golden times, january 2013
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GOLDENTIMES
A monthly magazine for the region’s retirees by Target Publications
Jan. 7, 2013 / Vol. 23, No. 1
Staying HomeChoices Care Services, anin-home care program,through OUI helps seniors remain independent / Page 10
INSIDE
Senior lunchmenus— Page 3
Volunteer of the Month
— Page 12
HouseCall
— Page 15
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INDEX:Social Security Q&A ................... Page 4
Briefs .......................................... Page 5
Birthdays ................................Pages 6-9
Reader poetry .............................. Page 9
Cryptogram .................................. Page 9
Cryptogram solution ...................Page 12
Crossword solution .....................Page 12
Volunteer opportunities ...............Page 13
Sudoku ........................................Page 14
Crossword ...................................Page 19
Sudoku solution ..........................Page 20
EDITORMary Tatko
COORDINATOR: Peggy Hayden Golden Times is inserted in the Tribune
the first Monday of every month.To advertise, contact your Tribuneadvertising sales representative at
(208) 848-2292. On the cover: Judy Ranta sits in her chair at her Lewiston Orchards home where she remains in-dependent with the help of Michelle Carlin, an
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GOLDENTIMES
Find Golden Timesonline atLMTribune.com/special_sections/
Goldentimes
A monthly magazine for the region’s retirees by Target Publications
Jan. 7, 2013 / Vol. 23, No. 1
Staying HomeChoices Care Services, anin-home care program,through OUI helps seniors remain independent / Page 10
INSIDE
Senior lunchmenus— Page 3
Volunteer of the Month
— Page 12
HouseCall
— Page 15
Thought for the month
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
— George Eliot
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J-K Senior Mealsserves meals at noon at 104 South Sixth St., Kendrick. Suggested donation is $3 for people age 60 and older, and $5 for those younger than 60; Children younger than 6 years eat for free.
Senior Round Table Nutrition Program
serves hot lunches at Pautler Senior Center, 549 Fifth St. No. F, Clarkston; and Tuesdays and Thursdays (except the 3rd Thursday each month) in Asotin. A salad bar is available at 11:30 a.m. Fridays only. Suggested donation is $4 for seniors age 60 and older. Cost is $7 for nonseniors.
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 avail-able at 11:30 a.m.
Lewiston Senior Nutrition Program
serves hot lunchs 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.
MoNday TueSday wedNeSday ThuRSday fRiday8 Barbecue meatballs/scalloped potatoes/green beans/roll/mixed fruit/cookie
10 Breakfast casserole/spinach/muffin/mandarin oranges
11 Breaded fish/tater tots/cook’s choice salad/pineapple
15 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/gravy/broc-coli Normandy/roll/peaches
17 Spaghetti with meat sauce/Italian-blend vegeta-bles/garlic bread/apple crisp
18 Pautler Center Meal (no home delivery)
22 Sweet and sour chicken/rice/Oriental-blend vegetables/biscuit/pudding
24 Hamburger/bun/ lettuce/onion/tomato/baked beans/corn/fruit cocktail
25 Bean with bacon soup/roll/cook’s choice salad/apricots
29 Beef roast/mashed potatoes/gravy/winter-mix vegetables/roll/cake/ice cream
31 Chicken-noodle casse-role/peas and pearl onions/beets/biscuit/fruited Jell-O
7 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/gravy/salad/corn/roll/cookie
8 Hot-turkey sandwich/potatoes/gravy/green beans/beet salad/fruit
9 Roast pork/mashed potatoes/coleslaw/ carrots/roll/dessert
14 Baked ham/scalloped potatoes/applesauce/green beans/cornbread
15 Salisbury steak/ potatoes/salad/corn/ muffin/pudding
16 Roast beef/mashed potatoes/gravy/peas/ carrot salad/roll/dessert
21 Beef stroganoff/ buttered noodles/peas/coleslaw/muffin/cookie
22 Sweet and sour pork/rice/carrots/salad/roll
23 Lasagna/Jell-O salad/green beans/french bread/dessert
28 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/gravy/vegetables/salad/biscuit
29 German sausage/ sauerkraut/potatoes/ broccoli/vegetables/salad/roll
30 Hamburger/potato salad/baked beans/ carrots/dessert
15 Tuna loaf with sauce/garden rice/vegetable
10 Pork chops/potatoes/gravy/vegetable
17 Oven-fried chicken/potatoes/vegetable
22 Beef liver/grilled onions/potatoes/gravy/vegetable
24 Beef stroganoff/ noodles/vegetable
29 Meat or cheese lasagna/garlic bread/vegetable
31 Ham/potatoes/ vegetable
9 Lasagna/salad/garlic bread/cherry cobbler
11 Chicken enchilada/salad/spanish rice/orange cake
16 German sausage/sauer-kraut/potatoes/peas/fruit salad
18 Roast beef/gravy/mashed potatoes/corn/fruit
23 Barbecue pork sandwich/macaroni salad/green beans
25 Chili/cornbread/salad/fruit/dessert
30 To be announced
8 Brunch: Frittata/sausage/biscuits and gravy
JaNuaRy MeNuS:
Senior lunch MenuS
Who am I?I was a U.S. President who was born Jan. 7, 1800, in New York.I died March 8, 1874.I married Abigail Powers in 1826 and we had two children.I was the last president from the Whig Party.
