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"My job is very unpre-
dictable. I can be really
busy nonstop one day then I
can go a week, maybe two,
without having much work
to do. You just never know.
Spring and summer tend to
be busier, but I've had times
when I've been really busy
in the fall and winter, also.
It seems that anytime I
schedule a vacation, I get
busy the day before I have
to leave for vacation. I'm al-
ways sending contracts
back and forth when I'm out
of town. You just never
know."
Katie continued, "I have
no schedule - none. Most
people really can't relate to
that, but that's one of the
things I love about my job.
There's a lot of misconcep-
tions about real estate. Peo-
ple don't understand that
the pay schedule is 100%
commission. If I don't work
and I don't get the settle-
ment; I don't get paid.
There's no hourly or base
wage at all."
Kathryn Ann Lauer was
born on March 5, 1983 in
Harrisburg, Pa. Her mother
and father were both North-
ern graduates, also. Her
dad, John A. Lauer grew up
in Wellsville, and her moth-
er Anita (Wonders) grew up
in Dillsburg. Katie has one
brother, Aaron, who is five
years older than her. Katie
grew up "across the street
and two houses down"
from where her dad's fami-
ly grew up. Her grandfa-
ther John B. Lauer owned
the town grocery store on
main street in Wellsville for
decades, and his family
lived above the store for
many years before their
new Super Thrift was built
at the east end of Wellsville.
Katie was raised in the
small village. She and her
brother walked to school
every day. She lived her
youth in the country amid
pastures, plowed fields,
minimal traffic, wildlife
and the great outdoors.
Growing up at home, Katie
learned how to entertain
herself most times. "My
brother was very active, so
we didn't do too much to-
gether. Aaron was five
years older than me, and he
was really into skateboard-
ing at the time," Fox said.
"We were pretty spoiled be-
cause Mom did all the
housework." Today, Aaron
and Katie are really close.
She can't remember Aaron
or her ever receiving an al-
lowance of any kind. "I re-
member it was sort of a re-
ward system. If I made the
honor roll or the distin-
guished honor roll, I was
given some spending mon-
ey."
Her earliest memories
include growing up in her
house in Wellsville and go-
ing to preschool at the
Shiloh United Church of
Christ when she was three
years old with her best
friend Danielle (Gross)
Holsinger who also lived in
Wellsville. "We went to
Wellsville Elementary to-
gether and were together
the whole way through high
school. Katie's earliest rec-
ollection about first grade
was that for the first time
we sat at desks. In kinder-
garten we sat around a
table. Our own desk was a
big deal; we were real stu-
dents now. We were there
all day, not just a few hours.
I remember being a bit
nervous going to school at
first, but I liked school."
Wellsville was so small
that there were only two
classrooms for each grade.
Katie's first grade teacher
was Mrs. Weber who was
involved with the historical
society in Wellsville. She
would walk her students
down to visit the historical
society and to learn about
the history of Wellsville.
Second and third grade
meant Mrs. Shoemaker.
Then, in fourth grade it was
Mrs. Snyder, and Mrs. Do-
herty in fifth grade. Katie
thinks it was fourth grade
when the kids switched
teachers for different sub-
jects. It was the first time
we would go to another
classroom instead of just
staying in the same room all
day. Fifth grade was the
same way. Katie liked gym
class the best, but recess
was different for Fox. "I
think in fourth grade I
asked Mrs. Snyder if I
could stay in during recess
to help her. I did little tasks
that Mrs. Snyder asked me
to do like helping her grade
papers or organizing the
classroom for her. I believe
that was my first indication
of a career path that I was
drawn to. Most kids could-
n't wait to go outside and
run around, but I was pretty
laid back. Many times Mrs.
Snyder would ask me if I
was sure I didn't want to go
outside and play." In fourth
grade, Katie didn't realize
that Mrs. Snyder probably
needed a few minutes for
herself.
