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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 2015
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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
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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...’
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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.”
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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’
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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. It would just be devastating
to see it go down.”
“But it also would be dev-
astating to have it damage
property or people using the
park.”
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