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B-2 The Post-Crescent, Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wis. www.postcrescent.com Saturday, June 8, 2002 22- Pear bA mm (Mia DEATHS Hunters elsewhere in Michigan get extra year The Associated Press EAST TAWAS, Mich. Sporting groups across most of the Upper Peninsula will be allowed to feed free-ranging deer for one more winter. The Michigan Natural Resources Commission on Friday endorsed a statewide ban on so-called supplemental feeding, but postponed the effective date until May 2003 for most of the UP. However, the ban starts immediately in the four counties bordering Wiscon- piles.

Skeptics contend that hasn't been proven. Sporting groups spend thousands of dollars annually to place mounds of corn, hay and other feed in areas of the U.P. where deer congregate in winter. Without it, hunters say, up to 80 percent of the herd would starve in a typical year and even more when the weather is especially harsh. They say a ban on feed posed by many U.P.

hunting organizations, is aimed at preventing chronic wasting disease from entering Michigan. The deadly illness already has been discovered in some Wisconsin deer. Wildlife biologists say the disease like the bovine tuberculosis afflicting Michigan's northeastern Lower Peninsula -probably is spread when deer congregate at feed AALLB offers music on the green with red, white 1 0C jx 1 fc of Traverse City said. "When you congregate a whole lot of deer unnaturally, things are going to happen that are not good." Bob Garner, a commission member from Cadillac who suggested the one-year feeding reprieve, said he had planned to support an immediate cutoff but was impressed with the leaders of numerous U.P. sporting groups who urged the panel Thursday to consider alternatives.

On the Web: The Michigan DNR is at www.dnr.state.mi.us Oshkosh making room for industry Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers OSHKOSH The city, of Oshkosh could spend up to $8 million over the next three years to convert 161 acres of farmland into its next industrial park area. The Oshkosh Plan Commission on this week unanimously recommended annexing the property west of the current boundary of the industrial park between State 91 and south of the Wisconsin Southern railroad tracks. Jackson Kinney, the city's director of community development, said the need for space in the park has become critical. Only 20 acres remain available for development. The city has been selling industrial park space at a rate of about 23 acres per year.

"It's really imperative that we get moving on getting this area opened up," Kinney said. In order to get the land ready for development, the city is proposing creating a $7.99 million tax incremental finance district for the property. Under the TIF plan, the city would spend $3.9 million by 2005 on property improvements including street construction, utilities, landscaping and storm water management. An additional $496,256 would be set aside to pay for "organizational costs" and study of future expansion areas, to be completed by 2009. From the Oshkosh Northwestern Post-Crescent photo by Klrfc Wagner SEVEN-YEAR-OLD JOHANA CHIZEK hands patriotic balloons to Nancy Mickelson during a Fox Valley Symphony concert Friday on the Aid Association for LutheransLutheran Brotherhood campus in Appleton.

New county executive says promises kept ANKLAM, Gilbert 75, Win-neconne. COCHRAN, Barbara 60, Neenah. FRAHM, Melvin 65, Appleton. KARLS, Leona 89, 315 Memorial Drive, Chilton. ROLFS, Clarence 90, Larsen.

SPREEMAN, Carlyle 81, New London. WOGSLAND, James 39, Menasha. WRIGHT, Vivian Appleton. DEATHS ELSEWHERE NUSHART, Dorothy 86, Green Bay, formerly of Kaukauna. STACHOVIAK, Daniel 11, Madison, grandson of Jerome and Alice Schmidt, Appleton.

BIRTHS Appleton Medical Center, Theda Clark Medical Center and New London Family Medical Center do not release birth information. If you wish to have your birth announcement published; you may pick up a form at The Post-Crescent office, 306 W. Washington Appleton, or The News-Record office, 124 W. Wisconsin Neenah. Forms will not be mailed.

Information on the form will be cross-checked for the' protection of the new families. MERCY MEDICAL CENTER Melanie and Jason THURBER, Hortonville; a daughter. Deanna and Gerald MANDER-FIELD, Menasha; a daughter. Krista and Shane BAUER, Fond du Lac; a daughter. Tamara and Tyler KEENLANCE, Amy and Walter PHILLIPS, Shannon and Pete WRIGHT, Julie and Randall LEBAKKEN, Oshkosh; twin daughters.

