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Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2015

VARIETY

WELCOME
TO YOUR WEEKEND
Jenni
Mauran
Columnist
Jenni Mauran is
a wife, mother of
three, freelance
producer and
writer. She can
be reached at
jennimauran@
gmail.com

This weekend is George
Washington’s Birthday.
You know him as the
Commander-in-Chief of
the Continental Army,
the presider over the
convention that drafted
the Constitution, and
the first President of the
United States.
But did you know:
He was the first man
to send airmail, by hot
air balloon, between

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with
Melanie

COOKING

GARLIC
ALFREDO
Melanie Thompson is a 13-year-old seventh grader at
Indian Creek Middle School has been cooking since she
first helped her great grandmother, Louis, in the kitchen
when she was two.