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GOLDENTIMESA monthly magazine for the region’s retirees by Target Publications
May 6, 2013 / Vol. 23, No. 5
ThriftyVolunteerAnn Bos has been a member
of the Syringa Hospital Auxiliary for 40 years and helped get its thrift store off the ground / Page 10
INSIDE Senior lunch menus— Page 3
Senior Talk
— Page 17
HouseCall
— Page 13
Volunteer of the Month
— Page 14
G O L D E N T I M E S M O N D A Y, M A Y 6 , 2 0 1 32
EDITOR: Mary TatkoCOORDINATOR: Peggy Hayden
Golden Times is inserted in the Tribunethe first Monday of every month.
On the cover: Ann Bos of Grangeville spends each Monday sorting and pricing items for the Syringa Hospital Auxiliary
Thrift Shop.Photo by: Barry Kough of the Tribune
Golden TimesP.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501
(208) 848-2243
To advertise: contact your Tribuneadvertising sales representative at
(208) 848-2292.
GOLDENTIMESINDEX:
Social Security Q&A ................... Page 4
Briefs .......................................... Page 5
Birthdays .................................... Page 6
Poetry keeps love alive ............... Page 7
Reader poetry .............................. Page 8
Volunteer opportunities ............... Page 9
Crossword solution .....................Page 12
Centarian party ...........................Page 15
Word scramble ............................Page 16
Sudoku solution ..........................Page 16
Sudoku ........................................Page 18
Crossword ...................................Page 19
Thought for the month
“The heart of a mother is a deep abyss at the bottom of which you will always fi nd forgive-ness.”
— Honor de Balzac
WHO AM I?My birthday is May 6, 1915.I became famous in 1938 for a radio broadcast that was thought to be a live news broadcast, causing mass panic.I was married four times and was a longtime companion to Oja Kodar.
Answer on Page 12
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J-K Senior Mealsserves meals at noon Wednesdays and Fridays 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. Suggested dona-tion 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 nonse-niors. Salad bar is available at 11:30 a.m. Soup is served year-round and a dessert bar is available at each service.
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 non-seniors.
MoNday TueSday wedNeSday ThuRSday fRiday7 Sweet and sour chicken/rice/Oriental-blend vegetables/biscuit/fruit
9 Barbecue beef/pork sandwich/french fries/green beans/apple crisp
10 Salad bar deluxe/fruit
14 German sausage/ sauerkraut/scalloped pota-toes/peas and carrots/fruit
16 Stuffed-baked potato/beef gravy/mixed veg-etables/peaches
17 Salad bar deluxe/fruit
21 Biscuits/sausage gravy/spinach/beets/fruit juice/mandarin oranges
23 Breaded-baked fish/tater tots/carrots/apple-sauce/cookie
24 Salad bar deluxe/fruit
28 Pork roast/mashed po-tatoes/gravy/lima beans/roll/fruit juice/cake/ice cream
30 Hamburger/lettuce/onion/tomato/pork and beans/fruit/Jell-O
6 Barbecue-country ribs/oven-fried potatoes/green beans/salad/roll/cookie
7 Turkey/mashed potatoes/gravy/carrots/Jell-O salad/roll
8 Lasagna/peas/ cucumber salad/French bread/dessert
13 Hamburger/potato salad/baked beans/peas/cookie
14 Chicken/broccoli casserole/carrots/salad/biscuit
15 Pork tenderloin
20 Meatloaf/mashed potatoes/gravy/salad/corn/biscuit
21 Baked ham/scalloped potatoes/carrots/apple-sauce/cornbread/fruit
22 Roast beef/mashed potatoes/gravy/Jell-O salad/green beans/roll/dessert
27 closed for memorial day
28 Chicken-fried steak/mashed potatoes/gravy/green beans/salad/biscuit
29 Roast pork/potato/ gravy/carrots/tomato salad/roll/dessert
14 Chicken a la king/rice/biscuits/vegetable
9 Meat or cheese lasa-gna rolls/garlic bread/ vegetable
16 Fish and chips/ vegetable
21 Beef stew/buttered noodles/vegetable
23 Country-fried steak/potatoes/vegetable
28 Tuna loaf/pasta/ vegetable
30 Stuffed pork loin/pota-toes/vegetable
8 Tuna tetrazini/green beans/salad/vanilla pud-ding/oranges
10 Beef stew/coleslaw/rolls/fruit/dessert
15 Sandwich bar: turkey, ham, chicken/macaroni salad/lemon Jell-O with fruit
17 German sausage/red potatoes/sauerkraut/fruit/dessert
22 Chicken tahitian/rice/fruit salad/dessert
24 Chili con carne/ cornbread/salad/ applesauce/dessert
29 Barbecue chicken/potato salad/baked beans/fruit/cake
7 Chicken burger/french fries/vegetable
31 Salad bar deluxe/fruit
31 Beef stroganoff/noo-dles/cauliflower/pea and parmesan salad/fruit/dessert
Senior nutrition menuS for may
MCCLATCHYTRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
Q: I understand that to get Social Security disability benefi ts, my disability must be expected to last at least a year. Do I have to wait a year before I can apply for benefi ts?
