Cheese

HIGH AND MIDDLE SCHOOLS Monday, Feb. 23 Choice of one: Chicken nuggets, Submarine sandwich, honey barbecue rib on bun. Sides: Green beans, whipped potatoes, layered pea salad, fresh fruit, fruit cocktail, hot roll, chocolate chip cookie. Tuesday, Feb. 24 Choice of one: Nachos with cheese and beef, burrito with cheese sauce, shrimp poppers with hush puppies. Sides: seasoned corn, refried beans, pasta salad, tossed salad, fresh fruit, chilled pears, frozen juice bar. Wednesday, Feb. 25 Choice of one: Oven baked chicken, foot long with Coney sauce, ham and cheese sandwich, fish sandwich.

MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOLS Monday, Oct. 27 Choice of one: Chicken nuggets, Southwest or chicken bacon ranch panini sandwich, honey barbecue rib on bun. Sides: Green beans, whipped potatoes, layered pea salad, fresh fruit, fruit cocktail, hot roll, chocolate chip cookie. Tuesday, Oct. 28 (Early release) Choice of one: Scrambled eggs with sausage, toasted cheese sandwich. Sides: Potato rounds, fruit juice, baked apples fresh fruit, golden biscuit, gravy.

Elementary Schools Monday, Sept. 25 No School Staff Development Day Tuesday, Sept. 26 Choice of one: Chicken nuggets with roll, hot ham and cheese sandwich. Sides: baked potato, seasoned broccoli, fresh fruit, fruit cocktail, Jello with topping. Wednesday, Sept. 27 Choice of one: Shrimp poppers with hush puppies, hamburger on bun. Sides: trimmings, baked beans, French fries, coleslaw, fresh fruit, chilled peaches, fruit sherbet. Thursday, Sept.

Middle and High Schools Monday, 1/9 Choice of one: Chicken nuggets, submarine sandwich, honey barbecue rib on bun. Sides: green beans, whipped potatoes, fresh fruit, fruit cocktail, cookie. Tuesday, 1/10 Choice of one: Nachos with cheese and beef, burrito with cheese sauce, shrimp poppers with hush puppies. Sides: seasoned corn, refried beans, pasta salad, fresh fruit, chilled pears, frozen juice bar. Wednesday, 1/11 Choice of one: Steak nuggets with roll, foot long with Coney sauce, ham and cheese sandwich.

The City of Winchester is looking for some recognition. And the Board of Commissioners will vote on resolutions in today's regular meeting in an effort to get that recognition. The commissioners will discuss two resolutions. The first will urge the Kentucky General Assembly to designate Ale-8-One as the “official Kentucky original soft drink of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.” The second will ask the General Assembly to designate Clark County as the birthplace of beer cheese.

Big Russ's Beer Cheese was a big winner Saturday at the fourth annual Beer Cheese Festival, coming away with the Peoples' Choice Award and second place in the commercial division of the Best Beer Cheese Contest. With 14 beer cheese vendors from across the state, and a few out-of-state vendors, the public had plenty of cheese to sample. Other commercial winners, determined by a panel of judges, were Larry Mac's, first place, and Woody's, third place. “Overall, I think everything went well,” Tim Janes, director of Winchester First and festival organizer, said.

Now in its fourth year, the 2012 Beer Cheese Festival scheduled for June 9 promises to be the biggest and best yet. Beer cheese is once again the star of the festival, with 12 commercial beer cheese makers - including one from Tennessee and one from Florida - on hand passing out samples of their time-tested recipes from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.  along Main Street in downtown Winchester. Last year more than 3,000 people made their way along Main Street, stopping at each vendor for a taste of Winchester's signature snack food.

When Curt Smith took ownership of the restaurant at Southwind Golf Course, he knew he would have to be able to provide customers with a great beer cheese. As owner/operater of Sammy's Bar and Grill at Southwind, Smith is happy to report customers seem more than pleased with his recipe. Sammy's, named after Smith's son, officially opened in February, but the beer cheese recipe has been around for 20 years. “I experimented until I got a recipe I like and everybody else liked,” Smith said.

Two popular Winchester attractions have been added to the Kentucky Department of Travel and Tourism's “There's Only One Kentucky” list, a marketing campaign to draw tourists to the state. Ale-8-One and the Beer Cheese Festival are among 13 new attractions that were selected recently from applications submitted to the department, according to a news release. The department made the announcement Monday in celebration of National Travel and Tourism Week, which began May 5 and lasts until May 13. “'There's Only One' differentiates Kentucky from other destinations by emphasizing attractions and events that travelers to and within the Commonwealth can experience that cannot be replicated anywhere else,” the news release states.

Parents often wonder how to encourage young children to eat healthy food and snacks, especially when the children are viewing enticing TV commercials that advocate unhealthy junk food. Nutritious food is necessary for the development of muscles and bones, normal growth, and mental development. There are a few ways to help form habits for your child that will help establish healthy eating habits for their lifetime. n Following the Leader: Eating healthy foods with your kids shows them that it is not out of the norm, and that you enjoy eating these foods.

For 40 days I¿fasted. Actually, it turns out, it was 46 days. I learned that in my desperate Googling the Saturday before Easter, trying to figure out when Lent officially ended. Although¿I'm a Baptist, and our denomination generally doesn't place a lot of emphasis on Lent, I decided it would be good for me to give something up this year. I thought it would help me be more intentional in thinking about the Easter season, and from a more practical standpoint, there are plenty of vices in my life that could stand to be culled.

The Boyle County Farmers' Market will open in three weeks. April 7 will be the big day. Cool weather vegetables, plants, jams and jellies, baked goods and more will be available.  The weather this past week has been amazing. The scents of fruit blossoms, spring flowers and freshly mowed grass really awakens the senses. Barrie commented on how pleasant it has been to work outside. As I work in a room without windows at my “day” job, I was clamoring to get outside last weekend.

Spectators and visitors to Winchester filled Beer Cheese Boulevard this weekend for the third annual Beer Cheese Festival to sample food, listen to live music and shop from vendors. All of the commercial beer cheese winners took their places from last year’s winners, and the amateur beer cheese winners were all new except one — Brennan Gilkison, who took third place for the second year in a row. In the commercial competition, Kentucky Beer Cheese took first, Woody’s Sports Bar & Grill took second, Full Circle Market took third and DJ’s Bar & Grill won the People’s Choice Award.

Peoples Exchange Bank market president Randy Todd, sixth from left, presented a $500 check to Beer Cheese Festival board member Jenny Bailey to sponsor the judging area in Leeds Theater during the Beer Cheese Festival, which begins with a concert at 7 p.m. today on Main Street. Attending the check presentation were, from left, Peoples Exchange Bank employees, teller Whitney Scribner, branch manager Karen Walters, insurance agent Daniel Barry, lender Gloria Branham, business development director John Graybill and Todd.