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Show Jq 1 iKljf WSU gains new car care program Py CATHY lAyjTTuCX Progams like Car Care help Wdxr State sent students letter, aid also help us attract the lest Mil 7mu4 grew p in Wdh. ington, I) C. Hut recently left the "concrete city" 10 move and reoe si coordinator of national pdoi rrojevt houred St Weber State unnmity, 7mud. who will coordinate WSUs -- Car Care for Clean rt students," Rick DeMoss, Air" program, hai a master'! decree environmental tetenee and spent the last 12 years working with the tavironmen Ul Protection Agency, -She comet to ut with great experience and great creden hats." said Kick DcMoti, head head ot Weber State's ifl of Weber State's automotive technology program. In the summer of 1996, the federal government awarded the JI50.0O0 car care pant to Weber State, because of resource already In place in Weber's automotive technology department. -Our corporate partnerships enable us to educate automotive technicians using the most recent equipment and technology," DcMoss said. According to Zmud, the car care program has two significant goals: to educate the public about maintaining their vehicles to reduce emissions, and to inform them of the Job opportunities available to d technicians. Zmud also is involved with a -campaign ailed W'idcning the which Career Net," is geared toward enhancing the image of the automotive technician and generating interest in the profession as a lucrative and imcareer option. pressive -We're also working with esd tablished advisory councils in the state to hold car fairs periodically, to make available free maintenance and to car owners also," Zmud said. -Rather than imposing more governmental regulations on vehicles to reduce harmful emissions, we're working on voluntas approaches that people an well-traine- after-marke- ad-vi- ce implement on their own," Zmud said. Zmud recommended a few automotive technology programs simr step that any car owner could comiJer. She suggests avoiding unnecessary driving by carpooling; consolidating trips or using public transportation; maintaining cars property according to guidelines set forth in the owners manual; cheeking and replacing oil and air fillers, hoses and belts as needed; keeping tires inflated properl)'; having periodic tuncups done on your car by skilled technicians; avoiding unnecessary idling and o driving; and turning olT the air conditioning if its not needed. She also recommends that stop-and-g- FIRSTHAND Richard Petty Driving Experience. drivers do not tamper with emission controls. -If we can simply reduce the number of tailpipes on the road, it's a positive step toward reducing emissions," Zmud said. DcMoss hopes the Car Care program will do more than help drivers. -Programs like Car Care help Weber State serve students better, and also help us ai tract Its a By DICK WALTER StandareCxamner corespondent AYTON - Circling a track 150 mph in a NASCAR stock car is not for the DeMoss said. We'd really like to see all of our multiple partnerships at faint-hearte- d. working well together as a result of this pilot program. We work with educators, government officials and industry representatives. Sometimes these cultures collide with one another, but we also gain a great deal from each of them." DeMoss said the success of Utah's Car Care program also may serve as a pattern for other states to educate their car owners as well. But, if it's something you've always wanted to do, maybe the Richard Petty Driving Experience is what you're looking for. Ken Siddall of Layton took the challenge and signed up for the course. Siddall took the course at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, and came away with a new appreciation for what the drivers of these powerful stock cars go through. I Standard-Examin- Davis Bureau - read about the driving course in an automotive magazine," he said, "and since I have been interested in cars and racing all my life, I wrote to them and asked what it took to get in. A few months later, Siddall found himself sitting in the cockpit of a blue Monte Carlo, that only three or four years ago had been a contender in the Winston Cup Series. These are real racing cars, but have been retired from the track, Siddall said. Like most everything else in todays world, they were passed by with new technology, and instead of salvaging them, race car driver Richard Petty buys them and Clearfield denies By BRYON SAXTON little Layton man steps up to the challenge of racing retired stock cars the best students, rezone smaller-lot- s EXPERIENCE: Ken &ddafl, of Layton, son opposed the rezone, saying Clearfield needs larger lots with larger homes built on them. CLEARFIELD The City Council by a vote denied Each time we make the lots a local developer a rezoning resmaller, the houses get quest for smaller home lots, smaller," he said. saying it will attract smaller homes. Eliason said the city continpeveloper Gary Kruitbosch ues to talk of having developers asked the City Council on Tuesbuild larger homes, yet they day to rezone