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Olympic weightlifting coaches share knowledge

Beautiful art from popcans

Former mayor busier than ever

Reflecting on serviceto community

August 2014


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August 2014 2

Bookshelf .................................................Page 3

Opinion ....................................................Page 4

Savvy Senior ............................................Page 5

Volunteering .............................................Page 19

On the Menu ............................................Page 20

Calendar ...................................................Page 21

Strange But True ......................................Page 22

INSIDE

News Lite

2 $1M tickets in 3 monthsINDIANAPOLIS (AP) An Indianapo-

lis man has won two $1 million lottery priz-es in the past three months.

Hoosier Lottery officials say RobertHamilton won $1 million from a scratch-offticket he bought in late July at an Indianapo-lis convenience store. His other big winnercame in April in western Indianas Jason-ville while traveling to a conference.

Hamilton says he used his first prize topay off debts, buy a home and invest in hisbusiness. He now plans to buy a motorcycle.

The lottery says Hamiltons tickets areamong eight top prizes for its $120 MillionCash Spectacular Scratch-off game. Lotteryofficials say the odds of winning a top prizefrom the game are one in 2.1 million.

Rare calico lobsterHAMPTON, N.H. (AP) A fisherman

has caught a rare lobster thats bright orangewith dark blue spots.

Josiah Beringer found the calico lobsterin one of his traps on July 23 in the mouthof Hampton Harbor. He donated the 1-pound, 5-year-old male lobster to theExplore the Ocean World Oceanarium inHampton for viewing.

Beringer tells the Portsmouth Herald thelobster was found in an area known asWasherwoman Rock, an area between tworocks that gets its name from its reallyrough and washing machine-like waters.

Ellen Goethel of the oceanarium said cali-co lobsters are the second most rare lob-ster in the world, after albino lobsters. She

said the spots are the result of a genetic pig-mentation mutation occurring in 1 in every30 million to 50 million lobsters.

Town gets wet yet againWAYNESBURG, Pa. (AP) Its just a

sprinkle, but it counts enough for people in asouthwestern Pennsylvania town to celebrateRain Day.

The Washington Observer-Reporter saysthe brief precipitation in Waynesburg makesfor the 114th time in 141 years rain has fall-en in the town on July 29.

The towns street festival includes thecrowning of a Miss Rain Day.

Every year a celebrity wagers a hat that itwont rain in Waynesburg on July 29. Thisyears loser is actress Patricia Heaton.


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ByMontana Best Times Staff

This book review section often covers

nonfiction books with a connection to

Montana or the West. Its time now for a

little departure for nonfiction of another

kind a new book about a comedian who

touched everyones lives, whether from

the West or LA or New York: Jay Leno.The Tonight Show with Jay Leno

comes alive in the book, Behind the Cur-

tain: An Insiders View of Jay Lenos

Tonight Show from an insider who

describes the shows inner workings

from the monologue to the guest bookings

and appearances, says a news release from

the books publisher, Pelican Publishing

Company.

Leno was the late-night ratings leader

for almost two decades, which is unprece-

dented in the modem era of television. He

and his producers made the show numberone by recasting Johnny Carsons Tonight

Show into Jay Lenos Tonight Show.

Behind the Curtain takes an exclusive

look at how they achieved it.

During the Leno years of The Tonight

Show, there were always two shows

going on: the one on stage and the one

behind it, where the camera didnt roll,

according to the release. This narrative

weaves both together, featuring Leno and

his most prominent guests. It recalls the

shows most memorable moments, both

good and bad,

skillfully

recounted by one

of Lenos most

highly respected,

longtime co-pro-

ducers, Dave Berg.

For 18 years, he

booked and workedwith Hollywood

stars, superstar ath-

letes, presidents and

other politicos, and news makers.

Called the best booker in the business

by Bill OReilly, Berg delivered an array

of high-profile guests to the program.

Along the way, he experienced it all, from

a harrowing adventure to Nashville to spy

on Dennis Rodman to a five-year cam-

paign to book Barack Obama, the first sit-

ting president ever to appear on a late-

night show, the release says.Berg was an eyewitness who tells what

really happened during the shows most

legendary moments: Arnold Schwarzeneg-

gers surprise political announcement;

Hugh Grants mea culpa; football great

Jason Sehorns proposal to Angie Harmon;

the inebriated Cheers casts live show

from Boston; Jerry Seinfelds appearance

with surprise guest John F. Kennedy Jr.;

and Lenos 9/11 show, the finest of his

career.

Leno hosted The Tonight Show with

Jay Leno for two decades. Inducted into

the Television Hall of Fame in 2014, he

made his first appearance on The Tonight

Show as a stand-up comic in 1977 and

became a regular substitute for Johnny

Carson in 1987. He is an avid car collector

and philanthropist and lives with his wife,

Mavis, in Los Angeles.

Dave Berg is a writer and a columnist.

He was a co-producer for The Tonight

Show with Jay Leno and The Jay Leno

Show, where he also appeared in numer-

ous comedy sketches. He served as a pro-

ducer for The OReilly Factor, a writer

for NBC News, and the Los Angeles

bureau chief for CNBC. He has written for

USA Today, The Huffington Post, Read-

ers Digest, National Review, Christianity

Today, Washington Times, The Daily Call-

er and Crisis Magazine. Berg has a BA in

political science from Northwestern Uni-

versity and an MS in journalism from

Kansas State University. He lives with his

wife, Mary, in Los Angeles.

Bookshelf

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Behind the Curtain: An Insiders View

of Jay Lenos Tonight Show

By Dave Berg, foreword by Jay Leno

Pelican Publishing Company 2014 Hardcover 224 pages 5 1/2 x 8 /2

$24.95 ISBN: 9781455619962 E-book ISBN: 9781455619979

New book takes readersdeep inside one of

televisions mostwell-known shows


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August 2014 4

Opinion

Thoughts on the last kid heading off to college

A Monthly Publication for Folks 50 and BetterMONTANA

Dwight Harriman, Editor Tom Parisella, Designer

P.O. Box 2000, 401 S. Main St., Livingston MT 59047

Tel. (406) 222-2000 or toll-free (800) 345-8412 Fax: (406) 222-8580

E-mail: [email protected] Subscription rate: $25/yr.

Published monthly by Yellowstone Newspapers, Livingston, Montana

Its finally come. It was a day that was always way out there in

the future. It was going to happen at some point, but certainly not

anytime soon. But now its here.

Our last child is going to college.

Soon we will pack all her earthly belongings up and shell be

off to Chicago a big city for a girl with big dreams.

And now my wife and I will face what every baby boomer with

kids eventually faces: a life with no kids at home.

Those of you who have already gone through it are smiling to

yourselves as first-timers like us contemplate the future. Bepatient with us. This isnt easy.

Fortunately, my wife and I are still working, so there wont be

long, silent days trying to figure out how to fill up the time. But it

will be hard to come home every day and see that empty bed-

room. Not looking forward to that.

Im no stranger to the empty bedrooms two children going

off to college have preceded our high school graduate. But when

they left, there was always an occupied bedroom. Now there

wont be.

But wait, I hear there are upsides to it all: time to do those

things you always wanted to do, deepening your relationship with

your spouse, making new friends.

And besides, we boomers have it way easier than our parents

when we went off to college. Back then there were only letters or

an occasional scratchy quality long-distance phone call to stay in

touch with. Now there are cell phones, Skype and Facebook.

In fact, given the omnipresent social media, we might be com-

municating so much well want a break.

Maybe this off-to-college thing wont be so hard after all.

Dwight Harriman

Montana Best Times Edito


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Dear Savvy Senior,

I run a community counseling program for needy families and

am frustrated that so few eligible seniors take advantage of the

food stamp program. Can you write a column on this to help

educate seniors to this underutilized benefit?

