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TIMES HERALD, PORT HURON, MICHIGAN WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 2003 BLUE WATER FORECAST Weather updates every 15 minutes at www.thetimesherald.com LOCAL FORECAST TODAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY High 40 High 39 High 42 High 40 High 30 Low 20 Low 33 Low 38 Low 30 Low 22 Becoming A mostly Cloudy with a Cloudy and Partly sunny mostly sunny; cloudy start to chance of rain brisk with a with a chance windy the new year chance of rain of snow YESTERDAY'S WEATHER High Low Precip. Water plant Temp. Clarity pH Alk. Hardn. Port Huron 43 33 .59 Lakeport: 0.55 0.45 8.0 8.2 81 79 Normal 31 18 I I Port Marysville: Clair: Huron: 899779 2.6 8.12 80 858; St.

1.9 8.1 78 1 Marine City: 2.3 8.0 82 101 Algonac: 1.5 7.7 86 Recorded at 8 a.m. Tuesday. KEY: Clarity: Open-ended scale. Lower numbers are 7 is neutral; Alkalinity: Open-ended scale. Tap water be up to 250; General: All figures can reflect temperature, WEATHER YOU clearer.

Average 1-2. Tap water 0.05; pH: range 0-14. in 70s; Hardness: Open-ended scale. Tap water can precipitation and pollution. Air quality index: Good; Solunar: Minor a.m.

Major a.m. Minor p.m. Major p.m. 38, fine particulate. Today: 12:00 6:00 12:10 6:20 an UV Risk index: 1 (mini- Thursday: 12:35 6:30 12:40 7:00 mal) Friday: 1:15 7:20 1:30 7:40 Best times for hunting and fishing, based on moon and sun.

STATE FORECAST LAKES TOMORROW EXTENDED Lake Huron: Lower Peninsula: West gales become Sault Ste. 29 It will be cloudy south, northwest 15 to 25 partly cloudy north Friknots tonight. West day; highs 40 to 46. winds 10 to 15 Cloudy Saturday; highs knots back south 37 to 43. Partly sunny Thursday.

Traverse 37 Sunday, highs 27 to 32. Lake St. Clair: City A daily chance of rain. West winds fall to Saginaw 39 1 Upper Peninsula: 10 to 20 knots Grand 41 Cloudy Friday and Saturtonight. Southwest day, a chance of rain and winds turn variable snow; highs near 35 Fri10 knots or less Detroit 42 day, 29 to 34 Saturday.

A Thursday. chance of snow Sunday. NATIONAL FORECAST Bands separate high temperature zones for the day. 20s- 40s 30s 20s 10s 30s 30s 20s 30s 40s 30s 40s 40s 50s 40s 50s 50s' 40s 60s 60s 50s 60s 60s -Os -70s Os -70s -10s 80s 20s -30s 70s- -40s FRONTS: 80s 2003 AccuWeather, Inc. COLD WARM STATIONARY Pressure: High Low Showers NATIONAL ROUNDUP Tues.

