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'4A LOCALSTATE Tuesday, Jan. 3, 1995 Battle Creek Enquirer State GOP celebrates The pil Farmer Private citizens greet governor at inauguration I -(T Jfc 1 .1 Bill MillerEnquirer GUARD DUTIES: Col. Pete Kelly discusses an operations map. Pilot relies on skills learned in the Vietnam War I qav 1 Li: i By Macolm Johnson The Associated Press LANSING Michigan Republi-cans celebrating Gov. John Engler's inauguration mingled Monday with private citizens who braved frigid weather to shake his hand and gaze at the restored state Capitol.

'1 can't tell you how impressed I am," said Marilyn Young of Traverse City, a friend of Lt Gov. Connie Bins-feld who went through Engler's receiving line. Unlike four years ago, when Engler greeted people at the new library and state historical museum, well-wishers were ushered Monday through an ornate parlor and the governor's Capitol office. Also greeting people were Binsf eld and new Secretary of State Candice Mfller. "They did a real fine job of renovation," Jerry Kralik of Bridgman said after emerging from the governor's office.

As they approached Engler, people passed and often smiled at a framed photo of the governor's new triplets. "With this weather, they decided to stay home," Engler joked at a legislative brunch before the inauguration ceremony. It was held in freezing weather with gusts of winds and swirling snow. Their mother, Michelle Engler, joined the governor at the brundL At the brunch, lawmakers mixed with GOP movers and shakers to revel in Engler's landslide victory and the Republican resurgence nationwide. "We're really looking forward to Jan.

11 and the ability to control the agenda," said state Rep. Ken Sik-kema, R-Grandvflle, referring to the day the Legislature-reconvenes. "It's time to get to work. We know we have the opportunity. It's a "Let's get to work' mood." Some marveled at what the state did in Engler's first term.

'Tour years ago, I couldn't believe this," said state Treasurer Doug Roberts. "We're in the forefront on many issues." Associated Press FUTURE PLANS: Gov. John Engler delivers his inaugural address Monday. principles and "civilized discourse" when debating issues. He lauded Engler who, he said, has led "with vision and boldness." Engler, speaking briefly to the party faithful, also reflected the upbeat Republican mood.

"What a delight it is to be here with you again," he said. 'It's an exciting day for us." God is focus of weight-loss program cy on his part to be overprotec-tive could kill them both, he said. As of Dec. 24, Kelly had flown four missions over Bosnia. And it's likely he's been fired at.

"You see a little smoke here or there (below), and you don't know if that's from shelling or somebody built a fire." He has little time to think about what's going on on the ground. "As far as the Muslims and Serbs, you don't know who's who and what's what. But you just kind of observe what's going on. If U.N. troops get in a problem, we'll help 'em out.

"The only personal feelings I would add, is these are people who have been fighting for years, maybe centuries. You wonder, are you going to make a difference? You hope you are. You hope something will come out in what they're doing, the U.N. and NATO and so forth, with end up and these people will get together and live in peace. But you're skeptical, Kelly regards the mission so far as a resounding success "because we have not deployed like this in the past." He acknowledges some glitches in moving hundreds of people and 200,000 equipment across the ocean, but said the problems have been minor.

He said pilots get impatient waiting to fly. Missions are canceled because of weather or other reasons, and pilots do not like to sit around on the ground for days. But Kelly believes the 110th will see many more missions like this in the years ahead and at least some of its pilots are sure to return in the months ahead to augment other Guard or Reserve forces as they take turns with the A-10 mission. Chances are Kelly may be back, too. After all, it's hard to keep a fighter pilot on the ground.

Even if it does separate him from his family at Christmas. "You look around and it's tough on a lot of people," Kelly said. "So you can't feel sorry for yourself. All those thoughts enter into it, and you mark the days off and you live day by day." By Bill Miller Regional Editor AVIANO, Italy Col. Pete Kelly leaned over the metal picnic table inside the maintenance hangar and, on Christmas Eve, shared a little of what it's like to be a military pilot.

Kelly of Shelby runs one of Michigan's biggest tart-cherry farms, with help from his wife and daughters. But whenever he drives from home to the Michigan Air National Guard's 110th Fighter Group in Battle Creek, something happens. Around the halfway point in Grand Rapids, he says he mentally does a 180-degree turn and farmer becomes aviator. Many of the skills he acquired in the Vietnam War and has never forgotten return to help him supervise Guard pilots. Today, he's commanding the HOth's two-month tour in Aviano, relieving an active U.S.

Air Force unit from its Operation Deny Flight peacekeeping role in Bosnia. Things in Vietnam were different. Kelly was chief pilot of B-52's in 143 missions. Buzzing over U.N. peacekeeping units in Bosnia to help keep the lid on warmakers is a far cry from all-out war.

"Over there, we were going out dropping (bombs) every day. Here we're not, we're just ready to. There was a war there, and we were engaged in it, if you will Here, it's a whole different situation. But it's still political. It was political in Vietnam, and it's political here." At 49, he's one of the oldest pilots in the unit, but he says there's no arbitrary maximum age: When the skills leave, it's time to- stay on the ground.

Kelly impresses everyone as a gentle, caring man more like a kindly uncle than a military colonel. He's not afraid to openly show his emotions. At a Christmas Day dinner, he choked on tears as he said a prayer of thanks. The memories of Vietnam never entirely disappear. "I've seen my buddies in other rected in harmful directions, she said.

People who make peace with God and submit to Jesus' authority can fill the spiritual void that can lead to overeating, she said. "We teach you to replace your re lationship with food with a relationship with God," Shamblin said. Once they leam to distinguish between physical hunger and the "head hunger" created by spiritual emptiness; participants can listen to their bodies when deciding when and what to eat, she said. "Your body will cue you to a variety of foods," Shamblin said. Her program is notable among weight loss programs for what it doesn't have.