Next came the dreaded
middle school. "It was a
big deal for me because it
was the first time I ever
rode in a school the bus
with both Dillsburg and
Wellsville kids in it," she
said. Northern Middle
School includes grades 6, 7,
and 8. Middle schools are
the only educational institu-
tions where the students are
too old to be playing with
elementary kids and too
young to hang out with the
upper classman. Plus, their
bodies are changing dra-
matically during those
years, and sooner than later
the hormones begin to kick
into high gear. Katie admit-
ted she was faithful to her
homework, but it was in the
middle school when she
started procrastinating.
"Those middle school years
were very awkward," she
said. After a short pause,
Katie had a burst of energy
as she spoke at warp speed.
"We were put into sections
in sixth grade. It was good
because it was the first time
I was able to be with my
best friend all of the time
while we were in school
and, of course, I made new
friends to. It was the first
time I ever went to school
with the same people all the
time. It was great. Sixth
grade was as good as it
gets." Hello prepubes-
cence! In seventh grade,
she really didn't have a fa-
vorite subject. She added
an interesting viewpoint re-
garding her favorite sub-
jects. "I liked some of my
teachers better than others
as opposed to having fa-
vorite subjects. Science
was never real big in my
book. Math has probably
been my strongest subject.
We diagramed sentences in
English class and that was
not very interesting to me.
Social studies was some-
where in the middle."
Middle school is the
first time students expand
beyond art and music by
having special subjects
such as industrial arts and
home economics (i.e. shop
and home ec), and extra-
curricular activities are in-
troduced as the "other part
of education." Katie started
playing field hockey in
middle school and contin-
ued to play field hockey
through high school. "Most
of my friends were on the
team," she said. "I played
not so much because I
loved the sport, but because
I had a chance to participate
in an group activity with
my friends." In eighth
grade for her 14th birthday,
after asking her parents for
some time, she got a dog, a
basset hound named Nor-
man. "It was a really big
deal for me. I was so hap-
Where Are They Now?
Katie (Lauer) Fox - RE/MAX Realtor
By Steven M. Nesbit
Feature Writer/Dillsburg Banner___________________________
______________________
See Playing 20 Questions. 5C
1. A favorite childhood memory? Playing with
my friends.
2. What talent do you wish you had? I wish I
could sing and have more of an artistic side.
3. A favorite aroma? I really liked the smell of my
great-grandmother's sugar cookies.
4. What TV shows did you watch as a kid? Full
House and America's Funniest Videos.
5. Have any unfulfilled ambitions? Skydiving.
6. Your favorite restaurant? Arepa City in Har-
risburg. It serves Venezuelan food.
7. What's the best advice you ever received?
Don't worry about what people think of you.
What you do is what defines you.
8. Personal qualities of a good realtor? Must be
very flexible, and be knowledgeable.
_____________________
See Where are they now. 5C
Playing 20 Questions
Katie Fox - Class of 2001
Northern High School Alumni
www.dillsburgbanner.net
Today's family: Katie Lauer married Brandon
Fox in July of 2006.
They have two daughters: five-year-old Isabelle
Ann, and two-year-old Laurel Mae. Other inhabi-
tants: Norman, a basset hound and Zeus, a Cava-
lier Charles Spaniel.
Photo by Cherie Ramsey.
Members of the Northern High School Class of 1973 take time for a picture during their 40th reunion held on September 7 at the home
of Linda and Barney Kimmel in Dillsburg.
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2. "Burdock? Can't you eat that?" my
sister's friend queried. We were discussing
evil weeds, relating our personal weed
challenges. His was goutweed, while I
declared mine to be burdock - the weed I
label as "so bad even the horse won't eat
it." Hmmm, I had never thought of eating
the burdock. I knew it was edible, but in
my dislike for this pernicious weed, I had
not even contemplated eating it. Might be
a good way to get rid of it, especially as the
root is also edible.
With his question, a whole new way of
looking at burdock was opened to me and
I began to wonder what other things that I
label weeds are actually edible plants. A
great many apparently, as I discovered
when I began to research which of the
pesky plants I usually pull are something
we could use as food.
