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November 2014

A Monthly Publication for Folks 50 and Better

A reading foundation
One lunch at a time
Women embrace farm life solo style
Volunteer supports Israeli Defense Forces

INSIDE

Savvy Senior.............................................Page 3
Bookshelf..................................................Page 5
Opinion.....................................................Page 4
Big Sky Birding........................................Page 10

Volunteering..............................................Page 19
On the Menu.............................................Page 20
Calendar....................................................Page 21
Strange But True.......................................Page 22

News Lite
Boy, girl? Family with 12 sons awaits baby 13
ROCKFORD, Mich. (AP) A western Michigan couple with
12 sons is expecting baby No. 13, and even though theyre sticking to their tradition of not finding out in advance whether theyre
having a boy or girl, they said theyd be shocked if their streak is
broken.
Jay and Kateri Schwandts baby is due May 9, The Grand
Rapids Press reported. Even though they expect it will be another boy, the couple said they would welcome either into the family.
If we were to have a girl, I think we would go into shock,
Kateri Schwandt said. It would probably be disbelief.
If he had a choice, Jay Schwandt said he would love to have a
girl, but theyre just hoping for a healthy baby. Still, he would
like to see the effect of adding a girl to the mix in a household
with 12 boys.
Ive experienced all the boy stuff, he said. As long as we are

having all these children, it would be really neat to experience the

other side.
The couple welcomed their twelfth son, Tucker, to the world on
Aug. 4, 2013. Their oldest son is now 22 years old.
The stuff that goes on in this house is all-boy roughhousing
and wrestling, Jay Schwandt said. If there was a little girl in
there, I assume it would be different.
Kateri Schwandt, after being the sole female in the family for more
than two decades, said she would lean toward having one more boy.
A little girl would be neat to have in the house, but a little boy
kind of takes the pressure off, she said. We know what we are
doing. Why change things up?
The Schwandts, who live in Rockford, which is north of Grand
Rapids, consider themselves devout Roman Catholics and dont
believe in using birth control. Kateri Schwandt comes from a
family of 14 kids. She said she is feeling well.
I love being pregnant, she said. Ive spent half of my life
being pregnant. Its very neat and very special.

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Jim Miller, creator of the syndicated Savvy

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

A Guide to Finding
Affordable Dental Care
Dear Savvy Senior,
I had dental insurance through my work for many years but lost
it when I retired.Where can retirees find affordable dental care?
Need a Dentist

Dear Need,
Finding affordable dental care can be challenging for seniors
living on a tight budget. Mostretirees lose their dental insurance
after leaving the workplace, and original Medicare does not cover
cleaning, fillings or dentures.While theres no one solution to
affordable dental care there are a number of options that can help
cut your costs. Heres where to look.

Medicare Advantage
While original Medicare (Part A and B) and Medicare supplemental policies do not cover routine dental care, there are some
Medicare Advantage (Part C) plans that do.Many of these plans,
which are sold through private insurance companies, cover dental
care along with eye care, hearing and prescription drugs, in addition to all of your hospital and medical insurance. If youre eligible for Medicare, seemedicare.gov/find-a-planto look for
Advantage plans in your area that covers dental care.

Dental discounts

Another way you canreduce your dental care expensesis to

join a dental discount network. How this works is you pay an
annual membership fee around $80 to $200 a year
inexchange for 10 to 60 percent discounts on service and treatments from participating dentists.To find a network, go to DentalPlans.com(or 888-632-5353) where you cansearch for plans
and participating dentists by zip code, as well as get a breakdown
of the discounts offered.

Another option thats currently available only in the southern

California area isBrighter.com. They provide users free access to
a network of dentists offering up to 50 percent discounts on all
services.

Dental schools

Dental school clinics offer savings opportunities too. All 65

accredited dental schools in the U.S. offer affordable care provided by dental students who are overseen by their professors. You
can expect to pay about half of what a traditional dentist would
charge and still receive excellent, well-supervised care.

Another option is to check with local colleges that offer dental

hygiene programs. For training purposes, many programs provide
teeth cleanings by their students for a fraction of what youd pay
at a dentists office.

To search for nearby dental schools or dental hygiene programs

visitada.org/dentalschools.

Veterans benefits

If youre a veteran enrolled in the VA health care program, or

are a beneficiary of the Civilian Health and Medical Program
(CHAMPVA), the VA is now offering a dental insurance program
that gives you the option to buy dental insurance through Delta
Dental and MetLife at a reduced cost.

The VA also provides free dental care to vets who have dental
problems resulting from service. To learn more about these
options, visitva.gov/dentalor call (877) 222-8387.

Low-income options

If youre low income, there are various programs and clinics

that provide dental care at a reduced rate or for free. To look for
options in your areacontact your state dental director (seeastdd.
org), or your state or local dental society (ebusiness.ada.org/mystate.aspx).

You may also be able to getdiscounted or free dental careat

one of the federally funded HRSAhealth centers (findahealthcenter.hrsa.gov, (877) 464-4772), or at a privately funded free clinic
(nafcclinics.org).

Also check with the Dental Lifeline Network (dentallifeline.

org,(888) 471-6334) which provides free dental care for lowincome elderly and disabled; Remote Area Medical (ramusa.org)
which offers free health, eye and dental care to people in select
locations; and Indian Health Service (ihs.gov), which provides
free dental care to American Indians and Alaska Natives who are
members of a federally recognized Indian tribe.

Also seetoothwisdom.org, a website created by Oral Health

America that will help you locate low-cost dental care.
Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443,
Norman, OK 73070, or visitSavvySenior.org.
November 2014

Opinion

Go ahead and fly south; well be just fine here

November 2014

towns on calm, moonlight nights, with the snow crunching under

our boots. Were stuck with snowshoeing in the hills and mountains. Were stuck with sipping hot cider with family and friends
around a warm, crackling fire.
Yeah, were stuck, alright. And its just fine.
So, go ahead, snowbirds. Golf and hang out and watch plays in
community theaters and get bored down there. Well all be roasting chestnuts over an open fire.
And loving it.
Dwight Harriman,
Montana Best Times Editor
MONTANA

If you live in a mountainous region of Montana, you have

already seen snow on the high peaks. If youre on the plains,
theres a chill in the air when the wind blows these days.
And like our meadowlarks, blue birds, goldfinches, western
tanagers and a host of other birds, many of Montana human residents thoughts turn south about now. We all have friends who
have already flown the coop, and now we are left behind, facing
the prospect of a long, cold lonely winter. As I write this, a cold
fall wind is worrying the eaves of our house, whispering portents
of blizzards in the not-too-distant future.
If you can afford it and you are retired, or if youre still
working and your job allows you to work away from the office,
the lure is pretty strong to follow those meadowlarks southward.
But most of us are stuck here. And thats OK.
Because were stuck with skiing the cold smoke at Montanas
world-class downhill ski areas. Were stuck with ice fishing on
Montana terrific reservoirs. Were stuck with snowmobiling in
some of the best snowmobiling terrain on the planet. Were stuck
with cross-country skiing across rolling fields of brilliant, white
snow. Were stuck with walking down the streets of our home

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Bookshelf
Shaken in the Night: A Survivors
Story from the Yellowstone
Earthquake of 1959
Softcover 47 pages 6 x 9
ISBN 978-1-4996-0767-3

A poignant
firsthand account
of one the most
devastating events
to ever hit Montana
By Montana Best Times Staff
The Hebgen Lake earthquake of 1959 is the most
stark reminder in modern times that devastating earthquakes can and do happen in Montana.
The quake hit unsuspecting campers and tourists in the
Hebgen Lake area in southwestern Montana on Aug. 17,
1959, at 11:37 p.m. It killed 28 people, and a massive
slide it caused on the Madison River created Earthquake
Lake, or Quake Lake.
There are a lot of news accounts about what happened
that night, but one sees few in-depth survivor stories.
The just published Shaken in the Night: A Survivors Story
from the Yellowstone Earthquake of 1959, by Anita Painter
Thon, is a gripping example of one of those.
Thon was 12 at the time of the event. She had gone with her
family on a vacation to Yellowstone National Park when it happened. The book is not just an account of survival, but also of
great personal sorrow her mother did not survive the quake,
and her father was seriously injured, and was affected emotionally by the quake the rest of his life.
Thon describes in terrifying detail the moment the earthquake
hit as the family slept in their trailer.
The roaring sound was getting unbelievably louder and closer,
like it was headed straight for our trailer , she writes. I
remember that my heart was pounding so hard, like it was coming out of my chest
Suddenly, we were hit really hard by something. It was like
we had been in the worst automobile accident you could ever

experience. The trailer exploded apart, rolling several times I

was praying for it to stop and that we wouldnt be killed. The
trailer rocked and rolled, eventually cracking open like an egg,
letting in the moonlight Anne (her sister) and I pulled the
quilts over our heads and screamed and cried for our parents
help.
The jacket of Shaken in the Night sums the book up well:
Author Anita Painter Thon survived that night, but many others were less fortunate. Her firsthand account of this frightening
tragedy is a poignant example of how one routine decision can
alter a life forever, and her story is also a stirring display of how
strangers can unite their hearts and minds, putting others lives
before their own, in times of great need.
This is a slim volume only 47 pages so it wont take
long to get through it. But it is a riveting and poignant personal
account of one of the worst disasters to ever hit Montana.
If you want to know what it was like to experience that event,
pick up a copy of Shaken in the Night.
November 2014

A reading foundation

Librarians and volunteers help set up babies and toddlers for life
By M.P. Regan
Montana Best Times
DILLON A professional librarian for
over 30 years and Dillon Public Library
Director for the past decade, Marie Habener
spends an hour each week in her facilitys
basement leading singalongs and hand
movements for tunes like The Itsy, Bitsy
Spider and Heads, Shoulders, Knees and
Toes.
And reciting nursery rhymes. And playing with toys and dolls and games with the
preschool children, and parents and grandparents who enthusiastically gather each
week to spend that hour with her.
Its my favorite part of my job, said
Habener of the playful exercises and outright play that make up Books & Babies,
the early literacy program she conducts for

children from age three down to newborn.

