Historical October 1990 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
Let’s start this whole thing off with the last barbecue tip you’ll get this season. Ever try barbecued pineapple? It’s ridiculously easy to make. Slice a fresh pineapple into steaks at least a half-inch thick. Remove skin and core. Grill over a hot fire until they either brown or start to blacken slightly.
If the grill isn’t set up, try the broiler. Don’t add any spices or condiments; the cooking sweetens the fruit up fine all by itself. Goes great with BBQ ribs.
Speaking of cooking, Nancy De Bettencourt of 62XX Washington has become a Pampered Chef representative. Pampered Chef is a line of cooking items offered in a home show format.
Most of the items are little gadgets that simplify cooking, but the line includes baking stones, woks, etc. as well. I attended Nancy’s first show and was impressed with the merchandise and her presentation.
If you would like more info, call her at 725-1264.
This spring was really frustrating, because the slow real estate market was depriving us of new neighbors.
Well, we got a bunch of them during the summer. Here’s a partial list. Keith and Linda Arnold have moved from Virginia to 63XX Washington. Keith is in charge of the St. Louis Convention and Visitors Bureau. Leslie and Michael O’Leary will be living for a year at 62XX Washington. Mike, who’s in the Navy, is doing a surgery fellowship at Wash U. Med Center. Other new arrivals: Tom and Elizabeth Tipton, 61XX Westminster Kaye Scott, to 62XX Washington Dan and Mary Cullen, 63XX Pershing Linda and Stanley Safron, 62XX McPherson Constance Saville, 62XX Westminster Lynne Rieger, 6306 Pershing John and Stephanie Garganigno, 63XX Waterman Lockwell and Madelyn Gray 4XX Westgate Tim Loyet, 61XX Westminster Cecilia Madel, 61XX Westminster Monte Bordeau, 61XX Westminster Paul and Katie Kurtz have moved to 61XX Kingsbury with their two boys. Whatever happened to those wonderful folks who brought you the Masks of the Caribbean exhibit?
Well, the Nunleys have not disappeared.
They are in Trinidad on a sabbatical for ten months or so. Norbury Wayman of 57XX Kingsbury has been seriously ill and is now recovering at St. John’s Mercy Skilled Nursing Center, 615 South New Ballas Road, 63141. Mr. Wayman is the author of “Life on The River” and “St. Louis Union Station and Its Railroads!’ We wish him a speedy recovery. Steve Brammeier dropped a note to many neighborhood residents that he will be handling his practice alone for a while as he searches for a new associate. Delmar Transmission has moved from the U City loop to the building that used to house the used car department at the late Fox Ford complex on Delmar. I went over there to see him about a safety inspection. Alas, this is one of the few things that he doesn’t do for cars anymore.
It seems that the gummint, in order to tighten up on vehicle emissions, is requiring inspection stations to install special computerized analysis equipment that hooks up directly to central computers in Jeff City or wherever.
These critters cost about $15,000 apiece and have to be in place by October 1.
So the chances are that your friendly local garage isn’t in the inspection business any more. Inspection stations will be harder to find and the inspection itself will take more time. Fudging the test may become impossible. Eventually, the test will cost a whole bunch more. I suspect that those of us who put off this chore until the end of the month will find ourselves in long lines. Greg Schweitzer’s Camerata Chorus is back in action.
The group will present its annual Christmas Concert at Saint Roch and has already been invited by Union Station to carol there. Remember, these concerts are free and open to everybody in the neighborhood. Your neighbors are welcome to join this nondenominational group as well.
It rehearses at Bishop DuBourg High School every Tuesday night.
For more info and car pooling call me at 727-0839.
A whole bunch of people ganged up on me to remind me to wish Norni (Normyan Rosenthal) a Happy Birthday. Christine Smith (58XX Pershing) sent this news for us: Bruce and I went to our almost-annual visit to the Cherokee National Holiday (Bruce’s tribe) in Tahlequah, OK.
We camped at Lake Tenkiller, where fishing was somewhat down due to 104 degrees temps—but the skipper of the cruise boat Cherokee Princess was feeding multitudes of small perch, 18″ carp and a blue heron.
We saw cattle egrets, bluebirds (rare in MO) in great numbers, and three young foxes. That’s in addition to the usual deer, armadillo, jays and hawks-n-vultures (who ballet in the air wonderfully over the lake.) The rarest we met: a True Artisan, upbut-from-one camp from ours.
By 40-hrsweekly, he is “construction man!’ By “hobby:’ a partly self-taught, partly taught by his “Indian Friend”—a cutler! Part smith, ‘ part machinist, much artist, he makes beautiful show-knives, handsome hunting knives, and eminently useful kitchen tools that gleam like chrome (but don’t peel or print, due to this forge-and-quench artistry). Besides which, we took the kitten Flyffnyr (Fife).
She traveled well, liked the birds and rodeo, and was most pleased to be home again, as were the elder cats to welcome us back. Otties’s Corner I gotta run Terri in one of these days.
He blew his deadline for the last issue and cut me out, as well. That’s mental cruelty and I’ll see that he pays for it. Boyoboyoboy, just let me catch him jaywalking!
On October 16, we’ll be having a Crimewatch meeting at Grace United Methodist Church. I hope all of you will be able to join me there. I had some good experiences and some bad experiences with the local children this summer that I thought you’d like to hear about.
One of the nicest things that happened was the bicycle safety seminar we had at Four Corners.
We checked out a fair number of bikes, discussed both bicycle and skateboard safety, then watched some of the team skaters from Altered Skates do their tricks. We’ve been trying to set up this event for some time now and I’m glad to see that it finally came off. I would like to thank a lot of people who made it possible. Alan from Delmar Transmission helped check out the bikes and tweak them when they needed it. Milt Woods from MW Fina provided soda and more help on the checkout line. Nancy Farmer from SDCC did publicity, organization, etc., etc., etc., and made everything possible.
Finally, I’d like to thank the kids and the parents who came for their time and attention. Let’s do it again sometime.
Originally published in The Times of Skinker-DeBaliviere, October 1990.
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Original source: SD_Times1990_10.pdf, printed page(s) 7, 8; PDF page(s) 6, 7.
