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PAGE 2 NEIGHBORHOODS CITY NOVEMBER 8, 1995 1 7 esigned for healing Vj LC Highlands man crafts stained-glass memorial to victims in Oklahoma r- 4 J' G(: I -ny STAFF PHOTOS BY MARY ANN LYONS Don Schagene plans to put his talents to work on a window, similar to his sketch, at right, In memory of Oklahoma City bombing victims. to catch sunlight at the front door of St. Anthony Hospital. It had been light and bright in Oklahoma City before the Earth trembled. Daffodils bloomed and birds sand.

Springtime was in the air. Schagene listened as survivors remembered; he saw pain reflected in faces and folded hands. Survivors remembered an explosion a fiery flash and a thunderous rumble that pitched, rolled and reverberated deep in the Earth's belly. They recalled shards of glass, pieces of stone and broken brick pelting pedestrians within four city blocks. He heard that nine people died on city sidewalks.

The damage "goes way beyond what we heard on the news," Schagene said. A total of 167 people died when the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building collapsed. But Schagene learned that 10 other buildings also fell with the blast and 312 more were battered. He heard that windows had rattled for more than 2,500 square miles on the day that debris rained from the sky.

"It's been six months and we're mending. But it will take years, and we'll never completely recover," said Dan Boland, Oklahoma City's senior civil engineer. The finished piece will be valued at nearly $8,000, so hospital officials said they offered to cover the cost of Schagene's materials. But Schagene turned them down. "I can't take their money," said By NANCY FARMER Special Writer Don Schagene didn't know he'd be dining with people in pain when he left Louisville for Oklahoma City.

It had been five weeks since a truck bomb ripped a hole in the heartland. A stained-glass artist and the owner of Alcott Bentley, a decorating shop on Baxter Avenue, Schagene is a quiet, gentle man who lives in Bonnycas-tle with his wife and daughter. His buddy Gary Hughes, a broker for J. C. Bradford on Brownsboro Road, had spun into action after hearing of the needs in Oklahoma City, sending out 4,000 letters and ultimately raising $35,000 from colleagues, friends and businesses in Kentucky and Southern Indiana.

Hughes suggested that Schagene build a colored window, a memorial for victims. And he set up a meeting for his friend with caregivers and administrators at St. Anthony Hospital in Oklahoma City, a few blocks away from the bomb site. "Some of the victims were there, people with burns, people in wheelchairs," Schagene said. "I hadn't expected to meet them; it was the first time some of these people had come together.

And it was intense." Some cried. Some sat quietly. But they all had ideas for Schagene's memorial window. "An angel. Blue ribbons.

Something uplifting," they told Schagene. And they wanted it placed 6 feet, will cost more than $500. It might mean some belt-tightening for the Schagene family. Hughes, who lives in Goshen, offered to find funds for the glass. But Schagene wants every dime of Hughes' money to go toward therapy for children and parents.

"This is an opportunity for us," said Ellen Schagene, Don's wife, a social worker for Seven Counties Services in Louisville. For victims, Schagene's window "is a tangible symbol a concrete reminder that their loss was significant," Ellen Schagene said. "Everybody makes choices," she said. "And we're happy for this opportunity to help." Hughes still has a bank account in place for Oklahoma City bombing victims. "This is 'old news' to the media now, and the public is starting to for- Police use zoning laws, prostitution arrests in attack on 'health spas' V' as.

i donations for a particular aspect of the recovery. If money comes in for Don's memorial window, I'll certainly see that it gets to him for the glass he needs," Hughes said. Mail donations to Hughes, in care of the Oklahoma City Children's Relief Fund, P. O. Box 7587, Louisville, Ky.

40257-0587. Donations also may be made at PNC banks in the Louisville area. tomers pay $40 or $50 for a massage and the sexual act comes with it, so they say it's not prostitution, he said. "If that's the case, you could charge $40 for a pencil then give a sex act, and that sex act would be legal under that rationale," Mottley said. Judges have ruled both ways, Mottley said.

