The White Falcon - 04.10.1985, Qupperneq 11

Looks isn't everything when it comes to food
By J02 Ed Baker
When shopping for food at the
commissary a choice can be made
between brand names, products
from lesser-known companies and
the plain-labeled GI products.
Commissary officials remind
patrons that lesser-known brand
names do not mean lower'quality.
"All products sold in commis-
saries are of wholesomequality,"
said SHCS M.D. Madigan, OIC at
the base commissary.
Senior Chief Madiganexplained
that for a product such as green
beans, a brand name company might
cut each bean to the same length
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green
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from the same part ot the bean
and then package the product.
In a second line of green
beans for the same company, the
beans might be the same, but the
length of the cut is not con-
trolled as consistently as the
name-brand can. That product,
he said, would probably be pack-
aged under a different brand
name.
For lesser-known companies and
government issue, there maybe no
consistency at all when it comes
to the bean that goes into the
can. SHCS Madigan said, however,
that the same nutritional value
is there, only the price has
changed and the looks of the
contents may not be as appealing
to the eye.
SPORTS .......—....
Contunied from last week...
Editor's note: This story is continued from last-
week's White Falcon, entitled, "NATO Base leads
N.E. in Begional Conference Titles."
...Cristwell contended that in addition to the
players and coaches, there are also a lot of be-
hind-the-scene support from personnel who devote
numerous amounts of time and effort toward the
upkeep and maintenance of the athletic program.
"I also don't want to forget our support per-
sonnel who spend long hours arranging schedules;
coordinating events; preparing courts and playing
fields and taking care of the massive amount of
paperwork," explained Cristwell. "Many of them
have no previous experience in this sort of ac-
tivity, yet they do an outstanding job of getting
the work accomplished."
Despite the impressive wins by the NATO
Base, Cristwell stated that a couple of titles
have managed to elude them -- the women's basket-
ball title and both the men's and women's golf
titles.
"Those two titles have escaped us the past few
seasons," offered Cristwell, "but we are improv-
ing in those areas and right now, I feel we will
have a chance to capture those two in the coming
seasons."
Cristwell also stated that plans have been
formulated to include the NATO Base in regional-
level soccer competition beginning with the 1986
season.
"Soccer is a popular sport in this part of the
world," injected Cristwell, "and we're trying to
generate enough interest to form a team here at
Keflavik. If we can get enough youngsters inter-
ested, we'll be sending them to the regionals."
With the NATO Base serving as a joint-service
installation, all of the intramural and regional
sports activities are open to members of all of
the military branches on station.
"One of my first priorities for next season
will be to include more women in our sports pro-
grams," says Cristwell. "Although we've had good
participation by some of the women on the NATO
Base, I would still like to see more women in-
cluded in the activities open to them."
As another step toward enhancing the NATO
Base's sports program, Cristwell recently attend-
ed the Northern European Sports Program Workshop,
in England. The purpose of the workshop was to
discuss varsity and regional-level sports compet-
ition for the upcoming year.
"We exchanged ideas to improve and expand our
sports programs," said Cristwell. "There were
representatives from all over Northern Europe and
we all talked about programs which needed more
support and which ones were drawing the most par-
ticipation. We also looked over what programs we
might add to our present program.
"We're always looking for ideas to improve our
sports program," he ended. While winning titles
is not the primary goal of sports -- promoting
good health and fitness is -- it certainly does
not hurt to have a winning program at the same
time..."
The White Falcon October 4, 1985
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