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The Morning Call from Allentown, Pennsylvania • 9

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The Morning Calli
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Allentown, Pennsylvania
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COMMUNITY REPORT WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 18, 2004 B3 THE MORNING CALL Police: Argument between brothers leads to standoff Courtenay Campeau was taken to Grand View Hospital in West Rockhill Township for evaluation and later charged with terroristic threats, reckless endanger-ment, simple assault, harassment and disorderly conduct. He was arraigned before District Justice M. Kay Du-Bree in Ottsville and sent to Bucks County Prison under $25,000 bail. A preliminary hearing is set for Sept. 20 in DuBree's office.

McLaughlin said. After three phone conversations with Campeau, McLaughlin said, officers were able to persuade him to leave the house without the gun. "He seemed distraught, very angry and depressed," McLaughlin said. Police found the rifle, loaded with six live rounds, on Campeau's bed. The shotgun was in a storage locker where David Campeau Sr.

said he placed it after removing two live cartridges, court records said. McLaughlin said. According to court records: David Campeau Sr. tried to talk with his son about the argument and calm him down, but a little while later was told he also should leave the house. David Campeau Sr.

said he feared for his safety and left the house before calling police. Officers arrived shortly after 4 p.m., talked with the father and surrounded the house before beginning talks with Courtenay Campeau, ly before 4 p.m., Courtenay Campeau, 18, of 1559 Maple Road, threatened to kill his brother, David Campeau with a loaded double-barreled shotgun, Springfield Police Chief Brian McLaughlin said. The pair's father, David Campeau separated them and took the gun away from Courtenay Campeau, McLaughlin said. After telling his brother to leave the house, Courtenay Campeau grabbed a hunting rifle from a gun locker in the house and sat down on his bed with the gun in his lap, 1 Neighbors Crystal Evans, 9, (left) and Kaitlin Tyson, both of Allentown, show off their hoop skills. Hula Hoops first became popular in the late 1950s and seem to be making a comeback, both among youngsters and at exercise clubs.

Schuylkill County man gets IN YOUR TOWN QUAKERT0WN RECYCLED SENIOR CITIZENS will meet at 11:30 a.m. today in St. John's Lutheran Church, 10th and Broad streets. The guest speaker will be Lisa Walkiewicz from Grand View Hospital who will discus "Fibro-nomics for Better Living." Call 215-536-4426. A PROGRAM ABOUT THE CIVIL WAR will be held at 7 tonight in the Upper Perkiomen Valley Library.

John Kevin, a columnist with Hearthstone Town Country and a Civil War expert, will talk about field artillery used during the war. THE NEW MEDICARE PRESCRIPTION CARDS will be the topic at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Upper Perkiomen Senior Community Center, 517 Jefferson East Greenville. The program is free. For lunch reservations call 215-679-6550 by today.

GREEN LANE PARK NATURE CENTER will hold a "Shorebird and Wader Watch" at 6 p.m. Friday at the Church Road Fly Fishing Area. For information about the water levels before the program call 215-234-8497. HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE AND OLD COMPUTERS will be collected 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Saturday at the Upper Bucks County Area Vocational-Technical School, 3115 Ridge Road, Bed-minster Township. Items collected will include pesticides, oil-based paints, solvents, ammonia-based and caustic cleaning products, weed killers and auto batteries. Items not collected include latex paints, appliances, explosives, PCBs and tires. New this year is the collection of computers, monitors, printers, scanners, computer accessories and portable televisions. Call 215-536-4680, ext.

3400. A BEEF AND BEER NIGHT will be held 7-11 p.m. Saturday at the Main Street Inn, 313 Main Red Hill, with music by DJ 9-2-5. Proceeds will benefit sponsors Open Line and the Upper Perk Police Officers Association. Tickets may be purchased at Open Line, 425 Penn or at the Upper Perkiomen police station, 88 W.

Sixth Penns-burg. Call 215-679-8203. THE QUAKERT0WN BAND will perform two concerts Sunday, the first at 2 p.m. at W. Albert Reese Park, Park Avenue, just off Route 152, Silverdale, and the second at 6:30 p.m.

at Quak-ertown Memorial Park, Mill Street. In case of rain the concert in Silverdale will be in Penn-ridge Central Middle School, Routes 113 and 152, Silverdale, and the concert in Quakertown will be in Quakertown Community High School. THE CAROUSEL in Menlo Park, Fifth Street and Park Avenue, Perkasie, will be open noon to 5 p.m. Sunday and operated by the Perkasie Historical Society. For information about historical society membership call 215-257-5713.

A RACE FOR RESEARCH FOR NEUROFIBROMATOSIS will be held Sunday at Lenape Park, Constitution Avenue, Perkasie. Registration will be at 7:30 a.m. with a One Mile Kids Fun Run at 8:30 a.m. and a 5K Race at 9 a.m. Registration fee for the Mile Run is $10 and for the 5K is $15 in advance and $20 race day.

