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Protest sinks Sun Prairie room taxBy PAMELA COTANTCapital Times Correspondent

SUN PRAIRIE - This city's con-troversial room tax proposal ap-pears dead in the water.

Bowing to pressure Monday, thePersonnel and Finance Committeevoted to kill the tax idea. Extraor-dinary action by the City Council —which seems unlikely — would beneeded to revive it.

Sally Carpenter, manager ,o£McGovern's Motel, picketed theSun Prairie Public Library where

the committee met. About 20 peo-ple attended the meeting to showdisapproval of the tax, many ofthem wearing tags drawn by Car-penter with a slash mark over thewords "motel tax."

The committee had been dividedover the idea of a room tax beforeAid. Robert Brodzin moved to dropit. The motion passed unanimously.

Aid. David Hanneman told theaudience that the proposal was fora room tax that taxes the patrons,not a motel tax.

Hanneman had earlier estimated

that if the tax was set at 5 percent,it would bring in at least $50,000 an-nually. His figure was based on a$25 room rate and 70 percent occu-pancy, which he said was conserva-tive.

But Brodzin said he felt "this is adiscriminatory tax." He also said itdidn't appear the committee hadthought out where it would spendthe money well enough.

The committee had looked atspending the money on culturalevents, community promotion,beautification, economic dvelop-

ment and marketing."It looks like you're just building

another niche for someone to sit inand dictate where the taxes aregoing," he said.

He suggested the committee pro-pose a sales tax that would hiteverybody.

"Gentlemen, if this tax is enact-ed, you will be responsible for thedemise of at least one lodging fa*cility in Sun Prairie," Carpentersaid.

She said the city's motels can'tcompete with Madison motels'

"fairy tale amenities," and alreadyreceive complaints on things likebeing billed for phone calls.

"We are going to stick together,we are going to protect each other,and we aren't going to be gobbledup by big city businesses in Madi-son," Carpenter said.

Ron Waseka, owner of the Super8 here, said the room tax is no dif-ferent than the city stopping visi-tors on Wisconsin 19 or U.S. 151 andasking for money.

"We, the motel people, are thescapegoat tax collectors," he said.

Carolyn Rusk, executive directorof the Sun Prairie Chamber ofCommerce, said the chamber'sboard is against a room tax.

"We don't want to put any busi-ness in danger of going out of busi-ness," she said.

The tax would hurt the smallprice margin it currently has overmotels in Madison where there is aroom tax, said Dale Warner, Super8 manager.

Harold Gibbons, manager of the

Please see SUN PRAIRIE, Page 24

Taking a bathCHARLES S. VALLONE/Associated Press

Racers splash toward the finish line in the Muskrat Run, an annual tubing race held last weekend on awestern Racine County stretch of the Fox River.

Aide says Burkes'management styleled to his firingBy MATT POMMERCapital Times Staff Writer

Gov. Tommy Thompson's chiefaide today denied Marshall Burkeshad been fired as executive direc-tor of the state Investment Boardbecause he had challenged a long-time Capitol figure and friend ofThompson.

Administration Secretary JamesKlauser said fired SIB staff bossBurkes had been angered when M.William Gerrard, a longtime Capi-tol figure, had bypassed the staff toget a rehearing on a proposed in-vestment in a California real estatedeal, but the fallout had nothing todo with Burkes' firing.

Although Gerrard was stateDemocratic Party chairman from1971 to 1975, he has contributedgenerously to candidates of bothparties.

Gerrard, who made his mark as aLa Cros.se real estate broker, nowis a lobbyist for several groups, in-cluding the G. Heileman BrewingCo. and the Wisconsin ChiropracticAssociation.

Klauser said Burkes' firing wastriggered by his management style.Senior staffers, some of whomwere ready to seek work else-where, contended Burkes "unpro-fessionally" meddled in their work,

according to Klauser.Several members of the Invest-

ment Board asked for a meeting tooutline their grievances, accordingto Klauser. That meeting tookplace at Klauser's lakefront homethis spring.

Burkes was officially firedFriday as executive director of theboard, which manages $20 billion instate funds. Most of the money is inpublic employee pension funds.Last Tuesday the board had re-moved him from direction of thestaff and he was told Wednesdaynot to report to the office.

Burkes has taken several issuesto the attorney general's office andthe state auditor, according to hisattorney, Robert Gingras. Burkestook that action because of his "fi-duciary responsibility," he said.

At issue was whether "finderfees" should be identified in statereports. Klauser said Burkes tookup the issue after Gerrard sought arehearing on the proposed Califor-nia real estate deal.

Burkes apparently decided to"take on Gerrard" after he by-passed the Investment Board staffand went directly to Board Chair-man Eugene Martin for a rehear-ing.

Please see BURKES, Page 24

Program to keep drunks off road running on emptyBy STEPHANIE WALTERSCapital Times Staff Writer

After a month of helping ease the prob-lem of drunken driving, the Saferider pro-gram has helped to keep almost 300 peoplewho have had one too many off the road.

The program has been so successful thatthe Dane County Tavern League wants toexpand it, but lack of funding could pre-vent that from happening.

Tavern League President Dave Wiga-nowsky has sent the call out to organiza-tions and now just might get the help heneeds to keep Saferider in the business ofkeeping the roads free of drunken drivers.

As of June 20,289 Saferider vouchers hadbeen used. The- Saferider program isscheduled to end July 10 and as each daypasses without word on funding, the moreworried Wiganowsky becomes that no onewill help and the program will have to shutdown.

"I don't understand it. We've done whatwe set out to do and now that we needhelp, no one wants to," he said.

Axel Anderson, of the Dane County TaskForce on Drinking and Driving, was askedto get involved with the Tavern League'sefforts. He first declined, but now seems tohave undergone a change of heart.

"I didn't realize their numbers were sogood. They're phenomenal," Andersonsaid. "It is a possibility that we could chan-nel money into the Saferider program.We're real impressed with what they'vedone."

But Anderson said the task force also islooking into other programs.

"We'd like to do something like they aredoing in Nevada, with volunteers takingthe drunks home. But in the meantime,Saferider is definitely a solid programwe'll get involved with and help to keepgoing," he said.

But Chuck Taylor, vice president of theTavern League and a member of the taskforce, is not holding his breath.

"Right after Saferider started, Axel senta letter out saying how there were no pro-grams in Dane County to help keep drunkdrivers off the road and then told me thetask force couldn't give us any money be-

• cause it couldn't be used to feed the pro-gram," Taylor said.

"There is still $2,000 available for '89 butI haven't formally requested it becausewe'll have to use it for development andwe need it to feed the program," Taylorsaid.

Anderson said there is a way to get themoney the Tavern League needs to keepthe program going indefinitely and said hewill take action to see that they get it.

"I didn't realize the urgency of the mat-ter, but hopefully we can get them somefunds within the next month," Anderson

said.Wiganowsky said he sent a letter to Sue

Janowski, chairman of the Wisconsinchapter of Mothers Against Drunk Driving(MADD), asking for help to keep theSaferider program going.

He has received no response from her todate. Janowski, however, said she neverreceived a letter from the Tavern League.

"I talked to Mr. Wiganowsky when wewere testifying at the hearing to lower thedrinking age. He told me a little about theprogram and gave me his business card. Itold him we normally support programslike his and I guessed we would be hearingfrom him, but I still haven't," Janowskisaid.

Taylor, however, said he saw a copy ofthe draft.

"I thought they'd want to be a part of itfor sure after they saw our record, but westill haven't heard from them. Well, why

not?" Wiganowsky said.Janowski said the reason MADD cannot

be involved is economic."We usually shy away from giving mone-

tary support, mainly because we can't af-ford it. But we will do ads and give supportin other ways," she said.

Anderson said they are still looking forsomething more permanent and less lim-ited than cab rides. But Wiganowsky saidit is possible to look at other programs andstill support Saferider.

"Here is a program that's working andno one wants to get involved? People saythey want to stop drinking and driving butno one sure as hell is doing anything aboutit. If people are as concerned as they saythey are, why not help us out?" Wiganow-sky said.

The Saferider program is co-sponsoredby Union Cab, The Capital Times, WKOW-TV/Channel 27 and several brewers.

Ex-teacher on trialin sex assault caseBy MIKE MILLERCapital Times Staff Writer

Testimony in the trial of formerMarquette Middle School teacherJanet Hornback began today in acase in which she is accused of hav-ing sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl in 1984.

The trial comes after two pleaagreements were rejected in thecase by. Dane County Circuit CourtJudge Gerald Nichol, who is presid-ing at the trial.

Hornback, 44, is charged with twocounts of sexual assault for alleg-edly having sexual contact with thegirl at Hornback's home in Morri-sonville in the summer of 1984.

The girl is a former pupil ofHornback, who was a physicaleducation teacher at Marquette for13 years before resigning last Oct.31.

The alleged sexual incidentswere not brought to light until lastyear when the girl told a relative,who in turn told police.

When questioned by detectives,the victim, who is now 19, told au-thorities she had sexual contactwith Hornback "too many times tocount" during the summer of 1984.

She was able to specify a timeframe for one such incident in Juneand another in August, and those

are the basis for the two charges inthe criminal complaint.

Sexual contact by adults withpeople between the age of 12 and 16is considered second-degree sexualassault.

Assistant District Attorney Ken-neth Farmer, who is prosecutingthe case, and attorney LesterPines, who is representing Horn-back, worked out a plea bargaintwice in past months, but bothtimes the judge turned down theproposal

After Nichol rejected an initialagreement, saying he did not haveenough information about the case,a new agreement was worked outin which Hornback would have ent-ered a no-contest plea to one countand would have been placed onprobation for five years and given a30-day jail sentence.

She also would have been ord-ered to serve 400 hours of com-munity service, and agree to holdno job in which she would be incharge of minors.

Although the victim and hermother agreed with that plea bar-gain, the judge rejected it, sayinghe thought a 30-day jail sentencewas too lenient.

Jurors were selected Monday tohear the case, and testimony is ex-pected to last one day.

CHUCK D'ACQUISTO/Associated Press

Window on the worldA Racine family cut this hole in their fence for Fife, acurious sort who, they insist, is actually quite friendly.

Verona council backs18-151 southern bypassBy CAROL MOTHERSHEADCapital Times Correspondent

VERONA - As the U.S. 18-151 by-pass progresses from an idea to ac-tual plans and timelines, the CityCouncil is making its preferencesknown.

The council unanimously passeda motion Monday night supportinga proposed southern route aroundthis city.

Mayor Phil Salkin urged all coun-cil members to attend the public in-formation presentation by the Wis-consin Department of Transporta-tion — Wednesday, June 28, at 7p.m. at the Verona Middle School —to express support for that route.

Salkin noted that the southernroute has been endorsed by thecouncil, the Chamber of Com-merce, the Verona Senior Citizens,the school board and by him in hiscapacity as mayor.

Salkin said the general consensuswas that this route would siphonthe maximum amount of trafficaway from the downtown area.Routes through the city wouldcause terrible traffic problems, hesaid, possibly cutting the city inhalf and sending as many as 20,000cars a day past a day care centerand an elementary school.

Salkin said a proposed northernbypass would not ease truck trafficproblems within the city because

Phil Salkin

Verona's present and prospectiveindustrial parks are south of thecity.

Council member resigns:In other business Monday, CityCouncil members passed a motionrequested by Aid. Jim Struve allow-ing him to resign from his Ward 2post.

Struve, 39, was appointed to theoffice in June 1988. He ran unop-posed in the April election.

Struve said his 50- to 60-hourwork week as a service operationsmanager with More Than Comput-ers in Madison does not allow himthe extra time the position of alder-man deserves.

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Sim Prairie officialsreject truck route ideaByK.LAUCapital Times Correspondent

SUN PRAIRIE - The CityCouncil has rejected a bid to routetruck traffic through a west-sideresidential neighborhood as ameans of easing truck trafficthrough central-city neighbor-hoods.

The proposal, rejected 5-3,would have designated ThompsonRoad on the city's west side as atruck route. The proposal wouldnot have eliminated the Wisconsin19 truck route that passes throughthe Bristol and Windsor streetsneighborhoods, but proponents ofthe measure said it would lessenthe traffic there.

Opponents cited safety and traf-fic .concerns with the plan, andpointed to past assurances fromthe city to Thompson Road resi-dents that the street would not be-come a truck route.

A solution to the problem, cityofficials believe, lies in the handsof the state Department of Trans-portation.

The city wants DOT to re-routetrucks that now pass through the

city on Wisconsin 19 to north ofthe city — via County VV and U.S..151.

But plans for widening U.S. 151in 1990 and 1991 do not include aninterchange at the 151-VV inter-section in the town of Bristol.

DOT officials have said that theproposed interchange would cost$4 to $5 million, and that trafficstudies to be conducted next yearwould have to justify the cost.

Aid. David Hanneman concededthat Thompson Road is the streetmost suited for truck traffic, butsaid the plan would create "ex-tremely hazardous" conditions atthe Thompson Road-Wisconsin 19intersection west of the city.

He said the plan would alsocreate more truck traffic on MainStreet, and that if the proposalwas adopted the city might haveto reconsider a ban on Main Streetparking.

"It just doesn't make sense totake a problem in one part of thecity" and move it to another, saidAid. Robert Brodzin.

But Aid. Eugene Hensen said theclaims about safety on Thompson

Road were exaggerated, andurged adoption of the measure.

Aid. Dale Davis said the cost ofrefurbishing Thompson Road sev-eral years ago was borne by alltaxpayers in the city, and saidBristol Street and Windsor Streetresidents deserve relief from theunsafe conditions created by truckin their neighborhoods.

In other action, the council onTuesday:

• Tabled a request from DaneCounty for a commitment to par-ticipate in a proposed county ma-terials recycling facility, citingthe lack of information needed tomake a formal committment.

• Tabled consideration of a two-year, $38,885 contract with CityEngineer/Public Works DirectorDavid Kaul, and approved a two-year $26,865 contract with CityClerk Edna Markstahler.

• Referred a proposed five-yearParks and Open Space plan to theCity Plan Commission.

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WISCONSIN

Hanaway reports$70,192 in funds

Republican Attorney GeneralDon Hanaway reported raising$70,192 in campaign money inthe first six months of this year,an amount lower than his twoDemocratic competitors, statecampaign reports show.

Hanaway's report also showedthe attorney general's re-electioncampaign spent $35,605, leaving$44,245 in his campaign warchest as of June 30.

Former Dane County DistrictAttorney James Doyle, a Demo-cratic candidate, reported raising$87,581 in contributions this year.He had $102,844 in his campaignaccount at the end of June, hiscampaign report said.

Sen. William Te Winkle,D-Sheboygan, the other Demo-cratic candidate, said he will filehis report today with the stateElections Board. A campaignspokeswoman estimated the TeWinkle campaign had raisedmore than $124,000 in the firstsix months of this year.

Doyle and Te Winkle will meetSept. 11 in the Democratic pri-mary. The winner meets Han-away and Labor-Farm candidatePatricia Hammel on Nov. 6.

• Judges' raises: The JointCommittee on Employment Rela-tions delayed a decision Thursdayon a request that Supreme Courtjustices and other judges be given4-percent pay raises.

The eight-day delay will givethe state Department of Employ-ment Relations time to studywhether other elected officials, in-cluding lawmakers, should receivepay raises.

Lawmakers who will be electedin November will receive $33,622a year, which is above the averagepaid in other Midwestern states.

• Pot charges: An Avalon cou-ple will stand trial in Rock CountyCircuit Court on charges that theymanufactured and sold marijuanaat their home.

Terry D. Taylor, 42,.and Rose-mary Taylor, 33, will face trial onone count each of possession of acontrolled substance with intent todeliver, manufacture of a con-trolled substance, operating a drug

Associated Press

People leave Racine's North Beach along Lake Michigan Wednesday as storms approach. Storms brought rain, lightning and hail to the region.

house and failure to purchase statedrug tax stamps.

They were arrested May 1, thefirst day a state drug tax stamplaw, requiring drug dealers to pur-chase the stamps, went into effect.The law offers prosecutors an-other charge in trying drug deal-ers.

Authorities raiding the Taylors'home found about 18 pounds ofmarijuana with an estimatedstreet value of $30,000.

The suspects are free on$20,000 signature bonds.

• Special election: A specialelection will be held Nov. 6 to fill avacancy created by Sen. LloydKincaid's resignation, the gover-nor's office said Thursday.

Kincaid, D-Crandon, said twoweeks ago that health forced himto retire from the Legislature.

RECORDSBIRTHSMeritor Hospital

July 18,1990James and Jennifer PROBST, Cam-

bridge, daughter.

Dave and Mary Pat DILLEY, Waunakee,son.

William and Angela SPAHN, Lodi,daughter.

David COWARD and Ruth Ann RAM-STAD, Madison, son.

July 19,1990Stan and Debby GUDEL, Middleton,

daughter.Mitchell and Monica CROOK, Spring

Green, son.James and Karen CHRISTIANSEN,

Middleton, daughter.

Gov. Tommy Thompson an-nounced he is scheduling the spe-cial election to coincide with thestate's Nov. 6 general election.Primary elections are Sept. 11.

MADISONChristian Scientistchurch to move

First Church of Christ Scien-tist has purchased the worshiphall of Heritage Congregational-Christian Church, 610 S. SegoeRoad, and will remodel it forworship use, officials of Heritagesaid Thursday.

Heritage is building a $485,000church at the intersection ofPrairie and Brandon roads nearHighway PD on the city's WestSide. Groundbreaking ceremonies

are scheduled for 12:30 p.m. Sun-day, said the Rev. RichardPritchard, assistant pastor.

Until the new building is com-pleted, Heritage will meet atHuegel Elementary School, 2601Prairie Road, at 10:30 a.m. Sun-days.

• Beans on fire: An estimated100 pounds of coffee beans caughtfire during the roasting processabout 9 a.m. Thursday, causing$2,000 in damage to a Steep &Brew warehouse at 1148 William-son St., the Madison Fire Depart-ment reported.

Firefighters were called whena neighbor noticed smoke pouringfrom the building and flamesshooting through the chimney, saidLt. Tom Olshanski.

The beans apparently caughtfire when a circulating fan mal-functioned in the roaster, Olshan-

ski said. The fire burned insulationin the ceiling and damaged theroaster.

DANE COUNTY• Marshall fire: The mainbuilding of a stock removal com-pany one mile east of Marshallwas destroyed by fire Thursdaynight.

Several firefighters were over-come by exhaustion while fightingthe 10 p.m. blaze at Karem Inc.,but none suffered serious injuries,said Sgt. Craig VanderMolen of theDane County Sheriff's Depart-ment. No one was in the building,he said.

No damage estimates wereavailable Thursday night.

The 4,000-square-foot building,which contained offices and cool-

ers, was used for storage.Highway 19 was closed for an

hour when fog and smoke limitedvisibility, VanderMolen said.

The Marshall Fire Departmentwas assisted by Sun Prairie, Wa-terloo and Deerfield fire depart-ments.

• Skier critical: A water-skierinjured on Lake Waubesa Wednes-day night remained in criticalcondition Thursday at UniversityHospital.

Tina McFadden, 25, was water-skiing behind a boat when she col-lided with another boat. No infor-mation on possible charges wasavailable Thursday night.

MILWAUKEE

'Cowardly' slayingnets life sentence

A Milwaukee County circuitjudge says Dirk Harris, 21, com-mitted a "cowardly murder"when he killed a television floormanager last year in Milwaukee.

Judge William Gardner sen-tenced Harris on Wednesday tolife in prison with no parole eligi-bility until he is 66 for the first-degree murder and armed rob-bery of Dennis Owens, 31.

A jury found Harris guiltyMay 5. Owens' body was foundoutside a warehouse. He had beenshot five times and run over by acar.

"I'm really concerned this vic-tim was selected because of hislifestyle," Gardner said beforeimposing sentence. "Those of thegay lifestyle are less likely tocomplain to police because of as-saults."

St. Mary's HospitalJuly 17,1990Eric and Sharon WALK, McFarland,

son.Kathryn LYSTER and Gregory ANDER-

SON, Madison, daughter.July 18,1990Bob and Kari JUEDES, DeForest, son.Boris and Catherine POLYAK, Madison,

son.Lori and Giles SANTYR, Monona,

daughter.July 19,1990Joan and Patrick CAREY, Madison,

twin sons.Robert and Rhonda BRIDGES, Madi-

son, son.Fred and Wendy WINGER, Evansville,

daughter.Rick and Donna LESTER, Sun Prairie,

son.

DEATHSMadison

BINGER, Wayne W. "Bing", 68, athome, Wednesday.

BYRNE, Robert E., 72, at home,Wednesday.

DeNOBLE, Hart B. Sr., 68, of 3014 Not-tingham Way, In a local hospital, Tuesday.

ERSLAND, Oscar B., 78, in a local hos-pital, Wednesday.

LUTHER, Byron K., 88, of 3806 BusseSt., in a local hospital, Wednesday.

STARKWEATHER, Mary E., 77, of 5Mohawk Circle, In a local nursing home,Wednesday.

WALKER, Velma M., 91, Wednesday.

AreaBaraboo/Pardeeville — MATTSON,

Helen H., 74, in a Baraboo hospital,

Wednesday.Bdmont — BOCKHOP, Edna P., 77, at

home, Wednesday.Highland — RAMSDEN, Willard P., 87,

in a Dodgeville nursing home, Wednesday.Horicon — HAFERMAN, Floyd E., 75,

at home, Tuesday.

Janesville — PATT, Elizabeth F., 70, ina local hospital, Wednesday.

Juneau — BERNHARDT, Edna M., 79,In a nursing home, Wednesday.

Lancaster — DOBSON, Ralph E., 84, ina Dubuque, Iowa hospital, Thursday.

Milton — SCHWARTZ, Constance, 72,In a Madison hospital, Wednesday.

Monona — HARKER, Prof. Ralph J.,74, in a Madison hospital, Thursday.

Portage — BOWMAN, Robert B., 85, ina Wyocena nursing home, Wednesday.

Rock Springs — GIESE, Roland W.. 64,in a Baraboo hospital, Wednesday.

Rutkin, Fla./Dartlnflton — VAN WIE,Howard L., 60, In Florida, June 24.

Verona — ZWETTLER, Bernard, 70, Ina Madison hospital, Thursday.

• Obituaries/4-5A

TODAY'S FUNERALS

DeNOBLE, Hart Sr., 11 a.m., St. Jo-seph's Catholic Church, 1905 W. BettllneHwy.

PORTER, Dorothy L., 11 a.m., CressFuneral Home, 3610 Speedway Road.

KAROW, William, 10:30 a.m., MadisonGospel Tabernacle, 4909 E. Buckeye Road.

Sun Prairie OKs purchaseof property for new city hallBy Mark NepperWisconsin State Journal

It won't be long before Sun Prai-rie residents could see a new cityball on Main Street that city offi-cials say will improve the down-town.. The Sun Prairie City Councilgave approval Wednesday night tobuy property on the north side ofCast Main Street between Churchand Vine streets as the site for anew city hall, city administratorRichard Finn said Thursday. Thetotal cost will be about $400,000.- The city secured options to buyall the properties but one betweenChurch and Vine streets, Finn said.The city will pay $285,700 for theland on which it has options.

The one remaining site has anestimated market value of $16,000.City staff has not been able to con-tact the owner, and the city mighthave to use an eminent domain pro-cess to take control of the property,city planner Mike Slavney said.

Relocation of three full-time andone part-time business and one resi-dent will cost about $60,000. Offi-cials estimate demolition of the ex-isting buildings will cost $39,600.

Finn called the approval to pur-chase properties a giant step for thecity.

Slavney said the land will allowthe city to provide badly neededadditional space for city staff andwill help economic developmentdowntown.

"We hope our action will supportthe viability of commercial prop-erty in the downtown," Slavneysaid. "We do not feel the privatesector is going to be able to comeup with $400,000 to make that prop-erty ready for development."

While Aid. Robert Brodzin con-cedes the city needs more office

zin said. Business owners wanted adowntown city hall and post officeto generate traffic on Main Street,he said.

"Putting those on Main Street isnot the answer," Brodzin said.

Slavney, however, said the pri-vate sector wasn't going to come upwith the $400,000 needed to makethe property developable.

"If it was an extremely vitalmarket, this site wouldn't havebeen available," Slavney said."With this city investment and ef-forts to find more off-street park-ing, we can have a thriving down-town. We didn't ever see that hap-pening with this deterioratedblock."

Property between Church andVine consists of the eastern-mostblock of downtown. Sun Prairieboasts an old, quaint, historic down-town, but the first thing visitorsfrom the east see is the most dilapi-

dated part of downtown, Slavneysaid.

The city now will move aheadwith development of relocationplans and hire an architect to begindesigning a city hall that will fit inwith the downtown character, Slav-ney said.

But Brodzin and fellow Aid.David Hanneman believe the cityshould get feedback from residentsfirst. They contend the city shouldhave brought the site location ques-tion to a referendum vote.

"It's the people's money thatwe're spending," Brodzin said. "Weneed to educate them and thenallow them to say yes or no."

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MADISONMan fined inMedicaid fraud

A Milwaukee man accused ofdefrauding the Medicaid programof $71,750 while operating amedical transportation companypleaded guilty to two counts ofthe offense and was fined $10,000.

Ensley Brown, 49, president ofBrown and Sons Transportationof Milwaukee, also was placed onfive years' probation Monday andwas ordered to repay the loss.Dane County Circuit Judge MarkFrankel ordered Brown to serve100 hours of community serviceand not to participate in any fed-erally funded medical assistanceprograms.

Brown no longer operates thecompany that provided transpor-tation services for disabled peo-ple receiving Medicaid benefits,Assistant Attorney General JuanColas said.

• Annexation: The MadisonCity Council decided Tuesday toannex a large rural area on the farWest Side in the town of Middleton— for the third time. The councilvoted, 17-0, to annex 282 acreswest of Pleasant View Road be-tween Old Sauk and Blackhawkroads.

Developers John and RichardMcKenzie are proposing to buildabout 450 apartments and 500 sin-gle-family homes on the land,starting this spring.

The city tried twice before toannex the area, but judges ruledthe annexations invalid becauseseveral homes were left in isolatedstrips in the town of Middleton, inviolation of state law.

No such strips would be left byTuesday's annexation, which takeseffect immediately. The propertywill remain in the Middleton-CrossPlains School District.

• Arson charge: The residentof a Madison townhouse damagedby fire Monday has been tenta-tively charged with arson in theblaze, according to the MadisonFire Department.

Rachel O'Brien, 31, of 2950Cimmeron Trail, is suspected ofstarting the fire shortly after 10:30

RECORDSBIRTHSMerlter HospitalJan. 3,1994

Angela & Robert HELLENBRAND,Cross Plains, daughter.

Teri & Jeffry ROBINSON, Madison,daughter.

Jan. 4,1994Anne E. & Ronald D. LAINBERGER,

DeForest, son.Celeste & Glenn MATSUSHIMA, Madi-

son, son.Vicki SOKOLIK & Bert GRIFFIN, Madi-

son, son.Cheryl & Raymond ELLER, Madison,

daughter.Teresa & John DOLINSKI, Oregon, son.Jill HECKMAN-JONES & Tim JONES,

Cottage Grove, daughter.

St. Mary's HospitalJan. 3,1994

Peter & Bonnie KNUDTSON, Madison,son.

Amanda KAISER & Kim GRIMMER,Madison, son.

Daniel & Kelli HARRINGTON, Stough-ton, daughter.

Rebecca BALLWEG & Rick ARM, Madi-son, daughter.

Jan. 4,1994Michael WYGOCKI & Kristin KANITZ,

Madison, daughter.Marty & Joe LIEGEL, Spring Green,

daughter.Taylor & Debbie MAURER, Verona,

daughter.

NEWS IN BRIEFMonday morning, Madison FireDepartment spokeswoman SueBirren said.

O'Brien was arrested Tuesdayat University Hospital, where shewas being treated for smoke inha-lation. She was in custody in theDane County Jail, pending an ini-tial court appearance.

If convicted, O'Brien could faceup to 20 years in prison.

The townhouse received exten-sive smoke and heat damage, al-though firefighters were able tokeep the fire confined to the livingroom. Firefighters estimated dam-age at $30,000.

• Sanding sidewalks: If youneed sand for your sidewalks anddriveway, the city of Madison canhelp.

Residents are reminded thatthe city requires sidewalks to becleared of all ice and snow when itaccumulates to more than half aninch. The walks are to be clearedno later than noon the day follow-ing each snowfall.

Madison has 13 public siteswhere residents can pick up sandfor outdoor, winter use. The sandcan be found in piles on outdoorlots at the following locations:

On the West Side - the Glenway GolfCourse, 3747 Speedway Road; the Madi-son Streets Division, 1501 W. BadgerRoad (business hours only); FranklinPark, oft West Olln Avenue; MarshallPark, off Allen Boulevard; Elver Park, offMcKenna Road; and Garner Park, nearMineral Point and Rosa Roads.

On the East Side - the Old MarketPlace, In the 700 block of East Mlfflln St.;Warner Park, off Sherman Avenue nearthe shelter; the Monona Golf Course, 111E. Dean Ave.; Olbrlch Gardens, near Wal-ter Street; Relndahl Park, off PortageRoad; Demetral Field, off Packers Ave-nue in the parking lot near Sixth Street;and Brlttlngham Park, at the boat landingnear the end of Bedford Street.

Elderly residents who are physicallyunable to clear their own walks shouldcall one of the following community agen-cies: Independent Living at 274-7900; theSouth Madison Coalition for the Elderly at251-8405; the West Side Coalition for theAging at 238-7368; the Near East SideCoalition of Older Adults at 255-8875; andEast Madlson/Monona Coalition of Agingat 223-3100.

• Madison sued: A quadriple-gic man claims in a federal law-suit that he was seriously injuredwhen his wheelchair tipped overbecause the city of Madison failedto remove ice from a sidewalkcurb ramp.

Michelle NORTON, Madison, son.Dave HOERR & Mary SKINNER,

Mazomanie, daughter.

DEATHSMadison

CLEBERG, Henry A., 95, in a local nurs-ing home, Tuesday.

DAHL, Earl H., 72, Monday.LUTHER, Damon E., 75, in a local hos-

pital, Monday.MEYERS, Alice D., 91, in a local nursing

home, Monday.PULLARA, Darlene, 66, in a local nurs-

ing home, Tuesday.STICK, Helen H., 99, in a local nursing

home, Monday.STORTS, Charles L, 74, at home, Mon-

day.WAARALA, Eino, 82, in a local hospital,

Tuesday.ZELLER, Anna E., 78, in a local hospi-

tal, Tuesday.

AreaBamboo — PRATER, Ruby, 69, in a

Madison hospital, Sunday.Evansvllle — WALMER, Patricia L., 34,

in a Madison hospital, Monday.Janesvllle — MARESCH, Florence

Eulalia, 80, In a local hospital, Sunday.Middleton — MORGAN, Francis H., 74,

in a local nursing home, Sunday.Mount Horeb — PETERSON, Mary

Margaret, 103, Tuesday.Oregon — AMES, Jean Susanne, 69,

Dec. 20.

Douglas Stebbins, 1 N. BedfordSt., says in the lawsuit that he wascrossing State Street on Jan. 2,1993 when his wheelchair slidbackward on an icy ramp. Steb-bins says he was thrown into thestreet, injuring his shoulder andback and losing the use of his pre-ferred hand.

The lawsuit says the city dis-criminated against Stebbins inviolation of the Americans WithDisabilities Act by not maintainingthe ramp.

Stebbins asks for monetarydamages and a court order forcingthe city to maintain curb ramps.

City Attorney Eunice Gibsonsaid she wasn't familiar with thefacts of the case, but she said thecity would do what's necessary tocomply with federal law.

"Obviously, if there's some-thing we should change we'll dothat," Gibson said, "but it's way toosoon to reach a conclusion thatthis requires some change in theway we're handling things."