Every Thursday, I find my mood elevated
because Ive been singing with children.
Little ones are so joyous, just so open to the
world.
But there is also something quite serious
going on amidst all the fun and games. That
singing and playing also elevates those
childrens capacity to take up and eventually master reading, an essential element for
every aspect of education.
Thats how children learn, thats how
language development occurs reading,
talking, singing, playing, said Cindy
Christin, the supervisor of childrens services at the Bozeman Public Library, where
shes been crooning tunes and reciting
rhymes and reading stories to kids since
1988.
Heres why you are doing these things

singing and reading are essential prereading skills that help a child learn. There
is brain research now that actually demonstrates how vital these early skills are,
added Christin, who before coming to Bozeman lived in Helena, where she worked
for Falcon Publishing and the Lewis &
Clark Library.
If you give these kids that foundation of
reading skills, then they are able to go on to
succeed at school and do great things for
their families and their communities, continued Christin.

Building the foundation

for the foundation

Christin played an essential role in establishing the foundation for early reading
education programs in public libraries

On the cover: Library Director Marie Habener holds a childrens book as she sits on the front steps of the Dillon Public Library.
Above: Habener engages youthful participants in the librarys Books & Babies program each week, with songs, nursery
rhymes and all sorts of educational fun. MT Best Times photos by M.P. Regan
November 2014

across Montana through her work with the

Montana State Library, where she has
served as a consultant for the past decade
and helped found the Ready to Read Program, along with the State Librarys Marketing and Communications Coordinator
Sara Groves.
We realized that as a state we were not
doing anything to encourage libraries to
reach families with young children. We did
a survey and found that a lot of the public
libraries in the state were doing preschool
story times, but only five out of 85 were
offering anything for infants and toddlers,
recalled Christin, who said the effort to get
more libraries to start serving the early
childhood population began as a marketing
campaign, but soon expanded to providing
materials and training for librarians and
volunteers to establish early literacy skill
building programs.
We got grant funding for a Ready to
Read Rendezvous, a whole weekend of
training for librarians. Many of them did
not have much experience working with
children that young, said Christin, who
also served for several years as a preschool
teacher in Helena and Washington, D.C.
It can take you a little out of your comfort zone to sit down with 2-year-olds and
recite nursery rhymes if youre not used to
doing it, laughed Christin.

Social studies

Early literacy programs at libraries can

also help parents and grandparents gain a
greater sense of comfort in serving as early
childhood caregivers, while also enriching
their lives in other ways.
Moms, dads and grandmas come in for
the program with the kids and have as
much fun as the children do, said Christina
Koch, who holds a Story & Craft Time for
young children as part of her work as youth
services librarian for Virginia Citys
Thompson-Hickman County Library,
where she started as a volunteer.
The program helps bring people together who have something in common but
might not have otherwise met we have
teenaged parents, older grandparents, middle-aged dads and moms who are all bringing up young children in the same community, said Christin.
We help them get information for raising young children and to get to know each
other at a time that is particularly lonely for
a lot of caregivers who have been going to
work for years and suddenly they are at
home alone all the time with an infant,
added Christin, who earned an English
degree from Allegheny College and a mas-

Marie Habener is pictured with children in her Books & Babies program, and their
parents, in Dillon recently.
ters in education from Colorado College.
A public library is both welcoming and
free. For many people, theres no other public place to go with an infant that is free and
open and supportive. This program gives
them a space to get together in, to share
information, to help their children and to
socialize.
The program also provides a classroom
for young children to develop their social
skills.
It was my kids first group experience,
said April Huss, of taking her year-and-ahalf-old son and 6-month-old daughter to
Books & Babies with Habener at the Dillon
Public Library.
My son was shy and daughter just kind
of watched at first. She went to Marie quite
often, if there was a song with adult interaction. Those two really connected with her,
continued Huss, of Habener, who gets hugs
from children before, after, and sometimes
even during, Books & Babies sessions.
It was really a great experience because
we were new to town and got to meet other
people. We made some really good friends
there that we still stay in contact with, said
Huss, who helped found an early childhood
literacy program at the Whitehall Community Library after moving from Dillon.
My children definitely developed a lot
of language skills through the songs and

different motor skills from performing the

various movements that go with some of
the songs, said Huss, of her son and
daughter, now both school-aged, who also
maintain friendships they made at the
Books & Babies program. They still sing
and talk about the songs they learned back
in Dillon at Books & Babies.

Summer and
the reading is easy

Habener extends her efforts to increase

early childhood literacy through other programs and events at the Dillon Public
Library, including Classic Story Time,
which presents oft-told tales like Cinderella, Little Bo Peep, Little Red Riding Hood
and The Three Little Pigs tales that connect generations but that perhaps may not
be getting told enough anymore.
These stories are all considered cultural
knowledge that will be referenced the rest
of their lives, said Habener, who helps
bring classic kids stories to life with a set of
two-sided dolls depicting characters in the
stories.
Kids are expected to know these stories,
but a lot of kids these days dont know
them, added Habener, who gets Classic
Story Time attendees to create craft projects
See Reading foundation, Page 16
November 2014

One lunch at a time

A vision to feed the needy draws together volunteers, churches
By Kathleen Gilluly
Montana Best Times

LAUREL Although the couples

goals in ministering to the Laurel community werent the same, the outcome of
establishing a summer food program for
children fulfilled both their dreams.
Edie and James Armstrong are devout
Christians and very active in their church,
the Family Christian Center, located at
1002 Third Ave. in Laurel. Both had long
wanted to do more hands-on work in the
community. Edie was more focused on
outreach and ministry, while James goal
was to get local churches to work together.
But their goals began merging after Edie
had a vision.
It just came to me as a fully formed
idea. I saw a trailer with a window for
serving food, she said. I drew a picture
of it and took it to church with me.

Answering the call

When Edie told the congregation of her

certainty that Gods will was for them to
feed people in need, the idea quickly took
root. Edna Stepper, of nearby Park City,
was at the service and saw Edies drawing.
She knew immediately how she could
help. She was so overcome by the opportunity presented, she had to compose herself before telling Edie the news, Stepper
said.
For years, Stepper and her husband,
Leo, who had recently died, operated a
mobile lunch truck in conjunction with
their Park City business. The truck and
trailer had been idle for too long. Stepper
said she knew she had been at that specific
church service for a reason.
The end result was that Edie and James
in June launched a summer food program
called Strangers, Orphans and Widows
(SOW), and Stepper donated the vehicles
so that SOW could use them as a food
trailer.
Volunteers spent months before the
launch preparing the trailer to serve hearty,
healthy meals. And, as more people heard
November 2014

Above: James and Edie Armstrong, of Laurel, are pictured inside the Strangers,
Orphans and Widows (SOW) food truck recently. MT Best Times photo by Kathleen Gilluly
Below: Caleb Armstrong, 8, left, and Nathaniel Rieke, 9, are shown with school
supplies that SOW provided to school children. Photo courtesy of SOW

Left: Edie and James Armstrong stand by the SOW food truck.
The truck served 2,597 hearty meals this past summer.

MT Best Times photo by Kathleen Gilluly

something good. This is the way to build community.

Familiar faces

about the effort, more and more volunteers stepped forward.

This past summer the food truck ran five days per week feeding people mostly children at three locations in Laurel.
Seven local churches committed to providing food and cooking
meals and several others have inquired about helping next summer.

