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bones. All you need here is a feel for where the bones are. Put the chicken on a cutting board -- breast side up -- and pull out your sharp chef’s knife or poultry shears. Cut off the wings, and cut off the legs. Now cut off the thighs. Using your fingers, start pulling all the meat from the bones (it will pull off easily, as the meat will be tender and juicy). Lay all the white meat on one side of a platter (if you haven’t already eaten all of it while you did that pulling thing) and the dark meat on the other. Put the bones, carcass and skin on another plate. For the larger pieces of breast meat, either cut into chunks or shred, depending on how you will be using them. Place all the bones, skin and carcass pieces into a container or zip-type bag, and freeze. These will be the base for great chicken stock or soup later. HOW TO REHEAT Reheating a rotisserie chicken in the oven is a no-brainer, especially if you are unable to consume the whole thing in one meal. However, doing that is quite another subject, especially if you want it as fresh, moist and delicious as it was when you picked it up. -- Preheat the oven to 400 F. -- Place the rotisserie chicken in a deep baking dish with high sides. -- Add a bit of chicken stock to the baking dish -- about 1/4-inch in the baking dish. If you don’t have chicken stock, substitute water. -- Place the baking dish in the preheated oven. -- Reheat until the liquid is bubbling and the chicken is warmed all the way through. This method will keep the chicken moist while reheating -- as opposed to a microwave or reheating without the added liquid, both of which would dry out the rotisserie chicken. SAFETY INFORMATION When purchasing fully cooked rotisserie or fast food chicken, be sure it is hot at the time of purchase. Use it within two hours, or cut it into several pieces and refrigerate in shallow, covered containers. Eat within three to four days, either cold or reheated to 165 F (73.9 C). It is safe to freeze ready-prepared chicken. For best quality, flavor and texture, use it within four months. -- USDA Food Safety Information * * * Mary invites questions, comments and tips at

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If you’re fresh out of ideas (let alone desire) to make one more home-cooked meal, but ® even the thought of another take-out or curbside pickup leaves you cold during these days of unby Mary Hunt certainty and angst, I invite you to embrace these two words: rotisserie chicken. Not exactly take-out, not completely home-cooked, think of a well-seasoned, perfectly cooked rotisserie chicken as your ace in the hole -- a kitchen assistant with an extra pair of hands to help you get delicious, home-cooked meals on the table in a flash. These days, nearly every grocery store or supermarket -- even warehouse clubs -- offer fully roasted, hot and ready-to-go rotisserie chickens for around $5. In fact, rotisserie chickens are so readily available, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has issued safety guidelines for selecting and storing them. See below for safe handling information. Today, I want to give you basic guidelines for what to do with a rotisserie chicken as soon as you get home. CHICKEN FLAVORS While some stores are now offering a variety of flavors (barbecue, lemon herb and so on), try to stick with a plain bird. You will be adding flavorings and seasonings yourself, depending on how you end up using the bird. BUYING AND STORING You want a chicken that is hot when you buy it. Bacteria become active between 40 F and 140 F, so it should be above that range when you pick it up. It should feel hot to the touch. Eat, refrigerate or freeze the chicken within two hours. BUY TWO The USDA recommends consuming rotisserie chickens within three to four days of EverydayCheapskate.com, “Ask Mary.” This column purchase. Pick up two chickens, and you’ll have Now accepting applications will answer questions of general interest, but letters enough meat for several meals, plus plenty to for cannot be answered individually. Mary Hunt is the D.C.C.S. - Enrollment the 2020-2021 school year. freeze for later. founder of EverydayCheapskate.com, a lifestyle blog, 1/6 pg. 4C and the author of the book “Debt-Proof Living.” June 14, 2020 Vol. 16: #25 CUTTING COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM The first thing you should do when getting the chicken home is to get all the meat off the ADVERTISING PROOF

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The Bad Old Days My wife and I have been doing a little downsizing lately. One thing we decided we can live without is the rather large collection of books we’ve accumulated over the past 46 years. We are donating most of them to our local library. But as I looked through the old books, I reread one of them, and it struck a chord with me. It’s an autobiography by former New York Times columnist Russell Baker called “Growing Up.” In it, Baker tells the story of what it was like to grow up in the 1920s and 1930s. For most of us, the Great Depression is the stuff of history books and hard luck stories revealed in an occasional documentary about the era. But Baker lived one of those stories and writes eloquently about his life and those times. His book brings the era into focus for people whose vision of history has been blurred by the good life. For me, it also illustrates the reason why we have and need a Social Security system in this country. Many people have attempted to explain to me that America would be better off without Social Security. They point out that this nation was founded on the principles of personal freedom and that our pioneer spirit encourages people to make it on their own without government interference. As one recent letter writer told me, “If people could make it on their own in the good old days before we had Social Security, they ought to be able to make it on their own now without the government’s help!” The problem with that argument, of course, is that many people were not “making it” before Social Security came into existence. And those “good old days” were very bad for very many people. In his book, Baker describes the period just after his father’s death. His father left a widow and

