The Modesto Bee from Modesto, California • 13

The Modesto Bee Friday January 13 1989 Metro Section Home natural home new cage more like the wild By LISA ROSS Bee staff writer STOCKTON Five black-and-white-ruffed lemurs soon will abandon their old-fashioned cage at Micke Grove Zoo and return to a more natural environment By June the lemurs which are related to monkeys are expected to be swinging from trees inside their new $389000 domain "This is a very big project for the zoo because virtually all of the cages here are antiquated with old-style exhibits" said Ken Nieland zoo manager will be the first top quality cage in the zoo the same time we are taking an active role in the conservation of the The lemurs are striking black and white primates with very loud and distinct vocalization They were placed on the endangered species list in 1976 after their natural habitat was destroyed by a growing population and the loss of forest land An endangered species from the island of Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa the lemurs usually live together in a social group with an adult pair and its litters There are about 300 lemurs in the United States said Sue Fraser the curator Micke Grove acquired two lemurs Amalthea and Ares from a breeding See Page B-2 LEMURS Forrest Jackson JrThe Bee A lemur hangs from the roof of its cage at Micke Grove Zoo change of heart Second transplant is needed after all By SUSAN CHILDRESS Bee staff writer Physicians at Pacific Presbyterian Medical Center in San Francisco announced Thursday that second heart transplant is warranted" for Patterson teen-ager Donna Ashlock because her body is rejecting the heart she received three years ago from a friend kind of figured it We kind of knew said her mother Mary Ashlock Mrs Ashlock learned of the decision in a telephone call from her husband Raymond who traveled to Pacific Presbyterian with Donna for re-evaluation of her condition think harder the second time Mary Ashlock said first time around you know what to expect The second time around you do and you expect too She said she is scared for her daughter Donna 17 was placed on a waiting list for a second heart about two months ago She had begun to suffer from severe fatigue and flu-like symptoms that come with organ rejection But she was removed from the list two weeks ago after her physicians saw that she was responding to increased dosages of anti-rejection medication The transplant experts changed their minds however after re-evaluating the See Page B-2 ASHLOCK Recontek debate left unresolved By NANCY MARRINAN Bee staff writer RIVERBANK For the third time in two months Riverbank residents jammed their Community Center on Thursday night to debate the pros and cons of a proposed toxic waste recycling center in the city And once again they left without a City Council decision City Attorney Thomas Hallinan said the way it should be advised them not to make any definitive statements" Hallman said much to the dismay of the audience they were to say not going to let those people in here or yep we want them they would prejudice themselves as being an impartial body Recontek would have a perfect lawsuit against the city" Hallinan said No other hearings have been scheduled but city officials plan to continue gathering information about the Recontek plant and listening to residents comments Recontek is the San Diego-based company that has indicated it wants to build a plant that would recover metals from industrial waste and resell them As much as 48000 tons a year of industrial waste might be trucked to the plant from Northern California Oregon and Washington That could mean 180 jobs and a $35 million annual payroll for the financially ailing community if Recontek decides to apply for rezoning and a permit to build Recontek shifted its interest to Riverbank in the spring after Oceanside a beach city in northern San Diego County said it did not want the recycling plant the first of its kind proposed in California Many of the people at the Riverbank hearing said they want their city to do the same Jim Fowler an engineer who formerly lived in the Bay Silicon Valley said See Page B-2 RECONTEK Glenn Scott 1 Getting a leg up on modeling job My friend Sharon was on the phone luring me into the trap be so good I know be good I ask if I wasn't sure be I stuttered and fussed and told her I possibly handle such a I glamorous job Me walk on a ramp in front of of bunch of strangers? A model? I said think about it I take that as a asked Sharon I know I told her I think I need a million dollars or something she said just walk out there turn around and come back All you need is a little rhythm in your walk And we do give our models a sizable gift certificate for our Well I'd survived marching band in high school walked in front of people then With rhythm no less So I caved in The profit motive got me I agreed to help model the fall 1989 line of Royal Robbins clothing but only because my friends work for the company and I owed them some favors And of course this outfit is named I after the great climber and kayaker an adventurer from Modesto known for his I first ascents up rocks and first descents down rivers It was no time to be chicken Luckily got a pal who is as cheap and weak-willed as I am and he fell for it too He needed some new sweaters It was bad enough that I work for a newspaper but in construction so we really had to keep this a secret I promised not to tell anybody pirst we had to be fitted That was easy We folded under the cuffs and everything else fit I was to wear some outdoorsy a charcoal-and-green sweater and some top-secret shirts that I wanted to steal but didn't Then when we were all done and ready to leave Sharon said we ought to practice modeling once No sweat Walk out turn around walk back Right? Not quite said Sharon Turns out this was supposed to be a stylish show We had to motivate the sales reps Juice up with wild moves