May 2013 Volume 5 Issue 3 - Riverside Unified School District
May 2013 Volume 5 Issue 3 - Riverside Unified School District
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<strong>Volume</strong> 5, <strong>Issue</strong> 3<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Unified</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>District</strong> - Nutrition Services<br />
The Flywheel<br />
June, <strong>2013</strong><br />
Let the games begin! What fun at the WOWser Games Ice Cream Social.<br />
We had Scrabble and Yahtzee, Checkers, Chess and Backgammon, Chutes<br />
and Ladders, Jigsaw puzzles, Candy Land and Brain Teasers. Once again<br />
the food was a great hit - Hot wings, hero sandwiches, salads, hummus,<br />
chips, dip and homemade ice cream sandwiches. If you haven’t been to one<br />
of our Socials you may want to consider nominating yourself! Our last<br />
party will be June 3rd, so if you received an invitation you really oughta<br />
come. It promises to be a cherrylicious jubilee! Listed below are the<br />
employees who were recognized at the WOWser Games Social.<br />
January<br />
Sandy Brattain<br />
Patty Burkland<br />
Teddy Cardoza<br />
Claudia Castillo<br />
Virginia Ferris<br />
Beverly Fisher<br />
Cindy Garcia<br />
Gabriel Garcia<br />
Elizabeth Gomez<br />
Pharn Green<br />
Mervat Haddad<br />
Lorraine Huerta<br />
Joann Jimenez<br />
Danielle Kaplan<br />
Molly Lange<br />
Jennifer Lauzon<br />
Irene Layfield<br />
Sandi Lindstrom<br />
Paola Mata<br />
Jose Milian<br />
Rachelle Munro<br />
Rachel Norfolk<br />
Zarifa Othman<br />
Gabrielle Pupo<br />
Traci Ramelot<br />
Norma Reyna<br />
Cecilia Rios<br />
Yvonne Rodriguez<br />
Sherrie Sincox<br />
Angel Torres<br />
Beverly Van<br />
Erica Wecker<br />
Rosa Zaragoza<br />
Ardie Zimmerman<br />
Are you coming to<br />
the Employee Picnic<br />
on June 8th? Find<br />
out who isn’t on<br />
Page 4.<br />
February<br />
Kathy Casares<br />
Claudia Castillo<br />
Christina Chesteron<br />
Vickie Gantt<br />
Cindy Garcia<br />
Elizabeth Gomez<br />
Cesar Jaimes<br />
Joann Jimenez<br />
Danielle Kaplan<br />
Molly Lange<br />
Jennifer Lauzon<br />
Maria Limas<br />
Evelyn Lopez<br />
Norma Reyna<br />
March<br />
Craig Davis<br />
Christina Felts (Herrera)<br />
Maxine Garcia<br />
Dawn Landquist<br />
Sylvia Mares<br />
Victoria Mares<br />
Santa Clara Ortiz<br />
Millie Tolentino-Polk<br />
Pinita Young<br />
Coming Soon -<br />
100% Health Inspection<br />
Alcott Elementary<br />
Franklin Elementary<br />
Hawthorne Elementary<br />
Highgrove Elementary<br />
Jackson Elementary<br />
Jefferson Elementary<br />
Liberty Elementary<br />
Magnolia Elementary<br />
Monroe Elementary<br />
Pachappa Elementary<br />
Sunshine Elementary<br />
Twain Elementary<br />
Washington Elementary<br />
Woodcrest Elementary<br />
S.T.E.M. Academy<br />
Central Middle<br />
Earhart Middle<br />
Arlington Learning Center<br />
King High<br />
Lincoln High<br />
EKOs and Cafeteria Supervisors<br />
Managers’ Meeting for <strong>2013</strong>/2014<br />
Monday, August 19, <strong>2013</strong><br />
2:00 p.m.<br />
Nutrition Services Training Room<br />
Free and Reduced Meal Applications can be completed<br />
On Line<br />
• Get approval within 24 hours<br />
• Apply before school starts<br />
• No need to visit the school site<br />
• Save paper, time and confusion<br />
• 10 minutes to apply<br />
• No more misplaced applications<br />
• Available in English and Spanish<br />
No computer? No problem! Nutrition Services will host<br />
assistance days for parents and guardians. Call us for<br />
the scheduled days and times 951-352-6740.<br />
July 1st we’ll begin accepting online applications
ood for<br />
LOCATION<br />
Arlington Park<br />
Beatty Elementary <strong>School</strong><br />
Bobby Bonds Park<br />
Bordwell Park<br />
Bryant Park<br />
Central Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
Chemawa Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
Don Derr Park<br />
Don Jones Park<br />
Don Lorenzi Park<br />
Fremont Elementary <strong>School</strong><br />
Hunt Park<br />
La Sierra Park<br />
Lincoln Park<br />
Madison Elementary<br />
Mountain View Park<br />
Nichols Park<br />
Patterson Park<br />
Reid Park<br />
Sierra Middle <strong>School</strong><br />
Villegas Park<br />
O-K-L-A-H-O-M-A - OK!<br />
The Northwestern Oklahoma State University Rangers Volleyball team will open<br />
the <strong>2013</strong> season September 6th at the Midwestern State Tournament in Wichita<br />
