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2 • March 2008 • The Senior Voice
About Medicare By
U.S. Senator
Ken Salazar
A s I talk to my constituents in
Colorado, there is no doubt that
overall health care reform is needed
make sure we control Medicare
spending. However, we must also
ensure that we keep premiums and
patient’s doctors, nurses, pharma-
cists, etc.—talking to one another so
that we can avoid duplicate treat-
in addition to Medicare program co-payments affordable, and we ments and medical errors. The best
changes. In places like Larimer and must pay providers fairly so that way of doing this is through the use
Fish Restaurant Weld counties where many people Medicare patients have their choice of electronic medical records, with
are uninsured—13 percent unin- of high-quality physicians. precautions taken to protect the
A Colorado Casual sured in Larimer county and a Every citizen, especially retirees, patient’s privacy.
Fish Market and Restaurant staggering 49.6 percent in Weld must be given the assistance needed We must invest in our providers
Offering JET FRESH FISH and facilities to make sure we have
county—the current health care to make informed health care deci-
From Across the Globe!
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150 West Oak Street (Downtown) simply cannot be tolerated. responsible for our own health and with the quality of care they deserve
Fort Collins Given the rising costs of health the health of those we love. in their own communities. This
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Call For Reservations of the baby boom generation, standing of and access to preventive hospitals to serve Medicare patients
970-224-1188 Medicare has been under scrutiny by services so that we can avoid costly no matter what part of Colorado
www.fishmkt.com many Americans because people are treatments, such as dialysis, and they live in so that people do not
concerned about the long-term work together to fight preventable have travel hours to get help when
Fish So Fresh, stability of the program. illness, such as diabetes. they are sick.
Someone Might Get Slapped. In 2008, Medicare will cover an When our family members do These are just a few of the ideas
estimated 44.6 million people. The face chronic illness, we must coordi- we are considering in the Senate,
Free shumai appetizer federal government will spend just nate their treatment properly to and I am happy to see such an active
with the purchase under $390 billion to fund the ensure that they are getting the and thoughtful debate on how to
program, and the Congressional medical and support services they best serve our nation’s Medicare
of two entrees Budget Office estimates program need in the most efficient way participants.
Not valid with other offers. spending will double over the next possible. ________________
Expires 4-31-08 You can call Senator Salazar’s Fort
10 years. This means having all the health
We will have to take big steps to care providers working with a Collins office at 224-2200. ■
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driving in the mountains, and they wages, so people flocked to Early historian Caroline Bancroft Loveland and Estes Park
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colorful past. A miner could make $3 or $4 a of a way of life that is now lost but
These wild and woolly places day, “almost as much here for one was the mainstay of the region for EDITORIAL DEADLINE
were established over 100 years ago day’s work as he could (make) in half a century. Announcements and stories must be
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were made in some of them. Lives Nearby American City was prodigious energy and enterprise of
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
were shattered in others. located nine miles northwest of the pioneers. Their feats of trans-
The Senior Voice welcomes readers' letters
Two of them were Nevadaville Blackhawk on the road to Apex and portation over villainous terrain, and
and contributions. Enclose a self-addressed
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You can reach the location of Divide, American City was a high, top of mountains, were so herculean
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readers.
Nevadaville was settled mainly fierce. down by time and reclaimed by the
by Irish and Cornish miners soon These conditions and few mountains, which stand silently as if © Copyright 2008
after Colorado’s first big gold strike productive mines meant a short life nothing had happened. The Senior Voice
near Central City in 1859. It grew for American City. Settled in the But you can still find the location
rapidly. By 1861 it had a post office, 1890s, it was a ghost town by of the towns. And if you listen care-
several stores and homes, nearly 20 1920—except for one hardy resi- fully—with imagination in the EDITORIAL OFFICE:
gold mills and hundreds of residents. dent, Mrs. John Anthony Cook, a peaceful stillness of the moun- 1471 Front Nine Drive
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1860 described the scene this way: City’s boom time when the old mountains above Estes Park.
“Everywhere people could be Hotel Del Monte could accommo- Taken by Fort Collins professional No material may be reproduced by any
seen picking at the ground. Men and date 100 guests and was the scene of photographer Gregory Mayse. See means without permission of the publisher.
women spent hours digging up bits glamorous social events to which his photos at Trimble Court
of earth and washing it in a basin or ladies wore evening gowns. Artisans in Fort Collins, at the Art Dr. William Lambdin, Publisher
washtub. At night, they would go As you stand in this windy, deso- Center of Estes Park, and at
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4 • March 2008 • The Senior Voice
Early Greeley
Rancher John Klug
(Editor’s Note: Greeley historian kitchen door and asked for a sand-
Hazel E. Johnson wrote the following wich. Lillian supplied it. He left and
story years ago.) mounted his horse.
