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    Small town makes a big differencein international relief

     Yoga catches on with Montana’s 50-plussers

     Vet recounts surviving sinking ship in WWII

    Beet truck driver

    January 2014

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    January 2014 — 2

    Bookshelf .................................................Page 3

    Opinion ....................................................Page 4

    Savvy Senior ............................................Page 5

    Volunteering .............................................Page 18

    On the Menu ............................................Page 20

    Calendar ...................................................Page 21

    Strange But True ......................................Page 22

    INSIDE

    News Lite Man proposes to girlfriend during arrest

    ELK CITY, Okla. (AP) — Talk about a marriage proposal toremember.

    An Oklahoma man proposed to his girlfriend last week whilean officer tried to arrest him on two outstanding warrants.

    An officer spotted Justin Harrel of Elk City in a local parkrecently and discovered that he had outstanding warrants out oftwo counties for obtaining cash or merchandise by bogus check,according to court documents.

    Police said Harrel resisted arrest at first.

    “I advised Justin that he was under arrest and directed him toturn around and place his hands behind his back,” the officerwrote in his police report. “Justin said, ‘Steve, let’s talk aboutthis. Give me five minutes.’”

    When the officer took him into custody, Harrel explained thathe was about to propose to his girlfriend. He asked if he could goahead with the proposal.

    The officer allowed Harrel to complete the marriage proposal,

    and Harrel’s girlfriend eventually said yes. Harrel then asked theofficer to get the engagement ring from his coat pocket and giveit to her. The officer handed the ring to the girlfriend.

    Harrel was not cited for resisting an officer.

    Holiday hams on interstate rampATLANTA (AP) — A truck overturned in metro Atlanta, spill-

    ing tons of hams onto an interstate ramp.The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports the truck was hauling

    40,000 pounds of hams Dec. 19 around 4 a.m. when it over-

    turned, spilling its cargo south of Atlanta. Authorities worked toclear the ramp from Old National Highway to Interstate 85 south-bound after the crash.

    The cab of the truck was destroyed in the crash, which alsocaused a diesel fuel spill.

    Truck driver, Rigo Vargas, said he was hauling the hams toTexas when he wrecked. He said he banged his head against thedoor when the rig flipped over, but wasn’t seriously hurt.

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    “The Wild Chef”

    By Jonathan Miles and the editors

    of Field & Stream

    Weldon Owen (August 2013)Hardback • 219 pages • $32.50ISBN 13: 978-1-61628-547-0

    ISBN 19: 1-61628-547-8

    Bookshelf 

    January 2014 — 3

      By Montana Best Times staff 

    Prepare to salivate.That’s all you can say about the new

    book from the editors of Field & Streamcalled “The Wild Chef.”

    If you ever had a doubt about whetherwild game and fish could be made ridicu-lously delicious, this book will lay alldoubts to rest.

    Field & Stream has collected the bestrecipes, tips and food writing from the

    magazine’s “Wild Chef” column and blog,“The Wild Chef,” for the first-ever cook-book from the world’s leading outdoormagazine, says a news release on the bookfrom baltz & company.

     A guide to the technique and apprecia-tion of wild fish and game cooking, thebook is filled with more than 130 recipesorganized by season and full-color photos,featuring robust, flavorful dishes availableto the hunters and non-hunters alike.

    “We at Field & Stream launched ‘TheWild Chef’ column in 2004 to help culti-

    vate and encourage this revival in gameand fish cookery, and to provide ourreaders with opportunities for adventureeven after the guns and tackle boxeshave been packed away,” said authorJonathan Miles — former cocktail col-umnist for The New York Times and con-tributor to Food & Wine magazine — inthe press release.

    “The Wild Chef” cookbook, with reci-pes sourced from today’s most prolificchefs, including John Besh (RestaurantAugust), Thomas McNaughton (Central

    Kitchen), John Currence (City Grocery),Donald Link (Cochon), Sean Brock(Husk), Fergus Henderson (St. John, Lon-don), Marco Canora (Hearth), MarcusSamuelsson (Red Rooster) and Tim Love(Lonesome Dove) reflects this missionwith a woods-to-table primer thatincludes:

    • One-page overviews entitled “Essen-

    tial Guide” throughout the book, spotlight-ing the best tips and tools for classic cook-ing techniques, including: “ButcheringBirds,” “Prepping Your Catch,” and “OpenFire Cooking” with easy-to-read chartsand illustrations.

    • Recipes that celebrate both the tradi-tional game and fish popular with today’shome cooks as well as the unsung favor-ites of the huntsman’s harvest such asGrilled Dove Pizza, Black Bear Empana-das and Elk Carbonnade. The featured rec-ipes are designed to reflect current dining

    trends and the evolution of Americancooking styles, including foraged ingredi-ents (trout, fiddlehead ferns, and scram-bled eggs), charcuterie (Duck Prosciutto),ethnic influences (Wild-Game Banh Mi),and heightened technique (Partridge TwoWays).

    Miles distills some of the historical andcultural allure of wild fish and game ingre

    dients into whimsical sidebars such as“Adventures in Venison,” “The Joy ofSquirrels,” and “The History of Chili,”giving the reader an authentic and accessi-ble context of the subject.

    Throughout the whole book are lusciousphotos of prepared game and fish.

    Like we said, prepare to salivate.

     Montana Best Times recipe contributor

     Jim Durfey also writes about wild game

    recipes in this month’s issue. Check them

    out on Page 20.

    WARNING:

    Prepare to salivate

    while reading

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    Opinion 

    Cherished medical assumptions take a hitA couple of medical beliefs cherished by millions of

    Americans — that daily vitamins are good for you and thatwashing your hands with antibacterial stops the spread ofgerms — have taken a big hit.

    In the same month — December — two reports came outthat questioned both those assumptions. A set of studies onmineral and vitamin supplements found there wasn’t a wholelot of benefit from taking them, and could even be harmful.

    A very direct editorial in The Annals of Medicine, sum-marizing recent research on mineral and vitamin supple-ments, stated, “We believe that the case is closed— supple-menting the diet of well-nourished adults with (most) min-

    eral or vitamin supplements has no clear benefit and mighteven be harmful. These vitamins should not be used forchronic disease prevention. Enough is enough.”

    Also in December, “The federal government said … ithas no evidence that antibacterial chemicals used in liquidsoaps and washes help prevent the spread of germs, and isreviewing research suggesting they may pose health risks,”according to an Associated Press story.

    One of those risks is that anti-bacterial soaps mightencourage the proliferation of drug-resistant bacteria.

    Is there a theme here? I think there is. It’s a wake-up callto many of us Americans who have succumbed to what

    seems to be an inherent human trait — believing in magicalfixes for our bodies, that if we just find the right food orformula, it will ward off everything from disease to dissat-isfaction and prolong our lives.

    Maybe vitamins and antibacterial soaps are in that cate-gory, just like the primitive potions of long ago.

    We probably have that human tendency because we wantto avoid what common sense tells us is a wiser choice, butone that requires more work: To really be healthy, eat a bal-anced diet and exercise regularly. And now we should addto that: Wash your hands with good old soap and water.

    Oh — and save money in the process.

     – Dwight Harriman Montana Best Times Editor

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     Dear Savvy Senior,

     Can you recommend some good age-friendly home telephones

     for elderly seniors? My 82-year-old mother has a difficult time

    hearing over the phone, and her vision and memory isn’t so great

    either.

     – Shopping Son

     Dear Shopping, There are literally dozens of different types and styles of age-

    friendly phones on the market today that can help seniors with avariety of challenges like hearing loss, low vision, memory prob-lems and limited mobility. »How to choose  To help you select a good age-friendly phone for your mom,

    you need to take into account her specific needs and wantsbecause there are lots of options to choose from. For example, for seniors with hearing loss there are “amplified

    telephones,” both corded and cordless, that provide various levelsof amplification usually ranging from 25 decibels (dB) up toaround 55 dB, with some offering tone adjustments for high fre-quency hearing loss. Most amplified phones are also hearing aidcompatible and come with extra loud ringers and bright ringflashers to indicate incoming calls. Most amplified phones also come with big buttons and a lighted

    keypad that make them easier to see and easier to operate forseniors with hand tremors or dexterity problems. Some phoneseven offer “talk back” buttons that speak the number as you dial,and announce the number of incoming calls, which is great forpeople with low-vision. 

    If remembering is a problem, you may want you consider a“photo phone” for your mom that lets you insert pictures of fami-ly members or friends over preprogrammed buttons, so she cansimply press the picture of the person she wants to call andthey’re automatically dialed. “Emergency alert phones” are another option to consider, espe-

    cially for elderly seniors who live alone. These phones come witha neck pendant or wristband (SOS button) that your mom wouldwear, so if she falls down and can’t get up, she can press it andthe phone’s preprogrammed emergency numbers will automati-cally be dialed.

     If mobility is an issue, there are “speaker phones” you can pur-

    chase that will let your mom activate the phone with her voice.

