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Johnsburg Mary L. Gunderson 385-3052 Set CROP Walk The fifth annual McHenry ' area CROP Hunger Walk will take place Sunday, May 4, at 1:30 p.m. The 10-mile walk will be on the beautiful trails at Moraine Hills State Park, south of McHenry on River road. This is the "Week of the Family" May 4-11 -- Mother's Day and for 1980 it is "The Year of the Family". It would seem a patriotic way to carry out the theme, to have the members of your family walk together on this day, or act as sponsors for another family - or in­ dividuals. In 1979, there were 125 walkers; hope for this year .is 200! Last year $3,900 was raised! The total of 10,000 people who die each day from starvation and diseases made fatal by malnutrition (most of these victims, children) is a staggering truth. CROP is also aware that each community has needs. Therefore, 25 percent of the hunger walk donations will be returned to the McHenry FISH organization. In 1979 FISH received ap­ proximately $900 from the Spring CROP Walk, used for needy folks of our own community. Call a participating church, such as Mount Hope, McHenry, Spring Grove United Methodist church, or St. John's Catholic church, who will, supply sponsor sheets. Each walker - or family, must secure spon­ sors who will pledge to give to CROP, on the basis of miles walked. For any questions call Lynn Sobczak, 648-2321 or Marge Smith, 385-07%. REGISTRATION ...for kindergarten, 1st grade and new families, will take place at St. John's school, during the week of April 14 through 19. SCHOOL DISTRICT 12 Registration of all children born prior to Dec. 1, 1977, will take place at Johnsburg Middle school, April 16 and 17, by last names: April 16, A through E, 9-11 a.m.; F through J, 1-3 p.m.; April 17, K through R, 9-11 a.m.; S through Z, 1-3 p.m. This applies to all children, even if previously registered. ST. JOHN S SCHOOL The Home and School association meeting, will be held Tuesday, April 22, 8 p.m. at the school. Parish members are invited to attend, even if children are in public school. The nutrition theme will be continued; an informative movie, recipe booklet and nutritious snacks will be featured. There will be an election of officers and a financial report of the year's ac­ tivities. A book Fair for pre-school through 8th grade will be open for adult inspection. For copies of the school cook book, please contact Mrs. J. Chas. (Nancy) Majercik or Mrs. John H. (Rose) Davis. RUMMAGE SALE The annual event, spon­ sored by the Blessed Virgin Sodality of St. John's parish will take place Thursday and Friday, April 24 and 25, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the east side basement entrance of Johnsburg Community club. Clean clothes, all sizes; household linens; dishes; small appliances in good condition; etc., are all needed. These may be brought to the basement door of the club starting Sunday, April 20 through Wednesday, April 23. If you are unable to bring your donations at that time, or would like to volunteer to help, sort, price and clean up (Monday, April 28), please call Mrs. Michael (Eva) Schaefer. PRO-LIFE COMMITTEE For information, or to join St. John's newly formed group, call Mrs. Peter (Dianna) Barroso, Jr., or Mrs. John (Joan) Clark. The committee asks that you say a Rosary every Friday for the success of this important movement. This is something we can do, even if we cannot participate ac­ tively ! CONGRATULATIONS ...to Daniel Vincent Kearns, who was baptized Sunday, April 13, at the noon Mass, in St. John the Baptist church, and to his family. p.m. A reception was held after the services in the Johnsburg Community club for those confirmed, their families and friends. HOME & HOSPITAL Please keep in your daily prayers, Margaret Stevens, Leo Diedrich, Dorothy Jenkins, f John Reidy, Lorraine Rutzen, Sophia Sobol, Dan Spencer, Mary Ash worth and Geri Kocher ALUMINUM DRIVE Sunday, April 20, the truck will be on the grounds of St. John's church during all Masses, for all aluminum items no longer of use; cans, pie and cake pans, per­ colators, aluminum lids, etc. Proceeds go to St. John's Restoration fund. ART EXHIBIT St. John's young people (pre-school through high school) are invited to submit their work. The theme is '"Hie Family." Exhibition will be May 4 through 11, in Narthex of the church. Please label entries with name, age and address. Call St. John's school for further details. DATES TO REMEMBER Apr. 14-19 - St. John's school registration; kin­ dergarten, 1st grade and new families; at school. Apr. 16-17 - School District 1 2 c o m p r e h e n s i v e registration-Middle school- all children born previous to 1977. Apr. 17-May 1 - P.T.O. Babysitting Safety class; Bush school, 7 to 9 p.m. Apr. 22 - St. John's Home & School association meeting, 8 p.m., also Book Fair, pre­ school through 8th grade. Apr. 24-25 - B.V.M. Sodality, St. John's Rum- mage Sale, Johnsburg Community club basement, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. May 4 - Hunger Walk