Answer on Page 4
Did you know:
In addition to the phonograph, Thomas Edison gets credit for inventing wax paper and an electric railway car.
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Groups and organizations can submit information, pertaining to seniors in the region, to be published in Golden Times monthly magazine. All submis-sions are subject to space availability and editing.
Submissions should be emailed to:[email protected] mailed to:Target PublicationsP.O. Box 957Lewiston, ID 83501
Information for February’s issue must be recieved by Jan. 21 to be considered.Questions about submitting information can be sent via email or by calling (208) 848-2243.
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Q: Does Social Security provide special services or information for people who are blind or visually impaired?
A: Yes. Social Security offers a number of services and products specifi cally designed for people who are blind or visually im-paired. For example, we make all our publications available in multiple formats including Braille, audio cassette tapes, compact disks or enlarged print. Also, most of our publications are available online in audio for-mat.
To get any of these products in alternative formats, contact us by: Going online to www.s o c i a l s e c u r i t y . g o v / p u b s /alt-pubs.html; Calling us at (800) 772-1213 (TTY, [800] 325-0778) between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m., weekdays; Contacting your local Social Security offi ce. Or mailing, calling, or faxing your request to:
Social Security Administra-tion, Braille Services Branch
6401 Security Boulevard, L1141 West Low Rise
Baltimore, MD 21235Phone: (410) 965-6414 or
(410) 965-6407 (TTY, [800] 325-0778).
Fax: (410) 965-6413.———
Q: I am trying to save up for a truck. I have $1,200 in the bank now and need a little more. How much cash can I have in the bank without affecting my Supplemen-tal Security Income (SSI) eligi-bility?
A: The resource limit is $2,000. Unless you have other valuable resources, this means you could save up to $2,000 before you would become in-eligible for SSI. We generally do not count your primary car, the home you live in or certain amounts set aside for burial ex-penses as resources. In some cases, if the vehicle you’re sav-
ing for is part of a plan to return to work, you can have higher resources — but So-cial Security would need to approve your plan in order to exclude those resources. For more information, you can visit our webpage about SSI at www.socialsecurity.gov/ssi.
———Q: I applied for a re-
placement Social Security card last week but have not re-ceived it. When should I expect to receive my new card?
A: On average, it takes ap-proximately 10 to 14 days to receive your replacement Social Security card. However, if we need to verify documents you present as proof of identity, it could take longer in some cases. For more information about your Social Security card and number, visit www.socialsecurity.gov/ssnumber.
———Q: What can I do if I think
someone has stolen my identity?A: You should do several
things, including: File a report with the local police or the po-lice department where the iden-tity theft took place, and keep a copy of the police report as proof of the crime; Notify the Federal Trade Commission at (877) ID-THEFT (438-4338); File a com-plaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov; and contact the fraud units of the three major credit re-porting bureaus: Equifax (800) 525-6285, Trans Union (800) 680-7289 and Experian (888) 397-3742.
Learn more by reading our publication, “Identity Theft And Your Social Security Num-ber,” at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10064.html.
This column was pre-pared by the Social Security Administration. For fast answers to specific Social Security ques-tions, contact Social Security toll-free at (800) 772-1213.
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Senior service program expanding
The Home Visit Program, an initiative by Emeritus Senior Liv-ing, is expanding.
The free program is designed to check on the wellbeing of el-derly citizens living on their own. The program is being expanded to help with efforts in staving off depression felt by the elderly this time of year.
Members of the public are in-vited to directly contact Emeritus at Juniper Meadows, 2975 Juni-per Drive, Lewiston, (208) 746-8676, to request a visit to an area senior. This is a signifi cant step for the program, which has, up to now, operated primarily through referrals from agencies and emer-gency services since its launch in 2009.
Through the program, arrange-ments can be made for an Emeri-tus expert to go to the home of a senior and check their physi-cal and psychological well be-ing. Emeritus then connects the senior with the proper resources and services to provide any assis-tance needed.
For more information on the program or Emeritus visit www.emeritus.com.
Coordinator hired for new program
PULLMAN — The Pullman Community Council on Aging announced the recent hire of Chelsey Fanara.
Fanara will be the Senior Chore Program coordinator, a new volunteer program designed to assist area seniors with com-mon chores. She has a back-ground in medical services and care giving, and has extensive community leadership experi-ence. The program will be under the supervision of a special task force consisting of six mem-bers: Kristina Umbright, Nancy Backes, Scott Hallett, Steve Bell, Roberta Rutherford and Melanie Brown.
Fanara will be responsible for recruiting and placing volun-teers, as well as promoting the Senior Chore Program. Anyone interested in volunteering or in need of services can contact Fanara via email at [email protected].
NARFE luncheon setThe National Active and Re-
tired Federal Employees will meet at noon Jan. 23 at Macullen’s res-taurant, 1516 Main St., Lewiston.
The luncheon will include a program on the Nez Perce Histori-cal Park. Updated information on retirement benefi ts will be given at the meeting. More information is available by calling (509) 751-8791.
