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In Memoriam-Robert Belden Gardner

Bob was born on July 26, 1929, in Salt Lake City, Utah and was raised by his parents Lowell and Carrie Gardner in Denver, Colorado---they adored him, he could do no wrong. He joined the US Navy following high school graduation in July, 1947. He held the rank of Electronics Technician 2^nd class until honorably discharged April, 1950 from San Diego, CA. He was then recalled January 3, 1951 and served on the vessels USS Bon Homme Richard and USS Chauncey and discharged from Great Lakes, Illinois in April, 1954. During this period he married Betty Deline (Rosenwald) in 1952. He taught at Lowry Air Force Base and then attended University of Colorado earning a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1956. Together they brought three wonderful children into the world: Randal, Debra and Richard. He was very proud of his children. Bob is survived by his wife, Donna; sister, Carol Clark; first wife, Betty Rosenwald; sons, Randal (Cathy) & Richard; daughter, Debra (Peter); grandsons, Christopher, Michael, Benjamin & Graham; step-daughter, Teresa Lindbloom; step-daughter, Leisha Minich and her sons, Zachary, Austin & Logan.

In 1962 he moved his family to Mercer Island to work for Honeywell. His professional career included TRW; Oceanographic Institute of Washington, Seattle; University of Washington and ICON Telecommunications, where he retired in 1998. At this point his life began to show serious signs of dementia which frustrated and disturbed him greatly. He so missed his family and close friends, particularly missed playing golf with the members of Emmanuel and the Mill Creek Poor Man’s Golf Club. He was crushed when he felt he could no longer continue playing cards with his longtime friends of the Leviticus group. He enjoyed so much Cannon Beach, OR. where he vacationed yearly with his family and this continued throughout the 1980’s. There, he thrived on flying kites, had quite a collection, among his favorites was the “silver slug”. He stayed at the beach overlooking Haystack
Rock and barbequed endless oysters. He was a sports fan too, baseball, football, and golf was among his favorites. He went to Mariner and Seahawk games, and whenever possible watched the games on TV.

During his tenure at the University of Washington he married Donna in 1980. He worked as a Manager of Technical and Administrative Services in the Departments of Atmospheric Sciences and Civil Engineering. He willingly took on the huge responsibility of helping to raise a second family and accepted Donna’s daughters (Leisha, Kami, and Teresa), then 11, 9 and 9 years old. Over time he taught us how to be better people, always giving unconditional love and support. We constantly played bridge, some duplicate and got pretty good at it---he loved bidding NO TRUMP. He left the UW to pursue a different career in sales and marketing with a local telecommunications company. He met Leslie Cole of ALTCOM and was hired as their first employee and since then Les and Bob became longtime friends. Les hired Bob from another telecomm company when he was CEO of ICON. He traveled to many US states, had numerous golf meetings/tournaments and received many awards for sales, and, of course, for high-handicap golf! He never was very good at the game, but loved it nonetheless. He attempted to teach Donna a few things about golf so they could play the game together. They cruised to the Caribbean with a neighborhood group and the last big trip was to the Mediterranean when Donna retired in 2001. It was a thirty-day cruise to 9 countries---a wonderful experience and fantastic time, but unfortunately the last of his travels.  He made a few small trips to see our neighborhood friends, Doug and Sharon Holliker, in Green Valley, Arizona and to Santa Barbara, CA to visit lifetime friends, Doron and Eileen. This was the last of his travels as he knew it, but unfortunately only the beginning of a long and hard battle with Alzheimer’s disease. Our love and admiration for him will continue on in our hearts---he was the BEST in so many ways.

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Green Tip # 9

PLASTIC BOTTLES ARE RECYCLABLE, RIGHT?

What’s more Northwest than a wonderful bottle of ‘pure mountain spring water’? Yes, they are lightweight, easy to stash and take with you, part of a healthy lifestyle… BUT

*“Plastic bottles clog landfills, create greenhouse gases and take excess energy to produce... “Nine out of ten plastic water bottles end up as garbage or litter…That adds up to 30 million plastic bottles discarded each day, more than 10 billion in a year.

Every liter of bottled water sold takes roughly 3 liters of water to produce… More than 17 million barrels of oil were use to produce the plastic water bottles used by Americans in 2006, a process which also created 2.5 million tons of carbon dioxide…  *Excerpts from The Seattle Times, Thursday February 28, 2008.

USE TAP WATER OR A WATER FILTRATION SYSTEM Purchase a Nalgene®, polycarbonate, or other refillable hard plastic bottle, or obtain a freebie from your favorite merchant or nonprofit (I have one from Fred Hutchinson, myself). You can fill them over and over, add ice if you like, refrigerate or even freeze them before you slip them in your backpack for your day’s outing. Just think of all the water, oil, and carbon emissions you can save!