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C-4 Wednesday, Januar y 23, 2019 The Press-Dispatch HOME LIFE TO ADVERTISE: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: ads@pressdispatch.net Visit: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Deadline: 5 p.m. on Monday Youth First Today by Diane Braun, Youth First, Inc. Know the Facts: National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week is Jan. 22-27 21st OFFERS FINANCING FOR: HOME ONLY LAND HOME LAND IN LIEU BUY-FOR USED HOME FINANCING SECONDARY HOUSING VISIT: Apply.21stMortgage.com FAX: 1.877.312.2100 *Certain loan conditions must be met. NO APPLICATION FEES OR OTHER OBLIGATIONS TO APPLY. WE FINANCE CREDIT SCORES ALL * It's Snow Wonder I ❤ HOMES SAVE $8,000 ON THIS 3 BR / 2 BA PLUS a Washer & Dryer is Included! 814 NIBLACK BLVD., VINCENNES • 1-800-743-7004 • WWW.BAIRDVINCENNES.COM MIDWEST REALTY 1704 E. 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CR 700 S., VELPEN $ 389,900 PRICE REDUCED BUTTERY CORNBREAD MEALS IN Monica's MINUTES Share your favorite recipe! www.facebook.com/mealsinminutes Monica's Meals in Minutes PO Box 68, Petersburg, IN 47567 mealsinminutes@pressdispatch.net FACEBOOK MAIL EMAIL By Monica Sinclair Nothing is better with soup than a batch of cornbread. Whether you crumble it up at the bottom of your soup bowl or just eat it with each spoon- ful, it provides a perfect pairing on a cold, wintry day. This week, I found a very simple recipe for homemade cornbread and wish I would have found it last week when I made the vegetable soup from my column. I will just have to save it for the next batch. Enjoy! INGREDIENTS • 2/3 cup butter, softened • 1 cup sugar • 3 large eggs, room temperature • 1-2/3 cups 2 % milk • 2-1/3 cups all-purpose flour • 1 cup cornmeal • 4-1/2 teaspoons baking powder • 1 teaspoon salt DIRECTIONS 1. Preheat oven to 400°. In a large bowl, cream but- ter and sugar until light and fluffy. 2. Combine eggs and milk. Combine flour, cornmeal, baking powder and salt; add to creamed mixture alternately with egg mixture. 3. Pour into a greased 13x9 -in. baking pan. Bake 22- 27 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cut into squares; serve warm. Source: tasteof home.com When asked which of these is a symp- tom of alcohol over- dose, which would you choose? A. Irregular breath- ing B. Confusion C. Vomiting D. All of these The answer is D, all of these. January 22-27 is Na- tional Drug and Al- cohol Facts Week (NDAFW ). The Na- tional Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) has been sponsoring National Drug and Al- cohol Facts Week since 2010 to educate youth and shatter the myths about substance use and addiction. NDAFW happens every year in January and is a week-long se- ries of educational events that link teens with scientific experts. Since its inception, NDAFW has contin- ued to grow, with more than 2100 events held throughout 50 states and 35 countries last year. Activities focus on general drug use or on specific trends of concern in individual communities. NIDA has produced a wide variety of resources for organizers of events and promotional activities, including resources for parents and educators. Classroom activities specific to the week and other year-round lessons on drugs and alcohol, including lesson plans, are available on the NDAFW website. Free booklets with science-based facts about drugs and alcohol are avail- able and include NIDA's most in-de- mand teen publications. New this year is the "Opioids: Facts for Teens" book- let. An on-line chat with National Insti- tute of Health scientists and science writers is available on Thursday, Jan- uary 24 from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST. Teens in schools around the country can submit substance use questions in an anonymous forum. Registration is available on the NDAFW website. In previous years, more than 50 schools participated with more than 10,000 questions submitted. Youth can be curious about sub- stances they see and hear about on so- cial media. Misperceptions can happen when they only follow certain views. Making sure your child's questions are answered is vital to keeping them safe. The Partnership for Drug-Free Kids recommends: • Always keep conversations open and honest. • Come from a place of love, even when you're having tough conversa- tions. • Balance positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement. Keep in mind that teachable mo- ments come up all of the time — be mindful of natural places for the con- versation to go in order