• Car-bus crash: Twelve peo-ple were injured, none seriously,when a Madison Metro bus and acar collided at West Dayton andNorth Mills streets about 11 a.m.Tuesday.

Ten people on the B line busand two people in the car weretaken to area hospitals as aprecautionary measure, said SueBirren, Madison Fire Departmentspokeswoman. Police had no de-tails on the crash.

REGIONAL• Portage fire: Fire destroyedtwo businesses and damaged twoothers in downtown Portage Tues-day, causing an estimated$300,000 in damage, officials said.

The fire started just before 4p.m. at Mister G shoe and clothingstore, HOW. Cook St. J and J AtticCorner was also destroyed, FireChief Ettore Castellente said. Noone was injured.

From staff, AP reports

Pardeevllle — GORSUCH, G. Vincent,87, in a Portage nursing home, Monday.

Roxbury — HORNUNG, Norbert O., 66,at home, Monday.

Sauk Ctty — JOHNSON, Leonard M.,75, at home, Tuesday.

Steuben — McCULLICK, Eva L., 81, ina Boscobel nursing home, Tuesday.

Stoughton — HAMMOND, Louis "Pat"Jr., 68, Tuesday.

Waunakee — OLSON, Harry, 84, In alocal nursing home, Saturday.

• Obituaries/4D

TODAY'S FUNERALSSTEINBERG, Ervin, 1 p.m., Fltch-Law-

rence-SanFillippo Funeral Home, 6021 Uni-versity Ave.

ZINGG, Rosa B., 11 a.m., GlenwoodMoravian Church, 725 Gilmore St.

LAURESDORF, Roland, 11 a.m., Wis-consin Memorial Park, Milwaukee.

PRIDOEHL, Josephine, 8 p.m., Gunder-son Funeral Home, 5203 Monona Drive.

LUTHER, Damon, 11 a.m., GundersonFuneral Home, 5203 Monona Drive.

MEYERS, Alice, 11 a.m., Oakwood Vil-lage Resurrection Chapel, 6201 MineralPoint Road.

GOLEY, Ellen V., 4 p.m., ImmaculateHeart of Mary Catholic Church, 5101 Scho-field St.

SHIPLEY, Winnlfred A., 1 p.m., Rose-lawn Memorial Park Chapel, 601 E. Broad-way.

Gov. Thompson nearsrecord tenure in officeAssociated Press

Republican Tommy Thompson,who surprised many people by win-ning the governorship in 1986, isonly days away from becomingWisconsin's longest-serving gover-nor.

Today, Thompson begins hiseighth year as governor, a year inwhich he is expected to seek re-election to a third four-year term.

Tuesday, he'll pass the currentrecord-holding governor, JeremiahRusk, a Republican who servedfrom Jan. 1,1882, until Jan. 7,1889.

Thompson did not respond Tues-

day to a request for comment onthe upcoming record.

James Donoghue, professoremeritus of governmental affairs atthe UW-Madison, said the length ofThompson's tenure is no reason forconcern.

"Can you intellectually make thecase that if someone's in office along time it's bad?" Donoghueasked. "I don't see that the length oftime in office alone is bad."

William Hauda, executive direc-tor of Common Cause Wisconsin,said he sees no reason for imposinga term limit on the governor's of-

fice.

"I think he's a phenomenon —the shrewdest politician I have evermet," said Senate Majority LeaderMichael Ellis, R-Neenah.

Like many of his legislative col-leagues, Ellis has often disagreedwith Thompson.

"But I have not seen anyone inmy 20 years in state governmentperform in office as Tommy has,"Ellis said. "You have to have aunique constitution to take thegrind of that office."

Candidates file for state courtsState Journal staff

Two candidates filed by thedeadline Tuesday for the April 5election for a spot on the WisconsinSupreme Court.

One person filed for each ofthree openings on the Court of Ap-peals.

Waukesha lawyer William Pang-man will battle incumbent JanineGeske for a 10-year term on thehigh court.

Geske was appointed by Gov.Tommy Thompson in July to fill theterm of retired Justice Louis Ceci.

Madison lawyer Margaret Verg-eront will run unopposed for a newposition on the 4th District Court of

Appeals in Madison.Incumbent Ralph Adam Fine is

the only candidate for the 1st Dis-trict Court of Appeals in Milwau-

kee.Incumbent Richard Brown is the

lone candidate for the 2nd DistrictCourt of Appeals in Waukesha.

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5 are seeking mayor'spost in Mineral PointBy Rochell Denise ThomasWisconsin State Journal

If you thought you might run forlocal mayor this year, it's too late.Tuesday at 5 p.m. was the deadlinein many area cities for candidatesto submit their petitions formayoral candidacies.

At the close of the day, MineralPoint looked to be the area's hotseat with five candidates shootingfor one $25,000-a-year position.

"I don't know why so many arerunning," said Myron Remington,the present mayor who will retireafter his third term and 25 years ofcity service. "I don't know whetherI've done such a good job that theythink it's easy or if I didn't and theycan't wait to take over."

The candidates for the MineralPoint 1994 mayoral race are Ed-ward Bendik, a construction workerwho has lived in Mineral Pointsince 1952; Greggory Bennett, 45, a2nd ward alderman and servicetechnician for Wisconsin Power &Light; Danny Clark, 37, a retailsalesman and local resident for 19years; Philip Crawford, 52, a re-tired WPL employee who has livedin the city since 1979; and AudreyParkinson, 62, a historic preserva-tion consultant and UW-Madisongraduate who moved to MineralPoint in 1990.

mation was available on Ross.In Edgerton, business owner

Rodger Cone, 43; Eugene Gruna,the city's mayor in 1990-91; andJames Kapellen, 46, an electrician,all will seek the mayor's title.

Mineral Point, Edgerton andMonroe voters will eliminate all buttwo candidates in each race in theirFeb. 15 primaries. The generalelection is April 5.

Thomas Olson announced lastNovember that he would try to suc-ceed Robert Kachelski as BeaverDam's mayor. Olson, 58, recentlyretired after 28 years with the stateDepartment of Corrections. StevenSabtke, 35, resigned from his job asthe news director of the WBEV and

WXRO radio stations to run againstOlson in the election.

In Evansville, James Martin, 35,a construction worker and nine-year resident will go up against in-cumbent Harlin Miller while Rich-land Center's mayor, Jim Manning,will run against Thomas McCarthy.

At 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, it lookedlike the candidates in Baraboo,Dodgeville, Jefferson and Lodi wilirun unopposed. In Baraboo, incum-bent Dean Steinhorst, 63, will tryfor his second term. And newcom-ers, Jim McCaulley, 42, Dodgeville,Arnold Brawders, 58, Jefferson andDon Schultz, 30, Lodi will try fortheir first wins.

School candidates listedHere is a roundup of spring elec-

tions in Dane County school dis-tricts.

Waunakee, Sun Prairie and Mid-dleton-Cross Plains school districtscould not be reached Tuesday.

Primaries, if needed to narrowthe field to two candidates for eachseat, will be Feb. 15. The generalelection is April 5.

Cambridge (2 seats) - Kent Vasbv (In-

Medina): Kenneth Martin (Inc.), StevenKalelta.

McFartand (2 seats) - Robert Pertzborn(Inc.), Patty Hustod (Inc.), Steven Lacy.

Monona Grove (3 seats) - Krlstl Wil-liams (Inc.), John Weinberger, Nancy Gao-non.

Mount Horeb (2 seats) - Harold Schllm-gen (Inc.), Paul Thronson (Inc.).

Oregon - Area 1 (village of Oregon) -Dave Williams (Inc.), Kevin Durkln. Area 5(village of Brooklyn, town of Brooklyn, townof Rutland) - Charles Teeter (Inc.), CurtisBenz.

Stoughton (4 seats) - Lee Fanshaw(Inc.), Rick Lane (Inc.), Colby Smith, PatriciaLund, Jeffrey Morgan. The top three will

Both Edgerton and Monroe havethree people vying for the mayor'soffice. Monroe's candidates are Al-bert Bolz, William Ross and VictorSchiller. Bolz, 44, is a maintenancesupervisor who has lived in Monroefor 21 years. A retired businessowner, Schiller, 71, has lived in thearea for 46 years. No further infor-

cumbent). A write-in candidate will be In-vtted to fill the vacant board spot. If that per-son declines to serve, the board will appointsomeone.

Deerfield (3 seats) - Gary Borgrud(Inc.), Terry L. Thompson. A write-In candi-date will be Invited to fill the vacant boardspot. If that person declines to serve, theboard will appoint someone.

DeForest - Town of Leeds (2 seats) -Larry Pulsfus (Inc.), Daniel Anderson (Inc.).Town of Vienna (1 seat) - open.

Marshall - Area 1 (village) - NewtonNewton (Inc.), Daniel Powell. Area 2 (town of

serve three-year terms and the fourth willserve a one-year term.

Verona (4 seats) - Non-city schoolareas - Gregg Miller (Inc.), Carolyn Malm;at large - (One year and two for threeyears; top two get three-year post) TomSieger (Inc.), Paula Possln (Inc.), CurtBembenek (Inc.), Eugene Hurley, WilliamResop.

Wisconsin Heights (4 seats) - SaraShackelton (Inc.), Mike Moore, Nell Cook,Edwin Meier, Maureen Coehl, Lisa Lamb,Trent Turk.

Verona mayor runs unopposedBy Marv BalousekCounty reporter

Few contests characterize thisspring's municipal elections inDane County's seven cities.

No local elections are scheduledin Madison or Fitchburg. Mayorswill be elected in Stoughton andVerona and aldermanic electionswill be held in those two citiesalong with Middleton, Monona andSun Prairie.

Randy Little and Zona Appel andcandidates Kathy Thomas, PearlKau and Richard Volbrecht.

Middleton voters will elect coun-cil members in even-numbered dis-tricts. Incumbents James Anderson(2nd), James Wexler (4th) and JulieBurnette (8th) apparently face noopposition. Incumbent Richard Ro-berts (6th) is challenged by MikeAdler.

The only Stoughton aldermanic

incumbents.Aldermanic contests are ex-

pected in at least two Sun Prairiedistricts. Incumbent Don Hooserfaces Richard Rhody in the 3rd Dis-trict while Incumbent DavidHanneman and Philip Gerg will viein the 4th District. James Reiningerfiled in the 1st District, and anothercandidate was expected. JeanetteFumelle was the lone candidate inthe 2nd District.

Stoughton Mayor Helen Johnsonand Verona Mayor Arthur Cressonare seeking re-election. No oppo-nents had filed for either post bylate Tuesday.

In Monona, five candidates willvie for three at-large aldermanicpositions. They include incumbents

contest is in the 4th District, whereDeborah Bicksler and Carol Nobi-ensky are seeking a three-yearterm. Candidates Bill Schlough(1st), Kathleen Hanson (2nd), CraigHoffman (2nd), Bob McGeever(3rd), Steve Fortney (3rd) and BobBarnett (4th) are unopposed.Schlough, Hanson and Fortney are

No contests are expected inVerona. Besides Mayor Cresson,Municipal Judge James Donovan isunopposed, as are aldermanic can-didates Ken Zingg (1st), Steve Sail-ing (2nd), Ed Ringgenberg and Rod-ney Rotar (both 3rd) and RoccoCeniti (4th). All are incumbents ex-cept Zingg and Rotar.

Villages set spring electionsHere is a roundup of spring elec-

tions in Dane County villages. Cot-tage Grove and DeForest could notbe reached Tuesday. Primaries, ifneeded to narrow the field to twocandidates for each seat, will beheld Feb. 15. The general election isApril 5. Incumbents are noted inparentheses.

Belleville - A caucus will be held at 7p.m. Jan. 19 In the village hall to nominatecandidates for three trustee positions andmunicipal ludge.

Blue Mounds - A caucus will be held at7 p.m. Jan. 12 In the village hall to nominatecandidates for two trustee positions and mu-nicipal judge.

Black Earth - Trustee (3) - GaryLucey (Inc.), John White (Inc.), Ann Schreln-er, George Olsen.

Brooklyn - Trustee (3) - Jerry Sifter,Gerald Elmer, Roland Arndt (Inc.), Patricia

Hawkey, Kathleen Anthony. Judge (for oneyear remaining on term of ludge who re-signed): Michelle Rohde.

Cambridge - Trustee (3) - RobertHove (Inc.), Gregory Cooper (Inc.). The thirdposition will be offered to the top write-Invote recipient. If that person refuses toserve, the village president will recommendsomeone for the board to appoint.

Cross Plains - Trustee (3) - DuaneJohnson (Inc.), Joel Armstrong (Inc.), RayBlanchard (Inc.), Tlmon Zanders.

Dane - A caucus will be held at 7 p.m.Jan. 18 In the village of Dane CommunityCenter to nominate candidates for villagepresident, two trustee positions and a ludge.

Deerfield - Trustee (3) - Worth Tiffany(Inc.), Robert Ponath (Inc.), Greg Galbralth.

Maple Bluff - A caucus will be held at 7p.m. Jan. 11 In the village hall to nominatecandidates for three trustee positions andmunicipal judge. Incumbent ludge DenisVogel has Indicated he will be a candidateagain.

Marshall - President - Paul Prust(Inc.); Marlln Hensler, Jr. Trustee (2) -Bonnie Ernst (Inc.); Henry Wild (Inc.).

Mazomanie - Trustee (3) - RobertDodsworth. The other positions will be filledby write-in votes and/or appointment by thevillage president, with approval by theboard.

McFarland - Trustee (3) - Tom Harri-son (Inc.), Keith Weiss (Inc.), Ann Spajlch(Inc.). Judge - Diane Norman (Inc.).

Mount Horeb - Trustee (3) - NellFargo (Inc.), John Zlmmel (Inc.), LeRoy Col-lins (Inc.). Judge - Leslie Kramer.

Oregon - Trustee (3) - JeffreyGroenler (Inc.), Mark Mortenson (Inc.),Michael Krembs, Darrell Kllmke, KevinDurkln.

Rockdale - A caucus will be held at 7p.m. Jan. 24 In the village hall to nominatecandidates for one trustee position.

Shorewood Hills - A caucus will be heldat 7 p.m. Jan. 24 In the village hall to nomi-nate candidates for three positions on thevillage board and judge.

Waunakee - Trustee (3) - Patrick J.Glle (Inc.), Timothy Luttrell (Inc.), Judy L.Hamre (Inc.), Michael Wlnans, Richard J.Murphy. Judge - Mark E. Colbert, Peter E.Matlash.

Son, 23, charged with stabbing motherRock County correspondent

BELOIT — A 23-year-old Beloitman was charged with attemptedfirst-degree intentional homicideTuesday in Rock County CircuitCourt for allegedly stabbing hismother because she told him not touse the phone.

Marvin D. Richardson was ord-ered held on a $20,000 cash bond.His mother, Odie Richardson, 46, isin stable condition at Beloit Me-morial Hospital. Police reports saidthe butcher knife punctured herlung, nicked her intestines and dam-aged her spleen.

Richardson's daughter told po-lice her brother had been at theMendota Mental Health Institute.

Odie Richardson told police theincident began when she asked her

son not to make any more phonecalls at her home. She said her sonbecame enraged, and as she fled to-ward the door, he stabbed her in theback with a butcher knife.

LEGAL NOTICES

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STATE OF WISCONSINCIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTY

-PROBATE-ORDER LIMITING TIME FOR

FILING CLAIMS (ON WAIVER)AND DETERMINATION OF HEIRSHIP

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFBARBARA G. KLECKERA petition has been filed for administration anddetermination of helrshlp In the estate of theabove named person, domiciled In Dane County,Wisconsin, whose post office address was 79GGolf Parkway, Madison. Wl 53704, and all Inter-ested persons have waived notice.IT IS ORDERED THAT:1. Creditors' claims must be filed on or beforeMarch 22, 1994, or be barred.2. Helrshlp will be determined and claims exam-ined and adjusted at the Dane County Court-house, Madison, Wisconsin, Room 305, on March29, 1994 at 9:00 A.M. or thereafter.

BY THE COURT:/s/ Daniel A. Breunly

Probate Court CommissionerDecember 22, 1993

Jack W. Van Metre, Attorney122 W. Mlfflln StreetMadison, Wl 53703'

PUB. WSJ: December 29, 1993,January 5 and 12, 1994

STATE OF WISCONSINCIRCUIT COURT. DANE COUNTY

NOTICE OF HEARINGFile NO. 93 CV 4925

NAME CHANGE 30708In the matter of the change of Nameof: Mel Hua Lyto: Maggie Mel-Hua LINOTICE IS HEREWITH GIVEN, that at a regularterm of the Circuit Court of Dane County. Stateof Wisconsin, on the 7th day of February, 1993,at 8:15 o'clock A.M.. or as soon thereafter as canbe heard, there will be heard and considered theapplication of: Mel Hua Ly for permission tochange her legal name and designation to: Mag-gie Mel-Hua U and for consideration of any andall further matters pertaining thereto.Dated at Madison, Wisconsin this 30th day ofDecember, 1993.

BY THE COURT:Robert R. Pekowsky

Circuit JudgePetitioners Address:117 BayvlewMadison, Wl 53715

PUB. WSJ: January 5. 12 and 19, 1994STATE OP WISCONSIN

CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTY•PROBATE-

NOTICE TO CREDITORSFlic No. 93 PR II21

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFHERBERT HIGBEE SMITH a/k/aHERBERT HOWARD SMITHAn application has been filed for Informal Admin-istration of the estate of the above named person,Dane County, Wisconsin, whose post office ad-dress was 110 South Henry street, Ant 407,Madison, Wisconsin 53703IT IS ORDERED THAT:All creditors' claims must be filed on or beforeMarch 28. 1994, or be barred.

BY THE COURT:HI David A. Flesch

Deputy Probate RegistrarDecember 23. 1993

Attorney Lloyd 1. Blaney330 South Whitney Way, Suite 202Madison. Wl 53705

PUB. WSJ: December 29. 1993.STATE OF WISCONSIN

CIRCUIT COURT, DANE COUNTYPROBATE

NOTICE TOCREDITORS

IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OFMARIE ADELE FISHAn application has been filed for Informal Admin-istration of the estate of the above named personDane County. Wisconsin, whose post office ad-dress was 315 Lakewood Blvd., Madison, Wl53704.IT IS ORDERED THAT:All creditors' claims must be filed on or beforeMarch 17, 1994 or be barred.

BY THE COURT:/s/Peggy ). Young

Deputy Probate RegistrarDecember 16, 1993

David G. Walsh, AttorneyFoley & LardnerP.O. Box 1497Madison, Wl 53701-1497PUB. WSJ: December 22, 29,1993 & January 5, 1994

2D METRO/STATE »Wisconsin State Journal, Wednesday, May 3,1989

Teen charged with injuringdeputy while driving squadBy Kim SchneiderPolice reporter

A 17-year-old Marshall boy hasbeen charged with injuring acounty sheriff's deputy while tryingto drive off in his squad car.

Dane County Sheriff's DeputyRon Boylan arrested the youth fordrunken driving about 10 p.m.Saturday and placed him in theback seat of his car while investi-gating a town of Medina accidentthe youth told police he caused, ac-cording to a criminal complaintfiled Tuesday in Dane County Cir-cuit Court.

While Boylan was out of the car,the teen climbed into the front seat,started the squad car and drovethrough the intersection and intothe front lawn of a nearby house,the complaint said.

Boylan was hit by the car andknocked to the ground while tryingto stop the youth, the complaintsaid.

The teen, whose name is beingwithheld because he is a juvenile,was arraigned Tuesday on acharge of causing injury bydrunken driving. He was released

on $500 signature bond. If convict-ed, he faces a maximum penalty ofone year in jail and a $2,000 fine.

According to the complaint, theteen's blood alcohol registered 0.17on a portable Breathalyzer test. Areading of 0.10 is considered legallyintoxicated in Wisconsin.

The teen, who had returned tothe accident scene at Cherry Lanenear Canal Road, told Boylan thecar in the intersection belonged tohim and that he had been drinkingwhen he caused the accident, thecomplaint said. His speech wasslurred when he was placed in thesquad car, and he had trouble keep-ing his balance while talking todeputies, the complaint said.

When he heard the engine of hiscar "revving," Boylan ran to thesquad car. When he got there, thecar lurched forward and struckhim in the leg. The teen then drovenorth about 125 feet into a drivewayat 266 Cherry Lane and stopped.

Boylan received injuries to hisleft leg, lower back and fingers andscratches on his back, elbow, handand hips.

Dentist settles Medicare fraud caseA suspended Madison dentist

Tuesday agreed to never again par-ticipate in the federal Medicareand Medicaid program and to paysome $8,600 in fines and reimburse-ments to the federal governmentfor false claims made under themedical programs.

Sheldon M. Salant, 49, as settle-ment of a federal lawsuit, alsoagreed to perform 100 hours ofcommunity, non-dental, service atthe Veterans Hospital in Madison.

The federal suit against Salantfollows an investigation by thestate Department of Justice, thefederal Medicaid Fraud Control

Unit and the U.S. Department ofHealth and Social Sevices. Theprobe found Salant had bilked thegovernment of some $3,800 inMedicaid payments from June 1982through May 1985 by filing 251 falseclaims for dental services. Some$2,140 of those claims were for fed-eral reimbursement. '

The Madison dentist pleadedguilty to the charges in March instate courts, surrendered his li-cense to practice for two years andagreed to reimburse the state. Hewas also placed on probation forone year.

March of Dimes walk is SaturdayOne way to enjoy the spring

weather this weekend is to walkalong Madison's lakeshores in theMarch of Dimes 12-mile walk-a-thon beginning at 8:30 a.m. onSaturday starting on the StateStreet corner of the Capitol Square.

WalkAmerica, sponsored by theMarch of Dimes Birth DefectsFoundation and Wisconsin Power &Light, was organized to raisemoney to fight birth defects.

In addition to the longer walk,WalkAmerica also will feature two2V£>-mile routes for senior citizens

and parents with young children.Sponsors of the event hope to

raise $70,000 from 2,000 walkers,who will ask sponsors to pay themfor each kilometer they walk.

Resting points along the routewill offer walkers food, beveragesand entertainment.

For futher information andpledge sheets call 251-WALK.Pledge Sheets may also be ob-tained from K Mart stores, PDQfood stores, Wes Zulty Sports, Dun-ham's Sports, Stop-N-Go stores andSuper America.

State students sing in WashingtonWASHINGTON - Students

from 26 Wisconsin schools, includ-ing Lake Mills High, La FolletteHigh, Holy Name Seminary andTomah Junior High were amongthose joining 15,000 students fromacross the country Saturday in adaylong outdoor music festival forthe non-profit Children's DefenseFund.

The non-profit America Sings,Inc., was created in 1987 by chore-ographer John Jacobson, a gradu-ate of UW-Madison. Jacobson'soriginal goal was a national choralmusic festival that would bring

young people together in a non-competitive, supportive atmos-phere, said America Sings! coordi-nator Lisa Larsen.

The Washington-based Chil-dren's Defense Fund focuses onpreventing homelessness throughpublic policy.

ILLINOIS — Tuesday's numbers:Daily Game: 1-6-9; Pick Four: 9-8-3-1;Estimated Lotto Jackpot: $6 million.

Sun Prairie urgedto plan for growthBy Mark NepperWisconsin State Journal

SUN PRAIRIE - City officialsmust plan for the community's pre-dicted population explosion by devis-ing a way to group city offices andservices in the same area, MayorPaul Esser said Tuesday night.

Still trying to work around spaceproblems due in part to voter rejec-tion last year of a new city hall, SunPrairie councilmen initiated prelimi-nary discussions aimed at planningfor the city's space needs.

"We're planning for a city of 20,000to 25,000," Esser said, of the citywhich now has a population of about15,000. "Sun Prairie is going to grow.We.'re looking at the cluster conceptto bring all of the pieces together aswe need them. This is a conceptwhere we end up with a focus in thiscommunity."

Aid. David Hanneman, 4th Dis-trict, said the council must look at thefuture needs of the city, and clustersof city services — such as the policedepartment, administrative offices,library and community center —might be the way to go.

Several alderman expressed con-cern about finding a location wherecity services could be grouped. Theyalso said the city would spend moremoney to cluster services than if itjust constructed a new city hall.

"I'm not suggesting any timelineon this," Esser said.

Council involvement —During the regular council meet-

ing, the councilmen agreed to con-sider drafting an ordinance thatwould define whether city commis-sions are autonomous governmental,bodies or under the council's jurisdic-tion. The ordinance also would allowcouncil members to attend closedsessions of these commission meet-ings.

The council agreed to consider theordinance after five aldermen werekicked out of a police and fire com-mission meeting April 24. Hannemansaid aldermen have a vested interestin attending those meetings wherediscussions delve into personnel mat-ters of city employees.

City Attorney Kristine Euclide,however, said city commissions,which appear to be autonomous gov-ernmental bodies, can exclude alder-men from closed discussions throughprovisions in the state's open meet-ings law.

Aid. Donald Hooser, 2nd District,said, "If we feel strongly about thiswhy not establish an ordinance thatallows aldermen to attend any meet-ing. Somebody would have to chal-lenge the ordinance if they don't likeit."

Motel tax — The councilalso agreed to consider establishing amotel room tax. Hanneman said con-servative estimates show the taxcould generate about $50,000 a year tobe used for city improvements be-yond the scope of (general fundmoney.

Worker criticizes oil cleanupBy Roger A. GrlbbleWisconsin State Journal

Some people working on thecleanup of the massive Exxon oil spillin Alaska's Prince William Sound arequitting because the cleanup isn'tgoing well, said a former Madisonresident who works on the shore for acompany involved in the cleanup.

"Everybody realizes things arejust screwed up," said Steve Petry ina telephone interview from Cordova,Alaska, a fishing community in thesound.

Petry wasn't the only one Tuesdaycriticizing the cleanup effort.

Coast Guard Commandant PaulYost, the top federal official trackingthe environmental disaster, said Exx-on's plan was poorly drafted and lack-ing in specifics. But he stopped shortof rejecting it, saying he wanted tomeet with Exxon and state officials.

"The plan is very thin," he told anews briefing in Alaska. "There's nota lot of backup or substantiation. Itwas quite light, very thin. There musthave been a lot of figures there that Ihaven't seen.

"We are going to be done this sum-mer," Yost said. "Some beaches aregoing to be sparkling, some beachesare going to be far from sparkling."

Exxon's gas-price increase criticizedTwo lawmakers, as part of

"boycott Exxon Day," said Tues-day that the giant oil companyshould roll back recent gasolineprice increases blamed on theAlaskan oil spill.

"Not only have they been inef-fective in cleaning up the disasterthey created, they now have thegall to expect the American publicto pay for the clean up throughhigher gasoline prices and throughtax deductions for what they con-sider business expenses," said Sen.

Charles Chvala, D-Madison.Rep. Thomas Seery, D-Milwau-

kee and chairman of the AssemblyEnvironmental Resources andUtilities Committee, said the epi-sode points to the need for use ofalternative energy sources.

"The Valdez wouldn't havebeen up there if we weren't so fuel-thirsty as a culture," Seery said.

The lawmakers said Exxonstockholders should pay cleanupcosts. ,

The scene is not pretty, agreedPetry, who has worked in the soundas a commercial fisherman.

Petry arrived there April 21 aftera nine-day boat trip from Bellingham,Wash., a trip he made to join thecleanup.

"When I first came to the harborhere and Strawberry Entrance to it, Isaw bloated, oil-soaked dead sea ot-ters," he said. "There are a lot of deadanimals here."

Petry said about 4,000 people from

the private sector are expected towork in boats in Prince WilliamSound in the cleanup "and about 120fishing boats are out there now."

Because many laborers are notused to working on boats, he added,many are getting cramps and havingto come ashore.

Others are exhausted from the 16-hour days, so crews are being rotated,he said. People working on thecleanup are paid f 16.69 per hour, plusovertime. Those working on the boats

are guaranteed 16-hour days, sevendays a week.

Petry said people working on theboats have been ordered not to talk tooutsiders about the cleanup becauseit is not going well. "Beaches that ap-pear to be cleaned up have oil belowthe surface."

Petry said he has been buildingbooms that will be placed at the en-.trance to streams to keep the oil out.The company he works for also ismaking nets to snare oil-soaked birds.

Strong winds at the time he ar-rived in the area broke up manybooms deployed to stop the oil fromspreading, he said, but temperaturesin the 60s the past few days havemade the work more pleasant.

He said there are reports theJapanese won't buy any fish fromPrince William Sound this year "andthat will really hurt the area's econ-omy." In Cordova, normally a fishingvillage, "everybody is now into thecleanup effort," he added.

Petry hopes to stay on in his cur-rent job through September. He saidhe is working 12-16 hours a day, sevendays a week, adding, "I've got one ofthe better jobs."

The Associated Press contributed tothis story.

Fraud charged in cancer-help caseBy Kim SchneiderPolice reporter

The founder of a Madison com-pany set up to promote early detec-tion of breast cancer faces a chargeof theft by fraud as well as a civil law-suit for allegedly misspending a$78,000 loan from an investor. •

Marshall Smith, who founded theCommittee for Early Warning afterhaving a benign cyst removed fromhis chest in the mid-1970s, made hisinitial appearance on the felonycharge Tuesday in Dane County Cir-cuit Court.

The criminal complaint allegesthat Smith, of 2128 Allen Blvd., Mid-dleton, took $78,000 from Dee AnnFoust in 1985 on the understanding themoney would be a loan used for amammography machine. As part ofthe agreement, Smith was to makeregular interest payments to Foust,the complaint said.

Foust, described as a long-timefriend of Smith, gave him $40,000 onv

May 15, 1985. She invested another$38,000 Nov. 1, 1985, after Foustshowed her a fabricated telegram, al-legedly sent from Foust to himself,claiming Cudahy Meats was investingat least $200,000 in the business.

Smith had repaid $11,000 in inter-est but nothing on the principal as ofApril 1988, the complaint said, andsubpoenaed bank records showedSmith wrote about $45,000 in checks tohimself between April 1985 andMarch 1986.

Of the $76,000 spent by the businessduring that time, $8,380 was moneyrepaid to Foust. More than $3,000 waspaid to a hotel and other checks werewritten to companies like the GeneralMotors Acceptance Corporation forcar payments and Sears for a creditcard payment.

Richard Lent, Smith's attorney,

Conviction upheld! An anti-nuclear protester who in-vaded a Navy submarine communi-cations site in northern Wisconsin twoyears ago had his sabotage convictionupheld Tuesday by the state Court ofAppeals.

Appeals Judges R. Thomas Cane,Daniel LaRocque and Gordon Myseupheld the conviction of George M.Ostensen, formerly of Baltimore, byan Ashland County Circuit Court jury.

Ostensen vandalized the Navy'sProject ELF transmitter site nearClam Lake. Ostensen was sentencedFeb. 12,1988, to 33 months in prison.

said some of the checks written onthe foundation account were used fortravel and living expenses so Smithcould continue the business.

Smith and Foust, he said, recentlylived together for 18 months. Theyhad made a legitimate business deal,and Smith intended to continue mak-ing payments on the loan wheneverhe was able, Lent said.

Foust has also filed a civil suit

seeking return of the money.A poster shown to police detec-

tives described the company as a newcharitable organization that "desper-ately needs funds to carry out one ofthe most comprehensive attack pro-grams against breast cancer everconceived." The poster said that"every $10 is a step toward combatingfear, ignorance and distance."

A Milwaukee doctor listed as a

technical adviser told detectives hehad met with Smith about 10 yearsago and had received a copy of theposter but had not attended any meet-ings of an advisory board.

If convicted of the criminalcharge, Smith faces a maximum pen-alty of 10 years in prison and a $10,000fine. He was released on $2,000 bond.As a condition of release, he was ord-ered to have no contact with Foust.

