FAMILY & CONSUMER SCIENCESNewsletter

McCracken County Extension Homemakers

August 2016Aug 2 Living Well, “Starting Your Day the Healthy

Way: Quick Breakfast Ideas”, 11:00am

Aug 2 Toolbox Series, “Fall Gardening”, 5:00pm

July 7 County Chairman meeting, 9:30am

Aug 8 Quilting Club, 9:30amBusiness meeting

Aug 9 Officer & Chairman Training 9:30-12:00Rescheduled date

Aug 15 Quilting Club, 9:30am, drop in

Aug 16 Deadline to buy Annual Day Tickets

Aug 16 “Bags of Love”, 9:30am

Aug 22 Garden Club, 9:30am

Aug 22 Cultural Arts drop off 9:00-12:00Extension Office

Aug 23 County Annual Day, 9:30 Registration10:00 meeting, cost $10

Aug 30 “The Buzz About Honey”, 1:30pm

Sept 9 Arts & Crafts, Folded Book Art to be taught by Cindy Shelby 9:30am

Room Use Policy:Each group that uses the meeting rooms needs to turn in the sign-in sheet and the completed “room use form”to Nancy when leaving. Thank you!

Notes from President Susan Seay

Having a good Summer Homemakers??!!! My Summer has been extremely busy with work, with preparing another Great Year for Homemakers. New events, new officers, new plans, and hopefully new Clubs for the coming year are being planned for our new year of Homemakers.

With working on the closing of last year, I noticed as well as the other Ladies whom assisted in tallying the results, that not many Clubs are reporting activities of your year!! Makes us wonder if you realize the importance of the Chair Reports, the Volunteer Service Unit Hours, the Club of the Year reports?

We are McCracken County Homemakers are mandated by State level Extension Homemakers to participate in the provided reports for the continuation of our Extension Service and our Agent on the County level!! Didn’t know this, did you? If you do not participate in these activities and report your activities for your community and your Homemaker’s community, we could lose funding, lose our Agent, lose our Extension Service. We really do not want this to happen, especially with our new building coming along!

So you do matter with what you do in your community, and your Homemakers. So take a few minutes each time you do a helpful task for your community, attend a lesson, attend your Club meeting, prepare a lesson to give, reach out to others, whatever you do to better someone else life write this down on the Volunteer Service Unit worksheet located in the yearbook. Be proud of what you do and let us know it for the sake of our beloved Homemakers.

I really appreciate the work from those who devote endless hours just keeping us afloat with each year. I also appreciate the Staff of our Extension Office working with us endlessly assisting us to accomplish what we do each year. As my last year as your President, help me keep Extension Homemakers going forever more by reporting your activities. Let’s keep Homemakers alive, forever more.

CooperativeExtensionServiceMcCrackenCounty2705OlivetChurch RoadPaducah,KY42001(270)554-9520Fax:(270)554-8283extension.ca.uky.edu

New Building UpdateThe completion date is set for September 30th.It will take a week or two to get moved into the new building. Events will be rescheduled accordingly..

1st Tuesday of month 11am to 12pm

August 2 11:00 amStarting Your Day the Healthy Way: Quick

Breakfast Ideas

Join as Master Food Volunteers show you healthier ways to jump start your morning.

September 6 11:00 amAre You Prepared If Disaster Strikes?

Listen to a Red Cross Representative give tips on how to be prepared!

County Annual Day“RacingforHomemakers”Tuesday,August23rd1st ChristianChurch9:30registration10:00meeting

$10TicketsavailablenowMenu:

Chicken&TunaSaladSandwichesPastaSaladFruitCup

Get your tickets by August 16Cateredby:ParkersDrive-In

Ifyouarebuyingticketsforyourentireclubpleaseletyourclubmembersknow.Norefundscanbe

madeonticketssold.

Every club needs to bring a $10 door prize.

