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Woman gets bag full of cash at Burger King drive-thru

ROCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A New Hampshire woman got a surprise at a Burger King drive-thru: a bag full of cash instead of food.

Janelle Jones says she discovered on the way home that the bag did not contain the sweet tea and junior spicy chicken sandwich that she had ordered recently at the Rochester fast-food restaurant.

Foster’s Daily Democrat reports that Jones called her husband and they decided to return the $2,631, which was a Burger King bank deposit.

Matthew Jones says the couple briefly considered keeping the money, which they certainly could have used. But he says he and his wife are Jehovah’s Witnesses, and that “Jehovah sees every-thing.”

The newspaper reports that the restaurant confirmed the cou-ple’s account but had no comment on it.

Holy mackerel! Belfast residents warned not to eat free fish

BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) — This fish tale might be a wee bit hard to stomach.

Belfast City Council is advising its citizens: Don’t eat fish found lying on the roadside. They’re too fishy.

The recent health warning follows the accidental dumping of thousands of mackerel on to the busy Ravenhill Road, apparently by a delivery truck with a loose back door. Locals grabbed bags to haul in their catch before passing cars could turn the stranded school to pulp.

Tommy Bardsley says he bagged 25 mackerel and deemed them off-the-boat fresh. “I know fish,” the 61-year-old declared.

The council says Bardsley and other opportunists don’t know microbiology, because they don’t know where the fish came from, and they could be contaminated by automotive pollut-ants.

Dear Savvy Senior, What are the IRS income tax filing requirements for

retirees this tax season? I didn’t have to file last year, but I picked up a little income from a part-time job in 2014, and I’m wondering I need to file this year.

— Part-time RetireeDear Retiree, Whether or not you are required to file a federal income

tax return this year will depend on how much you earned (gross income) — and the source of that income — as well as your filing status and your age. Your gross income includes all the income you receive that is not exempt from tax, not counting your Social Security benefits, unless you are married and filing separately. Here’s a rundown of the IRS filing requirements for this

tax season. If your 2014 gross income was below the threshold for your age and filing status, you probably won’t have to file. But if it’s over, you will.

· Single: $10,150 ($11,700 if you’re 65 or older by Jan. 1, 2015).

· Married filing jointly: $20,300 ($21,500 if you or your spouse is 65 or older; or $22,700 if you’re both over 65).

· Married filing separately: $3,950 at any age.· Head of household: $13,050 ($14,600 if age

65 or older).· Qualifying widow(er) with dependent

child: $16,350 ($17,550 if age 65 or older). To get a detailed breakdown on federal filing require-

ments, along with information on taxable and nontaxable income, call the IRS at 800-829-3676 and ask them to mail you a free copy of the “Tax Guide for Seniors” (publication 554), or see irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/p554.pdf. »Special requirements There are, however, some other financial situations that

will require you to file a tax return, even if your gross income falls below the IRS filing requirement. For exam-ple, if you had earnings from self-employment in 2014 of

$400 or more, or if you owe any special taxes to the IRS such as alternative minimum tax or IRA tax penalties, you’ll probably need to file. To figure this out, the IRS offers a tool on their website

that asks a series of questions that will help you determine if you’re required to file, or if you should file because you’re due a refund. You can access this page at irs.gov/filing — click on “Do

you need to file a return?” Or, you can get assistance over the phone by calling the IRS helpline at (800) 829-1040. You can also get face-to-face help at a Taxpayer Assistance Center. See irs.gov/localcontacts or call (800) 829-1040 to locate a center near you. »Check your state Even if you’re not required to file a federal tax return this

year, don’t assume that you’re also excused from filing state income taxes. The rules for your state might be very different. Check with your state tax agency before conclud-ing that you’re entirely in the clear. For links to state and local tax agencies see taxadmin.org – click on “State Agen-cies/Links” on the menu bar. »Tax prep assistance If you find that you do need to file a tax return this year,

you can get help through the Tax Counseling for the Elder-ly (or TCE) program. Sponsored by the IRS, TEC provides free tax preparation and counseling to middle and low-income taxpayers, age 60 and older. Call (800) 906-9887 or visit irs.treasury.gov/freetaxprep to locate a service near you. Also check with AARP, a participant in the TCE program

that provides free tax preparation at more than 5,000 sites nationwide. To locate an AARP Tax-Aide site call (888) 227-7669 or visit aarp.org/findtaxhelp. You don’t have to be an AARP member to use this service.

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit SavvySenior.org.

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.

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Do you need to file a tax return in 2015?

A trip to a family reunion in the Midwest underscored again how far behind the times I am in my technological gadgets.

To keep in touch on my trip, I took along my flip-top cell-phone, manufactured sometime around, oh, the early Bronze Age. I would have preferred to have taken a cool smartphone, but when faced with the choice of buying groceries or paying for the smart phone data package, I opt for food every time.

Along the way, I was struck by how smartphones have pretty much taken over the world. I never saw a single flip-top. I knew lots of folks often used their smartphones to present their board-ing passes for flights, but I didn’t know how many. Every other person was doing it. I burned with shame as I contemplated my wrinkled paper boarding pass every time I boarded a flight.

I wonder what would have happened if I’d have laid my flip-top phone on the boarding pass scanner. It probably would have resulted in an international security incident, so it’s good thing I didn’t try it.

Anyway, I should try and keep up. I’m always behind the tech-

nological curve. Like with my cars, when everyone started driv-ing vehicles with CD players, I still had a casette tape deck in my car. By the time everyone was buying cars with USB ports for their iPods and iPhones, I had just gotten a car with a CD player.

Ah, well. I heard a while back Indianapolis Colts quarterback Andrew Luck has a flip-top phone. Maybe I’ll give him a call on mine and ask him if his car still has a CD player.

— Dwight HarrimanMontana Best Times Editor

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Montana is not just cattle country. It’s also farming country. And a new book, “Lentil Underground: Rene-gade Farmers and the Future of Food in America,” by Liz Carlisle, gets at a growing issue, one could say — a renegade way to farm.

As soon as journalist Carlisle joined United States Sen-ator Jon Tester’s team as Legislative Correspondent for Agriculture and Natural Resources, she immediately start-ed getting calls from his fellow sustainable farmers, who were clearly up to amazing things out in desolate central Montana, a news release from publisher Gotham Books says.

“Early on, Liz realized she had to figure out how some guy in Conrad, Montana had turned a crash course with bankruptcy into a million dollar business,” the release says. “And that’s when she joined the ‘Lentil Underground,’ and met that guy, Timeless Seeds founder, David Oien.”

The Lentil Underground is a group of renegade farmers who share in their dedication to a common task: patiently building the subterranean ecology of an entirely new type of business, cropping system, and future. And when David Oien’s Timeless Seeds’ farm-ers did ultimately open their homes and their financial records and their family birthday dinners to Carlisle, it was because she shares that dedication, too, the release says.

As told throughout, Carlisle, Dave and the renegade farmers are all working toward a common task: patiently building an entirely new type of business, cropping system, and future for American agriculture. In “Lentil Underground,” Liz addresses these topics, as well as, according to the release:

• The debate about how to feed the world, offering evidence that we can produce adequate quantities of healthy food, take care of

the environment and develop rural economies at the same time.• How agriculture can be more resilient to climate change and

use less water, which is key at a time when water shortages present a critical challenge to our food system and society as a whole.

• How to fix the food system in the belly of the beast — the American grain belt. “This world of family farm agriculture is far removed from the farmers markets of coastal cities, but it’s what will have to change if we’re really going to fix the problems with industrial food,” the release says.

Liz Carlisle is a fellow at UC Berkeley’s Center for Diversified Farming Systems. She holds a bachelor or arts from Harvard Uni-versity and received her Ph.D. from the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. Before graduate school, Carlisle served as legisla-tive correspondent for agriculture and natural resources in the office of United States Sen. Jon Tester, an organic farmer from her home state of Montana. A former country singer who once opened shows for Travis Tritt, LeAnn Rimes and Sugarland, Carlisle brings a populist flair to her writing, which has appeared in the Smithsonian Magazine and Harvard Independent.

