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Contact Kay Jones Life editor (262) 6564280 after 8 am or Hostage by Robert Craig Jeff Talley the police chief in a small Southern California town still has nightmares about the young hostage who died when he made the wrong call in his previous job as a negotiator for an LAPD SWAT team Now three smalltime punks go on the run after a grocery store robbery and killing in Talley's town Soon his deputies have surrounded the house where the inept robbers have taken Walter Smith and his two children hostage and Tal ley's back In his worst dream again: until the county sheriff's full fledged SWAT team arrives and takes over he has to negotiate for their lives You can find this book at the Southwest and Northside Libraries Tidbits a collection of interesting odd and useful bits of informationfrom here and elsewhere Check it out Recomittended by staff of the Kenosha Public Library Good old days Dec 14 1901 Edward Ferber a farmer residing in Salem was found in a semi-conscious condition along the plank road The man had been to Kenosha and had started to walk to Truesdell It is supposed that he fell in the snow Taken fromfiles of Kenosha Evening News Hort shorts Kid tips 41 Amaryllis is NW a beautiful day gift plant but beware amaryllis is poisonous! Many South American tribes used the sap for their poison arrows From John Wankel) ler horticulture educator for LIWExtension in Kenosha County On vtit7-) those ft occa- 40::1 sions qa when you really want to keep your child's clothes clean during the three-hour drive to Grandma's house put his shirt on inside-out for the drive Do the quick change when you arrive at your destination and presto juice and snack stains disappear Boxford Mass Just the facts Kid Tips is compiled by Tom McMahon of Universal Press Syndicate The city of Kenosha ranks second among Wisconsin's municipalities for total population change between 1990 and 2000 The city grew by exactly 10000 people during the decade The village of Pleasant Prairie ranks 20th with 4175 more residents than it had in 1990 From Annie Jones community development educator for Kenosha County UW-Extension Artist Tom Clark's reflection is shown in a mirror framed by a broken china mosaic he made and displays with some of his other work Retirement opens up a world ofnew learning for educator BY BILL ROBBINS KENOSHA NEWS Tom Clark has given himself a crash course in crockery: He smashes china plates to pieces for the sake of art Clark creates "broken-china mosaics" He's also leaiming how to fashion hand-made paper And he's learning how to paint And he's learning how to play piano And he's learning how to make abstract sculptures Clark once taught others Now he's teaching himself He retired in June after teaching kindergarten for 33 years mostly in Zion "About a year before that when I made the deci- sion to retire I also decided to learn how to do a variety of art that I didn't have time to do before" said Clark 6861 Third Ave That's when he launched his aesthetic exploration "I always emphasized and encouraged the arts in all aspects as a teacher I just never had a chance to do it myself" said Clark who is widely known in this area as a storyteller at schools and libraries Clark began reading about art and stumbled upon "picassiette" a style of mosaic that incorporates bits of broken ceramics The folk-art form was popularized by Raymond Isidore who in the 1930s obsessively enriched his entire property inside and out with intricate and decorative mosaics using salvaged shards Over 30 years Isidore spent 29000 hours and used 15 tons of material to blanket his home in Chartres France He even decorated a sewing machine and coffee grinder with the colorful pieces A journalist dubbed Isidore "Picaissette" combining the Prehch word "pique-assiette" which means "scavenger" with "Picasso" the great 20th century artist That became the name for the art form "Isadore was regarded as a kook like many primitive folk artists" Clark said "They make art because they need to I read about him and got inter- ested in picassiette I went to thrift stores and bought It's a grand old flag: Patriotic lapel pins vie for public favor BY PATRICIA MCLAUGHLIN UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE