Happenings
By Carolyn Adriaansen (926.4436)  

The school Capital Project proposition ($11,595,000) for school improvements and bus storage PASSED Wednesday, 287-246.

Our Community Carnival is this evening, March 18, starting at 6:30, closing at 9.

I have donated my series of 'Early American Life' magazine to the Marion Museum. They are available for borrowing.

Dorothy and Leighton Wiant of Dean Road are back from a relaxing two-week cruise to the Hawaiian Islands. Along with sunny skies, beautiful beaches, tropical flowers, exhilaration from hula dancers and ukulele players, the most spectacular sights were fiery red/orange lava rivers flowing down mountain sides causing billows of steam as they hit the ocean.

Bob and Nancy Flick, formerly of Marion, accompanied the Wiants. On the way home, the Wiants were able to see Betty Dean (Kraft) and Leighton's sister in California. 'We weren't sorry to trade snow storms for pleasant sunny weather for a couple of weeks,' report the Wiants.

Two senior basketball players received post-season awards. Roberta Rosen was chosen to play in the Wayne County Exceptional Senior Game.

Krystal Adriaansen was selected for the Rochester Ronald McDonald All-Star game. She is the fourth Marion girl ever selected to play in this game - at RIT on March 26, beginning at noon.

You might like to try this easy scalloped potatoes recipe for your Easter dinner - It's called Company Potatoes

1 (2 lb.) bag frozen hash browns
1/4 cup melted butter
1 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 cup sour cream
1 can cream of chicken soup
1 cup milk
2 cups grated cheese
1/2 cup chopped onions
3/4 cup crushed cheese crackers
1/2 cup melted butter

Mix first 9 ingredients and put in a 9x13 pan. Before baking put crushed crackers on top then pour melted butter on top. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour.

'Give a calendar to a man who has everything - it will remind him when the payments are due.'

Anne LaFlam took a fall and is a patient at the Newark Hospital.

Residents of the Drumlin Estates enjoyed a dinner of corned beef and cabbage in celebration of St. Patrick's Day on March 17.

In days past, Erotus Ave. was known as Monkey Run.

'Ice Harvesting' was the title of the exhibit held recently at the Marion Museum along with a collection of pictures and information on the subject. A video of the process, taken by me, was shown to the visiting guests.

All-County Band Festival - sixth grade band students include: Kristi Colvin, Danielle Sharpstene, flute; Jaimie Adriaansen, Alison Campbell, Jordan Camp, Mackenzie Glaze, clarinet; Ilana Soudan, Ty Hernandez, Jessica Dixon, saxophone; Jason Saxton, Danielle Cranmer, Christopher Mackey, Ryan Levitsky, trumpet; Cory Marone, Jesse Girard, trombone; Bradley LeFevre, Kyla Ahart, tuba; and Brittani Bove percussion.

MAPLE SYRUP: When colonists arrived in North America, they discovered that the Indians seasoned their food with maple syrup and maple sugar and also used the product for barter. A Jesuit priest who accompanied the explorers marveled at 'a liquor that runs from the trees toward the end of winter known as Maple-water.'

The Indians taught the newcomers from Europe how to tap the maple trees for the sap, basically the method used today.

Holes are bored into the trunks of hard maple, sugar maple, or black maple trees. A spout is inserted, and a bucket hung to catch the sap as it runs out.

The clear, slightly sweet sap is boiled or evaporated into a liquid concentrate that becomes at least 66 percent sugar. It takes 30 to 40 gallons of sap to make one gallon of maple syrup.

The maple syrup season arrives in March and lasts until early April in northeastern United States and southeastern Canada. The hard work of that season and the 40 to 1 ratio of sap to syrup produces a delicacy that makes the best seller list every season.

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