Jill and Kevin ROACH, Oshkosh; a son. SI ELIZABETH HOSPITAL Carrie and Gerry BREIT, Appleton; a son. Cynthia and Glenn -Kristin and Keith STARK, Apple-ton; a daughter. Alden FOWLER and Cory PAYNE, Kaukauna; a daughter. Amy and Tim BUCKUN, Menasha; a daughter.

Maria AGUIRRE and Wenceslao ARRIAGA, Appleton; a son. Michelle GRIESMANN, Kaukauna; a son. BIRTH ELSEWHERE Jill and Joule OLDENBURG, Minneapolis, a son. Grandparents are Dennis and Colleen Oldenburg, Appleton, and Jerry and Colleen Botko, Brainerd, Minn. ALLERGY ALERT" ALLERGY COUNTS are number of pollens and mold spores per cubic meter of air.

Counts in the 24-hour period, ending at 8 a.m. yesterday were: MOLDS, 2,476 (moderate) POLLENS, 22 (high) Source: Kagen Allergy Clinic St. Elizabeth Hospital DRUNKEN DRIVERS CALUMET COUNTY STOCKLAND, Thomas 27, W2377 U.S. 10, Forest Junction. Five-year prison sentence and three years of extended supervision stayed, placed on probation for five years, ordered to serve one year in jail, fined $1,488 and license revoked five years, stopped in New Holstein on July 16, 2000.

Also placed on probation for two years for obstructing police from the same incident OUTAGAMIE COUNTY WUYTS, Donald 50, 87 Law-son Menasha. Sentenced to 10 days in jail, fined $936 and license revoked 13 months, stopped Jan. 6. AYOTTE, 36,1061 E. Kimberly No.

1, Kimberly. Sentenced to 75 days In jail, fined $2,680 and license revoked 33 months, stopped Jan. 12. KARNER, Donald 48, 501 Moasis Drive, Apt Little Chute. Sentenced to 20 days in jail, fined $998 and license revoked 14 months, stopped Feb.

9. sin: Dickinson, Gogebic, Iron and Menominee. Supplemental feeding already is prohibited in the Lower Peninsula. The commission also set the same two-gallon limit on hunters' bait piles in the Upper Peninsula that already exists in the Lower Peninsula. Previously, the limit in the U.P.

was five gallons. The feeding and baiting crackdown, bitterly op frigerators and hold him to it. This one-time state representative for Wauwatosa said he would reduce his salary by $60,000 to $72,727, ask department leaders to reapply for their jobs and introduce a resolution to create a part-time county board. Thirty days later he's accomplished them. bing a physical therapist while being treated for a knee injury, according to a Fond du Lac Police Department report.

She allegedly said someone on the outside would begin shooting if the therapist or two TCI guards in the room tried to get away or summon help. The guards scuffled with Flynn for several minutes before they were able to break her grasp on the physical therapist, according to the report. When police officers arrived, Flynn said she had accomplices and the hospital was going to "blow." Officers and hospital security searched the area but did not find anything suspicious. Ripon College cuts wages and benefits RIPON Ripon Col-lege trustees, hoping to steady the college's financial situation, are balancing the budget at the expense of faculty and staff salaries and benefits. The college's board of trustees has voted to reduce pay to all salaried employees by 3 percent, according to Ric Damm, assistant director of college relations.

Damm said the college is also ending its policy of matching 8 percent of what employees contribute to their retirement funds. "We're operating fairly lean in an effort to balance ing could permanently shrink the deer population, damaging a popular sport that is a pillar of the northern Michigan tourism economy. But commissioners said a better long-range solution is improving and expanding deer habitat to sustain a healthy but not artificially large whitetail herd. "We've learned a very hard lesson in Michigan," chairman Keith Charters and blue 1 get down to business," Hol-loway said. Supv.

Joe Davis said he didn't like the idea of reducing the board but will let constituents decide. "It isn't the size of board that created the environment that we are in right now," Davis said. "The key thing is county government has to be efficient and we have to set clear policies." Spring Green also sued the company Thursday. Six other workers have filed lawsuits against Symons since April. In February, Todd Dobbs of Richland Center and Timothy Pe-lenek of Sauk City each received $425,000 to settle their claims against Symons.

