FREE nside Celebrating Life After 50 1939 Buick Roadster, orthwest 2013 Inspiring Senior, N Iseniors walk for charity, reflecting on birthdays, and more Serving the Puget Sound region since P1986 rimewww.NorthwestPrimeTime.com TimeVol. 13 no. 5 JUNE 2013 The Boys in the Boat New book telling the story of the 1936 University of Washington rowing team launches in Seattle this month; Hollywood movie is in the works ometimes a book comes After meeting Joe and listening to his story unfold, the author recalls, Salong that is a true gift. “As I talked with Joe, I noted that tears came readily to his eyes at certain The Boys in the Boat: Nine junctures. Men of his generation Americans and Their Epic Quest for don’t generally cry easily, so I knew Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by immediately that there was something Seattle-area author Daniel James Brown, is one of those books. … the nine American “This book was born on a cold, drizzly, late spring day when I kids dressed in ragged clambered over the split-rail cedar old sweatshirts and fence that surrounds my pasture and made my way through wet woods to mismatched shorts the modest frame house where Joe Rantz lay dying.” racing against So begins The Boys in the Boat— regimented blond the irresistible, dramatic, and poignant story behind the triumph of the oarsman in crisp white University of Washington American rowing team that stunned the world at uniforms with swastikas Hitler’s Olympics. on their chests Brown was introduced to Joe Rantz and his story on a chance extraordinary going on…I began to encounter with his neighbor, Joe’s see that all the elements of a great daughter Judy. “One day about six tale were there—intense competition years ago, my neighbor, a lady in her between individuals, bitter rivalries mid-sixties who I knew only as Judy, between schools, a boy left alone came up to me after a homeowners’ in the world, a fiercely demanding association meeting. She said her coach, a wise mentor, a love interest, father, who was in the last weeks of even an evil step-mother. But I think his life and under hospice care at her what really clinched it for me was the house, was reading one of my earlier simple fact that the climax to the story books. He was enjoying it and she played out on an enormously dramatic wondered if I would come by and stage—the 1936 Olympics in Berlin— meet him. Of course I said yes.” and it played out under the gaze of Hitler himself. Really, what more could a storyteller ask for?” After being mesmerized by Joe’s (top) University of Washington varsity crew, gold medal winners at the 1936 story and that of the unlikely crew, Olympics in Berlin, photo courtesy University of Washington Libraries, Special Brown asked Rantz if he could tell the Collections Division; (above) “The Boys in the Boat” by Seattle-area author Daniel tale. Rantz agreed, but admonished, James Brown details the dramatic and poignant story behind the triumph of the UW “But not just about me. It has to be rowing team that stunned the world at Hitler’s Olympics. The national book tour launches this month in Seattle about the boat.” By “the boat” he meant the whole crew and the strands of affection that bound them together. Gordon Adam, Chuck Day, clothe themselves. So in that sense Brown shows tremendous respect Don Hume, George “Shorty” Hunt, they served as a model—something for the memory of all the individuals, Jim “Stub” McMillin, Bob Moch, you could identify with if you were arguably one of the greatest crew Roger Morris, Joe Rantz, John White, struggling yourself. This perception teams of all time, and their underlying Jr.—these were the boys in the boat, grew even more acute when they determination to be a part of the #1 the University of Washington’s 1936 began to compete against the often boat. crew, a team that transformed the very wealthy boys at Ivy League sport and grabbed the attention of schools in the East. And then even millions of Americans in the depths more when they began to compete of the Depression. The sons of loggers, against the aristocratic British boys shipyard workers, and farmers, the boys from Oxford and Cambridge. And defeated elite rivals first from eastern most of all, of course, when they (above) Joe Rantz, one of the boys and British universities and finally the competed against the hand-picked in the boat, is at the emotional heart German crew rowing for Adolf Hitler Nazi oarsman in Berlin. The stark of the story, photo courtesy Judith in the Olympic Games in Berlin. contrast was brought face-to-face by Willman; (right) Seattle-area author “Almost any ordinary American the nine American kids dressed in Daniel James Brown was introduced could identify with them,” notes ragged old sweatshirts and mismatched to Joe and the story on a chance Brown, “particularly in economic shorts racing against regimented blond encounter with Joe’s daughter, his terms. Like everyone else, they neighbor Judy Willman were struggling simply to feed and ...continued on page 14 2 Northwest Prime Time www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com June 2013

