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METROPOLITAN Wednesday, August 16, 2000 WHAFS UP? The Greater Albuquerque Chamber of Commerce will hold a forum on public education ON THE WEB For news and more, visit the Journal 'sWcb site, updated daily. www.abqjournal.com 0) JT1 o) ABO lournar from 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the Presbyterian Healthcare Auditorium, 2301 Buena Vista SE. B2 Albuquerque Journal 'ill A IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD Dancing Her Way Back to Show IN BRIEF Mayor Nominates Pfenning Deputy Fabrizio Bertoletti has been nominated by Mayor Jim Baca to serve as a deputy chief administrative officer in charge of Cissy King The N.M. native prepares for a reunion with her old partner Bobby Burgess Cissy King recently rehearsed with her old dance partner Bobby Burgess in Los Angeles for the first time in 20 years, preparing for a Lawrence Welk Show reunion on Labor Day weekend.

King, 54, was Burgess' dance partner for 11 years on the once-popular show. The Albuquerque native attended Highland High School and was a Chaparral at the University of NewlMexico. She now divides her KINO: Danced for 11 years In popular show time between Albuquerque and Scottsdale, Ariz. While in Albuquerque, she spends time at the old dance studio she grew up with, offering tips to students and occasionally teaching a class. She and Burgess will pair up again for the reunion that will be taped Sept.

1-3 at the Welk Champagne Theatre in Branson, home of the Lawrence Welk Museum. "It was great dancing with Bobby again," she said; "He said our practice session was like we had never i mA j' i absence in 1996 and 1997, Bertoletti has worked for the city since 1974 in a variety of planning and administrative posts. From 1993 to 1996, he served as director of the city's Capital Improvements Program, which oversees the city's building program, bond revenues and contractual agreements. The Associated Press Autopsy Shows Men May llavo Used Drug Preliminary autopsy results show an Albuquerque man who died in police custody last month had an illegal drug in his system. No ruling has been made on what killed Kevin Boyer, 25, pending final autopsy results, said Tim Stepetic, a spokesman for the state Office of the Medical Investigator.

Stepetic said he did not know what the illegal substance might have been. "We're going to run some final tests, and we expect him to be positive for drug use," he said, i Stepetic said the autopsy earlier had shown physical force did not cause Boyer's death on July 28. Some witnesses have said Boyer was having an asthma attack but that police ignored his cries for help'. However, Stepetic said tests completed last week showed Boyer did not suffer from asthma "at least not to a dangerous degree." Boyer ran when police approached him as he was sitting in a car on the side of the road. He was caught at a restaurant near the University of New Mexico.

Paramedics checked him over and gave him a clean bill of health before officers took him back to the place on the street where the chase began. He died there within the hour. AARON WILSONJOURNAL DANCING QUEEN: Cissy King, 54, divides her time between Scottsdale, and her home In the University of New Mexico area. consuming job. "There's nothing like getting paid for doing what you love, but the demands of rehearsals, doing shows in the studio and traveling, plus having a social life were very difficult to balance," she said.

She said she is considering taking a public relations job for a natural health medical center in Scottsdale. King says she leads a full life, growth management policy issues. If councilors approve the appointment, Bertoletti would oversee the city's planned-growth policies, including Downtown revitalization, water resources planning and BERTOLETTI: Baca nominee to oversee city's growth policies other "smart-growth" issues, said Brian Morris, Baca's spokesman. Since November, Bertoletti has served as executive assistant to Lawrence Rael, chief administrative officer, in charge of coordinating the city's Downtown revitalization effort. He served as the city's associate planning director from April 1998 to October 1999, overseeing the department's budget and ISO employees.

He also was in charge of building-and housing-code enforcement and zoning issues. Bertoletti would serve as one of three deputies under Rael. The city now has two deputy chief administrative officers: Vickie Fisher and Connie Beimer. His salary would be about $86,000 a year, Morris said. Councilors are scheduled to consider the appointment on Monday.

Aside from a one-year leave of bian references. One girl in the audience yelled "You're so hot," which probably never happens at an Amy Grant concert Lang was voice, not sexuality, and she rocked. Which is more than I can say for her opening act I like Shelby Lynne, at least I like the one song of hers KBAC-FM radio has been rolling out every half hour this summer. get back, do I do. Gotta get back, I do, I She came out in silver leather pants, a black leather vest and hair the envy of every 4-H diva in rural America.

