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i KAWEAH LIE OH MY ACHING BACK Coming Monday: Does Tulare massage back walking technique gives her a leg up on competitors? wwwyisalialiniesDeltacom A n'' MILESTONES Accomplishments Andre Irigaray a stu dent at Tulare Union High School recently attended Presidential Global Business and Public Policy Program in Wash ington DC Participants examined the role the gov ernment plays in regulating industry stimulating eco nomic growth business ethics and the impact of globalization on business and labor Denet Igou business manager of Spraying Devices Inc recentiy earned certification as a Professional in Human Resources In March three Visalia youths will be going to Columbus Ohio to partici pate in the High School Honor Orchestra Only three cellists were chosen from California and all three are students of prin cipal cellist Valery Walden of the Tulare County Sym phony The Visalia partici pants are: Cellist Heather Bryan who won the Youth Solo Auditions sponsored by the Symphony League cellist Hans Dietrich and violinist Karli Leal the only violist chosen from California Heather and Karli are qualified to play with the Symphony and have done so this year In the service US Air orce Airman Shelley Usher of Visalia a 2001 graduate HHHM ofMtWhit neyHigh I 1 School vS recently com 1 1 a pleted basic JM training with Shelley honor flight Usher 154 of the 322nd train ing squadron at Lackland Airforce Base Texas She is now training to be a bio medical technician at Shep pard Air orce Base Texas Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Jeremiah Kelly son of Army Sgt and Mrs Walter Kelly of Three Rivers recently contribut ed to relief efforts on Guam during a Western Pacific deployment while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk forward deployed to Yokosuka Japan Kelly is a 1997 gradu ate of Golden West High School and joined the Navy in June 1999 Air orce Airman Melinda Cornwall has graduated from basic mili tary training at Lackland Air orce Base San Anto nio Texas Cornwall is the daughter of Ruth Corn wall of Boise Idaho and Dave Cornwall of Porter ville Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Shannon Donner a 1997 graduate of Kings Christian High School Lemoore recently departed on a six month deployment to the Mediter ranean Sea and Arabian Gulf while assigned to the aircraft carrier USS Henry Truman home ported in Norfolk Va Air orce Airman Roger Rouse has gradu ated from basic military training at Lackland Air orce Base San Antonio Texas He is the son of Leona Rouse of Visalia and grandson of Juanita Rouse of Green City Mo Rouse is a 1997 graduate of Mt Whitney High School Marine Corps Pfc Brad Rosser son of Mary A Jourdan of Strathmore and James Rosser of Dun can Okla recently com pleted basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Marine Corps Pvt Joshua Bowman son of Carol Bowman of TYilare recently completed basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island SC Bowman is a 2002 graduate of Tulare Union High School Jenna Glick and from left Katelyn Jennings Savannah Torres and Savannah Ramos use the Internet to study colonial America and the Revolutionary War during Phyllis fifth grade class at Veva Blunt Elementary School Children are getting acquainted with technology in schools as early as kindergarten I Mm: I 11 1 1 Steve uiimotoTim jlXlid whiz kids Youngsters are becoming tech experts earlier than ever Students in Phyllis fifth grade class are creating a newspaper and a Power Point presentation while studying colonial America I Awr? hISSi Steve ujimoto 1 ir Masters of technology 1 By the time they're teen agers most young people have mastered the follow i ing gadgets: Cellphonesthat i allow them to take digital photos play games check mail and get make phone calls They chuckle at grandma's rotary i phone Music recorded for free with the help 1 of the Internet and PCs Remember when dual cassette recorders were cut i ting edge? Instant messag ing and Internet chat I rooms which have joined intricately fold ed letters passed under desks as major forms of communica tion DVD movies that come with a menu i full of extras such as scene by scene spe cial effecfts explana tions VCRs will soon join the Beta Max video format and eight track tapes in i that ientertainment center in the sky Video games that look so real that When they play war games swear you caught shrapnel Those green plastic Army soldiers in fixed poses? Ancient histo ry By Mike Hazelwood Staff writer Eric ive vear old Tellez offers a fruit punch stained smile as his father marvels at the technological wizardry of a boy who as a kindergartner is already a video game master still play what he says his father Jose Almanza of Visalia 36 years Kids do the damdest things nowadays Like convert an MP3 to a WAV file and bum it onto a CD Or present their fifth grade research project with a laptop computer Or update a Web site from their bedroom (when they should be cutting the grass) Tech wizards are now younger than ever and leaving elders in their virtual dust Silly adults Bobi Slayter 16 of Visalia says rather her parents stay away from the DVD player mess it she says I have to go in there five minutes later and fix Tulare resident Rosalinda Hernandez 19 is also puzzled by the older seeming cluelessness can you invest so much money into a cell phone you always need help to turn she asked love my mom but Not all adults are techno logically illiterate of course but many do feel a little lost And they afraid to admit it 3 year old grandson figured out my TV before I says Kathy urnas 47 of Visalia very School So when are children devel oping these skills? says Barbara Xavier principal of Roosevelt Elementary School in Tulare have a little computer lab for Steve ujimotoTimes Delta Using old fashioned methods fifth graders prepare for an audiovisual report on whether the United States should go to war with England of corporate America a huge says Phyllis Lee a fifth grade teach er at Veva Blunt Elementary School in Visalia classroom like many others is loaded with laptops Teachers and students are also communicating more via mail cannot even imagine where going to be in 10 Xavier says kid will probably have their own laptop or whatever they 11 be calling them by orget finger paints and tage By the fifth grade students Crayons Kindergartners are have done Internet research now into phonics math and and presented their findings via sentence structure all with Power Point that favorite tool the aid of computers And that take their 21st century homelife into account amazing but if you think about it seen 2 to 3 year olds sitting down in front of a TV with a video Xavier says Teachers have learned to turn young love of every thing high tech from com puters to video game graphics to DVDs to their own advan lilted? 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