Tuesday, June 26, 2007
I f you like your 'cue spicy, peppery, sweet and salty, this week's column is for you. In preparation for grilling season, I recently taste-tested a lineup of red wines alongside over-the-top sauces in search of some winning combos.
Lesson learned: Contrary to popular opinion, a wine with some restraint makes the best match for dripping red meat (or whatever you choose to grill) rubbed or slathered with mouth-scalding ingredients like cayenne pepper and Worcestershire sauce, then fired over hot flames.
My winning barbecue wines are, for the most part, reasonably priced reds with good fruit and integrity. They aren't remarkably elegant, nor are they over the top. But they do one thing very well, and that is to play a supporting role to your world-class 'cue, whether it's marinated, sauced or rubbed.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
The Heron Lake Public Library just got 4 new music CDs: Michael Bubl`es Its Time, Five for Fightings Two Lights, The Essential Gloria Estafan, and Fireflies by Faith Hill. CDs can be checked out and enjoyed for 2 weeks.
May is Get Caught Reading month at libraries across the country. Several readers have been caught on camera by the Tri County News and were published in the paper. Stop in at the library to see the culprits and maybe get caught yourself - reading is fun any month!
The summer reading program at the Jackson County libraries is fast approaching. The students at the elementary school in Heron Lake will be getting a short presentation on all the fun stuff for summer Thursday, May 24th.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Vanderbilt wide receiver Earl Bennett and linebacker Jonathan Goff were added Monday to preseason watchlists for a pair of prestigious college football awards.
Bennett is one of 65 players named to the Maxwell Award watchlist, presented annual to the nation?s most outstanding football player. Former Notre Dame quarterback Brady Quinn won the award in 2006.
Goff is on the watchlist for the Bednarik Award, presented to the nation?s outstanding defensive player. Former Penn State linebacker Paul Posluszny received the honor in 2005 and 2006.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
It was one of those amazing happenings in which people just stood and watched in shocked disbelief.
Last Friday, during a game at the Belmont University summer basketball camp, Christ Presbyterian Academy?s Zaccheus Mason roared in for a dunk. The resulting thunderous putdown wound up shattering the backboard, sending glass and debris flying everywhere.
?I?ve never witnessed anything quite like it,?? said CPA coach Drew Maddux, who said the dunk occurred late in the third quarter against Overton and, needless to say, ended the game. ?The glass in the backboard shattered into what seemed like a million pieces.
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
A large grass fire burned about 125 acres in the foothills near Junipero Serra Boulevard between Stanford University and Interstate Highway 280 that sent billows of smoke into San Mateo County as far north as Belmont yesterday.
The grass fire near Palo Alto was fully contained by about 7:30 p.m., according to Palo Alto police and fire communication manager Charlie Cullen.
Cal Fire first received word at 4:13 p.m. of the fire burning in the foothills near Frenchmans Road.
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