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Breakfast for dinner Don’t let time dictate your favorite foods

Bacon and Corn Griddle Cakes 8 slices bacon, cut into 1/2-inch pieces 1/3 cup finely chopped sweet onion 1 cup all-purpose flour 2 tablespoons chopped fresh chives 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper 2/3 cup milk 1 large egg, beaten 1 tablespoon canola or vegetable oil 1 cup frozen, canned or fresh corn 1/2 cup shredded Monterey Jack cheese Warm maple syrup, for serving In a medium skillet, cook the bacon pieces until they begin to brown. Add the onion and continue to cook until the bacon is crisp and the onion is softened. Scoop out a heaping tablespoon of the bacon mixture for topping the griddle cakes upon serving and set it aside.

While the bacon is cooking, combine the flour, chives, baking powder, salt and pepper in a medium bowl. Stir in the milk, egg and oil, just until moistened. Stir in the bacon mixture, corn and cheese. The mixture will be thick. If you’d like the griddle cakes to be slightly thinner, add a little more milk to thin out the batter.

Heat and grease a griddle or large skillet.

Pour a heaping 1/4 cup of the batter onto the griddle and cook until it is golden brown, three to four minutes per side. Repeat with the remaining batter.

Serve stacks of griddle cakes topped with a sprinkle of the reserved bacon and onion and a good dose of warm maple syrup.

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By BROOKE VANCLEAVE St. Joseph News-Press

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izzling bacon. Fluffy pancakes. Dark coffee.

Thick sausage gravy blanketing warm biscuits.

These just-rolled-outof-bed comfort foods are morning staples. But why restrict breakfast foods to just breakfast time? With many people barely finding time to grab a granola bar on their way out the door each day, the case for eating breakfast for dinner is strong.

“Breakfast is a comfort food. It’s good any time of the day, morning, noon or night,” says Michael DeMaddalena, cook at Wiedmaier Truck Stop Restaurant at 4215 U.S. 169.

Wiedmaier offers its breakfast menu all day long. A big reason behind this decision is providing truck drivers and travelers access to breakfast during their wacky schedules.

“Truck drivers have odd hours. Sometimes they sleep all day and wake up at 2 (p.m.) and want breakfast,” says cashier Brandi Allen.

“We like to have as many things available to our customers at any given time,” Mr. DeMaddalena says.

He and Ms. Allen say some of the most popular menu items at Wiedmaier are biscuits and gravy, French toast, omelets and steak and eggs.

Betty’s Cafe, 6307 King Hill Ave., serves up breakfast from 4 a.m. until closing time at 3 p.m., as well as offering weekly lunch specials. Owner Pat Gard-

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ner says their most popular lunch item is fried chicken on Fridays. Their biggest seller, though, is biscuits and gravy.

Rather than eating sugary breakfast foods later in the day, Ms. Gardner thinks customers like biscuits and gravy because they’re hearty and savory.

“You eat pancakes and then an hour or two hours later, you’re hungry again.

Biscuits and gravy sticks to you and fills you up,” she says.

She thinks it’s important to offer breakfast all day because it’s so popular with customers, and she doesn’t want to turn people away.

“A lot of places cut breakfast off at 10:30 or 11. ... If we did that, (customers are) gonna turn around and go somewhere else,” she says.

When faced with dinnertime indecision, it’s fun to mix things up with breakfast-for-dinner meals, either at restaurants or in your own kitchen.

“I think people get tired of the same old thing for lunch and dinner,” Ms. Gardner says.

Families can easily convert breakfast foods into something more closely resembling a dinner meal at home. One way to do this is to offset sweet ingredients like syrup with more savory flavors. Try a stack of pancakes or waffles featuring meat, cheese and herbs, like this one from www.recipegirl.com.

Brooke VanCleave can be reached at brooke.vancleave@newspressnow.com.

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ARIES - Mar 21/Apr 20 Aries, something irresistible keeps grabbing your attention. Don’t overindulge too much or you will regret the decision later on. Exercise moderation.

TAURUS - Apr 21/May 21 Taurus, you may be tempted to run away from a challenging situation, but it is in your best interest to hunker down and face the problem.

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GEMINI - May 22/Jun 21 Gemini, you seem to quickly conquer tasks that others struggle with. It could be thanks to your ability to focus, but look over your work to make sure it’s correct.

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Janelle Embrey, shown before her recent transplant, has had diabetes since she was 15. She went on the donor list for a new pancreas at the start of the year and received a new organ in March.

Closer to feeling fine

Local woman’s tense wait for transplant ends

By JENNIFER GORDON

it was, and Mrs. Embrey Mrs. Embrey says. called Mr. Lamb.

Only recently has her “I caught it on the strength and energy anelle first ring, and I think it returned.

