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Show ommunity lews A2 • WEDNESDAY, JULY 4, 2007 -NEWS- Spanish Fork 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, UT 84660 Lane Henderson Steve Hardman Namon Bills Covering what matters most Everyone makes Eating right All That Jazz Jazlyn Crandall Publisher Editor Assoc. Editor The Spanish Fork News is published each Wednesday for $37.50 per year in area and $41,50 out of area by J-Marr, 280 North Main St., Spanish Fork Utah 84660. Email stories to editor@spforknews.com Email ads to ads@spforknew5.com Call us at 794-4964 POSTMASTER Send address changes to Spanish Fork News 280 North Main St. Spanish Fork, Utah 84660 The entire content of this newspaper is Copyright© 2007 Spanish Fork News. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any form without the written permission of the editor or publisher. DEADLINES Weddings, anniversaries, missionaries, 1st birthdays, articles, photos, letters to the editor Friday, 12 p.m. Display advertising and classified advertising Friday, 12 p.m. We all have our favorite my life. It's come to mind stories about newspaper once again lately, as it seems we've been making more bloopers. I know how it feels With apologies to Robert mistakes then usual in The to have your name spelled Fulghum, there's at least Spanish Fork News. I'm sure wrong in the paper, because one thing I really needed to you' ve noticed the corrections JC Henderson spelled my know that I didn't learn in we've run. You've probably name wrong when I was a kindergarten. I learned it in noticed other things that we Scout. Not that I blame him first grade — in Helen Harris' should have run corrections — everyone makes mistakes. first grade class at Brockbank on. If you haven't yet, don't If you ask Maureen, she'll tell Elementary, to be exact. Oh worry — you will. you about the time a ladies yes, my time in first grade Although we strive for club got together for their was not limited to crawling perfection in all aspects closing social and exchanged around the back of the room of the paper, newspaper pants. It was supposed to say pretending to be a fox while perfection is an exercise plants. I should have been paying in futility. We're imperfect I admit that I smile (mostly attention. I actually learned people in an imperfect only on the inside) when I something. I'm sure I learned business. When you're find other people's mistakes a lot of things, but there's one processing hundreds of — especially in print. Not thing Mrs. Harris taught that pieces of information on a because of a deep-seated stands out very clearly. It was weekly deadline, you're sure sadistic streak, but because it a song, and it goes like this: to get something wrong. makes me feel better to know Thankfully, our mistakes that they're human too. And are mostly harmless and can let's face it, making mistakes Everyone makes mistakes. be corrected in a subsequent is part of our shared human Oh yes, they do. edition. The worst thing experience. Your sister and your brother And your dad and mother too. I'm likely to do is spell I still get down on myself somebody's name wrong or when I find a mistake in our Big people, small people, unintentionally leave out a paper. But I try to remember Matter of fact, all people. story or photo. I'm just glad a song I really needed to Everyone makes mistakes, I'm not a neurosurgeon. I'll know that I learned in first So why can't you? never have to say things like, grade. And then I realize that I've had occasion to refer "You mean it was supposed it's OK. Everyone makes mistakes. back to this song throughout to be the left leg?!" Namon Bills ASSOCIATE EDITOR Freeze your cooking local restaurant supply store and bought a bunch of tin TV dinner style trays. My mom wouldfixup a week's worth of lunches and dinners and take it to my grandma's house and put them in her freezer. Each night before going to bed my grandma would take out two meals of whatever she felt like eating the next day for lunch and dinner (everything was labeled on the tinfoil covering the meals.) She'd put them in the fridge to thaw out. The next day she would put them in the oven at the appropriate time and have a delicious, nutritious, home cooked meal. At the end of the week, Mom and Dad would retrieve the trays and trade them for the next week's worth of meals. Grandma stayed healthy and my parents didn't worry about whether or not she was eating well. Ready Or Not Dawn Van Nosdol I had a friend e-mail me the other day asking about how to make quick easy meals. Actually most all of my recipes are quick and easy, and unless you want to eat out every night or get to know the pizza delivery man by his first name, you are going to have to put some energy into refueling your body on a daily basis. There are several ways that this can be accomplished. One that I really like is what my mom and dad did when I was younger. My grandmother was living by herself and she just wasn't paying attention to what she was eating, and she wasn't eating nearly enough to keep herself healthy. My parent's solution was to make homemade TV dinners. This If there is only one or two was in the pre-microwave era