A: No. If you believe your disability will last a year or longer, apply for disability benefi ts as soon as you become disabled. It can take three to four months to pro-cess an application. If your application is approved, we will pay your fi rst Social Security disability benefi ts for the sixth full month after the date your disability began. For more information about Social Security disability benefi ts, refer to Disability Benefi ts (publication No. 05-10029) at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10029.html.
———Q: What are the rules for getting Supplemental Secu-
rity Income (SSI)? I’m thinking about applying.A: To be eligible to receive SSI benefi ts, you must
be disabled, blind, or age 65 or older. You also must have limited income and resources. Income is defi ned as wages, Social Security benefi ts and pensions. Income also includes food and shelter you receive from others. Social Security does not count all of your income when deciding whether you qualify for SSI. Resources include bank accounts, cash, stocks and bonds. You may be able to get SSI if your resources are worth no more than $2,000 ($3,000 for a couple). Learn more by reading our publication, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/11000.html.
———Q: I have an appointment to apply for Supplemental
Security Income (SSI). What kind of information will I need to take with me?
A: So the application process can go smoothly, you should bring: Your Social Security number; your origi-nal birth certifi cate or other proof of your age; informa-tion about the home where you live, such as your mort-gage or your lease and landlord’s name; payroll slips, bank balances, insurance policies, burial fund records, and other information about your income and the things you own; proof of U.S. citizenship or eligible noncitizen status; and if you are applying for SSI because you are disabled or blind, the names, addresses and telephone numbers of doctors, hospitals and clinics where you have saught treatment for the debilitating condition.
Learn more by reading our publication, You May Be Able To Get Supplemental Security Income (SSI) at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/11069.html.
———Q: What is the “Part B” Medicare month-
ly premium for 2013?A: Most people will pay the standard Part
B premium of $104.90 each month in 2013. If your modifi ed adjusted gross income on your IRS tax return from two years ago (the most recent tax return information provided to Social Security by the IRS) is above a certain amount, you may need to pay more.
Only about 10 percent of Medicare benefi ciaries, those with very high income, are required to pay a monthly premium greater than $104.90. For more information, visit www.socialsecurity.gov and select the “Medicare” tab.
———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 police department where the identity theft took place, and keep a copy of the police report as proof of the crime; notify the Federal Trade Commission (877) ID-THEFT or ([877] 438-4338) www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft; fi le a complaint with the Internet Crime Complaint Center at www.ic3.gov; contact the fraud units of the three ma-jor credit reporting bureaus: Equifax (800) 525-6285, www.equifax.com; Trans Union (800) 680-7289, www.transunion.com; and Experian (888) 397-3742, www.experian.com.
If your Social Security card has been stolen, you can apply for a replacement card. But you usually don’t need a new card as long as you know your number.
To protect yourself in the future, treat your Social Se-curity number as confi dential and avoid giving it out. Keep your Social Security card in a safe place with your other important papers. Do not carry it with you. Learn more by reading our publication: Identity Theft And Your Social Security Number, at www.socialsecurity.gov/pubs/10064.html.
This column was prepared by the Social Security Administration. For fast answers to specific Social Security questions, contact Social Security toll-free at (800) 772-1213.
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Social Security
Q & A
Find Golden Timesonline at
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Did you know:
George Washington was the only presi-dent to receive all electoral college votes twice, in the 1788 and 1792 elec-tions.
GoldentimesA monthly magazine for the region’s retirees by Target Publications
May 6, 2013 / Vol. 23, No. 5
ThriftyVolunteerAnn Bos has been a member
of the Syringa Hospital Auxiliary for 40 years and helped get its thrift store off the ground / Page 10
INSIDE Senior lunch menus— Page 3
SeniorTalk
— Page 17
HouseCall
— Page 13
Volunteer of the Month
— Page 14
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Last meeting until fall for Sons of Norway
The Elvedalen Lodge No. 129 will have its last meeting May 18, before taking a break for the sum-mer.
The meeting will be at noon at the Pautler Senior Center, 549 Fifth St., Clarkston. There will be a potluck followed by a business meeting.
More information about the group is available by calling (208) 798-8617 or (208) 743-2626. All meetings are open to visitors.
Area man raises money for charity
KAMIAH — Sonny Nummi lifted more than 1 million pounds on his 72nd birthday for diabetes research.
