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A TURKEY?
By Mark Fagan
Terek Stoll, first grade “First we always get the turkey from the store, and then we just put it in the oven and it lasts for a couple minutes, for 20 hours and 30 seconds. Then you get it out and take the skin out. Then it tastes like turkey.”
You can ask Mom. Or look it up on Wikipedia. Or call the Butterball hotline. Or trust some of the youngest, brightest, most imaginative minds on the planet — first- and second-graders at Schwegler School — for advice in preparing your holiday turkey. Or not. “They’re great kids,” said Laura Hollinger, a library media assistant at the school, 2201 Ousdahl Road, “but no, I’m not doing that.” Are you game? Feel free to sample creativity from these answers to a simple question asked over lunch Tuesday at the school: So, just how do you make a turkey?
Geraldlynn Guingao, first grade “First, you hunt for a turkey. Then you put the stuffing in there, the stuff that makes it good. Then you put it in the oven, and you take it out and put salt on it. And that’s how you make a turkey. It takes eight minutes.”
Kyle Ramer, second grade “You either hunt it or you buy it. You take the feathers off, and then you get the stuff inside of it out, and then you stuff it and cook it and cut it and slice it. You cook it about 30 minutes, maybe. It’s a big, big turkey — 30 (pounds), 40 maybe.”
Kemi Ojeleye, first grade “You just put your hand on the paper, and you trace your hand, and then the thumb is the head and then you start making the legs.” (So, how do you make a real turkey?) “Oh. I don’t know that.”
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Fundraising goal exceeded for shelter By Shaun Hittle sdhittle@ljworld.com
Taikai Morrison, first grade “What’s 10 plus 10? 20. You cook it for 20 minutes. … I can tell you how to make cookies.”
Amiyah Sanders, first grade “You look for a turkey and you have to go to a store and buy it, or go hunt a turkey and then you have to cook it. With salt. And pepper.”
Thanks to 630 different donors, who gave more than $890,000 in fewer than eight weeks, the Lawrence Community Shelter will celebrate next Thanksgiving at a new loTHE NUMBERS cation. The money — every! Total raised: thing from $5 bills to a $100,000 check — poured $3,058,665 ! Donations secured in “from people we don’t even know,” said John Ta- before October 2011: cha, shelter board member, $1,345,000 ! Donations at a news conference Monday in front of the current received during recent campaign: $894,876 shelter, 214 W. 10th St. ! Mabee Foundation Tacha announced the shelter exceeded its goal Grant: $540,000 ! Housing and of raising $815,000 by a Thanksgiving Day dead- Urban Development line in order to meet re- grant: $200,000 ! Federal stimulus quirements for a $540,000 matching grant from the grant: $78,789 Mabee Foundation. The funds secured now exceed the $3 million needed to purchase and renovate a 25,000-square-foot warehouse at 3701 Franklin Park Circle, just east of Douglas County Jail. Please see SHELTER, page 6A
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Chase Felmlee, second grade “You put the turkey in the oven, and then there’s this little thing — once it pops up, it’s red. Once it pops up, you take it out of the oven. Probably takes a half an hour.”
Kevin Honas, second grade “You put spice on it, and you will want to stuff it.”
Micah Barron, first grade “Shoot it and then you pull off its skin. Then pull out the bones. Some people don’t like bones.”
Plan would replace mobile home park with apartments By Chad Lawhorn clawhorn@ljworld.com
Samuel Yeadon, second grade “You put it in the oven for, like, two hours and 30 seconds, and then you put the stuffing inside of it, and that’s how you cook a turkey. It’s easy. I did it before.”
Alacia Beeson, second grade “There’s miniturkeys and big turkeys. If you cook three mini ones, you put them in the stove, in a pot — a big, black pot — for 28 minutes. At 30 degrees. And then you’re all done. You eat them. You can put lettuce and a huge tomato on top.”
Samuel Yeadon (again), second grade (still) “I’m half German. They don’t pluck the feathers out. They cook it first. They cook it, chop off the head and take the feathers out, and stuff it and cook it again. You cook it the first time for, like, one hour and 30 seconds. Then, the next time, you cook it for 30 minutes and 50 seconds. It’s good.”
Nearly 1,000 student bedrooms are being planned for an area just east of the Home Depot and Best Buy shopping area at 31st and Iowa streets. Officials with Austin, Texas-based Aspen Heights hope to build 352 apartment units that would add 994 bedrooms to the area, according to documents filed at Lawrence City Hall. The development would replace the current Gaslight Village Mobile Home Park that houses about 150 mobile homes. Attempts to reach representatives of Aspen Heights weren’t successful Tuesday, but the owner of the mobile home park said the project would be a benefit for the area. “They have a good plan for the area,” said Tom Horner III, an officer for the Edwardsville-based company that owns the mobile home park. “I think it is going to be good for everyone, especially the city.” Horner said his company hasn’t yet set any Please see APARTMENTS, page 2A
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