Hi Lo 45 36 Albuquerque 41 24 Anchorage 33 26 Atlanta 54 39 Atlantic City Boise Boston Chicago Dallas-Ft Worth Denver Des Moines Fargo Honolulu Houston Kansas City Las Vegas Los Angeles Memphis Miami Beach Milwaukee New Orleans New York City Oklahoma City Orlando Phoenix Pittsburgh Portland, Ore. St Louis San Francisco Seattle Rain T-storms Flurries Wednesday Pre Hi Lo Ottk .07 44 29 PCloudy 50 26 Cloudy .08 24 18 Clear .20 59 33 PCloudy .05 50 31 Clear .11 35 25 Snow 45 34 Clear .03 58 28 Clear 40 30 Clear .01 61 30 Clear 65 41 PCloudy 51 22 PCloudy 37 24 PCloudy 17 3 PCloudy 80 68 Rain 65 42 PCloudy 47 31 PCloudy .25 52 32 PCloudy 61 46 PCloudy 60 36 Clear 78 66 PCloudy 38 28 PCloudy 66 45 PCloudy 49 36 PCloudy 62 34 PCloudy 77 56 Cloudy 65 45 Cloudy .30 48 27 PCloudy 38 31 Snow 51 37 PCloudy 47 55 42 PCloudy 40 32 Snow .03 52 33 Clear Snow Ice Sunny Pt. Cloudy Cloudy GLOBAL Thurs. High Low Wthr Hi Lo Ottk Athens 59 54 Rain 38 27 Cloudy Bangkok 90 71 Cloudy 49 32 Cloudy Beijing 42 21 Clear 20 10 Clear Beirut 67 54 63 36 Cloudy Berlin 43 33 Cloudy Cloudy 48 31 Cloudy Brisbane 81 62 Cloudy 36 31 Rain B'Aires 82 64 Clear 43 33 Cloudy Calgary 10 -6 Cloudy 61 30 Clear Caracas 78 67 Cloudy 43 24 Cloudy Copenhagen 39 31 Rain 67 31 Clear Dublin 42 23 Rain 63 51 Rain Hanoi 74 61 Cloudy 52 24 Cloudy Havana 79 61 Cloudy 45 24 Cloudy Hong Kong 74 60 Clear 28 11 Cloudy Jerusalem 58 41 Cloudy 79 69 Rain Jo burg 80 61 Cloudy 70 57 Cloudy London 39 36 Rain 53 33 Cloudy Madrid 56 44 Cloudy 55 35 Cloudy Manila 84 72 Cloudy 61 60 47 40 Cloudy Mexico City 69 44 Cloudy Cloudy Moscow 36 30 Cloudy 79 66 Cloudy Nairobi 78 55 Clear 40 23 Cloudy -New Delhi 61 41 Cloudy 73 52 Cloudy Paris 39 31 Cloudy 47 37 Clear Rome 55 48 Rain 60 46 Rain San Juan 80 71 Rain 77 55 Cloudy Sao Paulo 86 69 Rain 66 48 Cloudy Seoul 37 29 Cloudy 45 29 Clear Tokyo 56 42 Cloudy 41 33 Rain Toronto 48 37 Rain 54 36 Rain Vancouver 39 24 Cloudy 56 48 Rain Zurich 38 30 Cloudy 39 35 Rain 54 35 Cloudy SKIES, WEEKLY LAKE LEVELS Today: Daily mean levels for week ending Dec. 26; feet above sea level Sunset: 5:05 p.m.

Week's Record Record 30-day Level change forecast Moonrise: 12:57 p.m. Huron: 577.00 581.30/87 576.12/65 -1 Moonset: 1:23 a.m. St. Clair: 573.00 .00 -0 576.69/86 569.86/36 0 Tomorrow: Superior: 601.00 602.69/86 599.84/26 -3 Sunrise: 8:01 a.m. MOON PHASES NEW FIRST FULL LAST Jan.

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(USPS 438-700) We're online at: WWW.THETIMESHERALD.COM TOP Continued from Page 1A neighborhood. Anchor Bay High School history teacher Larry Smafield, 28, said his family realized what many other people did as well during the powerless days of summer. "I think a lot of us found out how dependent we are on electricity," said Smafield of Marysville. Until the real culprit was discovered, a faulty power line in Ohio, Smafield worried about the what-ifs. "Many of us thought it could be a new form of terrorism," he said.

The blackout left 50 million people in eight states and part of Canada without electricity. Slippery roads In his Christmas letter to friends and family this year, Fred Adolph referred to it as "The Great Ice Storm." On April 3 and 4, an ice storm CRIME: Continued from Page 1A membered the body in January. Investigators found parts of Trochio's body on Harsens Island and in the Clinton River. McCutcheon is in the Macomb County Jail. Donald Drake, Clay Township's deputy police chief, said the crime hit home for the usually quite island.

