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November 2015

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Bookshelf .................................................Page 3Opinion ....................................................Page 4 Savvy Senior ............................................Page 5Calendar ...................................................Page 18

Volunteering .............................................Page 19On the Menu ............................................1Strange But True ......................................Page 22

INSIDE

Officer dressed as homeless man catches drivers using phones

BETHESDA, Md. (AP) — A Maryland police officer went undercover dressed as a homeless man to catch people who were using their phones while driving.

Cpl. Patrick Robinson went undercover Oct. 27 equipped with a police radio and a body camera. He held a sign that read, “I am not homeless. I am a Montgomery County police officer looking for cell phone texting violations.”

Montgomery County police Sgt. Phillip Chapin and about eight other officers issued a total of 56 tickets countywide that day, including 31 tickets and 9 warnings to people caught using their phones without hands-free devices.

Chapin says authorities are seeing more distracted-driver-relat-ed deaths as a result of people using their phones while behind the wheel.

Need campaign funds? How about coca? LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) — While U.S. politicians are scrambling

for ways to pay for campaigns, few are likely to adopt the latest Bolivian tactic.

Backers of President Evo Morales say they’re bolstering their finances with donations of potatoes and coca, the crop that’s a traditional stimulant in Bolivia but is banned abroad as the raw material of cocaine.

The president’s partisans are seeking a constitutional amend-ment eliminating a ban on Morales seeking another term in 2019.

Coca growers’ vice president Leonardo Loza says his members are pledging 20 tons of coca to be sold to raise money for the effort. They hope to raise $120,000 and say none of the crop will go toward cocaine. Morales is honorary president of the growers’ union.

Other growers’ groups are pledging potatoes and rice for the campaign.

News Lite

“The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical

Breakthrough of Our Lives”By James Forrester, M.D.

St. Martin’s Press - September 2015Hardcover • 384 pages ISBN: 1-250-05839-3

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� By Montana Best Times Staff

Looking for a good read for an upcoming cold winter evening?

Check out “The Heart Healers: The Misfits, Mavericks and Rebels Who Created the Greatest Medical Break-through of Our Lives” by Dr. James S. Forrester, which tells the compelling story of how cardiac surgery came to be as we know it today, and how scientists and doctors often had to defy the accumulated medical wisdom of their day in order to save the human heart, a news release from publisher St. Martin’s Press says.

Forrester is a world-renowned cardiac surgeon who in the early 1990s led a team that developed coronary angioscopy, a procedure that has helped save countless lives around world.

The recipient of the American College of Cardiology’s Life-time Achievement Award, an emeritus professor and former chief of the Division of Cardiology at Cedars-Sinai, and a professor of medicine at UCLA, Forrester also pioneered the development of several other revolutionary advancements in cardiac care that are used today.

In “The Heart Healers,” Forrester traces the evolution of the treatment of heart disease, once considered a death sentence, and focuses on the visionaries, mavericks and rebels who relied on their own intuition, rejected the criticism of their peers, and per-sisted in the face of failure in order to bring about extraordinary medical breakthroughs in the field of cardiac care, the release says.

Forrester recounts the fascinating stories of cardiac pioneers like Ludwig Rehn, who in 1895, successfully sutured the heart of a living man with a knife wound to the chest for the first time.

‘The Heart Healers’ provides an excellent

medical read

Once it was deemed possible to perform surgery on the heart, others followed. In 1929, Dr. Werner Forssman inserted a cardiac catheter in his own arm and forced the X-ray technician on duty to take a photo as he successfully threaded it down the vein into his own heart … and lived.

On June 6, 1944 — D-Day — another momentous event occurred far from the Normandy beaches: Dr. Dwight Harken sutured the shrapnel-injured heart of a young soldier and saved his life, and the term “cardiac surgeon” was born, the St. Martin’s Press release says.

“The Heart Healers” tells the deeply personal stories of the doctors who risked lives and careers to further medicine’s under-standing and treatment of heart disease. It is also a compelling look at their patients who put their lives in the hands of these men as they strived to create cardiac miracles.

The result is a compelling chronicle of heart disease and its treatment, as well as a fascinating look at the future of cardiac research and the prevention of heart disease by a man who himself has been responsible for hugely significant advances in the field.

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Opinion

Climbing duo shows how to build memories with grandkidsThe Absaroka Mountains overlooking Livingston where I

live have snow on them, as I’m sure do many other ranges and hills around the Best Times readership area.

Not a surprising thing for Montana this time of year, but still, com’on, it’s only October — well, at least at the time of this writing.

The snow means winter fun for skiers and snowmobilers, but it spells the end of hiking in the hills for those of us who like to climb, including Wade Hansen, of Dillon, and his grandson Kyle Fadness.

Hansen, 66, and Fadness, 18, are the pair featured in a Page 10 story of this issue of Best Times. The duo have for years been taking mountain climbing trips together, with the intent of bagging all the 10,000-foot-plus peaks in the Pioneer Mountains near Dillon.

What a great thing to do with your grandson — building a relationship and creating memories he will keep with him all his life. I’d wager Fadness will pass the tradition to his own grandchildren some day.

Speaking of which, my grandson is only 8 months old, but I’m already planning mountain climbing trips with him. Although he lives in Chicago, I’ve dropped the hint to his

parents that when he gets old enough, they will need to send him out to Montana for summer visits so he and his grandad can do some peak-bagging, just like Hansen and his Fadness.

Of course, mountain climbing together is not the only way to build memories with your grandkids. There are end-less ways to do it, outdoors or indoors. Think of how you can do something special with your grandchildren, on a regular basis.

It will enrich your life and theirs. – Dwight Harriman,

Montana Best Times Editor

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Jim Miller, creator of the syndicated “Savvy Senior” information column, is a longtime advocate of senior issues. He has been featured in Time magazine; is author of “The Savvy Senior: The Ultimate Guide to Health, Family and Finances for Senior Citizens”; and is a regular contributor to the NBC “Today” show.

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Required IRA and 401(k) withdrawal rules for retirees

Dear Savvy Senior, Can you give me the details on required IRA and 401(k)

distributions? I turned 70 this year, and want to be clear on what I’m required to do, and when I’ll have to do it.

– Planning Ahead

Dear Planning, The old saying “you can’t take it with you” is definitely true

when it comes to Uncle Sam and your tax-deferred retirement accounts. Here’s what you should know about required retirement account distributions along with some tips to help you avoid extra taxes and penalties. »RMD rules Beginning at age 70 1/2, the IRS requires all seniors that own

tax-deferred retirement accounts — like traditional IRAs, SEP IRAs, SIMPLE IRAs, SARSEPs, 401(k)s, 403(b)s and 457s – must start taking annual required minimum distributions (RMDs), and pay taxes on those withdrawals. The reason: The IRS doesn’t want you hoarding your money in these accounts forever. They want their cut. Distributions are taxed as income at your ordinary income tax rate. There are, however, two exceptions. Owners of Roth IRAs are

not required to take a distribution, unless the Roth is inherited. And if you continue to work beyond age 70 1/2, and you don’t own 5 percent or more of the company you work for, you can delay withdrawals from your employer’s retirement plan until after you retire. But if you have other non-work-related accounts, such as a traditional IRA or a 401(k) from a previous employer, you are still required to take RMDs from them after age 70 1/2, even if you’re still working. »RMD Deadlines Generally, you must take your distribution every year by Dec.

