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welcome By Shane Goodman, [email protected]

LivingLivingIowaIowam a g a z i n e sm a g a z i n e s

Darren TromblayEditor515-953-4822 ext. [email protected]

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W hen the plain-speaking Harry Truman said, “If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen,” he must have been talking to me. But seeing as how I was born in 1968 and

Truman offered that quote while serving as president of the United States in 1949, I am fairly sure I am off the hook. Truman’s advice, although having nothing to do with cooking, is quite fitting for my culinary skills. I can make a mean pot of macaroni and cheese, but my cooking repertoire pretty much stops there. And to be honest, I really don’t like the heat. My wife gets a good laugh watching me take anything out of the oven. So aside from the occa-sional pizza, I rarely do. My lack of knowledge in the kitchen makes me appreciate those who do have culinary skills all the more. After all, I do like food. In fact, I like most any food, as long as I don’t have to cook it. So with that in mind, we salute those who prepare great food at home as the subject of this month’s cover story. We are pleased to highlight a handful of local cooks who actually enjoy being by the stove, and they keep the rest of us so very happy by doing so. Thanks for reading.

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9 Dining

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10 Calendar

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16 Library

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21 Education

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24 Looking back

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P reparing dishes for family and friends, adding their own twists to create new dishes and giving their time and

talents to feed others makes three Jefferson women known for their talents in the kitchen. Becky Schroeder, Carrie Knoll and Marianne Carlson agreed to share how they get creative in the kitchen. Each also shares a favorite recipe.

Carrie KnollCarrie has no qualms about making a recipe her own. Just ask her about the molasses cookies she has made for the last 10 years. It took her five years to perfect the recipe. “One time my brother made a batch of molasses cookies, and they were so good. But he had done something wrong with the recipe, and he didn’t know what he had done that made them so good. He could not quite get the cookies to taste the same again,” Carrie says. Then she found a recipe that used but-ter and began tweaking the recipe every time she made the cookies until she got them just right. Some of the secrets to the perfect molasses cookies include using cinnamon from Kalona that has 4 percent cinnamon oil, a much higher percentage than most cinnamon. She also grinds cloves fresh. Her molasses cookie recipe calls for 2 ½ cups flour; 2 teaspoons baking soda; ¼ teaspoon salt; ½ teaspoon ginger; 1 heaping teaspoon cinnamon; ¼ heaping teaspoon cloves; ½ cup brown sugar; ½ cup white sugar; ¾ cup butter, no substitutes; 1/3 cup


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molasses; 1 egg. Mix all ingredi-ents. Roll into balls and then roll in sugar, bake at 350 degrees for 10-12 minutes. Buying food as natural as pos-sible when she can helps make her food better, Carrie says. She and husband, Rob, grow a lot of their own vegetables in the landscaping around their home, and Rob planted 300 pounds of potatoes this year. As she talked, she continued to work on making a broccoli cheese soup that would become part of a fundraising effort by the women’s group at the First United Methodist Church in Jefferson. “We’re making foods to freeze and sell to help out work-ing moms,” Carrie explains. “I’m making 12 quarts. It was one of the recipes chosen to be part of the fundraiser. This way, women can come home and heat up a homemade dish for their fami-lies.” The money the group makes will go to the good Samaritan Fund in Jefferson. Carrie says she simply grew up cooking. Her grandmother, mother, sisters, cousins and other family members cook to this day. “My family gets together every week to eat. We all cook. At family reunions we have lots more deserts than main dishes,” she says. In fact, family members have published two cookbooks which contain favorite family recipes: “Treasured Family Recipes” published in 2003, and “The Gathering Basket” published in 2010. Either cookbook can be purchased for $10. Anyone inter-ested should email Carrie at [email protected]. While she says she likes to cook many different dishes, she gets the most out of making bread. “It is soothing to make it, work the dough. It is very gratify-ing to give a warm loaf of bread to another person,” she sys. Carrie, a nurse, says cooking gives her a creative outlet.

