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Copyrlehl 17, Des Moines Register 1 i i 'k If flJ II ft Menus 4N I Clubnotes 6N Ji i I Ji A fl il II ntrV Police news 7N A weekly section of news and features from I i I II 1 i 1 ill It i i jf 4 I il the West Side of Des Moines. lit II 1 I 1 1 1 April 8, 1987 I RPGISTFR PHrtTO RV fulfil trui ncCCD DATELIilE WEST PariV lielDS tf -FxfVT oafient. riti 1 ill Angry victims of burglaries rap police V'- V. Pmi- TO a fc-' mm jii-- A A -Ts radio, hopes to raise $7,000 for operational expenses and new equipment. til' $7,000 equipment several new programs in its efforts to "educate, communicate and organize." A talk show for Hispanics should be on the air this week, Samad said, and a question-and-answer show on legal issues is planned.

Station members are also working on a medical program. "We are trying to get a variety of shows to appeal to all sections of the community," Samad said. The conviction of station co-founder Charles Knox in Austin, Texas, on felony charges of posing as a lawyer to obtain jail visits with an El Rukn gang leader does not affect the station, Samad said. El Rukn is a Chicago street gang that has been linked to a conspiracy to commit terrorist acts on behalf of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi. Knox is awaiting sentencing.

Although Knox is chairman of the board of directors of Urban Community Broadcasting, which operates KUCB, decisions about the station are made at the manager's recommendation and approved by the entire board, said Samad. "No one person KUCB Please turn to Page 2 By MELANIE LEWIS Register Stiff Writer Virginia Canady and her family and friends threw a party last week to celebrate buying a new dress. The beige dress with lace piping and pearl buttons is a strong symbol to Canady, 64, and her family that she doesn't have long to live. "Her family bought the dress for her funeral, and Virginia joked that she would never see herself in it. So we decided to give her an occasion to wear it," said Joyce Frevert, a nurse with Hospice of Central Iowa, an organization that cares for terminally ill patients.

Although Canady of 708 S.E. 12th St. often had to use an oxygen machine to ease labored breathing caused by cancer, she said she enjoyed the party. "I'm having a great time," she said. Having a party to celebrate something, even the purchase of a funeral dress, is healthy, said Barbara Harms, Hospice public relations director.

"It's healthy that patients get the most out of life even if it's something offbeat," she said. There weren't any decorations, but there were plenty of guests and a big pink champagne cake and a pink-and-white wrist corsage from the Hospice staff. Hospice nurses, social workers, volunteers and a home health aide who help care for Canady came to help celebrate her new dress. But Daniel and Beverly Kern, Can-ady's brother and sister, provide most of the care. Beverly of 1607 E.

22nd St. spends the day with Canady, and Dan takes over at night. "They are my best buddies," said Canady. Next to Canady sat her Lhasa Apso, Cameo, whose newly clipped beige coat glistened after a trip to the dog groomer. "I'd be lost without her and she'll be lost without me," said Canady.

"But Danny will take good care of her." Canady said she became ill about a year ago with chest pains followed by triple-by pass heart surgery. That's when doctors found a spot on her lung. Last month it was discovered that the cancer had spread through her chest. "They didn't realize it had gotten that far," said Beverly. Canady was determined to enjoy every minute of her party.

Beverly asked her if she wanted to lie down. "I'll get plenty of that soon enough," Canady answered. Ako Samad, general manager of KUCB Residents plan clean sweep of neighborhoods By MELANIE LEWIS Register Staff Writer Residents in four neighborhoods will have a chance to make a clean start this May with the city's SCRUB I project. SCRUB, or Spring Cleaning to Remove Urban Blight, is the first attempt at a wide-ranging cleanup campaign encompassing nearly 40 neighborhood groups and 8,000 households, said Ron Cross, project chairman. "Our goal is not just to encourage people to clean up their neighborhood, but also encourage beautifica-tion and neighborhood pride," he said.

Although the primary goal of the project is to clean up the Neighborhood Development target areas Model City, Logan, Woodland Willkie and SoutheastPioneer Columbus the boundaries have been extended to include such areas as the Drake neighborhood, Cross said. During each of four weekends in May, officials will concentrate on one SCRUB Please turn to Page 2 'Children of a Lesser God' actress to speak in D.M. WEST SIDE Deaf actress Phyllis Frelich, who won a 1981 Tony Award for her Broadway performance in "Children of a Lesser God," will lecture in signs at 10 a.m. Monday in the Roosevelt High School auditorium, 4419 Center St. Frelich is the founder of the National Theater for the Deaf and starred in the television special "Love Is Never Silent." The script for the "Children of a Lesser God" stage play was based on her life.