Elvedalen lodge sets meeting
The Sons of Norway Elvedalen Lodge No. 129 will have a no-host lunch meeting at 1 p.m. Jan. 19 at the Timber Creek Grill Buffet.
The restaurant is located at 2305 Nez Perce Drive in Lewiston. The meal will be followed by a brief business meeting and installation of the 2013 offi cers.
The club is open to those of Scandinavian descent or those in-terested in the culture. More infor-mation about the group is avail-able by calling (208) 798-8617 or
(208) 743-2626.
Senior centercontinues dances
The twice-weekly dances at Sixth Street Senior Center will continue in the new year from 7 to 10 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday, featur-ing the Heustis Kountry Band. Cost is $4 per person.
There will be a membership meeting at 9 a.m. Tuesday and the board will meet at 9 a.m. Jan. 15
A pancake feed is planned at noon Wednesday. Other meals at the cen-ter include spaghetti and meatballs Jan. 16 and the monthly potluck, with meat furnished by Emeritus at Juniper Meadows, at noon Jan. 23.
Pinochle is played at 1 p.m. ev-ery Thursday, and coffee and cook-ies are served from 10 a.m. to noon weekdays. The Sixth Street Senior
Center also has singers practice from 10 a.m. to noon each Satur-day.
Senior group plans potluck
PULLMAN — The Pullman Se-nior Citizens Association will have a new member potluck at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday at the senior center lo-cated inside Pullman City Hall.
At 12:30 p.m. today the cen-ter will have Wii bowling and on Thursday the group will travel to Moscow for a shopping trip. The Kitchen Band will perform during lunch Jan. 18 and the center will be closed Jan. 21 in observation of Martin Luther King Day. The mov-ie of the month is “Andre,” a true story about the unlikely friendship that develops between a sea lion and a little girl. The free movie will
be shown at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 29. It is rated PG.
Fitness classes offered to seniors
The senior fi tness class offered twice weekly at Pautler Senior Cen-ter is held from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays.
A general board meeting for the center will take place at 9 a.m. Wednesday. Foot care has been can-celed for Jan. 21 and 30 but will be available by appointment each of the other Mondays and Wednesdays during January.
The Pautler Senior Center is lo-cated at 549 Fifth St. in Clarkston and is one of the locations for the Senior Round Table lunches. Ques-tions can be answered by calling (509) 758-4064 before 1 p.m. week-days.
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Jesse ellsworthJesse Ellsworth of Orofino
turned 73 on Friday.He was born Jan. 4, 1940, in
Winchester and was raised in Boise with his four brothers.
He married Virginia in 1958 and they made their home in Boise until 1968 when they moved to Lewiston. They moved to Orofino in 1992.
The couple have four chil-dren, 12 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
Fay GilkeyFay Gilkey of Orofino
turned 90 on Wednesday.She was born Jan. 2, 1923,
near Orofino and grew up on a farm at Gilbert Ridge.
She married Don Gilkey Jan. 6, 1940, and they have two children.
Charlotte BaBCoCkCharlotte
Babcock of C l a r k s t o n turned 96 on Friday. She was born Jan. 4, 1917, in Lincoln, Neb.
She lived in Spokane and Detroit. She retired from the Internal Revenue Service.
She was married for 65 years to Edward Babcock. The couple traveled for at least 10 years of their retirement. She has two daughters, nine grandchildren, 19 great-grandchildren and four great-great-grandchildren. Her husband died in 2006 and her son died in 2004.
Her hobbies are reading and doing various crafts. She is active and travels to Hawaii each year. She is a member of the Clarkston Seventh-day Adventist Church and attends regularly. She thanks God daily for her health, family and good friends.
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Birthday submissionsBirthdays 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 [email protected].
February birthdays must be received by 5 p.m. Jan 21.
BIRTHDAYSJan. 2
Jan. 4
Jan. 5lillian (Pokie) PaulLillian (Pokie) Paul of
Grangeville celebrated her 85th birthday Saturday at Meadowlark Homes.
She was born Jan. 5, 1928, in Lewiston, to Pick and Lillie Ward. She attended school at Mission Creek in Kamiah.
She married Merle D. Baldwin in 1943 at Stites and they had one child. He died in 1955.
In 1956, she married Leon Paul of Riggins.
She has two grandchildren, five great-grandchildren and five step-great-grandchildren.
She has been a member of the American Legion Auxiliary in Riggins for 53 years.
She enjoys playing card games and bingo.
Jan. 8VirGinia ellsworthVirginia Ellsworth of Orofino
will turn 73 on Tuesday. She was born Jan. 8, 1940, in Keeline, Wyo. She moved to Pocatello when she was in the third grade. During high school her family moved to Boise.
She married Jesse Ellsworth in 1958. The couple moved to Lewiston from Bosie in 1968 and to Orofino in 1992.
They have four children, 12 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren.
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WILMA POMPONIOWilma Pomponio of Lewiston will be 93 on Saturday. She
was born Jan. 12, 1920, in Akeley, Minn., to Elmer and Edith Fredrick. They moved to Elk River in 1926.
She worked for the Elk River School District while she was in high school cleaning fl oors, the recreation room and kitchen.
