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2B. 4B. Turf CITYCOUNTY the Journal Times MONDAY July 17, 1995 SECTION TV LISTINGS 3B page edtor Alan Petersen tesfen bit ffll IT Vance's petition, which more than 100 people signed. "I was concerned because the neighbors there felt outraged about it," Turner said. "They're not going to move that (to the Boathouse) now." Scislowicz said it's hard to find a site everyone can agree "Every space you can find is near a park, a school, a day care center," he said.

"(Offenders) already live near schools and hospitals and parks and machine shops all over Racine." He added that the office won't bring more crime to a specific area, since offenders stop by only once in a while for briefs meetings with their probation and parole itoring. The key issue is space. "The community has produced a sort of surplus of offenders," Scislowicz said. With about 2,500 offenders in the city, the Center Street office, one of two in Racine, needs more space to house its probation and parole officers, he said. The city has about 40 probation and parole officers.

Scislowicz said the building will house officers, not criminals. "This is not a halfway house," he said. "They're offices for our staff." But some residents remain leery. "People have fear about these situations," Turner said. "I'm hoping when they pick that site they'll tell the city and the alderman there." CYNTHIA JOHNSTON Journal Times Carol Vance wants to keep criminals away from the Racine Zoo and other areas where children play.

So when Vance, a Neighborhood Watch block captain on Erie Street, heard a rumor that the Division of Probation and Parole might relocate to a Wisconsin Avenue building near the zoo, she started a petition, wrote some letters and made a few phone calls. Officials say the protests were a bit premature. The parole office may relocate. Its lease at the City Hall Annex expires next year and the office needs more space. But offi-.

cials at the Department of Corrections say they're not even considering sites yet and But relocating the office is only one of several options, said Roger Miller, chief of the southeast region's Division of Probation and Parole. The department could choose to expand the office but stay at City Hall. Vance likes that option. "If something goes wrong, there's plenty of people to take care of it," she said. An example of something going wrong happened last year when a parolee grabbed a police officer's gun and tried to shoot him in the head during a parole hold arrest at the probation and parole office on Durand Avenue.

No one was seriously injured in that incident. The division could also combine forces to relocate with the Division of Intensive Sanctions, which handles electronic mon won't until fall. The department is only "window shopping" for now, said Information Officer Joe Scislowicz. Leonard Montalbano said officials approached him about the availability of his building at 2113 Wisconsin formerly The Boathouse. They told him they were also looking at four or five other North Side sites.

When the protests started, Montalbano wrote a letter to the Department of Corrections saying they couldn't rent his building. "The Boathouse is not going to be used for any parole department," he said. Public officials also got involved in the protest. State Rep. Robert Turner, D-Ra-cine, inquired about the plan after seeing I' There's a big catch to most fishing stories I stayed cool.

Temporarily, that is. But four hours of keeping cool was a welcome respite from the heat. As thousands of other people are doing these days, I was experiencing the coolness of Lake Michigan six miles from the steamy shore, trying to catch fish. The experience was, to use the vernacular of people much younger than I am, cool. Not only was I cool and the experience cool, I even kept my cool when fish I was trying to invite into the boat declined the invitation.

(As I heard a former co-worker say recently, "Just remember, they call it fishing, not Actually, I did catch a fish. Well, I use the term "catch" loosely. Frankly, I had little to do with catching it. "It" jn this case was a lake trout about 13 pounds, which for me was one heck of a big fish. I was one of four people aboard the Centurion, captained by Jim Mohrland, a retired Racine police officer.

