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<p>Aside from the matter of the vote totals reporting being
cattywampus, this is a nice little idea that can have a cumulative
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/1/20 10:27 AM, Moscow Cares wrote:<br>
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no-repeat;">Column: Thanks to Thunberg, 101-year-old makes a
stand against climate change</h1>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">At first glance, it wasn’t
a message that grabbed me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I am seeking publicity,”
began the email from Marian Sachs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">She must have known I would
roll my eyes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Stop,” she wrote. “Don’t
delete this … please.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I didn’t, fortunately.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I am 101 years old and
live in an assisted living facility,” Sachs wrote, saying
that she was inspired by Swedish teenager Greta Thunberg’s
activism on climate change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“There is not much we
seniors can do to help,” Sachs wrote. “However, I have
thought perhaps we could observe one meatless day a week in
our dining room. The proposal has met with remarkable
acceptance by our residents.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
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11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A little publicity might
inspire other seniors to do their part, Sachs wrote.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“Can you help?” she asked.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Her timing couldn’t have
been better, because I’d just met with two climate change
experts to talk about the specific threats in California and
what we can do about it. So before I tell you about my trip
to see Mrs. Sachs at her home in Pasadena, let me tell you
about my visit with the experts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bill Patzert, a former
climatologist at NASA’s Jet Propulson Lab, and Steve
LaDochy, a semi-retired meteorology and geosciences
professor at Cal State L.A, were both quoted in a Jan. 11
Los Angeles Times story by Paul Duginski about the decreased
prevalence of tule fog in the midsection of the state.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“In the dry Central Valley,
plants, especially native plants, love the extra water that
this fog provides,” Patzert said in that story. And LaDochy
explained that warming temperatures and a decrease in air
pollution — which absorbs vapor — were to blame for the
decrease in fog.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Over a cup of coffee with
me in Sierra Madre, Patzert and LaDochy had a lot to say,
and most of it was frightening.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">That’s not surprising when
the news is filled with horror stories about melting
glaciers, rising sea levels, raging wildfires and killer
drought-deluge cycles. Global greenhouse-gas emissions
reached a record high in 2019, we just completed the hottest
decade on record, and heat stored in the upper levels of
oceans is at a record high.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">With islands disappearing
in the oceans and glaciers melting, it’s easy to overlook
the effects in a place like Southern California. But, as
Patzert and LaDochy explained, climate change is having a
huge effect here, where population explosions and increased
emissions have created so-called heat islands.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">While the average global
temperature has risen about 1.7 degrees above the 20th
century average, Patzert said, it’s risen closer to 5
degrees in downtown Los Angeles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“In August and September,
it’s 8 to 9 degrees warmer than it used to be,” Patzert
said, noting that, since the 1950s, California’s population
has quadrupled while the nation’s has merely doubled.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“As you build a great
megalopolis … you tend to generate your own heat with
shopping centers, housing developments, blacktop,” Patzert
said.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">And then there’s the
obvious. More people means more vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">LaDochy drives a Prius.
Patzert doesn’t fly as much as he used to. Everyone can find
a way to make a contribution, they said. But the greatest
tool for change, Patzert said — noting the unconscionable
policies of certain so-called leaders — is the ballot box.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Marian Sachs isn’t waiting
for an election to do her part. She had left her door ajar
and called for me to come on in when I knocked. She did not
look her age, and when she began speaking I wanted to check
her birth certificate.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">After more than a century
on the planet, she’s still sharp, curious, engaged. She
worked in nursing and then architecture; she and her late
husband raised three kids, drove one of the first hybrid
vehicles, collected rocks and shared a love of nature. She
now aims her binoculars at nearby birds, follows the news
closely, and is horrified by growing evidence of an
overheated planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Her hero Thunberg, 84 years
her junior, has stared down complacent world leaders and
exclaimed, “How dare you … entire ecosystems are
collapsing.” But Sachs — whose home is a gallery of the
wildlife painting she took up as a hobby — did not want to
talk politics.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I’m rendered speechless,”
Sachs said. “Don’t get me stirred up.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">She told me she recognized
that she and her fellow residents couldn’t change the world
on their own, but doing nothing is not an option. The
meat-free menu was all she could think of, and her neighbor
and friend Marion Marx embraced the idea.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">They wrote up their
proposal and circulated a memo to the 130 residents of the
Fair Oaks, telling them that Thunberg had raised the
consciousness of young people the world over, including “our
grandchildren and our great-grandchildren.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“As responsible seniors, we
should give them our support in this climate crisis. We feel
we can do our part by observing a meatless day once a week.
It will be our opportunity to be of some help.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Residents were asked to say
yay or nay. A week later, with 44 ballots cast, the Fair
Oaks climate change initiative won in a landslide, 44-6.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">One resident who voted
against added a comment: “God controls climate.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Another resident wondered
if the banned meats would include venison.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I don’t think they’ve ever
even served venison,” said Mrs. Sachs.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sachs and Marx delivered
the news to the chef, Rigo Arias, who said the plan was for
Meatless Mondays to begin soon — no beef, chicken or pork
for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Arias told me that, with
tofu, pasta, eggplant and the new lines of plant-based meat
substitutes, menus wouldn’t be hard to put together. And at
the moment, fish has not been banned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“I think it’s great idea,”
Arias said. “I was really surprised, in a good way, that in
these kinds of places, there’s still an interest in
supporting a cause.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">I followed Sachs to lunch —
soup, tuna salad and ham sandwiches were on the menu — and
she sat with her pals Marx, Shelley Gutman and Luretta
Rideout, all of whom support the motion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">“We have to do something,”
said Marx, “or we’re going to be in dire straits.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Less meat means lower
methane emissions, said Sachs. And if we don’t keep cutting
down trees to clear space for grazing, that would help, too,
said Marx.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A small weekly sacrifice at
one retirement center won’t accomplish much, the women
conceded.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">But it’s better than doing
nothing, Sachs said, and the idea might catch on at other
retirement centers. If a teenager was able to start a
movement, why can’t they?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div>Photo . . .</div>
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<div><a
href="http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Photos/LA_Times/LA_Times_020120.jpg"
moz-do-not-send="true">http://www.tomandrodna.com/MoscowCares/Photos/LA_Times/LA_Times_020120.jpg</a></div>
<div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size:
11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;
-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Senior living residents
Marion Marx, left, and Marian Sachs, 101, were instrumental
in getting meat removed from the menu one day a week at the
Fair Oaks Assisted Living facility in Pasadena.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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She must have been one tough lady in decades gone by.<br>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya
'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow
Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div>
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style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"
moz-do-not-send="true"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div>
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<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom
Hansen</span></div>
<div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow,
Idaho</span></div>
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