    And since telemarketing fraud is so common among the elderly,

    many age-friendly phones have built in caller IDs so she can

    identify who’s calling before she picks up. Some phones even

    offer outgoing speech amplification for seniors with weak, diffi-

    cult-to-hear speaking voices. »Where to shop While there are many companies that make and sell age-friend-

    ly telephones, the leading suppliers in the industry are Clarity

    (clarityproducts.com), ClearSounds (clearsounds.com), Serene

    Innovations (sereneinnovations.com), Geemarc (geemarc.com)

    and VTech (vtechphones.com). To find these and other models,

    visit their respective websites, or try assistive hearing sites

    like harriscomm.com, teltex.com and soundbytes.com. Prices

    typically range from $30 up to around $300.

     

    »Free phones  Another option you should check into is state-funded special-

    ized telecommunications equipment programs, which are avail-

    able in 47 states. If your mom’s state has a program, you may be

    able to get her an amplified telephone for free. Check with her

    local telephone company or visit tedpa.org to find out what her

    state offers.

     »Captioned phones  If your mom has severe hearing loss, another option you should

    know about is captioned telephones that have a built-in display

    window that would let your mom listen to the caller, as well as

    read written, word-for-word captions of everything the caller is

    saying.

     

    Options available include: CapTel (captel.com) sold through

    Weitbrecht Communications, Inc. for $75, however many states

    have programs that offer them for free to residents in need; the

    popular new Clarity Ensemble that sells for $75 through clarity-

    products.com; and the $75 CaptionCall at captioncall.com.

     

    Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443,

     Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org.

     Jim Miller, creator of the syndicated “Savvy

    Senior” information column, is a longtime

    advocate of senior issues. He has been featured in

    Time magazine; is author of “The Savvy Senior:

    The Ultimate Guide to Health, Family and

    Finances for Senior Citizens”; and is a regular

    contributor to the NBC “Today” show.

    January 2014 — 5

     Age-Friendly Telephones Can HelpElderly Parents Stay In Touch

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    Forsyth woman loves being aBeet truck driver

      Story and photos by Chaun Scott

    Montana Best Times

    FORSYTH – For a lot of us facing our golden years, the ideaof living life in a warm tropical climate, sipping cocktails from

    a coconut shell and watching the gentle waves beat against theshore is a dream come true.

    But for Jodi Steigert, 75, her dreams are of a different beet,you could say.

    For Jodi, the smell of fresh soil and the clumptety, clump,clump rhythm of sugar beets falling into the dump box of her 15gear International truck is the sound her heart longs for all year.

    “I look forward to the harvest season all year,” said Jodi.For about three weeks out of the year — October until just

    before Thanksgiving — Jodi climbs into her truck and spendslong days driving from the beet dump site to the field and backagain.

    “The dump station opens at 6 a.m.,” explained Jodi. “We fill

    our last truck the night before so we are ready when the station

    opens.”

    That means driving until well after dark, then arriving at the

    station before the rooster crows in the morning.

    Life in those three weeks is difficult, especially when you

    want to visit with a beet farmer or driver. When Jodi’s friends or

    family want to, they have to wait for her arrival at the beet

    dump station, and hop in. Many of her friends have taken a spin

    around the beet field with Jodi and everyone is in agreement,

    it’s nothing but fun – especially with her cooler full of candy

    and treats.

     A lifetime of driving Learning to drive a large truck was something that came natu-

    rally to Jodi — it’s how she was raised. Growing up on her

     Above: Jodi Steigert stands in front of her International Beet truck after receiving sugar beet harvesting instruc-tions from her son Dallas. The tractor in the background is digging beets so they can be picked up and depositedinto waiting trucks like Steigert’s. On the cover: Steigert climbs into her beet truck during the sugar beet harvest this past season.

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    father’s wheat farm in the Stanford-Judith Basin area meantworking hard was expected. Fortunately for Jodi, she enjoyedthe work.

    “I couldn’t imagine life any other way,” said Jodi. “I starteddriving wheat for my dad and then began hauling beets when Iwas 18 ... I have been doing this for a long time.”

    And a long time it has been! So long in fact, in the 60-plusyears she has been driving, Jodi has outlasted nearly a dozentrucks.

    “I started with a tractor trailer and have had at least 10 differ-ent trucks since then,” she commented.

    The beet goes onA few years after Jodi and her husband, Harlin, were married,

    the couple purchased a 700-acre beet farm and began digging anew chapter in their family’s history in Forsyth that would be

    carried over for future generations.Since then, two more generations have grown to appreciate

    the lifestyle of beet farming.“When my children were young, I used to get outside of the

    truck. Dallas and Carla would run the truck while I threw beetsinto the truck (box),” said Jodi. “Dallas would steer while Carlaran the pedals (of the truck).”

    Carla also recalls those days but remarked she ran the pedalsuntil Dallas got mad and made her switch because she wasn’t“doing it right.”

    Today, Jodi drives beet truck for her son Dallas, who leasesthe family farm. Her daughter Carla has also taken her turn atthe wheel of a beet truck, and now owns and operates the local

    Dairy Queen in Forsyth. Jodi has one daughter, Terry, whochose to follow her own dream by becoming a teacher. She livesin Minnesota.

    But as for the rest of the crew, beet farming is a way of life,even if they have to be tricked into the role. With Jodi growingolder, her daughter Carla was concerned that her time behindthe wheel was soon to come to an end, and she wanted heryoungest son, Cameron, to have the time with his grandmotherthe rest of the kids had.

    Cameron was reluctant was reluctant and needed a littledeception to prompt him into the driver’s seat.

    “I tricked Cameron into driving with Grandma,” said Carla.“Cameron didn’t want to drive, so I told him that Grandma was

    getting tired and needed a relief driver. I tricked him for abouttwo years.”It was something he will remember the rest of his life.Jodi is one of the last of her generation who continues to

    drive a beet truck, and she doesn’t plan to retire anytime soon.“We couldn’t put up with her if she did,” said Carla.

    Keeping active is keyAlong with her nearly six decades of driving a beet truck

    annually, Jodi is also an entrepreneur, owning several business-es in the area, including a fitness club, for the past 30 years.

    Jodi and her friends meet every morning Monday through Fri-day at her club, The Melting Pot, at 8 a.m.

    “We arobicize and work out every morning. I believe I amable to continue driving because I exercise,” said Jodi.Jodi is also active in local service groups and community

    boards.With the energy of a woman less than half her age, Jodi con-

    tinues to live a productive life in and out of the cab of her truck,and is admired as a role model by all women she meets.

    But her biggest fan, is her own family.“If I could be half the woman she is, I will be doing good,”

    said Carla.

    Chaun Scott, may be reached at [email protected] or at

    (406) 346-2149.

     Left: The view from Steigert’s truck cab window of sugar beets being harvested, as she waits in line to have her truck loaded Right: Steigert watches the John Deere tractor driven by her son Dallas for cues to slow down or speed up while her truck isbeing loaded with sugar beets.

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    Making the most of avolunteer ‘second career’

    Small communities can make a big difference in international relief

    By Laura Nelson

    Montana Best Times

    BIG TIMBER — Small towns are well known for rallyingaround local causes in a time of need. But what is a rural commu-nity to do with the overwhelming needs of an international reliefeffort?

    Meet it head on, of course.In the months following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake that

    rocked the Philippines island of Bohol Oct. 15 and the record-breaking Nov. 8 super typhoon that slammed Leyte, the destruc-tion and suffering inflicted on the people of the islands hit closeto home for one Montana couple.

    Getting involved Denny and Ellen Freed, of Big Timber, first traveled to

    Bohol 17 years ago as volunteers with the Billings-based Inter-national Deal Education Association (IDEA). Ellen, a regis-tered nurse, worked to help establish a health center; Dennyfocused on working with the team to build housing for the deaf

    in Bohol and Leyte.

    “When we went in 1996 to work with the deaf, we just fell in

    love with the place, with the people,” Ellen said.

    Denny had recently retired from a medical startup after years of

    working around the world as a contractor for the U.S. Agency for

    International Development. While many take on a new volunteer

    position as a “second career,” Denny and Ellen took that post-

    retirement plan to a new level.

    “Eventually, we were drawn to working in impoverished barri-

    os, which took us to Calunasan Sur, Ugpong, Canlasid, Concep-

    tion and Calunasan Norte,” Denny said. “We began working with

    the local community leaders and our missions team back home in

    the state to come alongside our new friends and neighbors withthe tools to help them better their own standards of living.”

    The couple built a home in the rural barrio, or community, of

    Calunasan Sur, continuing their work with IDEA. When a young

    mother died of an infected mosquito bite in 1998, they were moti

    vated to get involved in providing poverty relief to the residents

    of the village.

    MT Best Times Photo by Lindsey Kroskob

    Participants in Race For Shelter take off from the start line at the Melville Lutheran Church, pictured in the background. Theevent was a fundraiser for transitional housing for people in the Philippines affected by recent natural disasters.

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     Montana on a MissionThey shared this sense of urgency with their church in Big

    Timber. The church responded strongly, eager to help financially,

    spiritually and with physical labor, Denny said. In 2005, the

    Freeds, with the support of the Big Timber Evangelical Church,

    officially founded Montana on a Mission, a 501(c)(3) organiza-

    tion to help people on the island of Bohol.

    In the years since its inception, the Montana on a Mission team

    began sending teams of Montana volunteers to work in the barri-

    os and help the local leaders develop safe and readily available

    water and septic systems, repair homes and improve educationfacilities, expand teaching tools and more.

