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Complimentary Copy South Valley Your companion for living well in the northwest March 2021 Home & Garden Issue Kari’s Kitchen A Circle of Life Lined with Love . and Food Spring Create a Clean Great Simplify & Garden Downsize – with Ease and Safety Visit us northwest50plus.com | Find us on social media @northwest50plus Prepare for power outages with a Generac home standby generator REQUEST A FREE QUOTE! 8773262519 FREE7-Year Extended Warranty* A $695 Value! O er valid February 15 - June 6, 2021 Special Financing Available Subject to Credit Approval *To qualify, consumers must request a quote, purchase, install and activate the generator with a participating dealer. Call for a full list of terms and conditions. VOLUME 25 | NUMBER 3 OREGON’S OLDEST & LARGEST 50+ PUBLICATION 3 Editions serving adults aged 50 and older Portland-Metro-Vancouver, Marion-Polk-Coast, Weathering together South Valley: Linn-Benton Lane Wow! We’re welcoming the spring in the Northwest on the heels of the biggest snow/ice/outage event in 60 years! While JENNIFER MCCAMMON Publisher many struggled, we were once again reminded how big the 971-200-9686 heart of this community really is. Folks checked on each other, [email protected] made supply runs and shared provisions, opened their homes DOREEN HARROLD to unexpected guests and more. Office Manager/Sales Assistant Times like this really illustrate how on the coldest days, we [email protected] are surrounded by love, warmth and safety. We hope you and PAUL DELURY yours fared well. Account Executive Now . let spring begin! 541.870.5484 [email protected] It’s time for spring cleaning, simplifying, and for many, moving or downsizing. Our home and garden coverage TAY JUNCKER Lead Designer features tips, ideas and information that provides great [email protected] resources, ideas and inspiration. 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I hope you’ll join us for Subscriptions $26/year | $49/2 years this special celebration. Printed by Eagle Web Press, Salem, OR Thank you for being part of the 50Plus family. Here’s to the joy of springtime renewal! Northwest 50 Plus is published monthly and locally owned and operated by Eagle Newspapers, Inc. The entire contents of this publication are copyrighted by Northwest 50 Plus. Any use of all or any part of this publication is prohibited without written consent of the publisher. Find us on social media @Northwest 50 Plus NORTHWEST 50 PLUS | SOUTH VALLEY March 2021 3 15 Free Master Gardener Series Experts teach Oregon gardeners a variety of great classes, addressing issues like wildfires, climate change and pollinators. 16 contents Create a Great Garden – with Ease and Safety Grace Peterson shares two Home & Garden Issue favorite books to help keep gardens beautiful with ease and 8 while staying safe. Spring Clean, Simplify, Downsize without 5 overwhelm Danger, Dames, Double O Seven While spring brings the urge to perfect one’s nest, the tasks Homage and a look back the late, can be overwhelming. Pamela great Sean Connery’s career. Slaughter offers expert advice on making smart choices and 18 For the ♥ of Pets – preventing overwhelm. Hope Found Me 10 Color Me Home Painting is the easiest, fastest, most affordable way to transform your home. Not surprisingly, Miller Paint’s color of year is uplifting, evoking comfort and serenity. 12 Fitness – Don’t get 6 Sidelined by Your Home Project The Circle Home and garden projects can be just as strenuous as a conventional of life lined workout. Stretch and warm up to with love ... prevent strain or injury. and food 14 Kari’s Kitchen was born Wheel Pad Home Units in the schoolyard, when Keeping Families Together waiting parents mused, Discover how tiny homes and “What’s for dinner.” attachments can make any property universally accessible. 