She married Silvo (Syl) Pomponio on June 18, 1938, in Moscow and they made their home in Elk River.
They moved to Spokane in 1943, where she went to work for Gelana, painting airplanes during World War II. In 1949, they returned to Elk River where she worked at different restaurants and for Jim Schwartz in his greenhouses. The couple moved to Deary in 1999 and her husband died in 2004, just three months before their 66th anniversary.
She has two children, fi ve grandchildren, six great-grandchildren and one step-great-grandchild.
She currently enjoys oil painting, knitting, crocheting, and loves to work outside.
MARIE VANDERPOOLMarie Vanderpool of Orofi no will celebrate her 87th birthday Friday.
She was born in Weippe on Jan. 11, 1926, to Sylvia and Denver Snyder. Her fi rst two years of school were at the Wilson School House on the Weippe Prairie, followed by two years at Weippe Elementary School. After her parents died she moved to Spokane to live with her older sister during the fi fth grade. She then moved back to Weippe and graduated from Weippe High School. During high school she worked at the theater selling tickets.
After she graduated, she married Floyd Vanderpool, who was in the U.S. Air Force. The couple had two daughters.
She worked at several grocery stores. In 1968, she went to work at First Security Bank, where she worked for 17 years, serving as manager for the last six years of her time there. She was also the fi rst treasurer for Weippe after it was incorporated.
She and her husband were married for 56 years before he died in January 1999. They lived in Pierce most of that time. Following his death, she moved to Orofi no. She later moved to Seattle and married Deane Arndt. After his death, she moved back to Orofi no.
VERN WILLIAMSV e r n
Williams of L e w i s t o n will turn 80 on Tuesday. He was born Jan. 8, 1933, in Boyd, Mont. He worked as a ranchhand
before moving to Lewiston, where he worked at Potlatch Forests Inc. He retired in 1996. He has four daughters, nine grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He enjoys running his trapline.
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JAN. 8JANET NISWANDERJ a n e t
Niswander of Lewiston will celebrate her 75th birth-day Tuesday. She was born Jan. 8, 1938, in Tuttle, Idaho, to Lynn and Ruth Jensen. They moved to Hagerman, Idaho, where she attended school through the sixth grade. The family then moved to Jerome, Idaho, where she graduated in 1956.
She moved to Lewiston to become a teacher and attended Lewis-Clark Normal School. During her school-ing, she worked weekends at St. Joseph’s Hospital, and at Don Dickamores Fountain and Grocery, both in Lewiston.
She met Roy Niswander in April 1957 and they were mar-ried April 20, 1958, and will celebrate 55 years of marriage this year. The couple have two sons, fi ve grandchildren and one 2-month-old great-grandson.
She worked for the Lewiston School District for 20 years before retiring. She volun-teers for the Lewiston Senior Nutrition Program.
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JEANNE SCHREMPPJ e a n n e
S c h r e m p p of Lewiston will be hon-ored at a family gath-ering for her 85th birth-day. She was born Jan. 21, 1928, to Henry and Agnes Zellerhoff on the fam-ily farm in Colton. She was the third of nine children. Her mother died when she was 15 and she helped raise her younger siblings.
She married Jerome Schrempp in 1950 and they raised four daughters. They also have seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
She was a stay-at-home mom, who took time to be a Bluebird leader, participate in PTA, and do regular mom stuff like cook, and act as personal chauffeur and seamstress.
She is active in her church and taught religious education for 40 years, many of which she taught with her daughter Joan.
She has always played piano, and still serenades her grand-children and great-grandchil-dren when they come to visit.
She and her sisters volun-teer at area nursing homes where they entertain, sing and play the raucous piano as “The Singing Zs.”
INEZ ANDERSONInez Anderson of
Lewiston will cele-brate her 80th birth-day on Jan. 20.
She was the fi rst born of Elmer and Welma Scott in 1933 at Thompson Falls, Mont.
She married Clayton (Andy) Anderson in September 1950. The couple lived throughout the Northwest during their more than 49 years of mar-riage. Their fi nal move was from Orofi no to Lewiston in 1975.
After working her entire life outside the home, includ-ing her job at Norden’s in
Lewiston, she retired from JC Penney in 1998.
She continues to be active and social throughout the com-munity, participating in bowling and golf leagues, weekly card games, lunches with friends and former co-workers, and gar-dening.
She has two daughters, one grandson, 13 nieces and nephews, 14 great-nieces
and nephews, and four great-great-nieces and nephews.
The family is planning a celebration on Jan. 19 and will announce details in the Lewiston Tribune at a later time.
ARLENE REYNOLDSArlene Reynolds
of Lewiston will be honored at an open house from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the home of her niece, 1225 Hemlock Ave. in Lewiston. The occasion is her 85th birthday.
She was born Jan. 14, 1928, in Grangeville to Clarence and Alice Rowland.
She married DeForest
Reynolds in 1952 at Clarkston.
The couple worked for Potlatch Forests Inc. and both retired from there in 1986. Upon retirement they moved to Lake Havasu, Ariz.
She has one daugh-ter, three grandchil-dren and six great-
grandchildren.Her husband died in 2003
and a daughter died in 1988.
