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from your pantry
Family Features There’s nothing quite like heart-warming comfort food to beat winter’s chill. And there’s no need for a trek to the supermarket or to resort to the takeout menu drawer. Some of the best and most flavorful ingredients are already in your pantry. That’s right... the canned foods in your pantry. Canned foods not only mean less preparation and year-round availability of your favorite produce, like tomatoes and green beans, they also help make healthy and delicious homemade meals a reality, more often.
Thai Chicken Curry
Like home canning, the canning process locks in foods’ natural goodness and nutrients so they’re available to you any time of year, and all winter long. Best of all, canned foods help make the big, bold flavors in dishes like Thai Chicken Curry and Shepherd’s Pie easy and simply delicious - perfect for a chilly day. For more seasonal recipes and to learn how you and your family can get cooking with canned foods this season and year round, visit w w w.CansGetYouCooking.com.
‘Lights for Linda’
• 1 tablespoon vegetable oil • 1 med red onion, sliced • 1 large garlic clove, minced • 1 tablespoon minced ginger • 1 tablespoon red curry paste • 1 (13.5-ounce) can Goya coconut milk • 1 (10-ounce) can Hormel Premium chicken breast, drained and flaked • 1 (8-ounce) can Allens cut green beans, drained • 1 (16-ounce) can sweet potatoes, drained and
cut into 1-inch chunks In 3-quart saucepan over medium heat, in hot oil, cook red onion, garlic and ginger until softened, about 5 minutes. Add red curr y paste; cook 1 minute. Add co conut m i l k , ch icken , g reen bea ns and sweet potatoes. Over high heat, heat to boiling. Simmer, uncovered, 10 minutes to blend flavors, sti rri ng occasiona lly. Garnish with chopped cilantro.
Coweta Sports Hall of Fame
By Bradley Hartsell bradley@newnan.com
Five years ago, Nancy Sanker of Summer Grove neighborhood in Newnan said goodbye to her beloved sister. Linda McGrenaghan had lost her 19-year battle with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. Sanker received a sympathy card soon after her sister’s passing that contained the translation of an ancient chinese poem: She has taken her bright candle And gone into a room I cannot find, But anyone can tell where she’s been, By all the little lights she left behind It was this poem that inspired Lights for Linda Luminaries, a holiday-season benefit for cancer research now entering its fifth year. “That poem just made everything come together, and it was in a way my sister would have wanted,” Sanker said. “Linda was an amazing lady. She was always so funny, and had a wonderful character. After she passed, I wanted to doing something that moved us forward. I wanted to give our community a chance to raise money for leukemia awareness.” According to Sanker, Lights for Linda has raised more than $12,000 in the past 4 years for leukemia research. Sanker and her team sell luminaria kits that include eight bags, eight long-burning candles, sand and instructions. Leukemia struck once again with McGrenaghan’s son, Rory, Sanker’s nephew. It was another devastating diagnosis, but Sanker s ay s s he h a s s e en si g n i f ic a nt me d ic a l advancements made in the f ight against leukemia. “I’m honoring not only Linda, but her son, Rory,” Sanker said. The latest research has noted that gene therapy can prove a reliable treatment for blood cancers. Gene therapy essentially replaces the mutated gene with a copy of a healthy one. Last year, Leukemia & Leukemia Society invested $70 million in cutting edge research. As leukemia research continues to advance, Lights for Linda Luminaries will keep doing its part to provide for research while Sanker honors her sister. On Christmas Eve, the luminaries will glow throughout SummerGrove. “It looks gorgeous when all of the lights in the neighborhood are lit. It’s a wonderful time,” Sanker said. For more infor mation on leukemia and research, visit www.lls.org. For more on Lights for Linda Luminaries, visit www.lightsforlinda. info. Email lightsforlinda@gmail.com to order a luminaria.
Paula Jones has been selected among three new inductees to the Coweta Sports Hall of Fame. The trio will bring the Hall’s total membership to 81 over its 13-year existance. The induction banquet and ceremony will be held in February.
Jones joins Kirby, Partridge among newest Coweta Hall of Fame class By CHRIS GOLTERMANN cgoltermann@newnan.com
Two prominent basketball figures from Coweta County will join a UGA golf legend as the newest members of the Coweta County Sports Hall of Fame when it hosts its 13th annual banquet next year. The trio includes recently retired East Coweta girls ba s ke tba l l coac h P au l a Jones, who led the Lady India ns’ progra m to 5 1 2 victories from 1988-201 3 including a run to the Class AAAA state finals in 1998. Following a career that also included two region championships, six trips to the GHSA Sweet 16 and three Elite 8 berths, Jones handed the coaching reins
to assistant Jarod Waggoner last season. She will be joined by two former standout Newnan High student athletes as part of the Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015. Wilkins Kirby Jr., who led Georgia to a pair of SEC Championships and won New na n Countr y Club’s Invitational that bears his father’s namesake six times, joins one-time NHS basketball star Michael “Chico” Partridge among this year’s honorees. The three newest members of the Coweta Sports Hall of Fame will bring its membership to 81 over its 13 years of existence. Cr iter i a for sele c t ion includes: — Players, coaches and
p e o pl e o t h e r w i s e c o n nected with sports, includi ng, but not l i m ited to, administrators, off icials, media and sports medicine personnel. — Natives and those who have resided in Coweta for a minimum of seven years. — Those who have had a positive impact on sports in Coweta or whose athletic performa nce or suppor t during his/her participation was outstanding. — Those who have demonstrated integrity, sportsmanship and character. — Be over 50 years of age and retired from qualifying activities. Last year’s class included the late Jerome Coleman,
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