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The Press-Dispatch Wednesday, April 22, 2020 B-1 HOME LIFE TO ADVERTISE: Call: 812-354-8500 Email: ads@pressdispatch.net Visit: 820 E. Poplar Street, Petersburg Deadline: 5 p.m. on Monday Down on the Farm New climate resources available CHICKEN FAJITA QUESADILLAS 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 Quesadillas are fun to make and even better to eat! If you don't want to leave the house to go get take-out, you and the kids can easily make some at home. When you head to the grocery store, pick up just a few ingredi- ents and you'll have a great Mex- ican meal in no time. Enjoy! INGREDIENTS • 1/2 lb. boneless skinless chicken breasts, cut in- to thin strips • 3/4 cup each sliced onions and red pepper strips • 1/2 cup thick and chunky salsa • 1/2 cup rinsed canned black beans • 6 whole wheat tortillas (6 inch) • 1-1/2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese DIRECTIONS 1. Cook and stir chicken in large skillet sprayed with cooking spray on medium heat 4 min. or until done. 2. Add onions and peppers; cook 4 to 5 min. or un- til crisp-tender. 3. Stir in salsa and beans; cook 3 min. or until heat- ed through, stirring occasionally. 4. Spoon 1/4 cup chicken mixture onto half of each tortilla; sprinkle with cheese. Fold tortillas in half. Add quesadillas, in batches, to separate large skil- let sprayed with cooking spray; cook on medium heat 2 min. on each side or until lightly browned on both sides. Source: myfoodandfamily.com YOUTH FIRST TODAY Give yourself some grace Parenting during the Pandemic NOW AVAILABLE Provider-by-Phone Appointments New Provider-by-Phone Appointments Available! In order to protect patients and staff from the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19), Gibson General is now offering telehealth office visits over the phone in select provider offices. Established patients of the providers listed below can schedule telehealth telephone and video call visits to speak to their provider without ever stepping foot in the office. To schedule your Provider-by-Phone appointment, please call one of the following numbers: - Dr. Brink or Curtis Earnest, FNP-C ......................................................... 812-386-7522 - Dr. Clark, Dr. Wells or Tabitha Newman, FNP-C .................................... 812-386-7001 - Dr. Carter or Dr. McCord ....................................................................... 812-385-9420 - Cheryl Simpson, FNP-BC ....................................................................... 812-615-5071 For more information, visit gibsongeneral.com/Provider-By-Phone Not all appointments can be done by phone, and it may be recommended that you be seen in the office. Cheryl Simpson, FNP-BC Ft. Branch Rural Health Clinic By Hans Schmitz Purdue Extension Educator hschmitz@purdue.edu With the cool temperatures of last week behind us, now is the time to be checking plants for any sustained frost damage. When anticipating cold temperatures, many resources ex- ist to evaluate the amount and area of cold expected. Weather and climate resources may be difficult to inter- pret once found, however. A lot of tab- ular data exists that may look better graphically, or a lot of graphics may have too much overlaid information to interpret easily. The Indiana State Climate Office (IN-SCO) has a new web site, found at ag.purdue.edu/In- diana-state-climate. Our state clima- tologist, Dr. Beth Hall, now has over a year of experience in her position and continues to improve weather and cli- mate monitoring resources in Indiana. Most of these resources can be found at the web site. Perhaps the most important re- source that the IN-SCO controls is the Purdue Mesonet. A mesonet is a mesoscale network of weather sta- tions. The mesoscale is a relatively small scale, meteorologically speak- ing, with multiple stations covering a defined area, anywhere from a few sta- tions per state, to a station per coun- ty, to even multiple stations per coun- ty. The Purdue Mesonet contains nine Purdue farm-based stations around the state supported by the IN-SCO. In addition, the National Weather Service (NWS) maintains 49 Automated Surface Observing Sta- tions, usually located at airports around the state. The Indiana Wa- ter Balance Network (IWBN), maintained by the Indiana Geologi- cal and Water Survey at Indiana University, has 13 sites around the state with more on the way. These network stations are all installed and main- tained to National Weather Service specifications, which separates them from the backyard weather station that can upload information to private, on- line weather services. Data from the mesonets are maintained separately, but NWS and Purdue farm data are ac- cessible through the IN-SCO web site. The advantage of the Purdue farm and IWBN mesonet data is the availability of variables such as wind, soil tempera- ture, humidity, and solar radiation, var- iables less common from other weath- er station networks. In addition to near real-time weather data provided by the Purdue Mesonet, the IN-SCO provides regularly updat- ed maps of the state for recent time pe- riods depicting rainfall and tempera- ture amounts, averages, and deviations from the climatological normal. In addition, a tools tab leads to Midwest Regional Climate Center products focused around drought, agricul- ture, winter, or the Great Lakes. Using this tab also provides some projects the IN-SCO has developed re- cently. For instance, after a period of more than sev- en days above 35 degrees Fahrenheit, the Evansville Museum station has never recorded a cold snap with a resultant temperature below 18 de- grees. The average first fall freeze in Indianapolis occurs on Novem- ber 3rd, although the trend line first freeze is predicting (with very low confidence) closer to November 8th. Since 1950, Indiana has experienced four F5/EF5 tornadoes, the strong- est tornado that exists. All four oc- curred in 1974. If anyone would be looking for spe- cific weather or climate data and can- not find it readily, the site has a link to request data from the state climate office. These requests, if possible, should be restricted to weather and climate data requests. For soil sam- pling information, contact your local Purdue Extension office. For more in- formation on this or others topics, con- tact Hans at hschmitz@purdue.edu or 812-838 -1331. By Laura Keys Youth First, Inc. I have been a parent for more than a couple of decades. I've scolded, hugged, corrected, and loved two wonderful boys. When they were very young their father died from cancer, which left me to sail the ship on my own. In all those years of being a single mom I learned a few lessons that I would like to impart to parents trying to raise their children in the midst of the current pan- demic. If being cooped up in a house or apartment while managing a child's educa- tion, living with the anx- iety of a health scare, conducting Zoom meet- ings while working from home or heading to work under uncertain condi- tions so you have a pay- check to cover the gro- cery bill all seems a bit overwhelming…that's because it is. I've listened to, cried with, and given advice to a lot of very stressed-out parents in the past few weeks. If you are one of them, you are not alone. Despite what your Facebook or Instagram feed may tell you, everyone is struggling. Positive self-talk and advice from elders got me through parent- ing two very wonderful, yet imper- fect humans in the midst of what some would call hardship. I hope these words of wisdom help you the way they've helped me. T V moms June Cleaver, Carol Brady and Clair Huxtable are fictional parents. So is Peggy Bundy. Scrolling through oth- ers' filtered social media posts can make you feel inadequate as a parent. Remember, the "social media highlight reel" is not ex- actly a fair representation of a person's life. Continued on page 4