She's got a good voice, don't get me wrong but seems to take too much from Joan Jett and not enough from her own heart Oh, welL Lang was good. Lang Rocks Santa Fe at the Soleri 4-Year-Old Dead; Police Examine Case The concert lets singer show off her distinctive voice, California sound By Jennifer McKee Journal Staff Writer There are two things everybody knows about k.d. lang: She's a lesbian, and she's got one hell of a voice. You noticed the rainbow stickers first. Every car in the parking lot seemed to be celebrating diversity.

A sprinkling of men sat in the audience, lost in the sea of middle-aged women and their partners. The scene was ISO percent women's power at Santa Fe's Paolo Soleri on Tuesday night. Lang even sang a little ditty about "girls making the world go round." r- 1 SARAH MARTONEFOR THE JOURNAL ROCKIN' WOMAN: Performer k.d. lang sings and dances at the Paolo Soleri In Santa Fe on Tuesday. Police Agencies Cleared in '96 Shooting Case quit.

It went so smoothly." Burgess noticed King at a dance competition in 1967 and asked her to join him as a guest on the Lawrence Welk Show. She became a fixture shortly afterward, becoming Burgess' permanent dance partner. "I was thrilled when I first heard. It was the chance of a lifetime," King said. She describes the show as an amazing opportunity but a time- help.

She and her mother were found in another home on the same property, the affidavit said. Amadeo's mother refused to come out, and the older woman initially told deputies they couldn't come in without a warrant, the affidavit said. The deputies convinced her to let them in, the affidavit said. It said the boy's mother came out of a bathroom in that home, and one deputy reported finding a syringe cap and smelling "what he believed to be the distinct odor of ether." A search of the home turned up no ether, according to Wong, and he added that OMI didn't find any outward signs of trauma on Amadeo's body. The affidavit said the sheriffs department had been called to the address twice earlier in the day, but Wong said those incidents apparently did not involve the boy's mother and took place, in a home where the boy does not live.

Amadeo's great-grandmother told one deputy the child had been complaining of an aching stomach, the affidavit said. Improve Shelter issues such as pet overpopulation and public education, Kotchian said. It has about 20 members representing various animal advocacy groups but does not specifically hear cruelty complaints, although members as individuals might file them. The mayor wants a smaller group either within the current one or working separately to focus on the recommendations the Humane Society will make in a report expected to be issued this month, Kotchian said. The goal is to be the very best operation we can be," she said.

Brasher said his committee would go beyond those recommendations and consider others "that citizen groups would deem appropriate." More Riders This is typical of Councilor Watkins said. "We're willing to explain all the complexities and the issues we face at transit We're open to show him around, but he doesn't call. He just takes bits and pieces out of context and tries to make a problem out of them." Payne said he has written to the Transit Department several times, but has not received a response. traveling, teaching dance and spending time with her family. "I feel like I have had a wonderful life and wouldn't change anything," she said.

"My nieces and their children are the love of my life these days." Journal Staff writer lllana Union If there's a former newsmaker you would like us to track down, contact Ellen Marks at 823-3842 or emarks9abqjoumal.com. REVIEW But her voice cut through any gendersexuality politics and rendered us all fans. Lang slathered her big, beefy voice all over the open-air amphitheater. Her latest album, the California-sounding "Invincible Summer," takes lang almost as far as the "big-boned gal from southern Alberta" has come from her musical home of self-described "punk country." But you want to go there with her. Her latest songs are like a sundress set to music very open, breezy, but with ample room for the vocals lang's fans have followed from country radio to wherever it is you can hear lang these days.

The politics of the event were very estrogen-heavy. And lang dropped some tongue-in-cheek les identified themselves. After an initial confrontation, Garrison went into his home and called 911. He was shot when he opened a rear door of his home with a gun in his hand. He fell back into his home, and officers later entered to handcuff him, lawyers for Garrison's family claim.

APD officer Howard Neal Terry and deputies Erik Little and James Monteith have been identified as the shooters. In its Aug. 11 opinion, the appeals court sided with U.S. District Judge LeRoy Hansen, who granted qualified immunity in 1999 to the officers, including a 911 operator listed as a defendant Qualified immunity shields public officials from liability for civil damages if their conduct doesn't violate clearly established constitutional rights. aimed at keeping cars off the inter-states.

