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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (July 6, 2001)
20*“* nTTiTTWTTTîneivs We Are Not The Best Looking Guys In Town e Insù S econd N ature Retreat returns elders to the great outdoors But We Are The Call Paul or Woody at 503/675-0800 Mention Just Out when you call and I will come out to your place Bybee-Milwaukie Office OR0140 7000 S.E. Milwaukie Avenue Portland, OR 97202 503 275-6600 503 275-5493 fax 24-Hour Service: 503 872-2657 Personal Accounts Business Accounts Merchant Services Competitive Loan Rates Kelly Clark Assistant Vice President Branch Manager (T^bank “Hot New Listings ■■ fi^VWTAM » '... gflS BEOCWY COTMCt w Woowroor SO'S So charming in side, great yard fenced, hot 3 bedrm, 1 bath, 1 level, new kitchen, tub w/ full price offer, deck, 2 bedrms, 1 bath, fruit FA Gas Heat, garage, patio & cute. $139,900.7611 N. Clarendon trees, raspberries — a retreat in lhe city— $121,500 @ 5923 SE 60th \ BuNQAiow/Conaof OtD PDX M TMMDY NOMW PMIMNO W*** Almost 2,000 sqft, wood Hrs, builhins, firepic, Trendy St. Johns! Near McMenamins pub. 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Activities are interwoven with hands-on Retreat Center! personal attention designed to enliven and The Portland grassroots nonprofit group has been providing one-day nature outings for seniors since 1993. At a woodland facility between Sandy and Eagle Creek, Weavers Tale does its work through a diverse group of professionals including naturalists, physical therapists, oc cupational therapists, and massage and music therapists. They lavish seniors with friend ship, fun, care and as sistance as needed. Oh, and lunch, too! The goal of Weavers Tale is to honor and enrich the souls of our elders by the gentle and nurturing stimulation of sensory contact with nature. This is not a religious or spiritually based enterprise. There is no agenda other than empowering elders to be fully alive; to experi ence renewal of their connection to nature, their pasts and others; and to express them selves through story telling. The group ac Edie Seyl is reaching out to gay and lesbian seniors tivities have been noted to have a near-magical effect on those reconnect elders to their past. Participants often whose physical impairments or other circum begin to retrieve memories of childhood and stances have kept them from contact with the personal experiences when they feel the antlers of a deer or sit in a circle and sing old songs that natural world. were popular in their youth. It all started with a young woman’s dream. Weavers Tale is up to doing about eight half About 25 years ago, Edie Seyl was a young day retreats each summer. Work on the Molalla activities director for a nursing home. She could see that the sensory deprivation of institutional property has been awaiting the substantial funds living tends to cause residents to lose interest in necessary for permits and building. The land has themselves and in the life around them. She been cleared, and an architect’s drawings are fin wanted to do something to help counteract this ished. Until the project is completed, retreats will continue to take place at the Alton L. ubiquitous problem but was not sure exactly what. Collins facility on Highway 211. Seyl soon purchased five wooded acres on a Through its two primary fund-raising events creek and pond in Molalla with only a vague sense of what she would create there. During a each year and through grants Seyl is able to summer when she lived on the land in a tent, obtain, Weavers Tale will continue to maintain her idea began to take shape. its summer schedule, pay staff and reach out to She started to dream of a retreat center include more populations, such as the upcoming where seniors from institutions and private Gay and Lesbian Day. homes could spend a day immersed in arts and Sounds nice, but you’re not in a rest home leisure. The idea of freeing elders from the ster yet? And neither is your granny? Good news: ile boredom of facility living so they could spend Weavers Tale considers gay, lesbian, bisexual an occasional day on a pond among frogs, ducks, and trans community members and their loved fish, beavers and great blue herons set Seyl on a ones who have reached the ripe old age of 50 to trajectory of slow and steady accomplishment to be the elders of our community. Group size will be limited to about 25, so make your reserva fulfillment of her vision. tions early. JM She took care of nuts and bolts through the years, building the structure to support a success ful effort. She first obtained her occupational ther To take part in the WEAVERS TALE G ay AND apist license. Then she committed to the ongoing L esbian D ay retreat, call 503'234'4202. Cost is only $18.50 ($13.50 for brown'haggers). paperwork chore of incorporating as a nonprofit. There was no weaver in Chaucer’s Canter bury Tales, but in naming her project, Seyl took N ancy W alseth is a Portland free'lance writer. 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