The speech is open to the public. Urbandale Public Library plans annual book sale URBANDALE The Urbandale Public Library, 7305 Aurora will have its annual book sale from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday and 2 to 5 p.m.

Sunday. Admission will be $1 Friday night and free Saturday and Sunday. Easter Bunny hops in for Botanical Center visit EAST SIDE The Des Moines Park and Recreation Department is sponsoring a visit from the Easter Bunny from noon to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Des Moines Botanical Center, 909 E. River Drive.

Also at the Botanical Center, three classeson yard care "Planning and Planting Your Yard" will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on April 18, 25 and May 2. Cost of the class is $12 for members and $15 for non-members. Call 283-4148 for more information. GOP presidential hopeful Haig to talk at Grand View EAST SIDE GOP presidential candidate Alexander Haig will speak at the Grand View College Viking Council Honors Banquet at 7 p.m.

Saturday at the Marriott Hotel, 700 Grand Ave. Workshop aids nurses caring for the homebound NORTH SIDE A workshop called "High Tech High Touch Home Care," will be presented from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. April 15 at the Howard Johnson's North Motor Hotel, 4800 Merle Hay Road. Cost of the workshop is $30.

Transportation Secretary Dole to speak at Marriott DOWNTOWN Elizabeth Dole, U.S. secretary of transportation, will speak at a luncheon from 12 to 2 p.m. April 27 at the Des Moines Marriott Hotel, 700 Grand Ave. Dole will be part of a spring conference panel sponsored by the Central Iowa Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners. Luncheon tickets are $15 and reservation deadline is April 20.

For more information call the Iowa Department of Economic Development at 281-8310. Senior citizen Softball organization meeting set WEST SIDE An organizational meeting for senior-citizen softball teams will be held at 6:30 p.m. April 23 at the Des Moines Park and Recreation Department Office, 3226 University Ave. People who are 55 and older are eligible to play. Call 271-4700 for more information.

Mental Health agency holds family support group WEST SIDE The Mental Health Association Family Support group will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the Mental Health Association, 3116 In-gersoll Ave. For more information, call Jackie Elfmann at 277-2346. The meeting is free and open to the public. By MELANIE LEWIS Register Stiff Writer The Des Moines Police Department has stepped up its attack against bur- glaries, especially in a near north-side area between 35th and East 17th streets, but some victims aren't convinced the police are doing all they can.

"I was really disappointed by the police's response," said Tim Murray, victim of a recent burglary. "Tbey treated it like it was just another burglary and that there wasn't anything they could do." Murray of 1709 E. Cleveland Ave. was burglarized Feb. 14 and lost nearly $4,200 in electronic equipment and a gun collection.

Murray said he came home one evening and found his television, videocassette recorder and five guns missing. "I couldn't believe it when I saw they weren't there," he said. Within minutes after calling the police, a uniformed officer arrived. "He looked around and checked out how the person got in, then left without getting a list of what had been stolen," Murray said. Detectives Investigate Two days after the break-in, detectives from the department's crimes against property division came to get a list of serial numbers of what was taken.

But Murray said the detectives were no more helpful. "I asked them if they checked the pawn shops to see if any of the stolen stuff would turn up. One officer said, 'We don't have the manpower or resources to track it A police unit does compare lists of items purchased by the pawn shop owners with a list of stolen goods, said William Moulder, Des Moines police chief. "We don't go to each pawn shop, but they are required to submit a list of what they buy every day to be compared with what has been taken," Moulder said. But recovering stolen merchandise is difficult, he said.

"The stuff isn't turning up in the regular places, like pawn shops or with so that means so-called honest citizens are buying it, which makes it harder to find," said Moulder. "The odds are in favor of the bad guy because of the number of burglaries committed." Not Encouraging James Kenney's house at 1260 34th BURGLARIES Please turn to Page 2 SUBSCRIBE IOWA'S BEST READ NEWSPAPER CALL in Des Moines 284-8311 In Iowa TOLL FREE 1-800-532-1573 8 a.m.-5 p.m. KUCB seeks for light bill, By MELANIE LEWIS Register Stiff Writer Radio station KUCB has kicked off a month-long drive to raise about $7,000 to pay operational expenses and buy new equipment, said Ako Samad, general manager. The station began appealing for donations over the air last week to help pay a $3,000 light bill and buy new technical equipment. "Throughout the month we will be appealing to the community and churches to help the station," he said.

