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Show Page C2 THE DAILY HERALD, (www.HartTheHerald.com), Provo, Utah, Wednesday, November 6, 2002 every 15 minutes," he said. "It's almost like a personal concert." Novices to the cowboy way of life can spend $5 at the Buckaroo Fair and have continuous entertainment p.m. Friday or 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. Saturday. The Fair offers 40 booths including saddles, bridles, hats, spurs, western art and souvenirs. Bring the family and eat the famous Eddie Deen East Texas BBQ; Deen served 11,000 dinners during the 2002 Olympics at Heber City's Wild West at the gathering. Trail boss Tom Whitaker COWBOY Continued from Cl heart breakup kind, "Lay it all on the table, get it off your mind "Down at the Pick-U- p Truck Cafe." After a chorus, he punches out: "Don't matter what you wear, "Don't matter who you are, "Most things we don't care, "But don't you dare drive a car." Hill performs on the Heber Creeper on Thursday and plays in concert with the Bar J Wranglers on Friday. "I'm not a cowboy but I try to represent the cowboys through music," Hill said. Bar J Wranglers, the most popular cowboy entertainers around Utah, are a combination stand-u- p comedy troupe and a western music show. Yodel-in- g and singing harmony to tunes like "Tumblin' Tumble Weed," and "Ghost Riders in the Sky," these cowboys from Jackson Hole, Wyo., have nearly sold-oconcerts this week ut of Midway welcomes "new" performers, Wylie and The Wild West to the event. "They've played the Grand Old Opry 40 times and in Elko," Whitaker said. "We're trying to introduce Wylie to the people of Utah and tell them what a terrific group they are." Wylie is a yodeler and his musicians play swing band style. Wylie and The Wild West perform at the dance Friday evening and have a concert Saturday afternoon. "They are great musicians," Whitaker said. y The gathering with the traditional begins Dutch oven dinner tonight in Midway, followed by music and poetry. Board the Heber Creeper on Thursday for the sights and sounds of cowboys singing and the smells of blazing potbellied stoves, the trail boss said. "You'll have Sour Dough Slim right at your knee playing his harmonica and guitar," added Whitaker: Only 300 seats are available for the train ride. "It's very casual, very friendly with a new entertainer coming through Show. Main cowboy poetry concerts are Friday evening and Saturday afternoon and evening. Capping off the five days is a nondenomina-tiona- l gospel hour featurthe Bar J Wranglers at ing 3 p.m. Sunday, at Wasatch High School. "It's free but you have to have a ticket to reserve your seat," Whitaker said. More than 800 attended last year; the high school venue holds 1,100 people. five-da- Karen Hoag can be reached at or . main-stream- However, Joyce Chisholm, the now retired founder of San Francisco Unified's inclusion program, predicts that more parents will place their children in regular classrooms as much as pos- sible. She calls inclusion an "educational belief system." Kristen Lombardo cuts a - jO f'r i RANDI LYNN BEACHLos Angeles Tunes Extra help: Majorie "Moji" Duenas, 18, right, participates her art class with instructional aide Cheryl Morgan at Wallenberg High School in in San Francisco. nimble figure at Hoover class, gave Lombardo a gruff Middle School, striding up greeting. "How long will you stairs and down hallways to be here?" he demanded. Lee was teaching fractions, a spend time with a dozen dishard subject that required abled children in nearly as his students to concentrate. many classes. It's hard to LomLombardo bristled: "A few so juggle many kids, minutes bardo said, but dealing you want my watch?" diplomatically with territoriLee supports inclusion in al teachers can be even harder. theory, he explained later, but he finds it obtrusive in One recent morning at the Sunset District campractice. "My classroom is like a pus, Lombardo walked into math class ship, and Fm the captain," an eighth-grad- e he said. "Fve got to time my in which an autistic stuclass down to the second, dent and another student and you're never sure when with a learning disability were mixed in with nondis-able- d the inclusion teacher is comchildren. She found ing in. Sometimes, I might them struggling with math be giving a test, and the (special education) student exercises, and a chair was is yelling and screaming." left empty next to each of Collaboration between them, evidently meant for Lombardo. She was furious; teachers fell by the wayside that day Lombardo spent to Lombardo it sent the all of her time explaining message "that special eduthe lesson to the two special cation children are my education students while problem." Lee worked with the rest of Mike Lee, the the class. teacher of the math Steven Dewey, MD i and Cameron Anderson, Edison indulged. So did Napoleon, Kennedy and Clinton. And Churchill claimed they helped get him through the war. Naps aren't just for the nursery school set, as these powerhouses of history prove. Now a group of students at Greenwich High School in Connecticut also has learned the value of a strategic snooze. The Power Nap Club convenes Monday afternoons after , school dismisses at 2:15. About 20 students take a half-hoto recover from the classroom grind and rest up for the afternoon's extracurricular activities. Anton