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New book features renegade approach to growing food

� By Jamie Ausk Crisafulli Montana Best Times

GLENDIVE — From Eureka to Ekala-ka, Montanans throughout the state are getting their fill of fruits and vegetables year-round through Bountiful Baskets, a

food cooperative in which participants may purchase baskets of produce and a selection of specialty items every other week.

There are nearly 100 Bountiful Baskets drop sites in Montana.

Sally Stevens and Tanya Jolly started

Bountiful Baskets Food Co-op in May of 2006. According to the Bountiful Baskets website (www.bountifulbaskets.org), BBFC has grown from two sites and an average of 120 families a cycle partici-pating to hundreds of sites in 16 states and countless participating families.

Each registered site receives baskets every other week. Some cities have more than one drop and therefore have a Boun-tiful Baskets drop every week.

The co-op offers a conventional pro-duce basket that is generally half fruit and half veggies. The most recent basket in Glendive offered rainbow chard, pota-toes, spaghetti squash, romaine lettuce, blueberries, strawberries, apples, orange bell peppers, broccoli, pineapple and grapefruit. Baskets vary every week.

Getting involvedThe first Bountiful Basket drop in

Glendive took place in February of 2012.Susan Slehofer, a Glendive site admin-

istrator, originally heard about Bountiful Baskets from someone who was partici-pating in another town. She decided to do the research and see what she could do to get a stop in Glendive. When she contact-ed the Montana administrator, she found out that someone already had the ball rolling.

Slehofer said she made the decision to show up to help at the first Bountiful Baskets offered in Glendive and she has been involved ever since. Slehofer, Coral Campbell and Steve Zorn share the bulk of the administrative work it takes to keep the Glendive site going. Slehofer estimates her total volunteer time per drop-off to be two and half hours. Admin-

istrators are responsible for paperwork for each drop and being onsite to unload trucks and distribute the produce.

The time put in is well worth it to Sle-hofer.

“I just like doing it, being with the people,

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Food cooperative provides bounty of affordable fruits and veggiesCoral Campbell and Steve Zorn add potatoes to each basket during the Boun-tiful Basket drop in Glendive on Jan. 4. MT Best Times photos by Jamie Ausk Crisafulli

Bountiful Baskets

visiting with people and I like the produce we get,” she said.Bountiful Baskets is run completely by volunteers. Local admin-

istrators volunteer their time and participants are asked to volunteer at least occasionally at drop sites.

Unique varietyAn avid gardener in the summer, Slehofer said she was initially

drawn to Bountiful Baskets by the low cost of the produce, particu-larly the fruit, and because the co-op idea “seemed intriguing.”

What she has grown to appreciate about the Bountiful Baskets experience is the unique variety of items offered. She has been find-ing ways to use some items — like persimmons and fennel — that she may not have tried if it weren’t for the program.

She said some of the participants will see something in their bas-ket and give it away, saying they will never use it.

“I wish they would at least try it at least once,” she said.Campbell said she also likes to see participants get the opportuni-

ty to try new items.She said during one of the drops, a participant complained about

the rotten pears in her basket. It turned out those “pears” were actu-ally avocados, something she hadn’t purchased before.

How it worksEach Bountiful Baskets site is limited to 96 baskets per drop.

Those who wish to participate must go to the website between 10 a.m. on Monday and 10 p.m. on Tuesday before the drop.

When it was first offered in Glendive, the basket limit was reached in 10 minutes. Now, participation varies and the limit is rarely reached. The drop times change occasionally as well. Sle-hofer said that can affect the number of participants.

With the current 11 a.m. drop in Glendive, the numbers are a little lower. When there was an early morning drop, numbers were up. Cold weather forecasts also seem to affect the number of people who are willing to come out to get baskets, Slehofer said.

The monetary contribution for one basket is $15 plus a transac-tion fee ($4.50 per order in Montana) and is generally worth $50 retail, according to the co-op website. Participants can order up to three baskets and several add-ons under one transaction fee. Organic

baskets can be purchased for $25. Campbell suggested individuals who want to participate order together so they have to pay only one transaction fee.

The money is well worth the items received each week, Zorn said. While others have compared the cost of the exact produce at a regular grocery store, Zorn said he usually compares about three of the items and gets to the basket fee of $15, and counts the rest of the items as bonuses.

In addition to www.bountifulbaskets.org, information about the co-op can also be found by searching for Bountiful Baskets on Facebook. Local sites often have Facebook pages as well, which provide information about the drops as well as suggested ways to use produce found in the baskets each week.

Reach Jamie Ausk Crisafulli at [email protected] or (406) 377-3303.

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Right: The most recent Bountiful Basket in Glendive included romaine lettuce, oranges, spaghetti squash, rainbow chard,

potatoes, orange bell peppers, apples, strawberries, blueber-ries, pineapple and broccoli. The baskets are generally 50 per-

cent vegetables and 50 percent fruits. Top: Bountiful Baskets offers more than just the fruit and

veggie baskets. Every week there are add-on items available, including granola, bread and tortillas.

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� By M.P. Regan Montana Best Times

DILLON — Patricia Carrick enjoys hik-ing, camping and skiing in the beautiful, peaceful, mountains around her Dillon home.

But for her first trip following her retire-ment at the end of last year, the 67-year-old nurse practitioner chose to head to Africa and what is right now one of the most difficult and dangerous places on earth — the city of Kailahun in Sierra Leone. There, she rejoined the battle against Ebola, the deadly, fast-moving virus that in the past year has killed thou-sands of people.

“You couldn’t keep Pat away from a sit-uation like that — she sees a need and has to help,” said Pam Mussard, case manager at the Southwest Montana Community Health Center’s Dillon Clinic, where she and Carrick have worked together since helping get the facility up and running in 2002.

“The situation in Sierra Leone is still terrible, and now I have some experience to contribute,” explained Carrick, shortly before she left Montana on a chilly Jan. 4 for another trip to the hottest of the world’s Ebola hot spots.

“As one person, you can’t do much. But when you’re part of an organization that can put one person on top of one person on top of one person and build something — that has an effect,” said Carrick of her work in Africa with the organization Doc-tors Without Borders (aka MSF, the acro-nym for its French name, Médecins Sans Frontières).

Carrick knew full well the limitations, difficulties and dangers of providing health care in Kailahun, where she previ-ously worked from mid-September to mid-October last year treating Ebola patients — over half of whom died — in a make-shift health care facility set up a few months earlier.

“It’s one thing to have one patient in an intensive care unit; it’s another to have hundreds of patients in a series of tents,” said Carrick, comparing how the handful of Ebola patients who have turned up in

the U.S. have been treated compared to the tens of thousands who have been stricken in Sierra Leone, the small impoverished African nation that was still recovering from a lengthy civil war when last year it became the country hardest hit by history’s biggest Ebola outbreak.

Work clothesOne of the challenges faced by health

care providers treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone is simply getting dressed for work in the country’s often sweltering heat, a process Carrick detailed in a blog she has been writing during her time in Sierra Leone.

“I was in the ‘high risk’ area of the treat-ment center yesterday, where the patients with known Ebola infection are and where we do a great deal of our work — though in very small increments,” Carrick wrote in a Sept. 17 post titled “A slow race against time,” for her blog on the MSF website.

“The dressing in personal protective equipment (PPE) is a time-consuming operation that feels for all the world like

pouring little kids into their hockey uni-forms. And just like the little kids, no sooner am I suited up than I need to pee. I must grudgingly acknowledge that there are a few disadvantages to this business of aging.

