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6M The Pes Moines Register Tuesday, July 9, 19fH5 Nursing school, looking atiead, to close its doors "It?" 77 NURSING School of Nursing in 1941, taught there and worked in surgical nursing for 40 years before retiring 11 years ago. She said she hopes Iowa Methodist's new institute provides "good, solid clinical experience," but it may not be easy to find the right teachers. "I don't know if there's enough clinical experience outside hospital settings," she said. "There's a limited supply of those with experience." Continued from Page 1M hospital-based training provided by a diploma program because her dream, is to be a flight nurse, like those; who are part of helicopter ambulance, crews. Both said they're saddened by the news of the school's closing.

So is alumna Marjorie Canine, 75, who graduated from Iowa Methodist I i lit if xJj 2 1 Li 'c 1 I -f 'ty jt r. We Tear Down Old Garages BAYLIFF CONSTRUCTION 20 Years Quality Experience 254-9847 Fiber-optic network carries DOT hearing A public meeting concerning the development of a long-range transportation plan for Iowa will be carried from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday on the state fiber-optic communications network. People are invited to comment on six alternative approaches for the transportation system over the next 25 years. They can go to one of 20 sites across the state that will be linked to the interactive video network: Ames.

Iowa State University; Bettendorf Scott Community College; Burlington. Great River Area Education Agency; Calmar, Northeast Iowa Community College; Carroll. Des Moines Area Community College; Cedar Rapids, Kirkwood Community College; Centerville. Indian Hills Community College; Charles City. North Iowa Area Community College; Clinton Community College; Corning High School; Council Bluffs.

Loess Hills Area Education Agency; Eagle Grove, Iowa Central Community College: Johnston, Iowa Public Television: Mar-shalltown. Area Education Agency 6: Ottumwa. Indian Hills Community College; Peosta. Northeast Iowa Area Community College; Red Oak, Southwestern Community College: Sioux City. Western Iowa Tech Community College; Spencer High School; Waterloo, Hawkeye Community College.

i AsscmiATKi) Press Gloria Baker, director of the state's Becoming an Outdoor Woman program, tries out fly-fishing gear near her Panora home. untme lor conno Women are wild for seminars, on outdoor skills Set a New Course now to go back to school this fall Social and Political Philosophy Philosophy 335 or minor graduate credits Thursdays, September 5-Nbvember 21 p.m. Ankeny DMACC Fqr information on Phil 335 and 16 other ISU fall courses at bplACC, call 800262-0015. Of visit ISU Extended and Continuing Education at http: www.exnet. iastate.eduPagesece for a complete listing of courses offered off campus.

Iowa State university 1t works at DMACC. Those interested in the Becoming an Outdoor Woman program should send their names and addresses to Gloria Baker, Project Coordinator, Conservation Education Center, 2473 160th Road, Guthrie Center, la. 501 15. The cost is $110. dition for women only will be held near Mount Pleasant in September.

Sleeping facilities at Springbrook limits BOW to 104 women, plus a few who commute or camp. Baker wants to expand the weekend adventures. "Let's say we had 20 weekend adventures at 50 each that's 1,000 women." Harrison said he's sure there are more women who fish and hunt as a result of the BOW program but that the increase has not been statistically significant in terms of permits. "If we're training 100, 200 at a time or 500 in a year, it's going to be pretty hard to see the impact on 500,000 fishing licenses and 250,000 hunting licenses," he said. Baker was raised on a farm and gained a nodding familiarity with fishing and the out-, doors, but she was drawn to the big city life and became a secretary in the Minneapolis area for eight years.

"I used to go to Vegas for the weekend," she said. Then she went to a BOW seminar in Wisconsin. "I came out of there saying, 'I can I went turkey hunting the first year, by myself. That's what this workshop instills confidence." She applied to DNR officials to run a similar program in Iowa and received support from the higher-ups. Baker is now married to a lifelong hunter whom she describes as a "good ol' boy" who is just starting to accept the idea of sharing the territory with women.

"He's coming around slowly, but he's coming around," she said. "For my birthday, he gave me a new shotgun." The director of the state program says the clinics are more than fun they give a boost to self-esteem. Panora, la. (AP) Gloria Baker once was a city girl who went to Las Vegas for entertainment. Then she discovered hunting not just the outdoor skills, but the confidence that comes from overcoming doubts.

