Leader-Telegram from Eau Claire, Wisconsin • 8

Tuesday, August 25, 1998 Leader-Telegram StateNation 8A In Brief Door County town tallies damages left by tornado the trees that were flattened. Monday night, Wisconsin Public Service Corp. reported. At a news conference, Williams said a dollar estimate of damages would not be available for two or three days. He said he has not seen such heavy storm damage in more than a dozen years as a paramedic in Door County.

Steve Sell, director of the state Department of Emergency Management, accompanied Williams and other officials on a helicopter survey of the storm area. U.S. Rep. Jay Johnson, who went on an aerial tour with Door County Sheriff Charles Brann, said he was amazed at the destruction, especially EGG HARBOR (AP) Dramatic videotape captured some of the action when a waterspout over Green Bay suddenly turned into a tornado that cut a swath of destruction in this tourist Mecca in northeastern Wisconsin. Marvin Robertoy didn't need video images to remind him of the storm's devastation in this part of the Door Peninsula.

"I tried to sleep, but every time I woke up I could see it in my head," he said Monday, as residents and emergency workers checked the extent of the damage. Robertoy and his family own the Cherry and Cheese Shop on Wisconsin 42 in the town of Egg Harbor or, at least, what is left of it. The shop was one of several buildings destroyed by the tornado Sunday evening. No one was killed and only minor injuries were reported. Everyone in the storm area was accounted for during a massive search-and-rescue operation Sunday night, said Dan-Williams, Door County emergency government director.

About 25 homes, businesses and barns were destroyed or heavily damaged. Some livestock were lost, but no exact count was available. The tornado toppled power lines, knocking out electricity for about 10,000 utility customers, but power was restored to all of them by August is National Catfish Month, and Karen is ready to celebrate with Cajun-inspired recipe. Phil Lempert shares his supermarket wisdom in this week's column. Phil Lempert's Display Case takes a look at new beverages Associated Press Bud Zawojski, back to camera, gets a hug Monday from an unidentified friend in front of what is left of his home south of Egg Harbor.

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"We're getting very concerned because our oral arguments are coming up Sept. 9 and 10," Justice William Bablitch said. "And if that appointment isn't made, starting off a session with six people could cause huge problems." John Matthews, the governor's chief of staff, said Monday that Thompson has been too busy to interview the three finalists. Thompson is in Wausau this week as part of his annual effort to bring state government to other areas of the state. "We have been busy with this project, the National Governors' Association (convention) in Milwaukee, and just because of scheduling, we haven't gotten interviews done yet," Matthews said.

"But we're hoping to do that soon." Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson, said the court could operate with less than its normal number of seven members. "But there's a reason that an appellate court has an odd number of justices, and that's to avoid tie decisions," she said. "So that is a concern." With only six members, the court could tie at 3-3, which would allow the lower court decision to stand, Bablitch said. Justice Jon Wilcox, who was appointed by Thompson to the court in 1992, defended Thompson and said he wasn't named to the court until Aug. 30.

"Ideally, we'd like to have all seven, but I think there's nothing wrong," Wilcox said. "We can operate down to four, if we had to. It takes four for a quorum." Justice Janine Geske announced her resignation in February. The three finalists are former Assembly Speaker David Prosser, Dane County Circuit Judge Gerald C. Nichol and Madison attorney Donald L.

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Tommy Thompson asks the president to declare a disaster area, Johnson said he would support the request, although he wasn't sure if the storm damage was enough to qualify for federal assistance. The twister came ashore at 6:29 p.m. about three-quarters of a mile south of Murphy Park. ON-LINE diamond Claire 715-834-9929 turn. Neil Camrad, LUTC District Representative in home measuring ty consultation, 119 9000 TRADITIONAL roth J2L in home 1 I London Galleria, Eau Gas deaths investigated Mother, two children die from carbon monoxide Can't decide which way to turn with your Pension or IRA rollover? Try turning right here.

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No note was found. "Right now all things point toward accidental death," said Epps, who had not made an official ruling in the deaths other than the cause. Cheryl Cady, 45; her son, Cody Cole, 20; and her daughter, Bria Meitner, 11, were found dead Saturday afternoon. The car was not running when it was found but the key was turned on in the ignition. Columbia County Sheriff's Lt.

Vern Gove said the cause of the deaths remained undetermined, with nothing ruled out. When you don't know which way to Turn to names you trust. 1802 Brackett Avenue Eau Claire, 54701 I I LODI (AP) Evidence indicates the carbon monoxide deaths of a woman and her two children at their rural Harmony Grove home were accidental but nothing has been ruled out, investigators say. "What is so puzzling is how it happened," Coroner Keith Epps said. "What we do know is that they died of high levels of carbon monoxide.

There were no other signs of trauma and the autopsies did not find any alcohol in any of them." Authorities said the poisonous gas apparently was from exhaust fumes from the mother's car, believed to have been left running in a garage beneath the bedrooms of the bilevel days. It's the same sentence Pekowsky gave Lindh a decade ago. Lindh had already been convicted of the killings, but he appealed and won a new trial on whether he was sane during the January 1988 shooting. After a five-day trial, a second 715-834-9111 715-832-4333 He said investigators were working to determine who last saw or spoke with any of the family members in order to set a time frame for the deaths. Preliminary reports indicated Cady and her son, Cole, had been out of the home separately Friday night and that Cole was believed to have been the last to return.

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