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permit #122 Issues. Current resident or play the song “SlowRide,” one of ing thegame,shewastryingto caught thisgranddaughterplay- song. Coincidentally, when Earl toy guitartocopythenotesofa had acloserlook.Playersuse game, Guitar Hero, one dayand he said. him —hisgranddaughter. impressing onepersoncloseto drummer RogerEarlhastrouble cal and commercial success, ing arigorousconcertschedule. ences aroundtheworld,perform- record. record andadouble-platinum records, aswell as oneplatinum they have released multiple gold history. Among theirsuccesses, most influential bands in rock went ontobecomeoneofthe lineup and a new name, Foghat different hats. least one ofthem wears many present —arerockstars,butat members of Foghat — past and jail administrativelieutenant. radar,” said Lt. Gordon Costello, the under fly least at they right, of seniors. Even if they don’t act populations, respectively. percent and 0.6 percent of the jail 3.5 — older and 65 people five between theagesof55to64and Corrections booked27people Yakima County Department of worse. but that their lives could be much with food being a major concern, report that their situation is bad, levity. Meanwhile,seniorinmates and yet have moments of extreme with contradictionandcomplexity. the Yakima County Jail are fraught Earl sawherplayingavideo “To her, I’m only grandpa,” Still, despiteallofhiscriti- They have also delighted audi anew in1971with Formed To therestofworld, Mike Gorski (age 61) is one “We don’t endupwith alot Between June 30andJuly31, Older guardsexperienceperil The livesofolderpeoplewithin On TheirLivesInYakimaCountyJail Foghat’s Retirement-ageDrummer By ErickPeterson Keeps Rockin'ForTri-CitiesFans By ErickPeterson Senior InmatesAndGuardsReflect –––Cont. on pg.12 - been withthebandfromstartin1971. coming BentonFranklinFairandRodeo.Hehas him. And he did not help out his plays” —butshedidn’t believe this isoneofthesongsGrandpa Foghat’s biggesthits. Grandfathers BehindBars Roger EarlandFoghat will perform attheup- in food, employment and other areas due to financial problems. before recent budgetcuts.Thejailhas hadtomakeadjustments tion,” though he said hedoesnot like thefood as much now as Yakima CountyJail.Hedescribedhisincarceration asa“vaca He toldthegirlthat“You know, Vol. XXIX,Issue08 Ralph Leon Haulk, age 66, is among the few senior inmates of Ralph Leon Haulk, age 66, isamongthefew senior inmates of N.Y., Earl says he’s a devoted fam Aug. 21to25. Now a resident of LongIsland, –––Cont. onpg.6 event runsfrom The day,24. Aug. Fair &RodeoFri- Benton Franklin will performatthe nonetheless. ter, wholoves him to hisgranddaugh- prove hisidentity he wasunableto musicians. Still, many othertrue at thegame,asare is equallyterrible oftheband the rest laughing. at it,”Earlsaid, the game.Badly. song, he played played thisclassic nal musician who he was an origi ing toprovethat game ashot. Try- tried to give this situation when he Earl and Foghat Earl andFoghat He addedthat “I’m hopeless - - - Page 6 Central Washington Senior Times August 2012

FOGHAT I’m prob- –––Cont. from pg. 1 ably 80 or ily man who loves being with his 90,” Earl wife, children and grandchildren, said. The something that was not always true life of a for him. In his youth, he said, he rock star did not always put family first. is hard- He has since learned his lessons, er than and has made amends to his previ- most oth- ous two wives as he tries to do well ers, as a by his family now. band like In addition to being active with Foghat his family, he has hobbies and spends pursuits that include spending time a lot of with his friends, playing golf, fish- time trav- ing, and making wine with Foghat elling. Cellars (foghatcellars.com). Among All of these activities, including the most Roger Earl says that he lives an extraordinary life and loves playing with his “friends,” the family and the music, come painful the other members of Foghat. together to give him what he de- memories scribes as “an excellent life.” for Earl, and anyone else who loves with the band. Stevens “a great bass player,” the “That’s something I’m fortunate Foghat, are the deaths of two of “If I broke a finger or couldn’t two do not get along well enough to have and to be, playing in a rock- the four original musicians. Singer play one night, I have plenty of to play in the same band. and-roll band. People would give “Lonesome” Dave Peverett died in friends who would like to sit in my Stevens is now playing in a band an appendage to do what I do,” 2000 of cancer and guitarist Rod seat and play a show or two — and called “Slow Ride,” named after a Earl said. Price died in 2005 when falling of course we would let the audi- song that first came out after Ste- Still, it is not easy. Earl says that down stairs during a heart attack. ence know that — but I don’t think vens