MONTANA

August 2015

A Monthly Publication for Folks 50 and Better

Animal rescuer
Snowcloud shepherds
Holistic medicine in central Montana
More than your average Joe

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Savvy Senior.............................................Page 3
Opinion.....................................................Page 4
Book..........................................................Page 5
Big Sky Birding........................................Page 16

Volunteering..............................................Page 19
Calendar....................................................Page 21
Strange but True........................................Page 22

News Lite
Hiker climbs tree to escape coyotes
and gets stuck for five hours

MANCHESTER, N.J. (AP) A hiker trying to escape from

coyotes in a wooded area of southern New Jersey has gotten
stuck in a tree for nearly five hours.
The Asbury Park Press says Manchester Township police found
April Lewis tied to a tree about 15 feet off the ground early in the
day July 27.
The Quakertown, Pennsylvania, resident thought she had spotted coyotes in the distance and climbed the tree for safety. Lewis
cut off a piece of her pants to tie herself to the tree but didnt
have her cellphone to call for help.
A man heard Lewis cries and called police.
Officers found Lewis. Firefighters helped her down from the
tree. She was evaluated at the scene and was released.

Idaho cyclist sparks fire by burning

used toilet paper, BLM says

BOISE, Idaho (AP) Authorities say a cyclist started a

73-acre wildfire in southwest Idaho by lighting his toilet paper on
fire after taking a comfort break.
U.S. Bureau of Land Management officials say the cyclist
stopped to defecate in a ravine in the Boise foothills recently.
The man then lit the toilet paper on fire but lost control of
the embers in the dry grass while trying to extinguish the
waste.
Firefighters contained the flames several hours later.
Investigators say the man contacted them and his story matched
the evidence found at the scene.
The BLM did not release the name of the cyclist. However,
officials say he will be fined for causing the fire.

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Jim Miller, creator of the syndicated Savvy

Senior information column, is a longtime
advocate of senior issues. He has been featured in
Time magazine; is author of The Savvy Senior:
The Ultimate Guide to Health, Family and
Finances for Senior Citizens; and is a regular
contributor to the NBC Today show.

How to Reduce Your Medication Costs

Dear Savvy Senior,
Can you recommend any tips to help me save on my medication costs? I currently take five different prescription medications that are very expensive even with insurance.
Searching Susan

Dear Susan,
There are actually a variety of ways you can reduce your outof-pocket medication expenses without sacrificing quality. Here
are a few strategies that can help, whether you are covered by
employer-based health insurance, a health plan on the individual marketplace, or a private Medicare Part D drug policy.

Know your insurance formulary rules:

Most drug plans today have formularies (a list of medications

they cover) that place drugs into different tiers. Drugs in each
tier have a different cost. A drug in a lower tier will generally
cost you less than a drug in a higher tier, and higher tier drugs
may require you to get permission or try another medication
first before you can use it.

To get a copy of your plans formulary, visit your drug plans

website or call the 800 number on the back of your insurance
card. Once you have this information, share it with your doctor
so, if possible, he or she can prescribe you medications in the
lower-cost tiers. Or, they can help you get coverage approval
from your insurer if you need a more expensive drug.

You also need to find out if your drug plan offers preferred
pharmacies or offers a mail-order service. Buying your meds
from these sources can save you some money too.

Switch to generics:

Ask your doctor or pharmacist if the medications youre taking are available in a generic form or a less expensive brandname drug. About 75 percent of all premium drugs on the market today have a lower-cost alternative. Switching could save
you between 20 and 90 percent.

Pay for generics yourself:

Most generic medications cost less if you dont use your

insurance. For example, chains like Target and Walmart offer
discount-drug programs (these programs will not work in conjunction with your insurance) that sell generics for as little as

$4 for a 30-day supply and $10 for a 90-day supply, while some
insurance companies charge a $10 co-payment for a 30-day
supply.

Ask your pharmacy if they offer a discount-drug program and

compare costs with your insurance plan. You can also find free
drug discount cards online at sites like NeedyMeds.org, which
can be used at most U.S. pharmacies.

Split your pills:

Ask your doctor if the pills youre taking can be cut in half.
Pill splitting allows you to get two months worth of medicine
for the price of one. If you do this, youll need to get a prescription from your doctor for twice the dosage you need.

Try over-the-counter drugs:

Ask your doctor if a nonprescription medication could work

as effectively as a more expensive prescription drug. Many
over-the-counter drugs for common conditions such as painrelievers, allergy medications, anti-fungals and cold-and-cough
medicines were once prescription only. But be aware that if you
have a flexible spending account or a health savings account,
youll need to get a doctors prescription for the over-the-counter drugs (except insulin) to get reimbursed.

Shop around:

Drug prices can vary widely from drugstore to drugstore, so

its definitely worth your time to compare prices at different
pharmacies. To do this useGoodRX.com, a Web tool that lets
you can find prices on all brand name and generic drugs at virtually every U.S. pharmacy.

Search for drug assistance programs:

If your income is limited, you can probably get help through

drug assistance programs offered through pharmaceutical companies, government agencies and charitable organizations. To
find these types of programs useBenefitsCheckUp.org, a comprehensive website that lets you locate the programs youre eligible for, and will show you how to apply.
Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443,
Norman, OK 73070, or visitSavvySenior.org.
August 2015

Opinion

A first: summer vacation without the kids

have at least on of them along on our
annual summer excursions.
The long drive across the ribbon of
Interstate 94 over the plains of eastern
Montana and North Dakota, the potholelake terrain of Minnesota and the green
hills of Wisconsin might seem be a little
longer this year.
But maybe not.
Maybe one of the upsides of the kids
leaving home is cultivating more time with
your spouse. When youre busy raising

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August 2015

MONTANA

There are a number of events that mark

the passage of time in our lives, but heres
one you dont hear much about: taking the
first summer vacation without any of the
kids.
Our kids have been trickling out of the
home for years, but now the last one is
out, with a year of college already under
her belt.
As my wife and I prepare to go to the
Chicago area to visit our children this
month, its a bit of an odd sensation to not

kids, caught up in the hectic world of getting kids to events, trying to teach them a
modicum of responsibility and helping
them deal with high school issues, time
with your spouse is not easily found or
youre too tired to find it.
Well miss the groans in the back seat of
the van this summer about how long the
trip is taking, but yeah, I think therell be
an upside to it all.
Dwight Harriman
Montana Best Times Editor

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August 2015

Allison Campbell to the rescue

Miles City woman helps save everything from pelicans to squirrels

MT Best Times photos by Steve Allison

Above and on the cover: Allison Campbell does a final check on a mother owl in the safety of her home before placing the bird
in a carrier and taking it to release where she found it.

By Amorette Allison

Montana Best Times

MILES CITY Allison Campbell is

like a lot of people. She likes animals
and has pets. Some of the pets are unusual, and some of the pets arent really pets
they are creatures like screech owls
and peregrine falcons that Campbell rescues and helps care for. Born in Helena,
Campbell, 51, moved to Miles City as a
child and grew up in eastern Montana,
visiting the family farm at Kinsey and
the ranch near Jordan. While she was
around animals a lot, her years in 4-H
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were spent mostly working on cooking,

sewing and craft projects hobbies she
still pursues when she has time between
rescues.
After graduating from Custer County
District High School, Campbell attended
Eastern Montana College in Billings
now Montana State University-Billings
for a masters degree in rehabilitation.
She now works at the Eastern Montana
Community Mental Health Center.
It was through her work with children
at the center that she found herself getting involved in more than human rehabilitation. In 1996, after some children

found a litter of kittens someone had

thrown into the river, Campbell took the
kids to East Main Animal Clinic and Dr.
Jean Lindley, and saving the kittens was
the beginning of a long line of rescued
animals for Campbell.
Campbell is licensed through the Montana Raptor Center in Bozeman to rescue
and care for a wide assortment of birds.
In addition, she works with a Billings
waterfowl center in Billings to care for
other birds. She is also licensed through
state agencies to care for certain other
animals.

What she does is amazing. ... She is always there,

and her help has been invaluable.
Jack Austin, Fish Wildlife and Parks Region 7 warden

Rescuing Snappy

Before heading out to release a pair of

screech owls, Campbell checks on one of
the squirrels she is taking care of. Allison
was on the verge of having it put down
but it finally showed signs of getting better and was starting to move his back
legs and tail on its own.