    “We have developed strong, trusting relationships with the

    local government, barrio leaders, municipality officials and the

    church,” Denny said. “It has taken 17 years to gain the insight

    needed to get things done in a culturally sensitive/savvy way.”

    That also meant they were able to mobilize assistance quickly

    when calamity hit the islands after the earthquake and thetyphoon destroyed homes and lives. Within days after the quake,

    the Montana on a Mission contacts were able to begin distribut-

    ing tarps to provide make-shift shelters for those displaced in the

    storm.

    Great need for homes Denny and his daughter-in-law immediately travelled to Bohol

    to assess the damage and identify the most crucial needs them-

    selves.

    A Big Timber team had been planning a January mission trip to

    Bohol for months with the intent to continue projects at the Fili-

    pino schools and foster a fisheries project to create a more sus-

    tainable food source with the village.

    Those plans quickly found new direction when Denny returned

    to the U.S. right before the typhoon hit with a new mission in

    mind.“The need for new homes in Leyte is practically immeasurable

    and in Bohol alone is likely in the vicinity of 5,000,” Denny said.

    “Our goal is to provide as much relief as possible through a series

    of progressively higher but achievable goals.”

    In working with local government leaders and other relief

    agencies, the Montana on a Mission team found that large inter-

    national relief organizations would be focused primarily on pro-viding food, water and health care in the aftermath of the natural

    disasters.

    “We are keenly aware of what services are best provided by

    others and what our niche should be,” Denny said.

     Lower left: A transitional home for people affected by theearthquake and typhoon in the Philippines. Photo courtesy ofDenny Freed.

    Upper left: Denny Freed sits with a Filipino youth group thatMontana on a Mission works with, next to a home that wasfelled by the earthquake that is a candidate for transitionalhouse. Photo courtesy of Denny Freed. Above: Pictured from left are Denny Freed, Wes Robbie andDenny’s wife, Ellen. Robbie is a good friend of the Freeds whoinvited them to work with International Deal EducationAssociation years ago. Photo by Mery Donald 

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    The new mission was to provide immediate safe haven for thepost-crisis period, he said. Tarps and tents helped immediately,but safe, secure transitional housing were in great demand. Theydetermined that local materials would be utilized to build thehomes and most of the labor would be offered first to Filipinos inneed to work and income.

    With the infrastructure and cultural know-how in place, theMontana team hit the ground running to meet the needs. Within amonth, the first initiative, “100 Homes for 100 Families” was ful-filled, raising enough money to build 100 transitional homes for

    those in need on the island of Bohol. Pneumatic staplers and nailguns were purchased, shipped and a local labor force trained touse the technology to expedite production. With the help of localleaders, a new production center was arranged in preparation toexpand the production of the pre-fabricated homes.

    Local churches pitch inIn the rural area of Sweet Grass County, local churches banded

    together to support the mission. The Big Timber and MelvilleLutheran churches organized a “Race for Shelter” Nov. 30 thatraised more than $3,000 and saw a turnout of more than 100 peo-ple to cover the scenic four-mile course outside the tiny commu-nity of Melville.

    The next week, youth groups from the churches organized adodgeball tournament that contributed another $3,000 to the reliefefforts, soliciting sponsored “targets” from the Big Timber com-munity. With bounties set on good-natured school principals,teachers, sheriff’s deputies and youth group leaders, more than100 local students gathered to continue to raise money for theMission.

    More youth students braved sub-zero temperatures during BigTimber’s annual Lighted Christmas Parade Dec. 6, carting freehot chocolate to frigid parade-goers eager to add to their Montanaon a Mission donation bucket.

    Private online donations, contributions from other churches andrelief organizations, and the wide-reaching network of the local,

    grass roots mission spread quickly, Denny said. By the first ofDecember, the local mission had raised more than $80,000 to

    build transitional homes — an incredible feat, Denny said. At$400 per home, that was enough to construct nearly 200 of thetransitional homes.

    “I am speechless. This is truly remarkable,” Denny said. “Godis in control, and we will keep working on this momentum.”

     A passion to helpThe couple returned to Bohol in December to continue to

    assess needs and oversee the production of the homes, while theteam in Montana continued to raise money toward the lofty goalof building 1,000 transitional homes for 1,000 families. It’s anincredible goal for the small team in a small town, but their pas-sion to help those in need is mighty, the Freeds said.

    “We are a project-based organization and do not intend onbecoming a large enterprise, although we believe that the nicheproblem we are addressing demands that we expand operations,”he said. “We have no overhead and no organizational costs. Timeis short there, but the goal is to help as many people as we can.There are thousands and thousands of houses that they needbuilt.”

    They never dreamed their post-retirement trip 17 years agowould lead to this, the couple said, but are thankful every day itdid.

    “We were traveling and just saw a need ... that’s where we werecalled at that time,” Ellen said. “We’re all simply compelled byour call to help to bless people ... but the opposite happens, andthey bless us.”

    HOW YOU CAN HELP: 

    • Send a check to: Montana on a Mission, P.O. Box 696, BigTimber, MT 59011; Donate online at www.montanaonamission.org; and follow updates from the 16 local missionaries whilethey’re in Bohol Jan. 7-17 at www.facebook.com/Montanaona-misson.

     Laura Nelson may be reached at [email protected] (406) 932-5298.

      By Wina SturgeonAdventure Sports Weekly/MCT

    This is for all of you over the age of 50 — especially the men.If you don’t want your belly to balloon over the winter, especiallyduring the holidays, watch your nibbles.

    Thoughtless nibbling can, and will, pack on the pounds. It’s soeasy at this time of year, because all kinds of food is shared.From the foil-wrapped chocolate balls in candy dishes on desksor kitchen counters, to the offer to grab a fist full of that delicioussmelling microwave popcorn, little bits of calories are every-where. They add up quickly.

    Suppose you help yourself to six of those little chocolate ballsin one day. The caloric count of that treat ranges between 220 and250 calories. Suppose you do it every day for two weeks. That’s awhole pound’s worth of calories. Worse, the sugar and fats in thatchocolate will probably be stored as fat.

    Then there is the abundance of seasonal comfort food. Moundsof mashed potatoes fattened up with butter or gravy. Rich gooeycakes with thick layers of lard-like sweet icing. Dinner invitationsdouble and triple, and a lot more alcohol than usual is consumed.

    Some facts you may not know about alcohol: it may stimulate

    Here are some tips to avoid gaining winter weight

    Health 

    See Winter weight,  Page 21

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     Walking in the shadow ofMount Vesuvius in Pompeii

    Photo by Kathy Witt/MCT

    Pictured is what’s left of Pompeii’s Forum in Pompeii, the small Roman resort town south of Naples.

      By Kathy WittMcClatchy-Tribune (MCT)

    It was put on the map by the very thing that erased it from map

    and memory. That is the paradox of Pompeii, the small Romanresort town south of Naples on the western coast of Italy and builtin the shadow of Mount Vesuvius.

    When this volcano erupted in August of 79 A.D., it buried thecity, its streets, homes, businesses, citizens — even half-eatenmeals — beneath 25 feet of ash and lapilli (burning bits of pum-ice stone), in effect, flash-freezing Pompeii into a tableau thatwould slowly emerge as a result of excavations that got underwayin the 1700s and continue today.

    You could easily spend the entire day wandering the streets ofthis well-preserved, 2,000-year-old city, marveling at the size ofthe Forum and Amphitheatre, ducking into the homes of everyday

    Pompeians and the more prominent citizens to see how each halflived, making your way (as every visitor does) to the brothel withits cubicles and erotic paintings.

    There are a handful of sights you absolutely don’t want to missbeginning with the Garden of Fugitives. Here, 13 Pompeiansattempting to flee the city on the morning of the second day ofthe eruption, according to scientists, lay as they perished. To seethese bodies — lifelike plaster casts of long-dead men, womenand children — some covering their faces, and imagine their ter-ror and fate, is incredibly moving.

    The House of the Faun is famous for its dancing faun bronzestatue and mosaics. The House of the Tragic Poet typifies the vil-las of Pompeii with their elaborate mosaic floors and frescoes;this one further charms visitors with its mosaic of a black barking

    Travel 

    See Pompeii, Page 17

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     Yoga January 2014 — 12

    Brian Prahl does a side plank during a yogaworkout at Breathing Room Yoga in Livingston.

    MT Best Times photos by Shawn Raecke

    catches on with Montana’s

    50-plusser crowd

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    January 2014 — 13

      By Natalie Storey

    Enterprise Staff Writer

    LIVINGSTON — When Brian Prahl went to his first yogaclass 15 years ago at the insistence of his wife, he didn’t imaginehe’d still be attending classes well into his 60s. But the 67-year-old veteran said he has found that yoga helps with old neck andback injuries.

    “I don’t wake up with the pains any more,” Prahl said. “It’sreally rewarding in terms of what it’s done for my back and neck

    issues.”Now the couple goes to yoga classes together at least once a

    week at the Breathing Room in Livingston. They say it helpsthem ease the pain of aging.

    Growing trend The Prahls are part of a growing population of people 50 and

    older who are attending yoga classes in Montana and nationwide.Yoga Journal’s Yoga in America study found in 2012 that of the15.8 million Americans who practice yoga, 2.9 million are 55 orolder. And their numbers are increasing.