31. First timers, however, can choose to delay taking their distribution until April 1 of the year following the year you turn 70 1/2. So, for example, if your 70th birthday was in March 2015, you would turn 70 1/2 in September and your required beginning date would be April 1, 2016. But if your 70th birthday occurred later in the year, say in August, you

wouldn’t turn 70 1/2 until 2016. In that case, you would be required to take your first distribution by April 1, 2017. But be careful about delaying, because if you delay your first

distribution, it may push you into a higher tax bracket because you must take your next distribution by December 31 of the same year. Also note that you can always withdraw more than the required

amount, but if you don’t take out the minimum, you’ll be hit with a 50 percent penalty on the amount that you failed to withdraw, along with the income tax you owe on it. »Distribution amounts Your RMD is calculated by dividing your tax-deferred

retirement account balance as of Dec. 31 of the previous year, by an IRS estimate of your life expectancy. A special rule applies if your spouse is the beneficiary and is more than 10 years younger than you. IRA withdrawals must be calculated for each IRA you own, but

you can withdraw the money from any IRA or combination of IRAs. 403(b) accounts also allow you to total the RMDs and take them from any account or combination of accounts. With 401(k) plans, however, you must calculate the RMD for

each plan and withdraw the appropriate amount from each account. To calculate the size of your RMD, you can use the worksheets

on the IRS website – see irs.gov/Retirement-Plans and click on “Required Minimum Distributions.” Or, contact your IRA custodian or retirement-plan administrator who can do the calculations for you. For more information, call the IRS at 800-829-3676 and ask

them to mail you a free copy of the “Distributions from Individual Retirement Arrangements” (publication 590-B), or see irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p590b.pdf.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org.

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Couple embrace life and each other on and off their ‘Hogs’

Photo Credit: Kathleen GillulyOn the cover and above: Bruce and Virginia Ireland are pictured on their Harleys at Beartooth Harley Davidson between Bill-ings and Laurel. The dealership is like family to the couple, who have purchased several bikes there and feel free to help them-selves to coffee. Virginia is seated on her new 2016 Softail Slim.

� By Kathleen Gilluly Montana Best Times

LAUREL — Bruce and Virginia Ireland count themselves among the happiest people in the world. They certainly live full, active lives and enjoy every minute.

Married just five years ago come January, at 66 and 63 years old respectively, neither acts their age. Both are avid skiers, Har-ley riders and horsemen. And every day is an adventure.

Romance and a lost end of thumbThe two met in the intensive care unit at Billings’ St. Vincent

Healthcare, where they worked alongside each other as nurses. Their crew, which remain close, included Doug’s late wife.

“We were all great friends before Bruce and I got together,” Virginia commented. “A bunch of us regularly went skiing together. And, then Bruce’s wife became ill and died.”

Bruce noted that as they had been friends for so long, Virginia took on the role of matchmaker and tried to hook him up with eli-gible women. That is, until they realized they belonged together.

For Bruce, that moment came while the two were on the Griz-zly Peak chair lift at Red Lodge Mountain, when he impulsively kissed Virginia. She told him in no uncertain terms to never do that again. Luckily, he didn’t listen.

Virginia didn’t move from her little ranch on the east side of Billings with her horses and dogs until after they married.

“I had lots of baggage,” she said laughing about her menagerie. “But, in addition to getting married, I had always wanted to live closer to the ski area.”

Bruce laughed as he added details to the story from that hectic time.

“I had three dogs, and then we brought her two dogs home,” he said. “They got into a big fight and her dog bit the end of my thumb off. She was so upset about it, but I told her not to worry. I just wanted to find it. Well, we did finally find it, and then the cat ate it.”

Bruce is still disappointed about that. He had planned to make a pendant out of it.

Harleys to the White HouseRiding their Harley hogs is a big part of the Irelands’ lives.

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“We sure had fun this summer,” Bruce said. “The Billings’ Harley dealership got us in to see the Harley Davidson head-quarters in Milwaukee. They also got us a tour of the brewery and tickets to a Brewers’ game.”

From Milwaukee they journeyed to Anamosa, Iowa, where they visited another motorcycle museum. Then it was on to Columbus, Ohio, which neither realized was a city of almost a half a million people.

“We met so many great people,” Virginia said, “but we had no idea it was so populous. It was very unexpected.”

Although they had four wheels beneath them, since they each only had two each, when Bruce took a wrong exit one time, Vir-ginia worried about finding him.

“Almost right away our two-way radios quit working and we lost communication,” she said. “I pulled up at the motel thinking, ‘I’ll never see my husband again.’ He finally showed up.”

They left their bikes outside the nation’s capitol to tour the monuments and the White House. It was in front of the White House that Bruce almost got arrested, when he wanted to get a picture of himself with the Secret Service fake frisking him.

“I hear, ‘Sir, stop. Sir, stop. Do not move,’” recounted Virginia.

It seemed a reasonable request, but they balked when he approached the officers’ car inside a no tres-passing area. Incarceration averted, they got back on the road.

Tail of the Dragon and Five Finger Death Punch

All along their summer road trip, the Irelands met like-mind-ed HOGs — members of the Harley Owners Group — and other bikers. As they do everywhere they go, they made friends and had memorable experiences.

In Tennessee, the couple enjoyed some high-hill driving.“Nothing compared to our mountains, but very beautiful,”

Virginia said. “Then we rode the Tail of the Dragon in North Carolina; that was definitely an adventure.”

Known as a biker and sports car destination, the Tail of the Dragon is a stretch of the winding U.S. Highway 129, which is bordered by the Great Smoky Mountains and the Cherokee

National Forest. There are no intersecting roads, so riders and drivers can keep their eyes on the road.

“It’s 11 miles of road with 319 turns,” Doug explained. “At the end, there is the Tree of Shame filled with bike and car parts from people wrecking.”

They went on to visit Atlanta before return-ing home.

“On the way back, we were in Kansas City, Missouri, when they had the worst rain-storm,” Doug said. “They had 6 inches come down. My bike became personal watercraft. When I realized we were hydroplaning, we got off the road.”

Once back in Montana, they rested for two days before heading off to Sturgis, South Dakota, to see the heavy metal band Five Fin-ger Death Punch.

“It was a great concert,” Virginia enthused. It also counts against their tally of run-ins

with the law. Once again, Bruce got away with his record untarnished, but it was close.

“I told them to quit profiling bikers,” Bruce said. “We aren’t criminals. We’re profession-als that happen to ride motorcycles.”

Future ridesAlthough Doug has retired, Virginia still

works as a nurse. Since returning from Stur-gis, she’s had rotator cuff surgery, so horse-back riding and skiing may be out this winter.

“I can’t ride right now, either,” Virginia said, “but I just got a new bike, so I’ll be ready.”

One of the first to get Harley Davidson’s new 2016 110 cubic-inch Softail Slim bikes, Virginia test rode one before buy-ing it. It has the largest engine of all the Harleys.

“She likes to do everything faster,” Bruce said. “You know, we’ve both been active our whole lives, so we don’t consider ourselves older. We used to ski all day and party all night. Now, we still ski all day, but we have to go to bed after a long day, and Virginia still skis like a maniac.”

Noting that neither of them are Bible thumpers, and they don’t attend church, Bruce said, “You know, God moves around us and we don’t even know it, but I sure like where he’s taken us. We’ve just had so much fun.”

––––Reach Kathleen Gilluly at [email protected] or (406)

628-4412.

We’ve both been active our whole lives, so we don’t consider

ourselves older. We used to ski all day and party all night. Now,

we still ski all day, but we have to go to bed after a long day ... – Bruce Ireland

A closeup of Virginia Ire-land’s 110 cubic-inch Softail Slim Harley.

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Never Too Old To ColorThree Forks group enjoys socializing with latest craze

Photos courtesy of Debbi KramerAbove: Members of Three Forks’ Never Too Old To Color group proudly show off their coloring projects. Facing page: Shown are three samples of colorings by the Never Too Old To Color group.

� By Doreen Heintz Montana Best Times

Three Forks librarian Debbi Kramer was looking on Amazon.com for books for the Three Forks Community Library when she came across adult coloring books.

“What the heck,” she said, “I will order a couple.”That was a little over two months ago. Now the Three

Forks Library is home to a group called Never Too Old To Color.

“When I got the books, I showed them to my friend, San-dy Jackson,” said Kramer. “Sandy said maybe we should start a coloring group.

Kramer said Jackson added, “Do you think anyone will come?”

How it worksCome they did. The Never Too Old To Color group has

joined the newest craze taking over the country of coloring in their own books. The group meets on the second and fourth Thursday from 5 to 6 p.m. at the Three Forks Library to spend time coloring.

