Issue No.1

Inside This Edition- Crosswords Jokes Reviews

And

Much more……

Contents:

1. Welcome Note to the first edition of 2. Changes in Youthreach / Recycling The Youthreach First

3. Projects for All Included in this magazine are puzzles **CHRISTMAS SPECIAL** recopies, photographs and articles for all. 4. Crossword We hope you have as much fun reading as 5. Traditions- Irish vs. Polish we’ve had creating.

Traditional Irish/Polish Dinner: 6. Starter The Magazine Team in action 7. Main Course 8. Dessert

9. Word search/Trip to Lapland

10. Visit from the ombudsman for Children/ Activity Week

11. A Youthreach Word Search/ Reviews

12. Crossword

13. Photographs

This year in our lovely Youthreach centre we have had quite a few changes. HOW YOU CAN HELP

The timetable is very different. Instead of five classes • Begin by understanding the which were one hour long, we now have seven classes value of the waste which you put each day. They are now forty five minutes long and our in your dustbin. lunch break is forty five minutes long as well. Also we no longer receive our dinners in which everyone here loved • Develop a recycling mentality. Separate your so much. household rubbish into glass, newspapers, aluminum cans, and plastics. New teachers I would also like to welcome all of our new staff. Karen is • Bring to the nearest collection point in your area. our new fitness instructor, Mark our new art teacher is replacing Anastasia while she is on maternity leave and we also have Nicola as a new numeracy and literacy Information Action Sheet! teacher. . Seek the co-operation of your local authority. ‘Projects for All’ Every Wednesday afternoon instead of our regular . Draw up a directory of locations for recycling classes we now get to do different projects for 8/9 weeks materials in your area and distribute it widely. at a time. Mary did this Magazine with us, Mark is doing photography, Marie-Anne is baking, Ina in teaching how . Campaign for the economical packaging of goods. to transfer skills, Marie is helping us with Getting a Job and Ailish is teaching Innovation. You can read more . Encourage your neighbours and friends to recycle. about these later in the magazine. . Bring your own bags to shops instead of getting new ones each time.

. Refuse to choose what you cannot reuse. Returnable containers are preferable and should be returned promptly.

. Refuse a bag when all that is needed is a receipt.

Recycling saves on:

• Energy

• Raw Materials

• Waste Disposal Costs

• Import Bills LATERAL PUZZLE • Trees

 A man lives in the penthouse of an apartment building. Every morning he takes the elevator down to the lobby • The Need for Landfill Sites and leaves the building. Upon his return, however, he can only travel halfway up in the lift and has to walk the rest of SO WHEN YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT THINK the way - unless it's raining. What is the explanation for RECYCLE!!! this?

Kerrian Storey

Getting the job with Marie Transferable skills with Ina

The class is called “Getting the job”. The object of the class is to go in depth about how to get the job you want. This group is about looking at skills which may be of use It also teaches you how to recognize jobs you might to you at some time in your life - not necessarily now. want! Another topic the class covers is how to make a  What do you do when a friend has a problem? C.V. It shows the key topics to include into your C.V to  What do you need to do when you have a problem make it effective. We will also be doing interview yourself? training. This will be very useful for instilling confidence  How can you mind yourself in these situations? into the students when they go for interviews. We hope  How to be a good listener? to video the interviews and replay them so that the  Looking at anger and how to manage it – keeping students can identify for themselves where they may be your cool? going wrong and, equally importantly, what they have  How to relax and take time for yourself when the done right. world is falling down around you? In this project we hope that you will learn the techniques to deal with all of the above. Exploring Social Issues with Ailish

This Projects involves exploring a social issue of choice. Newsletter with Mary The aim is to increase people’s awareness and encourage them to look after themselves, others and the world we live in. If you believe in it, Act on it and others This project involves learning how to use MS Word will follow. Group one are aiming to help teenagers have effectively. You learn how to participate in a group, share ideas, layout a magazine and look at other magazines to realistic and positive feelings towards their bodies. A survey was taken and it confirmed that 84% of boys get ideas. You decide on the first week who your editor aged 14-21 prefer women with curves. Women don’t is going to be for the project. have to be skinny or a size zero to be sexy. You get to write articles, edit, look for jokes, design the layout of the magazine, how many columns you need, Photography with Mark numbers of pages, what articles you would like to see in the magazine.

