Detroit Weekly (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 2012 Page: 3 of 7
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Thursday,August 23 ,2012
All
Well...here it is...Back to
School Time! Yep, you spent
that small fortune on school
supplies.By the time you
add clothes, underwear,
socks and all the other
essentials...you are thinking
you might have to take out
a loan! This Thursday is
Open House or Back to
School Night with parents
and students meeting their
teachers, touring their rooms
and taking their supplies to
school. Monday is the first
day of school!
Remember when all it
took was one of those jumbo
pencils and a Big Chief
tablet....No, I know a lot of
you don’t remember Big
Chief tablets. But they were
writing tablets that had a red
cover with a big Indian
Chief on the front and ruled
lines on the inside. We did
not know what college rule
paper was or composition
books or folders with brads
and pockets. A box of
crayons consisted of 6 with
the universal colors being
red, black, brown, orange,
white and green. No ziplock
bags or GermX (you used
soap and water to wash your
hands)!
Needless to say, times are
changing and we will
change with the times. We
do need to get back to the
basic of teaching kids to
read and write....but I won’t
get on my “soap box” this
time..but we will see you in
the kitchen making some
great after school snacks for
the kids!
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FRUIT PIZZA-young
and old alike will love this
one!
OATMEAL PEANUT
BUTTER COOKIES-make
ahead of time and keep in
airtight container!
FRUIT ON-A-STICK-fun
way for the kids to have an
after school snack!
HOMEMADE
APPLESAUCE-taste what
real applesauce taste like!
SNOBALLS-tasty cookie
covered with powdered
sugar to make “snow”!
GINGERSNAP COOKIES-
remember this after school
snack!
f Thursday,August 23,2012 ^
After School Snacks
Fruit Pizza
1 (18 ounce) package
refrigerated sugar cookie
dough
1 (8 ounce) package cream
cheese, softened
1 (8 ounce) container frozen
whipped topping, thawed
2 cups sliced fresh
strawberries
1/2 cup white sugar
1 pinch salt
1 tablespoon cornstarch
1/2 cup orange juice
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/4 cup water
1/2 teaspoon orange zest
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
F (175 degrees C). Slice
cookie dough and arrange on
greased pizza pan,
overlapping edges. Press
dough flat into pan. Bake for
10 to 12 minutes. Allow to
cool. In a large bowl, soften
cream cheese, then fold in the
whipped topping. Spread over
cooled crust. You can chill for
a while at this point, or
continue by arranging the
fruit. Begin with strawberries,
sliced in half. Arrange in a
circle around the outside
edge. Continue with fruit of
your choice, working towards
the middle. If bananas are
used, dip them in lemon juice
so they don’t darken. Then
make a sauce to spoon over
fruit. In a saucepan, combine
sugar, salt, com starch, orange
juice, lemon juice and water.
Cook and stir over medium
heat. Bring to a boil, and cook
for 1 or 2 minutes, until
thickened. Remove from heat,
and add grated orange rind.
Allow to cool, but not set up.
Spoon over fruit. Chill for two
hours, then cut into wedges
and serve.
Oatmeal Peanut Butter
Cookies
3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup butter-softened
1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 cup white sugar
1/2 cup packed light brown
sugar
1 egg
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup quick cooking oats
3 tablespoons butter-softened
1 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/2 cup smooth peanut butter
2-1/2 tablespoons heavy
whipping cream
In a large bowl, cream together
1/2 cup butter or margarine, 1/
2 cup peanut butter, white sugar,
brown sugar, and vanilla. Add
egg and beat well. In another
bowl, combine the flour, baking
soda, baking powder, and salt.
Add these dry ingredients to the
creamed mixture. Stir. Add
oatmeal and stir. Drop by
teaspoons onto greased baking
sheet, and press each mound
down with a fork to form 1/4
inch thick cookies. Bake at 350
degrees F (175 degrees C) for
10 minutes, or until cookies are
a light brown. To Make Filling:
Cream 3 tablespoons butter or
margarine with the
confectioners’ sugar, 1/2 cup
smooth peanut butter, and the
cream. Spread filling onto half
of the cooled cookies, then top
with the other half to form
sandwiches
Fruit on-a-Stick
5 large strawberries-halved
1/4 cantaloupe-cut into balls or
cubes
2 bananas, peeled and cut into
chunks
1 apple-cut into chunks
20 skewers
Thread the strawberries,
cantaloupe, banana and apple
pieces alternately onto skewers,
placing at least 2 pieces of fruit
on each skewer. Arrange the
fruit skewers decoratively on a
serving platter.
Homemade Applesauce
4 apples-peeled, cored and
chopped
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup white sugar
1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
In a saucepan, combine apples,
water, sugar, and cinnamon.
Cover, and cook over medium
heat for 15 to 20 minutes, or
until apples are soft. Allow to
cool, then mash with a fork or
potato masher.
