NEXT UP: MICE-CAPADES HAMSTER ICE RACES PART OF FUND-RAISER FOR BOYS & GIRLS CLUB.Byline: Nicholas Grudin Staff Writer VALENCIA - Hamsters in plastic balls on ice ... racing. It sounds strange, but that's the plan for this July 4th celebration at the Valencia Ice Station, which will host the ``Hamsters on Ice Derby'' to benefit the Boys & Girls Club Girls Club is a 2002 American television series created by David E. Kelley, who was also it's producer and executive producer. Only two out of a total of thirteen episodes created were broadcast on Fox Television in the United States and Global Television in Canada. of Santa Clarita Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, . ``It's just another way of creating fun, that's all - it's something for the kids to get involved in and when it comes down to it, that's what it's all about,'' said Gary Lane Australian chess player and author Gary W. Lane (born 1964 United Kingdom) is an International Master. Gary Lane is a professional chess player and author, and is considered one of the leading chess authors in the world. , marketing director for the Ice Station. The idea is that hamsters will be put in rolling balls In topology, quantum mechanics and geometrodynamics, rolling-ball arguments are used to describe how the perceived geometry and connectivity of a surface can be scale-dependent. and let loose at the center of the ice rink. The first hamster hamster, Old World rodent, related to the voles, lemmings, and New World mice. There are many hamster species, classified in several genera. All are solitary, burrowing, nocturnal animals, with chunky bodies, short tails, soft, thick fur, and large external cheek to roll its ball outside of the center circle will win the competition, and the hamster's owner will be awarded a prize. Tuesday, Scribbles, a brown hamster, and Sleepy, an albino albino (ălbī`nō) [Port.,=white], animal or plant lacking normal pigmentation. The absence of pigment is observed in the body covering (skin, hair, and feathers) and in the iris of the eye. - two of Pet Adventure's hamster derby trainees - took to the ice in their plastic exercise balls. Scribbles dominated the race twice, motoring his ball to the edge of the center circle as if he knew he was being watched. Sleepy, however, lived up to his name. ``You have thoroughbreds, and you have mules,'' said Mark Rose, president of Pet Adventure. But, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Rose, hamsters are comfortable in the low temperatures of the rink. ``Hamsters are very at home on ice - they are found in the frozen climate in Siberia,'' Rose said. Lane initially thought of the hamster derby when he tripped on one of his children's hamster exercise balls while walking in the door to his house after work. This, however, was not the first time he has put on some kind of animal race. In 1971, as class president at York Memorial High School in Toronto, Lane organized a turtle turtle, a reptile of the order Chelonia, with strong, beaked, toothless jaws and, usually, an armorlike shell. The shell normally consists of bony plates overlaid with horny shields. race as a fund-raiser. ``Chaos ensued, but we raised a lot of money,'' Lane said. The winner of the derby, which is sponsored by the Canyon Country pet store Pet Adventure, will win a grand prize of a skating party for 20 and a space station hamster cage. Second- and third-place hamster owners will be awarded other hamster supplies, and all participants will earn two-for-one skating coupons. The entry fee is $5 in advance, or $10 the day of the event. The race will start at 7:15 p.m., and sign-in is set for 6:30 p.m. CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- 2 -- color) Mark Rose, above, president of Pet Adventures, looks on as Scribbles the hamster, above left, races across the ice at the Ice Station in Valencia. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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