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Juice, Jam, and Coffee: Vintage Breakfast Tabletop
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From juice glasses to creamers, and coffee pots to breakfast trays, it seems like much of the vintage tabletop and dishware we're drawn to is breakfast-related. Here's a look at few favorite pieces of delightful vintage crockery for your breakfast table.
• 1. Breakfast In Bed Tray - $30 from extravirginhome. Solid wood, and angle adjustable.
• 2. Orange Juice Glasses - $9 from autumnalways. Bright and juicy.
• 3. Hazel Atlas Sugar and Creamer Set - $32 from jwhite2. 60 years old and fabulous.
• 4. Vintage Tea, Coffee Warmer, Carafe - $16.24 from tammylane. Classic 1950s vintage.
• 5. Cock-a-doodle-doo Tray - $15 from eyeforfinds. A rooster to get you out of bed. Made in Ohio.
• 6. Antique Toast Rack - $35 from TheLazyPeacock. Toast for everybody!
• 7. Vintage Juice Pitcher - $22 from TheGinghamOwl. So cheery.
• 8. Hazel Atlas Syrup Dispenser - $17.95 from vintagehomerecycled. A little vintage action for your pancake syrup.
• 9. Bird Napkin Rings - $16 from RetroVintage123. A little birdie for the brunch table.
• 10. Vintage Child Breakfast Set - $35 from PrettyLittleThings10. Wow! We've never seen anything quite like this.
• 11. Set of 8 Pansy Juice Glasses - $32 from gatheringvintage. Gloriously colorful.
• 12. Melitta Tea/Coffee Pot - $53 from coucoumadame. Classic but still so fresh.
• 13. Yellow plates and bowls - $34 from cottagefarm. Just right for toast and cereal.
• 14. frying pan for your sunshine brunch - $15.99 from postroadvintage. Seriously retro.
• 15. Vintage Glass Coffee Canister - $18 from DragonflyFineArt. Love this one.
Do you have any favorite vintage tableware you bring out for brunch and breakfast?
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Oh my goodness!!! I was totally brought back to childhood! The little vintage child breakfast set...my brother had this one and I had the little girl! Totally forgot about those! :) Happiness. :)
I had the childrens breakfast set too. i've been searching for it for years, thanks!


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After all the stolen bases, home runs and tireless innings, your Baltimore Orioles have secured their entry in the 2012 MLB Playoffs! Celebrate the great season and inspire them to take the Series when you sport this Playoffs Bound Locker Room adjustable cap from '47 Brand. It features "Playoffs" lettering arched over a team logo embroidered on the front with a woven Postseason label on the adjustable strap.
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Due to damage caused by Super storm Sandy, SUNY Cortland's Football game with William Paterson has been canceled and will not be rescheduled. Cortland finishes as the outright Champion of the NJAC (New Jersey Athletic Conference) and will begin NCAA Postseason play on November 17th ... up first, next Saturday ... Cortaca.
Another NJAC Football game that has been canceled is Kean @ Rowan ... No word on Brockport and Montclair State or TCNJ at Morrisville.
The Red Dragons Men's and Women's Soccer teams have dates in their tournament Semi-Finals today ... The Ladies will play Brockport at 11am at Roberts Wesleyan (moved due to storm) while the Men play the hosts at 11am in Plattsburgh (also moved due to the storm). The winners of the semi-finals meet Saturday at 1pm (both tournaments) for the Championships and automatic births in the NCAA playoffs.
Meanwhile, in the High School Boys Soccer playoffs, Skaneateles fell to Cazenovia 3-1 ... Caz advances to the Section III Class "B" finals.
The Syracuse Men's Basketball team beat Division II Pace 99-63 last night in the first of two exhibition games for the Orange. James Southerland led 6 double-figure scorers with 18 points, along with 6 rebounds. The Orange play Bloomsburg in their final preseason tuneup Sunday afternoon before opening the season next Friday at San Diego State. Oldies 101.5 is your Cortland County home for Orange Basketball this season.
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EAST SPENCER — The school board hopes to bring resource officers back to all Rowan County middle schools.
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At Monday's meeting, the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education also:
• Discussed the possible creation of a system-wide recycling policy. Board member Susan Cox said she has been told that staff members pick up discarded school materials once a year and take them to the Long Street warehouse, where they are then taken for recycling.
But Gene Miller, assistant superintendent of operations, said he isn't aware of this practice. State staff members used to pick up old textbooks for recycling, he said, but they don't anymore. For the past several years, each school has been responsible for its own recycling.
Board member L.A. Overcash asked if the school system has a recycling policy, and Gene Miller said it does not — only guidelines for state-supplied materials. Chairman Richard Miller then suggested that the appropriate directors and assistant superintendents look into whether such a policy is needed, in light of this confusion.
• Honored Superintendent Judy Grissom and Gene Miller at their last board meeting before they retire next Monday. Before a slide show played featuring various moments of Grissom's tenure, she was given flowers and a plaque in honor of "her steadfast dedication to the teachers and staff of Rowan-Salisbury Schools."