A vision fulfilled

My wife started the ministry, James said, but its exciting

for me to see so many people getting out of church and working
with each other. Thats my passion to be around so many people who want to make changes and be doers.
While the program is faith based, it is not exclusive. James noted that not all volunteers are church-goers and few of the children
participating are interested in religion. Most volunteers are older
or semi-retired.
Edie said their the programs first priority is addressing hunger.
No one wants to be preached to, and thats not our purpose,
she said. We just want to get to know our neighbors. If anyone
asks why we do this, I do tell them its because God loves us and
I love them.
She added that after seeing the same faces all summer, many
neighbors throughout town arent strangers anymore.
We dont want to make anyone uncomfortable, Edie said.
We dont have an agenda except to fill a need.
And in doing so, the Armstrongs and their supporters are leading by doing.
Thats whats been the biggest testimony in my eyes, James
said. So many people have gotten out and worked together to do

In addition to feeding the kids homemade meals with food they

like one favorite is the walking taco volunteers made sure
to offer fresh vegetables, fruit, milk and water. Children could get
a to-go bag on Friday with snacks to share through the weekend.
On the last Friday before school started, children were given
school supplies, too. A team of volunteers helps at the hand
washing station, serving food or playing hopscotch.
We tried to have activities every day and well do that again
next summer, Edie said. One church supplied coloring books
and crayons. Other days we did face painting or something else
fun.
After serving 2,597 meals between June 2 and Aug. 22, the
ministry hopes to streamline their process a little so they have
more time to visit with the diners next summer.
Kathleen Gilluly may be reached at schools@laureloutlook.
com or (406) 628-4412.

Strangers, Orphans and

Widows (SOW) overview
SOW served an average of 50 meals per
day. Between June 2 and Aug. 22, volunteers
served 2,597 meals to Laurel children.
Anyone is welcome to volunteer.
Most of the food is cooked in the churches
commercial kitchens.
Seven local churches are committed to providing food and cooking meals and more
have asked to help in 2015.

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Hello Kitty arrested on DUI charge

GORHAM, Maine (AP) Police say a Maine woman who

was pulled over while wearing a Hello Kitty costume was arrested on a drunken driving charge.
Gorham police say officers stopped 37-year-old Carrie Gipson, of Westbrook, at about 2 a.m. Sunday because she was driving in the wrong lane. They say she refused to take a breath test
and was arrested for operating under the influence. She was taken to the Cumberland County jail.
Her police mugshot shows her wearing a red and white Hello
Kitty costume, minus the dolls mammoth head.
November 2014

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Birding
Terry McEneaney is ornithologist emeritus for Yellowstone National Park, and is the author of three books: Birding Montana, Birds of
Yellowstone, and The Uncommon Loon. He has been watching birds for 50 years and is one of Montanas most experienced birders.

Rare wing-stalling flight display

of the Townsends Solitaire
EDITORS NOTE:
Montana Best Times
has been featuring
some of the fascinating adventures Terry
McEneaney had
when he was Yellowstone National Parks
ornithologist. Following is another
excerpt from a new book he is writing,
Lucky Feathers: Adventures and Experiences of a Yellowstone Ornithologist.
A solitaire is a name given to a group of
small slim myadestine or fly catching
thrushes belonging to the family Turdidae.
There currently happens to be 12 species
of solitaires in the world. Four species
occur in Hawaii and have unique Hawaiian common names such as the Kamoa
(Myadestes myadestinus), Omaho (M.
obscurus), Olomao (M. lanaiensis), and
Puaiohi (M. palmeri). The Kamao and
Omaho are ecologically extinct as of this
writing, but the Olomao and Puaiohi are
hanging on ecologically for dear life.
Of the eight remaining solitaire species,
all are doing fine. Three species are found
in Central America, with one species
found respectively in northern South
America, Dominican Republic, Cuba,
Mexico, and lastly the Townsends Solitaire (M. townsendi) found throughout
western North America (spreading from
Mexico through the western United States
into Canada). The first solitaire ever to be
described came from a type specimen collected by John Townsend in 1838 along
the Willamette River near current day
Astoria, Oregon, hence the name John J.
Audubon gave the bird Townsends
Solitaire.
November 2014

10

Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

A Townsends Solitaire perches on the tip of a branch.

All soltaires, regardless of where they
are found, have commonalities. The
myadestine solitaires are slim-looking
upright thrushes measuring 6-10 inches in
length and weighing 24-72 grams. They
possess short tarsi, or legs, short broad
bill, and long wings and tail. They feed
mainly by flycatching, such as sallying for
insects in mid-air, and landing/hovering
for insects and/or hanging on fruit such as
berries.
The Townsends Solitaire of North
America is best described as 8 inches long
and all gray in color, with slightly darker
charcoal wings, tail, and dark eyes. One of
its key identification features are its obvious white eye ring, bold buffy (pale yellow-brown) wing bars, and a white trailing
edge to the sides of the tail. They have a
unique characteristic flight behavior
involving flicking of the tail at the same

time exposing the white tail edges. They

can also flail the wings and tail when landing, exposing the white edges to the tail,
as well and exposing its oftentimes hidden
buffy wing-stripes/wing bars seen from
both above and below.
The odd common name solitaire gets
its origin because it resembles a single
gem set alone, such as the beauty of a diamond gem. Thus a solitaire is normally
found perched or singing alone, i.e., all by
itself/solitary, but the name is also due to
its solitary diamond gem-like vocal purity
and loudness, which occurs whether
perched or while in flight. But occasionally a solitaire can be accompanied by
another individual somewhere nearby, the
individual nearby usually being its mate.
All solitaire species possess body plumage that is either brown or gray or a combination of countershading colors. All

have dark eyes and possess white partial

or full eye rings or none at all. Some can
have buff wing bar patches or none at all,
with white markings on throat, tail, or
undertail coverts are present in some species. All species of solitaires are noted for
their incredibly loud songs, with some
species bordering on being deafening to
the human ear. The Brown-backed Solitaire (M. occidentalis) comes to mind. But
only the Townsends Solitaire possesses
the rare combination of colorful buffy
wingbars/wing-stripes, a treetop level
breeding display, and a song.
The bold buffy wingbars or wingstripes get the attention of other
Townsends Solitaires and oftentimes they
will stay away. During the winter, foods
such as juniper berries are of a premium.
Defending these valued food sites can be
accomplished in the winter by exposing
the solitaires buffy wing-stripes and
white tail edges when defending a shrub
containing large numbers of juniper berries. They will make a snapping noise
with their bill and flail the wings while
defending a winter territory from other
competing solitaires and Bohemian Waxwings (Bombycilla garrulus).

Two wonderful
characteristics

But the Townsends Solitaire is noted

for two wonderful characteristics its
remarkable song and its characteristic
flight. They are unusual in the thrush family in that they sing throughout the year,
with two periods for this song one during the nesting season and summer (April
to August) defending a breeding/summer
territory, while the other occurs in winter
(September to March) defending food
resources on winter territories.
During the breeding season, they can
sing from a perch or while flying and performing a breeding display just over treetops. They are also unique in that the male
and the female can sing particularly during the winter defending valuable winter
territories. The Townsends Solitaires
song is best described as a loud, long
musical continuum of warbling tew
notes that varies in loudness and intensity.
The call on the other hand, is a single soft
wheeh whistle note.

Normally when they do conduct a

breeding flight display while singing, this
sensational song is performed not far
above the treetops (i.e., within 100 feet).
During this flight, they show off their
buffy wingbars while at the same time
continue to sing while performing what
resembles a near hover. But the scientific
literature does not mention Townsends
Solitaires performing high-flying, stationary aerial breeding displays described
herein. High-flying for the purposes of
this article is meant to be 500 to 1,500
feet above the ground.

Rare display

On about a dozen different field days

while climbing mountain peaks, I can
recall witnessing Townsends Solitaires
performing this same unusual high-flying,
musical breeding display not described in
the scientific literature. Areas that come to
mind from notes for this high-flying
breeding display include Rattlesnake
Butte, Electric Peak, Mt. Sheridan, Barronette Peak, Bunsen Peak, Chicken
Ridge, Grizzly Peak, Mt. Washburn (Yellowstone National Park/Montana and
Wyoming), Sheep Mountain and Emigrant
Peak (Absaroka Mountains), Taylor
Mountain (Centennial Mountains), Mount
Sentinel (Sapphire Mountains), and Hoodoo Pass (Bitterrroot Mountains), all
located in Montana.
The most notable day for observing this
remarkable territorial flight display in
detail was Aug. 28, 2004, while I was
resting on the summit of Electric Peak
(10,992) in Yellowstone National Park
(Montana). I could hear the loud song of
the Townsends Solitaire above me, but
had a hard time figuring out where the
song was coming from. Heard were dozens of songs each lasting 7-20 seconds at
a time. There was a slight 5 mph breeze
on the summit from the southwest it
should be noted this was a key point
regarding this very unusual observation.
Then I looked up and saw with binoculars a mere speck of a bird and identified
it by its song and wing-stalling technique exposing its buffy wing-stripes in
stationary flapping flight that bordered on
hovering. I estimated the bird to be 1,0001,200 feet above the 10,992-foot summit,
thus performing this behavior somewhere

Above: A sketch Terry McEneaney

made of the Townsends Solitaire
he witnessed displaying high in the
air above Electric Peak in Yellowstone Park. Image courtesy of Terry

McEneaney

Below: The spot over Electric Peak

the mountain in the foreground
at which the Townsends Solitaire displayed is superimposed on
this Google Earth image.

between the 11,990 to 12,100 feet in elevation. It was sort of singing as it was
wing-stalling. It was a beautiful sight to
behold. This unusual wing-stalling
behavior resembled the magnificent skylarking breeding behavior of the Eurasian
Skylark (Alauda arvensis) that I have
observed in Ireland on many occasions.
So next time you are in the Greater Yellowstone or throughout the mountains of
Montana and you happen to climb a
mountain summit on a nice summer day,
you might want to keep an ear and an eye
out for the high-flying, stationary rare
wing-stalling flight display of the
Townsends Solitaire.