"But that our officers caught the man and he confessed, that was getting something positive from something very negative," he said. The St. Clair County Sheriff Department also still is trying to learn the identity of a woman's body found burning in a Dumpster in St. Clair Township in May. Police have ruled the death a homicide, but don't have much else to go on, sheriff Lt.

Mike Bloomfield said. Athletes charged In July, one current and three former Port Huron High School athletes were involved in a brawl on Thomas Edison Parkway that ended in the severe beating of a Port Huron Northern student. Isaiah Baker, 17, Adrien Brown, STORIES: Weather, war make the list sparked for four days." TOP LOCAL STORIES THE YEAR IN REVIEW 1. August blackout leaves 50 million people without power. 2.

An ice storm in April downs wires and causes widespread damage. 3. American and British forces launch Operation Iraqi Freedom. 4. MDOT buys London's Farm Dairy property in Port Huron, a lead-up to expansion of the Blue Water Bridge Plaza.

5. A November house fire in Algonac kills the three young Bindscheattel sisters. 6. The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Hollyhock arrives in Port Huron, replacing left 60,000 St.

Clair County residents without power and forced the sheriff department to respond to about 150 weatherrelated incidents of traffic crashes, downed wires and trees. Adolph and wife, Diane, spent the decommissioned Bramble. Meanwhile, the Home Depot store in Fort Gratiot sold out of 7. St. Clair County voters overwhelmits generators, and people for ingly defeat a countywide tax propos- days after the storm waited in al to fund the Intermediate School for extra shipments to lines District's Discovery Years program.

arrive. 8. Sara Ylen hopes to educate the public about rape by recounting her Algonac to Iraq Also generating reader brutal attack. 9. The Community Foundation of St.

response were stories ranging the Eco- from the November house fire Clair County partners with of St. in Algonac that killed three little nomic Opportunity girls, to the war in Committee Clair County and the James "Sara's Story," a package of C. Ache- Iraq. son Charitable Foundation to provide stories written by Mike Connell interest-free, home-improvement telling the story of rape survivor loans. Sara Ylen, also proved powerful.

10. Curtis Specialty Papers in Port Laura Peters, 83, said she Huron closes but restarts as Dunn hopes the story helps people. Paper Inc. in October. "It kind of got to me," said Peters of Algonac.

"I think she four days without power in their (Ylen) put up with an awful lot, Burtchville Township home but I really down in my heart felt got to observe electricity up sorry for her." close. "It was a beautiful area, but our wires were down and Contact Chris Sebastian at (DTE Energy) just couldn't get (810) 989-6273 or to them," Adolph said. "They Violent incidents dominate 2003 list TOP CRIMES IN 2003 OTHER NOTABLE INCIDENTS On March 9, Amanda Bowman, 12, of Port Huron was found drowned in a bathtub. A juvenile family member was charged with her death. The boy has undergone psychiatric testing to see if he is competent to stand trial.

A review hearing is scheduled Feb. 9. Three men forced their way into a home i in Marysville about 2 p.m. Nov. 24 and tied up homeowner Cathy Telegadas for two hours until her husband, Larry, a local restaurant owner, came home.

The men hit him over the head and fled. One man was arrested, but two others are at large. During the year, the St. Clair County Sheriff Department arrested about 18, and I Marlon Thomas, 19, are scheduled for a jury trial Jan. 29 before St.

Clair County District Judge Cynthia Platzer. A fourth man, Richard Field, 19, had his November trial date pushed back. Police said they were part of a group that started a fight with several students from Port Huron Northern High School In June, Douglas Allar, 53, of 20 people involved in several break- Grosse Pointe Park was accused ing-and-entering rings. In all, the of taking $690,000 from Port department solved at least 100 bur- Huron Hospital when he glary cases. worked as director of facilities management.

WRAPPING UP IN 2003 In October, Patricia Shade, 51, I Thomas Schuster, 45, of Port of Lexington Township pleaded Huron Township was sentenced in guilty to three counts of embezlife in prison without zlement and other charges after September to she stole $40,000 from the parole for stabbing his mother and stepfather to death on Dec. 26, 2002. Worth-Lexington Townships Ramon Russell, 32, of Port Huron Utilities Authority. Also, she was found guilty in November was sentenced Nov. 6 to 30 to 110 of stealing $90,000 from her foryears in prison.

