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572 people commit to weight loss challenge |
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Friday, February 08 2008 |
By BECKY HAND
Community editor
Anyone passing by the hospital last night might have thought the flooding or the ice had caused major catastrophes in the county. The parking lot was filled and people were coming and going continuously from about 5 until 8 p.m.
Have no fear, it was just the Whitley Weighs In teams having their first weigh in. And this year, the numbers are up.
At last count, 143 teams had signed up, meaning that 572 people are committing to a regimen of exercise and healthy eating to take off some of those unwanted pounds.
Danielle Ziliak, Health and Wellness Director at the Whitley County YMCA pointed out that if everyone lost just one pound, that would mean Whitley County was 572 pounds lighter. But many are hoping for more.
The initial meeting’s format had to be changed, due to the numbers, and so people could come and go from 5 to 8 p.m. weighing in and hearing the rules presentation as they passed through the line.
This year the Whitley Weigh In started off with the Whitley YMCA giving away to each participant a card that waives half of the joiners fee at the Y worth $37.50.
Sponsors of the Weigh In are The Post & Mail, Whitley County YMCA, and Parkview Whitley Hospital and many of last year’s teams have returned, some with new names.
One of the highlights is reading the names that the groups adopt for their adventure. Here are a few of the early favorites: Mo Buff, Git ’er Down Chicks, Badonka Donk Terminators, Midlife Meltdown Divas, Disappearing Dames, Not So Desperate Housewives, Tootsie Pop and the Rolls, and Hips Ahoy.
There may be some friendly competition between some churches in the area with these names: Methodist Road Runners, Precious Hope, The Holy Rollers, and the Baptist Buds.
A new rule this year allows for one missed weigh in per team member except for the February and July meetings. These are mandatory or the team forfeits its chance at the $1,000.
Weigh In times are set for the second Thursday of the month (Feb. 7, March 13, April 10, May 8, June 12 and July 10) with the scales being at the Y in the morning from 7 to 9 a.m. and at Parkview Whitley Hospital in the evening from 5 to 8 p.m. The educational meetings begin at 7 p.m.
Pictures will be taken at the Hospital or can be e-mailed within five days of the weigh in to
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Attention: Mick Long.
Motivational e-mails will be sent to the team captains once a week, and door prizes will be given at each meeting. The grand prize will be awarded at the final weigh in on July 10.
In the next six months, Whitley County may proudly call itself Indiana’s county of losers! |
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 |  |  |  |  | | My Mom (Elly Crawford) would always make this Cranberry
Salad, to die for. The year she passed away I had tried my mother-in-laws and others
but never the same as my Mom's. A year had went by and I had Looked and Looked for
her recipe in her old fashion Tin recipe box. Could not find it. I thought, wow was
this like her Famous Potato Salad, In her head and never wrote down. Silly I know
But as I searched thru her tin recipe box again, I made sure I put each hand wrote
card back where she had kept it. I wanted to make sure it was Just like my mom had
always had it and left it. I kept look one at a time, And low and behold stuck
between two cards was the recipe, I sat and held it as the tears ran down my face. I
had found it and was finally going to have Mom's Cranberry Salad. I called My Dad,
Cecil and said over 20 times, " Dad I found it Dad I found it!" I then prayed and
ask Mom, OK come on help me make this just like you did. And I guess Mom heard
me cause the 2nd and 3rd Thanksgiving without my Mom I had "Mom's Cranberry
Salad" and I will again this year and years to come. Thanks Mom I love you- Sheryl
xoxo P.S. You ask? Well share this recipe.... Umm, I
think NOT, Took me to long to find it. - Sheryl Hackett (Churubusco, IN) My late grandmother, Margarette Ruthsatz always made
scalloped oysters for the holidays. The recipe would be similar to scalloped corn
but instead of corn,oysters.We always hoped for left-overs and often would sneak it
cold from the fridge! Someone brings this dish every year. - Pam Sorg (Columbia City, IN) I love Thanksgiving. All my family get together at my mom and
dad's. My daughters and I usually go early to help Mom get the dinner ready, but she
does most of it. We eat about one and are all stuffed. After clean up we wait for
the paper so my sister and I can scope out all the sales for the next day which we
call Jackie and Laura's Big Adventure. It is the one day that we just spend time
together and are amused with all the shoppers going crazy for that perfect Christmas
gift. - Jackie White (Columbia City, IN) My mother-in-law, the late Mildred Weeks, gave me this recipe
and it is the only salad I fix for Thanksgiving and I am willing to share.
CRANBERRY SALAD1 lb package cranberry's (I freeze them and
then grind them)2 medium size oranges1 cup sugar1 package red
jello2 red apples diced small1 cup chopped nuts1 cup celery diced
smallGrind cranberry's and oranges;add sugar (let set overnight) okay if not.
Add apples, celery, jello and nuts.
- Rowena Weeks (Ridgecrest, California)
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