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Carrying on. Bob Marley's legacy
Reggae pioneers head to Charles Town Friday night
WILLIAM RICHARDS
The Wailers are led by Aston "Family Man" Barrett, who performed with Bob Marley and The Wailers starting in the 1970s in Jamaica.
The Wailers kick off a U.S. tour this week and will perform Friday in the H Lounge at Hollywood Casino at Charles Town Races.
CHRISTINE MILLER FORD
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CHARLES TOWN
s much as Aston "Family
Man" Barrett loved playing
Bob Marley in Ja-
starting in the 1970s,
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explained Barrett in a news release
about the tour. "It's the messageof
roots culture and reality.
"It is for all ages and for past,
present and the future so even if
to wow au, the people can't feelit musical-
the reggae ly, they'll feel it spirituaUy; Music '
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CHRISTINE MILLER FORD
CHARLES TOWN - Hungry for bar-
becue but don't want to wait till you have
leisurely weekend free to get out your
ll?
Look instead to your slow-cooker, which
will let you wrap up a busy workday and
come home to a tender, slow-cooked roast.
in the comfort Of your kitchen, you'll be
ale to transform the beef into shredded
barbecue sandwiches in a snap.
- .' You can put together a sweet and tangy
homemade cole slaw to top your sandwich
"and then serve alongside a chilled side dish
that's an upgrade on the traditional three-
bean salad (this one's made with - count
'em - four kinds of beans: green, wax,
lma and kidney).
' It's a quick, easy meal that packs a sum-
• iertime taste any day of the week, any-
tme of the year.
1 (3 l/2-pound) eye-of-round roast,
cut in half vertically
2 teaspoons salt, divided
2 garlic cloves, pressed
1 (10-ounce) can condensed beef broth
1 cup ketchup
1/2 cup dark brown sugar (firmly packed)
1/2 cup lemon juice
3 Tablespoons steak sauce
I teaspoon coarse ground pepper
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
Sprinkle beef evenly with 1 teaspoon
salt. Stir together remaining i teaspoon salt,'
garlic and next seven ingredients. Pour half
of mixture into a 5 1/2-quart slow cooker.
Place beef in slow cooker and pour remain-
ing mixture over beef.
Cover and cook on high for seven hours.
Keeping the beef in the slow cooker, use
two forks to shred the roast. Serve in rolls
or buns. Makes 12 sandwiches.
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Slow-cook a beef rast for easy barbecue sandwiches - no
grill necessary. |
See BBQ Page C3
The Home Depot was
humming on a recent Sun-
' day afternoon as people
filled their carts with all
manner of flora and bags
of compost and
mulch with a
few garden hos-
es and flower-
pots thrown in
for good mea-
sure. There
were even peo-
ple clustered
around the re-
volving seed
rack, confident
i n putting a
dried, dead-looking speck
into the soil and actually
getting something green
and Vibrant popping uP
through the ground in a
couple of weeks.
I have always felt the
urge to play in the dirt
when the days
'ii grow warm, the
result I'm sure
of coming from
a family of farm-
ers. Used to be
that every fam-
ily had a farm-
er in it, but now
we are a nation
of people work-
ingin cubicles,
generations re-
moved from those who
See GROWING Page C2
