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THE COMMERCE (GA) NEWS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2007 -- PAGE 13A
30-Year Celebration
Members of the Lost Art Club gathered Wednesday, Dec. 12,
at the Washington Street home of Cindy Finck for a brunch in
celebration of the club’s 30th anniversary. Members are (stand
ing, left to right) Beverly George, Joanne Legg, Imogene Wright,
Beverly Wood, Shirley Parham, Beverly Williams, (seated clock
wise from left) Everett Milford, Rachael Hoover, Marie Massey,
Eva Wilson, Geneva Nix, Janet Hodsdon, Brenda Meadows,
Martha Smith and Laura Chandler.
60 Years Together
John P. and Betty Wood Bolton will celebrate 60 years of mar
riage Thursday. They were married in Danielsville at the home
of the Rev. T.L. Garrison. They have three children: Iris Bolton
Wheeler and Ricky A. Bolton, both of Nicholson; and Gary M.
Bolton, Baldwin; 12 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
Exercise Care With Those Holiday Leftovers
By Sharon Omahen
A turkey sandwich can be a
wonderful after-the-holidays treat.
But don’t wait too long to eat it or
other leftovers, says a University
of Georgia food safety expert.
“A good rule of thumb is to
keep your leftovers somewhere
between three and five days,” said
Judy Harrison, an UGA Coop
erative Extension food safety spe
cialist with the UGA College of
Family and Consumer Sciences.
“After five days you should dis
card them.”
Eating leftovers that have been
kept too long or stored improp
erly can make people sick with a
variety of foodborne pathogens,
she said .
“Some bacteria, like Listeria,
can grow at refrigerator tempera-
tures,” she said. “And the longer
you keep the food, the more time
bacteria have to grow to high
numbers.”
If your holiday meal is setup as
a buffet, she says, don’t save the
leftovers.
“Food on buffets comes in con
tact with a lot of people,” she said.
“This greatly increases the risk of
contamination.”
Food kept at room temperature
for two hours or less can be stored
for later use. Big pots of foods,
like chili or stews, must be safely
cooled before being stored in the
refrigerator or freezer, she said.
Hot food can be cooled by plac
ing the pot in an ice-water bath.
Fill your kitchen sink with ice,
place the food pot on the ice and
stir the food until it cools.
“I got a call from a church group
who recently made huge pots of
chili and placed the hot pots in the
refrigerator,” she said. “The next
day when they pulled out the chili,
it was still warm. They wanted to
know what they should do. I had
to tell them to throw it all out.”
It is best to store leftover food
in small portions in shallow con
tainers, preferably less than three
inches deep.
“Spread containers out so the air
(in the refrigerator) will circulate
around them and cool the food
quickly,” she said.
Foods should be refrigerated at
40 degrees Fahrenheit or less and
frozen at 0 F or less.
To check the temperature of your
home appliances, use a refrigera
tor/freezer thermometer. “Put
Bring Christmas Cheer
Myra Hill’s kindergarten class at Commerce kets to the residents. Pictured are Hunter Wood,
Primary School went caroling to the Commerce Garrett Presley, Macie Tatum, Emma Meadows,
Alzheimer’s Care Facility recently. The students Marcee’ Campbell and Alex Wehunt.
sang Christmas carols and passed out fruit bas-
City Lights
At Christmas
This isn’t what
Bill Anderson saw
when he penned the
country music hit
“City Lights,” but the
streets of downtown
Commerce are deco
rated for the holiday
season with a combi
nation of Christmas
lights and banners
the thermometer in the warmest
part of the refrigerator or freezer,
which is typically toward the front
of the top shelf,” she said.
Food will freeze at temperatures
higher than 0 F, she said. But food
will maintain the best quality for
the longest period of time if it’s
frozen at 0 F or below.
Sharon Omahen is a news editor
with the University of Georgia Col
lege of Agricultural and Environ
mental Sciences.
There's Help For
Addicted People
Narconon of Georgia is offering
help for drug and alcohol addic
tions.
Narconon offers referrals, as
sessments, drug education and
outpatient rehabilitation. Nar-
conon is a non-profit organiza
tion.
For more information, call 1-877
413-3073 or visit www.drugsno.
com.
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