Most of the group uses colored pencils, but any medium will do, such as crayons, markers and even chalk.

Since the group began, Kramer said they usually have between six and nine people, mostly women and most over the age of 50, but the coloring group is open to anyone willing to share their colorings with the rest of the group.

“We spend some of our time sharing what we have done,” said Kramer.

For anyone not familiar with adult coloring, the pictures are usually more intricate and detailed than a child’s color-ing book.

“Many of us have spent time over the years coloring with our children and our grandchildren,” added Kramer. “Now we are just coloring with people our own age and socializ-ing in the process.”

One of the ideas the Three Forks group has come up with is for everyone in the group to have the same drawing, probably one with patterns, and color it.

“Then we are going to display them at the library so everyone can see how differently the picture will turn out,” Kramer said.

“The thing I like most about coloring is that one doesn’t have to have a special skill,” added Kramer.

“Anyone can color, and now most of us even stay in the lines,” she laughed.

Big demandEarlier this year, NBC News reported “the stress-reliever

that is soaring in popularity is something that most people have not done since elementary school — coloring.”

Now, coloring books for adults cannot keep up with demand.

Illustrator Johanna Basford’s “Secret Garden” is in the top 10 on Amazon’s Best Seller list. At the time of this writing, Bashford’s two coloring books were sold out. Lisa Cohengdon’s three “Just Add Color” books were also sold out.

But Kramer has not found getting the coloring books for adults to be much of a problem.

“One can find them in several different stores around the area,” Kramer said. “At Costco, one can get big coloring books that are 18 by 24 inches. Hobby Lobby have books that are poster size, but most books are about 8 by 11 inches

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in size. I like to use markers when I color the larger-size pages. You can find these books at other stores also or order them online.”

Like grandmother, like granddaughterKramer has taken her coloring a step further. She has two

young granddaughters who are just starting to color. They always like to make a picture for grandma to put on her refrigerator. Kramer makes a copy of a picture and colors it. She then sends her colored picture to her two granddaughters to put on their refrigerator and asks them to color theirs and send them to her for her refrigerator.

“If I can have your pictures on my refrigerator, then you have mine on yours,” Kramer tells her two granddaughters.

Whether coloring for stress relief, for fun, or with your grand-children, join the newest fad in the country. You might be sur-prised what you can accomplish. Or color.

–––––Reach Doreen Heintz at [email protected] or (406)

535-3401.

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� By Dick Crockford Montana Best Times

DILLON — Wade Hansen is probably better known for dig-ging holes than for mountain climbing, but scaling the Pioneer Mountains of southwestern Montana is something he finds espe-cially rewarding.

The longtime owner-operator of Wade’s Excavator Service in Dillon, Hansen, 66, has been climbing the mountains for nearly half a century, since he was a student at Beaverhead County High School.

For the past 13 years, he has been sharing his passion for hik-ing with his grandson Kyle Fadness, of Helena, who first joined Hansen when he was 5 years old. Since 2002, the two have been steadfast hiking buddies. Fadness, now 18, is a freshman at Mon-tana Tech in Butte.

Climbing every peak over 10,000 feet high in the Pioneer Mountain Range northwest of Dillon has been a goal of the pair for at least 13 years. Together, they have made it to the top of 13 different peaks, some of them two or three times, Hansen said.

Peak baggersHansen recalled that on their first trip together, he helped his

grandson over the boulders and other obstacles as they hiked. Now the younger man carries the gear, “and this gives Grandpa … a better chance of keeping up,” Hansen said.

When Hansen was 55 and Fadness was 8 they climbed Tweedy Mountain, the tallest Pioneer peak at 11,154 feet.

Over the years the pair has completed 16 of 19 attempted ascents of the peaks, turning back twice because of topography after encountering cliffs, and once by snow, including a Septem-ber attempt at Sharp Mountain. More on that in a minute.

“We’ve taken as much as three days” to make a trip to set up a base camp, make the climb and then return, Hansen said, adding that most of the hikes are day trips.

In July, the pair climbed 10,400-foot Mount Alverson and a 10,200-foot unnamed mountain that lies about a mile northwest of Alverson. Since the unnamed peak is steep and presented diffi-cult climbing, Hansen said they informally dubbed it “Mount Tough.”

For the ascents of those mountains, they started at the Mono Creek Campground, hiked seven miles to upper Schultz Lake, climbed the mountains, then returned to the campground, taking 14 hours to make the round-trip.

Since the excursion took place before wildfires erupted a few weeks later, Hansen said, “the vegetation was very green and the mountains beautiful,” with clear, unobstructed views.

Back to Sharp Mountain: The attempt at the 10,144-foot peak was going to include a try at Mount Tahepia as well, ascending Sharp first. Hansen and Fadness made a start but were turned back at about 9,880 feet after encountering freezing rain and snow that left the rocks covered in ice.

Faced with the choice of trying to clamber over 10-foot-diame-ter, ice-covered, boulders or negotiate an alternative route with cliffs on both sides, the pair abandoned the effort.

Conditions on the mountain “just got too dangerous,” Hansen said. He has since learned of a better route, and he and his grandson

plan to attack the mountain from Canyon Lake, and bag Tahepia on that expedition as well.

BeginningsSo, how did all this mountain climbing thing begin?When he was 16 years old, Hansen said, he came across a

claim for a record for the fastest climb of Torrey Mountain, eleva-tion 11,147 feet, though that particular statistic has since faded from memory.

He and a Beaverhead County High School classmate, Dan Struckman, set out to break that record, which he said they did,

Dillon man, grandson ascend to great heights

Photos courtesy of Wade HansenWade Hansen, left, and his grandson Kyle Fadness take in the view from atop a peak in the Pioneer Mountains on a summer day last year.

Every time I go out to the mountains … it’s an awe-

inspiring experience that shows a majestic God that created this beauty.

– Wade Hansen

Pioneer mountain

men


making the trip in three hours, 25 minutes — an hour, 56 minutes up, and an hour, 29 minutes down, including taking a few to catch their breath at the top.

Just enjoying the outdoorsSo far this year, Hansen has logged about 300 miles hiking at

elevations between 8,000 and 10,000 feet, including some hunt-ing during archery season. He said he expects to put in another hundred or so during the general big game rifle season.

He admits that “lots of times” he does not even take his gun. He enjoys helping his family and friends with their hunting, including scouting places for elk hunting.

Much of his outdoor activity involves outings in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area and helping take groups from youth pro-grams, such as the Yellowstone Boys and Girls Ranch, on back country trips.

He said he likes to share his love for nature and the outdoors with others, “especially kids,” primarily through activities such as camping, hiking and backpacking.

“I guess that every time I go out to the mountains … it’s an awe-inspiring experience that shows a majestic God that created this beauty,” Hansen said, adding he is “very thankful” to have such opportunities to share his faith.

He said he also greatly values the bonding that has taken place with his grandson over the years through their shared outdoor experiences.

When the two started out on their climb-every-peak quest, Hansen figured there were 11 peaks over 10,000 feet in elevation. He later learned there were several more.

According to the East Pioneer 10000’ Club (visit http://www.summitpost.org/torrey-mountain/154798, then scroll down to “East Pioneer 10000’ Club”), there are 16 named summits over 10,000 feet in elevation in the Pioneers. Adding that unnamed mountain brings the number to 17.

So the grandfather-grandson duo still have some climbing to do.

––––Reach Dick Crockford at [email protected] or

(406) 683-2331.

Wade Hansen pauses for a picture at the summit of one of the Pioneer Mountain peaks he and his grandson scaled.

Kyle Fadness, 18, of Helena, has been his grandpa’s hiking partner since he was 5 years old.

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� Story and photos by Richard Hanners Montana Best Times

ROSCOE — German-born ex-chemists Frank Annighofer and Annette Lavalette recall the day they drafted a 10-year plan that eventually landed them in a log home above the Beartooth Front’s East Rosebud Creek near Roscoe.

