Quad-City Times from Davenport, Iowa • 13

Section AREA QUAD-CITY TIMES Tuesday, June 13, 1995 Pages 5M-10M f'y- fv4 wy 0 iai(pisMffl Business that would employ 200-400 workers puts city on short list Rv Shari Mahntlif QUAD-CITY TIMES The proposal also includes an offer of a speculative building now under construction on four acres adjacent to the 1 5 acres. That land is owned by Timber City Development a company of local investors who began the industrial park 30 years ago. If the company makes a move and buys all the property offered, it essentially would fill the industrial park. Newman said there would be about two to three acres left, but the terrain may not allow development. "Things are so competitive," Newman said.

"What wins for the communities are incentives." The company plans to expand a new product line, officials said, but declined to list the type or location of the industry. They also declined to identify the other cities in contention for the project. "It's difficult to discuss this in an open forum," Glaser said. "The company doesn't want it out to the public." He added that if the company picks Maquoketa, it would be the largest building in the industrial park. "This is one of the best prospects to come down the pike in a long time," Roger Stewart, a local banker who serves on the city's contact team, told council members.

offer to the company 15 acres in the city's industrial park at $12,000 per acre and a five-year Tax Increment Financing district. A TIF district would allow the company to pay taxes as if the property were unimproved. It would delay the payment of taxes on the improvements for five years. "There's a misconception that the city is giving away money," Newman said of the TIF. "It's money we didn't have before and wouldn't in the future unless a company makes improvements on the ground.

It all balances out because eventually the company pays for the whole thing." MAQUOKETA, Iowa Maquoketa is among 8-10 cities in the running for a new industry that could bring 200-400 jobs. A proposal from the new company, which city officials decline to identify, will be submitted Thursday to the Iowa Department of Economic Development. City Council members agreed Monday to offer incentives to the company. They authorized Deb Newman, economic development director, and City Manager Frances Glaser to Dog gnarls seat, is shot 9 times Moline rape brings 30-year term A traveling vacuum cleaner salesman was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison for the rape of a Davenport woman at a Moline hotel. James P.

Lezotte, 24, of Riverton, received two consecutive 1 5-year sentences for two counts of aggravated criminal sexual assault stemming from Jan. 12 attack. Circuit Judge Joseph Beatty also sentenced Lezotte to two years probation for unlawful restraint. Lezotte was convicted May 13 by a Rock Island County Circuit Court jury, which acquitted him of aggravated battery and a third charge of aggravated criminal sexual assault. He and his co-defendant and business partner, James Harvey, 22, of Champaign, 111., were accused of taking a 36-year-old woman to their motel room at the Best Western, 2550 52nd Moline, and repeatedly beating her and forcing her to have sex.

Harvey's trial is scheduled to begin this morning. Assistant Rock Island County State's Attorney Susan Barker had asked for the 30-year sentence because of the brutality of the crime. He faced six to 30 years in prison on each charge. "I think the sentence was fair. It makes a good statement about what society believes about criminal sexual assault and the crime," she said.

Jennifer DeWitt Red tape delays Moiine bike path Construction of the final portion of the Moline bicycle path has been delayed as the city waits for final approval to wind its way between government agencies. "We are expecting to get the approval any day now, but we were expecting to get it a couple of months ago, too," Public Works Director John Hoffstarter said Monday. The $800,000 project would extend the path from the western end of the Ben Butterworth Memorial Parkway to the Rock Island border. The city still wants to complete it by the end of the year. It will be part of the Great River Trail, which eventually will stretch 67 miles from Mississippi Palisades State Park in Savanna, 111., to Sunset Park in Rock Island.

"As far as Moline goes, we really aren't all that concerned," said Vera Gielow, president of the Great River Trail Council. "This is just a bit of a delay. In fact, we didn't expect construction to begin until sometime this fall." Gunfire draws mayor out of bed By Sara Kallnak QUAD-CITY TIMES A Davenport man shot a puppy nine times with a high-powered rifle because it had chewed up his motorcycle seat, police said Monday. Brett A. Dunkin, 23, of 2615 Telegraph Road, was taken to jail about 1 a.m.

Sunday on misdemeanor charges alleging animal cruelty, animal injury, drug possession and weapons violations. He posted $2,730 bond and was released Monday. Police say he killed the black Labrador re- triever while it was chained up. The gunshots severed one of the puppy's legs. Davenport Mayor Pat Gibbs, a former police officer' who lives in the area where the Gibbs investigated gunfire dog was killed, was on the4 scene when omcers arrivedyis MIwajgtmg ready rawl into bed when 1 heard nine shots in rapid succession," he said.

"Since 1 4 was awake, I decided to take 'a drive. I wanted to see if I could see anybodyputi 'rf m- Someone standing in the yard at 2615 Telegraph Road told him the dog had been shot, so Gibbs went into the home. "(Dunkin) was standing in the living room, trying to console some of the younger kids," Gibbs said. "He seemed calm at the time. I told him to give me the gun.

And he i'i mmmm fPi it said he would go and get it." Gibbs said he was concerned that there were children sleeping on the other side of the wall where the dog was shot. There are about five children under age 10 in the home. The dog belonged to Dunkin's girlfriend's younger sister, police said. Dunkin had been living at the home with his girlfriend's family. "I'm hoping the mother of those two girls has found it in her heart to get that guy out of her home," Gibbs said.