The school board also recognized Bonnie Holder, board clerk and Grissom's executive assistant, who is moving to a new position as administrative assistant to Alesia Burnette, director of elementary education and Title I.
• Approved a field trip request from East Rowan High School for the Future Business Leaders of America competition March 20-22 in Greensboro.
• Heard an update about the new Crosby Scholars program from director Jennifer Canipe. She said the free college access program now has more than 1,200 students enrolled systemwide — 617 in the middle schools and 601 in the high schools.
• Heard an update about the new Pathways to Prosperity program from Dr. Julie Morrow. The network of high schools, colleges and employers would develop systems of career pathways for local students in regional labor markets.
• Delayed a discussion of safety concerns about Knox Middle School raised by board member Chuck Hughes, because Hughes was not present at the meeting.
• Appointed Patricia Overcash, a secondary licensure specialist, as the new board clerk and executive assistant to the superintendent.
• Met in closed session to approve the monthly personnel report, approve closed session minutes and receive an update on the school board's budget mediation with county commissioners.
• Agreed to meet with new superintendent Lynn Moody for a retreat on Oct. 12.
• Rescheduled the November board meeting to Nov. 20 at 4 p.m.
And one school system official said Monday they're needed. Discipline problems are on the rise, with a quarter of the incidents the system reports to the state coming from middle schools last year.
On Monday, the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education approved a draft grant application presented by Nathan Currie, assistant superintendent of administration. The application deadline is Oct. 11, and the state will award the grants on Dec. 1.
The board voted 6-0 to approve the application. Board member Chuck Hughes missed the meeting.
Currie said the number of school resource officers that any school system can apply for is based on its average daily membership. Rowan County qualifies for five.
The school board included $276,000 for resource officers in this year's budget, anticipating the grant's two-to-one local match requirement. For five officers, that match would actually be $70,000. The total requested money from the state (including up to $14,000 for training) is $154,000.
"We've had conversations with the middle school principals, and they are excited about the notion of having SROs back in our school system," Currie said. "Remember, they were in our system until I think the 2009-10 school year, where several cuts were made, including all seven of the SROs from middle schools."
Currently, only one of the seven middle schools in the Rowan-Salisbury School System has a resource officer. The officer at Knox Middle School is funded through the city of Salisbury.
If the system gets a grant to fund five officers, that still leaves one school without an resource officer. Currie said he is proposing that the school system fund an additional resource officer for $51,000 per year.
"The commitment from the school board with an additional SRO would be $121,000 per year," Currie said. "Essentially, that's a $155,000 savings from what board budgeted for last month."
The state will award grants according to need, based on school crime and violence rates, the number of disadvantaged children and the county population. Some statistics in the draft grant proposal show how the Rowan-Salisbury School System meets these criteria, Currie said.
School systems are required to report 16 "reportable offenses" to the state. These include bomb threats and hoaxes, underage drinking, possession of a controlled substance, possession of a firearm or other weapon on campus, assault involving a weapon or resulting in serious injury, robbery with a dangerous weapon, sexual offenses and homicide.
In the 2011-12 school year, Currie said, 14 percent of Rowan-Salisbury's reportable offenses came from middle schools. In 2012-13, that number rose to 24 percent. Currie also said that in the past year, 31 percent of the system's short-term suspensions (10 days or fewer) came from its middle schools.
"There's definitely a need. We're seeing an increase in discipline," he said.
He said the officers' training would have three components. The first — that they obtain school resource officer certification — is required.
The second piece is involvement in the Gang Resistance Education and Training (GREAT) program, where officers would be responsible for talking to students about gang awareness. The third piece is a program called Connected Schools, which all middle schools are taking part in, Currie said. It would teach the officers about building relationships with students and staff.
"We certainly don't want to take a police officer off the street and place them in a school environment, because that can be a totally different world," he said. "So there will be training."
Eventually, Currie said he would like to make resource officers available to both middle and elementary schools.
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EAST SPENCER — The 50 teachers who were told that their jobs are being cut will have the chance to appeal before that decision is final, school officials say.
Superintendent Dr. Judy Grissom said she chose not to take her recommendations to the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education at Monday's meeting.
Any of the teachers whose positions have been recommended for elimination will have the opportunity to request a hearing, Grissom said.
About 50 teachers in the Rowan-Salisbury School System were notified last week that their jobs would be eliminated. Another 20 staff positions are set to be cut through retirements, resignations or temporary employees, school officials said.
Grissom said that the school system hopes to hire the teachers back once the federal, state and school board budgets are finalized, like it has in past years. But if expected losses in funding remain, board members would have to find other areas to cut in order to rehire those employees.
According to state law, school systems must notify certified staff by May 15 that their contracts will not be renewed. These actions are not official, though, until the school board approves them.
The board was expected to make that decision Monday night. But after coming out of closed session, they approved a list of personnel actions that did not include those positions.
Earlier in Monday's meeting, five members of the public spoke out against the layoffs.
