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I uganjr Quinn Lnfattyle No lighting up: Bar owners Pat Quinn and Zaid Jazrawi will offer a smoke-free night at Boomer's starting next weekD-2 Green Bay Press-Gazette Saturday, February 22, 1992 mm prnt Silent auction of rare, old and collectible books: Today, 10 a.m.-3 p.m., and Goodbye, then a blitz of snow at Channel 32 Sunday, noon-3 p.m.Sale includes used reference books at the Brown County Central Library, 515 Pine St. Also, family storytime at 2 p.m. featuring traditional African-American tales. MGM Cribbage Tournament: Today and Sunday. Main competition and doubles tournament 8 0 p.m.

today at the Midway Motor Lodge, 780 Packer Drive. Free admission. IIW nWJf i Alternative Music Fest: Today, 6 p.m. Area groups Alligator, Vacuum Scam, Covent Garden. Malediction.

It was eerie watching the farewell of WXGZ, Channel 32, late last Friday night. Naturally, seeing a TV station go off the air forever' would be. Station personnel put together a brief program highlighting the Channel 32's eight years. Clips from shows were blended with behind-the-scenes views that sometimes showed empty rooms for effect. The soundtrack included the song The Way We Were.

At the end, Ed Myers of the staff came on camera to say, "From all of us at TV-32, thank you for Acheron, Nothing Sacred and Union Yes perform at City Centre Theater, 217 E. Walnut St. Information: 433-0434. J'' I -vs St Norbert College Players present: The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds 0 'V at 8 p.m. today at Neil and Mary Webb Memorial Theatre on campus, De Pere.

Tickets $2 senior citizens and students. Other show dates Feb. 27-29. r. "stosp David Parsons Dance Company: Today, 7:30 p.m.

World-touring troupe performs at University tuning us in and for all your support. TV-32 was more than just a station. It was a family. And now the time has come to say goodbye. We hope we are leaving you all richer for the experience." Then one light lighting Myers face was turned off.

Then another. And another. Blackness. Soon all that existed Theatre, UWGB. Tickets $17; $15 senior citizens; $10 youths 18 and under.

Information: 465-2217. Press-Gazette photo by Ken Wesely Happy it's over: Lori Aissen is at home with her last August to end epileptic seizures that had mom, Marlene, in Allo'uez after undergoing surgery plagued her since she was 4. Warren Gerds All Aboard Family Critic-at-Large jff Sunday: Sunday, 11 a.m.-4 0 p.m. Model trains exhibit at Point Beach Energy Center, 10 miles north of Two Rivers, east of Wisconsin 42. Displays, videotapes and elides of railroad activities.

Free. Items are taken from Calendar, published Thursdays in Lifestyle. Who doctors see I Attention deficit disorder focus of Bellin lecture The Bellin Psychiatric Center is sponsoring "Attending to the Inattentive Child: A Lecture on Attention DeficitHyperactivity Disorder." The free program will be held at 6:30 p.m., Tuesday at 725 S. Webster Ave. To register call 433-3630.

If you cannot attend, call Bellin Psychiatric Center's Children's Unit at 433-7570 to schedule a free individual screening. A free workshop entitled "Building Bridges to Adulthood for Young People with Disabilities" will be held from 7 to 10 as candidates About 30,000 to 60,000 Americans who are epileptic might be helped by the surgery that changed Lori Aissen's lite. Dr. Harold Morris, a' neurologist at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio, said three conditions must be met for doctors to consider surgery. The epilepsy cannot be treatable with medication.

Doctors must be able to pinpoint the area of the brain generating the seizures. Doctors must be able to remove the affected part of the brain without harming areas controlling speaking, seeing and muscle movement. From 1 25,000 to 200,000 Americans with epilepsy may meet this criteria, but only 30,000 to 60,000 would be very good surgery candidates, Morris said. From 1.2 million to 2.5 million Americans have epilepsy. While Aissen was found to have a brain tumor, it's unusual for a small, slow-growing tumor to be tied to 20 years of seizures, he said.

on the channel was rasping noise and a blitz of snow. With the arrival of CBS Inc. at WFRV, Channel 5, the push is on for more newscasts. "CBS's orientation is very much toward news," said Gerry Jensen, news director. Joining the weekday lineup 16, is a half-hour newscast at '-noon.

Lois Thome will anchor and Jack Boston will take care of the weather, just as they do on the one-hour 6 a.m. newscast the station added in January. Channel 5 also is looking at adding a 5:30 p.m. Sunday newscast. When the dust settles, the station will have more than doubled its local newscast time since January, Jensen said.

One on-air arrival is Jay Lennartson for weekend weather. He is a doctoral candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, where he also teaches earth sciences and meteorology during weekdays. "In the past couple of months, we've also added producers, tape editors and some reporting talent, so I think we're in pretty good shape," Jensen said. There is a fascinating sideshow going on in Upper Michigan television. Monday, WLUC at Marquette is switching affiliations from CBS to ABC.