The arts project on Wednesday involved the participants Some one gets to take some photographs for the conducting a series of photographic workshops, and magazine and decided with the editor where they are exhibiting them in the canteen. The project involved an going in it. introduction to digital photography and a series of All together it is fun, fun, fun with some hard work so anyone who loves to write and see their name in print workshops. We learned how to capture the moment and this is the project for you.. express our views of the picture and how to use a digital camera as opposed to a normal one. We did some So why not join us for what is a fun 8-9 weeks. outdoor photography by using the ‘rules of thirds’ meaning we learnt how to compose our pictures. We also took photos of outdoor activity.

Baking with Marie-Anne

Every week during the baking class we learn how to make different sweet things. So far we have made Viennese finger biscuits, Apple tart and ice-cream Chocolate caramel slices and fruit sponge. At the end of class we get to eat what we have made or bring it home. Everybody seems to enjoy baking class.

How many deer would a reindeer reign if a reindeer could reign deer?

Across Down Q. What do you get when you cross a 4 Merry 1 A sock filled with Snowman with a vampire? ______! (9) goodies on Christmas A. Frostbite 7 Brings presents to day. (8) good boys and girls. 2 Circular decoration (5,5) often hung on doors (6) 9 These are made of 3 A red and white treat wax and have wicks. (5,4) (7) 5 A gift (7) 6 The sound bells make.

(6) 8 Ice crystals (4) 10 A vehicle mounted on runners and pulled by horses or dogs; for transportation over snow. (6)

Old Irish Christmas Traditions Old Polish Christmas Traditions

-A distinctive feature of Christmas There was a belief that on Christmas decorations is the very large candle Eve water in a well turned into wine. placed near the front window and - At midnight, animals speak human voices, but it is bad luck to overhear lighted on Christmas Eve. them. According to one belief, the candle long served as a symbol of - Winning at card game that day welcome to Mary and Joseph who brings happiness for the whole year. sought shelter in vain on that first - In a region threatened by wolves, leftovers from Christmas Eve. The ceremony of lighting the candle is Christmas Eve supper was placed outside the gate to one of simple ancient rituals during which prayers are invite the wolves, which when treated well, would not said for the departed and the privilege of striking the harm the host. match is usually given to a daughter named Mary - One plate at the table was always left for the dead relative. - For centuries it has been a practice in Irish villages to - There was no leaving the table at supper; it supposed set the kitchen table after the evening meal on Christmas to bring bad luck or even death. Eve. On it is a loaf of bread filled with caraway seeds - Before sundown, everything from the outside had to and raisins, a pitcher of milk and a large lit candle. The be brought into the house. Anything brought after supper door is left unlatched. Thus, hospitality is extended to was going to be eaten by mice. the Holy Family or to any traveler that might be on the - Mistletoe was cut off, dipped in wax, and placed in a road. Also it is said that the candles were "kindled to beehive to bring a lot of honey. guide the angels who on Christmas night direct the New - People make sure they wake up early on Christmas Born from the Heavens". Eve - this will ensure we will never be late. - After supper, tie all the dirty spoons together - it will - In the Irish language Christmas is called "Nollaig" ensure that the family will stay together. which comes from the Latin "natalica" meaning - After supper is also the time to blow out the candles - birthday. Most Irish people are Catholic and Christmas if the smoke goes towards the window it foretells the Day is almost entirely a religious festival. Most people birth of a baby. If it goes up, a wedding. Towards the go to church (Catholic Mass) and will find the church door indicates a funeral. beautifully decorated and a "creche" or manger scene - No spanking children - this will bring problems to before the altar. them. - Do not Flax anything - you will be missing this thing - On St. Stephens’s day a procession takes place where a all year round. pole with a holly bush is carried from house to house - Do not leave laundry on the line - this is guaranteed to and families dress up in old clothes and with blackened bring problems over from one year to the next. faces. In olden times an actual wren would be killed and - You have to have candles on the table. Each person placed on top of the pole. has to see their shadow on the wall - a lack of shadow means death in coming year. This custom has to a large degree disappeared but the - When sitting down to supper, blow on your chair - tradition of visiting from house to house on St. Stephens you may sit on a ghost that came to join you at supper. Day has survived and is very much part of Christmas - Christmas Eve night was not quiet and calm. That night, after dead souls were fed, they were thrown out of - The placing of a ring of Holly on doors originated in the house by pot and table banging. Ireland as Holly was one of the main plants that flourished at Christmas time and which gave the poor ample means with which to decorate their dwellings.