Proceeds benefit the National Neurofibromatosis Foundation. Call 215-997-7229or visit www. active.com. A PRESENTATION ON OSTEOPOROSIS will be given a.m. Monday in the community room of Grand View Hospital, 100 Lawn West Rockhill Township.

Marybeth McMurray, Women's Health Services nurse, will discuss prevention, limit of bone loss and screening and diagnosis techniques available to measure bone density. For registration, which is required, call 215-453-4972. THE PENNRIDGE SENIOR CENTER, 815 Chestnut Perkasie, will offer hearing aid cleanings by Jamie Biggs, a.m. Tuesday. Call 215-257-9692.

THE PENNRIDGE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE WOMEN IN BUSINESS will hold a luncheon meeting beginning with networking at 11:45 a.m. next Wednesdsay at the Rockhill Mennonite Community, 3250 State Road, West Rockhill Township. Georgia Donovan, "The Clothes Doctor," will' present Fashion Power: Maximizing Your Image for Career Success. The cost is $15 for members and $20 for non-members. For information or reservations, call 215-257-5390by Friday.

Springfield Twp. man allegedly threatens to shoot sibling. By Petvaiz Shallwani Of The Morning Call A family argument escalated into a 45-minute standoff with police officers Monday afternoon when a Springfield Township man became enraged and threatened to shoot and kill his brother, police said. During the argument, short Study gives idea to save open space It says smaller areas of higher-density housing are Milford Twp. key.

By Nancy Williams Special to The Morning Call Smaller areas of higher-density housing may be the answer for protecting ronmental resources and open space in Milford Township, according to a Temple University study. Township supervisors said many zoning constraints in the ordinances will protect such areas. "Under current zoning we restrict building in environmentally sensitive areas, we have protections for wooded areas, riparian buffers and restrictions for building on steep slopes," township solicitor Terry Clemmons said. The study was initiated by the Center for Sustainable Communities at Temple Ambler campus and paid for by an $80,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.

t-i i j. lie Muuy, wini.il uegau six months ago, used data on population growth and traffic and geological surveys to map out several futures for the township. In each scenario, the township was shown in a built-out final state. The most conservative map showed an increase of about 1,585 buildings. Supervisors stressed that the numbers in the report assumptions and shouldn't be confused with a real plan.

Temple professor Shirley Loveless presented the results and said Milford is ahead of many municipalities in planning for growth. "You have a comprehensive plan and regional planning which goes a long way," she said. Jeffrey Featherstone, an associate professor of planning with 20 years of experience with the Delaware River Basin Commission, put. together a summary of water demands and the ability to meet them. He recommended the township prepare a wellhead protection overlay district to ensure that water resources are protected.

"The practical applications from this report are the wellhead protection overlay district and the updated geo- graphical information system maps which can be used for future planning," Township Manager Jeffrey Vey said. Nancy Williams is a freelance writer. VIRGINIA MACUNGIE WOMAN DIES, SISTER IS HURT IN 1-81 CRASH A Macungie woman died from injuries Saturday and her sister was seriously injured when their car careened into the path of a tractor-trailer along Interstate 81 in Virginia, police said. Laura Wollenhaupt, 20, died after her car split into four pieces in the crash, ejecting her and her 17-year-old sister Amy, said Trooper J.S. Perry of Virginia State Police.

"It was the worst I've ever seen," Perry said of the accident. Laura Wollenhaupt was following her parents south in the highway's left lane when she tried to move into the pervaiz.shallwanianicall.com 215-529-2613 Cesar Laura The Morning Call in 1993 killing Jacqueline Marie Geist, testified he came home around 2:30 a.m. July 8, 1993, with a cut on his leg. He was wearing tight shorts and said he had thrown away the new pair of jeans he was wearing because they were bloodied from the cut, which he said was caused by falling on a broken beer bottle. Geist testified that after she took Huth to the hospital on July 8, 1993, to have his wound looked at, he told her that if the police asked questions, she should say he was with her the previous evening.

Huth's mother, Laverne, testified that on the morning of July 8 she found bloody rags in the trash can at her home and found her 11-year-old grandson's shorts were missing. Huth and his mother lived in the same town. Huth's brother, John Huth, also testified. He said he was driving along Silver Creek Road late at night on July 7, saw his brother's car along the road, and then saw his brother come out of the woods wearing bloody pants. John Huth said his brother told him he had fallen on a beer bottle and didn't want any help.

"When my brother drinks, I'm afraid of him, and I didn't want to stick around," John Huth testified. chris.parkermcall.com 610-379-3224 Letterhouse was arraigned before District Justice Joseph Barner in Lower Nazareth Township and released on $4,000 unsecured bail. BETHLEHEM Criminal mischief Reported Monday by Ronald Horvath of Historic Bethlehem Partnership; large sign in front of the Partnership's re-created smithy in the 400 block of Main Street destroyed; $500 damage. Theft Reported Monday by Ryan Lutsko of Freemansburg; $988 worth of stereo equipment, CDs and other electronic equipment taken from vehicle in first block of Goepp Street. Fraud Reported Thursday by Silvestre Felix of AF Welding of Bethlehem; four business checks totaling $1,866.51 fraudulently cashed in Allentown on July 14.