I took a little circuit of our acreage to
see what weeds we have in current pro-
duction. Here is what is cropping up on
our rural plot at this time:
1. Wood Sorrel (Oxalis species) - is a
plant that seems always to be in ample
supply on our property and this was the
first "weed" that I determined to use. I've
tasted it before and found its lemony zing
pleasant. So, when I went down to the gar-
den to get some collards, I harvested a
large bunch of wood sorrel.
We sprinkled the leaves and flowers
over a salad of mixed greens. They not
only perked up the salad with their zingy
flavor, but they added a spark of color to
the salad with their canary yellow flowers.
Since the shamrock is a type of Oxalis,
the tri-lobed shape of the leaves of wood
sorrel is not surprising. You can tell wood
sorrel from other Oxalis types by the sharp
angles at which the seed pods and stalks
grow - about 90 degrees and by the way
the seed pods bend up on the stalk.
The slightly sour, lemony flavor of
wood sorrel is a good complement to sal-
ads, soups, and sauces. A cold wood sor-
rel tea is said to be very refreshing; we'll
have to try that.
Because it is high in oxalic acid, which
inhibits calcium absorption, wood sorrel
should be eaten in small amounts, and
those who suffer from gout, rheumatism,
hyperacidity and kidney stones should
avoid it entirely.
2. Common or Broad Leaf Plantain
(Plantago major) crops up on lawns, road-
sides, and anywhere else it can get a
foothold, so I never thought of it as some-
thing to eat. One taste of the slightly sweet
leaves convinced me otherwise. Plantain
makes good eating, but the little rabbits
who live in our woods could have told me
that. They come out at dawn and at twi-
light to graze on the lawn and their plant of
preference is plantain.
The oval leaves of plantain form a
rosette with all the stems meeting in the
center of the rosette. The flower is a tall,
green spike that stands above the leaves.
Older leaves can be leathery with thick
veins.
Sources I checked described the taste
as bitter, but I did not find it so. I found it
slightly sweet. As it is very nutrient-dense,
plantain would be a healthy addition to a
salad, stir-fry, soup or stew. Some recom-
mend removal of the fibrous center vein
and blanching to increase tenderness
before consumption.
Plantain has become somewhat of a
problem in our lawn. Silly me, I've been
weeding it out for years. I had made a lit-
tle rule last summer: yank ten plantain on
the way down to the vegetable garden and
ten on the way back up. I'll keep my rule
and pull the plants, but I'll deposit them in
my harvest basket instead of the trash can.
3. Henbit (Lamium amplexicaule) is so
named because chickens like it. I can see
why: the flavor of the young plants I sam-
pled was complex and refreshingly green.
Perhaps more mature plants have a
stronger flavor, as the taste is likened to
kale. Either would make henbit an inter-
esting addition to wraps, salads, or green
smoothies. High in iron, vitamins, and
fiber, henbit is not only good-tasting, but
good for you.
Henbit is related to mint and has the
square stems of mint relatives. The green
stems may turn purple as the plant ages.
Leaves are small, opposite, round or heart
shaped with rounded teeth and a crinkled
appearance. While the lower leaves have
short stalks, upper leaves clasp the stem.
The small flower are pink to purple and
grow in whorls at the axils where leaves
join the stem. All plant parts, stem, leaves
and flowers, are edible.
Not a plant to display preferences, hen-
bit can be found on roadsides, pastures,
lawns, waste places, cropland, and
orchards. If you don't have some in your
yard, you probably will not need to look
far to find some. By all means, pick it and
see if the chickens were right.
4. Ground Ivy or creeping Charlie
(Glechoma hederacea) weaves its way
through your lawn, keeping low, hoping to
avoid notice. But this is one weedy
groundcover you might want to take note
of: it's loaded with vitamin C.
The leaves of ground ivy are opposite,
rounded to heart-shaped, shiny on top with
large rounded teeth. The stems are square,
as befits a mint relative, and trail along the
ground, rooting at the nodes. Clusters of
two to three small tubular, purple flowers
appear in the leaf axils of the upper leaves.
