International Women’s Day is March 8th
Organize Your Home Office Day is the second Tuesday In March
Chocolate-Covered Raisin Day is March 24th
Goof-Off Day is March 22nd
Mary Tyler Moore Show” TV Series final episode aired March 19, 1977
Potato Chip Day - Observed on March 14th
Dining Room Word Search
Bread
Candles
Carver
Chair
China
Cloth
Cruet
Crystal
Cups
Goblets
Jug
Knives
Linen
Napkins
Pitcher
Plates
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1. She was born Princess Sophie Friederike Auguste of Anhalt-Zerbst in 1729 but we know her by another name. She is famous for her exquisite taste, extravagances, lovers and the creation of one of the world’s great art collections.
~Catherine the Great
~Madame du Barry
~Queen Anne of England
~Marie Antoinette
2. The court of Versailles with its rigid etiquette was sometimes just too much for Marie Antionette to take. Her pastoral “getaway retreat” bore what name?
~Le Refuge
~Le Hameau
~Le Grand Trianon
~La Conciergerie
3. What did newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst share with his mistress, actress Marion Davies?
~An island
~A castle
~An entire apartment building
~The world’s largest yacht, the “Zodiac”
4. Elizabeth Taylor’s diamond collection is famous, but she also owns one of the world’s most renowned and historically significant pearls. What is its name?
~La Perla
~Star of Asia Pearl
~La Régente Pearl
~La Peregrina
5. Not many women can be fabulously wealthy and yet still be perceived as having the common touch, but Oprah Winfrey manages it. Why doesn’t Oprah borrow jewels to wear to red-carpet events?
~She’s allergic to most metals
~She objects to flashy jewelry
~She prefers to buy them
~She worries they’ll be stolen
ANSWERS
1. Catherine the Great married the future Peter III of Russia when she was 14. Because he was an ineffectual ruler, she had herself declared Empress. Her unpopular husband was murdered shortly after his abdication.
2. The Queen’s Hameau, or hamlet, was a charming village built to her specifications at great cost. It contained cottages, gardens, and the infamous dairy barn where Marie Antionette could milk her cows.
3. A castle “La Cuesta Encantada”, the Enchanted Hill, is more commonly known as Hearst Castle. It is in San Simeon, California.
4. The La Peregrina (Pilgrim) pearl is several hundred years old and was owned by Mary Tudor and then by Spanish royalty. Ms. Taylor has owned it since 1969.
5. She prefers to buy them. All that glitters on Oprah’s neck and ears and fingers is her own.
How to “Read” Your Footprints
When you take a step, your foot typically hits the ground heel first and rolls toward your toes, flattening the arch slightly. As you push off the ball of your foot, your arch springs back and does not touch the ground.
That’s how normal feet are supposed to work.
Unfortunately, many feet aren’t normal. If your foot rolls too much toward the inside, it’s called over-pronation. This leads to arch strain and pain on the inside of the knee.
If your foot rolls too much to the outside, that’s under-pronation, and you’re more susceptible to ankle sprains and stress fractures.
You can remedy foot pain by compensating for these tendencies, but first you need to determine which way your feet roll.
Try the watermark test:
Put your feet into a bucket of water, then make footprints on a piece of brown paper. What do your footprints tell you?
If your footprint looks like an oblong pancake with toes, you pronate excessively or have flat feet. Try molded-leather arch supports, such as Dr. Scholl’s, off the pharmacy shelf.
When shopping for athletic shoes, ask a sales clerk for styles with “control” features — soles designed to halt that rolling-in motion.
If arch supports or sports shoes don’t help, see a foot specialist about custom-molded orthotic shoe inserts.
If there’s little or no connection in your footprint between the front part of the foot and the heel, you under-pronate or have a high arch. This means a lot of your weight is landing on the outside edge of your foot.
Ask for “stability” athletic shoes, which are built with extra cushioning to remedy this problem. And if you are prone to ankle sprains, wear high-top athletic shoes that cover the foot and ankle snugly to minimize damage from twists.
Pocahontas was most likely born in Wicomico, Gloucester County, Virginia around the year 1595. Her true name was Matoaka. Pocahontas was one of many daughters of a powerful chief named Powhatan, who ruled more than 25 tribes.
Pocahontas first became acquainted with the English colonists who settled in the Chesapeake Bay area in 1607. Along with her tribe, Pocahontas watched the colonists build a fort and search for food.
The next year, Powhatan’s brother, Opechancanough captured colonist John Smith. Smith was brought to Powhatan, who decided he must die. According to an account written later by Smith, Pocahontas saved Smith’s life by throwing herself down and cradling his head before he was clubbed to death.
After promising to supply Powhatan with several guns, Smith was allowed to return to Jamestown. He did not deliver the guns but sent many other presents instead. Over the next year, Pocahontas and other tribal women visited the fort and brought food to the settlers. However, in 1609, Smith was forced to return to England after being badly burned in a gun powder accident. After his departure, relations deteriorated between the natives and settlers.
Several years later, Pocahontas was taken hostage by the colonists. She was treated kindly during her captivity and lived in the home of a minister. During this time, Pocahontas converted to Christianity and was baptized with the name Rebecca. While being held in Jamestown, Pocahontas met a distinguished colonist named John Rolfe. The two fell in love and planned to marry. Although the chief did not attend the wedding, he sent others in his place and a pearl necklace for his daughter.
In 1615, Rolfe and Pocahontas had their first and only child, Thomas. The following year, the family was invited to England, where Pocahontas became the center of attention of English society. Banquets and dances were given in her honor and her portrait was painted by famous artists. While in England, Pocahontas was also reunited with her friend John Smith, whom she had believed dead
Before returning to Virginia, Pocahontas contracted small pox. She died in England in March, 1617, at the age of 21. Pocahontas was buried in the chapel of the parish church in Gravesend, England.
