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Newspaper Page TextWednesday, August 24,2022 dawsonnews.com I DAWSON COUNTY NEWS I 3B Recipes to mark the end of summer 2022 Summer is coming to an end, but summer produce is still plentiful! Take advantage of summer’s bounties and enjoy some delicious dishes. Enjoy! In the winter, I use canned tomatoes to successfully make gazpacho, but oh, how glori ous to make this cold, summer soup with fresh tomatoes. ADLEN ROBINSON Columnist parmesan and parsley. Pour mixture into a casserole dish that has been sprayed with non-stick cooking spray. Bake in a preheated 350-degree oven for 30 minutes. Greek Salad Gazpacho • 2 pounds tomatoes, coarsely chopped • 1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped • 1 English cucumber, peeled and chopped • 1 small, sweet onion, chopped • 1 clove garlic, chopped • 1 tablespoon sherry vinegar • !/2 cup best quality extra-virgin olive oil • 1 teaspoon salt • 1 cup parsley, chopped • !/2 cup cilantro, chopped Place all ingredients in a food pro cessor and pulse until gazpacho is the consistency you like. I like mine on the chunky side, but if you like it smooth, just keep pulsing. Add more salt and/ or sherry vinegar to taste. Yellow Squash Casserole • 6 yellow squash • 1 cup onion, chopped • !/2 cup sour cream • 2 eggs, lightly beaten • 2 teaspoons fresh thyme leaves • 1 teaspoon salt • !/2 teaspoon pepper • 1 !/2 cup cheddar cheese, grated • % cup panko • 2 tablespoons butter, melted • 1 teaspoon garlic powder • 14 cup parmesan, grated • 'A cup parsley, minced Steam the squash and onions until the squash is tender, about 8 minutes. Drain well. Add cooked squash and onions to a bowl, and add sour cream, eggs, thyme, salt, pepper, cheddar cheese, panko, butter, garlic powder, Dressing: • 14 cup olive oil • 3 tablespoons red wine vinegar • 1 clove garlic, minced • Vi teaspoon dried oregano • Vi teaspoon Dijon • Vi teaspoon salt • 14 teaspoon pepper Salad: • 8 cups Romaine lettuce leaves, chopped • 1 English cucumber, peeled and thinly sliced • 1 red bell pepper, seeded and chopped • 2 cups cherry tomatoes, halved • 1 cup feta cheese, crumbled or cut into small cubes • 1/3 cup thinly sliced red onions • 1/3 cup kalamata olives, pitted and sliced • 1/3 cup mint leaves, chopped • 6 pepperoncini peppers Whisk dressing ingredients together or shake in a jar. Place all salad ingre dients in a large bowl. Add salad dress ing and toss to combine. Stuffed Peppers With Chickpeas and Feta • 114 cup chicken broth • 2/4 cup couscous • 4 red or orange bell peppers • 2 teaspoons olive oil • Vi cup onion, minced • 6 ounces zucchini, chopped • 6 ounces yellow squash, chopped • Vi teaspoon dried oregano • 14 cup fresh basil leaves, chopped • 1/2 teaspoon salt • 1 cup cherry tomatoes, halved • 15 ounce can fire roasted toma toes, drained • 15 ounce can chickpeas, drained and rinsed • 4 ounces feta, crumbled • 3 tablespoons tomato paste Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Bring chicken broth to a boil and then add couscous. Cover and remove from heat. Cut the tops off of the bell pep pers and remove the seeds and mem branes. Place in a dish that has been coated with olive oil. Roast bell pep pers for 15 minutes.. Meanwhile, heat olive oil over medium-high heat. Add onion, squash, oregano, and salt, and cook until vegetables are soft, about 8 minutes. Remove from heat and add basil, cherry tomatoes, canned toma toes, chickpeas, feta and tomato paste. Add cooked couscous. Stuff mixture into peppers, and bake for 20 minutes. Stuffed Tomatoes • 21/2 tablespoons olive oil • 1 teaspoon salt • 6 tomatoes, preferably vine-rip ened • 1/2 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes • 1/2 small onion, minced • 1 clove garlic, minced • 9 tablespoons arborio rice, or other short grained starchy rice • 2 tablespoons parsley, minced • 2 tablespoons fresh basil leaves, minced • 1/2 cup breadcrumbs • 1/3 cup parmesan, grated Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Cut the tops off of the tomatoes and scoop out the tomato flesh. Salt the insides of the tomatoes and place upside down on paper towels to drain. Add tomato flesh to food processor and pulse. In a skillet over medium-high heat, add oil. Cook onion, garlic, and crushed red pepper flakes for a few minutes. Add arborio rice and cook for 3 minutes until rice is beginning to brown. Add tomato puree, a pinch of salt and cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and add parsley and basil. Stuff the tomatoes with the rice mix ture and top with breadcrumbs and parmesan. Drizzle with olive oil and bake for 30 minutes. FROM 1B Racing build and fabricate,” Jerry Coltrane said. “And as he kind of got more toward the end of his driving [career] he got into doing more maintenance and repair for people.” The elder Coltrane was a dedi cated racer from an early age — forgoing a personal vehicle to have his own race car at the age of 15. Two years later, he won his first career race by leading every lap at Rome Speedway. Successful