The Post-Crescent from Appleton, Wisconsin • 17

Leo YOURCCXTACT Joel Christopher, metro editor 920-993-1000, exL 281 e-mail: jchristopherpostcrescentcom OBITUARIES C4 VIEWS 06 The Post-Crescent www.pestcrescent.com Tuesday, May 9, 2006 W-F school board unable to break deadlock Another resignation sparks second round of infighting ing an officer, submitted his resignation to the board clerk on April 27. Bartel, in his letter, said he was resigning -5) Loehrke who won as write-in candidates in the April 4 election. They are at odds with incumbents Loehrke and Sh-eryl Hart. The sixth member is Steve Ebert, who was one of those defeated in the election, but appointed to fill the spot vacated by Ray St. Louis, who resigned after the election.

Ebert's appointment has created a controversy because he doesn't live in the school auditorium, was marked by repeated verbal sparring among members. Loehrke claimed one member, Linda O'Day, who teaches in another school district, is incapable of serving on the board's Finance and Negotiations Committee because she slept "on union pillowcases." Board member Steve Bartel, recently arrested for drunken driving and flee district he represents and was chosen by the board over someone who lives in that district That has set the stage for the debate on the latest vacancy. "You only need to reside in a geographic area if you are elected, not appointed," said Loehrke, citing a legal opinion from the board's attorney. "That See BOARD, C-8 Steve Loehrke remained as board president pending the filling of the seventh spot on the board, another appointment that appears also to be a bone of contention among the fractious members. The contentious meeting, attended by about 100 people in the middle By Dan Wilson Post-Crescent staff writer WEYAUWEGA A split Weyauwega-Fremont school board, hampered by its second resignation in as many months, was unable again to elect a president at its meeting Monday night.

Split along 3-3 lines, tor personal reasons." That leaves ihe board split among the three newest members, Jim Otte, Barry Hoerz and O'Day, UIVU, IV5U Town checks water options AREA BRIEFS Workerimpaled afterscaffoldfall NEENAH A 42-year-old Seymour man was in serious condition at Theda Clark Medical Center late Monday after being impaled by a metal rod after a construction site fall. The man fell from a scaffold while working at a construction project at the Neenah Water Treatment Plant on S. Park Avenue about 2:10 p.m. Monday, said Neenah Menasha Fire Rescue officer Troy Jahns, the acting captain for the incident response. The victim, whose name was not available from the fire department or the Neenah Police Department on Monday night, fell about 20 feet to a lower scaffold about 12 feet above ground level.

He landed on an angle iron that pierced his upper thigh and entered his abdominal area. Jahns estimated the wound from the iron support bar was about 16 inches deep. The man was alert and talkative before being transported to the hospital, Jahns said. Tauchen to seek seat vacated by Ainsworth BONDUEL Gary Tauchen of Bonduel will announce his Republican candidacy for the 6th Assembly District on Wednesday. The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m.

on the nrz-TiAii Tauchen Officials want residents to get-best possible deal I- ii h.ii ii ymmr. in. yijin ji yn mm '( i tLtUIUil Harmony- Valley barm, Post-Crescent photo by Dan Powers CHUCK MAGNETTE of Appleton pumps gas at Express Convenience Center, 306 N. Richmond St. in Appleton, on Monday.

Drive-offs attributed to forgetfulness, not evasion By Michael King Post-Crescent staff writer TOWN OF MENASHA An analysis of eastside water supply options has recommended the drilling of a $605,000 backup well to minimize the town's reliance on purchased water. "There really isn't any other scenario that beats continuing to connect to Menasha," said Gary Rosenbeck, a vice president with McMahon Associates, the town's water consultant. The analysis presented Monday night to the -Town Utility -District Commission recommend- ed the town continue buy-i ing treated water from Menasha Utilities to mix with its well water. The study came amid town concefirrs about a pending water rate increase next year when Menasha Utilities completes the $12.7 million first-phase replacement of its 1927 water plant. That will translate to a 6.6 percent water rate increase to the town upon completion in late 2007.

Drilling of a backup well, needed because the well occasionally goes down for maintenance or repair, would add about 2.1 percent to town water cites Since 1980, the town has had an agreement to purchase about 20 percent to 25 percent of the city water plant's output to mix with well water providing "significant water quality benefits from having that blend," Rosenbeck said. Connecting to Apple-See TOWN, C-8 Broadway Road, Bonduel. The 6th district includes parts of Shawano, Outagamie, Waupaca and Oconto counties. State Rep. John Ainsworth, R-Shawano, is not seeking re-election.

Tweedie named clerk in Town of Menasha TOWN OF MENASHA Deputy Clerk Karen Tweedie was named Monday night by the Town Board to replace Town Clerk Jeanne Krueger, who retired in March. The appointment is for the remainder of of honest forgetfulness. "I think most people these days assume that convenience stores and gas stations have pretty decent security cameras, and that's the case. Most of them do." As such, most who drive off without paying tend to be easily found and willing to settle up. "Most of the stores just want their gas paid for, so we end up being like the middle man.

