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FYls (For Your Information)
single parent support group is being
lormed. The first meeting will be Monday at
T>:30p.m. attheFSC. Call Ann Rogers at ext.
4401 for more information.
The Christian Women’s Fellowship will
hold its monthly meeting at 10 a.m. Monday
at the Chapel of Light. Child care will be
provided. Call Barb at ext. 2454 for more
information.
The High School Advisory Committee
(SAC) will hold a meeting Tuesday at 4 p.m.
in the school library. Come out and meet with
your parent, student and teacher representa-
tives in an open forum. For more information
contact LT Conoscenti at ext. 4580 or Anne
Allen at ext. 7400.
Bubbles the clown will appear at the library
for storytime Wednesday at 1 p.m.
NAS Legal has new office hours due to a
change in training times. It opens Monday
through Thursday, 8 a.m. to noon and 1:30 to
5 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to noon.
The Chapel of Light Free Chili Supper will
be held Thursday for single, unaccompanied
and Navy Lodge residents at 5:30 to 6 p.m.
“To go” orders are available for duty person-
nel by calling the USO at ext. 6113 from 3 to
5 p.m.
The A.T. Mahan Elementary School will
have a number of new teachers reporting to
Iceland for the upcoming school year. If you
are interested in sponsoring one of them,
please call the elementary school at ext. 7412/
7534.
The PTSO BBQ/Auction, held each year to
raise money for senior scholarships and school
projects, will be held April 30 at the A. T.
Mahan High School multi-purpose room.
The food will be served at 5:30 p.m., fol-
lowed by bidding on celebrity photos, major
sports team and local command items at 7
p.m. “Head Tooth” Koffler will entertain as
the auctioneer. Get something for your money
and at the same time invest in the future of our
youth.
All Eagle Scouts are invited to attend Ben
Lyte Bytes: The trappings
By Chaplain Dennis Young
There is an old Roman story which tells
how one of the emperors was celebrating a
triumph and was leading his victorious troops
through the streets of Rome.
The streets were crowded with people, and
at one point on the route a platform had been
erected from which the empress and the
emperor’s family might see this scene.
The route was lined with great tall Roman
legionaries fully armed. When the proces-
sion was near the platform where the empress
and the children were, the emperor’s little
son jumped down off the platform, burrowed
his way through the crowd and was just about
to run in to the road to intercept his father’s
imperial chariot.
One of the legionaries who was lining the
road, picked him up and held him. “You
can’t run out there,” he said. “Don’t you
know who that is? Who is about to ride by?
That’s the emperor. You can’t run out to
him.” The little lad laughed at the legionary.
“He may be your emperor, but he’s my fa-
ther.”
This kind of event has a two-way effect.
It is the loveliest thing in the world to have
someone who likes you and loves you and
knows you for what you are, and who never
Rayburg’s Eagle Court of Honor May 1 at 8
p.m. at the Chapel of Light. Call ext. 7110
AWH for more information.
The second annual stuffed animal pet show
will be May 8 at 10 a.m. in the library. Bring
your favorite stuffed animal and be sure to
put it on a leash or in a cage. Event is open to
children of all ages. Call ext. 7323 for more
information.
The base lost and found, maintained by the
Naval Air Station, Keflavik’s, Physical Se-
curity Division, has numerous bicycles, shoes,
rings, watches and other items that have yet
to be claimed. Contact Petty Officer Perry at
ext. 2642 for more details.
Postal Tip
Q: What types of tapes used on pack-
ages are acceptable for mailing?
A: Strong filament polyproplyene or
paper tape. Cellophane and masking
tapes are not acceptable.
even thinks of the labels and values the world
puts on you.
But in the second place, there is something
else which is much more alarming. When
you take off the labels, when you take off the
disguises, when you take off the importance
which the world attaches to you, what is
really left? Who is the real person beneath
them all? Try asking yourself this question.
What are we when stripped of everything
except ourselves?
That is the way God sees us. He sees us
stripped of the externals and the labels the
world attaches to us. And that is just exactly
the way we ought to consider what we are
doing with life.
Alcohol awareness
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grows, and he becomes both physically and
psychologically dependent on it.
The phenomenon of tolerance to alcohol
has been recognized but not understood.
Tolerance is a condition in which it takes
increasingly large amounts of alcohol to
produce the same effect previously felt at
lower levels of alcohol intake. Many re-
^archers believe that alcohol tolerance is a
P.ocess of adaptive metabolism by which the
cells of the body continuously develop a
capability to metabolize increased amounts
of alcohol. Still, others suggest that it is
merely a process whereby the central nerv-
ous system adapts to the alcohol that is pres-
ent. Therefore, it is believed much of the
tolerance is due to the learned ability to adjust
to alcohol’s physical effects on space, vision,
and gait.
Observations of the day-by-day behavior
of drunks suggest it is possible to diminish
the outward signs of intoxication even though
blood alcohol levels remain constant. It is
also noted that the reason for the loss of
tolerance in the first stages of alcoholism is
the permanent damage caused due to loss of
cells that control these outward signs of tol-
erance. We should keep in mind the human
brain contains 13 to 60 billion brain cells.
Ten thousand of these cells are completely
destroyed each time a person becomes in-
toxicated.
Alcohol is a number one killer, a drug at
large.
A Family Alcohol Education Program will
be offered at the C AAC office Monday, from
8 a.m. to noon. For more information call ext.
7688.
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