Nappanee Advance-News, Volume 134, Number 49, Nappanee, Elkhart County, 3 December 2015 — Page 4

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Advance News • Thursday, December 3, 2015

Round about the roundabout

I first heard the term roundabout in 1971. That was the name of a song by the British band Yes. I had no idea what the word meant. Now there's a brand new roundabout at the intersection of State Roads 119 and 19. Everyone around here knows what a roundabout is - it's this circle that replaces a stop light. You circle the donut hole in the middle. Because you yield but don't quite stop engines are less polluting. It's true. I read it in a book. I first drove a roundabout not quite thirty years ago in 1986 and it just about busted our marriage. It happened like this. Back when I lived in LA I entered an essay contest and won a trip to Great Britain! We saw London and York and Scotland, and a lot of places in between. Thanks to Britßail and the London Underground we were able to travel just about anywhere we wanted to go, including all the famous museums, monuments, and historical sites. We saw the Crown Jewels, the Elgin Marbles, the Rosetta Stone, the original manuscript for Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" and a page from a play in Shakespeare's own handwriting. Everything went smoothly except when a terrorist bomb went off outside Number 10 Downing Street near our

Improve success in holiday baking

The holidays are so much about food and family traditions that have special foods in them. There are just certain foods that family members always expect someone to prepare. There is all the extra stress and many times the only time of the year that you prepare these recipes is the holidays. I know that it is important that you use your family favorite

recipes, now is not the time to try new ones as the extra stress is just not worth it. So once you have the favorite recipes organized you need to make sure you have all of the ingredients. I know from the calls that 1 receive that you have been in the middle of preparing a recipe only to discover that you are missing one or more ingredients. So make your shopping list and check it twice as you sure don't want to have to go to the store in the middle of a recipe because you don't have the flavoring or another ingredient. You will also find it most helpful to do a freshness tefet, check your baking soda, powder and yeast if you are baking breads. Spices have dates but you need to give them a gentle smell, some become weaker as they age in your cupboard and others become stronger. So for me what this means is some of them 1 use more of and others not as much. It is also a good idea to consider the other ingredients you use like butter and cream cheese. I suggest you watch the sales and plan ahead, both of these products will keep a long time in the back of the refrigerator where it is extra cold and can also be frozen. Planning ahead really reduces the stress in the kitchen and can make a difference in the success of your baking. When you are working with butter you want to get the temperature right. If butter is too cold, your cake won't rise; too warm and the cookies will spread way too much. If you are making extra rich pie crust with butter it should be very cold. Keep in mind

Michiana irrigation meeting to focus on com, water use

AREA The Michiana Irrigation Association will hold their annual educational program and meeting on Monday, December 14 at the Blue Gate Garden Inn in Shipshewana. The program will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The morning portion of the program will focus on water use and policy. You'll learn about Indiana's new on-farm data collection and well monitoring program, a water

users group that is forming, some cost share programs' for improving water management, research on the impact of water use in Cass .County,-MI. , The afternoon session will focus on irrigated, high

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County Road Seven By Frank Ramirez

hotel in London. Except. We had to rent a car to see Stonehenge because in those days there was no bus or train or subway that went way. Both of us drove stick shift, so that was no problem. But they drive on the wrong side of the road in England. That meant the driver drove on the right seat which is the wrong seat with the right foot on the gas and brake and the left foot on the clutch like they drive in heaven, but with the left hand which is not the right hand for the stick shift, while the passenger sat in the seat that was left, which is the wrong seat. We each took turns driving which drove us batty. That meant we also each had a turn as passenger which meant we gripped our seat with white knuckles while yelling at each other. We had just about stopped yelling