She locked the door and looked
By Hazel Johnson out a window. There was the man
again, on his horse, demanding
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6 • March 2008 • The Senior Voice
Your Questions
on Investments
By Scott Burns some money in a regular taxable
Financial Writer account, it would be a good idea to use
that money and up to $40,000 from
Q: I am retired at age 60 with about your deferred accounts to pay off the
$900,000 (21 percent in fixed-income, mortgage. The car loan, however,
73 percent in equities and 6 percent in should be kept because it probably
cash). My financial adviser suggested represents the depreciation you can
investing about $50,000 in a REIT. expect in the next two or three years.
I owe about $32,000 on my home I think the REITs idea is a good
and recently purchased a car, one, particularly after the drubbing
financing only $12,000. I have no they took last year. Dividend yields
other debt. I guess I am in pretty good are attractive again. A small REIT
1100 N. Taft #2, Loveland shape, but I worry constantly. Should commitment will work to increase the
overall yield from your portfolio.
I be doing something else such as pay
my house off? It’s nice if an adviser has you in a
Don’t miss this splendid patio A: There is no cure for Nest-Egg fund that makes the unrelenting but
ever-changing lists of Great Funds to
Anxiety. It is part of the retirement
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longer working because we’re
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The best way to evaluate your
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Main floor living with no stairs. Scads of places to store you hold and check their long-term
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covered wagons.
It was once called Sherwood
because the Sherwood brothers had
a stagecoach station there. A local
preacher, Rev. Charles Taylor,
suggested the name of Timnath,
after the place in the Bible where
Samson went to find a wife.
The town’s Presbyterian Church
was built in 1888 and will celebrate
its 120th year in 2008. Its beautiful
stained glass windows were
brought from Bavaria long ago.
For many years, the largest
building in town was the Timnath
Hotel, shown in the photo. Built in
1905, it served as a hotel until the
Depression years of the 1930s.
The hotel’s main floor had a
dining room, kitchen, barber shop
and drug store. The building is
now a private residence.
Until recently, the population of
Timnath was about 230 people
living in approximately 90 homes.
Last year, the new Harmony Golf
Course opened, and developers
plan many new homes and stores.
The population is expected to
reach 10,000 in the near future.
No matter how much the town
grows, the little church will always
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Remembering
Norman Rockwell
By Joe Votz they asked Rockwell to let them
pose for paintings.
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brush, I just pick up one of Norman Rockwell’s canvases. In the 1980s,
Rockwell’s.” an enterprising New Yorker, Henry
Rose Hoyt recalled a request Hinrichsen, moved to Arlington and
from Rockwell to hold rosary beads opened a Rockwell gallery in a
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painting. Rockwell put it this way:
century-old church.
Rockwell’s son, Jarvis, also a
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Rockwell also painted himself
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to-earth workman in the popular “Norman was down-to-earth.
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EARLY Rockwell wrote in his autobiog- husband would take tickets,” Immen
! raphy that “Moving to Arlington has said. “People would think my
given my work a terrific boost. Now husband was Norman and ask if he
my pictures grew out of the world would sign an autograph. My
around me, the everyday life of my husband would just say, ‘I’m not
neighbors. I didn’t fake things any Norman.’”
Highway 85 S. • P.O. Box 643 • Deadwood, SD 57732 more.” The autograph hunter was not
www.deadwoodgulch.com He moved to Stockbridge, told that Rockwell was just a few
Massachusetts, in 1953 so his ailing feet away, sweeping the floor. ■
The Senior Voice • March 2008 • 15
Popular Book on
Wyoming History
By Bill Lambdin lessened to 64 in number. One had
accidentally shot and killed himself at
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State Historical Preservation Office in Historical Society, PO Box 247,
Cheyenne. He said part of the appeal Wheatland, WY 82201. Checks or
of Wyoming today is that it is “about money orders accepted, not credit
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The Senior Voice • March 2008 • 19
Letters
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Early Memories of
Steamboat Springs
(Editor’s Note: The following story two teen-age girls, one repre-
is about early days in Steamboat senting Hayden and I from a
Springs, written years ago by remote country school, rode
Florence Welch.) happily in the caboose of the
freight train.
By Florence Welch The next morning, we walked
to the county court house in
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Frontier Madam
from Lusk
By Bill Lambdin Lusk was a small town, and
many residents objected to the
Social Security
By Michael Hollis under age 18 get Social Security
Social Security Manager, Greeley benefits as survivors of deceased
workers, or as the children of people
Buying Power.
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