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The Neatest Little Paper Ever Read OVER 4 MILLION Readers Weekly Nationwide! ALL RIGHTS RESERVED ©2007 FREE For Ad Rates Call: 208-704-9972 [email protected] Distributed by TBNI April 1, 2010 ISSUE #7 Of North Idaho HOP ALONG WITH TIDBITS® FOR A HAPPY EASTER by Patricia L. Cook Easter is the most important holiday for Chris- tians when the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ are remembered and celebrated. It is also a time when chocolate bunnies hop off the store shelves! Hop with Tidbits for a look at some Easter traditions. • The Easter tradition of wearing new clothes came about when, after their baptisms, new Christians would wear white robes all through Easter week to indicate their new lives with Christ. Others who were already Christians would also wear new clothes to show that they shared the same beliefs. • In Medieval Europe, after Easter Mass, churchgoers would walk in a procession led by the Crucifix or an Easter candle. With people in their Easter bonnets and new spring clothing, these were the first Easter parades. • Easter parades were at their peak in 1948 when the movie, Easter Parade, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, was made. The title song, written by Irving Berlin, included the lyrics: “In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Eas- ter parade.” turn the page for more Happy Easter! FIRST ISSUE

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Easter is the most important holiday for Chris-tians when the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ are remembered and celebrated. It is also a time when chocolate bunnies hop off the store shelves! Hop with Tidbits for a look at some Easter traditions.• The Easter tradition of wearing new clothes came about when, after their baptisms, new Christians would wear white robes all through Easter week to indicate their new lives with Christ. Others who were already Christians would also wear new clothes to show that they shared the same beliefs. • In Medieval Europe, after Easter Mass, churchgoers would walk in a procession led by the Crucifix or an Easter candle. With people in their Easter bonnets and new spring clothing, these were the first Easter parades. • Easter parades were at their peak in 1948 when the movie, Easter Parade, starring Judy Garland and Fred Astaire, was made. The title song, written by Irving Berlin, included the lyrics: “In your Easter bonnet, with all the frills upon it, you’ll be the grandest lady in the Eas-ter parade.”

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“Pirate Radio” (Rated R) -- Written and directed by Richard Curtis (“Four Wed-dings and a Funeral,” “Love, Actually,” “Notting Hill”), “Pirate Radio” is the story of a group of misfits aboard a pirate radio ship in the North Sea in 1966 and the attempt by a politician (Kenneth Branagh) to shut them down. It’s not one of Curtis’ best films, but the cast he’s as-sembled (Bill Nighy, Emma Thompson, Nick Frost, Philip Seymour Hoffman) take the often-flimsy material they have to work with and belt out some memo-rable performances.

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TV SERIES“The Donna Reed Show: Family Favorites” “Emergency!” Season Six“Dallas” The Complete Thirteenth Season “Alias Smith & Jones” Season 2 & 3

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“Apollo 13” (15th Anniversary Edition) (Rat-ed PG) -- It was 40 years ago when astro-naut Jim Lovell uttered those five fateful words: “Houston, we have a problem.” Less than a year since Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin captured the world’s attention, Apollo 13’s mission was barely a blip on the pop-culture radar -- until the news broke that the three astronauts were stranded in a crippled spacecraft nearly a quarter million miles from home. Directed by Ron Howard, “Apollo 13” is the compelling story of those men’s struggle to repair their ship and get home alive. The performances of the cast (Tom Hanks, Gary Sinise, Kevin Bacon, Ed Harris and Kathleen Quinlan) are riveting; the special effects top-notch, and I have to say this is probably the best film Ron Howard has ever made.This DVD release is the first time the film has been available in Blu-Ray format. Spe-cial features include commentary by Ron Howard, Jim Lovell and his wife, Marilyn; a “Dateline” segment about the mission; the documentary “Lost Moon,” which chronicles the making of the film; and the featurette “Conquering Space,” a retrospective of the past 45 years of manned spaceflight.

“Faces of America” (Not Rated) -- In this entertaining and informative PBS series, Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. tells the story of America by using genetics and genealogy to trace the family history of 11 celebrities. Among those profiled are Ste-phen Colbert, Eva Longoria, Meryl Streep, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, chef Mario Batali and fig-ure skater Kristi Yamaguchi. Through their families’ stories, we see the triumphs and tragedies of our nation’s history.

