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Boomers Enjoy Celebrating No. 60

The year leading up to Molly Huss’ 60th birthday was terrific. She was physically stronger than she’d ever been, and she was working on a master’s degree at Eastern Washington University in preparation for her encore career as a mental health counselor. The two daughters she and her husband, Richard Huss, raised together were grown and successfully launched. How to celebrate this milestone? She emailed dozens of women friends and invited them to join her in a dragon boat race (pictured) along the Spokane River, a fundraiser for the Spokane Parks Foundation in 2007. Her River Sisters crew, made up of 20 women and one man, came in last, but no one cared. Huss’ mother died suddenly of a pulmonary embolism at 57, so every year Huss lives beyond that? “It’s a bonus,” Huss, now 65, said/Rebecca Nappi, SR. More here.

Question: How did/will you celebrate your 60th birthday?



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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