Russell was shot in mer employer in Bloomfield the hip after he tried to grab guns Township in Oakland County. from police officers Dec. 31 after a Also in October, the Algonac drug-related robbery Dec. 29. City Council fired City Manager Though the crime happened late in Grady Holmes Jr.

for taking 2002, the case and trial grabbed $44,000 in unauthorized pay headlines throughout 2003. advances. In December, Linda Battagelon July 3. lo, 55, of Fort Gratiot was On Oct. 13, an Algonac woman accused of stealing $36,000 was stabbed several times and from Goodwill Industries in held captive in her home by her Port Huron Township.

Investison, Troy Miller, 30, for five gators believe she took more hours. The woman wrote "help" than $300,000 in the 20 years in blood on the house's window. she worked there. Contact Joseph Deinlein White-collar crimes at There were several embezzle- (810) 989-6272 or ment cases in the area. KETTLE: Bell-ringers exceed fund-raising Continued from Page 1A needy and senior and the parent organization.

If donations are able to meet the total season fund-raising goal of $270,000 by Jan. 15, Webster said the organization could begin repaying the loan and ensure demands are met and services remain uncut. The seasonal drive goal repre- OBITUARIES Special tributes purchased by family and friends To place an obituary: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Call 985-7171 Saturday and Sunday, 3 to 7 p.m.

Call 989-6225 Eileen V. Labatzky Eileen V. Labatzky ALGONAC Eileen V. Labatzky, 85, of Algonac, went to be with her Lord she so loved on Monday, December 29, 2003. She was born July 7, 1918 in Jackson to the late Samuel and Lillian Harmon.

She married Carl Labatzky in 1936 in Detroit. He died December 16, 1998. In her younger days, Eileen became a beauty operator, then a loving wife to Carl and devoted mother to her three children who meant the world to her. Later in life, Eileen prepared 100 children's meals each day for the Lutheran day school and volunteered on the election board. She also went back to school and received her high school diploma on the same day as her granddaughter, Ginger.

She was a member of First Evangelical Lutheran Church and sang in TO DONATE SALVATION ARMY DRIVE To donate to the Salvation Army Port Huron Citadel Corps seasonal sents about of the Salvation Army's budget, which is used to the choir. She loved to play the organ and sing the Lord's praises even in her final days, especially her favorite hymn "How Great Thou She will be remembered for her kindness, love and gentle ways, but most of all for her faith in her Lord. She is survived by two daughters, Carleen Budinger of Marysville and Luanne Latabzky of Fort Gratiot; a son, Mr. and Mrs. Ronald (Sue) Labatzky of Dayton, Ohio; six grandchildren, Ginger, Rick, Rhonda (Brian), David (Karen), Lesley, and Lisa; and two great grandchildren, Jacob and Bradley.

Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m. today in First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Algonac. with visitation from 11:00 a.m. until the time of service. The Reverend Gerhard Mau will officiate.

Burial will be in Oaklawn Cemetery, Algonac. Those planning an expression of sympathy may wish to consider the First Evangelical Lutheran Church, Algonac or Blue Water Hospice. Arrangements are by Pollock Funeral Home. To send condolences and messages of sympathy visit, pollockrandallfuneralhome.com Nicholas Revitzer Nicholas Revitzer CROSWELL Nicholas Revitzer, 94 of Croswell, MI, went to be with the Lord on Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003 in Evangelical Ums Available COMPLETE All Memorial and Funeral Services Available IMMEDIATE Alan R.

Jowett, Owner and Manager CREMATION: lowett Funeral Home 1634 Lapcer and Avenue Cremation at 17th Service Street. Port Huron, Michigan 48060 985-5123 fund-raising drive, checks may be made payable to The Salvation Army and mailed to 2000 Court Port Huron 48060. I For details, call (810) 984-2679. This year's goal: $270,000. help provide food, utility payments and transportation for the Home, Port Huron.

