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FIRST, EDITION Inside If you need a haircut this weekend, you can get it done and benefit the Family Violence Center of Green Bay on Sunday. On B-3 SECTION ocal Records B-2 Deaths B-4 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1999 GREEN BAY PRESS-GAZETTE State Taxpayers get answers on school referendum By Elaine Katjh Press-Gazette ASHWAUBENON Taxpayers calling into Village Hall on Thursday night asked a variety of questions about the Ashwaubenon School District's $11.97 million referendum on the "It seemed real informative," said parent Conrad Schumitsch, who attended the meeting and asked about financing for the project. The referendum would cost a homeowner 81 cents per $1,000 of equalized valuation. The project includes: a Tuesday, Nov. 2 ballot.

During an electronic town hall meeting, residents focused on how the money would be spent on improving Ashwaubenon High School, and how much would come out of their wallets over the 20-year financing period. the six-member panel of school representatives who presented the referendum plan and answered questions from callers. "I want it so the other kids coming up can meet their fullest potential," Rebecca Schumitsch said, citing overcrowded science rooms and athletic facilities. Only a few residents attended in person, while phone volunteers answered about 30 calls, taking one or more questions for the panel. Callers, who remained Please see School, B-2 new science wing with eight classrooms, a new gymnasium complex, new library and expansions for music, technology education and the auditorium stage.

Schumitsch said the students need these additions. His daughter, Rebecca, a high school senior, was on 'Pride' mattered to biographer siraoir Mm Hi ODD KMMfifflin Retailer may build near proposed Woodman's jj BRIEFLY BROWN COUNTY Man to face trial in fraud case A man who posed as a member of the shock rock band Marilyn Manson and allegedly ran up bills of $2,343 in Green Bay will stand trial Tuesday, Dec. 14. Robert Weiner, 29, pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of credit card fraud and misappropriating personal identification. Police said he is suspected of other fraud cases nationwide.

He went by aliases including Robert Westbrook, Sara Lee Lucas and Jack Ripper. A criminal complaint said Weiner left a $1,817 limousine bill and $526 hotel tab in a two-day stay, which included stops at a casino and strip club. Royale Limousine picked him up at Austin Straubel Airport on Sept. 27. The driver was told to hold up a sign that said "Marilyn Man-son." The eight-passenger limo was to have a bottle of Jaegermeister liquor.

Weiner's VIP tour unraveled after a Fort Worth man reported unauthorized purchases on his credit card, it said. SHAWANO COUNTY Officials looking for sex offender Authorities continue to look for a twice-convicted sex offender who walked away from a halfway home in Shawano on Saturday. The Shawano County Sheriff's Department said Thursday that Anthony Russell, 32, still has not been found. He has been convicted of forced sexual assault on a 15-year-old male and an adult male. He is described as 5 feet 8 inches tall, weighing 200 pounds, with brown eyes and brown hair.

He has a shaved head and a panther tattoo on his shoulder, according to the Shawano-Menominee County Core Team, which includes representatives from local law enforcement, the Shawano-Menominee County District Attorney's Office, Shawano and Menominee county lawyers and the state Department of Corrections. Those with information about Russell are asked to call the Shawano Police Department at (715) 526-6117 or their local law enforcement agency. Staff reports 1 I -1 ft Lombardi was a great story, author says By Jean Peerenboom Press-Gazette Vince Lombardi turned the American fable on its end. Usually it's the smalltown kid who goes to the big city and makes good. Here's the city kid who came to small town Green Bay and left a legend, said biographer David Maraniss, author of When Pride Still Mattered.

Maraniss, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and Washington Post journalist, talked Thursday about Lombardi during the second of the Local History Series presentations at the Brown County Library. More than 550 people attended. "I saw in Lombardi an incredible story, and it's always the story that intrigues me," Maraniss said. Once he started writing, the words flowed. "Nothing meant more to me than the chapter called 'Ice' (on the Ice Bowl).

I stayed up 48 straight hours writing that one." Contrary to popular myth, Maraniss said, "Winning wasn't everything to Vince Lombardi. Striving to be excellent was." That fascinated Maraniss. When Pride Still Mattered, which was released in September, is in its fourth printing, said Roger Williams of Simon Schuster. While sales are stronger in Wisconsin, it is a best seller everywhere. It is No.

12 on the Publisher's Weekly and Wall Street Journal lists this week. "We expected it to sell well, but it still caught us by surprise. It started selling faster and sooner than we expected," Williams said. Maraniss said he wasn't surprised. "I knew if I could get it out there, it'd be good.

It's a fabulous story." Dave Strom agreed. He knew Lombardi when he was in Green Bay and attended the program for the "promise of an interesting story" John Jones, senior vice Pep rally By Kelley Deegan Press-Gazette Parents will have a chance to see students perform and to learn about helping their children develop assets at the Partners in Education Parent Pep Rally next week. The rally is free and open to the public. "I find that it's full of a lot of helpful hints and things that people should do to keep the lines of communication open with their children," said B.J. Mory-Barber, mother of an Ashwaubenon High School senior.

'7 I break ground this year on the development, which in-. eludes lots for 28 single-fami-; ly homes. "Everything we develop will be single-family," said Bret Backus, of Woodman's development team. He assured the 20 residents at Thursday's meeting that duplexes were not part of Woodman's plans to create a buffer between existing homes and the development. Gander Mountain has 25 other stores in the upper Midwest.

