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Show May 3, 2007 1HE MAGNA TIMES, WEST VALLEY NEWS, KEARNS POST 2 The stop-and-g- space mission o This Gail Christensen (center) is given an early morning surprise at her home by the Pirate Swim Club and Coco Warner from KSL Channel 5 (not pictured). Local swim coach honored by KORI ANN JELLINICH Staff Writer year Gail Magna resident Christensen received a surprise knock on her door early Monday morning. It was Coco Warner from KSL Channel 5 News along with a camera crew. Christensen, a recently retired swim coach, was nominated for KSLs High-- 5 award by her swimmers. The Pirate Swim Club swimmers wanted to express their thanks in a special and memorable w ay. What began as a way to be involved with her children's U of stated ed a big family, a What Christensen. big Pirate Sw im Club family she has. Treating each swimmer as more than just a student, she taught w'ith heait, making them all feel special. spoil evolved into an eleven- coaching position. Christensen began teaching basic stroke technique to young competitive swimmers. Over the years she took classes and clinics to fine tune her teaching technique. "She is one of the best stroke coaches in the Salt Lake Valley, stated Pirate Swim Club Board Secietary LeAnn Clement. Christensen has spent the past eleven years at the Cyprus High School Swimming Pool coaching young swimmers for two hours after school. I always want- - As she pursues other interests now that her own swimmers have grown up, Coach Gail w ill be sorely missed at the pool. Along with recognition on the morning news, Christensen also received a $50 gift certificate to Winder Farms as a lovely parting gift. . NASA summer, launches the Dawn mission. Dawn will visit two large asteroids, Vesta and Ceres. Dawn will go into orbit, traveling around and around each of them, in turn. No spacecraft has orbited two separate objects before. Why? Because to go into orbit, a spacecraft must fire its (reversed) thrusters long enough to slow down and be captured into orbit by the objects gravity. That thrusting takes pretty much all the fuel aboard. Once in orbit, the spacecraft goes around and around the planet, never able to leave and go somewhere else because its out of gas. If a spacecraft tried to carry much more fuel aboard, it might be too heav y to get off the ground in the first place! But thanks to its polite, ion engines. be able to do it Dawn will all. It will go into orbit around one asteroid for a while, and have enough fuel left to leave orbit and later go into orbit around another asteroid. On the Deep Space Mission, we learned that the ion engine worked. This missions whole purpose 12 new was to space-tetechnologies, including the ion engine. The ion engine is not like previous spacecraft engines. Usually, a spacecraft is boosted on its journey by a big rocket, which separates fuel-sippi- 1 st The Dawn mission will follow the path shown in this illustration. Dawn will leave Earth and go around (orbit) the Sun about three times before catching up to asteroid Vesta. It will orbit and study Vesta for 7 months, leave orbit and continue around the Sun to catch up with Ceres, where it will go into orbit again and study that asteroid. and falls away once its job is done. The spacecraft then coasts the rest of the way. It fires its engines for a short time only to correct its course. Also, its engine is used when it reaches its destination (say, a planet or moon), to slow dow n enough to be captured into orbit by the objects gravity. The ion engine is different. It keeps thrusting very gently for the whole journey. Because the engine pushes constantly, the spacecraft goes faster and faster. was a mis Deep Space 1 sion of the New' Millennium Program. The job of this NASA program is to test technologies new' never before tried in space. Visit spaceplace.nasa.govenkids nmpstarr to read the story of Professor Starrs Dream You will find out Trip. more about Deep Space 1, the Daw n mission, and how a scientists dream came true. This article was written by Dtunt K. Fisher and provided by the Jet ton California iMhoratory, Propul Institute of '! ethnology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. students, kids team up together for 'Neighborhood Jungle Pie' U hand. They really tested our creating a major producWirth hopes to inpatience,1 said Aguayo, but tion. his students next year volve all grown so much ' . tori. from " this experience. We all love the kids dearHowever, the students were able to work with the chilly and want to ketp working dren to restore order. Its with them. We dont want to drafted by Chase Clyde, not very easy but we discovhead of the sections drama ered that feeding them is committee. very important in the The Peer Advisor for the process, said Bauman. It LEAP section was West was recognized that some of the children may sometimes &3 id Valley City resident Natasha Qhoz. beIt miss meals in their regular turned out Aguayo. Yes, these two beautiful boys It was lives. yond wonderful. are looking for a home. They are Baumans fine aits section very, very fun for us and so