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The skinny on squash Add this veggie to your fall and winter diet

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Savory stuffed acorn squash takes advantage of the fall growing season and the antioxidant properties of squash. Find the recipe on page B4.

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hat do the words acorn, turban, hubbard, sweet dumpling and butternut mean to you?

All of these are winter squash varieties, and they’re good additions to your coolweather meal plan. Winter squash has tons of health benefits, benefits that go way beyond being high in fiber. “Squash is a super food. Anything that protects against disease, cancer and promotes a healthy weight is defi nitely a super food,� Jessica Anderson, Heartland Health Wellness dietitian, says. “It also has high amounts of vitamin C, which boosts immunity, fighting against illness.

It packs a nutrition punch in small

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For starters, squash can improve lung health. It contains a high level of vitamin A that could help prevent emphysema. Just one cup of winter squash contains 15 percent of the recommended daily allowance of folate. The folate in winter squash can prevent against birth defects for pregnant women. That’s not where the benefits of folate stop, though. Folate also helps prevent heart attacks by working against the components that break down blood vessel structures in the body.

Sqaush also offers some potassium.

For this reason, it is rich in carotene, like pumpkins, and can protect against heart disease, cancer and type 2 diabetes. Butternut squash’s beta-carotene content is comparable to that of a mango or cantaloupe. The fiber in squash helps to protect you by PLEASE SEE PAGE 3

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The ghost in the bedroom Young couple enjoys being part of haunted neighborhood

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Miller only barks at people with beards.

The Italian greyhound will run after squirrels, jump on visitors and wrestle with Watson, a Jack Russell, but barking is just for beards, say his owners Samantha Shadley and Wyatt Jones.

“You’d have to get to know him,” Mr. Jones says. “He does strange things.”

There is one exception to the barking code; Miller barks at the ghost in the bedroom.

When Mr. Jones bought the 1851 home in the HarrisKemper historical area last year, he did not know it was haunted. But that changed the first night. Mr. Jones is a college student and works part time, so he doesn’t have much furniture. His bed was a mattress on the floor.

He bought the house with his brother, Jesse, originally with hopes of fixing it up and selling it.

“I hadn’t even moved my stuff into my bedroom and I Eric Keith | St. Joseph News- Pres heard high heels clicking across the floor,” he says.

Wyatt Jones and Samantha Shadley pose with their dog Miller. they were the winners of the Haunted HarrisAt first he thought it might be his brother, but Jesse Kemper decorating contest. was asleep in another bedroom. By the third time, he knew the sound was not his imagination, and it was coming straight for him.

“I grabbed my mattress and pulled it into my brother’s room,” Mr. Jones recalls. “I was ‘ghost’ white.”

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Young couple enjoys being part of haunted neighborhood CONTINUED FROM page A2 “(Jesse) ignores it,” Mr. Jones says, “but his girlfriend, who stayed here a couple of times, won’t stay here anymore.”

Mr. Jones also has seen the ghost.

The house has mirrored pocket doors that close off the living room, which are unusual for a home of this age. The former owner, Mary Hillix, always kept the doors pulled back into the walls, most likely because she had wall-towall carpeting and the doors would not slide back and forth easily. When Mr. Jones bought the house, he removed the carpet to expose the original wood floors and then discovered the pocket door mirrors, which had been painted over.

Nobody knows why the mirrors were painted, but now that they are exposed, Mr. Jones and others have seen a dark shadow appear behind them when they

close the doors and look into the mirrors.

“We like to keep them open,” Ms. Shadley says.

The reason the couple believes a ghost may be sleeping in one of the bedrooms is because when they leave for work in the morning, they shut and lock the bedroom door. When they arrive home, the door is open.

It’s possible the ghost leaves to do laundry in the basement. On more than one occasion, their laundry has been moved from the washer into the dryer. The basement used to be servant quarters, so they think the ghost could be a former servant. But they also suspect the ghost could be Mary Hillix.

