team bladen
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Inside This Issue
1 Free COVID-19 testing dates
2 Bladen County Public Library Happenings
2 Farm-City Breakfast
3 Tasty Tuesday at Home
Edition
3 DSS Management Team Sponsors a Back Pack Food Collection Drive
4 Eat Smart, Move More, Maintain, Don’t Gain! Holiday Challenge
4 New Health Department
Staff
4 Health Department Staff
Recognition
Kelsey Edwards Bladen County Library Director
[email protected] 910-862-6994
Contact the Editor
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December 2020
Upcoming Free Drive-Thru COVID-19 testing dates at the
Bladen County Health Department
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Bladen County Public Library Happenings!
Direct link to Holiday Lights Map:
https://bladenco.libguides.com/home/holidaylightsmap
Our Giving Tree at the Main Library is up
and if someone is in need of any of these
items, please have them stop by and take
an item off of the tree!
We will continue to take donations for the
tree throughout the winter, and if you are
interested in donating, please visit
www.bladencountypubliclibrary.com for a
list of items we are accepting for the tree.
The annual Farm-City Week breakfast hosted by the Bladen County Cooperative Extension Office staff shifted to a drive-thru grab-and-go on Friday, November 20th. The smiles behind the masks of Director Becky Spearman and staffers Stacie Kinlaw, Elizabeth Blanks, LaToya Lucy, Krista Johnson, Nelson Brownlee, Joel Fulton and William Craig greeted supporters just as staff did a year ago when inside the Pow-ell-Melvin Agricultural Service Center.
Those coming by got a swag bag of goodies enhanced by sponsors Smithfield Foods, N.C. Pork Council, Four County Electric Membership Corp., Elizabethtown Kiwanis, Farm Bureau, Thompson’s Small Engine Repair, Hardee’s, Baldwin Branch Missionary Baptist Church, Cape Fear Farm Credit, Star Communications, Rep. William Brisson and wife Bren-da, and Ward Farms and Dan Ward.
The staff put together videos, which can be seen at go.ncsu/
edu/bladenfcw. The videos highlight the county’s No. 1
industry — agriculture and farmers.
(from: bladenjournal.com)
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Tasty Tuesday at Home Edition
By: Krista Johnson, NC Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Science Agent
Did you know there is a food demonstration video series pro-duced right here in Bladen County? The Tasty Tuesday at Home Edition series is a recipe demonstration series devel-oped by NC Cooperative Extension Family and Consumer Science Agents Krista Johnson (Bladen County) and Candy Underwood (Cumberland County). The last Tuesday of each month a new recipe, cooking method, and/or food item is highlighted in the demonstration and published on our North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service – Bladen County Center Facebook Page.
To receive each month’s video demonstration and recipes directly to your email, please register at go.ncsu.edu/tasty_tuesday .
We recently highlighted a Pumpkin Pecan Parfait! In addition to demonstrating the recipe, we also shared how to select pump-kins for baking, and how to prepare your own homemade pump-kin puree that can be used in a variety of different recipes
To view the recipe used in today’s Episode of Tasty Tuesday, click here:
https://go.ncsu.edu/tasty_tuesday_ep5_pumpkin_pecan_parfait_recipe
To view today recipe demonstration, click here:
https://go.ncsu.edu/tasty_tuesday_ep5_pumpkin_pecan_parfait
The DSS Management Team
sponsored a Back Pack Food
Collection Drive for the United Way
Day of Caring to fill back packs to
send home with the public school
children that are food deficient
during the weekends. The staff of DSS
collected 128 pounds of food for the
collection. Way to go Team DSS!!!
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If you have any submissions for the next edition of Team Bladen, please submit them to [email protected]. The next
edition will be released in March 2021. All submissions are due by February 15, 2021.
Eat Smart, Move More, Maintain, Don’t Gain! Holiday
Challenge
November 16 through December 31, 2020:
The holiday season is upon us, and many people want to
remain as healthy as possible but Healthy holiday eating
can be tricky, with indulgent food at home and at holiday
parties.
Last year, there were 56 Bladen County participants. This
year, let's strive to double that number by maintaining during the season with healthy food and drink options
and physical activity. Sign-up is continuous and registration is FREE for this seven-week challenge that pro-
vides you with strategies and resources to help you maintain your weight throughout the holiday season.
Join the holiday challenge for weekly newsletters with tips to eat smart, move more, healthy holiday recipes
and social media support. View more ESMM Holiday Challenge details, and register at https://
esmmweighless.com/holidaychallenge/.
New Health Department Employees
From left to right:
Jordan Hunsinger, Communicable Disease Nurse
Kesha Billups, CAP Social Worker
Cailey Barr, CAP Social Worker
Patricia Smith, WIC RN/Nutritionist
Brooke Boswell (left),
Family Planning Nurse
at the Bladen County
Health Department
earned the professional
distinction of Child
Health Enhanced Role
Registered Nurse
(CHERRN). Brooke is the
second nurse in Bladen
County history to
obtain this.
Soni Melvin, Health Educa-
tor at the Bladen County
Health Department earned
the Certified Health Educa-
tion Specialist distinction
from the National Commis-
sion for Health Education
Credentialing. Soni is the
first Health Educator in
Bladen County history to
obtain certification.