50th Kinetics Vol. 37, No. 5 May 2018 See pages 12, 28-29 FREE Remembering the Glory Days Rubbing Elbows With the Stars By Susan Rosso

If you can picture Princess Grace and Henry Kissinger whizzing by in a golf cart, you might not be on acid, but on the 20th Century-Fox movie lot in Los Angeles, where I worked in the 1980s and ’90s. The former Grace Kelly and the ex-U.S. secre- tary of State were Fox board members, and the set was Dolly Street, scene for “Hello, Dolly” (1969) and “Singin’ in the Rain” (1952). Our office build- ings doubled as movie sets, complete with clothes hanging outside a New York tenement. Queen Eliz- abeth visited during the worst storm of the season, her special gown featuring California poppies. My first job was in 1980 in publicity for “The Empire Strikes Back” followed by “Return of the Jedi,” “Nine to Five,” “Cannonball Run” and many others. Later, I switched to TV, working on “The Fall Guy” and multiple pilots. PLAY BALL! The Bear River Bears, kneeling (from left) are Willie Knapp, Jack McHenry, Nina The Fox lot was a dream, with our own mov- Greenberg and Rick Mitchell. Standing (from left): Bill Brittain, Mike Conboy, Jamie Assini, Keith ie theater and a commissary for all, Mel Brooks Morison, Rob McCreath, Paul Woodland, Russ Jones and Jim Blick. Ted Pease photo. holding forth daily at his table, and lavish holiday parties on a sound stage, with dancing. A Jack Rabbit Leads the Bears Prior to Fox, I was in the production office at Paramount TV, on simultaneous productions of By Paul Woodland “Laverne & Shirley,” “Happy Days” and “Mork & A “jack rabbit start” is a rapid, has it — was so quick to bed at like he was stealing home, and Mindy,” where Robin Williams began his career — sudden movement of accelera- night that when he flipped off the fall asleep before the room got the glory days of sitcoms, for sure. tion. It is an apt description of light switch he could race across dark. Continued on Page 6 Jack McHenry, who — legend the room, slide under the covers Continued on Page 7 SPECIAL 32-PAGE ISSUE HEALTHY LIVING HSRC LETTERS Published by About Dementia Adult Day Cares Humboldt Housing HUMBOLDT SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER Page 5 Page15 Pages 30-31 Page 2 Focus: Glory Days May 2018 • Senior News Tedtalks: These Are the Days, My Friends By Ted Pease Published monthly since 1981 by here is something poignant and bittersweet about the idea For example, Patty Holbrook of south Eureka will never of “glory days” — times in our lives that we look back on forget being upstaged by Marilyn Monroe on the set of “Some Tand say, with a little sigh, “Those were the days.” Like It Hot” in 1959 (page 3). Circulation 13,000 Rock ’n roller Bruce Springsteen captures the idea in his Sue Blick’s glory days involved grueling and rewarding All opinions expressed in Senior great 1984 song, “Glory Days,” like this: triathlon races with family members (page 4). News are those of the writer and not necessarily of the Humboldt Senior When asked about his glory days, Doug Vieyra of Iaqua Resource Center. HSRC does not I had a friend was a big baseball player came up with several memories (one featuring a rhinoceros), endorse any products, services or candidates advertised in Senior Back in high school such as the one and only time he tried surfing (page 9). News. All advertising is paid for by He could throw that speedball by you Jack “Rabbit” McHenry, 80, headlines this issue because he the businesses involved, which are totally responsible for content. Make you look like a fool boy is still living the dream. The one-time Eureka High three-sport Saw him the other night at this roadside bar letterman is a veteran left-fielder for the Bear River Bears, and Advertising: Call Elizabeth I was walking in, he was walking out has competed for 20 straight years in the World Senior Games. Whitley at 443-9747, ext. 1227, or He’s still swinging the bat this season. visit www.humsenior.org. We went back inside sat down had a few drinks But all he kept talking about was If asked, I might say, “Well, when I was 19 — for reasons Submissions: Senior News may that now escape me — my friend Billy Waller and I rode bicy- accept unsolicited readers’ stor­ies, Glory days, well, they’ll pass you by up to 400 words. Contact the editor, Glory days, in the wink of a young girl’s eye cles from Seattle to Atlanta.” Or, “There was the year, 1974, Ted Pease, at 443-9747, ext. 1226, when I played la guitar américaine in the Paris subway for or [email protected] at least Glory days, glory days one month prior to the desired change.” Or, “I was working for the AP in Little Rock, Arkan- publication issue for details. sas in 1981, and covered a guy named Bill Clinton.” What creates our “glory days,” anyway? Why do some Subscriptions: Subscriptions memories last longest, while other events fade? Glory days? I don’t know. But they are good memories. I are $20 a year. Credit cards and never liked bicycles after that trip. But I still have that guitar. personal checks are accepted. “Forgetting is the common fate of most of our experiences,” Call 443-9747 or mail to 1910 says psychobiologist James L. McGaugh of the University of When I was in college, all I wanted to do was to write for California St., Eureka, CA 95501. California,Irvine. a newspaper, and I became a cub reporter for the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript Telegram in 1978. It was a blast. Eventual- So memory is selective. Often, while we don’t remember Joyce Hayes, Publisher ly, I turned to teaching, not doing, journalism. I loved that, too. details of events that are objectively the most important of our TED PEASE, Editor lives, we can clearly picture that Teddy bear, the day Jenny fell Now, 40 years after my college dreams, I’ve finally gotten 707-443-9747, ext. 1226 off her bike, or a 6th birthday party. back to what I really wanted to do in the first place. Editing [email protected] Senior News is a blast. These are my glory days. For many people, the glory days occurred back in their ELIZABETH WHITLEY, teens and 20s, when they were young and new and their lives Sure, we remember shining moments of the past, but with Advertising Coordinator happiness and a smile that stays on our lips, even as we get 707-443-9747, ext. 1227 were ahead of them. But the contributors to this month’s [email protected] Senior News don’t see their glory days as high points that will that far-away look. “We’re not done yet,” we say. HSRC Board: Jim Davis, president, never come again. 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In This Issue On Set with Marilyn in ‘Some Like It Hot’ Glory Days By Patty Holbrook Features When director Billy Wilder was get- There is a raucous pajama party scene rities visited the set, like Vic Damone, Jack ‘Rabbit’ & the Bears 1 ting ready to shoot a film starring Mari- with Monroe and Lemmon in the train’s who relished singing in front of the Hollywood Days...... 1 lyn Monroe, with Tony Curtis and Jack upper berth. That foot going up the Hollywood bigwigs. Marilyn’s Piano Player..... 3 Lemmon playing two male musicians ladder? Mine. That ass leaning into the The day Sammy Davis Jr. came by The Triathlete...... 4 fleeing the Chicago mob, the musicians’ melee? Mine. My first closeups! I was and sang with me was the glory day of Waikiki in the ’60s ...... 9 union demanded that half of the band be on my way to stardom. my piano-playing career. What an honor Team Melvin...... 12 real musicians, not extras. The “Some Like It Hot” set was the to accompany this magnificent enter- ‘For the Glory!’...... 28-29 Being a union piano player, I tainer. The next day, I sat reading COLUMNS tried out. The movie was “Some in a far corner of the huge sound Tedtalks: Glory Days...... 2 Like It Hot” (1959). stage. Davis threaded his way over cables, past light stands, wardrobe The Doc: Memory...... 5 A bunch of us girls were ar- ranged on a brightly lit stage. racks and makeup tables to find Goodspeed: Every Day.... 6 Wilder looked us over. I sat at a me and shake my hand. He joked Kellermann: Madeleine... 8 piano while the other girls were that we should go on the road Heckel: Wisdom...... 10 handed trombones and clarinets. together. It was an encounter I will Rainwater-Gish: Trek On.2 4 Somehow I was chosen, signed a never forget. CALENDARS contract, and agreed to become a Toward the end of the film, Senior Centers...... 16-17 platinum blonde. I was directly behind Marilyn Community Events...... 25 I reported at 6 a.m. to Goldwyn Monroe as she sat atop my piano singing “I’m Through With Love.” HSRC NEWS Studios, where a lavish breakfast buffet awaited. Lemmon and Cur- I would have to be in her close-up! Adult Day Health Cares. 15 But Billy Wilder shouted, in his Firewood Wanted ...... 18 tis were there, too, in another area, getting into girdles, chest padding, thick German accent, “Will the A New Kind of Care...... 19 dresses, blonde wigs, high heels piano player please move to the & ETC. . . . right? You’re in the shot.” There and makeup. By 9 a.m., every- went my career. Try Mushrooms...... 5 one was on the set, ready to roll. Bridgeville Ruckus ...... 8 Unfortunately, Marilyn Monroe Hmmph. That Marilyn Monroe Backstage with Myrtle .. 11 wasn’t. She didn’t arrive until late was such a scene-stealer. PACE’s Laughter Man..... 14 afternoon, and it wouldn’t be the — Love Springs Eternal...... 21 last time that happened. Humor & the Press...... 22 In the film, Monroe sings Patty Holbrook of Eureka is The Ukelalians ...... 23 “Runnin’ Wild” with the band on the piano half of Holbrook and Patty Holbrook is still enjoying her glory days. Bear, who performed for years in Redefining ‘Old’...... 26 a train. What to do with the piano Ted Pease photo. the Eureka Inn’s Palm Lounge. Local Energy Choice...... 27 player? Give her a saxophone and perch her atop a passenger seat. A She has played piano with local Humboldt Then & Now..29 studio musician coached me for a week hottest ticket in town. Between takes, I swing bands, and performs regularly Opinion/Letters...... 30-31 on how to finger the sax that I wasn’t played jazz piano with two of the real at the Ingomar Club. She recently Coming Next Month really playing. Marilyn wasn’t really musicians in the band, bass and drums, took up the ukulele and plays with the playing her ukulele, either. to entertain the crew. Sometimes celeb- Fogtown Strummers. ANIMAL STORIES “I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any ‘Good Old Days,’ there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, ‘Don’t look at me. I just got here myself.’” —Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007), author. Page 4 Focus: Glory Days May 2018 • Senior News Running, Biking & Swimming for Family Glory By Sue Blick