CROP, Moraine Hills State Park, McHenry, 1:30 p.m. May 4-11 - St. John's young people's Art Exhibit, Nar­ thex of church. Life is God's gift to us - What we do with it is our gift to Him! Director Writes Musical For April Presentation SECTION 2 - PAGE 7 - PLAINDEALER • WEDNESDAY. APRIL If, 1980 "I believe in kids," said A1 Smith, director of the up­ coming show, 'Scamps, Scalawags, and Other Ur­ chins'. "This show is for, about, and with all the kids around who wanted to participate in or come to watch it." The production, to be held April 25,26 and 27 at Montini Middle school, was written by Smith and is interwoven with musical numbers from several children's favorite shows, such as "Oliver" and "Annie". "We have 50 children and nine adults in the cast. Some of the adults have their own children in the play, so this effort has become a family one. My wife, Marlene, and our children are actively involved on stage and off, so for me, this musical has become what I had hoped for--families working together to achieve something of value." Smith started theater work at the age of 17, ahd since then has acted in amateur theater groups, especially enjoying musical shows. Locally, he has worked in "Town and. Country" and "Hurricane Happenings." "I decided to do this show because I always wanted to work with kids," explained Smith. "Kids have great enthusiasm and energy to be channeled into a production. It's a challenge!" ' "I wasn't surprised, but I feel, perhaps, other people will be, to see the amount of young talent in the county," he commented. "One young girl. Colleen Corey, plays her guitar and sings a song she wrote especially for the play. Laura Huff has been an excellent piano accompanist and drummer, Hans Larsen, adds a lively rhythm." "We hope, the community will show interest in our effort. All proceeds from 'Scamps, Scallawags, and Other Urchins' will go to McHenry Birthright, an organization concerned with mothers and children. Through music, we have tried to show that there is always hope, and happy days are ahead!" On April 25 and 26 curtain time is 7:30 p.m., 911 April 27 at 2 p.m. For 'ticket in­ formation, call 385-7897 or 385-3365. Tickets may also be purchased at the door. Conclude Audubon Series Unit Pricing Use unit pricing to find the brand and container size of food that costs least per unit- pound, ounce or pint. CONFIRMATION Bishop Arthur J. O'Neill confirmed 27 young adults, at St. John the Baptist church, Sunday, April 13, 2 Well Done To test a roast chicken for doneness, stick a skewer into the thickest part of the leg. If the juice that runs out is clear (not pink), it's done. You'll al­ so note that the meat has shrunk back somewhat from the ends of the drumsticks. DENNIS HOLT The third and final program, of the 1980 National Audubon Wildlife film series will be presented April 20 in the Woodstock Opera House at 2 p.m. These films have been sponsored by the McHenry County Audubon society, the McHenry County Defenders, and the McHenry C o u n t y C o n s e r v a t i o n Education committee. Personally presented by Dennis Holt, its creator, the film "Okefenokee, Land of Trembling Earth", is a wildlife tour through the Okefenokee Swamp of southeastern Georgia. The Chocktaw Indians gave it its name, which means "the place of the trembling earth", because what ap­ pears to be solid ground is EXPLODMG THREE MILE ISLAND. Think back. It hasn't been that long ago. Pennsylvania looked like it might be blown off the map any minute, turned into a radioactive no-man's-land forever. "Permanently uninhabitable" was the way they said it in the movie, The China Syndrome. That's the trouble. A lot of people said a lot of things. And a lot of it just wasn't true. Not even close. Take the hydrogen bubble that made all the headlines. Bubble, nothing. The implication was time bomb, ticking away. And that would've frightened anybody who didn't have a degree in chemistry. The fact is, that bubble couldn't explode. Not by any stretch of the imagination. To understand why, you have to understand how the hydrogen got there in the first place. And that takes some understanding of how the reactor at Three Mile Island was designed to work. It's the pressurized-water type, meaning the fueLcore was cooled by keeping it submerged in water. H2O. Hydrogen and oxygen. Heated by the core to more than 550 degrees, well beyond the boiling point What kept it from boiling was pressure approximately 2,000 pounds worth. But on March 28th, last year, a relief valve on the pressurizer stuck open, the pressure dropped, and the water--the H2O-- inside the reactor boiled into steam. When that happened, the zirconium-alloy tubes housing the fuel underwent a chemical reaction. A kind of accelerated rusting that combined the zirconium from the tubes with oxygen from the water to form zirconium oxide. That's important, because with all the oxygen used up by the chemical reaction, the only part of the water left was hydrogen. The bubble. And what nobody bothered to tell you at the time