November ’17

Staff photographer Julie Botos usually is shooting for assignments. While out for a morning walk this fall, she captured this beautiful artistic shot.

The First Tee of Canton hosted an open house in August to celebrate 15 years as a youth development nonprofit program in Stark County. This year, the Deuble Learning Center was updated, and a maintenance facility was built.

Bender’s Tavern hosted a wine-tasting event featuring Keplinger Wines, a rising star in the wine world. Helen Keplinger, a native of Canton, grew up in a family that centered most everything around food, wine, the arts, nature and travel.

You meander around the supermarket loading a basket with goods—breakfast tea, sugar, milk. Along the way, though, you become befuddled. You struggle to recall the items on the shopping list. When you arrive at checkout, you discover several items in the basket that you do not recall picking up. Then it comes time to pay the cashier and you can’t seem to count out the proper sum.

Approximately 48 million Americans face food insecurity every day, according to Feeding America, a nonprofit organization and network of more than 200 food banks. That means they, and their pets, face uncertain access to a sufficient amount of affordable, healthy food.

While many people may be thinking of pumpkins, apple picking and football in the fall, this time of year also marks the beginning of the holiday giving season.

Many of us take the opportunity during the holiday season to reinforce to our children the concept of giving. But are we doing enough to make sure this concept gets woven into their everyday behavior? Sometimes it’s tough to involve children, particularly young ones, in charity.

They say you can’t judge a book by its cover. But apparently, you can conclude something about a CEO’s performance by his or her facial features.

The food at Meyers Landing Bar and Grill is worth the visit, which came as a pleasant surprise to me. I’m not much of a sports bar fan, and I (incorrectly) had pegged the indoor-outdoor spot in the Meyers Lake Plaza as more of a bar that happened to serve food.

I love granola bars, energy bars, meal replacement bars, anything of the sort. So this recipe jumped out at me. As usual, something went wrong. It wouldn’t be normal if something didn’t go wrong when I was in the kitchen.