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A RELIGIOUS AGENDA The 'Week of Renewal' is just one religious event scheduled for this week. For more information, on the week's events, see Religion Notes on 8B. SUNDAY JULY 15. 1984 ROCHESTER NEW YORK SECTIOli rv 7B BRIEFING 8B RELIGION Democrat anb (fbroniclc Dl anu a ft iii an 2, tif Mrv ff DEMOCRATIC convEtmoH Mondale delegates' mood Bight By Michael Clements Democrat and Chronicle SAN FRANCISCO The Democratic National Convention is starting here tomorrow with a sense of exhilaration rather than suspense after Walter F. Mondale's choice of a woman for vice president.

Mondale, the Democrats' apparent nominee, altered the tone and mood of the convention not only with his historic selection of New York Rep. Geraldine Fer-raro for vice president, but with the timing of the announcement as well. "It's a very light, gxd mood," Monroe County Democratic Chairman Nathan J. Kobfogel said after arriving here yesterday afternoon. "Part of that is the nature of a convention.

But I think that spark has come into it through the Ferraro Delegates represent varied backgrounds By Michael Clementa Democrat and Chronicle I The 12 delegates and four alternates to the Democratic National Convention from the Monroe County area represent a variety of backgrounds and perspectives. But for all except two of them, this will be their first national political convention as delegates. The delegation, made up of delegates from the 29th and 30th Congressional Districts and area at-large delegates, includes six delegates for Colorado Sen. Gary Hart, five for former Vice President Walter F. Mondale and one for the Rev.

Jesse Jackson. (Hart won one other delegate and two alternates from Monroe County, but his New York campaign assigned those slots to Hart supporters from New York City.) Mondale also has three alternates from Monroe County, while another Monroe County alternate is technically considered unpledged. Five of the delegates hold elective office, one holds an appointive government post and six are not in public office. The occupations of the delegates and alternates range from accountant to waitress, with three-lawyers and two insurance agents. Alternates replace delegates when they're away from the floor.

Brief biographical sketches of the delegates and alternates begin here arid continue on Page 6B. Linda Alford Is a Hart delegate who is attending her first At 24 years old, she is the youngest of the delegates from Monroe County A waitress at Chi Chi's restaurant on Jefferson Road, she has a bachelor of fine arts degree in ceramics from Alfred University. Alford has lived in Monroe County for 1 years and joined the Hart campaign as a volunteer before the New Hampshire primary. Les Calder is attending the convention as an alternate delegate for Mondale. At 60 years old, Calder is the oldest member of the local delegation, but he is attending his first national convention.

Calder is an international vice president of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textiles Workers Union. He said his major interest at the convention will be the party's position on jobs, particularly jobs for young people. Maxine Childress Brown. 43, is an alternate delegate for Mondale who is attending her first convention. A veteran of several Democratic campaigns, she won her first try for elective office last year, capturing the South District seat on City Council.

A former community liaison officer for the city, she said she is particularly interested in the Democratic platform position on aid to cities, as well as issues relating to minorities and economics. Samuel J. Colombo is a Hart delegate who will celebrate his 35th birthday tomorrow. He is a county legislator who has represented a northeast Rochester district since 1976. Colombo was a delegate for Jimmy Carter at the 1976 Democratic convention in New York City.

He was one of the leading spokesmen for the Hart primary campaign in Monroe County and will be working at the Hart headquarters in San Francisco. TURN TO PAGE 6B 13 ft ill' i i Brighton man injured in leap from balloon 65-year-old Brighton man was injured last night when he jumped from the hot-air balloon he was piloting after it struck electrical wires and caught fire, the Livingston County Sheriffs Department said. John S. Gilman of 2 Elmwood Hill Lane was attempting to land the balloon at the Lakeville Airport on West Lake Road in Livonia, deputies said. He was participating in a balloon race when the accident occurred about 8:40 p.m., deputies said.

