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School hires deputies to prevent fighting Wmverside High feared a repeat of a fight at last 'week's game between students and possible gang members. By Kelly McBride Stiff writer Fear sparked by a fight and the spread of gangs in the Spokane area tainted a high school football game Friday night in a small school district, 20 miles from downtown. Six Spokane County sheriffs deputies were on hand at Riverside High Schools game against Lakeside for security reasons. School officials hired the deputies because they feared a repeat of a fight last week involving IS to 20 students and approximately 15 non-students who may been gang Some Riverside students reported seeing a member of the other group pull out a weapon, but that could not be confirmed, Gorman said. We dont know who they were, so we dont know for sure that were in gangs, he said.

But many of the 550 students at the school were convinced the intruders were gang members and they would be back for more Friday night. Although no one was injured in the fight, school administrators spent the past week trying ease student and parent concerns. "We are trying to defuse the situation, said Principal Mark Gorman. We just dont want to see it happen again. No trouble had been reported at the school by 11:10 p.m.

We didnt have any calls up there and theres no problem at all, said Spokane sheriffs Lt. Ken Marshall. Concerns arose after the Riverside-Medical Lake varsity football game Oct. 2. Several students and parents were waiting for some of the football players to come out of the locker rooms, Gorman said.

For an unknown reason, the students and non-students clashed and several people began fighting. Gorman said. There is a certain amount of concern on the part of students and parents. We spent a good part of the week talking with parents and students. Many students have been anticipating the return of the suspected gang and were prepared to fight, deputies said.

To prevent problems, the school district hired six deputies to serve as a security force four more than they normally hire for football games. Other sheriffs deputies on patrol were briefed about the problem and were prepared Please see SCHOOL: B3 You get so much information and so many conflicting stories, were not sure exactly what happened. I must have heard 300 rumors, Struggling to hope for the best By Jeanette White Staff writer When Roseann Pleasant didnt show up to celebrate her daughters second birthday, her family knew something was wrong. Now that Pleasants welfare check has gone unclaimed for more than a week, they have little hope for her safe return, said Helen Stone, the missing womans mother. Pleasants absence marks the third time this year a prostitute has disappeared from the streets of Spokane.

The other two were found shot to death. Stone said Pleasant, 35, helped identify the body of her close friend, Pamela Norman, who was killed last spring near Spangle Creek, south of Spokane. Afterward, Stone said, she just sat here and bawled and bawled and bawled. Normans boyfriend, Clarence Frey, has been charged with killing her. No one has been charged in the shooting of Sherry Palmer, 19, whose body was found in the foothills of Mount Spokane in May.

Pleasants father, Rufus Stone, an associate pastor at Calvary Baptist Church, said he warned his daughter for years her lifestyle would bring her trouble. But detectives say they have no reason to suspect Pleasant is a victim of foul play other than the fact she hasnt visited her family. Somethings going on but Im not sure what, said Spokane Detective Don Giese. Theres a lot of circumstances that dont add up to her normal routine. She never missed visitation with her little girl, and this last visitation (Oct.

6) was her birthday, Helen Stone said Friday. Since police began publicizing Pleasants photograph Wednesday, theyve had calls from people claiming theyve seen her downtown. But, Giese said, none of the reports can be confirmed. Giese said as far as he knows Pleasant was last seen by a former boyfriend who told police he dropped her off at a convenience store at Ash and Nora on Sept. 29.

1 Staff photos by Dan Pelle The family of Roseann Pleasant, top photo, discusses the fate of their missing daughter. At right, portraits of the woman through the years. Larger museum studied Officials vote puts expansion nearer By Tom Sowa Staff writer Cheney Cowles Museum officials will spend up to $200,000 to move ahead with expansion of the crowded Brownes Addition institution in Spokane. The museums board this week voted to pick a design team later this month to help define how big the expansion will be and how to pay for it, said museum Executive Director Glenn Mason. Earlier this year, 19 design teams submitted their names to the museum board for consideration.

This week the board narrowed the group to six teams, including two from Spokane. The expansion which will require formal board approval in about six months was set in motion when the Museum of Native American Cultures (MONAC) gave its large Indian artifact collection to Cheney Cowles Museum last December. Before this week, the board had only agreed to consider expansion. Its decision is a guarantee the old museum will give way to something bigger and fancier. Were now very close to signing a contract that is the first big step to building something very grand, Mason said Friday.

The design team thats chosen will take six months to examine neighborhood concerns, long-range museum goals and Indian and other community group attitudes about expansion. It will then submit plans on how large the museum should become and where to find money to pay for expansion. The board would then find an architect to handle that project, or it could drop the plan if cost is prohibitive. Mason said, however, the board has indicated it plans to go ahead with some form of expansion. Other than giving the firm six months to prepare recommendations, the board has set no expansion timetable.

Its unlikely the plans will require moving the museum to another location. Instead of replacing the current building, the plan will probably involve expanding it, Mason said. Early discussions have said the museum eventually needs to have about 100,000 square feet for its art and history collections. About 5,000 Indian artifacts were given to Cheney Cowles Museum over the past year by MONAC when it closed because of financial problems. Other Indian items, art and history material collected by the Cheney Cowles Museum staff cannot be displayed often or adequately due to the lack of space, Mason observed.

