| Wednesday Lifestyles Briefs
ROCK � The August SHARE delivery will take place on Saturday from 7 to 8 a.m. at the Maple Ridge Community Building.
Orders for September will be accepted between Aug. 25 and Sept. 4. Participants may order from SHARE Traditional and/or Select menus.
SHARE is a nonprofit food-buying club offering nutritious food at reduced costs through a volunteer-run distribution system. The club is open to everyone and there are no membership fees.
To order or for more information, call (906) 356-6104.
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Alzheimer�s caregivers conference in Marquette
MARQUETTE � The Alzheimer�s Association Annual Caregivers Conference will be held Thursday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Holiday Inn in Marquette. The theme of the conference is �Share the Care: You Don�t Have to Do It Alone.
Starfish cookbooks 'have a story to tell'
There's something new on the menu at the Starfish Café. Besides café specials like black bean soup, Cobb salad and chocolate cupcakes, the chalkboard by the front counter announces: "Cook Books Are Here!" Since May, this East Broad Street restaurant and culinary training school has been selling copies of its own hard-cover book, "Starfish Café Changing Lives One Recipe at a Time..." The book offers a wide range of dishes - from Louisiana-style barbecued shrimp to the café's award-winning bread-and-butter pudding. Although nearly every Savannah gift show and book store sells cookbooks by PTAs, church auxiliaries and even sports fishermen, the café's cookbook was unique, Starfish officials said. This collection of recipes was created by the Union Mission Inc.
Focus on health guiding cafeterias
Most students officially arrived back in the classrooms this week.
That also means back to eating school lunches.
As childhood obesity becomes an issue in more families with more children plagued by health problems due to being overweight, many school districts have taken a better look at not only the food options they give students passing through the lunch line, but also how they prepare those options.
Gone are the deep fryers and soda vending machines for many.
�In every area, healthy options are incorporated,� said Beth Hufnagel, director of food services for the Loyalsock Township School District. �We still give kids what they want, but in healthier ways.�
Hufnagel said the district is in the second year of its three-year wellness plan, a state-mandated plan all school districts must complete to participate in the National School Lunch Program, which Loyalsock does.
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