There are no forbidden foods, exercise regimen or weigh-ins. "We get off the scales," she said. "We don't let them bow down to the scale god." 3 1 hi ism 6f i 6i And others cautioned against expectations being too high. "AH the eyes will be on Republicans," said state Sen. Mat Dunaskiss, R-Lake Orion.

"It will be very difficult to come up with more." "Today is a day of celebration," said new House Speaker Paul Hille-gonds, R-Holland, in a brief ceremony at the brunch. He urged adherence to To get help For more information on Weigh Down Workshops, call 1-80O644-5208. "It works because you wind up establishing this awesome relationship with God," she said. "You eat when you're hungry and stop when you're full" According to Shamblin, the key to her program's success is its ability to help people stop stuffing their faces to meet needs other than nutritional. Putting things into one's mouth is a basic, God-given instinct, said Shamblin, a trained dietician.

Overeating, smoking, drinking alcohol, nail-biting and gossiping all are examples of the oral instinct misdi- Oahu, Kauai Maui April 17 28 12-Daysll-Nights Join DROP ZONE WESLET IliriS DAILY 12:30 2:45 5:00 7:45 9:30 MIXED NUTS DAILY 1:15 4:30 6:45 9:15 JUNGLE! EBOUK. KIT fiftmimafr HAW All B-52s shot out of the sky," he said as Guard members in fatigues walked by and a salamander heater roared off to the side. "I can't go to the wall (the Vietnam Veterans Memorial) without crying like a baby." But Kelly can mete out the discipline when he must. He has grounded pilots. He won't say for what and how recently or how often.

"It's not easy, because most are very good friends." He makes a point of flying at least once with each of the unit's pilots to get to know them better. A-10 pilots fly in pairs on all missions. He regards all his pilots as above-average. Establishing trust betwen pilots is critical, Kelly said, because after three days of orientation, "you must trust your life with them." A-10 pilots don't have the "hot dog" reputation of fighter pilots who fly the faster jets, but they're not that much different, he said: "They kind of live on the edge. "If you start thinking too mature, you scare yourself to death.

You're not quite as quick in the cockpit. There are certain chances you've got to take." For him and other older pilots that have had combat experience, the Aviano mission revives both good and bad "juices." "In the same way when I was 23 years old, some of it you really like, and some you don't like at all. You don't like getting shot at, you don't like dropping bombs and hurting people, if in fact you are. That part of it, you've got to learn to five with I guess, and some people can't. On the other hand, "you do like the excitement, you do like doing what you're trained to do.

You've got to play with your mind and your heart and everything else a little bit." The 1 10th as yet does not have a woman pilot, but Kelly would be glad to see one. Only in the past year or two have women been eligible for combat flying. Kelly's only concern is that the man who flies with her treats her no differently than he would another man. The slightest tenden watch the jets roll in and make sure they are pointed in the right direction, they would give the OK to fire the weapons at the target None of the HOth's A-lOs have used their weapons. McMurray hasn't seen any ground flashes on his trips.

"Most of it's smaller-caliber stuff which you won't see unless you happen to be looking in the right direction. i Flying over 10,000 feet high, McMurray said, "it's kind of difficult to see much detail, as far as damage to buildings and that sort of thing." He has seen the white-painted trucks of the U.N, peacekeeping convoys, though "quite a few convoys with relief supplies fatally shot out for New Year's Eve and returned to find their front door forced open and Myrick dead inside. Their baby was in a bedroom unharmed. The case is puzzling because nothing appeared to have been taken, police said. They said it appeared Myrick had played video games just before he was shot twice.

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They're usually on the main roads. "We stay high on purpose so as not to be kind of intimidating, but the people in Bosnia know we're there, up above," he said. McMurray, who is single, said he's a little lonely being away from home at the holidays: "It doesn't really seem like Christmas. But I suppose I'll make up for it. I miss family and friends at home." He said he talks weekly with his mother, Joan McMurray, in Portage.

He doesn't know if the A-10 missions are helping to stop the fighting. "It's an ugly situation. You just help where you can to bring peace to the area." in Ferndale average and recently took first-place honors in a Martin Luther King essay contest sponsored by the Michigan Chronicle, she said. "David was a homebody, your typi-: cal nerd," she said. '1 talked to him that night and he told me he agreed to baby-sit for his friend for a few hours.

He had done it before." Myrick moved in with a relative on Detroit's west side last year so he could attend Mumford rather than Detroit Osborn High School near his home, his mother said. MISSIONS, from 1A vsouth you'll see a large barn with a "red-colored roof and then on the south side of the barn are some "They talk you from the big pic-' ture down to the specifics, then we would simulate dry passes from "high altitude." The jet will "attack" the target, releasing no bullets or missiles but recording the entire mission on vid- eotape that can be viewed later at the base. "It gives the U.N. troops on the ground a chance to see what our passes would look like," McMurray said. Then, once the ground troops Baby sitter The Associated Press FERNDALE The fatal shooting of a Detroit teen-ager who was babysitting for a friend on New Year's Eve has puzzled Ferndale police.

David Myrick 18, was shot to death about 1 a.m. Sunday, police said. Myrick was baby-sitting a friend's 9-month-old girl. The Femdale homeowner, whom "police declined to identify, called police and said he and his wife had gone Think love. Meg Tim Robbins 5 "3 TlT-lA vvtuiei Matthau 1 V5T TOWNE CINEMAS DAILY 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:15 9:15 Maeaulay Cnlkinl TOWNE CINEMAS DAILY 12:30 2:30 4:45 7:00 9:00.