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Make
NEWARK, Del. - Families
make a special effort to spend time
together over the holidays, but by
January they may drift off into
their own directions. Instead of
letting that happen, resolve that
your family will grow closer and
warmer throughout 1984, suggests
University of Delaware Extension
Home Economist Debbie Amsden.
Set aside a regular time each
week for family activities, she
says. These can be as simple and
inexpensive as playing card or
board games, working jigsaw
puzzles, making crafts, or playing
musical instruments. Makeshift
instruments and kazoos can be just
as much fun as pianos and violins.
All these activities will help
children develop skills and con
fidence as well as family feeling.
Wuuer weather offers many
possibilities for family fun, Am
sden says. If everyone bundles up,
skating, sledding, and playing in
the snow provide plenty of healthy
exercise. Then go inside for an
oldfashioned taffy pull. A basic
cookbook will explain how it’s
done.
Reading, watching a television
special, looking at family pictures
or home movies, and listening to
music are activities family
members of all ages can enjoy. By
sharing the experience, everyone
has a common subject to discuss.
Discussion helps children form
opinions, sort out issues that
concern them, and leam that
parents can listen.
Children whose parents spend
time with them feel good about
their parents and themselves, the
home economist says. To a child,
the words, “I love you” may mean
less than a practical example of
Don't Reach
for the
Vitamins
LANCASTER If you have read
any of the articles on diet and
cancer prominent in the media
lately, you may be tempted to
invest heavily in vitamins. But the
best way to combat any possible
natural dietary carcinogens is to
eat a large variety of foods,
especially green leafy and yellow
vegetables, says Greta C. Vairo,
Extension home economist.
Several foods have natural
ingredients that might promote
cancer. But many other foods
contain anticarcinogens
vitamins and minerals such as
carotene, vitamin C, vitamin E
and selenium that help our
bodies defend themselves against
dietary carcinogens.
“Many people don’t eat enough
fruits and vegetables and don’t
obtain adequate variety in their
diets,” Vairo says. To ensure that
your diet provides you with an
ample supply of natural an
ticarcinogens, eat two or three
servings each week of green leafy
or yellow vegetables (for
carotene): eat and drink citrus
fruits and juices (to provide
vitamin C); be certain that your
diet contains at least one source of
nonhydrogenated vegetable oil
each day (for vitamin E). Include
whole grain products and legumes
in your diet too.
Mrs. Vairo stresses that
megadoses of vitamins and
minerals are unnecessary and, in
the cases of vitamin A, vitamin C,
and selenium, can cause
unhealthful side effects. Simply
eating a variety of foods with
natural anticarcinogens will offset
the natural carcinogens in other
1984 a Family Year
that love, such as a parent who families spend tune together,
takes tune to play catch or go on Amsden says, and thus develop an
family outings. attitude of support and com-
The strongest, healthiest mitment to one another.
“It’s Officially Winter!”
It’s January the traditional
month of all day football games,
snow and the Farm Show. And what
a tradition the Farm Show is all
sixty eight years of existence.
Many of us generally only think
of traditions as those things that
happen at holidays. But this is not
necessarily so. Traditions are
important to our families as they
are something like a string that
ties us to our family past and links
us to our future. The Farm Show
was always one of our family
traditions. We even had a day off
from school to go. M|y childhood
memories recall such Farm Show
traditions as collecting yardsticks,
spending hours following Dad
through the machinery exhibits,
eating a hoagie and cider for lunch
in the big arena, and admiring the
large Belgian horses.
The past several years I’ve been
able to see the Farm Show from
the other side of the fence! I spent
the weekend prior to Farm Show
entering clothing exhibits,
assisting judges and setting up
displays and the following
weekend closing up exhibits.
Regardless, the excitement of the
Farm Show still remains for me
and it seems to affect farm and
city folk alike
With all the excitement of Farm
Show coming to a close many of
you may be facing what appears to
be a long winter ahead, or maybe
you are experiencing the post
holiday blues. Does it seem to you
like the only thing to look forward
to is the Fourth of July 9
One cure for winter doldrums is
A Happy Home Recipe
4 cups love 5 spoons hope
2 cups loyalty 2 spoons tenderness
3 cups forgiveness 4 quarts faith
1 cup friendship 1 barrel laughter
Take love and loyalty and mix it thoroughly with faith. Blend it
with tenderness, kindness and understanding. Add friendship and
hope. Sprinkle abundantly with laughter. Bake it with sunshine and
serve daily with generous helpings.
foods you eat Our bodies have
evolved ways of handling many
natural carcinogens in our food
supply.
To avoid some dietary car
cinogens, use polyunsaturated fats
in moderation, avoid rancid fats
and do not eat highly charred
meats To keep fats from
becoming rancid, store them
according to package directions,
and buy only the quantities you
need for a few weeks at a time.
| By Michelle S. Rodgers
Lancaster Extension
Home Economist
to start some non-holiday winter
traditions. Think about some
things that you could look forward
to and enjoy together as a family.