The leaf form is similar to henbit, but
henbit does not creep or root at the nodes.
The square stems distinguish ground ivy
from speedwell, which has a similar leaf
form, but rounded stems.
The mildly-bitter flavor of ground ivy
adds a nice tang when tossed raw in salads.
Young leaves are best and can also be put
in soups, stews or an omelet or cooked as
a green like spinach. Fresh or dried leaves
can also be used to make a tea, often with
the addition of verbena or lovage leaves.
I have barely touched on all the weeds
that I gathered in my basket when I went
out to see what I could garner on our
acreage. Just the four I've discussed illus-
trate my point that a copious harvest of
nutritious and delicious plants is waiting
right in your own backyard. And you don't
even have to enter the vegetable garden to
find them. But if you do, make sure to
pick twenty plantains on the way - and toss
them in your salad.
py." Her middle school ex-
perience was a transitioning
period for high school, and
"it was rough." Katie said.
Starting high school as a
ninth grade freshman "was
a little scary." The good
news was that she still had
her group of friends from
middle school, and since
she was playing field hock-
ey one of the older field
hockey players would pick
her up and take her to
school, so she really didn't
have to ride a bus to high
school very often. Many
adults remember their high
school days as some of the
best years of their lives.
Did Katie? "When thinking
back to high school, I seem
to have really liked a lot of
my English teachers, Mr.
Fry, especially. Thanks to
Mrs. Barndt and Mr.
Hoover, in the summer of
my junior year, our French
class went to France for
about a week. I had to do a
lot of convincing and a little
begging to get my parents
to say yes." With her best
friend Danielle and a few
other close friends, they
spent three days in Paris.
They toured the wine coun-
try in France and took the
train down to Nice and
Cannes, a city located on
the French Riviera, then
they headed back home. "It
was the first time I had a lot
more independence. My
parents trusted that I would
be able to take care of my-
self because I was responsi-
ble. It was also the first time
I saw clear, blue ocean wa-
ter unlike the Ocean City,
Maryland shoreline. I think
that trip was the highlight
of my high school experi-
ence," she nodded.
The Big Buddy pro-
gram at the high school in-
terested Katie, too. High
school students would go
back to elementary schools
to help teachers in some
way, be it correcting papers,
making copies, or even tu-
toring elementary students.
"I went back to visit my
fourth grade teacher Mrs.
Snyder. Working with
young children appealed to
me," explained Fox.
Her biggest passion has
been working with kids.
When she was twelve years
old, she earned a "safe sit-
ter" certification through
York Hospital which al-
lowed her to babysit.
"Many of the field hockey
girls got their certification
also, so we could babysit,"
said Katie. "I started when
I was twelve volunteering
in the nursery of my church
and helped out in class-
rooms, too.
"I really didn't have a
burning passion or a calling
of sorts, but I had three
aunts with teaching de-
grees, she mentioned. Dur-
ing her junior year she vis-
ited a few colleges. She
never really wanted to go
far away, but she didn't
want to stay at home and go
to HACC either. According
to Katie, it made more
sense to go to a state school
for a teaching degree, and it
was definitely more eco-
nomical. While she was a
senior, she met her future
husband Brandon Fox who
graduated a year ahead of
her at Northern. She was
love-struck and it wasn't
long until she asked him to
her senior prom. They
started dating which was
perfect until Katie had to
get ready to go to college.
Katie chose to attend
Millersville. "I started out
at Millersville majoring in
special education and ele-
mentary education.
Halfway through my fresh-
man year, I decided to drop
special education. I didn't
want to spend an extra year
in college getting all the
coursework completed, so I
picked up early childhood
courses to go along with
my elementary education
major. "While I was at
Millersville, I wanted to
spend time with Brandon,
so there was a lot of back-
and-forth driving on the
weekends," she said.
With her course work
completed, her student
teaching awaited; however,
Katie was not feeling the
excitement that most edu-
cation majors feel when
they reach that defining
moment. Millersville does
a lot of placement in Lan-
caster and York counties.
Katie got her assignment.