Becky SchroederBecky learned how to cook from one of her grandmothers, who never used a measuring cup. “Instead of a measuring cup, she would add a pinch of salt, a handful of flour. Now I do the same thing,” she says. She seldom keeps a recipe the same when she finds a new one. She studies the ingredients and considers how she can change it to be more to her liking. “I think a really good cook has good taste buds, and not everyone can taste how a recipe should be,” she says. Becky loves to cook for her family, which can mean her immediate family or her church family. She helps her husband, David, with his duties as pastor of Abundant Life Ministries, an independent church in Jefferson. She’ll cook for the children who go to church camp as easily as she cooks for her family. “I tell people I can cook for 100 and do just fine without any help actually cooking,” she says. “More than that, and I know I’ll need some help.” Becky also cooks for fundrais-ers for various church activities and often, when asked by friends, will cook for other events as well. “I’m not an artist, not cre-ative in many ways, but cooking is a creative outlet for me,” she says. “Many people have asked me if they could hire me to do catering for them, but then it wouldn’t be fun. I just find cook-ing very fulfilling.” When she and her family — 23 including herself and her husband, along with adult chil-dren and grandchildren — go on vacation, she cooks all three meals every day. During the last vacation, she made her chicken and noodle recipe and mashed potatoes. That meant making nine times her regular chicken noodle recipe and 20 pounds of potatoes. “I just consider it fun,” she says. Becky has a tradition of allowing her adult children and grandchildren to pick out what meal and what kind of cake they

Above: Cooking is a huge part of Becky Schroeder’s life as she shares with family, friends and church members. She is in the process of transferring all her hundreds of

recipes to an electronic device her children gave her as a gift. It will allow her to call up her recipes much more quickly. This made-from-scratch peanut butter chocolate cake

made by Becky Schroeder puts the chocolate in the cake and the peanut butter in the frosting. Strong coffee is one of the special ingredients.

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want for their birthday. Almost without fail, her children choose her peanut butter cake. The cake calls for 2 cups sugar; 1 ¾ cups sifted flower; 1 teaspoon baking powder, 2 tea-spoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon salt; ¾ cup cocoa; 1 cup strong coffee at room temperature; 1 cup buttermilk; ½ cup oil; 2 eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla. Sift dry ingre-dients, gradually beating in coffee, buttermilk, oil, eggs and vanilla. Beat 2 minutes. Split the batter between two 8-inch round cake pans. Bake at 350 degrees for 35 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes. Remove and wrap in plastic wrap and freeze. Take out after frozen and allow to thaw a little before cutting each cake through the middle to create layers. The frosting takes 3 cups whipping cream, a slight ½ cup sugar and a slight ½ cup peanut butter. Beat to stiff peaks. Spread the frosting between and on top

of each layer as they are stacked to create the cake. The cake needs to be refrigerated.

Marianne CarlsonMarianne swears she could make her award-winning cinnamon rolls with her eyes closed. “I could probably do it blind-folded,” she says with a smile. “The dough feels like bubble gum. When it does, I know I’ve had a real good day, and it feels won-derful in my hands.” That dough has helped her garner the top prize in the Tones Iowa State Fair competition for her frosted cinnamon rolls in 2004 and for her caramel pecan rolls in 2006. “I cook all kinds of differ-ent foods, but baking is my real passion. I would love to be a pastry chef,” says Marianne, who is a public health nurse in Greene County. “My dream would be to have a bakery,” She has been a nurse for 40

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years. Marianne has been taking food entries to the Iowa State Fair for nine years. This year she made 50 entries and won the Spam contest and an apple pie contest. If her spam recipe, a quiche, wins at the next level, she would win a trip to Hawaii for a 75-year Spam celebration. She grew up learning how to cook from her mother. “We lived on a farm. She would ask me if I wanted to start supper or go out and feed the chickens. I would start supper,” Marianne says. All her sisters — Gina Harrington, Teresa Shahan and Denise Harberts — are also good cooks. “We all have recipes, includ-ing my mother, in the 2002 United Methodist Women Cookbook,” she says, adding that the cook-book can still be purchased at the church. Marianne’s award-winning cinnamon recipe also is

the cookbook. She also shared the recipe. Ingredients for the cinnamon rolls, enough to fill a 13 by 17 deep baking pan — 1 package yeast; ½ cup warm water; 1 cup mashed potatoes; 1 cup hot pota-to water; ½ cup shortening; 2 teaspoons salt; ¾ cup sugar; 1 cup cold water; 1 egg; 9 cups flour. Dissolve yeast in ½ cup warm water in a large bowl and set aside. Combine mashed potatoes, potato water, shortening, salt and sugar. Add yeast mixture and one

egg and mix well. Add flour to make a very soft dough. Cover the dough and allow to rise until double in size, approximately 45-60 minutes. Roll out and make into cinnamon rolls. Place into greased baking pan. Cover and let rise until about double. Bake at 375 degrees until done, approxi-mately 26 minutes, depending on individual oven. The recipe makes about 2 dozen rolls. Marianne uses a thermom-eter to make sure the center of her rolls are getting done. She

