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See "Edward Douglass White: Louisiana's U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice" -- a Louisiana State Museum traveling exhibit that explores the lives of White and his father, Congressman Edward Douglass White through Sept. 9 during library hours at Jefferson Parish East Bank Regional Library, 4747 West Napoleon Ave., Metairie. Food and arts camp The Ogden Museum of Southern Art's free food and arts camp for children entering the second, third or fourth grades in Orleans Parish public schools begins today. Participants will learn about good nutrition and how New Orleans' heritage is expressed through food and cooking. They will prepare their lunch each day and, on Fridays, they will use the fun, fanciful napkins, menus and ornaments they have made throughout the week to decorate their lunch tables.
In Fairlee, the Whole Family Goes to Summer Camp
Every year at summer camp in Fairlee, Joanna Bassett makes at least one basket. On a crystalline morning earlier this week in the Aloha Camp's craft barn, Bassett was absorbed in the methodical task of weaving canes. I would never make baskets at home because I would have to go out and get all the stuff, Bassett said. Although it was early in her week at camp, Bassett was nearly done with her basket, giving her plenty of time to help Marcie Kaplan and Audrey Rubin, and Kaplan's daughter, Chloe, and Rubin's daughter, Sophia, both 9, with their own attempts. The relaxed scene was what drew all three women, and their children, to Aloha Camp, a camp for girls age 12 to 17 which for one week at the end of the summer opens up to families. Thanks to steady demand for family-camp programs over the past decade, Fairlee's Aloha Foundation is cleaning up a 112-acre camp it purchased on Lake Fairlee in Thetford to serve almost entirely as a family camp.
Festival highlights local food, wine
Sample food featuring local ingredients from 20 Boulder restaurants and wine from 25 Colorado wineries at the Boulder Food & Wine Festival, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday in Central Park (Broadway and Canyon). Participating restaurants include Laudisio, Mateo, Leaf, Flagstaff House, The Kitchen and Q's Restaurant. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door, and include unlimited wine and mead tastings and five food coupons. At 1, 2 and 3 p.m., teachers from the Culinary School of the Rockies will demonstrate cooking techniques; on the half-hour, wine experts will talk about pairing wine and food. In the waiter's race at 2 p.m., service pros will run while carrying trays of glasses full of red wine. The Swingin' Seven Dance Orchestra, an eight- piece big band, and Ginga, a Brazilian band led by Boulder guitarist Bill Kopper, will perform.
Child commission wants junk food ban in its new guidelines on food in schools
For healthy children, stop sale of junk food, encourage students to take nutritious diet and promote physical activity. This is what precisely the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) has asked all state governments to tell the schools. On eve of India's 60th Independence Day, the commission has issued guidelines on food and nutrition in schools considering rising children obesity figures, mainly in urban India. Commission says a quarter of children are eight overweight or obese. In Delhi, 24.2 per cent of school children were found obese in a survey conducted by Diabetes Foundation of India. A National Sample Survey Organisation survey released in May 2007 had pointed at huge increase in intake of fat food products among urban Indians, including school children.
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