Polish Sausage Soup Spring Vegetable Soup a la minute

Ingredients: Soup Ingredients: 1 cup chopped onions 2 celery sticks, finely diced 2 teaspoons bacon fat 1 large carrot, peeled and finely diced 6 cups beef broth 1 large potato, peeled and finely diced 12 ounces beer 1 onion, peeled and finely diced 14-16 ounces sauerkraut 1 red chili, finely diced 14-16 ounces diced tomatoes 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 red onion, peeled and finely diced 1/2-1 teaspoons crushed red pepper 1 pound kielbasa 1 leek, finely diced sausage, sliced or diced 3 cups diced raw potatoes Soft herbs e.g. flat parsley or chives Optional: 1 tablespoon peas and broad beans Method: A little salt and freshly ground black pepper Sauté onion in bacon fat. Stir in broth, beer, sauerkraut, tomatoes, brown sugar and red pepper flakes. Bring to Vegetable stock Ingredients: boil and simmer, uncovered, for 1 hour. 1 carrot Add sausage and potatoes. Cover and cook 30 minutes, 1 onion or until potatoes are tender. 1 leek 2 cloves garlic Vegetable oil or olive oil can be used instead of bacon fat. 3 peppercorns 1 bay leaf Stalks of herbs from soup

What you do:

To make the vegetable stock: Roughly chop the vegetables and add to water. Bring to the boil and strain.

To make the soup: Sweat off the onion, celery, potato, leek, chilli and carrot in a pot with a little olive oil. Cook for 8 minutes with no colour. Add the vegetable stock to the soup and cook for a further 5 minutes. Add the peas, beans and chopped herbs. Season with a little salt and freshly ground black pepper

Lateral Puzzle This is our Brave Warriors who went canoeing and returned to tell the tale..Have you seen them??

How could a baby fall out of a twenty-story building onto the ground and live? Ans on Back Page of Mag.

Chicken Pie Cabbage And Sausage Dinner

Ingredients: Ingredients:

 16 ounces (2 to 2 1/2 cups) frozen peas and carrots 1 lb. Polish sausage, sliced 1 sm. head cabbage, chopped  1 1/2 cups diced chicken 1 onion, sliced julienne-style  1 jar (12 ounces) chicken gravy 1 Granny Smith apple, peeled, cored, sliced 8 ounces shredded Cheddar cheese  1/2 c. chicken broth  1 cup biscuit baking mix 1 whole bay leaf  1/4 cup milk 2 tsp. oil  1/2 teaspoon dried leaf thyme, crumbled Salt & pepper to taste  1/4 teaspoon dried rosemary, crumbled  1/2 teaspoon dried parsley flakes Method:  2 eggs In Dutch oven, over medium heat, cook onion in oil for 5 minutes. Add remaining ingredients. Cover, cook for 20 Preparation: minutes Heat oven to 375°.

Combine the frozen peas and carrots, chicken, and gravy in a medium saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil, stirring often. Keep mixture warm over very low heat while making crust.

In a bowl, combine the grated cheese, baking mix, milk, herbs, and eggs.

Stir with a fork until blended. Pour the warm chicken mixture into an ungreased 2-quart baking dish. Pour herb batter over the chicken mixture.