Snoballs
1 cup butter
1/2 cup confectioners’ sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
1 cup chopped pecans
1/3 cup confectioners’ sugar for
decoration
1/4 cup finely crushed
peppermint candy canes
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
(175 degrees C). Cream the
butter with 1/2 cup of the
confectioners’ sugar and the
vanilla. Mix in the flour, nuts
and salt. Roll about 1
tablespoon or so of dough into
balls and place on an
ungreased cookie sheet. Bake
at 350 degrees F (175 degrees
C) for 15 minutes. Do not
allow these cookies to get too
brown. It’s better to undercook
them than to overcook them.
While cookies are still hot roll
them in confectioners’ sugar.
Once they have cooled roll
them in confectioners’ sugar
once more. Variation: add
some finely crushed candy
canes to the confectioners’
sugar used for the final
dusting.
Gingersnap Cookies
2 cups sifted all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon ground ginger
2 teaspoons baking soda
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup shortening
1 cup white sugar
1 egg
1/4 cup dark molasses
1/3 cup cinnamon sugar
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
(175 degrees C). Sift the flour,
ginger, baking soda,
cinnamon, and salt into a
mixing bowl. Stir the mixture
to blend evenly, and sift a
second time into another bowl.
Place the shortening into a
mixing bowl and beat until
creamy. Gradually beat in the
white sugar. Beat in the egg,
and dark molasses. Sift 1/3 of
the flour mixture into the
shortening mixture; stir to
thoroughly blend. Sift in the
remaining flour mixture, and
mix together until a soft dough
forms. Pinch off small
amounts of dough and roll into
1 inch diameter balls between
your hands. Roll each ball in
cinnamon sugar, and place 2
inches apart on an ungreased
baking sheet. Bake in
preheated oven until the tops
are rounded and slightly
cracked, about 10 minutes.
Cool cookies on a wire rack.
Store in an air tight container.
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Crow’s Feet Chronicles
By Cindy Baker Burnett
Thirty-five or forty years
ago, I wanted to move to
Albuquerque. I had never
been to Albuquerque, but I
knew it was my kind of
town.Why? Because they
were loyal to their losers,
and if ever there was a
loser,twas I.
Remember the famous
football game between
Albuquerque and Las
Vegas? Albuquerque lost,
100-0. No kidding; it was
a real wash-out. My kind of
wash-out: total. At the half,
with Las Vegas leading 61-
0, both coaches agreed to
play ten-minute quarters to
alleviate the torture; but it
didn’t help.Las Vegas still
scored another thirty-nine
points.Total yards scored:
Las Vegas, 565;
Albuquerque, minus
eleven. I loved it. If I had
been there, I would have
kissed every player on the
Albuquerque team. I knew
exactly how they felt; I’d
been minus for years.
Like the Albuquerque
football team, I tried. I
really did. But I could
devote an entire summer’s
day to housecleaning—
changing beds, cleaning
closets, picking up toys,
books, clothes, et cetera,
vacuuming the den, dining
room, bedrooms—and by
the time I got back to the
den, I had lost at least
eleven yards. One could
never tell I had been there.
I couldn’t win. At
anything. One day when
the kids were little, I spent
half a day cleaning my
refrigerator, only to discover
that it wasn’t moldy bacon
and dehydrated leftovers
that were causing it to
malfunction—it was the
motor. It had died. I traded
in the cleanest refrigerator in
town.
I went to a garage sale and
was thrilled to find an
almost new, very expensive,
baseball mitt. What a buy!
It would have made a perfect
Christmas gift for our ten-
year-old son, Dusty.
When Dusty opened his
gifts, he thanked me for the
mitt, and thoughtfully
waited until the end of the
day to tell me that “while it’s
a great glove and I really like
it and everything, I can’t use
it.”
“Why not?” I asked. “I
know it’s a little big, but
you’ll get used to it, and you
will grow into it.”
“I won’t grow into this one,
Mom, he replied
sorrowfully. “My thumb’s
in the wrong place.” It was
a left-handed glove.
I was a loser, and I had long
been resigned to that fact. I
was not only a loser; I was
an expert at picking other
losers. (There is no truth to
the fact that they became
losers just because I picked
them.) In 1968,1, like many
other football fans, watched
a fabulous guy named Bart
Starr play for the Green Bay
Packers, then the top pro
football team in the country.
Cindy
(Baker (Burnett
They immediately
became the bottom team in
the country, and I have no
doubt that I was responsible.
(I won’t even mention what
I’ve done to the Cowboys.)
My most spectacular
“achievement”occurred in
the 1972 ‘Olympics.
Knowing my ability to jinx
an athletic event, I decided
not to watch the
championship basketball
game between the U.S.A.
and the ‘’U.S.S.R. But on
hearing some commotion in
the last few seconds of the
game, my curiosity
overwhelmed me and I did
a terrible thing. I sneaked a
glance at the television set.