    Many Montana studios are adding restorative, gentle or othertypes of classes that accommodate older people. Cheyanne

    Sparks, owner and operator of Spark Into Motion in Dillon, esti-mates that more than 50 percent of her clients are age 50 or older.She’s added two classes a week geared to this population anddoes modified poses for first-time students and seniors.

    “Oftentimes they say they wish they had been doing it theirwhole lives,” Sparks said of her older clients.

    Amy Titgemeier Stevens, owner of the Breathing Room, saidshe has also added restorative and gentle classes. Her studio hasseveral students who started doing yoga later in life.

    “I see our style going more toward gentle yoga than the higherimpact,” Titgemeier Stevens said.

     All kinds of benefits The Yoga Journal identified many reasons for the increased

    interest in Yoga from the 50 and older demographic.“Yoga honors the aging process, unlike society at large,”

    according to the Journal.Additionally, older people have found that practicing yoga reg-

    ularly helps boost energy and decrease aches and pains.This is the main reason Prahl decided to keep going to yoga,

    even though his first class was a little intimidating, he said.“To be in a room with more limber people and seeing them do

    some things I couldn’t do — it took encouragement from theinstructor and my wife to stick it out,” he said. “But after two tothree weeks, it was really enjoyable and rewarding.”

    His wife, Erika Prahl, agrees. She said she tried for many years

    to convince her husband to go to yoga. When he finally consent-ed, he decided to keep attending because of the benefits to hisbody.

    “He feels better when he goes,” she said. “We can move andsquat and do things better now. We can sit on the floor and crossour legs. We like to spend time with our grandchildren — itmakes it easier to do those types of things.”

    Frank Iszak, founder of Silver Age Yoga, started doing yogawhen he was 62, according to Silver Age’s website. The SanDiego-based group trains Yoga teachers to work with seniors.Yoga provides health benefits for seniors such as improvingbreathing, increasing bone density, lubricating joints, balancing

    the body’s skeletal structure, and stimulating the endocrine sys-tem, among others, according to the website.

    Montana teachers say many of their older students also reportthat they sleep better.

    Rhonda McKay, who teaches at Creating Balance Mind BodySpirit studio in Miles City, said she has a therapeutic approach toYoga that works well with her older students.

    Although students of all ages get many of the same benefits,some of the relief yoga provides is especially important for herolder students, McKay said.

    “It helps with balance, which is important because of anincreased risk of falls as we age,” she said. “It helps with bonedensity because it’s a weight-bearing activity. It helps to maintainstrength and flexibility. If people have lost a lot of flexibility, it’sgoing to help them not show further decline.”

    Flexible yoga methods Some potential students falsely believe that you have to be

    flexible before you attend a class, but teachers like Sparks sayyoga is for everybody, especially older people who might havelost some flexibility and want to work to regain it.

    Sparks uses props to assist older, injured or first-time students,like yoga blocks, blankets, straps and chairs. If seniors aren’tcomfortable sitting on the floor, they can do modified versions ofmany poses in a chair and get the same benefits, Sparks said.

    Titgemeier Stevens said teachers are trained to help studentsrecognize and accommodate the limits of their own bodies, whichsuits older exercisers.

    “I really think it’s like anything — you have to know yourbody and not push beyond your limit,” she said. “It’s a non-com-petitive activity. It’s there for you and your body.”

    Sparks said she enjoys teaching older students, who ofteninspire her and other students. One of her regular students is 86years old, she said.

    “They can feel themselves realigning and becoming more flexi-ble,” Sparks said. “And they are amazed that it can happen at anyage. They are surprised by what they can do.”

     Natalie Storey may be reached at [email protected] or (406)

    222-2000.

    Photo by

    Erika Prahl, left, and Amy Titgemeier Stevens, BreathingRoom Yoga owner, hold the eagle pose during a workout.

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    The Navy man

    January 2014 — 14

      By Marlo Pronovost

    Montana Best Times

    BILLINGS — Richard Redle’s brightblue eyes and sweet laugh draw you inimmediately.

    Although small in stature and increasing-ly frail at age 91, there is nothing diminu-tive in spirit about the World War II veteran.

    The Columbus native survived wartimecombat that left him with permanent inju-ries, returned to Montana to forge a lifewith a wife and three children and mostrecently, became an author with the pub-lishing of his book this past summer titled“The Making of a Montanan: A WWII Vet-eran’s Journey From Ranch to Hell.”

    Three months ago, health issues forcedRedle and Evelyn, his wife of more than 50years, to move to an assisted living facilityin Billings. Yet he maintains a joyful, pur-poseful attitude toward life.

    “I’ve had a hell of a life,” Redle saidrecently.

    Combat hell Redle was a 20-year-old coxswain serv-

    ing on the USS McKean in the SolomonIslands in World War II when his shipendured several days of heavy combat hell.

    The ship had traveled to the region withthe 11th Task Force — made up of about30 ships that included 14 destroyers, fourcruisers and two tankers — for the invasionof the islands.

    The assault began on Aug. 7, 1943 with awave of two dozen enemy bombers. On Aug.

    8, another group of enemy bombers attackedthe task force. Less than two hours later, 12more bombers appeared. All the U.S. shipsopened fire, downing 19 enemy planes in 17minutes, Redle recalls in his book.

    At 2 a.m. on Aug. 9, heavy gunfire and

    Richard Redle plays taps during a 2010Memorial Day ceremony in Columbus.File photo courtesy ofStillwater County News

    Veteran recounts surviving the sinking

    of his ship during World War II

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    multiple explosions told the story of a battle being fought out ofsight. The USS McKean would later learn that three U.S. cruisers

    had been destroyed.Over the next several days, the USS McKean shuttled back and

    forth from the Solomons and Espiritu Santa transporting fuel, sup-plies and injured Marines. Within a month, two more ships weresunk.

     A sinking ship in the Pacific Soon, of the four Auxiliary Personnel Destroyers originally sent

    as part of the 11th Task Force, only the McKean was left. Redlehad been at sea for 18 months.

    But then, disaster: A Japanese torpedo struck the ship off thecoast of Bougainville. That was followed by a four-hour aerialattack. The impact of the torpedo created a fiery explosion of

    burning oil, causing permanent burns to Redle’s lungs and ears.His back and neck were also burned. But that was not the real dan-ger.

    As the ship began to sink, Redle found himself the last one onboard unable to find a life-jacket. He grabbed a Marine’s pack and jumped.

    “The good Lord and I got pretty well acquainted at that timepartly because I did not know how to swim,” Redle said.

    Redle was picked up a half mile away from the boat — one ofonly 59 survivors of the 160-man crew. The sailors bobbed in theocean for two hours before they were rescued since the U.S. shipswere desperately fighting off air attacks of more than 30 enemywarplanes.

    Within two months, Redle had been reassigned to the USS Pres-ton and spent another 18 months at sea.

    Always the optimist, Redle wrote the following letter to hisfamily:

    “Dear folks: Had a chance to write so I thought I (would) dropyou a few lines. I am well and fine and hope you aren’t worriedtoo much. We were sunk off Bouganville by an aerial, but I cameout alright. I hated to lose that swell book you had just sent methough.”

    True medal Neither Redle nor his shipmates received any medals for the

    sacrifices, whichhe said wasstrange but unim-portant. His truemedal was surviv-ing, as is echoedin the dedicationof his book:

    “This book isdedicated tofriends, family,fellow Montan-ans, and Ship-mates on the USSMcKean and USS

    Preston. And it is especially dedicated to those young sailors wepulled from the water and off battle-damaged sister ships, laid inrows on our deck, sewed in canvas shrouds with five-inch shellsbetween their knees for weight and then slipped silently into thesea. They journeyed with us but did not come back to the landthey gave their lives for.”

    Coming home After the war, Redle married Evelyn and became a father to her

    three children, whom he raised as his own. He worked for hisuncles at the family ranch in Columbus, eventually leasing it.

    After his health failed him in 1980, Redle sold the ranch and dida variety of work, including construction.

    And while he fulfilled his service to his country in World WarII, Redle remained active in the Veterans of Foregin Wars andhonor guard until just a few years ago.

    Last summer, Redle went on a Big Sky Honor Flight to Wash-ington, D.C., with one of his daughters. He recounted the over-whelming emotion he felt as scores of strangers — many of themchildren — met the plane to greet them.

    “These little boys wanted to shake our hands. It was outland-ish,” said Redle.

     Marlo Pronovost may be reached at sports@stillwatercoun-

    tynews.com or (406) 322-5212.

     Above: Redle wrote this letter home following his rescue afterthe sinking of his ship, the USS McKean. Below: The McKeanis shown on the way to the South Pacific in 1942.

    Photos courtesy of Richard Redle

    Pictured in this old family photo are Redle in his Navy uni-form and, from left, his sister Clara, stepmother Ozelle andfather Herman.

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     EDITOR’S NOTE:

     Montana Best Times

    has been featuring

    some of the fascinat-

    ing adventures Terry

     McEneaney had

    when he was Yellow-

    stone National Park’sornithologist. Fol-

    lowing is another

    excerpt from a new book he is writing,

    “Lucky Feathers: Adventures and Experi-

    ences of a Yellowstone Ornithologist.”