“Anyway, once you are wearing the non-breathable plastic suit, double gloves, over-the-head mask, fogged-up goggles, and heavy rubber boots, it’s a slow, galumphing race against time in the 90+ degree ambient heat of the afternoon. You have to move with great deliberation in order to prevent any contact that could jeopardize the integrity of your protective gear or that of your partner — no falls, no tears, no wasted movements, no rush — but you must still work to get the most out of your time to accomplish as many of the necessary tasks as possible.

“Everything must be done before you melt or pass out from the heat in the total-ly non-breathable outfit.”

In December, back in Montana reflect-ing on her first trip to Sierra Leone, Car-rick said that, as uncomfortable as it was, the PPE outfit was a relatively minor inconvenience in a world of life-and-death consequences.

“The suit is an issue. But the crux of the problem is: How do you provide the best care to the most people with the limited resources available?” explained Carrick of perhaps the most daunting challenge of treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.

“Clinically, you’re always faced with huge challenges in the Third World that you’ve never seen before, with very few resources with which to deal with them,” she said.

Her life in rural Montana has helped her address some of the challenges of working in Africa with MSF, Carrick said.

“A lot of my experience in the outdoors has been particularly helpful to me work-ing in the Third Word because I can man-age in pretty simple circumstances. As a result of being a hiker and camper, I’ve learned to do with less. That’s been as helpful as my clinical background,” said Carrick, who also likes to read and gar-den.

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Dillon nurse practitioner joins fight against Ebola

Photo courtesy of Doctors Without Borders PATRICIA CARRICK

Into Africa

Back in time, back in MontanaAccording to her work colleagues in

Montana, Carrick played a key role in expanding medical services to underserved people in Beaverhead County, through her efforts in 2002 to help establish the Dillon Clinic of the Southwest Montana Commu-nity Health Center.

“Pat was there from start — she was instrumental in getting the Southwest Mon-tana Community Health Center in Dillon going,” said Tammie Frost, who has also worked at the Dillon Clinic since its 2002 founding, and summarized the clinic’s mis-sion as helping patients who are uninsured get medical health care at an affordable price.

“As a nurse practitioner, Pat was able to see patients starting day one. She is very methodical about what she does and very concerned about her patients. It’s her com-passion,” added Frost, who works in the clinic’s billing department.

“I kind of came with the project,” smiled Carrick, who had worked for three years at the Southwest Montana Community Health Center in Butte before starting at the Dillon Clinic.

“You do a little bit of a lot of things — and not a lot of anything,” said Carrick, of performing health care work in a rural set-ting like Dillon.

“It’s a really broad practice — always broad and interesting and challenging. You don’t have a lot of repetition. Every case is something new, every person presents a constellation of challenges you’ve never seen before,” added Carrick, who grew up in New Hampshire, New York and Vermont, where her family owned a farm.

Carrick moved to Montana in 1977, when the vehicle she was driving decided it wasn’t going to move any further.

“It got me this far, then it was nothing but trouble. It broke down and Dillon was as far as they could haul it, and we never got it going again,” recalled Carrick of the red Ford pickup truck that brought her to Montana.

“I couldn’t afford to leave Dillon at first, but I loved it here instantly,” said Carrick, who at that point in her life had already earned bachelor’s degrees in filmmaking and psychology.

“I got a job moving irrigation pipe. I had a job and then I had another job, and then I had a daughter and needed a way to support her, so I went back to college,” recalled Car-rick of her decision to earn a nursing degree at Montana State University in Bozeman, where she later returned and also earned a graduate degree.

“I’ve always been service oriented, and nursing seemed like something that fit for

me. And I wanted to work in my own com-munity,” said Carrick, who early in life began to realize that her sense of communi-ty and commitment extended beyond local or even national borders.

‘I better do it now’Carrick said she became aware of Doctors

Without Borders in the 1970s, when the organization was founded by physicians treating victims of famines in Biafra and Bangladesh.

“I began to hear about Doctors Without Borders in my 20s, and it became like a background noise that over the years just got louder and louder, until almost 40 years down the road I started working with them,” said Carrick, who was just shy of 60 when she started with MSF, on a mission in the African country of Malawi.

“When my mother didn’t need me any-more and my daughter, Jess, went off to col-lege, I thought, I may be older, but if I’m going to do it, I better do it now,” said Car-rick of her thought process before joining on with Doctors Without Borders, while also continuing to work in the Dillon Clinic.

“So I applied, and they actually accepted me,” she said.

Back to AfricaCarrick’s current trip marks her fifth jour-

ney to Africa with Doctors Without Borders. She travelled to Malawi in 2007 to help with the organization’s efforts on behalf of people infected with HIV and twice to Sudan, in 2010 and 2012, to aid victims of famine.

“I keep thinking that I’ll tell them I’m available again and they’ll say I’m too old, but it hasn’t happened yet,” said Carrick, who plans to keep working with Doctors Without Borders as long as she can aid its efforts — and those of Sierra Leone’s national staff health care workers.

“The heroism of the national staff in Sier-ra Leone is inspiring. They go home every day to communities in the midst of epidem-ic, with family members and neighbors get-ting sick and dying, and then they would come to work and take care of people all day, putting themselves at risk in both set-tings — when an option would be to close the doors of their houses and stay inside and send somebody out for food once in a while,” commented Carrick, who said the current Ebola outbreak in West Africa has given cause for everyone in the world to reconsider their relationships with everyone else in the world.

“This has forced us all to look at the extent of our responsibility to one another globally,

when we have whole nations without the capacity to deal with this,” she said. “It’s nev-er been put into such acute perspective — we’ve never been so scared for ourselves over something going on so far away. We can see how that does have an impact on us.”

Carrick says working in Sierra Leone, you can see the impact of your efforts right in front of you, in the most important and dramatic way.

“We had a 36 percent survival rate when I arrived at the Sierra Leone treatment center, and it was up to 46 percent by the time I left,” said Carrick, who explained that every patient cured of the Ebola virus becomes a cause for celebration.

“It’s wonderful. We throw a party. They are greeted by everyone who is around, cheering,” she said.

Carrick’s fellow staffers in the Dillon Clinic said she made certain they could take on all her patients without any of them suf-fering a break in care, before she “retired” — a relative term in her case.

“We have a very strong staff there — two young doctors and a nurse practitioner. So it’s a great time for me to step back a bit,” said Carrick, who has agreed to return to the Dillon Clinic in the spring to cover a mater-nity leave.

“I guess if you’re immersed in your work, in one form or another, you can call it retire-ment,” said Carrick. “But it’s only retire-ment in a certain sense. It’s retirement from a job, but not from life.”

Reach M.P. Regan at [email protected] or (406) 683-2331.

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Photo courtesy of Patricia CarrickCarrick, right, and a co-worker are pic-tured at work against the Ebola virus in Sierra Leone last year.

� By Amorette Allison Montana Best Times

MILES CITY — Richard Coffman’s life reads like the script for a motion picture.

His mother died of tuberculosis when he was child in the Depression years. He was educated in one-room schools in the Mid-west, had his first crushes, discovered he loved reading — including news maga-zines for information about world affairs — and found himself, like everyone of his generation, facing World War II. Then came a pretty girl from a small town in Montana, and working for the FBI.

“I had the luckiest life in the world,” Coffman said during a recent interview.

Last summer, his story of that lucky, fascinating, lucky life, “Eyewitness to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI,” was published.

Origins of the bookThe book had it origins in a box Coff-

man received after his stepmother died. The box contained items that had belonged to his father that his stepmother assembled before her death. Among those items, which Coffman had never seen before, was his mother’s diary. She had died when he was a young child.

Coffman decided to write up the diary for a history of the Missouri county he grew up in that was being compiled by the local historical society. He also sent the pages to a journalist friend.

The friend said the story was so power-ful it deserved to be published, if not on its own, then as the basis for a novel.

Coffman, however, couldn’t see how a few pages could be made into a book, and he certainly didn’t see himself as a novel-ist. However, the experience had impressed upon him the importance of

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Montanan’s book sheds light on unique time in American history

Richard Coffman is pictured holding his new book, “Eyewitness to J. Edgar

Hoover’s FBI,” recently. MT Best Times photo by Steve Allison

‘Eyewitness to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI’

recording family history, and he decided to write a little of his own life’s story — including his days for his children — son Bruce, born in 1952 and daughter Buffy, born in 1956.

