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Newspaper Page Text6A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL October 7, 2015 Chatterbox The Everyone Can Ride to Local and Metro Destinations Making memories as we turn life’s corners BY BETTY KAISER For the Sentinel T here are certain deﬁ ning moments in life when you know that you have “turned a corner.” When you’re young, those corners are usually exciting. They are monumental moments that hap- pily change you forever: Becoming a teen- ager. Graduations. Celebrating your 21st birthday. Falling in love. Getting married. Starting a family. Discovering a career path that makes the difference between subsisting and thriving. As we get a little older and retirement nears, the corners get a little sharper. For those of us who loved parenting, the empty nest experience is a bit of a jolt. We have questions. What happened to my ﬁ t body? What’s with all this gray hair that makes us look like Q-tips? Why am I so tired at the end of the day? And what in the world is happening to this current generation? Retirement age is a different story. IRAs and 401Ks were not common until the 1990s. That was too late for many of us to accumulate sizeable chunks of money. So I think that most of us wondered how we would ever afford to retire. We thought we going to have to work until we died! Nevertheless, one day we turned a corner and realized that we just couldn’t cut the nine-to-ﬁ ve job any more. So we ﬁ gured out how to make the ﬁ nances work. But after retirement there are more cor- ners to turn. I learned that from our neigh- bors, Sallie and Jim. They were already “elderly” (at least 70 years old!) when they moved into our California neigh- borhood, but boy, were they active. They mowed lawns, painted the house, planted a garden, drove to Texas to visit family and volunteered at church. As the years went by they slowed down and we started helping them keep things together. Jim would regularly knock the lamppost down as he backed out of the driveway. He often showed up on our doorstep, head bleeding, after he fell off a ladder. Sallie’s driving became so erratic that one day a school bus driver stopped her, got her name and license and reported her to the DMV. Both of them had their driver’s licenses taken away and never drove again. One day I stopped to see Sallie after work. She and Jim were now well into their eighties. As I walked in the house, she burst into tears, threw her apron over her head and said, “Betty, I’ve turned an- other corner.” Cleaning and cooking their meals had become too difﬁ cult for her. Then both of us cried. Ever the problem solvers, Chuck and I put our heads together and decided that we could bring in meals three times a week from Kaiser’s Country Diner’s daily spe- cials. Our neighbors weren’t big eaters (two dinners was enough for two nights) and they went out for Sunday supper. One problem solved. (Later, when we moved, I signed them up for Meals on Wheels.) It’s amazing how these past memories come back since Chuck and I have aged and started turning unwanted corners. When we were 50 years old we gutted our house and rebuilt it ourselves. In our six- ties, we were still working jobs, planting gardens and ceaselessly manicuring our six acres. Now in our seventies, we have turned some major health issue corners and have slowed down considerably. To keep up the property we hire help, but other corners are not that simple. I was born with a passion for travel. Our family’s yearly travels began at Catalina Island and expanded from there to primi- tive/RV camping in state and national parks across the U.S.A. Along the way we ﬂ ew around the world and checked off places we had dreamed of visiting. I thought we would always be able to go and do. Wrong! At this age and stage of life we have turned a sad travel corner—ﬂ ight fatigue. A ﬂ ight across the United States is still doable—barely. It all depends on connec- tions, but if it takes all day…we don’t go. Any place “across the pond” or beyond is now deﬁ nitely off the want-to-go list. We were always going to go back to Johan- nesburg, South Africa, but a nearly 22- hour ﬂ ight would do us both in. Our current travel destinations are a little closer to home. They are what I call “do-over’s.” They are places that we’ve been and want to see again. Having “been- there-and-done-that,” we are comfortable returning. Once there, our anxiety level drops. We know where there are places to stay, good places to eat and things to do. Time slows down, we don’t have to rush around and we can explore nooks and crannies that we didn’t see before. 