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Fitness: A Fountain of Youth
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photo hv I saiah Bot ie /T he
P ortland O bserver
Local resident John Olmstead attends a vigil in northeast
Portland supporting Cindy Sheehan, the mother o f a son killed
in Iraq, who has taken the face o f the opposition to President
Bush's actions in the war in Iraq.
War Opposition
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from Front
to leave temporarily with a vow to
return. But "Camp Casey,” named
after Sheehan’s deceased son, lives
on, with many military families still
sticking around in protest.
Two Oregon mothers traveled
to the Texas last week to join the
C raw ford vigil. Lynn Bradac of
Portland and M ichelle DeFord
of Salem both had sons that died
in Iraq. They planned to stay in
C raw ford for a w eek.
At least 1,866 members of the
U.S. military have died since the
beginning of the Iraq war in March
2003.
Volunteers Build Playground
Club Apologizes for Racist E-mail
(Oregon LiquorControl Commis­
sion) inspector told me in private
make downtown Portland streets that blacks belonged to Northeast
safer, while offering patrons of any Portland, not downtown. I was fu­
ethnic origin or background, as wel 1 rious with this statement and I
as musical taste, a safe place to thought he was racist. After see­
enjoy themselves and have a good ing the violence of last Sunday
time. We would rather close our night, I owe an apology to that
doors than to jeopardize the pub­ inspector. They do belong to
Northeast Portland and they need
lic.”
The original e-mail from Makboul not to be encouraged i n any way to
was as follows: "One time, an OLCC come downtown.”
continued
from Front
Barbara Brooks (from left), president of Beach
Elementary School's PTA, Darcy Olsen of the All
State Foundation and Dlenny Roca of the Injury
Free Coalition for Kids were among approximately
75 volunteers who built a new playground Saturday
at Beach Elementary in north Portland. The “Little
Hands” playground replaces an outdated wooden
play structure that did not meet current safety
guidelines. The construction was funded by a
$70,000 grant from the Allstate Foundation.
photo by
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
from Front
forward to 13 more years with their
family and friends.
Staying fit helps c o u n te ra c t
the fact that you lose 50 p e r­
cent o f your stren g th and 75
percent o f yo u r pow er betw een
35 and 70 years o f age, a c c o rd ­
ing to the In tern atio n al C o u n ­
cil o f A ctive A ging.
“ E v e r y th in g j u s t s lo w s
dow n. But if y o u ’re w orking at
it, these th in g s w o n ’t break
dow n as q u ic k ly ,” W ilson said.
“ I t’s about the q u ality o f life,
g e ttin g to p la y w ith th e ir
g randkids o r take a w alk w ith
th e ir w ife. If I can get them to
eat m ore n u tritio u s food and
exercise, I can easily get so m e­
one out o f taking blood p re s­
sure m e d ic in e .”
As the fastest grow ing d e ­
m ographic in the fitn ess c o m ­
m unity, people over 55 are g a r­
nering m ore atte n tio n from the
gym s they atten d . Since 1987,
the p o p ulation o f o lder health
clu b clien ts has sky ro ck eted
343 percent.
M aking sure an o ld e r c lie n t
is w ell cared for includes d e ­
tails such as “try in g to take
aw ay the o b sta c le s o f com ing
into the gym , w alking them
through aqua cla sse s, o r m ak ­
ing sure th e y ’re co m fo rtab le
talking to anyone on the flo o r,”
said S hannon M ay, sp o k e s­
person for 24-H our Fitness.
In a society w here obesity is
becom ing a way o f life, it’s
becom ing even m ore im portant
to be aw are o f the b en efits o f
fitness to lengthen a lifespan.
S tudies show even w alking the
dog for 30 m inutes a day can cut
the risk o f diab etes in half, as
w ell as shed pounds. W orking
out alo n e can be d iffic u lt m o ti­
v a tio n -w ise , w hich is why b e­
longing to a gym and w orking
out w ith a friend or personal
tra in e r helps.
G ym s can also be in tim id a t­
ing for seniors w hen everyone
around is younger, in-shape and
determ in ed . But M ay says this
isn ’t necessarily the case w ith
her com pany.
“ I t’s fitn ess for e v e ry o n e ,”
M ay said. “ A nytim e you w alk
in, you see som eone young, old,
fit, trying to get fit. Ju st go and
talk to som eone, talk about w hat
y o u r g o a ls are, w h e th e r you
have an anxiety. A tra in e r p ro ­
vides a p erso n alized ro u tin e .”
M ay re ite ra ted that m aking
sure each in d ividual is at ease
w ith th e ir w orkout is o f utm ost
im p o rtan ce because everyone
has p a rtic u la r aches and pains
they m ight be d ealin g w ith.
“ M aking physical a ctiv ity a
part o f th e ir life is a m a z in g ,”
M ay said. “ It helps w ith any­
thing from keeping bone m ass,
balance and sta b ility .”
A nd for people like R oberts,
securing a balanced, stable and
long life is already becom ing a
reality.
For m ore in fo rm atio n , visit
w w w .24hourfitness.com .
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