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A Happy Forest Soliloquy
My Grandpa Lafe was a product of the wild, wild West!He loved the Waha mountains
the best.He, his horse, Blackie,
and dog, Burton, were good friends for a long, long time.Now, if he could just get there again, all the troubles would
be forgotten while maybe hunting grouse or deer, with lots of hope and never a fear.Come to think about it, guess
he’d better be headin’ on home them darn kids might
let the cows out to roam and, he kinda moaned, dear
Granny’s cookin’ mmm.So, ki-yi-yi, one last run
through the dense pine forest lots o’ fun!
Then home they’ll run ho-ho-hum.
Ki-yi-yippy-yi, ’til another day not too far away!!
They’d come again to play, yippy-yay-yippy-yay!
Jean Buchanan, 92, Lewiston
The Pages of TimeHow quickly the pages have
turned as time passes by.We look in the mirror and there it is, plain as day, the
pages have turned and where have we been with the passage
of time?We climb the hill and at the
time we think ‘oh what a thrill, we made it to the top — yeah!’And then we look around and
there it is, another hill to climb.
Will we make it to the top this time?
Of course we will!We keep going, to seek the
thrill of life.Yvonne Carrie, 68, Lewiston
Wise Man CakeGrandmother baked a special cake today, she said it would
serve all of us one way.Inside was one large pecan for a prize, the lucky winner will
have a surprise.The little cake was cut in
perfect size.We each ate slowly with
hopeful, wide eyes.Gram smiled and saw Mary find the nut in her portion.A paper crown was ready for
the occasion.“Ah! You shall be wise
man of the day!”Then Grandma said that
sixth of January date was a special time when Magi
arrived late, bringing gifts for Baby Jesus to celebrate.
So now we love the wise man cake,
and remember the traveling wise Kings.
Lucille Magnuson, 92, Moscow
BRIAN MCGOLDRICKBrian McGoldrick of Orofi no
will be 93 on Jan. 31.He was born at Fallon, Nev.,
in 1920.He was a member of the
U.S. Army Air Corps, stationed in England.
He married Marie in 1951 and they have four sons.
The couple owned and operated a heating and sheet metal shop in Orofi no.
His hobbies include music, dancing, fi shing and bowling.
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JAN. 29
KEN PETERSONKen Peterson of Orofi no will
turn 84 on Jan. 29.He was born in 1929 at
Lackawana, N.Y.He married Claire and the
couple moved to Orofi no sev-eral years ago.
He has four children, seven grandchildren and some great-grandchildren.
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“Sometimes the primary caregiver for a family member just needs a break. So we can come in and give them that break.”
— Tammy McCafferty
By Mary TaTkoTargeT PublicaTions
When she helped launch the senior choice pro-gram at opportunities unlimited inc. a year and a half ago, program manager Tammy Mccafferty hoped to extend oui’s mission of helping people be as independent as possible, specifically to seniors.
senior choice is for anyone who needs in-home help to stay independent, but because oui has long specialized in develop-mental therapy and vocational services for individuals with disabilities, Mccafferty said it is uniquely equipped to address the needs of people with condi-tions such as Down syndrome and autism.
care for aging people with de-velopmental disabilities is scarce in the area, she said.
“There is nothing out there,” said Mccafferty. nursing homes are “just not set up for it. They
don’t understand the needs of someone with a dis-ability like that because they’re trained in how to care for someone who’s geriatric – and they do a great job on that in nursing homes – but they’re not trained in the field of developmental disabilities like we are.”
Transitioning to a nursing home can be very diffi-cult for an individual with a developmental disability.
“They have their own needs and they’re used to living a certain way, and sometimes they don’t relate well with the other seniors because they’re not at the cognitive level of the other seniors,” she said. “so a lot of times they’ll (nursing home staff ) think, ‘Well we’ll put them in with the dementia patients.’ but they don’t have demen-tia, so it’s not really a good fit.”
and, just like many other seniors – sometimes even more so – seniors with developmental differences often feel strongly about living on their own.
“like anyone, they prefer to be in their own home. a lot of times, we’ve helped them to reach a point where they gain independence to be able to live in their own apartment, so for them to give it up is just
as hard as it is for someone else,” Mccaf-ferty said.
Judy ranta, 62, lives in a senior apart-ment complex in the lewiston orchards where she receives in-home help from oui therapy technician Michelle carlin three days a week.
carlin helps with tasks that might be overwhelming for ranta to tackle alone.
“We’ve cleaned out closets together,” ranta said.
as she stirred a pot of macaroni and cheese on the stove in ranta’s small kitch-en, carlin sidestepped a portable washing machine hooked up to the sink.
“We’re doing laundry together now,” carlin said. “i do the cooking and the cleaning; she does daily hygiene by her-self.”
Part of ranta’s daily routine is taking medication, something carlin records on a chart the days she’s there.
“i’m a diabetic,” ranta said. “and i’m at that age where i don’t remember things.”
carlin also helps ranta get out into the community. Trips to the library are a favorite.
“i like to read,” ranta said. “i’m a big reader.”
“We go around town to pay her bills,” carlin said. “We like to go to lunch to-gether, too.”
When carlin helps ranta get around town, bake muffins or take out the trash, she’s providing another service at the same time — companionship.