Reaching Out

Dear Reaching,Its hard to imagine that a government program serving more

than 46 million Americans each month is considered severelyunderutilized. But thats the reality of the federal Food StampProgram when it comes to serving seniors.

Nationwide, food stamps (now called the Supplemental Nutri-tion Assistance Program, or SNAP) reaches around 80 percent ofthose eligible, but the numbers are much slimmer among theseniors, age 60 and older. Recent statistics indicate only 39 per-cent of eligible seniors receive SNAP benefits.

There are a number of reasons for the lack of participation.

Some seniors are too embarrassed or too proud to apply. Othersthink that if they receive SNAP they will be taking food benefitsaway from others (which they wont). Some think it is too diffi-cult to apply for SNAP, and others dont even know the programexists.

With all that said, heres a run down of which seniors are eligi-ble for SNAP, what they get and how they can apply.

Whos eligible?

For seniors to get SNAP, their net income must be under the100 percent federal poverty guidelines. So, households that haveat least one person age 60 and older, or disabled, their net incomemust currently be less than $958 per month for an individual or

$1,293 for a family of two. Households receiving TANF or SSI(except in California) are also eligible.

Net income is figured by taking gross income minus allowabledeductions like medical expenses that exceed $35 per month out-of-pocket, and shelter costs (rent or mortgage payments, taxesand utility costs) that exceeds half of the households income.

In addition to the net income requirement, a few states alsorequire that a seniors assets be below $3,250, not counting thehome, retirement or pension plans, income from SSI or TANF,and vehicle (this varies by state). Most states, however, havemuch higher asset limits or they dont count assets at all whendetermining eligibility.

The SNAP pre-screening tool at www.snap-step1.usda.gov/

fns can help seniors, and their family members, figure out if they

qualify.

To apply, seniors or an authorized representative will need to

fill out a state application form, which can be done at the local

SNAP office or it can be mailed or faxed in, or in many states it

can be completed online.

If eligible, benefits will be provided on a plastic card thats used

like a debit card and accepted at most grocery stores.

Depending on the persons financial situation, the amount of

SNAP a beneficiary may be eligible for will range between $15

and $189 per month as an individual, or $15 to $347 for a family

of two.

To learn more or apply, contact your local SNAP office call

(800) 221-5689 for contact information or visit www.fns.usda.

gov/snap.

Produce coupons

In addition to SNAP, the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Pro-

gram is another underused program that provides coupons that

can be exchanged for fresh fruits and vegetables at farmers mar-

kets, roadside stands and community supported agriculture pro-

grams.

This program is currently available in select counties in 43

states, seven Indian reservations, the District of Columbia and

Puerto Rico, to seniors, age 60 and older, with gross monthly

household incomes below 185 percent of the federal poverty line,

which is currently below $1,800 for individuals, or $2,426 for a

family of two. For more information visit www.fns.usda.gov/sfm-

np or call (703) 305-2746.

Other programs

Seniors that are eligible for food assistance may also be eligible

for a host of other programs that can help pay for medications,

health care, utilities and more. To locate these programs, vis-

it benefitscheckup.org, or call the Eldercare Locator at (800) 677-

1116.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443,

Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org.

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.

August 2014 5

Food Assistance ProgramsCan Help Seniors in Need


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By Jason Stuart

Ranger-Review Staff Writer

GLENDIVE Thirty years is a long

time to be called out early in the morning

or late at night or on holidays in sub-zero

cold or scorching heat to fight fires and

save lives and all on a volunteer basis.

And after 30 years of serving the people

of Dawson County doing just that, TimMort is hanging up his firemans hat.

Mort retired on June 30 as chief of the

West Glendive and Dawson County rural

fire departments. He first began working

with the volunteer fire departments in Sep-

tember 1984 as a firefighter, then spent

seven years as assistant chief before being

named chief in January of 2005.

Desire to give backThinking back to when he first started,

Mort said it was a desire to give back to

his community that drew him to serve as a

volunteer firefighter.

I was just a newlywed and living in

West Glendive, and I wanted to do some

community service and I thought joining

the fire department would be a way you

could give something back, he said.

As for what kept him going for 30 years,

Mort identified a couple of factors.The relationships Ive made over the

last 30 years is a big part of it, he said.

And helping people in probably some of

their worst times, you get some self-grati-

tude out of that.

MotivationRunning an all-volunteer fire depart-

ment is no easy task, however, although

Mort feels he has succeeded in the endeav-

or.

I think one of the biggest challenges of

being chief is keeping your firemen moti-

vated so you have a good department, he

said. And weve been good at keeping

them motivated. Weve got a very good

department.

Given that volunteer firefighters receive

minimal financial compensation to risk

life and limb for others or endure late

night calls or holiday interruptions, thechief of a volunteer fire department has to

find other ways to motivate his men.

I think (you do that) by thanking them

after every call, by making them feel they

did something above and beyond the call

of normal, Mort said. Make them feel

proud about being a part of what we have

out there thats a big part of it.

Doing that and instilling a sense of

belief that theyre serving the greater good

is what builds an effective volunteer fire

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Fire chief talks aboutof service to community

MT Best Times photo by Jamie Ausk Crisafull

On the cover and above:Tim Mort, who just retired as chief of the West Glendive and Dawson rural fire departments, is pictured

in his fire turnouts at a recent training event.

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department, according to Mort.

I think (you serve as a volunteer fireman) just because youre

proud to belong to something that has to be done, and its good

for the community, he said. You have to believe in our fire

department, and we take ownership in it, and that just makes for a

lot better department.

Not missed: 25-below-zero calls

While Mort is proud of his department and his years of service,

there are things he wont miss, namely being called out at inop-

portune times like Christmas, Thanksgiving and other family

holidays and in awful weather conditions.

Sometimes the least (favorite) part is you are committed 24/7,

and you get calls that are not at the best time 2 a.m. and 25

below zero. Those are the ones Im not going to miss, he said.

From here on out, Mort wont have to worry about being called

away from his family as theyre sitting down to Thanksgiving

dinner or readying a Fourth of July barbecue. He has two new

grandchildren he is keen to spend time with and a boat hed like

to spend more time on the water in.

But he will miss being part of the volunteer firefighting frater-

nity he has known for the past 30 years as well as another privi-

lege of being a fire chief being in the loop.

I think (Ill miss) just being part of the friendships and rela-tionships Ive built, Mort said. And knowing whats going on.

You kind of had an inside track of whats going on (as chief), and

Im going to kind of miss that.

Reach Jason Stuart at [email protected] or (406)

377-3303.

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Photos courtesy of Tim Mor

Above:Chief Mort is pictured on the job. Below: Members o

the West Glendive Fire Department assemble for a photo

during a July training session at which they honored Mort.


8/24

By M.P. Regan

Montana Best Times

DILLON Michael Karchut leaves his home in Dillon early

in the morning two days a week and drives to McAllister in theMadison Valley, where he picks up his friend Steve Gough. The

two then travel to Bozeman, where they spend the day training

students at a pair of gyms.

Renowned experts in the sport of Olympic weightlifting,

Gough, 67, and Karchut, 70, earn a hefty fee for their services:

the satisfaction that comes from passing their knowledge and

enthusiasm on to the next generation.

Mike is a Hall of Famer in our sport, probably the most

respected guy in our sport, said Gough, of Karchut, who made

the U.S. Olympic team in weightlifting in 1972 and 1980.

He drives 94 miles to pick me up, and then we drive another

55 miles to work for free, added Gough, who has trained dozens

of highly successful weightlifters, including his son Tom, a U.S.

Olympian in 1996.

Mike and I dont care about getting money out of this, con-tinued Gough, a retired policeman from San Francisco with fami-

ly ties to Butte. We do it for our students and for our love of the

sport.

Praise from world-class liftersThe current students Gough and Karchut work with actually

come from several generations, and include Bozeman mother and

daughter Terri Sipes, 51, and Kathleen Winters, 21.

