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KKwajaleinwajalein hhighigh sschoolchool ggraduateraduate LaurenLauren PPeterseters visitsvisits SSt.t. Peter’sPeter’s SquareSquare iinn Rome.Rome. PPeterseters isis llivingiving aandnd sstudyingtudying ffashionashion ddesignesign inin FFlorence,lorence, ItalyItaly oonn a four-yearfour-year pprogramrogram fromfrom MaristMarist CCollege.ollege. FForor mmoreore oonn hherer eexperiencesxperiences livingliving andand studyingstudying inin Italy,Italy, seesee PagePage 4.4. ((PhotoPhoto ccourtesyourtesy ooff LLaurenauren PPeters)eters) Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006 The Kwajalein Hourglass www.smdc.army.mil/KWAJ/Hourglass/hourglass.html COMMENTARY Interesting isn’t all it’s cracked up to be Well, another year is almost in the I never want to see a TV news program books. We should congratulate our- again. I never want to read a newspaper selves for making it through. or magazine ever again. I never want to I didn’t have another heart attack, hear radio news either. I also don’t want any major surgeries, any major health e-mails telling me anything either. problems and I didn’t spend any nights Of course, given the job I have, that in a hospital. might not turn out so well. It could be Geez, what a boring year. hard to write about stuff I don’t know But, like I always say, boring can be anything about. Oh sure, some people mighty good. Interesting stuff isn’t all say that’s what I do anyway, but what do it’s cracked up to be. At least with boredom, nothing bad is they know, the peasants. happening. That’s my theory anyway. I mean, bad things are I really want to spend the rest of my life in what I like to never boring. They always require lots of attention and make call the ‘Sgt. Schultz mode’ (for those of you old enough to for loads of stress. remember Hogan’s Heroes). There’s an ancient Chinese curse that goes, “May you live I know you recall Schultz’ famous answer to everything, in interesting times.” Man, for the last couple of years, things “I know nothing...nothing!” Yeah, that man had the secret of have been way too interesting for me. a good life. I really think the less someone knows, the hap- Besides my own physical attention-getters, there’s been pier they gotta be. the steady drumbeat of bad news in the world. You know Think about it. What if you didn’t know about Iraq, terror- how Iraq’s not going well, Iran and North Korea are getting ism, Iran, global warming or any of the other really interesting nuclear weapons, the Middle East is always in turmoil, there’s things that are going on? Wouldn’t you be happier? genocide going on in Dafur and the Sudan, Russia and Of course, it might get kinda old living under a rock or in China keep making bad noises about everything, terrorists a cave, but hey, you gotta take the bad with the good, you are everywhere, we’re running out of oil and, oh yeah, global know. warming is going to kill us all. It’s way interesting stuff, huh? Well, you’re probably as tired of reading this as I am of Like I said, bring on boring. writing it, so I’ll leave you with the best wish I can make. Right now, I’d like to make a New Year’s resolution. Have a really, really boring new year. Classifi ed ads deadline USAKA The deadline for classifi ed ads is: For Wednesday’s issue, noon on Saturday; for Saturday’s issue, noon Person of the Week on Thursday. All ads must be limited to 50 words. Multiple ads will be Chugach employee Mike Dame has worked combined and edited to the 50 word on Kwajalein for more than 20 years and is limit. 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TThehe KKwajaleinwajalein HHourglassourglass The Kwajalein Hourglass is named for the or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, Department Printed circulation: 2,000 insignia of the U.S. Army 7th Infantry Division, of Defense, Department of the Army or USAKA. E-mail: [email protected] which liberated the island from the forces of Im- It is published Wednesdays and Saturdays in ac- Commanding Offi cer......Col. Stevenson Reed perial Japan on Feb. 4, 1944. cordance with Army Regulation 360-1 and using a Public Affairs Offi cer......................Sandy Miller network printer by Kwajalein Range Services edito- The Kwajalein Hourglass is an authorized pub- Editor......................................Nell Drumheller lication for military personnel, federal employees, rial staff. contractor workers and their families assigned P.O. Box 23, APO AP 96555 Graphics Designer..........................Dan Adler to U.S. Army Kwajalein Atoll. Contents of the Phone: Defense Switching Network 254-3539; Reporter............................................J.J. Klein Hourglass are not necessarily offi cial views of, Local phone: 53539 Distribution..................................C.J. Kemem The Kwajalein Hourglass 2 Saturday, Dec. 30, 2006 D.A.R.E Students graduate from drug prevention program Hourglass reports The D.A.R.E. program is ten les- ATOD prior to the program, but Twenty-nine 6th graders gradu- sons long with one lesson a week did not really understand the ef- ated from the Kwajalein Drug for ten weeks. fects it has on their lives until they Abuse Resistance Education or “The children are very interested attended D.A.R.E.,” he said. D.A.R.E. program in December. in the program and have expressed The youth were required to write The course, taught annually by their interest in their fi nal D.A.R.E. an essay to graduate from the pro- the Kwajalein Police Department, reports generated for graduation,” gram. The essays were judged by is a “collaborative program in Larsen said. “Most of the children Larsen. which the KPD and the elemen- enjoy interacting with local law en- Mary Doerries, a student in tary school join together to edu- forcement and learning what law Anne Jahnke’s class, won the es- cate students about personal and enforcement does on USAKA [U.S. say competition. Carolyn Kulig, of social consequences of substance Army Kwajalein Atoll].” Tara Yurovchak’s class, was also abuse and violence,” according to Larsen added that the program recognized for her essay contribu- Lt. Mike Larsen from KPD and the teaches children about the dangers tions. course instructor. of ATOD, and the children have ex- “I just want to express how “The program will provide chil- pressed their understanding how proud the Kwajalein Police Depart- dren with the information and to make the right decisions about ment is of all the students’ hard skills they need to avoid tobacco ATOD situations. “Each child pro- work during the past ten weeks. and alcohol, to live drug-free vides a pledge to live drug-free and Additionally, I want to thank Mrs. and violence-free lives. Abuse of violence-free life at the end of the Yurovchak, Mrs. Jahnke, and the ATOD [Alcohol, Tobacco and Other program. Several children have school for their help and participa- Drugs] can lead to violence.” expressed that they knew about tion in the program,” Larsen said. Mary Doerries’ winning essay My D.A.R.E. Pledge: This D.A.R.E. class was very different than the I pledge not to do drugs, alcohol, and tobacco and not to give into peer pressure. I will tell people that smoking and drugs are wrong, so hope- one I had back in the states. This time I have to fully they will not do them either. write a report. Also, my old D.A.R.E. offi cer just told stories, but this time I learned important skills and D.A.R.E. graduates: how to recognize ordinary from the unordinary. Tara Yurovchak’s class I learned about alcohol and the effects it has on us. I learned how it is illegal for some ages to drink Marcus Beall alcohol. I learned about marijuana and how it is Edward Bobo Kori Dowell DDRUGSRUGS illegal in the United States. Marijuana affects your Iwalani Furgeson brain and body and causes short-term memory Keegan Gray loss. Marijuana has 50-70 percent more poisons Hagar Kabua than tobacco smoke. I learned how it is illegal for Jared Klein Carolyn Kulig anyone to have tobacco under the age of 18 years. Renu Frase Tobacco has nicotine, and that causes addiction. Jacob Pagette The more tobacco you have, the more of a chance Michael Pedro that you will get lung cancer. I learned that beer is Ethan Rejto illegal to some ages. I learned that beer companies Eva Seelye Jamie Simpson put advertisements on toys, hats, shirts, etc.