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Farm and Flavor: What to do with Nopales and Prickly Pears

By Kerin Gould

I always promise not to send folks out looking for exotic ingredients, but this cactus and its fruit have loads of antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, and fiber.

They may help balance blood sugar, curb inflammation, and lower cholesterol — all of which helps you fight cancer too. And look at that color! But if it didn’t taste great, I wouldn’t dream of recommending it.

Depending on where you live, nopal cactus grows like weeds.

The ones here on the farm get no water or food and only the scantiest trimming, yet they are generous anyway. In a pinch, any Mexican grocery store will have them. The only thing stopping

THIS ‘n’ THAT

by Carol Bogart

Covid Fatigue? You Bet! Well, here’s the good news: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is donating billions – BILLIONS! – to ensure that all Americans will get for free an approved safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine.

Next good news. There may BE such a vaccine be-

fore the year is out. Giving credit where credit’s due; early on, this breakthrough was predicted by our current President.

Third good news: If it works for the original virus, lab tests show it may also work in Covid-19 mutations. Such as the mink mutation. When the

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virus was found in mink in Denmark, Denmark’s farmed mink were exterminated.

Millions of them. Now, mink in at least one other country have tested positive for a version of the Covid-19 virus.

The bad news.

Do we care? No. Not much.

Or didn’t, until a right now Covid cluster at a West Sac nursing home (Riverbend, Old West Sac) was reported

by Yolo Health.

People are done. Just done with having their lives turned upside down. Some, from the beginning, sided with our current President that the whole thing was an overblown hoax; one

more folks from enjoying them is unfamiliarity. And those little stickers are daunting, but some vendors sell them pre-plucked.

If you are picking tender paddles or ripe fruit, use a big knife and a pair of tongs, and toss your harvest into a basket or bowl.

Do not say, “I’ll just put two fingers here…” or you will have those micro-spikes with you for a while. I say this from experience! Once back in the kitchen, continue to handle with tongs or a big fierce fork.

For the paddles, hold the thick end with your fork, and with your knife shave off the tiny needles.

Wherever there was a brown dot, there should be green flesh showing through. Then trim the that threatened to ruin world economies.

Others, like me, being in multiple ‘high risk’ groups, have essentially been ‘self-quarantining’ since March. NINE MONTHS. Our usual activities – read that quality of life – brought to a screeching halt.

Background noise: Survivors (who mostly had the sniffles) insisting Covid is ‘no big deal.’

Now, I will say this. I’ve watched with interest how other countries have issued Covid updates. The UAE (United See COVID page 4

edges and the base off. Cut into one inch strips, then either sauté with onion, tomato and cilantro and scramble into you breakfast (eggs, tofu, what have you…) or steam and toss in a salad with onion, tomato, and cilantro and some lime juice. There is also a nopal and mole soup recipe you can find at http://producewithapurpose.thinkific.com.

The fruit can be held vertically in place with the fork, so that you can make downward cuts to remove the skin. Then cut the ends off and rinse. You can eat as is or run through a food mill and turn the fruit into a syrup (for pancakes or a parfait), pour it into molds to make popsicles, or turn it into a sorbet.

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Transmission electron microscopic image of an isolate from the first identified U.S. case of COVID-19, formerly known as 2019-nCoV. The spherical viral particles, colorized blue, contain cross-sections through the viral genome, seen as black dots.

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Arden-Charmichael News Gift Guide Here’s to a happy holiday season. What follows is a variety of ideas to help support our local businesses.

My Chocolate Affair

On the cover: Christine Paulus You may have seen the work of Christine Paulus at craft fairs and pop-up markets.

Hailing from Chicago, the extremely talented silk-screen artist has made Sacramento her home and shows her pride with the neighborhood-

Heavenly Salt Therapy Salt treatments are available in their salt rooms with Halotherapy, where you breathe in salty air. According to healthline.com, some claim it can treat respiratory conditions, such as asthma, chronic bronchitis, and allergies and can ease smoking-related symptoms such as a cough, short-

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centric totes. She also prints her art on various surfaces like cutting boards, clothes, baby onesies, towels. She’s even printed on reclaimed wood saved from the dump.

