Marshfield News-Herald from Marshfield, Wisconsin • 3

Marshfield News-Herald Tuesday, February 20, 1996 i Page 3A; Cinema expansion receives green light ilk liifl IP 111 iff Inc. will be leasing screens located' in Wausau, Stevens Point and Red Wing, along with Marquette, to Carmike, the country's second-, largest movie screen operator. Rogers will continue to operate a newly expanded theater in Wisconsin Rapids. The change in local operation' means the company's plans to expand the three-screen theater herfc to seven screens can begin, Rogers! said. Plans call for removing two buildings that once housed Cole's'' Music Store, 413 S.

Central and the Spot Bar, 409 S. Central which have been purchased for the project. They'd be replaced with four more theater auditoriums. All seven auditoriums would be sewn into one operation with a reconstructed facade on S. Central Avenue featuring neon, reflective" glass and ceramic tile.

Rogers said the existing auditori: urns also would be remodeled. By JAMIE MARA Of the News-Herald Rogers Cinema has regained the rights to operate Marshfield's movie theater house and will move ahead with expansion plans immediately. Paul Rogers, president of Rogers Cinema told the News-Herald on Monday that a trade has been worked out with Carmike Theatres of Columbus, Ga that shifts control of the Rogers Cinema tripleplex to his firm. In exchange, Carmike will assume operations of a five-screen theater in Marquette, previously operated by Rogers. Although Rogers Cinema Inc.

has owned the downtown Marshfield movie property since 1972, the firm leased it to Carmike, which operated the theater. "We want to operate the theater in our hometown," Rogers said. "We never really wanted to lease (the local theater), but it was part of a package, in 1985, of theater properties we leased. My partner, John Koran, and I feel real good about this." With the trade, Rogers Cinema school Expanded theater A drawing depicts the facade of a remodeled and expanded Rogers Cinema movie theater operation in downtown Marshfield. Rogers Cinema Inc.

has regained the rights to operate the theater and will begin work soon to upgrade its existing three auditoriums and add four more. The project is expected to be complete by the end of June. orchester wants new in 1997. Parents who want to keep sixth graders in Dorchester said a smaller school environment is better for students. Miller also suggested constructing a completely new middle school, in Dorchester, but that option was rejected because of the added expense of a new building.

Vine said building the middle school in Colby was a decision made three years ago, by a committee of citizens, including citizens from Dorchester. "Our intent is not to take the schools away," Vine said. But, he said it would be irresponsible of the Board to spend money recklessly on a completely new building. Sharing band, chorus and an auditorium would be efficient use of resources. "The Board should strongly consider the compromise offered," Vine said.

"It would allow us to grow. It would allow all the schools to grow." He said the meeting allowed concerns to be aired and commended the people of Dorchester for supporting the compromise. The Board will meet with each of the communities again to educate residents about the referendum, Vine said. Meanwhile, it will work out the details of the compromise offered by Dorchester residents. In other the Board set substitute pay at $65 per day to make the district more competitive for a limited pool of substitute teachers.

It approved spending $3,000 on each of the elementary school playgrounds. That money comes from profits from the Spence Street lots. The Board officially recognized the Academic Excellence Scholarship winner as valedictorian Jim Luedtke. The scholarship is for four years to the University of Wisconsin. The Board also approved reimbursing one employee per building the $120 cost of EMT training.

The buildings do not have nurses and an EMT on site would help in the event of an injury or medical emergency. would stay in Dorchester until the community of Dorchester chooses otherwise. "This would provide both parties with what they want," Jantsch said. Board members asked if individual parents could decide to send their sixth graders to Colby, but Jantsch said the decision would have to be all or nothing. "This is a community thing," he said.

Vine urged the Board to consider the compromise as a way to meet the needs of the district while providing Dorchester an option to keep sixth graders in the local school. Students at Colby and Unity would attend the new middle school in sixth grade. Earlier discussions mentioned that the Dorchester students may have a difficult time fitting in if they enter the school a year later than other students. Vine said students from the Catholic school attend Colby in seventh grade and have no problem fitting in. "It might take the kids two weeks to learn their way around," he said.

The referendum, at a cost of $4.4 million, would build 10 classrooms onto the high school, as well as a gym, kitchen and library. Students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades would be taught in the new middle school. The middle school format would allow flexibility and would separate the younger students from high school students. The referendum also includes some funding for work at Unity and Dorchester elementary schools. The Board did approve a referendum, scheduled for April 23, for the $4.4 million amount.

It will discuss the compromise offered Monday at its March Board meeting. A decision setting the date and the amount for the referendum needed to be made to allow the Board the 45 days between setting the date and the election. The planning and construction are expected to take 16 months, Vine said. If the referendum passes in April students should be in the new-classrooms by the beginning of the school year By SARAH FUELLEMAN Of the News-Herald COLBY A cadre of Dorchester residents attended Monday's Board of Education meeting to express their displeasure at the location of the new school expansion in the Colby School District. -Despite their complaints, they also offered a compromise to the referendum.

