Around the city: The Ministry of Health advises on healthy nutrition

Joan Gilmore

As Christmas approaches, remember these four words we receive from the Oklahoma City County Health Unit: cleaning, separating, cooking, and relaxing. Sounds easy, right?

Start with the cleaning: Wash your hands and surfaces frequently. Clean utensils and surfaces after preparing food with hot water. Do not wash your turkey. Only by cooking can potentially harmful bacteria be destroyed.

Separate: separate raw meat from other foods; Use separate chopping boards, plates and utensils for raw meat and fresh produce. This prevents cross contamination.

Cooking: Cooking at a safe temperature kills harmful bacteria. The turkey is safe when the temperature reaches 165 F. When the turkey is filled, the filling temperature should also be 165 degrees. To ensure the temperature, check the following three places: the thickest part of the breast, the innermost part of the wing, and the innermost part of the thigh.

Store in the refrigerator: Store the leftovers in the refrigerator within two hours and freeze or consume within three to four days. Frozen leftovers should be consumed within two to four months for better quality. Keep in mind that bacteria that cause food borne diseases can not smell or taste.

Visit www.fda.gov for more information.

(I can not cook!)

Ready for?

The Oklahoma History Center has opened a new exhibition on the fight for equality, which seems quite interesting. The exhibition features 23 local and national photographs of activists for and against the Equal Rights Amendment. The title of the exhibition is "Until we organize: The fight for the change of equal rights".

The exhibition focuses on the turbulent years of the Oklahoma struggle for change from the late 1970s to the early 1980s and is currently open until November 2020.

Customers should call ahead to ensure that the exhibition is open to the public for the duration of their visit.

For more information call 405-522-0765 or visit www.okhistory.org .

40,000 spring flowers?

As the winter breeze subsides and passes in the springtime, visitors to the Scissortail Park receive light daffodil covers in various areas of the field. Volunteer groups have helped the park's horticultural staff to make sure the first spring onions planted in the park lie in the ground in time for the winter.

Spring will be nice.

It reminds me years ago in Myriad Gardens during their first gardening work that the Socialie Dannie Bea Hightower managed the planting of daisies, the first flowers.

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