| Starfish cookbooks 'have a story to tell'
There's something new on the menu at the Starfish Café. Besides café specials like black bean soup, Cobb salad and chocolate cupcakes, the chalkboard by the front counter announces: "Cook Books Are Here!" Since May, this East Broad Street restaurant and culinary training school has been selling copies of its own hard-cover book, "Starfish Café Changing Lives One Recipe at a Time..." The book offers a wide range of dishes - from Louisiana-style barbecued shrimp to the café's award-winning bread-and-butter pudding. Although nearly every Savannah gift show and book store sells cookbooks by PTAs, church auxiliaries and even sports fishermen, the café's cookbook was unique, Starfish officials said. This collection of recipes was created by the Union Mission Inc.
Caring crowds put their cards on the table
One, two, table ado. Events in two of the city's best-known restaurants assembled crowds for purposeful partying. At Commander's Palace, the International Student Leadership Institute celebrated its 40th anniversary during a jazz brunch, and the following day, Galatoire's was the dining spot for the Hospice Community Foundation. Said the foundation's Don Mueller, "It was time to 'Fork up for Charity' " and the sixth annual Dine-A-Rama set the places. And charitable paces. Newly appointed HCF board chairman Paul Varisco welcomed guests to a six-course meal prepared by Galatoire's chef Brian Landry. Among those who lifted forks -- spoons and dinner knives, too -- were HCF executive director Mindy Keller and husband Neil, fundraising committee chairwoman Angele Seeling with Buddy, and board members Jo-Ann Mueller with Jack Cavanaugh of St.
In Fairlee, the Whole Family Goes to Summer Camp
Every year at summer camp in Fairlee, Joanna Bassett makes at least one basket. On a crystalline morning earlier this week in the Aloha Camp's craft barn, Bassett was absorbed in the methodical task of weaving canes. I would never make baskets at home because I would have to go out and get all the stuff, Bassett said. Although it was early in her week at camp, Bassett was nearly done with her basket, giving her plenty of time to help Marcie Kaplan and Audrey Rubin, and Kaplan's daughter, Chloe, and Rubin's daughter, Sophia, both 9, with their own attempts. The relaxed scene was what drew all three women, and their children, to Aloha Camp, a camp for girls age 12 to 17 which for one week at the end of the summer opens up to families. Thanks to steady demand for family-camp programs over the past decade, Fairlee's Aloha Foundation is cleaning up a 112-acre camp it purchased on Lake Fairlee in Thetford to serve almost entirely as a family camp.
Ridin' the boom in Rifle
RIFLE, Colo. -- Keith Lambert is the perfect guide to this western Colorado city: he's lived in the same house for 26 years, taught school here and, as mayor, has to keep up with the changes wrought by one of the biggest energy booms in state history.But even he's stumped by a newly excavated swath down a hillside. Stopping his SUV, he looked down at the front-end loaders and said: "I don't know what this is. It's possible it's some home development site approved in this area."Lambert can be forgiven for not knowing about every freshly turned mound of earth in his town. Rifle, a community of 8,100 on the Colorado River with deep agricultural roots, has become an epicenter of the region's natural gas drilling boom.Hotel rooms are booked for weeks by pipeline and gas-field crews. Traffic backs up nearby Interstate 70 and clogs Rifle's main street, Railroad Avenue.
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