The one closest to the Green Bay area is in Ap-pleton, near another Woodman's Food Market. Five other stores are in the works for this year, including projects in Janesville, German-town and Franklin, as well as Toledo and Niles, Ohio. "We are a preferred developer for Gander Backus told residents. "We work with them when we have available property in our developments." Gander Mountain which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1996, was bought by Minneapolis-based Holiday Companies later that year. Most of the discussion Thursday revolved around the size of a berm designed to buffer homes on Memori-, al Drive on the north edge of the development.

That commercial development is the second part of the project. No timetable or tenants have been discussed yet. Originally, the berm was designed to be 20 feet tall and covered with grass, but Please see Howard, B-2 If you want to go The Partners in Education Parent Pep Rally will be held from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday at Ashwaubenon High School, 2391 S. Ridge Road, Ashwaubenon.

Registration and refreshments will be offered from 7 to 7:30 p.m. The program, including a presentation on developmental assets, will be from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. children is well received. "I think people get scared when you only talk about problems," she said. By Andy Nelesen Press-Gazette HOWARD A Gander Mountain sporting goods store could be part of a planned Woodman's Food Market development on the village's south side.

At an informational meeting with residents Thursday where developers talked mostly about berms and trees news surfaced of the Wisconsin-based sporting goods retailer. "Nothing has come forward to Village Board about additional development, other than the grocery store and the gas station," said Village President Bob Strazishar. "It would definitely bring diversity in the area, and that would be very positive if Woodman's would be able to secure Gander Mountain." Developers did not have specifics Thursday about the store, but said it would occupy the parcel immediately east of the proposed Woodman's near Wisconsin 29 and U.S. 41. Strazishar said building a Gander Mountain store would require little extra village approval, assuming the board signs off on the Woodman's development on Monday, Nov.

8. The $10 million grocery store plan is up for a final public hearing, approval by the village's Plan Commission and approval by the Village Board. The project has been tabled awaiting a developer's agreement and approval of final design details. Gary Fox, Woodman's construction manager, hopes to "And of course, our celebrity cheerleaders, which are school administrators," Schopf said. Mory-Barber, who's coordinating the administrators' performance as well as the students', isn't telling what dance the school leaders will be doing, but she did say it will be a retro dance.

More than the fun though, organizers hope parents will leave with ideas on how to build assets positive influences in their children's lives. Armbrust said discussion about what parents can do to positively impact their xperienc Holly BalsisPress-Gazette David Maraniss signs a copy of his book, When Pride Still Mattered: A Life of Vince Lombardi, at the Brown County Library on Thursday. president of the Green Bay porter. The subject matter Lombardi, but I learned Packers, said he attended be- and the opportunity to get it much more in the little bit I cause he has long admired signed by the author," drew read (in excerpts). It really Maraniss' writing at the Post, him to the event, he said.

"I hit home how much this "He's a wonderful re- thought I knew a lot about team means to Green Bay." on building assets for children LOTTERIES THURSDAY, OCT. 14 Wisconsin SuperCash -32 Pick 3 1-0-0 Pick 4 0-0-1-5 Cash 4 Life 39-71-81-93 Saturday's estimated Powerball jackpot: $34 million Saturday's estimated Megabucks jackpot: $1 .6 million Illinois Pick Three-Midday 2-3-0 Pick Three-Evening 9-2-4 Pick Four-Midday 5-7-2-0 Pick Four-Evening 1-6-9-7 Little Lotto 1-6-20-25-30 Michigan Midday Daily Lottery 2-3-7 Midday Daily-4 9-2-0-4 Daily game 9-4-0 Daily-4 1-0-9-5 Cash-5 10-11-13-28-32 Keno 7-20-30-36-37-42-43-45-48-49-52-61-62- 68-75-77-79 Comments or story ideas? Call Metro Editor Roger Schneider at (920) 431-8346 or e-mail i9o6 "1910" 00 from for parents She's attended the rally three years, and this time is taking a more active role, coordinating cheer and dance routines with about five area high school squads. "The purpose of it is just to encourage positive parent involvement in their children's education," said Nancy Schopf, vice president for education at the Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce, which oversees Partners in Education. Schopf said parental involvement tends to drop off dramatically during the middle and high school 1950 1960 will focus years. The pep rally is designed to reverse that trend.

In past years, 400 to 600 parents have attended. Several incentives encourage parents to come to the event. For example, schools that have the most parents present will earn cash awards for their parent groups to use in the schools. Schreiber Foods Inc. is providing the prize money.

"The children in our community are our future employees and anything we can do to support their parents helps our community out in the long run," said Nancy 1970 1980 Armbrust, Schreiber's vice president of education and community relations. She also said parents do better on the job when they're not worrying about their children. "Parents are so much more comfortable coming to work if they feel their children are doing well in school and in general," Armbrust said. In addition to the cash incentives, drawings will be held for four weekend getaways. Local bands and cheering squads will show their stuff.

1990 2000 Green Bay 's century years in 1 00 days a countdown to Jan. 1 2000, the archives of the Press-Gazette irm DIFFERENCE October 15, 1922 1930 1940 1920 illicit liquor." Now showing at the Bijou: D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation. "It has electrified the world. It ill make a better American of you." Adults 35 cents, Children 10 cents.

On sale in 1922: Boys' Knee pants, 98 cents, $1.48, The Continental. Griffith Entzminger corner of Washington and Main streets. Tomorrow: Oct. 16, 1923: Work stops on hotel's 10th story. A 19-year-old youth, charged with the theft of several items from a car belonging to Edward Allen, pleaded guilty hen arraigned before Judge N.J.

Monahan and was fined $100. "The youth told Judge Monahan that he had been drinking 'moonshine' and did not know hat he was doing at the time he committed the alleged crime." Federal prohibition officer Thomas Martin made raids here last week, arresting three men for "manufacture and transportation of 1.