Find Christine on Instagram: oliveswoon

In 2000, Elizabeth began making her signature treats for coworkers and friends.

Today she sells them to her fast growing fan club on her website, www.mychocolateaffair.com/. Why not some treats for yourself and gift baskets for your friends?

She can be reached at 916225-3773 or via email at orders@mychocolateaffair.com For more information, visit www.mychocolateaffair.com

The Nature Center will turn into a winter shopping wonderland on Dec. 5 with unique gifts, including books, kids toys and science kits, winter apparel, ceramics, garden art and more. Members save 20% on Discovery Shop purchases during the event. Parking fee still applies; $5 per car, free for members. Due to COVID-19 safety measures, there may be a wait to enter the sale. Face masks and social distancing are required. Effie Yeaw Nature Center is located inside Ancil Hoffman I Love Pie Park, 2850 San Lorenzo Way, Diana Shockley owns I Carmichael.

Love Pie Bakeshop located in Carmichael CA and has popups at farmers markets in the greater Sacramento area. The following pies are almost always available in the store and are available for pre-order.

Pies by the slice are subject to availability.

ness of breath and wheezing. Heavenly offers infrared sauna sessions and private salt therapy sessions. Gift Salted Caramel Dutch Apple cards are available. Heaven- – 8 inch (serves 6); ly is located at 3325 Folsom Classic Apple Blvd. For more information – 8 inches (Serves 6); call 916-455-1525. AppointBanana Cream Pie ments can be made online at – 8 inch (serves 6); heavenlysalttherapy.com Chocolate Cream Pie – 8 inch (serves 6); Pumpkin Pie – 8 inch (serves 6); Burly Beverages Butterscotch Cream Pie Burly Beverages provides – 8 inch (serves 6); all-natural beverages focused Bourbon Pecan Pie on sustainability in soda and – 8 inch (serves 6); a “healthful” alternative to the Coconut Cream Pie Pie modern soft drink and cock– 8 inch (serves 6); tail mixer. The new gift shop Pumpkin Cheesecake and tasting room is now open.

– 6 inch (serves 4).

Photo by Monica Stark They offer house-made sodas and cold brewed coffee, plus a I Love Pie is located at 4949 retail shop with over 80 types burlybeverages.com/ For Marconi Ave, A2 Carmichael, of bottled soda from all over more information, call 916- CA 95608. For more inforthe world, including bar syr- 333-3879; email sales@bur- mation, visit http://Www. ups and bitters from across lybeverages.com. Burly Bev- ilovepiebakeshop.com/, call the U.S. and cocktail mak- erages is located at 2014 Del 916-969-7791 or visit info@ ing tools and supplies. http:// Paso Blvd. ilovepiebakeshop.com Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

Effie Yeaw Holiday Sale

Nudge Eco Store With a “Nudge toward sustainability with high quality earth friendly alternatives for your daily living”, Nudge Eco Store sells household items like bamboo sports, scrubby brushes for the bath, body and hand soap, vegan beeswax wraps, vegan dishwashing blocks, safety razers, and more. While curating the products, Nick and Alisha Lee of Sacramento try to find businesses as local as possible to source. The definition of sustainability can be defined in so many different ways – one of the things they want to define is that theirs is local. While the products may seem mundane – toothbrushes, band aids, pot scrapers, Bento boxes, copper cleaning cloths, lip

Talini’s Nursery A garden center in East Sacramento that features annuals, perennials, vegetables, fruit trees, vines, bulbs, seeds, tools, garden supplies, statuary, gifts, gift cards, certified organic herbs and vegetables.

Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving, Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, Talini’s Nursery & Garden Center, 5601 Folsom Blvd., is open Tuesday through Sunday from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m: on the Fourth of July, Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve. For information, call 916-451-8150, info@talinisnursery.com, or visit www.talinisnursery.com.

