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PAGE 6 • APRIL 17, 2002 • THE INTERMOUNTAIN NEWS p TM TM Go dot to dot and color this amazing structure located in West Virginia. Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. Natural waves Our universe is full of wonders. Among them are the amazing electromagnetic (e-LEC-tro-mag-NEHtic) waves. To better understand these waves, you might try something unusual, but we think it will help. Take a little time to wave at the objects and people around you. Waving at them will remind you that things and people — without even trying to, or without even moving — naturally send out, or emit, waves into the air. If we could see them, their waves might look like this. Just about everything in the universe gives off these waves in all directions. They are all around us. So humans and objects on Earth and in the sky are natural sources of these electromagnetic waves. Making waves Through the years, scientists have discovered how we can make these invisible electromagnetic waves work for us. Scientists found that waves of different lengths do different things. Different wavelengths have different “frequencies.” When waves are very close together, they have a high frequency. When they are far apart, they have a low frequency. By BETTY DEBNAM Invisible Wonders Awesome Air Waves Learn all about each of the presidents… • Full-page pictures • Signatures • Biographical information • Dates of presidential terms • Important achievements • Stories about the many roles of the president, the electoral vote process, political terms, and a visit to the White House! from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. Mini Spy ... X-ray waves If we make the wavelengths very close together with a very high frequency, we can make X-rays that enable us to make pictures that doctors use to see what’s going on inside our bodies. Microwaves If we make a wavelength longer, we can make microwaves that we can use to cook our food in our microwave ovens. Radio waves The longest waves of all are the radio waves. These special wavelengths carry pictures and sound. While we call them “radio” waves, they are also used for TV and cell phones and other ways to communicate. For radios to work, you need: Broadcasting antenna Transmitter To order, send $4.95 plus $1.50 postage and handling for each copy. Send only checks or money orders payable to: Andrews McMeel Publishing, P.O. Box 419242, Kansas City, MO 64141. Please send _________ copies of The Mini Page Book of Presidents (Item #7807-0) at $6.45 each, including postage and handling. (Bulk discount information available upon request.) Name: ____________________________________________________________________________________ Address: __________________________________________________________________________________ City: ___________________________________________________ State: ____________ Zip: ___________ TM TM Basset Brown The News Hound’s TRY ’N Amazing Air Waves FIND Words and names that remind us of electromagnetic waves are hidden in the block below. Some words are hidden backward or diagonally. See if you can find: RADIO, WAVES, INVISIBLE, DISH, TRANSMIT, RECEIVE, UNIVERSE, DETECT, ASTRONOMERS, HOLES, SCIENTISTS, SPACE, TELESCOPE, STARS, BLACK, GALAXY, MILKY WAY. RADIO WAVES ARE AWESOME! A S T R O N O M E R S T T U M W S T S I T N E I C S R E N I D A A H G A L A X Y Q A L I L B I V S R A T S I U B N E V K L C S E J T C E T E D S S E Y A D K H S V S P A C E M C R W C R E C E I V E E M Z I O S A K F E L B I S I V N I T P E Y K G R A D I O S E L O H E O A Mini Spy is talking on her cell phone while doing many other things that depend on radio signals. See if you can find: • shovel • steak • kite • letter B • caterpillar • book • word MINI • carrot • letter D • pencil • letter E • pea pod • ladder • teapot • ruler • ice-cream cone Receiver Receiving antenna The transmitter generates, or creates, the radio signal. The radio waves are sent over the airwaves. An antenna picks up the signal and passes it to the receiver. This is radio wave headquarters in Washington, D.C. The Federal Communications Commission works out of this office. For fun, you might just wave if you happen to go by! from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. All the following jokes have something in common. Can you guess the common theme or category? Tina: What is the hardest key to open the door with? Tom: A piano key! Alan: What invention lets people walk through walls? John: Doors! 