In July 2004, my husband and I The glory of this experience is that were cheerleaders for our two daugh- it began with many doubts that were ters, competing in the Woman’s transformed into accomplishments, Danskin Triathlon in Pleasant Prairie, which built my confidence in many Wisconsin. After they finished the ways. That, in itself, is glorious. race, they said, “Next year, we want But glory days don’t last forever. you to join us, Mom.” My reply was, As my back and hip problems wors- “Yeah, sure. Right.” ened, my doctor suggested that I con- The triathlon is a grueling race in tinue running, cycling and swimming, three parts — a half-mile swim, fol- but not all on the same day. lowed by a 13-mile bike ride and then So, my last triathlon was at our a 3-mile run. It is not for the faint of 2010 family reunion. Family and heart. friends participated, including all But after lots of urging and my three of our daughters, who complet- husband’s gift of a YMCA member- ed the full race. I did the quarter-mile ship, I got serious. Before work, I swim. My husband did the 13-mile swam laps, and, after work, rode a bike ride. And our friend, Mara, did stationary bike and ran on a treadmill. the 3-mile run. When our Wisconsin weather finally I cherish the memories of those warmed up, I swam with our daughter glory days as I gaze at photos, souve- in a local lake. nirs and my journal of an activity that I was amazed at how good I was has been a focus of our family for the feeling mentally, physically and spiri- past 34 years. tually. It was a new chapter in my life My husband, Jim, and I followed that I would now classify as my glory GET INTO THE RACE — That’s what Sue Blick, then age 58, decided to two of our daughters and their fami- days. do in 2005, flanked at her first triathlon by Liza Buchheister (left) and lies to Humboldt in 2016. After two The next July, 2005, three of us daughter Sheli Benson. Photo courtesy of Sue Blick. hip replacement surgeries, I still enjoy were ready (or not) for this challenge swimming, biking and walking in — our daughter Sheli, friend Liza 58, was in an “older” rookie group. “The woman who starts this race is beautiful Northern California — but Buchheister and me. We entered in I was very nervous. Before the not the same woman who finishes the not all on the same day. different categories. Sheli started with start, I asked them to make sure the race.” And they’re right. As I crossed — other cancer survivors, our friend was gates weren’t locked before I finished. the finish line after my first triathlon, I Sue Blick, 70, relives her glory days in an advanced group, and I, at age The Danskin Triathlon motto is, truly felt like a new woman. and makes new ones in McKinleyville.

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ASK THE DOCTOR Mushrooms Are Good for You Scientists are always looking for which components in which fungi Memory and What Matters connections between diet and health, may be helpful to treat which illness- and one promising ingredient of a es. But some mushrooms already By Jennifer Heidmann, M.D. healthy diet might be mushrooms. have been shown to be beneficial in “Mushrooms have been used in joint pain, bone health, cholesterol n 1906, Auguste Deter died with Goals of care should be discussed Eastern medicine for centuries to treat and certain kinds of cancer. Alzheimer’s dementia. It wasn’t early in the disease (e.g., completing everything from asthma to gout,” Studies have isolated nutrients Iyet named that; Deter was Dr. Alois advance directives, and expressing reports National Public Radio. “Now including selenium, vitamin D, potas- Alzheimer’s first patient. Her case what is important to you before they’re being marketed in the West as sium and inflammation-fighting com- was a rare one, in that she was so dementia progresses and you can no functional or medicinal mushrooms pounds called beta glucans. “Chronic young (56 when she died), and had longer speak for yourself). Financial that can prevent cancer or stimulate inflammation can contribute to many an autosomal dominant genetic planning may need to occur, and higher brain function.” diseases of aging, such as cancer, predisposition (her genes were the early support and education can be In Malaysia, researchers are Parkinson’s disease, and dementia,” main cause). offered to patients and family. studying nutrients found in mush- the report says. Dr. Alzheimer’s slides of her We do not yet have a specific way rooms, which some are calling “the In health food stores, mushroom brain tissue were recently rediscov- to prevent Alzheimer’s disease. But superheroes of the fungi kingdom.” extracts, high in antioxidants, have ered and studied, and her specific there are things we can do to reduce Mushroom scientist Viki Sabaratnam appeared in various forms, including gene mutation damage to our is looking at mushroom compounds in teas and infusions. was identified, “Dementia is not part of brains starting that might help fend off dementia. For more on these studies, do a reported in the early in life, thus There are some 2,000 different Google search for “NPR Mushrooms journal “Lancet ‘normal aging.’” reducing the species of mushrooms, and scientists Are Good For You.” Neurology” in chance of other have a long way to go to identify —Ted Pease 2012. or additional Dementia more commonly de- causes of dementia. Alcohol, drugs velops after age 65, with increasing and tobacco should be avoided or risk with advancing age. There are minimized. Risk of head injuries many potential causes of dementia, and concussions should be reduced. with Alzheimer’s (involving specific Controlling illnesses like high findings on brain tissue studies and blood pressure, high cholesterol and imaging) being the most common. diabetes can help. Healthy diet and H A P P Y Dementia is not part of “normal regular exercise likely reduce risk of aging.” It refers to loss of memory brain damage as well. and cognition that affects ability to There is a lot of energy and function in daily life. research being put into Alzheimer’s If you are concerned about de- disease and other types of demen- Mothers Day mentia in yourself or a loved one, tia. We are learning more about the ask your doctor. There are screening cellular and genetic basis of disease, Join us for a special Mother’s Day brunch tests, and sometimes those will lead and clinical trials are looking at to more involved testing. Although potential treatments. Support and Sunday, May 13th Alzheimer’s disease is not currently information can be found at the curable, and we don’t have very Alzheimer’s Association web site, effective medications/treatments, alz.org, and caregiver support can be it remains important to diagnose it found via the Redwood Caregiver as early as possible. This allows for Resource Center, at redwoodcrc.org. Eureka McKinleyville potentially reversible and treatable It can be helpful to attend classes 1450 Broadway 2165 Central Ave. causes of dementia to be identified, on caregiving for someone with de- (707) 442-6325 (707) 839-3636 and allows people and their caregiv- Continued on Page 13 ers to plan ahead. www.eurekanaturalfoods.com Page 6 Focus: Glory Days May 2018 • Senior News

Heavens to Betsy— By Betsy Goodspeed RUBBING ELBOWS . . . From Page 1

Later, I remember taking notes eight years. He was the nicest person Every Day from a new, young producer whose in the business, the guy who created idea sounded really dumb to me, but the Alex Keaton character on “Family turned out to be “Splash,” a huge hit. Ties” for Michael J. Fox, then multi- a New Glory The lunch highlight there was Or- ple pilots and sitcoms, before leaving son Welles dramatically swooshing to do “King of Queens” at MGM/ think of old ways are good enough for them. through in a big cape. Sony. And we came close to a spinoff glory as How could that be? I had no connections, so how did I of Krusty the Clown with Matt Groe- I ning of “The Simpsons.” a sensa- I’m glad I felt compelled to write get there? Always practical, I decided tion rather my memoirs, because in sorting when I moved from San Francisco What fun it was! Mostly. I feel than a through the evidence that my life to LA that if I was going to do office lucky to have such great work mem- result. Happiness and success can was magical, I can see the difference work, it should be in entertainment. ories, and am so happy I followed be fleeting, but in my view, supreme between the trivial and a few histor- Remember Kelly Girls? Well, Fox and my instinct to work in such a magical satisfaction — or glory — is born of ic gems that my great-grandchildren Paramount had their own temp pools, environment. productivity. might treasure. so we were able to move among jobs — and productions, all within one studio. Over the years, I have defined If I were asked to name some- Susan Rosso, 71, of Eureka is “glory” in different ways. And that’s thing that stands out in my life, it I ended my time at Fox working coordinator for Redwood Coast always changing. would be the discovery that gifts in Shirley Temple’s bungalow with Village, a non-profit that helps When I was a young performer, have to be given away in order for the same comedy writer-producer for seniors stay in their homes. a standing ovation made me feel them to multiply. I wrote a song to glorious. In about 1960, my husband keep me reminded of that: had just replaced my manual type- writer with an electric one before There’s something I want to give The best care he left for Tokyo on a business trip. you, A friend who arrived to take me A melody that lives to be found combined with the latest to lunch said, “I came to keep you With poetry that’s wrapped in from being lonely and I find you in digital hearing aid silence your glory.” Trisha Ostermeier, Au.D. William Speer, Au.D. Until a voice can make it sound. technology That was then. Now my electric Doctor of Audiology Doctor of Audiology Please let me have expression typewriter has been replaced by the hearing tests • hearing aids • custom ear plugs glory of a computer and two-sided In order to be fully alive, black-and-white printer. A mu- Because without a sense of sic-writing program stores songs creation, PC to go with my novels that could be All our dreams would die. films, and everything can be sent There’s something so very special anywhere online, so it’s paperless. In how each child is given a power, It’s where I conduct my “Write Hear what you’ve been missing. But unless the gift is given away, Right Rite.” It never will live for an hour. When I retired, publishing a novel 831 Harris Street (J & Harris) • Eureka • 832-4919 was a glorious cause for celebra- Or a day or a year tion. Now, every day is filled with Or, perhaps, an eternity… miracles because I’m able to live at — “I wish there was a way to know you’re in home and make choices to prove my Betsy Goodspeed, 91, recently mind is still working. These are my moved out of an assisted living the good old days before you’ve actually glory days, too. facility and bought a home in For me, I think the first sign of Eureka, because she’s still got left them.” senility is when people say that the some living to do. —Andy Bernard, TV character, “The Office.” Senior News • May 2018 Focus: Glory Days Page 7

RUN, JACK RABBIT, RUN . . . From Page 1 dreams to stand still long top of his season, he received is still playing winning soft- enough to tell stories. a Huntsman Endurance Award ball at the age of 80. That’s For McHenry, 80, these are for 20 years of participation in impressive.” still his glory days. the World Senior Games. McHenry takes the field Last year, McHenry played Jack “Rabbit” McHenry is again this season as the oldest left field for the Bear Riv- a slow-pitch softball legend active player in the associa- er Bears in the Humboldt in Humboldt County, but his tion, but he shows no signs Classics Senior Softball story isn’t over yet. He trains of slowing down. In fact, the Association Slow Pitch-Wood year-round in the gym and rest of the league is just trying Bat League, which includes on the track in an effort to to keep pace. six teams and more than 100 maintain his leg strength and Long may you run, Rabbit, players, ages 58 to 80-plus. his renowned quickness. The run. The Bears won 20 games “Rabbit” often pinch runs for — Jack “Rabbit” McHenry tees up another fat pitch in front of and lost four in 2017, which other players on his team. Dave Woodland, 64, of catcher Rick Mitchell at the Bears’ first practice of the 2018 was good enough to take the “Jack is in great shape and Eureka, is a player (Bears’ season at Cooper’s Gulch Park in Eureka. Ted Pease photo. league championship. he runs faster than most men centerfielder and leadoff It was McHenry’s fabled The Rabbit could have Then, last fall, McHenry 20 years younger,” a Bears hitter), and commissioner speed that helped him earn a rested on his laurels, but Jack headed to St. George, Utah, to teammate said. “He is an of the Humboldt Classics varsity letter in three sports at isn’t content to lounge around compete in the 2017 Hunts- inspiration to his teammates Senior Softball Association Eureka High — football, bas- regaling people with tales of man World Senior Games. and a role model to other For info on senior softball, ketball and baseball — plus his glory days on the field of McHenry’s softball team won members of the association. call 441-9424, or visit the nickname Jack “Rabbit” dreams. That’s because he is the gold medal in the 70+ di- He practices good sportsman- humboldtseniorsoftball.org. McHenry. far too busy fulfilling those vision and, to put a cherry on ship, hustles, keeps it fun, and MAY 2018 PROMOTIONS

