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Show FAMILY- ! Eatertsinmeut Comks Classifieds . EDITOR: y - TYT F( ...... D3 D4 . f JM SHARON GHOLDSTON Mi iIiiiiihw mil THE DAILY HERALD 344-25- r :1 II- In Joseph Walker 'Lis -- a- 'I : - - 5"..-'- . I. & v We're all wizards, always improving our flawed lives M. ' f. '. MARCH 25, 1998 WEDNESDAY, S - 51 v.- - ' ' There was a death in the family this week. In fact, if you don't mind, I'd appreciate it if you would join me in a moment of silence for my dearly departed hard drive. Rest in peace, you defragmented hunk of rigid magnetic disc. The passing wasn't surprising. A couple of weeks ago, we started seeing including signs of impending doom a message from the computer itself telling us that it had detected a serious flaw in the hard drive, and if we didn't take care of it immediately we might lose everything. I thought the computer was bluffing, sort of like my doctor when he tells me that I need to do a few more laps and a few less Big $ Macs or else my arteries will clog up like a squirt gun filled with Jell-But the computer wasn't kidding. WE KEPT plugging along with a flawed hard drive until suddenly the computer crashed just as my son was trying to access the Internet. When we called in the experts a couple of teenage boys who had just beamed back from the Star Trek convention they assured us that no, we hadn't done anything. It was a fetal flaw in the hard drive. Just the luck of the MicroDraw. MicroFate. MicroDestiny. MicroKismet. So we have a new hard drive now, I and it's working nicely, thank you. I've spent most of the past couple of days columnist Walker ho lives in American Fork RCOPY 4 l 4k. j, If . . tL a wi!f firct-Orarfe- Witd FOod " i. it v ' i s a on ocnooj cruising r a r fw- & V.:ih I state the t. " ciru'vs. it , focis. Ectlrj a c?r.b!nfnion of cartel I ' Winning With Food Day Thursday an event so popular in schools it actually is celebrated all ' 1 .10 rc" ? Winning With Food Day began seven years ago to educate children on the importance of eating healthy meals. It also works in conjunction with March National Nutrition Month. Food Day festivities started Monday at various ... sd amount ::dl:i,pz fri.,s sr,i vrstcbiss t'. i : tables cf fruits end 40 j r. ..nt ctat od miner t.9 -- 'f - ' I j. - s tr.... f ;, Scott has participated in Food Day and she plans to participate for many years to come. This energetic teacher says her eyes were opened to the need for nutrition education last year when she conducted a nutritional survey. "Most kids didn't know what five a day meant. They didn't realize they had to eat, ono to r. ,:;8SureTt ,' 'm'- -3. Five a day fen k-s-s i ;j , Rerwr-;- than half eat less tiiar c'aiiy, f.'.cr3 k Vineyard Elementary has celebrated.Winniiif With Food Dav for two vmn with decorations, special cafeteria meals and contests through-cu- t the school. ' Fifth graders at Vineyard Elementary, directed by their teacher Sarah Scott, have "been practicing a BpeciaJ" , puppet show with fruits and ' vegetables for the healthy week. They will be present-- 1 ing the show to first graders i and preschoolers. to it's Scott says important teach children about eating right. "My mom was on the t I health board in Davis County, She was very . involved and taught important healthy eatings ,w habits are. It's eoEictJJcgl'. feel very animate about " ' said Scott who is also a volunteer for the American Cancer Society. the diet. On in :.:ic t tie rrrnmeridetJ'fiva r r . ti -j 1 r a vs.lst.' of ir:;'.," 1 cf fruits . (f sir' .'."to: mc low f,:i dV-""- - i it ' '- Unguagt lMont: Dovln Bunnell, a sixth-grade- i i Auii at r Vineyard sary fofc a healthy diet. 1 , , To teach children five a day program about and Wsflpng With Food Day, hjfc-lj- Wes Adersongrocery bles. The American Cancer Utah division began Winking With Food Day in 1991. It was originally called, "The Great American Food Fight Ageinst Cancer." Since this sounded too much like a real "food fight," the title was changed. Society, Low-f- at cafeteria food The Cancer Society tries ; cooking. ' Other schools in the various Utah districts have also achieved similar honors. While the American Cancer Society is proud of healthy measures taken by Utah schools, it is necepsary to teach healthy habits that can be uced st home and not 1,3 coc:.ir.js?rrir.r J of oil. ty tiit-.r v i a j;?cKed In 1 t evtrM '5 yora-- l ttnd o hear ticutjn; o.i cc;.nca and com? frsw5 a ;t cf CM fads cut 1 1 c 1 just for lunch at school. Students also create posters "with the names of foods uiw. According to information teach-percefrom the Cancer Society, 3i differtJangliages of all cancers ma be ingA&eM "flits )of a" foreigriT' "iSSm j j attributed to diet alone. 'language. 