New DVDs reviewed in this column will be available in stores the week of April 13, 2010.

TOP TEN VIDEO, DVD as of March 27, 2010

TOP 10 VIDEO RENTALS1. 2012 (PG-13) John Cusack2. Law Abiding Citizen (R) Jamie Foxx3. Couples Retreat (PG-13) Vince Vaughn4. The Box (PG-13) Cameron Diaz5. The Hangover (R) Bradley Cooper6. The Invention of Lying (PG-13) Ricky Gervais7. The Hurt Locker (R) Jeremy Renner8. Zombieland (NR) Woody Harrelson9. The Informant! (R) Matt Damon10. Where the Wild Things Are (PG) Max Records

TOP 10 DVD SALES1. 2012 (PG-13) (Sony)2. Where the Wild Things Are (PG) (War-ner)3. Ponyo (G) (Buena Vista)4. Law Abiding Citizen (R) (Anchor Bay)5. The Hurt Locker (R) (Summit)6. Couples Retreat (PG-13) (Universal)7. Curious George 2: Follow That Monkey (G) (Universal)8. Zombieland (NR) (Sony)9. Michael Jackson’s This Is It (PG) (Sony)10. Up (PG) (Buena Vista)

TOP TEN MOVIES1. Alice in Wonderland (PG) Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska2. Diary of a Wimpy Kid (PG) Zachary Gor-don, Robert Capron3. The Bounty Hunter (PG-13) Jennifer Aniston, Gerard Butler4. Repo Man (R) Jude Law, Forest Whita-ker5. She’s Out of My League (R) Jay Ba-ruchel, Alice Eve6. Green Zone (R) Matt Damon, Amy Ryan7. Shutter Island (R) Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo8. Avatar (PG-13) Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana9. Our Family Wedding (PG-13) Forest Whitaker, America Ferrara10. Remember Me (PG-13) Robert Pattin-son, Emilie de Ravin

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and how they managed to discover one another.• In the original story, Batman met the boy who would become Robin in 1940. Dick Grayson was an eight-year-old circus acrobat, the son of trapeze artists. When a gangster who’d been extorting money from the circus sabotaged the riggings, Dick’s parents fell to their deaths. Batman investi-gated the crime, and he became fond enough of the boy to become his legal guardian (as his alter ego, Bruce Wayne). He instructed the youngster in the ways of fighting crime

and dubbed him Robin, the Boy Wonder.• Cherilyn Sarkisian dropped out of school and moved to Hollywood with dreams of becoming an actress. At 17, she met Sonny Bono at Aldo’s Coffee Shop. Bono worked for music producer Phil Spector and was able to get Cher, as he called her, work as a background vocalist. A songwriter at heart, Sonny had peddled his tunes without much success. But when he and Cher became romantically involved, the pair recorded his tune “I Got You, Babe,” which hit number one on the pop chart and made stars of Sonny and Cher.

• One day in 1881, Dr. John Watson happened to rent a room at a lodging house at 221B Baker Street in London, England. His roommate was a mysterious chap named Sherlock Holmes. Holmes was quite secretive about what he did for a living, but eventually confessed that he was a private detective, which (at the time) was a rather rare profession. Fascinated by Holmes’ tales and the way he employed logical deduction to

solve cases, the two became not only friends but also coworkers and confidantes. • That levelheaded, sturdy housewife Blondie wasn’t so very domestic when she first appeared in the newspaper comics section some 70 years ago. Blondie Boopadoop was a carefree flapper back in 1930, when she met Dagwood Bumstead, the young play-boy son of a railroad tycoon. In fact, Dagwood’s millionaire father opposed his son’s re-lationship with Blondie, and threatened to cut off his financial support if they continued seeing one another. The elder Bumstead grudgingly gave his blessing to the marriage, but he still nixed his son’s inheritance, forcing Dagwood to become one of the working