Campbell has rescued birds from all

over eastern Montana and into North
Dakota. And she has had quite a menagerie over the years.
One of her most memorable was
Snappy, a one-winged pelican. Snappy
broke a wing and was seen walking down
a road in Miles City past the BLM
regional headquarters. BLM employees
got in touch with Campbell, who rescued
the bird, a story that made national news.
Campbell has learned lots about pelicans. For example, pelicans bite. Hence
Snappys name. They also go through 5
to 10 pounds of fish every couple of days.
In addition to liking lots of food, they
also like lots of attention and will bite
you if you try to ignore them.
And then there is the smell ... lets just
say that Campbell was never a fan of fish
before encountering her pelican friends,
but now she really dislikes it.
What Campbell does in many cases
including for Snappy and the other two
pelicans for whom she has cared, along
with the owls, eagles and falcons that
pass through her hands is provide critical medical care.

Campbell releases a mother owl and her baby at the same time. They flew off together to a nearby tree to check out their surroundings.

I couldnt do it if it wasnt for Jean

Lindley and East Main, says Campbell.
Jean is amazing, dealing with all sorts of
animals.
The Miles City Police Department also
depends on Campbell for rescuing injured
animals, from baby squirrels that have
fallen out of their nests to bunny rabbits
that have been abused to assorted baby
birds.
What she does is amazing, said Jack
Austin, Fish, Wildlife and Parks Region 7
warden. He praises her timeless dedication, saying, She is always there, and
her help has been invaluable.

Beyond birds

After the animals are out of medical

danger, Campbell starts on finding a
home for them, be they one-winged pelicans or one-eared rabbits. The homes
could be at a zoo or other licensed facility, or, if its a domestic animal, at a private home. Snappy, for instance, ended
up in Florida facility. Campbell makes
phone calls, appeals on Facebook and
other Internet sites, and arranges road and
plane trips to get animals where they
need to go.
She has taken a few of the trips herself.
During Hurricane Katrina, Campbell was
a Federal Disaster Team volunteer and
spent some time in New Orleans, bringing back a dog to add to her collection.
Her own pets include several cats
one who is blind and two that have malformed legs. That doesnt stop the cats
from demanding attention from visitors
and helping care for some of Campbells
rescues, giving bunnies and squirrels
tongue baths as they would their own kittens.
Campbell has learned about everything
from calcium deficiency in squirrels to
how to deal with beak lice in pelicans.
And when someone calls and says, I
have a porcupine on my back porch. Is it
yours? she knows how to respond.
Amorette Allison may be reached at
mcreporter@midrivers.com or (406)
234-0450.
August 2015

Livingston
man raises

snowcloud
shepherds
MT Best Times photos by Hunter DAntuono

Phil Burgins flop-eared snowcloud shepherd puppy hangs out with a toy at Burgins Livingston home, recently.

By Samantha Cheney

Montana Best Times

LIVINGSTON On top of a hill on a

warm day in Livingston, Phil Burgin
answers the gate, as a white German shepherd puppy with a flopped-over ear hides
behind his leg. She immediately scurries
away as visitors enter the gate.
If she doesnt know you, shell assume
she doesnt want to (know you), and
leave, Burgin said before sitting down.
The shy puppy is a snowcloud shepherd,
a type of German shepherd that Burgin,
67, breeds and raises through Burgin
Snowcloud Shepherds. Hes been doing it
since only 2007, but his care for the animals would make you think he has had
them all of his life.

Getting to Montana

Burgin was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1948. His father raised dogs for
much of his young life, and Burgin learned
about the animals from watching him.
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The younger Burgin started getting the

urge to raise snowclouds after seeing their
white, furry faces in Field and Stream
magazine ads.
I always thought the dogs were so
beautiful, Burgin said. I knew I wanted
one someday.
Burgin moved out of Arkansas to enter
the Marine Corps and was sent to boot camp
in San Diego, and then to South Carolina.
He went back to California after his military service, taking odd jobs. In 1972, he
joined a crew for a movie set in Roundup,
Montana, as a carpenter. He realized after
working in Montana he loved the state
even though his first winter was colder
than anything he had ever experienced.
I was wondering why everyone was
putting plastic on their windows for winter. That year I swear it got to 60 below,
Burgin laughed. That next year, I put
plastic on my windows.
Throughout the years, Burgin moved
between California and Montana, finally
settling in Livingston after friends helped

him get a job with the railroad. During that

time, he never stopped thinking about
those white German shepherds he saw as a
kid.

Raising snowclouds

In 1972, he began asking for snowcloud

breeding rights from Alice Horton, at that
time the only snowcloud breeder in the
country, Burgin said.
Initially, she would not allow him the
rights because of the exclusivity of the
breed they were famous Burgin
said.
Horton received some of the highest
pedigree honors from the American Kennel Club. Her predecessor, Dorthy Crider,
had the White Shadow Line, which was in
movies and TV shows like The Mickey
Mouse Club.
These dogs were original ones to be
called snowcloud because of their distinct white fur and black noses, although
some of the dogs still end up being the
traditional black, tan or red color.

Burgin is pictured with Sugar, one of his female snowcloud shepherds, at his home in Livingston.
Burgin was persistent and kept in contact with Horton throughout the years. He
moved into his current home and, after
over 30 years of seeking the rights, he was
successful in 2007 and purchased two
snowclouds Bear and Isi.
Burgin has since retired the two dogs
but sent them to good homes. He has
picked up four more snowcloud shepherds three females and one male: Tink,

Shiloh, Sugar and Kato. He bought more

females than males to keep them from getting birth fatigue, he said. Like his old
dogs, he will also retire these after they get
too old or have had enough litters.
The shy puppy was the last remaining
dog in her litter. She was 9 weeks old and,
although Burgin wanted to keep her, he
knew he couldnt.
I put pretty much everything I have

back into the dogs, Burgin said.

Someday he might get a larger piece of
land but will continue to stay in Livingston
for the mountains and his dogs, Burgin said.
I want to keep doing this for the rest of
my life, he smiled as he cuddled the flopeared puppy.
Samantha Cheney may be reached at
scheney@livent.net or (406) 222-2000.
August 2015

There must be another way

Woman a forerunner in holistic medicine
for her central Montana community
By Katherine Aznoe
Montana Best Times

LEWISTOWN Jeanene Pangburn

did not make a career in the health field;
instead she worked as a bookkeeper for
various businesses around the central
Montana area. Originally from Jordan,
Pangburn helped her husband with raising cattle.
But when her doctor told her in October last year that she had Stage 4 kidney
failure, something alighted in Pangburn,
and she began a search that led to a passion for holistic medicine.
My doctor told me there was no way
to fix it or reverse the effects, but I
thought, Youre wrong, she said.
There must be another way.
With that, Pangburn began her search
for another way, which has yet to find
an end.
I became interested in essential oils
after visiting a friends house who
worked with essential oils. I have
learned so much about my body and
what affects it it is amazing, Pangburn said.
Pangburn has had numerous back surgeries, which have left her in a great
deal of pain, but she continues on.
A few weeks ago I had to go to Billings for a doctors appointment. It was
so hot down there. I found when I got to
the doctors office I was hot, stressed
and nervous. I knew that my blood pressure would be through the roof. So I put
a little bit of an essential oil on my wrist
and noticed it really helped me calm
down. When they took my blood pressure it was the lowest it has ever been,
Pangburn said.

Raising awareness

Photo by Katherine Aznoe

Jeanene Pangburn reviews an essential oils guide on emotional benefits of different oils.
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Since Pangburn first became interested in essential oils, she has raised
awareness in the community, distributing information and inviting community
members to classes to learn more about
them.

A class on July 7 focused on using

holistic medicine on animals. According to
Pangburn, holistic medicine can be beneficial not only animal health, but also help
with the anxiety animals experience.
My daughter Clarene has a horse that
threw her a while ago, Pangburn said.
She woke up on the other side of the
fence and had been out for a while. I think
the horse was just as traumatized as my
daughter was.
Pangburn began flipping through a book
of essential oils, relating their physical
effects to their emotional effects.
Most people get into essential oils to
help combat symptoms, Pangburn said.
When we test for low levels of bio-indicators, people wont always find a physical ailment they have which that oil
soothes. But as soon as they look at the
emotional side, their eyes light up.
Emotional healing is just as important to
Pangburn as physical healing.
People hold in so much hurt and anger
over things that have happened. Once we
learn to work through that, our heart heals.
That cant hurt you physically, she said.
However, Pangburn does not discount
the use of Western medicine.
I think my doctor was right, Pangburn
said. I cant reverse the effects of the kid-

ney failure, but I can keep it at the present

status. Besides essential oils there are a lot
of things I do. I drink a lot of water, no salt
or sugar, and focus on keeping low blood
pressure.