    Field ornithologists have always beenfascinated in the manner in which raptorskill prey. For the word “raptor” gets itsorigin from the Latin word “raptore,”which means to seize or capture prey.One of the mysteries of the bird world ishow raptors, also known as birds of prey,

    can eat or digest not only raw meat, butpieces of crude or rough material in theform of bones, skin, hair or fur, teeth andfeathers. But most surprisingly is the factthat they can consume or digest such odd-ball items as nails and/or claws, beaks,tails, and even exoskeletons. But how canthis be? The answer lies in their uniquedigestive system.

    In the first phase of gastric digestion,consumed raw food is swallowed via themouth and forced down the upper esoph-agus though muscle contractions in the

    proventriculus, or glandular stomach. Iftoo much food is consumed at once, rawmaterial will back up first in the ventricu-lus, or gizzard (also known as the muscu-lar stomach), as the stomach fills, thenback up in the lower esophagus, extend-ing all the way up to the crop or ingluvies(a storage extension of the throat). In thefinal phase of gastric digestion in raptors,indigestible material, such as fur, feath-ers, bones, teeth and claws, are peristalti-cally compacted on the walls of the giz-

    zard into a pellet that is oftentimes ovalin shape. Therefore, pellet formationoccurs within the ventriculus, or gizzard.Muscular contractions then push the pel-let up into the lower esophagus. Fromthere, antiperistaltic waves move the pel-let toward the oropharynx, or the back ofthe throat, where it is expelled. Thisexpulsion of the pellet through the mouthor throat is called egestion, hence the

    name “casting,”The contents of pellets or castings offer

    valuable clues to biologists investigatingthe feeding habits of birds of prey. Eges-tion, or the production of castings, isimportant in raptor health maintenance,for it cleans bacteria from the walls of thecrop. Pellets are only egested once gastricdigestion of a meal is complete. Usually,the smaller the raptor, the smaller theprey, thus the smaller the casting. The

    January 2014 — 16

    Terry McEneaney is ornithologist emeritus for Yellowstone National Park, and is the author of three books: “Birding Montana,” “Birds of

    Yellowstone,” and “The Uncommon Loon.” He has been watching birds for 50 years and is one of Montana’s most experienced birders.

     A Rattling Great Horned Owl Casting 

    Birding  B i g   S k  y

    Photos by Terry McEneaney

     Above: A Great Horned Owl perches ina tree. Left: Shown is the casting of a GreatHorned Owl with the rattles of aPrairie Rattlesnake embedded in it.

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    dog. The Temple of Isis is a treasure that is beautifully intact. TheStabian Baths, a marvel of a bathing complex which predates theRomans, has a heating system, exercise area, dressings rooms and

    more.To do justice on your visit to this UNESCO World Heritage Site,

    wear sturdy, comfortable shoes (the streets are treacherously uneven)and a hat for sun protection. Bring along a water bottle (you can getrefills from the ancient street fountains just as the Pompeians would)and a map that annotated with those sites you most wish to see.

    This advance planning will keep you from being easy prey forthe guides who rush the Circumvesuviana train with arrivingtourists. You don’t want to find yourself hustled onto a tour with40 others, barely able to hear the guide and wasting precious timeon a generic agenda. Rather, get your map and an audio guide andstroll back two centuries in time to Pompeii 79 A.D.

     A day in Pompeii If you can’t make it to Pompeii, Italy, the Franklin Institute in

    Philadelphia, www2.fi.edu, recently unveiled “One Day in Pom-peii” in the Mandell Center. The exhibit, which features over 150artifacts on loan from the Naples National Archaeological Muse-um, runs through April 27, 2014.

    With full body casts of the volcano’s victims, marble andbronze sculptures, wall-sized frescos and ancient Roman coins —all set in their origi-nal surroundings — itis as close to Pompeiias you can get with-out actually going to

    this time-capsuletown. And the inter-pretation is superb.

    The exhibitincludes gladiatorhelmets, armor andweapons; jugs,lamps, pots and pansand assorted house-hold items; jewelryand other personal

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    average interval from feeding to egestionin small owls ranges from as little as 6hours, to up 20-plus hours in large hawksand eagles. Also, owls normally producea pellet with each meal, while diurnalraptors can eat more than one meal beforecasting. Owls oftentimes swallow smallprey whole, whereas most diurnal raptorsbreak up their prey into pieces beforethey are consumed. Most castings are

    egested, or spit up, before mid-morningor after killing prey, but before the firstfeeding of the day.

    Such is the case of finding a veryunusual raptor or bird of prey casting inJuly 2007 in the Stevens Creek area ofYellowstone National Park in Montana. Ihappened to come across several feathersand recently egested Great Horned Owl( Bubo virginianus) castings in a grove ofcottonwoods. But the casting that reallycaught my attention was something I hadnever seen before in all my time spent in

    the field — a very unusual finding, youmight say. It was what I called a rattlingGreat Horned Owl casting. In other

    words, imbedded in the casting were therattles of a Prairie Rattlesnake. What thisproved was that a Great Horned Owlkilled this rattlesnake and consumed it,only to be egested hours later in the formof a casting.

    In all the years I have collected raptorcastings, nothing surprised me more thanthe contents of this casting. For I shookthis casting and it sounded just like a rat-

    tlesnake. So to this day, I clearly recallmaking a rare find — a rattling GreatHorned Owl casting.

    More short stories from “Lucky Feathers: Adventures and Experiences of a Yellowstone Ornithologist,” will be featured in forthcoming issues

    of Montana Best Times. In the meantime, enjoy Montana birds! And the Best of Big Sky Birding to you!

     Bird watching questions may be sent to Terry McEneaney by writing to 1215 Lolo St., Missoula, MT 59802; emailing [email protected]; or visiting

    www.yellowstonewildlifeguides.com or www.ravenidiot.com. If questions are mailed, include a phone number at which you can be reached.

    Pompeii, from Page 15 

    See Pompeii, Page 19 

     Above: Jewelry unearthed in Pompeii. (Photo courtesy of theSoprintendenza Speciale per I Beni Archeologici di Napoli e Pompeii/MCT)

     Below left: The heart-breaking drama of the Garden of Fugi-tives. (Photo by Kathy Witt/MCT) Below: Statuary excavated from the ash and lapilli that bur-ied Pompeii, Italy. (Photo by Kathy Witt/MCT)

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    Gallatin County  - American Red Cross Blood Drive: Two

    volunteer opportunities available: anambassador needed to welcome, greet,thank and provide overview for blooddonors; and phone team volunteers needed

    to remind, recruit or thank blood donors.Excellent customer service skills needed,training will be provided, flexible sched-ule.- Befrienders: Befriend a senior; visit on

    a regular weekly basis.- Belgrade Senior Center: Meals on

    Wheels needs regular and substitute driv-ers, Monday-Friday, to deliver meals toseniors.- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Be a positive

    role model for only a few hours eachweek.- Bozeman and Belgrade Sacks Thrift

    Stores: Need volunteers 2-3 hour shifts onany day, Monday-Saturday 9:30 a.m.-6p.m.- Bozeman Deaconess Hospital: Variety

    of opportunities to volunteer.- Bozeman Senior Center Foot Clinic:

    Retired or nearly retired nurses are urgent-ly needed, 2 days a month, either 4 or 8hour shifts.- Child Care Connections: Front desk

    help needed Thursdays, noon-1 p.m., togreet clients, answer phones, and generalreception duties.- Children’s Museum of Bozeman: Wel-

    come desk volunteer(s) needed for 2-hour

    shifts, Mondays-Saturdays.- The Emerson Cultural Center: Volun-

    teers needed for front office, greeter/recep-tion, Monday-Friday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.- Galavan: Volunteer drivers needed

    Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. CDLrequired and Galavan will assist you inobtaining one. - Gallatin Valley Food Bank: Volunteers

    needed to deliver commodities to seniorsin their homes once a month. Deliveries inBelgrade are especially needed.- HRDC Senior Programs: Seniors look-

    ing for help with meal planning, meal

    preparation and companionship call RSVP.- Heart of The Valley: Compassionatevolunteers especially needed to love, playwith and cuddle cats, do carpentry work,be an animal bank collector (asking localbusinesses to display an animal bank fordonation collection) or birthday partyleader.- Help Center Telecare: Volunteers need-

    ed 3-4 mornings a week 8:30-11 a.m. tomake calls to homebound seniors, provid-ing reassurance, check on safety and well-being, and access to up-to-date referralinformation to vulnerable individuals.

    - Hyalite Elementary’s Reading withFriends: Needs volunteers Monday-Friday,8-8:30 a.m., to listen to a child read.- MSU Foundation: Volunteers needed to

    help set-up for alumni events at the Blueand Gold Breakfasts and Tailgate events.

