This week's dish gets a little personal for Chef Chris Manning.

It's Memorial Day weekend and, for many, that means cookouts.

This week's Academic All-Star is Octavia Viskovich, a senior at Massena Central School.

Kwazsi is the 7 News - Watertown Savings Bank North Country Athlete Of The Week for September 21, 2018

Hannah is the 7 News - Watertown Savings Bank North Country Athlete Of The Week for September 14, 2018.

"It feels really great to come home and practice after a really stressful day."

"It's like your own little world -- it's like you have a place to go, a comfort zone and a way to just pretty much get away from your normal life."

"It's helped me through the hardest struggles that I've been through and I always go to music when I need to escape from things."

"I enjoy creating a piece that has meaning to me, something I can show the emotions or ideas inside my head and create a powerful image."

"We're able to make something beautiful, we're able to inspire thoughts, inspire words, emotions -- through something that is not even human."

"I was drawn to it from the second I stepped on the stage."

"I just want to find a way to do this forever."

"It's always been something that I've loved doing, because it's been a way to express myself without there being a right or wrong answer."

"Some people, they like to do their hair crazy colors or wear crazy clothes, but I like to make my art."

"Music teaches us what it means to be human."

"I wouldn't trade it for anything," Logan Beerman says of her experience as a singer.

"If I didn't have music," Keegan Poste says, "I don't know what I'd do in my spare time."

"It can mean so many different things, depending on what type of music you're listening to and what mood you're in. It just affects people in different ways."

"The reason I play so much is because I really like to make -- if it's possible -- to make everyone happy and give everyone the entertainment that they want."

"I think humans have an innate desire to be creative. If we don't create things, if we simply allow things to remain as the status quo, then we tend to stagnate."

Jaye Harrod was inspired to start drawing by the graphic novels he read in elementary school.

"I just think it's a really good way to creatively express yourself."

For Jack Witkop, playing trumpet feels like a legacy from his late grandfather, who was also a trumpet player.

"I think to me, it represents my thoughts on a piece of paper."

"Dancing just brings this type of tranquility that nothing else can bring."

"It's exhilarating. You get to be a different person sometimes and that's really fun."

"This helps with my mental sanity. When I make art, I feel happier."

"I'm not like one thing, I think I'm just a mix of a lot of things and everything that's around me."

"I hope that I can somehow change people's lives in what I want to do," Caroline Bergan said.

Carlton Huff hopes to someday play professionally in an orchestra.The talented musician from Carthage is the 7 News Arts All-Star for January 10, 2019.

"I just find making art and being, like, around art and creating art, a comfortable way to be myself," Annie Yang says.

Our 7 News Arts All-Star for the week of December 7, 2018 is a talented musician from Lowville Academy.Anna Metzler will tell you "I've been doing music for pretty much my whole life." That started with singing, and since 4th grade, the trombone.

Performing in front of people can be scary, Abby Rockwood says. "What I try to do is just imagine nobody's there."The Lowville singer is the 7 News Arts All-Star for January 17, 2019.

“It’s always been important to me to create, to make art,” Isabelle Phippen said.