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2 CHICAGO TRIBUNE METRO SECTION2 By Joseph Sjostrom Tribune staff reporter The Boy Scouts organization in Chicago has proposed a partial reversal of earlier plans to sell part of its Owasippe Scout Reservation, a sprawling campground in Michigan, where area Scouts have attended summer camp since 1911. Michael Hughes, the recently installed president of the Boy Scouts Chicago Area Council, urged, in an open letter, cooperation between the Scouts, Blue Lake Township, where the camp is located, and activists in a campaign to preserve Owa- sippe as a campground. truth of the Hughes wrote, that both the Scouts and the township are spending lots of money on lawyers that could be better spent planning a future for the township that includes The Chicago Scouts council had been planning to have the 7- square-mile campground near Montague, rezoned so they could sell part of it to developers to make up for deficits and declining camp attendance. But the plan went awry. First the Blue Lake Township board last June denied a request to rezone the land for development, then the Chicago council filed lawsuits in federal and Muskegon County, courts to overturn the denial.

The plan also generated animosity among officers, board members and adult members of the Chicago council, which owns Owasippe. That in turn spawned an impasse in attempts to elect new officers and board members in the annual meeting. Earlier this year, however, voting members of the Chicago council selected new officers and a new board headed by Hughes, the founder of a west suburban electrical design and contracting firm. Hughes, formerly vice president of the council, had been identified as a proponent of selling the Owasippe property. In 2005 the board voted in favor of a contract that the council subsequently signed to sell Owa- sippe for $19 million to an investor group headed by Benjamin Smith III, of Holland, Mich.

One board member said at the time that proceeds of the sale would be used to buy camp facilities closer to Chicago. Owa- sippe is about 200 miles away. The sale is contingent on a rezoning plan that would permit construction of up to 1,278 residential units on the property, according to township documents. But a year ago the Blue Lake Township board denied the rezoning request, and the Boy Scouts filed suits. Before 2002, the zoning classification allowed for the construction of 1,110 residential units, or 168 fewer than the plan, according to township documents.

But, according to the suits, the township changed the zoning in 2002 without the consent from a category that permits residential construction to a category that permits only recreational camps. Then earlier this month Hughes sent the open letterto newspapers in Montague with a proposal to take all, or almost all, of the proposed residential development out of the plan, and to offer most, or all, of the property to one or more The proposal seeks to consolidate Boy Scout camps on 1,000 acres on the south shore of Big Blue Lake and offer a sale of the remainder of the property to conservation buyers. The proposal said that if the sale is not successful, some portion of the Owasippe property would be developed with homes to generate funds for maintenance and operation of Boy Scout camps there. Truce on camp site sought New Scouts leader asks for cooperation Tribune file photo In a 1977 photograph, Boy Scouts in front of a campfire listen to a leader at the Owasippe Scout Reservation near Montague, Mich. Scouts have camped on the property since 1911.

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MAP AREA By Jo Napolitano and Hal Dardick Tribune staff reporters When Melanie Greenberg learned Tuesday that bones had been found in a state park with a help, she doubted they belonged to her missing cousin, Lisa Stebic. But she had to tell her family because the was being featured on the news. Greenberg said the story triggered a coaster of because of the possibility that the 6-week-old case might finally be resolved. The bones were found by Steb- friends, who had been directed to Silver Springs State Park near Yorkville by a psychic. When Plainfield police learned of the discovery, they asked Kendall County deputies to secure the area.

By Tuesday night, Kendall County Deputy Coroner Jac- quieMarcellisknew the bones were not human. By Wednesday morning, she had determined they were from a deer. Stebic, a 37-year-old mother of two, vanished from her Plainfield home April 30. That day, she initiated legal proceedings to try to evict her estranged husband, Craig Stebic, from their home, her divorce attorney said. There are no suspects in the case.

Police Chief Don Bennett said that as each day passes with no use of credit card or cell phone, the hopes of finding her alive diminish. likelihood that she just walked away is not a high probability at this he said. Bennett said his department has at least eight detectives assigned to the case. FBI agents also are assisting. respond to every issue or concern that we Bennett said.

things that we have done have turned up Police have searched property owned by Craig family in Upper Peninsula and talked to his sister in Iowa. They have also investigated Lisa use of a Web site to find a female workout partner and conducted voluntary and court-ordered searches of the square-foot Plainfield home on Redstar Drive. Bennett said that in recent days the nature of information provided to police has changed, coming more often in the form of theories and advice. An increase in the reward to $50,000 has not resulted in more tips to police, he said. The chief said he understands why people turn to psychics in trying times.

very skeptical, I guess, of psychics and their predictions, but at the same time, can sympathize with family members and friends who are doing everything they can to try to find he said. family, which has led a television, print and Internet campaign to find her, had mixed emotions about findings. problem was that it was on the news immediately, before anybody knew Greenberg said. meant I had to phone all of the family and let them know. That was very difficult, but in a case like this, it is to be expected that there will be false The bones reports brought relief and sadness some ways, you hope they have found something because then it would be Greenberg said.

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