They were on a Christmas vacation in Wales when Annette put her corporate managerial skills to work and suggested the long-term strategy.

“I generated the idea,” she said. “I didn’t want to grow old in Germany.”

Working as a management consultant while Frank moved around Europe from office to office for an insurance company had meant 60-hour weeks and often being separated for five days a week.

“It was a fun life,” Annette said, “but I wouldn’t miss it.”

From Germany to Beartooth countryFrank, 58, and Annette, 56, were born and raised in Hamburg.

Frank got his Ph.D. in chemistry about the same time Annette got her master’s in chemistry. They met in Switzerland when Frank hired her to help him with his research in plastics for the automo-tive and textile industries.

They eventually moved on to new careers in corporate manage-ment that scattered them across the continent — with Annette for a time in London and then Germany, and Frank at offices all over Europe.

The idea of a 10-year plan clicked with Frank.“Annette convinced me that all this work would leave you dead

by 66,” he said. “We needed something less stressful.”The couple married about seven years after they first met in

Switzerland. Armed with their plan, they began to look for a new home in the U.S. Frank’s company maintained a headquarters in New York, and he had done his post-doctoral work in chemistry in California.

The couple had also vacationed in California, rock climbing at Joshua Tree and Yosemite national parks. A photo collage hang-ing in their home shows Frank and Annette on their honeymoon in 1996 climbing the Zodiac route on the southeast face of El Capitan in Yosemite.

“It was 16 pitches — we took eight days,” Frank said.“We slept head to toe,” Annette said.Their search for a new home focused on undeveloped land

backed by big landscapes — a precious commodity in Europe.“We wanted the coast or the mountains,” Annette explained.

“And we wanted our four seasons — so California was out.”“It’s too crowded anyway,” Frank said.The couple eventually found their new home on a hillside sev-

eral miles east of East Rosebud Lake. They bought the land, secured permanent visas and moved to Beartooth country in 2003.

Frank helped the contractor finish building their log house, and the couple moved into the shell before the interior was complet-ed.

“We always liked to work with our hands but never had the time in Germany,” Annette said.

A new careerThat craftsman drive led to a new career for the ex-chemists –

blacksmithing.“I’m not exactly sure how we got into that,” Annette said.“It’s because you wanted a pot hanger for the kitchen,” Frank

said.

Finding a new

life in the East

RosebudFrank Annighofer and Annette Lavalette are pictured in their home near East Rosebud Lake on the Beartooth Front, recently.


However, there’s more to the story. Frank’s father, Dieter, had a wrought iron shop in Hamburg and learned the trade from Frank’s grandfather Arthur. Frank spent quite a bit of time in his father’s shop as a teenager.

Once the couple’s new garage was completed, it morphed into a fully-equipped blacksmithing shop.

“We started out just doing things for ourselves,” Annette said.Then one day a neighbor came by and asked if they could make

a life-size sculpture of a rearing horse. Frank crafted a model using copper wire, and they worked on and off on the project. Frank’s father even had a hand in the sculpture while visiting from Germany.

“He was very proud of our work,” Annette said.“It was our first sold piece of art,” Frank said.Their newfound interest turned into Wood & Iron Works, a cus-

tom blacksmithing and metal art business, with products ranging from door and cabinet hardware to deck railings and towel racks.

The couple are members of the American Artist Blacksmith Association, the California Blacksmith Association and the Northern Rockies Blacksmiths Association. Frank recently was elected president of the Northern Rockies group, which inaugu-rated an educational program this year to certify blacksmiths.

“Last year, I taught 80 Boy Scouts in Columbus how to make steak turners,” he said.

Staying busy“We originally planned to work only in winter so we could

spend more time hiking, climbing and fishing,” Annette said. “But we’ve gotten fairly busy.”

Busy is perhaps an understatement. The couple also helped found Friends of East Rosebud Creek, a nonprofit seeking feder-al Wild and Scenic River designation to protect the East Rose-bud from a planned hydroelectric project. The proposed desig-nation has the full support of Montana’s congressional delega-tion and is working its way through Congress. And Frank is cre-ating a rock climbing guide to the East Rosebud area, posting the descriptions one climb at a time.

Annette is also a member of the Red Lodge Area Food Part-nership Council, which seeks to connect local food producers with consumers in order to improve both the local economy and local residents’ quality of life.

––––For more information on Frank and Annette’s blacksmith-

ing business, visit www.woodandironworks.com. For more information on saving the East Rosebud Creek, visit www.saveeastrosebud.org. And for more information on connect-ing local foods with consumers, visit http://foodpartnership.org.

––––Reach Richard Hanners at reporter@stillwatercoun-

tynews.com or (406) 322-5212.

Left: This wrought-iron sign for the Branger Ranch near Ros-coe was one of Frank Annighofer and Annette Lavalette’s first sold works.

This iron and copper sculpture, “Wild and Free,” forged and fabricated by Frank and Annette, stands 12 feet high. They made it for a neighbor in 2007.


� By William Hageman Chicago Tribune/TNS

It’s not even 9 a.m. in Malibu, Califor-nia, yet Dick Van Dyke — soon-to-be 90 Dick Van Dyke — already is home from the gym, attacking his long to-do list for the day.

“I just got back,” says Van Dyke, who has been entertain-ing audiences in some capacity for more than 65 years. “I’m up at 6 every morning. I wake up and have a cup of coffee and get over to the gym before I talk myself out of it.”

His daily regimen includes the treadmill and weights — he says he can still lift his age — a stop at the market, errands, back home, a nap, dinner, then a nightly treat of ice cream.

These days he’s also promoting his new book, “Keep Moving and Other Tips and Truths About Aging” (Weinstein Books).

“I’ve got a couple of signings to do this week, phone interviews, some newspaper things,” he says. “I think it will sell well to my generation.”

The book is full of stories from Van Dyke’s life and his reflections on what he

has seen and learned over his 90 years (his birthday is Dec. 13). But mostly he wants to tell readers how to enjoy life as they get into their 60s, 70s, 80s and beyond.

The primary message of “Keep Moving” is just that — keep moving as you get old-er. In the book, Van Dyke talks about

breaking into a little soft-shoe when the spirit moves him, whether at home or at his favorite grocery market. He has no room — or time — for a sedentary lifestyle.

“If you get exercise, get moving, get the blood moving, you walk out of the gym feeling better,” he says. “Get that circulation going, and it changes you. I can go to the gym feeling pretty lousy, but I walk out of there with a bounce in my step and feeling pretty good. I know very few people who

are inactive who have all their marbles.”That leads to another factor in a healthy

old age, one he mentions frequently in the book: the mental aspect.

“There’s the biblical admonition about putting aside the things of your childhood. But I take that to mean self-centeredness,

willfulness; not creativity and wonder. Walt Disney and I always said we were children looking for our inner adults.”

Here are some of Van Dyke’s other lessons for living a full life:

Diet: “Good habits mat-ter,” he writes. “Eating light and fresh. Staying away

from fast and processed foods.” Van Dyke says he has never had a weight problem. “I come from a skinny family. I watch what I eat. I’m not much on meat, maybe once a week. I have blueberries every morning. I watch my sugar level. When I was a kid I said, ‘When I grow up I want to eat candy every night.’ I do eat ice cream every night.” For those keeping score at home, that’s two scoops of Haagen-Dazs vanilla

Dick Van Dyke prescribes

song & dance

Photo by Jim Udell/TNSDick Van Dyke is pictured with his wife, Arlene, who was originally his personal makeup artist.

Continued on Page 20

You can’t sing and be

miserable at the same time.– Dick Van Dyke


� By Erin E. Arvedlund The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS

Before the advanced degrees, money, and accolades, he was just a kid growing up farming cotton with seven siblings, his mother, and his father, who was the son of an ex-slave in Mississippi.

Benjamin Nero grew up just miles away in Mississippi from where teenager Emmett Till was beaten to death. Born in 1937, Nero was a high school football star who played in college and was recruited to play professionally. He remains close with childhood friend Morgan Free-man, the award-winning actor.

