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Page 8A THE BEACON July 2020 By Mary-Alice Helms My sister sighed as she sorted through the drawers full of antiques and collectibles that her late husband had accumulated over the years. “I just don’t know why he wanted to save some of this stuff,” she said. “For example, why in the world did he want this?” She held up an oddly shaped, decorated container of some sort. It looked like a vertical rectangular box, open at both ends, with a shallow trough at the bottom. “That’s a kitchen matchholder!” I cried. “Don’t you remember the one that always hung by the stove in Mother’s kitchen? It was white with red apples painted on it. She would slide the opened box of wooden kitchen matches in the top, and the match sticks would fall into the curved thing at the bottom. Oh, I love it!” Julie rolled her eyes, shook her head, and went on to the next item. While she sorted, we reminisced about the things that were common in houses when we were growing up, but are rarely seen in our mechanized, electronic society. Some items were considered essential in the wellequipped kitchen of the day. Others were just “knickknacks.” Kitchen walls were decorated with copper molds Knick-Knacks and Essentials that were used for creating fancy desserts and salads. Of course, a kitchen clock was a necessity, as was a calendar. The calendar might have a pretty picture for each month, or it could be a more austere freebie, embellished with advertising. Somewhere there had to be a fly swatter close at hand. Some of my friends’ mothers used fly-paper to control the pest population. Our mother thought that the rolls of sticky paper, hung from the ceiling, were nasty. She preferred the fly swatter. Every kitchen had its assortment of strainers. There were large pasta or vegetable strainers, small tea strainers, and many sizes in between. I still have a “tea ball,” an elongated metal ball, punched with holes, and with a screwon lid. When filled with tea leaves and steeped in hot water, it serves the same purpose as a teabag. Another handy type of strainer was made of rubber or plastic. Triangular in shape, it fit neatly into a corner of the sink. It was quite useful for catching scraps and peelings before they could clog the plumbing. Kitchen drawers were filled with a variety of odd-looking devices guaranteed to help the busy homemaker with her chores. Sometimes, nestled among the spatulas, was a cylindrical tube about four inches long. It was known as a “juicer.” To me, it looked like some kind of medieval instrument of torture. The smaller end was very sharp. It would cut a small hole through the rind and the fruit when twisted into a lemon or orange. It would then be turned upside down so that the juice could run out of the larger end into a glass or bowl. We thought it was great for cutting a hole in an orange from which we could suck the juice. Mother was not amused. Some seasonal essentials were stored in the basement until needed. These included the blue enameled canner as well as a bottle capper. That weird contraption consisted of a platform on which a filled bottle was placed. The bottle was sealed securely when a cap was put in place, and the heavy handle of the capper was ratcheted down with force. We had home bottled grape juice instead of soft drinks, and felt sorry for ourselves! None of the families we knew owned home freezers, so canning, bottling, and drying were the major food preservation methods of the time. Commanding an important spot on one of the cupboard shelves was an ancient flat iron. In some generation past, when it still owned a handle, it had been heated on a wood-burning stove and used for ironing All Saints Parish Summer Fun 3 Historic Indiana Festivals AllSaintsCatholic.net JULY 18 &19 | Dover, IN Saturday • 5pm-Midnight Food Stand (German Favorites)• Beer Garden • Raffles • Quilts Gaming • Kiddie Land Live Music by The Yorkridge Boys B & G Ice Cream Truck (Both Days) St. John Campus 131 EASTERN AVE SUNMAN, IN 07601 812-623-1310 Sunday • 11am - 9pm Chicken Dinner (11am-5pm) Beer Garden • Lunch Stand Gaming • Raffles • Country Store • Kiddie Land • Quilts Music by DJ Dan Morris St. John is located at 25743 State Route 1, Guilford, IN 47022. Directions: Church Festival is on SR 1, 2 miles South of I-74 at the Lawrenceburg-St. Leon exit. License #002595 St. Martin Campus JULY 25-26 | Yorkville, IN Saturday • 5:30pm-Midnight Food Stand • Beer Garden Raffles • Quilts • Gaming Kiddie Land Live Music by The Yorkridge Boys B & G Ice Cream Truck (Both Days) Sunday • 11am - 9pm 5k Country Run (9:30am) Chicken Dinner (11am-5pm) Beer Garden • Lunch Stand • Gaming Raffles • Quilts • Kiddie Land Country Store Music by DJ Makin’ Noise St. Martin is located at 8044 Yorkridge Rd, Guilford, IN 47022. Directions: I-275 to Lawrenceburg (exit 16), cross US50 and follow SR1 to Yorkridge Rd. Left on Yorkridge about 4 miles to church OR: I-74 to SR1 (3miles) to North Dearborn Rd, to New Alsace, left on Yorkridge to church. License #002595 AUGUST 8-9 | New Alsace, IN Saturday • 5pm-Midnight Pork Tenderloin Dinner (5pm-8pm) Food Stand • Beer Garden • Raffles Quilts • Gaming • Kiddie Land Live Music by Disorderly Conduct 4 VILLAGE RD BATESVILLE, IN 07823 812-934-4626 St. Paul Campus Sunday • 11am - 6pm Chicken Dinner (11am-5pm) - Family Style Beer Garden • Lunch Stand • Gaming Raffles • Country Store • Kiddie Land Quilts • Music by DJ Dan Morris Hoffman’s Mini Donuts (Sunday Only) the family’s clothes. After losing its handle, it became the surface upon which nuts were cracked. Placed upside down on the Sears and Roebuck catalog used as cushioning on a kitchen chair, the little iron would have a hickory nut or walnut put in place on its surface, and smacked with a kitchen hammer. The cracked nut would then be tossed into a waiting bucket. When the bucket was full, either Mother or Dad (or sometimes both) would sit on the porch or in front of the fireplace, and use nut picks to pry fat, delicious nut meats from the broken shells. What wonderful candies, cakes, and other delicacies were enhanced by those inexpensive nuts! We had no electric blender or chopper. Those things had not yet been invented when we were kids. Instead, we had cabbage graters, ricers, and a meat grinder—all powered by elbow grease. A cone-shaped sieve sat in a three-legged wire frame. Food was pushed through its pierced sides by a wooden pestle. Anything going M DEAR ARIE By Marie Segale marie@goBEACONnews.com through that process would be pulverized! An indispensable item that sat on nearly every kitchen stove was the grease container. Ours was made of some kind of brushed metal and had a tight-fitting lid with a black wooden knob. It would hold about a quart of grease, poured off of the mornings’ sizzling bacon. That was especially important “during the war” when there was no lard or shortening to be had. That leftover grease added a wonderful flavor to many a dish. Mother was justifiably proud of her Mixmaster mixer. She and Dad received it as a wedding gift in 1934. It was still going strong in the 40s. We had so many other popular kitchen items. I just can’t remember them all. There were the wall-hung can opener, the ever-present clothes sprinkler, and the dual-container egg poacher, just to name a few. Some of them might be considered collectible now. Others would just be junk. I sure would like to find another kitchen matchholder, though. Dear Marie, I have been concerned about rudeness in general, but lately I think the fear of the virus has made rudeness in our society worse. In general, my concern has been the rudeness of people who do not respond to text, email, or phone messages. Simply responding seems so easy to me, unless of course you are avoiding the person or conversation. And then I have to deal with my own emotion of getting very hot under the collar when I am having a hard time reaching a customer service representative. I can feel my anger grow when I have to go through a menu list of options or people to reach the department I am seeking. As that ends I am told there are ten calls in front of mine. Then I get a representative and I am faced with the knowledge the person on the other end doesn’t really speak English! Wow. What about the injustices and rudeness we face on the streets? When we are driving and get cut off by a rude person, how do we react? Do we honk the horn and make wild angry hand gestures? Do we consider the person is in a very big hurry? Has there been an emergency in that person’s life? How do we react? Marie, Is it true people have become ruder? Millie in Batesville Dear Millie, I think you have expressed what many of us have been thinking. You have pointed out how easily the smallest provocation gets us upset. While most of us have very busy lives and many responsibilities, we need to stop, take a deep breath, and think about the other person. Have a pressing issue? Contact Marie@goBEACON news.com We’re open & here to help year-round. Drop off your docs or work with a tax pro remotely. St. Paul is located at 9788 North Dearborn Rd, Guilford, IN 47022. Directions: From OH-Take I -74 to St. Leon-Lawrenceburg exit, follow markers. From KY-Take I-275 to I-74 to St. Leon-Lawrenceburg exit, follow markers. License #002595 $10,000 Big Money Raffle at All 3 Festivals All 3 are serving their famous chicken dinners! $12 for Adults • $6 Children (10 & Under) Dine In (Air Conditioning) or Carry Out Rediscover the Saints Exhibit at each Festival! 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July 2020 THE BEACON Page 9A FROM H ere By Ollie Roehm Last month’s column was about a bonehead mistake I made many years ago as the editor of a local newspaper. I took a photo at a Fourth of July parade and totally blew it when I wrote the caption. It read something like this: “A boy and his trusty dog enjoy a patriotic stroll down Harrison Avenue.” Not long after the paper hit the stands, I received a call from a very nice lady who informed me that the boy was her daughter, and the trusty dog was her pet goat. I apologized profusely and wrote a column the next week in which I corrected the mistake and had some fun at my own expense. Fast forward about fifteen to twenty years to last week. I received a Facebook message from a young woman I didn’t recognize. She told By John Hawley & Colleen Perfect Purdue Extension hawley4@purdue.edu me that she read the column in the Beacon with interest because she was the kid (pun intended) with the goat in the photo. She said her name was Maggie Waller, and the goat’s name was Sponge- Bob. And that’s not all folks. We became Facebook friends, and after reading some of her posts and seeing some photos, it became clear to me that she