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There was no birthday June 23rd, 2003 Life Perspectives cake. Pursuant to my well-known Approaching age sixty, I was predilection for fried chicken, I was moving undeniably past middle- presented with a barrel-sized bucket of age. To face fear, I decided to celebrate Birthdays: 30/60/70 the Colonel’s finest, on the lid of which grandly. The twenty-third of June …by Mark Weinstein were thirty lit candles. I closed my eyes, is one day from summer-solstice, so made a silent wish for peace of mind, why not travel to the far north of the June 23rd, 1973 itself. Incredibly, fifty feet from my front inhaled all the air my lungs could hold, globe to experience twenty-four hour I turned thirty at my home door, it cascaded down from the ice- opened my eyes sunlight? “Alaska!” alongside the Green River in Auburn. glaciers of Mount Rainier northward and successfully I said. Without The steep-rising, forest-covered hill on into Puget Sound. Its waters were blew them looking up from the other side was a sky-filling collage almost unbearably cold in summer all out in one the book he of countless shades of green, which in months, although swimmable for a few chest-emptying was reading, my autumn became a rainbow. My river minutes. In cooler seasons, nobody prolonged partner Giorgio was ever-changing, from flowing gently without a wet suit could do more than breath, for responded in in mist-covered silence that echoed jump in, cry out in shock, and scramble which I received his signature through early morning birdsong to for shore. The younger people there genuine, monotone, “No. awesome roaring power that swept that day were in and out of the water well-deserved Norway.” away fallen trees as if they were all afternoon. For older adults, one applause. Then We flew matchsticks. But whatever face it brave invigorating lap to the other side at the behest to Oslo via showed, the river was always - always - and back was enough. of the crowd, I Mark Weinstein Heathrow bit into an oily Airport on drumstick. The familiar spicy aroma June 18th. We shared encounters and taste, along with crunching into with Norwegians and travelers from the skin (which is now anathema different parts of the world. I loved to my cholesterol-awareness) tipped hearing multiple accents and languages chicken-craving into intoxication and surrounding us. We visited the Nobel broke through other reveries. Museum – an immaculate, stirring So my youth ended. I had no presentation of Mans’ search for direction, did not believe I could find Peace. In full view several hundred happiness, and was almost numb with yards away, encircled by massive brick pain while wearing a smile. Nearly all the barricades, was the United States people who joined me that day are now, Embassy. The barricades were products in one way or another, gone. I have come of worldwide demonstrations protesting to understand that time in my life was America’s recent invasion of Iraq. Edenic and love-filled. For one hour, for Indeed there was sunlight round- one minute, to be there and then. But on the-clock in Norway, but Oslo is in that day, except for fried chicken, I didn’t the southern part of the country, let myself whole-heartedly enjoy anything. so the sky dimmed to duskiness in It was not Paradise Lost. It was Paradise nighttime hours. We wanted all our Disregarded. hours in Norway to be brightly sunlit, Helping you get the most out of life. A chronic or life-limiting illness can be challenging, but Providence Senior and Community Services offers a full range of services to help you meet those challenges and live life to the fullest. With 31 programs across three states and a staff of more than 2,200, we provide access and choice through innovative, customer-focused options.

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Australian age, smoking and dietary habits, women the microscope, The particular gown I saw and scientists say who reported drinking more than three the discovery read about was created at the Henry they now are glasses of alcohol per week in both 1987 of penicillin, or Ford Innovation Institute and is much closer to and in 1997 had a 52% reduced risk the formulation currently being used at a hospital John Schieszer developing a of rheumatoid arthritis compared with Gloria May of vaccines, but in Detroit. So far, patient reviews screening test for never drinkers at both assessments. the creation have been positive. The goal now is the early detection of Alzheimer’s These findings add to a growing body of the hospital gown that closes in the getting the design licensed and sold disease. The investigators have of evidence that long-term moderate back will certainly be applauded by to a manufacturer who can get this identified blood-based biological alcohol consumption is not harmful every patient who has ever had to going on a grand scale. (I did a little markers that are associated with the and even may protect against a chronic wear one and who has had to reach, research on the internet and found build-up of amyloid beta, a toxic disease like rheumatoid arthritis, pull, or twist it just so he can get to that other designers and companies protein in the brain. This plaque build- according to the researchers. the bathroom without exposing his are working on this issue as well.) up develops years before symptoms The Swedish researchers analyzed rear end to the world. The current tie-in-the-back design appear and irreversible brain damage the association between alcohol intake When I was caring for patients goes back to the early 20th C. and has occurred. and rheumatoid arthritis among 34,141 in the hospital, we often used two of while they were a great idea in a time “Early detection is critical, giving Swedish women born between 1914 those flimsy, thin cotton gowns on when patients stayed flat in the bed those at risk a much better chance and 1948. Detailed information about our patients, one tying in the back much more than they do today, they of receiving treatment earlier, before alcohol consumption, diet, smoking and the second one over it, tying in haven’t changed much since then it’s too late to do much about it,” said