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balm, laundry dryer balls – their very ingredients support their business’s mission of sustainability. As one might ask him, why bamboo toothbrushes? Nick’s response is ecological: “Every plastic toothbrush ever made is still in existence today and will be for hundreds or thousands of years and bamboo toothbrushes will decompose and become part of the earth again.” They deliver locally and offer curbside pickup. Find the Sacramento-based business online at www.nudgeecostore.com or email nlee@ nudgeecostore.com.

Compiled by Monica Stark from the websites and past interviews from these local businesses

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Covid:

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ning the meeting was a bigwig from the company. In the conference room, he posed a simple question. “What is news?”

So simple it left us tongue tied.

Someone offered: “‘If it bleeds, it leads?’” He didn’t laugh. The silence lingered. The bigwig then informed us: “News is the UNexpected.”

Now ordinarily, just because something is a pandemic doesn’t guarantee it will get much cover-

age. In 2009, the H1N1 Swine Flu didn’t until after it was over.

Everybody knows that during any flu season, some will die. It’s ‘expected’.

THIS pandemic, however, got attention for a couple reasons. Bats, for one. China locking down all of Wuhan for two.

NYC nursing home populations wiped out by Covid. (OK. That’s an exaggeration, but you get my point.)

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Arab Emirates), for example.

(Our current President has financial interests in Dubai. A golf course. A hotel. etc.)

Dubai’s a country in the UAE. It regularly reports its deaths.

But balances that bad news with how many have recovered. Here,

we don’t hear much about recoveries unless – miracle! – the person “should have died.”

This is a news pattern rooted in long tradition. The assignment desk at a station I worked for in Denver had this on the wall: Good News Is No News.

Later, working for a California daily newspaper (owned by the third largest media company in America), managers (I was city editor) attended a meeting. Run-

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27. Swiss river 28. No (Scottish) 30. Commercials 31. Large instrument 33. __ Chantilly, __ de Menthe 35. Small, saclike cavities

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Again in fairness to our current President, he ordered ‘warp speed’ in vaccine research. New vaccines, we were told, typically take 3-10 years to determine ‘safety’. According to two leading Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers, vaccine candidates in clinical trials are proving to be 90-95 percent effective. However, “side effects if any” won’t be known ‘til millions have been vaccinated.

Those most likely to get the early doses? People in high risk professions. Such as nurses. At risk not only because they’re tending to the Covid-19 sick, but also because health workers STILL lack adequate PPE (Personal Protective Equipment).

Meantime, in California, a third surge has pushed 94 percent of counties back into the purple ‘wide spread’ zone. Sacramento-region counties are impacted. Yolo is among them.

Purple means renewed restrictions. Reopened businesses are closed again. Outdoor dining anyone?

A few weeks ago my usually unflappable best Ohio friend, Bev, gave me a call. We couldn’t be more different. Bev went to Stevens (fancy private school for girls). Her dad was Commodore at the Rocky River Yacht See FATIGUE page 5

37. High and thin in tone 38. Treat extremely well 40. Famed track star Usain 41. Secure web connection (abbr.)

42. Rob of energy 44. Paving material 45. Cool!

48. Tip of Aleutian Islands 50. Indicates silence 52. Water in the solid state 53. Security interests 55. Popular hoopster Jeremy 56. Shed tears 57. Low frequency 58. Harmful bacterium 63. Common language: lingua __ 65. Standards of perfection 66. They consist of two parts 67. A detailed description of design

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CLUES DOWN 1. More (Spanish) 2. A subdivision of a play 3. Japanese title 4. More jittery 5. Fabric 6. Luke’s mentor __-Wan 7. Cleaving tool 8. Ancient city of Egypt 9. 36 inches 10. Farewell 11. Second to last 13. Improved by critical editing 15. Defensive weapon (abbr.)

