not all downsizing suburbanites are interested in them.

Kathy Maris, 52, is relocat-ing from her 3,800-square-foot Moorestown, N.J., home to Philadelphia with her husband. They considered two city town-houses with elevators, but

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Brian Stetler, of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach, typically advises his cli-ents to consider how much they will actually use the elevator before they buy. For some hom-eowners, it turns into a closet, he said.

“They put brooms, laundry baskets, and vacuum cleaners in them.” Stetler said. “But it is only storage on one floor.”

Regardless of potential draw-backs, Pincus said, “At a certain price range, an elevator is part of the deal.”

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Her second near-death ex-perience happened as she and her husband were returning from a recital at Penn State and were involved in a car crash: “A man in another car sped up, our bumpers locked, we went off the road and we rolled three times. We were in a brand new Rambler, which had no seat belts because they weren’t required back then.”

A third time was in the early ’70s when she became deathly ill with the London flu. “There was no room in the (Pittsburgh) hospitals, which were jammed full, even the hallways. I was so weak, I couldn’t walk and I had three young children at home at the time.”

“Prayer and singing have brought me through some re-ally dark times!” she contin-ued, including a recent brush with a pre-cancerous condi-tion. “I just want people to know that God truly cares about them.”

Divorced now, Anderson — proud mother of five and grandmother of eight — car-ries with her a well-worn book of arias, “The Prima Donna’s Album,” from which she makes

her selections to go with the fast-food menu.

“I sing mostly in the back so it doesn’t interfere with cus-tomers placing their orders or impinge on customers’ per-sonal conversations,” Ander-son said.

On this day, her audience couldn’t have been more eclectic: three men discuss-

ing the Browns, a few tables of singles, seven Amish men who seemed quietly delighted as they placed their orders at the counter. “Zip A Dee Doo Dah” has a way of bringing joy to anyone’s ears.

Anderson said she often wonders what her life would have been like had she pur-sued an operatic career. “But

you make choices in life. I chose motherhood. For that, I have no regrets.”

Anderson grew up in North-east Ohio, part of it on Akron’s Thornton Street, where she remembers standing as a little girl in the bay window of an apartment and singing to her heart’s content. She gradu-ated in 1960 from Bay Vil-

lage High School, where she had her first vocal coach and successfully competed on the state level.

It was her now 90-year-old mother, Garnet Storey, and her then-stepfather, Charles Whited, who encouraged her singing and paid for those ear-ly lessons.

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