You know what happened. I
threw the Olympic arena
clock out of whack, the
Russians were granted three
extra seconds of play and
won the game by a lousy
two points. I fully expected
the CIA to have me arrested.
This year, Team USA
finished the Olympic Games
with 17 more medals than
China. Honestly, though, I
feel for China.
They had to make all of
our “We’re #10 t-shirts.
cindybaker@cableone.net
Paris Junior College September
Continuing Education Class Schedule
The Continuing
Education Department at
Paris Junior College will
offer a wide selection of
classes during September.
The classes meet at the
Bobby Walters Workforce
Training Center unless
noted otherwise.
Computer
A Microsoft Excel
Essentials electronic
spreadsheet class will
meet from 6-8 p.m., each
Monday and Tuesday,
Sept. 10-18. This
application is used to
perform numeric
calculations, graph data
and develop reports.
Welcome to the World
of Computers will be
offered from 10 a.m. to
noon, each Wednesday,
Sept 19 to Oct. 10. This
course is designed for the
person who has very
limited, if any, computer
training.
The Microsoft Word
Essentials word
processing class will be
held from 6-8 p.m., each
Monday and Tuesday,
Sept. 24 to Oct. 2.
Students will learn to
create a variety of
professional looking
documents.
Driving
The Driver’s Education
class, approved by the
Texas Department of
Public Safety, is open to
students at least 15 years
of age. Social security
number is required for
registration. The class will
meet from 4-6 p.m.,
Monday through
Thursday, Sept. 4-28.
The Defensive Driving
class will meet from 6-9
p.m., each Monday and
Tuesday, Sept. 17-18.
This course is offered in
accordance with
standards established by
the National Traffic
Safety Institute of Texas,
Inc., and consists of six
hours of classroom
instruction.
Truck Driving
Professional Truck
Driving I will be held from
7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, Sept. 4-14.
This class offers
instruction in general truck
driving with hands-on skill
development and
instruction coordinated
with the Department of
Transportation.
Professional Truck
Driving II will meet from
7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday, Sept. 17-
28. This class covers basic
and advanced skills drill
and safe operating
practices; basic shifting
and backing skills; and
general truck driving.
Health
The Nurse Aide class
will meet from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m., Monday through
Thursday, Sept. 4-19. This
is instruction to entry level
nursing assistants for
working in long-term care
facilities.
An Initial Basic Life
Support class will be
offered in two time frames.
The evening class will be
held from 5:30-9 p.m. on
Wednesday and Thursday,
Sept. 5-6. A Saturday class
will run from 8:30 a.m. to
4 p.m. on Sept. 15.
Phlebotomy Basic/
Clinical will be held from
6-9 p.m., each Tuesday
and Thursday, Sept. 11 to
Nov. 27. Clinical
assignment will be
furnished after students
enter the class.
The Basic Life Support
Re-certification will meet
from 8 a.m. to noon on
Friday, Sept. 21. This is for
current CPR certified card
holders.
Parenting
The Kids Hurt Too
seminar to help parents
understand their children’s
needs throughout the
process of divorce will be
held from 9 a.m. to noon
on Saturday, Sept. 8.
Personal Enrichment
The Beginning
Genealogy: Where Are
Your Roots? class is
scheduled from 9 a.m. to
4 p.m. on Saturday, Sept.
15.
Home Repair Made
Easy is scheduled from 8
а. m. to 5 p.m., each
Saturday, Sept. 22 to Oct.
б. Learn basic home repair
methods as well as how to
safely use power tools.
Jewelry Making
The Beginner Metal
Clay class will meet from
6-9 p.m., each
Wednesday, Sept. 12 to
Oct. 3. Participants will
become familiar with and
use the equipment to
grind, shape, and polish
calibrated precious gem
stock into faceted gems.
Workforce Training
The HazMat
Endorsement and Safety
Training for CDL will be
offered from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. on Saturday, Sept.
15. This class will teach
drivers how to take the
HazMat test and review
commercial truck driving
safety procedures.
A Flatbed Securement
and Safety Workshop will
be held from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. on Saturday, Sept.
29. This workshop will
help drivers understand
flatbed cargo loading and
cargo securement process.
The Red River Valley
Human Resource
Association Professional
Development Seminar
will be held from 8:30
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. on
Thursdy, Sept. 20. This
training is for human
resource professionals,
business leaders, small
business owners, line
managers, supervisors and
team leaders.
To register for these
classes, call 903-782-
0447 or 903-782-0445, or
stop by the west entrance
of the Bobby Walters
Workforce Training
Center located on the
north side of the Paris
Junior College campus.
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Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas. Detroit Weekly (Detroit, Tex.), Vol. 35, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 23, 2012, newspaper, August 23, 2012; Deport, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth852838/m1/3/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Red+River+County%22: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.