An event was held at Valley Fit-ness, here, to raise money for the Idaho Diabetes Youth Program. Nummi lifted weights for more than fi ve hours and completed 10,566 repetitions. He raised $2,725 during the event and in the days following.
Contributions to his cause can still be mailed to the Idaho Diabetes Youth Programs, 1701 N. 12th St., Boise, ID 83702.Senior meal site to hold fundraiser
A craft and bake sale will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Friday at the Pautler Senior Center in Clarkston.
Funds will benefi t the Senior Roundtable lunches served at the center on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays each week.
The Pautler Senior Center board will meet at 9 a.m. Wednesday at the center.
Individuals looking for a pinoch-le game can join the twice-weekly game at Pautler. Games are from 12:45 to 3 p.m. on Tuesdays and Fridays. Bridge is also played at the center from 1 to 4 p.m. on Thurs-days.
A senior fi tness class is held from 10:15 to 11:15 a.m. each Tuesday and Thursday, also each Thursday blood pressure checks are done for free at 11:30 a.m.
Anyone needing foot care can
call (509) 758-2355 to make an appointment for the foot-care clin-ics held at Pautler Senior Center on Mondays and Wednesdays.Mother’s Day dinner to be held
The Sixth Street Senior Center in Clarkston will have a Mother’s Day dinner at 1 p.m. Sunday. Cost is $5 per person.
A pancake feed will be at noon Wednesday. The center’s annual picnic will take place at noon May 15 at the center. Cost for each meal is $4 per person. The month-ly potluck with meat furnished by Emeritus Juniper Meadows will be May 22.
Today is center cleaning day at 1 p.m. Pinochle is played each Thursday at 1 p.m. at the center.
Twice-weekly dances are from 7 to 10 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday with live music. Cost for dances is $4 per person.
The center’s board will meet at 9 a.m. May 21.
The Sixth Street Senior Center singers will perform at 10:30 a.m.
today at the Idaho State Veterans Home; at 2:30 p.m. next Monday at Evergreen Estates; at 2:30 p.m. May 20 at Prestige Care and Reha-bilitation Center in Clarkston; and at 10:45 a.m. May 17 at Kindred Transitional Care and Rehabilita-tion Center in Lewiston.Drivers safety classes being offered
There are three drivers safety classes being offered in the area this month.
Orofi no — from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. TODAY at the Best Western.
Moscow — from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. May 13-14 at Gritman Medi-cal Center.
Riggins — from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. May 18 at the Salmon River Heritage Center.
To register for the Orofi no and Riggins classes call Kathleen Gaines at (208) 816-3450. Regis-tration for the Moscow class can be completed by calling Dick Bull (208) 882-2420.
The cost for each class is $12 for AARP members and $14 for nonmembers. The classes are de-signed for those age 50 and older but are open to all ages and may result in a point reduction on driv-ers licenses and/or insurance dis-counts.
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BRIEFSGroups and organizations can submit informa-tion, pertaining to seniors in the region, to be published in Golden Times monthly magazine. All submissions are subject to space availability and editing.Submissions should be emailed to:[email protected] mailed to:Target PublicationsP.O. Box 957Lewiston, ID 83501Information for June’s issue must be recieved by May 20 to be considered.Questions about submitting information can be sent via email or by calling (208) 848-2243.
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Hughes of Clarkston will turn 83 Wednesday.
She was born May 8, 1930, and has lived in Asotin County and Lewiston all of her life.
She retired from ATK, at age 62, after more than 20 years of working there.
She has five children.Her hobbies include rais-
ing chickens and she has some lay-ing hens as well as some exotic variet-ies. She also enjoys growing an array of beautiful flowers every year, and has a garden and fruit orchard as well. She always sends guests
away with something she has just picked. During the winter months, she enjoys crocheting and doing word searches.
Mark BurnaMMark Wayne Burnam of Clarkston
celebrated his 89th birthday yes-terday.
He was born May 5, 1924, in a log cabin at Viola.
Shortly after he started school in Colfax the family moved to Lewiston where he attended St. Stanislaus and Lewiston High School.
He grew up during an era when horses were widely used and developed a great love for them. As a teenager he worked on farms. He joined the U.S. Army in February 1943. He was sent to Europe in December 1944, where he was assigned to General Patton’s 3rd Army. He obtained the rank of staff sergeant, and saw action during
the Battle of the Bulge and across the Siegfried Line into Germany. He received the Purple Heart.
Upon returning home he worked for the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and the Idaho Department of Transportation.
He and Georgia Burril were mar-ried June 9, 1949.
He worked at the Texaco bulk plant in Lewiston and then worked
in the lumber industry until 1986. In retire-ment, he drove bus for Lewis-Clark Head Start.
His hobbies have always included horses and cattle. He was involved in rodeo most of his life.
