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ote Beaver Dam, Wisconsin Volume 80, Number 307 Tuesday, February 19, 1991 50 cents28 cents home delivered BD residents reduce (Ml '90 arfoage volume Iff kJf mm mi i quarter 23 percent "It shows you the major effect of the ban on yard waste," Gall told the Board of Public Works Monday. Gall added that at $5.35 per cubic yard paid to the landfill operator, the city saved approximately $12,521 during 1990. That cost, he added, does not include labor savings realized from reduced collection and delivery operations. The analysis showed the heaviest reduction of solid-waste volume between the two years was realized in the 1990 volume was down 37 percent from 1989. Every month, with the exception of January (up 3 percent) and May (upl5 percent), showed a decline from the previous year.

However, the bulk of the volume reduction was realized between July and November. In a related matter, the board blessed a Public Works Department proposal to accept brush and tree trimmings, not exceeding seven inches in diameter, along with grass clippings at the city garage. Currently, such trimmings are not accepted with routine solid-waste collections and, since the the public's access to the Shaw Hill Road site has been discontinued, there are fewer places to dispose of the waste. According to Gall, city forces will accept the additional waste during the same hours and at the same location which grass clippings are accepted. "Our solid waste crews have to pick up the grass clippings anyway, so why not scoop it all up?" reasoned Gall.

By RICK RADIG City Editor Solid-waste collections declined 13 percent in 1990 compared to 1989, reflecting, in part, Beaver Dam's ban or collecting clippings and yard waste. According to a solid-waste volume comparison prepared by City Engineer Bruce Gall, city forces collected 17,486 cubic yards of waste in 1989 compared to 15,145 cubic yards in 1990. OVERALL, the new restrictions reduced solid-waste volume by more than 2,300 cubic yards. The city's ban on yard waste went into effect in mid-July. Prior to that point, solid-waste collections were down 3 percent between 1989 and 1990.

After that point, the volume plummeted by nearly one 3 i i r. 1 i City gets ready for another pigeon shoot (. Shooters will provide their own ammunition, 7 11 shot or finer, according to trie resolution. The city is planning another pigeon shoot in response to complaints about the pigeon population by business owners. Between December 1986 and March 1987, in a similar shoot, about 1 ,200 birds were killed.

"We haven't found any alternative to this form of pigeon elimination," Mayor Robert Kachclski said Monday. City officials did not discuss what they would do with dead birds. By RICK RADIG City Editor Aldermen cleared the way for a pigeon shoot in Beaver Dam Monday by approving a resolution allowing marksmen with permits to discharge weapons within city limits. The resolution pertains specifically to an organized pigeon shoot, the city's answer to reducing an escalating pigeon population. Police Chief Larry Huettl is charged with organizing the shooters, according to Alderman Willard Roberts, city health officer.

"There's not going to be an army' out there," Roberts said. "They will all be people he feels he can trust." No date has been set for the pigeon shoot. However, City Attorney H. David Schacht said the ideal time for such a shoot is approximately 3 p.m., when the pigeons are preparing to roost for the evening, and in an effort to work around business hours, a Sunday may be preferable Roberts noted that releases are currently being sought from property owners in the central business district to allow the shooters into and onto their buildings. A fire this morning caused extensive damage to from 6:55 until 10 a.m.

using approximately 3,000 the trailer home of Nancy Voelker, North Hills gallons of water to put the fire out. A fire alarm a- Mobile Park, N8283 Highway 151 lot 30. An ini- lerted Voelker of the fire and she and her three tial Investigation Indicated that the fire began as a cats escaped unharmed. anu A result of heating-system-related problems. The zr'zJP staJ! Photo Beaver Dam Fire Department were on the scene Eileen Connell President Bush: Peace plan alls si: iort JU.

Germany, said it had learned the plan specifics Iraqi withdrawal, no punishment for Saddam Hussein, maintenance of Iraq's borders and later negotiations about Palestinian rights. In the war zone, allied forces worked on land, sea and air to strip I-raqi forces of the will and the means to fight, setting the stage for a swift and fierce assault On the desert front in northern Saudi Arabia, U.S. troops repositioned themselves, seeking to keep the Iraqis guessing. In the air campaign, France said its Jaguar fighter-bombers hit Iraqi artillery positions today in Iraq and Ku-(Continued on Page 12) ion." "THE GOALS HAVE been set out, there will be no concessions," Bush said. Bush noted that Gorbachev asked him to keep the details of the Moscow offer confidential "and I'm going to do that." "I will respect that request in the interests of thoroughly exploring the initiative," Bush said.

