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6B The Mountain Messenger, Tuesday, January 16, 1990
Helen Woodward
When working on the salt habit,
remember that natural salts are
found naturally in all foods from a
well-balanced diet. By adding spices
the flavors of these foods are en-
hanced. The diet is given variety
and other helpful nutrients are
added to the body. Knowing this,
our kitchen can turn into a magical
place. Let's add cardamon, curry
powder, saffron and tumeric to our
spice list.
Cardamon (Elettaria cardo-
momum) is a simple, erect, peren-
nial plant found in southern India
which grows to a height of about 10
feel The fruit of the cardamon is a
three-celled capsule containing
about 18 seeds. Used as a flavoring
in cooking and medicines the seeds
may be grated, ground or powdered.
They are used to excite and stimu-
late the appetite, expel gas from the
intestines and strengthen and tone
the stomach. Try a smidge sprinkled
on a salad oradded to a rice dish.
Saffron (Crocus Sativus) is a
small perennial plant found mainly in
France, Spain, Sicily and Iran yet
cultivated in many parts of the world.
Saffron is commonly called Autumn
crocus or Spanish saffron. In the
springtime the corm produces basal
leaves. In late summer, at the end of
August or beginning of September,
the plant flowers. The yellow stigma,
the flower part used to capture pol-
len for fertilization, is picked, dried
and used as saffron. The yellow pig-
ment, crocine, produces a very
strong yellow color used extensively
in the Middle East as a dye for ma-
terial and a coloring and flavoring for
rice. Knowing it takes 35,000 to
40,000 flowers to make a pound of
the spice will help us to understand
why tumeric is often used as a saf-
fron substitute for color and flavor.
Medicinally saffron is one of the best
blood vitalizers. By counteracting in-
flammatory conditions, saffron
stimulates the circulation and regu-
lates the heart, liver and spleen. The
Greeks and Romans even used it in
their baths and to perfume their pub-
lic buildings and streets.
Curry powder is a spicy sweet
blend of many eastern spices used
extensively in Indian cooking but
curry powder doesn't have to be
used just for curry dishes. For a
change, add a pinch to pureed or
creamed vegetables then try it in
eggplant, mushroom, pepper or to-
mato dishes. Remember, spices are
used to cook,with food. The flavors
are released and blended during
this cooking process so only add a
little at a time. Let your taste buds
tell you if you have it just right, or if
you need more.
Editor's Note: Thes~ articles
are intended for educational pur-
poses only. They are not intendea
to treat, diagnose or prescribe,
nor to be considered as a substi-
tute for professional health care..
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Courtney Nicole Brooks
Brooks Baby
Birth Announced
Tara Logan and Rev. Adrian Durant
Greenbrier East
By Jonathan Wright
Jazz, dancing, recitations, vocal
solos, and thoughts on freedom oc-
cupied the attention of Green~;rier
East High School (GEHS) students
in a Martin Luther King Day Obser-
vance at the Fairlea school January
12.
The Greenbrier East Interact
Club and the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People (NAACP) sponsored the as-
sembly. Featured speaker was Rev-
erend Adrian Charles Michael
Durant, pastor of the Tenth Street
Baptist Church, Washington, D. C.,
and pastor of the White Sulphur
Springs First Baptist Church from
1981 to 1988.
Reverend Durant encouraged
students to carry on '1he dream" of
Dr King. "In driving down here from
Washington it dawned on me most
of you only know from history the
legacy of Martin Luther King. Most
Mr and Mrs Billy Brooks, Jr., an,. of you were born after that fateful
nounce the birth of their first child,
Courtney Nicole, born at Humana
Hospital Greenbrier Valley Novem-
ber 22 at 2:14 p.m. Courtney
weighed 6 pounds, 4.4 ounces, and
was 19 inches long.
' Mrs Brooks is the former Brenda
Huffman of Caldwell.
Maternal grandparents are Carrie
and Arden O'Dell bf Nicholas
County and Jerry and Rose
Huffman of Lewisburg. Maternal
great-grandmother is Mrs Lossie
Huff man of Caldwell.
Paternal grandparents are Billy
and Betty Brooks of Muddy Creek
Mountain, and paternal great-gra~d-
parents are Charles and Clara Quick
of Muddy Creek Mountain.
day in April, 1966, when he died.
"When I was growing up I re-
member my parents taking me to
places where he was speaking.
Even at an early age I knew there
were some things which were really
wrong, but I was really not able to
identify what they were.
"Martin Luther King was ",ct just a
black man, or just an American--he
was a citizen important around the
world. The essence of his dream is
important for all people. It's impor-
tant we realize, although all of us
are different in many ways, we are
all ultimately reaching for the same
goals. Dr King's dream was to bring
us together in our differences.
"You hold in your hands the fu-
ture of America. We're a scant ten
years away from a new century. I
challenge you to live out the es-
sence of Dr King's dream as we ap-
proach and enter that century. As
with the snowflakes falling outside,
we may be different, but we can all
work together for the same pur-
pose."