Also aboard were Mohrland's first mate, Bud Korger, a 1 Iff V- PAUL ROBERTS" Journal Times A Victoria Yocum of West Allis races toward the finish line in a one-mile lap race at the WISIL Challenge human-powered vehicle races at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside Sunday. People Power At Work retired Wisconsin Electric Power Co. employee who lives near Franksville; and Jay Bleiher, co-owner with Bill Harris of Lucky Lure, a fishing lure manufacturing company. In fact, Bleiher noted, it was a Lucky Lure which caught the largest fish in the 1994 Salmon-A-Rama. But I wasn't trying to catch a fish large enough to win a pickup truck or some other Salmon-A- i I.

i AS I SEE IT Emmert Dose yy. I Cfts Weather factor in auto fatal GARY METRO Journal Times Heavy thunderstorms may' have caused a Saturday afternoon traffic accident in Walworth County that led to the death of a 20-year-old Racine woman. Kristan M. Andersen, of 1441 Deane was killed in a three-car crash that resulted in two vehicles bursting into flames. She had been driving to Madison, where she was in her second year as a tourist recreation student at Madison Area Technical College.

A 58-year-old woman from Antioch, 111., also was killed in the crash, but her identity was not released by the Walworth County Sheriffs Department on Sunday. Sheriff's deputies said the fatal crash occurred when a westbound car slid out of control and into the path of an eastbound car on Highway 12, west of Highway O. A second eastbound car then crashed into both cars which burst into flames. A severe thunderstorm was thought to have been a factor in the 5:10 p.m. crash, according to deputies.

Sheriff's deputies were assisted by rescue workers from the Whitewater Fire Department and town of LaGrange Fire Department. All of the injured were taken to Lakeland Medical Center in Elk-horn. Andersen, a 1992 graduate of Park High School, was the daughter of Diane and Richard Andersen, of 1441 Deane Blvd. Funeral services are scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at St.

Edward's Catholic Church, 1430 Grove Ave. Obituary, 2B. FBI using state killer for profile Associated Press The FBI plans to use information from Wisconsin serial killer David F. Spanbauer to help in the investigations of similar crimes nationwide. The FBI's Child Abduction and Serial Killer Unit in Quantico, sought details about Spanbauer's crimes the murders of Cora Jones, 12, of Weyauwega; Ronelle Eichstedt, 10, of Ripon; and Trudi Jeschke, 21, of Appleton; and rapes of two Appleton females.

Two Appleton detectives recently traveled to Quantico to give a presentation on Spanbauer's crime spree. The FBI was interested in learning about Spanbauer partially because his behavior did not fit many common serial-killer characteristics. FBI agents are interested in Spanbauer's background, his reasons for killing and his penchant for committing a range of offenses, from theft to murder. Spanbauer, 54, formerly of Osh-kosh, is serving a sentence of three consecutive life terms plus 403 years at the Dodge Correctional Institution in Waupun. Appleton Detective Randy Cook participated in the presentation at Quantico.

As part of the process, Spanbauer agreed to be interviewed and videotaped by detectives, who showed a portion of the video to agents. "I'd say it's the bottom line that if you got a guy like that, you want to learn from it," Cook said Spanbauer's murder and rape victims ranged in age from 10 to 32, unlike many serial killers who target an age range. Also, unlike most child abductors and killers, Spanbauer was not strictly motivated by sexual desires, often burglarizing homes, too. Detective Dan Woodkey, who accompanied Cook to Quantico, said Spanbauer only killed females who could identify him. Cook said FBI agents will now track Spanbauer's past to determine whether he was linked to 1 Randy Lldley gets buttoned into his Banshee super modified human-powered vehicle by his father, Frank, and Don Barry.

A Race director Len Brunkalla waves another racer across the finish line Sunday. Former Racinian promotes history Rama prize. I was just out to enjoy myself (although, I admit, had I not caught make that "pulled in" a fish, I may not have enjoyed myself as much). You see, I was invited to participate in Captain's Day, a pre-Salmon-A-Rama event sponsored by radio station WRJN and South Hills Country Club to which representatives of companies who help put on the event are invited, along with local government officials and media weirdos. The event includes four hours of fishing and a lunch guaranteed to add 25 pounds to every participant.

