The Daily Sentinel from Grand Junction, Colorado • 9

THE DAILY Sentinel TV OCALNEWS Wednesday, January 3, 1996 Television Crossword Landers Obituaries Section Matters of life and death School district groundskeepers playing catch-up 1,700 heating, ventilation and air conditioning work orders. 1 ,200 electrical work orders. 366 small equipment repair woik orders. 1 ,700 carpentry work orders. 250 glass or glazing work orders.

1 ,000 audio-visual, VCR, television and Apple computer work orders. 300 typewriter work orders. 300 painting work orders. 1 ,300 plumbing work orders. 900 locksmith work orders.

340 estimates given tor small projects at schools. 1,000 grounds work orders. 560 delivery orders for everything from tables to bleachers. A200 welding orders. C.

Patrick Cleary Daily Sentinel A maintenance employee for School District 51 takes care of the equivalent of 30 homes of 2,000 square feet each Groundskeepers tend to the equivalent of 21 acres each while the electricians and plumbers maintain the equivalent of 500 homes of 2,000 square feet each, said supervisor Cal Clark So, the 50-person staff used the two-week Christmas break as a window of opportunity to take care of everything from dripping faucets and broken toilets to painting walls, replacing kitchen steamers and failing boilers in a district that had 14,000 work order requests in 1994 Clark said when he tallies the 1995 requests, they more than likely increased Christmas break is a good time to take care of some of those needs, Clark said Students at Granijl Junction High School today, or instance, were greeted by finished ter-razzo floors throughout the school Several other schools hardwood gym floors were refinished and the carpets were either dry-cleaned or shampooed if needed, Clark said Carpet? There are 13 acres of carpet among the 1.7 million square feet of building space in the district. Three hundred of the districts 540 acres are irrigated Roof leaks? The district has 50 acres of flat roofs, alone, Clark said The maintenance department is busy this time of year," Clark deadpanned. Mel Deweese just returned from Sweden, where he taught others wilderness-survival skills, such as how to build a fire by using a bow and drill to create sparks. Expert teaches others to survive in the wild The departments workload last year was about 2,000 requests more than 1993 The maintenance budget, excluding capital projects, is about $4.5 million Of that, about $675,000 is for maintenance projects. Clark said the plan is to cut into the number of work orders by doing as much preventive maintenance as possible.

1 hope to get the numbers to decrease, he said That is our goal. knowledge Deweese said each instructor gave seminars on specialized topics An instructor from Australia talked about aboriginal ifleth-ods of survival Instructors from the northern countries talked about survival in the cold He learned how to make flour from tree International Survival Instructors Symposium in Kairuna, Sweden, where he spent two weeks teaching the finer points of surviving in the outdoors to 70 military personnel from 13 countries Deweese was one of seven instructors at the conference The Swedish army invited other experts from Australia, Britain, Finland, Sweden and Canada to share their Zack Barnett Daily Sentinel Mel Deweese knows how to survive natures hostilities He is a master at teaching others how to deal with the cold, thirst, hunger and harsh weather they might encounter while lost in the wilderness or in enemy territory Deweese recently returned from the First See SURVIVE, page 4B Till seaurdn lfir Emiim Woman, 63, accused of pistol-whipping housemate in fight 'r' 1 year after abduction, tots mom wont quit Clara Reed was freed on her own recognizance. A), 1 Sentinel staff A 63 year-old Fruitvale woman was freed on her own recognizance Tuesday after being arrested for allegedly pistolwhipping her 61-year-old housemate. Mesa County deputy sheriffs arrested Clara Reed at her Ellen-, dale Road home on New Years Eve, after she told a 911 dispatcher that she had a loaded gun. Reed and Ronald Young had apparently been drinking and had gotten into a fight, Janet Prell of the department said Reed hit Young in the head with the butt of a loaded .44 Magnum, deputies reported.

When deputies arrived, Youngs face was covered with blood. Doctors later stitched up his head wound, Prell saicf. Reed and Young had been living together for eight months, deputies said Deputy District Attorney Winona Schwartz said reports indicated that Reed threatened to kill Young at one point. Nevertheless, Young appeared in court Tuesday afternoon on Reeds behalf, saying that she had an allergic reaction to champagne and she just went off. Mesa County Judge Tom Deister set a $1,000 personal-recognizance bond for Reed.

