The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 49

SKCTION VI I UIU VI I SI 24 CITY STAR IheSwfert Chapel A Southern California Church draws those who have a reverence for the maker of the waves See Faith oa Page 11 A Princeton professor has made a clean-burning fuel from his trash 0 star Matt LeBlanc sure loves his Pinters is sexy and this car goes in excess of 200 miles per he oozes the line of the car the me sleekness and curvaceous ness that I think is really sexy Pantera is like a woman a bit fiiucky sometimes: It needs to go to the beauty parior for some fixing up it requires a tender touch How much of a chauvinist do I sound like? I can't help it I don't have a girlfriend right now but I have my UAfiftrtN im KfTCHCN HOWiOHOAim Scott Forwwnan jetting Ocbonary WhythaycaPfta gueea By EDWARD MEVELD SiaH Writer before school or at lunchtime The good news: There is no end to the kind of help schools need from parents Frank Croskey principal at Highlands Elementary in Mission says parents need only ask To name just a few duties parents shelve books in the library serve as field trip volunteers work with students in the computer club volunteer at classroom parties and make cut-outsfor bulletin boards a project that can be accomplished mostly at home you really want to be involved there are ways to be Croskey said Peggy Sachs principal at St School in Kansas City says parents perform an array of tasks from collecting historical records for the archives to taking photographs at special events Parents who like literature lead book clubs for fourth- through eighth-graders during lunch and recess Parents with special interests from jewelry-making to law to See SCHOOUWORK Col 1 Jeffrey Pyrdoch 19 and an alleged accomplice were arrested in West Lafayette Ind in May on theft and fraud charges Pyrdoch allegedly cashed checks that he had written with disappearing ink apparently believing the checks would be biankby the time they were presented to the bank for collection However traces of ink remained and police said Pyr-doch would nave had a better chance of getting away with it if he had not used checks imprinted with his name and aocount number on them Fbr more strange stuff call StaiToadi at (816) 889-7827 and enter 9995 Take every Opportunity to meet with teachers and advisers The more contact between home and school the better WkpIL i Caimm- nrna iilrtan Mm! otwiw rims mm fJVmHQMniAiiwis Some suggestions for par- become well informed about ents who want to be involved your school in their schools: Resolve to find at least Decide now that attend- three ways to help at school ing parent association meet- this year anything from tu-ings and activities is an toring to career-day speaking solute in the new to volunteering for projects school year up to you to you can complete at home No respect! Are TV comics too mean-united in their iokes about Bill Clinton and Bob Dole? AJX 79s Long-dormant Mount Vesuvius erupted burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash An estimated 20000 people died 1814: British forces invaded to set fire to the Capitol and the White House 1932: Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly nonstop across the United States traveling from Los Angeles to Newark NJ in jin over 19 hours hen Kansas newest TV station begins broadcasting Sept 14 it will concentrate on programming tilted toward the crowd It also will mean the loss of KMBC Channel 9 General Manager Dino Dinovitz in the Channel 9 control room which will be used initially for new station KCWB Channel 29 as well uled for 8 tonight at 9715 US40 Far am everts see Pagstt.