Bake in 375° oven for about 35 minutes, until crust is browned and filling is bubbly. Remove from oven and let stand for 5 minutes. Makes about 6 servings.

One of our FAIR editorial TEAM…..HAVE YOU SEEN Lateral Puzzle THIS MAN IF SO CONTACT THE NEWLETTER TEAM!!!

There are six eggs in the basket. Six people each take one What you love to say!!! of the eggs. How can it be that one egg is left in the basket? How much wood would a woodchuck chuck, Ans on back page of magazine… if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

Crispy Fruit Meringues Rum Baba

Ingredients  2 eggs whites Ingredients:  12og caster sugar  150ml fresh cream Set oven temperature to 350°F (180C) and preheat.  ½ tbsp icing sugar  4kiwi of any fruit Grease Bundt form - (some specialty stores will call it a Method Babka form) - Sprinkle ½ cup (120ml) chopped walnuts or  Preheat the oven to 1100c/2250f/gas1/4 pecans on bottom of greased form.  Using an electric mixer, whisk the eggs whites until they In mixing bowl, mix together: form soft peaks, and slowly add the sugar, mixing all the time  18oz. (500g) yellow cake mix  Stop when the mixture looks glossy, then spoon four  3 3/4oz. (110g) Instant vanilla pudding mounds of the mixture on to an oven tray lined with  4 eggs baking  ½ cup (120ml) cold water  paper, shaping each mound into a nest.  ½ cup, vegetable oil (Wesson or similar)  Bake for an hour. Remove from the oven and allow to  ½ cup Bacardi dark rum. cool.  Meanwhile, place the fresh cream and icing sugar in a Pour mixture into form and place in oven. Bake for 1 hour. bowl and mix together well. Allow to cool. When completely cool, invert form on Spoon the fresh cream mixture into the cooled meringue serving plate and remove cake. nest, top with fruit of your choice Prick top of cake, all over. Slowly pour glaze mixture over top and sides. Allow cake to absorb glaze. Repeat until all of glaze mixture is used up.

Prepare Glaze as follows:

 3 oz (85g) sweet (unsalted) butter.  ¼ cup (60ml) water  ½ cup (120ml) Bacardi dark rum  1 cup (240ml) granulated sugar

Method: Melt butter in saucepan, stir in water and sugar. Boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat and stir in rum.

Try Your Tongue at this one!!! This cake is very moist and will stay fresh for a couple of weeks, if stored in a cool place, wrapped in plastic foil, or in a plastic bag. Snowballs simply slowly hit the slick ground unless they hit you sorrowfully!! Christmas If you had €5000 euros to spend this Christmas Falcon travel could bring Word Search Puzzle you to Lapland!!!

M N E C Y S Z H E E F F O O E L H D R E B M E C E D D Z Q R H E C I G R N Q S Day 1: Arrive with First Choice Airways to Santa Claus’ Q X I I C P E L L T E S K official airport in Rovaniemi where elves will be on hand V X S S L L A I Q H U R I to help you with your arrival and transfer by coach to your A S T T O E G I G A O U F hotel. S G J M E H R I L X Y D O M O V A T E E C J T C O I Day 2: Enjoy some winter family fun with a snowmobile L E H S N L A M E O A L G and reindeer sledge ride and to make your day even R V C N S T N E S E R P E more memorable, you can also take part in a traditional H O I Q N T I E U R O H V ceremony of crossing the Arctic Circle. The rest of the X D F A M I L Y S I L F R day can be spent seeing the city of Rovaniemi or availing K L S H O L I D A Y S U A of the extra excursions on offer (payable locally). Temperatures in Lapland can frequently drop to -20ºc or Find the following hidden words: lower, so remember to wrap up warm!

