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People ET WEDNESDAY, January 13, 1993 Iowa City Press-Citizen I I Several books offer juice information If you're trying to battle the cold and flu season with extra doses of juice, several books on the subject may be helpful. Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Health Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing, by Cherie Calbom and Maureen Keane, (Avery Publishing, Garden City Park, N.Y., $1 2.95). The Wheatgrass Book by Anne Wigmore (Hippocrates Health Institute. Boston. $7).

Are You Confused, by Dr. Paavo Airola (Health Plus, Sherwood, Ore. $7). SECTION Tasty treats Good food and more in 'Midwest Cooks' I -y -it A' i- 1 4 Dish up If Midwest cooking tantalizes your tastebuds, sample what Favorite Recipes from Great Midwest Cooks has to offer by trying the recipe for Celebration Casserole on page 3B. Tft'; V-' L-trl 'tm Gannett News Service Even if you don't like to cook, the new cookbook from Better Homes and Gardens is a must.

Favorite Recipes From Great Midwest Cooks is more than a cookbook. It's a travel guide and picture book as well. The concept behind the book is simple, but is presented in a blue-ribbon way. Favorite Recipes takes you from the county fairs of Indiana and Iowa to the small-town celebrations of Wisconsin and South Dakota. In between are other stops, including one at a wild-rice harvest in Minnesota.

The reason for the journey is simple: to show how the people in those places enjoy their food. With more than 100 recipes on 144 pages, this book helps capture the special tastes and flavors of the 12-state region. There's something for everyone, including Rich Rich Black Raspberry Ice Cream from Iowa, Cranberry Candy-Bar Cookies from Wisconsin, Brandied Apple Roll-Ups, also from Iowa, Blueberry-Sour Cream Cake from Michigan and North Dakota Sunflower Pie. The book also tells the stories of the people and places behind the recipes. It'll show you where to partake in sweet-corn festivals, how to find farms where you can pick your own produce, and how to pick everything from nuts to morel mushrooms.

For instance, in the chapter about Minnesota's wild rice, you learn that Minnesota and California rank as the nation's largest producers of wild rice. And while many people still harvest the grain the old-fashioned way by flailing away from a canoe, you'll learn that most of the state's rice is grown in man-made paddies where giant harvesting machines do the work. Another fact you'll learn from the book is that "Long ago dubbed rice, because it grows in the water, wild rice is not a rice at all. Rather, it is the seed of an annual marsh grass and is the only cereal grain native to North America." PressCitizenScott Norris' City High Principal Howard Vernon talks with seniors Lora Strabala and Adam Bald. Principal strives for pride, of family sense at City High worked with, they were of quality.

"But according to what I am observing," Vernon told the group, "I can't give you anything but a 'C "Well, some walked out on me," he said. "Later, some teachers came up to me and said, 'Howard, you really upset I It was a move that changed the school, Hibbs said. At the end of the last staff meeting that year, Vernon walked up to the blackboard and said, "Incidentally, I want you all to know I think See VERNON2B Key role But as longtime friend Dale Hibbs put it, a school is as good as its principal. "Howard Vernon has literally saved two schools," Hibbs said. "In the '60s, he saved Waterloo East from overt racism and later he saved City High from itself." Hibbs, government teacher, said that before Vernon arrived, City High had grown complacent.

Vernon agreed. He laughs when he thinks back to his first year at City High, 14 years ago. At a staff meeting, he told his teachers that compared to any other group of teachers he had "There isn't a day when I get up while I'm shaving and I'm not thinking, how can I better this school? Not one day," he said. He expects nothing less from his teachers at City High. "My philosophy is to in a caring way dig, claw, poke and wheedle whatever we can take to get the kids to give their utmost," Vernon said.