4 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS | SOUTH VALLEY March 2021 Danger, Dames, Double-O-Seven by Randal C. Hill “Bond. James Bond.” Young first tutored the rough- Film critic Peter Bradshaw around-the-edges actor to display Bonce wrote, “It is the most wit, charm and style as the famous self-introduction from charismatic Bond character. And any character in movie history. while Connery stood 6’2”, all the Three cool monosyllables. Bond sets and furniture were built Surname first, a little curtly... slightly smaller than in real life then, as if an afterthought, to make Agent 007 appear even the first name, and again the larger and more imposing. surname. Connery carried it off with an icily disdainful In Dr. No, Bond is sent to style, in full evening dress Jamaica to investigate the [and] with a cigarette hanging murder of a fellow agent and his from his lips.” secretary. He eventually becomes involved with a mysterious and UK writer Ian Fleming’s novel sinister nuclear scientist named Dr. No provided the signature Dr. No was first published in Dr. Julius No (Joseph Wiseman), elements for the later James Bond 1958. Four years later, the silver whose goal is world domination. movie offerings — its distinctive screen treatment gave movie fans theme music, head-spinning, high- Along the way, Bond worldwide a chance to see, for octane action sequences, alluring must contend with such the first time, Fleming’s fearless, young women, and even Bond’s inconveniences as a “deadly” dashing, lady-loving Agent 007 preference for vodka martinis — tarantula (tarantulas aren’t in a highly entertaining bit of shaken, not stirred. celluloid melodrama. poisonous), flame throwers, flying bullets, severe beatings Footnote: Upon release, United Its handsome star was a and a near drowning. Adding Artists had to alter the title to 32-year-old newcomer with a thin to the complications is a trio serve foreign markets. In South resume. The Scottish breakout of temptresses — the Oriental Korea, for example, the film’s name actor, Sean Connery, was born charmer Miss Taro (Zena would have literally translated to in 1930 to an Edinburgh factory Marshall), casino denizen Sylvia 007 Murder Number, and in Japan worker and a cleaning woman. Trench (Eunice Gayson), and the it would have been, We Don’t As an adult, Connery worked as bikini-clad, seashell-collecting Want Doctors! a milkman, truck driver, lifeguard, siren Honey Ryder (Ursula artist’s model and coffin polisher Andress). "Do you lose as gracefully as (!) before finding fame and you win?" fortune via James Bond. Dr. No doesn’t appear until an hour and 27 minutes into Bond: "I don't know. I never lost." As licensed-to-kill Agent 007, the story. At one point, the no- our hero was about as sexy and goodnik tries in vain to persuade Thank you for the adventures, dangerous as one gets. But 007 to join his evil organization. Mr. Bond. before the moviegoing public Dr. No huffs, “I thought you had was allowed to see (and swoon some style, Mr. Bond, but I see Sean Connery over) Connery, director Terence you’re just a stupid policeman.” 8/25/30~10/31/20 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS | SOUTH VALLEY February 2021 5 A circle of life lined with love ... by Candy Puterbaugh and food Looking back over her 52 years, Kari Anderton says she was always gathering ingredients for the successful at-home cooking school, Kari’s Kitchen, that she started 10 years ago. The ingredients came from a mix of memories: . family Christmas Eve crab dinners, a tradition of her grandfather’s, a commercial fisherman . almond crescent cookies, canned pickled herring and currant jam, specialties of her Norwegian grandmother’s . homemade breads, jams, canned fruits, and daily family dinners prepared by her creative mother A passion for cooking and a bubbling personality sealed her recipe for success. “As a kid, I didn’t really cook myself but was surrounded by good food,” says Kari. “I liked the outdoors, climbing trees, picking berries and gardening. I didn’t really see Kari’s Kitchen coming when I was younger.” It all started when her two sons were in grade school. “I’d chat on the playground with other parents,” Kari recalls. “The conversation centered around, ‘What’re you cooking for dinner?’ We needed to come up with menus. I liked to cook so I started doing in-home workshops with hands-on cooking.” Up to 15 people came to Kari’s home Monday nights to learn how to make appetizers, two entrees and a dessert. After cooking, they dined together. 6 NORTHWEST 50 PLUS | SOUTH VALLEY March 2021 After three years of leading workshops for book “I love the whole process, but it’s a ton of prep groups, girls’ nights out, and corporate team work!” she says. “I find recipes, tweak them, test building, Kari's father became ill. She took time off them, and fix them for my family’s reactions.