It was a life that included his days as an FBI agent during the J. Edgar Hoover era.

After 10 years of adding a bit here and there and doing genea-logical research, Coffman had an 800-page book. He decided that was a bit long and spent two years editing it down until it ran around 500 pages. Then he found a publisher, and more time was spent in editing and proofreading before his book was published by XLibris Publishing in 2014.

While the title talks about Coffman’s days with the FBI, much of the book concerns his childhood and youth, and his life after meeting and marrying Miles City native Wilma Jean Trzcinski.

They met while both were attending different schools in the same Missouri town. Coffman soon learned that the first name was not popular with his new girl and that she preferred to be called “Jeanne.” And so she was for the rest of their lives.

With the FBICoffman’s adventures included time in Japan right after

World War II — during which he wrote regular letters to Jeanne. After marrying Jeanne, his adventures included being a private pilot along his wife, who was an avid flyer. They were

also sports car fans.His time with the FBI covered a number of important historical

events, including the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Coffman has insider insights on this and other events during his tenure.

Coffman’s book confirms stories about Hoover and his views of the FBI office in Butte: “Hoover thought Butte was the end of the earth,” he said.

At one time, there was a move to close the Butte office. Montana’s U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield made an agreement with Hoover and the office stayed open. Oddly enough, many of the agents, once they were sent to Butte for punishment, found they liked the rural area, with its hunting and fishing, and the punishment wasn’t as effective as Hoover might have expected.

Coffman’s book covers a broad span of years and a broad span of adventures, both happy and sad. He tells about Margery, the love of his early years, who never returned from her service as a nurse in World War II. He also touches on his war experience in the Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC), which included a stint in Japan just after the surrender.

Another novel-like moment in the book describes how his life as an FBI agent begins he as departs Missouri where he and his bride were living: “With a suitcase containing my wedding suit, fortunately dark blue, a few white shirts (all dress shirts then were white) a tie or two … a London Fog raincoat and a newish snapped brim hat, I boarded railway coaches of the Missouri Pacific.”

The details of those years include brief biographies of charac-ters like “Miss Gandy,” who was Hoover’s secretary; “Big Irish,” senior agent in Boston; and the Soviet chauffeur known as “Tar-zan” and another Soviet Coffman called “Felix.”

His postings with the FBI included Boston, Washington, D.C., and, by preference, Salt Lake City as a way to move “back West” and get away from the big city life of Washington, D.C., or WDC, as Coffman calls it.

Settling in Miles CityAfter living a life of adventure and excitement, and day-to-day

bringing up the kids, and picking out an airplane for his wife to fly, Richard and Jeanne Coffman decided to retire to either Butte or Miles City. Jeanne found Butte was no longer the Butte she had visited when she was young, so they settled in Miles City.

Jeanne’s gone now. The kids live on opposite coasts. Coffman doesn’t get out as much in icy weather, but he still considers his life to be the luckiest anyone ever lived.

“Eyewitness to J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI” is available at amazon.com.

Reach Amorette Allison at [email protected] or (406) 234-0450.

February 2015 —11

Coffman’s book confirms stories about Hoover and his views of the

FBI office in Butte: “Hoover thought Butte was the end of the

earth,” Coffman said.

Shown is the cover of Richard Coffman’s new book.

� By Doreen Heintz Montana Best Times

LEWISTOWN — After 35-plus years of teaching, one could hardly blame Jim and Mary Jo Hamling if they did actually “retire” after decades in their math class-rooms in Lewistown.

Mary Jo taught math at Fergus High School, while Jim was a math teacher at Lewistown Junior High.

“I retired from teaching on June 2, 2007, at approximately 3 p.m. after being in the classroom for 38 years” Jim quipped. “I knew it was time. I still really enjoyed teaching, but I wanted to be done before I didn’t like it anymore.”

Like Jim, Mary Jo also retired in 2007.But it’s hardly been retirement. The

Hamlings have gone from being full-time teachers to shifting gears and serving the Lewistown community in other ways — much of it still involving students.

Still involved in mathJim began his teaching career in Moore.

“I got my first job because I could hit a jump shot,” Jim joked about making a name for himself as a basketball player at Wibaux. “The person who hired me knew me when I was in high school in Wibaux.”

Following three years at Moore, Jim taught in Shelby for five years, and then he came to Lewistown. He spent four years teaching at Fergus High School and his final 26 years teaching at the junior high. Jim also was an assistant basketball and assistant track coach for several years.

Jim is very proud of the math students he has taught over the years. He worked hard in the classroom getting his students to understand math. He also began the very popular MATHCOUNTS extracurric-ular program at Lewistown.

According to the MATHCOUNTS web-site, the program “strives to engage middle school students of all ability and interest levels in fun, challenging math programs. In addition, MATHCOUNTS provides stu-dents with kinds of experiences that foster growth and transcend fear to lay a founda-tion for future success.”

“There were no programs in Montana during the first year of MATHCOUNTS,” Jim said, “and in the second year, we did not have a program in Lewistown, but we have had a very competitive program ever since.”

Even though Jim has retired from teach-ing, he still works with students in MATH-COUNTS. Current junior high math teach-er Katherine Spraggins is the head of the program at the junior high, with Jim as her assistant.

“We begin working with the students in an extracurricular setting twice a week usu-ally just after teachers’ convention,” said Jim. “Once we get close to the chapter com-petition, we may begin working three times a week. For competition, a team of four stu-dents are selected based on how they do on math tests. We can take a total of 10 stu-dents to the competition with the other six scored as individuals. We usually have between nine and 20 kids who compete each year. The top 25 percent of the teams at the chapter competition qualify for state.

“In spite of competing against schools twice our size, we have done amazingly


Retired teachers continue to serve community in many ways

Mary Jo and Jim Hamling are pictured at their home in Lewistown. MT Best Times photos by Doreen Heintz

Retired? Not quite

well over the years.”In 2007, Jim was named the MATHCOUNTS Hero for the

state of Montana and attended the national MATHCOUNTS con-vention in Fort Worth, Texas.

During his years of teaching, Jim was active in the Montana Council of Mathematics Teachers, serving as president in 2008. He taught many sectionals at MCMT conventions and attended many of those gatherings over the years.

“Attending these conventions really helped me get out in the world,” said Jim.

Teaching Title 1 and mathFollowing graduation from Granite High School in Philipsburg

and college, Mary Jo began her teaching career in Deer Lodge at the junior high. After four years there, Mary Jo came to Lewis-town and began teaching Title I in what locals call “the old high school” — the building used before the new Fergus High facility was completed in 1986.

In 1981, the enrollment at Fergus dropped dramatically. Jim and Mary Jo both lost their positions, with Jim moving to the junior high and Mary Jo teaching in Thompson Falls. After two years, Mary Jo moved back to Lewistown to teach Title 1 math and regular classroom math classes at Fergus High School.

It was after she returned to Lewistown that Mary Jo and Jim were married.

Teaching in other waysMary Jo and Jim have remained important members of the

Lewistown community since their retirement, but one thing they do enjoy is not having to be at work every morning and having more free time

About three times a year, the couple team up to teach the AARP driver safety course.

“The program was updated in January 2014,” said Jim. “We now have all new videos, and the program is very well organized.”

The program, for drivers over 50, is called “Smart Driver.”“We think it is a very worthwhile program,” added Mary Jo.

“Roundabouts and how to get in and out of them are included in the new video, along with new signs that are seen on our high-ways. The program is only four hours in length, but it is a great refresher for older drivers.”

The Hamlings said insurance companies give discounts to driv-ers over 50 who take the course.

Another important service the Hamlings provide to students in the community is helping them with the math review for the ACT test each year.