It was the PR equivalent of winning the lottery: Lyn Paolo called to tell Michelle Peranteau that Al li- son Janney had decided to wear the Lagos Heart of Freedom on the next episode of "The West Wing" The Lagos Heart of Freedom is a solid silver heart paved with stones in the pattern of the American sapphires for stars with stripes of diamonds and rubies that can be attached to a silver bow pin or as a pendant on a chain Allison Janney plays CI the steely-eyed White House press secretary on the show Paolo does the costumes for the show Peranteau the PR person for the Lagos jewelry line was pleased: You can't buy exposure like that Well come to think of it of course you can At least since Tom Cruise chugged that Coke or was it a Pepsi? upside down in the cockpit of his jet in "Top Gun" product placement has been a major Hollywood industry But Peranteau hadn't paid a dime Last year the people at Lagos had learned that Stockard Chaiming who plays the president's wife on the show was a fan She would come into the Lagos shop in Beverly Hills and pay actual money for their jewelry evidence of serious commitment when you considerhow many designers will give stars stuff for free Steven and Ann Lagos design and manufacture a line ofjewelry that fits somewhere in between your mass-produced $998 costume jewelry and your $80000 Harry Winston diamonds The matarials are real but there's more silver than gold and most of the stones are semiprecious which gives their things a few advantages Reasonably success 1 One of Clark's pieces was created with handmade paper and found objects from a walk In the woods The heart shape is surrounded by a mat with words telling the story ofa lost heart plates for my first piece a tabletop That took a year to make" To date Clark has fashioned a couple dozen picasiette pieces featuring a number of images including a glorious sunrise and a large fish Also he's made purely decorative pieces such as mirror frames "I have my own system for breaking a plate" he said "I put it in a zip lock plastic bag and break it with a hammer on cement" 4 Lagos Heart of Freedom $1095 is pictured at bottom left with an assortment of other patriotic Jewelry ful working women can buy them for themselves instead of waiting around for a major anniversary They can wear them even when they aren't seriously dressed up And they don't have to keep them in vaults Over the past year the LagosChanning relationship grew Lagos sent things for Channing's character to wear on the show and some of the other actresses on "The West Wing" started getting interested a FRIDAY DECEMBER 14 2001 KENOSHA NEWS KENOSHA NEWS PHOTOS BY BILL SIEL His son Jesse 13 has gradually taken over as chief plate-breaker "He's very good at it" Clark said "One day he came up and said: 'Dad can I bust up a couple of And I got a couple ready He must have had a stressful day" As muchts Clark can he destroys plates that already are chipped cracked or broken "I hate to break up really good stuff" he said "But if it's a color I need or a specific pattern I'm looking for I'll break itI'm really cheap I haunt rummage sales thrift stores and estate sales looking for plates I just came back from my home state of Minnesota and everywhere I went people had a bag or box of plates for me" A friend of Clark's knew an antique dealer whose building had been damaged by fire "The dealer had some china that wasn't damaged by flames but the plates got hot and the cold water from the fire-hoses caused them to crack" Clark made an offer the dealer couldn't refuse "Her loss was my gain" he said He adheres china pieces to surfaces such as wood with caulking cement used for bathroom tile and tubs Then he fills in the spaces between the pieces with grout "It's a very painstaking labor intensive process" he said He uses all kinds of plates from earthenware to fine china He has used and abused Flow Blue china Unmarred that sells for about $100 a plate in antique stores He also has happily shattered Blue Willow and Franciscan Ware among other china "Jesse and I are learning a lot about china" Clark joshed "Especially how to destroy it" The most he's paid for a china plate was $2 While most broken-china pieces can be incorporated into a work as they are