ATH: Candied Nuts
I love nuts. They are full of nutrition, fill you up fast and are a great alternative to processed snack foods which most of us eat too much of anyway. You can buy a multitude of seasoned and candies nuts nowadays but its so easy to make them at home it seems a shame to buy the packaged varieties. Seasoned and candied nuts can turn a bland salad or side dish into something really special...AVant Gardener: Pine Garland
There are many reasons to use fresh pine garland instead of artificial in your holiday decorating. Sure, the artificial stuff lasts for years and can look real from a distance. The real stuff however smells wonderful (except for those who detest the smell of pine), can be composted and allows you to give pine trees a bit of a pruning without it feeling like yard work. Pine garland is expensive...Christmas spirit parades into Twin Cities
Christmas spirit parades into Twin Cities by Patricia M. Albrecht Families lined the streets of Downtown Uhrichsville and Dennison to take part in ringing in the holidays at the 2010 Twin City Christmas Parade on Saturday, December 4. Over 30 units lined up at Claymont Junior High School in preparation for the 10 am parade that travelled through the downtown areas ending at the gazebo...
Lady Hawks club Hornets 70-18 as competition heats up
If the Lady Hawks head coach was looking for improvement following the teams season opener, he didnt have to look hard or wait long. Hiland reeled off a 70-18 victory against Malvern on Saturday, Dec. 4 at the Perry Reese Center, and it wasnt necessarily the massive point differential that pleased Dave Schlabach, but rather the way his team approached the game that had the coach singing his...
Borderline Cookies
I looked at them and as if they were a giant magnet, and like a steel ball of stupidity, I was drawn toward them. The bags were hypnotic. I stared at them, in their holiday display, looked at the very reasonable price, and for a sinister moment, visions of family bonding in the kitchen danced in my head. Mechanically, I reached out and grabbed one, no, better make it two, bags of Hershey’s...
Babysitting blonde
Has your child ever been bitten by a reindeer? I don't have any kids. Which is probably a good thing. But this past weekend, while venturing throughout the hills of Amish country, my 3-year-old niece was Rudolph's snack… and yes, it was all my fault.Now before you freak out, she was fine. There was no blood, only tears. Oh, and a few missing strands of hair.Each year, the women in my family get...Mission lecture series continues at NewPointe Community Church
As part of their missions lecture series, NewPointe Community Church will present area missionary to Russia, Pam Amstutz Sunday, Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. in their Kidstuf Theater. NewPointe began the series this past year and will be continuing it into 2011. The series is called Voices of the Kingdom with three to five lectures planned each year with various missionaries from around the world. This...
A survival story for the season
The story didnt get much play in the mainstream media of the United States. But I found it incredibly noteworthy if not uplifting, especially during this Advent season. If you missed it, heres what happened. Sometime in late September, three teenage boys slipped into a 12-foot boat and headed to one small Pacific island from another. Unfortunately, their outboard motor ran out of fuel...