He admits he already has a head start 6y being in a university town. Still, he is proud of the school's 97 percent attendance rate and the mountains of student awards. It shows in his eyes, when he can't stop talking about City High. By Monica Mendoza The Press-Citizen Someone is usually waiting to see the principal in the office at City High. For instance, three students waited for "Mr.

on a recent Friday afternoon. When he stepped out of his office and saw them, he asked "What can I do for you?" It's Howard Vernon's nature to ask his students that question. His father once told him that all students could succeed if someone believed in them. Vernon has remembered that advice and tries to use it in his role as principal. Weekly A weekly column about activities going on in the Iowa City area appears Thursdays in Info to Go! News items should be submitted in writing by noon Tuesday.

Best bets LEAGUE MEETING: The Johnson County League of Women Voters will meet at 7:30 p.m. today at Trinity Episcopal Church, 320 E. College St. The group will take consensus on national health care alternatives and develop ideas for League local and state programs. The meeting is open to the public.

For information, call 354-1321. CONCERT PLANNED: The City High Concert Band and Symphonic Wind Ensemble will present a concert at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at Opstad Auditorium. STORY TIME: Big kids story time with Deanne, for ages 3 and older, meets at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in the Hazel Westgate Story Room at the Iowa City Public Library.

ART EXHIBIT: A multi-media exhibit titled Say Can You See by Kellie Kesselring is on display at Grassroots -Books at 614 S. Dubuque St. 1 TUNE UP: The Barbershop Chorus meets at 8 p.m. Thursday at the Iowa City recreation center. For information, call Bill Seidler at 351-0844 or 337-7508.

Parishioners dish up delicious recipes Summer, fall, winter, spring. Six hundred seasons have passed in the 150-plus years since St. Mary's Catholic Church was established in Iowa City. And now those seasons are Index Comics 5B Dear Abby 2B Johanna Beers Calling All Cooks The dinners proved extremely popular, according to Joan Hart, editor of the cookbook. Every one was a sell-out, she said, with tickets being snapped up so quickly by parishioners, there were none left to offer to the public.

Another unusual feature of the book is a beautiful color transparency appearing just inside the front cover showing a stained glass window from the old St. Mary's Church. Given to the Altar and Rosary Society when the church was restored and redecorated, the pane was framed and now is displayed in the parish hall. Vintage photos from the church files serve as section dividers, and many have tidbits of early church history printed on the back. Additional history of a more-personal nature is scattered throughout the book, as many of the recipes include notations concerning the contributors, their families and details of their parish membership.

Production of the cookbook, from collecting recipes to proofreading to getting the volume in print, took about a year, Joan said. St. Mary's is a large parish (perhaps 1,600 families), and making the book as representative as possible was a task requiring many helping hands. See COOKS3B At the Senior Center The Press-Citizen Jan. 15: The January travelogue features Wilbur Smith's wilderness trip through the Quetico National Reserve in Ontario.

His presentation will begin at :30 p.m. I Jan. 29: Rick Amundson, director of the upcoming Iowa City Community iTheatre production Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, will be at the center at 1:30 to talk about the production and how he has gone, about adapting the show staging. A sneak preview of the show also is planned. 3 Jan.

20: Knights of the Roundtable filnr festival will begin at 9:30 a.m. and feature 'the movie Camelot. The last film in the series, Monty Python and the Holy Grail 'will be shown Jan. 27. Pre-registration is requested.

Jan. 20 and 27: Two hands-on instruction classes in woodworking for women are planned from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Women will learn to use power tools and work with wood. Pre-registration is required. commemorated in a 400-page cookbook compiled by the Altar and Rosary Society of the church.

Publication of A Taste of 600 Seasons last month crowned a lengthy and many-faceted celebration of St. Mary's The observance began officially Aug. 15, 1991, with a visit from Bishop Gerald O'Keefe. Throughout the following year, a series of theme dinners served in the parish hall saluted the ethnic and cultural variety that has enriched the church family throughout its history. The complete menus and many of the recipes for all of those events are shared in the book.

The countries represented are Austria, Bohemia, China, England, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Korea and Mexico. Senior Center Weekly At the, Senior Center appears in the People section on Wednesday. The column describes upcoming events at the Iowa City Johnson County Senior Center, 28 S. Linn St. Press-Cltaeiv'Andy Scott St.

Mary's Church is 77i5 stained glass window from the old on display in the parish hall..