He has five children, seven grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
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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].
June birthdays must be received by 5 p.m. May 20.
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PHILADELPHIA — Carleen Hamilton wrote the fi rst poem on a napkin, sitting in a coffee shop in Bermuda, on their honeymoon, Oct. 29, 1974.
Oh, how I gloweand grewto inconceivable brilliance in his
loving fi re.And we were called Sun and
Moon.Complete life.Virtually every workday for the
next 29 years, she wrote a poem on a napkin and packed it in her hus-band’s lunch.
And George Hamilton, director of the Fels Planetarium at the Franklin Institute, inspired by his new wife, her poetry, her devotion and his own happiness, returned the kindness.
Every morning, perhaps when she was fi xing his lunch, he wrote his own poem and taped it to the mirror in the master bath.
Four children grew up in that Cherry Hill, N.J., house, and knew, vaguely, that this was going on. But they never knew the extent.
Until last month.George died in July at 87. Carleen,
77, suffers from advanced Alzheim-er’s and was moved into assisted liv-ing in September.
A son, Brandon Hamilton, was cleaning out the house, getting it ready for an estate sale April 10, when he found 16 binders of nap-kins, saved by his father, stored in boxes in the back of his workbench area.
Then he discovered three much thicker binders of poems, saved by his mother, stacked on a closet shelf in a spare bedroom.
“I fi nd what they did so incred-ible,” said Brandon, 45, who lives in Haddon Township, N.J. “Not only the discipline of doing it every day, but the closeness that they had in their marriage because of sharing your innermost feelings every day. That fi re that you have on your hon-eymoon, they kept it alive.”
In the summer of 1974, George Hamilton had just buried his fi rst wife, who died from cancer after years of suffering. A mutual friend
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MAY 14
THELMA GEISThelma Geis of Lewiston
will be honored with cake and ice cream from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday in the private dining room at Life Care Center of Lewiston. The occasion is her 90th birthday.
She was born May 14, 1923, at Grangeville. Her parents were Ida and Henry Price. She grew up on the Camas Prairie and Joseph Plains.
She married John Geis and they lived in Lewiston.
She worked as a waitress, telephone operator and as a school cook assistant for many years.
She has three children, six grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren.
She and her husband were married for more than 55 years when he died in 2001.
She is a member of the Orchards United Methodist Church.
Her hobby is listening to books on tape.
Life Care Center of Lewiston is located at 325 Warner Drive.
MAY 27
DOROTHY MEDALENDorothy Medalen of Orofi no
will celebrate her 85th birth-day May 27.
She was born to Jess and Hazel Thornton in 1928 at Leland.
She and Al Medalen were married in 1949. The couple moved to Orofi no in 1955.
The couple have two chil-dren, six grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
Her hobbies include play-ing pinochle and spending time with her grandchildren.
The Trib.Have coffee with us.
Neither death nor Alzheimer’s can dim the passion of 29 years of love poems
Brandon Hamil-ton sits with his mother, Carleen
Hamilton, at Spring Hills As-sisted Living in
Cherry Hill, N.J., looking at poetry
she and his dad had exchanged.
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See LOVE POEMS, page 20
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LifeHere we are getting older
all the time, one day turns into another,
be ever so kind to your brother. Mankind if you will.
You find them to be like no other.
Speak ever so kindly with sweet words of wisdom.
Some sweet smile
will come like no other. You have touched
the heart of your brother, they too will find a way to smile
and be happy for a while, be happy, laugh and joke!
It’s your life, be happy among the strife,
we are only here for a little while. Be happy with your life!
There is a reason why we are here
and it’s our perfect season of life!Yvonne Carrie, 69, Lewiston
The DilemmaGrandpa says he lived through times so awful
it’s a wonder decent folks managed to survive.
Can you figure drinking being ruled unlawful?
Or whole families without a new car to drive?
His was dawn to dusk. Mine is nine to five.
Could we moderns survive no indoor plumbing,
people groping about, with candles for the pot?
Or pulling teeth without proper numbing?
Without our TV, entire evening would be shot.He recalls with great affection
times I would not. Now it’s nicely, nicely —
all hardships erased for us, it’s finding undemanding work
that really pays. It’s a norm of spoiled and lazy
— nothing to bore us. So, you see, grandpa and I
see life in different ways. It will not be me calling these
the good old days.Dan J. Williams, 82, Lewiston
Treasured MomentsFor years she’s graced your pages.Penned rhymes for all the ages.
Loving family and life.Never dwelling on her strife.Tenderness which never fails.Underneath she’s tough as nails.
Thoughts of kindness always pure.
Poetry and hope endure.Safely-traveled ways of days.Always music to be praised.
Dana Magnuson, 66, Kendrick
The CrossMiss the cross that shone
on the hill. But it’s in my heart that is beating still.
