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12, 2004 Montgomery Edition $1.50 1 1 Joshua, From left Callie Brittany Breanna Innathan JL Six high school students will share the fun and anxieties of their year with you. Lifestyle 1 LkJj jfrV! I Brandon vJ Still WETUMPKA'S FUTURE Voters stress unity, growth By Donna Pierce Adams Montgomery Advertiser dpadamsgannett.com NEW TECHNOLOGY New technology allows law enforcement to depict how kidnapping victims would look in present day. If you have any information about these victims, call the Alabama Center for Missing and Exploited Children at (800) 228-7688, or the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at (800) THE-LOST. AGE (then): 12 AGE (now): 33 Sherry Lynn Marier: height: 5-4- weight: 120 pounds Search continues for 1 5 children in Alabama 1 By Crystal Bonvillian Montgomery Advertiser cbonvfiliangannett.com alter and Shirley Arrington want closure. The couple and their family have been in limbo for nearly six years, since the day their 16-year-old daughter, Kimberiy, i I Jh A ,4, ONLINE ONLY Log on to and click on "The Advertiser's hurricane tracking center" to get more information about hurricanes and Hurricane Ivan.

disappeared from a Montgomery street. Kimberiy, the middle of five children, has not been seen since. "You feel like there's something missing," Walter Arrington said, gazing over at his 9-month-old granddaughter named after Kimberiy "You never really move on." No one in the family has forgotten Kimberiy, last seen Oct. 30, 1998, as she walked to CVS Pharmacy on Forest Avenue. If alive, Kimberiy turned 22 in May.

"I don't feel like she's dead," Walter said somberly. His wife Sherry was last seen June 6, 1984, as she left the First National Bank in downtown Greenville to get a soda from the gas station across the street. She was wearing a red plaid shirt, faded jeans and sneakers. Anyone with information about Sherry's whereabouts is asked to call the Greenville Police Department at (334) 382-3107. FA lMJiUm GE (then): 13 AGE (now): 19 riGCI Wngni.

HEIGHT: 5'9" WEIGHT: 115 pounds MISSING IN THE SOUTHEAST The numbers of children missing in Alabama and surrounding states: WETUMPKA During Wetumpka's city election campaigns, voters listened to candidates promise unity and progress. Now it's up to those elected to fulfill their promise to a city that has lacked productive leadership and experienced controversy for four years. The Aug. 24 city election set the premise of at least three new councilmembers and a new mayor in October. There are runoff elections Tuesday for the mayoral race and Districts 2, 3 and 4, which could lead to six new faces on the council.

In the last four years, residents have experienced infighting among Wetumpka Mayor R. Scott Golden and council members. The animosity led to the mayor being stripped of his powers to sign city checks and requisitions in June 2001. Thursday, the Montgomery Advertiser brought together a group of Wetump-ka residents for a roundtable discussion about how the city should move forward and what steps can be taken toward unity with the incoming City Council. Participants Quilla Mae Hollenquest, Felicia Peavy, Robert Rose Elizabeth Sheldon, John Pritchett and Barbara Jones discussed their concerns and dreams for their city.

Unity is a goal they all agreed upon. As Hollenquest simply put it, "They need to listen." "They also need to return calls," Hollenquest said. "They want to be mayor, but after they're elected agreed. "But she's not herself, because she would have contacted us," Shirley Arrington said. "We were very close.

Kim was a very loving child, always talking and smiling." Walter said the last time he saw his daughter was the morning she disappeared, before he left for work. The topic of conversation was Alabama Mississippi Tennessee Georgia Florida 15 13 30 40 144 Track the hour-by-hour paths of Frances and Ivan Find out where Ivan was last seen Forecast the storm's seven-day path Track water vapor levels throughout the nation Get the current wind radius of the storm Find out who is under a hurricane watchwarning See satellite Images of the storm Get a slide-show primer on how hurricanes develop Read the latest account of the storm from The Associated Press i The category 5 hurricane's new path forecasts it going farther into the Gulf of Mexico Staff, wire reports MIAMI The outlook for South Florida and the Florida Keys improved considerably Saturday as Hurricane Ivan unexpectedly jogged west near Jamaica and forecasters kept moving the storm's projected track farther over the Gulf of Mexico. "While this may be good news for south Florida, it is not so for other regions of the eastern Gulf Coast," said forecaster Lixion Avila of the National Hurricane Center in West Miami-Dade County. He cautioned, however, that the region was not completely in the clear and that the storm still was expected to crash into the state, possibly along the upper Gulf Coast near Apa-lachicola on Wednesday. By then, the now-super storm which built its winds to 165 mph Saturday could be reduced to a Category 1 hurricane with 90 mph winds, still dangerous but not catastrophic.

