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Recipes for campers

Eggs Benedict
Ingredients: ,
Eggs
‘Lemon Juice
Dijon Mustard
Bisquick (or flour and baking powder)
Flat shale-like rocks «
North-Central Manitoba Lake
New boyfriend to impress
1 canoe, 2 paddles, | pot; 1 pan, I bowl, some

cutlery and plates:

. The day before, paddle canoe to beautiful beach.
Take all yellow ingredients out of cooler and allow
to come to summer temperature. In the pot, put in

two egg yolks, some mustard, some melted butter, .

4

‘some lemon juice. Whisk and set aside.

In bowl, combine biscuit mix and water. Heat

flat rocks over-campfire, then place dough on rocks
to bake. In the meantime, get more. water from

clean Jake and put in pan. Poach four eggs. Also in ..

the mean time, admire deliciousness of coffee new
boyfriend has made.’ .

Holding pot with hollandaise sauce ingredients .

-over the fire (not too hot!) whisk until thickens, re-
moving from fire if it threatens to clump or curdle.

' Turn biscuits. Remove poached eggs one at a time, '

allowing to drain from spatula. Plunk biscuits on

plates, p lunk perfectly poached eggs on top, ladle

sauce over top. Marry.

~ Still-good hot dogs: and beans
Ingredients:
1 canoe, 3 paddles, can opener, special camping.
pot/can holder thingie, sticks

; Wieners

Buns

Can of Libby’s Yummy Yummy Deep-Browned
Beans (or equivalent)

Strawberries for dessert

A spoon or two ©

Fast River near ‘Tumbler Ridge . so
Paddling or not, as the river takes you where it’s S

going anyway, scout for shady beach area suitable
for small campfire; shout when tummy rumbles and
trees overhang water.

Pull canoe well up from the fast water, dispatch
child::to’ locate .wiener sticks, press husband into

sharpening duties then make campfire i in the COR-

RECT way.

Opening the beans: IMPORTANT - do not take:

lid off can completely, leave it on a bit so you can
mush it down avoiding ashes from fire, but easy to
yank up to hold with camping pot holder thingie.
Place directly in fire, coals or raging flames, no
matter. Since campfire was made CORRECTLY, it
will be ready for beans right away.

Pierce wieners on sticks, hold over fire. When
wiener drops into fire, pierce it with stick and rinse

_ Off in fast river: still good: When wiener drops into
_ fast river, grab it with hands: still good. When wie-

ner drops onto sand, brush it off: still good.” (Re-
peat. ) Stir beans with’a spoon, for more even heat-
ing. Grab wieners off sticks with bun, eat. Share
spoons to enjoy beans. When strawberries drop into
sand, brush or rinse off: still good.”

Rinse spoons, can and pot holder thingie in fast

made campfire; depart in canoe. Admire view.
Klick ‘n’ mac

Ingredients: :

10 - 14 pre-teen girls, 2 adult camp counsellors, 6

canoes, chain of calm lakes w/ many hilly portages

Klick (Spam may work as an alternate)

Kraft Dinner

Dried fruit, especially the nectarines

Rain

Heavy backpacks

Pick the canoe with the fun girls; make sure one.

of your canoe’s back packs has all the dried fruit,

“especially the nectarines. Paddle and snack sur-

reptitiously, portage, paddle, snack, portage. Get
soaked in the pouring rain just before making camp

_for the night.

Make disparaging remarks about the can of
Klick; open, slice and fry. Eat with Kraft Dinner
and swoon in.delight over the food’s fabulousness.
WARNING: only works with pre-teen camping ex-
perience involving 8 - 10 hours of canoeing, portag-
ing, and hiking with heavy backpacks in the rain.