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thought I’d gone to heaven. Here thank-you note for a child’s thank- In about 1952-1954, before elec- knew Nancy was going out for the I was on Manhattan’s West Side you note for writing her books. “Oh, tricity came to the Bridgeville area, evening. They collected every empty Iin the cavernous, Old World apart- I couldn’t type thank-you notes,” PG&E sent out survey crews who can they could find and, before going ment of the great and powerful she explained. boarded with our family in our to bed, they stacked them in a pyra- Madeleine L’Engle, author of so Luci urged me, “Sing something two-story, five-bedroom home. mid at the top of the stairs. many beloved books, including “A for Madeleine.” After staring at For the most part, these were lively The house was dark when she came Wrinkle in Time” (now a movie). Luci, I realized she meant it. young men just out of college who home. She took her shoes off to be In Madeleine’s living room, Madeleine sat attentively while I were enjoying country life. as quiet as possible and tiptoed up two greyhounds sprawled across sang one verse of an Irish poem I’d My mom cooked them breakfast, the stairs. Of course, she kicked the sofas, while 20-foot-high walls put to music. packed them lunches in a big card- whole pyramid of cans over, sending displayed paintings floor to ceiling. She dialed the phone: “Listen to board box, and then she went to work them crashing down the stairs with a She breezed inside ahead of us — this,” she said, with no introduction. at Henry Cox & Son General store loud, clanging racket. “ForGIVE the mess. You MUST sit To me: “Repeat.” in Bridgeville. The store closed at Immediately, the PG&E guys all down, while I — Oh Luci, will you 5 p.m., and mom got home shortly jumped out of bed, shouting, Be qui- Dutifully, I sang again. pour the wine?” Luci Shaw was our before the PG&E boarders arrived to et! Can’t a person get a night’s sleep? mutual friend, the reason I’d been To the phone, she said: “That’s prepare dinner for 12 people, includ- What the heck is going on? etc., etc. good, isn’t it?” invited that afternoon. ing our family. All this woke up my folks, who, She continued from the kitchen: To me: “He wants you to sing Nancy, a local high school girl, seeing the cause of the ruckus, gave “Would you like crackers and paté? another verse.” stayed with us to help with house- the men a stern lecture on annoying We MUST let Margaret experience To the phone: “Yes, it’s Margaret, work, making beds, doing laundry, the help. the SALON.” the one I told you about; she’s just food preparation for the evening Needless to say, there was retalia- At the time, I was 30 years old, written a book on Hopkins. I’ve got meal, setting tables and watching my tion. Which is another story. a fresh-faced author with my first the manuscript here.” sister and me while mom was at the — submitted manuscript just accepted I thought that to “experience the store. Evenings were filled with radio, by Luci, the publisher. Luci had SALON” in Madeleine’s apart- reading and telling stories. Jessie Wheeler, 73, of Cutten is a recently doubled as the photogra- ment was to mark the launch of my Practical jokes also were very big Bridgeville historian and a member pher for my book research project career as a famous writer. I thought part of entertainment at that time. of the Senior News Community through England, Wales and Ireland. exciting times would only build One evening, the guys apparently Advisory Board. Normally, my days consisted of from there ’til I was very old, like walking my young kids to school in Madeleine. New York, writing at home for five Sadly, no. Through the interven- hours, and picking them up again. ing decades I’ve published books, This Button Saves Lives! This was different. articles and paraphernalia. But that We wandered down Madeleine’s single afternoon, as a writer, was • Police hallway to the salon, an enormous, my Gloriest Day. • Fire light-filled room such as the one — • Medical Hemingway found in Gertrude Margaret Kellermann’s first book Your Local Stein’s Parisian apartment. There, published nationally was “A Holy magically, were Madeleine’s writing Medical Alert Provider Struggle: Unspoken Thoughts of Starting at $29.95 per month desk (papers everywhere) and three Hopkins” (WaterBrook, 1992, GetEasyCall.com chairs. 1994). Madeleine L’Engle wrote a *Order before April 30 and get a free locking Keybox! She showed me a postcard she blurb for the back cover. Inquire was writing — longhand — a at bluelakestudio.net/contact. 707-445-9911 Senior News • May 2018 Focus: Glory Days Page 9 The Glories and Hazards of the Surfing Life By Doug Vieyra There was a time when I was young I did. As it was my right wave. face and immediately began looking and foolish. No, let me take that first venture at the When the right for my surfboard. It was nowhere to back. Youth does not perceive itself sport, I did have some wave did come, I be found. And the island looked to be as foolish. Rather, let me say I was trepidation. But, as I caught it and rode it about a mile away. A passing luxury young and adventurous. said, I was young and like the wind. The liner was closer. In the early ’60s, I lived in Ha- foolish (strike that — thrill was exhilarat- I treaded water for a half-hour or waii in a shared home with other “adventurous”). ing. I saw the island’s so, until a passing surfer yelled, “Hey, ex-servicemen, two blocks from the After some time beach off in the dis- brodder! Dat yo board?” With glee — world-famous Waikiki Beach. Ev- paddling out to sea, tance, and the famous and relief — I swam to the surfboard eryone in that house surfed, and our and with an ocean Diamond Head reach- and climbed on, digging my fingers house was filled with surfboards of current helping to pull ing up to the sky in deep into the fiberglass. salute to my courage. various sizes and configurations. me out even farther, It was my first — and last — big And then it hap- I, however, did NOT surf. And I I finally had reached surfing adventure. the area that the pened. A huge wave had no particular inclination to do so. seasoned surfers had One-time-only surfer Doug came up behind me — But after some time had elapsed, I demarcated as the best Vieyra can still dress for the and knocked me off Doug Vieyra, 75, splits his time finally did pick up a surfboard from starting point to catch beach, but that’s about it. my board. As I tum- between an old Victorian in Eureka, Ted Pease photo. the stack of four that filled our living “the big one.” I felt bled into the churning and living off the grid in Iaqua, deep room, and headed out to the beach. somewhat reassured that the area was waves, trying not to suck in seawater, in the mountains of eastern Humboldt To get the really good waves, one filled with a number of other seasoned I thought, “This doesn’t look good.” County. had to venture far out to sea, which surfers. All were waiting for just the Eventually, I did return to the sur-

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John Heckel, Ph.D., a join today in-club or at planetfitness.com Jeste defines that wisdom as a regular Senior News columnist, 3300 Broadway Blvd. | Eureka, CA | (707) 492-5353 “multi-component personality trait is a former HSU theater and Must be 18 years old, or 13 with parent/guardian. Home club only. Billed monthly to a checking account. State and local taxes may that includes empathy, compassion, film professor with a doctorate apply. Subject to annual fee. Offer available at participating locations only. *Included with membership. Planet Fitness locations are self-knowledge, openness to new in psychology. independently owned and operated. ©2018, PFIP, LLC. Senior News • May 2018 Page 11 My Fav-or-ite Things By Gail Slaughter When I got re- school reunion. At my involved in theater at own reunion, everyone 44, I was immediately had been attractive cast as an old lady. and happy — but I Well, I was 20 years didn’t think that was older than most of the very funny. So I added cast, I told myself . . jokes about the aches . until I remembered and pains of aging, that even in college, I some stolen from got those same kinds greeting cards and the of roles. internet. Those got the My group did most laughs. (“Nowa- vaudeville and par- days my back goes out odies. I was in my more than I do.”) second childhood, The Humboldt though I usually Light Opera Compa- played women much ny’s Boomer Troupe, older than I was. which I’m in, recently To make sure I got performed “The Music laughs, I wore a “Myrtle Picklesheimer” of our Lives.” The granny wig, round Photo courtesy of Gail script first featured glasses, frumpy Slaughter. an internet parody of dresses and knee-high the “Sound of Music” nylons. Did someone say “negative song, “My Favorite Things,” which stereotype”? began: I usually played the repressed “Maalox and nose drops and nee- schoolmarm type, bopping men with dles for knitting. my purse. I was relieved that older “Walkers and handrails and new women seemed to get a kick out of it. dental fittings.” At 50, I teamed with a fellow who It was funny. But at next rehearsal played a computer nerd named Irving, we got another version with posi- and I created an old-lady persona, tive aspects of aging: “Hikes in the Myrtle Picklesheimer. Myrtle still mountains whenever it strikes me . . . looked as described above, but rather reading, traveling, gardening . . . than bopping Irving, she pursued him. It ended: “Our day is our own, how Irving was “let go” from his job. great!” “I’d never let you go! Why’d they I brought both versions to my song do that?” circle of mainly seniors. They chose “Downsizing.” to sing the positive version, and “When I say downsizing,” Myrtle laughed throughout. said, “I mean when all the size I had I was surprised. And happy. on top moved down.” — Eventually I moved to McKin- leyville, where I don my Myrtle getup Gail Slaughter, 73, only on rare occasions. Myrtle often of McKinleyville, says performing would recite original poems. Her last on stage is one of her favorite Paid for by Madrone for 5th District Supervisor 2018 Committee #1398884 Don Allan, Treasurer poem was about her 50-year high things. Page 12 Focus: Glory Days May 2018 • Senior News For 37 Years, Melvin’s Glory Has Defined a Family By Dawn Thomas Tappy Nelson lives a life of Kinetic application asked for the name of our crossing of Humboldt Bay. “But we said. “Keith and I raced for a long Glory. sculpture, we wrote Melvin.” were hooked.” time, then when Dave [Rempe] joined In 1987, she became the first Until they retired five years ago, Over the 37 years, Melvin has of- us, he brought his vision for the art, woman to ACE the Kinetic Grand Tappy and Keith — who will turn 69 fered different looks — a pirate fleet and we were an even better team.” Championship, Humboldt’s annual on Day 2 of this year’s race — would in 1996, festooned with penguins in Nowadays, Team Melvin is a kinet- world-renowned race of human- spend six months back home in Lake 2012 and ’13, a Flintstones car, Chi- ic racing superstar. In 2012, Melvin powered sculptures. Fewer than half County, tuning up the machine and nese dragon, a Melvin’s Circus train, won the Kinetic Grand Championship the teams compete under ACE, which Lifetime Achievement Award, and means completing the course without The racers are exhausted. They are bedraggled Tappy, Keith and Dave have appeared cheating on race rules. “ in films about kinetic racing. If you ask the retired kindergarten and sore, but elated. Some of them are racing to For longtime racers like Tappy teacher and 65-year-old grandmother the last moment, trying to make the fastest time. Nelson, the annual silliness is both of two why she and her husband, Others are dragged across the Finish Line by grueling and therapeutic. Keith, still pedal their team’s kinetic “One of my favorite parts of racing sculpture, Melvin, she will tell you their muddy, bloody crews. Why do they do this is that from the noon whistle in Arcata that “the kinetic race community is thing? This insanity that keeps us sane? . . . for the to the finish line in Ferndale, I don’t our kinetic family.” think about anything but the race,” “Our first race was 1981 and we best reason to do anything: For the GLORY!” she said. got married in 1982,” Tappy said. — From the race website, kineticgrandchampionship.com “For three days, we put our other “Kinetics became a mainstay in our life on the back burner and we race. life. It keeps us in great physical It is great for our mental health. Most health.” important, it is fun.” creating Melvin’s art. The changing and a wolf chasing pigs in 2005. It also has kept her family close, themes and decorations sometimes — she said: from the time they were “Each one’s presentation was got pretty involved, but the machin- babies, her four children have been unique,” she said, although the basic Dawn Thomas, 51, of Santa Rosa is ery wasn’t always fancy — the first power train has always been the same on the back of the Melvin machine, a kinetic sculpture racer and author Melvin began as a sketchy bunch of — three recumbent bicycles in-line. named after a beloved truck. of the new “Kinetic Kompendium: pop-riveted box metal attached to Tappy has been something of a 50 Years of Kinetic Sculpture “‘Melvin’ was the name of a 1952 ATV wheels. pioneer in the kinetics world. GMC tow truck that I parted with in Racing.” More information at “Everything was jury-rigged, and “When I first started racing, there kinetickompendium.com 1981,” Tappy said. “When the race we used dock flotation” for the tricky were not very many women,” she

