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NEIGHBORS WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1994 Page 8 Hints from Heloise Dear Heloise: Can you please me how to make french fries that aren't soft or soggy? I've tried soaking them beforehand in ice cubes, but nothing works. Betty Danyluk, Dallas, Texas Try this for delicious homemade fries. Soak the potatoes i in ice water first, drain and pat slightly dry. It's best to fry them in a deep fryer, making sure the oil is hot enough before putting the potatoes in, or they will turn out soggy. If you don't have a deep fryer, some people fry them in a frying pan with a small amount of oil, then cover.

Fry to a golden brown. Heloise A POEM Roses are red, Violets are blue; My salt shaker won't sprinkle, What will I do? After cleaning the shaker And it looks very nice, Before filling with salt, Add tablespoon of rice! When the weather is humid And the salt won't come out; The rice will ease the tension and The salt will flow freely no doubt! Barry, Gananoque, Ontario Your hint is great and so are you. Thanks for writing, Do so again, too! Heloise EGG HANDLING Dear Heloise: The following is a helpful hint my husband passed on to me. He discovered he had stumbled upon an easy way to transfer eggs from the container to the counter when he was getting out the things I needed to prepare breakfast. When transferring eggs from one container to another, slightly wet your fingertips with water.

It is amazing the traction you get and you will never again drop eggs using this process. Rusty Lapolla, Reno, Nev. FROZEN LEMONS Dear Heloise: When I have: a surplus of lemons, I wash them, then cut them in slices and wedges, freeze them on a flat tray, and store them in the freezer in a freezer bag. They are ready for iced tea or other cold refreshing drinks. I like to put a slice on fish when I bake it.

It takes away the fishy odor and leaves a lemony flavor. Donna Cape Coral, Fla. TRAVEL MONITOR Dear Heloise: On a trip I took with my friend, we traveled in a van loaded with food and supplies. My smart friend brought a baby monitor which she placed in the van. She kept the receiver in her motel room and could hear anything in the van loud and clear.

Elaine Gouty, El Paso, Texas Camp to hold Parent Night The Hazleton YMCA and YWCA Camp Discovery will host its annual Parent Night on Thursday at 6 p.m. A special feature of this year's program will be the graduation of Snow Ann Paris as the first counselor-in-training (CIT) program graduate. This program is a continuing three-year learning experience for 13- to 17-year-olds held in conjunction with the Y's day camp programs. Teens participating in the program are expected to help campers work together as a group, accept the individuality of campers, help plan and carry out activities in which the campers participate. CITs learn how to help campers gain knowledge and skills through group activities with a minimum of dependence on senior counselors, learn to work together with the campers, other CITs, counselors, the camp director and other adults.

They also learn to keep records and camp resources in an orderly manner. Program trainees are supervised by certified staff and spend a minimum of one hour per week with their supervisor reviewing camp activities, job performance, discussing problems and sharing ideas. At wit's end When the going gets tough, the tough will go shopping Kristine M. Kapes is wed to Joseph Colecio Kristine and Joseph Colecio Saint Bartholomew's R.C. Church, Tresckow, was the setting for the marriage of Kristine Michele Kapes, daughter of Timothy and Yvonne Kapes, Tresckow, and Joseph Michael Colecio, son of Francis and Elizabeth Colecio, Tresckow.

The Rev. Thomas Buckley performed the candlelight double ring ceremony. Tom Kara was organist, and Amy Kinder, the vocalist. Following the ceremony, a reception was held at the Tresckow Fire Company Social Hall. The couple now resides in Florida.

Escorted by her father and given in marriage by her parents, the bride chose her sister, Kimberly Ann Kapes, Winchester, as maid of honor. Anthony Colecio, Tresckow, performed the duties of best man for his cousin, and Santino Gabos, Beaver Meadows, served as ringbearer. The bride is a 1990 graduate of Marian Catholic High School, and the groom, a graduate of West Hazleton High School, received degrees from East Stroudsburg and Temple universities. He is a pharmacist with Eckerd Drug in Florida. A shower in honor of the bride was given by her mother and the groom's mother, and the rehearsal dinner was hosted by the groom's parents.