"That was the first time I
had ever been in an inner-
city school. I felt like I
wasn't necessarily prepared
for full-time teaching," she
said. "At Millersville, we
learned where education
was heading and how to use
new methods of instruction
and how today's teaching
strategies could be imple-
mented, but that's not how
our school systems let us
teach. After I learned all
these great things at
Millersville and then got
into the classroom, the high
school is telling me what
I'm supposed to teach, and
it's not same thing that I
learned in college. I was in
shock. I decided that I did-
n't like that. I started stu-
dent teaching in January
and after about two weeks I
decided to quit. I just
couldn't drive my car back
into the city for one more
day. It just wasn't what I
wanted to do. I had a feel-
ing that teaching wasn't
what I was supposed to do
with my life, so I don't have
a degree from Millersville
today. Needless to say, my
parents were not very hap-
py with me!" During that
last semester at
Millersville, Katie com-
muted from home. "After
leaving the college, I actu-
ally moved in with Bran-
don. My parents told me if
you're going to move out of
the house then take the dog
with you." Katie had never
been a typical college stu-
dent. She didn't socialize
much with her gal-pals be-
cause she was not into the
"party scene." Katie said,
"I guess I was just more
level-headed than most."
About a month after she
quit student teaching, she
started taking real estate
courses. By May, she had
passed the real estate exam
and got her realtor's license.
"At that time the market
was so good that people
were making a ton of mon-
ey without really having to
work very hard. Looking
back, it seemed like an ex-
cellent idea after my col-
lege experience," Katie
said. "When I was in high
school, I would flip through
the real estate section and
look at the house plans to
see how houses were laid
out. Design was interesting
to me. The timing just
worked out perfectly. I al-
ready knew people in the
business, so I did my train-
ing with Jack Gaughen. In
October 2005, I switched to
RE/MAX and have been
there for eight years. I love
what I'm doing now."
Katie drew an interest-
ing connection between her
real estate classes and her
college classes. "Real es-
tate classes were somewhat
similar to the coursework in
education. The things that
they taught us were the le-
gal aspects I needed to
know, but that information
didn't help me become a
better real estate agent." In
the business, you are either
a real estate agent or you
are a real estate broker.
Yes, a broker becomes a
real estate agent first. "I
have my license under a
broker," explains Fox, "but
I can't just go out and start
my own real estate compa-
ny unless I get my broker's
license." Katie thinks it
might take her two years to
get all of her broker courses
completed. She wants her
broker's license. "I'm on my
way to get my broker's li-
cense. I didn't have to start
from scratch."
In real estate, there is no
such thing as a typical day
for Katie Fox. "The good
thing about the unpre-
dictable schedule," she
points out, "is that many
times house showings for
people are scheduled on
nights and weekends.
That's when most working
people have free time to go
look at houses. It's worked
out really well with having
two young daughters at
home because my husband
can stay with the kids while
I go to work in the
evenings, and we don't
have to pay for daycare."
Katie does have a lot of free
time, but that's when she
does the laundry, the house
work, and spends time with
her children. "I'm not just
wasting that time. I'm al-
ways making good use of
my time; however, some-
times, I have to cancel a
family event because a situ-
ation comes up with a client
that needs to be resolved
quickly. I don't like to turn
people down. You really
shouldn't do that when
you're in sales. Real estate
is sales, but I never feel like
I'm selling a commodity. I
believe I provide a valuable
service. I'm paid to repre-
sent my client's best inter-
ests. Right when we want-
ed to have kids, the housing
market crashed in 2008. I
wasn't getting many refer-
rals or phone calls, so I had
even more time at home
with my kids. The real es-
tate market is getting better
now. My kids are getting
older, so now I am able to
get childcare during the day
if need be. Timing is so im-
portant in real estate, and
it's working out really good
for me now. Wanna buy a
house?"
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OnlyInAmerica
I've always had a liking for news that is not mainstream news. So much of what
our media sources feed us is anything but good news. Try this: Take a note pad and
a pencil and divide the paper into two sides - good and bad. As you watch a 30
minute segment of your favorite news on TV, put a little stroke under the appropriate
comment. Was it good news or bad news? I remember a George Carlin one-liner.
