Page 8B “The Castlegar Sun The Castlegar Sun Page, 9B: Po canvevecaseoan, qreeees, , RECEPTIONIST “Boss. CASTLEGARS BES The Readers Choice In order to find the best people, places and food in the Castlegar Region, the Castlegar Sun has asked you, the citizens of the Castlegar Region, to cast your ballot and decide. The top five in each category accepted. ___ READERS 1. Only ballots printed by The Castlegar Sun will be counted. No copies 2. Businesses nominated have to be in the Castlegar Region and individuals nominated have to work or live in the Castlegar Region. : will be featured in a special edition tabloid in April entitled "CASTLEGAR'S BEST: The Readers Choice." CHOICE RULES | 3. Ballots may be deposited in a ballot box at The Castlegar Sun or West's Dept. Store or Mallards Ski & Sports - Castlegar 4. Entry deadline is 5pm , April 5th,1991 ; BEST PEOPLEI MAN OF THE YEAR DENTIST INSURANCE REPRESENTATIVE WOMAN OF THE YEAR DOCTOR WAITRESS OF THE YEAR MECHANIC RADIO PERSONALITY. LAWYER CAR SALESPERSON BANKER CONTRACTOR SECRETARY. EYE-CARE SPECIALIST BARBER/HAIRDRESSER REALESTATE AGENT.“ SERVICE GROUP. ELECTRICIAN PLUMBER BEST FOOD PLACES: CHINESE STEAKS by Nancy Lingley é a Ae .elderly. WEDDING CATERER ITALIAN FOOD PIZZA FAST FOOD COFFEE MILKSHAKE SOFT DRINK SEAFOOD HOT DOG BAKERY BREAKFAST. DELI KID'S MEAL BRUNCH LUNCH RUSSIAN FOOD FRENCH FRIES HAMBURGER DESSERTS BEST PLACES GROCERY STORE FLORIST GOLF COURSE MEN'S CLOTHING PHARMACY/DRUG STORE FINANCIAL INSTIT UTION ‘heat oil-ford Fae ae WOMEN'S CLOTHING CHURCH _ AUTO DEALER ‘PLACE FOR BARGAINS ‘CHILDREN'S CLOTF BUY FURNITURE BEST LOOKING BUILDING: HARDWARE STORE COMMUNITY FESTIVAL/EVENT HIGH SCHOOL DAYCARE GAS STATION — Gisiteaes Sbetepercere ty ps ea a The have it ae eyes have it Potatoes and I hive beé: Tt wasn’t always'so. At one time, potatoes were just hing that tumed up on the dinner plate probably five nights out of seven, and at breakfast once in'a while, and in potato salads during the summer, Ny Then, prior to one of those five out of seven dinners, an ighbor lady who happ d to be in my kitchen at what tured out to be a turning point in my life (because she was in my kitchen at that very moment), took a look at the potatoes I was peeling — or, more specifically, at the peels I was ically producing — and cc d that a) perhaps my small family of four, two of which were under the age of 18 months, would not go through a. ten pound sack of potatoes every other day if I was a little more judicious with the paring knife, and b) those parings would grow lovely potatoes. 1 I, faced with i ly two p of prep potatoes and four pounds of peelings, p d, but not too loudly. After all, the evidence was staring me in the face and I am not one to deny-the obvious — unless I think I can get away with it. To, prove her point, my omery old friend gathered up this massive mound of peels, trotted right out to my (unused) garden patch‘on her arthritic old legs, dug a hole, and buried them. They grew lovely potatoes. Pounds and pounds of them. » What can I say? From that day on I planted potato par- ings and, with the Iting annual bumper crop isting of roughly enough spuds to feed three small amnies, imme- diately began to amass.a suitable collection of potato recipes that resulted in potatoes not only at dinner time, and breakfast, and in summertime salads, but literally all the time in everything. , : Now, we all know that the potato itself is not really a fattening food, but rather a victim of keeping bad company with rich sauces.and gravies. I’m here to tell you that this doesn’t have to be so.'I’ve found an even better way to make potatoes really, really fat- tening without having to make a rich sauce or gravy. And you-ean serve them for dessert; too-~= right after you-serve them for dinner. or. breakfast.or.in asummertime.salad___ You only live once. ener ce I pals for a long, Jong time. SDSS, ; a no __, Raised Potato Doughnuts is. recipe makes a huge, tremendous; enormous batch of the lightest, fattest, tenderest, most heavenly doughnuts I have ever had the pleasure of sinking my teeth into. And I’ve sunk my teeth into a few. This is a simple no-knead Tecipe, too. 1-3/4 c, milk 1/2 c. butter or margarine 3/4 c. sugar I tsp. salt . 