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Food and Nutrition By Mary Ann \Lienhart Cross

can begin to adjust accordingly. Also the placement in the oven can make a difference, such as the top, center or lower part. I finish this with what is a time saver for me and that is the making of and using pan grease. I use this for all my baking and also in the crock pot. Mix together equal amounts of flour, oil, and solid shortening, mix together till smooth, keep in the refrigerator and brush on any kind of pan when baking. Baking is different that a lot of other cooking in that the measuring of the ingredients really can help determine the success. You really need to use the proper cups. When you need to measure dry ingredients, use a cup that is designed for them; for liquids use a liquid one. Being accurate when you measure is a must so place a dry measuring cup on a counter, then spoon the flour, sugar, or other dry ingredients and level off with a knife. What youdon't want to do is use the measuring cup as the scoop in the ingredients, this can over pack it. When measuring your liquids set a liquid measuring cup on a counter and pour in the ingredients. - ,v*W* \liUI There are many cookie, pie and other redf>es that call for measuring. If the recipe says the dough should be V 4" thick, measure to be sure. If it's thicker, it will take longer to bake, you won't have as many of the finished product and the results could be doughy rather than crisp. Enjoy the preparing of special holiday foods, remember to ask others to help out so all can enjoy, happy holidays.,

Extension Tips By Jeff Burbrink

Michiana Irrigation Association. If you would like to eat lunch and attend the afternoon session only, the cost is S2O. If you do not eat lunch, the afternoon is free. Registration should be sent to arrive by December 7th to MIA Meeting, 5240 Lawrence Road, Leonidas, MI 49066. Checks should be made payable to Michiana Irrigation Association. Do not include PARP payment with the registration. For a look at the complete agenda, visit msue.anr.msu.edu / uploads / 235 / 67987/ association / 2015 /16MIABrochure.pdf

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at each other and covering our eyes and cringing when we got to our first roundabout. Normal roundabouts, like they drive in heaven, go counter clockwise because you're driving in America you drive in the right lane which happens to be the right lane for driving! In England are in the left lane with is not the right lane and you drive clockwise and we had never even seen or heard of a roundabout anyway. Since we'd never even seen or heard of a roundabout we'd wheel around, all the traffic going the wrong way according to every instinct, and we'd end up going around two or three times until we figured out what we had to do to get out of them, and then hopefully we were still going the right direction on the wrong side of the road. We got to Stonehenge. We got back. When we exited the roundabouts and got back to our hotel we were still married. Barely. So the roundabouts around here are nothing as far as we're concerned. Besides, we learned back in 1986 our marriage was roundabout proof. That was a pretty good feeling. Frank Ramirez is the Senior Pastor of the Union Center Church of the Brethren.

if the recipe calls for room temperature butter, it should have some give to it when you press on it. If you are in a hurry place it in the microwave for 5 seconds on defrost and then let it set. I also recommend that you buy an oven thermometer and check the temperature. Once you know what the temperature is you

management com. Topics include nitrogen management on sandy soils, disease control and management factors affecting high com yields. Indiana growers who attend the afternoon session will be able to receive PARP credit towards their private applicators license. PARP credit will cost $lO/person and is payable at the end of the session. The cost for the entire day is S3O, which includes lunch and membership in the

Please join the staff of the Wa-Nee Walk In Clinic in welcoming Jeri Dark wood as our new Family Nurse Practitioner

wa-Nee Medical walk in clinic, llc 1 1028 E. Waterford St., Wakaursa, IN 46573 • 574-862-2504 Jeri was born and raised in the Nappanee-Wakarusa area where she participated in 4-H and was a 1984 graduate of Northwood High School. She received her associated degree in Nursing from Ivy Tech College, South Bend Indiana, and both her BSN and Masters with Nurse Practitioner's degree from Goshen College. She worked for 15 years as the Director of Nursing at Miller's Merry Manor in Wakarusa. Jeri has two children, Tiffany and Travis Dull, and lives in the Elkhart area. Dr. Abel worked with Jeri all 15 years at Miller’s Merry Manor and saw her excellent quality of compassion and knowledge of health care issues and problems and therefore invited her to practice medicine with him here atvthe Wa-Nee Medical Walk In Clinic. With her-advanced clinical studies we will be able to care for everyone. We will be doing wellness physicals, Medicare yearly physical, pre-operative physicals, school and athletic physicals. Also newborn care and care for all types of illness. We house the latest comprehensive EKG machine, draw all types of lab work and tend to all types of injuries as well as xrays. We will take care of people In Nursing Homes and Assisted Living Housing as well. -Jeri will be doing all the medical care Dr. Abel does including all the above and will soon be certified in DOT physicals. For the present time she will be working 8-12 on the same days as Dr. Abel until she fulfills her obligations at the Nursing-Home with her patients. She will then be at the clinic full time with Dr. Abel. The clinic will be starting both appointments and walk in services. We offer suturing care, emergency care, joint injections, minor surgeries and nonsurgical fractures. 1