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

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On their own

By Deb Hill

Montana Best Times

LEWISTOWN A senior woman on

her own likely when you hear that
phrase, you expect the lady to live in a
townhome, condo or perhaps a retirement
community. But some lucky few live
where youd least expect it: down on the
farm.
Whats more, many of those have no
intention of leaving the country life anytime soon, despite the extra effort required
to handle rural living. Why do they do it?
Mostly, it seems, because they cant imagine living anywhere else.

galke followed the job market to Montana

with her newly minted teaching certificate.
I have a B.S. in secondary education,
and I taught home economics and science, Biegalke said. After I graduated, I
had several job offers in Ohio but I took a
position in Chester, Montana, which paid
$200 more a year. In those days, that was a

Three women embrace life on the farm, solo-style

lot of money. I was fiddle-footed and fancy free, and I could go where I wanted. So
I ended up in Chester.
There, at a country dance, Biegalke met
her husband-to-be.
Im the worlds worst dancer, but he
still asked me out for a date the next weekend, she recalled.

Beulah Biegalke

A case in point is 88-year-old Beulah

Biegalke, of Stanford, in central Montana,
who still lives on the farm she and her
husband purchased in 1957. Barns and
outbuildings, along with fields of grazing
cattle, surround the tidy gray farmhouse
sitting in the middle of 1,280 acres.
Biegalke has lived by herself since losing her husband, Francis, in 1998. The
farm is leased to neighbors, but Biegalke
still has five cows of her own in the herd
loitering along the fence line nearby. Her
three children, two daughters and a son,
live far away: Washington, Ohio and Florida. The neighbors help sometimes, but
Beulah is mostly on her own.
Why not move to town where life might
be a little easier?
Because this is my home, Biegalke
said. As long as Im able to function, why
not live here? I think we make a big mistake by putting old people in rest homes.
When you are ready to die, you are ready
to die, whether you are in assisted living
or not. Ive lived here almost all my adult
life. It feels like where I need to be.
As a young woman raised in Ohio, BieMT Best Times photos by Deb Hill

Mary Messina chats with her horses on

a fall day outside Lewistown. Messina
moved to Montana from the Midwest in
1996, drawn by a love of the state and
its people.
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Above: Stanfords Beulah Biegalke, 88,

stands near the pasture where she still runs
five head of cattle. Biegalke lives on the
1,280-acre farm she purchased with her
husband in 1957.

After a few more dances, they married, then moved around some before
finding the Stanford farm for sale.
We paid $100 an acre to buy it, she
said. We didnt have much money and I
dont know how I did everything I did
made the kids clothes, took them
down the road to catch the school bus,
kept the house and made the meals,
helped with the farm. I just did what
needed to be done, I guess.
But now others run the farm, the kids
are grown and moved away, and for
some, the little house might seem too
quiet. But not for Beulah.
It hasnt occurred to me to move to
town, she said. Theres always something to do out here. I grow a little garden this year, potatoes, tomatoes and
corn mostly and I knit, tat and weave.
I dont watch TV much I dont like it
and we only get three channels out here.
I love to read, and I help with the reading program at the Judith Basin County
Free Library.
Id like to have more cows, but the
people who run them want to sell the
ones that dont calve every year. If it
were me, Id give the cows another
chance. A few years ago I had 20 head,
but now Im down to five.
Visitors are uncommon, although Biegalke said her children touch base with
her frequently.
A lot of people my age are not here
any more, but if I want company, Ill
call someone and ask them to come out
with me. We might go to town, or down
to Great Falls for a play or something.
But I dont mind the quiet, Biegalke
added, glancing out the window at the
acres of grassland blowing in the wind.
This is what Im used to and I like it.

Judy Hoge

That sentiment is echoed by Judy

Hoge, 73, who lives about 12 miles outside of Lewistown. Hoges hilltop home,
Left: Judy Hoge, 73, enjoys the peace
and quiet, to say nothing of the
stunning view, of her country
property outside Lewistown.

with views across much of central Montana, was a retirement spot chosen by
her husband, Mel, to which the couple
moved in 1997. Mel died three years
ago, but Judy hasnt left.
I just dont know what Id do with
myself if I moved to town, Hoge said.
I grew up in Havre, and I was a city
slicker until I met my husband, Mel, when
I was 14, she explained. We got married
when I was 18 and we farmed at Big Sandy. Living in the country was the love of
my life. At first, we lived in a two-room
house on 300 acres with no running water,
and I was raising three kids. Some might
have hated it. I loved it.
Hoge said Mels aunts taught her how
to can produce and butcher meat.
I learned all that stuff that I needed
to know, she recalled. I would get up
at 1 a.m. to check the cows that might
calve so Mel could sleep. I worked the
garden. I just felt like it was my life and
I needed to make the best of it. I had
wonderful neighbors. Everyone helped
each other.
The hard work made for a happy life,
Judy said.
You learned to appreciate what you
had, what you got and the other people
around you, she added.
Eventually the Hoges owned a large
farm in Big Sandy, which, after many
years, they sold to purchase land in Forest Grove and where her home now sits.
We were briefly millionaires, she
said, laughing. At least we were from
when we got the check for the sale of
the Big Sandy farm until we paid for the
land we bought here.
The couple shared a good life, until
Mels heart attack changed things.
People tell me, Judy, you ought to
move to town, Hoge said. But all my
memories are here. If I lived in town, Id
be looking out my window at someone
elses house. Here I have this amazing
view. Id be listening to loud cars, kids,
other peoples music. Here its the wind
and the birds. I love it out here.
I sometimes get a little lonely, but I
See On their own, Page 17
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74-year-old volunteers to
support Israeli Defense Forces
Sybil Lumpkin is pictured with an Israeli soldier on her first
trip to support the Israeli Defense Forces, in this worn 2003
snapshot.
Photo courtesy of Sybil Lumpkin

feast days for nearly 20 years.

In 2003, Sybil wanted to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles in
the land of Israel and started looking for a way to get there an
expensive task for someone living on a pension.
I didnt know how I was going to get there, but I knew it was
something I had to do, commented Sybil.
Then one day, while attending a Messianic church a church
that believes Jesus is the Messiah but which includes Jewish elements in its services in California, Sybil heard of a volunteer
program called Sar-El. Sar-El is a nonprofit, nonpolitical organization in which unarmed volunteers both Jewish and non-Jewish assist the Israeli Defense Forces with support tasks.
When she heard about the organization, she knew right then
she was volunteering for the IDF, Sybil said.

Volunteering with a mission

By Chaun Scott

Montana Best Times
FORSYTH Taking a trip to the Holy Land these days, given
the current tensions in the area, might give some pause. But for
someone who loves Israel like Billings resident Sybil Lumpkin,
there is no place she would rather be.
Sybil, 74, said that at her age, she isnt worried about her life.
Putting my life on the line for Israel? At my age, every day
my life is on the line, Sybil said in jest to a group of her friends
before she left last month on her fourth trip to Israel.
When asked why she was going, she simply said, It is where
my heart belongs.

Origin of the trips

Although Sybil is not Jewish, she has been studying about the
ancient beginnings of the Israelites that Moses wrote about in
Torah the first five books of the Bible and celebrating its
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Being a volunteer is nothing new to Sybil. She has been traveling around the world volunteering since the early 1970s. In fact,
she loves helping people so much that when she was 50, she
returned to school to become a registered nurse working in the
private sector. Her patients included people like the First Lady
Betty Ford for three years and the mother of former Beach Boy
Carl Wilson.
Becoming a registered nurse put her in a position to meet
famous people and volunteer around the world.
I went back to school because I wanted to volunteer for Medical Missions, Sybil said. I waited until my kids were gone
before I went back to school. It allowed me the opportunity to
volunteer in places like Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.
Recalling her time in the Philippines, Sybil said the conditions
there were very difficult.
One out of every 10 children in the Philippines has tuberculosis, she said. The children there where I served were living on a
garbage dump. It smelled so bad.
But for someone like Sybil, it was a place where she could
make a difference, and she found it difficult to leave the children
behind.
I didnt want to come home, but I had to, she said.

