Pizza Expert Offers Super Bowl Party Advice
Super Bowl Sunday may not actually be the biggest day of the year for pizza sales, but it’s always in the top five, says Jeremy White, the editor-in-chief of Pizza Today magazine.
“Halloween, the day before Thanksgiving and Super Bowl Sunday are all big days for pizza,” White said. “It varies from year to year, with New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day rounding out the top five days.”
At any rate, White is certainly a big advocate of ordering a few pies to enhance your Super Bowl viewing enjoyment.
“You definitely want to have pizza and a few good drinks on hand to avoid any letdown in game,” White joked.
Tips for rounding out your Super Bowl party
At the risk of sounding cheesy, White gets right to the crust of the matter when it comes to pizza and offers these tips.
- Pizza delivers variety: “The great thing about pizza is it is the most customizable food dish in the world,” White said. When ordering party pies, offer diversity in sauces and toppings. Everything from pineapple to shrimp can be placed on a pizza.
- Slicing up your order: “The most popular pizza is a 14-inch round,” said White. “Figure it will serve three adults, so if you have 15 people at your party, you will need five 14” pizzas.”
- Save yourself some time and dough: “Call your order in early, and I don’t mean 10 minutes before kick off. I mean an hour and a half to two hours before the game starts,” White said. Pizza joints know it’s a big day and they plan and staff for it, but odds are most of the calls will come in at once, White said. If you really want to save yourself some time, pick it up yourself, he said. Most stores should be able to have your order ready in 35-40 minutes and you’ll save money on delivery fees, too.
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Driver Forgets to Put Car in Park, Wipes Out Corner of Binny’s
A Plainfield driver who may have forgotten to put his SUV into park did about $5,000 in damage to Binny’s Beverage Depot this morning, Plainfield Deputy Fire Chief Jon Stratton said.
The accident occurred shortly before 11 a.m. when the driver’s Nissan Murano clipped one side of the building at 12307 S. Route 59, Stratton said.
The name and age of the driver, who was described as middle-aged, was not available. He refused medical treatment at the scene, he said. It’s not known if any tickets were issued.
A Plainfield Building Department inspector reviewed the damage and determined that the stand-alone store remained structurally sound, Stratton said. No one else was injured in the accident.
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Driver Forgets to Put Car in Park, Wipes Out Corner of Binny’s
A Plainfield driver who may have forgotten to put his SUV into park did about $5,000 in damage to Binny’s Beverage Depot this morning, Plainfield Deputy Fire Chief Jon Stratton said.
The accident occurred shortly before 11 a.m. when the driver’s Nissan Murano clipped one side of the building at 12307 S. Route 59, Stratton said.
The name and age of the driver, who was described as middle-aged, was not available. He refused medical treatment at the scene, he said. It’s not known if any tickets were issued.
A Plainfield Building Department inspector reviewed the damage and determined that the stand-alone store remained structurally sound, Stratton said. No one else was injured in the accident.
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Four District 202 Elementary Schools Cited for Excellence
Plainfield School District 202 submitted this media release for publication:
Eagle Pointe, Freedom, Liberty and Walker’s Grove elementary schools received a 2011 Academic Excellence Award from the Illinois State Board of Education.
The honor, given this year to 438 schools statewide, recognizes schools that have sustained very high academic performance over at least three years. The Academic Excellence Award is part of the Illinois Honor Roll program that recognizes schools for continued academic progress.
To earn the Academic Excellence Award, as least 90 percent of elementary and middle school students must have met or exceeded state reading and math standards for at least three consecutive years.
In 2011:
- 91 percent of Eagle Pointe students met state reading and math standards, down slightly from 91.4 percent last year and 92 percent in 2009
- 94 percent of Freedom students met state reading and math standards, up from 92 percent last year and 90.2 percent in 2009
- 94 percent of Liberty students met state reading and math standards, up from 91.6 percent last year and 90.7 percent in 2009
- 92 percent of Walker’s Grove students met state reading and math standards, up from 91.3 percent last year and down slightly from 92.9 percent in 2009
“We are very proud of the students, staff and families at each of these schools,” said Superintendent of Schools Dr. John Harper.
“Their success confirms the hard work that our students and schools do every day in our classrooms,” Harper said. “It also affirms the many initiatives undertaken in the last few years to improve teaching, learning, support and achievement for all of our students,” Harper said.
Six years ago, District 202 engaged in a plan to create a school system in which every student can achieve his or her maximum potential. Numerous steps have been taken, including:
l developing and implementing a coordinated and articulated PreK-12 curriculum in all content areas, to eliminate curriculum “gaps” both between levels, and among schools at each level;
l developing and implementing a data-driven School Improvement Plan to meet state and federal learning requirements;
l increasing the rigor of the curriculum at all levels;
l increasing students’ access to a more challenging curriculum;
l developing and implementing a systematic series of academic and behavioral; interventions to help at-risk learners at each grade level.
In all, 703 schools were named to the Illinois Honor Roll, earning 719 awards despite the increasing expectations for academic performance tied to the federal government’s No Child Left Behind Act.
The 2011 honor roll includes 55 schools that are being recognized for the eighth or ninth consecutive year.
“These Honor Roll schools continue to prove that hard work and reform efforts impact student performance,” wrote State Board of Education Chairman Gery J. Chico.
“Behind each school’s success is an untold story of extraordinary passion and dedication on behalf of administrators, teachers, parents and students. We commend each school for its commitment to improvement and excellence,” he said.
The Interactive Illinois Report Card (IIRC) at NIU worked with the ISBE to establish criteria, identify winners of the awards, and administer the Illinois Honor Roll, which is divided into three categories – Spotlight Schools; Academic Excellence and Academic Improvement. Each award has unique criteria that best reflect the diverse circumstances of Illinois schools.
- Spotlight Schools – Recognizes 167 high-poverty, high-performing schools that are beating the odds to overcoming the achievement gap.
- Academic Excellence Awards – 438 schools have sustained high performance over at least three years.
- Academic Improvement Awards – 114 schools are showing substantial gains over three years.
The 2011 honor roll roster includes elementary, middle and high schools, and represents 312 school districts statewide. Suburban schools represent 46 percent of the Honor Roll schools, downstate schools account for another 41 percent and Chicago schools make up the final 13 percent this year.
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Teen Girl Rescued After Accidentally Driving SUV into DuPage River
A 16-year-old girl who accidentally drove her SUV into the DuPage River this morning had to be rescued by a Plainfield firefighter in a cold-water suit, Deputy Fire Chief Jon Stratton said.
The Plainfield Fire Protection District received the call shortly after 6:30 a.m. and arrived to find the girl standing in the broken rear window of her Chevy Trailblazer, which was partially submerged in the river near the one-lane bridge at River and Renwick roads, Stratton said.
The firefighter, who was tethered to the shore, used a safety flotation device to rescue the teen, who was not believed to be injured but was taken to Edward Plainfield Medical Campus as a precaution, he said.
The teen told Will County Sheriff’s officers that she was driving to school “when she hit a slick spot in the road and lost control,” sheriff’s office spokeswoman Kathy Hoffmeyer said.
Foggy conditions and a bend in the road near the bridge helped contribute to the accident, she said. The water is very shallow in that section of the river, Hoffmeyer said, and the SUV was still running when officers arrived at the scene.
Firefighters returned to the scene later to help attach a hook to the SUV so it could be pulled from the river. River Road was closed for a short period of time to accommodate the rescue, Stratton said.
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