Applesauce loaf cake

Applesauce makes a nice cake. It is always moist. This cake can stand alone without frosting, but i like frosting on amlost anything sweet. I have made this cake for years. Cream shortening and sugar with mixer until light and fluffy. Add eggs and beat well. Add applesauce. Mix and sift together dry ingredients and stir with spoon. Bake in greased and floured 8 inch loaf pan at 350 F. for 30 minutes or until tested done by inserted toothpick. Cool on rack. Frost top with Lemon Butter Frosting if desired.

Union County Lions Club Invites Volunteers to Make a Difference

The Union County Lions Club is seeking service-minded men and women to join them in making a difference in the Union County community. Around the world, Lions are serving their neighborhoods and beyond while focusing on five global causes including vision, hunger, the environment, childhood cancer and diabetes.

Winter is cozy

Isn’t it funny how we change our minds about things as we grow older. For example, I absolutely hated winter with a passion when I was a kid, but I like it now.
Are you asking yourself: “Why in the world does Brooke like winter?” Or maybe you’re thinking: “There’s something not right with that girl.”

Without You

I am most always a traditionalist. Once a movie or song has been successfully filmed or recorded, I find the quality of re-makes to be great disappointments. There are for me two exceptions, one a movie, the other a song.

Happy Horse Haus, Rapid City

October 6, 2021: Happy Horse Haus, Rapid City, South Dakota - 550 miles from Ramsay
Apparently, there are horse motels and then there are horse motels. This is one of the latter.
It is situated right on a very busy road (How did I not catch that in my research?), and is a small, crowded property. Leo has to stay in another box stall with Sugar. (They are doing their very best to break out.) Can’t possibly let him loose.

Oatmeal Rolls

This recipe makes a lot of rolls. Serve some and freeze the rest. Perfect amount for taking to a potluck. Pour boiling water over quick oatmeal. Let stand 5 minutes. Stir in shortening and molasses. Mix 1 cup of flour with dry milk solids, salt and yeast. Stir in shortening and molasses. Add quick oatmeal mixture to flour mixture

Hickory History

By Steve Roark
Volunteer, Cumberland Gap National Historical Park

Native Americans and European pioneers were a tough bunch to be able to eke out a living in the American wilderness. Nothing symbolizes that toughness more than hickory, a common tree of great strength and versatility. It goes back a long way as a revered and useful plant.

Light the Night lit up Wilson Park for the holidays

A little over 100 UCBPA members and citizens attended the first annual Light the Night in Wilson Park on December 1. Unfortunately the lights on the Emily Link Gazebo were on for only two seconds before the ground fault interrupter shut off the power.  Martin Shafer and Bill Collins, the county maintenance supervisor, spent much of December 4 correcting the issues and adding timers purchased by Union County Business and Professional Association. Thanks to the cooperation between Union County and UCBPA, the gazebo remained lighted each evening until after the holidays.