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Dwayne West called Frances Pulley on Friday to ask her if she could work an upcoming tournament for the Garner Road Basketball Club.
Pulley thought West was calling to talk about the NBA playoffs. Both have more than a passing interest in the second-round series between the Indiana Pacers and Washington Wizards.
Pulleys son, John Wall, is the star point guard of the Wizards. Wests younger brother, David, is the leader of the Pacers.
Dont be calling me about the game, Pulley said to West, before the Pacers took a 2-1 series lead on Friday night.
Yall are in trouble, West said.
Well see, Pulley replied. Well see.
Both Pulley and West went up to Washington on Friday night to watch the Pacers 85-63 win. The two have worked together at Garner Road since Wall was nine.
John grew up at Garner Road, West said. And his mom, shes one of the most trusted people in our club. No one gets through the door without going through her.
David West and Wall have the Garner Road connection, and both played two seasons at Garner High for coach Eddie Gray, but their paths have rarely crossed like this.
Wall, 23, has the Wizards in the playoffs for the first time in his fourth NBA season. The former Kentucky All-American has had a breakout season for the Wizards, who upset the Chicago Bulls in the first round.
West, 33, an 11-year NBA veteran, has emerged as the Pacers rock, as Indiana coach Frank Vogel called him after he rescued the Pacers in Game 6 of the first round of the playoffs in Atlanta.
West had 24 points, 11 rebounds and six assists in leading the Pacers to a comeback win in Atlanta in an elimination game on May 1.
Im really proud of the way he has embraced being a leader, Dwayne West said. Being a vet and the voice of an NBA team like that, it means a lot.
West and Wall got together early in Fridays game in one of the few highlights for the Wizards, who shot only 32.9 percent and made 24 field goals.
West, who at 6-9 has about 5 inches on Wall, spun into the lane for a short jumper. Wall met him and timed his jump perfectly and blocked Wests shot. Wall collected the loose ball, over 7-footer Roy Hibbert, pushed it up the floor and fed Trevor Ariza for a 3-pointer.
Little that Wall does, even all these years later, surprises Gray.
Hes such a dynamo, said Gray, who has coached Garners basketball team for 25 years. He has all the tools, you always could see that, he just needed the direction.
Wall spent his formative years playing at Garner Road, with the gym right down the road from where he grew up near downtown Raleigh. He played seven years for Dwayne Wests club before making a national splash with Brian Cliftons D-One Sports.
Wall finished his prep career at Raleighs Word of God and then starred at Kentucky for one season before becoming the No. 1 overall pick of the 2010 draft.
A knee injury cost Wall about half of the 2012-13 NBA season, but he came back strong and it has carried over to this season. He posted career-best averages of 19.3 points and 8.8 assists per game during the regular season and was a first-time All-Star.
Wests route to the NBA was longer. He grew up in Teaneck, N.J., and moved to Garner before his junior season. After two years with Gray at Garner, he prepped one season at Hargrave Military Academy and then had an outstanding four-year career at Xavier.
A first-round pick of New Orleans in 2003, he spent his first eight seasons with the Hornets (now Pelicans) before signing a free-agent deal with the Pacers in 2011. West, a two-time All-Star, has always had solid numbers (his career scoring average is 15.9 with 7.2 rebounds per game), but with the Pacers getting the top seed in the East, over the two-time champion Miami Heat, hes getting more recognition for his value to the Pacers.
When Dwayne West realized the Pacers would be playing the Wizards in this round, he cringed a little.
Its hard, he said. Im rooting for my brother, of course, but Im really proud of John and I want him to do well.
Gray normally doesnt follow the NBA, but with two of his former players in the same series, he has taken notice.
I was really blessed to be able to coach them both, Gray said. To see two kids from the same school in the playoffs, thats pretty neat.
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The Thai Experience
Curious shoppers at the Manor Park branch of the Hi-Lo supermarket chain were pleasantly surprised last weekend to see Thai food cooking demonstrations and tastings within the confines of the store. The effort was a collaboration between Kanya Armortheerakul, director of the Thai Trade Centre in Miami, and Thalia Lyn, the Jamaican honorary consul general of Thailand. The Thai Trade Centre is a non-profit organisation of the Thai government whose primary mission is to promote trade between Thailand and the Caribbean. The demonstrations, which took place last Friday to Sunday, featured renowned Thai chef Mayuree Saipetch, who works at Couples Ocho Rios.