He wanted a "Good News Station." He used this example: Freddy Wilson found a
$100 bill today and the police told him, "Keep it Freddy. It's yours!" Here's my
"Dirty Dozen" for September. Some of these blurbs may just strike you as funny or
totally unbelievable. Others make no sense at all. Go ahead, shake your head and
think it...Only in America!
Playing 20 questions
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9. What's your idea of relaxation? If I'm by myself,
I'm at the beach; otherwise going for a run or go-
ing to the gym.
10. What's your guilty pleasure? Ice cream, lots
and lots of chocolate ice cream!
11. The biggest misconception about your job?
That it's sales. Agents provide a vital service.
12. What would people be surprised to know? I'm
thrifty. I don't pay full price for anything.
13. Describe yourself in three words. Level-head-
ed, sensible, and realistic.
14. What is your weakness? Sometimes I try to
do too much. I'm a control freak.
15. What magazines do you read? Good House-
keeping and Better Homes & Gardens.
16. What does it take to be successful? It takes a
strong work ethic.
17 What's the best way to get on your good side?
Give me chocolate.
18. What is the best advice for your generation?
People of my generation expect that things will
be done for them. Take responsibility for your-
self!
19. How has technology changed your career? It
changed everything. Agents talk about the days
when they would drive around to find houses for
sale. That's just crazy in today's world.
20. Hop on a Time Machine, where would you go?
I'd go into the future 20 or 30 years to see where
we are and where our kids are at that point in
time.
A Florida day-care teacher was fired for leaving her classroom to put out a fire.
Michelle Hammack traced a burning smell to an oven fire in the kitchen, led her stu-
dents outside, and extinguished the fire. Owner Olga Rozhaov then fired her. "I fired
her because she left the room," Rozhaov explained. ~HuffingtonPost.com
After a New York City woman set off 21 bug bombs inside her apartment, caus-
ing an explosion that collapsed her five-story building, injuring 14 people, the idea
of more is better is not true in every case. ~Reuters.com
In recent months, more than a dozen popular Republican and Democratic elect-
ed officials in such states as Iowa, Michigan, Georgia, and Nebraska have turned
down chances to run for U.S. Senate seats out of concern that nothing is accom-
plished there. "At the Federal level, it's so partisan, it's dysfunctional," said Iowa Lt.
Gov. Kim Reynolds, who turned down a chance to run for an open Senate seat.
~The Wall Street Journal
A Tennessee lawyer is suing Apple, claiming online porn gave him unrealistic
expectations of sex. Chris Sevier blames Apple for failing to warn him of the dan-
gers of viewing porn on the company's products. ~News.CNET.com
After passengers on an 1l hour flight from San Francisco to London found out
shortly after takeoff that United airlines had forgotten to stock the plane with toilet
paper. Flight attendants apologized and handed out tiny cocktail napkins.
~USAToday.com
A Georgia middle school girl was kicked off the school's football team because
her "presence" might trigger "lustful thoughts" in her teammates. Maddy Blythe, 12,
said she was told she could not return to the Strong Rock Christian's School's foot-
ball team despite her strong play because the Bible discourages such gender mixing.
`~Huffington Post.com
An Iowa woman was arrested for allegedly posting an ad on Craigslist offering
$10,000 to anyone who would kill her father. Usually this is something that takes
place in a seedy bar," said police Capt. Bob Lynn. "Who utilizes Craigslist?"
~Omaha.com
Rangers in Death Valley National Park are begging tourists to stop cracking eggs
on the sidewalk. Daytime temperatures there have soared above 120 degrees, inspir-
ing visitors to try to fry eggs on the ground leaving a mess for maintenance crews.
