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"I find it unbelievable. The reasons for the denial are almost unbelievable." Ziolkowski said the plan commission's rejection jeopardizes the 75 to 150 jobs and annual S2 million tax base that would accompany the Menard project. He said it threatens the neighboring Best Products jewelry store project and other development inquiries, which Ziolkowski refused to name. Although Ziolkowski said he realized the town board could ignore its plan commission, he said Menard representatives were upset. Ziolkowski said he was concerned about Menard deciding against lengthy negotiations with the town and picking another site, perhaps in another county.

That's a possiblity, according to Steve Johnson, a Menard project manager. "We've got a lot of work done on it already," said Johnson, ex- -plaining the land has been surveyed and a site plan started. "We're all set to go as soon as we get all of our Johnson said Menard wants to begin construction in spring and would be open for business in fall. He said Menard would go elsewhere, perhaps another county, without the town's conditional use permit. "It won't happen (without the permit)," Johnson said.

"We'd have to go looking someplace else. John Hessenthaler, town building inspector, said the plan commission didn't like the location of Menard's lumberyard, part of the proposed operation. He said plan commission members didn't want the lumberyard next door to the town hall and they objected to it being directly across Highway 31 from Regency Mall. Hessenthaler said commissioners felt a lumberyard and building supply business was not compatible as a neighbor to a regional shopping mall. Town board members approved rezoning the land ior Menard Jan.

22, along with rezoning 4,7 adjacent acres as a site for a catalog showroom to be operated by Best Products Co. Inc. of Richmond, Va. Sale of the county-owned land was approved by the county board in January. The price of the Menard parcel was $500,000, while the Best tract was $329,000.

The board voted to put $554,000 of the $829,000 sale into an account for Racine harbor improvements. Arnold Clement, county planning director and zoning administrator, told the town board in January the Eau Claire company is not interested in buying land it can't use. A public hearing on the proposed development is set for Feb. 19 at the town hall and the town board is tentatively scheduled to vote on a conditional use permit Feb. 25.

By Lan La Cars Journal Timet RACINE Since November, Debbie Voll, Mary Jean Madigan and Donna Guilette had attended Unified School Board meetings, plowed through research, debated with administators and wore badges that read "No All-Day "Everybody kept asking us, 'Why are you banging your heads against the wall? It's going to happen Guilette said. It didn't. Voll, Madigan and Guilette were silent during the school board meeting Monday night, saying they had worn out their credibility with board members. Instead, board members did the talking and rejected, 7-2, a three-year pilot program for all-day, five-day kindergarten. The vote was a defeat for Superintendent of Schools Don Woods, who proposed the 179,340 pilot program, and for the Red Apple Parent Group, which lost yet another attempt to secure a kindergarten for the.

alternative school. Only board President William Kumm and Marilyn Langdon voted for the pilot; Eugene Dunk, William Frank, John Graham, George Petak, Barbara Scott, Bernice Thomsen and Dale Zierten voted against it. Woods asked board members not to tamper with his proposal, saying it represented hundreds of hours of work by administrators. If all-day kindergarten doesn't benefit children, Woods said, you should vote this year to eliminate the half-day program for kindergarten and abandon the field of early childhood to day care centers, Head Start and the churches. "If you, as board members, had listened to that stupid old saw, 'If it ain't broke, don't fix then we would never have unified, never desegregated, never established alternative schools and you never would have run for the board seat you now hold." Board members left the proposal intact, but that's as far as they went in heeding Woods' advice.

"All-day kindergarten is symptomatic of a rapidly growing disease called the free program syndrome," tolflV Iks Journal Timea ataff and Associated Press MILWAUKEE Jim Fitzgerald, owner of the Milwaukee Bucks, announced today that he was putting the National Basketball Association team up for sale. Fitzgerald, in a statement released at a new conference, said: "After intense and thorough evaluation of all possible alternatives, I have decided that it is in the best interests of myself and my partners to encourage new local ownership for the Bucks. "It is our feeling that the time is right for us to step aside. As local ownership, it is important that we joined celebration of defeat administrators study the entire early childhood program and try to improve current programs. Woods dismissed that as a waste of time.