The cost of the six-month pre-de-sign study will come from a $1 -million fund given by Lewis Davenport 2nd to the Eastern Washington Museum Foundation. That money, donated to the museums fund-raising arm within the past five years, can be used for expanding the current building, Mason said. Predesign is the phase of expansion prior to formally preparing architectural drawings. Construction would be the final step. The six desip firms in the running include Integrus of Spokane, Northwest Architectural Co.

of Spokane, two companies from Portland, a Cambridge, firm and one from Petaluma, Calif. Fund raising will be a critical issue in deciding what will be done, Mason said. We want to dream big. If we nevv er dream, we wont get something great. But we also have to be real.

In the end it wont work to have a project costing umpteen million dollars if we can only raise $10 million, he said. centers that Pleasant had checked into before, but none had seen her. She said this time she was going to make it, Stone said. She said, I know I will, this time. Stone said she is trying to hope for the best, but she chokes back tears whenever she remembers her oldest daughters last visit nearly two weeks ago.

She had the happiest smile on her face just happy-go-lucky. She said, Til see you later, Mom. That was the last time I saw her. The man has custody of their 2-year-old daughter, who hed brought to visit with Pleasant in Mission Park, Giese said. Pleasant has recently lived in the Del-Mar Apartments on West Third and the Merlin Apartments on West Second, but had recently been staying with various friends and relatives.

Stone said Pleasants son and three daughters recently began living with their fathers while Pleasant made plans to check into a rehabilitation center for substance abuse. Detectives contacted managers of $5,000 pollution fine Canadian pulp mill pays By Julie Titone Staff writer A Canadian pulp mill that faced millions of dollars in potential fines for alleged pollution of the Columbia River ended up paying $5,000. But a British Columbia environmental official said Friday the governments action against Cel-gar Pulp Co. was well worth the effort. Taking them to court on this incident has paid off for us in that theres been quite a positive response from the company, said Rick Crazier of BC Environment.

They really did improve their reporting and have shown considerably more concern for any incident that could harm the environment. ment Act. The plea came after nine days of trial in Castlegar Provincial Court. In exchange, the government dropped five other charges under the Waste Management Act and one under the Federal Fisheries Act. The company was charged with polluting the river, bank and beach north of Castlegar in the spring of 1990.

The charge to which the company pleaded guilty involved pulp mill effluent that was allowed to flow from a sampling line. The discharge included chemical compounds called dioxins, which are highly toxic to some laboratory animals. Dioxins, along with metals from the Cominco Ltd. smelter in Trail, British Columbia, have been found downstream in game fish in Washingtons Lake Roosevelt. Celgars main discharge is piped into the middle of the river.

Its sampling line is used to divert, for laboratory analysis, a small amount of effluent. In March and April of 1990, the line overflowed onto the riverbank. It was not a great quantity, said Crazier. But not being dispersed immediately, it could have caused some localized damage. Browne described the waste stream as smaller than your finger.

It represented one one-thousandth of what we were legally allowed to put into the river, said Browne. While agreeing plant operations have improved, Celgar plant manager Jim Browne called the charges absolutely ridiculous. We have been destroying all of their charges and witnesses and so on quite systematically over the last two years, he said. Browne preferred to keep fighting, but said he understood plant owners wanted to end the expensive court battle. Crown counsel Steen Blechingberg, who prosecuted the case, could not be reached for comment.

The company pleaded guilty Sept. 23 to unlawfully introducing a business waste into the environment, a violation of the Waste Manage- MMAARONMASKINSIM Boys admit guilt in fire that burned residences WSU ethnic recruiter leaves legacy behind 1 978. Haskins arrives In Pullman from Tacoma as a scholarship basketball player. 1933. Haskins goes up against Virginia's Ralph Sampson in Round 2 of the NCAA finals.

WSU lost, but Haskins is named the game's most valuable player. 1985. After a year of playing amateur basketball, he returns to WSU. 1986.Doctors find several tumors at the back of Haskins brain. Following surgery, as he Is about to enter therapy for another cancer, the disease disappeared.

1986. Haskins returns to work as a recruiter for the Division of Minority Affairs. 1992. Haskins heads for a new job in Seattle. By Eric Sorensen Staff writer PULLMAN Early this morning, a small army of black college students, faculty and administrators will converge in Spokanes East Central Community Center Haskins to convince as many young blacks as possible that college is a real op tion for them.

The so-called College Knowledge for the Mind seminar will be the last for its founder, Aaron Haskins, who went from being a Washington State University basketball star to recruiter of dozens of ethnic students to the predominantly white Pullman campus. As he leaves Pullman with his wife, Cheryl, for Seattle and a job at Seafirst Bank, he ends as one of the most prominent Cougar minorities. This is my "he said Please see HASKINS: B3 The boys, whose names will not be published because they are juveniles, added a few details to the story of the grass and sagebrush fire. The eldest boy told Young that he, his brother and their friend were hiking in the hills when they decided to build a fire. We had it going for about half an hour, the boy said, and the wind started up.

We pushed dirt on it so we could put it out He told the judge they all thought the fire was out, so they ran farther up the hill to play. When we looked up," he said, the fire was down on the hill. Associated Press WENATCHEE Three boys have pleaded guilty to reckless-burning charges for triggering a brush fire than destroyed 18 homes and 15 apartment units last month. The Castlerock fire erupted Sept. 26 when the boys lit a campfire on hills outside of town.

High winds whipped the blaze out of control. Two Wenatchee brothers, ages 14 and 13, and a friend from East Wenatchee, age 12, pleaded guilty Thursday before Chelan County Juvenile Court Commissioner Pete Young. They will be sentenced Oct. 29. A Htt 4MM jHHlkiIWu.ilHirfWi MU.