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Shaw Madia Group 1M2 Fair Quida-Paga 39 Fair features Walking wire a Wallenda tradition By Jeff Barnard Associated Press writer PAWTUCXET, RJL - Hanging by an ankle on a swaying pole lit foot above the ground, Caria Wallenda doent think about the fall that defamed the life of her high- wire-walking father. "I dont feel it's dangerous because I know what Vm doing," Wallenda says. "Once my spotlight fuse blew out and I was up there hanging in the dark and all I could think of was my husband would be mad at me because I left the crackpot on." As she spoke, she speared another pork chop from a frying pan and put it in the crockpot to keep warm as she stood in the kitchen of the trailer where she lives while performing away from her Sarasota, Fla., home. A pet skunk, two dogs and a monkey sniff­ ed her feet as she prepared dinner for her husband, Mike Morgan, and 14-year-old daughter, Valarie. Outside stood the U04oot pole where she would climb that night to entertain the crowds on the midway at Billy Burr's Funofama in a week-long stint at Pawtucket's Narragansett Park. She is the daughter of Karl Wallenda, the circus legend killed four years ago at the age of 73 when high winds blew him from a high wire stretched between two high-rise hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico. As a girl she sat in a chair balanced atop the aeron-man pyramid father as the crowning by her of the She rode in the precarious perch from lttt to W. She was oat on her own when the prysmid fell in January 1ML Her cousin, Dfteta, was killed and her brother, Mario, paralysed in the SMoot fall during a Shrine Circus in Detroit "Diets only had three steps to go to get to the safety pedestsl when he said 'I cant hold it'and they fell," she said. Despite the tragedies which have hit her family, Wallenda says she has no fear of fly­ ing. "My grandmother was a performer all her life and die died of old age at M. I had an uncle who was run over by a drank driver when he was very young, so ... This is our wsy of life. Tragedy to me is like some of those coal miners who go into the mines for generations and generations and face that danger." She reached into a cupboard for a week- old newspaper clipping showing her son Enrico, 27, walking a tightrope stretched over a tiger pit at the Columbus, Ohio, Zoo. "My four kids are the eighth generation and they're all dedicated to aerial work," she says. "The seven-man pyramid has never been duplicated. I heard of an act in South America that is supposed to do one, but it's continued on page 40 V-Tsa The _____ gentleman is back-in his 100% wool herringbone sportcoat from Hunter Haig* Hunter Haig hes the enduring look of the 100% wool herringbone sportcoat, with its soft, natural shoulder (me. Avertable in 'popular earth-urn shades, grey. tan. brown & ofce. o MunlprJHatu Christopher'b SrSnSvS WWW.MAW. CARRIED across the high wire when she was just 6 weeks old, Carla Wallenda has led a life aloft, entertaining thousands around the- world. The death of her father and brother and paralyzing injury to her cousin have not deterred Wallenda from her pursuit. At 45. she continues performing throughout the year AP N«w»<MturM pftoto When do you1 go for help SERVICES: IF there are changes m your life you don't seem able to cope with you need a drink before you can get going m the morning you cant seem to get over the death of a close family member you or a famfty member hea a problem with drugs a divorce haa left you emo- bonaiy depressed you are uncomfortable m a 24 Hour C«vteraency Service... 24 Hour Tele roency phone Number l-#00-*«2-«900 •we do provide counseling services for Individuate, couples, famtbes and groups •we do provide the avenuee for change, problem solution and ad|uatment •we do provide peychologlcai and peychlstrtc testing and evaluation •we do educate and conauM with the community through seminars, workshops and a apeak er a bureau sm FEES: •Alcoholiem counselors •Paychiatheta •Cimtcal social workers • •Paychotoglata Community mental health workers •Psychiatnc nurses • Feaa are determined mdMduaiy according to the no MCrwnry ooomy rostoeru w opmiq Mfvice person's ability to pay he or she can't afford It. FAMILY SERVICES and COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER for McHENRY COUNTY CRYSTAL LAKE I Way Or WOODSTOCK 33M79I Caaetjr McHENRY HARVARD *43-7445 MARENGO 96M122 http://WWW.MAW