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A2 LOMPOC RECORD (Lompoc, Calif.) Monday, July 22, 1996 immmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmammmmmmmmmmmimmmm I iiiimmiiiiiwihihiii mini 11 i mil mil II ill -l AboutTown Editor's note: The Lompoc Record recommends that all groups and organizations "planning to hold events be sure to contact the Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce Community Calender, 736-4567, ahead of time. This will coordinate activities with jher groups to avoid date conflicts, maximize participation and increase attendance. Lompoc Cable TV Committee will meet onrtif J. LOMPOC The Lompoc Cable TV Committee will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday Jn the City Hall Council Chambers, 100 Civic Center Plaza.

The committee Jjvlll solicit comments from the community to assess public audio and visual cable TV reception and technical problems. An update will be provided yn the status of the customer survey for suggested new programming. Although the city does not have jurisdiction over cable programming, Comcast Cablevlslon is interested in knowing what new programming the ma-jority of the public would like to see added. Members of the public are encouraged to attend arid express their views "at the committee meeting. Those who are unable to attend may write to the Cable TV Committee at P.O.

Box 8001. Lompoc 93438-8001 or watch "Channel 22 at 7 p.m. Tuesday, YMCA offers new summer proigrams LOMPOC The Lompoc Family YMCA announces that new sessions' of the following programs will begin the week of July 28: I Basic self-defense class, p.m.. Mondays, July 29-Aug. 26 Boot Camp training, p.m., Tuesdays and Thursdays, July 30-Aug.

29 Children's 4-8 year-olds beginning gymnastics, 1-2 p.m. Wednesdays, 'July 31 -Aug. -28 1 1 For more information on these and other programs for the whole family, call the LomDoc Familv YMCA stop by the at 201 West College Ave. and pick up a program brochure. FoodBank slates July Food Drive LOMPOC In the spirit of the holidays, the FoodBank of Santa Barbara County will hold its 7th Annual Countywide Christmas in July Food Drive ihia U7fflr fnri m- 4 jr'gViiii i The goal is 25.000 pounds of food, which will be redistributed to local agencies and programs that feed hungry people.

The FoodBank needs non-perishable, high protein foods like peanut butter, soups and stews, pasta, dry beans, rice, canned fruits and vegetables, fruit Juices, dry milk and Donations will be accepted as patrons leave their local Vons, Luckys and Albertsons in Lompoc and Nielsens and El Rancho Markets in Santa Ynez. Bill Morsontompoc Record Dessert decorum Part of the successful choreography of eating ice cream on a hot day is not only in the initial bite, but in the clean-up operation, which Mike McVicker, 5, demonstrates during the Lompoc Museum's Ice Cream Social Saturday. The event also included a magician, face tjalloon animals and entertainment. 0 Obituary Albert Thomas Jr. Conductor directs musical scores from silent movies Crude pipe bomb is found at O'Hare 1 LOMPOC Services for Albert Thomas 72, of Umpqua, Ore.

andfor-merly of Lompoc will be held in Oregon. Mr. Thomas was born June 15, 1924 in Canton, Ohio. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during World War II.

He was a plastering contractor for He rrinvpfl to I.nmnocln 1965 and worked in the Federal Bureau of Prisons Services for more than 20 years. He had been a resident of Umpqua, for the last 9 'A years. Mr, Thomas died Thursday, July 17, 1996, at his home in Umpqua. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Mildred Gloria Thomas; two sons, Albert G. Thomas of Georgia and John P.

Thomas of New Jersey; two daughters, Elizabetli A. Wilks of Lompoc and Barbara L. Williams of Lorn-. poc; nine grandchildren: three great-grandchildre; and several brothers and sisters on the East Coast. In lieu of flowers, it is requested that memorial contributions be made in his name to the American Heart Association.

Ms. Anderson, 52, has been conducting orhestras since junior high school in Newton, Mass. She has gone on to conduct the National Symphony in Washington and orchestras in Europe and South America. In 1 976 she worked on music for the bicenten-nial of the Declaration of Independence. "I got so sick of 1 8th century music I couldn't, even listen to Bach and Mozart any more," she said.

"So I got into film music because I was looking for something greasy and sentimental. But it isn't all like that," Later this summer Anderson will conduct scores at the screening of a 1922 production of "Robin Hood," starring and directed by Douglas Fairbanks and "Ben Hur," featuring more than two hours of ancient Roman battles, a famous chariot race and a depiction of JesUs on the way to the Crucifixion. Ribbon Cutting "if fY On the Agenda Lompoc Unified School District Board of Education Education Center Board Room 1301 North A St. Tuesday, July 23, 1996,7 p.m. Consent Agenda: Warrants; June Payroll; Bids; Donations; Personnel Items.

Communications: a. Vandenberg Air Force Base School Liaison Report. b. Courtesy to Visitors. (Comment items cannot be acted upon unless they are agenda Action items.) Public Hearing: Partial Allocation of 1995-96 One-Time Funds (AB 3488).

Action Highlights: a. Partial Allocation of 1995-96 One-Time Funds. c. Head Start Facility on Fillmore Elementary School Site. d.

Revision of Board Policy P5290: Gifts, Grants, Bequests. District Investment Policy. g. Modification of Instructional Minutes Year-Round Schools. In.

CIF Representatives for 1996-97. DiscussionAction: Class Size. Reduction (SB 1777). piscussion: Board Policy P534Q Update: Funds Management. Reports: a.

Board Members' Reports. b. Superintendent's Staff Reports. c. Outside Investment(s) Quarterly Report.

d. K-12 Education Funding 1996-97 State Budget. e. Rate of Actual Attendance 1995-96. f.

-First Day 1996 Summer School Enrollment Report, i JJext Meeting: Education Center Board Room, 1301 North A St.Juesday, August 27, 7 p.m. By Carl Hartman Associated Press WASHINGTON Silent films were anything but silent, says a conductor who is proving her point in a program that shows just how important music was in the chariot race scene of -'Ben Hur" and in important scenes in other silent movies, Gillian Anderson, a conductor. who's worked in the United States, Europe and South America, is directing the original musical scores of classic silent movies in a program at the National Gallery of Art in Washington: 1 Anderson directs live musicians who play as the movie is shown, harking back to the early days-of film when a piano player was the sole accompaniment to thetmtics of Charlie Chaplin. On Saturday Anderson directed the score of a 1928 Danish production of "The Passion of Joan of Arc." using a 12-piece orchestra and six singers. Preparing the work wasn't easy had to watch Joan burn about a hundred times Anderson said, but the result was gripping.

Anderson has made a career of searching out. reconstructing and directing 18 scores composed for classic or' compiled from previously composed music Many of the scores have been scattered and forgotten, though suine were writtcm by such composers of note as Dmltri Shostakovich. Originally the music could be played by a 45-piece orchestra, or, on the "mighty a huge pipe organ for theaters or by a single, hard-pounded piano. Gen. Adm.

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Chicago Fire Department Battalion Chief Leslie Noy said a Delta flight was also searched shortly be-: fore 1 1:30 a.m. after a threatening call was received by Delta Air Lines officials In Boston. Hughes said the Delta flight was headed to O'Hare from Atlanta andr landed shortly after the call was received. Its final destination was New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport.

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