Nero was also the first African American to graduate from Albert Einstein Hospital’s residency pro-gram in orthodontics. He built suc-cessful dental practices in greater Philadelphia and New Jersey and endowed a scholarship at his alma mater.

Now he’s writing his memoirs — part of a trend from the baby boom and older who want to leave a record of their legacy. Some, like Nero, pay ghostwriters. Others take classes, do their own writing, and self-publish. There’s even a National Association of Memoir Writers, based in Berkeley, California, which began in 2008 and now has several hundred members and several thousand newsletter subscribers.

For Nero, of Cherry Hill, the spark was lit during the hours bent over at work, fixing crooked young teeth.

Clamping painful braces on his patients, Nero distracted and amused patients with tales of leaving the cotton farm, becoming a football star and a dentist. His parents were both educated and yearned for their children to leave farming and earn degrees — in short, to escape Mississippi.

“I had so many stories that I was telling my patients, I realized I should just write my memoirs,” Nero recalls.

The youngest of eight children, Nero started jotting down memories and snippets of conversation with his oldest brother, David Nero Jr., in 2000.

By 2002, David had died, prompting Nero to get serious.“I’d put it off, and his death pushed me to start. I was inspired

to tell the story of my parents, too,” he said.Nero’s mother was half-white, the daughter of an African

American woman and a white physician. The white doctor’s wife had died, and he then fathered a daughter with the maid.

“Obviously, she had no choice in the matter, as this was during the late 1800s,” Nero recalls of his grandmother.

Nero’s mother was well-educated, attending a boarding school for mulatto children, and finally a historically black college for women, leaving to get married.

Nero’s father, David Nero Sr., was the son of a freed slave who, with his brothers, bought up swampland in cotton country, and drained and cleared it for farming. Nero’s father inherited 50 acres of prime farmland in Fayette County, Mississippi, in the heart of the cotton industry. He and Nero’s mother farmed it suc-cessfully for decades.

“My mother left college to marry my father and grow cotton. She stayed there 55 years,” he recalls. “Can you imagine? The daughter of a doctor and a city girl!”

NFL reality checkWith his pal Freeman, Nero graduated high school. After play-

ing quarterback for the Kentucky State College football team and graduating, Nero was drafted by Sid Gillman, coach of what was then the Los Angeles Chargers, in 1960.

At training camp, the lifetime quarterback realized he wouldn’t

Memoirs by seniors offer lessons worth sharing

Photo by Michael Bryant/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNSBenjamin Nero, the first African American to graduate from Albert Einstein Hospital’s residency program in orthodontics, is writing his memoirs — starting on a cotton farm in Mississippi.


be allowed to play this “brainy” position, due to an unwritten agreement in the NFL that restricted black players. So Nero walked away.

He was the first African American graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, and then completed a three-year residency at Albert Einstein Hospital in Philadelphia. In 1971, he took over a practice at a medical arts building at 16th and Walnut Streets from Knowlton Atterbeary, the only African American orthodontist in the city. “I was the only black guy in my classes,” he said.

But buying the practice almost didn’t happen, because Nero couldn’t get a bank loan. The late Eagles star Clarence Peaks, running back and 1957 draft pick, cosigned a loan for Nero. Within a few years, Nero opened a second practice, in the Ger-mantown-Mount Airy area, and a third in Mount Laurel. Finally, Nero fulfilled a lifelong dream of building his parents a new house.

Nero’s memoirs took a nontraditional turn; he was having trou-ble writing, so he turned to a neighbor, retired Inquirer columnist Claude Lewis, and a coauthor, John Timpane, a current reporter and editor. Lewis, who is blind, strikes up a conversation with Nero and records everything. Then Timpane transcribes the recordings and turns Nero’s personal history into a narrative.

A cottage industryAdvice for memoirists? Write down a little something every

day. Talk to siblings, cousins, and friends. In Nero’s case, “I’m not literary, so I hired someone.”

Dixie Tabb Palmer of Harrisburg is writing her own memoir. Hers is a funny, poignant family history. “I’m writing a memoir about coming of age with a father who was my own ‘Don Draper’ of sorts,” she says, referring to the advertising hunk in the series

Mad Men. She’s taking classes with Temple instructor Anne Hunter to complete her memoir.

“The deadline really writes it for me,” says Palmer, who is looking for a publisher. The hardest part? A routine.

Taking classes has helped, as does her work ethic. Classes gen-erally run six to eight weeks and cost $150 to $200. “I feel if I stick to a routine, I can finish,” she says.

Boomers can’t stop writing their life stories, says memoirist-for-hire Nell McShane Wulfhart. A native of Philadelphia, she lives in Uruguay and works as a freelance journalist and writer of memoirs for others, interviewing them by email and Skype and fashioning their memories into books.

“It’s a baby boomer market,” says Wulfhart, 35. Her fees range from $130 an hour for memoir consulting to anywhere from $2,000 to $20,000 for a longer book with a professional designer and photographs.

Memoir consulting is “helping people who want to do the writ-ing themselves. They need a professional to shape it. Sometimes someone wants something short and doesn’t want to do a full book.”

The full package “can add a lot to the price. A lot of clients start the project for someone else, for their parents or grandpar-ents or 50th wedding anniversary. And among boomers, the mem-oirs skew slightly more male.”

For memoirists, the results can be priceless.In reviewing his life, Nero says, he has learned to reflect more

on the mistakes he made. “I flunked one course — and that was marriage.”

Married three times, he blames his workaholic habits and drive to succeed. Recently, he said, he was able to make amends with his first wife.

Photo by Shaun Ring/TNSBenjamin Nero talks with actor Morgan Freeman, left. The two grew up as childhood friends in Mississippi.

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Photo courtesy of Forolia/ TNSIf you don’t want your winter skills to be affected by your age, it’s important to train for the transition from summer to winter sports.

Advice: Step it up to be strong enough

for winter sports � By Wina Sturgeon

Adventure Sports Weekly/TNSA growing number of people are not giving up competitive

sports or action activities as they age. The older athlete is no lon-ger a rarity. With winter coming on, many masters-age athletes are looking forward to alpine or Nordic skiing and to snowboard-ing.

If you don’t want your winter skills to be affected by your age, it’s important to train for the transition from summer to winter sports. Action in winter usually happens at a higher altitude and so requires extra aerobic capacity. These activities can also be more strenuous than summer sports, so a different kind of training is necessary to maintain or improve the skills you’ll need.

As you get older, your body’s physiology changes. Under ordi-nary conditions, muscle mass starts to decline, while body fat increases. Strength diminishes. The biggest loss is in aerobic capacity, or VO2 max. VO2 max is a measurement of oxygen consumption during exercise. It’s usually considered the best way to measure an athlete’s cardiovascular fitness.

But many masters-age winter athletes take to the slopes and hills without the specific transitioning required for winter activity, or without training at all. The lack of training is actually the big-gest cause of lower performance and injuries. A formal study done at a German University by a coalition of scientists titled Physical Performance in Middle Age and Old Age, states, “Per-formance losses in middle age are mainly due to a sedentary life-style, rather than biological aging. The large contingent of older ‘newcomers’ among marathon runners demonstrates that, even at an advanced age, non-athletes can achieve high levels of perfor-mance through regular training.”

The study also said, “A recently published longitudinal study including men older than 50 showed impressively the great effec-tiveness of regular sports activities at an older age: the life expec-tancy of active seniors was 3.8 years longer than that of their non-active peers.”

Being more sedentary after years as an active athlete is known as the “deconditioning effect.” To overcome deconditioning and to move from summer to winter sports, the masters athlete should be increasing the intensity of their training after several exercise sessions. Always remember that it takes the older athlete longer to recuperate from a workout.

Unlike a more youthful athlete, “veterans” can’t train every day. Gaining complete recovery from an exercise session may limit workouts to three or even two sessions a week. That’s why each workout must be efficient and packed with the physical work required for improved strength and aerobic capacity.