Currently, in Montana every junior in high school is given the opportunity to take the ACT test free on a set Tuesday in April. Before that date, the Hamlings provide five days when they give freely of their time to help students with the math review. If a student decides to retake the ACT as a senior, the Hamlings always welcome working with the student for a review before retaking the test.

“It may be that a student has not had any geometry for a couple of years,” explained Mary Jo. “These reviews provide them with the opportunity to go back over math concepts they may have forgotten.”

They also offer practical tips on taking the test.For example, the math portion of the ACT test is 60 questions

in 60 minutes.“We remind students to only do questions they can answer or

solve in one minute,” said Jim. The Hamlings also tutor students who might be having trouble

in math.

From snowplowing to track meetsAnd during the winter, Jim stays busy with other tasks as well

— like snowplowing neighborhood sidewalks. “I have 26 sidewalks that I snowblow between 30 and 35 times

a year,” said Jim. Jim shifts gears in the summer to mowing lawns. “I presently have 28 lawns I mow each summer,” added Jim. “I

don’t mow them all every week, but usually average about 15 a week. Many of them have underground sprinkler systems, so they even need mowed during August.”

In addition, Jim runs the clock at FHS home volleyball matches and is the marshal at local track meets.

“I don’t know much about volleyball, so I just watch the referee when to give a team a point,” said Jim, “But we have had a lot of good volleyball teams over the past years, and they are fun to watch.”

Marshaling a track meet involves getting the athletes ready for each heat of the different running events.

Jim has enjoyed being a runner over the years and was head of the annual Chokecherry Run for over 20 years. During most of those years, he was also the starter for the races.

MentoringMary Jo has served the Central Montana Mentoring Program

for many years. The mentoring program involves matching high school students with elementary students in the Lewistown School District. The high school mentor spends time with a stu-dent each week. The program has a large group activity once a month for the mentors and students.

“It is a great program for both ages of kids,” said Mary Jo. “I was one of the faculty sponsors when I was teaching at the high school. Once I retired from teaching, I served on the board of directors for the program.”

Mary Jo was the chairwoman of the board from 2010 to 2013. She just stepped down from the board in 2014.

Jim and Mary Jo have one son who works in Missoula and is a member of the Helena Symphony. Jim also has three other chil-dren — Jeff, a minister in Bozeman; Debbie, who lives in Las Vegas; and Kim, who lives in Miles City. The couple also have seven grandchildren.

Reach Doreen Heintz at Doreen Heintz [email protected] or (406) 535-3401.


Keeping the clock and score at Fergus High School volleyball matches is one of the many volunteer jobs Jim Hamling, right, enjoys after retiring from teaching.

� By Carlos Frias The Palm Beach Post/TNS

Sounds of delight welcome Don Chester wherever he goes. And it usually has little to do with him.

A solid 10 seconds before anyone ever says hello to him — before they even notice him, really — adults turn on baby voices and fawn over the blonde at his side.

Pollyanna is a real “chick magnet,” Chester’s wife said. So much so that Chester’s wife started requiring her husband — only half-jokingly — to wear his wedding ring whenever he leaves the house with her.

It’s been 10 years since he started this affair with his platinum-blond assistant. But everyone seems willing to overlook the indiscretion of another female invited into the Chesters’ home because of what she’s meant to all their lives.

It was 10 years ago that Don Chester, 68, left his home for an early morning run and didn’t return for six months.

When he finally did, Pollyanna came with him. And she has never left.

Chester was hit by a car on Christmas Eve of 2004 as he trained for a triathlon. His spinal cord was severed and he was paralyzed from the chest down. An electric wheelchair perma-nently replaced his running shoes. He could still use his arms but lost the dexterity in his hands.

His wife, Sally, a lifelong nurse, became his rock. His employ-er, St. Mary’s Medical Center, where he has worked as an admin-istrator and community liaison since 1973, not only saved his life when he was rushed there after the accident but accommodated his surroundings so he could return to work two years later.

But even with their support, Chester feared he would never be independent again.

“At first, I thought I’d prefer to die of thirst than to ask some-one to open a bottle of water for me,” Chester said.

Then along came Polly.Sally researched everything her newly disabled husband would


Madeline Gray/Palm Beach Post/TNSDon Chester pets his service dog, Pollyanna, as she carries her bowl around waiting to be fed.

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need, and at the top of the list was a service dog.And so, in September 2005, Pollyanna — her litter of Labrador

retriever pups was named for Disney characters — came to the Chesters.

She is what was missing.Pollyanna, an almost-white yellow Lab, became part compan-

ion, part tool. She has been trained to turn on lights, open and close doors, go for help, warn Don of obstacles and, above all, retrieve:

The remote. A dropped house key (fitted with a tassel she can grab with her mouth). Even a business card, stepping on one cor-ner and grabbing the other with her teeth.

“Thankfully, she’s not much of a drooler,” Chester jokes.The Chesters had been dog owners — dog lovers — before

Polly. They always had at least two rescues at home.But not until Polly did they fully realize what she would mean

to someone like Don — fiercely independent, highly competitive, infinitely social — adapting to life with a handicap.

On an average Wednesday morning nearly 10 years to the date since he was paralyzed, Chester wheels down the corridors of St. Mary’s hospital, where he has worked for 43 years, with Polly at his side.

He’s lucky, he says. Uses the actual word.Not everyone who is paralyzed can return to the very job they

were doing before the accident.“A roofer would have to be trained into a whole new profes-

sion,” Chester said.And how many return to a job at a hospital, where every door-

way and elevator, every ramp and bathroom, is compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act?

He rarely thinks about the actual accident. The woman who hit him was never charged with a crime. Don was told she “did everything she was supposed to do”: stopped immediately, called for help and stayed until the ambulance arrived. He has never asked her name or sought her out. He only knows she was on her way to work in Palm Beach that morning.

“To me, it was an accident. That’s all it was,” he says. “I don’t

blame anybody.”And he has never sought out the medical records, which are

kept at St. Mary’s, and he has told the records clerks to ask him, “Are you sure you want to see these?” if he ever asks.

“It’s good not to have memories of that, because I’m sure it wasn’t a pleasant time,” he said.

He’d rather focus on where he is now, which, at the moment, is in the midst of giddy catcalling.

“Oh, look at her. Just look at her!” one of Chester’s co-work-ers, Michele Ritter, says.

“She’s the sweetest ...” says another.And another, “Oh, she’s so awesome ...!”Co-workers who see Don and Polly every single day are loving

on the attention-hound like they haven’t seen her in months.Polly has turned her body to lean against Ritter’s legs, staring

up with those always-soulful Lab eyes and — is that a smile? Because it sure looks like a dog smile.

“Polly? Hey Pol? Come, Polly. Pol, c’mon...” Chester is calling with a half-smile. She’s not going anywhere until after a few more belly rubs.

Polly has been taught a command — “make a friend” — that Chester has scarcely had to use.

“You have to have no ego,” he jokes. “Pretty much everybody will say hello to her first.”

In his office, Don is seated at the U-shaped desk adapted for his use.

His wheelchair glides up to and under it where his hands can float over the keyboard. He wears a pair of cuffs over his hands with a pointer attached to each palm that he uses to tap away at the keyboard, swiftly like a hunt-and-pecker.

He prefers to do as much as he can to keep himself active, from typing instead of using the slick dictation system with a micro-phone, to walking Polly instead of asking an office assistant to take her out twice a day.

Still, the microphone is a big part of his life. Using a program called Dragon Dictation, he can reply to emails and using his iPhone’s functionality can send texts. He even has it set to flash


Don Chester rides a hand-cycle bike around his neighborhood. Ten years ago, the former triathlete was hit by a car and paralyzed from the chest down. As a result of his injury, he no longer sweats, so when he rides his bike, he often wears ice collars and must constantly be aware of his temperature.

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an LED light when he receives a call or text. He keeps it face-down in his lap and defuses the blinking by telling people not to mind his flashing crotch.