Quite a wonder at my age. To enjoy life’s blessings with thoughts so sage.
So, I’ll say thanks for the workers time. Took lots of effort,
but you all were so kind.Beverley Swanson, 88, Lewiston
A Mother’s LoveLife is full
of many responsibilities, and mothers in particular know the importance of their calling …
Creating life means so much to them
~ The greatest blessing … With open arms,
they are always there to soothe a baby’s tears …
A mother’s love for her children grows stronger every year …
Her thoughts are always toward others
~ She loves so very much …Brings joy to her heart
when they stay in touch …Our children grow up
and have babies of their own …And through the miles,
we all are connected in spirit through phone calls, letters
and poems … Memories we hold dear
to our heart ~ Until we all meet again
Rebecca Whited, 67, Clarkston
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READER POETRY
Golden Times prints original short poetry from seniors on a space-available basis. Submissions must include the name, age, address and phone number to be considered
for publication. Send poetry
submissions to: Golden Times, P.O. Box 957, Lewiston, ID 83501;Deadline for poetry to be included in June’s
edition is May 20.
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Center is looking for volunteers to keep coffee made, wipe down counters and keep the senior lounge picked up from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. weekdays. Idaho Legal Aid is look-
ing for a few good volunteers to help in the offi ce with reception duties. Offi ce attire and a pro-fessional demeanor are needed, as well as the ability to answer phones effi ciently. Confi dential-ity is mandatory. Community Action food
bank is in need of a volunteer driver to be a backup on regular routes as well as a helper to ride
with a driver on Fridays. Both positions require the ability to do some lifting. There is also a need for a volunteer at the front coun-ter. This position does require some computer skills. There is an immediate need
for meal delivery drivers for the Senior Nutrition Program and the Valley Meals-On-Wheels in Lew-iston, as well as the Senior Round Table senior meal program in Asotin County. Individuals must be able to commit to one day per week. Volunteers must have a valid license, insurance and per-sonal vehicle. New volunteers are partnered with current drivers to learn routes. Some of these pro-grams offer mileage reimburse-ment and a meal. The National Guard is in
need of a civilian volunteer to lead and build up the youth pro-gram. Qualifi cations include event planning, organizational skills, and the ability to commu-nicate and work with children.
For more information on any of these or other volunteer oppor-tunities offered through the WA-ID Volunteer Center call Cathy Robinson at (208) 746-7787.
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a variety of volunteer projects, including: installation of grab bars in bathrooms, gutter clean-ing and minor roof repairs. Vol-unteers must use their own tools. Materials are provided by Inter-link. Volunteers with some car-
pentry skills are needed to help build entry steps and wheelchair ramps, and construct and place outdoor handrails. Volunteers must have their own tools, but materials are provided by Inter-link. Volunteers are needed to
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grangeVille — ann bos, 89, gets up and goes to work every Monday morning, volunteering at the syringa Hospital auxiliary Thrift shop.
bos, who has been an auxiliary volunteer for de-cades, was born in grangeville, though not at syringa Hospital.
“it was a midwife in a little house close to Main street,” she said about her birth.
she and her sister, rosella DeHaas, 81, of green-creek, have volunteered at the thrift shop since it opened 11 years ago.
each Monday, the sisters price clothing at adjoin-ing tables in a back room of the shop, while other volunteers sort and clean donations and put priced items out for sale.
“it’s really quite organized,” bos said.she and DeHaas are customers sometimes, too.“For every 25 hours that we work, we get a $10 gift
certificate to be used in the store,” DeHaas said.“in fact, last week i got some things,” bos added.
“i looked at them, and i thought, ‘looks pretty good
— i’ll just trade some of mine in and these will be better.’ ”
she figures that’s one of the reasons for the store’s suc-cess — a generous amount of inventory means shoppers can find almost anything there, something bos has experienced herself many times.
When she found herself needing a jacket during a trip to Michigan, she settled for some-thing she didn’t really like after looking at several stores.
“Then i came back, and i went to work and i bought my jacket — and i’m wearing it to-day,” she said. “i found just the right jacket. it’s kind of strange, because they should have had it there, but all the stores we went to just didn’t have what i wanted.”
she’s not the only one who has discovered trea-sures at the shop.
“i have a waiting line every morning the store is
open,” director of volunteer services and shop man-ager, lori rad said.
Donations from residents of grangeville and sur-rounding towns keep the shelves full. inventory is organized by department, including men’s, women’s, maternity, children’s, electronics and books.
“There’s two more thrift stores in grangeville now and one in Fenn,” DeHass said. “We have a little competition, but it doesn’t seem like it hurts us any. We just wonder where in the world it (donations) all comes from every time. We’re just amazed that it keeps coming.”