property at 275 keep downgrading property North, between 400 and 500 with such rezone requests. West, from 8,000 square-foo- t Councilmen Curt Oda and lots to 6,000 square-folots because the dimensions of the Garr Roundy sided with Eliason, while Councilman Gene property alls for them. Fessler and Councilwoman The property is contiguous Diane Layton felt the subdivito Bush Estates, a previous subsion, which would have includdivision Kruitbosch has develed with the rezone two addioped in the area. Kruitbosch said the smallest tional lots, should be approved. lot in this phase would be about Kruitbosch said larger homes while most with three-ca- r 6,500 square-fee- t, garages arent gowould be larger than 7,000 to sell in that area, beause ing square-fee- t. it is adjacent to zones with This phase would have put smaller lots. 14 lots on 4 acres of land, a deI feel like the city ought to sign plan that had received the recommended approval of the be coming to me and asking me to do something with the propPlanning Commission. But Councilman Martin Elia- - erty, he said. -2 HMO COiAWy 9 WI MAMlL climbs into a stock cor at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where he took a race car doss cared the more than circling the track uses them for his schools. speed. "You are not allowed to The school is only one day pass the instructor," he said, "but long and is conducted in three he gives you plenty of room to sessions of 10 laps each around really find out what your own limit is. My top speed was 150.6 the track. mph." "They give you about 45 minutes to an hour of actual classSafety is the primary concern room time, and then it's out to of all the instructors. If you speed the cars," Siddall said. "The in the pits, or do something out school furnishes helmets, jump on the track that is unsafe, they suits and the cars. You lumish will ask you to leave the school. the nerve." It is a very serious business The first 10 bps are fairly slow to these people," Siddall said. paced. Siddall said. "You only "They are all professional drivers get up to around 110 or 120 and crew members who are still in the racing business. They are mph." There is a group of only three concerned for everyones safety and protection of the car. cars on the track, with an instrucThe cars cost from $80,000 to tor in the lead. He takes the students around to "introduce $100,000 each and are not easily them to the track. This gives the replaced. They are powered students a feei for the track and down slightly from 750 horsewhere to line up for the curves. power to around 650 horsepower, After the first 10 laps they come The reason is not to keep the stu into the pits to gas up the ars dent drivers from going too fast but to help the engines last Ion and give the students instructions. ger. There are spotters and people Although they are called stock all the way around the track," cars, they are anything but. The Siddall said. "They are in radio frames are made of tubular steel contact with the instructor. They and the roll age around the drivwill tell him if they see you doing er is part of the frame. The e bodies are made of alusomething wrong, so he can go over the technique with you. minum alloy and are built to reDuring the second 10 laps, the semble an ordinary car. instructor speeds up to around The seat is molded to almost 140 mph and lets the students get surround you, and you are buckthe feel of the speed. led in with a safety harThis is the speed when the ness," Siddall said. A driver is cars are really warmed up and pretty safe even in a 150 mph crash. running good, Siddall said. I would do this again in a The last 10 laps is when the student can go for his record heartbeat, Siddall said. I love one-piec- ANTELOPE ISLAND -Physically and mentally challenged children will have a close-u- p view of Antelope Island State Parks bison herd on Wednesday, Oct. 22, as the park hosts its fourth Annual Childrens Bison Roundup. Two hundred children from the Davis, Ogden and Weber school districts have been invited to the event, which runs from 10 a.m. to noon. This event is an opportunity for children to visit the island and observe these huge animals in a fairly wild setting, said Antelope Island State Park Manager Tim Smith. The excitement of the children is rivaled only by ours in hosting them. Children will observe as 30 bi- son are worked through the (3 C2 Hyi? parks handling facility, where they will be weighed, blood-teste- d and inoculated. The children also will enjoy horse drawn wagon rides and guided tours with park rangers. The islands annual bison roundup will be held Oct. 25 to Nov. 3. : ioo , Autfum; Great ideas are everywhere. Fortunately, so are Kinko's. DARGAmSti. Apple Juice ; Natural Style 64 Oz. $1.99 Valuei o$ioo S1NC&1953 CARBOIU MONOXIDE: Is Your Home Safe? JTT7 friiL)iU,yvjrfri Whit it Ctrbon Monotide? h is a colorless, odorless, tngbly poisonous gesi formed by the incomplete combustion ot carbon or any carbonaceous material. including gasoline. 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