A compromise District Administrator Paul Vine said the Board should consider. Dorchester residents were frustrated that much of the money spent in the Colby School District has been spent in Colby, they said. Jim Miller, a Dorchester resident who said he fought a battle to get a building in Dorchester 12 years ago, said the Board should consider building a school building in Dorchester. Miller said the community of Dorchester is growing and will continue to grow with new industry. The school there needs a gym, a dining area, and extensive work to the kitchen.

"If we keep giving up we're on the short end of the stick," Miller said. Dorchester students don't get the same advantages as students in Colby, Miller continued. But, Nancy Marcot, the teacher in charge in Dorchester, said students there have the same advantages and are getting an excellent education. They are not behind their counterparts in Colby or Unity. The real concern of the 30 people who attended the meeting was that sixth graders in Dorchester would have to move to Colby if the referendum passes.

In answer to that concern, Jim Jantsch proposed the compromise to the Board. He said residents did not question that the Board wants to do what is right for students. "We want what's best for the kids and best for the community," Jantsch said. "We may disagree on how to do it." The compromise would fund all the rooms proposed at the high school to construct a separate middle school. In return, the Board would sign a written guarantee that sixth grade students Recreation facility plans to be aired A special meeting of the Parks Recreation and Forestry Committee will be held at 6 tonight in the Council Chambers at City Hall Plaza.

The Committee will hear a presentation by Strand Associates, Inc. the designers of the proposed Central Park recreation facility. The firm is expected to detail the modifications to their design to allow for increased drainage at the Park, necessitated by the Highway 13 Boulevard project. At a meeting two weeks ago, Parks and Recreation Director Ed Englehart told the Committee changes would have to be made, including water retention areas on the facility's ice rink and an area of the largest of the four baseball diamonds planned at the park. Englehart said to the best of his knowledge, the design firm's plans indicate that water would only collect in the detention areas during severe storms which, statistically, occur once or twice a decade.

Purse is stolen from motel room Theresa Schauer of Clinton, Iowa, reported that sometime between 9 a.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. Sunday her purse was taken from her room at the Marshfield Innkeeper. The purse was valued at $100 and reportedly contained $100 in cash and credit cards. Officials at Boucher's T.V.

and Radio reported that sometime between 5 p.m. Friday and 9:30 a.m. Monday, someone stole a marine CB antenna that was installed on the side of the business. The antenna was valued at $60. Grants awarded to Owen police OWEN The police department in Owen-Withee recently received grants totaling $4,000.

The federally funded grants are given through state agencies. The Wisconsin Department of Transportation and Safety gave a grant of $3,000 to fund the Safe and Sober program. The program promotes the use of seat belts as well as alcohol abuse prevention. The department also received $1,000 for bicycle safety. The grant will be used for the bicycle rodeo, according to Police Chief Tom Meckley.

That program, to be held in the spring, will promote the use of helmets. Bicycle helmets also will be available for reduced rates. DNR plans series of info meetings RHINELANDER During the last week in February, the Department of Natural Resources will be holding informational meetings to discuss deer herd issues with Conservation Congress delegates, Land Conservation Committee members from each county, Regional Task Force members and other appropriate stakeholders. The purpose of the meetings is to discuss the current deer herd status, possible impacts of winter severity on the deer herd, potential ranges of quotas and other deer-related information. All of the meetings are scheduled for 7 p.m.

and will be located as follows: Feb. 27 at the DNR Antigo Area Headquarters, 1635 Neva Road, Antigo. Feb. 28 at the Rhinelander-Oneida County Airport Terminal (lower level). Feb.

29 at the DNR Wisconsin Rapids Area Headquarters, 473 Griffith Wisconsin Rapids. Warrant results in man's arrest A 19-year-old Marshfield man was arrested by Marshfield police officers at 6:59 p.m. Monday at a north side residence on a Portage County warrant. Feb. 19, 1996 SuperCash 1-4-5-8-31-33 Daily Pick 3 2-2-0 Mate-ot-the-art digital sound and seating upgrades would be made, and new restrooms and carpet would be included.

i Rogers said some of the interior-work is beginning. Bob Nikolay" Pnnctrnrt inn nf MnrshfiplH will begin demolishing the adjacent buildinss in ADril. The entire expansion project should be complete by the end of June. i Rogers said negotiations are; linHpr wav with the citv to lnratf" additional parking in the area. Another 30-40 spaces likely would be needed to prevent movie-goers from taking up stalls used by not rir t- rf rt (nor ndarhw hi ic i tiAceoc he said.