The thrift store’s success is satisfying for the volunteers and a boon for the community, she said, because it helps the auxiliary in its mission to sup-port syringa Hospital.
“We’ve bought equipment for the hospital and just various things,” DeHaas said.
she and bos have lived on the camas Prairie all their lives, growing up on a farm just outside of grangeville with seven brothers.
“i lived on a farm ’til i was married and then i lived in town here,” bos said. “My husband (ralph bos, now deceased) was mayor for many years and he also
worked at gortsema Motors as a radiator repair man.”
she and ralph were married in 1949 and a few years later moved to the home where she lives now.
They reared four children, a son and three daughters. The oldest three live with their families in Michigan, where they settled after attending college. Her youngest daughter lives in grangeville where she works at the idaho Forest group mill.
all four children attended a christian college in Michigan, a choice the family felt strongly about but it wasn’t easy on bos at the time.
“i’ll never forget putting him on the train in spokane, going to Michigan when he hadn’t really been anywhere,” bos said about her oldest’s departure. “it was awful.”
bos has 14 grandchildren and several great-grandchildren, many
Grangeville senior is still volunteering at the Syringa thrift store as she closes in on 90
Thrifty senior lends a hand to hospital auxiliary
Ann Bos (right), 89, and her 81-year-old sister, Rosella DeHaas, work to-gether sorting and pricing clothing items donated to the Syringa Hospital Auxil-iary Thrift Shop in Grangeville.Tribune/Barry Kough
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of them far away and a few closer to home.“You don’t like to see them move away, but that’s
what you want for them,” she said.Bos has seen many changes in the little town
through the years.“All for the better,” she said. “But they’re hard to
come by, a lot of times. Even like the thrift store, you know, it takes a lot of planning and a lot of work — and so many people working on it, different ideas.”
Starting a thrift store was something the auxiliary talked about for years before it became a reality, she said.
“I was with it all the way through.”Bos recalled a group of people from a thrift store
in McCall visiting with the auxiliary members about what it would take to get started.
“That really was a big help,” she said.Once it got running, the thrift store expanded the
auxiliary’s fundraising capabilities.“We always had rummage sales before that,” Bos
said. “Now we could hold all our rummage and put it in the store.”
Bos’ service with the auxiliary started long before the thrift store project, though.
For about 40 years, she has made bibs and “bur-pees” — oblong burp cloths — for the auxiliary to give to babies born at Syringa Hospital.
“I know I’ve made over 2,300,” she said as she looked through stacks of bright-colored bibs and burpees in her living room.
She has converted a guest bedroom into a sewing room, where two sewing machines are at the ready, and the closet is filled with fabric and other neatly or-
ganized supplies. It’s a special room, she said, where she has made countless items and taught her grand-daughters how to sew.
“I can sit in my chair and do the hand sewing, and then I go back and do the machine sewing,” she said. “I enjoy doing it, but my eyes are not quite so good as they should be, so I can’t just do it whenever I want. I need good light.”
Though her vision isn’t as sharp as it once was, Bos enjoys an active life as she looks to her 90th birthday on May 14.
“I’m really thankful for that, that I am in good health,” she said. “That I can do my work. I do the yard — all but the mowing — and I’ve been working around the house and doing pretty good.”
Most days, weather permitting, Bos goes for a walk around her neighborhood, several blocks in each direction, making a loop past the hospital and back home.
She keeps moving, she said, to keep the
effects of age at bay.“If you just sit down, it’s gonna get ya,” she said.She’s not the only senior staying young by keeping
busy. According to Rad, most of the 70 or so volun-teers who work at the thrift store are seniors.
Though the store is open just three days a week, volunteers work there Monday through Saturday, Rad said. Bos works every Monday.
Bos and DeHaas aren’t sure whether the next gen-eration will be able to give of their time the way they have.
“I don’t know,” DeHaas said. “In the first place, they may have to work longer, some of them, and most of that generation is working. I sometimes think what’s going to happen when we all give out.”
“A lot of the younger ones are working,” Bos agreed. “So it’s hard to say.”
Tatko can be reached at [email protected] or (208) 848-2244.
The Syringa Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Shop in Grangeville is open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday
ABOVE: Just a handful of the more than 2,300 bibs Ann Bos has sewn. LEFT: Bos spends time at home sewing bibs and “burpees” for babies born at Syringa Hospital in Grangeville.
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History and fi ction are replete with mention of the Black Death. It was an immense event, but we don’t hear much about it now.
In the sixth and 16th centuries, the plague killed one-third of the population. The Justinian plague, during the sixth century, began in Con-stantinople ravaging the eastern Roman empire of Byzantium.
It has been said the devastation was suffi cient to prevent the reconquest of the Goths in Italy and perhaps weakened the resistance against the Arabs.