541.942.0456 Cottage Grove, OR 97424 www.southlanewheels.org Congratulations! Employee the store. Brown found himself standing face-to-face with the man who, posing as a trusted family friend, had been secretly molesting his daughter for the previous two years — and he was holding a loaded shot- gun. The shotgun was loaded with bird shot. But from 10 feet away, it scarcely mattered. The news accounts don’t say if Brown stayed long enough to help clean up the mess he left on the ﬂ oor and walls of Nich- ols’ store — just that he quietly went home to be with his daughters and to wait for the sheriff to come arrest him. Several weeks later, the grand jury met and — to the surprise of absolutely nobody of the Month Tina Diaz We just returned from one of those slow- go places at the foot of Mt. Hood outside Sandy, Ore. I would guesstimate that we have stayed there in our RV at least a doz- en times in the last decade. Every time we go we ﬁ nd something new to do. We have ridden our bikes to garage sales, eaten at the Tollgate Café, talked to the locals, rid- den the ski lift, shopped till we dropped and stopped by the Guide Dogs for the Blind on the way home. For us, no trip is complete without get- ting out into the woods. The Wildwood Cascade Streamwatch Trails are nearby. It’s a fabulous place to get out in nature and not break your neck! In addition to the sound of the rushing river that leads to outlooks, there are paved paths down to the river and slightly steeper gravel paths for the more adventurous. Everywhere you look, the scenery is fabulous. There are ﬁ sh for underwater viewing and craft- ed benches that are works of art along the way. Signs make sure you don’t get lost. We love it! Turning the corners of aging is not al- ways fun. But “do-overs” are bright spots in the making memories process. Is there some place right here in Oregon that you’re longing to go? You can do it! Find a way to make it happen! to our Employee of the Month Norm Shires for the Month of September, 2015 Magnolia Gardens 541-942-0054 1425 Daugherty Ave. • Cottage Grove Turning 65 and confused about Medicare choices? Call Paul to help simplify the complicated. 541-517-7362 Paul Henrichs ~ Independent Agent coverage4oregon@gmail.com Betty Kaiser’s Chatterbox is about peo- ple, places, family, and other matters of the heart. Contact her at 942-1317 or via e-mail — bchatty@bettykaiser.com O FFBEAT Continued from page 4A Providing Public, Accessible Transportation to the Region Come to the Humane Society of Cottage Grove’s NAME YOUR PRICE — decided not to indict him. And afterward, not even the Portland Morning Oregonian — which by that time was on a virtual cru- sade against The Unwritten Law — vouch- safed a single word in disapproval. That wouldn’t be the case with another high-proﬁ le Unwritten Law case, though, which was coming a few months later in Portland. It would be another case of a jilted husband gunning for his rival, and it would fairly deﬁ nitively put the would-be honor killers of Oregon on notice that they could no longer expect The Unwritten Law to pro- tect them. We’ll be ﬁ nishing up this series of columns on the Unwritten Law with that story, next week. (Sources: Portland Morning Oregonian archives: Mar. 18 and May 4, 1908; Jan. 30, Mar. 10, 15, 16 and 18, 1909) Finn J.D. John teaches at Oregon State University and writes about odd tidbits of Oregon history. For details, see http://ﬁ nn- john.com. To contact him or suggest a top- ic: ﬁ nn2@offbeatoregon.com or 541-357- 2222. SALE Sales Benefi t the rea! Animals In Our A $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM Our Community Newspaper Friday & Saturday October 9 & 10 American Legion Hall 826 W. Main