Kenosha News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 3

MmHA Monday March 1 1993 JtnwnsmJfeiTS 3 WZ iiia jj mi-vi pw VW jh JFJ ff 7 a 1 1 1 1 deal with ex -W 1 -yi Twin Lakes resident at center court has ruled on the enforceability of such out-of-court agreements The appeals court said judges! in other states have split ini similar cases with most ruling that out-of-court agreement can preclude parents from seeking! back support The Supreme Court was asked consider whether Parquet! would be getting a windfall and! whether parents with -similar! i Nr Man robs grocer at laiifepoint A man with a knifejobbed the Woodlawn Grocery Store 5110 75th St of an undetermined amount of' money Sunday evening Pleasant Prairie police said According to police at shortly Jp6fore 6:50 Rm a white male about 5 feet 5 inches and between 135 pounds and 140 pounds entered the store wearing a gray fVSki mask with holes at the eyes and mouthy He was carrying a kpiffeWjth a 4-inch blade and ordered store owner Richard Randall to put the cash i "register's money into a bag The thief then fled but Randall was unable to determine if there were a getaway car or accomplices Randall was the gply person in the store at the time of the robbery and heVas not injured Police currently have no suspects or leads Snowmobilers still in hospital One of two men remains hospitalized after their snowmobile left a trail and plunged into a 12-foot ravine Saturday night Keith Schlagel 28 7801 88th Ave was reported in good condition Sunday night at Kenosha Hospital and Medical Center with internal and arm injuries He was a passenger on a snowmobile driven by Douglas Powell 28 10105 Wilmot Road Powell was released from the hospital after treatment of internal injuries Pleasant Prairie police said the two men were thrown off the snowmobile and down the ravine into about 2 feet of water The men managed to 'crawl out onto the embankment of the creek in a field about four-tenths of a mile south of 101st Street and Wilmot Road Rescue workers had to use snowmobiles and afour-wheel- drive vehicle to ferikf men from their location to the rescue unit police reports said MADISON Wls (AP) -r A private deal made by a divorced couple one of whom is a Twin Lakes resident and businessman over the custody of their children will be dissected in a public courtroom Tuesday as the Wls- consinSupreme Court considers the validity Thirteen years ago Mary Carol Parquet moved with Ifer son and daughter to Florida contrary to a court order and asked her former husband David ywfl Harms now of Twin Lakes tor prj accept the arrangement In exchange she pledged not to seek child support to their Bar -JL as Kmotha New photo by Paul William Pre-March madness Joseph Burch and his son Sylvester took advantage of the wanner weather Sunday and played a little basketball In Washington Park But the two can expect more winter before the spring thaw You see more truth than not to the adage that If March comes In like a lamb as expected today It will go out like a lion said Paul Yeager Accu-Weather metereologlst In predicting weather for the next few days Today should be partly sunny breezy 42 degrees turning to Increasingly a chance of snow flurries and a Tuesday Yeager said that because longer and the sun stronger during year March tends to be a stormy month for weather For the Immediate a chance of flurries or drizzle through Thursday as a storm us to the south Yeager said Green Bay Road pursued as historical landmark i A KV bodyso to speak of loops of said Carol Hoppe president of the board of directors for Wisconsin Ethnic Settlement Trails Inc In September of 1927 the Wisconsin Society of Chicago placed stone pillars with engraved bronze plaques at each crossroads along the old trail Nine pillars still exists The plaque reads: Bay Road Pioneer Road Chicago to Green Bay Established by the Federal Government The pillars can still be found at the Illinois-Wisconsin state line and the Racine-Kenosha county line Spring Brook Road Highway and Highway A to mention a few were many who wanted to name the new elementary school (Irving Stocker Elementary) for the Green Bay Trail because after all if it for that trail the settlers have gotten said Kenosha County historian Lois Stein Stein said the reason the Milutinovic both members of the Kenosha Unified School Board staffed the booth The teachers complained to Micheln that Mengo and Milutinovic were using the opportunity to promote their ideas on how to run the school district Micheln said the teachers that was an inappropriate use of booth Mengo and Milutinovic dismissed the complaints as with a high of cloudy and high of 29 by the days get this time of changeable future remains In effect center passes deals would be forced to give upj part" of the bargain i- in case residence in Florida i Harms' lawyer Christopher! Walther a director of the State Family Uw Section saidj divorced parents often make agreements on child suppoig thout seeking judicial a tfj proval think that there are probably many of these side agreements out there and I think the reason why is because legal system has become so expensive inaccessible and overly litigious and adversarial in deafy ing with highly emotional is Washer said The Supreme Court should rule that out-of-court agree-1 ments are binding as long as they are clear the claim is for back support and the custodial parent waited a substantial time before making a claim Watther said The agreement also Should upheld because the couple's chip dren Abbey 21 and Devin 18 were well-supported while growing up with their mother But lawyer Terry Iaquinta said the money be a windfall for Parquet because she plans to put it in trust for the college education want the court to send the message that anything having tp do with children must be done through the courts because courts have to act in the best interest of the children" Iaquinta said Parquet who works as a nurse and lives in a Sarasota suburb said last week ishe had agreed then