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County's a i I News a Central i xcdkncef 11 I 1 I I ii ohU Hi 1 Lf i -i. a- Racine FTTH Ji illivJv Hill HIV I VISIT RACINE COUNTY'S 24-HOUR NEWS SOURCE AT; www.journaltlmes.coni FamilyLife Planning ahead made the Olsons' vacation nightmare much easier to bear PAGE IE Sports In an emotional return to Daytona, Dale Earnhardt Jr. wins the Pepsi 400 PAGE 1C Local Trio takes historic Burlington building that had fallen on hard times, converts it into a stylish live-music bar PAGE IB tec line RACINH COUNTY, WISCONSIN SUNDAY, JULY 8, 2001 HOME DELIVERY: 634-3333 1 .75 Harmony, Then Victory Proposal would keep telemarketers away Creation of do-not-call list among items agreed to in state budget negotiations BY SARAH WYATT Associated Pidss fundraislng calls to anyone on the do-not-call list, unless someone sectfieally asked for a solicitation in writing or already had a relationship with the organization. Nonprofit organizations would Ih? exempt. Fines would range from to $10,000 for each violation, "People for a long time have been looking for a way to make their phone stop ringing, and this will do it," Erpenbach said.

"This should eliminate alxiut V.i.9 percent of the calls you get that are telemarketing related." Other states have already begun setting up do-not-call lists. According to the National Conference of State legislatures. 23 states have created some form of protection against telemarketers. In Wisconsin, an ujxlated list would be sent out to companies every six months, and the program's annual cost would be funded by registration fees paid by the telemarketing companies. More on BUDGET, Pane UA be worked out, Including taxes, education and ubortion Issues.

"I don't think there are a lot of big headlines that will be grabbed with what we've done so far," Sen. Majority leader Chuck Chvala, D-Madison. lawmakers Saturday addressed budget items In the slate Department of Agriculture and Consumer Protection, the Department of Health and Family Services and the Department of Workforce Development, which administers welfare reform. Sen. John Erpenbach.

D-Mid dleton, has been the major supporter of the privacy provision, lie said it would be a victory for consumers in the state. The provision would make it illegal for companies or political candidates to make sales or MADISON Wisconsin residents who don't like getting culls from U'li'tnurki'tm could register their mimes on a state do-not -cull list under a proxsal agreed Uxn Saturday by lawmakers negotiating the 20OI-O3 state budget. The measure was one of alxmt UK) disputed budget items resolved Saturday in budget negotiations between leaders of the Republican-controlled Assembly and the Democrat-controlled Senate. Each house has passed its own budget, but the two sides need to agree on a single version before approving it and sending it to Gov, Scott McCallum for his signature. About 530 items remain to GEOFF KRIEGER For The Journal Times From left, Marv Fedders, Dick Garskl, Douglas St.

Martin, and Ted Rlcchlo, the Just Because Quartet, sing the national anthem Saturday night at llorlick Field before the Racine Raiders' season opener. "Hie Raiders got their minor-league bxitbull season off to a Hying start, routing the Dupo (III.) Fury 85-0. For more on Saturday's game, turn to Sports, Page 1C. Dover rehabilitation center launches sleep disorder clinic Journal Times reporter tries it out BY PETE WICKLUND Burlington Bureau Sleep disorder facts The National Commission on Sleep Disorder Research estimates that sleep apnea causes 32,000 cardiovascular deaths annually. An estimated 18 million Americans have sleep apnea.

Severe sleep apnea sufferers can experience repetitive collapse of the upper airway as much as 600 times per night. Research shows that sleep disorders cost the general public $16 billion annually, including $70 million spent annually on over-the-counter stimulants. About Lakeview Lakeview Rehabilitation Center Location: 1701 Sharp Road, Dover Facility: A former Catholic seminary, 193,000 square feet of building constructed in the mid 1960s on an 88-acre site. Employees: 200 Admitted patients: Average of 50 Profile: Part of for-profit, New Hampshire-based Lakeview system inary in the 19fi0s and 1970s. But before sleep clinic patients can crawl under the covers and drift off to Never-Never Land, technician Karen Frank has to attach a few dozen wire leads and sensors to their head, chest, arms and legs.

"You're going to be all wired up," said Frank as she began the process of affixing the spaghetti bowl of electrical equipment to me. The equipment will be used to register such activity as eye movement, brave waves, muscle movement, oxygen intake and snoring patterns. Frank stays up all night in an adjacent room making sure data is feeding into a computer. She also reattaches leads when they become disconnected from tossing and turning. From the recorded data, Hubley can diagnose sleep problems and the medical conditions that cause them.

