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Easy Cheesy Hot Dogs

Ingredients:
4 hot dogs
3 ounces cheese

Directions:
1-Half the hotdogs so that the two halves remain attached to each other along the whole length of the hotdog.
2-Cut the cheese into sticks or cubes and fill the hotdogs with it.
3-Put in the oven and heat (medium to high heat) until cheese melts and take out before the hotdogs start getting brown.

Mexican Hot Dogs

Ingredients:
12 flour tortillas
12 hot dogs
1 cup refried bean
1/2 cup goat cheese
1/2 cup your favorite salsa

Directions:
1-Spread the heated beans on a warm tortilla.
2-Place a frankfurter on top.
3-Sprinkle with cheese and roll up the tortilla.
4-Microwave for 2 minutes or place in preheated 350°F oven for about 10 minutes.
5-Serve with the salsa of your choice.

Hot Hot Dogs

Ingredients:
8 hot dogs
32 jalapeno peppers 
4-5 slices cheddar cheese or monterey jack cheese
8 hot dog buns

Directions:
1-Slit hotdogs lengthwise and open to a “V”.
2-Insert about half a cheese slice and about 4 jalapeno slices into the slit of each hot dog.
3-Tie hot dogs crosswise in 2 or 3 places with butcher’s string to hold in the filling.
4-Set up grill for direct grilling on hot coals.
5-When coals are ready, place hot dogs on the grill, parallel to bars on the grate. Cook until browned on bottom, then roll the dogs slightly to brown both sides of the filled “V”.
6-Cook for 8 to 10 minutes.
7-Transfer to a serving plate. Snip and remove strings before serving.
8-Toast buns on grill for extra eye-appeal.

By Michelle Lashbrook

Stephanie Wilson is one dynamic woman. She’s 36 years old (she doesn’t look it!) and fills many different roles, as most women do.  She’s a wife, a mother of two beautiful daughters, a business owner, and a piano teacher. 

Stephanie moved to Corbeil in July of 2005 with her husband Richard and eldest daughter Gabrielle (now 3 years old).  A year later, her youngest daughter Alexandra was born (now 2 years old).

Stephanie’s husband Richard is with the Canadian Armed Forces, and at the end of August will finally be returning home from his second tour in Afghanistan. As Richard has been gone for extended periods, Stephanie needed to find ways to fill in the time, something to keep her busy.  This is very common with military spouses.

Stephanie bought Video Fever in the strip mall in Callander on Main Street in November 2007. She loves owning her own business and can be found greeting customers with a big smile.  She’s very helpful when it comes to recommending movies that one would enjoy and that would be great for the whole family versus great for adults only. 

Stephanie also teaches piano lessons in her home, her students ranging in age from young children to adults.  My son Michael is one of her students and I can say from first hand experience that Stephanie’s way of teaching is great: she always encourages in a positive way, is very patient, and even though she is very professional she never lose’s her sense of humour.  Recently, Stephanie held a recital in her home for 5 of her children students and it was great. The atmosphere that she fosters is one of relaxation, friendliness, and openness.  After all the children had played, Stephanie treated us to a song that she played, and I must say it was a joy to watch her play the piano: one can certainly tell that she loves what she is doing. 

So if you’re in the mood for a movie, wander over to Video Fever.  Ever thought about taking piano lessons? Give Stephanie a call at 752-3417.

Hemochromatosis (HHC) is a leading cause of iron overload disease. People with HHC absorb extra amounts of iron from the daily diet. Over time, these excesses build up in major organs such as the heart, liver, pancreas, joints and pituitary. If the extra iron is not removed, these organs can become diseased.
Untreated hemochromatosis can be fatal. Iron carries oxygen (in hemoglobin) to all parts of the body.

Normally, humans absorb about 8-10% of the iron in foods that they eat. People with HHC can absorb four times that amount.  Iron cannot be excreted therefore the metal can reach toxic levels in tissues of major organs. These overburdened organs cease to function properly and eventually become diseased.

Therefore, undiagnosed and untreated HHC increases the risk for diseases and conditions such as diabetes mellitus, irregular heart beat or heart attack, arthritis (osteoarthritis, osteoporosis), cirrhosis of the liver or liver cancer, depression, impotence, infertility, hypothyroidism, hypogonadism, and some cancers.

Mismanaged iron in the brain is seen in those patients with neurodegenerative diseases: Alzheimer’s, early onset Parkinson’s, epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, and Huntington’s disease.

Chronic fatigue and joint pain are the most common complaint of people with hemochromatosis. Other common symptoms include, lack of energy, abdominal pain, loss of sex drive, and heart flutters or irregular heart beat.

In women, symptoms usually start about 10-15 years after they stop having a period.

Hemochromatosis can be overlooked by a doctor who is concentrating on treatment of diseases that are present in the patient. Many doctors still believe what they learned in medical school, that hemochromatosis is rare and only happens in older men. When hemochromatosis is discovered early and treated before organ damage can occur, a person can live a normal, healthy life. 
www.hemochromatosis.org

Viola Davis Desmond (July 6, 1914–1965) was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She was an African-Canadian who ran her own beauty parlor and beauty college in Halifax. She has been referred to as a Canadian version of Rosa Parks. Desmond’s story was one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Nova Scotian and Canadian history.