The Middle Ages essentially ended as the massive deaths of peasants led to crowds of serfs presenting themselves to the lords of the castle demanding wages.
Prayers didn’t seem to get answered, weakening the faith in the church and leading to the Renaissance.
The disease probably came from southeast Russia where it lived in mar-mot fl eas. When it infected the fl eas of rats, it was transported on grain ships to ports on the Mediterranean. It is eas-ily recognized because of the painful swellings in the axilla, groin and neck (called buboes, hence bubonic plague). Boccaccio describes the appearance in the city with thousands of deaths in hours from hemorrhagic sputum, necrosis of extremities, delirium and pneumonia.
The bacterium Pasturella (Yersinia) Pestis was isolated in the third pan-demic of China during the 19th century. It was recognized that the disease
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Reams of print have favored other causes of the Black Death, such as a virus. Modern infection with Yersinia (plague bacillus) is capable of only an 8 percent death rate as opposed to 50 percent. The rapid spread from the boot of Italy to Rome in one day is diffi cult to explain — as not too many rats travel on ox carts. The plague returned every year for decades, with no explanation and not respecting rich or poor. Recently, plague pits have been excavated, Yersinia isolated are a different genus and are demonstrated to be more virulent and are now extinct.
In the present day, there are small isolated cases in Africa and southeast Russia. The organism resides in chipmunks in the Western U.S., including in Washing-ton. These rodents are not near population centers so exposure to rats is unusual. There are rare cases of the disease reported in the U.S.
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Volunteer work: She has been active with the America Reads program
for about 10 years. For the program she helps first and second graders at Webster El-ementary School one morn-ing a week, and first through third graders at McSorely El-
ementary School one day a week. She also delivers meals for the Meals-On-Wheels program two to three times per week. Duncan estimates that she volunteers between 24 and 30 hours per week. She has also volunteered for the CASA program in years past and has been a member of the Lewis-ton Library board as well as its foun-dation. Duncan is still active with
Friends of the Library. At one time she was also very active with the Palouse Discovery Science Center.
Career: Duncan is a retired elemen-tary school teacher, and worked with the gifted and talented program at Lewiston. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Uni-versity of Idaho, and began her teach-ing career in Moscow. After five years, Duncan went to work for the Lewiston School District, where she spent 27 years, before retiring in 2000. After she “retired” she worked part-time for the Clarkston School District for three years, then was a substitute teacher for Lewiston and Clarkston for another three years before she stopped teach-ing. In 1992, Duncan was named Idaho Teacher of the Year and as a reward got to go to the International Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., where she received numerous science-related teaching materials to use in her classroom.
Family: She was born and raised in Peoria, Ill. Her maternal grandparents lived in Mos-cow and she had visited them through the years, which is
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Hobbies: Duncan enjoys outdoor activities such as walking and fishing. She and her husband spend time fish-ing in Elk River and on the North Fork of the Clearwater. Duncan also does water aerobics and enjoys reading.
Duncan told the Tribune when she was teacher of the year she was sent, with other recipients of the award, to space camp for a week.
“We got to do exactly what the kids do, it was awesome. And I got to bring back a ton of materials. That’s where I got my real interest in science.”
When asked what her favorite part of volunteering is, Duncan said she likes the people.
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A New Jersey nursing and re-habilitation company wants to set the Guinness World Record for the largest gathering of people age 100 and older. The event is scheduled for May 19 at the Regency Heritage Nursing and Rehabilitation in Som-erset, N.J.
The centenarian record is 28, which occurred at a Sept. 25, 2009, tea party in Leigh-on-Sea, England, organized by a member of Parlia-ment.
Marie Barnes, marketing director of Regency Nursing and Rehabili-tation Centers, which also has fa-cilities in Wayne, Dover and Hazlet, hopes to round up at least 50 cen-tenarians and their family members for the luncheon celebration. She’s spreading word to county offices on aging, and other nursing and retire-ment centers. But Guinness has im-posed two requirements: The cen-tenarian must produce an official birth certificate (a copy will do) and sit for a 10-minute group portrait.
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The 2010 census counted 53,364 centenarians in the U.S. and 1,769 in New Jersey. Those figures are most certainly higher now, as cente-narians are the fastest-growing age group.
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Since turning 100, Sister Vic-tor has received an annual birthday medal from the president of her na-tive Ireland.
“She is not afraid to die,” Molloy said. “She lives for the day.”
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She isn’t. Adele Dunlap is more than a year older.
The Hunterdon County Demo-crat reported that the Newark-born Dunlap celebrated her 110th birth-day Dec. 12 at the Country Arch Care Center in Pittstown, N.J.
“When I was a kid, I used to joke that I was going to live forever,” Dunlap told the newspaper.