Monthly bus passes normally cost $21. Under ACT NOW, the passes go for $15 even cheaper if an employer decides to subsidize some of the cost ACT NOW director Anthony Romero said New Mexico Mortgage Finance Co. is subsidizing $13 of the bus pass allowing employees to purchase the passes for only $1 Mary McCarthy, an Intel employee, said car pools have proved most popular among employees with 300 involved in some form of car pooling. "We've had a car-pool program in By Jeff Jones Journal Staff Writer A 4-year-old boy was pronounced dead Monday evening after rescue workers were called to the South Valley home where he lived, and the Bernalillo County Sheriffs Department is looking into the case. Rescue workers were called to the home of Amadeo Lovato about 4 p.m.

after a family member called 911 to report he wasn't breathing, said sheriffs spokeswoman Ronni Sparks. Amadeo was taken to University Hospital, according to a search-warrant affidavit, but he was pronounced dead shortly after he arrived. Sheriffs Detective Henry Wong said the Office of the Medical Investigator is tentatively ruling the death as natural, but toxicology tests that could shed light on the case won't be ready for several weeks, The search-warrant affidavit said deputies called to the home on Atrisco SW were told Amadeo's mother "had run from the scene" after it was deter-1 mined the child needed medical City Strives To from PAGE B1 ing an advisory board. "We want to Make sure we get input from any groups that have some issues" before bringing the proposal back to other councilors, he said. Britton, who said she spent $71,500 on the lawsuit, said a board wouldn't have any power one already exists, and the cruelty she alleged to officials for years She said she'd rather see "a disin-' terested cruelty monitor who knows what they're looking for." JMpst, animal groups focus on adoption, foster care or the rescue of Certain breeds, she said, and doift do "cruelty investigation." The 'current Animal Services advisory committee was formed eight years ago and addresses SunTran Sees from PAGEB1 lead to Inaccurate revenue pictures by looking at only one month, Watkins said.

She said revenues are more accu- rately compared over two or three months. For instance, revenues collected (n June might not show up in reports until the July report, she said. Paul Kennedy, representing Garrison's family, said he plans to petition the 10th Circuit by Aug. 28 for another hearing before the full appeals court. Robles, who represented APD and its officers, said it is highly unlikely the issue will be reopened.

"This brings an end to the litigation in this case and all the questions the public raised about the use of force and whether it was proper," he said. Sheriff Joe Bowdich said Tuesday that "this is not one of the things you celebrate." "It's a tragedy that this occurred, and the courts can't undo the tragedy," he said. "Our hearts still go out to the family, but we are relieved that this is over with." By Guiixermo Contreras Journal Staff Writer An appeals court has cleared the Albuquerque Police and Bernalillo County Sheriffs departments in a lawsuit stemming from a controversial police shooting in 1996. A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said the officers and deputies were within legal bounds to fire at Ralph Garrison, who was shot and killed when he pointed a gun at officers.

Police SWAT teams were executing a search warrant early Dec. 16, 1996, at an apartment Garrison rented out next to his home. Garrison, 69, was not a suspect in any criminal activity and confronted the officers because he thought they were burglars. The departments said officers repeatedly Attorneys for the Garrison family argued on appeal that police caused the situation that created a need for deadly force, that officers used excessive force when they entered Garrison's home and placed him in handcuffs, and that once inside his home, the officers unlawfully detained his ailing 72-year-old wife, Molly. Molly Garrison died while the lawsuit was pending in the courts, attorney Luis Robles said.

The appeals court said police and sheriffs deputies acted in a way that was "objectively reasonable in the light of surrounding facts and circumstances." It also found Molly Garrison was not unlawfully detained. "The central fact is that when the fatal shots were fired, (Garrison) was aiming his gun at other officers at the scene," the opinion said. place since 1997. We have an internal ride-share database and a Web tool where employees can match up with others who want to share a ride," she said. But perhaps the biggest help to avoiding Big I congestion at Intel McCarthy said, is the work schedule followed by about three-quarters of Intel's 5,200 employees.

The employees are on a 12-hour work shift schedule working three 12-hour days one week and four 12-hour days the next week. "Everyone really likes the shifts," McCarthy said. "They're long shifts, but the payoff is with all the extra days off, and you're talking Employers Steer Commuters Away From Big I Construction about keeping cars off the road one or two days a week." Pamela Chavez of Wells Fargo Bank said her employer is giving -away free monthly trips to vacation spots in New Mexico, and every quarter it will give away a trip for two to Las Vegas, Nev. People participating in car pools or other forms of alternative transportation are given vouchers to enter a drawing for the prizes. The firm is budgeting about $400 monthly for the trips within New Mexico, but the budget for the free trips will grow bigger once drawings for the trips to Vegas begin, Chavez said.

Programs Promote Alternative Transit By Patrick Armuo Journal Staff Writer Car pools, van pools, telecommuting and teleconferencing all are arrows in the quiver Albuquerque employers are using to keep cars off the construction-impaired Big Monday, the city Transit Department announced some 43 employers have signed agreements to participate in the ACT NOW program, which provides discounted monthly bus passes to firms in exchange for the establishment of programs.