STAFf PHOTO BY SUSAN USHER
DORIS CREECH displays the pretzel house that won her high honors at the N.C. School Food
Service Association Culinary Arts Show held June 12 in Raleigh.
Cafeteria Manager's Creation
Wins Culinary Art Show Honors
BY SUSAN USHER
A Brunswick County school food
service employee recently won two
lop awards in statewide competition.
Doris Creech won first place for
seasonal decorations-winter ar
rangements and best in show for
seasonal decorations in the annual
Culinary Arts Show held by the
N.C. School Food Servicc Associa
tion, of which she is a member. Her
entry was a snow scene featuring a
one room, log cabin school house
made of pretzels.
Mrs. Creech manages the South
Brunswick Middle School cafeteria
and previously worked at the Boli
via Elementary School cafeteria.
Hers was one of six show entries
from Brunswick County and the on
ly one to win recognition. Other
competition areas include categories
such as salads, cakes, breads and
sandwiches.
She worked on the entry for ap
proximately two weeks, between
other duties. "Everything is edible
except the flag and bell," she said.
The cabin is made of large pretzel
logs, caulked with colored royal ic
ing, roofed with checse bits and
lightly dusted with royal icing
"snow". Doors and windows are of
graham crackers; the chimney of
mailed milk balls.
Fancy pretzels create a fence
around a school yard that features a
r
tcctcr-toilcr and olhcr toys made also
of pretzels. The Christmas tree is a
an ice cream cone topped with spear
mint-flavored gum candy greenery.
A path of sunflower seeds lead
past the bell and flag to an outhouse
fashioned of smaller pretzels.
"I started out with the idea of
making a model of South Bruns
wick Middle School, then this idea
just popped up," she said.
Working with pretzels was "a
whole lot easier," said Mrs. Creech,
than working with gingerbread. A
gingerbread house won her first
place in winter seasonal decorations
in a previous year's competition.
This year's display, mounted on a
17-inch by 30-inch platform, was
competing with "a lot of gorgeous
stuff," she said, including a Christ
mas tree, Santa's sleigh and olhcr
items among the winter entries, as
well as a row of squash ducks,
bread baskets and other items reprc
i
scniing the other three seasons.
Judges generally like entries that
are creative and feature edibles,
preferably items that are available
during the featured season, and
handwork, not storebought items,
agreed Mrs. Creech and Mary Lou
White, child nutrition department
supervisor. The work must be that
of the entrant
Mrs. White said she understands
the judges do their homework be
fore the show begins, learning what
U.S.D.A. commodities were avail
able and other information on re
sources available to the school food
service units.
Mrs. Creech doesn't know what
she'll enter in next year's show, but
is confident she will enter.
"It's something 1 just like to do.
I've been entering for 10 years," said
the 15-year school food service vet
eran. "I've won something ? a pla
que or a trophy ? almost every year."
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Southport will celebrate the July 4th holiday with
a week of festivities aimed at all members of the fam
ily and concluding with its traditional fireworks dis
play.
A full schedule of events begins at 2 p.m.
Tuesday, July 2 with an opening ceremony honoring
military troops, said Richard Faulk, festival president.
On July 3, "Beach Day" will be held at the Long
Beach Cabana area, featuring competitive activities
and music by the band North Tower.
An arts and crafts show will be held at Franklin
Square Park in Southport July 3 and 4, while the near
by Franklin Square Gallery offers "Arts for Dessert,"
a juried show sponsored by the Associated Artists of
Southport.
On the waterfront, a series of Held events for chil
dren is planned July 3, followed that evening by a
street dance featuring music by The Georgia
Prophets.
Activities on July 4 begin with the Freedom Run
at Southport, followed by a flag-raising ceremony
near Fort Johnston at 10:30 a.m. and the annual
Fourth of July Parade at 11 a.m. The parade will be
broadcast on Channel 3, WWAY-TV in Wilmington.
At the foot of Howe Street a U.C. Coast Guard
cutter will be docked and open for public tours.
Entertainment continues throughout the afternoon
on stages at the waterfront and in Franklin Square
Park, concluding with a free fireworks display at
around 9 p.m.
The first event associated with the festival will be
the annual Brunswick County Fireman's Competition,
which begins at 2 p.m. Sunday, June 30, at Nash Street.
Hosted by the Southport Fire Department, the
event pits departments from across the county in
friendly contests in which teamwork, speed and dex
terity pay off.
Reigning over festivities will be Miss N.C. Fourth
of July Kristie Atkinson of Southport. The festival is
traditionally the first official engagement for the new
Miss North Carolina, who will be named Saturday in
Raleigh.
Communities To Salute Troops
Several Brunswick County com
munities, including two local beach
towns, plan to honor American
troops who served in Operation
Desert Storm as the Fourth of July
holiday approaches.
Local activities and ceremonies
are being held as part of Gov. Jim
Martin's statewide "Salute to the
Troops" campaign June 29 through
July 4.
Holden Beach is asking veterans
of the Persian Gulf War and the
Vietnam conflict to sign a wooden
scroll located next to the flag pole at
the foot of the bridge.
Gay Atkins, one of the coordina
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with lighted candles inside ? will be
put around the flagpole on the night
of July 4. Campground By The Sea
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starts its annual fireworks display
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At Sunset Beach, residents and
business owners are being encour
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theme, with prizes going to the win
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Coordinators also plan to display
United States and North Carolina
flags and a new "unofficial" town
flag on the median strip of the ap
proach to the Sunset Beach Bridge.
Ginny Barber is organizing the
troop salute at Sunset Beach. For
more information, she can be reach
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In Southport, the N.C. Fourth of
July Festival will salute the troops
at its opening ceremony 2 p.m.
Tuesday, July 2, with a military
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Northern Brunswick County com
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Tuesday, July 2, from 7:30 p.m. to
9:30 p.m. at Leland Middle School.
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