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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1976
Page
4
Cedar Rapids author shares six week bicycle journey to the Oregon coast and practical survival tips. He explains building a windward fire containment, choosing wood types and sizes, and arranging tinder and kindling. The guide covers lighting, feeding, cooking on hot coals, and gathering burnable wood in wet conditions.
A traveler shares practical survival methods including a homemade tube tent crafted from clear plastic, back up fuel via sterno, and compact provisions. He lists legume grain dishes cooked in a quart saucepan, high protein plants, dried foods, and teas for evenings. He recalls the Idaho night encounter with a pilgrim and burrow, offering reflections from the trip.
Tak and Yvette Wong of Route One Swisher have built a local Chinese cooking profile teaching adult ed classes at Kirkwood Community College. They emphasize authentic, economical dishes, growing some ingredients, and using a wok and chopsticks. They plan an advanced course in fall and share two recipes: Deep Fried Shrimp Toast and Steamed Chicken, with steps and marinating tips. Tak moved to Cedar Rapids in 1969, met Yvette in Hong Kong, married in 1973, and both graduated from Coe College.
A Pennsylvania reader asks about making a preemptive bid after an opening. The article explains that a jump overcall by an opponent is a preemptive overcall, while a jump response by partner of the opener is a preemptive jump response.
Town and Country club decorated for the Golden Age tea at West Clermont Lutheran Church Clermont. A bicentennial theme featured marigold boxes, red white and blue cups, tin candleholders, and eight granny dolls as prizes. Guests numbered 70 and eligibility is age 65 plus.
Williamsburg Virginia May 15 1776 The Virginia convention unanimously instructed its Philadelphia delegation to propose declaring the united colonies free and independent states and to assent to such a declaration, severing allegiance to the crown and Parliament of Great Britain.
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