The Revenge of the Chowder

Ingredients:
Left over fresh fish caught by son, some salmon we
bought, spuds, carrots
Boler travel trailer °
Southernmost Saskatchewan roads.
Fridge with door not secured perfectly

Two days before, take numerous pictures of
pickerel as it is being caught, cleaned, cooked and

"water, Splash water onto admittedly very- -well-

eaten. Save leftovers, raving about the size and

number of fish caught by youngster in prairie lake.
The day: before, buy nice piece of salmon from
store, making noises about how fish can’t be caught
everyday; BBQ, also saving leftovers. |
Being a frugal camper, make dreamy-good chow-
der from leftovers for lunch. Place small amount of
excellent. chowder in fridge for later. NOTE: fail

_ to secure fridge door. Set off on the most roly-poly

pot-holed road available (southern Saskatchewan
recommended); drive for five hours.

Stop for night, open travel trailer door, scream
“It’s the Revenge of the Chowder!” Bring it up in
conversation often for the next week, still finding
bits of pale or pink flesh on the ceiling, the cup-
board door, the windows, your shoes. Mutter into
your pillow, “It’s the Revenge of the Chowder...”

TERRACE STANDARD

The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 17, 2005 - B1

THOUGH Lorna Sperman i is spending most "of her time indoors as she recuperates
_ from the liver transplant she received in March, her spirits are up.

‘DUSTIN QUEZADA PHOTO

One life restored

as one life lost

By DUSTIN QUEZADA
LORNA SPERMAN is taking it slow, but
she already has her sights set on returning
to the Wednesday ladies’ bowling league in
September 2006.

That goal may not seem lofty for most,
but most people aren’t on the mend from a
liver transplant.

As she continues to increase her strength
and balance, Sperman says she and her fam-
ily just feel lucky that she’s alive.

“I feel great, | have.a clean’bill of health

and I’m alive,” says the 60-year-old. “I think.

I’ve got an angel sitting on my shoulder.”
Those feelings are in stark contrast to her

_ Spirits just six months ago.

In mid-February, Sperman was in Leduc,
Alta. with family waiting to find out wheth-
er a session of chemotherapy she had: under-
gone two months before
had worked.

says Sperman, as her first two weeks’ there
were a blurry haze.
The five-centimetre cancerous tumor on

her liver was found to be sitting on a blood

clot.

On Dec. 3, her 60th birthday, she was ad-
vised that a transplant would be impossible.
A chemotherapy shot would be needed.

Those are the events that had Sperman,
originally from Alberta, in Leduc surround-

‘ed by many of her family, including her five

sisters.

After the two-month wait, Sperman was
summoned back to the Edmonton hospital
for a checkup.

~An MRI and ultrasound test found the
tumor had shrunk and the blood clot had
dried.

She was advised a transplant was pos-

sible when she’ left Feb.
28 to return to Leduc:

It was the culmina-
tion of a bleak period for.
Sperman and her health
that started in 1998 while
she and her husband Tul-
lio were “vacationing: in
Italy.

Told by her doctor z at

happy. ”

“{ would like to thank
the family,. but’ who’s.
to know...some might
be hurt, some might be

Normally a three to
six-month wait to find
a donor, Sperman was
shocked to get a call the
next day. :

Sperman’ says she
had little time to feel
anything, but confesses’

the time that she would
eventually need a trans-

. plant, she began taking three pills a day.

“It kept me alive,” she says of the pills.

But last fall, her stomach pains became
increasingly sharp.

Unable to walk or eat without assistance,
she landed in hospital Oct. 5, where she
underwent a series of tests, including an ul-

_ trasound and a Magnetic Resonance Image
(MRI).

“They found a lump on my liver — a tu-
mor they said,’ Sperman says.
The test results were sent to a special-

- ist in Edmonton, who Sperman had visited

three years previously.

“He said, ‘you get her down here right
away,”” Sperman says.

Three days later, she was transported by
helicopter to the University Hospital in the
Alberta capital.

Her husband and daughter, Doris Nen-
ningsland, drove from Terrace, as did her
daughter Renetta Stein from Leduc.

Her family’s presence was invaluable,

to having felt scared and
excited.
“T was scared I wasn’t going to make it,”
she recalls, adding she didn’t know. what to
expect having never undergone any major.

surgery.