"But, very candidly, while expressing appreciation for his sending it to us, it falls well short of what would be required." "I would leave it right there for now," he added. Bush received a letter from Gor bachev on Monday giving an account of the Soviet discussions with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in Moscow and details of a peace plan Gorbachev gave Aziz earlier in the day. A-ziz headed back to Baghdad with the Soviet proposal. While House spokesman Marlin Fitzwatcr said the Soviets asked U.S. officials to refrain from public comment on the proposal, which came as allied troops awaited Bush's order to launch a ground war against Iraq.

In Moscow, a government spokesman said the plan was a way to end the war with a political settlement. The newspaper Bild in Hamburg, WASHINGTON (AP) President Bush said today that a Soviet proposal to end die war in the Persian Gulf "falls well short of what would be required." Bush did not disclose details of the plan, but said he had reviewed the proposal and had conveyed his reaction to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev "and I've been frank with him." "As far as I'm concerned, there are no negotiations, no concessions," Bush said "I do appreciate President Gorbachev's providing me a copy of his proposal. Bush said. "We provided comments last night to the Soviet Un Mental illnesses shrouded in myth yf A 'Hi' II If. fused with a lack of desire to succeed.

Add to that the fact it is more common for a mentally ill person to fail in a task than to succeed, and they know that, they sometimes don't want to try something when they expect to fail," he said. 4. Mental illness is the result or bad parenting. Mental illness is a brain disorder that affects one out of every 20 people. No one knows for sure what the causes of mental illness arc, although contributing factors may be a mixture of biochemical imbalance, environmental stresses, and possibly heredity.

5. Having a mental illness requires king-term institutional care. About 10 years ago, there was a major move towards deinstitutionalization, a federal policy that released the mentally ill from institutions in large numbers. While that move resulted in many of the mentally ill becoming homeless, the mentally ill who have the support of their families and community can often function in society and raise a family, said Will. Next: A look at the dav-to-dav operation of Daybreak, and how the Horicon community has reacted towards the group home.

(The following is the second part of a three-part series on mental illness.) By EILEEN CONNELL Mental illness is an umbrella term for more than 100 illnesses, among them schizophrenia, depression, manic depression, bipolar illness, autism, and cerebral arteriosclerosis. The illnesses vary, but one thing is shared among the illnesses, according to mental health experts confusion. Damaging myths have been created that serve to harm families and friends of those afflicted, as well as the mentally ill themselves. Following are some myths of mental illness, provided by Jcannie Reed, director of Dodge County's Alliance for the Mentally III, Frank Will, director of Daybreak, a group home in Horicon for the mentally ill, Darlenc Lodahl, program manager at Daybreak, and Mark Hayes, social worker at Dodge County Health Facilities. 1.

Mental illness is the same as mental rttar-dation. Mental retardation is normally present at or near birth and is a limitation in intellectual understanding, awareness, and emotional development lal illness, on the other hand, often comes on the late teens to early twenties, and some sufferers in clude Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd, and Mozart "People who arc mentally ill are generally very smart and realize their situation and the fact that they're not doing what they should in terms of their responsibilities, and that causes a great frustration," said Reed, who has a 33-ycar-old son who suffers from paranoid schizophrenia. 2. The mentally ill are more violent than the general population. Although television and the mass media often Srtray the mentally ill as criminals, they arc, in no more dangerous than anyone else on the street, said Will.

They are more afraid of you than you are of them. Violence and aggression is a part of mental illness, but ft is also a part of people, he said. "Violence, if present at all, is more directed towards the self than towards others." 3. The mentally ill art lazy and lack ambition. Lodahl pointed out that it is more difficult for a mentally ill person to accomplish a task than it is for a mentally healthy person, and since many people with mental illness show no physical handicap, people equate the slowness with laziness.

Will agreed. "One of the symptoms of mental illness is that it provokes a fear that interferes with the ability to function. Sometimes that can be con- Calvin Dollar, 411 Grove Beaver Dam, voted at the First Lutheran Church, 311 W. Mackie St. on the referendum regarding a proposed $1 1.3 million expansion of the Moraine Park technical College campuses.

He, along with all voters from wards 7, 9, 1 1, 12 and 13 who voted at the church, found that the regular polling place had been moved from the gym to downstairs. In addition to the referendum, voters from ward 3 wiU be narrowing the field of candidates for the city council from three to two. Polls are open until 8 p.m. Citizen Staff Photo by Eileen Connell Mild temps to hang on Enjoy the moderate temperatures while they last By weekend, the mercury will be dropping back into the teens again. Please see the Daily Citizen Weather package.

-Page 8 Glory Days Former Green Bay Packer great Lionel Aldridge discusses his special relationship with the team that made him famous. Please see Sports. Page 10 Parking lot vs. trees Beaver Dam aldermen Monday cut a City Hall parking lot project in half to delay elimination of six trees. Page 2.