“i look forward to seeing her every Monday, Wednesday and Friday,” ranta
said.often, Mccafferty
said, just a little help can go a long way in helping seniors stay in their own homes longer.
“a lot of times it’s some very simple things,” she explained. “it doesn’t have to be full care that someone needs. sometimes it’s something as simple as helping
them get their groceries, and helping them to get their laundry done that allows them to stay in their home, and be safe and healthy.”
care schedules vary from occasional to daily help,
according to each client’s needs, Mccafferty said.“sometimes the primary caregiver for a family
member just needs a break,” she said. “so we can come in and give them that break.”
Those seeking respite often are from the “sandwich generation,” Mccafferty said, taking care of both younger and older family members.
“sometimes the people who are caregivers are parents themselves, so they are torn between caring for their parents and their children,” she said. “it’s a hard place to be, at times, and we can take some of the drudgery out. instead of having to worry about
A new program aimed at assisting seniors to stay in their own homes is affording OUI the opportunity to help more people in the region
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A helping hand for seniors
Tribune/Kyle Mills
Michelle Carlin, left, lends a hand to Judy Ranta as she puts a load of laundry in a portable wash-
er at her Lewiston Orchards apartment.
Tammy S. McCafferty
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getting the toilet clean and the bathtub clean and the dishes done, they can sit and enjoy the person’s company.
“And sometimes it’s a dignity issue, too – you don’t want your child bathing you. It’s uncomfort-able sometimes for the child and for the parent, so it works better sometimes to have someone else fill that role.”
Having outside help allows some families to better juggle the
physical and emotional challenges that come with having an elderly par-ent or grandparent in need.
“We all have roles that we’ve played in life. (The) child has a role and the parent has a role, and the parent may want to just be able to say, I want it done this way and this way and this way,” McCafferty said. “And to someone who isn’t their family member, they can sometimes
be heard better.”“We try really hard to match the
caregiver to the person they’re going to serve,” she said. “And then we go and do spot checks on a frequent basis to make sure that they’re satisfied, and if they’re not — sometimes it just doesn’t mesh well, and that’s OK — we can find another caregiver if that’s the case.”
About 10 families currently are being served in the Lewiston-Clarkston Valley, where McCafferty is program manager. There are additional locations in Moscow and Grangeville. The program has grown steadily since its inception, and there is room for more growth, she said.
“We started first where we were just accepting private pay,” she said. “And then April of 2012 we got to where we could accept some more funding sources, like Medicaid, which has been helpful because a lot of people in the valley have a limited income source.”
Today, she said, payment options include Medicaid, the Veterans Benefits Administration, private insurance and Community Action Partnership funding.
“The benefit that I’m the most excited about that we’re helping a couple people out with is the VA benefit, aid and atten-dant care,” McCafferty said. “People don’t realize they’re even eligible for it.”
Veterans and spouses of veterans may qualify for the benefit, she said, which provides a budget for in-home care.
“If they call us, we can send in a refer-ral form,” she said.
Asking for help isn’t easy, McCafferty said. Often, the calls she gets are from children or grandchildren seeking tem-porary or long-term help for a loved one.
And seniors aren’t the only ones who can benefit from the program.
“It isn’t just for seniors, because we can help other people, too,” McCafferty said. “If you think about it, what mother after she’s given birth to a child couldn’t use an extra set of hands? We can come in there on a short-term basis and help that person.”
Short of signing up for in-home care, seniors or their families can request a free home assessment through OUI to identify risk factors for falls or other safety issues. Starting around age 60, McCafferty said, the risk of fall-ing, and of serious injury from falls that occur, becomes greater. Something as simple as a fall-risk assessment can improve a senior’s chances of continuing to live indepen-dently.
The bottom line, she said, is the need for affordable in-home care programs for seniors — with and without developmental disabilities — is growing, for a variety of reasons.
“The population is aging faster than we have caregivers for them,” McCafferty said. “People are living longer, so there’s a great need for in-home care. And people used to have quite large families, but they’re having smaller families now, so there’s less people on the other end to take care of you.”
Tatko can be reached at [email protected] or (208) 848-2244.
Tribune/Kyle Mills
Michelle Carlin, an OUI therapy technician, helps out with laundry as Judy Ranta eats her lunch at her apartment in the Lewiston Orchards. Three days a week, Carlin helps Ranta
with tasks around her home as part of the Senior Choice program.
Tribune/Kyle Mills
Judy Ranta
Program Snapshot
Choices Care Services by Opportunities Un-limited Inc.
Locations: Lewiston, Moscow and Grang-eville.
History: Opportunities Unlimited Inc. is a non-profit corporation founded in 1974 to help people with developmental disabilities be as independent as possible. Choice Care Services was added about 1½ years ago to provide in-home care for elderly and/or disabled clients.
Services: In-home care currently is offered; on-site adult day care can be arranged. Work-shops for family caregivers are given periodi-cally and free in-home safety assessments can be scheduled by calling the nearest office.
For more information: Lewiston (208) 798-4595, Moscow (208) 883-5587, Grangeville (208) 983-0309.
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Jolene CavanaughJolene Cavanaugh, 67, of
Lewiston, is the January Se-nior Volunteer of the Month for the WA-ID Volunteer Center.