RECORDS

BirthsMeriter-Madison General

May 1,1989Francis and Katnryn Balthazar, 5708

Monona Drive, daughter.Jerry Schwarz and Mary Togstad-

Schwarz, 209 Crestvlew Drive, daughter.

May 2,1989Lolita Rlmson, 5330 Hoboken Road,

daughter.Chuck and Linda Brldwell, 4630 Tokay

Blvd., son.Fred Frank and Holly Frlshman-

Frank, daughter.Kim and Sherl Hoeppner, Johnson

Creek, daughter.

Meriter-MethodistMay 1,1989

Donald and Carol Elllckson, daugh-ter.

Kyle Brountle and Carrie Morgan,son.

May 2,1989Kevin and Jennifer Blumer, 2 Kelgh-

ley Circle, son.

Cllntonville — Scott Bohlman, 17, In aMadison hospital, Monday.

Cottage Grove — Conner Hullck Hein-rlchs. Infant son of Gary and Alice Hein-rlchs, shortly after his birth, Saturday.

Lyndon Station — Lois B. Cavanagh,93, In a Portage nursing home, Sunday.

Mlddleton — Edward Begllnger, 94, athome, Tuesday.

New Glarui — Mrs. Carl (Alma)Stelner, 85, In a local nursing home, Tues-day.

Platteville/Hollandale — JennieRobinson, 91, In a Plattevllle nursinghome, Tuesday.

Stoughton/Elgln, Hi. — Duane E.Boley, 28, of Elgin, formerly of Stough-ton, In Barrlngton, III., as a result of anIndustrial accident, Monday.

Verona — Raymond E. Downing, 72,in a Madison nursing home, Tuesday.

Today's funerals

Patricia Bolen, 11 a.m., Gruber-Gun-derson Funeral Home, Mlddleton.

Marie Larson, 11 a.m.. Holy Mother ofConsolation Catholic Church, Oregon.

Virginia "Glnny" Rowe, 1 p.m., Gun-derson Funeral Home, 5203 MononaDrive.

Francis "Frank" E. Hayden, 11:30a.m., Our Lady Queen of Peace CatholicChurch, 405 S. Owen Drive.

Selma Graven, 1:30 p.m., SkaalenHome Chapel, Stoughton.

St. Mary's

May 1,1989Lee Bulman and Lori DILoreto Bui-

man, Cottage Grove, son.Kendall and Linda Shaw, Sun Prairie,

son.

May 2,1989David and Brenda Hustad, 445</2 S.

Main St., son.Al and Mary Brey, Plain, daughter.Randy and Linda Lenz, 5613 Joylynne

Drive, son.

Death notices: 10ADeathsMadison

Nathan Samuel Blount, 59, of 26Grand Canyon Drive, In a local hospital,Sunday.

Mary Louise Glesy Vogel, 96, April 19.

Area

Cassvllle — Arthur T. Flnney, 92, In aLancaster nursing home, Tuesday.

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Three challengers inBalian recall primary

Dodge County SupervisorBetty Balian will be chal-lenged by three opponentsduring a recall primary elec-tion on Aug. 5.

Kirt Kemnitz returned hispapers last week. CharleneFeller and Allen Behl filed onTuesday, the deadline forcandidates to declare. Ba-lian's name will also appearon the ballot.

Balian is accused of usingher position on the board tosend e-mails to officials inDodge County in order to gether husband removed fromthe list of suspects in a fatalhit-and-run investigation.Balian's husband, Moose Ba-lian, is accused of driving atruck that killed 17-year-oldJimmy Gengler on Sept. 5 inthe town of Emmet. He ischarged with a felony in con-nection with Gengler's death.The top two vote-gettersfrom the primary will face offin the recall election sched-uled Sept. 2.

$7.5 million spentin state on Powerball

Financial strains of a sloweconomy didn't stop Wiscon-sin residents from spendingmore than $7.5 million ontickets for Wednesday night'sdrawing of the Powerball lot-tery game — with a jackpotof $2,61 million.

State lottery officials saidthe total sales of $7,528,787included sales Wednesdayalone of $4,376,994.

The pace of sales peakedbetween 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.Wednesday when ticketswent at more than 8,500 tick-ets a minute.

The Wisconsin sales recordfor a Powerball drawing was$15,032,601 for a $295.7 mil-lion drawing July 29,1998.

Lottery officials said twotickets matching all thewinning numbers were sold— one in Missouri and onein Pennsylvania.

MADISON

Army surgical teamto serve in Iraq

Members of the 911th For-ward Surgical Team, an ArmyReserve unit based in Madi-son, was mobilized Thursdayfor active duty in support ofthe action in Iraq.

The Madison unit, with aroster of about 20, will reportto Fort McCoy where it willprepare for deployment over-seas. According to a spokes-man for the reserve unit, the911th will most likely serve ina combat unit where it canperform triage on thewounded before sendingthem to hospitals for treat-ment.

The unit was headquar-tered at 1402 S. Park St.

MADISON

West Nile virus inMilwaukee Co. crow

A dead crow found in Mil-waukee County has testedpositive for West Nile virus,the first time a bird in Wis-consin has been confirmedto have the disease this year.

Carl Williams, a state epi-demiologist, said Thursdaythe discovery was no sur-prise.

Two horses have testedpositive already this year forthe disease, which infected52 Wisconsin residents lastyear and killed three.

Birds with the disease werefound in 65 of Wisconsin's 72counties last year. Williamssaid the discovery of thecrow June 11 was about thesame time that the first birdwith the disease was foundlast year.

"It was just a matter ofwhen and where that it firstpopped up," Williams said.

West Nile, which typicallycauses flu-like symptoms inpeople, killed 254 people na-tionwide last year, accordingto the U.S. Centers for Dis-ease Control and Prevention.

The state has been moni-toring crows, blue jays andravens found dead in Wis-consin since May to monitorthe spread of the disease.There have been no humancases in Wisconsin so far thisyear.

4- Beaver Dam Daily Citizen,'•" WSJ staff and wire reports

Sad goodbye

Associated Press

Spc. Renee Clark, left, of Oshkosh, holds hands Thursday with herboyfriend, Jeff Landvatter of Oshkosh, before the departure of theU.S. Army Reserve's 395th Ordnance Company based in Appleton.Clark left Thursday with 82 fellow 395th members for a year's tourof duty in southwest Asia as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.

State will take backoverpayment to countiesDane County would oweabout $3.1 million.Associated Press

The state Department ofRevenue intends to take backmore than $24.5 million it ap-parently overpaid 57 Wisconsincounties that have a sales tax.

Dane County would oweabout $3.1 million back to thestate, and Milwaukee Countywould owe $5.5 million.

Each of the next threemonthly sales tax reimburse-ments to the counties will bereduced by one-third of thatamount to make up for theoverpayment, according to aletter from revenue officials tothe counties.

Dane County officials arehoping the state will wait untilthe backlog in processing salestaxes is cleared, which mightresult in different numbers.

"It would make what is a dif-ficult budget year for us moredifficult," said Topf Wells, chiefof staff for Dane County Execu-tive Kathleen Falk.

The reimbursement problemwas caused by a switch to anew accounting system in De-cember, said Deputy RevenueSecretary Gina Frank-Reece.

After the change, review ofall sales slowed as employeesbecame accustomed to, theprocedure, and a backlog oftransactions developed, Frank-Reece said.

The state notified countiesthat subsequent paymentswere estimates of their salestax revenue, she said. In June,when the backlog was suffi-ciently reduced, counties werenotified that the payments forthat month were based on ac-tual revenue figures.

Dane County was told thatthe state paid it $3.1 millionmore than the countygenerated with its sales tax, inthe six-month period from Oc-tober 2002 to March 2003. Re-imbursements lag behindcollections by two months, andthe October payments to coun-ties would have been made inDecember.

Now that actual revenue fig-ures from the earlier monthsare available, each of the nextthree monthly sales tax reim-bursements to Dane Countywill be reduced by more than$1 million to make up for theoverpayment.

— State Journal reporter LesleyRogers Barrett contributed to

this report.

Regents laud Smithand toast GottschalkBy Karen RivedalHigher education reporter

The UW Board of Regents onThursday said goodbye to Re-gent Jay Smith, noting he didas much or more than any re-gent in recent history to makethe University of WisconsinSystem a force for economicdevelopment in the state.

The board also thanked Re-gent Guy Gottschalk for theyear he just finished as boardpresident, with a formal resolu-tion and a 17-bottle toast withOcean Spray-brand cranberryjuice. Gottschalk, a cranberryfarmer from Wisconsin Rapids,supplies juice for Ocean Spray.

Gottschalk said the 17-member board's resolution ofappreciation was a "completesurprise" and vowed he wouldserve "as vigorously as ever" inhis remaining two years on theboard.

Smith, a Madison business-man, was appointed to theboard in May 1995 by formerGov. Tommy Thompson. Hisregular seven-year term endedin May 2003, but he was askedby two successive governors —Republican Scott McCallumand Democrat Jim Doyle, thecurrent governor — to stay onpast his term to help the boardthrough two difficult state bud-get cycles.

"I'm secretly excited to beone of the few things that allthree governors agreed on,"Smith quipped, after acceptinga plaque from the board.

Gottschalk Smith

Regent Fred Mohs said he re-spected Smith's leadership andvision for the System, despitethe two men's differences overthe years on issues includingaffirmative action.

"Jay has an excellent talentfor getting the most out of ev- •eryone," Mohs said.

Among Smith's greatest ac-complishments, Mohs said,was his co-creation in Nov.2000 of the first Wisconsin Eco-nomic Summit, an annualevent that helps focus debateabout the state's economy withan eye toward what higher ed-ucation can do to improve it.

Mohs also praised Smith'swork on the board, includinghis two years as president,when he tried to hold moregroup discussions and seekmore input from staff, stu-dents, chancellors and othersin the System.

"There should be no cliquesor preferred groups," Mohssaid. "Jay got that started."

Smith will be replaced byCharles Pruitt of Shorewood.

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County won't buyTyson Foods chickenBoard suspends purchases until strike is settledBy Lesley Rogers BarrettCounty reporter

Chicken products made byTyson Foods won't be servedat Dane County's jail andnursing home until the Jeffer-son County business settles acontract dispute with its strik-ing workers.

The Dane County Board onThursday approved a resolu-tion supporting union workersand to stop buying roughly$30,000 to $40,000 a year inchicken breast patties, chickenquarters and diced chickenfrom Tyson Foods in Jefferson.

About 100 people, includingJefferson union members, at-tended a rally before themeeting at the City-CountyBuilding, yelling "Justice forJefferson" and "BoycottTyson."

"We're trying to keep ourfamilies intact," Chuck Moehl-ing, a Jefferson union mem-ber, told rally attendees.

The resolution passed 23-9,with three members abstain-ing and two absent.

Tyson workers went onstrike Feb. 28 over a contractdispute that included wageconcessions, a revised healthplan, and pension freezes.

"The people in Jefferson, thestriking workers, are in a fightfor their lives," said Sup. Ech-naton Vedder, Madison. "It'simportant that we weigh in,since we buy Tyson products."

Sup. Dave Hanneman, SunPrairie, said it's not the DaneCounty Board's business, es-pecially since the JeffersonCounty Board hasn't issued asimilar resolution.

"The Jefferson CountyBoard should be taking thelead," Hanneman said.

The county has found re-placement vendors for thechicken products, Vedder said.

On Monday, the MadisonSchool Board approved a simi-lar plan to ban district pur-chases of Tyson foods until

the contract is settled. How-ever, the school districtdoesn't serve any Tyson prod-ucts on a regular basis.

In other County Boardnews:^ Members approved two

land purchases to add acres tocounty parks. The county willpay $369,168 to Vernon ValleyFarms for about 30 acres inthe town of Springdale and a45.5 acre conservation ease-ment adjacent to Donald Park,in southwestern Dane County.

The county will pay$277,050 to the estate of Lil-lian R. Festge for about 32acres next to Festge Park inthe towns of Berry and CrossPlains in western DaneCounty.

+> Members approved a res-olution to ban the use of fertil-izers that contain phosphoruson county lands. The countywants to limit phosphorus,which can end up in arealakes and streams, increasingplant growth.

End of ban on feeding deer closerAssociated Press

Majority Republicans in theLegislature moved a stepcloser Thursday to overturninga ban on baiting and feedingdeer designed to prevent thespread of chronic wasting dis-ease.

The Senate Environmentand Natural Resources Com-mittee voted 3-2 along partylines to formally object to theban imposed at the urging of

state wildlife managers. An As-sembly committee had votedfor the objection on Wednes-day.

The state Natural ResourcesBoard passed the baiting andfeeding ban in hope of stem-ming the spread of CWD, afatal brain disease that hasbeen found in wild deeraround Mount Horeb insouthwestern Wisconsin.

The formal objection nowgoes to the Legislature's Joint

Committee for Review of Ad-ministrative Rules.

Lawmakers on that commit-tee could vote to introduce abill suspending the ban andtaking away the authority ofthe Natural Resources Boardto impose such a prohibition.

The state would be left withno ban on feeding and only a10-gallon limit on the amountof bait that could be put out toattract deer when hunting sea-sons start in the fall.

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Just!ByTomSheehanState government reporter

The Department of Correc-tions is the only one of 53agencies that will be able touse state tax money to add jobsunder the 2003-05 state budgetsigned by Gov. Jim DoyleThursday.

Corrections, which will opentwo prisons under the budget,can add 527 positions throughmid-2005 with money raisedalmost entirely through statecorporate, income and salestaxes. By contrast, the Univer-

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Only Corrections can use state tax money for more positionssity of Wisconsin System willlose 645 state-tax-funded posi-tions under the new budget.

Just more than half of thestate's roughly 66,700 jobsoverall are supported throughstate taxes, also known as thegeneral fund. Other positionsare paid for with federalmoney, fees, other revenue or acombination of sources. About10 agencies operate with nostate tax dollars.

The new budget makes a netcut of 665 positions paid forwith state taxes, including 18positions cut by Doyle vetoeson Thursday, said Dan Ca^u-cutt, a budget analyst forDoyle. The governor saidThursday that the budget cuts2,300 positions from all fund-ing sources.

The contrast between Cor-rections and System spendingreflects a continuing trend ofhow state tax dollars are spent

in Wisconsin, said Todd Berry,president of the WisconsinTaxpayers Alliance. The shareof state taxes going to the Sys-tem, which reached as high as17 percent in the 1970s, hasslid relative to spending onCorrections and K-12 educa-tion, Berry said.

Under the new budget, theSystem will get about 7 percentof the state taxes. By compari-son, the portion of state taxes

spent on Corrections increasedfrom 2.4 percent in the mid-1980s to 7.4 percent under thenew budget, Berry said.

The portion of state taxesspent on K-12 education willhave increased from about 22percent in the early 1970s toabout 40 percent under thenew budget, Berry said.

Unlike Corrections, the Sys-tem can make up some of itslosses by increasing federal re-search money, private endow-

ments and raising tuition,Berry said. With all fundingsources included, the Systemwill see an overall drop of 60jobs — about a tenth of what itotherwise faced, budget docu-ments prepared by the Legisla-tive Fiscal Bureau show.

Money from other sourcesoften can't be used for basicneeds, however, and studentsend up paying more for less,said Erik Christiansen, a Sys-tem spokesman.

"We can't take grant moneya professor at UW-Madison or

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Smiles all around at 'Kids Day'

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Two-year-oldI Matthew Hanson didn't mind going to the dentist Thursday in Wisconsin Dells. As part of Sweeney Dental Clinic's fourth annual Kids Day, patients andneighborhood residents turned out for face painting, a moonwalk and rides on a fire truck.

Supervisor wants deer feeding banHulsey says Dane Countyshould continue its ban onfeeding and baiting toprevent spread of CWD.By Lesley Rogers BarrenCounty reporter

Chronic wasting disease is still athreat to the area's deer heard andDane County should continue aban on feeding wild deer, says oneCounty Board member.

Sup. Brett Hulsey, Madison, onThursday introduced a resolutionto continue the ban on feeding andbaiting deer. The board will likelyvote on the ban next month.

"We should not feed or bait deer

to encourage them to congregateand spread more disease," Hulseysaid. "Dane County has the mostcases of CWD in the state and wemust take the lead to prevent itsspread."

The current county ban on theintentional feeding and baiting ofwild deer expires Sept. 1.

Fines are between $100 and $300for anyone caught feeding deer,whether for recreation, hunting orto lure the animals away fromcrops or landscaping.

Chronic wasting disease, a fatalbrain disease in deer and elk, wasfirst confirmed in the Mount Horebarea in February 2002. The diseaseis considered a threat to the statedeer herd.

A statewide ban on baiting andfeeding deer is set to expire Sept. 1.Hulsey is urging the Legislature toextend the ban.

In other County Board news,Sup. Dave Hanneman, Sun Prairie,announced his resignation fromthe District 19 seat.

Hanneman, 70, a staunch con-servative who has served on theboard for seven years, was electedmayor of Sun Prairie in April.

Hanneman said he wanted tocomplete his board term, whichends next spring, but it was toomuch.

"It wasn't practical," he said.He thanked fellow board mem-

bers for their work. They gave hima standing ovation after he made

his announcement at the start ofThursday's meeting.

"It has been rewarding," Hanne-man said. "It's been frustrating. Butit's also been very joyous."

Dane County Board ChairmanKevin Kesterson is expected to rec-ommend a replacement within amonth. The board will vote on theappointment.

Hanneman said he hopes his re-placement will be in place to helpwith the county budget process thisfall.

"Whoever fills this chair will doso with the best intentions of SunPrairie and Dane County overall,"Hanneman said. "We need tomaintain growth, controlledgrowth."

Area galsoffered onInternetThe escort services are suspectedfronts for prostitution, but police saystopping them isn't a priority.

By Barry AdamsPolice reporter

Escort services offering dates withMadison-area women are showing up on theInternet, and while authorities suspect a linkbetween some escort services and prostitu-tion, they say they can't afford to make en-forcement a high priority.

"It's dramatically increased prostitution inthis country. It'sbeen a way forpimps and Johns tonetwork with oneanother," said Chris-tine Stark, founderof Escape, a Minne-apolis group thathelps prostitutesleave the sex indus-try-

Like their printcounterparts, the In-ternet ads offer telephone numbers and pas-sive messages of something more.

But on the Internet, Web sites also offernude photos, biographies, measurements andeven direct telephone numbers to the escorts.

Escort services can be fronts for prostitu-tion, said Sgt. Carl Gloede of the Dane CountyNarcotics and Gang Task Force. But with tightbudgets and crimes such as drug traffickingresulting in gunfire, cracking down on escortservices that offer more than they should isn'ta priority.

"The unfortunate thing is there's a waiting

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Faculty experts taketheir skills far afield

A sizzling pace to the race

More than 40 in theUniversity of WisconsinSystem get temporaryOutside assignments.

By Karen RivedalHigher education reporter

A select group of faculty ex-perts from campuses through-out the University ofWisconsin System are learn-ing to apply their talents forteaching and research outsidethe classroom and well offcampus.

Vladimir Lumelsky, a me-chanical engineering profes-

Chemistry professor ArthurEllis, also from UW-Madison,is at the National ScienceFoundation in Arlington, Va.,directing a program thatawards chemistry researchgrants.

And UW-La Crosse assistantprofessor Betty DeBoer spentthe past year in Onalaskaworking as an elementaryschool psychologist for stu-dents with emotional, aca-demic or behavioralproblems.

Those three, and some 40others, received temporaryoutside assignments lasting asemester or more this past fallunder a state program that

"The unfortunatething is there's awaiting list as towhat's important."

SGT. CARL GLOEDEof the Dane CountyNarcotics and Gang

Task Force

Court throwsout law used toban Weedstock4th District Court of Appeals decidesSauk County's open air assembly lawviolates the First Amendment.By Ed TrelevenCourts reporter

A state appeals court Thursday struck downSauk County's open air assembly ordinancebecause it violates free speech by allowing thecounty an unreasonably long time to processpermit applications.

The decision by the 4th District Court ofAppeals found the ordinance violated theFirst Amendment rights of the organizers ofWeedstock, a pro-marijuana festival that washeld in Sauk County in 1995,1998 and 1999In 2000, the event was broken up by policeafter its organizer, Ben Masel of Madisonfailed to get a permit for Weedstock under theordinance.

The ordinance was adapted in 1999 from anexisting county ordinance in response to localconcerns about Weedstock. In 2000, afterlearning Masel would hold Weedstock without a permit, Sauk County obtained a courtorder blocking Weedstock, and Masel filed acounterclaim alleging that the ordinance wasunconstitutional. **

Under the ruling, said Masel's attorney TeffScott Olson, Masel is entitled to darnaSandattorney fees from Sauk County. lUUsffShim from forfeitures being sought bv thocounty and could end criminal chargesagainst Masel that resulted from the 2000

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sor at UW-Madison, is helpingNASA build robots that couldsomeday fix space satellites.He's working at the GoddardSpace Flight Center in subur-ban Maryland.

began in 2000. Other agenciesor organizations holding Sys-tem contracts over the pastacademic year include the

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RON KUENSTLEWRadne Journal TimesTwo pigs race around a grassy track while performing with Randall's High Diving RacersWednesday at the Racine County Fair In Union Grove.

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Grant helps schools teachdisabled kids at early ageBy Dustin BlockSun Prairie News

Sun Prairie schools havetaken an aggressive position incomplying with a recently passedstate law, thanks in part to a$29,000 state grant that benefitsdisabled students between theages of 3 and 5.

The grant, funded under theIndividuals with Disabilities Ed-ucation Act, is being used tobring disabled students into thesame room with their classmates.In the past, disabled childrenwere segregated from their class-mates.

"The trend is toward inclu-sion," said Lydia Krueger, a spe-cial education teacher who willoversee the grant "We'll be moresuccessful if (early education)students are included in commonareas . . . like day cares, evenPrairie Athletic Club."

Ted Szalkowski, the schooldistrict's director of pupil serv-ices, said a state law passed in1997 increases pressure on pub-lic schools to implement inclu-sion programs. In theory, if SunPrairie schools ignore the orderthe district could be audited andpunished for not complying.

Grant money, approved inJune, is already increasing thenumber of inclusion opportuni-ties throughout the district,Krueger said.

Teachers will use the moneyto help children develop basicskills before they enroll in kin-dergarten. Children who qualifyfor the program are sent toschool as early as their thirdbirthday in an attempt to addressproblems before they magnify.

The grant expands the pro-gram, titled "early education,"outside of the classroom to areasexperts say will accelerate devel-opment in some children. Thisincludes the home, day care cen-ters and preschools.

'Some parents have aproblem with sendingtheir 3-year-old toschool on a bus,' saidearly ed teacher AmyCoulthard. 'Parentsget all teary-eyedwhen they send their5-year-old to school. . . The idea thenbecomes, we go tothem.'

"Some parents have a prob-lem with sending their 3-year-oldto school on a bus," said early edteacher Amy Coulthard. "Parentsget all teary-eyed when they sendtheir 5-year-old to school... Theidea then becomes, we go tothem."

In Sun Prairie, Krueger andCoulthard have used the moneyto establish an outreach programto encourage inclusion. Severalday care centers were interestedin working with early ed studentsor receiving training on how towork with disabled children. Theinitial response has been good,Krueger said.

Krueger takes her students toGingerbread House preschoolduring the week for activities,and Coulthard recently beganworking with the Bright StarChildren's Center.

Sun Prairie's five early edteachers have used part of the$29,000 grant to pay for variousactivities outside of school walls,including bus trips to the daycares.

Another important use is tosend teachers into disabled stu-

dents' homes, where the childrenmay be more receptive to learn-ing. The grant pays for the teach-ers' overtime.

"This is a very positive pro-gram," Szalkowski said. "Therereally is no better way to encour-age development."

A potential problems awaitsthe program — funding.

Szalkowski said the grantwould run out within the nextcouple of years, forcing SunPrairie to absorb the costs or cutthe program. The grant is onlyintended to act as a start-upfund, he said, not an ongoing en-titlement

Yet, Krueger maintained thedistrict would provide inclusionservices, even if the money randry.

"This is established," she said."I want parents to know that thisisn't going away when the grantdoes."

Szalkowski said the temporarygrant was important to set aprecedent for future funding re-quests. If the program succeeds,"I've got proof that it worked andthat it's beneficial," he said.

Prior to the push for inclu-sion, disabled students werepulled from classrooms and com-munity settings so teachers andexperts could address their prob-lems in small groups or on an in-dividuals basis.

In recent years, the thinkinghas changed, Krueger said.

Now, education experts en-courage schools to mix disabledstudents with their classmates ina classroom environment. Szal-kowski said the interactioncreates a model of behavior forearly ed students not available ina small-group setting.

Day care centers or otherbusinesses interested in the in-clusion program are encouragedto call Krueger at 837-2545, ext.2138.

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Judge Frank J. Willkom in Sun Prairie Mu-nicipal Court on Nov. 4,1998.

TRAFFIC COURTTimothy J. Claflin, 317 James Court,

Sun Prairie, operating a motor vehicle whileunder the influence of intoxicants, $553.50,6 months suspension of operator's licenseand mandatory assessment; open intoxi-cants in motor vehicle by driver, $152; pos-session of drug paraphernalia, $90.50; andpossession of marijuana, $152.

Edward W. Becker, 194 Kroncke Dr.,Sun Prairie, inattentive driving, $78.20.

Shaun P. Harper, 104 Walmar Dr., SunPrairie, failure to fasten seat belt, $10.

Malcolm B. Seyerson, 966 HuntersRidge Trail, Sun Prairie, auto following tooclosely, $90.50.

Tamara M. Waldow, Green Bay, hit andrun unattended vehicle, $152.

Michael A. Mickelson, 510 Madison St.,Marshall, failure to fasten seat belt, $10.

Angelica M. Rios, Rockford, III., follow-ing emergency vehicle within 500 feet,$65.90.

Gary A. Scott, 402 Kensington Square,Stoughton, non-registration, $65.90, anddefective muffler, $65.90.

Larry J. Tolley, 1007 Williamson St.,Madison, open intoxicants in motor vehicleby passenger, $90.50.

MUNICIPAL COURTMargaret A. Brooks, 623 Birkinbine Dr.,

Sun Prairie, attack upon person by dog, aplea of not guilty, set for a pretrial confer-ence.

Melissa A. Beckett, 326 Sunfield North,Sun Prairie, theft of property, $152 and $27restitution.

Joseph T. Beneke, 371 Sun Court, SunPrairie, issue worthless check, withdrawn,paid restitution.

Michael T. Lewis, 2232 Wyoming Aye.,Sun Prairie, issue worthless check, with-drawn, paid restitution.

Jessica M. Mabin, 210 Hill St., Lodi,issue worthless check, withdrawn, paid res-titution.

Gloria D. Ruiz, 944 Hubble St., Marshall,issue worthless check, withdrawn, paid res-titution. '

Eric J. Desjardin, 1218 Severson Dr.,Sun Prairie, loud and unnecessary noise,$90.50.

Matthew M. Lindner, 145 North St., SunPrairie, issue worthless check, $152 and$75 restitution.

John D. McWilliams, Wausaukee, issueworthless check, $152 and $59.66 restitu-tion.

Brian R. Moon, Edmund, possession oftobacco, $37.30.

Shawn M. Olson, 1245 Sunfield St., SunPrairie, possession of tobacco, $37.30.

Roland L. Rees, 230 Foxdale Dr., SunPrairie, issue worthless check, $152 and$32.80 restitution.

Rand E. Seber, 404 Park Circle, SunPrairie, issue worthless check, $152 and$75 restitution.

Shawn L. Zbigniewicz, 117 W. MacAr-thur St., Sun Prairie, dog at large, $275.

Hanneman on state, national committeesDane County Sup. Dave Han-

neman, 29th District, was re-cently appointed to national andstate steering committees tostudy public safety issues.

Hanneman will serve on theNational Association of Coun-ties' Justice and Public SafetyCommittee and the WisconsinCounties Association committeeof the same name.

As a member of both organi-zations, the Sun Prairie supervi-sor will study a variety of issues,including juvenile justice, lawenforcement and emergency re-sponse services.

Hanneman said the commit-tees match his interests.

"We're doing some importantthings," he said.

Locally, Hanneman is exam-ining plans for a new DaneCounty courthouse in downtownMadison.

He said last week that he ex-pects the County Board to rejecta recommendation made byCounty Executive Kathleen Falkand approve construction of acourthouse that would consoli-date all county courts into onebuilding.

Falk's plan, released last fall,calls' for a smaller court buildingthat would split courts betweentwo buildings.

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City Editor: Joyce Dehli, (608) 252-61^

When to start planning jail expansion?County Boardlikely to mull thatfor 2000 budgetBy Marv BalousekCounty reporter

;Whether to begin planning jailexpansion next year likely will bea major issue in budget delibera-tions by the Dane County Board.; County Executive Kathleen

Falk, who is expected to releaseher proposed 2000 budget Monday,hopes to head off jail expansionwith a $400,000 jail alternativesproposal.

UWsetsrules forlicensedproducts• The standards includemonitoring and are aimedat preventing sweatshopabuses.By Anita ClarkWisconsin State Journal

UW-Madison has outlined itsnew requirements for companiesthat make university-licensedproducts.

In a letter this week, ChancellorDavid Ward told the Collegiate Li-censing Co. that the university willimplement its standards Jan. 1.

He also specified plans for aninternational- pilot monitoringproject aftd identified fac^piesthat will be inspected? :°'*"'

ing to curb sweatshop abuses.The issue has been an inflam-

matory one at UW-Madison, withstudents demanding stricter stan-dards than those originally pro-posed. Their protests included asit-in outside Ward's office that ledto an agreement in February toadd items to the proposed code.. I n his letter, Ward said stu-dents, faculty and staff' membersagree "it is repugnant to have theuniversity's logos and marks ap-pear on articles possibly producedunder hostile and abusive workingconditions."

The requirements that take ef-fect Jan. 1 are full public disclo-sure of manufacturing locations,protection of female workers fromharassment and discriminationand other provisions in a code ofconduct drafted by the CLC.

Inspections by the monitoringproject will be conducted by Ver-ite, a nonprofit organization.

• In November, its representa-tives will interview workers andvisit factories of three manufactur-ers: MJ Soffe in Costa Rica, ZephyrGraph-X in Korea andi CollegeConcepts in Mexico.

Verite will conduct follow-upinspections in January and issueits report in March or April.

UW-Madison is contributing$10,000 to the pilot project Otherparticipants are Boston College,Duke University, Georgetown Uni-versity and the University of North,Carolina-Charlotte.

Ward noted that UW-Madispn iscommitted to studying the livingwage issue and is sponsoring a na-tional research symposium on theissue Nov. 19-21.

Falk announced the programFriday with the support of SheriffGary Hamblin and District Attor-ney Diane Nicks.

Her goal is to reduce the aver-age daily jail population by 100 in-mates and relieve overcrowding.

The proposal includes:• $138,500 to the court Alterna-

tives to Incarceration Program,which includes electronic monitor-ing.• $150,000 (including $30,000

from nontax revenue) to expanddrug abuse and mental health pro-grams like the drug treatmentcourt and the Treatment Alterna-tives Program (TAP).• $42,900 for an additional sher-

iffs deputy to increase the number

'It would probably be a temporary Band-Aid at this point. Ithink anything at this point In time will help to alleviate but Idon't think It's going to eliminate the need for more cells.'

Sup. David Hanneman39th district, Sun Prairie

of inmates released on electronicmonitoring.

• $100,000 for a special commit-tee to allocate for other programs.

Supervisors praised Falk's jaildiversion initiative, but some saidthey believe $1 million to plan jailexpansion still should be in nextyear's budget instead of delayeduntil 2002.

Sup. Donald Heiliger, 35th Dis-trict, town of Dunkirk, said anamendment will be introduced tonext year's budget for jail planningmoney.