Embrey really shocked her that She still takes a makecan sleep I was awake,” Mr. Lamb up bag full of medicaon her says. tions, which will hopestomach He works for a gas fully dwindle down in company and was again. the coming months. Mrs. headed to a gas leak.

It’s a Embrey gets bloodwork He knew Mrs. Embrey small but done twice a week to significant had 12 hours to get her monitor her progress. much-needed organ, so realization, one that lets Two months out, her know she’s that much he told Mrs. Embrey to though, she’s already meet him at an airport closer to living a normal able to do things she in Lee’s Summit, Mo. life. hasn’t been able to do in He beat Mrs. Embrey The road to get where a long time. and her husband, Dave, she is today hasn’t been “I ate an ice cream there by 15 minutes. an easy one. sandwich from the Dairy He didn’t wait alone.

When the News-Press Queen the other day “There was a whole first talked to Mrs. with my grandson withgroup there that had Embrey in January, she out a bit of guilt,” she rolled out of bed for me,” had a hard time sleeping says with a smile.

Mrs. Embrey remembers on her stomach because She doesn’t have to tearfully. of her insulin pump and be glued to her phone The f light went her glucose monitor. She anymore, either. Not smoothly, Mr. Lamb was on the transplant only is she not waiting says. Indianapolis didn’t list for a new pancreas. for a transplant call, have any cloud coverage, Mrs. Embrey now has she’s also not in danger and within 10 minutes been through the failed of passing out. Before of landing, Mrs. Embrey organ, transplant, recovthe transplant, Mrs. Emwas off to the hospital. ery process three times. brey’s blood sugar could She had her operation Her diabetes caused suddenly plummet and at 5:03 p.m. March 16. her kidneys and her pancause her to lose conDr. Fridell removed her creas to fail when Mrs. sciousness. Family and donated pancreas, which Embrey was in her late friends would call her had shriveled up to the 20s. She received a doduring the day to check size of a peanut, and put nor kidney and a donor on her. If she didn’t in a new one, which was pancreas at age 30. answer, they’d often asabout the size of a trout.

Her donated kidney sume the worst.

It’s a difficult surgery, failed 14 years later, and In some ways, life Dr. Fridell said in an she received another after the transplant has earlier interview with one. The medicine she become better than even the News-Press . took to help her new life before her first do“Pancreas transplant kidney, however, caused nor pancreas failed. is one of the least-forher donated pancreas to During this transplant giving (transplants),” he fail. process, she saw a lot said. “It’s very finicky.”

She went on the transof good in the people Mrs. Embrey stayed a plant list in January and around her. She found a month in Indianapolis decided that Dr. Jonastranger willing to f ly before she returned to than Fridell, a pancreas her in the early hours of St. Joseph. Recovery transplant specialist the morning across the went a little slower than at Indiana University Midwest for a surgery. she would have liked, Health Transplant in She sees differences in Indianapolis, would CROSSWORD SOLUTION be her doctor. She just needed a way to get to there when the organ came available. Phillip Lamb, a Kansas City pilot Mrs. Embrey found on Facebook, agreed to transport her.

The call Mrs. Embrey had been waiting for came at 3 a.m. March 16.

“I asked if it was for sure mine,” Mrs. Embrey remembers.

She had heard the stories of transplants not working out at the last minute. The nurse on the other end of the telephone line assured her

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herself as well. Sleeping isn’t the only thing that’s improved because of the March 16 transplant.

“It made me a better

person,” she says. “I’m more thankful.”

Jennifer Gordon can be reached at jennifer.gordon@newspressnow.com.

Follow her on Twitter: @SJNPGordon.

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By BROOKE VANCLEAVE St. Joseph News-Press

Money is never an easy issue to tackle with children and teenagers, but it comes with important lessons that will last their whole lives.

With graduation just around the corner and many high school seniors heading to college in the fall, it’s crucial for students to know the basics of personal finance management. Often, this means parents must be a child’s first teacher when it comes to handling money responsibly.

Jason Simpson, a business and personal finance teacher at Central High School, says kids begin to understand what money is and what it does at a very young age. Parents can give their children a piggy bank and teach them to start saving coins to use for snacks or small toys.

“Make them pay for some of their items so they know things cost money,” Mr. Simpson says.

As children get older, Mr. Simpson says there is a transition period where they go from assuming an ATM is a magic “money machine” to realizing that they must earn their own money and save it up if they want to afford nice things.

Many parents give their children weekly or monthly allowances to show them how to earn money. However, if these allowances aren’t tied to specific actions, it could be a wasted educational opportunity.

“My biggest advice ... is being an intentional teacher to your kids, finding the teachable moments,” says Wakefield Hare, certified financial planner with Choice Financial Services.

He advises parents to think about allowance as a type of commission instead, where children must complete certain tasks or meet some kind of expectation before earning their allowance.