So far the efforts have raised $200, Samad said. Benefits last month at local churches raised more than $2,000, he said. Samad said the station wants to buy production equipment that would allow it to recruit underwriters for some of its programs. Federal Communications Commission regulations prohibit non-profit" stations from broadcasting commercials, but underwriters can help pay production costs for shows or blocks of time. The station also has improved some equipment that violated FCC regulations, Samad said, installing a remote-control system and Emergency Broadcasting System.

All of the station's disc jockeys now are licensed, he said. Samad said the station is starting Handicapped face barriers at D.f.l. schools By KATHY A. BOLTEN Rigistar Stiff WrHr Thirteen-year-old Sean Runyan can't be a student council representative because he can't get to school for the meetings before school. He couldn't use the school library last year because books he needed were on the top shelves, too high to First in a series on handicapped access reach from his wheelchair.

The librarian could help him only before or after school. And he doesn't know other teen-agers in his neighborhood because he can't go to Merrill Transitional School them. Sean, who has spina bifida, a birth defect in which the spinal column does not fully encase the spinal cord, is bused to Meredith Transitional School three miles away. It's the nearest school he can get into literally. "There are so many people getting fed up with being shut out," said Sean's father, Dennis Runyan of 1204 64th Windsor Heights, who is annoyed that only 10 of Des Moines' ACCESS Please turn to Page 3 fiV 7 iK -ttj' lit i MlM0fiMMfiMSM isfmMt'r.

CI -1 a 111 jpl MfmWM 111 I jV' -1 AE Dairy eyes purchase of Metro School property By MELANIE LEWIS RtOisttf Staff Writer The Des Moines School Board will advertise for bids next week to sell the Metro Transitional School, and Anderson-Erickson Dairy says it is interested in the property. The board voted last week to advertise for bids on the school, formerly Woodrow Wilson Junior High, at 2430 E. University Ave. Anderson-Erickson, at 2229 Avenue Frederick M. Hubbell, occupies the block just west of the school.

The school "would be a natural expansion for us," said James Erickson, president and chief executive officer of the dairy. "We've been in our present location since 1940, and it's getting pretty cramped." Erickson said the company cannot expand at its current site and would like additional space for corporate offices. He said he is not sure whether the building would be demolished and replaced if the company purchased it. Roger Hudson, school district treasurer, said the 12 acres and building have an appraised commercial value of $768,000. Under its present residential zoning, the property is worth $434,000, he said.

Selling the facility would save the district about $100,000 a year in operating costs, which then would be available for other school expenses, Hudson said. Programs in the building would have to be relocated, he said. Those include: Classes for 60 to 80 junior high school children with behavioral problems. A program for about 500 people involved in programs for child abusers or those who might be likely to abuse their children. Adult education classes in arts and crafts, aerobics, typing and clerical training for about 225 people.

A senior citizen center sponsored by Polk County. The county pays $728 a month to lease two rooms in the building for senior activities. About 70 to 100 senior citizens use the facilities for arts and crafts or to participate in dental, medical or legal clinics. Most use the center for congregate meals during the day, said Rebecca Cherry, director of the center. "Selling the building doesn't mean the programs will be eliminated," said Hudson.

The bid process will stipulate that the district retain use of the school for up to three years after the sale until alternative space can be found, he said. Hudson said a decision about the building is likely in June. Sean Runyan of 1204 64th Windsor Heights, is assisted by bus driver Bob Fenton while Sean controls the wheelchair lift on his school bus. CUSTOM MADE LOUVERDRAPE VERTICAL BLINDS The World's First ENLIGHTENED BLIND ipoc-cgt alloy, ntw Thcnew Riviera' byLEVOLOR van nan ana a FREE BLINDS ogsign wim 1 wia mm mm A high tKh bin to nuU Riviera tU designed A-jTl VALANCE paint procau com- th now Lovoloi t2- most intelligently IS blind in the worid. Vt it .1.1 I 3 FO uwuiiiui.

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