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The Des Moines Register Thursday, March 2, 2000 3B Iowa News Shooting shows need for more work DATELINE The incident outside an agency devoted to peace upsets Creative Visions founder. WJ' tr miawsaw im-mm qjut wimp a Handler's spring performances are scheduled to go on as By TOM ALEX Register Staff Writer Rodent breeders ordered to quit Associated Press Middletown, la. City officials have ordered the closure of the Rodent Ranch, an unli TINA YEETiie Rf.cti Part of the wall outside of Creative Visions in Des Moines shows some of the many names of people tnrougn gang acuvuy. Lamont Lovelady, said he believes0 his son was suffocated. Results of autopsy have not been released, ii Abdul-Samad said the wall woulcj-: be repainted in the spring to aodii many other names.

2 "It is fortunate that we do not have? another name from (TuesdajrVi night," Abdul-Samad said. whu nave ueen snoi anu Kineu other people showed up," Elrod said. "It winds up in a shooting." Officers were only a block away when the sound of five or six gunshots rang out. "We observed 30 or 40 people running away from the parking lot on the north side of the building," officers said. Movie Movie times are subject to change.

Call theaters to verify. American Beauty Cobblestone: 1 4, 6:55, 9:30. Copper Creek: 1:20, 4, 7:20, 9:45. Wynnsong: 2, 4:30, 7:30, 10. Angela' Ashes River Hills: 1 1 5, 4:15, 7:30.

Anna and the King Carmike: 1, 4, 7:30. Any Given Sunday Carmike: 1:05, 4:20, 7:30. The Bachelor Carmike: 1:10, 4, 7:05, 9:40. The Beach Cobblestone: 1:10, 3:45, 7:05, 9:40. SouthRidge: 7, 9:55.

Wynnsong: 7, 9:30. Blue Streak Carmike: 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 9:25. Boiler Room River Hills: 1 :30, 4, 7, 9:30. Wynnsong: 1:30. 4:30, 7:30, 10.

The Bone Collector Carmike: 1:10, 4, 7, 9:40. Boys Dont Cry Varsity: 7:30, 9:35. The Cider House Rules Sierra: 1:30, 4:15, 6:45, 9:15. Silver Cinemas: 1:10, 4:15, 7:05, 9:55. Wynnsong: 2:15, 5:30, 9.

Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Billy Joe's Pitcher Show: 5, 7:15, 9:30. Carmike: 1:05, 3:50, 6:50,9:35. Double Jeopardy Carmike: 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50. Down to You Fleur: 1:40, 4.15, 7, 9:25. Drowning Mona Copper Creek: 1 :20, 4:20, 7:20, 9:20.

Silver Cinemas: 1, 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40. SouthRidge: 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45. Westwood: 1:30, 4:30, 7. 9:30. End of Days Carmike: 1, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30.

Galaxy Quest Cobblestone: 4:10, 9. The Green Mile Cobblestone: 1:30, 7:25. Fleur: 1:30, 7:30. Hanging Up Cobblestone: 1:25, 3:55, 7:10, 9:25. Copper Creek: 1, 4, 7, 9:05.

Silver Cinemas: 12:55, 3:05, 7:40. SouthRidge: 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 9:50. Wynnsong: 1:45, 4, 7, 9:15. The Hurricane Fleur: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30. Sierra: 1:15, 4:30, 7:30.

Wynnsong: 1:45, 5, 8:30. Isnt She Great Carmike: 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 8:30. My Dog Skip Copper Creek: 1:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:10. Silver Cinemas: 12:50, 3, 5:10, 7:20, 9:30. SouthRidge: 1, 3, 5, 6:55, 9.

Valley: 1:15, 4, 7, 9. Wynnsong: 1, 3:15, 5:45, 8. The Next Best Thing Cobblestone: 1:15, 4:05, 7:15, 9:45. Silver Cinemas: 1:30, 4:35, 7, 9:25. SouthRidge: 1:15, 4, 7:10, 9:40.