Despite starting to focus on the sport only within the last few

years, both Sipes and Winters have risen into the upper echelons

of the weightlifting world in their respective age groups and

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Up-liftingExperts in sport of Olympic weightlifting

love sharing the art with others

MT Best Times photo by M.P. Regan

Former Olympian Michael Karchut stands in his Dillon basement in front of the barbell and homemade weight rack he still works

out with every morning that hes not on his way to Bozeman to train students in Olympic weightlifting with colleague Steve Gough


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weight classes under the guidance of Gough and Karchut.None of us would have gotten where we have gotten without

Steve and Mikes coaching, said Sipes, who set a world recordin the snatch and won a gold medal in her age group in Italy atlast years World Masters Games, a sort of Olympics for people35 years and older.

Mike is super, very humble. Hes the technician who will dis-sect each lift you do and break it down, said Sipes, who compet-ed as a gymnast for Billings Central and the University of Mon-tana during her school days.

Steve is intense and very caring. He could coach anything bowling, anything. He just has that ability to motivate. He gets usto do things that I dont know a lot of other people could get us to

do, added Sipes, who works out four or five times a week.

They are perfect together.Also a gymnast in her school days, Sipes daughter Kathleen

Winters has seen the coaching of Gough and Karchut help herexcel in Olympic weightlifting, which features two highly techni-cal lifts the snatch and the clean and jerk.

About 5 feet tall and weighing around 110 pounds, Winters canalready lift twice her body weight over her head and has won abronze medal at the Pan American Games. After establishing her-self as one of the top 10 female weightlifters in the country, shewas invited last year to do an extended stint at the United StatesOlympic Training Center in Colorado.

The 2011 Bozeman High graduates swift and unlikely rise as aweightlifter, which seems destined to lead her to a spot on the

U.S. team at the 2016 Olympics in Brazil, started at BridgerCrossFit, where she began working out at age 15 and now holdsthe position of head trainer.

Weightlifting changes livesStarted in the mid-1970s by Greg Glassman, the CrossFit train-

ing program revolves around a shifting series of functional move-ments found in traditional exercise and now boasts over 10,000affiliated gyms around the world.

He just figured a better way to work out, a way thats moreefficient and geared to real life. CrossFit emphasizes functionalmovements, movements you do every day in life, and its alwaysvaried, said Sipes, who recently joined her daughter as a trainer

at Bridger CrossFit.You dont know what the workout is going to be until they

post it that day at the gym. You show up, and sometimes it kindof scares you, but you go ahead and do it. And that determinationto get over the fear carries over into the rest of your life, addedSipes, who says the atmosphere of camaraderie at Bridger Cross-Fit helps members move forward in their fitness and in theirlives.

Community is a huge part of it. You end up meeting a lot oflike-minded people who push each other in a good way, help eachother, urge each other on, and provide constant support, saidSipes, noting that older folks and those in the early stages of get-

ting into shape can scale down their workouts.We have had really heavy people show up there, and let me

tell you, athletes have such respect for those people and whatthey are trying to do. And when they keep coming back, the com-munity at the gym rallies behind them. Its amazing to see peo-ples lives change for the better. I have seen it happen so manytimes, commented Sipes, who helps coach people in business asa strategist at The Game Plan in Bozeman.

People in their 80s and 90s are doing it. Everything can bescaled. Instead of doing pull-ups, you can just hold the bar. Push-

ups can be done against a wall. PVC pipes can be used instead ofa barbell for weightlifting, added Sipes.

Sipes said that Karchut and Gough helped her and others at

Bridger CrossFit advance in the Olympic weightlifting aspects of

CrossFit training to the point where they wanted to start compet-ing in the sport and formed the Team Montana WeightliftingClub.

When we first started doing CrossFit, we found out there werethese two weightlifting experts helping people at another gym inBozeman, so we approached them about training us, recalledSipes, who said people at the international weightlifting meetsshe has competed at are familiar with Gough and Karchut.

Mike and Steve are very well-known in the weightliftingworld. They attract a lot of people to lift with them; people willtravel here from other states to do it. They are just that good.

Long roads to weight-lifting prominenceBoth Gough, a Vietnam vet, and Karchut, who was born in

Germany in 1944, traveled long, hard roads through war-torncountries to retirement in Montana and their positions of promi-nence in Olympic weightlifting.

Mike is Ukranian, his mom and dad got caught in Germanyduring World War II. He spent the first six years of his life in arelocation camp, said Gough, a former Marine. His familycame to America in 1951 with just the clothes on their backs. Hewas raised the old way to be frugal, hard working, humble, allthe good stuff.

Karchut, speaking of himself, said he weighed just 75 poundsas a seventh-grader in Ohio, but began getting bigger and stron-ger through a variety of training techniques.

I remember seeing that Charles Atlas advertisement, wherethe bully kicks sand in the face of the 97-pound weakling. Itasked you what kind of body you wanted and had boxes next tobig arms, a powerful chest, legs of steel. So naturally, youchecked them all off. It was a 12-week course, and each weekcost you $5. But I didnt have any money, so I sent them a letterand they sent me a letter back saying theyd let me do all 12 les-sons for just $5, recalled Karchut of his introduction to the Atlassystem of dynamic tension strength training.

Thats one of the things I did it was better than nothing.

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See Weightlifting,Page 14

None of us would have gotten where we have gotten

without Steve and Mikes coaching. Terri Sipes, who set world record in her age group at World Masters Games


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By Marlo Pronovost

Montana Best Times

COLUMBUS Just call

her the McGyver of arts.

Sandy Fox needs just a

handful of mostly every day

things to make colorful, deli-cate-looking creations.

An empty can of Sprite. A

pair of old scissors. A craft

knife. A ballpoint pen. Alcohol

inks. A paint brush and craft

foam or a mouse pad are the

unexpected tools in Foxs tool-

box when it comes to her pop

can art.

Horses, hummingbirds, fish

and bikes are a few of the pop

can art creations Fox has on

display at the Museum of the

Beartooths.

While she claims they are

not difficult pieces to create,

one look at the koi fish scales

and intricate feather work on

her birds tells a different story.

Even more impressive is the

fact Fox has been practicing

the medium for only six

months, after seeing it online.

It just struck me, said the

spunky Fox.

At 65, Fox has spent her pro-

fessional life working in the

criminal justice system. Start-

ing in 1987 in the Stillwater

County Attorneys Office, she

has served as the chief justice

court clerk and, for the past six

years, as the Stillwater County

Clerk of District Court.

Art has long been her mode

of relaxation, and its some-

thing that has spanned her

entire life.

Fox loves sewing, quilting,

jewelry making, beading, cro-

cheting and river art.

I always have to have a

project, said Fox, noting that

her love for arts and crafting

was passed down to from her

mother.

And she in turn has passed

that love down to her two

daughters, the youngest of

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Pop can art

MT Best Times photos by Marlo Pronovos

Above:Pictured is a bird Sandy Fox created from a pop can. She uses alcohol inks to paint colors on the metal. Below: Fox

stands next to a coy fish creation that, like the bird above, is on display at the Museum of the Beartooths in Columbus.

An empty can of Sprite is an invitingcanvas for Columbus woman


11/24

By Wina Sturgeon

Adventure Sports Weekly/MCT

Those of us who live long enough will all go through the same

changes. Some of these changes have become standard cliched

jokes about aging, especially where vision and hearing are con-cerned.

Poor eyesight can often be corrected by that ancient invention,

eyeglasses. Yes, ancient! Eyeglasses were first produced in Italy

over 800 years ago. Hearing aids arent really new; they were

invented shortly after the telephone, in the late 1800s.

Both inventions can help the aging eye and ear. But there are

other, more subtle changes that occur as time goes on, and tech-

nology has done little to help. Thats why its so important, once

you pass the big 50, to adjust to these continuing well, lets be

honest declines. In fact, your health and vigor may depend on

how well you adjust.

