A2   Wednesday, January 15, 2020
The Dalles Chronicle
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SENIOR NEWS
Use common sense when it snows
Is it snowing yet? I’m
asking because I sent this
column in on Saturday
and the last forecast I saw
for Wednesday was high
27 and low 22 with a 50
percent chance of snow,
but you never know how
accurate the forecast will be.
Whether cold temperatures
and snow arrives today or
next month, one thing we
do know is it will eventually
happen. And when it does,
don’t forget a couple com-
mon-sense basics to keep
yourself safe:
• Dress warm and stay dry.
At our age shivering is not
always a reliable warning
sign of hypothermia, because
older people tend to shiver
less or not at all when their
body temperature drops.
• Be careful doing outdoor
work, such as shoveling
snow. When it’s cold outside
your heart works double time
to keep warm.
• Keep indoor temperature
at 65 degrees or warmer. But
make sure wood stoves are
always receives calls asking
whether the Center is open
or not. The general rule of
thumb is that if D21 is closed
the Center and Meals-on-
Scott
Wheels will be closed. If
McKay
D-21 has a delayed start, the
Center’s morning classes are
usually canceled, but you
properly vented and cleaned, may need to call the Center
and space heaters are at least to make sure.
three feet away from anything
Martin Luther King Day
that might catch fire.
is Monday, Jan. 20—a day
• Avoid driving. If you
off for many folks. But it is
need to make sure your car
also a holiday, designated as
is winterized, avoid hills
a national day of service to
and take your cell phone for
encourage all Americans to
emergencies.
volunteer and improve their
• As I mentioned last week, communities. In response to
to avoid falls, “Walk like a
this call to action, there will
Penguin.” And be particularly be a Martin Luther King Day
careful of black ice on side-
Community Services Clean-
Up in cooperation with The
walks or parking lots, where
Dalles Blue Zones and City
the snow may have melted
of The Dalles Beautification
and then frozen again.
Project on the holiday.
But the best advice is to
Participants will be picking
purchase all your necessi-
up trash along Sixth Street
ties ahead of time, then stay
from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
home, relax and enjoy the
If you want to participate,
wonder of the falling snow.
meet at the Home Depot
When the snow falls, the
Mid-Columbia Senior Center parking lot near the corner of
Senior
Living
Sixth Street and Chenowith
Loop Road. Bring gloves and
a reflective vest if you have
one. This is an opportunity to
have fun by getting outside,
meeting some new people,
and giving back to your
community.
Also on Monday, Jan. 20,
Blue Zones will host a gath-
ering focused on cooking
simple, tasty and nutritious
meals. And your reward?
You get to eat what you pre-
pared! Cooking demo is 5:30
to 7 p.m. at One Community
Health, 1040 Weber St., The
Dalles. For more information
call 202-465-1702 or email
brett.ractchford@sharecare.
com.
• • •
“Will you still love me
when I’m 64” is the song
written by Paul McCartney
about a young man singing to
his lover about his plans for
their growing old together.
I received correct answers
from Julie Carter, Lana Tepfer,
Jim and Betsy Ayers, Cheri
Brent, and this week’s winner
Ruth Radcliffe. My apolo-
gies to Laura Comini and
Cheri Brent, who answered
correctly last week but were
not listed.
Paul McCartney wrote
the song when he was just
sixteen, when he probably
thought 64 was old. But
here’s a challenge. Can you
rewrite the lyrics as a 64-year-
old singing to his/her lover,
“Will you still love me when
I’m 84?” Email me what you
come up with.
Now that it’s 2020 you
have probably heard all the
catchphrases playing on the
idea of 20/20 vision: hope for
a clear vision in 2020, how to
see with clarity in 2020 and
more.
But the first thing that
comes to my mind is the title
of a song by Johnny Nash.
For this week’s “Remember
When” question, what was
the name of this number
one song with a reggae beat,
released in 1972? Email your
answer to mcseniorcenter@
gmail.com, leave a message
at 541-296-4788 or drop it
off with the soundtrack to
the comedy sports film Cool
Runnings.
• • •
Well, it’s been another
week, keeping an eye on the
sky. Until we meet again,
keep yourself safe and warm.
“To me, old age is always
10 years older than I am.”
