
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, May 3, 1993                   TAG: 9305030239
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President Bill Clinton soon will be hearing from Michael Cranwell, a third-grader in Pat Crockett's class at Herman L. Horn Elementary in Vinton. Michael was one of 148 kids in kindergarten through ninth grade, who had their "If I Were President" essay chosen for publication in a book which will be mailed to Clinton.

Each entrant was required to tell what they would try to do if they were president. Among the things Michael said he would do were focus on the environment, "send food to countries that don't have any and adopt all the children in orphanages."

There were hundreds of thousands of entries in the national contest sponsored by Troll Books.

Looking for something fun to do this weekend? North Cross School is holding its annual Field Day Saturday, from 10 a.m.-3 p.m. A Caribbean festival will feature entertainment, rides, music and games. Admission is free.

Confused about all the words you hear when people talk about the environment? Here are some "envirowords" and what they mean:

\ Environment: All natural and living things.

\ Endangered: A living thing whose population, or number, is getting steadily smaller.

\ Extinct: No longer existing. For animals or plants, not one exists in the world.

\ Pollute: To make dirty. - Knight/Ridder-Tribune

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