Wynnsong: 2, 4:30, 7, 9:30. Next Friday Westwood: 1:45, 4:15, 7:15. 9:45. Pitch Black Silver Cinemas: 2. 4:55.

7:35, 10:05. SouthRidge: 1:10, 3:50, 7:05, 9:35. Westwood: 1:45. 4:15. 7:15.

9:45. Wynnsong: 1:15. 3:30, 6:30, 8:45. Play it To I no Bone carmine: 3:45, 6:50, 9:30. Pofcemon: The First Movie Bilrv Joe Pitcher Show: 12:30, 2:30.

Reindeer Games Cobblestone: 1:10. 4:10, 7:10, 9:45. Silver Cinemas: 1:46, 4:45, 7:25, 10. SouthRidge: 1:05, 3:45, 7, 9:30. Wynnsong: 2, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45.

Scream 3 Silver Cinemas: 1:20. Z'Afk -7-rtR O-An Pnnn.rrr.uJ,' i-m 4:25, 6:55, 9:45. SouthRidge: 1:10, 3:50, 7:05, 9:35. Wynnsong: 1:45, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30. Walnut Ridge names The Register's Iowa News Service Waterloo, la.

Seniors Bree Burrack and Parker Day have been named Homecoming Queen and King at the Walnut Ridge Baptist Church Academy in Waterloo. Darcy Sackett, Matt Johnson, planned. Stagehands from Local 690 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees informed the school this week that they would stop working until an agreement was signed for next season. Council accepts old packing plant Associated Press Tama, la. The recently closed IBP plant in Tama has a new owner.

The Tama Tama City Council has voted to accept the DES MOINES 1 0 MwTLoO plant as a gift IBP, which closed the plant in December, offered the building, the equip ment in it and the nearly 300 acres surrounding it The meatpacker closed the plant just before Christmas, putting more than 400 people out of work. The company says it has no plans to reopen, so it wanted to give the city the chance to find a new employer. Mayor Richard Gibson said he already had heard from some parties that might be interested, but he declined to identify them. Marycrest chief is Connecticut-bound Tiif. Register's Iowa News Service Davenport, la.

Marycrest International University President Larry Conner has been named provost and senior vice president at the University of Bridgeport in Davenpoi DES MOINES Connecticut, officials there announced Wednesday. "I feel very good about the time I was here. We've gone through lots of changes, and we are well-positioned for the future," said Conner, 61. The provost position should allow him more time for his personal life, he said. Conner, president of Marycrest since 1994, is expected to start his new job at the private university of 3,000 students next month.

The Marycrest Board of Trustees hasn't decided yet whether an interim president will be appointed. Stolen data used in check scheme Associated Press Mason City, la, Authori- ties say a con man has stolen identity information from at 1 1 least four Mason City Mason City residents and has used it to open checking I DES MOINES accounts in Bloomington, Minn. He has then printed phony checks and has cashed them. Lt. Ron Vande Weerd of the Mason City police said the victims weren't necessarily out any money, but their credit ratings could be damaged.

Sulfuric acid leaks at ADM facility Associated Press Clinton, la. A leaking valve on a storage tank led to a spill of sulfuric acid at an Archer Daniels Midland plant over the weekend, the Clinton DES MOINES Iowa Department of Natural Resources reported. Some of the acid flowed into a collection drain that leads to the Mississippi River at Beaver Channel. The acid was immediately diluted to safe levels, officials said. Al Goldberg, supervisor of the department's Washington office, said no environmental damage was expected.

On the Web 'I 'T online uijvugjiuiu iii a variety of topics at DesMoinesRegister. comnewsforums i The parking lot north of Creative Visions in Des Moines is a place to reflect on the futility of violence. A wall there contains a list of victims, and the names are crowding together. That a shooting took place beneath the Wall of Respect at 1343 13th St. Tuesday night is a reminder that there is more work to be done, said Ako Abdul-Samad, founder of Creative Visions, an anti-gang organization.

