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Muu&ion JfeUg TJourrai 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. Page 3C. C/tu’/it n/oT a l/tousa/id 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. Food A ioHiV‘ u V ; \ t®. H | '/'-*& wl t \ **;'&\ il-; wBBBUBEh ' o*| § m RHHP r - ' B zTtV «■» ' 3 9im£*3ZB£BB' M , mm a 7 g/Kr - JHff!g_«%Mfe.-~i {j4H ." 3 JH —-- ■ \ ~ t mm |L ■ HAW- U ■ a, H «> if' [ x XXXaaaXaXVwIB J'H Vr * 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. 0 1 SECTION c