If you haven’t trained for awhile, it’s essential to start out slow-ly. Maybe when you were younger you could squat your body weight, but that’s not where you start now. Work with an unweighted exercise bar at first. Get your joints and connective tissue (tendons and ligaments) accustomed to the movements of the squat again. This holds true for every weight-bearing exercise

you do at the gym.Before starting any exercise program, first get an okay from

your doctor. Next, begin to improve your VO2 max with high level interval training. This means pushing yourself to a hard sprint for a short period while biking or running, slowing down the pace until your heart rate returns to normal, and then repeat-ing the sprint phase. Again, start slow. Your heart may be racing after a 10 second sprint. If so, keep the sprint phase to 10 seconds until your aerobic capacity improves. When it does, add five sec-onds to the sprint interval. Interval training may be uncomfort-able, but it should never be pushed to the point of pain when you’re a masters-age athlete.

Your goal to get ready for winter sports is to improve your strength (especially in the glutes and thighs), and improve your aerobic capacity. The result will not only maintain your skills, but help protect you against the risk of injury as well.

–––––EDITOR’S NOTE: Wina Sturgeon is an active 55-plus based in

Salt Lake City who offers news on the science of anti-aging and staying youthful at: adventuresportsweekly.com. She skates, bikes and lifts weights to stay in shape.


—� Thursday, November 5

• Veteran Warrior Society Pow Wow, through Nov. 6, Salish and Kootenai College, Pablo

—� Friday, November 6

• Wine and Beer Festival Tasting, 6-8 p.m., Livingston Depot Center, Livingston

• Art Stroll, Dillon

—� Saturday, November 7

• Confluence Concert Black Lillies, Range Riders Museum’s Pio-neer Memorial Hall, Miles City

• Our Savior’s Lutheran Church Bazaar, 707 W. Third St., Laurel

—� Monday, November 9

• Community Blood Drive, noon, Holy Rosary Healthcare, Miles City

—� Thursday, November 12

• Bare Bait Dance, University of Montana Western’s Beier Audito-rium, Dillon


• A Mystical Mountain Christmas, Festival of the Trees Auc-tion, The Ranch at Rock Creek, Philipsburg

• Holiday Wishes Christmas Bazaar, through Nov. 14, Hardin High School, Hardin


• Art Squared event, WaterWorks Art Gallery, Miles City• Festival of Trees, Miles City

—� Sunday, November 15

• Bozeman Symphonic Choir: Premiere of “Luminosity,” 3 p.m., Holy Rosary Church, Bozeman


• Chamber Light Parade, Glendive• Festival of Trees, Glendive• Miles City Shop and Dine, Miles City


• Community Thanksgiving Dinner, Livingston


• Miles City Branch of the American Association of Univer-sity Women Christmas Market, 5-9 p.m. through Nov. 28, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Centra on the Miles Community College campus, Miles City

• North Pole Adventure Train, 5 and 7:30 p.m., Hanover Boarding Station, Lewistown

—� Friday, December 4

• Holiday Stroll, 5-8 p.m., Livingston

—� Saturday, December 5

• North Pole Adventure Train, 5 and 7:30 p.m., Hanover Boarding Station, Lewistown

• Laurel High School Winter Formal, 9 p.m., Laurel

—� Sunday, December 6

• Christmas to Remember Parade and all-day events, Laurel

November2015c a l e N d a r

Hotel to serve $75 road kill-inspired menu BUrlINGTON, Vt. (aP) — a fish and wild game supper is

featuring some Vermont road kill on the menu.New York’s WPTZ-TV reports Hotel Vermont will offer three

animals injured or killed on the road as it hosts the Wild about Vermont event on Nov. 7. The event will feature a game supper

with donations from hunters and fishermen in the state.residents say it’s a quirky and interesting idea.The supper will cost $75 and will be prepared by chef doug

Paine. also on the menu will be deer, bear, moose and muskrat.Paine says it will be delicious and well worth trying. He says

he’s sure many residents haven’t tried beaver but would probably like it if they did.

News Lite


Custer & Rosebud counties

- AARP Tax Assistance pro-gram: Volunteers needed.

- Clinic Ambassador: Need volunteer to greet patients and visitors, providing directions and more, two locations.

- Custer County Food Bank: Volunteer assistants needed for 8 a.m-1:30 p.m., Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, to process donations, stock shelves and more.

- DAV van: Drivers needed to provide transportation to veter-ans to medical appointments.

- Eagles Manor: Volunteer exercise class leader needed, one to two days a week, you pick the days and the exercise for residents.

- Historic Miles City Acade-my: Urgently need volunteers at the thrift store.

- Miles City Soup Kitchen: Needs servers and greeters Mon-day-Friday; pick a day of the week you would like to serve.

- Relay for Life: Popcorn popper needed one day per week, two hours in the morn-ing, at MCC.

- St. Vincent DePaul: Volun-teers to assist in several differ-ent capacities.

- VA Activities: Urgent need for someone to help with activi-ties. Application packet avail-able at VA Activities Director’s Office.

- WaterWorks Art Museum: Volunteer receptionists needed, two-hour shifts Tuesdays-Sun-days; a volunteer also needed in cataloging the art collection, one to assist with historic research of the permanent art collection, and a volunteer to assist in kids classes when scheduled. If you are interested in these

or other volunteer opportunities please contact: Betty Vail, RSVP Director; 210 Winchester Ave. #225, Miles City, MT 59301; phone (406) 234-0505; email: [email protected].

Fergus & Judith Basin counties

- American Reads: Recruiting volunteers to read with elemen-

tary students.- Art Center: In need of vol-

unteers on Saturdays.- Boys and Girls Club: In

need of a volunteer to wash and fold kitchen laundry in their home; detergent is provided.

- Central Montana Fair-grounds: Seeking clerical sup-port.

- Community Cupboard (Food Bank): Volunteers are needed to help any week morn-ings as well as with deliveries.

- Council on Aging: Volun-teers needed to assist at the dai-ly Grubstakes meal and with clerical help during the busy lunch hour.

- Library: Volunteer help always appreciated.

- Office of Veterans Affairs: Seeking clerical support.

- ROWL (Recycle Our Waste Lewistown): Looking for vol-unteers to join teams baling recyclables.

- Treasure Depot: Thrift store needs volunteers to sort, hang clothes and put other items on display for sale.

- RSVP always has various needs for your skills and vol-unteer services in our commu-nity.

- Current RSVP volunteers are encouraged to turn in your hours each month; your contri-bution to the community is greatly appreciated! Contact: RSVP Volunteer

Coordinator Sara Wald, 404 W. Broadway, Wells Fargo Bank building, (upstairs), Lewistown, MT 59457; phone (406) 535-0077; email: [email protected].

Gallatin County- American Cancer Society-

Road to Recovery: Drivers needed for patients receiving treatments from their home to the hospital

- American Red Cross Blood Drive: Two volunteer opportu-nities available: an ambassador needed to welcome, greet, thank and provide overview for blood donors; and phone team volunteers needed to remind, recruit or thank blood donors. Excellent customer service skills needed, training will be

provided, flexible schedule. - Befrienders: Befriend a

senior; visit on a regular week-ly basis.

- Belgrade Senior Center: Meals on Wheels needs regular and substitute drivers Monday-Friday, to deliver meals to seniors before noon.

- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Be a positive role model for only a few hours each week.

- Bozeman and Belgrade Sacks Thrift Stores: Need vol-unteers two- to three-hour shifts on any day, Monday-Sat-urday, 9:30 a.m.-6 p.m.

- Bozeman Deaconess Hos-pital: Volunteers needed for the information desks in the Atri-um and the Perk, 8 a.m.-noon, noon -4 p.m.

- Bozeman Senior Center Foot Clinic: Retired or nearly retired nurses are urgently needed, two days a month, either four- or eight-hour shifts.

- Cancer Support Communi-ty: Volunteer receptionist need for the last two Tuesdays of the month from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The position would be shared with another volunteer so there could be flexibility in how the Tuesday’s are divided.

