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Cruising through life
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Princess Cruise’s crew members celebrate with Bernie and Marge Allen of Wofford Heights their 62nd wedding aniversary and 100th cruise together.
November 17
Homemade Bread Day cute-calendar.com Courier Toast to you Homemade Bread Day takes place on November 17. Bread is a staple food prepared by baking a dough of flour and water. It is popular around the world and is one of the world's oldest foods. Fresh bread is prized for its taste, aroma, quality, appearance and texture. Retaining its freshness is important to keep it appetizing. Bread that has stiffened or dried past its prime is said to be stale. Doughs are usually baked, but in some cuisines breads are steamed, fried, or baked on an unoiled frying pan. It may be leavened or unleavened. Salt, fat and leavening agents such as yeast and baking soda are common ingredients, though bread may contain other ingredients, such as milk, egg, sugar, spice, fruit, vegetables, nuts or seeds. Referred to colloquially as the "staff of life", bread has been prepared for at least 30,000 years. The development of leavened bread can probably also be traced to prehistoric times. Sometimes, the word bread refers to a sweetened loaf cake, often containing appealing ingredients like dried fruit, chocolate chips, nuts or spices, such as pumpkin bread, banana bread or gingerbread.
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Melody Batelaan Courier Spotlight Bernie and Marge Allen of Wofford Heights have been cruising through life since 1955. To celebrate their 62nd wedding anniversary, they went on their 100th cruise, returning on November 8. Marge said, "We stopped putting the pins in the map. We couldn't find any more space." The couple began
placing pins on a world map early in their marriage noting all the places they had traveled. It all started with a few short cruises the young married couple went on with Bernie's parents. Bernie was raised during the Depression in Brooklyn, on Coney Island. He quit school at 16 and worked loading trucks. He then decided to go to night school and get his high school diploma. He said he was the first one in his family to get more than an 8th grade education. Bernie said that if you need advice about handling yourself on the streets, he can tell you all the tricks
the con artists played. Bernie and Marge met in the San Fernando Valley in California. She was only 15. He proposed to her when she was sixteen, and they married when she was 17. Bernie worked for the Torrance Fire Department for 18 years, and Marge was a teacher's aide. He helped start many community education programs for the Department as a training officer aide. He left at age 50, and moved to Wofford Heights. He had built and opened a 15 x 30 ft. retail store in 1979 that began to make a profit. One of his products was cigarettes.
See Allens, page 11
Pair returns to Kernville completing global flight
Pastor Dan Schlensker continues on reformation.
Bodfish Bob’s column this week is a ‘hamdinger’.
Fun & games begin on the Courier puzzle pages.
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In last week's Courier, you may have read about Louis Cole, age 34, and JP Schulze age 23, who flew around the world in about 90 days in a Cessna 210, 4seater plane. They did indeed arrive back in Kernville and had some stories to tell. Cole who stars in YouTube's FunForLouis, and Schulze met about 2 and a half years ago, when Cole was visiting Schulze's home country of New Zealand. Schulze said that he is from a flying family, but ever since he was six or seven, his dream was to fly around the world. This dream captured Cole's imagination. The pair sought corpo-
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A cigarette company had a promotion and sent the couple on a cruise to Paris, France. They really liked the longer cruises. Marge says that they like to go to shows; second row center is where they prefer to sit. Bernie says that when he did the math, he realized it is less expensive per day to cruise, than to get a room in Las Vegas, and also pay for the show and the meals. So they kept on cruising where they continued to enjoy a little gambling and the ship’s top entertainment. They purchased all 100 of their
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100 cruises and 62 years of marriage have served this Wofford Heights couple well
Friday high 61° A shower or two Friday low 35° Clear and cold Saturday high 64° Sunny/partly cloudy Saturday low 34° Partly cloudy Sunday high 66° Clouds and sun Sunday low 41° Mostly cloudy
water data: Wednesday, 3 p.m. Isabella Reservoir Storage 165,257 acre-feet Michael Batelaan/Kern River Courier
Lettin’ it fly - JP and Louis’ uncork the champane in celebration of a most successful flight around the world and opening of the “Live the Adventure” summit. at the Kern Valley Airport.
rate sponsors and crowd sourcing for funds, then realized the trip would make a great documentary, so took pre-orders to help fund the trip. They rebuilt a 40 year old plane that takes a type of gas that is not available everywhere in the world. This helped shape their route. Weather, time, air regulations and paperwork
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also influenced their trip. Because of time constraints, they did not get to South America. And Schulze exclaimed, "India loves paperwork" hence a long delay there. Schulze explained that flying around the world requires a level head, resourcefulness, reading all the different air regulations of the various coun-
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tries, and have the patience to deal with bureaucracy. He said that this was sometimes challenging with the happy-go-lucky personality of Cole. Schulze said that frequently when they landed they had to take a two or three day break from each other See Flight, page 12
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2017 Reservoir peak 357,394 acre-feet Pool maximum 568,075 acre-feet Restricted pool imit 361,250 acre-feet Upper Kern Inflow 279 cfs* Lower Kern Outflow 140 cfs Borel Canal Outflow 0 cfs (stopped) Data from U.S. Army Corps of Engineers cfs=cubic feet per second 1 cu.ft. = 7.48 U.S. gallons 1 ac.ft.= 325,851 U.S. gal. *(5-hr average Kernville)
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