Marian Thompson, president of the Rowan-Salisbury Association of Educators (RSAE), said the school board should "call a duck a duck" and treat these layoffs as a reduction in force (RIF), not a non-renewal of contracts.
According to the board's own policy, Thompson said, a reduction in force is "a demotion or termination because of district reorganization, decreased enrollment or decreased funding."
She said the letter that Superintendent Dr. Judy Grissom sent to laid-off employees last week included the phrase, "I will be recommending to the Board of Education non-renewal of your probationary contract due to budget cuts."
In the case of a RIF, Thompson said, it must follow specific, established criteria when deciding which positions will be eliminated.
RSAE Vice President Melessia Winbourne asked the board to follow those criteria for these job cuts.
"If it is essential to eliminate positions, it is essential to do so fairly and equitably," Winbourne said.
William Wheritt, of Mooresville, agreed.
"I ask as a taxpayer and a child advocate that we follow this procedure... so that the teachers left in their positions are the best qualified teachers to teach our children," Wheritt said.
Brenda Stewart, membership chair of the RSAE, said that the word "non-renewal" has a negative connotation for school employees and could make it hard for them to find jobs elsewhere. A non-renewal is usually related to performance issues, she said, while a RIF is due to forces outside the teacher's control.
"According to general statutes, in order to non-renew a teacher, there's got to be some kind of documentation collected that the teacher is ineffective," Stewart said.
But after the meeting, Grissom said that these layoffs would in fact be non-renewals under the law.
"It is not a RIF," she said. "A RIF only applies to career tenured teachers."
Stewart also said that non-renewals require a 10-day appeal notice, which was not given in the notification letters.
Those notices will go out tomorrow, Grissom said.
Lina Drinkard, a local resident and former president of the RSAE, offered another way to handle the situation.
"In the past, when there were budget issues, a probationary contract was issued to probationary teachers with the statement, 'Pending final budget approval,'" Drinkard said.
Earlier Monday, Grissom sent an email to all Rowan-Salisbury School System staff explaining some of the decision-making process behind the layoffs.
She said it is projected that the state will no longer fund 29 teaching positions because of a decrease in student enrollment. The system also may have to increase class sizes to make up for some lost funding, she said, resulting in the loss of 10 more teachers.
"This number would have been much higher had we not eliminated 27 positions through retirements, resignations and temporary positions," Grissom wrote.
She said other positions like central office personnel and teacher assistants will be affected, but none of these positions require notification by May 15.
She said the Board of Education has final approval over whether to hire or dismiss an employee.
"It is never an easy decision when we must let any of our employees go for reasons of fewer students and/or for a loss of funding," Grissom wrote. "But with the final state budget anticipated not being approved until July, we must prepare and make decisions based on the budget and student enrollment projections."
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Likewise, arguments that the industry's well-intentioned spokespeople make about sub-therapeutic usage keeping animal healthier, and thus limiting the need for more powerful antibiotics (the kinds that cause resistance problems), simply don't resonate with shoppers pushing their carts through the local supermarket.
There was a great example of that in the newspaper article. Ranck described how he and his dad (who also raises pigs) removed an old barn two years ago and replaced it with a new $500,000 steel-framed facility. The investment resulted in more uniform growth rates, fewer bouts of illness and death among the animals, and thus a sharp drop in overall antibiotic use.
If you're a producer, your head's nodding. Of course—that's why the industry's gone to controlled housing and more sophisticated management, you're saying to yourself—as if that settles any arguments.
But what do consumers think when they read about that anecdote? That a scenic old barn—the kind we love to spot on our infrequent drives through "the countryside"—was torn down, and now the poor pigs are trapped in a steel-and-concrete prison, never seeing the light of day and spending their waking hours crammed into tiny, sterile pens.
The notion that producers are "pumping pigs full of antibiotics" because they're crammed into crowded, unhealthy housing actually makes a lot of sense—if you've never been on a farm, never seen the inside of a modern hog barn and don't have a clue what animal husbandry's all about.
Which describes pretty much 9 out of every 10 Americans.
The solution is twofold: One, open up those barns. Show people what goes on inside and the clean, sanitary environment in which pigs are raised. Yes, that involves issues of biosecurity, but under controlled conditions, the precautions that have to be taken before people enter a barn help underscore, not undermine, the message that modern housing isn't dark and dirty at all.
And two, more farmers and producers need to speak up, along with fewer scientist and spokespeople. Industry experts are important voices in policymaking debates, but rarely can such folks communicate effectively with people who have basically zero technical or scientific education.
What the industry needs is more messaging that reflects how ad agencies handle copy: Aim it at seven-year olds, and you'll be right on target.
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Dan Murphy, a veteran food-industry journalist and commentator.


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On Sunday the first day of May, we hiked a 4 mile loop of Gunpowder State Park in search of wildflowers. With the recent warm temperatures and rains, many of the flowers were in full bloom. We also came upon several new wildflowers we had not seen on other hikes; in particular the Pawpaw and Dame's Rocket.
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