history, physical activity and education the front. The patients were not as and they certainly don’t offer any Dr. Samantha Burnham, who is with level was collected in 1987 and again exposed as they were when they were measure of privacy. the Commonwealth Scientific and in 1997. All these subjects were forced to wear the single gown, and And here’s another benefit of Industrial Research Organisation in followed for seven years (January 2003 in addition, wearing two gowns made the spa-like gown, beyond preserving Australia. to December 2009) when they were them feel a bit warmer. Sometimes we patient dignity: The new gown is These new study findings are part of aged 54-89 years. One standard glass of would let the patients bring pajama made of a thicker fabric, so using an ongoing study called the Australian alcohol was defined as approximately bottoms or boxer shorts from home two gowns on patients who are cold Imaging and Biomarkers Lifestyle Study 500 ml beer, 150 ml of wine or 50 ml of and wear them under the gowns. (in addition to being embarrassed) of Aging (AIBL), which is studying liquor. The reduced risk was similar for The tie-in-the-back version of would no longer be necessary, thus biomarkers, cognitive characteristics all three types of alcoholic drink. the gown is handy for nurses and saving on the number of gowns the and health/lifestyle factors that may The researchers say the effects of doctors, as it provides easy access to hospital needs to purchase. The be linked with Alzheimer’s disease. higher drinking levels on the risk of the patient’s back and makes it quick manufacturing cost of the new gowns “Another recent study from the AIBL rheumatoid arthritis remains unknown. and simple to, for instance, listen to is comparable to those of the old team showed that amyloid beta levels However, they say moderate alcohol a patients’ lungs or heart or to give ones, and yes, the new gowns launder become abnormal about 17 years before consumption’s ability to prevent an injection. And it makes it easier up well. dementia symptoms appear,” said Dr. rheumatoid arthritis is most likely to for the patient to use the bedpan if So, while it may not win the Burnham. due to alcohol’s ability to lower the necessary. Nobel Prize, a gown that closes in the “This gives us a much longer time body’s immune response. Rheumatoid However, patients hate those back will be dearly loved. Way to go, to intervene to try to slow disease arthritis is an autoimmune disease darn gowns – with good reason. And designers! v progression if we are able to detect cases and it causes the immune system to although they have provided fodder early. We hope our continued research attack the cells that line the joints. for cartoons for years, it’s time for Gloria May is a registered nurse with a will lead to the development of a low Rheumatoid arthritis has a gender bias them to go. master’s degree in health education and cost, minimally invasive population and strikes women three times more I saw pictures of one kind she holds a Certified Health Education based screening test for Alzheimer’s in often than men. of newly designed gown and it Specialist designation. the next five to 10 years.” Winning the War on Cancer Moderate Drinking May Reduce Better screening tools and Risk of Rheumatoid Arthritis improved therapies are leading to Moderate consumption of alcohol more and more Americans surviving may be associated with a reduced risk a diagnosis of cancer. The American of developing rheumatoid arthritis, Association for Cancer Research according to Swedish researchers. 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Seniors Meet 2013 Inspire Positive Aging Award Winner - Dotti wants to serve as a role Lifelong’s Sweetheart model to fellow older Americans $7.99/month for Dotti Lydon and hopes she will ignite an interest in volunteerism. She is one of ...continued from page 3 50 free minutes the only individuals in her senior age 76. She works 3-6 hours a week, housing community that volunteers. usually on Fridays. On any given She speculates that this is due to $9.99/month for day you might see Dotti peeling the challenges seniors face with and dicing 100 pounds of potatoes, transportation as well as a simple 100 free minutes slicing 75 pounds of carrots, or lack of awareness in opportunities helping package 250-400 meals available to seniors. She is also during her shift. hopeful that organizations, like · Free Samsung Cell Phone “Dotti has the energy and Lifelong, start to target seniors more Free Shipping SAME GREAT NETWORKS stamina of a 25-year-old,” states often in volunteer recruitment · Wendy Northcutt, Lifelong’s efforts. · Free Setup & Activation Executive Chef. “I want to inspire adults like The kitchen isn’t the only place me to volunteer and encourage · Free Nationwide Service A+ Rating where Dotti donates her time. organizations to notice the talents Free 3 months of service with the BBB She volunteers in the Prevention and abilities of older people,” Dotti · Department and makes condom says. “To me, this is not a job. It’s Some Restrictions apply. Higher plans available. Please call for details kits. At a barbeque last summer, an opportunity. I cannot wait until Dotti told her friends that they Friday gets here.” HELP AT THE PUSH OF A BUTTON couldn’t have anything to drink When she’s not volunteering at until the kits were made. According Lifelong, Dotti enjoys surfing the to Dotti, “You’ve never seen anyone web and spending time with friends. 800-500-0066 work so fast.” Lifelong’s volunteer program www.InTouchAmerica.com Dotti chose to volunteer at welcomes volunteers of all ages Lifelong because the work of the (though you must be at least 14 organization hits close to home. years old). Volunteers work in A few members of her family are the kitchen, deliver meals and currently living with HIV. She sees groceries, help out at special events, firsthand the support Lifelong has and work at the front desk. For given the community, and knows more information visit llaa.org/ Monday-Friday 8:30am - 5:30pm Lifelong’s services save lives. volunteer or call 206-957-1776. v June 2013 www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com 9

