The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 37, Ed. 1, Wednesday, February 11, 1987 Page: 3 of 8
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Spring Break campaigns
offer many "unique fulfill-
ing opportunities'' including
eating moose meati making
close friends serving others
and sharing Christian experi-
ences said Roy Burdett
leader of the Edmonton
Alberta campaign.
This campaign will be
Burden's third
Burdett junior manage-
ment major from Marble
Falls said he went to Ed-
monton his freshman year
and to Jahaaca his sopho-
more year because tbey were
the farthest campaign north
and south respectively be
ceuldattead.
He decided to return to
Edmonton when be heard it
was available he said.
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Ceramics I student MiRanda Rayner senior elementary education
Toy designer creates nightlight
as reminder of nuclear tragedy
CINCINNATI (AP) -Toy
designer Gary Pkget
says he has received good
and bad reactions to the
glow-iri-thc-darfc lamp he
helped create to keep atten-
tion focused on the Soviet
Union's Chernobyl nuclear
plant accident.
Fiaget 41 a Cincinnati
native who created the lamp
with two partners said be in-
tended it as a reminder to
Americana about the need td
safely use nuclear power
"It's not that we're
perpetuating something. Ac-
tually we're trying to rake
consciousness" Fiagtt aid
in an interview. "I tfetak no
product that I've worked on
has raised people's concerns
in such ways."
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helping others provoked
Burdett s interest
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he said.
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member group will
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Activities vary froij
paizn to campaign
pend on the needs
specific towns said
His campaign incli
iour-night gospel
dorm room Bible
the University of Alt
Burdett sud he
focus on the youth group at
Ingkwood Church of Christ
in Edmonton. A large
lamp stands Wh inches tall
and is molded in the shape of
the mushroom-shaped cloud
associated with the aftermath
of an atomic bomb blast.
The semi-translucent
plastic lamp can house a
white or colored bulb allow-
ing its owner to determine its
tint. It also glows in the
dark.
"After you turn it 6fT it
glows in the dark to give it
what we call a nuclear half-
life" Fiaget said
He said he had en-
countered various reactions
to the lamp.
"Some people who see it
find it to be fantastic" he
said. "But other people
whom you would expect to
be more liberal think it's in
poor taste."
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number of people ages 2030
selp the campaigners
nth teen-agers.
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everv dav for a
said Burden he may
be ready to be baptized
whereas baptism within a
week is questionable.
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major from ADiieno "tnrows a
The lamp has been
marketed nationally for about
six months through Fiaget's
company ICM Industries of
Clnckniati. He estimated
' that about 5000 of the lamps
have been sold but he has no
target sales figure.
Piaget hopes to eventually
market the lamp in other
countries.
His two Dartners in the
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project are Richard Levy of
iethesda Md. and Adam
Alexander of New York City.
Levy directed the marketing
after Alexander and Pkget
combined to devise the lamp
Piaget said.
Piaget said hk interest in
nuclear power dated to hk
school days in the 1960s. He
has been a toy designer since
hk 1969 graduation from the
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where he majored in indus-
trial design. He worked for
four toy companies around
the nation before becoming
an' independent toy designer
about six years ago.
The lamp was already in
the design concept when the
Chernobyl accident occurred.
"When it happened we
just capped on the name"
Pkget said. -"Adam gener-
ated the actual idea based on
an idea of mine. I came up
with the idea of doing a
lamp."
Fiaget said the lamp was
his furthest venture from the
toy business since he devised
an electronic tape-measure
that uses a sonar system. Toy
designing still fascinates him
he said.
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be asked his own
ion for help.
may want to go on
because a city is
but Burdett said
nick a town
led Edmonton that
ever heard of even
ft has 500000 peo-
: people on the
i want to go.
they aren't going
luse it's a tourist at-
'besakL.
said the families
Ipaigam will stay
do everything for
the end of the easi
ly extra money is
: families.
He said God will bless the
families because they sacri-
fice their food and homes for
Seveii-year-old boy
plays on soccer team
despite wooden legs
e MADERA Calif. (AP) -Seven-year-old
Zachary
Williams walks on two
wooden legs but he still
plays soccer with the rest of
his schoolmates.
That's probably because
his parents have eacouraged
him not to think of himself
'.: different from other
children.
Zachary who has a genetic
defect that left him with no
knees or lower legs learned
to get around on artificial
Jimbs at a young age
When people commented
on his disability "we'd an-
swer as briefly as we could"
said his mother Barbara.
"Eventually Zachary started
asking us why people were
asking."
The Williams "always
tried to downplay any pro-
blems with Zachary's legs"
Mrs. Williams explained.
"We just told him it was no
big deal. We emphasize the
positive and let him try any-
thing he wants.
"And we've tried to build
his self-esteem so he can
handle it if he gets knocked
down."
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What's your idea of the perfect Valentine's Day celebra-
tion? What's your favorite Valentine memory? Our FebS
ruary 13 ksue feature page will focus on Valentine's
Day and if you have any ideas please mail them to'
ACU Box 8203 or hand-deliver them to the Optimist of-'"
flee Don Morris Room 308. :
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the campaigners.
The campaigners gain only
what they put into the cam-
paign said Burdett.
"They need to go into a
campaign seeing what they
can give" he said. "They
won't get anything more
than what they put into it."
He said a trip to West
Edmonton Mall on the last
day of the campaign will
highlight free-time activities.
The mall is one-half mile
long two city-blocks wide
and two stories tall sakl
Burdett. It cestakM an in-
door Six Bafs with three
roller coasters a Wet aad
Wild and auuy stores.
Burden sakl bis group
speat 12 hours in the mail
two years ago when k was
half ks present sue.
him when Zachary wanted to
Slay intramural soccer dur-
ig lunchtime at school in
thu community 160 auks
southeast of San Francisco.
"I think Zachary fete good
about being part of a teaaa"
said Carles Beckett principal
at Diziskud School. b
"Zachary already knew a
lot when he came in" said
hk coach David Harwoed a
13-year-old eighth-grader
who itorks with the school's
youngest athletes in traku&g.
THc knew how to position .
hk body in front of the ball
how to use hk hands. He's
doing fine."
Zachary's father the Rev. .
Steve Williams of the
Church of God goes to the
school at least once a week to
roll soccer balk so the stu-
dents can practice kicking.
Zachary plays goalie the
only player allowed to use
hk bands to stop the ball.
But be still has to kick it to
one of hk teammates after
stopping the other team from
scoring.
"The beet part of soccer k
when the ball's coming at
you" Zachary says. "I like
soccer."
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The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 37, Ed. 1, Wednesday, February 11, 1987, newspaper, February 11, 1987; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth92097/m1/3/?rotate=0: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.