"Let's face it, we're looking atany plan that can save jail space,"said Heiliger, who chairs the Pub-lic Protection and Judiciary Com-mittee. "I don't think there would

be enough jail space saved."Sup. David Hanneman, 39th

District, Sun Prairie, said DaneCounty needs to look at compre-hensive jail diversion programs incounties across the nation.

But he said Dane County pro-grams may not come quicklyenough to avoid jail expansion.

"It would probably be a tempo-rary Band-Aid at this point," hesaid. "I think anything at this pointin time will help to alleviate but Idon't think it's going to eliminatethe need for more cells."

Sup. David Gawenda, 16th Dis-trict, Madison, said Falk's pro-posal also calls for looking atsystemic changes that can reducethe average length of stay.

He said the county should waitto see if the programs work beforeexpanding the jail.

"I would hate to make a decijjsion now to spend $20 million OPmore to add jail space now untilwe've explored some .Other bp^tions," h e said. - ' . ' • ' 1

County Board Chairman KevinKesterson said he may be theswing vote on jail expansion and isundecided.

Kesterson said he doesn't agreewith the sheriff that expansion canbe planned next year and con-struction delayed if the diversion'programs are successful. :

"Why spend a million bucks forsomething you might put on theshelf?" he asked. -

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Aaron Gill, 11, front, hasn't ridden his bicycle much since being hit while crossing Highway 51 in McFarlandlast month. He's joining his family in a public safety campaign aimed at wearing helmets and improving waysfor riders to cross the busy highway. Aaron sits at his town of Dunn home with, from left, his mother Tracy, 7-year-old sister Bryna, and 15-year-old brother Brett. ;

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MCFARLAND — A month ago,Tracy Gill received the kind of tele-phone call that every parent dreads.

A McFarland police officer toldGill her 11-year-old son, Aaron, hadbeen hit by a car while trying to pedalacross Highway 51.

Gill, who works for University Hos-pital's organ transplant program,feared the worst. She's seen morethan her share of donor organs fromdead bicycle riders.

"Knowing what I know about bicy-cle accidents, I totally lost it," shesaid. "It was a very terrifying mo-ment "

By some small miracle, Aaronwasn't hurt, save for a bruised knee.This is despite not wearing a helmetand hitting the windshield of the car.

But Aaron's lucky break hasprompted an unusual public safetycampaign by the Gill family. For start-ers, the family cook out an advertise-ment in the weekly McFarlandCommunity Life shortly after jthe Sept.

16 accident, reminding riders of thevirtues of helmets.

"I think I was very lucky that Ididn't get hurt," Aaron said in an ad-vertisement addressed to his friendsin McFarland. "I hope all or' you willwear your helmets when you ride yourbike, because you might not be aslucky as I was."

Secondly, the Gills are lobbyinglocal government officials to find waysto make it easier for bicycle riders tocross the busy highway.

Aaron is part of a group of bicycleriders, including his oldei brother,Brett, who live in a town of Dunnneighborhood tucked along the east-ern shore of Lake Waubesa. They liketo ride their bikes to school whenweather permits. Via a series of quietside streets and bicycle paths, thegroup can ride all the way to the northentrance of Babcock Park without en-countering much traffic

But then they nave to cross High-way 51 - - a fpui-lane highway thatserves as a primary commuter route

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Gamblingdevices inbars argued• Some say lesser penalties wouldincrease gaming, others say currentfines are unfair to small-businesses.By Jenny Price "'Associated Press r

A state budget provision that would reduce penalrties for tavern owners convicted of operating illegalvideo gambling machines will expand gambling inWisconsin, critics of the measure said Friday. j

Among the proposal's supporters were bar owners,including Gov. Tommy Thompson's brother, who wascharged with operating the illegal machines in[ hjsTomah supper club. The charges later were dropped.,:

The provision is part of the 1999-2001 budget thatis awaiting Thompson's signature. The governor hasthe power to veto individual items within the $41 bil-

» lion budget, but he has not said whether he will Vetothe change in penalties for operating video gamblingmachines. %*-

The change would make it a misdemeanor rather^than a felony to own and operate as many as five offthe machines! that pay out money to players. The max- fimum penalty would be a fine of $500 per machine, £under the proposed change. >:!

Under current law, having the machines and using?them as gambling devices is a felony punishable byjSup to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. <J

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Progressive :/:'|school proposed!by teachers |

'State Journal staff.A group of Madison teachers and parents is pro-S

posing a charter school that would embrace the tenrSets of "progressive education." * $

In an overview sent to prospective parents, thejjgroup says the vision and programs of progressive^and democratic education are increasingly at risk"due to "stultifying" educational trends. V i

As examples, they mention the centralization ofcurriculum decision-making, the emphasis on high-stakes testing and the use of teaching methods andtextbooks that engage "neither the intellect nor theimagination of young people and teachers."

Lincoln Elementary teachers Pat Wood and JeffMaas and Sherman Middle School teapher -BarbaraBrodhagen are members of the group. •"

The proposed school, to be called the MadisonCommunity School, would educate children in gradeskindergarten through eighth)" within* the MadisonSchool District. . • ' = • ' • • '

Charter ;.s'chools are publicly , funded schoolsstarted by teachers, parents and community membersthat; operate independently of most state aha- schooldistrict rules. ' ;: ^

The Madison School District has scheduled a pub-lic hearing on the proposal at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 25 inRoom 103 of the Doyle Administration Building, 543W.Dayton St. .

Accident ties up trafficon the Beltline for hours. A semitruck driver who was reading amap caused a Beltline crash Friday with an-other semitruck, a car and a trailer-towingpickup, stopping westbound traffic forhours, police said.

Three people, all of whom wore seatbelts, were treated at Meriter Hospital forminor injuries. Town of Madison officerRichard Reilly said the 11:28 a.m. chain-reaction crash caused a traffic backup fromthe Verona Road exit "at least to Highway51. It was quite a mess."

Trucker Fredrick Colling, 38, of Coleman,was given a $78.20 ticket for inattentive driv-ing, Reilly said Colling was in the right lane,'reading a map to see which exit he wanted,and "looked up too late." He rammed a cardriven by Pauline Ostling, 55, Madison. Os-tling's car was the last in a line of stopped

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cars, backed up in the right lane to get off atVerona Road.

Ostling's car was knocked into the centerlane, hitting a Monona Plumbing & FireProtection pickup with a trailer, Reilly said.The pickup, driven by Shane Levin, 22,Evansville, veered right and struck astopped semitruck in the right lane.

Pickup passenger Mathew Jungbluth, 22,of Deerfield was taken by ambulance toMeriter Hospital for treatment of head inju-ries. Ostling and Levin made their own ways 'to the hospital for treatment of neck painand chest pain, respectively.

Ceiling's semitruck, Ostling's car andLevin's pickup all had to be towed off thehighway, Reilly said. 'A — Brenda Ingersoll

A four-vehicle,accident In triewestbound ; •lanes of the ' • «Beltline east of*SemlnoleHighway ,slowed trafficfor hours • j.Friday. Three'1people sufferojminor Injuries?

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BeckerContinued from Page 1A

The new County Board members

Phelps.For example, some board mem-

bers question why more moderateliberals, such as Terese Berceauand Kevin Kesterson, aren'tamong Becker's top choices tohead committees.

In Berceau's case, some boardmembers suspect Becker is pun-ishing Berceau for briefly flirtingwith the idea of running for boardchairman.

"I've been a little concernedabout the committee chair assign-ments," said Kesterson, 34th Dis-trict, McFarland. "They're a littlemore left-leaning than I wouldlike, but people have asked Jona-than not to stack the committeesand he's promised not to do that."

Becker denied accusationsabout punishing Berceau. Instead,he said he considered both Ber-ceau and Kesterson as possibleleaders of the Zoning and NaturalResources Committee. Kestersontold Becker he did not want to bechairman. Berceau said she pre-ferred to be first vice chairwomanof the full board.

Becker said he intends tospread out committee assign-ments to give more people impor-tant roles on the board, ratherthan pick board leaders to headcommittees as well. He alsopledged not to stack committeeswith political partisans, as he saidBlaska did during his tenure.Becker said he believes the boardwill be more productive if a widevariety of board members work onissues in committee.

"Jonathan will be able to get abroader perspective on issues byspreading out the leadership,"said Tom Stoebig, 15th District,Madison. "That's healthy. I don'tthink Mike Blaska did that. Hewanted to consolidate authorityand Jonathan wants to share it."

But some board members sus-pect Becker is an operative forPhelps — a perception, true ornot, that taints Becker's messageof sharing the power. Phelps has areputation for pressuring liberalsto stick together.

At a recent meeting of the leral caucus, Phelps talked board members about working gether. Some thought Phelps' mesage was inspirational. Othethought it was threatening, partularly when Phelps said boamembers who didn't cooperawould be "marginalized." Phelsaid he did not intend to intimdate anyone.: "I was just trying to encourapeople to work together and to pthe divisiveness of the old boaaside," Phelps said. "I really think this could be the best boawe've had in the nine years sinI've been executive and I dowant them to blow their opportnity with pettiness."

Regardless of Phelps' messagBecker fervently maintains his idependence from Phelps. Beckan articulate and astute attornfor the state Ethics Board, hearned his place as board chaman, his supporters said.

Becker, 44, has represented tllth District of Madison sin1987. His reign on the board is tfifth longest of all 39 members anhe has been on the board longthan other liberals, except Ricard Kiley, who joined the board 1984.

Becker also has headed the Rgional Planning Commission anthe Public Protection and Judciary Committee. He wrote thcounty's recycling ordinance anhe was an original member of thLakes and Watershed Commision.

"Jonathan's intentions agood," said Berceau, 20th DistricMadison. "I've never even hearhim joke that he's going to gback at people. He's very aware othe perceptions of him and he determined to show he's his owman."

Here are profiles of the newest mem-bers of the Dane County Board:

BRIAN BUTLERAge: 53.Personal: Mar-

ried, lives at 2607Middleton BeachRoad, Middleton.

Occupation: At-torney.

Political experi-ence: None.

Other publicserv ice : DaneCounty HumanServices Board,Big Brothers and

Big Sisters of Dane County.Education: Law degree, Northwestern

University.

KAREN CORNWELLAge: 42.Personal: Mar-

ried, one daughter,12, and a son, 6,who attend Madi-s o n p u b l i cschools.

Address: 2622Van Hise Ave.

Occupat ion:Community activ-ist.

Political experi-ence: None.

Other public service: Madison Isth-mus 2020 Committee; board member,Regent Neighborhood Commitee; orga-nizing team of the Future Search Com-mittee.

Education: Bachelor's degree, bot-any, University of California-Berkeley;master's degree, landscape architecture,State University of New York.

LESLIE "BUZZ" DAVISAge: 53. Per-

sonal: Lives withwife, Kay, and theirteen-age son,Brett, at 1021 Riv-e rv iew Dr ive ,Stoughton.

Occupat ion:Planning analystfor the WisconsinDepartment of Ag-riculture, Tradeand ConsumerProtection.

Political experience: Served on theStoughton City Council from 1979 to1980, and again from 1992 to 1995. Alsoserved on the city's plan commission.

Other public service: Served on theDane County Library Task Force and theStoughton Library Board.

Education: Bachelor's degree in polit-ical science and master's degree inurban affairs, UW-Milwaukee; master'sdegree in public administration, Syra-

Political experience: Ran for Assem-bly in 1992 and County Board in 1994.

Other public service: President of Mo-nona Youth Soccer and former coach;member, steering committee to saveSand County property; legislative affairscommittee for several real estate groups.

Education: Bachelor's degree fromUW-Madison.

JUDITH PEDERSONAge: 49.Personal: Mar-

ried with four chil-dren.

Occupa t ion :Real estate sales-woman.

Political experi-ence: None.

Other publicservice: Member,Madison Policeand Fire Commis-sion, Affirmative

Action Commission.Education: UW-Madison graduate in

journalism.

BOB SALOVAge: 48 Per-

sonal: Married withfive children, livesin Christiana.

Occupation: Di-rector of the Cam-bridge EmergencyMedical Serviceand co-owner ofBusiness Manage-ment Inc.

Political experi-ence: None.

Other publicservice: Volunteer emergency medicaltechnician, member of the CambridgeChamber of Commerce, the Lions Club,the Friends of Koshkonong Creek andCitizens for Rural Preservation.

Education: UW-Madison graduate.

11 new members of County Boardwant to change some of the rules

JOHN SCEPANSKIAge: 48.Personal: Sin-

gle, one daughter.Lives in DeForest.

Occupat ion:Program and plan-ning analyst, stateJustice Depart-ment.

Political experi-ence: DeForestmunicipal judge,eight years; DaneCounty Yo.uth

Commission, eight years; DeForest Ap-peals Board, one year.

Other public service: DeForest Part-ners in Prevention, DeForest Area YouthCouncil adviser, Christian Faith MoravianChurch Alder.

Education: Bachelor's and master'sof arts, UW-Madison.

MICHAEL THEISENAge: 40. Per-

sonal: Married withthree children,lives in Madison.

Occupat ion :Salesman for Re-source Net.

Political experi-ence: Town ofMadison chairmanfour years.

Other publicservice: Formertown of Madison

volunteer firefighter.Education: Attended MATC.

JAMES VAN DEURZENAge: 43.Personal: Sin-

gle, lives and

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Eleven new members of theDane County Board aren't going toplay by all the same old partisanrules.

For one, they aren't going topledge support for a committeechairman in exchange for a com-mittee appointment.

Instead, they want to earn theircommittee appointments and then,consider their choices for chair-man.

All 11 of them have committedto this plan and their numbers willmake them a force to reckon withon the 39-member board, even vet-eran board members admit.

"No one can have a majoritywithout us," said Sup. Mark Miller,24th District, Monona. "By actingcooperatively we can ensure bothliberals and conservatives will berepresented in leadership posi-tions. We think that's importantbecause of the past history of theboard. All the leadership positionswere held by one camp."

Miller and several other newboard members decided to formtheir own caucus to promote aplatform supported by all of themduring the campaign. Each onepledged to maintain civility on theboard.

"We met to figure out how wecould turn our campaign promisesto be more even tempered into re-ality," said Sup. John Scepanski,22nd District, DeForest. "Wewanted to explore ways to assertour independence."

The caucus of new board mem-

Dane County Board elects new officersThe new Dane County Board

elected the following officers Tues-day:

• Chairman Jonathan Becker,11th District, Madison.

• First Vice Chairman Terese Ber-ceau, 20th District, Madison.

• Second Vice Chairman DaveHanneman, 29th District, Sun Prairie.

• Sergeants at Arms ReginaRhyne, 13th District, Madison, andTom Clauder, 33rd District, Fitchburg.

Sergeant at Arms is a ceremonialposition for board members who helppass out material and maintain orderon the board floor.

Becker also will appoint boardmembers to seven standing commit-tees of the board. Standing commit-tee members then elect their ownchairman or chairwoman, but usuallythe board chairman orchestrates whowill head standing committeesthrough his appointments.

Becker declined comment oncommittee leaders. Other boardmembers said the following peoplelikely will head the standing commit-tees appointed by Becker:

• Personnel and Finance: Ste-ven Braunginn, 19th District, Madi-son.

• Public Protection and Judi-ciary: Richard Kiley, 17th District,Madison.

• Health and Human Needs:Judy Wilcox, 2nd District, Madison.

• Zoning and Natural Re-sources: John Hendrick, 6th District,Madison.

• Transportation: Darold Lowe,3rd District, Madison.

• Public Works and FacilitiesManagement: Dave Ripp, 29th Dis-trict, Waunakee.

• Ways and Means: County ordi-nance dictates that Becker, as boardchairman, also heads Ways andMeans.

bers has met three times and willcontinue to meet as necessary. Be-sides the topic of committee chair-men, the group also discussed:

• Asking the new board chair-man, Jonathan Becker, llth Dis-trict, Madison, not to stackcommittees.

• Running its own candidate,Sup. Dave Hanneman, 39th Dis-trict, Sun Prairie, for second vicechairman.

• Talking in private to boardmembers who make personal at-

tacks on the board floor.• Asking the board chair to ex-

pect board members to pay betterattention during public hearings.

Already, veteran board mem-bers are applauding the new boardmembers' efforts.

"They perceive the board as aplace where bickering has led tofailure . to accomplish things,"Becker said. "To the extent theywant to make a change, I'm all forthat. I think it's neat. It's a sign ofhealthy independent thinking."

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Wisconsin State Journal—Sunday, November 1,1998

Nancy Mistele's MessageHas Earned Their SupportGovernor Tommy ThompsonCongressman Scott KlugRepresentative Mike PowersJonathan Barry, Former Dane

County ExecutiveGary Hamblin,

Dane County SheriffRick Raemisch,

Dane County Sheriff (ret.)

cutta,' :*.**•

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DANE COUNTY BOARDOF SUPERVISORS:Lyman AndersonDavid BlaskaMike BlaskaTom Clauder *David HannemanDon HeiligerBill HitzemannJim MohrbacherDave RippGail RutkowskiPhil SalkinRuth Ann SchoerVernWendtGene Craft (ret.)Helen Hellenbrand (ret.)Sam Simon (ret.)Robert Skuldt (ret.)

MADISON SCHOOL BOARDRay AllenMary Jan Rosenak (ret.)Greg Samp (ret.)Nancy Harper (ret.)

WAUNAKEE SCHOOL BOARDBernard KennedyDick RippBarbara Townley

FITCHBURG CITY COUNCILJay AllenThomas MachajMark VivianKathi KilgoreDon Damon,

Middleton City CouncilVern Wendt,

Town of Black Earth ChairmanBill Hitzemann, Town of Blue

Mounds ChairmanEd Tallard, Town of Middleton

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John Van Dinter,Town of Wesport President

William Von Rutenburg,Westport Town Board

Terry Baumeister, Blue MoundsVillage President

Mike Doyle,Green County Clerk

Gary Luhman,Green County District Attorney

GREEN COUNTY BOARDOF SUPERVISORS:Calvin WicklineMike PowersHarvey KublyDonna DouglasBob HoeslyHarold Schulz

La Verne Ostby,Adams Town Chair

Brenda Emberson,Adams Town Clerk

Brian Pederson,Adams Town Supervisor

Wesley Krupke,Albany Town Chair

Robert Bump,Albany Town Supervisor

Fred Baertschi,Albany Town Supervisor

David Miller,Clarno Town Supervisor

James Rutledge,Clarno Town Clerk

Helen Hafen,Jefferson Town Treasurer

Harold Lelle, «Jordan Town Supervisor

M. Gene Christensen,Jordan Town Supervisor

Doris Bechtolt,Jordan Town Treasurer

Alois Maye^r,Monroe Town Clerk

Mary Kaye Dorn,New Glarus Town Clerk

John Freitag,New Glarus Town Chair

Mary Kaderly,Spring Grove Town Chair

Jack Klopfenstein,Spring Grove Town Chair (ret.)

Raland Ritschard,Washington Town Chair

Lyle Klosterman,York Town Chair

Gordon Peterson,York Town Chair

Jason Sellnow,Albany Village President

Susan Fillhouer,Browtown Village Treasurer/Clerk

Calvin Wickline,Brodhead Mayor (ret.)

Debra Brown,Brodhead Alderperson

William Ross,Jr., Monroe Mayor

Diana Vance,Monroe City Council (ret)

Jack Stenbroten,Monticello Village President

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"Mistele's principles - especiallyher belief that state governmentcan be made more cost-efficient- make her the better choice.

Her five years on the MadisonSchool Board give her aknowledge of education issuesthat could come in handy in theCapitol, where the loudestvoices on such questions is toooften the state teachers' union.

The biggest difference betweenNancy Mistele and JonErpenbachs Mistele wants tokeep the state-imposed limit onteacher pay increases that haveproduced dramatic reductionsIn property tax rate increases.Erpenbach wants to ditch it.

Erpenbach Is wrong. If theLegislature removes the abilityof local school boards to controlpersonnel costs, which make up85% of their budgets, taxeshave to go up."

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Crash claimsits third victim

A two-vehicle crash thatkilled two men earlier this *month claimed a third victimSunday. •

Tommy L. Siegler, 16, ofrural Montello, died Sundayafternoon at UW Hospitalfrom injuries suffered in theAug. 13 crash, according tothe Columbia County coro-ner's office.

The accident, which oc-curred east of Poynette, alsokilled William K. Schwer-sinke, 22, and Joseph R. Pow-ers, 24, both of ruralMontello, authorities said.Both men died at die acci-dent scene.

Siegler was not wearing aseat belt, authorities said. Heand Powers were riding inSchwersinke's car.

WAUKESHA

Lake Michiganpipeline proposed

The city of Waukesha isproposing construction of apipeline mat could provide itwith nearly 20 million gallonsof Lake Michigan water daily.

"Waukesha needs a newsource of water to replace itsexisting water supply to pro-tect public health," MayorCarol Lombardi said in a let-ter this week to Gov. JimDoyle, seeking his supportfor the idea.

The city's proposal is partof a twofold plan to firstlower the concentration ofradium, a potential cancer-causing agent, in drinkingwater and then tap into newwater sources.

But the Lake Michigan pro-posal would have a big hur-dle to clear.

The city is west of the sub-continental divide, meaningits runoff flows toward theMississippi Valley, not LakeMichigan.

Each of the Great Lakesstates, plus two Canadianprovinces, would have to ap-prove the pipeline project.

MILWAUKEE

800 on handfor Dean speech

Democratic presidentialhopeful Howard Deanbrought his eight-city roadtrip to Wisconsin as he triedto get a jump on the tradi-tional post-Labor Day pres-idential campaign season.

The former Vermont gov-ernor spoke to a crowd thatorganizers estimated at 800in a hangar Saturday nightjust off the tarmac of Mil-waukee's General MitchellInternational Airport.

Dean accused PresidentBush of lying about the warin Iraq, leaving people with-out health care and handingout tax cuts to the wealthy.

Dean has dubbed the tripthe "Sleepless SummerTour," a swipe at Bush'smonthlong vacation at hisranch in Crawford, Texas.

Dean is one of nine Demo-crats vying for the presiden-tial nomination. He is tryingto position himself as Bush'schief rival and drum up cov-erage by inviting reporters onhis chartered plane.

LODI . '

MATC student winsmural competition

The owners of Conven-ience Store & Food Courtalong Interstate 90-94 nearLodi recently decided theywanted a wall mural to deco- ,rate the store's restaurant.

"We decided a good way todo it and help a young artistwas to go through the localcolleges," said co-ownerCristi Maier.

More than 75 student art-ists submitted entries andthe winner was David Cox ofDeForest, a student at Madi-son Area Technical College.His cartoon-style drawing inwatercolor and pencil wasthe basis for a 4-foot by 10-foot mural that was unveiledThursday night and won hima $400 prize.

"This not only gives a busi-ness owner a great piece ofartwork for a great price, butit also gives a young person ahead start in his career,"Maier said.

—r WSJ staff, wire reports

State Journal staff

A 75-year-old Elkhornwoman was killed Saturdayafternoon when the Ford Es-cort she was riding in and aChevrolet Blazer collided onHighway MM in the town of .Johnston near Milton in RockCounty.

Ethel Chancy was pro-nounced dead at Mercy Hospi-tal in Janesville, according tothe Rock County Sheriffs De-partment. The driver of the Es-cort, 77-year-old Constance M.Cramer of Elkhorn, sufferednon-life-threatening injuriesand was also taken to Mercy.

woman killed in crashThe driver of the other vehicle in the collision is arrestedBoth women were wearing seatbelts, officials said. ,

The crash happened around5:18 p.m. Saturday when theBlazer, driven by 19-year-oldMark R. Perkins of Milton, triedto make a left turn into a drive-way and collided with the Es-cort.

Perkins was arrested andtentatively charged with homi-cide by intoxicated use of amotor vehicle (marijuana), twocounts of causing injury by in-toxicated use of a motor vehi-

cle, possession of marijuana,possession of drug parapher-nalia and failure to yield theright-of-way while making aleft turn.

Perkins wasn't hurt, and apassenger in his vehicle, 20-year-old Andrew Gaffney ofJanesville, was treated and re-leased at Mercy. A second pas-senger, Albert Ruiz of Milton,was unhurt. Ruiz was wearing aseat belt, while Gaffney wasnot.

day, four people were injuredin a two-vehicle crash at High-way H and Laird Road in thetown of Newark.

Police said a Chevy truckdriven by Lydia G. Schlittlerfailed to stop at a stop signaround 6:11 p.m. and hit a Ca-dillac driven by 79-year-old .Thomas J. McCarty of Rockton,111. Schlittler suffered minor in-juries, and all three people inthe Cadillac were hurt, officialssaid.

Also in Rock County Satur- McCarty was treated and re-

leased from Beloit MemorialHospital. Passenger Thomas M.McCarty, 53, was flown to UWHospital with head injuries. A 'second passenger, 75-year-old •Christine Marsh, was taken to •Beloit Memorial Hospitalwhere she was listed in seriouscondition Saturday night.

Everyone involved was wear-ing seat belts, and alcohol isnot believed to be a factor in ,the crash, police said. Schlitterwas ticketed for failing to stop •at a stop sign.

High flier

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Kathy Lester-Ross of Kansasville fires up her hot air balloon and takes flight at the Wisconsin Rapids Bal-loon Rally Friday night.

Trooper shells out to spreadher message on road safetyAt fair, she gives outboxes of items withmessages about seat beltsand good driving habits-By Mark GundermanThe Chippewa Herald

CH1PPEWA FALLS — If herfellow officers in the State Pa-trol didn't know better, theymight have thought MarshaWiley was about to go into thedollar discount store business.

Wiley was seen accumulatingboxes and boxes of pens, pen-cils, coloring books, crayons,Frisbees, ice scrapers, can cool-ers, pencil cases, rulers anddozens of other items.

Thousands of dollars worth.At her own expense.And she was preparing to

give them all away at theNorthern Wisconsin State Fairin Chippewa Falls this sum-mer, all for a public relationseffort of her own accord.

Wiley, a captain in command

of the State Patrol's District 6headquarters in Eau Claire forthe past 15 years, wanted to getout a public safety message.She-paid to have simple mes-sages supporting seat belt useand safe driving habits, as wellas anti-drug messages, printedon the items. The District 6State Patrol logo went on theitems, too, if it would fit.

"I wanted to find a means ofgetting the highway safetymessage out and we always gotgood response at our fairbooth. We wanted to hand outthings that are useful," Wileysaid.

The State Patrol didn't helppay for the items.

"I didn't even ask," Wileysaid. "I knew better than toask. In previous years we'vebeen told there is no money inthe department budget for thissort of thing."

So Wiley did it herself. Atrailer full of the boxes of itemswas pulled up behind the lawenforcement building next tothe first-aid station at the fair.

The kids loved the Frisbees.On Senior Citizens Day, themeasuring cups were popular,according to Trooper KeithYoung, who helped distributethe items to fairgoers. Toys forthe kids and useful things forthe adults — Wiley had gath-ered it all.

The give-away raised a feweyebrows.

"Some people thought theywere being purchased withmoney from the State Patrolbudget," Young said. "We toldthem no, it was purchased byone of the officers with herown money.

"Many people couldn't be-lieve someone would spendthat kind of money on theirown. People were prettyamazed."

Wiley plans to continue theprogram, at her own expense.

" "I just received some new or-ders for events coming up thiscoming year," she said. "Wejust got some yo-yos widi ahighway safety message on it."

Pearl recalls her stint as adoptiveEveryone has a memory

that pops into one'shead at unexpected

times. The sight of a youngbird just learning to fly out atthe farm did it for me. Therewas one summer about 40years ago that we hand-raiseda couple from the bare-nakedjust fallen out of a nest timeuntil they were grown andready to leave.

A daughter's family (fatherwas a teacher) came a coupleof summers and lived in asmall trailer house under theshade trees on our lawn. Oneday these two tiny specimenswere found in the grass. Thor-.ough searching of all the treesdid not turn up their home sowe took them fa-

it was soon after we hadmoved to Uncle Carl's farm onStump Ridge and had not yettorn .down the old house.Jtwas almost a shack and even-tually we did, but that is proba-bly why we didn't hesitate toprovide living — and[flyingquarters — for a couple of ',birds. The old bachelor neigh-

PEARL SWIGGUMbors who visited us almostevery night were just as en-chanted by them as we were sowe named the birds for them:Pete and Odin.

Little pigs they were. Theyate the same food we did andcould consume a whole scram-bled egg in one day as well astiny pieces of bread and vege-tables. They also developed ataste for peaches. Everythingfed by hand, of course. Sincethey had never seen their par-ents they must have thoughtwe were.

I bedded them down at nightin a woqly scarf tucked into a .box. During the day, after theywere feathered out, I stucktwigs in a pail of sand for themto perch on. Of course they

flew now and then, and as theygot stronger they preferred thecurtain rods. I spread aroundnewspapers liberally.

Before long their feathersidentified them as cedar wax-wings, so I went to the woodsonce a day and got them whata bird book said was an item oftheir diet — elderberries.Neighbor Pete commentedthat purple splotches sort ofadded to the looks of thekitchen curtains but that situa-tion became a bit much. Petesolved it.

He came over one day, car-rying a big cage, made from anold wooden box. Covering oneside was wire screen with onecorner that could be openedfor inserting food. Inside wasan interlacing of branches.They perched on those and fedon the berries I gave them.

With regret we realized theymust be returned to the wild sofirst I canvassed the ridge andfound a place where elderber-ries grew rampant near theroad and there were even morebushes farther back into the

Woodman'sprotesters failto be silencedThey are against buildinga store near the proposedinterchange withHighway 151.By Jean Van RensselarFor the State Journal

SUN PRAIRIE — Protestorsof a Woodman's grocery storelast week dominated a publichearings on proposed westside development, despitewarnings from Sun PrairieMayor Dave Hanneman thatthe meeting was intended fordiscussion of land-use andtransportation issues.

The final plan, unveiledover a week ago, has a210,000-square-foot Wood-man's store sketched onHighway C near the proposedinterchange with Highway151.

About 150 people turnedout for the meeting, 20 spoke,and all said they were againstbuilding a Woodman's on thewest side.

Several members of the Pe-terson and Conrad families,owners of a small grocerystore in town, said their busi-ness would be severely af-fected by a Woodman's store.

"We worry how we will sur-vive with the big box stores,"Penny Peterson said.

Jean Conrad read a state-ment frorn'her husband, Joe,86, the store's founder and aSun Prairie native, saying thathe has warm feelings for thecustomers he's served for 57years, but worries about thestore's survival.

Three times Hanneman re-minded speakers not to bringup retail business, but he wasignored.

"The west side retail isgoing to destroy the down-town," said Peter Bushman."It's going to be a ghost town.When I was growing up, my

store where we lived and I .watched Wal-Mart suck the •''life out of the downtown."

Tom Hanley said he wasconcerned about a largeWoodman's warehouseplanned next to the store.

"I don't think we want ''warehousing in a residential -area," he said. "It belongs inan industrial area." "

He also said Woodman's of-ficials pressured city officialsand planners. "I don't think 'there's been fair play, period," 'he said. "It's a lot of personalgreed and not in the best in-terest of residents of this city."

After the meeting, officialsresponded.

"Where there may be some -disagreement widi this plan,"city council and plan commis-sion member John Bogle said,"I have never known the citycouncil or plan commission '.,to act outside the best interestof the city."

"There hasn't been any ".pressure put on the city staff ..at any time," added city plan-ner Scott Kugler. "The processhas been veiy open. Everyonehas had a fair opportunity to .have input in the process."

Woodman's spokesmanBret Backus said once thefinal west side plan is ap-proved, store officials willbegin planning for construe- •tion, leaving open the possi-bility-that the store could be .built before the new inter-change is finished in twoyears.