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Residents from Boulevard Park “We set our goal at 3,000 miles from Place Retirement Community have January through June 8th,” says BPP SUNDAYS! been participating in the American owner Ron Steinman. “At their current Cancer Society’s Relay for Life pace, they may exceed their goal! The REWARDS CLUB fundraiser for the past six years. average age of this group is 79-years-old. MEMBERS 50 & OVER Their team name: Seniors 4 A Cure. One of the team members has exceeded Boulevard Park Place Retirement 350 miles.” Community, located on the east The idea of the walking group is to Try Our New slopes of Burien, is a long-time allow more BPP residents to participate supporter and sponsor of the in the Relay fundraiser but do it at their Barbeque Buffet! get American Cancer Society’s largest pace. “We have set up several different fundraiser for cancer research. walking courses around our eleven-acre Per person with Rewards Card $ This year the Boulevard Park campus,” says Ron. “Our team members $700 25 team has joined the Highline Relay are free to choose which pre-measured BBQ Brunch 9 am - 2 pm for for Life relay, which takes place course to walk. Some started with just (Reg. Price $14) June 8 and June 9 at the Highline 100 yards each day. One of our walkers $ High School Stadium in Burien, one goes as many as five miles a day. Not bad Per person of many communities throughout for someone who is over 90!” adds Ron. $ 50 with Rewards Card 20 9 Present your Rewards Club Card at the nation participating in this “Three weeks after we started, one BBQ Dinner 3 - 9 pm either casino cashier for $5 in free annual event. of our members came up to me and (Reg. Price $19) gaming when you buy-in for $20. Boulevard Park Place (BPP) thanked me for starting the club,” he residents have several ways to support recalls. “She went on to explain that the cause, including the BPP Walking she used to walk, but had fallen into a Club, which has 34 team members. depressed state and quit. After resuming BPP pledged $1 for each and every walking, she reports that she feels better, Your Best Bet For Fun! mile that the team members walked is eating better, sleeps better and has On I-5 at Exit 236 • theskagit.com • 877-275-2448 Casino opens at 9 am daily. Must be 21 or older with valid ID to enter casino or buffet. Owned by Upper Skagit Indian Tribe throughout the year to be donated in *Must be a Rewards Club Member – Membership is FREE! Must play Full Redeemed Value of buy-in offer; limit one per person per day. Promotion ends June 23, 2013. Visit Rewards Club Center for details. their name to Relay For Life. ...continued on page 10 NWPT

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10. Hall of Fame pitcher Newsom 67. Dressed to the ____ (all togged 26 27 28 29 30 31 14. Songstress Jones up) 15. Tidy 68. Puts in a lawn 32 33 34 35 16. Baking chamber 69. She wed Sonny 17. An appropriate famous ballerina 70. River mammal 36 37 38 39 40 41 to perform at a wedding? Down 42 43 44 45 46 20. Particular police officer: abbr. 1. Country’s economic measure: abbr. 21. Razor brand 2. “On the ____ Again” (Willie 47 48 49 50 22. ____ of service Nelson tune) 23. The tortoise topped it, in myth 3. “Laugh-In” comic Johnson 51 52 25. Player for money 4. At a greater distance 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 26. “May ____!” Saying in sports 5. Warm weather statistic: abbr. before a contest and an odd thing to 6. Weds 61 62 63 64 say before a wedding? 7. Close by 32. ____ find (hard to get item): 2 8. Lady of Spain 65 66 67 wds. 9. Non-prescription drug 33. Boat propeller abbreviation 68 69 70 34. Tennis score after deuce: 2 wds. 10. ____ piece of jewelry (fulfill one- 36. One who escorts down the aisle, fourth of a pre-wedding ritual) solution on page 14 usually 11. Roman love poet 29. Actress West or Busch 49. Inspire with love 37. Results of a fist fight, maybe 12. “Adam ____” (Eliot novel) 30. The Gem State 50. Currency in Cuernavaca 41. Gardner in “Mogambo” 13. Lulu (anagram of RENO) 31. David who starred in “Separate 53. Plural personnel abbreviation 42. Chooses (with “for”) 18. Ending for medi or Obama Tables” 54. Sandusky’s state 44. Jackie’s second hubby, for short 19. “____ in the USA” (Springsteen 32. “Much ____ About Nothing” 55. Tear 45. Fireplace residue classic) 35. Whidbey Island military 56. Actor Rogen 47. TV problem with an antenna 24. Five dollar bills, slangily installation: abbr. 57. Baseball Hall of Famer Sandberg feed or a bad post-wedding affair? 25. Catherine ____ (6th wife of 38. “No ____, no foul” from Spokane 51. Resistance unit Henry VIII) 39. Anger 59. E-mail folder title 52. It can follow love or machine 26. Maria von ____ (matriarch of a 40. Weekend days: abbr. 60. Baobab or banyan, e.g. gun singing family) 43. Allays 62. Actor Cage, to cronies 53. Loud, to Luigi 27. “It ____ Be You”: 2 wds. 46. What to do with a stool: 3 wds. 63. She wed Lennon 56. Wedded women in Spain: abbr. 28. It’s sometimes mixed with gin 48. Prefix for stat in electrical systems 64. Georgia or Ukraine, once: abbr.

