Heppner gazette-times., July 26, 1979, Page SEVEN, Image 7

The Gazette-Times, Heppner, Oregon, Thursday, July 26, 1979 SEVEN
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Just floating
around
Youngsters enrolled in the
first session of Red Cross
swimming lessons at the
Heppner Pool learned the
basics of floating on their hark
from the lifeguard staff. To
pass the course, students had
to pass a number of require
ments such as holding their
breath for 10 seconds in the
water. The first session ended
Friday and a new class began
Tuesday. Swimming Instruc
tor Diane Holland says the
most difficult skill for the
beginners seems to be learn
ing to float on their backs.
With a little coaching
beginning swimmers
take to water
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Steamboating across the
water, treading water, diving
board drill. ..sounds like a
swimming course for adults.
But actually, that's what
youngsters learned in the first
session of Red Cross swim
ming lessons taught at the
Heppner City Pool, which
ended Friday. Head instruct
or, Diane Holland, announced
Friday the names of the
youngsters who passed the
final swimming test of holding
their breath underwater for
ten seconds, floating on the
back and stomach, gliding and
kicking 20 feet and jumping in
deep and shallow water.
Passing the test were advan
ced beginners, Jason Palmer,
Jaci Sumner, Wendy Mitchell,
Ted Schwarz, Brian Padberg
and Sherry Piper; beginners,
Sarha Kennedy, Clark Wallis,
Michelle Wallis, Chris Stroda
and Swimmers, Lana Reid,
Tareena Nash and Jody Pad
berg. Working with youngsters
five to seven years old, Ms.
Holland and her two assist
ants, began Thursday's pro
im with a warm up steam-
uling trip across the pool.
Aa the hour wore on, the
youngsters were advanced to
the deeper ends of the pool
until reaching the diving
board drill where each had a
chance to walk to the end of
the board and jump or dive
into the cool waters. Some of
the more reluctant divers
were helped into the water by
Instructor Scott McEwen and
handed into the arms of Ms.
Holland.
In another exercise, each
instructor guided the young
sters in a back swim across
the pool holding their arms
underneath the water to keep
them afloat.
"It's difficult to teach them
how to float on their backs,"
Holland said.
In a matter of minutes, the
youngsters were swimming on
(heir backs across the pool
without instructor assistance.
With two instructors tread
ing water in deeper water
near the pool's edge, each
youngster had the opportunity
of jumping in and treading for
a few minutes and then
climbing out.
Instruction followed in the
crawl stroke and in playing a
game of underwater swim
ming through the legs of a row
of swimmers. While in the
corner of the pool, youngsters
'formed a circle to play "Ring
around the Roses," water
style. .
When they first began their
lessons, say's Holland, it was
enough for the instructors to
get the youngsters to paddle
across the pool.
"They get braver as they go.
TheyJiave to get rid of their
fear of the water.".
Last week's hot spell seems
to spur on the young swim
mers, says Holland, but cold,
windy weather makes them
less willing to plunge" into their
swim lessons.
She also noted that the girls
are a little braver than the
boys at that age.
Swimming boards are not
used because of Holland's
philosophy that the young
swimmers need training in
floating without artificial ob
jects and doesn't allow nose
plugs.
"We want them to know how
to clear the water out of their
noses if out in a lake or
stream."
The ..oungsters in the first
part of Th 'sday's program
seemed to bu t. joying them
selves and when they were
told the class was over, one
girls sighed "Ah" with disap
pointment. The classes drew a number
of mothers watching their
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children take the lessons and
Ms. Holland says they provide
assistance in knowing "how
hard to push the child in the
program."
This summer's swimming
program has also drawn
adults to the evening instruc
tional program. Seven or eight
Curator with museum
Cont. from page 3
The Morrow County Histori
cal Society headed by Delpha
Jones, Lexington, has been a
great help to her historical
work, says Rachel, who main
tains records of each item
loaned and donated to the
exhibits.
Whatever you are interested
in, the museum seems to have
a ready supply of historical
items, from antique phono
graphs with their cone-shaped
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Governors pick avoids controversy
people, including some
couples in their thirties and
forties are learning how to
improve their swimming
styles.
The second session of Red
Cross swimming lessons
starts July 24 and. ends August
4.
Cont. from page 2
controversy concerning appointment of
an acting director. It was not surprising
then, for Gov. Atiyeh to pick a young,
forceful individual intimately familiar
with the agency to guide it in the future.
A native of Utah, Frank came to
Oregon with his parents in 1962 and
attended Portland schools. After grad
uating from Cleveland High, the govern
ment administrator-to-be had an eye on a
career in law.
Academic scholarships bolstered
by employment as a baseball umpire and
house-painter enable Frank to achieve
a bachelor's degree at the University of
Oregon in political science.
He heard about the Executive
Department's . administative training
program . while on the waiting list for
admittance to the University's College of
Law, applied, became a trainee and
started climbing rungs that led to his
April DOE appointment.
Although present duties leave little
time to ponder his early career
aspirations, Frank finds himself in a
position where reasoning and logic
prevail. Quick to admit these traits were
honed during training and experience as
a budget analyst, the new director hopes
to apply the same attributes in the course
of fulfilling the Department's expanding
role.
And expand it has. DOE budget for
the next two years has nearly quadrupled
to more than $12 million. Staff has
expanded to 57 people and the tasks
before them will affect the very way of
life for Oregonians in the future.
After helping shepherd Gov. Atiyeh's
energy program through the Legislature,
Frank is anxious to involve all segments
of society in achieving solutions to the
energy dilemma. Conservation will
continue to be a big part of the program
and become more sophisticated.
Forecasting energy needs will con
tinue as a prime policy requirement. But
Frank hopes it can also include reports
on the manner those needs can be met.
Development of alternate energy
sources will be the Department's major
emphasis in the near future. Task forces
will probe gasohol, solar, wind, water
and geothermal energy sources along
with those to be derived from forest and
agricultural residues.
Hearings will be conducted through
out the state and Lynn Frank earnestly
solicits public participation. He's anxious
to conclude the talking stage in which the
energy situation appears to have been
stalled and wants to start doing things
about it. He hopes to unite the various
factions that so far have been talking
mostly about each other. Together, he
believes, all interests can by reasoning
logic recognize what is practical and
that which is not.
And once this level of understanding
is achieved, he sees effective and
harmonious solutions.
speakers to a collection of
typewriters.
Schoolchildren who enjoy
.their visits to the museum
write thank you letters to the
museum director for what
they have seen and like many
other items, they are stored in
a special place until they come
back five or six years later to
witness their owtr historical
record.
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