wants them to get to 180 degrees in the center. “There is a lot of science that goes into baking. I not only check the temperature of the rolls, but also the temperature of the water for the yeast. Then, the dough has to be kneaded just right,” she says. Marianne believes the atten-tion to the details of baking, using potatoes in the recipe, along with getting the best and freshest ingredients possible, are why the cinnamon rolls have won compe-titions. She uses King Arthur flour and prefers Tones’ Spice Island cinnamon when she can find it. “The best advice I can give is to always make sure your spices are fresh. If they are more than a year old, don’t use them; it makes a difference,” she says. “It is kind of an art for me. I’m not artistic like my daughter who is an art teacher, but I find it relaxing and therapeutic,” she says.

“It is kind of an art for me. I’m not artistic

like my daughter who is an art teacher, but

I find it relaxing and therapeutic.”—Marianne Carlson

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eating at Pizza Ranch in Jefferson more than just lunch — it was an experience. Choosing the buffet, I picked out two new offerings in pizza and was pleasantly surprised with both. I’ve never been a big fan of pine-apple on pizza, but Pizza Ranch has come up with a combination that I would eat just about any time. The pineapple was good and sweet, and the ham tender. It was all arranged on dough that was crisp on the bottom, but soft in the middle, creating a tasteful combination. I also tried was the Outlaw Pizza. Anyone who likes pizza with a good zip would appreciate a slice. The pizza includes pepperoni, sausage and a variety of sweet pep-pers that give the taste some spice. To round out the lunch, I made myself a salad from the salad bar, which is included in the buffet. Sweet peppers were part of the salad bar offerings, along with a good variety of dressings. I chose a peppercorn ranch-style dressing that complemented the salad. Perhaps the most intriguing part of lunch was the new soda dispenser. Pizza Ranch is one of the first restaurants allowed to test-market the new machine, said Rob Schultz, who owns the busi-

ness along with his wife, Carla. There is one dispenser con-trolled by a touch-screen. I wanted Dr. Pepper, so I touched the Dr. Pepper logo on the screen. That took me to a screen that provides a choice of several flavors. I chose a cherry-flavored Dr. Pepper.

If you choose Coke, the screen offers up six different flavors, along with regular or diet. If you choose Sprite, seven flavors are available, along with the regular or diet. The dispenser became a topic of dis-cussion and approval over lunch. If pizza isn’t your thing, the lunch buffet also includes sesame, barbecue or buffalo-style chicken, potatoes, gravy and corn, bread-sticks and dessert pizza. I decided I better try a small slice of dessert pizza. Called “Cactus Bread,” the piece I tried tasted like apples and cinnamon, a taste I enjoy. There were other varieties of dessert pizza as well. It was nice to see pizza slices cut to a decent serving size. All would have been well if I had left it at two slices and a salad, but last sweet slice put me over the “too-well fed” edge.

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Stronger engines are needed to keep shaving time off, even if it’s just a small fraction. “Every time we do something new to the truck, it does go faster,” Smith says. When he first started running the quarter mile, he drove it in 13.5 seconds. Last year, he ran it in 10.72 seconds at 129 mph. There’s no doubt that Smith likes to go fast. “Where else can a person go and drive 120 mph and no one is going to give him a ticket?” Smith asked. “Any time you go that fast, it’s a thrill.” Dennis also gets a thrill out of showing off his spit-and-polished pickup truck. It sounds like thun-der as he pulls it out of the garage, and that’s even with mufflers. He showed the pickup this year at the Hot August Nights car show and Jefferson’s Bell Tower festival. A lot of people are drawn to the pickup at shows, Smith says. “It pulls people because they don’t expect it to do what it does,” he says.

