Victoria’s Read

June 6th is Applesauce Cake Day

Saucy Apple Swirl Bundt Cake

INGREDIENTS:                                                                                                             

1/4 c. sugar

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 pkg. yellow cake mix

1  2/3 c. unsweetened applesauce

3 eggs

DIRECTIONS:
Blend sugar and cinnamon. Grease 10-inch bundt pan and dust with about 1 tablespoon of cinnamon mixture; save rest for cake. Blend cake mix, applesauce and eggs until moistened; beat as directed on package. Reserve 1 ½ cups batter. Pour remaining batter into pan. Sprinkle with remaining cinnamon- sugar, then top with reserved batter.
Bake at 350 degrees for 35-45 minutes or until done. Cool cake in pan, top side up, for 15 minutes. Then invert on plate.

June is Iced Tea Month 

Apple and Honey Iced Tea

INGREDIENTS:                                                                                                                                          

3 cups boiling water                                                                                                                                

4 tea bags                                                                                                                                             

1/3 cup honey                                                                                                                                         

3 cups apple juice

PREPARATION:
Steep tea bags in hot water for 5 minutes. Strain out tea bags, and stir in honey and juice. Mix until honey is dissolved. Chill and serve over ice. Serves 6-8

              June 1st is Donut Day                   

10-minute Doughnuts

INGREDIENTS:

Pillsbury biscuit dough

cooking oil (enough to float the dough on)

sugar

metal bottle cap (for making holes)

DIRECTIONS:
Warm the cooking oil in a deep frying pan. Fashion the biscuit dough into nice doughy blobs. Cut out doughnut holes with bottle cap. Place dough into pan then immediately begin to flip them over with a spatula or other flipping instrument of your choice. Once the dough is a light golden brown, remove them from the pan. If you want, pour a small amount of sugar into a ziplock bag, along with a doughnut and shake until doughnut is covered

Every father and stepfather makes a huge difference in his daughter’s life, whether we realize it or not.

Dad is the first man his daughter knows. With that potent position of “first man” comes the ability to set the norm of manliness for her-a norm that ultimately can be stronger than what anyone else tells her. When we truly listen to our daughters, we help reduce the odds that our girls will be caught in a cultural straight-jacket that limits her options and behavior “just because she’s a girl.” We can fight the effects of the gender straight-jacket by never requiring or expecting our daughters to wear it when they are with us - and thus helping her feel a freedom she may not have elsewhere.

By visiting Dads & Daughters and reading this, you’ve already begun to do more than pay lip service to becoming the best possible father you can be. Many wonderful doors open when we explore why a father-daughter relationship matters so much, as you’ll discover as you continue to visit our site.

My goal is simple: that  you see your relationship with your daughter more clearly, appreciate your own importance in her life, start to listen to her with a sharper sense of hearing, and share your experience, strength, and hope with her and with other dads.

No girl’s life will be free of problems. Whether those problems are large or small, a father’s involvement is key. That fact should underlie everything we do as fathers of daughters. Fathers influence how daughters and stepdaughters see themselves. With a father’s positive words and support, a daughter can be safe and healthy, and can thrive no matter where life takes her.

A girl whose father listens to and respects her will expect her life partner to listen to her and treat her well. That’s why it’s so important for us to show and tell our daughters that we believe they are capable of anything! Fathering a daughter with love and respect ensures she will choose people and situations that nourish her long after she’s left our house. There’s no greater legacy for us to leave our daughters.

www.dadsanddaughters.org

About 200 million people in the world have some form of thyroid disease.
Thyroid disorders for the most part are treatable; however, untreated thyroid disease can produce serious results in other parts of the body.

The thyroid gland is a small gland at the base of the neck. It weighs only about 25 grams. However, the hormones it secretes are essential to all growth and metabolism. The gland is a regulator of all body functions.

In Canada thyroid disorders are estimated to affect one in twenty. Most thyroid disorders are 5-7 times more common in women.

There are many types of thyroid disease. However, the main conditions present in most thyroid illnesses are Hypothyroidism (thyroid underactivity) and Hyperthyroidism (thyroid overactivity).

