Fire: Gym held many memories
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actually pretty shocked.”
“It’s weird to go see it. Rubbish
is what it looks like,” said
Salman, who also graduated from
Mohawk in 1995.
The fire destroyed some class
rooms, labs, and the gym. Hoban
and Salman both felt the loss of
their high school’s gymnasium.
“One of the first things I
thought was the gym’s gone and
so is our banner,” Hoban said.
The banner honors the Mo
hawk basketball team’s Trico
League championship. Hoban
was a member of that team his se
nior year. The team went on to the
state competition in the 2A divi
sion.
Despite the destruction,
Salman and Hoban are optimistic
about the future of Mohawk High.
“It will be different because you'
won’t have the building," Salman
said, “but hopefully they can
build a bigger gym.”
“From what I understand, the
building was fully [insured],”
Hoban said. “After a while we’ll
realize that we’ll get a new school
and they’ll move on, but it will be
hard.”
“There’s generations of families
that live [in Marcola] and the
school is a central figure in the
(CIt’s a terrible thing to lose a
small community school. It
means a lot to a lot of people
in the area.
Jim Brooker
Marcola Fire Chief
town,” Salman said. “It’s one of
the only things that's there.”
Brooker agreed. “It’s a terrible
thing to lose a small community
school,” he said. “It means a lot to
a lot of people in this area."
Expedition: Pathfinder operating well
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would have been out of reach of a stationary space
craft.
They can also use the rover’s wheels to scrape,
mold and stir up the Martian dust, providing valu
able information about its properties. During So
journer’s 6-foot journey Monday, it was to stop in a
sandy spot to spin its wheels. Photos of the marks
made during those maneuvers will help scientists
understand the nature of the Martian soil, knowledge
that could help in the design of future rovers.
By Monday, scientists had long forgotten the com
munications problems the rover experienced during
the mission’s first 24 hours. The mission began at
10:07 a.m. Friday, when Pathfinder bounced to a halt
on a cushion of air bags.
“The spacecraft is operating perfectly, the rover is
operating perfectly and all of the instruments are op
erating perfectly,” project scientist Matthew
Golombek reported.
Pathfinder provided a weather report for the next
Mars day (beginning Monday afternoon California
time): afternoon highs of 10 degrees Fahrenheit with
variable light winds, with a low temperature
overnight of minus 105 degrees.
Photos taken by the Pathfinder lander’s camera,
which popped up to its full height Saturday night,
showed for the first time how the surrounding land
scape would look to an adult standing on the Mart
ian surface.
The lander’s camera has taken hundreds of pho
tographs, many of them in color and 3-D.
Scientists said they were astounded by the variety
of colors, and thus rock types, they were seeing.
“This has been just an absolutely wonderful sur
prise. We hadn’t anticipated the amount of color in
formation that we’re seeing,” said James Bell, a plan
etary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.
i
CCI think we’re fairly confident that there was
liquid water on Mars. Could it have been
warmer and wetter such that liquid water
could just be sitting there?”
Matthew Golombeck
Pathfinder project scientist
Because it bears directly on the issue of whether
life ever existed on Mars, scientists said the evidence
of past floods at the Pathfinder landing site will be
investigated intensively in coming weeks.
Malin estimated that the flood happened between
1 billion and 3 billion years ago.
If, as some scientists contend, stable water — and
not the rushing torrents described Monday — ever
existed on the Martian surface, then life probably
could have survived there.
“I think we’re fairly confident that there was liq
uid water on Mars,” Golombek said. “Could it have
been warmer and wetter such that liquid water could
just be sitting there?”
That’s the big question. And it will be answered
not by studying the Martian landscape, but by col
lecting and studying the rocks themselves in earth
bound laboratories, something that NASA plans to
do in 2005.
When NASA scientists examined a Martian mete
orite found in Antarctica, they concluded that micro
scopic clues they found in the rock were consistent
with the existence of microbes. But when they an
nounced their findings last summer, the scientists
fell short of saying that they had found positive evi
dence of life on the red planet.
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a folk sing-along at the Art in the Vineyard celebration at Alton
Baker Park Saturday afternoon. She was one of many to perform
at the benefit for the Maude Kerns Art Center July 4-6.
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