Sleep disorders are common in many illnesses, such as cancer, strokes and respiratory disorders. They also are common in obese people. Lack of sleep, of course, is prob- DOVER Working two jobs, volunteering In the community, being a dad, sporadic exercise and occasional cold ones at the tavern, sleep has never really been a problem for me. And now a medical analysis has told me that for sure. But for many people, ability to fall asleep Is no laughing matter and sometimes an indication of serious medical problems.

"Sleep and sleep related problems play a role in a large number of human disorders and intersect almost every field of medicine," said Theodore J. Hubley, a pulmonary and critical care physician and medical director of the new Sleep Disorders Clinic at Iitkeview Rehabilitation Center. Lakeview Is located just west of Rochester and south of Waterford at Highway 20 and Sharp Road. "Clinic" might seem like too intimidating a word for Lake-view's new facility, the focal point of which is a comfortably furnished room. A television and queen-size bed transform what was a dorm room when the Lake-view building was used as a sem ii Jf i r- i i- r-n 1 1 GEOFF KRIEGER For The Journal Times Pete Wlcklund, a reporter for The Journal Times, is connected to monitoring devices at a sleep lab at Lakeview Rehabilitation Center in Dover.

The lab monitors people while they sleep, then a doctor evaluates the results in an attempt to discover why a person has trouble sleeping. lematic. It can lead to impair- people more vulnerable to pain, apnea, affects an estimated 18 ment, confusion, depression, sex- Hubley notes. ual dysfunction and even make A common sleep disorder, sleep More SLEEP CLINIC, Page UA Coming Up Racinians' revolutionary forefather ROB GOLUB TUESDAY: Her family was devastated when her father died in 1994. But with the support of her family, Linda Museteif become valedictorian of The Prairie School's class of 2001.

In A. fey Index Weather Congress in 1776. lie could have been killed for sighing the Declaration of -Widependence, which declared the 13 colonies independent from Great Britain. The British burned Hall's two homes in Georgia and the Revolutionary War took thousands of American lives. But Hall survived the war and he became governor of Georgia in the 1780s.

Grandma always believed there was a Revolutionary War connection, but she never knew it for certain. Lyman Hall and the Declaration of Independence are a wonderful family fable come true. "I'm 13 in the line," enthuses Jo Ellen Rommel, another Racine grandchild. "That would make (Lyman Hall) my 10th great grand-father." Rommel is thrilled for the children of the family, but she worries they don't truly believe It's true, insists Ronald Ahnen. Ronald Ahnen, a political science professor, has written a 187-page tome on the Ahnen family tree.

It was Ronald More on LYMAN HALL, Page UA RACINE COUNTY Grandma Genevieve Ahnen had eight children, those kids had 49 children, and now those children are having children. Genevieve Ahnen, who died in 1998, probably has more than 100 descendants living in the Racine County area. Some are named Ahnen, like Grandma. OUiers are named (take a deep breath) Becker, Rommel, Straka, Kaminskis, Smith, Sell, Annis, Stillman, Feest, Olley, Peterson, or maybe something else. All had something to celebrate this past Independence Day.

It turns out the whole lot of them are related to Lyman Hall, a former revolutionary rabble-rouser who signed the Declaration of Independence. The historic connection had been rumored for years, but it has been confirmed only recently, after Grandma's death. There's something disturbing about the connection. There's also something wonderful about it. We'll never know what Grandma Genevieve would say about it.

She was, a unique, spirited woman. She converted to Catholicism as an adult, devoting herself to the religion she'd pass Ann Landers 2A Obituaries 2B Bridge 4F Opinion 2D Business 1D I Racine County 1B Classified 1F Real Estate 1G Crossword 2G I Records 2B Dr. Gott 6E Sports ID FamilyLife 1E Today 2B Horoscope 4E TV listings 6E Kids 3E Weather 12A Movies 6E i Wisconsin. 4B Rob On The Road on to so many Racinians. She was a loving person, said Racine native Ronald Ahnen, a grandchild and unofficial family archivist.

Ronald Ahnen remembers that Grandma Genevieve told you what she thought, whether you agreed or not. Arid if you didn't agree, that was fine. But she'd tell you. She had integrity. Maybe she got it from that distant relative, Lyman Hall It seems he had integrity too.

It didn't matter that British Royal Gov. James Wright slapped Hal with an angry rebuke. Hall refused to leave revolutionary politics and he represented Georgia at the Continental Humid. Partly sunny. High 82.

page editor: Tom Farley MARK HERTZBERG Journal Times Jo Ellen Rommel of Racine is a direct descendant of Lyman flail, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence. 6 18134-01000.