Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 13

SEE THE BACK PAGE OF TODAY'S CALENDAR 1771 IN rA Ciiinpirn Rnvc A JUifiiiiEit puu World Market. PAID ADVERTISEMENT SECTION FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2001 RENO mm 1 wimwm Amy Klaes: Is a student at South Tahoe High School. k- -iJt- ie wears braces and has freckles on her face. She was wearing a dark blue skirt and yellow top. Investigators have descriptions but not names of the two men they were last seen with.

One was a Hispanic man, about 21 years old, 5-feet 8-inches tall, 130 pounds. The other man was a black man with a light complexion, about 23 to 25 years old, 6-feet tall, 200 pounds. Both men were wearing blue jeans and baseball caps on By Andy Bourelle RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL The Douglas County Sheriff's Office Thursday continued to search for two South Lake Tahoe teen-age girls missing since Wednesday night. Amy Klaes, 17, and Jackie Rivas, 14, were last seen around the Stateline casinos at about 10 p.m. Wednesday, investigators said Thursday.

The girls were supposed to play video games at the casinos' arcades but failed to show up when Amy's mother was supposed to pick them up inside Harveys Casino at 9:30 p.m. Authorities are looking for two men who were seen with the girls at about 10 p.m. in the Horizon Casino. "We don't know if they had anything to do with the missing girls, but we do know it's highly unusual, according to their parents, for the girls to be missing like this," said Douglas County Investigator Rick Brown. Amy, a student at South Tahoe High School and one- Td rather see my goats alive and the lions in Jimmy DeJong, Genoa resident Police stop lake search for woman El Dorado County sheriff's office searchers have called it quits after spending parts of two days looking for a woman who might nave committed suicide in the same lake that took her adult son's life five years ago.

The sheriff's office got a call Tuesday of a possible suicide note left in a 1995 Ford station wagon registered to Cynthia Ellis Perhoda and her sister that was parked at Fallen Leaf Lake. The note, signed as Cindy Ellis, said she was going to join her son. On April 13, 1996, Perhoda's son, 21-year-old David Ward, was fishing with Donald Gibson, 37, on the lake when the boat capsized, dumping both men into the water. Neither man wore a life preserver. Gibson swam to shore and was treated for hypothermia.

Ward's body was never found, El Dorado sheriff's Detective Tom Hill said. Investigators found a blanket matching material in the Ford and a flashlight near the lake. A ground search produced nothing; dive teams also searched underwater areas of the lake before the shelf makes a steep drop. Other crews used underwater cameras. Hill said Perhoda and her husband separated in April, and she moved in with her sister in Modesto in April, then returned to South Lake Tahoe on June 8 in an attempt to reconcile.

Wilderness, civilization clash Board close to adopting trash rules Tahoe Basin: County pursues guidelines for marauding bears. Jackie Rivas: Has lived in Tahoe for about two weeks. year resident of South Lake Tahoe, is white and about 5-feet 6-inches tall, 120 pounds, with long, blond hair and blue eyes. She was wearing a black and blue flower-print skirt, with a black top. 9 II n2 I By Tim Anderson RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL After more than a year of study and debate on now to deal with bears raiding garbage in the Tahoe Basin, Douglas County commissioners Thursday tentatively adopted an ordinance on bear-proof trash containers.

Use of the trash bins by property owners and residents will continue to be voluntary. But if garbage isn't properly secured, and complaints are filed, some residents could be required to provide the special containers. The proposed ordinance would be the first of its kind in the state. In the board's 3-1 decision on the garbage collection issue, commissioners said they want to continue to hear from residents and property owners and they left the door open to further adjustments to the ordinance if necessary. And officials made it clear at the Stateline meeting such containers won't be mandatory for residents.