Seniors Walk to Raise Thousands for Cancer Research Make the Right Choice When you Retire ...continued from page 9 line the track. Bags are individually regained her positive attitude. She is donated in honor of (or in memory th grateful for the BPP Walking Club and of) someone with cancer. The bags ich Your Life Wi Now Simplify and Enr credits it for saving her life. That walker are placed around the perimeter of the Living Choice! ight Retirement is currently averaging over four miles track and are illuminated by candles. the R per day." They stay lit all night guiding the Boulevard Park Place hosts a walkers who will continue walking the “Our friends pancake breakfast on the third Friday track at night. recommended of every month from 8:00-9:30am and This year Boulevard Park Place set Boulevard Park a Baked Potato Feast six times a year their goal at raising $10,000 for Relay Place to us as a (with all the trimmings for $5). All For Life, and they believe they will wonderful place proceeds are donated to Relay For Life. exceed that total. Over the past six to live. We took The BPP team created a cook years the Seniors 4 A Cure team has their advice and book with over 500 recipes from over raised $25,000. 70 contributors. The book sells for $10 it’s the best thing Ron says of BBP’s participation in with proceeds donated to charity. Relay for Life: “Cancer has affected we ever did. And one of the signatures of the almost every family, but more people Boulevard Park Relay for Life is the luminary bags that than ever before are surviving cancer Place offers all and celebrating more kinds of fun stuff birthdays. Relay is a to do every day. CATHOLIC LATIN MASS way for us to celebrate What else could we “Gloria Patri, et Filio et Spiritui Sancto” our cancer survivors, ask for? We love honor those in the living at Boulevard ST. MARY'S middle of their fight, Park Place!” CATHOLIC CHURCH and remember those J & T Traditional Latin Mass who have been lost to this disease. “We invite you to take part in the Sunday Mass American Cancer “Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum” 8:00 & 10:30 AM Confessions before Mass Society Relay for Life in Burien on June 8th,” Ladies and girls, please wear modest High Mass says Ron. “This is your dress and head covering in church First Sunday of the Month Proud Sponsor of 8:00 AM chance to inspire others Relay For Life of Highline • June 8th & 9th Men and boys, dress shirt and slacks, and honor the memory no casual wear. Devotions to Our Mother of Perpetual Help Tue 7:30 PM of friends and loved ones. Join us for this Call 206-243-0300 or go to boulevardparkplace.com 757 138th St. So. in Parkland 253-535-9477 FAX 535-3637 celebration of life… www.stmarys-parish.org ...continued on page 11 June 2013 www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com 11

The Funny Side of Life

Look for the adventures of Rose & Dawn to return next issue! Summer Smiled …by Sy Rosen LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE right I would move to the right – it When I was young, it was so cool I thought was a form of Grandpa Aerobics. It To tan my hide at a beach or pool. being a didn’t work, of course, and I went I reveled in my healthy glow grandparent home still worried. On the plus But in those days, I didn’t know was going to side, I think I lost 4 pounds. A doctor who takes care of skin be easy and And then, two days later, my Would be familiar as my kin. my major job daughter called and told me that The spots pop up from toe to head was to spoil Summer was making eye contact. Like constant weeds in a flower bed. my grandchild. My granddaughter was obviously --Pat D’Amico Our first a genius. So that milestone was accomplished and I again resumed Sy Rosen granddaughter, Summer, was my master plan - bouncing Summer Nostalgia Quiz born about seven weeks ago and my on my knee and whispering in her plans were simple. When she was ear, “You love Grandpa the best.” old enough, I would stuff her with A few days later my daughter Threesomes ice cream and candy and bounce called, worried that Summer hadn’t her on my knee while whispering made her social smile milestone. …by Durham Caldwell in her ear, “You love Grandpa Again I told Ann there was nothing best.” Little did I know that being to worry about – considering Writing coaches for a long time have tried to instill in their students an a grandparent would make me a everything that was going on in appreciation for improving the colorfulness of their writing by using series of nervous wreck. the world maybe Summer didn’t threes. For example: “red, white, and blue”; “life, liberty, and the pursuit of It all started when I got a feel like smiling. Maybe she would happiness.” slightly worried call from my start smiling when the national daughter Ann. She told me that unemployment rate went down. 1. What are the three names that identify baseball’s most famous double- Summer hadn’t yet reached her I tried to joke but of course I play combination of the early 20th century? milestone of making eye contact. was worried about this benchmark 2. When Winston Churchill became prime minister during the dark Up until that point I didn’t know so I went over to Ann’s and started days of World War II, he told the British people that he offered them about milestones and, believe me, smiling like crazy at Summer, “blood, sweat, and ______.” Fill in the blank. ignorance was bliss. When Ann trying to get her to smile back. She 3. “On land, in the air, and on the sea” was part of a World War II radio was growing up the only milestones must have thought I was a giggling commercial for what product? I worried about were her dating, madman. Anyway, I went home 4. Who were Flopsy, Mopsy, and Cottontail? driving and getting into college. I without having any success but a 5. A railroad that gave its name to a song sung by Judy Garland in The guess milestones have been around few days later I got a call from Ann Harvey Girls. for a while but because of the saying that Summer finally smiled. 6. The traditional chant of the young man selling refreshments at the internet it seems like everyone is The next time I saw Summer circus. now talking about them. (about 10 minutes later because I 7. What they said about George Washington. Anyway, according to Ann, rushed over) she did smile for me 8. The “Three B’s” of classical music. when a baby reaches approximately - a wonderful, joyous, magnificent 9. Music’s “Three B’s” on old-time radio’s “Chamber Music Society of 6-10 weeks of age she’s supposed to smile that made my heart soar. I Lower Basin Street.” (Answers on Page 14) be making eye contact and Summer realized it wasn’t exactly the same just hit 6 1/2 weeks and she wasn’t accomplishment as her getting into doing that yet. I told Ann to calm Harvard (that will happen in a few down; she was jumping the gun, years) but it was still pretty darn by Don Franks Letter Drop that Summer had plenty of time to exciting. reach this benchmark. And then, Okay, with those two milestones The letters in each column go in the boxes directly under them but of course, I worried like a crazy accomplished I can