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Show HAPPENINGS SUMMIT COUNTY NEWS PAGE A6 leectioe Corner ,girissionary MAY 6, 2011 Photo of The Week Yews Black Bean Salad 1 1 / 2 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro 1 tablespoon chopped fresh parsley 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice 1 / 4 teaspoon salt 1 / 4 teaspoon black pepper 1 (15-ounce) can black beans, rinsed and drained 1 / 2 cup chopped tomato 1 / 4 cup diced peeled avocado 2 tablespoons chopped green onions 1 tablespoon chopped seeded jalapeno pepper 4 cups gourmet salad greens Preparation Combine first 5 ingredients in a large bowl; stir well with a whisk. Add beans, tomato, avocado, onions, and jalapeno; toss well. Cover and chill 2 hours. Serve over salad greens. Share your favorite recipe - we would love to help you by putting it in the Summit County News. Send an email to summitconews@gmail.com or bring in to the office in Coalville any time. Thank you. Just Stuff by Jan What do the swim team, the cheerleaders, the drama club and the debate team all have in common? It's the same thing that the high school band, the Girl Scouts, the Spanish club, the Young Women and the local elementary schools have in common. They need money to do the things they do. So, from time to time, they have fundraisers. Let's face it. If you've got kids and they're involved in any extra-curricular activities, if they just attend school for that matter, chances are you've probably bought (or helped sell) your share of wrapping paper, magazines or cookie dough. It might come in the form of selling coupon books, pizzas, or cookies, or having bake sales, or car washes, but you've been involved in raising the funds. There are all kinds of ways for groups to raise money. And most organizations try to tackle two or three fund raisers a year - one in the fall, one in the spring, and maybe one mid-summer. All to lessen the burden of what mom and dad have to fork over when it's time to pay the piper. My boys' scout troop and venture crew are no different; the boys sell tickets to a barbecue. But that's it. They only do one fundraiser during the year. Devin and Tyler are part of Boy Scout Troop 410, a very active troop sponsored by Christ United Methodist Church in Salt Lake and they do a barbecue for their fundraiser - a buffalo barbecue. And this year marks the 50th anniversary! It started as a scout family picnic back in 1961, and now, Troop 410's Annual Buffalo Barbeque is a community institution and a tradition at CUMC, as it celebrates its 50th anniversary. From its humble beginnings in 1961, when a Troop 410 leader actually shot a wild buffalo in Utah's annual hunt and the troop families got together for roast buffalo cooked on a spit over an open pit fire, the BBQ is now the only fund raiser for Troop 410 and Crew 9410. Mind you, it's not like your run-of-the-mill fund-raiser where kids sell tickets for a pancake breakfast or spaghetti dinner, or where the cheerleaders serve breakfast to 150 or the choir serves dinner to 200. Oh, the scouts and the ventures sell tickets to a dinner that includes salad and a roll, sliced buffalo in barbecue sauce, baked potato, vegetable, pie and homemade root beer for 1500. That's about how many meals we served last year between the "dine-in" and "take-out." By the time you read this the BBQ will have been and gone as it was held Saturday, April 30. However, I'm writing my column Friday morning, April 29th to meet the Friday deadline. Consequently, as I write this column, there's over 1000 pounds of buffalo, shipped in from South Dakota, thawing in the walk-in refrigerator of a local grocery store and it takes a few more than a handful of parents to pull off what the BBQ has become. Tonight, the potatoes, all 1500 plus, have to be scrubbed and wrapped in tinfoil for baking. Salt and pepper shakers have to be filled, tables and chairs, enough to seat 300 or more at a time, have to be set up in the gym. Slicers and steam tables, green beans and cases of salad, pats of butter and dry ice for the root beer, all have to be picked up and delivered to the church. Tomorrow morning, the buffalo roasts have to be prepared for roasting, which means wheeling the barely-thawed roasts from the grocery store, across 33rd South, in grocery carts, to the church where they can be seasoned with the secret recipe. Then it's back in the carts and back to the store for roasting. The potatoes have to be delivered to another store that bakes them for us... provided we buy our pies there. A few hours later, the cooked roasts, baked potatoes and over a hundred and fifty pies have to be picked up and brought to the church. Luckily, the troop and crew parents and their friends and family, and passed troop members and parents, pitch in to get things set up. And we'll be ready to open the doors for dinner at 3:30 on Saturday. Of course, I forgot to mention, the boys, who get out and knock on doors, sit in front of stores, hound their neighbors, their family, their friends, to buy tickets, are the ones who, dressed in their Class A uniforms and on their best behavior, serve the meals, clear the tables, visit with the patrons, and make the BBQ what it is. Yes, it's a far cry from the first Buffalo BBQs, but it's the same, too. It's a fundraiser for the scouts. And, like any fundraiser, it takes some doing. But the Buffalo BBQ is IT for the year. The boys don't have to do car washes or hold bake sales. They don't have to go door-to-door selling pizzas or popcorn. And the parents don't have to help sell wrapping paper, greeting cards or coupon books, either. So, by the time you read this, the buffalo will have been eaten, the tables will have been put away, the leftovers will have been bagged and sold, and the scouts and parents will hopefully have recuperated and Troop 410's 50th Annual Buffalo BBQ will all be but a memory. And we'll take a little break before we start making plans for next year's big event! Elder Brady Vernon Elder Brady Vernon has been called to the Cape Town South Africa Mission. He will report to the MTC on May 17th, 2011. He will be speaking in the Wanship Ward this Sunday, May 8th at 11:15am. One 9ear Ofof Sean Emmett Lopez Sean Emmett Lopez, son of Nora Lopez, celebrated his 1st birthday on May 3. He was joined by his grandparents, Ignacio and Irma Chavarria, Victor and Daniela Perez, and Cheryl Ovard, and his greatgrandmother, Maria Luisa Valdez. Happy birthday, Sean! Arbor Day thank you from Francis Town Francis Town Tree Committee would like to thank all those who participated in our Arbor Day celebration Saturday April 30. A dozen volunteers braved the cold snowy morning to help plant trees in our town park. Proper tree planting was guided by local arborist Jason Barto, and 4 new trees were set in the ground with the help of Public Works Director Luke Thomas, Rocky Mountain Power staff Dylan Evans and Chad Ambrose, South Summit High Interact Club Director Amy Regan and students Harrison Littledyke and Xander Katchuk, local DNR Forestry Agent P.J. Abraham, Larry Fagot representing neighboring Heber City Tree Advisory Board, LeAnn Evans, and Francis Tree Committee member Melanie Morgan. We are very grateful to RMP for donating the trees and to Thompson Logging for donating the woodchip. The trees that we plant today creates the legacy we leave for future generations to enjoy. Tree Committee members are still needed. 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