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Monthly Recipe
Recipe of the Month - August
This recipe is kindly supplied to us by Slimming World Stotfold.
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Gammon and Summer Veg Grill
Serves 4 - Free - Ready in 15 minutes
Ingredients
4 lean gammon steaks, visible fat removed 400g cherry tomatoes 3 peppers (any colours), deseeded and chopped or sliced 3 red onions, cut into wedges small bag of watercress
Place a large non-stick griddle pan or frying pan over a high heat. Spray the gammon steaks and tomatoes with low-calorie cooking spray and, when the pan is smoking hot, cook them for 3 minutes on one side. Turn the gammon steaks and tomatoes and cook for a further 2 - 3 minutes or until the gammon is cooked through and nicely charred. Meanwhile, spray another non-stick griddle pan or frying pan with low-calorie cooking spray and place over a high heat. Add the peppers and onions and cook for 4 - 5 minutes or until cooked to your liking, turning occasionally. Divide the gammon steaks and tomatoes between plates, add the peppers and onions and serve hot with the watercress.
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Behind the scenes at Luna Animal Rescue
Many readers may have heard about Luna Animal Rescue but do you know what it is they actually do? We took the opportunity to talk to Natalie Howe from Luna, to find out what it is they do exactly and how local people can help get involved...
Luna Animal Rescue was founded in 2013 to rehome dogs in need. Since then it has grown into a much larger network of foster homes, adopters, volunteers and of course donators. Luna now rehomes small animals, cats, dogs and ponies at times, and has taken over the farm now known as LARCH farm behind Etonbury Academy. LARCH farm is home to a cantankerous goat, 2 ponies, 2 pigs and a horde of other birdlife where they all live in sanctuary.
Luna is run purely by volunteers, with no paid staff, just a band of people who help to rehabilitate and care for animals who have met hard times and need that step on the ladder to get to a happier life. To fundraise, Luna run dog shows, have days up at our charity partner store at Pets at Home, Biggleswade, and run auctions and raffles online, as well as quiz nights and music festivals.
Luna has recently started to run neutering campaigns promoting responsible ownership and to help to reduce unwanted litters, at a time when rescues are at an all time crisis point, with hugely oversubscribed numbers if pets unwanted and needing help. Luna is also working within the community to support those struggling financially currently, and will try to assist with feeding and parasite control for pets as we can, within the local area.
At Luna, we really value education, and love to give talks to schools and groups and bring along some of our animals to say hello. Feel free to contact us if you would like to have us come and do one of these.
Things to look out for... watch out for our up and coming music festival in Shefford. If you like puppies....watch our Facebook page and see our new litter of babies born recently to a stray pound dog we took in.
Find us at www.lunaanimalrescue.org or on Facebook at Luna Animal Rescue
The Stotfold News Magazine are pleased to announce that we plan to feature animals in need of rehoming in some of our forthcoming issues. Rehoming an animal is incredibly rewarding and Luna Animal Rescue are excellent at making sure that animals are placed in the right homes. Keep an eye on our future issues for more details....
Down Memory Lane
I was saddened to hear of the passing of Elaine Packenas. This prompted me to dig out the photograph of the very first class I taught in my teaching career at St Mary’s School, under the guidance of head Miss Rosser way back in 1964 as I well remember this bright young fair haired pupil in my class.
I believe Elaine’s family emigrated to Australia when she was quite young. Looking at all the other members of this class brought them all back to mind. With the help of some of these pupils who I am still in contact with 58 years later, I hopefully have got all the names correct on the picture you see here. Ladies change their surname when they get married so more difficult to keep track, but I do wonder how many of this class and indeed those in other classes the following two years may still live in Stotfold.
I have known hundreds of students during my many years of teaching, but it is such a brief moment of time in their lives. I hope that brief moment was a good one. Elaine Drury (Miss Thirnbeck)
BACK ROW: (L to R) Linda Darts, Lorraine Haskell, Angela Stillwell, Susan Hicks, Brian Riley,Lynne Fox, Carol Whatmough, Julie Callaghan, Linda McCavery, THIRD ROW: Jane Little, Elaine Packenas, Susan Eales, Wendy Guida, Karen Wood, Diane Shepherd, Valerie Elliott, Jackie Saunders, Gerlinde Filo, Kathleen Jones. SECOND ROW: Gillian Cox, Nicholas Dear, Pamela Stillwell, Pat Saunders, Frances Coxall, MISS THIRNBECK (Drury) Gail Legate, Sandra Crane, Rosemary Butler, Roy Haigh, Jane Garner FRONT ROW: Susan Lucas, Janine Thomas, Julie Taylor, Adrian Gentle, Patricia Clegg, Elizabeth Morris, Linda Bygrave.
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