With Hi-Lo food stores being a subsidiary of Grace Kennedy Limited, it was only natural for Chef Saipetch to incorporate products from the brand such as Grace Mackerel in Tomato Sauce, Grace Sardines and Grace Coconut Milk Powder, as she prepared signature Thai dishes. Andrew Ho, head of strategy and support services at Grace Kennedy Food Services, explained to Thursday Food that the partnership with the Thai Trade Centre was a natural move for the company. "Not only did it sound like an exciting venture that would perhaps expose our local consumers to the Thai culture, but Grace has also had a special relationship with Thailand. Approximately 12 per cent of our products come out of Thailand," he explained.
The Thai Trade Centre first started its demonstrations in Miami, then moved on to Trinidad before sharing its culinary skills with Jamaica. Thalia Lyn, the honorary consul general of Thailand, explained: "What better way to get Jamaicans to try Thai food than to bring it to them directly? I believe that Jamaicans will appreciate the cuisine because it is very similar to what they are used to, in terms of how spicy it is."
Though many consumers were sceptical to sample the dishes at first, many of them walked away with a smile on their faces, giving the dishes two thumbs up. We share highlights of the demonstrations, plus delicious recipes you can try at home.
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10 oz skinless boneless chicken breast
3 cups unsweetened coconut milk
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2 kaffir lime leaf
1 cup water
3 tbsps fish sauce
1 tsp sugar
1 cup eggplant strips
1 cup bamboo shoot strips
1/2 medium red pepper, cut into thin strips
20 whole fresh basil leaves
Slice the chicken into strips. Heat a cup of the coconut milk in a wok on high heat until it starts boiling. Add green curry paste and reduce the heat to medium. Stir until it dissolves in the milk. Add a second cup of coconut milk, raise the heat to maximum and let it cook for 8-10 minutes until the oil of the coconut milk rises to the top of the sauce and thickens.
Add eggplant and season with fish sauce. When the curry returns to a boil, the eggplant will be cooked.
Add chillies, shredded kaffir lime leaves and sweet basil leaves to the wok.
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1-2 lightly crushed bird's eye chillies
5 coriander leaves
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For the longest time, about five years, i've considered "this" to be a transitional state. A place to rest, no rest is to permanent a word. A place to lean against while on my way back to Richmond. A place to be rid of and a state to cast aside AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
Tonight, it hit me.
This is no transitional position. "This," is my life. I May go back to Richmond. But i'm not missing it like i used to. I'm moving on. I'm building a home here. I hate it and it's scary. And i still loathe this area. Northern Virginia is a concrete spaghetti bowl full of bitterness and meanies.
But it's home. I have a good job. I have a place to live, and could potentially move on my own soonish. My neice is here. My family is here.
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Ideology trumps realityJuly 05,2014Regarding John McClaughrys recent negative commentary in the Rutland Herald on Vermonts Act 48, readers should keep the following in mind:
As the ideological guru and founder of the Ethan Allen Institute (EAI) Mr. McClaughry, along other members of EAI, will almost always favor any so-called free market business enterprise over a government-run program, including health care, regardless of the results. The results are that after decades, private sector heath insurance has failed to achieve anything close to universal, affordable, and accessible health care for all.
If it had, we wouldnt need Act 48s universal/single-payer plan, an anathema to Mr. McClaughry, who labels it as socialism because its a publicly funded, government-run program. If public funding, etc., were the criteria, then public schools, police and fire departments, infrastructure repairs, Medicare and Social Security would then also qualify as socialism.
Moreover, the private sector health care insurance system in the U.S. is not only the most expensive in the world by far, it also has poorer results than virtually all other advanced countries, including Canada. These countries consider universal health care as governments responsibility to provide for its citizens. The U.K. under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who was as conservative as they come, never once considered scrapping Britains national health system for market-based health care.
Mr. McClaughry also seems to belittle Governor Shumlins idea that health care for all is a right. If so, who is to say that someone is not deserving of health care?
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