Consuming Thoughts by Fay Strickler Penn State Extension Home Economist For Berks Co. Many people are worried about the amount of fat in the foods we serve children. How much is too much? How much is enough? Too much fat may lead to heart disease or some types of cancer. However, some fat is needed for a child’s normal growth and development. Children under the age of two years of age should not be eating low-fat foods. Infants need fat as part of a well-balanced diet to in sure proper growth. The body gets energy from fat. It might be harmful to eliminate all fat from a child’s diet. Choose foods, which cut down, not eliminate, fat. Switching to low-fat foods: When feeding children over 2-years-old, it is not necessary to limit all high-fat foods at one time. Children can still eat small amounts of high-fat foods such as ice cream, cookies, potato chips, and French fries. Begin by changing one or two foods, and then slowly change other high fat foods to low-fat ones. Trying to change all foods at once may be difficult for the children and could cause eating problems. Some changes you can make: choose lean meats, fish, poultry, lower fat cheeses, and dried beans as protein sources. Try combining small amounts of high-fat protein foods like ground beef or cheese with cook ed dried beans. Try some of the following ideas: • Serve small portions of meat. • Broil, bake, or steam foods, rather than frying them. • Trim the fat from meat and Whkllo youl:Hs <*lB fit undor) represent only of populatli they drink of All milk consu mod in tHe U.S, Source Dairy Manaaemwnt Inc INVENTORY REDUCTION ' SALE “LOWEST PRICES EVER” 3 VMS ONLY ANr S THURSDAY. FRIDAY < SATURDAY c SEPT• IS, 19 < 30, 2000 Co/^ Bring Your Measurements ' Cash And Carry Only. L All Installation Supplies Are Available Sheet Vinyl As Low As $1.99 Per Sq. Yd. lOO Rolls Of Vinyl To Select From fin&j "Ceramic Tile - As Low As 500 Sq. Ft. VCT Tile - As Low As 400 Sq. 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Which milk is best? • Infants (up to 12 months of age): breast milk or iron fortified infant formula. • Children (12-24 months of age): whole milk. • Children (2-years-old and above- milk with reduced fat (two percent or one percent). -Non-fat milk may be used for children over 3-years-old. -Please note: before making any changes in your child’s diet, please consult with your child’s pediatrician. Kannscht Du Deitch Schwetze? GAIL STROCK Mifflin Co. Correspondent BELLEVILLE (Mifflin Co.) “I believe it’s a gift the gift of language. Some people seem to have it, others don’t,” said Lee Thierwechter of Belleville. “I must have the gift. I grew up speaking the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect and had to learn English in school. I loved study ing High German in high school and discovering the likenesses and differences between the two +(Pennsylvania German and High German+).” Thierwechter uses his gift to teach a 10-week class on Penn sylvania German using the one room country school concept. His upcoming class marks the start of his sixth year teaching the language. The students meet at the Maple Grove Mennonite Church near Belleville and come from all over Central Pennsylva nia. “I’ve had as many as 44 peo ple including a Catholic priest from Doylesburg, teachers from Turbettville and Watsontown, a leather-clad motorcyclist from Mattawana, and a Mennonite from Aaronsburg. Some remem ber, their grandparents talking in Pennsylvania German but never learned the language. The grand parents and parents used the language when they didn’t want the children to know what they were saying!” The class came about at the suggestion of many people, some undoubtedly interested in and curious about the various sects of Pennsylvania “Dutch” living in the area. “Actually, Pennsylvania Dutch is a misnomer,” Thier wechter explains. “People think of Holland, but the dialect origi nated in Qermany. The German That’s where Dutch comes from.” ' Students learn from a text and workbook compiled and created by Thierwechter. The book in cludes the German alphabet and other sounds pronounced in pho netic English, Pennsylvania Ger man cognates, nouns, verbs, numbers, common terms, con versational phrases, stories, songs, poems, scriptural pas sages, Pennsylvania German proverbs, Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, and the Lord’s Prayer. The class recites the Lord’s Pray er in Pennsylvania German at the beginning of each session, a recitation that takes prac tice. When reciting Pennsylva nia German, A is pro nounced awe, B is bay, C is tsay, and so forth. When learning English as a child, Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 16, 2000-B5 Lee Thierwechter of Belleville takes a few moments to review his textbook A Pennsylvania German Text-Work Book, a study guide he wrote for the Pennsylvania Ger man language classes he conducts. Thierwechter ran home one day to tell his Pennsylvania German speaking parents that their name is pronounced Thierwechter, not Actually, Penn sylvania Dutch is a misnomer. People think of Holland, but the dialect originated in Ger many. The Ger- man name for Ger man is Deutsch. That’s where Dutch comes from Sierwechter as in sear. The Ger man language doesn’t recognize the th sound. His name, original ly spelled Thurwachter with um lauts or double dots above the u and a, means “gate keepers.” “I was born on a farm near Klmmerlings, Lebanon County, and moved to a 23-acre farm that the Zoar Evangelical Lu theran Church owned when I was three. My parents had the responsibilities of the farm, church, and cemetery. 1 can still remember Pastor Diehl saying when we walked to the church door on Sunday mornings, “Here come the gate keepers.’ I remem ber old German hymnals in the back of the church. Because of my upbringing, “the Pennsil faanish Deitch Muddersch prooch’ became an ingrown part of me.” After high school, Thierwecht er attended Lebanon Valley Col lege and then Penn State and graduated with a degree in agri cultural education. After marry ing Neda Kreider of Palmyra, Thierwechter worked at the Mil ton Hershey School for two years. He then worked for the Eastern States Farmers’ Ex change, which later became Agway. After his mother died in 1981, Thierwechter spoke the dialect little until his transfer to Agway in Belleville where he discovered, to his delight, the Big Valley Amish and Mennonites. “We would talk in German, but they’d say jokingly, “You’re too German for us!”’ What they meant was that Thierwechter’s German was more High Ger man, or more standardized, than the local dialect. He said he also came under suspicion for once being Amish and leaving the church, but a local farm wife whose family knew the Thier wechters from Lebanon County, removed that suspicion. Thier wechter’s German heritage is rooted in the Lutheran and Re formed Church (UCC), which conducted services in German. Prior to his marriage, his father was Lutheran and his mother was Reformed (UCC). In the late 1980 s, Thierwecht er was invited to a gathering of Pennsylvania German enthusi asts at Susquehanna University. Speakers included prominent Pennsylvania German individu als such as C. Richard Beam, Allen Musser, Earl C. Haag, Luke Brinker, Frederick S. Weis er, Ivan Glick, Howard Geising er, John Hostetler, Larry Neff, and Noah Zimmerman. This past June, Thierwechter was elected to the board of direc tors of the Pennsylvania German Society, headquartered in Kutztown. He writes a weekly col umn in Pennsylvania German for the “County Observer” newspaper and is cor roborating on several Pennsylvania German to-English dictionar ies. Anyone interested in learning “Pennsil faanish Deitch Mud derschprooch” can at tend Thierwechter’s class, which begins Friday, September 8, from 7 until 9 at the Maple Grove Mennon ite Church, Belleville, and will meet for 10 weeks. To register call Lee Thierwechter at (717) 935-2736.
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