1/2 tsp. vanilla 1c. mashed potatoes 1/4 c. warm water 1 package active dry yeast Beggs. Scald the milk. Put it in your bread bow] along with the butter, sugar,:salt, vanilla, and mashed potatoes. Cool to lukewarm. Meanwhile, dissolve the 'yéast in the warm water. Add to the cooled milk mixture. Add the eggs and 4 cups of the flour. Beat until smooth. Add remaining flour, beating well. Cover and iet rise in a warm place until dou- bled.: Stir down, tum out. onto a well-floured surface, and roll out to less than 1/2-inch thick. Cut with a three-inch doughnut cutter. Use the holes for Pecan Buns (below). Re- Reme Dear! Ann ‘Landers: My father | passed away this past'summer, He and my mom had divorced. Both had remarsied, Three years ago Dad told me that be was drawing up a will and ‘leaving my sisters and me a small f inheritance, He said everything else would go to his wife and upon her death, the estate would be equally divided between her two children and his three children. ¥ ‘When Dad died we didn’t want to bring up the subject with our stepmother, But after six months had passed we asked her when there would be a reading of Dad's will. She said, “He didn’t have a will.” ‘Two days later she phoned to say he did have a will and left everything to her. She then sent us a copy of a will that had been pur- chased in a drug store. It was dated 1983. She was the sole beneficiary. we told her that Dad had said he Was writing a will and we would be “remembered.” Her response was, “He never got around to it.” My sisters and I were dumfound- ed, This means, of course, that her ber to T gladly give up what was.to have been my inheritance if I could find out the answer to that question, — Okie from Muskogee Dear Okie: It's amazing how many really bright people become idiots when it comes to writing a will, I hope everyone who reads this will ask him or herself, “If I died tomorrow, where would my assets go?" If you're not sure, call a Jawyer and get things just the way you want them, Dear Ann Landers: I have read so many letters in your column from people who have no respect, let alone love, for their relatives, This one will be different. When my mother died three years ago, she left a small amount of disability i that was children will inherit everything: ‘Please urge your readers to pre- pare a will: with a lawyer, Death is something people don’t like to talk about, but they should prepare forit intelligently and take steps to make certain that their wishes will be car- ried out. » We will always wonder if our ~ father did not really care enough about us to keep his word, or if his _ Second wife was lying. I would y divided in equal amounts among ber six children, Since our eldest sister had taken care of Dad for.eight years and then cared for Mom until she passed away, I felt that she should have my share of the money, You can imagine how happy I was when I arrived at my sister’s home and found that my brother had already sent her his check, He had decided quietly on his own, as I pdate your will ‘did, that our sister.who took care* of Dad and Mom should have his share of the inheritance, Mom left no big estate. There was just the old house where we were all born and the little proper- ty it sat on. The property, with every family member's consent, was sold immediately after the » funeral. The proceeds were divid- ed between that. wonderful eldest sister and another sister who had never married, Our unmarried sis- ter had lived in apartments most of her life, and we decided that she should have a little home of her own. We all had dinner together on night and my brother greeted Sis like this: = “Well, they’re breaking the ground for construction on you home. I will be down the block is” “Home? What home?” she “YOUR home, Sis. Congratula- tions!” There was a lot of whooping and hollering and a few tears. It was a thrill for us just to see the look on her face. ~ Last week I received a check in the mail from my unmarried sister. It was my share of Mom's govem- ment bonds, I call Sis and told ber I was returning the check to her. she said, “You can’t do that. My feelings will be hurt.” Can you imagine? She insisted that I take the money, buy something lovely for my daughter and tell them it was from their grandmother, pur- chased with the last bit of money she had left behind for us ; ers who have always lived from! paycheck to paycheck, but I con- sider myself very lucky to have been bom into a family that is so} loving and generous, neh Ny I know this letter is too darned! Jong to publish, but I did have a lot of fun writing it. —R.A.inS.A.