Ingredient swapping for health

PORT JERVIS, NY — Whipping up healthy recipes may be easier than you think. You can learn how to make simple ingredient substitutions to create healthy recipes that don’t sacrifice taste or enjoyment, at The Hub at the Port Jervis Public Library on Monday, December 7 from 5 to 6 p.m.

To create healthy recipes, first look at what’s on hand in your own pantry. You may have healthier ingredients available and not realize it. If you don’t have the ingredients on hand to create healthy recipes, just make a shopping list for the next time you hit the store. The substitution suggestions will help reduce the amount of fat, salt, sugar and calories as you prepare healthy recipes. The presenter is ShopRite registered nutritionist Kelly Pearson, RD. The course is free.

An interview with Chaucer

BEACH LAKE, PA — Sound engineer Christine San Jose will tune in to Geoffrey Chaucer, talking with the tellers of “The Canterbury Tales” about their myriad reasons (external, internal, eternal) for making their pilgrimage, at a meeting of the Upper Delaware Unitarian Universalist Fellowship on Sunday, December 6 at 10:15 a.m. at the Berlin Township Community Center. A social time and refreshments will follow the program. For directions visit www.uduuf.org/directions.

Patriot Connectors meet

HAWLEY, PA — Lou Jasikoff, publisher of the Independent Gazette, owned by the Muckraker Corporation, will be the guest speaker at the Patriot Connectors’ next meeting on December 10 at the Wallenpaupack High School Library on U.S. Route Six east of Hawley. A social hour starts at 6:30, and the meeting follows at 7 p.m.

July 4, 2012 marked the first published edition of the Independent Gazette. It has printed over 450,000 copies, and has published editions in Wilkes-Barre, Scranton and other areas of the Northeast. Topics have ranged from corruption in the family court system to exemplary small businesses and up-and-coming artists.

Jasikoff is involved in the Freedom Ring Project, an effort to bring grassroots independent media to the people of Northeast Pennsylvania and beyond.