~NBCNews.com
The number of American wives having extra marital affairs nearly doubled over
the past two decades to 14.7 percent, while the number for men admitting an affair
stayed steady at 21 percent, according to a survey by the National Opinion Research
Center. ~Bloomberg.com
Some 2.6 million U.S. households are run by single fathers, a ninefold increase
from just 297,000 in 1960. Single father households earn a higher median income
than single mother ones
($40,000, compared with $26,000), but far less than the average of $70,000 that
married couples collect. ~TheAtlantic.com
New research has found that almost half of middle-aged adults provide financial
support to their grown children. The first step is cutting the cord is to "lose the guilt."
In the long run you will be doing your offspring a favor by encouraging them to
become financially independent. ~CNN.com
The average three-hour baseball game contains 17 minutes and 58 seconds of
action such as pitches, balls in play, running and throws. That's a bit better than the
average football game, which contains only 11 minutes of action time.~The Wall
Street Journal
Broadleaf plantain - Broadleaf
plantain is a scraggly lawn deco-
ration, but it tastes better than it
looks . . . really.
Goldenrod - "This late summer
bloomer can do more than bright-
en roadsides; spark up a salad
with the brilliant blossoms of
goldenrod.
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Pizza and Restaurant
305 N. Baltimore Street, Dillsburg
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Salad
Ground ivy - Ground ivy winds
its way through your lawn, but
those tasty leaves can also wend
their way into a salad.
Wood sorrel - With a brisk,
lemony flavor, wood sorrel is the
perfect plant to introduce your
palate to the possibilites of edible
weeds.
Eat a Rainbow
Not brave enough to add weed leaves to your salad? Maybe
weed blossoms are more your taste. Remember the current
dietary advice, "Eat a rainbow." Bright blossoms help make
that easier.
1. Mallow (Malva neglecta) - Toss the white, pinkish, or lilac
flowers over a salad.
2. Goldenrod (Solidago species) - The bright yellow flowers
look great sprinkled on a salad or use them in a soothing tea.
3. Jo Pye Weed (Eupatorium purpureum) - The lightly-scented,
pink/purplish flowers can be used to make an herbal tea.
4. New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) - Eat
the purple flowers fresh or in a salad.
5. Borage (Borago officinalis) - The delicious, brilliant blue
flowers are very tasty, making a nice addition to a salad.
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helping to meet the needs of people are our highest priority!!
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renovations to our property and facility!
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September Quilt Notes
As summer transitions into fall, we quilters
are also transitioning. We are no longer the Dills-
burg Library Quilters; in fact, we don’t know
what our name is. We are definitely settled in our
new home with NYCHAPS at the Maple Shade
Barn and are looking forward to your visits.
Please feel free to drop in on Thursday evenings
between 6:30 and 8:30 to quilt, do other needle-
work, or just to help us come up with a new name.
Since other activities are sometimes scheduled at
Maple Shade Barn (NYCHAPS programs are
usually held the first Thursday of the month)
causing us to change quilting evenings for that
week, we advise you to call Maggie at 432-8088
or Sherry at 432-2743 to confirm the quilting
time.
The quilt we now have in the frame is made
up of sampler blocks we found at the Central
Mennonite Community Center in Ephrata at their
flea market sale. This wonderful sewing sale is
held during their quilt preview of the Mennonite
Quilt Relief Sale that is held every spring in the
Farm Show building. These blocks were quite a
bargain, and we became quite excited as we laid
them out in different patterns and saw the possi-
bilities. These orphan blocks had found a home.
“Orphan blocks” are quilt blocks that are not des-
ignated for a project, just sort of waiting around
until someone assigns them to a project!
Besides creating a bed-size quilt for NY-
CHAPS annually, we expect to be reaching out to
the community more by helping with “Quilt
Week at the Barn”, “Fiber Day at the Tavern”,
and mini inexpensive workshops throughout the
year for the public.
Our last library quilt, “Emerald Enchantment”
is now displayed at the Dillsburg Public Library.
Please stop by to see it and to support the library
through the purchase of a raffle ticket. It’s your
support that has helped to raise over $45,000 dur-
ing the past 30 years for library purchases.
We’ll keep you abreast as we move forward.
Who knows – maybe next month we’ll have a
new name!
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