CBS had given the station notice that its contract would not be renewed, stirring anger at WLUC, Channel 6. The station is switching to ABC much earlier than expected. Potentially, viewers could have been cut off from CBS programs for three weeks. WJMN, Channel 3 at Escanaba, was due to start airing CBS shows Sunday, March 15. However, CBS is plugging the gap.

Network shows will be microwaved from WFRV, Channel 5, (along with Channel 5's local programs) to Escanaba. Because Channel 5 is still an ABC affiliate, "We'll end up with two control rooms here for three weeks," said Bob Farrow, general manager. Two projects of the WDUZ Radio news staff received awards of merit from the Wisconsin Broadcasters Association Pearl Harbor Memories and 890th Homecoming. For the fifth year, Appleton's WAPL was named one of the nation's top five radio stations in the small-market category of the Rolling Stone magazine readers poll published in the March 5 issue. The On TV segment featuring 1--longtime WGEE Radio announcer Eddy" Jason has been rescheduled for Thursday.

The program airs at 8:30 p.m. on Channel 38. p.m., Tuesday. March 3 and Tuesday, March 10 at Cerebral Palsy, 2801 S. Webster Ave.

The workshop is for children with special education needs, their parents and involved professionals. Two panels will be included in the workshop. To register or for more information, call Mary Ann Quinn at 337-1122. From staff reports. developed that in 1987 doctors traced the problem to the frontal lobe of Aissen's brain.

MRI scanning uses magnetic fields, radio waves and computers to produce high resolution images of virtually any part of the body. In July of 1990, Aissen's Marshfield Clinic doctor referred her to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation one of the handful of U.S. hospitals able to handle the kind of testing and surgery that helped her. Doctors there tracked her brain waves on an electroencephalogram monitor for three days. Others tests were done in January and July of 1991.

For one, doctors put each side of Aissen's brain to sUeep at different times and asked her questions to determine which sides controlled functions such as memory and the senses. During a diagnostic surgery, doctors placed flexible charge card-sized plates of electrodes into Lori's brain. They used the plates to pinpoint the location of various brain functions. Finally, the doctors decided they would perform the surgery. They found a 18-inch benign tumor and removed about one square inch of tissue.

Even after six seizure-free months, the Aissens aren't ready to pronounce Lori cured. "We want to say it's over with, but there's still some caution," Marlene Aissen said. She and Lori's dad, Werner, still instinctively perk up when they hear their daughter moving a lot in the house because that's often indicated a seizure in the past. The Aissens said people should learn more about epilepsy and not be afraid when people have seizures. The cost of the two surgeries and tests will top $100,000.

The Aissens are still waiting for the paperwork to go through all the channels to find out what insurance will cover. By Kathleen McGillis Press-Gazette Lori Aissen had had it with seizures when she made the biggest decision of her life last year. She hasn't regretted it. Since age 4, she experienced seizures daily and, for the last five or six years, virtually every night. Aissen.

25, 2368 Greenwald did her best to live life as if she didn't have epilepsy, but she found it difficult at times. She took the drug phenobarbital for many years in an effort to control her seizures. It made her so tired she just wanted to sleep after school instead of eating supper. Some classmates didn't understand why she constantly felt tired and labeled her "druggie." Other hassles: Never getting an uninterrupted night's sleep, not being able to get a driver's license and not even being able to hold a baby unless sitting down. The moment of decision came early last August after a lifetime hoping for relief and years of tests to see if doctors could end the seizures for good.

Did Aissen want doctors at Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio to operate on her brain and try to remove an area that appeared to generate the seizures? If she did, should they take a conservative or aggressive approach? The doctors told her one wrong move might cause permanent paralysis. Her answer: "Go for it." "I had this since I was 4 years old and it was getting to me," Aissen said in a recent interview. She had up to 150 seizures a month in recent years. All went well and Aissen hasn't had a seizure since. "We had a miracle, I guess that was our miracle for the year," said her mother, Marlene Aissen.

Lori returned home two weeks later Beatty disappointed Bening not nominated HOLLYWOOD Warren Beatty is delighted by Bugsy's 10 Oscar nominations including his for Best Actor but admits he's disappointed that his real-life leading lady, Annette Bening, was overlooked by Academy voters. "As far as I'm concerned," he says, "she was the ingredient that made the movie work." Right now, Beatty and Bening are gearing up to head to Paris and physical therapy helped her regain strength. For a long time, no one knew why Aissen had seizures. Epilepsy is not a disease. It is a symptom of another problem such as a tumor, head injury, or one of hundreds of other things that can result in disturbed electrical rhythms in the brain that trigger seizures.

It wasn't until magnetic resonance imagery (MRI) technology was Beatty Gerds writes about TV and radio for the Press-Gazette. next week to help launch their Oscar-nominated Bugsy film in Europe and he assures 6-week-old Kathlyn will be along for the trek. "Where I go, we'll all go together," he says. From columnist Marilyn Beck reports. In debt? Then buy a $30 million sidewalEc It is a proven fact that the average American doesn't care about the federal budget deficit.

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