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WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 15, 2006
The Home Journal's
DINNER
TABLE
Mistletoe Market
The Perry Balvaunuca
Club will hold its Mistletoe
Market Saturday at the
McGill Building, Georgia
National Fairgrounds. There
will be more than 70 ven
dors with an emphasis on
the holidays. Og Saturday
there will be three programs
especially tor cooks and
those planning holiday par
ties and gatherings:
Noon - Holiday Cooking
Demo presented by Three
Southern Sisters of the
Kitchen Gallery
1 p.m. - Decorating Your
Dining Room for the Holidays
presented by Joyce Carlton
Interiors
4 p.m. -Holiday Decorating
& Entertaining presented by
Mark Ballard, The Artist
See you there!
On Sunday at noon see
Holiday Dining with Chef
Audrey.
Why cook?
If you'd love to have
somebody else do part of
your holiday cooking, here’s
a hint.
Head forthe Ace Hardware
store in Bonaire.
The Bonaire-Kathleen
Connection is a group with
the motto “Karing for Kids.”
They’ve dedicated their
efforts this year to rais
ing funds for the Joanna
McAfee Childhood Cancer
Foundation, and they’re
starting out Saturday in a
delicious way.
On Saturday from 8 a.m. to
2 p.m. at the Ace Hardware,
the group will sell a variety
of frozen casseroles, dress
ing, cakes, pies, cookies and
candy for Thanksgiving and
Christmas dinners. They’ll
repeat the sale before
Christmas Dec. 16, same
time, same place.
All food items are home
made by some of the
best cooks in Bonaire and
Kathleen.
They will also be selling
homemade Brunswick stew,
sausage and biscuits, cof
fee and hot chocolate dur
ing the sale. Take-home
servings of the Brunswick
stew will be available.
Contacts for the bake
sales are Tracy Palmer,
322-0100, Judy Coleman,
923-9209, Frances Faust,
911-8624 and Carol Elder,
923-6572.
The group will also be
raffling off a set of Raggedy
Ann and Andy Dolls and
a soft, cuddly blanket for
breast cancer patients.
Tickets are $1 each and
drawings will be held at the
sale.
Wantt to get involved?
The planning session for
the December food sale will
be Dec. 5 at 6 p.m. at the
Bonaire United Methodist
church Activity Center. If
you want to help strength
en the effort of the B-K
Connection in supporting the
Joanna McAfee Childhood
Cancer Foundation, you’ll
be warmly welcomed.
The Joanna McAfee
Foundation was started by
Jeff and Misty McAfee in
memory of their daughter,
who lost her battle to cancer
last year. It’s goals are to
provide support to the fami
lies of kids with cancer and
to promote research into
pediatric cancer.
Restaurant Report Card
See which Houston eat
eries were inspected last
week and how they scored.
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Henderson
community
rolls up its
sleeves to
help one of
its own
Photos and story
by Charlotte
Perkins
If you’re looking for
an old-fashioned
community where
people look after
each other, try
Henderson.
Pitching in, with her
apron on and a big smile
for everybody, Linda
Harrington summed
things up Saturday morn
ing.
And, no, she hasn’t lived
in the south Houston
community all her life.
“We just moved here,”
she said, “and we’ve never
been anywhere that the
people took us into their
arms this way.”
So she was return
ing the love by help
ing as the Henderson
Unincorporated rolled
up its collective sleeves
and took little Olivia
Culpepper and her family
into their arms.
Olivia, who will be 4
in January, has leukemia
and she’s going through
a tough time. Her family
is also facing some real
financial challenges.
In Henderson terms,
this means coming up
with some money fast.
With Judy Kersey and
Tammy Pike coordinat
ing, they chose to do it by
selling more than a thou
sand tickets for grilled
chicken dinners, talking
dozens of friends into
making donations of food
and money, and getting
up at the crack of dawn
to start the wood in the
Perry High School barbe
cue pit and three or four
more smokers.
You could see the smoke
rising a block away, as
hundreds of chicken
quarters slowly turned
crispy and tender over
the smoldering, smok
ing wood (mostly oak).
The chicken was brushed
and basted with Fred
Langston’s famous sauce
made of lemon juice, olive
oil and salt and the test
for doneness was the clas
sic one.
Just grab a piece and
give the leg or wing a
twist to see if it’s good
and loose.
Meanwhile a big team
of women and girls got
the high school cannery
building set up for an
assembly line to pack up
take-out dinners with
chicken, baked beans and
more.
Many of the ticket
holders picked their trays
up at PHS, but pickup
trucks were heading out
across middle Georgia
before noon so that ticket
holders in Hawkinsville,
Unadilla, Warner Robins
and Byron could get
theirs in time for lunch.
In fact, if you drove
through Henderson
Saturday morning and
didn’t see anybody at
all, that’s because they
were all in Perry cooking
and loading up takeout
trays, handing out trays
in exchange for $5 bills
or riding around middle
Georgia delivering some
of the best chicken you’ll
ever taste.
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ABOVE: Henderson vol
unteers turn the chicken
in the big smoker at
Perry High School. LEFT:
Heating the beans for
a thousand takes some
time and stirring. BELOW:
Elaina Culpepper and
Drew Culpepper, sister
and brother of Olivia,
were there to help, as
was Henderson new
comer Linda Harrington;
Henderson ladies line up
to fill take-out trays.
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