810-L«nca«tef Farming, Saturday, April 1, 2000 , :*Kids Kort^sr ——Si——————— Kick Butts LINDA WILLIAMS El ?*s® f’ Bedford Co. Correspondent BEDFORD (Bedford Co.) - Stupid P^' LT jf^F Bedford County has one of the Crazy K >WK 3pp most active TATU or Teens Dangerous Against Tobacco Use Coalitions “Smoking kills!” A in the state. “Need I say more?” Setting high standards these Students from the Bedford teens from Bedford, Everett, County Coalitions attend the ** Northern Bedford, Hyndman, state conference in March. Tussey Mountain, and Chestnut They do an annual survey to Ridge students form the county check their own progress in each coalition. Participants are good individual school. This year, scholars, and active m school Northern Bedford took a poll at sports or other extra curricular a wrestling match to find that activities. Advisors are volun- out of 137 individuals inter- BHHHBBHHHHHP teer high school teachers, Joyce viewed, 26 smoked and 111 did . . D .. . u . xj m ■ . r>„; , udents from Bedford m Herncane, Tnsh Beidle, less not. frawi« Lean Hvndman Crawford, Ed Beidle, Phil Logue, Ten of those smoking smoked flame” * ’ and Julie Evans. cigarettes, 5 used smokeless A fall conference kicks off the tobacco, and one smoked cigars. p U j an 0 n incorrect season with more then 100 stu- Thirty two of those answer- nirfnrp^ dents attending the all day ing the questions said that P c event annually. It’s a day for someone in their household planning and getting ideas for smokes while 96 households did <n~ upcoming activities. not have members who smoked. o/"~ This year, the students plan Ninety one were concerned Til ■) ■ I ° f SAY NO TO to hold a candlelight vigil on with the effects of second hand \Sy o SMOKING!!!, April 13, in front of the Bedford smoke and 37 were not. s-.,—n—-fe |’|y/| NOT County Courthouse. Following All of those who did not JOKING!!! an evening of singing and short smoke preferred a home that speeches, the students will lead was smoke free. IT a candlelighting ceremony ask- Another survey was done by .J 3 f —L J— ing each participant to remem- inserting a questionnaire into ber a loved one who has died as the center of the local Chamber —— the result of smoking. of Commerce paper asking busi- April is a big month for nesses to notify the coalition if Bedford County’s TATU and on they are smoke free. \ April 15, the annual billboards Students from Chestnut C will go into place. Located at Ridge computer designed a _ 'fgzS / such strategic spots as along clever “thank you,” which will be '~FI p Route 30, Route 220, and Route framed and presented to each 'A X-J 26 leading into Saxton, the bill- answering business. fe boards, bearing anti tobacco One of the Bedford High v? messages, are all designed by School activities, which has been the students. very successful was the creation of an activity book for elemen- tary students. CZIS c ) During “Kick Butts” weeks which is also held in April, high school students help to educate the younger generation with a series of assemblies or puppet shows, written by the teens mostly. Radio spots will be aired on local stations throughout the spring with messages created by the students such as this one from Northern Bedford. “Each year there are more than 400,000 deaths in the United States caused by smok ing-related illnesses." “Is that how you want to die?” The choice is yours.... “When you choose to smoke, you’re not only hurting yourself but others t 00... “It’s.. Dumb Match the part below w-ih the color that part turns,when you smoke Red Several pages from that book let are shown on the “Children’s Page” in this issue. TATU has become a presti gious organization in Bedford County schools. When Tussey Mountain lost their long time volunteer leader, Glenn Young, this year, the students were so upset they found a replacement leader. “Some of them want to go into health related fields and felt it was very important to have an organization such as this,” says their advisor. Phil Logue. TATU even inspired a Hyndman High School student to write a song called, “Ashtray Mama” which will be sung on the radio this spring. Watch real chicks hatch. Hunt for eggs where animals and insects hide their eggs, and learn about the variety of ani mals that come from eggs. On Sunday, April 16, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., families are in vited to the Hands-On-House, Children’s Museum of Lancas ter, 721 Landis Valley Road, Lancaster, for the Eggceptional Egg Hunt. Yellow Black Admission is $5 for adults and children plus $1 “eggstra” per child. Reservations are not re quired. For more information, Egg Hunt Students from Bedford High School present a puppet show to second graders. Travis Leap, Hyndman, entertains his peers with a self-written song, “Ashtray Mama” The universe has billions of galaxies, and each galaxy has hundreds of billions of stars. The stars you can see when you look up at the sky are In our own galaxy, which Is called the Milky Way. Along with the stars In each galaxy, there are clouds of dust and gas. Stars are actually big balls of gas. mostly hydrogen, that give off heat and light. They are bom from the clouds of dust and gas. As more and more gas Is pulled into a cloud, the cloud starts to spin. Atoms of gas bump Into each other. As c:o»e What is worse than raining cats and dogs? / * M. *
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