Back to Israel

As Sybil sets out on another volunteering mission this time

on her fourth trip to support the Israeli Defense Force she
knows from experience the next three months will be hard.
But she also knows her time there will be worth it.
The showers are cold, the clothes are too big and my boots

wont fit, said Sybil. But it is all worth it. The soldiers are 18
and 19 years old ... they are just kids ... they cling to you. They
love that you are there.
She added, With Sar-El, I will stay with the IDF in the barracks for nine weeks total. After that, I hope to find places to
volunteer so I can stay longer. I want to stay for an entire year.
Sybil believes this trip is special because at her age, being
accepted to take part in the program is only by divine appointment.
They have never allowed someone at my age to go it has
to be a miracle of God, she said.
Sybil left for Israel on Oct. 13, spent a few nights exploring
the country and connecting with old friends, and then reported
for duty where she continues at the time of this writing.
Chaun Scott may be reached at ip-news@rangeweb.net or
(406) 346-2149.

MT Best Times photo by Chaun Scott

Sybil Lumpkin is pictured at her home in Billings in October.

What are you giving away today?

By Wina Sturgeon
Adventure Sports Weekly/MCT
One of the hardest times of life after you hit 50 years old is
downsizing. The kids are gone, its just you and your spouse,
or maybe youre living alone. That home with the bedrooms
and bathrooms and basement is just too big. The yard work is
too exhausting, or too expensive to pay someone else to do.
There comes a time when moving into a smaller space seems
like a good idea. But once that decision is made, another reality
hits home. What are you going to do with all your stuff?
The problem with stuff is that it seems to breed. Youre
probably not a hoarder, but where did all this stuff come
from? No one wants to even TRY to pack all their stuff into a
smaller space. But deciding what to do with it all is a serious
issue.
Heres one solution that works well: use one room, or part of
one room, as your giveaway site. For example, my friend Margie was moving from her big thing-cluttered house into a two
bedroom condo. Always logical, the first thing she did was to
sell all the furniture in the guest room, leaving it totally empty.
Next, she began filling it up.
The lovely crocheted bedspread she never actually liked well
enough to use went into what became her giveaway room. So
did the delicate china figurines her daughter had collected as a
child, but no longer wanted. The set of dishes Margie no longer
used, the second computer that was only four years old but
hadnt really been used much, the plethora of plants that were a
pain to care for all that and more went into that no longer
empty room.
Then she began giving it away. Yes, she could have sold
things. Some, like the sterling silver serving pieces, were actually worth quite a bit of money. But Margie said that giving
these things away filled her with joy. It was as if she would go
on, while those items were being used and treasured by new
owners.
She knows I have a big garden and several fruit trees, so she
gave me her unused dehydrator. What a pleasure! Id been

meaning to purchase a new dehydrator for a long time, and

now I had one. The bulky salon hair dryer that rested in her
master bath for so many years went to a woman who was opening a casual salon to cut and style neighbors hair in her basement.
I give something away every day, every single day, Margie
told me. Some things went to people who were nearly strangers. A familiar clerk at a local market had lost about 70 pounds
on a diet. She asked if she could give him some gently used
clothing, because he was now the same size as her deceased
husband. The clerk, who didnt earn a lot of money, could never have afforded the quality of the wool suits left behind by her
husband. Though it was a wrench to give those clothes away,
the mans delight touched her heart.
It was such a captivating idea that I decided to try it, even
though Im not downsizing. But I sure would like to get rid of
some of the no-longer-used stuff taking up my space. After all,
why does anyone need over a dozen bedspreads, even if theyre
all beautiful and were very expensive? I have neighbors with
six children; two of the bedspreads went to them. The decorative lamp and the small table it sat on went to a family that
works in a nearby convenience store.
Clinging to those things brought me no joy; I didnt even
really see them anymore. But each thing I gave away brought
joy to others, and I loved seeing their delight at a mostly unexpected gift.
Its actually changed my life for the better. I find myself
thinking about things I have, but dont really need, that can add
sunshine to the lives of others. I often wake up in the morning
and take a moment of pleasure to think, What can I give away
today?
At the same time, Ive got so much more room that its like
having a new house. The people Ive given things to dont even
realize that they in fact have given space back to me.
Wina Sturgeon is an active boomer based in Salt Lake City
who offers news on the science of anti-aging and staying
youthful at adventuresportsweekly.com.
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Reading foundation, from Page 7

portraying classic story characters like The Big Bad Wolf and story
props like magic wands they can take home and continue to reference.
Habener picks up the pace of her efforts in the summer, reaching
out to kids of all ages, most of whom do not attend classes in the
warm-weather months and might get out of the vital habit of reading.
To keep local children connected to books and all the benefits
they provide, Habener each year hosts an ambitious Summer Reading Program that draws kids to books through other fields they
might be interested in.
Over the past two summers, Dillon children engaged in the Summer Reading Program have, among many other things, collected
rocks, participated in building miniature geysers and volcanoes,
gotten visits from scientists and local firefighters on a fire engine,
and attended a science magic show and a science-themed puppet
show that visited other libraries in the state holding summer reading programs.
There have been recent stories in the national news about how
low U.S. students test scores are getting in science, so we wanted
to design a program to get children involved with fun science
activities and to do more science-related reading over the summer,
said Habener, who credited materials from the Montana State
Library and the Museum of the Rockies with helping make the program such a success.
Children who keep reading over the summer pretty much start
back up at school in the fall where they left off in the spring, but
children who havent been reading over the summer take something like three weeks to catch back up to where they were when
school let out, said Habener, of a phenomenon known as the Summer Slide.
The Summer Slide in reading and learning skills can steepen
over the years in kids who dont keep up with reading during the

News Lite

M.P. Regan may be reached at mregan@dillontribune.com or

(406) 683-2331.

Dr. Tom Scarborough

Large flightless bird closes Indiana highway

PERU, Ind. (AP) A large flightless bird forced the closing of

a northern Indiana highway while police officers and motorists
tried to chase it down.
The 5-foot-tall bird called a rhea escaped from a farm Oct. 27
and ran onto U.S. 24 near Peru, about 80 miles north of Indianapolis. Rheas are native to South America and similar to ostriches
and emus.
Corralling the bird was no easy task as it ran around a ramp
between U.S. 24 and U.S. 31, state police 1st Sgt. Bob Burgess
told the Kokomo Tribune.
This thing would just all of a sudden take off like a jet, he
said. Everybody was a little bit skeptical about grabbing ahold
of it because it could kick you and it had some pretty vicious talons.
An animal control officer arrived and shot the rhea with a tranquilizer dart. Burgess said the tranquilizer didnt take effect
immediately, causing officers to block the highway for around 10
minutes as they attempted to capture it.
Meanwhile, officers contacted the birds previous owner, who
arrived on the scene and was able to tackle it.
Burgess said the previous owner loaded the bird into a pickup
truck and returned it to its new owner.

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summer, according to Montanas State Superintendent of Public

Instruction Denise Juneau.
But research shows the Summer Slide can also be stemmed by
inspiring a child to read just a half-dozen books during his or her
summer vacation.
To that end, Habener showcases books in her library related to
the special events in its Summer Reading Program and stages a big
program finale that includes a parade through downtown Dillon
and carnival, where children can spend the play money they have
earned for each hour of reading theyve done that summer.
The point is to get kids to the library, where they can have a
good time with some hands-on activities and get their hands on
some books. And parents can use the fact that kids are at the library
as an opportunity to check out more books, said Habener, who
grew up in Billings and still keeps a photo of the teacher, Mrs. Reffner, who taught her to read with help from the local public library
and book mobile.
I still remember the first word I read mile and how I
sounded it out, recalled Habener.
Thats all it took, and I was off and running, said Habener,
who went on to work over two decades at the University of Montanas Maureen and Mike Mansfield Library in Missoula before
coming to Dillon.
Were very happy to have people like Marie helping set up the
next generation of readers and students for successful lives, said
Christin, mother to three adult daughters. She does such a great
job with it because she is so authentically interested in children and
families and her community.

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cant imagine what Id do or where in the
world I would live if I moved, she added.
Here, its just peaceful.