Make sales crazy So in the first number we wore shades and pretended to be James Bond 007 himself We walked out in a very suave and cool fashion as a live band played his famous theme song Well it got worse after that By worse I mean more theatrical In one song the models were prancing around to Thing" and in another we were supposed to do some spontaneous gyrating to Tears" The music was all from the Sixties (as were many of the sales reps) and we were getting pretty loose which is what Sharon was counting on When it was my turn on the ramp I was sort of desperate for a move All of a sudden I was off the ground in one of those split-leg air-guitar jumps You know the type Kenny Loggins used to do yelled Sharon that got to do that in the Boy I was really in trouble then When the rehearsal was done we were sitting around shell-shocked I said flatly "This exactly what you told me be doing" She just smiled On the big day all 12 of us models assembled in the back room at the Robbins factory outlet store on Needham Avenue in Modesto Robbins sells all i over the place but based here We opened the back door and talked about just sort of disappearing But then we heard Sharon introducing the show Shuron Leicham is a marketing pro She sounded real confident anil told the sales reps that the new clothing line was so inspiring that all these friends of hers were volunteering to model it All I could think about was my air-guitar jump No way could I do it My pal in construction said it would all be over in a hurry und no one would remember anyway so long as we didn't udmit it later So we did the James Bond bit and the sales reps looked pretty charged up They even pulled off a modified human wuve in the audience Then came Tears" I strolled down the rump still unsure of my destiny It was all so crazy What am I doing? Then suddenly I knew I was doing my split-leg air guitar I jump Not great take-off but decent hang time Another first ascent for Modesto Glenn Scott's column appears Sunday Tutfday Wednesday akd Friday In Metro Forrest Jackson JrThe Bee This concrete island" is being removed to make room for the new $389000 cage Riverbank puts expansion on hold commission turned down the request saying the application was premature and that the amount of land was too large LAFCO also wanted more specific planning done for the land before any expansion is approved Riverbunk Planning Director Pam Carder argued that the city needs to expand its sphere of influence to adequately plan for growth City officials expect the population to double in the next 20 years At the time LAFCO rejected the request Carder argued that the urea should be pluced in the city's sphere of influence before the city is forced to go through the expense of providing specific planning for the urea The city requested another hearing before IAFCO on the proposed expansion LAFCO officials scheduled the hearing for Jun 25 City consultant Russell Newman recommended the continuance Wednesday "I felt that if the city went back to LAFCO with the full 1 900-acre request it would be turned down again" Newman said "It will give the city a chance to evaluate the entire sphere of influence and talk to the people living in the area" The area plunned for residential use by Riverbank is in the city's general plan but it's not possible to annex any of the property in the expansion urea until LAFCO expands the sphere of influence See Page B-2 RIVERBANK By ROBERT PALOMARES Bee staff writer RIVERBANK City officials have decided it would be fruitless to ask the Stanislaus County Local Agency Formation Commission to expand the sphere of influence by 1900 acres Instead city officials will ask that the mutter be continued until summer The city wants to expand its area of influence west to Coffee Road and south to Claribel Road where it would meet the city of outer boundary Those areas called spheres of influence lie just outside the city limits and are reserved by cities for future annexation and development On July 27 the city first requested LAFCO approval of the expansion The Judge dismisses lawsuit against cannery waste dump cannery waste by spreading the fruit and vegetable leftovers on the ranch and disking it Into the ground as a soil supplement But Lyons could not get a contract with a cannery that year The annual permit was renewed in July 1988 after a public hearing at which neighbors protested Last summer waste from TriValley and Modesto Nut Co was dumped there The lawsuit claimed that cannery waste could end up in the rivers polluting See Page B-2 JUDGE pletely unsuccessful" Bill Lyons Jr spokesman for Lyons Investments and the Lyons family was not available for comment But before the suit was dismissed Lyons applied for another county permit to double the size of the cannery wuste dumping areu The object of the lawsuit is 757 acres on the Dos Rios Ranch at the confluence of the San Joaquin and Tuolumne rivers off Shiloh Road In June 1987 Lyons received a county permit to accept up to 0 tons a day of the dump Stanislaus County was named as the defendant Named as parties who might be affected by the outcome of the lawsuit are Lyons Investments TriValley Growers and Rudy Bonzi Inc TriValley hus a contract with Lyons to dump its cannery waste Bonzi '8 company hauls the waste Harriman said he will appeal the decision Deputy County Counsel Tom Johnson said the judge's decision was "a victory we anticipated We feel fully He predicted an appeal would Ht By NANCY MARRINAN Bee staff writer A lawsuit charging that Stunislaus County failed to follow environmental laws when it issued a permit for a cannery waste dump has been dismissed Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Edward Uicy Jr made the rul ing Tuesday on procedural grounds including the failure of uttorney Richurd Hurrimun to meet court-set deadlines Harriman filed the suit in September for John Kisst louis Deniz and James Pappas all of whom own properly near.