Evacuees continued their slow trickle into the Montgomery area Saturday afternoon. At least four people checked into the Days Inn on Troy Highway, and reservations for Monday and Tuesday are heavy. Mark Barnes at the Hampton Inn in Prattville said staff members there have not taken many reservations. Most of their traffic from the hurricanes has been from walk-ins. "A lot of people didn't make reservations," Barnes said.

Forecasters said the new projected track, much farther away than Hurricane Charley's path in mid-August, could keep nearly all of Ivan's weather well offshore as the storm approached the Keys and Mi- Source: National Center for Missing and Exploited Children Tips for keeping kids safe 2A Fred was last seen on Dec. 6, 1997, at his home in Tuskegee. Anyone with information about Fred's whereabouts is asked to call the Tuskegee Police Department at (334) 727-0200. VSmkAvlw A vmhmVah' AGE (then): 16 AGE (now): 22 Kimberiy Arnngton: height: 5 4- weight: no pounds uuu.h,i.l...ji1 mi I 1 -met' Christmas shopping. "I used to always take (the kids) to Goody's and let them shop for presents," Walter said.

"She was laughing and joking and in a good mood." That afternoon about 4 p.m., Shirley said, Kim left the house to go to the pharmacy for some candy and a soft drink. She reportedly never made it there. Montgomery Police Department Lt. Rickey Fennie said Kimberly's disappearance was first reported as a possible runaway Over time, however, it became more suspicious. "We've had a few leads and we followed up on them, but they all had negative results," Fennie said.

Walter said he's also hired private investigators over the years, but never turned up anything concrete about his daughter's fate. Kim is only one of 15 children missing across Alabama. Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Dorris Teague says INSIDE Survival Guide 4A Not all residents flee Florida Keys 4A ami-Dade and Broward counties. The south Florida forecast called for windy conditions tonight through Tuesday night, but generally, clear skies and only modest chances of rain. "This makes life a little better," said Bill Johnson, assistant director of Miami-Dade's office of emergency management.

"But we're not out of the woods yet." State and area officials decided not to order any ad-ditional evacuations, though they reminded Flo-ridians that the forecast could darken as quickly as Ivan Page 4A Growth Page 6A INDEX Business 11 Classified IE Coffee Break 70 Crossword 7G Editorial 10A FYI 2 Horoscope 7G Lifestyle 1G local, state 1. 3C Lottery 2A Movies 6G Obituaries 4C Sports IB Weather 14A Page designed by Chris Da) A Gannett Newspaper 72 pages Volume 1 77, Number 2564 2004 The Advertiser Co. Kim was last seen Oct. 30, 1998, walking along Forest Avenue in Montgomery on her way to CVS Pharmacy. She was wearing a gray Bugle Boy collared shirt, light blue Levi jeans with white and gray trim and Reebok tennis shoes.

Anyone with information about Kim's whereabouts is asked to call the Montgomery Police Department at (334) 241-2651 Missing Page 2A Central Alabama runoff candidates make final appeals For home delivery (334) 269-0010 800-488-3579 ELECTION 2004 24 years before becoming a state representative. "There are just too many abandoned and condemned houses in the city. I hope the people of Tuskegee will give me the tools to move this city forward." But Dunn isn't so sure the city would move forward under Ford's in the central Alabama area where all the seats within the municipality are up for grabs. The at-large and three city council posts finally will be decided Tuesday. In Alexander City, current mayor Don F.

McClel-lan will try to hold off chal- Candidates Page 2A "What I want to know from Mr. Ford is he was mayor for 24 years, so why is Tuskegee in the shape it's in," Dunn asked. "The choice (Tuesday) is to either go forward or to go backward. Tuskegee needs a forward and positive kind of leadership." Tuskegee is the only city By Kevin Taylor Montgomery Advertiser krtaylorgannett.com State Rep. Johnny Ford said he wants to clean up Tuskegee.

He may get the chance should he garner a majority of the vote during Tuesday's municipal runoff. Ford earned more votes Municipal runoff candidates 2A come away with the majority vote, which led to Tuesday's head-to-head runoff. "This city needs to be cleaned up, and the downtown area needs to be revitalized," said Ford, who had been Tuskegee's mayor for $1.50 three weeks ago over four other candidates, including incumbent mayor Lucenia Williams Dunn, who finished second. But he didn't TIT" i a 3 j. I mortoomfyadvrllsr.eom.