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A THE WYLIE-NEWS Wednesday Apnl X 1996
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Dear Editor:
1 would like lo publicly recognize
and express my sincemt apprecia-
tion to the present School Board
Members for the support you have
provided ut implementing the many
changes that have occurred m the
past three years. I would also like to
especially thank Dr Fuller. Susan
Williamson and the Wylie 1SD staff
for then tireless efforts in develop-
ing and recommending the changes
that are necessary to better prepare
our students for the 21st Century
workforce
As both an educator and former
businessman for over 20 figures. 1
have been very concerned in the 10
years my family has been a part of
the Wylie community that the Wylie
ISD was not adequately preparing
our children for tomorrow's work-
place
However, the openness of the
Superintendent's office combined
with the forward thinking changes
that have been implemented in per-
sonnel. curriculum, and attitudes of
both teachers and students alike in
the past three years has been almost
astonishing.
I have recently taken a position at
the University of North Texas in
Denton When I accepted this posi-
tion my family and I discussed
strongly the possibility of moving to
The Colony. Frisco, or Denton
However, after my oldest son
brought home his curriculum guide
for ha high school classes, we have
decided that we will remain n Wylie
to allow both our children the edu-
cational opportunities now being
provided by Wylie ISD
Our goal in education today has to
be to fully prepare our students in
elementary, middle school, high
school and colleges for the drastic
changes that are going to occur in
tomorrow's workforce brought
about by our rapidly changing tech-
nology With a curriculum that now
includes a number of legal, medical,
office and computer technology
modules, as well as pre- and
advanced college placement level
classes. I believe Wy lie ISD is suc-
ceeding in that preparation
I am not writing this as a member
of anyone's campaign efforts or to
say that 1 agree with everything the
Board has done However. 1 believe
that credit should be given when it is
due Recent elections have shown
that even when voters are satisfied
with their incumbents, that does not
guarantee their return. Low voter
turnouts are almost always to the
greatest advantage of oppositional
candidates So don't forget to use
your constitutional right and get out
and vote Our children are depend-
ing on us!!
Card of thanks
Paul T Leverington
Wslie
Youth art month
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MEMBER 1996
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
To my friends, many happy
thanks Your thoughtfulness was
very special for me during my ill-
ness I can't express enough kind-
ness to you all May God Mess you
all. I love you all
Maxine Butler
Dutch Treat
Singles set
meeting dates
The Dutch Treat Singles Club
would like to invite singles,
divorcees, widows and widowers
from ages 21 to 65 to their next
meeting on April 25 at the Old
Country Steak House in Wylie
The meeting begins at 7:30 p.m
There is no charge for this club Mrs
Lou Cavenough.the guest speaker,
will be speaking on “How to Frog
Hunt" (you have to kiss a lot of
toads before you find your pnnee or
princess)
The group will be going to the
Mesquite Rodeo on Saturday, Apnl
27; and plans are in the works for a
nature trail walk and museum trip in
May.
For more information, contact
Faye at metro (214) 843-8198.
Some things must await their season
M
any years ago. we school
kids observed "seasons"
that had nothing neces-
sarily to do with spring, summer,
autumn or winter.
These vaguely-defined time
periods were when kids did certain
things for fun on the school play-
ground
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No one seemed to know exactly
when a “season" would start, what
caused it to begin or when it would
end. But when a "season" arrived,
everyone knew it, for sure
These special time penods in the
lives of Depression-era school kids,
especially boys, knew no calendar
limitations. A "season" could break
out at any point in the school year
Take, for example, "marble sea-
son."
Now that was just what the name
implies. Maybe months would go
by without a marble being seen on
the playground, then one day a kid
would show up at recess with a few
glassies and an agate, draw a circle
in the dirt and start a marble game.
Next day, a couple of more lads
would follow suit, and before you
knew it "marble season" was in full
sway. Everyone played some ver-
sion of the game at every opportu-
nity—recess, lunch period, before
and after school.
And I must acknowledge right
here that one particular marble
game we played, called "keeps."
involved just a hint of gambling
I forget the precise rules, but bot-
tom line was that if you knocked
your opponent's marble out of the
nng witn your taw. you got to keep
the prize Ditto if he dislodged
yours from the circle.
“Keeps" was forbidden by school
rules, but I’m here to testify that it
DID get played, surreptitiously, of
course
Yes. school yards were dens of
iniquity in those days. You had all
those mean kids sneaking around
playing marbles for keeps, prepar-
ing undoubtedly for lives of crime,
sin and vile degradation.