Sperman underwent a successful trans-

_. plant on March 2 at 5 a.m., in which she re-
ceived a liver exactly half her age. ©

Five months later, at home in her living

“room with a cup of tea, Sperman says the
thought of receiving a transplant had never —
’ crossed her mind.

She says she feels thankful to her friends
and family and all of Terrace for their sup-
port, but she stalls when asked about her

donor.

“T would like to thank the person, the
family, but who’s to know...some might be
hurt, some might be happy,” she says, add-
ing she can find out her donor’s identity in
three or four years if she so chooses.

More than once Sperman extols the ben-
efits of organ donors: “If you’re able to be a
donor, please be one,” she says.

' drome

» tion. To all entrants in our first annual show'— well done!

transplant soon

By DUSTIN QUEZADA «|

TARA DAVIS’ grandmother: says it would mean. a. jot. :
to the 10-year-old if her four grandparents and her great: -
grandmother could be .by her side when’ she. undergoes a .
kidney transplant at month’s énd. =. -
Marlene Robinson is spearheading 4 drive to raise the”

money necessary to‘have the five family members: ‘and one -
aide be in Vancouver in two weeks...” 3

Though she raised enough for the group’ S airfare, Robin- -
. son. says she’s still $1, 500- $2, 000 short for accommodation a
and meals. ; -

Davis grew up in Greenville, but her family was: forced .
_ to move closer to the Lower Mainland — Nanaimo — when .

it-was discovered six years ago that she had nephritic syn-

The condition is an inflammation of the kidneys that dam-
ages the organ’s filtering mechanisms, called the glomeruli.

When Davis’ health worsened last July, doctors put her
on a. waiting list for a transplant. »

After a battery of tests, her father’s kidney proved to ba: a
match and Aug.'3] was: finalized as the transplant date. .

Robinson Says she spoke with her granddaughter, who’ Ss.
attending a summer camp, just last week ~

_ “She’s a little scared and anxious,” Robinson says.

Robinson admits the fundraising has been kind of slow,
but she says every dollar counts.

She’s seeking business, community and individual dona-
tions for a loonie auction Aug. 20 at a yet-to-be determined ,
location and she’s staging a bottle drive between Aug. 20-
26.

Without a vehicle, Robinson says she’ s also seeking any
volunteers with transport and labourers to help with the bot-°:,
tle collection. Robinson can be reached at 638-8696 and any
bottles with a deposit return can be dropped off at her house :

at 4604 Graham Avenue.

~ Snapshot silverware

THE NORTHERN Lenses Camera Club miet at the: Terrace

Art Gallery on Wednesday, Aug. 10, where the.. winners

-of the club’s first annual. - photography | exhibition were .

announced.
Votes were counted for photographs submitted to the ex~

hibit from July 8-30 in two categories.

The winning photograph by a “novice” photographer .
was Ora Lynne Hanson, and David Watson had the winning.

image in the “advanced” photographer category. os
Due to the many wonderful photographs at the show, the
voting was indeed close, with Hanson’s winning image, I’m

- Thirsty, edging out four other photographs that all received ,

just two fewer votes.

. The votes for the winning “advanced” photograph were
closer still, with just one vote separating Watson’s winning
image, Reflections of the Skeena, from four other photo-
graphs.

“I feel that the club is blessed with an awesome amount .
of talented people with diverse interests in photography,”
said Watson, who also serves as the club’s President. “This
was certainly borne out by the superb entries in the exhibi- .
p>

The camera club will resume meeting every second and
fourth Wednesday in September at 7 p.m. at the art gallery,
where new members are always welcomed.

For information, call David Watson at 638- 0146 or e- -
_ mail at david @davidwatsonphotographicar com - ,

NORTHERN Lenses Camera “Club president, David
Watson joins Ora Lynne Hanson Aug. 10 as winners in

the club’s first photography exhibition. |
CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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TARA Davis; seen: in healthier times, ‘ will ‘undergo. a*
' kidney transplant at Vancouver's Children’s. Hospital
‘on Aug. 31. She grew up in Greenville. cr

‘CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

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