The next public hearing is ,scheduled for 7 p.m. Sept. 3 atPrairie View Middle School, •400 N. Thompson Rd. Com-ments can be e-mailed to:westsideplan@sun-prairie.com, or mailed to theplanning department at: Cityof Sun Prairie, 300 E. Main St.,Sun Prairie, WI, 53590. Theplan can be viewed at the li-brary, city hall or on the city's 'Web site: www.cityofsun-

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The geography of schoolsMany inMononanot happyBy Marv BalousekWisconsin State Journal

MONONA — The way parentMary Landry sees it, the choiceto live in Monona for manyresidents means living withinwalking distance of theschools.

"We made a conscious deci-sion to buy older homes, not sowe could be closer to Pizza Pit,but so we could be closer tothe schools," she said.

"They (in Cottage Grove) de-cided they wanted new."

Choosing a new home in aCottage Grove subdivision,Landry said, means decidingthat your children will ride abus to school.

Monona parents includingLandry are upset that the Mo-nona Grove School District ap-parently has dropped anoption to enlarge and renovateWinnequah Middle School,

choosing instead to build onCottage Grove property ac-quired last year to ease districtcrowding.

The School Board is consid-ering three building options,including a $24 million middleschool in Cottage Grove andtransporting all students thereby bus; a $21 million school inCottage Grove for all fifth andsixth graders and using Winne-quah for all seventh and eighthgraders; and a Cottage Groveschool for fifth and sixth grad-ers, but keeping all Mononamiddle school students andCottage Grove seventh and

eighth graders at Winnequah.The board meets at 6 p.m.

Wednesday at the district of-fice, 100 Nichols Road, in awork session to review the op-tions

Cottage Grove students havebeen taken by bus to Winne-quah for years. But CottageGrove parent Ann Manz saidjust because people choose tolive in her community doesn'tmean they don't want to livenear a neighborhood school.

"It's an emotional issue forboth communities," Manz said.

"This has been going on for along time. It doesn't seem peo-

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Meetings on a parkwayhead into the final stageThe proposed projectwould be north or LakeMendota.By Marv BalousekWisconsin State Journal

A final series of public out-reach meetings will be heldnext month on a proposedparkway north of Lake Mend-ota.

Members of the NorthMendota Parkway AdvisoryCommittee are expected to re-view their draft recommenda-tions after the meetings andissue a final report this fall,said Todd Violante of the DaneCounty Planning and Develop-'ment Department.

Violante said meetings willbe held at four locations and it

• isn't necessary for people to at-tend more than one meeting.

All of the sessions start at5:30 p.m. and end at 8:30 p.m.with three half hour presenta-

tions at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8p.m.

The meetings are scheduledfor:• Sept. 8 at the Waunakee

Middle School cafeteria.• Sept. 11 at the Middleton

High School performing artscenter.

4 Sept. 16 in Room 260 ofthe Madison Municipal Build-ing.4 Sept. 17 at the Warner

Park Community RecreationCenter.

Draft recommendationsadopted several months agowill be presented at the out-reach meetings. They include:4 Adopting North Mendota

intergovernmental agreementswith Madison, Middleton,Waunakee, the state and areatowns.4 Building a temporary two-

lane reliever road betweenhighways M and 12.4 Adopting a formal North

Mendota Area Plan.

4 Selecting a route for theNorth Mendota Parkway.^ Designing and con-

structing the North MendotaParkway.

The 11 -member NorthMendota Parkway AdvisoryCommittee was formed in 2000to address land use and trans-portation issues north of LakeMendota.

In 1997, the North Ring Cor-ridor Committee recom-mended a four-laneexpressway to relieve trafficcongestion north of the lake.But that recommendation wascontroversial and county offi-cials created the advisory com-mittee to find a compromise.

After the advisory commit-tee's work is completed, an en-vironmental impact statementmay be required along with de-sign and right-of-way acquisi-tion.

In a 2001 report, Violantesaid construction might notbegin for up to 10 years.

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MARSHALL — Eight resi-dents of the Evergreen Villagemobile home park claim in alawsuit that they've been over-charged by Marshall for sewerservices.

The lawsuit, filed by Madisonattorney David Sparer, claimsthat Marshall's method of de-termining sewer charges forresidents of the mobile homepark is different from the wayother residents are charged.

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depending on the amount oftime they've lived in the park.It claims that the extra chargesare $8,526 a month or morethan $100,000 a year for the295 lots in the park.

"They each will continue (to)be forced to pay approximately$360 per year for these non-uniform charges unless thisproblem is corrected," the law-suit claims.

Park resident Kristen Zehner,who also serves as president ofthe Wisconsin ManufacturedHome Owners Association,said Marshall chose to imposethe extra sewer charges insteadof making the park owner,American Mobile Home Com-munities of Harrington, 111.,make repairs when the groundwater infiltration was discov-ered in 1994.

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Manz said Cottage Grovestudents now account forabout 58 percent of the dis-trict's enrollment and couldreach 75 percent in the nextfive to 10 years. She said look-ing at the data and taking outthe emotion makes it clear thatthe next school should be builtin Cottage Grove.

The Monona parents say ex-panding Winnequah MiddleSchool would cost a lot lessthan a new school.

But School Board PresidentMary Possin, who lives in Mo-nona, said the entire board

agreed that it makes no senseto expand school capacity inMonona, where enrollment isdeclining.

Tom Groth, whose grandfa-ther, Howard, was Monona'sfirst mayor.when the commu-nity became a city in the 1960s,said his daughter counts the 250steps she walks to school and hewouldn't want to see her ridethe bus to Cottage Grove.

"The building doesn't teachthe kids," he said. "Whatteaches kids and what's going toimprove our schools are smallerclass sizes and better curricu-lum options."

SUN PRAIRIE

After wrecking ball,a Village-square' projectBy Jean Van RensselarFor the State Journal

A major demolition project isunder way to make room for avillage-square-type develop-ment of stores and apartmentsacross from the municipalbuilding.

The development area, southof Main Street and east of Mar-ket Street, includes more thana block and will revive an areathat has been largely unusedsince Wisconsin Porcelain andChiquita halted operations ontheir sites about two years ago.

Asbestos removal beganThursday and demolition willbegin Wednesday. City attor-ney Paul Evert said he expectsthe area to be cleared by Oct.31

Don Simon Inc. plans tobuild about 21,000 square feetof commercial structures,20,000 square feet of restau-rants and markets, and 182owner-occupied and rentalresidential units by 2008.

The city has applied for a$900,000 brownfield grant,awarded by the state to remove

environmental hazards and re-build on the sites, but accord-ing to Evert, the city is stillwaiting for a pledge.

The buildings to be torndown include older homes,stores, an old blacksmith shop,the porcelain factory, the can-ning factory and severalsmaller buildings once used forthe factory's migrant workers,and the American Legion hall.

Main Street store managerJoyce Salemi, whose store istwo blocks from the project,said she welcomes the change."I like the feel of the downtownnow," she said. "As long as thecozy feel stays the same and noone builds a department store,I think it will invite even morepeople downtown."

Both Evert and Sun PrairieMayor Dave Hanneman saidthey are not worried about thedowntown competing with aretail area that is planned forthe city's west side, but aremore concerned about main-taining the Main Street busi-ness strip that runs betweenthe west side and existingdowntown.

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HANNEMAN TAKES OVERThe newly elected SunPrairie mayor has severalcity issues to resolve.By Marv BalousekWisconsin State Journal

SUN PRAIRIE —Newlyelected Mayor David Hanne-man, who takes office Tues-day, is always welcome at SirHobo's Restaurant on MainStreet.

Owner Pete Ademi bringshim samples of dishes hehasn't ordered and Ademi isreluctant to make him pay fora meal. That's because Hanne-man helped Ademi, originallyfrom Albania, get his citizen-ship more than a decade agoand helped his wife, Nancy,study for the test.

Distinguished may be thebest word to describe Hanne-man, 69, who is a DaneCounty Board supervisor. Heoften wears a dark suit with aflag lapel pin. His deep reso-nant voice can be heard inCounty Board debates arguingon the side of fiscal restraint.

Hanneman is semi-retiredand sells real estate part time.He grew up in Mauston as theson of a pharmacist.

"It was a nice place to growup," he says. "You'd get onyour bicycle and pedal out oftown in five or 10 minutes."

Living near the LemonwierRiver gave Hanneman a life-long enjoyment of fishing,something he says he doesn'thave much time for lately.

He spent a year at La CrosseState College, now UW-LaCrosse, and planned to be-come a pharmacist like hisdad. Instead, he landed a jobin sales with a paper companyin Milwaukee, where he methis wife, Mary. They had twoboys, David and Joe, and twogirls, Margret and Amy. Now,they have eight grandchildren.

They moved to Grand Rap-ids, Mich., when Hannemangot a job selling pharmaceuti-cals for Squibb, but in the1960s they returned to Wis-consin, settling in Sun Prairie.

Hanneman served a term onthe Sun Prairie City Council inthe late 1960s, but found thetravel demands of his jobmade it difficult to attendmeetings. He returned to thecouncil in the 1980s, servinganother eight years before hewas elected to the CountyBoard.

When former the governor,Tommy Thompson, first ranfor the Legislature in 1966, hedropped by the Hannemandrugstore in Mauston. Hanne-man's father closed the storeand escorted Thompsonaround town, introducing himto other business owners.Hanneman says his father'skindness was somethingThompson has always remem-bered.

Hanneman says he'll even-tually resign his County Boardseat. But first, he says, hewants to help resolve several

issues such as how much thecity and county will pay for re-constructing the Highway 151intersection with Highway Cand whether Sun Prairie canreceive a county grant to helpwith downtown revitalization.He'd also like to persuadeSheriff Gary Hamblin to movethe Northeast Precinct stationto Sun Prairie's west side firestation when it's built.

Dave Wiganowsky, a fellowsupervisor, says Hannemanmay help resolve long-standing annexation issues be-tween Sun Prairie and thetown of Burke. When Wiga-nowsky was Burke town chair-man, he says Hanneman wasone of the few receptive mem-bers of the City Council.

"We didn't always agree, buthe always listened with anopen ear," Wiganowsky says.

Jerry Sessions, who knowsHanneman in his role as grand

DANE COUNTY

CUNA seejks 100 volunteersto serve in youth centersBy Marv BalousekWisconsin State Journal

CUNA Mutual Group is at-tempting to recruit 100 adultvolunteers for youth centers.

CUNA also announced a$40,000 donation to the youthcenters.

CUNA spokeswoman SydneyLindner said volunteers shouldbegin serving in the centers be-fore the end of the school yearafter they are trained. She saidstaff members from DaneCounty credit unions andCUNA already are signing up.

Lindner said the idea for theprogram came from MichaelKitchen, CUNA's chief execu-tive officer.

"Things have moved very fastwith the help of the UnitedWay," she said. "CUNA Mutualis thrilled about spearheadingthis program with them. Weare passionately committed to

"We know how importantit is for youth in this agegroup to have meaningfulactivities during the 3 to 5o'clock time period."

MICHAEL KITCHENCUNA's chief executive officer

helping youth in our commu-nity."

Andrea Wise, assistant direc-tor of United Way of DaneCounty, said the county has 17youth resource centers andabout half of them are in Madi-son. She said the centers targetmiddle school students, pro-viding afternoon academic andrecreational activities.

"We know how important itis for youth in this age group tohave meaningful activities dur-ing the 3 to 5 o'clock time pe-riod," Kitchen said. "We areimpressed with the sincerity,the dedication and the impact

SUN PRAIRIE

Students busily raising money for charitiesBy Jean Van RensselarFor the State Journal

SUN PRAIRIE — During thefall and winter the studentcouncil at Royal Oaks Elemen-tary School in Sun Prairie engi-neered five successfulcharitable fund raisers. Theyare planning more.

Fifth- and sixth-grade stu-dent council officers EmilyMcCourt, Kimmy Enstad,David DeLaitsch, and AdrienRaucoules said the experiencehas taught them to be moreempathetic toward others.

All said they have parentswho volunteer with charities.

"Before this I never thought

about all the diseases that peo-ple get and how I could help,"McCourt said. Roucoules con-curred adding, "If somethinghappened to you and some-body else wouldn't help, howwould you feel?"

The student council has or-ganized a food drive, raisedmoney for juvenile diabetes,and bought Christmas toys fora family whose home was de-stroyed by fire. They also raisedmoney to help pay for a schoolsign.

The most recent effort wasfor the Make-A-Wish Founda-tion. Students bought raffletickets hoping to win lunchwith the principal. The enter-

prise netted $210. First-gradestudent Nick Faust held thelucky ticket and won a diningexperience at Pizza Hut.

School counselor TamaraOlson and teacher Heidi Ackleyadvise the student council.

"What we are trying to instillhere is that they think aboutthe community and help theschool at the same time,"Olson said.

According to Olson, councilmembers often come to schoolearly, stay late, and give uptheir recesses in between."They should be proud ofthemselves," she said. "Theywork very hard and are dedi-cated."

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knight of the Knights of Co-lumbus, says he admires Han-neman's political ability.

Outgoing Mayor JoAnnOrfan says Hanneman's back-ground should benefit SunPrairie. "He'll be a quickstudy," she says.

Hanneman says he plans tomeet soon with Woodman's

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ABOVE: SunPrairie may-or-elect DavidHanneman eatsdaily at SirHobo's Restau-rant on MainStreet. LEFT:Hanneman is al-ways an hon-ored guest ofthe restaurant'sowner, PeteAdemi, a long-time friend.

Food Market officials abouttheir plans for a west sidestore. He also wants to host areception for other new may-ors in Middleton, Monona andFitchburg.

"There's so much commonground," he says. "For themost part, we have the sameproblems."

STOUGHTON

Worm workgets studentsin semifinals

STOUGHTON — Studentsat River Bluff Middle Schoolhave wormed their way intothe semifinals for the Chris-topher Columbus awards, anational competition thatencourages students to ex-plore opportunities for posi-tive community change.

The students put redworms to work in a compostpile, hoping to create a natu-ral fertilizer that wouldchange the pH balance oflawns as an alternative tocommercial lawn chemicalsthat contribute to phospho-rus runoff into lakes.

In their experiments, thestudents mixed the wormswith leaves, grass clippings,peat moss and food scraps.They kept the mixture forthree months in a warmlighted area, turning it peri-odically.

"It was a unique problemto our community and theyactually used scientific meth-ods," said science teacherKendra Larmour, who super-vised the students.

She said the scientificmethods included develop-ing hypotheses and testingthem. Larmour also said itwas the first year that theStoughton school enteredthe competition.

Participating students in-cluded eighth graders Rebe-kah Gillespie, Gaither Smith,Jenny Speth and seventhgrader Emily London.

A panel of scientists, sci-ence teachers and commu-nity leaders judged the wormexperiment as one of the top30 entries for this year'sChristopher Columbusawards. The awards aresponsored by the Christo-pher Columbus Fellowshipof Newton, Pa.

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Bush: Liberia help limitedHe indicatesU.S. might send;advisers, trainers;By Tom Raum *Associated Press

PRETORIA, South Africa — '.President Bush suggestedWednesday that any U.S. mili-tary help in ending brutal civilwar in Liberia might consistmostly of advisers and trainersto avoid stretching Americanforces too thinly around theglobe.

"We won't overextend our ;troops, period," Bush said at ajoint news conference with :South African President Thabo;Mbeki, who had pressed him -on what role the United States 'would play in the crisis.

African nations want theUnited States to do more to

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CENSUS

Sun Prairieranks No. 1in growthstatewidePopulation increase is said tohave elements that are bothpositive and negative.By Jenny PriceAssociated Press

SUN PRAIRIE — Just a short drivefrom the capital city, Sun Prairie grewfaster than any other Wisconsin com-munity between 2001 and 2002, withsuburban cities near Green Bay andthe Milwaukee area close behind, cen-sus estimates released Thursday show.

The city grew by 5.2 percent to22,531 people during that period, thecensus bureau said.

"People are discovering it's a greatquality of life," said Tim Culver, super-intendent of Sun Prairie Area Schools.

"It's got a sense of community. Itdoesn't feel like a suburb."

The city has an aquatic center andhas built a new library, parks and playareas in recent years to accommodatethe growing population. Residents livein housing ranging from lower-incomeapartments to half-million dollarhomes.

"We're offering many of the ameni-ties that people are looking for," MayorDavid Hanneman said. Of the growth,he said, "it doesn't come easy, but it'smanageable."

No. 2 according to the census

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4 The once-sleepy suburbs in Arizona,Nevada and California are the fastest-growing cities in the country/AS

Fastest growing citiesIn WisconsinMunicipalities over 10,000, rankedby percentage change from July 1,2001 to July 1, 2002: pct

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Sun Prairie 21,425 22,531 5.2

Kaukauna 13,134 13,808 5.1

Howard 14,105 14,794 4.9

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De Pere 20,963 21,635 3.2

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Gilbert, Ariz. 109,920 135,005 22.8

North Las 115,488 135,902 17.7Vegas, Nev^

Henderson, 175,750 206,153 17.3Nev.

Chandler, 176,652 202,016 14.4Ariz.

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ABOVE: President Bush and first lady {.aura Bush,left, are entertained by the Thokoza Choir beforedinner at the American ambassador's residence inPretoria, South Africa.

LEFT: Anti-war coalition supporters stage a protestoutside the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria as Bush metwith South African President Thabo Mbeki.

Inside: Assessingthe chaos in Liberia4 At Liberia's John F. Kennedy Hospital, a U.S.military team sees the human cost of war/A13

end the bloodshed in the west-ern African nation. But U.S.lawmakers, including someleading Republicans, havequestioned the wisdom of an-other major overseas militaryentanglement with so manytroops in Iraq, Afghanistan and-elsewhere. •£

Still weighing a final deci- rsion, Bush noted that the Pen-vtagon had trained African itpeacekeepers, including those*from Nigeria and Senegal. £

"It's in our interest that we 1continue that strategy so that •'•we don't ever get overex-tended," he said. '•.

Bush has invited U.N. ":Secretary-General Kofi Annan,;

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TYSON STRIKE

Doyle asked to probehiring of ex-convictsUnion wants to know if stateis encouraging offenders towork at Tyson Foods.By Anita ClarkWisconsin State Journal

Striking workers at Tyson Foodshave asked Gov. Jim Doyle to inves-tigate whether the state is encourag-ing people on probation and paroleto take jobs at the Jefferson plant.

The strikers' union, United Foodand Commercial Workers Local 538,said some people crossing picketlines at Tyson are under the supervi-sion of the state Department of Cor-rections.

"To my knowledge, aiding strike-

breaking is not Wisconsin govern-ment policy," union presidentMichael Rice said Wednesday. i

Corrections spokesman Bill Clau-sius said 28 people under commu-nity supervision are working atTyson, seven of them from a state-funded halfway house in Janesville.

Three corrections agents were re-ferring offenders to Tyson becausejobs were available, but the agentswere told to stop a few weeks ago,Clausius said. It's not known howmany of those referrals resulted injobs.

Other offenders were referred byagents to QPS Staffing, an employ-ment agency that placed them at

Please see TYSON, Page A18

Legislator gets by with no helpRep. Mike Powers has runhis office without aidesfor five months to savethe state money.By Phil BrinkmanState government reporter

When state Rep. Mike Powerssaid in February he planned torun his office without any staff,some said it would never work.Others wondered privately if it

wasn't a cheap publicity stunt.Saying he wanted to do his

part to help balance the statebudget, the five-term Republi-can from Albany dismissed histwo aides and started answer-ing the phone himself.

Five months later, "It's stillgoing on, and going strong,"Powers said, although he ad-mits he's about two weeks be-hind returning messages.

"It's been a lot of work," saidPowers, 41. "It has refocusedthe efforts of my office on im-

mediate concerns, rather thanlong-term concerns."

As state officials began tograsp the depth of the state'sfiscal problems this year, law-makers rushed to announcethey wouldn't take automaticpay raises of 3 percent. Somereduced their, staffs.

But Powers was, and re-mains, the only state legislatorto forgo any paid help. He esti-mated the move will save the

, Please see POWERS, Page A17

Rep. MikePowers saidnot having astaff "doesn'tchange thetime I'm'at theoffice'; itchanges thetime the officeis open."

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Cornelius Bell, 62,raises a variety of .vegetables in two Ihalf whiskey \barrels and five |pots on the !community patio o|his apartment at •2102 Fisher St. In Ithe spring, two ;:AmeriCorps >volunteers helped *Bell start gardening,for the first time .?:since he was :

confined to a *wheelchair nearly -,eight years ago. |

Raised beds help disabled {area residents grow gardens?By Tim RuzekWisconsin State Journal

Missing both legs below the knee,62-year-old Cornelius Bell takes greatpride in being able to still grow vege-tables.

Bell often helped his cousin gardenin Madison until a workplace accidentconfined him to a wheelchair nearlyeight years ago.

This spring, two workers with theCommunity Action Coalition forSouth Central Wisconsin helped himto start exercising his green thumbagain. They started Bell with a, halfwhiskey barrel on the concrete com-munity patio of his South Side apart-ment at 2102 Fisher St.

Now Bell is growing tomatoes, pep-pers and other vegetables in two half-barrels and five pots. He's fighting thetemptation to plant more. "I've got toleave a little space for somebodyelse," Bell joked.

Raised gardensIf interested in taking care of araised garden bed or volunteeringto help build one, call Ashleigh Rossor Beth Holtzman at the CommunityAction Coalition for South CentralWisconsin at 246-4730, ext. 238.

Bell is one of dozens of Madison- Varea people with disabilities who hav£been able to garden in raised beds in £the last few years, thanks to volun- «teers. Most of the beds are rectangu- Ilar and 18 to 30 inches high, allowing^people to work with plants more iclosely while sitting, said Ashleigh ~Ross, a volunteer with the federal *AmeriCorps program who helps run a*garden project for the coalition. 5

Ross and fellow volunteer, Beth ?

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A10 * Thursday, July 10, 2003 FROM PAGE ONE Wisconsin State Journal

CensusContinued from Page A1

estimates of populationchanges in cities of 10,000 peo-ple or larger was Kaukauna, lo-cated between Appleton andGreen Bay, which grew by 5.1percent to 13,808 people be-tween 2001 and 2002. It wasfollowed by Howard, justnorthwest of Green Bay, whichgrew by 4.9 percent to 14,794people.

David Egan-Robertson, a de-mographer with the state De-partment of Administration,said Wisconsin mirrors the na-tion in how populations arechanging.

"Suburbanization continuesand, in many ways, continuesto move outwards away fromcentral cities," he said.

Dianne Knable, 44, works inMadison but moved to SunPrairie 12 years ago becausehouses were more affordable.Since then, she said the cityhas gained a number of con-veniences, including a Wal-Mart, that make it an easierplace to live.

"Everything's a plus. Youdon't have to drive way toMadison to do it," she said.

The explosion of the city'spopulation also has put moremoney into the schools, whichenroll 5,100 students andcounting.

Culver, who has been super-intendent for five years, saidthe district has added between60 and 120 students a year dur-ing his tenure and plans tobuild a sixth elementaryschool. District enrollment isprojected to grow by morethan 500 students in the nextthree years to 5,641 students.The district also expects toneed a second high school by2008. '

The growth is manageablebecause it's steady, but it "haselements that are positive andnegative," Culver said.

On the downside, the enroll-ment growth means the districtmust pass voter referendumsto build schools, he said. Onthe upside, the growth of thecity's overall tax base meansthe district's tax rate hasdropped despite the passage of

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Hanneman said the CityCouncil already has approvedat least 1,800 more lots forhousing development. ButCheri Trevino, 30, a mother ofthree, said Sun Prairie's growthhas driven her family to build ahome 15 miles away in Colum-bus, where land costs less.

"The cheapest lot we foundhere was $52,000," she said.

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Motorcyclistkilled in crash

,A motorcyclist diedWednesday evening in acrash in Fitchburg.

At about 8:10 p.m., the cy-dist was heading north onVerona Road when he struckacar that turned left in frontof him toward the Chalet Gar-dens frontage road, DeputyPolice Chief Don Bates said.

The car's driver and an in-fant passenger were not hurt.A. female passenger was takento, St. Mary's Hospital. Hercondition was unavailable. Allwere wearing seat belts andthe child was strapped into acar seat, Bates said.

traffic was blocked on Ve-rona Road for at least threehours. Police were not releas-ing names of those involved.

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Man sentencedfor bank robbery>-• A Mount Horeb bank rob-ber was sentenced Wednes-day to three years and 10months in prison for his rolein the robbery of a Middletonbank in December.,-JohnE.vyillbom.nl, 20,

pleaded guilty in July to beingone of two men who robbedthe Wisconsin CommunityBank on Dec. 23. His accom-plice, Luis Narvaez, 21, ofMiddleton, pleaded guiltyWednesday to his role in therobbery. He will be sentencedtibv. 26.

', Willborn was also sen-tenced to three years of su-pervised release and wasor'dered to re-pay the Wiscon-sin Community Bank. Will-born watched the bank'soffices while Narvaez dis-played a BB gun at a tellerWindow and demandedmoney.

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By Ed TrelevenCourts reporter

A Memorial High Schoolstudent was charged Wednes-day widi misdemeanor for-gery for allegedly altering andselling student parking per-mits.

James M. Schroeckenthaler,17,-an honors student who ism'the U.S. Olympic soccerdevelopment program, willmake a court appearance thismorning.

^'I'm relieved diat the dis-trict attorney has decidedonly to file a misdemeanorcharge," said Schroekenthal-er's attorney, Chris Van Wag-ner. "Jim sincerely regretsjeopardizing his very promis-ing scholastic and athleticsfuture. We're working witiidie district attorney to resolvetiiis over die next two weeks."

According to a criminalcomplaint, Schroeckenthaleradmitted to police that hepaid another student $20 toborrow his parking permitand copy it because he wastired of Walking a long dis-tance to soccer practice^Hesaid he made 10 copies, soldone for $10 and gave the ex-tras to a friend, toe complaintstates.

Schroeckenthaler was ar-rested Sept. 12 on a tentativefelony charge. He was initiallysuspended for one-quarter ofthe soccer season, but theschool district's athletic boardhas since increased his sus-pension to the entire season.

According to the district'sathletic code, forgery isamong the offenses that car-ries a suspension period ofone-quarter of a season,while police intervention orbeing charged with a felonycarries a full-season suspen-sion.*•• Schroeckenthaler will ap-peal the suspension, VanWagner said, but added thatft was unfair because otherathletes who have engaged insimilar conduct have notbeen as harshly punished byme district

"He hopes to regain hisathletic eligibility as soon aspossible," Van Wagner said

• School district spokesmanjoe Quick said that under dis-trict privacy policies he couldno.t comment about a stu-dent.

Burmaster announces initiativeBy Doug EricksonEducation reporter

State Schools Superinten-dent Elizabeth Burmaster saidWednesday she'll put aside anadditional $1.5 million hi fed-eral money this year to helpdistricts educate students withsevere disabilities.

The money would go towardstudents who cost more than$30,000 a year to educate —about triple the cost.

Burmaster acknowledgedthat the $1.5 million won't gofar, but she said her initiativebegins to address the financialpressure districts face in tryingto balance the needs of all stu-dents.

"It's not the answer," shesaid. "It's a first response. It'ssort of a call to action."

It will help pay to educate disabled childrenBurmaster announced the

plan to district administratorsat Memorial Union as part ofher annual state of educationaddress. The audience inter-rupted her speech to applaudthe initiative.

"It's a small amount com-pared to the need, but it's astep in the right direction,"said Clear Lake SuperintendentMark Heyerdahl. His 683-student district has four chil-dren who cost more than$30,000 each to educate annu-ally.

Burmaster called her planthe "Keeping the Promise" ini-tiative, saying state and federalgovernments have fallen far

short in keeping their prom-ises.

Congress in 1975 pledged topay 40 percent of per pupilspecial education costs; it hasnever contributed more than18 percent and sometimes aslittle as 6 percent, she said. Thestate pays about 30 percent, farshort of the 70 percent the Leg-islature once promised.

"The theme of broken prom-ises or promises not kept is agood one," said Dave Polashek,superintendent of the OcontoFalls School District. "Whenthat funding isn't there, wehave to take it from somewhereelse."

Wisconsin districts spend

more than $1 billion annuallyon special education programs.The $1.5 million in Burmaster'sinitiative will come from dis-cretionary federal funds thatotherwise would be spent oninnovative special educationprograms proposed by districtsthrough a competitive grantprocess, she said.

The initiative will pay 90 per-cent of costs per child after de-ducting state categorical aid,federal special education fund-ing and any Medicaid reim-bursement the district receives.However, no district is guaran-teed money under the initia-tive, Burmaster said. If claimsexceed the available money,

her department will establishguidelines for dividing themoney, she said. The state didnot Have a count of how manystudents cost more than$30,000 annually to educate.

The 24,900-student MadisonSchool District had 139 specialeducation students last schoolyear who cost more than$25,000 each to educate.Seventy-six of those cost morethan $40,000.

Superintendent Art Rain-water said the district willapply for money through theinitiative. "The state superin-tendent recognizes the tremen-dous cost there is to educatesome of our students," he said."This is a step in providingsome of that support, andevery step is important."

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Sun Prairie Water & Light worker Kimberly Smith puts the finishingtouches on a new hydrant last week along Bird Street in Sun Prairie.

Phasing Sun Prairiesewage plant workOK'd by committeeBuilding in twosteps would spread thecosts to new users,consultant says.By Man/ BalousekWisconsin State Journal

SUN PRAIRIE—A CityCouncil committee Wednesdaynight endorsed building a sew-age treatment plant in twophases Instead of all at once.

The committee-of-the-wholeaccepted a consultant's recom-mendation to build a portionof die $24 million plant firstand add on to it later.

The need for increased sew-age treatment capacity isdriven by die city's growdi. Of-ficials estimate Sun Prairiecould reach 31,000 residents ina decade, about a third morethan its current population.

Mayor David Hannemansaid taking the phased ap-proach means that a largerportion of die cost for moretreatment capacity would bepaid by new connection feesinstead of existing users.

Registered sex offenderaccused of sex assaultsBy Ed TrelevenCourts reporter

A state-registered sex of-fender was charged Wednesdaywith four counts of sexual as-sault involving a girl and awoman.

But Robert Parr, 46, of Madi-son, will likely face anotherthree child sex assault charges,prosecutors said.

Parr was charged Wednesdayin Dane County Circuit Courtwith one count of repeatedsexual assault of a child, twocounts of fourth-degree sexualassault and one count ofsecond-degree sexual assault,all involving incidents at hishome on Madison's NorthSide. /.

If convicted on all counts, hefaces up to 81 Vfe years inprison.

According to a criminal com-plaint, a 13-year-old girl said

Parr has repeatedly touchedher since early tills year. Theother charges involve a 22-year-old woman whom Parr al-legedly fondled and groped.

Court Commissioner ToddMeurer set bail for Parr at$80,000 during a court appear-ance Wednesday. A prelimi-nary hearing for Parr will beheld Sept. 25.

But Assistant District Attor-ney Doug McLean said he ex-pects to charge Parr with threemore child sex assault chargesinvolving two additional vic-tims, one of whom was alleg-edly assaulted at Parr's houseand the other in Sun Prairie.He said he did not know whenthe additional charges Wouldbe filed.

Parr served a 16-year prisonsentence after he was con-victed in 1986 of stabbing andraping a teenage girl.

"It's not putting the onus onexisting residents to build fordie future," he said.

Consultant Gilbert Hantzsch,project manager with MSA Pro-fessional Services of Baraboo,said a phased approach alsowould allow Sun Prairie to geta loan interest rate currently at2.7 percent through the stateDepartment of Natural Re-sources while a larger plantmight not qualify for the rate.

"They don't give you dielower interest rate for whatthey consider future or specu-lative development," he said.

Hantzsch said the phasedplan would allow the city tobuild a plant for $15 million to$18 million with an addition hi10 to 15 years. The plant wouldbe built in 2005 and 2006.