‘ Dear R.A.: What a terrific! upper. After reading thousands of} letters from family members who} are at war over money, it's a privi-! lege to print a letter like yours. Too! bad your parents didn't leave behind! a book on how to raise children, i Dear Ann Landers: I would’ like to say something to that smug: male who bragged about drinking a: gallon of water every.day and not! needing to leave his seat during intermission to use the facilities, He said, “Going is nothing more: than a matter of habit. I'd like to tell that jerk that if be ever went through a pregnancy) with 30 extra pounds pressing on his bladder he'd sing a different: tune. —LS., Queens, N.Y. , Dear LS.: You tell'em, sister.! I'm with you. 5 Gem of the Day: Don't give up.: Keep going. There is always a‘ chance that you will stumble onto} something terrific. I have neven heard of anyone stumbling over’ anything while he was sitting’ down. — Charles F. Kettering news: ft Wer he current compilation of the most peculiar things people do, edited by Chuck Shepherd. Proof that true stories are weirder than made-up stories. A Salt Lake City restaurant found three instant self-pho- $500 in Montgomery County, Va., in January. Annoyed at her $226 Personal property tax bill, she mailed her check to county treasur- er Ellis Meredith by addressing the envelope, “Ellis Meredith, Bas- tard,” and writing “(expletive delet- ed in original news story) you” on the memo Line of the check. ¢ Arlindo Barbosa da Silva was exonerated of “thrashing” his in-law during a di i dispute in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in September by Judge Antoni o Car- los Goncalves. The woman had tried to intervene to help her daughter, but the judge concluded, “The accused acted in the strict |—fwlGllment of his duty, which isto 2 keep outsiders, from perturbing conjugla harmony.” + A Kitchener, Ontario, radio station, sponsoring a “What Would You Do for $10,000?" contest last fall, permitted such stunts as eating a dung-covered apple pie and regurgitated spaghetti and going snorkeling in a tub of worms, but Tejected the idea of a woman who wanted to hand out bumper stick- ers while nude on a downtown Street corner. Said a station spokesman, “We didn’t want to be associated with that.” ¢ Briton Peter Brimblecombe, a specialist in atmospheric chem- istry, told reporters in December that two major causes of the sul- fide that erodes museum pho- and paintings were wet of a man, exposing his - genitals, taped to its drive-through window in January, and police had reports of similar photographs found taped to a doorstep and under a windshield wiper. Police woolens (complicated by the fact that people often go to galleries on- rainy days) and bio-effluents (e.g., flatulence). His solution? “If peo- ple have to go to galleries and they should wear no pecul that ly cold weather had forced the flasher to rely on substitute behavior. Well Put * Lyni Marie Nowack was fined clothes and control themselves,” + In December, Daniel Tarpen- ning HI tumed down a judge’s deal that would have released him from jail in San Francisco, where he had been held on drug-dealing charges, because he preferred jail. “I want stability, and the streets don't offer me stability.” +A note from the office of U.S. Rep. Robert Michel (R-II) in November, responding to vitriolic complaints from Henry Herman, 77, about “putrid souls,” “jack- als,” “liars” and “parasites” in ind ii 1 from the courtroom for a breatha- lyzer test, which revealed a ll; percent blood alcoho! level. i Chutzpah : Denver Broncos football play- : er Bake Ezor, convicted of: shoplifting in October in East: Lansing, Mich, and ordered to pay | a fine and perform 24 hours of ‘ity service, told rep , immediately afterward that he! St al luding a $ bill to “get (Michel's) attention,” read in its entirety, “Henry, up yours.” Won’t take No for an + Louis Lakes, 29, was arrested in Port St. Lucie, Fla., in Novem- ber. Reportedly, he approached two men in a bar and tried to sell them drugs, and when they declined, Lakes followed them into a convenience store, argued with them, grabbed a knife, chased the men into a parking lot, and threatened to kill them, * In December, Vienna, Aus- tria, police confiscated the driv- er's license of soldier Gregor Hajek, 29, for drunk driving as he was on his way to his girlfriend's house. Police then drove him back to his barracks 35 miles away. Several hours later, Hajek confis- cated an M-6- tank, crashed through the army base gates, and headed back for his girl friend’s house. Police followed, at.30 mph, and arrested. him ‘as he arrived at his destination. ¢ Carlos Norman Mulis, 24, pleaded guilty to drunk driving in Red Deer, Alberta, last spring, but poignantly asked for leniency in sentencing, claiming that he had finally given up drinking several months before. At the prosecu- tor’s request, Mulis was taken ghts he already did perform! community service by Signing; autographs after games, ‘ ¢ Steven Lane, chief executive! officer of Emerson Radio Corp.,' eC___..