The White Falcon - 22.10.2003, Síða 2

Tips to keep your Halloween festivities safe this year
It’s time to celebrate another spook-tac-
ular Halloween! On Fri., Oct. 31, the
ghosts and goblins on NAS Keflavik won’t
have to wait for the rise of the Great
Pumpkin as they enjoy a night filled with
trick-or-treating and fun. To ensure that
everyone has a fun, but safe Halloween,
the NASKEF Safety Office and Naval
Safety Center in Norfolk, Va. have issued a
few safety tips:
•Past experience has shown that foot
traffic up and down stairwells can cause
falling hazards for children. A suggestion
to the occupants of the housing units is that
the candy be given out in the recreation
rooms of each building. This would mini-
mize the traffic on the stairs.
•Check the weather and wind conditions
before leaving your home.
•Watch for black ice, especially in park-
ing lots, to avoid falling hazards.
•Put reflective tape or reflectors on cos-
tumes and use light-colored trick-or-treat
bags with reflective tape. Wear reflectors
on your right-hand side, about knee height.
•Costumes should be flame resistant and
made of easily visible colors. Make them
loose enough to cover warm clothes and
short enough to prevent tripping and
falling. Shoes should be well fitting and
sturdy.
• If your child wears a mask, make sure
it fits securely, provides adequate ventila-
tion, and has eye holes large enough to
allow full vision.
•A parent or responsible person should
accompany children, especially younger
ones. »Never travel alone.
•Use flashlights so children can see and
be seen.
•Avoid crossing open fields to prevent
tripping hazards and walk on the side-
walks. If no sidewalk is available, walk
facing the direction of oncoming traffic.
•Drivers need to watch out for children
---------------------- Tips, pg. 6
LYII BYTES 1& “Service Before Self’
By Chaplain Bill Constantine
I want to share with you
some of my thoughts on one of
the United States Air Force’s
Core Values: Service Before
Self. Over the years I have
heard commanders say people
are the most important asset in
the military. Since, most of us
believe this to be true, let us
ask ourselves, how do we treat
our people? People are the ser-
vice. So, when we say service
above self, are we not saying,
“others before ourselves.” We
often say, “If we care for our
people, they will take care of
the mission.” Do we really
believe this?
Jesus in Matthew 7:12 is
speaking to the crowds and
said, “So in everything, do to
others what you would have
them do to you, for this sums
up the Law and the Prophets.”
Note that this is a call to do
something positive. He does
not say, “Don’t do bad things to
another person.” He said,
“DO.” Thus the question is,
what would I like others to do
for me? How would I like to be
treated by others? The goal
then is to do that for others and
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treat others the way I would
like to be treated.
Some years ago I read a
story by James Dobson about
the natives of a south pacific
island. On this island if a man
wanted to marry a woman he
had to present her father with a
gift. The typical gift was a cow.
In a village there was a man
who had two daughters. One of
them was not very attractive
and the father thought she
would never marry. It so hap-
pened that one man wanted to
marry this daughter. Knowing
she was not very attractive and
knowing the father’s opinion of
his daughter this man brought
an unusual gift. He brought ten
cows to give to her father. Of
course everyone was surprised
including his future bride. The
couple was married and went
on a honeymoon of over a year.
When they returned back on
the island the people who first
saw them arrive asked who the
woman was. She had changed
so much in this time they did
not recognize her. Someone
asked the husband what caused
the change. He said he treated
her like a ten-cow woman and
that is what she became.
When you look at those who
work for you or those you work
for and with, what do you see?
Zig Ziggler said in his book,
See You At the Top, “It’s a uni-
versal truth that you treat peo-
ple exactly like you see them.
It’s also true that all you have
to do to find ’good’ or ’ability’
in a person is to look for it.
Once you find that ’good’ or
’ability’ in the other person you
treat him better and that person
performs better. So, it’s good
'business’ and good ’human-
ness’ to be a 'good finder.’”
Do you see ten-cow people
or one-cow people? How do
we look at and treat others? I
do not want us to use judg-
ments of a person’s worth to
determine how we treat them.
We need to treat everyone as a
ten-cow person.
So in the military when we
talk about Service before self, I
hope we are thinking about
others. Whether you are the
commander or the newest E-l
that means those around you.
What does service before self
mean to you?
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