She is charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor that carries a possible jail sentence of six to 24 months. She is to return to court Jan. 29. ii 'MlMidNu UL' S. (ii.

Former Region 10 director picked to be representative A i for business development Liz Wyatt Daily Sentinel Under the Christmas tree in the home of Joanne Pearson are many unwrapped packages. They are for her daughter, Emilie, who will turn 4 on Monday, and who has been missing since last January, when, Joanne believes, i 1 i father abducted her. Joanne Pearson remains confident her daughter and ex-husband will be found. She has no plans to curtail her efforts to locate them. I feel better than I felt a year ago because I know what Im doing now, said Pearson, who has spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours the relentless search for Emilie.

Emilies father, ReJean Hardy, da, wno was iiving in Phoenix, picked up Emilie for a routine overnight visit and failed to return her. On Jan. 29, he took Emilie on a flight from Grand Junction to Arizona, where he stole his wifes car and fled. Pearson, who is working in conjunction with local and federal law enforcement officials, said she has no leads on ReJeans and Emilies' whereabouts. She hopes massive publicity will lead someone to identify her ex-husband, whom she calls a con man.

Somebody somewhere is going to see his face if you get it out there enough, she said. Emilies story appeared Dean HumphreyDaily Sentinel Pearson has spent thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours in the search for her daughter, Emilie, whom Pearson believes is with her father, ReJean Hardy. Ginger Rice Daily Sentinel Stan Broome has replaced Neil Shurts as the states Western Slope business development zations and private sector officials seeking business development. He will also assist in the implementation of the state's smart growth initiatives, particularly those related to transportation Christmas Day was horrible," "she said, addingThatEmifies presents are still waiting for her Community support has helped Pearson, a part-time dance teacher at the Western Colorado Center for the Arts, and her husband, Charlie, through difficult periods such as the holidays. Pearson estimates she has She saidjhe encountered hos tility from Hardys parents, Sii7annp and Gprard Hardy, who live in Montreal, when she gained attention from a Montreal news show.

Pearson said she has no proof the Hardys are aiding their son, but she suspects they are. She said their unwillingness to cooperate with her does not stop Friday nieht on NBCs Unsolved Mysteries, a repeat of the Oct. 27 broadcast Jn addition Pear- son flew to Montreal, Hardys hometown, in early December to appear on a Canadian show about missing children. She then traveled to New York for a taping of Foxs The Mark Walberg Show, which will air Monday Emilies fourth birthday. John of the f-ob and Western-Slope commercial air- orado Office of Business Develop- service, Dill said.

CinAn IQQfi DrAAmn Hoc Raon mitivw vvw vrvutv imu mwvm executive director of the Region 10 League for Economic Assistance and Planning, a six-county regional development agency based in Montrose. He also served as vice chairman of the Colorado Economic Development Advisory Board! His career in public service spans 35 years at all levels of government federal, stale, regional and local. Additionally, he has consulted in the areas of public land issues land use, and econonic development and has ownfd a small business. onf eoirl i nnnAiinninrt IRa mvV gutu itt uuuvuiiviug vuv appointment that Shurts did a fine job for the Western Slope but that the job description has been expanded from simply economic development to include growth and quality of life issues. State offices are under strict orders not to add people, Dill said.

So it became a matter of finding someone with Broomes broadranging experience to fulfill the expanded job requirements. Broome will be responsible for providing state representation on the Western Slope and serving as the states liaison with economic development councils and organi- iir i a i.x 1 1 An paakaR nni cRa Hoc and she has Emilies search, raised more than $10,000 through a fund for Emilie. Everyone here has taken an interest in her as their own and we just really appreciate it, Pearson said. You have to let people know that you are the mother from hell, otherwise it just does not get done, she said. Pearson insists she will never give up the search.

She said some days are difficult. calls to law enforcement officials after seeing the first Unsolved Mysteries, but none of the leads was fruitful. Pearson once suspected Hardy took Emilie to Canada. Now, she said, shes not sure..