My favorite winter family
tradition is baking doughnuts.
When the first big snow arrived
and school was cancelled,
everyone in the family joined
forces for the creating of luscious
yeast glazed and sugar doughnuts.
It was no wonder that we all looked
forward to a big snow.
It is these kinds of family
traditions that just might brighten
the winter months ahead. Here are
some ideas to get you started;
- a family board game night
- put together a large jigsaw
puzzle
- ice skate or build a snow family
- have a picnic supper indoors
-a story night; everyone tells
one story
- show slides of summer
vacations or growing up
- visit an elderly relative or
friend
- have an icicle hunt for the
biggest, smallest and fattest icicle
- winter treasure hunt; make a
trail in the snow with a surprise at
the end of the footprints
- make a pizza pan size chocolate
chip cookie or make a winter stew
The Farm Show tradition has
come to an end for this year and
with it we store many happy
memories of this and other years.
What other memories will your
family recall from winter 1984’
Keep the family spirit alive and the
family unit intact by planning at
lease one new tradition to try this
winter.
4-H Banquet
Scheduled
GERMANSVILLE - The Lehigh
County 4-H Swine, Beef and Sheep
Clubs will meet for an awards
banquet Jan. 28 at the Ger
mansville Fire Hall at 6:30 p.m.
4-H
' See your nearest
HOLLAND
Dealer for Dependable
Equipment and Dependable
Service:
Alexandria, PA
Clapper Farm
Equipment
Star Route
814 669 4465
Annville, PA
BHM Farm
Equipment Inc
RD 1
717 867 2211
Beavertown, PA
B&R Farm
Equipment, Inc
RD 1, Box 217 A
717 658 7024
Carlisle, PA
Paul Shovers, Inc
35 East Willow Street
717 243 2686
Chambersburg, PA
Clugston
Implement, Inc
RD 1
717 263 4103
Davidsburg, PA
George N Gross, Inc
R D 2, Dover,
717 292 1673
Elizabethtown, PA
Messick Farm
Rt 283 Rheem'sExit
717 367-1319
Everett, PA
C Paul Ford & Son
RD 1
814 652 2051
Gettysburg. PA
Ymghng Implements
RD 9
717 359-4848
Greencastle, PA
Meyers
Implement's Inc
400 N Antrim Way
P 0 Box 97
717 597 2176
Halifax, PA
Sweigard Bros
R D 3, Box 13
717 896-3414
Hambun
Shartlesville
Farm Service
R D 1, Box 170
215 488-1025
Honey Brook, PA
Dependable Motor Co
East Mam Street
215-273 3131
215 273 3737
Grove, PA
Hone:
Norman D Clark
& Son, Inc
Honey Grove, PA
717 3682
Hughesville, PA
Farnsworth Farm
Supplies, Inc
103 Cemetery Street
Lancaster, PA
L FI Brubaker, Inc
350 Strasburg Pike
717 397 5179
Lebanon, PA
Keller Bros
Tractor Co
RD 7, Box 405
717 949 6501
Lititz, PA
Roy A Brubaker
700 Woodcrest Av
717 626 7766
Loysville, PA
PaulShovers Inc
Loysville, PA
717 789 3117
Lynnport, PA
KermitK Kistler, Inc
Lynnport. PA
215 298 2011
Martmsburg, PA
Forshey’s, Inc
110 Forshey St
814 793 3791
Mill Hall. PA
Paul A Dotterer
717 726 3471
New Flolland, PA
ABC Groff, Inc
110 South Railroad
717 354 4191
!w Park. PA
M&R Equipment Inc
P O Box 16
717 993 2511
Oley, PA
C J Wonsidler Bros
R D 2
215 987 6257
Pitman. PA
Marlin W Schreffler
Pitman, PA
717-648 1120
Pleasant Gai
i, PA
Brooks Ford Tractor
W College Ave
814 359-2751
Quakertown, PA
C J Wonsidler Bros
RD 1
215 536 1935
Quarryville, PA
C E Wiley & Son, Inc
101 South Lime Street
717 786 2895
Rmgtown, PA
Ringtown Farm
Equipment
Ringtown, PA
717 889 3184
Silverdale, PA
I G Sales
Box 149
215 257 5135
Tamaqua, PA
Charles S Snyder, Inc
R D 3
717 386 5945
Troy. PA
The Warner Co
“For You The Farmer"
Troy, PA
717 297 2141
West Chester, PA
MS Yearsley&Son
114 116 East
Market Street
215 696-2990
West Grove, PA
S G Lewis & Son, Inc
R D 2, Box 65
215 869 2214
Churchville, MD
Walter G Coale, Inc
2849 53
Churchville Rd
301 734 7722
Risii
Sun, MD
Ag Ind
Equipment Co , Inc
1207 Telegraph Rd
301 398 6132
301 658 5568
215 869 3542
Washington. NJ
Frank Rymon & Sons
201 689 1464
Woodstown, NJ
Owen Supply Co
Broad Street &
East Avenue
609 769 0308