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inding the right daily nutritional balance is no easy feat. Managing sugar, carbohydrate, fat and red meat intake takes serious effort and planning, but transforming your favorite recipes into more nutritious family meals may be easier than you realize. Adopting the blenditarian lifestyle is a simple solution to healthier eating. It
involves, simply, blending mushrooms into meat to make every day dishes more healthful and delicious. Adding chopped mushrooms to ground beef at a ratio of at least 25 percent mushrooms can enhance the taste of dishes, deliver an extra serving of vegetables and beneficial nutrients, and trim total calories and fat intake. Any mushroom variety
will work. Creminis and portabellas lend rich, earthy flavors to any meal, while white button mushrooms offer a more delicate taste. For the more adventurous eaters, maitake and shiitake varieties bring a bold woodsy taste and meaty texture to the plate. The key to blending is
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In the Cards
Patterson captures her first World Series of Poker event in North Carolina call, raise, or fold. Rounds of betting take place before the flop is For Coweta County res- dealt, and after each subsequent deal. ident Jennifer Patterson, To inexperienced poker working as an account players, it all sounds executive for T-Mobile very complicated. Not pays the bills. for Patterson, who loves Patterson has been the challenge that comes involved in the wireless communications business from a competitive, highfor about 14 years, but her stakes poker game. The adrenaline rush knack and love for playPatterson gets from playing in competitive Texas ing competitive poker fits Hold’em Tournaments her personality perfectly. has its own rewards. “I am a competitive It also fuels her comperson,” she said. “I have petitive fires. always been an athlete. Patterson recently I love strategic games. I brought home more than have always been a gam$20,000 by winning her ing person, even playing first World Series of Poker Turbo event as part with my family on game of the Harrah’s Cherokee nights. There are not a lot of females that play Casino Series. poker, so that satisfies my In Texas Hold ‘em, drive even more.” two cards, known as the Patterson has been hold cards, are dealt face hooked on playing poker down to each player, and for more than a decade. then five community “I started about 13 cards are dealt face up in three stages, the flop, the years ago in my hometown of Columbus, Ga. turn, and a final card. I noticed early on I had Each player seeks the best five-card poker hand a little bit of skill, so I started playing a little bit from the combination of the community cards and online, and my first tournament was probably less their own hold cards. Players then have betCARDS, page 6 ting options to check, By DOUG GORMAN dgorman@newnan.com
Coweta student Abby DuCharme, left, and Coweta STEM Institute Field Trip Instructor Jacque Hanks, right make a human electrical circuit at the recent Coweta STEM Symposium.
CCSS holds third annual STEM symposium celia@newnan.com
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Coweta County resident Jennifer Patterson displays the gold ring she won after winning a World Series of Poker event at Cherokee, North Carolina’s Harrah’s Casino. Patterson has been playing poker for more than a decade, but this is the first gold ring she has won. Patterson is scheduled to play a WSOP event in New Orleans later this month.
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program is to encourage creative thinking and problem solving for all students,” said Donald The Coweta County School White, science content specialSystem recently held its third ist for the school system. “It's annual STEM Symposium and also about developing commurecognized the STEM achievenication skills. All of these are ment of its participating teachin response to our community's ers and schools. call for these skills in the workThe symposium showcased place. For the teachers, it prodifferent STEM opportunities within the school system by hav- vides context and connections ing each participating school set to other subject areas to help up a booth with different STEM students understand that even though they may not be interactivities. Attendees were able to visit the booths and see the ested in science, for example, students’ work. “The goal of Coweta STEM STEM, page 3 By CELIA SHORTT
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