probably siblings or certainly worth it in the end, she said. wasn't the only group workcompanions - they Not only was she responsiing with the children. remind us of the cats in Lady and ble for the children at times, Students from the two other the Tramp as they are always but the students in the LEAP LEAP sections she teaches entwined They are grey and It was a section as well. volunteered as well and two white domestic short hairs. juggling act at times to lead students from the UniverPoor Chaz and David just want the children and the LEAP sitys Communication Desomeone to love! They are perstudents, but our students partment made a documenmanently cuddled up together really stepped up to the tary about the production. The shelter can be an overProfessor Craig Wirth inplate, she said, They dont for some even seem like freshmen in structed the students who whelming experience animals and they clearly give see them as my made the documentary. We college. each other great security. They w'ere just looking for a good peers. are affectionate who We buy and sell the best I EAP The students project. This has all of the need to be curledboys on really things kids outgrow. the end up Call for an appointment to sell or come in to worked with about 20 to 23 elements of a good project. of shop. someone's bed or sitting on children throughout the semIts kids, its visual, and its the back of a chair watching the ester. Thirteen of these chilvery meaningful, said Wirth. world go by. Once you meet dren were in the play and at This is the first project of them, you too will want to take times they could get out of this type on which his stuthem home. 2632 West 3500 South, West Valley 969-771- 1 dents had worked. In addiThey are g.eat company for tion to being a professor, each other and will entertain you Wirth is an Emmy g as well. When you get home, broadcast journalist these little kitties will purr and with an extensive backsometimes come up and walk cirI cles around your legs ground in the field. worked in New York and Los Wouldnt Chaz and David be Angeles and here and won a so nice to come home to and couple Emmys along the love? Why don't you go meet way, but this is what I really them and see if you could find a PEEL FUNERAL HOME like doing, he said. ' little room in your life for these Dignified Personal Saw e lyst'V creWinhs students who pets of the week. They are at ated the documentary are West Valley Animal Services, and 4063 South 7200 West, just off Holman Maigen the 201 freeway (2100 South) at Amanda Pettingill. Accord8525 West 2700 South the end of 7200 West by the raildocuto the ing Pettingill, road tracks (4100 S ). Magna, Utah 84044 will be the at mentary For more information, call Phone 250-262- 4 Marriot University Library West 250-406Valley Animal Services at it before 3 Fax makes its way to The identification libraries across the Salt Lake www.peelfuneralhome.coin for number Chaz and David is Valley. The documentary 1878. was shown to attendants of F. Dee Peel D. S. the play on April 25. Founder There are plans to do this project again next year, said Bauman. But it wont be the Rick Zern Cari Horrocks same play. Well create a whole new everything, Providing Pre-Nee- d she said. The main point is for all of the students to learn all of the aspects of man. 1 he theme of LEAP is community and my fine, The Fine Arts-- section of: .am. students had to work as a the LEAP Department at the community' to make all of University of Utah, taught this happen and we wanted the children to learn about by Professor Jennifer Bauman, produced a play that winking together as a comeconomically disadvantaged munity. children starred in and perThe play, Neighborhood formed for their parents on Jungle Pie, is about a group of penguins that decide to April 25. The children came from make a mud pie. However, Neighborhood House, a day they don't have all of the care for underprivileged ingredients and must rely on their fellow animal counteryouth. LEAP is a department at the University of parts to help make the meal. Utah that serves as a freshOther animals that join this man introduction program culinary community include with small class sizes. One parrots, frogs, hippos, and of the main focuses of LEAP monkeys. A LEAP student is service in the community. starred along with a group of n about a Its play shaung Neighborhood House and community, said Bau in each animal society by JAIME WINSTON Staff Writer , ; featured in the play. The LEAP students .had been working with. the children since February. 'The play was created by the whole fine arts section, while the final script w'as we--v- So if we get things together, we will be coming back to continue working with the kids and teaching them about arts, said Aguayo. say goodbye. Theyve become our long-ter- chil-die- Cash for Kids Stuff (i 1 KiDtoKiD MagnarTimesr USPS 32S-58- 0 Second class postage paid at Magna, Utah 84044 8980 West 2700 South Magna, Utah 84044 J. HOWARD STAHLE Publisher award-winnin- Sim-- 965-580- Brint Peel Lisa Arrangements Peel 'school?) GQDcEfl 25015656! 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