When two women were arrested for prostitution in August 1994 at Hong Kong Spa on Dixie Highway, a district judge found both women guilty. But when the women appealed to the Circuit Court, a judge in January overturned the ruling, arguing that no additional money was exchanged for the sex act, Mottley said. "Our contention is that they wouldn't have these customers if they weren't masturbating the male customers after the massage," said Capt. Jim Black, commander of the special investigations unit. Police officials say they want to change the law so they can get prostitution convictions, then allowing the county to file a civil lawsuit and evict any business owner who doesn't fire the people committing prostitution.

The department increased its crackdown on massage parlors over the summer after receiving complaints from nearby businessowners and spouses whose husbands had used credit cards there. Since July, they have made about 16 arrests for prostitution and issued about 30 citations to massage parlors operating without an adult-entertainment license, Black said. In all, about 10 massage parlors have closed after prostitution arrests or adult-entertainment citations at sites from Dixie Highway to Westport Road, police said. Most of them have been in the county, with the highest concentration in the Preston Highway area. Good turns WHEELS worker is public transit driver of the year By LAURIE OGLE WHITE Staff Writer If you're elderly or disabled in Bullitt County and need a ride somewhere, you're in luck.

The best driver in the state of Kentucky will be behind the wheel. Sue Coy, who has chauffeured the elderly and disabled since 1980 for the American Red Cross WHEELS program in Bullitt County, was named driver of the year by the Kentucky Public Transit Association at its banquet Oct. 11 in Bowling Green. Coy was chosen from among professional public-transit drivers, including TARC in Louisville, and received a plaque and "lots of well wishes," she said. "Why I was singled out, I'll never know," said Coy, 49, of Shepherdsville.

But her supervisor, Charles Stein-hofer, who nominated Coy for the award, has the answer. Coy logs more than 100 miles a day and has had only one minor accident since she's been driving. Her difficult run takes her all over Bullitt County, and she handles all the paperwork and scheduling for the WHEELS program, Steinhofer said. She also volunteers as a CPR trainer for the Red Cross and works with the Bullitt County Disaster and Emergency Services office. "She's doing this as kind of a one-woman office for WHEELS in Bullitt County," said Steinhofer, who oversees WHEELS programs in seven counties from the Louisville Red Cross office.

A native of Southwest Jefferson County, Coy said she's just doing her job, making sure the elderly and disabled who ride with her arrive at their destinations safely and, she hopes, with smiles on their faces. "You make a lot of friends," Coy said. "They are a lot of fun." get. The suffering will last for years; the need is still tremendous. But new money isn't coming in much anymore." Hughes anticipated the waning interest, and he put portions of the $35,000 he raised into special accounts for ongoing therapy for children; he reserved a portion for things like special wheelchairs.

"It's great when people earmark agreement. It specified that the business was supposed to be involved in health-spa type activity, Imhoff said. "They're not doing what the YMCA and Milestone Fitness do," he said. James L. Conkin attorney for Chun Su, agreed that he hasn't seen any exercise equipment there but argued that the business is not a massage parlor.

None of the prostitution charges has resulted in convictions, Conkin said. But the zoning board, which unanimously denied the appeal, wasn't convinced. "If it quacks like a duck, it is a duck," said board member Richard Tonini. Conkin said he will discuss appealing the case with his client. Chun Su has been closed since August, when the Jefferson County Department of Zoning Enforcement issued a cease-and-desist order because the business was operating in a C-l zone.

Massage parlors require an adult-entertainment license and must be in C-2 zoning districts. From the outside, Chun Su looks similar to neighboring businesses in the strip shopping center in unincorporated Jefferson County. But police say it's the sexual activity they've seen inside Chun Su and other similar establishments that concerns them. Undercover officers have been offered everything from oral sex to masturbation to sexual intercourse in Louisville-area massage parlors, said Sgt. David Mottley, who works in the county's special investigations unit.

On Feb. 11 police charged a woman at Chun Su with prostitution because she attempted to masturbate an officer, Mottley said. But when the case went to trial in May, a jury found her not guilty. Workers at Chun Su don't ask for additional money, Mottley said. Cus Our Everyday Martell VS Cognac Scotch 1.75 Dental 1018 So, 4th St.

WE New Patients Insurance i Schagene. "They've been through enough." During Shagene's visit to Oklahoma City, the victims asked for a positive symbol, said Ann Molloy, director of annual giving and special events for the St. Anthony Hospital Foundation. "When they unveiled Mr. Schagene's (design), people's eyes just filled with tears," Molloy said.