—Bernard Baruch on his
86th birthday
• • •
Meals-on-Wheels dinner
served at 12:00 at the Center
MENU
Thursday (16): Spaghetti
with Meat Sauce (Music -
Tom Graff)
Friday (17): Philly Beef
Sandwich
Monday (20): Stroganoff
over Egg Noodles
Tuesday (21): BIRTHDAY
DINNER Chicken Cordon
Bleu
Wednesday (22): Oven
Baked Chicken
Goldendale bombed during World War II
Morales
■ By The Lou
Goldendale Sentinel
Balloon bomb
landed in
Klickitat county
Here’s a bit of history
you probably didn’t know:
Goldendale was bombed by
the Japanese during World
War II.
It didn’t come from planes,
and there was no explosion.
Rather, the attack came from
a Japanese balloon bomb.
285 such bombs were
released by Japan during
the war. They were affixed to
hot-air balloons, set aloft at
altitudes where they could be
caught by the jet stream and
pulled eastward from Japan
across the Pacific, to alight
where the whims of wind
took them and, the Japanese
hoped, blow things and
people up.
One bomb landed near
Goldendale and incited an
encounter with a Goldendale
Sentinel reporter.
The story comes to us
via thoughtful reader Don
Beierle, who brought in a
book called “Silent Siege II:
Japanese Attacks on North
America in World War II.”
About midnight on Feb. 27,
1945, Klickitat County Sheriff
Russell Woodward got a call
about a strange object that
had come down in trees be-
tween Goldendale and Satus
Pass. Woodward rounded up
county attorney Z.O. Brooks
and patrolmen Dwight Nye
and Gordon Hyland, and the
group went up to investigate.
Brooks’ daughter, Jerrine,
was a reporter for The
Sentinel. She grabbed her
camera and flashbulbs and
tagged along. Jerrine took the
picture you see accompany-
ing this story, though official-
ly she wasn’t supposed to.
Jerrine said of the en-
counter “When we got to the
Google Wind
Challenge
registration open
The 2020 Google Wind
Challenge returns to The
Dalles March 14, and team
registration is now open.
Middle and high school
students come from through-
out the Gorge to participate,
are invited to create teams
and sign up for the seventh
annual event.
The Wind Challenge is
a free, hands-on program
that fuels student interest in
science, technology and wind
energy. During the event,
teams of middle and high
school students learn about
wind turbine technology and
design and apply their skills
in an all-day competition to
build, test and present their
wind turbine models to a
group of judges.
Prizes are given to the top
three high and middle school
teams whose wind turbines
have the fastest speed for
transferring kinetic energy
and generate the most elec-
trical power.
Students are welcome to
register in teams of three to
six students, and schools can
register multiple teams.
Teams can register through
Feb. 3 at www.windchal-
lenge.org.
The competition runs from
8 a.m. to around 4 p.m. at
the Fort Dalles Readiness
Center, 402 East Scenic Dr.,
The Dalles
The Wind Challenge is
sponsored by Google and
held in partnership with
Columbia Gorge Community
College and Gorge
Technology Alliance. Learn
more at windchallenge.org.
mountain, there was a bal-
loon as wide as a city street
tangled in the trees. At the
bottom of the balloon was a
small box like a car battery
with little things hanging
from it. We curiously exam-
ined this apparatus, dragged
it around, took a couple of
pictures of it, and wondered
what in the world it was.
“The government was
contacted, and we were told
to have one of the men stay
the night as guard, take no
pictures and avoid the press!”
That ship had clearly sailed.
Jerrine continues: “It was to
be kept extremely hush-hush.
There was to be no public-
ity, so the Japanese would
not know their balloon had
arrived.
“Most everyone went
home that night to return
early in the morning, when
the demolition experts
had arrived. The handful
of townspeople who knew
about the incident watched
as the Army men got out of
an armored car and donned
strange ‘space suits.’ They
took long poles and manip-
ulated the parts from the
carriage at a presumably safe
distance.
“All five of us who had
been there the night before
looked at each other in hor-
ror. We glanced around the
circle and telegraphed the
message, ‘I won’t tell if you
won’t tell how we had been
bouncing this thing around.’
How foolish we had been-
and how luckly!”
Jerrine’s father himself de-
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Jerrine Brooks May, wife of
then-publisher Peter May.
On June 15, 1972, their story
of the narrow escape from
the balloon bomb ran. “I’m
25 years late with the darn
scoop,” Jerrine wrote. “The
war IS over, isn’t it?”
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The group kept silent about
the balloon, as directed, and
not a word ever appeared in
the paper. “A real scoop down
the drain,” Jerrine recalled.
The balloon never did
self-destruct. It was deter-
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the circuits inoperable.
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