to give up the support fo Harms wouldn'flryto block the move "It was a calculated Parquet said maincpncern was that he turn around and send the sheriff for us and make us come Harms should have gone to court and gotten a judge to approve the change she said But Harms said he sent a note to the county clerk of courts saying Parquet had moved Illegally and want chjfd support felt that that was sufficient enough and never received a he said Harms who has remarried runs a home construction business He said he voluntarily paid $2000 for his college education and has agreed to foot the entire bill for his son Local Novs Deaths Page 4 teen Is Norma Ann Cruz Page 4 Survey says county's employment outlook Is Improving Page 22 Harms ordered to pay $300 a month chose not to fight Seven years later Parquet changed her mind and sued to collect back support that now totals more than $54000 Lawyers for Harms and Parquet will ask the court to consider whetiier thebUt-of-court agreement wavacceptable and in the children's best interest A decision by the state's highest court could affect the validity of similar agreements written and unwritten that many divorced parents make without court approval Parquet ordered not to move the children more than 50 miles from their rural Walworth County home moved to Sarasota af- ter their 1979 divorce without telling her husband She then wrote a certified letter proposing a deal do not expect you to pay child support or hospital insurance she wrote you could use some of the money to come here and visit the Harms given visitation rights by a judge said he thought agreeing to her request would be best for the children' want to put my children through that trauma and I felt that a letter in her own handwriting was substantial enough to state both of our he explained last week In 1990 Walworth County Circuit Judge Robert Kennedy ruled Parquet had no authority to bargain away the child support she was trying to enforce some rights that she had (the deal) would probably apply but the he said Harms who has paid support since the lawsuit was filed appealed the ruling The 2nd District Court of Appeals asked the high court in April to take the case since no Wisconsin appeals they school matters or ask a MilutinoviliidhewaTassist-ing Mengo at the booth because he does paralegal work for her he said had a perfectly legal right to be Micheln-said her (Mengo) to discuss school board matters is between her and those who come to her booth This is the first time had a complaint about an exhibitor be taking it up with the Expo CALLS Saturday 11:06 pm 6634 14th Ave Woman ill 4L05 pm 2117 50th St Woman uK 8:09 pm 6520 15th Ave Girl ill 7:54 pm 5947 Seventh Ave Man ill 6:58 pm 5226 41st Ave Man ill 4:33 pm 3020 87th Place Woman ill 3:10 pm 1410 91st Sf Man ill 2:31 pm 1760 Birch Road Man ill 11:47 am 720 59th Place Four ill 11:43 am 7109 57th Ave Woman ill 10:08 am! 7835 17th Ave Man injured 7:20 am 5701 22nd Ave Mattress fire 6:36 am 6707 23rd Ave Woman ill 1:48 am 2022 61st St Man ill 12:24 am 2001 Alfofd Drive Man ill Th Associated Press nd Kenosha News staff GREEN BAYWis- Efforts are under way to pre-ser the history of the Wisconsin Ethnic Settlement Trail a 200-mile route along the Lake Michigan shore that celebrates more than 20 distinct ethnic communities The shore is home to the largest concentration of 19th century Old World settlements in America including Irish Dutch German Belgian and African-American communities The ethnic trail runs through 12 counties from the Wisconsin-Illinois line to Upper Peninsula The portion known as the Green Bay Ethnic Trail begins at the state line in Kenosha County and ends in Green Bay It exists along the historical Green Bay Road which was used by early settlers dating to the 1830s trail is the spine on the Green Bay Trail was so popular and heavily settled is that it a toll road unlike many other trails of the day including one that passed where Highway is today Green Bay Trail was the beginning of the roads around Stein said origin of nearly every major road in the county can be traced back to the old trail" Wisconsin Ethnic Settlement Trails Inc a non-profit corporation was established in 1991 as part of the historic preservation and tourism project designed to help the ethnic communities preserve their cultural resources WEST Inc coordinates research efforts into the various ethnic settlements publishes a quarterly newsletter and works with legislators for state recognition and support The group has completed extensive identification of communities and their special heritage Expo draws more than Teachers criticize Mengo booth jected to Sally Yule booth Mengo and Dentils 12000 people Mengo said main purpose at Expo was to promote ple away just because wanted to comment on my business I am a member of the Chamber of Commerce and have been in business for a year and a half so I felt this would be a good opportunity to tell people about it were handing out discount coupons for having a will drawjMiprbut many of the people who'came byisked us questions about whatis going on with the ScfcooLBomd We there to politic After all neither of us is a candidate But we felt it would be unrealistic to turn peo Attendance at Kenosha Expo exceeded last turnout of about 12000 people an organizer of the event said late Sunday afternoon Louis Mftheln executive vice president of the Kenosha' Area Chamber of Commerce said seems very popular with the general public Citizens are interested in what goods and servics are available locally Based on this experience I be-' lieve we will start planning for Expo '94 very soon" He said it was difficult to gauge the exact attendance figure because the exhibition area was expanded this year to include the commons area in addition to the main floor in the field house of Bradford High School Micheln said he believed attendance could have been as high as 15000 for the free two-day event There were 117 exhibitors Micheln said he did get one complaint: Some teachers ob-.