| School food not making the grade
My oldest daughter has learned to regret spending her perfectly good earned shopping money on crummy MacDonald's, and does try to bring her own healthy lunch to school. I've also let her know a few tricks for a cheap healthy lunch if you forgot or didn't have time: go to Safeway (or whatever you have nearby as a grocer), get a kaiser from the bulk bin for 16 cents, a slice of your fave deli meat, a slice of deli cheese, and an apple and a small milk. This will cost you very little! I usually pack a lunch to work, but if I forget, heaven help me! our work kitchen is stocked with high-fat lunch foods (canned/frozen), chocolate bars, chips, muffins, etc. I often eat at my desk, but use leave time to go for a walk a couple times per day. It's true parents need to set a good example, but the schools should not sell crap to our kids.
Merchants sweet on chocolate tour idea
Imaginations are running wild as merchants in downtown Broken Arrow prepare to host a couple of busloads of tourists.
A first-time event, billed as a chocolate tour, will bring around 45 people on each of two buses to Main Street in early February. One will arrive at 10:15 a.m. Feb. 4; the other the same time on Feb. 7.
"This is going to be a fun activity for our merchants," said Lori Hill, tourism director for the city.
"We'll give each tourist a bingo card with squares representing each of our participating merchants, probably around 15. Merchants will mark their squares as tourists visit their shops. For those who visit all the merchants on the tour and get their cards completely filled, like blackout in a bingo game, we'll have a drawing for a gift basket," Hill said.
Thinking about elections II
All the names are posted on a bulletin board. On election Sunday, each parishioner is given a ballot to write down the names of the persons, up to 21 names, that he would like to serve on the council. The votes are tabulated, and the 21 persons with the most votes become the parish council. .
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