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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1983)
Friday, October 28,1983/The Battalion/Page 5 round town >L Mary’s sponsors Funfest Sunday St. Mary’s Catholic Church and the College Station inights of Columbus will host their ’83 Fall Funfest Sun- iay. The festival will offer a full round of food, fun and fellowship at St. Mary’s Student Center grounds, 103 Nagle in College Station. A barbequed chicken and sausage dinner with all the trimmings will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Plates will cost $4 for adults and $2.50 for children under 12. Meals also dll be available “to go.” Highlighting afternoon activities will be a talent show, a pffle for a large number of prizes, including a Yamaha notorbike, and a wide variety of games and booths. Refresh- nents will be available throughout the afternoon. The community is invited to attend. Red Cross screens blood pressure The Red Cross of Brazos County will offer blood press- re screenings at Post Oak Mall from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. aturday. This community service, offered the last Saturday f every month, is free. It will be located near the informa tion booth. i^Local employees recognized by state • more fro; ure checks front of tki Three local employees of the State Department of High ways and Public Transportation have received service wards. George E. Boriskie, district traffic engineer, was ecognized for 30 years with the department. Billy G. Bock- j mon, supervising resident engineer for Brazos and Burleson counties, received a 25 year service award. Earnest Williams ilso was recognized for 25 years of service. Williams is a naintenance technician in equipment operations for the lepartment. ce •n lie alkmf cv can pai on on could not es, he said, eed, preside!! Cycling team to sponsor club race Saving energy focus of show by Cathy Smith Battalion Reporter A special appearance by COPO, the College Station Police Department’s new robot, and a solar water heating work- shop will highlight this weekend’s Bryan/College Sta tion 1983 Energy Show. The Energy Show, held in conjunction with American Energy Awareness Week and sponsored by the College Sta tion Energy Department, will fe- ature programs on energy- •vlated topics. The show will be Saturday at the College Station Community Center from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The energy situation here is critical, College Station’s energy auditor Valerie Bauer says. Bryan/College Station’s electric ity rates could double in the next three years because long-term gas contracts are running out, she says. The show is being held to in crease public awareness of ener gy conservation methods. Local businesses and organizations will be on hand to supply infor mation about products that can decrease utility bills and increase freedom from conventional energy sources, Bauer says. As an energy auditor, Bauer goes to apartments and houses to assess their energy efficiency. She then offers tips on how to “tighten up” the home or apart ment. Most apartment mana gers don’t take the time to weatherstrip and caulk, she says. Parents have been concerned about their kids’ utility bills for some time, Bauer says. Parents from Dallas, Houston and Au stin have called to complain ab out their kids’ electricity bills, she said. “Students can’t afford any more than necessary for utili ties,” she says. 3702 S. College Bryan, Texas 846-2872 OPEN 24 HRS. PER DAY Free booklets with energy saving tips will be available at Saturday’s show. The solar water heating workshop will be of particular interest to people wanting infor mation on home solar water heating systems. The workshop will include the components and construction of solar water heat ing systems, the economics of us ing solar energy and examples of existing systems. COPO the robot will give energy advice to youngsters and their parents and answer ques tions. The police department has had the robot for three weeks and it has been a success, patrolman Tom Lewis says. “It’s not only the kids who like him, it’s also the adults,” Lewis says. “He’s an attention-getter,” he says. Other guests will include the consumer information specialist from Lone Star Gas who will dis cuss the operation and cost advantages of new high- efficiency gas appliances. A representative from Andersen Window Company will give a presentation for “do- it-yourselfers” on utilizing dou ble-pane windows for energy efficiency in home remodeling. A series of movies also will be shown throughout the day. Members of the Peaceable Kingdom School, who empha size self-reliance, will feature a parabolic solar food cooker, a solar hot air collector, and a photovoltaic solar panel. If the sun is shining Saturday, the so lar equipment will be demons trated, Bauer says. Bauer says Bryan/College Station is a prosperous area but most people don’t realize that the energy problems of the northern states are going to hit here in the future. American Energy Week Inc., based in Washington, D.C., was established three years ago to sti mulate discussion and interest in the need for development of the nation’s own resources and tech nologies, he says. WriWWFFW FXTffBVTCmfW 1 HALF PRICE BOOKS RECORDS MAGAZINES we buy and sell anything printed or recorded all stores open 7 days a week Friday, Oct. 28th thru Monday, Oct. 31st. All of our twenty stores have just received huge shipments of new collectible Comics...over 300 titles! PLUS — Specials on Mystery, Occult and Sci-Fi books. DON’T MISS IT...YOU’LL HAVE A FRIGHTENINGLY GOOD TIME! 3828 Texas Ave. (next to Randy Sims Bar-B-Que) The A&M Cycling Team invites anyone interested in bicycle racing to join them in an open club race Sunday at 4:30 p.m. in the Post Oak Mall parking lot. Anyone may enter the race, and anyone entering is encouraged to bring a helmet. Spectators are welcome. ii Cromptoni narks board,! the fee preps To submit an item for this column, come by The Battalion ioffice in 216 Reed McDonald. Lawsuit possible ;S to stop EPA plan “111 of ljlt| en whosmi tr participur si miners pn : charged ub her proponia •ups thau* ■en if this letF ilemeiiied.Ii horrid be efil red Wayagem en who camp jse this fie .ho cannot)! I not be a cm I United Press International j BROWNSVILLE — State Sen. Hector Uribe urged coastal residents Thursday to oppose the burning of toxic wastes in the Gulf of Mexico off the Texas coast. Kin a speech to the Texas Gulf ijCoast Civil Defense Association, the Brownsville Democrat said he is not convinced the Environ mental Protection Agency “did its job well” in granting a tenta tive permit for the burning of the wastes. Blinder the EPA permit, Che mical Waste Management Inc., of Oak Brook, Ill., plans to oper ate two incincerator ships in the Gulf of Mexico in 1984. P Public hearings on the issue are set for Nov. 21 in Brownsvil le and Nov. 22-23 in Mobile, Ala., the two ports from which the ships would operate. ■ “Why don’t our sister states on the east and west coasts share the burden? Uribe asked in his I speech. “Why don’t they burn PCBs 170 miles from Washing ton, D.C., or 170 miles from the Reagan ranch in California?” pUrbide joined state Attorney General Jim Mattox Wednesday in asking Texas’ senators to in tervene with the EPA to block the disposal. Mattox also threatened to sue the federal agency. I Meanwhile in Austin, Gov. Mark White said Thursday a JOGGING Lcould be BAD FOR YOU! es> If you run Sunday mornings between 9:30 and 11:30 and miss any of the following: •Bible Study for serious Bible students of all ages at 10:30am •Worship for people who want to feel close to God at 9:30am at Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church (meeting at South Knoll School) 693-4514 lawsuit might be “appropriate.” “I don’t understand why they’re (EPA) undertaking such an endeavor,” he said. “The ex posure is enormous. The re mote possibility of leakage is more than we can afford.” Trice'^Gcacii. postage Sizes-. 5 "NL "Write jor jree catafog £ cfetaifs on custom orefers 3-nttVa*u J&'KiiAs ?,0, Sc* 42531-f fiocfiesltr, IVTJ MU