Guns, knives and drugs on cam-
pus would come much later, of
course.
Incidentally, does anyone
remember the game of nine-nng
marbles? That was one of my boy-
hood favorites, but I haven't seen it
played in decades
The game involved big crock
marbles about the size of ping-pong
balls placed at the comers, sides and
center of a square “nng." The object
was for the shooters to thump their
taws into the target crocks and
knock them outside the nng.
If you're familiar with the mne-
nng marble game. I'd like to hear
from you.
When marbles had run their
course in those Depression days,
something else would come along
to kick off a new season on campus
And it just might he yo-yos.
Although most didn't have a lot
of playthings in those hard econom-
ic times, nearly all kids owned yo-
yos. and they loved to take them to
school "in season."
Out on the playground, battalions
of youngsters could be seen running
yo-yos up and down strings firmly
looped around middle fingers
Some performed double loops,
made ladders, did around the
worlds and all kinds of fancy yo-yo
maneuvers
Anyway, as time went by. other
play activities would come into
popularity and remain for a "sea-
son.” It could be top spinning
games of leap frog or something
else
These so-called seasons were
always a mystery because it wasn't
clear who or w hat kicked them off
The only thing sure was that the
time had to be "right "
Along with a couple of friends. I
decided one time to test the phe
nomenum. Since the school hadn't
been on a marble-playing kick forl^^
quite a long while, we would try to
manufacture a season.
We brought marbles to school!
and started playing with them at
recess, thinking that others would
join in spontaneously. No one did. j
so our would-be marble season
never got launched
A couple of months later, marble-
playing broke out like a rash, prov -
ing that something as nebulous as a
marble season can't be artificially
forced. It has to await its time
Isn't that the way with a lot oil
things in life?
(Weldon Lacs
staff writer.)
is a Wylie News
When I say cook, I mean COOK
TT ust heating up a piece of meat
I or a carrot is not necessarily
cooking. Cooking is making
something tasty from mundane
things like chicken thighs and/or
potatoes.
Just adding salt and pepper is
part of being a cook. Knowing that
the pepper goes on while the food
Alex
Burton
Hillcrest Manor Nursing Home sponsored a contest celebrating
Youth Art Month. Youngsters were asked to draw a picture of
their grandparents. Winners were Tiffany Borchers, age 12
(top), and Taylor Norris, age 8 (bottom). special m The stews
is cooking, and in the case of meat
the salt goes on at the very end
because salt will draw moisture out
of the muscle in meat and make it
tough
But suppose you wish a higher
level of cooking ability than just a
shake of salt and a grind of pepper
(pepper should always be fresh
ground; it holds more taste that
way). “Slay tuned” as they say in
TV and radio land
When it comes my turn to cook,
I mean COOK, by adding more
than just salt and pepper. I lean
toward ginger and garlic. 1 do not
mean to suggest either/or, I mean
together.
The Chinese say that ginger and
garlic were married in heaven. Both
have been part of our human cook-
ing experience for thousands of
years Oddly both ginger and garlic
have sterile flowers. In other words
there is no seed. Both depend on
the hand of man to be divided and
planted carefully into well-pre-
pared soil. The flower of the ginger
is a wonderfully fragrant one, but it
produces no seed The flower of the
garlic smells like garlic. What more
would you want to know about it?
If you were following the ancient
Chinese custom of stir frying, you
might want to perk up the oil you
will use in the frying Put a couple
of tablespoons of oil into the bot-
tom of the wok and put it on the
heat. Then drop in a few slices of
ginger, a few crushed garlic bulbs
and a couple of small chili peppers.
Let those little pieces cook in the
hot oil until they are black and then
scoop them out.
You can go about your sur frying
right off the bat if you wish... or...
you may choose to drain a little of
the hot oil into a bottle to use later
in subsequent stir fries.
You may choose to make a
whole lot of the “Hot Oil" (that’s
what the Chinese call it) and in that
case start with a whole cup of oil
and a lot more garlic, ginger and
chili pepper. Hot oil will keep
almost indefinitely in a bottle m the
fridge. A spoonful or so is all it
takes for the stir fry
You might also consider this fla-
vored oil when it comes time for
making a salad dressing. Use it to
dress up any dull dish.
The Chinese place little dishes on
the table of restaurant in their coun-
try in which they have cooked a lot
of chilies in oil. Let me warn you
that stuff will take the enamel off
your teeth, the skin off the roof of
your mouth and make steam come
out of your naval Treat it very gin-
gerly (where do you think that term
came from?).
