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A Note From Our Publisher Contents

A New Normal Doodle Puzzle .......................................................3

Comics ....................................................................4

WELCOME TO AUTUMN Brain Games ..........................................................4
All About Idaho .....................................................5

In our neck of the woods, autumn means the tamaracks Home & Lifestyle ................................................7
change from green to yellow, lighting up the forests. The smell Crossword .............................................................10
of colder mornings with crisp air brings back memories of our
seasons before. Welcoming shorter days and earlier sunsets. Spotlights ..............................................................12
Reflecting on our last two issues, we have managed to work and produce this newspaper Cover Story ...........................................................16
remotely using today’s technology. Our electronic lives have merged with our passion to Health Care ...........................................................18
produce this newspaper for you, our reader. This is our new normal.
We are using computers and software helping us to communicate and stay organized. Nutrition .................................................................21
Programs with weird names like Slack and Airtable. They are making the job more efficient Fitness ....................................................................22
to produce, so we can get this in your mailbox or any of the thousands of locations that Caregiving ..............................................................23
you frequent to pick up your copy.
There are also many new “normals” within our reader’s lives, using new technologies. Money Matters ....................................................24
Some are helpful while others we consider annoying. Those of you using smart phones Entertainment ......................................................25
can search for statistics and truths to clarify your conversations when people disagree. Taste of Idaho .......................................................26
Some say that this advantage has taken the fun out of our discussions when we ask the
Google. Or tell Siri and Alexa to go get the answer. Travel .......................................................................27
Mobile oxygen devices are available to folks who used to be tethered to large tanks, Recreation .............................................................29
providing users more mobility. Apps allow your heart doctor to remotely monitor your
rhythms and suggest variables of treatment. Hearing aids access your phone’s Bluetooth Brain Game Answers ..........................................31
and translate foreign languages. About Us
All good stuff.
Here are some new normal statistics* I’ve recently found. Over half of our readership Our paper—published six times per year—exists to serve
has grandchildren. Twenty-five percent of our readers have a household pet, and nearly 60 and benefit our mature readers. We encourage the contri-
percent of 50-plus folks regularly use Facebook. One in three plans to do home improvement bution of interesting material. Views expressed in editorial
are not necessarily the views of the publisher. Likewise,
in the next 12 months. Many plan to move and downsize to a smaller home. this publication does not endorse any particular product,
Print advertising still works. person, or service shown in the advertisements appearing
Two out of three readers still act on products and services depicted in this newspaper. in this paper. All copy appearing in this publication is
Half of the interested readers will call for more information, while 40 percent check out copyright protected and may be reprinted only with written
an advertiser’s website. One out of three Googles the product or advertiser. One out of permission of the publisher. © 2020
four shows ads to friends or family and asks for advice. To Subscribe
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Plus, if you like the place, many more people will see the ads and support that business. jokes, and interesting photos to be considered for publication.
What is your new normal? We want to know. Deadline for next issue is November 15, 2020.
Send us a note and share a story. Tell us how we are Please send to our editor, Nann Parrett, at: nann@idaho-
seniorindependent.com
doing—whether flattering or not. You can share with us
some aspect of your new normal. Our Staff Contributors
Protect yourselves. Stay kind. We need you around to Robert Hunt
establish that new normal. Publisher General Manager Julie Fink/Brantley
Jonathan Rimmel Lindsay Engle,
DailyCaring.com
* From a Washington DC readership study by the Washington Beacon and reported by publisher Stuart Rosenthal. Managing Editor Melissa Martin
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About Our Staff Writers Gail Whitney

CFO / COO
Janet Hunt
H o l l y E n dersb y has been an Craig Naylor, a retired music teacher,
award-winning outdoor writer for 25 lives near Kalispell with his wife and two Publisher
years. She enjoys horse packing, fishing, dogs. He writes novels, orchards heirloom Robert Hunt
hunting, snow and water sports, yoga, apples, and teaches Aikido.
and hiking.
Carrie Scozzaro is a Coeur d’Alene Communicate with us
Gail Jokerst is an award-winning writer freelancer, working for clients such as Mailing ..................1985 McMannamy Draw
and member of the Outdoor Writers Inlander, Sandpoint Magazine, and Kalispell, MT 59901
Association of America. gailjokerst@ Western Art & Architecture. Phone ....................208-318-0310 or 866-360-5683
gmail.com. Web ........................idahoseniorindependent.com
Dianna Troyer is a freelance writer based Email [email protected]
in Pocatello, Idaho. She enjoys family and
Ken Levy is a retired community jour-
nalist and is now a freelance writer and friends, skiing, riding horse, and hiking. Like us on Facebook
photographer based in Boise. kenlevy- @IdahoSeniorIndependent
[email protected].
Interest in Montanans and their commu-
nities keeps Suzanne Waring looking
Kathleen Mulroy is a freelance writer
specializing in grant proposals for non- for topics to research in old newspapers
profits. She’s a former educator and and books and personal interviews.
childhood literacy program director.