On November 8, 1946, Viola Desmond refused to sit in the balcony designated exclusively for blacks in a New Glasgow theater but, instead, she took her seat on the ground floor where only white people were allowed to sit. After being forcibly removed from the theater and arrested, Desmond was eventually found guilty of not paying the one-cent difference in tax on the balcony ticket from the main floor theater ticket. She was fined $20 and costs. She paid the fine but decided to fight the charge in court.

During subsequent trials the government insisted on arguing that this was a case of tax evasion. Retail sales tax was calculated based on the price of the theater ticket. Since the theatre would only agree to sell the Black woman a cheaper balcony ticket, but she had insisted upon sitting in the more expensive main floor seat, she was one cent short on tax. For her crime of so-called tax evasion, she was removed from the theatre, thrown in jail overnight, tried without counsel, convicted and fined. During the trial, no one admitted that Viola Desmond was Black, and that the theater maintained a racist seating policy. The trial proceeded as if it related to race-neutral tax evasion. All efforts to have the conviction overturned at higher levels of court failed. Her lawyer returned her fee which she used to setup a fund that was eventually used to support activities of the Nova Scotia Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NSAACP).

After the trial, Desmond closed her business and moved to Montreal where she enrolled in a business college. She eventually settled in New York where she died at the age of 50.

While the case received little attention outside of Nova Scotia, it has since gained notoriety as one of many cases fought for civil rights in the mid-20th century

wikipedia.org

At 8:43 a.m. local time, the Coast Guard cutter Itasca, steaming off Howland Island, receives this faint transmission from Amelia Earhart: “KHAQQ calling Itasca. We must be on you but cannot see you — but gas is running low….”

She vanishes along with her navigator, Fred Noonan, into the Central Pacific and they’re never heard from again.

The disappearance of the celebrated flier remains perhaps the most tantalizing unsolved mystery in aviation history.

In the age of Charles Lindbergh and other daredevil fliers, Amelia Earhart became a household name in 1928, after becoming the first woman to fly across the Atlantic.

True, it was as a passenger with a male pilot and copilot, but she soloed across the Atlantic in 1932.
Although fellow pilots rated her as no better than competent, Earhart parlayed her sex and her absolute devotion to flying into a celebrity that few of her contemporaries enjoyed. And it’s not like she wasn’t legit: Earhart was the first pilot of either sex to successfully fly solo from Honolulu to the U.S. mainland, reaching Oakland, California, on Jan. 11, 1935.

She wrote voluminously about her experiences and worked hard to promote aviation, both to women and to the public at large.

Various stations around the Pacific reported receiving unidentified signals, leading to the hope that Earhart and Noonan had somehow managed to find land somewhere. None of these reports amounted to anything.
Over the years the mystery only deepened, leading to some pretty fanciful theories concerning Earhart’s fate.

The likeliest explanation for what became of Earhart and Noonan is that they ran out of fuel, ditched at sea and drowned, but there are other theories out there still being pursued. In any case, they were officially declared dead Jan. 5, 1939.

As for Earhart herself, she knew she was taking a big risk for high stakes:
“Please know I am quite aware of the hazards…. I want to do it because I want to do it. Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others.”

-A kiss stimulates 29 muscles and chemicals causing relaxation. Women seem to like it light and frequent, men like it more strenuous

-Percentage of women who say they would marry the same man: 50

-Men get hiccups more often than women

Family is the foundation of any strong community, and homeownership offers a real stake in the development of a community and people within it. Along with owning a home; comes the responsibility we all shoulder as members of the same community, working together to build a proud and nurturing environment for our youth.   

Hello, my name is Cheryl Noel and I am a Sales Representative with Century 21 Blue Sky Region Realty Inc. I have serviced North Bay and the surrounding areas for almost fifteen years as a real estate salesperson and active member of our community.

As a proud mother of three, I have raised all of my children here and made certain they were each actively involved in the social and recreational fabric of North Bay. What has always amazed me was the level of commitment others had; the coaches, the volunteers and how they made the time to give back to the kids and to their community. Today I find myself very involved and giving back to the community which gave so much to my family.   I sit on the Board of Directors for the North Bay and District Girls Hockey Association, as well as am one of the organizers of the annual Monster Pond Hockey tournament. My eldest daughter has recently returned home to North Bay and is now coaching a U-14 girls soccer team with the North Bay Youth Soccer Club.

Having spent my life in North Bay, as a child, a mother, a professional and an organizer of community events; I understand very well the value of a strong community and its powerful affect on its inhabitants. I would like to thank Victoria’s Read for this opportunity to share my views of community.  I truly hope if you are thinking of volunteering your time that you do not hesitate. The rewards are great and lasting.

Cheryl Noel  474.4500