Will 1 mull Vj---t mAiMa inlir-i-rr Replacement of latoralQ to be aired i by aldermen 111 UUC11U VJl UUIIV '111 H.l Will reconsider a measure initially dis cussed two weeks ago which would require replacement or clay and cement sewer laterals during street reconstruction projects. At the Feb. 6 meeting, worKs Director uavia raien pre- cntfH a nrrlinQnA fhtinir. which mandates the replacement tne oia laterals. tiay ana cement laterals are suspected to contribute to the amount of water treated at the sewage treatment plant.

Patek also' said the change would reduce the newiy ount street in oraer to repair a broken lateral. Board members asked Patek to re-write the ordinance to state specifically the situations in which the laterals would be changed and I 1 IJ 1 pliwvv uiut.li ui ins luitiai nuuiu ifv replaced. The Board will also consider annrnvrtl nf rpvmnnc nf thf Park Master Plan presented by- Strand Associates, the designing the project. Those revi-, sions will be discussed at a SDecial meetine of the Parks. Recreation and Forestry Committee which will- Public Works meeting will begin immediately after that meeting.

A WHITE ilss JL .11 I AGCO TOUGH? v. Kill We II see you at the Marshfield, Wl NorthwayMall J-5 Farm Show! Funding concerns MSTC Board Assault reported Officials at Junior High reported that a 14-year-old Marshfield female was assaulted by another 14-year-old city female last Tuesday morning in a hallway at the school. The suspect is being referred to the Department of Social Services for battery. WISCONSIN RAPIDS Due to the uncertainty of 1996-97 funding from several federal job-training programs, funding for personnel hired under these programs may or may not be available, the Mid-State Technical College Board was told Monday night. Anticipated reduction in funding has caused MSTC to issue nonrenewal notices to five staff members hired through federal projects.

When actual allocations are appropriated, staff will be reinstated based on available funds. MSTC President Brian Oehler said, "It is particularly painful to issue non-renewal notices to employees who have served the college efficiently and well. Administration is, however, in the Wood County Circuit Court and heard a report on the process for developing the 1996-97 college budget. As a discussion item, Board members examined the John Carver "policy governance" model of Board leadership which has been implemented by a number of Wisconsin technical college boards. The Carver model focuses on boards being proactive and futuristic in practice, with an orientation towards "ends" or results such as values and vision, mission and outcomes, rather than the "means" to that end.

The Board will continue the discussion of this and other models as Board members work through the process, concentrating on vision and mission for the college. Diaz, 24, both of 401 N. Cherry pleaded innocent to manufacturing marijuana and possession of marijuana with intent to deliver. Police reportedly found marijuana, marijuana plants, a scale, a fan and grow lights at Self's and Diaz's residence last fall while investigating a hit-and-run automobile accident. Cases transferred Two cases were transferred to Branch 1 in Wisconsin Rapids for preliminary hearings.

Anastazy K. Sikorowski, 77, of 11318 Highway 10 West is charged with four counts of first-degree sexual assault against a girl who was less than 12 years old. Police say Sikorowski had sexual contact with a now 16-year-old girl on several occasions in the mid and late 1980s at his town of Auburndale residence. position of protecting the financial interest of the college by issuing the legally required notices of nonrenewal. "In the past, MSTC has mized the use of federal funds in serving large numbers of students under targeted programs.

"We do also anticipate that a significant number of students will no longer be able to attend college because of the effects of the proposed W2 (Wisconsin Works) legislation." In other actions, the Board voted to request approval from the Wisconsin Technical College System Board to offer the related instruction component of the apprenticeship indenture for the ABC bricklayingmasonry trade and drug abuse evaluation. Found guilty Daniel J. Richard 20, Hewitt, was found guilty of being on a licensed premises while underage and was fined $387.50. He was ticketed for being at the former Shenanigan's on Nov. 4.

No contest pleas Scott A. Treglowne, 22, of 1521 S. Locust Ave. pleaded no contest to battery and disorderly conduct amended from a charge of battery to a police officer. He was placed on probation for 18 months, fined $386 and must undergo an alcohol and drug abuse evaluation and other counseling.

Treglowne was accused of twice pushing an officer against a door Oct. 14 at the Marshfield Police Department. Innocent pleas Lisa L. Self, 18, and Jason K. mum j3i Drunken driving Richard J.

Dakota 33, Vesper, pleaded no contest Monday morning in Wood County Circuit Court to drunken offense and operating after revocation related to drunken driving-third offense and was sentenced to 80 days in jail. Dakota also was fined $2,182.23, had his driver's license suspended for 14 months and must undergo an alcohol and drug abuse evaluation. A charge of displaying unauthorized registration plates was dismissed. Daniel J. Fagan, 21, of 409 S.

Cherry Ave. pleaded no contest to drunken driving and was fined $687.50. He alo had his driver's license suspended for eight months and was ordered to undergo an alcohol CENTRAL WISCONSIN CO-OP 106 S. Peach, rxi 715-387-3734 or 1-800-944-5429 MS AGCO r5snl allis I.