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Healthy lunches provide fuel for the day

By Murray Green

Getting fueled for your workday doesn’t have to be grueling.

Taking just a short time each week to create a meal plan will fuel your work week. Plan to have ingredients on hand to prepare nutrient-dense foods that meet your preferences, daily demands for time and whether you are at home or on the go, suggests Alberta Health Services.

Follow Canada’s Food Guide and use the Healthy Plate Model to fill your plate with vegetables and fruits, whole grains and protein foods.

Planning is key to healthy eating. Without planning, people often turn to foods that are less healthy. Set aside a time each week to plan meals for the week. Use a calendar or your favourite app and select recipes to prepare for the week. Don’t forget breakfast and snack foods. A little pre-planning goes a long way.

Look at the upcoming week’s activities. If you know that you have activities or commitments after work, maybe that’s a good night to plan a slow cooker meal or leftovers.

Consider recipes that use the same ingredients. It helps reduce waste and save money. For example, use lettuce one day for salad and another day for tacos.

Involve your family. Ask them for input and get them to share ideas for new recipes to try or include old favourites.

Before you shop, make a list of the ingredients needed to make the recipes you selected. Keep previous menus and favourite recipes for later use.

Shop for ingredients to make meals and recipes, not just food. If you don’t have a plan for perishable food, it can lead to food waste and higher food costs over time.

Check your pantry, fridge and freezer for staples. Make your list based on what you need to make the recipes you have selected.

Choose healthy ingredients. Start with healthy, whole ingredients like fruits, vegetables, whole grain foods and protein foods.

Use time-saving appliances and tools such as a slow cooker, pressure cooker or mini chopper.

Prepare ingredients ahead of time. For example, wash and chop vegetables and fruit as part of putting groceries away.

Involve the family in food preparation. Delegate tasks that match the food preparation skill or ability of the helper.

Cook once and eat twice. Make larger batches of recipes so you have a meal to eat now. Then freeze meals for another time.

Consider time-saving ingredients such as mini carrots, precut vegetables, shredded cheese and rotisserie chicken.

Cook chicken, fish, beans or tofu for supper one day. Then add leftovers to wraps, salads or quesadillas, or toss into soup.

To ensure that we get good healthy fuel during our work days, we need to pack that healthy fuel with us.

Have the right supplies on hand to make portable meals and snacks easy, such as containers, ice packs, a lunch kit or Thermos.

Make packing your next day’s lunch part of your supper kitchen time routine to free up time in the morning.

Individually package multiple days of the foods you eat often. For example, package overnight oats into containers in the fridge for several breakfasts.

Don’t forget about snacks and hydration to fuel your workday. Snacks aren’t just for children. Unpredictable schedules can turn our mealtimes upside down. Snacks keep you energized, provide important nutrients missed at meals and help satisfy your hunger between mealtimes.

‘Rink Rats’ reunion

By Lori Larsen

Cleaning the arena ice wasn’t always the job of the modern day ice cleaners. In fact, it was quite an arduous task that more often than not took a crew of three people or more to manually shovel for almost an hour.

Those unsung heroes, however, have not gone forgotten. In fact, one particular Camrose group of “Rink Rats” is fondly remembered by Dennis Pellrene.

“In the age before the Zamboni, in the mid 1950s, volunteer youths from the east end of Camrose scraped and cleaned the ice between periods of the Maroon games and were on call for any other events through the week,” recalled Dennis.

“Of course, there were rats before us and after, but this was sort of our club.”

A club that consisted of Walter Byers, John and Jim Kehoe, Kerry Grettum, Dennis Pellrene, Don Syrnyk, Dale Sjervin, Dennis Mohler and Lyle Holmes. According to Pellrene, Dennis Mohler and Lyle Holmes have since passed away.

“The reward was that we could play hockey after the Maroon games while Prosper Atkinson and his helper Elmer would clean the seating area.”

The Camrose Maroons were an intermediate hockey team playing in the 1940s and 1950s, including some seasons in the Central Alberta Hockey League. The Maroons won the Alberta intermediate A championship in 1948.

“This building was the mecca of hockey, all other hockey was played on outdoor rinks,” said Pellrene.

“It was fun and, of course, we could see all the Maroon games and on occasion get a broken stick, take it home, glue it and clamp it. Now, I had another stick to use on the way to school practicing my stick handling skills.”

Simple rewards for simpler times one might say, as Pellrene shared that another advantage of the hard labour these “rink rats” put in was once the ice melted in the spring, they could play broom ball on the slippery surface.