Providing healthy options

In 2011 Pangburn was visiting her
daughter out of town when her daughter
picked up a Bountiful Basket.
Bountiful Basket is a cooperative that
provides a basket of fruit and vegetables at
a low cost, with an organic option as well.
The cooperative also sells holiday packs
and organic bread. The co-op system is
volunteer run in each community.
I had no idea what she was talking
about, but as soon as I saw what it was, I
just thought, I want this in my town, Pangburn said. I figured that if I wanted
those choices, others would as well, she
said.
With that, Pangburn began looking into
what it takes to have a Bountiful Basket
site in a community.
I started talking to others and found out
we had to go to another site for training in
how the company wants things done. So, I
had to be in Ryegate one day at 5 a.m. to
receive the training.

News Lite
Former 41-pound fat cat slims down

DALLAS (AP) A former 41-pound cat dubbed Skinny has

lost more than half of his weight to become the darling of a Dallas
veterinary clinic.
Dr. Brittney Barton says the orange tabby she adopted in 2013 has
slimmed to 19 pounds with exercise and a special diet. Barton calls
Skinny the resident cat at her practice, HEAL Veterinary Hospital.
Barton said Skinny spends weekdays roaming the clinic. The exfat cats weekends are spent at home with Barton and her family.
The vet says Skinny, who was found abandoned near Dallas in
2012 and ended up at a shelter, just had his annual checkup and
hes healthy.

Putrid-smelling flower attracts large crowds

BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) Officials with UC Berkeleys

botanical garden say the garden had its busiest day in more than a
decade as people flocked to get a whiff of the corpse flower, a
plant known for its pungent odor.
KPIX-TV reports that the Sumatran titan arum nicknamed Trudy came into full bloom July 26 and brought out about 1,000 visitors. The garden wrote on Twitter that the plant would only be
smelly on July 26 and would begin to go limp July 27.
Associate director for visitors services Jonathan Goodrich says
Trudy started to open and was flowering when garden officials left
for the day on July 25. By the next day, the plant had run its course.
Goodrich says the large plants smell is similar to dirty socks
wrapped around a rotting steak.

After training, Pangburn was given a

call on Labor Day letting her know that
her site was up and running and it was
time to sell baskets.
The notice was so short, so I hopped on
my email and started talking to everyone I
know in the area. My first two sales were
to people in Jordan, Pangburn said.
After that, the Bountiful Basket program
in Lewistown grew. At one time, five different sites were up and running, with over
400 baskets distributed per week. The program now has two sites in Lewistown,
with about 70 baskets distributed.
I helped various sites get up and running and then handed the reins over to
others, Pangburn said. I wanted to
make a difference in our community. I
also held workshops to increase efficiency of distribution and sales. It takes a lot
of work, for little personal reward. But
the two sites are holding strong and are
very popular.
Besides Pangburns passion for health
and wellness in rural communities, she
also volunteers at organizations across
town, donating her expertise and time.
Katherine Aznoe may be reached at
reporter1@lewistownnews.com or (406)
535-3401.

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More than your average Joe

Dillons Joe Carroll keeps active, in part,
by keeping World War II memories alive
By M.P. Regan
Montana Best Times

DILLON Joe Carroll and Larry

Chambers have known each other for
more than a half-century and lived for 25
years in the same small town of Dillon.
But a chance meeting between the two
on Memorial Day 2014 forced Chambers
to recognize that he hadnt known one of
the key facts of Carrolls life and, at the
same time, that he knew his neighbor far
better than he realized.
I ran around the country telling the
story about a World War II German pilot
who lets a B-17 from the 379th Bomb
Group thats all shot up fly back to England. Its a story of compassion and something you dont often see in war, said
Chambers of the talk hes given to numerous groups about a U.S. flight crew on its
first mission in a B-17 bomber that got so
badly damaged it never flew again, forcing its crew to switch to a new plane
named Carol Dawn.
So I came home, and lo and behold, in
my own town I see my old friend Joe Carroll wearing a 379th Bomber flight jacket, recalled Chambers. I said, Joe, did
you fly in the 379th?
Carroll told his old friend that not only
had he flown dozens of missions while
serving in the 379th during World War II,
but that six of those missions had been
flown in the Carol Dawn, the plane that
featured prominently in the talk Chambers
had been delivering to audiences for
years.
Larry didnt realize I was part of the
379th until he saw me walking down the
street with my flight jacket on last Memorial Day, agreed Carroll.
It was just a pure coincidence, nodded Chambers, who met Joe Carroll in
1964 in the Big Hole Valley, where Chambers had gone to hunt elk with his father,
a guiding client of Carrolls on a previous
hunting trip in the area.
Here, Ive devoted so much of my life
to this particular bomb group and it turns
out an old friend and neighbor flew in that
very bomb group and in that plane,
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MT Best Times photo by M.P. Regan

Joe Carroll, 92, is pictured beneath a model of the B-17 airplane in which he flew
on dozens of missions during World War II, an experience he shares with people
through his writing andthrough presentations delivered around Montana as part
of hisstill vigorous life.

Carol Dawn, smiled Chambers. After

that, I incorporated Joes story into my
talk.
Chambers also incorporated Joe Carroll
himself into a half-dozen of his talks over
the past year, including ones at the local
VFW and Kiwanis Club, the Beaverhead
County Museum and attendees of the
2015 Montana Aviation Conference in
February in Missoula.
I developed this talk, initially for kids,
so I could go to schools and let children
know about the sacrifices for them made
by men like Joe Carroll, commented
Chambers, who said many schoolchildren
today seem only vaguely aware of World
War II and how profoundly different our
lives would still be had the U.S.-led
Allied forces not triumphed over the fascists. And Chambers said that almost none
of the school kids knew before hearing his
presentation on how critical a role American bomber crews played in turning the
tide of the war in Europe, most of which
had been taken over in the late 1930s and

early 1940s by Nazi Germany and Adolph

Hitler.
A lot of people now look upon World
War II as a picnic, something we won easily. Fifty million people died in that war,
declared Chambers of the conflict that
claimed over 400,000 Americans lives.
We came out of the Great Depression
and men like Joe Carroll gave their time
and lives so we could live our lives like
we do today, said Chambers. We were
all in, because of men like Joe Carroll.

Still all in on life

Now 92 years old, Carroll continues to

lead a full, wide-ranging life. In addition
to making presentations with Chambers,
he plays pinochle three days a week at the
Senior Center in Dillon.
A prolific letter writer, Carroll has also
authored a book, a memoir entitled A
While in the Wild Blue.
He drives all over town, waving and
smiling to everyone he knows in a Chrysler Sebring rarely parked in front of his

Dillon home during the day.

Joes almost always out doing something, said Chambers.
My license says I can only drive one
car, laughed Carroll, who still doesnt
need glasses or contacts to read anything
but the fine print in the phone book.
Joe is 92 years old and still sharp as a
tack. He has a girlfriend, smiled Chambers. Joe stays busy.

From the Big Hole

to the big war

Joe Carroll was kept busy most of his

youth helping tend his familys ranch in
southwest Montanas remote Big Hole
Valley. After graduating from Beaverhead
County High School in 1940, he enrolled
at Montana State University then
known as Montana State College in
Bozeman, where he was studying for a
chemistry exam when he heard the Japanese had unleashed a devastating air
attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941.

Photo courtesy of Joe Carroll

Joe Carroll, third from left in bottom row, poses with his fellow B-17crew membersat atraining base in Oklahoma in July
1943before heading to Europe to join the fight in World War II.
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Joe enlisted in the U.S. Army Corps as

an aviation cadet. Originally set on
becoming a pilot, Carroll rerouted his
training to learn how to become an air
mechanic and gunner.
They were losing so many B-17s and
their crews, said Chambers of the Allied
air campaign over Europe, they needed
crew members more than they did pilots.
After travelling to England and receiving more training, Carroll was assigned in
1944 to an Allied air base at Kimbolton,
about 55 miles north of London, and the
379th Bomb Group. That bomb group,
according to Chambers, led the Eighth Air
Force in the number of sorties flown and
bombing accuracy, while also registering
the lowest number of aborted missions,
from May 1943 to April 1945.
During their distinguished service, the
men of the Eighth Air Force also suffered
terrible casualties. Over 23,000 of them
lost their lives in combat, more than
18,000 were wounded and about 28,000
became prisoners of war after going down
behind enemy lines.
As new crews came over to replace the
lost crews, they found that the old crews
didnt want to associate with them because
they didnt figure theyd be there very
long, said Chambers, noting that the
group lost an average of about two dozen
men per day.
The air war over Germany was like
nothing weve ever seen. We would lose
10, 20, 30 aircraft every day. It was the
largest Russian Roulette game in the
world, asserted Chambers, noting that the
U.S. lost 4600 B-17 planes during World
War II.
Carroll flew into the teeth of those odds
on his first mission on Sept. 25, 1944, to
take out a marshaling yard in Frankfurt,
Germany. Flak, exploding shells shot by
Nazi gunners from the ground pierced the
planes fuselage and both its wings.
Carrolls next mission came the next
day, this time in the Carol Dawn, to bomb
railroad yards in Osnabruck, Germany. His
third mission happened two days later,
when Carroll saw 18 of the B-17s from his
379th and the accompanying 305th Bomber Group go down in flames.
I remember thinking, Carroll recalled
of a moment during that mission when he
saw from his top gunner turret a German
Messerschmitt fighter plane coming at his
B-17, if I dont start hitting this guy, Ill
never see my home in the Big Hole
again.
As dangerous as it was to face off
against German fighter pilots and flak, just
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getting out of England proved perilous