This is sacred ground; this is a place of peace. People were trying to de-escalate this at the time that it happened," he said. Joshua Jermaine Jefferson, 22, was shot in the chest, hip and leg. He was in serious condition Wednesday at Mercy Medical Center. Abdul-Samad said he talked with Jefferson, whom he expects to recover.

Des Moines police have made no arrests, but a man sought as a witness to the shooting, Nolan "Nokie" Johnson, 28, reported to police headquarters Wednesday. Elrod said authorities were told that two teen-age girls and a man were "play fighting" outside Creative Visions shortly after 7 p.m. "Someone took it seriously, and they called friends or family. Then another call was made, and some Suspect in 2 killings goes to court By ANN McGLYNN Reoister's Iowa City Bureau Iowa City, la. A former Mar- shalltown man appeared in court for the first time Wednesday since being charged with beating to death two women in Iowa City nearly a year ago.

Jonathan Memmer, 24, arrived at the Johnson County Courthouse with his characteristic beard and head of thick, dark hair shaved off. Memmer declined to answer ques tions while walking from a Sheriffs Department van into the courthouse. He was wearing leg shackles, prison-issue jeans and a denim jack et Memmer is accused of killing Laura Dalton, 29, of Creston and Mana Lehner, 27, of Belton, Mo, Authorities said the women, who did not know each other, died of head mjuries. Officials found their bodies when they responded to an explosion and fire at an Iowa City apart ment March 19. Police allege Mem mer used gasoline to set the apartment on fire to hide the slay- ings and destroy evidence.

Memmer spoke only to answer simple procedural questions from a judge Wednesday. His court- appointed attorney, Edward Leff, declined comment after the brief hearing, as did Johnson County Attorney J. Patrick White. Wednesday's was the first in what probably will be a string of hearings before Memmer goes to trial. An arraignment, at which Memmer will enter a formal plea, has not been set.

Prosecutors have gathered eye witness accounts, DNA and other evidence they say links Memmer to Dalton, Lehner and the scene of the crime. Police wanted to talk with Mem mer almost immediately after the bodies were discovered. He was arrested in Iowa City a week after the fire for violating his probation on a 1998 car burglary conviction. He is serving five years at the Iowa State Penitentiary in Fort Madison. Reporter Aim McGlynn can be reached at (319) or mcglynnaSinewsxlmng.com I'llOTOS COURTESY OF Snapshots Brett Brindley doesn't let his lung and eye problems slow him down much.

7 "1 i i iS I 1 mi HI illMMlilsMft lllwn In i 1 di 1 mmM censed rodent-breeding operation being run out of a shed in a mobile-home park. DES MOINES 0 Miles 200 City Attorney Mary Ann Brown sent a letter to Tom Mortiner and Jeri Shupe telling them to discontinue the busi-' ness. Mortiner and Shupe were 1 unavailable for comment. Mortiner and Shupe raise mice and sell them as snake food. The operation is illegal without a permit, but Mortiner and Shupe did not show up at two City Council meetings at which their permit was on the agenda Councilman Tim Wallin doesn't believe the pair will give up willingly.

"I just have the slightest feeling that whatever we do, it's going to continue," he said. Iowa Lakes gets $1 million gift The Rkcister's Iowa News Service Emmetsburg, la. A local physician has left $1 million to Iowa Lakes Community College, the largest gift Emmetsburg from an indi vidual ever given to the college, said DES MOINES President Jim Billings. Dr. Gerald Wieneke, who died of cancer a year ago at age 50, earmarked the gift for the col- lege's Smith Wellness Center.

A spokesman for the estate said the total gift would exceed $1 million. Interest on the money will be used to offset operating expenses, he said. The wellness center com-' bines a city and college library, fitness and recreation facilities and a municipal indoor swimming pool. Member fees cover operating expenses of the $4.3 million, facility. Wieneke first contributed to the faculty in 1995, pledging $25,000 to co-sponsor the rac-quetball court bearing his name and the name of fellow physician, Dr.