At the heart of the proposal is the penalty section II if ill is if fill TODAY Anyone with information about the girls or the two men is asked to contact the sheriff's office at (775) 586-7250 or Secret Witness at (775) 586-7295. The mother called the sheriff's office at 1 1 :50 p.m. to report the girls missing. Security officers at the Stateline casinos told patrol officers that the girls were seen at 9 p.m. in Harveys and at 10 p.m.

in the Horizon with the two men. of a code amendment, said District Attorney Scott Doyle. He said this will take effect only if an official county complaint is leveled against a property owner or resident who attracts a bear to the area because of irresponsible trash disposal. For a first offense, the proposed ordinance calls for a verbal or written warning to the responsible party. Following a second complaint, the responsible party will be required to purchase or construct a bear-proof collection bin, container or structure and install it within 30 days of the incident.

The county's code enforcement officer or the sheriff's department would most likely deal with enforcing such a law, Doyle said. Animal control and the Nevada Wildlife Department could also be involved. Commissioners said a key focus in counteracting nuisance bears will be public education efforts aimed at convincing residents to properly secure their garbage. See TRASH on11C hospital once and he was really bored. They just had general TV." "I got the idea from my brother but also from my grandma," Jeff added.

"She ran a cart in an Illinois hospital where she was a volunteer." The hospital said Jeff's work will bring a lot of smiles. "This is absolutely amazing," Carson-Tahoe nurse Diane Naylor said. "He did a fabulous job. It sure will keep them (children) busy. They won't get bored." Jeff has also convinced more than 70 area businesses to donate items or money to purchase things for the cart.

His parents, Debbie and David Lambiit of Gardnerville, estimate the cart and all the toys to go along with it are worth about $2,500. See EAGLE SCOUT on 11C FARM PREDATOR: This been captured on Jan. 26 in Linda HillerSpecial to the Reno Gazette-Journal female cougar was shot in May after preying on livestock near Genoa. The cougar had Alpine View Estates, collared and released along with its cub. Cougar killing livestock in couple's backyard shot Jackie, who has lived in Tahoe for about two weeks and would be a student at South Tahoe Middle School next year, is white and about 5-feet 5-inches tall, 130 pounds, with brown eyes and long, brown hair.

Jack the hills. 1 Time seemed to shift into slow motion as the couple looked at the animal that most likely was the neighborhood's marauding killer, and momentarily Jimmy DeJong even asked himself, "Should Then he squeezed the trigger. See COUGAR on 11 the questions. He stresses that it is important for parents to participate so the survey's information is sound. "It would be best that when we get someone on the phone who doesn't have 10 or 15 minutes, to call back later to get them," Soderman said.

The survey results should be given to the district in about a month, Soderman said. The district will then schedule focus groups with parents at Lake Tahoe and in the Carson Valley to discuss survey results. Soderman then hopes to present recommendations to the school board for approval in December. "By the rime it goes to the board, we hope to have a product that has been worked out by us and by the community," he said. ch 1 Scout project merits smiles from sick kids Lisa J.

ToldaReno Gazette-Journal IN GENOA: Tracey and Jimmy DeJong stand on the deck of their home. Jimmy was forced to shoot a cougar which was killing livestock. Jimmy is not a hunter, and said he felt he had to protect his family. By Linda Hiller SPECIAL TO THE RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Jimmy DeJong has a story to tell that should last him well into his rocking chair years. He shot a cougar in his back yard.

For weeks, residents around Dejong's home north of Genoa had reported goats and sheep slaughtered at night by an animal. Mountain lion specialist Tom Kilby of U.S. Department of Agriculture's animal damage control division was called in after Dejong's neighbors found two pygmy goats dead, and a cougar became the prime suspect. Soon afterwards, DeJong and his wife found their own two pygmy goats, Baxter and Brewster, dead one morning. "We'd been keeping them in their pen every night, Courts 2c State high court rules for doctor A psychiatrist whose whistleblowing activity cost him privileges at a Reno-area hospital won a court battle on Thursday.

