| T-Coast Students Head Back To School
Kids on the Treaure Coast returned to school Monday to begin the 2007-2008 school year. St. Lucie, Martin, Okeechobee and Indian River counties all began school with warm weather and clear skies Monday morning. Palm Beach County schools begin Wednesday. .
Changing times leave cookbooks on the shelf
My interest in cookbooks began early, of necessity. My mother was not a good cook. Her puddings were lumpy. Her jello was rubbery. But no one complained. We didn't want this otherwise sweet and wonderful mother to feel bad. But when she cried because her cakes wouldn't come out of the pan or her pie crust crumbled, I knew I had to do something. There were not as many cookbooks then as now. We relied on "Fanny Farmer's Boston Cooking School Book," but it was probably "Betty Crocker's Picture Cookbook" that taught me, and in turn my mother, how to cook. When I got married, my mother gave me "The Ladies Home Journal Cookbook," which I still treasure. Here were not only instructions on cooking but information on setting a nice table, planning a menu and entertaining.
Burned Nigerian girl keeps faith in miracles
The last thing Chinonye Omeje remembers of that day was checking on a pot of stew from its precarious perch over a cooking fire. She lifted the top of the pot and, at that moment, suffered an epileptic seizure. The girl, then 14, fell face first into the fire, and the tumbling pot dumped its scalding contents onto her head. Chi Chi, as she is called, was burned beyond recognition. Her pretty, smiling face vanished. Her eyes, nose, lips, and right ear melted away. Her hair went up in flames, and her scalp was scalded. Much of her right hand was disfigured, along with her neck and chest. Her family thought she was dead. But on the way to the hospital, she began to move. Thus began an incredible journey back from the brink of death, from a small village in Africa to a large village of Americans who have helped pave the rocky road.
Frisco Fest Overcomes Wet Weather
ROGERS -- Evening rain showers couldn't keep residents away from festivities at the 23rd Frisco Festival in Downtown Rogers on Friday.The streets filled with a sea of umbrellas while some children ran barefoot in the rain with huge grins on their faces, soaked from head to toe.The smell of freshly cooked chicken, kettle korn and funnel cakes wafted through the air while thunderstorms rolled overhead.Marge Wolf, president of Main Street Rogers said, "By the look of things people are still coming out."The rain helped cool off downtown and Wolf joked if it could "hold off until midnight and stop by 5 a.m. it will be perfect."Last year 25,000 people attended the festival and this year Main Street Rogers is hoping to exceed that number, Wolf said. .
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