Frank Vetri, college officials said. Official's remark draws suspension Associated Press Cedar Rapids, la. The director of the Linn County Health Department has been suspended for a week without pay for making inap-propriate comments to a female employee. The Linn County Board of Health also decided that Keith Erickson must write a letter of apology to the woman and attend sensitivity training. Marty Ralston, the department's assistant director, and Tom Hart, a supervisor, will also receive written reprimands and sensitivity training.

Erickson will lose $1,405 in pay, according to county records. He said he regretted the incident. Hart was reprimanded for "inappropriate comments to a department employee," board chairman Paul Hasley said. Ralston was reprimanded for "his participation in the conversation." The woman who filed the complaint, Tiffany Chamberlain, is a sanitarian for the department. She declined to comment about the penalties.

Stagehands walk; 'Dream' canceled The Register's Iowa News Service Iowa City, la. This weekend's performance of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the University of Iowa's Ilancher Auditorium has been can-c 1 Mies 200 because of st agehand walkout The Guthrie Theatre canceled the March 3-4 performances. Activities coordinated with the performances also have been canceled. Ticketholders will be contacted by the Hancher box office for refunds. The rest of I Cedar RapKia DES MOINES 0 Mi" 00 towaCltyS 1 DES MOINES 0 The Wall of Respect will gain another name on Saturday.

Creative Visions will add Charles Lovelady's name in a ceremony at 1:30 p.m. Lovelady died while scuffling with two bouncers at Graffiti's dance club on the northwest side of Des Moines on Feb. 16. Lovelady's father, Clock The Sixth Sense Cobblestone: 1:05, 3:50, 7, 9:35. Copper Creek: 7:45, 9:50.

Fleur: 1:45, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30. Snow Day Copper Creek: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:30. Silver Cinemas: 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:20. SouthRidge: 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 9:45. Valley: 1:30, 4:05, 7:10, 9:15.

Wynnsong: 2:30, 4:45, 6:45, 9:15. Snow Falling on Cedars Sierra: 1:35, 4:15, 7, 9:20. The Straight Story Merle Hay Mall Cinema: 8. Stuart Little Cobblestone: 1:20, 6:50. Superstar Carmike: 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50.

Three Strikes Westwood: 1:30, 4, 7, 9:30. Wynnsong: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9. The Tigger Movie Copper Creek: 1, 4:10, 6. Merle Hay Mall Cinema: 2:15, 4, 6:15. SouthRidge: 1:30, 4:20.

Valley: 6:45, 8:30. Wynnsong: 1, 3, 5. What Planet Are You From? Copper Creek: 1:25, 4:40, 7:25, 9:40. Silver Cinemas: 1:50, 4:50, 7:10, 9:35. SouthRidge: 1:15, 3:55, 7:10, 9:40.

Westwood: 1:40, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40. Wynnsong: 2:30, 5:30. 7:45, 10. The Whole Nine Yards Cobblestone: 1:05, 3:50, 7, 9:35. Copper Creek: 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 9:40.

Silver Cinemas: 5:15, 9:50. SouthRidge: 1:25, 4:15, 7:20, 9:50. Wynnsong: 1, 3:45, 7:15, 9:45. Wonder Boys SouthRidge: 1 :05, 3:45, 7, 9:30. Westwood: 1:35, 4:05, 7:05, 9:35.

Wynnsong: 1:30, 4:15, 7, 9:45. AMES American Beauty Varsity: 4, 6:40, 9:20, midnight. Anna and the King North Grand: 1:20,4:10, 7, 10. Any Given Sunday North Grand: 1:30, 5, 9. The Bachelor North Grand: 1:50, 4:20.

The Beach Movies 12: 1:30, 7:05. Boiler Room Movies 1 2: 4:20, 1 0. The Cider House Rules Movies 1 2: 11:30, 2:10, 4:50, 7:35, 10:25. Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo North Grand: 2, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30. Drowning Mona Varsity: 4:20, 7, 9:35, The Green Mile Movies 12: 8.

Hanging Up Movies 12: 11:40. 1:55, 4:15, 7:10, 9:20. Isnt She Great North Grand: 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:40. My Dog Skip Movies 1 2: 1 1 :50, 2:05, 4, 6:55, 9. The Next Best Thing Movies 12: 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 15, 9:45.