class.• Clyde Barrow was born into extreme poverty in rural Texas. As he came of age, the Great Depression ravaged the nation, and the angry young man turned to burglary and robbery as a means of survival. One December evening in 1929, he was visiting a friend when he heard a clatter in the kitchen. “That’s Bonnie Parker,” the pal told him. “She’s making hot chocolate. Go say hello.” It was love at first sight; the pair chatted into the wee hours of the morning. The next day, Bonnie hit the road with Clyde and the pair

machine-gunned their way to infamy.• Daniel Wesson was born to a family in Worcester, Massachusetts. At 18, he was apprenticed to his brother’s shoe manufacturing company, but grew dissatisfied and joined up with another brother, Edwin, as a journeyman gunsmith. In 1852, Daniel met Horace Smith, a fellow gun enthusiast who’d learned about firearms while working at the

National Armory in nearby Springfield. They formed a partnership with the goal of marketing a lever action repeating pistol, and the

two became well known as Smith & Wesson.

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• New York City has an Easter parade on Fifth Avenue, with fancy clothing, hats and bonnets, but it doesn’t have the religious significance of the parades of long ago.• Also on Fifth Avenue in New York, Easter bonnet displays are in shop windows. This stems from a European tradition of decorat-ing hats with flowers to celebrate spring. This tradition is not as strong as it once was. Check your old family pictures though, and you may see yourself or your parents or grandparents all dressed up in Easter finery including hats and bonnets. • Today, Easter eggs are the symbol that ev-eryone identifies with the spring holiday. The egg is a symbol of new life and fertility. • New life is associated with spring because warmer temperatures and abundant water from rain or melting snow brings grass, trees and flowers back to life. Easter lilies are a beautiful symbol of purity, hope and life. These lilies are native to Japan.• Louis Houghton, a World War I soldier is credited with beginning U.S. production of Easter lilies. He brought a suitcase load of bulbs to the southern coast of Oregon in 1919 and distributed them to his friends and neighbors. • Following World War II, Japanese lily bulbs were inaccessible to foreign customers. The value of Easter lily bulbs in the U.S. rose tremendously, and they became known as “white gold.” Growers, who grew the lilies to beautify their own yards, started businesses for the cash crop. By 1945, there were about 1,200 growers on the Pacific coast from Vancouver, British Columbia, to Long Beach, California.• Today almost all of the bulbs for the potted Easter lily market are grown by 10 farms in a small coastal area along the California-Oregon border. Appropriately, this region is called the Easter Lily Capital of the World.• In the Ukraine city of Kolomyia, there is an egg-shaped building, the Pysanka Museum, that showcases Ukrainian Easter eggs known as pysanky (plural; singular is psanka). The eggs are decorated using beeswax in a wax resist method, and this folk art has been around for thousands of years. There are over 10,000 pysanky in the museum that opened in September 2000.

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¥ It’s hard to imagine what life was like before the widespread avail-ability of refrigeration, isn’t it? Some people have decided to find out -- and you might be surprised at how many. Although 99.5 percent of all households in the United States have a refrigerator, that still means that more than 1.5 million house-holds are fridge-less.

¥ Swedish chemist and engineer Alfred Nobel, famed inventor of dy-namite and originator of the Nobel Prizes, could speak five languages fluently by the time he was 17 years old.

¥ Finland has more islands than any other country in the world.

¥ Those who study such things claim that the hair on people of Eu-ropean descent tends to whorl in a counterclockwise fashion, while on most Japanese people it whorls in the opposite direction.

¥ It seems that Warren G. Harding, the 29th president of the United States, was something of a gam-bler. During one hand of poker he bet the White House china -- and lost it.

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In 2009, the biggest hit of Charlie Daniels’ career was 30 years old. His tune, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” featured some fantastic electrified fiddling.

• Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, on October 28, 1936, Charlie Daniels was a skillful musician on fiddle, mandolin and guitar by the time he graduated from high school in 1955. He grew up listening to and participating in Pentecostal gospel, bluegrass, rhythm and blues and country music.

• Charlie refuses to label his music as country, rock ‘n’ roll or other style. He prefers it be called “CDB” (Charlie Daniels Band) music.