Since 1981, Team Melvin has offered many different looks. Co-pilot Tappy Nelson’s favorite might be the Flintstones- mobile in 1994, or maybe 2005’s dramatic Wolf Chasing Two Pigs. After 36 Kinetic masterpieces, it’s hard to choose. Tracy Rempe photos. Senior News • May 2018 Page 13

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Serving our community more than 20 years! “Gosh! I rode the bike an extra 5 minutes before the 1998 film starring Robin Williams. Call us for a FREE in-home consultation. and didn’t even notice,” a Redwood Coast (Yes, I’m that old.) PACE participant recently announced. “I was My wife, Rhonda, is a PACE occupational Toll Free: 877-964-2001 having so much fun.” therapist and my dance performance partner. www.paci cmr.com INSURED & In our gym at PACE, we have a “Word of We perform locally at The Arkley as part of BONDED the Day,” where we pick a silly-sounding the local ballet scene, and are often foils for Registered nurse support word and make up false definitions for it (a the good dancers. We sometimes bring our Light housekeeping • Personal care neologism for y’all English majors). Col- stage routines into the PACE gym and day Assistance with daily activities • Respite care & more leagues and day-center attendees come up center to the enjoyment (and occasional con- with words and wacky definitions. For many, sternation) of PACE participants and staff. it’s fun, and adds a little something to the day Holidays are wonderful times to take artis- that can make exercises easier. tic license to express ourselves. Halloween, in I’ve long thought there is no greater way particular, has always been a special time to to pass the time than laughing. In fact, re- “let our freak flags fly.” I’ve enjoyed dressing search is showing that laughter is indeed the as everything from a ’60s hippie to King Tut, best medicine, as magical things happen to strutting into the morning PACE meeting with our heart, our brains, and our bodies when “Walk Like An Egyptian” playing on my cell- we laugh. Abdominal muscles get a workout, phone. Kids, don’t try this at home! lungs expand, and stress quite literally exits Or, rather, on second thought, DO try this at the body, as stress hormones are broken into home. Try humor. Look for whatever it is that pieces and excreted, and blood pressure and makes you laugh. Heck, try making others blood sugar levels decline. laugh. It’s fun. From my first clinical experiences, I’ve What’s the worst that can happen — people used humor to get through some difficult might laugh? times, sometimes to the consternation of — supervisors. “Don’t try to be funny,” one once Bart Rankin, 51, of Arcata is a physical told me after I traded barbs with a surgeon. therapist with Redwood Coast PACE at (OK, perhaps that one was ill-considered, but Humboldt Senior Resource Center. He I’m no expert — I’m just a physical therapist.) performs in local theater, including in This was before Patch Adams, the physician “Alice In Wonderland” at the Arkley in The who founded the Gesundheit! Institute, made June, and in “The Wizard of Oz” at the Van using humor in medicine acceptable, and Duzen in August. MEADOWS APARTMENTS Independent Senior Living 55+ Contest: Please Fill in the Blank As development coordinator for Humboldt Announcing the Senior News “Who’s a Se- • 1 BEDROOM FLATS Senior Resource Center, Janet Ruprecht talks nior” Contest. To participate, please complete • 2 BEDROOM FLATS with a lot of people. Sometimes the topic turns this sentence: You know you’re a “senior” • TOWNHOUSES to, “When do you become a senior?” when . . . When she called to thank longtime donors Send your answers — no more than 20 • PETS WELCOME Art and Ann Jones, who have generously words, please — to Ted Pease, at tpease@ • ON-SITE LAUNDRY supported HSRC programs since 1995, Art humsenior.org, or by mail to Senior News, • ACTIVITIES said he might start using the Center’s services, HSRC, 1910 California St., Eureka 95501. now that he is almost a senior. He is 81. We’ll publish the best in the June edition of www.kkramer.com Just the week before, a mere whipper-snapper Senior News. 707-444-2919 2520 HUBBARD LANE • EUREKA of 71 said he will become a senior “someday.” Deadline: May 14, 2018. Senior News • May 2018 Page 15 1910 California Street • Eureka CA 95501 HSRC News 707 443-9747 • www.humsenior.org Adult Day Health — ‘They Really Care’ Life is never “routine” for partici- sic, exercise sessions, games, nursing “It was a lifesav- wellness issues, to pants in the Adult Day Health (ADH) and social worker contacts, and other er, actually,” Ford daily activities, games program at the Humboldt Senior Re- “person-centered care” delivered to said. “It arrived at and exercise — it’s source Center (HSRC) these days. ADH participants, Annis has helped just about the right like family, he said. Robby Annis, the ADH activities organize activities such as weekly time for me. “They really care. It coordinator, makes it his mission in field trips and a new hit — visiting “I was not in very shows.” life to keep things interesting and puppies and dogs once a month. good condition emo- “A big part of why engaging for the 45 to 50 people who Teresa Oliveri, HSRC director of tionally, mentally, people have success come to the Center every weekday Healthcare Services, is enthusiastic physically. I was just in our program is that from their homes in Fortuna, Ferndale about broadening opportunities for about a wreck.” they can socialize,” and Scotia, north to McKinleyville participants (see page 19). Now he’s a regu- Annis said. “In some and points in-between. “We are excited about some of our lar, and he wouldn’t cases, they may have The Adult Day program has a total new activities that are part of a broad- miss it, he says. been out of that for years.” of 70 participants enrolled, although er life enrichment,” she said. “The Annis credits the Bob Ford not everyone comes every day. new activities focus on education, staff of about 20 for the “Just being around “My goal is for each individual including classes, field trips, and con- program’s growing success. The way people can make a huge difference,” person to be engaged in an activity necting with others in our community. the ADH staff treats participants, from he said. “Being around happy peo- or hobby that they enjoy during their “I am especially delighted to be meeting their dietary needs at lunch ple.” time at our center,” Annis said. “I will partnering with Sequoia Humane every day, to addressing health and —Ted Pease do whatever I can to make that thing Society for ‘Puppy Day,’” she said. happen.” “I believe in the therapeutic value of And he does. connecting to companion animals.” “ For one, I don’t have to worry about going Since joining the staff last summer, Bob Ford, 84, of Eureka, has been to doctor appointments, they pick me up and Annis has brought new energy to the coming to the Adult Day program for program. In addition to the usual mu- about eight years. bring me home and,...schedule everything.”

School is almost out. This means many children will no longer be able to a ord their lunches. WANT TO HELP? Joyce, Redwood Coast PACE The Senior Nutrition Program is recruiting participant volunteers to help with a summer lunch program called SAK (Seniors And Kids). Volunteer for as little as two hours per week in the afternoon from Redwood Coast PACE is now enrolling. mid-June to mid-August. Call us at 707-443-9747. Interested? For more info call Tasha Romo : 443-9747 ext. 1228