Hoping to share some more memories and no doubt a few laughs, Pellrene is planning a reunion of the “Rink Rats” of the 1950s on September 6, at 9 a.m. at the Norsemen Inn and invites any of the group who are still around, or anyone else who would like to spend some time reminiscing of an era gone by, to come down and join him.

By Murray Green

There are many studies that show taking zinc and/ or vitamin D makes a huge difference in fighting off virus infections.

In Canada, we can lack vitamin D because it’s produced in your skin in response to sunlight. It’s a fat-soluble vitamin in a family of compounds that includes vitamins D-1, D-2, and D-3.

Your body produces vitamin D naturally when it’s directly exposed to sunlight. You can also get it through certain foods and supplements to ensure adequate levels of the vitamin in your blood.

Vitamin D has several important functions. Perhaps the most vital are regulating the absorption of calcium and phosphorus and facilitating normal immune system function. Getting a sufficient amount of vitamin D is important for normal growth and development of bones and teeth, as well as improved resistance against certain diseases.

If your body doesn’t get enough vitamin D, you’re at risk of developing bone abnormalities such as soft bones (osteomalacia) or fragile bones (osteoporosis).

Here are more surprising benefits of vitamin D. In addition to its primary benefits, research suggests that vitamin D may also play a role in reducing your risk of multiple sclerosis, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, decreasing your chance of developing heart disease, according to findings published in Circulation Trusted Source.

It helps to reduce your likelihood of developing the flu, according to research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition Trusted Source.

Consider adding vitamin D supplements to your diet if you’re trying to lose weight or prevent heart disease.

In one study, people taking a daily calcium and vitamin D supplement were able to lose more weight than subjects taking a placebo supplement. The scientists said the extra calcium and vitamin D had an appetite-suppressing effect.

In another study, overweight people who took a daily vitamin D supplement improved their heart disease risk markers.

Many factors can affect your ability to get sufficient amounts of vitamin D through the sun alone. These factors include being in an area with high pollution, using sunscreen, spending more time indoors, living in big cities where buildings block sunlight and having darker skin.

These factors contribute to vitamin D deficiency in an increasing number of people. That’s why it’s important to get some of your vitamin D from sources besides sunlight.

The symptoms of a vitamin D deficiency in adults include tiredness, aches and pains, and a general sense of not feeling well, severe bone or muscle pain, or weakness that may cause difficulty climbing stairs or getting up from the floor or a low chair, or cause you to walk with a waddling gait.

Doctors can diagnose a vitamin D deficiency by performing a simple blood test. If you have a deficiency, your doctor may order X-rays to check the strength of your bones.

Community Registration Night

By Lori Larsen

Camrose and area has a variety of clubs, organizations and businesses aimed at getting residents out and active and taking advantage of recreation, educational, hobby, art, culture, entertainment and volunteer opportunities.

Camrose Adult Learning Council will once again be hosting the Community Registration Night on Thursday, September 8 from 6:30 until 9 p.m. at the Field House (4516-54 Street).

For more information on the Community Registration Night, visit the CALC website at www.camroselearning.com or phone 780-672-8754.

Central Agencies Realty Home of the Week

Investment property

Al-Karim (Al) Mohamed

Matt Banack

By Lori Larsen

If you are looking for a way to subsidize your retirement or you would like an investment property where you can live in one unit and be an on-site manager for the other three units, this bi-level four-plex may be the perfect investment.

The four-unit property is currently fully rented and is a good location for young families. It is close to schools, playgrounds, parks and City recreational facilities.

The interior of the units has seen some recent updates which keeps renters happy and makes renting the properties more appealing.

Each of the four units has a fully functional kitchen with stove and refrigerator. The in-suite washer and dryer are a great convenience for occupants.

A four-piece bathroom and two bedrooms offering some options, including using one as a home office or home gym, are featured in each unit.

Individual metering, separate furnaces, hot water tanks and their own laundry area makes for independent living among all occupants of the property.

There are also four parking stalls with back alley access allowing each occupant their own private place to park.

Invest in your future with this four-plex property located at 128 Mount Pleasant Drive and priced at $425,000. For a private viewing, contact Al-Karim (Al) Mohamed or Matt Banack at:

Central Agencies Realty 4870-51 Street, Camrose 780-672-4495 Al’s cell 587-322-5511 Matt’s cell 780-608-9733

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The boy solemnly answered, “Yes.”

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