We try to find the person who didn't pay and make them hook up with the gas station to make it good. Usually, that's what happens." Bob Bartlett, president of the Wisconsin Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store Association, a group that represents about 2,000 individually owned gasoline vendors, said he has not heard any recent reports suggesting gas thefts are increasing in proportion to gas See DRIVE-OFFS, C-8 By Ed Lowe Post-Crescent staff writer APPLETON As gas hovers around $3 per gallon, convenience store owner Nisha Mudbhary keeps careful watch over the pumps outside her downtown Appleton business. She describes a white van as one of the vehicles that received a full tank of gas at the store's expense over the past few months. The van's driver is among some five people who have stolen full tanks of gas from the store each time driving away without paying since the start of the year. "The people who come here don't realize that I make nothing by selling gas," Mudbhary said Monday.

"But when people take gas without paying, I have to pay that cost." Lt. Todd Freeman of the Apple-ton Police Department said it's hard to tell whether gas prices have much "What used to be kids stealing a couple bucks (worth of gas), is now people driving off with 50 bucks in an SUV." BOB BARTLETT of the Wisconsin Petroleum Marketers and Convenience Store 'Association effect on the prevalence of gas drive-offs, a crime made risky by the advent of video surveillance. "We get a couple (of gas drive-off reports) a week," Freeman said. "It's steady, but there hasn't been a sharp rise. I think a lot of the reported gas drive-offs are simply oversights where the customer simply forgot to pay." "We get very few where the person took deliberate steps to obscure or remove their (license) plate," Freeman said, estimating that about half of reported thefts are the result PAYING AT THE PUMP A look at rising gas prices OntheWeb National Association of Conve- nience Stores: www.nacs online.com To search for gas prices at stations in various parts of the state or to report a price, visit www.wisconsin gasprices.com Krueger's through April 10.

Tweedie started with the town as deputy IV Tweedie Midwest mumps epidemic -I Mumps case detected in Oshkosh schools Good Samaritans help ducklings out of sewer spreads in Wisconsin clerk in November 2000, three months after being hired through a temporary employment agency to assist then-Town Clerk Carlene Sprague. Three town employees applied for the job and were interviewed. i From P-C services I Shawano County JP 'r- Kf '-4- Appleton Brown County Outagamie County County Confirmed mumps cases as of Friday fJO 1 walked along the curb in the gutter toward a sewer grate in front of the Appleton Art Center. Roberts said he could envision the misfortune that was about to happen. "Sure enough, one after another, they went right down the sewer," he said.

"Every single one. The mother was panicking. It was just heart wrenching to see it." Roberts and the man helping the ducks lifted off the steel grate so the man could climb into the storm sewer and retrieve the ducklings. He caught every one and handed them up to Roberts. "We saved that whole family of ducks," Roberts said.

The Post-Crescent APPLETON An Appleton man and two other people rescued a family of ducks from a downtown storm sewer Sunday. "We saved them all," William Roberts recalled Monday. "It's kind of an uplifting story." Roberts said he parked his car in the 100 block of W. College Avenue to get coffee about 9:30 a.m. when, in his rearview mirror, he saw an unidentified couple helping a duck and eight or nine ducklings get across College Avenue.

The duck hopped onto the curb, but the ducklings were too small to scale the curb, so they Off icials claim parents should not be worried Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers OSHKOSH A fourth-grader from Washington Elementary School has the first confirmed case of mumps in the Oshkosh school district. Supt. Ron Heilmann on Monday said a letter about mumps and vaccinations against the disease was sent to parents who have students at Washington. Confirmation of the Washington student's case brings the total number of confirmed mumps cases in Oshkosh to three. An other case is considered probable and 22 other people are suspected of having contracted mumps, according to the Oshkosh Health Department.

Other students at Washington and at other schools in the district have been tested for mumps, Heilmann said, but no other case in the district has been confirmed. "Everybody is just alerted that we do have a case," Heilmann said. Concern about mumps in Oshkosh first surfaced in mid-April while the school district was on spring break. According to the Monday letter to parents, the child is believed to have been exposed to mumps B2-5 I i H7-11 Uk 24-26 1 LOTTERIES Drawn Monday Wisconsin: Daily Pick 3: 8-8-7 Daily Pick 4: 7-3-5-2 Supercash: 2-3-27-33-37-39 BadgerS: 6-7-10-13-29 Illinois: Pick 3 (evening): 7-9-8 Pick 4 (evening): 6-6-6-5 Michigan: Daily-3 5-3-0 Daily-4: 3-3-8-5 Fantasy 5: 21-22-26-31-36 Page editor: Sarah Riley Post-Crescent graphic by Wendy Harris and Jim Rotandlck Health Department. "Just because your child walked down the hall with somebody who had mumps doesn't mean there was exposure there," Gieryn said.

Filed by the Oshkosh Northwestern Source: Oepertmerrt o( Hearth and Family Services on or after April 28. Though mumps has now been confirmed in a school-age child, parents do not need to be overly alarmed, said Doug Gieryn, director of the Winnebago County re.