Financial adviser JohnAndres of Virchow Krause &Company said building die en-tire plant now would increaseaverage residential bills bymore than $6 a month whilebuilding in two phases wouldmean a $3 average monthly in-crease now and a smaller in-crease later.

Tech college presidentweighing out-of-state johBy Karen RivedalHigher education reporter

The leader of Wisconsin's 16technical colleges is consider-ing a new job in Florida evenas the system he runs now

"• faces big challenges.Richard Carpenter, presi-

dent of the Wisconsin Techni-cal College System, is one of13 finalists to lead BrowardCommunity College in FortLauderdale.

Carpenter on Wednesdaysaid he did not seek out thejob but was contacted by aheadhunter hired by die col-lege, which is one of the na-tion's largest. Once contacted,however, he did not tell dieheadhunter to desist.

"In this business you can'tassume that everything isgoing to stay as it is," Carpen-ter said. "You've got to keepyour options open. From a ca-reer standpoint, it's good thatyour name stays out there."

But Carpenter also said he

was "very happy" in his cur-rent job. As the tech system'stop staff member, he super-vises operations for the tech-nical colleges, which educateabout 70,000 full-time-equivalency students per year,and he answers to an ap-pointed state board that hiredhim about two years ago.

Board president NinoAmato was unhappy to hearWednesday that Carpenterwas even considering leavinghis post.

"I will do whatever I canamong my colleagues on theboard to convince Richardthat he is needed," Amatosaid.

Carpenter started workingfor the tech system in Febru-ary 2002 for an annual salaryof $163,000. The system's bud-get is about $1 billion a year.

The New Orleans-born Car-penter has about 25 years' ex-perience in higher education,previously working as presi-dent of individual colleges inMinneapolis and St. Paul,

Minn.; California and theSouth. This is his first jobleading a system.

Carpenter's potential depar-ture comes at a critical timefor Wisconsin's tech system,and at a difficult time for pub-lic higher education in diestate generally because ofdeep budget cuts. The techsystem is undergoing unprec-edented scrutiny from statelawmakers, with a task forceappointed by AssemblySpeaker John Card meetingnow to review the System forefficiency, duplication andother matters.

And this week die task forceasked die state's non-partisanLegislative Audit Bureau toconsider doing its own reviewof possible course duplicationhi the tech system.

Carpenter said those ongo-ing issues provide one argu-ment for him to stay.

"I'm sort of in die middle ofmy game, and I don't want toleave things half-finished,"Carpenter said.

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Plan may be considered for fundingMPO votes to putSun Prairie planin roads programBy Beth WilliamsWisconsin State Journal

A controversial highway in-terchange considered key tothe development of SunPrairie's west side will be eligi-ble for federal money, at leastfor now.

The Madison Area Metropol-itan Planning Organizationvoted 9 to 1 Wednesday nightto place the Highway C, ReinerRoad and Highway 151 inter-change in its transportation

improvement program.

Getting the $17 million proj-ect in the transportation im-provement program is arequirement to be eligible forfederal money.

But because the project hasbeen delayed until 2005, theplanning organization mustvote again to keep the inter-change in the program in fall2004.

According to state Depart-ment'of Transportation plans,federal and state money wouldpay for 75 percent of the inter-change. The interchange is partof a larger project to convertHighway 151 to a six-lane free-way from American Parkway toSun Prairie's Main Street.

"It's extremely important notjust for the west side plan butfrom a safety standpoint also,"Sun Prairie Mayor Dave Han-neman said. "Reiner Road isprobably the worst area wehave for traffic accidents in ourcommunity."

The interchange is an inte-gral component to SunPrairie's West Side Neighbor-hood Plan, which was passed 'last month, Sun Prairie plan-ning director Scott Kugler said.

"Without the interchange, alot of what we would like to seeout there in terms of mixed-usedevelopment won't happen,"Kugler said.

The interchange was pulledout of the planning organiza-

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lion's transportation programon a'5 to 3 vote at a meeting inlate October, MPO transporta-tion planning manager BobMcDonald said.

Committee members wereworried that building ramps toallow traffic access betweenthe Highway C/Reiner Roadoverpass and Highway 151would inspire large commer-cial development in die areaand force traffic onto alreadycrowded side streets like Reinerand Sprecher roads, McDonaldsaid.

State DOT spokeswomanSandra Spann said the inter-change would relieve conges-tion at other intersections.

Kugler, Hanneman and oth-ers said the interchange wassurprisingly pulled out of theprogram for reasons other thantraffic impacts. Speakers at themeeting were also worried

about what could happen nextyear.

"It's strictiy political," Han-neman said. "We're withoutrepresentation on a body ofthis nature and then they bringthis at the llth hour. We'vejumped through the hoops thathave been required of us . . . .It's frustrating."

But planning organizationcommittee members said thedebate over Sun Prairie's inter-change signals that the com-mittee will no longer approveevery transportation projectsent to it.

"This issue in many wayscreated the MPO or the newMPO," said chairman andMadison Aid. Ken Golden, 10thDistrict.

Driver of van policetie to shooting arrestedPolice say her boyfriendshot a man who waswaiting at a McDonald'sdrive-through.

By Barry AdamsPolice reporter

The driver a of a minivan al-legedly involved in a SouthwestSide shooting Monday nighthas been arrested, and policeare looking for her boyfriend,the alleged shooter.

Madison police also say theshooting may have been in re-taliation for a shooting lastmonth that left a car riddledwith bullet holes.

Champagne Jones, 24, ofMadison, has been tentativelycharged with party to a crimeof attempted first degree inten-tional homicide and was in theDane County Jail. She was ar-rested Tuesday morning at an

apartment on Crescent Road.Police are looking for her

boyfriend, Caltone Cockrell, 32.Cockrell, according to a searchwarrant filed Wednesday inDane County Circuit Court, isthe man who fired two shotgunblasts Monday night at a manin a car waiting for food in thedrive-through of McDonald'sRestaurant, 4687 Verona Road.

The victim, Zahmal Davis,18, of Madison, was shot twice.He was treated and releasedfrom UW Hospital. The frontseat passenger in his car wasnot injured. "It appears to be aretaliatory issue from some-thing that occurred on Nov.18," Lt. Bill Housley said. Davisis "fortunate he wasn't inworse condition."

Housley classified the shoot-ing as a conflict between indi-viduals and not gang related.It's unclear what led to theNov. 18 shooting.

Jones told police at that time

that she found five gunshotholes in the trunk of her silver1996 Chrysler LHS.

Jones' and Cockrell's apart-ment, at 4737 Crescent Road,has been under police surveil-lance since Monday night.During a search of the home,police recovered a rental agree-ment for a Mazda minivan anda 16-gauge Winchester shotgunshell, according to the warrant.

Davis told police, accordingto the warrant, that he waswith his girlfriend waiting atthe drive-through windowwhen a van pulled up and theback door slid open. He saW aman sitting just inside the doorpointing a gun at him so hepushed his girlfriend out of theway before the man fired twoshots.

A passenger in the van, whohas not been1 arrested, saidafter the shooting they droveback to Crescent Road whereshe left Jones and Cockrell. -

COURT REPORT

Worker charged with patient abuseBy Ed TrelevenCourts reporter

A worker at a Stoughton as-sisted living facility wascharged Wednesday with abus-ing a patient who had beenbrought to a hospital in a drug-induced coma three monthsago.

Kathleen A. Walton, 39, wascharged with intentional abuseof a patient and theft from avulnerable adult for allegedlytaking medication intended forthe patient and for giving thepatient a dose of morphine sul-fate that left her in a coma.

According to a criminal com-plaint:

The patient, a mentallyhandicapped resident of a Re-sources for Developing Futuresassisted living home on Lin-coln Avenue in Stoughton, wasbrought to the Stoughton Hos-

pital emergency room on Sept.3 in a coma. Tests found thepresence of opiates and Valiumin her body, neither of whichhad been prescribed to her.

The home's director investi-gated and found that it wasmissing doses of Lorazepam,an anti-anxiety medication,and morphine sulfate, a painmedication.

The investigation led to Wal-ton, who told Stoughton policethat she had taken Lorazepamfrom the woman's prescriptionbottle for her own use, becauseshe could not afford a similardrug that she was prescribed.

Walton later admitted to po-lice that on the night of Sept. 2,she gave the woman four mor-phine sulfate tablets in order tomake her sick. That way, shesaid, she could get extra hoursat work. Walton told police shethought that the drug would

just slow down the woman'ssystem.

Madison man chargedwith armed robbery

A Madison man wascharged Wednesday with thesecond of a string of armedrobberies'that occurred onMadison's Near East Side lastsummer.

Michael Blake, 18, wascharged with armed robberyfor allegedly taking a purse atgunpoint from a woman whowas walking with a man on July30 in the 1100 block of SpaightStreet. According to a criminalcomplaint, Blake was accom-panied by two other men.

Blake is currently awaitingtrial for an armed robbery of apedestrian that occurred Aug. 1in the 1300 block of SpaightStreet.

DigestWAUKESHA

Generac to hire450 by March

Generac Power Systemsplans to hire 450 people byMarch at several Wisconsinmanufacturing plants.

The Waukesha-based com-pany, which makes residentialand industrial generators, willdo most of that hiring at itsplant and offices in Whitewaterbut also will add jobs at itsWaukesha and Eagle plants, of-ficials said Tuesday.

Generac's 450 jobs are fulltime and permanent, with astarting wage of about $9 perhour for assembly workers.

MERRIMAC

Ferry shuts downuntil spring

The ferry that shuttles peopleand cars across the WisconsinRiver has shut down for theyear due to cold temperaturesand a freezing channel, thestate Department of Transpor-tation says.

The ferry, which travels be-tween the Okee Landing in Co-lumbia County and Merrimacin Sauk County, is to resumeservice in the spring.

PORTAGE

Boy, 14, chargedin traffic death

A 14-year-old Columbus boywas charged Wednesday in Co-lumbia County Circuit Courtwith stealing a car after his al-leged involvement in a crashmat killed a 16-year-old girl.

The boy was driving the caron Nov. 24 when it was in-volved in a one-car crash in thetown of Columbus, police said.

The three passengers in thestolen car — all sisters fromColumbus — were thrown fromthe car. One of the girls, 16-year-old Stephanie Wake, diedat the scene. Heather Wake, 15,was taken to UW Hospital thatnight with injuries. Hospital of-ficials refused to release hercondition last week.

Brittany Wake, 13, wastreated and released from Co-lumbus Community Hospital.

The boy will return to courtTuesday for a pretrial confer-ence, said Steve Sarbacker, as-sistant district attorney forColumbia County. If the case isnot settled at that time, a trialdate will be scheduled later.

KENOSHA

Police kill manwho wielded knives

A man was shot and killedearly Wednesday by police athis home.

Officers went to the 32-year-old man's home shortly after12:30 a.m. after receiving a re-port that he was mutilatinghimself, Lt. John Morrisseysaid.

Morrissey said the man wascarrying a large knife and ahatchet when officers arrived.

The man was ordered to putdown the weapons, the lieuten-ant said. He said the man putdown the hatchet but pickedup a second large knife. Theman then lunged at officerswith the knives, and was shotby three of them shortly before1 a.m., Morrissey said.

— WSJ staff, wire reports

CHASE ENDS; SQUAD CAR EXPLODES

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Union Grove firefighters douse the charred skeleton of a Racine County Sheriff's Department squad carWednesday near Racine. The deputy Wasn't in the car. It was destroyed after Pewaukee police chased aman they said was driving a stolen van. The chase ended on Interstate 94 when the van drove over spikestrips and slammed into the car, which burst into flames. No one was injured in the chase or crash.

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School District keepsAAA bond rating

The Madison School Dis-trict maintained its triple "A"bond rating according toMoody's Investors Service,which recently analyzed thedistrict's fiscal status.

Madison is one of only twodistricts in the state to holdthe highest bond rating. Theother is Wauwatosa.

The rating allows the dis-trict to borrow money forlong and short-term at thelowest possible interest rate.

Moody's report to the dis-trict noted that the overalldebt burden of die districtremained at 1.6 percent.Moody called the district'sdirect debt of 0.4 percent"very modest for a schooldistrict of this size."

Due to Moody's ratings thedistrict was able to short-term borrow $53.1 million at0.934 percent. A lending rateunder 1 percent is consid-ered unusual.

MADISON

Tenney Park locksto close next week

The Tenney Park locks willbe closed until 4 p.m. Mon-day through Wednesday be-cause of the ShermanAvenue bridge replacement.

Crews will be removing theSherman Avenue bridge overthe Yahara River. The workwill close the river near therefrom 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mon-day through Wednesday.

TOWN OF FAIRFIELD

7 fire departmentscalled to barn blaze

Fire destroyed a barn atLarsen Dairy Farms, onHighway U in the town ofFairfield Thursday, but fire-fighters were able to preventit from spreading to otherbuildings, Baraboo fire offi-cials said.

Seven fire departmentswere called to help fight theblaze. When firefighters ar-rived just after 12:30 p.m.,the barn was already en-gulfed in fire, officials said.

The hay and straw insidealong with several pieces offarm machinery were de-stroyed.

Officials have not de-termined what caused thefire.

ROCK COUNTY

Four hurt in 2-carcrash east of Beloit

Four people were hospital-ized with minor injuries aftera two-car crash just east ofthe city of Beloit in RockCounty Thursday afternoon.

Rock County Sheriffs offi-cials said Brand! Lugo, 27, ofBeloit, was stopped at the in-tersection of Gateway Boule-vard and Highway 67 about2:49 p.m.

Thinking it was a four-waystop, Lugo pulled into the in-tersection where her 2002 Kiaminivan was hit by a DodgeRam pickup truck driven by56-year-old Dale Peterson ofClinton, officials said. Peter-son was not injured.

Paula West, 35, of SouthBeloit, 111., and her 13-year-old daughter were was takenby helicopter to a Rockfordhospital. Lugo and West's 7-year-old son were taken toBeloit Memorial Hospital.

All were treated for minorinjuries and released. And allwere wearing seat belts.

— WSJ staff, wire reports

Police investPortage Daily Register

The Portage and WisconsinDells police departments areinvestigating two child entice-ment incidents, which oc-curred Thursday within twohours of each other.

On Friday, die departmentssaid they are looking for anewer Toyota RAV4 sport util-ity vehicle that may be the sus-pect's vehicle. The SUV isyellow with a black rearbumper. It has tinted windows

WISCONSINWisconsin State Journal

Saturday, August 16,2003 • B3

Interchange plan is called a goBy Marv BalousekWisconsin State Journal

SUN PRAIRIE — The state ismoving ahead with plans tobuild an interchange at high-ways 151 and C by 2005,according to Sun Prairie MayorDavid Hanneman.

Hanneman said he was as-sured this week that the proj-ect, a key component of thecity's West Side DevelopmentPlan, is still on track during atwo-hour meeting with stateTransportation Secretary FrankBusalacchi.

Earlier, the Sun Prairie inter-

Sun Prairie mayor says state will proceedchange was among nearly 100road projects slated for delay,and the project has been post-poned several times since 1995.

"Everything is a go on our in-terchange now," Hannemansaid. "That was the biggeststumbling block. We couldn'tdo anything until we had theword on the interchange."

The interchange, along withthe expansion of Highway 151to six lanes, was one of the fewremaining pieces of the city'swest side plan, which covers an

area between highways 151,19andC.

A Woodman's grocery storeis planned and Hanneman saidthe area eventually may have7,200 residential units and313,909 square feet of retailspace.

The mayor said the meetingwith Busalacchi was the firstofficial word that the inter-change would be built, al- •though he heard informally acouple weeks ago that the stateplanned to go ahead with it.

He said contracts will beawarded by next summer withconstruction beginning in Oc-tober 2004.

With the interchange as-sured; Hanneman said con-struction could begin as earlyas this fall on local road workin the area.

Public hearings on the finalWest Side Development Planwill be held Wednesday andSept. 3. Both hearings start at 6p.m. at Prairie View MiddleSchool, 400 N. ThompsonRoad.

The Plan Commission is ex-pected to act on the plan Sept.9. The City Council will discussit on Sept. 15 at a committee-of-the-whole session and isscheduled to vote on it the fol-lowing night.

At an Aug. 6 public hearing,project planners RTKL Associ-ates of Dallas discussed a planto fund public improvementsthrough a roadway impact feeon developers. They also sug-gested a buffer of smallerstores in front of Woodman'sthat would discourage develop-ment of other large storesnearby.

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Like her two calves behind her, 12-year-old Taylor Cummings of Watertown naps at the Dodge CountyFair in Beaver Dam this week.

Farrow gets private-sector jobThe former lieutenantgovernor will be directorof local governmentservices for a law firm.

By Phil BrinkmanState government reporter

Former Lt. Gov. MargaretFarrow, who spent much of hercareer promoting efficiency inlocal government, will con-tinue her work in the privatesector, her new employer saidThursday.

Farrow, 68, has taken a jobas director of local governmentservices for the law firm ofWhyte Hirschboeck Dudek inMilwaukee.

Farrow, who is not an attor-ney, will head up the firm'sgovernment affairs subsidiary.The group acts as a liaison be-tween local governments andbusinesses looking to relocate,and helps local governments

work together to consolidateservices.

The work does not involveany lobbying, she said.

"I'm just delighted to keepworking in Wisconsin for oureconomy," said the formerGOP senatorfromPewaukee.

Farrow wasnamedWisconsin'sfirst femalelieutenantgovernor bythen-Gov.ScottMcCallum inFebruary 2001, although herconfirmation by theDemocratic-controlled stateSenate didn't happen untilthree months later.

She was elected to the stateAssembly in 1986, later servingin the state Senate from 1989until her appointment aslieutenant governor.

Farrow

igate two child enticement incidentsand Wisconsin license plates.

The man first attempted totake pornographic photos of a10-year-old girl at the KilbournPublic Library in WisconsinDells about 10:45 a.m. Thurs-day.

He was described as white,40 to 45, and 6 feet tall with athin build. He wore a graybaseball cap, sweatshirt andpants and was carrying a blackhandbag with a strap that con-tained photos of preteen fe-males, according to police.

In Portage, the man ap-proached children at an apart-ment building. He showed thechildren pornographic photosof other children and askedthem to pose for pictures, po-lice said.

The man fled after one of thechildren went to contact a par-ent. Then he was describedsimilarly and was wearing grayshorts, a blue T-shirt and blackNike-type shoes. He carried acamera bag which contained

Farrow made the focus ofmuch of that time improvingrelations between state andlocal government, and shewrote the legislation thatresulted in the SAVECommission (for Study ofAdministrative Value andEfficiency). She later served asvice chairwoman of aMcCallum task force on stateand local government.

While local governmentsfrequently work together tofind efficiencies, Farrow saidthey are increasingly turning toconsultants for help.

"It's clearly good to havesomeone there to point outthings, or to be more objective,or to smooth things over,"Farrow said, adding that shewas looking forward to doingthe detailed behind-the-sceneswork that can get problemsunstuck. "It's not the kind ofposition that will get thespotlight."

pornographic photos, accord-ing to police.

Police request that anyonewith information contact thePortage Police Department at608-742-2171 or the WisconsinDells Police Department at608-253-1611.

If anyone has informationabout this or any other crime,he or she can also contact Co-lumbia County Crime Stoppersat 1-800-293-TIPS. Callers mayremain anonymous, and cashrewards are available.

Kidney donor,recipient OKafter surgeryThe man's wife saysthe La Crosse donor is"our family's angel."

By Terry RindfleischLa Crosse Tribune

ROCHESTER, Minn. —Laura Delaney called thewoman who donated a kidneyto her husband "our family'sangel."

The La Crescent, Minn.,woman said Thursday thather husband's kidney trans-plant surgery Wednesday atMayo Clinic in Rochesterwent well. She said she andher 39-year-old husband,Todd, were the luckiest peo-ple in the world to have anangel like Kirsten Krueger ofLa Crosse donate her left kid-ney to Todd.

"Her kidney is working wellin Todd, and he has less than5 percent chance of rejectingit because Kirsten was such agood match," Laura Delaneysaid.

"Kirsten collects angels andeveryone has been giving herangels because she is ourfamily's angel. Everyone has acalling, and this was her call-ing."

The 28-year-old Krueger,who had been a completestranger to the Delaneys, saidshe saw Todd Delaney for thefirst time late Thursday after-noon, and he had a smile forher.

"He's pretty good and hascolor which is cool," she said."It's still a little unreal that itreally happened. I'm glad tosee he is doing well, and we'llhave to wait a few weeks to

see af everything goes allright."

Krueger said Thursday thatshe was a little sore from theoperation to remove her kid-ney. It was the first time shehad surgery. She said shemight be released today fromMayo.

Laura Delaney said she wasworried throughout the 4V&-hour surgery. "I was worriedfor my husband, and I wasworried for Kirsten becauseshe was taking a big risk forsomeone she hadn't knownuntil recently. I'm relieved.Kirsten looks wonderful."

She said her husband couldbe released from the hospitalin a few days, but he willspend about four more weeksin Rochester to be evaluatedand monitored by kidney spe-cialists.

Todd Delaney, who had anincurable kidney condition,could not find a donor matchin his family or in a goodfriend, and gave up for a timeon finding a donor.

Krueger is the direct sup-port supervisor for ABLE Inc.,which provides services topeople with disabilities. Sheprovides care to 14-year-old

•LeRoy McDowell. Laura Dela-ney drives for Ready Bus, andtransports McDowell to andfrom school.

LeeAnn Finn, McDowell'smother, discovered the Dela-neys were having a benefitand learned Todd needed akidney transplant. Finn andKrueger talked about Todd'splight. Krueger, who had onlyseen Laura Delaney in passingwhen the bus came to pick upMcDowell, decided on thespot to donate her kidney.

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PORTAGE

David Bennetdies at 74

Prominent Portage resi-dent David Bennet died Sat-urday of a heart attack. Hewas 74.

Bennett most recently wasa real estate investor after alengthy career as ah attorney.

Bennett joined his father'slaw firm in 1956. He servedas Columbia County districtattorney from 1959 to 1967.He also served for six yearson the UW Board of Regents.

An Army veteran of WorldWar II, Bennett also sup-ported conservation of natu-ral resources.

Bennett's son, Mark Ben-nett said, "It is a great loss.He worked hard all of his lifeup until he passed away. Hewas very active in this com-munity earlier in his life andtruly cared about the peoplein Portage."

Funeral services are privatewith interment in Silver LakeCemetery in Portage.

Businessman torun for Senate

Dodge County business-man Tim Michels said Tues-day he will be a Republicancandidate for U.S. Senate,joining GOP state Sen. BobWelch in the battle to take onSen. Russ Feingold next year.

Michels said he raised$200,000 in 15 days. Fein-gold, a two-term Democrat,reported $L9 million in the'bank as of June 30.

Michels, 41, said his cam-paign's main theme will benational security.

"One of the first things wehave to do is protect ourcountry, our jobs and ourfamily," he said in a tele-phone interview. "In this eraof terrorism which isn't goingto go away, we need to betough on terrorism."

Michels is part-owner andvice president of MichelsCorp., a utility constructioncompany. He was an air-borne Ranger in the Army.He said he would draw onhis business experience tohelp create jobs.

In his only other cam-paign, Michels lost a 1998primary for state Senate.

WAUKESHA

Man faces charges ofburglarizing churches

A man suspected of com-mitting dozens of churchburglaries in five southeastWisconsin counties facesmore charges.

Timothy J. Verbunker, 24,was charged Monday andFriday with 12 counts of fel-ony burglary in WaukeshaCounty Circuit Court.

The Milwaukee man was inthe Waukesha County Jailearly Tuesday.

Two criminal complaintssaid he broke into 12churches in WaukeshaCounty from July 2002 toJanuary 2003 and stole sumsranging from $11 to $254.

In April, Verbunker wascharged in Waukesha Countywith seven other church bur-glaries from August 2002 toDecember 2002.

Verbunker also faces bur-glary charges in Dodge, Mil-waukee, Ozaukee andWashington counties.

GREEN BAY

New police chiefto be sworn in

A 26-year employee of theGreen Bay Police Depart-ment will become its newchief.

Craig Van Schyndle, thedepartment's operationscommander, will be sworn inas police chief today, thecity's Police and Fire Com-mission announced Monday.

Van Schyndle said he willstart the job around the be-ginning of September.

Van Schyndle beat twoother candidates for the job,and said he planned only"incremental" changes to thedepartment.

Van Schyndle was namedoperations commander whenAl Timmerman waspromoted to interim chiefafter the resignation of JamesLewis in late December.

Lewis announced he wasretiring, then took the chiefsjob in Pomona, Calif., inMarch.

— State Journal wire services

Tm so proud of you' Law to punishguards for sexwith inmatesDoyle likely to sign bill today

Associated Press

"I'm so proud of you," Fran Massano of Eau Claire tells her daughter, Spc. Samantha Massano, left, asthey look at the certificates of achievement following an award ceremony for the Wisconsin Army Na-tional Guard 1157th Transportation Company in Oshkosh on Monday. Spc. Massano is also a student atUW-Oshkosh. The unit was returning from active duty. Most were at Fort Bragg, N.C., while a quarter ofthe company was deployed overseas in Iraq, Afghanistan and Romania to assist with special operations.

Priests back married priestsMilwaukee Catholicpriests sign a letter urgingindusion of married menin the priesthood.Associated Press

MILWAUKEE — More than160 priests in the Roman Catho-lic Archdiocese of Milwaukeehave signed a letter arguing thatmarried men should be allowedto enter the priesthood.

It is the first time since the1960s and mid-1970s that agroup of priests has spoken outon the issue of celibacy, saidDean Hbge, a sociologist atCatholic University of America.

"We join our voices to thoseof so many others at this time,voices urging that diocesanpriesthood now be open tomarried men as well as to celi-bate men," the letter said.

The priests signed individualcopies of the letter, which wasto be mailed Tuesday to BishopWilton Gregory, president of theU.S. Conference of Catholic

Bishops.The letter also acknowledged

that celibacy has been a bless-ing for many priests and somemay choose to remain celibate.

David Early, a U.S. Confer-ence of Catholic Bishopsspokesman, said officials therehad not seen the letter andwould want to see it beforecommenting.

The priests hope the letterwill prompt a dialogue aboutthe need for optional celibacybecause of the shortage ofpriests, said the Rev. Tom Suri-ano, pastor of St. PatrickChurch in Whitewater and oneof three area diocesan priestswho led the effort.

Priests are required to take avow of celibacy. Canon lawyerthe Rev. Paul Hartmann said amarried man can be a priest ifhe is a member of the EasternCatholic churches closely asso-ciated with the Orthodox litur-gical tradition, which allowspriests to marry. A man whowas a minister or priest previ-ously in the Anglican, Protes-

Board replacementmove is questionedCounty Executive Falk'soffice has concerns overpick for District 19 seat.By Lesley Rogers BarrenCounty reporter

The expected appointmentof a retired Dane County em-ployee to represent Sun Prairieon the County Board is underfire.

County Board ChairmanKevin Kesterson is expected toappoint Gene Nelson to theDistrict 19seat, iteplacingSun PrairieMayor DaveHanneman,who resignedlast month.

Nelson, 62,retired twoyears ago afterworking for Nelsonthe county for.more than 30 years. He servedas controller, overseeing thecounty's finances and budgets.

"I'm shocked there is anyconcern," Kesterson said. "Wehave a very good history withhim and he was alwaysrespected on both sides of theaisle."

Nelson is one of fourcandidates who applied for theseat. The nomination will needto be approved Thursday bythe Dane County Board andthe person will serve until theApril 2004 election.

Kesterson said Nelson hasthe most experience withcounty government and wouldbe able to jump into thedifficult budget process.

"He was the one person inthe county who we (the CountyBoard) could always go to andtrust," Kesterson said.

Sharyn Wisniewski, aide toCounty Executive KathleenFalk, said there is someconcern over a bookkeeping

error two years ago thatresulted in the county havingroughly $1.5 million less than itthought. There were nocriminal charges and theblame was placed on a retiredemployee who Nelson directlysupervised.

"It was a really harmfulmistake," Wisniewski said."The county executive thoughtit was important to remind(Kesterson) about that."

With a board now closelysplit between conservative andliberal members, anyappointment could potentiallyswing decisions on the board.

Kesterson said he alwaystrjes to appoint someone whohas a similar ideology as theresigning person the districtelected. Hanneman is astaunch conservative, andNelson considers himselfpolitically conservative.

Kesterson said he's worriedthe situation could turn intowhat happened in 2001, whenhe chose liberal Madisonresident Fred Arnold to replaceformer liberal Sup. DaveGawenda, who was elected tocounty treasurer.

The conservative factionoverruled Kesterson'sappointment,.and conservativeCarole McGuire took theDistrict 16 seat instead.

"I don't want to go throughthat again," Kesterson said.

Sup. Dennis O'Loughlin,DeForest, a conservativeleader, said Nelson is a goodchoice.

"Gene is familiar with thebudget process; he knowscounty government,"O'Loughlin said. "I don't thinkthe present controller wouldbe intimidated by him."

Other Sun Prairie residentsseeking the seat include DougChristenson, Bruce Oradei, andNickVoegeli.

tant or Orthodox churches whodecides to become Catholic andasks to be ordained can remainmarried.

The Rev. Robert Silva, presi-dent of the National Federationof Priests' Councils, called theletter "courageous."

"I think this will resonate withmany in the church," he said."Given the present context ofthe scandals of the last severalyears, many see optional celi-bacy as something that needs tobe discussed'. It opens up thepool of candidates for thepriesthood."

The Catholic church nation-wide was rocked by a child-molestation scandal, starting inJanuary 2002 with allegationsthat surfaced in Boston, where apriest suspected of abusingyoungsters had been nflovedfrom parish to parish for years.

Representatives at the dio-ceses in Madison and GreenBay said they weren't aware ofany priests there signing the let-ter and weren't aware of similarefforts in their communities.

By Tom Sheehanand Scott WilfredState government reporters

Gov. Jim Doyle is expectedto sign a bill today making itillegal for prison or jail staffto have sex with inmates.

The Democratic governoralso will act on legislationpunishing a wider array ofPeeping Toms and increas- .ing the penalty for releasedsex offenders who fail toproperly register with thestate.

Bill 51 wasAssemblyinspired bythe case of afemaleprisonerwho wasimpregnated by a guardatTaycheedahCorrectionalCenter in , d ,Fond du Lac LaflW'9

last year, said Rep. BonnieLadwig, R-Mount Pleasant,who introduced it.

"It won't help theirdaughter in this situation,but it will help preventanything like that fromhappening again," Ladwigsaid Tuesday.

The guard was firedbecause the conduct violateswork rules, and the prisonerwas sent to solitaryconfinement. But the guardcould not be charged with acrime because consensualsex between guards andinmates is not illegal.

Wisconsin is just one of afew states that doesn't havesuch a law, Ladwig said. Sexbetween prisoners and

guards can never be trulyconsensual because of theguard's position of authorityover an inmate, Ladwig said.

The head of the largeststate employee unionoriginally spoke against thelegislation but later backedoff his position.

Doyle also will act onother bills today at theWinnebago CountyCourthouse in Oshkosh, hisstaff said. They include:

^ Assembly Bill 60, whichmakes it a felony for areleased sex offenders not toproperly register with thestate Department ofCorrections. Current lawpenalizes first-time offenderswith a misdemeanor.

^ Assembly Bill 59, whichlimits sex offenders fromchanging their names andidentities.

^ Senate Bill 56, whichlets prisons use prescriptiondrugs that are returned to aprison health official beforethe drugs were given to apatient.

+ Senate Bill 14, whichbroadens existing lawbanning the use ofsurveillance devices to viewnude or partially nudepeople without theirconsent. The bill prohibitspeople from looking intoprivate places at nude orpartially nude peoplewithout their consent andfor sexual arousal orgratification. The law wouldextend to private spaces atpublic facilities such asbathrooms, showers anddressing rooms.