Region 4C 1 Nino lurks, but dry days persist The West faces more unusually hot and dry weather, even as another El Nino waits in the wings, a NASA scientist said Thursday. Obituaries 11 Frankovich, Lee Frye, Renee T. Opfer, Laurel L. Sanders, Geoffery P. Forum What's your view on latest survey? Today's question: Would you vote for a Washoe County School District bond sale in 2004 to repair old schools and build new middle schools? Yesterday's question: Do you believe we're about to have another six to eight years of drought? Results as of 9 p.m.

Thursday: 895 respondents. Yes 30 percent, 276 votes. No: 69 percent, 619 votes. To vote: Log onto rgj.comnewslocal. Contact Us Bureau Chief: Ray Hagar, (775) 885-5561 E-mail: rhagarrgj.com Newsroom fax: (775) 885-5565 Circulation: (775) 786-8744 Classified: (775) 348-7355 Reno Gazette-Journal By Ray Hagar RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL A project that will help Jeff Lambin become an Eagle Scout will also put smiles on the faces of children at Carson-Tahoe Hospital in Carson City.

Jeff, 13, designed and helped build a 6-foot-tall "Kids Kart" full of toys, games, teddy bears, books and crafts. The items will be distributed to the children, who can keep the items when they go home. Jeff got the idea for the project when his younger brother, John Henry, had an extended stay at Carson-Tahoe because of asthma problems. "This will have a bunch of crafts and games for the kids who are sick but don't have anything else to do but watch TV, unless their parents bring them something," Jeff Lambin said. "My brother was in this rather than in the pasture, thinking it would be safer for them," said Tracey De-Jong.

"We also had a motion-detector light that we figured would scare anything away," Jimmy DeJong said. Kilby asked the Dejongs to move the dead goats to the back of their four acres because a cougar usually returns to its kill. That night last month, the couple was awakened by a "loud ruckus" horses whinnying, dogs barking and some sort of squealing that might have been the llamas next door. The couple rushed outside. Shining a powerful flashlight toward the spot where the carcasses were, Tracey DeJong saw a pair of big, green eyes looking back.

"I didn't know what it was, so I grabbed my Winchester 243 and looked and secondary schools are on the same schedule, and that can cause problems with parents scheduling family vacations with more than one child. "We're trying to come up with an educationally sound calendar that is also family-friendly," Soderman said. "We want to ask a whole mix of people what their families would prefer in terms of calendars. We'll ask specific questions, such as do you want two weeks (off) at Christmas? Should we have a week for spring break? Is a ski week important? What should be important in this calendar?" The district will hire Survey Research Systems, an independent public opinion research organization, to do the survey. About 400 families will be contacted.

The district has provided Schools study getting calendars in sync through the scope, and I could see those green eyes, and then the faint outline of cougar ears," Jimmy De-Jong said. "It's not like it had just stumbled upon these goats," he said. "It had killed them the night before. And, it didn't seem to be killing just to eat, because it wasn't eating everything it killed." the researchers with telephone numbers only, Soderman said. No names or other information was given to the researchers.

"First, they will ask if they have kids in Douglas County schools," Soderman said. "If not, the interview will stop." No personal questions about students will be asked. "The only demographic questions, which are about the people, are, 'What school does your child go to? Is your child male or female? Is your child involved in extracurricular activities and do any members of your family work for the school Soderman said. Soderman said the survey will consist of 39 questions and should take about 10 to 15 minutes to complete. He hopes parents will have the time and patience to answer By Ray Hagar RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL Parents of students in the Douglas County School District will begin receiving calls today as part of a telephone survey to nelp the district devise a master calendar.

The district hopes to develop a uniform countywide calendar of vacations and holidays for all students, from kindergarten through high school, said John So-derman, assistant superintendent for personnel services. The new calendar should be in place for the 2002-2003 school year. The chance to ha ve a countywide master calendar results from C.C. Meneley becoming the final elementary school in the county to go off the multitrack system after the 2001-2002 school year. Currently, not all elementary few- i Lisa J.

ToldaReno Gazette-Journal WORKING FOR EAGLE SCOUT: Jeff Lambin, 1 3, unloads toys, games and crafts to be donated to Carson-Tahoe Hospital as part of his Eagle Scout project..