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I ■f j-rv\ ms>i \ Bowling Green State University TUESDAY October 3, 2000 MOSTLY CLOUDY HIGH 75 | LOW 59 team places fourth out VL I JL I ■ A \^_J www.bgnews.com m\Hhof 15 Division i teams; I \ A daily independent f student press\ VOLUME 90 ISSUE 26 YJW Restaurants get taste of local produce By Anne Moss tomatoes and com mostly from S1AIF WRITER local farmers, but the season is ■ Area restaurants add a little bit short. Of local flavor to their favorite "There is only a two- to three- recipes. month growing season, and we're It turns out that a number of in business everyday, we're at the local restaurants utilize the vast mercy of a short season," Zeleniak amount of neigh boring farmland. said. Fruits, vegetables and meats from However, Zeleniak says that local farmers are included in the there are not too many farmers he ingredients for menu choices of can rely on. Bowling Green restaurants. "They may have something The Aztec receives its produce one day and not the next," from Gordon Food Services, a Zeleniak said. major national produce distribu- If this happens then VinChar tor. gets some of its produce from the John Niederkohr, general man- west coast and Cleveland, which ager at,The Aztec, said that even Zeleniak labels the food basket of though its produce may not be the world. local they do buy specialty breads VinChar is a small family busi- from the Buggy Whip Bakery in ness. It provides produce to about Bowling Green. "I found that from buying it 35 to 40 local restaurants from Bowling Green to Findlay. locally there is better quality and it is more authentic," Niederkohr One of VinChar's customers is said. SamB's located downtown. lohn Rightmyer, owner of Sandy Daum, SamB's general (unction Bar and Grill, gets the manager, said they tried to order restaurant's produce from produce from a larger chain, but VinChar Produce, a Bowling ended up buying locally. Green company. "Wc prefer the local company, 'When there was the Farmer's it is more personal and although it Market I would buy vegetables may cost more it is better quality," from there and that would be our Daum said. About every two months vri'i'i.ible of the dav: but that Associated Press Photo closed down," said Rightmyer. SamB's features a rare and exotic VinChar Produce Company dish including ostrich that comes FARMING: Two-year-old Joey Tordai of Elmwood, III., was busy looking for spent ears of corn in the field last Wednesday. Area farmers sell delivers wholesale produce out of from PemberviUe. their produce to local restaurants such as Junction Bar and Grill and Fncker's. Bowling Green to local restau- "It was a total accident how I rants. found the ostrich." Daum said. "I months.". manager. "I am sure that they get from California and Florida but pumpkins from the area, and "In the summer time we defi- was discussing the possible menu Another local produce compa- some of their produce from local does utilize local farms. cantaloupe from Indiana, but nitely use local farmers, when the item to a friend and it turned out ny also delivers to area restau- farms." "We find that local farmers offer they also run into problems with fruits and vegetables are in sea- that she knew someone that had a rants like Flicker's. Al Peak and Sons and excellent quality produce al good the growing season. son," said Vince Zeleniak. owner farm in Pembervillc that tended "We get our produce from Al Daughters delivers to about 300 prices," said CharlenePuhl.secre- "We definitely use what is avail- ol VinChar Produce Co. ostrich. And now it appears on Peak and Sons out of Perrysburg," restaurants within a 50 mile tary. able to us in this community," VinChar gels tomatoes, cherry our menu about every two said Matt Lucas. Flicker's general radius It gets most of its produce They mosdy ouy tomatoes and Zeleniak said. Mother's child-porn photo case dismissed Conferences THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ing off her genital area with a way. could not be reached to com- "She (Cynthia F.LYRIA. Ohio — Charges were shower spray. "I don't think she intended to ment on the action. A telephone aim to dismissed as promised Monday Stewart, who has taken thou- create the pictures she did," White message was left at her home. Stewart) was very in the case of a mother who took sands of snapshots of her daugh- said. Her lawyer, Amy Wirtz, said naive about the cir- pictures of her 8-year-old daugh- ter, had acknowledged that two "She was very naive about the Stewart agreed to have the photos improve ter in the shower that prosecutors pictures could be interpreted as circumstances that exist in the destroyed but wanted people to cumstances that claimed were lewd. sexually oriented. But she said world" in terms of Internet know that "she finds the destruc- Cynthia Stewart. 48. of Oberlin, exist in the world." they were not intended to be and pornography, White said. "I do tion of her pictures reprehensible leadership had avoided trial by agreeing to were never meant for use outside what 1 think is right. I do not react undergo counseling for six and unnecessary." GREGORY WHITE, LORAIN COUNTY By Ben Schart the family. to criticism." Destroying the pictures "came months and to give up the pic- The free speech case attracted Stewart had to complete coun- PROSECUTOR SIAFF WRITER tures to be destroyed. with the package, and she under- As students are walking attention from around the coun- seling on adolescent sexuality and stands that she can't back out of She had faced as many as 16 try and criticism from the show that she understands what labs to establish a clear policy "so through campus, there are hun- the deal she entered into," Wirtz years in prison if convicted of ille- American Civil Liberties Union of constitutes sexually oriented that an innocent person would dreds of flyers and posters plas- gal use of a child in nudity-orient- Ohio. People donated more than material. said. not IK.' put through this torture. tered on walls trying to grab tiieir ed material and pandering sexu- $40,000 for Stewart's defense. Stewart was not required to be Stewart was charged after a She believes there should be attention. They scream out at stu- ally oriented material. The pic- Lofain County Prosecutor at Monday's hearing when Mansfield photography lab alert- some screening process to protect dents to get involved with campus tures, taken in the summer of Gregory White said he would pur- Common Pleas Judge Edward ed police to the pictures. children, but it needs to be more organizations. Students interest- 1999, showed her daughter rins- sue any similar case in the same Zaleski dismissed the charges and Wirtz said Stewart wants photo refined.'' ed in leading or gettiog involved in the campus community have many avenues available to them. The Office of Campus Riots rage in West Bank, Gaza Strip; death toll tops 50 Involvement has been advertising leadership workshops all over By (aura King Fighting also boiled over into firefighters from reaching the campus with large orange and IHE ASSOCIATED PRESS Arab towns in Israel proper, rat- area. brown posters. The workshops RAMALLAH, West Bank — tling the nerves of Israelis who The detritus of conflict could be aim to improve individual leader- Israeli troops rolled out tanks in a have long feared an intefadeh, or seen everywhere. lagged rocks, ship qualities and awareness of show of force and sent helicopter uprising, by Arab citizens of the spent shells, and broken glass lit- campus organizations. gunships aloft Monday to battle lewish state. Eight Israeli Arabs tered roadways. Black smoke Workshops are open to all stu- Palestinians wielding rocks and were kiUed in Monday's clashes from piles of burning tires mixed dents, whether they hold a leader- automatic rifles, as riots raged alone. with a white haze of acrid tear gas. ship position or just want to be a through the West Bank and Gaza Police and Arab rioters fought a The wail of Quranic verses from part of the. discussion. Strip, leaving scarcely a three-hour battle in the aUeyways mosque loudspeakers mingled Refreshments are served and the Palestinian town or village of the Israeli towri of Akko. Rioters with the crackle of gunfire. atmosphere is relaxed and inter- untouched. trashed shops in the Israeli Arab Israeli civilians were forbidden active. The spiraling violence, now in town of Nazareth, lesus' boyhood to travel the main thoroughfares Audience members are asked its fifth day, has killed at least 51 home. In the coastal city of Haifa in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. what they want to learn from the people and injured more than — often cited as a model of har- At the isolated Gaza settlement of discussion at each session.