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three small children, including Russell, who was has to give up her little Audrey and “kiss her goodthen about ten. Russell’s youngest sister, Audrey, bye forever.” And here are a couple of postscripts to what was 18 months old. His newly widowed mother de- I just wrote. I emailed a draft copy of this column in move to Virginia in home their leave to cided with relatives in New Jersey. Immediately follow- to one of the Social Security bashers -- the guy who ing the funeral, she had many tough decisions to said that if people could make it on their own before Social Security came along, they should be able to make. One of them was giving up Audrey! “The giving up of Audrey was done in a do the same today. I thought it might touch a nerve. time of shock and depression for my mother,” Bak- Gosh, was I mistaken. It struck a nerve all right, er writes. “When the undertaker was paid, she was but it was his anti-government/anti-Social Security left with a few dollars of insurance money, a worth- nerve. He just doubled down on his arguments. less Model T, several chairs, a table to eat from, a Here is what he wrote -- in part. (His rant went on couple of mail-order beds, a crib, three small chil- for more than a page!) “It’s the namby-pamby liberals like Baker dren, no way to earn a living, and no prospects for (and all other NY Times columnists) and you who the future.” A few days later, Baker’s Uncle Tom and have ruined this country. Russell’s father should Aunt Goldie arrived to pick up his little sister. “My have provided for his family, and your father should mother helped them carry out the crib and boxes have provided for you. We don’t need the governpacked with baby clothes. When the car was load- ment to make up for slackers like your fathers. ed, my mother bundled Audrey into blankets, car- And don’t even get my started on widow’s benefits. ried her outside, handed her to Aunt Goldie, and These women should work and take care of themselves and not expect the government to show up kissed her goodbye forever!” each month with a widow’s dole!” because me with nerve a That scene struck My goodness! I sure am glad I don’t live in my father also died when I was young. Like Baker’s father, he left a widow and small children. Also like that guy’s world. What a cold and uncaring and emBaker’s family, my mother was left with a little in- pathy-starved place it must be! Maybe I should have surance, a few pieces of furniture and an old car. pointed out to him that Russell Baker’s mom spent But unlike the Bakers, we had brighter prospects many years cleaning floors in tenement houses to for the future because my father left behind some- help take care of her family. And my mom worked all her life to help pay the rent and put food on our thing else: Social Security survivors insurance. table. Oh, well! each me and sister My mother, brothers, I also wanted to point out that someone received a monthly check from Social Security based on my father’s earnings. My siblings and I reading this column might conclude that Social Sewere able to receive benefits up to the age of 22 curity is unique to the United States. Just the opif we stayed in school. And my mother received posite is true. The idea of Social Security is a worldchecks until my youngest brother turned 18. (The wide phenomenon. Almost every country on the laws have changed slightly since I was a benefi- planet has a Social Security system in place for its ciary. Today, benefits to children are generally cut citizens. And almost every one of those programs MON., SEPT. 9 off at age 18, and a widowed mother’s checks stop provides survivors benefits to widows, widowers and minor children. It’sPhone just too bad our program when the youngest child turns 16.) Please review carefully. Double check:  Number(s) Spelling  P Survivors benefits are a very important came along too late to help Russell Baker’s mother Contact yourand Tidbits immediately with changes or cor her representative children. since part of Social Security. They have been paid * * * Office: are 760-320-0997 email: valleybits@msn.com Fax: 760 1940. Yet even today, many young workers guaranteed are they If you have a Social Security question, Tom protection this of aware not Margenau has the answer. Contact him at thomas.marthrough their Social Security tax deductions. Most young people complain about the genau@comcast.net. To find out more about Tom Mar amount of Social Security taxes they pay. But I genau and to read past columns and see features from Wilson Services otherFinancial Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit think if they really consider why our society prothe Creators Syndicate website at www.creators.com. 1/8 pg BW 26x disc. vides a comprehensive Social Security program, COPYRIGHT 2020 CREATORS.COM Sept. 15, 2019 Vol. 15 - No. 38 they might be more inclined to accept Social Security taxes so that no other young widowed mother

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The American Legion Needs Your Help I came across an unusual confab outside the coffee shop today. What was different this time was the presence of younger veterans. “We’ll help you,” a young vet said to the group. “All you have to do is contact us and we’ll be here. Or there. Or wherever you are.” I pieced together what was going on. The senior veterans were concerned about being able to form a funeral detail. One of their group was in the hospital and it wasn’t looking good, either for the veteran or the local American Legion Post itself. The younger veterans, probably Sandbox era, had come down to offer assistance (and home phone numbers) should they be needed for a funeral. I stepped up next to the one who seemed to be in charge and went into my spiel. “Join the American Legion here in town,” I suggested. I explained that senior veterans make up the biggest percentage of membership in the American Legion nationwide. And they’re not getting younger. Day by day we lose more of them. Maybe a Post will have 20 members ... on paper ... but only three are active. They’re physically unable to pull off most of the fundraising events like they used to, and many Posts are likely to lose their meeting facility. Therefore, I finished, if young blood doesn’t come in and beef up declining membership, the groups would disband, gone forever. Is this the situation in your area, Legions closing and disbanding due to declining membership? Here’s a thought: Go to a couple meetings. Find out what the Legion can do for you and your family, and what you can do for the it. It might be more than you ever imagined. Visit legion.org for details. NOTE: If you tried to join before and weren’t eligible, try again. If you served at any point since Dec. 7, 1941 and were honorably discharged, you’re covered, courtesy of the LEGION Act signed in 2019 by President Donald Trump. *** Freddy Groves regrets that he cannot person-

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