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The White Falcon
July 3, 1980
Park is in planning stages
The tuouosed NATO Base Park is in
the initial planning stages. This
is a very big community project
which will be an exciting addition
to both our social and work lives.
The Park Planning Committee is
still forming; there is room for and
a need for more people who are in-
terested in planning the park. If
you are looking forward to seeing
this project get underway, please
consider joining our planning ses-
sions, 7:30 at the Community Center,
Monday evenings.
Our park will be located behind
the Mini-Mart within the "C" shaped,
earthen-ringed area. A number of
barracks overlood the proposed park
site; providing many residents with
the opportunity to watch progress
and enjoy the completed park from
their "view" rooms.
We will soon progress to the
working stages of this project,
which will provide lots of outdoor
activity for anyone who wants it.
We hope to create many interesting
areas by the careful placement of
rocks and soil, how banks of rock
will be used to retain soil on vary-
ing levels.
Placement of the smaller rocks
will be done by hand. Plan to help
by placing a rock (two or three,
etc.) in the park.
This is an all volunteer project
open to anyone and everyone. It’s
here for our enjoyment. Get invol-
ved and enjoy yourself. Call 7261
for more information.
School opening
days are announced
The coming school year will have
different starting times for the A.
T. Mahan Elementary and High
Schools.
Students attending the high
school will begin their first day of
class Monday August 25. Elementary
students will start a week later
Tuesday, September 2, because the
elementary staff will be participat-
ing in a week long workshop.
New families should continue to
register their children in both the
elementary and high schools. The
school offices will be open through-
out the summer.
Tour is offered
This tour will take you through
Reykjavik to Thingvellir, the an-
cient site of the Icelandic Althing,
which is the oldest legislative bod-
y in the world still in existence.
The tour then continues eastward
to Geysir. Geysir is the most fa-
mous of all spouting hot springs in
the world, giving its name to all
others. It was inactive until 1974
when it gave a few good perform-
ances. Although Geysir is unrelia-
ble, other nearby hot springs spout
regularly.
From Geysir the tour goes to
Gullfoss (The Golden Waterfall)
which falls in cascades into a deep
canyon in the Hvita (White River).
Gullfoss is considered to be one of
the most beautiful waterfalls in
Europe.
The tour returns to Keflavik at 7
p.m. Saturday evening. The tour is
Saturday, July 12 and will depart
9 a.m. in front of Viking Mall.
For more information call the
Tour Office at 4420/4200.
NEX facilities
closed July 4
The following Navy Exchange faci-
lities will be closed tomorrow, July
4: Barber Shop, Beauty Shop, the
Exchange Offices (Building 890).
All other Exchange facilities will
follow established operating hours.
Don't miss the "Not so Grand 0-
pening" sale in the temporary Toy-
land, located in Building 631 next
to the Package Store today or the
July 4 sale in the Main Retail
Store.
COMMANDER ICELAND DEFENSE FORCE
Rear Adm. Richard A. Martini
PUBLIC AFFAIRS OFFICER
Lt. Cmdr. Perry C. Bishop
EDITORIAL STAFF
J01 David Crowe Jr.
J03 David Guise
SN Karen Dean
In cooperation with the U. S.
Naval Station Print Shop, the
White Falcon publishes weekly
with appropriated funds per NAV-
EXOS P-35 for Iceland Defense
Force (IDF) military and U.S.
civilian personnel, and their de-
pendents.
Opinions expressed are those
of the writer and not necessarily
official expressions of IDF, the
Department of Defense or the
U.S. Government.
The White Falcon offices are
located in Bldg. 734C; telephone
4612/5192. Editorial deadline is
noon Tuesdav.
[Base Chapel offers
Vacation Bible School
The Base Chapel is offering a
Vacation Bible School (VBS) course
for July 14-18 and 21-25. The 10
day course is for your 3-13 year
old children.
To register for the course,
call Doreen Wilcox at 4015; Judie
Benedum at 4451; or the Chapel at
4111/4211.
ONCE AGAIN—AC2 Janice E. Kusher reenlisted for four more years in the Na-
vy at recent ceremonies under the Guard III program for guaranteed orders
to Memphis for school and for further assignment to Naval Air Station Pat-
uxent River, Maryland. ACC Bready administered the oath of enlistment and
Cmdr. J. Lund, the Air Operations Officer, witnessed the ceremony. (Photo
by Naval Station Photo Lab)