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Show Hilltop Weekly Since 1948 111 .1mii. Persons with Disabilities Lunch The Persons with Disabilities committee will be hosting its annual awards luncheon Thursday, Oct. 20 at 11:30 a.m. at Club Hill. The luncheon will feature speaker Ken Reid, an independent consultant working with independent living centers, vocational rehabilitation and the Veterans Administration and a championship wheelchair bowler. The focus of the luncheon will be "Ability is What Matters." Lunch will be served and is $11 for Club Hill members, $13 for non members. For more information, please contact the Family Support 360 Project at 801-586-4735, the EFMP-FS at 801-586-2611, the School Liaison Office at 801-775-5960 or the Disability Committee, Alan Niederhauser at 801-777-0118. "We are developing new ways of doing business as we build the Air Force of the future." SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE MICHAEL DONLEY Air Force building the future force BY MITCH GETTLE tional priority to reduce spending. This effort focused on reprioriIn the spring of 2010 the Detizing how DoD can use resources fense Department began a cornto more effectively support and ASHINGTON — Chang- prehensive effort to increase sustain the total force and most importantly the war-fighter. es are coming to the Air efficiencies, reduce overhead Force and officials are costs and eliminate redundant According to the Secretary of working with the Department of functions in order to improve the the Air Force, Michael Donley, the Defense to prioritize current and effectiveness of the DoD enterSee FUTURE I page 3 future resources as part of a na- prise. Air Force Public Affairs Agency W A steady hand at learning fire prevention Hill Air Force Base Firefighter Keith Pluta has the back of Hill Field Elementary School student Sophie Morris as she puts water on a staged structural fire. Firefighter Aaron Butler stands by in a fire protection suit at the demonstration Oct. 14 at Hill Air Force Base. Sophie was one of four winners of an essay contest at her school and was selected to spend time with the firefighters to learn more about what their day is like. Drug Take-Back on Oct. 29 at Hill AFB The 75th Medical Support Squadron has organized a Drug Take-Back for Oct. 29, at the Commissary and entrance to the BX from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The last one held in April was a huge success gathering 82 pounds of drugs. This allows for the safe disposal of unused prescription drugs. For anyone who can't take advantage of those disposal times and date, please contact the Department of Environmental Quality Hotline at 1-800-458-0145 to find permanent disposal bins or visit www.useonlyasdirected. org to safely dispose of unwanted medications. Southgate Avenue lanes reduced A steam vault installation project will affect Southgate Avenue near Building 237. This will also affect the parking area south of America First Credit Union. The project installs new concrete vaults and new steam and condensate piping. Oct. 14 through Oct. 22, Southgate Avenue will be reduced to two lanes. Excavation will begin on the east side lanes and then switch over to the west side. As soon as roadwork is completed excavation will resume to the west which will affect the parking area south of America First Credit Union. For more information, please contact Randy Johns, at 801-777-7196 or 801-4305775. Hill Aerospace Museum 'Plane Talk' Featured speaker at the Hill Aerospace Museum "Plane Talk" this Saturday, Oct. 22, will be Lt. Col. (Ret.) Howard S. Butcher. He flew B-52 Stratofortresses and F-4 Phantom Ils in Vietnam, including 66 combat missions there. Every year, Hill Aerospace Museum provides the cornmunity with an hour of aviation history. Seating is located in the museum's theater (total occupancy is 60) across from the reception desk. There is a lot of history in the museum — not only in the planes, but in the people who serve as volunteers there as well. Wherever volunteers have come from there's always lots to learn from them. Wheelin' Wildcats to play Oct. 27 The Persons with Disabilities committee has put together the Team Hill wheelchair basketball team once again for it's annual wheelchair game against Ogden's Wheelin' Wildcats. The match will be Oct. 27 and starts at 3:30 p.m. at the Warrior Fitness Center. The event raises awareness to employees with disabilities at Hill. 11 1111111.1 111 www.hilltoptimes.com hilltoptimes@standard.net Vol. 71 No. 42, Oct. 20, 2011 Hill AFB, Utah 84056-5824 ALEX R. LLOYD U.S. Air Force Ladder Truck No. 1 picks up four Hill Field Elementary students for a day at the fire station ers for the day. Sophie Morris, 11, Andreea Wallace, 10, Chloe Rudd, 11, and Stephen Hul- BY RYAN LARSEN Hilltop Times correspondent F students from Hill Field Elementary got the ride of a lifetime this past Friday morning. Instead of going to school with all the other kids, these lucky four were picked up from their homes by a firetruck and taken to the Hill AFB Fire Station to be firefightour lender, 11, were winners of an essay writing contest for which the topic was "Protect Your Family from Fire." The children arrived in Ladder Truck No. 1 at the station at just around eight in the morning. GS8 Fire Inspector Chris Wilkins escorted the kids around the sta- tion before they returned to the vehicle for some ladder truck training. Each of the children, with the assistance of firefighters Dustin Maruquin and Chris Gerdes, placed wheel chocks behind the wheels and helped extend the truck stabilizers. They then raised and lowered the ladder from atop the rear of See DAY I page 6 Do you know this about energy use? CFC gets Workplace changes can conserve resources melodic start BY MASTER SGT. CLINT HOLM 388th Fighter Wing A merican industry uses 32 percent of the national electricity production, with commercial buildings using an additional 18 percent. Here at Hill Air Force Base, the utility bill is around $22 million dollars a year. Not all of that energy goes to the mission; some is due to waste. The good news is that the Department of Defense is committed to energy conservation. All new buildings and retrofits must be able meet United States Green Building Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEEDTM) Silver rating. A LEEDTM Silver rated building averages 50 percent less energy use than a typically constructed building. Unfortunately, as "green"as these new buildings will be, much of their savings may be lost by poor building operation. It is still important to turn off lights BY MARY Lou CORNY T Hilltop Times editor 66 hanks to a lot of hard work by volunteers, our 50th anniversary Combined Federal Campaign Kickoff event on Oct. 12 was a huge success," said Peggy Facer, 2011 See ENERGY I page 7 See CFC I page 8 Look inside this week's Hilltop Times for " " " Wind power 4-H Clubs meet at base for competition See page 13 Long distance birthdays Hot Hula See page 10 See page 9 Get a chance 11-year-old and deployed to try this at the Zumba-thon dad get surprise |