    Multiple dates and times are available.- Museum of the Rockies: Variety ofopportunities available.- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to quilt,

    knit, crochet and embroider hats forchemo patients, baby blankets and otherhandmade goods once a week (can workfrom home). Handcrafters are in need of3-ply sports yarn, and baby yarn.- Senior Nutrition Volunteers: Volunteers

    needed to help seniors with grocery shop-ping, meal and menu planning, and com-panionship, 1-2 hours a week, days andtimes are flexible.- Support Montana Troops: Adopt a Sox

    is accepting donations for the troops.- Thrive Child Advancement Project

    (CAP): Seeking mentors to students ingrades K-12, one hour commitment aweek.- Your unique skills and interests are

    needed, without making a long-term com-mitment, in a variety of ongoing, special,one-time events. Contact: Deb Downs, RSVP Program

    Coordinator, 807 N. Tracy, Bozeman, MT59715; phone (406) 587-5444; fax (406)582-8499; email: [email protected].

    Park County  - Big Brother-Big Sister: Volunteer toenrich a child’s life and form a lifelongfriendship, once a week time commitment.- Loaves and Fishes and Food Pantry:

    Need volunteers.- Park County Senior Center: Volunteers

    needed in a variety of ways including bin-go, games, mailings and with other newactivities and services.- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to help

    with knitting or crocheting, or share yourspecial talent, Thursdays at 1 p.m. at thePark County Senior Center.- Stafford Animal Shelter: Needs loving

    volunteers to care for animals waiting foradoption, pet the cats or walk the dogs.- Yellowstone Gateway Museum: Volun-

    teers needed with ongoing projectsthrough the winter exploring local historythrough old records, also join those work-ing with genealogy, flexible times.- Various agencies are in need of your

    unique skills and interests in a variety ofongoing and one-time special events,including mailings every month.Contact: Shannon Burke, RSVP Program

    Coordinator, 206 So. Main St., Livingston,

     MT 59047; phone (406) 222-2281; email:[email protected].

    Fergus & Judith Basin counties- America Reads Program: Needs volun-

    teers, especially in the rural schools, to

    help student improve their reading skills.- Community Cupboard: Needs volun-

    teers to help any week mornings as well aswith deliveries.- Council on Aging: Needs volunteers to

    help at the center.- Head Start and grade schools: Volun-

    teers needed to assist students.- Library and Art Center: Always appre-

    ciate the help of volunteers.- ROWL (Recycle Our Waste Lewis-

    town): Recruiting volunteers for the 3rdSaturday of the month to help with greet-ing, traffic directing, sorting, baling and

    loading recyclables working to keep plas-tic wastes from our landfills.- Treasure Depot: Needs volunteers.- Always have various needs for your

    skills and volunteer services in our com-munity. Contact: RSVP Volunteer Coordinator

     Dianne Rous, South Central Montana RSVP, 404 W. Broadway, Wells Fargo Bank building, (upstairs), Lewistown, MT59457; phone (406) 535-0077.

     Musselshell, Golden Valley &Petroleum counties 

    - Food Bank: Distribute food commodi-ties to seniors and others in the communi-ty; help unload the truck as needed.- Meals on Wheels Program: Deliver

    meals to the housebound in the communi-ty, just one day a week, an hour and a halfmeal provided.- Nursing Home: Assist with activities for

    residents to enrich supported lifestyle.- School Lunch Program: Help serve and

    supervise children during lunch time. Meaprovided.- Senior Center: Volunteers are needed to

    provide meals, clean up in the dining roomand/or keep records; meal provided.

    - Senior Transportation: Volunteer neededto drive Senior Van to meals, fundraisersand appointments, one day a week ormonth, no special license needed; mealprovided.- RSVP offers maximum flexibility and

    choice to its volunteers as it matches thepersonal interests and skills of olderAmericans with opportunities to servetheir communities. You choose how andwhere to serve. Volunteering is an oppor-tunity to learn new skills, make friends

    See RSVP  , Page 19

      Below is a list of volunteer openings available through the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) incommunities across southern Montana. To learn more about RSVP, call (800) 424-8867 or TTY (800) 833-3722;or log on to www. seniorcorps.org.

    RSVP 

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    and connect with your community.Contact: Volunteer Coordinator, South Central MT RSVP, 315

    1/2 Main St., Ste. #1, Roundup, MT 59072; phone (406) 323-1403; fax (406) 323-4403; email: [email protected]; facebook: South Central MT RSVP.

    Custer & Rosebud counties - AARP Tax Preparers: Volunteers needed to help low income

    seniors prepare tax returns, must have basic computer skills, allother training provided, work about 4 hours per week Feb.1-April 15.- Custer County Food Bank: Volunteers needed for food distri-

    bution Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.- Historic Miles City Academy: Volunteers needed to assist in

    thrift store with sorting and cleaning donated merchandise.- Holy Rosary Health Care: Volunteers needed in various areas.- Kircher School: Volunteer needed for lunch delivery from

    Miles City to the school. Free lunch and mileage is reimbursed.- Spirit Riders: Volunteer to assist with Traffic control at funer-

    als.- St. Vincent DePaul: Volunteers to assist in thrift store with

    sorting, pricing, cashier and stocking.

    - WaterWorks Art Museum: Volunteer receptionists needed, 2hour shifts Tuesdays-Sundays. If you are interested in these or other volunteer opportunities

     please contact: Betty Vail, RSVP Director; 210 Winchester Ave.

    #225, MT 59301; phone (406) 234-0505; email: [email protected]

    Dawson County - AARP Tax Preparers: Volunteers needed to help low income

    seniors prepare their tax returns. Volunteers must have basic com-puter skills, but all other training is provided. Will be asked towork approximately four hours per week from February 1st -April 15th.- Senior shut-ins: Volunteers needed to deliver monthly com-

    modities, once a month, to elderly, flexible schedule.- Local art gallery: Volunteer needed to assist with daily opera-

    tion.- If you have a need for or a special interest or desire to volun-

    teer somewhere in the community, please contact: Patty Atwell,

     RSVP Director, P.O. Box 1324, Glendive, MT 59330; phone (406)377-4716; email: [email protected].

    RSVP, from Page 18 

    Pompeii, from Page 17 

    mementos; medical instruments and tools — even a ship’s anchor.An introductory theatre sets the scene with a video of dramatic

    reconstruction describing Pompeii and Mount Vesuvius. Throughthe combined use of projections, audio, video, photographic muralsand graphic reproductions of frescoes and mosaics, visitors are ableto experience the market, temple, theatre, baths and other locationsthat existed in the city. A simulated eruption counts down the finalmoments of Pompeii as the eruption of Mount Vesuvius runs its

    course.Today, Pompeii takes up a quarter of a square mile. Although

    large-scale excavation has ceased and one-third of the city remainsunderground, there is plenty to give visitors a glimpse into the dailylife — and the tragic end — that was all but erased from time — ofthis ancient Roman city.

     More InformationPompeii can be reached via the Circumvesuviana train from

    Naples or Sorrento. A number of cruise ships make a port call atNaples, making it an especially convenient way to spend a day inPompeii.

    Pompeii Tourism: www.PompeiTurismo.it; www.pompeiisites.org (NOTE: The English-language website was under constructionin early December.)

     Adventure guide to don’t-miss moments • Stepping through the Porta Marina gates — the main (and most

    impressive) entrance to Pompeii — and seeing how much remainsof this once-thriving city: the homes, theatre, bathhouse, even abrothel.

    • Marveling at the Romans’ ingenuity and skill in city planning:they had raised sidewalks, stepping stones for crossing the streets(to avoid slogging through the muck that would have been inthem); heated baths; running water at city center.

    • Getting a taste of daily life on Pompeii’s most famous street,the Via dell’Abbondanza. There’s the tavern where Pompeians

    gathered for drinks and here are the shops where residents boughtfurnishings for their homes. There’s even graffiti on the walls,including political slams and erotic images. Semper eadem.(Always the same — in any era.)

    • Arriving at the Garden of Fugitives with its 13 bodies — resi-dents of Pompeii who didn’t escape the wrath of Vesuvius, includ-ing that of a small child and a man who apparently succumbed tothe poisonous fumes in mid-rise.

    • Turning around at the Garden of Fugitives to confront theimpassive face of Mount Vesuvius, framed benignly by brilliantblue sky, greenery and the stone remains of Pompeii.

     Adventure gear to take along • Travelers take heed: Italy seems to be a breeding ground for

    pickpockets, who’ve turned this nefarious activity into practically ahigh art form; in fact, Italians themselves will advise tourists to car-ry backpacks in the front to thwart them. More proactive, invest ina manageable-sized bag with built-in anti-theft features that can beworn cross-body style and will keep your hands free for taking pic-tures and maintaining your balance on Pompeii’s uneven streets.

    • Pacsafe’s new Citysafe 175 Tablet Handbag ($70, www.Pacsafecom) has eXomesh® slashguards so pickpockets can’t slash the bagnor cut through the shoulder straps. The detachable strap has inge-nious turn-and-lock security strap hooks so it cannot be unclippedand the main compartment’s zipper clips to a hidden security hook.It’s padded for a tablet and has an electronics pocket and an RFID-safe™ blocking pocket so your personal info remains just that. In agrown-up color palette with contrasting lining, the bag’s main com-partment folds over with a snap closure for a smooth silhouette thattravels from day to evening in fashion-ready poise.

     EDITOR’S NOTE: Author, travel and lifestyle writer, and travel

    goods expert Kathy Witt feels you should never get to the end of

     your bucket list; there’s just too much to see and do in the world.