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Q: What is acupuncture?A: Acupuncture, simply stated, is a health science which is used to suc-cessfully treat both pain and dysfunction in the body. Acupuncture has its roots deeply planted in ancient China. Authorities agree the science is between 5,000 and 7,000 years old. Acupuncture did not become well known in the U.S. until 1971 when diplomatic relations between China and America were relaxed. Early Chinese physicians discovered there is an energy network just below the surface of the skin which communicates from the exterior to the internal organs and structures using more than 1,000 “acupoints” on the body. This energy works in harmony with the body’s circulatory, nervous, muscular, digestive, genitourinary and all other systems. When this energy becomes blocked or weakened, an effect in a body system becomes evident. Stimulation of one or a combination of key “acupoints” on the body may restore health to the affected area. Acupuncture textbooks list more than 100 different conditions that respond well to acupuncture. The World Health Organization has indi-cated acupuncture is effective in treating chronic pain, migraine, tension, cluster and sinus headaches, knee pain, low back pain, neck pain, mid-back pain, shoulder pain, tennis elbow, post-operative pain relief, gastric problems, asthma, allergies, skin conditions, abnormal blood pressure, fatigue, anxiety, carpal tunnel, etc… Historians have stated, “More people have benefited from acupunc-ture over the course of 50 centuries than the combined total of all other healing sciences, both ancient and modern.”

Q: What is occupational therapy?A: Many of us might be confused about what exactly occupational therapy is. We might have the misconception that occupational therapy has something to do with an injury or condition resulting from our place of employment. That’s not true. It’s much more. Everyone has an occupation — from children playing outside or learning in the classroom to the teenager hanging out with friends on a Friday night. The young mother caring for her baby or the father coach-ing his child’s soccer game are engaging in an occupation. It includes the older adult focused on family and friends. An accident or injury of any kind can disrupt whatever “occupation” dominates one’s daily routine. Even a health condition or diagnosis can be disruptive. When something occurs that leaves us asking, “How am I going to… ?” chances are occupational therapy is needed. An occupational therapy practitioner works to make what is needed and wanted in daily living possible again. Among other things, occupa-tional therapy can:

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Whatever your age and whatever you do — an occupational therapy practitioner can help you live life to its fullest no matter your health condition, disability or risk factors.

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Q: Should I get a flu shot?A: Influenza (flu) season begins in October and ends as late as May. During these months flu viruses are circulating everywhere. Every flu season is different and can affect people differently. Even healthy people can get very sick from the flu. Some people are hospitalized, and it can sometimes even result in death. There are two ways to get a flu vaccine — one is to get a flu shot and the other is the nasal-spray flu vaccine. These vaccines cause antibodies to develop in the body about two weeks after vaccination. The antibodies pro-vide protection against infection from the viruses contained in the vaccine. Everyone who is at least 6 months of age should get a flu vaccine this season. There are some people who it is very important for them to get vaccinated. Those people include:

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Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends seven to nine hours of sleep for teens and adults, 10 to 11 hours for school kids, and even more for preschool-ers and toddlers.

Although caffeine or nicotine can give you a quick boost, it lasts only short time.

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N on-fiction can be a new, undiscovered treasure for those who usually stick to

fiction. Some think of non-fiction in terms of dry, boring facts in small print, housed in thick vol-umes. Well, the library has news for you. Just about any interest you have can be found in non-fiction. In fact, there are more than 40 cat-egories in non-fiction alone. A lot of it is just plain fun, as in “Uncle John’s Absolutely Absorbing Bathroom Reader,” full of little bits of fascinating trivia. And in case you like photos of a motor-cycle that looks like a hamburger and a truck with 1,480 spoons riveted to it, see “Art Cars: The Cars, the Artists, the Obsession, the Craft.” The comic strip “Baby Blues,” is laugh-out-loud therapy for parents, and it’s all in the book, “Driving Under the Influence of Children.” Another is “Why My Third Husband Will Be a Dog.” I’ll let you explore the author’s rea-sons on your own for that one. For the do-it-yourself group, there are “99 DIY Duct Tape Projects,” and “Not So Big Solutions For Your Home,” along with many more. Even cookbooks, a large main-stay of the non-fiction section, have some great titles such as “A Man, A Can, and a Microwave” and “Recipes to the Rescue: Thrilling

Kitchen Adventures Just in the Nick of Time!” That one is written in a new, comic graphic format. Biographies are about real people, not necessarily just famous, long-dead ones. “How Starbucks Saved My Life: A Son of Privilege Learns to Live Like Everyone Else” tells the life of a rich young man who loses it all and finds happiness making coffee.

A book in the business section answers burning questions, such as “How does toothpaste get into the tube?” Find out more in “Watch It Made In the USA: a Visitor’s Guide to the Companies that Make Your Favorite Products.” Many other non-fiction topics are at the library. So browse the shelves, search your topic on the computer or ask one of the library staff. After all, they’re at the library for you.