was that without oxygen, hydrogen can't explode. p - On May 1st, more than a month later, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission admitted the scare was all a mistake. Roger Mattson, Director of its Systems Safety Division, told a congressional committee there "never ^ was any danger of a hydrogen explosion in that bubble. That never made headlines. And more than likely, neither will the fact that even if there had been a meltdown, it wouldn't have spelled disaster for Pennsylvania. It couldn't have. First of all, the fuel core in the reactor vessel was surrounded by a containment building. Not just any building, an immense fortress with an enormously thick MILE ISLAN floor. Eleven feet of solid concrete reinforced with steel. Second, for a molten mass to eat through it, that concrete-and-steel floor couldn't be covered with water. But water is what's used to cool the core. And when the relief valve on the pressurizer stuck open, sending several hundred thousand gallons shooting out, the law of gravity gave it only one place to go. Down to the floor, right under the reactor vessel. Right in the path a molten mass would take. That's the fallacy of the meltdown theory. In spite of the overwhelming odds against it, if all systems failed, if the entire core melted, if it got through the foot-thick steel reactor vessel in one piece and dropped to the floor below, it would've been stopped right there. Cooled by an ocean of water inside the containment building, not 20 feet from where the meltdown started. As for any sudden burst of steam pressure that might be released when the molten mass hits the water, it wouldn't be nearly powerful enough to rupture the walls of the building. Walls capable of withstanding almost twice as much force. In other words, there was no way for significant radioactivity to reach the atmosphere outside. The point of it all is that Three Mile Island and nuclear power itself deserve a fairer shake. A second look minus the hysteria, the hyperbole, the half-truths, and the untruths. They deserve a close, careful reading of the facts. True, we've experienced the worst accident in the 22 years America has been using nuclear energy-to produce electricity. But it wasn't the apocalypse. No one died. And except for the stress of being scared stiff, no one was injured. Despite the equipment failures and failures in judgment, despite everything that went wrong, the safety systems worked. What really exploded were myths. ^cnutoiweall Ith Edison actually a collection of floating peat nioss islands anchored only by roots and vegetation. Okefenokee has a prolific variety of plant life, with over 300 varieties of flowering shrubs alone. It is also the habitat of many birds, and one of the few remaining breeding grounds of the Florida Sandhill Crane. Moss-draped Cyprus trees create an air of mystery in this ancient wilderness, a mood which is enhanced by the presence of alligators. The Okefenokee Swamp was at one time threatened by human exploitation. In 1937, however, it was made a national wildlife refuge, a designation which put an end to the logging, draining, and uncontrolled hunting that had threatened its ecological balance. In 1975, the swamp was given greater protection through the Eastern Wilderness bill signed by President Ford, which designates approximately 83 percent of the 412,000 acres as a protected area. Dennis Holt, a newspaper photographer, became an avid and studious nature enthusiast after being sent into the forest on assignment several years ago. The assignment was a photographic study of the destruction of hardwoods and flowering shrubs by herbicides and bulldozers, and the effects of this destruction on wildlife and insects. This work earned Holt the Sigma Delta Chi Excellence in Journalism award - the first of many awards. Tickets will aliso be available at the Opera House ticket office before the presentation. For in­ formation, call 338-5300. Free refreshments will be served in the Community room immediately after the program. The series has been presented at cost by the sponsoring organizations; none of them reap any profit from the proceeds. GARDEN ON DISPLAY--MCC students Genevieve Marrow, left McHenry, and Sarah Smiley, St. Charles, admire a garden now on display at McHenry County college in the Applied Science building. Many additional floral-vegetable gardens will be featured during the college's second annual "Spring Green" open house to be held Sunday, April 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Area residents will be able to get questions answered about house plant care, have their garden soil analyzed and see many working demonstrations by MCC agriculture students. More For Less When buying meat pro­ ducts, consider the amount of lean meat in a cut, as well as the price per pound. A re­ latively high-priced cut with little or no waste may provide more meat for your money than a low-priced cut with a great deal of bone, gristle, or fat. 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