"It's unfortunate it became such a political issue," a disappointed Thomas Friedel of the Red Apple Parent Group said after the vote. Friedel accused Dunk and Graham of sidestepping the issue and voting with the majority because of political pressures. An elated Voll said she didn't care why the board rejected it. "We weren't here for political reasons. We were here for kids," she said.

Guilette said, "We showed that das I Bernice thomsen, right, Scott said. The state provides money for programs, districts implement them, and everyone's taxes go up, she said. The all-day program did not arise here out of a need to serve children, but out of a desire to raise income, Scott charged. Graham attacked opponents who threatened to unseat him if he voted for all-day classes, and suggested they take a course in remedial civics. He said he voted against the pilot in spite of their threats because the money would be spent better in other areas.

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Journal Tim of all-day kindergarten parents do make an impact." One board member seemed saddened by that impact. Zierten said any proposal, no matter how good it might be, is destined to fail if the public doesn't want it. "My only regret is we will never know whether this program would have or could have succeeded," he said. Perhaps. Woods said after the vote he expects Unified will adopt all-day kindergarten within a decade: "We'll have it, but we'll be running to catch up with everyone else." SDHOUl By Gary Matro Journal Times RACINE COUNTY Today's fluffy snow left about 8 inches of new powder on Racine streets by midmorning, but the accumulation dipped sharply in western Racine County.

Dominic Scaffidi of the National Weather Service office in Milwaukee said the snow came from a classic "lake effect" weather system: cold air and wind off the lake. Scaffidi said Racine usually gets the worst from lake effect snows because the city's land mass juts into Lake Michigan. He said Downtown Milwaukee got about 4Vi inches of snow. In Burlington, about 2 inches of snow was reported. The official overnight snowfall in Racine was 6 inches, bringing the season total to 46 inches.

Although the snow was deep, it didn't present any special difficulties for county highway crews, according to Russell Hetzel, highway superintendent. The toughest areas to clear were along Lake Michigan, said Hetzel, who explained the storm would have been very difficult if there had been a wind to blow the powder into drifts. The weather service predicated an end to the snow by p.m., with the temperature dropping to an overnight low near zero away from the lake. Scaffidi said another low-pressure system is moving across tbe Midwest and it probably will bring a good chance of more snow here by midday Wednesday. Aspen Drovide Milwaukee interests with' every feasible opportunity to purchase the Bucks and continue its operation as a strong local team.

"For that reason, while we will discuss sale of the club to any interested party, all our discussions will take place with the caveat that Milwaukee-based offers will have the highest priority." Fitzgerald, 59, of Janesville, bought the team in 1976. Fitzgerald was asked if he wanted more than $15 million for the club, and he replied, "I'm not going to play that game. "Here we have a situation where I think we have a great team, but a low payroll. That is a dream." I WASHINGTON (AP) Les Aspin, new chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, opening hearings on President Reagan's $277.5 billion defense budget today, told Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, "Before we give you billions more, we want to know what you've done with the trillion you've got." Wisconsin 1st District Rep. Aspin, D-East Troy, in his first hearing as chairman, told Weinberger the administration's stewardship of defense resources over the last four years will be a prime issue as the panel considers spending requests.

And Rep. William Dickinson of Alabama, the panel's ranking Republican, told the defense secretary there is a widespread public perception that the Pentagon is wasting money on such things as $7,000 coffee pots. "It really sends a shiver through the American people," Dickinson said, adding that House members, who face election every two years, can do little without strong public support. Although Weinberger has said repeatedly in the last several weeks that the Pentagon already has pared its budget to the bone, Dickinson told him: "The perception is that these were not really bona fide cuts. People are saying defense is getting too much money." Weinberger agreed with Aspin that it is important "that we should have a full accounting made of what we have done so far." And he told Dickinson: "This is the place where we find out if we have public support.

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