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YOtlR CONTACT: Amy Pelishek, weekend editor 414-993-1000, ext. 286 PAGE B-1 Saturday, April 6 1996 ME6I0ML EVER WONDER? Tom Richards Post-Crescent staff writer tr 661 resigned (the Conservation Congress) when I did because I was embarrassed to be apart ofit.99 DONNA LILJEGREN 4 tive committee was defeated by a vote of 11-9. Liljegren said her proposal to change elections would have made it easier for new leaders to rise to the top. Currently, five delegates are elected from each county at the nual Conservation Congress meeting that follows the DNR's spring fish and wildlife hearings. Then in May or June, at the annual convention, delegates from each of the 12 multicounty districts caucus to choose the two counselors who will represent each district, making up the 24-member executive council.

But the executive committee is chosen at the end of the convention, after most delegates have left, by a se-. cret ballot of the counselors. Since the executive committee controls the committee assignments, and the destiny of individual counselors, this arrangement tends to centralizes power within an inner circle, Liljegren said. Now she says she will work outside the congress. "I think the time for them to take a leadership position has passed," she said.

Please see LILJEGREN, B-7 Post-Crescent photo by Man Marlon DONNA LILJEGREN plays with Bannor, her 7-year-old yellow Labrador, outside her rural Fond du Lac County home. women. But she quit as counselors were voting on a series of reforms she had authored. Several of them were adopted. But the centerpiece a motion by her and others to give delegates from every county a chance to vote for the top leaders, the execu Donna Liljegren quit the organization's executive council.

She says it fails to keep pace By Ed Culhane Post-Crescent staff writer Four years ago, Donna Liljegren of Fond du Lac became the first woman in the six-decade history of the Conservation Congress to be elected to its 24-member executive council. This came just three years after she entered the organization as a county delegate. Motivated, intelligent and able to lead, she took on tough assignments from the start. In 1994 Liljegren became the first woman ever named to the council's powerful, three-member executive committee. But in January of this year, she walked out halfway through a council meeting attended by top officials with the state Department of Natural Resources.

DNR Secretary George Meyer asked her to reconsider. So did Herb Post-Crescent POSTPONED BECAUSE UIJwW OF The egg and the jig, too, are both up Here is the title of a book that should be required reading for this time of year: "The Egg and Dye." You might notice how we avoided saying that there is no such volume, and the yolk is on My wife brought home these egg shapes and asked me to drill holes in them so she could hang them in the tree for Easter. I drilled holes in the big end, because I believe that is the top. My wife and three girls said that is the bottom. So I drilled holes in the other ends.

But which end is up? O.M., Chilton 11 A'First of all, I am interested and gladdened to see that people are hanging eggs in trees at Easter -time. This will dispel the idea we foster in small children that colored eggs are the product of none-too-bright small, furry mammals with long ears. Right. They grow on trees. But, thanks to help from Karen Dickrell, family living educator with the Outagamie County University of Wisconsin Extension, I can tell you lots and lots more about eggs, including which way is But first, some other stuff.

O.M., in his communication with me, also said he knows how to make the perfect hard-cooked egg. So, of course, does everybody else, but the methods all are different, and I won't recommend any of them myself. He said he uses a needle and pokes a hole in the big end. There is, in fact, an air pocket in that end. He says this keeps the egg from cracking during cooking.

He puts them into boiling water, takes the pan off the fire and lets them cool. According to the information from Dickrell, hard-cooked (yeah, I grew up calling them hard-boiled too) eggs don't keep as well or as long as raw eggs. USDA-graded eggs are washed with a special detergent, sanitized and usually sprayed with a thin coating of mineral oil that serves as a barrier to bacteria. When you cook the eggs, you wash off this barrier and make the egg more vulnerable. They should be refrigerated right away and used within one week.

"Raw eggs, refrigerated, keep for four to five weeks after they are packed. Don't store either kind in those little cups on the door of the refrigerator because the opening and closing of the door causes them to warm and cool and warm and cool. Anyway, to the point of the question. Or of the egg. O.M., my friend, you are right.

From the chicken's point of view, the pig end is the top. And they are packed that way to keep the yolk more or less in the center of the egg. But there is another more important consideration here than your point of view or the chicken's. Good marriages, like Easter eggs, don't grow on trees. If she wants them upside-down, hang them upside-down.

0id business: An anonymous reader responded to an answer here last week concerning a Hardee's commercial and the use in that commercial of the term "chickflick." The original letter maintained that this term refers to an explicit, pornographic movie, and I said that would make no sense in the context of the commercial and that in current parlance, "chickflick" refers to a sappy movie that is meant to appeal especially to women. My anonymous correspondent disagrees. "You just didn't want your boss and your wife to know how worldly you really are, right? Behind that beard, you can blush without anyone know it, so 'fess up." This from someone who chooses to remain anonymous. Both of those people know just how worldly I am (or am not), and I stand by my answer. If you have a question, send it to Ever do The Post-Crescent, Box 59, Appleton, Wis.

