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Former Liberty educator honored
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Dr. Yvette Keel, a certified trainer for the Gurian Institute in Colorado Springs, Colo., has been selected as a member of a training team to provide gender training and support to the staff at the newly organized Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy in the Atlanta Public School System.
The team from Gurian Institute is made up of seven trainers and this team will work with both of the new boys and girls academies throughout the 2007-2008 school year.
Keel also served on the faculty for the 2007 Gurian Summer Institute in Colorado Springs from July 8-13, 2007. Her presentation at the institute was for administrators dealing with change in their school setting.
Prior to the event, Kathy Stevens, executive director of the institute, said, “The Gurian Institute is pleased to have Dr. Keel as part of our training team. Her experience with successfully implementing single-gender classes at the middle school level brings a wealth of experience and understanding of the challenges and opportunities.”
Dr. Keel has worked as an educator in Liberty County School System for 24 years and currently serves as assistant principal at Waldo Pafford Elementary School.
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Best things: Tasty Italian recipes
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Midway's Lisa Braun says cooking is her passion, especially Italian food. - photo by Photo provided.

“I love to cook. It’s my passion,” said Midway resident Lisa Braun. Braun has traveled abroad to experience other cultures and that includes foods from afar.
She took cooking classes on two separate trips to Italy, at the Mami Camilla cooking school run by chef Biagio Longo’s family in Sorrento located in southern Italy.
“It’s a beautiful destination; a lot of lemon and orange trees grow there,” Braun said.
Braun also went to a school in New Orleans to learn Cajun and Creole cooking and she likes Mexican cuisine as well.
“I do cook (traditional) Southern foods fairly well, but my specialty is Italian,” she said.
Braun’s favorite Italian dishes are:
1. “Neapolitan pizza; it’s really difficult to make. It’s a thin crusted beautiful pizza.”
2. “Potato parmesan; it’s like eggplant parmesan but made with potatoes.”
3. And 4. “Ossobuco with a risotto Milanese. This is a northern Italian dish; it is a slow braised veal shank with risotto.”
5. “Traditional tiramisu; –its’ extremely easy to make and you can adjust it to your taste. You can alternate jams or jellies, make a hot sauce with it to dip lady fingers in it. I often use Italian cooking methods with accessible (local) ingredients.”
For more information on Italian cooking classes, visit www.hinesvillearts.com.

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