That’s why students in Flin Flon have been raising funds to keep the mission of eradicating polio moving forward. Their effort comes in honour of World Polio Day (which took place Oct. 24) and with the support of the Rotary Club of Flin Flon. At École McIsaac School and Hapnot Collegiate, student volunteers encouraged their teachers and peers to donate at least $1, which covers the cost of vaccinating one child in the developing world. In many countries, when a polio vaccine is administered, the child’s finger is painted with a purple dye to prevent double dosage. To symbolize the impact of each $1 donation, Flin Flon students painted donors’ pinky fingers with purple dye.
We have just watched the film “Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles” on CraveTV. In case you don’t know him, Yotam Ottolenghi is an Israeli-born chef who has published some wonderful cookbooks with his business partner Sami Tamimi. We have three -
Ottolenghi, Simple and
Flavour. They are good and introduce many new flavours of the Meditrerranean Sea, as it borders north Africa and the Middle East, that we had never really tried before. You understand, of course, that the use of “we” in this case is the “royal ‘we’” as your humble scribe has never really learned to cook (having no particular interest beyond eating) and relies completely on Tim for sustenance.