[Vision2020] [Spam 6.68] Re: A Legacy Returns to Rest
Tom Hansen
thansen at moscow.com
Mon Nov 19 16:42:39 PST 2012
Moscow and the Intoleristas are characterized by such independent, hard charging, community conscious women.
Many of us jus' don't know it . . . yet.
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AND THE UP-AND-COMERS . . .
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Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .
"Moscow Cares"
http://www.MoscowCares.com
Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
On Nov 19, 2012, at 4:07 PM, "Betsy Dickow" <betsyd at turbonet.com> wrote:
> Agreed!
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> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of deb
> Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2012 8:41 PM
> To: Moscow Cares; Moscow Vision 2020
> Subject: [Spam 6.68] Re: [Vision2020] A Legacy Returns to Rest
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> Wonderful woman, tough as nails, and a leading light for liberals
> everywhere! I hope I can be as feisty at 99!
> Debi R-S
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> From: Moscow Cares <mailto:moscowcares at moscow.com>
> To: Moscow Vision 2020 <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>
> Sent: Saturday, November 17, 2012 10:11 AM
> Subject: [Vision2020] A Legacy Returns to Rest
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> Courtesy of today's (November 17, 2012) Moscow-Pullman Daily News.
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> A legacy returns to rest
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> Janet Fiske remembered for community, political involvement in
> Moscow
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> Janet Fiske lived all around the world, but made Moscow her home
> more than 40 years ago, and cared for it much of her life. In death, she
> will return here for her final rest.
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> Fiske died Tuesday at Vashon Community Care in Washington surrounded
> by family, just shy of her 100th birthday this week. Her remains will be
> brought back to Moscow this spring to join her husband, John's, her son Fred
> said.
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> "She loved Moscow a lot. Her adopted home, I'd say, yes, indeed," he
> said. "A couple of people have said, 'Well, you've got to do it in the 1912
> Center.' ... Another friend said that half the town misses her, so maybe
> half the town will show up."
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> Fiske donated $50,000 toward the west wing expansion of the 1912
> Center, which opened in 2008 with a room dedicated to her and her husband.
> Center director Jenny Kostroff remembered there were some concessions
> involved, since Fiske had wryly asked - at 95 - for renovations to herself.
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> "I said I couldn't do a renovation on her, but I could do a
> renovation on the building to support people for the next 100 years. She
> said that was good," Kostroff said. "She showed the room while it was being
> built to her kids and said, 'Here's your inheritance.' "
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> Another promise she made Kostroff keep was to make sure there was
> always room for the Moscow League of Women Voters, a group she joined when
> she first came to the city in 1970. It was the same year Paradise Creek
> flooded over, becoming one of many causes Fiske took on throughout the
> years.
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> "She was very active in cleaning up the creek and flood control, and
> that was one of the league's local studies was paradise creek," said Joan
> Klingler, membership chair for LWV. "... She just really welcomed people.
> She was kind of our unofficial greeter for new members of the League of
> Women Voters."
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> She was even recognized by the USA Dry Pea and Lentil Council for
> the league fundraiser she created packing and selling the legumes, Klingler
> said. She would add to them pressed flowers she picked up along her many
> walks around the city, Fred said.
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> "She called them Palouse book marks," he said. "... Largely through
> her efforts, the city has really embraced Paradise Creek now."
>
> A staunch Democrat and advocate for the political process, Fiske was
> able to vote in one more presidential election this year through an absentee
> ballot in Washington before her death, Fred said.
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> She became a president of sorts too, recently. Klingler said she
> drafted an honorary past president certificate for Fiske to go with one from
> the national league in honor of her upcoming birthday. Of all her roles in
> LWV, Fred said she regretted never being president.
>
> "We got it to her just before she started to fail," he said, adding
> it was nice to close that chapter of her life with the honor. "... One of
> the things she said she most admired was leaders and having the courage to
> take up the mantle of leadership."
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> Longtime friend Mary Jo Hamilton remembers Fiske was always trying
> to get her to join LWV with her, along with the Paradise Path Task Force and
> the Moscow Recycling Board.
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> "The league was very important to her, but it was all very important
> to her," Hamilton said. "Janet was always very direct. She always said
> exactly what she thought in any occasion. ... She was interested in
> everything. She read voluminously and actually did quite a bit of writing."
>
> In 2006, Mayor Nancy Chaney declared April 22 Janet Fiske
> Appreciation Day in honor of her community involvement and philanthropic
> endeavours.
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> "She was a reserved person. She had a terrific wit," Chaney said.
> "For me, it was an honor when she kind of opened up to me and she wanted to
> know me, for example, before supporting one of my campaigns, and I really
> respected that about her. Once she embraced you as a friend, you were a
> friend for keeps. I respected her for her integrity, she was a person who
> didn't put on airs."
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> Those who knew her spoke of Fiske's dry wit, her love of hosting and
> attending parties, socializing with everyone and her resilience, which she
> passed on to her husband, John, even when he was in poor health.
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> "She wouldn't let him sit down in a chair and become an old man,"
> Hamilton said. "... The world is not as elegant a place without John and
> Janet. You have to put the two together, it's always been John and Janet."
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> Janet Fiske before the Moscow City Council on April 17, 2006
> discussing rivers in cities and Paradise Creek . . .
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> http://www.moscowcares.com/In_Memory/JanetFiske_041706.mp3
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> Rest well, Ms. Fiske.
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> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
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