| High Tech North students earn gold, silver at Skills USA
When students from High Tech North competed in the recent Region IV Skills USA competition in Sarasota, three won impressive awards for their hard work in the culinary arts and technical drawing categories.
One adult student, Kala Baran, won two gold medals when she competed in commercial baking and culinary arts. High schoolers Danny Rodriguez and Tyler Newell earned gold and silver medals, respectively, in the technical drawing category.
Skills USA is a national competition held at various locations across Florida where students from vocational and technical training programs showcase the skills they have learned in their school�s programs.
�The students are all well trained and compete well against other students,� said Robert Fain, assistant director at High Tech North.
Administrator named New Paris principal
BENTON, Ind. — An assistant principal at Fairfield Junior-Senior High School was named principal of New Paris Elementary School.Lisa Litwiller was given the nod Thursday evening during the Fairfield School Board meeting. Litwiller will replace Charles Richards who resigned earlier this year. She will take her place July 1 with a starting annual salary of $79,573.A committee of five members, representing staff and administration of Fairfield Community Schools, reviewed 20 applications for the post in recent weeks."I have to say that it was an overwhelming majority that recommended Lisa," Superintendent Tom Tumey said."That will be a very good fit," board member Brent Welty added.Litwiller looks forward to her job, and the position within the corporation."I'm going to miss everyone at the junior-senior high school but I'm very excited to make the move," Litwiller said.The board also approved the resignation of Roger Zentz, administrative assistant for business."This is the sad news," Tumey said.
Learn How To Carve A Ham
For some folks, roasting a turkey or baking a ham is the easy part; carving it is the challenge. As Easter approaches, there is help on the Internet as the Jones Dairy Farm website, www.jonesdairyfarm.com, posts three videos to teach viewers the art of slicing. Philip Jones, the family-owned company's president and a Paris-trained chef, gives the demonstrations, which also are available in step-by-step photo form. He carves three hams: a spiral-sliced, a semi-boneless and an old-fashioned ham. The website also offers recipes and tips.
Celebrating The PotatoFood lovers can celebrate the International Year of the Potato and meet an award-winning chef at a CTShowcase event March 24 at 5:30 p.m. at the Hilton Hartford Hotel, 315 Trumbull St., Hartford.
The Hilton's executive chef, Peter Dwyer, recently won his first American Culinary Federation gold medal in a competition sponsored by the professional chefs' group.
In the Kitchen: Chef Konrad Mayerhofer of Konrad’s
They're survivors! No, I'm not praising pantywaists playing heroes on television's so-called reality shows. This week my attention is focused on one of Marco Island's Chef/ Restaurant Owners who have survived (for 10 years or more) in a capricious Marco Island tourist-driven or affluent retiree (take your pick, I'm easy) economy. These extraordinary chefs came to the island and loved what they saw. They decided to settle and stayed to open a restaurant because they loved what they do — continue to cook for an appreciative clientele in their thriving and popular restaurants. These committed, classic European chefs were barely teenagers when they decided they wanted to learn to cook in a restaurant kitchen and then signed on as apprentices to veritable “Chefs from Hell" who ruled like gods in the kitchens of grand European hotels.
Speakers say Mini-Cassia economy looks bright
Speaker after speaker delivered glowing reviews and even brighter predictions about Mini-Cassia's economic future at a symposium held Thursday night at Morey's Steakhouse in North Burley, sponsored by Mini-Cassia Economic Development Commission (MCEDC).The only bad news of the evening was a discussion about how to find and train a workforce to take all the employment opportunities headed Mini-Cassia's way."You're hotter than a pistol and I don't think it's going to go away for awhile," said Jan Rogers, director for the Southern Idaho Economic Development Organization (SIEDO).Rogers described SIEDO as the marketing arm for the region and told gathered elected officials and business leaders they are targeting green-oriented business as well as culinary schools and vineyards.Steve Hartgen, representing Business Plus, said Twin Falls and the Magic Valley will see a lot of an estimated influx of 750,000 new residents in Idaho over the next 20 years.
Special prices, special meals offered during Eats Week in Manchester
Has the economic slowdown stopped you from going out to eat or trying a new place? For the second year, Manchester offers Eats Week, when downtown and Millyard restaurants will offer items at reduced prices or those not usually on their menus. Eats Weeks is a version of Restaurant Week, which culinary meccas such as Boston and New York City offer to entice people to visit and eat in their restaurants. Eats Week is also a "thank you" to the restaurants participating in Intown Manchester's "A Taste of Downtown Manchester" event, according to Samantha Appleton, special projects administrator for Intown Manchester. She said restaurants participating in "A Taste of Downtown" put a lot of time and talent into the event, producing enough food for 1,000 people.
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