The White Falcon - 26.03.1993, Blaðsíða 5

FYls (For Your Information)
A cricket dart tournament will be tomor-
Iw night at the USO at 5 p.m. First, second
p third place winners will be awarded. Call
t. 6113 for more information.
The Base Beautification organization will
hold their next meeting Tuesday at 1:30 p.m.
in the AFI Conference Room. Contact LT
Rayburg at ext. 2459 for more information.
The Keflavfk Officer’s Wives Club social
function is rescheduled for Wednesday at the
Three Rags Club starting at 7 p.m. Recon-
firm your reservation by calling Carol at ext.
7858.
The USO celebrity/sports auction will be
April 3, at the USO. Celebrity autographed
pictures, albums, clothing items and more
will be available. Call ext. 6113 for more
information.
A flea market will be held April 3, at the
Community Center from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Reserve a table by calling ext. 6113.
The American Red Cross will hold a Basic
Life Support course April 3. Interested per-
sonnel must have a current Community or
Adult and Infant/Child CPR certificate. For
more information, call ext. 6210.
Have breakfast with the Easter Bunny
April 4, at the USO at 9 a.m. Tickets are $5,
and children must be age ten or younger to
attend. Call ext. 6113 for more details.
The KCPO AA will hold a bake sale on April
3 from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the NEX furniture
store. For more information, call ext. 4603.
Lyte Bytes: Blue smoke and mirrors
By Chaplain Dennis Young
Recent cultic developments in Waco,
Texas, have prompted me to tackle the sub-
ject of power in leadership.
If everyone understood power for what it
really is, we wouldn’t have so many phonies
running things in our private lives and getting
away with it.
Power touches you at every turn in your
Iife — whether it’s your kids, your spouse,
b government, religion or an annoying
^ghbor — you are affected by the power
they either have or don’t have over you.
Power is an illusion. If you think you have
power, then you have power. If you don’t
think you have power, you don’t have power.
Thomas Hobbes in 1600 England said it best:
“The reputation of power is power.”
Fonzie, of television’s “Happy Days” fame,
showed the meaning of that statement every
week as he ran the gang with his dumb, but
intimidating bluffing.
Jimmy Breslin in his book “How the Good
Guys Finally Won,” gives a thoughtful pic-
ture of power. It is like “Mirrors and blue
smoke.... The mirrors catch it all and then
bounce it back and forth. If somebody tells
you how to look, the smoke can provide some
great magnificent shapes—castles and king-
doms — and maybe they can be yours!
“All this becomes particularly dynamic
when the person telling you where to look
knows how to adjust the mirrors, tilt one
forward, walk to the other side and turn
another on its base a few degrees to the right,
suddenly causing the refractions to be differ-
ent everywhere. And then going to the blue
smoke, lessening it, intensifying it, and all
the time, keeping those watching transfixed,
hoping, believing, but at the same time know-
ing that what you see is but a matter of mirrors
and blue smoke.
“This is the game called politics and power
as it is played in the Legion Halls and Elks
Clubs and church basements and clubhouses
throughout the country and the world, while
men try to please and calm others in order to
maintain and improve a public career. They
are the best in the world at taking an illusion
and telling you and themselves that it really is
power.
“Smoke and mirrors in the hands of leaders
with vision, intelligence and a genuine love
for those they serve and the standards they
profess, serve an important purpose and keep
the world moving. But, oh, when those
mirrors and smoke fall into the hands of self-
serving, lying cheats!”
If you’re honest with yourself, you recog-
nize all of us love power. We all secretly
yearn for it, but remember power is an illu-
sion. Look through the veil to the person
handling the “smoke and mirrors.” Be im-
pressed by what he is — not by what he
pretends to be.
Don’t let deceivers run your life! Cultivate
standards of honesty and integrity. Play the
game of smoke and mirrors — only if you
dare.

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According to LTJG Robert D. Schroeder,
Environmental Officer, Naval Air Station,
Keflavfk, “In past practices, lead has been a
major component of plumbing. Things such
as soldering at joints and copper tubing were
used up to five years ago.
“In 1990, Public Works tested water foun-
tains for lead. Only six have been in ques-
tion, and they have been secured and will be
replaced.
Recently the Environmental Protection
;ency (EPA) came out with a requirement
testing the water system for lead. In
celand, we do not know of any water lines
with lead in them so we do not expect any
positive results,” Schroeder stated.
Starting last July, the EPA made it manda-
tory that the water systems be tested every six
months.
“I do not anticipate a problem because our
water cooler testing would tell us if the lead
was coming from the water system or the
distribution system,” he continued.
If you know that you child has been ex-
posed to lead contact LCDR Pat Quimby at
ext. 3362 or CDR Dorothie Smith at ext.
6585. If you have questions concerning
water systems and their testing procedures,
call LTJG Schroeder at ext. 6404.
Public Works suggests ways to minimize
lead contamination
1. Use only cold water to cook with.
2. Don’t drink water that has been
sitting in the pipes for more than six
hours. (When you first get up in the
morning, flush the water. Fill a con-
tainer or two with water from the faucet
and use that water throughout the day.)
3. Parents who work in lead con-
taminated areas should not wear cloth-
ing home that they have been working
in all day.
4. Make sure to wash you hands well
after working in a lead environment.
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