Riverside Treks Star Trek fame with Kirina the Trill
Riverside celebrates Trek Fest with Tysha Branigan portraying Kirina the Trill at the annual event. Branigan owns Kirina Cantina selling Romulan Ale and Klingon Bloodwine while noting lighter costumes suit her. Fest runs June 27 and 28 with parades, contests, demos, swap meet, and a Trek-themed schedule.
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Kirina
Federation
James Tiberius Kirk
Enterprise
Kirk
Riverside Community Club
Branigan
Pleasant Valley Flower
Riverside floral designer aids Trek Fest parade effort
Tysha Branigan of Riverside works as a floral designer at Pleasant Valley Flower Shoppe in Iowa City and volunteers during Trek Fest. Residents, including Branigan, contribute by cleaning up, building parade floats, serving meals, selling shirts, and running the beer tent.
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Riverside
Pleasant Valley Flower Shoppe
Iowa City
University of Iowa
Kirkwood Community College
Bill
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Old fashioned food habits echo in Musser's garden
Riverside resident Musser embraces heritage corn varieties Hickory King Hominy Hopi Blue Bloody Butcher and Reid's Yellow Dent. She cans freezes and saves seeds for next year while preparing hominy with a lye bath and grinding corn into meal using a Vitamix.
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Musser
Wilder
Local homesteader Jan Musser blends antiques and canning at Kalona life
Jan Musser, 53, works at Fifth Street Antiques and waits tables at Kalona's Kalonial Town House. A Riverside High School graduate who studied at Ottumwa Heights and Mount Mercy, she cans vegetables and chickens, uses a family heirloom cast iron skillet, and plans Trek Fest appearances with daughter Tysha Branigan.
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the Gazette
Jan Musser
Riverside
Fifth Street Antiques
Kalona
Kalonial Town House
Riverside High School
Ottumwa Heights College
Indian Hills Community College
Mount Mercy College
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Tysha Branigan
Eryca Duwa
Dustin Duwa
Michael Musser
Musser
John
Hearty Sausage and Spinach Pie For Any Leftovers
A simple bake uses 1 lb meat such as Polish sausage ham or corned beef mixed with 5 eggs 2 cups spinach and 1 12 cups shredded cheese plus garlic salt pepper and garlic powder. Fill an unbaked pie shell and bake 45 minutes at 350 serving about 6. Jan notes she often uses less meat and reduces cheese.
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Jan
Leftover Meal Ideas and Simple Pancake Batter Notes
A compact guide offers stove top tips for potato mixtures with cheese ham and onions or onion soup, plus a basic pancake batter and a chocolate vanilla milk sauce. It lists ingredients and steps for browning potatoes, adding milk and cheese, and finishing with ham. Also covers dry and wet mix preparation for pancakes and a vanilla sweet milk sauce.
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Zack Kucharski
Melissa Heatherly Photographer
Stacie Bedford
JR Ogden Sports Editor
Richard Pratt
Dana Troyer
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