“Associate something (the child has) earned with a commission to begin to show them the value of work. You can even space it out and

begin to connect work to paychecks. It’s connecting the real-life experiences with finances and showing them that this commission can be planned for,” he says.

Older children and teenagers adopt spending habits by watching their parents. One way for them to learn how to carefully manage money is to actively interact with and participate in the family’s monthly bills. This can be daunting for some parents, especially those who have bad finances themselves but still want their children to be financially responsible.

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“Explain it to your kids, really walking them through the bill cycle.

Show them how you budget, where you went wrong, how to do things differently,” says Ronnie Knight, college and career adviser at Benton High School.

Mr. Knight says if parents develop a pattern or system, such as a monthly spreadsheet, not only will it help teens learn good habits but it can help the adults get back on track as well.

Teaching someone how to achieve a task can be just as beneficial to the teacher as it is to the student.

Once a young adult has a job and is earning his or

her own money, it’s important to open up a checking or savings account to learn how to use the money in different ways.

Mr. Hare says children should know when to spend money to treat themselves, when to save money to practice delayed gratification and when to give some of their money to a greater cause.

“They learn that they have the power to give to those less fortunate,” he says.

If children and students don’t have a grasp of basic money management skills by the time they go to college or enter the real world, it could spell disaster for their futures. Many college students rack up massive debt from loans and credit cards without realizing it, only to be caught in a financial trap when they graduate.

To combat lack of financial information, especially in families where children can’t turn to their parents for good advice, the state of Missouri now mandates a personal finance course in high school.

“This may seem mo-

notonous or boring now, but please give it the value it deserves,” Mr. Hare says of students who approach this knowledge grudgingly.

“It is enjoyable as a teacher to hear students come back and say, ‘I heard what you said in class ... what I learned in class really did help,’” Mr. Simpson says.

By taking simple steps early in a child’s life, parents can encourage their kids to make smart money decisions through both their words and their actions. Once children are ready to face the world on their own, they’re better prepared to make good choices and avoid a lifetime of financial stress. Even if adults have made poor decisions in the past, it’s still beneficial for them to make major changes in how they handle money.

“If you’re not gonna start now, what are you waiting for? ... There’s no better day to start than today, no matter if you’re 16 or 46,” Mr. Hare says.

Brooke VanCleave can be reached at brooke.vancleave@newspressnow.com. Follow her on Twitter: @ SJNPVanCleave.

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Small-town church makes commitment to InterServ

By ERIN WISDOM St. Joseph News-Press

At a time when a number of rural churches are struggling simply to sustain themselves, one in the St. Joseph area has turned its focus outward.

Zion United Methodist Church in Robinson, Kan., — which is located about 40 miles west of St. Joseph and has a population of about 200 — recently communicated to InterServ its intention to contribute to the ministry’s work.

“When you think about what makes up a faith-based organization, it’s relationships with faith communities,” Dave Howery, InterServ’s executive director, says. “This church in Kansas is an expression of that.”

Mr. Howery visited the church in April to share more about what InterServ does. He was invited as part of United Methodist Women Sunday, which the church

celebrates each year by aiming to bring in a representative from a faith-based organization. Hazel Steely is a member of Zion’s chapter of United Methodist Women — which has about 25 members — and notes that although drawing a speaker can be difficult due to the congregation’s small size, the church tried to make Mr. Howery’s visit worth his time and succeeded in collecting $325 to go directly to InterServ.

“We were kind of sneaky to get a good crowd, because sometimes the men don’t want to hear what the women are doing,” Ms. Steely says with a laugh. She adds, however, that it is important to both men and women in the church to be well informed about organizations they plan to support: “Everyone’s interested to know their money goes to the right spot.”

InterServ is a fitting

child care, early education and after-school programs; counseling; a food pantry; care and meal programs for seniors; and assistance for immigrants.

“All of the things we’re able to do are because of the faith community’s help,” Mr. Howery notes. “The task for us is how to take those relationships with the faith community and expand them to the community at large.”

Ms. Steely adds that it hasn’t yet been determined exactly how her church’s United Methodist Women will partner with InterServ, but the members are ready to help however they can.

“Sometimes we live File photo | St. Joseph News- Press under a bushel basket Dema Martin has lunch at InterServ’s Calvin Center in this file photo. Zion United Methodist Church in Rob- and don’t know what evinson, Kan., is donating to InterServ. eryone’s going through in this day and age,” she says. “I wish we could recipient in that the orit has undergone many tions but also with other do even more.” ganization began when changes in programs faiths entirely. But its a group of women from and services, location mission to meet needs in Erin Wisdom can be reached at erin. the Methodist Episcopal and even name, and it’s the community remains wisdom@newspressnow.com. Follow Church founded Wesley expanded to include the same, and some of her on Twitter: @SJNPWisdom.

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