| A Life-long Passion for Food
While some school children enjoy skateboarding, video games, or dancing, Gino Arcuri always loved cooking. Gino grew up in New York where he worked in his father's deli. “My father [Guy] owned a deli and I used to love going there and helping when I was very little. I got the love for food from him. He taught me the way. He was a hard worker and a smart man," says Gino. “He was known as the cheesecake king and because of him I love making cheesecake. The last thing we did together was make a metropolitan cheesecake." With his initial interest in food inspired by his father, Gino pursued his love when his family moved to Florida. “When I was 18 we moved to Florida and I started working at hotels. We did a lot of banqueting and one of our biggest events was the Harley Davidson convention," says Gino.
Armstrong's glory years recalled
Decades ago, advertisements in Better Homes & Gardens glowed with warmly lit scenes like the one gracing the cover of a new history of Armstrong World Industries just published by the Lancaster County Historical Society.
A cozy eat-in kitchen has pots cooking on a sleek black stove. A child's school books and ball rest on the floor beside an oak chair, which is pulled up to a trestle table. There, a homey soup bowl (spoon inserted) shares space with $100 worth of fresh tulips in a crockery vase.
The main focus on this stage for domestic bliss is the vinyl flooring in the foreground, in all its imitation Colonial cobblestone splendor.
Today, Armstrong's golden era is past. And for the word picture that is "How Armstrong Floored America: The People Who Made It Happen, 1945-1995," focus has shifted from the foreground to the background.
Sue Williams, 69 DEC. 13, 1937 - AUG. 24, 2007
Sue Ann Williams, 69, Columbus, died at 4:55 p.m. Aug. 24, 2007, at the Hospice of South Central Indiana Inpatient Facility at Columbus. Born Dec. 13, 1937, in Indianapolis, she was the daughter of the late Roger and Virginia (Hecathorn) Teeguarden. She married Marvin G. Williams Feb. 13, 1960, in Indianapolis and he survives in Columbus. She was an employee at Columbus Regional Hospital for 28 years, working in the purchasing department and store room. Previously, she had been a glassware buyer for L. S. Ayres in Indianapolis and a school crossing guard at Richards Elementary. She was a member of Sandy Hook United Methodist Church and Kappa Kappa Sigma Sorority. She enjoyed cooking, creating recipes, gardening and buying things for her grandchildren.
Festive tea party puts girls' talent on display
Cucumber and basil finger sandwiches, curried egg salad, blueberry scones, miniature fresh fruit tarts, chocolate mint madeleines, sugar cookies, raspberry cream cheese candies, sponge cake hearts and Earl Grey tea. That was the menu whipped up by elementary school-age children and served at an invitation-only celebration Aug. 17. Guests at the festive tea party consisted of mothers and grandmothers of participants who had attended Summer Cottage Experiences camp at the Mandarin home of Jessica McMullen Bright, better known to Jacksonville residents as Chef Jessica Bright. This was Bright's fourth year to offer her Christian-based program, which included crafts and activities about cooking, gardening, sewing, etiquette and art. "I thought it was excellent," said Ashley Cooke, who ushered tea party guests to seats at a colorfully decorated table containing campers' hand-made name cards, painted tea cups and a mountain of tasty treats.
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