Teach your children about food safety

We have covered food safety in a couple of columns, but there is a little bit more I want you to know before we leave this part of the subject.

Food thermometers are inexpensive, costing between $10 and $20. Buying one or two and using them is a good way to begin being a more competent cook.

Also, go to www.foodworkercard.wa.gov and take the Washington State Food Handler Worker Course. At the end, you can pay $10 and receive your Food Handler Card. Have your older sons and daughters take the course and get the card. Have your younger sons and daughters take the course, but paying the money for the card is up to you. They will, at least, be aware of the elements of food safety.

E-mail from Cheryl

Facts from the past gleaned from the Moses Lake Herald, Columbia Basin Herald and The Neppel Record by Cheryl (Driggs) Elkins:

From the Moses Lake Herald on Aug. 14, 1941:

We appreciate your help

Dennis note: Remember this was in the third edition of the Moses Lake Herald. It appears the publisher and editor were getting a bunch of news, but they wanted more. Read on.

We wish to take this opportunity to sincerely thank those who have so kindly cooperated with us to date in sending in news. However, we are missing a great many news items and we will most certainly appreciate any help you may render us in the matter of building up our personal news column.

We have not yet installed a telephone, but hope to in the near future. In the meantime, if you know an item of news, either bring it into the Herald office, or spend it to us through the post office.

Ephrata news

-Mr. and Mrs. Jack Porter and daughter, Tamsel Kay, of Pasco visited their parents and friends over the weekend.

-Mrs. Frank Wallace left last Friday by bus to spend the weekend with Mr. Wallace in Seattle.

-Mr. and Mrs. Walter Bergman of Oklahoma City have spent the past week with Mrs. Bergman’s sister, Mrs. Georgia Anderson. They left Monday for Los Angeles, accompanied by Mrs. Anderson where they will visit relatives and friends.

-A large number of Rebeccas and Odd Fellows picnicked at Blue Lake Sunday.

-Mrs. Charlie Duncan left Sunday for the coast to visit Mr. and Mrs. Clair Butler.

-Lee Turner, his small brother and another party, whose name was not learned, were in a car which overturned on High Hill last Monday evening. The brother of Lee Turner, who was in the middle, suffered severe cuts and a broken jaw. He was taken to the Veterans Hospital in Soap Lake where he received treatment.

-Mr. E.C. Pettinger, the local agent of the G.N. Railway is confined to his home because of blood poison in his hand.