Akron's annual celebration

Street Vibrations is June 24.

The Westfield All

Class Reunion will be

held in conjunction with

Westfield's 150th anniversary June 23-25.

Watch for more information

and updates.

A celebration in

honor of National Cancer

Survivors Day will be

held in the Akron City

Park June 17. See ad

on Back page for more

information.

Youth will be serving

Dad's Belgian Waffles Sunday, June 11, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at the Akron

Golf Clubhouse. See ad

on Page 3.

Peoples bank is hosting

a Youth Golf Tournament

June 23, beginning

at 9:30 a.m. at the Akron

Golf Course. See ad on

page 11 for more information.

The Akron Ministerial

Association is

sponsoring a concert

of gospel music by the

Brown Family Sunday,

June 18 at 7 p.m. in the Akron City Park Gazebo.

Everyone is invited to

attend. A free will offering will be taken. See ad on Page 4 for more information.

A music jam session

will be held in the Akron

City Park June 9-11. See ad on Page 2 for more information.

A try-out baseball

camp for 15-18 year olds

will be held June 20, 9

a.m., in the Akron City

Park. See ad on page 13 for more information.

The City of Akron

and the Care Center are hosting the Chamber's

Akron Jo's Cafe chef Andres Arreola practices a cooking technique in preparation of “Flavors from the Far East,” a seven-course dining tribute to fathers to be held on Father's Day.

By Julie Ann Madden

Akron Jo's Cafe chefs' next seven-course meal will be a tribute to dads -- it will be held on June 18, which is Father's Day. “We'll be thanking all fathers,” said Chef Andres Arreola. “We're hoping they'll have had a good weekend and seen their children.” “We look forward to being there for them,” he added. This dining tribute will begin at 6 p.m. Sunday, June 18, at Akron Jo's Cafe. This seven-course meal will include Arreola carving a tribute to fathers from a block of ice. The theme of the meal is “Flavors from the Far East.” The meal will begin with hors d'oeuvres, which will be created by the two young chefs with recipes from The Orient. Next, patrons will be served two courses: soup and salad. These recipes originate in Thailand. The soup will be chilled avocado and crab meat, and the salad is spicy cucumber and noodle. The fourth course comes from China and is entitled “Seafood in a Basket.” This will be followed by a sorbet from the Vietnamese called “Ginger Lemon Grass.” The main course will be Japanese food: Shiitake and Cranberry Stuffed Pork Loin with Sake-Glazed Vegetables and Grilled Haole-style Yams with Pineapple Butter. Steamed or fried rice will also be served. The final course will be from Philippines: desserts of Champorado, which is chocolate rice pudding, served with Banana Lumpia, which is a banana spring roll. Arreola and Sloan studied making foods from all different countries while completing their schooling of culinary arts and restaurant management at the Western Iowa Community College in Council Bluffs. They practiced making the foods at college and at their jobs with Levy Restaurants, which provided most of the hot food for the Qwest Center Omaha's conventions and private parties. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 568-2246.