Mary Messina

Love of place seems to be one common

thread that ties these women to the land.
For some its land their families owned
and farmed for generations. For Mary
Messina, 70, the tie is more recent.
Messina, who lives on some 300 acres
southeast of Lewistown, said Montana
was a dream of hers for years before she
finally moved here from Illinois in 1996.
It was always in the back of my mind to
do this, Messina said. The idea was so
strong that I moved out here without a job,
without anywhere to live. I just wanted
enough space to have some horses and big
dogs. I never dreamed Id have a place like
this. I am the luckiest woman around.
Messina said living alone with two horses and dogs to care for felt more like a
dream come true than a challenge.
People here have been very helpful,
and helped me learn how to do things I
need to do, she said. But also, since Ive

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been divorced and on my own for so long,

Ive learned to do things myself. I have
two mantras. One is that I am a college
graduate, so I should be able to figure out
how to do something. The other is, if I
wait for a man to come do things for me,
Ill never get anything done.
Caring for horses, training her two German shepherd dogs, gardening Messina
said she feels strong enough to tackle
whatever the rural life throws at her,
although she is careful.
Most years I make sure I have everything ready for winter by the time the
snow falls, she explained. Im strong
now, but I am aware that Im out here by
myself. Thats why I stopped riding a few
years ago. I try to be realistic and evaluate
what I can and cant do, but I plan to stick
it out as long as I can.
Messina, like the other women in this
story, said she has plenty to do, so feeling
lonely is not an issue.
Plenty of people come visit or invite
me to go places, she said. I quilt during
the winter and garden during the summer.
I also volunteer my time in town, for recycling and other projects. I have to be careful because I have tendency to get working

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at 5 or 6 a.m. and not stop until 6 p.m. I

have a lot of things to do Im busier
now that Im retired than I was when I was
working.
Messina said that while she doesnt
dwell on it, she has given thought to the
future.
I am far from my family. I dont want
to be a burden on anyone. My sons live
across the country and I have a brother in
the Midwest. He wants me to move back
there, but I told him, It took me forever to
get out here why would I want to move
back?
And, as with the others, she wonders
about how to make a life in town live up
to the life she has now.
I have the freedom to do what I want
here, and thats nice, Messina said. If I
moved to town, what would I do with the
dogs and horses? Id have neighbors to
contend with. Out here, its a good life.
I think its something about Montana,
she added. I never had such a strong feeling about a place. I love it and I love the
people. It makes me happy.
Deb Hill may be reached at editor@
lewistownnews.com or (406) 535-3401.

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Health

100-year-old professor wages war on trans fats

University of Illinois adjunct

professor Fred Kummerow,
from right, his assistant
Mohamedain Mahfouz and
Christopher Masterjohn look
through research files as
Kummerow visits the Burnsides
Research Laboratory at the
University of Illinois on Aug. 7,
2013. Kummerow retired as a
full professor at age 78, but
continues to do research into the
causes of heart disease and is
working on a new edition of his
book, Cholesterol Wont Kill
You But Trans Fats Could.
Photo by Zbigniew Bzdak/
Chicago Tribune/MCT

By Joan Cary

Chicago Tribune/MCT

University of Illinois adjunct professor Fred Kummerow continues to wage war on trans fats personally from his kitchen
table and professionally through a proliferation of research papers
he is still writing and getting published.
Kummerow, who was born Oct. 4, 1914, in Berlin, prefers to
talk less about celebrating a birthday with cake and candles and
more about his paper on lipids that was published earlier this
year, or about another paper awaiting review, or about his goal to
establish a lipid research center.
He has spent his career as a biochemist pioneering research
into the causes of heart disease and trying to convince the world
and especially the Food and Drug Administration for more
than five decades that trans fats are responsible for heart failure. Not eggs. Not cholesterol in the plasma.
Kummerow, who was profiled in the Chicago Tribune when he
was 98, drinks three glasses of whole milk every day and begins
every morning with an egg cooked in butter (never margarine),
whole grains, fruit and almonds or walnuts.
Its that diet, and up to an hour of exercise every day, that has
taken him this far, he says.
And, he adds, the fact that I want to keep solving a problem.
For the good of mankind, the problem he wants to solve is
heart disease. For him right now, another problem is funding to
keep the small lab that he dedicated in 1963, the Burnsides
Research Laboratory on campus in Urbana, up and running.
And then there is the pressing need for money for a lipid
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research center at U. of I. that would ensure his work will carry

on long after him.
If somebody in Chicago would be willing to provide the money for that center, well, I would just jump up and down, said
Kummerow, who moves about in a wheelchair except when he is
exercising.
For the FDA to finally ban trans fats? That is not my wish.
They are just dragging their feet. Banning trans fats is going to
happen. Its just a matter of time, he said.
Kummerow officially retired from the university in 1978 but
has said he has no intention of quitting work until hes done.
He said he has had more than 460 articles published in peerreviewed journals. His book Cholesterol is Not the Culprit: A
Guide to Preventing Heart Disease, a second edition of a prior
book, was released in February and was written with the help of
his daughter Jean Kummerow, of Minnesota.
Fred Kummerow has made significant contributions to our
understanding of the relationship between nutrition and heart
health and continues his groundbreaking work as he enters the
11th decade of his life, said University of Illinois President Robert Easter.
Kummerow also said he is awaiting word from the Carle Clinic
in Urbana about a study he has proposed on Alzheimers and Parkinsons diseases. His wife, Amy, died of Parkinsons in July
2012.
When asked if there have been regrets in his career, Kummerow said: Of course. You dont always know what you should
be doing at the proper times that would be best for you. But you
generally come to discover it later.

RSVP
Gallatin County

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.

- American Cancer Society-Road to

Recovery: Drivers needed for patients
receiving treatments from their home to the
hospital.
- American Red Cross Blood Drive: Two
volunteer opportunities available: an
ambassador needed to welcome, greet,
thank and provide overview for blood
donors; and phone team volunteers needed
to remind, recruit or thank blood donors.
Excellent customer service skills needed,
training will be provided, flexible schedule.
- Befrienders: Befriend a senior; visit on a
regular weekly basis.
- Belgrade Senior Center: Meals on
Wheels needs regular and substitute drivers, before noon, MondayFriday, to deliver meals to seniors.
- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Be a positive
role model for only a few hours each week.
- Bozeman and Belgrade Sacks Thrift
Stores: Need volunteers 2-3 hour shifts on
any day, Monday-Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-6
p.m.
- Bozeman Deaconess Hospital: Volunteers needed for the information desks in
the Atrium and the Perk, 8 a.m.-noon,
noon-4 p.m.
- Bozeman Senior Center Foot Clinic:
Retired or nearly retired nurses are urgently
needed, 2 days a month, either 4- or 8-hour
shifts.
- Community Caf: Volunteer needed, 2-3
hours at the beginning and end of the
month, to enter computer data into Excel
spreadsheets.
- Galavan: Volunteer drivers needed Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. CDL required
and Galavan will assist you in obtaining
one.
- Gallatin Rest Home: Volunteers wanted
for visiting the residents, sharing your
knowledge of a craft, playing cards or reading to a resident.
- Gallatin Valley Food Bank: Volunteers
needed to deliver commodities to seniors in
their homes once a month. Deliveries in
Belgrade are especially needed.
- Gallatin Valley Food Bank Huffing For
Stuffing: Volunteers needed for race registration and water tables.
- Habitat for Humanity Restore: Belgrade
store needs volunteers for general help,
sorting donations and assisting customers.
- Heart of The Valley: Compassionate volunteers especially needed to love, play with
and cuddle cats.
- Help Center: Computer literate volunteer
interested in entering data into a social services database. Also volunteers needed to
make phone calls to different agencies/pro-

grams to make sure database is up to date

and make safety calls to home bound
seniors.
- Jessie Wilber Gallery at The Emerson:
Volunteers needed on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays to greet people at the
main desk, answer questions and keep track
the number of visitors.
- Museum of the Rockies: Variety of
opportunities available such as helping in
the gift shop and more.
- RSVP Handcrafters: Volunteers to quilt,
knit, crochet and embroider hats for chemo
patients, baby blankets and other handmade
goods once a week (can work from home).
- Three Forks Food Bank: Volunteer needed on Mondays and/or Thursdays to help
with administrative duties, including
answer phones and questions, some paper
and computer work. They will train.
- WWAMI Interview Participation: Letting
a medical student interview you to practice
good communication skills and learn how
to gather information about a patient.
- Your unique skills and interests are needed, without making a long-term commitment, in a variety of ongoing, special, onetime events.
Contact: Debi Casagranda, RSVP Program Coordinator, 807 N. Tracy, Bozeman,
MT 59715; phone (406) 587-5444; fax
(406) 582-8499; email: dcasagranda@
thehrdc.org.

Park County

- Big Brothers Big Sisters: Mentor and

positive role model to a boy or girl, one
hour a week.
- The Danforth Gallery: Volunteer help
needed with greeting people.
- Fix-It-Brigade: Needs volunteers of all
skill levels for 2-hour tasks to help seniors
or veterans with small home repairs, such
as mending a fence, cleaning up a yard, and
weatherization.
- Links for Learning: Help needed with
1st-5th graders, one hour a week on Tuesday or Wednesday, after school, with reading, homework, or playing games.
- 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 children of
prenatal classes.
- Shane Center: Flexible schedules for
friendly volunteers to greet and show people around the center.
- Stafford Animal Shelter: Volunteers
needed to play with the cats and walk the
dogs.
- Yellowstone Gateway Museum: Volun-

teers needed for a variety of exciting projects this fall.

- 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 Coordinator, 206 So. Main St., Livingston, MT
59047; phone (406) 222-8181; email: debdowns@rsvpmt.org

Fergus & Judith Basin counties

- Boys and Girls Club and Local School:

Need volunteers to serve as tutors.
- Community Cupboard (Food Bank): volunteers are needed to help any week mornings as well as with deliveries.
- Council on Aging: volunteers needed to
assist at the Senior Center (Grub Steaks)
and with home delivered meals and senior
transportation.
- Library and Art Center: Volunteer help
always appreciated.
- ROWL (Recycle Our Waste Lewistown):
Recruiting volunteers for the third Saturday
of the month to help sorting, baling and
loading recyclables
- Treasure Depot: thrift store needs volunteers to sort, hang clothes and put other
items on display for sale.
- Always have various needs for your
skills and volunteer services in our community.
Contact: RSVP Volunteer Coordinator,
404 W. Broadway, Wells Fargo Bank building, (upstairs), Lewistown, MT 59457;
phone (406) 535-0077; email: rsvplew@
midrivers.com.

