WILDLIFEAND WILDSCENERYPAGE 20SCORE-INGAFTERRETIREMENTPAGE 9LOCAL PEONY EXPERT TURNSCO-AUTHORPAGE 4A SPECIAL SENI O R S E CTI O N60606060PAGE 2, 60+ACTIVE, SUMMER 2018It Takes A Lifetime To Get This Young!Center 50+ is a growing, dynamic organization poised to meet the evolving needs of the 50+ population of today and tomorrow.www.CityofSalem.net2615 Portland Rd NE • 503-588-6303Monday through Thursday: 7:30 am to 9:00 pmFri: 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, Sat: 8:00 am to 3:00 pmClassesFitness CenterLecturesSpecial EventsConferencesBilliardsCardsArtMusicDanceCraftsTravelLapidaryWoodshopComputer LabSupport GroupsBook ClubsCommunity Action TeamsCaféBoutiqueRespiteLunchPeggy sighs, humor mingling with exasperation. “We. There’s that we again.” “I was with you a lot of those times,” Jerry returns.“Sitting on the bleachers,” she says, getting in the last dig before continuing.“So I started going at my little pace around. Then I thought I’m going to do a 5K, that’ll be my celebration. And I found a 5K.” But that wasn’t enough of a celebration. In 2013, the year after her recovery, she completed a 5K every month for twelve months. Because ... why not? “Don’t think about how old you are in numbers,” she said. Peggy has another piece of life advice for you. “Every five years, look back and see the things you’ve done and accomplished,” she said. Life runs in stages, and it’s important to see where you’ve been, so you know where you want to go. Travel has been one of those things for Peggy, staying healthy has been one of those things for both of them. In addition to Peggy’s heart surgery, Jerry was SUMMER 2018, 60+ACTIVE, PAGE 3Published byWHEATLANDPUBLISHING CORPORATION142 Chemawa Road N,Keizer, OR 97303Phone: 503.390.1051Fax: 503.390.8023Email: kt@keizertimes.comwww.keizertimes.com60+activeEDITOR & PUBLISHERLyndon Zaitzlzaitz@keizertimes.comADVERTISINGACCOUNT REPRESENTATIVEPaula Moseleyadvertising@keizertimes.comSENIOR GRAPHIC DESIGNER& PRODUCTION MANAGERAndrew JacksonGRAPHIC DESIGNERCandace JohnsonCONTRIBUTORSCasey Chaffin, Dee Moore,Random Pendragon, Derek WileyBy CASEY CHAFFINKeizertimes InternPeggy and Jerry Moore oversee the Rickman Community Garden.They serve as ushers at the Elsinore Theater. They also sit on the board of Keizer United. Well, Jerry does. Peggy supervises, though. Prior to some health issues—these kinds of things happen once you begin measuring your life in decades—they picked crops at Salem Harvest, served lunch and dinner at the Salvation Army, worked with Marion Polk Food Share. They did things separately, too. Jerry gave fork lift lessons to workers trying to become certified operators at Marion Polk Food Share, Peggy taught angling with Fish and Wildlife. To put it simply, Peggy and Jerry Moore are volunteers. “I don’t want to use the word servant, but they are humble servants—they’re always here to serve,” said Meredith Mooney, chair of Keizer United. Mooney has worked with the Moores through Keizer United for two years. “They won’t even tell us, they’ll just go Making it workMaking it a teaSee TEAM on page 8out and find amazing things” for the organizations Keizer United partners with, whether that’s in-kind donations of toiletries for the McNary Kloset or monetary donations to build a fence around the Rickman Community Garden. They knock on doors until they get what they came looking for. It’s what they do. “There’s a lot of places that do a lot of good, and we’d like to support them, but financially we’re not able to support them the way we’d like to, so we donate our time and our labor, maybe our expertise like gardening,” Peggy said. “So that way, we give away hour-wise a lot more than we could give money-wise.” The Moores weren’t always volunteers. Jerry has held many jobs over the years, and Peggy was a waitress. Their schedules were flexible enough for spontaneous car trips to Washington, but they had other priorities. Kids, work, relationship, the usual. Then they retired. “Once you retire, you got to find something to do. If you don’t, you’ll go stir-crazy,” Jerry said. “So [Peggy] said, ‘Well let’s go down to the Salvation Army.’ Then we went to other things they had, and then we went to the Food Share.” And it just spiraled out of control from there. In a good way, of course. The Moores weren’t always The Moores. They knew each other for three decades prior to tying the knot, when Peggy was 50 and Jerry was 56. What took them so long? “I was not the marrying type,” Peggy said. “I was very independent and very self-sufficient.” So what changed? “He kept pursuing me and I got to thinking, one of these days I’m not going to have anybody to sit and have dinner with, it might be a little lonely,” Peggy said. In this weakened state of mind, she found herself with Jerry at the Lancaster Mall. “Let’s go to the jewelry store,” he said. She was defiant. “What for? I don’t wear jewelry.”But so was he. “Either pick out a ring or we’re done.”