Gilman was taken to Strong Memorial Hospital by a Livonia Volunteer Ambulance crew. He was being treated last night and the extent of his injuries was not immediately available. Monroe man killed in crash A 26-year-old Honeoye Falls man was killed early yesterday morning on Route 15A when his car struck a tree, the Monroe County Sheriffs Department reported. David B. Coates, 26, of 24 Norton St.

was the only occupant of the car when the accident occurred in the town of Mendon about 4 a.m., deputies said. No further investigation is planned. City man fatally shot A 31-year-old city man died last night after he was shot with a 12-gauge shotgun at 9:55 p.m. in front of 105 Bowman on the city's northeast side. The man, whose identity was not released because his family had not been notified, was pronounced dead at 10:35 p.m, said police Capt.

Anthony Leonardo. The man was struck in the back of the head with about 40 shotgun pellets from one blast, Leonardo said. He apparently was shot by his girlfriend while he was standing in a crowd of people on Bowman Street, Leonardo said. The girlfriend is in custody and is expected to be charged in the death. Rape suspect held A 30-year-old Rochester man was arrested yesterday after he chased a woman he is accused of raping into the visiting center at the Monroe County Jail.

The woman told police she was seeking help after being abducted and raped early yesterday, said Investigator Edward Knaak of the police Highland Section. Alberto Boffill of 38 Orange St. was charged with first-degree rape, second-degree unlawful imprisonment and second-degree assault He is being held in the Monroe County Jail without bail pending arraignment tomorrow. The woman said she was abducted from a bar and taken to BoffiU's apartment Friday night. She was freed about 10 a.m.

yesterday and walked downtown, but she apparently was followed, Knaak said. "When she got near the Sheriffs Department, she ran into the visiting section of the jail and requested help," Knaak said. "He ran right into the sheriffs building after her." Police are searching for a second suspect who is accused of aiding in the abduction. probe continuing Ontario County Sheriffs Department is continuing its investigation into the death of a 16-year-old West Bloomfield teen-ager who was killed Friday when the Jeep in which he was riding crashed, the department said yesterday. Paul J.

Smith of 26 Jodell Road was ejected from the vehicle when it slid on loose gravel and rolled over on Olmstead Road in East Bloomfield about 5:15 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. "The driver of the eastbound Jeep, Joseph Rayburn, 16, of 29 Main Hoi-comb, Ontario County, was treated and released from Thompson Hospital in Canandaigua, deputies said. No charges have been filed. Polaroid suit dismissed United Press International A state Supreme Court justice in Albany Friday dismissed a lawsuit by Polaroid that claimed the state's contract to produce photo driver's licenses was illegal.

Polaroid was challenging the contract between the Department of Motor Vehicles and Macro Industries Inc. of Rochester, which just this month began producing the photo licenses. In November 1981, Macro was the only bidder on a photo license contract. But the state voided the deal this year, saying it was too expensive, and then renegotiated a second contract with Macro. Polaroid unsuccessfully argued that the state should have opened the field to other bidders after canceling the original deal.

Woman, 52, found dead Rochester police are investigating the death of a 52-year-old woman found dead on a couch in her apartment yesterday afternoon. Emma F. DeWolfe of 406 Lake Apartment 109, was pronounced dead at the scene by the Monroe County medical examiner's office at 4:41 p.m. An autopsy is scheduled for today. Police Capt Anthony Leonardo said foul play is not suspected, but police were conducting a preliminary investigation yesterday pending the autopsy report because the woman had bruises on her head and neck.

Lt Gregory Cole of the Police Department's Lake Section said the woman was found by her estranged husband, Walter DeWolfe, who lives in an apartment across the hall. Family members hadn't seen her for about a week, so DeWolfe and the building's superintendent opened her apartment yesterday. Cole said. She was found lying on a couch, fully clothed, with her purse on her shoulder. Karen Mitchell Democrat and Chronicle Second summer of protest Women walking 12 miles from Seneca Falls to Waterloo for the opening day of Waterloo, the demonstrators were not disrupted, although they were confronted the second summer of the Women's Encampment for a Future of Peace and by residents waving flags.

