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lnuiijjiv Page 2B Wednesday, April 6, 2005 The Des Moines Register ST DMACC teacher's Iraq work YOU HAVEN'T LIVED HERE UNTIL. YOU'VE WALKED ACROSS THE MEREDITH WILLS0N FOOTBRIDGE IN MASON CITY WHILE WHISTLING "SEVENTY-SIX TROMBONES." ives him a new perspective i pTV VAX 1 1 Your suggestions The tune is musical written on places Mason City. music for the fictional footbridge Creek and which Professor Librarian Music Man" history. from "The Music Man," the famous by Meredith Willson and based and people in his hometown of Willson wrote the script, lyrics and hit, which is set in River City, the version of his hometown. The that bears his name is over Willow was the inspiration for the scene in Harold Hill and Marian the finally put their lips together.

"The became one of the five longest-running musical plays in Broadway little background: Jim Davey, a criminal justice instructor at Des Moines Area Community College in Ankeny, recently spent a year in Iraq helping organize the country's new police academy. In May 2003, Davey told The Des Moines Register about his expectations for the mission. Davey returned to Ankeny in January and said his trip gave him a fresh perspective on law enforcement. Many Iraqis attending Baghdad Police College, Davey said, feel they must hide their interest in law enforcement to ensure their safety. Davey said some of the students put on their uniforms only when they reach school, so other Iraqis will not know they want to become police officers.

A few recruits quit the academy when their families were threatened. "They were taking great risks just to come to work every day," Davey said. "It helped me to appreciate what we've got here in the United States as far as law enforcement is concerned." Most students feared living at the academy could leave their loved ones at risk so they made their way through the war-torn city each day to attend school. "They didn't want to leave their families unprotected," he said. Every eight weeks, the Baghdad Police College turns out 4,000 recruits for the new Iraqi police force.

Davey, 51, took a leave of absence from his teaching job to spend one year working for Dyn-corp, a British company hired to oversee the training. American police and military officers helped Iraqi officials establish the police academy, and now advise them on hiring and training recruits. Davey worked In Iraq: Jim Davey, a DMACC criminal justice instructor, spent a year in Baghdad training Iraqi officers to run their own police academy and to train recruits. Davey is on the right in the photo, with a civilian police co-worker, left, and an Iraqi language assistant. Davey, who has done similar work in Bosnia and Kosovo, says of his work in Iraq, "I could really see the need for us to be there." Suggestions for REWIND and YOU HAVEN'T LIVED HERE UNTIL are welcomed.

If you are wondering about a topic that hasn't been in the news for a while, e-mail Randy Essex at ressexdmreg.com or call (51 5) 284-8461 DATELINE IOWA Speedway reps make pitch for state help I "The highest risk was when you were out in the streets," he said. The instructors' clothes and vehicles marked them as Americans, Davey said, and he sometimes felt conspicuous while trapped in a traffic jam on Baghdad's crowded roads. The academy compound was occasionally hit by mortar rounds, Davey said, and one staff member and about a dozen students were injured while he was there. Most of the Iraqi police students including some women are well-educated, he said, and some were lawyers, doctors or language interpreters before joining the force. Detractors' attempts to intimidate the new Iraqi police force seem to be backfiring, Davey said, Track features ATTENDEES: An estimated 40 percent of the people who attend races at the planned Newton auto racing track would come from other states.

TRACK LENGTH: Seven-eighths of a mile, built with safety barrier walls EXPECTED RACES: Three or four stock car series, three or four open-wheel series, sports car series, motorcycle series, all-star race OTHER EVENTS: Concerts, testing by major race teams, car shows, driver training and testing SEATING: 25,000 permanent seats expandable to 80,000 with temporary seating LOCATION: Next to Newton airport, south of Interstate Highway 80 off exit 168 approved through an existing state program rather than a sales tax rebate that other projects might also seek. Register Staff Writer Tim Higgins contributed to this article. he's worked for St. Jude's Children's Hospital and was president of Mercy Foundation in Des Moines, a not-for-profit that raises money for the hospital. Then about a month ago he got a call from an old friend, a guy he respects and admires: Father Joe Maier, a priest in the slums of Bangkok.

Maier needed help after the tsunami. Bolin got on a plane. He spent a month there, and the loss and suffering was as bad as anything he's seen. Ask him about it, and he shakes his head and says one image stands out. He was on a beach, his back to the water, looking at how much had been lost, destroyed the boats, the houses, the shops.