Heres the science: your ability to taste becomes less sensitive

as you get older because taste buds start disappearing and atro-

phying. At the same time, your sense of smell may begin to

decline, and smell is, surprisingly, a large part of taste. That can

have a serious effect on nutrition. If you can no longer taste or

smell a once-favorite food, you may no longer choose to eat it. Or

if theres a large decline in both taste and smell, you may have no

interest in eating at all.

Match this to another fact: there is a natural decrease in appe-

tite as we get older. So if food doesnt taste or smell good, it

causes some boomers to skip meals altogether, or eat repeated

fast food burgers, or make a meal without planning for nutrition

and just go for texture; thus existing on a diet of chips and other

crunchy items. The resulting nutritional deficiencies can cause

serious health problems.

This is where everything ties in together. One of the effects of

age is a loss of muscle mass. This can begin in the early 40s,

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A hummingbird and flower made

from pop cans, with the various

materials used to create it on the

table beneath, is on display at the

Museum of the Beartooths.

whom made her own paper flowers

for her wedding.

Fox and a sister who lives in Bill-

ings are preparing to combine their

most recent art forms Foxs pop

can creations and her sisters love of

black and white photography. The pair

plan to affix pop can art to photos,

creating a three-dimensional product.

Marlo Pronovost may be reachedat Marlo Pronovost sports@stillwa-

tercountynews.com or (406) 322-5212.

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By Charlie Denison

Montana Best Times

MOORE People ask me, What do

you do in a little town? Gary Greenwood

said with a smile on his face. I say, Ifyou have to ask that question, youve nev-

er lived in a little town.

Now 77, Gary said he never has a dull

moment in his small town of Moore, a

community of less than 200 about 15

miles southwest of Lewistown.

Whether running the clock at the basket-

ball games, volunteering as a member of

the library board, mowing the lawn for his

90-year-old neighbor, Gary is always out

doing something.

I might be busier now that Im retired,

actually, Gary said, laughing joyfully.

After I retired, I forgot how to say no.

His wife, Sharon, 74, cant believe how

active her husband of 54 years is.

I have a long list of things he is involvedin, she said. There are about 14 things he

is still doing. He keeps thinking hell have

time to go fishing, but he never does.

Getting involvedGary and his wife, Sharon, moved to

Moore from Lewistown in 1977, after

Gary switched careers from teaching at

Lincoln Elementary School to working on

the fire crew for the Bureau of Land Man-

agement. Originally, the move to Moore

was a way to save money.

In 1977 the housing market was really

expensive in Lewistown, Gary said. My

brother-in-law was teaching in Moore at

the time and said this house was for sale.

Little did Gary know how invested hedget in the community, but the need was

there. In 1985, Moore was having a prob-

lem finding people to run for mayor, and

some in the community approached Gary

about the position.

Its hard in these little towns to get

someone to step up, Gary said.

Gary didnt hesitate. He ran, won and

served five terms from 1986 to 2004.

A humble man, Gary does not boast

about his time as mayor. What mattered

August 2014 12

Former small-town mayor busier than ever

MT Best Times photos by Charlie Denison

Gary Greenwood laughs as he recalls his days as mayor of Moore. Although 10 years removed from office, the 77-year-old

continues to contribute to the community in many ways.

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most to him in his time of public service was the opportunity to

help the community and move it forward.

I enjoyed working with the people and I hoped to make a dif-

ference in town, Gary said.

In many ways, Gary moved the community forward.

There were no paved streets before I was mayor, he said.

Gary was also instrumental in keeping the water and sewer

lines running efficiently.

A new sewer system was installed in 1984, and I made it a pri-

ority to make sure it was running well, he said. A lot goes into

that.Gary is grateful for his time as mayor, but mostly he is thankful

he had the chance to be there for the community when they need-

ed him.

People kept asking me to do it, so I did it, he said.

Although, Gary admits, he cant believe he served for 18 years.

As long as there was a need, Id do the job, he said.

Still investing in his townFor 10 years, Gary has no longer held the title of mayor but he

continues to invest in the little town he calls home. Gary is yet to

slow down or take it easy. He cant stop being active if he

tried.

I just figured my parents volunteered a lot of their time. Daddid it whenever he could and my mom did it a lot, Gary said.

You live in a community, you give back to the community. I

really believe that people should be that way. If you live there,

you should help it out.

Gary plans to continue following in his parents footsteps by

giving back to the community he loves.

And maybe one day he will get his fishing rod out.

Well see about that, Sharon said.

Charlie Denison may be reached at reporter@lewistownnews.

com or (406) 535-3401.

August 2014 13

Top right: Greenwood speaks at a recent Moore town council

meeting. Greenwood is the chairman of the Moore Library

Board. He also sits on the board for a school scholarship

program and the Central Montana Council on Aging.

Right: Greenwood, left, and his wife, Sharon, stand outside

their home in Moore in July.

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especially for those who are sedentary. Strength is signified by

big muscles. Loss of muscle bulk also means a loss of strength.But being weaker makes it even less likely that important physi-

cal activity will occur. At the same time, stamina decreases, mak-

ing exercise actually uncomfortable. So you dont feel like eating

(especially true for those who live alone and must do their own

cooking) and you dont feel like exercising.

At this point, theres a fork in the road. Take one side to contin-

ue the present course, getting physically weaker until, within a

decade or two, you become frail. Or take the other side, where

you have to force yourself to eat properly with good nutrition

along with an overall, well balanced fitness program that will

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But free weights are the best thing to use if you really want toget strong, theres no question about it, asserted Karchut, whosaid he took up weightlifting in high school in 1961 and enteredhis first competition three months later.

He went on to win the teenage nationals in 1963 and place sev-enth in the 1964 junior nationals, a competition for 18-to-20-year-olds.

Its just like anything else certain people go crazy for cer-

tain sports. I just loved lifting weights and competing, said Kar-chut, who after graduating from the junior level entered 21 con-secutive senior national championships, winning eight of them.

Karchuts weightlifting prowess also earned him a spot on theU.S. team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich, Germany, where hecompeted as a light-heavyweight and found himself in good posi-tion to medal before getting injured performing a clean-and-jerklift.

Karchut also qualified for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, onlyto see then-President Jimmy Carter refuse to send the U.S. teamto protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan the previous year.

Karchut, who continued lifting and training while holdingdown a full-time job, retired from competitive weightlifting in1988, but continues lifting weights.

Anybody can weight train, even if you never did it and youre60 or 70 years old, you can do it. You just have to be careful andhave to stay with it on a regular basis. For older people, bones arelike muscles they will respond to a load and will get stronger.Its just a matter of gradually increasing weights and training on aregular basis, said Karchut, who works out in the basement ofhis Dillon home five days a week, the days he doesnt travel toBozeman to tutor others in weightlifting, with Gough.

Weightlifting is just something I did as a kid. I always likedit, said Gough, who after serving as a Marine in Vietnam in 1966and 1967 served as a police officer in San Francisco, where heworked undercover in some of the most dangerous parts of thecity.

After I became a policeman, I became more aware of the sportof weightlifting, said Gough, who set up a weightlifting trainingcenter for disadvantaged kids in the Bay Area.

I used to wake up at 4 a.m. to commute to work, start my watchat 5:45 a.m., work to just before 4 p.m., and then my real daywould begin. I would race across town to get to my training centerso I could get started training kids. Id be there until 9 oclock atnight, said Gough, who saw his students earn five of the 30 invita-tions for weightlifters to the 1996 U.S. Olympic Trials.

I was very lucky, I had a supportive wife, said Gough, of hislongtime spouse, Gale, the administrative manager for the Mon-tana State University faculty senate and a former marine biologistwho used to swim with sharks while monitoring their behavior at

the Steinhart Aquarium in San Francisco.

Settling in MontanaGough, a native Virginian with ancestral ties to Butte, would

often vacation in Montana, which he and his wife decided tomake their permanent home after he retired in 1996 followingalmost a quarter century working as a police officer in San Fran-cisco.