Dear Abby My mother and grandmother live about 900 miles away, so for the 10th consecutive year, we weren't together. I live in south Florida, and O'Holla-Cusatis vows solemnized on July 30 By ABIGAIL VAN BUREN DEAR ABBY: Although I am not a mother I am a son last Mother's Day started as an average Sunday for me. Susan Cusatis, daughter of John and Susan Sauers, R.R. 1, Freeland, and Joseph O'Holla, son of Clara O'Holla, West Hazleton, and the late Joseph O'Holla, were united in marriage on July 30 at noon in West Hazleton Trinity Lutheran Church by the Rev. Thomas Cvammen.

Given in marriage by her father, the bride was attired in a rose suit with matching accessories, and carried a bouquet of pink roses and white orchids accented with green fern. Terri Boyko, Barrett, W.Va., aunt of the bride, was the matron of honor, and Tom Boyko, uncle of the bride, was the best man. The couple now resides in Pardeesville. They are planning a honeymoon trip to Niagara Falls, Canada, later this year. The bride is a graduate of Freeland High School, and the groom graduated from West Hazleton High School.

Both are employed as residential service aides at White Haven Center. Health fair to be conducted during LWS Auxiliary Fest Free health screenings will highlight Healthfest '94, the newest addition to Auxiliary Fest for Lutheran Welfare Service of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Auxiliary Fest and the new Healthfest will be held Saturday. Healthfest '94, independently sponsored by Lutheran Welfare Service, will feature free cholesterol and glucose tests and blood pressure screenings, as well as healthy exhibits by Lutheran Brotherhood and Lutheran Welfare Service. The Auxiliary Fest will be held from 11 a.m.

to 6 p.m. Healthfest '94 will be held from noon to 4 p.m. in Amity Village, a senior residential community owned and operated by Lutheran Welfare Service. The health screenings programs will be offered in one of the homes on Amity Lane. The home is located directly adjacent to the Steigerwalt Center and opposite the Amity Lane apartments.

The By ERMA BOMBECK To many women (me included), shopping has always been like sex with the lights on lust for something, the titillation of conquest, the seductive moment when you become one, the emptiness when it's over. Women are in control when they shop and the struggle of cruising up and down aisle after aisle picking and discarding items is half the fun. I never thought the day would come when my sisters would sit in front of the TV set watching a shopping network and buying the first and only pair of earrings put in front of them. That's not shopping. Shopping, if you do it right, will do you in.

It has the capacity to turn a happy homemaker into a woman who warms up pizza with freezer burns and serves it on paper plates. It's wandering aimlessly through a store and not knowing what day it is, what the weather outside is like or where you left your car. It's a total commitment to trying on every shoe in the store, even if it isn't your size, and asking the price of everything, including the water cooler by the elevator. Where have all the courageous women gone? The ones who used to stand outside the department stores and wait for the bell to ring and the doors to be unlocked so they could lead the charge to the EOM clearance rack? Sixty million women are parked daily in front of the home shopping networks eating Fritos and dialing the phone with wet nails. Will the retail foot soldiers become an endangered species? I'm telling you, home shoppers, you are trading reality for illusions.

Example: You have a rear end that looks like an IMAX screen. Vanna White appears on your shopping network wearing one of her creations. You reach for the phone, never stopping to there are a lot of retired seniors living here. I was having dinner at a famous Miami Beach deli when an elderly woman with a cane passed my table. I overheard her ask a waiter where the ladies' room was.

He pointed to a very steep staircase and walked away. I knew this lady would need some assistance, so I asked my waiter to offer her mine. She accepted, and I invited her to join me for dinner. Over the next 2 hours, I learned about her life of 92 years. She had been a widow for 25 years, and had four children and 12 grandchildren.

Only two of those people had remembered her that day. My dinner with this truly grand woman left me feeling richer. Abby, I am a 32-year-old man, living alone and HIV-positive; therefore, it is quite probable that I will not have the opportunity to share the next 60 years with my mother on her very special day. I want my mother to know that I appreciate the life and unconditional love she has given me over the last 32 years. If she sees this, she will know that every day is Mother's Day to me.

FLORIDA SON DEAR FLORIDA SON: What a sweetheart you are. On the off chance that your mother doesn't see this, why don't you clip it and mail it to her? It would be a shame for her to miss this loving message. DEAR ABBY: Thank you, thank you, for that beautiful "message" about our flag, which you published on the Fourth of July. Sadly, it was the only reference to the flag in the newspaper that day oh, excuse me, there was one other mention of the flag. It concerned the fact that a resident of San Rafael, was fined $50 for having flown a flag over his rented condominium.