enough.
The lead plane in the group took off
and then you had to catch up to it, said
Carroll.
You had to circle up through the fog
and find your place in the formation, continued Chambers, who said some missions
included more than 1,000 bombers. There
were many, many mid-air collisions.
Carroll experienced a mid-air collision
about four hours into his 25th mission, on
Dec. 9, 1944, when a German plane forced
another Allied B-17 into the The Silver
Dollar, the new B-17 Carrolls crew was
flying. The collision cut the other plane in
half and sent it plummeting toward the
ground so fast only two of its 10 crew
members had time to parachute to safety.
The Silver Dollar was so badly damaged
by the collision at 24,000 feet that a pair
of its crew members immediately bailed
out and the co-pilot signaled Carroll that
he was too traumatized to continue with
his duties.
Carroll jumped into the co-pilots seat
and helped the pilot, Charlie Faught,
steady the plane, which was on fire and
had lost its nose, creating a wind tunnel
through the aircraft while pushing it downward.
The windshield iced up immediately.
And so I told Charlie, in Montana when
the windshield ices up, you open up the
windows. So we opened the windows,
recalled Carroll, who managed to help the
pilot eventually bring the plane under control.
The damage to the Silver Dollar was
horrific, said Chambers, showing photos
taken of the wounded aircraft.
One wing was chewed up. Its nose was
gone. And it has a full load of fuel and a
full bomb load. It was a time bomb. They
could have exploded at any second, added Chambers.
The only way they could turn it was to
very carefully cut off power to one wing
and then to the other. They flew it for four
hours that way. I think its just incredible,
Joe, you got that plane down, Chambers
said to Carroll of the harrowing flight to a
Paris air field with the help of an Allied
C-47 that Carroll had spotted out his window and signaled for help.
That was the busiest day of my life. I
got up at 4 a.m. for breakfast and wound
up with a night on the town in Paris, said
Carroll, who got to spend five days in the
French capital, where he happened on two
old friends from Dillon Harry Christiansen and Joe Mansfield.

After that brief hiatus, Carroll was back

in the air. He flew 37 missions in all.
Only 36, actually, corrected Carroll.
We didnt get credit for that one with the
mid-air collision because we didnt drop
our bombs.
Eight of those missions came in the
course of just nine days during the pivotal
Battle of the Bulge, a surprise German
counteroffensive during the winter of
1944-45 that almost broke through the
Allied Western front, a breach that could
have prolonged the war indefinitely.
They saved the men at the Battle of the
Bulge, said Chambers of Carroll and his
fellow Allied airmen.
Carroll and the others helped save more
than that.
Thank you for preserving our freedom! one attendee shouted to Joe at the
end of a presentation by Carroll and
Chambers at the 2015 Montana Aviation
Conference held February in Missoula.

Onward and upward

Chambers and Carroll plan to continue

giving their presentation to interested
groups.
Well keep this song and dance team
going because its fun, and its important
for people to understand the sacrifices
made by our military personnel in World
War II, said Chambers. This country
was made great by men like Joe. He is
simply the bravest man I ever met.
A few years ago, Carroll began another
project to preserve and share his memories
of World War II his A While in the
Wild Blue memoir, which was published
in 2014.
A lot of people had been urging me to
write a book. But I figured if I did, people would realize I couldnt spell,
laughed Carroll, who began compiling
the stories that eventually turned into the
book while taking a writing class several
years ago at Idaho State University in
Pocatello.
Its been a long time since these events
occurred, writes Carroll in the conclusion
of the book he credits his son Bill with
helping him complete. Like all war veterans, the memories are still with you. Dormant for years, then suddenly, they return.
In one of the closing lines of the book,
Carroll dedicates the work to those who
didnt make it back from the war: I will
never forget those who did not return.
M.P. Regan may be reached at mregan@dillontribune.com or (406) 6832331.

Families face
tough decisions
as cost of elder
care soars
By Matthew Craft
AP Business Writer

NEW YORK (AP) Doris Ranzman had followed the expert

advice, planning ahead in case she wound up unable to care for
herself one day. But when a nursing-home bill tops $14,000 a
month, the best-laid plans get tossed aside.
Even with insurance and her Social Security check, Ranzman
still had to come up with around $4,000 every month to cover her
care in the Amsterdam Nursing Home in Manhattan. An awful
situation, said her daughter, Sharon Goldblum.
Like others faced with the stunning cost of elderly care in the
U.S., Goldblum did the math and realized that her mother could
easily outlive her savings. So she pulled her out of the home.
For the two-thirds of Americans over 65 who are expected to
need some long-term care, the costs are increasingly beyond
reach. The cost of staying in a nursing home has climbed at twice
the rate of overall inflation over the last five years, according to
the insurer Genworth Financial. One year in a private room now
runs a median $91,000 a year, while one year of visits from
home-health aides runs $45,760.
Goldblum estimates that she and her mother spent at least
$300,000 over the last two years for care that insurance didnt
cover.
If you have any money, youre going to use all of that money, Goldblum said. Just watch how fast it goes.
How do people manage the widening gap between their savings and the high cost of caring for the elderly? Medicare doesnt
cover long-term stays, so a large swath of elderly people wind up
on the governments health insurance program for the poor, Medicaid. For those solidly in the middle class, however, the answer
isnt so simple. They have too much money to apply for Medicaid
but not enough to cover the typical three years of care.
Some 60 percent of Americans nearing retirement those
between the ages of 55 and 64 have retirement accounts,
according to the Employee Benefit Research Institute. The median balance is $104,000.
Combined with other savings and income, that amount might
provide some retirees with all they need for decades. But everything changes when, for instance, an aging father struggling
with dementia requires more help than his wife and children can
manage. Plans that looked solid on paper are no match for their
bills.
Within the first year most people are tapped out, said Joe
Caldwell, director of long-term services at the National Council on

Aging. Middle-class families just arent prepared for these costs.

Many who can afford it buy insurance to help pay for longterm care years in advance, when insurers are less likely to reject
them. But even those with insurance, like Ranzman, come up
short. Forced to improvise, they sell the house and lean on family.
They move in with their adult children, or arrange for their children to move in with them.
Some can save money by switching to different facilities. On
average, a shared room in a nursing home runs nearly $11,000 a
year less than a private room, and a room in an adult-family home
runs cheaper still.
Still, theres not a lot of room for creativity, said Liz Taylor, a
self-employed geriatric care manager in Lopez Island, Washington. The amount of care you need dictates the price, she said,
and there arent that many ways around it.
Hiring an aide to spend the day with an elderly parent living at
home is often the cheapest option, with aides paid $20 an hour in
some parts of the country. But hiring them to work around the
clock is often the most expensive, Taylor said. Needing help to
get out of bed to use the bathroom in the middle of the night
means you need a nursing home, she said.
Greg Crist, a spokesman for the American Health Care Association, the countrys largest trade group for nursing homes, said
many of the same trends driving health care costs higher have
pushed up nursing home bills. Americans are living longer
though not always healthier, he said, so residents are more likely
to arrive with chronic ailments that require more attention. Facilities have also expanded the range of services they offer.
The cost is an element that may seem overwhelming at first,
Crist said, but when you consider all the services 24 hours,
seven-days-a-week care, with full room and board -- it sheds
some light on it.
See Tough decisions, Page 20
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Birding
Terry McEneaney is ornithologist emeritus for Yellowstone National Park, and is the author of three books: Birding Montana, Birds of
Yellowstone, and The Uncommon Loon. He has been watching birds for 50 years and is one of Montanas most experienced birders.

Proof positive: Trumpeter Swans can dive

EDITORS NOTE:
Montana Best Times
has been featuring
some of the fascinating adventures Terry
McEneaney had
when he was Yellowstone National
Parks ornithologist.
Following is another
excerpt from a new
book he is writing, Lucky Feathers:
Adventures and Experiences of a Yellowstone Ornithologist.
Waterfowl or wildfowl belong to the
order of birds called Anseriformes. The
Anseriformes comprise about 169 living
species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (the screamers: 3 species), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose: 1 species), and
Anatidae, the largest family, which
includes approximately 165 species of
waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese
and swans.
Most people realize some species of
ducks can dive. Examples of this would
include the likes of Canvasback (Aythya
valiscineria) or Barrows (Bucephala
islandica) and Common Goldeneye (B.
clangula). But what about geese and swans
can they dive?
The simple answer to this question is
no, not normally. What I am about to present is evidence based on field experience
that large-bodied geese and in fact largebodied swans as well can and do dive on
occasion.