• After high school, he hit the road during the rock ‘n’ roll revolution that was started by Elvis Presley. He wrote “It Hurts Me” with associate Bob Johnston, and Elvis recorded the song as the B side of his hit “Kissin’ Cousins” in 1964.

• Charlie wrote and recorded with many other notable singers through the years, including Bob Dylan, Al Kooper, Ringo Starr and Marty Robbins. His songs “Uneasy Rider,” “Long Haired Country Boy” and “The South’s Gonna Do It Again” were big hits in the 1970s. The 1974 album Fire On the Mountain became a Double Platinum success. (That’s 2 million albums sold!)

• In 1979 when the CDB recorded “The Devil Went Down to Georgia,” the awards and rewards really started pouring in. The song became a Platinum single, topped the pop and country charts, earned three Country Music Association trophies, won a Grammy Award, was a cornerstone of the Urban Cowboy movie soundtrack, and sent the Million Mile Reflections album to Triple Platinum status!

• There has been a lot written about Charlie Daniels, but always included is the fact that he is part Western and part Southern. He wears a signature “bull rider” hat and belt buckle and loves horses, cowboy lore, rodeo heroes, western movies and Louis L’Amour novels.

• In the mid 70s Charlie and his wife Hazel bought a farm near Nashville, Tennessee. They added more acreage, and now as his website states: “Charlie Daniels’ Twin Pines Ranch has been ranching the Western way for over 20 years!”

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ANSWERS

Turnips are a member of the mustard family and are related to cabbage and cauliflower. They come in all shapes, sizes and colors. For the sweetest flavor, select turnips that are smooth, small, firm and heavy for their size, with some roots remaining on the bottom. Turnip greens also are delicious and even more nutritiously dense than the turnips. Turnips can be peeled before cooking, eaten raw, sliced, made into a relish or a slaw, diced or julienned, or shredded to make croquettes. Turnips also can be used as a substitute for potatoes in many of your favorite recipes. In today’s recipe, I’ve given turnips an Asian flair by glazing them with soy sauce, honey and ginger. When you’re looking for an exciting new side dish, try turnips.

HONEY GINGER GLAZED TURNIPS

Turnips are delicate, so cook them until they are still firm, but tender when pierced in the center with a knife. Overcooking will cause the sweetness of the turnip to diminish.

2 pounds turnips2 tablespoons butter1/4 cup honey1/4 teaspoon ground ginger1/2 tablespoon soy sauce1 teaspoon pepper

1. Wash and peel turnips and cut into 1/2 inch-thick slices, then halve or quarter the slices. In a pot of boiling, salted water, cook the turnips for 8 minutes or just until tender. Drain the turnips and stir in butter. Cook over high heat, shaking pan often, for 1 minute or until the turnips are coated with the butter.2. Stir in honey, ginger, soy sauce and pepper to taste; cook, stirring often, for 1 minute or until glazed. Serve immediately. Serves 4.

Angela Shelf Medearis is an award-winning children’s author, culinary historian and the author of six cookbooks. Her new cookbook is “The New African-American Kitchen.” She is known as The Kitchen Diva and is the executive producer and host of “The Kitchen Diva!” cooking show on Hulu.com. Visit her Web site at www.divapro.com.

A New Flavor Twist for Turnips

If you’ve run out of ways to prepare starches like corn, potatoes or rice to serve as side dishes, you might want to try turnips. We have Charles “Turnip” Townshend to thank for elevating turnips to the dinner table. England was formally introduced to turnips when Townshend, a British politician, imported Dutch-grown turnips in 1730.Townshend wanted to use turnips as an inexpensive substitute for the hay that was used to sustain cattle herds throughout the winter. In those days, it was expensive to grow and store hay all winter. To save money, many people killed their livestock in the fall, causing an overabundance of beef at one time. Townshend proved that turnips were an easy-to-grow, inexpensive way for farmers to fatten cattle through the winter, and a delicious vegetable “starch” for humans.

Although turnips contain a large amount of starch, they provide only one third the calories as an equal amount of potatoes. Turnips are an excellent source of vitamins C, B-6 and E, fiber, folic acid, manganese, potassium and riboflavin.

