| MATAMOROS — While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt ...
MATAMOROS � While some schools endeavor to bring meals like mom makes to their students, at Franklin Delano Roosevelt Elementary school in Matamoros, moms are brought to the school to make students meals. �Who better to make them lunch,� reasoned Principal Maria de Los Angeles Galvan Tapia. �They�re cooking for their kids, so obviously they want to feed them well.� Out of necessity more than careful planning, moms at Franklin, as the school is known across the city, take turns cooking lunch for 550 hungry children. Without government funding for a school lunch program, schools in Mexico employ a variety of low cost alternatives, usually on the parents� dime. At Franklin, parents have taken up the cause of organizing meals for their students. Responsibilities for the week rotate among parents, mostly mothers.
Kid Nation Meets Adult World
The kids are alright. Or are they? That's what the New Mexico Attorney General's Office plans to find out after deciding to renew a probe to determine if CBS and producers of the upcoming reality series Kid Nation violated child labor and safety laws. "We decided to review all the information we had based on a number of factors, not the least of which was the fact that there were media reports alleging possible violations of permit codes and also the possibility there were some child-endangerment problems," Phil Sisneros, spokesman for State Attorney General Gary King, told E! Online. The series plops 40 children, ages 8 to 15, in a "ghost town" south of Santa Fe for what is billed as a controlled social experiment. The kids are expected to fend for themselves for 40 days without adult supervision.
Dinnertime dash: Recipes, tips for speedy school-night meals
With the older of her two sons just off to kindergarten, Robin Miller may be new to the school-year drill, but she's more than ready for the daily challenge of fitting healthful, home-cooked dinners into a busier-than-ever schedule. When her boys were still in diapers, she was developing "Quick Fix Meals With Robin Miller," a wonderfully practical and appealing cooking show that debuted two years ago on The Food Network. This spring, Taunton Press published a companion cookbook. If you find Rachael Ray's hyper-perkiness grating and Paula Dean's butter-intensive recipes too rich, Miller may be just the ticket. She has a relaxed, upbeat manner that manages to convey both encouragement and calm. And with a master's degree in nutrition, she puts health front and center.
High School Football Returns
Friday night football is back. Livonia opened up the season at home against East Rochester/Gananda. It didn't take long for the Bombers to assert themselves. The first play from scrimmage, Neal Dotterer hit Nick Fisher for 61 yards and a 7-0 lead. At the beginning of the second quarter, East Rochester drives the length of the field and Dave Vosburgh takes the option pitch six yards for a 14-0 lead. Dotterer threw for 270 yards and two scores in the bombers victory. Eastridge opened its season at home against Victor. Blue Devils quarterback Chris Rose gets picked off by Lancer defensive back Wayne Washington and he's off 55 yards down the sideline and in for the touchdown. Eastridge with the ball and Kemar Burton takes the handoff and races 48 yards for the touchdown.
Bitterness lingers 2 years after Katrina
James Chaney spent the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina doing what he's been doing since the killer storm crashed ashore - working on a damaged home. "My house is pretty close to being done, now we're trying to get my sister home," said Chaney, 39. "Thank God for family and friends. If it wasn't for them nobody would ever get back here." Two years after Katrina hit, a storm of bitterness and anger has yet to clear. While memorials were held to mark the day, residents fumed about the government's response and marched to demand help. "We want people to know that nothing is being done to help people here," said Samuel Banks, 40, as he marched with about 1,000 other protesters Wednesday. "How can the city rebuild if nobody has money or jobs?" President Bush visited the first school to reopen in the hard-hit Lower 9th Ward and pledged additional aid.
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