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CLOUT AND THEIn Sun Prairie, the volunteerdepartment fought off anattempt to hire professionalfirefighters and sank a planfor housing near the race trackthe department owns.

By Beth WilliamsWisconsin State Journal

SUN PRAIRIE — For the 40 mem-bers of this city's all-volunteer firedepartment, racing is what it's allabout.

"When we get a call, our firefight-ers race to get here to see who candrive, who can get in the officer'sseat," Fire Chief Steve Knaus said.

In the past, city officials havequestioned how long it takes fire-fighters to get to fires, but no onedoubts how quickly they can mobi-lize for a political fight.

Sun Prairie is one of the largestWisconsin cities to rely solely onvolunteers for fire protection —even the chief is an unpaid volun-teer. Another odd quality is that thedepartment, which is a separate en-

tity from city government, owns andoperates a midget-car race track.

But the department's politicalprowess is what has drawn attentionin the last two years.

"I think they're a real politicalforce," Sun Prairie City Council Aid.John Bogle said.

The department forced the city todrop an attempt to hire professionalfirefighters last year, despite a con-

sultant report that found the depart-ment's response times weren't keep-ing up with the rapidly growing city.

"Immediately signs sprouted up allover town, hundreds, maybe thou-sands, of signs —'Support your localfire department,' " Bogle said.

This month the departmentsquashed a plan for a subdivison

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HOLIDAY SHOPPING

Magic wordfor retailersis bargainBy Anne D'lnnocenzioAP business writer

The Thanksgiving week-end gave the nation's retail-ers a solid start to theholiday season, but storesthat expected shoppers tohave less interest in bargain-hunting were disappointed.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. andother discounters had thestrongest sales, attractingcrowds with specials on TVs,DVD players and toys. De-partment stores and mall-based apparel retailers werediscounting less than theydid last year, and their busi-ness was uneven.

"Sales appear to be betterthan last year, but the con-sumer is still value-orientedand is looking for sales," saidWalter Loeb, who runs hisown New York-based retailconsulting firm.

A dozen people werestanding in line Sundaymorning at a Best Buy inDunwoody, Ga., a suburb ofAtlanta, waiting for doors toopen at 10 a.m. Like manyshoppers, Charles and SusanLynch were willing to spendbut hoping to get a gooddeal.

"I was unemployed thistime last year so my eco-nomic situation has greatlyimproved," said CharlesLynch, who was looking for ahome theater system.

Regina Elias, shopping fordiscounted Bratz dolls Sun-day at a K-B Toys store inManhattan, said she was feel-ing "a little better than lastyear" about her finances.

"I'm working a lot of over-time," said Elias, of Bayonne,N.J. But she said she plans tospend the same as last year,about $1,000.

Michael P. Niemira, a retailindustry analyst with Bank ofTokyo-Mitsubishi Ltd., said ofthe weekend, "It was prettygood, but it wasn't spectacu-lar." He said business wasstronger for discounters thanit was for department storesand apparel merchants.

Although the economy isrecovering and consumerconfidence is on the rise, ashopper's own job security isoften the greatest factor inhow much he or she spends.

Total retail sales Fridaywere up 4.8 percent to $7.2billion from the Friday afterThanksgiving a year ago,according to ShopperTrak,which tallies sales at 30,000retail outlets. Last year's saleshad been 6.8 percent higherthan 2001 results.

For Friday and Saturdaycombined, total sales were upabout 5.5 percent, accordingto Niemira, a consultant withShopperTrak.

U.S. convoys jumped;46 Iraqi fighters killed

Samir Mizban - Associated PressA U.S. soldier gives directions Sunday outside the Japanese Embassy in Baghdad. Two Japanese diplomats were ambushed and killed Saturday.

It was the deadliest actionsince the fall of SaddamBy Niko PriceAssociated Press

BAGHDAD, Iraq — In thedeadliest reported firelightsince the fall of Saddam Hus-sein's regime, U.S. soldiersfought back coordinated at-tacks Sunday using tanks,cannons and small arms inrunning battles throughoutthe northern city of Samarra.The troops killed 46 Iraqifighters, and five Americanswere wounded.

Minutes later, two SouthKorean contractors werekilled nearby in a roadside

ambush in what U.S. officialscalled a new campaign aimedat undermining internationalsupport for the U.S.-led occu-pation of Iraq. Attacks on Sat-urday killed seven Spaniards,two Japanese diplomats and aColombian oil worker.

Lt. Col. William MacDonaldof the 4th Infantry Divisionsaid attackers, many wearinguniforms of Saddam's Fe-dayeen militia, opened fire si-multaneously on two U.S.supply convoys on oppositesides of Samarra.

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We fooledSaddam,say Iraqiscientists

They say bomb programwas getting nowhere,but they lied and gotmoney out of him.

By Charles J. HanleyAP special correspondent

Iraqi scientists never re-vived their long-dead nuclearbomb program, and in factlied to Saddam Husseinabout how much progressthey were making beforeU.S.-led attacks shut the op-eration down for good in1991, Iraqi physicists say.

Before that first Gulf War,the chief of the weapons pro-gram resorted to "blatant ex-aggeration" in telling Iraq'spresident how much bombmaterial was being produced,key scientist Imad Khadduriwrites in a new book.

Other leading physicists, inBaghdad interviews, said thehope for an Iraqi atomicbomb was never realistic. "Itwas all like building sandcastles," said Abdel MehdiTalib, Baghdad University'sdean of sciences.

Seven months after a U.S.-British invasion toppled Sad-dam's Baath Party govern-ment, Iraqi scientists havegrown more vocal in counter-ing Bush administrationclaims, used to justify thewar, that Baghdad had "re-constituted" nuclear weaponsdevelopment, and that it oncewas a mere six months frommaking a bomb.

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Electronic watchdog keepsdevelopmentally disabled safeAnd the program is cheaper thanhaving staff members stay inpeople's houses overnight.By Lesley Rogers BarrettCounty reporter

If Monica Reese opens her front dooror leaves her bedroom in the middle ofthe night, someone knows.

Her movements are tracked by mo-tion detectors. If she needs help, shecan push a button and a voice on aspeakerphone asks if she is OK.

If there's a problem, a caretaker is ather home in minutes. If a situation ap-pears more dire — like if her smoke de-tector goes off — emergency crews aredispatched.

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near the department-ownedAngell Park Speedway. Home-owners might complain aboutnoise from the track, firefighterssaid.

Plan commission meetingswere packed with race fans andsupporters.

Knaus — the unpaid chiefwho earns a living as owner ofseveral businesses — just smileswhen the department's reputa-tion for community organizingis mentioned.

"You never want to challengea volunteer fire department,"Knaus said. "These guys aredoing this out of their owngoodwill and you just can't bat-tle that."

The department was formedin 1891. Membership is prized— for the last two openings,Knaus received 15 applications."I think the city is a morehometown, family community,"Knaus said. "I think they justhang together."

The unusual side businesswas formed in 1903 with ahorse-and-carriage race track.The department has continuedto expand the track, near High-way N, and Angell Park cele-brated its 100th birthday thisyear.

On a typical summer Sundaynight, 3,000 to 4,000 fans packthe stands for the midget-carraces. Angell Park President LesMcBurney, a volunteer fire-fighter for 17 years, said the de-partment has to be careful thatnot too many firefighters arevolunteering at the park in casea call comes in from elsewhere

John Maniaci - State Journal

Sun Prairie is one of the larger state cities to rely solely on volunteers for fire protection. The department has huge community support and polit-ical power. About half the members of the department are pictured inside their newly remodeled Bristol Street station. In the back row from theleft are Wade Nachreiner, Steve Hensen, James Zifke, Pete Vickerman, Justin Koch, Cory Barr and Jerry Gobeli. In the front row from the left areJoe Skalitzky, Arnie Kleven, Ron Imberg, Renee Benson, Chief Steve Knaus, Jason Mikula, Neil Snodgrass and Les McBurney.

in the rapidly growing city.According to the 2000 U.S.

census, Sun Prairie grew by 33percent between 1990 and 2000to a population of 20,369. Fore-casts call for the city to reach26,428 in 2004.

Fire calls in that span rosefrom 70 in 1990 to more than394 this year.

"We're the largest city in thestate with a volunteer fire de-

partment, and to date it'sworked out extremely well,"Bogle said. "Once we get to30,000 to 40,000 (people) we'llprobably have to put on somepaid people."

Firefighters don't want pay."They've offered to pay us

per hour, per call. Again itcomes back to money is theroot of all evil," McBurney said."It's a community pride thing.

We like doing what we do.When you get paid people andmoney in there, it influences alot of decisions."

When a call comes in, fire-fighters still scramble fromwherever they are to get to thefire station and then to the fire.The fire station isn't normallystaffed.

"It isn't how quick you get toa fire," said Knaus, who has

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been on the department for 20years. "It's how quick you getnotified of the fire."

He said the department canget the truck out of the stationin three and a half to four min-utes and be at the scene of a firein the time it takes to drivethere.

But Don Hoos'er, former CityCouncil president, maintainsSun Prairie needs paid firefight-ers.

"You will never reduce re-sponse times to the acceptablestandard for a city our size un-less you have people sitting atthe station to be first-responders," he said.

Many Wisconsin cities eitherhave full-time paid firefightersor use a mix of paid and volun-teer firefighters.

A 2001 report commissionedby the city found the depart-ment didn't meet response timegoals for an urban department.For fire calls, the goal is to re-spond within 5 minutes at least80 percent of the time. The de-partment had an average 7-minute response, the reportsaid.

The report recommendedfull-time paid firefighters, ignit-ing a controversy that endedwith the volunteer firefighters

still in charge."From my perspective, (the

fire department) wields a lot ofinfluence in this city and that'snot stating anything negative,"Hooser said. "Their ability tomuster people and developconsensus for their position andset the tone for debate speaksfor itself."

Hooser, who lost his citycouncil seat of 18 years in theApril 2002 election, was actingas mayor when the report wasissued.

Current Mayor Dave Hanne-man's opposition to paid fire-fighters is one of the things thatinspired him to run for the of-fice earlier this year.

"It's extremely important thatwe maintain a volunteer fire de-partment as we grow," Hanne-man said.

The department's 2004 bud-get includes $181,000 from thecity and $125,000 from threetowns it serves. In 2001, the cityestimated a full-time profes-sional department would costless than $2 million.

The city did, however, decideto hire full-time emergencymedical technicians this year.They also plan to staff a secondambulance in 2004.

"It has reduced the responsetimes dramatically," Bogle said.

But firefighters haven't seenthe changes as positive.

"It sounds like the volunteer-ism of EMS is phased out thedoor," McBurney said.

Bogle and Hanneman disa-greed, saying volunteers are stillvery important to EMS.

The city recently spent about$2 million to remodel the firedepartment and emergencymedical services building onBristol Street. In the remodel-ing, Knaus made a few conces-sions. The updated firedepartment has bedroomswhere someday on-call fire-fighters might sleep while thestation is staffed 24 hours a day,seven days a week.

"We know the day couldcome when we have to staffpeople here full time," McBur-ney said. "We hope it's laterrather than sooner."

Right now, the firefighters arestill taking pride in their all-volunteer status, enjoying theirnewly remodeled firehouse andthe satisfaction of knowing theneighbors won't be able tocomplain about the noise ofAngell Park.

And they want to take a hi-atus from politics.

"It's time for us to take abreak and relax a little bit,"McBurney said.

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Reese, who is developmen-tally disabled, used to have anovernight staff person sleep ather apartment, just in casesomething happened. Nowshe's one of 112 people usingSound Response, a county pro-gram run by the UW-MadisonWaisman Center, which moni-tors developmentally disabledpeople overnight, using elec-tronic sensors.

At first Monica, who works atWal-Mart in Stoughton, missedhaving a staff person spend thenight at her house. But now shelikes the system, which givesher a little more independence.

"I like it," she said. "Nobodycan break in."

Her mother, Shirley Reese ofStoughton, said she sleeps bet-ter knowing someone is moni-toring her daughter at night.

"She's safe and that's a greatfeeling," Shirley Reese said.

Sound Response isn't for ev-eryone with disabilities, countyofficials say. But for those whoneed someone to sleep at theirhome "just in case," it's ideal. Itoffers more independence andsaves money, said Dan Rossiter,community services managerfor the Dane County Depart-ment of Human Services.

"It's folding together cellulartechnology along with com-puter technology," Rossiter said.

The program costs about$400,000 a year, which is about$250,000 less than hiring over-night staff people.

Developmental disabilitiesprograms, along with otherHuman Services programs, tooka hit in next year's $399 millioncounty budget, in part becauseof more than $7 million in cutsfrom the state.

Most developmental disabil-ity agencies will see at least a 2percent cut in their countyfunding next year.

County Executive KathleenFalk said Sound Response is aunique program that helps cutcosts but still allows for "topquality services."

She said the program is vol-untary and the county won't doaway with all overnight staff forthe disabled.

"For some people, 24-hourcare is vital," Falk said.

The county started with just afew households in March 2002and expanded to 62 householdsthis year.

Using a few computers andphones at a headquarters on

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A monitor on the front door ofMonica Reese's Stoughton apart-ment sends a signal to Sound Re-sponse staff if it's opened at night.

Traceway Drive in Madison,two Sound Response workersmonitor movements in thehomes from about 9 p.m. to 7a.m. "First responders" are sta-tioned throughout DaneCounty, on call to respond to ahome if there is trouble.

About 90 percent of problemsare handled over the phone orspeakerphone. If the personpushes a button signaling theyare having trouble, staff cancontact them through an openphone line.

"There is an element of bigbrotherish feeling to it, but wecan hear people only if they ac-tivate it," said Duane Tempel,outreach specialist at WaismanCenter, which studies develop-mental disabilities and con-tracts with Dane County tooperate the program.

Jen Squire, chair of the De-velopmental Disabilities Coali-tion, said even if the countydidn't face tough financialtimes, she'd support Sound Re-sponse.

"From the perspective of theconsumer, for quite a goodnumber of people, it's a positivemove toward more ownershipof their home," Squire said.

Squire said the cost savingsof Sound Response means lesscuts to consumers. She said noone has been laid off because ofSound Response, but there arecost savings whert' caregiversquit and aren't replaced.

Squire said Sound Responseis especially good for thesmaller communities, wheregood overnight care can be dif-ficult to find.

Sound Response has pickedup on problems that overnightcaregivers couldn't, Squire said.

Donna Schwanc, who lives inthe same apartment building asMonica Reese, was one of thefirst people to switch to SoundResponse. Schwanc, who worksat McDonalds during the day,said she likes the safety of it.She was cboking once and thesmoke detector went off andemergency crews respondedquickly.

"I'm glad they're there,"Schwanc said.

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This horse certainly had a bounce in its step as it leapt along Highway 154 near Hill Point in western Sauk County.

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Caravan of tractors to journey to'old time' fest Labor Day weekendOrganizers are tryingto drum up supportfor an annual ridesimilar to one in Iowa.By Chris BaldusLa Crosse Tribune

The bolts on Bob Olson's re-stored tractors are green or yel-low from heads to treads. It'stedious work, but necessary toshield his antique John Deeresagainst rust.

Still, it's not quite as tediousas touching up after rust scabsflake away. That's when youuse a small brush and painttiny layer after layer in thewound until it reaches theheight of the original paint.

But Olson will do it becausehe loves his boys and tries todo right by them.

Anyone interested in learn-ing more about tractor restora-tion, Olson's many trips for

parts to salvage yards through-out the Midwest and his tractorhunts, can chat with him atOld Time Farm Fest in Foun-tain City over Labor Day week-end. He hopes to be pullingonto the festival grounds Aug.30 about 2 p.m. on his HighCrop Model G along with a car-avan of 100 other antique trac-tors.

Olson and Jim Bardeen arerecruiting tractor owners tomake a two-day, 95-mile roadtrip from. Bardeen's farm,which is between Cashton andNorwalk, to the festival.They're trying to establish theGreater Wisconsin Tractor ridejust as radio stations in Iowahave done for years. The ridewill begin Aug. 29.

Call Bob Olson of the townof Irving, (715) 284-9877 or JimBardeen (608) 823-7527 for de-tails or to sign up.

"There is nothing in this partof the world, at least locally,that's been done like this be-

fore," Bardeen said. "And wewant to get something going."

Tractor caravans in Iowahave been known to attractabout 450 drivers, who are fol-lowed by support people andbackup drivers. They'll travelfrom town to town, somecamping overnight, othersstaying with host families.

"Last winter at one of ourmeetings one guy mentionedto me, 'You know, instead ofdriving clear down to Iowa toget in a ride we should do oneof our own'," said Olson, presi-dent of the 66-member Tri-State Two-Cylinder Club —John Deere fans. Some collectfull-size tractors, others havememorabilia and toys; oneman has a good-sized collec-tion of pedal tractors, Olsonsaid.

The ride isn't just for JohnDeeres, tiiough.

"It doesn't matter what yougot. Anybody can come," Olson

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said, "Any makes, any model,new, old, cabbed."

B.ut, your tractor has to beable to go at least 10 mph, hesaid.

"Kind of leaves out some ofthe old slowpokes, you know,"he said.

The caravan will stick totown and county roads asmuch as possible, A scenicroute was chosen.

"If you drive a tractor downthe road going at a slowerspeed (there are) so manythings to see," Bardeen said."It's a relaxed pace."

The night before they leave,the drivers will meet and talkabout safety. At the end of thefirst day they'll stay overnightat the Ettrick Rod and GunClub, where a refueling truckwill be waiting.

So far, they have about 30people registered, with agesranging from 29 to 80. Olson ishoping for 100 or more. That'sbeing optimistic, said Bardeen,adding that even if the num-bers don't balloon, the ride willbe successful.

"We want to use this as alearning experience," he said.

The Franciscan orderplans to use it againas a place forprospective friars.

ByPeteWicklundRacine Journal Times

As far as the head of an areaprovince is concerned, theFranciscan order has no plansto divest itself of the St. FrancisMonastery grounds in the townof Burlington.

"We're not selling anythingthere at this moment," said theRev. Tom Luczak, provincialminister of the Franklin-basedAssumption Province. "We'dlike to see what we can do torevitalize our ministry there."

The provincial council sus-

pended retreat center opera-tions in April 2002 foreconomic reasons.

But in a throwback to thedays when the campus washome to several dozen youngmen preparing for the religiouslife, the order plans to againuse the building for prospec-tive friars.

Luczak said the provinceplans to use the facility as a"home for formation," the firstyear-long stop for friar candi-dates.

The Burlington site will alsocontinue to be home to theprovince's vocational officeand the office of Justice, Peaceand Integrity of Life, the latterof which is headed by BrotherMike Kulan, who also headsthe board of directors of LoveInc., a Burlington-based social

services'clearinghouse.There will be about nine

brothers and friars at St. Fran-cis over the next year, Luczaksaid.

Luczak said the province isabout to develop a comprehen-sive plan that will determinethe future of the St. Francis siteand others under the directionof the province, which recentlyrelocated its headquarters toFranklin after being based for117 years in Pulaski, northwestof Green Bay.

"Our hope is we can dosomething in the future be-cause of our long-standingpresence there (in Burling-ton)," Luczak said.

The Franciscans opened St.Francis Monastery in 1930 as alocation for the theologicaltraining of friars.

PORTAGE

Skateboarders draw mayor's wrathBy Tori RosinPortage Daily Register

A new skateboard park inPortage has had problems eventhough it's been only open fora short while.

Mayor Jeff Grothman toldthe City Council on Thursdaythat: "They smashed the signwith the rules on it. They goover to the ball diamond andwreck picnic tables. They'reback to using the museum.

They're back downtown."Grothman also said skate-

boarders have been skating atthe site of the new Divine Sav-ior Hospital. The mayor alsosaid that Parks and RecreationDirector Tim Raimer, who re-quested that Weiser Concretemake donations for the park,has been treated poorly bysome of the parks users.

"They more or less told himto take a hike," Grothman said."It's very frustra.ting to be

talked to like that by a 15 yearold," Raimer said after themeeting. However, he ac-knowledged that the majorityof the park's users were politeto authorities and policedthemselves.

Skaters also aren't wearingthe protective gear. "Helmetsare a big tiling," Raimer said."Our insurance said that for usto have the park on city prop-erty, they want helmets worn."

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Budget woesbring mixed

reactions2 cities, school districts cooperateBy Marv BalousekWisconsin State Journal

Tough economic times areeither bringing municipalitiesand school districts togetheror driving them apart.

In Janesville and SunPrairie, the school districtsand cities are working to formjoint committees that will ex-plore more ways they can col-laborate.

But in McFarland, theschool district's decision tocut funding fgr a police-school liaison officerprompted the village boardlast week to reduce the hoursthat officer devotes to theschools.

In Deerfield, the village de-cided recently not to buy theold elementary school fromthe School District, reversinga decision made two yearsago to acquire it for use as acommunity center, seniorcenter or offices.

A committee of JanesvilleSchool Board members, resi-dents and City Council mem-bers met July 10 to exploreways of increasing collabora-tion.

"The focus is to improveservices and save money,"said School District spokes-woman Jackie Olson Kold."We've had a very good col-laborative relationship withthe city. We've been able towork with them very effec-tively in the past."

She said collaborative ideassuggested so far include hav-ing the city take over mowingand snow plowing for theSchool District and having thedistrict's energy expert helpthe city save money onelectricity and natural gasusage.

Mary Ellen Havel-Lang, aSun Prairie School Board

member, said hearing aboutthe Janesville committeeprompted her to draft a boardreport suggesting a similar ef-fort in Sun Prairie.

"There's a lot of pressure onlocal entities to do a better jobwith taxpayer money," shesaid. "We're not islands any-more. There's a public outcrybased on the property taxfreeze that we need to bemore efficient. The possibili-ties are endless depending onthe imagination and creativityof the people that come to-gether."

Sun Prairie Mayor DavidHanneman said he's suppor-tive of that effort and he sug-gested more city-SchoolDistrict cooperation duringhis campaign last spring.

"With the growth that wehave here, it's vitally impor-tant to have a good relation-ship with the School District,he said.

In communities like McFarland and Deerfield, however,efforts to pare budgetshaven't enhanced coopera-tion.

McFarland village adminis-trator Don Peterson said ex-pecting the village to paymore of the police-school liai-son cost amounts to doubletaxation for village residents.The same position also cameunder fire a year ago in Ore-gon.

"We would prefer that theyhadn't reduced the funding,but we understand their rea-sons," Peterson said. "Theyneeded to make some difficuchoices as far as funding pri-orities and they chose to putmoney toward their core aca-demic programs."

He said he doesn't expectthe liaison issue to hurt thevillage's relationship with thedistrict.

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Recess restoration to come to a voteMadison elementaryteachers will decidewhether to reinstate a15-minute outdoor break.By Doug EricksonEducation reporter

Madison elementary teacherswill vote next week on whetherto restore an outdoor recesscanceled two years ago.

If the plan passes, it would bea big victory for the district stu-dents who've been working toreclaim the recess since 2001.

The proposal would guaran-tee three 15-minute outdoorplay periods a day by extendingthe student school day five min-utes. It would require teachersto supervise students for'fiveadditional minutes.

But the length of the teachers'work day would not change.They would be required to stayonly 25 minutes after the end ofclasses instead of 30.

The proposal would not costthe district additional money,said Superintendent Art Rain-water. "I think it's a good solu-tion to the problem," he said.

"It recognizes the concern ev-eryone has to give studentsmore time to exercise."

The administration and theteachers union have agreed inconcept to the plan, but itneeds School Board approvaland a favorable teacher vote,said Mary Gulbrandsen, chief ofstaff to Rainwater.

The issue bubbled up twoyears ago at Crestwood Elemen-tary, where students were irkedthat one of their three 15-minute outdoor recesses wasreplaced with a 10-minute in-door break. The change was

made across the district to givestudents more time to eatlunch.

The Crestwood students re-searched the issue and arguedbefore the School Board that athird outdoor recess is neededso they can expend pent-up en-ergy and come back to theirstudies refreshed. They won atop national civics award thissummer for their advocacy onthe issue.

The proposal before teachersis the same one that students

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Firefighters set up hoses Wednesday afternoon at an apartment fire in Fitchburg. Two people suffered smoke inhalation but it was not knownlate Wednesday what started the fire in the 20-unit Ridgewood Country Club Apartments building at 2001 Traceway Drive.

Some narrow escapes in Fitchburg fire

Sheryl Moore, left, and Sister Edith Gorski walk away from theirapartment building during a fire Wednesday. Moore felt her way tosafety through a smoke-filled hallway. Gorski was rescued from hersecond-floor balcony.

No serious injuries in anafternoon blaze.By Barry AdamsPolice reporter

FITCHBURG — Sister EdithGorski didn't initially take thefire alarm seriously.

But when she opened herapartment door to find asmoke-filled hallway, she re-treated to the small second-floor balcony outside.

Less than a minute later, shewas being helped down a ladderby Fitch-Rona EMS paramedicChris Hammes and FitchburgDeputy Fire Chief Rich Roth.

"They grabbed me under myarms and helped me down,"said Gorski, 71, who was not in-jured. "They were fast."

At the other end of the 20-unit Ridgewood Country ClubApartments building, at 2001Traceway Drive, two apart-ments were heavily damaged byfire. The damage estimate to thebuilding was $250,000.

The cause of the fire, reportedjust after 4 p.m. Wednesday,had not been determined lateWednesday. Two people weretaken to a hospital with smokeinhalation, Fitchburg firespokesman Steve Dahlgren said.

He identified them as a manwho was working at Nine

Springs Golf Course and awoman he helped out of herapartment. Their conditions,names and ages were unavail-able late Wednesday.

"She was pretty scared," saidMike Sivam, 23, of the womanwho was helped out of theapartment. "Smoke was justpouring out."

Sivam was golfing and hadjust approached the first-holegreen when he saw the fire.

Smoke from the fire could beseen by rush-hour commuterson the Beltline. The incidentalso snarled traffic on nearbyFish Hatchery Road as firefight-ers closed off Traceway Drive.

Sheryl Moore's escape fromthe burning building was alsoharrowing. She was awoken bythe fire alarm and, like Gorski,found the hallway full of smoke.She, too, went to her balcony.but went back into the apart-ment and then the hallway afterpeople began shouting for herto get out of the building.

The barefoot Moore felt herway about 30 steps from herapartment to the stairwell andthen down a flight of stairs tothe exit.

"I never drought I'd make itout," Moore, 55, said. "I didn'tsee daylight until I hit the glassdoors."

The irresistible farce ofthe immovable objectAmonth before Glenn

Weaver was to be mar-ried at Tenney Park, he

and his fiance'e, Ellen, startedmaking regular trips to thepark, just to make sure therewould be no surprises.

"Having an outdoor weddingin October is a gamble, so wereserved the shelter in case ofrain, but we really wanted tohave a nature ceremonyamidst the beautiful fall treesand pedestrian bridges of Ten-ney Park," Weaver wrote in aletter.

Three weeks before the Oct.4 wedding, the lagoons weredrained, temporarily leaving a"sea of mud and weeds andtrash in place of the reflectivewater,"

With two weeks left, the la-goons were filled again, but abig red lake-weed harvester

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was parked next Jo the shelter.It was smelly and draped withweeds.

Weaver set out to find some-one to move it before the wed-ding. He was eventuallypromised the city would callthe county and have the ma-chine moved.

A week later, it was stillthere. Weaver called the may-or's office, and an assistant,Jeanne Hoffman, interceded to

$20 more onregistrationfee mulledVehicle fee option consideredby some Dane County leadersBy Lesley Rogers BarrettCounty reporter

One solution to Dane Coun-ty's tight budget might be totack on a $20 local fee —commonly called a wheel tax— to the state's $55 motor ve-hicle registration fee.

Several Dane County lead-ers say they'd consider theproposal, which is beingpushed by the DevelopmentalDisabilities Coalition, a groupof local providers.

If approved by the DaneCounty Board, the fee wouldgive the county about $7 mil-lion a year.

Human Services could getmore money and the countymight not need to increaseproperty taxes as high as pro-posed by Dane County Execu-tive Kathleen Falk in her$399.9 million budget for2004.

A County Board publichearing at 7 tonight in theCity-County Building is ex-pected to draw crowds of peo-ple asking for more money inthe budget. The spendingplan is set to be approved by

the board next month.But creating a new fee

hasn't been popular for manylocal governments, and theidea is already controversialhere.

"It has zero chance," saidSup. David Blaska, Madison.

He said there's little supportfor a flat, non-progressive tax.

But County Board Chair-man Kevin Kesterson and Falksaid they'd consider support-ing the fee. "Speaking for my-self, I'd much rather add $20to my license fees than have itadded to the property taxbase," Kesterson said. "I'msure it will spark some livelydebates, but at first blush Ithink it's workable."

Only the cities of Beloit andSheboygan currently imposethe fee — and that's out of1,922 units of local govern-ments — said Richard Shell,research associate at the Wis-consin Taxpayers Alliance.

"Suffice it to say, it's notbeen overwhelmingly popu-lar," Sheil said.

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Poet Sam Hamill, founder of Poets Against the War, read from hiswork and answered questions Wednesday in the Union Theater aspart of the Wisconsin Book Festival. Story/B4.

Cannery Square topsdowntown revival plan

Submitted photo

Unable to get a weed harvester moved before their Oct. 4 wedding atPlease see HESSELBERG, Page B5 Tenney Park, Ellen and Glenn Weaver made it part of their photos.

Sun Prairie developmentto cost $26 million andinclude 23 buildings.By Beth WilliamsSuburban reporter

SUN PRAIRIE — Officialshope a $26 million redevelop-ment project can turn whatwas once the city's core in-dustrial area into housing andshops that will lure peopledowntown.

"What we're doing herenow is the rebirth of SunPrairie's downtown," MayorDave Hanneman saidWednesday at a groundbreak-ing ceremony for CannerySquare. "It will definitely havea good financial impact on allof downtown."

The Cannery Square devel-opment will include 23 build-ings with 20,000 to 40,000square feet of commercialspace, 83 apartments and 99condominiums across thestreet from the city's munici-pal building.

The project is being devel-oped by Veridian Homes andothers. David Simon, VeridianHomes president of opera-tions, said no tenants havesigned leases for space in thedevelopment yet.

The focal point of the devel-opment is the renovation ofthe former Stokely Cannerywith restaurant or commercialspace on the first floor andapartments on the secondand third floors.

The city has applied for a$900,000 state grant to help

with the project but the statehasn't yet awarded thosegrants, state Rep. Tom Hebl,D-Sun Prairie, said.

Dane County ExecutiveKathleen Falk attendedWednesday's groundbreakingto announce the county's2003 Better Urban Infill De-velopment grants. Sun Prairiereceived $17,500 for down-town planning.

The city of Madison re-ceived $25,000 for planningalong East Washington Ave-nue and another $25,000 for amarket study along SouthPark Street. Cambridge re-ceived $20,500 for downtownimprovement projects. Mo-nona received $10,000 forplanning along Monona Driveand Waunakee received$4,000 for a development planfor a mixed-use building onMain Street.

Large downtown redevelop-ment projects like CannerySquare are becoming morecommon even among smallercities like Sun Prairie with itsroughly 22,000 residents, saidMike Harrigan, executive vicepresident of Ehlers and Asso-ciates in Brookfield.

Ehlers and Associates helpsmany municipalities withpublic financing of projectslike these but did not work onthe Sun Prairie project.

"It is not beyond the pale ofwhat we're seeing in similarcities about the same size,"Harrigan said. "The real ques-tion is, are they going to getthe value from this project atthis level to cover 100 percentof the costs?"

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Workers fin-ished a face-lift of the Ray

Kubly Plaza morethan a year ago buthave been waiting fora two-piece clay car-touche with a tradi-tional "W." The plazais named for Kubly, a1926 UW-Madisongraduate whofounded The SwissColony company. Hewas also president ofthe National W Cluband served on theuniversity AthleticBoard. BELOW: RandyThor, masonry fore-man for JP Cullen andSons builders, pol-ishes the cartouche,which was made by aCalifornia company.Thor and other work-ers installed the letterWednesday at RayKubly Plaza, wherethe UW Athletic Hallof Fame is displayednear Camp Randallstadium.