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Class Silver Beauty Your for everyday living Pantry, Eureka 10:30-12 Pinochle Lessons $5 fee (prior registration required) 1901 California St., Bldg. B, 12:15-1:15 Learn Tech with Brett Hosts 2nd Floor, Eureka 10:40-11:40 Stretching PHARMACIST & CERTIFIED May 3 10:30-11:30 PJ’s Musical Group May 9 11-11:30 LeAnne Morini performs 12:30-3:30 BINGO Rich Spini, Pharm.D., CDE DIABETES EDUCATOR May 10 11-12:15 CalFresh Sign-up assistance May 9 11:30-12:15 Emblem Club serves lunch May 3 11-11:30 Hot dog on bun, Baked beans Jane Spini, RN (REGISTERED NURSE & WELLNESS COACH) May 10 11-11:30 Chef Salad, (sign up by 5/9), $3 May 17 10:15-11:15 Swing ‘n’ Sway Trio May 16 10-11:30 Commodities Distribution May 17 10:30-11 Commodities Distribution * For times see the Activities at Senior Centers May 23 8:30-11:30 Medication Interactions & May 17 11-11:30 Pea Soup & 1/2 Sand., $3 Every Friday calendar for Eureka, Arcata & McKinleyville. Consultation May 24 11-11:30 Beef Barley Soup & 1/2 Sand., $3 10-11:30 Ping Pong with Pete May 31 11-11:30 Taco Soup & Corn Bread, $3 May 4 10:30-12:15 Cinco de Mayo Celebration Cloney’s Prescription Pharmacy Fortuna Dining Center Fridays May 11 10-11:30 Site Advisory Council meeting 2515 Harrison Avenue • Eureka HSRC at Mountain View Village • 2130 Smith Lane • Call Launa at 725-6245 May 11 10:30-12:15 Mother’s Day Celebration 8:30-9:30 Tai Chi Lunch: Tuesday-Friday at 12:00 p.m. - May 18 10:30-11:15 Music with the Half Notes 443-7086 Fax: 443-0302 Menu page 18 10:30 Walking Group at Hiller Park May 18 10:30-12:15 Birthday Celebration 1-4 Pinochle Tuesdays 12 Lunch Thursdays May 25 11:15-12:15 Memorial Day Celebration Cloney’s Red Cross Pharmacy May 4 10-11 Sweet Spot 12 Lunch Mon-Fri 525 5th Street • Eureka Wednesdays May 3 & 17 12-1:30 Caregiver Support Group May 25 10-11 Full Board Meeting (Open) 443-1614 Fax: 443-4461 12 Lunch United Methodist Church 8 - 5:30 5-8 BINGO Fireplace Room Sat Cloney's McKinleyville Pharmacy Since 1902 922 N Street, Fortuna 9 - noon www.broadwaymedical.com May 2 10:30 Music w/Bill, Corena & friends “Nothing is more responsible for the good old 1567 City Center Road Fridays For info call 443-9747 McKinleyville 12 Lunch May 4 12 Cinco de Mayo Celebration days than a bad memory.” 442-3719 • 1034 Broadway • Eureka 840-9923 Fax: 840-9928 May 18 12 Birthday Celebration May 25 12 Memorial Day Celebration —Franklin Pierce Adams (1881-1960), newspaper columnist. Locally Owned • We Service What We Sell Page 18 May 2018 • Senior News HSRC Seeks Wood Donations To Keep Seniors Warm Humboldt Senior Resource Center (HSRC) through Wednesday between 8 a.m. and 3 Health & Care Management Programs in partnership with the Humboldt County p.m. only. You will have to unload your wood Adult Day Health Center Sheriff’s Work Alternative Program (SWAP) yourself. Alzheimer’s Services are accepting donations of wood for HSRC’s Donated wood must be of acceptable qual- annual Senior Firewood Program. Multipurpose Senior Services Program (MSSP) ity. Logs must be between 4 inches and 40 Donated logs will be processed by the inches in diameter, and in lengths of at least Redwood Coast PACE SWAP program and sold at low cost to eligi- 16 inches. The following will not be accepted: a Program of All-inclusive Care for the Elderly ble seniors in the community. • No rotten or charred wood. Nutrition Programs If you have downed or felled trees on your • No river wood or driftwood. property, donating the wood to the firewood Dining Centers in Arcata, Eureka, & Fortuna • No milled wood or mill ends. program may be a good, tax-deductible option • No cottonwood or willow. Home Delivered Meals for you. For more information, contact Nutrition Logs must be delivered to the county wood- Activities Programs and Activities Program Manager Tasha Romo lot at 2240 Watson Drive in Eureka (behind Information and educational resources at 443-9747, x1228, or HSRC Activities at the old General Hospital on Harrison). Do- x1240. Exercise classes and recreational groups nations are accepted at the woodlot Saturday Dial-A-Ride tickets Senior Firewood Program Are You OK?® telephone reassurance service May 2018 Senior Home Repair Dining Menu Senior News FIRST WEEK THIRD WEEK May 1 Hamburger May 14 Dining Centers closed Volunteer Opportunities May 2 Spinach & Roasted Garlic Ravioli May 15 Salisbury Steak May 3 Chinese Chicken Salad May 16 Bay Shrimp Salad May 4 Tamale Pie - Cinco de Mayo May 17 Pot Roast w/Red Potatoes SECOND WEEK May 18 Stuffed Baked Potato LOW-FAT OR May 7 Dining Centers closed - Birthday Cake NONFAT MILK May 8 Hot Turkey Sandwich FOURTH WEEK IS SERVED WITH Help ensure the future EACH MEAL May 9 Shrimp Linguine May 21 Dining Centers closed of quality senior programs w/Spinach & Tomatoes May 22 Meatloaf with Gravy May 10 Teriyaki Chicken May 23 Chicken Parmesan w/Spaghetti May 11 Spinach, Ham & Cheese Quiche May 24 Green Chili Egg Bake - Mother’s Day Brunch May 25 Cranberry Chicken with a bequest to FIFTH WEEK People 60+ are invited Humboldt Senior May 28 Dining Centers closed $3.50 suggested donation May 29 Lemon Herb Baked Fish For those under 60 there is a fee. Resource Center’s May 30 BBQ Pork Rib No one 60+ will be turned away May 31 Baked Potato Soup for lack of funds. Planned Giving Call for Reservations Call Arcata • 825-2027 Eureka • 443-9747 Fortuna • 725-6245 707-443-9747 “When it’s time, I’ll talk about the good old days. to discuss your gift But it’s a sign of old age, reveling in the past.” —Chuck Noll (1932-2014), Pittsburgh Steelers football coach. Senior News • May 2018 Page 19 Are You Turning 65? The ‘Eden Alternative’ Need To Sign Up By Teresa Oliveri For Medicare? For many people, the idea of long- • 57% decrease in pressure sores. We Can Help! term care is anxiety-producing, and • 48% decrease in staff absenteeism. Call Senior Products Agent, even frightening. • 25% decrease in bedridden POLLY ENDERT 822-7251 We envision lonely people in residents. wheelchairs lined up in front of a tele- • 18% decrease in use of restraints. CALL vision. We picture a “warehousing” Pauli-Shaw Some of the elements that may be TODAY! type of environment that provides INSURANCE AGENCY different in a care community that Polly Endert physical care but has little regard for practices the Eden Alternative, or per- We’ve got you covered Senior Products Agent personal preferences, life history, and son-centered care, include bedrooms 627 7th Street, Arcata • 707 822-7251 CA License 0C60256 acknowledgment of those things that that look like home and not like an make us who we are. institution, open dining hours so But there is a different way, and that people can eat when they want, HUMBOLDT SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER & many things are happening nation- activities that the elders themselves DEMENTIA CARE COALITION wide to change this old, scary model. identify as meaningful, and pets in the present Terms such as “culture change,” community. “person-centered care,” and “person- Architecture and furnishings can The Changing Face of Dementia: directed care” are part of a movement be designed to be non-institutional, away from institutionalized care. Innovations in Care – 2018 staff may wear street clothes, and One approach is the Eden Alterna- there may be spontaneity in the day. Thursday, June 7, 2018 tive, the name and the concept of an Multi-generational opportunities Sequoia Conference Center international nonprofit organization are supported, and the elder is not Eureka CA whose mission is to change the lives removed from the community. of elders wherever they reside — in It is also important to note that nursing homes or assisted-living fa- Centers for Medicare and Medic- cilities, at home or attending an adult aid Services (CMS) implemented day healthcare center. person-centered care principles in The philosophy is based upon a 2016. All entities that receive CMS collaborative approach between elder payment for services must have individuals and their care partners, person-centered care values as part of Guest Speakers Register online at with the goal of reducing what the their program. Jennifer Heidmann, MD www.humboldtdcc.org Eden Alternative calls “the Three Culture change is occurring and Plagues” — boredom, loneliness and Elizabeth Edgerly, PhD will continue to evolve as the next helplessness. Cynthia Aguilar, RPh, PharmD wave of seniors requiring care de- This model of culture change and mand something different. person-directed care empowers elders As a nurse, I have personally seen SPONSORS as decision-makers in their own care, this approach work. At HSRC, we focusing on their wants, needs and AREA 1 AGENCY ON AGING desire to provide a model of care that desires. The Eden Alternative iden- incorporates the whole person, and Alzheimer’s Association • Brookdale Fortuna tifies core person-directed values as that embraces this person-centered Cloney’s Pharmacy, Inc. • Humboldt Senior Resource Center choice, dignity, respect, self-determi- care approach. Rockport Healthcare nation and purposeful living. — Adult Day Health at Mad River • Coast Central Credit Union This philosophy also produces Teresa Oliveri is director of Hospice of Humboldt • Humboldt Audiology measurable results from the Eden Open Door Community Health Centers • Visiting Angels approach: Healthcare Services at Humboldt Senior Resource Center. Green’s Pharmacy • Humboldt ACP Coalition • Redwood Capital Bank • 60% decrease in behavioral incidents. Generous support provided by the Patricia D. & William B. Smullin Foundation Page 20 Focus: Glory Days May 2018 • Senior News

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Joan Woodcock Jerry Carlson wanted to ensure St. Joseph Hospital Insurance Services would serve this community long after he was gone I CAN HELP! Jerry realized his money would go far to help local patients Prescription Drug Plans seeking treatment in all areas of the hospital. Supplements Dental • Life Jerry loved this community and his approach to To learn how you can touch the lives of others by planned giving included bequests of cash and including your favorite charity in your will or estate property, gift annuities, and a reserved life estate plan, contact an attorney, financial advisor or with his home. Jerry passed away on March 3 in the LEAVE A LEGACY Humboldt at (707) 267-9922. PCU named after him at St. Joseph Hospital, and he would be so pleased to know that his legacy is just beginning in our community. His estate plan commitments have supported the North East Wing, the Cancer Center, and more. Leaving a legacy gift is a wonderful way to give back to your community. 725-1200 1506 A Main St. to learn more call 707-267-9922 in Fortuna CA Lic. #0E34152 “It’s a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.” —David Gilmour, guitarist, Pink Floyd. Senior News • May 2018 Page 21 Love, in the ‘Twelfth of Never’ By Richard C. Gross