“So I picked out a ring,” Peggy said. Twenty-two years later, the Moores are both in their 70s, and they finish each other’s sentences and squabble about details in the affectionate way only two people who have known each other too well for too long can. A good example comes when Peggy starts to tell the story of her surgery and recovery. “I had open-heart surgery. You can see my scar,” she says, gesturing to her chest. “They tried to cut my throat, do you see how high it went?” She chuckles. Jerry interjects: “She had six bypasses.”“No, it was five,” she corrects him. “It was only five.” Then she moves on.“I took the first year and recovered, and then the last couple months of that year, I thought I had to do something to celebrate. I don’t want jewelry, I don’t want to go out to dinner. What can I do?”Jerry picks up the thread. “So I took her down to McNary, and we went around that track,” Jerry says.Peggy and Jerry Moore KEIZERTIMES/Casey Chaffina teaa teaa teaa tea“You never know who you’re going to touch, or where the person you’ve touched is going to go.” — Peggy MoorePAGE 4, 60+ACTIVE, SUMMER 2018By RANDOM PENDRAGONKeizertimes InternIn the 1960s, Carol Adelman’s husband Jim, wanted his family to grow apple trees. They did so for some time; but Carol, with a combination of sharp business sense and a bit of luck, set her sights on the peony flower. Now, more than five decades later, Adelman Peony Gardens serves customers all around the world. Those years allowed Carol to fine-tune her peony expertise, culminating in her being asked by David Michener, a PhD in botany and the associate curator of the Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum at the University of Michigan (UM), to co-author a book about the flowers for Timber Press.When Timber Press initially proposed the book to Michener, he knew that if he was to do it, he wanted a co-author that could supplement his knowledge on the topic. Immediately following that thought was the decision to bring Adelman on board. Michener had known her for about a decade, due to her involvement as a member of the advisory board for the Nichols Arboretum Peony Garden. The partnership paid off, and as Michener explains, “[UM’s] collection is historic, but Carol has her whole life working with peonies… She has a great deal of information on every peony she’d ever grown.” They also worked well together during the editing stages of the book, with Adelman keeping Michener’s “tendency to write long sentences” in check and reader-friendly. “Carol was wonderfully candid,” he elaborated. “She didn’t have an ego, I didn’t have an ego.” But most importantly to Michener, “She understands peonies,” he said. “That may sound funny, but many people don’t understand the plant they’re working with.” As far as the process in compiling each variety for the book, Adelman explained that Oregon peony expert turns co-authorthey started with well-known award-winners and steadily made their way through the many varieties available at Adelman Peony Gardens. The pair even enlisted the help of a farmer in Wisconsin who provided some of the “latest and greatest” tree peony varieties that the Adelmans didn’t have yet. “We tried to put in old ones … and new varieties that people can get now, and a few that are a bit rare but will be popular in the future,” Adelman said.Near the final stages of the book, Adelman flew out to Michigan and the pair spent a weekend using the desks of a UM classroom to lay out all the pages and order them how they wished. While both have been humbled by the response to the book, including it’s inclusion in The New York Time’s 2018 Summer Reading list, there was one achievement that meant the most to him—being able to give his father a signed, early-release copy shortly before he passed. Peony: The Best Varieties for Your Garden, can be bought just about anywhere books are sold, including on line at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or the Timber Press website. A LIFETIME OF KNOWLEDGEWhile the book-writing process was fairly straightforward, Adelman’s path to peonies leading up to this had a few more twists and turns. The Adelmans were originally apple farmers, but fruit cultivation posed a number of challenges for them—their packing house (where fruit gets processed before being sold) had gone bankrupt not once, but twice. “I wanted to get into something where we could sell direct to the consumer instead of going through a middle-man,” she said. KEIZERTIMES/Random PendragonCarol Adelman, co-owner of Adelman’s Peony Gardens in Salem co-authored Peony: The Best Varieties for Your Garden with David Michener. The New York Times added it to its list of summer reading for 2018.Please see PEONY, Page 8“ She understands peonies. 