Falls, Texas. This year Hayley <strong>May</strong> Brattain, daughter of Sandy Brattain, CWII at<br />
Jefferson Elementary will be their starter outside hitter. Hayley was signed with the<br />
team and offered full tuition for all four years.<br />
Hayley is graduating from Ramona with an impressive career resume. She has<br />
been a starter for Ramona’s varsity volleyball team and C.I.F. the past four years,<br />
maintaining at least a 3.5 GPA and is in the top 15% of the Senior class. Winning scholar athlete in both her<br />
junior and senior years, she has been MVP and was team captain her senior year. She has received honors in<br />
academics of 4.0 and higher. Hayley has played travel volleyball with Club 951 and Club West.<br />
Needless to say, volleyball is her passion, but she also enjoys watching movies, playing with her dogs and<br />
loves going to the beach. Hayley is a great kid and has an awesome personality. She is excited about where her<br />
sport will take her, possibly even to the Olympics.<br />
Playing with the Rangers, she’ll have games in the state of Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and Arkansas. Hayley<br />
will be attending Northwestern’s main campus located in Alva, a city of nearly 6,000 residents in northwest<br />
Oklahoma.<br />
Congratulations to Hayley for her great accomplishments and to mom Sandy for providing her these wonderful<br />
opportunities.<br />
very child to at uring ummer<br />
Monday - Friday • June 17 - August 23, <strong>2013</strong>*<br />
*No Meal Service on July 4th in Observance of Independence Day<br />
ADDRESS<br />
3860 Van Buren Blvd.<br />
4261 Latham Ave.<br />
2060 University Ave.<br />
2008 M. L. King Blvd.<br />
7950 Philbin Street<br />
4795 Magnolia Ave.<br />
8830 Magnolia Ave.<br />
3003 Monroe Street<br />
3995 Jefferson Street<br />
4230 Jackson Street<br />
1925 Orange Street<br />
4015 Jackson Street<br />
5215 La Sierra Ave.<br />
4261 Park Ave.<br />
3635 Madison Street<br />
6241 Wiehe Ave.<br />
5505 Dewey Ave.<br />
1846 Linden Street<br />
701 N. Orange Street<br />
4950 Central Ave.<br />
3091 Esperanza Street<br />
MEAL TIME<br />
11:30 AM-1:00 PM<br />
11:30 AM-1:00 PM<br />
12:00-1:30 PM<br />
11:30 AM-1:00 PM<br />
12:00-1:30 PM<br />
11:00 AM-12:30 PM<br />
11:00 AM-12:30 PM<br />
11:30 AM-1:00 PM<br />
11:00 AM-12:30 PM<br />
11:00 AM-12:30 PM<br />
11:30 AM-1:00 PM<br />
12:00-1:30 PM<br />
12:00-1:30 PM<br />
11:30 AM-1:00 PM<br />
11:00 AM-12:30 PM<br />
11:00 AM-12:30 PM<br />
11:30 AM-1:00 PM<br />
11:30 AM-1:00 PM<br />
12:00-1:30 PM<br />
11:00 AM-12:30 PM<br />
12:00-1:30 PM<br />
Page 2 <strong>Volume</strong> 5, <strong>Issue</strong> 3
Ask the Chef<br />
<strong>Volume</strong> 5, <strong>Issue</strong> 3<br />
Chef Ryan<br />
As Chef for RUSD Nutrition Services I get the opportunity to meet people all over the district and city. Everywhere<br />
I go I am asked interesting (trivia) food questions. Everything from how cheese is made to “Are tomatoes a fruit or<br />
vegetable?” So for this Flywheel article I would like to share some interesting Food Trivia Facts. But first, here is the<br />
answer to the infamous Tomato Question. Tomatoes are technically the fruit from the tomato plant but it is used as a<br />
vegetable in cooking. Tomatoes are native to Mexico and were spread around the world by Spanish sailors as they went<br />
in search of new lands and the colonization of the Americas. You can tell the difference between fruits and vegetables<br />
most of the time by asking yourself this question - DOES IT HAVE SEEDS? So yes it does! This will also make cucumbers,<br />
squash, green beans, and walnuts fruits as well, along with fruit from a tree or a variety of plants. Leaves from foods<br />
like lettuce, stems from celery, roots from carrots and flowers from broccoli are typically referred to as vegetables.<br />
Keep On Cooking!!<br />
The strawberry is<br />
the only agricultural<br />
product that bears its<br />
seeds on the outside.<br />
Pineapples are classified as berries.<br />
In the middle Ages, chicken soup<br />
was believed to be an aphrodisiac.<br />
The table fork was introduced into<br />
England in 1601. Until then people<br />
would eat with their knives, spoons<br />
or fingers. When Queen Elizabeth<br />
first used a fork, the clergy went<br />
ballistic. They felt it was an insult to<br />
God not to touch meat with one’s<br />
fingers.<br />