Monday,August22ndDropoffyourCulturalArtsEntries

9:00-12:00CooperativeExtensionService

TheBuzzAboutHoneyAugust30,1:30pm

Honey is one of our most ancient foodsources, but what do you really knowabout honey? This lesson is designed toinform you about Kentucky honeyproduction, its benefits, and ways to usehoney in our diets and cooking.

Brandon Springs Leisure Craft CampSeptember16,17&18thThecostforcampis$90fortheweekendor$25forSaturdaymealsincluded.Majorcraftsincludebaskets,scrapbookcrafts,sewing,ceramics,gourds,needletatting,knitting,aprons,beading,painting,stainedglass,quiltingoncards,yardandhomedecorations.Feesrangefrom$2to$25percraft.Formoreinformationgotohttp://tiny.cc/LCCnLBLwhereyoucanviewthecampbookletfor2016.

2016-2017 LearningLessons

September

The Buzz AboutHoney

October

Slow Cookingfor Fast Times

November

Commercial Break Exercises

January

Boosting Your Brain Power

February

Social media

March

MediterraneanCuisine Comes to You

April

Unique Uses for Canning Jars

May

Essential Oils

Purchase Area Homemaker Annual DayUK & KEHA-A Winning TraditionSeptember 27, 2016 Life Center

Registration 9:30am Meeting 10:00amCultural Arts accepted September 26 10-12

Speaker :Adolph Rupp, The CoachDr. Edward B. Smith

Attire: Show that UK Pride

Cost $12.00 per personRegister by September 16th

One check per county written to Carlisle County Homemakers

A new program has started through the Merryman House, which is the domestic violence shelter in Paducah that covers all of the purchase area, as well as many people from Livingston and Lyon who seek services through there. The program is called Birthday Builders. Through this program the staff at the Merryman House are looking for volunteers who would be willing to bake a cake/donate a $25 Toys R Us gift card/dressup in a costume/etc to make the birthdays of children who are staying in the shelter just a little more special.

Each child would be given a gift card for their present and then a Merryman House staff member would take them to the store to spend their money. If you are interested in helping please let me know by calling or emailing denise.wooley@uky.edu.

Denise J. WooleyCounty Agent for Family & Consumer SciencesDW/nw

Mediterranean Salad

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and

kindness.Confucius--Born: 551 BC--Died: 479 BC

Chinese Philosopher and Author

http://www.brainyquote.com/

Kindness Quote

Dressing ingredients:¼ cup olive oil3 tablespoons red wine vinegar½ teaspoon Dijon mustard2 teaspoons garlic, minced1 teaspoon dried oreganosalt and pepper to taste

Salad ingredients:1 large head romaine lettuce, chopped½ medium red onion, diced1 (15 ounce) can no-salt-added chickpeas,drained and rinsed1 large green bell pepper, diced1 pint grape tomatoes1 medium cucumber, sliced4 ounces reduced-fat feta cheese,Crumbled¼ cup whole black olives, pitted

In a Mason jar (or small bowl), combine dressing ingredients. Tightly screw on the lid and shake to combine.In a large bowl, combine salad ingredients and toss with prepared dressing.

4H Sewing Club Volunteers needed for next school year. Please contact Linda Heflin

or Amanda Wilson, 4H agent.

Makes6servingsServingsize:1½cupsofsaladwith1¹⁄3tablespoonsofdressingCostperrecipe:$8.16Costperserving:$1.36Nutritionfactsperserving:250calories;13gtotalfat;3gsaturatedfat;0gtransfat;5mgcholesterol;340mgsodium;23gcarbohydrate;7gfiber;5gsugar;10gproteinNote: Tolowerthecostofthisrecipe,useParmesancheeseinplaceoffetacheese.Source:JeannieNajor,SeniorExtensionAssociateforKentuckyNutrition,EducationProgram,UniversityofKentuckyCooperativeExtensionService

https://mccracken.ca.uky.edu/homemakers