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Author adds vegan twist to grandma's traditional Mennonite recipe book Editor and author Jo Snyder updates the traditional old Mennonite Community Cookbook with plant-based recipe ingredients in an homage to her grandmother's folksy favourites. Social Sharing
Richard Groves Winston-Salem Journal The first time you see a black Amish buggy on a country road, you smile. You canât help it. When you see a sprawling Amish farm with a large barn and a tall domed silo and a man in the field plowing with a team of horses and, behind the house, a clothesline filled with the morningâs wash, you pull over and take a picture. You feel like you have been transported back in time to a simpler day. Then you notice that the buggy has brake lights. And turn signals. And you think that maybe novelist Barbara Kingsolver was right when she said t...
Danny M. Lavery is online weekly to chat live with readers. Here’s an edited transcript of this week’s chat. Q. Reasonable accommodations: I am one of two people in my department at work. The other person on my team has ADHD, and also suffers from anxiety and depression. Due to these challenges, our office does its best to provide reasonable accommodations, per the guidelines of the ADA. The problem: Their version of “reasonable” means expecting me to do all of his work, as well as my own, most of the time. At this point, people from other departments, as well as our higher-ups, copy...
Share the roads, people! Even, in this case, if the other drivers aren't all riding in cars or trucks. An accident in upstate New York has left one man dead and another injured after SUV struck a horse and buggy. Police say the accident happened early Sunday morning on Route 11 in the town of Gouverneur, in St. Lawrence County. Troopers say a 23 year-old Antwerp man named Levi L. Swartzentruber Jr. was pronounced dead at the scene, after the vehicle struck the Amish style buggy. A passenger in the buggy, named Mose Swartzentruber, reportedly suffered minor injuries, and was taken to a nea...
Building anti-corruption movement starting from home 16th February 2021 Illustration. ANTARA/HO Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the Transparency International's chapter in Indonesia, an anti-corruption NGO, announced a drop in the country's score of the Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for the year of 2020. Indonesia's CPI slipped three points, from 40 in 2019 to 37 in 2020, within the scale of 0 to 100, wherein 0 equates to extremely corrupt and 100 for extremely clean. The drop in the CPI score subsequently led to Indonesia's free fall from the 85th to 102nd position in the rank...