both as a Late Model car driver and builder, Coltrane accumulated over 115 career wins. Later in his career, he moved into fabricating and developed the Raider Chassis. While Couch had racing aspira tions since childhood, he got his first taste of racing as a teenager when he and the owner of his workplace decided to go all in on a race car that was for sale. They soon went to their first race in Canton. “We were standing there and he was asking me if I knew anything about racing. I said I had never drove a racecar in my life,” Couch said. “I finished the race in fifth place the first time I ever sat in a racecar.” Couch was most well known for his success in the All Pro Series, winning consecutive champion ships in 1981 and 1982. One of his highlights in that series included a fifth-place finish in a race that included the likes of Bobby Allison, Dick Trickle and Rusty Wallace. Gray got his start out on dirt tracks in Rome before quickly becoming successful all over the southeast. After a decade of racing on dirt, Gray earned his first Grand National appearance in 1964 and would start 38 races by the next year. 1966 would prove to be his best season, finishing fourth in the Grand National points standings — earning four top-5 and 18 top- 10 finishes. “First time I went to Daytona I ran an ARC A race. I didn’t know nothing about what to do,” Gray said. “I’ll tell you what though, the first time I went down the frontstretch into pit road to get out on the track, I broke into a grin. I was grinning so hard it hurt my jaws.” Massey was a prolific car owner, mechanic and promoter whose career crossed paths with many fellow members of the GRHOF. As owner and crew chief, Massey won numerous races and championships in north Georgia. He would also become part-owner of West Atlanta Raceway in the 1970s. At the induction representing the late Massey was his son Eddie, who described one of his father’s best accomplishments as winning the Dixie nationals in ‘81 and ‘83 with his son Stan. The father-son duo also won 18 straight races at Dixie Speedway. McGinnis enjoyed runs in multi ple racing divisions in the 1970s, including the Winston Cup Series. Two of his biggest career wins came at South Alabama Speedway in 1979 and Lanier Speedway in 1987. He also experienced success in the All Pro Series during the 1980s with three wins and 27 top- 10 finishes. “I won the Bama 300 down in Birmingham and the first Bud Bowl down at Lanier,” McGinnis said. “But I think sitting on the pole at Atlanta in the Southern Sportsman series has got to be the highlight of my life.” Singleton was an accomplished motorcycle racer known at the time as ‘The Flying Pig Farmer’ — in a nod to his girlfriend’s father who got Singleton to help him feed pigs. Already having won an amateur championship before graduating high school in 1973, he took just five more years to win his first Grand National road racing cham pionship. He would also win the Daytona 200 in 1979 and 1982. The late Singleton’s brother Spencer spoke at the induction ceremony on his behalf. “My dad said that we were going to bring a pig to Daytona in 1979,” Singleton said. “Once [Dale] won that race and we took Elmer [the pig] to victory lane and Dale drank champagne, it was fab ulous.” FROM 1B Golf Bamboo Car Wash and Diamond Glass Company, respectively. Second place went to Amicalola Propane for the net score while the gross score went to the law office of Fox, Chandler, Homans, Hicks & McKinnon. Jeff Williams of Crye-Leike and Nicolette Boissonneau of BioCide Labs won the longest drive awards while Patrick Cisco of The Norton Agency and Kelly Caulley of Pandya Medical Center won the closest to pin awards. Power expressed both how proud she was of the tournament and her thanks to Chestatee for hosting so many people. “Our golf tournament was tremen dously successful and it would not have been possible without Northside Forsyth Hospital, who has been a phenomenal supporter of the Dawson County Chamber of Commerce for many years,” Power said. “Chestatee Golf Club’s course is beautiful and we are so glad we got to work with Cheryl and her amazing team.” FROM 1B Tigers good job bouncing back from the North [Forsyth] game.” The game began with Dawson using the running game to take an early 6-0 lead on a pitch to Elijah Smith. Regaining possession follow ing a forced fumble, the Tigers took over in scoring territory only to fum ble the ball into the end zone for a touchback. While Jackson was kept off the scoreboard for a while, the Dawson offense could not capitalize on turn overs and good field position — the latter created by Smith on a couple of long returns. The Panthers took their first lead of the game with just over a minute left in the second quarter and led 7-6 at halftime. Neither team began the second half with much momentum until Jackson broke through on a sprawling touch down catch. From that point, Dawson found their second gear and mounted a comeback victory. Next up, the Tigers face Maxwell’s former team Lambert, with the