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The annual seventh and eighth grade Jefferson Middle School magazine sales drive began on Oct. 10. The school retains 40 percent of every dollar spent on magazines and products, so every order counts. Proceeds from the sales go to the middle school student activity fund. The activity fund covers the cost of the following things at JSMS: contest fees for music com-petitions, officials for middle school athletic events, class outings, uniforms for athletics, expenses for the spring play, honor band, quiz bowls, math and spelling bee and many other things in which our students participate. Your support is needed for this fundraiser. The program carries a 100 percent satisfaction guarantee. Please mark the date on your calendar and be willing to support our middle school students with your magazine subscription. If you do not get contacted by a middle school student and would like to place an order, contact the Middle School office at 386-8126.

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Greene County Recycling is completing its 20th year. Curbside recy-cling service is provided to agency members of Churdan, Dana, Grand Junction, Jefferson, Paton and Rippey. Green drop-off bins are located in each incorporated community in Greene County for the convenience of rural residents. The agency consists of city clerks in the county plus three Genesis staff members. There are five from the original group who are still active: Diane Kennedy, Dick and Karen Pound from Jefferson and Kathy Pittman and Carrie Wilde from the Genesis staff. Greene County is fortunate to have residents who are committed to reducing the amount taken to our landfills located at the Boone County Landfill southwest of Boone and the Metro Waste Landfill near Rippey. Through generous business sponsors and the Boone County Landfill, the agency is able to have yearly calendars printed. They contain winning art-work by county grade school students and monthly recycling hints. The 2013 calendars will soon be available at local city halls and libraries.

Greene County Recycling marks its 20th year

Kristy Rohde, Jessica Russell, Annette Foster, Mia Rohde and Taryn Russell during the Country Blessings Fall Extravaganza on Sept. 15.


The Tuesday Night Book Club at the Greene County Medical Center Auxiliary’s Table Talk on Sept. 22: Laura Ballard, Shannon Black, Sandy Grove, Carla Offenburger, Amy

Milligan, Lisa Turner and Nancy Teusch. (Photo courtesy of Carla Offenburger.)

The Greene County Medical Center Dream Team at the Greene County Medical Center Auxiliary’s Table Talk on Sept. 22: Judy Ulmer, Renee Dunne and Emily

Brewer. (Photo courtesy of Carla Offenburger.)

Jill Mills with Charlie and Jodie Stolk with Bones, they are part of the PAWS of Greene County and were on display during the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fair

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T he First United Presbyterian Church of Grand Junction, 302 12th

St. S., will hold two special events this October — the annual bazaar and quilt auction on Oct. 19 and a community-wide garage sale on Oct. 26 - 27. The annual bazaar is a tradi-tion that has been coordinated by the Presbyterian Women’s Organization for more than 20 years. The bazaar opens on Saturday morning at 10 a.m. and continues until 1 p.m. Soup and sandwiches are available for a fee from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. The event culminates with a quilt auction at 1 p.m. Funds from the bazaar and auction are used to support the ongoing expenses of the church. Auctioned quilts may be the handiwork of the weekly quilting group. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 1 - 4 p.m. members of the quilting group meet to quilt and discuss the events of the week. All are welcome to drop in to spend time socializing and quilting. One week after the bazaar, First United Presbyterian will hold a community-wide garage sale. Items are being accepted through the week of the sale. Drop-off can be arranged by calling the church office. The sale will run from 10 a.m. through 6 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 26 and from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, Oct. 27. Funds from the sale will support the campaign for a new roof on the church.

First United Presbyterian Church is a 140-year-old congre-gation serving members of Greene County. Rev. Daniel Emmert has been serving First United in Grand Junction for eight years and has been impressed by the service to children at the parish.

Several years ago, a member of the congregation invited children in the community to attend the morning Sunday school program and offered to pick them up to give them a ride to church. She noticed that many of the children had not had breakfast, so she offered them a peanut-butter sandwich. The idea grew into a weekly breakfast served to any child in the community every Sunday at 8:30 a.m. Volunteers at the church now serve 20 - 25 chil-dren per week. The free breakfast is offered year-round. The children are welcome, but not required, to stay for the Sunday school program and wor-ship. Sunday school begins at 9 a.m. during the school year and the traditional worship service is held at 10:15 a.m. every Sunday. For more information call the church office at 515-738-2172.

Bazaar and auction at First United Presbyterian

Fall activitiesBy Dave Mable

First United Presbyterian ChurchGrand Junction

Worship:10:15 a.m. Sunday

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Beth McDonald is a wife and mother and works full time in Des Moines.