The warmth of love surprises by blossom- “The Twelfth of Never,” the flip side of his ing even in the chill winter of our lives. 1957 hit, “Chances Are.” I’m 78, she’s 75. Love crept up on us It’s a song of lilting beauty whose lyrics are not long after we met. And since then, I’ve as surreal as the timeframe of the title, of love learned that depth of feeling has no age limit. so eternal that it would last “’til the bluebells But how can that be, after clawing through forget to bloom” and “’til the poets run out of decades of hopes and despair, of ignorance rhyme.” Silly, huh? But perfect if you’re surf- and enlightenment, of love and divorce? How ing on the soaring tide of teen love, dancing do you know you’re in love, that it’s not just close, eyes wide shut. infatuation, at a time of life when you can’t His love for his girl won’t end, the song remember why you walked into another room concludes, “Until the twelfth of never, and to retrieve something? that’s a long, long time.” Sure is. Relationships can be quieter in one’s 70s. Time. In older age, the perceived compres- what can this No wild parties until 2 a.m.; no binge drink- sion of time — days zoom by — may be the broker do for you? ing; no experimenting with hallucinatory cloudy side of love. You wish you had met drugs; no sudden, incandescent tearing off of before midlife. clothes. Passion may be an affair of the heart, Let’s Talk. The twelfth of never takes on a different Bob Lawton but there’s also frailty of the heart as a vital meaning at a riper age, when the horizon is organ to consider. visible, when there is a looming yet indefin- You have options. Love at this age doesn’t mean marriage. able deadline. Forever — the twelfth of never It just means being together, sharing heart, — could come tomorrow. So you learn to live mind, body, spirit and soul on a foundation of for today. 445-3027 trust and openness. — We tell each other, laughing in disbelief, Richard C. Gross, 78, of Santa Fe is a in Humboldt that we’re acting like teenagers. We love the retired journalist. A longer version of this idea of it. Humboldt Transit Authority - HTA essay originally appeared in The Baltimore ALL BUSES HAVE WHEELCHAIR LIFTS As teens, love perhaps was best expressed Sun. He can be reached at in the songs of the 1950s. Scotia to Trinidad HTA Paratransit Service [email protected]. Redwood Transit System (RTS) I listened again to Johnny Mathis singing Southern Humboldt Mon-Sun Eureka Transit Service (ETS) & Garberville, Redway & Miranda areas Willow Creek Door-to-door transit service for Mon-Sat Farmers’ Market SSI Vouchers ADA qualifying passengers. Southern Humboldt 24-hour reservations The North Coast Growers Association has ents or their caretakers should visit the Arcata (Wheelchair Lift) are required. launched the third season of its SSI Market Market information booth on Saturdays be- Tish Non-Village Match Voucher Program, which underwrites tween 9 a.m. and 2 p.m. Bring ID and proof of Mon-Fri Call to see if you qualify. purchase of fresh fruits and vegetables for SSI benefits, such as an award letter or bank 443-0826 • www.hta.org 1-877-688-0826 Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipi- statement. Ferndale Senior Bus Fortuna Senior Bus ents. The goal of the program is to improve For people 50+ & the disabled. For people 50+ & the disabled The program provides $20 in vouchers recipients’ diets with Humboldt-grown, farm- Wheelchair Lift 786-4141 Wheelchair Lift 725-7625 once a month for purchase of produce at the fresh produce. www.friendlyfortuna.com Arcata Farmers’ Market. Vouchers will also The program is supported by grants from K-T Net (Klamath-Trinity Non-Emergency Transportation) be available for farmers’ markets in Fortuna, the St. Joseph Health-Humboldt Care for the Willow Creek • Hoopa Valley • Weitchpec • Wautec (Pecwan) Eureka and McKinleyville starting in June. Poor and the McLean Foundation. Seniors & the disabled ride at a discount. Serving the public Monday-Friday. To receive the market vouchers, SSI recipi- 1-530-629-1192 www.ktnet.org Page 22 Focus: Glory Days May 2018 • Senior News There’s Nothing Fake About Humor in the News By Kevin Hoover Frank Zappa famously asked, us bond and eases an aficionado court exhibit. Lock yourself in the do- “Does Humor Belong In Music?” It’s stress and conflict. of the dopey nut shop bathroom and set up camp. a question he answered affirmatively Can you put a and desultory. Stripping the news of irony and many times over. value on all those It comes in so absurdity is to misreport, because the Why wouldn’t humor belong in idiosyncratic many satisfying real world fairly seethes with ridonku- music, or art, or any other human ac- inside jokes you flavors, from lousness. tivity, including journalism? Especial- share with friends smooth vanil- When I sit down to write the coplog ly journalism, which is supposed to and family, the la vapidity to and see that someone wanted the po- reflect reality without fear or favor. ones that are so de- savory sleazery lice to investigate why the milk in his Why are giggles, chortles, snickers lightfully opaque to full-tilt tangy carton was an inch too low, I want to and guffaws consigned to a lowly, to others? turpitude. find the guy and give him a big hug. Meat-and- vulgar spot on the emotional spectrum Imagine, if you To paraphrase Walt Disney, the potatoes items compared to love, sadness or hope? will, a world where world is a carousel of error. Our reflect naked Humor is deeply embroidered into your home, your fallibility as humans is a bottomless exigency — everyday life — it’s not called the workplace, your ocean of comedy. Come on in and wet those impul- human comedy for nothing. Even social time – even yourself, the water’s fine! sive, inherently tragedy, when it’s no longer “too your encounters doomed grabs — soon,” reveals mirthsome corners. with bank tellers Kevin Hoover for even the Kevin Hoover, 64, is editor-at- Levity is vital to our processing and and letter carriers – most short-lived large at the Mad River Union understanding of life, with its sharp are devoid of quips gratification. newspaper and lives in Arcata, elbows and hard knocks. Jokes, puns, and snickers, jests, japes, flip ripostes where he pursues his many hobbies faux arguments, snarky observations and raunchy rejoinders. I never wish Go ahead, run out of the store with and personal problems. and low-grade dramaturgy ease and to visit that mirthless, lifeless planet. that 40 of malt liquor and guzzle fran- smooth work relationships. Humor In writing the Arcata Police Log tically as the cops come at you. Text puts problems in perspective, helps over the last 24 years, I’ve become threats to your ex, creating a future

Violinist to Be Honored

The Chamber Players of the GUIDE TO NATURAL Redwoods will honor classical violinist Betty Bliss, 86, of Redway at their May 6 concert at 2 p.m. at SWIMMING HOLES Christ Episcopal Church, H & 14th Directions to Streets, in Eureka. Bliss will be presented the annual Floyd Glende 30 swimming holes Award for her long dedication to Humboldt County’s chamber in Humboldt County music scene. Bliss, a founding member of the Meadowood String Quartet, recently retired. The quartet, from left above: Stefan ON SALE NOW Vaughan, viola; Betty Bliss, Booklegger-Old Town Eureka violin; Eric Jones, cello, and Ken Love, violin. The May 6 concert is Eureka Natural Foods free with a suggested donation. Kneeland Glen Farmstand-Myrtle Ave. Submitted photo. Eureka Natural Foods-McKinleyville Northtown Books-Arcata Senior News • May 2018 Focus: Glory Days Page 23 Here’s Somethin’ — Ukelaliens COAST DENTURE SERVICE By Lorna Hahner REPLACEMENT DENTURE “Jump in and Hang On” is we will be able to record an at River Life Foundation, as Spring With this ad an old bluegrass phrase from original CD. Recently, we well as at weddings, farmers $ Reg. $1,000 ’way back, and one that I’ve recorded an album called markets, senior lunches, and Discount each each heard many times since join- “Here’s Somethin’,” a mix of the Humboldt County Fair. 900 ing a local string band called bluegrass and country songs. If you’re interested in the the Ukelaliens. The CD cover says the music band, we practice Wednes- Experienced Craftsmanship Counts! Deb Woods and her hus- is “100% Homegrown and days at 6 p.m. at Christ Dentures • Partials • Relines • Repairs • Teeth Replaced band, Steve Sterbeck, lead Organic. As Pure and Whole- Lutheran Church in Fortuna, the band, which consists of some as Dirt.” and Sundays at 2 p.m. at Our Contact Albert Giddings Today! people of all ages (mostly se- Band members come from Saviors Lutheran Church in Licensed Denturist • 45 years Experience niors) who just love jamming all walks of life and feel Ferndale. Or follow the Uke- together and playing music. blessed to play with the Uke- laliens on Facebook. 541-469-2610 As the name implies, there laliens. Sometimes, there are — are many ukulele players, but six of us at a gig, and some- Cell 541-971-1828 there are also guitars, fiddle, times there are 30. Lorna Hahner of Fortuna mandolin, banjo, bass, auto- is a regular with The Brookings, Oregon The Ukelaliens (“emphasis Ukelalians. For information, harp, harmonicas and light aliens, on the ” as Deb always call 616-4970. 800 Chetco Ave. • Across from Les Schwab percussion artists as well. says) are regulars at com- Deb, who grew up in Appa- munity events in Humboldt lachia and moved to Ferndale County. We play regularly in from Nashville, is teaching Fortuna at Brookdale Senior some of us to write our own Living, Fortuna Rehabilita- music in hopes that one day tion and Wellness Center, and Join the today and Neil D. Kushner MD DOUBLE YOUR DONATION! General Practice Medicine The OLLI Leadership Team has generously offered Accepting new patients a challenge grant to the OLLI community. Fee for Service practice - cash basis All gifts to OLLI will be matched up to $10,000. (checks accepted) Your $10 becomes $20. A gift of $150 transforms to $300. 442-8200 Help us meet this goal by June 15 through gifts of any amount. 519 6th Street • Eureka, CA 95501 humboldt.edu/olli/friends

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Live Vigorously By Joan Rainwater-Gish Setting Out to See the World — By Foot eet Michele McKeegan, then later we changed to 76, a woman of wide- horse-packing to carry our Mranging talents and interests: supplies. Now, we take day founder of Keep Eureka hikes, and our tour guides Beautiful, co-founder of Six handle our supplies. So, we Rivers Planned Parenthood, can still do what we love but French/yoga/pilates student, we’ve adjusted how we do it. walker and gardener. Q: Trekking requires And meet her husband endurance, strength and of 35 years, Ed Olsgard, energy. How do you train 71, a retired MD, volunteer for it? at Sequoia Zoo, Food Michele: We both for People, Keep Eureka exercise. I lift weights at Beautiful and elsewhere, Cal Courts, take classes in cyclist, rower and feminist. yoga and pilates, and walk It’s easy to tell these two every day. I prep for trekking people Live Vigorously. But, vacations by walking up I wanted them to talk about hills. an activity they do together Ed: I don’t like fitness — trekking long distances on classes, but I love riding foot for pleasure. bikes and rowing. Both Q: Why trekking? activities help keep my Michele: I love to walk, ON THE ROAD — Michele McKeegan and Ed Olsgard are still out in the world, muscles strong. People who and I love to see new places, hiking. Allen Dietrich photo. want a body that works for so we’ve combined the two. them need to find some type We’ve been to Norway, not keeping up. For example, in situation where I was the slowest of physical activity that Iceland, Patagonia, Slovenia, Norway, we were walking on a or weakest guy. So, no, I don’t conditions the body. There is no Scotland, the coast of Cornwall, glacier, roped together, in total feel intimidated. I’ve always way to achieve physical fitness and France. whiteout (blizzard). The group engaged in strenuous activities without exercising. Ed (clarifying): One of us was going really fast, and I was such as cycling and rowing, so I — really loves to walk and the other getting tired. still have muscle — though not as Joan Rainwater-Gish, 75, of one loves that person, so we hike But I wasn’t going to say much muscle or cardio capacity Eureka is a certified personal together. anything because I was the oldest as I had in my 30s. Men do have trainer and group fitness Q: Is it intimidating to go person there and didn’t want larger muscle mass than women instructor who leads senior trekking to unfamiliar places others to think I wasn’t capable. — but smaller brains. exercise classes. Contact: and relying on your physical Luckily, my friend yelled out, As we age, we make [email protected]. abilities? “Can we take a rest?” adjustments. When we were Michele: I worry about Ed: I haven’t been in a younger, we went backpacking, Senior News • May 2018 Page 25

