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Mardi Gras parades get a rainy jump-start. Page 3B -She Qlimes CONTACT 459-3245 or newsshreveporttimes.com MONDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 2003 3 Id) jD) 9-1-1 call lands locals on 'Jenny Jones' Bar iglM Passenger shot in back while in car An unidentified 23-year-old Shreveport man was shot in the back early Sunday while a passenger in a moving vehicle at 1-20 and Market Street, according to police reports. The man and driver left the Players Club when, at about 3 a.m., shots were fired from another moving vehicle, the report stated. The victim's name and any other details were not released by police late Sunday. Kiwanis Club seeks acts for festival The Shreveport Kiwanis Club is seeking entertainers to perform during its annual pancake festival.

The Shreveport spring tradition will be held tant Chief of Communications Tonetle Lee, heard the tape of Burton's call shortly after the incident Lee said she makes a habit of recording interesting or abnormal calls from the previous day. When she heard that the Jenny Jones Show was looking for 9-1-1 calls for an upcoming show, the call Anderson took from Charles Burton popped into mind. Lee sent four different tapes to Jenny Jones Show producers. Anderson's tape was chosen and producers from the show had Anderson, Charles and Justin Burton and Justin's mother, KristaBurtmi Vflown in for the ,1 was apprehensive about going," Charles Burton said. "I didn't want to exploit my grand-kid or have some hero medal put on me." But the show was very upbeat and focused on promoting the 9-1-1 system and uniting 9-1-1 dispatchers with the people they helped.

Burton said. The three met backstage, but Anderson was struck by how cute Justin was as he walked out on stage during their appearance, the Jast one in the show. "I started to tear up.Andcr- son said. "It was really something." The shqw is scheduled to ap- pear sometime in the first quarter of this year, Anderson said. An exact date has not been determined.

By Seth Parsons The Times For more than a year and a half, the only thing Violet Anderson knew of Charles Burton was his blood-curdling scream for God's mercy. Anderson, a Shreveport Fire Department communications supervisor, was working an overtime shift on the afternoon of May 23, 2001, when Burton's frantic call came through her earpiece. Seconds before that call Burton's then grandson, Justin Burton, had a seizure during a bath and stopped breathing. When Burton found the boy, Justin was turning blue and lying just be- Click on this story at shreveporttlmes.com to hear the 9-1-1 audio. neath the surface of the water.

"Our policy is to ask if they want to perform CPR," Anderson said. "I don't give them an option. I just jump right in. If they don't want to do it, they'll 'tell me." Burton, who was already performing CPR, followed Anderson's more detailed instructions until Justin started breathing again. That was the end of their contact until just last month, when the two were reunited during a taping of the Jenny Jones Show in Chicago.

Anderson's supervisor, Assis .1 School Board eyes adding programs at Hosston school Offerings would help students stay in school or pursue GED, job skills exact location is unknown. Chadwick said Willis and Bullard became involved in an argument with Davenport, which turned into a physical fight, resulting in Davenport throwing a beer bottle in Willis' face, she said. Davenport began shooting at the duo, and Willis, Bullard and Blion ran out of the business, Chadwick said. "All three ran out and all went and retrieved guns out of the car," Chadwick said. Two of the men armed themselves with a shotgun and began shooting at the front and rear of the club, she said.

"Who did what is still being investigated," she said. The three men left the club and continued shooting toward it as they were driving out of the parking lot, Chadwick said. Chadwick said Sgt. Mike Gray of the Caddo sheriffs office patrol division stopped the vehicle on U.S. Highway 71 and arrested all three suspects without incident.

A handgun and a shotgun were recovered from the vehicle and Davenport's weapon was recovered from a cooler at the club, Chadwick said. By Kym Klass The Times A shooting at a bar near Vivian early Sunday left an employee dead and three people arrested on one count each of first-degree homicide and attempted first-degree homicide, officials said. Francis Mae Boxley, 55, address unknown, an employee at Bayou LaFouche Country Club on state Highway 2, known locally as Hosston-Vi-vian Road, was shot in the side when locking the back door after the shootings started at about 1 a.m., said Cindy Chad-wick, spokeswoman for the Caddo Parish sheriffs office. Chadwick said Boxley was taken to LSU Hospital where she was later pronounced dead. Charged with her death are three Shreveporters: Derrick Willis, 31; Davol Blion, 32; and Lericou Bullard, 24.

Monica Davenport of 28, of Gillam, was charged with aggravated assault. Jackie Holmes Anderson, 49, of Vivian, was shot in the hip during the shooting, but Chadwick said her injuries are not life-threatening. Chadwick said Anderson was inside the club when shot, although her Group to honor community leaders March 15 at the Convention Hal on the Clyde Fant Parkway. The event, to be from 7:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., raises money for various children's charities.

Aside from pancakes, sausage and liquid refreshments, the event will also include a fun run by SportsSpectrum, a car show and a high-schoolers' art show. The additional entertainment is being sought to round out the bill. Advance tickets may be purchased for $4 from club members and will be sold for $5 at the door. For information on tickets or entertainment, call (318) 221-6718. Singing course planned at LSUS The Division of Continuing Education and Public Service at ISVS is offering a course called "Everybody Can Sing." Participants will learn basic techniques to produce a singing voice and the art of singing in unison.

Jasmine Egan, former opera singer, will be the instructor. Hie course will.be held offered from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursdays, starting Feb. 20 and continuing through March 13 at LSUS. The fee is $29.