Anderson, an English teacher who has suffered his share of drowsy students during . ur his 34 years at the high school, formed the club in 1998. He envisioned a tonic for the demands of and college preparations. These students are being shuttled constantly khoagheraldextra.com. Continued from C21 -- The Hartford Courant school, sports, social lives 344-254- 2 who finds the naps help; her focus during afternoon ' games. Hannigan, a swimmer, looks forward to the afternoon respite. She winces when she talks about the swim team's 5:30 a.m. practices. "When I get out, I'm energized. But by first period of classes Yin already drifting off." 5 By JOHN JURGENSEN 30 SPECIAL ED Juno Duenas, recently moved Moji to another public high school in San Francisco, Wallenberg Traditional High. She said her daughter's situation has improved. The special education teacher there holds monthly strategy meetings with Duenas and Moji's other teachers. When other children in art class are drawing faces, an assistant will help Moji draw a circle and then help her place paper eyes, noses and hps. A more typical student is Tyronne Keith, 16, who has cerebral palsy. A devoted wrestling fan, Tyronne often with a picsports a ture of his favorite nimbler, Goldberg, and is greeted warmly throughout the schoolDespite a speech impediment, Tyronne has a quick wit. When his special education aide was late one day, Tyronne jokingly told him: "I'm firing you." Tyronne was in segregated programs in lower grades and still spends most of his day in a special class because his mother, Beatrice Keith, said he receives more attention there. He is for some other classes, such as gym and drama. "With so many kids in the classroom, the (general education) teacher can't take time out for two or three handicapped kids," Keith said. Club geis caught nappin; from one place to another," Anderson says. "The club is really hitting a need for these overstressed kids." Despite the anticipated appeal of sleeping on school property, the club was slow to take off. For the first few years, only one student attended faithfully. Then two of Anderson's sophomore students, Jenna Goldstein and Kelly Hannigan, answered his appeal to try it out. They came prepared to crack up at the corny relaxation tapes and meditation exercises. But they got hooked and soon they were bringing their friends and boosting the club in the school bulletin. Now they're seniors, presidents of the club and proud that its membership includes "artsy kids and jocks, all kinds of people and all grades,"says Goldstein, a basketball player After the run down the club's agenda (new weatshirts on the way, volunteers needed for the homecoming float), it's lights out. Eyes closed, hands resting on his thighs, Anderson plays sandman. His silver Starbucks mug sits neglected on the desk before him as he guidei the students in a meditation exercise. "Imagine that your consciousness has been removed from the center of your mind. It becomes a ball of light," he intones. Light or no light, the students have probably been fighting this drugged feeling all day. As they finally surrender, chins meet chests, heads loll back and prone bodies arrange themselves on the floor. Within minutes, the sound of deep breathing drifts through the dark room. Though sleep is a constant requirement for a healthy life, our demand for it fluctuates according to our age. Infants sleep about 16 hours a day in stretches of two to four hours. These sessions gradually consolidate, so that at age 1, most children are sleeping 12 to 14 hours a day, most of it through the night. By 10, children rely less on naps and sleep heavily" for about 9 12 hours. But in adoles- cence, when the need for sleep increases to about 10 or more hours a night, the typical high schooler gets less than seven. What's more, adolescence coincides with a major shift in circadian rhythms, the biological cycles of a day. Teenage bodies want to sleep late, but their schedules don't allow it. The results cranky, fatigued students. Power naps are no substitute for healthy nighttime sleep habits. But a half-hoof quiet rest can do these teenagers good, Anderson says, and open their eyes to the demands of their bodies. Napping has its place in the world of adults too. In recent years, some companies have seen the advantages of sleeping on the job. For example, Yarde Metals has makeshift nap rooms in all eight of its facilities, including the one being built in Southington, Conn. That's just one of the amenities offered by this unusual company, which distributes part of its profits to employees. It g also has gyms, rooms and horseshoe pitches. "We have some prominent nappers," says Craig Yarde, who owns the metal processing and distribution company. "They're on a certain clockwork. When they hit d a situation, they ur coffee-roastin- low-en- just take a little break and come back charging." In the classroom Anderson continues his quiet narration. One power napper's snores rise above the meandering strings of the New Age music. Several students on their way to sports practice hoist their bulging backpacks, pick their way out and gently close the door. A few minutes later, the lights come up. Students rouse each other. They stretch, yawn and rub their eyes. "I can't feel my legs," a new member says. 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