The GEHS Jazz Band provided
instrumental music for the program,
including the works of black musi-
cians Freddie Hubbard and Duke
Ellington. Alumnus Gilbert Ednacot
and senior Darren Williams were
featured. Keya Barnes, Mary Bev-
erly, and Leigh Ann Johnson sang
solos. Danylle Williams read Dr
King's '1 Have a Dream" speech,
and the Interact Club Dance Team
presented two dance routines. The
club's president, Tara Logan, pre-
sided.
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Garden P;
Leslie Price
If you want to have a garden and
don't live on or by a farm, let's face
it, you are at a real disadvantage.
Town gardeners are forced to im-
prove the quality of the soil by buy-
ing plastic bags of peat moss, com-
post, and even cow manure. The
packaged cow manure is scentless,
and, as far as rm concerned, worth-
less. You might as well dump left-
over coffee grounds in your garden;
they'll have the same effect. They'll
loosen up the soil, but they won't
make the fruit and flowers flourish.
You'll never produce fat peppers or
long, plump pole beans. No, you
need the real stuff for that. Soil that
is rich and black and crumbly is
achieved by two methods -- either
you make bushels of your own com-
post to add to the soil or else you
dig in lots of cow manure.
I set out on the latter course last
week because my compost pile is all
used up. I'm shamefaced and
empty-handed about it, but those
are the facts. Determined to make
up for my laziness and my poor soil,
I drove my station wagon, loaded
with a box of trash bags and a
shovel, out into the country. Five
miles out of town I pulled into the
long driveway of a twenty acre farm,
at the end of which sat a two-story
white frame house. There were
chickens in the backyard and black
and white cows in the fields. The
owner came out of the largest of the
three weathered-looking sheds dot-
ting the back~,ard.
"How can I help you?" he asked.
I offered my name and made my
request: "Well, you see I need some
cow manure for my garden, and I
was wondering if you'd mind me get-
ting some from your pastures?"
"Help yourself," he replied, look-
ing kinda sorry for me. He went on
about his business while I retrieved
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my shovel and bags from the,l
of the car. I sat on the tait~
changed into my rubber gal0~
and slipped on some thickt
gloves, l
I discovered right away th~
shovel method wasn't going t~
efficient. I had to distort my b~
trying to dig, hold the bag ope~
sr=
then somehow grip the I
handle low enough to get the|
cow pies in. It was far more elfI
simply to pick them up. I aban0[
my shovel. 1
After an hour the farmer a~
over to where I was bending
pasture to check on my progre~
"Would you like a spade,
scoop?" he inquired. .t
"No thanks, I'm almost finis~
had several bags and my I~
were wearing out.
"Come on in and have a
coffee when you're through." ,~
I appreciated the invitation.~
I was about to tie up my last~
took off my gloves and threwl
in too. I dragged each bag b~
the car. For one and a half|.
work I had four bags of
lined up proudly as soldiers
rear of my station wagon. I
shoes back on and headed upI
house, feeling rather smug.
The farmer's wife asked
like to wash up, and then
around the kitchen table
best coffee I've ever tasted
tin mugs. We talked about
and our gardens, the two so
having a lot in common,
headed home.
They told me I was
come back whenever I liked,
waved good-bye from the
porch when I reached the
The farmer's, wife cupped her
around her mouth just as I
ing on the ignition. She
"Next time bring a spatula!"
Utilicorp United, the owner of state. It has approximately
West Virginia Power, has purchased customers in 16 counties
the a state gas distribution system the central region of West Virgi~
from the Cabot Corporation for ap-
proximately $3.5 million, according
to Roger Dick, public relations offi-
cer for the purchasing corporation.
The gas distribution system was
acquired, including interest accrued
since a definitive letter of agreement
was signed in September 1988. The
sale received West Virginia regula-
tory approval in November and other
regulatory approvals prior to that
date, Mr Dick said.
The West Virginia gas distribution
system is the third largest in the
will be operated as a
Utilicorp's West Virginia Power.
company has approximately
electric customers in the
southeastern region.
"This is another step in
egy of growth through diver:
tion," according to Utilicorp
and president Richard C.
"This substantially
presence in the state of
ginia."
Utilicorp now has nearly
gas and electric customers in
states aad in Canada. :-
Presbyterian
Grant Applicants
During the Lenten season each
year, the Presbyterian Church pro-
motes the One Great Hour of Shar-
ing Offering. One-third of this offer-
ing is devoted to the program known
as the Self Development of People,
The Presbytery of West Virginia
has formed a 1990 committee which
has been certified to spend the por-
tion of the Self Development of
People funds which are returned to
our area for local use. Chairperson
of this committee is Mrs Susan D.
Clark of Clarksburg.
Applications for small grants are
being accepted now and the dead-
line for receiving them is March 25.
The funds are completely
criminatory. Any group which
the guidelines of the
gible, i
These are the guidelines!
proposal must originate in,
trolled by and benefit "the
nity of Need".
Simple applications are
sirable and a form for
available. For further
please contact Mrs Clark, 108'
ing Way, Ctarksburg 26301 or
bytery of West Virginia, 319
ington Street West, Charl
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