Openings are limited, and registrations will be taken no later than today. For more information or to register, call the LSUS Division of Continuing Education at (318) 798-4177, toll-free at (800) 290 2378, or visit online at www.lsus.educe. Officers fight to clean areas Police officers working with Area 2 Weed and Seed are taking a stand against abandoned vehicles, code violations and criminal activity in central, east and southeast neighborhoods. Since the beginning of the year the officers have participated in a quality of life improvement operation dubbed Operation TAC, or Targeting Area Concerns, Shreveiwrt police spokeswoman Kacee Margrave said. Ust month, the officers documented 939 code complaints, wrote 35 parking tickets, towed 27 vehicles and fielded complaints from 131 citizens, Hargrave said.

Their work also led to the arrests of four people and the seizure of illegal drugs, stolen firearms and narcotics proceeds, she said. From Staff Reports works with a calculator at 1 It would be easy to think there is a great weight on the shoulders of the Barksdale team members. Yet, in talking with hundreds of airmen over the years, some before the horrors of Sept. 11, 1 have learned one important tiling. And it's a concept expressed many times but very hard to grasp, until now.

THIS IS WHAT THEY HAVE TRAINED FOK This war, tliis fight, this threat, and tliis moment. Tliis is what it's all about. That training we hear about aD year-round, the occasional loud noises we hear in the middle of the night, the scream of the bombers' eight jet engines as they make their daily training flights Jeremiah Morris, 11, J.B. Harville School. And that's pretty impressive.

Especially when you consider the following. As home to most of America's B-52 bombers, the base deploys roughly 500 to 700 airmen in continual rotations supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. The B-52 bomber which has played a vital role in America's wars against foes from communism to terrorism will likely soar again in tliis pending effort against Iraq. Reservists will be called upon, the administration warns. The 917th Wing sent hundreds to serve in the first strikes of Enduring Freedom, and hundreds more remain ready if called upon.

1 1 By Melody Brumble The Times Hosston School, closed in May 2001 as part of the Caddo school district's campus reorganization, may become a separate school again. Hosston operates as a satellite of J.B. HarvilleOak Terrace Alternative School for suspended and expelled students and pregnant girls living in north Caddo Parish. The School Board may add two more programs to keep lagging students hi' school and re-create -Hosston as a full-fledged school with a principal. If approved, it would open with about 91 students.

The enrollment would fluctuate during the year because of the suspensionexpulsion programs. "We want to make it easier and more enticing for these students," said Mar-lene Ritter, Caddo schools general education director. "These are our potential dropouts." A survey conducted at north Caddo Parish schools in the past two weeks prompted 25 applications for the Options programs, one of those that may be offered in Hosston. Options offers a pre-General Equivalency Diploma curriculum and job skills training for students who can't pass the eighth-grade Louisiana Educational Assessment Program 21 test See SCHOOL 38 Over the last 70 years, neighbors of Barksdale Air Force Base have beeu privy to some big and awesome sights. The last couple of weeks alone offer great examples of that: the expected roar oftheB-52, but also the sputter of he Inside Barksdale licopters, the buzz of trucks loaded with space shuttle debris scooting on and off base.

Not to mention the. chatter of international news media interested in it At Michelle Pinkard Jim HudelsonThe Times Carol Headrick works at the computer the background during Headrick's class with Norris Jackson, 14, of Belcher as Friday morning at J.B. Harville Alternative Luster Caldwell, 14, of Hosston stands in School in Hosston. given every year, and is given to a group "that stands above all others," Price said. This year, she said, the base stood out because of its efforts in helping those stranded by Hurricane Lili and in the recovery of debris from the space shuttle Columbia disaster.

Hunt, pastor of Morning Star Baptist Church for more than 20 years, has worked extensively with youth and founded the Save the Youth Choir and Project Seek. He has served the other end of the generation spectrum to create a community-based feeding program for the elderly. He is also the moderator of the 13th District Association of the National Baptist Convention, U.SA "I'm very thankful such distinguished people honored me See HONORS 5B dale, business is as usual." A co-worker marveled at that thought In the face of terrorism, war, military readiness, how could the base perform as usual, he questioned. Agreed, they have a lot to keep them busy. But when the business of war is your business well, I am glad Barksdale is tending to it as usual.

Michelle Pinkard covers Barksdale Air Force Base for The Times. Her column appears Mondays. Write her in care of The Times, P.O. Box 30222, Shreveport, LA 71130-0222. Send fax to 459-3301.

E-mail to: insidebarksdalehotmail.com. By Diane Haag The Times A pastor, a doctor, a Jewish couple and an institution will be recognized by the National Conference of Community and Justice for service to the city and to promote unity between different aspects of the community. Tuesday at the organization's annual Humanitarian Awards Diiuier, the Rev. Murphy Hunt, Dr. Donald Mack, and Louis and Rose Van Thyu will be thanked for their work in the community.

The Pete Harris award, given to an organization, will be presented to Barksdale Air Force Base. "They are people who are active in the community and active in work that builds bridges in the community," NCCJ Executive Director Joyce Price said. The Pete Harris award is not tliis is what it's all about. And we saw them in action, too, didn't we? When space shuttle Columbia broke apart and rained down on Texas and Ixniisiana, Barksdale immediately sent recovery teams to support NASA And earlier, in Kosovo, Bosnia, and even Iraq B-52 bombers launched from Barkdale were the first to drop bombs in the Persian Gulf War and dropped the majority of the payioad over Afghanistan. So, it's no small wonder that Barksdale crews remain calm while the world zips into panic mode.

This is what they train for. A base spokesman said it best during that whole Columbia tragedy, "At Bark- arksdale, their only business is business of war those events and the recent Article 32 hearings regarding a "friendly fire" incident in Afghanistan last year. No question about it, the base is putting our little corner on the map in a bold and vibrant way. But, inside those heavily secured gates, beyond the spacious green golf course and past the 8th Air Force Museum, are highly trained, mission-focused professionals. As the administration marches toward a possible war against Iraq, Barksdale presses on.

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