Round and round night was not James J. Buglia, but a person who did something to me 30 years ago," Huth told Dolbin. Buglia was "in the wrong place at the wrong time, looking for the wrong thing from the wrong person," Huth said. Buglia "was looking for someone gay, and I just flipped," he said. Sitting next to his public defender, Paul Domalakes, Huth accepted a "forgiveness cross" given to him by Bu-glia's mother, Cecelia.

"I forgive him," she said as she wept in the arms of her daughter. In a plea bargain that Assistant District Attorney Charles Bressi Jr. said was approved by the Buglia family, Dolbin dropped charges of robbery, theft and tampering with evidence. He also merged a charge of aggravated assault with the third-degree murder charge, meaning there would be no added time on that charge. Buglia's body was found along a dirt road in Tremont Township on July 8, 1993.

He had been stabbed 10 times with what Huth described as a 6-inch pocket knife. Buglia's murder baffled investigators for years. He was last seen leaving a birthday party at a friend's home in Pottsville on July 7, 1993. According to testimony, Buglia was clearly drunk and left the party alone, driving away in his pickup truck on POLICE REPORT adding that she was studying at Columbia International University in Columbia, S.C., to become a minister. LEHIGH TOWNSHIP POLICE: MAN THREW HIS WIFE OUT OF MOVING TRUCK A 33-year-old Walnutport man slapped his wife several times Friday night while she was driving her truck, threw her out of the truck three times once while it was moving and continued slapping her until Lehigh Township police arrested him while he had his arms around her neck, police said.

Kevin Jay Letterhouse, 33, of the 4400 block of West Mountain View Drive, was charged with simple assault, and round they go up to 40 years the wrong side of the street. He didn't make it back to the home he shared with his mother. The next afternoon, his body and truck were found along a dirt road in a mine reclamation area in Tremont by a state mine inspector. Buglia had been stabbed, and his wallet was missing. Buglia's family offered reward money, and Schuylkill County Crime Stoppers kept the case in the public eye, but police remained stymied.

Then, in 1997, Huth was arrested for stabbing to death Ivan Fesig, 68, and stealing his wallet. He pleaded guilty to third-degree murder and is in Mahanoy City State Prison. In 2000, the state police crime lab concluded a blood sample from Huth, used in the Fesig case, was a possible match for blood found on Buglia's pickup truck in 1993. A DNA test later concluded it was Huth's blood on the running board of Buglia's truck, according to court testimony. Authorities charged him in Buglia's death on Nov.

6, 2003. But the investigators found no evidence showing Huth had been in Buglia's truck, or that Buglia had been in Huth's car. Police believe Buglia was killed elsewhere, then dumped at the mining area. At a preliminary hearing in Huth's ex-wife, harassment and reckless en-dangerment. Township police said Letterhouse shoved his wife, Sherri, while she was driving the truck through the township about 7:51 p.m.

and struck her in the head while she was holding the steering wheel. Police said he twice threw her out of the vehicle while it was stopped, hit her and then they both got back into the truck. He then threw her out of the truck while it was moving, police said. A township police officer saw Kevin Letterhouse trying to choke his wife at Quince Road and Pine Lane and, after talking to witnesses, determined that the crime began at Pecan Lane and Myrtle Road in the township, police said. He says he stabbed a man who propositioned him.

'I he says. By Chris Parker OfThe Morning Call A Schuylkill County man charged in a killing that went unsolved for a decade pleaded guilty Tuesday, saying he "flipped out" and stabbed the man after the man's sexual propositions revived memories of childhood molestation. The victim's mother, sobbing, said in court that she forgave him. William Huth, 41, of Trem-ont, entered the plea to a count of third-degree murder in the July 1993 death of James J. Buglia, 47, of Llewellyn.

Judge Cyrus Palmer Dol- bin sentenced Huth to 20 to 40 years in state prison, to be served concurrently with a 20- to 40-year sentence he's serving for the stabbing death of another man. The once-hulking Huth, now thin and frail, quietly told the judge he wanted "to take responsibility for what happened. I stabbed him. I'm sorry it happened. I never meant to kill him." Huth told Dolbin he had been molested when he was about 11 years old and that when Buglia propositioned him, he reacted in blind rage.

"The person that died that right lane, according to a police report. But she noticed a car already in the right lane, and she "overcorrected" the steering wheel as she swerved back into her own lane, Perry said. The car traveled into a grassy median, struck a drainage ditch and landed in the path of a tractor-trailer in the highway's northbound lanes. Laura and Amy Wollenhaupt are the daughters of the Rev. Greg A.

and Susan Wollenhaupt of Macungie. Greg Wollenhaupt is a youth pastor at Faith Evangelical Free Church in Lower Macungie Township, said Gary Wollenhaupt, Laura and Amy's uncle. "She was a very devout Christian young lady," Gary said of Laura Wollenhaupt,.

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