Day 3: The first port of call is Santa Claus Village and CHRISTMAS PRESENTS Santa Park, with attractions for all the family including the SANTA CLAUS DECEMBER opportunity to learn to be an elf at Elf School! From there RUDOLPH HOLIDAY you will have time to explore Santa Claus Village where LIGHTS CAROLS you’ll find numerous shops and have the opportunity to post your letters at Santa’s main post office. Enjoy a truly JESUS TREE unique experience on your last evening with a Christmas SLEIGH DINNER gala meal in ‘Sieripirtti’, a beautiful log cabin situated in FAMILY LITTLE HELPERS the middle of the forest. There you will soak up the festive atmosphere in front of an open fireplace with a guest appearance from the man himself – Santa Claus! Christmas Jokes by Anthony Herron Day 4: Transfer by coach to airport for the return journey What did the big candle say to the little candle? home to get ready for Christmas!

I'm going out tonight ! See everyone this is why you buy the LOTTO.!!

What do monkeys sing at Christmas ?

Jungle Bells, Jungle bells.. !

What did Adam say on the day before Christmas ?

It's Christmas, Eve !

What do you call a letter sent up the chimney on Christmas Eve ?

Black mail !

What happened when the snowgirl fell out with the snowboy ?

She gave him the cold shoulder !

There were 5 groups in the cook off. The groups had to prepare a day before the cook off. The day of the cook Emily Logan came to visit us at our Youthreach on the 15th off, we had an hour to cook the food prepare it on dishes of October 2007. Dave Quinn welcomed her and all those and clean up. Our team was black in our team there was present who came to see her. Her job as the ombudsman Aidan, Brian, Gemma, Cindy, Lizzy, and our mentor was was given to her by the president. She has been working Mary. independently for six years. Her job involves some of the Our team made vegetable soup which Cindy and lizzy following: prepared I did the beef for our stir fry. Brian and Aidan - the ombudsman is here to make sure that the chopped the vegetables for the soup and the stir fry. We government and other people who make decisions about all worked as a team. A member of the Galway city young people really think about what is best for young partner ship came in to judge our food. Marie was in the people. The things the oco can do are set out in a law kitchen with the teams all day. All the teams had a color called the ombudsman for Children Act 2002. The main our team was black. areas of work for the oco are: The red team made spaghetti carboana and every body - Independent complaints handling The brown team made salad, home made burgers and - Communication and participation fruit cocktail for dessert. - Research and policy The green team made meatballs with spaghetti and for ‘Ombuds’ – defend rights there dessert they had ice-cream and wafers. ‘Man’- mankind The blue team made beef stirs fry with rice. All off the teams cooking was evaluated by Clair a member of the YAP- Youth Advisory Panel Galway city partnership. These are young advisors that help with different parts of Timetable for the Activity Week work and the best way to communicate with young people. They also encourage young people to sort out problems Monday started the activity week, we had student review themselves first before they intervene. day. Tuesday morning started with the preparation for the They are independent from the government and the service collage and the cook off. In the afternoon we had a choice is free. of making sandwiches for Petersburg or going on sports in Móinín na gCiseach some decided to do painting the Emily Logan has been to three other Youthreach’s in pots for planting. Ireland Wednesday we went to Petersburg. -Lucan Thursday was called round robin day each team -Limerick participated in the table quiz, collage, crafts, krypton -Cork factor and the cook off. She also visited The Presentation Secondary School and Friday was evaluation day. The day started with the big the Senior Traveler’s Centre breakfast followed by the evaluation of the teams and ended with the drop off. The over all winners were the red team. Petersburg the Trip

About 16 of us arrived at Petersburg about half 10, we were brought in to a room and was told about the rules and safety. After the talk some of us went to put on wet suits and safety gear, when they got ready everyone paired up to go in the canoes, They paddled over to a small island when they got over they swam for a small bit and just messed about. The people who didn’t do canoeing did rowing with the bus driver instead. When it was

nearly lunch time everyone canoed

back to shore. The Ombudsman’s for Children After the coning we did the orienteering the group was Emily Logan split into two groups in my group there Faye, Aidan,

Sarah, Mike and Mariann we had a good laugh.

