[JustAmy]

Ahhh .... Finally Saturday.
Today's Holiday Celebrations are .....


Read A Book Day


Coffee Ice Cream Day


Rent A Movie Day




Cranberry Festival in Massachusetts

Cranberry Relish Recipe

12 ounces fresh cranberries
1 navel orange, scrubbed and cut into 8 pieces
2 apples, peeled and cut into 8 pieces
3/4 to 1 cup natural sugar
1/3 cup chopped pecans

Wash the cranberries and remove any stems, bad cranberries, or inedible stuff you find. Put half of the cranberries, orange (unpeeled), and apple into the food processor and pulse to chop coarsely. Some larger pieces are okay, but nothing big enough to choke on. Pour into a bowl and process the other half of the fruit. Put it into the bowl, add the sugar to taste, and mix in the pecans. Refrigerate it for a day or two to allow the flavors to develop.

AND


Fresno/Central Valley 7th Annual Rally
and Tailgate Picnic

[JustAmy]

I will be AWOL today.

Thank you so much for being here, posting your graphics, messages and greetings.

I will check in tomorrow.

Have a Super Saturday!!

[seoul62]

Happy Saturday to all. Need advice, My Daughter started Pre-Kindergarden and she came home after day two with appears to have been a diaper rash, to which I applied a trusted remedy: Triple Paste Protective Cream. Well, the condition did not lessen with it applied, but intensified to my surprise? So I thought it might be a fungal infection-(which she suffered from before-from her antibiotic to treat her ear infection. Quick thinking and Mother’s instinct, she still had her prescription of Nystatin Powder, left over, I applied and it worked. What I want to know and I am a first time Mommy, is how did she end up with a fungal infection after only day two from Pre-Kindergarden? How does this happen? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I am sorry to bother everyone with this problem, but my little Princess, cries when she has it./Just Asking - seoul62.........

[ConorMacNessa]

Happy Saturday, Amy!

[OESY]

Happy Cranberry Day!

Let's take a moment to reflect on this first ever cancer scare. In 1959, forty-nine years ago, the FDA got power to ban cranberries, which devastated the cranberry industries of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Michigan and Wisconsin, and gave birth to today's environmentalist movement in all its paranoid glory. Keep in mind that native Americans had been eating cranberries for hundreds of years without ill effects.

The unwitting cause of the whole sorry incident was Long Island Congressman James J. Delaney (D-NY), who added a clause to the Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1958 barring any additive in food shown to cause cancer in humans or lab animals. In early November, Arthur S. Fleming, Secretary of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, issued a warning to consumers that traces of the weed killer aminotriazole had been found in Oregon and Washington State. He urged Americans to “be on the safe side” and avoid consuming cranberries until the crop had been tested and deemed safe.

Given the time required to carry out such testing, Fleming all but guaranteed that the sale of cranberry products for 1959 would crash to historic lows. Fleming was motivated to make this announcement by his reading (incorrect, as it turned out) of the Delaney Clause of the 1958 Act since only a minuscule amount of the pesticide was found in only a tiny fraction of the national crop—and only in parts of Oregon and Washington. Cranberry growers nationwide, nearly all of them small family farmers, lost millions of dollars.

The Great Cranberry Scare lasted only one season and the industry, with nearly $10 million in compensation payments from Congress to make amends for the government's mishandling of the incident, saw sales rise to normal levels the next year. But the fear in the general public over carcinogens and other harmful chemicals in the food supply would never go away. Indeed, they would only grow in the coming decades with the publication of Rachel Carson's famous book, Silent Spring (1962), the founding of numerous environmental, public health, and consumer protection organizations, and occasional scares like that in 1989 over Alar in apples.

The 5 Most Ridiculously Over-Hyped Health Scares of All Time

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[Majie Purple]

& All in attendance...Have a great Reunion/Picnic!

Though by the time You read this it will be over...oh well!
:)

[Billie]

Amy, your celebration graphics for Saturday are fantastic! I’m so impressed you took the time to get those together, with the FR picnic coming up a few hours later. Hope that you all had the best one yet! Anxious to hear a report, and hope Jim was feeling pretty good!