T here is a hint of fall in the air, which has me planning for the holiday season.

I know it is early to be thinking of the holidays, but if I don’t start planning now I won’t get every-thing done. All of the magazines are showing Thanksgiving turkeys and holiday cookies. This is truly my favorite time of year because baking takes center stage. Just thinking about all the pies, cakes and cookies I can get started on puts me in a good mood. I really enjoy reviewing the recipes I made last year for the holidays, deciding what will be on the list again this year and looking for new recipes to fill the void for those that didn’t make the cut. Some things I am considering this year include caramel brownies, pumpkin pie with a streusel top and a cranberry cake. Last year I made a pumpkin cake, so I dusted off the recipe, made a couple of tweaks to it and made cupcakes instead. To change this recipe, I reviewed several different pumpkin pie recipes for the right combination of allspice and cloves and debated about adding nutmeg and cinnamon. I ended up using allspice and cloves in the cake and made a cinnamon butter cream frosting. Enjoy!

Pumpkin cakeBy Beth McDonald

Pumpkin cake

Cake recipe2 ¾ flour¼ cup brown sugar1 tablespoon of baking powder½ teaspoon of salt1 ½ teaspoons cloves¼ teaspoon allspice 1 15-oz. can of pumpkin5 tablespoons of milk1 tablespoon of Amaretto1 tablespoon of honey1 tablespoon of vanilla1 ½ cups of butter2 ½ cups of sugar2 eggs and 4 egg yolks

DirectionsIn a bowl combine the dry ingredi-ents. Cream the butter and sugar

with your mixer, then add eggs one at a time until well blended. Start alternating the dry and remaining wet ingredients until all combined. Bake at 350. For nine-inch cake pans you will bake it for 50 - 55 minutes. The cupcakes baked for about 25 - 30 minutes.

Cinnamon butter cream frosting1 to 2 teaspoons cinnamon1 stick of room temperature butter½ cup of Crisco 4 cups of powdered sugarVanilla to taste1 - 2 tablespoons of milk Beat the butter and Crisco once combined add the powdered sugar in 2 parts, then the vanilla and milk.

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If desired, topstitch the wide ends of the triangles in place. You can also embellish by adding buttons or crystals. Finished size is 14 ½”x 42.”

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Make a 10-minute table runner

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T his easy table runner really can be made in just 10 minutes. You will need a third of a yard of your center focus fabric and a half yard of coordinating fabric — 100 percent cotton quilting fabric

works well, but other fabrics could also be used. Both fabrics should be non-directional. This table runner is made without batting, It’s so fast and easy, you will want to make one or more for each season. Leave the selvedges on the fabric. Place the two fabrics, right sides together so the long, raw edges of the two fabrics are even. Don’t worry if the ends don’t match as they will be trimmed later. There will be extra fabric in the center because one piece is wider than the other. Sew each long side with a quarter-inch seam, forming a tube. Turn fabrics right side out. Adjust tube so the focus fabric is centered as shown in the illustration. There will be approximately 1½ inches of “border” on each side. Press. Trim the two short ends, squaring up fabric and removing the selvedge. figure 1

Fold in half lengthwise so focus fabric is facing out. Sew a quarter-inch seam across each end, backstitching at each end of the seam.(figure 2) Press seam open. Turn this seam inside out so a triangle of the coordinat-ing fabric will form on the front. (figure 3)

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110 LINCOLN PLACE, JEFFERSON, from HOUK, CAROLYN & EUGENE E., to SHIPLEY, LUCAS S & HEATHER R., $158,100

704 W. SOUTH ST., JEFFERSON, from CARMAN, ADABELLE C., to KECK, TAMERA S., $64,000

703 W. STATE ST., JEFFERSON, from RAMAEKERS, WALTER J. & KATHRYN B., to GOOCHEY, GENEVIEVE LYNN, $35,000

307 N. LOCUST ST., JEFFERSON, from BAC HOME LOANS SERVICING LP, to WELLS, JAMES, $25,500

806 S. ELM ST., JEFFERSON, from WASSON, JAMES H. & TAMMY M., to HSBC BANK USA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, $72,000