My wife and I were taking a summer vacation. We would goto Bozeman, and then on our way back to San Francisco wewould drive down through the Madison Valley. One summer werealized we were tired of leaving the valley, so we looked for apiece of property to buy, said Gough, who since retiring haswritten Colters Run, a historical novel about the legendaryfrontiersman John Colter and his escape from captivity with theBlackfeet tribe. He is currently working with a team that includesGale to produce a movie based on the book.

A programmer and mechanical engineer by trade, Karchut

came to Big Sky Country in similar fashion, deciding to retire inDillon after enjoying vacations in Montana with his wife, Clau-dia, whom he met at Barrett Hospital while installing a systemdesigned to help the hospital to save money on supplies.

But even in retirement, both Gough and Karchut continue towork hard, logging 12-hour days to pass along the knowledge andenthusiasm they earned through years of training, competing inand teaching Olympic weightlifting.

Anybody who wants to learn how to do Olympic lifts, saidKarchut, wed be happy to show them.

We work with anybody who wants to work, said Gough.

M.P. Regan may be reached at [email protected] or

(406) 683-2331.

August 2014 14

Weightlifting,from Page 9

Photo courtesy of www.mikesgym.org

Pictured are Olympic weightlifting trainers, from left, Michae

Karchut and Steve Gough, with Mike Burgener, owner of

Mikes Gym, a Regional Training Center for USA Weightlifting.

Jon Bon Jovi to be honored

PHILADELPHIA (AP) Rock star Jon Bon Jovi will be hon-ored with an award named for an opera singer.

The Marian Anderson Award is given in Philadelphia to critical-ly acclaimed artists who have impacted society in a positive way.

In announcing the recipient, organizers said Bon Jovi has usedhis musical success to support groups working to end homeless-

ness and hunger.Bon Jovi will accept the $25,000 award on Nov. 18 at the citys

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.Anderson was a celebrated contralto and Philadelphia native

who in 1955 became the first black soloist at the MetropolitanOpera in New York. She died in 1993 at age 96.

Previous winners include actor James Earl Jones, poet MayaAngelou and actress Elizabeth Taylor.

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August 2014 15

Photo by Joel Koyama/Star-Tribune/MCT

Marcia and Doug Dewane are pictured in their new condo in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Some baby boomers purging possessions,

trade traditional for modern

By Kim PalmerStar Tribune (Minneapolis) (MCT)

Some baby boomers are purging their possessions and swap-

ping traditional homes for modern condos.

Steve and Jody Anderly wanted a change: a smaller, easy-living

home. We wanted to get rid of maintenance and upkeep, said

Steve, who had come through a cancer challenge and was ready

for a simplified lifestyle.

Along with that, they craved a simpler aesthetic _ a clean,

uncluttered look, clean lines, less fuss, said Jody.

Marcia and Doug Dewane were at another crossroads. Eyeing

retirement, they were ready to leave their longtime home, downsizeand move closer to their family. We knew we wanted to relocate

to the Twin Cities the grandchildren are here, said Marcia.

Their situations were different but both couples chose essen-

tially the same solution: They sold their big, single-family houses

leaving behind many of the belongings theyd accumulated

during decades of living there and moved into condos that

they outfitted in a dramatically different style, with new, modern

furniture, accessories and even new dishes.

We had traditional before, and we wanted to get away from

it, said Jody Anderly of their family home, which they left for a

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August 2014 16

Photos by Joel Koyama/Star-Tribune/MCT

Shown above is the living room in Marcia and Doug Dewanes

new condo in St. Paul, Minnesota, and below, the guest

bedroom.

We just wanted it to be all new and different, said Marcia

Dewane of the downtown St. Paul, Minnesota, condo she and her

husband moved into after more than three decades of living in

their antique-filled house.

Shedding the old and starting over fresh and unencumbered

with a totally new look is the stuff of fantasy for many an

aging baby boomer. So many people have said, I want to do the

same, said Doug. But the Dewanes and the Anderlys actually

acted on that fantasy.

We stripped down everything and started with a clean slate,

said Steve.While few go as far as that, midlife clients who want a new

look for a new stage of life are increasingly common, according

to Sue Hunter of Home for a Change Interior Design, the design-

er who worked with the Dewanes.

Empty nesters arent just turning kids former bedrooms into

dens or craft rooms. Often they want to re-engineer their home

completely or move to something dramatically different. Theyre

looking for help uncluttering and creating cleaner, simpler updat-

ed spaces, Hunter said. This is a huge part of my business.

A change in life circumstance can be a catalyst for rethinking

where and how you want to live, said Pat Manning-Hanson, a

designer with Gabberts Design Studio. Often you dont have to

move to create a new home, she said. I encourage people tostart with an audit of each room, how much space they have and

what theyd like to have in that space.

Often that means letting go of a lot of things, linked to a

lifetime of memories. For designers who work with people trying

to downsize, the designer is really the therapist, said Melinda

Nelson, a spokeswoman for Gabberts, helping clients reinvent

themselves and navigate the nuances of emotion that come with

deciding which belongings are truly meaningful and which are

just excess baggage.

For the Dewanes, who sold 90 percent of what they owned at

auction, starting fresh was liberating.

Some of Marcias friends asked, Doesnt this make you sad

(seeing all your things sold)? Doug said. The response wasNo. It felt fantastic.

help keep you healthy and energetic and a great deal more

comfortable as you continue to age.

But additional adjustments must be made to protect health

against the effects of aging; especially mental health. Otherwise,

you may be perceived as having dementia, and in fact, you may

have an easily reversible form of that condition.

Here again, things tie together. One: that feeling which alwaystold you when you were sleepy often just disappears. Youre

sleepy, but you dont feel it, so you dont go to bed. You get three

or four hours of sleep instead of at least six or seven.

The result is a constant state of sleep deprivation. The mind

becomes slow, easily confused and a lot more irritable. But this

can be dismissed as aging, soyouare the one who must diagnose

yourself. If you are not getting the mental signal to go to bed;

pick a bedtime and use the same one every night. Even though

you dont feel sleepy, youll usually drop into slumber fairly

quickly.

Two: The crummy diet with its nutritional deficiencies? If you

dont get enough vitamin B12, that could cause pernicious ane-

mia, with symptoms of slowness, confusion and irritability.

At the same time, many new medical studies show that boom-

ers with low levels of vitamin D have increased symptoms of

you guessed it mental slowness, confusion and irritability. Its

harder to get D from sunlight after 50, because boomer skinbecomes less able to absorb it. Those with vitamin D deficiencies

may suffer from impaired thinking. Adjusting by taking supple-

ments and eating a D-rich diet can reverse those symptoms.

Its important to beware of changes that happen as the years go

on. Protect both your body and brain, and youll enjoy life much

more.

Wina Sturgeon is an active boomer based in Salt Lake City who

offers news on the science of anti-aging and staying youthful at

adventuresportsweekly.com.

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Tyler Tjomsland/The Spokesman Review/MCT

Barbara Wolfert, 78, reacts as she shows some of the treasures she gathered during her international travels as she shows her

apartment at Garden Plaza in Post Falls, Idaho, June 18.

Retirement communities offer independence,but not all boomers are ready

By Erica Curless

The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, Wash.)/MCT)

Many baby boomers arent ready for retirement much less a

retirement community. And some in this independent and free-

spirited generation are indignant about even discussing the idea

of someone so young moving to a community of, well, old peo-ple.

Too busy working to think about the home and my mother

says she isnt ready either, wrote Becky Christner in response to

a recent Facebook inquiry about whether baby boomers are ready

for the retirement home.

Others were more blunt in their disdain of thinking anybody in

the 50 to 68 age range would consider living in an independent

retirement community.

Your post is really not even cool, wrote Joanna Musulman,

55, a local actor and model who wrote she was too busy rock

climbing, rafting, mountain biking, hiking, skiing, gardening,

making soap, making wine and raising her children.