Rather than be frustrated at not being able to do things the way he used to, Don has adapted things around him to his new condition. Because his hands are paralyzed into a permanent karate-chop stiffness, he and Sally have improvised gadgets.

There’s a plastic hook stuck to the back of his iPhone case that he can loop a finger through to pick up. The mail-order cuffs with the pointers can also be fitted with a pen.

“My handwriting was bad before,” he jokes.Another set of cuffs is fitted with a fork and spoon.“We don’t let him have knives too often,” Sally jokes.His method for getting things done has changed, but he gets

them done all the same.Learning to accept help, though, was the biggest adjustment.“I knew I wasn’t going to be able to be with him 100 percent

of the time,” Sally said.Now, in the mornings, his assistant, Lissette Tamargo, pours

him water and keeps his cup filled throughout the day. After the accident, one of the nerves that controls his ability to sweat was permanently damaged so he has to remain hydrated and be careful of overheating.

Sally found cups with handles wide enough so he can slip his hands through with a top and a straw.

Tamargo opens his eyeglass case in the mornings and polish-es his lenses and puts them back at the end of the day.

His day-to-day job, as the hospital’s government relations liaison, is unchanged. Most of the time, Polly lies under his desk, dozing unseen, like George Costanza.

“She’s invisible until she’s necessary,” St. Mary’s CEO Davide Carbone said after his daily morning meeting in a packed conference room with Don, Polly and the rest of the administrative staff.

Chester’s smile and good nature lure you in, his sense of humor breaking down the barriers that often exist between the handicapped and those who aren’t.

What set Chester apart — and brought out everyone from the community, including such politicians as Lois Frankel and Mark Foley, to donate to a fund to retrofit his modest home south of Forest Hill Boulevard — is his personality.

He remembers people’s names, loves to engage them with stories. In a place like the hospital, which can be cold, sterile, impersonal, it’s a ray of sunshine.

Chester has worked here for 43 years. He knows everyone from the head pastor to the newest cashier. He knows every hallway and what’s behind every storage closet, down to the location of the transfer switch to alternate to generator power in case of an outage, from his time as the physical plant man-ager.

The man knows this place, these people.Before Polly, all he had worked for was in jeopardy.He learned the hard way that others have a hard time relating

to people with disabilities. They look away. Give them a wide berth in hallways. Stand awkwardly in elevators.

Polly changed all that.New Horizons Service Dogs provided her after months of

interviews and several meetings with Don, Sally and their dogs at the time. Now, she fits in perfectly with their four-legged family, dogs Comet, Shadow and JP.

“She came running in the house and I remember thinking she was the most beautiful dog I’d ever seen,” Don said.

Whenever he wheels along with his blonde bombshell at his side, he’s immediately the center of attention. Well, maybe just outside the center, since Polly loves the spotlight.

She erases the distance. People notice the dog instead of the wheelchair.

“You bring Polly with you, and that’s the icebreaker,” Ches-ter said. “People see her, and they feel good.”


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ROXBOROUGH, Pa. — Surrounded by vintage milkshake machines, waffle irons, Pyrex bowls, percolators, toasters, refrig-erators, pizzelle makers, blenders, radios, clocks, electric fry pans, colanders, sifters, pots, lids, aluminum ice cube trays, and 6,000 to 8,000 Life magazines, among other things, Rich Boris

had a candid explanation for the origin four years ago of his Kitch-n Collectibles shop in Roxborough.

“It’s called hoarding,” he said with a laugh.That, combined with this practical thought as Boris, a retired

Philadelphia firefighter, headed into his 60s: “Once you’re old enough to start collecting Social Security, you have to start sell-ing stuff.”

He has a long way to go.February 2015 — 17

Clem Murray/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNSRich Boris, 63, owner of Kitch-n Collectibles in Philadelphia, stands amid his wares — restored old appliances that are celebrated and purchased by consumers who aren’t impressed with the modern appliances.

Decluttering and divesting at Kitch-n Collectibles in Roxborough, Pa.

Now 63, Boris confided that what’s on display in his crammed, yet orderly, 1,000-square-foot store on Ridge Avenue at Green Lane is just a third of what he has amassed.

The rest — including two dozen refrigera-tors from the 1930s and ’40s that a local body shop will cus-tom-paint for buyers — is in storage in two garages and the

basement of an apartment building.“You start buying and can’t stop,” said Boris, who just used his

late mother, Matilda’s, Model 7 Sunbeam Mixmaster, a wedding gift from 1946, for his Christmas baking.

He blames his late father, James, also a firefighter, for his aver-sion to discarding.

“My dad would take things and fix them,” he said. His elder’s philosophy: “You never throw anything out until it’s really dead.”

And the way things were made back then, they lasted a long time — on undisputable display inside Kitch-n Collectibles, where everything leaves the store in working order and is guaran-teed for a minimum of 30 days after purchase.

Promoting their continued use is part nostalgia for Boris.“You look at this stuff, and you see a time when we built things

in the United States,” he said, mentioning the rich Ohio clay that was the basis of Fiesta ceramic dinnerware, and the prime silica that made New York a natural setting for Corning Ware and Pyrex.

There was also RCA in Camden and appliance king Philco at G & Tioga Streets in Philadelphia, Boris noted.

His collecting began with Life magazines dating back to 1936 more than 25 years ago, followed by the cooking gadgets that now line the shelves, windowsill, ceiling, and walls of Kitch-n Collectibles, named by his partner “because he thought it was a kitschy kind of place.”

From the time back problems forced his retirement from the fire department in 1991 until about 2000, Boris said, he was “fid-dling around fixing these things, realizing I wasn’t making any money.”

He turned to the Internet. Soon, he was selling 10 to 20 ads a month from his Life archive for $7 to $10 each. Meanwhile, he kept picking up household items at flea markets and yard sales.

In 2010, a friend was opening a consignment shop on Main Street and offered Boris some sales space. In six months, she tri-pled his rent because he was outselling her, Boris said. The Rox-borough native’s thoughts turned uphill, to a once-thriving com-mercial strip.

“I remember what Ridge Avenue used to be,” he said, bemoan-ing the loss of shoe retailers, men’s shops, and even the Penn Jer-sey Auto Parts store that stood where Kitch-n Collectibles does now.

But with a monthly rent of $1,500 and tax bills amounting to an additional $300, sales are “not enough to make money,” he said, declining to disclose revenue specifics from the store and his website (www.kitch-n.com, which was not accessible because Boris was changing hosts).

“The street has been difficult because we’ve lost I can’t tell you how many stores,” he said. “The economics are difficult.”

Boris did say 2014 provided “one of our best fourth quarters,” with sales up 40 percent to 50 percent over Q4 2013. In-store sales increased year over year about 10 percent to 15 percent, he said.

He’s especially heartened to see repeat customers, affirmation to Boris that he’s filling a need — beyond his own to divest and declutter.

One of those customers is Judy, 66, a retired bank employee, who did not want her last name used because she didn’t want people to know she collects antiques.

“It’s fun to reminisce walking through that store,” she said.Among the reminders of the past she has brought home: a

Hamilton Beach blender and a Sunbeam electric coffeemaker, both from the 1940s, and a Delta toaster from the 1950s that emits slices from both sides at the bottom.

In Judy’s house, coffee takes about 15 minutes to percolate. She wouldn’t have it any other way:

“I’m just an old-fashioned-type gal, I guess.”


Clem Murray/Philadelphia Inquirer/TNSAbove: These are two of the approximately 8,000 Life Magazines stored in Rich Boris’ store. Below: A Sunbeam Mixmaster Junior from the late 1950s.


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tunities 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).- Three Forks Food Bank: Volunteer needed

on Mondays and/or Thursday’s to help with administrative duties, including answer phones and questions, some paper and com-puter work. They will train.- Warming Center: Volunteers are needed

for overnight shifts at the center, training is provided.- Your unique skills and interests are need-

ed, without making a long-term commit-ment, in a variety of ongoing, special, one-time events.Contact: Debi Casagranda, RSVP Pro-

gram Coordinator, 807 N. Tracy, Bozeman, MT 59715; phone (406) 587-5444; fax (406) 582-8499; email:[email protected].