finally relax. not necessarily in the order shown. When all the boxes have been person. Except of course when it’s time filled in, an age related scrambled saying will appear. I drove over to Ann’s and did for Summer’s other milestones - my best to make eye contact with raising her head, babbling, cooing, U F K S D U H P Y Summer. I quickly moved my body rolling on her back, reaching and T H R M A R I E N O I H I A N E O to whatever direction Summer was grabbing, responding to her name, E R E E F U E E Y W S L L P P Y V looking - if her eyes moved to the gesturing, pretend playing, sitting, left I would quickly move to the crawling, walking and saying her left, when her eyes moved to the first word. Oh man, who said being a grandparent was easy? Oh that’s solution on page 14 right, I did. v perks of being “Over the Hill” Seniors Walk to Raise VISION LOSS? Thousands for Cancer • There is nothing left anymore to learn the hard way. If you suffer from: Research Macular Degeneration • Your investment in Diabetic Retinopathy ...continued from page 10 health insurance is and sign up for the American Cancer finally paying off. New telescopic glasses may help Society Relay For Life. You won’t want you see better. Call for a free • You can quit trying telephone consultation. to miss one moment of this life- and to hold in your community-affirming event.” stomach no matter rkland, Relay For Life teams consist of up who walks into Bellingham and Of�ices in Ki to fifteen participants that take turns the room. Olympia. walking around a track. Entertainment, • You can sing games, prizes and team-building Dr. Ross Cusic experiences are all part of the fun. along with elevator music. 425-285-1230 For more information, please • Your joints are more accurate Toll Free: 877-823-2020 contact Ron Steinman at 206-779- "No, it's not 2048; it's only two weeks later. meteorologists than the guy on www.LowVisionOptometry.com 8942 or visit RelayForLife.org. v Your check bounced." the television. 12 Northwest Prime Time www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com June 2013

Scenes From Childhood Writing Corner Shoes – Summer of 1952 Storywheel Process …by Marge Stormo …by Ariele M. Huff either cracked or missing entirely and figurative language adds depth I was 16 living in Portsmouth, and covered with grime. The loud I invented to exercises discovering the nature Ohio, reading the classified section continuous rhythmic, ear-splitting the Storywheel of the take-home message authors of the newspaper and hoping I could banging of metal on metal, the and the process want to deliver in their written find a summer job. steady buzz of electric shears cutting of using it to works and how those messages can “Assembly line workers needed leather shoe patterns, the sound of create stories be presented. Methods for doing that immediately for Portsmouth shoe many commercial sewing machines from a randomly range from subtle (like word choices) company.” all in constant chatter chosen set and direct (like narrator choices). I called the listed and the electric, of three Usually, during or after this session, phone number and squawking, humming elements. (In many people suddenly discover how was told to appear at sound of the moving my December their stories will come together. the address to fill out rubberized belt Ariele M. Huff 2003 Writing Plot is next. Though many an application the holding cardboard Corner column, I shared how to people believe it should be first, plot next day. WOW! I boxes filled with make a Storywheel. If you’d like that is actually one of the easier elements told my friends and bundles of flat, information please email me, and to understand and to do. It also has family of my upcoming unstitched shoes gave I’ll send you that column: ariele@ to take a backseat, especially in the appointment at the me an immediate comcast.net.) development stage, to character factory. I could easily headache. How could This time, I’d like to share the and theme concerns. Plot is just the envision all those this be where all those process. Picking up from the previous vehicle to convey the characters shoes in beautiful beautiful shoes were column, once the words for plot, and the message. Exercises include colors and styles that I made! character, and setting have been outlining and creating numerous soon would work on. I was shown how randomly chosen, the “homework possible plotlines the three The application’s to grab one of the phase” begins. chosen elements could follow to a questions were easy, boxes off the belt and I also call this “marinating the reasonable conclusion. except for the line how to start gluing on story” before writing it. This practice Dialogue is the element the that read asking how bows, buttons, piping, has proved to be near magical for largest percentage of people much experience I buckles and sequins. me and for many students. The recognizes having difficulty had. I wrote none, and Marge Stormo - ca. 1954 With 25 pairs of shoes Storywheel Writing Workshop was with, though writing it is some went home defeated. in each box, I had to my most frequently repeated class for people’s strength. In that session, But, three days later I heard the finish a minimum amount of boxes many years due to its popularity. we deal with many of the basics: joyous news that I should report for each day to keep my job. The class has six sessions, the punctuation, attributions, stage work the following Monday at 7am That summer I learned patience, first for building and using the directions, and how to give each and bring my lunch. The work shift accepting what I could not change, Storywheel, and the other five to character a recognizable voice. would be a 40-hour week. the meaning of the word tenacity, develop the story through each of the Exercises include pairing up to The first day at the factory, all of and a strong work ethic. These elements of fiction: character, theme, converse and then duplicating the my senses were assaulted negatively. became lessons used for the rest of dialogue, plot, and setting. dialogue in written form—harder I was sure a bad mistake had been my working career. v As a majority of experts agree, than you might think! made by putting me in this work area character is the most central Setting is the most under-rated – a huge room of exhaust fans stirring Marge Storm of Tacoma wrote a longer element, so we start there. Several element. The final week, we learn up the smell of old, heavy, thick version of this story for her writing class at exercises include writing letters to some important aspects of it that go oil. The tall narrow windows were Tobey Jones Senior University in Tacoma. and from the main character, filling far beyond chairs and trees. Then, in a lengthy “fact sheet” about the students get to hear each other’s Please send us your Scene from Childhood. Submit no more than 300 words, protagonist, and investigating the stories that they’ve been watching including a brief author bio and a childhood photo. Articles and photos can be emailed to Suzanne Beyer at [email protected] or mailed to NWPT, MC’s beliefs through writings by the being created for six weeks. It’s PO Box 13647, Seattle, WA 98198. All submissions become the property character on different topics. The amazing how quickly this process of NWPT. Since photos will not be returned, send a photo quality copy. Each homework is to “live with the main gets us invested, as an audience for Scenes contributor will receive a one-year subscription to Northwest Prime Time. character” for a week! those stories. Please note that due to the popularity of this column, NWPT will publish only The third class focuses on theme, Join me for the rare re-appearance one piece per author per year. the most misunderstood and complex of this fun evening class at Cascadia of the elements. Information on CC: 7/25 to 8/29. Call 425-267- mood, tone, symbolism, imagery, 0150. v