Longhorns hosting the Tigers for a 7:30 p.m. matchup on Friday, Aug. 26. A profound decision to mind my business Perhaps you’ll want to sit down for this. It might even be advisable to grab a cool, wet washrag for your forehead in case you feel swimmy-headed over this news. I’m going to start minding my own business. I’m not going to preach, plea, or debate on why people should listen to my wisdom: some of it, hard-earned through mistakes, some of it intuitive, and other bits just plain common sense. Here’s a mistake: Don’t try to help load a bull for the auction while wearing a shirt with wide, red stripes. Bulls see red. And it makes ‘em mad. Here’s intuitive: When a night turns unnaturally quiet - the crickets don’t sing and the owls don’t screech - nature is about to unleash some rowdiness. Here’s common sense: Don’t wear high, slender heels to the graveyard - or an outdoor wedding - when the ground is soft from recent rains. Buy block heels for these occasions. And, most importantly, don’t spend more money than you have. Rarely do folks really want advice. Most just want you to use up the limited number of words and breaths that the good Lord anointed us with on the day when we were born. Why, I now wonder, if God gave me 100,136,548 words to utter over a lifetime would I use them to fall on deaf ears? That means I’m merely taking words off my years. Needlessly. Tink says one of his least favorite phrases to hear is “Tink, I’m tellin’ you....” This happens when I’ve always forewarned of something that he should do differently than he will do. Like, for instance, don’t trust someone who has proven untrustworthy. Tink has a remarkably bad memory so he forgets who has done him wrong in the past or who he’s suppose to be mad at. This means that I’m suppose to remember not only my grudges but his, as well. It’s a tremendous burden to carry. Tink, though, is not the problem when it comes to advice. He says he is “afeared” of me so he usu ally does what I “gently” advise. The problem is two friends of more than 20 years. They are Godly women. Well meaning. Big- hearted. Neither holds a grudge. They are many lovely things to say about both. However... I have wasted far too many of my life’s allotted words on them. It used to be that I gave them advice without being asked. That’s my fault. Just like the neon pink polish I chose once for a pedi cure. It looked pretty in the bottle but was ghastly on my toes. I sighed that day when the manicurist asked, “You like color?” She smiled sweetly. “No,” I replied. “But it’s my choice. I’ll live with it and change it next time.” My giving up of dispensing advice to these friends happened about the same time. One was in all sorts of family anguish which she could have easily stopped. It had been going on for at least five years. One upset led to another and it became a saga. Had it been television, it would’ve gotten huge ratings. It absolutely exhausted me. If for no other reason than when she’s upset, she talks fast and leaves out verbs so I’m depleted quickly by trying to decipher her stories. The other friend will call and ask for advice. Sincerely. Once, she even said, “I’m worn out. I can’t think. Whatever you tell me, I will do.” This was encouraging. Exactly what a meddler wants to hear. Then, without fail, after I have made my careful ly-weighed assessments and offered counsel, either one of them will always say, “I can’t do that because...” So, it’s over. There will be no appeal or stay of execution. Neither will be getting further advice. However... I’m still available if the rest of y’all should need advice. It would be wrong of me to quit complete ly- It’s my calling. Ronda Rich is the best-selling author of What Southern Women Know About Faith. Visit www.rond- arich.com to sign up for her free weekly newsletter. FROM 1B Elliott season. He also led the most laps in Sunday’s race with 29. Elliott’s consistency combined with four victories this season placed him at the top of the points standings with 922 after Sunday’s race. He currently has 25 playoff points and will have the 15 addi tional points added on after the regular season finale at Daytona next Sunday. While Elliott may not have visibly shown his frustration in the inter views, his silence on the radio in the final laps and a post-race conversation with car owners Rick Hendrick and Jeff Gordon gave a glimpse of how he felt about the incident. Larson’s move result ed in his second victory of the season — both of which have come at Elliott’s expense. The previous incident at Fontana took the Dawsonville native out of contention entirely. According to NBC Sports, Hendrick Motorsports believed Elliott handled the situ ation well. “I think Chase did a wonderful job post race,” HMS president and GM Jeff Andrews said. “I commend him, for all the frustration that was there, some of the things that could have been said.” The No. 9 team will take their commanding playoff points lead to Daytona next week, where the regular sea son will wrap up at the Coke Zero Sugar 400.