Now, as director of Iowa's Becoming an Outdoor Woman program, Baker shares that confidence with an audience that seems to have no limits. This week, she'll mail out registration forms for the third annual three-day BOW seminar, to be held Sept. 27-29 at the Department of Natural Resources' Springbrook center near Guthrie Center. The two previous sessions were sellouts. "I think we're just scratching the surface," said Baker's boss, DNR information director Ross Harrison.

"As a rule, we don't normally get many letters for the things we do, but barely a week goes by that we don't get something about (Baker). Talk about government doing something that people want this is it," he said. Baker, of Panora, said girls are often neglected when families teach outdoor skills. She said they grow up assuming they can't learn or are intimidated by the prospect of attending how-to seminars that include men. It was Christine Thomas, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point, who formed the BOW program and held workshops to spread it around the country.

Today, there are programs in 40 states, all aimed at giving women a chance to learn outdoor skills in a non-competitive atmosphere. In the Iowa program's first year, "I had no idea what to expect. I put notices wherever I could," said Baker, who is a secretary and office manager at Springbrook. But the result showed she had hit a nerve. Now the debate is how to expand the service.

There will still be only one BOW workshop, she said, because it requires so many teachers. This year, there are seminars in everything from fly fishing to animal calling to muzzle-loading to outdoor cooking. While the workshop is likely to fill up quickly, there are other opportunities for women and girls. For three years, Baker has run an outdoor skills program for 12- to 15-year-old girls, and this year she added three weekend trips for women, called Iowa's Outdoor Women's Adventure. Two have been held so far, a fishing trip and a camping trip.

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De. tails were not discussed. Teresa was more active in court than her friend, shedding tears, chewing her nails or cracking her knuckles. She was dressed in a gray sweat shirt, blue pants and sneakers A Des Moines police officer, Max Halvorsen, testified that he did nob specifically ask Teresa about the case on the day of the incident, and, -that Teresa said she didn't have to. talk because she had an attorney.

He, also said the girl was cussing at chil-T dren gathered nearby and showed no remorse for the assault. But Teresa's mother, Lucy Spading, testified that the officer did ask direct questions about the incident and ignored her daughter's explicit; requests for a lawyer. "She said, 'I want my lawyer j'." Spading said. "She said, 'Nobody is listening to Russell has no prior history of dei linquency in Polk County. In 1995, Teresa was charged with allegedly cash.

i After Monday's hearing, hand-i cuffs were again placed on the two young suspects. Teresa laid her head on a table and cried. "Tliis isn't just bricks and mortar. It's a system that reaches out to the entire community." offices through home health care services, outreach education, work site wellness programs, community collaborations, health screenings and mobile clinics. And free confidential health information is available simply by calling our McdiDial nurse.

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Russell who had been kicked out of Longfellow Elementary School the same day, according to testimony is charged with first-degree kidnapping and second-degree sexual abuse. Teresa, an eighth-grader at Hiatt Middle School, is charged with first-degree kidnapping. Both have been in custody since their arrests May 22. Too young to be transferred to adult court, the pair could be sentenced to state training schools until age 18. The purpose of Monday's hearing held in a cramped third-floor courtroom at the Polk County Courthouse was to debate motions by Russell's attorney, David Adams, and Teresa's attorney, Matthew Kern, requesting that the children's statements to police be suppressed.

But the hearing also disclosed more details about the case and the troubled pasts of the two suspects. Troubled Boy Dressed in a white T-shirt, light-blue pants and black-and-white Nike Air basketball shoes, Russell was subdued during most of the 2l-hour proceeding. A school social worker testified that Russell was considered "mentally disabled" and that he was known for hostile behavior toward teachers. In addition, Russell's mother, Debra Small, said her son was incapable of reading even rudimentary Golden Books like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," which was introduced in court. The latter goes to the issue of whether Russell understood what was happening to him when he Blank Children's Hospital Children's Hospital Physicians Integra Health Iowa Lutheran Hospital Iowa Methodist Medical Center Partners In Health The Iowa Clinic, P.C.

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