Lawmakers say they'll push for U.S. 41 project MADISON Two northeastern Wisconsin lawmakers who sit on a transportation review group will push for a $205 million upgrade to U.S. 41 in Brown County ahead of three other high-priced projects. Sens. Alan Lasee, R-Rockland, and Dave Hansen, D-Green Bay, said economic and safety concerns warrant the 14-mile project to add lanes to both sides of U.S.

41 from De Pere to Howard-Suamico. Lasee is vice chairman and Hansen is a member of the state Transportation Projects Commission, which reviewed the projects Friday. The commission reviews state Department of Transportation recommendations on major highway projects. Man convicted of killing aunt in OWI accident EAU CLAIRE A 34-year-old man was convicted of killing his aunt while sented the greatest chance at reform after F. Thomas Ament retired rather than face a recall election over a pension controversy.

But some, like Milwaukee County Supv. Lee Hol-loway, now think Walker has to start concentrating on the county's more than $50 million shortfall. "I think he needs to stop being political. It's time to BRIEFING Milwaukee ILLINOIS building were unsafe. Two workers filed lawsuits Thursday in Dane County Circuit Court against Symons Corp.

of Des Plaines, 111., which made the forms and supports that collapsed at UW's pharmacy building while Kraemer Bros, construction workers poured a concrete floor. One of the workers, Terry Staskal of Hazel Green, nearly lost his legs in the accident, which hurt 10 others. Staskal was pinned for more than three hours under construction debris while firefighters and co-workers tried to free him. Thomas Carpenter of Ripon fond'du Lac 1 1--- MICHIGAN rj pf GrenBaW Milwaukee board members say it's time to face debt The Associated Press MILWAUKEE Milwaukee County Executive Scott Walker told constituents to put his list of three goals in his first 30 days in office on their re FOND DU LAC COUNTY Students still graduate after condom prank FOND DU LAC -Five high school seniors still participated in graduation even though they sent letters to classmates' parents saying the school would give out condoms at the ceremony. The students printed the letters on the school district's letterhead and included Fond du Lac High School Principal Mary Fran Merwin's signature, which they had electronically scanned.

"In a fleeting moment they thought it would be funny. These are great kids who made a really big mistake," Merwin said. The school disciplined the students but still allowed them to participate in Thursday's graduation ceremony. Inmatefacescharges after incident at hospital FOND DU LAC A Taycheedah Correctional Institution inmate is expected to face charges after allegedly trying to take a hostage and escape while undergoing treatment Tuesday at St. Agnes Hospital.

The inmate, 44-year-old Kristine Flynn, faces charges of battery, attempted escape and making a bomb threat. Flynn is accused of grab "I think the toughest thing was actually the schedule," Walker said. "I wanted to do all these interviews and talk to people who had things to say about departments and department heads. But we also had to move ahead and make plans for budget-Many say they voted for Walker because he repre WISCONSIN MINNESOTA the budget," Damm said. The cuts will take effect as part of a new budget when the college's fiscal year begins July 1.

Damm traced the cuts to an expected lack of revenue in turn caused by a projected downturn in new admissions. DANE COUNTY Workers file suit over UW building collapse MADISON Construction workers hurt when a University of Wisconsin-Madison building collapsed in 1999 filed a lawsuit accusing a company of knowing its concrete forms and supports for the a Eaji Claire- IOWA i Madison I I 1 I driving drunk. Wayne A. Marten, Mon-dovi, pleaded no contest to a felony charge of homicide by intoxicated use of a motor vehicle and was found guilty Thursday in Eau Claire County Court. His aunt, 35-year-old Lenora A.

Kumferman, was killed in the Oct. 6 crash in the Town of Pleasant Valley. A criminal complaint says she died at the scene from massive head injuries suffered after Marten's minivan left the road, struck the guardrail, and landed in a ditch after flipping onto its passenger side. Nochargesforracist fliers on search for girl MILWAUKEE A man who distributed racist fliers about the disappear-. ance of a 7-year-old Milwaukee girl, who is black, won't face criminal charges, a prosecutor decided.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Jon Reddin said the fliers referring to the missing girl, Alexis Patterson, may have been "as obnoxious and offensive as possible," but the Waukesha man responsible for them did not commit a crime. The 22-year-old man was arrested last week. The first flier was found May 28 on the door of America's Black Holocaust Museum.

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