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On this particular trip there were a handful of women on the bus when it arrived in Moscow, where I met them. I paired up with Kitty Martinez and we set out to do her shopping.
She said this is only the second time she has come on one of the trips to the mall, but she has taken some of the other day trips with the group.
She told me how she had given up driving and now spends most of her days visiting her husband at Avalon Care Center in Moscow. She goes there every day but Sunday, she said, and today she decided to take off to go shopping.
“My son insists I get out of the house but the only thing I will not do is go overnight,” Kitty said.
Her son and daughter-in-law work at Washington State University and they are very busy, she said, so she hadn’t had a lot of opportunities to go to the mall.
Kitty told me about some of her more successful shopping trips in San Diego where she and her husband lived for most of their married life. She was born and raised in Germany, and met her husband when he was stationed there while serving in the U.S. Air Force.
She told me how she and a friend used to go shoe shop-ping once a year in Pasadena, Calif. She said one time she came home with bags of shoes, about 15 pairs. The thought of a shoe-shopping trip like that sounds like a wonderful dream to me — I have a strong love for both shopping and shoes.
The couple moved to Pullman to be close to their son and daughter-in-law. At first, she told me, when her husband brought up moving to Pullman she thought he was crazy — she couldn’t imagine giving up their home in sunny California to move to Washington. But now that her husband is sick she is glad they made the move.
I could tell Kitty is a woman after my own heart and enjoys shopping — especially when she gets a good deal. For me, it’s like hunting. When I shop, the thrill is finding something that is marked down and getting it for even less than the price tag indicates. I enjoy the savings as much, if not more, than finding the item I’m buying. I sometimes wonder if I am just buying something because of the deal — I call it “find-ing stuff I didn’t know I needed” — and I am always convinced I need it.
Kitty was able to pick up a pair of sandals and a top for herself, as well as two shirts for her husband.
“I need another pair of shoes like I need a hole in my head. I have something like 75 pairs, but not like these. They’ll be good for summer,” she said in an almost whispered tone.
She even talked me into buying a skirt, which was a super deal — of course. And I certainly needed it.
Throughout the morning we had bumped into Dorothy, who was also with the group from Pullman. Her first priority, she had told me when she got off the bus, was to get a manicure, which she was able to do at a nail salon in the mall. Dorothy had a list for her shopping trip and planned on visiting several of the stores located at the mall.
When we met up with her at lunch, she told us about some of the good deals she had got that morning and shared the card she bought for her son’s birthday. He was turning 60, she said. Dorothy said she still needed to go to three more stores, so she ate her lunch and was off again as it was almost time for them to be picked up.
Both ladies are in their 80s, and while I didn’t hear what brought Dorothy on this trip, I know for Kitty, it was an easy way for her to get some place she otherwise would not have
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been able to go. This got me thinking about many of the seniors I have come in contact with and the seniors in my life. I can’t imagine how terribly difficult it must be to still be as independent, energetic and sharp as these two women, yet need to depend on others to get around.
Don’t get me wrong, not driving isn’t a deficit. While it may be a little bit of a roadblock, it is completely normal. Many seniors like Kitty and Dorothy need organizations like the Pullman Senior Association and the senior center to get from place to place. I am glad to see these organizations exist and see the way they affect the seniors in their community. It makes the lives of those who use the services easier and allows them to continue a feeling of normalcy, which everyone needs.
These trips that Bell plans are so important and such a wonder-ful thing for the seniors in Pullman. He keeps the calendar full each month with things like trips to Spokane and Coeur d’Alene, and even overnight trips to places like Boise.
Kitty seemed to really enjoy her morning at the mall. I know I en-joyed my time shopping with her and hope our paths may someday cross again.
Hayden can be reached at [email protected] or (208) 848-2243.
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George drove to Upstate New York, where Carleen lived, and the fi rst thing he noticed, being an astronomer and director of a planetarium, was her medallion, depicting a moon.
He often wore one himself — of a radiant sun.
He said he simply had to bor-row hers for a planetarium show, but would drive back the follow-
ing weekend and return it — an excuse to see her again.
The date was Aug. 17, 1974, because in one poem he writes:
Time had a beginning, August 17 1974.
And with it I was born.They fell deeply and passion-
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George was 47. Carleen was 37. They had no children togeth-er. But he adopted her four chil-dren. He had three of his own,
who were grown, and whom Carleen embraced.
In their poetry, she was the moon and he the sun. And so many expressions of their love focused on space and sky.
She wrote in 1974:My moon stood wanting in his
warmthHe took my darker side and
fi red it through the racing stars to hold me still.
She wrote mostly on white napkins, but occasionally on a green, yellow or even pink one. His canvas alternated between lined paper — abundant, since she became a Cherry Hill teacher for 27 years — and stationery.
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