Cottage Grove, OR 10:00 a.m. to 4 p.m. since 1889 W orship D irectory 6th & Gibbs Church of Christ 195 N. 6th St. • 541-942-3822 Pastor: Aaron Earlywine Youth & Families Pastor: Seth Bailey Services: 9am and 10:30am Christian Education Nursery for pre-k - 3rd Grade www.6thandgibbs.com Calvary Baptist Church 77873 S 6th St • 541-942-4290 Pastor: Riley Hendricks Sunday School: 9:45am Worship: 11:00am The Journey: Sunday 5:00pm Praying Thru Life: Wednesday 6:00pm Calvary Chapel Cottage Grove 1447 Hwy 99 (Village Plaza) 541-942-6842 Pastor: Jeff Smith Two Services on Sun: 9am & 10:45am Wednesday Service 6:45 pm Child Care 10:45am Service Only Youth Group Bible Study: Wed. 6:45 pm & Sat. 6 pm www.cgcalvary.org Cottage Grove Bible Church 1200 East Quincy Avenue 541-942-4771 Pastor:Bob Singer Worship 8:30am, 11am Sunday School:9:45am YouthGroup Mondays 6:30pm AWANA age 3-8th Grade, Wednesdays Sept-May, 6:30pm www.cgbible.org Cottage Grove Faith Center 33761 Row River Rd. • 541-942-4851 Lead Pastor: Isaac Hovet www.cg4.tv 2 Sunday Services: 9am & 11am Full Childrenʼs Ministry available Covered Bridge Nazarene Church 152 S. M St. 541-942-4422 Pastor: Cindy Slaymaker Sunday School: 9:30am Worship 10:30am Delight Valley Church of Christ Center for Spiritual Living Cottage 33087 Saginaw Rd. East 541-942-7711 Grove Pastor: Bob Friend 700 Gibbs Ave (Community Center) Two Services: Rev. Bobby Lee Meets Sunday 3:00 p.m. 9am - Classic in the Chapel 10:30am - Contemporary in the Info: 541-767-0182 (Mrs. “T”) Auditorium Church of Christ First Baptist Church 420 Monroe St • 541-942-8565 301 S 6th St 541-942-8242 Sunday Service: 10:30am Pastor: Steve Johnson Sunday School: 9:30am Worship: 11:00am Come Worship with us First Presbyterian Church 3rd and Adams St • 541-942-4479 Pastor: Rev. Bruce Cameron Worship: 10:00am Sunday School: 10:00am www.cgpresbynews.com Old Time Gospel Fellowship 103 S. 5th Street • 541-942-4999 Pastor: Herb Carson Sunday Service: 10:00am Sunday Bible Study: 6:00pm We sing the old time hymns. Grove Community Church 77820 Mosby Creek Rd. Cottage Grove, OR 97424 541-942-0123 Pastor: Bryan Parsons Worship: 10:30 a.m. Nursery: Infant - Pre-K Kidʼs Church: K to 5th grade Our Lady of Perpetual Help and St. Philip Benizi Catholic Churches 1025 N. 19th St. 541-942-3420 / 541-942-4712 Pastor: Roy L. Antunez, S.J. Euch. Liturgies; Sat. 5:30pm Sun. 10:30am St. Philip Benizi, Creswell: 552 Holbrock Lane • 541-895-8686 Sunday: 8:30am Hope Fellowship United Pentecostal Church 100 S. Gateway Blvd. • 541-942-2061 Pastor: Dave Bragg Worship: 11:00am Sunday Bible Study: 7:00pm Wednesday www.hopefellowshipupc.com “FINDING HOPE IN YOUR LIFE” Living Faith Assembly 467 S. 10th St. • 541-942-2612 Pastor Rulon Combs Sunday School All Ages 9am Worship & Childrenʼs Church 10:30 am “The Bridge” Sat Evening Service 6:00pm Youth 180 Mondays 5:30-8pm Childrenʼs Breakout Class: Wed. 6:30pm Non-Denominational Church of Christ 1041 Pennoyer Ave * 541-767-0447 Preachers: Tony Martin & Robert Evans Sunday Bible Study:10:00am Sunday Worship:10:50am & 5:30pm www.pennoyeravecoc.com St. Andrews Episcopal Church 1301 W. Main • 541-767-9050 Rev. Lawrence Crumb “Church with the ﬂ ags.” Worship: Sunday 10:30am All Welcome Seventh-day Adventist Church 820 South 10th Street 541-942-5213 Pastor: Kevin Miller Bible Study: Saturday, 9:15 am Worship Service: Saturday, 10:40 am Mid-week Service: Wednesday, 1:00 pm Trinity Lutheran Church 6th & Quincy • 541-942-2373 Pastor: James L. Markus Sunday School & Adult Education 9:15am Sundway Worship 10:30 am Comm. Kitchen Free Meal Tue & Thur 5:00pm TLC Groups trinitylutherancottagegrove.com United Methodist Church 334 Washington • 541-942-3033 Pastor:Lura Kidner-Miesen Worship: 10:30am Adult Sunday School: 9:30am Comm. Dinner (Adults $5, Kids Free) 2nd & 3rd Monday 5-6:00pm cottagegroveumc.org “VICTORY” Country Church 913 S. 6th Street • 541-942-5913 Pastor: Barbara Dockery Worship Service: 10:00am Message: 11:00am “WE BELIEVE IN MIRACLES” Our Worship Directory is a weekly feature in the newspaper. If your congregation would like to be a part of this directory, please contact the Cottage Grove Sentinel at 541-942-3325.