Musselshell, Golden Valley &

Petroleum counties

- America Reads: Tutor students in the

important skill of reading. Other tutoring is
intertwined with this program.
- Food Bank: Distribute food commodities to seniors and others in the community;
help unload the truck as needed.
- Meals on Wheels Program: Deliver
meals to the housebound in the community,
just one day a week, an hour and a half,
meal provided.
- Nursing Home: Pianoplayers and singers neededon Fridays to entertain residents,
alsoassistant 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
See RSVP, Page 21
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On The Menu

With Jim Durfey

Break out of the mold this Thanksgiving

Serve pumpkin pie for dessert after the Thanksgiving
repast and youll receive polite compliments.
But if you want to be nominated by your dinner guests
for Time magazines person of the year, serve them
pumpkin-pecan cheesecake.
Pumpkin dishes should be a part of the traditional
American holiday. An early form of the fruit first grew in
the Americas, after all. It was crook-necked and it didnt
have the shape that allows its modern counterpart to be
placed on a flat surface and stand upright, which is necessary for making attractive Jack-O-Lanterns. But it stored
well. It was an important food source since electric refrigeration and canning hadnt been invented yet.
Incidentally, the earliest pumpkin growers would plant
corn, beans and pumpkins together. This was a very beneficial method of gardening because the beans would fix
nitrogen in the soil for the corn. The corn would provide
supports for the bean plants. The pumpkin leaves would
discourage weeds from growing, and they would help hold
moisture in the soil.
One wonders if the earliest Americans taste buds
would get excited by a bite of pumpkin-pecan cheesecake.
One things for sure a 21st Century palate will be delighted by the dessert.
This recipe is guaranteed not to produce a cheesecake that
has cracks on the top because it is a no-bake cheesecake. The
only part that requires heating in the oven is the crust.

Pumpkin-Pecan Cheesecake
CRUST:
3/4 c. toasted pecans, finely chopped
3/4 c. graham cracker crumbs
1/4 c. sugar
1/3 c. butter, melted
CHEESECAKE MIXTURE:
2 envelopes unflavored gelatin
1/3 c. water
2 - 8 oz. pkgs. cream cheese, softened
1 c. sugar
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 tsp. allspice
2 1/2 c. pumpkin, canned or cooked
2 c. whipping cream, whipped
Additional whipped cream for garnish
Cinnamon for garnish

For crust, combine pecans, graham cracker crumbs, sugar

and melted butter. Press into bottom of 9-inch springform
pan. Bake at 325 for 10 minutes. Let cool. For pumpkin
mixture, soften gelatin in water. Stir over low heat until
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If you want to impress your

dinner guests even more, process
the pumpkin yourself. A pie or
sugar pumpkin is sweeter than the
average pumpkin and a bit tastier,
so it should be used for this purpose.
The small pumpkins were available
at both of Livingstons supermarkets
in October as this column was being
written.
Preheat the oven to 350. Cut the
pumpkins in two. Discard the seeds
and the membrane. Cut the halves
into palm-size chunks. Bake the
chunks for about an hour on greased
cookie sheets. Scrape off the pumpkin meat and place
it in a food processor. Process until the pumpkin is very
smooth. Put the pumpkin skins in the compost pail.
November weather demands drinks that warm the
body. The two cocktail recipes below are super simple but
theyre very warming and satisfying. The Squirrel Chaser
is a tongue-in-cheek name for a drink a fellow employee
and her gal pal conjured up. The second is one of my
favorites, partly because I make my own coffee liqueur.
It will take the chill off if its served at room temperature,
but its tasty on the rocks if youre sitting by the wood
stove and youre toasty warm.

dissolved. Combine cream cheese and sugar. Mix at

medium speed until well blended. Add spices and pumpkin.
Mix at medium speed until blended. Gradually add gelatin
to pumpkin mixture and stir until blended. Chill cream
cheese mixture until slightly thickened, about 20 minutes.
Fold in whipped cream. Pour over crust. Chill until firm.
Serve each piece with whipped cream on top. Sprinkle with
a touch of cinnamon.

Squirrel Chaser Cocktail

8 oz. hot chocolate, piping hot
1 1/2 oz. cinnamon whisky
Whipped cream for garnish
Shaved chocolate for garnish

Pour hot chocolate and whisky in mug. Stir. Top with

whipped cream and shavings.

Hot Shot
1 1/2 oz. coffee liqueur
1 1/2 oz. cinnamon whisky

Combine liqueur and whisky in glass. Stir. Enjoy at room

temperature or add to cocktail glass with ice cubes.

November 2014 Calendar

 Thursday, November 6
Billings Symphony: Top Brass, 7:30 p.m.

9 p.m., First Congregational Church, Billings

 Saturday, November 8

Big Timber Christmas Bazaar and Craft

Show, 9 a.m.-4 p.m., Civic Center, Big

Timber

 Sunday, November 9

 Friday, November 21
Festival of Trees, through Nov. 22, Elks
Lodge, Dillon

 Tuesday, November 25
Yellowstone Ski Festival, through
November 29, Rendezvous Trail System, West
Yellowstone

 Thursday, November 27

Shall We Dance Al Bedoo Shrine Dance

Band, 4-7 p.m., Shrine Auditorium

Huffing for Stuffing Thanksgiving Day

Run, MSU Brick Breeden Fieldhouse

Ballroom, 1125 Broadwater Ave., Billings

 Friday, November 14

JailHouse Gallerys Christmas Bazaar,

through Nov. 15, Hardin High School

commons area, 5-8 p.m. on Nov. 14, 9 a.m.3 p.m. on Nov. 15

parking lot, Bozeman

 Friday, November 28

Christmas Walk and Parade of Lights, 7-9

p.m., Main Street, Forsyth

 Saturday, November 29

Billings Symphony: Tchaikovskys

Nutcracker, through Nov. 30, 7 p.m.,

Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday, Alberta Bair

Theater, Billings
North Pole Adventure Charlie Russell
Chew-Choo, through Dec. 20, 5 and 7:30
p.m., Lewistown

 Monday, December 1
Christmas for the Critters, through Dec.
31, The Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center,
West Yellowstone

 Friday, December 5
Christmas Stroll, 5:30-8 p.m., downtown,
Dillon
Christmas Stroll, 5-8 p.m., Main Street,
Miles City
Christmas Stroll, through Dec. 6, 6-9 p.m.,
downtown, Red Lodge

RSVP, from Page 19

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 opportunity 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: rdprsvp2@midrivers.com ; Facebook: South
Central MT RSVP.

front desk.
- Kircher School: Volunteer to deliver lunches from Miles City to
school, 2-3 times per week, lunch provided and mileage paid.
- St. Vincent DePaul: Volunteers to assist in several different
capacities.
- WaterWorks Art Museum: Volunteer receptionists needed, 2
hour shifts Tuesdays-Sundays.
If you are interested in these or other volunteer opportunities
please contact: Betty Vail, RSVP Director; 210 Winchester Ave.
#225, MT 59301; phone (406) 234-0505; email: rsvp05@midrivers.com.

Custer & Rosebud counties

Dawson County

- Clinic Ambassador: Need volunteer to greet patients and visitors, providing directions and more.
- City of Miles City and Montana Dept. of Military Affairs: Clerical assistance needed.
- Custer County Food Bank: Volunteers needed for food distribution Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
- Custer County Network Against Domestic Violence: Crisis line
volunteer needed.
- Historic Miles City Academy: Volunteers needed to assist in
thrift store and maintenance.
- Holy Rosary Health Care: Volunteer receptionists needed at the

- Local Farm to Table Store: Seeking volunteers to help clean and

sort beans, can be done at home and beans will be delivered to you
there. Also someone to help in and during store hours, 11 a.m.-6
p.m.
- RSVP Program: Looking to establish Telephone Reassurance
program entailing volunteers (needed) calling shut-ins on a regular
basis to check on their welfare.
- If you have a need for or a special interest or desire to volunteer
somewhere in the community, please contact: Patty Atwell, RSVP
Director, 604 Grant, Glendive, MT 59330; phone (406) 377-4716;
email: rsvp@midrivers.com.

News Lite
TSA finds cannon barrel in luggage
HONOLULU (AP) An airline passenger flying out of Maui
checked in with a weapon not often seen in baggage the barrel
of a cannon. Transportation Security Administration officials confirm they spotted the cannon barrel recently in the checked lug-

gage of a passenger at Kahului Airport.