Volunteer work: She vol-unteers at the WA-ID Volun-teer Center, located in the Lew-iston Community Center, and began her volunteer work in 2010. She first volunteered for the Red Cross and since coming to the WA-ID center has volunteered for Twin County United Way, in the Camelot Ele-mentary School library and a sixth-grade class at McSorley Elementary taught by her daughter.
Career: Cavanaugh retired in 2009 from CNA Surety in Sioux Falls, S.D., where she worked in data entry.
Family: She and her husband, Ray Cavanaugh, moved to Lewiston in July 2009, after they retired, to be near their daughter. She was born in South Dakota and raised in Iowa where she and Ray met during high school. The high-school sweethearts will celebrate 49 years of marriage in 2013 and have two daughters.
Hobbies: Cavanaugh enjoys golf and does some needlework like knitting and crocheting.She told the Tribune she began volunteering because retirement is an adjustment.“I was looking for something to do. It’s an adjustment when you’re used to working eight hours a
day every week and then go to nothing,” said Cavanaugh.When asked her favorite part of volunteering, Cavanaugh replied: “The variety and you have a
tendency to meet people and help people. I like volunteering for the schools. I like working with the kids.”
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This time of year, we almost always consider changes we want to make, both in our lives and in ourselves. Health and fitness are a common theme in these consider-ations.
Many of these plans go awry, but usually not due to a lack of sincerity. Each year, I see people in my office who had excellent in-tentions to make lifestyle changes.
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Carefully consider individual goals for health and fitness. Every-one has different reasons to make improvements in their lifestyle, but often we set nonspecific goals, such as “losing weight” or “exer-cising more.”
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CHICAGO — Shirley Skirvin’s retirement communi-ty has its share of grumblings about aches and pains. But Skirvin, 78, who lives with her husband, Sid, in an inde-
pendent living facility, has found a reliable if unintentional way to coax her neighbors out of their gloom: walking the grounds with her 6-pound toy poodle, Spunky.
“Dogs keep you from being so self-ab-sorbed,” said Skirvin, who brought Spunky
with her when she moved into Village at Skyline in Colorado Springs, Colo., almost three years ago.
“They remind you constantly of other qualities of life,” she said.
As pets prove to lift the spirits and, some research shows, health prospects of elderly people, many senior living facilities are making it a point to incorporate pets into seniors’ lives, either through pet visits, having animals as permanent residents or allowing se-niors to bring their own.
The number of senior living communities that permit resi-dents to bring their pets has increased substantially in the past five to 10 years as more families request it, said Tami Cum-ings, senior vice president at A Place for Mom, the nation’s
largest senior-living referral service.With about 40 percent of adult
children inquiring about pet-friendly homes for their parents, the agency has compiled a guide to pet-friendly senior communities that its advisers use when placing clients. About half of the 18,000 programs in the agen-cy’s network are pet-friendly.
“Many times we talk to families that have had a loss of a spouse, and they say, ‘I can’t take the dog away,’ ” Cumings said. People with allergies or who would prefer not to live among pets still have plenty of pet-free communities to choose from, she noted.
While dogs are most common, many different types of animals bring cheer to senior communities. At Pet Partners, a Bellevue, Wash.-based nonprofit agency that trains and screens volunteers to take their pets on visits to senior centers, hos-pitals and schools, registered ani-mals include birds, llamas, chickens, guinea pigs and miniature horses.
A 2002 study, found having fish tanks in Alzheimer’s units, where patients spent long stretches pacing and suffered weight loss, improved residents’ food intake and encour-aged modest weight gain.
“Nothing holds their attention except fish tanks,” said study author Alan Beck, director of the Center for the Human-Animal Bond at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind. “I think our attraction to nature even survives our dementia.”
Even robotic animals, an alterna-tive in places where having a live animal might be too difficult or risky, can elicit positive responses from the elderly. A Canadian study
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of dementia patients interacting with Paro, a cute robotic baby harp seal, found many showed im-proved mood. Beck is in the midst of a study of how healthy elderly adults interact with a robotic dog called Aibo, and has found they talk to and confi de in it as if it were a live dog — even though it’s hard and looks like a machine.
“You’re already suspending disbelief when you talk to your real dog; you’re just going one step more when you talk to the electronic animal,” Beck said.
The reasons for pets’ palliative powers are varied. Touching, pet-ting, even the way people talk to a pet are calming infl uences (for the pet as well as the human), Beck said. In the case of dogs, people are encouraged to walk. And pets demand attention.
“Pet care is one of the few op-portunities for people to be a nur-turer again,” Beck said.
Research dating back several decades has shown that being around animals reduces blood pressure, improves morale and re-lieves depression. One landmark study, published in 1980, found people who had had heart attacks were more likely to still be alive a year later if they owned pets than if they didn’t. Another, published in 1990, found elderly Medicare enrollees who owned dogs went to the doctor less often than those who did not, and were less likely to reach out to a doctor after a stressful life event.
Pets can provide comfort and companionship to a population at high risk of social deprivation, sometimes more than people can. In a 2006 study, geriatricians from Saint Louis University found nurs-ing home residents who scored high on a loneliness scale felt less lonely when they spent one-on-one time with a visiting dog than if they visited with the dog and their peers.