- Galavan: Volunteer drivers needed Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. CDL required and Galavan will assist you in obtaining one. Volunteers also needed to make reminder calls and confirm rides for the fol-lowing day. Volunteers also needed for morning dis-patch. These responsibilities include receiving phone calls/messages and getting informa-tion from clients and facilitat-ing the transfer of information to staff as required.

- Gallatin Rest Home: Vol-unteers wanted for visiting the residents, sharing your knowl-edge of a craft, playing cards or reading to a resident.

- Gallatin Valley Food Bank: Volunteers needed to deliver commodities to seniors in their homes once a month. Deliver-ies in Belgrade are especially needed.

- HRDC: Receptionist need-ed to help during the lunch

hour and during some staff meetings and training. Main duties include answering a multi line and phone and help with walk-ins.

- HRDC Housing Depart-ment Ready to Rent: Curricu-lum for families and individu-als who have rental barriers such as lack of poor rental his-tory, property upkeep, renter responsibilities, landlord/tenant communication and financial priorities.

- Habitat for Humanity Restore: Belgrade store needs volunteers for general help, sorting donations and assisting customers.

- Heart of The Valley: Com-passionate volunteers especial-ly needed to love, play with and cuddle cats.

- Help Center: Computer lit-erate volunteer interested in entering data into a social ser-vices database. Also volunteers needed to make phone calls to different agencies/programs to make sure database is up to date and make safety calls to home bound seniors.

- Jessie Wilber Gallery at The Emerson: Volunteers need-ed on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays to greet people at the main desk, answer ques-tions and keep track of the number of visitors.

- Museum of the Rockies: Variety of opportunities avail-able such as helping in the gift shop and more.

- RSVP Handcrafters: Volun-teers to quilt, knit, crochet and embroider hats for chemo patients, baby blankets and other handmade goods once a week (can work from home). Items are on sale in our store in the RSVP office at the Senior Center. Note: Donated yarn needed for the quilting, knit-ting and crocheting projects.

- Seniors: You may qualify for $192-$600 a years for gro-cery and food assistance. Call Mary at 333-2537 or 333-2883.

- Three Forks Food Bank: Volunteer needed on Mondays and/or Thursdays to help with administrative duties, including answer phones and

Below is a list of volunteer openings available through the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) in communities across southern Montana. To learn more about RSVP, call (800) 424-8867 or TTY (800) 833-3722; or log on to www. seniorcorps.org.

RSVP


questions, some paper and computer work. They will train.

- Your unique skills and interests are needed, without making a long-term commit-ment, in a variety of ongoing, special, one-time events. Contact: Debi Casagranda,

RSVP Program Coordinator, 807 N. Tracy, Bozeman, MT 59715; phone (406) 587-5444; fax (406) 582 8499; email: [email protected].

Musselshell, Golden Valley & Petroleum counties

- Central Grade School: Assist younger students with lunch, clear tables and serve from the salad bar.

- Food Bank: Distribute food commodities to seniors and others in the community; help unload the truck as needed.

- Nursing Home: Piano play-ers and singers needed on Fri-days to entertain residents, also assistant needed in activi-ties for residents to enrich sup-ported lifestyle.

- Senior Bus: Volunteers to pickup folks who are unable to drive themselves.

- Senior Center: Volunteers are needed to provide meals, clean up in the dining room and/or keep records; meal pro-vided.

- Tax aide: Assist low income individuals and senior citizens with tax filing. No experience necessary, training is provided and begins soon.

- RSVP offers maximum flexibility and choice to its vol-unteers as it matches the per-sonal interests and skills of old-er Americans with opportuni-ties to serve their communities. You choose how and where to serve. Volunteering is an oppor-tunity to learn new skills, make friends and connect with your community. Contact: Shelley Halvorson,

South Central MT RSVP, 315 1/2 Main St., Ste. #1, Roundup, MT 59072; phone (406) 323-1403; fax (406) 323-4403; email: [email protected] ; Facebook: South Central MT RSVP.

Park County- Big Brothers Big Sisters:

Mentor and positive role mod-els to a boy or girl needed, one hour a week.

- Divisional Volleyball Tour-nament: Needs volunteers to help with the three-day event on Nov. 5-7 at the high school. Numerous positions are avail-able.

- Fix-It-Brigade: Needs vol-unteers of all ages and skill lev-els for two-hour tasks, on your

schedule, to help seniors or vet-erans with small home repairs and chores, such as changing a light bulb, mending a fence, cleaning up a yard.

- Loaves and Fishes: Volun-teers needed to prepare dinner meal on Wednesday nights.

- Main Streeter Thrift Store: Someone who enjoys working with the public, greet custom-ers, ring up purchases, label and hang clothes and accept donations. Volunteer four hours a week and get 50 percent off your purchases.

- Meals on Wheels: Always need substitute drivers to deliv-er meals to seniors in their home.

- RSVP: Need compassion-ate companions to give care-givers a break in their home on a regular basis playing games, going out to lunch or just sit-ting and visiting with someone.

- RSVP: Has many one-time events, including mailings and fundraising events that require volunteers. Your unique skills and interests are needed, with-out making a long-term com-mitment, in a variety of on-going and special one-time events.

- RSVP Handcrafters: Volun-teers to knit and crochet caps and scarves for each child at Head Start this winter, also as gifts for children of prenatal

classes, and baby hats and afghan’s for the hospital new-borns; Sewers needed to make simple pillowcases for our sol-diers overseas, Thursdays, 1-2 p.m. at the Senior Center.

- Senior Center: Need vol-unteers, Tuesdays, 1 p.m., to cut unsold clothing into rags to be sold for proceeds to the center.

- Seniors: You may qualify for $192-$600 a years for gro-cery and food assistance. Call Mary at 333-2537 or 333-2883.

- Stafford Animal Shelter: Kindhearted volunteers needed to socialize cats and kittens, and to walk the dogs.

- Transportation: Drivers needed to help patients keep their doctor appointment in Livingston and Bozeman. Some gas reimbursement may be provided.

- Yellowstone Gateway Museum: has a need for help with the museum in general from front desk to organizing items.

- Current RSVP Volunteers are encouraged to turn in your hours each month. Your contri-butions to the community are greatly appreciated! Contact: Deb Downs, Pro-

gram Coordinator, 111 So. 2nd St., Livingston, MT 59047; phone (406) 222-2281; email: [email protected].

Dick Van-Dyke, from Page 14with a generous topping of chocolate syrup.

Bad habits: Van Dyke smoked and drank for decades but stopped on his own. His secret? “I tried for several years to quit smoking. It’s just the worst. Then a doctor showed me an X-ray. He said, ‘These are little emphysema scars on your lungs.’ I stopped right there. Drinking I had a problem with, but it went away. It started to taste funny. It didn’t do anything for me. I wasn’t interested anymore.”

The mind: Find mental challenges. Van Dyke tries to memorize some Shakespeare every day. A lifelong artist, he also talks about getting involved with 3-D computer animation. “It’s so deep I’ll never master it,” he says with a laugh, “but it’s one of those hob-bies you can lose yourself in. Everyone needs an engrossing hob-by. Some of my older friends — there are still a few left — haven’t changed their minds about anything since they were kids. They can’t be open-minded. And I think that’s a factor in aging.”

Thinking young: “You’ve got to stay social somehow,” he says. “I have a quartet I sing with (an a cappella group, Vantas-tix); we do benefits all over. The guys are all 40. My wife (Arlene) is 44. As my friends have disappeared, I have a circle of friends a lot younger. They say time appears to pass more quickly as you age. I’ve had young people come to me and say, ‘Where is the time going?’ I think it’s the pace of life. Life goes faster.

Belt it out: Van Dyke says that he has older friends who are

bothered by weak voices. “I tell them, ‘For God’s sake, sing.’ They say, ‘I can’t sing.’ Oh, everybody can sing. Get those voices going.” It will not only strengthen your voice, but it will improve your attitude. “You can’t sing and be miserable at the same time.”

One last nugget: “I think I repeat this to everybody. Never go down stairs sideways, no matter if it feels better on your hips or knees. I always tell everyone, go up and down forward, even if it hurts a little.”