Cabbage is 91% water.<br />
The canning process for<br />
herring was developed<br />
in Sardinia, which is<br />
why canned herrings<br />
are better known as<br />
sardines.<br />
The white part<br />
of an egg is<br />
called the glair.<br />
Ever wonder how Swiss cheese is<br />
made? As the cheese ferments, a<br />
bacterial action generates gas. As the<br />
gas is liberated, it bubbles through the<br />
cheese, leaving all those holes.<br />
Celery has negative calories. It<br />
takes more calories to eat a piece<br />
of celery than the<br />
celery has in it to<br />
begin with.<br />
Food Trivia<br />
Although explorers brought potatoes back from<br />
the New World in the early 1500s, Europeans were<br />
afraid to eat them for fear that the spuds would<br />
give them leprosy. It wasn’t until Louis XVI, who<br />
was looking for a cheap food source for his starving<br />
subjects, served them at the royal table that<br />
people were convinced potatoes were safe to eat.<br />
A quarter of raw potato placed in each<br />
shoe at night will keep the leather soft<br />
and the shoes smelling fresh and clean.<br />
The cashew nut in its natural<br />
state contains poisonous oil.<br />
Roasting removes the oil and<br />
makes the nuts safe to eat.<br />
Peanuts are salted<br />
in the shell by<br />
boiling them in<br />
a heavily salted<br />
solution, then allowing them to dry.<br />
It takes, on average, 345<br />
squirts from a cow’s udder<br />
to yield one gallon of milk.<br />
Honey is believed<br />
to be the only food<br />
that does not spoil.<br />
Honey found in the<br />
tombs of Egyptian<br />
pharaohs has been tasted<br />
by archaeologists and found<br />
to still be edible.<br />
There is no alcohol left in food that’s<br />
cooked with wine. The alcohol<br />
evaporates at 172 degrees Fahrenheit.<br />
The Mai Tai cocktail was created in<br />
1945 by Victor Bergeron, the genius<br />
of rum, also known as Trader Vic. The<br />
drink got its name when he served it to<br />
two friends from Tahiti, who exclaimed<br />
“Maitai roa ae!,” which in Tahitian<br />
means “Out of this world – the best!”<br />
Cheese is the oldest of all man-made foods.<br />
Cheese closes the stomach and should<br />
always be served at the end of a meal.<br />
Before Columbus, Europe had never<br />
tasted corn, potatoes, tomatoes, red<br />
peppers, sweet potatoes, tapioca,<br />
chocolate, pumpkins, squash,<br />
coconut, pineapples, strawberries,<br />
and much more. Why? All these<br />
food items are native to America.<br />
Milk is actually<br />
considered to be<br />
a food and not a<br />
beverage.<br />
Page 5
Shortstop Austin Roberts has helped<br />
Ramona High <strong>School</strong> become a River<br />
Valley League title contender in his three<br />
years on the varsity. Austin has committed<br />
to play college ball at UC <strong>Riverside</strong>. He is<br />
the son of Pachappa’s EKO Carol Roberts.<br />
Nutrition Services Employees’<br />
Opening Meeting for <strong>2013</strong>/2014<br />
Tuesday, August 20, <strong>2013</strong><br />
1:00 p.m.<br />
Arlington High <strong>School</strong><br />
Auditorium<br />
Ramona High <strong>School</strong> Baseball Program Seeks League Title<br />
When Clint Ball took over the baseball program at Ramona High <strong>School</strong> before<br />
the 2011 season he knew he had a lot of work ahead of him.<br />
The program had not won a league title since 1984, and was rarely in<br />
competition for one. It hadn’t had a winning season since 2006, and the team<br />
he inherited had only one senior on a 13-man roster.<br />
Developing a young team and enduring a couple of rough seasons has<br />
definitely paid off. He has managed a turnaround that has taken the Rams from<br />
bottom-feeder status to league title contenders.<br />
Five players who were sophomores during Ball’s first year have become<br />
senior lynchpins of the Rams, including shortstop Austin Roberts, son of<br />
Carol Roberts, the Elementary Kitchen Operator at Pachappa Elementary<br />
<strong>School</strong>.<br />
“We’ve been playing for three years now together and we know how to play<br />
as a team,” said Roberts, who is committed to UC <strong>Riverside</strong>. “It feels way<br />
better knowing that you’re on top and knowing that if we keep playing like this,<br />
we’ll stay on top.”<br />
(Excerpts from The Press Enterprise, April, 23, <strong>2013</strong>)<br />