Perhaps Ginnie Williams, 62, of Spokane, Wash., summed it up

We dont readily accept aging, Williams wrote. Were too

busy being active to accept the structure of a retirement home.

Yet these attitudes arent keeping retirement communities from

courting the largest generation ever, the boomers born between

1946 and 1964. Even if boomers dont like to admit it, they willeventually reach old age, and perhaps will decide having some-

one else do the cooking, cleaning and driving might be a good

idea.

Marketers know boomers will eventually fill the retirement

communities, which are moving toward restaurant-style dining,

wine bars, spa-like bathrooms, larger living areas and closets,

pools, yoga rooms, workshops, garden plots and ambience more

reminiscent of a resort hotel than the boxy and institutional retire-

ment apartments of the past. Technology upgrades so boomers

can work from their retirement homes or so grandparents can

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more and more common.

Sometimes the terminology throws off boomers, confusing a

retirement community with the old notion of a nursing home.

The biggest trend that I see is that the days of putting mom in

a nursing home are pretty much nonexistent, said Beth Swilling,

a certified senior care adviser with CarePatrol, who help seniors

and their families find appropriate housing for the aging. We run

across this misconception and fear all the time.

Today most skilled nursing facilities, formally called nursing

homes, are mostly for rehabilitation, Swilling said. They arent

places where people live until they die.

A retirement community is just that an independent place,

usually for people 55 and older, where residents can live without

the tedious tasks of home maintenance, lawn care or daily cook-

ing. Some communities offer apartments while others are more

like suburban developments with individual homes or cottages.

Usually the stand-alone homes dont include meals, but there usu-

ally is a clubhouse or gathering place for neighbors to meet and

recreate. There are even mobile home parks with similar ameni-

ties for the 55-plus population.

Garden Plaza in Post Falls, Idaho, is one of the areas premier

retirement communities, and it is attempting to catch baby boom-

ers notice. Often the first exposure boomers have to these kinds

of places is when they place their own parents in a smaller home

where they keep their independence and active lifestyle, without

the hassles of maintaining a larger house and property.

The building feels like a beautiful vacation lodge with wide

open halls and congregational spaces that have large, comfortable

leather, stuffed chairs and couches, said Swilling, who has

toured most retirement communities in the region.Yet the average age of Garden Plaza residents is the early 80s,

with very few baby boomers. Often boomers only move into

retirement communities if they have health issues or older spous-

es.

Garden Plaza General Manager Ann Byers said she pictures

active boomers who have a condo at Schweitzer Mountain Resort

but live at Garden Plaza during the week, kind of a home base

where they dont have to worry about the lawn, cooking or secu-

rity when they leave for the mountain.

We also expect people who both work but dont want the

upkeep of the home, Byers said.

Debra Rubens, the director of marketing at Fairwood Retire-

ment Village in Spokane, said baby boomers are more inquisitivethan their parents and want to know everything about a communi-

ty from its finances to its reputation. They also are more demand-

ing in the services and activities they want. They want continuing

education courses, travel opportunities and absolute freedom.

We dont use the word facility, Rubens said. We talk about

different levels of residency. We tell people they can still work

and come here for maintenance-free living. They are just chang-

ing locations and getting out from all the burdens so they can do

what they want to do.

Walt and Jodie Kroon and their Pomeranian Cherie moved into

Garden Plaza in August. The couple are healthy and active. They

recently drove to California to visit family and still put nearly

18,000 miles on their car each year. Walt, a concert organist,

plays in the Spokane Symphony when an organist is needed and

for three churches each week including the Episcopal Cathedral

of St. John the Evangelist in Spokane. But the couple is far from

boomers. Walt is 82 and Jodie is 81. Their oldest two children are

baby boomers who are not interested in living in a place like

Garden Plaza and the youngest is in her 40s.

Although 100 percent independent, the Kroons made the diffi-

cult decision to leave their townhouse on Avondale Lake when

their 65-year-old neighbor, an avid runner, had a massive stroke.

Walt Kroon worried that maybe they needed a place that was

smaller, safer and where assisted living was right next door if

either of them had a health crisis. Besides the independent apart-

ments, Garden Plazas campus also includes The Bridge assisted

living, where residents receive health care services and medica-

tion management. Life Care Center of Post Falls, a sister compa-

ny, provides skilled nursing and rehabilitation next door.

Jodie Kroon still isnt sure if it was the right decision. She

moved kicking and screaming and often feels guilty and

blessed that she and Walt are some of the most healthy and

active people in the building. Often their neighbors call on them

for help getting out of a chair.

The Kroons thought they would stay in their home forever, get-

ting medical services delivered if needed. Many aging people

share that same sentiment.

Family Home Care, which provides in-home care, reports that

70 percent of people turning 65 will need long-term care. Yet 90

percent of people turning age 65 want to stay in their own home.

Home is where everyone wants to be, said Dean Roberson of

Family Home Care.Yet thats not always possible. And retirement communities

want people to know there are lots of options for living and mak-

ing life easier before any health care is needed.

The Kroons said they cant imagine baby boomers living in

their community no matter how nice the apartments or the ser-

vices. They are in their early 80 and unsure if its a good fit.

I just couldnt see them here, Jodie Kroon said.

Resident Barbara Wolfert, 78, agrees. She moved to Garden

Plaza after her husband died, leaving her alone on a large proper-

ty where she had to drive to the mailbox to avoid wildlife and hire

somebody to plow snow. The retired Latin teacher, who took

yearly trips to Europe with students, loves the safety of a retire-

ment community and getting waited on. She likes the gourmetfood and the fact she doesnt have to rely on herself to cook or

eat. Yet she cant see her boomer children enjoying this lifestyle.

Youve first got to understand what it feels like to get older,

Wolfert said, adding that most boomers havent yet had that expe

rience. They just wouldnt be appreciative.

Williams, who commented on the Facebook post, said she is

familiar with the home concept because both her grandmothers

and mom lived in them.

They changed considerably in the years between my grand-

mas residence and my moms, but I think the concept of the

home will have to change even more for us baby boomers to

willingly live in them, she wrote.

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August 2014 19

Gallatin County- American Cancer Society-Road to

Recovery: Drivers needed for patientsreceiving treatments from their home to thehospital.

- American Red Cross Blood Drive: Two

volunteer opportunities available: anambassador needed to welcome, greet,thank and provide overview for blooddonors; and phone team volunteers neededto 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 weekly basis.- Belgrade Senior Center: Meals on

Wheels needs regular and substitute driv-ers, before noon, Monday-Friday, to delivermeals to seniors.- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Be a positive

role model for only a few hours each week.- Bozeman and Belgrade Sacks ThriftStores: Need volunteers 2-3 hour shifts onany day, Monday-Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 6p.m.- Bozeman Deaconess Hospital: Volun-

teers needed for the information desks inthe Atrium and the Perk, 8 a.m.-noon,noon-4 p.m.- Bozeman Senior Center Foot Clinic:

Retired or nearly retired nurses are urgentlyneeded, 2 days a month, either 4- or 8-hourshifts.Community Caf: Volunteer needed, 2-3

hours at the beginning and end of the

month, to enter computer data into Excelspreadsheets.- Galavan: Volunteer drivers needed Mon-

day-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. CDL requiredand Galavan will assist you in obtaining one.- Gallatin Rest Home: Volunteers wanted

for visiting the residents, sharing yourknowledge of a craft, playing cards or read-ing to a resident.

