| Angel Food Ministries helps feed the family
Spend $25 before Feb. 11 at any of four local churches, and you can collect between $50 and $65 worth of groceries Saturday, Feb. 24.
Sound too good to be true? Not this time.
The churches, First United Methodist Church, Kingsbury Baptist Church, Second Baptist Church and Living Waters Worship Center, are participating with Angel Food Ministries, an 11-year-old, Georgia-based, non-denominational outreach program, which provides food to more than half a million families each month in 32 states.
The program is coordinated in this region by Pastor Lynn Beams of Prevailing Word Church in Lytle, who acknowledged that Angel Food Ministries offer might not be believable to those new to the program and its work.
The first thing people think when they see that much for that little is that theres got to be something wrong with it, and thats just not the case, Beams said.
They pack up caring in a carton
After a long career in retail merchandising and marketing, Joseph Bombara, of Mt. Lebanon, retired from the corporate world, but soon found a different kind of job. He's working 20 hours a month as volunteer coordinator for a monthly food distribution called the Angel Food Ministries at his church, South Hills Assembly of God Church in Bethel Park. .
WAREHOUSING SECTOR MUST GEAR UP TO MEET CHALLENGE OF SURGING ...
Secretary, Food & Public Distribution, Shri T. Nanda Kumar, today highlighted the need to gear up the warehousing and supply chain management sector to meet the challenges arising out of surge in volumes of commodities.
In his key-note address at the international conference on Warehousing to Supply Chain Management - Complementary or Supplementary, Shri Nanda Kumar argued that the GDP growth of 9 percent, constant increase in volumes and reduction in unit cost of passenger and freight by the Railways, and huge investments in road infrastructure and rural connectivity are leading to fast increase in volumes in agriculture and manufacturing.
The challenge, therefore, is to move these goods to consumption centers within the country or outside in the most efficient manner.
Pet Interest
Especially if that doghouse is a David Salmon four-poster Mahogany, Georgian-style Pet Pavilion valued at $23,000. With the way people pamper their animals these days, you could say investing in the pet industry is like barking up the right tree. From PetSmart's PetsHotels business to $200 doggie Kimonos from Manhattan boutique Le Chien, companies are cashing in on the four-legged family member. And as the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show crowns the Best in Show in New York City Tuesday, with an estimated 4 million viewers watching on NBC Universal's USA Network, industry players say pets are more important than ever. "With the world so uncertain, people need something to count on," says Bob Vetere, president of the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association (APPMA).
Triumph over empire
At 90 years of age, The Helena May still has the panache to keep up with modern Hong Kong. Vaudine England tells her story Countless people have driven down Garden Road past an old colonial pile and never known what it was. Getting inside The Helena May, however, and discovering its great library and excellent dining is like finding the sexy underwear beneath a starched crinoline. Similar contrasts prevailed at the recent 90th birthday party of The Helena May. Young girls in pink tutus performed to tinkly music, and club grandees wore feathered purple hats and frumpy florals. Was this an outdated church fete which had got lost somewhere between England's southern counties and the exotic East? But a glance around the crowded, high-ceilinged lounge was reassuring. Here were Hong Kong's leading professionals, female and male, Chinese and all sorts of "others." Good food and cheerful ambience distinguish this unusual club of the colonial era, now thriving in modern Hong Kong.
Saimin a sensation in Hawaii
The great island state of Hawaii is its own melting pot, with the foods of the native Hawaiians blending with those of immigrant workers. A favorite hodgepodge Hawaiian specialty is saimin, a delicious noodle soup. The name probably comes by combining two Chinese words, one meaning "thin," the other, "noodle," but it can contain elements from every cuisine that contributed to early plantation culture — Chinese, Filipino, Hawaiian, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese.
Saimin is said to have begun as a snack at ball games in Honolulu Stadium, where it became more popular than hot dogs and hamburgers. Today, it is eaten as a snack or sometimes for breakfast. Even McDonald's serves saimin in Hawaii. Hawaiians would add a serving of rice to make it a real meal, but for mainlanders, saimin can make a satisfying lunch and is a way to use up leftovers without the rice.
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