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Don’t worry mom, I have a motorcycle

I was 18 years old, if memory serves me right, the first time I sat across from a suit-and-tie banker and applied for a personal loan. As a

recent high school graduate, all of my friends were working through finances to pay for school, but I had a different agenda: I was sitting in that bank to ask for SIOOO to buy a motorcycle. I can still recall the marked drop in my mom's voice when I first told her that, with the job I had at a gas station, I had been saving up money to supplement a loan I was getting to buy a bike. She just knew that I was going to be killed on the thing, and she had nothing but reservations about my choice. It was understandable, to say the least. Really, what mother wouldn't worry herself into fits if her son told her that he was going to buy a motorcycle? By-and-large, motorcycles are inherently dangerous. They run on two wheels, offer little protection to riders and have a power-to-weight ratio that would make nfy mother's head explode if I'd have explained it to her. But her head didn't explode, my loan came through and, within days, I had purchased a 1981 Yamaha XS6SO motorcycle. It wasn't a particularly fast, friendly or good looking bike, but none of those things mattered after the first time I kicked over the engine and rode through the farm roads around my neighborhood. In that moment, I felt like I was equal in measure to all of my early heroes. Steve McQueen, James Dean, T.E. Lawrence —I was one among their ranks and there was no turning back. But my mother still worried regardless of how much I felt like "The King of Cool." I would always tell her that I was fine, that I was an experienced rider who didn't worry about things like road conditions or evasive maneuvers. Yet I could never shake her words from my ears when I would take the bike out for a long run. Through every turn, every acceleration and every hard brake I would hear her worries playing through my head like a song I couldn't forget. And I'd ride all the better because of it. I still hear the same arguments against motorcycles that I got from my mother whenever I talk bikes within ,earshot of someone who doesn't agree with them. They always say the same things. "They're too dangerous," they say with a shake of the head. "It's not about what you do, you can't control other drivers," they add, as if I were disputing any of those points in the first place. But what they do not seem to realize as people who have probably never ridden a motorcycle for any considerable distance is that motorcycles, while they can be dangerous, also add an awareness that can rarely be learned in any other way. Only when you've tasted the road dust blow up from the tire of a passing semi do you fully respect the size and power of other vehicles on the road. Once you've balanced the front and rear brakes on a motorcycle under hard pressure you earn a respect for the perils of the open roqd that you just cannot get from inside the cabin of a car. My sister still comments, to this day, on my tendency to have no faith in rear view mirrors. I use them, but I don't put my life in their hands. Rather, \ check over my shoulder—a habit burnt into my brain from my years atop a motorcycle. I have hqndreds of those little quirks in my driving habits, and I've only seen them mirrored in people who have ridden motorcycles, too; it's like a virus that gets under the skin, replaces the blood and takes full control of the mind whenever the body is in motion, and we can't shake it even if we try. Even if I sat down with pen and paper, I couldn't count the vast number of accidents I've avoided and sticky situations made less sticky because I have hundreds of hours in the saddle. After all, calm seas rarely make good sailors. Even though it may still seem counter intuitive, I have one piece of advice for parents: If you worry about your child's driving abilities, buy them a motorcycle. Your little Steve McQueen will learn to be safer than ever before, and they will have never looked as cool in the process. But yes, my mother still worries.

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