some cutting and shaping is required especially for borders and edges Clark uses a hand-held tile cutter for that Caulking grouting tile cutting Then a month or twos ago Steven Lagos designed the Heart of Freedom It was a natural: Peranteau sent it to Paolo the costumer thinking she might be looking for a piece of patriotic jewelry for the show Paolo showed it to Allison Janney who decided it was a must-have exactly what here character would want to wear in the wake of the show's thinly fictionalized version of 911 Through the whole episode she never took it off Remember how only a couple of months ago the fashion magazines were slinging superlatives about the corset the riding boot the hip-slung belt the new importance of tweeds and a bunch of other things that were supposed to be the must-haves of the season? Instead fall's No I fashion statement turned out to be an American flag or some variant thereof shrunk down to lapel pin size Jerry Cook of Political Americana a DC-based retailer of campaign buttons (wwwpoliticalamericanacom) moved $350000 in patriotic pins in September and October Gerald Singer of Singer and SonsClassic Medallics a supplier of award and religious medals in Queens sold more than half a million patriotic pins in those two months Cook says the trend has peaked and flag pin sales have pretty much tailed off though he's still moving some American flag afghans at $69 (American flag afghans? "OK call them throws" he says) By now presumably most people who wanted a flag pin have one (Or more than one: Jane Carton at Saks Fifth Avenue told me some Saks sales associates have been wearing little collages of several different flag pins Flair will out) 7 4444 IA tit) 4 I 14 tkit Tr CLASSIFIED idsaS of comments? 1 I tworron NSiDE Contact Kay Jones Life editor ri I 't ----A (262) 6564280 i after 8 am or e-mail FRIDAY DECEMBER 14 2001 KENOSHA NEWS DI Tidbits a collection of interest- ing odd and useful bits of Teacher teach thyself Check it out Hostage informationfrom here and elsewhere I It IN r- Robert 1 I st or' ir 110i CraiS i i Jeff Tal- 1-- '1 il I the I I 1 p'' 1 lc police I 1 I 1 iil 0 chief in a i e' 1 ''t i Y- (i t' 4 I small Southern California 1 i i 44 4 town still has nightmares I 1 1 1 i 1 about the young hostage 400-- 1 "''N I ''''4 A who died when he made 34 the wrong call in his previ I I r--- i 1 1 4 i 4'' 1 Ous job as a negotiator for I I I 1 I et-)k 1 14 an LAPD SWAT team I 1- vit i 4 Now three smalltime its: -s" 4-3 punks go on the run after 3 I' i 1 a grocery store I 'Ns 1 1' robbery and killing in Tal- LI 1- 1 ley's town Soon his i i tliN 1 1 deputies have surround- 1 ') ed the house where the i I 41 4 4 if 4 1 1 I inept robbers have taken --4 I 4 Walter Smith and his two 1 I Ott: children hostage and Tal- 1 4 ley's back In his worst dream again: until the county sheriff's full- i fledged SWAT team t)'71111 if 1 arrives and takes over he v4 i All -4Av12 01)t' '''10 )1 1 szr has to negotiate for their KENOSHA NEWS PHOTOS BY BILL SIEL You can find this book at the Southwest and Artist Tom Clark's reflection is shown in a mirror framed by a broken china mosaic he made and displays with some of his other work Northside Libraries i Recomthended by staff of the enosh La bublic I raty etirement opens up a world ofnew learning for educator Good old days BY BILL ROBBINS His son Jesse 13 has gradually taken over as KENOSHA NEWS chief platehreaker Tom Clark has given himself a crash course in "He's very good at it Clark said One day he Dec 14 1901 Edward Ferb crockery: He smashes china plates to pieces for the came up and said 'Dad can I bust up a couple of 1 sake of art And I got a couple ready He must have had a I 110 farmer er a Clark creates "broken-china mosaics" 2 I essful day" 1 o11 ow n- residing in He dmi also leng how to fashion hand made 7 As muchts Clark can he destroys plates that Salem i paper already are chipped cracked or broken was found And he's learning how to paint 01 "I hate to break up really good stuff" he said But i In a semi-conscious con And he's learning how to play piano 4 if it's a color I need or a specific pattern I'm looking ditiOn along the plank And he's learning how to make abstract sculp- 1 for I'll break itI'm really cheap I haunt rummage