86 George W. Bush Kathy: What did one entrance think of the other entrance? Gail: It was a-door-able! from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. TM TM from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. Setting up airwave rules These radio wavelengths are so important that the government has set up a special group, or agency, called the *Federal Communications Commission. (*“Federal” has to do with our national government. A commission is a group that decides on important matters.) The FCC, as it is called, sees that the billions of messages carried through the air on waves don’t get all mixed up. For example, each radio station is assigned a special frequency, or wavelength, of radio waves. Stations must be far enough apart in wavelength so that they don’t interfere with each other. A frequency of 1500 AM means these radio waves can move up and down 1,500,000 times a second. AM is a special band, or group, of frequencies. To pick up those waves on your radio, you have to set your dial to 1500. Radio, TV and cable channels must get licenses before they can operate. The FCC assigns them certain wavelengths, or frequencies. The FCC also sets aside “bands” of radio waves for products such as remote-control garage door openers, radio-controlled toys and cell phones. If you look on your portable radio, you might see a label that begins: FM is another band of frequencies. THIS DEVICE COMPLIES WITH PART 15 OF THE FCC RULES. What’s way out there in the universe? Scientists are using radio waves to find out. Of all the different types of electromagnetic waves, radio waves are the longest. They might be as long as a football field or as short as a football. The radio waves that occur naturally in the universe are not manufactured. They are silent. Scientists don’t listen to them; they study them. A really, really big telescope In the mountains of West Virginia is the largest movable thing on land. It’s a radio telescope. There are other radio telescopes in other parts of the world, but this is the largest one that moves. TM from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. Rookie Cookie’s Recipe Fancy Fudge You’ll need: • 11/2 cups sugar • 1 tablespoon butter or margarine • 1/2 cup evaporated milk • 2 cups miniature marshmallows How the radio telescope works Radio astronomers collect radio waves from a tiny part of the sky, measure how strong they are, and then move on. As they move from point to point, they slowly build an image of what they are studying. 1. Radio waves from space bounce off the main dish. 2. They are reflected to a smaller dish at the top of the telescope (this is called a sub-reflector). 3. The signals are then sent to receivers (much like the radio receivers you have in your home — only they are much more sensitive). 4. The faint signals from space are amplified (made stronger) and sent to powerful computers that analyze them, which allows experts to make images to study. • 1 (12-ounce) package semisweet chocolate chips • 1 cup pecans, chopped • 1 teaspoon vanilla What to do: 1. Place sugar, butter or margarine and evaporated milk in a medium, microwave-safe bowl. Microwave on high for 4 to 6 minutes, or until mixture comes to a boil. Stir halfway through cooking. 2. Remove from microwave and stir in marshmallows and chocolate chips. Mix well. Microwave 2 minutes or until smooth. Stir halfway through cooking. 3. Remove from oven. Stir in pecans and vanilla. Mix well. 4. Spread mixture evenly in a greased 8-by-8-inch pan. Cool and cut into squares. Makes about 16 pieces. from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. Meet M2M from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. Marit Larsen and Marion Raven are better known as the two members of the musical group M2M. Their most recent album came out a few months ago. They are from Norway and have been friends since they were 5 years old. Both girls sing and write songs. Marit, 18, plays the guitar and Marit, Marion Marion, 17, plays keyboards. When they were young, they performed in musicals such as “Annie” and “The Sound of Music.” In 1994, they recorded an album of Norwegian children’s songs. One of Marit’s favorite musicians is Joni Mitchell, and Marion likes Bob Dylan. In her free time, Marit enjoys writing music and Marion likes to go to the movies. from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. Collecting Radio Waves From Space Wow! What a Telescope! What the telescope does The telescope’s job is to collect naturally occurring radio waves. By studying them, scientists can find out what is going on way out in space. Space is filled with radio wave energy. Planets, stars, galaxies and even clouds of dust and gas give off radio waves that can be detected on Earth. Collecting these waves is important to astronomers. By studying