May 22, 2013
Life
Associated Press
Local farmer Noreen Melton (left) bags potatoes as Nathan Collins, 8, and Kelsie Collins, 7, discuss purchasing some green tomatoes at the Jackson Co. Farmers Market in Annville on July 5. Students are participating in a farm-to-school program that started last year with help from a state grant, funded with federal stimulus money, that gave three Kentucky counties $5,400 each. Ten more counties were awarded similar grants in June to start their own programs incorporating healthy foods into the classrooms and school cafeterias through partnerships with local farmers.
Programs teach kids how to eat healthier
BY JESSIE HALLADAY Associated Press MCKEE — Taylor Hisel has always liked eating the vegetables out of her grandfather’s garden, but until she started growing fruits and flowers at Jackson Co...
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Art Cozart is known as 'The Cup Guy' around the Charlotte/Douglas International Airport in Charlotte, N.C. He uses foam coffee cups as his canvas for his artwork, sketching portraits and other scenes.
Canvas on that stained coffee cup you throw away?
By Elizabeth Leland McClatchy-Tribune News Service CHARLOTTE, N.C. — In a break room, in the bowels of the airport where US Airways employees watch CNN, eat lunch and talk, Art Cozart balance...
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The restaurant is full of movie memorabilia, including these windows from the 1991 movie, 'Fried Green Tomatoes.'
Order fried green tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
By Mary Ann Anderson McClatchy-Tribune News Service JULIETTE, Ga. — “Oh, what I wouldn’t give for a plate of fried green tomatoes like we used to have at the cafe! Um-umm!” If you’ve seen ...
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Organically raised chickens are part of the Kinnikinnick crop at Kinnikinnick Farm in Caledonia, Illinois. (Cindy Dampier/Chicago Tribune/MCT)
Down on the farm, with a side of good food
By Cindy Dampier McClatchy-Tribune News Service CALEDONIA, Ill. — Just after settling into our Euro-rustic guest tent at Kinnikinnick Farm, our family gathered around a wooden table as our ho...
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Spinach can be grown to maturity before the first frost.
Time to start work on that fall garden
By Kathy Van Mullekom McClatchy-Tribune News Service Mid- to late-summer is the ideal time to start a fall garden, or a “second season” crop of your favorite cool-season vegetables and flower...
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Nutrition quiz: All about fiber
By Sam McManis McClatchy-Tribune News Service Get a bunch of “people-of-a-certain-age” together, and talk eventually will wend its way around to ... fiber. Scoff if you must, but fiber has pr...
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Taking care of skin can save lives
By Cindy Hoedel McClatchy-Tribune News Service KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Daniel Aires is director of the dermatology division at University of Kansas Hospital. Aires, a physician, grew up in Overlan...
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Cline’s home turned into museum
WINCHESTER, Va. — Patsy Cline fans curious about the early days of her brief but highly acclaimed country music career will finally be able to do more than just drive by her old house in Winchester...
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On Nutrition: From the horse’s mouth
By Barbara Quinn McClatchy-Tribune News Service Horses and humans are different. Horses have four legs. We have two. They are herbivorous (plant-eaters). We are omnivorous (plant- and animal-...
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Bill Cole, of the Bluegrass Cycling Club, rides his bike down Pisgah Pike on July 17 in Lexington.
Once 420 pounds, man cuts weight in half by cycling
By Jim Warren McClatchy-Tribune News Service LEXINGTON, Ky. — Five years ago, Bill Cole weighed 420 pounds, had little strength and less endurance, and generally avoided physical exercise. ...
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