The Journal Times from Racine, Wisconsin • 1

HOMETOWN EDITION: Bohners Lake, Burlington, Eagle Lake, Kansasville, North Cape, Raymond, Rochester, Union Grove, Waterford, Wind Lake, Yorkville Home visitor program helps build up families AG PTPvD I V7 it Union Grove seeks delay in WIAA realignment We would have to change the dates of all our conference tournaments, which would put our schools at a disadvantage. Union Grove athletic director Dan Meyers JILL TATGE Burlington Bureau UNION GROVE Union Grove High School officials will not appeal the Wisconsin Interscholastic Athletic Association's decision to add two urban parochial schools and remove Burlington High School from its sports conference. But athletic director Dan Myers said he will issue a letter asking the WIAA to delay the 1997-98 proposed start date. "We (school officials) think this decision was made with haste," he said Friday. "I don't believe the WIAA took into consideration the hardship which will be placed on the individual schools." "We would have to change the dates of all our conference tournaments, which would put our schools at a disadvantage," he said.

In addition, the parochial schools are currently governed by the Wisconsin Independent Schools Athletic Association and may be committed to playing within the association until June of the year 2000. Tom Scheller, athletic director at St. Catherine's, said that there would be some obstacles to overcome but is pleased with the realignment. "I hope a decision is reached next week so we can get moving on this," he said. "If there is a scheduling conflict we will all just have to work together to iron it out." Under the WIAA plan, Union Grove, Waterford, Wil-mot, Westosha Central, and Badger would be joined by Racine St.

Catherine and Kenosha St. Joseph. A formal hearing will be held on Thursday, Sept. 12, and the final decision by the WIAA is expected on Friday. Unlike officials at Waterford High School, who are appealing the realignment partly because of the schools they are being placed with, Myers said that officials in Union Grove are satisfied with the competition.

It is having only one year to reorganize tournament schedules, find a suitable conference commissioner and prepare for the switch that Myers is concerned about. The Morning Afier EC 1 6 (The cancellation is a) blessing to the city and county taxpayers. Sheriff William McReynolds noting that rally security would have cost $60,000 JOE BUTTWEILER Journal Times The Ku Klux Klan has canceled its planned Oct. 5 rally in Racine, lifting a cloud of concern and relieving taxpayers of a hefty police overtime bill. Racine County Sheriff William McReynolds said Friday he received a letter from Klan leader David A.

Neumann saying the proposed rally on the courthouse steps will not take place Oct. 5. Neumann, imperial wizard of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, said the group plans to reschedule the forum later and will notify McReynolds 90 days in advance. But McReynolds said he doubts the later event will materialize since Oct. 5 seemed to have special significance.

It was apparently chosen to commemorate the Oct. 1, 1994, shooting death in Racine of a white supremacist from New Jersey. "I don't think there's a reason for them to come back Jater," McReynolds said Friday. Neumann's letter does not say why the event was canceled. McReynolds said that even though the Klan won't come, there may be small groups of skinheads gathering in Racine the weekend of Oct.

5. The victim in the 1994 shooting, ttcpa ere 1. Joe Rowan, 22, of Toms River, N.J., was a skinhead who came to Racine for a white supremacist rock concert at Memorial Hall. McReynolds advised people to be aware that skinheads might be in the city Oct. 5.

"But I don't feel we'd have anywhere near the potential for problems if we also had the KKK here," he said. McReynolds said skinheads made a lot of noise about rallying in Racine last year, but didn't show up publicly. He said his department will be on high alert Oct. 5, but not with as many resources as had been More on KLAN, Page IIA. v.

i 1 1 Associated Press A A family looks over damage to their home left by Hurricane Fran Friday in Jacksonville, N.C. Fran weakened into a tropical depression after submerging North Carolina beach towns Thursday night and early Friday. At least 1 7 people were killed. Fran Weakening drenches Virginia DANSEWELL Associated Press LIANA J. GRIFFITH Journal Times by dawn Friday in Virginia.