the data the telescope gathers, they can find out information about space that they could get no other way. With “optical” telescopes, astronomers can see only what is actually visible. If clouds are in the way, or if the sun is shining, they don’t get a good picture. This is not the case with radio telescopes. Quiet, please Radio signals arriving on Earth from space are very weak. In fact, they are millions of times weaker than the manufactured signals sent out by the radios we listen to. Because these radio waves from space are so weak, radio telescopes must be big and also far away from places where people live. Such things as microwave ovens, radio and TV signals, and computers can interfere with the reception. The big dish enables the astronomers to focus the telescope on small areas. from The Mini Page by Betty Debnam © 2002 The Mini Page Publishing Company Inc. Supersport: Tracy McGrady Height: 6-8 Birthdate: 5-24-79 Weight: 210 Tracy McGrady plays guard for the Orlando Magic. He joined the team in 2000. Before that, he spent three seasons with the Toronto Raptors. Last season he averaged 26.8 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. He was also chosen to play on the All-Star team. After the 2000-2001 season, he was named the NBA’s Most Improved Player. Tracy was born in Bartow, Fla. Two years ago he took some classes in leadership skills at Rollins College during the offseason. His favorite actors are Martin Lawrence and Jim Carrey, and his favorite food is his mother’s spaghetti and meatballs. It is very tall, almost as tall as the Washington Monument. Its dish is about 300 feet across (about the length of a football field). The telescope is taller than the Statue of Liberty. The Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope is in West Virginia. It collects radio waves. It can only receive them; it does not send any. It takes a long time for some of the waves to reach Earth. Some of them might be millions of years old before they do. An image of a part of the planet Venus taken by the Green Bank Radio Telescope. Teachers: A site to see: www.NRAO.edu. The Mini Page thanks Chuck Blue, public information officer for the National Radio Astronomy Observatory, for help with this issue. NRAO is a facility of the National Science Foundation. Look through your newspaper for ads for items that might manufacture radio waves. Next week, The Mini Page visits the state of Connecticut from A to Z. The Mini Page is created and edited by Betty Debnam Associate Editors Anne Chamberlain Lucy Lien Staff Artist Wendy Daley
THE INTERMOUNTAIN NEWS • APRIL 17, 2002 • PAGE 7 District’s needs match his experience, says new hire BY MEG FOX Trustees for the Fall River Joint Unifi ed School District believe Eric Newton’s leadership and communication skills make him just the right person to serve as the district’s new school superintendent. “The entire board is very pleased that we’re getting someone of his caliber,” said Board President Nancy Sisk. “He’s a good match for this district and we’re really excited,” she said. Newton accepted the board‘s contract offer of $93,500 a year plus benefi ts. He starts July 1 and is replacing Supt. Earnie Graham whose contract ends June 30. Newton, 57, has been superintendent of the Sweetwater County School District No. 2 in Green River, WY since 1998. The district has 535 employees and 3,000 K-12 -From Page 2 students. He was also the assistant superintendent in the Sweetwater CSD #2 for seven years and has been a principal, assistant principal, a teacher and a coach in Wyoming junior-senior high schools. Newton’s reasons for choosing the Intermountain area are several, but, as the trustees said of him, he too believes he’s found a good match. “When a superintendent starts looking around, one of the most important things to fi nd is a school board who wants who you are and what you are,” he said. “You don’t always fi nd that important component.” Having taken early retirement from the Wyoming school system, has given him “the freedom to work outside the state and the opportunity to continue working beyond my career in Wyoming,” he Guilty man offered, refused 20-year plea -From Page 1 New med director at Pit River Health a former biology teacher at West Valley High School in Redding, have two daughters. Hannah, 20 months old, was born in July 2000. Lauren, their new baby, was born in February. Baylink was graduated from Redlands High School in Southern California in 1984. He earned a bachelors degree in psychology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and it wasn’t until he was on a ski patrol that he thought about becoming a medical doctor. “I