Note: At the time of this printing the <strong>2013</strong> high school baseball season was completed<br />
and the Ramona Rams were crowned champions of the River Valley League.<br />
Employee Picnic No Shows? Whaaaaaaaaaaaaat?<br />
That’s right, Virginia Ferris, EKO at Mark Twain and her family will<br />
be cheering for son Nathaniel, who was chosen to swim in the Aquatics<br />
competition for the Special Olympics. He has been training very hard<br />
to prepare for the Games, which is the largest Southern California<br />
competition of the year. More than 1,100 athletes from throughout<br />
Southern California will showcase their determination, courage, and<br />
skills at Summer Games on June 8 and 9 at Cal State Long Beach.<br />
We wish him well along with all the athletes competing as they pour<br />
their hearts out to win gold, silver, and bronze medals but also have<br />
fun and create a more accepting community.<br />
Do you know someone who is<br />
living with diabetes? Chances<br />
are that you do. You can<br />
organize a team at your school<br />
or in your department. We<br />
have the summer to get our<br />
teams working on fund raising<br />
to make this our best year<br />
participating in the Step Out<br />
Walk. Your ideas are greatly<br />
appreciated and welcomed. To<br />
get started with information<br />
about “Team <strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Unified</strong>”<br />
contact Rodney Taylor at<br />
rktaylor@rusd.k12.ca.us.<br />
You can register now online at<br />
diabetes.org/stepoutriverside.<br />
Let’s make this a landmark year<br />
as we walk to help fund a cure!<br />
Page 4 <strong>Volume</strong> 5, <strong>Issue</strong> 3
<strong>Volume</strong> 5, <strong>Issue</strong> 3<br />
Elizabeth's Story<br />
A month before Elizabeth was born, her parents, Mary and Terry, learned heartbreaking<br />
news from their obstetrician: An ultrasound had revealed that their baby was seriously<br />
underdeveloped. Her chances of living past 10 months were slim to none. "It was devastating,"<br />
Mary recalled. "All we could ask was ‘why?’"<br />
Two doctors and a pediatrician assisted with Elizabeth’s birth in June 1998. Her legs, ribs,<br />
collar bones and arm were broken. Elizabeth’s condition was diagnosed as type III Osteogenesis<br />
Imperfecta, known as brittle bone disease. Right away, she was placed on a drug regimen to<br />
manage pain and prevent seizures. Mary and Terry began to search for effective treatment<br />
options. This search led them to Dr. Edwin Horwitz, where he was treating the symptoms of brittle bone disease with<br />
bone marrow transplants. At the age of six months old, it was the first glimpse of hope Mary and Terry found for their<br />
daughter.<br />
Days after her first birthday, Elizabeth received a bone marrow transplant and started follow-up therapy. In 2004, she<br />
underwent a stem cell infusion. Since then, Elizabeth has made steady progress. Elizabeth is still undergoing treatment,<br />
receiving stem cell infusions from her dad every four months and follow ups from her bone marrow transplant.<br />
Over the past few years, Elizabeth has gradually moved away from using her wheelchair and walker. She has not<br />
used her walker since Christmas 2007. Additionally, she’s also grown in height, which is unusual for someone with type<br />
III Osteogenesis Imperfecta. However recently, Elizabeth has lost her ability to walk and her only wish is to simply walk<br />
again.<br />
Elizabeth is an amazing girl; she is becoming a beautiful young lady. She loves perfume and the colors pink and black.<br />
Her favorite artist is Taylor Swift, she volunteers at her church with the preschool kids, and her favorite movies are the<br />
Harry Potter and Star Wars series. One day she would like to become a child life specialist and a photographer. Thanks to<br />
Dr. Horwitz and you, Elizabeth’s dream of walking again may be a reality.<br />
The Research<br />
The research of Edwin Horwitz, M.D., Ph.D. at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia focuses on children with severe<br />
cases of OI (type III). These children usually grow no taller than three-and-a-half feet and have severe bone deformities.<br />
Most spend their lives in wheelchairs, never able to walk independently. Even the slightest jolt or bump can cause their<br />
bones to fracture, which is incredibly painful; in some cases, these childrens’ bones are so fragile that they break without<br />