CommunityMay Calendar ‘Trinidad in View’ Candidate Forums The Trinidad Civic Club and the Several candidate forums are set Trinidad Rancheria will co-sponsor a in the weeks running up to the June 5 month-long art show with a reception primary election: at the Seascape Restaurant on Fri- • May 2: District 5 Supervisor day, May 4, from 6-8 p.m. as part of candidates Ryan Sundberg and Steve the season’s first Trinidad Art Night. Madrone face off at the Willow “Trinidad in View” features the work Creek Community Services Dis- of 10 local artists and photographers. trict, 135 Willow Road, from 7-8:30 Proceeds will benefit the Trinidad p.m. Sponsored by the Humboldt Memorial Lighthouse Fund. League of Women Voters (LWV) and the Willow Creek Chamber of ‘Being Here Now’ Art Show Commerce. The Area 1 Agency on Aging’s • KEET-TV, PBS channel 13: May 6th Annual “Being Here Now” Art 3, 7 p.m., Auditor-Controller: Mike Show opens with a reception during Lorig and Karen Paz Dominguez; Eureka’s Arts Alive on May 5. The May 7, 7 p.m., District 5 Supervisor: exhibit, running through the end of Steve Madrone and Ryan Sundberg; June at 434 7th St., celebrates Older May 8, 7 p.m., Superior Court Judge: Americans Month with art by local Lathe Gill and Lawrence Killoran; artists 60 and older. May 9, 7 p.m., District 4 Supervisor: Virginia Bass, Dani Burkhart and Race Equity Roundtable Mary Ann Lyons. North Coast Equity Alliance of the North Coast • May 10, 6 p.m.: County Supervi- will host a racial equity roundtable, sor Candidates Forum, Labor Temple, Co-op Events “The Great Myth of Race,” Thursday, 840 E St., Eureka. Sponsored by Cen- May 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Humboldt tral Labor Council, Centro del Pueblo, May 2 • Wellness Wednesday Area Foundation, Indianola Road in Cooperation Humboldt, Health Care Bayside. For info, visit bitly.com/ The first Wednesday of every month, for All-Humboldt, Northcoast Envi- mythofrace or call 267-9918. ronmental Center, Northcoast Peo- save 10% off our entire Wellness Department. ple’s Alliance. Bike Humboldt! May 1, 8, 15, 22, 29 • Senior Day The Bike Month Humboldt Coa- Houda Ya Love? Seniors 60 and over receive a 5% discount on Tuesdays. lition hosts a slew of bicycle-related The Trinidad Coastal Land Trust No membership needed, but we’d love for you to join! events in May, from fun group rides celebrates its 40th anniversary and to an empowering documentary about helps kick off the Trinidad Arts Night May 9 • Earth Action Committee Meeting women on bikes, to Bike-to-Work season with a “Cuatro de Mayo Cele- 6:5pm at the Ten Pin Building, 793 K Street in Arcata. Day rallies in Arcata and Eureka. bration” at Town Hall, Friday, May 4, Committee of the North Coast Cooperative Board of Directors Try a Historical Eureka Bike Tour, from 6-9 p.m. Come support coastal that focuses on the Coop’s environmental actions. Saturday, May 5; Arcata-Eureka bike lands and enjoy live music, a BBQ’d Member owners are welcome to attend! commutes; screening of the documen- oyster bar, a taco bar, beer and wine. tary Ovarian Psycos, Tuesday, May 8, Proceeds to benefit the land trust’s 6 p.m. at Siren’s Song, 325 2nd St., Houda Point trail improvements. Eureka; Bike-to-Work Day, Thurs- day, May 10; pancake breakfast rides and more. Visit humbike.org or Bike Month Humboldt on Facebook. Page 26 Focus: Glory Days May 2018 • Senior News Low Cost Blood Testing Rethinking Views on Aging By Connie Stewart May 18, 2018 Regardless of how you thinking about aging and have a “nothing can be done” 7:00 am–10:00 am voted in the 2016 election aging policies. attitude about improving — whether for Republicans FrameWorks is a Wash- aging outcomes. in Washington or Democrats ington, D.C., think tank that Their report highlights how HEALY SENIOR CENTER in California — we are in Redway, CA “identifies, translates and we must change the dialog serious risk of policy inertia, models scholarly research to from blaming individuals for TO SIGN UP CALL or worse, rollbacks of exist- frame the public discourse their problems to explaining ing supports for programs how social policies like (707) 923-2399 that help seniors in our “We need to get rid tax policy and health pol- community. 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More tests available: aging, and aging as a continuous process In their project on aging, Call 499-1681 for more information 3) specific communication and to recognize that older FrameWorks worked with techniques that have been age, like any other time in seven national aging organi- On Call Tech Services • Eureka proven to expand people’s life, involves both opportuni- Provided by zations and eight foundations ties and challenges.” to conclude that America Imagine a world where all itself needs to redefine aging. the important programs that “A public conversation is Humboldt Senior Resource essential, as the aging of the Center provides were a right, population is one of the big- not a privilege, and where we THE FRIENDSHIP LINE gest demographic changes in An Accredited Crisis Intervention Program for the Elderly all shared the goal of pro- recorded history,” the Frame- viding everyone of an older Works report says. “Whether age with the services they this change will be a boon or need for new opportunities 1-(800) 971-0016 bane depends on our nation’s for growth, contribution, and policy response.” self-expression. We need to get rid of the — 24-Hour Telephone Hotline/Warmline “othering” of older people, Connie Stewart of Arcata a public attitude of “us vs. is executive director of the Call-In Service: them” regarding aging. The California Center for Rural caregivers and/or younger disabled individuals who may be lonely, isolated, FrameWorks research shows Policy at Humboldt State that most of us try to distance grieving, depressed, anxious and/or thinking about death or suicide. University. ourselves from aging, and Senior News • May 2018 Focus: Glory Days Page 27 Powering Up Humboldt’s Local Energy Choice By Richard Engel

A year ago, Redwood Coast Energy are participating. Local electricity us- to us with any questions or concerns vate partnership to develop offshore Authority (RCEA) announced its new ers are now getting 40 percent of their about how Community Choice Ener- wind generation on floating platforms Community Choice Energy program, electricity from renewable sources, gy works. 20 to 30 miles off our coast. The seas which offered Humboldt County resi- including locally generated biomass As a not-for-profit public agency, off Humboldt County have some of dents and businesses more electricity power, plus wind and solar power RCEA can invest net revenues from North America’s strongest winds, and choices with greater local control, from projects up and down the West our program in greening the local Humboldt Bay is uniquely suited to more renewable energy, and lower Coast. Customers who choose to “opt energy grid. We’re partnering with host the onshore infrastructure needed rates. up” can receive 100 percent renew- PG&E, the county, and Humboldt to support such a project. During 2017, our program deliv- able electricity for just a few dollars State University’s Schatz Energy We have also launched a pilot pro- ered a total of $1.1 million in rate extra each month. Research Center to build a solar- gram to help local government agen- savings to customers. Though elec- Our program strives to provide powered microgrid with energy stor- cies install solar panels and improve tricity prices have recently increased, value for everyone in the county. We age at the airport in McKinleyville. their energy efficiency. we have widened the gap between have been contacted by some seniors This project will support emergen- For more information about our our rates and PG&E’s — a 3 percent who live in mobile home estates and cy preparedness for the airport and program, check out our website at discount relative to PG&E. other master-metered communities, adjacent U.S. Coast Guard facility, redwoodenergy.org, or call 269-1700. As we celebrate the program’s where individual tenants are not em- while producing enough excess en- — one-year anniversary, RCEA is happy powered to choose their energy pro- ergy to feed into the grid and power Richard Engel is director of power to report that well over 90 percent of vider. We encourage you to talk with additional homes and businesses. resources at Redwood Coast Energy Humboldt County energy consumers your park’s owner/manager about our RCEA also is creating a public-pri- program, or feel free to refer them Authority in Eureka.

Because of Ryan’s Leadership these community leaders are endorsing Ryan Sundberg

“He is dedicated and knowledgea- Fiona Ma, Member State Board of John Corbe , McKinleyville Community “Ryan Sundberg is responsive to the needs of people ble, and I support his reelec on.” Equaliza on Services District in the community and knows how to get things Rep. Jared Huffman, D-San Rafael Dayna Bochco, California Coastal Dennis Mayo, McKinleyville Community done. He currently sits on the McKinleyville Senior Commission Services District Center Advisory Board and supports the Center with “Ryan is a reless advocate for Erik Howell, California Coastal Commission Rich Grissom, Fieldbrook Elementary both me and money, a ending and contribu ng to Humboldt County and he’s con- School District Trustee fundraisers as well as securing nancial support from stantly gh ng for the people he Tommy O’Rourke, Chair, Yurok Tribe Jack Sheppard, Fieldbrook Fire Chief the business community. I strongly support Ryan for works for.” California Senator Ryan Jackson, Chair, Hoopa Valley Tribe Mike McGuire Tim La Londe, Willow Creek Fire Dept. 5th District Supervisor." Molly Borja, Volunteer, Rex Bohn, 1st District Supervisor Chief McKinleyville Senior Center. “He is a dedicated professional with the unique ability to forge rela on- Estelle Fennell, 2nd District Supervisor Blue Lake Rancheria ships with partners and stakeholders Virginia Bass, 4th District Supervisor Hoopa Tribe across party lines“. Assemblymember Jim Wood Frank Jager, Mayor City of Eureka Trinidad Rancheria Susan Rotwein, Mayor of Trinidad Don Harling, past McKinleyville Community Services District Jim Baker, Trinidad City Council Dr. Bill Wennerholm, past McKinleyville Marian Brady, Eureka City Council Community Services District Brian A. Mitchell, Humboldt County Joe Walund, past McKinleyville Planning Commissioner Community Services District

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Si So e, Kim and Ryan with Pepsi Page 28 Focus: Glory Days May 2018 • Senior News Sharks, Pirates, Aliens & Peas — Oh, My!