OREGON

Shared business park ideagarners renewed attentionOfficials in Oregon andFitchburg are tryingto get the dormantproject rolling again.By Valeria Davis-Humphrey

'Suburban Reporter

Oregon and Fitchburg havebegun talking in earnest aboutrestarting efforts to create ashared business park develop-ment.

A committee of representa-tives from both communitiesmet last week to review the his-tory of the project and madeprogress toward getting itrolling again, said Oregon Vil-lage President Jerry Luebke.

"I feel great about the rela-tionship the village and Fitch-burg are having," Luebke said,adding that he and FitchburgMayor Tom Clauder agree thetiming seems right to revisitthe joint venture.

The two communitiesformed a partnership in themid-1990s to open a 230-acrebusiness park on Fitchburg'ssouthern border just outsidethe village of Oregon. The proj-ect was supposed to expandthe tax base of the OregonSchool District, which servesthe south and east sides ofFitchburg, but was called off in

1995 after a feasibility studyfound the economic timingwasn't right.

In an attempt to restart theproject, Oregon and Fitchburgpartnered again in 1998 to buya 15-mile stretch of the formerPacific Union rail line with thehelp of state funding. But ne-gotiations on the partnershipdetails fell by the wayside.

Now Oregon and Fitchburgare hoping to forge a model ofmunicipal cooperation thatother communities can dupli-cate to their advantage,Clauder said. "We're actuallytrying to do what people saythey'll do, but it doesn't alwayswork," he said.

The project will require mul-tiple partnerships, not only be-tween the two towns, but alsowith the state and private in-dustry because of the transpor-tation components involvingboth highways and rail,Clauder said.

"The climate out there saysmore communities have toshare things," Luebke said,"and this just another item —to share a business park whichcan be serviced by and a bene-fit to both communities."

Some of the issues that stoodin the way in the past havebeen resolved, Luebke said, in-cluding the ability to provide

water and sewer service to theproposed development area.

"Oregon is in a better posi-tion right now to handle this,"Luebke said.

The delay also has resultedin a shift in the public's andthe market's attitude towardthe business park, which isproposed for land west ofHighway 14, Clauder said. Hehas heard growing enthusiasmabout how the rail line couldreduce local truck traffic.

"Obviously if the rail line isactivated, the businesses nowusing trucks would benefit," hesaid. "The location is a hugepiece to the puzzle. We havemore companies interested inus now. The location is primewith its access to both autoand rail."

One local company that hasexpressed interest is Lycon, acement trucking company,Clauder said, and Brunsell, anoriginal potential business parkresident, is still interested.Plastics, lumber and storagecompanies also have expressedinterest.

"What we're hoping is thatonce we get started we cantake our time speaking to busi-nesses," Clauder said. "Wedon't have to have the pagesfilled to get it off the ground. Ifwe build it, they will come, andthen others will come."

BELLEVILLE

Meeting planned on Highway 69State officials want to talkto the public about howto improve traffic flow.

The state Department ofTransportation plans to hold apublic meeting Sept. 25 inBelleville to talk about ways tomake traffic on Highway 69flow more smoothly.

The meeting will be from 6

p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at BellevilleVillage Hall, 24 W. Main St.

DOT officials and Strand As-sociates will explain proposedaccess control measures on thehighway from the Green-Danecounty line to Highway Msouth of Verona. The proposalsdon't affect Highway 69through Belleville.

The plan is designed to pre-serve existing highway access

points and access to adjacentproperties while keeping high-way traffic moving.

The meeting will be in anopen-house format and thepublic is encouraged to comewhenever it's convenient forthem.

For more information aboutthe project, contact Jim Merri-man, Transportation District 1,2101 Wright St., Madison, WI53704 or call him at 246-3848.

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More opinions airedon Woodman's planSun Prairie residents attend final public hearingBy Jean Van RensselarFor the State Journal

Despite recent protests,Woodman's supporters, in-cluding a former City Councilmember and a senior citizen,told city officials last week at apublic hearing that they wantto see the mega-grocery re-tailer on Sun Prairie's westside.

Last week's meeting was thefinal public hearing before thePlan Commission decides onthe plan, which could happenas early as October, said cityplanner Scott Kugler.

Long-time Woodman's sup-porter and former councilmember, Charles Schutze, saidhe conducted a survey result-ing in 713 out of 889 polledsaying they want a Wood-man's.

"Let's look at who opposesthe Woodman's," he said."Other than a few environ-mental fanatics, we have ahandful of local business own-ers and their family andfriends."

Nancy Carnitz said she wasspeaking for the city's senior

citizens who have a difficulttime getting to the hearings.

"I am not well-to-do," shesaid. "I need a store where Ican go to get groceries I canafford."

Others said they liked theplans for a buffer of smallstores around Woodman's.

Woodman's opponent PeterCurran who gave Mayor DaveHanneman 35 anti-Woodman's letters, said plan-ners RTKL of Dallas have mis-led residents.

"We wonder if the planreally addresses the 'village-feel' that citizens said theywanted," Curran said.

Paris Rutherford, RTKL vicepresident, refuted allegationsthat they were pressured byWoodman's, saying, "I'veheard people say that certaindevelopers have had undueinfluence over us, but we havebeen unbiased. We have beenfair in this process."

He explained that the retailareas are less than the amountof retail on the city's original2020 master plan.

He also said that, from a taxstandpoint, the city needs re-

tail to support the west sideand that small retail needs ananchor like Woodman's to besuccessful.

Noting that the city's popu-lation could double by thetime the plan is fully realizedin 15 years, he said his majorconcern was interim planning.

"This is huge stuff," he said."You are going to be doublingthe size of your city. The big-gest challenge is how this isgoing to get implemented —what's going to happen be-tween now and when the westside is fully developed."

Local developer DavidSimon, who has a large resi-dential development underway in Sun Prairie and is re-vamping the downtown, saidhe liked the west side plan butwas also concerned about howit develops.

"You can show wonderfulcolors on paper, but the realkey is how will this be imple-mented," he said.

Responding to those whowant the city to keep its villageflavor, Rutherford said, "Youcan't stop progress, but youcan define it and guide it."

County to explore boomers' needsAs the baby boomer

generation heads into retire-ment, Dane County officialsare working on a plan to servethe aging population.

Dane County ExecutiveKathleen Falk and the DaneCounty Task Force on Agingare looking for residents tovolunteer on six work groupsthat will focus on the needs

and develop plans for servingbabyjboomers.

"By the year 2020, the num-ber of Dane County residentsage 65 and over will grow from40,000 to 70,000," Falk said."Not only will there be moreseniors who need services, theymay need different services be-cause of the changing needs ofour aging population."

The work groups will look at

the issues of economics, edu-cation and active aging, hous-ing and infrastructure, medicaland health care, public safetyand transportation.

Dane County residents inter-ested in serving on one of thework groups should contactthe county's Area on Agencyoffice at 224-3660 by Sept. 15.

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January 27,2004KETTAVONG, Daophasouk, Mad-ison, daughter.HOLLFELDER Stacy & Ross, SunPrairie, son.

January 28,2004HERNANDEZ, Sugeny & Juan,Madison, son.DOYLE, Jenny & GOLDSMITH,Earl, Portage, son.STAMPFL, Kaylin & Craig,Stoughton, daughter.KEEFE, Bonnie & Thoma, SunPrairie, daughter.KUSKE, Karen & GAVIN, Chris,Waunakee, daughter.GOLTZ, Peggy & Greg, Marshall,son.DOLL, Carrie & Tom, Middleton,daughter.KITTLESON, Tara & Shawn,Arena, sonMUTCH, Juliann & Ian, Madison,daughter.

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January 27,2004GRAY, Nanette & Donald, Ore-gon, son.DAHLK, Marcy & Derek, MountHoreb, daughter.KWAN, Mable, Madison, son.BARRIENTOS-IRIGOYEN, Rose-mary & IRIGOYEN, Enzo, Madi-son, son.

January 28,2004SMITH, Heather Ann & WAY,Richard B., Madison, son.ZEMPEL, Tanya & James, Madi-son, son.TOMHAVE, Kelly & Doug, Ve-rona, daughter.PFEIL, Melanie & Scott, Madison,daughter.GARCIA, Esmeralda & VAZQUEZ,Jose, Madison, son.MORRIS, Shari & Kraig, SunPrairie, daughter.LORY, Carrie & Shannon, Mid-dleton, son.MCDONALD, Ann & Steven,Madison, son.

DEATHS

MadisonBURNS, Mabel Luella, 94, at Donand Marilyn HospiceCare Center,Tuesday.DEWEY, Elizabeth Anne, Jan. 9.DOMKE, Theodore "Ted," 79, atSt. Mary's Hospital, Monday.HANSON, Kenneth Wilbur, 76,at St. Mary's Hospital, Tuesday.HEALY, Madeline Marie, 70, ather daughter's home, Tuesday.HILGERS, Shirley M., 79, at St.Mary's Hospital, Wednesday.

TERZICH, Richard Daniel, 63, athome, Tuesday.TIEDT, Leo Frederick, 75, athome, Wednesday.

AreaBaraboo —ANDERSEN, AndrewJ. "Andy," 57, Oct. 31.Beaver Dam — MCCAUGHEY,'Charles C, 86, at Beaver DamCommunity Hospital, Friday.Boscobel/Ham Lake, Minn. —SCHWERT, Merry K., 59, atBethel Care Center, St. Paul,Minn.Caledonia/Portage — REH-DANTZ, Gordon H. "Gordy," 78,at home, Sunday.Cambridge — ECKHART, Vicki L,36, at a local hospital, Tuesday.Cross Plains— DAUCK, Irene A.,84, at Heartland Country Village,Sunday.Cross Plains — FAUST, MildredM., 95, Wednesday.Dodgeville/Ridgeway — LEASE,Bernard F., 80, at home, Mon-day.Evansville — SENDELBACH,Kathryn, 66, at Mercy Hospital,Janesville, Tuesday.Fremont — BRINKMAN, Conrad"C.John," 67, Tuesday.Madison/Gary, Ind. — SHARP,Carmen V., 34, Jan. 19.Marshall/Waterloo — TOOLEY,Robert L., 83, at Columbus Com-munity Hospital, Tuesday.Middleton — BOWERS, Gary J."Butch," 63, at St. Mary's Hospi-tal, Monday.Platteville — REISEN, Clara M.,96, at Heartland Health CareCenter, Tuesday.Portage — RAMIREZ, Alfredo A.Jr., Infant, at Meriter Hospital,Monday.Verona — SCHOLFIELD, Lois G.,78, Monday.Waunakee — THIELEN CamillaB., 95, at home, Monday.

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tickets since last September forsetting his hang-tag on top ofthe dashboard, rather than themirror. Meyer noted his permitcost $650 per year.

"I'm not then very happywhen I'm asked to pay an addi-tional 10 bucks for not havingmy permit exactly where theywant me to put it," Meyer said."It's a matter of principle. Ithink that transportation serv-ices should be emphasizingservice, and they're not."

At a Faculty Senate meetingMonday, Wilson and Meyer,along with professor CharlesFisher, will propose a resolutionto do away with the new sys-tem, as it "manifestly increasesthe likelihood of inadvertentparking infractions," the resolu-tion reads.

Instead, they're asking theuniversity to immediately pro-vide a window sticker to anyonewho asks for one. In a littleswipe at the university's parkingproviders, they also want to add

words to the mission statementof UW Transportation Servicesso that it stresses "enhanc(ing)the productivity of UW employ-ees by minimizing the time re-quired for employee interactionwith the UW parking system."

Lance Lunsway, director ofUW-Madison's transportationservices, said the professors'concerns are being dealt with.At the Faculty Senate meeting,he said he would talk about ad-ditional permit options mat theuniversity will make availablethis fall.

For one thing, the hangingpermit will be smaller, Lunswaysaid. People also will be able toreject the hanging permit en-tirely and instead choose one oftwo other .options: either asticker to be placed on thelower left-hand windshield or aclear adhesive pouch with apermit inside it placed in thesame windshield location.

The only thing parking offi-cials won't do is hand out morethan one permit, Lunsway said,as they have in all the yearspast. Lunsway said the ap-proach was stopped this yearbecause it was hard to manage.

For and against casino opinions shedTwo suburban Dane County

mayors and a former UW-Madison coach announced op-position to a casino Wednesday,while developmental disabilityadvocates announced their en-dorsement.

Dane County residents willvote Feb. 17 on a referendum toexpand gambling at DejopeBingo Hall on Madison's South-eastern edge.

The Developmental Disabili-ties Coalition, which representsseveral agencies, said their cli-ents would benefit from the

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roughly $3.5 million the countywill receive from the Ho-Chunkif the casino is approved.

Meanwhile, former UW-Madison basketball coach DickBennett, who now coaches theWashington State Cougars,along with Monona Mayor RobKahl and Sun Prairie MayorDave Hanneman announcedtheir opposition.

— Lesley Rogers Barrett

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Minnesota.Ziegler said the research is

important both because of thefindings and because of thetechniques involved. It's thefirst time anyone has imagedan awake nonhuman primatein response to emotionallyarousing stimuli.

The use of fMRI, Zieglersaid, is important because it isnonintrusive and the monkeysare not harmed in any way.

But she added that the re-sults of the imaging providedfascinating insight into the in-tricate and subtle cues that

pass between courting malesand females — both monkeysand humans. The marmosetsare very social creatures whomate for life and form closefamily groups, Ziegler said.

The response of tiie maleswas studied after they werepresented with secretions fromfemales close to ovulation. Theactivity in the areas of thebrain associated with memoryand decision-making show themonkeys were acting on morethan simply the primal urge toprocreate.

"We're not just respondingto our hormones driving ourbrains, as some of our partnerswould accuse us of," Snowdonsaid. "Our spouses should behappy about this."

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The investigation revealedthat Allen had worked for anout-of-state office of the engi-neering firm and had left thefirm two years before Applew-hite started working in theMadison human resources of-fice. Colby said Applewhitehad scoured the employee re-cords, looking for someonewhose name was similar to herown.

For Allen, the situation hasmeant a constant struggle, evi-denced by the letters from po-lice departments that shecarries with her at all times toprove to others during mo-ments of doubt over her credit

A tearful apology fromChristine Applewhite incourt Wednesday didnothing to help, ChristinaAllen said. "She's a liarand she's a thief," Allensaid. "I don't think anhonest word has come outof her mouth."

history that she was the victimof identity theft. Applewhite'sacts continue to haunt Allenwhenever she applies for creditor a job.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURETRADE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION )TO THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN:I, Rodney J. Nilsestuen, Secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade andConsumer Protection and custodian of its official records, certify all the following:(1) The department adopted the attached emergency rule on January 14, 2004. The emergencyrule relates to the partial refund of certain agricultural producer security assessments required ofgrain dealers, grain warehouse keepers, milk contractor and vegetable contractors.(2) The emergency rule takes effect upon publication In the official state newspaper.(3) I have compared the attached copy of the emergency rule with the original kept by the depart-ment. The attached copy is a complete and accurate copy of the original.Signed and sealed this 14th day of January, 2004, at the department offices In Madison, Wisconsin.

/s/ Rodney J. NilsesuenSecretary

EMERGENCY ORDEROF THE STATE OF WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, TRADE

AND CONSUMER PROTECTIONADOPTING RULES

The state of Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection hereby adoptsthe following emergency rule to create ss. ATCP 99.13, 99.25, 100.13 and 101. 25, relating to thepartial refund of certain agricultural producer security assessments required of grain dealers, grainwarehouse keepers, milk contractors and vegetable contractors.

Analysis Prepared by the Department of Aoriculture,, Trade and Consumer ProtectionlysisAut

,Statutory Authority: ss. 126.15(1)(intro.), 126.30(1)(intro.), 126.46(1)(intro.|, 126.60(1|(lntro.),

126.81 and 126.88(intro.), Stats.Statutes Interpreted: ch. 126, Stats.This emergency rule authorizes a partial refund of certain agricultural producer security assess-ments required of grain dealers, grain warehouse keepers, milk contractors and vegetable con-tractors (collectively referred to as "contractors") under ch. 126, Stats.This rule authorizes a partial refund of an annual assessment that is drastically Inflated by a tem-porary change in financial condition caused by a merger or acquisition. This rule defines the spe-cific circumstances under which the refund is authorized. This rule does not authorize a refund Ifthe change In the contractor's financial condition lasts more than one fiscal year.

BackgroundThe Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection ("DATCP") currentlyadministers an agricultural producer security program under ch. 126, Stats, ("producer securitylaw"). This program is designed to protect agricultural producers from catastrophic financialdefaults by contractors who procure agricultural commodities from producers.Under the producer security law, contractors pay annual assessments to an agricultural producersecurity fund ("the fund"). If a contractor defaults In payments to producers, DATCP may com-pensate producers from the fund. A contractor's annual fund assessment is based on the con-tractor's size, financial condition and risk practices.Financial condition Is determined on the basis of an annual financial statement filed by the con-tractor. Other things being equal, contractors with weaker financial statements pay higher annualfund assessments. Fund assessments are calculated according to a formula spelled out in the pro-ducer security law. However, DATCP may modify fund assessments by rule.In some cases, a merger or acquisition may temporarily affect a contractor's financial statement.This temporary change may In some cases cause a disproportionate increase In annual fundassessments (based on the current statutory assessment formula). In such cases, this rule author-izes DATCP to refund part of a contractor's assessment if certain conditions apply. The refund ispaid as a credit against the next year's assessment.

Rule ContentsPartial Refund of Assessment

Under this rule, DATCP may refund part of an annual fund assessment paid by a contributing con-tractor if all of the following apply:• The contractor paid the full amount of the assessment including any late penalties.• The contractor Is the surviving entity In a merger under ss. 179.77, 180.1101, 183.1201, or 185.61,Stats., or has acquired property pursuant to a sale of assets under s. 180.1202, Stats.• The assessment was based on the contractor's financial statement for the fiscal year in which themerger or acquisition took effect.• The contractor's financial statement, for the fiscal year in which the merger or acquisition tookeffect, caused the sum of the contractor's current ratio assessment rate and debt to equity assess-ment rate (both calculated according to current statutory formulas) to increase by at least 100%compared to the preceding license year.• The contractor's annual financial statements, for the fiscal years Immediately preceding andImmediately following the fiscal year In- which the merger or acquisition took effect, show positiveequity, a current ratio of at least 1.25 to 1.00 and a debt to equity ratio of no more than 3.0 to 1.0.• In the license year Immediately following the license year for which the contrector paid the assess-ment, the sum of the contractor's current ratio assessment rate and debt to equity assessment rate(both calculated according to current statutory formulas) declines by at least 50% compared to thelicense year for which the contractor paid the assessment.• The contractor requests the refund In writing, by the first day of the next license year.

Refund Amount•The amount of the refund under this rule will equal 75% of the difference between the assessmentamount paid by the contractor and the assessment amount required of the contractor in the nextlicense year.

Refund Paid as Credit Against Next Year's AssessmentWhenever DATCP pays a refund under this rule, DATCP must pay the refund as a credit against thecontractor's assessment for the next license year. DATCP must apportion the credit, pro rata,against the quarterly assessment installments required of the contractor in that next license year.If the credit exceeds the total assessment required of the contractor in that next license year,DATCP must credit the balance In the same fashion against assessments required of the contrac-tor in subsequent license years.DATCP may not pay refunds except as credits against future assessments (there Is no cash refund).DATCP may not pay a refund (grant a credit) to any person other than the contractor who paid theoriginal assessment on which the refund is given.

FINDING OF EMERGENCY(1) The Wisconsin department of agriculture, trade and consumer protection currently administersan agricultural producer security program under ch. 126, Stats, ("producer security law"). This pro-gram Is designed to protect agricultural producers from catastrophic financial defaults by contrac-tors who procure agricultural commodities from producers.(2) Under the producer security law, contractors pay annual assessments to an agricultural pro-ducer security fund ("the fund"). If a contractor defaults in payments to producers, the departmentmay compensate producers from the fund. A contractor s annual fund assessment is baaed, inlarge part, on the contractor's annual financial statement. The producer security law spells out aformula for calculating assessments. However, the department may modify assessments by rule.(3) The fund assessment formula is designed to require higher assessments of contractors whohave weak financial statements (and may thus present greater default risks). But the statutory for-mula may generate unexpectedly high assessments in some cases, where a contractor's strongfinancial condition Is temporarily affected by financial transactions related to a merger or acquisi-tion. This may cause unfair hardship, end may unfairly penalize some mergers or acquisitions thatactually strengthen security for agricultural producers. This may have an unnecessarily adverseImpact on contractors, producers and Wisconsin economic development.(4) The department may adjust assessments by rule, In order to ameliorate unintended results. Butthe normal rulemaklng process will require at least a year to complete. The following temporaryemergency rule Is needed to address this matter In the short term, and to provide relief for con-tractors already affected.

EMERGENCY RULESECTION 1. ATCP 99.13 Is created to read:ATCP 99.13 Fund assessment temporarily affected by merger or acquisition; partial refund. (1)PARTIAL REFUND OF ASSESSMENT. The department may refund part of an annual fund assessment paidby a contributing grain dealer under s. 126.15, Stats., If all of the following apply:(a) The grain dealer paid the full amount of the assessment including any late payment penaltiesunder s. 1 26. 15(7)(d), Stats.(b) The grain dealer Is the surviving entity In a merger under ss. 179.77, 180.1101, 183.1201, or185.61, Stats., or has acquired property pursuant to a sale of assets under s. 180.1202, Stats.(c) The assessment was based on the grain dealer's financial statement for the fiscal year In whichthe merger or acquisition under par. (b) took effect.(d) The grain dealer's financial statement, for the fiscal year In which the merger or acquisitionunder par. (b) took effect, caused the sum of the grain dealer's current ratio assessment rate unders. 126.15(2), Stats., and debt to equity assessment rate under s. 126.16(4), Stats., to Increase by atleast 100% compared to the preceding license year.(e) The grain dealer's annual financial statements, for the fiscal years Immediately preceding andImmediately following the fiscal year In which the merger or acquisition under par. (b) took effect,show positive equity, a current ratio of at least 1.25 to 1.00 and a debt to equity ratio of no morethan 3.0 to 1.0.(f) In the license year Immediately following the license year for which the grain dealer paid theassessment, the sum of the grain dealer's current ratio assessment rate under s. 126.16(2), Stats.,end debt to equity assessment rate under s. 126.15(4), Stats., declines by at least 50% comparedto the license year for which the grain dealer paid the assessment.(g) The grain dealer requests the refund In writing, by September 1st of the grain dealer's nextlicense year.

(2) REFUND AMOUNT. The amount of the refund under sub. (1) shall equal 75% of the differencebetween the assessment amount paid by the grain dealer and the assessment amount required ofthe grain dealer in the next license year.(3) REFUND PAID AS CREDIT AGAINST NEXT YEAR'S ASSESSMENT, (a) The department shall pay the refundunder sub. (1) as a credit against the grain dealer's assessment for the next license year. Thedepartment shall apportion the credit, pro rata, against the quarterly assessment installmentsrequired of the grain dealer under s. 126.15(7), Stats., in that next license year. If the credit exceedsthe total assessment required of the grain dealer in that next license year, the depertment shellcredit the belance in the same fashion against assessments required of the grain dealer in subse-quent license years.(b) The department may not pay any refund under sub. (1), except in the manner prescribed in par.(a). The department may not pay the refund to any person other than the grain dealer who paid theoriginal assessment on which the refund is given.SECTION 2. ATCP 99.25 Is created to read:ATCP 99.25 Fund assessment temporarily affected by merger or acquisition; partial refund. (1)PARTIAL REFUND OF ASSESSMENT. The department may refund part of an annual fund assessment paidby a contributing grain warehouse keeper under s. 126.30, Stats., if all of the following apply:(a) The grain warehouse keeper paid the full amount of the assessment Including any late paymentpenalties under s. 126.30(6){d).Stats.(b) The grain warehouse keeper is the surviving entity in a merger under ss. 179.77, 180.1101,183.1201, or 185.61, Stats., or has acquired property pursuant to a sale of assets under s. 180.1202,Stats.(c) The assessment was based on the grain warehouse keeper's financial statement for the fiscalyear in which the merger or acquisition under par. (b) took effect.(d) The grain warehouse keeper's financial statement, for the fiscal year in which the merger oracquisition under par. (b) took effect, caused the sum of the grain warehouse keeper's current ratioassessment rate under s. 126.30(2), Stats., and debt to equity assessment rate under s. 126.30(4),Stats., to increase by at least 100% compared to the preceding license year.(e) The grain warehouse keeper's annual financial statements, for the fiscal years immediately pre-ceding and immediately following the fiscal year In which the merger or acquisition under par. (b)took effect, show positive equity, a current ratio of at least 1.25 to 1.00 and a debt to equity ratio ofno more than 3.0 to 1.0.(f! In the license year Immediately following the license year for which the grain warehouse keep-er paid the assessment, the sum of the grain warehouse keeper's current ratio assessment rateunder s/126.30(2), Stats., and debt to equity assessment rate under s. 126.30(4), Stats., declines byat least 50% compared to the license year for which the grain warehouse keeper paid the assess-ment.(g) The grain warehouse keeper requests the refund in writing, by September 1 st of the grain ware-house keeper's next license year,(2) REFUND AMOUNT. The amount of the refund under sub. (1) shall equal 75% of the differencebetween the assessment amount paid by the grain warehouse keeper and the assessment amountrequired of the grain warehouse keeper in the next license year.(3) REFUND PAID AS CREDIT AGAINST NEXT YEAR'S ASSESSMENT, (a) The department shall pay the refundunder sub. (1) as a credit against the grain warehouse keeper's assessment for the next licenseyear. The department shall apportion the credit, pro rata, against the quarterly assessment install-ments required of the grain warehouse keeper under s. 126.30(6), Stats,, in that next license year.If the credit exceeds the total assessment required of the grain warehouse keeper in that nextlicense year, the department shall credit the balance in the same fashion against assessmentsrequired of the grain warehouse keeper In subsequent license years.(b) The department may not pay any refund under sub. (1), except in the manner prescribed in par.(a). The department may not pay the refund to any person other then the grain warehouse keeperwho paid the original assessment on which the refund is given.SECTION 3. ATCP 100.13 Is created to read:ATCP 100.13 Fund assessment temporarily affected by merger or acquisition; partial refund. (1)PARTIAL REFUND OF ASSESSMENT. The department may refund part of an annual fund assessment paidby a contributing milk contractor under s. 126.46, Stats., if all of the following apply:(a) The milk contractor paid the full amount of the assessment Including any late payment penal-ties under s. 126.46(6|(e).(b) The milk contractor is the surviving entity in a merger under ss. 179.77, 180.1101, 183.1201, Or185.61, Stats., or has acquired property pursuant to a sale of assets under s. 180.1202, Stats.|c) The assessment was based on the milk contractor's financial statement for the fiscal year Inwhich the merger or acquisition under par. (b) took effect.(d) The milk contractor's financial statement, for the fiscal year in which the merger or acquisitionunder par. (b) took effect, caused the sum of the milk contractor's current ratio assessment rateunder s. 126.46(2), Stats., and debt to equity assessment rate under s. 126.46(4), Stats., to increaseby at leest 100% compared to the preceding license year.(a) The milk contractor's annual financial statements, for the fiscal years immediately preceding andImmediately following the fiscal year in which the merger or acquisition under par. (b) took effect,show positive equity, a current ratio of at least 1.25 to 1.00 and a debt to equity ratio of no morethan 3.0 to 1.0.(f) In the license year immediately following the license year for which the milk contractor paid theassessment, the sum of the milk contractor's current ratio assessment rate under s. 126.46(2),Stats., and debt to equity assessment rate under s. 126.46(4), Stats., declines by at least 50% com-pared to the license year for which the milk contractor paid the assessment.(g) The milk contractor requests the refund in writing, by May 1st of the milk contractor's nextlicense year.(2) REFUND AMOUNT. The amount of the refund under sub. (1) shall equal 75% of the differencebetween the assessment amount paid by the milk contractor and the assessment amount requiredof the milk contractor in the next license year.(3) REFUND PAID AS CREDIT AGAINST NEXT YEAR'S ASSESSMENT, (a) The department shall pay the refundunder sub. (1) as a credit against the milk contractor's assessment for the next license year. Thedepartment shall apportion the credit, pro rata, against the quarterly assessment Installmentsrequired of the milk contractor under s. 126.46(6), Stats., in that next license year. If the creditexceeds the total assessment required of the grain dealer In that next license year, the departmentshall credit the balance in the same fashion against assessments required of the milk contractor insubsequent license years.(b) The department may not pay any refund under sub. (1), except in the manner prescribed in par.(a). The department may not pay the refund to any person other than the milk contractor who paidthe original assessment on which the refund Is given.SECTION 4. ATCP 101.25 Is created to read:ATCP 101.25 Fund assessment temporarily affected by merger or acquisition; partial refund. (1)PARTIAL REFUND OF ASSESSMENT. The department may refund part of an annual fund assessment paidby a contributing vegetable contractor under a. 126.60, Stats., if all of the following apply:(a) The contractor paid the full amount of the assessment Including any late payment penaltiesunder s. 126.60(6)(d), Stats.(b) The contractor is the surviving entity In a merger under ss. 179.77, 180.1101, 183.1201, or185.61, Stats., or has acquired property pursuant to a sale of assets under s. 180.1202, Stats.(c) The assessment was based on the contractor's financial statement for the fiscal year In whichthe merger or acquisition under par. (b) took effect.(d) The contractor's financial statement, for the fiscal year In which the merger or acquisition underpar. (b) took effect, caused the sum of the contractor's current ratio assessment rate under s.126.60(2), Stats., and debt to equity assessment rate under s. 126.60(4), Stats., to Increase by atleast 100% compared to the preceding license year.(e) The contractor's annual financial statements, for the fiscal years immediately preceding andImmediately following the fiscal year In which the merger or acquisition under par. (b) took effect,show positive equity, a current ratio of at least 1.25 to 1.00 and a debt to equity ratio of no morethan 3.0 to 1.0.(f) In the license year Immediately following the license year for which the contractor paid theassessment, the sum of the contractor's current ratio assessment rate under s. 126.60(2), Stats.,and debt to equity assessment rate under s. 126.60(4), Stats., declines by at least 50% comparedto the license year for which the contractor paid the assessment.(g) The contractor requests the refund In writing, by February 1st of the contractor's next licenseyear.(2| REFUND AMOUNT. The amount of the refund under sub. (1) shall equal 75% of the differencebetween the assessment amount paid by the contractor and the assessment amount required ofthe contractor in the next license year.(3) REFUND PAID AS CREDIT AGAINST NEXT YEAR'S ASSESSMENT, (a) The department shall pay the refundunder sub. (1) as a credit against the contractor's assessment for the next license year. The depart-ment shall apportion the credit, pro rata, against the quarterly assessment Installments required ofthe contractor under s. 126.60(6), Stats., In that next license year. If the credit exceeds the totalassessment required of the contractor in that next license year, the department shall credit the bal-ance In the aame fashion against assessments required of the contractor In subsequent licenseyears.(b) The department may not pay any refund under sub. (1), except In the manner prescribed In par.(a). The department may not pay the refund to any person other than the contractor who paid theoriginal assessment on which the refund Is given.EFFECTIVE DATE: This emergency rule takes effect upon publication, and remains In effect for 160days. The department may seek to extend this emergency rule as provided In s. 227.24, Stats.Dated this 14th day of January, 2004.

STATE OF WISCONSINDEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE,

TRADE AND CONSUMER PROTECTION/s/ Rodney J. Nllsestuen, Secretary

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