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Quick, Affordable Dinner Ideas for Busy Families StatePoint Many families face hectic schedules and tight budgets, especially when kids go back to school. A few quick meal solutions can help you spend less at the store and enjoy more time with your family this school year. Comforting and convenient, a store-bought rotisserie chicken -- with a few other additions -- can help you create a complete meal for the family in 30 minutes or less. However, quality is important. Theo Weening, a global meat buyer, believes that the best tasting meat comes from chickens raised the old fashioned way. “Preparing great tasting meat starts long before you bring it home from the store. It starts on the farm,” Ween-
ing said. “Check the label and opt for chicken that was raised the way nature intended -- on a vegetarian diet with no added growth hormones and no antibiotics ever.” For example, the rotisserie chickens Weening chooses, come from farms that have been certified to the Global Animal Partnership’s 5-Step Animal Welfare Rating System, so consumers can know exactly how the animal was raised. While rotisserie chicken on its own is a delicious, easy go-to meal any night of the week, don’t forget to shake things up. Try these simple ideas: • Shredded in tacos or quesadillas: Quick and simple, chicken will be the star of this easily portable meal.
• Cubed in a cooked grain salad: Step up a side dish and make it an entrée. Add chicken to whole grains, like brown rice or barley, for a filling meal. • Added to rice and steamed veggies: Turn this plain dish up a notch with protein. Pair with your favorite sauce or dressing for extra flavor. • Added to pesto pasta: Mix whole wheat pasta with pesto, chopped tomatoes and chicken for a wellrounded dinner. • Kabobs: Easy to assemble with fresh or pre-cooked veggies, chicken kabobs make a nice addition to your tried and true menu. Want some inspiration? Try the Easy Chicken Burritos recipe on Page 4.
‘Works by Warhol’ coming to the Arts Centre
Photo by Chris Goltermann
Rachel Skinner shows two participants of Saturday’s “Learn to Play” lacrosse clinic at East Coweta High School the proper method of handling a draw.
She’s passing the torch By CHRIS GOLTERMANN cgoltermann@newnan.com
In many ways, Rachel Skinner carried a torch among the first girls high school lacrosse players in Coweta County, much the same way the former Newnan High standout did for a fledgling college program at Shorter University as its first ever recruit. Fresh off a summer that included competing as a member 2014 USA National European travel team, she’s now involved in passing that same torch to the next generation of girls players as girls’ director for the Copperhead Lacrosse program. The sport has thrived in the past eight years locally, first as a middle school sport and eventually channeling into the county’s three public high schools, providing an equal growth among scholarship opportunities. Along with Skinner, the Copperheads are seeing their first group of college-level athletes working their way back into the youth program as coaches. A recent clinic saw at least 40 boys and a half-dozen girls take the practice fields at East Coweta High School while getting a chance to get their first taste for the sport. For Skinner, who played soccer and softball, ran cross country and swam before trying lacrosse, the chance to teach girls a
sport she’s grown to love over the past seven years has been just as fulfilling as experiencing it as a player. Her family first came across a professional game while on vacation in Pennsylvania, with siblings and cousins also becoming standouts in high school and beyond. “Coaching is something I would really like to do. I love doing this, teaching them the game. I would love to coach a college team someday. But right now we’re building this up right now,” she said. “Anybody can play lacrosse. Basketball players are great with their hand-eye coordination. Soccer players can run up and down the field with no problem. They usually pick it up really fast.” After having to carry Shorter’s program at times during its infancy, playing in an international tournament this summer gave Skinner a chance to take her skills to a new level. “It was a really great experience. When you get to the pro level from college, the play is just so different,” she said of the international experience. “We played our first game without really practicing. But our first game, the chemistry was just great. More than half of them from New York. I was the only one south of the Mason-Dixon line. So that was interesting. It was just great to play with people at such a high level like that.
Andy Warhol became known for leading an artistic movement known as pop art in the 1960s.
By Bradley Hartsell bradley@newnan.com
Wes Cochran may not be a recognizable name for most people, but he’s known to bring works by artists whom everybody knows, from Leonardo Da Vinci to Salvador Dali. Cochran will bring “Works of Warhol” to the Coweta School System’s Centre for Performing and Visual Arts on Lower Fayetteville Road in Newnan. Andy Warhol became known for leading an artistic movement known as pop art in the 1960s. Pop art, as it became known, heavily featured a painting of a celebrity with color being the only artistic liberty. His work was controversial at the time, either making him beloved or hated by popular
culture. Today, The Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, is the largest museum in America dedicated to a single artist. “We’re getting the Warhol collection from the Wes Cochran Collection, a man in LaGrange that owns an incredible amount of art,” said the Centre’s director, Don Nixon. “Last year, we did the ‘20th Century Masters,’ and this year, we wanted to bring Cochran and his works back with him for Andy Warhol.” Cochran has been collecting fine art since the 1970s and now has more than 400 pieces and has toured them sometimes as far back as the ‘80s. Last year, he brought 63 pieces
warhol, page 4