road The man had been tures i 1 's i sales thrift stores and estate sales looking for plates to Kenosha and had start- Clark once taught others Now he's teaching him- ts si I 1 I just came back from my home state of Minnesota ed to walk to Truesdell It self -4 and everywhere I went people had a bag or box of ti is supposed that he fell in He retired in June after teaching kindergarten for -'Nt 1 Tz plates for me" tilthe snow 33 years mostly in Zion A friend of Clark's knew an antique dealer whose i "About a year before that when I made the deci- S4N 4 building had been damaged by fire Taken fromfiks of S1011 to retire I also decided to learn how to do a van The dealer had some china that wasn't damaged Kenosha Evening News ety of art that I didn't have time to do before" said i by flames but the plates got hot and the cold water Clark 6861 Third Ave 4 from the fire hoses caused them to crack" That's when he launched his aesthetic explo- Clark made an offer the dealer couldn't refuse ration "Her loss was my gain" he said Hort shorts "I always emphasized and encouraged the arts in He adheres china pieces to surfaces such as wood all aspects as a teacher I just never had a chance to with caulking cement used for bathroom tile and 14'-7- -----1 do it myself" said Clark who is widely known in tubs Then he fills in the spaces between the pieces Amaryllis is this area as a storyteller at schools and libraries with grout IV a beautiful holi Si Clark began reading about art and stumbled upon "If a very painstaking labor intensive process" Plf day gift plant icassiette a style le of mosaic that inco orates bits he said rP 4 but beware of broken ceramics The folk-art form was popular- He uses all kinds of plates from earthenware to ized by Raymond Isidore who in the 19305 obsessive- fine china amaryllis is poiso- One of Clark's pieces was created with hand- ly enriched his entire property inside and out He has used and abused Flow Blue china nous! Many South made paper and found objects from a walk in the with intricate and decorative mosaics using sal- Unmarred that sells for about $100 a plate in antique American tribes used woods The heart shape is surrounded by a mat stores the sap for their poison vaged shards with words telling the story ofa lost heart Over 30 years Isidore spent 29000 hours and used He also has happily shattered Blue Willow and arrows 15 tons of material to blanket his home in Chartres Franciscan Ware among other china France He even decorated a sewing machine and plates for my first piece a tabletop That took a "Jesse and I are learning a lot about china" Clark From John Schluckebler coffee grinder with the colorful pieces year to make" joshed "Especially how to destroy it" horticulture educator for UW- A journalist dubbed Isidore "Picaissette" combin-The most he's paid for a china plate was $2 Extension in Kenosha County ing the Frehch word "pique-assiette" which means To date Clark has fashioned a couple dozen picasi- While most broken-china pieces can be with "Picasso" the great 20th century ette pieces featuring a number of images including a rated into a work as they are some cutting and shapartist That became the name for the art form glorious sumise and a large fish Also he's made i is required especially for borders and edges i Kid tips "Isadore was regarded as a kook like many Prim- purely decorative pieces such as mirror frames Clark uses a hand-held tile cutter for that itive folk artists" Clark said "They make art "I have my own system for breaking a plate" he Caulking grouting tile-cutting because they need to I read about him and got inter- said "I put it in a zip-lock plastic bag and break it ested in picassiette I went to thrift stores and bought with a hammer on cement" See ART Page D2 those trt4011 occa- 1' 1 sions tV'w40 LI qr your when nothes clean a i to you realy wat to keep It's I a grand old flag: Patriotic lapel pins vie for public favor child's cl i -like during the three- hour drive to Grandma's house put his shirt on BY PATRICIA MCLAUGHLIN Then a month or two ago Steven Lagos UNIVERSAL PRESS SYNDICATE YOUR LOOK inside-out for the drive designed the Heart of Freedom It was a natural: Do the quick change It was the PR equivalent of winning the lottery: 1 