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Only four in 10 savers are saving as much as they think is necessary, according to the 2017 Lincoln Retirement Power Participant Study. One reason for this is that many savers face competing fi nancial Tips to meet your retirement goalspriorities, such as saving for college for their children and paying down mortgage debt. A fi nancial advisor can help you manage such competing priorities.• Plan for the unexpected. Most people age 65 and older will need some form of long-term care, so plan for this potential expense. 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An annuity can provide a stream of guaranteed lifetime income that they won’t be able to outlive.”More retirement resources and tips can be found at www.lincolnfi nancial.com.Savers should look for a retirement savings plan that is well-rounded and well-protected against risk. Consult with a qualifi ed advisor who can help you plan a strategy that will leave you feeling more confi dent about your future.(StatePoint)There are two things that older adults have in spades these days: time and knowledge. And both make them the perfect match for volunteering.By giving back as little as two hours a week, or about 96 hours a year, older adults are discovering how to keep their lives active and healthy.Research shows that seniors who volunteer can combat depression, stave off chronic pain, and boost brain power. In short, volunteering can promote longevity.To help educate older adults about the benefi ts of volunteering, the National Association of Area Agencies on Aging (n4a) launched a public education campaign to raise awareness of the issue and to prompt older adults to take action. The centerpiece of the campaign is a publication, Doing Good Is Good for You: Volunteer!The brochure includes a Self-Assessment Checklist that can help evaluate the range of issues and activities that one may fi nd most interesting in a volunteer setting.For example, are you interested in animals, politics, or art?Do you enjoy activities such as gardening, tutoring, or counseling?The Checklist gives you dozens of options.One prospective volunteer who completed a checklist of his interests was a lifelong musician. He checked “arts and culture” as a favorite and said he loved teaching others. When the local volunteer coordinator signed him up, she had no idea that his instrument of choice was a ukulele. Two years later, his lessons have become so popular, he’s teaching in two senior centers to packed classes.The point is, there’s a volunteer opportunity for everyone, and it can be found with the simple click of a mouse. (NewsUSA)Doing good is great for seniorsSUMMER 2018, 60+ACTIVE, PAGE 7Acting Your AgeYI S A L W A Y S O P T I O N A LSenior Living CommunityEmerald Pointe1125 McGee Court NE, Keizer — www.EmeraldPointeKeizer.com — Facebook.com/EmeraldPointeKeizerThat’s just another way retirement living is better at Emerald Pointe. 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That was three years ago.Now, they continue to do what they do best: volunteer. It’s important to them, because people are important to them.“You never know who you’re going to touch, or where the person you’ve touched is going to go,” Peggy said. One instance of touching people’s lives Jerry cites is their work in the community garden, where they installed special, raised planter boxes for gardeners who couldn’t maneuver in the dirt as well as they used to. “When we made those high-rise boxes for those two elderly ladies, you should’ve seen the expressions on their faces,” Jerry said. “They just hugged her and wouldn’t let go.” Peggy nods. “I promised them I’d get it done.” And she did. They both did. Because that’s how the Moores work: as a team. And while they’ll tease each other when asked the question of what makes their life together work, you can see the truth in the way they interact with each other. At the end of the day, they’re happy. “We haven’t had a lot of money, but we’ve had a good life,” Jerry said. TEAM,continued from Page 3PEONY,continued from Page 4That’s when she noticed peonies thriving and surviving with no care at abandoned homesteads and cemeteries. She also observed that peonies were a popular choice for busy mothers and grandmothers who couldn’t spare the time to keep other fl owers alive. It all clicked in her mind: They were beautiful, low maintenance, perennial—meaning they’d last a long time—and had no need to go through a packing house. And most important of all, there weren’t very many people selling them. It seemed like the perfect solution, but Jim was skeptical. “When I fi rst told my husband I wanted to raise peonies, he said ‘No,’” she explained. “He thought there was only red and pink and white.”Carol ended up sacrifi cing half of her vegetable garden to start her fi rst peonies. By the next year, there were no vegetables.She seemed to be at just the right place at just the right time to enter the peony business. For one, she had a lot of peony-growin’ neighbors. There was a series of events where neighbors