___._.___who.suffered $12 million in losses | on October 1987's Black Monday, ' sued Drexel Burnham Lambert‘ recently for incompetence. Lane’s: Drexel broker was his wife, Trina. : + The Massachusetts Board of , Registration announced last year it; was investigating Dr. Sheldon L.; Zigelbaum for sexual abuse,’ including abuse of one woman, shortly before asking the woman's: husband for a $6,000 loan to; defend himself against the board’s: allegations. ' ‘ * Jamel Dahman, 31, was arrested in Athens, Greece, in‘ December when he filed a com-! plaint with airport police demand-' ing the retum of a suitcase lost on' a flight from Damascus. Police : dogs had intercepted it, and: $330,000 worth of cocaine was: inside. ‘ (Send your Weird News to} Chuck Shepherd, P.O. Box 57141, : Washington, D.C. 20037.) 7 ¢, 1991 Universal Press Syndi- cate. 4900 Main St., City, Mo. 64112; (816) 932-6600, oe roll and cut scraps. Lay dougt on a well-fl sur- face. Don’t cover so they can form a crust. Let rise for about 45 minutes, .until very large and light. Meanwhile, fat, frying and make glaze. ioe Glaze . 4c. icing sugar 1/2 c. boiling water Sie, 1 tbsp. vanilla (tablespoon is right) Combine all ingredients. and mix well. Glaze will look like thick cream. | Ger ae hie alas Fry raised doughnuts in deep, hot oil or fat, 375 F., until nicely browned, turriing only once. Drain on paper towels: Drop hot doughnuts-into glaze, flip over, lift-out, ‘let drip, and lay on wire cake.racks set.on cookie sheets to drain and harden. Makes about three dozen doughnuts that will disap- pear faster than you ever thought possible. Pecan Buns from Doughnut Holes a2 Lightly grease muffin pan cups. In the bottom of each cup, place 1 tsp. brown sugar, 1 tsp. com syrup or honey, 1/2 tsp. water, 3 pecan halves and four raisins, Drop four to six doughnut holes in’each cup, depending. on theif size.. -When you get tired.of cutting doughnuts, you can drop-in the|scraps, too. Cover. and let rise until ‘doubled. :Bake:at }F. for 25:to 30 mi: ately flip: “Don't rush throu better lover in our golden years. If I. ,Q. My wife and I have been very happily married for nearly 50 years now. My only regret is that I didn't take ‘ the time to enjoy sex when I was young as much as I do now. I've become a could give advice to the young, I would say, “Slow down! Enjoy sex and don't rush through it!” We have also become more inventive Ask . Dr. Ruth inourl partly Fadmit due to the necessities of age. I would never have believed that having a penis which doesn't get so hard anymore could ac- tually be a blessing. Ithas been. Now we. know the joys of oral sex. Can you advise us on where to find good sex information for older people? We would like to continue adding new ex- Periences to our lovemaking. A. Your public library or local bookstore should have some books dealing with the sexual issues of interest to older couples, But, don't waste time regretting the past. Make the best of today! It’s wonderful that you and your wife have atichand di lationship now. Enjoy‘it.'Don't think about the time you “wasted” in your youth, Q. My girlfriend and.t realize. that no method ‘of contraception: is:100 Percent effective.'We are both deter- mined not to get pregnant, because abortion is out of the question and we aren't ready: for. marriage and‘ parent-- hood. We use condoms because ‘she can't take the pill. In addition, we use spermicidal gels. One of her friends said we are being too careful, because one con- traceptive method can cancel out another. We've never heard of this. Mave you? And, if it's true, what should we do? Also, this friend implied that people who are as cautious as we are probably aren't very highly sexed. What about that? A. It is true that some gels have a detrimental effect on condoms., In other words, they might eat tiny holes gh it!” in them. I suggest you talk to a doctor! or a birth-control counselor who can i tell you exactly which gels might: create this situation. ‘ Bravo to both of you for being so: responsible about birth control! You | relationship. 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