worked at Mammoth Ski Resort for four years and as a result of that I decided to go into medicine. At the time I was particularly attracted to emergency room medicine,” he said. He entered Loma Linda School of Medicine, where he earned his doctorate of medicine in 1998. For his residency program, he said, “I interviewed all over the United States, from Yale University (in New Haven, CT) to Seattle” and chose Mercy Medical Center in Redding. “I met their faculty and staff and toured the hospital and fell in love with it.” He was also interested because Mercy offered a community-based residency and a program that was affi liated with the University of California, Davis. “The lecture series was awesome and the clinical experience was also awesome,” he said. Baylink said he’s looking forward to his work at Pit River. “The staff is very friendly and effi cient, as is the administration, and I feel very comfortable here,” he said. The feeling is mutual. “Dr. Baylink is what we’ve needed here for some time,” Jordan said. manslaughter for a two-year sentence. Sutherland was offered 20 years, but refused to plead, Jankowitz said. Jankowitz credited Shasta County Sheriff’s detectives Anthony Bertain of the Burney station and John Hubbard of Redding with investigating and solving the diffi cult case and assisting at trial. “Not only do we have a unsympathetic victim because he’s a child molester and a lot of jurors had a problem with that, but a lot of witnesses were from the drug culture, so their credibility had some issues.” He said the detectives worked the case because a person had been killed. “No one has the right to be beaten to death in the middle of the night.” The case unfolded on Jan. 27, 2002 when three hunters found bloody clothing off Pit 6 Road. Looking further, they saw a body 60 to 70 feet down an embankment, Jankowitz said. The victim “had one inch holes through his skull as if he had been hit on both sides with a blunt object and he’d been beaten about the face.” Bertain and Hubbard found personal letters with the victim and went to the return address in Cottonwood to the home of Kimberly Raible. “They searched her house and overturned a mattress to fi nd it soaked with blood,” Jankowitz said. The detectives learned that Sparks had planned to stay with Raible, who was acquainted with Sparks and the three suspects. Taylor and Sutherland had met up with Sparks and taken him to Raible’s home. Raible was apparently not home but at a party where the suspects related what had happened and asked if she knew Sparks had served time as child molester, according to Jankowitz. She wanted Sparks out of her house and the suspects agreed to help. ”What we now know is that they took a pipe wrench with them,” said Jankowitz. “Carla went into the house and was doing dope with Sparks,” he said. “She said she heard a thump, he collapsed, and she ran out of the house. She said she saw Shane (Taylor) swing something over his head.” They left in Sutherland’s car and went back to the party. An hour later, Taylor and Sutherland borrowed someone’s Ford Explorer and returned to Raible’s house for the bedding and the body, Jankowitz said. They drove to Big Bend and dumped Sparks. They knew about the Big Bend area because, coincidentally, one of the three hunters who found Sparks, was the brother of one of the suspects. “He used to go there to dump dead sheep and my theory is he may have mentioned it to his brother,” said Jankowitz. The detectives put the case together by matching fi bers found in Big Bend with the Ford Explorer. Also blood at the scene matched the victim’s. “The detectives worked on this case for a year and we couldn’t have gotten this result without their efforts,” Jankowitz said. said. He and his wife Kathy have a son and daughter who are both in college. Kathy Newton has a degree in anthropology and has been the social services director for a 59-bed nursing home for the past 10 years. In deciding to move on, Newton said they fi rst looked to the Pacifi c Northwest because their daughter is a student at the University of Oregon in Eugene. “As we were traveling back and forth, we began to branch out and began to see Northern California for the neat place it is,” he said. “And, the more we came to know the Intermountain area, the more excited we got.” He agrees with a real estate brochure he received describing this area as the “best kept secret in California.” As someone involved in education for more than 30 years, Newton wants to continue to work on the issues that face K-12 students, their teachers, parents, support staff and the trustees. “I’m a K through 12 educator and I want to keep doing