who needed to clear space in their garden, move out of town, or otherwise get rid of their peonies would offer them to Adelman. This jump started the family’s peony business, giving them hundreds of varieties to offer their customers. Their fi rst out-of-state order came shortly after from Miami, forcing them to learn how to deliver and building the groundwork of the infrastructure they use today to send peonies all across the country and across the Atlantic to Europe. Later, came what Carol describes as the “miracle of the internet,” connecting her with peony consumers and gardeners worldwide. “Most of my Facebook friends are in Sweden or Russia,” she added. Carol still networks in the traditional way, too, by attending the annual American Peony Society conventions. “The fl ower competition is the highlight of the convention,” she said. “I’ve seen the best fl owers in the peony world there are.” She’s humble about it, but the best peonies are often hers, taking home awards for Best in Show, Court of Honor, and more on numerous occasions. She attributes it to the climate in Oregon; the overcast allows for longer bloom times, resulting in bigger fl owers and brighter colors. The offi ce of the Oregon Long-Term Care Ombudsman needs more volunteers to advocate for residents living in retirement facilities, adult foster care homes, and more.Volunteers are needed in Marion, Polk, Linn and Benton counties and advocate for resident rights, dignity and care. Ombuds-men provide education, investigate resident concerns, and seek to fi nd solutions for the residents.Volunteers enjoy a fl exible schedule with a four-hour per week commitment, working closely with staff, helping ensure quality care for residents, keeping active and building re-lationships.A certifi ed ombudsman volunteer train-ing has been scheduled from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Oct. 26 and 27, and Nov. 2, 3 and 16, in Salem.Applications are being accepted now. Contact Lené Garrett, 503-378-6303 or lene.garrett@oregon.gov.Volunteer to advocate for fellow seniorsBy DEE MOOREFor the KeizrtimesFor many folks facing retirement the idea of long days with little to do looms large, it’s a frightening prospect after years of steady schedules, projects, goals and responsibility. Ronald Larson of Corvallis took the bull by the horns, made a plan and charged into retirement the way he did his career, with a goal in mind. That goal was to share his knowledge of business development and management.He joined SCORE (Service Corps of Retired Executives) as a mentor with the Salem chapter. Now he works as a volunteer helping people start and grow their businesses. SCORE provides these one-on-one face-to-face client meetings free of charge.“As a SCORE mentor, you are not a consultant. We don’t have a prescribed recipe for how to help someone start a business. It doesn’t work that way. We are listeners. We listen then we assess what the people don’t know and do know and determine where to guide them when they are not doing what they should be doing. And we give them the proper sequence so they arena’t doing the last thing before they are doing the first one,” Larson said.Larson began his career with Hewlett Packard as a mechanical engineer and ended it there as well. “I was a project engineer on my last assignment and prior to that I was in charge of a manufacturing area. In 34 years; when you stay with the same company; you’re moving up the ladder and over a period of many, many years I had different assignments and different products (to oversee),” Larson said.His career with HP took him from Colorado Springs to Corvallis where his job duties grew and expanded. “When I did that I started getting into a lot bigger projects and lot bigger assignments. That’s my life in project management,” he said.And much to his chagrin that life ended with HP moving manufacturing overseas and an early retirement for Larson in May 2000. “So my job here was about to be eliminated in 2000 and … they offered a few pre-retirement classes to make us happier about leaving,” he said. That’s where he heard about SCORE.“I could use my training and talents in management to help small businesses; I was essentially a manager managing a small business within HP; it looked really good. I retired in May and I joined SCORE right away in June 2000. The 18 years Larson has been with SCORE have been fulfilling and productive. “We (HP management) were conditioned to having a budget, to having a goal in life, having health awareness and exercising and making ourselves useful to the community you live in through volunteering,” he said.The SCORE mentor has an average of six to eight meetings with a client. The meetings SUMMER 2018, 60+ACTIVE, PAGE 9SCOREing after retirementPlease see SCORE, Page 11“ We don’t have a prescribed recipe for how to help someone start a business. It doesn’t work that way. We are listeners…” — Ron LarsonNext >