Understanding the physiology

In order to understand this point of

large-bodied wildfowl (geese and swans)
diving, one has to understand the physiological/morphological aspects of waterfowl ecology. All wildfowl of the family
Anatidae (with few exceptions, namely the
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Photo by Terry McEneaney

Above is a rare photo of a Trumpeter Swan surfacing after a dive. Swans go

through simultaneous molt during the hottest months of the year, leaving them
completely flightless and vulnerable. Although diving in swans is considered quite a
rare event, it is the only viable option to escape predators during this most dangerous time of survival on the water.
primitive genera Anseranas and Chloephaga) molt their flight feathers simultaneously, and therefore become completely
flightless for a short period of time. This
flightless period of feather molting coincides most often with the warmest time of
the year in Montana that usually is in
the months of July and August.
It takes on average about three to four
weeks for ducks and four to six weeks for
geese/swans to shed worn flight feathers
and regrow new flight feathers (primaries
and secondaries) to regain sustained flight
once again. Physiologically speaking, the
feather molting period is a very tiring and
stressful time for waterfowl. Therefore,
molting wildfowl seek out either largebodies of water free of disturbance in

which they can congregate to ward off

predators, or smaller bodies of water
where they can hide in seclusion from
predators until the simultaneous molt of
the flight feathers is completed.
If swans do not dive very often, then
where does the phrase swan dive come
from? The phrase is an anthropogenic term
describing the graceful forward dive of a
human into water.
In describing this type of forward
human dive, the arms are lifted upward,
while the back arched upright with the
head and the rear end being higher than
the arched back coupled with legs together. It is a style or show dive, and once the
style is displayed, the person drops headfirst with fingertips, arms and head going

into the water, and lastly, legs and feet trailing into the water. But
in the natural world, a rare swan dive is completely different.
Remember, swans perform this unusual maneuver primarily during the molt and only to escape predators, so a real swan dive is
nothing pretty or graceful to watch nothing like that performed
by people.

How they do it

My first encounter with swans diving occurred at Red Rock

Lakes in southwest Montana in the mid-1980s, but it has since
been observed hundreds of times in Yellowstone National Park
and throughout the greater Yellowstone area.
I learned of this rare behavior while banding/neck-collaring
Trumpeter Swans (Cygnus buccinator) in the molt. Sometimes
when we would go to catch these flightless birds, they would
escape by diving. But how can such a buoyant, large bodied species of waterfowl dive, you might ask?
The task of geese or swans diving usually involves very desperate measures such as being chased by predators and using lastminute survival skills to avoid capture. In most cases, a molting

swan has lost all primaries and secondaries, leaving much of the
wing without feathers and only exposed skin showing. This
exposed skin without downy feathers can help waterlog or submerge a swan when it is ready to dive. When a predator or human
approaches too closely to the floating swan, the swan will start
sinking in the water to become less visible, with only its head visible. Then the swan or goose will flap its wings on the water in a
downward motion, breaking the water surface or meniscus and
can actually dive deep using their large feet for propulsion.
I have witnessed them dive 20 to 30 feet deep and travel up to
100 feet horizontal distance, for 20-30 seconds at a time. They
can do this repeatedly up to 12 to 20 times, depending on how
threatened they are. In multiple dives, they surface with their
head exposed long enough to get air then dive again to escape
potential predators.
There is nothing graceful about real wild swans or geese diving, since they plummet flimsily straight down then travel horizontally underwater. These details are based on actual field observations, and present proof positive Trumpeter Swans can dive.

More short stories from Lucky Feathers: Adventures and Experiences of a Yellowstone Ornithologist, will be featured in forthcoming issues
of Montana Best Times. In the meantime, enjoy Montana birds! And the Best of Big Sky Birding to you!
Bird watching questions may be sent to Terry McEneaney by writing to 1215 Lolo St., Missoula, MT 59802; emailing terry@ravenidiot.com; or visiting
www.yellowstonewildlifeguides.com or www.ravenidiot.com. If questions are mailed, include a phone number at which you can be reached.

Profile in Fitness: Rudy Duron, 56

By Leslie Barker

The Dallas Morning News/TNS

People have told Rene Rudy Duron

that he is too obsessed with his Fitbit.
Yes, he says, he swears by it, and since
August 2013 he has tracked over 13 million steps. As a teachers aide in Flower
Mound, Texas, he logs about 14,000
before 4 p.m., he says. The rest come after
school during his walk-run workout.
So if such dedication also constitutes
obsession, oh well.
I realize that health and fitness are the
best gifts you can give yourself, says
Duron, 56, who lives in Lewisville, Texas.
Walking has turned into therapy for me
mentally, and I like that. Its not only a gift
to my body, but also to my mind.
Typical week of workouts: I do 80 percent walking and 20 percent running, and
play racquetball with my son two or three
times a week. I try to move every day.
If I had just 20 minutes to work out: I
would go to Lake Lewisville for a 20-minute walk.
Proudest fitness moment: Running has
never been my thing. Id run for two or
three minutes and stop. But about two
months ago, I said, Today is the day I
draw the line in the sand. I ran 40 min-

a mobile disc jockey, so I

have found a way to exercise and get my steps in
when Im DJing. Dancing
to the music is fun for me.
Fitness goal: To stay
healthy, look young, get into
the 170s weight-wise, and
continue to make fitness a
part of my life.
Fitness mentor: Dave
Ramsey, financial author
and motivational speaker. I
am debt-free, but he teaches
Rose Baca/Dallas Morning News/TNS) that there is a correlation to
Rudy Duron is pictured at Lewisville Lake in Lewis- winning with money and
ville, Texas, on June 9.
being healthy, and I believe
in that.
What Id tell someone
utes without stopping. It may not seem
who wants to follow my routine: Take
like a big thing to others, but to me it was
a time that I did what I said, and it gave
baby steps. After a while, exercise will be
something that your body wants and it
me confidence to know I could run a lot
wont feel like work. Your body will get
longer than three minutes.
used to being fit or being lazy; which one
Favorite healthy food: The chicken
do you want? I want fitness.
rice bowl at Chipotle. It makes me happy.
What my workout says about me: It
Favorite indulgence: A cold Coors
Light every now and then, although I have says I want to stay happy, healthy and conlearned to drink a lot more lemonade and a tinue to make this a part of my life forever.
I dont want to be 56 and look 90. I want
lot less beer.
to be 56 and I want my fitness age to be
What gets in the way of my workout:
36. I read an article that said use the world
Usually time, and not enough of it, but I
as your gym, and thats what I plan to do.
try to not let anything get in my way. I am
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On The Menu

With Jim Durfey

Be prepared for the

annual zucchini invasion
Gardeners, friends of gardeners and even
neighbors of gardeners all fear the great zucchini
invasion. All three groups will have so much
zucchini by August that theyll run out of uses for
it. It would almost be preferable to see Godzilla
invading the neighborhood than to encounter
a neighbor with an armful of zucchini at your
doorstep.
Two friends of ours used to live in Colorado.
They grew a garden one year. Their zucchini did
exceptionally well even by zucchini standards
so they were overwhelmed with the stuff. They
had so many zucchini that they set up a table with
the green veggies piled high on it by the side of an
Interstate highway.
They were able to get rid of most of it that way.
Your Best Times recipe contributor is a gardener.
He has faced the zucchini challenge over the course

Stuffed Zucchini with Ground

Venison, Tomato and Asiago Cheese
2 large zucchini from the garden, cut into 2 to 2 1/2 long
slices
3/4 c. onion, diced
1 green bell pepper, diced
2 cloves garlic, minced
4 tbsp. olive oil, divided
1 1/2 lbs. ground venison
1 tsp. dried thyme or 2 tsp. fresh thyme, chopped
2 tsp. dried oregano or 4 tsp. fresh oregano, chopped
2 tsp. salt
2 tsp. fresh ground black pepper
2 medium tomatoes, diced
1 c. low fat ricotta cheese
3/4 c. Asiago cheese, shredded
1 c. Mozzarella cheese, sliced in circles to fit over tops of
zucchini
Vegetable cooking spray

Preheat oven to 350. Saute onions and peppers in two

tablespoons olive oil on stove top for four to five minutes
until crisp tender. Add garlic and cook additional minute. Put
sauted vegetables in medium bowl. Return pan to stove top.
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of several decades. It was his

duty to mankind, he believed,
to come up with a recipe that
would put large zucchini to use.
One of the biggest problems with zucchini is its
very easy to lose track of those veggies until they
become three and four times as big as the ones
found in grocery stores. They are intimidating when
theyre 14 inches long.
The recipe below is designed to be used with
zucchini that has grown so big that it could be
considered to be a lethal weapon. The listed baking
time is just a guideline, since these veggies vary in
size and, therefore, thickness of skin.
August means sizzling hot weather. Its a good idea
to have something thats refreshing and healthy that
cools the body down and tastes great. The smoothie
recipe below will fill the bill.

