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Show M M I I I SatSuiVMorVTuea, July 3-6, 2004 The Park Record B-9 Singing Cowboy ropes up fun Library show aims to excite kids about summer-time reading By JARED WHITLEY Of the Record staff A crowd of about 50 rolled into the Park City Library Wednesday for a rootin', tootin' performance by the Singing Cowboy. The Cowboy, alter-ego of musician musi-cian Joel Reese, uses song, dance, and lasso tricks to make learning fun and. get kids excited about books. - "I had a dream of entertaining when I was a boy, and I've followed fol-lowed that dream all my life," Reese told The Park Record, noting not-ing that his work with children is the most rewarding part of his career. The Cowboy is part of the library's commitment to summer reading. Kids come for the song and dance, and they stay for the books. "It's music and it's fun, and it gets kids excited about the library in general and hopefully reading," said library youth services director direc-tor Heather Reynolds. "It's good for all ages because he's a good musician and singer." Reese incorporated kids and parents into the show, inviting them to dance and participate in cowboy-themed skits. Participants pretended to be on a wagon train going from Texas to Montana. "It was just fun to watch the kids get so involved in the role of camping out and cooking in the camp fire," Reynolds said. Reese's wife, April, plays (I 0 TTTt w7 0 it i tr o GRAYSON WESTPARK RECORD The Singing Cowboy, Joel Reese, leads (from left to right) Spencer Moncur, 7, Dillon Dozier, 6, and Marshall King, 4, in song at the Park City Library. "Anna Montana" in the shows. She says her favorite part of performing per-forming is "making children smile." The Cowboy has a full schedule, sched-ule, performing at libraries, book stores, and for kids' nights at Chik-fil-A restaurants. Typically he performs in Tennessee, but he makes the annual trip out to Utah because his wife's family is from here. Reese will spend more than a week in Utah, performing at four different libraries and a convention conven-tion in Ogden. This is the third year the library has hosted a performance per-formance by the Singing Cowboy. His CD of children's music, "A Whole Lot of Animals," is available avail-able at the Park City Library. Reese's musical influences include Marty Robbins, James Taylor, Neil Diamond. Nat King Cole, and Frank Sinatra. For more pictures of the Cowboy's visit, see page C7. Fighting teens' car accidents - You're Invited - When: SkWMCT 2004 Miere: C?W City, a. relaxedjUce between tke mwttUKi clkI tkemnset. What to bring: ywyttJW jriendjVHr faw'lj cuJia. relaxed 'attitude. Make the Move to Park City Strife w v ,11 'V'l. i h-ii. iinl1 t' .)ill mill iIIVMiIIii- vlxitiitit... iU H E A L ESTATE By TOM LEE Utah State University Extension Family Life Specialist It probably comes as no surprise that traffic fatalities are the leading cause of death in drivers 16-20 years old. The magnitude of the problem is sobering. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, in 2002, teen drivers were more than four times as likely as older drivers to crash, per mile driven. Sixteen-year-old drivers were 20 times as likely -; vtWMte. vrr : ......Although teen drivers represent rep-resent only 10 percent of the total U.S. population, drivers 16-19 years old accounted for 14 percent of all traffic deaths. Teens driving with an adult fared satisfactorily, but the risks for an unsupervised teen driver increased with each teen passenger in the car. The economic eco-nomic cost of police-reported crashes (both fatal and non-fatal) involving drivers ages 15-20 was $40.8 billion in 2002. Alcohol is a major factor in teen traffic fatalities, and not wearing wear-ing seat belts goes hand in hand with drinking and driving. In 2002, 29 percent of teen traffic deaths involved a teen driver who was drinking, and 77 percent were not using seatbelts in these alcohol-related alcohol-related traffic deaths. Nearly half of these fatalities occurred between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. According to Gary Direnfeld, executive director of the "I Promise" program, which encourages encour-ages parents and teens to enter into a safe driving contract, parents who want to reduce the risk of then-child's then-child's involvement in a car accident acci-dent should do the following: Limit the number of passengers your teen is allowed to transport. The risk of a car crash goes up exponentially with each passenger added. Tell your teen not to drink and drive, and lead by example. Teens are sensitive to hypocrisy and .determine their behavior, by what they observe in their parent, not by what the parent says.""" ' Insist that your teen and all car passengers wear seat belts. Parents must set the example by wearing seat belts, too. Check your car brakes and brake fluid. While teens are interested inter-ested in how fast the car can go, parents should be interested in how well the car can stop. Make sure your vehicle is in top mechanical shape if your teen is taking the wheel. Do not allow your teen to drive after midnight. If transportation is required after midnight, make other arrangements. Call a taxi, car pool with another parent or act as chauffeur. It is better for a parent to lose a night's sleep than the life of a child. Parents and teens are encouraged encour-aged to participate in safe driving programs such as the "I Promise" program. This will encourage par ents and teens to enter into a safe driving contract and will provide a means for mutual accountability. Parents of females should insist that the boys who drive their daughters become involved in the program. For information on creating a safe driving contract, visit the 'i Promise" program Web site at www.ipromiseprogram.com. 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