Musselshell, Golden Valley & Petroleum counties- America Reads: Tutor students in the

See RSVP, Page 21

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) 424-8867 or TTY (800) 833-3722; or log on to www. seniorcorps.org.RSVP

On The Menu With Jim Durfey


Slow Cooker Orange Chicken2 large carrots, peeled and sliced about a half inch thick2 large red or green bell peppers, cut into half inch chunks3 cloves garlic, finely minced4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts cut into bite size pieces1 tbsp. fresh ginger, grated or minced1 tsp. salt1/2 tsp. pepper8 oz. orange juice concentrateOrange segments from one orange for garnish2 green onions, chopped, for garnishHot cooked rice

Put carrots, peppers and garlic in slow cooker. Add, chicken, ginger, salt, pepper and frozen orange juice. Cover and cook on low four to six hours. Serve chicken on hot cooked rice. Top with orange segments and green onions. Serve chicken liquid in gravy boat, if desired.

If you’re looking for a new cocktail to serve guests in February, the one below is very refreshing. It also has a red blush which is an appropriate color for a drink that’s served around Valentine’s Day.

Cranberry & Elderflower Liqueur Sparkler1 cup vodka3 oz. elderflower liqueur1/2 c. cranberry juice1 1/2 c. club soda

Put all ingredients in pitcher with lots of ice. Stir until well combined. Serve in cocktail glass with a few ice cubes. Serves four to six. Warning: This drink goes down almost too smoothly. Sip it slowly.

February - time for fast food She’s been married to me for over 35 years. Since she’s had to put up with me and my personality defects for that length of time, it’s no surprise that my wife kicks me out of the house most evenings and tells me to get lost. That’s how I became involved with Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts and the Yellowstone Ballet Company. Acquain-tances of mine have told me my devoting time and effort to these nonprofit groups is commendable. Little do they know I show up at many committee meetings, Scout meetings and board meetings because I have nowhere else to go. February of 2015 will be extra busy. There is the Cub Scout Blue and Gold Banquet, the Scouting for Food event, which is a benefit for the Livingston Food Pantry, while the ballet company will hold a Valentine Tea at the Depot Center. With many meetings in early February,

I’ll have to prepare meals that feature fast food. With a little planning, it’s possible to put a delectable meal on the table that’s quick to fix. The recipe below is one example. The ingredients can be assembled in the morning and put in the slow cooker on a lunch break. All that’s needed to complete the meal later in the evening is to cook the rice and make a veg-gie dish. Some of my other favorite “fast food” dishes are spa-ghetti with a homemade sauce and turkey gumbo. I freeze the spaghetti sauce in serving size containers. To make the meal, all that’s necessary is to cook some pas-ta, thaw out the sauce and make a tossed salad. I like to make enough turkey gumbo to feed a small army. All I have to do is to cook some white rice, thaw out some gumbo and make a veggie dish. That’s a pretty quick meal, too.

Suspected burglar falls through ceiling HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities say a man’s plans to break into a

Houston store fell through, after he crashed through the ceiling and landed in front of police. Houston police say the man climbed a tree and onto the roof of a

Family Dollar store early one morning, then managed to break a hole in the roof and enter the building. But after making his way into the store, the man fell through the

ceiling just as a police officer arrived in response to a call about a potential burglary. KHOU-TV reports that the officer ordered the unidentified man

to stay on the floor. The man was later arrested. Authorities believe the man was trying to steal cigarettes.

Hawk makes itself an unwanted house guest ROYAL OAK, Mich. (AP) — A red-tailed hawk has cleared out

after making itself an unwanted house guest in suburban Detroit. Ann Duke tells columnist Neal Rubin of The Detroit News her fam-

ily initially thought their cat — or even a burglar — caused damage a few weeks ago at their Royal Oak home. A glass orb from an art deco sculpture was shattered and crystal candlesticks were scattered about. Then they spotted the hawk perched on a lamp. They say it

spread its wings but stayed put. Duke called 911, but that wasn’t the right place for help. She

called animal control and a pest removal company but they couldn’t assist. So Duke, her husband and her daughter opened doors and windows and shoed it out of the house with a bath towel.

News Lite

—� Wednesday, February 4

• Big Sky Big Grass Bluegrass Festival, through Feb. 8, Big Sky Resort’s Mountain Village, Big Sky

—� Friday, February 6

• Billings Symphony Orchestra: Scottish Symphonic Fantasy, Alberta Bair Theater, Billings

• Ice Skating, weekends through Feb. 28, Bannack State Park, Dillon

• Cowtown Beef Breeders Show, Miles City

—� Saturday, February 7

• Polar Bear 4D Barrel Race and 2D Pole Bending, 10 a.m.-noon, 7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel

—� Sunday, February 8

• Big Sky Symphonic Commission, 7:30 p.m., Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, Gallatin Gateway

• National Barrel Horse Association Winter

Series, 9:30 a.m.-noon, 7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel


• Race to the Sky Sled Dog Race, noon,through Feb. 17, Helena

• Polar Bear 4D Barrel Race and 2D Pole Bending, 5:30-8 p.m.,7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel

• Always Patsy Cline Dinner Theater, through Feb. 14, Park Place, Miles City


• Rope N Run, 9:30 a.m., Rope at 10:30 a.m., 7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel

• Open Rodeo, 7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel• Buckaroo Bash, 6 p.m. no host cocktails, 7 p.m. dinner, 8 p.m. auction, MCC Centra, Miles City


• MHP Youth Rodeo, Noon, 7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel


• Miles City Cowboy Poetry Gathering, 4-5:30 p.m. poetry/music, 5:30-6:30 p.m. meal, 6:30 p.m. open mic, Range Riders Museum, Miles City


• National Barrel Horse Association Winter Series, 9:30 a.m.-noon, 7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel


• Great Rockies Sport Show, weekends through March 22, Friday 1 p.m.-8 p.m, Saturday 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m.-3 p.m, Lewis and Clark County Fairgrounds, Helena

• Polar Bear 4D Barrel Race and 2D Pole Bending, 5:30-8 p.m., 7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel


• Cottonwood Equestrian and Miller’s Horse Palace Team Roping Series, 10 a.m., rope 11 a.m., 7215 Mossmain Lane, Laurel


February Calendar 2015

RSVP, from Page 19

important skill of reading. Other tutoring is intertwined with this program. - Food Bank: Distribute food commodi-

ties to seniors and others in the communi-ty; help unload the truck as needed. - Meals on Wheels Program: Deliver

meals to the housebound in the communi-ty, just one day a week, an hour and a half, meal provided. - Nursing Home: Piano players and sing-

ers needed on Fridays to entertain resi-dents, also assistant needed in activities for residents to enrich supported lifestyle.- School Lunch Program: Help serve and

supervise children in the lunch room, meal provided. - Senior Bus: Volunteers to pickup folks

whom 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 oppor-tunity to learn new skills, make friends and connect with your community. Contact: Amanda Turley, South Central

MT RSVP, 315 1/2 Main St., Ste. #1, Roundup, MT 59072; phone (406) 323-1403; fax (406) 323-4403; email: [email protected] ; Facebook:

South Central MT RSVP.