3 Research also' reports thai Aftr Scott; 3 diss presents eating healthier foods might i the puppethow, feachBtu-lower risks of certain cancers i denrill give a report on the fruit they played in the show. because foods might affect a They will use their research person's chance of getting and English skills in writing cancer. v nt S J " r t: '" , .j . man- ager at. Smiths, 45 S. State, Orem, jpaye Vineyard .', Elementary 400 coupons for free fruits and yeggtahles. " Anderson hopes the coupons will encourage children tc eat more fruits and vegeta- to encourage schools to prepare meals with 30 percent or less fat during the week of Winning With Food Day something all Utah schools do year round. "We have always had healthy food which means healthy kids," said Linda Barrel, quality control supervisor for the school lunch" : program for the Provo school .district. Such healthy meals have been prepared in local schools that they have received health awards for them. Just two weeks ago, Timpanogos High School won a banner for their healthy t Dcrft tvlieva j sura ft It Elementary School, gets a language lesson In Thai while eating at a lunchroom table. The educational table tents were one of the' projects of the school's Winning With Food Day program. five fruits and vegetables every single day," she said. Scott hopes celebrating Food Day will help her students understand what is neces- ft i ' v.. : The mission of this statewide event is to make young people as well as teachers, parents and school lunch service personnel aware that proper diet can reduce the risk of heart cancer, and eevaral ' other chronic illnesses. " However, teachers use the event to teach numerous subjects other than health. Scott presents the information she receives from her nutritional surveys and has her class make charts and graphs from tbe statistics. dis-eas- the reports. e, ; ' Cultural experience) This year's "Around the World on a Healthy Adventure" theme also pro- vides a way to teach students about various cultures. Timpanogos High School ; will be celebrating Food Day with a luau. On Thursday, the high school enfeteria wilt': be filled with Hawaiian ': music and decorations as well as Hawaiian dishes. Polynesian students will also ! : , I i , growing With FockI Tr.'3 it state-wid- e This is the second year I." :;mflntii2 Vvmnh se-- 3 .vJ own classrooms. It's time for the American Cancer Society's annual schools.. - iitff.5;3 ti"" i:.Jf.;ontrr the World on a Health Adventure" right in their week-long- ty l1--- homes: a nutritious ride as they cruise "Around , end schooi food PTA's ;c3 t:omi Vr.a stste. Day ;;t s Here a: si cf . off'. g :..T3 . d presence ...orts to corntMtt E"? rr.J;!- 1 I ths increasing t.i Cancar -Sx' I chools around er b a nationally syndicated ttfa Ult The Daily Herald " Joseph f Duly HerakS Sara Scott's class at Vineyard Elementary School in Orem practice a puppet show about eating anrt nrochnnlofc ac nart of the Amariran ranror Cnoiotu'c Winnina iwrfnrm tho chnw tn in Fifth-grade- By SHAUNNA LEAVITT AND ALL because of a little flaw on a little piece of computer equip- . ment. Thankfully, humans don't Bhut down when a flaw is detected. Otherwise, we'd have no pro sports, no ti entertainment industry, no politician? ; ! and no newspaper columnists (OK, maybe there'd be one newspaper ' columnist but how much Dave Barry can you take?). The entire human race would consist of ministers, rabbis, my wife and a few assort- ' ed Osmonds. Which wouldn't be such a bad thing for the unflawed, I guess. But the rest of us would be somewhere up Computer Creek without a hard drive. And believe me, that's not a place you want to be. ,i Although most of us are flawed to one degree or another, very few of our flaws are fatal. In fact, one of the great things about being human is the opportunity life offers most of us to learn and grow from our flaws, and to eventually overcome them. And have ' you noticed how often the process of overcoming flaws results in extraordinary strength born of weakness? It's j like magic, and we're each our own Wizard of Flaws, pulling miracles of improvement out of our flawed lives. Even if we can't pull date off of our flawed hard drives. , MARC LESTEHTTbe Playing with food: Kpalthv fonric Th sialic p s . ilUUiuv health food adventure software and inputting names, dates, addresses and phone numbers for various planners, calendars and address books. Unfortunately, there's about a decade-wort- h of writing and editing that's , ? still on the damaged hard drive (no, I ' didn't back it up on floppy disks w" " that would be too sensible). My teenage computer consultants sent it off to their guru probably a to see if the old data can be extracted. If not, the world may never see my unfinished screenplay for "Titanic 2: Love Among the Bubbles" (Leonardo DiCaprio meets The Little Mermaid" think romance! Think realism! Think billions of merchandising dollars!) sixth-grad- - See FOOD, D2' |