Poetry Corner “Dog Park” All dogs are like men, “Voices” they notice each other immediately, When I pass the comb alert and aware. on the dresser, Keep your paws off my woman! my itchy scalp says, --Wendy Sweazey Give me a scratch. “Poetry Wednesday” Opening a kitchen drawer for a peeler, I hear, Tonight we come to see our friends, I’ll take a dried apricot, please; tell them pleasant thoughts. and some chocolate. Thoughts that hold us through our other life: Approaching check-out with a full discontent and goals yet shopping cart, I am admonished, unachieved. You forgot the yogurt! That other life of numbing stress is now to be relieved. Do you hear voices too? If wealth is measure by good I have to leave now. friends, A house plant is calling. of wealth, we have a lot. --Jacqueline Dock --Jerold Dock Poems to Ariele Huff at [email protected] June 2013 www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com 13

A Calendar of Places to go, LET’S GO! do, or see… Senior Events American Cancer Society Free Health Talks Pop, Jazz, Folk, Country Living Well Talks June 8-9, American Cancer Society’s annual June 11 & 25, 7pm, heavy metals, weight loss, Ricky Skaggs June 4 at 11:45am “Sunshine – Friend and fundraiser, Highline Memorial Stadium, 430 Tahoma Clinic, 801 SW 16th Street, Suite 121, June 13, 7:30pm & 9:30pm, Jazz Alley, country Enemy”; June 18 at 11:45am “To Drive or Not to South 156th Street, Burien, for information visit Renton 425-738-5650 www.tahomaclinic.com & bluegrass master, 2033 6th Avenue, Seattle Drive” Des Moines Activity Center, 2045 South www.relayforlife.org (search “Highline”) Dementia Care Educator Teepa Snow jazzalley.com 216th in Des Moines, 206-878-1642. Vashon Water & Wine June 18-19, FREE event with well-known educator Geoffrey Castle Senior Readers Theatre June 15-16, “Water & Wine weekend” of training caregivers to those living with dementia, June 15, doors open at 7pm, electric violin, $20 June 4 from 4-5:30pm Seattle Park’s senior kayaking and wine/spirits tasting, transportation three sessions in two days from “ABCs” to all ages welcome, The Triple Door, 216 Union St, program, Aljoya Thornton Creek; June 5 from provided, RSVP www.vashonvacations.com activities to caregiving tasks, RSVP June 19 Seattle, 206-838-4333, www.thetripledoor.net 11am-noon University House on Stoneway; Strawberry Harvest Fest sessions: [email protected], hosted Icicle Creek Center for the Arts June 6 from 7-8:30pm Merrill Gardens at the June 15-16, 11am-4pm, free event includes by Providence Mount St. Vincent, Chapel - 3rd June 15, 7:30pm, direct from Cuba Afro Cuban University; each performance has two short plays market, musical performance 3-4pm, kid rides, floor, 4831 35th Ave SW, Seattle. All Stars, 7409 Icicle Road, Leavenworth, 509- by Thornton Wilder, $10, RSVP 206-386-9106. Biringer Farm in Arlington, 425-259-0255, Free Health Screenings 548-6347, www.icicle.org Elder Fair www.BiringerFarm.com. June 19-July 13, AARP & Walgreens provide 3 Traditional Jazz Society June 6, 9am-3pm, FREE 20th annual elder fair Fabric Sale free health tests at area Walgreens, no health June 16, 1-4:30pm, New Orleans Cafe Quintet, hosted by Bethany NW, Holiday Inn, 3105 Pine June 15, 9am-2pm, $1/pd, McCollum Park Ed insurance needed, for adults, takes about 20 $12-$15, Ballard Elks, 6411 Seaview Ave.NW, Street, Downtown Everett, for info call Julie 425- bldg WSU Ext, 600 128th Street SE Everett minutes, visit www.walgreens.com/waytowell Seattle, 425-776-5072, www.pstjs.org 551-6340 Lincoln City Kite Festival Kidney Health Fest Skagit Valley Casino Resort Sounds of Swing June 22-23, 800-452-2151, www.oregoncoast. June 22, 9am-2pm, free annual event hosted by June 21, “The Beatniks” Classic 60’s & 70’s July 6, 7-9pm, for your dancing and listening org/summer-kite-festival. Northwest Kidney Centers features free health “British Invasion” Rock, www.theskagit.com pleasure, Crossroads, 15600 NE 8th St, Sylvia Browne screenings, lectures, education, entertainment, Jazz Fest Bellevue, 425-644-1111. 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Medical Minutes The Boys in the Boat narration of the boat races and the sinister-exalted atmosphere of Berlin in classifieds… ...continued from page 6 ...continued from page 1 1936 is cinematic. I read the last fifty classifieds… pages with white knuckles, and the last has just released its second Annual oarsman in crisp white uniforms with twenty-five with tears in my eyes.” classifieds… Report on Cancer Survivorship in the swastikas on their chests.” The book, published by Viking, United States and it found there were But throughout, Joe Rantz remains was released this month on June 4. The approximately 13.7 million cancer the emotional heart of the story, a Weinstein Company has already begun senior living survivors, a number that is expected to teenager without family or prospects, to develop a script for their upcoming Tired of living alone? 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Light P O O R R E C E P T I O N he has conjured up an era of history. refreshments will be served and a choir THE FRIENDSHIP YOU REFUSE WILL O H M N E S T Brown’s evocation of Seattle in the will perform beginning at 6pm just NEVER MAKE YOU HAPPY F O R T E S R A S O S T © Don Franks T H E H O N E Y M O O N E R S Depression years is dazzling, his limning before Daniel James Brown reads from E I N E I T N O N I N E S of character, especially the hardscrabble his book, followed by discussion and S O D S C H E R O T T E R hero Joe Rantz, is novelistic, his book signing. No tickets are required Nostalgia Quiz Answers for the event. ...answers to questions on page 11 Other area events on this national book tour include: 1. Tinker to Evers to Chance. 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First in war, first in peace, first in BEFORE You Pay dogs, chickens, and honeybees. When I am not the hearts of his countrymen. writing, I am likely to be birding, gardening, fly 8. Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms. fishing, reading American history, or chasing 9. Barrel house, boogie woogie, and roofing • gutters • siding • windows • decks • remodeling bears away from the bee hives.” the blues. June 2013 www.NorthwestPrimeTime.com 15

Seniors at Care Facility Climb 1939 Buick Roadster Aboard at Harley Days …by Bernard S. Sadowski, Ph.D.

