IRON RIVER — It was Norm Borske’s 81st birthday, a sunny and warm one in early September. He spent it where he spends most of his days — tending to his garden.
“It keeps me from thinking about other things,” Borske said, taking a break from his late-summer garden clean-up. “It keeps my mind busy and my body.
“If you let yourself not do stuff like that, pretty soon, you’re down in the dumps … I…