| Silver medals are just icing on the cake
California had a slice of superior Alabama cooking when Bob Jones High School culinary students attended a national competition this summer. Team members Brendhan Burleson, Christen Finley and Shachar Newton won silver medals at the National Family, Careers and Community Leaders of America Culinary Competition in Anaheim, Calif. Julie Bone and Michelle Bevis, who teach culinary arts at Bob Jones, also attended the competition. Cody Courtney, another Bob Jones student, won the silver medal in the hospitality division. "She completed her hospitality internship with the Four Points by Sheraton restaurant," Bone said. Courtney was required to rotate through all areas of the business. Bob Jones chefs won gold awards at the state contest and thus qualified for the Anaheim meet, which included about 45 teams from the United States, Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico.
High School Football Returns
Friday night football is back. Livonia opened up the season at home against East Rochester/Gananda. It didn't take long for the Bombers to assert themselves. The first play from scrimmage, Neal Dotterer hit Nick Fisher for 61 yards and a 7-0 lead. At the beginning of the second quarter, East Rochester drives the length of the field and Dave Vosburgh takes the option pitch six yards for a 14-0 lead. Dotterer threw for 270 yards and two scores in the bombers victory. Eastridge opened its season at home against Victor. Blue Devils quarterback Chris Rose gets picked off by Lancer defensive back Wayne Washington and he's off 55 yards down the sideline and in for the touchdown. Eastridge with the ball and Kemar Burton takes the handoff and races 48 yards for the touchdown.
Workers prep to feed hordes of hungry kids
SEGUIN � Lucy Saldana is ready for her kids to return.
�I call them my kids,� Saldana, a Seguin High School cook and cashier, said of her young diners. �I don�t have kids in school anymore, so I call these ones mine.�
Only a few days before the start of school, Saldana and her co-workers were prepping the cafeteria for Monday�s mob of hungry students and reminiscing about those who have grown up and gone.
Rose Campos, who has spent 15 years as a food service worker at the high school, said her job has made her recognizable to many graduates and their children.
�I�ll see them at the grocery store and they want to know what�s for lunch tomorrow,� she said with a smile.
Hamburgers will be the special of the day on Monday.
Beware hot keys
WE NO longer automatically reach for the phone book, the dictionary or the encyclopedia when we want information. Neither do we rely on the cookbook for our recipes or a phone call to a friend for a restaurant recommendation. Increasingly, computers are becoming our first port of call – whether we want information on a new ingredient or to browse a restaurant menu. From people writing online to others booking tables, restaurants are willingly or not, being sucked into the vortex of a technological hurricane. The Flogger You're a chef and you're having a bad day at work. A very, very bad day. Two of your colleagues are off sick, so you're doing their work as well as your own. Equipment malfunctions, the tarte tatin is no longer caramelised but no-question-about-it burnt and the suppliers haven't turned up.
Community Almanac
Friday, August 31, 2007
Friday, Aug. 31COUNTY FAIR AND BOOK RELEASE: Copies of the Fair Book can be downloaded from the Coconino County Web site www.coconino.az.gov/parks.aspx?id=480 and are also available in Coconino County offices. Coconino County Fairgrounds, three miles south of Flagstaff at Exit 337 off of Interstate 17.COUNTY FAIR FREE PASSES: Through today, blood donors will be thanked with one free gate pass to the Coconino County Fair. To make it convenient for donors to give blood, United Blood Services has scheduled more than 30 blood drives in the Flagstaff area through August. Coconino County Fairgrounds (three miles south of Flagstaff at Exit 337 off of Interstate 17).LAVA TUBES AND SNOWBOWL SKYRIDE: 9 a.m. - 12 p.m. Join U.S. Forest Service interpretive ranger Heidi Strickfaden for this extraordinary walk into the lava tubes of Hart Prairie shield volcano.
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