54912, or leave a message on our "It's your call" line, 734-5678. Ever Wonder? will appear on Page B-1 each Ut 't Behnke, chairman of the Natural Resources Board that sets resource policy in Wisconsin. But she said she'd had enough. "I left the congress," she said. "I resigned when I did because I was embarrassed to be a part of it." The congress is the legislatively photos by Sharon Cekada science conduct a public stock offering until we have some direction concerning the site.

We're in this kind of Catch 22 situation," Ings said. Many living adjacent to the proposed development site, the 102-acre Vincent and lone Berg farm, 3120 N. Casaloma Drive, remain strongly opposed to the site choice fearing increased traffic congestion, property devaluation and noise. Ings said his group is prepared to deal with those issues and others during the meeting slated for 7 p.m. at the town Municipal building, 2920 W.

Highview Drive. "What we're really hoping to do with this meeting is dispel some mis-perceptions that might exist by working with facts and letting people know we're very willing to work to create a good situation here. We definitely want to be a good neighbor," said Ings. Tom O'Shea, 3803 N. Woodside Court, has led a neighborhood conti- sanctioned voice of hunters, anglers and trappers in Wisconsin.

Its publicly elected delegates are charged with advising the Natural Resources Board on policy issues effecting everyone who enjoys the outdoors. Liljegren said she relished her role as an advocate for outdoors men and 4 4 laNw if i i 'C JEFF INGS Is president of the company that is planning a $1 6 million family recreational center in the Town of Grand Chute. gent opposed to the choice of the Berg farm for the water park. "We are vehemently opposed to the water park under any circumstances," he said in a note to the Plan Commission. "No amounts of con-Please see DEVELOPMENT, B-7 i A 'r-r.

A YOUNG SHOVELER helps clear snow from the stands at Fox Cities Stadium Friday. Friday's opener for the Timber Rattlers was postponed because of the weather, with a makeup date scheduled for today as part of a doubleheader starting at 1 p.m. Tickets for Friday's game can be exchanged for any other game, based on availability.The stadium ground crew, top, clears the infield tarp of snow. GOP alleges Democrats misusing Earth Day Wisconsin congressional districts are among the places where Clinton administration off icials may appear ByBobVitale Post-Crescent Washington bureau WASHINGTON Clinton ad ministration omciais loosing to score environmental points on Earth Day are targeting Wisconsin congressional districts where the Democrats in November. An Environmental Protection Agency memo outlining White House plans for the April 22 obser-: vance lists the Fox Valley, Superior, La Crosse-Eau Claire, Madison and Milwaukee among 36 areas nation- wide where administration officials have been asked to attend local festivities.

Although an EPA spokeswoman said politics "didn't even enter our thinking" in choosing the Fox Val- IVJ Ul Mil Vllil jfVlVllllUl LjUI hi t4 jr appearance, Republicans charge the list is highly political. President Clinton and the Democrats have scored in public opinion polls over their environmental bat tles with Republicans. Since taking control of Congress, GOP leaders nave jjusucu iu case ciiviiuiiuieiiial regulations on business and limit protections for endangered species and wetlands. "The EPA list contains a dispro-; portionate amount of Republican freshmen and Democrats facing Please see REPUBLICANS, B-7 they do not have a national organization to represent them. "Registered nurses have a national organization with a code of conduct and ethics," he said.

"But there is no national organization that represents the nursing assistants." An Oshkosh group is trying to correct that. Ann Marie Heise, president of: Staff Wisconsin, a provider of temporary help and placement services in the health care field, is heading a steering committee to create an organization for nursing assistants and home health care assistants. "There are more than 85,000 nursing assistants in Wisconsin and not one association for them," she said. She said nursing assistants have played a key role in the advances of the health care industry as the most immediate care giver. "But we have failed to provide them with the necessary support, the education they Please see NURSE, B-3 Nursing assistants nationally recognized Water park plan open for debate A comprehensive code of ethics was drawn up in Appleton last year By Don Castonla Post-Crescent staff writer A code of ethics for nursing assistants, developed here last year by representatives of nurse assistants from area nursing homes and other nursing organizations, has received national recognition in an industry magazine.

The comprehensive code of ethics, believed to be the first in the country for nursing assistants, was published in the December issue of the Journal of Nurse Assistants, a quarterly magazine headquartered in the Cleveland, Ohio suburb of Chagrin Falls. Patrick J. Cassidy, editor of the magazine, said that one of the problems for nursing assistants is that The developers of the $16 million facility seek "direction" from town By Pete Bach Post-Crescent staff writer TOWN OF GRAND CHUTE -The developers of a $16 million family recreational center complex have reached a crossroads on their plans. Before proceeding further, Prime Recreations, is seeking an "approval in concept" for the water park from the town Plan Commission on Wednesday night. Jeff Ings, the president Cf Prime Recreations, said his group is seeking "direction" on its choice of site amid continuing opposition from the immediate neigbor-hood.

"Because of the opposition, we can't realistically and in good con.