- Gallatin Valley Food Bank: Volunteersneeded to deliver commodities to seniors intheir homes once a month. Deliveries inBelgrade are especially needed. Summerlunch program needs volunteers for a vari-

ety of duties including handing out lunchesat Beall Park and Belgrade.- Habitat for Humanity Restore: Belgrade

store needs volunteers for general help,sorting donations and assisting customers.- Heart of The Valley: Compassionate vol-

unteers especially needed to love, play withand cuddle cats.- Help Center: Computer literate volunteer

interested in entering data into a social ser-vices database. Also volunteers needed tomake phone calls to different agencies/pro-grams to make sure database is up to dateand make safety calls to home bound

seniors.- Jessie Wilber Gallery at The Emerson:

Volunteers needed on Wednesdays, Thurs-days, and Fridays to greet people at themain desk, answer questions and keep trackthe number of visitors.

- Museum of the Rockies: Variety ofopportunities available.- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to quilt,

knit, crochet and embroider hats for chemopatients, baby blankets and other handmadegoods once a week (can work from home).- Sweet Pea Festival: Volunteers are need-

ed to man the admission gate, or help chil-dren with activities, Aug. 1-3.- Your unique skills and interests are need-

ed, without making a long-term commit-ment, in a variety of ongoing, special, one-time events.Contact: Deb Downs, RSVP Program

Coordinator, 807 N. Tracy, Bozeman, MT59715; phone (406) 587-5444; fax (406)582-8499; email: [email protected].

Park County- The Danforth Gallery: Volunteer help

needed, flexible times.- The Depot and Yellowstone Gateway

Museum: Volunteers needed during sum-mer season to greet visitors, flexible times.- Fly Fishing Federation: Volunteers need-

ed to help with mailings, childrens activi-ties, greeters, crafters, organizers, storytell-ers, and more, Aug. 5-9.- Loaves and Fishes and/or Food Pantry:

Many volunteer opportunities available.- Stafford Animal Shelter: Volunteers

needed to play with the animals, do laundryand in other ways and activities.- Various other agencies are in need of

your unique skills and help in a variety ofongoing and one-time special events,including with mailings.Contact: Shannon Burke, RSVP Program

Coordinator, 206 So. Main St., Livingston,MT 59047; phone (406) 222-2281; email:[email protected].

Fergus & Judith Basin counties- Central Montana Fair: Volunteers greatly

needed to assist with checking out ice tovendors and as ticket takers, 2-4 hour shifts.- Community Cupboard (Food Bank):

Needs volunteers to help any week morn-ings as well as with deliveries.- Council on Aging: Needs volunteers to

assist at the Senior (Grub Steaks) and othervarious programs.- Library and Art Center: Volunteer help

always appreciated.- ROWL (Recycle Our Waste Lewistown):

Recruiting volunteers for the 3rd Saturday

of the month to help with greeting, trafficdirecting, sorting, baling and loading recy-clables working to keep plastic wastes fromour landfills.- Treasure Depot: Needs volunteers at

their thrift stores.

- Always have various needs for yourskills and volunteer services in our commu-nity.Contact: RSVP Volunteer Coordinator,

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

Musselshell, Golden Valley &Petroleum counties- Food Bank: Distribute food commodi-

ties to seniors and others in the community;help unload the truck as needed.

- Meals on Wheels Program: Delivermeals to the housebound in the community,just one day a week, an hour and a half,meal provided.- Nursing Home: Assist with activities for

residents to enrich supported lifestyle.- Senior Center: Volunteers are needed to

provide meals, clean up in the dining roomand/or keep records; meal provided.-Museum: Volunteers are needed to greet

visitors and guides to show people around.- Senior Bus: Volunteers to pickup folks

whom are unable to drive themselves.- RSVP offers maximum flexibility and

choice to its volunteers as it matches thepersonal interests and skills of older Ameri-cans with opportunities to serve their com-munities. You choose how and where toserve. Volunteering is an opportunity tolearn new skills, make friends and connectwith your community.Contact: Volunteer coordinator Mollie

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

Custer & Rosebud counties- Clinic ambassador: Need volunteer for

new position.- Custer County Food Bank: Volunteers

needed for food distribution Tuesdays,Wednesdays and Thursdays.- Historic Miles City Academy: Urgent

need for volunteers to assist in thrift storewith sorting and cleaning donated merchan-dise.- Holy Rosary Health Care: Volunteers

needed Mondays and Thursdays in the giftshop.

See RSVP,Page 20

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

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Traditional pesto is bad for you. Un-less youre a marathon runner or one ofthe oarsmen on a scull, pesto will lineyour blood vessels with lots of plaque especially if you load up the pasta onyour plate with pesto the way your BestTimes recipe contributor does. Pesto is usually made from pine nutsand Parmesan cheese. Both of theseculprits pack lots of saturated fat. Mostdieticians recommend limiting saturatedfat to less than 7 percent of total dailycalories. So this presents the conscien-tious eater with a dilemma. Traditional pesto is bad for another reason. It is a budgetbuster. Youll need a bank loan to purchase the basil and thepine nuts it takes to make a lot of pesto. Should you give up pesto altogether? Heck, no. That woulddeprive your taste buds of a real taste treat. And pesto can bemade with ingredients that are much better for you than tradi-tional pesto but which arent lacking in avor. Nor are theseingredients expensive. You can eat like a prince even if yourea pauper. And pesto is pretty. The way it shines on pasta is a treat forthe eyes. The cilantro pesto recipe below is one of my favorites. But

the possibilities for pesto ingredients are almost endless. Anacquaintance of mine uses lots of different substitutes forthe basil in his pesto. Hell use a combination of arugula,cilantro, spinach, kale and sun dried tomatoes. He does usebasil if thats available in his garden. He noted that arugulaadds a very good avor to pesto. When I asked him whichone is the main ingredient, he told me its whatever he hason hand. His favorite nut for pesto making is the almond. He admit-ted that almonds require more processing than pine nuts orwalnuts, though. He doesnt limit his use of pesto to only a pasta topping.One of his favorite ways to use pesto is on chicken breasts. Hepounds the boneless, skinless breast meat out to about three-quarters of an inch in thickness. Then he puts a layer of pestoon top, rolls up the breasts, sautes them until they get somecolor and then bakes them in the oven. Pesto freezes very well. It has come to the rescue on many

an occasion when it was necessary to throw a meal togetherin a hurry at the Durfey shack. The avor of pesto is best ifits been heated up but not cooked. When I take a package ofpesto out of the freezer, I thaw it out in a small bowl of hotwater. The recipe below calls for feta cheese and walnuts insteadof Parmesan cheese and pine nuts. They are much lower insaturated fats than the traditional pesto ingredients.

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Cilantro Pesto3 bunches cilantro12 oz. feta cheese1 c. walnuts6 garlic cloves (more or less, to taste)SaltOlive oil

Press cilantro into food processor. Add enough olive oil toallow processor to puree cilantro. Cilantro leaves will be toodry otherwise. Add cheese, garlic cloves, walnuts and salt totaste. Process ingredients. Drizzle in olive oil while processinguntil desired consistency is reached. Makes enough pesto foreight people, even if one of them is a pesto pig like me.

- Miles City Historic Preservation Office: Seeking a volunteer to

help with clerical duties.- Spirit Riders: Volunteer to assist with traffic control at funer-

als.- St. Vincent DePaul: Volunteers to assist in thrift store with

sorting, pricing, cashier and stocking.- Stepping On: Volunteer to assist with 8-week session of classes

starting in September.- VA Miles City CLC: Urgently need volunteers to assist with

veteran activities.- WaterWorks Art Museum: Volunteer receptionists needed, 2

hour shifts Tuesdays-Sundays.If you are interested in these or other volunteer opportunities

please contact: Betty Vail, RSVP Director; 210 Winchester Ave.

#225, MT 59301; phone (406) 234-0505; email: rsvp05@midriv-

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Dawson County- RSVP office and the Senior Citizens Center: Needs volun-

teers to help in the Fair Booth, August 7-10, shifts are open andcan be scheduled to meet volunteers desired times, need helpfrying bread, filling orders and cashier duties. Please call Myr-na, 377-3791, or Patty to help with our biggest fundraiser of theyear.If you have a need for or a special interest or desire to volunteesomewhere in the community, please contact: Patty Atwell, RSVPDirector, 604 Grant, Glendive, MT 59330; phone (406) 377-4716; email: [email protected].

