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rami (. Jl ii.L:S- Reiter steps into chiefs For the nationally respected, longtime veteran of town's police force, Palm Beach is the best place to wear a shoes badge and a uniform. Pet aides trained to assist adoption Sixty-five new volunteers to graduate Sunday after spending 80 hours learning to help owners adapt to their new pets By KATHRYN SINICROPE Daily News Staff Writer Marie Hope Davis always believed. The more she learned about trainer Brian Kilcommons and the Walter Turken Training for Adoption Program, the more she was convinced the program could work for the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League, where she is executive director. She now has 65 new volunteer believers, all set to graduate Sunday from the program, which requires more than 80 hours of instruction for completion.

"I'm really impressed at the stick-to-itiveness of the volunteers, the willingness of employees and the increase in morale," Davis says. The graduation, which also is an open house, will take place from noon to 2 p.m. Sunday at the Animal Rescue League, 3200 N. Military Trail in West Palm Beach. During the program, volunteers, ranging in age from 20 to 70, came to the shelter every other Saturday and Sunday to learn how to safely walk and socialize with dogs, how to teach basic obedience and how to work with potential adopters to make sure they leave the shelter with the right dog.

Adoptive families also are encouraged to go to greatpets.com which Kilcommons is associated with after they bring their new pet home for help with behavioral and training questions. In January alone, returns of adopted dogs decreased 30 percent from the previous month, Davis says. The program also aims to increase adoptions, Kilcommons says, by changing the public perception that purebred dogs are more desirable than mix-breed Please see TRAINING, Page 5 I'll stay as long as I'm still good for the community and the community is good for says new Town of Palm Beach Police Daily News Photo by Greer Gattuso Chief Michael Reiter. FORMER PALM BEACH POLICE CHIEFS Joseph Gaffney, 1975-1978 Joseph T. Terlizzese, 1978-1998 Frank A.

Croft, 1998-2001 i Joseph Borman, 1911-1946 i Eddie Longo, 1946-1959 i Homer Large, 1959-1967 i Fred Mead, 1967-1975 REITER PALM BEACH CAREER Patrol officer, January 1981- January 1982 Officer, tactical unit, January 1982- January 1984 Detective, January 1984-June 1985 Sergeant, patrol, June 1985-March 1986 Sergeant, administration, March 1986-July 1989 Sergeant, organized crime, July 1989-January 1992 Captain, criminal investigations, January 1992-February 1993 Major, patrol and criminal investigations, February 1993-May 1998 Assistant chief of police, May 1998-April 2001. By KATHRYN SINICROPE Daily News Staff Writer Don't be surprised if you spot the town's new police chief riding around town in his uniform and a patrol car that's part of his plan. Chief Michael Reiter, who took over today from the retired Frank Croft, has every intention of suiting up and taking the occasional call from dispatch. "I want to keep my skills up," Reiter says. "I'll never ask anyone to do anything I'm not prepared to do myself." Reiter already has had a 20-' year journey with the police: department.

Having joined the department in January 1981, Reit-. er worked his way through a vari-i ety of positions, from patrol to: Organized Crime to assistant: chief. At 43, Reiter says he can easily: see himself in the position for a decade or more. "I'll stay as long as I'm still good for the community and the community is good for me," Reiter says. Becoming police chief in Palm Beach has always been the final goal in Reiter's law enforcement career, he says he told the town's Oral Review Board that in 1981.

Joseph Terlizzese, police chief from 1978 to 1998, remembers how Reiter researched departments across the country and decided he wanted to work in Palm Beach. "He did a lot of homework and picked us," Terlizzese says. Before coming to Palm Beach, Reiter was working for the University of Pittsburgh Police Department and looking for a change, somewhere "more progressive" and "less political" than Pittsburgh, he says. Within three weeks of sending the department his resume, he had the job. Since then, Reiter says, he has never actively looked for another job and has only considered leaving the town once, when he was offered a job with a federal agency.

Terlizzese encouraged Reiter to stay with the department, never doubting that Reiter would one day be chief. "He had a reputation around the nation by the time he was a captain," Terlizzese says. "He was Please see REITER, Page 4 When the center agreed to co-commission the work, it had no idea what it would get. "When we committed, it was just a project without a theme," Bell said. "That's fine.

I want to get a project going, open the door and leave it up to the artist." Davenen means prayer in Yiddish. The work grew out of choreographers Robby Barnett's and Jonathan Wolk-en's interest in klezmer music. The popular klezmer band The Klezmatics will perform Jack London's score on stage. Wolken, along with Bar-nett, is one of Pilobolus' four artistic directors and a founder of the 30-year-old com-; pany. "Klezmer music is such juicy thing," Wolken said.

"It has a wonderful richness, not just in its special sound, but Please see PILOBOLUS, Page 3 Copyright 2001 Palm Beach Daily News Vol.105,No.19 Source: Palm Beach Police Department CHARGI VALDEZ It B. MAI fl TlcowM.off.ot.J VAIJDE2 Frank A. Croft so happy with A. MAJtSHALL WIlllLJIMBl JJ Pf ZJ Joseph T. Terlizzese The people in the town of JOSEPH TERLIZZESE Former police Palm Beach are going to he chief, discussing new Chief Michael Reiter Kravis has designs on Pilobolus troupe Wellington's Riley to defend riding title Center joins 11 other organizations to commission performance tonight by acrobatic dance company.

'He's a great leader. money winners from the Winter Equestrian Festival, held in Wellington and Tampa. Riley will ride Hian, the Dutch-bred gelding she partnered with to win last year's class. "I don't think there's more pressure on me this year," Riley said. "If anything, I think I have more confidence than last year.

Not necessarily confidence that I'm going to win, but confidence Please see RILEY, Page 3 It's time to spring ahead Daylight-saving time arrives this weekend at 2 a.m. Sunday, according to the U.S. Uniform Time Act of 1 966. The extension of time, initially proposed by Ben Franklin 200 years ago, artifically extends the hours of daylight from now through late October. Palm Beach Daily News-Cox News Service graphic 4 Horoscope 5 5 A Movie Times 4 By JAN SJOSTROM Daily News Arts Editor Each year, the Kravis Center looks for an opportunity to commission new work.

Past commissions include monolo-gist Spalding Gray's Morning, Noon and Night in 1999 and choreographer Donald Byrd's Jazz Train in 2000. Tonight at 8, Pilobolus Dance Theatre unveils another work the Kravis helped finance, Davenen. As in the past, the center has teamed up with other organizations to bring new work to life. The Kravis is one of Davenen's 12 co-commissioners. Lee Bell, the Kravis' senior programming director, has admired Pilobolus work for years, and has frequently scheduled the acrobatic dance troupe at the Kravis and the Duncan Theatre, his previous employer.

a By MICHELE GELORMINE Daily News Staff Writer TAMPA Wellington resident Schuyler Riley will defend her title tonight in the $200,000 Budweiser American Invitational under the lights at Raymond James Stadium. Riley will be one of 30 riders competing in the 7 p.m. invitation-only class. Qualifiers are chosen from among top MP Classified Crossword 2 If -y 3 1 'r Pilobolus dance performers add some colorful twists to their program. Dancers invent new choreographic vocabulary for each piece.

Expect thunderstorms, with a high temperature oj 84. Details, Page 2. Music Review Today..