FRIDAY Peranteau sent it to Paolo the costumer thinking when you arrive at your Lyn Paolo called to tell Michelle Peranteau that Alli- she might be looking for a piece of patriotic jewel- destination and presto son Janney had decided to wear the Lagos Heart of ry for the show -those juice and snack Freedom on the next episode of "The West Wing" Paolo showed it to Allison Janney who decided stains disappear The Lagos Heatt of Freedom is a solid silver 4v it was a must-have exactly what here character BVC Boxford Mass 0 tr41-ks heart paved with stones in the pattern of the Amer- 04L -k would want to wear in the wake of the show's thin- lean flag- sapphires for stars with stripes of dia 73- 2- '4it ly fictionalized version of 911 -sp" 4-1 monds and rubies that can be attached to a sil- I -1- kid Tips is compiled by Tom Through the whole episode she never took it off ver bow pin or as a pendant on a chain Allison I i-sf' McMahon of Universal Press Remember how only a couple of months ago the Syndicate Janney plays CI the steely-eyed White House 410 fashion magazines were slinging superlatives I press secretary on the show Paolo does the cos- about the corset the riding boot the hip-slung belt tumes for the show Peranteau the PR person for 1 0 1034 ks-moostet- the new importance of tweeds and a bunch of other the Lagos jewelry line was pleased: You can't buy I tir ooroo things that were supposed to be the must-haves of Just the facts exposure like that -0 -4 I' 0 4 AR 4 the season? Well come to think of it of course you can iV IlLik ee ip 1101 Instead fall No I fashion statement turned out least since Tont Cruise chugged that Coke or J- N- tittl1 4-" '4 Ai to be an American flag or some variant thereof was it a Pepsi? upside down in the cockpit of his 7 ko 405 4A 4 shrtmk down to lapel pin i The city of Kenosha jet in "Top Gun" product placement has been a Jerry Cook of Political Americana a D0 based isconsin' municipali- paid dime ii ranks second among major Hollywood industry But Peranteau hadn't retailer of campaign buttons (wwwpoliticalameri- i WS a i Lagos Heart of Freedom $1095 is pictured at canacom) moved $250000 in patriotic Pins in Sep- ties for total population Last year the people at Lagos had learned that bottom left with an assortment of other patriotic tember and October Gerald Singer of Singer and A change between 1990 Stockard Channing who plays the president's wife ewel and 2000 The city grew on the show was a fan She would come into the ry SonsClassic Medallics a supplier of award and by exactly 10000 people Lagos shop in Beverly Hills and pay actual money religious medals in Queens sold more than half a 1 i during the decade The for their jewelry evidence of serious commit- ful working women can buy them for themselves million patriotic phis hi those two months 'II vi age Pleasant raffle ment when you consider how many designers will instead of waiting around for a major amiversary Cook says the trend has peaked and flag phi ks wit ran 20th 4175 i give stars stuff for free They can wear them even when they aren't seri- sales have pretty much tailed off though he's still A more residents than it Steven and Ann Lagos design and manufacture a ously dressed up And they don't have to keep moving some American flag afghans at $69 (Amer- had in 19(0 line ofjewelry that fits somewhere in between them in vaults ican flag afghans? "OK call them throws" he says) i' your mass-produced $998 costume jewelry and Over the past year the LagosChamiing rela- By now presumably most people who wanted a I From Annie Jones commo- your $80000 Harry Winston diamonds The matari- tionship grew Lagos sent things for Channing's flag pin have one (Or more than one: Jane Carton 1 nity development educator for als are real but there's more silver than gold and character to wear on the show and some of the at Saks Fifth Avenue told me some Saks sales asso- i Kenosha County UW-Exten- most of the stones are semiprecious which gives other actresses on "The West wing" started getting ciates have been wearing little collages of several i Sion their things a few advantages Reasonably success- interested different flag pins Flair will out) 14441' --t-tt --7-7-- rt "--q- 4 4'43zl 111 44ttlzit711! 1 4 t- ti 04 c-0--- ''4 '-J.