"We see Don Schagene and Gary Hughes as angels from Kentucky. They sort of swept down to help take care of us." When the glass is in hand, he'll start cutting opalescent white for angel wings, deep amethyst, cobalt blue, iridescent pearl for a celestial skyscape. Schagene, who learned the nuances of his art in the old Penco studios on Bardstown Road, hopes to have the window installed by January. But glass for the window, more than 8-by- 1 cause she's the only WHEELS driver in Bullitt County (the Red Cross is hoping to add more), "but you just don't have time to dwell on being tired." There is a volunteer who assists with medical transportation, but Coy said more volunteers are needed. "There's a lot of need," Coy said, noting the program also needs a van equipped to handle wheelchairs.

Coy said the award doesn't mean as much to her as the personal rewards she receives from helping others. "You feel appreciated and needed and respected." school students Last week, Hogg and Karen Travis, Bullitt County's director of secondary education, sent information about Saturday Academy to counselors at the county's four high schools. Hogg said many of the Bullitt County participants will probably come from Bullitt Central High School's auto technology class, the county's vocational technical center and Riverview School in Shepherdsville, which targets students who choose a career-oriented education as an alternative to traditional high school. In Jefferson County, Minnis said first preference for the Saturday Academy will be given to Southern High School students. "If we have slots open after that, then students will be accepted from other schools," he said.

"I don't think we'll have any problem filling up the program." Tom Peterson, Oldham County Tech Prep coordinator, said he has run into an unexpected obstacle in recruiting candidates. "Many of the students who would benefit the most fron this program have jobs, and Saturday is a full eight-hour workday for them," he said. But Peterson is still confident that Oldham County will be able to fill its 12 slots. For students who need transportation to the Saturday Academy, buses will be available in each county. PHOTO BY BUD KRAFT WHEELS driver Sue Coy, right, helped Sadie Pens of Mount Washington with her coat before a trip Friday morning.

By VEDA MORGAN Staff Writer A "health spa" that police say is actually a massage parlor in eastern Jefferson County may have to find another place to do business. Chun Su Health Spa lost an appeal Monday to reopen at 104 Vieux Carre Drive, near Hurstbourne Lane and Shelbyville Road, where it had operated for about three years. The Jefferson County Board of Zoning Adjustment ruled that the establishment is not a health spa and cannot operate under C-l zoning. During the hearing, two Jefferson County Police detectives testified that they made arrests on prostitution charges at Chun Su after women working there attempted to masturbate them during a massage. Detectives Steve McKenzie and Joe Collins also testified that they saw no exercise equipment there, and that most customers enter through a back door and ring a bell and go through a second locked door.

Attorney Stephen P. Imhoff, who represents the building's landlords, said they have taken steps to evict Chun Su for breaching its lease Runner's work is rewarded Continued from Page One Parkway in Portland and have not missed a meet. "I'm very proud of her," Susan Elliot said. "I didn't think she'd do it. I couldn't do it.

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Coy said the job is demanding be The Transportation Technology Institute, sponsored in part by the Greater Louisville Automobile Dealers Association, looks more like an auto dealership than a school. Minnis said the $6 million facility, which features state-of-the-art diagnostic equipment, receives donations of cars and motors from area manufacturers and dealers. Those vehicles will now open doors to a career for students in the Saturday Academy. The curriculum will include career-related instruction in math, science and computers. "Students will learn these subjects as they relate to this field," Minnis said.

"They will receive individualized training based on their skill level." Besides hands-on training, the program also hopes to eventually offer internships through area dealerships. Minnis, who also serves as the district coordinator of the statewide School to Work Program, said the Saturday Academy is a collaborative effort being funded through: a $24 million federal grant that is in tended to implement career-training programs statewide over the next five years. Ruby Hogg, Bullitt County's school-to-work coordinator, said the Saturday Academy will give students in outlying areas access to training facilities they might not have in their school district. 26" 3999 26" 18" Wild Turkey 101 1.75 20" 750 ML 13" Low Prices Chivas Regal Scotch 1.75 47" 750 ML 1949 Malibu Rum 750 ML 10" Mogan David Concord or Blackberry 3 liter 8" 1.5 689 750 ML 321 Q99 Heineken Bottles 2049 749 Michelob Reg. Lt.

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