any injury at all. A simple fall out of bed can prove fatal. Intellectually, children with OI are perfectly normal—often<br />
extremely intelligent—forcing them to live with the full understanding that there is no cure for their disease. For more<br />
than a decade, Dr. Horwitz has been studying cell therapy for OI. His current clinical trial is the most advanced in his<br />
field, and the only cell therapy treatment for OI currently being tested in humans. If he is successful, cell therapy could<br />
transform the lives of children with OI, stimulating the growth of stronger bones and potentially allowing them to walk,<br />
move, and interact with the world like other children. Results so far have been encouraging: every child being treated<br />
under this experimental protocol has shown new bone growth—a stunning finding. Dr. Horwitz is now focused on<br />
sustaining that bone growth over time and isolating the proteins that stimulate this growth.<br />
Why Donate<br />
Philanthropy will be absolutely vital to ensure the long-term horizons for this research. While to date Dr. Horwitz<br />
has been successful in securing numerous research grants, future funding cannot be relied upon. It is difficult to secure<br />
research grants for diseases like OI, which are rare in the general population. If Dr. Horwitz is unable to secure additional<br />
funding, his research will stop. We have really never asked for this kind of personal help before but found the need to<br />
do so to complete what we believe will cure our daughter. Please visit these websites for more information -<br />
https://www.facebook.com/pages/For-Elizabeth/164467563649363?ref=hl and http://www.forelizabeth.com/<br />
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<strong>Riverside</strong> <strong>Unified</strong> <strong>School</strong> <strong>District</strong><br />
Nutrition Services<br />
6050 Industrial Avenue<br />
<strong>Riverside</strong>, CA 92504<br />
Phone: 951-352-6740<br />
Fax: 951-778-5712<br />
“Come Let Us Show You WOW”<br />
Board of Education<br />
Gayle Cloud, President<br />
Charles L. Beaty, Ph.D., Vice President<br />
Kathy Y. Allavie, Clerk<br />
Tom Hunt, Member<br />
Patricia Lock-Dawson , Member<br />
Richard L. Miller, Ph.D., Superintendent<br />
From the Director’s Chair by Rodney K. Taylor<br />
“The Flywheel”<br />
- building a stronger organization one turn at a time!<br />
The Nutrition Services Department is comprised of<br />
food and nutrition professionals that are dedicated<br />
to students’ health and well being. We support their<br />
ability to learn by promoting good nutrition and<br />
proper life-long healthy eating habits.<br />
We’re on the Web<br />
http://www.rusdlink.org/page/123<br />
Last year, about this time, I sent you an e-mail requesting your support for Elizabeth Lobato, the<br />
truth is I knew very little about her at the time. Since that time I have had the opportunity to know<br />
Elizabeth and her family very well, and what I realized is that without knowing Elizabeth, but only<br />
her story, I wrote you the wrong letter last year. You see the letter I wrote was about pity, it was<br />
about a father’s empathy for another father’s challenge, and his sick child.<br />
Boy, was I ever so wrong; the Lobato family, especially Elizabeth don’t need my pity. Elizabeth<br />
is a remarkable young lady who inspires those around her. She is intelligent, articulate, and<br />
knows just what she wants to do in life, and she’s only 15. The fact that she has faced odds, and<br />
challenges that would make most of us mere mortals give up on life has to be lost on her. Elizabeth<br />
may have brittle bones, but she has one hell of a strong heart. Her easy smile and penetrating<br />
brown eyes would melt the heart of the most hardened criminal on earth.<br />
Elizabeth has wonderfully resilient parents in Terry and Mary Lobato, who are the strongest,<br />
yet most considerate people I have had the pleasure to meet. They work tirelessly advocating for<br />
Elizabeth, and other children plagued by this oftentimes deadly disease, and without looking for<br />
sympathy they are continuously seeking ways to support the research for a cure. They really don’t<br />
want sympathy, they are simply seeking our support.<br />
Listen, I’m not a writer. Just read Elizabeth’s story on Page 3. Checkout her Facebook page and<br />
her website, and if you are so compelled to support Elizabeth, please do so. Thanks!