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Q. Our possessions tend to define us

as a species, and our ability to imbue

them with rich meaning is a universal

human trait that develops early in life.

So try to put some rough numbers on

the stuff of your life?

A.By one British estimate, you willlikely go through 310 pairs of shoes inyour walk through life (UK NationalStatistics), as reported by New Scientistmagazine.

175: the pairs of jeans that you willlove and leave before you die (UKNational Statistics).

544: the deodorants that will disappearunder your arms (UK NationalStatistics).

13: the number of cars the averageAmerican will own in his or her lifetime(U.S. automotive statistics).

12: the different homes most Westernpeople will live in during their lifetime(US Census Bureau).

And 1.3 million is the number ofsheets of toilet paper that youll flushbefore you fade away (U.S. data fromKimberly Clark, the Wall Street Journaland the CDC).

Our relationship to the things we owngoes far beyond utility and aesthetics,says the magazines Michael Bond.Simply put, we love our stuff. As the19th-century psychologist William Jamesargued, our possessions define who weare: Between what a man calls me andwhat he simply calls mine the line isdifficult to draw.

Q. What are scientists suggesting

when they say that elephants know the

subtleties of the human voice?

A.According to new research inKenyas Amboseli National Park,elephants can distinguish certain humanlanguages and can even determine human

gender and relative ages, Sciencemagazine reports. For example, theyvelearned to differentiate the speech of adultmale Kamba farmers from those of adultmale Maasai hunters, who often spearelephants in retaliation for their tuskingand trampling people or cattle.

When behavioral ecologist KarenMcComb of the University of Sussex usedconcealed loudspeakers to play the voicesof the two different ethnic groups, theanimals seemed to know the difference.The elephant family groups were morelikely to retreat and gather together whenhearing the Maasai voices than when theKamba voices were played. The elephantswere much less fearful of the voices ofMaasai women or boys. Young elephantslikely learn this sensitivity by watching,say the researchers, in a dramatic

example of a human threat changingnatural behaviors.

Q. Regarding load-bearing locks,

whos that surprising new Rapunzel?

A. Very well might be you, according tothe Library of Congress, says MentalFloss magazine. Hair isnt just the stuffof fairy tales. Going by testing, everystrand of human hair is strong enough tohold 3.5 ounces. And since the averagehead has between 100,000 and 150,000hairs, that computes to a human mane

potentially supporting 150,000 times 3.5(ounces) divided by 16 (ounces perpound) divided by 2000 (pounds per ton).Thus, your final figure is over 16 tons!But dont start lifting anvils with yourFrench braid just yet it takes only anounce of force to pluck a hair from yourscalp. So while you could throw downyour tresses the next time a dashingprince tries to rescue you, youd be betteroff pointing him to a stepladder.

Q. Can you beat the odds at the

casino? Maybe, maybe not, but can you

at least name ways you might try?

A.1. Exploit the laws of nature: Sinceroulette wheels are mechanical

instruments prone to wear and tear,unbalances arise that steer the picks, says

former casino floor manager Bill Zender,as reported by Jeff Wilser of MentalFloss magazine. In 1873, CharlesJagger found a wonky wheel at Monte

Carlo and bet on the biased numbers. Hecame away with $400,000 thats $7.8million in todays dough!

2. Stick to the drab side of the room. Tosee where the odds are the worst, look forthe flashing lights and bright colors used

to make those games more attractive, likecraps with its crazy bets of the Fieldand Any 7.

3. Practice makes perfect. Overall thehouse wins, but one exception is videopoker, with its typical house advantage of

only 0.46 percent, and even shifting in thegamblers favor at times. The payoff ishigh but to cash out, you need to play atan expert level and most players simply

arent skilled enough. So study up.4. Know when to say when. Even with

the houses 5 percent edge at roulette, you

have a decent chance of winning that firstspin, and the second, and the third ... butif you were to play forever, eventually

all your chips would belong to the house.Advice: If you are winning, stop.

5. Never, ever play Keno: At some

casinos, the house edge is as high as 35percent. No gambler has ever matchedall 20 numbers on a 20-spot ticket. The

odds of it ever happening are 1 in3,535,316,142,212,174,336. (Thats 3.5quintillion!)

Q. Whats the point or function of

zebras highly distinctive patterned

stripes?

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A. The theories go way back as scien-

tists have looked at the ranges and ecolo-

gy of various zebras and other members

of the genus Equus, says Tim Caro of

the University of California, Davis, as

reported by Susan Milius in Science

News magazine. Along the way, theyve

undermined the notions that the stripes

camouflage the animals in woods or daz-

zle big predators into misjudging preymovements. Instead Caros team found

that motion dazzle, as it is called, does

not prevent lions from catching an abun-

dance of zebras. Nor did anything confirm

that stripes facilitate social interactions in

big zebra groups.

Q. Several hundred billion stars

make up our galaxy, though some 70

percent of them so-called red dwarfs

are much smaller and dimmer than

our Sun. Does that also dim our pros-

pects of one day finding extraterrestrial

life?

A. Not necessarily, argues Harvard

astronomer John A. Johnson in Physics

Today magazine. Although red dwarfs

are cooler than the Sun, with surface tem-

peratures about half as much, surveys

indicate that they are quite likely to be

surrounded by Earth-sized planets. Fur-

thermore, these planets tend to orbit

close-in, warm enough to be inside the

habitable zone where liquid water can

exist. Indeed, calculations by graduate

student Courtney Dressing suggest that

one Earth-sized habitable-zone planet

exists for every two red dwarfs, implying

more than a hundred billion life-candidate

planets in the Milky Way! And red dwarfs

live much, much longer than stars like our

Sun.

In many respects, the study of Earth-

sized planets orbiting red dwarfs is easier

than for Sun-like stars. It is tantalizing

that the James Webb Space Telescope

(launch planned for 2018) will be able to

measure the chemistry of the atmospheres

of nearby red-dwarf planets, providing

direct evidence for or against the presence

of life.

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1Bounty mutineer

10__ ordo seclorum:Great Seal words

15Poe title locale

16Words of refusal

17Versatile seasoning

18Singers better half?

19Screwball

20Mariners direction

22Game similar to

pinochle

23Letters after Sen.

Jeanne Shaheens name

24Spend leisurely, with

away26Zap, in a way

27__ Provinces

30__ tight

31Informer

34Chose, in a way

35On __ Majestys

Secret Service

36Fighting

37Nucleic acid sugar

39She played Mia in

Pulp Fiction

4090s-00s reliever

Robb

42Kitchen set

43Base

44Pretax figure

46Rat-__

48Kind of line

492000 Richard Gere

role

52Nodding

53FICA benefit

54Madewell parent

company

56Like rocks U2

58Cyan relative

61Cobra feature

62Credit card charge,

perhaps63Utopias

64Rang true

Down

1Game attendees

2Province of southern

China

3Clinton Labor secre-

tary Robert

4Nothings broken!

5Spider-Man movie

company

6__-80: old computer

7Grocery chain initials

8Starbucks request

9Big name in streaming

10__ for Noose:

Grafton novel

11Horace, for one

12One in a bar lineup

13Most restless

14Growing

symbol

21Recklessness

24Reports

25Get going

27Soprano group

28Graphic novelist

Moore et al.

29Twin Cities suburb

31Explore with a tank

32Garden color

33Womens issue,

familiarly

38Where Antwerp is:

Abbr.

41Jordan, e.g.

42Common Internet

symbol

45Three in one

47Holyfield rival

49Go with the

flow

50Take in again

51Coarse cloth

54Californias San __

Capistrano

55Part of a fast-food

meal, maybe

57__ Pinafore59ER extras

60Status chaser?

Crossword

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