It was merely a depression by midday Friday, but continued to dump heavy rain over a wide area already saturated by steady downpours earlier in the week. By evening, its top winds had declined from 115 mph to about 29 mph, and the storm was centered over West Virginia, on a path to dump rain through much of the Northeast over the next couple of days. About 6 inches of rain and up to 11 inches in isolated spots rushed down Virginia mountainsides into creeks, streams and rivers still sodden from flooding Tuesday and Wednesday, when 5 inches of rain fell. Water lapped over reservoirs and threatened to breach earthen dams. The town of Elkton, in the western foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, was an island, More on FRAN, Page I1A WILMINGTON, N.C.

Hurricane Fran stranded hundreds of people on barrier islands and its remnants flooded Virginia hollows Friday. More than a million customers were without power and at least 17 people were killed. Rescue workers struggled in boats, helicopters and military vehicles to reach those endangered by flash floods in Virginia, where the ground had been saturated by days of rain before Fran dumped up to 10 more inches. "Tney just waited too long. When they saw the streams rising, they should have gotten out," said Leon Rickard, the emergency coordinator in Page County in northwestern Virginia.

Fran roared onto land at the Cape Fear-River with 115 mph winds on Thursday night before weakening to a tropical storm 1 ADebra Kanitz, left, of Greendale, and her mother, Lucille Schneider, of Milwaukee, check out the puppets at The Boat House at Goold and N. Wisconsin streets in Racine. Golden Books store will move to Hwy. 50 Associated Press A A boat rests in a heap of debris near Carolina Beach, N.C, Friday following Hurricane Fran's tidal surge Thursday night. INSIDE No charges will ba filed in fatal dispute over dog Ann Landers 2A Obituaries 2C Classified 2C People 2A Comics 63 Racine County 1C Community ID Records Crosswords Sports IB Dr.

Gott 4A Stock listings 7A Horoscope 6B Today 2C Movies 4A TV listings 4A "It's purely a business decision," said company spokeswoman Kim McLynn. "The Outlet Centre is a prime location. The purpose is to get a larger shopping audience, and this certainly will give us the opportunity to have increased store traffic." According to John Dickey, Golden Books national sales director, sales have been declining at The Boat House. That was one of the reasons that prompted him to recommend closing The Boat House and moving the operation. The company already has a kiosk for Golden Books at the Outlet Centre and in Gurnee Mills in northern Illinois.

The new Outlet Centre store, though, will have 11,000 square feet 2,000 square' More on MOVE, Page HA LAURA SUMNER COON Business Editor There are two "must-do's" in Racine eat kringle and visit The Boat House. That's what people told John and Peggy Laches when they first moved to Racine last year. On Friday, their 2-year-old daughter Beth left the place dragging a shopping bag full of treasures coloring books and washable markers. They were just in time to finish that "must-do" Racine list. The plain brick building on Goold and North Wisconsin streets, dubbed "The Boat House," will soon close.

In its place, a Golden Books Outlet Store will open Oct. 15 at the Factory Outlet Centre at Interstate 94 and Highway 50 in Kenosha County. Serpe, allegedly by Charles McCormick. The shooting itself is not shown in the video. Serpe, 31, died the next day from a gunshot wound to his side at St.

Mary's Medical Center. It was shown during a hearing in the Racine County courtroom of Judge Emmanuel Vuvunas on Friday afternoon, as the District Attorney's Office said there would be no criminal charges issued against McCormick, 35, in the death of Serpe. The shooting occurred after the two men More on SERPE, Page 1 1 A DEBORAH ALEXANDER Journal Times It was a dramatic five minutes of home video: 1 Two Racine neighbors arguing over a backyard fence on a summer evening about the treatment of a dog. The dispute was bitter and there were profanities from both sides. It ended with a threat by one man to kill another and then the sound of what Is believed to have been a gunshot off camera.

The videotape documents the events leading up to the Aug. 23 shooting of Scott P. OUTSIDE Partly sunny. Highs in the low to mkJ-80s Inland, mkJ-70s lakeside. I2A page editor: Francis J.

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