706 HAGER ST. E., GRAND JUNCTION, from STOUT-WIRTH, SHEILA R. & KENT E. WIRTH, to RENSLOW, MARK A., $40,000

101 W. VEST ST., JEFFERSON, from MACDONALD SR, DEAN EUGEN, to ST. HAGEN LLC, $35,000

212 MAIN ST., RIPPEY, from BRUBAKER, DANIEL E. & CLAUDIA R., to LIEBICH, RICHARD & MARY, $2,500

404 S. WILSON ST., JEFFERSON,from MALONEY, MABEL K., to LEHMAN, MURIEL, $65,000

703 RAILROAD ST. E., GRANDJUNCTION, from TF 02 CCSB LLC, to MCFARLAND, BRETT, $235

305 S. MAPLE ST., JEFFERSON,from MCHUGH, HELEN CHARLOTTE, to BUTTLER, KATRINA L., $47,200

305 HAGER ST. W., GRAND JUNCTION, from SECRETARY OF HUD, to HERRICK, GEROLD, $21,700

301 S. PINET ST., JEFFERSON, from VALLEY, DENNIS JAMES, to FREEMAN, RODNEY C & REBECCA J., $42,500

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W hen it comes to com-puters, Charlie Hane, 21, is the go-to guy

at Greene County High School in Jefferson. He interacts with nearly every student at the high school as the computer lab monitor. However, his job doesn’t give justice to what he means to the school district and the students. Hane not only helps students and teachers with programs and computer glitches, he inspires them as well. Students like Megan Walsh are inspired by Hane. “Even though he had a bad acci-dent, what he does now makes me feel like you can go on, no matter what and everything will be OK,” she says. The story of Hane at the high school could start three years ago when he began volunteering in the computer lab. However, the best place to begin is the end of the summer in Spirit Lake, when a fall off a dock into shallow water left him paralyzed just before entering his senior year of high school. “At first I was almost complete-ly paralyzed, upper and lower body. But, gradually, movement came back in my upper body,” Hane says. Over the next few years, he went through spinal surgery and extensive rehabilitation in Colorado. He then attended two years of college, but figured out

that wasn’t the place for him. He came back home to Jefferson, and, after his mother heard about a vol-unteering opportunity at the high school, spent one year volunteering in the computer lab. “I was a little apprehensive about how students would react to my wheelchair, but the students seemed to be all right with it,” he says. He did so well, the part-time volunteer gig moved to a full-time job after Hane worked through vocational rehabilitation to learn how to drive, and was assisted in getting a modified van to drive back and forth to work. He hasn’t looked back. “It is nice to know I am making a difference in their lives, at least a little bit,” Charlie says of the stu-dents. His days are not only filed with answering student’s questions, but also scheduling computer time. That means finding open comput-ers for a class when the computer lab might be full. He often moves around the room, assisting students and making sure they are on task.

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D uring our working and wealth-building years, most investors are focused

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and $125,000 for married filing separately). That means someone in the top tax bracket could poten-tially end up paying tax on some investment income at a total rate of 43.4 percent. The rates that apply to long-term capital gain and qualifying dividends are also scheduled to increase in 2013. The maximum rate on long-term capital gain will jump from 15 percent to 20 per-cent. Qualifying dividends current-ly benefit from being taxed at the rates that apply to long-term capi-tal gain but in 2013 they’ll be taxed at ordinary income tax rates. The uncertainty about these changes may raise some important questions. When should you pay taxes on the money you’re tucking away in your nest egg — now or when you reach retirement? What will your tax rate be when you withdraw your retirement savings? To address these unknowns an investor should have a diversified portfolio because diversification can give investors more options to help manage tax liability. The last quarter of the year is the perfect time to ask your tax professional or financial advisor about tax planning and this year is no exception. ICA does not provide tax or legal advice. Investment Centers of America, Inc. (ICA), member FINRA/SIPC and a Registered Investment Advisor is not affiliated with Home State Bank. Securities, advisory services and insur-ance products offered through ICA and affiliated insurance agencies are *not insured by the FDIC or any other Federal Government agency *not a deposit or other obligation of, or guar-anteed by any bank or their affiliates *subject to risks including the possible loss of principal amount invested.

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Y ou probably have heard the phrase “it takes a village.” The same principle is true

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port to clients and their families. Most of people are not aware of all of the support services and options available to them until they are in a life altering situa-tion. A social worker can be your guide to arranging for the delivery of healthy meals from a variety of sources and letting you know about transportation options to name a few.

occupational and speech can be provided to you at home. If you are unable to leave your home to receive these prescribed modali-ties or if you choose to recover at home after a medical procedure or illness, you may receive the benefits of these therapies in the comfort of your own home. They will help you regain your strength, balance and mobility. Therapy can reduce pain and swelling, improve fine motor skills and increase range of motion in joints, making it easier and safer to move about. Other therapies can improve symptoms after a stroke. Studies have shown that peo-ple recover quicker in the comfort of their own homes, and most people want to remain in their homes as long as possible as long as it is safe to do so. Home health supports both of these findings. If you are interested in receiving care for just a few hours a day or 24 hours, give you home care agency a call today to arrange a complimentary in-home health assessment.

