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Show North CLIPPER TODAY C2 THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1999 Lifestyles Davis fWW ffl Cook-chi-ll MWtBllMSS BY MARK WATSON Clipper Today Staff Writer A. Hansen By Christ TV for one package of diapers. From the back of the crowd another woman increases the not only her big screen TV but ing as well. A few hardy souls may resist buying my are concerned enough about the possible problems the new year may bring that theyve sold their homes in the burbs and moved to the boonies - stockpiling food and supplies, preparing to grow their own food. Fearing that the power grid could fail some people are buying wood stoves, investing in d generators, even looking to w indmills and solar panels for energy assistance. diesel-fuele- Utility companies, government agencies, and businesses are spending billions to test and prepare their computers for New Years Day. One poll showed that of the population will take extra money out of the one-quart- er bank to get them through possible Y2K complications. To prepare for this possibility, the Federal Reserve is gearing up to have extra cash available at the end of this year. All this speculation has left me with one important question . . . Will the nation's diaper manufactures have large quantities of diapers available for stockpiling too? The way I look at it, all my cash seems to go for diapers anyway. I might as well stock up on diapers and then wait for the Y2K disaster to hit. When panic-stricke- people strip n , DT) player 2000. Some store shelves in only a matter of days and the local diaper supply dwindles, I'll be sitting pretty. After setting aside a few months worth of diaper packages for my own baby. I can then begin selling the rest of my stash to the highest bidder. I can see it now. One desperate mother, holding an infant who has soaked her dress, offers to trade me her big screen program delights district - Prepare for Y2K - buy diapers Everywhere I look there are articles about the Y2K bug - the computer glitch that may occur if computers programmed to recognize only the last two digits of a year assume it's January 1900 instead of marked up diapers and opt to use cloth ones instead. Poor miserable things. With the power out. scrubbing soiled flannel squares on a washboard and then sending it through a wringer is going to get old fast. It won't take long for them to see things my way. Now comes the planning. At 4(3 diapers a week, 22 diapers per package, and a package costing an average h of $6 in today's money, a supply of diapers for my daughter will only set me back a couple hundred dollars. No problem. But Im thinking BIG. Let's say that I decide to purchase enough diapers to distribute to the, oh . . say, 9.000 diaper-buyin- g parents in my four-mont- . geographical area. If I plan on selling diapers for two weeks, I'll need to stockpile over 30.000 packages of diapers. At $6 a package, let's see. that's . . . (gulp) almost $200,000! Not to mention the rent on a storage facility for housing my hoard of diapers. Where am I going to come up with $200,000? And what if the Y2K bug turns out to be no big deal after all? What will I do with some 30,000 packages of diapers? We only use about 95 packages a year, so I'd be left with what? A 315 year supply? On second thought. I'm bagging my mass diaper stockpiling venture. Buy your own. Christie Hansen is a freelance writer and mother of three young children. Write to her concerning this and other parenting topics by at christiehansenusa.net or care of this publication. When the CLEARFIELD cooks at Davis School Districts Nutrition Services Central Facility whip up a batch of chili they do it in a big way. After all, they need to feed 32,000 people five days a week. On a typical day at their humon-gou- s kitchen at the Freeport Center, the crew might make 600 gallons of chili or 300 gallons of white gravy. On Tuesday, the bakers were in at 6:30 a.m. to bake 9,000 cinnamon rolls. At 9 a.m. they were in the process of cooking 2,000 pounds of hamburger for taco meat. Once cooked, the massive amounts of food are chilled for 45 minutes to 34 degrees fahrenheit and stored in giant refrigerators. When the time is right, usually within six weeks, the food is shipped to one of 74 schools in the district. This cook and chill process has been going on for the past year to food to most of supply the schools in the Davis District. The program worked so well last year that all the schools in the district will participate in the program this year. The facility also processes commodities for Salt Lake City School District and will begin serving Carbon School District.as well as the Utah State University Edith Bowen Laboratory School. This type of system is used throughout the nation. We wanted to reduce the efforts our workers. We also needed a more efficient way of WORKERS at the school district's relationship with Nestle will also continue and a new relationship will start with USU this year to provide internships to 25 of the schools nutrition science students. Its totally based on school lunch praticums, school lunch and Tsakalos said. These are cook-and-chi- kitchen frost cinnamon rolls. ll Trenbeath informed board members that the school lunch program is an enterprise program, meaning that the money generated from lunch purchases and reimbursements from state and federal commodities keep the program operational. That money does not come from the general budget of the schools, she said. I think thats important. They are also operating in the black, which is far better than many school lunch programs in the state or throughout the country ' District Business Administrator Bruce Williams also praised the Nutrition Services Central Facility and said he expects to see significant savings in the next five years due to its the partnerships that have come to us, and they were never ever thought of at the time the facility opened. I just want to thank you for your leap of faith in us, Tsakalos told the school board. At the board meeting on Aug. 17, Assistant Lynn Superintendent preparing food because were facing tremendous growth in the district. Were building a lot of schools, said Pam Food Services Director Tsakalos. Total budget for the food services program in the district is $13 million. There are several advantages to existence. It also really helps us because there is a real labor shortage in food services right now; Williams said. We need to be able to provide the product at a reasonable price to our patrons. What that means is that rather,than having to raise the prices of school lunch over the next few. years, it is our intent to be able to try to keep things at the same level as this type of food operation including consistency in product, cost savings, no contamination because all meat is precooked and the shelf life of food is six weeks. Each food service manager in all the schools is also trained to analyze food before it is served. This is known as HACCP training Hazardous Analysis Critical Control Point. e Fourteen employees and e nine workers ar? employed at the Freeport Center facility which covers 62,000 square feet. The facility has only existed for a year now and leaders estimate the program already has saved the district about $204,000 for each of three new elementary schools. That savings came because e conthe standard $385,000 ventional school kitchen that used to be installed in schools has now been pared down to a $180,000 retherm they are now? Administrators said there is a need to hire several part-tim- e food services workers at lunchrooms . throughout the district. full-tim- part-tim- Cotton promotion aids mall shoppers - LAYTON Layton Hills Mall shoppers taking part in the Cotton Rules for promotion can turn in receipts from cotton merchandise totaling $125 or more through Sept. 18. Receipts should be taken to the mall customer service counter. The promotion is being conducted by the mall and Cotton Incorporated, the marketing and research company representing Upland Cotton. It offers shoppers the opportunity to get a clear. Day-Gl- o colored backpack, with a cotton layered inside, as part of a l" program. Customers can also register to win a $250 cotton shopping spree by completing an entry form at any mall C cook-and-chi- ll retailer and dropping the form off at the entry box at the customer service center. The winner will be drawn Sept. 20 and does not need to be present to win. In addition, customers can participate in a Recy cle Your Jeans program Sept. 2 by dropping off their clean, gently used cotton jeans at the customer service center. Donations will be distributed to the Salvation Army. In addition, the first 100 shoppers to donate their cotton jeans will receive a free voucher to a mall food retailer. For more information call ,i JANET BARAKS pours milk into giant vat to make 300 gallons of white gravy. full-siz- kitchen. Estimates were that it would also take the district three to five years to transition its schools from using existe school kitchens to using ing just a portion of the kitchen to reheat full-siz- the cook-chi- ll product. 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