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Page 2 — Wednesday, January 6, 2021 The Millen News
With the new year, comes
cooler weather for us, and
after feasting over Christmas
Holidays, sometimes a lighter dessert and something warm for lunch is needed. Or
just a warm bowl of soup in the evening, watching tv, is the just the thing needed to
end the day.
Banana Bread
2 cups ripe bananas sliced
1 cup strong black coffee
1 Vi cups butter. Melted
1 % cup brown sugar
4 eggs
2 Vi tsp vanilla extract
Zt. tsp almond extract
Vi tsp lemon extract
2 cups whole wheat flour
2 cups white flour
1 tsp salt
1 tbsp baking powder
Vi baking soda
Vi tsp nutmeg
2 tsp ground cinnamon
Mash bananas with coffee. Set aside. Beat butter and sugar until
creamy, add eggs one at a time, add vanilla, almond and lemon
extracts and beat until light. Sift both flours together, along
with salt, baking soda and powder, nutmeg and cinnamon. Mix
about 1/3 of this mixture into liquid ingredients, mix until all
the dry ingredients are incorporated. Mix in banana and coffee
and beat well.
Butter 2 loaf pans. Pour in the batter. Bake at 350 degrees F
oven for 40-45 minutes. Remove and let cool for 15 minutes,
remove from pan and let cool at room temperature.This can be
used in 9 in cake pans, to make a cake layer and then use banana
pudding as a filling with cream cheese icing.
Creamy Potato Soup
4 small potatoes, peeled and sliced
salt and pepper
1 medium onion, chopped
1 chicken bouillon cube
2 tbsp melted butter
Oregano, pinch
6 cups milk
1 Vi cup instant potatoes
Shredded cheese
Cook potatoes until tender, drain. Sautee onions in butter
in a large pot until tender. Stir in milk, pinch salt and pepper,
oregano and bouillon cube. Cook over low heat, stir to keep from
burning milk. When thoroughly heated, stir in instant potatoes
and potato cubes. Keep on wami heat to serve. Cover top with
shredded cheese when serving.
Creamy Tomato Soup
1 10 oz can tomato soup
Vi cup shredded cheese
1 12 oz can evaporated milk
6 slices bacon cooked and chopped
1 14 oz can diced tomatoes
Combine soup and milk in medium sauce pan. Stirring, add
tomatoes and cheese, cook over low heat until cheese melts and
soup is hot. Sprinkle in bacon. Can be served with shredded
cheese on top.
JCMC changes visitation
policy in wake of Covid
In the wake of the resur
gence of Covid-19, the Jenkins
County Medical Center issued
a statement Monday afternoon,
"With an abundance of caution,
due to Covid-19 concerns, we
are announcing the follow
ing changes to our visitation
policy," the press release reads.
Patients coming to the hospi
tal for an outpatient procedure
should enter the facility alone,
unless they require assistance.
This includes diagnostic pro
cedures such as radiology and
laboratory.
Visitors are only allowed in
the Emergency Department if
their assistance is required to
facilitate patient care. These
changes to the policy are in
addition to the screenings
currently being performed in
the Emergency Department.
JCMC closed their doors to
visitors in March at the onset
of the pandemic.
Hospital authorities will con
tinue to monitor the situation
and revise the visitation policy
as conditions permit.
Beginning January 1, the Statesboro Market2Go will partner
with the Project For Better Health to have online orders picked up
at their office in The Millen News building. The public may call
the PFBH at 706-360-6970 for help in ordering or with questions.
“Once shoppers have signed up for the marketplace, they
place their orders online from Friday night to Tuesday night and
then pickup at the Project For Better Health office on Thursdays
from 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.,” Sophia Kent, executive director of
Project For Better Health explains. Photo contributed.
Vaccines
Continued from front
JCMC administrator explains.
“Governor Brian Kemp has
expanded phase 1 to adminis
ter to the 65 and older group,”
Ken DeFay says. Ken is rec
ommending that the Phase 1
public call the pharmacy to
have themselves put on a wait
ing list. Each vial is delivered
frozen to the facility and then
unthawed in the refrigerator
the night before administer
ing. “Once the vial is opened,
you have a six hour window to
administer all ten vaccines in
the vial,” Ken further explains,
“so we will schedule a clinic to
administer the doses.”
The vaccine is a two shot
series and patients will receive
an appointment in 30 days to
return for the second dose.
Mr. Poythress states that, “we
have 100 or so staff members
that get first access before we
begin vaccinating the over 65
group.” However, he does state
that the hospital has a second
order already in for another 200
vaccines.
The Peach State is slat
ed to receive half a million
doses of the vaccine by next
month; however, Georgians
are slow to get vaccinated.
Nearly 62,000 vaccine doses
have been administered in
Georgia since last Wednesday.
Around 432,000 doses have
been shipped.
Governor Kemp stated in a
press conference last week that
CVS and Walgreens pharma
cies have been contracted to
administer the doses to nurs
ing home facilities, leaving
rural nursing homes waiting
patiently for their turn in line.
Mr. Poythress further ex
plains, “we are highly recom
mending our staff take the
vaccine but it is not mandated.”
However, Mr. DeFay summed
it up, “the only way we are go
ing to get over this pandemic,
is to take the vaccine.” The
doses are provided at no cost
to the public.
Coroner Henry Young rolls up his sleeve as Ashley King
administers the vaccine to first responders. Currently health
care workers and first responders are getting vaccinated in
Jenkins County. Photo contributed.
The Jenkins County Commissioners meeting will be held
Tuesday, Jan. 12 at 4 p.m. in the County Commissioners
building.
The Jenkins County BOE will hold their January meeting on
Jan. 25 at 5 p.m. in the BOE office.
The Shepheard Community Blood Center will hold the first
blood drive of the year on Tuesday, January 26 from 2-6 p.m.
at the Jenkins County Medical Center. Masks are required.
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