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I t was on Oct. 1, 1849, that Truman and Mary Davis, ages 39 and 36, and their six children,

ages 2 to 16, became the first white settlers in Greene County, arriving in a prairie schooner pulled by two large oxen. Traveling with them were one cow, one horse, 12 chickens, eight sheep, two pigs and a dog. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? They’d earlier lived in New York, Ohio, Indiana and Missouri. And here they were in a county that had not yet been named in a state that was not quite three years old. But at least they already had a house. Truman Davis and his two oldest sons had come earlier, in the summer and built a cabin slightly east of the pres-ent Squirrel Hollow Park shelter house — about equidistant from today’s towns of Jefferson, Rippey and Jamaica. One of the sons, James Polk Davis, wrote in an article in 1923 that the home site “had a good flowing spring in a beautiful grove of oak and maple trees.” The cabin was 12 by 16 feet and about seven feet high. The doors and windows had shutters but no window glass. A fireplace was at one end. In their first winter here, the Davises focused on trapping. By spring, they had 75 beaver, 13 tim-ber wolves, 70 prairie wolves, 30 otter, 100 mink, 100 raccoon, 10 lynx, 10 wildcats, 12 badgers and sacks of muskrats. Truman loaded all their pelts into a wagon, took

them to Adel, put them on a raft and floated to St. Louis. There he sold the pelts for $600. That was enough to purchase about 500 acres of land from the U.S. government, and his new property stretched along the North Raccoon River to the future town of Jefferson. James Polk Davis wrote that “the Pottawatomie Indians trav-eled through this area, but were friendly…” And new neighbors began to arrive in the spring of 1850. Enos and Catherine Buttrick built a cabin at the mouth of a nearby creek. The Davises fre-quently hosted church services and other neighborhood gatherings. Truman and Mary had six more children. He died at the age of 51 and is buried about 15 feet northeast of the cabin site, with a concrete sarcophagus now cover-ing his grave. Mary lived 28 years after Truman’s death and is buried at the Grand Junction cemetery.

The first settlers to arrive

Information provided by Mary Weaver, vice-president, Greene County Historical Society, [email protected].

By Mary Weaver, Greene County Historical Society

Prairie schooner brought the Davis family 163 years ago this month

Owners Tracy and Andy Derry hosting Country Blessing’s Fall Extravaganza on Sept. 15.


Hundreds of people descended onto the Greene County Fairgrounds for the Red Barn Craft Show on Sept. 15.

Jennifer Weaver, Jodi Frederick, Jen Badger, Owen Frederick, Ashlyn Frederick and Kayla Frederick at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds on Sept. 15.

Michelle Meyers, Mike Meyers and Madison Meyers at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds on Sept. 15.

Truman and Mary Davis and their family were the first white settlers to arrive in

Green County in 1849.


out & about Submit your photos and captions to [email protected]

Carole Dittmer and Marjorie Sims at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds on

Sept. 15.

Delores Anderson and Josey Weaver at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds

on Sept. 15.

Emma Lank and Jacob Eischeid at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds on

Sept. 15.

Tressa Hatfield and Kelsey Hatfield at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds

on Sept. 15.

Tamara Keck and Tammy Smith volunteered dur-ing the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County

Fairgrounds on Sept. 15.

Barb Walker and Cherie Cerveny were part of the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County


Krystal McHenry, Abby McHenry, Pete Russell and Mia Russell at the Red Barn Craft Show at the

Greene County Fair grounds on Sept. 15

Annette Vogel and Dorene Monahan at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds

on Sept. 15.

Janelle Wright, Addie Wright and Adrian Hoyle at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County


Daunte Mobley and Dakota Mobley at the Red Barn Craft Show at the Greene County Fairgrounds

on Sept. 15.

Zach Svoboda performed during the Country Blessings Fall Extravaganza on Sept. 15.

Jill Kroeger and Kathy Booth during the Country Blessings Fall Extravaganza on Sept. 15.


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