| Chipotle Establishes Scholarships at The Culinary Institute of America
In 1990, a young student of The Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., received his toque and headed to California to pursue his dreams of becoming a chef. Some three years later, looking to open a restaurant of his own, he returned home to Denver and, with a loan from his father, Steve Ells opened a burrito restaurant in the hopes of making enough money to some day open a �real�� restaurant. Fourteen years later, that Denver burrito restaurant continues to do a brisk business, along with the more than 640 other Chipotle Mexican Grill locations nationwide. The restaurant has a loyal following, has received critical acclaim around the country, and has become one of the fastest-growing restaurant companies in the country. �My time at The Culinary Institute of America provided a great foundation when I was starting my career and taught me many lessons that are still valuable today,�� said Ells.
McKown-Juniper Point
Most of this week's news is from the baby boomer set (we know who we are). A porch party hosted by Peter Edwards and Bev Simmons provided most of the updates. The party was given while Bev's siblings from St. James, North Carolina, Manchester, New Hampshire and Baldwin, Maine were visiting. According to Bev, her siblings had some skepticism about the quality and quantity of Peter's friends, so he filled the porch with revelers on a beautiful evening recently. Barb Crawford reports that daughter Devon, after working for three years at Merrymeeting in Bath with autistic children, will be starting in the Boothbay region school district this fall, working in the Special Ed department. Meanwhile Barb's son Kyle Crawford will be working in the Auburn school district. The Leadbetter cottage was buzzing last week.
Back To School Means Return Of School Blood Drives
Labor Day signals the end of summer, a difficult season for blood collection, and one that blood centers are usually happy to bid farewell. After coping with tight blood supplies since Memorial Day, there is relief in sight -- school is back in session and so are school blood drives.
Just how important are drives held on high school and college campuses? A recent study published in Transfusion, indicates that only 37 percent of the U.S. population is eligible to donate -- far less than the 60 percent figure previously estimated -- so student drives are indispensable.
According to a survey of its membership by America's Blood Centers, approximately 16 percent of its annual U.S. collections come from student blood drives. For some blood centers, that number can be much higher.
NAMES & FACES
Washington has been striking reality TV gold lately. First, there was Rahman "Rock" Harper, the associate chef at B. Smith's who beat 11 other culinary experts to win Season 3 of Fox's "Hell's Kitchen" earlier this month. Now there's 22-year-old DeAngelo Redman, who this Sunday will square off with nine other wannabe pop stars on the live season finale of MTV's "Making the Band 4." Redman, who grew up in D.C. and attended Duke Ellington School of the Arts before graduating from Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, won a radio contest that allowed him to bypass the line at a "Making the Band 4" audition in February at Platinum nightclub. After advancing through two more rounds, Redman earned the approval of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, who helped producers choose the cast. Combs will also make the final decisions about which four contestants will win the show's prize: becoming part of a pop-R&B group with a record contract on his label, Bad Boy Records.
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