KINETIC KRAZINESS — Since 1969, the annual Kinetics Race “For the Glory!” has become one of Humboldt’s zaniest signature events. Here’s a sampling of some of the action from recent years, clockwise from above: Ken Beidleman’s amazing shark (Mark Larson photo); Team Fro’s & Peas (Ted Pease photo); the Lost Coast Mutineers (Mark Larson photo); Team Planet X in Ferndale (Matt Filar photo); and June Moxon’s whimsical Pink Elephant (Mark Larson photo) circling Arcata Plaza. See many more photos of the amazing and sometimes misguided human-powered sculptures at “Celebrating 50 Years of Kinetic Glory,” an exhibit by seven local photographers, at the F Street Foto Gallery above Swanlund’s Camera 527 F St. in Eureka, opening in July. Senior News • May 2018 THEN & NOW GLORY DAYS Page 29 Competing ‘For the Glory’ Over 50 Kinetic Years

By Dawn Thomas

Ask anyone in Humboldt County Day to view the spectacle. which pretty much sank. That left Dan time winner Tempus Fugitives, which who won the first Kinetic Sculpture Neither of the original contenders Sisemore’s Watergate Streaker as the capsized in Humboldt Bay. Race, and they will probably mention finished the 2-block course down 1974 victor. Brown died in 2007, but his wacky Hobart Brown. In 1969, the Ferndale Ferndale’s Main Street. The Pentacy- Today’s Kinetic Grand Champion- vision lives on in a spectacle that sculptor built the Pentacycle, consid- cle collapsed, as did Mays’ Tank. Bob ship evolved from that relatively mod- is copied in other venues. But none ered the first kinetic sculpture vehicle. Brown (no relation), lying prone in est cross-country race into an event matches the original Humboldt ver- Upon seeing it, fellow Ferndale his fabulous smoke-belching, egg-lay- attracting 100 sculptures or more, sion. The Kinetic Grand Champion- artist Jack Mays challenged him to a ing machine, The Tortoise, beat out and now covering 50 miles of pave- ship launches for the 50th year from race. Brown talked up the contest to the rest of the 12-sculpture field to ment, sand dunes, Humboldt Bay and the Arcata Plaza at noon on Memorial everyone who stopped by his Ferndale win the first Kinetic Sculpture Race. Highway 101 in a grueling three-day Day weekend, Saturday, May 26. gallery. The Eureka Times-Standard The race outgrew Main Street when human-powered marathon from the Come on out to the Plaza, Deadman’s published a photograph of then-Con- a contingent of sculpture racers call- Arcata Plaza to Ferndale. Since 1969, Drop, Humboldt Bay, or Ferndale to gressman Don Clausen pedaling the ing themselves The Ferndale Explor- the race has changed dates, locations cheer on your favorite racers. Pentacycle, and news of the race ers Club challenged Brown to a 26- and sponsors many times, but rac- Why do it? Our battle cry, uttered spread. Folks as far away as Wash- mile, all-terrain, amphibious camping ers and organizers have managed to by legendary Rutabaga Queen Bar- ington sent in entry forms to compete trek. He accepted, and The Field’s preserve the humor and McGuyver-y bara Ludwick, says it all: “For the against Brown’s creation, and a crowd Landing-to-Ferndale Cross-Country character of Hobart Brown’s original Glory!” of 10,000 showed up on Mother’s Sculpture Race was born. vision: A unique spectacle that draws — There were only three entries a cult following of “adults having fun so children will want to grow up.” Dawn Thomas, 51, of Santa Rosa is that year: The Kinetic Yo-Yo a kinetic sculpture racer and author Last May, in the 49th running of with Jim Ottaway, Joe Koches of “Kinetic Kompendium: 50 Years “the triathlon of the art world,” the and Larry Eifert took 21 days of Kinetic Sculpture Racing.” See Trilobike Test Kitchen took home the to finish the course. Mays and kinetickompendium.com for book top prize as Stephen McHaney and Brown joined forces aboard info, and for 2018 race details, Team Trilobike wrested the Grand Bandini Walking on Water, kineticgrandchampionship.com. Champion trophy away from four-

‘GLORY,’ THEN & NOW In 1969, glorious race founder Hobart Brown and his Pentacycle lost the first Kinetics Race on Ferndale’s Main Street to Bob Brown and his Tortoise (left). Forty-nine years later, Stephen McHaney and Team TriloBike pedaled the flashy Test Kitchen to the 2017 Kinetic Grand Championship. In this year’s 50th running of the kooky race from Arcata to Ferndale . . . who knows? Left photo courtesy of the Hobart Brown Collection. Trilobike photo by Matt Filar. Page 30 May 2018 • Senior News Opinion & Commentary Protect Mobile Home Owners Don’t Shut the Door on Housing By Uriela Mitchell By George Clark Senior mobile home parks have to anyway), it is nearly impossible Few issues are more intractable Concealing the social impact of become cash cows for corporate for owners to move their home when than housing fraud, which has flour- insatiable human greed perpetuates investors, threatening housing for rents rise. They become captives of ished since the long-forgotten 1980s ignorance, bigotry and blame that’s many Humboldt senior and low- mobile home park owners. crash and bailout. When I ran for Eu- resurfacing today against the victims income mobile home owners. Jurisdictions around the country reka City Council in 2008, it was déja who are made destitute, a hallmark Investment firm Park Street are passing laws to stabilize space vu to witness the same entrenched of the 1930s Depression, when the Partners says on its website, “With rents for mobile home owners, and to privileged minority from the devel- California Highway Patrol operated 10,000 baby boomers entering re- preserve affordable housing. opment industry, and their lobbyists, checkpoints stopping victimized U.S. tirement each day on a fixed income We are fortunate that Humboldt still enjoying undue influence over families deemed “too poor” from with little to no savings, the demand County and the City of Arcata have government officials by overwhelm- entering the state. for affordable housing should reach recently done just that. Arcata’s ing public meetings, and by funding Development weighted toward a fever pitch in the coming decade, . Mobilehome Rent Stabilization Ordi- candidates willing to oppose policies higher-cost housing has left Humboldt . . [increasing] the need for the most nance (RSO), adopted in November that would maintain adequate housing County with abysmal home-afford- affordable housing option our nation 2017, is not as robustly protective of for all economic classes, harming our ability rates, hundreds of millions has to offer: mobile home parks.” mobile home owners as the Hum- economy and primary source of job of dollars in unfunded infrastructure Yet these same corporate investors boldt ordinance, but it is currently creation — consumers. liabilities, and a destabilized econo- who anticipate demand for affordable undergoing a revision. Why? my that forces families to live with mobile housing are also destroying Mobile home affordability advo- According to U.S. Sen. Elizabeth parents and grandparents. Foreclosed its affordability. Tim Sheahan, pres- cates have asked the city to amend Warren, D-Mass., manipulating scar- and bankrupt families, with nowhere ident of the National Manufactured its ordinance to give mobile home city in housing inflates prices, making to go, become homeless among Main Home Owners Association (NM- owners the ability to veto costly it easier to “trick and trap” desperate Street’s empty storefronts, shuttered HOA), says, “The major concern capital projects that potentially make families into bigger homes. Develop- motels and vacant lots. with senior mobile home parks in Arcata mobile home parks unafford- ers, land attorneys, bankers, specula- Fortunately, California has taken recent years is that ownership has able, especially for seniors living on tors, brokers, realtors, title companies, the lead in starting to remedy all moved from ‘mom and pop’ man- low and fixed incomes. insurers and debt collectors benefit this with Senate Bill 2, which plac- agement to corporate groups. And Mobile home parks are the largest most when higher priced homes are es a modest fee on all real estate for most of the corporate owners, the segment of non-subsidized afford- planned, built, sold and repeatedly transactions to fund low-income main goal is to maximize profits.” able housing in the United States, foreclosed. Each foreclosure gener- and homeless housing. SB2 will be Most Humboldt seniors who live providing a crucial affordable retire- ates lucrative fees, fines and profits insufficient, however, as long as local in mobile home parks own their own ment living option for seniors. If you based upon the home’s inflated value, governments continue to participate in home and pay a monthly rent for the live in Arcata, tell your city council until the victims run out of resources, housing fraud and a corrupt developer plot of earth it sits upon. While rents to help us keep it that way. and entire economies collapse. occupies the White House. Are this June’s supervisor candidates advo- typically remain stable under “mom — The 2008 housing fraud, collapse and pop” ownership, prices can esca- and bailout, led to the worst economic cating for fair housing policies, or the late quickly under corporate owner- Uriela Mitchell of Arcata is decline since the Great Depression, status quo? ship, resulting in gentrification and president of the Golden State yet there hasn’t been a single media — the economic eviction of residents. Manufactured-home Owners’ report on the extraordinary number of George Clark is a retired Eureka League Super-Chapter 1859, and a local foreclosures and bankruptcies, Because it is extremely costly business owner and 2008 City resident of the Lazy J Ranch. nor has one victimized family been to move a mobile home (there are Council candidate. almost no available spaces to move interviewed.

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Aging Gracefully Senior Tuesdays How do we age gracefully? As we age, our desires and Self-Serve needs for different types of housing change. Affordable hous- 5 ¢ Copies ing and sound planning are good tools for providing housing that makes sense for an aging population. 326 I Street • Eureka Many seniors say that one approach with great merit is 444-3044 mixed use development, with housing located close to gro- ceries and other small stores, as well as parks, open space and trails. Arcata’s Plaza Pointe is one example of senior housing with access to many nearby services. In McKinleyville, residents have said at many meetings and in their community plan that they would like to see a Town Center with mixed-use development, including senior housing. Your Pharmacy For Life The landowner has said she hopes that the community will develop this Town Center. In addition to housing, there would be small businesses on the ground floors, trails, pathways, “Round up for St. Jude” perhaps a small outdoor concert venue, ponds, and landscaping or donate and we’ll make sure throughout. It would be an economic engine for the communi- ty, while creating a special space in the center of the town. your donation reaches the hospital. Having housing designed for seniors, with nearby services Bene tting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and open space, can go a long way toward helping us age gracefully. 2097 Harrison Avenue, Eureka 441-8500 Fax: 443-7608 Stephen S. Madrone, Trinidad, candidate for 5th District Humboldt County Supervisor Choose Services Elite We A Grand Time to Serve Caregivers Provide

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