And while he was looking at all that, he saw a child's shoe. Rob Borsellino can be reached at (515) 284-8363 or rborsellinodmreg.com SPECIAL TO THE REGISTER as many students said the pressure made them more determined to become police officers. "It kind of gave them that much more resolve," he said. "They don't want to go back to the old way, either." Cathy Ockenfels, chairwoman of DMACC's criminal justice program, said Davey made an important contribution to law enforcement with his Baghdad work. "I'm glad that he was willing to take the risk and go over there," Ockenfels said.

Davey said he is glad to be home "I don't have to carry a gun with me all the time" but it was difficult to leave his work at the academy. "I could really see the need for us to be there," he said. Melanie Lageschulte Police catch 15 immigrants found in van By BRIANNA BLAKE REGISTER STAFF WRITER Fifteen undocumented immigrants were caught Tuesday after their van was stopped for speeding. The immigrants, 12 men and 3 women, ran from the van after it was stopped near the Welton interchange on Interstate Highway 80. As Iowa State Patrol Trooper Bryan Guill approached the van, he said he observed "suspicious movement" in the front seat.

"I saw the passenger ducking down like he was trying to hide something," Guill said. "As I approached, all the doors opened and the 15 people ran out on foot into a field." About six troopers, several deputies from Muscatine and Cedar counties, several Iowa Department of Transportation enforcement officers and the State Patrol's airplane assisted in the chase. After an hourlong chase, the occupants of the van were turned over to federal immigration officials. Tim Counts, spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, said a suspected smuggling operation is under investigation. Iowa's Department of Public Safety stopped an estimated eight vehicles last year, which resulted in the apprehension of 78 undocumented immigrants.

During the fiscal year 2004, immigration officials investigated 17 smuggling loads in Iowa and apprehended 216 passengers. So far during the 2005 fiscal year, which began Oct. 1, 16 loads totaling 215 undocumented immigrants have been apprehended by officials. Spring tends to regularly bring more immigrants to the country, however the reason for the overall increase is not known, immigration officials said. "It's a little early to tell exactly what's happening with the smuggling increase," Counts said.

"It's not uncommon to have more of these cases during this time of year," Counts said. The Associated Press contributed to this report. for Dyncorp in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990s. Davey initially was scheduled to go to Iraq in May 2003 but was delayed until December 2003. Davey said he thinks military officials hoped the worst of the fighting would end before law enforcement members were sent to start the academy.

"I guess they finally realized they couldn't wait forever," he said. The changes in plans included requiring instructors to be armed at all times. After eight months there, the teachers were moved from their hotel into more secure quarters at the police academy. Although he never felt his life was truly in danger, Davey said, instructors were cautioned to be careful. taxes on tickets and concession stand purchases.

"We feel it sets a bad precedent," said Judie Hoffman, a representative of Ecumenical Ministries of Iowa. "We feel there isn't enough money to cover programs for the poor at this stage." Supporters of the proposal counter that additional business generated by the track project Dotzler restaurants and motels, for example would produce more sales tax revenue for the state. The proposed sales tax break contained in House Study Bill 290, was approved, 19-5, by the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday. A similar measure is awaiting debate by the Senate. Vilsack a Democrat, said Monday that he supports the track project but favors a direct payment "When we showed up, these people had to be convinced that we were really there to help them." Bill Bolin of Des Moines, on his team's tsunami relief efforts in Thailand down time hunting and fishing, woodworking, doing home repairs.

He met a woman at an airport cab stand in Chicago, shared a ride "We got into an argument about religion" and eventually married her. He put the priesthood behind him, but there was one piece of it that Bolin couldn't get past. As he put it: "I liked the work." So in his 25 post-priest years NEWTON, from Page 1B attractions. The track would be located on 640 acres south of Newton and In terstate Highway 80. "We have a tremendous opportunity with this facility to help put Iowa out there, to say that it's more than corn and soybeans and pigs, that there is excitement in Iowa," said Sen.

