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JULY 6,1990 THE PHAROS-TRIBUNE LIFESTYLE PAGES What's Happening Logansport Alcoholics Anonymous meets at Trinity Lutheran Church, 97 E. Market today, Saturday and Sunday at 7:30 p.m. These are closed meetings. Cass County ABATE will meet at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Corner Pub Dance Hall.

For more information, call 722-4718. Clinton Township Alumni Association will hold its annual picnic at noon Sunday at the Clymers Volunteer Fire Department. Those planning to attend are to bring a covered dish and table service. Meat, bread and drink will be provided. There will be a $2 donation.

For more information, contact either Robert Heckard or Kathryn Lane. Farmers' Market will be held from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the corner of Fourth and Market streets. Any vendors are welcome. Logansport Alcoholics Anonymous will meet in the basement of Calvary Presbyterian Church, 701 Spencer on Sunday at 7:30 p.m.

This is a closed meeting. Psi lota Xi will hold its new members picnic at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the home of Madonna Plotner. Neighbors Gordon Gharis, Logansport, is the featured artist for July in the Browsing Room of the Logansport-Cass County Public Library. The exhibit includes black-and-white as well as color portraits of celebrities and local individuals.

The following individuals have graduated from Purdue University. From Cutler, Jerry Michner, with highest distinction, B.S., physical education; Stephen Parker, B.S., supervision; from Camden, Patrick Roberson, B.S., electrical engineering technology; James Graves, B.S., science; from Burlington, David Winslow, A.S., consumer and family science; Tracey Robinson, B.S., chemistry; from Bunker Hill, Pamela Aaron, B.S., health sciences; from Amboy, Sharon Shafer, B.S., mechanical engineering; from Winamac, Lisa Kwiatkowski, B.S., agriculture; and from Walton, Brian Reed, B.S., agriculture; Nell Martin, with distinction, B.S., agriculture; and Matt Gremelspacher, B.S., agriculture. The following students have achieved distinguished status for the spring 1990 semester at Purdue University-Kokomo: Ronald McBride, Bunker Hill; Lisa Simpson, Galveston; Timothy Newell, Logansport; and Dean Sullivan, Kory Wilson, a senior from Lewis Cass High School, recently accompanied 34 other youngsters on a tour of the nation's capital. While on Tour, Kory had the opportunity to visit Gettysburg, Mount Vernon, Arlington National Cemetery, National Zoological Park, ford's Theatre, Smithsonian Institution and Capital Hill. Pvt Clyde A.

Kiger, son of Kenton K. Kiger and Nancy E. Evans, both of Brookston, has completed the basic field artillery cannoneer course at Fort Sill, Okla, Pvt. Jeremy W. Gaunter, son of Frank L.

and Carol A. Gaumer, 2213 Royal Center Pike, has graduated from the combat signaler course at the United States Army Signal School, Fort 'Gordon, Ga. He is a 1989 graduate of Logansport High School. Raegan R. Kaler, daughter of Richard C.

and Gretchen E. Roach, Monticello, has been promoted in the United States Air Force to the rank of first lieutenant. Kaler, a 1984 graduate of Twin Lakes High School and 1988 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs, is an automatic digital network switching center officer with the 2130th Communications Group in England. Staff SgL Wayne S. Walker, son of Robert Walker, 101 Schiele Road, has been decorated with the Army Achievement Medal at Fort Irwin, Calif.

A 1979 graduate of Logansport High School, he is an armor crewmember with the 63rd Armor. Airman Charles J. Hoover, son of Hiram Hoover, 137 Tacoma has graduated from the United States Air Force aircraft pneudraulic systems course at Chanute Air Force Base, III. He is a 1989 graduate of Logansport High School. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Jon B.

Harkness, a 1979 graduate of Twin Lakes High School, has been designated an Enlisted Aviation Warfare Specialist. He received the designation while serving with Patrol Squadron-31, Naval Air Station, Moffett Field, Calif. Army National Guard Pvt. Gilford A. Massengill, nephew of Glen Massengill, Delphi, has completed training at the United States Army Infantry School, Fort Benning, Ga.

Spec. Jeffrey D. Gunned, son of Dave W. Gunnel), 5 Robert's Way, has completed a United States Army primary leadership course. He is a 1988 graduate of Lewis Cass High School.

Pharos Flashes Summer exercise, even it means light activity such as working in a garden, can reduce the risk of heart disease, the American Heart Association reports. People who avoid any physical activity run a 30 percent higher risk of coronary heart disease than more active people. Heat can be a major danger in summer months though, particularly if it leads to heat exhaustion or heat stroke. Heat exhaustion happens when the body is dehydrated and unable to cool itself. Symptoms include below normal body temperature, dizziness, headache, nausea and sometimes confusion.

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I'm an expert at it." Nancy Reagan, to American Camping Association I Have Reservations About Hotel Reservations It's summer and you are asking, "How can I be assured of getting a reasonable, comfortable hotel room during my annual vacation?" It may sound great that you can stay in The Ramshackle Inn for S27 a night and the kids can shower free, but if you want to assure yourself a pleasant vacation, there are a lot more questions you need to ask when considering a hotel than, "How much?" Because I am a veteran traveler and care about you, I am here today to share my wealth of knowledge on the subject of booking a room. It's pretty simple, really. Just make sure you get answers to the following 20 questions from the reservation clerk before you go handing over your credit card number: 1. Can I check in in less than an hour, or should I get in line and you'll get to me as soon as possible? 2. Is this a Pepsi hotel or a Coke hotel? (There are very few hotels that give you a choice.