She lived in the house from 1942 until last year and was known for telling ghost stories. This could be her way of continuing the tradition, which is what they told groups who took the Haunted Harris-Kemper Walking Tour earlier

this month.

“We told everyone that Mary would be honored to know she was part of the walking tour and the history of telling ghost stories,” Mr. Jones.

As for Ms. Shadley and Mr. Jones, who will be getting married in February, they plan to stay in this house. The ghost is not frightening, rather a source of some great stories. And the friendly “haunted” Harris-Kemper neighborhood is everything they were wanting.

“We are always looking for something new to do and were hoping that something other than the bar scene would pop us for us,” Mr. Jones says.

Maybe by next year’s Haunted Harris-Kemper tour, they will learn for certain who that bearded someone is that Miller sees in the bedroom.

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The skinny on squash

CONTINUED FROM page A1 ridding the body of harmful substances. But fiber has other benefits.

“Fiber helps to keep the stomach fuller longer, which prevents overeating or sneaking off to the fridge or vending machine for extra snacking,” Ms. Anderson says.

Winter varieties of squash are far more nutrient-dense than summer squash because winter squash contains a lower water content than summer squash does. Squash fills you up fast, allowing you to resist the option of overeating. One cup of raw zucchini has only 18 calories, and a cup of butternut squash provides three times the daily amount of vitamin A. “I like to saute slices of zucchini, onions and cherry tomatoes cut in half in a little butter and sprinkle them with fresh parsley, freshly ground sea salt and black pepper until they are barely tender,” Stanberry, Mo., resident Nida Clayton says. “It looks beautiful and it tastes great.”

Besides its yummy taste, squash also has its convenience going for it. The hard skin of winter squash acts as a barrier against the elements, which allows it to be stored for more than a month in a cool, dark place.

As far as cooking goes, squash is very versatile.

After removing the seeds and peeling the skin if you

choose to, winter squash can be baked, steamed, sauteed or simmered.

“My favorite winter squash recipe requires one spaghetti squash cut in half and placed cut side down in a baking dish with a little water, baked at 350 degrees until the squash becomes tender enough to flake the stringy inside away from the edge with a fork,” Mrs. Clayton says.

While the squash is baking, she fries Italian sausage and chopped onions in a skillet, then drains the grease. She adds a can of diced tomatoes and two cans of tomato sauce to the sausage and onion mixture and lets it simmer. When the squash is done, she uses a fork to pull out the inside stringy portion, then tops it with the meat sauce.

“It’s a slightly healthier alternative to a regular spaghetti dinner,” Mrs. Clayton says.

Add cubed winter squash to soup or chili. Roast cubed winter squash with potatoes. Cut acorn squash in half and bake it in a little bit of olive oil with spices and a dash of lemon. For a sweet treat, puree winter squash and add a little bit of butter, sweetener and cinnamon.

“Squash is a vegetable, plain and simple. All vegetables are great for keeping a healthy lifestyle as long they’re not dripping in grease, butter or sugar,” Ms. Anderson says.

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The Midland Empire Chapter of the American Red Cross is now providing medical alert devices for area residents.

The Red Cross and Philips Lifeline have worked together for more than 25 years, and the program has recently expanded to include Northwest Missouri. St. Louis has had a successful collaboration for a number of years, said Clayton Hunter, a Lifeline Solution Specialist with the American Red Cross in Kansas City.

“It’s help at the push of a button 24 hours a day, 365 days a year,” Mr. Hunter said of the service.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that for the 65 and older population, falls are the number one cause of injury death.

One in three seniors will fall each year.

With the Lifeline system, users wear a button on a lanyard around their neck or around their wrist that they can use to notify the Lifeline operator if they’ve fallen, can’t get up and can’t reach their phone. The Lifeline

operator will either call an emergency contact or contact an Emergency Medical Services responder.