it,” he said. “The needs of this district are pretty much what my experience base has prepared me to deal with,” he said. As an educator in districts of similar size to Fall River’s, Newton said, “I have developed an understanding of the advantages and challenges of districts this size. “An administrator has to be a bit more of a ‘jack-of-alltrades’ in a smaller district, but that is not a problem for me,” he said. Newton describes his leadership style as teambased problem solving. “I like to work with others to solve issues. It’s a team approach, more than what I think should happen. “A tighter, more focused team can be created in a smaller district and become a clear asset in the district,” he said. Newton began his career in education in Sheridan, where he taught junior high school science for 11 years and coached football, basketball and track for 10 years. As a teacher, he was president of the Sheridan Central Education Association for one year. He has also been a consultant and facilitator for Sweetwater’s interest-based negotiations process and was a co-leader in an initiative to revise the state’s high school graduation requirements. He is working on a doctorate degree in K-12 curriculum and instruction. He holds a Masters degree in Educational Administration and a Bachelor of Science degree in Science Education from the University of Wyoming, Laramie. He is president of the board of directors for United INTERMOUNTAIN CHURCH DIRECTORY FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 20428 Poplar Street, Burney Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. 335-4293 www.Burney1stBaptist.org SOLID ROCK FOUR SQUARE CHURCH 20343 Tamarack Rd, Burney Pastor David Sellstrom 335-5002 or 335-5588 Sunday Worship 10 am & 6 pm Children’s Church: Pre-school to 6th grade Nursery: 0-toddler Wednesday Fellowship & Bible Study 7 p.m. Men’s Bible Study Monday 7 p.m. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH Fall River Mills 336-5260 Saturday: Sabbath School 9:45 a.m. Worship Service 11:15 a.m. Pastor Craig Klatt 336-6457 Intermtn. Evangelical Free Church Hwy 299E in McArthur Worship Service 10 am AWANA Club: 3:30 pm Wednesday Youth Leader: Brad Lewis Pastor Leon Engman 336-5116 UNITED PENTACOSTAL CHURCH 21661 Garden Lane Johnson Park Services: Sunday 10 a.m. & 6 p.m. Pastor Raymond L. Stephens 335-4385 or 335-4980 Intermountain Baptist Church Marquette Street, Burney Pastor Bud Hennessey 335-5414 Sunday School 9:45 a.m. Worship 11 a.m. Awana Clubs-Sunday evening 6 p.m. KIBC-FM 90.5 Wed. Evening @ 7 p.m. Hat Creek Baptist Church Highway 89 at VN Lane Sunday - 9:45 and 11 Wednesday - AWANA Club, 6:30 p.m. Prayer, 7:00 p.m. 335-5297 Pastor Frank Wilkins • hatcreekchurch@citlink.net Way of Sweetwater County and a past-president of the Green River Rotary Club. He and his wife enjoy downhill skiing and sailing. “Having lived in the West we are outdoorsy,” he said. “I’ve also been known to hunt big game and fi sh.” As the school board said, Newton looks to be a perfect match for this area and this school district. Grace Community Bible Church Pastor Henry Winkelman Tamarack Ave. Burney 335-2367 Independent Fundamental Bible Church 9:45 am Sunday School, all ages 11 am Worship Service-6 pm Evening Service Wednesday: 7 pm Bible Study and Prayer CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY Hwy 299E at Ft. Crook Avenue, Fall River Mills Sunday Service & Sunday School 10:30 a.m. Wednesday Services 7:30 p.m. READING ROOM 1st & 3rd Wednesday 1-4 p.m. -Visitors Welcome- Calvary Chapel, Burney Falls (Formerly Burney Christian Fellowship) Intermountain Community Center Main & Commerce Street • Burney THE LIGHTHOUSE CHRISTIAN BOOKSTORE 37067 MAIN ST • BURNEY Pastor/Teacher Pat Nugent 335-2910 MASS SCHEDULES St. Francis Catholic Church Juniper at Cedar, Burney Saturday 5 pm/Sunday 9 am Our Lady of the Valley Catholic Church Fall River Mills-Sunday 11 am St. Stevens Catholic Church, Bieber Sunday 1 pm Reverend Eric Lofgren 335-2372 FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH 20400 Timber, (at Juniper) Burney, CA 96013 335-2670 Pastor James H. Cavener Sunday Worship 8 a.m. Bible Classes Sunday 9:15 a.m., Wedenesday 7 p.m. Visitors Welcome! BURNEY CHURCH OF CHRIST Superior Avenue, Burney (Behind Old Post Office) Sunday Services Bible Study 10 a.m. 11 a.m. & 6 p.m. Bible Study Wednesday 7 p.m. Community United Methodist Church Fall River Mills 336-5602 Rev. Basel Rafeedy Pastor Adult Sun. School 9:45 a.m. Sunday School 10:45 a.m. Worship Service 10:45 a.m. Nursery Provided Men’s Prayer Breakfast Sat. 8 a.m. Youth Fellowship Sat. 6 p.m.
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