Coke hotels tend to have larger towels.) 3. Is room service prompt, or should I go ahead and order morning coffee now for my August visit? Lewis Grizzard Commentary 4. Does any member of the hotel staff speak English, in case I need to ask a question like, "Is the water in this hotel supposed to be brown?" 5. How long after midnight will the maids start banging on my door if I forget to hang out my "Do Not Disturb" sign? 6. If you have Spectra Vision and I fall asleep during "Naughty Stewardesses," and it plays all night, will I be charged for each showing or just the one I intended to watch? 7.

Will I be able to figure out the shower control without a degree from MIT? 8. Do you prosecute for stolen robes? 9. How long is the average wait for an elevator? I only have two weeks. 10. Which is more expensive per day, my room or what it costs to leave my car in your parking garage? 11.

Will there be a college fraternity convention in this hotel or in any hotel within a 50-mile radius during my stay? 12. What will the sound of the air conditioner in my room remind me of a freight train? A tractor and trailer climbing a hill? The Battle of Midway? 13. If there is a mini-bar in my room, is financing available for what it will cost me if I use it? 14. Does the band in the lounge ever play "Feelings," "Jeremiah Was a Bull Frog," or "Proud 15. Which is cheaper a Cutlass Supreme or what you charge for local phone.calls? 16.

Is the key to my room an honest-to-God key with my room number on it, or some flimsy piece of plastic that may, or may not, open my door depending on how badly I need to use the bathroom? 17. How long will it take me to figure out how to turn on the lamp next to my bed? 18. Is the food in your restaurant comparable to most hotel food? 19. How far to the nearest Waffle House? 20. How long will it take me to check out or should I just get into the line and you'll get to me as soon as you're finished checking out the Mormon Tabernacle Choir? Ask questions.

Demand answers. Otherwise you could wind up where the towels are too small, the pillows are too soft, there's no hot water or cable and your room is next door to the honeymoon suite that includes a trapeze. COLOR HER AN ARTIST For art teacher Teri Partridge, becoming an art teacher has been the realization of a lifelong dream Photos by Steve When not teaching art at Columbia Middle School or designing sets for Logansport Junior Civic Theater, Teri Partridge relaxes with one of her favorite medium watercolor. Teri poses with some of her works as they are seen on display at the Edson Art Center. By DEB SAINE Pharos-Tribune Lifestyle Editor eri Partridge has enjoyed art from the time she was a second-grader at Tipton School.

"I can remember being able to draw a horse head real well," she recalls. "And having requests from people for me to draw for them." And if her teacher had asked Teri then and there what she wanted to be when she grew up, the answer would've been an artist and a teacher. And today, at the age of 38, Ten's aspirations have been realized since 1974, she has worked as an art teacher for Logansport School Corporation and on July 1, an exhibition featuring a number of her paintings opened at Edson Art Center. Her favorite medium is watercolor. "That's what I feel at home with," Teri says.

"It's so transparent, fresh, light and airy." Some artists shy away from watercolor, she says, because of its transparency. "If you make a mistake, you either have to live with it or start over." Once the final bell of the school year sounds and summer vacation officially begins, Teri can be found painting her favorite subjects, which are florals, on the screened in porch of the home she shares with her husband, Tom, and their two children on Perrysburg Road. Her painting is an obsession, she says, and once she finishes her daily household chores, she heads for the porch. "I need to paint. And when I don't paint for awhile, it's like I have this explosion in my head." It takes her between three and four hours to complete a painting.

"Ninety-percent of doing watercolor is spent getting ready and the other 10 percent is spent doing the actual painting. I do a lot of the work ahead of time in my brain." Lately, she's been dabbling with contrasts and shadows and her favorite watercolor to date is one of geraniums with blue shadows. When she isn't able to have her subject right in front of her, she'll work from a photograph. And when she's not sitting in front of an easel on her porch, Ten is either doing things with her family, teaching art, designing T-shirts or designing sets for Logansport's Junior Civic Theater. Once a month during the summer, Teri can be found at Spencer Park teaching "Art in the Park" classes for youngsters.

She also teaches beginning drawing and watercolor classes at Edson Art Center. As an teacher, one of Ten's goals is. to help her students get over their fears of making mistakes. Her objective is to help her students learn to recognize and verbalize their mistakes rather than having her point them out for them. For Junior Civic Theater's production of "The Wizard of Oz," Teri put together the Emerald City and the witch's castle.

As a youngster, Teri remembers being active in JCT when it first began and helping a gentleman by the name of Frosty Reed construct the sets. "The teacher in me would like to pass on what Frosty passed on to me," she says. She also uses her artistry to design T-shirts to promote the annual balloon race held during the Iron Horse Festival as well as to promote various JCT productions. For Teri, it's not what she paints but how she paints it. "There's just something about a good painting," she says.

"The colors are fresh and crisp. And it's not the subject matter that's important, but how it's been carried off.".