Youthreach WordSearch Puzzle Albums we recommend you to listen to for I A S F I T N E S S V H N Y R your review F U T U R E F R Q S R N L O T L E E A V K X I I B T N U U T 1. Junglers unleashed – Mixed Drum ‘N’ Bass P E T E R S B U R G H A N T E O F G F E A F G T O F T C H E 2. The black album – Metallica T E A C H E R S I E A I H R N C O M M U N I C A T I O N E A 3. Magic – Bruce Springsteen O C E E D U C A T I O N P A G O Q S S E C O N D C H A N C E 4. Legend - Bob Marley K I R F U N W E E K E L O H R O W O O D W O R K H V I O T S 5. The very best of – UB40 F P O R R P R O J E C T S N H F M M W E L C O M E P I N E D 6. Still Dre – Dr Dre C L A P T O P S T U D E N T S D F I C H N O M B U D S M A N 7. Shockwaves – Timberland

Find the following hidden words 8. All that we need – Plain white Ts

YOUTHREACH PETERSBURGH 9. I walk the line – Johnny Cash COOK OFF GAMESROOM 10. Good morning revival – Good Charlotte SECONDCHANCE OMBUDSMAN NATIONALITIES EDUCATION FITNESS FUNWEEK Books we recommend WOODWORK WELCOME to read for you Book Review. LUNCH LAPTOPS COMMUNICATION PROJECTS 1. To Kill A Mocking Bird- Harper Lee FUTURE STUDENTS TEACHERS TEENAGERS 2. 0f Mice And Men- John Steinbeck

3. Artemis Fowl- Eoin Colfer

4. Perfume -Patrick Suskind

5. The Green Mile- Stephen King

6. The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy- Douglas Adams

7. The I.R.A, 1968-2000 – by John Bowyer Bell

8. Bandit Country: The IRA and South Armagh Toby Harnden

9. I am David – Anne Holm

10. His Dark Materials Philip Pullman

Across: Down: 3 Across, 7 letters. 2 Down, 8 letters. If you're feeling scared, share your feelings with them. During a tornado, this is the safest place to be.

4 Across, 8 letters. 1 Down, 7 letters. Use these to cut things. Red, orange, yellow, blue and green are ____ that represent different levels of threats. 6 Across, 5 letters. Make sure to pack this in your kit for when you get thirsty. 3 Down, 8 letters. After your family makes an evacuation plan, this should happen 8 Across, 10 letters. every three to six months. This kind of natural disaster causes the ground to shake. 5 Down, 4 letters. 10 Across, 11 letters. A smoke detector in your home goes off when it "smells" You can sleep in this. smoke caused by this.

11 Across, 4 letters. 7 Down, 5 letters. Put this in your disaster kit so you don't get hungry! Listening to this during an emergency can provide you with information you need to stay safe. 13 Across, 4 letters. If you own any ___, make sure you have a carrier to bring them 9 Down, 6 letters. with you in case you are evacuated. Soup is an example of this type of food.

14 Across, 10 letters. 7 Down, 5 letters. If the power goes out, use this for light. Keep an extra pair of these in your disaster kit.

16 Across, 6 letters. 12 Down, 9 letters. If a disaster strikes while you're here, your teachers will keep you This person should have a copy of your family's contact list in safe. case of emergency,

9 Down, 6 letters. Your ___ should have a home evacuation plan in case of emergency,

15 Down, 5 letters. 1 It's a good idea for parents to keep a disaster kit in this part of 2 3 their car.

4 Jokes

5 6 What would a reindeer do if it lost its tail?

7 She’d go to a “re-tail”shop for a new one

8 What do you call a reindeer wearing ear muffs?

9 Anything you want because he can’t hear you!

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The photography Class took many photographs in the 8 weeks of the project. Their personal favorites are on display in the canteen. These are a few more they didn’t get a chance to exhibit.

Lateral Puzzle Answers: 1. The man is a dwarf. He can’t reach the upper elevator buttons but he can ask people to push them for him. He can also push them with an umbrella. 2. The baby fell out of the ground floor window.