to broach the topic of drugs and alcohol. Take this opportunity to educate yourself and your child about the dan- gers of drugs and alcohol. Begin a di- alogue so they will feel free to come to you with any future questions or con- cerns. This column is written by Diane Braun, project manager for Youth First, Inc., a local nonprofit dedicat- ed to strengthening youth and families. Youth First provides 55 Master's level so- cial workers to 76 schools in 10 Indiana counties. Over 38,000 youth and fami- lies per year have access to Youth First's school social work and after-school pro- grams that prevent substance abuse, pro- mote healthy behaviors, and maximize student success. Katiedid vs... by Katiedid Langrock Contacts and signs I've been working a lot lately. Too much, perhaps. And though I've known people who buoy heavy workloads with a newfound dedication to meditation or morning walks, such an onslaught of deadlines and extraction of brainpow- er only buoys my dedication to wear- ing the same jeans and bra 18 days in a row. I think I remember my most re- cent shower, but I can't be sure. Per- haps I only wrote about one in a story. My cousin and his family came to visit yesterday. I put on deodorant for what was possibly the first time since I got this assignment. I didn't change my jeans. I didn't put in con- tacts. I brushed my teeth, but not my hair. Overall, they got the best I could give. We spoke of parenting and work and our futures and vacations. Then my cousin spoke of noticing signs in every little thing and how we cling to those signs, overanalyze those signs, gamble on those signs. My cousin soon left, and I took it as a sign to get back to work. And to- day I'm back at it, but I noticed that the sides of my nose were hurting — the sides where my glasses cradle my nose. I'm not sure whether they're al- lowed to hurt. I once was told that my grandfather created the soft nose pads on glasses but didn't have the money to patent them. He sold the idea for $50, and the buyer became a million- aire. That is what I was told. But I also used to tell people that I wrote the song "This Used to Be My Playground" when I was 10 years old and Madon- na was listening on my roof and stole it from me. So per- haps storytelling, boasting and a twinge of paranoia run in my bloodstream. When I got contacts at age 14, I wondered wheth- er my grandfather, who had been gone nearly a decade, would have considered it a betrayal. I loved contacts. I was ob- sessed, if not reckless. When I worked as an adventure tour guide in the Out- back, I'd keep them in my eyes the whole two weeks we were camping. They never irritated me; it was com- forting just knowing that if I were wok- en by dingoes or snakes while sleeping under the stars, I'd have 20/20 vision as I ran for my life. But since getting this gig, I've lived in my glasses, and they were irritat- ing my nose. I went to the bathroom, washed my face with cold water and put in my contacts, but I couldn't see. Did they go in? I took out my left contact, placed it back in again. Blinked. Hmm, I seemed to have seen better when the contact was out. I did the same with my right contact. Same thing. My vi- sion was better without the contacts. What did this mean? Were my contacts telling me something? Was I hindering my own ability to see the world, to see clearly, to think clearly, to be clearly? My cousin said signs are everywhere. What did this mean? I looked down at the con- tacts case. Oh, it meant I had put in my husband's contacts. The purple case is his. I removed his contacts. I grabbed my case. I put in my own contacts. But again, something went wrong. I had dropped one, it seemed. I thought I had put it in, but I still could not see. And as I searched for the dropped left contact, I realized I wasn't seeing that well out of my right eye, either. I didn't want to open my last left contact from its packaging but knew I must because my nose was hurting and there was work to be done. I opened the package, put in the new left contact and took out the right contact, think- ing it just needed to be adjusted. Sud- denly, I saw perfectly. I had never lost that left contact; I had just put two contacts into the same eye. And I had opened my very last left contact for no reason. I asked my husband what it all means. He said it means it's time to order more contacts. And change my jeans. And maybe take a nap and a shower. He's wearing an old sign lan- guage hoodie, so I believe him. Like Katiedid Langrock on Facebook, at www.facebook.com/katiedidhumor.