of you at home, this is a really and so my parents went to a easy way to keep quick and easy meals on hand and also save money. I know that you can buy TV dinners, but if you make them from scratch, using your food storage, you will know exactly what is in them, and it will be cheaper and healthier. Also, we now have the microwave and reusable plastic containers, some with separated compartments. Life just gets better and better. If your family is larger, then it gets even easier. You can make casserole type dinners, such as lasagna, and freeze them in one large container. Think about what you like eating and then just adapt it. One good idea is to pre-cook and pre-season hamburger. Cook a pound of hamburger, season it with taco seasoning and then freeze it. Make a dozen tortilla shells (use the recipe I gave you), cook them up and then freeze them too. Then the night See FREEZE • A3 Last week's column titled "All That Jaxx" by Charla Zeeman, was actually by me and I am the one to blame for that mistake. This is why we double check when we place and format text, kids. Anyway, did you know that most of the food you eat is hydrogenated? From what I can gather from my dad, that means stuff like trans fat is getting caught in your system and is wiping out your HDL cholesterol (the good kind.) Because of this, I have bought this awesome tasting Smart Balance Omega Natural Peanut Butter. It has no trans fat and no hydrogenated oil. However, because this peanut butter is so yummy, I will probably inhale the whole jar in one sitting and then cause blockage in my arteries because of the saturated fats. I also learned yesterday that if you get snow cones often, start buying the sugarfreeflavors,otherwise you'll have a billion cavities in just two weeks. Or rinse your mouth with 16 ounces of water directly after. Nobody likes cavities and no one likes paying $40 or more for each filling. If you want to lose fat, buy a log book. Don't just get a regular notebook and record things. You need a book with a very definite system. With this book, you can look over patterns in your eating, strength, cardio fitness and your overall health. In mine, there's a spot to record your resting heart rate every morning. If your heart rate is higher than normal, you'll know you're either getting sick or you worked out too hard the day before. No matter which one, you need a rest day, where you can cross train with something lower key like a few laps in the pool and a leisurely bike ride. Well, summer is a third of the way over and I've already danced in 18 sprinklers for 15 seconds each. If I'm going to reach my goal of 100, you guys need to get those sprinklers on during the day. Every night I come home from work and the sprinklers are on at 11 p.m. Who wants to play in a sprinkler when it's not sunny outside? C'mon people! Ramblin' irrigation water Ramblin' Roads Charla Zeeman We have been in a heat wave. There's been no rain for how many days? Too many for me to remember. My yard has been suffering. I do have a sprinkling system, but it seems to not want to sprinkle the middle of my lawn. Thank goodness it sprinkles the front part just fine. When I was a little girl, Grandpa irrigated. There was a ditch in front of the house which carried the water down the street. That ditch system served our little town just fine for several years. Anyway, when Grandpa's water turn came along, he'd walk up the street with his shovel over his shoulder to find the water. He knew just where to go to turn it down. As he went, he changed the dams so the water would come to our house. The water came into a deep hole — maybe two feet deep by 18 inches wide by 18 inches long. It seemed huge to me. Once the hole would become filled with water, it went down the ditch along our property line. Grandpa would build several dams along the ditch to turn the water in along the way. If there was a spot that didn't get the water, he would sometimes stand along the ditch with his shovel to turn the water on the lawn. The first spot to water was the east lawn back to the playhouse. As soon as the water reached that spot, Grandpa moved the first dam to water the lawn over to the sidewalk. If the water wasn't moved quickly enough, it seeped rapidly into the basement. No matter what he did, he never could rectify the problem. When the lawn was watered to the sidewalk, the dam was moved to the next section. This was the west lawn. The water was then let into the backyard into a series of ditches to hydrate the fruit trees and bushes. After the turn was over, the next person down the street came along and took the water, removed the dam and set it in front of Grandpa's ditch into the yard. This system remained in effect until Grandpa's house was sold. After I was married, my husband and I followed the same system. Except we didn't have irrigation and watered the yard with a hose and sprinkler. It was only after I moved here that I had the convenience of a sprinkling system. It was the first thing I did after I moved in. But guess what? When the sprinklers don't reach all the right places, I resort to the old hose and sprinkler method. 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