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9A THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015 Daily Astorian/File Photo Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian Laura Lattig holds up a donated quilt from Quilts from the Heart. Volunteers from No One Dies Alone give quilts to those they help in the hospital to make the hospital room more homey. Sara Maya, pictured with partner and fellow MonteAl- ban co-owner Juan Jimenez, has been learning more about personal and business finance through the “Pa- sos al Exito,” or Steps to Success, program helping Spanish-speaking entrepreneurs. No One Dies Alone: One of the volunteers Spanish: Class teaches how to turn trained in England to be a ‘soul midwife’ ideas into reality ‘Knowing Continued from Page 1A The longest vigil lasted more than a week. “She wasn’t ready to go,” Young said. Sometimes volunteers step in when a devoted relative needs a break from the bedside. “We try to care for the caregiv- er. That’s part of our job,” Lat- tig said. But, if the patient is totally alone, “then we pretty much go around the clock with them,” Young said. That is, unless the patient has indicated that he or she would actually prefer to die alone — a scenario not unheard of when a dying person wants to either spend their last mo- ments in private or spare their loved ones from having to see them. What’s critical, Lattig said, is for volunteers to enter the room with a compassionate heart. “That’s a requirement,” she said. “That’s something you can’t teach.” ‘Soul midwife’ For Young, the biggest chal- lenge is comforting patients, especially middle-aged patients with children, who are dying not in physical pain but in emo- tional or spiritual pain — re- gretful, unhappy and unable to go gentle into that good night. “If I see someone suffering, then I would want to try to help them over that hurdle,” she said. Young, who also volunteers at Clatsop Care Center, recently returned from southwest En- gland, where she trained to be- come a “soul midwife,” some- one who ushers someone out of the world rather than into it. Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian An electric vigil candle used by volunteers sits on a counter in Dawn Young’s home. Her experience has taught her that people should work to mend their fractured relation- ships before time runs out — before a broken heart becomes a permanent condition. “Those types of things can eat at people for, possibly, the rest of their lives,” Young said. “Keep your relationships cur- rent. If I had anything to teach anybody, it would be: Forgive, ask for forgiveness, say, ‘I’m sorry.’ Don’t leave it to the end to try to make up.” End-of-life care, she said, isn’t for everyone, but it’s her work, the thing she believes she was meant to do. And the reward, she and Lattig said, comes when volunteers con- nect with patients, when they help the patients feel safe, sup- ported and loved — even if that means just turning on an electric star candle at night, or laying someone in the most intimate time of their life, and being able to share that with them — and maybe even give them some simple comfort — to me, that’s just an amazing gift that I’ve been given...’ Continued from Page 1A Laura Lattig The Rural Development Initiatives, with both private and public grant funding, visits two different com- munities each year. Last year was Milton-Freewater and Ontario, said Program Manager Kristine Mier, and this year the program visits Madras and Astoria. “One of the things I hear in communities around Or- egon and nationally … is that our Latino communi- ty is growing,” Mier said. “Many people feel dis- connected from the Latino community, and I think this is a good way to provide volunteer program coordinator for the hospital and Lower Columbia Hospice a homemade quilt over them. “Knowing someone in the most intimate time of their life, and being able to share that with them — and maybe even give them some simple comfort — to me, that’s just an amazing gift that I’ve been given, to do the work,” Lattig said. “It’s in- credible.” To become a No One Dies Alone volunteer, contact Lattig at 503-791-7408. In a monthlong class, Maya and more than 25 other entrepreneurs went over the essentials of per- sonal ¿nance, from starting a checking account to build- ing credit before buying a home. Now participants are in the middle of a second course, learning about how to start a business and be successful entrepreneurs. Maya said her class includes an aspiring DJ, a restaura- teur, a contractor and others all hoping to own their own business. “Spanish people have good ideas and are hard workers,” Maya said, adding the class teaches them how to turn their ideas into real- ity, while paying more tax- es and helping the regional economy. Steps to success support and feel a connec- tion with them.” The classes often get fewer than 20 students, she said, but in Astoria they have been averaging about 28, the highest enrollment the program has seen thus far. Mier credited the high participation rate to existing support services for the His- panic community. Jorge Gutierrez, direc- tor of the Lower Columbia Hispanic Council, said the council sought out commu- nity buy-in and help in re- cruiting students through its “Voz de la Comunidad” — or Voice of the Community — advisory group. When Steps to Success started, Gutierrez said, orga- nizers were hopeful half the students would complete the personal ¿nance course. But when more than 90 percent persisted, he said, organizers knew they had a program in great demand. After the courses are over, participants can con- tinue receiving help from Clatsop Community Col- lege’s Small Business De- velopment Center advisers like Gutierrez, a primary ad- viser for Spanish-speaking business owners. “The biggest obstacle is just getting the information and education necessary,” he said. “One of the biggest drawbacks is that many His- panic residents who come to me for business counseling, they have limited education. Writing a business plan is challenging.” /ĨzŽƵŽƵŐŚƚĂds͕DŽŶŝƚŽƌ͕ŽƌEŽƚĞŬŽŵƉƵƚĞƌdŚĂƚ ŽŶƚĂŝŶĞĚĂŶ>&ůĂƚWĂŶĞů^ĐƌĞĞŶ͕ƵƌŝŶŐƚŚĞzĞĂƌƐϮϬϬϮƚŽϮϬϬϲ͕ zŽƵDĂLJďĞŶƟƚůĞĚƚŽĞŶĞĮƚƐĨƌŽŵĂ^ĞƩůĞŵĞŶƚ͘ Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian The city is trying to save a bigleaf maple tree in Violet LaPlante Park in Alderbrook. Tree: ‘It’s so hard because it’s such a beautiful tree’ Continued from Page 1A that we’re at that point where Parks and Rec is really starting to look at the trees in the park as a valuable asset and an im- portant part of our community,” she said. Even old and ailing trees, like people, Schleif said, have something to offer, “and these old trees are really special to us in this community.” If the bigleaf maple does fall, the tree could cause dam- age to a home on 45th Street next to the park. Jennifer Benoit, a commu- nications coordinator for the Parks and Recreation Depart- ment and the daughter-in-law of Paul Benoit, a former city manager, lives in the house with her family. “It’s so hard because it’s such a beautiful tree,” she said. “My kids have had pictures taken in it, and my husband grew up in that house, and he’s got pictures of himself and his brothers in the tree. 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