In our next meeting I'm going to
explain how to make your own
mayonnaise using no heat, but
maybe using a little of that hot oil
you made It won’t taste like
Miracle Whip, but then why would
you want it to?
(Alex Burton is free-lance writer,
broadcaster, trainer working in
Dallas.)
An Earth Dav
%J
quiz for you
(NAPS)—Test your knowledge of
our environment.
I Each year, according to the
Institute for Scrap Recycling Indus-
tries, Americans use more than 70
million tons of paper, including
cardboard—about 580 pounds per
person How much gets recycled?
(a) 85 percent (b) 26 percent (c) 54
percent.
2. How much energy is saved by
recycling aluminum beverage cans ’
(a) 95 percent (h) .32 percent (c) 48
percent.
3. By using scrap or recycled
steel instead of iron ore to manufac-
ture new steel, how much can we
reduce water pollution? la) 76 per-
cent (b) 15 percent (c) 52 percent
4. Approximately how many
automobiles get recycled in the U.S.
each year? (a) 6 million (h) 25 mil-
lion (c) 10 million.
5. Using 50 percent recycled
glass in manufacturing new glass
reduces air pollution by: (a) 6 per
cent (b) 75 percent (di 14 percent.
ANSWERS
a s !a f ‘e i :e z -9
Wylie Senior Center Activities
Wed., April 24 thru Fri., May 3 (next to library)
Dav/Date
Time Activity
Menu
Wed. 4/24
9:00 Social time
11:15 Lunch
12:00 Table games
BBQ beef on bun. macaroni salad,
baked beans, cake square, milk.
TTiurs. 4/25
9:00 Social time
11:15 Lunch
12:00 Table games
Chilled chicken salad, pea salad,
sliced tomatoes, saltine crackers/but-
ter, orange jello w/pineapple, milk.
Fri. 4/26
9:00 Social time
11:15 Lunch
12:00 Gospel music
with Ray Corey
12:30 Bingo
1:30 Table games
Roast beef w/gravy, creamed pota-
toes, tossed salad, roll/butter,
mixed fruit, milk.
Mon. 4/29
9:00 Social time
11:15 Lunch
12:00 Table games
Chicken spaghetti, green beans,
tossed salad/dressing, white bread/
butter, apricots, milk.
Tues. 4/30
9:00 Social time
11:15 Lunch
12:00 Table games
Pinto beans w/ham, turnip greens,
sliced onion & tomatoes, com-
bread/butter. applesauce, milk.
Wed. 5/1
9:00 Social time
11:15 Lunch
12:00 Table games
Swiss steak, peas & carrots,
mashed potatoes, combread/but-
ter, fruited jello, milk.
Thurs. 5/2
9:00 Social time
11:15 Lunch
12:00 Table games
Beef stew, tossed salad/dressing,
combread/butter, sliced peaches,
milk.
Fri. 5/3
9:00 Social time
10:30 Exercise w/Cindy
Long, N.Tx.Rehab.
11:15 Lunch
12:00 Bingo
1:00 Mexican dominos
Polish sausage, sauerkraut, mixed
vegetables, roll/butter, butter-
scotch pudding, milk.
Meals must be ordered a day In advance It you plan to sat lunch. For
Information, please contact Frances Bryant at 442-0380 or 442-4700.
Puppets leach Wylie kids a new song
Wylie’s youngsters learned a new
song last week from “Flo Flower"
and "W-under Worm", puppets who
are promoting Keep Wylie Beauti-
ful's Clean Up-Green Up campaign.
The beautification project, which
kicked off on Saturday, April 20, at
Olde City Park near downtown,
enlisted the aid of the non-profit
puppet show managed by Gayla
Williamson of Wylie.
Ms. Williamson’s goal is to teach
kids in the Wylie schools and day-
care facilities how to do their part in
making the town a cleaner, greener
place to live. Using a puppet act fea-
turing Flower and Worm, the show
promotes recycling, planting and
proper disposal of trash
"1,2, 3...plant a tree
4, 5, 6...no oil slicks
7, 8, 9...don’t dump slime
10.........use it again
10.........again and again
10.........Recycle & Win!
That is the basic song children
learned as the puppet show traveled
around Wylie.
Free performances were held at
area schools and daycare facilities,
“Flo Flower” and “W-under
Worm” entertain children
while educating, promoting
and reinforcing the message of
recycling, planting and proper
trash disposal. Special to The Sews
as well as the Smith Public Library
and Olde City Park.
In addition to the environmental
show, the group also performs with
themes on non-violence, don't do
drugs, feelings, multi-cultures and
disabled persons
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