left Foghat. drummers in particular have to stay “I miss Dave. He was taken far that’s going to happen,” he said. Foghat now includes a group in good shape in order to play well, too early, and I’m sure it (made As for Tony Stevens, the origi- of men that Earl calls his friends, as playing the drums is physically him angry) that he couldn’t have nal Foghat bass player, Earl said veteran musicians that he is also strenuous. stayed down here and played,” that he would not ask Stevens to proud to work alongside — Bryan Earl stays in shape through go- Earl said. He added that Peverett rejoin the band. Though they have Bassett, Charlie Huhn, and Craig ing to the gym and walking, as wanted the band to continue after put many of their differences be- Macgregor. well as eating properly. But he also his death. hind them, and though Earl calls “I’m very fortunate,” Earl said. credits “good genes” in keeping Foghat, however, could not him fit and alive. continue on if Earl was no longer “People come up to me and able to continue playing, as he is say, ‘Are you really 66?’ Really, the only founding member still

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I’ve all the food Selah resident Carolyn Clift in lost 30 pounds, he needs. 1997, Gorski stands out among his and I’ve got He can buy fellow inmates. food to eat.” additional Gorski, who is adamant pounds, that’s 3,200 food from about his innocence, is lo- “There’s one man in here who looks like he’s calories.” a commissary. cated on the fourth floor of lost 100 pounds. His eyes are sunken. There’s The U.S. Depart- Gorski said he spends $400 per the jail, along with other another guy who’s lost 40 pounds. I’ve lost 30 ment of Agriculture month on extra food, which he alleged violent offenders. pounds, and I’ve got food to eat.” published a chart shares with other inmates. Fellow inmates worry —Mike Gorski, inmate suggesting 2,000 to “They are highly respectful. him, but not because he 3,000 calories per day Most of them say, ‘You’re kind thinks that they will hurt him. He complains that the jail previ- for adult males, dependent on age of our dad figure, you’re kind of “There’re men in this jail who are ously served fresh milk but is now and activity level. our grandfather figure.’ I had one starving,” Gorski said. “They’re using instant soy milk. He blamed recent changes atthe jail young man who said that I sound hungry. They don’t have food. The jail provides 2,500 calories on county budget problems, which just like his grandfather.” “There’s one man in here who per day. “I’m wise enough to know led to staff cutbacks, an end to needed He leads them in daily Bible security upgrades and a renegotiated classes and prays with them. Law Offices of Eric R. Vargas contract with the food supplier. –––Cont. on pg. 15 � New Location � 917 Triple Crown Way, Yakima, WA 98908 Jail Life Poses Challenges Are you A sick or injured Vet? To County’s Older Guards Are you A sick or injured HAnford retiree? Many of the officers at the This sentiment is shared by Lt. Yakima County jail are seniors, in- Gordon Costello. Fifty-six years Call for an Appointment. cluding 64-year-old Gary Hughes. old, and eligible for retirement He was a police officer for 34 years in a year and a half, Costello has before starting work as a correc- children and 10 grandchildren. • Agent Orange & • Estate Settlement, • Wills, Powers of Hanford Disability Probate, and Attorney, and Trusts tions officer eight years ago. Though he works a difficult job Claims Probate Avoidance He said that the work is “inter- in which danger is a distinct pos- • Asset Protection esting.” sibility, his family does not express • Medicaid • Nursing Home Injury Applications and Abuse Cases • Guardianship “As a police officer, you deal concern about him. Nor does he with a lot of the individuals for lose much sleep over regrets or a few minutes, maybe an hour or dangers. This is, he said, a product Phone: (509) 972-9862 so,” Hughes said. of experience. “And outside of that, you were “You get into your first hot done with them, unless you went to situation, or your first few hot trial. You had a passing interaction situations, and you stew over it. with people. Here, you deal with You lay there, and you’ll wonder them day after day after day.” what you could have done. ‘Could His experience has given him an I have done something? Could I understanding and possibly even have done something different?’ sadness for the inmates. That sort of thing.” “Here in the jail, you find that Some jail workers can grow some of the older individuals have bitter in the job, begin acting made this a profession, if you want poorly and possibly even develop to look at it in those terms, and they post-traumatic stress disorder, an haven’t been able to figure out how unfortunate but all-too-common to stay out of trouble.” occurrence in his line of work. He said that financial and so- He said that one co-worker cial issues cause people to repeat continued on the job until he was crimes and then return to jail. 70. He did this by not letting things As for his personal safety, he bother him. doesn’t see much of a concern. Costello came to discover that “There are confrontational times, reaching retirement age made I think, in the facility. A lot of times, being a corrections officer even the younger guys will respect us easier for his friend. “I guess he older males if we are patient with realized that this place couldn’t do them, if we treat them with respect, anything to hurt him.” trying to give them a view of the big Hurting happens, though, both picture as they are here.” to officers and to inmates, but He said that being older, he has Costello wanted to pass on a mes- experience “talking people down” sage to families of people in the from their anger, and is more suit- Yakima County jail. ed to handling irate inmates than “For people who have an elderly are most younger officers. person here that they worry about, “You’re trying to make the know we will take care of them. inmate as comfortable as you can We will take care of everything under the circumstances. I don’t that they need. We have our poli- know if there is anything outside cies and procedures, our processes of what we’re doing. 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JAIL “fairgrounds jail” that is still re- –––Cont. from pg. 15 sponsible for inmate meals). They create meals in coopera- “My goal in life, wherever I tion with the medical department am at, is to help of the jail. Inmates Located at Sunset somebody. That make special re- is what we are quests through their Memorial Gardens. here in this doctors. If they are world to do, re- diabetic, for exam- gardless of me ple, they get meals to being in jail or suit their condition. not.” Also, if someone Also trying to complains about not Community Owned. Funeral Pre-Planning Available make the best of having enough food, a bad situation was doctors also attend to 915 By Pass Highway, Richland, WA 99352 Ralph Haulk (66). that concern, allowing (509) 943-1114 • www.einansfuneralhome.com Placed in the jail on more if it seems war- July 7, he awaits trial on ranted. two counts of child moles- “It does happen, but in all tation. honesty people who tend to lose He has been in other jails, and he weight are people who weigh too said that the one in Yakima is not much anyway,” Costello said. much different than others. He added more often than not, “It’s about like all the rest of inmates gain weight. Also, he said them. You come in, and you get that prison staff members eat the your three meals per day, medica- same food as the inmates, though tions and what you need.” at their own chosen amounts, and “It’s just like taking a vacation, the food is good. like a hotel. Some of them, I got Costello argued that all inmates five stars on them, some I’ve got get their needs met at the jail, and WALT REALLY LOVES three stars. It depends on how the that seniors are particularly well doctors and the food are.” treated. HIS LIFE AT He said that food changes in The staff is trained to care for Yakima tookthe jail from a five- people with special needs, includ- HAWTHORNE COURT. star facility to a four-star one. ing seniors. If an older person has (AND APPARENTLY SOMEONE Still, life in jail is often better trouble with stairs, or has other than Haulk’s life outside of it. At medical issues, those problems REALLY LOVES WALT.) least in jail, he does not have to are addressed through the proper Walt kissed his chores goodbye. The stove? Smooch. The scrub worry about finding food. channels, he said. brushes? Smooch. The lawnmower, rake, and trimmer? Smooch. Out of jail, he “lives off the Smooch. Smooch. Walt loves all the fun things at Hawthorne Court: land,” growing a garden and rais- ing chickens to survive. He said he the fitness programs, social activities, and group travel. Oh yeah. gathers duck and quail eggs and The Senior Expo Let us show you how you can kiss your chores goodbye and love hunts pheasants and deer. your life, too. Call now to schedule your complimentary lunch and When he is not in jail, he lives in is Coming! tour. Of course, if you want tips on getting some kisses of your own, a trailer and has very limited access Tri-Cities you’ll have to talk to Walt. Then again, he might be kind of busy. to electricity. In jail, his needs are Tuesday Oct 23, 2012 met, including access to medicine, Yakima “I just kick it back. I don’t worry Thursday Oct 25, 2012 about nothing,” he said. LIVING BETTER THAN EVER Concerns for Staff 524 North Ely • Kennewick • (509) 783-8313 Worrying is done by other www.leisurecare.com • Assisted Living services available people, including staff at the jail. In the kitchen, workers receive prepared food (made over in the