Signs and symptoms of hypothyroid and hyperthyroid conditions include:

Hypothyroidism
-weak slow heart beat
-muscular weakness and constant fatigue
-sensitivity to cold
-thick puffy skin
-slowed mental processes and poor memory
-constipation
-goitre

Hyperthyroidism
-rapid forceful heartbeat
-tremor
-muscular weakness
-weight loss in spite of increased appetite
-restlessness, anxiety and sleeplessness
-profuse sweating and heat intolerance
-diarrhea
-eye changes
-goitre

Each person’s experience of thyroid illness differs depending on a number of factors; a patient will not necessarily have all the above symptoms. A physician should be consulted if thyroid illness is suspected.

There may be emotional reactions to thyroid illness. Hyperthyroid patients often feel unusually nervous or irritable. Hypothyroid patients can feel unusual fatigue or depression. It is important for thyroid patients and their families to understand that these reactions are common and likely to resolve with treatment. It is also important to realize that some thyroid disorders develop very gradually. Since symptoms may not be easily recognized at first, subtle reactions in emotions or behaviour may be the only visible signs of thyroid disorder in the beginning stages.

Thyroid patients require life-long monitoring. Patients who believe they have been completely cured of their thyroid illness should discuss the need for follow-up with their family physicians or thyroid specialists.

Canadian Women’s Press Club was founded in 1904, the year that the Louisiana Purchase Exposition was held in St. Louis, Missouri. In June of that year, journalist and feminist Margaret Graham of Ottawa went to see Col. George Ham, the publicity agent for Canadian Pacific Railways. Graham went straight to the point. It is reported that she said “Can you tell my why your road has taken men to all the excursions and Fairs and other things and has ignobly ignored us, the weaker sex?” Apparently, Col. Ham was a little amused by her outburst. He promised that if she could find twelve professional women journalists, he would send them to St. Louis.

Margaret Graham found sixteen qualified women. They traveled to St. Louis in style by private railway car with fresh flowers every day and afternoon tea at five o’clock. After ten days, the group returned to Toronto. Col. Ham traveled with them. As the train neared their destination, the women discussed the solitude of their professional lives, excluded from male journalists’ gatherings and press clubs. Col. Ham, smoking his pipe nearby, quietly said “Why don’t you form your own press club?”.

This was done immediately. Kit Coleman, a popular columnist and foreign correspondent was chosen as the first president. Col. Ham was made an honorary member. Until 1971, he was the only male member of CWPC.

CWPC grew rapidly. Among the famous Canadian women who were members were Nellie McClung, Cora Hind, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Emmeline Pankhurst, Emily Murphy, Byrne Hope Sanders, Marshall Saunders, Doris Anderson, and Charlotte Whitton. By its Golden Jubilee in 1954, it had over 500 members with branches from Victoria to Halifax. In 1971, at a general meeting in Toronto, it was decided to change the name of the Club to Media Club of Canada. This would make the name translatable into French and would open the doors to male members. The Club celebrated its 90th birthday in Halifax in 1994. However, the need for networking for young women journalists was no longer so great. The club declined until it was finally un-incorporated in the early 2000s.

en.wikipedia.org

By: Victoria Evangeline Reed

My Dad. What a fellow he is. He sure could drive me bonkers. With his “It’s only because I love you.” and “I’ve been around a bit longer.” And “You really should save that money instead of spending it.” If he wasn’t telling me what to do, he was asking questions like “Who’s that boy?” and “Where are you going?”

Needless to say, I pretty much resented my father in the early years. Because of him, I never got to get into financial trouble or marry a loser. My younger years were pretty much spent learning dreary things like appreciating the value of a dollar and respecting myself.

He never let me have any fun with my friends. Every time he caught me skipping school, he would ground me for the weekend. The weekend! Why then? That’s when all the cool kids had their parties. You know the kind, lots of booze and no parents. It didn’t really matter anyway since he had a gift (He called it.) of foreseeing the future. “I know what happens at those parties and no daughter of mine is going to get involved in that!”

