Albany, NY, June 2, 2008 - Mirna Rackov, a junior at Niagara University's College of Hospitality and Tourism Management, Niagara Falls, is the recipient of a student scholarship award from the New York State Hospitality & Tourism Association's Fred and Gertrude England Hospitality Education Foundation.

The mission of the Fred and Gertrude England Hospitality Education Foundation is to assist in the educational development of hospitality students by offering individual scholarships to member employees or their dependents. The New York State Hospitality and Tourism Association officially incorporated its scholarship fund into an Education Foundation in 1999.

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Visitors to the Lansing Community Library were transformed to the 1880s Tuesday as Donna Scott told them about the history and heyday of bicycles.  Scott, a long-time bicycle collector and historian, created an experience for the packed exhibit room that included period costume, actual historic bicycles, posters and a history wall based on her presentation.  Scott says Eagle high wheeled bicycles in particular took more skill than modern bikes.  "To get on those babies you've got to race down the road and be really agile and get that pedal when it's down in the right place and fling yourself on," she says.  "Only very athletic people can get on them."

When the library's art show director Janice Hagstrom learned that Scott has a collection the two began talking about an exhibit.  Scott was loath to leave them at the library until after the capital project that rendered the building more secure.  Hagstrom wanted an art show to go with the bicycles.  "What she hit upon was this bicycle poster book," Scott says.  "It has 100 posters advertising bicycles and tricycles, mostly from the 1890s, but a few from the 1880s.  They are all art nouveau or similar styles from that period."

Lansing High School's academic achievement awards were presented Monday night.  Special thanks to Ruth Reeves for providing this list of recipients.

RENSSELAER MEDAL

    Brendan Hammond


R.I.T QUALITY CUP AWARD

    Mary Kate Adie
    Timothy Shea

Boy Scouts from Lansing Troop 48 went on a high adventure trip to Pennsylvania over the Memorial Day weekend.  After camping Friday night at Hickory Run state park in the Lehigh Valley, two dozen Scouts, leaders, and guests gathered gear and waterproof lunches and headed for the nearby WhiteWater Challengers rafting center. A few opted for wet suits to stay warm in the reported 53 degree water.

How do you get your preschooler to eat vegetables?  That's a question every parent asks, and the answer is often elusive.  Tompkins Community Action's Sheila Bowman and Rachael Fish are hoping that the answer is for the children to grow them themselves.  " We want to see if they will eat more vegetables after we have done all of this education in the classroom about gardening and vegetables," Bowman says.  "We actually planted them right in the classroom.  We're hoping that their consumption increases after all of this hard work is put in."

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Dear IMO,

Our 17 year old daughter has just broken up with her boyfriend. They had been going together for two years and were inseparable to the point of obsession. It seems that she was always with him or trying to find ways to be with him. She often excused herself from family functions and events just to be with him. When we insisted that she be with us or attend some event, she would do so, but spend most of that time on her cell phone or text-message him. Now that they have broken up, she is beside herself and very depressed. Although we are relieved that they are no longer dating, we are worried about her. We were wondering what we can do to help her get through this.

Sincerely,

Sarah

Brendan Hammond, a junior at Lansing High School, recently participated in the 26th annual American Invitational Mathematics Examination (AIME). Brendan qualified for the AIME by scoring in the top 5% of the American Mathematics Contest 12.

This contest was established in 1973 as an intermediate step between the high school contests (American Mathematics Competition) and the U.S.A. Mathematical Olympiad (USAMO). The AIME is a 15 question, 3 hour examination in which each answer is an integer number from 0 to 999, students are very unlikely to obtain the correct answer by guessing. The questions on the AIME cover high school mathematics, and are much more difficult than those on the AMC 10 or AMC 12. All problems on the AIME can be solved by pre-calculus methods. The use of calculators is not allowed.

Kids will learn life lessons from playing sports and studying the Bible this August when the Asbury Church offers Mega Sports Camp.  The five day program sets daily goals and teaches kids how to reach them in sports and in life by using examples of real athletes as well as people who have overcome obstacles to reach the same goals in the Bible.  "They get some sports training and we also do what we call huddle groups," says the church's Children's Director Rachael Sharpsteen.  "They get together in their small groups and learn about a sports player and their life story and how they have achieved a certain goal.  At a second huddle time they get more in depth and talk about life issues, or the Bible story, or the theme for the day.  Then we come back to meet in a big group and talk about the Bible story.  We work on the goal, read scripture verse, and sing worship songs."

Sharpsteen has directed the camp for the past couple of years, but says it couldn't be done without parishioners who volunteer for both sports and moral coaching.  "We like to use different age groups," Sharpsteen says.  "Some of our older parishioners come out to be huddle coaches who deal more with the spiritual end of it.  They can be there to cheer the children as they are learning the athletic part, but they are also there to coach spiritually.  It's nice because everybody can be involved in it.  It's not just for younger people."