Later, five women were taken into custody after Justice. Unlike last year, when townspeople blocked the path of marchers in climbing the fence at the Seneca Army Depot. Story on 2B. iiiii IS County explores options after decision to cut losses, shut its resource recovery plant By Steve Orr Democrat and Chronicle When the people in charge of the Monroe County Resource Recovery Facility start adding up the cost of failure, they don't know when to stop counting. The latest: New York state, which invested $18.5 million in what was thought to be a visionary technological wonder, may ask for its money back.

"We are looking into this matter to see what the position of the state should be," said Norman Nosenchuck, director of the state Department of Environmental Conservation's division of solid and hazardous waste. "It appears to me, offhand, the money should be given back," Nosenchuck said Friday from Albany. A final decision is some time off, Nosenchuck said, and county officials have yet to make an expected plea for clemency. But worries about paying back New York state give county leaders just one more headache as they begin debating the future of the project that, outside of sewers, is the most expensive undertaking ever by Monroe County. "There's been no determination as to exactly what will happen over there," County Executive Lucien A.

Morin said recently. Ten days ago, Morin halted operations in the county's vast refuse-processing factory at 1845 Emerson seven years and seven months after ground-breaking ceremonies. The county has spent roughly $85 million building the plant and related facilities and trying to make them work. It has paid or will pay $26.4 million more in interest on the money borrowed for the project. A lasting legacy for county taxpayers: those interest payments wili continue until the year 2002.

Layoffs already have begun of 73 plant employees working for Raytheon Service although some, workers will remain to put the plant in mothballs cleaning up and lubricating equipment so it will work again if called upon. All employees of Raytheon, the firm that designed the plant and ran it for the county, will be gone by Friday, July 27, county officials say. From that point on, the plant will be used only for temporary storage of refuse on its way to landfills in Erie, Seneca or Monroe counties. Officials say the three landfills with which the county has contracts can easily handle the extra refuse. Within a few years, Morin and other county officials hope, the plant will be back in service.

Administrators and legislators alike agree they would like to see a private company build and pay for a waste-burning power plant that the company would operate in conjunction with a rejuvenated Resource Recovery Facility. A so-called waste-to-energy plant, which has been discussed off and on by county officials for years, could either replace the Resource Recovery Facility or be used to TURN TO PAGE 9B Democrat artel ChromOn A front loader pushing garbage onto a conveyer belt for processing inside Monroe County's Resource Recovery Facility in 1979. Operations were halted 10 days ago. Trusting cyclist, killed by car on trip, wanted to see U.S., write book would continue "research on a book about Thelma planned to ride to the state of By John O'Brien Democrat and Chronicle Five years ago, Thelma Strang rode her bicycle across the country, depending on donations for food and lodging, and gathering County, in his wheelchair. Thelma rode her bicycle back.

The 53-year-old bicycling enthusiast started off on another cross-country trip June 18, in an attempt to visit Alaska and Florida two of the few remaining states she had never been to. With her bike packed with equipment, a pregnant cat, and a sign on the back that said "Hi America, We Love You," Thelma left Wellsville, telling her husband she Washington, board a ferry to Alaska and buck, then bike diagonally across the country to Key West. and home to Wellsville by Christmas, her husband said. Thelma touk no money along. Instead, she depended on donations tor food and a place to sleep, said Vernon, who lives at Piper Place Apartments.

TURN TO PAGE 3B America," Vernon said. Eighteen days into her 6.000-mile trip, she was struck by a car and killed in northeast Indiana. Thelma was hit from iK'hind on U.S. 20, west of IaGrange, state police there said. The driver wasn't charged in the July 6 accident.

Her cat and four kittens, which were five days old, survived. Averaging between 20 and 25 miles a day. slices of life for a txxik someday. She rode to Arizona and down to Houston, where she met up with her husband, Vernon, a paraplegic who hitchhiked there and back home to Wellsville, Allegany.