St. Joseph’s chapter of the Red Cross also will offer the Lifeline with Auto Alert, which will detect if the wearer has fallen automatically.

The company has found that people don’t always push the Lifeline button, Mr. Hunter said, because they don’t want to disturb anyone.

A basic Lifeline service, which includes an alert button and a communicator, costs $35 through the Red Cross. Lifeline with AutoAlert costs $49.95. Both can be obtained by calling (800) 959-6989.

InterServ also helps supply seniors in Buchanan and Andrew counties with Lifeline devices. The Northwest Missouri Area Agency on Aging helps coordinate funding for Lifeline services for the other counties in the region.

Kenny Cordonnier, the chief of fire prevention for the St. Joseph Fire Department, said there have been 1,123 assistive citizen calls since January. The classification includes people who have fallen and need help getting up.

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Celebrating a survivor Boy marks first birthday with big party

By ERIN WISDOM

of her family could make the trip to St. Joseph for Artist’s party, some of her sisters did contribute to it financially.

The party was wellattended by Artist’s father’s family, however. And although his dad, Antoine Wilkinson, admitted a couple weeks before the event that a blowout bash for a 1-year-old was culturally foreign to him, he was looking forward to one part of the tradition that holds true across cultures: “I want to see how he’s going to react to the cake.”

Of course, everyone knows Artist won’t remember his cake or anything else about the impressive party held in his honor. But perhaps someday he’ll understand its significance.

“I’m just glad Artist is healthy,” Ms. Thomas says. “It could have been a lot worse, and he could have not been here. But he is here.”

“He’s a survivor,” Ms. Thomas-Woods adds, noting that as she looks forward to his next birthday, “I hope he has another beautiful year.”

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Artist Wilkinson has had a rough first year, but he doesn’t seem to realize it.

The St. Joseph boy is tiny but unhindered, with a smile that doesn’t shut off until he sleeps. He eats ravenously without gaining a pound, is exceedingly active and recently stood on his own for six seconds — a feat that dispelled his mom’s fear he was destined to be a professional roller.

“I call him Party Arty,” his mother, Kristina Thomas, says, “because he’s a party baby.”

The nickname was especially fitting last weekend, when a blowout bash celebrated Artist’s first birthday. In the Hispanic culture from which he is descended on his mother’s side of the family, this milestone is considered highly significant, especially since he is his maternal grandmother’s first grandchild.

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1-year-old Artist Wilkinson is shown the entertainment at his party by his aunt, Morgan Wilkinson, at the REC Center in St. Joseph. birthday celebration to last several days and cost thousands of dollars — and while Artist’s lasted only an afternoon, his party was an impressive affair in its own right, with bounce houses, ponies, games, cakes and

more at the St. Joseph REC Center.

Culture aside, Artist’s first birthday was significant simply because it happened. He was born on Oct. 18, 2011, eight weeks premature and the sole survivor among a set of twins. His sister, Amor, passed away before birth.

Artist spent three weeks in the neonatal intensive care unit at St. Luke’s Hospital in Kansas City before coming home in time for Thanksgiving with a heart monitor and respirator. His condition took a turn for the worse in January, when he contracted viral meningitis and had to be hospitalized again. During that stay,

doctors discovered he was deaf in his left ear, most likely due to his prematurity.

Now, he wears a hearing aid and has sessions with a speech therapist.

But outside of these details, nothing in Artist’s day-to-day life is left as evidence of his earlier struggles. What is left in the aftermath of these is his bright, fighting spirit that contributes the “sweet” portion of the bittersweet year his family has experienced.

“I still have a drawer of baby girl things in my room,” Artist’s grandmother, Mary ThomasWoods, says. “And I bought a plant when

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1-year-old birthday boy Artist Wilkinson poses with mother, Kristina Thomas, and father, Antoine Wilkinson, during his birthday party at the REC center in St. Joseph.

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