He received a note from the manager asking him, "Please be considerate of your neighbors and protect the value of your home by keeping your flag in the FLAG- WAVER IN BAINBRIDGE, GA. think that you've seen bigger road-kills than Vanna White. You will not look the same as she does in that dress. Store shoppers, on the other hand, must fight the battle of the fitting rooms and the cruel funhouse mirrors. They will know before they leave the store that the dress makes them look like they could hover over the Super Bowl.

It has taken women 20 years to get out of the house. Now home' shopping is sucking us back into it. I read a quote the other day should be our battle cry: "Money can't buy happiness. That's what shopping is for." a Susan and Nickolas Fazio Susan Banker bride of Nickolas M. Fazio and Melissa McNerny, Kenhorst.

Robert J. Fazio, Warminster, was best man for his brother, and ushers were John M. Fazio, Virginia Beach, the groom's son who is serving with the U.S. Navy; Ray C. Creitz, Kutztown, and Roger D.

Gudeman, Greer, S.C. A graduate of Marengo High School, Marengo, the bride is employed in inside sales with Can Corporation of America, Blandon. The groom, a graduate of Reading High School, Reading, attended the MTA Truck Driver School in Elizabethtown and served seven years with the U.S. Army Security Agency. The Vietnam veteran is employed as equipment manager with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Carbon County, Lehighton.

The bride was honored at showers held at the Hitching Post Restaurant, Sinking Springs, and at the home of her matron of honor in Virginville. The rehearsal dinner was held at the Ivanhoe Restaurant, Drums. Susan Beall Banker, R.R. 3, Kutztown, daughter of Gordon and Genevieve Beall, Palm Bay, and Nickolas M. Fazio, R.R.

3, Kutztown, son of Joseph F. Fazio, Reading, formerly of Hazleton; and the late Dora (Mesisca) Fazio, were married at 4 p.m. July 9 in Carmen's County Inn, Drums. Judge Jeffrey K. Sprecher performed the double ring ceremony.

Following a reception at the Country Inn, the couple left for a honeymoon at the Bora Bora Lagoon Resort in Bora Bora and the Park Royal Beachcomber Hotel in Tahiti. They now reside in Kutztown. Given in marriage by her father, the bride chose Georgeanne Ulrich, Virginville, as her matron of honor. The bridesmaids were Michele Hagan, West Melbourne, Dixie Schreiner, Atlanta, Annual 'Race for the Cure' to be held Sept. 10th in Scranton The fourth annual regional Race For The Cure, a unique all-women's event sponsored by the Northeastern Chapter of the Susan G.

Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, will be held Sept. 10 in Scranton. The race, a 5K (3.1 miles) and one mile fun walk, is one of the Komen Foundation's major fund raising components. The Foundation, a national nonprofit organization, represented in 48 cities throughout 30 states and the District of Columbia, has raised over $19 million and has become the largest private funder of research, dedicated solely to breast cancer in the United States. Through its continuing effort to advance education, research, screening and treatment, hundreds of thousands of women each year receive the life-saving message of early detection.

The area Komen Foundation chapter was initiated when Judy Murray, a 35-year-old Scranton woman and mother of three daughters, succumbed to breast cancer after a three-year battle with the disease. This year's race begins at 8:30 a.m. The route follows Wyoming Avenue to Green Ridge Street and returns to Courthouse Square via North Washington Avenue. Registration is $15 before Sept. 1, and $20 after that date.

Children 12 and under can register for $5. For more information on the Race For The Cure of breast cancer or to register for multi-county event, call 1-800- 650-CURE. house also is directly across the street from the main activities. "There will be screenings set up in several of the rooms in the home and the exhibits will be set up in several others," said Pat Savage, LWS director of operations. "LWS has always benefited from the Auxiliary Fest," said Ms.

Savage, who added, "We are proud to be a direct participant this year. We hope that many of those attending Auxiliary Fest will take advantage of the opportunity to receive a free health screening and, if they wish, a mini-tour of one of our senior living residences." Auxiliary Fest, filled with food, fun and entertainment, will be held on the parking lot between St. Luke Manor and St. Luke Pavilion, off Route 93, Hazleton. The Fest will also feature a Chinese auction and there will be collectibles as well as many other items for sale.

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