Desert Dispatch from Barstow, California • 5

Wednesday, November 1, 1995 DasertXUspatcJtj Bara tow, Calif. AS Carole Myers -Lifestyle Editor Desert Life Check it out School lunch menus Silver Valley Unified School District Nv. 6 Breakfast. Fresh baked country biscuit, sausage patty, chilled (hilt, milk. Lunch.

IIol dog on a bun, lalor tola with ketchup, chilled peaches, milk. Offer vs. serve. Sausage pizza or roast beef deli. Nov.

7 Breakfast. Jumbo cinnamon roll, chilled peaches, milk. Lunch. Ham and cheese sandwich with lettuce, french (Ties, apple fault pie, milk. Offer vs.

serve. Chicken sandwich or cheeseburger. Stupak offers $100,000 reward to catch killer LAS VEGAS CAP) Casino executive Bob Stupak is offering a $100,000 reward for the killer of Tony Bagley, a 7-yetr-cId boy who was shot to death a year ago while trick-or-treating. Stupak dumped Use $100,000 in cash on a table as he announced the reward. He said it had been a year since the boy's death and he was trying to make something happen by offering the reward.

Stupak, who was critically Injured in a motorcycle accident earlier this year and remained in a coma for two months, was noticeably thin and weak at Mondays news conference. "I was very dose to death, very close to dying; he said. "I guess you have to experience what being close is. Im still here. I'm alive.

But Tony, Tony Bagley, he's not here. Hes 7 years old and he'll neverbe here." munity- Some ofthe same people who are inspired by the heroic lives and actions depicted in John F. Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage are repelled and incensed that "Profiles in Gay and Lesbian Courage by the Rev. Troy Perry, another book of heroic actions and lives, should even be in the library. Many of the same ones who demand the right to be heard on Issues like abortion, social welfare reform and illegal immigrants are the same ones who would ban books like "Hearing us Out by Roger Sutton, from the library.

"Hearing us Out is a plea form the gay and lesbian community limply for the right to be heard. Is the library a little pond, still and quiet, with only an occasional ripple or is it a river rushing toward new ideas, new concepts, growing ever wider as it reaches toward greater freedom and knowledge? BARSTOW Now surprisingly, some people objected strenuously to my last column and to our library display, demanding by whose authority did you make such a display? Two books we have in the library, "It Comes with the Territory" by Anne Tumor and "Book Selection and Intellectual Freedom" by LcRoy Mellitl answer that question. Among the things discussed in these books is the library bill orrights. It is much too long to quote folly here, but one section says books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background or views of those contributing to their creation.

The next section continues libraries should provide materials and information presenting all Earth-Moving to begin for $1.1 billion resort LAS VEGAS (AP) Earth-moving work is scheduled to begin today on Bcllagio, a -resort that casino mogul Steve Wynn promises will be the single most extravagant hotel ever built on Earth." With a price tag of $1.1 billion, the holal-casino will be the most expensive ever built on the Las Vegas Strip, surpassing the $1 billion MGM Grand Hotel and Casino. Bellagio, named alter an Italian village, is the latest venture ofMirage Resorts Inc. The 37-story hotel is expected to open in the spring of IMS, Mirage spokesman Alan Feldman said Tuesday. The hotel, by any standard, will be the most elaborate and luxurious not only in Las Vegas, but possibly anywhere in the world, Feldman said. The project was originally known as Bean Rivage, but the name was changed to Betlagio earlier thlsyear.

It is being built on 120 acres of land where the Dunes Hotel once stood. That famous resort was imploded in a fiery spectacle two years ago this month. The new resort was originally expected to cost $700 million to $1 billion. Feldman said the added costs were the result of changes made over the past several months. The resort was originally to be built on an island in the middle of a 50-acre lake on the Strip.

But Feldman said that idea was Nov. Breakfast. Apple cinnamon bagel, faesh orange wedges, milk. Lunch. Cheese pizza, garden salad with dressing; chilled pineapple, gingerbread man cookie, milk.

Offer vs. serve. The Texan cheese pizza or Mexican calzone. Nov. 9 Breakfast French toast sticks with syrup, chilled pineapple, milk.

Lunch. Sloppy Joe sandwich, french faies, peach cobbler, milk. Offer vs. serve. Chicken strips or assorted sandwiches.

Nov. 10 Veteran's Day. The menu for Barstow Unified School District was unavailable. scrubbed because of the large amount of water required. There will be a highly-thealricai water feature in the front, Feldman said.

"But the notion of the lake as we originally envisioned it used too much water. We found many of the same effects we wanted could be developed more efficiently. Three additional megaresorts are under construction or nearing that phase on a 1-mile stretch ofthe Strip. South of Bellagio is Monte Carlo, a 3, 039-room, $300 million resort scheduled to open in the summer of 1980. Monte Carlo is a joint venture of Mirage Resorts and Circus Circus Enterprises, Inc.

New York-New York, a 2419-room, $300 million hotel-casino is being built south of Monte Carlo, with completion scheduled for late 1990. It is a joint venture of MGM Grand, Inc. and Pri madonna Resorts. Across from Bellagio, BailyV Las Vegas plans to build Paris, a French-themed $350 million re--ort that will feature a replica of the Eiffel Tower 00 stories tall. Groundbreaking on that project is scheduled for the spring of 1990, according to Bally spokesman Howard Sluts, with completion set for early-tom id-1998.

The projects follow the opening of three mega resorts in late 1993 Luxor, Treasure Island and MGM Grand representing an investment A billion. I points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapprovaL I thing if more people would come in and acquaint themselves with the bill of rights, there would be a much greater appreciation and understanding of the library's role in the com I.