    She can be reached at [email protected] or www.KathyWitt

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    There is no finer dining fare than thetenderloins or chops from the first big gameanimal a hunter harvests in the fall. It’s alsoimpossible to beat the flavor of fresh goose or

    duck breast meat. The meat is fresh, and nothingthat’s available in grocery stores compares to theflavor of an antelope, a deer, an elk orwaterfowl.Each home chef who prepares game meat has

    his or her favorite method of cooking it. Butafter a certain dish is eaten a number of times,the palate appreciates a new approach to gamemeat cooking.The recipes below offer the game cook some

    new ideas on the preparation of wild game. Theyshould make your dinner guests feel as if theyare enjoying game meat almost as much as theyenjoyed it when it was fresh.

    On The Menu  With Jim Durfey 

    January 2014 — 20

    Crunchy Big Game Chops4 boneless, butterfly chops (cut from the back straps) with

    silver skin removed - antelope, deer or elk 1/2 tsp. fresh ground black pepper1 tsp. salt1 c. corn flakes cereal, crushed2 eggs, beaten2. olive oil2 tbsp. butter

    Preheat oven to 325°. Season chops with salt and pepper.Dredge in crushed corn flakes. Dip in eggs. Dredge in cornflakes a second time. Put oil and butter in oven proof skillet.

    Heat on top of stove over medium until butter is melted. Brownchops on both sides. Cover skillet. Bake in oven for 15 minutes.Remove from oven. Turn chops and bake 15 minutes more.

    Decadent Elk Steak 1 large elk steak cut 1 1/4” to 1 3/4” thick 1/2 c. butter, divided, softened1 c. fresh mushrooms, sliced1/4 c. dry red wine1/4 c. blue cheeseSalt and pepper to taste

    Dissolve yeast in warm water in large mixer bowl. Add milk.Preheat broiler. Spray broiler pan with vegetable cooking spray.

    Season steak with salt and pepper. Place steak on broiler panand place under broiler. Broil six to eight minutes on each sideor until desired pinkness is reached. Put steak on serving platter.

    Keep warm. In saute pan melt 1/4 c. butter. Add mushrooms.Saute until almost soft. Add wine. Bring to boil. Simmer about40 seconds. Pour over steak. Mash remaining butter and bluecheese until well combined. Spread over steak.

    Roast Goose with Vegetable Stuffing1 Canada goose (remove as many pin feathers as possible)3 potatoes, peeled and quartered2 ribs celery, diced1 large onion, diced2 tbsp. olive oil1/2 c. heavy creamSalt and pepper to taste3 tbsp. ice water2 tbsp. flour1 1/2 c. chicken broth or goose or duck stock 

    Preheat oven to 325°. Boil potatoes until tender. Saute celeryand onions in olive oil until crisp-tender. Mash potatoes withcream until fluffy. Add onions and celery and stir thoroughly.Stuff vegetable mixture into cavity of goose. Rub outside ofgoose with salt and pepper. Use small, sharp knife to makeholes in skin of goose which will allow fat to drain off. Closecavity of goose by securing skin with pins or stout toothpicks.Put goose in roasting pan and place in 325° oven. Roast two to2 1/2 hours. Drain fat from pan every 25 to 30 minutes. Pour icewater over goose when 15 minutes of roasting time are left forcrisp skin. Save last pan drippings. Remove goose from pan.

    Put drippings in saucepan. Add flour to drippings while whisk-ing. Add broth or stock. Cook gravy while stirring until thick.Add flour if necessary. Add salt and pepper to taste.

    You have a freezer full of game meat -

    now what? 

    Pranksters stop tram to film Tolkien sceneWARSAW, Poland (AP) — It’s almost like in J.R.R. Tolkien’s

    “The Fellowship of The Ring:” Gandalf stands in the way of Bal-rog and tells him to “go back to the shadow” to buy time for flee-ing Frodo Baggins and his companions.But the scene is Warsaw, not the Mines of Moria. A Polish prank-

    ster dressed as Gandalf stops a city tram, which represents Balrog,and recreates the scene with several others dressed as Middle-earthcharacters.Tolkien’s Gandalf almost died in the confrontation, but the Warsaw

    practical joker, called SA Wardega, just irritated the tram driver.A YouTube video of the prank posted last week has gone viral

    with nearly 3 million views by Saturday, just days before Poland’spremiere of the “The Hobbit” film sequel.Online: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVy7YeeqGZQ

    News Lite

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    —  Wednesday, January 1

    • Christmas at the Moss Mansion, through Jan. 4, Billings • Annual Flathead Lake Polar Bear Plunge, 2 p.m., Raven Brew pub, Woods Bay, Flathead Lake • Federation of Fly Fishers Museum, Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5

     p.m., Livingston• Yellowstone Gateway Museum, Thursday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Livingston

    — Saturday, January 4

    • Billings Symphony Orchestra , 7:30-9 p.m., Alberta Bair The-atre, Billings 

    • Ice Skating , weekends through February 28, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.,Bannack State Park, Dillon

    • Charlie Russell Chew Choo, Northpole Adventure 5:00 and7:30 p.m., Lewistown

    —  Wednesday, January 8

    • Daniel J. Cox/Natural Exposure’s Invitational Photo Tours,through Jan. 13, Yellowstone National Park 

    — Thursday, January 9

    • Mondak Ag Days and Trade Show , Richland County Fair EventCenter, Sidney 

    — Friday, January 10

    • Charlie Russell Chew Choo, Northpole Adventure 5:00 and7:30 p.m., Lewistown

    — Saturday, January 11

    • Warren Miller Performing Arts Center: The Second City , 6:30 p.m., Ophir School, Big Sky • Nordic Winter Trails Day , Lone Mountain Ranch, Big Sky• Charlie Russell Chew Choo, Northpole Adventure 5:00 and

    7:30 p.m., Lewistown

    — Thursday, January 16

    • Magie MT Ag and Industrial Expo, through Jan. 18, Four Sea-son Arena at Montana Expo Park, Great Falls 

    — Friday, January 17

    • West Yellowstone/Hebgen Lake NAIFC Ice Fishing Tourna-ment , through Jan. 19, West Yellowstone 

    — Saturday, January 18

    • Charlie Russell Chew Choo, Northpole Adventure 5:00 and7:30 p.m., Lewistown

    • Livingston Dance Club, country western dancing, 7-11 p.m., American Legion, 112 N. B St., Livingston

    — Monday, January 19

    • Montana Winter Fair, through January 26, Fair in downtownLewistown, Trade Show at the Yogo Inn, Eagles’ Hall will hostDemonstrations and Forums, the Art Center will host Quilt Exhib-it, outdoor events will be at the Fergus County Fairgrounds Pavil-ion, Lewistown

    — Tuesday, January 20

    • Martin Luther King Jr. Film Festival, Myrna Loy Center, Hele-na 

    — Sunday, January 25

    • Montana Senior Olympic Winter Games/Nordic Event , BohartCross Country Ski Center, Bozeman

    • Stan Shafer Memorial Ice Fishing Derby , Clark Canyon Reser-voir, Dillon

    • 35th Annual Southeastern Montana Juried Exhibit , CusterCounty Art and Heritage Center, Miles City 

    • Lion’s Club Perch Ice Fishing Derby , Canyon Ferry Lake,through Jan. 26, Townsend 

    January 2014 — 21

     January 2014 Calendar 

    your appetite. So it may make you eat more calories, while dump-ing calories down your gullet. For example, a beer has about 130calories, a small glass of wine contains about 75, and one shot ofhard liquor holds almost 100 calories. There are 3,500 calories ina pound of fat.

    Don’t think you’re doing yourself a diet favor by switching tosmoothies or juice drinks. They’re just as packed with calories asalcohol. Thus, combining cream or juices with alcohol for a flavoreddrink is a double whammy. And, because alcohol is more often con-sumed in a social setting, you don’t even work it off. So the liquidcalories are even more easily stored as — you guessed it — fat.

    There are two big problems with winter fat storage. First, fathas a lot more volume than muscle. Muscle is much more dense.So a pound of fat takes up more room than a pound of muscle.You may not see fat storage showing up on a scale, but yourclothing will be tighter. There may be a new little gap betweenshirt buttons. The waistband of your jeans may need a slightlyharder tug to close. But these are subtle signals, easy to ignore.

    The second problem mostly affects those over 50: the tastebuds lose their sensitivity. You may not be able to taste spiceslike, for example, nutmeg or paprika. In addition, there are a lotof parties and social occasions at this time of year, so you may

    not be getting the same amount of exercise as you did during thewarmer months.

    At the same time, many folks are making New Year’s resolu-tions about ‘getting in shape,’ so they crowd into gyms. It’s toughto work out when you know all the treadmills will be taken andall the machines will be sweaty. Going for a brisk walk on a grayslushy day is even less inviting.

    Preventing winter weight gain under these circumstances ishard. It requires two kinds of discipline — appetite control plus asweaty, unsavory workout. But here’s the bonus: fat that is quick-ly gained can be quickly lost. It’s only when you maintain that

    extra fat for a few months that the body adjusts to it, and itbecomes more difficult to lose.If you’ve been over actively snacking or gobbling or imbibing,

    increasing your self-control for just a week or two may bringdown the thickness of the fat layer you’ve recently put on. Get-ting some active exercise, however reluctant you may be to do it,also reduces the fat while it’s still easy to lose.

