Fruit

SCHOOL LUNCH MENU Today: Grilled cheese sandwich or hamburger or chef salad or low-fat yogurt, crackers and a chocolate bear graham with a salad bar; or turkey combo on a wheat roll with fruit and vegetables. Wednesday: Taco or hamburger or chef salad or low-fat yogurt and crackers with a salad bar; or submarine sandwich with fruit and vegetables. Thursday: Chicken patty or hamburger or chef salad or low-fat yogurt and crackers with a salad bar; or turkey and cheese on a french roll with fruit and vegetables.

Fruits, vegetables and their colors were the themes Monday morning at Marshall Elementary School. Students from kindergarten to sixth grade watched a drama of fruit played out before their eyes as a character named Fanny Farm Fickle tried to persuade a villain called The Painter of the need to have fruits and vegetables every day. Blue and purple represented blueberries and plums, and yellow and orange represented cantaloupe....

Menu through Aug. 11 served at 11:30 a.m. daily at: ? Adult Recreation Center 201 E. Colorado St. Glendale (818) 548-3778 ? Pacific Park Community Center 501 S. Pacific Ave. Glendale (818) 548-3775 ? Sparr Heights Community Center 1613 Glencoe Way Glendale (818) 548-2187 ? TODAY: Chef?s salad, carrot raisin salad, cream of broccoli soup, orange juice, wheat roll and birthday cake or fruit.

I could care less about apricots. That's because of the apricot tree in my back yard. Contrary to popular belief, owning a fruit tree does not mean owning its fruit. No, at my house the apricots belong to the squirrels. For several weeks every year, my backyard is littered with rotting apricots or, I should say, rotting half-apricots. Apparently, the darling little rodents hold them in their front paws, eat half, and then chuck half of them on the ground rather than figure out how to eat around the pit. No worries.

As cars whizzed by on a crisp, early Sunday morning on Buena Vista Street, Marie Boswell shuffled a ladder and boxes to the backyard of Burbank resident Allison Bluestein before sticking a sign on the front lawn that read “Fruit being picked by Food Forward. This all-volunteer grass-roots organization gleans fruit off trees on properties and donates 100% of the bounty to food pantries in an effort to fight urban hunger, said Boswell, one of the fruit picking coordinators.