Saute ground venison in two tablespoons olive oil until

browned and cooked through. Add meat to bowl. Add
remaining ingredients except last two to bowl. Stir until
thoroughly combined. With stout spoon scoop out much of
insides of zucchini to form bowls. Leave half inch on
bottoms. Dont remove so much that skin shows on inside.
Stuff meat mixture into bowls. Spray baking sheet with
vegetable cooking spray. Place in oven. Bake 20 minutes or
until skin is tender. Remove from oven. Put Mozzarella
circles on zucchini bowl tops. Turn on oven broiler. Broil two
minutes or until cheese is brown and starts to melt. Watch
carefully.

Peach Cobbler Smoothie

1 c. skim milk
1 c. yogurt
1 c. fresh or frozen sliced peaches
1 graham cracker rectangle, or 2 squares
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/2 tsp. almond flavoring

Add ingredients to blender. Process until smooth. Serve in

frosted glass.

RSVP

Below is a list of volunteer openings available through the Retired and Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) in
communities across southern Montana. To learn more about RSVP, call (800) 942-2677 or log on to www.
seniorcorps.org.

Custer & Rosebud counties

- AARP Tax Assistance program: Volunteers needed.

- Clinic Ambassador: Need volunteer to
greet patients and visitors, providing directions and more, two locations.
- Custer County Food Bank: Volunteer
assistants needed for 8 a.m.-1:30 p.m.,
Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, to
process donations, stock shelves and more.
- Custer County Sheriff Department:
Will be fingerprinting on Tuesday and
Thursdays 3-5 p.m., summer only.
- Grammas Ice Cream Shoppe: RSVP
will need help selling ice cream at the
Eastern Montana Fair August 19-22.
- Historic Miles City Academy: Urgently
need volunteers at the thrift store.
- Holy Rosary: Volunteer receptionist
needed at front desk.
- Popcorn popper: Needed one day per
week, two hours in the morning, starting
in September.
- Soup Kitchen: Volunteers needed to
greet (seated position), serve and/or prepare food.
- St. Vincent DePaul: Volunteers to assist
in several different capacities.
- VA Activities: Urgent need for someone to help with activities.
- VA Community Living Center: Volunteer with people skills needed to interview
CLC residents on a monthly basis. Must
be able to objectively ask questions, work
on a laptop while doing so, and be accurate. Select your own hours. People skills
and accuracy are important.
- WaterWorks Art Museum: Volunteer
receptionists needed, 2 hour shifts Tuesdays-Sundays; a volunteer also needed in
cataloging the art collection, one to assist
with historic research of the permanent art
collection, and a volunteer to assist in
summer kids classes.
If you are interested in these or other
volunteer opportunities please contact:
Betty Vail, RSVP Director; 210 Winchester
Ave. #225, Miles City, MT 59301; phone
(406) 234-0505; email: rsvp05@midrivers.com.

Fergus & Judith Basin counties

- America Reads: Recruiting volunteers
to read with elementary students.
- Art Center: In need of volunteers on
Saturdays.
- Community Cupboard (Food Bank):
Volunteers are needed to help any week
mornings as well as with deliveries.
- Council on Aging: Volunteers needed
to assist at the Senior Center (Grubstakes) and with home delivered meals

and senior transportation.

- Library: Volunteer help always appreciated.
- ROWL (Recycle Our Waste Lewistown): Looking for volunteers to join
teams baling recyclables
- Treasure Depot: Thrift store needs volunteers to sort, hang clothes and put other
items on display for sale.
- Always have various needs for your
skills and volunteer services in our community.
- Current RSVP volunteers are encouraged to turn in your hours each month;
your contribution to the community is
greatly appreciated!
Contact: RSVP Volunteer Coordinator
Sara Wald, 404 W. Broadway, Wells Fargo
Bank building, (upstairs), Lewistown, MT
59457; phone (406) 535-0077; email: rsvplew@midrivers.com.

Gallatin County

- American Cancer Society-Road to

Recovery: Drivers needed for patients
receiving treatments from their home to
the hospital
- American Red Cross Blood Drive: Two
volunteer opportunities available: an
ambassador needed to welcome, greet,
thank and provide overview for blood
donors; and phone team volunteers needed
to remind, recruit or thank blood donors.
Excellent customer service skills needed,
training will be provided, flexible schedule.
- Befrienders: Befriend a senior; visit on
a regular weekly basis.
- Belgrade Senior Center: Meals on
Wheels needs regular and substitute drivers MondayFriday, to deliver meals to
seniors before noon.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Be a positive
role model for only a few hours each
week.
- Bozeman and Belgrade Sacks Thrift
Stores: Need volunteers 2-3 hour shifts on
any day,MondaySaturday 9:30 a.m.6
p.m.
- Bozeman Deaconess Hospital: Volunteers needed for the information desks in
the Atrium and the Perk,8
a.m.-noon,noon- 4 p.m.
- Bozeman Senior Center Foot Clinic:
Retired or nearly retired nurses are urgently needed, 2 days a month, either 4 or 8
hour shifts.
- Galavan: Volunteer drivers neededMonday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. CDL
required and Galavan will assist you in
obtaining one. Volunteers also needed to
make reminder calls and confirm rides for

the following day.

- Gallatin Rest Home: Volunteers wanted for visiting the residents, sharing your
knowledge of a craft, playing cards or
reading to a resident.
- Gallatin Valley Food Bank: Volunteers
needed to deliver commodities to seniors
in their homes once a month. Deliveries in
Belgrade are especially needed.
- HRDC Housing Department Ready to
Rent: Curriculum for families and individuals who have rental barriers such as lack
of poor rental history, property upkeep,
renter responsibilities, landlord/tenant
communication and financial priorities.
- Habitat for Humanity Restore: Belgrade store needs volunteers for general
help, sorting donations and assisting customers.
- Heart of The Valley: Compassionate
volunteers especially needed to love, play
with and cuddle cats.
- Help Center: Computer literate volunteer interested in entering data into a social
services database. Also volunteers needed
to make phone calls to different agencies/
programs to make sure database is up to
date and make safety calls to home bound
seniors.
- Jessie Wilber Gallery at The Emerson:
Volunteers needed on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays to greet people at the
main desk, answer questions and keep
track of the number of visitors.
- Museum of the Rockies: Variety of
opportunities available such as helping in
the gift shop and more.
- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to
quilt, knit, crochet and embroider hats for
chemo patients, baby blankets and other
handmade goods once a week (can work
from home). Items are on sale in our store
in the RSVP office at the Senior Center or
on Saturday Farmers Markets until September 13. *Donated yarn needed for the
quilting, knitting and crocheting projects.
-Three Forks Food Bank:Volunteer
needed on Mondays and/orThursdaysto
help with administrative duties, including
answer phones and questions, some paper
and computer work. They will train.
- Your unique skills and interests are
needed, without making a long-term commitment, in a variety of ongoing, special,
one-time events.
Contact: Debi Casagranda, RSVP Program Coordinator, 807 N. Tracy, Bozeman, MT 59715; phone (406) 587-5444;
fax (406) 582 8499; email: dcasagranda@
thehrdc.org

See RSVP, Page 20

August 2015

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Tough Decisions, from Page 15

Evicted

To Roslyn Duffy, it seemed that her

mother, Evelyn Nappa, had everything she
needed. After a stroke made it difficult to
live alone, Nappa moved from Arizona to
Seattle to be near her daughter and soon
settled into The Stratford, an assisted-living facility, where she quickly made
friends of fellow residents and the staff.
The care was great, Duffy said. We
loved that facility.
With the sale of the house in Arizona,
Nappas savings appeared sufficient to
cover 10 years at The Stratford, enough to
last until she reached 100. Duffy said that
the homes directors told her not to worry
about her mother running out of money
and winding up on Medicaid, even though
the government program pays just a portion of what many facilities charge. After
all, many of the same homes that refuse to
admit seniors on Medicaid will keep those
who spend all their savings and wind up
on the program. We will keep her here
thats what they said, Duffy recalls.
But I didnt get that in writing.
A representative from the nursing home
declined to comment.

