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The Post-Crescent, Appleton-Neenah-Menasha, Wis. C-3 Thursday, May 9, 2002 www.postcrescent.com Grand Chute hesitant on police additions '7f A' 'T- 'k'r sr. three-year period to help defray; the costs of an additional full-i time police officer. Kopp said the department has hired five officers since 1995 using grant funds from the program. He said adding an officer! would help in consistent scheduling of officers.

i The department has 24 full-i time and six part-time police of-, ficers, four full-time clerks, five; community service officers and a part-time evidence technician. Kopp said hiring a new offi-' cer would cost the town $170,000 for wages and benefits over the three-year period. The second program, "COPS in Schools," would provide $125,000 over three years to place one officer in the town's schools. The officer would handle all juvenile investigations. Kopp said two officers currently share the school liaison position and are in school one or two days a weeks.

He said the assignment of a detective to investigate juvenile crimes "is the luck of the draw." Having a dedicated juvenile' investigator would be more efficient, Kopp said. He said the proposal would; cost the town $50,000 a year and reduce the burden on existing staff. Steve Wideman can be reached at 920-993-1000, ext. 302, or by e-mail at swideman postcrescent.com. Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers photo by Joe Slenklewlcz STEVE DAVIS, owner of Aviation Services (left), goes through a preflight check with Michael Kuhn, who is earning his pilot's license.

Area flight schools say they haven't noticed a drop in business since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Flight schools still busy after 9-11 Oshkosh private aviation company notices little change By Alex Hummel Gannett Wisconsin Newspapers OSHKOSH Slowly but surely, Michael Kuhn is earning his wings. "They' are older planes, but they do the job," the 17-year-old Oshkosh West High School student said Tuesday before making his first assisted flight since Oct. 15 in a older Beechcraft Sport 150 at Wittman Regional Airport.

Kuhn has been learning the ins and outs of airplanes for about three years at Aviation Services, a Wittman-based flight instruction school. He's one of about 30 students Aviation -owner Steve Davis currently has under his wing. That's about all Davis can handle. His business and Fox Valley Technical College S.J. Span-bauer Center, which also offers a program to train future commercial airline and cargo pilots, are at capacity.

Many small aviation business owners from flight school operators to aircraft refuelers and repairers worried the Sept. 1 1 terrorist attacks could jeopardize general aviation business in the following months. But both local flight instruction schools report little to no change eight months after the attacks. General aviation "can't really change a lot," said Davis, who has been a flight instructor for Town officials worry what will happen when grants dry up By Steve Wideman Post-Crescent staff writer GRAND CHUTE An effort to increase the size of the police department with the help of federal grants is getting a cool reception from the Town Board. On a 3-2 vote, supervisors this week authorized Police Chief Ed Kopp to apply for $200,000 in grants that would result in hiring a full-time officer and create a full-time position' for a police-school liaison officer and juvenile crime investigator.

Actually approving the Wrings could be more difficult. "I am not in favor of adding officers whether we get a grant or not. These grants dry up. Two to three years down the line we'll have to start paying. I don't know if we have the wherewithal to do that," said Town Chairman Michael Marsden, who, along with Supv.

Pat Stevens, voted against the grant applications at a Tuesday board meeting. Supv. Sherri McNamara voted in favor of applying for the grants "with the'understanding we have a second look at this." One grant program, the Universal Hiring Program, would provide up to $75,000 over a Asphalt ordinance The Post-Crescent APPLETON The Board of Public Works passed an ordinance Wednesday that would allow the city to continue its asphalt paving program. At issue is whether the city should bid out the asphalt street work that is done by Department of Public Works crews. Of airplane, not unlike Kuhn's Beechcraft, into a Tampa high-rise building again raised the specter of unchecked flight instruction.

Charles Bishop, 15, took off in the plane in an apparent suicide attempt. Like Kuhn, Bishop was working for his flight instructor in exchange for flying lessons. But Kuhn and other young pilots still earning their certification said they respect aviation far too much to use it as a weapon. "I'm not going to take a plane and fly it into a building," said Kuhn, who uses his spare time to tack on more hours in the cockpit. "Flying is only bad if you make it that way," said Adam Voruda, 16, a member of the local Boy Scout-affiliated Aviation Explorers club, which trains young pilots at Wittman's Basler Flight Services.

Alex Hummel writes for the Oshkosh Calumet County officials find heads to council the $1.7 million in asphalt projects in Appleton in 2001, about 18 percent was done in-house. By state statute, cities must, publicly bid construction projects in excess of $15,000, but; exemptions can be adopted. i The Common Council will; vote on the ordinance at 7 p.m. i Wednesday at City Hall, 100 N. Appleton St.

Visit Linsdau Florist for all your floral needs. We are here to make your days a little more beautiful! Phone: 722-3381 504 London Menasha Corner of 5lh London) AH major credit cards accepted (r The Post-Crescent CHILTON An unidentified 32-year-old man is being held in emergency detention in the Calumet County Jail after a search Wednesday night by dozens of emergency officials and volunteers. about 31 years. "It's still a democracy. They can't outlaw in-training pilots from getting their airplanes." Small planes were grounded longer than commercial airlines in America after the attacks.

But Davis said Sept. 11 had little to no real impact on his airborne lessons, which can keep him at work from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. during the busiest days. "The FAA got general aviation back in the air pretty quickly," Davis said, applauding the Federal Aviation Administration's relatively quick lifting of restrictions on small planes.

He said he had students back in the air days after the attacks. Howard Brown, chief instructor for Fox Valley Technical College's pilot training program at Wittman, said the classes there have been filled since the late 1990s. The same has been true since Sept. 11. "This year, we filled our class Calumet Sheriff Investigator Gerald Pagel said the man was taken into custody based on unspecified actions and written statements made before his being located around 10:15 p.m.

just west of New Holstein by police. today citing high-ranking police sources. It was not clear which questions LaRon Bourgeois failed, the newspaper said. Polygraph test results are not 1HH ID frrfliTiTTreiifflfa i i i 'lit -1 -t ittti taA Tint a (n 4if Sunday May 12, 2002 Show your mother you care with an es. But our waiting list has dropped," Brown said.

"The reduced size could be partially attributed to the after effects of 9-11 but also could be affected by the increased cost of training due to increased fuel prices and insurances costs. So the interest in becoming a pilot has not diminished, but the waiting list has gone down a little." Student pilots at both Aviation Services and FVTC were relegated to flight simulators immediately following the attacks. Some FVTC students were stranded in Eau Claire and Wausau after the FAA immediately grounded all planes without radar-detectable flight instruments. Davis said the only noticeable difference now in flight school procedures is the more extensive background checks on student pilots. Some of the Sept.

11 hi-, jackers had been trained at private Florida flight schools. The January crash of a small missing man Police and firefighters from New Holstein and Chilton and volunteer canine search teams spent several hours searching for the man in rural area west and north of New Holstein in the towns of Brothertown and New Holstein. admissible as evidence in Wisconsin courts. Alexis Patterson, 7, disappeared last Friday after Bourgeois walked her to an intersection near her school. I Ct(oiuit Oiivo EV.

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