Reindeer Games Movies 12: 1:35, 4:40, 7:45, 10:10. Scream 3 Movies 12: 1:20, 4:05, 7, 10:05. Snow Day Movies 12: 11:55, 2:20. 4:30, 7:20, 9:25. Snow Falling on Cedars North Grand: 6:50.

9:50. The Tigger Movie Movies 12: noon, 1:50, 3:45, 6:05. What Planet Are You From? Movies 12: 1:25, 3:40, 7:30, 9:50. The Whole Nine Yards Movies 12: 1:15, 4:25, 7:40, 10:15. Wonder Boys Movies 12: 1 1 :35, 2, 4:35, 7:25.

9:55. homecoming court Jessica Ney and Josh Huffman are senior attendants. Court attendants are: Ashley Bohlen and Todd Kuntz, juniors; Lisa Koster and Jesse Brass, sophomores; and Lori Edgerton and Jared Sweerin, freshmen. room, wandering off mentally, physically. Gray gently brings them back into the fold.

And they go on to win, 20-13. The Dragons hug each other, high-fives all around. The parents join in. In the afternoon, they beat Woodward in a long, tense, two-point game that's got everybody in the room on their feet A few nights later at practice, the Dragons were still pretty worked up. Makes sense.

They're going to Iowa City in two weeks to try to win it all. "Well, actually," said Patty Bole, "they were worked up because some girls from East High saw them win the other day and thought they were cute. That's all they wanted to Man flashes children, police say ni By STACI HUPP Register Staff Writer vo Ames, la. Police say an feo mentary school in west Ames been targeted by a man who exposed himself to children and another w.hj displayed pornography as he drove'i by the school's parking lot. 3 Some parents were shocked news Wednesday.

i'JT- Police arrested Paul Jay Nobifing, 23, of Ames after he allegedly1 showed his genitals to a group- students on the playground at Abbie Sawyer Elementary School on Mon-, day, officials said. On Tuesday, a parent called police after an unidentified man drove by with pornography taped on his car's windows after school, said Police Chief Dennis Ballantine. Officers patrolled the neighbor-' hood but couldn't find the suspect, he said. An 11-year-old girl who was play. ing when Nobiling allegedly flashed, her and other children Monday told an adult, who called police, Ballan- tine said.

Nobiling was in the Story County Jail on a $2,000 bond, officials said Wednesday. If CPOr- victed of indecent exposure, 'J could face up to one year in prison and a $2,000 fine. Ballantine said the incidents proft ably aren't related. 2 "It's weird. It makes no sense, tQ me," he said.

"We haven't had a lot of this stuff, but it happens once kv? while." That's what worries Tracy parent who says her daughter andi other neighborhood children often gather on the playground aftere school. "I haven't been worried about if assumed it was safe here," said Wet'1 ty, who picked up her second-grade daughter after school Wednesday. "They should hire someone at th2 school or patrol the school grounds) School officials said they setti home notes with children Wedness? day and plan to keep a closer eye ort? students after schools let out "Once these things occur, it pute you on a different level of alertT; Deputy Superintendent Ray Rictf- ardson said. "We just want people be a little more careful now." Ryan Tometich has no feeling from his thighs down, butpj gets around the court. tf 9: talk about at practice.

We had to get them focused on basketball Off girls and back on Two weeks hardly seems like enough time. Rob Borselllno can be reached at (515)' 1 -284-8102 or borseltinornewsjimreg.com Kids use basketball to become winners B0RSELL1N0 Continued from Page IB prayer. A Marshalltown player who struggles to walk sinks a three-pointer, and parents from both teams cheer. Double-dribbling, traveling, walking, a foot goes out of bounds a lot of that is ignored. The ref says let these kids play ball.

Late in the game, the Dragons are up by 4. Marshalltown calls a time out, and Johnston Coach Jack Gray pulls his team around him. He tells them to "relax, focus, hustle, work hard. Take your time and don't be nervous." He talks and several of the boys are looking around the.