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As 23 2) 20- A2 LOMPOC RECORD (Lompoc, Calit.) Monday, July 22, About Town 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 other groups to avoid date conflicts, maximize participation and increase attendance. Lompoc Cable TV Committee will meet LOMPOC The Lompoc Cable TV Committee will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday in the City Hall Council Chambers, 100 Civic Center Plaza.

The committee will solicit comments from the community to assess public audio and visual cable TV reception and technical problems. An update will be provided on the status of the customer survey for suggested new programming. Although the city does not have jurisdiction over cable programming, Comcast Cablevision is interested in knowing what new programming the majority of the public would like to see added. Members of the public are encouraged to attend and express their views at the committee meeting. Those who are unable 1 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 programs LOMPOC The Lompoc Family YMCA announces that new sessions of the following programs will begin the week of July 28: 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. For more information on these and other programs for the whole family, call the Lompoc Family YMCA at 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 this weekend. July 27-28.

The goal is 25.000 pounds of food, which will be redistributed to local agencies and programs that feed hungry people. The FoodBank needs nonperishable, high protein foods like peanut butter, soups and stews, pasta, dry beans, rice, canned fruits and vegetables, fruit juices, dry milk and tuna. Donations will be accepted as patrons leave their local Vons, Luckys and Albertsons in Lompoc and Nielsens and El Rancho Markets in Santa Ynez. Obituary Albert Thomas Jr. LOMPOC Services for Albert Thomas 72, of Umpqua, Ore.

and formerly 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 Il.

He was a plastering contractor for about 20 years. He moved to Lompoc in 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 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, Elizabeth A. Wilks of Lompoc and Barbara L. Williams of Lompoc; nine grandchildren: three great 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.

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. h. CIF Representatives for 1996-97. Class Size, Reduction (SB 1777).

Discussion: Board Policy P5340 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 Next Meeting: Education Center Board Room, 1301 North A Tuesday, August 27, 7 p.m. Source: LUSD Board Agenda Kathy McDonald, Lompoc Record Save big bucks LOMPOC THE RECORD the CLASSIFIEDS 736-5653 CA FREE INFORMATIVE SEMINAR ON LIVING TRUSTS Is your estate plan complete? Learn how to set up your total estate plan by: Using Living Trusts to minimize Estate Taxes and to avoid Probate Reducing or eliminating Income Taxes, and Social Security Taxes Avoiding the dangers of Joint Tenancy Avoiding conservatorship using Durable Powers of Attorney Protecting your estate from nursing home costs and government liens LOMPOC SOLVANG INN AT LOMPOC ROYAL SCANDINAVIAN INN 1122 No. Street 400 Alisal Road July 23, to July 23, to Seminar will be given by Jerry Namba, an Estate Planning and Elder Law Attorney FREE INITIAL CONSULTATION, EVEN IF YOU HAVE AN EXISTING TRUST OR ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND THE SEMINAR QUALIFY TO OBTAIN A FREE TRUST FREE TRUST SERVICES RESERVATIONS NOT REQUIRED Sponsored by Russell Financial, Inc.

(800) 776-2051. (formerly Kensington Estate Services) 1996 Dessert decorum Part of the successful choreography of eating ice cream on a hot day is not only in the initial bite, but in McVicker, 5, demonstrates during Conductor scores from 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 three classic silent movies in a program at the National Gallery of Art in Washington. 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 the antics 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 Anderson said. but the result was gripping. Anderson has made a career of searching out, reconstructing and directing 18 scores composed for classic films. or compiled from previously composed music.

Many of the scores have been scattered and forgotten, though some were writtem by such composers of note as Dmitri Shostakovich. Originally the music could be played by a 45-piece orchestra. or. on the "mighty Wurlitzer" a huge pipe organ for theaters or by a single, hard-pounded piano. MOVIE GUIDE Gen.

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$4.00 OPENS 8:00 FLED' DUSK PG13 NUTTY PROFESSOR Bill Record, Social Saturday. The event also included a magician, face painting, balloon animals and entertainment. the clean-up operation, which Mike the Lompoc Museum's Ice Cream directs musical silent movies 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 1976 she worked on music for the bicentennial of the Declaration of Independence. "I got so sick of 18th 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 Crude pipe is found ARSON SQUAD A city bomb and arson squad detonated the device safely.

CHICAGO (AP) A security guard found a crude pipe bomb lying on the tarmac of an air charter service at O'Hare International Airport Sunday night, officials said. The device was detonated safely by the city bomb and arson squad. The airport was already on' heightened security after an anonymous 911 caller at about 9:30 a.m. said there was a bomb on a Mexicana Airlines flight to Mexico. A flight that had just taken off from the airport for Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, was returned to O'Hare, Hughes said.

The passengers were evacuated, but no explosives were found, officials said. A second Mexicana Airlines airp- The Lompoc Valley Academy of Keichu-Do Karate Jiu-Jitsu, recently held a ribbon cutting ceremony. The school is at 408 North Street. Being greeted by Lompoc Mayor Joyce Howerton is owner Pete Walshaw and his son Michael, an instructor. Extending The Lompoc Valley Chamber of Commerce greetings is Ambassador Ursula Bland.

Vision Care by Wallace S. Marsh, M.D. LEGALLY BLIND? I had a very interesting comment from one of my favorite patients today. She asked me if it was possible to write something about the subject. An aquaintance of hers, on learning that she was "legally remarked that she "sure didn't look legally Personally, I'd take that as a compliment, probably meaning that she looks right at you when conversing, doesn't stumble and grope around while walking, etc.

The phrase "legally blind" doesn't mean totally or completely blind. Another, and possibly better, way to express it is "industrially On second thought, I don't really like that too cold and. impersonal. Kind of sounds like a robot with a faulty vision chip. Anyhow, you know the big on eye chart? The one on the top of all the other letters? That's what we call the line.

It literally means that you can identify a letter at 20 feet that you should be able to see at 400 feet. If you can make out the big but none of the smaller letters, you have vision. And if you can only see without glasses, but things clear up with your glasses on, you' are NOT "legally blind without There is no such thing. Legally blind means your vision is or worse with the best glasses correction you can get. Got it? (I suggested maybe hanging a sign around her neck, but she didn't take me seriously).

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