Bill Dotzler, Zaun a Waterloo Democrat. Critics of the sales tax proposal contend it would open the door to projects in other parts of the state seeking the same tax break which could put a serious dent in future sales tax collections. Under the proposal, U.S. Motor-sport Entertainment Corp. would pocket as much as $12.5 million that track customers pay in sales AND NEWS SERVICES July 15, 2001, the officers, Sue Mc-Caskey and Brenda Rogers, exceeded the scope of the warrant.

Along with ailing horses, the officers found two dead horses. They said the woman who owned the property, Cyndi McClendon, hid some of the sickest horses to keep officers from finding them. In all, the officers seized 23 live horses. On previous visits, they had reported as many as 37 horses were kept at the woman's property. GLENW00D Search underway for missing 19-year-old Dozens of people searched rural Glenwood on Tuesday for a teen who disappeared last weekend af-, ter a bachelor party.

Derick Bolton, 19, was last seen at 11:30 p.m. in the Pony Creek housing development where the party was held, several miles northwest of town, authorities said. Some of Bolton's clothing was found Monday near a wa-, terway 300 yards Bolton from the party site, said Mills County Sheriff Mack Taylor. A dive team looked in vain for his body Monday, and a search team combed a nearly 100-acre area, he said. Taylor said it was too soon to say whether foul play was involved.

"We're treating it as a criminal investigation so we can preserve all the evidence," he said. Fellow partygoers have indicated that Bolton was heavily intoxicated, Taylor added. Bolton graduated last spring from Glenwood Community High School, where he was a special education student, Superintendent Stan Sibley said. BETTEIMDORF Body found in river is that of missing man A body pulled from the Mississippi River has been identified as a Bettendorf man who was reported missing nearly three weeks ago, officials said. A fisherman pulled the body of Bryce Allan Quinn, 24, from the river near Rock Creek Marina's boat dock Sunday.

Authorities identified Quinn on Monday. Quinn's body was found in the river about two miles from a park entrance where police found a car registered to Quinn and his father on March 18. An autopsy was scheduled by the state medical examiner's officer. Bettendorf police said no foul play was suspected. 1 FROM REGISTER STAFF 0TTUMWA Authorities look for link among students on list Authorities were looking Tuesday for a link among 13 Ottumwa High School students whose names appeared on a handwritten note that threatened to kill them.

The note, found late Monday, listed the 13 students by name and then, in a 14th entry, read "then myself," school officials said. Principal Steve Hanson said extra uniformed officers patrolled the halls Tuesday, and teachers were more vigilant. School officials interviewed all 13 students two girls and 1 1 boy and teachers have examined the note to see if anyone recognized the handwriting, Hanson said. Many of the students on the list don't know each other and officials were looking for something that linked the students, he said. School officials said there are usually about 100 students absent on any day, but as many as 300 students were gone on Tuesday.

Hanson said it's not the first time such a list has been found at the school. Such lists are found about once a year, he said. MUSCATINE Man to be arraigned on murder charges Arraignment was set for Friday for a man charged with two counts of first-degree murder, stalking and interference with official acts following shooting deaths of a couple in February. Luis Alberto Gomez-Rodriguez of Miami is charged with shooting Maria Antonia Rivero, 44, and Julio Cesar Sarol-Cepero, 41, on Feb. 23 near the Muscatine home they had lived in for about a month.

The county attorney said preliminary results of autopsies showed Sarol-Cepero died from gunshot wounds to the head and upper body and Rivero died from a gunshot wound to the back. The defendant remains in the Muscatine County Jail in lieu of a $3 million bond. MAXWELL Seizing of horses was within law, court rules The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis has ruled that two animal-control officers did not violate the Fourth Amendment rights of a Maxwell woman by seizing healthy horses along with dead and ill horses when they searched her property.

The woman had claimed that by taking horses that weren't weak, malnourished or exhibiting signs of disease during the seizure on Wave of hope follows tide of losses B0RSELLIN0, from Page 1B about putting a bullet in his head. He remembers being in a parking lot one night, two years into the struggle, talking to God, saying, "Dammit, tell me what to do." Bolin said God got right back to him. "He asked, What do you want to do? I thought about it, and I eventually quit." For a few more years he was paralyzed by guilt "I took my mother out to supper to tell her, and she reminded me that Jesus had 12 Apostles and one of them was Judas." Life outside the priesthood was foreign to Bolin. He needed a job and was told he had to put together a resume. "I had no idea what a resume was." Over time, he got with the program.

He found enough work to pay the bills, and spent his.