The Honolulu Star-Advertiser reports the cannon barrel was found
Oct. 20 in the checked bag of a United Airlines passenger traveling
to San Francisco on a late evening flight. The cannon wasnt loaded.
The TSA says the passenger was cleared to fly but the airline made
separate arrangements for transporting the cannon barrel.
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By Bill Sones and Rich Sones, Ph.D.

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

Why dont birds get fried on powerlines?

Q. How is it that a bird can rest safely
on a 500,000 volt power line?

A. The usual answer is that the birds

body does not complete an electrical
circuit between two different voltages (two
different power lines, or a power line and
the ground), so no current flows through it.
But after taking a nuanced look at the
electrocution-avoidance exploits of birds,
physicist Jose Redinz, writing in the
American Journal of Physics, concluded
that they actually do experience electrical
current flows.
First, there is the repeated charging and
discharging of the birds body due to the
power lines regular voltage swings (50 or
60 cycles per second), which happens even
if the bird grips the wire with only one foot.
But if the bird has both feet on the wire,
then some of the current that would
otherwise flow along the wire will instead
flow up one foot, through the body, and out
the other foot. For the highest-voltage lines
operating around 500,000 volts, Redinz
estimates the total critter-current to be about
one milliamp comparable to the level
just perceptible by a human. The lowervoltage lines found in cities that operate
around 10,000 volts generate proportionally
smaller currents. Apparently, these currents
are not noticed by birds or maybe they
just like getting a little buzz on.
Q. Dont hold your breath, but some of
us will still be around to witness
1234567890 Day. Can you explain this
once-in-a-lifetime event, for those with
properly timed lifespans?

A. You already missed the date in 1990,

but this curious mathematical date, based on
the American system, is set to reappear
toward the end of this century: The time and
date 12:34:56 7/8/90 will occur at 34
minutes and 56 seconds past noon (or
midnight) on July 8th in 2090. Hopefully
you can live to tell about your 1234567890
Day. (From Ian Stewarts Professor
Stewarts Casebook of Mathematical
Mysteries)
Q. Under the category of
understanding the people of the world,
without percentages, picture 100 people

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representing the worlds population. Out

of that number, how many people have
cell phones? How many can access the
Internet? How many speak English?
How many are age 14 or younger, or 65
years or older? How many identify
themselves with one of the leading
religions, or no religion at all? How many
can read and write? How many have
college degrees? How many live in
poverty?

A. According to The Best American

Infographics, 2014, edited by Gareth Cook,
75 out of every 100 people of the world
have cell phones and 30 can access the
Internet. Only 5 speak English, with another
5 speaking Spanish; the largest number
12 speak Chinese. A little over a quarter,
26, are 14 years of age or younger, 8 are 65
or older. Only 12 identify with no religion,
and of those remaining, 33 are Christian, 22
Muslim. 83 out of every 100 can read and
write, and a lucky 7 have college degrees.
Sadly, almost one half 48 live on less
than 2 US dollars per day.
Q. Who dreamed up the word
twitter?

A. This was many dreams ago, back 600

years to the time when Geoffrey Chaucer
was the father of English poetry. Hes the
one who introduced the verb, which means
to chirp continuously, according to the
Oxford English Dictionary. And that
wasnt all. Along with twitter, Chaucer
coined (or first recorded) 2,000 other words,
such as Martian, scissors, delicacy and
every toddlers go-to: poop, says Lucas
Reilly in Mental Floss magazine,
Q. What moves more than just a mite
bit faster than just about anything else in
the running?

A. The California sesame-seed-sized

mite Paratarsotomus macropalpis set the
record as the speediest terrestrial animal,
says Scientific American magazine.
Instead of miles per hour (mph) or
kilometers per hour, speed here is expressed
in terms of body lengths per second: Fleetfooted human Usain Bolt can run 6 body
lengths per second (23 mph), a cheetah can

do 16 (60 mph), and the previous recordholder, the Australian tiger beetle, tops out
at 171. P. macropalpis takes the gold at 322
body lengths per second.
Body lengths per second is a measure
of speed that reflects how quickly an animal
moves relative to its body size, reports
sciencedaily.com. Extrapolating to human
dimensions, the mites speed is equivalent to
a person running 1,300 mph!
Its so cool to discover something thats
faster than anything else, and just to imagine
as a human going that fast compared to your
body length is really amazing, said Pitzer
College physics major Samuel Rubin, who
led much of the fieldwork to document the
mites movements. And beyond that,
looking deeper into the physics of how they
accomplish these speeds could help inspire
revolutionary new designs for things like
robots or biomimetic devices.
Q. Whats the point of crouching on the
balls of your feet like a baseball catcher if
theres no ballgame in sight?
A. Itll get your body as low as possible
while keeping most of it off the ground,
says Lucas Reilly in Mental Floss
magazine. The point here may just be your
survival, if youre caught in a storm and are
about to be hit by lightning. Now the
ambient electrical charge may make your
skin tingle and your hair stand on end a
dead giveaway! Dead wrong is the old
notion oft repeated that the best
thing you can do is lie down flat. Experts
recommend the crouch position with heels
together, creating a circuit for the charge to
travel, allowing the bolt to ride up one foot,
down the other and back into the ground
rather than coursing through the rest of your
body.

Q. According to the National Cancer

Institute, the highest rates of brain cancer
in 2010 were found in Alaska, Wyoming,
New Hampshire and Maine. For the
same year, the lowest rates were in
Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada and North
Dakota. What might account for these
varying rates?
A. Do you see a pattern here? All the
eight states have relatively small

populations; indeed Nevada, the most populous of the group, ranks 35th out of the 50
states, says Jordan Ellenberg in How Not to
Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical
Thinking. And herein lies the key: When you
are measuring rates, small samples exhibit
more statistical variability than large samples.
For example, if you toss 10 coins all at the
same time and tally up the number of heads,
the probability of getting an unusual outcome say 8 or more heads is about 1
in 20. But if you toss 100 coins instead, the
probability of getting an unusual outcome of
80 or more heads is vanishingly small.
So you can think of it this way: Brain cancer is a rare disease, and in a low-population
state, there are not many cases per year.

Thus, suggests Ellenberg, due to random

fluctuations, it is likely that small states will
occupy both the top and bottom of a list of
incidence rates.
Q. Just like people, a living language
adapts over time, with some words changing more than others. For example,
broadcast used to mean to sow seeds
by scattering, and a diaper was a kind
of fabric, writes Anu Garg in his A.
Word.A.Day website. Also in the category of words that aint what they used to
be, whatever happened to harbinger,
restive and obsequious?
A. Originally, a harbinger was a per-

son who provided lodging, changing then

to a person sent to find lodging for an
army, and now meaning one that foreshadows the approach of something. As for
restive, its meaning eventually shifted to
its opposite, from refusing to go forward
as in a restive horse to unable to
remain still, or restless, uneasy.
Finally, consider obsequious, which earlier meant obedient or dutiful, without
its current connotation of fawning, or
behaving in a servile manner. As Henry
David Thoreau wrote: I sat at a table where
were rich food and wine in abundance, and
obsequious attendance, but sincerity and
truth were not, and I went away hungry from
the inhospitable board.

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Crossword

Across

1 Maker of Select writing

products
4 Bulls arena?
15 Microsoft sound
composer
16 Fighter with a record
131 career knockouts
17 Georgia, once: Abbr.
18 Deli order
19 Player
21 Experts
22 Washes
23 Word heard before and
after old
25 Elected
26 Onetime Klein assistant
31 Maestros wear
32 Academic __
33 Occurred
35 The Clapping Song
singer, 1983
37 Santa Ana Volcano
locale
40 La __ Breve: de Falla opera
44 Rustic setting
45 Tanglewood Music

Festival town
46 Made aware, with in
47 Family nickname
49 Target of some reality
show hunts
50 Experts
53 Natural moisturizer
55 Cause a dramatic
reversal
57 Buck: Abbr.
58 Reef dwellers
59 Deadlock
60 Wheel of Fortune
highlight
61 They may resolve
59-Acrosses, briefly

Down

1 Film crew assistant

2 Fit
3 First name in civil
rights
4 Exhausted
5 Nice crowd?
6 Prefix with -gon
7 Keeper of the Keys
detective
8 Handy set
9 Shelter cry

10 Recess retort
11 Colorful mounts
12 Capital of the state of
West Bengal
13 Dutch humanist
14 Rock star Nugent
20 Nepali language
24 George Straits All
My __ Live in Texas
26 On the Waterfront
director
27 Gabriela, Clove and

Cinnamon author
28 Chemical reaction
portmanteau
29 Decor attachment
30 Logical connector
33 Yield
34 Pioneer in conditioning research
36 Peaked
37 American __, North
Dakota state tree
38 Big or Little follower

39 Kabuto-wearing warrior
41 That was normal for
me once
42 Ford Field city
43 Magazine department
46 Swiss, e.g.
48 Lucie of The Jazz
Singer (1980)
49 Logician known for
incompleteness theorems
51 __ Reader: eclectic
magazine
52 Apt collie name
53 Comprehensive
54 City on the Danube
55 Sugar meas.
56 Shield supporter on
Australias coat of arms

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