Park County- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Mentor and

positive role model to a boy or girl, one hour a week. Also needed is a Community Program Mentor, who matches children and adults to find that perfect fit for both.- City of Livingston: Needs volunteers to

help with mailings and other work stations that do require standing and walking.- Fix-It-Brigade: Needs volunteers of all

skill levels for 2 hour tasks on your sched-ule to help seniors or veterans with small home repairs, such as changing a light bulb, shoveling snow, or weatherization.- HRDC VITA (Volunteer Income Tax

Assistance Program): Volunteers tax pre-parers and greeters needed beginning end of January, training held Jan. 12 and 13.- Links for Learning: Help needed with

1st-5th graders, one hour a week on Tues-day or Wednesday, after school, with read-ing, homework, or playing games.- Livingston Health and Rehab: Activity

volunteers needed weekends for bingo callers and movie showings, Monday through Friday, 9-11 a.m.; for coffee and reading the local news, Tuesdays and Thursdays 7 p.m. movie night.- Loaves and Fishes and/or Food Pantry:

Many volunteer opportunities available.- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to knit

and crochet caps and scarves for each

child at Head Start, also as gifts for chil-dren of prenatal classes, Thursdays at 1 PM at the Senior Center.- Senior Center Main Streeter Thrift

Store: Someone who enjoys working with the public. Come help greet customers, ring up purchases, tag and hang clothes and accept donations.- Shane Center: Friendly volunteers need-

ed to greet, answer questions and show people around the center on Tuesdays and Fridays. Also a need for volunteers to research the old East Side School building, collecting stories and finding pictures of past teachers, students and the building itself.- Stafford Animal Shelter: Volunteers

needed to play with the cats and kittens, and to walk the dogs.- Transportation: Volunteer drivers need-

ed to help patients keep doctor appoint-ments. Some gas mileage assistance may be provided.- Yellowstone Gateway Museum: Volun-

teers needed for a variety of exciting proj-ects.- Various other agencies are in need of

your unique skills and help in a variety of ongoing and one-time special events, including help with mailings needed.Contact: Deb Downs, Program Coordi-

nator, 206 So. Main St., Livingston, MT 59047; phone (406) 222-8181; email: [email protected]

Q. Sports trivia nuts, what’s the average lifespan of an NHL hockey puck, what do ice-skaters skate on, how many rotations does a pitched knuckleball make en route to home plate, and where did the golfer’s warning cry of “Fore!” originate?

A. It’s seven short minutes for the life of hockey pucks, which either fly into the stands or are removed because friction warms them up too much, causing them to start bouncing on the ice, say Harry Bright and Jakob Anser in “That’s a Fact, Jack!” “Game pucks — chilled to -10 degrees F — are kept in a freezer in the penalty box.”

Did you know that ice-skaters skate on water, not ice, because at 32 degrees F, ice has a liquid surface barely a few millionths of an inch thick. “Below -31 degrees F, the liquid layer becomes so thin that a skater’s blades would stick rather than glide across the ice.”

Ideally, the “knuckleball” should complete less than a single rotation on its way to the plate. The pitch’s dancing erraticisms are due to the air molecules pushing differently on the ball’s seams and smooth surfaces.

Finally, the “Fore!” in golf owes credit to the English military: “Back when soldiers fired rifles in lines, the command ‘Beware before!’ was a signal for the front line to kneel or risk getting their heads blown off.”

Q. What can be the driving force behind a whale of an explosion? Literally.

A. When a whale dies at sea and then washes up on shore, the decomposing corpse may bloat with gasses like methane and hydrogen sulfide, says Jessica Hullinger in “Mental Floss” magazine. But the animal’s weight may seal the body’s orifices and lead to gas buildup, which can be further exacerbated by the

sun’s heat. “Now the whale turns into a blubber balloon ripe for popping,” though not all popping goes as planned. When a 45-foot, eight-ton whale washed up on the Oregon shores in 1970, officials used a half-ton of dynamite to blow it up, “hoping most of the detritus would blast into the ocean. Instead, the explosion sent hundreds of pieces of whale confetti flying as far as a quarter of a mile, smashing one car to bits.”

Q. How you feel can affect whether you’re smiling or not. But how about the reverse? Can putting on a smile affect how you feel?

A. Actually, “body position, postures, gestures and facial expressions can influence how we think, feel and even behave,” reports the “University of California, Berkeley, Wellness Letter.” One classic study found that activating smile muscles made people rate cartoons as funnier, while a second study in the journal “Emotion” showed that just lowering eyebrows (in effect, frowning) had an immediate negative effect on mood.

These are a few of the complex body-mind interactions we humans experience. In their research, scientists have focused on expansive (or “power”) poses involving open positions such as standing upright with chest thrust out — in contrast to closed postures with the body slumped over, legs or arms crossed. Intriguingly, power poses may help lessen pain. A study from the “Journal of Consumer Research” showed that subjects who contracted their leg muscles or clenched their fists had more self-control when drinking a nasty “health” tonic or keeping their hands in icy water.

Yet some caveats apply here, especially regarding different cultural attitudes: In a study of Americans and East Asians, both groups felt more powerful with hands

spread on the desk, but the East Asians did not respond favorably to the “feet-on-the-desk” power pose since they value modesty and restraint. Likewise, Arab cultures did not react positively since they consider it an insult to show the bottoms of their shoes.

Q. NASA researcher Christopher McKay, in discussing the possibility of life beyond Earth, recently pronounced: “If we go through a checklist and, bang-bang-bang-bang, we’ve got it all, this is incredibly exciting. Then we have a compelling case for a planet with life.” What points were on his list?

A. In assessing the habitability of exoplanets, astronomers usually follow the water, says Lisa Grossman in “New Scientist” magazine. Exoplanets with rocky surfaces are declared habitable if they’re far enough from their star to potentially host oceans. “Even planets with barely any water could host life,” McKay explains. “Cyanobacteria, for example, live on rocks in the Atacama desert in Chile, which gets only a few days of rain and fog each year.”

Then, too, adequate light or geothermal energy for driving vital processes is essential, but not a lot is needed. Some deep-sea plants can grow even while receiving only 1 percent of the sunlight hitting the ocean’s surface. And another key requirement is nitrogen to build amino acids, because life is almost certainly going to use them.

However, Saturn’s moon Titan offers a cautionary tale with liquids on its surface and an atmosphere. “Its seas are filled with methane and ethane, and its atmosphere is a choking haze of nitrogen and methane.” Though seemingly inhospitable, Titan possesses complex molecules that may be building blocks for life. Says McKay, “If we discover something new, we’ll have to rewrite this chapter.”


By Bill Sones and Rich Sones, Ph.D.Send STRANGE questions to brothers Bill and Rich at [email protected]

Life span of a hockey puck:7 minuteS

Q. A puzzling situation: When students of neuroscientist Jeffrey Mogil were inves-tigating how the presence of a human researcher affected a lab mouse’s pain response, they found that sometimes someone’s presence reduced the pain, oth-er times it made no difference. “Something fishy” seemed to be going on. What was it?

A. When the students reevaluated their data controlling for the researcher’s gender, they discovered that the mice exhibited as much as 36% less pain when the student present was male, says David Grimm in “Science” magazine. (Pain was measured by videoing a mouse’s face and using a 3-point “grimace scale.”) Female mice were slightly

more sensitive to the effect than male mice. The key was odor, which held up whether the scent stimuli came from the students’ T-shirts, or bedding material of unfamiliar male mice, or pet beds of (unsterilized) male cats and dogs. “Further testing showed the rodents exposed to male odors were actually feeling less pain, rather than simply hiding the pain they were in,” Grimm notes. “The male aroma ramped up their stress levels, which deadened the hurt.”

Question for further investigation: “If a male doctor injects you with a new kind of pain medication, do you feel better because of the drug — or because he’s a he?”

Q. You can think on it all you want because your allotment of pent-up “think-ers” is 100,000,000,000, and your thinker-to-thinker connectivity encompasses fully 100,000,000,000,000. Do you have the brainpower to know what we’re talking about?

A. You certainly do, since we’re talking about the roughly three-pound organ that is your brain and its 100 billion normal neurons that are “wired” into the 100 trillion neural connections that make up your staggeringly complex thinking mind, says Andre Appleton in “Think: The Magazine of Case Western Reserve University.” That’s the “normal” human brain, whose dense and intricate wir-ing has yet to be mapped in its entirety.

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