As Nappas dementia progressed, she

needed more attention. That meant moving her from an independent unit that cost
$3,000 a month, to a dementia unit that
cost $6,000. Trips to the emergency room,
hearing aids and other costs that Medicare
didnt cover added up. Soon enough, the
money that was supposed to last 10 years
was gone in two.
Duffy enrolled her mother in Medicaid,
confident that The Stratfords management would keep its promises.
Two months later, she received a letter
saying her mother had 30 days to find a
new home. Duffy protested, writing letters
to the management and local newspapers,
and succeeded in keeping her mother at
the Stratford for two months until social
workers helped line up an adult family
home willing to take Medicaid payments.
But the stress and the change of surroundings strained her mothers health,
Duffy said. Six weeks after moving, she
was dead.
She declined so quickly, Duffy said.
Being in familiar surroundings is hugely important for dementia patients.
Theres no doubt in my mind that the
move hastened her death. It was devas-

tating, just devastating.

tunity to learn new skills, make friends

and connect with your community.
Contact: Shelley Halvorson, South Central MT RSVP, 315 1/2 Main St., Ste. #1,
Roundup, MT 59072; phone (406) 3231403; fax (406) 323-4403; email:
rdprsvp2@midrivers.com ; Facebook:
South Central MT RSVP.

to prepare dinner meal on Wednesday

nights.
- Main Streeter Thrift Store: Someone
who enjoys working with the public, greet
customers, ring up purchases, label and
hang clothes and accept donations.
- Meals on Wheels: Always need substitute drivers to deliver meals to seniors in
their home.
- RSVP: Has many one-time events,
including mailings and fundraising events
that require volunteers.
- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to knit
and crochet caps and scarves for each
child at Head Start this winter, also as gifts
for children of prenatal classes, and baby
hats and afghans for the hospital newborns; Sewers needed to make simple pillowcases for our soldiers overseas, Thursdays, 1-2 p.m. at the Senior Center.
- Senior Center: Need volunteers, Tuesdays, 1 p.m., to cut unsold clothing into
rags to be sold for proceeds to the center.
- Stafford Animal Shelter: Kindhearted
volunteers needed to socialize cats and kittens, and to walk the dogs.
Contact: Deb Downs, Program Coordinator, 111 So. 2nd St., Livingston, MT
59047; phone (406) 222-2281; email: debdowns@rsvpmt.org

New home

Ranzmans story has a happier ending.

Her daughter pulled her out of the
Amsterdam Nursing Home and rented a
house in Smithtown, Long Island, with a
patio and a backyard full of azaleas and
trees. It was Ranzmans own space. She
had round-the-clock aides, a large window
and plenty of sunlight. Her daughter,
Goldblum, noticed that Ranzmans memory improved quickly. Her mother seemed
happier and more alert.
It was less than half the cost of a nursing home and a million times nicer,
Goldblum said. She showed such
improvement.
Goldblum paid $36,000 a year for the
house and her mothers long-term care
insurance paid the home-health aides. The
move saved around $250,000 a year in
expenses.
Whats more important to Goldblum is
that her mother seemed content when she
died in April at age 86, lying in bed and
surrounded by family. It was a wonderful
ending, she said.

RSVP, from Page 19

Musselshell, Golden Valley &

Petroleum counties
- Food Bank: Distribute food commodities to seniors and others in the community; help unload the truck as needed.
- Meals on Wheels Program: Deliver
meals to the housebound in the community, just one day a week, an hour and a half,
meal provided.
- MVH Museum: Volunteers needed to
in many capacities such as guides, maintenance, yard work, historic preservation,
board meetings, record keeping and fundraising.
- Nursing Home: Pianoplayers and singers neededon Fridays to entertain residents, alsoassistant needed in activities
for residents to enrich supported lifestyle.
- Senior Bus: Volunteers to pickup folks
who are unable to drive themselves.
- Senior Center: Volunteers are needed
to provide meals, clean up in the dining
room and/or keep records; meal provided.
- RSVP offers maximum flexibility and
choice to its volunteers as it matches the
personal interests and skills of older
Americans with opportunities to serve
their communities. You choose how and
where to serve. Volunteering is an opporAugust 2015

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Park County

- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Mentor and

positive role models to a boy or girl needed, one hour a week.
- Fix-It-Brigade: Needs volunteers of all
ages and skill levels for 2 hour tasks on
your schedule to help seniors or veterans
with small home repairs and chores, such
as changing a light bulb, mending a fence,
cleaning up a yard.
- Livingston Depot: Needs volunteers
with people skills as museum greeter and
gift shop attendant with basic math skills
through September 13. Training is provided and schedules are flexible.
- Livingston Downtown Builders Association: Needs tour guides and drivers able
to double clutch, for the Yellow Bus Tours
this summer, Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, 1 and 2 p.m., training provided.
- Loaves and Fishes:Volunteers needed

August Calendar 2015

 Saturday, August 1
Farmers Market, Saturdays through
October 10, Glendive
Fiddlers Picnic, through August 2,
Livingston
Park County Fair, last day, Park County
Fairgrounds, Livingston
Miles City Maltfest, Beer tasting, live
music, and fun, Miles City

Miles City Rotary Club Fun Run and

Pancake Breakfast, Miles City
Nevada City Living History Weekends,

10 a.m.-6 p.m., through September 27,

Lantern Tours start at 9:30 p.m., Nevada
City
Smoking Waters Mountain Man
Rendezvous, through August 9, West
Yellowstone

 Sunday, August 2
Park County Demolition Derby, Park
County Fairgrounds, Livingston
St. Timothys Summer Music Festival, 4
p.m., Sundays through August 23,
Georgetown Lake, Philipsburg

 Monday, August 3
Sweet Grass County Fair, through August
7, Big Timber

 Tuesday, August 4
Farmers Market, Tuesdays through
September 22, Bogert Park, Bozeman

 Wednesday, August 5
Farmers Market, 4:30-7:30 p.m.,
Wednesdays through August 26, Miles Park

 Thursday, August 6
Music on Main, Thursdays through

August 13, Bozeman

Livingston Hoot, all day long, Main

Street, Livingston
Historic Walking Tour of Downtown
Red Lodge, every other Thursday 5-6
p.m., through September 17, Red Lodge
Lewis and Clark Caverns State Park
Interpretive Programs, Thursdays and
Fridays, 8 p.m., through September 5,
Whitehall

 Friday, August 7
Big Sky Classical Music Festival,
through August 9, Big Sky
Sweet Pea Festival, Bozeman
Montana Island Challenge 2015,
through August 8, Lewistown
Montana Fair 100 Years of Fun,
through August 15, Billings
Farmers Market, Fridays through
September 25, Red Lodge
Rockin the Rivers, through August 9,
Three Forks
The Brewery Follies, weekends through
August 30, Virginia City

 Saturday, August 8
Plein Air Painting on the Yellowstone,
through August 15, Livingston
Nez Perce Commemoration of Battle of
the Big Hole, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Wisdom

 Thursday, August 13
Dawson County Fair-Fairgrounds,
through August 16, Glendive

 Friday, August 14
Emerson Garden and Home Tour,
through August 15, Bozeman
An Ri Ra Irish Festival, through August
16, events throughout the day, Butte

Relay For Life, 6 p.m.-Midnight, Miles

Community College Track, Miles City

Barn Players Annie the Musical, 7

p.m., CCDHS Auditorium, 20 S. Center,

Miles City

 Saturday, August 15

Barn Players Annie the Musical, 2

p.m. and 7 p.m., CCDHS Auditorium,

20 S. Center, Miles City

 Sunday, August 16

Raptor Center Family Fun Day, noon-4

p.m., Raptor Center, Bozeman

Wilsall Ranch Rodeo, Wilsall

 Tuesday, August 18
PRCA Rodeo, through August 19,

Eastern Montana Fairgrounds, Miles City

 Wednesday, August 19

Eastern Montana Fair, through August

22, Miles City

 Friday, August 28

Ennis-on-the-Madison Fly Fishing

Festival through August 29, all day

activities, Ennis

Relay for Life; 6 p.m.-midnight,

Glendive

Livingston Art Walk, 5:30 p.m.,

downtown, Livingston

Confluence Concert: Jeffrey Foucault,

Miles City

 Saturday, August 29

40th Annual Old Settler Days, through

August 30, Clyde Park

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own vision, is partnering with a company to provide better eye
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The Buy Vision, Give Sight campaign with eyewear brand
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and other assistance to the impoverished. Revo will donate $10
for each pair of eyeglasses it sells.
Bono, 55, who was diagnosed with glaucoma two decades ago,
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By Bill Sones and Rich Sones, Ph.D.

Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at strangetrue@cs.com

The

Poison on Earth

Deadliest

Q. Whats the most potent poison

known to humanity? The most venomous
animal? The snake with the most toxic
venom?
A. Most potent is the botulinum toxin,
with a lethal dose of 1 nanogram (ng) per
kilogram (kg) of body weight, says Joel
Levy in A Bee in a Cathedral and 99 Other
Scientific Analogies. To kill a person of
average weight (70 kg, or 154 lbs.) would
require a mere 70 ng, which means that a
pop can full of botulinum toxin could kill
every human on the planet!
For possibly the most venomous animal,
consider the Australian sea wasp, or box
jellyfish, each of which contains enough
poison to kill 60 humans in as little as four
minutes.
Surprisingly, the inland taipan, also
known as the fierce or small-scaled snake,
is 50 times more toxic than the king cobra.
A single bite from the inland taipan can
contain enough venom to kill 100 human
adults or up to 250,000 mice, Levy adds.
Fortunately, it is timid and docile unless
provoked.
Q. Heres one for you drinkers and
non-drinkers alike: What was James
Bond getting at with his famous vodka
martini preference: shaken, not
stirred? Is there really a taste difference
between the two?
A. Responding to this reader curiosity,
the editors of New Scientist magazine
reported: Shaken vodka martinis have less
of an oily taste, and because many vodkas
made after the Second World War were
from potatoes rather than grain (todays
preference) and because potatoes produce a
distinctly oily vodka, James Bond liked his
shaken rather than todays more acceptable
stirred method.
And as Alan Hamley of the U.K. adds:
Vegetables of many kinds parsnips,
carrots, beetroot create quite oily vodkas
which benefit from a shaking when in a
martini.
August 2015

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Yet for the U.K.s Charles Black, the

bigger issue is Bonds alcohol intake.
Research recently published in the British
Medical Journal calculated that 007
consumes on average five vodka martinis a
day, or 92 units of alcohol a week, making
him a problem drinkerone more likely
to die from liver failure than lead a
glamorous lifestyle ... The researchers
suggested he only preferred shaken martinis
because he was already shaking as a result
of his excessive boozing. They concluded
that Bond should be referred for further
assessment of his alcohol intake.
Q. Are there at least two people in New
York City who have exactly the same
numbers of hairs on their heads?

A. You can count on it, answer Alfred

Posamentier and Bernd Thaller in
Numbers: Their Tales, Types and
Treasures. Lets assume there are roughly
8 million people in New York City, with
each of them having a certain number of
head hairs from zero, or bald, on up. On up
to what? Even the hairiest of them are likely
to stay well under a million hairs, perhaps
more like 100,000. Now bring on the
pigeonhole principle, which holds that
with more pigeons than pigeonholes, there
must be at least some pigeon doubling up.
So when we attempt to assign to each
person a hair number, at least one of the hair
numbers will have to be assigned to two or
more persons. Ergo: At least two people in
New York City will be hairy twins.
Q. OK, you crybaby. Which mother is
likely to come tend to your needs? Your
own momma?

A. When biologists Susan Lingle of the

University of Winnipeg and Tobias Riede of
Midwestern University ran acoustic
experiments on a wide variety of infant
mammals, they made a surprising finding:
When mother deer heard recordings of
infant fur seals, the deer reacted with
concern, says Jason Goldman in Scientific
American magazine. A similar response

occurred when they heard recorded cries of

elands, marmots, bats, sea lions, domestic
cats, dogs and even humans.
So long as the fundamental frequency
was similar to their own infants calls, those
mothers approached the crying as if they
were going to find their own offspring.
Such a reaction suggests deep
commonalities among the cries of most
young mammals. The mother deer did not
show concern for white noise, bird calls or
coyote barks (American Naturalist
magazine).
Adds psychologist David Reby of the
University of Sussex in England: From an
infants perspective, it is advantageous to
attract any potential caregiver that could
increase its chances of survival. And...if a
predator is involved, a parent cannot waste
time deciding whether the baby in need of
help is its own. The costs of ignoring the
cry are too high.
And cross-species adoption in the wild
may follow the same pattern, Lingle
concludes, especially if a mother has lost
her own infant and still has maternal
hormones circulating.
Q. Why me? Could I have prevented
it? Or was it just in my genes? Cancer
patients are often tormented by such
questions, but what other explanation
might the research point to?
A. Two-thirds of cancers are due to
simple bad luck, suggest Johns Hopkins
cancer geneticist Bert Vogelstein and
biostatistician Cristian Tomasetti in
Science magazine. The authors combed
the literature for stem cell and cancer
incidence data for 31 widely different
human tissues (gallbladder, esophageal...).
Applying statistics to their data, they
concluded that only a third of the variation
in cancer risk among tissues is attributable
to environmental factors or inherited
predispositions. The majority is due to `bad
luck, that is, random mutations arising
during DNA replication in normal,
noncancerous stem cells.

letters to make a word worth 365 points: R X O Y Q T I U?

A. The word is quixotry, whose face-value letters are Q=10,
U=1, I=1, X=8, O=1, T=1, R=1 and Y=4, for a total of 27. In 2007,
full-time carpenter Michael Cresta took advantage of an already
played R to use all seven of his tiles across two triple word score
squares, earning 365 points, the most points ever on a single turn,
reported Jennifer Wood in Mental Floss magazine. Later, Cresta
Q. Calling all Scrabblers: Can you unscramble the following went on to set a second record by achieving the highest ever individual game score of 830!
For you literati, quixotry means marked by rash, lofty, romantic ideas or chivalrous actions doomed to fail, and bears a close
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Some cancers, such as lung cancer in smokers, have environmental or genetic components that are well documented. But, overall, it
appears that the degree to which cancer can be prevented (through
lifestyle changes, for example) is limited.
As Science writer Jennifer Couzin-Frankel points out: The randomness of cancer is frightening. But it may soften the blow for
some patients to know that it is probably not their fault.

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Crossword

Across

1 WWII support gp.

5 Driving hazard
15 Linchpin location
16 Wedding to-do list
item
17 2007 Country Music
Hall of Fame inductee
18 Grand
19 Jargon ending
20 Buffs
21 Complicated account
22 Group that might
bug you
24 Actor/director with
two Emmys and two
Razzies
27 Winter warmers
28 Thirteenth
Amendment beneficiary
29 Be ready for
30 1935 FDR dedication
34 Net grazer
35 Body style
36 Raised-barn
connection
37 Former

40 Member of a strict
Jewish sect
42 Not interested
43 Give up
44 Grotte de Cussac
attraction
47 Xenon, e.g.
48 Urgent letters
49 Overthrow
50 Scoreboard letters
51 Anticipatory reaction
55 It pulls a bit
56 Place for good dishes
57 Theyre trapped in
pots
58 Endurance event
facility
59 Unoccupied

Down

1 Union concern
2 WWII fighter
3 Some strays
4 Snow White
collectible
5 Many Shakespearean
characters
6 Malaysian native

Q. Why does a harmless handful of fluff California ground

squirrel go out of its way to taunt dangerous rattlesnakes?
A. Dangerous to whom? According to Rulon Clark of San Diego
State University, squirrels may not only stop, stare and sniff but, if
the snake is uncoiled, may even kick sand at it, reports Susan Milius in Science News magazine. And in bursts, the squirrels flag
their tails left and right like a windshield wiper. Though a rattler
can strike with lightning-like speed, the twisting, dodging, flagging
ground squirrels stand a decent chance of escape, and those from
snake country have some venom-resistance. So taunting is worth
the risks as a signal to neighboring squirrels and to the snake that its
ambush attempt has been discovered. And, in fact, frequent flaggers often escaped attacks.
Studying this flagging, Clark and colleagues noted that these
just-in-case tail flags could tell a still-hidden snake that this is one
wary squirrel. So flagging may persuade a smart snake to wait for
an easier target.
As Milius put it, After getting publicly and lengthily squirreled,
snakes often just slip away.

7 Short and sweet, e.g.:

Abbr.
8 River to Aberdeen
9 Their offices often
have small rms.
10 Down
11 Marathoners
misfortune
12 Costa __
13 Picture
14 __ year
20 Royal decree

23 French royal
24 Skiing need
25 Give birth to
26 Bostons
Mass __
28 People
30 Lift up
31 Differed
32 Witness in 1991
Senate hearings
33 Added up
35 Burn slightly

38 Haberdashery supply
39 Employment org.
created in 1935
40 Dwell (on)
41 Its not returned
43 Orchestra leader
Billy
44 Speak, hands, for
me! speaker
45 Japanese beer brand
46 Legitimate
47 But wait! Theres
more! company
49 Bank opening?
52 Storage unit
53 Triumphant reaction
54 Mild rebuke
55 Get outside
yourself company

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