Although her life was short, she is remembered for contributing to the maintenance of peace between the colonists and the natives. She remains an important part of American folk history to this day.
Smoked Salmon Egg Salad
INGREDIENTS:
12 eggs
2 stalks celery, chopped
1 red onion, chopped
5 ounces diced smoked salmon
1 cup mayonnaise
3 tablespoons chopped fresh dill
salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS:
In a medium bowl, combine eggs, celery, onion, smoked salmon and mayonnaise. Season with dill, salt and pepper. Refrigerate at least 2 hours to allow flavors to combine.
Heavenly Egg Salad
INGREDIENTS:
6 eggs
1/4 cup mayonnaise
1 teaspoon Dijon mustard
1/2 teaspoon prepared yellow mustard
1/2 lemon, juiced
1/4 cup chopped green onions
salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS:
In a medium bowl, stir together the mayonnaise, Dijon mustard, yellow mustard, lemon juice and green onions. Chop the eggs into big chunks and mix gently with the dressing. Season with salt and pepper.
Egg Salad with a Kick
INGREDIENTS:
12 hard-cooked eggs, peeled and chopped
1/2 cup light mayonnaise
1/2 cup low-fat sour cream
1/4 teaspoon paprika
3 tablespoons Dijon mustard
2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
2 tablespoons chopped red onion
1/4 cup real bacon bits
salt and pepper to taste
DIRECTIONS:
In a medium bowl, stir together the eggs, mayonnaise, sour cream, paprika, mustard, horseradish, red onion and bacon bits. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve immediately, or refrigerate until serving.
TO PREPARE EGGS
Place eggs in a saucepan and cover with cold water. Bring water to a boil; cover, remove from heat, and let eggs stand in hot water for 10 to 12 minutes. Remove from hot water, cool, peel and chop
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March is Fraud Prevention Month
FRAUD: RECOGNIZE IT. REPORT IT. STOP IT.
Protect Yourself from Fraud
Don’t be fooled by the promise of a valuable prize in return for a low-cost purchase.
Don’t be afraid to hang up the phone, delete the email or close your Internet connection.
Shred unwanted personal information such as bank statements, credit card bills, unwanted receipts, cheques, pre-approved credit applications and old tax returns.
Don’t purchase a product or service without carefully checking out the product, service and company.
Don’t be afraid to request further documentation from the caller so you can verify the validity of the company.
Check your credit report every year and report problems immediately.
Don’t disclose personal information about your finances, bank accounts, credit cards, social insurance and driver’s license numbers to any business that can’t prove it is legitimate.
Request written, detailed information, including references, from companies to research any offer.
Be extra cautious about calls, e-mails or mailings offering international bonds or lottery tickets, a portion of a foreign dignitary’s bank account, free vacations, credit repair or schemes with unlimited income potential.
If a scam artist contacts you, or you’ve been defrauded, call PhoneBusters, the Canadian Anti-Fraud Call Centre, at 1-888-495-8501.
BUSKERS WANTED
The North Bay Farmer’s Market invites
entertainers and artists to showcase their
talents on Saturdays between 8:30am-1:00pm
from May 16th to October 10th.
You may even earn
$$$
while having fun!
We are looking for musicians, singers, dancers,
face painters, artists, magicians, demonstrations
and everything in between!
For further information contact:
Heather Cote
Buskers Coordinator
705-493-0613
heather@azureislands.com
~In times of stress such as extreme hot spells, the female mushroom coral switches its sex so that most of the population becomes male. The advantage of doing so is that male corals can more readily cope with stress when resources are limited.
~Singing to females makes male birds’ brains happy.
~ Thanks to evolution, Whiptail Lizard males are nonexistent, but the whiptail lizard ladies have found a way around in vitro. A female will get a surge of testosterone, mimicking male behavior enough to trigger reproduction in another female, who can lay eggs and fertilize herself. How’s that for girl power?
Sandra Maisano is a creative artist. “I always had to be creating some form of art since I was very little. My passions are watercolor painting, sculpting in porcelain and presently creating jewelry from silverware.
I live in beautiful North Bay where I have raised three children (all grown and on their own) I have been married 26 years to a wonderful man (He hunts for some of my silver!) and he is very supportive.
I became interested in silver when a friend asked me to take a class with her. I learned how to make a ring and I got hooked right away. I’ve never enjoyed something so much. Rings led to bracelets, then pendants, then wind chimes. I’m always coming up with new ideas.
I don’t use heat (I don’t want to burn down my house) and only the best silverware is selected.
My husbands garage is now my favorite work place and he has been kind enough to alter his vice with Neoprene, a protective tough plastic. This prevents nicks and dents in the soft silver.
Besides jewelry, my imagination has led me to create many other products such as wind chimes, dog tags, key chains and key holders.
If you have any old or forgotten silverware lying around be sure to give me a call.
Custom Orders:
Would you like to have your relatives silver made into jewelry? I believe that you should be wearing a reminder of your loved ones. Better to have a pendant or a ring on you all of the time instead of in your drawer.
When you wear your silver daily it seldom tarnishes. So if you have silver, enjoy it.
Jewelry Making Classes:
Classes are available upon request and are kept small to insure plenty of one on one teachings. Two hour sessions are just $30.00.
Thank you for helping me recycle flatware and preserve the art of silversmiths. May you always be aware of the energy around and within you.”
www.tarnishedtreasures.ca
{705} 845-6303