My poverty- off whenever something exciting achievement I’ve ever seen, and eased level parents happened. It was a celebration in our his six-foot-one lanky frame into the lived the first home, that’s for sure. driver’s seat. fifteen years of “Hey, Emily!” dad shouted to Dad explained all the things he their marriage mom who was baking an apple pie at was doing to start the car: ignition was without an the time. “Do you want to see our new a complex operation that involved automobile. car?” he asked. I thought, of course using his right foot to simultaneously Both were she’d want to see the car. What, are push on a device adjacent to the gas Smiling resident Jackie Palmquist posing second- you crazy or something? pedal and a starter button next to it. with a Harley Davidson at Providence generation “Wait! Wait!” mom replied, but in The car had to be in neutral to start. Marianwood’s Harley Days event. Photo courtesy Providence Marianwood. Bernard S. Sadowski Polish- Polish it sounds like “check eye! check I learned that the big stick next to Americans born and raised in Flint, eye!” They used some Polish phrases him was called the gear stick. All the Providence Marianwood in Michigan. Mom told me that she in unique and special circumstances cars I’d been in previously had a little Issaquah held the first of this year’s two spent only $27 for her entire wedding and this surely fit the bill. stick in the steering column. This “Harley Days” on April 27. For the ensemble including flowers. They “I’ll get Bobby and Bernard and Buick had a floor shift. It was cool to eleventh year in a row, the Eastside started grade school not knowing a we’ll all meet you outside, OK?” dad show off to my buddies the next day. Harley Owner’s Group (HOGS) came word of English – only Polish. The said to mom while he was looking for The entire next week was spent to give rides to the residents. Although Sisters of St. Joseph took care of that my baby brother. with me giving “guided tours” of the weather didn’t cooperate, the problem quickly. The Sadowski family stood arm- the Buick. One or two pals per visit. residents still had fun. I shall always remember the in-arm staring at the behemoth black We’d sit in all the seats and test the “It’s an opportunity to see something day dad drove a huge black car into car. No one spoke for a minute. We windows. The wing windows for the very unique going on in our community our earthen driveway – it looked were awestruck. front seat were the air conditioners of as residents, most of whom are in their like a funeral hearse to me. I was an Mom broke the silence. “It the forties' cars. This Buick had a soft 80s, 90s, and even a few in their 100s, excited lad of fourteen years who looks nice, Sod.” Sod was a term of fabric front seat that held three adults are hoisted from their wheelchairs was beginning to believe we’d be the endearment - a diminutive of our comfortably. Three adults or four onto the Harleys and taken for a ride,” only family on the block without a surname. “Is it easy to drive?” kids easily sat in the back. We would said Arlene Carter, Director of the car. After all it was now the year of “Why of course it is,” answered open the hood - from both sides. Providence Marianwood Foundation. the Lord 1953. I thought, “It’s about dad. Come on, I drive us around We’d marvel at the gigantic size of The heavy downpour canceled the time.” the block. And, not to worry about the straight-eight engine. And, those rides this year, but residents still posed “How much did it cost dad?” I dinner, we’ll be right back in a jiffy.” shiny chrome bumpers…and I loved by the Harley’s or got on board. They asked with a lift in my voice. Dad opened the large doors - four the wide white-walled tires. are looking forward to riding at the next “I paid Brussario a $100 for it.” of them. Bobby and I got into the When I turned of legal age for a Harley Days event on September 28. Dad beamed with pride that must have back seat while mom scooted into the license, I took my driving road test in Providence Marianwood offers lit up the entire house. He looked like passenger seat. Dad shut three doors a Chevy. Dad had sold the 1939 Buick skilled nursing, rehab, and transitional the characters I’d seen in the movie and walked around the front of car, to a shop buddy for fifty dollars. care services. For information, call theaters whose vest buttons popped his face sporting the widest grin of I miss that Buick till this day. v 425- 391-2800. v

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