In addition, we each received a plastic foam cooler, a six-pack of fluid produced in a Milwaukee brewery, a can insulator courtesy of Metal-Lab a button and a green cap. Although I can't swear to this, I'm sure the participating boat captains drew straws to see who would take me on his boat and Mohrland drew the short one. Anyway, I bought a two-day fishing license and got aboard the Centurion. We headed east into the fog, soon out of sight of Racine. I was reminded of the day several years ago when I was aboard a charter fishing boat out of sight of shore when we saw two elderly men in a small boat trying to get our attention.

The captain pulled close enough to hear one ask, "Which way is west?" But, I stray from the subject which has something to do about catching fish. Mohrland said we would head out first to try to catch some Lakers (which are not basketball players despite their large size). As we skipped across the waves, I was happy I had taken a couple of anti-motion sickness pills. We reached our destination and soon had a strike (which in this case is a fishing term and has nothing to do with major league baseball or bowling). Although the fish snapped the pole, Mohrland and Bleiher pulled it in.

It turned out to weigh 14 pounds, good enough to earn a Captain's Day third prize for largest fish caught that morning. Shortly after that, Mohrland saw that another fish had taken the bait. This is where we come to the part that I referred to earlier as using the term "catching a fish" loosely. All I did was hold the rod and turn the reel. Mohrland and Korger had put the bait on the hook and put the lines out; Mohrland told me how to reel in the fish; Mohrland netted the fish and pulled it aboard.

(And he filleted for me when we were back on shore.) But it was my fish, by golly, and my three companions congratulated me as they dropped it into a cooler. I puffed. After all, reeling in a big fish is a lot of work. We pulled in one more Laker, although about five others had taken the bait but got away. We also tried unsuccessfully to attract some salmon closer to shore.

I was happy with what I "caught." It tasted delicious after my son prepared it on the grill So, if you ever hear me tell about the day I caught a 13-pound Laker, you're justified in reminding me that there wasn't much that I had to do about catching it. Former Community Editor and Journal Timet reporter Emmert Dose writes his "As I See tt" column weekly. i I return to his owner in St. Louis. Racine citizens were outraged and protested outside the courthouse for a fair trial.

It was the largest crowd ever gathered in Racine's history at that time. The next day Glover was freed and escaped to Canada. The booklet, which could be available in August or September, also carries the story of Caroline Qualles, 18, the first fugitive slave to cross Wisconsin's borders with the aid of Dr. Dryer in Burlington. The upcoming celebration will include story telling, role playing of different periods and a "Taste of Soul," featuring African-American food for sale.

Guest speaker will be Claudia Polley, the first director of the National African-American Preservation Committee. For Jackson, retracing 100 years of history has not been easy. "It was very hard and not easily available," she said. "There was no regular routine and (it) requires much more energy." Jackson also has been keeping track of current events and putting them on record at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin to ensure a better record for the future. Jackson said the State Historical Society of Wisconsin has a vast amount of material on black history and has the largest collection of civil rights documents in the country.

She hopes the African-American Heritage Day will become a new tradition in Racine. PEON DRANE Journal Times A former Racine resident who left to take a job with the State Historical Society of Wisconsin is working to bring the city's black history to life in an upcoming celebration. The event is the city's first African-American Heritage Day, set for Saturday, Aug. 5, from 2 to 6 p.m. at Monument Square.

Former educator Ruby West Jackson, who has been researching Racine and Kenosha county's African-American history and heritage the past year, wants to document black history and tell the complete story of Racine to all of its residents. "Not just to all blacks, but other people," Jackson said. "There has been such a void of African-American history." Jackson, who has been researching black history for more than 40 years, joined the State Historical Society of Wisconsin in January 1994 and is now coordinator of a task force. With the help of Kevin Bonds and Hermetta Williams, she has collected information about remarkable people, unforgettable events and historical land sites and compiled it in a 28-page booklet. Included in the compilation is Joshua Glover, a runaway slave who came to Racine in 1852.

Glover lived by the Root River and in 1854 a Milwaukee judge ordered him to 1 Jf MARK HERT2BMQ Jouma limes A Huby Vet Jackson, a former Racine resident, is coordinating an African-American Heritage Day at Monument Square Aug. 5. crimes outside Wisconsin..