"If I knew somebody that cold-hearted, I'm not sure I'd want him around five little kids. Kids don't always do what we want them to. I'd hate to see that kind of temper flare." During Dunkin's arrest, officers seized two shotguns, two rifles, a handgun, a 30-round magazine for one of the guns and more than 250 rounds of ammunition. One of the rifles, the one used to shoot the dog, had a bayonet attached. Officers also reported finding a small bag containing a substance believed to be methamphetamine in Dunkin's possession.

He is expected to appear today in Scott County Associate Court. A woman at 2615 Telegraph Road who did not want to be identified said the family owned the dog for one or two years, and they had called it "Puppy." Gibbs said he thought the dog was about 8 months old. Dunkin also was arrested March 12 in Scott County and accused of drunken driving, speeding, driving under suspension and carrying a concealed weapon. Cruelty to animals is punishable by up to one year in jail and a fine of" up to $1,000. Another charge against Dunkin, injury to animals, is punishable by up to two years in prison and a fine of up to $2,000.

Kewanee, and Rane Baldwin, 29, of Cambridge. The 10-page confession was made one day after the double homicide at Phylly's Cue and Brew. Each of the jurors had a copy of the confession to follow the audio tape as Woolley told police, "I shot the bartender and Dee Turley." Rane Baldwin, the bartender, was a women Woolley had attended school with at Orion High School. During opening statements, Henry County Public Defender Gene Stockton told the jury that Woolley made the confession to police to protect his wife, Marcia, 31. 7 ft, Chewing up a JuryL Hears taped confession building Demolition continues at the old Mueller Lumber Ing will house the non-profit agency that pro-Co.

at 2nd and Scott streets In Davenport to vldes health and dental care to low-Income make way for Community Health Care Quad-Cltlans. Community Health Care will move new facility. The $3.6 million, three-story build- from the Bicentennial Building. Allison promise finance director By Judy Schehl quad-city Times CAMBRIDGE, 111. Former tattoo artist Martin Woolley sat with his head leaning on his hand during the first day of his first-degree murder trial Monday as a jury listened to an audio tape confession made to police.

On the tape, Woolley, 29, of Kewanee, told police how he shot two women he was friendly with in a Kewanee tavern Feb. 20. He is being tried in Henry County for the murder of Dianna Turley, 33, of Bring'er Inn Again closes its doors By Cathy Hentley QUAD-CITY TIMES A Rock Island restaurant with a controversial logo that drew picketers twice a month has closed its doors. Dennis and Linda McCallum, who last summer opened the Bring'er Inn Again, 1407 30th have turned over the restaurant to its former owner. The McCallums were renting the location from Richard Requet, who previously operated a restaurant there.

The couple could not be reached Monday by the Quad-City Times for comment. "The people that' were in it just could not make a go of it," Requet said. The facility will open again as a restaurant, although he would not say if he plans to venture back into the business. I Lairy FihrQUAD-CITY TIMES "School finance Is only going to get more complicated. "Better financial management equals better schools." Davenport Schools Superintendent Brad Allison get more complicated," he said.

"Better financial management equals better schools." He alluded to the district's $3.9 million deficit and noted that a financial officer would work to keep the district out of the red in the future. The school board endorsed Allison's revised plan by voting 6-0 in favor of it. In other business: The board unanimously approved a legal agreement that will allow creation of a special program for talented-and-gifted students that will be called the Scott County Academy. The academy, a joint venture by the Davenport, Pleasant Valley and Nortt Scott school districts, is scheduled to open this fall. Seventh-graders from the three districts who are gifted in math and science already have been identified and invited to participate in the program.

It is aimed at the top 1 percent of students who find their current advanced-placement courses too easy. Jane Grady, a Davenport schools administrator who is helping spearhead the academy project, said at least 10 students from Davenport will attend the academy. The board unanimously approved a proposal to allow one section of all-day kindergarten at McKinlcy Elementary School, as long as the district and interested parents can secure the $25,000 required to fund the program by Aug. 15. The extended-day kindergarten class will be open to 18 students.

Five spaces in the class will be reserved for children of low-income families. Several parents, who came up with the idea, have already expressed interest in enrolling their chitdm in the class. QUAD-CITY TIMES The Bring'er Inn Again, with Its controversial sign, is closing. By Jeff Ewoldt QUAD-CITY TIMES At the behest of the school board, Davenport Schools Superintendent Brad Allison renewed a promise Monday night to hire a new administrator who would focus solely on the district's $100 million annual budget. Allison told the board he will find a chief financial officer by July 1, as he had planned to do earlier.

At a school board meeting last month, he said he had dropped the idea of adding another administrator after a nationwide search yielded no candidates willing to accept district's salary offer. That announcement prompted an outcry from several board members who were steadfast in their belief that the district must have a professionally trained, full-time accountant to oversee its finances. Allison responded by revising an earlier plan that streamlines the district's administration. He conceded a chief financial officer is vital for smooth fiscal management. "School finance is only going to The sign at the Bring'er Inn Again depicted a caveman pulling a woman by the hair, an image that a group of residents said "normalized violence against women." Protester Chuck Trapkus said it was never the group's intent for the restaurant to close, simply to change the sign.

"All I know is we wanted the sign changed," he said. He has not heard if the picketing had anything to do with the business shutting. In February, a sign and the side of the building were vandalized with red paint. No arrests were made in that incident, and no one ever claimed responsibility for it. At the time, Linda McCallum said while that incident was scary, the attention seemed to be attracting business rather than driving it away.

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