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1 small butternut squash, peeled, seeded, and diced into 1/2 inch cubes

2 tbsp. olive oilsalt & pepper 1 c. dry couscous, cooked in water according to

package directions 2 c. chopped kale leaves 1/3 c. dried cranberries 1/3 c. chopped walnuts 2 oz. goat cheese, crumbled Orange vinaigrette (recipe below)

Vinaigrette Ingredients: 2 tbsp. apple cider vinegar 2 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil 2 tbsp. freshly squeezed orange juice Salt and black pepper, to taste

For salad: Heat oven to 425 degrees. In large mixing bowl, toss cubed butternut squash with olive oil. Sprinkle with a few generous pinches of salt and pepper. Toss until combined.

Spread butternut squash out in even layer on a parchment covered baking sheet. Bake for 15 minutes. Remove from oven and turn squash pieces over for even cooking. Bake an additional 10 to 15 minutes, or until squash is tender and slightly browned. Remove from oven and transfer to metal bowl. Add cooked couscous. Place in refrigerator or freezer until cool. Put kale, cranberries, walnuts, goat cheese and vinaigrette in large mixing bowl. Toss to com-bine. Place bowl in refrigerator. Add squash and couscous when cooled. Toss again until well combined. Can be refrigerated up to three days. Can be served warm.

For vinaigrette: Whisk all ingredients together until combined. Taste, and season with additional salt and pepper if needed.

This salad was the perfect accompaniment to antelope chops that I had sauteed. Just before the chops were done cooking, I sprinkled a generous amount of shredded Parme-san cheese over them and covered the saute pan with a lid. We also enjoyed tortilla chips and guacamole with the meal.

With Jim Durfey

Butternut squash & couscous salad

If you’re a woman, don’t read this month’s recipe. This is strictly for men. Most of us men share the same desires when it comes to dining fare. We want meat and potatoes. Even my 17-month-old grandson prefers meat on his plate. He’ll sometimes refuse to eat vegetables that his grandmother Durfey prepares for him, much to her frustration. We guys know we should eat healthier, but we just can’t often force ourselves to eat food that a rabbit would think is ideal.

The recipe below was used by your Best Times recipe contributor to make the dish recently. It was a hit with both my wife and me. I’m sure that even a dedicated carnivore such as a caveman would think highly of it. Don’t be intimidated by couscous. It’s not something that requires a lot of cook-ing time. All you have to do is boil water and pour it over the couscous. It’s ready in just five minutes. The dish has kale, walnuts and dried cranberries in it. Those are very healthy items. The dish tastes so good, though, that you don’t notice how healthy it is.

Goat cheese is creamy as op-posed to Parmesan, which is hard. The general rule of thumb with cheeses is that the harder the cheese, the more saturated fat it contains. So goat cheese is healthy. Not only is this dish healthy — if you’re trying to impress a certain some-one of the opposite sex, this salad is sure to accomplish that goal as well.

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By Bill Sones and Rich Sones, Ph.D.Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at [email protected]

Q. “How long do you have to wait after dropping a bottled beer before you can safely present it to a guest, and how did its internal pressure build up if the system is in equilibrium?” asked New Scientist magazine of its readers. A. The pressure inside is unchanged after a dropping or shaking, though tiny beer bubbles are now distributed through-out, answers Andrew Carruthers of Que-bec, Canada. When the bottle is opened, these bubbles serve as nucleation points for the dissolved carbon dioxide, which takes a lot of beer with it as it rushes out. “It’s a terrible waste: not only is good beer lost, but what remains is flat.” Better to wait a bit before opening — long enough to allow the last, smallest bubbles to rise to the surface and burst harmlessly. The time required depends on how large and deep the bubbles are and how viscous is the beer. “In my experience, about 10 minutes is normally enough,“ Carruthers says. How-ever, a 10-minute wait may be asking too much of a thirsty beer drinker, so far better is to place the bottle at the back of the refrigerator and take out another — with great care.“

Q. How early do we humans begin forming our “first impressions”? What are they likely to be? A. Going by recent research, “the fetus uses its budding brain and senses to learn about itself and the outside world well before birth,” says Ferris Jabr in “Scientif-ic American“ magazine. In one classic drawing, a fetus at 27 weeks is shown sucking one thumb and using its other hand to grasp onto the umbilical cord. In fact, as early as seven weeks after fertiliza-tion, fetuses start to move, swinging their umbilical cords, climbing the walls of the amniotic sac and sticking their limbs in

their mouth. Their coordination improves as they grow.

Q. Get your thinking process in gear as you try to name a U.S. pro sport where men and women compete as equals. A. Auto racing: Unlike the women’s NBA, women’s World Cup soccer, gender-specific Olympics, etc, there is no separate women’s NASCAR, NHRA (National Hot Rod Association), Indy Car or Formula 1 division, says retired Cleveland librarian and NASCAR fanatic Jeff French. In these races, men and women compete as equals, driving the same cars on the same tracks against one another. In NHRA, women have been particularly successful, having produced national champions in classes of Top Fuel, Pro Stock and Pro Stock Motor-cycle, and runner-up in Funny Cars. Although the NBA has female referees and coaches, and the NFL is adding a female official this season, auto racing may be the truest site for gender equality. As in other pro sports, race car drivers must possess a certain kind of athleticism. Imagine being wrapped up in a fire suit, in a car that is well over 100 degrees, for three to five hours, surrounded by noise and making split second decisions, all the while traveling 150 to 200 mph. Also, endurance is remarkable, and on smaller tracks, such as 500 laps on a 3/4 mile track, drivers need strength just to keep pulling on the steering wheel for a thou-sand turns. Let the best woman or man win!

Q. Zeroing in on an old curiosity, is zero an odd or an even number? A. This one’s not so hard to answer or to prove, says Arthur Benjamin in “The Mag-ic of Math.” Odd numbers, as you know, are 1, 3, 5, 7, 9.... Even numbers are divis-

ible by 2 — 2, 4, 6, 8.... Expressed alge-braically, this means that even numbers can be written as n = 2 x k where k is any integer. Regarding 0, you can say 0 = 2 x 0, meaning that 0 is an even number. A smart proof indeed! You might even say it’s brilliant.

Q. Are you a lifetime million-miler? A. A million miles is 40 times around the world (25,000 times 40) or 300 flights across the US, says Bob Berman in “Zoom: How Everything Moves, from Atoms and Galaxies to Blizzards and Bees.“ Starting with data galore plus some savvy guesstimation, researchers arrive at 65,000 miles of walking for the average American today — not so different from people of times past. But today’s estimated million miles for each of us was unheard of until recently. In fact, “the word ’mil-lion’ didn’t exist until the 14th century, before which the largest number was a myriad — 10,000.” Also travel danger per mile was so great even as recently as the Civil War era that few people would have survived long enough to join the million-mile club. Obviously, we’re a whole lot more mobile today. Driving maybe 100 miles daily to work and back for 250 days a year makes you a million-miler within just a few decades.

Q. Back in the 1970s, right turns on red lights were legalized in all 50 states of the US, in an attempt to conserve fuel. The guessing was that this would increase traffic accidents and pedestrian deaths, but statistical studies conducted at that time said otherwise. Why the gap? A. There is no gap, says Alex Reinhart in “Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide.” Allowing right turns on

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red does indeed increase traffic accidents and pedestrian deaths, but the problem is with the interpretation of “statistical signifi-cance.” For example, a study of 20 intersections in Virginia showed that before the change there were 308 accidents, while afterward there were 337 in a similar time span, meaning the number of accidents had increased by 29 (about 9 percent). But this was not deemed statistically significant based on the study’s overall criteria and relatively small size; other studies drew simi-lar conclusions. Yet statistical insignificance does not equate to practical insig-nificance. Later larger studies — after the laws had become entrenched — “showed that among incidents involving right turns, collisions were occurring roughly 20 percent more fre-quently, 60 percent more pedestrians were being run over, and twice as many bicyclists were being struck.”

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