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have required rest periods of
varying lengths, including one 24-
hour layover, at the checkpoints of
their choice. The race becomes a
game of wits. For example; A
mustier arives and announces his
intention to stay a full day, glan
cing at the fur-wrapped faces
around him. As the weather clears
that night, he slips outside, hitches
up his team, and “Hike!” he’s off.
He’ll log his 24 hours of rest
elsewhere.
Sleepless nights are common.
The racers often get fatigued and
lost, having to backtrack to find
the trail markers. It’s a hard race
THE IDITAROD:
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Frozen North
Tracing across 1,137 miles of snow and Ice,
Alaska s IdltarodSled Dog Race tests humans
and dogs to the ultimate. The route from
Anchorage to Nome changes annually,
sometimes even during a race. Drivers may
choose to cut across the Ice of Norton Sound,
T a perilous shortcut.
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through a hard land, beautiful at
times, boring at others. One
musher dozed off while under way
and fell from his sled onto the
Yukon River pack ice. For
tunately, he was just outside a
checkpoint. He walked in and
arrived 10 minutes after his dogs.
Who are the Iditarod mushers?
Alaskans, most of them. For oc
cupations they list sales manager,
printer, truck driver, and
schoolteacher. Some find full-time
professions in breeding, training,
and selling their dogs.
Others come from Europe,
Japan, and the lower 48 states.
Gary Paulsen of Minnesota wears
a small tape recorder and listens to
Gustav Mahler’s Resurrection
Symphony while racing through
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u.e sub-zero temperatures. Terry
Hinesley trains each year at the
Oregon Dune Mushers Mail Run -
a race across 80 miles of sand.
“It’s a rare business in Alaska
that hasn’t been approached at
least once to sponsor a dog
musher,” writes Tim Jones in his
book “The Last Great Race.”
Nevertheless, add up the costs of
travel and training, of the dogs
themselves, and all the food, sleds,
clothing, and other equipment, and
a racer can easily spend $20,000 to
run the Iditarod.
Manheim Central sets agenda for FFA Week
MANHEIM Members of the
Manheim Central FFA Chapter
along with 430,000 other FFA’ers
throughout the United States will
celebrate National FFA Week Feb.
15 to 22. This year’s FFA theme is
“Leaders for the New Fields of
Agriculture.”
Neil Benedict, Manheim Central
chapter president, says that
members will be stressing this new
theme in activities planned for the
week. “We have a full week of
activities planned,” he said. They
include a week-long canned food
drive to benefit Manheim Food
Bank, an open house in the vo-ag
department for eighth grade
students on Tuesday, official dress
day on Wednesday, cherry sundaes
for high school staff on Thursday,
and a drawing for a prize to food
drive contributors on Friday.
The new FFA theme emphasizes
that agriculture is changing and
that it is more than just farming.
Computers, bio-genetics,
economics and aquaculture are
just a few of the 200 career areas in
agriculture.
High school vocational
agriculture and. the FFA.
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The 1985 race was one of the
longest and wildest. Bad storms
stopped it twice. A third of the
mushers failed to finish. Half of all
the racers encountered moose that
did everything from blocking trails
to killing dogs.
Who won? Libby Riddles, a 28-
year-old woman who braved a
storm three-quarters of the way
through the race. The wind chill
dropped to 60 below zero across
frozen Norton Sound. Yet her team
of 13 dogs maintained a steady
pace of 5 to 8 mph. Gulping seal oil
organization are teaching the
youth of the city and the country
skills that will prepare them to be
the leaders for this diverse
agricultural industry.
FFA Week traditionally includes
George Washington’s birthday.
Washington gained respect for
FFA through his great leadership
skills and innovative practices in
agriculture. He serves as an
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and Norwegian chocolate bars, she
built an insurmountable lead and
crossed under the arch on Nome’s
Front Street 18 days and 20
minutes after leaving Anchorage.
“Libby Did It!” announced an
Alaska newspaper. It was a victory
for the spirit of the Iditarod.
Nome’s cheering residents
pounded their mittened hands
They greeted Libby and every
other cold musher with a
tremendous warmth, as if in the
bottom of each sled, wrapped in
furs, were small vials of diphtheria
serum.
example for all FFA members.
The FFA has been promoting
leadership, cooperation and
citizenship among young people
since 1928. With the changing roles
of agriculture, the organization
realizes the importance of con
tinuing the emphasis of developing
agricultural skills and in building
“Leaders for the New Fields of
Agriculture.”
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