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Teen becomes Indiana’s youngest coroner
PORTLAND, Ind. – With her father as a role model and a love of the television show “CSI,” a high school senior has become Indiana’s youngest certified death investigator.
Amanda Barnett, 18, was certified last month and is one of four deputy coroners working for her father, Jay County Coroner Mark Barnett.
“It’s kind of weird to (my friends),” she said. “To other people it’s disgusting, but I think it’s interesting, and somebody’s got to do it.”
Amanda Barnett said her goal has been to follow in her father’s footsteps since his first campaign for coroner 15 years ago, and she has attended numerous coroner conventions with him. Her father accompanied her on some of her first calls.
“I’ll ask her what she’s doing and why,” Mark Barnett said. “She might catch something that I don’t think of.”
She had to receive special permission to attend a certification class given by the Indiana State Coroners Training Board because she was only 17 when it began. She scored 97 percent on the test, submitted four case reports and attended an autopsy.
“I think it’s great that someone her age is interested in the field,” said Lisa Barker, executive director of the state training board. “She was a very good student.”
Barnett will soon graduate from high school, and she said she plans to attend Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis in the fall to become a forensic nurse examiner.
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Blue Bell marks 100 tasty years
A century ago, Blue Bell ice cream was a long way from being the Texas institution it is today.
The little creamery in Brenham didn’t even sell ice cream; its only product was butter.
Four years later, the company started making a whopping 2 gallons of ice cream a day, selling whatever workers couldn’t eat.
As recently as the 1950s and 1960s, Blue Bell even sold fireworks to supplement its bottom line through the slow holiday season.
It is now the third-most-popular ice cream brand in the country, behind industry giants Dreyer’s and Breyers even though it can be found in less than half of the U.S.
But it is No. 1 in Texas, with a market share as high as 60 percent in some cities
Blue Bell, led by three generations of the Kruse family since 1919, has always had something on its side: Ice cream aficionados like what they taste.
There are many, such as the late New York Times food writer R.W. Apple Jr., who have argued that Blue Bell might be the best mass-produced ice cream in the country.
“Blue Bell is not all hat and no cattle, as they say of some things and some people in Texas,” Apple wrote in May 2006. “With clean, vibrant flavors and a rich, luxuriant consistency achieved despite a butterfat content a little lower than some competitors, it hooks you from the first spoonful.”
That’s why Blue Bell’s 100th anniversary is creating such a fuss.
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Too bad not everyone can experience the greatness that is Blue Bell.