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DEAR PAW’S CORNER: I recently lost my dog “Mischa” to an illness, and I’m over-whelmed with sadness and guilt. Her death was very sudden; one day she was fine and then she was not. I can’t help wondering if there was anything I could have done to prevent this from happening. Did I give her the wrong food? Was there something in her medications she might have had a reaction to? I’ve had no answers from the vet. Am I wrong for constantly second-guessing my-self? Should I just get over it? -- Devastated in Dallas

DEAR DEVASTED: First, I’m very sorry for your loss. Pets are so much a part of our families that losing them can be incredibly difficult. “Getting over” the loss of a pet isn’t something anyone should be told to do -- it’s not unusual to feel sadness for a pet years after its death. A close friend of mine still speaks fondly of his dog King, who died when he was a boy. And I often miss pets I lost years ago.I personally feel that adults can grieve openly for pets in a way that they can’t grieve for humans. We have to bear up and be brave at the loss of a relative or friend, perhaps be the one who must organize everything. But for a lost pet there are no such barriers to just grieving for them.On the other hand, you want answers for Mis-cha’s sudden death. More questions should be asked of the veterinarian. What did her symp-toms point to -- an infection, a reaction to some-thing? That the vet has no answer at all is curi-ous, but I’m not familiar with the circumstances. Continue pressing for answers from the vet.

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1. U.S. STATES: What is the state capital of Michigan?2. LANGUAGE: What would “tur-bid” water look like?3. AD SLOGANS: What company promoted its products with the slogan, “Nothin’ says lovin’ like something from the oven.”4. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What is the original of the interna-tional distress signal “mayday”5. MEDICAL TERMS: What is the common name for “epistaxis”?6. SCIENCE: What is the chemi-cal element symbol for tungsten?7. GEOGRAPHY: Where are the Faroe Islands located?8. MOVIES: In “Star Wars,” where did Luke Skywalker grow up?9. FOOD & DRINK: What other spice is similar in flavor to mace?10. HISTORY: What type of gun was used to assassinate Presi-dent Abraham Lincoln?

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1. Which group was the first to record “To Know Him Is to Love Him,” and when?2. Who wrote and recorded “Judy in Disguise (With Glass-es),” and why?3. What was Freddy Fender’s real name, and what hit is he best known for.4. Where was Billy Ocean born? What was his first No. 1 hit?5. “Teen Angel” (1960) was banned by many radio stations for being morbid. What was the song about?6. Name the first big hit by REO Speedwagon.

Answers1. The Teddy Bears, in 1958. The song went to No. 1. Writer Phil Spector was only 18 at the time.2. John Fred and the Playboys wrote “Judy in Disguise” as a parody of the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Dia-monds.”3. Baldemar Huerta. “Before the Next Teardrop Falls” was the Country Music Association’s Single of the Year for 1975 and also hit No. 1 on the pop charts.4. Ocean was born Leslie Charles in Trinidad. “Caribbean Queen,” his first major hit, went to the top of the U.S. pop, R&B and dance charts in 1984.5. Girl/boy/stalled car/railroad tracks. She’s hit by a train when she runs back to find his high-school ring.6. “Keep On Loving You” (1980)

1. Mariano Rivera is No. 1 on the all-time saves list for the New York Yankees, with 526 entering 2010. Who is No. 2?2. True or false: A Baltimore Oriole has never led the Ameri-can League in hits for a sea-son.3. How many college football national titles did Paul “Bear” Bryant win at the University of Alabama?4. In 2008, Chris Duhon set a New York Knicks franchise re-cord with 22 assists in a game. Who had held the mark?5. Name the winningest NHL goalie never to have won the Stanley Cup.6. How many College Cup championships has the Univer-sity of Virginia men’s soccer team won?7. When was the last time be-fore 2010 that the U.S. won the America’s Cup in yachting?

Answers1. Dave Righetti, with 224 saves.2. False. Cal Ripken Jr. had 211 hits to lead the A.L. in 1983.3. Six in 25 years.4. Richie Guerin, who had 21 assists in a game in 1958.5. Curtis Joseph, with 454 victories in his 19-year career.6. Six, including one in 2009.7. It was 1992.