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TRINITY HIGH SCHOOL SOUTH PARK VIEW Nine remain in smallest city Culinary club learn cooking members techniques Photos by Maggie Huber, Special to The Courier-Journal instructs Gerardo Unzueta, left, and Brandon Irvin. to maintain any certain population after being established. However, state law does require them to elect leaders and collect taxes to avoid being dissolved by the state. Unlike most residents who accepted buyouts from the airport, the Rasnakes rejected a relocation offer about five years ago, deciding to stay in their home of nearly 40 years. "To get to live in your home and to have grand-kids that want to come to Grandma and Grandpa's house, there's nothing like it," Wilma Rasnake said.

Like the Rasnakes, most of the nine remaining residents are older and their children have since grown. It's unclear how many plan to move in the near future because some declined interviews and airport officials said they can't discuss individual offers due to federal privacy laws. About two years ago, trees were cut down on lots the airport owns, leaving stumps and upsetting the Rasnakes. Still, it wasn't enough to make them want to move. After 16 years, Louisville International Airport is nearing the end of a voluntary relocation program that has moved more than 2,000 families who were in the path of its new runways.

At the end of 2009, only 77 families remained in the relocation areas off Minors Lane, in Edgewood, Ashton-Adair and along the west side of Preston Highway. A total of 2,082 homes had been acquired in the four areas at a cost of more than $260 million in federal, state and local money. 5 of 6 homes are occupied By Charlie White The Courier-Journal The small city of South Park View is the smallest by far of the 83 small cities in Louisville. In the 2000 census, Louisville's smallest city was Ten Broeck, with 129 residents, followed by Mead-owbrook Farm with 146 and Lincolnshire with 154. Back then, South Park View still had 196 residents.

Today it has nine. In the past decade, it has been nearly cleared out by the Louisville International Airport's voluntary relocation program, which moves residents away from airplane noise. Founded in 1962, South Park View maintained about 200 residents on three streets: Canto Lane, Vondine Drive and Aria Drive all off South Park Road near Minors Lane in southern Louisville. There are only six houses left, five of which are occupied. Retired UPS truck driver Eddie Rasnake, 62, is the mayor of South Park View, and his wife, Wilma, 65, is city treasurer.

"We still collect taxes and pay for garbage collection," said Wilma Rasnake. Airport relocation money still pays for the grass to be maintained on vacant lots, and for police from Heritage Creek (formerly the adjacent city of Minor Lane Heights) to patrol the area. Andrew Hartley, attorney for the Kentucky Department for Local Government, said cities don't have By Martha Elson The Courier-Journal Kyle Dodd and a team of other aspiring student chefs in the Trinity High School Culinary Club kept checking a large pot of water on the stove in the cafeteria to see if it was boiling. At last, Kyle, 16, issued the long-awaited order: "Prepare to blanch!" Then they dropped cabbage leaves into the bubbling water for a couple of minutes before transferring them to large bowl of cold water, testing the leaves to see if they bent without breaking. They were making a stuffed cabbage roll dish called Vegetarian Cabbage Roulade, which had a filling made from bulgur wheat, tomatoes, quark (similar to sour cream), parsley and other ingredients.

"I've never heard of it before," Kyle said. The aim of the club, which was started last fall at the all-boys school on Shelbyville Road in St. Matthews, is to introduce the 20-or-so members to new foods and help them learn to do a lot more than boil water and fry eggs. The roulade-makers and other club members were whipping up other dishes, too, working under the watchful eye of three professional chefs and a Trinity teacher at a recent three-hour club meeting. At they end, they ate a meal of what they made.

The skills they learn are designed to help them be better prepared when they leave home, be less reliant on parents to cook and even impress girlfriends, said Travis Wagoner, the school's director of com- PAGE 6 1 SOUTHEAST MORE PHOTOS An online gallery is at the boys' creations. Near the end of the school year, club members will prepare a banquet for their families. Other cuisine themes for the club meetings have been German, Mexican, Cajun, Italian and breakfast foods. Austin Allgeier, 15, a sophomore, was getting practice fanning rice to cool it for the sushi, using a large, flat pan. He said he has improved his knife wielding skills in the class: "Cutting is easier," he said.

Trinity teacher Joe Henning, who's helping out with the club, said it gives the boys' more confidence in themselves to be able to cook. Best of all, even if everything doesn't turn out just right, "being boys, they'll eat just about Chef Adam Muntzinger, right, Senior Evan Puckett measures munications. Some club members have a little experience with cooking, while others were essentially starting from scratch. Kyle said his prior experience consisted mostly of boiling pasta, but now he's thinking of going into the culinary field. The cooking theme at the recent meeting was vegetarian because of Lent and club members also made sushi rolls, Smoked Seitan Medallions in Mixed Mushroom Gravy and other dishes.

Seitan is a meat substitute made with wheat gluten. vegetable stock. Evan Puckett, 17, a senior who also cooks in Boy Scouts, said he wishes he could have taken the class all four years. "It's great experience," he said, deftly flipping the seitan medallions as they cooked in a large skillet. "Does that look done?" he asked Chef Lee Ash-brook, who leads the club.

"I'd go a little bit longer," Ashbrook replied. Ashbrook, who works for Flik, a Catholic schools food service, also made up some black bean veggie burgers to eat at the end of the meeting, along with NEIGHBORHOODS Reporter Charlie White can be reached at (502) 582-4653. Reporter Martha Elson can be reached at (502) 582-7061. courier journal.comsoutheast The Courier-Journal Wednesday, March 10, 2010.