Of all the guys I dated, there was only one boy my dad liked. The rest were never good enough. Who cares if he hasn’t bathed in a few days? Who cares if he doesn’t have a job? Who cares if he doesn’t speak English? I’ll tell you who cares, my father, that’s who. He’d flick on that porch light so fast; you’d think you were on a Broadway stage getting ready to do your best impression of sweet little Elizabeth Walton and I was pretty good at it. That is until mom came out. She always knew what I was up to. Most times dad wouldn’t listen to her though because after all, I was daddy’s little girl.

Just when I thought I would spend the rest of my mundane life under my dad’s watchful eye, a boy came along who met my dad’s strict requirements. He was a nice looking, clean cut boy who worked and treated his little angel as such.

It was then, the porch light shone inside my head. I understood my father. I got just what he was trying to tell me all these years and when he walked me down the isle to give me away, we both knew that his job was a job well done.

Because of my father, I am a good wife and mother………. and always a good daughter. Right Dad!

Before she was 2 years old, Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing after a high fever. She was often frustrated and the family spoiled her considerably, though until Dr. Alexander Graham Bell urged them to find a teacher from the Perkins Institute for the Blind, she was unable to communicate.

Anne Sullivan was that teacher. Helen Keller learned to understand language through the combination of water from a pump on one hand and the spelling of “water” with the manual alphabet into her other hand. Helen Keller said later, “That living word awakened my soul, gave it light, hope, joy, set it free!”
Helen Keller progressed with language quickly under Anne Sullivan’s tutorage. She learned Braille at the Perkins Institution and learned to speak at the Horace Mann School for the Deaf. Helen Keller went on to study at the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, the Cambridge School for Young Ladies and to Radcliffe College, from which she graduated in 1904 with high honors.

For the rest of her life, Helen Keller worked for improving education for the blind, deaf and mute. She traveled and lectured extensively.

Helen Keller wrote her autobiography, publishing The Story of My Life and Midstream: My Later Life as well as publishing several other books, including The Practice of Optimism. My Religion and Teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy: A Tribute by the Foster Child of her Mind. She also worked for socialism and for women’s rights and raised money for the American Foundation for the Blind.

Anne Sullivan Macy, who married Keller’s editor John Albert Macy, remained a companion and support to Keller until her death in 1936. Helen Keller survived Anne Sullivan Macy by more than thirty years, until she died on June 1, 1968. Helen Keller is buried at Washington Cathedral, Washington, D.C.

womenshistory.about.com

-In her later years, Florence Nightingale kept a pet owl in her pocket.

-In 2004, one in six girls enter puberty at age 8. A hundred years ago, only one in a hundred entered puberty that early.

-The thong accounts for 25% of the women’s underwear market.

My name is Angela Maroosis-Desvreaux and I am “The Grocery Gal,” I offer a personal grocery shopping service to give people in our community another option. Whether you’re a senior, disabled, expectant or new mother, or a busy working parent, hate shopping or if you just want to save time and gas; I offer an affordable alternative.

If you would like your grocery shopping done for you this week, simply call 498-5993 weekdays before 6 pm. I will take your grocery order, fill it at Food Basics and deliver to your front door on the delivery day advised at time of order.

What could be simpler, make a grocery list, call 498-5993 and place the order. On the delivery day you pay for your grocery order plus a small nominal shopping fee based upon the total dollar value of your order. For example if the grocery order total was under $50 than your shopping fee is $10.
If you have any questions or would like to have your grocery shopping done please call 498-5993 and I would be happy to assist you.

Who is Angela Maroosis-Desvreaux? I was born and raised in North Bay. I grew up working in the family business and knew that one day I too would be an entrepreneur, like my father, K. Brother’s Art Shoppe & Gallery, grandfather, Cedar Coffee Shop and great grandfather, Arcadian Tea Room. With the support of my husband, Tim, and my children, Emma and Nikos, I have found away to give back to my community. Part of the idea for “The Grocery Gal” comes directly from the lasting memories of shopping with and for my grandparents; for my Yaya and Papo it was a Saturday morning tradition which not only taught me a great deal about them but about myself as well; and for Grandma James, who would shop every Friday and was always willing to help a friend or neighbor in need who could not shop for themselves that week.

If you have any questions or would like to have your grocery shopping done please call 498-5993 and I would be happy to assist you.

By: Angela Maroosis-Desvreaux