17. Fancy attire 18. __ Farrow, actress 21. Completely opposed 23. Supervises flying 24. Pouch 27. True firs

29. Mistake 32. Computing platform (abbr.)

34. Snakelike fish 35. Greatly horrify 36. Despicable person 39. Tell on 40. Ballplayer’s tool 43. Central Brazilian town 44. Court game 46. Land 47. “The Partridge Family” actress Susan 49. Retract a statement 51. Data executive 54. Capital of Yemen 59. Portable computer screen material 60. Electronic data processing 61. “Matt Houston” actor Horsley 62. Resinous substance 64. Rural delivery

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United Way Launches Shine Your Light Campaign to Encourage Local Residents to Give and Volunteer At the end of a year that has been dark for many communities across the country, United Way California Capital Region is asking residents across the region to join its Shine Your Light holiday campaign, which includes opportunities for community giving and safe volunteering during the holiday season. Visit YourLocalUnitedWay.org/Holiday-Giving.

“This is a year no one will forget – a year filled with deep pain, division and hardship,” said Stephanie Bray, president and CEO, United Way California Capital Region. “Children are being asked to attend school virtually and help younger siblings. Parents have lost jobs that support their family’s needs. Neighbors are struggling to stay afloat while small businesses close around them. During this dark year as we enter the holidays, we are asking residents across the greater Sacramento area to join our Shine Your Light campaign by contributing to our nonprofit partners’ gift drives, volunteering and making financial donations.”

For the Shine Your Light campaign, United Way has gathered the needs of nearly 50 local nonprofits across the region on its website, including which need clothing, blankets, shelfstable food, hygiene items, winter items, holiday gifts, gift cards and volunteers this holiday season. Shine Your Light participants also can make a financial donation to United Way California Capital Region to help lift up neighbors who are struggling, including children, foster youth, students impacted by COVID-19 and families trying to make ends meet. As part of the campaign, United Way’s Women United action group that supports local foster youth is matching new donations to the group until they reach $35,000, giving donors the opportunity to double their gift.

“In these difficult times, your gift can be a much-needed light in someone’s life during the holidays and in the months to come,” Bray said.

For nearly 100 years, United Way California Capital Region has brought local

Fatigue:

handle on it. Now, if you wind up in an ICU with Covid, you likely will survive – without lasting damage.

These types of highly infectious viruses won’t go away.

With climate change (and clearcutting of remaining rain forests), there will be more, say researchers. But brand new technology is being used for Covid-19 vaccines. New virus vaccines will reap the benefits.

Bev was depressed because she’d lost hope in ever escaping this ‘new normal.’ But Covid news is like the weather. If you don’t like it, wait a minute. I told Bev to think of her mask as a fashion state-

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Club. She’s Episcopalian. Not one bit unconventional.

Bev loves me. She thinks I’m funny. We talked about the virus. I poked fun at both sides of America’s virus ‘divide’. She’d called depressed. I cheered me up to make her laugh.

So now, I’ll cheer YOU up. I can honestly tell you; things do look promising. Abbott Labs has a treatment in development that stops the virus BEFORE the effects are ‘serious’. Brilliant minds around the globe have worked frantically for months to get a Valley Community Newspapers, Inc.

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United Way volunteers wrap holiday gifts for local foster youth as part of a past volunteer experience. United Way’s Shine Your Light holiday campaign this year will allow for social distancing while still providing opportunities for people to donate gifts for people in need, make donations and volunteer through the end of the year.

people together to make community change happen. Today, the nonprofit is bringing people together across Amador, El Dorado, Sacramento, Placer and Yolo counties for its Square One Project,

a 20-year promise to significantly increase the number of students in our region who graduate from high school ready for success in college and beyond. United Way believes ending poverty starts

in school and is working to ensure kids meet important milestones and their families receive support and resources.

To learn more and make a donation, visit YourLocalUnitedWay.org.

ment. One that says, “I’m not a moron.”

Yes, we’ll lose our “traditional” Thanksgiving. Maybe even Christmas. But I told her, and I meant it, but we CAN beat this and here’s what’s true.

If ever ‘global’ communities shared a purpose – that time is now.

To see “purple tier” restrictions/ businesses impacted in Yolo County, go to https://www. y o l o c o u n t y. o r g / H o m e / Components/News/ News/12354/26?backlist=%2f.

For updates on the Riverbend virus cluster in West Sacramento, go to https://www.yolocounty.org/ Home/Components/News/ News/12356/26?backlist=%2f . Questions, comments? Contact Carol at carol@bogartonline.com.

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