He was born to Frank Sr. and Margaret Revitzer on September 19, 1909 in Detroit, MI, and retired from General Motors Tech Center as a security guard. He is survived by his loving wife of 66 years, Marie Revitzer; his three brothers, Louis (Vi) Revitzer, Maggie Valley, NC, Clarence (Sarah) Revitzer, Capac, MI, and Richard Revitzer, Riley Twp; his sister-in-law, Elianore Revitzer, Holly, MI; and many cousins, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Frank Sr. and Margaret Revitzer; his step-mother, Emma Revitzer; two brothers, Frank Revitzer Jr.

and Joseph Revitzer; and his sisters-in-law, Rose, Shirley and Barbara. Cremation has taken place. A service in Nicholas's memory will take place at the Valiant Ministries Church in Croswell at a later time. Contributions may be made in his memory to Valiant Ministries Church. Cremation arrangements were by Smith Family Funeral Home-North, 1525 Hancock St.

Robert H. Rome Robert H. "Dude" Rome PORT HURON Robert H. "Dude" Rome, age 64, of Port Huron went to be with his family in heaven on December 29, 2003 in Port Huron Hospital after a long illness. He was born July 30, 1939 in Port Huron, and was a life long resident.

He married Edith Lester on March 1, 1958 in Gratiot Park United Methodist Church. They celebrated their 45th wedding anniversary this past March. Bob worked for the City of Port Huron in the Water Department for 34 years, retiring in April of 1992. He is survived by his wife, Edith Rome of Port Huron; son, Chuck (Anna) Rome Sr. of grams.

"It was getting really bad and it just kept getting worse and worse," Webster said. "This means we're getting really excited." Contact Angela Mullins at (810) 989-6270 or 56 42 29 22 55 39 56 50 40 27 62 54 62 34 52 18 51 19 16 3 82 72 59 34 55 27 45 33 65 50 53 29 80 64 38 27 57 47 53 43 61 28 80 55 65 46 35 35 35 27 55 29 53 48 34 25 54 45 Emmett; daughters, Charlene (Dennis) Rachwal of St. Clair, and Diana (fiance Randy Miller) Rome of Port Huron; son Jeffrey Rome; daughter-in-law, Vicki Rome; special grandson, Charlie Rome all of Port Huron; 26 grandchildren; 22 great-grandchildren; a sister, Wanda Pionk of Port Huron; and several nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, Bertram O. and Nettie Rome; two brothers, Bertram O.

Jr. and Denver R. Rome; two sisters, Bermuda V. Heidenrich and Kathleen E. Lopiccolo.

There will be a Eulogy reading at 8 p.m. Friday in the Smith Family Funeral Home-North, 1525 Hancock Street by his granddaughter, Sarah Rome. Friends may visit also on Friday evening from 4 to 9 p.m. Cremation will follow the visitation, a and a memorial service will be held at a later date. Memorials may be made to the wishes of the family.

Charline Williams PORT HURON Charline Williams, age 72, of Port Huron, died Sunday, Dec. 28, 2003 in Marwood Nursing and Rehab after a long illness. She was born July 14, 1931 in Risco, Missouri, and has lived in Port Huron for over 30 years. She married Nathanial Williams in New Haven. He preceded her in death.

Charline was a member of Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church. She enjoyed music, dancing and embroidery. She is survived by her son, Earl (Deborah) Cooper of Clinton two sisters, Pernello Cooper and Ernestine Pearson both of Port Huron; a brother, Frank (Hattie) Cooper of Port Huron; and a host of nieces and nephews. funeral service will take place at 1 p.m.

Friday in the Smith Family Funeral HomeNorth, 1525 Hancock Street with The Rev. Ben McClinton of Mt. Olive Missionary Baptist Church officiating. Cremation will follow. Friends may visit Friday from 11 a.m.

until the hour of service. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society. More obituaries, 5C.