is a lover of animals and an all-around good person. I found out something else that tickled the heck out of me. Her grandmother, Margaret, is my neighbor, and our back yards are about thirty feet from each other. For many years I’ve seen a girl, now a woman, cut Margaret’s grass and had no idea that she was the infamous goat girl. What are the odds? Today she sent me the original column, which was a real kick for me. I thank her for all of the column fodder, her sense of humor, and for making an old man feel pretty danged good. Oh, and thanks a bunch to SpongeBob. As I’m sure you know, a Thriving with Aeroponic Gardening Aeroponic gardening systems utilize nutrient solutions mixed with water applied to the roots of plants. The nutrient-water solution is stored in the central basin where a pump is located. The pump cycles on/off throughout each twenty-four-hour period, moistening plant roots with nutrient-water solution. Therefore, the roots are either in air or the nutrient-water solution. The fact the plant roots spend most of the time in air is what makes aeroponic gardening strikingly different from hydroponic gardening. In hydroponic gardening, plant roots remain in solution at all times. Why I Call It My Easy Garden No soil, weeding, or daily watering are required in aeroponic gardening. Instead, the main requirements for maintaining an aeroponic garden include filling the 13-20 gallon basin with nutrient-water solution, placing seeds into Rockwool cubes, and plugging-in the water pump timer and light timer. As long as water is in the basin, you can sit back and watch it grow. How easy is that? The ease of aeroponic gardening is it is used both indoors and out. An aeroponic garden will thrive without any assistance for one to two weeks, making it much easier to keep a garden growing even when you are out-of-town. Less water; Less Space Significant differences in the amount of water and space required are found when comparing traditional in-ground gardening to aeroponic gardening. An aeroponic gardening system can grow thirty-plus plants in a 2.5ft x 2.5ft space. Furthermore, the water in an aeroponic gardening system is recycled and reused. Water is lost from the system only when the plant roots use the water or minimal loss through evaporation. Aeroponic gardening systems require 98% less water compared to conventional gardening. What’s not to Love? Aeroponic gardening is a simple way to grow food without requiring the amount of time and care needed for traditional gardening. No soil, no mess, no weeding, and no spraying (when growing indoors) are required. However, root vegetables cannot be grown in aeroponic gardens, and upfront costs are required to get started. Ready-to-go systems start at around $600, and homemade, DIY ideas river runs through West Harrison, Harrison, Brookville, and other communities around these parts. It’s a clean, beautiful river and it’s called the Whitewater. I was musing the other day about how many things in my life are tied to that river, and the word “Whitewater.” I graduated from Whitewater High School. It was located up the hill from Cedar Grove, a pretty little town graced by the flow of the river. Our granddaughters went to Whitewater Valley Elementary School on Campbell Road in Harrison. The Whitewater River is across the road. Those same angelic granddaughters now attend church at Whitewater Crossing Church. Back in the early ‘80s, my first experience with a rock ‘n roll band was in a group called Live Bait. Three of the members left a band called Whitewater to form Live Bait with me. I’m in a band right now with two of those guys. (We’re called Buffalo Smile, and we are available to perform at your event, bar, can cost less. Regardless, one of the best parts of aeroponic gardening systems is that people gain confidence from the ease and success of the process, serving as a gateway into traditional gardening, canning, etc. Many who grow with aeroponic gardens also grow root vegetables in traditional, in-ground gardens during the summer months. For additional information about aeroponic gardening or other agriculture and natural resources topics, please email hawley4@purdue.edu. You can also reach our office at 812-926-1189. yard, barn, or any place that has electricity and room for five musicians. Now, back to our regularly-scheduled programming.) We purchased a 2017 Chevrolet Equinox a few months ago. We are happy with the vehicle, but we weren’t all that thrilled about taking on a monthly payment. The purchase was made, and the financing was done through companies with the word “Whitewater” in their names. I suppose it’s not really all that surprising that I’ve had so many “Whitewater” encounters since the Whitewater River runs through town. But it is sort of cool. 7 1 5 8 5 3 1 2 8 9 4 7 5 9 4 6 8 6 9 7 1 8 5 8 4 3 7 6 7 1 Sudoku Sudoku is a logical puzzle game that may seem difficult at first glance, but actually it is not as hard as it looks! Fill a number in to every cell in the grid, using the numbers 1 to 9. You can only use each number once in each row, each column, and in each of the 3×3 boxes. The solution can be found on our website www.goBEACONnews.com/print_ edition. Click on the link for Sudoku and view the solution for this month and last. Good luck and have fun! 215 E. Broadway St, P.O. 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