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ATLANTA - There’s no reason to believe Francie Mooney hasn’t got a lot more living to do.
And yet for the last year, she and her 87-year-old mother, Lucy Lynch, have been busy preparing for death, convinced the best way to leave behind a coherent, meaning-ful and complete summary of their lives is to write it themselves.
In doing so, they are among a growing number of people across the globe who are penning their own obituaries.
Mooney, 62, of Riverdale, bought the “ObitKit: A Guide to Celebrat-ing Life” shortly after her husband’s death in 2008 for herself, and doz-ens of family members and friends.
“You drive through the cemetery and all you see on tombstones is the person’s name, their birthday and date they died,” Mooney said. “The ObitKit forces you to go beyond
that and to be a bit more refl ective.” Pre-written obits can be a way for people to spare family members from having “to burden themselves with making decisions when they’re heartbroken,” said Susan Soper, a former Atlanta Journal-Constitution editor who created the “ObitKit.” Soper said the “ObitKit” is really meant to be a parting gift to friends and family so they won’t have to make decisions at a time of sadness and sometimes shock.
“It’s the gift of peace of mind that they are carrying out your last wishes,” she said.
Lori Brown, an associate profes-sor of sociology at Meredith Col-lege in Raleigh, N.C., said the trend is a fairly recent phenomenon.
“Rules or what we call norms about etiquette and appearing to be self-promoting probably pre-vented this in the past,” she said. “But the Internet and social media are all about self-promotion and my guess is that this is connected to that trend.” Perhaps more important
than anything is the desire to fi ll in the blank between the year someone was born and the day they died.
That is what inspired Soper to write the “ObitKit” and help David McConkey of Canada launch his website, obituaryguide.com.
McConkey said the site is a re-source for people who recognize the importance of planning and want to write their own obit. More than 1 million people have visited the site since its launch fi ve years ago.
“The rich and famous get obits written by professionals,” she said, “but most of us who need to write an obituary for a family member don’t know how.” Soper says when her grandmother died in 1983, she left a folder of instructions.
“It was just incredibly help-ful,” she said, “but it didn’t dawn
on me how much until my father died unexpectedly.” As she and her siblings tried to piece together his life, they discovered they had few details.
That was in 1996. In 2004, Soper began culling together the “ObitKit” and has sold some 4,000 copies since it was published in 2009. The workbook was recently featured on the AARP website and is available at www.obitkit.com.
“It’s a guide,” Soper said. “It in-cludes tips for planning the memo-rial service, conveying sympathy and keeping the spirit of the de-ceased alive.” An obituary, Brown said, is one of those last platforms to tell your story and writing your own means you get to control how others view you.
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By ANDREA K. WALKERTHE BALTIMORE SUN
BALTIMORE — Sometimes it’s easy for Vincent Vono to feel down about having to live with Parkin-son’s disease.
The disease has snatched his in-dependence and sense of a normal life. The 76-year-old stopped driving last year as his motor skills slowed. He doesn’t cook much because it is too exhausting to clean up afterward.
Even a short walk across his tiny apartment is a task some days.
But for all the disease has taken away from Vono, it has fostered and strengthened a love for art that fi rst developed when he was a boy.
Painting is the one thing that still comes easily to Vono. When he sets his easel up in his living room, Vono can paint for hours. As he paints portraits of his grandchildren or of the madonna and child, his tremors subside and for a moment he forgets he is sick.
“It fi lls the gap,” he said. “It erases all of the garbage out of my head.”
As in all Parkinson’s patients,
Vono’s brain no longer ef-fectively produces the chemi-cal dopamine, which helps control muscle movement. Without dopamine, his brain
cannot send messages to his arms, hands, legs or feet.
Sometimes his body seems to have a mind of its own. His hands or feet will move in some direction he doesn’t intend. Then there are the tremors. They change in intensity depending on his mood — growing stronger when he’s anxious, angry or excited.
“It knows my emotions,” he said.Vono started to detect something
was wrong in 2007. He had just moved to Maryland to be close to his son. He was still mourning the death of his wife, whose life was
taken by a brain tumor the year be-fore.
The tremors started gradually on the left side of his body. As he drove, his hand would shake. He’d hold his hand very tight and still to make it stop. Then his foot would “start doing a dance,” he said.
When the doctor arrived at the Parkinson’s diagnosis, Vono was scared, confused and angry all at the same time.
His functions have deteriorated since the initial diagnosis. While medication to replace his body’s dopamine helps with some of the symptoms, nothing can ultimately stop the disease from taking over his body.
A couple of years ago, Vono reached a point where he couldn’t care for himself. He wasn’t taking his medicine regularly or eating healthy. He moved into the Four Seasons assisted-living home in Bel Air, Md.
Looking to achieve some nor-mality in his life, Vono set up his easel on the balcony. He would sit outside for hours painting land-scapes or pieces with science-fi ction themes, such as tablecloths fl oating in the air.
The owner of the Four Seasons, Roger Stanley, immediately noticed his new resident’s talents. He dis-played Vono’s work in a common area of the home.
Stanley also saw how painting helped Vono deal with his illness.
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