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It turns out, chocolate chip cookies are a much newer invention than I would have thought. An article on the Charlotte Mecklenburg Library website notes that the famous cookies were first invented in 1938 by Ruth Wakefield.

Ingredients 1 pie crust 2 eggs 1/2 cup flour 1/2 cup sugar 1/2 cup brown sugar 3/4 cup butter, room temperature 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips, plus a few for decorating 1 cup walnuts, chopped about 2 cups whipped cream Preheat the oven to 325 degrees. Roll out your pie crust and place it in a deep, nine-inch pie plate.

TSnews HAYSVILLE- Campus High School will be performing a musical adaptation of “You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown,” based on the Charles Schultz Peanuts comic strip. It is also based on the 1967 musical by Clark Gesner and the 1999 revision by Andrew Lippa.

TSnews CHENEY – Cheney High School will be performing “Persephone Rules!” by Michael R. Mc-Guire this weekend.

Your Life For a recent get-together at our office, I decided I wanted my snack table to look ready for fall. I set up a mini scarecrow, laid a garland of orange and red leaves along the back of the table and sprinkled candy corn strategically around the plates of goodies.

Charlotte Rader does a cartwheel on Grand Avenue as the Haysville Fall Festival parade approaches Saturday. Many more photos from the Haysville Fall Festival are available to subscribers online at www.tsnews.com.

TSnews SOUTH HAVEN - A South Haven girl won grand champion in two events at the Sumner County Fair. Natalie Betzen won her ribbons in fashion revue and fiber arts.

TSnews GODDARD - Brothers, Brett Day, 14, and Easton Day, 8, completed their first year as members of the Goddard 4-H Club. Valene Day was prompted to get her kids involved in 4-H because she was involved in 4-H when she was a kid.

If home is where the heart is, then the kitchen is where that heart spends most of its time. Kitchens are where family and friends tend to congregate during holiday celebrations, and many a homework assignment has been completed at a kitchen island while parents prepare dinner.

The lasting effects of the pandemic that swept across the globe in 2020 will be studied for years to come. Though some consequences have yet to be discovered, others, including a heightened desire to entertain loved ones at home, were already apparent even before the world emerged from the darkest days of the pandemic.