    Do it now, so you’ll be glad to put on shorts and a tank topwhen the weather turns warm.

     EDITOR’S NOTE: Wina Sturgeon is an active boomer based in

    Salt Lake City who offers news on the science of anti-aging and

    staying youthful at: adventuresportsweekly.com.

    Winter weight, from Page 10 

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    Q. What term do you use for a“sweetened carbonated beverage”? Howabout for the thing kids drink water fromat school?

    A. It depends on where you live, answersJoshua Katz of North Carolina StateUniversity in “Science News” magazine. Inthe continental U.S., “the most prominentlinguistic divide marking differences in

    pronunciation and word choice runsdiagonally northeast from Texas.” For thebeverage, if you live in Texas or much ofthe South, you’d say “coke”; in theNortheast and California, it’s “soda”; and inmuch of the Midwest and middle states,it’s”pop.” The school water dispenser is a“water fountain” in the Southeast and upthrough Pennsylvania, a “drinking fountain”in Michigan and the far West, and a“bubbler” in parts of Wisconsin.

    For more examples, see bit.ly/SNdialect.

    Q. Is “brain pain” an apt description of

    a headache?A. It has a nice ring to it but it’s a wrong

    ring. Brain operations can be done withoutanesthetic because the brain has no pain-sensing nerves, reports James Carlton in“Discover” magazine. But many of thebrain’s attendant structures had better bewell numbed, says neurosurgeon DimitrisPlacantonakis: For example, the cranialincision on the skin will require it, as willthe “dura mater,” the thick membranesurrounding the brain just beneath the skull,which is filled with pain receptors. “In

    general, only everything underneath thedura is pain-free.”

    So why headaches? “That’s the million-dollar question,” says neurosurgeonJohnathan Engh. “The common headacheisn’t well understood, though it’s essentiallypain in the head not caused by the brain.”As with migraines, tension headaches, etc.,the dura and other non-brain structures canbe irritated, as can muscles and the sinuses,Placantonakis adds. Various tumors,traumas, even frozen ice cream can trigger

    pain receptors in the head and neck to sendsignals to the brain, which it processes as“Ow!”

    Q. How much of your time do youspend talking with people? What abouttime spent at a computer?

    A. To answer such questions, researchershave test subjects wear on their beltsElectronically Activated Recorders, orEARs, says David G. Myers in “ExploringPsychology: Ninth Edition.” In this way,psychologists Matthias Mehl and JamesPennebaker obtained activity samplings atthe University of Texas, going well beyondany scientific laboratory: “For up to fourdays, the EAR captured 30 seconds of thestudents’ waking hours every 12.5 minutes,enabling the researchers to eavesdrop onmore than 10,000 half-minute life slices bythe end of the study.”

    Results: Students spent 28 percent of theirtime talking with someone compared to

    only 9 percent at a computer keyboard. Oneof EAR’s funnier findings, as Myers puts it,is that we humans laugh 30 times moreoften in social situations than in solitarysituations; that’s 30 out of every 31 laughsoccurring in groups. Have you too noticedhow seldom you laugh when alone?

    Q. What’s the very human storybehind the development of the “Xeroxmachine”?

    A. Make that a “xerographic copier,”developed by American inventor Chester

    Carlson (1906-1968) and using a processthat is “basically our old friend staticelectricity doing something useful,” saysLouis A. Bloomfield in “How Things Work:The Physics of Everyday Life.” The imageprinted on a sheet of paper begins as apattern of tiny black particles or “toner” ona smooth light-sensitive surface. “Thecopier uses static electricity and lightreflected from the original document toarrange this toner on the surface and thentransfers the toner carefully to the paper.”

    As an impoverished youth, Carlsonsupported his family by washing windowsand cleaning offices after school; later,working in a print shop, he started thinkingabout copying and began experimentingwith electrophotography. After attendingCaltech, Carlson worked for BellLaboratory but was laid off during theDepression. In 1938, while in law school, heinvented the xerographic copying process,yet it wasn’t until 1960 that Haloid XeroxCorporation produced its first successfulcopier, Model 914. Gone finally were thedays of carbon paper and mimeographmachines. “What modern office couldoperate without a xerographic copier?”

    End of story: “Carlson became extremelywealthy but he gave most of his moneyaway anonymously.”

    Q. Mathematics, as you know, has itsdelights and its strangenesses. Try this:Spread out on the floor a map of the city

    where you live. How likely is it that somepoint on the map is sitting exactly over itscorresponding real-world location?

    A. According to L.E.J. Brouwer’scelebrated “fixed-point” theorem of theearly 1900s, it is certain that such a pointexists. In fact, many different fields havebenefitted from this powerful theorem oftopology, including game theory andeconomics.

    Oddly enough, the theorem also teachesus about coffee stirring: When a stirred cupof coffee comes to rest, at least one

    “molecule” of the liquid will return toexactly the place where it started out, beforethe stirring. It is said that the insight leadingto this theorem came from Brouwer’sobservations of a cup of coffee.

    Q. Gear-shaped anatomy is rarelyfound in Nature, but recently an extremeslow-motion camera operating at 5,000images per second was used to study“Issus coleoptratus.” What wasdiscovered?

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     What word do you use for ‘carbonated beverage’?

     By Bill Sones and Rich Sones, Ph.D.

    Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at [email protected]

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    A. That this flightless leafhopper, only afew millimeters long, sports intermeshing cog-like gears on the rotating “hip joints” of its tworear legs — used to propel its jumps, reportzoologists Malcolm Burrows and GregorySutton in the journal “Science.” Duringlaunch, the nymphal insect spins its engagedcounter-rotating gears past each other atalmost 50,000 teeth per second and can gofrom 0 to 9 mph in 0.002 seconds, an accelera-

    tion about 200 times that of gravity. The gearsensure that its leg motions are synchronized towithin 30 millionths of a second or so, pre-venting it from ending up in a dizzying spin.

    Conclude the authors: “The gears in Issus...demonstrate that mechanisms previouslythought only to be used in man-mademachines have evolved in nature.”

    Q. “I’m going to do a Folidol,” desperatepeople would joke. But there was nothingfunny about it. Though little-known in theWestern world, what was this global prob-lem?

    A. During the Green Revolution of the1970s, countries like Sri Lanka turned toorganic chlorines and organic phosphates asinsecticides, says toxicologist MichaelEddleston of the University of Edinburgh,

    United Kingdom, as reported by Mara Hvis-tendahl in “Science” magazine. Crop produc-tion shot up. Unfortunately, so did suicides:An estimated third of the world’s suicides —especially in rural Asia — involve ingestingsuch biochemicals. “In Asia, people don’thave guns, they have pesticides.”

    Some countries have responded by banning

    use of certain pesticides, with rather dramatic

    results. By one report, hospital admissions fel

    by 50 percent between 1995 and 2005. Also

    authorities developed a “lockbox” to store the

    chemicals more safely, with researchers dis-

    tributing lockboxes in dozens of randomly

    selected villages in 2011. Yet there is no “mag-

    ical fix” for the problem, said one advisor

    Counseling services and social norms need to

    be addressed as well. As University of Copenhagen environmental health biologist Flem

    ming Konradsen summed it up: This more

    holistic approach “could possibly impact on

    environmental food contamination, occupa

    tional and suicide poisonings, plus the devel

    opment of resistance in disease vectors — al

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     Across 1 There may be tears inthem

    6 Track event15 Like some officeboxes

    16 Track event17 Yellow-floweredmedicinal plant

    18 Champing at the bit,and then some19 “__ Cheerleaders”:1977 comedy-horror

    film21 Campus not far from

    LAX22 Camera that uses70mm film23 Exploit24 Casual evening?26 Inedible orange27 Aspire to greatness29 “84, Charing CrossRoad” novelist Hanffand others

    31 “Violator” band33 Deco designer34 Agreeing words

    35 Latin quarters?39 1996 film with thetagline “YIKES!

    They’ve Landed!”41 Arizona retirementcommunity45 Black-footedalbatrosses46 Ring material47 Savory, e.g.48 Tex.-based carrier49 “Such a shame”50 It’s a mess52 Zen awakening54 Daily reading formany

    57 Nitpick58 New members59 Whence Icarus fled60 Ones on the way up61 Had a row

    Down1 Convince otherwise2 More disturbed3 Disdain4 Skipjack, perhaps5 Tinny6 Nursery product word

    7 Follies8 Draft picks9 Traffic blocker?

    10 Shade provider?11 Extol12 Dealer in oldclothing13 Way more than acold snap14 Darius I’s successor20 Reacts to with an eyeroll, perhaps

    25 Something to test26 Cry of approval28 Laugh line?

    29 Respect30 Corrections staff?32 Humanities degs.35 Soup holder36 Best kind of fullhouse37 Use lofty words?38 Pounced on39 Short time?

    40 Caldwell’s “__

    Road”

    41 Most popular baby

    girl’s name of 2011 and

    2012

    42 They may be civil

    43 __ acid

    44 Prairie predator

    47 Bouncing off the

    walls

    50 Large amount

    51 Haul

    53 Frank Kennedy

    saved it from

    foreclosure

    55 Moral lapse

    56 Twisty character

    Crossword

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